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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re like me, you sat up on your chair when S-tier character actor Kevin Tighe turned up in ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. I had a wonderful conversation with him about it for The Reveal: thereveal.film/interview-ke...

Interview: Kevin Tighe on ‘One Battle After Another’ and a great career on stage and screen

The great character actor talks about his return to the screen in 'One Battle After Another' and a half-century journey in the business.

thereveal.film

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 21h

and one of them is thanasis antetokounmpo lol

Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 21h

After Malcolm Brogdon's retirement, only 14 players from the 2016 draft are currently on an NBA roster.

20 from 2014
14 from 2015
14 from 2016
21 from 2017

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 23h

serious inquiries only

Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 23h

if anybody would like to recommend me any more control room thrillers, i would be much obliged

Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

The China Syndrome (1979): It turns out that I am a big sucker for "control room thrillers." Think Fail Safe (1964), The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974), Apollo 13 (1995), etc. I love people tensely staring at a blinking monitor. James Bridges really directs the hell out of it, too.

The Turbine Trip | The China Syndrome | Silver Scenes

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 23h

But even if it gets a little soggy in the middle, I was pleasantly surprised by the level of craft and the performances. Fonda is perfect as a reporter who gets pushed into human interest because she's a woman and Lemmon gets the balance between pride in his work vs. concern for safety just right

Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

This probably could have been 20 minutes tighter. Way too much time is spent building suspense about a public regulatory hearing. And although the film's message should be "corporate corner-cutting for profit over safety is bad", it ends up closer to "nuclear energy is dangerous" which is a bummer

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

Even the opening scene (before the baller helicopter zoom in the opening credits!) is control room dynamite. This time we're in a TV studio making sure that a live on-scene report for the evening news is all ready to go. The punchline that all this work is for a singing telegram puff piece rocks

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

The China Syndrome (1979): It turns out that I am a big sucker for "control room thrillers." Think Fail Safe (1964), The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974), Apollo 13 (1995), etc. I love people tensely staring at a blinking monitor. James Bridges really directs the hell out of it, too.

The Turbine Trip | The China Syndrome | Silver Scenes

YouTube video by Silver Scenes

www.youtube.com

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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 5d

Thirty-one years ago, there was a slave auction reenacted at Colonial Williamsburg.

Some thought it powerful, many thought it insulting.

This summer, I traveled to Williamsburg myself to see how the country’s largest living history museum today tells the story of Black life at America’s founding.

What Is Colonial Williamsburg For?

Telling the full story of the town’s past is an easy way to make a lot of people mad.

www.theatlantic.com

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

Its probably my favorite narrative feature of the last 25 years lol. Like the entire time I'm watching it all my brain can say is "oh yeah"

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

Its speaks well to PTAs filmography that i have Inherent Vice #1 on my personal rankings and still think your order makes total sense

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

It felt oddly sadistic! Like the lawyer dies on the toilet (humiliating) but its just a regular munching. Even the Hammond equivalent dies in a way that is sort of a morality tale. The whole point of dinos is that they eat everybody! good and bad, smart and dumb!!

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

that is a great way to put it

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

but instead we have two charisma-free leads, two kid siblings probably because the Jurassic Park (1993) had kids in it and frankly some pretty unpleasant and somehow mean-spirited(??) dino murders (espeically the british exec assistant who gets scooped, torturously half-drowned and then eaten

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

there are the bones of a jurassic park set-up: they bio-engineer a super dinosaur because kids are bored by regular dinosaurs, they train raptors to listen to commands and do battle, both types of dinosaur eat them up as punishment for their hubris, etc.

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

Jurassic World (2015): I had this on in the background while I graded exams this afternoon. IDK man. Very much in The Force Awakens (2015) mold where it is trying to reverse engineer what people like about the original through signifiers not signified. But it does what it says on the tin (dinosaurs)

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 1d

Caillou's dad: (texting) caillou is freaking the fuck out

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

i suspect that its enough work that the people with the wherewithal and interest are more interested in developing their own metrics than replicating prior work? idk its a good question though

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

i have to imagine that (a) if Jacob Goldstein wanted the weights taken down he could have easily done that because (b) the proprietary stuff he has for the Wizards makes most of the publicly available metrics irrelevant to him. plus the point of open-source is that its open!

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

Splinter.com:
Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party
By Alex Pareene
August 19, 2017

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 1d

through Him (Buddy) all things are possible

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 2d

miguel sandoval is such a treasure of a character actor. who else has the chops for Do The Right Thing (1989), Jurassic Park (1993) and Air Bud: World Pup (200)

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 2d

I think (?) that the current level of player autonomy in the transfer portal would make it mostly ceremonial but that might not stop them from trying!

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 2d

Ok but could Georgia sign a "strategic partnership" with a couple of Sun Belt schools where it paid them $500k a year or something to get preferential transfer status for their best players. That would suck ass huh

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 2d

(I'm also intrigued by the consolidation of college football conferences as an analogue)

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Very Dumb Idiot @verydumbidiot.bsky.social · 2d

that's the craziest double play i've ever seen

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