Beth Ann Gallagher
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Beth Ann Gallagher
@reallybethann.bsky.social
Writer, Spellbound with Beth Ann blogger & podcaster, South Coast Cinemaniacs classic film club pres, cat cuddler, music fiend, book lover, vintage styler, wife, & Gen X Mom to a Gen Alpha.

All the links: https://spellboundwithbethann.start.page
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If you want to know more about me, read this profile by the South Coast Artists Index. They only exclude two parts of my arts & culture work, my serving on the Fairhaven Cultural Council & the reading series I ran in the 90s with @maggiecleveland.bsky.social. theartistsindex.com/podcast-epis...
Podcast Episode 178: Beth Ann Gallagher - The South Coast Artists Index
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An early happy #Halloween wish to friends! This picture is from my recent Vintage Girl Studios #horror-themed, #pinup photoshoot. Definitely a twist on the Hollywood starlet's Hollywood publicity still. Looks like we added a little SERIAL MOM (1994)! #SpookySeason2025 #FilmSky
October 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Have you listened to the most recent episode of the podcast yet, discussing Edith Nesbit and her gothic tales of terror?

I'll be watching @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social 's performance this evening, so more to come on this...
Episode 180
EDITH NESBIT'S GHOST STORIES

Watch the interview and other content on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkDM...

Listen on the website:
www.thefolklorepodcast.com/episode-180....

Or via your podcast app

Join me and @clairelouiseamias.bsky.social to learn about Edith's gothic tales
October 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The incomparable Vincent Price (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993)
October 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Dial-A-Poem is back.

American artist and poet John Giorno (1936-2019) introduced the service in 1969, inviting callers to dial a phone number and hear recorded readings of poems.

The renewed version combines early recordings w/ new contributions.

www.artsy.net/article/arts... #BookSky #PoetrySky
John Giorno’s experimental “Dial-A-Poem” project goes online.
The poet and artist’s 1969 project is now available on a new website featuring new material from poets and performers from around the world.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Joan Fontaine, born on October 22, 1917 #botd
October 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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director: what are you doing?

2nd unit director: you said go shoot bee roll!
a close up of a bee flying on a gray background
Alt: a close up of a bee flying on a gray background
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October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Uncanny Live is in Brighton tonight and tomorrow. I can’t wait to see the show. It’s at the Theatre Royal Brighton which has many ghost stories attached and this episode of witw features a ghost story from there!

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
BBC Sounds - Weird in the Wade, Haunted Theatres
Does every theatre have a ghost? Nat investigates.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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What a pleasure to talk to Stan Zimmerman about writing for The Golden Girls, Roseanne, and the Gilmore Girls.

www.rogerebert.com/interviews/s...
An Ear for Writing For Women: Stan Zimmerman on Golden Girls, Rosanne, Gilmore Girls | Interviews | Roger Ebert
An interview with the author of a new book on his work writing for some of the 20th century's most beloved sitcoms.
www.rogerebert.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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I’ve archived my classic Hollywood blog—which has been hosted on the soon-to-be-defunct Typepad—to my new domain pmbryant.com.

My old posts can be found at pmbryant.com/x/letyourselfgo. I plan to start up a new blog at my new site soon.
September 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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And of course, you can hear our birthday salute to Peggy Webber anytime this week or next at www.nostalgiadigest.com/those%20were...!
September 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
You can listen to Those Were the Day's Peggy Webber birthday tribute on the WDCB archive for a limited amount of days. She turns 100 today!
Today's the day! Join us from 1-5 pm CST as Those Were the Days celebrates a milestone birthday—and we'll tune in The Whistler, The Life of Riley, Broadway is My Beat and our 2010 conversation with the birthday girl herself! Hear it as it happens at wdcb.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Ep 24 out now! Producer-director Jacqueline Shulman talks of her career, from her TV work to attending the Oscars luncheon for her participation in 2006’s documentary feature Jesus Camp. Part 1 of a 2-parter! Just click here: linktr.ee/reelsofcinem...
September 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Every time I see someone with one front half of their shirt tucked in, I think of a YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON TELEVISION episode. It's the one where the characters randomly start a style trend of wearing pants with one long leg & one short leg. Just as silly to me! #GenX #TVSky
August 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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#Filmsky Music theorists were brought in to analyze the keystrokes of the actors in Amadeus and found them perfect in notes and even the touch. Details like this turn a film from classic to masterpiece.
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August 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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Watching The Naked Spur on TCM right now. I love Jimmy Stewart westerns. #tcmparty

Jimmy Stewart did a western radio series called The Six Shooter (1953-54) that I enjoy listening to. Here is a playlist: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The Six Shooter (1953) - YouTube
OTRR certified version 5.1 of The Six Shooter (complete series). Also includes the Hollywood Star Playhouse episode that was the precursor to this series. Th...
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August 15, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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#BMovieManiacs Event: Hey Maniacs! In case you're wondering, don't worry, this is a different movie called Hot Rod. From 29 years earlier. It's the story of two brothers, one a respectable policeman, and the other a danged hot rodder! And their dad's a judge! 8 Pac/11 East tonite!
August 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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In honor of Alfred Hitchcock's birthday here are some of his cameo appearances...

THE BIRDS (1963)
August 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Art Deco found its way into film early on, as art directors and costume designers mobilized its streamlined elegance to evoke both the optimism and anxiety of the day. Join us & Art Deco Society of L.A.:

8/22: Monkey Business (1931) + The Black Cat (1934)
8/23: L’inhumaine (1924)

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August 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Of all the #Hitchcock cameos LIFEBOAT is the trickiest. He even gets his name in. Happy bday, Hitch! #TCMparty
August 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
The Life of a Showgirl #couldntresist #pinup
August 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Alfred Hitchcock in "Rebecca", "Strangers on a Train", "Blackmail" and "Lifeboat" - BOTD
August 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Samuel Fuller (with scenes from his film "Forty Guns") - BOTD
August 12, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Tonight's movie was more of a program of several short silent films, mostly about women being feral it was fantastic. And the lady from the project was super real with us about where we're at right now in this country and that was fantastic as well. (The realness, not the fascism, to be clear.
February 24, 2025 at 5:26 AM