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These THINGS are in my ROOM. I keep covering my eyes and saying ARE THEY STILL THERE?, and then I look and they ARE. They EXIST. Be warned, this can happen to you too if you pre-order my SPLICE novelization from Encyclopocalypse Publications! Eternal thanks to the extremely supportive Vincenzo Natali for making my life much, much weirder.

Based on the screenplay by Vincenzo Natali, Antionette Terry Bryant, and Doug Taylor Geneticists Clive Nicoli and Elsa Kast are on the verge

#available as in trade and mass market sizes and also as an epub #and i think they're also doing an audiobook

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Raymond Burr lived in Cottage B at the General Service Studios at 1040 N Las Palmas while filming Perry Mason.

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donnerpartyofone

I always like to think they're singing.

kino-ani

Dishonored (1931) Dir. Josef von Sternberg

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Gorgeous Belgian poster for The Blob, 1958.

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Since I just hurt my stupid fucking ancient back and I am anticipating being laid up for a few days, I have an important question for my distinguished followers: What is a long movie you guys love? Comment/reblog/reply any way you like!

But please bear in mind these notes:

1. I think of "long" as exceeding the 2h15m mark, but if you have a great one that's over two hours, I'm listening.

2. I am NOT counting modern movies that are long for no fucking reason. This is a little nebulous, but it's like this: I would count a LORD OF THE RINGS entry as justifiably long because those movies are definitional epics, but I would NOT count an MCU movie that is needlessly bloated because the plot is convoluted and there's ten thousand characters to cover and it just feels like they have too much money to burn and no editor. (I mean I would hope that none of you will rec any of those sorts of things anyway, but, "just saying.")

3. A kind of justifiably-long movie I am NOT accepting is something like THE RAID 2, or for that matter TERRIFIER 2! Those movies are long for a good reason -- the plot has to grind to a halt to accommodate elaborate action sequences, which are the movies' raison d'etre -- but I'm looking for long and engrossing, not long and agitating. If I get all activated I might hurt my idiot back even more!

That is all, gimme what ya got!

donnerpartyofone

Other-me wants to know this too.

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You guys have been doing great! Just seeing if I can pick up some stragglers before my husband leaves my crippled ass to go on *our* previously-scheduled vacation (with my approval) and I have the big screen all to myself.

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Tales from the Darkside | Family Reunion | S4.E16 | 1988

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Meiko Kaji (梶芽衣子) in What Did You Eat Yesterday? (きのう何食べた？), 2019.

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🎬 Pet Sematary (1989)

"See what I do for you? I get groceries and clothes and art stuff, and kill people, and do you appreciate it? No. N-O!"

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Julie Newmar (in costume as Catwoman) poses with legendary men's hairstylist Jay Sebring when he made a rare (and uncredited) acting appearance as "Mr. Oceanbring" alongside Newmar, Adam West and Burt Ward in the Batman episode entitled The Bat's Kow Tow, originally broadcast by ABC on December 15th, 1966. Jay was an important figure in Hollywood during the 1960s when he revolutionized the men's hairstyling industry, inventing the "Sebring Method" of cutting hair and introducing men to hair products and blow dryers. Welcoming numerous stars to his West Hollywood salon for $50.00 haircuts (an unheard of price at the time), Sebring's clients included Paul Newman, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Warren Beatty (who later played a character at least partially based on Jay in the 1975 movie Shampoo), James Garner, Andy Williams, Vic Damone (who helped Jay get into business), Paul Anka, Bobby Darrin, Henry Fonda (who counted on Jay to create his toupées), Bruce Lee (who Sebring helped get the role of Kato on The Green Hornet TV series by introducing Lee to producer William Dozier), Peter Lawford (who later appeared with Jay in a "Sebring Method" instructional video), Dennis Hopper ("I loved him", Hopper said), and Steve McQueen (who went on record saying that Jay was his "best friend"). Credited with creating the iconic long, flowing hairstyle of Doors lead singer Jim Morrison, Jay hung out with the A-List of the era and lived in the former Benedict Canyon home of 1930s blonde bombshell Jean Harlow and her second husband Paul Bern (where Bern died under somewhat mysterious circumstances in 1932). Not a trained barber (Sebring started cutting hair while in the navy due to his dislike of military haircuts), he met resistance from others in the profession and founded his own union, the Hair Designers Guild of America. Through legislation, he banished the definition that "cosmetologists are for women, barbers are for men."

Engaged for a time to the ethereally beautiful actress Sharon Tate after meeting her via actor Stuart Whitman ("Sharon and Jay were madly, ~madly~ in love with each other," their mutual friend film producer and author Dominick Dunne later stated, "I mean, there's just no doubt about it"), the couple parted after Jay became gun-shy about marrying again and starting a family after the trauma of his divorce from his first wife, Cami. However, Sebring and Tate stayed close after she married film director Roman Polanski in 1967 and the general belief among their friends was that Jay remained deeply in love with Sharon, whose marriage to Polanski was rocky from the start due to his serial infidelity and likely heading towards divorce; Jay's lawyer Alvin Greenwald later asserted to Jay's nephew Anthony DiMaria in his insightful 2020 documentary Jay Sebring.... Cutting To The Truth: "Sharon, shortly before her demise, I drew up papers for the divorce, Sharon's divorce from the producer [Polanski]". Often mentioning to friends that he wouldn't make it to 40, Jay died protecting a then eight-and-a-half months pregnant Tate shortly after midnight on August 9th, 1969 (Polanski was in London working on a film script; Jay, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and her boyfriend Wojciech Frykowski were keeping her company as the baby's due date approached). Stephen Kay, California State co-prosecutor (and then deputy district attorney) in the Tate-LaBianca murders, later observed: "Jay loved Sharon, and he was not going to let anything happen to Sharon. If something happened to Sharon, it was going to be over his dead body. And that's exactly what happened." After objecting to the rough treatment the individuals who invaded Sharon's Cielo Drive home were subjecting her to ("Stop it! Can't you see that she's pregnant?", Sebring barked as he leapt to her defense), one of the killers turned around and shot him, followed by further unspeakable injuries. Jay Sebring died a hero trying to protect the woman he loved and her unborn child. He was only 35 years old.