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I'm loafy on the neko maison

if that means anything to you

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Mad Magazine’s Dave Berg

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Perhaps it is fitting that the plaque honoring D.W. Griffith’s movie ranch is on the same street where the Rodney King beating occurred. Both names inevitably lead to a conversation about racism in America. 

This marker was installed in 1959 and unveiled by two members of Griffith’s old repertory - Blanche Sweet and Mae Marsh. 

It is easily the most ludicrous spot for such a marker - on the fence of a propane station in an industrial strip against the freeway interchange. Rarely has a pedestrian ever crossed this corner. And if it were anyone other than D.W. Griffith, I might give a shit. Instead, I kind of like the fact he is shoved into this no man’s land on the very edge of town.

[burtfurnace]

I feel much safer now thank you tube

[burtfurnace]

I like how international the Oscars were tonight, compared to just a few years ago. It reflects on the industry as a whole.

I am obsessed with the 1980 Thames documentary series by Kevin Brownlow about the early days of Hollywood, just called "Hollywood". You can find it on archive.org but it hasn't been legitimately released for forty years. The remarkable thing about it is that so many people from those early days were still alive to talk about it in 1980! And the stories they have to tell are hair raising.

I'll use any excuse to talk about it. The reason I bring it up here today is because many interviewees mentioned that silent cinema was international in a way that the "talkies" weren't, and indeed in a way few dramatic forms were before it. It was easy to take your film made in the US, and swap out the inter-titles for another language. And so the new art of cinema was built across many nations of creators and audiences.

Hollywood (British TV series) - Wikipedia

Hollywood (British TV series) - Wikipedia

[burtfurnace]

Sit back children and listen to Kool Keith vivisect a bunch of rappers you haven't heard since 1992

"Why would I dis myself in front of Dolemite?"

[tyger-land]

𝙇𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙙 𝙎𝙠𝙮 1982

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dir. Slava Tsukerman (1939-2026)

[humanoidhistory]

Liquid Sky, 1983.

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I got my hands on a bootleg soundtrack for Buckaroo Banzai today. It came on an Enhanced CDr first pressed in 1998, and included these photos!

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Piru, California is a living Quinn Martin filming location that has not changed one iota since the 1970s.

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Earl MacPherson - "Just Cutting Up" - February 1953 Artist's Sketch Book Calendar Illustration - Shaw-Barton Calendar Co. - The American Pin-up Calendar Collection

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Worcester Rim & Wheel is sadly no more, but walk a couple doors down and George's Coney Island still titillates…

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James Bernard, founding editor of 'The Source' and co-founder of 'XXL,' dies

James Bernard, a pioneering hip-hop journalist who co-founded influential magazines The Source and XXL, has died

[fireland]

THE ADVENTURES OF BUCKAROO BANZAI ACROSS THE 8TH DIMENSION

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historical context: this movie came out a year earlier, so they could have had no idea that they were dressing Peter Weller like Pee Wee Herman

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Bea Arthur