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Agree! I don’t know if this is still true but in Paris (maybe in all of France?), there are (were?) two start times: when the trailers begin & when the movie begins. (I know you know this Peter, but here you can try to call the manger - I do this regularly - to see when the movie *really* starts.)
My favorite superhero rivalry has always been Superman and Lex Luthor. Lex knows Superman will never hit him. Even Batman punches the Joker once in a while. But Lex knows Superman literally can’t. There’s a wonderful scene in SUPERMAN where Lex pushes it and it made me cackle.
Gonna be on the Gunn SUPERMAN train a while. I can understand why some critics aren’t - it’s a lot of movie and it’s not particularly interested if you can’t keep up. But this thing is an EVENT. Remember when movies were special and not just content? Like Donner’s SUPERMAN THE MOVIE? I do.
Why do people think Medicaid is a check-dispensing machine? Doesn't it just help pay for healthcare? What "able-bodied" farm workers living in their parents' basements are they talking about "gaming" the system?? The ones dying of cancer? That's who Republicans want to force into the killing fields?
It's as if Elon is personally writing the even-more-antisemitic Grok content in real time, like the Wizard of Oz behind the curtain. Which he basically is, if the bot was retrained using his feed. I usually try not to preach about this, but there really is no excuse for staying on Twitter anymore.
It’s been so long since “Weird Al” & I filmed UHF that I hardly recognize us here. The joyous news is that I’ll be returning to Tulsa, where UHF was shot, to play the Bricktown Comedy Club on July 17 & 18. (I’ll be at the Bricktown in Oklahoma City on July 19, if you’re barred from the Tulsa one.)
It’s been so long since “Weird Al” & I filmed UHF that I hardly recognize us here. The joyous news is that I’ll be returning to Tulsa, where UHF was shot, to play the Bricktown Comedy Club on July 17 & 18. (I’ll be at the Bricktown in Oklahoma City on July 19, if you’re barred from the Tulsa one.)
SUPERMAN review and PCHH episode coming Friday, but 1. It’s a hell of a lot of fun, and it gets Superman in an essential way. 2. I was out here in these streets loving Krypto long before he went mainstream with alla y’all dog-in-a-cape bandwagon-hoppers. www.slate.com/articles/art...
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