That's Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand in the picture, two of my cinema favorites. I have a Ph.D. in Philosophy and a B.F.A in film-making. I'm a humanist.
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Celebrating Diana Dors #BOTD She was Britain’s beloved dazzling platinum-blonde bombshell, with a knockout figure, a wicked wit, and a larger-than-life personality. Her magnetic screen presence and lovable, delicious naughty charm made her utterly unforgettable. Her time here was heartbreakingly brief, and she left this world far too soon, at just 52.
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A rare moment of political courage in the British Parliament.
British MP Nick Timothy tells Muslims crying “Islamophobia” to shove it: “Muhammad was a false prophet. Britain is not bound by Islam or Sharia.”
What turned the nation that once set the standard for Western civilisation into a people that now hates its own history, sacrifices its own children, and bends the knee to those who want it destroyed?
Britain was the moral compass of the free world. Cold, reserved, unsentimental. Never stupid, never suicidal. While America turned the hamburger into a global brand, you drank tea with an accent that announced you as the heirs of Shakespeare, common law, parliamentary government and an empire that had shaped the modern world. You were not ashamed of what made you British. You treated it as a birthright.
What changed?
How did a people famous for the stiff upper lip become addicted to self-flagellation?
How did defending your borders, your culture and your own become a thought crime, while importing those who openly despise everything you represent became a civic virtue?
The moment anyone names the pattern, it is not outsiders who come for them. It is their own institutions.
You keep open the embassy of the Iranian regime that has plotted terror on British soil and called for the murder of Britons. You sanction the one ally that warned you and helped stop the attack. You send troops abroad while jihadists walk free on your streets. Anyone who points this out is branded the problem by the same establishment that created it.
Other nations should study Britain as a warning, not a model. Watch for the symptoms: when your elites treat your own people as the enemy. When patriotism becomes a sin and open borders a sacrament. When the votes of those who reject your civilisation matter more than the safety of those who built it. Britain chose that path. The results are no longer deniable.
Protect your own people first. Stop appeasing those who hate you.
Enough is enough is enough!
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La actriz y modelo israelí Bar Refaeli responde a Penélope Cruz por un Twitter de la española y le aclara, la diferencia entre rehén y un prisionero.
👉🏼“Los presos palestinos condenados no son rehenes.
Al igual que en cualquier otro país, los encarcelan por cometer delitos, a menudo asesinando judíos, lo que sigue siendo un delito.
Son llevados ante la justicia, condenados legalmente y cumplen sus condenas en prisión, con visitas de la Cruz Roja y llamadas de sus familiares. El líder de Hamás, Yahya Sinwar, incluso recibió tratamiento por un tumor cerebral mortal a cargo de un médico judío en un hospital israelí mientras cumplía su condena.
Trágicamente, el sobrino de ese médico fue asesinado más tarde por Hamas en el ataque orquestado por Sinwar el 7 de octubre.
Nunca será lo mismo.
Y seamos claros: los presos palestinos condenados nunca son ejecutados en prisión. No como Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Bipin Joshi, Ariel y Kfir Bibas (de 4 años y 9 meses) y varios otros.”
❌La de la izquierda es una COMUNISTA millonaria y miserable como los Bardem, la de la derecha es una persona coherente y con argumentos.
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This Day in Buster…October 20, 1923
The Jersey Journal mentions that "Buster Keaton was in New York for the World Series and to attend to some business in connection with his Metro contract.--
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In 1938, five years into Nazi rule, 32 countries met at Evian, France to decide what to do with the Jews of Germany. They talked for nine days. They ate, drank, laughed, and agreed the Jews faced mortal danger. Then they kept their doors closed.
By 1945, about 1.5 million Jewish children in Europe had been murdered. That’s 94% of those alive at the start of the war in 1939. There was no army, no reliable passport, and no Allied rescue that arrived in time.
Survivors came out of the camps to find neighbors living in their homes and uninterested in their return. In several places, that disinterest turned into violent pogroms. Jews survived Hitler’s madness only to be killed when they tried to return home.
Hundreds of thousands of Jewish survivors had no homes and were placed back behind wire as “displaced persons.” Their ancestral homeland, recognized by the League of Nations in 1922 as the site of a Jewish national home, remained under a British blockade that kept Jewish immigration to a trickle.
In 1947, the UN offered a truncated Jewish state next to an Arab state. The Jews accepted it, but the Arab Higher Committee refused. On the eve of the 1948 invasion, Azzam Pasha of the Arab League declared it would be “a war of extermination and momentous massacre.” The war killed about 1% of the Jewish population. The rest stayed and built a country that is now a technological leader, a regional power, and home to half the world’s Jews.
No conference of self-congratulating leaders gets to decide anymore whether Jews must stay and be slaughtered or leave and hope to be saved. Now, there is a Jewish state. Now, every Jew has a home.
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Where is the 'comedy community' rallying to support Russell Brand?
It's known he's not very 'clubby', but it could be you tomorrow if you pivot your political stance, funnymen (unlikely to be funnywomen, we presume)
Portrait by @seanbwparker
@EmpowerInnocent
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Terrific actor, really deserved that Oscar nomination for Sometimes a Great Notion.
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October 10, 1909: Actress Florida Friebus (Dobie Gillis' mom, Bob Newhart Show), born in Auburndale, Massachusetts.
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This Day in Buster… October 9, 1936
"The Chemist" is released by Educational Pictures. Buster Keaton is a scientist who invents some ridiculous nonsense, including candy that, once eaten, will cause one to fall deeply in love.
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William A. Horning (1904-1959) has the distinction of being the only person to ever win posthumous Oscars consecutively.
He won for Best Art Direction on Gigi & Ben-Hur.
He was nominated twice in 1960, also receiving a nod for his work on Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
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Celebrating the birthday of Miss Carole Lombard with a shower from William Powell in the wonderful "My Man Godfrey" (1936) Beautiful, brilliant, energetic and a fabulous comedian, she remains best known for "screwball" comedies of the 1930s. With a life tragically cut short, one always wonders what might have been.. Her performances have stood the test of time with new audiences still falling in love with her. #BOTD
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Governor Abbott today ordered the United States and Texas flags lowered to half-staff on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, in solidarity with the State of Israel and in honor of the men, women, and children murdered in the brutal October 7th terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas.
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It’s midnight in Israel. As we mark the 3-year anniversary of October 7th, the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, I’ll focus for the next 24 hours on honoring the memory of the victims, the heroes, and the stories.
We must never forget October 7th, 2023. Never Again.
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Uncommon 1924 magazine photo from "I'll Say She Is," the Marx Brothers' first Broadway show. Left to right: Lotta Miles (nee Florence Reutti), Harpo (in bright red stage wig), Chico, Zeppo, and Groucho in his Napoleon costume.
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I'm sorry to disappoint a lot of people but I have just
received a good bill of health from the medics
Basically, the doctors don't yet know what I am going to die of
This means that I can keep my options open
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Debra Messing said she feels safer in Israel, missiles and all, than she does in Hollywood. She's lost friends, battled depression from online hate, and never once stopped speaking out. "They want to silence us. They want to scare us. They want us to feel shame."
She refused!
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Oscar Question of the Day ⭐️
In 1987 these were the nominees for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Marlee Matlin won, who would you have chosen?
