Don’t Be Cruel

If you go to movies hoping for quaalude highs, Joker: Folie a Deux is definitely not a Lemmon 714. But you have to respect it. Really–it’s anything but a throwaway.

Huge Discovery for Times Square Marquee Hounds

In all my years of searching for tantalizing color snaps of Times Square marquees from the ’40s, ’50s and 60s, I’d never once glimpsed a shot of The Guns of Navarone marquee at the Criterion (B’way at 44th). But I did this morning. Hat tip to GorillsaDontBlog.

The Carl Foreman-J. Lee Thompson pic was press previewed on 5.16.61 (the screening curiously began at 8:30 pm). It opened at the Criterion on 6.23.61 and lasted through the summer.

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Nail-Bitten, Wee-Hour, “Save Us, Steve Kornacki!” Finale

Gung-ho, super-confident progressive team captain Michael Moore is predicting a decisive loss for Donald Trump on Tuesday, 11.5. He’s saying, in fact, that Trump is “toast.”

But in what universe is a Kamala Harris 270 electoral vote tally over 268 for The Beast…in what realm is this not an all-time squeaker?