This is hands-down one of my favorite films. We staged the play when I was in 9th grade. I was stage crew and one of the dead bodies at the end during the bows. Never looked back after that :D
In a very brief juncture in "thea-tra," I directed a version of this, staged only in black & white (how CREATIVE.) Still have nightmares about the production (in the 80s.) Now need to watch the original, thank you :))
lolz, just had to explain to a non-Wonker where the whole "non-commenting" and "comments are not allowed" thing came from, as well as a few other common Wonkisms. Good times, good times...
This conversation just might kick me into putting together that Wonkette lexicon I’ve always dreamed of…
(Wonxicon? Lexiwonk? I haven’t come up with a good mashup and/or umbrella term, but I just know it’s hovering out there in the universe, waiting for someone to articulate it into reality)
One couple is attending the Commander in Chief Ball celebrating Trump's second Inauguration in Washington on January 20, 2025. They are smiling because all the attention and cameras are on them.
The other couple is sitting in what looks like a homey restaurant where regular people eat. They are smiling because they are happy.
I see the two Americas, one is an educated doctor who has made people's lives better and the other is a crooked parasite who has made people's lives terrible
Representative Max Miller, the Republican from Ohio accused of physically abusing his ex-wife and young daughter, has defied calls from his own party to drop out and plans to stay in the race to keep his seat in Congress, according to his spokeswoman.
Mr. Miller would have had to withdraw by Saturday evening, at the latest, to allow local party chairs enough time to name a replacement on the ballot by Monday at 4 p.m., according to Ohio state law.
Hunter Biden says that ol' Handsome Joe's cancer is spreading and is quite painful and debilitating. I can hardly wait to see the new levels of class and decorum to which the GOP will rise over this news.
I may be being an old curmudgeon, but after being in the stage play, I really disliked Capra's changes to the script. Primarily - in the play, Mortimer *isn't* married yet, and his girlfriend is trying to get him to the altar. Having him already marry her at the beginning removes all the dramatic tension. If they're already married and the only thing at stake is "will they go on their honeymoon in time?", who tf cares?
(sorry I missed last night's viewing--passed out after work as usual)
Brief perusal gives rise to a new Kalshi over/under: What percentage of Wonkers have been involved in a production of Arsenic and Old Lace in some fashion or another--over or under 50%?
I remember seeing the Hallmark Hall Of Fame version with Boris Karloff when I was a kid. Tony Randall was Mortimer. And then in the late 60s I remember the version with Bob Crane as Mortimer and Fred Gwynne.
El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"
And it would be nice to get the care your Dr prescribes instead of having an unelected corporate beancounter deny your claim...and force you to go thru appeal after appeal and still be denied...
Ted Kennedy was saying this in 1970, and Milhouse would have signed it into law. Same with gun control, even the NRA was in favor of responsible gun ownership, instead of worshipping firearms.
The mention of Al Stewart below made me think of his song "Time Passages" which got me to thinking...
I saw a recommendation for a YouTube video that had the surviving cast of the Bad News Bears, which came out 50 years ago. It doesn't seem so long ago to me, but when that movie came out, a 50 year old movie most likely didn't have sound. I was 8 for most of 1976 so 50 years ago then may as well have been 100 years ago to me.
Ya Know, Tatum O’Neal has gone from being the Lindsay Lohan of her day to being Survivor of Dysfunctionality Worthy of Judy Garland. She is a fine actress and deserved her Academy Award. Exploitation like Little Darlings was not her fault. Ryan O’Neal belongs in the Reprehensible Dad/Husband Hall of Fame, with his jersey number retired and hoisted to the rafters. And Tatum forgave him as he lay dying!
When Blanche was at SDNY, he did well with cookbook prosecutions having all the evidence and the law on his side, but his efforts to circumvent one with none of the other has exposed his below average legal skills. He’s not winning, he’s losing virtually everything, and has succeeded only in stonewalling the minority party.
He just another not-too-terribly-bright ambulance chaser willing to douche his mediocre career for Trump.
That is somehow comforting, although Roy Cohn was onnly good at being obnoxious and obstructive, and at being a great host on Fire Island, if Nicholas Van Hoffman is to be believed. (Remember Van Hoffman on Point/Counterpoint?)
This is hands-down one of my favorite films. We staged the play when I was in 9th grade. I was stage crew and one of the dead bodies at the end during the bows. Never looked back after that :D
When I was in school I played Dr. Einstein
In a very brief juncture in "thea-tra," I directed a version of this, staged only in black & white (how CREATIVE.) Still have nightmares about the production (in the 80s.) Now need to watch the original, thank you :))
Has Rand Paul divulged private health records of people today ?
Oh, yeah, it's still the weekend . . .
lolz, just had to explain to a non-Wonker where the whole "non-commenting" and "comments are not allowed" thing came from, as well as a few other common Wonkisms. Good times, good times...
https://www.wonkette.com/p/jesus-communicator-sends-us-poorly-written-cease-and-desist-letter
I miss "Dear Shit for Brains" - it was the best Cletus safari ever
Blingeees!!!
Hah, that is fabulous. "Sarcastic, nymphs." indeed!
Nasty vile little snark mob.
Recipe hub and dick joke factory.
This conversation just might kick me into putting together that Wonkette lexicon I’ve always dreamed of…
(Wonxicon? Lexiwonk? I haven’t come up with a good mashup and/or umbrella term, but I just know it’s hovering out there in the universe, waiting for someone to articulate it into reality)
Dickshonary?
Onomastiwonk?
wow...... I'm.... um.... yes maybe?
There are better terms still hovering!
Lexette?
*FER brains*. Ahem.
Ah! Thanks! (will leave as is so your comment isn't left out to hang)
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WTF is up with his hair? Is he wearing the grey wig or is the light really messing it up?
One couple is attending the Commander in Chief Ball celebrating Trump's second Inauguration in Washington on January 20, 2025. They are smiling because all the attention and cameras are on them.
The other couple is sitting in what looks like a homey restaurant where regular people eat. They are smiling because they are happy.
One America where spouses clearly loathe each other and one where they appear happy together?
One that looks rich and one that looks poor (who am I kidding, one's white, one's brown)
LOL, Mel’s dress looks like someone scribbled with a black marker over the photo.
She’s been redacted.
Exactly what I thought!
No imbeciles like tone deaf imbeciles...
I see the two Americas, one is an educated doctor who has made people's lives better and the other is a crooked parasite who has made people's lives terrible
The "let them eat cake" formal evening attire vs a simple restaurant was a gloriously ignorant self-own . . .
I do like that grammatical note at the end, though maybe the possessive is (enragingly) appropriate when Trump says it?
Representative Max Miller, the Republican from Ohio accused of physically abusing his ex-wife and young daughter, has defied calls from his own party to drop out and plans to stay in the race to keep his seat in Congress, according to his spokeswoman.
Mr. Miller would have had to withdraw by Saturday evening, at the latest, to allow local party chairs enough time to name a replacement on the ballot by Monday at 4 p.m., according to Ohio state law.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/us/politics/max-miller-ohio-republican.html#:~:text=Representative%20Max%20Miller%2C%20the%20Republican,Congress%2C%20according%20to%20his%20spokeswoman.
He also loaned his own campaign one million dollars. Hope that's lost too.
"If you quit the race, the party will help your criminal case from behind the scene."
"If I win the election, there won't 𝘣𝘦 a criminal case!"
He out logicked 'em.
If he wins the election, he can keep bombing Lebanon ?
Oh, wrong dude . . .
Yeah, if he wins the election they'll have to support him in full view of everyone.
“One million dollars”! Dr Evil’s favorite amount. The company Congressman Miller keeps…
Hunter Biden says that ol' Handsome Joe's cancer is spreading and is quite painful and debilitating. I can hardly wait to see the new levels of class and decorum to which the GOP will rise over this news.
😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
to me what is interesting is that The BBC is carrying this info..... AND THE AMERICAN MSM IS NOT. (prayers for OHJB)
Sending that family all my love right now.
It's never real until it happens to them. Lol
Ok people. Everyone have a great day and for fuck's sake DO NOT DIE!!! Peace out!
One exception.
I may be being an old curmudgeon, but after being in the stage play, I really disliked Capra's changes to the script. Primarily - in the play, Mortimer *isn't* married yet, and his girlfriend is trying to get him to the altar. Having him already marry her at the beginning removes all the dramatic tension. If they're already married and the only thing at stake is "will they go on their honeymoon in time?", who tf cares?
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
creates even more tension
in those days because it’s assumed that they’re both virgins!
She’s gotta get him to the honeymoon so they can *do it*
(sorry I missed last night's viewing--passed out after work as usual)
Brief perusal gives rise to a new Kalshi over/under: What percentage of Wonkers have been involved in a production of Arsenic and Old Lace in some fashion or another--over or under 50%?
*waves*(LD)
I was Dr. Einstein.
Teddy Roosevelt
me too
"CHAAARGE!"
Stage hand and chief script prompter
LINE!!!!!
I remember seeing the Hallmark Hall Of Fame version with Boris Karloff when I was a kid. Tony Randall was Mortimer. And then in the late 60s I remember the version with Bob Crane as Mortimer and Fred Gwynne.
👍👍👍👍👍👍
Here's the Hallmark version with Tony Randall and Boris Karloff
https://archive.org/details/Arsenic_and_Old_Lace_1962
Here's the Bob Crane version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeNiT4wd5cM
Oh my! Thanks! ! Helen Hayes and is that Lillian Gish?
Obviously any other version suffers by comparison with the original.
"The scandals of the president’s first term now seem quaint."
It was a rehearsal.
•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•---•
"The Watchdogs Are Barking Themselves Hoarse" –https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/08/trump-ethics-corruption-crypto-watchdogs/688187/
Only by comparison with the second. Taken by themselves they would merit a long prison term.
I first read it as "baking" not "barking" and spent a moment wonder what they were baking. Old age is my only excuse.
The horror of this administration cannot be faced sober.
One day at a time. Back pain meds serve a secondary purpose. I’m loving on my service dog, our critters, and my wife and kids.
He hadn’t been given total immunity at that point.
El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3msnrhvqid42w
And it would be nice to get the care your Dr prescribes instead of having an unelected corporate beancounter deny your claim...and force you to go thru appeal after appeal and still be denied...
From the good old days of the Obama WH: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/administration/eop/cea/TheEconomicCaseforHealthCareReform
Ted Kennedy was saying this in 1970, and Milhouse would have signed it into law. Same with gun control, even the NRA was in favor of responsible gun ownership, instead of worshipping firearms.
Then, the Reagan metastasis of the dormant cancer of Republicanism...
what drives me absolutely up the wall about most people advocating MFA, is they leave the economics out, or get it wrong.
MFA will be cheaper, by at least a few %, than the current system.
We could get a pay raise, even if the payroll deduction looks like a tax hike.
MFA removes an entire industry that does nothing but straighten out billing issues.
The invisible hand of the market will find them all new jobs. (Maybe AI will help us all get to Universal Basic Income. Shh!)
Thrash/hardcore Anthrax meets Joe Jackson in one of those serendipitous deals.
Got the TIme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be7iNHw8QoQ
How the mind works...
The mention of Al Stewart below made me think of his song "Time Passages" which got me to thinking...
I saw a recommendation for a YouTube video that had the surviving cast of the Bad News Bears, which came out 50 years ago. It doesn't seem so long ago to me, but when that movie came out, a 50 year old movie most likely didn't have sound. I was 8 for most of 1976 so 50 years ago then may as well have been 100 years ago to me.
Well then
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2g0hrrKLNw&ra=m
Ya Know, Tatum O’Neal has gone from being the Lindsay Lohan of her day to being Survivor of Dysfunctionality Worthy of Judy Garland. She is a fine actress and deserved her Academy Award. Exploitation like Little Darlings was not her fault. Ryan O’Neal belongs in the Reprehensible Dad/Husband Hall of Fame, with his jersey number retired and hoisted to the rafters. And Tatum forgave him as he lay dying!
"HEY YANKEES WHY DONT YOUTAKE THAT STUPID APOLOGY AND THAT TROPHY AND STICK IT STRAIGHT UP YOUR ASS!"
" I got a Harley-Davidson. Does that turn you on? Harley-Davidson?"
Tanner's rant about "_____________and now a girl?" worked back then but not today. Still, that line was essential to his character.
I graduated high school 50 years ago. I have no idea how I got so old!
1966 for me. I turn 78 at the end of this month. Sometimes I look in the mirror and ask, "who ARE you?"
I mean, "grunge" music has been around for over 35 years now.
IK,R?
I went to my 50th HS reunion a few weeks ago..
Some of us looked really old, and some of us didn't look a day over 50.
I'm not sure which group I was in.
Keep the faith…
When Blanche was at SDNY, he did well with cookbook prosecutions having all the evidence and the law on his side, but his efforts to circumvent one with none of the other has exposed his below average legal skills. He’s not winning, he’s losing virtually everything, and has succeeded only in stonewalling the minority party.
He just another not-too-terribly-bright ambulance chaser willing to douche his mediocre career for Trump.
That is somehow comforting, although Roy Cohn was onnly good at being obnoxious and obstructive, and at being a great host on Fire Island, if Nicholas Van Hoffman is to be believed. (Remember Van Hoffman on Point/Counterpoint?)
Renting an office he has to clean himself, above an OTB,
A 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙣𝙞𝙠
𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙜𝙖𝙙𝙤
رجل قانون
𝗟𝗮𝘄𝘆𝗲𝗿
sign in the window...
This seems to be Trump's favorite sort of lawyer..