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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 6h

It went on just a smidge too long but #Loophole was unexpectedly entertaining. #TCMParty #NoirAlley

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 7h

Xavier Cugat and Abbe Lane! Nothing but top flight entertainment! #Loophole #TCMParty #NoirAlley

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 7h

I can’t wait for a JEOPARDY! Category named “Noir By The Numbers” and the $2000 answer is “$49,900”. #Loophole #NoirAlley #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 8h

As I watch these opening scenes of #Loophole I realize… I haven’t been inside a bank in like 10-12 years? Except for outdoor ATM access abroad. What are bank branches for, anyway? #NoirAlley #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Building out my shrine to the Queen of Technicolor... #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Jerry Wald was kinda Joan’s Svengali, managing her work at Warners starting with MILDRED PIERCE and continuing after he went independent. #QueenBee #TCMParty (More like her Svengoolie in this film)

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Why should it not go on? Nothing in Austria has changed.” — Herr Zeller, Gauleiter of Austria

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Folks, if you haven't seen it - you GOTTA see it. Tonight on #CreepyCinema - it's slap-tastic! #TCMParty

NYT review of QUEEN BEE from Nov 23, 1955. "New Film at Loew's State Drones Along"

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just remembered #TheGuilty is on and I’m starting about 20 mins late. Wonder if I’ve seen it before? #TheNoirCollective (Does Lassie have a cameo?)

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Since this show is the only thing I had going for me in my life, I've decided to kill myself.” — Howard Beale, NETWORK (1976)

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Under the new administration it will be legally required to use verbs” #CobraWoman #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Yep, when you charm the snake a bit too much there’s always a forceful eruption that follows #CobraWoman #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Whenever the bearers bring out the snake basket I think “four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie” #CobraWoman #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why does Naja have such a thick accent but Granny sounds like a Bryn Mawr alumna? Why am I even asking? #CobraWoman #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And this, dear reader, is where the #TCMFF audience lost their collective shit #CobraWoman #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Grandma is Mary Nash, who was Mrs Lord in THE PHILADELPHIA STORY #CobraWoman #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Moroni Olson played the detective in MILDRED PIERCE and Samuel Hinds was Dr Jimmy Kildare’s father. Both actors were in EVERYTHING. #CobraWoman #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

News Flash: my mother just reported that she had a HUGE crush on Jon Hall as a teenager. #ArabianNights #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#ArabianNights, #CobraWoman and WHITE SAVAGE (wotta title) were the first 3 Technicolor features from Universal, all with Montez/Hall/Sabu. The first two are available on DVD (I have CW) and just learned that “my guy” has WS on DVD from a good Technicolor print. #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Considering wartime rationing, the production is pretty lavish #Arabian nights #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have to say: Universal’s Technicolor processing style seems to yield more “natural” colors than Twentieth’s (oversaturated blues/aquas), Columbia’s (sepia) and Metro’s (garish primary colors). #ArabianNights #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just read Robert Arthur’s bio (playing the adorable Herbie). Left acting and became an insurance salesman (Pacific All-Risk?). Headed Project Rainbow (for gay seniors), member of Log Cabin Republicans and had non-sexual roles in a few 1990s bigger-budget gay pirn films. #NoirAlley #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I may have said this before, but I love Wilder’s choice of name for Frank Cady’s role, “Al Ferderber”. In German, “verderben” means to spoil, ruin, corrupt, taint, mar, pervert etc etc. #AceInTheHole #NoirAlley #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’m getting a double dose of Frank Cady by watching an old episode of PETTICOAT JUNCTION before #AceInTheHole on #NoirAlley #TCMPsrty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Folks, this is MADAM SATAN-level insanity. In Technicolor! For heaven’s sake, don’t miss it! #CobraWoman #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Gratuitous observation of the day: Young Randolph Scott was absolutely babe-o-licious. #Roberta #TCMParty

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I wonder if Ed Herlihy is available for the announcer job? “Good food… and good food ideas… from KRAFT”

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Alan Hait 🏳️‍🌈🏝️🍞✡️ @alanhait.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m reminded of another “First Couple” who employed censorship, repression and state power to cover grift, corruption, state terror and the over-gilding of public properties….

Nicolae and Elena Ceaucescu moments before their firing squad execution by Romanian army on 12/25/1989

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