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Erik Gratton

@erikfallsdown.bsky.social
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Next: Black Stache @ Tantrum Theater, OH Giant and funny on TV. Los Angeles/NYC Grimm, Mrs Maisel, Kimmy Schmidt, All My Children Stage: Buddy the Elf at MSG. Homer Simpson, Shrek, Olaf, Billy Pilgrim, Paul Sheldon, Andrew Cuomo, Hamlet, Rosalind

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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h
I do not understand acting companies where members strive for a universal unlocked Method or Process or Style or some such. I do not denigrate but I do not understand the yearn. I prefer individual processes learning to bump up against each other, moving in similar directions to a common-ish goal.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 1h
Quick stop by the little hidden thrift shop I was clued into this morning.
LP for Tangerine Dream’s Soundtrack to the movie Sorcerer!LP for the soundtrack to the movie 10!
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Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social · 22h
The Chair Fight is common in retail and comes down to control. My first thought that it’s particularly discriminatory to pregnant women. The second is the extremely fuzzy definition of “fitness standards” and how those are measured.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 15h
Off to a fantastic start. Freaking LOVED this. It’s visually gorgeous, one of Lee’s favorites. I agree. Liked it so much more than most reviews told me I would.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 18h
Every month is horror month but it’s worth documenting in October. Tonight’s first watch: Taste of Evil (1961). Been on the list awhile. Hammer. Christopher Lee and Susan Strasberg (the good Strasberg).
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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 19h
If you want to see a batshit American satire about evil rich people in power this weekend, may I suggest WINTER KILLS? It's streaming for free on The Roku Channel and Kanopy.
youtu.be
WINTER KILLS - Rialto Pictures Trailer
YouTube video by Rialto Pictures
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Clsn @clsn.bsky.social · 19h
Ah, Catholics.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 19h
“…but for Wales?” A Man for All Seasons
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 20h
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Scare Smith 💀 @evilgalprods.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
sorry, but if you’re working on this movie, you are no friend of mine — nor of any other American in case that wasn’t clear enough, if you are crewing this movie in any capacity, go fuck yourself
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Between the Christianity of this land and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference.” — Frederick Douglass bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Zero Republicans align to “good.”
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That’s enough “Affleck is smart, actually” content for me, forever.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Casting famous modern country singers as legit hill people was honestly the weirdest choice.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One can chew scenery and be believed. One can be what would otherwise be over the top, yet be believed. There is no size limit to performing character and situation in ways that resonate in the presence and experiences of an audience.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
All I know is EVERYBODY brings iced coffee to an audition and everyone spills sometimes and it’s not a big deal. I love this industry for such little sane things amid the many problems.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Takes a lot of dumb to be the biggest idiot ever elected to statewide office in Missouri. Most of the contenders are current office holders. But Schmitt… what a complete forgets-to-breathe dipshit.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol Eric Schmitt is so fucking dumb.
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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.
Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
10 minutes into The Quiller Memorandum (1966, but reads newer) and I’m so excited this one somehow slipped through unwatched til now.
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C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · 28/09/2026
Today is my birthday! Please buy my books, I'm so broke
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
8 years ago today was my last day as a chef for Fall Out Boy and MGK on their tour. I left to act in a workshop of a new musical by Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano. Haven’t worked as a rock chef since, but I’ll do it again if/when the right one comes up.
Cut fruit tray, Brie baked in crusty bread and pistachio cake w sweet cream and chocolate. Representative of portions of my daily tour menus.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sang for the Boston Common Christmas Tree Lighting in 2017. Had a hair mic and a headset mic, plus plan c: get hand mic from stagehand. All 3 mics went out, live audience of thousands couldn’t hear. Kept singing to jeers, other improv options unappetizing. Went out crystal clear on TV, ‘course.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Go see the GOAT bigger than a Buick.
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If anything, it's a tribute to John Carpenter, not only as a skilled director but as a fan of film. This is the guy that loved Rio Bravo and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster and Double Indemnity. Big Trouble is a movie that only gets made when your tastes are very broad.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026
NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...
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You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell
Ideapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Incredible. I’ve not read all the Vance novels yet and it turns out the film is based on the novel of the same name from the year before.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For those that love pioneering queer detective stories and old time radio, I’m thrilled to share the incredible existence of The Gracie Allen Murder Case, a Philo Vance Mystery from 1939 starring Gracie Allen as Gracie Allen.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is so cool to see Claire Scanlon keep making fun stuff. Ran the best, happiest set I’ve ever been on.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AND Quincy Tyler Bernstine?! Furious (2026) has a FANTASTIC cast.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wrt Cocoon (1985), Tandy was Ophelia opposite Gielgud in the West End the year Brimley was born. She married Cronyn when Brimley was 8. Wilf was a mere child in Cocoon (1985).
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wrt Brimley being born otd in 1934, I am now officially Cocoon (1985) years old. Sure didn’t need to chase that stat tonight.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I stumble across a show you‘ve cast Scoot McNairy in, I’m probably gonna finish watching that show.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seems like a real bad time to drive a quarterback into the ground with your full weight, yeah?
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It’s fucking crazy how many prisoners and even non-prisoners lose what should be their absolute right to vote in this country.
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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This screenshot of a Rolling Stone writer sneering that people who claim they haven’t heard of “Choosin’ Texas” are lying for clout is how I learned of the existence of “Choosin’ Texas.”
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Preparing the news orgs for AI “going rogue” on November 3.
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"I’ll catch you outside and rip your face off," one Connecticut judicial marshal allegedly told ICE agents at a state courthouse in Meriden on Wednesday, according to the statement from DHS.
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Pete Woods @thatpetewoods.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Actually, Fetterman is the scientist’s name.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
static.klipy.com
George Hamilton as Dracula: Children of the Night
Alt: George Hamilton as Dracula: Children of the Night…SHIT UP
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 25/09/2026
This week the Trump administration ran a 30-second campaign spot on Fox News and Newsmax, labeled "Paid for by the U.S. Government." This kind of propaganda using taxpayer dollars is unacceptable and very likely illegal.
abcnews.com
Administration's pro-Trump TV ad is taxpayer-funded
The Trump administration is running a pro-Trump ad on cable news featuring Trump boasting about his record and vowing the US "will never be a communist country."
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The world is weird and scary but I’m from Kansas and Missouri so I made ribs to cope a little.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My only contribution is that I was once castigated at an interview to work at Barney’s, because I brought a bottle of water to my fifth interview. I decided against accepting the sixth interview opportunity.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A couple SNL casts have recently reached the age of being comfortable telling oblique “what a hell-hole run by a lunatic” stories.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And The Greatest, Ms Woodard, ensures I’ll finish it. Easy mark, me.
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pushed play on The Boroughs, as I find myself in whatever mood that is. Opening with Dee Wallace is always gonna hook me. Dammit.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet
5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You know: for kids! (I yelped aloud.)
Nightmare fuel photo of Mel Gibson in the art for the movie “Monster Summer” next to two Paw Patrol entries, together they are “Popular Kids Movies.”
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Stephanie Campisi @stephcampisi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this post brought to you by this lovely news bsky.app/profile/step...
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Erik Gratton @erikfallsdown.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every actor on earth: 🤯
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