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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 4h

Why are you fucking framing this as a question?

Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 4h

Don't let him off the hook, GTT, without sentencing him to writing "Drink your juice, Shelby" 100 times on a blackboard. [In truth, I have a soft spot for the play as a piece of pop theater. It has some very funny lines and compelling moments. The film exhausts my good will very quickly.]

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 5h

The Opposite Sex of the 1980s, minus June slapping the shit out of Joan.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 5h

A wackadoo movie that is nonetheless visually exquisite. The cinematography is off-the-charts brilliant. A feast for the eyes. #TheUnsuspected #TheNoirCollective

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 6h

"I'll have you know I've vibrated in my time." So have I, Connie. So have I. #TheNoirCollective #TheUnsuspected

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 6h

Ha! I love how Anton knows *exactly* what he's doing in that publicity still.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 7h

Anton Walbrook in Hutterite drag is my fashion lodestar. #49thParallel #TCMParty

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

She's extremely pro-Israeli government in its current authoritarian incarnation, and she has been for some time. Conservative is too kind a word.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The multiplied meta-ness of this shot does not escape the notice of this elder gay who is watching #AllThatHeavenAllows on the TV in the home that he shares with an elderly French Bulldog. #TCMParty

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

There's an essay to be written on why Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson make such a ([n] improbably) compelling onscreen couple. Several essays, even. I unironically love the pairing. #TCMParty #AllThatHeavenAllows

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

"So, what you're saying is, I can be a wealthy Republican *and* a bohemian with exquisite off-beat taste at the same time? I find this news most intriguing." #TCMParty #AllThatHeavenAllows

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

All the Fords, Lincolns, and Mercurys that Universal Pictures' product-placement deal with FoMoCo would allow. #TCMParty #AllThatHeavenAllows

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Them were some aesthetically INSANE times. Our family was so poor that I had to use Alpo cans fished out of the neighbors' garbage.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The town in which I lost my virginity. (Not in that house, though.)

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My dog likes to pretend that he's a piece of rough trade turning tricks in the alley behind our building for $5 a scritch.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Truth be told, I exited the womb anxiety ridden.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

P.S. My current post-move points of anxiety include: Where is my dental insurance card? Where is that really cute hat I paid too much money for? And where tf is my passport?

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Ha! I didn't even realize you'd misjudged it! (Seriously, I feel your pain.)

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Yup. Meanwhile, 300,000 civil servants have been purged from the federal government, most of whom live in DC, the city she savvily calls her won. She doesn't give a shit.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The absolute worst is losing your keys or wallet in your own home. In such instances, I ramp up to hyperventilating very quickly.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Then quit and tell the world the truth. Leslie Stahl, an octogenarian multi-millionaire, ain't gonna spend the remainder of her years in poverty.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

True, but there was that time I heard a little thud when I was entertaining one of my suitors and realized a piece of my wig had fallen off.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

[at the neighborhood bodega just now] Fellow Older Customer to Young Cashier: You've heard of Madonna, right? YC: No. FOC: Madonna? Seriously? YC: I don't know who you're talking about. Me:

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Lordy, it took a long time for irene dunne to become Irene Dunne. I admire her perseverance. #TCMParty #BackStreet

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oof. Given those facts, perhaps it's just a matter of preserving the friendship without compromising your principles. So maybe just say something like, "You trust me, right? You know I wouldn't lie to you. So believe me when I say that things are THAT bad, and then we can move on to other topics."

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

She was born with a vestigial twin growing out of her shoulder, Gina. Her mother used to dress it in tiny matching outfits. We're not supposed to talk about it.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm very close to lumping those folks together with Trumpists. The facts are out there for them to easily find if they're truly interested. The road to redemption is one they must take alone. I won't hold their hands anymore.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I've never not thrown up, either. But, given that I've only eaten White Castle at 2 a.m. when thoroughly wasted, that's no surprise.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

You're going to reap just what you sow.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Those two accents seem as though they'd make a nice combo, though.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I said "warsh" until I went to college and was routinely corrected by my urbane and sophisticated classmates from Bolingbrook and Skokie. Truth be told, when I'm tired or tipsy, I probably still say "warsh."

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's an awfully cute sweater, Joshua.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If you ever audition for the role of "man choking on his high-blood-pressure medication horse pill," hit me up for tips on how to approach the part.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Abortion survivor? I'd say that the woman who gestated her chose the wrong answer in the Baby Hitler thought experiment.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"First thing I do when I get there, I take a bath in the crick." A+ regional pronunciation, Sterling. I still say "crick" when referring by name to any large stream that runs through my home county. Coon Crick. 10-Mile Crick. Shit Crick. #AsphaltJungle #TCMParty

Sterling Hayden in a tank-T in The Asphalt Jungle. He doesn't hear a word that his long-suffering girlfriend (the magnificent Jean Hagen, not pictured) says.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The thing that will never cease to rankle me is that the two foundational families of the Party of Family Values (the Reagans and the Bushes) both shunted their kids off to boarding school the moment they grew too old for the nannies to take care of.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I blame O'Neil, the thinking man's Gail Patrick. (Seriously, though, the best thing about the movie is that it gives a young Anne Shirley—who ought to have had a bigger career—an opportunity to show her stuff.)

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

And, like, the movie establishes early on that Stella is a quick study of manners and fashion. And then suddenly we're supposed to believe she's the bastard of child of Mrs. Roper and Ma Kettle? Not even Stanwyck can pull that one off.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

She understood the difference between playing it cool and playing it chilly. (Never chilly.) Oh. And that swoop of luxurious blond hair. Magnificent.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yup. Her health was declining rapidly during the filming of Libeled Lady, and, if you know what to look for, it shows.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Louis B. was rewarding her for being a cash cow for MGM, as he should have. Seriously.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Poplar Creek, Hoffman Estates, Illinois. My friends and I drove 170 or so miles after school to see the concert, on the condition (established by our parents) that we go to class the next day. We were tired teenagers.

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Lord Byron Bunch @lordbyronbunch.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I did too, Daniel. They opened for the Go-Gos. Vacation Tour, 1982. We are a rare breed.

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