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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 6h

The beauty level varies from story to story but DEAD OF NIGHT has some extraordinary visuals (I’m not using any that would be “spoilers”.)

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 16h

Written by AI -Asshole Intelligence.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 18h

On screwed- up directors cuts, I’d add Blake Edwards’ Darling Lili.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

When the Paley Center showed the previously lost kinescope of Horton Foote’s THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL, Eva Marie Saint, who co-starred with Lillian Gish, introduced it. As classy and elegant in person as she was on the screen, she spent most of the introduction praising the play and Miss Gish.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

She also replaced Hope Emerson as “Mother” on Peter Gunn.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m old enough to remember seasons with over 35 episodes. I used to keep the fall preview issues of TV Guide and still have some.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The last segment in DEAD OF NIGHT and the coda (you must see the film from the beginning for it to work). I don’t think I’ve ever seen a contemporary film with that impact.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Duck Amuck has more laughs in seven minutes than most comedies do in ninety.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Richard W. Bann would know the answer to these questions. He’s not here but he is on Facebook.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But I cannot imagine Planet of the Apes without him.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“The Coming of Galactus” was the first FF comic I read when it came out, just after I read the Ditko Spider-Man with Spidey trapped under the machinery. Is it any wonder I became a huge Marvel fan?

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy Birthday to the greatest comic artist in the history of film: Buster Keaton! (I had a poster of this image in my room from childhood until I was in my twenties.)

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Many people say Lou was seriously considered for “Fiorello” on Broadway. But my father, who worked at Universal and knew him, distinctly remembered that the studio had the idea for a straight biopic years earlier. He would have been sublime in the part.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

When I remember, I always post this picture on the appropriate day. One of the great final gags right up there with “Nobody’s perfect!”

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Williamstown Theatre Festival 2013. We were with George S. Kaufman’s daughter Anne, which was very cool.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I saw a pretty good staging of ANIMAL CRACKERS with a few extra Kalmar-Ruby songs thrown in.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I saw Minnie’s Boys. It wasn’t great but Lewis J. Stadlen did what is still likely the best Groucho I’ve ecer seen (other than Groucho).

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

PS This is also the birthday of Bud Abbott and Spanky MacFarland!

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Man, do I wish I could have them on a Broadway stage! (I did see Groucho live at the taping of what Dick Cavett calls their “golden show” and that was pretty great!)

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He should be just as successful there as Bari Weiss has been at CBS.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today is the birthday of Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott and Spanky MacFarland. That’s a lot of funny for one day.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“When the legend becomes fact…” If I have to say the whole quote, they’re not friends of mine.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I paid to see this at the Ziegfeld Theater in NY so I stayed to the bitter end. Don’t think I’ll be revisiting it anytime soon.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The long awaited first collaboration between Christopher Nolan and Guillermo Del Toro.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Roscoe Ates, whose major role as Chief of Police, was cut when preview audiences failed to laugh at his famous “stuttering “ routine.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh, I can disprove that in any ten minute conversation.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I never saw any of the pie shop versions but I do have a weakness for actual British meat pies. You can’t get them anymore. There’s a Cornish Pasties chain that only seems to exist in train stations so when in London I spend time there. Not that you asked about any of this.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

He also appeared as Samuel Johnson in Powell’s TV film “The Frantick Rebel” from the “Espionage” anthology series - a good little film that begs to be in Powell technicolor.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hmmm. Maybe I only saw it in my mind. I see some really great shows there!

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Oh, wait, was that on television? I think I did see that. I wish I could remember it as well as you do.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Colonel Blimp is one of my favorite movies, full stop. And, among its many triumphs, it is one of the greatest expressions of love for an actress ever filmed.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I didn’t see either of those, unfortunately, but from my comment, you can probably guess who I did see.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That’s true. What also strikes me is how few other STs are genuinely frightening. I see actors who are good singers but not actors or good actors but not singers. Cariou filled his great voice with the character he was playing- magnificent and terrifying.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have never seen a Sweeney who could touch him.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I love the fact that she and Michael Powell had the same birthday.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I had the same obsession from childhood and wrote about it for The Criterion Collection; www.criterion.com/current/post...

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My Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

Growing up with the epically zany, star-studded comedy.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For #NationalSilentMovieDay, may I recommend Harold Lloyd’s hilarious THE FRESHMAN, available in this great Criterion edition for which I wrote the booklet essay? You can also see it on The Criterion Channel and read my essay at the Criterion Current.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At my age, it’s not easy to process a politician whose videos regularly bring tears to my eyes. All I can say is that in this Trump hellscape, it’s a blessing to live in a city run by Mayor Mamdani.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Today is the birthday of the great animation director Chuck Jones. I was lucky enough to know him slightly. One of the nicest things that can happen to you is that you meet your idols and find that they are everything you hope they'd be. Chuck Jones was all that and more.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m a writer not a cartoonist but No. 3 is one of the most important things I ever learned to do.

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My partner and I desperately wanted to get “Triplets” onto the Disney show we wrote for. You can’t imagine how hard it was to sell that to the execs. Or maybe you can. But we won! (Of course, the “little gun” had to go.) youtu.be/KxG6SlfkBqk?...

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MMC The Mickey Mouse Club Triplets

YouTube video by hollyelizisme

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Stephen Winer @rowrbazzle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Doesn’t it seem like Batman Day comes earlier every year?

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