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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This project was * so fun *. Coming soon.

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Richard Dalton @zx23.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If you listen to that song, there are a few few very short rolls on the vocal oooh-ooohs, on no-nos and that stomping chorus. It's so minimal, and perfect.

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Philip @necron99.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I love the song "Have I The Right" but had never seen a performance of it so I had no idea that The Honeycombs had *the* foundational Girl Drummer

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jmalecki.bsky.social @jmalecki.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

61 years later, it still sounds good to me.

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

the woman who posted the Spinout pic said, “The girl drummer in Spinout and Honey Lantree inspired me as a kid to become a drummer.” Karen Carpenter said when she saw The Honeycombs on The Ed Sullivan Show, it inspired her to become a drummer.

Martin Murray, Honey Lantree, Denis D'Ell, the Honeycombs

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Right before Lantree died at the age of 74, she came up in a discussion on FB. I posted about the BONKERS final moment of the Elvis movie Spinout. Someone in the comments, a woman, posted a picture of Elvis’ “band” in Spinout, all boys, with – a girl drummer. I said, "Hey it's like the Honeycombs!"

Elvis' band in Spinout with the girl drummer Les, played by Deborah Walley

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Oh my gosh thank you for letting me know! I love this!

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

“I just sat at the drums and said, ‘Can I have a go?’ I just took to it.” — Honey Lantree #BOTD Lantree, hairdresser turned drummer for the Joe-Meek-produced (boy) band The Honeycombs. A boy band w/a girl drummer is still rare. In the 1960s it was unheard of. A wee thread on this inspiring figure!

Honey Lantree, hairdresser / drummer for The Honeycombs

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives

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Corey Frayer @csfrayer.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Here's what the third day of elementary school looked like in Mount Pleasant, Washington DC.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/08/2025

I continue not to have strong feelings about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce but he seems to be a big galoot and I feel like marrying a big galoot is usually a solid choice so good for her

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

20 YEARS AFTER KATRINA, A FILM SERIES RECLAIMS NEW ORLEANS @bealoayza.bsky.social’s tender and exacting pen looks at the film series k. austin collins and i co-curated for MoMA in reflection of katrina, “when the world broke open: katrina and its afterlives.” opening this evening at 8 pm.

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20 Years After Katrina, a Film Series Reclaims New Orleans

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

“I do not ever want to be a huge star.” — Tuesday Weld #BOTD wrote a short piece about her: the great pretty poison, wild in the country - opposite Elvis - play it as it lays. www.sheilaomalley.com?p=106223

Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins in "Pretty Poison"

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

High school reunion this past weekend. Seeing so many people I have known since literally kindergarten in some cases. It was unexpectedly really fun. Keith M referred to me "my wife in first grade." It was better than our last reunion where someone was legit tased for being scarily disorderly.

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

“Oh, good Lord, what’s the matter with women, anyway?” “Please don’t call me ‘women,'” she said. “I’m sorry, darling,” he said. “I didn’t mean to use bad words.” — Dorothy Parker, “Dusk Before Fireworks”

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

the phrase "saying the quiet part out loud" should probably be retired at this point.

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(Kid) Jeremy (and the Pumpkins 🎃) @whyabigsuit.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

I only recently discovered this photo of Scorsese directing De Niro in Raging Bull while wearing a Clash t-shirt and it's a cross-section of all my favorite things.

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

From “I Hired a Contract Killer” (1990), directed by Aki Kaurismäki. Happy birthday, Joe Strummer

Joe Strummer (and Elvis) in “I Hired a Contract Killer” (1990), directed by Aki Kaurismäki

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Next to me at all times. Belly exposed.

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Only Angels Have Wings Viva Las Vegas Blue Crush

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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The city that gave the world Siskel & Ebert no longer has a full-time print film critic.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Theatrical dates included.

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Frankenstein poster art just released with the perfect tagline Only Monsters Play God! @realgdt.bsky.social 's gorgeous film will open in select theaters on October 17. My book on the film is available for pre-order: Getting close!! www.mcnallyjackson.com/book/9798886...

Frankenstein poster, featuring Oscar Isaac as Dr. Frankenstein

Frankenstein poster featuring Jacob Elordi as the creature

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I went to the preview of a new play called SEA GLASS, by Olivia Dennehy-Basile (Brian Dennehy's granddaughter), directed by Jen McCabe, an old friend of mine. It's about 2 teenage sisters in 1979, raising themselves due to absent selfish parents: Loved it. Run til 8/30: wptheater.org/wp-space-pro...

Program for SEA GLASS, a new play by Olivia Dennehy-Basile, directed by Jennifer McCabe, at the WP Theatre on the UWS

WP Theatre, 2162 Broadway at 76th Street

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

and--idk quite how to articulate this--but the work of it is... critical to art-making. like you discover your intentions through the labor of expressing them. if I'd woken up at 17 with the technical ability to write a novel, i wouldn't have known what i was trying to say. the work IS the product.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

This fucking sentence

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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

“WENT UP THE HILL doesn’t just explore grief, it expresses it,” writes @sheilakathleen.bsky.social about Samuel Van Grinsven’s ghost story. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/went...

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Went Up the Hill movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert

“Went Up the Hill” doesn’t just explore grief, it expresses it.

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Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Great piece Sheila. I spent a few hours with Nic Roeg about ten years ago - I interviewed him on stage before a screening of Don't Look Now that we were putting on in a church. The conversation was a lot like his films - mercurial, jumping around in time and subject & filled with passion for cinema.

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Dana Stevens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

If your book is in this database of published material that was plagiarized without permission to shovel into the maw of AI (& it most likely is--I just checked & mine was there), add your information (title, publisher, ISBN number) to this attorney form to be part of a future class-action lawsuit.

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

As someone who comes from a family with a service tradition, I’ve been thinking a lot about this - only not as eloquently as @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social says it.

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you: Our funding depends on usage. So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

If you could get a crib in any five cities (five cribs) of your choice in the world, which would you choose? Me: Chicago, Split, Dublin, London, Istanbul

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

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David Cutler @dcutler1958.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

My favorite submission: "As a scientist, Throckmorton knew that if he were ever to break wind in the echo chamber he would never hear the end of it."

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Oh no! I looked forward to it every year. Nothing gold can stay I guess but can SOMEthing gold stay? Anything?

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Sheila O’Malley @sheilakathleen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

For Hitchcock's birthday, a piece I wrote from maybe 2021 about Eminem's Hitchcock thing, on full explicit display in 2020, bookended by albums called Music to Be Murdered By (named after AH's spoken word album of the same name). anyway if you're into obsession: www.sheilaomalley.com?p=170116

Eminem and Alfred Hitchcock, identical album covers, 62 years apart, where they hold an axe and a gun to their heads.

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