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The Morning News @themorningnews.org · 20/10/2026

Related to the links about Roger Corman’s Poe cycle: this amazing 1961 photo of the casting call for black cats to appear in “Tales of Terror” commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...

Casting call for black cats to star in Roger Corman movie in Los Angeles, Calif., 1961 Published caption:HOLLYWOOD HUNTS A BLACK CAT-Out of this sidewalk full of black cats one may be chosen for the title role in (natch) "The Black Cat," one of three segments in Tales of Terror, which American International Pictures is casting at Producers Studio. Director Roger Corman hopes to find six look-alikes--one to star, the others to stand in--for the movie thriller starring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Joyce Jameson.

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The Morning News @themorningnews.org · 29/08/2026

Remembering Rosie themorningnews.org/the-dalai-la...

Rosie, Robert Birnbaum’s lovely yellow Labrador companion and co-interviewer, with Ethan Hawke, July 2002

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The Morning News @themorningnews.org · 06/08/2026

We replaced our battery of loosely connected publishing tools (site+members+email) last year with @ghost.org, and it’s been great But after 20+ years of stringing stuff together (there was even a Word macro at one point!) some of our archives had become broken—or at least a little mangled

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The Morning News @themorningnews.org · 12/06/2026

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Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in “You’ve Got Mail” (1998)

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The Morning News @themorningnews.org · 15/01/2026

Here's @mattielubchansky.com on 2025 themorningnews.org/2025-the-yea...

PANEL 1: A robot making a kissy face is attacking a human, who is pushing away the robot.

CAPTION: Most important: Someone you know that doesn't pay much attention to "the news" is finally fed up with AI slop infesting 100% of their lives.

PANEL 2: In the foreground, Mattie is looking at the cover of a book titled "The Catcher in the Rye or Whatever I Guess." In the background is a table with a placard reading "Happy Banned Books Week!"

CAPTION: Least important: As trans people are being forcibly disappeared from public life (and publishing), at least your local bookstore is putting a bunch of stuff they sell just fine regardless on the "banned books" table.

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