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Born a Syracusan, now an Angeleno. Popular music, classic film and baseball fan. Screenwriter (romantic comedy a la Carole Lombard, William Powell). Go Terps!

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@ChapTaylor2 @stevemoth Especially since Paramount currently is the weakest of the major studios. Getting the jump on its rivals would dramatically raise its standing among creatives.
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@MikeSington Believe me, if Trump could get away with non-blacks holding "Blacks for Trump" signs, he'd do it. 🇺🇸
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@RealGDT @avishaiw The key word there is "expensive," not "original." Oh, these studios.
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@Bill_nsb @Susanarosanada2 @jaketapper No humanity. No dignity. 🇺🇸
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@OccupyDemocrats Shame on her. No responsible black politician should align himself or herself with the party of Trump. 🇺🇸
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@Teamsters @EricHaywood @UPS Hear THAT, AMPTP? 😀🇺🇸
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@nathaliejacoby1 Christian (in the best sense). 😀❤️🇺🇸
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@shannonrwatts Maine: The Mississippi of New England.
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@nut_history People don't see the result of the throw that followed, which kept a Cleveland runner from advancing. A truly pivotal play. ⚾️
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@itsmeglinehan @ariivory With comments at The Athletic (understandably) disabled, I'll answer here. I have little interest in any soccer, but love basketball and note the WNBA draws similar reaction. Women in team sports, especially if LGBT or of color, aren't deemed "feminine" like gymnasts or skaters.
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@historyinmemes And she's never been the subject of a biopic? Her life story is a natural. 😀❤️
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@MistymlbBrown I thought I came in small (2lb10oz), and had to spend six weeks in an incubator. But more than 68 years later, here I am. How is the baby? 😀❤️
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@hwinkler4real "I now pronounce you... dead!" (Dear Lord.)
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@CalltoActivism Heroism knows no age, gender or ethnicity. 🇺🇸😀❤️
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@DrewSav To the Trump crowd, Washington, D.C. and "filth and decay" are synonyms for "liberals and blacks." 🇺🇸
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@KeneAkers I'm a white guy who's currently in a romance with a loving lady nurse from Ghana. We adore each other. If she was a black American, and not from Africa - or if our skin colors were switched - I'm certain life as a couple would be much tougher for us. ❤️😀
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@TrumpsTaxes @PHILCP69 Years from now, when the Republican party is as much a part of the past as the Whigs, political scientists will examine this and say "What? Why?" 🇺🇸
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@LaurasMiscMovie @tcm TCM turns 30 next April. Please don't sabotage its mission of being America's repertory cinema. 🎬❤️🎦
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@LisPower1 Somewhere in heaven, Carole Lombard (no stranger to those words) ❤️ Taylor Swift.
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@DougWahl1 For now, Jimmy Carter, our greatest former president and someone who truly lives up to his religious ideals. 🇺🇸❤️😀
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@DEADLINE @noitsvishal Stephen, I miss you, Seth and the Jimmys (well, one of them). But victory will be worth the wait for this pre-WGA writer of rom-com features. 🎬😀❤️🎦
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@batdorkgirl And they said Fran Drescher had a "let 'em eat cake" moment when she went to Italy and posed with a Kardashian. Not an optimal move from her, to be sure, but with their multi-million bonuses, Iger & company are eating the entire bakery.
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@oldhollywoodx Powell and Loy, whether or not they're Nick and Nora. 🎬😀❤️🎦
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@JVMonte2 "The Seeker," the Who ("I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked the Beatles...").
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@OddHistorian @PeteThamel Or the American Coastal Conference. 🏈🏐🏀⚾️
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@Sophia_Nyx "Married to the Mob." Ethereal then, ethereal now.
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@Super70sSports Michael Jack Schmidt. ⚾️
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@Sophia_Nyx "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues."
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@ItsMeCarolAMPTP @WillTheLandMan @billmaher Why I root for the Clippers. 🏀
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@historyrock_ Hey Jude, easily.
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@randomusernayme @itsmeglinehan @ariivory Hate to tell you this, but relatively few transwomen are athletes, and those who are certainly don't go the MTF route to win medals or tournaments. Renee Richards is still with us; she can confirm this.
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@crockpics "She's the One."
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@JustineBateman Get a movie person in there who loves the making films, not another damn Ivy League MBA who's more obsessed with quarterly statements than cinematic art.
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@BrianaCap @akoukouli Fran, you're a smart lady and from what I understand a capable guild leader, but this trivializes the fight by actors and (by extension) the writers. You really should know better... especially at this crucial time. (And with a Kardashian, to boot!)
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@jefftimmer When the GOP abandoned the Eisenhower-Rockefeller wing and went into bed with the backward South to woo the White Citizens Council crowd, this was bound to happen. 🇺🇸
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@faithson77 @LifeofFitz @Ianfitzespn Utah thinks it's Cal or Stanford, but it's behind both of them in the B1G expansion line, no matter how many Rose Bowl trips the Utes make.
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@MeidasTouch Crowd sizes? Compared to Trump, Taylor Swift is the 50-foot woman. 😃❤️🇺🇸
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@DrMoneyTrees "All of Me." A pivotal film for Martin, aided by director Carl Reiner and co-star Lily Tomlin.
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@slmandel What about Berkeley, one of America's great public universities? Nobody cares about Cal; the amount of vitriol against it on social media verges on the ridiculous.
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@CUBarstool @Panaflanman Central Florida: The new Texas.
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@JWMediaDC @B1GAAU @pac12 Too much of a gamble, relying on subscribers, and a preponderance of streaming, something college sports fans don't like. Had I been the Pac, I'd have passed, too.
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@ThatEricAlper Marshall Crenshaw's self-titled debut album (1982).
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@DougWahl1 Either Tuberville or Hawley, the former a football coach who shouldn't be there, latter an Ivy Leaguer slumming with the trailer trash.
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@IL0VEthe80s "Airplane!" No contest.
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@B52Malmet This latest indicent was from Talladega Speedway in Alabama. What else would you expect from the backward South?
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@AoDespair Good, but I still believe Ray Charles' version of "America the Beautiful" is the real national anthem.
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@CUBuffs @UCFSports @Big12Conference A "welcome back, Buffs" from Ames! 🏈🏐🏀
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@DougJBalloon So FDR's problems in his second term wasn't a result of the 1937-38 recession, but lackluster reviews for the latest Ernst Lubitsch releases? (Many have deemed Anderson this generation's Lubitsch.) 🎦
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@luvzohemji @DiscussingFilm If the "She-Hulk: Attorney at Law" writers had actually read many of the "She-Hulk" comic books from the 1990s, her character would've been more well-rounded and lauded rather than lambasted. The TV version of Jennifer Walters wasn't very interesting and lacked vulnerability.
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@TheRealDudja "Apple is worth several trillion dollars? And I didn't think the Beatles knew how to run a record label."
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@mhdksafa Hey, friend. Muslims are people too. You're not planning jihad any more than this Catholic is seeking to revive the Crusades. 😀🇺🇸
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@Brett_McMurphy @ActionNetworkHQ Wonder what NCSU got in return for switching its vote?
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@ArtyArtHistory Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Anita O'Day, Dave Brubeck -- "atonal"? Huh?
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@nicolesimone I never went to prom, either. (I was shy.) But better late than never, dear. ❤️😀
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@Sophia_Nyx "Borderline," although "Like A Prayer" is damn good too.
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@wcbuecker The lower peninsula didn't love hockey enough. 😀
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@ericareport No American cheese? That's... un-American! ☹️🇺🇸
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@Mikeysurf @JWMediaDC Clemson helped form the ACC 70 years ago (with now-departed Maryland) after both were suspended by the Southern Conference in 1952 for violating its no-bowl policy the year before. FSU's been in the ACC for less than half that time.
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@Brett_McMurphy It never killed Iowa State-Iowa. And the latter two games can still be played non-league.
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@MollyJongFast @VivekGRamaswamy Truth, not so social. 😀🇺🇸
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@NewBigXII Well, it least it easily divides into four "quads" (sorry to bring back that 1990s WAC term): East: Iowa St, Cin, WVU, UCF Central: Colo, KU, K-State, Okie St Texas: Baylor, Hous, TCU, TTU West: Ariz, BYU, Ore, Wash Just keep "Farmageddon" as an annual game.
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@JoyVBehar Truth, Bruce, truth. 🇺🇸
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@gastropoda @JRubinBlogger @djrothkopf I don't mind a black/Asian woman (sorry, I don't capitalize either "white" or "black" in terms of skin color) but most important, she's a Democrat like me and I'd have no objection to her as president if need be.
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@skrocentral The Times has to be an apologist for the Ivy League power structure. It just has to.
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@Jesica21x Just turned 68. ❤️😀
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@NoLieWithBTC Something Cyclones and Hawkeyes fans can agree on. 😀
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@morgfair The Donald probably works for His opponent.
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@GSwaim Likely divisions under your plan: BIG 12 WEST: WSU, OrSU, Ariz, ASU, Utah, BYU, Colo, Baylor, Hous, TCU, TTech BIG 12 EAST: OkSU, KSU, Kans, ISU, Cinc, WVU, UCF, Pitt, L'ville, NCSU, VTech
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@CyndyStachowiak @mmpadellan "Superstition, ambition and ignorance." A perfect description of the backward South.
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@BearcatMta Two trips to the Rose Bowl (neither a win), and Utes fans think they're Southern Cal.
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@Gerashchenko_en Hey, a whoopee cushion could start World War III.
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@LeahRemini @BenStiller My late friend Francine York played Jerry Stiller's girlfriend on several episodes and said she adored working with him. Then again, nearly everyone in the industry did. ❤️😀
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@realTuckFrumper @natureboy1t "Hey, hey, hey hey hey!" (And do Trump and his acolytes fully understand their absurd cultural misappropriation in using this song?) 😀
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@athurlow They saw "Cats."
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@LasVegasLocally Paul McCartney. He's past 80 and still puts on marathon shows! 😃❤️
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@TechnicallyRon And "Barbie" stomps all over their frat-boy silliness, as if its title character was the 50-foot woman. 😀
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@THR I agree with you, Barry, but try to persuade tech-obsessed Wall Street to employ that tactic.
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@DougWahl1 She saw "black" (in terms of race) and thought to herself, "Time to reload my culture-war arsenal! The Donald will like that."
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@jody_jennings @Genetics56 The Big Ten cares about both research and athletics, one reason I fought for Maryland to join the B1G more than a decade ago. Cal and Stanford fit in too.
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@MajorKMusic Feel good to learn that. Years ago, I edited a weekly in NJ and was among the first to write about Laura. Her mom gave me her LA phone; when I called, Topher was there and I got a quote from him too. I'm now an LA screenwriter, and have roles for both in a comedy script of mine.
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@MoviesSilently We need to get the ghosts of Carole Lombard, Myrna Loy and Barbara Stanwyck to haunt Zazlav's office. 🎬😀❤️🎦
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@MLBLife @acline97 I'll have to let Mike Rizzo know about this. ⚾️
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@slmandel Stewart, you haven't met Utah?
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@Route_60plus "Nothing beats a great pair of..." 😀
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@joel_eisenberg Let's get those $10-20M mid-budget films going again!
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@Sophia_Nyx "I Can See For Miles." (Why does everyone here ignore 1960s Who?)
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@slmandel Given NCSU's status in men's basketball the past quarter-century, I'd have to agree with him.
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@Route_60plus "What is 'Jeopardy!', and who was Art Fleming?" Happy 59th anniversary to the greatest game show of them all. 😀
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@JamesBa96112723 @bluebloodsbias It's why Southern Cal can't draw for men's basketball - Trojans fans frankly don't care about hoops.
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