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Yes, it's been seven years, but I still miss Roger's reviews!
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Cleavage. It speaks to us from the time before memory of love, comfort, warmth, softness and food. Cleavage. Oh yes. Cleavage.
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"Never marry someone who doesn't love the movies you love. Sooner or later, that person will not love you." (Roger Ebert)
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There's something I'd like to make clear. I'm not a breast fetishist. I'm a cleavage fantasist.
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Advised I should stick to tweeting on topics I know something about. Then attacked for tweeting about Japanese breast pillows.
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"Give a Republican a fish and he'll think he learned how to fish. Teach him to fish and he'll call you socialist." --
@LOLGOP
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I would not let Steely Dan get between me and the woman I loved, no matter what she thought about Steely Dan.
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This account is eating up all of my data and I want you to cancel it. Please respond
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Even when the theater has gone dark, the story is still alive in you.
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Tonight I am so proud to be an American, and a Democrat.
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JE here: Roger Ebert's final review, of Terence Malick's TO THE WONDER :
http://t.co/la9fj5P2Dk
http://t.co/7mkLWyfMYo
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CHAZ HERE: Roger gave me instructions to tweet for him. I wonder if he knew something we didn't know. (Tears)
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Since the invention of the teleprompter, no President has needed one less than Barack Obama.
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Actually, one of the best presidential debate moderators would be David Letterman, who is quick, smart, and interrupts bullshit.
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The best, funniest video about Siskel & Ebert I've ever seen.
http://j.mp/kpxx8
From Nostalgia Critic
http://j.mp/1z4pVJ
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Am I odd? Cleavage doesn't awaken my feelings of lust, but those of the hope to be comforted.
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A reader comment: "If Kirby's Epic Yarn is not art, then Shakespeare isn't too."
http://j.mp/cJXULV
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in philosophy; the search for a moral justification for selfishness."
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Dear Evan Hansen is a terrible, misbegotten musical with too little self-awareness to care how out of tune it sounds.
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The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
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My eyes filled with tears of joy and hope. We need this man at this time.
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Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him.
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Ray Bradbury has died. "The Pedestrian" is one of the most famous of all short stories. Read it here. Uncanny prophecy.
http://t.co/IpEaj7J2
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Take your handwriting, turn it into a font, use it for e-mail or anything else. Free. (Thanks, steinbolt1)
http://j.mp/93ZEU6
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"If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't f**k them." -- John Waters
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Brilliant! 14 actors, in brief scenes without dialogue, evoke great moments in screen acting. NYTimes video feature:
http://nyti.ms/rqvZdE
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"DDLJ" is said to be the most popular Bollywood film among women. Omer Mozaffar review on my site. On Netflix Instant.
http://t.co/0nKD5dAt
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To a friend uncertain about moving: Every city you move to already contains friends of a lifetime you have not yet met.
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Wall Street isn't winning. It's cheating. Devastating article in Rolling Stone.
http://t.co/CGVgVxfi
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Oh. My. God. The Southern Lights (aurora australis) photographed by astronauts from space.
http://twitpic.com/21vzi8
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What a gift to see him on the screen—to see his spirit shining as brightly as ever
#LIFEITSELF
http://t.co/zILhG6HNUa
http://t.co/yM8HZ4067c
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Even when the theater has gone dark, the story is still alive in you.
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Somehow it's appropriate that people opposed to gay marriage would rally at a fast-food chicken chain.
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Vanity Fair's oral history of the making of "Pulp Fiction," which only grows in stature over the years.
http://t.co/1djnDr5DDC
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Self-help books are bullshit. Read a good book. That'll help you.
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OK, you're at a party and Quentin Tarantino corner you to explain his theory of "Top Gun." Classic video:
http://t.co/w3yK396i
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Chuck Norris pounds nail through 2x4 with his fist. Werner Herzog does it with his dick.
#WernerHerzogvsChuckNorris
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The best internet cat video ever made. Winner of the Cat Video Festival:
http://t.co/1vX5EDZQ
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Bin Laden was not armed when killed. Yeah, and neither was anyone in the World Trade Center.
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"Pooh," he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw, "I just wanted to be sure of you."”
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My op-ed for The New York Times about the shootings. We've seen this movie before:
http://t.co/Df0M2lID
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Wwhen superheroes have sex at the R level, I'm always afraid someone will get hurt.
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We have the right to murder "so called US citizens" abroad? With all due respect, Mr. President, that's bullshit.
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Obama zinger: "We have these things called aircraft carriers and ships that go under the water, called submarines."
#debate
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Romney for gender equality in Middle East--not so much with equal pay and women's rights at home.
#debate
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A religion that doesn't teach tolerance might as well not bother teaching anything else.
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CHAZ: Thank you Jim Carrey for the biggest bouquet of flowers ever. And for making us laugh whenever we watched Dumb and Dumber.
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Watch every single TV commercial on this year's Superbowl here. Now complete.
http://t.co/4la0zknN
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For addicts, using has long, long since ceased being any form of pleasure. It's a sentence. My heart goes out to its captives.
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He founded the Dept. of Sociology at Harvard, and wrote these prophecies 75 years ago. Chills down my spine.
http://t.co/5NEX8WQ8
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America's best film critic, David Bordwell, goes deep on Christopher Nolan.
http://t.co/xXarBWEx
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Chuck Norris will die in bed. Werner Herzog will die after falling from an airship into a volcano.
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Fifty years ago today, Eisenhower warned against the world we live in now. He was right. Nobody listened.
http://ind.pn/hVYPQ1
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Analysis of the emerging culture of assholes, from Donald Trump to Kanye West.
http://t.co/LyJpoD3C
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Chaz: In honor of my dear husband I am restoring his photo to his Twitter page. Here is his LEAVE OF PRESENCE essay
http://t.co/9cxw3q5Ba9
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I wept. One of the greatest speeches by an American president, ever. I'll link it again. Here is our hope.
http://j.mp/encxNE
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CHAZ HERE: Tilda Swinton and audience of 1600 dance at Ebertfest to celebrate Roger
http://t.co/witWbnTp7S
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"If celebrities moved to Oklahoma." This is just plain mean. I'm ashamed of tweeting it.
http://t.co/e0KZqen6
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If you're an Amazon Prime member, here is a list of movies you can stream for FREE. Sort by genre, director etc.
http://amzn.to/mX3eoo
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(
@jeeemerson
) Last week R asked me to tweet new stuff on
http://t.co/zfyz874DjM.
Never dreamed it would be memorials:
http://t.co/nABAtB6Yfj
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My 1994 interview with Tarantino explaining why all of his films are intended to be funny.
http://t.co/ali3DvzR
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"The Making of Silver Linings Playbook." A 30 min. doc, timely for Oscar season.
http://t.co/kuQp6NUb
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"I never meet anybody who actually likes 3D." -- Chris Nolan, on why he made Dark Knight in 2D.
http://t.co/17nFEv9H
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Seeing great films “is one of the most profoundly civilizing experiences that we can have as people."
http://t.co/4ogRrhfFyQ
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13 movie poster trends and what they tell you about the movies they advertise.
http://t.co/tYMVfJri
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"Baby Got Back," compiled with clips from 295 movies. Must be seen to be believed. Ultimate nerd-dom.
http://t.co/OiZXNU8J
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Oh. My. God. And has it already started? Mankind finally fucked up real, real good.
http://j.mp/cosLzA
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Sarah Palin rummages online frantically erasing her rabble-rousing Tweets like a Stalinist trimming non-persons out of photos.
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Very cool. Interactive map of all online newspapers in the world. Takes you there *and* translates.
http://bit.ly/itwRik
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The "Prometheus" - "Alien" timeline. Video essay that makes the connections.
http://t.co/VouWZGNt
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I am informed by a comment on my blog: "Religion is to spirituality what porn is to sex."
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How to solve Rubik's Cube in a few minutes with your hands behind your back and your eyes closed. Seriously.
http://bit.ly/emQirZ
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Astonishing site with texts of 1000s of books and stories of mystery, fantasy & science fiction. Thanks David Bordwell!
http://t.co/BxVsMcbm
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“Marble Hornets,” a YouTube serial. A forsaken indie film meets “Paranormal.” All episodes to date.
http://j.mp/1AO5t4
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One man, one wife, says Romney--whose great-grandfather had five wives, and great-great-grandfather had 12.
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Five Regrets of the Dying. I'm not dying at the moment, but I can promise you all five are solid gold.
http://j.mp/9KRwJC
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To John Mayer regarding black women: What's not to like?
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Bill Nye the Science Guy sez: "Please don't teach Creationism to your children." A brief, sweet, very direct video.
http://t.co/pAITTDN8
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