"The deepest pleasure we can have in acting is having the complete use of ourselves emotionally." - SM May 19, 1992

Trump is the president with the lowest approval rating in American history. Only rapists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and criminals support him.

#TheBeachPlayer screening starring yours truly! Saturday June 20th. QA to follow... Support Indy Film. #FilmTwitter TICKETS: The Beach Player (LONG BEACH) eventbrite.com/e/the-beach-p…

one of my favorites :) Tyrone Power, Edward Bromberg and Basil Rathbone, The Mark of Zorro

Ethan Hawke recalling how Sidney Lumet pushed him and Philip Seymour Hoffman to extraordinary emotional intensity on BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD (2007). A great insight into Lumet’s directing process.

The character of Waingro in Heat was based on two real life career criminals. One was a white supremacist from Folson prison named Steven Knight, who Michael Mann met when making his prison TV movie, The Jericho Mile. Waingro’s white supremacist tattoos were modelled on Knight’s. Steven Knight had a minor role in The Jericho Mile, essentially playing a version of himself, in which he stabs and kills another inmate. He was murdered in the same way by Chicano convicts only three weeks after Mann wrapped the film. The other real-life inspiration for Waingro was a Chicago-based career criminal who went by the same name. Like the onscreen Waingro, he was involved in high-level heists and ran with some of the most notorious crews. But in the early 60s he informed on several powerful figures, then vanished from the city. He was later found dead in northern Mexico, just over the Texas border, where he had been brutally tortured and nailed to the wall of a shed. The actor who played him, Kevin Gage, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison in 2003 for marijuana cultivation. While he was in prison, both inmates and prison guards referred to him as "Waingro"

The Kennedy Center is BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

"The Last Horror Film" (1982) starring Joe Spinell & Caroline Munro was shot Guerilla style without permits while the 34th Cannes Film Festival was going on. They had only one go at most of the scenes. The idea for the movie was conceived when Judd Hamilton and director David Winters were planning on attending the Festival to generate interest in the 'Starcrash' (1978) sequel. The working script of the movie was written in 3 days. Here is what Caroline Munro said about the chaotic shooting: "It was totally chaotic, but very exciting, because we never knew what we were going to get. We only had one go at every scene, so we had to get it right the first time. A lot of the shooting was at night, because many of the premieres were held then. For example, we went to the opening of 'Heaven’s Gate' (1980). Judd and I stepped out of our limousine in front of the real press and had our pictures taken. Our cameramen were set up in the crowd and we went up the stairs behind Kris Kristofferson and director Michael Cimino into the theater, where we watched for five minutes and then had to sneak out to change our costumes and rush to another location. I just hope they didn’t see us leave, because that would have been so rude." ("Caroline Munro: The First Lady of Fantasy", Robert Michael "Bobb" Cotter, 2012 & Caroline Munro's interview to Fangoria Magazine)

Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991) 🎬

Christianity wiped out women's history

A 100-year-old veteran of the Revolutionary War named Nicholas Veeder poses in his uniform, 1860.

Hey MAGS - If we’re still good on deporting immigrants and their children…. These fuckers need to go.

Trump is 80 years old and unhealthy, he’s one foot in the grave but all his enablers? They still have a whole life ahead of them and we all have a responsibility to make sure each and every one of them spends that remaining time in prison.

Billy Wilder explains how the commercial failure of "Ace in the Hole" (1951) changed his view about the audience: "Wilder: 'Ace in the Hole' (1951) was a very peculiar thing. I was very fond of the picture—I got wonderful, wonderful reactions to it from more serious people. But for some reason or other, people did not want to see that grim a picture, that boasted the guy in the hole there, and the reporter, Mr. Kirk Douglas. It was very somber. It was one of my most somber pictures. And they did not believe me that when somebody’s a newspaperman, they are capable of that behavior. Interviewer: Very much ahead of its time. Wilder: [Shrugs.] Yeah. Interviewer: In this current age of tabloid culture, 'Ace in the Hole' has never felt more up-to-the-minute. Is it amusing to you, how this film has held up? Wilder: Yeah, that’s very funny, I must say. It was a complete failure. It was just... I don’t know. I just changed my mind about the audience. I just think that if you do something very fine, that they will get to the core of the thing, what it’s about, what it’s really about. But they never, at the time, they never gave it a chance. Somebody in an editorial, I think, in Life magazine said that “Mr. Wilder should be deported.” I felt that I was not with it anymore. That I wrote against the audience, the people who paid, in those days, a dollar fifty, two dollars. They felt robbed. They wanted to be entertained, entertained in a serious way, but not too serious a way. I don’t know. Then again, they did go for 'Double Indemnity' (1944). You can never, never, never predict an audience’s reaction. You never know how it’s going to affect them. But I hear about 'Ace in the Hole' quite a bit these days." ("Conversations with Wilder", Cameron Crowe, 1999) P.S: On this day, 75 years ago, "Ace in the Hole" (1951) premiered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

He's a non stop fuck up machine. AND he's bad luck.

USC legend Troy Polamalu with USC OL John Fifita, Elijah Vaikona, and Esun Tafa; DL Tom Tom Topui, and USC recruiting demon @AaronAmaama ✌🏻 Reminder how deep USC's Polynesian culture runs

WATCH: HERE’S NEW YORK CELEBRATING THE KNICKS CHAMPIONSHIP ACROSS THE CITY! 🌆

What's the over/under for number of vehicles destroyed in New York tonight? JK! This Laker fan would like to congratulate the Knicks on a truly memorable Title Series win over a very talented Spurs team. #Grit #NoQuit #ComebackKids #NBAChampions

Trump canceled on the World Cup out of fear of being booed Gavin Newsom:

🚨 WTF?! CNN completely exposes the absurdity of the Trump administration. A staggering 84 percent of Americans completely reject Trump's bizarre plan to host UFC fights at the White House! Even 69 percent of Republicans think it is entirely inappropriate. Total clown show!