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They will be among the first to be surprised there is gambling in this place.

 

Media in the business of media, not democracy.

 

My birthday belongs to me. (And also to Keith Richards, because hey ... he's Keith Fuckin' Richards.)

And I will go full Clubber Slang on anyone who wants to fight me on this.

 

How about we all hug it out instead?

 

LLOYD!!!!!!!

 

1, A Peter Boyle (and Susan Sarandon) movie I'd never heard of till 12 minutes ago, Joe, appears in my feed.

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3, Check out the first review I saw, by Ebert.

4, Ebert could write.

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“Joe” could be described as a hardhatsploitation movie, a lurid, violent, and darkly funny snapshot of two social classes finding common ground over hatred of those damn hippies. The film dramatized the bond forged between two groups—aggrieved blue-collar workers and fat cat businessmen—that were rapidly becoming the backbone of the Republican Party. It offers an interrogation of issues and emotions that divided America as the ‘60s became the ‘70s: civil rights, worker resentment, Vietnam, broken ideals and splintered families. “Joe” reflects the country’s rightward slant of the times, but it’s also intrigued by the causes and effects of this slant. It holds a cracked mirror up to a turbulent period, and it reveals a swirling prism of a country teetering on the edge.​

6, Trump

 

Happy Easter everyone, except the crooked judge and his daughter. And Jon Stewart And democrats.

Trump Spends Easter Morning on a Social Media Bender — With Whopping 43 POSTS About Judge Engoron, Jon Stewart and More

 

NOT JON STEWART

 

I guess the hymns and sermon didn’t keep his attention.

 

"Joe" was quite a media sensation when it came out, and was said in some ways to have paved the way for "All In The Family" and other celebrations of working clsss right-wingerism, but it dropped off the cultural radar pretty quickly, and over the years has been very rarely shown on any of the major movie channels.

I never actually saw "Joe" until probably 10 years ago, but I knew pretty much what it was all about from reading the Mad Magazine parody, which was actually a pretty good way to learn about movies from about 1970-1985 or so.

Another fantastic snd highly politically charged movie which was a big hit when released and then pretty much vanished from viewership for a long long time, was "A Face In The Crowd," Andy Griffith's debut movie role in 1957, which strangely enough never appeared on Teevee anywhere during the Reagan years.