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movie guy, baseball fan, writer-editor-bottlewasher; former editor (retired) of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Weekend, Green Sheet & movies/TV stuff

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Joined December 2008
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Remember the Speaker of the House doesn’t have to be a member of Congress. Meaning, yes, it can be Sal Frelick
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85 years ago today: Humphrey Bogart writes @THR column on movie censorship "While people are always quick to take up the cudgels against censorship of the press, or radio, any crackpot can advocate new forms of censorship for the movies and not a voice is lifted in protest."
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Replying to @Brewers
@Brewers congratulations to you. What a wonderful win. I’m so proud to be an adopted son of Milwaukee.
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Bob Uecker smiling down 🥹🙏🏾🕊️
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Give the entire @Brewers team the MVP at this point. Complete from top to bottom.
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Man I wish Bob Uecker was here for this 🕊️💙💛
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The last time the Milwaukee Brewers were in the World Series you could get 12 8-track tapes for only a dollar through The Gorman Thomas Tape Club®.
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Today, we are joining colleagues across the @USATodayCo network, formerly Gannett, in a Lunch Out against A.I. slop. We are calling on @USATodayCo to stop forcing generative artificial intelligence on newsrooms and to invest in the people who power our journalism. 🧵⬇️
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Jun 14th 1940 - The Nazis invaded Paris. On this day in #Casablanca Ilsa chooses to stay with Victor instead of leaving with Rick. 📽️📅 Casablanca (1943)
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Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" is a no-holds-barred look at baseball’s seamy underbelly, including its players’ prolific womanizing and abuse of alcohol and drugs. 6/2/70, AP reported Bowie Kuhn was not happy with Bouton and his book. #AttorneysintheBaseballHallofFame 171
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Thrilled to debut a webpage dedicated to the lost cut of Orson Welles’ THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. It features a screenplay-style format of the 131-minute edit, as well as a PDF of the RKO cutting continuity. Also, photos & storyboards of deleted scenes. bit.ly/4nA8Dk7
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May 11, 1931: "M" Fritz Lang's first sound film, starring Peter Lorre, premieres in Berlin.
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May 9th 1970 - Richard Nixon (Anthony Hopkins) visited the Lincoln Memorial, and talked with anti-war protestors and students for almost two hours. 📽️📅 Depicted in Nixon (1995)
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Journalists at McClatchy newspapers, including The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee, are refusing to let the chain use their names on summarized articles generated by a new A.I. tool nytimes.com/2026/05/01/busin…
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May 1, 1941: "Citizen Kane", directed by Orson Welles and starring himself, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Corningore, premieres at the Palace Theater in New York City.
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News, personal: @chicagotribune has eliminated the post of film critic. This left me two options: wait for a newsroom reassignment or take the buyout. I took the buyout. Time for something new, somewhere else. Exit column later this week. (1/3)
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Aug 4th 1997 - Skynet, the world's first Automated Defense Network, was activated. 📽️📅 Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
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Oscar winning French documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls dies at 97 ➡️ go.france24.com/rJE
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