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VITAPHONE SHOW • 1927

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AN OFFER WE CANT REFUSE FROM LINDNER

 I guess it’s no secret that I’m a big fan of The Godfather. Best movie EVAH!

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So I was watching it a few day ago; the scene where a bunch of mobsters are symbolically carving up Havana for the mafia. Oops! 🫢 I mean for “this thing of ours.” It’s Hyman Roth’s birthday, an old Jewish, Polish immigrant who made his fortune in organized crime. (Meyer Lansky in real life. Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano associate).

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Roth’s character (brilliantly played by Lee Strasbourg) is a dinosaur with one foot in the grave, and he looks it. He’s a shriveled up, hunched over husk of a man with a heart condition. He slowly shuffles as he walks.

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But for the first time ever, I noticed the script on top of the cake: 67 años

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Wait... What? Hyman Roth’s character was only 67 years old? Aw, c’mon, that can’t be right, can it? That unwrapped mummy? <Lindner checks his own birth certificate 📃 then glances in the mirror>

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I think I’m’a gonna need some quiet time alone to process this. 😩

BRUCE DERN IS 86

AUTHOR, COMPOSER, ACTOR, COMEDIAN, PIONEER OF TELEVISION

FILM FESTIVALS!!!!

NO STOOGE …. A CARING SOUL

 Jerome Horwitz, famous for playing CURLY in "THE THREE STOOGES", was known to all as a protector of dogs. Curly's contract with Columbia Pictures included a clause that allowed his dogs to accompany him on the studio lot. Columbia limited it to no more than two dogs at a time, this due to the puppies' unplanned on-camera appearances from time to time. You can still see those surprise dog on set invasions in the first few short films. Typically surrounded by various dogs, Curly was known to come home with a stray dog ​​and foster it until he could find it a permanent home. When the Stooges were out on the road, Curly took it upon himself to find a new home for at least one stray dog ​​in every town they visited. Curly is estimated to have saved and rescued more than 5,000 dogs in his lifetime. This makes him a man ahead of his time, with a very admirable concern for man's best friend. Dogs are family ❤

TERRIFIC MOVIE - STREAMING ON HBO

SIXTY YEARS AGO ON THIS DAY • MARILYN’S FINAL BIRTHDAY - SHE WAS ONLY 36

On the set at Twentieth Century fox - film was her last “ Something’s Got to Give” …. She was 36

SUCH A TALENTED ACTOR - RAY LIOTTA IS DEAD AT 67

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