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@bcdreyer.socialHappy Katherine Mansfield's birthday!
Benjamin Dreyer
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@bcdreyer.social@bcdreyer.socialbonus Lillian and friends:
@bcdreyer.socialtoday's semi-random theater photo: birthday girl Lillian Gish and Burgess Meredith in Maxwell Anderson's The Star-Wagon (1937)
@bcdreyer.socialIt's a book!
@darthbluesky.bsky.socialReposted by @bcdreyer.socialrookie mistake she should have said they were SI generated
@bcdreyer.social$700? She gets it for $400!
@bcdreyer.socialShe looks like a million bucks, bless her.
@bcdreyer.socialI'm watching The Sentinel (1977), which apparently I've never seen, and Chris Sarandon is of course alarmingly handsome (cc @realjoannagleason.bsky.social) and Burgess Meredith is alarmingly batty, but my heart's just been won by Sylvia Miles imitating Bette Davis's Baby Jane with a European accent.
@bcdreyer.socialI'm delighted to note that this particular McMuffin has been up online for more than four years and no one's ever bothered to fix it. Of course, how could you?, I mean...
@bcdreyer.socialOh dear.
@bcdreyer.social(🙏🏻.)
@bcdreyer.social(I know, but.)
@bcdreyer.social🙏🏻
@bcdreyer.socialI'm frowning.
@bcdreyer.socialNot running out of scary movies for scary movie month, are you?
@bcdreyer.socialSaying a prayer for the Chicago pope.
@bcdreyer.social“Wow, you read my mind!”
@bcdreyer.socialTook me a long time to realize that this 🤯 isn’t the swami emoji.
@bcdreyer.social*positively 😔
@bcdreyer.socialWell, at least it’s Friday.