Documentary about actress Louise Brooks on YouTube

Start with Pandora’s Box (1929) a great silent film in which she plays Lulu. It would certainly be on my list of top ten silent films. The great Criterion Collection two-disc DVD version is out of print. I posted a link to a version on YouTube. I assume it’s in the public domain by now.

She wrote a book that was published in 1982. I also added the review from the New York Times.

Another media failure on reporting on gun bills

The reason gun control bills haven’t passed and anything that passes now will be very limited is Republicans. The Post article doesn’t mention Republicans until the fifth paragraph.

Here’s another one. Why won’t these bills pass in the Senate? Republicans! The article states that but the tweet should, too.

Republican hypocrisy on states rights

This applies to guns, too. The Supreme Court is likely to make it easier to carry guns in an upcoming decision on a New York law. They are getting their right-wing Supreme Court to do the work they can’t get done in a Congress where they are the minority.

DeSantis’s terrible attacks if he doesn’t like their views

This started with his attack on Disney World.

Kevin Brownlow’s Hollywood

Kevin Brownlow‘ and David Gill’s Hollywood

The Parade’s Gone By (1986) is Brownlow’s excellent book about silent films

Here are links to the first four of nine episodes of Hollywood on YouTube.

Internet Archive has episodes, too.

Backlash against civil rights is part of the pro-gun movement

The Wire is 20 years old – 6/2/22

I have lived in Baltimore since 1976. I didn’t have cable or satellite until 2007 so I missed The Wire when it was new. I watched it on DVD later on. It’s great.

Justin Fenton, an excellent writer then working for the Baltimore Sun, took pictures in 2014 of the present state of The Wire locations.

Why did Republicans do this if they think mental illness is the reason for mass shootings?

The media has to do better about pointing out flaws in GOP statements.