Allen also hired the same lawyer to do a hit job on Mia that Weinstein used to intimidate his victims. Elkan Abramowitz is a take no prisoners type of lawyer and he’s the one who put out there that Mia had implanted Dylan’s memories.  And guess who else just hired him -- Gov. Cuomo.

Because he’s a fucking monster in his 80s who never got punished for his crimes and has no actual recourse?

Just wondering how the usual crowd is gonna defend Allen’s recently reported close friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

and screenwriter Ettore Scola

Criterion Channel curation does it again. Their Friday double feature introduced me to two key films from Antonio Pietrangeli - The Visitor (1963) and I Knew Her Well (1965). His work splits the difference between the postwar neorealism of De Sica and Rossellini and the arty solipsism of Fellini and Antonioni. The…

Just means more grammys for Jethro Tull

Dude needs to not get worked up over a fucking Grammy... It’s the easiest win of EGOT

This book:

proof that vincent price never took himself too seriously.

I have a Vincent Price cookbook that’s my pride and joy, although I’ve never made anything out of it! I love how Price tried to make everything, from fine dining to art ownership and appreciation available to everyone. Truly one of the greats and I adore him.

ranging from Tour d’Argent in Paris to Sizzler. (They were enthusiastic fans of both.)

Cooking Price-Wise was made by Thames Television and while I’d expect Price to have the pull for a nationwide broadcast, it is entirely possible that it wasn’t networked and those six episodes were only broadcast in the Greater London area. Guessing Freemantle would have any surviving recordings?

I will watch anything that Vincent Price is in and his recipe for Steak Diane (previously posted on The Takeout!), is really good.

Check out Bazooka Joe’s twitter. Somehow the tweets, like the gum, are rock solid. 

Tough weekend for the monarchy. 

I think some might argue that since Pepe's behaviour never changes, no lesson is learned. 

Hey, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.  It’s up to y-(collapses in coughing fit)  

Worth pointing out that the title treatment is pretty much the exact same as the original 1951 Thing From Another World.

When there’s no new content, there’s always the classics:

Yep. I have no idea if SNL ever reached out to her or vice versa, but SNL would have been smart to pay her whatever she asked for and hired her on ASAP after MADTV.