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"Here's to Nevada, the 'leave-it state'."

The Misfits, 1961. Isabelle Steer played by Thelma Ritter (1902-1969)
"You got money you wanna gamble? Leave it here. You got a wife you wanna get rid of? Leave her here. Extra atom bomb you don't need? Blow it up here. Nobody's gonna mind in the slightest. The slogan of Nevada is 'anything goes but don't complain if it went.'"

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jackhutton 🇺🇸5d ago

Arthur Miller's "Incident at Vichy", 1964 and "Playing for Time", 1985 based on the memoir by Fania Fénelon, whose book recounts her survival in the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz concentration camp,

The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015

Book notes: (maybe.. relatable to us *now*..)

"When history closes around you, what choices remain—and what do those choices cost?"

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jackhutton 🇺🇸Feb 22

“LEE: [..] She was so like the country; money obsessed her, but what she really longed for was some kind of height where she could stand and see out and around and breathe in the air of her own free life. With all her defeats she believed to the end that the world was meant to be better. . . . I don’t know; all I know for sure is that whenever I think of her, I always end up—with this headful of life!”

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jackhutton 🇺🇸Feb 22

“GRANDPA, putting down his paper: Why do they need this election?

ROSE: What do you mean, why they need this election?

GRANDPA: But everybody knows Roosevelt is going to win again. I still think he’s too radical, but to go through another election is a terrible waste of money.

ROSE: What are you talking about, Papa—it’s four years, they have to have an election.

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jackhutton 🇺🇸Feb 22

“LEE: [..] even though I knew we had a long bad time ahead of us. And so, like most people, I waited with that crazy kind of expectation that comes when there is no hope, waited for the dream to come back from wherever it had gone to hide.”

Excerpt From
The American Clock, 1980 (set in 1929)
Based in part on Studs Terkel’s Hard Times
Arthur Miller

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jackhutton 🇺🇸Feb 21

“ROBERTSON: Exactly, and GE is the fastest-growing company in the world because. . . .

QUINN, loves *this point*: . . . because we’ve had the capital to buy up one independent business after another. . . . It’s haunting me, Arthur—thousands of small businesses are going under every week now, and we’re getting bigger and bigger every day. ..

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jackhutton 🇺🇸Feb 21

“TAYLOR: Well . . . it’s like they say—people in Iowa are practical. They’ll even go radical if it seems like it’s practical. But as soon as it stops being practical they stop being radical.”

Excerpt From
The American Clock, 1980 (set in 1929)
Based in part on Studs Terkel’s Hard Times
The Penguin Arthur Miller Centennial, 1915-2015
Arthur Miller

#ArthurMiller #TheAmericanClock #books #plays #classics #bookstodon

French Cinema & Subtitles Feb 16

📝 Plot: A wealthy businessman tries to woo a famous actress by pretending to be an ordinary man. Comedy, romance, and misunderstandings follow as identities clash and love blossoms. Through playful antics and musical numbers, the film explores charm, desire, and the entertaining challenges of celebrity and social differences.

#LetsMakeLove #Comedy #Romance #MarilynMonroe #YvesMontand #GeorgeCukor #ArthurMiller #CinemaFrançais #Musical

French Cinema & Subtitles Feb 16

🎭 Cast: Marilyn Monroe, Yves Montand, Tony Randall, Frankie Vaughan, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Burns, Michael David, Mara Lynn, Dennis King Jr, Joe Besser, Robert Banas, Joan Banks, Oscar Beregi Jr, Milton Berle, Eumenio Blanco, Herman Boden, Chet Brandenburg, Leonard Bremen, Harry Cheshire, George Chester…

#LetsMakeLove #sousTitres #cinemaFrançais #Comedy #Romance #MarilynMonroe #YvesMontand #GeorgeCukor #ArthurMiller