Screenwriter, journalist, broadcaster and, seriously, creator of Buckethead. Reviews movies on SoCal’s KERN-FM. Dubbed “Vanilla Jew” by @SarahKSilverman. 🇺🇦

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Why is Joe Scarborough in this photo?
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Robert Loggia was a leading candidate to play the captain of the Enterprise in 1964???? Yes, and so were Dr. Strangelove’s Sterling Hayden, Dr. No’s Jack Lord, Time Machine’s Rod Taylor, Sea Hunt’s Lloyd Bridges & Forbidden Planet vets Warren Stevens and Leslie Nielsen! #startrek
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Gene Roddenberry pitched #StarTrek as Wagon Train To The Stars, but it was actually Forbidden Planet The Series.
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Loggia was a leading man in 1964. #startrek
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The excellent third season of Silo, so much better than the first two if you’re asking me, posits that Peter Gabriel will still be performing at age 102. The third season concluded yesterday on Apple TV+.
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People in universal healthcare nations live longer and pay far less for healthcare than we do. The US is the only wealthy nation on earth without universal healthcare. 66% of American voters want universal healthcare. The Republicans are in your way. Two months to go.
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Canada achieved universal healthcare in 1972. Australia 1975. The UK 1948. Japan 1961. People in UH nations live longer and pay far less for healthcare than we do. The US is the only wealthy nation on earth without UH. 66% of American voters want universal healthcare.
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It’s been more than 9 months since the writer-directors behind the Ed Helms Vacation movie were hired to fashion a new #StarTrek movie. Still no word on cast, so I shall assume this Trek project is dead. Their last collaboration, Mayday, was completed more than two years ago.
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Canada achieved universal healthcare in 1972. 66% of Americans want universal healthcare. The US is the only wealthy nation without universal healthcare. Vote out every Republican Nov. 3 and your health insurance premium falls to $0.00/mo. Nov. 3 is three months from today.
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Canada achieved universal healthcare in 1972. Australia 1975. UK 1948. Japan 1961. No universal healthcare nation has ever voted to return to a for-profit healthcare system like ours. People in universal healthcare nations live longer and pay far less for healthcare than we do.
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Remember NBC’s 1986-1987 Buckaroo Banzai TV series?
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It’s important to remember Beto O’Rourke only led in one poll. By 2%. In 2018.
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May release Prada 2, which received positive reviews from 74% of “top critics” polled by rotten tomatoes, starts streaming on Hulu and Disney+ one week from tomorrow.
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Mere hours to go.
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Fun facts: Christopher Pike killed every dinosaur on Earth and created the asteroid belt. Mars was inhabited by humanoids millions of years ago, but Starfleet never found any trace of them. The antimatter aboard a Federation starship can Alderaan an entire planet into rubble.
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Hey, that’s today!
The absurdly profitable thriller Obsession, which received positive reviews from 89% of “top critics” polled by Rotten Tomatoes when it hit cinemas May 15, starts streaming on the Peacock next Friday.
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Larry David’s flaccid Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness deserves a lot of the shit it’s getting — but I laughed aloud (and a lot) at the McCarthy Hearings sketch that concluded episode 3. It seemed much more tightly scripted than a lot of the HBO show’s other segments.
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