Martin Scorsese hasn't made a good movie since GOODFELLAS -- which was a great movie. CASINO began the end of his promising career. Fat and lazy, scenes unshaped, embarrassing performances, go down the list.
Rebecca Miller's done a 'documentary' entitled MR. SCORSESE which is garbage. She's the wife of Daniel Day Lewis. And it's just up Martin Scorsese's ass the whole time.
To make movies, we learn, he hooked up with Leonardo di Caprio. You know, fat boy. Fat boy used to have some talent. But then he never grew up. And he's no longer cute, he's overweight with a body that's never done a run or bicep curl in his entire life. It's ridiculous
That's why is new film flopped. And hopefully it's the end of his career.
The director? His career should have ended the minute he started working with Leo.
THE AVIATOR was pure crap and the only thing worse than the movie was hearing Scorsese talk about it and claiming it was the true love story of Howard Hughes and Katharine Hepburn.
Love story? Between the bisexual and the lesbian?
Bette Davis and Ava Gardner and many other women had sex with bisexual Howard Hughes They went down on him. He never had a kid because he was fixated on blow jobs (receiving them and given them). Why did Scorsese have to lie? Because he's become an elderly coward. Could have made the film about the affair Hughes had with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. or his affair with Gary Cooper or any number of men.
This:
Howard’s uncle, Rupert Hughes, a powerful Hollywood screen
writer, was to write the script. It was Uncle Rupert who had introduced
Howard to William Desmond Taylor.
Included in their circle was silent film star Blanche Sweet, who
regularly gave Howard blow jobs, marveling at the young man’s generous
endowment. But it was Taylor who became completely obsessed with Howard.
He knew he could make Hughes the biggest star in all of Hollywood, and
he couldn't keep his hands off him. Unfortunately, Taylor was murdered
in 1922, and the case remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of
Hollywood.
Immediately after Taylor’s funeral, Hughes abandoned plans to become a
movie star. He told Sweet and Moreno that he had decided to become a
producer, a field in which he could be the boss. He also continued to
pursue his passions for horses and airplanes. Howard was a magnificent
rider and a fearless aviator.
He was also handsome, tall (6'3"), well-endowed and rich – and
accustomed to getting his way. Howard lived a warped reality of instant
gratification. He played by no one’s rules, sampling whatever drugs,
alcohol, women and men he fancied. Hughes, the son of a fabulously
wealthy father, lived on an open-ended allowance, enabling him to buy
cars and wildly expensive clothes for his boyfriends. One of the most
important of them, Dudley Sharp, was later involved in an affair with
Howard’s doting mother, who became pregnant by Dudley. Based in Houston,
Allene (Howard’s mother) died from complications of the pregnancy, and a
day later Dudley, Howard's boyfriend from just a few years before,
attempted suicide. Howard and his father took these unsavory
complications in stride and immediately returned to California to live
their lives of unbridled excess. Hughes Sr. continued his torrid affairs
with Gloria Swanson and Eleanor Boardman, and had Howard
moved into a private bungalow at a Pasadena polo club – all paid for by
his father, of course. Howard was sixteen.
[. . .]
Haines and Hughes forged a close friendship, even though Billy Haines
was 100% gay and Hughes was bisexual. Billy knew everybody in Hollywood
and made sure Hughes was invited to all the right parties. Haines was
also a close friend of Eleanor Boardman. In fact, both Haines and
Boardman had been winners of their respective divisions of the “New
Faces of 1922" contest sponsored by Goldwyn Pictures. Both were sent
from New York to Hollywood for screen tests, and both became big stars.
Upon arrival in L.A., Boardman was already an established stage actress,
but Billy Haines was 100% raw talent.
At a New Year’s Eve party in Houston, Howard’s father had humiliated him in front of other guests. After a heated argument about aviation (it was Howard’s passion, but his father refused to support his son’s desire to fly), Hughes Sr. yelled at his son, “Just like your Uncle Rupert, you’re nothing but a queer.” Turns out Hughes Sr. knew all about both his son’s and brother’s sexual dalliances with men. Howard collapsed into tears as his father slammed the door and stormed off. It is important to note that the person into whose arms Howard collapsed was none other than Dudley Sharp*, father of his mother’s unborn child, as well as being Howard’s boyhood lover. For two weeks Hughes Sr. and his son kept an icy distance from each other. On January 14, 1924, Howard’s father died suddenly of an embolism while working in his Houston office. When Howard was approached on the golf course to be told that his father had died, the first thing he did was call the family attorney. He asked the lawyer to read him his father’s will. Howard had just turned eighteen.
This:
However, his taste in the handsomest men in Hollywood continued
unabated: Robert Taylor, Tyrone Power, George O’Brien, Johnny Mack Brown
and many, many others. When Clark Gable first arrived in
Hollywood, he dropped trou for several influential men, including Billy
Haines and Howard – anything to get ahead and become a star. When
über-gay George Cukor was directing Gable in Gone with the Wind,
he teased him about his earlier dalliances with Haines and Hughes. Gable
never spoke to Cukor again while on the set, and he led a successful
effort to get Cukor fired (Cukor was replaced by Victor Fleming).
” What will surprise fresh -viewers in 2005 is that the film – whose main -characters are Doc Holliday (Walter -Huston), Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel) and Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) – is about as heterosexy as “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.
While 1946 audiences were bending forward waiting for -Russell’s Rio to
bend forward, Doc, Billy and Pat kept their eyes on each other. They
wouldn’t have looked at Rio’s chest if it were blocking their light. I
don’t know if Hughes, whom some -biographers claim was bisexual and who
-apparently preferred Buetel to Russell, was in on the joke. But in
splashing gay subtext throughout what was being sold as a breakthrough
sex Western, there was definitely a joke.
The hot-blooded half-breed Rio is Doc’s girlfriend when the movie
opens, and Billy’s girlfriend before Doc knows what hit him.
He's an old man who's become a joke. Time has left him behind. In the fifth chapter of the documentary, he brags about his bravery going on and on about how Leo batters his wife in WOLF OF WALL STREET and everyone told Martin not to do that. He's so brave!!!
He's a f**king liar and an embarrassment, a grown man who has to masquerade gay men as straight.
He hasn't made a film worth watching since GOODFELLAS.
It's no surprise he ended up working for FOX "NEWS."
Closing with C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"
Friday, October 31, 2025. Crazed psycho Chump wants to bring back the nuclear arms race, does RAW STORY pay Alexander Willis for the pro-Donald Chump propaganda he keeps turning out, cowardly Francesca Fiorentini is out to pimp for Platner and it's not going well for her on BLUESKY, and much more.
There is no historical precedentTo put the words in the mouth of the president?There's no such thing as a winnable warIt's a lie we don't believe anymoreMister Reagan says, "We will protect you"I don't subscribe to this point of viewBelieve me when I say to youI hope the Russians love their children too
"Russians," written by Sting and Sergei Prokofiev, first appears on Stings THE DREAM OF THE BLUE TURTLE
Mr. Trump’s own senior official in charge of nuclear testing — Brandon Williams, a former one-term member of Congress from upstate New York — was asked point-blank during his confirmation hearing in April whether the United States needed to go back to explosive testing.
“I would not advise testing, and I think we should rely on the scientific information,” Mr. Williams said, referring to such things as data gathered from supercomputer modeling. But he quickly noted the decision would be made “above my pay grade.”
The whack job really needs medical supervision -- immediate medical supervision. William J. Broad (NEW YORK TIMES) explains:
The last underground explosive blast at the Nevada Test Site occurred on Sept. 23, 1992. Its power was reportedly quite small — a third of the Hiroshima bomb’s — and no public information seems to exist on the test’s purpose.
That same year, at the Cold War’s end, the United States voluntarily gave up the explosive testing of nuclear arms and eventually talked other atomic powers into doing likewise.
Then, in 1993, President Bill Clinton announced plans for a treaty in which all nations would forgo all nuclear blasts. This meant banning tests even underground, the last permissible zone.
Although the 1996 test-ban treaty never officially went into force, it created a global norm. The long, hard process of hammering out a global consensus on the merits of a ban, embraced by all the thermonuclear states at the time, led to a more stable era. Gone were the shock waves that had regularly radiated from underground test sites and ricocheted around the globe.
Since then, the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France have tested no weapons.
As some have focused on the huge damage he's doing to our country, Chump's turned his destructive eye to the whole world.
See Ben this morning for more on Chump's stupidity that risks the entire world.
Why did Alexander Willis repost Chump's lies and not call them out? Willis treats the lies as fact. What the hell is going on at RAW STORY?
"Officials in the Trump administration are panicking as the president’s Gaza peace deal runs the risk "
I want to again note Tressie McMillan Cottom (NEW YORK TIMES):
I cannot swear to know the minds of men like Murphy and Sanders. But, were I a betting person, I’d wager someone else’s riches that they know racism and xenophobia are inextricably linked to America’s inchoate understanding of class politics. They know that “working class” has become a powerful political totem of its own — a discursive sleight of hand used to separate out white voters’ concerns as more legitimate, more materially grounded, more important than other voters’ concerns.
These senators are demonstrating a willful blindness that has become endemic in the Democratic Party. Their rhetoric — and the conventional wisdom that flows from it — suggests that we cannot talk about economic solutions without abandoning our commitment to the Black, Latino, gay, transgender and female poor that are the lifeblood of the Democratic Party’s base. The conceit at the heart of that belief is that poor white people are too racist, and too uniquely ignorant of their racism, to vote in their best interests. Therefore, Democrats have to accept a little racism to win the working class.
It is an old argument. History will tell you that negotiating with racism or fascism or authoritarianism never ends well.
Be sure to check out THE NEW YORK TIMES editorial "Are We Losing Our Democracy?" And let's note two important videos on Chump's Epstein scandal.
Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:
NEW FROM NEW YORK TIMES: Obamacare Prices Become Public, Highlighting Big Increases
NEW FROM KFF: ACA Insurers Are Raising Premiums by an Estimated 26%, but Most Enrollees Could See Sharper Increases in What They Pay
SEATTLE TIMES: WA residents shopping for health insurance hit with sticker shock
***WATCH PRESS CONFERENCE HERE, DOWNLOAD HERE***
Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 30th day of the Republican government shutdown and ahead of Open Enrollment beginning nationwide this Saturday, November 1st, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA)—Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee and a senior member and former chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee—held a virtual press conference with Washington State Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer and constituent Bridget Provalenko of Bellingham, whose family relies on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits to afford health insurance.
At the press conference, Senator Murray discussed how inaction by Republican Members of Congress will force Washingtonians to pay significantly more for health care next year. Last week, Washington state’s ACA marketplace, Washington Healthplanfinder, opened its “window shopping” period, allowing Washingtonians to look at health coverage plans for next year—and most are seeing dramatic increases in their premiums thanks to Republican inaction. Customers can start signing up for a plan and officially shopping for coverage through Washington Healthplanfinder once Open Enrollment begins on November 1st. On average, premiums for ACA plans in Washington state are spiking by 21 percent. Nationwide, 22 million Americans who buy health care through the ACA exchanges will see their health care costs skyrocket next year without the tax credits, premiums are more than doubling on average, and these higher costs will push 4.8 million people off their health coverage over the next decade. A Washington-state specific fact sheet on the ACA tax credits is HERE.
“Republicans don’t even have the tiniest inkling of an actual health care plan! They never have. But Democrats have a pretty simple plan to address the immediate crisis: save these tax credits, and stop premiums from doubling, tripling, quadrupling, or worse. Now, Republicans may have shut down the government over this, but they will not shut down the debate. People in Washington state and across the country are not going to be silent when they log on and see their monthly premium is going to go through the roof. They are already speaking out,” said Senator Murray. “There are over 220,000 people in Washington state alone who rely on the premium tax credits to afford health insurance. And that is literally just one percent of the 22 million people in the country who rely on them. In our state, families who lose their support are going to see their premiums more than double on average. I am hearing from families who have done the math and gotten their notices. They check online, and learn that their health insurance plans will cost hundreds—in some cases thousands—more each month… I am going to keep shouting it from the rooftops: later is too late. People are window shopping for health plans now. Open enrollment is this Saturday. That is when these price hikes really become a reality, and families who feel priced out of their coverage may just give up.”
Senator Murray played a critical role in passing the enhanced premium tax credits in the American Rescue Plan in 2021 and extending them in the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022, and she has been fighting for months to make sure these important health care tax credits don’t expire, including cosponsoring multiple pieces of legislation—the Health Care Affordability Act and theProtecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act—that would make them permanent.
“Hard working people have relied on these tax credits to buy health insurance for themselves and their families. Some of these people have serious health conditions. For them, the idea of going without coverage can literally mean the difference between life and death, unless Congress takes immediate action to extend them the enhanced premium tax credits will expire at the end of the year,” saidWashington State Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer. “More than 216,000 Washingtonians in the individual market qualified for enhanced premium tax credits. That’s about two thirds of our enrollees. These subsidies are what help people afford and keep coverage. If Republicans let the enhanced premium tax credits expire, the exchange estimates that up to 80,000 Washingtonians will drop their health insurance. I’m afraid this will cause us to backslide on our state’s historically low 4.8 percent uninsured rate. That means higher costs and strains on our health care system. As people put off preventative care, these effects will be felt by people across the state, but will hurt some of our rural communities.”
“Being self-employed, we have to go out and find our own insurance, which we have done over the past few years. Fortunately, last year, we qualified for the credits on the ACA, and it’s made a huge difference. It was able to keep our premium the same as it was the prior year, which was amazing for us,” said Bridget Provalenko of Bellingham, whose family uses the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Exchange to afford health insurance. “Health insurance isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue, it’s an American issue… I just want people to understand that health insurance is very important to people. We need it. We need to make it affordable.”
Senator Murray’s remarks, as delivered on today’s press call, are below:
“Thank you all for joining this call today, because right now, families in Washington state and across the country are window shopping for health insurance coverage for next year. And they are coming face-to-face with the reality that their monthly premiums are set to skyrocket, all because of Republicans’ inaction.
“Democrats have been clear, all year long: we want to stop these price hikes and we want to save the ACA tax credits that millions of families rely on.
“But Republicans have been silent. Or worse, they’ve shrugged their shoulders. They’ve essentially said, ‘Don’t look at me, I never wanted to lower health care costs in the first place.’
“So they have literally now shut the government down instead of talking with Democrats about health care. Which is probably because Republicans don’t even have the tiniest inkling of an actual health care plan! They never have!
“But Democrats have a pretty simple plan to address the immediate crisis: save the tax credits, and stop premiums from doubling, tripling, quadrupling, or worse.
“Now, Republicans may have shut down the government over this, but they will not shut down the debate. People in Washington state and across the country are not going to be silent when they log on and see their monthly premium is going to go through the roof. They are already speaking out.
“There are over 220,000 people in Washington state alone who rely on the premium tax credits so they can afford their health insurance. And that is literally just one percent of the 22 million people in the country who rely on them.
“In our state, families who lose their support are going to see their premiums more than double on average. I’m hearing from families who have done the math and gotten their notices. They check online and learn that their health insurance plans will cost hundreds—in some cases thousands—more each month.
“I have heard from families trying to figure out if they can go without daily necessities—maybe have fewer, smaller meals. I have heard from small business owners wondering if they will just have to close up shop and look for a job with employer-sponsored coverage.
“I’ve heard from people who simply can’t afford it no matter what and are just preparing to just go without health insurance entirely next year. They’re skipping checkups, they’re rationing prescriptions, and they’re rolling the dice on their health.
“This is heartbreaking. It is happening nationwide and it is completely unacceptable to me. The Republican response has been silence. The Republican solution is ‘later.’
“I am going to keep shouting it from the rooftops: later is too late. People are window shopping for health plans now. Open enrollment is this Saturday. That’s when these price hikes really become a reality, and families who feel priced out of their coverage may just give up.
“Every single day Republicans waste, this problem is going to get worse and harder to solve. Every day.
“So we are not going to stop sounding the alarm. We are not going to stop lifting up the stories of real families who are facing the real price hikes Republicans want to pretend don’t exist. And we are not going to stop demanding they join us at the table, and work on actually solving this and reopening the government as soon as possible.
“If Republicans want to bury their heads in the sand or plug their ears, that’s their choice. But guess what? We are going to bring a shovel. We will bring a megaphone. And we will do everything we can to make sure the American people are heard.
“So thank you all for being here, and I’m glad to be joined by two people who can speak about this issue firsthand: Patty Kuderer, our Insurance Commissioner in Washington state; and Bridget from Bellingham. Bridget, thank you for being here to share your story.”
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