Star Wars has spanned my entire lifetime – the first movie came out two years before I was born, and the last (they say) will drop around my 41st birthday.
There’s no way that I know to not be a fan of the franchise at this point. We’ve survived Jar Jar Binks, so the truth is, we’re not going anywhere, right?
Last Christmas is the talk of the movie theater this holiday season (so far), partially because it’s a good movie and partially because its marketing is a bit wonky and seems to be promising viewers a film that they’re just not getting.
No matter whether you love it, hate it, aren’t going to see it, or can’t wait, these 15 tweets have a pretty good chance of making you laugh.
15. It’s like the don’t even realize most of us subsist very happily on Hallmark fare every year.
why is every critic acting as if last christmas is aiming to win best picture 2020 it’s a cute christmas rom com for god’s sake https://t.co/C57MuC6udy
Look, maybe I’m an easy lay when it comes to Xmas flicks/anything set in Covent Garden/Henry Golding in a lovely coat, but #LastChristmas charmed my fucking socks off.
I swear to god if the twist in Last Christmas really is that Henry Golding is actually a dead guy and a ghost, I will be so mad I'll karate chop my seat in half in the theater
Looks like Last Christmas is joining the grand tradition of holiday romcoms that are actually NOT ROMCOMS at all and I for one look forward to the endless discourse
Last Christmas is a truly exceptional Christmas movie that does what all festive films need to do: warm your cockles and teach you a valuable lesson about socialism
There are about 20 teenage girls wearing Christmas pajamas here to see Last Christmas at this theater. That bolds well for the movie and Henry Golding/Emilia Clarke.
Brent Walter builds all kinds of amazing motorcycles that you have to see to believe.
Walter uses the fenders from classic Volkswagen Beetles to build his custom Volkspod minibikes, and they look sick. He said, “I wanted a scooter to take to VW shows. These fenders were left over from building my car. I also wanted to practice welding the thin sheet metal panels.”
Looks like he hit this project out of the park! Take a look.
Netflix has had some major wins since they started putting out original content, and they’ve had some busts, too. I’m not sure now where exactly The King will land, but one thing is sure – you can’t hate it for inspiring these 16 tweets.
Robert Pattinson telling Timothée Chalamet he has “giant balls with a tiny cock” is one of the best cinematic moments of 2019. pic.twitter.com/SgHReUXrNj
— robert eggers’ oscar campaign manager (@ephwinslow) November 1, 2019
Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has found herself in the world’s spotlight over the past several months as her previously solitary climate strikes caught on across the globe.
The teenager is encouraging others in her generation (and beyond) to treat climate change like the crisis that it is – and some companies in Israel are hoping she can do the same for their employees.
A trend in Tel Aviv workplace cafeterias – photos of a judgemental Greta Thunberg next to disposable utensils. Here is #1: pic.twitter.com/8Zk93RfZ5s
So, while these companies still offer plastic options, they hope seeing the angry teenager’s face will encourage people to choose the recyclable options, instead.
The truth is, even if we could hide from Greta (or her image, in this case) we can’t hide from the truth that our collective choices are putting the planet on a path we soon won’t be able to correct.
If this is what it takes to make people think twice, I say it’s worth a try!
Bob Barker is 95 years old, and he is still every bit the TV legend he was when he first hostedThe Price is Right in 1972.
He actually started hosting his first game show all the way back in 1956, and he only retired from hosting The Price is Right in 2007. That’s 50 years!
And who could forget this classic clip featuring Barker from Happy Gilmore?
Let’s get to know the man behind the legend a little bit better with these 10 facts.
1. Early years.
Barker spent some of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. He is 1/8 Sioux.
Barker enlisted in the Navy and served from 1942-1945, but he didn’t see combat. He said, “I was all ready to go, and when the enemy heard that I was headed for the Pacific, they surrendered.”
3. Over the airwaves.
Barker began working on the radio in college on KTTS-FM in Springfield, Missouri.
Barker is a black belt in karate, and he trained with none other than Chuck Norris for decades. Oh, and by the way, he did his own fight scene in Happy Gilmore.
5. Hoops.
Barker attended Drury College in Missouri on a basketball scholarship and also joined Navy’s basketball team while he served in the military.
Barker hosted the Miss USA/Universe pageants from 1966 to 1988 but stepped down when the people who ran the competitions refused to stop giving out fur coats as prizes.
7. Come on down!
CBS renamed Stage 33 “Bob Barker Studio” after he hosted his 5,000th episode of The Price is Right in 1998.
Barker first went on a date with his wife Dorothy Jo when he was 15 years old. The two attended an Ella Fitzgerald concert (which is awesome). They were married from 1945 until her death in 1981, when she was 57. Bob Barker said he “never had any inclination to remarry.”
I love all-things horror, and the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, is definitely on my bucket list to visit someday. The hotel was author Stephen King’s inspiration for The Shining, which was published in 1977 and was made into a great horror film in 1980.
King published Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining, in 2013, and the movie version was released just last week. While we’re at it, let’s take a look at the trailer for Doctor Sleep.
And now here are 10 interesting facts about the infamous Stanley Hotel.
King and his wife Tabitha stayed at the Stanley for one night back in 1974 when King was working as a teacher in Boulder, Colorado.
2. Solitary
The night that King and his wife stayed at the hotel, they were the only guests in the whole place. The Stanley was not a year-round hotel until 1982, and it was the end of the season the night the Kings stayed there.
The tub in Room 217 inspired The Shining. King opened the curtain and said to himself, “What if somebody died here? At that moment, I knew I had a book.”
6. The bartender.
After his wife Tabitha went to sleep, King went to the hotel bar and the bartender was named Lloyd Delbert Grady. King used the bartender’s name as inspiration for the characters “Lloyd” the bartender and “Delbert Grady,” the previous caretaker.
King tried to give the bartender a $20 bill, and Lloyd Delbert Grady said, “Your money is no good here,” just like in the film. Because it was the end of the season, Grady didn’t want to add more money to his till.
8. But there was another kind of exchange.
Lloyd gave King a glass of whiskey for free, and the writer told him about some ideas he had for books. Lloyd told him personal stories about working at the hotel.
King had a nightmare the evening he slept at the Stanley. The next morning he woke up, smoked a cigarette on the balcony outside Room 217, and by the end of his smoke he had the beginning, middle, and end of The Shining in his head.
10. Booked up.
These days, if you want to reserve Room 217 at the Stanley Hotel, keep in mind that it’s usually booked up a year in advance.
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