Ben Hauser

@benhauser.bsky.social

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JOEL MACREA * VERONICA LAKE SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941)
norm macdonald as lou gehrig in an snl sketch
Disney in April cut about 1,000 employees in marketing functions across Disney’s studios, TV networks, ESPN, product and technology, and corporate groups. At the time, newly appointed Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro said in a memo to employees, “Over the past several months, we have looked at ways in which we can streamline our operations in various parts of the company to ensure we deliver the world-class creativity and innovation our fans value and expect from Disney. Given the fast-moving pace of our industries, this requires us to constantly assess how to foster a more agile and technologically-enabled workforce to meet tomorrow’s needs.”
my LONESOME DOVE (1989) review: 4 ½ stars How have I never heard of this?? How can a late 80s CBS miniseries have stars this big and production values this good? (since updated to HD 16:9.) It's got an ambitious scope, too. Like Game of Thrones, it plays with your expectations about which characters you assume will live. I'm especially intrigued that its early world-building was made to feel like a cozy western TV show from the 60s. Makes it all the more startling when the stakes and the violence ramp up. More hardcore than I thought 80s TV could get away with. This is the best role for Robert Duvall I've ever seen him play.
the "wheelers" from Return to Oz (1985). creepy buggers.
@aelita1917 on twitter: late-night tv viewing watching is an altered state of consciousness, and i'm kind of sad that it has disappeared as a mass experience
album cover: the return of roger miller
a street cat chillin on the sidewalk
@franzsherbert from The Bad Place: It's funny to remember that some people reacted to early Simpsons like it was the most outrageous, insanely irreverent thing ever made and then you watch it and it's made up of intellectually perfect comedy egghead jokes & obsessions with old-timey pop culture and speech patterns
I will be seeing Bob Dylan tonight I will beat him with hammers
peter parker's tiny studio apartment in spider-man 2 (2004)
letterboxd last four movies seen: Raiders of the Lost Ark (5 stars) Batman '89 (4 ½ stars) E.T. (4 ½ stars) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (5 stars)
Teri Garr and Richard Dreyfuss in a darkly lit scene early in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. She says: "Don't you think I'm taking this really well?"
marquee of the aero theater in santa monica reads: BATMAN IN 70MM ROBERT WUHL LIVE THURS 7PM
Areo theater in santa monica, where ‘89 Batman will screen
batman statue at amc burbank 16
usa today: While he approached the job with wit and humor and was a true movie fan, Shalit didn't hold back negative reviews. "Two words, 'Ishtar' ish horrible," he said of the 1987 flop starring Dustin Hoffman.
NYT: “‘Ishtar’ ish tarrible!” Mr. Shalit concluded in a review of Elaine May’s 1987 comedy about two lounge singers looking for work in Morocco and stumbling into Cold War machinations.
Scott Pelley: "As we're standing in there, Nick [Bilton] makes his way to the front of the room, and does something absolutely jaw-dropping to me. He pulls out his phone, and begins reading the statement off his phone, in a room full of 50 heartbroken people. The callousness, the tone deafness of that. You could hear the groan in the room when that happened. They put out a big spread of bagels, like we were all going to feel better."
Scott Pelley in a new sit-down interview describes the day of his conference room showdown with Nick Bilton: "They put out a big spread of bagels, like we were all going to feel better." He sounds emotional.
“Look at Don Hewitt and how he came up with the idea for this,” Mr. Bilton said, referring to the program’s creator. “He loved documentaries, but he did not have the patience to watch two-hour-long versions of them. So he came up with ‘60 Minutes,’ which was a series of short documentaries.” Mr. Bilton said that the recent furor around “60 Minutes” was “just noise,” chalking it up to routine fallout spurred by disruption at a legacy business. He added that the “end result” of the change would be “quite frankly phenomenal.”
"[I] explained to him that this hostile work environment couldn't go on—for women and men—and he told me that if I kept agitating about that, internally, that I'd lose my job," Pelley told Stelter. "I went to his boss, who told me that he didn't share my concerns. And so, having exhausted the possibilities in the news division, I went to the chairman of the CBS Corporation, who listened to me, very concerned, for an hour, asked me some penetrating questions about what was going on. I didn't hear back from him, but in the next opportunity in my contract, I was let go from the Evening News."
4 ½ star review: It should seem mildly terrifying that, as a species, we've learned so much about the entire galaxy and still don't know everything about the human brain. We don't know how many doors go outward, and we don't know how many doors go inward. I still sometimes have dreams about discovering a hidden room in my childhood home. I crawl inside and look closer, and find another hidden room there, too. These dreams never feel like opening a Christmas present. They're flavored with anxiety. It's cool that we have a movie about it, now.
backrooms movie poster
Celebrate 100 years of Miles Davis in Slack We’ve packed Slack with Miles’s greatest hits and original artwork to seriously jazz up your workday.
nine-year-old’s drawing of a baby staring directly at you
my letterboxd one star review of Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952): Watched Apr 28, 2026 Says an awful lot about the popular demand of Martin & Lewis that there was a market for a counterfeit act. Temu Dean can't sing. Temu Jerry crosses a line because the real Jerry already walked the razor's edge of annoying. Saw this with a crowd at the New Beverly. We clapped when he was shot.
from Bew Beverly website: NOW PLAYING APRIL 28, 2026 7:30 pm THE APE MAN 9:05 pm VOODOO MAN 10:25 pm BELA LUGOSI MEETS A BROOKLYN GORILLA MORE INFO BUY TICKETS
SPEED RACER movie poster
Bart Simpson’s dream sequence about needing to pee
PENROD AND SAM (1923) (SILENT WITH LIVE MUSIC SCORE) (BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT)
the packaging of one pound of gnocchi reads: ITALIAN GNOCCHI WITH POTATO / NORTHERN ITALIAN DUMPLINGS CRAFTED WITH POTATOES AND WHEAT
@mystsl on twitter: Some of y’all think a 7/10 is a negative score and I can’t prove it but it’s definitely the school system’s fault
paul mccartney gets snippy (in a funny way) at a rowdy heckler at a concert in paris
Dean Norris on twitter posts the cover of his new book, says "Preorder now... Enter code PREORDER25 for 25% off"
twitter post by PopCrave from 2024: Kirsten Dunst reveals she would do another superhero movie: "because you get paid a lot of money, and I have two children, and I support my mother."
Roger Daltry of the Who on a paraglider, sings “I’m a sensation” in a clip from Tommy (1975)
Movie poster for Tommy (1975) the Who musical
Mr. Bezos outlined his political and economic beliefs, which boiled down to a mix of libertarian and pro-business policies, according to two people with knowledge of the talks. He also wondered aloud whether the paper should stop endorsing candidates in presidential elections. Both changes would reverse decades of tradition at the newspaper, whose editorial board had regularly endorsed Democratic candidates. He offered a blunt response when David Shipley, the opinion editor, noted that changing the editorial ideology could turn off some subscribers. "I don't care," he said, according to a person with knowledge of the exchange.
From a pop-up message when I clicked on an article from wired.com: “You've read your last free article.”
From The Simpsons s8 ep22 "In Marge We Trust" -Lovejoy here. -Reverend, this is Principal Skinner. I'm facing a crisis, and I didn't know to whom to turn. -Alright. -Mother's gone too far. She's put cardboard over her half of the television. We rented 'Man Without a Face'. I didn't even know he had a problem! What should I do?
Tweet from @NightlifeMingus: I saw a pug so fat and cylindrical it looked like refried beans bc fresh out the can
voice memo: “brains”
Homer Simpson: “Give her a break! Her husband was killed!”
angry calvin
a hotdog on the ground, outside
My Letterboxd wrapped 2025: 171 films logged; 67 films reviewed; 317 hours watched; most watched actor: Gene Hackman; most watched director: Charlie Chaplin
merriam-webster 2026 word is: “zip-line”
my cat in my lap
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still from mr magoo as scrooge christmas special. for some reason he is lounging belly down on the windowsill for the “you there boy! what day is this!?” scene
Lisa Simpson on the bus: “May I sit there?” “Of course not, Honey. That seat’s for my coin purse.”
Dick Van Dyke: Used Jag for sale REAL CHEAP!!
Frosty the Snowman, voiced by Jackie Vernon
fedora with safari flaps from I Think You Should Leave
from @rundizzy on twitter: watching deepfakes of my friends saying nice things about me