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Ex-Cop Whistleblower Explains Toxic Cop Culture in Viral Thread

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Ex-Cop Explains How Cop Culture Makes It Impossible to Be a "Good Apple"By Robin ZlotnickUpdated June 20 2023, 8:57 a.m. ET Source: iStock Photo / TwitterThis cop was punished for trying to "do the right thing" in his work.Source: iStock Photo / TwitterPaul Manning, a former cop who has spent years being punished for trying to "do the right thing" in his work, knows firsthand how difficult things can get for officers who call out the " Read More...

Film and TV History on May 20

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May 20 Calendar Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope 1891 1st public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope to members of the National Federation of Women's Club 1895 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, NYC) 1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies 1966 19th Cannes Film Festival: "A Man and a Woman" directed by Claude Lelouch and "The Birds, the Bees and the Italians" directed by Pietro Germi jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film 1967 BBC bans the Beatles' " Read More...

Guardians of the Galaxy and Lucy: How Women Won Summer Movies

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Summer movie season is almost over and women may just have come out ahead this year. At the beginning of the summer, I guessed whethervarious summer movies would be sexist based on their trailers. I was right about many movies: The Other Woman did not pass the Bechdel test and Emily Blunt did have a surprisingly robust role in Edge of Tomorrow. But while studios may have been predictable, audiences did something this summer that I didn’t expect. Read More...