Megan Abbott
@meganeabbott
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NYT-bestselling author of BEWARE THE WOMAN, THE TURNOUT, etc. EL DORADO DRIVE coming June 2025. Co-creator/showrunner: DARE ME on @netflix.
New York City
Joined December 2008
“I liked the boys and the boys liked me.” Happy birthday, queen Lana Turner, born on this day ...
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“I’m mad, they say. I am temperamental and dizzy and disagreeable. Well, let them talk. Only one person can hurt me. Her name is Ida Lupino.” Happy birthday, the trailblazing actress-director-producer Ida Lupino ...
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Happy pub day to @wmboyle4 , whose magnificent novel SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET comes out today. A tragic crime opera transplanted to Gravesend, Brooklyn, it shattered me. You will love it. New Yorkers, I’ll talk to Bill at @mysteriousbooks on 2/18!
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“My father warned me about men and booze, but he never mentioned a word about women and cocaine.” Happy birthday, the divine Tallulah Bankhead ...
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About a year ago, I saw Patrick Fischler at a restaurant. I was in a private room in the back and he seemed to appear out of nowhere. “Winkie’s,” I whispered. He heard me and smiled.
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“I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.” Happy birthday, the restless giant of cinema, Paul Newman ...
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David Lynch with words to live by, in honor of what would have been his 79th birthday. (from an interview with Film Comment, 1986)
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RT @responsiblerob: for a long time i’ve been obsessed with this compilation pf david lynch on the set of inland empire
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“Obsessions are the only things that matter. Perversion interests me most and is my guiding darkness.” Happy birthday, the sublime Patricia Highsmith .. 📷 Francis Goodman, 1957
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“Hollywood is a fairy tale. If you understand that, you'll never get hurt.” Happy birthday, the divine Cary Grant ...
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No artist has meant more to me than David Lynch. He showed us all how hard an artist should fight for one’s vision, perversions, fundamental weirdnesses. To never compromise, never explain, never stop making stuff that’s personal and true. I can’t imagine the world without him.
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RT @NickPinkerton: I'm very sad, of course, but living nearly eight decades while creating art made with shockingly few compromises to outs…
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“There are just two basic stories in horror, two simple ones—evil is outside and evil is in here.” Happy birthday, the master himself, John Carpenter …
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