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Historian of, and advocate for, American student activism. CUNY prof. Former yacht chef. https://t.co/5biUl4VczI

Sep 12, 2020, 8 tweets

At about one minute in, this Mandy Patinkin reminiscence of shooting The Princess Bride goes to a lovely unexpected place.

I finally got off my butt this morning and signed up for tomorrow night's #PrincessBrideReunion to benefit @WisDems. If you haven't, and you wanna, might as well get it out of the way right now.

(BTW, the transcendent moment in the above clip comes a bit before the one-minute mark. The whole thing is two minutes and change, so you might as well watch the whole thing, but if you're gonna skip, skip to 0:35, not 1:00.)

My family and I are going to rewatch Princess Bride tomorrow afternoon before the #PrincessBrideReunion, and we'll be live tweeting—time TBD. If anyone wants to join, I'll be giving advance notice.

Also, I'm gonna figure out a way to throw some more cash at @WisDems during the rewatch—no state is more crucial than Wisconsin for the future of our democracy, both for its role in 2020 and in the need to roll back the WI GOP's kidnapping of state govt. #PrincessBrideReunion

If you haven't signed up for the #PrincessBrideReunion, the link is here. Any donation to @WisDems gets you in to a script read and Q&A tomorrow at 6PM Central (that's 7PM Eastern for you coastal elites). It's gonna be fab. secure.actblue.com/donate/princes…

Okay, we're doing this. PRINCESS BRIDE REWATCH AND LIVETWEET TOMORROW AT 4PM ET, 3PM CT, in advance of the #PrincessBrideReunion in support of @WisDems tomorrow night at 7/6.

Bumped it by an hour, due to angst and tsuris, but I'll be rewatching and live tweeting at 5PM—40 minutes from now.

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