#Wayne Barker

[oldsardens]

Wayne Barker - Untitled

[wukongfeetpics]

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

[eaglestcr]

.

[perfettamentechic]

10 maggio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

[blaylists]

playlist of the month

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have John Wayne Triple Feature It has True Grit 1969, The Cowboys 1972 and The Searchers 1956

[hotvintagepoll]

Congrats to the ultimate winner of the Hot & Vintage Movie Men Tournament, Mr. Toshiro Mifune! May he live happily and well where the sun always shines, enjoying the glories of a battle hard fought.

A loving farewell to all of our previous contestants, who are now banished to the shadow realm and all its dark joys and whispered horrors—I hear there's a picnic on the village green today. If you want to remember the fallen heroes, you can find them all beneath the cut.

What happens next? I'll be taking a break of two weeks to rest from this and prep for the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament. I'll still be around but only minimally, posting a few last odes to the hot men before transitioning into a little early ladies content, just like I did with this last tournament. The submission form for the Hot & Vintage Ladies tournament will remain up for one more week (closing February 21st), so get your submissions in for that asap! Once the form closes, there will be one more week of break. The first round of the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament will be posted on February 29th, as Leap Year Day seems like a fitting allusion to leaping into these ladies' arms.

Thanks for being here! Enjoy the two weeks off, and send me some great propaganda.

In order of the last round they survived—

ROUND ONE HOTTIES:

Richard Burton

Tony Curtis

Red Skelton

Keir Dullea

Jack Lemmon

Kirk Douglas

Marcello Mastroianni

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Robert Wagner

James Garner

James Coburn

Rex Harrison

George Chakiris

Dean Martin

Sean Connery

Tab Hunter

Howard Keel

James Mason

Steve McQueen

George Peppard

Elvis Presley

Rudolph Valentino

Joseph Schildkraut

Ray Milland

Claude Rains

John Wayne

William Holden

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

Harold Lloyd

Charlie Chaplin

John Gilbert

Ramon Novarro

Slim Thompson

John Barrymore

Edward G. Robinson

William Powell

Leslie Howard

Peter Lawford

Mel Ferrer

Joseph Cotten

Keye Luke

Ivan Mosjoukine

Spencer Tracy

Felix Bressart

Ronald Reagan (here to be dunked on)

Peter Lorre

Bob Hope

Paul Muni

Cornel Wilde

John Garfield

Cantinflas

Henry Fonda

Robert Mitchum

Van Johnson

José Ferrer

Robert Preston

Jack Benny

Fredric March

Gene Autry

Alec Guinness

Fayard Nicholas

Ray Bolger

Orson Welles

Mickey Rooney

Glenn Ford

James Cagney

ROUND TWO SWOONERS:

Dick Van Dyke

James Edwards

Sammy Davis Jr.

Alain Delon

Peter O'Toole

Robert Redford

Charlton Heston

Cesar Romero

Noble Johnson

Lex Barker

David Niven

Robert Earl Jones

Turhan Bey

Bela Lugosi

Donald O'Connor

Carman Newsome

Oscar Micheaux

Benson Fong

Clint Eastwood

Sabu Dastagir

Rex Ingram

Burt Lancaster

Paul Newman

Montgomery Clift

Fred Astaire

Boris Karloff

Gilbert Roland

Peter Cushing

Frank Sinatra

Harold Nicholas

Guy Madison

Danny Kaye

John Carradine

Ricardo Montalbán

Bing Crosby

ROUND THREE SMOKESHOWS:

Marlon Brando

Anthony Perkins

Michael Redgrave

Gary Cooper

Conrad Veidt

Ronald Colman

Rock Hudson

Basil Rathbone

Laurence Olivier

Christopher Plummer

Johnny Weismuller

Clark Gable

Fernando Lamas

Errol Flynn

Tyrone Power

Humphrey Bogart

ROUND 4 STUNGUNS:

James Dean

Cary Grant

Gregory Peck

Sessue Hayakawa

Harry Belafonte

James Stewart

Gene Kelly

Peter Falk

QUARTERFINALIST VOLCANIC TOWERS OF LUST:

Jeremy Brett

Vincent Price

James Shigeta

Buster Keaton

SEMIFINALIST SUPERMEN:

Omar Sharif

Paul Robeson

FINALIST FANTASIES:

Sidney Poitier

Toshiro Mifune

and ok, sure, here's the shadow-bracket-style winner's portrait of Toshiro Mifune.

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Worldcon Drama

Hugo Gernsback: hey everyone its me, hugo gernsback Gernsback: editor of Amazing Stories and namesake of the hugo awards Gernsback: perhaps you've heard of them? Clive Barker: oh buddy Barker: buddy Barker: we've heard all about them ha ha

Gernsback: ah yes my precious hugo awards! Gernsback: the most prestigious award in science fiction and fantasy! Gernsback: a place for serious business Gernsback: certainly no room for shenanigans here Gernsback: no room for tomfoolery Gernsback: no room for clownish buffoonery

Gernsback: ugh, it's so hard to read all these panel proposals for worldcon Gernsback: where we do the hugo awards Gernsback: there's got to be a better way L Ron Hubbard: there is, my friend, there is! Hubbard: just sit right back and let your old pal Honest Ron tell you all about the exciting world of Hubbard: AI

Hubbard: see, all you do is Hubbard: you put the choicest cuts of science fiction and fantasy right here into this hopper Hubbard: you let the AI do its work Hubbard: and presto! [AI vomits gray slurry] Gernsback: Hubbard: trust me, your readers won't know the difference

Gernsback: why, this AI is great! Gernsback: if we had it back in my day, we never would have had to pay any of the writers we published in Amazing Stories! Lovecraft: you still haven't paid me! Gernsback: quiet, you

Gernsback: using advanced AI, we'll construct the perfect list of panelists for worldcon 2025! AI: you know you can use glue for pizza sauce Gernsback: eh, good enough for government work! Barker: yeah, literally

Gernsback: hey AI, using the list of names provided, please evaluate each person for scandals. Gernsback: Scandals include but are not limited to homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism or fraud AI: ok Gernsback: this will work great because the AI is notably not build reflecting dominant attitudes of homophobia, transphobia, racism, harassment, sexual misconduct, sexism or fraud

Gernsback: great news, everyone! we used AI to Barker: BOOOOOO! Gernsback: to Barker: BOOOOOOO! Barker: come on guys, say it with me Koontz: Boo! Barker: that's the spirit Gernsback: jeez who would have though these writers didn't like the AI

Bitter Karella: you know this all could have been avoided Karella: if only they had nominated bitter karella for another fan hugo Gernsback: how would that have affected anything Karella: quiet, you

Karella: in fact, the fact that bitter karella was NOT nominated is surely the biggest miscarriage of justice of all Karella: i put the blame squarely where it belongs Karella: on YOU, the reader Karella: how could you let me down like this Karella: LOOK AT ME WHEN I'M TALKING

Barker: why? are you trying to secure a fourth straight loss? Karella: i Karella: Karella: shut up i don't like when you make fun of me Barker: ha ha

Karella: it's ok i didn't want a hugo anyway Karella: i hear that award sucks Barker: ha ha Poe: clive be nice Poe: he's very sensitive Barker: clearly Karella: i just wanted to beat taral Wayne's record :(

[targayrenss]

I saw a tik tok about how kourtney kardashian and travis barker are so clingy with each other that they make everyone around them uncomfortable and I was like ahhh this is so eddie and his girlfriend coded.

It's like you're all gathered together and eddie has to be all over you or touching some part of your body, no matter how innocent it is everyone is looking at you like that 😦

Sometimes when you're all hanging out together you guys start telling each other how much you love each other and everyone just goes quiet while watching you being so fucking ridiculous and in love

The kids are the ones who would complain the most, dustin and mike would definitely make grossed out noises when you guys kiss or hug.

You even manage to make wayne uncomfortable to the point where he asks you to sit apart (sometimes he has to sit in between you so he can have his mind at ease).

[blueiscoool]

Century-Old Clara Bow Silent Film Believed Lost Forever Found

Long-Lost Clara Bow Silent Film Found in a Omaha Parking Lot.

The Pill Pounder, one of the key titles in the CV of the iconic flapper, has enjoyed a belated revival at the San Francisco Silent film festival

A century after she first began to turn heads, Clara Bow is “It” once more. The iconic flapper of the silent film era inspired Margot Robbie’s character Nellie in Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood epic Babylon, is namechecked on Taylor Swift’s forthcoming album The Tortured Poets Department, and yesterday at the San Francisco Silent film festival, one of her earliest films was shown for the first time since the days of bathtub gin.

The story of the film’s discovery has already caused excitement online. Film-maker Gary Huggins inadvertently snapped up a slice of lost silent film history at an auction in a car park in Omaha, Nebraska, that was selling old stock from a distribution company called Modern Sound Pictures. Hoping to bid on a copy of the 1926 comedy Eve’s Leaves that he had spotted on top of a pile, Huggins was informed that he could only buy the whole pallet of movies, not individual cans. The upside? The lot was his for only $20.

Huggins soon discovered that his new pile of reels included 1923’s The Pill Pounder, a silent comedy that had been thought to be lost for decades. It is a short, two-reel film, shot on Long Island, New York, and directed by Gregory La Cava, best known for later classics such as My Man Godfrey (1936) and Stage Door (1937). The film stars rubber-faced vaudeville veteran Charlie Murray, the so-called “Irish comedian” who was actually from Laurel, Indiana. He plays a hapless pharmacist, the “pill pounder” of the title, who is trying to host a clandestine poker game in the back room of his drugstore. What few realised until Huggins watched the film, was that it also features 17-year-old Bow in a supporting role. She plays the girlfriend of Murray’s son, played by James Turfler, who had already appeared with Bow in her second film Down to the Sea in Ships, directed by Elmer Clifton and screened in 1922. Turfler’s character is the butt of some bizarre gags. At one point, he chugs a jug of effervescent “fomo seltzer” and Bow watches in horror as he floats up to the ceiling.

In this, one of her earliest surviving performances on film, Bow looks even younger than her years. Although she lacks the sleek Hollywood glamour she later acquired, she has the charisma to turn a thankless bit-part into something of a scene-stealer. The critics took note: based on the evidence of this film, the Exhibitors’ Trade Review described her as “perhaps the most promising of the younger actresses”. In his introduction to the film at San Francisco’s grand Palace of Fine Arts theatre, Bow’s biographer, the screenwriter David Stenn, speculated that the actor may have forgotten that she made the film, as she never talked about it. It was made during a traumatic period in her life, only a few weeks after her mother’s death following prolonged mental illness. He invited us to imagine how Bow might have felt appearing in a lighthearted slapstick comedy in such circumstances.

The film, which has been restored by the festival’s organisers and was screened with accompanying music from composer Wayne Barker, now looks remarkably good for its age. The festival’s senior film restorer, Kathy Rose O’Regan, said it was in great shape when they received it. She added: “We imagined it was screened maybe a few times, but there’s hardly any damage – a few scratches here and there, some dirt, but overall in pretty stellar condition.”

Now it has been freshened up and looks its best, but it is still incomplete, being in what Stenn called a “beta version”.

That’s because the copy Huggins found was not from the 1920s, but a 35mm print from the 1950s or 1960s of an edit of the film that was destined to become part of a 16mm compilation of old silent films with a comic voiceover poking fun at its archaic aspects. The intertitles have been removed and there are a few scenes and shots missing, too.

This process is deeply unflattering to old movies, but it has been responsible for preserving versions of silent films that would otherwise have been lost, including the Lois Weber melodrama Shoes from 1916. And the lack of titles are no barrier to following the film.

“For me, it is a pretty perfect 14-minutes of fun,” says O’Regan. “It would be nice to know what the titles were, but you can certainly get the gist without them.”

Stenn called the tale of the film’s discovery “miraculous” and led a round of applause for Huggins, who was in the audience. He explained that there was reason to believe that some of the discarded material was among the other cans that were sold at the Omaha auction. The hunt is on to round out The Pill Pounder, and several people have joined in the search, combing through thousands of reels. One Omaha-based film-maker and silent film enthusiast, Alexander Payne, was quick to offer his support.

The film fills in a brief blank period in Bow’s filmography. She shot the role – probably in just a couple of days – in the early “false start” phase of her film career. Bow, a tomboy from a troubled home in Brooklyn, made her debut after winning a magazine talent competition in 1921 but struggled to get her career off the ground.

“I wore myself out goin’ from studio t’studio, from agency t’agency, applyin’ for every possible part,” she later recalled. “But there was always something. I was too young, or too little, or too fat. Usually I was too fat.”

In 1923, she found her way into a handful of films, including The Pill Pounder, where she had the chance to shine in supporting roles, and this is when she finally got her ticket to Hollywood and Paramount.

“She’s not the star of the film, but you can’t take her eyes off her,” says O’Regan. “For the few minutes she’s there she’s divine, she’s fun, she’s full of energy.”

The festival screened The Pill Pounder alongside another new restoration. The feature film Dancing Mothers directed by Herbert Brenon in 1926, is a flapper drama that Bow made for Paramount, in one of her last supporting roles. She plays the reckless daughter of a lonely woman (Alice Joyce) who tires of staying home while her husband and daughter party hard in New York and steps out to go nightclubbing. Bow completely pulls focus from the grownups around her, playing a hedonistic minx, whose body spasms with pleasure when she sips a cocktail.

Stenn described the later film as “like watching a star being born”. Finally, Bow was able to make good on her early promise and start her career as a leading lady. With the breakout comedy It directed by Clarence Badger in 1927, she became a genuine star for the ages. It is easy to look back and assume Bow was destined to become a sensation, but her overnight stardom took a good five years of hard work. The Pill Pounder offers a fascinating glimpse into the route that she took to get there.

By Pamela Hutchinson.

[oldsardens]

Wayne Barker - Memory I

[book--brackets]

Author Stats for BFB

When putting together the Best Fantasy Book polls, I noticed that a lot of authors were popular choices, so I thought I'd do a little post about our most popular authors from ones that are in the list only twice to the most common author we have!

The preliminary round for BFB starts tomorrow!

2 Times

J. R. R. Tolkien

Erin Morgenstern

Cassandra Clare

Eoin Colfer

Terry Pratchett

Laini Taylor

Jim Butcher

Robin Hobb

R. F. Kuang

Samantha Shannon

Shannon Hale

Jonathan Stroud

Seanan McGuire

Enid Blyton

Clive Barker

Alix E. Harrow

Scott Westerfeld

Raymond E. Feist

Wayne Thomas Batson

Xiran Jay Zhao

Lloyd Alexander

Meagan Spooner

Katherine Addison

Christina Henry

Gene Wolfe

N. D. Wilson

Emily Rodda

Jude Watson

Ellen Kushner

Cliff McNish

C. J. Cherryh

Garry Kilworth

3 Times

Rick Riordan

Roald Dahl

Brandon Sanderson

Cornelia Funke

Gail Carson Levine

Garth Nix

T. Kingfisher

Patricia C. Wrede

Robin McKinley

Kieron Gillen

Francis Hardinge

4 Times

Holly Black

V. E. Schwab

Naomi Novik

5 Times

Diana Wynne Jones

6 Times

Tamora Pierce

9 Times

Neil Gaiman

Mercedes Lackey

[theragamuffininitiative]

Ok. No. Wait. Hold up.

I'm... flabbergasted. XD

Growing up, I was always taught that the recipient of John's "second" epistle was obviously a local church congregation he was in contact with. There were, I believe, a few summary dismissals of arguments that it might be to an individual but never any time wasted on the matter.

And yet. The arguments for it to be absolutely a metaphorical "elect sister" rather than distinct individual (and her children) are incredibly weak from a scholarly standpoint?? I'm not going to rule the metaphorical option out conclusively myself, but I am just ??? laughing at how commentators dismiss the literal interpretation when their grounds are soooooo slim??

Arguments represented by a one, Wayne L Fussell:

Argument for "church" understanding 1:

"It is not logical that John would declare his love and the love "of all they that have known the truth" for one lady. This language would more reasonably be directed toward a well-known church." .... Not logical of John?? We're talking about this being illogical of John, the Apostle John? John who went into so much detail about how God is love and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God's commandment is that we believe in Jesus and love one another as he has loved us? It's illogical to say that that John might open a letter to an individual person saying "all who are of God love you because we all abide in God's love together" (vs 2)?? The John who refers to Gaius in his third epistle repeatedly as "beloved?" Okay, go off I guess.

Argument 2:

"John’s statement concerning certain of her children who were "walking in truth" (verse 4) does not sound like language addressed to one lady but to a collective church." I'm.... I'm sorry. Dude. What- how. Ugh. Vs 4 says, "I rejoiced greatly to find that some of your children are walking in the truth." -flips page to 3 John 3-4.- This is directly specifically to a single individual, named Gaius: "For I rejoiced greatly when the brothers" (we could insert sisters here but that is an entirely Different post) "came and testified to your truth, as indeed you are walking in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth." Sure, John refers collectively to believers as children (here and elsewhere), but also notably as "my" children rather than "her/your" children. ALSO why would John bother to comment that he "rejoiced greatly" to find that "some" of her children were walking in truth if the "your children/her children" referenced were believers in the church? Should he not instead be concerned about those who were not? (But if you would like to insist that the reference to children is still purely spiritual children, I can meet you there.)

Argument 3:

The strongest reason to doubt that the lady is an actual woman is that John changes from the second person singular ("thy" and "thee") in verses 4 and 5 to the second person plural ("ye" and "yourselves") in verses 6, 8, and 10." ...... my dear commentator. Firstly, get ye another translation, the King James has multiple translation issues though we are grateful for its role. Anywho, John addressed the letter to the lady and her children. So there is both a singular address and a plural. This is.... this is not complicated or odd.

Fussell whoever he is, is definitely not the foremost commentator on the subject, but these seem to be the general arguments based on the text itself supposedly as taken from others such as Barker, McDowell, Stott, and etc. There are other arguments based on the idea that there were no women leaders in the early church (this is false, another post for another time perhaps), or pretty easily dismissing the questionable stance that eklekte kuria was a proper name for a particular woman (just bc she isn't named doesn't mean she isn't an individual who had a name), or the idea that the lack of name was due to secrecy for protection in case the letter fell into unsympathetic hands (then why risk naming poor Gaius? also these letters were almost definitely delivered by hand-picked trusted people by John).

The term used, kuria, is not used anywhere in the NT outside of its occurrences within this epistle. So while it is fair to discuss how the church is metaphorically referred to in feminine terms elsewhere, this particular term is not one of them. The masculine form of kurios is commonly translated as lord or master and always suggests authority, which would be an interesting term to use if addressing a body of believers. So it makes little sense to apply it that way simply bc it is in feminine form. It would also be odd and redundant to address the body of believers....and their children. To the church and to the believers? Is this type of language used elsewhere?

John's ending with "the children of your elect sister greet you" is a fascinating one. It could of course mean another church. It could mean a fellow woman leader within the church and her spiritual children. It could mean the very real sister of the first woman and her literal children. There isn't enough information to really speculate further than that.

From a very commonsense reading of the text, eklekte kuria means "respected/honored/chosen lady/leader" and there is nothing inherently within the text or outside of it to suggest the terms are metaphorical. There is no great issue between whether you think this was a real individual or a metaphor for a congregation (except when it comes to refusing women in Christ the ability and distinction of carrying out their God-given calling of making disciples). There is however an issue with insisting that it must be a particular thing to fit your idea of what the Bible should be, when that is simply not evidenced by the text.

[CBE international]

I just. I thought you folks had a stronger case here than "Well to me, personally, living in my male dominant culture, it seems odd that John would say this to a woman." ???

[vgtrackbracket]

Video Game Track Bracket Round 3

Outer Wilds from Outer Wilds

vs.

Pulse from Scarlet Hollow

Propaganda under the cut. If you want your propaganda reblogged and added to future polls, please tag it as propaganda or otherwise indicate this!

Pulse:

#Pulse is a leitmotif for one of my favorite characters ever ever EVER#Wayne Scarlet Hollow is basically a Clive Barker monster: creepy gross amoral and weirdly sensual#He is certainly NOT an eldritch abomination puppeting a human corpse#And he is stalking the player character -- he rarely appears directly but you know he's WATCHING#even when you can't see him he's constantly in the back of your mind#and when he does appear you know shit is SERIOUS#and Pulse really helps sell that#the BREATHING#Did I mention you can flirt with Wayne?#he is a legitimate romance option#scarlet hollow has so much more cool stuff in it#it is a true hidden gem#also check out the devs' other game Slay the Princess for more great music and an existential mindscrew

[perfettamentechic]

11 maggio … ricordiamo …

11 maggio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Barry Newman, Barry Foster Newman, attore statunitense. Dopo gli esordi come attore teatrale a Broadway, Newman si è affermato come interprete televisivo, grazie soprattutto al ruolo dell’avvocato italo-americano Anthony J. Petrocelli nella serie Petrocelli (1974-1976), personaggio che aveva già precedentemente interpretato sul grande schermo nel film Al di là di ogni ragionevole…

[knockyasocksoff2022]

Shin Soukoku Playlist

Under the cut b/c it's looong!

Yes, it does contain a very large portion of The Score's discography, so what?

16 Shots - Stefflon Don

Alarm - The Score

All Of Me (feat. Travis Barker) - The Score

Animal - Chase Holfelder

Anti-Gravity - RUNAGROUND

Anxiety - NEFFEX

Are Your Ready - Måneskin

Art - Tyla

Bad Romance - Lady Gaga

Beast - Mia Martina feat. Waka Flocka

Better Days - The Score

Better Than One - The Score

Big Dreams (feat. FITZ) - The Score

Bite Me - Enhypen

Blessed-Cursed - Enhypen

Bloody Samaritan - Ayra Starr

Born For This - The Score

Breakout - - The Score

Can You Hear Me Now - The Score

Carry On - The Score, AWOLNATION

Control - Halsey

Criminal Love - Enhypen

Dogbird - Madds Buckley

Don't Need A Hero - The Score

Don't Wanna Be - The Score

Down With the Wolves - The Score

Enemies - the Score

Enemy - Imagine Dragons

Enemy - Tommee Profitt, Beacon Light & Sam Tinnesz

Fatal Trouble - Enhypen

Fighter - The Score

Fighting For - The Score

Fire - The Score

Freaks - Jordan Clarke

Gallows (feat. Jamie N Commons) - The Score

Glory - The Score

Going Home - The Score

Good To Be Alive - The Score

HUSHH - AViVA

Head Up - The Score

Heathens - twenty-one pilots

Higher - The Score

Holding Out For a Hero - Adam Lambert

Human - The Score

In My Blood - The Score

Lionheart (Fearless) Joel Corry & Tom Grennan

Lost Boy - Ruth. B

Lucifer - Enhypen

Money Run Low - The Score

Monster Made of Memories - Citizen Soldier

My Demons - Starset

My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) - Fall Out Boy

Natural - Imagine Dragons

Never Going Back - The Score

Only One - The Score

Own Me - bülow

Power - The Score

Pull the Cord - The Score

Radioactive - Imagine Dragons

Redemption Song - The Score

Revolution - The Score

Run - OneRepublic

Runners - Stray Kids

Running All Night - The Score

Rush - Ayra Starr

Sacrifice - Enhypen

Scream - Enhypen

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

Shakedown - The Score

Skeletons - The Score

Something Just Like This - The Chainsmokers & Coldplay

Something New - The Score

Stronger - The Score

Sucker for Pain (with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign, & X Ambassadors - Lil Wayne, Six Khalifa & Imagine Dragons

Superhuman - The Score

Survivor - The Score

Swin - Chase Atlantic

Tamed-Dashed - Enhypen

The Champion - The Score

This Is It - Oh The Larceny

Tightrope - The Score

Top of the World - The Score

Unstoppable - The Score

Victorious - The Score

Visions - The Score

Waterloo - ABBA

Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons

Where You Are - The Score

Who I Am - The Score

You Put A Spell On Me - Austin Giorgio