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[sugarssims]

One more wedding picture ❤️

[georgefairbrother]

Remembering British film director, Michael Apted, who passed away January 7th, 2021, aged 79.

According to his obituary in The Guardian,

"He was a director who moved with ease between socially conscious documentaries and feature films with a special focus on female achievement".

His career began as a trainee at Granada Television, Manchester, where as a researcher he worked on the first of the ground-breaking documentary series, Seven Up, in 1964, originally conceived as a one-off episode as part of the World in Action programme. He also directed episodes of Coronation Street (he described Violet Carson and Pat Phoenix as 'the biggest divas in Britain'), and The Lovers, with Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox, along with other television plays and programmes.

In Hollywood, he directed a number of acclaimed, diverse and successful movies, including Coal Miner’s Daughter (seven Oscar nominations with Cissy Spacek winning Best Actress), Gorky Park, Gorillas in the Mist, one James Bond (The World is not Enough), and Chronicles of Narnia - Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

He continued to steer the ‘Up’ documentary series each seven years, which checked in on the fate of a number of British children from different classes and backgrounds, from the age of seven. The most recent, 63 Up, screened in 2019. He said, "The series was an attempt to do a long view of English society. The class system needed a kick up the backside."  He described the series as the most important thing he had ever done.

According to The Guardian;

"...Though the Up films were internationally acclaimed, winning Apted the coveted Peabody award in 2012, he mourned their skewed portrait of women. "The change that’s gone around with women in the workplace and women’s place in society is the most significant socio-political event in contemporary culture," he said in 1995. "I missed it. I only had four women out of the 14 and all four of them settled into domestic life very quickly"... In his good-natured way he prodded and challenged the trio of working-class women in the show, who gave as good as they got..."

He intended to continue the 'Up' Series for as long as he was able, and 70 Up was proposed for 2026.

In 1995, Michael Apted appeared on a documentary by fellow director Stephen Frears, along with Alan Parker, A Personal History of British Cinema. He was typically forthright, did not seem to think particularly highly of David Lean's epics including Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia, and opined that Ken Loach's Kes was the best British film since the war.

Perhaps fittingly, 63 Up was Michael Apted's final screen credit.

(Sources include IMDb, The Guardian, Washington Post, and the Stephen Frears documentary A Personal History of British Cinema)

[littlebvtterfly]

INTRODUCING: QUINCY DAVIS

Real Name: Quincy Alexander Davis

Aliases/Nicknames: Q

Birthdate: June 30th, 1992

Species: Human

Relatives: Jackson Davis (Father, deceased), Ellen Davis (Mother), Simon Davis (Older Brother), Edith Goode (Wife), Rebecca Fitch (Mother-In-Law), Kippi Goode (Sister-In-Law), Oliver Goode (Brother-In-Law), Jack Fitch (Father-In-Law, deceased), Shane Fitch (Brother-In-Law, deceased), Unborn Child, deceased

Affiliation: Davis & Sons Hardware Store

Marital Status: Married

Occupation: Business Owner

Sexuality: Straight

Character Description/Background: Quincy was born and raised in Foxlake, a town about two hours away from Riverdale. He had worked at his father's hardware store from his teen years on forward, eventually taking it over after his passing and after attending business school. In his teen years he dated Violet Carson, Dot Cahill's cousin. When she suddenly hangs herself and it is revealed that she was pregnant with his baby it sends Quincy into a tailspin. He can't figure out what he could have done differently to prevent the tragedy. For years afterward he blames himself, until he eventually starts theorizing that Violet did not kill herself at all. He works at the hardware store, generally alienating family and friends. That is until Dot and her cousin Teddy Green roll into town, looking to solve the newly-found mystery surrounding Violet's death. After their visit he turns his life around and finds a new-found strength. When he comes to Riverdale to help out further he meets Edith Goode. The two start to hit it off and eventually enter a long-distance relationship. They move in together after Edith's sister Kippi graduates and move to college and in the future they get married. Quincy is kind and forthright. He loves to help people but is plagued by guilt. He loves snow and going fishing during warmer months. A bit of a recluse when we first meet him but starts warming up to people after that.

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[ SOFIA CARSON / ALETHEIA / POLEMOS / MUSE 45 ] / [ FRANCESCA CORTEZ ] is a [ 22 ] year old [ LAW ] major. [ SHE ] is/are known for being [ DILIGENT & INTELLIGENT ] but [ BLUNT & COLD ].  when i think of them, i imagine [ BLACK COFFEE, HOUNDSTOOTH, & CRISP NEW TEXTBOOKS ]. and even though they’re a proud HU student now, we all have our roots. theirs run back to them being a [ MHP (TERRA) ] graduate ].  i asked around and it turns out they [ AREN’T ] an AOP student. in their interview, they managed to woo the admissions team by [ PRESENTING A PAPER ARGUING BOTH SIDES OF A POLITICAL ISSUE ]. i guess that’s all there is to know! unless… [ sky / 24 / mst / she/her ]

bullet points.

raised in new york to second-generation colombian parents, francesca had it instilled in her from a young age the importance of working hard and achieving high standards. this has led her to try to be the best in her life, no matter the cost ( much to her benefit and detriment ).

she was a ‘miracle baby’, conceived via ivf after a long fertility journey, and because of that, all of her parents’ hopes and dreams have been pinned on her ever since she can remember. her parents have been good to her, but their expectations are high, and they never let her forget this --- nor does she let herself forget it.

she’s always achieved high grades, done all the extracurriculars she can possibly manage ( and then some ), and been the golden child. those who knew her at mhp probably wondered if she had any flaws or any vulnerabilities ( she does ). this only extended to her life at hatchett university, where she’s in her senior year but has been putting her best foot forward since day one, constantly striving to be the best she can be.

she can tend to have a blistering effect on others; she’s harsh, direct, and to-the-point. she doesn’t have time for bullshit, and her label ‘aggression’ finds its way out through harsh comebacks in the heat of the moment and carefully-crafted texts that cut where it hurts. she takes no prisoners, and if you’re in her way --- watch out.

connection ideas.

best friend(s) / ride or die. --- idk if anyone can stomach francesca’s demeanor but hopefully there’s someone out there, hmu

unlikely friends --- a friendship that shouldn’t work bc they’re total opposites, but somehow it does.

sister/brother/sibling figure --- francesca never grew up with siblings, so she’d love to have that close kind of relationship with somebody

confidant --- someone she can tell everything to and really be vulnerable about the things that bother her or hurt the most, they would see her softer side that she doesn’t show to anyone else

friends from mhp --- whether they were close or not, gimme ppl from her high school days!

friend turned enemy --- they were the closest, best friends even, and then things turned sour... now your muse is on francesca’s sh#t list, for whatever reason.

rival --- they hate each other and are always competing for the same things, same goals, same achievements

friends with benefits / no strings attached --- francesca has ~needs~ and she’d definitely love some no-strings-attached hook ups!

one night stand --- someone she hooked up with one time, and whether it’s awkward now or totally chill ?? who knows

flirtationship --- the vibes are ~there~ but it’s not 100% clear what the verdict is ur honor

booty call --- she calls them when she’s feeling Sad or drunk and just wants to get a little lovin’

first love --- the first person she ever loved, when she was softer and a bit newer to life, trying to figure out everything. they would probably have seen a softer side of her.

the one that got away --- a relationship that ended and there are lingering feelings and questions about what could have been

skinny love --- ok i’m soft... so a super angsty plot where the timing was never right or they were never able to fully admit their feelings to each other and it just never has worked out, even though they both feel the same.

rekindled flame --- for whatever reason they ended things, and now that they’re back at hatchett they’re back to feeling some type of way... how they handle that is up to us :~)

hatefucking --- she has self-respect but not that much... gimme a connection where they can’t stand each other but the sexual tension is off the charts and then in dark rooms they find each other and don’t admit what happened after the lights turn on

will they won’t they --- i love the drama and angst of it all :(

anything else you can think of --- literally down for anything!

stats.

name: francesca ximena cortez rojas age: 22 gender & pronouns: cis female, she/her orientation: bisexual birthday: april 20 residence: hatchett university (new york city when not at school) birth place: long island, new york parents: eduardo cortez rivera & elena rojas quintero siblings: n/a ethnicity: colombian occupation: law student at hatchett u pets: n/a

appearance.

hair: brown eyes: brown wears glasses? no complexion: clear height: 5′7″ scars: tattoos: n/a. piercings: n/a. faceclaim(s): sofia carson

personality.

mental: good zodiac sign: aries hogwarts house: slytherin + positive traits: diligent, intelligent, loyal, forthright - negative traits: blunt, cold, harsh, uncaring aesthetics: black coffee, houndstooth, crisp new textbooks, wood paneled bookshelves, white dress shirts, mini-skirts, black heels, cardigans & blazers, highlighters and note-taking, the burn of your eyes when you stay up too late studying, pulling an all nighter and yet showing up with lipstick on anyway, striving for complete perfection no matter the cost

subplot.

THE TIDE IS HIGH.

once upon a time, QUINCY, MUSE FORTY-THREE, MUSE FORTY-FOUR and FRANCESCA went on a beautiful hike down to the popular beach nearby, neptune’s cove. although they’d been many times for beach days, they’d never taken the chance to explore the infamous caves there until that day. FRANCESCA was interested in seeing everything, and led the others down twists and turns until they realized none of them were entirely sure how to get back. with the tide rolling in soon, they decided to try and find their way back, but the darkness in the caves led to QUINCY falling and severely hurting themselves. unable to make it out quickly with so much rock and debris, the group grew nervous. FRANCESCA eventually suggested that they leave and ‘return with more help’, but the other three knew there wasn’t enough time for that. stung with betrayal, QUINCY shamed FRANCESCA for being willing to abandon them and leading them so far out to begin with. FRANCESCA took this as an excuse to exit, leaving the other three behind. although FRANCESCA called the coast guard as soon as they got out and far enough to catch a signal, the others were furious. QUINCY did a short hospital stint for their injuries after the fact, while MUSE FORTY-THREE and MUSE FORTY-FOUR were left to wonder if FRANCESCA could be trusted anymore. it’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt. so we have to ask: did they manage to bury the hatchet?

[paralleljulieverse]

Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside! 

70th anniversary of Julie Andrews’ three-month run in “Coconut Grove” at the Blackpool Hippodrome  (26 June - 1 October 1949)

When discussing her long and varied career, Julie Andrews is fond of representing it as a series of fortuitous “stepping stones,” “great, wonderful bursts of good fortune [that] I would race to be worthy of" (Brockes 2004).

The first of these auspicious breaks was Starlight Roof, the up-scale London variety revue that marked Julie’s professional debut in late-1947. At the end of her one year run in the show –– limited to a strict twelve month maximum by council laws governing theatrical employment of minors –– Julie recounts that she was awash with tears. “I honestly thought that was the end of my career, the end of all the fun, and that I would never work again” (Andrews, 2008: 88).

Such was the impact of Starlight Roof, however –– and such the ambitious management of those around her, perhaps –– that the pint-sized soprano was quickly launched into a series of follow-up engagements that further advanced her budding celebrity. From singing on the radio to appearing in big London pantos and even performing for royalty, the young Julie Andrews carved out a solid career as post-war Britain’s singing child wonder, a virtuosic “prima donna in pigtails” (Pearce: 3).

Most of these early performances were patterned more or less directly on the Starlight Roof novelty theme with Julie appearing as the unassuming little girl from Walton-on-Thames –– complete with white smock dress, ankle socks and  Dolly shoes –– who would gaily skip onto the stage and let forth with this phenomenal coloratura singing voice. Touring the British variety circuit, often on the same bill as her parents, Julie typically stole the show...and the notices! “Julie Andrews...provides the highlight of the evening,” enthused one review of an appearance at the Hackney Empire in May 1949. Her “[o]peratic selections and ballad numbers, with excellent pianoforte accompaniment, are enjoyed in an all-too-brief appearance” (’Round the Halls’: 5).

Before long, Julie emerged as the star in the family with theatrical billing shifting from ‘Ted and Barbara Andrews with Julie’ to ‘Julie Andrews with Ted and Barbara’. “That was not a very happy state of affairs,” Julie later recalled, “certainly not for my stepfather who had an ego to think about” (Moir: 17). The growing disparity of professional fortunes became plainly apparent in the summer of 1949 when Julie and her parents were contracted to perform in the northern English town of Blackpool.

The largest seaside resort in the UK, Blackpool has been a longstanding epicentre for domestic British tourism and, with it, summertime entertainment (Brodie and Whitfield, 2014). Widely lampooned today as down-market and a little seedy, the Blackpool entertainment industry in its heyday was hugely vibrant. Theatres, opera houses, ballrooms, winter gardens and a whole multiform “infrastructure of fun” sprang up to service the town’s massive seasonal market of family holidaymakers with something for everyone from grandparents to children (ibid: 51ff). 

By the 1940s, Blackpool was at its peak as the British capital of summertime entertainment. Boasting fourteen live theatres and eighteen picture theatres, it was reputed to offer “the biggest show biz in the world for the size of the town” (Regensberg: 52).  These venues provided “a flow of entertainment comprising revue, vaudeville, ice and water spectacles and circus to millions of visitors and locals,” offering lucrative opportunities for performing talent “with the season absorbing some of the biggest radio and vaude[ville] names” (ibid.). 

It was in this context that, in the summer of 1949, the Andrews family was placed under three-month contract by Tom Arnold and Jack Taylor, a pair of seasoned theatre producers who had recently set up as independents after years of supplying shows for the Blackpool Tower Company (Regensberg: 52). Following initial success in the 1948 season, Arnold and Taylor went all out in 1949 mounting three big shows: Water Follies, an aquatic spectacular housed at the Derby Baths with Johnny ‘Tarzan’ Weissmuller flown in from Hollywood as star attraction; Coconut Grove, a lavish Hollywood-style revue at the Blackpool Hippodrome, a 2500-seat theatre in the heart of town; and Orchid Room, a slightly more modest variety show at the smaller Central Pier Pavilion on the seafront (Band, 2018).  

Barbara and Ted Andrews were placed on the bill of the Orchid Room, playing support to the comedian Frankie Howerd as headliner, while Julie appeared as part of the Coconut Grove line-up. The latter owed more than a passing nod to Starlight Roof. Alongside Julie, it featured several other Starlight alumni including balloon-man Wally Boag and singer Jean Carson. A glowing report in the British show biz paper, The Stage gives a sense of the revue’s opulence:

“The whole theatre is converted into a lavish auditorium, with bands on either side of the stage and another playing in the vestibule. Silver decorations seem to dominate the scene, and some of the spectacular ensembles are beautiful. One, in which the whole stage is starlit, is extended to the theatre itself, with the chorus coming out into the auditorium carrying lighted trees, and is particularly effective (”Summer Entertainment”: 5).

The Yorkshire Post was equally rhapsodic, describing how “the unstinted lavishness of costumes, scenery and effects give the show an overwhelming appearance of magnificence” (“Blackpool’s Square Mile”: 6). Coconut Grove even garnered international attention with US entertainment bible, Variety running an extended profile on Blackpool’s bumper season, noting that “Julie Andrews, a kid protegee, whams ‘em” (Regensburg: 52).

Behind the glitter, though, the summer was not a happy one for the Andrews clan with problems in Ted and Barbara’s relationship coming to the fore. As early as her 1958 serialised memoir for Woman magazine, written barely nine years after the fact, Julie admitted that the “summer season in Blackpool...should have been lovely, but there was some strange atmosphere at home which I kept trying not to notice––and couldn’t help noticing more each day” (Andrews 1958: 45). In keeping with the era’s culture of circumspection about such matters, the 1958 Julie gingerly glossed the familial unease as a case of marital tensions due to financial stress. But fifty years later in her 2008 autobiography, she would be much more forthright with details about Ted’s chronic problem drinking, her mother’s own developing co-dependent alcoholism, and a domestic environment of sporadic violence (Andrews 2008: 104-106). With a degree of melancholic irony, she writes:

“There was a publicity photo taken during this period of the family walking together along the front at Blackpool, looking very happy. These days, my brothers and I marvel at how far removed that photograph was from the reality of what was actually going on” (ibid: 106).

A painful time for all, no doubt, but the summer at Blackpool was an important one in the professional and, one suspects, personal life of Julie Andrews. It consolidated her breakout performance in Starlight Roof, bringing her to the attention of an expanded audience, as well as further cultivating professional networks that would prove valuable in coming years. By Julie’s own reckoning, it also firmed her renowned sense of personal discipline and dutiful resolve as she recognised the need to step to the fore and fill the void as the family’s main emotional support and breadwinner. “I felt extremely responsible,” she recalls, 

“felt that I had to take care of the whole family, that it was only me being an adult around the place. So I [tried] to preserve what was good, being cheerful, and saying, ‘Things aren't so bad. We'll manage.’ And, of course, we did” (Meryman: 87).

Sources:

Andrews, Julie. “So Much to Sing About, Part 3.” Woman. 17 May, 1958: 17-18, 41-46.

_____________. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008. 

Arntz, James and Wilson, Thomas S. Julie Andrews. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1995. 

Band, Barry. “Showbiz spat led to a great summer line-up.” The Gazette. <www.blackpoolgazette.com> 23 August 2018.

“Blackpool’s Square Mile of Stars Thrives on Banter.” The Yorkshire Post. 26 July 1949: 6.

Brockes, Emma. “Thoroughly Modern Julie.” The Guardian. 13 October 2004.

Brodie, Alan and Whitfield, Matthew. Blackpool's Seaside Heritage. Swindon : English Heritage, 2014.

Fleming, Craig. “Raising the Curtain on the Blackpool Hippodrome’s History.” The Gazette. <www.blackpoolgazette.com> 7 January 2014.

Meryman, Richard. “Mint Julie.” Lear’s. September 1992: 82-87.

Moir, Jan. “An Overdose of Sugar.” The Guardian. 5: 7, 30 September 1992: 17.

Pearce, Emery. “Command Singer in Pigtails.” Daily Herald. 1 November 1949: 3.

Pearson, Lynn F. The People's Palaces: The Story of the Seaside Pleasure Buildings of 1870-1914. Buckingham : Barracuda, 1991.

Regensburg, Harry. “Blackpool, Britain’s Atlantic City Still Boff Show Town, U.S. Acts Score.” Variety. 10 August 1949: 52,60.

“Round the Halls.” The Stage. 19 May 1949: 5.

“Summer Entertainment 1949.” The Stage. 14 July 1949: 5.

© 2019 Brett Farmer All Rights Reserved

[liberalfartsdegree]

i feel shitty so im navel gazing about it below the cut.

this new grad program is by far one of the most alienating experiences I feel like I’ve subjected myself to. Or I just have fewer coping skills to deal with it? I just am not only lonely because im missing my friends from other places more than I can believe, but also the character of this program feels, at this point, deeply juvenile and (for lack of a better word) preppy as hell. Ive just never been around so many people so much younger than me who have never had a life outside of the academy, or who at least act that way. It just feels like im back in high school. I really feel (and iknow this is masturbatory to say) that im living as generously and honestly as I can, and ive never felt that energy so rejected and ..mocked before. At least when I moved other times the other gay folks like, vibed with me and we were able to have fun and be kind and gay and ostentatious. IT just feels like everyone here is playing petty fake-ass high school politics. Im not going to apologize or change for being dykey, and big, and kind. But its exhausting to be in a place where those qualities are not just bad but EMBARASSING again. The vibe here really seems like you can choose one of those things, as long as you keep it safely within the borders of the other ones. I miss my friends who are just fucking honest and forthright and FUN. I’m tired of this upper-middle class protestant whiteness where we all have to show up in our fucking blazers and peplum tops and slacks every day and titter nicely at this one girl making the same joke every day* and then like, be pretentious about reading Anne Carson or what the fuck ever. Ive never felt happier about identifying with, but also more distant from, the vision of gayness that I have built with my community of friends that prioritizes compassion, generosity,  community, and grime. This pretentious bullshit has gone far enough. 

*do i think its a coincidence that the girl who makes these jokes is one of the few fat people in our department and everyone is constantly telling her how “bad” and “funny” she is? 

[rankertopanwar]

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Brothers Baljit "Bobby" Athwal, left, and Daljit "Dee" Atwal, ...

Charges of a wild homicide trick including CHP officials, legal counselor, spouse, girl

A group of vigorously equipped Smack officials, rifles pointed, met on Forthright Carson that morning in the carport of his Turlock home. He was, the law had chosen, a hazardous man, the top dog of a homicide trick, thus they would play it safe with the shambling, chunky 61-year-old criminal protection lawyer, who scoffed at them insubordinately as they applauded cuffs despite his good faith.

Carson realized what came straightaway. They burdened you with the mug shot that would torment you always, looking horrid and liable and crushed. "All I needed was not to look docile and slither like a canine," he would agree, "which is what they planned."

Thus as the camera clicked, Carson put on a lighthearted, surprised grin, his eyebrows overtop in blissful shock over his thick glasses. A long way from a first-degree murder respondent confronting life in jail, he seemed to be a yokel who had won another farm vehicle. It was, an examiner would agree, something very similar "old fashioned folksy guy from the sticks" exterior he had used to trick such countless juries about his genuine nature.

His eight codefendants wore typically stricken looks when their mug shots made the news that day in August 2015. Carson's significant other. Carson's stepdaughter. Two siblings who ran a nearby alcohol store. Their previous jack of all trades. Three individuals from the California Roadway Watch.

At the news gathering, the Stanislaus Province sheriff depicted them as members in a phenomenal and convoluted scheme that helped reporters to remember "Genuine Investigator" or "Better Call Saul." They were completely blamed for assisting Carson with killing a salvaged material criminal or to cover it up. By the authority story, it highlighted a constant group of investigators courageously seeking after a framework of degenerate police who had moved on the manikin strings of a vile figure named Uncle Forthright.

Be that as it may, how did a protection lawyer renowned for his hatred of nearby police really enroll three of them in a homicide plot? What sort of Svengali powers — what sort of Mephistophelean appeal — could this maturing Modesto guard lawyer have? At any rate, how did this case hang together?

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[theimpossiblescheme]

Part 93/104 of my Female Rogues of Gotham City series

William Omaha Mcelroy, otherwise known as King Tut, is another rogue who cannot bear it when the people around him don’t buy into his delusionally grandiose view of himself and the world around him.  If someone refuses to play along, like the too-forthright Nefertiti or the too-naïve Shirley, he deals with them rather violently and sometimes near-fatally. But there was one woman he did manage to get to see it his way…and ended up getting more than he bargained for.

Lisa Carson—Queen Cleopatra—was the heir to the third biggest family fortune in Gotham City after the Waynes and the Kanes and was often seen at all of the Waynes’ masquerade balls in the most elaborately sexy costumes this side of a Cecil B. DeMille movie; however, when she appeared at a charity ball dressed as the famous Ptolemaic queen, King Tut saw the opportunity to make her his and whisked her away from the party.  In a move no one expected, despite her initial protests and attempts at bribery, she ended up falling for the arch-criminal and agreeing to be his queen; at her first taste of power, however, she decided she was a stronger ruler on her own and began amassing an empire of henches, as well as an ever-growing menagerie of poisonous snakes, to rival Tut’s.  It was only when she tried to recruit the first Batgirl, who laid waste to all of her asps and adders and bested her in single combat (with a slap to the face as the finishing blow, no less), that her rule came to an end.

[sugarssims]

Some pics from Carson and Ingrid's wedding 👰

Carson tried to leave three times and I almost lost my mind lol. He just hates being around large groups of people so much

[aion-rsa]

Nancy Drew Season 2 Episode 1 Review: The Search for the Midnight Wraith

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This NANCY DREW review contains spoilers.

Nancy Drew Season 2, Episode 1

The CW mystery series Nancy Drew returns for its second season with “The Search for the Midnight Wraith,” an hour that’s as confident, self-assured, and downright scary as the show has ever been.

Technically, Nancy Drew’s first season came to an early end due to the coronavirus pandemic but watching the Season 2 premiere, it’s hard to tell that the story of the monstrous Aglaeca wasn’t always meant to carry over into the new season. “The Search for the Midnight Wraith” seamlessly weaves the dangers of its ongoing curse in with a new creepy creature of the week and the overarching drama of Nancy’s quest to solve the mystery of her own identity.

The result is a thoroughly satisfying hour of television that shows off everything that makes Nancy Drew worth watching.

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After months of life in the hell of pandemic-related anxiety, it’s honestly a relief to return to the town of Horseshoe Bay, with its seemingly endless string of murderous supernatural creatures, weirdo townie rituals, and dark urban legends. The premiere is full of creepy set pieces and jump scares alongside genuine emotional moments and seasoned with a dash of exposition for the new viewers the network clearly hopes will tune in for the series’ second season.

The death visions brought on by the Aglaeca are obviously front of mind for the Drew Crew, as Nick tries to get rid of the truck he’s fated to drown in and Ace rushes to cover the sharp objects in the Claw freezer where he saw himself impaled. But the gang’s search for a weapon to use against the creature is what draws them into a more immediate – and potentially deadly – mystery.

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How Nancy Drew Has Reinvigorated the Dark Young Adult Drama

By Lacy Baugher

At this point, it’s honestly more surprising that anyone in Horseshoe Bay ever goes anywhere at all after dark than that there’s apparently a specific patch of woods haunted by a murderous wraith. But the Gorham Woods is indeed home to the originally named Gorham Wraith, a dementor-esque monster who feeds on the fear of those lost in the forest during the full moon and whose victims are subsequently never seen again.

So when an injured girl staggers out of those same woods gasping Nancy’s name on the night of a full moon, well. We all know that’s definitely not a coincidence. Particularly when she turns out to be one of a pair of twins who had been offering to sell access to a particular mirror rumored to be a weapon against the Aglaeca.

Star Kennedy McMann has never been better, portraying an angry, fearful Nancy who’s still simmering over the upending of pretty much everything she’s ever known about her life and absolutely terrified that her true parentage reveals her true destiny. That she’ll only ever be the worst parts of the terrible people who birthed her: From her tortured, despairing mother to the monsters that drove her to her death and lied about their involvement afterward.

Much of Season 2 seems as though it will be about Nancy attempting to understand and reconcile these different sides of herself – the truth of who she is with the actual fact of it, that even if she’s a Hudson on paper, in her heart she’s still who she’s always been: Nancy Drew, girl detective, who solves mysteries and fights for truth. Even and most especially when it’s hard – and when it involves the sort of truths she might happily wish she’d never actually learned.

How her relationships with either and/or both of her dads – Carson Drew who raised her or Ryan Hudson who fathered her – will look going forward remains unclear, though I doubt anyone watching is angry at Nancy for refusing to give either of them any of her time or emotional energy at the moment. That Ryan steps up to cover for his daughter not once but twice is truly the absolute least he can do, though his sudden pushback against his own father’s general sliminess is an intriguing hint that perhaps his knowledge of Nancy will help him somehow become a better man.

But it is Nancy’s own actions that prove she’s nothing like the Hudsons, as she not only vows to save the friends she’s unwittingly doomed alongside herself but also offers herself up as bait for the wraith – and nearly dies in the process. It’s true, the Drew Crew has a right to be angry with their friend for her recklessness and to resent the fact that she’s maybe kind of cursed them all to die along with her, but it’s hard to argue with the strength and tenacity of her heart.

I can’t wait to see where Nancy’s journey takes her in Season 2.

Additional Thoughts

Given the rise of Sea Shanty TikTok over the past few weeks, this series has truly never felt timelier. Bring on the Aglaeca-killing sea ballads, folks.

I screeched at the Bobbsey twins reveal (“The Bobbsey twins are hardcore”, I just cannot!!) and we’d better see this intriguing pair of con artists in Horseshoe Bay again, is all I’m saying. Where’s their backdoor pilot, CW??

Kennedy McMann and Riley Smith really do have some distinctly non-father/daughter chemistry and I don’t know how to stop seeing it.

In a perfect world, George and Nick would just tell Nancy they’re dating and everyone would move on with their lives because they’re all friends who care about each other and hope for each other’s happiness. We all know that this is not a standard blueprint for a CW series, but, hey, I can dream, right?

Nancy and Ace’s relationship is quickly becoming my favorite part of this show, and their conversation, in which Ace admits that he’s never doubted Nancy will somehow save them all – but he’s still angry anyway – was this hour’s best moment. Their friendship is so sweet and charming that I almost feel bad for the fact that I’ve started wanting them to become something a little more than friends. (Forthright, warm platonic friendships between men and women are still far too rare on this network and should be protected as such.)

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"Do not falter in your resolve to be your personal best at all times. Maintain your dignity, devotion, and compassion, holding to forthrightness and honesty, no matter what the contrary influence. do not feed any self-important need to be an “enlightened one,” treating others in a self-righteous manner. Jaguar medicine teaches you taht personal integrity allows for mistakes, embraces forgiveness, and humbly makes self-directed corrections, allowing a rebalanced spirit to triumph once again." -Jamie Sams & David Carson, Medicine Cards

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More Dander Rising: Ditto to Dr. Poses

Let me second the emotion now recently and repeatedly voiced by Dr. Poses in these pages. It's getting real hard to separate the health policy and malfeasance fecaliths from the general Washington Scheißsturm raining down on us. We all feel pretty much buffeted non-stop, like (whomp!) badminton shuttlecocks in the corruption game the prevaricator-in-chief seems happily destined to carry on forever. Or at least until some better angels out there in America rise up to put an end to it. Because it's pretty obvious the party hacks clearly aren't going to. They're way too busy (padre you're fired! padre you're unfired!) doing other important stuff. And avoiding the wrath (why invite trouble?) of the prevaricator-in-chief. Maybe tweets are effective covering fire. Maybe it's not a kakistocracy we live in so much as a tweetocracy. In fact it's also getting pretty easy to find the links between the micro- and the macro-misdeeds in today's kakistocracy. I want to talk about two of those today. Both stem from recent months' events in the game of musical chairs at two of the most cost- and problem-ridden departments overseen by our executive branch. Of course, as the reader likely already surmised, these are health and human services and veterans' affairs. Dr. Poses has in fact just posted on the latter, given the zany events in the previously barely-known White House Medical Unit. (In fact, in discussing what happens with the current administration Dr. P has hit upon an essential mechanism liking the macro and the micro: "inbound revolving door" plants from the White House directed to administrations such as HHS and VA. Where a guy with some expertise in any given position may show questionable judgment in comporting himself--yes we're always talking about men these days--all too soon he's offed by the political hacks appointed to "help" him. This makes for great press but poor government. But since when is anything like good government even the point? Hacks make hay while the sun shines. They're out to satisfy their rich donors like the Kochs and Mercers. Some hacks get to stay in place if they're somnolent enough. I mean you, Carson. Others, including folks who're not hacks like David Shulkin at the VA, are out on their tushies before press or good-government critics get to prove much of anything.) Let's take these two agencies in turn. The VA. First there was David Shulkin. I've written about him before (e.g. here and here), as has Dr. Poses. Not much more to say here about the guy who came in with good intentions, inaugurated some important positive changes in information technology and elsewhere in a badly-battered organization, then made what might at worst be characterized as some slightly sloppy mistakes in his record-keeping and travel-planning while on official business. Then the jackals swooped and out he went. Next up: Ronny Jackson, ER doctor, erstwhile head of the White House Medical Unit and Navy frat-boy par excellence. Ronny was to be Shulkin's replacement, until his boss rewarded his sucking up with a now-standard distancing maneuver. Which might be described as "stir up a fuss, you go under the bus." Jackson, AKA "Dr. Feelgood" (ibid. and here), will never be VA Secretary now, or get his second admiral's star. (Or whatever it is that admirals get.) His unit's curiously isolated place in the hierarchy allowed him allegedly to abuse his reports, but at the same time seemingly left him, his boss, and anyone who's supposed to vet cabinet-level appointees, blind-sided about what it takes to run a large health care organization. Oh, wait, they actually started with someone who had what it takes. But none of this is any longer about good government or effectiveness or expertise. It's about ideology, or ideology as refracted through donors' eyes. And Jackson's boss, as his latest hapless subaltern edges closer to the undercarriage of the bus, says "[t]hey’re trying to destroy a man," Ronny's such a good guy--just look what he said about my health, my hands are clean, it's all fake fake fake. Fake news. Actually, classic gaslighting. Now the boss is going after Ronny's tormentor, Montana Sen. Tester. But my friends in Montana tell me Tester's got not so much to worry about. Montanans are a cussedly independent lot, They don't take too kindly to these bad-mouthing bad boys from out of swamp over there in Dee-Cee. So who's next in the cavalcade of stars for the truly humongous VA bureaucracy and its leadership? One name being bruited about is that of Jeff Miller, a lobbyist who once as a congressman chaired the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. But according to Newsweek, Miller's real claim to fame is his work lobbying for insider trading hedge funder and Very Happy Guy Steven A. Cohen. Turns out Cohen is a major funder for the privatized health care that Shulkin quite rightly opposed. (See ibid. in Newsweek, and here.) Super-tight in with this crowd are also the Koch Brothers, the Daddies Warbuck for Concerned Veterans for America. CVA is a remarkable organization. It's lofty aims "to preserve the freedom & prosperity we & our families fought & sacrificed to defend" (where'd they find this copywriter?) include project such as "VA Fail."  VA Fail is a "tracker" to which you can actually subscribe in order to follow each and every one of this department's "missteps, mismanagement and misguidance." A set-up to do away with an essential and in many ways still-vital branch of government. One that really needs help to change some dysfunctional internal systems, but still really helps people at reasonable cost. Right now I'm a long, long way from Washington. I'm in a place where government is equally corrupt and dufus-like. But at least the people are nice to each other and hip to their government's misdeeds. Still, it seems these democracies are having a really hard time right about now. Many have lost faith in their own ability to impact the bizarre bull-in-a-china-shop behavior of their leaders. Truth is, veterans want an effective and separate VA health system. I know, I worked there. The K-Stone Cops are giving them anything but. Profit motive über alles. An awful lot of  members of "the Base" are veterans. Will they notice this scam? Health and Human Services. First there was Tom Price, who was soon out of that job because a minor corruption scandal far eclipsed by his own legal antics. Antics that were perfectly legal but perfectly dangerous, the attempt to make good on campaign promises to do in HHS and the Affordable Care Act. While Secretary, Georgia orthopedist and anti-Medicare activist Price approached the ACA the way he had most issues once arrived in Congress: undermine, undermine, undermine. Look at him now. While Secretary, the Post tells us, he was all

"The individual mandate is one of those things that is actually driving up the cost for the American people in terms of coverage” ... on ABC’s “This Week” last summer. So, what we’re trying to do is make it so that Obamacare is no longer harming the patients of this land — no longer driving up costs, no longer making it so that they’ve got coverage but no care.”

But in a preternatural paroxysm of honesty just a week ago, on May Day, Price told a health conference just the opposite. It was the Congress that knew that the lack of the mandate would drive up the cost of insurance. But ideology and the donors said do it, so with his help they did it anyway. Along with any number of other measures to try and deep-six Obamacare. Of course they failed in spite of themselves--Obamacare is hanging in there. But it's no thanks to the guy whose job it was to make it work. He did everything he could to make it not work. Following Price we got a drug company executive, Alex Azar. He's actually done a few good things in his short time over at HHS. I've known a lot of drug company executives, as well as a lot of right wing doctors. The former are often a lot less ideological and a lot more practical than the latter. I'm actually in conversation with one of the most successful members of the latter group--a widely recognizable pair of names, corporation and leader alike--and when it comes to steps that the left questions, such as lobbying, the responses are remarkably forthright and lacking in hysterical right wing cant. "We need to sell our product." Right wing doctors who go into politics have all sorts of extra axes to grind.So Azar sort of had a head start on Price. Thus the focus now shifts at least for the moment from insurance to drug prices, one of the bugabears both of Azar and his boss Donald Trump. At this year's World Health Congress, Azar teed up the trial balloon that floated around the campaign and still bears watching. Azar stated that "President Trump wants to go 'much further' to attack high drug prices," according to many sources including CNBC's Angelica LaVito. But what does this mean? Drug companies have recently upped their spending on both lobbying and campaign giving. This has caused heavy breathing in health policy circles--see here for example--but in my opinion is chump change. A doubling from spending in the low six figures to the mid six figures for activities that impact government drug-price awareness is, to me, just budget dust. The Big Nut is Medicare and active direct bargaining to get prices down. Will Azar be able to do the in-sell that gets his boss to come out swinging with the biggest weapon he has? The drug companies, when they spend the big bucks, are really playing a different game. There are so many players in the pharmaceutical sales-and-distribution space, most notably the separately powerful PBM (pharmacy benefits management) companies, that everyone's pushing on a wet noodle. The one really reliable weapon Azar and company have, if they're willing to use it, is Medicare spending. This one will be truly fascinating to watch. It will say a lot about whether the President wants truly to drain the swamp and hence really please those in his Base who need affordable meds. Or just refill that swamp in order to please the hacks with whom he's now surrounded himself.

TO PRESERVE THE FREEDOM &PROSPERITY WE & OUR FAMILIES FOUGHT & SACRIFICED TO DEFEND.

TO PRESERVE THE FREEDOM &PROSPERITY WE & OUR FAMILIES FOUGHT & SACRIFICED TO DEFEND.

TO PRESERVE THE FREEDOM &PROSPERITY WE & OUR FAMILIES FOUGHT & SACRIFICED TO DEFEND

Article source:Health Care Renewal

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Bobby Athwal

Brothers Baljit "Bobby" Athwal, left, and Daljit "Dee" Atwal, ...

Charges of a wild homicide trick including CHP officials, legal counselor, spouse, girl

A group of vigorously equipped Smack officials, rifles pointed, met on Forthright Carson that morning in the carport of his Turlock home. He was, the law had chosen, a hazardous man, the top dog of a homicide trick, thus they would play it safe with the shambling, chunky 61-year-old criminal protection lawyer, who scoffed at them insubordinately as they applauded cuffs despite his good faith.

Carson realized what came straightaway. They burdened you with the mug shot that would torment you always, looking horrid and liable and crushed. "All I needed was not to look docile and slither like a canine," he would agree, "which is what they planned."

Thus as the camera clicked, Carson put on a lighthearted, surprised grin, his eyebrows overtop in blissful shock over his thick glasses. A long way from a first-degree murder respondent confronting life in jail, he seemed to be a yokel who had won another farm vehicle. It was, an examiner would agree, something very similar "old fashioned folksy guy from the sticks" exterior he had used to trick such countless juries about his genuine nature.

His eight codefendants wore typically stricken looks when their mug shots made the news that day in August 2015. Carson's significant other. Carson's stepdaughter. Two siblings who ran a nearby alcohol store. Their previous jack of all trades. Three individuals from the California Roadway Watch.

At the news gathering, the Stanislaus Province sheriff depicted them as members in a phenomenal and convoluted scheme that helped reporters to remember "Genuine Investigator" or "Better Call Saul." They were completely blamed for assisting Carson with killing a salvaged material criminal or to cover it up. By the authority story, it highlighted a constant group of investigators courageously seeking after a framework of degenerate police who had moved on the manikin strings of a vile figure named Uncle Forthright.

Be that as it may, how did a protection lawyer renowned for his hatred of nearby police really enroll three of them in a homicide plot? What sort of Svengali powers — what sort of Mephistophelean appeal — could this maturing Modesto guard lawyer have? At any rate, how did this case hang together?

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Millions Love Him; He Loved No One Perhaps the saddest Hollywood bio in recent memory, Henry Bushkin's "Johnny Carson" paints a vivid picture of a kind of genius savant. Johnny was a brilliant live broadcaster. He was not much good at anything else. Bushkin was Carson's personal attorney and business advisor in the 1970s and 80s and saw every private wart there was to see. With a thoroughness that makes you wonder whatever happened to attorney-client privilege, Bushkin spills everything, and for the reader the cringes outnumber the laughs. Go to Amazon

Tonight's the Night I have long been fascinated by the Tonight Show as it pertains to its cultural legacy and continued transformations. However no incarnation of the of the Tonight Show has ever made an impact on me more then the Joan Rivers firing and the subsequent fall out. Joan Rivers herself wrote a powerful and evocative memoir called "Still Talking" which remains a favorite of mine. But here in these pages Henry Bushkin sheds more light into that episode, and paints Ms. Rivers as less of the victim she painted herself to be, and more of an active participant in those backstage wheels and deals. His book takes the reader to a different time in show business where the drive was more singularly focused and less driven by corporate boards and mass-appeal surveys. Show biz in the 1970's was a different game, and Henry Buskin made and broke a lot of the rules. An absolute thunderously powerful read. At times his client and boss was incredibly juvenile and petty. And at other times Mr. Carson was a power figure unlike any that had come before. I have no doubt that Henry Bushkin has more information than he's sharing in these pages. But what a fantastic memoir he's given us for the archives! Go to Amazon

Good Story As a teenager I grew up watching Johnny on my small black and white tv with a wire hanger antenna. Those are good memories. This book was a good look inside his true life off camera. Definitely a Good read . Go to Amazon

Inside Johnny Carson Thinking of Johnny Carson's public image, you would think that he was a pretty confident guy. But being privy to his personal life by Bushkin, we learn that he was very shy, a boozer and a smoker, insecure, very private and surrounded himself with money hungry people for which he had to keep playing, "Who do you trust?" He was misled by bad advice from previous attorneys and agents who supervised his career while he starred on The Tonight Show. His second wife was cheating on him, his manager was screwing him financially and his agents were exploiting him. Go to Amazon

Three Stars Would read again! I felt author Henry Bushkin was very honest and forthright ... Here's (the real) Johnny You don’t have to be a Johnny Carson fan to enjoy this book Best tale of Johnny Carson by an insider Good read! Despite his success and great wealth, it doesn’t seem he found much happiness ... A Great read. Five Stars

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Don't mind me, just freaking out over these two.