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James Brandon Lewis: Abstract Core Memories

Photo by Shervin Lainez

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Read any bio of saxophonist James Brandon Lewis, and you'll likely see something mentioned about his versatility. Over even just the last few years, he's turned Mahalia Jackson's gospel classics into jazz and collaborated with Fugazi offshoot The Messthetics on a song and then a full album, finding common ideals among disparate sounds. Now, in the first half of 2025, Lewis has demonstrated his adaptable artistry within the confines of jazz--channeling subgenres like bebop, boom bap, jazz-funk, and free jazz--with two albums, February's Apple Cores (Anti-) and last Friday's Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt). The former's performed by his trio, the latter his quartet, each showcasing distant aspects of a shared language.

Apple Cores album art

For Apple Cores, Lewis looked explicitly to specific forebears. The album takes its title from a series of columns written in the 60's by poet and jazz theorist Amiri Baraka for DownBeat, paeans to Black excellence. Throughout the record, Lewis references the creative life and albums of trumpeter Don Cherry and its intersection with saxophonist Ornette Coleman. There's "Remember Brooklyn & Moki", referring to Cherry's 1969 album Where Is Brooklyn? and wife Moki, as well as "Five Spots to Caravan", named after a venue where Cherry and Coleman played together and a performing arts center in Coleman's birthplace of Fort Worth, TX, respectively. Of course, Lewis, along with drummer Chad Taylor and bassist/guitarist Josh Werner cover Coleman's "Broken Shadows", the rhythm section transforming the vivid original into a rave-up. Importantly, though, Lewis has called Apple Cores a sort-of spiritual successor to his 2015 album Days of FreeMan, one that covered Cherry's "Bamako Love", a cut from Cherry's 1985 album Home Boy (Sister Out), a divisive rap and reggae-infused record. On Apple Cores, Lewis is clearly inspired by Cherry's adventurousness. His saxophone shakes and laughs like a virtuosic emcee on "Apple Cores #1" and screams on "Five Spots to Caravan".

At the same time, Lewis wears his influences like a notebook in his bag filled with other unrelated sketches rather than a visible patch on his sleeve; that is, you can listen to Apple Cores and simply marvel at the band's chemistry. The album was written by the trio over two improvised sessions, and the moments where they get in lockstep transcend time. "Prince Eugene" is an early highlight, sporting Werner's scratchy dub bass line, Taylor's mbira, and Lewis' soulful saxophone that could go on forever. "Don't Forget Jayne" starts free and coalesces into a form, while "Apple Cores #3" builds and then deconstructs. Guitarist Guilherme Monteiro and percussionist Stephane San Juan guest on four of the album's eleven songs, but for the most part, their contributions add mood more than concrete elements. It's the trio at the heart and soul of every song.

Abstraction Is Deliverance album art

The vibe-focused songs of Apple Cores are an appropriate precursor to Abstraction Is Deliverance, the fifth album attributed to Lewis' quartet of Taylor, pianist Aruán Ortiz, and bassist Brad Jones. While songs like "Ware" (dedicated to late saxophonist, composer, and bandleader David S. Ware) and "Remember Rosalind" are sonic journeys, the majority of the tunes here play as vignettes, despite their length. "Per 7" features a charming call and response between Lewis and Ortiz while the rhythm section lurks, off-kilter. "Even the Sparrow" seems to get quieter and calmer as it sways along. "Mr. Crick" and "Polaris" exemplify Lewis' lyrical playing, like he's narrating a prologue to the stories of Jones' bass solo and Ortiz's funk groove, respectively.

Abstraction Is Deliverance is also the more emotional of Lewis' two albums this year, with no small thanks to its centerpiece, a stunning version of Mal Waldron's "Left Alone". It's a fitting tribute not just to the composition but to Waldron's life itself. Waldron started out playing with legends Charles Mingus and John Coltrane, became Billie Holiday's regular accompanist until her death, overdosed and was left unable to remember music, and then gradually regained his skills. He would record, either as leader or sideman, hundreds of albums before his death in 2002 at 77. The quartet's "Left Alone" juxtaposes Ortiz's sprinkled piano with Jones' foreboding bowed bass and Taylor's trotting drums, ultimately giving way to Ortiz' dexterous piano solo. It's a 9-and-a-half minute piece whose sheer weight feels like it encompasses Waldron's story more than a biopic ever could. It's also, perhaps, the best manifestation so far of Lewis' ever-burgeoning ethos, one in constant conversation with the past while remaining firmly rooted in deep appreciation of the collaborative process.

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Anyways so I had a dream and Matt rempe was like changing personalities it was weird

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I desperately want to have a conversation with josh about Werner Herzog

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'When Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, Memento, TENET) makes a film about J Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb, you expect it to be spectacular. With a runtime of three hours, the simply titled Oppenheimer is expansive in every aspect. Indeed, new film stock had to be made to shoot the black-and-white sequences for gigantic IMAX screens.

From sequences that visualize quantum physics to those depicting the titular character’s mental state soon after the devastating explosions of atomic bombs – not to mention the actual Trinity test – the film is a visual masterpiece. But much of it is dialogue-based, with the drama coming from political machinations, in a world dealing with the fallout of the Second World War.

I first saw Oppenheimer in the IMAX at the Science Museum in London and then for a second time in a small, seaside cinema in Devon, UK. On an ordinary cinema screen, it is staggering. On an IMAX, it is visceral. This is no surprise as Nolan is an expert of IMAX and although this film, with its concentration on politics, is closer to The West Wing than Interstellar, in his hands, the immense format leads to total immersion in the world and its characters. Add an exceptional performance by Cillian Murphy in the role of Oppenheimer and a typically Nolan time-bending narrative, and it is no wonder that audiences have flocked to IMAX screens to take it all in.

Nolan’s films rarely follow a straight story arc. Narratively, there are two main strands: the early-career scientist Oppenheimer, and the embattled, politics-laden administrator of the 1950s. Between them is the story’s fulcrum – the atomic bomb development in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In the former, Oppenheimer’s focus, and that of the film, is physics. Patrick Blackett, Niels Bohr, Isidor Rabi and Werner Heisenberg all feature. Later, everything turns to politics, just as Oppenheimer’s career did, as he sought to use his notoriety as the father of the atomic bomb to try to influence nuclear policy in the US.

This political strand centres around trial-like proceedings that were held when Lewis Strauss (played by Robert Downey Jr, another formidable performance), chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, sought to remove Oppenheimer’s security clearance in 1954. Unusually, the whole film script – which includes not just the dialogue but also the stage directions, actions, expressions and so on – was written in the first person to aid those reading it to feel the intense focus of the film on Oppenheimer the man. Apart from Oppenheimer and Strauss, other key physicists such as Ernest Lawrence (Josh Hartnett), Edward Teller (Benny Safdie) and Hans Bethe (Gustaf Skarsgård) play key roles.

The film also focuses on key figures from Oppenheimer’s personal life, including his long-time partner Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh) and his wife Kitty (Emily Blunt). The latter was a fascinating character, and Blunt does a wonderful job in portraying this complex woman. A scientist herself, Kitty was a trained biologist and chemist and prior to meeting Oppenheimer, she worked at the Caltech X-ray lab, with physicist Charles Lauritsen, on experimental cancer therapy. Later, at Los Alamos, Kitty worked in the health group, conducting blood tests to assess the danger of radiation. None of this is included in the film, which instead only focuses on the pair’s passionate and often tumultuous relationship. In a film with so few female scientists represented, this seems to be an unfortunate omission.

Nolan uses a mixture of colour and black-and-white film to illustrate the two perspectives. The subjective, where we are seeing the world from Oppenheimer’s perspective, is in colour. The objective, largely in terms of how he is seen by Strauss, is in black and white. As with Interstellar, physics and storytelling collide and use one another in key aspects of the narrative.

The film begins by immersing the audience deeply in the most significant fundamental physics discoveries of the time – from nuclear and particle physics to quantum mechanics, which was a radical new way to consider the world around us. In a scene that Nolan has likened to Luke Skywalker meeting Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars, a young Oppenheimer meets the celebrated Bohr. In a later period, an older Oppenheimer meets his acquaintance Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, when the former moved there to serve as director from 1947 until 1966.

Alongside these scenes, we are treated to visualizations of waveforms and particle behaviour, giving the audience a sense of what it might feel like to consider matter in this way. Visually, this metaphor continues throughout the film and, ultimately, to the destruction of that matter.

We never see the true devastation of the two atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, but Nolan visualizes the horror through Oppenheimer’s imagination in an aurally and visually hard-hitting thread that runs throughout the film. In one of the film’s most jarring scenes, as the scientists and others at Los Alamos “celebrate” the dropping of atomic bombs (and thus the end of the Second World War with Japan’s surrender), Oppenheimer envisions the horrifying impact of the bombs on people, all while giving a celebratory speech. This signifies his early misgivings despite his work on making the atomic bomb a reality.

Murphy’s face – gaunt and haunted – fills the screen and his likeness to Oppenheimer is striking as we see him try to come to terms with what he must create (in the earlier timeline) and has successfully created (in the later). It is, however, impossible to know for sure what Oppenheimer truly felt about his role in the Manhattan Project. Asked by CBS in 1965 whether dropping the atomic bomb was necessary, he concluded “I have not a very good answer to this question.” This uncertainty is core to the Oppenheimer script. The big questions of the film are left for the audience to decide. Nolan is not a didactic storyteller.

Oppenheimer does not end with the dropping of the bombs – in fact much of the weight of his story comes after the fact. In the 1950s the Republican senator Joseph McCarthy led a campaign against leftist members of the American community, with many of them losing their jobs under accusations of being members of the Communist Party. In many cases, they were not. This McCarthyism was meted upon Oppenheimer, and Nolan’s film sees the politicians, especially Strauss, trying to bring him down.

One effect of the interwoven timelines is that we are confronted with people celebrating a man for his role in the mass killing of civilians and vilifying him for having left-wing sentiments. It’s a rare moment where there are clear good guys and bad guys, but for the most part Nolan’s characters are flawed and troubled.

In that courtroom-esque drama, the politicians are trying to remove Oppenheimer from their plans to build an even more monstrous weapon – the hydrogen bomb. Oppenheimer was aware that the Second World War was effectively over at the time the two atomic bombs were dropped on Japan – the Nazis had already surrendered and the Japanese were close to beaten.

After that, Oppenheimer was of the firm opinion that there was no justification, and no military target big enough, to justify the hydrogen bomb. His fear stemmed from the realization that humanity – or at least the politicians among us – would use any bomb they have built, no matter how big. Those politicians effectively use his left-leaning political views to remove him, and his objections, from the project.

The argument for nuclear weapons is that they form a deterrent. Whether the deterrent has worked or not is an open question. The people of Ukraine might have a different point of view from that of Vladimir Putin, for example. War certainly has not stopped. In an ideal world, these bombs would never have been made but, as the film makes clear, this is not realistic. The discovery of the immense power of the atom could not have been kept secret. That simply is not how science works. Whether there was ever a need to use it on people is quite another question.

One physics detail explored in the film is Teller’s calculations that the detonation of the atomic bomb might set off a chain reaction that would ignite the entire Earth’s atmosphere. Teller theorized that temperatures created by a nuclear fission bomb might be so extreme that they would fuse hydrogen atoms together, as in the heart of our Sun. If true, this might have caused a chain reaction that would engulf the planet, vaporize the oceans and extinguish all life. The scientists at Los Alamos knew that there was a negligible, but non-zero possibility the bomb would set alight the atmosphere in an uncontrollable runaway effect. They, and the politicians and generals in charge, still pressed the button.

“Are you saying there’s a chance we destroy the world?” General Groves (Matt Damon) asks Oppenheimer. In creating this film, Christopher Nolan asks that question anew.'

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✧ mcl (hsl) flirts - voice headcanons ✧

note: receiving an ask wondering who i’d headcanon as voice for castiel, i got the idea of making hdcs what the hsl boys voices would sound like!!! obv everything is sfw, cts of the pics used to the respective owners on pinterest! enjoyy xo

���� castiel.

i feel like castiel has the typical american english accent. i headcanon him to be born in a big city, like new york or los angeles, due to his parents having a well-paid job that allowed that kind of life.

for that reason, i think chris pine (jack frost’s voice actor in “rise of guardians”) would be a perfect example of what his voice would sound like;

sassy, provocative, yet kind and genuine.

𖹭 nathaniel.

as mentioned in my amber’s hdcs, i headcanon his family is german. both him and his sister can fluently speak german and they do have a little bit of an accent when talking in other languages.

someone like louis hofmann (werner pfenning’s actor in “all the light we cannot see”) would suit him good, even if his accent would be a little less marked than werner’s.

his tone is mostly quiet and low, but he does have his bursts of energy, especially when addressing castiel or others he doesn’t really like; that’s when the german kicks in the most.

𖹭 lysander.

oh, this boy is a gentle giant and his voice is definitely the deepest one, which is accentuated by the way he talks: basically whispering all the time. nobody knows whether it’s shyness or just his normal way of speaking,

all i know is that his voice would sound close to josh o’connor’s (price charles in “the crown”, season 3).

yes, he is british, with a beautiful londinese accent.

𖹭 armin.

lucas zade jumann (gilbert blythe’s actor in “ann with an e”) would be perfect for him. just a little more expressive.

listen, this guy is a walking meme, okay? he’d be dead serious for a moment and making questionable noises (yes, he’s the type of friend that would moan when you’re on call with your mom) the second later. he’s also freaking loud when talking and doesn’t even realize it.

another thing: he’s scarily good at making impressions of anime characters. beware for phone pranks.

𖹭 kentin.

even after puberty hit, his voice still remains the sweetest of them all. his french accent only makes it worse, making jessie james grell (armin arlert’s english voice actor in “attack on titan”) a pretty accurate option for him.

the voice actor isn’t french and i don’t really know if he ever played french characters, but just imagine his voice with a subtle french accent in it.

don’t get fooled though. the boy has lungs and, just like armin, can easily forget how loud he can get when upset. mostly happens when castiel’s around.

gosh i had so much fun writing these headcanons!! tbh i hope these are good, i mainly listen to italian stuff so my knowledge of english voice actors/actors is limited :,) lmk what you think, if the voices match what you think they’d actually sound like.

✧ mcl navigation. ✧

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i love whenever i see a comment thats like "its not realistic to be gay in the 16th century, they'll get killed" on pentiment stuff cos its like are you gonna tell Josh Sawyer that? are you gonna tell him that its unrealistic for Werner to become alcoholic over Baltas and Gnaziu slapping balls every night??

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Umich Wag List

Logan Stein - single?

Hunter Hady - Peyton Daniels (gf)

Will Felicio - Ava Ludwig (gf)

Tyler Duke - single ?

Josh Eernisse - single ?

Dakoda Rheaume-Mullen - single ?

William Whitelaw - single ?

Nick Moldenhauer - single

Thomas Daskas - single ?

TJ Hughes - Riley O'Conner (gf)

Jacob Trusscott - Ellie McManus (gf)

Garrey Schifsky - Emily Weibye (gf)

Michael Hage - single

Tanner Rowe - Kaaren Listen (gf)

Philippe Lapointe - Khianna Rose (gf)

Miles Gust - single ?

Andrew Albano - Mercedes Bishop

Cameron Korpi - single ?

Kienan Draper - single?

Will Horcoff - single?

Luca Fantilli - single

Josh Orrico - single ?

Ethan Edwards - single

Ewan Werner - single

Mark Estapa - Farah Lipetz (gf)

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@cutsofguiltcutsdeeper tagged me to post my first 10 songs on shuffle which are…

Milkshake - Smidley

The Way It Is Waltz - Vincent Gallo

Concerto in G - Roger Neill

Tender is the Night in Paperback -Josh Tillman

Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out - The Antlers

Robert De Niro’s Waiting - Bananarama

World of Dogs - Death Grips

Syumichinagahama - Chitose Hajime

Backstage Pass - Outer Limits Recordings

Skull Patrol - Carson Werner

I’ll tag my buddies @joespinell @frances73 @thesunpapaya

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James Brandon Lewis – Resilient Vessels: Live At The Cell

New York city based bassist and visual artist Josh Werner was awarded an artist in residence from The Cell Gallery located in New York NY. As a part of this residency which occurred in the month of July 2020, Josh presented various works in different mediums from visual art to music. In lue of the 2020 pandemic Josh was unable to present music to a live audience and instead offered a pre-recorded live performance to be aired at a later date. Werner was able to put together an ensemble of some of the leading improvisors on the New York City scene in that of James Brandon Lewis, Ches Smith and Patrick Holmes. One of the leading jazz pioneers Ornette Coleman once expressed himself by saying ” you know more, but i feel more “. During these turbulent times this statement resonates with this ensemble; it’s one that embodies the acknowledgement of feelings within your being to then pour into the music being presented. This ensemble draws from proceeding generations of musicians such as Don Cherry, Roy Ayers, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Tribe Called Quest and the energy of the downtown art rock movement.

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Top 10 West Wing episodes

top 10?? ough. (can we tell i'm just really indecisive and bad at narrowing down what I love)

disclaimer: not in ranked order, not comprehensive, etc etc. I'm trying not to feel pressured to just pick the "best" and most high quality episodes, but list the ones I enjoy.

Take Out the Trash Day. This is just such a quintessential West Wing to me. Tell me you don't have a question about the pens, and I was raised on Julia Child... their legacies are safe in my hands and the whole thing with the Lydells... it's so fun but also has heart and captures the very essence of the show to me.

The Stackhouse Filibuster. As a MASH girlie first, the Dear Dad framing device is used impeccably. This episode is a love letter to the power of government and politicians for good, as well as just a cracking good story. That whole last bit about "I've seen a man with no legs keep standing, and a man with no voice keep shouting, and if politics bring out the worst in people, maybe people bring out the best". (I just wrote that down from memory).

Galileo. I also mentioned this one in my "best of CJ" roundup, but this is another one that is just it for me. Love space travel, the "I'm great in bed!", the drama with the green beans. Also hilarious that for an episode on space, the guy who play Tad Whitney ends up playing Werner Von Braun in For All Mankind like two decades later. Sam and Mallory too! Sam's speech about explorers! what's not to loveeee.

Institutional Memory. This one. has. EVERYTHING. Soft domestic openers. Everyone recognizing (at last) that CJ has been doing her most to run this WH. MR CJ CREGG. I want us to talk because I like the sound of your voice. Will running for Congress. I've seen it probably a dozen times and it's never gotten old. i could write ESSAYS on this one. Again: MR CJ CREGG.

Two Cathedrals. So like. Obviously the whole MS reveal arc is everything to me, but Two Cathedrals is the S2 GOAT. The "Brothers in Arms" sequence. Young Dolores Landingham played to perfection. The church monologue. Watch this. Watch this. Then God, Jed, I don't even wanna know you. Perfect cap to a PERFECT arc.

Guns Not Butter. The internet could never convince me that this is a mediocre episode. The foreign aid stuff alone is crazy making. but also the goat. "Did the first lady get you drunk and take you shopping?" Donna being her best, sneakiest self to help Josh (as a side note, this episode was what made me ship Josh and Donna -> "and we'll steal the rest?" / "Bet your ass."). Charlie and the food stamps letter. Leo threatening to hide snakes in CJ's car. And the pinnacle: CJ shoving an egg roll in Danny's mouth (they had sex there btw).

Duck and Cover. Season 7 as a whole is actually pretty good, even if I would've loved a little more focus on the west wing and not the campaign (just a bit more balance is all I'm asking). but Duck & Cover is kind of some of the best writing in the season, and it's probably my favourite s7 episode that has nothing to do with CJ and Danny. Tautly written, the fallout (lol) over both campaigns and the White House, and consequences that will continue through the rest of the season. Plus a JK Simmons appearance!

Posse Comitatus. Once again including this as the culmination of an entire arc. Simon and CJ have the most sizzling chemistry, and that's a big part of why this arc works for me, but it's not just their plot that makes me love this episode. The hallelujah stuff is in fact killer though, like peak television. Jed deciding whether or not to go through with his plans, the first appearance of Ritchie... if you're wondering, 'crime, boy i don't know' is when I decided to kick your ass. And then... the crowning achievement of the episode is the final montage -> what's happening on stage juxtaposed with what's happening in Bermuda, and through it all, the lyrics "and victorious in war shall be made glorious in peace." One of the best season finales not named Two Cathedrals.

He Shall, From Time to Time... There was simply no way, no way this was being left off my top 10 list (there were some painful cuts but this was staying). THEE MS reveal episode. All because Aaron wanted a scene with Jed watching daytime TV. The State of the Union. Sam and Mallory. The CJ/Danny kiss. Reframing "the era of big government is over." Abbey and Jed! (This is probably my favourite JedAbbey episode tbh). And then scene between Leo and Jed where they talk about the MS is unbeatable.

The Short List. This is another quintessential West Wing Episode (TM) for me. You've got a major political moment (announcing a Supreme Court justice) on top of the personal (the drug thing). The introduction of Danny and Josh's friendship. Mendoza. Leo's history. And most importantly... Gail the goldfish. (Which I believe TB has said was his favourite scene he did with Allison, as it rightfully should be).

Drought Conditions. I know I said top 10 but hear me out. This was season 6 returning to the strengths of the early seasons, helmed by Debora Cahn (of The Supremes and Institutional Memory, among other TWW classics). The campaigns returning to the White House, the Rafferty bait-and-switch. The friendships. The return of Cliff Calley. The gala at the end! (I have a soft spot for Kate and Will, so that didn't hurt). It's just SUCH a good episode all around.

Honourable mentions go to:

The State Dinner, The two Inaugurations (snowball fight, "what is it you'd do exactly to have me", etc), The Stormy Present (Former presidents! Toby singing suicide is painless!), Internal Displacement (Men are like salmon), most of season 1, King Corn, and 2162 Votes...

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Title: 21

Rating: PG-13

Director: Robert Luketic

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Aaron Yoo, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, Laurence Fishburne, Jack McGee, Josh Gad, Sam Golzari, Helen Carey, Jack Gilpin, Ben Campbell, Donna Lows, Butch Williams, Steven Richard Vezina, Chaska T. Werner

Release year: 2008

Genres: drama, crime

Blurb: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Though he wants to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine and become a doctor, Ben learns that he can't afford the $300,000 for the four to five years of schooling. One evening, he's introduced by his unorthodox math professor to a small but secretive club of five. Students Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Fisher are being trained by Professor Rosa to count cards at blackjack...and they want Ben to join.

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Supporters of #NoHostageLeftBehind Open Letter to Joe Biden - Part 2/2

Gabe Turner

Gail Berman

Gary Barber

Genevieve Angelson

Gideon Raff

Grant Singer

Greg Berlanti

Guy Nattiv

Hannah Fidell

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Harlan Coben

Harold Brown

Henrietta Conrad

Howard Gordon

Iain Morris

Imran Ahmed

Inbar Lavi

Jackie Sandler

Jake Graf

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Jaron Varsano

Jason Fuchs

Jason Biggs & Jenny Mollen Biggs

Jason Segel

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Jeff Rake

Jen Joel

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Jesse Sisgold

Jill Littman

Jody Gerson

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Joe Quinn

Joe Russo

Joe Tippett

Joel Fields

John Landgraf

Jon Bernthal

Jon Glickman

Jon Liebman

Jonathan Baruch

Jonathan Groff

Jonathan Tropper

Jonathan Marc Sherman

Jonathan Steinberg

Jonathan Tisch

Josh Goldstine

Josh Greenstein

Josh Grode

Julia Lester

Julie Greenwald

Karen Pollock

Kelley Lynch

Kevin Kane

Kevin Zegers

Kitao Sakurai

KJ Steinberg

Laura Pradelska

Lauren Schuker Blum

Laurence Mark

Laurie David

Lee Eisenberg

Leslie Siebert

Leo Pearlman

Limor Gott

Lina Esco

Liz Garbus

Lizanne Rosenstein

Lizzie Tisch

Lorraine Schwartz

Lynn Harris

Lyor Cohen

Mandana Dayani

Maria Dizzia

Mara Buxbaum

Marc Webb

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Mark Scheinberg

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Matt Miller

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Matthew Hiltzik

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Neil Druckmann

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Rebecca Mall

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Rich Statter

Richard Kind

Rick Hoffman

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Robert Newman

Rob Rinder

Roger Birnbaum

Roger Green

Rosie O'Donnell

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Celebrity Deaths 2022

JANUARY Dan Reeves - Jan. 1 (Football Coach) Max Julien - Jan. 1 (Movie Actor) J $tash - Jan. 1 (Rapper) Calisto Tanzi - Jan. 1 (Criminal) Traxamillion - Jan. 2 (Music Producer) Richard Leakey - Jan. 2 (Paleontologist) John Efford - Jan. 2 (Politician) Igor Bogdanoff - Jan. 3 (TV Show Host) Joan Copeland - Jan. 4 (Stage Actress) TurtleAmigo - Jan. 4 (YouTuber Star) Jim Corsi - Jan. 4 (Baseball Player) Kim Mi-soo - Jan. 5 (TV Actress) Greg Robinson - Jan. 5 (Football Coach) Sidney Poitier - Jan. 6 (Movie Actor) Peter Bogdanovich - Jan. 6 (Director) Maha Abo Ouf - Jan. 6 (Movie Actress) Jack Dromey - Jan. 7 (Politician) Marilyn Bergman - Jan. 8 (Songwriter) Michael Lang - Jan. 8 (Music Producer) **Bob Saget - Jan. 9 (TV Actor) Dwayne Hickman - Jan. 9 (TV Actor) James Mtume - Jan. 9 (Jazz Singer) Don Maynard - Jan. 10 (Football Player) Gary Waldhorn - Jan. 10 (TV Actor) Ahmet Calik - Jan. 11 (Soccer Player) Stephen George Churchett - Jan. 11 (TV Actor) Melanie K Ham - Jan. 12 (YouTube Star) Ronnie Spector - Jan. 12 (Rock Singer) Shebby Singh - Jan. 12 (Soccer Player) Clint Arlis - Jan. 13 (Reality Star) Jean-Jacques Beineix - Jan. 13 (Director) Junior Siavii - Jan. 13 (Football Player) Dave Wolverton - Jan. 14 (Novelist) Ron Goulart - Jan. 14 (Novelist) Sad Frosty - Jan. 14 (Rapper) Shandler Beaubien - Jan. 14 (Rapper) Ralph Emery - Jan. 15 (TV Show Host) Joe B. Hall - Jan. 15 (Basketball Coach) Charles McGee - Jan. 16 (Pilot) Yvette Mimieux - Jan. 17 (Movie Actress) Lusia Harris - Jan. 18 (Basketball Player) Peter Robbins - Jan. 18 (Voice Actor) Andre Leon Talley - Jan. 18 (Fashion Designer) Francisco Gento - Jan. 18 (Soccer Player) Bob Goalby - Jan. 19 (Golfer) Gaspard Ulliel - Jan. 19 (Movie Actor) Meat Loaf - Jan. 20 (Rock Singer) Elza Soares - Jan. 20 (World Music Singer) Stella Lynch - Jan. 20 (Dog) Louie Anderson - Jan. 21 (Comedian) Clark Gillies - Jan. 21 (Hockey Player) Kathryn Kates - Jan. 22 (TV Actress) Thich Nhat Hanh - Jan. 22 (Religious Leader) Andrew Ezergailis - Jan. 22 (Teacher) Walt McDonald - Jan. 22 (Poet) Beegie Adair - Jan. 23 (Pianist) Thierry Mugler - Jan. 23 (Fashion Designer) Moses J. Mosely - Jan. 23 (TV Actor) Lily Douglas - Jan. 23 (Instagram Star) Olavo de Carvalho - Jan. 24 (Journalist) Peter Robbins - Jan. 25 (Voice Actor) Barry Cryer - Jan. 25 (Comedian) Esteban Edward Torres - Jan. 25 (Politician) Heinz Werner Zimmermann - Jan. 25 (Composer) Moses J. Moseley - Jan. 26 (TV Actor) Diego Verdaguer - Jan. 27 (World Music Singer) Howard Hesseman - Jan. 29 (TV Actor) Leonard Fenton - Jan. 29 (Soap Opera Actor) Cheslie Kryst - Jan. 30 (Pageant Contestant) Bob Wall - Jan. 30 (Movie Actor) Carleton Carpenter - Jan. 31 (Stage Actor) Jethrotex - Jan. ?? (YouTube Star)

FEBRUARY Chuck Criss - Feb. 2 (Rock Singer) Luca Itvai - Feb. 2 (TikTok Star) Ashley Bryan - Feb. 4 (Children's Author) Lata Mangeshkar - Feb. 6 (World Music Singer) George Crumb - Feb. 6 (Composer) Josh Neuman - Feb. 8 (YouTube Star) Betty Davis - Feb. 9 (Soul Singer) Jeremy Giambi - Feb. 9 (Baseball Player) Super Muñeco - Feb. 9 (Wrestler) Isabel Torres - Feb. 11 (TV Actress) Ivan Reitman - Feb. 12 (Director) Rahul Bajaj - Feb. 12 (Entrepreneur) Jordan Clory - Feb. 14 (YouTube Star) Sandy Nelson - Feb. 14 (Drummer) Borislav Ivkov - Feb. 14 (Chess Player) Sandhya Mukhopadhyay - Feb. 15 (World Music Singer) Alfred Sole - Feb. 15 (Screenwriter) David Brenner - Feb. 17 (Film Editor) Lindsey Pearlman - Feb. 18 (TV Actress) Jane Marczewski - Feb. 19 (Pop Singer) Charley Taylor - Feb. 19 (Football Player) Dan Graham - Feb. 19 (Multimedia Artist) Gary Brooker - Feb. 19 (Rock Singer) Jamal Edwards - Feb. 20 (Entrepreneur) Nils Lindberg - Feb. 20 (Composer) Bob Beckel - Feb. 21 (Journalist) Mark Lanegan - Feb. 22 (Rock Singer) Riky Rick - Feb. 23 (Rapper) Rehman Malik - Feb. 23 (Politician) Sally Kellerman - Feb. 24 (Movie Actress) Pataratida Patcharawirapong - Feb. 24 (TV Actress) Joni James - Feb. 25 (Pop Singer) Shirley Hughes - Feb. 25 (Illustrator) Bostin Loyd - Feb. 25 (Bodybuilder) Snootie Wild - Feb. 26 (Rapper) Tova Traesnaes - Feb. 26 (Entrepreneur) Ned Eisenberg - Feb. 27 (TV Actor) Donte Dorsey - Feb. 27 (Rapper) *Kirk Baily - Feb. 28 (TV Actor) Leonhard Lapin - Feb. 28 (Pop Artist)

MARCH Katie Meyer - March 1 (Soccer Player) Warner Mack - March 1 (Country Singer) Conrad Janis - March 1 (TV Actor) Johnny Brown - March 2 (TV Actor) Tim Considine - March 3 (TV Actor) Scott Murray - March 4 (Instagram Star) Mitchell Ryan - March 4 (TV Actor) Lynda Baron - March 5 (TV Actress) Lil Bo Weep - March 5 (Rapper) Piggie Rockelle - March 7 (Family Member) Piper Rockelle's Grandfather Gyo Obata - March 8 (Architect) Emilio Delgado - March 10 (TV Actor) Sorapong Chatree - March 10 (Movie Actor) Odalis Pérez - March 10 (Baseball Player) Brad Martin - March 11 (Country Singer) Traci Braxton - March 12 (Reality Star) Jessica Williams - March 12 (Pianist) William Hurt - March 13 (Movie Actor) Maureen Howard - March 13 (Autobiographer) Scott Hall - March 14 (Wrestler) Mike Mora - March 15 (Photographer) Peter Bowles - March 17 (Movie Actor) John Clayton - March 18 (Sportscaster) Goonew - March 18 (Rapper) Don Young - March 18 (Politician) Shahabuddin Ahmed - March 19 (Politician) LaShun Pace - March 21 (Gospel Singer) Beth Matthews - March 21 (Blogger) Daniel Edward Pilarczyk - March 22 (Religious Leader) Madeleine Albright - March 23 (Politician) Francesco LoPresti - March 24 (TikTok Star) Taylor Hawkins - March 25 (Drummer) Keith Martin - March 25 (R&B Singer) Keaton Pierce - March 26 (Rock Singer) Jeff Carson - March 26 (Country Singer) Ayaz Mutallibov - March 27 (Politician) Barrie Youngfellow - March 28 (Voice Actress) Paul Herman - March 29 (Movie Actor) Tom Parker - March 30 (Pop Singer) Patrick Demarchelier - March 31 (Photographer) Richard Howard - March 31 (Poet) Patricia MacLachlan - March 31 (Children's Author)

APRIL CW McCall - April 1 (Country Singer) *Estelle Harris - April 2 (Movie Actress) Leonel Sanchez - April 2 (Soccer Player) June Brown - April 3 (Soap Opera Actress) Derrick Goodwin - April 3 (Director) Tommy Davis - April 3 (Baseball Player) Eric Boehlert - April 4 (Journalist) Bobby Rydell - April 5 (Pop Singer) Nehemiah Persoff - April 5 (Movie Actor) Sidney Altman - April 5 (Biologist) Vladimir Zhirinovsky - April 6 (Politician) Dwayne Haskins - April 9 (Football Player) Jack Higgins - April 9 (Novelist) John Drew - April 10 (Basketball Player) Charnett Moffett - April 11 (Bassist) *Gilbert Gottfried - April 12 (Comedian) Cedric McMillan - April 12 (Bodybuilder) Michel Bouquet - April 13 (Movie Actor) Mike Bossy - April 15 (Hockey Player) Jack Newton - April 15 (Golfer) Liz Sheridan - April 15 (TV Actress) Joachim Streich - April 16 (Soccer Player) Kane Tanaka - April 19 (Supercentenarian) Robert Morse - April 20 (TV Actor) Guitar Shorty - April 20 (Guitarist) Daryle Lamonica - April 21 (Football Player) Guy Lafleur - April 22 (Hockey Player) Kathryn Hays - April 25 (Soap Opera Actress) David Birney - April 27 (TV Actor) Neal Adams - April 28 (Comic Book Artist) Larry Woiwode - April 28 (Non-Fiction Author) Joanna Barnes - April 29 (TV Actress) Naomi Judd - April 30 (Country Singer) Bob Krueger - April 30 (Politician)

MAY Jerry Verdorn - May 1 (Soap Opera Actor) Charles Siebert - May 1 (TV Actor) Ivica Osim - May 1 ( Soccer Player) Kailia Posey - May 2 (Gymnast) [Best Known In Toddlers & Tiaras] Joseph Raz - May 2 (Philosopher) Tony Brooks - May 3 (Rave Car Driver) Kenny Moore - May 4 (Runner) *Mike Hagerty - May 5 (TV Actor) Kevin Samuels - May 5 (YouTube Star) Kenneth Welsh - May 5 (TV Actor) George Perez - May 6 (Comic Book Artist) Patricia McKillip - May 6 (Novelist) Mickey Gilley - May 7 (Country Singer) *Fred Ward - May 8 (Movie Actor) Dennis Waterman - May 8 (TV Actor) Adreian Payne - May 9 (Basketball Player) Bob Lanier - May 10 (Basketball Player) Dr. Vivian Horner - May 12 (TV Producer) Lil Keed - May 13 (Rapper) Sahana - May 13 (Instagram Star) Maggie Peterson - May 15 (TV Actress) Knox Martin - May 15 (Sculptor) John Aylward - May 16 (TV Actor) Vangelis - May 17 (Composer) Bernard Wright - May 19 (Jazz Singer) Roger Angell - May 20 (Journalist) Caroline Jones - May 20 (TV Show Host) Thom Bresh - May 23 (Country Singer) OhTrapstar - May 25 (Rapper) *Ray Liotta - May 26 (Movie Actor) Andrew Fletcher - May 26 (Pianist) Alan White - May 26 (Drummer) Angelo Sodano - May 27 (Religious Leader) Walter Abish - May 28 (Novelist) Bo Hopkins - May 28 (Movie Actor) Sidhu Moosewala - May 29 (Pop Singer) Ronnie Hawkins - May 29 (Rock Singer) Boris Pahor - May 30 (Autobiographer) Paul Vance - May 30 (Film Producer) Jeff Gladney - May 30 (Football Player) KK - May 31 (World Music Singer)

JUNE Marion Barber III - June 1 (Football Player) Geoff Hunter - June 3 (Soccer Player) Ann Turner Cook - June 3 (Novelist) Trouble DTE - June 5 (Rapper) Alec John Such - June 5 (Bassist) Cooper Noriega - June 9 (TikTok Star) Aamir Liaquat Hussain - June 9 (Politician) Billy Bingham - June 9 (Soccer Player) Julee Cruise - June 9 (Pop Singer) Baxter Black - June 10 (Poet) Hilary Devey - June 11 (TV Show Host) Philip Baker Hall - June 12 (TV Actor) Sam Gilliam - June 15 (Painter) Jean-Louis Trintignant - June 17 (Movie Actor) Mark Shields - June 18 (Journalist) Adibah Noor - June 18 (Pop Singer) Caleb Swanigan - June 20 (Basketball Player) Brig Owens - June 21 (Football Player) Tony Siragusa - June 22 (Football Player) Niece Waidhofer - June 23 (Instagram Star) Hugh McElhenny - June 23 (Football Player) Sassy Gran Doris - June 25 (TikTok Star) Nicolas Coster - June 26 (Soap Opera Actor) Marlin Briscoe - June 27 (Football Player) Cuneyt Arkin - June 28 (Movie Actor) Deborah James - June 28 (Journalist) Miguel Cedeño - June 28 (TV Show Host) Sonny Barger - June 29 (Novelist) Fernando Del Solar - June 30 (TV Actor) Technoblade - June 30 (YouTube Star)

JULY Susana Dosamantes - July 2 (TV Actress) Peter Brook - July 2 (Playwright) Andy Goram - July 2 (Soccer Player) Hank Goldberg - July 4 (Sportscaster) Remco Campert - July 4 (Poet) Lenny Von Dohlen - July 5 (Movie Actor) Manny Charlton - July 5 (Guitarist) *James Caan - July 6 (Movie Actor) Alonzo Howard - July 6 (Instagram Star) Adam Wade - July 7 (TV Actor) Tony Sirico - July 8 (TV Actor) Larry Storch - July 8 (TV Actor) Vernon Winfrey - July 8 (Family Member) *Oprah Winfrey's Father* Gregory Itzin - July 8 (TV Actor) John Gwynne - July 8 (Journalist) L.Q. Jones - July 9 (TV Actor) Matt King - July 9 (Visual Artist) Ethan Reyes - July 9 (Rapper) Adam Strachan - July 9 (Football Player) Barbara Thompson - July 10 (Pianist) Dick Schofield - July 11 (Baseball Player) Joan Lingard - July 12 (Young Adult Author) Jaron Baker - July 12 (Model) Charlotte Valandrey - July 13 (TV Actress) Bobby East - July 13 (Race Car Driver) Spencer Webb - July 13 (Football Player) Ivana Trump - July 14 (Entrepreneur) Megan Reid - July 14 (TikTok Star) Jane Birkin - July 16 (Movie Actress) Michael Henderson - July 19 (Bassist) Taurean Blacque - July 21 (TV Actor) Shonka Dukureh - July 21 (Blues Singer) Dwight Smith - July 22 (Baseball Player) Aaron Latham - July 23 (Journalist) Bob Rafelson - July 23 (Director) Diane Hegarty - July 23 (Religious Leader) David Warner - July 24 (Movie Actor) David Trimble - July 25 (Politician) Paul Sorvino - July 25 (TV Actor) Tony Dow - July 27 (TV Actor) Mary Alice - July 27 (TV Actress) Bernard Cribbins - July 27 (TV Actor) Burt Metcalfe - July 27 (TV Producer) JayDaYoungan - July 27 (Rapper) Terry Neill - July 28 (Soccer Player) Juris Hartmanis - July 29 (Computer Scientist) Nichelle Nichols - July 30 (TV Actress) Pat Carroll - July 30 (Stage Actress) Archie Roach - July 30 (Rock Singer) Bill Russell - July 31 (Basketball Player)

AUGUST Vin Scully - Aug. 2 (Sportscaster) Melissa Susan Bank - Aug. 2 (Novelist) Villiam Vecchi - Aug. 3 (Soccer Coach) Valdir Segato - Aug. 3 (TikTok Star) Clu Gulager - Aug. 5 (TV Actor) Jô Soares - Aug. 5 (TV Show Host) Richard Roat - Aug. 5 (TV Actor) Issey Miyake - Aug. 5 (Fashion Designer) Cherie Gil - Aug. 5 (Movie Actress) Judith Durham - Aug. 5 (Folk Singer) Leandro Lo - Aug. 7 (Martial Artist) Roger E Mosley - Aug. 7 (TV Actor) **Olivia Newton-John - Aug. 8 (Pop Singer) Lamont Dozier - Aug. 8 (Songwriter) Nicholas Evans - Aug. 9 (Novelist) Lydia De Vega - Aug. 10 (Runner) Vesa-Matti Loiri - Aug. 10 (Movie Actor) Jon Hill - Aug. 11 (Drummer) *Anne Heche - Aug. 11 (TV Actress) Darius Campbell - Aug. 11 (Stage Actor) Wolfgang Petersen - Aug. 12 (Director) Teddy Ray - Aug. 12 (Comedian) Denise Dowse - Aug. 13 (TV Actress) Robyn Griggs - Aug. 13 (Soap Opera Actress) Tinfoil Chef - Aug. 13 (YouTube Star) Rakesh Jhunjhunwala - Aug. 14 (Business Executive) Tokollo Tshabalala - Aug. 15 (Pop Singer) Lenny Johnrose - Aug. 15 (Soccer Player) Frederick Buechner - Aug. 15 (Novelist) Joseph Delaney - Aug. 16 (Novelist) Josephine Tewson - Aug. 18 (TV Actress) Sombat Metanee - Aug. 18 (Movie Actor) Alexei Panshin - Aug 21 (Novelist) Charrliiieeee - Aug. 22 (TikTok Star) Rembert Weakland - Aug. 22 (Religious Leader) Jerry Allison - Aug. 22 (Drummer) Len Dawson - Aug. 24 (Football Player) Yusuf Al-Qaradawi - Aug. 26 (Religious Leader) Manolo Sanlucar - Aug. 27 (Composer) Gawd Triller - Aug. 28 (YouTube Star) Charlbi Dean - Aug. 29 (Movie Actress) Luke Bell - Aug. 29 (Country Singer) Bill Turnbull - Aug. 31 (TV Show Host) JR Ridinger - Aug. 31 (Business Executive)

SEPTEMBER Earnie Shavers - Sept. 1 (Boxer) Sara Holmes - Sept. 1 (YouTube Star) Megan Nespliak - Sept. 2 (TikTok Star) Pat Stay - Sept. 4 (Rapper) Peter Straub - Sept. 4 (Novelist) Virginia Dwan - Sept. 5 (Conceptual Artist) Tina Ramirez - Sept. 6 (Dancer) David A. Arnold - Sept. 7 (Comedian) Marsha Hunt - Sept. 7 (Movie Actress) **Elizabeth - Sept. 8 (Queen) Gwyneth Powell - Sept. 8 (TV Actress) Mark Miller - Sept. 9 (TV Actor) Tommy Smith - Sept. 9 (Family Member) *Everleigh Rose Smith-Soutas's Father* Trevor Tomkins - Sept. 9 (Drummer) William Klein - Sept. 10 (Photographer) Harry Landis - Sept. 12 (TV Actor) PnB Rock - Sept. 12 (Rapper) Ramsey Lewis - Sept. 12 (Pianist) Lowry Mays - Sept. 12 (Entrepreneur) Jean-Luc Godard - Sept. 13 (Director) Henry Silva - Sept. 14 (Movie Actor) Irene Papas _ Sept. 14 (Movie Actress) Luciano Vassalo - Sept. 16 (Soccer Player) George Ward aka Cherry Valentine - Sept. 18 (Reality Star) Maury Wills - Sept. 19 (Baseball Player) Jalen Hill - Sept. 20 (Basketball Player) Raju Srivastav - Sept. 21 (Comedian) Hesham Selim - Sept. 22 (Movie Actor) Hilary Mantel - Sept. 22 (Novelist) Louise Fletcher - Sept. 23 (Movie Actress) Robert Cormier - Sept. 23 (Movie Actor) Zack Estrin - Sept. 23 (Producer) John Hartman - Sept. 23 (Drummer) Carlitos Bala - Sept. 23 (TV Actor) Destinee Govan - Sept. 24 (Rapper) **Coolio - Sept. 28 (Rapper) Gavin Escobar - Sept. 28 (Football Player) Arlene Cody Bashnett - Sept. 28 (YouTube Star) Markus Hogg - Sept. 29 (TikTok Star) Héctor López - Sept. 29 (Baseball Player)

OCTOBER Antonio Inoki - Oct. 1 (Wrestler) Tiffany Jackson - Oct. 3 (Basketball Player) Kim Jung-gi - Oct. 3 (Illustrator) Charles Fuller - Oct. 3 (Playwright) Loretta Lynn - Oct. 4 (Country Singer) Sara Lee - Oct. 6 (Wrestler) Jody Miller - Oct. 6 (Country Singer) Ann Flood - Oct. 7 (Soap Opera Actress) Toshi Ichiyanagi - Oct. 7 (Composer) Eileen Ryan - Oct. 9 (Movie Actress) Michael Callan - Oct. 10 (Stage Actor) Dick Ellsworth - Oct. 10 (Baseball Player) Anita Kerr - Oct. 10 (Country Singer) *Angela Lansbury - Oct. 11 (TV Actress) Willie Spence - Oct. 12 (R&B Singer) Rsglory And Gold - Oct. 12 (YouTube Star) Bruce Sutter - Oct. 13 (Baseball Player) **Robbie Coltrane - Oct. 14 (TV Actor) *Wands Up For Our Beloved Hagrid. Jan Rabsons - Oct. 14 (Voice Actor) MikaBen - Oct. 15 (Songwriter) Joyce Sims - Oct. 15 (R&B Singer) Darius Vlad Crețan - Oct. 16 (Rapper) Dilip Mahalanabis - Oct. 16 (Biologist) Charley Trippi - Oct. 19 (Football Player) Tristen Nash - Oct. 20 (Family Member Kevin Nash's Son Ron Masak - Oct. 22 (TV Actor) Rodney Graham - Oct. 22 (Multimedia Artist) Dietrich Mateschitz - Oct. 22 (Entrepreneur) Michael Kopsa - Oct. 23 (Voice Actor) Don Edwards - Oct. 23 (Country Singer) *Leslie Jordan - Oct. 24 (TV Actor) Jules Bass - Oct. 25 (Director) Julie Powell - Oct. 26 (Blogger) Michael Basman - Oct. 26 (Chess Player) Lucianne Goldberg - Oct. 26 (Novelist) Arshad Sharif - Oct. 27 (Journalist) Gerald Stern - Oct.27 (Poet) Therese Angela Alexander - Oct. 27 (TikTok Star) Vince Dooley - Oct. 28 (Football Player) Jerry Lee Lewis - Oct. 28 (Rock Singer) Adam Zimmer - Oct. 31 (Football Player) Andrew Prine - Oct. 31 (Movie Actor) Laney Chantal - Oct. 31 (Makeup Artist)

NOVEMBER Takeoff - Nov. 1 (Rapper) Gael Greene - Nov. 1 (Journalist) Ray Guy - Nov. 3 (Football Player) Douglas McGrath - Nov. 3 (Screenwriter) Edot Baby - Nov. 4 (Rapper) **Aaron Carter - Nov. 5 (Pop Singer) Tame One - Nov. 5 (Rapper) Bill Treacher - Nov. 5 (Soap Opera Actor) Leslie Phillips - Nov. 7 (Movie Actor) Jeff Cook - Nov. 7 (Guitarist) Lee Bontecou - Nov. 8 (Sculptor) Tom Owen - Nov. 8 (TV Actor) William Frederick Knight - Nov. 8 (Voice Actor) Werner Schulz - Nov. 9 (Politician) Kevin Conroy - Nov. 10 (Voice Actor) Keith Levene - Nov. 11 (Musician) John Aniston - Nov. 11 (Soap Opera Actor) Gallagher - Nov. 11 (Comedian) Syazlin Zainal - Nov. 11 (Instagram Star) Anthony Johnson - Nov. 13 (MMA Fighter) Xana Kernodle - Nov. 13 (???) Nicki Aycox - Nov. 16 (TV Actress) Robert Clary - Nov. 16 (TV Actor) Isabel Salgado - Nov. 16 (Volleyball Player) B. Smyth - Nov. 17 (R&B Singer) Marcus Sedgwick - Nov. 17 (Novelist) Greg Bear - Nov. 19 (Novelist) **David Jason Frank - Nov. 20 (TV Actor) Albert Nipon - Nov. 20 (Fashion Designer) Wilko Johnson - Nov. 21 (Guitarist) Bernadette Mayer - Nov. 22 (Poet) Megha Thakur - Nov. 24 (TikTok Star) Borje Salming - Nov. 24 (Hockey Player) Issei Sagawa Nov. 24 (Criminal) *Irene Cara - Nov. 25 (Movie Actress) Jake Flint - Nov. 26 (Country Singer) Yoichi Sai - Nov. 27 (Film Producer) Clarence Gilyard - Nov. 28 (TV Actor) Brad William Henke - Nov. 29 (TV Actor) Christine McVie - Nov. 30 (Rock Singer) Yakira Chambers - Nov. 30 (TV Actress) Christiane Horbiger - Nov. 30 (Stage Actor)

DECEMBER Quentin Oliver Lee - Dec. 1 (Stage Actor) Gaylord Perry - Dec. 1 (Baseball Player) Yoshio Kikugawa - Dec. 2 (Soccer Player) Ursula Hayden - Dec. 3 (Wrestler) Paul Broughton - Dec. 3 (Rugby Coach) Jim Kolbe - Dec. 3 (Politician) Bob McGrath - Dec. 4 (TV Actor) Pablo Puente Buces - Dec. 4 (Religious Leader) June Blair - Dec. 4 (Model) **Kirstie Alley - Dec. 5 (TV Actress) Mills Lane - Dec. 6 (Referee) Antonio D'Amico - Dec. 6 (Fashion Designer) Jet Black - Dec. 6 (Drummer) Helen Slayton-Hughes - Dec. 7 (Movie Actress) Barbara Thore - Dec. 7 (Family Member) *Whitney Way Thore's Mother* Yoshishige Yoshida - Dec. 8 (Director) Chas Newby - Dec. 8 (Movie Actor) Ronnie Turner - Dec. 8 (Movie Actor) Ruth Madoc - Dec. 9 (TV Actress) Jovit Baldivino - Dec. 9 (Pop Singer) Georgia Holt - Dec. 10 (Family Member) *Cher's Mother* Paul Silas - Dec. 10 (Basketball Player) Grant Wahl - Dec. 10 (Journalist) Angelo Badalamenti - Dec. 11 (Composer) Stuart Margolin - Dec. 12 (TV Actor) Ali Dulin aka AlidSpiceXO - Dec. 12 (TikTok Star) Mike Leach - Dec. 12 (Football Player) **Stephen "tWitch" Boss - Dec. 13 (Dancer) Grand Daddy I.U. - Dec. 13 (Rapper) Ronnie Turner - Dec. 13 (Movie Actor) Kim Simmonds - Dec. 13 (Guitarist) Dino Danelli - Dec. 15 (Drummer) Stephanie Bissonnette - Dec. 17 (Stage Actress) Phil Urban - Dec. 17 (BasketBall Player) Mike Hodges - Dec. 17 (Director) Jamie Lopez - Dec. 18 (Reality Star) Wim Henderickx - Dec. 18 (Composer) Terry Hall - Dec. 18 (Rock Singer) Lando Buzzanca - Dec. 18 (Stage Actor) Sonya Eddy - Dec. 19 (TV Actress) Tom Browning - Dec. 19 (Baseball Player) Quinn Redeker - Dec. 20 (TV Actor) Franco Harris - Dec. 20 (Football Player) Ronnie Hillman - Dec. 21 (Football Player) Diane McBain - Dec. 21 (TV Actress) Pedro Paulo Rangel - Dec. 21 (Soap Opera Actor) Stephan Bonnar - Dec. 22 (MMA Fighter) Big Scarr - Dec. 22 (Rapper) Thom Bell - Dec. 22 (Soul Singer) Ronan Vibert - Dec. 22 (TV Actor) Dax Tejera - Dec. 23 (Executive Producer) Eric Mumford - Dec. 23 (Family Member) *Lynn Toler's Husband* Maxi Jazz - Dec. 23 (Soul Singer) Philippe Streiff - Dec. 23 (Race Car Driver) Tunisha Sharma - Dec. 24 (TV Actress) John Bird - Dec. 24 (Comedian) Bob Penny - Dec. 25 (Movie Actor) Kevin Payne - Dec. 25 (Soccer Player) Joseph “Jo Mersa” Marley - Dec. 27 (Reggae Singer) Shawn Wolfe - Dec. 27 (Adult Actor) Guy East - Dec. 27 (Family Member) *Andrew East's Father* Agne Jagelaviciute - Dec. 28 (Fashion Designer) Ruggero Deodato - Dec. 29 (Director) Pele - Dec. 29 (Soccer Player) Vivienne Westwood - Dec. 29 (Fashion Designer) Keenan Cahill - Dec. 29 (YouTube Star) Jean Valentine - Dec. 29 (Poet) Edgar Savisaar - Dec. 29 (Politician) Ian Tyson - Dec. 29 (Country Singer) Edilov - Dec. 30 (Boxer) Barbara Walters - Dec. 30 (Journalist) Uche Nwaneri - Dec. 30 (Football Player) Vladimer Barkaia - Dec. 30 (Soccer Player) Anita Marie Pointer - Dec. 31 (Soul Singer) Jeremiah Green - Dec. 31 (Drummer) Pope Benedict XVI - Dec. 31 (Religious Leader) Barry Lane - Dec. 31 (Golfer)

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28/10/24 Fact or Fiction

Statement #1: Jon Moxley’s heel turn has been better than Roman Reigns’ face turn. FACT - The biggest advantage of Mox's heel turn and BCC's pivot is it's realigned the direction of AEW's uppercard which has been needed for a large chunk of the year due to the Undisputed Era flatlining on arrival due to both Cole and MJF being out injured for a significant amount of time while the current configuration of The Elite just doesn't have the right amount of punch to it to make it a viable headline act (and, let's be real, Elite Melodrama storylines were getting repetitive before we were in Lockdown) - in comparison, Reigns' face turn has led to the crushing tedium that is Zombie Bloodline where we have Tonga Loa on our screens because of reasons, when realistically a line should have been drawn under The Bloodline in the months immediately after Reigns dropping the belt as I just cannot feign enthusiasm for the inevitable Bloodline vs Zombie Bloodline match which will likely headline Survivor Series

Statement #2: You believe WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “HHH” Levesque when he says that he doesn’t see color/race when it comes to wrestlers who work for him. FICTION - Because he was describing how he books PPVs when he says he doesn't see colour, as opposed to his booking where all Latino wrestlers are bundled into Legado del Fantasma or the Latino World Order, Damage CTRL are basically an all-joshi stable these days, Zombie Bloodline is bundling Samoans and Tongans into the same group and assuming that nobody will ask any questions

Statement #3:  The Ospreay-Ricochet-Takeshita match from AEW WrestleDream is one of the great triple threats of all time. FICTION - Was it great? Well...yeah, but there's a gap between "great" and "greatest" and I can't see Ospreay/Takeshita/Ricochet being spoken of in let's say five years in the same way that some other highlight triple threats have such as Low Ki/Daniels/Danielson from ROH, Joe/Styles/Daniels from TNA, Benoit/HBK/HHH or Angle/Jericho/Benoit from various WrestleManias, and so on

Statement #4: MJF will be AEW Champion again before either Swerve Strickland or Hangman Adam Page. FICTION - Working on the basis that Darby might be the guy to knock off Mox for the AEW title, at this moment in time Hangman is the most logical guy to take the belt off Darby which also allows them to run back Hangman vs Swerve for the title

Statement #5: If Zack Sabre Jr. had remained in WWE the whole time following the Cruiserweight Classic, he would have become World/Universal champion by now. FICTION - Based on who's booking the company these days, he'd be in a stable with Drew McIntyre and Finn Balor because Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotsmen are tall the same thing and definitely not the basis for a lot of jokes that punch down harder than Sasha Baron Cohen

Statement #6: WWE TV should no longer be considered a pro-wrestling show since the content now is mostly promos, vignettes, entrances and matches interrupted by commercial breaks. FICTION - That would be like saying that Match of the Day isn't a football programme because, while it's sold on Premier League highlights (unless you're a fan of a team the BBC decide only exist when they're getting merked by Liverpool or Man City) there was a long stretch between the late 90s to mid 2000s where somebody might argue in a university essay (alright, I argued...) that the term "sports entertainment" could be applied just as easily to the show as at that time it was becoming less about the highlights and more about the pundits' yakking with the most forced "banter" outside a B-tier Britpop band announcing their third or fourth reunion that it was making the highlights often feel secondary - but the fact remains it still remained a football show, even when they were joshing with whichever pundit was on Celebrity Come Dancing that year being to the rumba what Timo Werner is to finishing one-on-one chances

[ulkaralakbarova]

Two women, Nic and Jules, brought a son and daughter into the world through artificial insemination. When one of their children reaches age, both kids go behind their mothers’ backs to meet with the donor. Life becomes so much more interesting when the father, two mothers and children start to become attached to each other. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Jules: Julianne Moore Nic: Annette Bening Paul: Mark Ruffalo Joni: Mia Wasikowska Laser: Josh Hutcherson Tanya: Yaya DaCosta Jai: Kunal Sharma Clay: Eddie Hassell Sasha: Zosia Mamet Luis: Joaquín Garrido Brooke: Rebecca Lawrence Levy Stella: Lisa Eisner Joel: Eric Eisner Waify Girl: Sasha Spielberg Clay’s Dad: James MacDonald Bartender: Margo Victor Sous-chef (uncredited): Stuart Blumberg Waiter (uncredited): Diego Calderón Pregnant Woman (uncredited): Amy Grabow Partygoer (uncredited): Nino Nava Film Crew: Writer: Lisa Cholodenko Producer: Daniela Taplin Lundberg Production Design: Julie Berghoff Producer: Gary Gilbert Producer: Jeffrey Kusama-Hinte Producer: Celine Rattray Producer: Phillippe Hellmann Director of Photography: Igor Jadue-Lillo Costume Design: Mary Claire Hannan Editor: Jeffrey M. Werner Producer: Jordan Horowitz Stand In: Toni Kallen Additional Editor: Nancy Richardson Stunts: Cassidy Vick Hice Stunt Coordinator: Mark Norby Writer: Stuart Blumberg Original Music Composer: Carter Burwell Co-Producer: Charles E. Bush Jr. Executive Producer: J. Todd Harris Executive Producer: Neil Katz Co-Producer: Todd J. Labarowski Executive Producer: Riva Marker Co-Producer: Joel Newton Executive Producer: Galt Niederhoffer Executive Producer: Anne O’Shea Casting: Laura Rosenthal Executive Producer: Andy Sawyer Executive Producer: Steven Saxton Executive Producer: Christy Scott Cashman Executive Producer: Ron Stein Co-Producer: Bergen Swanson Art Direction: James Connelly Set Decoration: David A. Cook Co-Producer: Camille Moreau Movie Reviews: Filipe Manuel Neto: **A “gay friendly” film that manages to be minimally neutral to also please those who are out of political and ideological struggles.** The troubled causes have never been so popular as they are today: from abortion to euthanasia, from the historical question between colonizing and colonized countries to the return of looted artworks by European museums, passing through the causes of the Gay Movement, whose acronym grows every year, to embrace any new definition invented for each way of feeling and living sexuality, reflecting a need for affirmation that is felt more strongly than the convenience of presenting a certain union in the ranks. This “gay friendly” film fits perfectly into a growing list of cinema works dedicated to scrutinizing the dynamics of these new families. The advantage of this film is that it is not overly militant. The script introduces us to two mature women, who live in a stable lesbian relationship and who decided to get pregnant, by artificial insemination (obviously the more traditional method was discarded for obvious reasons), the semen donor was the same and the children who were born are, therefore, half-siblings on the part of the father (whom they do not know). It is precisely the search for her biological father and the creation of a closer relationship with him that takes the plot forward, with the introduction of this friendly and uncomplicated man totally destabilizing the life of that house. I liked the movie in general. At the same time that it tries to deny that idea, much replicated, that two lesbians would instill their own sexual orientation in their children, the film seeks to create a question around the inviolability of the anonymity of the donors of seminal material… I cannot speak for everyone, but I would never donate semen if I suspected that, years later, someone might have knocked on my door and said he was my son. Anonymity is something that should be inviolable and sacred here, regardless of the will of those involved. It was the point in the script that bothered me the most, but there were a few more. For me, the strongest poi...

[pmcmarty]

Halfway Point Plus Red Sox!

The PMC is only 21 days away and I have crossed the halfway mark to my $12,000 goal!

I am confident that, with your help, I will get much closer to my goal as the date approaches.

In the meantime, tonight I will be attending my first PMC at Fenway Park event!

The PMC is the official charity of the Red Sox Foundation thanks in large part to the late Larry Lucchino.

In the words of Billy Starr, Founder and Executive Director of the PMC:

"…in [the] PMC world, there are few, if any, whose role allowed for such an oversized impact. Larry spoke at PMC Opening Ceremonies in 1995 (when he was with the San Diego Padres) and recognized the PMC’s potential immediately. When the Henry, Werner, Lucchino troika bought the team in 2002, Larry arranged for me to meet with John and Tom. My pitch was essentially: “The PMC is doing $15 million without you… imagine what we could raise with you.” Larry secured the sponsorship.

In 2003, the PMC signed a 3-year, $2.1 million sponsorship deal with the Red Sox. It was transformative – not just the money – but it being the first time – ever – a crown jewel sports franchise in the USA underwrote a bike event. Not a hospital, a bike event! Larry made that happen and the rest is history. He was smart, tough, fun, and deeply heartfelt. He had every reason to be, as a cancer survivor treated at Dana-Farber by PMC’s own Lee Nadler (who introduced the two of us). Larry always understood his obligation, and opportunity, to forward cancer research and treatment, given his Red Sox position and, soon thereafter, the Chairman of the Jimmy Fund as well as the co-chair of an earlier capital campaign (with current DFCI Chairman Josh Bekenstein). We were all the beneficiaries: from the Red Sox championships to a future filled with increasing hope for anybody receiving a cancer diagnosis. Larry was at the forefront of that battle as well. He will be terribly missed."

So at tonight's annual PMC Night at Fenway, PMC Riders who have survived cancer will be parading around the field before the game on their bikes. The PMC Logo will also be unveiled in its prominent position on the green Monster.

We have our commemorative hats and are very excited about tonight :-)

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My 2024 Fundraising Goal: $12,000

Raised for 2024: $6,147

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