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Rose And Ten “Doctor Who”

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"𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐠, 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐠 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐩𝐮𝐬𝐡, 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐮𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐚 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐚 𝐭𝐮𝐠…" Twenty-four year old Val Kilmer (in his film debut) channels Elvis Presley while performing the rockabilly number Straighten Out the Rug in the Paramount Pictures/Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker action comedy Top Secret!, released in cinemas in the U.S. and Canada on June 22nd, 1984. Choreography for Val's performance was handled by Gillian Gregory. Val, who was dating Cher at the time, did all of his own singing in the movie and was featured on the soundtrack album under his character's name "Nick Rivers". Showing up for his audition dressed as Elvis, Kilmer immediately nailed the part and Abrahams later stated: "I like to think of it as the role Elvis never got but should have".

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Erin Gray as Colonel Wilma Deering in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979), “Awakening”

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I wonder why everyone is interested in the lesson...

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This comic makes me so stupid emotional. She might have never known.

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What We Do in the Shadows - FX - March 27, 2019 - December 16, 2024

Comedy / Fantasy (61 episodes)

Running Time: 30 minutes

Stars:

Kayvan Novak as Nandor the Relentless

Matt Berry as Leslie "Laszlo" Cravensworth

Natasia Demetriou as Nadja of Antipaxos 

Harvey Guillén as Guillermo de la Cruz

Mark Proksch as Colin Robinson

Kristen Schaal as The Guide (also known as the "Floating Woman") (season 5-6; guest season 1; recurring seasons 3–4)

Recurring:

Anthony Atamanuik as Sean Rinaldi

Beanie Feldstein as Jenna (season 1)

Doug Jones as Baron Afanas (seasons 1, 3–5)

Nick Kroll as Simon the Devious (guest seasons 1–2, 4)

Jake McDorman as Jeff Suckler (season 1; guest season 2)

Vanessa Bayer as Evie Russell (guest seasons 1, 5)

Marceline Hugot as Barbara Lazarro (guest seasons 1, 5)

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Kristen Schaal as The Guide, Kayvan Novak as Nandor the Relentless, Harvey Guillén as Guillermo de la Cruz, Mark Proksch as Colin Robinson, Natasia Demetriou as Nadja of Antipaxos and Matt Berry as Leslie "Laszlo" Cravensworth in "What We Do in the Shadows"

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Art by Chris Weston

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file this one next to "socratian poetry" under "tumblr users trying to sound smart by using specific language and revealing they don't know what they're talking about"

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"To me there is something fine in the American theory that a private citizen can be chosen by the people to occupy a position as great as that of the mightiest monarch, and to exercise a power which may for the time being surpass that of Czar, Kaiser, or Pope, and that then, after having filled this position, the man shall leave it as an unpensioned private citizen, who goes back into the ranks of his fellow citizens with entire self-respect, claiming nothing save what on his own individual merits he is entitled to receive.

But it is not in the least fine, it is vulgar and foolish, for the President or ex-President to make believe, and, of all things in the world, to feel pleased if other people make believe, that he is a kind of second-rate or imitation king...The effort to combine incompatibles merely makes a man look foolish. The positions of President and King are totally different in kind and degree, and it is silly, and worse than silly, to forget this. It is not of much consequence whether other people accept the American theory of the Presidency; but it is of very much consequence that the American people, including especially any American who has held the office, shall accept the theory and live up to it."

-- Former President Theodore Roosevelt, letter to G.O. Trevelyan, October 1, 1911.

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In 1932, Anna May Wong was photographed by Carl Van Vechten, a prominent portrait photographer known for his striking black-and-white images of artists, performers, and cultural figures during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. These portraits of Wong are some of the most iconic ever taken of her.

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Samurai Cop (1991) + Letterboxd reviews

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"I guess it’s become an iconic moment in that video, and I didn’t even realize it was happening. We shot it in this soundstage warehouse in New York, and the audience was all contest winners from a radio show. I knew the camerawoman, Nancy Schreiber, because she’s worked with my mom before, who’s a filmmaker. Nancy was all the way in the back, somewhere behind the crowd, and I guess she was using a long lens because I didn’t even know she was filming me. I had this habit I’d adopted from touring, where I’d find one or two people in the audience and make eye contact with them during the entire show, just to anchor it. I’d single out a person to the left of me and a person to the right of me, and that’s who I’d sing to. And that’s what I was doing when we were shooting the video. But I had no idea the camera was so tight on my face."

- Susanna Hoffs (x)