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Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)

22/01/2024

Dances with Wolves is a 1990 western film produced, directed and starring Kevin Costner.

The film, based on the novel of the same name by Michael Blake, who also wrote the screenplay, won seven Oscars, including best film and best director. In 2007 it was chosen to be preserved in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in 75th place in the ranking of the best one hundred American films of all time.

In 1863, during the Civil War, Lieutenant John Dunbar is an officer of the Union Army garrisoned at St. David's Field, Tennessee. The man, following a serious wound that would condemn him to the amputation of a leg, seeks death in front of the Confederate lines, but his extreme gesture breaks the stalemate between the two armies facing each other a few dozen meters away, resolving the battle in favor of the Northerners. His act being recognized as that of a brave man, he is treated, receives a commendation and is granted the possibility of choosing the place of his future destination; the lieutenant asks to be sent to a garrison on the western frontier, on the edge of the Nebraska prairies.

Arriving at Fort Hays, Kansas, Dunbar is sent by the mad commander of the garrison, Major Fambrough, to Fort Sedgwick, the most remote outpost. The suicide of Major Fambrough, committed just after Dunbar's departure, and the assassination of Timmons by a group of Pawnee Indians, which occurred on the way back, determined the subsequent oblivion of Fort Sedgwick by the rest of the army. John spends the first month working to get the outpost back up and running and writing his diary, in which he records everything that happens to him; only his horse Cisco and a wolf with whom he becomes familiar day after day keep him company and to whom he gives the name Two Socks because of his white paws.

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Cindy Crawford in Versace at the 63rd Annual Academy Awards, 1991

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Sophia Loren receives her honorary Oscar at the 63rd Academy Awards in 1991.

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On this date in 1991, at the 63rd Academy Awards ceremony, Whoopi Goldberg was awarded Best Supporting Actress for her work in "Ghost" (1990).

"I've said it before and I'll say it again: because of Patrick Swayze, I got that movie. Because of Patrick Swayze, I have an Oscar."

The role of Oda Mae Brown was not written with Goldberg in mind (according to Whoopi Goldberg in a 2009 interview on BBC Radio, the role was originally conceived for veteran Teresa Wright), but Swayze, an admirer of hers, convinced the producers that she would be right for the part, reportedly going so far as saying that he wouldn't do the movie without Goldberg; when she got cast, Swayze accepted the role.

Even so, shortly before production began, Goldberg was unsure if she was going to be able to put this movie into her work schedule. The part was then verbally offered to Jackée Harry, who accepted. However, at the last minute, Goldberg was able to do the film after all and Harry was dropped.

Oda Mae Brown was "the most fun character" Bruce Joel Rubin had ever written, he said. He originally envisioned the character as a real psychic, but friends convinced him she'd be far funnier as a phony revealed to have the gift only through Sam's presence.

Goldberg became the first actress to win Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards, for her role in this film. She was the second African-American woman to receive an Academy Award. The first was Hattie McDaniel. (IMDb)

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Taylor and Joe schedules  Joe is bold and Taylor in bullet points

JANUARY 2020

January 5 ~ 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles

January 7 ~ Tom Ford Beauty ‘Beau de Jour’ Fragrance Launch in London

FEBRUARY 2020

February 2 ~ 73rd British Academy Film Awards in London

February 7 ~ Tom Ford AW20 Show in Los Angeles

SEPTEMBER 2020

September 18 to 26 ~ San Sebastian International Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain

DECEMBER 2021

63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards, March 14, 2021

Global Icon during The BRIT Awards, May 11, 2021

36th Annual Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony, October 30, 2021

“All Too Well: The Short Film” premiere, November 12, 2021

“All Too Well (10 minute version)” SNL, November 12, 2021

December 4 ~ Festival Internacional de Cine de Panamá

Dec 13th Taylor had a bday party. 

MAY 2022

May 5: Conversations with Friends press, screening and Q&A in London, England

May 7: The Graham Norton Radio Show in London, England

May 8: British Academy Television Awards in London, England

May 9: BBC The One Show in London, England

May 11: Conversations with Friends Ireland premiere

May 14: BBC Radio 4 interview

May 17: The Kelly Clarkson Show taping in Los Angeles, CA (airs May 19)

May 17: Conversations with Friends Emmys FYC Event in Los Angeles, CA

May 18: Elle Hollywood Rising Party in Los Angeles, CA

New York University, May 18, 2022

May 22: BFI & Radio Times Television Festival in London, England

May 25: Stars at Noon premiere at Cannes Film Festival

May 26: Stars at Noon press conference and photocall at Cannes Film Festival

May 28: Fastnet Film Festival in Schull, Ireland

JUNE 2022

June 5: Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales

Tribeca Film Festival, June 11, 2022

Video Music Awards, August 28, 2022

SEPTEMBER 2022

Toronto International Film Festival, September 09, 2022

September 11: Catherine Called Birdy premiere at TIFF

September 12: Catherine Called Birdy screening and press at TIFF

September 15: Catherine Called Birdy screening for Directors Guild of America (DGA) in New York

September 20: Catherine Called Birdy UK premiere in London

NSAI Awards, September 20, 2022

September 21: Catherine Called Birdy press in London

OCTOBER 2022

October 2: Stars at Noon NYFF Screening and Q&A

October 25: TIME100 Next Gala in New York City

NOVEMBER 2022

November 16: Catherine Called Birdy Q&A in Los Angeles

November 19: 13th Annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles

MTV Europe Music Awards, November 13th, 2022

AMAs, November 20, 2022

2023

Feb 5th, 2023 Grammy Awards 

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HAPPY 63rd BIRTHDAY to PENELOPE PUSSYCAT!!

First appearance: For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)

Born Penelope Pussycat, an animated cartoon character, featured in the Warner Bros. classic Looney Tunes animated shorts as the protagonist of the Pepé Le Pew shorts. Although she is typically a non-speaker, her "meows" and "purrs" (or "le mews" and "le purrs") were most often provided by Mel Blanc using a feminine voice. The character did not originally have a permanent name; she was alternately referred to as "Penelope", "Fifi", "Pussycat Purr", and "Fabrette", and animator Chuck Jones' 1960 model sheet simply calls her "Le Cat". The name Penelope Pussycat was created retroactively for Warner Bros. marketing.

The character first appeared in the 1949 short For Scent-imental Reasons, which won an Academy Award. While the skunk had been used in several earlier cartoons since Odor-able Kitty (1945), the addition of his female pussycat paramour in For Scent-imental Reasons solidified his characterization and the structure of all further Pepé films.

As the unfortunate target of unwanted physical attention, the character has been examined in feminist film criticism as an example of a "rape-revenge narrative"; however, this reading is complicated by the ending of some of the cartoons, which flip the dynamic and leave Pepé as the unwilling recipient of the cat's affections.

In the 1959 short Really Scent, she was voiced by June Foray, in the 1962 short Louvre Come Back to Me!, she was voiced by Julie Bennett, and in the 2000 film, Tweety's High-Flying Adventure, she was vocal effected by Frank Welker. Her first (and so far only) speaking role was in the 1995 short Carrotblanca, where she is voiced by Tress MacNeille.

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Happy 63rd Birthday to Academy Award Winning, BAFTA Winning, 2x Golden Globe Winning, 2x Emmy Winning actress Julianne Moore! ^__^

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63rd Golden Globe Awards | Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama

12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

78th Annual Academy Awards | Best Actor

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Felipe and Letizia retrospective: October 26th

2004: Opening of the 2004 Red Cross Fundraising Campaign at Palacio de Congresos  

2006: 21st Congress of the Spanish Association of Commercial Codification-AECOC: “For sustainable and profitable growth”

2007: Received the presidents of the jury of the Prince of Asturias Awards, the Patrons of the Prince of Asturias Foundation and all the winners of the 2007 Prince of Asturias Awards & Prince of Asturias Awards (1, 2)

2009: Attended the inauguration of the first phase of the Scientific and Technological Park Agroalimentario; Attended the inauguration of the new ESADE Campus & Went to offer condolences for the passing of Don Sabino Fernández Campo, Earl of Latores

2010: Entry of the Hon. D. Emilio Lamo de Espinosa Michels de Champourcin in the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences &Georgetown University “Catedra Prince Felipe of Asturias” 10th Anniversary.

2011: Visited Saudi Arabia

2012: Audiences to the Red Cross representatives; Received the presidents of the jury of the Prince of Asturias Awards, the Patrons of the Prince of Asturias Foundation and all the winners of the 2012 Prince of Asturias Awards & Prince of Asturias Awards ceremony (1, 2)

2013: Visited Teverga, awarded the Prince of Asturias Award of Best Asturian Village. (1, 2)

2015: Inauguration of the 18th National Congress of Family Business

2016: Presentation of the report on the information treatment of disability and the subsequent roundtable

2017: Gala dinner for the awardees of “Mariano de Cavia”, “Luca de Tena” and “Mingote” awards in Madrid

2018: Audiences at la Zarzuela; Went to the Royal Theater to a performance of the ballet am Rhein of Düsseldorf & Screening of Safety Last! (1923) accompanied by the Symphony of Castilla y León for the 63rd Valladolid International Movie Week

2020: 23rd National Congress on Familiar Business

2021: Inauguration of the “World ATM Congress” & 38th Francisco Cerecedo Journalism Awards

F&L Through the Years: 856/??

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Drake's Certified Lover Boy Album Anniversary

On August 14, 2020 "Laugh Now Cry Later" featuring Lil Durk was released, which was intended as the lead single from Drake's album Certified Lover Boy, but not included on the final track listing. It debuted at number two on the Hot 100, and was nominated for Best Melodic Rap Performance and Best Rap Song at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. During an appearance on Fri Yiy Friday, a radio show supported by OVO Sound, Drake revealed Certified Lover Boy "is ready. [I'm] looking forward to delivering it". He then appeared on "Betrayal", a collaboration with Trippie Redd for Trip at Knight (2021). Certified Lover Boy was then released on September 3, 2021, becoming his tenth number-one album on the Billboard 200; every song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100, while the album was the first to chart nine songs on the top 10, with "Way 2 Sexy" becoming Drake's ninth number-one single. He subsequently set the record for the fourth-most cumulative weeks (52) at number one on the Hot 100, behind Mariah Carey, Rihanna , and The Beatles.

CLB was nominated for Best Rap Album and "Way 2 Sexy" was nominated for Best Rap Performance at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards. He was later named Billboard's Top Artist of the Year for 2021. On December 6, he withdrew his music for consideration for the Grammys, with multiple outlets noting his contentious relationship with the Recording Academy. Drake accumulated 8.6 billion on-demand streams in 2021, making him the most overall streamed artist of the year in the United States; one out of every 131 streams was a Drake song. Read more about Drake here.

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Mickey Guyton (born June 17, 1983) lyric contralto and songwriter was born in Arlington, Texas to Michael Eugene Guyton and Phyllis Ann Roddy. Her name at birth was Candace Mycale Guyton, and she was the second child of four children. She sang in the Mount Olive Baptist Church Choir. She moved to Los Angeles to attend Santa Monica College. She first became interested in country music in Texas and continued that exploration in California.

She is one of a few Black female country music artists, who includes activism in her art as her songs challenge racial and gender inequality. She was discouraged from pursuing a career in that genre because of her racial background.

She moved to Nashville and signed a contract with Capitol Records Nashville after auditioning with a song by Patty Loveless. She performed at the White House in an all-star concert captured by PBS. She has been seen on This Morning with Gayle King, Good Morning America, and Today, and stories about her have appeared in People magazine, American Voices, and Billboard Magazine as one of country music’s “female game-changers.” Entertainment Weekly called her one of the “new queens of country music.”

Her recording “Better Than You Left Me” made it to the top 40 of the Country chart. It was the single highest rank for a debut single. She was nominated for her first Academy of Country Music Award for New Female Vocalist and performed during Country Music Television’s “Next Women of Country”. She married Grant Savoy (2017) an attorney, and they are the parents of one child.

She performed during the Country Music Association’s Songwriters Series. She sang at the 55th Academy of Country Music Awards at the Grand Ole Opry and performed for the live-streamed 45th Gracie Awards. During the 63rd annual Grammy Awards, her song “Black Like Me” was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance of the Year.

She became the first African American woman to host the Academy of Country Music Awards. Her “Black Like Me” single was officially released and became her top-selling hit when she performed it at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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It's Complicated (2009, Nancy Meyers

06/01/2024

It's Complicated is a 2009 film written and directed by Nancy Meyers. The main performers include Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin.

Divorcee Jane Adler lives with her three children in Santa Barbara, California, where she runs a successful pastry shop.

In May 2008, Nancy Meyers agreed with Universal Pictures to make a comedy film, which she would write, direct and co-produce with Scott Rudin. During the development and pre-production phase the project was carried out under the title The Untitled Nancy Meyers Project. Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin were contacted in August 2008, while Steve Martin joined the cast in October, the remaining performers joined the cast in the following months.

Filming began in New York in April 2009 and concluded in August of the same year.

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Five steps of Wikipedia for Thursday, 3rd August 2023

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Sunday Bird Droppings: Trey Mancini is a World Series champion

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Sunday Bird Droppings: Trey Mancini is a World Series champion

Hello, friends.

Seven months later, that’s a wrap on the 2022 MLB season. The Astros are the champions, having knocked off the Phillies in six games with a win last night. I guess we’ll see if within three years there are revelations about some new kind of cheating scandal like ended up putting a blot on their last title. Until then, a second title in five years for Houston feels like this for me: At least it means the Orioles are following a good plan. And I’m glad that Trey Mancini is officially a champion.

As has been written before, this was a year of fun in Birdland that exceeded anything that any of us – even the most optimistic of us – could have expected for 2022. That’s especially true when you consider the spring training injury to Adley Rutschman, the very early season injury to John Means, and the early June injury to Grayson Rodriguez. Rutschman, at least, became a major contributor. Hopefully we’ll see those other guys make their mark in 2023.

Now, we start the countdown for when things will start to happen. By week’s end, the Orioles will have to decide what to do with their team option for Jordan Lyles. Other teams will also have to make such decisions. Players will be exercising opt-outs, or not, and teams will extend qualifying offers that will be accepted or not, setting the free agent market. Then we’ve got three months where things could happen between now and the start of spring training.

Today, of course, there’s not much to do. As the great Rogers Hornsby once said of what he does in winter, “I stare out the window and wait for spring.” A person in the Baltimore area might have felt a touch of spring this weekend, but with baseball over, it’s a little colder and winter will be upon us soon enough. In four months and 24 days, a new season will dawn, with pitch clocks, no more infield shifts, and more.

Around the blogO’sphere

A look at O’s pitch usage/mix from 2022 (Steve Melewski) The Orioles threw fewer fastballs this year, and the team’s average fastball velocity increased. This is generally a good formula for today’s game – and for the O’s, it was!

Heston Kjerstad finally starts Orioles career after dealing with a heart problem (The Athletic) It’s been nothing short of delightful to see how Kjerstad has performed out in the Arizona Fall League. He even continued that a bit last night, finishing as the runner-up among eight participants in the league’s Home Run Derby, one homer behind the champion. I hope that he can carry that over into the next minor league season.

What to know ahead of the Orioles offseason (Orioles.com) Perhaps your question is on the frequently asked question list.

Birthdays and Orioles anniversaries

Today in 1969, the Orioles had their first Cy Young Award winner in team history as Mike Cuellar was named the co-winner alongside of Detroit’s Denny McLain. Cuellar posted a 2.38 ERA while pitching 290.2 innings. In those days, that counted for a 149 ERA+, which led all AL pitchers who threw at least 200 innings.

In 2011, the Orioles officially hired Dan Duquette to become the new general manager, although that wasn’t his formal title. There were some good times for a while.

There are a pair of former Orioles with birthdays today. They are: 2003 shortstop Deivi Cruz, and 1982-83/85 infielder Leo Hernández. Today is Hernández’s 63rd birthday, so an extra happy birthday to him.

Is today your birthday? Happy birthday to you as well! Your birthday buddies for today include: Ottoman sultan Suleiman “the Magnificent” (1494), saxophone inventor Adolphe Sax (1814), composer John Philip Sousa (1854), basketball inventor James Naismith (1861), baseball Hall of Famer Walter “The Big Train” Johnson (1887), Academy and Primetime Emmy Award- winning actress Sally Field (1946), The Eagles rocker Glenn Frey (1948), and Academy Award-winning actress Emma Stone (1988).

On this day in history…

In 1860, President Abraham Lincoln was elected to his first term of office, receiving 180 out of a needed 152 electoral votes in a four-way race. Lincoln won a plurality of the popular vote at 40%, with Stephen Douglas at 30%.

In 1995, Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell announced that he would be moving the team to Baltimore. Neither the franchise name Browns nor its history ever left Cleveland, which had a team returned to it after only a three-season absence.

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And that’s the way it is in Birdland on November 6. Have a safe Sunday.

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Ghost

Watching Ghost this morning and sitting here crying. It isn’t the movie, it’s the thoughts of Patrick Swayze  (August 18, 1952 – September 14, 2009) . What a beautiful ghost. 

Ghost is a 1990 American romantic fantasy film directed by Jerry Zucker from a screenplay by Bruce Joel Rubin, and starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Vincent Schiavelli and Rick Aviles. The plot centers on Sam Wheat (Swayze), a murdered banker, whose ghost sets out to save his girlfriend, Molly Jensen (Moore), from the person who killed him – through the help of the psychic Oda Mae Brown (Goldberg).

Ghost was theatrically released on July 13, 1990, to commercial success, grossing $505 million against a budget of $22–23 million and emerging as the highest-grossing film of 1990 and at the time of its release, was the third-highest-grossing film of all time. The film received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise going towards the score and performances of the cast. Ghost earned five nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and winning Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg and Best Original Screenplay for Rubin.

Demi Moore                          Patrick Swayze                     Whoopi Goldberg

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Simple Minds - Heart Of The Crowd

Simple Minds – Heart Of The Crowd

Happy 63rd birthday to Jim Kerr, singer, songwriter with Scottish rock band, Simple Minds, born 9 July 1959, who had the 1985 US No.1 single ‘Don’t You, Forget About Me’, and the 1989 UK No.1 single ‘Belfast Child’, plus over 20 other UK Top 40 singles. In 2016, they won the British Academy’s Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection. We have a book! https://youtu.be/5-M8Y4Ghfkk Simple…