#Beverly Hills City Hall

[ryan-waddell11]

a small wrap up from Steel City Comic Con

[dahawmiecris213]

[rabbitcruiser]

Beverly Hills was incorporated on January 28, 1914 by a group of investors who had failed to find oil, but found water instead and eventually decided to develop it into a town.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Here's 2016 cement brutalist fortress for sale and you have to be pre-qualified to buy it before they will even show it to you b/c it's listed for $65M. It has 5bds, 10ba, and it's in Beverly Hills, CA.

Here's the entrance. It doesn't really look like a house.

And, this is actually the entrance to the living room.

I don't know if this motorcycle is parked here or if it's decor.

Harsh lighting and there aren't any tables with lamps. No decor, either, unless you count the bike.

There's a view of the pool lit up at night, and the city below.

The only patio furniture is a pair of chairs on a small platform in the pool. It looks like the ceiling lights in the living room changed color. Now it looks dismal.

This is the most interesting fireplace. It looks like a furnace.

I think that this is the kitchen counter with a table in front.

The large kitchen is all stainless and looks commercial.

The rounded hall has lights at the bottom and top.

I'm assuming that this is the minimalist primary bedroom.

Check out the bathroom sink.

Matching space-age tub has writing on the front, like it's a vat of some sort.

The home office has some wood, which makes it look a little warmer.

This looks like the hall to the home theater b/c it looks like they have movie posters on the wall.

The cement home theater.

And, here's a bar.

In the basement, this looks like it could be an art studio.

The interior court looks like an arena. I don't know what the circle is. It doesn't look like a fire pit.

There's some greenery around the pool area and also around the perimeter of the house.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/410-Trousdale-Pl-Beverly-Hills-CA-90210/20534468_zpid/

[reasoningdaily]

A Black couple have sued the city of Beverly Hills, alleging their arrest was part of a campaign by its police to arrest Black people for trivial reasons and at disproportionate rates.

The couple’s lawyers, Bradley Gage and Benjamin Crump, said the Beverly Hills police last year set up a task force — dubbed Operation Safe Streets and the Rodeo Drive Task Force — that arrested 106 people, 105 of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino. Gage said the sources of the arrest figures were unidentified retired Beverly Hills police officers who were appalled by the task force’s actions and so shared with him the alleged racial breakdown of who had been arrested.

The impetus for the task force, Gage said, was both the protests over the death of George Floyd and what Beverly Hills police believed were transactions at retail stores using suspected proceeds of unemployment benefit fraud. Gage described the Police Department’s approach to rooting out suspected fraud as, “Gee, that’s suspicious — Black people shopping in Beverly Hills.”

Gage and Crump, who has represented the families of Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others killed by police, raised their allegations Wednesday on the steps of Beverly Hills City Hall. “There is something terribly wrong here,” Gage said, citing what he called the city’s legacy of biased policing.

Gage and Crump are seeking class-action status for their lawsuit, which was filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The only named plaintiffs are the couple, who were arrested on suspicion of riding scooters on a sidewalk and resisting arrest; it does not appear that Gage or Crump has identified the 104 other people who they contend were arrested.

In a statement, Police Chief Dominick Rivetti said his department created a “Rodeo Drive Team” in response to complaints by businesses and a rise in burglaries, shoplifting, “street gambling, public intoxication, marijuana smoking and more.” The team seized 13 firearms carried by people on Rodeo Drive, said Rivetti, who called this “unprecedented in the history of Beverly Hills.”

Rivetti said the Rodeo Drive unit rooted out fraudulently obtained state unemployment benefits, seizing $250,000 in cash and ill-gotten debit cards. Most of the people arrested by the unit were not California residents, Rivetti said, but they nonetheless possessed debit cards loaded with state funds.

The Times asked the Beverly Hills police for a total number and breakdown by race of the people arrested by the Rodeo Drive unit. Capt. Max Subin, a department spokesman, said officials were gathering the figures Wednesday and would provide them once they had finished.

Gage and Crump on Wednesday highlighted the experience of the Black couple, Khalil White and Jasmine Williams of Philadelphia, who said they were visiting Beverly Hills on vacation in September when they were stopped, arrested and eventually jailed by police.

As five officers handcuffed White, Williams said, she asked an officer for her purse to retrieve their hotel key. Two officers pushed her to a police car, handcuffed her and took her to jail, she said.

“I was scared,” Williams said. “I’ve never been to jail in my life.”

White, who said he was jailed overnight and forced to post a $25,000 bond, was charged in Los Angeles County Superior Court with resisting arrest and falsely identifying himself to police. Williams was charged with falsely identifying herself to police. The charges were dismissed in February, records show.

Crump and Gage alleged that White and Williams’ arrests were part of a campaign to target Black people in the city through its recently formed task force.

The Beverly Hills police “had made up their mind that this Black man was going to jail because this is Operation Safe Streets,” Crump said.

In his statement, Rivetti said police had warned White and Williams earlier the day of their arrest that it was illegal to ride a scooter on the sidewalk, without taking action against the couple. In their second encounter with police, White and Williams provided officers with false information, Rivetti said.

“Our department’s practice is to contact and question individuals when we believe they may be involved in criminal activity or another violation of the law,” he said.

Beverly Hills officials faced criticism last summer for insisting on charging protesters with misdemeanor curfew violations; by comparison, prosecutors for the city and county of Los Angeles declined to charge similarly minor violations of curfews and dispersal orders.

In a summary of the Beverly Hills protests, a police sergeant wrote that for residents who survived the Holocaust and Iranian revolution, the demonstrations over Floyd’s death were “not merely an intrusion of their peace” but “a terrifying reminder of their past.”

The department’s previous chief, Sandra Spagnoli, retired in 2020, beset by allegations that she made racist comments and had sex with subordinates who were later promoted. Spagnoli denied the claims, which she said were raised by disgruntled employees, but the city paid out millions of dollars to settle many of the lawsuits. Gage, who represented several officers who sued Spagnoli, estimated at the time that the city paid about $8 million in settlements, attorney fees and other costs.

[film-classics]

Rosalind Russell - The Miracle Woman

Catherine Rosalind Russell (born in Waterbury, Connecticut on June 4, 1907) was an American actress known for playing sassy, wisecracking women in 1930s and '40s comedies. Despite going through postpartum depression, the deaths of her siblings, breast cancer, and rheumatoid arthritis, she thrived as a charismatic actress on film and the stage, earning the nickname "The Miracle Woman.”

Raised in a strict Irish-American, Catholic family. She attended  Rosemont College and Marymount College, before graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, unbeknownst to her parents who believed she was studying to be a speech teacher.

Against parental objections, she began her career as a fashion model and took acting jobs in upstate New York, Connecticut, and Boston before eventually appearing in Broadway.

In 1933, Russell went to Los Angeles, where she was hired as a contract player for Universal Studios but did not appear in a movie. Unhappy at Universal, she moved to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she broke through in the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday (1940), directed by Howard Hawks.

She took a break after giving birth from her career, but made a comeback with RKO Pictures and then with Columbia Pictures. She continued to appear in critically acclaimed movies and Broadway shows through the mid-1960s, including the title role of the long-running stage comedy Auntie Mame (based on a Patrick Dennis novel) as well as the 1958 film version.

After years of battling breast cancer and even getting a double mastectomy, she died at her home in Beverly Hills, California at 69 years of age. Months after her death, she was honored by her acting colleagues with the “Interlude With Rosalind Russell” at the Shubert Theater in Broadway.

Legacy:

Nominated four times for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in My Sister Eileen (1942), Sister Kenny (1946), Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), and Auntie Mame (1958)

Won all five of her Golden Globe Award for Best Actress nominations: Sister Kenny (1946), Mourning Becomes Electra (1947), Auntie Mame (1958), A Majority of One (1961), and Gypsy (1962)

Won the 1953 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for Wonderful Town and was nominated for the 1957 for Best Actress in a Play for Auntie Mame

Nominated for the 1959 BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress

Won the Golden Apple Award in 1942 for Most Cooperative Actress

Awarded the Look Magazine Award for Film Achievement Award in 1947

Covered Time magazine in 1953

Was the namesake of the Rosalind Russell State Theater in her hometown in 1955

Wrote the story for the film The Unguarded Moment (1956) and adapted the novel, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, into the screenplay for Mrs. Pollifax-Spy in 1971, under the pen name C.A. McKnight

Won the Golden Laurel for Top Female Comedy Performance for Auntie Mame (1958) and was nominated five more times

Presented with a medallion by the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1962

Honored for her distinguished service by the UCLA in 1964

Named the Woman of the Year by Hasty Pudding Theatricals, a student society at Harvard University, in 1964

Is the recipient of the Floyd B. Odlum Award by the Arthritis Foundation in 1971

Appointed by Congress to serve on the National Commission on Arthritis and Related Musculoskeletal Diseases during the 1970s

Received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1972

Appeared in John Springer's "Legendary Ladies" series at The Town Hall in 1973

Awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1973 by the Academy for her extensive charity work

Presented her with the National Artist Award in 1974 by the American National Theater and Academy

Awarded the Life Achievement Award in 1975 by the Screen Actors Guild Awards

Hosted by First Lady Betty Ford at the White House in 1976

Honored with the Rosalind Russell Week in 1977 by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley

Co-authored her autobiography, Life Is a Banquet, in 1977

Is the namesake of the Rosalind Russell Medical Research Center for Arthritis  at the University of California, San Francisco, created by a Congress grant in 1979

Inducted into the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 2005

Ranked #28 on Premiere magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time in 2006 for His Girl Friday (1940)

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for July 2008

Inducted in the Online Film and Television Association Film Hall of Fame in 2014

Was the subject of a 2016 exhibit at the Mattatuck Museum in her hometown

Honored by the Berlin Film Festival‘s 27-movie tribute in 2022

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the 1700 block of Vine Street for motion picture

[jintheastronaut]

since i like to consider myself a music enthusiast here are a few music releases that i have been listening to, some are albums and some are singles and with albums i’ll tell you my favorite/s from said album so let’s begin:

first and foremost when it comes to kehlani they never fail, their music always hits and i’m so excited to finally meet them next month on the 27th !!!!

my favorites from this project are:

- love like

- know better

- border

- let me down (san diego interlude)

- slow dance (feat DIXSON)

next we have:

at first i didn’t really like this album other than 2 songs and the singles because i was comparing this to her previous album (emails i can’t send) which was a bad idea but nonetheless the album has since grown on me and i vibe with it so my favorites are:

- taste

- please please please

- good graces

- bed chem

- espresso

- slim pickins

- juno (my favorite off the album)

next we have:

now i love me some big sean, i’ve been a fan of this man for years so i was excited for him to drop a new album but out of the 21 songs on this album i only liked 9 which is like half but i still expected to like more songs but it’s still a good album i like it, my favorites are:

- iconic

- typecast

- break the cycle (feat charlie wilson)

- who you are (superstar)

- yes

- it is what it is (feat gunna)

- on up

- this and that

- my life / happiness (skit) (feat ellie goulding)

up next we have:

when it comes to muni long i’ve never really paid attention to a full album of hers other than singles but she’s got a few really good songs so i took the chance to listen to her new album in its entirety and she really did it with this one ! my favorites are

- superpowers

- made for me

- make me forget

- revenge

- played yourself

- leave my baby (feat glorilla)

- the baddest

- waste no time

- ruined me

and the last album we have before we move on to singles is:

with doechii i never really paid much attention to her other than the song she had with JT from the city girls but i saw her trending on twitter so i was like ok let me give her a try and she did not disappoint, i like her vibe, her flow and her delivery so here are my favorites

- stanka pooh

- bullfrog

- boiled peanuts

- denial is a river

- catfish

- skipp

- wait

- nissan altima

- slide

- beverly hills

and now onto the singles (it’s only one single but anyway) we have:

ms halle bailey !!!! now when it comes to halle she never FAILS, with angel, in your hands and now because i love you ? she knows she’s that girl and i just love her voice period along with her sister chlöe they both slay so !!

and that’s it for today, i honestly want to make this a series even though no one will care but a series so that i can maybe introduce new music to the people who follow me or to the people who find these posts through the hashtags i’ll put for this post or just to reach the people who also like/love the singles or albums i’ll be listing/reviewing ? and just overall show music i like or have been listening to so i don’t know how consistent i’ll be with this because i’d like to do this every friday (because that’s the day new music drops 😁) (and i know that today is saturday, at least where i’m at so hush) but some fridays i might not find anything i liked so i’m not sure but for now let’s call this series “moon’s music fridays” hope you enjoy !!

[wickedsrest-rp]

Name: Sade Abioye Species: Fury Occupation: Fashion Marketing Consultant Age: 62 Years Old (Looks about 24) Played By: Kayla Face Claim: Halle Bailey

"Know your worth and always add tax."

Sade was born into a wealthy family in Beverly Hills in 1962 but it did little to no favors for her because she was seen as an outcast for most of her life. She looked different, her family was different, and people didn't appreciate anyone who was different. She was the subject of many wild rumors and was heavily criticized for everything she did. She struggled to find where she belonged among her peers and the few friends she was able to make were terrified to be seen out in public with her so oftentimes she ended up sitting alone in school and then at home she would play by herself in her bedroom as the other children congregated in the street below her window to yell insults up at her before they were scared away by her parents. Although it was hard for the young girl to leave her house sometimes, her father encouraged her to go out into public with her head held high and a smile on her face in order to show everyone that their words did not affect her.

But as Sade grew and changed so did the times and by the time she graduated she found that she was mostly accepted for who she was. Although that didn’t mean that everyone had completely changed their minds about her, there was still the core group of young women who had made her life a living hell since they were children who still could not stand the sight of her and wanted her to know that she would never be accepted in their eyes. On a particularly rough day as Sade walked the short distance home from work she was surrounded on all sides by the four women as she attempted to cross a bridge. They threw insults at her and pushed her around until she was disoriented and didn’t know whether to scream for help or take off running. Things eventually got out of hand and one fatal push sent Sade over the side of the bridge and down into the dangerous water below. Panicked, the bullies quickly discarded her things over the side as well and took off running away from the scene and acted as though nothing ever happened.

Sade’s cause of death was drowning but she didn’t stay dead. She rose again before her body could be found and stumbled her way home only to learn that her murderers had quickly fled town stating that they’d grown tired of small town life and wanted to live in the city. She was angry and felt more powerful than she’d ever felt before in her life - she knew that something had changed within her and that she should have died that night in the river but she didn’t. Her parents were panicked and begged her to tell them what happened but the only thing she would say was that she accidentally fell into the water after taking a detour from her normal route home and that everything was alright. She knew that she would be fine and that there was no need to worry her parents over what had actually happened, but a fire burned within her that craved revenge for what had been done to her.

She quickly learned what she had become through research and speaking with another fury who had approached her in New Orleans and she reveled in the new power that she possessed. Her favorite targets were people who had wronged another and was more than willing to bring justice to the bullied no matter how over-the-top the punishment may have been. Although she spent much of her time righting the wrongs that she saw in the world there was still her own botched murder that she wanted justice for and she spent decades trying to find the four women responsible for her early demise.

Nearly forty years after that fateful night Sade has tracked down the ringleader of the group that is to blame for her death right to Wicked’s Rest and has packed up her things and moved into town. While she hasn’t gone out of her way to approach the woman, who was able to age, marry, and have children of her own, she hasn’t necessarily hidden her presence either. She can’t wait for the perfect moment to strike so that she can exact her own revenge and then move onto the next.

Character Facts:

Personality: Wise, adaptable, charming, vain, impatient, manipulative

Sade still keeps contact with her family but she does not visit them because she knows her youthful appearance will cause questions.

She graduated from college with a bachelor’s in fashion marketing and spends her days working remotely as a consultant for large luxury brands.

Sometimes Sade goes out of her way to find people who have been wronged so that she can help them find revenge, she doesn't always wait to accidentally stumble across a victim of unfair bullying.

Because of her cause of death she hates having to cross bridges and for the most part avoids any body of water. You won’t be seeing her at the beach anytime soon.

After her death Sade took self love and acceptance to a whole new level and ended up becoming incredibly vain.

[cosmogyros]

You know what's absolutely wild? Something I will never be able to wrap my mind around? Something that fills me with RAGE?!?

The fact that Phil Spector could see something like this – these sparkling ladies, overflowing with charisma and beauty and talent and charm – and decide to marry their lead singer and promptly forbid her from making music any more. And treat her like this (bolding is mine, to point out a few of the most egregious details):

Ronnie and Phil Spector began having an affair soon after she was signed to his label in 1963. Early in their relationship, she was unaware that he was married. Once, Ronnie was apprehended by house detectives for prostitution at the Delmonico Hotel in New York City after leaving a room they had booked. She was allowed to call Phil, who threatened the hotel, and then they allowed her to leave. After Phil divorced his wife in 1965, he purchased a home in Beverly Hills, where he lived with Ronnie. They married at Beverly Hills City Hall on April 14, 1968. Ronnie changed her surname and became known as Ronnie Spector. Their son Donté Phillip was adopted in 1969. Two years later, Phil surprised her for Christmas with adopted twins, Louis and Gary. Ronnie alleged in her 1990 memoir that following their marriage, Phil subjected her to years of psychological torment and sabotaged her career by forbidding her to perform. She said he surrounded their house with barbed wire and guard dogs, and confiscated her shoes to prevent her from leaving; on the rare occasions he allowed her out alone, she had to drive with a life-size dummy of Phil. She stated that Phil installed a gold coffin with a glass top in the basement, promising that he would kill her and display her corpse if she ever left him. She began drinking and attending Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings to escape the house. In 1972, Ronnie fled their mansion barefoot and without any belongings, with the help of her mother. "I knew that if I didn't leave I was going to die there," she said. In their 1974 divorce settlement, Ronnie forfeited all future record earnings, alleging that Phil had threatened to have a hit man kill her. She received $25,000, a used car, and monthly alimony of $2,500 for five years. She later testified that Phil had frequently pulled a gun on her during their marriage and threatened to kill her unless she surrendered custody of their children. She tried to rebuild her career, keeping Spector's surname professionally because "I needed any way I could to get back in, I'd been kept away so long." According to her, Phil hired lawyers to prevent her singing her popular songs and denied her royalties. In 1988, the Ronettes sued Phil for $10 million in damages, rescission of the contract, the return of the masters, and recoupment of money received from the sale of Ronettes masters. It took 10 years for the case to make it to trial. After a prolonged legal battle, the court ruled that their contract gave Phil unconditional rights to the recordings but Ronnie was entitled to her share of royalties.

[illuminopseudonymous]

Every single Brawl Stars character as songs

So, I was unhappy with my prior posts on this topic, both because of the song choices I made and because I didn't properly credit the musicians behind them. Ergo, I'm going to compile all of the brawlers into a single list below the cut, and then update and reblog this post each time a new brawler is released.

Feedback regarding song choices is encouraged if you think you have a better fit for a character.

8-Bit: "Pac-Man Fever" by Buckner & Garcia

Amber: "Burnin' Up" by A Flock of Seagulls

Angelo: "There! Right There!" from Legally Blonde: The Musical (written by Nell Benjamin and Laurence O'Keefe)

Ash: "Trash Day" by "Weird" Al Yankovic

Barley: "Bottle Action" by Ms. B'Havin

Bea: "Lord of the Hornets" by Robert Calvert

Belle: "Disciple of Lightning" by DJ the S

Berry: "Skipper Dan" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Bibi: "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" by Albert von Tilzer and Jack Norworth

Bo: "The Wild West is Where I Want to Be" by Tom Lehrer

Bonnie: "Human Cannonball" by Webb Wilder

Brock: "Rocket Jump Waltz" from Team Fortress 2 (by Valve Studio Orchestra)

Bull: "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen

Buster: "Rock-And-Roll Nerd" by Tim Minchin

Buzz: "Run This Town" by JAY-Z featuring Rhianna and Kanye West

Byron: "A Little Heart-To-Heart" from Team Fortress 2 (by Valve Studio Orchestra)

Carl: "Diggy Diggy Hole" by The Yogscast

Charlie: "Spider-Man (1967) Theme" by Paul Francis Webster and Bob Harris

Chester: "I Remember Larry" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Chuck: "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach

Clancy: "Crab Rave" by Noisestorm

Colette: "Every Breath You Take" by The Police

Colt: "Shoot to Thrill" by AC/DC

Cordelius: "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane

Crow: "Young Dumb and Ugly" by ""Weird Al" Yankovic

Darryl: "He's a Pirate" from Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (Composed by Klaus Badelt)

Doug: "Surf Wax America" by Weezer

Draco: "Through the Fire and Flames" by Dragonforce

Dynamike: "T.N.T." by AC/DC

Edgar: "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana

El Primo: "Mexican Wrestler" by Jill Sobule

Emz: "Respectless" from Hazbin Hotel (Composed by Sam Haft, Andrew Underberg, Andrew Alderete, Gooseworx, and Parry Gripp)

Eve: "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space" from Little Shop of Horrors (Composed by Alan Menken)

Fang: "Kung-Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas

Frank: "Fireflies" by Owl City

Gale: "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" by Garth Brooks

Gene: "Arabian Nights" from Aladdin (Performed by Robin Williams)

Gray: "Scheming Weasel" by Kevin MacLeod

Griff: "Big Boss Man" by Jimmy Reed

Grom: "Main Theme" from Bomberman (Composed by Jun Chikuma)

Gus: "Turn the Lights Off" by Tally Hall

Hank: "Send the Marines" by Tom Lehrer

Jacky: "Poundcake" by Van Halen

Janet: "Death from Above" by Turbonegro

Jessie: "More Gun" from Team Fortress 2 (by Valve Studio Orchestra)

Kenji: [upcoming]

Kit: "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!"/ "Nyan Cat Theme" by daniwell featuring Hatsune Miku

Larry & Lawrie: "Back to Back" by Pretty Maids

Leon: "Right Behind You" from Team Fortress 2 (by Valve Studio Orchestra)

Lily: "Return of the Giant Hogweed" by Genesis

Lola: "Big Shot" by Billy Joel

Lou: "Sky-High Sundae" from Mario Kart Tour (composer unknown)

Maisie: "What's Up Danger" from Into the Spider-Verse (by Blackway & Black Caviar)

Mandy: "Cookie Land" from Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (Composed by Shinobu Tanaka and Kenta Nagata)

Max: "Caffeine" by Psychostick

Meg: "Peach-ball Launches! Robobot Armor" from Kirby: Planet Robobot (Composed by Hirozaku Ando and Jun Ishikawa)

Melodie: "Miku" by Anamanguchi featuring Hatsune Miku

Mico: "Beverly Hills" by Weezer

Moe: "Cripple's Shield Wall" by The Knight in Leslie Fish

Mortis: "Hate the Day" by Behind the Scenes

Mr. P: "Hotel California" by The Eagles

Nani: "Time in a Bottle" by Jim Croce

Nita: "Wild Child" by The Doors

Otis: "Graffiti Crimes" by Mi-Sex

Pam: "You Will Be Okay" from Helluva Boss (Composed by Sam Haft and Andrew Underburg, performed by Bryce Pinkham)

Pearl: "Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy" by Spike Jones

Penny: "You Are a Pirate" from LazyTown (by Stefan Karl Steffanson and composed by Máni Svavarsson)

Piper: "A Spoonful of Sugar" from Mary Poppins (Composed by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman)

Poco: "Spooky Scary Skeletons" by Andrew Gold

R-T: "Eye in the Sky" by The Alan Parsons Project

Rico: "Pinball Wizard" by The Who

Rosa: "Garden Song" by David Mallett

Ruffs: "Send the Marines" by Tom Lehrer

Sam: "Super Macho Man" from Punch-Out!! Wii (Composed by Mike Peacock, Darren Radtke, and Chad York)

Sandy: "Enter Sandman" by Metallica

Shelly: "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet" from Team Fortress 2 (By Valve Studio Orchestra)

Spike: "Super Mario Bros. Desert Theme" from Super Mario Maker 2 (Composed by Koji Kondo)

Sprout: "Trees" by Tom Lehrer

Squeak: "Slime Creatures from Outer Space" by "Weird Al" Yankovic

Stu: "Drive Fast (The Stuntman)" by Bruce Springsteen

Surge: "Rules of Nature" from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Composed by Jamie Christopherson)

Tara: "Hot Rails to Hell" by Blue Oyster Cult

Tick: "Drop Da Bomb" by Doctor Steel

Willow: "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Fishmen" by H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society

[updateparishilton]

February 08, 2007 —   Rodeo Drive Walk Of Style Award.

Paris Hilton at the Rodeo Drive Walk of Style awards held at Beverly Hills City Hall in Beverly Hills.

[typingtess]

NCIS: LOS ANGELES:  "New Beginnings" Part Two – Act Four

Randy Couture is grateful for the help.  He'd rather work alone but he'd be happy to help with back-up.  Deeks understands going Lone Wolf since every member of the team did.  They get a text from Callen to meet them in Beverly Hills.  They're going to Rosa's softball game before Beverly Hills.

Rountree picks up Jordyn.  She ace'd the interview.  Rountree is sad – the LAPD offered a settlement.  It is enough to pay for her medical school and a condo for the two of them to live.  Roundtree says this could be the best outcome – with their college degrees, Jordyn being a doctor changes the trajectory of their family tree.  Jordyn isn't sure but Rountree is "damn proud of my little sister."

Arkady is still working the seating arrangement when Callen arrives.  Callen suggests the parking lot of Arkady's table.  Arkady and Callen share some barbs.  Anna threatens Arkady which reminds Arkady of Anna's mother.  Callen takes Anna outside.  He doesn't want to get married like this.  Callen/Anna sneak peek.  They are getting married at City Hall "tonight".  Everyone will be there, "if you have to tell Arkady."  Maid of Honor Stacy is out of town but Anna has a back-up.

And at 9:37PM EDT, we're going in for the big long final act.

[hotsexyblondeguys]

Title: "Reunion in the Golden State"

The sun was setting over the Pacific Ocean, casting a warm, golden glow over the city of Los Angeles. Adrianna Tate-Duncan, once a starlet of West Beverly High, now a successful music producer, was driving down the familiar streets of Beverly Hills with her son, a bright-eyed teenager with a passion for music just like his mother. Their destination was not a glamorous Hollywood event, but a reunion with an old friend, Teddy Montgomery.

Teddy, once the charming tennis star of West Beverly High, was now Governor Teddy Montgomery, a respected figure in California politics. Despite the years and the different paths they had taken, the bond they had formed during their high school years remained unbroken.

As Adrianna's car pulled up to the Governor's mansion, her heart fluttered with a mix of nostalgia and anticipation. She looked at her son, his eyes wide with curiosity and excitement. "Ready to meet one of mom's old friends?" she asked, squeezing his hand reassuringly.

Inside the mansion, Teddy was waiting, his heart pounding with a similar mix of emotions. He hadn't seen Adrianna in years, but the memories of their brief romance and enduring friendship were as vivid as ever. He wondered how she had changed, how life had treated her.

The moment Adrianna and Teddy saw each other, it was as if no time had passed. They embraced warmly, their laughter echoing in the grand entrance hall. Teddy looked at Adrianna's son, seeing a reflection of the young woman he had once known in his bright eyes and eager smile.

The evening was filled with stories of their high school days, laughter, and a few tears. Teddy showed them around the mansion, shared his experiences as Governor, and even played a friendly match of tennis with Adrianna's son. It was a night of reminiscing, of catching up, and of rekindling an old friendship.

As the night drew to a close, Adrianna and her son left the mansion with hearts full of warmth and memories. Teddy stood at the entrance, watching their car disappear down the driveway. He felt a sense of contentment, a reaffirmation of the bonds formed in the past.

The reunion was a reminder of their shared history, a testament to enduring friendships, and a promise of future meetings. As the stars twinkled over the California sky, Adrianna, Teddy, and her son each carried with them a piece of this memorable night, a night of reunion in the Golden State.

[rabbitcruiser]

Gaspar de Portolá arrived in the area that would become Beverly Hills on August 3, 1769, travelling along native trails which followed the present-day route of Wilshire Boulevard.

[angelenohq]

in the city of angels.

NAME: Elliott Jönsson FACE CLAIM: Bill Skarsgard AGE & DATE OF BIRTH: 30 & January 11th, 1993 HOMETOWN: Stockholm, Sweden TIME IN LOS ANGELES: 20 years NEIGHBORHOOD: Beverly Hills OCCUPATION: Music producer, CEO of Maroon Sound Studios

biography.

trigger warning: addiction, alcoholism, substance abuse, abortion

“Fledgling artistry, hidden behind a household name and a tower on the strip.” Such were the anecdotes of artists, business partners, and musicians alike. Of course, this was the late 90’s in L.A. A period infamous for the abandonment of rock and R&B, and the rise of Hip-Hop and streaming. The classic pop-rock powerhouse that was Jönsson Records was not cut out for the change. Did it have to do with the rise of illegal streaming, and the outmoded music production? Perhaps. But if asked, Elliott could date the moment of demise, and it wasn’t the day the Internet went mainstream. The trouble starts well before his time, with his father - Oskar Jönsson. A figment of wealth and sensitivity, the heir to Jönsson Records cared little for the minutia and rigour of business. Late nights turned into later mornings, and working hours spanned from 10-2. Indeed, it seemed Oskar was determined to live down his illustrious reputation. Whether it was old fashioned privilege, or a knee-jerk reaction to the mantle of power. The end result? A stagnant business, a family in disarray, and an ever-empty bottle of liquor.

If Elliott’s father was gasoline, his mother was a lit match. You’ve read about their love affair. It’s written into the heart and soul of Katerina Jönsson’s gold records. The famous singer of the 80’s was a whirlwind. A musical savant, heavy with her own struggles and hardships.But love in the time of hardship was a tricky thing, indeed. The young couple was barely three months sober when Oskar got down on one knee, and presented a four-carat Emerald ring set in a gold band.

A year later, they welcomed their first son - Elliott Fredrik Jönsson. Aptly born on Katerina’s tour bus heading for Seattle. He was eight pounds of pale skin, crystalline eyes, and Jönsson blood. Those who’d come to bend the metaphorical knee to the latest in Jönsson men shared a side-eye of contempt. Was he to be a mirror of his father, in achievement and struggle?

The answer comes barely eight years later. At the groundbreaking of the Jönsson family’s latest record deal, with a well-dressed Elliott quick on his feet. After an hour hunched over in his father’s private bathroom, placing a small hand on his back, and coaxing out the liquor. The verdict was in - he’d need to play the role of pappa. The young boy washed his hands, coaxed back his messy hair, and delivered an “utterly adorable and endearing” (to quote the LA times) speech on behalf of his “stomach-flu” ridden father. It was the first time, but it certainly wasn’t the last. His gilded childhood was that of responsibility and apprehension. Behind the mecca of wealth and privilege, Elliott spent his after-school days coaxing his mother out of bed and his evenings begging his father to leave the bar.

To this day, he can’t recall a single Thanksgiving that wasn’t spent in a constant state of repair.

Determined to be nothing like his father, he tucks away the antics and hardships by the time he gains admission into Stanford University. As far as his peers were concerned, his mother was just “passionate” and his father “fun-loving.” And if his parents appeared a mess, the same could not be said for Elliott. He came to school without a hair out of place, or a mismatched button on his shirt. Yet for all the ways he proclaimed to be nothing like them, his ear for music and talent for producing was unquestionably a birth right. A major in Business with a minor in musical theory, Elliott came to school with a vision and exited with a plan.

It’s somewhere between lecture halls and social events that he finds Brie Barlow. He’s always known her, of course. A figment of his childhood, and of LA’s social scene. She’s as familiar to him as the sound of a melody echoing from his family home. But it’s the first time they see each other, and the result is not unlike the legacy of his father and mother. Their romance is a whirlwind, swept up in adrenaline and uncontrolled euphoria. The type-A pair submit to the danger of love itself, and it amalgamates into a first love for the ages. If Brie Barlow was a song, she’d be his very first hit. At the time, he was certain she’d be his last. Before graduation, he drops down to one knee. Theirs was a song he’d sing forever.

Upon their return to Los Angeles, Elliott put himself to work. An ingenue at only 24, he by-passes his father’s sloppy management and claims the title of CEO for himself. Oskar happily steps aside. Who wanted to run a dwindling ship? But Elliott comes armed with a plan, and a rebrand. The relic that was Jönsson Records was renamed Maroon Sound Studios. A modern recording and talent management company, with great heritage. He invests in new artists, with a new sound. He invests in sound engineers and app developers from Silicon Valley, heavily buying into the digitization of sound. It works. By the time he’s kissing Brie on their wedding day, Elliott is everything he set out to be. A success, a husband, and a titan of the music industry.

There’s perfection, and there’s happiness - and for all he knew at a young age, Elliott never knew how to reconcile the two. Love, he believed, was meant to be a passionate battlefield. Wasn’t that his own parents’ marriage? And didn’t they produce something beautiful, in music and in life? Yet that perfection comes at a cost. The high-stress work that comes with running the studio, mixed with an accident accumulated in two pink lines. Elliott’s “recreational indulgence” in white powder and pills grows. It’s “part of the brand” his colleagues claim, yet Elliott finds his crutch evolving. It’s further emphasised by the reckoning of almost-parenthood, and the heartbreak of telling Brie it isn’t what he wanted.

At the time, neither could say that their marriage isn’t what they wanted.

But a crack in perfection is enough to evolve into a chasm. His exploits get bolder, his nights get later. It’s not until he wakes up one day after another bender, shallow eyed and itching for more, that he sees what he’s become. He’s become his father. He’s become vice personified.

The decision to leave doesn’t come easily. But when it does, it happens quickly. There are no suits to pack or Rolex watches to take with him. Not where he was going. No note, no word. Cowardice consumes Elliott, and he’s on a private plane to Stockholm before Brie could get back from work. A rehabilitation center nestled in the Swedish West coast. It’s unlike the hubs of New York or LA, a glorified celebrity hotspot. He spends his quiet days thinking, fishing by the coast, and looking for the one thing he’s yet to find - lasting peace. For a year, he keeps to this quiet routine. Very much outside the glitz and glamour of his life.

But his life inevitably calls back, in the form of a new record in desperate need of Elliott’s touch. There’s a life that waits for him, however ill-fitted.

And so, the prodigal son returns to the City of Angels clean as a whistle and determined to change.

[christophechoo]

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