Here's another '80s Space Crowd Saturday: David B. Mattingly's cover art to "Desperate Measures," by Joe Clifford Faust, 1989. I think we can add Bladerunner right alongside A New Hope when it comes to influentially seedy sci-fi bars.
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Vast Avatar Tournament Round 1
Clifford the Big Red Dog vs. Doug Eiffel
The Little Prince vs. Major Tom
Balloony vs. Space Core
Jim Hawkins vs. John Hunger
Tobias vs. Rainbow Dash
Aang vs. the One Who Wanders and Waits
Ishmael vs. Chuuya Nakahara
Nemo vs. Captain Nemo
Storm vs. Olivier Song
Kaito Momota vs. Fjord
Odin vs. Jason Grace
Icarus vs. Jean Jacket
Bill Potts and Heather vs. Rowan Chow
Pete "Maverick" Mitchell vs. Satoru Goju
Moana vs. Carl Fredricksen
Joy Wang/Jobu Tupaki vs. Rose Lalonde
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Sara Boboltz and Ryan Grenoble at HuffPost:
Stormy Daniels, the porn actor who maintains she once had an affair with former President Donald Trump, took the stand Tuesday in his New York criminal trial.
Daniels’ testimony is expected to be key to the prosecution’s case against Trump, who is accused of falsifying New York state business records to conceal a hush money payment to her in the days before the 2016 presidential election.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his office have argued that this payment was made to influence the outcome of the election, meaning Trump could potentially be convicted of felonies and sentenced to prison.
Trump looked away from the witness stand as she began speaking, staring instead at the monitor in front of him that showed her testifying.
Asked if she could identify Trump in the courtroom Tuesday, Daniels extended her right arm and pointer finger in his direction.
From the stand, Daniels recalled that she and other adult film stars met Trump at a celebrity golf tournament held near Lake Tahoe in 2006. She and Trump had two casual encounters in passing, she said; later, his security guard approached and asked if she’d like to have dinner with Trump.
Her initial response to the invite: “F no.”
Then, clarifying for jurors: “No, but with an expletive in front.”
After chatting with her publicist, she said, she reconsidered dinner with Trump. Plus, she said, it would be a “really good excuse” to skip a work-related function she didn’t want to attend. “What could go wrong?” she recalled telling a friend of the invite.
Daniels said she “didn’t really have any expectations” about the dinner, except that she would meet Trump at his hotel room before going down to a restaurant.
She recalled the foyer of Trump’s penthouse room having a black-and-white tile floor and a “beautiful wood table” with a “big flower arrangement” on top.
“This hotel room was three times the size of my apartment,” she said. Trump answered the door in “silk or satin” pajamas, prompting her to make fun of him.
“Does Hugh Hefner know you stole his pajamas?” she asked. She said he “very politely” agreed to change his clothes.
Later, seated at the dining room table, she told him about her childhood and career, she said.
“He was very interested in a lot of the business aspects of [the adult film industry], which I thought was very cool,” Daniels testified.
“These were very thought-out business questions,” she said, in stark contrast to what most people ask about, like “the sexy stuff, the dirty stuff, they want to know the salacious things.”
Daniels, impatient for dinner, interrupted Trump while he talked endlessly about himself and showed off a copy of a new magazine that featured him.
“Are you always this rude?” Daniels said she told Trump.
“You don’t even know how to have a conversation,” she recalled telling him. Daniels said she told Trump that someone should “slap” him with the magazine, and he ended up allowing her to do so “right on the butt.” Trump’s demeanor relaxed afterward, she said.
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She said the two had sex and kept the recollection brief at the urging of Judge Juan Merchan.
Upon mention of the “missionary position,” an attorney for the defense voiced an objection, which Merchan sustained. Daniels said Trump was not wearing a condom. She stared up at the ceiling during the encounter. Upon her departure, Trump called her “honeybunch,” she testified, adding that he suggested they meet up again soon.
The two never ended up actually eating dinner. Daniels said Trump kept calling her afterward, however, and dangled an “Apprentice” opportunity that kept her interested.
A brief 2007 meeting at Trump Tower about a potential “Apprentice” appearance didn’t bear fruit. The two saw each other once more in person, she said, in Los Angeles that summer. He propositioned her for sex again and she declined, telling jurors she felt “ashamed” of the earlier encounter.
In 2011, In Touch magazine expressed interest in a story about her relationship with Trump, she said. While the magazine didn’t publish anything, it did lead to a threatening encounter with a man in a Las Vegas parking lot who, she said, “threatened me not to continue to tell my story.”
Earlier in the trial, jurors heard testimony from David Pecker, former head of National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc., about how he agreed to use his tabloid empire to help Trump’s campaign in 2015 and 2016. Part of that agreement meant keeping an eye on the “marketplace” of scandalous stories for anything that could damage Trump and his candidacy. While traditional media eschews so-called “checkbook journalism,” Pecker said, his outlets commonly paid cash for story rights.
Stormy Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, testified in the People of New York v. Trump business records falsification/election interference trial today.
Daniels’s testimony reveals what we know: Donald Trump is a perverted creep and a sexual assaulter.
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Wyoming Governor DILFs
Clifford Hansen, David Freudenthal, Edgar Herschler, Mark Gordon, Joe Hickey, Frank A. Barrett, Nels H. Smith, Jack R. Gage, Mike Sullivan, Lester C. Hunt, Matt Mead, Stanley K. Hathaway, Milward Simpson, Jim Geringer
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How movie director Haigh placed Sanderstead centre stage
Bit of a Rec: actor Andrew Scott, as Adam in All Of Us Strangers, much of it filmed on location in Sanderstead, including the municipal recreation ground
Location, Location, Location… CAITLIN CLIFFORD delves into the back catalogue of movies, TV shows and ads that have taken inspiration from using Croydon as a backdrop for their dramas
In April, filmmaker Andrew Haigh visited the David Lean…
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