#George Dern

[politicaldilfs]

Utah Governor DILFs

Mike Leavitt, Norm Bangerter, Spencer Cox, Jon Huntsman Jr., Gary Herbert, George Dern, Cal Rampton, Charles R. Mabey, Henry H. Blood, George Dewey Clyde, Simon Bamberger, Herbert B. Maw, Scott M. Matheson, J. Bracken Lee

[mariocki]

Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

"Miriam? He really... isn't here, is he? Just now, I thought I heard... sometimes at night, when I wake up, it seems as if he really is here. Don't turn on the light. It's not real when it's light. It's only real when it's dark - dark and still."

[celebclippinz]

Magazine clippings

[gameofthunder66]

'Blue Velvet' (1986) film

-watched 2/3/2024- 3 stars- on Tubi (free)

[moviemosaics]

The Son

directed by Florian Zeller, 2022

[ljones41]

Ranking of “BIG LITTLE LIES” Season 2 (2019) Episodes

Below is my ranking of the Season Two episodes of HBO’s “BIG LITTLE LIES”.  Based on Liana Moriarty’s 2014 novel and created by David E. Kelley, the series starred Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley, Zoë Kravitz and Laura Dern:

RANKING OF “BIG LITTLE LIES” SEASON TWO (2019) Episodes

1.  (2.07) “I Want to Know” - In the series finale, Celeste Wright questions her mother-in-law Mary Louise Wright about her late husband Perry’s childhood during a child custody hearing.  Madeline Mackenzie worries the lie about Perry’s death is tearing the Monterey Five apart.

2.  (2.02) “Tell-Tale Hearts”- Renata Klein faces an uncertain future when her husband Gordon lands in legal trouble.  Celeste opens up to Mary Louise about her relationship with Perry.  Madeline’s husband, Ed Mackenzie, confronts her about her secrets.

3.  (2.04) “She Knows” - Renata throws her daughter Amabella a disco-themed birthday bash; after attending a prying bankruptcy hearing with Gordon.  Bonnie Carlson’s mother, Elizabeth Howard, suffers a stroke during the party.  Celeste begins to unravel under a drastic decision made by Mary Louise.  Madeleine and Ed remain at odds over the revelation of her secret.

4.  (2.05) “Kill Me” - Bonnie struggles with her mother’s recovery.  Renata tries to help Celeste by meeting with Mary Louise.  Celeste attends a custody hearing initiated by Mary Louise.  Celeste’s twin sons, Josh and Max, along with Jane Chapman’s son, Ziggy; are bullied by a boy at school.

5.  (2.06) “The Bad Mother” - Celeste is blindsided by Mary Louise’s attorney at the custody hearing.  Bonnie contemplates a solution to her mother's suffering and her own ongoing guilt.  The Monterey Five feel the pressure of increased scrutiny of Perry's death.

6.  (2.01) “What Have They Done?” - Bonnie exhibits worrying behavior, following the night of Perry’s death.  Madeleine is shocked when her daughter Abigail says that she does not want to attend college.  A grief-stricken Mary Louise arrives in Monterey.

7.  (2.03) “The End of the World” - Mary Louise sets her sights on Jane and Ziggy after learning the truth about the latter’s paternity.  Renata discovers that Amabella is experiencing a crisis at school.  Madeleine and Ed attend couples therapy.  Celeste struggles with the possibility that she was addicted to Perry.

[genevieveetguy]

- What you do need, I suspect, is a psychiatrist. - Oh, men! You say "no thanks" to one of them and bingo! You're a candidate for the funny farm.

Marnie, Alfred Hitchcock (1964)

[wornoutspines]

The Son (Movie Review) | Feels Real and Confusion at the Same Time

The Son might be a bit rough because of the subject matter, and the pacing but it's worth checking out. #TheSon #HughJackman #LauraDern #VanessaKirby #ZenMcGrath #FlorianZeller

I saw this movie months after it came out and yet I knew nothing about it. I was interested in director Florian Zeller‘s first feature film The Father, which just like The Son is from a play written by Zeller himself who also worked on the screenplay with Christopher Hampton (Atonement, Dangerous Liaisons). The film stars Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern (Wild, Jurassic Park), Vanessa Kirby, newcomer Zen…

[warsofasoiaf]

Do you sometimes think that you're too harsh on FDR?

No, not particularly. I think the things I criticize him for are fairly self-evident.

No one denies that the internment of Japanese-Americans was a travesty, but I am annoyed at the historical minimization of FDR's role in the entire affair. He's the one who authorized it, and more importantly, he authorized it while having credible intelligence reporting that there was no threat. In historical discussions, FDR is frequently never even mentioned, almost as if paranoia and racism just spontaneously willed EO9066 into existence, as opposed to a document which he knowingly signed.

Similarly, I don't think it's contestable that FDR favored Soviet interests over American ones in his approach to Soviet policy. He took repeated efforts to stop counter-intelligence against the Soviet Union; when the Soviets were discovered to be conducting espionage against the US, his response was to inform the Soviets via back-channels rather than arrest or PNG the offenders, to maintain the relationship and avoid political blowback (since his initial recognition of the Soviet Union was contingent on ceasing espionage activity against the US). While presidents and politicians are given great leeway in interpreting what is in American public interest and frequently conflate personal political interest with the American public interest, Obama declassifying intelligence to shore up his re-election in 2012 comes to mind, I don't think there's any way to interpret his overly-accommodating attitude toward the Soviets as anything other than counter to American interest. This can't even be explained as wartime necessity, because FDR had been doing this even before 1941.

Even something as simple as the Air Mail scandal has broader ramifications. You can say that FDR was misled by George Dern who claimed that the Army Air Service pilots could fly the airmail routes, but he threw MG Foulouis under the bus in order to preserve Dern's and his own political reputation and then gave the airmail contracts to Errett Cord, his campaign contributor. That's fairly standard corruption, but the Hoover administration's awarding of the airmail contracts to campaign contributors was the reason he rescinded the contracts in the first place! The idea that "it's okay when I do it," has been a very pernicious problem when it comes to anti-corruption efforts, and the idea that the politicians will cover up the death of servicemen to save their own careers just rankles me for personal reasons.

You can like him for any number of reasons, I just feel that the historical record largely ignores FDR's blunders in favor of a purely hagiographic approach.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[brokehorrorfan]

Blue Velvet will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on June 25 via The Criterion Collection. Fred Davis designed the cover art for the 1986 neo-noir mystery thriller.

David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Eraserhead) writes and directs. Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, George Dickerson, and Dean Stockwell star.

Blue Velvet has been digitally restored in 4K with Dolby Vision HDR, supervised by Lynch, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 sound and the original 2.0 audio. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

The Lost Footage - 53 minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch

Blue Velvet Revisited - 2016 86-minute making-of documentary by Peter Braatz

Mysteries of Love - 2002 70-minute making-of documentary

It’s a Strange World: The Filming of Blue Velvet - 2019 featurette with crew interviews and shooting location visits

Interview with composer Angelo Badalament

David Lynch reading from Room to Dream, the 2018 book he co-authored with Kristine McKenna

Booklet with experts from Room to Dream by Kristine McKenna

Home from college, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) makes an unsettling discovery: a severed human ear, lying in a field. In the mystery that follows, by turns terrifying and darkly funny, writer-director David Lynch burrows deep beneath the picturesque surfaces of small-town life. Driven to investigate, Jeffrey finds himself drawing closer to his fellow amateur sleuth, Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), as well as their person of interest, lounge singer Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini)—and facing the fury of Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), a psychopath who will stop at nothing to keep Dorothy in his grasp.

Pre-order Blue Velvet.

[bitter69uk]

Recently watched: compellingly bizarre 1977 made-for-TV psychodrama The Strange Possession of Mrs Oliver. Tagline: “She wanted to be someone else. But when she became “Sandy”, her new friends wanted her dead.” Wikipedia’s synopsis: “Its plot follows a bored housewife who takes on an alternate persona that starts wreaking havoc on her life. Karen Black plays the title role, a dowdy, downtrodden housewife plagued by recurring nightmares of funerals, black flowers, fires and a woman called Sandy. Seeking an escape from her stifling lifestyle and dull husband, who only wishes her to have a baby, Black dons a low-cut red blouse, blonde wig, garish makeup and a new identity. She is also compelled to buy a house in a beach community where it would appear a woman who looks just like her once resided - before her tragic demise. It turns out that the woman Black pretends to be may actually exist—and may have more than a passing knowledge of the occult.”

Told in a deliberately fragmented, jarring and nightmarish style, Mrs Oliver’s themes of shifting, merging and uncertain female identities recalls Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) and anticipates David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001) and Robert Altman’s 3 Women (1977). (I could easily imagine Lynch remaking this with his muse Laura Dern in Black’s roles). No one played “women on the verge of a nervous breakdown” quite like the reliably volatile Black, and the dual roles of Miriam / Sandy showcase her at her most alien and tormented. Sandy is associated with a disco-fied version of Frankie Avalon’s 1960 hit “Venus”. When she dances to it, we get copious cleavage and crotch shots – ah, the seventies! The men in Black’s life are portrayed by George Hamilton (as Miriam’s straightlaced husband) and Robert F Lyons (as a hunky ominous stranger whose mustache makes him look an escapee from a 1970s gay porn film). Watch for guest star appearances from two incredible veteran character actresses: Gloria LeRoy and Lucille Benson. Thanks to Sam Pancake for bringing this curio to my attention via his essential Monday Afternoon Movie podcast. The YouTube print is murky but watchable.

[roughentumble]

oh my GOD, watching a movie called Grizzly 2: the Revenge and the tagline is "37 years in the making" bc some of it was originally filmed in 1983 but was never released until 2020, so it's got like an opening scene filmed obviously in the late 2010s then cuts to scenes filmed in '83 lol

and it 'stars' fucking George Clooney, Laura Dern, and Charlie Sheen

CLOONEY DERN AND SHEEN???? OH MY GOD

[fussingoverfassbender]

Michael Fassbender is in negotiations to star in “The Department,” an espionage thriller series directed by George Clooney.

Set to start shooting in London this spring, “The Department” is based on “The Bureau,” the hit French spy show created by Eric Rochant. It has already been given a straight-to-series order by Showtime. The series is produced by Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smokehouse Pictures, MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios.

The original French show starred Matthieu Kassovitz as Guillaume Debailly — alias Paul Lefebvre, alias Malotru — a member of a clandestine branch of the French Secret Services (DGSE) who returns to his home base after a six-year mission in Damascus. As he struggles to let go of his false identity and illicit affair with a Syrian woman, he finds himself playing a double game between the DGSE and the CIA. The show was a smash hit on Canal+ in France due to its look at the psychology of secret agents, inclusion of geopolitical issues that resonated with current events and international locations.

Produced by MTV Entertainment Studios and 101 Studios, “The Department” will be executive produced by Keith Cox and Nina L. Diaz of MTVE Studios; David Glasser, Ron Burkle, David Hutkin and Bob Yari of 101 Studios (“Yellowstone”); Alex Berger for The Originals Productions; and Ashley Stern and Pascal Breton for Federation Studios/Federation Entertainment of America. Rochant is involved in “The Department” as a producer and writer.

Fassbender recently played a professional assassin in David Fincher’s “The Killer.” He is represented by Conor McCaughan, Range Media Partners, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern and Tapestry.

[kwebtv]

Character Actor

Paul Domingo Comi (February 11, 1932 – August 26, 2016)  Film and television actor.

Comi's acting career spanned four decades, from the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s. He made over three hundred television appearances, twenty movies, and a number of recurring television roles. These included Deputy Johnny Evans in the syndicated western series Two Faces West (1960–61), starring Charles Bateman, the part of Brad Carter, prosecuting attorney in The Virginian while Lee J. Cobb was in the cast. He was cast along with others, including Bruce Dern and Joby Baker, who were all part of Paul Burke's crew in Burke's initial introduction, on 12 O'Clock High.

In 1960, Comi appeared in The Twilight Zone episode "People Are Alike All Over", as Warren Marcusson. Between 1961 and 1962, he portrayed airplane pilot Chuck Lambert on the first-run syndicated television adventure series Ripcord about skydiving and was a regular on the Western series Rawhide. He also played Victor Markham for one and one half seasons on the daytime soap Capitol, followed by two seasons as George Durnley in General Hospital. Besides, he had two guest appearances on Voyage to the Bottom Of The Sea in the episodes "Submarine Sunk Here" and "Deadly Creature Below!"

Comi played navigator Lt. Andrew Stiles for the Star Trek episode "Balance of Terror" (1966). Comi also appeared in Barnaby Jones in the episode titled "Dangerous Summer" (02/11/1975). (Wikipedia)

[jonathantaylorthomas]

Where words fail, music speaks. Filling the emotional spaces with music that stays with us long after the credits have rolled, here are the newest members of the Academy’s Music Branch:

Taylor Swift, Abel 'The Weeknd' Makkonen Tesfaye, Jean Michel Bernard, Rafiq Bhatia, Ian Chang, Ryan Lott, Alain Boublil, David Buckley, Dominick George Certo, Chandrabose, Anne-Kathrin Elisabeth Dern, Anna Drubich, M.M. Keeravaani, Penka Kouneva, Zeltia Montes, Starr Parodi, Dara Taylor

Taylor is officially an Academy member.

[joker1315]

All the actors you can find on this blog

Use the following link and insert the tag you want to see:

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b: barry bostwick - bellamy young - ben barnes - ben mckenzie - benedict cumberbatch - benicio del toro - bernard cribbins - bill nighy - billie piper - billy boyd - brendan gleeson - brent spiner - brianna hildebrand

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v: val kilmer - vanesu samunyai - viggo mortensen - vivienne acheampong - vladimir burlakov

w: walter koenig - william shatner

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