This White and Black Dress is worn on Jane Seymour as Dr. Quinn in Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: Washinton Affair Part 2 (1994) and many years later worn on Jessica Bowman as Colleen Cooper in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Heart Within (2001)
Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman, Jim Beaver
Review: Joy Ride was a fun movie! It's got the horror elements mixed just right with the thriller elements, and it makes for a good edge of your seat movie.
A man and his brother prank a trucker, and the trucker decides he wants some revenge. Honestly the plot is a pretty straightforward one, and they put a good spin on it with the trucker aspects of the movie. It takes a somewhat overused premise, and makes it a bit more interesting.
Paul Walker and Steve Zahn have some great chemistry together on screen, and I could absolutely buy that they were brothers. Just after a little bit of being together they were already back to the older brother convincing the younger brother to do something he knew he shouldn't.
Rusty Nail was a good antagonist. He's quite intimidating, and as soon as you start to hear his voice come over the radio you start to feel uneasy. The fact that they never do reveal his face makes it that much better too. That anticipation is still there, and it really works well in the movie.
I feel like the end could have used that little extra punch of one of the brothers dying at the end, but I'm never upset that a horror movie had a somewhat happy ending, even if Rusty Nail is still out there being a murderer.
Talking of iconic behind the scenes videos, literally can’t tell you how much I love this one - you know, just Louis XIV, midway through declaring himself head of the French church, encouraging his court to behave in a perfectly normal manner for the 1680s.
I don’t own the video - it belongs to Canal+ and everyone who made Versailles.
-the first time she met deadpool she broke a coffee pot over his head and then complimented his freddy kreuger makeup. clint then informed her that was just deadpool's face
-she pretty much forced her way onto the young avengers on a whim after saving them during a bungled rescue mission; this was her start as a superhero
-her stated reason for remaining a superhero is not wanting other people to feel afraid and unsafe the way she does
-she once got into an argument with a wall in front of the other young avengers
-captain america had jessica jones pass hawkeye's codename and bow on to kate after she stood up to him about his attitude towards the young avengers
-she dressed up as hawkeye from m*a*s*h one halloween
-the first time she met clint she hit him with a verbal smackdown that made him entirely rethink his latest life choice
-she thinks bucky's hot
-due to shenanigans she once met a younger clint barton. she said she'd knock him off a cliff if he hit on her; he said it might be worth it
-she instigated clint to help her rescue/kidnap three kids from shield by way of stealing a flying car, also from shield
-she uses finger guns without shame or irony
-she once hid in a tree to avoid a conversation she didn't want to have
-she's led two iterations of the young avengers and one iteration of the west coast avengers
-clint has called her the finest and most gifted bowman he's ever met; he has also thought "look at her, she's perfect"
-she once asked a librarian to help her steal music off the internet; it did not go well for her
Jamaal Bowman has been ousted. Democrats (including Hillary Clinton) chose AIPAC over a progressive Black Man who voted along party-lines over 90% of the time. All because he criticized Israel... they got rid of him.
The Democrats will purge their progressive flank.
The Democrats did this with Nina Turner.
The Democrats did this with Jessica Cisneros.
Now...
The Democrats did this with Jamaal Bowman.
Progressive People of Colour who are more than willing to work with Democrats, while challenging power (Israeli Lobby and Billionaires), are thrown to the wolves.
In favour of Neoliberal shills.
The current Democratic Candidate that is replacing Bowman... does not want to tax the rich (ie a policy proposal that Biden says he wants to implement). Democrats just allowed AIPAC and Hillary Clinton to give them another Joe Manchin.
it was a ton of fun and also got me all emotional to make this bc like... when i look at all these different actresses lined up like this... it really feels like they're working together to give elphaba a voice. they're all going to play her differently but each actress is doing her best to feel what elphaba is feeling and sing it. and sing it. so we hear it. yknow? to bring her to life. it's beautiful to me.
here it is with captions if you want
the actresses are, in order of appearance: julia murney, teal wicks, jessica vosk, mandy gonzalez, allison luff, eden espinosa, carmen cusack, shoshana bean, emmy raver-lampman, caroline bowman, christine dwyer, emma hunton, willemijn verkaik, jackie burns, alyssa fox
Figured I should make a proper post with all the name duplicates. I’ll update periodically as we get new casts. Just counting queens right now, but I’ll probably add LiW eventually.
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📖 Good evening, bookish bats! A lot happened in the publishing industry this month, but here are a few highlights you may have missed! Check below the cut for details.
Adaptations:
🗞️ Chloé Zhao will direct a film adaptation of Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell) starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal
📖 HBO is adapting Dark Places (Gillian Flynn) as a limited series. Flynn will serve as co-creator, writer, and co-showrunner
🗞️ FX has ordered a limited series adaptation of Say Nothing (Patrick Radden Keefe), directed by Michael Lennox
📖 Taika Waititi will direct an adaptation of Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro), potentially starring Amy Adams and Jenna Ortega
🗞️ The Terror will base season 3 on The Devil in Silver (Victor LaValle)
📖 The Man in My Basement (Walter Mosley), directed by Nadia Latif, will star Anna Diop, Corey Hawkins, and Willem Dafoe
🗞️ Dark Matter (Blake Crouch) has a trailer
📖 America Ferrera's feature directorial debut for I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Erika Sánchez) is in development
🗞️ The adaptation of Turtles All the Way Down (John Green) will stream on MAX this year
📖 Hook’s Daughter: The Pirate Princess Chronicles (R. V. Bowman) is getting a live-action adaptation
🗞️ Interview with the Vampire (based on Anne Rice's novel) is getting a second season
📖 Percy Jackson and the Olympians is getting a second season
🗞️ Seven Days in June (Tia Williams) is being adapted for Prime Video
📖 The adaptation of A Gentleman in Moscow, (Amor Towles) will star Ewan McGregor
🗞️ The Color Purple movie musical will stream on MAX (Feb. 16)
📖 Hulu’s adaptation of A Court of Thorns and Roses was axed
🗞️ The Alex Van Helsing YA books are being adapted for a television series
📖 Ryan Reynolds and Paramount are working on an adaptation of Starter Villain (John Scalzi)
🗞️ A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson) will be adapted as an animated TV series
📖 The trailer for the film adaptation of Wicked is up
🗞️ Netflix renewed Survival of the Thickest for season 2
📖 The cast for Marvel’s Fantastic Four has been announced (July 25, 2025)
🗞️ The trailer for the new X-Men animated series is up (Mar. 20)
📖 The Oscar-nominated animated film Nimona is now available to watch for free on YouTube!
🗞️ Reese Witherspoon is producing a film adaptation of Romantic Comedy (Curtis Sittenfeld)
📖 Photos are up for the adaptation of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder (Holly Jackson)
Cover Reveals:
🗞️ When Haru Was Here - Dustin Thao (Sept. 3)
📖 Trick or Treat on Scary Street - Lance Bass (July 23)
🗞️ The Bletchley Riddle - Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin (Oct. 8)
📖 The Rules of Royalty - Cale Dietrich (Dec. 10)
🗞️ Colored Television - Danzy Senna (July 30)
📖 Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me - Whoopie Goldberg (May 7)
🗞️ House of Bone and Rain - Gabino Iglesias (Aug. 6)
📖 Rani Choudhury Must Die - Adiba Jaigirdar (Nov. 12)
🗞️ Night Owls - A.R. Vishny (Sept. 17)
📖 The Dixon Rule - Elle Kennedy (May 14)
🗞️ A Bánh Mì for Two - Trinity Nguyen (Aug. 27)
📖 The Hitchcock Hotel - Stephanie Wrobel (Sept. 24)
🗞️ In Want of a Suspect - Tirzah Price (Nov. 12)
📖 Memorials - Richard Chizmar (Oct. 22)
🗞️ The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk (Sept. 24)
📖 Unsinkable Cayenne - Jessica Vitalis (Oct. 29)
🗞️ Cue the Sun! - Emily Nussbaum (June 25)
📖 We're Alone - Edwidge Danticat (Sept. 3)
🗞️ The Sherlock Society - James Ponti (Sept. 3)
📖 The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes (May 21)
🗞️ The Baby-sitters Club: Kristy and the Walking Disaster - Ellen T. Crenshaw (Sept.)
📖 The Baby-sitters Litter Sister: Karen’s Grandmothers - DK Yingst (Oct.)
🗞️ The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science - Kate McKinnon (Oct. 1)
📖 The Life Impossible - Matt Haig (Sept. 3)
🗞️ Ruin Road - Lamar Giles (Sept.)
📖 Yours Truly by Katie Shepard (Sept. 3)
🗞️ Wishbone - Justine Pucella Winan (Sep. 17)
📖 Haunt Your Heart Out - Amber Roberts (Oct. 8)
🗞️ The Dividing Sky - Jill Tew (Oct. 8)
📖 Heir - Sabaa Tahir (Oct. 1)
🗞️ Beautiful Dreamers - Minrose Gwin (Aug. 27)
📖 We Solve Murders - Richard Osman (Fall)
🗞️ Till the Last Beat of My Heart - Louangie Bou-Montes (Sept. 10)
📖 Aisle Nine by Ian X (Sept. 24)
🗞️ Warrior of Legend - Kendare Blake (Sept. 17)
📖 The Ancient’s Game - Loni Crittenden (Oct. 29)
🗞️ The Witch of Wol Sin Lake - Lega Jeong (Oct. 29)
Upcoming Releases:
🗞️ Tiny Reparations Books has secured North American rights to two new books by National Book Award–longlisted author LaToya Watkins. The first book, The Book of Chuck, will be published in spring 2026.
📖 Tia Williams has sold North American rights to two new novels to Grand Central.
🗞️ LeVar Burton is releasing two new books
Other News:
🗞️ The Dylan Thomas Prize 2024 longlist is up
📖 The finalists for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced
🗞️ The finalists for the 2024 Audie Awards were announced
📖 Pulitzer-winning author N. Scott Momaday passed away (first Native American author to win a Pulitzer)
🗞️ OCLC has filed a lawsuit against the shadow library search engine Anna’s Archive for allegedly stealing 2.2 TB of data from WorldCat
📖 The St. Paul Public Library launched a laser-eyed loon library card
🗞️ Writers Against the War on Gaza have written an open letter to PEN/America to release an official statement about the “225 poets, playwrights, journalists, scholars, and novelists killed in Gaza” by Israeli forces
📖 Andy Weir released a series of “lost” journal entries from Mark Watney to celebrate The Martian’s 10th anniversary
🗞️ Amazon removed multiple titles about King Charles’ recent cancer diagnoses amid concerns that they were written by AI
📖 This year’s winners and finalists of the Cybils Awards were announced
🗞️ Delacorte is launching a new YA romance imprint