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rynhaswritersblock · 4 years

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masterlist 🕊

hi!! welcome to my masterlist!

i try to make all of my imagines as inclusive as possible. PLEASE let me know if i discriminate against any group in any way; this is a safe space for everyone!

fluff 🧸 | angst 🕯| steamy ⚡️| personal favorite 🦦 | from an event ✨ ↬ i write predominantly fluff!

PETER PARKER imagines - anywhere from 1k to 10k words

desperate times and desperate measures 🧸 ↬ you're an avenger on a fake date with peter to get information from a group of villains, and peter has to think quick in order not to blow your cover... wink wink

far from home (part one, part two, part three, part four, part five) 🧸🕯 ↬ you and peter sit next to each other on the plane to europe and what begins as a friendship turns into so much more

can’t help it 🧸⚡️ ↬ you and peter have been dating for a few months now, and being the kind boy he is, he always asks for a kiss when he wants one. when kissing he always lets you set the pace because he's afraid to hurt you (because of his powers), but this time, his feelings are too much…

sista-sista 🧸🕯 ↬ you (peter's sister) were recruited by nick fury multiple years ago. ever since he discovered you, he took you in and trained you to work behind the scenes at S.H.I.E.L.D., and was the one to help you recover after being kidnapped by a terrorist group and experimented on (which resulted in you getting your powers). nick convinces you to work on a mission with peter, resulting in your coming clean to him about your past and the biological relationship between the two of you

study date 🧸 ↬ you and peter have been friends for most of your life but have slightly grown apart this last year due to peter's spider-man duties. finally, the two of you get together to work on a project and things... happen?

fancy-schmancy 🧸 ↬ you and peter sneak out of a fancy charity event because adults are boring and there’s better things to do

competitive 🧸 ↬ you and peter have had an interesting relationship due to the fact that you're both competing for being number one in your class. but, over time, a small, unexpected romance grows out of the rivalry

laser tag 🧸⚡️ ↬ tony organizes a game of avengers laser tag. you and peter are on opposite sides and have made it clear to each other that you will fight to the death- whatever it takes

NINE-NINE! 🧸 ↬ you and peter spend most nights watching brooklyn nine-nine together and have found just how similar the two of you were to the show's lead couple, jake and amy

how about a kiss, saumensch? (part one, part two) 🧸🕯 ↬ when peter sees you reading the book thief and talking about it afterwards, your love for it makes him want to read it. so, he does, and he decides to follow in the steps of rudy steiner, asking for a kiss at every chance he gets

take your things and go (part one, part two) 🧸🕯 ↬ you and peter have a love-hate relationship that makes some advances when the two of you land in a close situation

holy water! 🧸⚡️ ↬ after catching you and peter getting a little heated, natasha decides to take things into her own hands... in the messiest of ways

letters 🧸 ↬ after too long a wait for you and peter to just get together, the team decides to get you together their way

curiosity killed the cat 🧸🦦 ↬ peter parker is a photographer. the boy is absolutely obsessed with taking pictures of anything that attracts him, anything that catches his eye... anything, particularly you

under the mistletoe 🧸🕯 ↬ high school holiday parties can lead to unfortunate circumstances... especially when it involves your lifelong enemy and one godforsaken garnish

spider-man chapstick 🧸 ↬ nostalgic finds at new york bodegas can lead to flirtatious and awkward encounters with the boy you call your best friend

the benefits of fake dating 🧸 ↬ although incredibly annoying, flash thompson’s arrogance was just what you and peter needed

valentine’s and pickup lines 🧸🦦 ↬ sometimes, having to do mj's job for her can work out in the best ways. especially when it's valentine's day and a certain local hero has an errand to make

midtown morning announcements 🧸🕯 ↬ as a reporter for midtown tech's daily announcements, it's easy to get carried away with ideas. especially ones involving the newest superhero from queens

brace-face 🧸🦦 ↬ in which you get braces, peter is persistent, and mr. delmar gives you free slushees

take a bullet 🧸🕯 ↬ you and peter go on your first mission without the team, flirting can be a powerful tool, and cliches like "taking a bullet" for someone don't seem so unrealistic anymore

bad date 🧸 ↬ maybe trying to get over a crush on your best friend wasn't such a good idea after all

trust issues 🧸🕯 ↬ it wasn't peter's fault that he had trust issues after his mentor's death and his most recent superhero friend's manipulation, but it also wasn't your fault that you just wanted to be his friend

locked out 🧸 ↬ y/n can't remember to grab her keys, peter misses the old days with you, and may baked extra cookies

peter! from physics! 🧸 ↬ y/n can't be controlled by wallets, peter parker gets crushes too easily, and crime in new york is abnormally low

to the man who let her go 🧸🕯 ↬ fuck brad davis. yeah

odd one out 🧸🕯 ↬ thanos' plan was to wipe out half of the universe, but what happens when the universe isn't evenly numbered?

swing and a kiss 🧸 ↬ crushes from english class and a *touch* of ptsd turn into a new form of transportation, messy rooftop shenanigans, and a lecture from one (1) tony stark

i want it, i got it 🧸 ↬ newfound confidence during karaoke night certainly can end up in peter parker making bold moves

stolen kisses 🧸 ↬ secret dating always ends in getting caught, especially by a suspicious best friend and a group of superheroes that’s been rooting for you and peter for years.

wish i were heather 🕯 ↬ a relationship that never happened and the wrong one that did.

blurbs - under 1k words

party confessions 🧸⚡️ ↬ you and peter get paired up for seven minutes in heaven

go fix my car, assbag 🧸 ↬ you catch flash bullying peter in the hallway and you decide you've had enough of his crap (haven't we all?)

over-protective peter 🧸 ↬ when flash harasses you in the hallway, peter steps in and gets maybe a bit too angry…

movies and cuddles 🧸 ↬ the avengers have a movie night and you and peter end up in a slightly embarrassing situation

let me show you 🧸 ↬ peter helps you frost a cake in the avengers' kitchen at midnight and it turns into a food fight in which your father, tony stark, catches the two of you mid-fight

scaredy-cat 🧸 ↬ you and peter are dorm neighbors (at MIT, of course), and he helps you out of a sticky-spider-situation

condensation 🧸🦦 ↬ cute neighbors drawing on condensated windows sure have the key to your heart

may? 🧸 ↬ sometimes, peter parker is a bit too caught up in the moment to realize the words that come out of his mouth... but, all for the lolz, right?

care package 🧸🕯 ↬ life is tough, but when a boy donned in red and blue shows up to make you feel better, it isn't so bad

eau de cologne 🧸⚡️🦦 ↬ avengers galas normally annoy you, but the scent of a certain hero can most certainly distract you

massage for massage? 🕯 ↬ unrequited feelings hurt, especially when your hands are the one massaging away his pain

a drive to montauk 🧸 ↬ a peaceful roadtrip with peter

moonlight tears (part one, part two) 🕯 ↬ depression took you away from yourself, but peter didn't let it take you away from him

the penis game 🧸🦦 ↬ a group of boys at the library plays the penis game and none of them manage to get above a quiet yell, so you take matters into your own hands

peter parker for pepper spray! 🧸 ↬ y/n lost her pepper spray, old men in new york are creepy, and peter parker just walked out of delmar's with a sandwich in hand and a kind enough heart to help out an enemy

english lit meet-cute 🧸 ↬ all it takes is an awkward mishap and some confidence to finally get you and the boy you keep seeing around campus together.

overnight beach trip 🧸✨ ↬ in which you and peter take a trip to the beach for a night.

headcanons - stories in the form of chaotic bullet-points

internship 🧸 ↬ tony stark not only helped in bringing together a group of people to protect earth, but also in sparking young love

dirty talk (part one, part two) ⚡️🦦 ↬ to the public, peter parker is the epitome of innocent, but after a conversation at lunch, he is determined to prove the opposite

hallway bookworm 🧸 ↬ girls reading and crying while walking in the hallway sure do seem to have an effect on peter parker

tiktok famous (part one, part two, part three, part four) 🧸⚡️ ↬ the wonderful chaotic adventures of y/n and peter making tiktoks

midnight at delmar’s 🧸 ↬ working alone late at night can be dangerous. 'nuff said

i go hard like thanos 🧸 ↬ popping off to an absolute banger during an avengers meeting is the best way to set yourselves up for failure

quaranteens 🧸 ↬ how you and petey boi spend your quarantine <3

gross 🧸🦦 ↬ chaotic mess in which you pull a Dumb Bitch Move and write a song for peter while relying on the hope that he never sees it

new york boy 🧸 ↬ life is hard when you visit your uncle in new york and all of a sudden there's a cute boy named peter parker in your life

giant teddy bears 🧸 ↬ first dates are awkward, peter sucks at dance dance revolution, and the night ends with a giant teddy bear and something sweet

actual books!

flicks (currently on wattpad; i will not be uploading this to tumblr as of now) ↬ in which a girl named indigo and a boy named peter bond over the love of movies, the loss of parents, and the power of saving the world | bonus imagine!

lmk if any of the links are faulty or if there are any other problems with the imagines! i have been on this site working on transferring my work for hours i have the brain of a strapless croc rn pls forgive me!

#masterlist #imagines #blurbs #headcanons #book #series #peter parker

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unscharf-an-den-raendern · 4 years

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Charlie im Norden Teil 1: Wir fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn

Wenn man bei Daimler festangestellt ist, kann man an einem Programm namens “Kundennahe Fahrerprobung” teilnehmen. Die Regeln sind einfach: Man kriegt ein Auto, muss eine bestimmte Anzahl an Kilometern fahren und das Auto bewerten. Die Tankkosten trägt die Firma. Weil das natürlich sehr begehrt ist, wird per Los entschieden, wer letztendlich teilnehmen darf. Dieses Mal hatte mein Vater wieder Glück und wir haben einen schnieken GLA gekriegt.

Und damit sind wir jetzt nach Stade gefahren. Eigentlich wollten wir nach Lüneburg, aber da war fast alles ausgebucht..

Bevor wir überhaupt losgefahren sind, haben wir noch eine Entdeckung gemacht: Wenn sich die Person mit dem Schlüssel vom Auto entfernt und es nicht abgeschlossen ist, geht die Alarmanlage los - selbst, wenn noch Leute im Auto sitzen. Und eine weitere Entdeckung, dir wir gemacht haben: Dieses Auto hat einen Massagesitz. Ca. alle zwei Stunden wird dir irgendein Entspannungsprogramm bestehend aus Massage und einem entspannenden Bild empfohlen.

Da die A7 bei Northeim dieses Wochenende gesperrt ist, mussten wir über die Umleitung fahren. Das Navi wusste nichts von der Sperrung, Google Maps schon, aber zum Glück hab ich kurz davor online die Verkehrsmeldungen gecheckt, wo extra dabei stand “Bitte beachten Sie die Beschilderung, fahren Sie nicht nach Ihrem Navi”. Auf dieser Umleitung standen wir dann erstmal im Stau, außerdem gab es dort einen kleinen Unfall mit Blechschaden, weil irgendjemand jemandem die Vorfahrt genommen hat (später auf der A1 gab es dann noch einen schwereren mit Krankenwagen, anscheinend ist irgendjemand von der Straße abgekommen und in den Graben gefahren). Wir kommen also an das Ende der Umleitung und was sehen wir? Die Autobahnauffahrt ist gesperrt. Weder das Navi noch Google Maps wussten davon (und meine Änderung bei Google Maps wurde aus mir unerfindlichen Gründen abgelehnt), also sind wir einfach geradeaus nach den anderen Umleitungsschildern durch irgendwelche kleine Dörfer gefahren und irgendwie wieder auf die Autobahn gekommen.

Es gibt zwei Probleme mit der A7: 1. Unglaublich viele Baustellen (und wir haben sogar zwei Mal Leute darauf arbeiten sehen. Ein Wunder.) 2. Manchmal wird die Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung aufgehoben, nur damit man kurz darauf wieder nur 80 fahren darf. Mein Vater hat sich sehr aufgeregt. Ganz amüsant finde ich übrigens die Baustellenschilder in Hessen: Oben der Schriftzug “Wir bauen für Sie”, unten Kinder in Bauarbeiteruniform. Skandal, wieso tut niemand was gegen die Kinderarbeit auf Hessens Autobahnen?

Und falls sich jemand fragt, wie das eigentlich jetzt zu Corona-Zeiten auf den Raststätten abläuft: Eigentlich wie sonst auch, nur halt mit Abstand, Maske und Kontaktnachverfolgungsformular. Und was mir jetzt erst auffällt: Viel Glück, an einer Raststätte ein Hauptgericht ohne Fleisch zu finden (zumindest an der Raststätte Harz Ost). Wenn es ein Nordsee-Restaurant gibt und man wie ich Pescetarier ist, hat man ja noch Glück gehabt (wir haben aber eh nur Kuchen gegessen). Aber sonst? R.I.P. Veganer.

Außerdem scheinen wir nicht die einzigen Corona-Flüchtlinge zu sein. Ich habe einige Autos aus Risikogebieten gesehen (teilweise sogar aus ausländischen Risikogebieten), die Richtung Norden gefahren sind, weil hier die 7-Tage-Inzidenz sehr niedrig ist (außer in Bremen, Hamburg, etc.). Und natürlich unglaublich viele Urlaubsheimkehrer aus Hamburg, denn dort geht jetzt die Schule wieder los.

Vor Stade sind wir dann wieder durch sehr nette kleine Dörfer im Alten Land gefahren. Überall Häuser mit den typischen norddeutschen Backsteinfassaden (da Backstein keine Feuchtigkeit aufsaugt und daher besser für das Seeklima geeignet ist) und Obstplantagen, denn das Alte Land ist das größte zusammenhängende Obstanbaugebiet Nordeuropas. Und dort wurden wir auch gleich von einem Regenbogen begrüßt.

Und dann sind wir endlich in der Hansestadt Stade angekommen. Unser Hotel liegt direkt am alten Hafen, der wirklich sehr schön ist.

Auch sonst fühlt man sich in der Altstadt wie in einem Studio Ghibli Film.

Und was wäre ein Urlaub im Norden ohne einen Besuch im Fischrestaurant?

Ich bin wirklich sehr gerne in Norddeutschland. Ich mag die Umgebung, die Mentalität der Menschen hier, das allgemeine Lebensgefühl, die Nähe zum Meer, die Tatsache, dass es im Sommer meist nicht super heiß ist, ich könnte ewig so weiter machen.

#urlaub

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thomasheimbrand · 3 years

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Time management tips for better results

Why is it that some people get more done than others? Do they have more time, or do they have extra help? One thing is for sure, though, that time is a scarce commodity and that you only have 1440 seconds per day. What you do with it matters, and here are some tips for you to be more productive during the day.

What is my most important task?

Identify your Most Important Task (MIT) and make sure it gets done first.

My MIT is the time I spend on personal development, and I always find room for it. The best investment you can make is in yourself. You become more valuable to the marketplace, and It also makes you feel alive and happy.

Sometimes your most important task is something you don't like to be doing. It could be to have a tough conversation with an associate or a person close to you, or it could be something you find annoying. At these times, I use to think about Zig Ziglar's statement about the frog.

If you're going to have to swallow a frog, you don't want to have to look at that sucker too long!

Leverage is the magic word.

When you have identified your MIT for the day, evaluate the other tasks you have in your mind and see if some are necessary for you to do or if someone can do them for you. Delegate, eliminate, or change the prioritization of the task. Changing the priority of the job doesn't mean that you are procrastinating; it merely means that you will do it after you have done your most valuable tasks first.

Often people put up a lot of "shoulds" on their To-do lists. Half of them don't get you closer to your goals and are often a result of others' opinions, not yours. Question your "shoulds" and remove them from your calendar.

It is when your "shoulds" is changed to a must when the magic happens. When you tell yourself that you must do a task, you will do it.

Think of the things you can delegate to others. If you believe that you do everything by yourself, you are on thin ice. One is too small of a number to achieve greatness.

Throw your To-Do list away

Use your calendar instead of your To-do lists. By using your calendar, you are scheduling your most important task ahead. Clarity is power, and If you can't measure it, you can't improve it.

Set up your goals on a one-page plan for the year to come. Break them down into quarterly sub-goals and put into your calendar what needs to happen to reach your goals.

Be in charge and avoid procrastination.

Why is it that the smaller tasks that are only going to take you a few minutes to complete tend not to be done? Sometimes it could take a month before you follow through on one task. Most probably, it is your mind that tells you that it is not essential. Still, your subconscious mind will remember that you didn't complete them, and the stress level will increase.

Decide to gather all these smaller tasks on a piece of paper and dedicate one weekend to handle all the smaller tasks at once. You will feel much better afterward.

Be grateful and enjoy the journey.

Even though life is an array of things you have to do, you can still enjoy the ride. Finding your purpose in life and appreciation for the things you have will help you be more present and not see growth as a competition and a race towards the end goals.

Life is not what is happening to you; it is what is happening for you. Change your expectations for your appreciation at I promise you that the ride is going to be awesome.

When you reach your goals, make sure you celebrate. Find the ways that suit you best. It could be a nice dinner, a massage, a fishing trip, etc., whatever you enjoy doing.

Learn to say no.

When you say yes to things, you are saying no to other things. These other things might have been essential for you to reach your goals. So be aware of when you say Yes.

Be aware of the things that are distracting you. If you want to achieve the results that only 5% make, you have to think, produce, and behave like only 5% of the people on the planet. And the best people in the world don't spend their most valuable time on television or other distracting media.

Social media today is preventing you from being efficient. Some people are slaves under their social media apps. Every time a new message or event occurs, they have to see what it is. By changing focus, your brain will have to readjust, which lowers your ability to utilize the brain's full capacity.

Focus on one thing at a time and only allow yourself to check your emails or social media a few times during the day.

Routinely use early mornings to strengthen your mind, body, and spirit.

It is your daily routine that determines your outcome in the long run. Make sure to use your mornings effectively. Studies have shown that you are most productive for a few hours in the mornings.

Eat healthy, exercise, meditate, appreciate, and do your daily affirmations to set you off to a good start of the day. You will be more productive during the day if you charge yourself with these positive powers.

Write down the things that you learn.

Every day you should read, file, and reflect. Sometimes during the day, you come across something valuable. It could be a good meeting, a great quote, or some other kind of learning. By writing it down right away, it will be more likely that you remember it later.

Highly successful people carry a notebook with them to write down the golden nuggets that they might collect during the day.

Apply these time management tips, and I promise you that your productivity level will increase. As you have seen, it is not about working harder; it is about working smarter. Continue to develop yourself and believe in your ability to grow. Stay hungry, and you will have an extraordinary life.

If you want to check out my course on personal development, you can read more about it here, or if you wish to check out my latest golden nugget Ebooks about Training your mind or How to become a better leader.

I wish you the best!

/Thomas

#productivity #personal success #personal development #leadership growth

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proprhettcies · 4 years

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Season 5 Episodes 111-120 (466-475)

S5 Ep 111 (466)- Friday the 13th Facts

Aired Friday June 13th 2014

True or False game

Wheel video from Dayton, Ohio

EB Guest- iJustine

S5 Ep 112 (467)- Amazing Coincidence

June 2001- Laura Buxton from England launches a balloon. Seven days later it arrives 140 miles away to another Laura Buxton. They meet and lots of things match down to their guinea pigs.

Rhett and Link try it for themselves

S5 Ep 113 (468)- Weird Ways to open a bottle

-Carabiner

-Fork

-Toothbrush

-Drill

-Yo-yo

-Another bottle

-Paper

* They were twist offs the whole time

Link calling Rhett “Bo”

Talking about their parents watching GMM

S5 Ep 114 (469)- OCD

My OCD song/ video

OCPD- Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

Link- Gave myself the label anal retentive

My pucker string is tight

My anus is tight

Encounter with Howie Mandel

When Link went to feed Tucker he would have to pet him on the head seven times

Commercial Kings

Famous People with OCD

-Billy Bob Thorton

-Donald Trump

-Cameron Diaz

-Meghan Fox

-Leonardo DiCaprio

S5 Ep 115 (470)- Never say these on a 1st date

- My boyfriend just broke up with me, you look just like him

-Hold on, I just have to answer this message on OkCupid

-Sometimes I hear voices and one just told me to call you sweetcheeks

- I don’t like burritos

-I love you

- I have 15 cats

- I’m bored

-You ever see a third nipple?

-The mothership is coming back for me and need a human toe

- Be right back, gotta go take a huge dump right now

Gilette Week 4- Massage

TimTam Slam

S5 Ep 116 (471)- Bizzare Assassination Attempts

EB Guest- Felcia Day

- Death by Chocolate Bar

- Bulgarian Umbrella

- Luted to Death- music instrument

-Emperor Nero to kill his own mother. Failed attempts led to hiring guys to stab her

-Gun on Regan

-Two guys with x-ray gun on Obama

-1639 some Swiss dude by a guy in a bearsuit with axe

- Prime Minister of Spain- 80 kilonewtons of underground explosives

S5 Ep 117 (472)- Who’s more famous? Game

MIT Pantheon Project

-Brad Pitt vs Johnny Depp- Depp

- Albert Einstein vs Issac Newton- Newton

-Madonna vs Britney Spears- Madonna

- Chuck Norris vs Arnold Schwarzenegger- Arnold

- George Washington vs Ben Franklin- Franklin

- Lindsay Lohan vs Amanda Bynes- Lohan

- Burt Reynolds vs Tom Selleck- Reynolds

- Van Gogh vs Picasso- Van Gogh

- Mozart vs Skrillex- Mozart

- Jimi Hendrix vs Mother Theresa- Hendrix

- Vin Diesel vs The Rock- Vin Diesel

- Nostradamus vs Walt Disney- Nostradamus

Their IG account

- John Wayne vs Clint Eastwood- Eastwood

- George Clooney vs Nic Cage- Cage

- John Lennon vs Paul McCartney- Lennon

-Mick Jagger vs Ozzy Osbourne- Ozzy

- Spielberg vs Scorcese- Scorcese

- Putin vs Obama- Putin

- David Copperfield vs Chris Angel- Copperfield

- Jack Nicholson vs Robert De Niro- De Niro

Rhett and Link’s individual Twitters

S5 Ep 118 (473)- Pool Pants

- Pool Boots

- The Pool Shirt

- Pool Pants

- Pool Head

S5 Ep 119 (474)- World Cup of Cups

1st and last World Cup of Cups

- GMM Mug

-Bacon Glass

- Toilet Bowl Mug

- Half-Full Half-Empty Glass

-Ninja Mug

-Red Solo Cup

-Extra Large Mug

-Unofficial Lego Mug

-Unicorn Mug

Lego Cup wins!

S5 Ep 120 (475)- Gilette Week 5- Nail Salon

Playing Bean Boozled

Mail Boulder Retirement Announcement

Link-” I don’t like licorice or coconut.”

Rhett- “My momma said that’s a dead polecat (skunk).”

#gmm #season 5 #episodes 111-120 (466-475)#rhett and link #good mythical morning

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tisfan · 6 years

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Discover your Soul

Title: Discover your Soul Collaborator: @tisfan Link: AO3 Square Filled: I3 -- Character is a Soldier Ship: Tony/Bucky Rating: teen Major Tags: soulmate AU, red string AU, fix it fic, not Civil War compliant Summary: Magic exists. Ask anyone with a soul mate string and they’ll tell you.

Curses exist, too. Word Count: 2,220 Created for @mcukinkbingo

Before you find your soul mate, you must first discover your soul. – Charles F. Glassman

Magic exists.

Ask anyone with a soul mate string and they’ll tell you. Magic moved the world to give them their perfect match, their mate, the person for whom they will live and die, the person that completes them and fills them up with love.

Curses exist, too.

Ask Maria Stark, whose only son was brought in to the world, barely breathing. Anthony Edward Stark almost died in his first few minutes, choking and spluttering. He uttered one mournful wail, not a baby’s indignation of leaving the womb and entering the cold, cruel world, but an old soul’s dismay.

His string, bound to him as such things were, was broken.

Less than a foot below his hand, his string ended in a puff of broken threads.

And it was bleeding.

No one had ever seen such a thing before. On the rare, and tragic states of soulmates having died before they could meet, the string was still there, indicating the broken bond, but it was black and ashy. The remaining partner would wrap it around their finger as they aged and it would slowly shrivel up and die. In some cases, a new string formed later, as their mate was reborn in a younger body.

This one, Tony’s string, bleed. Constantly, at first.

The hospital kept the baby in the infant care ward for almost a month. The blood loss affected the baby; he was weak and small and didn’t cry.

Eventually, they let him go home with his parents.

The wound clotted, but it never closed, never scarred over. The string remained brilliant red, tracing the line from the heart directly out through his finger, just like it was supposed to. It didn’t always bleed, as he got older, but if he was sad, or upset, sometimes the cut would reopen and he’d find himself with blood on his jeans, or on his desk, or eventually in his workshop.

Tony never took very good care of his hands. What was the point? People always looked at him, looked down at that loose, dangling thread, and viewed him as some sort of pariah.

Someone, maybe, whose soulmate had rejected him, sight unseen? No one knew, and the speculation was wild and varied.

Hard to maintain friendships, when people wondered. Harder, when his father was ashamed of the bleeding string, and the fact that everyone knew about it.

Tony decided he didn’t care and he made friends with the robots he built from kits and from people he met on the internet, where no one knew about his famous father or his infamous bleeding soul string.

The first time he kissed a classmate, the string practically hemorrhaged, spraying the unfortunate crush with blood.

Tony didn’t get a lot of kisses, after that story spread around.

He changed schools constantly to get away from rumors and speculations.

It didn’t help.

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The first person he met who didn’t care was an upperclassman, his first year at MIT, named James Rhodes.

Rhodes and Tony.

Who became Rhodey and Tones, swapping the last letters of their names in an affectionate gesture that warmed Tony profoundly. He’d never really known the affection of friends, so he cherished the one he’d made.

The string never bled when Rhodey was around, either.

“Maybe something’s just wrong with your mate,” Rhodey speculated, and his speculation wasn’t cruel or unkind, just curious. And in some manner, reassuring. “Maybe they’re sick, or they get hurt a lot. It ain’t like this sort of thing is well studied, or nothin’. It’s all about faith and fate, and those things don’t hold up under a microscope.”

Tony wondered what his string looked like under a microscope.

Nothing, as it turned out. The string didn’t exist in the same time/space as things like photography and microanalysis, and Tony ended up getting a second master’s thesis out of speculative fate physics, while he was putting in the effort for mechanical engineering anyway.

Tony combined the two projects for his first doctorate, theoretical fate physics, and actually invented an entirely new manner of photogenesis that captured the essences of fate strings. Just after his nineteenth birthday, Tony made the front cover of Time magazine for the first verifiable picture of a fate string.

He looked, he decided, like a baby in the picture and he started frantically cultivating a beard.

Beards were wise, right? Inscrutable. Certainly not an object of pity.

Also, hot. Beards were hot.

Later, much, much later, Tony will remember the only time his fate string didn’t hurt. It wasn’t a bad pain so much as just a constant ache. If he wasn’t paying attention, he’d find himself rubbing at his finger, massaging the joint. He stopped doing that after he developed a flesh colored band to hide the string and control the bleeding.

Mostly.

And then, not quite a week before Christmas, his hand stopped hurting.

He didn’t know what to do with that information. It had never not ached before. Sometimes he could ignore it, but whenever he was paying attention, the pain was right there.

And suddenly it wasn’t.

He ripped the band off to study the pathetic length of psychic ribbon. It was throbbing; the end curling like a snake. Twitching.

The end swelled, like it was filling with blood, and then dropped, added another ten, twelve, inches to the length, until it was resting on the ground, straining.

What the hell?

He watched it, fascinated. Petted the string, poked at it. Took a photograph with his special camera.

Four hours later, the police came to tell him his parents were dead.

Six hours after that, the string bled feverishly, a stomach-turning spray of arterial blood. Tony cleaned it up, wrapped his finger. Pretended it hadn’t happened.

What the hell was a mate supposed to do for him now, anyway?

Coincidence, he told himself with a shiver.

Mourning, terrified, alone, he deleted the picture.

The Soldier sat in the chair.

He didn’t struggle. He never struggled anymore.

The string was wrapped around his wrist, several times. It had leaked out of the metal arm shortly after the Soldier had been awakened from cryo.

He didn’t try to hide it. He never tried to hide things anymore.

“Good job, soldier,” his handler said.

The soldier didn’t answer, he just waited.

“Keep him up a few weeks, I want him around for the testing.”

“You got it, sir,” one of the techs said.

“And cauterize that thing, before it bleeds everywhere.”

There was pain, when they burned the string. There was always pain. But the Soldier didn’t care about that.

Tony’s string started growing again, in the year after the Fall of SHIELD.

He couldn’t figure out why.

His own ground breaking research aside, no one still really studied the fate threads, or soul mates, or the properties therin. He was, his critics said sometimes, killing the magic.

“Magic that can’t withstand a little examination might deserve to be killed,” he snarled in response to that.

It still didn’t lead to another person, trailing along behind him for several yards like a sad kite. Useless, and he was tripping over it. There was, however, too much on Iron Man’s docket for him to actually get really into detail with his soul string. He wrapped it tightly around his wrist and ignored it as best he could.

First, arrangements had to be made for world security. Without SHIELD, without Nick Fury, there was a lot of burdens falling around, uncaught.

Then there was Ultron.

And Sokovia.

And…

The string kept growing. Twined around Tony’s wrist, up to his elbow, he ended up bundling it around his chest just to keep it out of the way.

Why was it so damn disorderly, too? Other people’s strings sort of melted away into some ethereal plane when they weren’t directly connected to the soulmate. They didn’t tumble all over the floor like a sulky yo-yo.

In fact, most people’s strings were well nigh invisible unless the person was within grabbing distance of their mates. Or, at least, from an outsider’s appearance. For each individual, they could see their string, winding off into the distance, in the direction of their other half.

Nice thought, Tony snorted, tucking an extra bit of loop into his pocket.

Secretary Ross was breathing down Tony’s neck and while he was beginning to wonder if he could, actually, strangle the man to death it it, he decided not to risk it. Not today.

“Of course you can quote me,” Tony raged into the phone. “I’m saying it, aren’t I? There will be consequences.”

God damn it, Steve.

That had been a refrain for a while now, and Tony was tired of it.

Having to send out his best friend to arrest his old man’s best friend? Officially, Tony didn’t have anything like that sort of authority, which is why Rhodey was doing it. And because Tony really, really didn’t want to arrest Steve. Things were going to shit without it.

There was something oddly compelling about the video feed.

Cap’s old friend, Barnes, having done a stint in the Russian military, or whatever. Gorgeous, sulky, long tangled hair and unshaven face, he stared up at the hidden camera like he knew it was there.

“This is what I was saying about making it worse, Steve,” Nat was complaining to Cap as they were being processed.

“At least he’s alive,” Steve said, staring back at his old friend. “What’s going to happen to him now?”

“We’ll get him help, of course,” Tony said, because that was only fair. “He’s… uh. He’s bleeding.”

There was a wet, smacking sound from under Tony’s clothing, like he’d stepped on a ziplock bag and blown the seal.

A rush of heat and wet seeped down his side.

Son of a bitch, so am I.

Tony bunched his fist up, as if he could stop his fate string from bleeding from sheer force of will. Why now, he wondered. Totally, epically bad timing.

The string was squirming, writhing, wriggling against him like it was trying to get away.

Barnes’ gaze went from the camera, over to where he couldn’t possibly see Tony trying to tip his body away so that no one noticed the wet spot on his pants, or the way blood was gushing into his shoe.

Fuck. I need to get out of here.

“I need to get out of here,” Barnes echoed, his voice a dark tremor against the air. Tony whirled, took a few steps, heedless of the bloody footprint he was leaving behind.

Look at him, trapped like an animal, Tony thought, his chest squeezing in sudden sympathy. Barnes wasn’t struggling with the restraints, but he was leaning in Tony’s direction, like steel drawn to a powerful magnet.

“Trapped, like an animal,” Barnes agreed.

Can you hear me?

There was blood pooling at the base of the restraint room, brilliant and red. Someone should die from that much blood loss.

“I hear you.”

Holy fuck.

“Stark, what are you doing--”

Tony took another few steps, then another, and his string unraveled from his belly, slithered out from under the hem of his shirt.

Touched that pool of blood under Barnes.

The world exploded in light.

The Soldier was on guard.

No one had told him that, no one had given him orders. They didn’t need to. He knew it, bone deep, blood deep.

The puddle had turned into coils and coils of string, tangling between him and the man. From the line in his heart, through the artificial arm, down his wires and servos, out the finger, and into knots and tangles, draped all over him, and then reaching for… Tony.

He’d broken out of the holding cell; nothing like that could contain him for long unless he wanted to be contained. Tony, Tony, Tony. Tony was clinging to him, sobbing with broken-hearted relief.

The Soldier knew something about that, too.

“What’s going to happen now?”

That was Steve. The Soldier knew him. A little.

Not like he knew the sobbing man in his arms. That song, he’d been denied well and too long.

Tony wiped his face, presenting his red rimmed eyes unashamed.

“I expect I’m going to be writing a new paper of fate strings physics,” Tony said.

“I meant, to Bucky.”

The Soldier bared his teeth at that name; Bucky came with knives and poisons. That name was pain. It wasn’t… safe to say.

Bucky? Tony’s voice was in his head.

It was. Who he was.

“We’ll figure it out, Cap,” Tony said. “By the book.”

“I don’t think you’re gonna like that book, Tony,” Steve said.

“Well, I’ve rewritten the book before,” Tony said. “With less solid information to go on. So… sit back, and watch me work. Don’t worry. I’ll…”

Tony stared at Bucky, his entire heart in his eyes. “I’ll take care of him.”

“And what about you?”

Bucky didn’t have to say anything. He pulled Tony closer and glared. Unarmed, held at gunpoint, the Soldier radiated threat and everyone took a hesitant step back. Message received.

“I think we got it, snowflake,” Tony said. “You can just… relax now. We’re going to fix this mess.”

“I know.”

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VAUDEVILLE & BROADWAY THE HARD WAY

Like a lot of poor kids on the Lower East Side around the start of the twentieth century. the brothers Cliff and Max Gordon turned to show business as a way up and out. Cliff, who was older, made it big in vaudeville, and in effect it killed him. Max became one of the most successful producers in Broadway history, and survived to write a memoir about it.

They were born Morris and Mechel Saltpeter in 1880 and '92, two of eight kids. Their parents had grown up and married in a village in Poland. They were strict Orthodox Jews who spoke Yiddish, never learning English or participating much in American life. Dad, bearded and pious as a rabbi, pressed pants in a Montgomery Street sweatshop for eleven dollars a week. Mom kept house. Old-school Orthodox tradition condemned theater and movies as time-wasting frivolities. In his memoir Max Gordon Presents Max says his mother never saw a movie and came to only one of the many shows he mounted. At first the family squeezed into three rooms in a tenement on Goerck Street (now Baruch Place), and shared an outhouse behind the building with the other tenants. Later they moved a short distance to a four-room tenement apartment with a bathroom at the end of the hall on Lewis Street.

Cliff left school at the age of twelve to contribute to the family's income. In his teens he started hanging out at the variety theaters on the Bowery with a pal of his, Will Fox. Born Wilhelm Fried in Hungary in 1879, Will was brought to the Lower East Side when he was nine months old. Impressed with the "Dutch" (German) antics of the comedy duo Weber & Fields, who were Lower East Side guys themselves, the teens simply copied them. Cliff played the Fields part, Will did Weber. They got small bookings in and around the city, making five or ten bucks a night. Cliff's parents were not happy, but they couldn't stop him.

According to Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox, an as-told-to biography, one night after a gig in Bayonne Cliff and Will found that the booker had absconded with their pay. Penniless, they walked from Bayonne to Jersey City, where Will found a bit of cardboard and a pencil and made a sign, BLIND. He hung it on Will and stood him next to the ferry entrance with his hand out as the morning commuters headed across the river for Manhattan. They not only earned their two-cent fares but reached New York with four cents extra. Another time they did their schtick in Arlington Hall on St. Mark's Place as part of a benefit for the former welterweight prizefighter Spike Hennessey, who was then battling consumption. The audience booed and hissed them; Spike was so angry at them for ruining the evening that he refused to pay them, and socked Cliff in the eye as well. "When Cliff arrived home with one eye and no money, and told his father what had happened, his father punched the other eye and blacked that," Sinclair writes.

Fox gave up performing, but went on to a big career in movies, building the empire that became Twentieth Century Fox. Cliff stuck with performing and soon got a slot as the Dutch comic with Al Reeve's Big Beauty Show. Born in 1864, Reeves had grown up Catholic in the Five Points, a policeman's son. By fourteen was performing on the Bowery as a banjo-plucking blackface minstrel. Through the 1880s he toured the early vaudeville and burlesque circuits. He billed himself as The World's Greatest Banjoist and Comedian, and although by contemporary reports he was neither, he was an impressive, bigger-than-life presence on stage and off. As he got famous he sported a lot of diamonds and other jewels on his person, and got himself a diamond-encrusted banjo.

By the early 1890s he was producing and emceeing his own burlesque revues, which were considered among the finest of the era. Burlesque wasn't yet equated with striptease; it was more like a minstrel show or vaudeville with a leg show as the centerpiece. "Dirty" burlesque and stripping came along in the next century. The Big Beauty Show featured up to forty girls. Al claimed to have invented the tableau vivant, in which they posed as "living statues" in classical, mythological or just fanciful scenarios, any excuse for them to appear without a lot of clothes on. They couldn't move a muscle, or cops might stop the show for lewd behavior. Comics, musical acts and Reeves himself rounded out the bill. A young Al Jolson got work touring with Reeves. In The Jazz Singer, when Jolson does the fingers-in-the-mouth bird-whistling break in "Toot, Toot Tootsie," he's showing off a trick he learned from Reeves. Jolson's whole peppier-than-thou approach to blackface performance showed a lot of Reeves' influence.

Max was nine when Cliff took him to a matinee of the Reeves revue at Miner's Bowery Theatre. It was Max's first time in a theater. He remembered that though the chorus girls were big and fleshy they were also "gay, spritely, buoyant, full of grace and delight." He was agog at Reeves, "the grandest man I had ever seen," and all his jewels. Cliff, in baggy trousers and long frock coat, with a loopy bow tie under a fly-away collar (think Professor Irwin Corey), was then perfecting his signature routine, "the German Senator." It was a combination of a Dutch act and a minstrel show stump speech, a comic monologue on political and social topics of the day. "Friendts and Vellor Voters," Cliff would begin, "I am gladt to address such a massage of beoples, and vill distress you mit all der elephance dot is in me." He'd go on in that vein to crack jokes about whoever was president at the time, the newfangled automobile, trade unions, women's suffrage, whatever was in the headlines. Max was entranced and began haunting the variety and vaudeville houses on the Bowery and around Union Square.

Max was a ten-year-old participant when a riot broke out at the funeral procession for Rabbi Jacob Joseph on July 30, 1902. Several of the small Orthodox synagogues on the Lower East Side had chipped in to bring Joseph from Poland in 1888 to be their first (and as it turned out last) chief rabbi. From the start he ran into opposition from other Orthodox and Hasidic congregations, who elected their own chief rabbis in protest, and from the Reform German Jews in the city, and from the Lower East Side's large contingent of radical and Communist Jewish intellectuals. He struggled largely in vein to bring some order to the graft-ridden kosher butchery trade. Demoralized by all the controversy and reduced to dire poverty in his own tenement flat, he suffered a series of paralyzing strokes and died on July 27 1902 at the age of only fifty-four.

Despite all the acrimony during his life, the entire Orthodox population of the Lower East Side went into mourning. On July 30 much of the neighborhood shut down for the funeral procession that carried his plain pine coffin from his home on Henry Street over to the Grand Street ferry, bound for a cemetery in Brooklyn. A crowd estimated at fifty to one hundred thousand mourners thronged the streets. As the cortege approached the waterfront it passed the giant R. Hoe & Company factory on Grand Street, where printing presses were made. The more than two thousand workers there, many of them Irish, were infamously anti-Semitic. When the horse-drawn hearse went by, accompanied by two hundred black-creped carriages and the immense crowd on foot, workers on the factory's upper floors jeered, shouted obscenities out the windows and hurled whatever they could get their hands on -- nuts, bolts, blocks of wood, buckets of water. The crowd flew into a rage and charged the building. Max was among those who ran over to Delancey Street, where the Manhattan end of the Williamsburg Bridge was under construction, and carried back loose bricks to be thrown through the factory's lower windows. A delegation of Jewish leaders who got into Robert Hoe's office to try to end the situation claimed Hoe chased them out with a pistol. (In the publishing world Hoe is remembered as a collector of rare books and a founder of the Grolier Club.) A riot squad of some two hundred police showed up. Also mostly Irish, the cops enforced calm by wading into the Jews with clubs swinging. Hundreds of Jews were injured and scores went to jail, while only one factory worker was detained. Ironically, in 1929 the factory would be torn down and replaced by the wonderful Amalgamated Dwellings apartment building, cornerstone of the largely Jewish Co-Op Village.

By the time of the riot Cliff was touring the country with the Imperial Burlesque Show and making a princely seventy-five dollars a week -- enough that he could soon move his whole family off the Lower East Side, first to 106th Street near Central Park, later to Jewish Harlem. His father retired, though he continued to press his kids' clothes, including Cliff's tuxedos.

Max expanded his theater-going to Broadway -- legit dramas, George M. Cohan's musicals. He supported the habit by selling score cards and peanuts at the Polo Grounds when the Giants were in town. Despite Cliff's urgings, he dropped out of Townsend Harris Hall -- in effect the prep school for City College, where Yip Harburg, Ira Gershwin and Paul Muni also went -- to take a job as an advance man for a touring burlesque show. He'd go into a town ahead of the show to put up posters and do p.r. At seventeen he was traveling around the country in the company of chorus girls, low comics and cigar-sucking impresarios, getting a type of education he never would have gotten at home.

Cliff's star meanwhile continued to rise. He was never the headliner, but he got near. On big-time vaudeville circuits he filled the toughest spot on the program: he was a "closer," the last act of the show, who came on right behind the headlining star. Closers were also known as chasers, because the audience, having just enjoyed the big star, often started walking out on them. Vaudevillians called it playing to the haircuts. It's said that Cliff's monologues were so funny and timely that audiences stayed and roared -- until one day in 1913, when he took on the daunting burden of closing for the grande dame of divas, Sarah Bernhardt.

Bernhardt had been coming to America since 1880, was approaching seventy, and though some critics had ceased to be kind to her a decade earlier, her fans still adored her. Martin Beck of the Chicago-based Orpheum vaudeville circuit startled all of show biz when he convinced her to stoop from legit theater for the first time. Rumor was he agreed to pay her $500 -- in gold coins -- after each performance. (She'd learned a few things in a lifetime in show business.) Touring his Midwest vaudeville houses in preparation for a three-week stand at the new Palace in Times Square, she slayed audiences with excerpts from her tear-jerking greatest hits -- Tosca, Camille, Racine's Phedre.

Cliff was booked to close for her at the Majestic in Chicago that April. He told Max he wasn't sure he could make a crowd laugh right after La Bernhardt had them all sobbing and weeping, but he'd give it his best shot.

Even for a successful performer vaudeville was a precarious life and an exhausting two-show-a-day grind. Cliff had been suffering migraines. At the April 21 matinee, Bernhardt got the whole house bawling with her Tosca. Cliff, his head pounding, walked out to a cold and distracted reception. After struggling to get a chuckle out of them for five minutes he left the stage to no applause. He hadn't laid such an egg since the early days with Will Fox. Legend has it he moaned to the Majestic's manager backstage, "Any comedian who tries to follow Bernhardt is bound to die." He went back to his hotel room to gear up for the evening performance. Apparently he drew a hot bath and took some of his migraine medicine. When he didn't appear for the evening show, they broke down the door to his room and found him on the floor. A doctor on the scene called it a heart attack. He was thirty-two.

Desolate, Max soldiered on. He formed a partnership with Al Lewis. Another son of Polish Jewish immigrants to the Lower East Side, Al had also done a Dutch act. After some rough sledding at first, their Lewis & Gordon booking and producing agency earned a reputation for developing classy one-act plays to insert into vaudeville programs. One of the early ones was Eugene O'Neill's In the Zone, which had premiered in Greenwich Village.

Max was one of the few people in show business who became friends with the imperious Edward Albee, the playwright's adoptive grandfather, who ran the Keith-Albee circuit and was generally considered one of the meanest sonsabitches in vaudeville. In 1927 Max engineered a late-career comeback for one of everybody's favorite old troupers, Eddie Foy, Sr., who'd been on the boards clowning and hoofing since the days of minstrelsy (Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday had caught his act out West) and raised seven children in the theater. Bob Hope plays him in the 1955 film The Seven Little Foys. Foy even died on stage, of a heart attack, at the Orpheum in Kansas City in 1928.

By then vaudeville itself was dying. Everybody in it struggled to adapt to the big changes motion pictures were making to the entertainment industry. Lewis and Gordon broke up the partnership. Lewis went to Hollywood to work for Cliff's old partner, William Fox. Gordon watched in dismay as the upstart Joseph Kennedy took over Albee's empire, which became RKO. Fox invited Max out to Hollywood too. Max would later dabble in film, unhappily, at the urging of his friends the Marx Brothers, and produce a little television as well, with equally muted results. But for now he went in another direction: to Broadway.

Max and Al had previously put on a few shows there, including one hit. In 1925 they produced a play close to both their hearts: Samson Raphaelson's The Jazz Singer, set on the Lower East Side where they and Raphaelson had grown up. They did it at the small Fulton Theatre on W. 46th Street, formerly the Folies-Bergere (and much later renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre, which it remained until it was torn down with its neighbors in the 1980s to make way for a giant Marriott). George Jessel, who'd been doing vaudeville since he was a kid, starred as Jakie Rabinowitz. The newspaper critics found it too schmaltzy, but it was a big hit with audiences. When Warner Brothers bought the rights to film it they decided it should be a musical -- the stage version was a play with some incidental music -- using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. They clashed with Jessel over money -- he demanded more to do sound -- and over the simple fact that he couldn't sing. The studio went with Jolson, who had inspired Raphaelson in the first place, and had already done a popular Vitaphone short, A Plantation Act.

Now it was the 1930s, and the Depression was laying waste to Broadway. Yet Gordon thrived there. His very first production was a hit. Three's a Crowd was a little musical revue with a lot of talent participating: Clifton Webb, Libby Holman (whom Webb nicknamed the Statue of Libby), Fred Allen and Fred MacMurray on stage, with songs for Holman like "Body and Soul" and "Something to Remember You By," and Max's pal Groucho contributing some gag material. It ran from October 1930 into the summer of '31. He followed it directly with more hits -- the revue The Band Wagon, starring Fred and Estelle Astaire, which featured "Dancing in the Dark"; a Jerome Kern musical, The Cat and the Fiddle, with Eddie Foy Jr. in the cast; Noel Coward's racy Design for Living, starring Coward, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who all co-produced it with Max.

In the 1933-'34 season he had four hits running simultaneously, a pretty stunning feat. The next season Gordon achieved what everyone said was impossible, convincing the Rockefellers to back his idea for a lavish operetta about the Strausses, The Great Waltz, to be performed in the large Rockefeller Center Theatre (the companion to Radio City Music Hall, torn down in the 1950s). At three dollars a ticket in the depths of the Depression it filled the 3500-seat hall with families and tourists, ran for more than 250 performances and made tons of money. Max's friend Cole Porter doffed his cap in lines from "Anything Goes," "When Rockefeller still can hoard/ Enough money to let Max Gordon/ Produce his shows,/ Anything goes."

On the street they called Max a miracle worker. But it didn't all come easy. Over twenty years producing on Broadway he'd have his huge successes and his miserable flops. The flops could send him into bleak depression. When things weren't rolling his way he might go to the top of a stairway or a window ledge and threaten suicide. Remembering the peculiar way his brother had died, people took him seriously. More than once he would seek professional psychiatric help.

Through it all his broad interests and tastes showed in the range of comedies, dramas and musicals he put on the stage. They included George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's flag-waving spectacle The American Way, starring Fredric March; the historical costumer The Farmer Takes a Wife, starring the young Henry Fonda, who'd soon head to Hollywood to get his screen debut in the Fox film adaptation; Othello with Walter Huston (another vaudeville vet) in the lead and Brian Aherne as Iago, a flop; Huston in the much more successful Dodsworth, from the Sinclair Lewis novel, later made into a film; Clare Boothe's satire The Women, another big hit adapted for film; Ethan Frome, with Ruth Gordon, Tom Ewell and Raymond Massey; Kern's musical Roberta, which yielded the standard "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" and helped make Bob Hope a star; Cole Porter and Hart's musical Jubilee, soon forgotten except for "Begin the Beguine," a giant hit for Artie Shaw a few years later; the massive hit My Sister Eileen, which ran from 1940 into 1943 with Shirley Booth in the role Rosalind Russell plays in the movie; and Born Yesterday, the Judy Holliday vehicle she reprised on film. His last production was the hit The Solid Gold Cadillac, with the great Josephine Hull (Aunt Abby in Arsenic and Old Lace), which ran from 1953 into 1955. Holliday stars in the 1956 film adaptation.

Through a long retirement Max couldn't resist kibitzing and threatening to come back and do one more play, but he never did. He died in 1978.

by John Strausbaugh

(photo: Cliff Gordon)

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