#Penny Stanton

[kwebtv]

Character Actress

Pierina Burlando (September 2, 1916 – May 12, 1999) was an American film, stage and television actress known professionally as Penny Santon or Penny Stanton.  She was known for playing the role of "Mama Rosa Novelli" in the American crime drama television series Matt Houston.  (Wikipedia)

From 1952 to 1998 she made appearances in over 100 TV Series:

IMdB Listing

[70s80sandbeyond]

A large group of Hollywood stars assembled outside the gate at Paramount Pictures in 1987

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From left to right (front row):

Martha Raye, Dana Andrews, Elizabeth Taylor, Frances Dee, Joel McCrea, Harry Dean Stanton, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Beals, Marlee Matlin, Danny de Vito.

(Second row) Olivia de Havilland, Kevin Costner, Cornel Wilde, Don Ameche, Deforest Kelley, Tom Cruise, Charlton Heston, Penny Marshall, Bob Hope, Victor Mature, Elizabeth McGovern, Robert de Niro.

(Third row) Andrew McCarthy, Henry Winkler, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack, Mark Harmon, Faye Dunaway, Buddy Rogers, Gregory Peck, Debra Winger, Timothy Hutton.

(Fourth row) Jane Russell, Mike Connors, John Travolta, Janet Leigh, Charles Bronson, Ted Danson, Lou Gossett Jnr, Ryan O?Neal, Rhonda Fleming, Leonard Nimoy.

(Fifth row) William Shatner, Peter Graves, Molly Ringwald, Dorothy Lamour, Olivia Newton-John, Cindy Williams, Matthew Broderick, Gene Hackman, Walter Matthau, Robin Williams.

[deullinique]

Paramount Pictures 1987

From left to right - front row - Martha Raye, Dana Andrews, Elizabeth Taylor, Frances Dee, Joel McCrea, Harry Dean Stanton, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Beals, Marlee Matlin, Danny de Vito.

Second row - Olivia de Havilland, Kevin Costner, Cornel Wilde, Don Ameche, Deforest Kelley, Tom Cruise, Charlton Heston, Penny Marshall, Bob Hope, Victor Mature, Elizabeth McGovern, Robert de Niro.

Third row - Andrew McCarthy, Henry Winkler, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack, Mark Harmon, Faye Dunaway, Buddy Rogers, Gregory Peck, Debra Winger, Timothy Hutton.

Fourth row - Jane Russell, Mike Connors, John Travolta, Janet Leigh, Charles Bronson, Ted Danson, Lou Gossett Jnr, Ryan O’Neal, Rhonda Fleming, Leonard Nimoy.

Fifth row - William Shatner, Peter Graves, Molly Ringwald, Dorothy Lamour, Olivia Newton-John, Cindy Williams, Matthew Broderick, Gene Hackman, Walter Matthau, Robin Williams.

Back row - Ali MacGraw, Burt Lancaster, Scott Baio, Rhea Perlman, Bruce Dern, James Caan, Glenn Ford, Fred MacMurray, Shelley Long, James Stewart.

Photo by Terry O'Neill.

[perfectprettypisces]

Polar Opposites • B.R.B • Part 1

Pairing: Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw x OC

Synopsis: Coming up on his mid-thirties, Rooster feels like he should be married by now. But with every woman he dates, the simplest thing can turn him away. So when Phoenix’s picture-perfect cousin comes crashing back into her life as a runaway bride, he thinks it must be fate. 

Warnings: lowkey sleazy behavior, swearing

WC: 3.5k

a/n: ahh the first part to what is hopefully a new series! been wanting to write something involving both Rooster and Phoenix for a while so let me know what y'all think and if you want to be added to a taglist! (and to clarify, this is not a love triangle between Rooster, OC, & Phoenix)

Series Masterlist • Top Gun Masterlist

Next Part

“Are you reading a newspaper?”

Fanboy looks up at Hangman’s incredulous question and nods. “Yeah, what about it?”

“I’m sorry, I just didn’t know you were 80,” he remarks sarcastically, lining up to take his shot.

“Dude, you’d be surprised about the type of wild shit that’s in here,” Fanboy counters, flipping open the newspaper to one of the advertisements. “Look at this: ‘Stepdaughter of famous record producer, Charles Fritz, set to marry Jesse Stanton, heir to the Stanton fortune’. It says this guy’s set to be the next Bill Gates or something.”

“So? It’s rich kids marrying other rich kids, not that big of a deal,” Hangman shrugs.

“Says the guy with a trust fund and a ‘winter home’ in Aspen,” Bob scoffs.

“Don’t the Hayes’ have a house in the Hamptons too?” Payback adds in, raising a challenging eyebrow at his friend.

“Again, it’s not that big of a deal and their house is in Nantucket, not the Hamptons,” Hangman replies, causing the rest of them to let out chuckles of disbelief at his shamelessness.

“Yeah, because that makes it so much more relatable,” Rooster butts in from afar, earning himself a middle finger from Hangman before returning to his previous conversation.

It’d been a long day at the beach with multiple games of dogfight football and Penny had been gracious enough to open the doors to The Hard Deck a couple of hours early for Maverick and his squadron to wind down. 

Coyote and Fritz were aimlessly throwing darts at the dartboard while Payback and Hangman played against Bob and Fanboy in a casual game of pool. Rooster sat on top of the bar, locked in a conversation with Halo and Phoenix with Penny occasionally adding her two cents in. Yale, Harvard, and Omaha were long gone, opting to head back to the barracks to shower and take a well-deserved nap on their day off.

Rooster’s beginning to envy them the further he gets into his conversation with Phoenix and Halo.

“Like I was saying, that is the stupidest reason to ghost someone,” Phoenix scoffs, rolling her eyes when Rooster looks at her incredulously.

Phoenix had asked him about the woman he’d been seeing the past couple of weeks, forcing him to begrudgingly admit that he’d ghosted her just a couple of days prior. He wasn’t proud of it, but in his defense, he had a good reason.

Or so he thought.

“I think it’s perfectly reasonable, thank you very much,” Rooster defends.

“Ghosting a girl just because she thought Air Force pilots and Navy pilots were the same thing is not reasonable,” Halo chides.

“Yes, it is,” the rest of the guys chorus from their respective spots.

Rooster tips his bottle to all of them in thanks.

“Bradshaw, this is, like, the third girl in the past two months,” she says and Rooster can tell she’s trying her hardest to hold back a judgy tone. “For a man who wants to get married so badly, you sure are picky.”

Hangman comes up from behind Phoenix and tosses his arm around her shoulder. “Nothin’ wrong with bein’ a little picky, Phoenix,” he says before pointing his beer bottle at Rooster. “‘Specially when you got options like ol’ Rooster here.”

Rooster has to resist the urge to cringe at Hangman’s choice of words. Sure, he was trying to defend him in his own slightly twisted way, but it still didn’t make him feel any less…sleazy.

“You’re a sleaze,” Phoenix responds, nudging his arm off her shoulder.

“Need me to ring it?” Penny asks, gesturing to the bell while eying Hangman threateningly.

Phoenix smiles gratefully but shakes her head, turning back to Rooster. “All I’m trying to say is you’re never gonna find ‘the one’ if you keep dropping girls the second they do or say something weird,” she says. “What about Kristen? She’s cute and you even said you could see it going somewhere.”

He had said that. In retrospect, Kristen was a good choice for him. She was a nurse on a base, so she was incredibly understanding of his demanding and somewhat unpredictable job. She never pressed him when he would shut down at the mention of his parents and as douchebag-y as it sounded, it didn’t hurt that she was good in bed.

They had been on a handful of dates a few months prior and things were going well. He didn’t exactly have a good reason why he never asked her out again after.

Rooster just shrugs. “I don’t know, Nat,” he says truthfully.

“Y’know, Phoenix, if you’re such an expert on relationships maybe you should find Rooster a wife,” Hangman teases.

Before Rooster or Phoenix is able to come up with a retort, Maverick’s voice cuts them off.

“Uh, Phoenix? There’s a woman here looking for you.”

The confusion in Maverick’s tone has Rooster and everyone else’s interest peaked as they all turn to the entrance of The Hard Deck. Maverick beckons the stranger further into the bar and into everyone’s line of sight. Rooster can practically hear everyone’s jaw drop, his included.

This was probably the most stunning woman Rooster’s ever laid his eyes on and based on the expressions of everyone behind him, the sentiment was shared. Her hair was done up in a complicated-looking updo, the stray pieces coming free that would’ve looked messy on anyone else only helped frame her sharp features. Rooster could only assume she had makeup on from the way her eyes popped, though he’d never be able to tell without it due to how flawless her skin looked. The only flaws Rooster could make out were the slight mascara tracks beneath her eyes and the small pout that adorned her perfectly glossed lips.

The real kicker was her attire. She would’ve already stood out with her hair and makeup, but the wedding dress sealed the deal for sure. The silky white dress fit her like a dream and looked way outside of any of their price ranges, which made the dirt that laced the bottom of the gown seem infinitely more comical. The white heels she held in her left hand looked equally as expensive as the dress, but not nearly as expensive as the diamond that adorned her ring finger.

Everyone turned to look at Phoenix next as if she’d just magically poofed this woman out of thin air at Hangman’s request.

“Damn, you work fast,” Halo mumbles.

“Dude,” Rooster feels Fanboy nudge him as he walks up to the bar to get a closer look at the woman. He shoves the newspaper he’d been looking at in Rooster’s face and points to a column on the page. “That’s the girl in the wedding announcement.”

Rooster takes his eyes off the beautiful woman for a moment to see that in fact the woman in the photo was the same woman standing in front of them. The only difference was that the woman in the photo was smiling and standing next to an attractive-looking man, forming the stereotypical picture-perfect couple. The woman that stood before them looked anything but happy and was all alone. He skims the ad quickly until he realizes that the only thing missing from it is her name.

“TJ?” Phoenix exclaims, stepping out from behind the bar until she was in full view.

The stranger, who they could only assume is named TJ, sighs in relief and rushes toward Phoenix in a flurry of white, nearly tackling her to the floor with the force of her embrace.

Rooster has to bite back a laugh at the sight before him. Phoenix’s wide-eyed frame was clad only in a sports bra and nylon shorts, her arms squished against her torso as the distressed woman squeezed the life out of her. She couldn’t have looked less uncomfortable, a stark contrast to her counterpart who looked close to tears.

“Oh my God, Nat, thank God you’re here,” TJ sighs. She must’ve squeezed a little tighter due to the grunt that Phoenix lets out.

Phoenix brings her hand up and taps TJ on the arm as best as she can, trying to get her to loosen up. “T, kinda can’t breathe at the moment.”

“Sorry.” TJ pulls away apologetically but keeps Phoenix close, gripping her by her biceps. “You would not believe the morning I’ve had.”

Phoenix looks her up and down before her mouth settles in a wry smile. “I think I’ve got an idea,” she says, guiding her over to a bar stool and gesturing for her to sit. TJ’s already off on a tangent before either of them is fully settled in.

“I know we had a fight a couple of months ago about Jesse and you told me not to marry him, but I didn’t listen to you and uninvited you from the wedding because of it–”

“T–” Phoenix tries to interrupt, but TJ shows no signs of stopping.

“–which was really mean, so I’m really sorry about that by the way–”

“TJ.”

“–and I know we haven’t talked since, but I had no idea where else to go and then I remembered your dad saying you transferred down to North Island, so I took an Uber–”

“TJ!”

TJ’s mouth snaps shut and all her attention goes to Phoenix. “What?”

“Breathe.” Phoenix inhales through her nose and exhales through her mouth, gesturing for the woman to follow her movements. The two of them repeat the action until she’s breathing normally again.

“Need a drink, hun?” Penny asks, her maternal instincts on high alert as she places a comforting hand on the frazzled girl’s shoulder.

“Wine?” TJ asks, a hopeful glint in her eye.

Penny makes eye contact with Phoenix who is vehemently shaking her head. “How ‘bout I get you some water?” she offers with a kind smile.

TJ nods gratefully, albeit a little disappointed, and exhales a long breath. Rooster knows he shouldn’t think the little pout on her lips is cute, but he’d be lying if he said it wasn’t.

“Okay, how about you start from the beginning?” Phoenix offers calmly, side-eying the rest of the pilots who were now starting to become aware of the new presence.

TJ, seemingly unaware that it wasn’t just her and Natasha, slowly begins to recount the events leading up to her ending up at the bar. She explains how she’d been moments away from walking down the aisle when her step-father (who Rooster figured Phoenix wasn’t particularly fond of based on the way her entire body went rigid at the mention of his name) had made an off-handed, meant-to-be-funny comment about ‘signing her life away’, sending her into a full-blown freakout and frantically looking for the nearest exit.

She’d gone back to her dressing room under the guise of touching up her makeup and had slipped out one of the back doors of the church and into an Uber, convincing the driver to take her all the way from Los Angeles to North Island with the promise of a hefty tip. And while the guard at the gate wasn’t legally allowed to give out information on the whereabouts of specific officers, she also managed to convince him to offhandedly mention the name of the bar that aviators from North Island tended to frequent. In his words, that “may or may not include” the one she was looking for.

“And that’s how I ended up here,” TJ finishes as her shoulders drop in exhaustion, taking a large gulp of water Penny had given her in the midst of her storytelling.

By the time her story was done, a crowd had formed behind the two women, everyone from Rooster to Maverick hanging on to TJ’s every word. They all gawked at her, both mildly concerned at the amount she’d gone through to find Phoenix as well as thoroughly impressed by her powers of persuasion. In hindsight, her appearance as a beautiful yet frazzled bride had probably helped in that aspect.

Phoenix fumbles with her words for a second, opening and closing her mouth like a fish out of water before deciding on: “How did you know I’d be here?”

“I didn’t. I was fully committed to waiting here until you showed up or asking around until someone could tell me where I could find you,” TJ admits sheepishly. “I guess it was just luck that you happened to be here.”

Phoenix is about to respond when Hangman decides to ask the question on everyone else’s mind.

“Look, as much as I hate to break up this very sweet and very confusing reunion between you two lovely ladies right here, but what the hell is going on?”

TJ eyes Hangman with a curious look. “You must be Hangman,” she says. “Nat’s told me so much about you.”

“I am,” he says confidently. “And you are?”

She turns to Phoenix who was trying and failing to bite back a smile. “You were right.”

“Right about what?”

Phoenix makes the rounds of introducing everyone, stating their names and callsigns as TJ nods along before gesturing to the woman next to her. “Guys, this is Victoria Trace,” Phoenix introduces, ignoring Hangman altogether. “Also known as my cousin, TJ.”

Rooster has to stop his jaw from dropping. He’s known Phoenix for a long time, longer than he knew anyone else on the squad save for Maverick and he’d only heard brief mentions of this elusive cousin of hers. Doing a once over of her and then doing one of Phoenix, it was hard to tell they knew each other let alone were related to one another. It wasn’t that Phoenix was ugly; once upon a time, Rooster could’ve had a crush on her before their relationship took a turn for the platonic route, but nothing about these two women screamed family. 

“You’re related?!” Fanboy exclaims with a look of disbelief.

“Wait, right about what?” Hangman interjects.

“The hell you say it like that for?” Phoenix asks, shooting a glare his way and ignoring the latter’s comment.

“No, I didn’t mean it in a bad way, it’s just she’s all–” Fanboy makes an indignant noise gesturing to TJ with wild hands, “and you’re all–” he makes another indignant noise, trying and failing to emphasize his point.

The two women look at him with raised eyebrows, prompting him to finish whatever thought he was thinking. It’s the first semblance of similarity between the two, the challenging look on both of their faces scarily identical. Rooster figures it must be in the Trace blood, because he thought Phoenix’s look was intimidating before but doubling it just made it downright scary.

“What he means to say is that you guys just don’t look alike,” Rooster jumps in, saving Fanboy in the process. Besides the obvious difference in their attire, his statement was partially true: the dark hair and slight olive complexion were the only physical similarities Rooster could see between them.

TJ turns and her eyes make eye contact with Rooster’s. She seems stunned for a moment, her eyes raking up and down his figure slowly before settling back on Natasha. Rooster feels a hint of pride at the thought of Phoenix’s hot cousin checking him out like he’d been blatantly doing ever since she walked through the doors.

Phoenix gives the entire group a firm look and they take the hint, wandering off aimlessly, but still partially listening in on the conversation happening with one of their own.

She shakes her head, ignoring their not-so-subtle attempts at eavesdropping. “T, why’d you come all the way down here?” she speaks softly, concern evident in her tone.

TJ lets out a dejected chuckle, shaking her head. “Because I knew you’d be the only one to understand,” she sighs, eyes downcast with her pointer finger wiping away condensation drops on the glass of water in her hands. “My mom kept calling me on the entire ride here before she finally decided to text me and say if I didn’t come back immediately and go through with the wedding that she’d cut me off for good. That’s when I knew that I should’ve listened to you instead of pushing you away.”

She sighs before continuing, looking up at Phoenix with watery eyes. “Nat, you have every right to turn me away, but I really had nowhere else to go. God, I should’ve just listened to you from the start and none of this would’ve happened.”

That seems to pull at Phoenix’s heartstrings enough, her eyes softening and her hand coming up to rub up and down her cousin’s back. “T, no matter what: we’re family and I’d never turn you away. Not like this, not ever,” she says seriously, moving to wrap her arm around her shoulder. “You can stay with me until everything blows over and then we’ll figure out your next move.”

Rooster’s breath hitches at her statement. There was one thing that Phoenix seemed to not remember and it was definitely going to bite Rooster in the ass later.

TJ exhales gratefully and wraps her arms around Phoenix in another tight hug, but this time, Phoenix hugs her back. She chants the words ‘thank you’ over and over again until Phoenix is chuckling and pulling away.

“On one condition,” Phoenix says sternly, holding up her right index finger.

“Yes, yes, anything,” TJ agrees eagerly.

“You have to let me call someone to tell them you’re okay,” she says, her voice just as firm as before. “It doesn’t have to be your mom or George, but at least one of your bridesmaids or someone at the wedding. They’re probably worried sick right now.”

Her cousin looks hesitant to agree, but she nods her head only moments later. “Okay, fine,” she concedes, though it doesn’t seem she quite believes what Phoenix is saying. She chews on her bottom lip, a move that forces Rooster to turn away before he gets distracted. “You can tell your dad and Julian but that’s it.”

Phoenix doesn’t seem too surprised that her cousin would only want her dad and older brother to know about her whereabouts rather than her own parents as she agrees without hesitation. “Deal. Let’s go back to my place, I’ll let my dad and Julian know, you can get out of this–” she gestures wildly to TJ’s bridal ensemble with a grimace, “–and we’ll figure everything out.”

“Alright, good plan,” TJ nods, hopping out of the bar stool and placing the empty glass on the countertop behind her. “Thank you,” she nods at Penny before turning to address the rest of the group, “and it was really nice meeting you all. Hopefully the next time we meet I’ll be a little less…disheveled,” she jokes as she also motions down at her clearly out-of-place attire.

Everyone waves and mutters some sort of goodbye, completely failing at hiding the flabbergasted looks on their faces.

“Alright, I’ll see you guys la–oh shit, Rooster.” Phoenix presses a hand to her forehead as she remembers their agreement. “Shit, I forgot you were staying with me.”

Since Rooster’s apartment building was currently under renovation, Phoenix had graciously granted him rights to her guest bedroom since she was the only one with enough room to take him in. Rights that she seemed to have forgotten about until now.

Rooster waves her off. “I’ll take the couch, it’s fine,” he says, sparing a glance over TJ. Her eyes were once again wandering over his frame and he has to fight the urge to sit up a little taller.

“Are you sure?” It’s TJ who seems concerned this time. “I’m already putting Nat out and I’d hate to do the same to you.”

Her tone is so sweet, it’s almost sickening. He knows that if he asked her anything in that tone of voice again, he’d agree no matter what it was. Shit, this was not going to be good. Being in close proximity to the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen who also happened to be his best friend’s cousin seemed like a bad idea. Tack on the fact that she was literally about to marry another man a mere couple of hours before their first meeting and you get a recipe for disaster.

“Yeah, positive,” he nods, wondering if it was still too late to ask Hangman to stay with him. He pushes that idea down when he remembers why he didn’t ask in the first place.

“Okay, as long as you’re okay with it,” Phoenix says hesitantly, inching toward the door with TJ following behind her. “I’ll see you back at the house?”

Rooster nods again and bids his goodbyes. TJ offers him a small smile and a wave which he gladly returns. The door closes behind them and with a final flash of white, they’re both gone. Rooster lets out a breath he didn’t know he was holding, sweeping a stressed hand over his face. He turns to see the rest of the guys and along with Halo and Penny looking at him with unreadable expressions.

“What?” he asks, shrinking under their gazes.

Hangman lets out a low whistle. “Dude…you’re fucked.”

[alwayschasingrainbows]

"The story went that when Stanton Grundy said to Penny, "I hear you're engaged," Penny had turned all colours and said feebly, "Well, it's not--not an engagement exactly--more like--like an experiment." 

Tangled Web by L. M. Montgomery

Penny Dark:

[akwarts]

Things are pretty turbulent right now. The working class is being abused. Productivity is higher than it's ever been, but wages haven't risen to match or even kept up with inflation. Despite profits being at record highs, our wages are lower than they were two generations ago if you account for purchasing power. My grandparents made about $800 a month and their mortgage was $50. Most people where I live make $2,500 - yet the mortgage for a 2-bedroom home is $2,600. If you want to *RENT* that exact same home, you'll be paying $3,000 because the owner has you paying the mortgage, plus a profit.

(Yeah most people need roommates into their late 30s here, or one partner's entire pay goes toward housing.)

I'm also pretty sure all this anti-LGBTQA and pro-choice nonsense isn't about morality at all; it's about making sure the USA doesn't fall into a population crisis like the rest of the world.

Thing is, there's no such thing as a population crisis, except with endangered species and in capitalism. The world has finite resources; wouldn't fewer people be better? Fewer people means more resources to go around. I realized recently that they use our Social Security to scare us on this point. They claim that if we don't have babies, there won't be enough people paying taxes when we're old to support our SSI - but that's not how SSI works. We're paying into it NOW, actively, and if they'd keep their grubby fingers off of it, it would be fine from generation to generation. Thing is, they keep dipping into it like it's a petty cash box. But regardless, the idea that it will be paid by our children is nonsensical and a blatant scare tactic to get us to breed, because THEY need it, not because we need it.

The only way fewer people (when there are already 8,000,000,000 people on the planet) is a bad thing is because it means less worker bees.

Especially since the worker bees are more easily exploited if they're desperate, and what makes them desperate? Feeling replaceable - which requires lots of other worker bees waiting to replace them. That can't happen when there are fewer people and more than enough jobs to go around. Just the other day, a real estate giant was televised at The Australian Financial Review Property Summit saying that workers are "arrogant," and think employers are lucky to have them when they need to think they're lucky to have jobs. He had the audacity to say that "we" (as in him and the owning class) need to "create a recession" and "we need unemployment to go up, ideally 40-50%."

SCREW. HIM.

Your time is a commodity that YOU own. Time is more valuable than money. All acquisition of money is for the purpose of being able to get back your time and be able to enjoy it.

YOU. OWN. YOUR. TIME.

And they don't like it. They don't want you to know that.

Because it's the most valuable thing on Earth. Without it, they have no one to make their products or perform their services. Without YOUR TIME, they would be broke.

So they want really badly to be able to own it. To make you feel like it doesn't actually belong to you. For you to feel "lucky" to give it away to them for pennies on the dollar of what you will make for them.

As Andrew Stanton, Donald McEnry, and Bob Shaw said (writers of A Bug's Life) "Those puny little ants outnumber us 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life."

Well, guess what.

In the US, people like us outnumber billionaires by 412,500 : 1.

Globally, we outnumber them 2,504,696:1

Let's help each other figure it out.

Let's take back our lives.

ACT. In any way you can. Don't be passive; it enables them.

EDUCATE. They are terrified of a well-educated working class, so learn something every day. If you don't understand something as well as you'd like, read/watch/listen to as many sources as you can until you do. Never repeat something you see or hear unless you verify it by doing your own research. I like to do this by reading at least three separate articles from different sources, and then looking into the backstory of an issue. If you can afford to, go back to school, even if it's just online community college classes after work. Most importantly, share what you know. Teach others, if you can, with loving intention and their consent. Try to really connect and think of teaching as an opportunity to lift people up, not show off how smart you are. I mean, smart is sexy, but smart and humble? F'whoosh!

INCITE. You know that expression, "if you're paying attention, you should be angry"? Yeah, that's relevant here. Things are bad. If you look around and really take it in, the only people who shouldn't be angry are the super-wealthy, because they're on top and they're benefiting from the problems. Channel your anger into passion and drive, not rage or violence. Use that energy to make a positive difference, and inspire others to do the same.

ORGANIZ.: We really do outnumber them by 400,000 to 1 domestically and 2.5 million to 1 globally. They can push individuals around, and they can dominate a submissive, non-confrontational mass population. They can't take us all on. They control everything because they have so much more money than the average person, and can use it to buy power by putting it in the pockets of officials and politicians to influence our governing bodies. But when we group together and push back, we're stronger. That's why unions work, and why they HAAATE them. If we normalize unity, it won't be just unions, though. If we normalize unity, if we organize in everything, not just at work, we can really fight back. We can pool our resources to get our own lawyers and bill-writers and lobbyists to send to DC. We're not going to bribe officials like they do, but together we can make those "perks" and "gifts" and "donations" legally defined as the bribes they are and take the money out of politics. We can demand ethics and equal representation return to the norm for our elected representatives.

UPLIFT. We are all in this together. We are all housemates here on our home planet, and it's the only one we've got. They want us fighting. They want us to blame each other. They want us mad at teachers and burger flippers for wanting as much money as "skilled labor" instead of mad at our own employers for not paying us fairly, either. They want us mad at the migrant worker for "stealing our jobs" instead of mad at the person who exploits foreign workers, or the media for pushing that narrative when in reality, nobody else even wants those jobs. Because they're hard, dirty, exhausting, and have no growth potential. Even the Red vs. Blue thing is manufactured. They're playing us against each other so that we're too busy in-fighting to face the real threat with any effectiveness. Don't let them. Learn to recognize your peers, have compassion for your fellow humans, and uplift others. If the status quo is to think of the other person, we all do better. It is possible to thrive.

Just remember that you can't take care of others if your own basic needs are not met. That's what the Y is for - YOU. In a world where we all look out for one another, everyone's needs get met - but we're still fighting for that world. So, for now, please, don't forget to breathe, rest, sleep, take a break, drink some water, connect with people, and do something that makes you happy when you can.

In other words, please, take care of yourself. For me. For all of us. Okay? Credit to the podcasts and video documentary makers I follow regularly. I learned a lot of this from them, and I'm sure much of what I've said here echos their own statements. They are: https://www.youtube.com/c/SecondThought https://www.youtube.com/@ThenNow https://www.youtube.com/@JamesJani https://www.youtube.com/@FDSignifire https://www.youtube.com/@leejamiller ... and a whole lot more. I'll have to make a bigger list sometime.

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

British actor Tobias Menzies, Emmy winner for Netflix’s “The Crown,” has joined the cast of Apple Original Films’ Formula One racing feature.

Tobias Menzies is part of the Brad Pitt-starrer Formula One, directed by Joseph Kosinski and co-produced by seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton.

Seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton will produce the project through his Dawn Apollo Films banner. Maybe he’ll make a cameo. Bruckheimer and Chad Oman will produce for Jerry Bruckheimer Films, alongside Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment.

Formula 1 and its teams and the FIA (Federation Internationale de l’Automobile) are also behind the project. Penni Thow serves as executive producer.

Backed by Apple, the movie will see Pitt take on the role of a former driver who returns to the sport, as per the official synopsis.

The Formula One film is set to have a cinema release, and running exclusively worldwide for at least 30 days before becoming available on the Apple TV+ platform.

Filming will start later this summer.

Tobias Menzies | Photo Credit: AP

Tobias Menzies will Star next play the lead role of Edwin Stanton in Apple TV+’s upcoming period drama shows Manhunt, about the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Manhunt Carl Franklin will direct, and Tobias Menzies will star as Stanton. The series is being produced for Apple TV+ and will release in August 2023.

The truth is that he’s very busy these days 🤩

#BradPitt #TobiasMenzies #Joseph Kosinski #F1 #LewisHamilton #FIA # AppleTV+ #Manhunt #FederationInternationaledel’Automobile

[libero-de-mente]

Paramount Pictures 1987

From left to right - front row - Martha Raye, Dana Andrews, Elizabeth Taylor, Frances Dee, Joel McCrea, Harry Dean Stanton, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Beals, Marlee Matlin, Danny de Vito.

Second row - Olivia de Havilland, Kevin Costner, Cornel Wilde, Don Ameche, Deforest Kelley, Tom Cruise, Charlton Heston, Penny Marshall, Bob Hope, Victor Mature, Elizabeth McGovern, Robert de Niro.

Third row - Andrew McCarthy, Henry Winkler, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack, Mark Harmon, Faye Dunaway, Buddy Rogers, Gregory Peck, Debra Winger, Timothy Hutton.

Fourth row - Jane Russell, Mike Connors, John Travolta, Janet Leigh, Charles Bronson, Ted Danson, Lou Gossett Jnr, Ryan O’Neal, Rhonda Fleming, Leonard Nimoy.

Fifth row - William Shatner, Peter Graves, Molly Ringwald, Dorothy Lamour, Olivia Newton-John, Cindy Williams, Matthew Broderick, Gene Hackman, Walter Matthau, Robin Williams.

Back row - Ali MacGraw, Burt Lancaster, Scott Baio, Rhea Perlman, Bruce Dern, James Caan, Glenn Ford, Fred MacMurray, Shelley Long, James Stewart.

[fanvisionstudios2004]

Over the Hedge: The Big Heist is an American computer-animated heist comedy film loosely based on the comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry and T. Lewis. Produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is the sequel to Over the Hedge (2006). The film is directed by Joel Crawford and co-directed by Karey Kirkpatrick from a screenplay written by Paul Fisher, Bob Logan, and Kirkpatrick and produced by Bonnie Arnold. The music for the film was composed by Heitor Pereira and songs were written by Ben Folds.

In the film’s ensemble voice cast, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, Thomas Haden Church, Allison Janney, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, Avril Lavigne, and Omid Djalili reprised their roles from the first film, with the exception of Bruce Willis (who retired from his acting career in 2022), Gary Shandling (who passed away in 2016), William Shatner, and Nick Nolte, all of whom are replaced by Stephen Stanton, Drew Massey, and Jess Harnell.

Based on the storyline of the 2006 tie-in video game, the film follows RJ, Hammy, Verne, and the gang, who feel that they need to have more things for the log. This leads them on a wild romp through six different areas to snatch different things while avoiding the Verminator during their heist, who tries to defeat them by using a mind-controlled vermin he has captured as his henchmen.

A sequel to Over the Hedge was first announced, with Karey Kirkpatrick returning and Joel Crawford helming the project. As with DreamWorks' previous films The Bad Guys and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the inspiration for the film's animation style came from Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which gives it a visual style that resembles storybook illustrations. To make the film look like a comic strip, the team focused more on a Peanuts Movie style design by using new technology, different than what it was in the first film, which utilized the realistic style like Shrek (2001).

The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its animation, voice acting, writing, and humor, with many deeming it superior to its predecessor.

Cast

Steve Carell as Hammy, a hyperactive American red squirrel.

Wanda Sykes as Stella, a short-tempered, sassy stripped skunk.

Thomas Haden Church as Dwayne LaFontant, an over-zealous, middle-aged pest exterminator nicknamed the "Verminator".

Allison Janney as Gladys Sharp, the president of the El Rancho Camelot Estates Home Owners Association.

Eugene Levy as Lou, a North American porcupine and Penny’s husband.

Catherine O’Hara as Penny, a North American porcupine and Lou’s wife.

Avril Lavigne as Heather, a Virginia opossum and Ozzie’s teenage daughter.

Omid Djalili as Tiger, a Persian cat and Stella’s fiancé.

Stephen Stanton as RJ, a duplicitous, selfish, con artist, and extremely intelligent raccoon, and Ozzie, a Virginia opossum and Heather’s father.

Drew Massey as Verne, a naturally cynical ornate box turtle and leader of the foragers.

Jess Harnell as Vincent, a murderous, sadistic and conscienceless American black bear.

Shane Baumel, Sami Kirkpatrick, and Madison Davenport as Spike, Bucky and Quillo, Lou and Penny's three identical children. They appear through the use of previously-recorded material from the first film and the 2006 tie-in video game.

Brian Stephane as Nugent, an excitable Rottweiler whose only spoken word is "Play!". He otherwise communicates by barks.

Charlie Schlatter as Milton, a mole who is mind-controlled by Dwayne LaFontant.

[777wave]

"We always need to be asking ourselves, 'What is the next thing that could kill us?'"

- Bill Gates

That's why he continually pushes his key people further in advancing technology projects at Microsoft - TECH PROJECTS MICROSOFT.

Microsoft works on many different tech projects to improve how people use computers and the internet. They make software like Windows and Office that help with writing, calculating, and organizing work. They also have projects in cloud computing with Azure, where businesses can store data and run programs online. Microsoft is exploring artificial intelligence to make computers smarter, and they make gaming consoles like Xbox for playing video games. They're always working on new ideas to make technology better and more useful for everyone.

—

2024 Microsoft Corporation Board of Directors

1. Reid Hoffman

2. Hugh Johnston

3. Teri List

4. Catherine MacGregor

5. Mark Mason

6. Satya Nadella

7. Sandra Peterson

8. Penny Pritzker

9. Carlos Rodriguez

10. Charles Scharf

11. John Stanton

12. Emma Walmsley

TECH PROJECTS MICROSOFT

T • Teri List

E • Emma Walmsley

C • Catherine MacGregor

H • Hugh Johnston

P • Penny Pritzker

R • Reid Hoffman

O

J • John Stanton

E

C • Carlos Rodriguez

C • Charles Scharf

T

S • Satya Nadella

S • Sandra Peterson

M • Mark Mason

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Photo:

CTTO

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#WindowsOfChange

[justasmallbloginabigklainefandom]

Meet Lavinia, from Stanton farm.

I McFucking did it and started a new save file. I am taking on the “hardest” farm type, namely the beach farm. I also remixed the Community Center bundles. After doing 3 of them, a change is welcomed. These photos were made when I just started. By now I have around 8 hours and I know I am committing to the bit by doing this on Switch (aka, no gameplay mods), but Merlin I forgot how slow this game is in the beginning. I’m in the middle of summer. My crop field is bigger and more organised, but oh BOY. I wanna focus on fish ponds in this game, which is going to be even more difficult.

The farm is named after Stanton High School, aka following the tradition of naming my farms after schools from the Dalton fic universe. Lavinia was sort of random. I just used a random name generator and waited for a name I liked. Her look is also random. She’s courting Penny and she has an orange cat named Minetta.

I also finally unlocked all my remixed bundles. In crafts room, I got the sticky bundle. I wish I had also gotten the wild medicine one, but alas. For the pantry, I got to alternatives for the quality crop bundle. Again, I really wished I would get a new bundle like garden, fish farmer or brewer. I am not sure if I should be relieved or disappointed that my fish tanks bundles haven’t changed at all, since I still fucking hate fishing, which makes it extra ironic that fishing skill is one of my highest. Usually, that one is the last to max out (Ivy still hasn’t reached level 5). At least I got two completely new ones for the boiler room (treasure hunter and engineer). Finally, the bulletin one. I got some alternative choices for Emily’s, and I got the children’s bundle and the forager’s bundle. That’s good enough.

[dasmuggler]

Various stars attend the Paramount Pictures 75th Anniversary Party in Los Angeles, January 1987. From left to right (front row): Martha Raye, Dana Andrews, Elizabeth Taylor, Frances Dee, Joel McCrea, Harry Dean Stanton, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Beals, Marlee Matlin, Danny de Vito. (Second row) Olivia de Havilland, Kevin Costner, Cornel Wilde, Don Ameche, Deforest Kelley, Tom Cruise, Charlton Heston, Penny Marshall, Bob Hope, Victor Mature, Elizabeth McGovern, Robert de Niro. (Third row) Andrew McCarthy, Henry Winkler, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack, Mark Harmon, Faye Dunaway, Buddy Rogers, Gregory Peck, Debra Winger, Timothy Hutton. (Fourth row) Jane Russell, Mike Connors, John Travolta, Janet Leigh, Charles Bronson, Ted Danson, Lou Gossett Jnr, Ryan O’Neal, Rhonda Fleming, Leonard Nimoy. (Fifth row) William Shatner, Peter Graves, Molly Ringwald, Dorothy Lamour, Olivia Newton-John, Cindy Williams, Matthew Broderick, Gene Hackman, Walter Matthau, Robin Williams. (Back row) Ali MacGraw, Burt Lancaster, Scott Baio, Rhea Perlman, Bruce Dern, James Caan, Glenn Ford, Fred MacMurray, Shelley Long, James Stewart. Photo by Terry O'Neill.

[circusbuggy]

[alienahellsparkle]

favorite characters from movies and series №5 (the last).

first row, from left to right: Elizabeth of Russia (from Secrets of the Palace 2000 (sorry for the accidental repetition) ), Eve (from Life-Size), Magenta (from Rocky Horror Picture Show).

second row, from left to right: Omide, Oache (Oaky) and Scaparici (from Maria și Mirabella în Tranzistoria), Sarah (from A Little Princess 1997), Taylor Harding (from Why Women Kill).

tried row, from left to right: Beth Ann Stanton, Simone Grove (from Why Women Kill). 

first row, from left to right: Vanessa Ives, Brona Croft.

second row, from left to right: Fenton, John Claire/Caliban (all these 4 characters from Penny Dreadful 2014).

[saevascaeva]

Se tomó la libertad de quitarle ese sombrero, con un cuidado exquisito, a pesar de ver esa mirada transparente con un gesto de sorpresa, incomprensión y... ¿animosidad? Andrew chasqueó la lengua en su paladar, sin dejar de mirarla. De no haber visto cierto miedo en aquellos ojos transparentes, no se habría sentido tan empoderado—. Vas a aceptarme, Kate.—murmuró por un momento en el que desvió sus azules de ella, para ver dónde tirar el sombrero de la fémina—. Vas a dejar de creerte todo lo que te ha dicho Elise, sobre mí.—volvió a ella, acortando un poco más la distancia—. Te ha metido pura patraña en la cabeza.—enarcó ambas cejas, hablando despacio y hasta con un toque comprensivo. No iba a aprovecharse mucho más de lo que ya lo estaba haciendo—. Porque sabes que es lo que quieres hacer.—emitió una pequeña sonrisa que rozó la sinceridad—. ¿Verdad?—alzó su mano, para apartar ese velo que la escondía de él. De todos, en realidad. Por decir ser fiel a un vampiro y luego verse a solas con otro—. Porque no te cabe en la cabeza que tu mejor contrincante a las cartas sea lo que tu amiga te ha dicho.—una excusa estúpida como otra cualquiera. Ese pequeño vicio que ambos compartían podía ser lo único, además de Elise, que les uniera. De una forma retorcida, en realidad.

@pennydreadfulrpg

[pennydreadfulrpg]

“ You'll never know what hit you, won't see me closing in, I'm gonna make you suffer. This hell you put me in, I'm underneath your skin, the devil within.”

Andrew Stanton-Phillips