#Richard Rusk

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Reunions

Relationship: Elaine Markinson x Reader

Summary: After pining for Elaine throughout college, you realise the feelings are mutual in a reunion party after graduation

Word count: 4131 characters

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Who in the right mind would think of hosting a graduation party? It was practically the end of an era, there was nothing else to talk about without building up relationships for it to fall away a year or two later, there was never a time where people actually stayed in contact after years of bustling careers and families, at least that was what your parents told you.

Despite that, you just had to see Elaine one last time, to preserve whatever memory you could of her before you left it up to fate, perhaps only it'll only be a fleeting glance, a recognizing wave that would lead to a false hope of another gathering. "You should call me sometime," someone would eventually say and no action would be taken or perhaps you'll simply never meet altogether.

With that in mind, you still walked past the multicoloured string lit doors, the sharp smell of liquor knocking the life out of you, someone slapped you on the back, hollering something inaudible amongst the blasting rock music, the revolving disco ball threw a glare straight at your eye and someone split foul liquor right on your shirt.

"What the fuck?!" You screamed but only heard of retreating trail of laughter. "Goddamn this-" A drown out call of your name to your right captured your attention, the tone all too familiar and sent a shocking pang to your chest.

You pushed past the dense welcoming crowd of people, the vile odour of teenagers coercing you to hold your breath.

"I heard from Richard that you wouldn't come- oh what happened to you?!" Her eyes raked down your damp t-shirt that was plastered to your skin which you pinched away. "An oscar winning welcome happened." You deadpanned but you were already trailing after her to the bar, your hand clasped in hers in a loose grip, her scent that blew into your face tinged with the sweetness of wine, it was no surprise that she was already tipsy before you could even have a good look at her.

You bumped into her back as she halted abruptly, her hair spilled more wisps of wine into your face than your damp shirt did as she whirled around in the barstool, lips rich in deep red that brought out the dreaded urge of grappling her into a long-awaited kiss right that moment.

"A bottle of red!" Her voice slurred and hauled you out of your reverie, you averted your gaze the bartender. "No can do lady." He gestured briefly to the limited storage of liquor with a curved thumb off his shoulder.

She let out a noise of annoyance, eyes slipping to you, the curl of her lips sent your heat rising up your face. "Give me the strongest icebreaker you have." She said it with a sultry growl, eyes aimed dangerously on you, tongue wetting her lips, extracting a ladened breath from your chest.

In another moment, shot glasses were served up on the counter disgustingly peppered with unknown crumbs and splay of sauces that was pink, green and blue all in different seconds.

You glanced warily at the concoction in contrast to her downing the drink and tsking deliciously with a quick cock of her head. "Drink up, isn't that what you're here for?"

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So there you sat, your vision moving a second slower than where you hoped your eyes would land, everything seemed amusing, from the way people were dancing to the way she slurred her words for it was muddled, filtered through the liquor that suffused your complexion a deep red blush.

Then in the next second, you were spinning with the world, there were hands grappling you on the length of a couch, the stench of wine soaking your consciousness, you knew it was her without seeing her, you tasted her lipstick, felt her cold hands dragging up your waist with slight scratch from her nails. You felt as if your skin wanted to tear away from your skeleton and claw into hers as her bitter sweet lips and sharp teeth clashed against yours fervently. She extracted every last breath out of you before you parted.

Each inhalation made you all the more drunk on her, yet the answer to her previous question laid sober in your mind, only to be squished off with another press of her lips, her lipstick fading off layer by layer, embedding along the expanse of neck and smearing right by the corner of your lips.

When you tore away from her, chest heaving with breaths, your senses torn apart with wine and her fragrance, you spoke your mind with a "no," in a complete daze. It was only when she glanced sluggishly at you that you truly unraveled yourself to her. "I wasn't here for the liquor."

It seemed that something formulated in her, blocks and pieces swirling together before you thought you caught a spark of realisation in her eyes, then her lips clashed with yours again, muddling out your thoughts yet it was diffident this time, her touch trembled upon your bare waist, she hid it, securing her grip on you. She couldn't say it, not here, not in the spur of the moment, when her senses were blurred out. Perhaps when the glare of the sun enlightened her on the matter once more, her decision would charge head first into her unrelentingly, to stay or to stay.

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Tremors 3 - Ritorno a Perfection

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo passati all’animazione, cercando di fare alternanza, e per cambiare abbiamo deciso di prendere in esame la Sony Animation Pictures con una delle loro commedie che trovo interessante, Hotel Transylvania. Il Conte Dracula, per proteggere sua figlia Mavis dagli umani, decide di costruire un hotel dedicato ai soli mostri e che possa…

[dukeofriven]

Slightly odd retcon here: in the first issue, Reed and Pals want to be the first people into space in order to beat the Damn Dirty Reds. Now in issue two Reed makes the more ambitious claim that the rocket was intended to reach Mars. Now, while Reed is the original hubristic idiot billionaire who thought he could rugged individualist his way into being The Best Rocket Guy, I'm not certain this particular claim ever comes up again.

[Lee, Stan (w), Jack Kirby (p), and George Klein (i)]. “The Fantastic Four Meet The Skrulls From Outer Space!” The Fantastic Four #2 (Jan 1962). The Fantastic Four Omnibus, vol 1. Eds. Corey Sedlmeier and Mark D. Beazley. Marvel: 2022 (Digital).

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Funcionário dedicado e marido exemplar, Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) leva uma vida pacata em Chicago. Enfrentando problemas financeiros, ele descobre que a empresa em que trabalha está negociando uma fusão que pode resultar em sua demissão. Aos poucos David passa a acreditar nesta possibilidade, devido a atos suspeitos de seu chefe e "melhor amigo" Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton). Quando Richard e sua sócia Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron) resolvem acompanhá-lo em uma viagem de trabalho corriqueira ao México, David vê a situação como a oportunidade ideal para fingir ter sido sequestrado e, desta forma, pedir um polpudo sequestro.

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Gringo

An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that’s about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Harold Soyinka: David Oyelowo Richard Rusk: Joel Edgerton Elaine Markinson: Charlize Theron Sunny: Amanda Seyfried Mitch Rusk: Sharlto Copley Miles: Harry Treadaway Angel Valverde: Yul Vazquez Bonnie Soyinka:…

[dailydeclassified]

"Did Israel Deliberately Attack the USS Liberty? Declassified Files Suggest Yes"

On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty, a United States Navy technical research ship, was attacked by Israeli Air Force jets and Israeli Navy motor torpedo boats in the Mediterranean Sea. The attack killed 34 crew members and wounded 171 others. The incident remains controversial to this day, and the release of declassified CIA files has shed new light on the events leading up to the attack and the aftermath.

   The Israeli government claimed that the attack was a case of mistaken identity, as the Israeli forces thought the USS Liberty was an Egyptian ship. However, many survivors and officials have disputed this claim, suggesting that the attack may have been intentional. In fact, a number of US government officials have come forward over the years to suggest that the attack was deliberate, and that Israel had hoped to sink the USS Liberty and blame the attack on Egypt, in order to draw the United States into the Six-Day War on their side.

   The declassified CIA files seem to support this theory. While the CIA's official position at the time was that the attack was a case of mistaken identity, the declassified files reveal that there were serious doubts within the agency about the Israeli government's version of events. For example, a memo from CIA Deputy Director Admiral Rufus Taylor to Director Richard Helms on June 13, 1967, stated that "the weight of evidence supports the conclusion that the attack was planned and deliberate." The memo also suggested that Israel had deliberately misled the United States about the identity of the ship, and that US officials had been reluctant to push the issue due to the strong US-Israeli relationship.

   Other declassified documents reveal that US officials were concerned about the impact of the attack on US-Israeli relations, and that they were reluctant to publicly criticize Israel. For example, a memo from US Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg to Secretary of State Dean Rusk on June 14, 1967, stated that "the President has sent messages to Prime Minister Eshkol expressing his concern over the attack on the Liberty. However, we do not want to take any public position which might embarrass the Israelis."

   The release of these declassified CIA files has rekindled debate over the USS Liberty attack and the role of the United States in the events leading up to it. While the official US government position remains that the attack was a case of mistaken identity, many survivors and officials continue to believe that the attack was deliberate, and that the United States was completed  betrayed by its ally, Israel.

   The declassified CIA files have also raised questions about the broader US-Israeli relationship. Critics argue that the United States has been too quick to support Israel, even when its actions are not in the best interests of the United States. Some also argue that the United States has not done enough to hold Israel accountable for its actions, including the USS Liberty attack.

   In recent years, there have been calls for a new investigation into the USS Liberty attack, in order to uncover the truth about what really happened. Survivors and family members of those who were killed in the attack continue to push for a full investigation, as they believe that the United States owes it to them to get to the bottom of what happened.

   In conclusion, the declassified CIA files have shed new light on the USS Liberty attack, and have raised important questions about the US-Israeli relationship. While the full truth about the attack may never be known, it is important for the United States to continue to investigate and uncover as much information as possible, in order to ensure that justice is done for the victims and their families.

REF - [https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site/uss%20liberty]

SEE ALSO - [https://twitter.com/CIADeclassified/status/1638289638673580036]

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Mejl koji je stigao školama: "Crnogorsku djecu ubijaću, za Rusiju"

Mejl koji je stigao školama: “Crnogorsku djecu ubijaću, za Rusiju”

Foto: Analitika/arhiva Dojave o podmetnutim bombama u podgoričkim školama, ili makar dio njih, stigle su sa e-mail adrese pod imenom “Richard Ramirez”, a autor se predstavio kao Vladislav Pozdnjakov iz ruske ekstremističke grupe Muška država, piše Portal Analitika. Mail, u koji je Portal Analitika imao uvid, imao je naslov – “Svi ćete umrijeti”. “Crnogorci, drski ste. Vodite proevropsku…

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THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1968

Secretary General Thant proposed several possible sites yesterday that he believes might be acceptable to Hanoi and Washington for preliminary peace talks. A spokesman said Mr. Thant was acting as a “third party to try to break the deadlock on the site.” Paris and other cities not named have been suggested to both parties. Meanwhile, in Washington, Secretary of State Rusk cautioned Hanoi not to lose an opportunity to enter peace talks by indulging in propaganda or miscalculating American resolve to reach a settlement 

North Vietnamese troops heavily shelled the American Marine outpost at Khe Sanh for the second straight day, the United States command reported. Military sources said they regarded the Increase in enemy belligerence around Khe Sanh as a phase in a rear-guard action rather than a sign of a renewed siege of the outpost.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a fugitive warrant charging Eric Starve Galt with conspiracy the murder of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The agency said Galt, who has used other names in the past, conspired from about March 29 to about April 5 with a man “whom he alleged to be his brother” to “injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate” Dr. King. 

In Washington, Attorney General Ramsay Clark criticized the recent order of Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago to “shoot to kill arsonists” and “shoot to maim looters” and said such a policy could lead to “a very dangerous escalation of the problems we are so intent on solving.” 

[vilmublue]

Since I earlier talked about the Varjak Paw books I loved, I wanna talk more about books I've loved when I was younger and still do.

The Brothers Lionheart is a 1973 Swedish children's fantasy book written by the around-here very famous Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren.

The story is about two brothers, one more young and timid and doesn't feel he can do much, while the older brother he admires is very beautiful, brave, charming, kind and popular–very much a hero and like a prince from a fairytale, deserving of the name Lionheart.

It's an interesting story, as most of it is spent in an afterlife that is like a world of its own where people live very much like they do in the living world, and where it turns out things aren't all happy and honky dory. This is another case of a children's book with dark stuff in it. It is even a bit controversial.

The story starts in Sweden during the early 20th century, in the house of a poor dressmaker whose husband was lost in the sea years ago, and now her young boy Karl Lion is bedridden and suffering from tuberculosis. One day, the customers talk and because they assume Karl is asleep, they mention that the boy will die soon.

Karl is obviously distraught, but is comforted by his older brother Jonathan Lion, who affectionally calls him Rusky, because he loves dry rusk biscuits and especially loves his younger brother, though Karl cannot really understand why as he considers himself quite ugly and dumb. Jonathan tells him stories about Nangijala, a world beyond death, a land of campfires, fairytales and adventures where his little brother can play free. He comforts Karl by reminding him that one day he will be with him in Nangijala and he wouldn't have to wait for long even if Jonathan lives super old, because time works differently in Nangijala, and the dead can visit from Nangijala in the form of white doves.

One day, there's a housefire and Jonathan saves his sick younger brother by lifting him on his back and jumping out of the high window, the older boy sadly dying from his wounds caused by the fall. Jonathan's mournful teacher writes about him on the newspaper, reminiscing how they had read about the brave Richard the Lionheart and how the boy deserves that name as well.

Quite soon afterwards, Rusky feels his death approaching fast and writes his mom a note "Don't cry, Mother. See you in Nangijala," the similar words he felt he had heard from Jonathan right before he had died from his wounds. That night he succumbs to his illness and dies, and arrives to Nangijala where he reunites with his brother (just try not to think about their poor mom losing all her children, husband and house.)

At first, the Cherry Valley of Nangijala seems like a beautiful paradise surrounded by mountains and filled with cherry blossoms, where people live in peace, kind of like an idealized version of an older time village and nature.

The two brothers do some cottagecore shit, fishing and living in a little house of their own (which even had the sign "The Lionheart Brothers" before they arrived.) Rusky is even able to swim and ride his very own horse despite not being able to do so in life and of course he's no longer ill. They have pet rabbits, too!

The villagers chat in the Golden Cockerel Inn and help and give to each other according to what each one needs. A woman named Sofia is very well-respected and seems like the leader of the village–she raises the special doves that can fly anywhere and borrow their feathery form for those who wish to visit their living relatives. How nice!

But turns out the neighboring Wild Rose Valley has been taken over by a cruel tyrant named Tengil of the Ancient Mountains, who wants to rule all of Nangijala. The people aren't free to leave the valley or even move outside their homes at certain times of the day, death sentences are very common and some are forced to hard work and slavery to death, so they obviously hate the guy. But they don't dare to oppose him–why?

Because he has an absolutely massive black dragoness on his side, who loves to snack on humans and weapons cannot harm her. If that wasn't bad enough, Katla the dragon's flames don't seem like your usual fire–her dark flames seem more like some sort of cursed poisonous fire that soon enough either kills or paralyzes everything it touches. People fear her so much that the words "Katla is coming" will make just about anyone lose their fighting spirit.

But a resistance is secretly growing and the brothers become a part of it...

There's also a movie made in 1977, which follows the story well, except for one character-specific scene I think they should've included and the ending portion with Katla that's sadly changed and didn't include the really cool scene in the book (likely because of budget reasons.)

Also, I'm now gonna talk about MAJOR SPOILERS regarding the ending of the book and what the author had to say about it:

So, Lindgren has stated that the adventures in Nangijala are Rusky’s dreams on his deathbed after he fell unconscious and Nangilima which he enters at the end of the book is the true afterlife, and like heaven as it is a truly good place with no evil unlike Nangijala. The controversial ending is more Rusky accepting and no longer fearing the unknown of death as he finally dies in real life. However, Lindgren doesn’t want this to spoil the fantasy of the book and very much supports children’s interpretations of it, saying that “If any of you ever tell this to your children, I will kill you” lol. She wrote a short “happily ever after” chapter to children who really wanted to know what happened next (which I just learned about,) which included the boys reuniting and living with their adoptive grandpa Mattias and their horses in the Apple Farm in Nangilima. A wild dog decided he wanted to come to people and became Rusky’s pet. The bad people like Tengil went to a place called Lokrume (described as not exactly a horrible place, but a one where they can no longer continue doing evil and have influence over others; though apparently it’s super awkward whenever Tengil and Jossi happen to pass by each other there) and no one knows where Katla and Karm went, maybe a mysterious place called Sorokaste. The boys’ mother went to Nangijala at first and Sofia took care of her. Eventually they both arrived to Nangilima and live together in a nice little house close to the Apple Farm, Sofia becoming kind of like a second mother to the boys, as they visit the women every day. The end.

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Gringo

Gringo Actors: David Oyelowo,Joel Edgerton,Charlize Theron Director: Nash Edgerton Country: américain,australien Genres: Comédie, Action Duration: 110

<p>Harold Soyinka travaille pour un groupe pharmaceutique dirigé par Elaine Markinson et Richard Rusk. Lorsque ces derniers décident de se lancer dans le commerce lucratif du cannabis médical, ils envoient Harold au Mexique pour le lancement de leur nouvelle usine de production. Ignorant que la société qu’il représente a trahi un dangereux cartel local, l’employé modèle échappe de justesse à un enlèvement. Perdu au fin fond du ... source https://fcine.tv/gringo-4564-streaming

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Brands that are NOT testing their products on animals.

It is important to know which companies are cruelty- free and to buy their products. We are living in world where money rules  and till now it was not easy to find eco options that will not cost us a small fortune. Even few years ago choice of those products was poor and quality was not measured by their price tag. I am so happy that now going to store I can actually buy cruelty- free products without sacrificing half of my paycheck.

Below is the list of the companies which are offering products that we all want to use.

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I loved reading this article, not because I agree with the writer’s argument (which is really stupid) but because it lists, very clearly and concisely, how much officials were harassed during the anti-war movement and provides a blueprint for doing it again.

Most activists stopped short of planting bombs and shooting police officers. But many still blew past the boundaries of what nearly everyone considered legitimate protest. Demonstrators not only directed chants of “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” at President Lyndon Johnson; they also accosted officials of his administration when they set out in public. In 1967, when Secretary of State Dean Rusk tried to attend a banquet of the Foreign Policy Association in New York, a radical group called Up Against the Wall, Motherfuckers (often called “the Motherfuckers” for short) threw eggs, rocks and bags of cows’ blood, though Rusk slipped into the hotel unscathed. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was spat upon in an airport and called a baby killer; on a visit to Harvard, a hostile mob encircled his car and rocked it back and forth until police spirited him to safety via a tunnel. Antiwar radicals even tried to set fire to McNamara’s Colorado vacation home — twice. A few years later, after he’d left government, someone tried to throw him off the Martha’s Vineyard ferry.

The confrontations continued after Johnson yielded the presidency to Richard Nixon. Since the 1950s, liberals had regarded Nixon — as they see Trump today — as having uniquely trampled on the norms of American political culture. “Certain charges are not made; there are unwritten rules in the game of politics,” wrote Richard Strout, in The New Republic in 1958. “But the lethal young Nixon does not accept these rules. He is out for the kill and the scalp at any cost.” Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., agreed, saying Nixon was “the only major American politician in our history who came to prominence by techniques which, if generally adopted, would destroy the whole fabric of mutual confidence on which democracy rests.” The belief (not unfounded) that Nixon would stop at nothing in pursuit of victory primed his critics to spy danger in his every move.

This reputation — combined with Nixon’s own polarizing rhetoric and his failure to quickly end the Vietnam War — fed the left’s desperation. In his first years as president, violent radicalism spiked: A presidential study pointed to a national “crisis of violence,” with some 41,000 bombings or bomb threats during his first 15 months in the White House. In this context, the far left continued to directly go after members of the administration and even the first family. Various Nixonites recounted harrowing incidents in their memoirs or interviews. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then a White House domestic policy aide, told Nixon in May 1970 that militants from Students for a Democratic Society had threatened to torch his Cambridge, Massachusetts, house, forcing his family to go underground. His 10-year-old son, John feared his father would be assassinated.

Julie Nixon, the president’s daughter, also paid a price. Often a target of invective — at one rally at Smith College, which she attended, a crowd of 10,000 chanted, “Fuck Julie and David Eisenhower” — she was set to graduate in the spring of 1970 when the campuses, in the wake of Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia, turned violent. Because of threats, the Secret Service insisted that the president not attend. Julie accepted the decision, writing to her father’s aide John Ehrlichman, “I truly think the day will be a disaster if he comes,” but the thought of her father missing the event brought her nearly to tears.

Hearing these stories, many will respond: Boo-hoo. What’s Julie missing her father at graduation compared to the strafing of Cambodia? But the point is not that Julie Nixon or Robert McNamara was done a grave injustice, any more than discomfort with the treatment of Sarah Sanders and Kirstjen Nielsen means seeing them as victims. The reason to maintain standards of conduct and preserve a non-political space of human interaction is not to protect particular politicians and government officials. It’s to protect America, to uphold the political culture we value.

I don’t value this political culture. It needs to be destroyed, not protected. Sure, I believe in civil argument and debate, but only starting from the grounds that all humans are human, and Republicans don’t fit that criteria. So I hope we keep taking inspiration from the examples above and getting nasty.

[anarcho-smarmyism]

“When popular resistance to Ngo Dinh Diem reached the level where he was

more of a liability than an asset he was sacrificed. On 1 November 1963. some of Diem's generals overthrew him and then murdered both him and his brother after they had surrendered. The coup, wrote Time magazine, "was planned with the knowledge of Dean Rusk and Averill Harriman at the State Department, Robert S. McNamara and Roswell Gilpatrick at the Defense Department and the late Edward R. Murrow at the U.S Information Agency."

Evidently Washington had not planned on assassinations accompanying the coup, but as General Maxwell Taylor, President Kennedy's principal military adviser, has observed: "The execution of a coup is not like organizing a tea party; it's a very dangerous business. So I didn't think we had any right to be surprised ... when Diem and his brother were murdered."

Donald Duncan was a member of the Green Berets in Vietnam. He has written about his training, part of which was called "countermeasures to hostile interrogation", ostensibly how Americans captured by Communists could deal with being tortured. Translations of an alleged Soviet interrogation manual were handed out to the class. The manual described in detail such methods as the "Airplane Ride" (hanging by the thumbs), the Cold-Hot Water Treatment, and the lowering of a man's testicles into a jeweler's vise, while the instructor, a Sergeant Lacey, explained some variations of these methods. Then a student had a question:

"Sergeant Lacey, the name of this class is 'Countermeasures to Hostile Interrogation,' but you have spent most of the period telling us there are no countermeasures. If this is true, then the only reason for teaching them [the torture methods], it seems to me, is so that we'll know how to use them. Are you suggesting we use these methods?"

The class laughs, and Lacey looks down at the floor creating a dramatic pause. When he raises his head, his face is solemn but his deep set eyes are dancing. "We can't tell you that, Sergeant Harrison. The Mothers of America wouldn't approve." The class bursts into laughter at the sarcastic cynicism. "Furthermore," a conspiratorial wink, "we will deny that any such thing is taught or intended."

At the US Navy's schools in San Diego and Maine during the 1960s and 1970s, the course had a different name. There, the students were supposedly learning about methods of "survival, evasion, resistance and escape" which they could use as prisoners of war. There was in the course something of survival in a desert, where students were forced to eat lizards, but the naval officers and cadets were also subjected to beatings, jarring judo flips, "tiger cages" — hooded and placed in a 16-cubic-foot box for 22 hours with a coffee can for their excrement — and a torture device called the "water board": the subject strapped to an inclined board, head downward, a towel placed over his face, and cold water poured over the towel; he would choke, gag, retch and gurgle as he experienced the sensation of drowning, just as was done to Vietcong prisoners in Vietnam, along with the tiger cages.

A former student, Navy pilot Lt. Wendell Richard Young, claimed that his back was broken during the course and that students were tortured into spitting, urinating and defecating on the American flag, masturbating before guards, and, on one occasion, engaging in sex with an instructor.”

-Killing Hope: U.S. Military and C.I.A. Interventions Since World War II by William Blum

[miguelmarias]

FRENZY

Se ha dicho que FRENZY (1972) representa, en la obra de Hitchcock, un retorno a los orígenes, una vuelta al cine que hacía en su país natal, antes de emigrar a Estados Unidos y convertirse en un cineasta americano. El "regreso aéreo" a Londres que constituye el genérico de FRENZY, la muy británica música de Ron Goodwin, el sabroso ambiente londinense que describe (los pubs, el mercado de Covent Garden, Picadilly, Leicester Square), el equipo técnico y artístico íntegramente inglés y el espléndido y macabro humorismo que baña casi todas sus secuencias, parecen corroborar tal afirmación.

Sin embargo, es radicalmente falso, fundamentalmente erróneo el pretender que existe entre FRENZY y películas como THE RING (1927), BLACKMAIL (1929), LOS 39 ESCALONES (1935), SABOTAGE (1936), o THE LADY VANISHES (1938) un mayor parentesco que entre estas y otras americanas, como REBECA (1940), NOTORIOUS (1946), THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (1955), VERTIGO (1958), PSICOSIS (1960) o CORTINA RASGADA (1966). Por el contrario, FRENZY es la lógica y, hasta cierto punto previsible culminación del nuevo estilo abordado por Hitchcock en LOS PÁJAROS (1963), explorado en CORTINA RASGADA y dominado ya en la incomprendida y magistral TOPAZ (1969). Para apoyar esta tesis bastará comparar el uso estructural del SUSPENSE en FRENZY y en otra película cuyo tema central es el del falso culpable, THE WRONG MAN (1956).

En el más antiguo de estos dos films, se nos presenta al protagonista, Christopher Emmanuel Balestrero (Henry Fonda), desde las primeras imágenes, para no abandonarle ya prácticamente nunca. Los personajes del drama son pocos: en rigor, Balestrero, su esposa Rose (Vera Miles), un abogado (Anthony Quayle), un detective y la entrevista silueta del verdadero culpable. En ningún momento dudamos de la inocencia de Balestrero: sabemos por qué ha ido a la agencia de seguros, que es una buena persona (la mera lección de Henry Fonda para interpretar su personaje nos convence de su honestidad), que no robó nada; nos inquieta que sospechen de él, y vemos que sus delatoras son unas histéricas irresponsables; compartimos su humillación ante la rutinaria desconfianza de la policía; tememos como él por la salud de Rose; nos abruma también la fatídica acumulación de circunstancias adversas que lo acusan; deseamos su libertad casi tanto como él. En resumen, Hitchcock ha logrado, unificando nuestro punto de vista con el suyo, que nos identifiquemos con Balestrero desde el primer momento al último.

Veamos, en cambio, que ocurre en FRENZY. Lo primero que Hitchcock nos presenta, y con no poca ironía, es el "cuerpo del delito": una mujer, desnuda y estrangulada con una corbata, que flota por el Támesis. Poco después conocemos a un tal Richard Ian Blaney (Jon Finch, actor poco conocido y no especialmente simpático: "nada ideal"), personaje un tanto amargado, poco trabajador, de temperamento violento e inestable, no muy de fiar. Poco a poco vamos percatándonos —no sin cierta alarma— de que Blaney va a ser el protagonista del film, y de que su comportamiento es un tanto sospechoso —no para algún personaje del film, sino para nosotros, sus espectadores—. Mientras tanto, tomamos contacto con otros personajes; la feúcha pero simpática Babs Milligan (Anna Massey), su novia; el simpático y despreocupado Robert Rusk (Barry Foster), su mejor amigo; la resignada y bondadosa Brenda (Barbara Leigh-Hunt), su ex-esposa. No lo sabemos, pero hemos conocido ya al verdadero culpable y a sus dos próximas víctimas. De pronto, Hitchcock nos hace identificarnos con Brenda, y ya sabemos qué va a ocurrir. A los 26 minutos de proyección podemos darnos cuenta de quién es el asesino de la corbata, y cuatro minutos más tarde Hitchcock nos desvela ya la identidad del culpable: vemos cómo Rusk asesina a Brenda, y nos identificamos por fin con Blaney, seguros de su inocencia, cuando todo empieza a acusarle (esta parte sigue un esquema muy semejante al del inicio de THE WRONG MAN). A partir de entonces nos vemos más y más identificados con Blaney, y con él padecemos el acoso al que se ve sometido. Con él huimos, nos ocultamos y tememos hasta que, de pronto, Hitchcock nos lleva a compartir las andanzas de la leal Babs, que intenta ayudar a Blaney a huir al Continente y que, como todo el mundo, confía en Rusk. Dada que nuestra simpatía por Babs es mayor de la que sentíamos por Brenda, Hitchcock nos ahorra esta vez el espectáculo de su muerte, dejando que la impresión causada por el anterior crimen se descargue sobre nuestra imaginación durante una elipsis ya famosa y que no tiene nada de "brillante ejercicio de estilo", y sí mucho de necesario y magistral tour de force. Con el asesinato de Babs nuestra intranquilidad crece —pues si Hitchcock permite la muerte de un personaje así es que todo puede suceder, como en PSICOSIS tras la inesperada eliminación de Janet Leigh—, y Blaney pierde la posibilidad de huir y una aliada fiel; lo peor es que también la muerte de Babs le hace parecer sospechoso, y encima nos damos cuenta, con desesperación, de que sólo le queda ya una persona en la que confía lo bastante como para buscar su ayuda: Bob Rusk, el asesino.

Por si no fuese bastante la inseguridad que ha sembrado ya en nosotros, Hitchcock complica aún más nuestra posición moral en el film: tras habernos hecho sospechar de un inocente, confiar en un asesino y padecer con dos víctimas y con el falso culpable, nos hace ahora identificarnos con el asesino. En efecto, desarrollando una idea que tuvo durante el rodaje de CORTINA RASGADA sobre lo difícil y engorroso que es, en realidad, dar muerte a alguien, y lo fácil que parece en las películas, y después de mostrarnos los apuros del Profesor Armstrong (Paul Newman) y una campesina alemana (Carolyn Conwell) para, muy chapuceramente, lograr deshacerse del molesto Gromek (Wolfgang Kieling) en dicho film, Hitchcock nos hace ahora presenciar y compartir la desagradable tarea que representa para un asesino el desembarazarse del cadáver de su víctima; y más aún, conseguir arrancar de los rígidos dedos de Babs un alfiler de corbata comprometedor, en un camión en marcha y cargado de sacos de patatas. Con una meticulosidad implacable, distanciada y catártica a la vez, Hitchcock nos hace volver a sentir la irreparable pérdida de Babs y, al mismo tiempo, nos lleva a compadecer a su asesino.

Pero las audaces maniobras de Hitchcock no se detienen ahí, sino que volvemos a "vivir" el drama desde la posición que en él ocupa el perseguido Blaney, que acude —como ya temíamos— a Rusk para pedirle asilo. Mientras —sin que Blaney sepa nada— su supuesto amigo le delata a la policía, esperamos con impaciencia que el protagonista descubra en casa de Rusk las ropas de Babs; pero le detienen cuando estaba a punto de verlas y darse cuenta de todo. Nos toca ahora seguir, por un lado, la marcha de la investigación que llevan a cabo el Inspector Oxford (Alec McCowen) y su esposa (Vivien Merchant) —protagonistas de deliciosas viñetas gastronómicas llenas de humor— y, por el otro, el encarcelamiento y condena de Blaney, y su evasión poco antes de ser ejecutado. Y una vez libre, ¿a dónde se dirige nuestro falso culpable? A casa del asesino; y precisamente cuando Oxford, gracias a su mujer, empieza a tener dudas sobre la culpabilidad de Blaney, le dan la noticia de su fuga. Mientras Blaney sube por la escalera que conduce al apartamento de Rusk, tememos por su vida; cuando penetra en él y lo encuentra vacío pero con el cadáver desnudo y con una corbata ciñéndole el cuello de una mujer, y comprende todo, tememos que aparezca la policía y se persuada definitivamente de que es un asesino; y cuando quien sube por la escalera resulta no ser Oxford, sino Rusk, tememos que Blaney se tome la justicia por su mano y se convierta de verdad en un asesino. Al final, como es habitual en Hitchcock, los dilemas morales han sustituido al peligro como fuente de suspense justo en el momento en que el film va a liberarnos del drama que viven sus personajes.

Como se ve, el contraste entre THE WRONG MAN —por no hablar de los films ingleses, mucho más simples— y FRENZY no puede ser mayor: la muy superior complejidad estructural y moral de esta última película parece indiscutible, a pesar de contar con una historia más inverosímil —la de THE WRONG MAN, aunque kafkiana, seguía fielmente un hecho real— y demostrar Hitchcock en ella un mucho más agudo sentido del humor. Como en CORTINA RASGADA (por ser Paul Newman y Julie Andrews poco hitchcockianos, y recibir un tratamiento poco simpático) y TOPAZ (por ser los actores casi desconocidos), Hitchcock ha renunciado en FRENZY a utilizar estrellas famosas y atractivas (como James Stewart o Cary Grant, como Ingrid Bergman, Kim Novak o Grace Kelly) para lograr la identificación del público con los personajes; ésta se produce en los tres films mediante la estructuración del relato a través de los diferentes puntos de vista, mediante una planificación cada vez menos subjetivista y menos tributaria del "efecto Kuleshov", pero igualmente precisa y rigurosa. Como en los dos films precedentes, el número de personajes se ha multiplicado, aunque, al contrario que en ellos, en FRENZY los escenarios han dejado de ser numerosos para reducirse a uno, Londres. Tal vez por esta menor dispersión espacial y por haber disminuido el número de comparsas importantes (casi ilimitado en CORTINA RASGADA y TOPAZ), puede considerarse que FRENZY constituye, por el momento, la culminación de las investigaciones que sobre la estructura narrativa y la naturaleza del SUSPENSE ha emprendido Hitchcock desde que empezó a pensar en la posibilidad de hacer una historia de suspense en un film más "suelto", con una forma menos rígida (cfr. el Capítulo 15 del libro de entrevistas de Truffaut con Hitchcock), ya que en esta última película Hitchcock ha logrado que la yuxtaposición lineal o alternativa de las secuencias independientes que la constituyen dé lugar a una línea narrativa "continua", pero mucho más compleja que en los films de los años 50 y 60. En este sentido, la aparente dispersión de TOPAZ fue un paso decisivo, ya que en esta película Hitchcock rompió con su costumbre de hacer que el espectador siguiese un punto de vista único durante casi toda la película, para hacerle pasar incesantemente del de un personaje al de otro, arriesgándose así —como venía haciéndolo desde LOS PÁJAROS, tras la perfección clásica de VERTIGO, INTRIGA INTERNACIONAL (1959) y PSICOSIS— a distanciar a su público con tal de conseguir de él un mayor grado de responsabilidad moral.

Si, en diferente medida, LOS PÁJAROS, MARNIE (1964), CORTINA RASGADA y TOPAZ eran películas experimentales, y por ello tal vez más apasionantes y fértiles —sobre todo la última, la más audaz—, tampoco conviene considerar FRENZY como un mero film de suspense, divertido, inteligente y juvenil. En primer lugar porque ninguno de los Hitchcock americanos —salvo tal vez, PARA ATRAPAR AL LADRÓN, 1955— se limita a ser eso, lo reconozca o no su autor; pero, sobre todo, como el esquemático análisis de su estructura indica con bastante claridad, porque FRENZY es, con VERTIGO, MARNIE, CORTINA RASGADA y TOPAZ, la película moralmente más subversiva de cuantas ha realizado el autor de STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951), ya que subversivo resulta, especialmente en el contexto de un cine como el actual —tan afanado en hacer que el público so sienta confortable, satisfecho e incluso "progresista" sin serlo—, el minar la tranquilidad del espectador, el poner en evidencia lo precipitado de sus juicios y su tendencia a fiarse de las apariencias, el hacerle sentir que las cosas no son como parecen, que lo inquietante se oculta entre lo más cotidiano y vulgar, que la gente no es mala o buena sino una mezcla inextricable de sentimientos y motivaciones contradictorias; y que si se quiere pasar dos horas a oscuras, a solas en la multitud, sintiéndose un héroe, se arriesga a tener que sentirse un asesino y a compartir con él la angustia y el acoso de que a su vez es víctima. Que Hitchcock admita o no explícitamente que este es su objetivo no tiene importancia si tenemos en cuenta que, en diferentes ocasiones a lo largo de los últimos años, ha reconocido que la lógica profunda de sus películas era "hacer sufrir al espectador", que hizo LOS PÁJAROS para "minar la autocomplacencia de la gente", y que rodó como lo hizo la muerte de Gromek en CORTINA RASGADA para que el público cinematográfico se diese cuenta de lo sucio, desagradable, incómodo y difícil que resulta en realidad matar una persona. Además, ahí están FRENZY y sus demás películas, para probar que Hitchcock es, con Buñuel, el más inquietante de los cineastas.

Miguel Marías

Ojo al Cine nº1, 1974

[nsula]

President’s List Fall 2018

NATCHITOCHES – Six hundred and fifty-four students were named to the Fall 2018 President’s List at Northwestern State University. Students on the list earned a grade point average of 4.0. Those named to the President’s List listed by hometown are as follows.

 Abbeville – Annemarie Broussard, Heather Mayard;

 Alexandria – Eric Weinzettle, Brandi Beaudoin, Leslie Bordelon, Claudia Gauthier, Ian Grant, Angela Hardin, Martha Hopewell, Jaliyah Jasper, Kasey Lacombe, Hunter Lewis, DeShonta Manning, Allison McCloud, Jalyn Mvcneal, Madeline Mitchell, Jennifer Prevot, Jabari Reed, Sailor Reed, Shacora Simpson, Kayla Whittington;                            

 Anacoco -- Nicole Fitzgerald, Brittany Lewis, Caitlin McKee, Cassandra Osborne, Seth Ponthieux, Casey Williams, Megan Williams;

 Anchorage – Sydney Bulot;

 Arcadia – Antavious Roberson, Ralyn Simpson;

 Arnaudville -- Zachary Leboeuf, Alayna Moreau, Misti Richard;

Ashland – Victoria Roderick;

Baker – Katelyn Kennedy;

 Ball – Nickolas Juneau, Joseph Reynolds;

 Barksdale, AFB – Kimberly Ventura Gonzalez;                  

 Basile – Adam Elkins;

 Bastrop – Nikkia Lewis;

 Baton Rouge – Meagan Barbay, Diamanisha Betts, Madison Harris, Hannah Knoff, Jordan Lancaster, Tremia Lockett, Henrietta Mercer, Daniel Midyett, Emma Rivet, Victoria Simmons;                              

 Belcher – Sierra Lang;

 Belgrade, Serbia -- Emilija Dancetovic;

 Belmont – Kelly Bass;

 Benton – Victoria Berry, Tamara Korner, Bridget Miller, Jessica O’Neal, Finnley Plaster, Comis Waddell, Kathryn Watts;

 Bienville – Julie Martin;

 Boise, Idaho – Jessica Anderson;

 Bossier City – Maddison Abreo, Jayde Barnett, Brittany Batchelor, Hannah Brooks, Kendall Caple, Izabela Carabelli, Callie Crockett, Peyton Davis, Hannah Gates, Joshua Greer, Jada Grigsby, Peyton Harville, Caylin Head, Savanna Head, Nicholas Hopkins, Kijah Johnson, Brandon Larkin, Chelsea Laverdiere, April Lebick, Katherine Parson, Colby Ponder, Taylor Powell, Jade Reich, Jami Rivers, Jalyn Robertson, Reid Rogers, Madison Rowland, Donna Spurgeon, Savannah Stevens, James Taylor, Kaitlyn Walker, Eric Zheng;

 Boutte – Samantha Vernor;

 Boyce – Katelyn Brister, Dylan Frazier, Sonya Hill;

 Breaux Bridge – Beyonkan Heine, Emily Roy;

 Broussard – Dylan Dunford;

 Brownsville, Texas – Emily Saldivar;

 Brussels – Leyla Fettweis;

 Bunkie – Emily Arnaud,

 Burleson, Texas -- Addison Pellegrino, Cassandra Smith;

 Calhoun – Grace Cummings, Robert Mccandlish;

 Calvin – Erin Price;

 Campti – Alisha Bedgood, Rebekah Cole, Madelynne Greer;

Carencro – Melody Woodard;

 Carrollton, Texas – Victoria Miller;

 Cartagena, Colombia – Aura Hernandez Canedo, Jorge Ojeda Munoz, Hassik Vasquez Narvaez;

Cheneyville -- Katelyn Baronne;

 Clarence – Jalicia Small;

 Clifton – Brittany Shackleford;

 Colfax – Alyssa Coleman, Lessie Rushing, Elizabeth Slayter, Morgan Vandegevel;

 Conroe, Texas – Sidney Salmans;

 Converse – Shayna Brown, Hayley Farmer, Wade Hicks, Mallory Mitchell, Hannah Womack, Logan Woodward;

Cotton Valley -- Nicholas Smith;

 Coushatta – Sydney Anderson, Kaylee Antilley, Debra Hanson, Jon Hester, Mary James, Cynthia Lawson, Baley McAlexander, Precious Smith;

 Covington -- Henri Blanchat, Justin Brogdon, Rachael Coyne, Sarah Shiflett;

 Crowley -- Ma'Kayleen Milson;

 Custer, South Dakota – China Whitwer;

 Cypress, Texas – Alexis Warren;

Dakota Dunes, South Dakota – Eryn Sandwell;

 Denham Springs – Joni Burlew;

DeRidder – Delia Amadiz, Lauren Callis, Tabitha Deer, Colten Denning, Falon Drake, Rebekah Frantz, Shydae Hammond, Karli Kennedy, Briana March, Brittney March, Shayla Miller, Jessica Mullican, Hannah Plummer, Rebecca Richmond, Cheyenne Vander, Michael Waryas;

 Des Allemands – Emily Blanchard, Claire Schouest;

 Destrehan – Hannah Boquet, Stephanie Webre;

 Deville – Briana Ashley, Allison Deglandon, Amber Kreideweis, Aubree Lampert, Kenedy Lampert, Madison Lejeune, Maci Mayeux, Caleb Rhodes;

 Diamondhead, Mississippi – Melissa Boyanton;

 Dodson – Rachel Broomfield;

 Doyline – Lucas Darbonne;

 Dry Prong – Jared Boydstun, Ashlee Elliott;

 Edmond, Oklahoma – Payton Hartwick, Ashley Medawattage;

 El Paso, Texas – Christopher Barron;

 Elizabeth – Amanda Cloud, Sadie Perkins;

 Elton – Kayla Bellard;

 Endicott, New York – Tonya Rackett;

 Evergreen – Walter Armand;

 Falfurrias, Texas – Marco Arevalo;

 Farmerville – Malissa Loyd;

 Florien – Shayla Duhon, Amber Lewing, Caroline Matthews, Dylan Roberts, Jordan Weldon;

Folson – Shaylee Laird, Sarah Moore;

 Forest Hill – Rafael Sierra;

 Forney, Texas – Jobey Rusk, Jared Walker, Jayden Wheeler;

 Fort Polk – Brittany Chadwick, Kyley Cole, Shaunda Gordon, Miranda Illsley, Cynthia Schwartz, Sasha Trevino, Cherie Martel;

 Fort Worth, Texas – Corban James;

 Franklin – Emily Kutchenriter;

 Franklinton – Crystal Newman;

 Frisco, Texas – Caroline Shepherd;

 Garland, Texas – Sierra Stone;

Glenmora – Alan Crowder, Reagan Humphries, Melissa Lanier, Faith Lawrence;

 Goldonna – David Day, Harley Godwin;

 Gonzales – Rebecca Marchand, Nicole Moody, Molly Moran, Bailee Ramey, Denee Smith;

 Grand Prairie, Texas – Clayton Casner;

 Grapevine, Texas – Margaret Black;

 Greenwell Springs -- Cheramie Kravitz;

Greenwood -- Char'Tarian Wilson;

 Gretna – Nadia Johnson;

 Haughton – Luther Cain, Jessica Chase, Brittony Cole, Randi Corley, Bethanie Couch, Alexis Hoeltje, Victoria Lodrini, Savanah Molina, Amber Simmons, Heather Wooden, Dawn Young;

 Heath, Texas – Megan Lohmiller;

 Henderson, Texas – John Floyd, Emily Ortiz;

 Hermon, Maine -- Allessa Ingraham-Albert;

 Hessmer – Ryan Armand, Lacee-Beth Cazelot;

Hineston – Gabrielle Merchant Langley, Tylee Stokes;

 Hope Mills, North Carolina -- Taylor Camidge;                          

 Hornbeck – Brandy Alford, Lane Alford, Kimberly Runyon;

 Houma – Alexis Dardar, Billy Gorr, Sarah Lajaunie, Corinne Paris;

Houston, Texas – Kendall Westfall;

 Humble, Texas – Aiyana Bean;

 Huntington, Texas – Travis Carrell;

 Iowa – Keiona Guy, Matthew Phillips;

 Irving, Texas – Darria Williams;

 Jacksonville Beach, Floria – Katherine Medlin;

 Jefferson – Jaleia Parker;

 Jena – Christian Aymond, Alanna Hailey;

 Jennings – Aimee Boothe, Alyson Brown, Janee Charles, Rachel Edwards, Rachelle Edwards, Wesley Simien, Lydia Williams;

 Jonesboro – Jordan Winston;

 Kaplan – Gabriel LeMoine;

 Katy, Texas – Erik Carver;

Keithville – John-David May, Cora Procell, Janae Richardson, Joanna Sims;

 Kenner -- Brooke Petkovich, Parul Sharma;

 Kentwood – Jenna Morris;

Kileen, Texas - Temitope Buraimoh, Arlyn Johnson;

 Kinder -- Jonathon Villareal;

 Lacombe – William Simpson;

Lafayette -- Jeffrey Blossom, Abbey Broussard, Luke Dupre, Michael Joseph, Emilee Leger, Robert Middleton, Andrea Saelios, Dante Saelios, Forest Strang;                            

 Lake Charles – Jovan Avery, Abigail Brady, Shawn Becton, Ashtyn Heap, Amanda Mustian, Sarah Sargent;

 Larose – Eric Bourg;

 Las Vegas, Nevada – April Ficarrotta;

 Lawtell – Karoline Guidry;                            

 Lecompte – Hannah Glaze;

 Leesville – Sara Bishop, Autumn Boggs, Anthony Cantrell, Raven Collins, Carter Coriell, Junette Cutshaw, Cameron Davis, Chloe Dowden, Sarah Gibbs-Jarrell, Geoffrey Goins, Jessica Gray, Cheyenne Grigg, Jessica Herring, Ashley Hunt, Leigha Jackson, Bethany Kay, Emilee Keuten, Mercedes Mattes, Kelsea Mckinney, Paula Pilkenton, Linsey Preddy, Danielle Smyth, Peggy Stanley, Linda Strauss, Megan Tucker, Kristin Whistine;

 Little Elm, Texas – Hunter Gagnon;

 Logansport – Trenton Timmons, Rebecca Tomlin;

 Longview, Texas – Gustavo Corrales, Kelli Hickerson, Samantha Morris;

 Lyons, Kansas – Jennifer Rogers, Mary Rogers;

Machesney Park, Illinois – Alicia Teran;

 Mamou – Alex Chapman, Meggie Granger, Nicholas Saucier;

 Mandeville -- Shannon Roussell;

Mangham -- Rebekah Aultman;

Mansfield – Brooke Smith, Madylin Sullivan;

 Mansura – Bailey Quebedeaux, Distiny Thompson;

 Many – Skyler Ezernack, Heidi Knight, Jaleah Lee, Lathan Meyers, Xavier Montgomery, Chas Pilcher, Tessa Reeves, Samantha Simmons;

 Marksville – Zachary Moreau, Paulette Thomas;  

 Marrero – Lorn Bourgeois;

 Marshall, Texas – Laurann Graham, D’Sherrick Williams;

 Marthaville – Emeri Manasco, Hanna Pardee;

Maurepas – Cameron Mayfield, Abigail Smith;

 Maurice – Adam Courville;

 Melissa, Texas – Kylah Banasky;

 Merryville -- Kalan Townsley;

 Metairie – Kaitlyn Arena, Morgan Nuss, Holly Schiler, Mary Strickland, Sadye Treadway;                          

 Minden – Aubrey Dennis, Jess Easley, Laura Gryder, Taya Hester, Kiara Jenkins, Abigail Reynolds, Amanda Rogers, Heather White;

 Mississauga, Ontario, Canada – Kayla Bomben;

 Mobile, Alabama – Emily Cristina;

 Monroe – Demonta Brown, Aaron Hunt, Grace Underwood;

 Montgomery -- Shelly Crew, Katelym Feazell;

 Mooringsport – Abigail Wolfe;

 Mora – Gracy Rowell;

Moreauville – Sean Casey;

 Morgan City – Allie Atkinson, Jeremy Orgeron;

 Morse – Kierra Linden;

 Mount Hermon -- Warren McFarlain;

Muleshoe, Texas -- Caitlyn Barber;

 Murphy, Texas – Bronte Rhoden;

 Murrieta, California – LaQuitta Wilkins;

Napoleonville – Elizabeth Coleman;

Natchitoches -- Austin Aldredge, Ragan Aple, Luz Arrieta Jimenez, Rebecca Autrey, Sarah Aviles, Francisco Ballestas-Sayas, Joshua Below, Dylan Bennett, Sarah Bergeron, Allison Berry, Sara Coates, Anna Coffey, Fabian Correa Guette, Haley Dahlhoff, Elliot Davis, Ruth Garcia Rodriguez, Samantha Hall, Kaitlin Hatten, Taylor Johnson, Anthony Jones, Mary Keran, Colby Koontz, Scott Macqueen, Miranda Mayeaux, Rylie Mcfarlain, Jordan Mitchell, Maina Ibn Mohammed, Kaitlyn Nieman, Brooklyn Noe, Abigail Poe, Jonah Poe, Melissa Remo, Shelby Riedel, Alyssa Roberts, Kayla  Roquemore, Emily Ryder, Emily Salter, Madison Shade, Melissa Slaughter, Madeline Taylor, David Thibodaux, Kristan Valdez, Lantz Vercher, Elizabeth Vienne, Madysen Watts;

New Iberia -- Jaci Jones, Grace Kerns, Payton Romero:

 New Llano – Nicole Naral;

New Milford, Connecticut -- Lisa Rosenberg;

 New Orleans – Jerome Baudy, Haleigh Giorlando Wall, Jaime Hendrickson, Tayla Oliver;

Noble – Allie Ebarb, Collin Procell;

Noyen sur Serthe, France -- Emma Miachon;

Oakdale -- Cheyenne Bertrand, Alyssa Cole, Katelyn Johnson, Coriana Moreaux, James Obrien;

 Oil City – Ryan Connella;

 Olla – Brianna Corley, Kristen Smith;

Opelousas -- Lauren Hebert, Keshayla Jackson, Alexia Rubin, Jaylen St. Romain;

Pacifica, California -- Nicholas Pierotti;

Palmetto, Florida --   Cindy Hernandez;

 Paris, Texas -- Jordan Whatley;

 Pearland, Texas – Tanisha Williams;

 Pelican – Mary Myers;

Pereira Risaralda, Colombia -- Mariana Ospina Rivas;

 Pineville – Malek Abdelhadi, Taylor Bailey, Riley Bell, Tasha Blanchard, Christian Boudreaux, Latasha Cain, Noelle Carruth, Amber Edmisson, Erin Fallis, Kara Johnson, Michael Martin, Emily McCarty, Cade Mitchell, Wendi Powell, Morgan VanBuren, Corbi Walters, Wesley Williams, Alan Winegeart;                        

 Pitkin – Mattie Stewart;

 Plaquemine – Kameron Landry;

 Plaucheville -- Brooke Dauzat;                            

Pollock – Jadynn Giles;

 Pontotoc, Mississippi – Elizabeth McCullar;

 Port Allen – Makayla Lacy;

 Port Barre – Madison Estis;

 Port Orange, Florida – Sean Logan;

 Prairieville – Rebekah Bonner, Colleen Carline, Roy Cobb, Andrea Gathercole, Sarah Makin;

Princeton – LeKayla Smith;

 Provencal – Kara Gandy, Rebekah Orsborn, Bailey Scarbrough;

Ragley – Elizabeth Jaycox, Cole Spponer;

 Raleigh, North Carolina – Aleida, Alfonso;

 Ringgold – Regan Edwards;

 Riverview, Florida – Robyn Larson;

 Robeline – Jessica Clark, Patricia Goodwin, Alyssa Maley, Bergen Oge, Caleb Wester;

 Round Rock, Texas – Evan Nafe;

 Ruston �� Jena Green;

 Saint Francisville – Sara Baggett, Jordan Bringedahl;

 Saint Martinville – Blake Blanchard, Alli Douet;                        

 Saint Rose – Alexis Mancuso;

 Saline – Madelyn Cheatwood;

 San Antonio, Texas – Tiffany Rubin;

 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan – Loren MacLennan;

 Scott – Sydni Larriviere, Kristen Prejean;

 Seabrook, Texas -- Amy Whitecotton;

 Searcy, Arkansas – Lora Wood;

 Shenzhen, China – Yinglin Yuan;

Shreveport -- Lindsey Adkins, Mackenzie Allen, Hannah Angell, Yasmeen Bader, James Baldwin, Katelynn Benge, Maddison Benge, Hallie Bloxom, Erin Brown, Kaysie Burgess, Abigail Davis, Jackson Driggers, Jennifer Eaves, Jennifer Elliott, Samantha Freeman, Peyton Gamble, Leah Gould, Melina Johnson, Tatyanna Kinsey, Kaitlyn Knighton, Katherine Mckay, Maxey McSwain, Madison Milligan, Myles Mitchell, Cayla Morris, Megan Osborn, Mallory Parker, Bailey Patton, Zachary Person, Haley Pickett, Taylor Poleman, Patricia Reed, Madelyn Ruiz, Catherine Shaw, Shelby Sowers, DeAndre Stevenson, Khaila Tucker, Ansonia Wisner;

 Sibley – Julianna Schober;

 Simmesport – Bailie Marsh, Elise Normand;

 Simsboro – Autumn Smith, Shelby Wall;

 Slaughter – Ciara Gibbs;

 Slidell – Ayrianna Edwards, Katherine Gallinghouse, Parker Gwaltney, Abigail Miller, Sabrina Miller, Holly Penta, Rachel Reed, Jourdan Waddell, Olivia Warren;                      

 Spring, Texas -- Sydney Normand;

 Stinnett, Texas – Dalin Williams;

 Stonewall – Mildred Hooper, Mallory McConathy, Emily McConnell, Brooke Meade, Clinton Oliver, Mackenzie Panther, Kassidy Parker;                          

 Stuttgart, Germany -- Antonia Blattner;

 Sulphur – Tiffany Lyons, Bryttani MacNamara;

 Sunset – Lindsay Thibodeaux;

 The Woodlands, Texas – Tyler Rapp;

 Thibodaux – Sheridan Duet, Maegan Davis;

Tool, Texas – Kimberly Kidney;

 Toronto Ontario – Rhea Verma;

 Trout – Makayla King, Zachary Long, Deana Poole, Devon Smith, Andrea Walters;

 Venice, Florida – Alexis Weaver;

 Ventress – Racheal Gaude;

 Ville Platte – Gabrielle Chapman, Joshua Galland, Alex Gautreaux;

 Waco, Texas – Isabella Hudson;

 Walker – Johnny Brister;

 Washington – Tarik Andrus;

 Welsh – Alisha Ledoux;

 West Helena, Arkansas – Brittani Arana;

 West Monroe – Julianne Cousans, Laura Lovell;

 White Castle – Cassidy Blanchard, Gavin Landry;

 Whitehouse, Texas – Jackson Allen;

 Wilmington, Delaware – Amy Bourett;

 Winnfield -- Tamierrea Alexander, John Collins, Simona Curry, Michael Duke, D’Tyria Duncan, Joshua Goins, Kassidy Grantadams, Kelsey Jordan, Elizabeth Parker, Caroline Womack, Maggie Womack;

 Winnipeg, Manitoba – Tyra Duma;

Woodworth – Christian Jeansonne, Jonathan Magnano;

Wylie, Texas – Alexis Perry;

 Yaroslav, Russia -- Polina Mutel;

Youngsville – Jessica Gilmore, Brandon Granger;

 Zakopane, Poland -- Patrycja Polanska;

 Zwolle – Shakelia Maxie, Holden Rivers.                          

[meatbag-status]

Star Wars is so weird with names

-Vector instead of Victor

-Eckard instead of Edward or Richard or something

-Kaliyo instead of Caliyo

-Raina instead of Reina

-SCORPIO instead of Scorpio, which is a constellation and...that one’s not so weird cuz “droid”

-Basically what I’m saying is that the Imperial Agent is weird and their friends are weird and the writer is weird

But also consider these gems:

-Scourge, which is just fucked up. Like he wasn’t even a Darth so he can’t claim that it’s made up like Ravage, Marr, or Nihilus or some shit. I’ve been wondering about this for a long time, actually. Did his mother really name a newborn baby “Scourge”? Did she do that on purpose? Or did he legally change his name when he was 15, going through a scene phase?

-Torian instead of Dorian

-Mako is a car (no I know it’s a real name, but Mass Effect, my man. And this is Bioware. I don’t recall riding Mako the human through a mass relay to stop Saren and the murder robots...and the other murder robots)

-Kira instead of Keira

-Felix is a real name, congrats

-Archiban instead of Archibald

-Nadia is a real name too, congrats, Consular

-Aric instead of Eric or Erik

-Risha instead of Alicia or fuckin...Rishii, which are bird people.

-Languss instead of Langus, very creative

-Geralt instead of Gerard

-Jaesa sounds like a mashup of all J names like Jess, Jessica, Jenny, Jan, Jane, Jen and so on. And also Lisa.

-Vette’s like Olivette or Olivia or some shit

-Skadge instead of Scumbag

-Rusk instead of Rust, cuz talking to him is like watching metal rust (paint peel)

-Corso isn’t even near the realm of real names

-Elara is like a cross between Elana and Lara

No, one of these things is not NOT like the other. You’re confused.