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Eva contro Eva

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo abbiamo deciso di cambiare completamente argomento, passando dal mondo del cinema a quella dei fumetti e continuando ad andare avanti con Kalya, la serie fantasy italiana che ormai conoscete bene qui sul blog, giungendo al volume 8. Dopo essere riusciti a sfuggire a Varnon e il suo Corrotto, il gruppo di Kalya trova rifugio in delle…

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Come To The Stable 1949 (Comedy) Loretta Young & Celeste Holm

" Come to the Stable is a 1949 American comedy drama film that tells how two French religious sisters come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital. It features Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Dooley Wilson and Regis Toomey. "The movie was based on a story by Clare Boothe Luce, and the screenplay was written by Oscar Millard and Sally Benson. It was directed by Henry Koster. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Loretta Young), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Celeste Holm and Elsa Lanchester), Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (Lyle R. Wheeler, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little[disambiguation needed], and Paul S. Fox), Best Cinematography, Best Music, Song (Alfred Newman and Mack Gordon for "Through a Long and Sleepless Night") and Best Writing, Motion Picture Story.

"Plot Two nuns from a French convent arrive in a small Connecticut town with a plan to build a children's hospital. They enlist the help of several colorful characters in achieving their dream including a struggling artist, a popular songwriter, and a renowned racketeer.

Transcript

Follow along using the transcript."

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post-event / post-hiatus starter call !! i've been gone for what feels like a year so i really want to have fresh threads — don't be shy ! may increase the caps if i get drafts done early .

adam newman , 33 , young & the restless ( 2 / 4 ) — faith newman , drusilla keeble charlie dalton , 26 , dead poets society ( 0 / 4 ) — craig manning , 23 , degrassi ( 1 / 4 ) — marco del rossi eli joseph stock , 22 , along for the ride ( 3 / 4 ) — ally of wonderland , auden west , kiara carrera enjolras , 26 , les mis ( 2 / 4 ) — peyton halliwell , charlotte emily fred flintstone , 40 , the flintstones ( 1 / 3 ) — nigel thornberry irina denali , 28 , twilight ( 4 / 4 ) — eric northman , faye chamberlain , heidi volturi , laurent da revin jack shephard , 35 , LOST ( 1 / 4 ) — lexie grey katniss everdeen , 22 , the hunger games ( 4 / 4 ) — chris hartley , annie cresta , celeste kipper , a-xing lee jordan , 28 , harry potter ( 2 / 4 ) — ginny weasley , bill weasley max goodwin , 34 , new amsterdam ( 1 / 4 ) — kevin keller michael guerin , 31 , roswell new mexico ( 2 / 4 ) — ainsley whitly , lorelai gilmore monica geller , 27 , friends ( 2 / 4 ) — ji euntak , laurie strode naomi pierce , 32 , succession ( 1 / 4 ) — kenna de poitiers ramona flowers , 25 , scott pilgrim ( 2 / 4 ) — marceline , felicia hardy robin buckley , 24 , stranger things ( 3 / 4 ) — nancy wheeler , liv hawthorne , eloise roman roy , 36 , succession ( 2 / 4 ) — sam giddings , galadriel tucker mccall , 45 , young & the restless ( 2 / 4 ) — kallias , kendall roy zoe rivas , 24 , degrassi ( 4 / 4 ) — zoya nazyalensky , nimona , miles hollingsworth iii , victorie weasley

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Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Batman enters a ‘Dark Age’

Check out new comics and graphic novels arriving this week by Mark Russell, Mike Allred, Todd McFarlane, Eric Powell, Tim Seeley, Tony Fleecs, George O’Connor, Jonah Newman, Jay Hosler, Mirka Andolfo, Celeste Bronfman, Steve Foxe and more.

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Fundie Families and Adjacents I Follow: Noyes (Rodrigues)

Timothy Noyes- August 17, 1951

Patricia Lupole- July 4, 1949

Timothy and Patricia married on June 23, 1973, at ages 21 and 23. They share 4 daughters, 4 sons-in-law, 35 grandchildren, 5 grandchildren-in-law, and 6 greatgrandchildren.

1- Lisa Bethany- May 3, 1977

2- Jill Christine- November 3, 1978

3- Amy- December 17, 1979

4- Angie Renee- December 17, 1979

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Lisa Bethany Noyes- May 3, 1977

Dennis JC Moravek- January 22, 1973

Lisa and Dennis married on June 1, 1996, at ages 19 and 23. They share 6 children, 3 children-in-law, and 2 grandchildren.

1- Levi William "Will"- July 30, 1997

2- Joel Clanton Gregory

3- Darienne Celeste

4- Natalie Janine- November 2, 2002

5- Josiah Taylor- November 16, 2004

6- Uriah Baylor- November 16, 2004

Levi married Rebecca Lynn Phillips (January 7, 2002) on December 10, 2022, at ages 25 and 20.

1- Judah- January 2024

Darienne married Wilfredo Armando Claudio "Fredo" (November 12, 1998) on April 2, 2022. They share a daughter.

1- Valkyria- January 15, 2023

Natalie married Milan Macura on June 10, 2023.

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Jill Christine Noyes- November 3, 1978

David Rodrigues- May 29, 1972

Jill and David married on October 4, 1997, at ages 18 and 25. They share 13 children, 2 sons-in-law, and 4 grandchildren.

Morgan- miscarriage in 1997

1- Nurie Katelin- April 19, 1999

2- Timothy David- March 16, 2000

3- Kaylee Arlissa- July 5, 2001

4- Renee Crystine- June 18, 2002

5- Phillip Jonathan- July 22, 2003

6- Samuel Richard- November 24, 2004

7- Gabriel Victor- May 26, 2006

8- Tessie Elizabeth- July 9, 2007

9- Hannah Faith- September 30, 2008

Aaron- miscarriage in 2011

Jordan- miscarriage in 2011

10- Olivia Mercy- January 4, 2012

11- Sadie Patricia- November 27, 2013

12- Sofia Amy Julianne- July 15, 2015

13- Janessa Ruth- April 11, 2018

Reagan- miscarriage in February 2023

Nurie married Nathan Edward Keller (April 23, 1996) on July 25, 2020, at ages 21 and 24.

1- Nehemiah David- October 11, 2021

2- Newman Christian- November 16, 2022

3- Baby Girl- July 2024

Kaylee married Jonathan Daniel Hill (July 30, 2000) on November 5, 2022, at ages 21 and 22.

1- Gideon Daniel Hill- July 5, 2023

Timothy is engaged to Heidi Coverett.

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Amy Noyes- December 17, 1979

Kevin Foster

Amy and Kevin got married on May 14, 2005, when she was 25. They share 6 children. Amy was paralyzed after a car accident.

1- Gunnar- May 2006

2- Louisa "Lou"- 2008

3- Felicity- November 27, 2008

4- Addie- 2011

5- Callista "Callie"- July 2012

6- Garrett Eliel- June 13, 2014

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Angie Noyes- December 17, 1979

Jordan Thomas Hillegas

They couple shares 10 children.

1- Jocey

2- Silas

3- Preston- 2010ish

4- Henry

5- Joby

6- Azalea- January 2015

7- Amity- February 3, 2017

8- Chapman Ira Thomas- August 2018

Tory- Miscarriage in Late 2019

9- Savannah MayLee- October 8, 2020

10- Marissa- 2022/2023

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Alcoa . Round 6 . Summary

Household: 8 Sims total: 34 Pets: 4 (Blanche, Lucky, Lucy, Lulu)

Births: 5 (Noah Benton, Sophie Parish, Piper Dawson, Astra Dawson, Olivia Novak) New residents: 4 (Ryder Newman, Celeste Moreau, Noelle Moreau, Dean Lennox) Deaths: 0

Community lots: 14 New community lots: 2 - Main Street Playground - Noelle's

Taxes collected this round: §38500 Money spend from town funds: §20000 (for Main Street Playground) Current town funds: §54500

Notes: I was a bit worried at the start of the round that I would have only 1 baby born this round, but some families really surprised me. I really thought the Benton's and the Parish's were done having kids :)

Reminder: there is a page dedicated to Alcoa. Here you can check the rounds per family, as well as the residents, lots, lot tours and some sort of family trees! I might add a families one in the future, just because I love making these pages and going through them!

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Black Femme Character Dependency Dark Skin Directory || Characters Masterlist Pr. 1 (A-J)

A

Abbie Mills | Adelaide Wilson/Red | Agent 355 | Agura Ibaden | Aleesha Morrison | Alexa Brandt | Alexandra Crane | Allison Sawyer | Amanda Stern | Amari Peters | Amber Bennett | Amie Sammuelson Conde | Amina Ramsey | Amy Bellafonte | Anaya Imanu | Angel Dynamite | Angela Abar | Angela Goddard | Angela Moore | Angela Vaughn | Anissa Pierce | Anita Fthe13th | Annalise Keating | Annie Keller | Annie Pearson | Antigone | Aphasia | April Sexton | Apocalypta | Arabella | Artemis | Ashley Banks |  Ashley Collins | August King | Ava Coleman | Aya Al-Rashid | Ayo | Azima Kandie 

B

Barbara Howard | Becca Palmerstone | Beckett Mariner | Becky | Becky Todd | Bella Crawford | Belle Newman | Betty | Billie the Reaper | Bilquis | Bisma | Blackfire | Bo | Bobbi | Bow Kid | Bree Matthews | Bumblebee

C

Caprice Winters | Carmen Eguiluz | Carol | Carol Lockhart | Carole Clarke | Catherine Halliday | Catty Noir | Celeste Bisme Lyons | Celie Johnson | Chantelle Blades | Charlotte Page | Cherise | Chondra Unkrich | Clash | Claudia Grant | Cleo Sowande | Cleopatra Jones | Cobra | Coffee | Cocoa Cookie | Coco Conners | Coco Monvoisin | Condola Hayes | Conny Spalding | Cressida | Cynthia Rose Adams

D

Daisy Grant | Damita | Dana Mythical Quest | Darli Dagger | Dayna Mellanby | Death of the Endless | Deja Pearson | Delilah Benson | Denise Hayworth | Denise Johnson | Diana Freeman | Doc McStuffins | Doctor Slone | Donna Siren | Donna Meagle 

E

Ela | Elektra Abundance |  Elena Felton | Ella McFair | Elzora | Enchantress | Erin Cortland | Esi Jiwe | Esther Hopkins | Ethel Peabody | Evangeline Williamson | Eve Doll 

F

Fanta | Farah Black | Felicia | Foxxy Love | Fringilla Vigo

G

Genevieve Quik | Georgiana Lambe | Girl 6 | Grace Hitchens | Grace James |  Grace Monroe | Grace Ryder | Grace Sienar | Grace Walker | Grandmother 

H

Hailey Collins | Hallie McDaniel | Hanna Lovecraft | Hannah Grose | Hannah Steale | Harley Hidoko | Harper Bettencourt | Harriet Lennox | Harriet Tubman | Hattie Mitchell | Hazel Levesque | Henriette | Hippolyta Freeman | Holly | Honeybear | Hunter | Hunter B 15 

I

Ikora Rey |  Imane Bakhellal | Imani | Imani Izzi | Indra | Inquisitor Reva | Irene Federic | Iridessa | Iris Watkins | Ironheart | Isis

J

Jack Starbright | Janai | Jane Amphibia | Jane Hayward | Janie Egins | Janine Teagues | Jasmine TD | Jasmine Davis | Jean Peterson | Jennifer Sisko | Jenny Jackson | Jenny Pizza | Jessica Crashing | Jessica Williams | Jill TUA | Jinna | Joana Coelho | Joanna Crawford | Jodie Landon | Jojo Williams | Jolene | Jonelle Abraham | Jordan Armstrong | Jordan Moore | Josie McCoy | Juanita Benson | Judith | Julia Freeman | Juniper Andromeda | Justine Dancer

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I ran out of time. LOL. I’ma work on it tho...

I got 2 jobs. Sometimes, I’m not gonna have the things I intend to bring.\

If anybody want me to tag them whenever I finish actually making this list, just leave it in the replies and I’ll tag everybody once I finish K-Z characters, hopefully before the month is over. 

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ROUND ONE SUMMARY

This is so that I don't explode your dashes by reblogging 32 posts all at once. Round 2 will go up August 5th, 11:00 AM EST! Polls will last for a week as always, and staggered with ten minutes between each. Summary below the cut.

Mimi Miney won against Acro with 61.3% of the votes, cementing her as the more powerful Tragic Older Sibling!

Likewise, Ini Miney won against Bat with a whopping 82.6% of the votes!

Shu Takumi won against Furio Tigre Phoenix Wright with 76.4% of the votes!

Angel Starr cooked Olga Orly up with a clean 64% of the votes! 

In an absolutely cruel, tragic, devastating, and entirely expected sweep, the DeLites stole victory from the Handsome Gentlemen Thieves with 93.1% of the votes! I’m sorry, HGT, someone had to go against the DeLites.

In the battle of the pink circus performers, Geiru Toneido outperformed Max Galactica with 61.7% of the votes!

Little Plum Kitaki cleaned up Evie Vigil with 62.3% of the votes!

Big Wins Kitaki got 59.8% of good, honest votes against Daley Vigil!

Celeste Inpax barely eked out a win against Lady Baskerville, with 50.5% of the votes!

Vera Misham triumphs over a poisoner once again against Olive Green, with 69.1% of the votes!

Polly the Parrot made Sasha Buckler walk the plank with 73.4% of the votes!

Yanni Yogi blessed me with never having to type Pees’lubn Andistan’dhin’s name again with 81.9% of the votes!

Dee Vasquez used her mafia connections to win against actual mafia daughter Viola Cadaverini with 63% of the votes!

Alita Tiala proved that anagrams are better wordplay than palindromes against Lisa Basil, with 65.7% of the votes!

Cody Hackins cut the evildoer John Marsh down with 53.3% of the votes!

Luke Atmey suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune against William Shamspeare, who won with 57.4% of the votes!

Matt Engarde is, like, totally the better final culprit against Damon Gant, dude, with 61.9% of the fans.. er, votes.

Extraterritorial rights are no match against Eggert Benedict's flashy moves, winning against Quercus Alba with 77.1% of the votes!

Pop Windibank held his victory in a vault against Romein LeTouse, with 60.1% of the votes!

Uendo and co. proved that clownery is nothing against good old-fashioned rakugo theatre, winning against Moe Curls with 79.1% of the votes!

Enoch Drebber teleported Albert Harebrayne to defeat with 54.3% of the votes!

Clay Terran proved his worth as the more beloved “guy who dies before you meet them” against Bruce Goodman with 64.3% of the votes!

Rei Membami was swept to victory by a gallant, dashing hero against Aura Blackquill with 55.6% of the votes!

Jake Marshall lost to a cat. Shoe won with 71% of the votes!

Jean Greyerl cast Terry Fawles to the bottom of a flaming pit, winning against him with 71.2% of the votes!

Iyesa and Aido Nosa killed Ben and Trilo with hammers! 85.5% of the votes went to them!

Guy Eldoon and his salty noodles triumphed over Bif Strogenov with 71.8% of the votes!

Esmerelda Tusspells carved Robin Newman up like a waxwork figure with 67.3% of the votes!

Magician Juror 3 won against Stereoscope Juror 3 with 58.5% of the votes!

Jinxie Tenma wrote Colias Palaeno's obituary in Babahlese ink with 76.5% of the votes!

Lana Skye stabbed Magnus McGilded with a knife! Don’t worry. He was already dead. She won with 86.5% of the votes!

Katherine Hall secured sweet victory against April May with 53.6% of the votes! Piece of cake.

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amara celeste owens (x)

mr. poe newman belongs to beloved @risingsh0t​ <33

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Bette Davis and Thelma Ritter in All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950) Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Gregory Ratoff, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe, Barbara Bates. Screenplay: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on a story by Mary Orr. Cinematography: Milton R. Krasner. Art direction: George W. Davis, Lyle R. Wheeler. Film editing: Barbara McLean. Music: Alfred Newman. 

Talk, talk, talk. Ever since the movies learned to do it, it has been the glory -- and sometimes the bane -- of the medium. We cherish some films because they do it so well: the films of Preston Sturges, Howard Hawks, and Quentin Tarantino, for example, would be nothing without their characters' abundantly gifted gab. Hardly a year goes by without someone compiling a list of the "greatest movie quotes of all time." And invariably the lists include such lines as "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night" or "You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point." Those are spoken by, respectively, Margo Channing (Bette Davis) and Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) in All About Eve, one of the movies' choicest collections of talk. Joseph L. Mankiewicz won the best screenplay Oscar for the second consecutive year -- he won the previous year for A Letter to Three Wives -- and in both cases he received the directing Oscar as well. Would we admire Mankiewicz's lines as much if they had not been delivered by Davis and Sanders, along with such essential performers as Celeste Holm, Thelma Ritter, and, in a small but stellar part, Marilyn Monroe? It could be said that Mankiewicz's dialogue tends to upend All About Eve: The glorious wisecracks and one-liners are what we remember about it, more than its satiric look at the Broadway theater or its portrait of the ambitious Eve Harrington. We also remember the film as the continental divide in Davis's career, the moment in which she ceased to be a leading lady and became the paradigmatic Older Actress, relegated more and more to character roles and campy films like What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962). All About Eve, in which Margo turns 40 -- Davis was 42 -- and ever so reluctantly hands over the reins to Eve -- Anne Baxter was 27 -- is a kind of capitulation, an unfortunate acceptance that a female actor's career has passed its peak, when in fact all that is needed is writers and directors and producers who are willing to find material that demonstrates the ways in which life goes on for women as much as for men.

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Will Above My Wish - Anirban Jee

Anirban Jee – AJ: Cantante-Compositor-Compositor Figuró en el Top 5 de World Indie Music Chart, Euro Indie Music Chart y Soundslikecafe Singles Chart junto con la inclusión en el Top 20 de Estados Unidos. COMPOSITOR DEL AÑO 2018 (Australian Songwriting Contest) y COMPOSITOR DEL AÑO 2017 (Concurso SongsAlive) – Ganador de la categoría Acústica (2021 Australian Songwriting Awards), Ganador de las categorías INTERNACIONAL y BALADA (2018) – Ganador de la categoría POP (2017 Songs Alive Competition) – Ganador de la categoría BALADA (2017 Songs Alive Competition) – Ganador de la categoría POP CONTEMPORÁNEO (2015 Australian Songwriting Awards), Finalista en el 2022 UK Songwriting Contest- Canción publicada por EMBASSY MUSIC PUBLISHING de Sydney y lanzada por A&R Department (Shock records). Para Anirban Jee-AJ, su despertar musical surgió a la vibrante edad de 12 años, cuando recibió su primer teclado electrónico. Anirban se sintió fuertemente inspirado por íconos pop como Elton John, Richard Marx, Maxwell, Sting, Carol King y muchos más. Durante su adolescencia, AJ se encontró incursionando en numerosos cursos de matrícula y Anirban había perfeccionado su crecimiento musical a la composición de canciones originales, composiciones musicales, colaboraciones de artistas y actuación. Su sencillo comercial debut de 2014 "AEIOU" con Blue (Celeste Newman) lanzado bajo la bandera de The A&R Department aseguró la reproducción en el aire en las estaciones de radio FM en 5 estados e incluso fijó un ranking Top 10 en múltiples categorías en los premios de composición de canciones australianas 2014. Su segundo lanzamiento "Undecided" con Judd Field aseguró la posición número uno en el Australian Songwriting Contest 2015 en la categoría Pop / Dance contemporáneo. Su tercer lanzamiento "Deep Down" con la artista de X-Factor Mary Ann Van Der Horst ha fijado la posición número uno en la Categoría Internacional en los Australian Songwriting Awards 2017. Sus dos últimos lanzamientos "Mayday" (2020) y 'Move Out' (2021) generaron críticas bastante positivas y emocionantes en revistas de música en línea como GongScene, Vents Magazine, Around the Sound, BMA Magazine e incluso se ubicaron en el # 1 en Soundslikecafe Singles Chart. Su sencillo de video 'Will Above My Wish' fue finalista en el Concurso de Composición de Canciones del Reino Unido 2022. Las composiciones y el repertorio de composición de AJ han dado lugar a numerosas reproducciones de radio a nivel mundial que abarcan estaciones de radio comerciales y comunitarias. Read the full article

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She Has No Name (update)

After severely neglecting this novel for over three weeks, I’ve added 800 words to Chapter 12 today, taking and running with Prompt #70, “starting with a kiss meant to be gentle ending up in passion”, from this list of kiss prompts by @blog-of-a-multitude-of-fandoms - thank you for the inspiration! I hope I do it justice!

(CW: potentially n/s/f/w below the cut, only intense kissing, but just to be safe.)

Light from the ancient lanterns in the courtyard paints the wooden floorboards golden yellow, winking as it swirls around the knots of oak, flickering in and out as the breeze outdoors sets the fine branches of birch trees to dancing.

It keeps me awake as I lay on my side, gazing at the sparkles with sleepy eyes, watching the soft shift of shadows whispering back and forth. I’ll never sleep like this. Shutting my eyes, I roll onto my back, and turn my head.

Beside me, Suzette—long eyelashes and a glorious dark tangle of curly hair—slumbers, curled up on the mattress, her body curved towards mine. The lace curtains at the window—ivory turned ochre in the lamplight—are enough to let her fall into dozing, but not me.

I swat them softly with my fingertips, and roll onto my side to face her.

The bedroom is cold despite the extra blankets she’s layered onto the bed, and my skin prickles in the new air. I shiver.

Suzette’s eyes flash open, brown irises black like ebony in the darkness. She blinks, languid lashes breathing beautiful, casting shadows on her cheekbones. “Hey,” she mouths. She’s been sleeping with her hands tucked under her folded arms, but now she pulls them free. “You OK?” she signs.

I nod. “First night in a new place. Sleeping’s tricky.”

“OK.” Suzette smiles, and turns over, snuggling up to a fold of her duvet. She’s… She’s closer to me than she was before, though… Her back in its soft cotton nightdress presses against my chest, and I feel her breaths like a slow pulse.

I tell myself I’ll pull away in three seconds if she doesn’t respond. Immediately if she flinches. But I’m going to try… Just to see… I have to see. I have to know…

Tentative. That’s the word for it, the tentative way I put my hand on her shoulder as I inch towards her, bowing my head into the nape of her neck, into the soft twist of her hair. She smells of honey and argan oil, sweet and Godly, like an ancient library. Candlelight burnishing golden fixtures. Age-yellowed pages. Oak parquet. Summer evenings, warm breezes.

Her gasp jumps. And I’m cursing myself for ruining this, pulling my hand away and banishing it from any contact with anyone ever again…

…when she turns over and drapes her arm around my waist, pulling me close, stroking with her thumb the swathe of my skin exposed by a ridden-up T-shirt. Skin. Touch. Nerves ablaze. Hitching breath.

I cradle her, hands trekking across her back, arms tightening as I pull her closer, closer, closer…

The press of her forehead against mine. The soft of her chest against mine. The jut of her hips against mine. And arms, gentle arms encircling warm bodies… So close… So close, I can barely—

Suzette’s nose brushes my cheek, a tender nuzzle. Her fingertips against my collarbone. Her eyes, half-shut, drifting over my lips.

There’s no space between us anywhere else, only fabric, no space anywhere else… but our mouths. So close. So maddeningly close. How do I… How?

The slightest movement, tilt of my head, and our lips meet. Just for half a moment, half a heartbeat. And then they meet again, gentle as the beat of a butterfly’s wings, soft as the skin of a peach.

Suzette’s arms tighten around my waist, and she presses her lips to mine with the thirst of someone who has wandered a desert for days.

Her kiss… Her kiss… Again and again, her kiss, faster and harder each time, hungry and frantic, again and again.

I think I’ll shatter from the pressure, the drinking-in of her mouth, the graze of her teeth on my lips, softly-chapped skin scratching mine, hearts pounding against hearts.

And that closeness, oh, that closeness I crave, that closeness I can’t reach even with every drop of my strength squeezing Suzette’s body against mine. All I have are my arms and her arms, and that’s nothing like enough.

Wrestling my leg out of its knotted section of duvet, I bring it up and wrap it around Suzette’s hip.

She pushes her hips forward, and brings her own leg up between mine, lips still greedily sucking on hungry lips, arms still hauling desperately at unity.

Her hands start to roam under my T-shirt, burning a trail up and down my waist, hip to ribs, hip to ribs…

Her kisses migrate down my jaw, down my neck, as her fingers wander along the waistband of my navy plaid trousers.

My breaths come hard and fast, head thrown back, eyebrows raised, eyelids fluttering.

She taps my shoulder, and everything stops even as my heart keeps racing. She looks at me, right into my eyes. “Is this OK?” she signs.

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Art (in its various forms)

I can’t put it into words but there’s a stickiness to it, there’s a reason I keep returning, there’s something in it that’s inately True

[tothelasthoursofmylife]

So, I’ve stumbled over this Chibi Maker - and it’s so cute! So, I went and made a bunch.

Keegan

Ceara

Celeste

Clarissa

August

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Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

by Elia Kazan Drama / Romance - 118 mn - United States of America

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Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Most reviews on this blog are American films from the Golden Age of Hollywood. If you have read a handful of them, you may know that, during the height of the Hollywood Studio System from the silent era to the early 1960s, cast and crewmembers were often contracted to work for a certain studio. If Bette Davis appears in a melodrama, it’s probably a Warner Bros. movie. Bob Hope and/or Bing Crosby making you laugh? Try Paramount. Vincente Minnelli directing? Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). For a 20th Century Fox musical, Alfred Newman (who composed the Fox fanfare) is either the film’s composer or its music director. If the musical’s plot revolves around two or three cash-strapped women attempting to attract and marry a millionaire, that is also a strong indicator of a 20th Century Fox production. Released by Fox in 1946, H. Bruce Humberstone’s Three Little Girls in Blue has both those indicators – Newman as musical director and the millionaire-chasing plot. The film is a romp, most enjoyable when its three principal actresses are singing and the supporting men are nowhere to be found.

It is 1902. There are three little girls in blue. On a chicken farm in Red Bank, New Jersey live the Charter sisters: Pam (June Haver), Liz (Vivian Blaine), and Myra (Vera-Ellen). This farm, inherited from their aunt, is their springboard to travel to Atlantic City in order to find rich husbands. The plan is put on the fast track when they learn the monetary inheritance is not nearly as bountiful as they expected. Basing their operations out of an expensive waterfront hotel, the Charter sisters agree that Pam will masquerade as a wealthy heiress, “Ms. Charters”, while Liz serves as secretary and Myra as the maid. For whatever reason, the sisters have not looked up the hotel’s rates for the suite they are staying in. “Jiminy Crickets,” Myra yelps, “why, the rate for this suite is $9.25 per day!” Before you start giggling, that amount is approximately $277 in 2020’s USD – chump change that is not. The Charter sisters soon meet three men, flush with cash, who knock them off their feet with their charms: Steve Harrington (Frank Latimore), Mike Bailey (Charles Smith; uncredited), and Van Damm Smith (George Montgomery).

Van Damm Smith? That name is a headline writer’s dream!

Financial and romantic crises mount, and the film’s tangled plot in its second half is not worth a brain strain. Three Little Girls in Blue also marks the film debut of Celeste Holm, who plays Steve’s sister, Miriam. Holm, who appears late in the film, is a comical delight. For Haver, Blaine, and Vera-Ellen, they nail the sisterly ties (and rivalry) that set up almost all the situational comedy in Valentine Davies’ (1947’s Miracle on 34th Street, 1949’s It Happens Every Spring) screenplay. Latimore, Smith, and Montgomery are amiable enough, but beyond their handsome coiffures and white smiles, they do not surprise romantically, comically, dramatically, or musically. Other than the reckless plotting and dreadful romantic dialogue as the film nears its conclusion, the male leads are among its weakest features. With greats like Victor Mature and Cesar Romero leaving the film as production commenced (being replaced by Montgomery and Latimore), Three Little Girls in Blue is a movie in desperate need of steadier actors for the romantic interests.

With the plot in disarray, Three Little Girls in Blue is (mostly) redeemed by its eye-catching Technicolor and musical score. Finding a quality print of Humberstone’s film in order to enjoy that Technicolor might be tricky. Three Little Girls in Blue has only been released once on home media (2013 DVD), but Fox’s record in restoring their older films for home media releases is spotty, and that unfortunately seems to have been the case for this movie – the situation is probably worse now because of the Walt Disney Company’s purchase of Fox and their policy towards older Fox films. The print that made its debut on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) last March was more presentable, with gorgeous saturated colors that bring out the Charter sisters’ color-coded dresses when they arrive in Atlantic City and gallivant across Steel Pier (one of the oldest amusement parks in the United States). Even as story devolves into farce, Three Little Girls in Blue is always fantastic to look at – it just depends on the quality of the print one has access to.

At the height of the Hollywood Studio System, the unspoken consensus among cast and crewmembers specializing in musical films across the industry was that MGM made the best musicals. Art is subjective, yes, but that is wisdom – at this time in Hollywood history – I will not contradict. However, MGM’s musical dominance, to industry insiders, was not absolute. The studio of Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, and Arthur Freed (lyricist and producer; 1943’s Cabin in the Sky, 1951’s An American in Paris) may have had the best stable of musical actors, producers, and directors. But Fox, those same industry specialists believed, had the better arrangers and orchestrators, individual instrumentalists, and orchestra – like actors and actresses, musicians were also contracted by studio and the major studios boasted an in-house orchestra (in 1946, for example, MGM’s orchestra might record the score to The Yearling, followed the next workday by recording a Tom and Jerry short film.) Thus, attentive listeners will notice that Fox musicals from the 1930s-1950s will sound richer than their counterparts from Paramount, RKO, or Disney.

For Three Little Girls in Blue, Alfred Newman serves as the musical director supervising composer Josef Myrow (1947’s Mother Wore Tights, 1950’s Wabash Avenue) and lyricist/producer Mack Gordon (1940’s Down Argentine Way, 1943’s Hello, Frisco, Hello). Myrow and Gordon’s songs contribute the plot better than most musicals during this era, which could sometimes approach the material like a revue musical. Many of the songs are integrated in the film’s score, none more than “On the Boardwalk (In Atlantic City)” – which has become an unofficial anthem for Atlantic City. Other than the film’s opener, “A Farmer’s Life is a Very Merry Life”, this is the only time where all three actresses (Vera-Ellen’s singing dubbed by Carol Stewart) sing as a trio. It is a merry waltz, full of optimism and yearning to escape their modest means. In all its innocence, the tune is quoted by the score across the film as a reminder to the audience the goals and wide-eyed personalities of Pam, Liz, and Myra. The lush orchestrations one expects from a Fox musical appear in “Somewhere in the Night” (sung by Vivian Blaine) and the film’s most iconic number “You Make Me Feel So Young” – famously covered by Frank Sinatra and, given the probable age of Vera-Ellen’s and Charles Smith’s (singing voice dubbed by Del Porter) characters, make little lyrical sense.

Beside that quibble for “You Make Me Feel So Young”, one does not cast Vera-Ellen in a movie without giving her a dancing number. With dance direction by Seymour Felix (1936’s The Great Ziegfeld, 1942’s Yankee Doodle Dandy), Vera-Ellen athletically moves and taps her way across a fantastical stage, recalling the childhood frills of first crushes and a surrounding world that is larger than life. It may not be set amid hypnotic production design that could be expected in an MGM or Busby Berkeley-choreograph Warner Bros. musical, but the individual choreography is dizzyingly complex – mixing tap, ballet, and jazz dancing. This dance plays into the lyrics, swung gently by the orchestra, and cementing the song’s place as a mid-century standard. Other reviewers are more qualified to comment on Vera-Ellen’s moves than I, but there is no denying her footwork and physicality here.

Of the film’s three principal actresses, Vera-Ellen would proceed to have the most accomplished film career. June Haver would be overshadowed by other actresses at Fox; Vivian Blaine, who began her career as a stage actress, returned to the stage. Vera-Ellen reeled off one critical and commercial hit after another, but as demand for movie musicals waned in the late 1950s, so did her film career. Only appearing for a few minutes, Celeste Holm is the actress who would have the greatest presence in Hollywood history. Within several years, Holm’s career included memorable roles in Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) opposite Gregory Peck and All About Eve (1950) – Holm would be somewhat judgmental of anyone, however, to anyone who listed either of those two movies as their favorite Celeste Holm film.

20th Century Fox, before its purchase by Disney in 2019, seemed disinterested in or lacked the resources to promote its classic library. Now under new ownership that is sending signals that they do not give a damn about the enormous film library they have just acquired, the status of Fox’s catalog is uncertain. Films released within the last few decades should be safe, and maybe the odd classic movie like All About Eve (which in any case probably won’t be made too available because it doesn’t adhere to the contemporary Disney brand) and The Sound of Music (1965; which fits with the brand). But a film like Three Little Girls in Blue – its plot bunk, its male characters baloney – may be endangered. This is not one of the eminent musicals in Fox’s library, nor will it garner much attention on home media or streaming (this is a chicken-or-the-egg dilemma, though, because many potential viewers do not realize what a classic Fox musical is and, because of Disney’s policies, it is not easy for them to find out whether they might want to see such a movie). But the committed performances, solid musical score, and posh Technicolor are worth preserving, commemorating, writing about, and viewing.

My rating: 7/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. Half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found here.