Congrats to the ultimate winner of the Hot & Vintage Movie Men Tournament, Mr. Toshiro Mifune! May he live happily and well where the sun always shines, enjoying the glories of a battle hard fought.
A loving farewell to all of our previous contestants, who are now banished to the shadow realm and all its dark joys and whispered horrors—I hear there's a picnic on the village green today. If you want to remember the fallen heroes, you can find them all beneath the cut.
What happens next? I'll be taking a break of two weeks to rest from this and prep for the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament. I'll still be around but only minimally, posting a few last odes to the hot men before transitioning into a little early ladies content, just like I did with this last tournament. The submission form for the Hot & Vintage Ladies tournament will remain up for one more week (closing February 21st), so get your submissions in for that asap! Once the form closes, there will be one more week of break. The first round of the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament will be posted on February 29th, as Leap Year Day seems like a fitting allusion to leaping into these ladies' arms.
Thanks for being here! Enjoy the two weeks off, and send me some great propaganda.
In order of the last round they survived—
ROUND ONE HOTTIES:
Richard Burton
Tony Curtis
Red Skelton
Keir Dullea
Jack Lemmon
Kirk Douglas
Marcello Mastroianni
Jean-Pierre Cassel
Robert Wagner
James Garner
James Coburn
Rex Harrison
George Chakiris
Dean Martin
Sean Connery
Tab Hunter
Howard Keel
James Mason
Steve McQueen
George Peppard
Elvis Presley
Rudolph Valentino
Joseph Schildkraut
Ray Milland
Claude Rains
John Wayne
William Holden
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Harold Lloyd
Charlie Chaplin
John Gilbert
Ramon Novarro
Slim Thompson
John Barrymore
Edward G. Robinson
William Powell
Leslie Howard
Peter Lawford
Mel Ferrer
Joseph Cotten
Keye Luke
Ivan Mosjoukine
Spencer Tracy
Felix Bressart
Ronald Reagan (here to be dunked on)
Peter Lorre
Bob Hope
Paul Muni
Cornel Wilde
John Garfield
Cantinflas
Henry Fonda
Robert Mitchum
Van Johnson
José Ferrer
Robert Preston
Jack Benny
Fredric March
Gene Autry
Alec Guinness
Fayard Nicholas
Ray Bolger
Orson Welles
Mickey Rooney
Glenn Ford
James Cagney
ROUND TWO SWOONERS:
Dick Van Dyke
James Edwards
Sammy Davis Jr.
Alain Delon
Peter O'Toole
Robert Redford
Charlton Heston
Cesar Romero
Noble Johnson
Lex Barker
David Niven
Robert Earl Jones
Turhan Bey
Bela Lugosi
Donald O'Connor
Carman Newsome
Oscar Micheaux
Benson Fong
Clint Eastwood
Sabu Dastagir
Rex Ingram
Burt Lancaster
Paul Newman
Montgomery Clift
Fred Astaire
Boris Karloff
Gilbert Roland
Peter Cushing
Frank Sinatra
Harold Nicholas
Guy Madison
Danny Kaye
John Carradine
Ricardo Montalbán
Bing Crosby
ROUND THREE SMOKESHOWS:
Marlon Brando
Anthony Perkins
Michael Redgrave
Gary Cooper
Conrad Veidt
Ronald Colman
Rock Hudson
Basil Rathbone
Laurence Olivier
Christopher Plummer
Johnny Weismuller
Clark Gable
Fernando Lamas
Errol Flynn
Tyrone Power
Humphrey Bogart
ROUND 4 STUNGUNS:
James Dean
Cary Grant
Gregory Peck
Sessue Hayakawa
Harry Belafonte
James Stewart
Gene Kelly
Peter Falk
QUARTERFINALIST VOLCANIC TOWERS OF LUST:
Jeremy Brett
Vincent Price
James Shigeta
Buster Keaton
SEMIFINALIST SUPERMEN:
Omar Sharif
Paul Robeson
FINALIST FANTASIES:
Sidney Poitier
Toshiro Mifune
and ok, sure, here's the shadow-bracket-style winner's portrait of Toshiro Mifune.
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The recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by student climate leaders! Join Aishah-Nyeta Brown & Jerome Foster II and be inspired by student climate leaders as we recognize the High School Student finalists. Watch now to find out which student received the $25,000 grand prize and top recognition!
The concept here is to send in a question or a letter request, and you’ll get a response from your fictional character of choice, from the list below. Please stick to the list I’ve made, but of course, you can ask if there’s some other characters I write for, I don’t always remember all the shows, movies or books I’ve consumed over the years and I’m sure I’m missing a lot 😅
Status: New Characters added - Thursday March 21st, 2024
SR-71 #960 is the same SR 71 that my father, Butch Sheffield, declined to eject from when one of the engines was in flames. He received his second distinguished flying cross because of this incident. He wrote in his unpublished book “The Very First” that since he had previously bailed out of the SR-71 #966, he feared another bailout might cause him to break his damaged back. When Dad did pass away in 2018, he was a 100% disabled veteran in part due to a back injury. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
The following are some excerpts from an article that appeared in The Washington Post on May 14, 1984
‘A highly sophisticated Air Force spy plane that was on public display here Saturday caught fire yesterday as it took off from Andrews Air Force Base, authorities reported.
‘The pilot of the SR-71 Blackbird shut down the right burning engine of the high-altitude reconnaissance jet and brought the airplane, which carries a crew of two, safely back to the runway, an Andrews spokesman said. The plane has been here at least since Friday morning, according to an Andrews spokesman. Still, authorities said they did not know when it arrived from Beale Air Force Base near Marysville, Calif., attached to the 9th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing. Although its missions and activities are still shrouded to a great extent in secrecy, the black-painted SR-71 was one of some aircraft parked on the ramp at Andrews Saturday for inspection at the air show, attended by an estimated 370,000 persons. The plane said to carry a wide variety of information-gathering sensors along with cameras, was taking off shortly after noon yesterday when, according to a witness, the engine on its right side “burst into flames.”’
As told above, the Blackbird that suffered the accident was SR-71, #960. This is the same SR-71 Kelly Johnson told my father, Blackbird Reconnaissance Systems Officer (RSO) Butch Sheffield, that was structurally unsound.
This very same airframe came very close to crashing previous times.
Once in 1968, when my Dad, Butch Sheffield, and Ben Bowles were flying it, and then again in the 1980s, when Dave Peters and Ed Bethart were flying it.
Then, in 1984, it experienced another mishap yet again… I am happy to report, like the old expression a cat with nine lives, this SR-71 escaped demise three times that I know of.
Today, you can see the 960 at Castle Air Force Base, California. It is on display outside.
I wish that all of the SR 71s could be placed inside a shelter to be preserved for many more generations. So that they can understand what can be done when you put together people with talent, and they drive to get the job done, written by Linda Sheffield Miller.
23 Republican Senators & 124 Congressmen signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court asking for a 50 state ban on mifepristone, a drug safer than tylenol that is standard treatment for abortion & miscarriages, "due to safety concerns".
The brief DARES to argue that banning the life saving drug would save women from 'reproductive control'. (x)
These 147 people would rather have women die of sepsis than let women control their own bodies. If your representatives are on this list, call them and tell their office you will be voting against them in the next election because they asked SCOTUS to throw the US medical drug system into chaos at the cost of American lives.
United States Senate
Lead Senator: Cindy Hyde-Smith (MS)
John Barrasso (WY)
Mike Braun (IN)
Katie Britt (AL)
Ted Budd (NC)
Bill Cassidy (LA)
Kevin Cramer (ND)
Mike Crapo (ID)
Ted Cruz (TX)
Steve Daines (MT)
Josh Hawley (MO)
John Hoeven (ND)
James Lankford (OK)
Mike Lee (UT)
Cynthia Lummis (WY)
Roger Marshall (KS)
Markwayne Mullin (OK)
James Risch (ID)
Marco Rubio (FL)
Rich Scott (FL)
John Thune (SD)
Tommy Tuberville (AL)
Roger Wicker (MS)
United States House of Representatives
Lead Representative: August Pfluger (TX–11)
Robert Aderholt (AL–04)
Mark Alford (MO–04)
Rick Allen (GA–12)
Jodey Arrington (TX–19)
Brian Babin (TX–36)
Troy Balderson (OH–12)
Jim Banks (IN–03)
Aaron Bean (FL–04)
Cliff Bentz (OR–02)
Jack Bergman (MI–01)
Andy Biggs (AZ–05)
Gus Bilirakis (FL–12)
Dan Bishop (NC–08)
Lauren Boebert (CO–03)
Mike Bost (IL–12)
Josh Brecheen (OK–02)
Ken Buck (CO–04)
Tim Burchett (TN–02)
Michael Burgess, M.D. (TX–26)
Eric Burlison (MO–07)
Kat Cammack (FL–03)
Mike Carey (OH–15)
Jerry Carl (AL–01)
Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (GA–01)
John Carter (TX–31)
Ben Cline (VA–06)
Michael Cloud (TX–27)
Andrew Clyde (GA–09)
Mike Collins (GA–10)
Elijah Crane (AZ–02)
Eric A. “Rick” Crawford (AR–01)
John Curtis (UT–03)
Warren Davidson (OH–08)
Monica De La Cruz (TX–15)
Jeff Duncan (SC–03)
Jake Ellzey (TX–06)
Ron Estes (KS–04)
Mike Ezell (MS–04)
Pat Fallon (TX–04)
Randy Feenstra (IA–04)
Brad Finstad (MN–01)
Michelle Fischbach (MN–07)
Scott Fitzgerald (WI–05)
Mike Flood (NE–01)
Virginia Foxx (NC–05)
Scott Franklin (FL–18)
Russell Fry (SC–07)
Russ Fulcher (ID–01)
Tony Gonzales (TX–23)
Bob Good (VA–05)
Paul Gosar (AZ–09)
Garret Graves (LA–06)
Mark Green (TN–07)
Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA–14)
H. Morgan Griffith (VA–09)
Glenn Grothman (WI–06)
Michael Guest (MS–03)
Harriet Hageman (WY)
Andy Harris, M.D. (MD–01)
Diana Harshbarger (TN–01)
Kevin Hern (OK–01)
Clay Higgins (LA–03)
Ashley Hinson (IA–02)
Erin Houchin (IN–02)
Richard Hudson (NC–09)
Bill Huizenga (MI–04)
Bill Johnson (OH–06)
Mike Johnson (LA–04)
Jim Jordan (OH–04)
Mike Kelly (PA–16)
Trent Kelly (MS–01)
Doug LaMalfa (CA–01)
Doug Lamborn (CO–05)
Nicholas Langworthy (NY–23)
Jake LaTurner (KS–02)
Debbie Lesko (AZ–08)
Barry Loudermilk (GA–11)
Blaine Luetkemeyer (MO–03)
Tracey Mann (KS–01)
Lisa McClain (MI–09)
Dr. Rich McCormick (GA–06)
Patrick McHenry (NC–10)
Carol Miller (WV–01)
Mary Miller (IL–15)
Max Miller (OH–07)
Cory Mills (FL–07)
John Moolenar (MI–02)
Alex X. Mooney (WV–02)
Barry Moore (AL–02)
Blake Moore (UT–01)
Gregory F. Murphy, M.D. (NC–03)
Troy Nehls (TX–22)
Ralph Norman (SC–05)
Andy Ogles (TN–05)
Gary Palmer (AL–06)
Bill Posey (FL–08)
Guy Reschenthaler (PA–14)
Mike Rogers (AL–03)
John Rose (TN–06)
Matthew Rosendale, Sr. (MT–02)
David Rouzer (NC–07)
Steve Scalise (LA–01)
Keith Self (TX–03)
Pete Sessions (TX–17)
Adrian Smith (NE–03)
Christopher H. Smith (NJ–04)
Lloyd Smucker (PA–11)
Pete Stauber (MN–08)
Elise Stefanik (NY–21)
Dale Strong (AL–05)
Claudia Tenney (NY–24)
Glenn Thompson (PA–15)
William Timmons, IV (SC–04)
Beth Van Duyne (TX–24)
Tim Walberg (MI–05)
Michael Waltz (FL–05)
Randy Weber, Sr. (TX–14)
Daniel Webster (FL–11)
Brad R. Wenstrup, D.P.M. (OH–02)
Bruce Westerman (AR–04)
Roger Williams (TX–25)
Joe Wilson (SC–02)
Rudy Yakym (IN–02)
If your representatives are on this list, call them and tell their office you will be voting against them in the next election because they asked SCOTUS to throw the US medical drug system into chaos at the cost of American lives.
Help to patients who have to cross state lines to get medical care by donating to your local abortion fund here. (x)
This first edit of old classic passing Tuesday Mary Jesus Joseph Angels in heaven Princess Pocahontas, Lallie Charles Cowell Portrait, Lou Conter, Amber Rene Hagerman, Opal Jennings, JonBenèt Ramsey, Kelly Ann Fleming, Judith and Maria Barsi, Heather Michele O'Rourke, Lucille Ricksen, Judy Garland and Terry, Dominique and Dominick Dunne, Samantha Reed Smith, Pal, Bessie Barker, Darla Jean Hood, Mona Lisa, Mary G Stinson Smith, Grigori Rasputin, Julia Ann Beauchemin Stinson, COL Thomas Nesbit Stinson, Lydia Ruth Talbot Theobald, Arthur James Talbot, Alton Elbren Theobald, George Eli Talbot Sr., Benjamin Grant “Cotton” Theobald, Crystal Theobald Whitehead, Charles Arthur Theobald, Thomas Benjamin Talbot, Margaret Alice Wiggill Talbot, Eli Wiggill, Rosanna Maria Wiggill Talbot, Isaac Wiggill, Ann Brown Hammer Wiggill, Frances Amelia Wiggill Lowe, Ailsa Georgina Booth-Jones, Edward Booth-Jones, John Percival Booth-Jones, Millichamletton Percival Booth-Jones, Jeremiah Francis “Jerry” Wiggill, Eli Francis Wiggill, Priscilla Jane Talbot Wiggill, Victoria Adelaide Wiggill McLean, John Richard Wiggill, Lavina Ruth Wiggill Ellison, Sarah Good, Salina Talbot Dutson, Charles Henry Talbot, Charles Stuart Talbot, Roseanna Maria Talbot Anderson, Ellen Graham Anderson, 1SGT William Alexander Anderson, Mary Louisa Blair Anderson, Ruth Floyd Anderson McCulloch, Anna Aylett Anderson McNulty, William Dandridge Alexander Anderson, William Dandridge Alexander “Alex” Anderson, Judith Nicoll Anderson, Henry Wayne Blair, Col William Barrett Blair, Mylinda Elizabeth “Mindy” Baker,Michael L. Baker, Carla Jean Eves Baker,Sandra Jane Burch, Patti Jo Baker, Jessie Benton Stinson, Jack Chesbro, Mabel A Shuttleworth Chesbro, Prince Sigismund of Prussia, Ruth Naomi Steward, Truman Cox Steward, Alice Christine Steward Wear, Charles Corwin Steward, Helga Susanne Goebbels, Hildegard Traudel “Hilde” Goebbels, Helmut Christian Goebbels, Holdine Kathrin “Holde” Goebbels, Hedwig Johanna “Hedda” Goebbels, Heidrun Elisabeth “Heide” Goebbels, Harald Quandt, and so much more I'll add Gracie Perry Watson in the second row of edits
7x04 is written by lio sigerson, who cowrote 6x04 burn rate and 6x08 the big ugly with brian koppelman & david levien, and directed by john dahl, who directed 1x08 boasts and rails, 3x04 hell of a ride, 3x06 the third ortolan, and 5x03 beg, bribe, bully.
babak tafti, who had a lead role in super pumped season 1, will be in billions season 7 as a new character, bradford luke. last month daniel k. isaac posted a selfie with babak tafti captioned “SUPER PUMPED & now #Billions Family,” so this isn’t too surprising. in this episode, luke will try to stop prince from taking some course of action and will fail because he “has no veto power.”
scooter will get the chance to conduct a musical ensemble (tying back to telling philip in 6x05 that he could have been a conductor “for real”) and prince cappers will be there to watch.
chuck & allerd will return to the us attorney’s office for the southern district of new york and work against prince from there. in this episode, this will involve someone named kai huang liu (see: the photo double casting call for “kai sr”) and a kid who flees the law until prince convinces him to turn himself in.
the dollar bill photo double/stand-in will appear in this episode.
questions raised by the call sheet:
who exactly is bradford luke and what is he failing to veto? how big will his role in the season be?
is prince hanging out at prince capital because 1) he’s still running the fund day-to-day despite ostensibly handing over the reins to philip and taylor, 2) he’s using it as his operating base for his presidential run and other projects, or 3) he wants everyone to cheer and clap for scooter and this is the best place to do it?
how on earth did chuck get back into the us attorney’s office after being fired from there and from his subsequent job as the nyag *and* supposedly being indicted? what happened to dave’s plan for him to go after prince under cover of disgrace? is his office a supply closet in the back of the building?
who’s the kid that’s hiding out on prince’s plane until he turns himself in, and is he connected to the kai huang liu case? is he, perhaps, kai huang liu junior? or is there no connection? why is he unnamed and not listed on the call sheet with the other actors?
given that dollar bill, rian, chuck, and allerd are in this episode, where are mafee, winston, sacker, and dave? i can understand dave not being on here, since none of the scenes listed happen at the nyag’s office, but why wouldn’t sacker and winston be at what seems like an all-hands prince cap meeting, and why would dollar bill be there if mafee isn’t? for that matter, why isn’t wags in those scenes despite being listed on the call sheet?
if my newly-acquired understanding of call sheet abbreviations is correct, this day of shooting was the last day that asia kate dillon, kelly aucoin, daniel k. isaac, louis cancelmi, eva victor, and dhruv maheshwari worked on this episode, despite it being only day 3 of an 11-day shoot. is the prince cap ensemble barely present in this episode, or were the first two days of shooting jam-packed?
Captain America is about to hit its 750th issue. The issue will address the aftermath of Captain America: Cold War as well as revealing the origin of Sam Wilson’s new shield and why he picked up the mantle again, showing a reunion between Steve and Bucky, and sending Sharon Carter into a new direction. The issue will also feature new backup stories.
Writers for Captain America #750 are Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, Tochi Onyebuchi, J.M. DeMatteis, Bail Simone, Dan Jurgens, Stephanie Williams, and Cody Ziglar. Artists for the over-sized issue are Carmen Carnero, R.B. Silva, Dan Jurgens, Daniel Acuña, Rachel Scott, Marcus Williams, and Sara Pichelli. The issue features a main cover by Gary Frank, a variant cover by George Perez, a virgin variant cover by Perez, a hidden gen variant cover by John Romita Sr., a variant cover by Adi Granov, a design variant cover by Carmen Carnero, a Marvel icon variant cover by Javier Garron, a Hellfire Gala variant cover by C.F. Villa, a variant cover by Ernanda Souza, a red variant cover by John Cassady, a white variant cover by Cassady, and a blue variant cover by Cassady.
Captain America #750 goes on sale on July 5, 2023.
(Image via Marvel Comics - Gary Frank’s Cover of Captain America #750)
Grace Kelly was a renowned American actress and Princess of Monaco. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a wealthy family. Her father, John B. Kelly Sr., was a three-time Olympic gold medal winner in rowing and her mother, Margaret Katherine Majer, was a socialite. As a child, Kelly took dancing and piano lessons and developed an interest in acting.