A Sign / I Was Not Alone, The voices of poets Honor Moore, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Joan Larkin reading from their work, RG22-50, Out & Out Books, 1977 (download here). Design: Lynne Reynolds. Engineer, editing: Peggy Sendars. Photography: Trudy Rosen. Photograph of Peggy Sendars: Pam Camhe
Puberty pushing you into watching Being The Dark Order
Disclaimer: I don't know if calling someone dyslexic as an insult is appropriate but I sure ain't gonna mess with Mama Dark Order. Just a friendly reminder not to do that unless you're telling Uno off for puberty pushing.
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Anybody who thinks Bette Davis couldn’t play comedy need only look at ALL ABOUT EVE (1950), which isn’t exactly Greek tragedy, to see how wrong they are. Yet, that fallacious assumption is at least understandable given the comedies Warner Bros. usually gave her during her lengthy stay at the studio. Apart from THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1941), the scripts were pretty weak, though at least she had the consolation of co-starring with Leslie Howard in 1937’s IT’S LOVE I’M AFTER and James Cagney in 1941’s THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D. In Bretaigne Windust’s JUNE BRIDE (1948, TCM, Plex), she had neither a good script nor a congenial leading man. She’s convincing as a tough lady editor (with a great Edith Head wardrobe), but as the former lover assigned to write a wedding story under her, Robert Montgomery is just wrong. He’s not horrible in the scenes without Davis. By 1948, he’d at least acquired enough life experience to play with a degree of conviction. But his comic style doesn’t match hers. Davis keeps struggling to find the truth in the shoddy plot and succeeds a good deal of the time. She has the star’s trick of playing as if she had a secret. She’s always withholding something, which makes her lighter scenes charming. The only scene that seems false is her big Act II confrontation with Montgomery. The writing is so phony even Davis can’t whip it into shape, and the whole idea that a strong, accomplished woman needs a man to serve is just antediluvian. But there are other moments — her reaction to a wedding, a cross to turn out a light — that reach the level of mastery for which she was most acclaimed. Montgomery doesn’t withhold anything. He mugs mercilessly, making him the country bumpkin’s notion of a sophisticate (no wonder he played so much light comedy at MGM). The two stars seem to be in different movies; he’s a McKinley stinker, and she’s a Truman modern. There’s a very deft supporting performance by Betty Lynn as the bride’s younger sister who blossoms convincingly and nice supporting moments from Fay Bainter and Mary Wickes as Davis’ assistants, Jerome Cowan as her publisher and Marjorie Bennett and Tom Tully as the bride’s parents. If you blink, you’ll miss Debbie Reynolds’ film debut as a wedding guest.
Marvel celebrates Black History Month with Variant Covers, Backup Stories, and more!
Marvel celebrates Black History Month with Variant Covers, Backup Stories, and more! #comics #comicbooks
Marvel has announced some of the exciting things coming as it celebrates Black History Month this February with various new series centered about Black heroes and creators and a new edition of Marvel’s Voices anthology series, Marvel Voices: Wakanda Forever. Fans can discover more about the stories and creators that await in Marvel Voices: Wakanda Forever, check out all four Black History Month…
The Girl From Monday by #HalHartley, "has none of the cool effortless vibe that makes the director so popular with his fans",
HAL HARTLEY
Bil’s rating (out of 5): B.5
USA, 2005. Possible Films, The Monday Company. Screenplay by Hal Hartley. Cinematography by Sarah Cawley. Produced by Steve Hamilton, Hal Hartley. Music by Hal Hartley. Production Design by Inbal Weinberg. Costume Design by Virginia Cook. Film Editing by Steve Hamilton.
Hal Hartley indulges himself in an interminable exercise in speculative fiction that…
Edison the Man (1940) starring Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson
Edison the Man – A biography of Thomas Alva Edison, starring Spencer Tracy. It’s the story of Edison, starting as a young man, beginning his career, through the fight to bring electric lighting to New York City.
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Things are already interesting, as out of over 60 entries, only two characters got submitted more than once. Now, I know we're passionate here, but like I said in the rules, I want a good fair fight. Now, PICK A SAD GIRL @tournament-announcer
Best Wildest Dressed: Pinoe
"P you gotta like sort this out... You have to crawl over this bed, over these clothes to even get that suitcase."
Best Entertainer: Crystal
"I keep telling people soccer is my side hustle. Like honestly, entertainment should be just what I do for a full-on living."
Best Friends: Lynn & Sam
"You guys set me up, lay up, right there."
+ Ash & Kriegs, Pinoe, Veteran Players, then Lynn clinged on (or Crystal and son leeched on to Lynn)
Best Laugh: Press? Pinoe.
"Google Press' laugh. Is that a thing? Can you google that?"
"Yeah, probably for Press, actually, there’s probably pages and pages and videos and videos of it somewhere. "
Best Personality: Rose
"She's an onion, she has many layers."
"She's like quirky but like not a weirdo, but like also is a weirdo, and just loves to laugh and loves to tell stories."
Best Smile: Sophia Smith, Tobin
"The people with big teeth... Or big, pearly whites."
Class Clown: Emily Sonnett
"Emily Sonnett. Literally. Class Clown. All over that."
Teacher's Pet: Sam
"You're a dweeb and we love you for it."
"It's like youth camps when we were required to bring our notebooks to meetings, and on day two people stopped bringing their notebooks but Sam is still with the notebook..."
Most LIkely to Be Late to Class: Crystal, Allie Long
"But now, I get to be like, 'it's the baby.'"
"I'm having that issue as well, but I have no baby..."
Most School Spirit: HAO
"[In her 7v7 interview], she literally was crazy. I think she called out Ryan Reynolds and was like, 'you need to be here, go USA!" Did a chest bump, dabbed up/high fived the Wrexham guy..."