#movie congress 2019

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You Gonna Die.

Literally, I wasted my time editing down a forty-five minute talk that Magnús did, down to six/seven seconds of every time he says some form of the word "die" during it, just to make myself laugh. 😂 Hopefully you all get a laugh out of it, too. 💕💕

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Platoon (1986, Oliver Stone)

24/03/2024

Platoon is a 1986 film, written and directed by Oliver Stone, which deals with his time in Vietnam as a volunteer during the war and is inspired by the real experiences the director had between 1967 and 1971 during his military service.

The film won 4 Oscars out of 8 nominations and Oliver Stone was also awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin as best director. In 1998 the American Film Institute placed it in eighty-third place in the ranking of the one hundred best American films of all time, while ten years later, in the updated list, it dropped to eighty-sixth place. In 2019, it was chosen for preservation in the National Film Registry of the United States Library of Congress.

The bloodiest episode, as in many other films dealing with the Vietnam War, is inspired by the most atrocious event of that conflict, known to history as the My Lai massacre, in which American soldiers committed atrocities including rape of very young girls, indiscriminate killings of innocent civilians, destruction of the homes and resources of the inhabitants, believed to be allies of the Viet Cong, despite there being no evidence. From this perspective, the figure of the platoon commander, Lieutenant Wolfe, both for his inability to control his men and for other characteristics, can be traced back to the main person responsible for My Lai, the then US Army Lieutenant William Calley, convicted to several years of military detention for that very affair.

Due to an error by Lieutenant Wolfe, who gives wrong coordinates via radio, the platoon is decimated by friendly artillery.

In the last war action of his volunteer service, Chris escapes a deadly ambush by the Viet Cong who almost completely annihilate the platoon and the subsequent American bombing with napalm.

Initially Hollywood snubs the script as many producers are of the opinion that what three is to say about the Vietnam War has already been reported in highly successful films such as Apocalypse Now and The Deer Hunter, however the strength of Stone's script still attracts some producers who see enormous potential in him. He was then assigned to write a screenplay for another film, Stone accepted and wrote Midnight Express in 1977, thanks to which he won the Oscar for best non-original screenplay (first statuette for Stone) a fact that made all of Hollywood understand the Stone's enormous potential; it was therefore not difficult for him to find the producer to begin work on Platoon.

The film was shot, following the great example of Apocalypse Now, director Francis Ford Coppola's masterpiece, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, starting in February 1986. The film's production was almost canceled due to the political upheavals in country, due to Ferdinand Marcos, dictator of the country. Upon arrival in the Philippines, the cast members underwent a two-week course of intensive training by Dale Dye (former Marine captain during the Vietnam War and interpreter of Captain Harris), during which they had to dig trenches and suffer forced marches and night "ambushes".

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Cab Calloway - Minnie the Moocher 1931

"Minnie the Moocher" is a jazz-scat song first recorded in 1931 by Cab Calloway and His Orchestra, selling over a million copies and was the biggest chart-topper of that year. "Minnie the Moocher" is most famous for its nonsensical ad libbed ("scat") lyrics. In performances, Calloway would have the audience and the band members participate by repeating each scat phrase in a form of call and response, eventually making it too fast and complicated for the audience to replicate. The song is based lyrically on Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon's 1927 version of the early 1900s vaudeville song "Willie the Weeper".

"Minnie the Moocher" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, and in 2019 was selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the Library of Congress.

In 1978, Calloway recorded a disco version of "Minnie the Moocher" on RCA Records which reached number 91 on the Billboard R&B chart. "Minnie the Moocher" has been covered or simply referenced by many other performers. Its refrain, particularly the call and response, is part of the language of American jazz. At the Cab Calloway School of the Arts, which is named for the singer, students perform "Minnie the Moocher" as a traditional part of talent showcases.

In 1932, Calloway recorded the song for a Fleischer Studios Talkartoon short cartoon, also called Minnie the Moocher, starring Betty Boop and Bimbo, and released on March 11, 1932. Calloway and his band provide most of the short's score and themselves appear in a live-action introduction, playing "Prohibition Blues". The thirty-second live-action segment is the earliest-known film footage of Calloway. In the cartoon, Betty decides to run away from her parents, and Bimbo comes with her. While walking away from home, Betty and Bimbo wind up in a spooky area and hide in a hollow tree. A spectral walrus—whose gyrations were rotoscoped from footage of Calloway dancing—appears to them, and begins to sing "Minnie the Moocher", with many fellow ghosts following along, during which they do scary things like place ghosts on electric chairs who still survive after the shock. After singing the whole number, the ghosts chase Betty and Bimbo all the way back to Betty's home. In 1933 another Betty Boop/Cab Calloway cartoon with "Minnie the Moocher" was The Old Man of the Mountain.

Calloway performed the entire song in the movie Rhythm and Blues Revue (1955), filmed at the Apollo Theater. Much later, in 1980 at age 73, Calloway performed the song in the movie The Blues Brothers. Calloway's character Curtis, a church janitor and the Blues Brothers' mentor, magically transforms the band into a 1930s swing band and sings "Minnie the Moocher" when the crowd becomes impatient at the beginning of the movie's climactic production number.

"Minnie the Moocher" received a total of 71,1% yes votes!

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Summary: “The Change the Subject digital collection provides free streaming access to Change the Subject (2019) and to interviews conducted with documentary participants during the production phase of the film. The interviews contain perspectives on a wide range of topics, including the original petition to the Library of Congress, student activism at Dartmouth, and the immigrant rights movement. We invite you to listen and learn from the remarkable students, scholars, and librarians who started the movement to “change the subject.”” This film documents an example of true and necessary bravery. This is why community is so important. Really great work all around. The worst part about this doc was having to hear Tomi Lahren's voice.

To view: www.library.dartmouth.edu/digital/digital-collections/change-the-subject

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In other news…Boeing 737s continue to fall apart in the sky.

The articles last paragraph is wrong though:

These are not “recent” incidents as the usual media collusion would have you believe with the 737 models. It officially started with two catastrophic crashes in 2018 and 2019:

Granted the 737 Max was the newest model and MOST nefarious but the pattern of intentional abhorrence to safety is manifest throughout Boeing for years if not over a decade as documented in the 2022 movie:

John Barnett who was recently arkancided plays a prominent role in the movie. The guy is brilliant.

And given todays constant barrage of distractions, psyops and coverups most didn’t hear of the latest Boeing whistleblower to testify to congress where he tells of retaliation and covert death threats after documenting the staggering safety violations. He even did this:

He also says he will not let his family fly ANY Boeing plane as the pattern of intentional recklessness is pervasive at Boeing. His testimony to congress was relentless in the violations. And given these problems took a decade or two to fully manifest the problems, it’s going to take a decade or more to address them. Especially since the lifespan of a typical airliner is 30 years.

Curiously, in 2021 the company Avelo was launched. So right about the time Boeing would have had to internally acknowledge they were facing a cosmic anal probe of investigations and it’s eventual consequences. Even if it’s the usual “whoopsie my bad” without any jail time or true consequences…because of the usual secret deals, payoffs and/or compromised investigators. Such as the current Boeing CEO stepping down by the end of the year.

Avelo is the latest in ultra low cost airlines. Basically Spirit but worse. Based out of the Carolinas where of course Boeing is based out of. Where Nikki Haley is based out of. Nikki Haley being a former Boeing CEO has never been question or commented on all of Boeing woes to the best of my knowledge. And she would have been there at the height of the violations. But the best part of Avelo…it’s an ALL Boeing airlines. Ha ha. Talk about your kickbacks and work arounds for pending investigatory anal probes!!! Hard pass on Avelo!

That’s it for now, until the next great and most certain Boeing disaster.

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America Ferrera's breakthrough career

I just want to point out that this woman has delivered 2 cinematic, historical, browsing, impeccable speeches about the frustrations I feel about being a woman. And that actress of course is the one and only America Ferrera herself. Let's talk about her debut role in the movie — Real Women Have Curves. The 2002 independent film based on the play by Josefina Lopez is one of my all-time favourite movies I have watched in my lifetime. And if you somehow know this movie through another suspicious Greta Gerwig connection, I implore you to watch this. The movie was directed by Patricia Cardoso. At the time when it was released, America Ferrera had already filmed another movie but this movie debuted first putting her on the map. She was only 17 years old! Josefina López wrote the play when she was 18 years old. In 2019 it was the first Latina directed film to be included in the National Film Registry at the library of Congress. Taking inspiration from her real life, Josefina wrote Real Women Have Curves about Ana, mostly centered on her relationship with her mother Carmen, played by Lupe Ontiveros. This movie is touted, not only for its representation of women in their real bodies, it also delivered a warm and loving portrayal of Latina families and neighborhoods in Royal Heights and East Los Angeles. Again this isn't a time where Latinas, even today, are represented in a full and nuancent light. So to not only have this Latina family but to have them placed in East Los Angeles which has been criminally and stereotypically portrayed as "dangerous", really meant something and still means something today. And the message of that film being "there's so much more to me than my weight". I think this might serve as a comfort watch for many women around the world.

I don't understand how we were made to believe as children, that America Ferrera was the biggest woman to ever grace our tv screen. The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants is what I call perfection in cinema. If I ever will have a daughter in the future, she is required to watch this movie. Because every little girl needs to understand what sisterhood and what community is. I feel like girls today are not watching sisterhood displayed on television, or even in movies. It's always these toxic relationship, these toxic friendship — not to say that neither of those can't be toxic and bad, because even within this friend group they all have their own issues with each other, with their families etc. But it's not about the problems, it's how they solve them, how they come together. And I feel like this message should be displayed for the young girls today. And I just love how diverse the friend group is, because nowadays it seems like every teenager I see on tv are like the same skinny, white blondes. If you haven't seen this movie make sure to have a box of tissues nearby because it's going to make you cry.

The dark side of pretty privilige is, you don't get to be funny, intelligent, respected — you just get to be pretty. So I've just finished watching Ugly Betty, I fully recommend, and I realised the only female character who's actually respected within this show, is Betty. If you don't already know the concept, Betty gets hired to be the assistant to the chief. Because he sleeps with his assistants, they decide to get him an "ugly" girl so he won't sleep with her. But she's hired for Mode, which is kind of like Vogue/Cosmo type of magazine. So naturally she gets bullied. They treat her like crap because she doesn't look like the ideal Mode girl. But the crazy thing is, since none of the men want to sleep with her, they actually respect her. They start to treat her like a human being with ideas. Then she becomes one of the most liked people by anyone in their team. On top of that, all of these gorgeous women get treated like absolute crap. No one listens to them, their ideas are not heard, and they're not respected. So it leaves a very clear message: wether you are gorgeous or "ugly", misogyny will still hunt you down and it will catch you. For Betty, men don't look twice her way. They treat her bad from the moment they see her. Just because they don't want to sleep with her, they don't find her attractive. For the beautiful women in the show, like Amanda who is painted as the gorgeous blonde, men only want to sleep with her, and they don't see that she's smart. Go back to watch the show and you'll see how horribly the other women get treated compared to Betty (and they have some good cameos in this show).

As we are reaching the end, we can claim America Ferrera as "that girl". The term is, in my opinion, used for anyone who dresses like a fashionista and acts like the queen they are. But it's much more than that. I think, to achieve that title you have to be also impactful and encourage other women to be what they want to be. America really proved it by playing the Emmy Award winning role of Gloria in Barbie, directed by Greta Gerwig. I think every cis, heterosexual white male should be forced to sit down and watch this movie. The message behind the Barbie movie is about going from being a girl to being a woman. Barbieland is what our childhood felt like; we were safe, naive, independent and everything seemed perfect. The real world is what womanhood actually is. It's scary, sexist, there's pain and we're faced with so many challenges, while still being held to unrealistic expectations by society. "We mothers stand still, so our daughters can look back to see how far they've become". America Ferrera's speech about how hard it is to be a woman, really affected me and made me tear up in the theather. "It is literally impossible to be a woman. You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow we're always doing it wrong. You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but also you have to be thin. You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass. You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean. You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas. You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time. You have to be a career woman but also always be looking out for other people. You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is insane, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining. You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood." America Ferrera the woman you are, thank you so much for helping me and other women to believe in theirselves. Happy international women's day! <3

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This day in history

#15yrsago Best practices for economic collapse: Long Now talk https://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/02/social-collapse-best-practices.html

#10yrsago San Francisco police beat up and detain Good Samaritans who call 911 and perform first aid on accident victim https://medium.com/indian-thoughts/good-samaritan-backfire-9f53ef6a1c10

#10yrsago Dems appoints RIAA’s man in Congress to House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet https://www.techdirt.com/2014/02/12/another-friend-recording-industry-joins-house-subcommittee-courts-intellectual-property-internet/

#10yrsago Senator Rand Paul sues US government over NSA spying https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/us-senator-sues-president-obama-to-stop-nsa-metadata-dragnet/

#5yrsago Who can forget those scenes in Count Zero where they all stand around eating soup? https://memex.craphound.com/2019/02/14/who-can-forget-those-scenes-in-count-zero-where-they-all-stand-around-eating-soup/

#5yrsago Bossfight: Allstate Insurance enters the Right to Repair fight, loans its lobbyists to fight Apple https://www.vice.com/en/article/nex3dz/insurance-giant-allstate-buys-icracked-phone-repair-company-joins-right-to-repair-movement

#5yrsago Installing a root certificate should be MUCH scarier https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/powerful-permissions-wimpy-warnings

#5yrsago Ex-NSA whistleblower says she and other US ex-spooks targeted Americans on behalf of UAE https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-spying-raven/

#5yrsago LA Times demands that reporters sign away rights to books, movies and other works they create while working at the paper https://latguild.com/news/2019/2/12/press-release-los-angeles-times-guild-pushes-back-against-managements-proposed-intellectual-property-policy

#5yrsago Even without explicit collusion, pricing algorithms converge on price-fixing strategies https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/artificial-intelligence-algorithmic-pricing-and-collusion

#5yrsago Most adults are incapable of understanding most online terms of service https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3313837

#5yrsago How Epson’s patent trolling is killing the EU market for replacement ink https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/patently-unfair-epson-takedowns-continue/

#5yrsago The Final Version of the EU’s Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/02/final-version-eus-copyright-directive-worst-one-yet

#5yrsago Beyond GIGO: how “predictive policing” launders racism, corruption and bias to make them seem empirical https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3333423

#1yrago Nathan J. Robinson's "Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments" https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/14/nathan-robinson/#arguendo

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Episode 18: Olivia Baskerville on the Great Survey, the Greek New Testament, and the history of England

Pages from the Codex Sinaiticus (l) and The Domesday Book (r)

In Episode 18 of Inside My Favorite Manuscript, we have a two-fer! Dot and Lindsey chat with Olivia Baskerville about her two favorite manuscripts: The Domesday Book and the Codex Sinaiticus. The Domesday Book, completed in 1086, documents a tax survey taken of most of England and parts of Wales after the Norman Conquest, while Codex Sinaiticus is a complete copy of the New Testament, written in Greek in the 4th century and sold to England by the Soviet Union in 1933. While very different in form and content, both manuscripts have played important roles in English culture, and we'll spend most of our time talking about the politics surrounding their creation and use over the course of England's history.

Listen here, or wherever you find your podcasts.

Below the cut are more images and links relevant to the conversation.

The Domesday Book at the National Archives (includes digitized images taken from the 1986 photographic facsimile, free to download in PDF format if you sign in)

Open Domesday (includes digital images taken from the 1850s photozincographic reproduction of Domesday, made by Ordnance Survey in Southampton. As Andrew Prescott points out on Twitter, the plates used to make this facsimile have been cleaned up and some marginalia removed)

Page of the Domesday book showing Bedford in Bedfordshire (image from the National Archives)

Codex Sinaiticus (transcription and digital images)

Codex Sinaiticus fol. 217b, the opening of the Book of Mark

The same page within the context of the website, transcription and translation on the right.

Example of a Canon Table from British Library Burney 41, f. 19v. From left to right, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John showing the divisions that were used before the invention of the modern system of chapter and verses. The numbers in the columns will be written alongside the text in the main part of the Bible. (Wikipedia page on Eusebian Canons)

The canon table that Olivia mentioned, from the Codex Amiatinus (digitized online at the Library of Congress)

Codex Sinaiticus fol. 217b, zoom in on the bottom right under standard light.

Codex Sinaiticus fol. 217b, zoom in on the bottom right margin under raking light. The ruling is so clear!

Wikipedia page on the Soviet sale of paintings from the Hermitage Museum (which happened around the same time that the Codex Sinaiticus was sold)

Newsreel Footage of Codex Sinaiticus from 1933, blog post by Brent Nongbri includes the movie footage embedded.

The CULTIVATE MSS project (2019-2024), funded by the European Research Council, explores how the trade in medieval manuscripts between 1900 and 1945 affected the development of ideas about the nature and value of European culture during this period. (Project website)

The Cost of Culture, the podcast of the CULTIVATE MSS project

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In honour of Black (American) History Month, we turn our gaze towards the stars by featuring two incredible women of colour in NASA. Katherine Johnson NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson (née Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020) was an American mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. During her 33-year career at NASA and its predecessor, she earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks. The space agency noted her "historical role as one of the first African-American women to work as a NASA scientist". Johnson's work included calculating trajectories, launch windows, and emergency return paths for Project Mercury spaceflights, including those for astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit, and rendezvous paths for the Apollo Lunar Module and command module on flights to the Moon. Her calculations were also essential to the beginning of the Space Shuttle program, and she worked on plans for a mission to Mars. She was known as a "human computer" for her tremendous mathematical capability and ability to work with space trajectories with such little technology and recognition at the time. In 2015, President Barack Obama awarded Johnson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2019, Johnson was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress. In 2021, she was inducted posthumously into the National Women's Hall of Fame. The movie "Hidden Figures" is based on her life and work. Mae Carol Jemison NASA Astronaut Mae Carol Jemison (born October 17, 1956) is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel into space when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. Jemison joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1987 and was selected to serve for the STS-47 mission, during which she orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992. Born in Alabama and raised in Chicago, Jemison graduated from Stanford University with degrees in chemical engineering as well as African and African-American studies. She then earned her medical degree from Cornell University. Jemison was a doctor for the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone from 1983 until 1985 and worked as a general practitioner. In pursuit of becoming an astronaut, she applied to NASA. Jemison left NASA in 1993 and founded a technology research company. She later formed a non-profit educational foundation and through the foundation is the principal of the 100 Year Starship project funded by DARPA. Jemison also wrote several books for children and appeared on television several times. #technology #work #career #project #university #engineer #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #blackamericans #nasa #womeninstem #womenofcolor

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What happened to Miss May? A New Leaf (1971), the brilliant debuts of the improv star (1/4)

Elaine May and Walter Matthau in a scene from A New Leaf

Between 1971 and 1987, Elaine May directed four films. Her directing career began with the success of A New Leaf and ended with the poorly received and commercially unsuccessful Ishtar. It was marked by great creative inputs and troubled relationships with the studios. Following this period, Elaine May’s work was mostly forgotten and difficult to access. This series of articles aims to celebrate the work of an essential comedic genius and reclaim her influential style in Hollywood history.

“Miss May does not exist.”

Elaine May is an enigmatic figure who has cultivated mystery and rarely granted interviews, cautioning journalists that her statements might not be entirely truthful. The quote above was taken from Elaine May’s self-presentation on the cover of the comedy album Improvisations on Music (1958) she made with her partner Mike Nichols. They both gained popularity thanks to their elegant, witty improvisational sketches on television and Broadway. When the ‘Nichols and May’ duo parted ways in the early sixties, they both transitioned to Hollywood careers: Nichols’s first film was Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), while May went on to make A New Leaf (1971).

Elaine May and Mike Nichols in the stage production An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May (1960).

Elaine May wrote, directed, and starred in her debut film, infusing dark humor into an anti-romantic comedy. In A New Leaf, she portrays the adventures of a wealthy playboy (Walter Matthau) whose sole talent lies in living a vain life of luxury, caring only about his material possessions until he suddenly loses his fortune. He devises a plan to marry a rich yet clumsy and kind-hearted botanist (Elaine May) to eventually kill her. A New Leaf starts with an unforgettable opening scene and channels  the screwball tradition and triumphant love trope throughout the film. Through this work, Elaine May establishes socially awkward characters as a recurrent theme in her filmography.

A glorious poster with the longest tag line ever

However, making the film was far from straightforward. May had no experience in film direction and many people from the production tried to take the film away from her. Consequently, the studio justified that she was paid only $50,000 as the director, writer, and co-star of the movie while the two producers each gained the same amount, and Walter Matthau received a substantial $350,000 paycheck.

Elaine May’s first series of clashes with movie studios –a recurrent theme throughout her career – started during the ten-month editing process of A New Leaf when May presented Paramount Pictures with a three-hour-long version of the film, which the studio did not consider to be an adequate length for a comedy. Paramount Pictures had specified in her contract that they had the right to cut the film as they liked and proceeded to hire a new editor who reduced May’s cut in half. May sued the studio, asserting that they had created a different film under her name. This legal battle led to a legendary encounter with a judge who, despite of ruling in favor of the studio, praised May for making such a hilarious film. The version known to the public today is the studio-approved one, with May’s darker director’s cut unable to be seen.

Elaine May shooting a scene of A New Leaf with her wedding dress costume on

Despite the troubled production of A New Leaf, May’s film paved the way for 1980s and 1990s comedy and inspired Nora Ephron and Woody Allen’s subsequent work. A New Leaf was inducted into the Library of Congress’s Film Registry in 2019, celebrating May as a trailblazer for comedy and female directors.

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"Good News In 2 Days": Kamal Haasan On Lok Sabha Poll Alliance With DMK

In a run-up to the Lok Sabha Elections, Makkal Needhi Maiam president and actor Kamal Haasan said on Monday that an alliance announcement will be made within two days.

While speaking to reporters at Chennai airport, the MNM chief, referring to preparations for the parliamentary polls, anticipated a "good opportunity" adding that the election works are going well.

"In two days I will meet you with good news. Work for the Parliament election are going well and we are hoping for a good opportunity. Regarding the alliance, we will announce the decision in two days," Kamal Haasan said.

Kamal Haasan reached Chennai Airport on Monday morning from the US after his upcoming movie 'Thug Life' preparation works there.

Earlier in September last year, DMK leader and Tamil Nadu minister Udhayanidhi Stalin hinted at his party allying with Haasan's MNM ahead of the parliamentary polls.

"The party leaders will decide on the alliance (with Kamal Haasan's Makkal Needhi Maiam party) at the time of the elections," Udhayanidhi Stalin had said.

Also, Kamal Haasan had come in defence of Udhayanidhi Stalin during the 'Sanatana Dharma' controversy against the latter saying that a young child (Udhayanidhi) was being targeted just because he spoke about Sanatana.

Haasan formed MNM in 2018 but faced defeats in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and 2021 Assembly polls in Tamil Nadu.

Later, MNM extended support to the ruling DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance candidate during the by-polls in Erode.

Also, Haasan was seen alongside Congress MP Rahul Gandhi embarking on his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra when it reached Tamil Nadu earlier in December 2022.

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Events 1.2 (after 1960)

1963 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac. 1967 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future President of the United States, is sworn in as Governor of California. 1971 – The second Ibrox disaster kills 66 fans at a Rangers-Celtic association football (soccer) match. 1974 – United States President Richard Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 mph in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. 1975 – At the opening of a new railway line, a bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways. 1975 – The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress. 1976 – The Gale of January 1976 begins, resulting in coastal flooding around the southern North Sea coasts, affecting countries from Ireland to Yugoslavia and causing at least 82 deaths and US$1.3 billion in damage. 1978 – On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills. 1981 – One of the largest investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. 1988 – Condor Flugdienst Flight 3782 crashes near Seferihisar, Turkey, killing 16 people. 1991 – Sharon Pratt Dixon becomes the first African American woman mayor of a major city and first woman Mayor of the District of Columbia. 1993 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kill 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon. 2004 – Stardust successfully flies past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples that are returned to Earth. 2019 – Adventist Health System and its subsidiaries rebranded to AdventHealth. 2022 – Massive nationwide protests and unrest break out in Kazakhstan over the sudden increase of liquefied petroleum gas prices, leaving over 200 people dead and thousands injured.

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This Day in X-Project - October 14

Alex Summers and Lorna Dane's Anniversary

PHASE 2

2015: Amadeus posts a picture of himself throwing a pot. Adrienne posts asking for help because Garrison is celebrating the Blue Jays winning. Wade texts Arthur about camping. Arthur posts about being in a Lifetime movie.

2016: Tandy announces that she’s back. Clea sends a text to Steve about Halloween.

2017: Green-Eyed Monster: Namor emails Molly, Clint and Kitty re his non-reaction to the emerald, passing it off as him being of superior stock. Lorna and Alex get married; Erik turns up in disguise and tells Charles he has taken several Congress members and their families hostage in order to be able to watch his daughter get married in peace; Charles talks to Scott, Alex and Lorna about the uninvited guest and they agree to let him stay; Erik talks to Lorna and tries to convince her to return to the Brotherhood; Lorna announced she is now Mrs. Summers. Darcy provides random bowls of Tootsie Rolls around the mansion; at Lorna and Alex's wedding, the Mansionites gather to party; Sooraya is the first person to officially speak with Mrs. Alex Summers; Rogue has a wardrobe malfunction, but thankfully Hope is there to help; Xavin is tipsy and talks Julian into a toast; Artie and Clarice talk high fashion; Rogue and Jean have a wedding scavenger hunt planned out; Rahne and Nica enjoy the opportunity to chat; Warren and Bobbi compare party favours; Wanda and Jean toast the happy couple; Ty and Sharon have a quick chat at the bar; Bobbi and Rogue tear up the dance floor; the Summers brothers chat.

2018: Jean announces that she'll be away for a bit.

2019:

2020: Lorna posts a happy 2 year wedding anniversary to her bae, Alex.

2021: Tayammum: Laurie emails Sue and Molly about an emergency situation; Sooraya is stuck in sand form, and no one can figure out how to bring her back, or if she's even there. Terry texts Darcy, stressed. Angelo comforts Terry. Bobby pays Clarice a 'get well' visit.

2022: Amanda leaves a Barbie on Marie-Ange's desk, altered into her likeness.

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Time was, Hollywood filmmakers would regularly travel to China in support of their movies, attending premieres and holding Q&As to drum up buzz in the massive box office market. The pandemic halted that ritual — until this week when Christopher Nolan became the first major Hollywood filmmaker since Covid to stroll a red carpet in China as his Oppenheimer was premiered at Universal Studios’ CityWalk IMAX theater in Beijing, followed by a stop in Shanghai for more screenings and fan interaction.

Such was the event that the day after the Beijing premiere, the state-backed Global Times gushed that Nolan “set hearts racing … as he became the first prominent figure from the Hollywood film industry to visit Hollywood’s largest overseas market, the Chinese mainland, after the pandemic.”...

From the Oppenheimer Beijing show, video on Weibo saw fans “clutching posters” featuring Nolan’s previous works like Inception, Interstellar and Tenet, the Global Times reported. The premiere also ignited discussions on social media, with Weibo trending topics including #Oppenheimer, #OppenheimerChinaPremiere, #NolanSigningPostersForFans. According to sources, the film has generated over 50 million views on the Weibo platform alone. The Maoyan want-to-see number also sharply increased. The film currently leads presales through next Sunday.

Oppenheimer is set for release on August 30 in China where Nolan’s films have a strong track record. It was the No. 1 offshore market on 2010’s Inception, No. 2 on 2012’s The Dark Knight Rises, and tops for 2014’s Interstellar and 2020’s Tenet.

Special screenings of Oppenheimer for students from Peking University and the China Film Academy were also held this week with Nolan in attendance for a post-screening Q&A. The filmmaker then traveled to Shanghai for additional screenings as Nolan conducted Q&As with students from FuDan University and the Shanghai Theater Academy...

So, is Nolan’s trip a sign of things to come?

USC professor and China expert Stanley Rosen muses that “Hollywood studios see the Chinese market as a nice bonus, but no longer essential for success.” This has been true for some time given the unreliability of the market and its gatekeepers. Still, there is wistfulness over those sky-high 2012-2019 grosses. Could traveling talent help claw back some ground?

Rosen thinks geopolitics is playing a part, suggesting that recently there has been a combination of factors keeping folks from traveling to China, “starting with the state of U.S.-China relations and the widespread criticism of Hollywood in and out of Congress that Hollywood is pandering to China and helping it launder its image around the world.”

Hollywood, Rosen says, “is always concerned about PR, and promoting itself in China may seem like bad PR in the current environment.” However, he believes that issue could be overcome if Hollywood films were still doing well in China.” But with the shift in the market during and after the pandemic, “no recent blockbuster, assuming it even got into China, has matched its predecessor… Getting to China and navigating around China is much more complicated than it used to be.”'