#pamela aldon

[magicalgirllove92]

My favorite TV shows of 1997

1. South Park (1997-present) One of the best Comedy Central original shows and one of the longest running adult animated shows ever. The show takes places in the fictional town of South Park, Colorado where 4 young foul-mouthed boys got involved in the series of hilariously mature adventures. This cartoon is for adults only. Starring: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, April Stewart, Mona Marshall and Mary Kay Bergen. Distributed by Comedy Partners and Paramount Global

2. King of the Hill (1997-2010/2024-present) Fox Television Network folks is needed another adult animated show besides The Simpsons and Mike Judge arrives and creates one of the best-loved Fox shows ever King of the Hill. The show takes places in the fictional town of Arlen, Texas, chronicling the lives of Propane salesman Hank Hill, his family, and his 3 comical best friends. Starring Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Aldon, Johnny Hardwick and Stephen Root. Distributed by 20th Television Animation and Disney

3. Cow and Chicken (1997-1999) With an success of Cartoon Network's second original show Dexter's Laboratory and 3rd series Johnny Bravo, the all-cartoon TV network has come up with an plan... an new summer TV show that involves 2 funny young kid animals, an devilishly funny villain, an dashing brave weasel and an buffoon baboon. Thus, Cow and Chicken was born on July 15, 1997. This grossly laugh out loud animated comedy about an scrawny 11 year old Chicken, his beefy 7 year old sister Cow and their unconventional weirdest human parents. Cow and Chicken navigating their lives throughout suburbia, encountered hilarious problems not just at school but an evil funny guy with devilishly schemes named Red Guy whose singular intent to make the siblings' lives miserable. Along with Cow and Chicken, the 2nd segment that spun-off an very short-lived show called I Am Weasel. The spin-off that focus on a smart, dashing, intelligent, noble and successful weasel named I.M Weasel and an unintelligent, rude, dumb and stinky baboon named I.R Baboon who is unaware of Weasel's good deeds and acts as his rival and friend, and the mischievous funny devil Red Guy, he often antagonize the two. Starring Charlie Andler, Candi Milo, Dee Bradley Baker and Michael Dorn. Distributed by Cartoon Network Studios, Hanna-Barbera Productions and Warner Bros Television Distribution

3. Stargate SG-1 (1997-2010) An television sequel to an 1994 blockbuster hit movie that started it all. Showtime ordered 6 seasons before Sci-Fi Channel (Syfy) took over from the remainder of the series after successful reruns. An young team of explorers made up of soldiers and scientists travels through a Stargate, an ancient portal to other planets. They use the Stargate to explore new worlds, forge ties with friendly civilizations and protect earth from evil and hostile forces. Starring Richard Dean Anderson, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge and Ben Browder. Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Domestic Television, Showtime Networks and Syfy Originals.

4. Disney's Recess (1997-2001) Recess is might be ABC's first original hit show/original Saturday Morning Cartoon show since acquired by Walt Disney Company in 1996. 6 brave 4th graders at the fictional school of Third Street School make it their mission to protect the kids on the playground despite King Bob and his minions who enforce his harshly unwritten law, TJ, Gretchen, Spinelli, Vince, Gus and Mikey seeks a rational balance between conformity an individually. The hit cartoon that spun 4 movies, the underrated 2001 movie Recess: School's Out, an Christmas compilation sequel Recess Christmas: Miracle on Third Street, 2 direct-to-video movies that debuts in 2003, an prequel Recess: All Growed Down and the series finale movie Recess: Taking a 5th Grade. Starring Andrew Lawrence, Ricky D'Shon Collins, Ashley Johnson, Pamela Aldon and Jason Davis. Distributed by Walt Disney Television Animation

5. Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction (1997-2002) Sci-fi/fantasy/mystery fans are need a relief after Unsolved Mysteries suffered from disastrous failure after the show was moving from NBC to CBS, 4 more months before the first ever Murder, She Wrote TV movie and the 1996-1997 season of The X-Files ended with gigantic cliffhanger, so Fox and Dick Clark Production conjure up an summertime experiment to turn the tide until September and that's when Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction? Debuts on May 25th, 1997. Each episodes that has 5 tales, all of them which appear defy logic or some of them are loosely based on actual events. The viewer is up to challenge of determined 5 stories that are true or false, at the end of each episodes, it is revealed to the viewer whether 5 tales were true or fiction. The show was massive popular in Germany, RTL II revives the show with Star Trek actor Jonathan Franks reprise his hosting duties in October 2021. Starring James Brolin and Jonathan Frakes. Distributed by Fox and Dick Clark Productions

[virtuouswhitehatorganization]

Prospero Puppazo (Villainous Oc)

Name: Prospero Puppazo

Headcannon Voice Actor: Pamela Aldon (English) ; Enzo Fortuny (Spanish)

Relatives: Carlo Puppazo/Burattinaio (father/creator); Other fellow creations/siblings

Species: Magic Puppet

Residence: Florence, Italy; Black Hat Institution

Abilities: Puppet physiology;  String manipulation; Puppet based magic 

Occupation: Student; Supervillain In Training

DOB: July 7th

Age: A few years old built

Personality: He is very theatrical and melodramatic due to his family's history in theater. He tends to treat the world like as if it was a stage and a grand performance. He can treat a mundane situation as it if was a something with great stakes. As a result, he also treats villainy as an art in itself as well. He has great dreams to follow in his father's footsteps as a villain along with his other siblings. He is very close to his father and tries to call him when at school. He tends to be a supportive friend in the group and tends to give flowery names to his friends. He also loves using big or complex words to describe things. He can get overdramatic sometimes when things don't go his way, but instantly lits right up when there is a good turn of events. He also is big critic on performing arts and will voice his opinion if he feels he likes or dislikes something. He comes off as blunt but means well. 

Background: The youngest creation of the infamous villainous puppeteer, Burattinaio, he is eager to follow in the rest of his family's footsteps and become a legit villain. He was sent to Black Hat's institute in order to get a proper education in evil. There he made many friends with fellow students like Metauro's youngest children, Lia and Javier and Liu Meng. There they formed a group dedicated to graduating together to become effect villains one day. 

* He is based on Pinocchio. 

* He knows Italian and English. 

* He's in the drama club. 

* He's a big fan of puppet shows, ballets, opera, and musicals. 

* He is a big critic about Pinocchio adaptations. 

Created through picrew.me/en/image_maker/14932…

[mbti-sorted]

Pamela Aldon

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[littlewalken]

Jul 28

Well if The Nightmare Man isn't the book I'm looking for then it's back to trying to figure out what is. Meanwhile I found a couple others I read as a kid and would like to read again.

I don't read much fiction but it falls in to these general categories- read it as a kid and want to read it again or is something I would have read as a kid if I knew it existed. Harry Potter because I read it at work and almost used a couple of the larger volumes as weapons. (not today, sometimes a book is just a book). 'Classic' or influential or important but only if I want to read them in the first place, since I stood up to that teacher I had to kill in middle school I won't read anything I don't like. Finally I found a review/summary that makes sense and perhaps this book will be interesting. I liked the movie/TV show and want to read the source material.

That last one has been the only one I've regretted, and not because the book is better or things got lost in adaptation, but a couple of movies I like came from real pieces of shit and like...

I really got to take another screen grab from this. Something Special or Willy/Milly is a sweet little movie that does the best it can for the times. It's a great companion to Just One of the Guys. Y'all want remakes? Y'all want streaming series? Y'all want LGB+ shows? Something Special could use the treatment as long as it doesn't get woke washed as well. I'm pretty damn sure Willy is Jewish and his adventures in white masculinity with that background will do nicely, thank you. Alfie's character arc will take care of a lot of the rest. Seriously, watch the movie.

But don't go looking for the book Hermaphrodiety the movie is very loosely based on. And I mean loose in the idea that the teenage gender change at high school has a million potentials but the author pushed that aside for... All you need to know is it was written by a man who must have had an adult movie catalog and checked off categories as plot points as he went because generally it's just nope.

Yes, that is Pamela Aldon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFkYm4IzY6M (didn't want it to auto play) The guy is Eric Gury who did a few things in the 80s you might recognize him from. And damn do they have chemistry. The casting in this is great.

Got real life to get to today. Which my sleeping could decide what it wants to do with the waking up. Need to finish a move that is entering a rough patch and make myself read a few things.

*And for the sake of keeping track of real life one of the perspective places to live at seems to be out, oh the mobility challenged people wanted the ground floor in a building without elevators?

Someone with ADA ties see if that is even legal in a 3-4 story place.

** The YA book I was looking for is called Circle of Revenge. I was on the right path searching for YA fiction 1980-1990 with brainwashing etc. Ultimately the tag that found it was 'torture fiction' because for some reason if you don't get the dashes just right it doesn't match up to 'brainwashing fiction'. Off to add it to the pile to eventually reread.

[rent-it-or-relent-it]

RIORI Presents Installment #213: Travis Knight's "BumbleBee" (2018)

"Rent It Or Relent It" doesn't care about your pronouns...

The Film… The Players… Haylee Steinfeld, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Pamela Aldon, Stephen Schneider, Jason Ian Drucker, Jon Ortiz and John Cena, with the voices of Dylan O’Brien, Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux and Peter Cullen. The Plot.. Teenager Charley Watson is desperate for a ride. And we ain’t talkin’ Uber here.   Thanking or cursing her late dad’s motor addiction she tools around the local…

[valleytherabbitfan]

Peter Pan - Bobby Driscoll

Mr. Peabody - Ty Burrell

Sherman Peabody - Max Charles

Penny Peterson - Ariel Winter

TinkerBell - Mae Whitman

Silvermist - Lucy Liu

Fawn - America Ferrera

Iridessa - Raven Symone

Rosetta - Kristen Chenoweth

Lewis Robinson - Jordan Fry

Turbo - Ryan Reynolds

Sulley - John Goodman

Mike - Billy Crystal

Lighting McQueen - Owen Wilson

Classified - Benedict Cumberbatch

Alex - Ben Stiller

[rosalie-starfall]

[retropunch]

Say Anything (1989) - trailer

A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.

[migleefulmoments]

Pamela writes a gut-wrenchingly honest post and Abby responds  like a pathetic mean girl.

pamelaadlon: Hello happy new era happy new decade. You may have been wondering where the fuck I’ve been. I’ll tell you where the fuck I’ve been. My time becomes very, very narrow when I’m working, and when I’m not working, I like to be with my kids and my mom and cook for them. You guys all know this. Hello to everyone who follows this Instagram. So I’ll tell you where the fuck I’ve been. I shot season 4 of my show! YES! Before that I was in prep and still in post for season 3 and writing S4! YES! I finished shooting the season in the great city of New Orleans, which is one of my favorite places on earth. I was also editing the show every weekend while I was shooting so I was working weeks and weekends so I could deliver the first three episodes which I did before Christmas BOOM the bip, the boom bip. Do you want to talk about multitasking? Multitasking is my bitch. Anyhoo. I edited a bit more, lost one of my dearest friends in the whole world on Xmas eve, eulogized her, (more on that later) and then I went on a vacation with some of my bestie buds/fam which is crazy because I have not ever done that in like…ever, without my kids. And I was in a place surrounded by some very tall beautiful rich people. Which is super fun for me. Anyway, I feel like if you’re tall and beautiful and rich shouldn’t you have a nicer face on your face? (More on that later). And even though you know I do lots of jobbies. It’s really HARD for me to tend to social media. And sometimes when I want to go post…something fucking awful happens in the world. And I feel like it’s just not appropriate or important enough to do a little pithy post. I feel bad about a lot of things like everybody. It’s unimaginable what’s happening in Australia. And Syria. And. America. But I try to keep this shit positive here. With a little dash of hope and a little drizzle of laughter. So. I hope. I can give you guys some of that here. I want to say hi to my Instagram friends from all over the world. ps This post took three people to prepare and whole day to post. Because. We are in post! BTS4! So meta. More soon LOTSA LOVE. Xpsa

ajw: Thanks P/ammy, I needed that photo, looks like D preferred to snuggle with you and not his bride who is just hanging on him as usual, making sure to show off the ad ring.

Though besties and buds is laying it on really thick sweetie, i mean that is a stretch, but stans are happy, your presence at the sham mockery now makes sense in their heads….

[binsofchaos]

Better Things | Final Season

How 50-something women are represented on television

There’s so much scorched earth from our generation growing up during the Cold War and being obsessed with Russia pointing nukes at us. All these things seemed really, really scary when I was in middle school. They left this crazy feeling inside.

A few years ago, when things started to get really bad in the way they are now, I thought, Are we going to stop living? Are we going to be apologizing to our kids? We’re all still living our lives, and we have to. It’s a very existential feeling I put into the show: We’re here. We have our chosen family and our village and our friends, and we have work. Things can get really fucking bleak, and you’re allowed to laugh. You have to laugh. The kids need reasons to keep moving forward.

On Not bringing the pandemic into this season

It’s in the fabric of the stories of the show this season. Baseball cards: I put that in the show because I was sitting at home in lockdown, de-hoarding the way Phil is this season. I laid them out on my dining table for a week, then I wrapped them up in hair bands by position and team. It was one of those things I never would have been able to get to if we were continuing to go as quickly as we were. I was hoping the pandemic would show us we were going too fast: This is a reset. Let’s not go back to normal. We need to change and be better.

The themes for me were back to basics: Everybody was making fucking sourdough starter, we were going on walks and reconnecting, and there were birthday parades — these little moments. We did a birthday parade for one of my daughters, then one of my friend’s daughters. Those moments where you came up on the line and handed a present to somebody through the window and were able to see them — the connection was so profoundly moving. That’s always been a part of the show. I guess I just doubled down on it.

On capturing the organic nature of people relating to each other

The guy on the Mattachine Steps [in episode five] is a perfect example. Sam’s tackling the steps, and she sees this man crying. She doesn’t know what to do, so she just sits with him. Then, after Sam says, “This is a monument to gayness. It’s like the Stonewall of L.A.,” an entitled woman walks through like, “Excuse me.” And they just burst into laughter

That, for me, is addressing the pandemic. Lennon Parham plays the receptionist at my doctor’s office: She’s entitled, and she’s got all this power and makes people feel shitty. When you go to a doctor, you’re at your most vulnerable. There’s usually one person at the desk who’s got all the power, and they make you feel really bad. Those are my little gestures to the time we’ve been living in: People being really poorly behaved and so narcissistic that they don’t care about the consequences of their actions. Through Sam’s eyes, we’re seeing how this ugliness lives in the world. If you can laugh at it, it makes it less awful.

[joetoreno]

Pamela Aldon for Variety magazine

Photo by Joe Toreno

[lesbianelsas]

So I tried Better Things 2 years ago, but the weird racism with the grandma and Lenny Kravitz’s character and the weirdness about poc in general was like. A lot. So I didn’t continue but your posts made me want to give it another try and I love Pamela Aldons voice sm lol. I’m on s3 and I’m really loving it. Shows about ‘nothing’ especially from women’s pov are so underrated. I’m a huge fan of just talking, just because and I love that so many episodes are just ‘ok we’re gonna talk in the car/bedroom/living room/beach now’ like hell yeah! Sam is my fave though like I get that her kids are Like That on purpose(also being a teenage girl is rough ik)and it’s all a bit extra for tv but they grate on my nerves; I am hoping for a little chills as they grow up. Anyway this show is so witty and clever and well acted(like actual acting not like over/under emoting CW shit yk) so thanks for pushing me to try it again :)

EDIT: I started writing this reply earlier and then I found myself growing more lyrical (just like the show!) every time I came back to it lol. I didn’t wanna bother with being concise because on tumblr We Are Free, so I’m sorry this got so long and that I made you wait that long too, lol! I was very happy to receive your message and I’m super pleased that you rediscovered the show and my 5 note gifsets! :)

EDIT 2: There might be slight “spoilers” in this, but then again it’s hardly a show that can be spoiled or relies on surprising twists. But I wanted to cover my bases regardless :p

But gosh you are right about the grandma racism etc - I have to admit I completely forgot about it before now, but your message vaguely makes me remember a plot like that indeed. That said, I still have absolutely zero recollection of Lenny Kravitz being ever on the show omg - my mind is a void! I suppose it has been 5 years, omg, time flies.

I looked up the description of the episodes to remember it further, and I assume you mean this specific episode?

Lol, I gotta say, it doesn't surprise me that that particular episode was one that was written by Louis CK, back when he was still involved. Of course that doesn't absolve the show or Pamela Adlon from any potential criticism about the way people of color are written or engaged with, especially further on, but, you know. He is a fucking weirdo. And I'm glad the series continued solely under her vision & supervision. Adlon has briefly talked about how massive the change has been, particularly from s2 to s3. I haven't quite watched the show with too much of a critical eye though, and of course my own whiteness hardly makes me the best judge. All that to say, I hope I haven't uncritically forgotten about any other weirdness!

But yeah I do love the show, and I love Adlon's voice. Better Things has such a kind approach when it comes to the ebb and flow of life and the infinite complexity of human beings. Maybe the good faith that inspires also influenced me to regard the show with that same good faith. Because when you watch it, you come away with this appreciation for life; life has good and bad, and life goes on, and life is funny. Part of that is due to how observational it is, I think. The pov is very grounded in Sam as a character, but her overall attitude is very laissez-faire, non-controlling. Going either "eh?" or "heh" as a coping mechanism for life's ups and downs. Sometimes wry, but in a caring way, never melodramatic, but also never cynical or dismissive. I've heard other people say that it contributes to making the show feel distinctly Jewish too, in tone - smarter people than me (more Jewish people than me :p) will be able to elaborate on that.

A while back, I described it as a cinematic gaze that is insistingly non-judgmental and patient. I think that also results in success when it comes to balancing the teenage kids' tantrums and their continuous growth. The kids get to be impossibly and painfully rude to their mom, like you said - but I felt that was more resonant than grating, precisely because the show portrays their lives in such a holistic way. What I mean is: there is a lot of love (or at least humanity) stored in seemingly random, but pointedly chosen uneventful moments, and that acts like a buffer for anything painful that happens, in a way. (Though, about the kids being rude - look forward to a show-stopping scene in season 5 that is gonna be incredibly satisfying.) There is a sort of love and connection that is formed just by being part of each other’s lives, right, even if a lot of what’s on the surface is conflict & miscommunication & strife. One might say that is a cynical view on family, but I also think it’s an inevitably loving one. So yeah, sometimes those kids behave like monsters and 3 minutes later they're hugging their mom and asking what's for dinner and there's just never any time to really have a resolution for any of it, because then the next day begins and people have to go to school or hang out with friends or go to work. “Life is what happens to you when you’re too busy to make any other plans". In that same regard, there is a bemused tranquility to the way agitation & frantic moments in the show just... fizzle out. Not because it’s unimportant, but because it is just part of the jazzy rhythm of daily life. Trading fondly between jarring imperfections and notes of harmony. And that approach genuinely neutralizes the pressure or shame that often feels like a constant companion when you're in the middle of life. There’s sometimes a lot of insight & connection buried under those attention-stealing emotions, and space for magical realism in the beyond. It all makes me look back on my own life, and think about my mom, and her mom, in a very soothed accepting way.

I feel like and "I want to elevate the mundane" are guiding lines for that directing & writing style. The scenes we see are almost always the hearty middles or in-betweens of a usual narrative, without introductions or feeling the need to explain what's going on, without wanting to put anything in a comprehensible arc. Life happens when you're in the middle of making chicken stock, too. But more on that later.

A lot of things happen, but the show resists the idea to assign /meaning/ to it, one way or another. Frankie can choose a dress at some point and a tux at another point and have sex with a boy at one point and flirt with a girl at another point and we won't be able to predict where that takes the character - it could mean anything or nothing but it matters all the same, it has value all the same - we'll just have to see what happens, and Sam lets it happen. Just like real life doesn’t have a "narrative" that retroactively makes a carefully curated series of experiences feel significant one way or the other. Some experiences will be evidence for a crucial revelation or decision later in life, and others were just dust in the wind - yet just as much part of life, and what makes a person whole, and a life rich. It’s not dead weight, it’s all alive, and that translates to how organic character “arcs” on the show feel. They make sense retroactively, but it rarely feels like it’s build up in a forward thinking way, which is unlike the way storytelling usually feels (for the record, that has its value and appeal too). It's just genius how this show has been able to capture that.

As for the acting & directing, it's incredible right? A friend of mine asked me a while back whether it was all improvised, because it felt so authentic and natural. And then I found this beautiful interview answer by Adlon:

DEADLINE: People saw so much of you in Sam Fox — and not just because you co-created the show, but from the parallels to your own career, your own family and more. But this was no reality show, it was tightly scripted …

ADLON: It is carefully scripted and down to the last detail, and everything is decided beforehand. But the thing that happens is, on the day, I will be in the restaurant or something shooting the scene, right, and I’ll look at the waiter. And I’ll be like, “Where are you from originally?” And he’ll be like, “Turkey.” And I’m like, “Did your mother ever sing you a lullaby when you were a little boy?” He says yes, and I say, “What was it?” and then he sings it for me. And then all of a sudden, I’ve upgraded this guy. My line producers are scratching their head, and we’ve just enhanced the scene. It’s a very fluid, organic, moving thing. It’s got a pulse. (via)

And yeah, while the variety of media is improving a lot, you still don't often see stories from the pov of menopause-age women (creatively & as the star) who also get to, you know, talk about menopause. Go /through/ it, “start” to “finish”, without it being an arc. Just, part of life. Casually, in between cooking, and driving around, and work, and children, and awkward moments, and connecting with friends, and life. Speaking of cooking, I liked this reflection on the importance of cooking in the show: 

“Whether she’s making borscht or chicken or a margarita, Sam’s attention to process and detail is sharp. She prepares sustenance and libations as an act of love, a form of comfort, a way to bring people together, an attention to self. And no matter what she’s making or who she’s making it for, the show lets us watch. What would seem unimportant on most shows becomes the focus. Her labor, her time, as a mom, as a person, is valued by her camera. It’s a cooking show where we’re all the winner because we get to witness something so simple and so human. [...] Sam’s relationship to food and to her children holds the same care, the same attention to detail, the same love of life, that she brings to all her interactions. It’s a sardonic tenderness. A feeling that this person is plenty aware of the fucked up-ness of the world and has decided to lead with pleasure and kindness anyway.” (via)

And like, you are right, that there's something about appreciating the "slice of life" of not just young people, or men. There is an intense humanizing power in the pov chosen for that, in the agency and interiority that comes with that. And while a lot of people would fairly argue that white women's pov is hardly underrepresented on tv these days, there is still a lot of taboo surrounding the concept of women... aging. And therefore imo there is a severe need to humanize that, but not in a pitying way, but in a way that exudes vitality, instead.

I'm reminded of this thread, a story told by actress Claudia Black, about how actor James McAvoy unexpectedly made her feel seen & appreciated, in her craft. She talked about how life can get awfully small for single moms - about feeling invisible, as a woman nearing 50. And it's interesting, because she said that while the "minutiae of life" can be adorable and parenthood fulfilling in its own way, the key point of her thread was that she also really struggled with... waning ambition & dreams & pride, as a consequence of aging, and perhaps the priorities demanded by motherhood - her life becoming "small". And that is often a distinctly female experience! Because we live in a society, lol, and work is still considered a male responsibility, while domesticity a female responsibility. I don't mean to romanticize work to contrast my point (because that can also be deafening and suffocating), but there is a specific... sacrificial smallness to domesticity that can make some women feel like their footprint in life /narrows/ gradually as life goes on, like their /value/ pales as they age. Or society treats them that way, even when they don’t think of it that way.

And it's interesting to think about how "Better Things" as a show... somehow... combined those two things. On the one hand, it is a show that embraces the ebb and flow of life, meandering mundanity, the beauty of the little things, from the pov of a near-50 woman. Smallness can feel very big when you highlight serendipitous moments of human connection. Not to mention, the show’s final season focuses a little bit on how empty-nest-syndrome might affect Sam, as her children grow into tiny adults - and that feels like it speaks specifically to the issue I mentioned above. That a lot of mothers’ lives inevitably become about their children and that a lot of these women are suddenly confronted with parenthood has impacted their existential footprint. The choice to end the show on Sam’s solo happiness, as her “village” sings in the background, is therefore really powerful, I think. On the other hand, the show is also a showcase of CRAFT, craft of storytelling, craft of directing, /by/ a woman of 50. Pamela Adlon created all this, turned her voice and life into art. So there is this dual layer of appreciation and admiration. It's like the summum of body of life and her body of work - for now. And the rest is a meteor shower.

TLDR;

"Meandering but structurally complex in deceptive ways; deeply tied to the singular point of view of its star and creator; willing to unflinchingly center aging women, invisibilities literal and figurative. Will there ever be another show so unburdened by plot and premise as Better Things?[...] Adlon’s writing and direction—she’s directed every episode since the second season of the show—are, as much as anything, an act of curation. Each character, each plot point, each set piece, each LA space are like beloved objects strewn about Sam’s home, and as the show accumulates them, they belong to us viewers as well. To shriek in delight when a bit character from seasons earlier walks through the frame, to audibly gasp when a statue at the top of Sam’s staircase breaks—to watch Better Things is to live with these people. The show has a hoarder’s sense of narrative value. Nothing is unimportant, everything matters." (via)

Lol, I think this answer must contain the word “life” like 500 times. If you made it this far, thank you, and thank you for giving me an excuse to ramble mwhahhahahaha. One of my fave shows of all timeeeeeee

[ajw720]

Catching up on your blog this morning. I love the post showing all of D's industry friends saying nice things about him. Funny how exactly none of them were present at the wedding. **insert sarcasm here**. Am I saying these people are BFFs with D? No. They're certainly closer than L/ance or Je/nnifer Coo/lidge. Why weren't they there? That should speak VOLUMES to people...

Nonnie, I do not understand why people accept that D is closer to Pamela Aldon and the above mentioned people then he is to about 20 people I could easily name including several mentioned this morning. It makes no logical sense.  They defintely used a weird “algorithm” to figure it out. 

I mean E/dgar R and him essentially declared their bromance to the world. Where was he?  Or anyone from ACS?  And not ONE of D’s close LGBT+ friends were present including ED, AC,  I could even say KM plus no one from H/edwig.  It is weird as fuck.

[ambrosiacombr]

Bumblebee em nova missão com Optimus Prime no novo trailer, por Cesar Monteiro

A Paramount divulgou hoje (24/09) mais um trailer de Bumblebee, filme que mostra a primeira aventura do transformer na Terra. O mais legal para os fãs da animação clássica é que o filme se passa nos anos 80 e o autobot amarelinho é um fusquinha. Na série de Michael Bay, ele assumia a forma automo...

#Cinema #Trailers #AbbyQuinn #Anos80 #Bumblebee #GraceDzienny #HaileeSteinfeld #JasonDrucker #JohnCena #JorgeLendeborgJr #KennethChoi #LorenzoDiBonaventura #MichaelBay #PamelaAldon #ParamountPictures #RachelCrow #RicardoHoyos #StephenSchenider #StevenSpielberg #Transformers #TravisKnight

https://ambrosia.com.br/videos/bumblebee-em-nova-missao-com-optimus-prime-no-novo-trailer/

[littlewalken]

Fans of the movie Just One of the Guys looking for another movie to pair it with or watchers looking for a sweet little movie with a trans lead should check out Something Special, occasionally known as Willy Milly, with Pamela Segall Aldon, Patty Duke, and John Glover. 

And no one dies. 

Okay, it’s got some everyone loves a happy Hollywood ending BUT BUT BUT the lead and those around them get to earnestly explore the transition and there aren’t any jokes at their expense.

And since we’re all about 80s remakes no one even remembers this movie was made in the first place.

Holy crap we’re a cute couple. The chemistry in this cast is amazing. And no one wants to throw a bottle at Seth Green’s head.

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Alex (Ben Stiller)

Lighting McQueen (Owen Wilson)

Peter Pan (Blance Weaver)

Mr. Peabody (Ty Burrell)

Sherman Peabody (Max Charles)

Penny Peterson (Ariel Winter)

TinkerBell (Mae Whitman)

Silvermist (Lucy Liu)

Fawn (America Ferrera)

Iridessa (Raven Symone)

Rosetta (Kristen Chenoweth)

Vidia (Pamela Aldon)

Periwinkle (Lucy Hale)

Joy (Amy Poehler)

Sadness (Phyllis Smith)

Riley Andersen (Kaitlyn Dias)

Lewis Robinson (Jordan Fry)

Turbo (Ryan Reynolds)

Sulley (John Goodman)

Mike (Billy Crystal)

Classified (Benedict Cumberbatch)