#peter clifton

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Jimmy Page and Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin as they walk backstage at Madison Square Garden, New York, July 1973 — The Song Remains The Same (1976) dir. by Peter Clifton and Joe Massot.

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Unknown, Charlotte Martin, Scarlet Page, Peter Clifton and Jimmy Page outside Plumpton Place most likely during recording of The Song Remains the Same, summer 1973.

Photo and info from https://www.instagram.com/70s_rockworld/

[brokehorrorfan]

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Phantoms 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray, releasing on July 16. The 1988 sci-fi horror film is based on Dean Koontz’s 1983 novel of the same name.

Joe Chappelle (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) directs from a script by Koontz. Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Clifton Powell, and Michael DeLorenzo star.

Phantoms has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative, approved by Chappelle, with Dolby Vision. Special features are listed below.

Special features (on Blu-ray disc):

Interview with producer Joel Soisson (new)

Interview with director of photography Richard Clabaugh (new)

Trailer

TV spot

In the small village of Snowfield, Colorado, something evil has been awakened from its centuries-long slumber … something with the power to wipe out humanity as we know it. The unsuspecting Dr. Jennifer Pailey (Joanna Going) brings her sister Lisa (Rose McGowan) to Snowfield, only to find the town empty but for a few survivors. As the tension and terror mount, only the few who have been left behind — the Pailey sisters, a noted journalist (Peter O'Toole), the town sheriff (Ben Affleck), and his deputy (Liev Schreiber) — stand between the mysterious entity that lurks beneath Snowfield and the rest of mankind … if they can survive.

Pre-order Phantoms.

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[ghassanrassam]

1954 Trevi is the star..and Rome

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Strange One (1957, Jack Garfein)

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[mariocki]

The New Centurions (1972)

"You're just having a wonderful time. You like it! You like being a cop."

"Well, of course I like it! It doesn't mean I'm not working my ass off."

"I don't give a damn how hard you work, you like it, and I don't wanna spend the rest of my life being a cop's wife!"

"Then you'd better get married to somebody else."

[2ndaryprotocol]

The slick sci-horror shocker ‘Phantoms’ startled moviegoers this day 25 years ago. ❄️🪖🧪

“𝚂𝚑𝚘𝚠 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏! 𝙶𝚘𝚍𝚜 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚏𝚎𝚊𝚛... 𝙾𝚛 𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢?”

[streamondemand]

Ben Gazzara is 'The Strange One' on Criterion Channel

Ben Gazarra makes his screen debut as the strange one in The Strange One (1957), a sadistic cadet in a military college who manipulates his fellow cadets with cruel calculation that goes well beyond hazing. Gazzara is cool and cruel as the bullying Jocko DeParis, a sociopath who never raises his voice while he stirs up trouble and makes everyone around him an accessory to his crimes. He…

[ultraozzie3000]

The Bombshell

Much like Marilyn Monroe in the 1950s, Jean Harlow occupied a brief period in Hollywood history, but her star shone long after her untimely death. Oct. 28, 1933 cover by Rea Irvin. Adam Victor’s The Marilyn Encyclopedia draws all sorts of weird parallels between the actresses: both raised by strict Christian Scientists, both married three times, both left school at sixteen to marry their first…

[thejohnfleming]

Iconic British comic Bernie Clifton says: “I’m just mucking about.”

Bernie Clifton rides Oswald the Ostrich Yesterday’s blog was the first part of a chat with legendary English entertainer Bernie Clifton. It concludes here… JOHN: You were saying that you were inspired by Les Dawson to do a visual act. BERBIE: Yes. JOHN: So then there’s Peter Pullen… BERNIE: Yes. Peter’s an absolute genius. At the time I was getting on with my props act, he was making all the…

[brokehorrorfan]

Phantoms will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on July 16 via Scream Factory. The 1988 sci-fi horror film is based on Dean Koontz's 1983 novel of the same name.

Joe Chappelle (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers) directs from a script by Koontz. Peter O'Toole, Rose McGowan, Joanna Going, Liev Schreiber, Ben Affleck, Nicky Katt, Clifton Powell, and Michael DeLorenzo star.

Special features will be announced at a later date.

In the small village of Snowfield, Colorado, something evil has been awakened from its centuries-long slumber … something with the power to wipe out humanity as we know it. The unsuspecting Dr. Jennifer Pailey (Joanna Going) brings her sister Lisa (Rose McGowan) to Snowfield, only to find the town empty but for a few survivors. As the tension and terror mount, only the few who have been left behind — the Pailey sisters, a noted journalist (Peter O'Toole), the town sheriff (Ben Affleck), and his deputy (Liev Schreiber) — stand between the mysterious entity that lurks beneath Snowfield and the rest of mankind … if they can survive.

Pre-order Phantoms.

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13 ottobre … ricordiamo …

13 ottobre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2019: Paco Fabrini, attore italiano. (n. 1973) 2019: Hideo Azuma, fumettista giapponese, conosciuto in Italia per essere l’autore dei manga Pollon e Nanako SOS.  (n. 1950) 2016: Tonino Valerii, è stato un regista e sceneggiatore italiano. (n. 1934) 2016: Dario Fo, Dario Luigi Angelo Fo, è stato un drammaturgo, attore, regista, scrittore, autore, illustratore, pittore, scenografo e attivista…

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W A T C H E D

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The one story that scares me the most away from substance use is Jimmy Page. It's not an easy topic to go by, yet I'm still hesitant to post this.

Finding out the pure severity of Jimmy's health between '75-'83, mainly talking about 1977. This whole topic makes me so sad, but I always keep looking.

More under cut, it's a long post unpacking that year. Feel free to add.

We all know he did heroin, starting in 1975, and that he's always been skinny and underweight. But it started amping up in '76, taking more with a noticeable weight loss.

That man was practically on the brink of death from 1977. Between constant shows, rarely eating save for a liquid diet, rarely sleeping, and his addictions... it's scary. He had a weight goal that'd been just about reached: between 125-130 Ibs at 5'11½". (And while an inaccurate measurement of health for those heavier, this falls into 17 on the BMI chart: severely underweight) He dropped a few waist sizes (men's 29 in '75, down to men's 26) and had refused to talk to Peter Clifton after he'd included wide shots of Jimmy in TSRTS and a single roll of his stomach, as it made his ass "too wide." The black dragon pants didn't fit anymore, and fell off during a show. You can see him in the black dragon suit plus a belt during the Oakland photos. Note that these pants had completely fit him without need of a belt two years prior. He ended up at around a men's 26 waist. He'd stopped eating completely for a few days in a row during some tours.

Safe to say, Jimmy was extremely weight conscious. I think he met the criteria for an eating disorder diagnosis, as well.

There's accounts of him having stage fright and anxiety. He'd show up to '77 tour shows completely exhausted, nodding off constantly. Peter Grant had ended up slapping him awake and giving him coke just so he wouldn't pass out.

Then, there's the Chicago '77 show. Jimmy, sick on stage. His eyes are bloodshot, he's had nothing but orange juice in the past 60 hours, along with no sleep in that time frame. Sick from smack and coke, along with all of the previous factors of being an anxious wreck. It's a wonder he got through the first 7 songs before having to sit down during Ten Years Gone, calling for a 5 minute break, and then canceling the show. He couldn't go on that night, just nearly crumpling to sit. This is the story that scared me the most.

Linked below, the show is recorded up until Robert announces the show is canceled.

https://youtu.be/YVCiBd1oodU?feature=shared

I remember reading this account from Dave Northover (Jones' personal assistant):

This is what shattered my heart, initially reading it. How harshly drugs shattered Jimmy's brain, I wouldn't wish it on anyone. There's also a quote from Jimmy in an interview from the year: "I'm not into solid foods very much. I can't remember when I last had a steak. A few tours ago. It's just that you don't want too much in your stomach when you're playing. And there are some places you can't eat after you come back from the gig." He then notes that the banana daiquiris that he'd been consuming all the time are the answer to any problems, "having that every day and nothing to eat at all."

Additionally, In that interview, Jimmy says that earlier on in Zeppelin, Jimmy "had really been eating" and that he'd tried on the clothes from when he was in school, only for it to be very loose. It worries me more to remember that Jimmy stopped school at the age of 16 and had always been underweight. High metabolism, illness prone, and bouts of glandular fever during his time with The Crusaders (still was a teenager), not improved one bit by his undereating.

It's hurtful to hear how, more often than not, the media will praise a celebrity for their skinny figure, even if they're extremely unhealthy with it. Jimmy Page is no exception, as people praised him for his figure during his age.

Heroin is no joke, and I wouldn't wish the addiction it so easily presents to anyone. Withdrawals and smack sickness is scary to even witness, completely altering the person it grips. People often note how jimmy was an asshole, especially in the late 70s, but when dealing with a heroin addiction, with what is basically an eating disorder, high anxiety, with the goal of living your music, the goal of pleasing the crowd, getting the job done, and most of all, surviving, the way you act isn't at the front of your mind. I'm sure Page was aware he was an asshole, but with what he was dealing with, it's not important. Instant gratification, reward, matters more. Not dying matters more. Getting the next hit matters more. His image mattered more.

No matter how much of an asshole he was, and some of the reprehensible things he'd committed earlier on, I wouldn't wish this upon anyone. You see the light leave his eyes as the years went on, you know that while he recovered, those were the darkest years of his life that we know, and there's a reason he'd rarely talk about it: Who would want to?

I've heard multiple people say that if we hadn't lost Bonham in '80, then within those few years, we would've lost Page. It's a wonder he was able to still go on in the early 80s.

Even comparing photos of him in 73, 75, and 77, you go from a "safer" underweight, to his ribs completely visible.

I'm glad we still have him around. This whole topic is not easy to go by, and while most anti drug campaigns don't sway me much, it's the slow / fast decent into all of this that gives me such a strong reaction.

I don't appreciate seeing the way it's so casually joked about amongst the online zeppelin areas. People do take it seriously, but there's always the insensitive ones.

(Adding on, since I accidentally posted this as a draft)

Many people blame page for the effects of his addiction: Sloppy guitar playing, distancing from the rest of the band, assholery behavior.

You can't fault an addict for falling addicted. You can fault them for starting it, maybe, and you can criticize them for all you want. Still, a heroin addiction isn't just as cigarettes. It's the easiest to fall addicted to, and one of the hardest to quit, especially when a physical dependency is grown. Withdrawal symptoms could start early, and extreme too. Most heroin addicts trying to quit will relapse within the first day or two, it's not easy as that.

Considering how unhelpful the help was at the time, quitting cold turkey at these points would probably worsen his condition for a while, considering how rail thin Jimmy had been. The people around him grew worried, grew mad, and I find myself wondering how he could still pick up the guitar and rail out the LA Forum 1977 show, producing banger shows through 77, yet the shoddiest shows as well.

There could be little done about treatment of eating disorders as well, due to medical knowledge and stigma around it. I'll sympathize with this part, having the experience of one: ED recovery on your own is rough. I don't know how jimmy got out of heroin and an ED, and I don't think the process of that should become business unless necessary.

If you find yourself falling into these vices, seek help. Nothing about this is normal: not the lifestyle, nor the pressures.

Jimmy's case will always haunt me. I'd wish this upon no one.