#robert jayne

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Robb and Jayne for ASOIAF #sixships challenge

commissionated by @Dreamfyre03 on X

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Hysteria (1965)

[theglitterdome]

A publicity photo of Lance Fuller, Jayne Mansfield, John Smith, Natalie Wood, and Robert Fuller in Jayne Mansfield's pink 1954 Jaguar XK120 - June 13, 1955

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Alice in Wonderland (1985)

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Lady in the Lake (1946) Robert Montgomery

16th December 2023

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Missy Rayder, Rachel Roberts & Jayne Windsor, Paris, 1997

Photo: Peter Lindbergh

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Injured police officer Jesse Mach (Rex Smith) was recruited by the government to fight crime with a secret high tech motorcycle. The show Street Hawk premiered January 4, 1985. ("Pilot", Street Hawk, TV Event)

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Max's Christmas dinner party at Max's Kansas City, NYC. December, 1975. Photo by Bob Gruen

(L-R) Jimmy Wynbrandt, Robert Gordon, Jayne County, Sable Starr, Richard Hell, Tommy Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Joey Ramone and Johnny Ramone

[duranduratulsa]

Now showing on my 90's Fest Movie 🎥 marathon...Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead (1991) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #comedy #christinaapplegate #christopherpettiet #ripchristopherpettiet #keithcoogan #joannacassidy #JoshCharles #JohnGetz #KimmyRobertson #roberthygorman #DavidDuchovny #ChristopherPlummer #dancastellaneta #jaynebrooks #vintage #vhs #90s #90sfest #durandurantulsas3rdannual90sfest

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Bad movie I have Maid in Manhattan 2002

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W A T C H E D

Back when i was a kid my mom shot down my being able to see this. For some reason I guess she thought it was maybe like horror or gory or something. She said "your too young" or "that's not a movie for you", but then she let me watch TERMINATOR 2. Also BATMAN (1989) was way darker and more violent by far than 'Babysitter's Dead'. 😂

Now 30 years later I found it on streaming and we watched it together. She thought it was cute and doesn't remember telling me that. She said "I guess I was crazy..." 😌☺

I had the strangest feeling we had rented it on VHS in the mid-90s, but it never got watched and we had to return it before the late fee. Lol Who knows...

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Abductors (4.2, ITC, 1965)

"Inspector Quercy don't be a complete idiot, you know I'm not a murderer."

"I do not suggest that you kill these people."

"Thank you."

"But I do suggest that you are directly responsible for their deaths."

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Undercurrent

Katharine Hepburn in REBECCA (1940), would seem like a terrible idea, and though it made a lot of money, Vincente Minnelli’s UNDERCURRRENT (1946, TCM, Criterion Channel) provides solid proof of that. Of course, UNDERCURRENT isn’t REBECCA. It isn’t even REBECCA-Lite or REBECCA maudit. It’s more REBECCA totally f*cked up. There’s just too much plot there.

She’s a professor’s daughter who falls for a wealthy industrialist (Robert Taylor) who’s come to buy her father’s research. For the first quarter hour, the film is more a delightful romantic comedy about a wallflower falling for a dashing, glamorous man as her father (Edmund Gwenn) and wise-cracking housekeeper (Marjorie Main) egg her on. Then they get married, and she starts feeling inadequate to mix with his sophisticated friends, which is something Hepburn doesn’t play very well. Then he starts threatening her whenever some unexplained secret about his brother (Robert Mitchum) comes up, and Hepburn isn’t very good at playing the victim either. And the two plots don’t really mesh. The one really has nothing to do with the other thematically. Nor does it help that Taylor is too plastic a movie star to work opposite Hepburn. Where she’s natural, he seems phony. When she resorts to phony tricks, it just doubles the phoniness. Mitchum is the only one of the three who’s totally believable, and there’s not nearly enough of him. When the script forces him to indulge in some high-flying romanticism, he just underplays it and makes it sound like the way anybody would talk. There’s also a good, brittle performance by Jayne Meadows in her film debut as a woman who’d gotten close to Mitchum. Minnelli and Karl Freund try to gussy it all up with a lot of dark shadows, which explains why it’s now considered a film noir. Where the director really shines, though, is in the film’s décor, particularly the contrast between Taylor’s country home, all traditionally over-stuffed, and Mitchum’s sleeker, more natural ranch house.  When Hepburn, in one of the few decent costumes Irene designed for her, stands by the fireplace in the latter, you know who her true match is.

There is, however, one way the cockamamie plot could make sense, When Gwenn suggests Hepburn could soon be exchanging vows with Taylor, there’s a slow dissolve to their wedding as the vows she quotes in the earlier scene become the ones she’s saying for real. If you look on the wedding and everything that follows are her fantasy it becomes a more grown-up THE WIZARD OF OZ. It’s Hepburn’s dream of what a horror marriage can be and an affirmation that she’d be better off as an ace or a lesbian. I’d lay money that Main would treat her better than Taylor does, and we’d have a lot more fun watching it, too.

[imdonnalynn]

SHIP SERIES

Liam Kincaid / Renee Palmer Earth: Final Conflict (series 1997 - 2002)

Earth: Final Conflict was definitely a series with its conflicts. Seemed like there was a different lead every season. Liam Kincaid and Renee Palmer were the leads for seasons 2, 3 and 4 and the last 5th season Renee was the main character and Liam was missing for the entire season until the series finale.

Their dynamic was one of ease and little tension, from what I felt was Renee's side. Liam never really seemed like he was even a romantic person, probably to do with his species of being a Kimera and Human. But they got a great ending, they head out into space, leave Earth on the Taelon mothership together to explore the universe.

[cultfaction]

They Came from Beyond Space (1967)

“They Came from Beyond Space” is a science-fiction movie released in 1967, directed by Freddie Francis and produced by Amicus Productions. The movie is based on the novel “The Gods Hate Kansas” by Joseph Millard. It is a story of alien invasion and mind control that takes place in England. hey Came from Beyond Space used many of the sets and props left over from Amicus’s Daleks’ Invasion Earth…

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The Midnight Club - Season Two

I'm very disappointed that Netflix has decided not to pursue a second season of THE MIDNIGHT CLUB.

My biggest disappointment is that we left so many story threads open, holding them back for the hypothetical second season, which is always a gamble.

So I'm writing this blog as our official second season, so you can know what might have been, learn the fates of your favorite characters, and know the answers to those dangling story threads from the first season.

So for those of you who want to know what we were planning to do, here's a look at what would have been season 2!

AMESH Season 2 would open with Amesh, his glioblastoma advancing quickly. He would tell the first story of the season, but would be struggling to make it through. We'd focus on his love story with Natsuki for those first few episodes as it becomes clear that Amesh's death is imminent.

Meanwhile, Ilonka is trying to reconcile how she was fooled by Julia Jayne, all while falling further in love with Kevin, and she realizes he may be fading faster than he lets on.

Ilonka begins a serialized story in an effort to encourage him to "stay alive a little longer," like he did in season one. And the story she tells is... REMEMBER ME.

This was the thing I was most excited about for this season.

REMEMBER ME is one of my all-time favorite Pike books - it tells the story of a teenage girl who is pushed off a balcony, and awakens as a ghost. She has to navigate being a spirit while trying to solve her own murder. We would have stretched this story out over 5 episodes. We were going to use it as a vehicle for Ilonka to try to come to terms with the fact that she is going to die, and to begin to trying to wrap her head around being a ghost... but this is the coolest part... the lead character of Ilonka's story wouldn't be played by Ilonka. She'd be played by...

Anya.

Because this is how we live on, isn't it? In the minds of those we leave behind. And Ilonka would use REMEMBER ME as a way to imagine her dear friend Anya, waking up as a ghost, navigating the afterlife. And this sets up one of the best mechanisms of the show - even if a character dies, as long as they're remembered by members of the club, they live on in their stories.

As the story starts to pick up steam, though, the group will have to deal with the death of Amesh, which he greets with grace and bravery.

In his final moments, he sees someone in his room - the Janitor from the first season, as played by Robert Longstreet, who says comforting things to Amesh even though he can't respond.

In his final, final moments, the SHADOW descends upon Amesh, and he is engulfed into it, which reinforces the idea that the Shadow is DEATH...

With Amesh's death comes something that upends the entire thing: a NEW PATIENT. We didn't work out too much about who this would be, but it would be a new roommate for Ilonka. Someone taking Anya's old bed. Ilonka would find herself being initially cold to her - just as Anya was when Ilonka arrived. Even feeling like this new girl shouldn't necessarily be ushered into the Club. But of course they would develop a beautiful friendship over the course of the season. The new girl joins the club, where something else exciting is happening - Cheri is telling a story. We hadn't decided which one, but I think it might have been MONSTER.

Natsuki would be the next to die, which would be heartbreaking. And again, she would talk to the janitor just before it happened... and again, the Shadow would come in the final moments.

For Spence, though, things would take a different turn.

The advancements in HIV treatment in the late 90's would come into play, and we'd see his prognosis change. The HIV cocktail came out in Dec 1995, and we really wanted to explore that.

Spence would ride the swell of antiviral advancements, and by the end of the season, he'd no longer be classified as terminal. In the finale of season 2, Spence would leave Brightcliffe just like Sandra did in Season 1, heading off to manage his disease and live the rest of his life.

But onto the BIG MYSTERIES of the season one... here are some answers: What is up with Dr. Stanton's tattoo and bald head? Well, a few things. First, Dr. Stanton is actually the daughter of the original Paragon cult leader, Aceso. Her nickname was Athena, she wrote the Paragon journal that Ilonka found in S1. She turned on her mother and helped the kids escape, but because she was part of the cult in her teenage years, she had the tattoo.

It was her initials that Ilonka found carved into the tree in season 1 (her maiden name was Georgina Ballard, hence the G.B. that Ilonka finds carved in the tree).

She hated what her mother became, and the atrocities of the cult. She reclaimed the property after her mom was gone, and wanted to change it into a place that celebrated life. She was trying to undo her mother's legacy and leave something behind that was beautiful. She is wearing a wig at the end of S1 not because of a sinister reason, but because she is undergoing chemo. Dr. Stanton has cancer. Having helped so many people deal with disease, she now has to deal with it herself.

Her treatment would be successful, and she'd go into remission, but having to face that - while caring for the terminal kids at Brightcliffe - was going to be a very introspective arc for Stanton.

What about the Living Shadow? It's Death, right? Well... no.

At the end of the season, Kevin will die... followed shortly by Ilonka. And as she is dying, two things will happen. First, she'll find herself talking to the Janitor, played by Robert Longstreet... and she'll make a discovery.

HE is Death. And nothing to be afraid of. It turns out no one else ever saw this character. Stanton has a cleaning service, and the Nurse practitioners make up the rooms - the only people who ever saw this mysterious Janitor were the patients. He is Death, and offers them kind words before they die. Then what was the Shadow?

This is an idea we take directly from the book REMEMBER ME, and we'll see it play out in the final moments of Ilona's final tale. In Pike's book, Shari is pursued by a dark entity called The Shadow. When it finally catches her, though, it turns out it is not a bad thing at all.

The Shadow is THEMSELVES. It's the Unknown. As it engulfs someone, in the last moment of their life, it takes them through a place of understanding and catharsis, preparing them for the next step.

THIS is what happened to Anya in S1 when the Shadow finally reached her - that's why she fantasized a life beyond Brightcliffe, which ultimately let her find acceptance of her death. It looks different for everybody, depending on their mind-set - because it is simply an extension of themselves.

The Shadow is just the final catharsis, a return to our original form - it is a moment of true understanding, and once we experience it, we move on to the next place.

We see the Shadow in full effect when it finally comes for Kevin. KEVIN DIES with Ilonka at his side, and it leads to the biggest reveal of the season:

Who were the Mirror Man and the Cataract Woman?

They were Stanley Oscar Freelan and his wife, who built Brightcliffe (fun trivia, he is named after the real-life Freelan Oscar Stanley, who built my favorite hotel in America - the Stanley Hotel. The Stanley is also the inspiration for THE SHINING!).

But more than that... there's a reason that Ilonka only sees Stanley in the mirror, and sees the Cataract Woman whenever she looked at Kevin. This is something else we took from Pike's original book... these aren't ghosts, but glimpses of PAST LIVES.

Ilonka WAS Stanley Oscar Freelan, and Kevin WAS his wife. They've lived many lives this way, and are true SOUL MATES - they always find each other, and they always fall in love. In this life, they knew it would be a short one, so they agreed to find each other in the house they built. They've been "remembering" who they are, and glimpsing their former selves in reflections, and sometimes when they look at each other. This is also why Ilonka's very first words to Kevin in S1 were "Do I know you?" and why Kevin thought she was familiar as well. They are two souls who always find each other, again and again.

The story is this: Stanley was dying, and built this cliffside home hoping that the seaside air would help him. It did, and he far outlived his prognosis (this is also true of the real-life Freelan Stanley). However, his wife began to succumb to dementia.

She would wander the halls, looking for him ("Darling!") and would even forget to feed herself ("I'm starving...") and she eventually refused to leave the basement. Heartbroken for her, Stanley painted the walls to resemble the woodland view, and the ceiling to resemble the night sky, so that it would be a little more beautiful for her.

He also painted a labyrinth on the floor, which was a technique used to try to curb the effects of dementia. She'd walk the pattern of the maze and it was believed it could help her cognition. Eventually, she developed frightening cataracts, but Stanley loved her through it all.

They were soul mates.

So while they seemed scary in season 1, that was just how Ilonka and Kevin's mind were trying to remember their pasts. We even had their faces distorting in ways consistent with how memories degrade over time. When the Shadow comes for Ilonka, and gives her this understanding - this "remembering" - she realizes she has nothing to fear. She and Kevin will shed these personas and be reborn, and have the joy of finding each other another way. The Shadow comes for her, Death takes her gently, and Ilonka goes off with Kevin back into the cosmos, ready for their next incarnation. The series would end with Cheri telling this story to a whole new table of patients, including our new series leads. Most of our original cast now would exist as stories, a story told to the next "class" of storytellers at the table, all of whom we will have met by the end of the season. A story called "The Midnight Club."

Well, that's it... that was what we had in mind. It's a shame we won't get to make it, but it would be a bigger shame if you guys simply had to live with the unanswered questions and the cliffhanger ending. I loved making this show, and I am so proud of the cast and crew. Particularly our cast, who attacked this story with incredible spirit and bravery each and every day.

But for now, we'll put the fire out, and leave the library dark and quiet. To those before, and to those after. To us now, and to those beyond.

Seen or unseen, here but not here.

I'll always be grateful that I got to be part of this Club.