#salvador anthony fisher

[nursegracecreates]

Kinktober Day Does It Really Matter?: Cockwarming

Sal A. Fisher x afabReader

Triggers: nsfw, minors dni

(gif I really wanted to use, but was worried)

Sally made his character dodge to the right, effectively juking the AI that was chasing him down. He grabbed the key and left the room, leaving the giant mutated rat behind as he left the sewers. He let out a breath, body relaxing, and he readjusted his hips as he sat back into the couch.

The minute adjustment caused Reader to squirm in Sal's lap as she laid back against his body. A blanket covered them, but underneath, Reader was sitting in Sal's lap with her pajama shorts shoved aside to allow Sal to pump into her body every now and then, his pants and boxers shoved down around his knees.

Reader had been teasing Sal as he played a game involving one of the four horsemen and the seven cardinal sins. He'd pulled Reader into his lap, turned so she could watch the screen, and moved their clothes just enough to slide into her slowly. Now, he was slowly pumping in and out of her intermittently as he cleared rooms and solved puzzles. His gaze was focused on the screen, tracking the movement of an abomination as he stealthed through a room, his hips going still.

Reader had been riding him smoothly as she watched Sal play, small sounds and gasps escaping occasionally as she moved her hips just the way Sal liked. Halfway through the second puzzle, Sal nudged Reader's hand to rub her clit as he thrust up into her, his thumbs never pausing in his gameplay.

He was almost free of the room when the abomination noticed him and shrieked before running full tilt at him. It chased him from room to room, hyper vigilant because Sal had put the game on Apocalypse mode. Sal quickly collected items as he ran, his hips stilling.

"Be still, peaches" Sal hissed, and he turned to fight the creature with his melee weapon, a barbed whip, conserving ammo for boss fights. Reader stopped moving her hips and watched, her hand falling away from her body where Sal had put it. The abomination was your average basic enemy, low health and a little slow. But the increased difficulty of Sal's game introduced a quick dodge to the annoying enemies, which interrupted Sal's parry, frustrating him. It made the fight go on longer than it should have.

When Sal defeated the abomination, his hips jacked up into Reader excitedly and they both groaned. Reader wiggled her hips against Sal, and he bit his lip as he continued where he'd left off before the small fight, pumping in and out of Reader slowly.

Sal pushed through the now unlocked door and the game launched into a cut scene that was obviously leading up to a boss fight. A disgusting creature that looked like a mountain of fat mixed with a praying mantis started it's obligatory evil speech.

Sal took advantage of the cut scene, drilling his hips up into Reader over and over until her breath came fast. He let go of the controller with one hand so he could grip her hip and pull her down onto his cock harder. Then the cut scene ended and Sal's hips stilled, his hand returning to the controller, his attention focused on the game.

Reader switched between sitting still with Sal held in her body, and slowly rolling her hips against Sal's as she slowly rubbed at herself. Her body occasionally writhed against Sal's as he fought the embodiment of Sloth. He groaned into Reader's neck as he hit a break in the fight as Sloth transitioned into his final form. Sal rammed his hips up and Reader let out a yelp as she clenched around him. He pressed her fingers harder onto her clit just as the final stage of the boss fight started, and Sal's hips stilled again as he concentrated on the fight, his hips sinking back down into the couch.

Reader squirmed in Sal's lap as she rubbed her clit like Sally wanted her to. She didn't want to distract Sal, mess up his fight, but she needed some kind of movement from Sal inside her and she rocked her hips against his desperately, unable to come on her own. Sal thrust up a little, giving her a fraction of what she needed, not enough for release, but just enough to maintain. Sal attacked the boss vigorously with bombs, ready to end the fight and get down to more pressing matters.

"Your death will be my most shining achieve-Urrrrrrrraaaaggggh!" Sloth fell into a heap, defeated, and Sal pressed the button to collect his soul. Then he tossed the controller onto the cushion next to him and grabbed Reader's hips, lifting her as he pulled his hips back until he almost slid out of her body.

"You're gonna get it now, peaches" Sal said in a low growl, his fingers squeezing Readers hips as he held her there, building up anticipation. The victory cut scene started playing, but was ignored as Sal wrapped an arm around Reader and pulled her close to his chest, still keeping the barest contact where he entered her. He rested his chin on her shoulder and drove his hips up as he pulled Reader down onto him, restraint gone.

Sal pounded himself into Reader's body twice with blinding speed, and then slowed his stroke so his body rolled against Readers deliciously. Reader gasped when Sal brushed against that spot deep inside her. "Yes Sally" she breathed, hee breath hitching, *Yes... Right there."

Sal moved his hips so he brushed against the place Reader alerted him to, stroking against it over and over with his length as Reader ground herself down on him. Sal slid a hand over to cover Reader's lower abdomen and guided her hips so they rolled against him as he thrust into her. Sal closed his eyes, concentrating on the rhythm of his hips and the feel of Readers body as it moved around him. He let his other hand slide up to squeeze one of Reader's breasts, sliding his hand under his sweater that Reader had put on so she could smell like him.

Pleasure thrilled through Sal, something in how Reader's hips moved catching him just right. "That's right, queenie... Just like that" he muttered, encouraging her to repeat the motion again with the hand on her stomach. Reader obliged and Sal's head dropped back on its own accord, his hands finding her hips again to thrust into her sloppily.

Sal felt Reader's lips on his jawline and he turned his head, craning his neck so he could kiss her. Reader whimpered against his lips, her body clenching around him as she came. Sal didn't stop, just continued pounding into her as he pulled away from her lips to groan as his release found him. When they were done, Sal stayed buried in Reader, giving her one more kiss. Then he picked up the controller and left the loading screen to continue his game.

"Just stay right there, peaches" Sal sighed, moving inside her just a little as he passed into the next area, "I'll beat the next boss and we can celebrate all over again."

Sal kissed Readers cheek and opened a chest, finding an inventory puzzle item before moving on, seeking out the next sin, Gluttony.

[thegracelessfaceless]

(Reference drawing credits: @neoalix )

02.14.2022

Dearest Sally, 

Happy Valentine's Day! I've had the pleasure of telling you this for three years now! Well, three years in this reality. Overall, if memory serves, it's our fifth Valentine's Day. And honestly…

I'm just as in love with you as I was in the beginning. So please, sit back and relax as I make an utter fool of myself, waxing romantic over you, Salvador Anthony Fisher.

I remember the first time I saw you, in Dr. Wardwell's psych 101 class at Nockfell Community College. Even though it was August,  you wore a blue flannel shirt, unbuttoned over a Red Hot Chili Peppers t-shirt and black jeans. Your hair was in pigtails and your prosthetic covered your face. Even though I couldn't see it,  I knew you were beautiful under there. Dr. Wardwell started calling roll in that brisk, abrupt way she does when she's having an off day. You know, just calling last names, even though we had multiple students with the same last name in class.

You were staring a little too hard at your hands after you caught a glance of me looking at you. I'm sorry for my rudeness,  but at least it makes sense now. You started chipping your nail polish like you do when you're nervous and the tips of your ears were a little pink. Dr. Wardwell called your last name and you answered without looking up.

Dr. Wardwell worked through the class roster and I answered when she called me.  Only then did you look at me. Your blue eye(s) met mine and it was like time stopped with a bolt of lightning forking down from the sky to strike us, even though we were inside. We both kind of jumped, just slightly, barely noticeable.

Well except to everyone but Dr. Wardwell. Later. At the end of class, Dr. Wardwell paired up the students for a project. She put us together, probably because she had noticed the glances we both had been stealing of each other  all ninety minutes. 

I collected my things at the end of class and walked over to your desk just as you stood up. You still hadn't hit your last growth spurt, ever the late bloomer, so we were the same height.

I smiled at you and the tops of your ears were slowly turning bright pink. I told you hi.

"Hey... I'm Sal."

"Grace."

And the rest is history.

Fast forward to our first Valentine's date the following February. You'd grown a little taller, that growth spurt hitting around Christmas, maybe three inches. I'd gotten my nose pierced and you helped me dye my hair for the first time. It turned out pretty good, didn't it?

We'd both decided that we didn't want the whole flowers, chocolates and fancy dinner. Being a college kid sucks sometimes. Instead we opted for a movie night with dinner that we would make together. Since you'd not moved in with Toddy and Neil yet, Larry let us use the basement apartment, telling us he wouldn't be in till late anyway and that we could use Lisa's old room "just in case things get *eyebrow wiggle* romantic."

We tried watching some of those sappy romance flicks, and eventually found some romcoms that weren't nearly as bad. We made cookies and pizza and cuddled. That was right after I saw your face for the first time,  so yes,  while we did cook, bake, and watch movies,  there was also kisses. So many kisses. We did end up staying in

Lisa's old room, but it wasn't like that. Neither of us had been willing to end the date and ended up falling asleep on the couch. Larry woke us up around 3AM when he came in. So you moved us to the spare room and we cuddled up to let sleep wash over us again. 

The next year was pretty much the same, except it was at Toddy and Neil's. You wrote a song for me,  a really cheesy one asking me to move in with you. I loved it and was laugh-crying so hard that all I could do was nod.

Admittedly,  our third Vday sucked, absolutely. You were in prison, and our "date" was a legal meeting that Neil attended as well, so it probably doesn't count :/. Still, I was glad they let us hold hands, and even more glad that you thought up the whole "mask drop" plan that allowed you to sneak me a quick kiss when we both bent to pick it up. They never let us have another meeting like that. I'd rather not revisit this one.

My favorite Valentine's Day with you was actually after you found me in this reality. We actually dressed up and went out to a very expensive restaurant, the kind where the chef picks the meal, you only have two choices. I got the squab (read pigeon), and you got the alligator. But we ended up sharing everything anyway. Then after the last curl of chocolate and the last trail of whipped cream from the cheesecake was gone, we went on a refreshing walk on the river bridge. The city had it lit up, all red, pink and white. We got engaged that night, you proposed on one knee right in the middle of the bridge. Even took your prosthetic off so I could kiss you after I said yes. And the next day,  the courthouse proclaimed us man and wife because we didn't want to wait any longer. 

Last year, we were snowed in. I'd just gotten you on at the dispensary. My favorite part of each work day is watching you over on the gear side, bullshitting with patients, helping them pick out products. Showing that old lady how to operate a dab pen was priceless.

Anyway, our fourth Vday, we were supposed to be at work. Unfortunately, the snow was too high and we couldn't even get our car out. So we called in and spent the next three days (our Lost Weekend) cozy, warm, and full of soup that we threw together. This one is probably my second favorite.

Which brings us to this year. We're in Nockfell, trying to convince Larry that you're not some creepazoid that stole Sal-from-this-dimension's identity, as his Sal is dead. I really hope he comes around soon. This trip has been a whirlwind of fun, love, weird events and just- life!

I wouldn't want to be anywhere else,  doing anything else. Just to be with you. 

I love you. So. Much, Sally. You're 100% my other half and I feel so lucky that we found each other- again.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘ (red tulips mean eternal love in the language of flowers💖)

💖Grace

[killemwithkawaii]

One, obligatory, senpai required, Sal Fisher gush (our yearly arrangement), and this one has lore! 😃

Dearest Sally, 

Happy Valentine's Day! I've had the pleasure of telling you this for three years now! Well, three years in this reality. Overall, if memory serves, it's our fifth Valentine's Day. And honestly…

I'm just as in love with you as I was in the beginning. So please, sit back and relax as I make an utter fool of myself, waxing romantic over you, Salvador Anthony Fisher.

I remember the first time I saw you, in Dr. Wardwell's psych 101 class at Nockfell Community College. Even though it was August,  you wore a blue flannel shirt, unbuttoned over a Red Hot Chili Peppers t-shirt and black jeans. Your hair was in pigtails and your prosthetic covered your face. Even though I couldn't see it,  I knew you were beautiful under there. Dr. Wardwell started calling roll in that brisk, abrupt way she does when she's having an off day. You know, just calling last names, even though we had multiple students with the same last name in class.

You were staring a little too hard at your hands after you caught a glance of me looking at you. I'm sorry for my rudeness,  but at least it makes sense now. You started chipping your nail polish like you do when you're nervous and the tips of your ears were a little pink. Dr. Wardwell called your last name and you answered without looking up.

Dr. Wardwell worked through the class roster and I answered when she called me.  Only then did you look at me. Your blue eye(s) met mine and it was like time stopped with a bolt of lightning forking down from the sky to strike us, even though we were inside. We both kind of jumped, just slightly, barely noticeable.

Well, to everyone but Dr. Wardwell. Later. At the end of class, Dr. Wardwell paired up the students for a project. She put us together, probably because she had noticed the glances we both had been stealing of each other  all ninety minutes. 

I collected my things at the end of class and walked over to your desk just as you stood up. You still hadn't hit your last growth spurt, ever the late bloomer, so we were the same height.

I smiled at you and the tops of your ears were slowly turning bright pink. I told you hi.

"Hey, I'm Sal."

And the rest is history.

Fast forward to our first Valentine's date the following February. You'd grown a little taller, that growth spurt hitting around Christmas, maybe three inches. I'd gotten my nose pierced and you helped me dye my hair for the first time. It turned out pretty good, didn't it?

We'd both decided that we didn't want the whole flowers, chocolates and fancy dinner. Being a college kid sucks sometimes. Instead we opted for a movie night with dinner that we would make together. Since you'd not moved in with Toddy and Neil yet, Larry let us use the basement apartment, telling us he wouldn't be in till late anyway and that we could use Lisa's old room "just in case things get *eyebrow wiggle* romantic."

We tried watching some of those sappy romance flicks, and eventually found some romcoms that weren't nearly as bad. We made cookies and pizza and cuddled. That was right after I saw your face for the first time,  so yes,  while we did cook, bake, and watch movies,  there was also kisses. So many kisses. We did end up staying in

Lisa's old room, but it wasn't like that. Neither of us had been willing to end the date and ended up falling asleep on the couch. Larry woke us up around 3AM when he came in. So you moved us to the spare room and we cuddled up to let sleep wash over us again. 

The next year was pretty much the same, except it was at Toddy and Neil's. You wrote a song for me,  a really cheesy one asking me to move in with you. I loved it and was laugh-crying so hard that all I could do was nod.

Admittedly,  our third Vday sucked, absolutely. You were in prison, and our "date" was a legal meeting that Neil attended as well, so it probably doesn't count :/. Still, I was glad they let us hold hands, and even more glad that you thought up the whole "mask drop" plan that allowed you to sneak me a quick kiss when we both bent to pick it up. They never let us have another meeting like that. I'd rather not revisit this one. Like ever.

My favorite Valentine's Day with you was actually after you found me in this reality. We actually dressed up and went out to a very expensive restaurant, the kind where the chef picks the meal, you only have two choices. I got the squab (read pigeon), and you got the alligator. But we ended up sharing everything anyway. Then after the last curl of chocolate and the last trail of whipped cream from the cheesecake was gone, we went on a refreshing walk on the river bridge. The city had it lit up, all red, pink and white. We got engaged that night, you proposed on one knee right in the middle of the bridge. Even took your prosthetic off so I could kiss you after I said yes. And the next day,  the courthouse proclaimed us man and wife because we didn't want to wait any longer. 

Last year, we were snowed in. I'd just gotten you on at the dispensary. My favorite part of each work day is watching you over on the gear side, bullshitting with patients, helping them pick out products. Showing that old lady how to operate a dab pen was priceless.

Anyway, our fourth Vday, we were supposed to be at work. Unfortunately, the snow was too high and we couldn't even get our car out. So we called in and spent the next three days (our Lost Weekend) cozy, warm, and full of soup that we threw together. This one is probably my second favorite.

Which brings us to this year. We're in Nockfell, trying to convince Larry that you're not some creepazoid that stole Sal-from-this-dimension's identity, as his Sal is dead. I really hope he comes around soon. This trip has been a whirlwind of fun, love, weird events and just- life!

I wouldn't want to be anywhere else,  doing anything else. Just to be with you. 

I love you. So. Much, Sally. You're 100% my other half and I feel so lucky that we found each other- again.

Happy Valentine's Day!!

⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘ (red tulips mean eternal love in the language of flowers💖)

💖Grace, 14.02.2022

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A Note From K.E.W.K.:

>GRACIE IM 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭💞💞💞💞💘💘💘💘👌👌👌👌👌

>I've been quiet on the blog for the pst few days (again) because I was drawing any time I wasn't working, but IRL my Valentines vibes have been 🔥INTENSE🔥 so this 💘💌HITS💌💘

>thank you for paying your yearly gush tax with such quality content UwU ✅️💝

[trans-and-baby-names]

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[mysticalhearth]

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Cabaret - Bad Hersfeld - 1995 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD) |  TRADER'S NOTES: Act 1 only

CAST: Peter Heinrich (Emcee), Pia Douwes (Sally Bowles), Witta Pohl (Fräulein Schneider), Utz Richter (Herr Schultz), Frank Jordan (Clifford Bradshaw), Patrik Fichte (Ernst Ludwig), Annika Bruhns (Fräulein Kost), Barbara Köhler, Claudia Waucshke, Julia Hillens, Manuela von Englen, Nane Broning, Susanne Riegger, Suzanne Back

Cabaret - Donmar Warehouse - 1993 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Alan Cumming (Emcee), Jane Horrocks (Sally Bowles), Sara Kestelman (Fräulein Schneider), George Raistrick (Herr Schultz), Adam Godley (Clifford Bradshaw), Michael Gardiner (Ernst Ludwig), Charlotte Medcalf (Fräulein Kost), Loveday Smith (Lulu/Two Ladies Dancer), Kevin Walton (Herman/Customs Officer/Max), Anthony Hunt (Bobby/Two Ladies Dancer), Charlotte Storey (Texas), Christopher Staines (Victor), Matt Kane (Rudy)

NOTES: Pro-Shot

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Cabaret - Fifth US National Tour (Roundabout 50th Anniversary Tour) - February 17, 2016 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Randy Harrison (Emcee), Andrea Goss (Sally Bowles), Sharan Cochran (Fräulein Schneider), Mark Nelson (Herr Schultz), Lee Aaron Rosen (Clifford Bradshaw), Ned Noyes (Ernst Ludwig), Alison Ewing (Fräulein Kost)

NOTES: Beautiful HD capture of the new tour, with no obstructions. Randy does a terrific job in the role. Great cast and very strong performances! A+

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Cabaret - The Netherlands - 1989

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Willem Nijholt (Emcee), Alexandra van Marken (Sally Bowles)

NOTES: Generation loss

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Cabaret - Third Broadway Revival - May 3, 2014 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Alan Cumming (Emcee), Michelle Williams (Sally Bowles), Linda Emond (Fräulein Schneider), Danny Burstein (Herr Schultz), Bill Heck (Clifford Bradshaw), Aaron Krohn (Ernst Ludwig), Gayle Rankin (Fräulein Kost)

NOTES: Beautiful HD capture with no obstructions and features the entire Revival Cast. Alan gives a terrific return performance as the Emcee. Gayle and Linda still give such beautiful performances that are wonderful to watch! A

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Cabaret - Third Broadway Revival - August 19, 2014 (SJ Bernly's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Alan Cumming (Emcee), Michelle Williams (Sally Bowles), Linda Emond (Fräulein Schneider), Danny Burstein (Herr Schultz), Benjamin Eakeley (u/s Ernst Ludwig), Kaleigh Cronin (u/s Fräulein Kost), Stacey Sipowicz (u/s Lulu/Two Ladies Dancer), Andrea Goss (Frenchie/Gorilla), Leeds Hill (Bobby/Two Ladies Dancer), Kristin Olness (Helga), Jessica Pariseau (Texas), Dylan Paul (Victor), Kelly Paredes (u/s Rosie), Evan D Siegel (Hans/Rudy)

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Cabaret - Third Broadway Revival - November 20, 2014 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Alan Cumming (Emcee), Emma Stone (Sally Bowles), Kristie Dale Sanders (s/b Fräulein Schneider), Philip Hoffman (s/b Herr Schultz), Bill Heck (Clifford Bradshaw), Aaron Krohn (Ernst Ludwig), Gayle Rankin (Fräulein Kost), Katrina Yaukey (u/s Lulu/Two Ladies Dancer), Benjamin Eakeley (Herman/Customs Officer/Max), Andrea Goss (Frenchie/Gorilla), Leeds Hill (Bobby/Two Ladies Dancer), Kristin Olness (Helga), Jessica Pariseau (Texas), Dylan Paul (Victor), Stacey Sipowicz (Rosie), Evan D Siegel (Hans/Rudy)

NOTES: Excellent HD capture with Emma joining the cast as Sally. She does a dazzling job in the role and very precise in detail. Lovely performances from Kristie and Philip. A

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Caesar and Cleopatra - Stratford Festival - 2009 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Christopher Plummer (Julius Caesar), Nikki M James (Cleopatra)

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Camelot - Second Broadway Revival - 1982 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Richard Harris (King Arthur), Meg Bussert (Queen Guenevere), Richard Muenz (Sir Lancelot), James Valentine (Merlyn), Barrie Ingham (Pellinore), Richard Backus (Mordred), William Parry (Sir Dinadan), Thor Fields (Tom of Warwick), Jeanne Caryl (Nimue), William James (Sir Lionel), Andy McAvin (Sir Sagramore)

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Candide - New York Philharmonic - May, 2004 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  AVI (HD)

CAST: Paul Groves (Candide), Sir Thomas Allan (Dr. Pangloss), Jeff Blumenkrantz (Maximilian), Kristin Chenoweth (Cunegonde), Janine LaManna (Paquette), Patti LuPone (The Old Lady)

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Candide - Paris - December 31, 2006 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: William Burden (Candide), Lambert Wilson (Dr. Pangloss), David Adam Moore (Maximilian), Anna Christy (Cunegonde), Jeni Bern (Paquette), Kim Criswell (The Old Lady)

NOTES: Recorded by the BBC.

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Candide - Scottish Opera Production - May, 1988 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Mark Beudert (Candide), Nikolas Grace (Dr. Pangloss), Mark Tinkler (Maximilian), Gaynor Miles (Paquette), Ann Howard (The Old Lady), Nikolas Grace (Cacambo)

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The Capeman - Broadway - 1998

FORMAT:  AVI (SD)

CAST: Ruben Blades (Adult Salvador), Renoly Santiago (Tony), Ednita Nazario (Esmerelda), Michelle Rios (Aurea), Elan Ruz Rivera (Cookie), Sara Ramirez (Wahzinak)

NOTES: "THE CAPEMAN" OBC 1998 (mp4) Very poor picture quality, but clear audio. Marc Anthony (Young Salvador), Ruben Blades (Adult Salvador), Renoly Santiago (Tony), Ednita Nazario (Esmerelda), Michelle Rios (Aurea), Elan Ruz Rivera (Cookie), Lugo (Baba Charlie Cruz), Sara Ramirez (Wahzinak).

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Caroline, or Change - Broadway - July 24, 2004

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Tonya Pinkins (Caroline Thibodeaux), Veanne Cox (Rose Stopnick Gellman), Anika Noni Rose (Emmie Thibodeaux), Chandra Wilson (Dotty Moffett), Chuck Cooper (The Dryer), Larry Keith (Mr. Stopnick), Alice Playten (Grandma Gellman)

NOTES: Fixed the brightness balance. Sound improved. Includes TV appearances.

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Caroline, or Change - Toronto - February 1, 2020 (The Musical Speakeasy's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Jully Black (Caroline Thibodeaux), Evan LeFeuvre (Noah Gellman), Deborah Hay (Rose Stopnick Gellman), Damien Atkins (Stuart Gellman), Vanessa Sears (Emmie Thibodeaux), Alana Hibbert (Dotty Moffett), Keisha T Fraser (The Washing Machine), Stewart Adam McKensy (The Dryer), Samantha Walkes (The Radio), Measha Brueggergosman (The Moon), Sam Rosenthal (Mr. Stopnick), Oliver Dennis (Grandpa Gellman), Linda Kash (Grandma Gellman), Moses Aidoo (Jackie Thibodeaux), Micah Mensah-Jatoe (Joe Thibodeaux)

NOTES: Features a speech from the artistic director of the Musical Stage Company regarding the commencement of Black History Month. This is my first ever complete video capture, save for a short blackout for about the last sixty seconds of the closing number. A worthwhile watch that begins Musical Stage Company's residency of the Winter Garden Theatre!

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Caroline, or Change - West End Revival - December, 2018 (hitmewithyourbethshot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Sharon D Clarke (Caroline Thibodeaux), Jack Meredith (Noah Gellman), Lauren Ward (Rose Stopnick Gellman), Alastair Brookshaw (Stuart Gellman), Abiona Omonua (Emmie Thibodeaux), Naana Agyel-Ampadu (Dotty Moffett), Me'sha Bryan (The Washing Machine), Angela Caesar (The Moon)

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Carousel - New York Philharmonic Concert - March 2, 2013 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Nathan Gunn (Billy Bigelow), Kelli O’Hara (Julie Jordan), Stephanie Blythe (Nettie Fowler), Jessie Mueller (Carrie Pipperidge), Jason Danieley (Enoch Snow), Kate Burton (Mrs. Mullin), John Cullum (The Starkeeper), Shuler Hensley (Jigger Craigin), Tiler Peck (Louise), Robert Fairchild (Fairground Boy)

NOTES: HD Pro-shot from PBS, recorded 3/2/13 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center and marks the orchestra's 75th appearance on the series. Aired on April 26, 2013.

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Carousel - Third Broadway Revival - March 2, 2018 (Preview) (NYCG8R's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Joshua Henry (Billy Bigelow), Jessie Mueller (Julie Jordan), Renée Fleming (Nettie Fowler), Lindsay Mendez (Carrie Pipperidge), Alexander Gemignani (Enoch Snow), Margaret Colin (Mrs. Mullin), John Douglas Thompson (The Starkeeper), Amar Ramasar (Jigger Craigin), Brittany Pollack (Louise), Garett Hawe (Enoch Snow, Jr.), Andrei Chagas (Fairground Boy)

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Carrie: The Musical - Broadway - May 15, 1988 (Closing Night) (Highlights)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Linzi Hateley (Carrie White), Betty Buckley (Margaret White), Charlotte d'Amboise (Chris Hargensen), Darlene Love (Lynn Gardner)

NOTES: Act 1 only.

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Carrie: The Musical - Chicago/Stage Door Fine Arts - August 9, 2015 (Closing Night) (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Anna Blanchard (Carrie White)

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Carrie: The Musical - Hamburg - August, 2019 (Rumpel's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Lorena Dehmelt (Carrie White), Kaatje Dierks (alt Margaret White), Larissy Pyne (Sue Snell), Tim Taucher (Tommy Ross), Rita Sebeh (alt Chris Hargensen), Nils Marckwardt (Billy Nolan), Isabelle Schubert (Lynn Gardner), Nicolas Schulze (Mr. Stephens), Kerstin Leowin (Norma), Selina Bögelein (Frieda), Dominic Angler (George), Piero Ochsenbein (Freddy), Sara Kettmann (Helen), Dominik Thätner (Stokes)

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Carrie: The Musical - Hamburg - July, 2019 (Rumpel's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Lorena Dehmelt (Carrie White), Maya Hakvoort (Margaret White), Larissy Pyne (Sue Snell), Tim Taucher (Tommy Ross), Alexandra Nikolina (Chris Hargensen), Nils Marckwardt (Billy Nolan), Isabelle Schubert (Lynn Gardner), Nicolas Schulze (Mr. Stephens), Kerstin Leowin (Norma), Selina Bögelein (Frieda), Dominic Angler (George), Piero Ochsenbein (Freddy), Sara Kettmann (Helen), Dominik Thätner (Stokes)

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Carrie: The Musical - Hartford - March, 2015

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Caroline Cannon (Carrie White), Diana Zee Chandler (Margaret White), Maggie Powderly (Sue Snell)

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Carrie: The Musical - Off-Broadway - February 4, 2012 (Preview) (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Molly Ranson (Carrie White), Marin Mazzie (Margaret White), Christy Altomare (Sue Snell), Derek Klena (Tommy Ross), Jeanna de Waal (Chris Hargensen), Ben Thompson (Billy Nolan), Carmen Cusack (Lynn Gardner), Wayne Alan Wilcox (Mr. Stephens), Blair Goldberg (Norma), Jen Sese (Frieda), Corey Boardman (George), F Michael Haynie (Freddy), Elly Noble (Helen), Andy Mientus (Stokes)

NOTES: Great capture of this beautifully retooled revival. The performances were astonishing and the whole cast was senstational. Marin and Molly are pure perfection! The campiness has been removed from the show and there is such a sad and powerful story that remains. A-

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Carrie: The Musical - Off-Broadway - March 18, 2012 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Molly Ranson (Carrie White), Anne Tolpegin (u/s Margaret White), Christy Altomare (Sue Snell), Derek Klena (Tommy Ross), Jeanna de Waal (Chris Hargensen), Ben Thompson (Billy Nolan), Carmen Cusack (Lynn Gardner), Wayne Alan Wilcox (Mr. Stephens), Blair Goldberg (Norma), Jen Sese (Frieda), Corey Boardman (George), F Michael Haynie (Freddy), Elly Noble (Helen), Andy Mientus (Stokes)

NOTES: Terrific capture, one of my favorite shows. Marin was more of a Barbara Cook portrayal, Anne was more of a Betty Buckley. Rare performance as Anne only went on a handful of times. A-

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Carrie: The Musical - Off-Broadway - April 5, 2012 (Highlights)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Molly Ranson (Carrie White), Marin Mazzie (Margaret White), Christy Altomare (Sue Snell), Derek Klena (Tommy Ross), Jeanna de Waal (Chris Hargensen), Ben Thompson (Billy Nolan), Carmen Cusack (Lynn Gardner), Wayne Alan Wilcox (Mr. Stephens), Blair Goldberg (Norma), Jen Sese (Frieda), Corey Boardman (George), F Michael Haynie (Freddy), Elly Noble (Helen), Andy Mientus (Stokes)

NOTES: Highlights only, including ‘And Eve Was Weak’, ‘Carrie’, ‘I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance’, ‘Stay Here Instead’-’When There's No One’, ‘Destruction’. Recorded vertically on a phone

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Carrie: The Musical - Seattle - October 10, 2013 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Keaton Whittaker (Carrie White), Alice Ripley (Margaret White), Larissa Schmitz (Sue Snell), Kody Bringman (Tommy Ross), Tessa Archer (Chris Hargensen), Andrew Brewer (Billy Nolan), Kendra Kassebaum (Lynn Gardner), Brian Lange (Mr. Stephens), Erin Herrick (Norma), Melissa Maricich (Frieda), Frederick Habreen (George), Riley Neldham (Freddy), Alexandria Henderson (Helen), Eli Wills (Stokes)

NOTES: Beautiful HD capture of one of the Final Dress Rehearsals. Top notch production and thrilling performances from Alice, Keaton, and the whole cast! This is quite a unique capture since it was the first time the blood was dropped. Too many amazing things to point out here, don't miss this one!!! A+ Well filmed with a nice mix of close-ups and full stage shots and no obstructions. Based on the revised Off-Broadway version, and presented at the Balagan Theatre. Because this was recorded at the final run-through prior to opening night, there are a few “holds” as they worked out any kinks: * After “Evening Prayers” there is a hold to change all microphone batteries, resulting in most of the song being run a second time (the sound check was removed and put as a bonus at the end of act two). * During the scene where Carrie is getting ready for the prom a microphone made a "farting" noise and Alice grabbed her butt and said "sorry" which made the cast and tech crew laugh. 

Carrie: The Musical - Seattle - October 13, 2013 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Keaton Whittaker (Carrie White), Alice Ripley (Margaret White), Larissa Schmitz (Sue Snell), Kody Bringman (Tommy Ross), Tessa Archer (Chris Hargensen), Andrew Brewer (Billy Nolan), Kendra Kassebaum (Lynn Gardner), Brian Lange (Mr. Stephens), Erin Herrick (Norma), Melissa Maricich (Frieda), Frederick Habreen (George), Riley Neldham (Freddy), Alexandria Henderson (Helen), Eli Wills (Stokes)

NOTES: One of the first regional productions of the revised Carrie. Good to have Ripley in something.

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Carrie: The Musical - Stagedoor Manor - July 31, 1999

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Julie Kleiner (Carrie White), Vivienne Cleary (Margaret White), Nina Sturtz (Miss Gardner), Kaily Smith (Chris), Erin Evers (Sue), Blair Late (Tommy)

NOTES: Another abridged version. Video suffers from gen loss but has cleaned up decently. Piano is the only instrument in the orchestra, and it drowns out some of the singers. This has been incorrectly labelled as an authorized production,which is incorrect - this was an unauthorized production (e.g., no rights were secured before the production), though Gore (and Cohen) were in the audience of this performance and chose not to sue Jeff Murphy and Stagedoor over copyright infringement, partly because Gore said he had always wanted to see the show done with actual teenagers (reported by Jeff Murphy, the director).

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Carrie: The Musical - Stratford-Upon-Avon - February 16, 1988 (Preview) (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Linzi Hateley (Carrie White), Barbara Cook (Margaret White), Sally Ann Triplett (Sue Snell), Paul Gyngell (Tommy Ross), Charlotte d'Amboise (Chris Hargensen), Gene Anthony Ray (Billy Nolan), Darlene Love (Lynn Gardner)

NOTES: Filmed professionally for the RSC archives on the third night of the performance (February 16, 1988). Shot from first row mezzanine center with no obstructions with audio taken directly from the soundboard. Mostly a full stage shots without zooms. This is usually incorrectly labelled as "Opening Night (February 13, 1988)", which is incorrect, as on opening night, Barbara Cook was almost decapitated right after the set changes from "Don't Waste The Moon", which not seen in this video (also verified by the person who copied this from the archives).

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Catch Me If You Can - Broadway - April 27, 2011

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Aaron Tveit (Frank Abagnale, Jr.), Norbert Leo Butz (Agent Carl Hanratty), Tom Wopat (Frank Abagnale, Sr.), Rachel de Benedet (Paula Abagnale), Kerry Butler (Brenda Strong), Linda Hart (Carol Strong), Timothy McCuen Piggee (Agent Cod)

NOTES: A nice capture of the short lived show. Disc also includes around 100 minutes of interviews, B-Roll, behind the scenes, etc. Great video with nice picture and clear sound. A

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Catch Me If You Can - Seattle, WA (Pre-Broadway) - August 4, 2009 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Aaron Tveit (Frank Abagnale, Jr.), Norbert Leo Butz (Agent Carl Hanratty), Tom Wopat (Frank Abagnale, Sr.), Rachel de Benedet (Paula Abagnale), Kerry Butler (Brenda Strong), Linda Hart (Carol Strong)

NOTES: This is a great capture of the show. The show is filled with wonderful talent. Aaron and Norbert have a great chemistry together and Aaron has a huge voice. Kerry and Felicia both have great songs and great vocals. The show itself is very sleek and mod. A

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Catch Me If You Can - Seattle, WA (Pre-Broadway) - August 15, 2009

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Aaron Tveit (Frank Abagnale, Jr.), Norbert Leo Butz (Agent Carl Hanratty), Tom Wopat (Frank Abagnale, Sr.), Rachel de Benedet (Paula Abagnale), Kerry Butler (Brenda Strong), Linda Hart (Carol Strong)

NOTES: Some very quick blackouts, none last more than 30 seconds or so.Very little obstruction, just heads on the bottom and the right, mostly in wideshots, and they're hardly noticeable.

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Cats - Broadway Revival - July 22, 2016 (Preview) (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Leona Lewis (Grizabella), Ahmad Simmons (Alonzo), Daniel Gaymon (Admetus/Macavity), Christine Cornish Smith (Bombalurina), Christopher Gurr (Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger), Emily Pynenburg (Cassandra), Guiseppe Bausilio (Carbucketty), Corey John Snide (Coricopat), Kim Faure (Demeter), Lili Froehlich (Electra), Sara Jean Ford (Jellylorum), Eloise Kropp (Jennyanydots), Ricky Ubeda (Mr. Mistoffelees), Jess LeProtto (Mungojerrie), Andy Huntington Jones (Munkustrap), Quentin Earl Darrington (Old Deuteronomy), Shonica Gooden (Rumpleteazer), Tyler Hanes (Rum Tum Tugger), Jeremy Davis (Skimbleshanks), Emily Tate (Tantomile), Georgina Pazcoguin (Victoria), Sharrod Williams (Pouncival), Arianna Rosario (Sillabub)

NOTES: Excellent HD capture of the new Broadway Revival. Everything is nicely captured with dance numbers full stage shot. High energy performances with some choreography and song tweaks from the original! A

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Cats - International Tour - April 22, 2019 (Closing Night) (Highlights) (mymummysaysimamiracle's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Elizabeth Futter (u/s Grizabella), Lloyd Davies (Alonzo), Thomas Inge (Admetus/Macavity), Dean Ambrose (Bill Bailey/Tumblebrutus), Sally Frith (Bombalurina), Matt Harrop (Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger), Katie Deacon (Cassandra), Louis van Leer (Carbucketty), Fletcher Dobinson (Coricopat), Ella Nonini (Demeter), Amy Whittle (u/s Jellylorum), Grace Swaby (Jemima), Ceili O´Connor (Jennyanydots), Alex Harrison (Mr. Mistoffelees), Billy Mahoney (Mungojerrie), Jak Skelly (Munkustrap), John Ellis (Old Deuteronomy), Kirsty Ingram (Rumpleteazer), Dan Partridge (Rum Tum Tugger), Matthew Rowland (Skimbleshanks), Eilish Harmon-Beglan (Tantomile), Hannah Kenna Thomas (Victoria)

NOTES: Highlights only(Opening, Mungo and Rumple, Old Deuteronomy, Jellicle Ball, Skimbleshanks and Moments of Hapiness)!

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Cats - Italy Tour - 2010

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Luca Giacomelli (Admetus/Macavity), Azzurra Adinolfi (Bombalurina), Gianluca Ciatti (Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger), Silvana Isolani (Cassandra), Denise Brambillasca (Demeter), Federica Baldi (Jemima), Stefania Fratepietro (Jennyanydots), Salvatore Marchione (Mungojerrie), Roberta Miolla (Rumpleteazer), Roberto Colombo (Skimbleshanks), Tiziano Edini (Pouncival), Alessandro Lanzillotti

NOTES: Non-replica production. House Cam with no zooms.

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Cats - Japan - 2006

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Koji Tomita (Cassandra), Masashi Kikuchi (Carbucketty), Yuka Takizawa (Demeter), Chie Inoue (Jellylorum), Kazue Haruhara (Jemima), Yoko Ishi (Jennyanydots), Hitoshi Tsuzi (Mungojerrie), Shoichi Fukui (Munkustrap), Kensan Ishi (Old Deuteronomy), Shinobu Aikawa (Rumpleteazer), Emi Takakula (Tantomile), Kyoko Sato (Victoria), Eliko Mulata (Sillabub)

NOTES: Filmed from the very front row

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Cats - Netherlands - June 29, 2007

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Pia Douwes (Grizabella), Merlijn Wolsink (Alonzo), Pierre Alexandre (Admetus/Macavity), Daymon Montaigne Jones (Bill Bailey/Tumblebrutus), Anouk van Nes (Bombalurina), Paul Donkers (Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger), Caroline Beuth (Cassandra), Michael Macalintal (Coricopat), Suzanne Heijne (Demeter), Veerle Casteleyn (Electra), Annemieke Van Der Veer (Jellylorum), Cindy Belliot (Jemima), Marleen van der Loo (Jennyanydots), Mark John Richardson (Mr. Mistoffelees), Mark van Beelen (Mungojerrie), Roberto de Groot (Munkustrap), Marco Bakker (Old Deuteronomy), Marjolein Teepen (Rumpleteazer), Stanley Burleson (Rum Tum Tugger), Marcel Visscher (Skimbleshanks), Hannah van Meurs (Tantomile), Anique Bosch (Victoria), João Paulo De Almeida (Pouncival)

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Cats - Netherlands - July 28, 2007

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Anita Meyer (Grizabella), Merlijn Wolsink (Alonzo), Pierre Alexandre (Admetus/Macavity), Daymon Montaigne Jones (Bill Bailey/Tumblebrutus), Anouk van Nes (Bombalurina), Paul Donkers (Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger), Caroline Beuth (Cassandra), Michael Macalintal (Coricopat), Suzanne Heijne (Demeter), Veerle Casteleyn (Electra), Annemieke Van Der Veer (Jellylorum), Veerle Casteleyn (Jemima), Maaike Schuurmans (Jennyanydots), Mark John Richardson (Mr. Mistoffelees), Mark van Beelen (Mungojerrie), Roberto de Groot (Munkustrap), Paul Walthuis (Old Deuteronomy), Marjolein Teepen (Rumpleteazer), Gino Emnes (Rum Tum Tugger), Marcel Visscher (Skimbleshanks), Hannah van Meurs (Tantomile), Anique Bosch (Victoria), João Paulo De Almeida (Pouncival)

NOTES: Starts at the The invitation to the Jellicle ball and missing a couple of minutes at the start of act 2 two. Act one is filmed in night shot, and act two comes with a verry clear picture. Veerle Castelyn is followed a lot.

 Cats - Netherlands - September 16, 2007

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Penny Voss (Grizabella), Merlijn Wolsink (Alonzo), Pierre Alexandre (Admetus/Macavity), Daymon Montaigne Jones (Bill Bailey/Tumblebrutus), Anouk van Nes (Bombalurina), Paul Donkers (Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger), Caroline Beuth (Cassandra), Michael Macalintal (Coricopat), Suzanne Heijne (Demeter), Veerle Casteleyn (Electra), Annemieke Van Der Veer (Jellylorum), Veerle Casteleyn (Jemima), Maaike Schuurmans (Jennyanydots), Mark J Richardson (Mr. Mistoffelees), Mark van Beelen (Mungojerrie), Roberto de Groot (Munkustrap), Paul Walthuis (Old Deuteronomy), Marjolein Teepen (Rumpleteazer), Gino Emnes (Rum Tum Tugger), Marcel Visscher (Skimbleshanks), Hannah van Meurs (Tantomile), Anique Bosch (Victoria), João Paulo De Almeida (Pouncival)

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Cats - Tecklenburg, Germany - August 29, 2015 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Maya Hakvoort (Grizabella), Andrew Hill (Alonzo), Zoltan Fekete (Admetus/Macavity), David Pellerin (Bill Bailey/Tumblebrutus), Sabine Hettlich (Bombalurina), Yngve Gasoy-Romdal (Bustopher Jones/Gus/Growltiger), Lucy Castelloe (Cassandra), Tobias Joch (Coricopat), Caroline Frank (Demeter), Leah Delos Santos (Jellylorum), Celine Vogt (Jemima), Benjamin Eberling (Jennyanydots), David Pereira (Mr. Mistoffelees), Nils Haberstroh (Mungojerrie), Armin Kahl (Munkustrap), Reinhard Brussmann (Old Deuteronomy), Anna Carina Buchegger (Rumpleteazer), Shane Dickson (Rum Tum Tugger), Stephan Luethy (Skimbleshanks), Eleonora Talamini (Tantomile), Taryn Nelson (Victoria), Hakan T Aslan (Pouncival), Marthe Römer (Etcetera)

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Cats - The Netherlands - 1987

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Ruth Jacott (Grizabella), Kyle Boynton (Munkustrap), Fred Butter (Rum Tum Tugger)

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Cats - The Netherlands - August 18, 1992

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Ellen Evers (Grizabella), Joyce Stevens (Bombalurina), Wilma Hoornstra (Demeter), Michiel Verkoren (Mungojerrie), Brian Galliford (Old Deuteronomy), Meike Staring (Rumpleteazer), Fred Butter (Rum Tum Tugger)

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Cats - The Netherlands - August 18, 1992

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Ellen Evers (Grizabella), Joyce Stevens (Bombalurina), Wilma Hoornstra (Demeter), Michiel Verkoren (Mungojerrie), Brian Galliford (Old Deuteronomy), Meike Staring (Rumpleteazer), Fred Butter (Rum Tum Tugger)

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Cats - Vienna - 1988 (Pro-Shot's master)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Broadway - April 20, 2017 (Preview) (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Christian Borle (Willy Wonka), Ryan Foust (Charlie Bucket), John Rubinstein (Grandpa Joe), F Michael Haynie (Augustus Gloop), Kathy Fitzgerald (Mrs Gloop), Emma Pfaeffle (Veruca Salt), Ben Crawford (Mr Salt), Trista Dollison (Violet Beauregarde), Alan H Green (Mr Beauregarde), Michael Wartella (Mike Teavee), Jackie Hoffman (Mrs Teavee), Emily Padgett (Mrs Bucket)

NOTES: Great HD capture of the new musical based on the Roald Dahl classic novel. A fresh dark take on the material, which was fun and very enjoyable! A great comedic cast and innovative production. A

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Broadway - May 1, 2017 (NYCG8R's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Christian Borle (Willy Wonka), Jake Ryan Flynn (Charlie Bucket), John Rubinstein (Grandpa Joe), F Michael Haynie (Augustus Gloop), Kathy Fitzgerald (Mrs Gloop), Emma Pfaeffle (Veruca Salt), Ben Crawford (Mr Salt), Trista Dollison (Violet Beauregarde), Michael Wartella (Mike Teavee), Jackie Hoffman (Mrs Teavee), Emily Padgett (Mrs Bucket)

NOTES: Fantastic HD video with excellent picture and clear great sound; Video has great close-ups and good stage shots for dancing numbers.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - West End - January 22, 2015 (Lanelle's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD)

CAST: Alex Jennings (Willy Wonka), Zachary Loonie (Charlie Bucket), Billy Boyle (u/s Grandpa Joe), Vincent Finch (Augustus Gloop), Amy Carter (Veruca Salt), Rhianna Dorris (Violet Beauregarde), Daniel Rhodes (Mike Teavee)

NOTES: Fun show with very imaginative staging, though I do wish they used more songs from (either) movie. The first 5 minutes of Act One has some wandering and blackouts, but after that it is a steady and unobstructed shot. Includes curtain call.

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Chasing Rainbows - Paper Mill Playhouse - October, 2019 (StarCuffedJeans's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Karen Mason (Ma Lawlor), Stephen DeRosa (LB Mayer), Colin Hanlon (Roger Edens), Karen Mason (Kay Koverman), Ruby Rakos (Judy Garland), Lesli Margherita (Ethel Gumm), Max von Essen (Frank Gumm), Michael Wartella (Mickey Rooney)

NOTES: Great HD capture of this Judy Garland bio musical focusing on her early years, leading up to The Wizard of Oz, with a couple of fun tap numbers! Act One starts when Judy sings a version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow (same tune but with different lyrics). Act Two starts part way through the number right before they enter the MGM studio. Please do not post screenshots of this video on Twitter ever. Gifs on Tumblr are okay after the NFT date, but don't go linking things to actors and shows.

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The Cher Show - Broadway - April, 2019 (StarCuffedJeans's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Stephanie J Block (Cher (Star)), Teal Wicks (Cher (Lady)), Micaela Diamond (Cher (Babe)), Jarrod Spector (Sonny Bono), Michael Berresse (Bob Mackie), Michael Campayno (Rob Camilletti), Matthew Hydzik (Gregg Allman), Emily Skinner (Georgia Holt)

NOTES: Beautiful HD close-ups but some long drop-outs and quite a few obstructed scenes. The rake in the mezzanine at the Neil Simon kinda stinks and I'm pretty sure the ushers were playing flashlight tag with each other the entire show. but I began to care a lot less as the night went on Video is very Cher-centric...choreography in "Dark Lady" is captured beautifully, but for the rest of the show I was mostly focused on getting those Stephanie, Teal, and Micaela zooms. We start at the scene before "Half Breed" and when Stephanie tells everyone to stand up for the finale it's all over for my filming ability.

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The Cher Show - Broadway - January, 2019 (NYCG8R's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Stephanie J Block (Cher (Star)), Teal Wicks (Cher (Lady)), Micaela Diamond (Cher (Babe)), Jarrod Spector (Sonny Bono), Michael Berresse (Bob Mackie), Michael Campayno (Rob Camilletti), Matthew Hydzik (Gregg Allman), Emily Skinner (Georgia Holt)

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Chess - Netherlands - November, 2006 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Jeroen Phaff (Anatoly Sergievsky), Joke de Kruijf (Florence Vassy), Jasper Kerkhof (Freddie Trumper), Mieke Dijkstra (Svetlana Sergievskaya), Ben Cramer (Molokov)

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Chicago - Broadway Revival - 1996 (Highlights) (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Ann Reinking (Roxie Hart), Bebe Neuwirth (Velma Kelly), James Naughton (Billy Flynn), Joel Grey (Amos Hart), Marcia Lewis (Matron "Mama" Morton), D Sabella (Mary Sunshine)

NOTES: Almost the full show (2 hours and 7 minutes). Usually referred to as Press Reels, this is actually the unedited footage shot for press or archival purposes. Decent amount on generation loss with some distortion at the top of the screen, and a time code at the bottom. Sometimes incorrectly labeled as 1995 .

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Chicago - The Netherlands - 1999 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Simone Kleinsma (Roxie Hart), Pia Douwes (Velma Kelly), Stanley Burleson (Billy Flynn), Marjolijn Touw (Matron "Mama" Morton)

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Chicago - The Netherlands - Fall, 1999 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Ellen Evers (u/s Roxie Hart), Pia Douwes (Velma Kelly), Stanley Burleson (Billy Flynn), Serge Henry Valke (Amos Hart), Marjolijn Touw (Matron "Mama" Morton)

NOTES: Good capture; multicam proshot. One camera is centre stage, the other is on the left balcony.

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Chicago - West End Revival - 2004

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Frances Ruffelle (Roxie Hart), Pia Douwes (Velma Kelly), Alex Bourne (Billy Flynn), Zee Asha (Matron "Mama" Morton)

NOTES: The same video as the March 27, 2004 video

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Broadway - April 16, 2005

FORMAT:  VOB (no smalls) (SD) |  TRADER'S NOTES: PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST! Working on uploading

CAST: Raúl Esparza (Caractacus Potts), Erin Dilly (Truly Scrumptious), Kevin Calhoun (Childcatcher), Marc Kudisch (Baron Bomburst), Jan Maxwell (Baroness Bomburst), Phillip Bosco (Grandpa Potts)

NOTES: A little shaky at times, and some ducks, but otherwise excellent. Includes news footage.

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A Chorus Line - Broadway Revival - September 30, 2006 (Preview)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Michael Berresse (Zach), Tyler Hanes (Larry), Brad Anderson (Don), Mara Davi (Maggie), Jeffrey Schecter (Mike), Yuka Takara (Connie), Michael Paternostro (Greg), Charlotte d'Amboise (Cassie), Deirdre Goodwin (Sheila), Ken Alan (Bobby), Alisan Porter (Bebe), Heather Parcells (Judy), James T Lane (Richie), Tony Yazbeck (Al), Chryssie Whitehead (Kristine), Jessica Lee Goldyn (Val), Paul McGill (Mark), Jason Tam (Paul), Natalie Cortez (Diana), Michelle Aravena (Tricia), E Clayton Cornelious (Butch), David Baum (Roy), Mike Cannon (Tom), Nadine Isenegger (Lois), Grant Turner (Frank), Lorin Latarro (Vicki)

NOTES: Commonly mislabelled as Opening Night (October 5, 2006), however menu says it is September 30, 2006. Video includes the playbill and some bonus news features of the Pre-Opening, Opening Night and the Review.

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A Chorus Line - Hollywood Bowl - July 29, 2016 (SJ Bernly's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Mario Lopez (Zach), Spencer Liff (Larry), Michael Starr (Don), Mara Davi (Maggie), Robert Fairchild (Mike), J Elaine Marcos (Connie), Denis Lambert (Greg), Sarah Bowden (Cassie), Leigh Zimmerman (Sheila), Kelsey Walston (Bebe), Tiana Okoye (Judy), Cornelius Jones Jr (Richie), Justin Michael Wilcox (Al), Courtney Lopez (Kristine), Sabrina Bryan (Val), Ross Lynch (Mark), Jason Tam (Paul), Krysta Rodriguez (Diana)

NOTES: This all star cast gives energetic and nuanced performances, cast as a whole is a stand out with absolutely incredible dance numbers, nicely filmed, no obstructions, no washout, just a couple of quick dropouts, filmed from stage directly, screens are never shown, filmed in 16:9 with a mix of wides, mediums and close-ups, show is 125 minutes on one disc includes curtain call and playbill scans.

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A Chorus Line - North Shore Music Theatre - November, 2010 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Derek Hanson (Zach), Kurt Domoney (Larry), Joe Grandy (Don), Cary Michelle Miller (Maggie), Jonathan Day (Mike), Hannah Chin (Connie), Aaron Umsted (Greg), Rebecca Riker (Cassie), Katie Cameron (Sheila), Sean Quinn (Bobby), Katerina Papacostas (Bebe), Bethany Moore (Judy), Delius Doherty (Richie), Venny Carranza (Al), Nancy Renée Braun (Kristine), Leslie Donna Flesner (Val), Christopher Shin (Mark), Miguel Angel Falcon (Paul), Julie Kotarides (Diana), Maggie Marino (Tricia), Brian Bailey (Roy), Michael McCrary (Tom), Sarah Shepler (Lois), Taylor Shubert (Frank), Wendy O'Byrne (Vicki)

NOTES: Performed in the round, two cameras and sound patched in from the soundboard.

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A Chorus Line - Off-Broadway - July 12, 1975 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Robert LuPone (Zach), Thommie Walsh (Bobby Strong), Clive Clerk (Larry), Ron Khulman (Don), Kay Cole (Maggie), Wayne Cilento (Mike), Baayork Lee (Connie), Michael Stuart (Greg), Donna McKechnie (Cassie), Kelly Bishop (Sheila), Nancy Lane (Bebe), Patricia Garland (Judy), Ronald Dennis (Richie), Don Percassi (Al), Renne Baughman (Kristine), Pam Blair (Val), Cameron Mason (Mark), Sammy Williams (Paul), Priscilla Lopez (Diana)

NOTES: The original Broadway cast filmed prior to moving to Broadway. Professionally filmed using multiple cameras for the Lincoln Center Theatre on Film and Tape (TOFT) archives. Newly surfaced video which is a HUGE improvement over the previous version which has been in circulation for a while. This is also complete and includes the opening announcement alerting the audience that the show is being filmed. Amazing quality, but still has a little generational loss. In black and white. The DVD has been enhanced with chapter stops for all of the musical numbers. This, along with the tapes of Crazy for You and Passion, is amongst the only three TOFT tapes that have been leaked.

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A Chorus Line - The Netherlands - 2002 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Wilbert Gieske (Zach), Fons van Kraaij (Larry), Roy Kullick (Don), Marieke van Hulst (Maggie), Birger van Severen (Mike), Hannah van Meurs (Connie), Thomasj Vets (Greg), Ellis van Laarhoven (Cassie), Anouk van Nes (Sheila), Hans van der Heijden (Bobby), Manon Novak (Bebe), Carolien Canters (Judy), Perry Dossett (Richie), Job Vlaar (Al), Eva Roest (Kristine), Jacqueline Aronson (Val), Paul Boereboom (Mark), Hein Gerrits (Paul), Cystine Carreon (Diana), Cyrille Carreon (Tricia), Peter van Dosselaer (Butch), Axel de Graaf (Roy), Regi Severins (Lois), Peter Stoelhorst (Frank), Roeselien Wekker (Vicki)

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A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong - BBC Special - December 30, 2017 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Henry Shields (Chris), Henry Lewis (Robert), Charlie Russell (Sandra), Dave Hearn (Max), Chris Leask (Trevor), Nancy Zamit (Annie), Greg Tannahill (Jonathan), Jonathan Sayer (Dennis), Ellie Morris (Lucy), Diana Rigg (Aunt Diana), Derek Jacobi (Scrooge/Himself)

NOTES: Mischief Theatre 2017 BBC Special proshot.

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A Christmas Story - Broadway - November 7, 2012 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  AVI (HD)

CAST: Johnny Rabe (Ralphie), Dan Lauria (Jean Shepherd), John Bolton (The Old Man), Erin Dilly (Mother), Zac Ballard (Randy), Caroline O’Connor (Miss Shields)

NOTES: Excellent HD capture of the Broadway transfer. This is such a fun show and a top notch cast that delivers the perfect blend of performances. Nice changes from the previous PreBroadway tour from last year and a perfect show to get into the holiday season!

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Cinderella (Pantomime) - Mercury Theatre Colchester - 2020 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Mari McGinlay (Cinderella), Mari McGinlay (Prince Charming), Deborah Tracey (The Fairy Godmother), Nicholas McLean (Buttons), Nerine Skinner (Dandini)

NOTES: aired to raise money for covid-19

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Cinderella (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - Broadway - March 2, 2013 (Preview) (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Laura Osnes (Ella), Santino Fontana (Topher), Victoria Clark (Marie), Harriet Harris (Madame), Ann Harada (Charlotte), Greg Hildreth (Jean-Michel), Marla Mindelle (Gabrielle), Phumzile Sojola (Lord Pinkleton), Peter Bartlett (Sebastian)

NOTES: Beautiful HD capture of this classic show, with this being the first time having appeared on Broadway! Really a top notch cast and a beautiful production, nicely staged! A

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Cinderella (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - Broadway - April 17, 2014 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Carly Rae Jepsen (Ella), Joe Carroll (Topher), Victoria Clark (Marie), Fran Drescher (Madame), Ann Harada (Charlotte), Todd Buonopane (Jean-Michel), Stephanie Gibson (Gabrielle), Peter Bartlett (Sebastian)

NOTES: Beautiful HD capture with no obstructions. Carly and Fran were wonderful in the roles and really gave them their own touch! Great to see the show still in wonderful shape. A+

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Cinderella (Rodgers & Hammerstein) - Second National Tour - May, 2018 (House-Cam's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Tatyana Lubov (Ella), Louis Griffin (Topher), Leslie Jackson (Marie), Sarah Smith (Madame), Joanna Johnson (Charlotte), Corbin Williams (Jean-Michel), Nicole Zelka (Gabrielle), Antonio Beverly (Lord Pinkleton), Christopher Swan (Sebastian)

NOTES: Video is filmed in a house cam format. There is a lot of spotlight washout so you can't really make out faces, but the sound is wonderful. Soundboard. Location unknown

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Ciske de Rat De Musical - The Netherlands - 2007 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  DVD ISO (SD)

CAST: Danny de Munk (Cis de Man), Hugo Haenen (Meester Bruijs), Hajo Bruins (Vader Frans Vrijmoeth), Mariska van Kolck (Tante Jans), Marjolijn Touw (Moeder Marie Vrijmoeth), Marleen van der Loo (Suus Bruijs), Ad Knippels (Kinderinspecteur Muysken), Sjoerd Pleijsier (Bovenmeester Maatsuyker), Ids van der Krieke (Oom Henri), Jacobien Elffers (Bet(je)), Ger Otte (Pater de Goey), Jorge Verkoost (Jan Verkerk)

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City of Angels - West End Revival - March 9, 2020 (Preview) (BwaytoWestEnd's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Theo James (Stone), Hadley Fraser (Stine), Jonathan Slinger (Buddy / Irwin S. Irving), Rosalie Craig (Gabby / Bobbi), Rebecca Trehearn (Donna / Oolie), Rob Houchen (Jimmy Powers), Vanessa Williams (Carla / Alaura), Marc Elliott (Pancho / Munoz), Nicola Roberts (Avril / Mallory)

NOTES: Stage Shot filmed from Stalls. Awful audio.

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Clueless: The Unauthorized Musical Parody - Rockwell Table & Stage - September 10, 2015

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Laura L Thomas (Emma), Tom Detrinis (Weston), Spencer Strong Smith (Josh), Emma Hunton (Tai), Corbin Reid (Dionne), Christopher Chatman (Murray)

NOTES: A production of Rockwell Table & Stage; well filmed from the audience with clear picture and excellent sound; musical selections included "I'll be There for You" (aka the Friends theme), "Wonderwall," "Barbie Girl," "Like a Virgin," "Rolling in the Deep," "Dancing On My Own," "Big Yellow Taxi," a brief excerpt of "Popular" from Wicked, "Always Be My Baby," "Love Shack," and a clever version of "Proud Mary" that incorporated the famous "rollin' with the homies" bit from the movie.

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The Color Purple - Broadway - March 28, 2006 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  AVI (SD)

CAST: LaChanze (Celie), Elisabeth Withers-Mendes (Shug Avery), Felicia P Fields (Sofia), Kingsley Leggs (Mister), Brandon Victor Dixon (Harpo)

NOTES: Beautiful capture of this show, crystal clear picture and sound, great closeups. A

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The Color Purple - Broadway Revival - November 11, 2015 (Preview) (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Cynthia Erivo (Celie), Jennifer Hudson (Shug Avery), Danielle Brooks (Sofia), Isaiah Johnson (Mister), Kyle Scatliffe (Harpo), Joaquina Kalukango (Nettie)

NOTES: Excellent HD capture of the new revival which been stripped down and streamlined to focus on Celie's journey. Some beautiful moments in the show with the direction and simplicity spotlighting the story. A few blackouts in the first 5 minutes as clueless ushers fumbled around. A

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The Color Purple - Broadway Revival - May 11, 2016 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD) |  TRADER'S NOTES: Highlights

CAST: Cynthia Erivo (Celie), Heather Headley (Shug Avery), Danielle Brooks (Sofia), Isaiah Johnson (Mister), Kyle Scatliffe (Harpo), Joaquina Kalukango (Nettie)

NOTES: Beautiful capture of the ever stunning Heather Headley joining the cast. There really is no need to say anymore! A

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The Color Purple - First National Tour - April 22, 2007 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Jeannette Bayardelle (Celie), Michelle Williams (Shug Avery), Felicia P Fields (Sofia), Rufus Bonds Jr (Mister), Stu James (Harpo), LaToya London (Nettie), Stephanie St James (Squeak)

NOTES: I have to say I enjoyed this cast more than the OBC. Jannette is amazing here and will give you chills and Michelle is stunning. Beautiful capture. A+

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The Color Purple - First National Tour - September 6, 2009 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Fantasia Barrino (Celie), Reva Rice (u/s Shug Avery), Felicia P Fields (Sofia), Rufus Bonds Jr (Mister), Stu James (Harpo), LaToya London (Nettie), Tiffany Daniels (Squeak)

NOTES: This is the performance following the day Fantasia missed two performances from "Food Poisioning", which made the Chicagoland News. Despite that, she still gives a great performance as Celie and has such a powerful voice. Reva knocks it out of the park as Shug! A

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Come From Away - Australia - 2019 (Highlights) (Press Reel's master)

FORMAT:  M4A (untracked)

CAST: Zoe Gertz (Beverley/Annette & others), Douglas Hansell (Kevin T./Garth & others), Richard Piper (Claude & others), Simon Maiden (Oz & others), Sarah Morrison (Janice & others), Nicholas Brown (Kevin J./Ali & others), Nathan Carter (Nick/Doug & others), Angela Kennedy (Diane & others), Sharriese Hamilton (Hannah & others), Emma Powell (Beulah & others), Kellie Rode (Bonnie & others), Kolby Kindle (Bob & others)

NOTES: Proshot B-Roll of Welcome to the Rock, Me and the Sky & Somewhere in the Middle of Nowhere

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Come From Away - Australia - September 12, 2019 (WizardWisdom's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Zoe Gertz (Beverley/Annette & others), Douglas Hansell (Kevin T./Garth & others), Richard Piper (Claude & others), Simon Maiden (Oz & others), Sarah Morrison (Janice & others), Nicholas Brown (Kevin J./Ali & others), Nathan Carter (Nick/Doug & others), Katrina Retallick (Diane & others), Sharriese Hamilton (Hannah & others), Emma Powell (Beulah & others), Kellie Rode (Bonnie & others), Kolby Kindle (Bob & others)

NOTES: HD capture of the Australian company of this fantastic musical. Includes a video of a post-show Q&A with the cast in honour of the 18th anniversary of September 12. Shot from the back row of the dress circle, so a head blocks the centre at times but it’s shot around where possible. Most noticeable in the group numbers where a lot of the action is downstage. The first 4 minutes or so is mostly wandering shots as I was setting up my camera and evading ushers. A lot of great close-ups - Zoe’s “Me and the Sky” is a highlight.

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Come From Away - Broadway - March 10, 2017 (Preview) (NYCG8R's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Jenn Colella (Beverley/Annette & others), Chad Kimball (Kevin T./Garth & others), Joel Hatch (Claude & others), Geno Carr (Oz & others), Kendra Kassebaum (Janice & others), Caesar Samayoa (Kevin J./Ali & others), Lee MacDougall (Nick/Doug & others), Sharon Wheatley (Diane & others), Q Smith (Hannah & others), Astrid Van Wieren (Beulah & others), Petrina Bromley (Bonnie & others), Rodney Hicks (Bob & others)

NOTES: A beautiful capture of the new Broadway musical. The score is fantastic and the production is wonderful.

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Come From Away - Broadway - February, 2020 (StarCuffedJeans's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Becky Gulsvig (Beverley/Annette & others), Tony LePage (s/b Kevin T./Garth & others), Joel Hatch (Claude & others), Paul Whitty (Oz & others), Pearl Sun (t/r Janice & others), Caesar Samayoa (Kevin J./Ali & others), Jim Walton (Nick/Doug & others), Sharon Wheatley (Diane & others), Kenita R Miller (Hannah & others), Astrid Van Wieren (Beulah & others), Petrina Bromley (Bonnie & others), De'Lon Grant (Bob & others)

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Come From Away - First National Tour - February, 2020 (Hollis Mizner's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Marika Aubrey (Beverley/Annette & others), Andrew Samonsky (Kevin T./Garth & others), Kevin Carolan (Claude & others), Harter Clingman (Oz & others), Julia Knitel (Janice & others), Nick Duckart (Kevin J./Ali & others), Chamblee Ferguson (Nick/Doug & others), Christine Toy Johnson (Diane & others), Danielle K Thomas (Hannah & others), Julie Johnson (Beulah & others), Sharone Sayegh (Bonnie & others), James Earl Jones II (Bob & others)

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Come From Away - Toronto - January 7, 2020 (The Musical Speakeasy's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Eliza-Jane Scott (Beverley/Annette & others), Jeff Madden (Kevin T./Garth & others), George Masswohl (Claude & others), Cory O’Brien (Oz & others), Cailin Stadnyk (u/s Janice & others), Ali Momen (Kevin J./Ali & others), Clint Butler (u/s Nick/Doug & others), Barbara Fulton (Diane & others), Kate Etienne (u/s Hannah & others), Lori Nancy Kalamanski (u/s Beulah & others), Kristen Peace (Bonnie & others), Kevin Vidal (Bob & others)

NOTES: As far as I know, the first ever video of the Toronto production! I had the entire show in VOB format ready to post but, unfortunately, I lost the USB it was on in the middle of an airport. Luckily I was able to salvage all but thirty minutes of the original footage, so all that's lost is part of the scene after "I Am Here" and a portion of "Somewhere In The Middle Of Nowhere". If you find a USB the size of a thumbnail around Pearson, it's a $5 reward! A flu passed around the cast that they were all just recovering from, and at one point you can see Bev take a tissue out of her pilot's jacket and blow her nose. It explains the large number of understudies on, particularly of interest is that of the role of Hannah being played by a Caucasian actress, which causes her absence for the bus scene and leads to a severely different dynamic I'd not seen the character played as before.

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Come From Away - Washington D.C. - September 24, 2016 (SunsetBlvd79's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Jenn Colella (Beverley/Annette & others), Chad Kimball (Kevin T./Garth & others), Joel Hatch (Claude & others), Geno Carr (Oz & others), Kendra Kassebaum (Janice & others), Caesar Samayoa (Kevin J./Ali & others), Lee MacDougall (Nick/Doug & others), Sharon Wheatley (Diane & others), Q Smith (Hannah & others), Astrid Van Wieren (Beulah & others), Alyssa Wilmoth Keegan (Bonnie & others), Rodney Hicks (Bob & others)

NOTES: Beautiful HD capture of the PreBroadway try out in DC. Terrific ensemble piece telling the stories of stranded passengers during the 9/11 attacks. A

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Come From Away - West End - November 5, 2019 (wheredidtherockgo's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Rachel Tucker (Beverley/Annette & others), David Thaxton (Kevin T./Garth & others), Clive Carter (Claude & others), Harry Morrison (Oz & others), Emma Salvo (Janice & others), Jonathan Andrew Hume (Kevin J./Ali & others), Robert Hands (Nick/Doug & others), Helen Hobson (Diane & others), Cat Simmons (Hannah & others), Jenna Boyd (Beulah & others), Jennifer Tierney (s/b Bonnie & others), Nathanael Campbell (Bob & others)

NOTES: The bottom left of the video is slightly obstructed by a lighting rail. The master accidentally stop recording during '38 Planes' but realized right away so it’s only missing a second or two. Some nice close-ups. Clive misses the cue for the first “Welcome to the Rock!”

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Come From Away - West End - April, 2019 (hitmewithyourbethshot's master)

FORMAT:  MOV (HD)

CAST: Rachel Tucker (Beverley/Annette & others), David Shannon (Kevin T./Garth & others), Clive Carter (Claude & others), Harry Morrison (Oz & others), Emma Salvo (Janice & others), Jonathan Andrew Hume (Kevin J./Ali & others), Robert Hands (Nick/Doug & others), Helen Hobson (Diane & others), Cat Simmons (Hannah & others), Jenna Boyd (Beulah & others), Mary Doherty (Bonnie & others), Nathaniel Campbell (Bob & others)

NOTES: This video is never to be publicly shared on YouTube, tumblr, Facebook, Stagedork etc. 

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Come From Away - West End - February, 2020 (queenofthedead's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Alice Fearn (Beverley/Annette & others), Mark Dugdale (Kevin T./Garth & others), James Doherty (Claude & others), Harry Morrison (Oz & others), Emma Salvo (Janice & others), Jonathan Andrew Hume (Kevin J./Ali & others), Alasdair Harvey (Nick/Doug & others), Kate Graham (Diane & others), Cat Simmons (Hannah & others), Jenna Boyd (Beulah & others), Mary Doherty (Bonnie & others), Tarinn Callender (Bob & others)

NOTES: Slightly obstructed by one head but worked around the best I could.

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Come From Away - West End - November, 2019 (queenofthedead's master)

FORMAT:  M2TS (HD)

CAST: Rachel Tucker (Beverley/Annette & others), David Thaxton (Kevin T./Garth & others), Clive Carter (Claude & others), Harry Morrison (Oz & others), Emma Salvo (Janice & others), Jonathan Andrew Hume (Kevin J./Ali & others), Bob Harms (s/b Nick/Doug & others), Helen Hobson (Diane & others), Chiara Baronti (s/b Hannah & others), Jenna Boyd (Beulah & others), Jennifer Tierney (s/b Bonnie & others), Nathanael Campbell (Bob & others)

NOTES: Incomplete: starts 12 mins in. Shot around heads. The combination of the revolve and the lighting of this show might make it a jolty watch but the action is caught as best as possible. If I had to decide who to film, I chose Rachel Tucker.

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The Comedy About A Bank Robbery - West End - August 20, 2019 (wheredidtherockgo's master)

FORMAT:  AVI (SD)

CAST: Sean Carey (Sam Monaghan), David Coomber (Neil Cooper), Charlotte Duffy (u/s Caprice Freeboys), George Hannigan (Everyone Else), Liam Jeavons (Mitch Ruscitti), Damian Lynch (Mr. Freeboys), Killian Macardle (Officer Shuck), Jon Trenchard (Warren Slax), Ashley Tucker (Ruth Monaghan)

NOTES: My first video ever. I couldn’t see what I was filming so the camera has a tendency to film upward toward the ceiling. You can hear me laugh pretty loudly since I was holding the camera close to my face.

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The Comedy About A Bank Robbery - West End - December, 2019 (queenofthedead's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Tom Hopcroft (u/s Sam Monaghan), Ross Virgo (u/s Neil Cooper), Charlotte Duffy (u/s Caprice Freeboys), George Hannigan (Everyone Else), Eddy Westbury (u/s Mitch Ruscitti), Damian Lynch (Mr. Freeboys), Killian Macardle (Officer Shuck), Jean-Luke Worrell (e/c Warren Slax), Ashley Tucker (Ruth Monaghan)

NOTES: Masters Notes: Shot around 2 heads. A few dropouts that add up to about 5 minutes overall. Not the most focused capture and a lot of fidgeting from the master, but action is captured mostly well enough.

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Company - Kennedy Center - June, 2002

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: John Barrowman (Bobby/Bobbie), Lynn Redgrave (Joanne), David Pittu (Harry), Christy Baron (Susan), Emily Skinner (Jenny), Marc Vietor (David), Kim Director (April/Andy), Elizabeth Zins (Kathy/Theo), Marcy Harriell (Marta/PJ), Alice Ripley (Amy/Jamie), Matt Bogart (Paul), Jerry Lanning (Larry)

NOTES: This video gets listed under various dates including June 5th, June 6th, June 15th, July 7th, and different copies exist in varying quality and size.

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Company - Second West End Revival - January, 2019 (hitmewithyourbethshot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Rosalie Craig (Bobby/Bobbie), Patti LuPone (Joanne), Mel Giedroyc (Sarah), Gavin Spokes (Harry), Daisy Maywood (Susan), Ashley Campbell (Peter), Jennifer Saayeng (Jenny), Richard Henders (David), Richard Fleeshman (April/Andy), Matthew Seadon-Young (Kathy/Theo), George Blagden (Marta/PJ), Jonathan Bailey (Amy/Jamie), Alex Gaumond (Paul), Ben Lewis (Larry)

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Company - Third Broadway Revival - March 10, 2020 (Preview)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)|Gifted: Upon Request

CAST: Katrina Lenk (Bobby/Bobbie), Patti LuPone (Joanne), Jennifer Simard (Sarah), Christopher Sieber (Harry), Rashidra Scott (Susan), Greg Hildreth (Peter), Nikki Renée Daniels (Jenny), Christopher Fitzgerald (David), Claybourne Elder (April/Andy), Kyle Dean Massey (Kathy/Theo), Bobby Conte Thornton (Marta/PJ), Matt Doyle (Amy/Jamie), John Arthur Greene (u/s Paul), Terence Archie (Larry)

NOTES: Wideshot MP4 Gifted Upon Request

Company - West End - Novemeber 28, 2018 (Diodenes of Catania’s master)

Format: MP3 (tracked)

Cast: Rosalie Craig (Bobbie), Patti LuPone (Joanne), Mel Giedroyc (Sarah), Gavin Spokes (Harry), Daisy Maywood (Susan/Priest), Ashley Campbell (Peter), Richard Henders (David), Jonathan Bailey (Jamie), Alex Gaumond (Paul), Ben Lewis (Larry), Richard Fleeshman (Andy), George Blagden (PJ), Matthew Seadon-Young (Theo)

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Copacabana - Netherlands - 2002 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Danny de Munk (Tony Starr/Stephen), Cystine Carreon (Lola Lamar/Stephanie), John Leddy (Sam Silver), Jacqueline Aronson (Gladys), Sophia Wezer (Conchita), Edwin Jonker (Rico)

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Coriolanus - Donmar Warehouse - January 30, 2014 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (SD)

CAST: Alfred Enoch (Titus Lartius), Brigitte Hjort Sørensen (Virgilia), Deborah Findlay (Volumnia), Elliot Levey (Brutus), Hadley Fraser (Aufidius), Jacqueline Boatswain (Valeria), Mark Gatiss (Menenius), Peter de Jersey (Cominius), Tom Hiddleston (Coriolanus)

NOTES: Often circulated with hard subtitles. The June 4 2020 YT livestream version does not have them. 

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Coriolanus - Stratford Festival - 2018 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Alexis Gordon (Virgilia), Andre Sills (Coriolanus), Brigit Wilson (Valeria), Graham Abbey (Aufidius), Lucy Peacock (Volumnia), Michael Blake (Cominius), Stephen Ouimette (Brutus), Tom McCamus (Menenius)

NOTES: Great quality video and audio. This is a professionally filmed version of Coriolanus, presented by the Stratford Festival (Stratford, Ontario, Canada) in 2018 and streamed online on April 30, 2020. Original file format: one MP4 file

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Cruel Intentions - Los Angeles - July 31, 2015

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Katie Stevens (Kathryn Merteuil), Constantine Rousouli (Sebastian Valmont), Molly McCook (Annette Hargrove), Shelley Regner (Cecile Caldwell), Tyler Sheef (Blaine Tuttle), Spencer Strong Smith (Greg Mcconnell), Alexander Pimentel (Ronald Clifford), Pamela Holt (Mrs. Bunny Caldwell)

NOTES: Notes: Well filmed from the audience with clear picture and excellent sound; featuring songs by The Goo Goo Dolls, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Meredith Brooks, Natalie Imbruglia, Spice Girls, Counting Crows, The Verve and Christina Aguilera

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Broadway - November 22, 2014 (Lanelle's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Alex Sharp (Christopher Boone), Francesca Faridany (Siobhan), Ian Barford (Ed), Enid Graham (Judy), Helen Carey (Mrs. Alexander)

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Broadway - December 30, 2014 (Matinee) (SJ Bernly's master)

FORMAT:  VOB (with smalls) (SD)

CAST: Taylor Trensch (alt Christopher Boone), Francesca Faridany (Siobhan), Tim Wright (u/s Ed), Enid Graham (Judy), Helen Carey (Mrs. Alexander), Mercedes Herrero (Mrs. Shears and others), Ben Horner (Mr. Thompson and others), Richard Hollis (Roger Shears and others), David Manis (Rev. Peters and others)

NOTES: "Nicely filmed. There's a couple of quick dropouts and not many washouts, but no obstructions or blocking. A-"

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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - National Theatre - September 6, 2012 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Luke Treadaway (Christopher Boone), Niamh Cusack (Siobhan), Paul Ritter (Ed), Nicola Walker (Judy), Una Stubbs (Mrs. Alexander)

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Curtains - West End - October 8-12, 2019 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Jason Manford (Lieutenant Frank Cioffi), Carley Stenson (Georgia Hendricks), Ore Oduba (Aaron Fox), Rebecca Lock (Carmen Bernstein), Samuel Holmes (Christopher Belling), Leah Barbara West (Niki Harris), Alan Burkitt (Bobby Pepper), Martin Callaghan (Oscar Shapiro), Emma Caffrey (Bambi Bernét), Nia Jermin (Jessica Cranshaw), Adam Rhys-Charles (Daryl Grady), Mark Sangster (Sidney Bernstein), Minal Patel (Johnny Harmon)

NOTES: Pro-shot streamed by The Turbine Theatre on 4/14/20 as a fundraiser for coronavirus relief efforts.

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Cyrano de Bergerac - Netherlands - 1992, 1993 (Pro-Shot's master)

FORMAT:  MP4 (HD)

CAST: Bill van Dijk (Cyrano), Ryan van den Akker (Cyrano's love interest Roxane), Peter de Smet (Ragueneau), Danny de Munk (De Guiche)

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Finding the perfect name for your newborn baby may take some time and careful consideration, but it can also be very interesting.

In fact, it's one of the first and biggest decisions you have to make as a new parent. Are you looking for a son to speak of a family tradition or celebrate a cultural tradition? Whatever your approach, you'll find lots of great options on the following list of the 1,000 most popular boys, according to Social Security Administration (SSA). Take a look to help you narrow down your favorites list (or inspire new ones) and enjoy the experience of finding your favorite name for your new son.

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1. Top 1,000 Baby Boy Names

Liam

Noah

William

James

Oliver

Benjamin

Elijah

Lucas

Mason

Logan

Alexander

Ethan

Jacob

Michael

Daniel

Henry

Jackson

Sebastian

Aiden

Matthew

Samuel

David

Joseph

Carter

Owen

Wyatt

John

Jack

Luke

Jayden

Dylan

Grayson

Levi

Isaac

Gabriel

Julian

Mateo

Anthony

Jaxon

Lincoln

Joshua

Christopher

Andrew

Theodore

Caleb

Ryan

Asher

Nathan

Thomas

Leo

Isaiah

Charles

Josiah

Hudson

Christian

Hunter

Connor

Eli

Ezra

Aaron

Landon

Adrian

Jonathan

Nolan

Jeremiah

Easton

Elias

Colton

Cameron

Carson

Robert

Angel

Maverick

Nicholas

Dominic

Jaxson

Greyson

Adam

Ian

Austin

Santiago

Jordan

Cooper

Brayden

Roman

Evan

Ezekiel

Xavier

Jose

Jace

Jameson

Leonardo

Bryson

Axel

Everett

Parker

Kayden

Miles

Sawyer

Jason

Declan

Weston

Micah

Ayden

Wesley

Luca

Vincent

Damian

Zachary

Silas

Gavin

Chase

Kai

Emmett

Harrison

Nathaniel

Kingston

Cole

Tyler

Bennett

Bentley

Ryker

Tristan

Brandon

Kevin

Luis

George

Ashton

Rowan

Braxton

Ryder

Gael

Ivan

Diego

Maxwell

Max

Carlos

Kaiden

Juan

Maddox

Justin

Waylon

Calvin

Giovanni

Jonah

Abel

Jayce

Jesus

Amir

King

Beau

Camden

Alex

Jasper

Malachi

Brody

Jude

Blake

Emmanuel

Eric

Brooks

Elliot

Antonio

Abraham

Timothy

Finn

Rhett

Elliott

Edward

August

Xander

Alan

Dean

Lorenzo

Bryce

Karter

Victor

Milo

Miguel

Hayden

Graham

Grant

Zion

Tucker

Jesse

Zayden

Joel

Richard

Patrick

Emiliano

Avery

Nicolas

Brantley

Dawson

Myles

Matteo

River

Steven

Thiago

Zane

Matias

Judah

Messiah

Jeremy

Preston

Oscar

Kaleb

Alejandro

Marcus

Mark

Peter

Maximus

Barrett

Jax

Andres

Holden

Legend

Charlie

Knox

Kaden

Paxton

Kyrie

Kyle

Griffin

Josue

Kenneth

Beckett

Enzo

Adriel

Arthur

Felix

Bryan

Lukas

Paul

Brian

Colt

Caden

Leon

Archer

Omar

Israel

Aidan

Theo

Javier

Remington

Jaden

Bradley

Emilio

Colin

Riley

Cayden

Phoenix

Clayton

Simon

Ace

Nash

Derek

Rafael

Zander

Brady

Jorge

Jake

Louis

Damien

Karson

Walker

Maximiliano

Amari

Sean

Chance

Walter

Martin

Finley

Andre

Tobias

Cash

Corbin

Arlo

Iker

Erick

Emerson

Gunner

Cody

Stephen

Francisco

Killian

Dallas

Reid

Manuel

Lane

Atlas

Rylan

Jensen

Ronan

Beckham

Daxton

Anderson

Kameron

Raymond

Orion

Cristian

Tanner

Kyler

Jett

Cohen

Ricardo

Spencer

Gideon

Ali

Fernando

Jaiden

Titus

Travis

Bodhi

Eduardo

Dante

Ellis

Prince

Kane

Luka

Kash

Hendrix

Desmond

Donovan

Mario

Atticus

Cruz

Garrett

Hector

Angelo

Jeffrey

Edwin

Cesar

Zayn

Devin

Conor

Warren

Odin

Jayceon

Romeo

Julius

Jaylen

Hayes

Kayson

Muhammad

Jaxton

Joaquin

Caiden

Dakota

Major

Keegan

Sergio

Marshall

Johnny

Kade

Edgar

Leonel

Ismael

Marco

Tyson

Wade

Collin

Troy

Nasir

Conner

Adonis

Jared

Rory

Andy

Jase

Lennox

Shane

Malik

Ari

Reed

Seth

Clark

Erik

Lawson

Trevor

Gage

Nico

Malakai

Quinn

Cade

Johnathan

Sullivan

Solomon

Cyrus

Fabian

Pedro

Frank

Shawn

Malcolm

Khalil

Nehemiah

Dalton

Mathias

Jay

Ibrahim

Peyton

Winston

Kason

Zayne

Noel

Princeton

Matthias

Gregory

Sterling

Dominick

Elian

Grady

Russell

Finnegan

Ruben

Gianni

Porter

Kendrick

Leland

Pablo

Allen

Hugo

Raiden

Kolton

Remy

Ezequiel

Damon

Emanuel

Zaiden

Otto

Bowen

Marcos

Abram

Kasen

Franklin

Royce

Jonas

Sage

Philip

Esteban

Drake

Kashton

Roberto

Harvey

Alexis

Kian

Jamison

Maximilian

Adan

Milan

Phillip

Albert

Dax

Mohamed

Ronin

Kamden

Hank

Memphis

Oakley

Augustus

Drew

Moises

Armani

Rhys

Benson

Jayson

Kyson

Braylen

Corey

Gunnar

Omari

Alonzo

Landen

Armando

Derrick

Dexter

Enrique

Bruce

Nikolai

Francis

Rocco

Kairo

Royal

Zachariah

Arjun

Deacon

Skyler

Eden

Alijah

Rowen

Pierce

Uriel

Ronald

Luciano

Tate

Frederick

Kieran

Lawrence

Moses

Rodrigo

Brycen

Leonidas

Nixon

Keith

Chandler

Case

Davis

Asa

Darius

Isaias

Aden

Jaime

Landyn

Raul

Niko

Trenton

Apollo

Cairo

Izaiah

Scott

Dorian

Julio

Wilder

Santino

Dustin

Donald

Raphael

Saul

Taylor

Ayaan

Duke

Ryland

Tatum

Ahmed

Moshe

Edison

Emmitt

Cannon

Alec

Danny

Keaton

Roy

Conrad

Roland

Quentin

Lewis

Samson

Brock

Kylan

Cason

Ahmad

Jalen

Nikolas

Braylon

Kamari

Dennis

Callum

Justice

Soren

Rayan

Aarav

Gerardo

Ares

Brendan

Jamari

Kaison

Yusuf

Issac

Jasiah

Callen

Forrest

Makai

Crew

Kobe

Bo

Julien

Mathew

Braden

Johan

Marvin

Zaid

Stetson

Casey

Ty

Ariel

Tony

Zain

Callan

Cullen

Sincere

Uriah

Dillon

Kannon

Colby

Axton

Cassius

Quinton

Mekhi

Reece

Alessandro

Jerry

Mauricio

Sam

Trey

Mohammad

Alberto

Gustavo

Arturo

Fletcher

Marcelo

Abdiel

Hamza

Alfredo

Chris

Finnley

Curtis

Kellan

Quincy

Kase

Harry

Kyree

Wilson

Cayson

Hezekiah

Kohen

Neil

Mohammed

Raylan

Kaysen

Lucca

Sylas

Mack

Leonard

Lionel

Ford

Roger

Rex

Alden

Boston

Colson

Briggs

Zeke

Dariel

Kingsley

Valentino

Jamir

Salvador

Vihaan

Mitchell

Lance

Lucian

Darren

Jimmy

Alvin

Amos

Tripp

Zaire

Layton

Reese

Casen

Colten

Brennan

Korbin

Sonny

Bruno

Orlando

Devon

Huxley

Boone

Maurice

Nelson

Douglas

Randy

Gary

Lennon

Titan

Denver

Jaziel

Noe

Jefferson

Ricky

Lochlan

Rayden

Bryant

Langston

Lachlan

Clay

Abdullah

Lee

Baylor

Leandro

Ben

Kareem

Layne

Joe

Crosby

Deandre

Demetrius

Kellen

Carl

Jakob

Ridge

Bronson

Jedidiah

Rohan

Larry

Stanley

Tomas

Shiloh

Thaddeus

Watson

Baker

Vicente

Koda

Jagger

Nathanael

Carmelo

Shepherd

Graysen

Melvin

Ernesto

Jamie

Yosef

Clyde

Eddie

Tristen

Grey

Ray

Tommy

Samir

Ramon

Santana

Kristian

Marcel

Wells

Zyaire

Brecken

Byron

Otis

Reyansh

Axl

Joey

Trace

Morgan

Musa

Harlan

Enoch

Henrik

Kristopher

Talon

Rey

Guillermo

Houston

Jon

Vincenzo

Dane

Terry

Azariah

Castiel

Kye

Augustine

Zechariah

Joziah

Kamryn

Hassan

Jamal

Chaim

Bodie

Emery

Branson

Jaxtyn

Kole

Wayne

Aryan

Alonso

Brixton

Madden

Allan

Flynn

Jaxen

Harley

Magnus

Sutton

Dash

Anders

Westley

Brett

Emory

Felipe

Yousef

Jadiel

Mordechai

Dominik

Junior

Eliseo

Fisher

Harold

Jaxxon

Kamdyn

Maximo

Caspian

Kelvin

Damari

Fox

Trent

Hugh

Briar

Franco

Keanu

Terrance

Yahir

Ameer

Kaiser

Thatcher

Ishaan

Koa

Merrick

Coen

Rodney

Brayan

London

Rudy

Gordon

Bobby

Aron

Marc

Van

Anakin

Canaan

Dario

Reginald

Westin

Darian

Ledger

Leighton

Maxton

Tadeo

Valentin

Aldo

Khalid

Nickolas

Toby

Dayton

Jacoby

Billy

Gatlin

Elisha

Jabari

Jermaine

Alvaro

Marlon

Mayson

Blaze

Jeffery

Kace

Braydon

Achilles

Brysen

Saint

Xzavier

Aydin

Eugene

Adrien

Cain

Kylo

Nova

Onyx

Arian

Bjorn

Jerome

Miller

Alfred

Kenzo

Kyng

Leroy

Maison

Jordy

Stefan

Wallace

Benicio

Kendall

Zayd

Blaine

Tristian

Anson

Gannon

Jeremias

Marley

Ronnie

Dangelo

Kody

Will

Bentlee

Gerald

Salvatore

Turner

Chad

Misael

Mustafa

Konnor

Maxim

Rogelio

Zakai

Cory

Judson

Brentley

Darwin

Louie

Ulises

Dakari

Rocky

Wesson

Alfonso

Payton

Dwayne

Juelz

Duncan

Keagan

Deshawn

Bode

Bridger

Skylar

Brodie

Landry

Avi

Keenan

Reuben

Jaxx

Rene

Yehuda

Imran

Yael

Alexzander

Willie

Cristiano

Heath

Lyric

Davion

Elon

Karsyn

Krew

Jairo

Maddux

Ephraim

Ignacio

Vivaan

Aries

Vance

Boden

Lyle

Ralph

Reign

Camilo

Draven

Terrence

Idris

Ira

Javion

Jericho

Khari

Marcellus

Creed

Shepard

Terrell

Ahmir

Camdyn

Cedric

Howard

Jad

Zahir

Harper

Justus

Forest

Gibson

Zev

Alaric

Decker

Ernest

Jesiah

Torin

Benedict

Bowie

Deangelo

Genesis

Harlem

Kalel

Kylen

Bishop

Immanuel

Lian

Zavier

Archie

Davian

Gus

Kabir

Korbyn

Randall

Benton

Coleman

Markus

2. Top 10 beautiful Middles names for baby Boys

Ace

Abe

Beck

Blake

Dean

Grant

Hugh

James

Charles

George

More ideals for you: Top 1000 baby Girl names

From : https://wikitopx.com/name-meanings/top-1000-baby-boy-names-711929.html

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ALL STAR PARTY FOR LUCILLE BALL

December 9, 1984

Directed by Dick McDonough ~ Written by Paul Keyes

Lucille Ball (Honoree), Monty Hall (Host), Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra

Monty Hall was the honorary chairman of Variety Clubs International.  

Featuring Lucy's family: Gary Morton, Lucie Arnaz, and Desi Arnaz Jr..

Lucy's former (and future) guest-stars: Sid Caesar, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, John Ritter, as well as uncredited appearances by Barbara Eden, Eva Gabor, Bernie Kopell, Rich Little, Cesar Romero, Art Linkletter, Kirk Douglas, Bea Arthur, Ken Lane (Dean Martin's pianist), and Ricardo Montalban

Presenters and entertainers also include: Joan Collins, Cary Grant, Shelley Long, Carl Reiner, and Vicky McLure

Former Variety Clubs honorees in attendance: James Stewart, Burt Reynolds, and Frank Sinatra 

Also present at the party (all uncredited): Loni Anderson, Lloyd Bridges, James Caan, Sammy Cahn, Ted Danson, Barbara and Marvin Davis (Childhood Diabetes Foundation), Altovise Davis, Charles Durning, Farrah Fawcett, George Hamilton, Barbara Harris (Mrs. Cary Grant), Lisa Hartman, Ted Lange, Vicki Lawrence, Carol Lawrence, Michele Lee, Olympian Carl Lewis, Hal Linden, Karl Malden, Roddy McDowell, Gloria Hatrick McLean (Mrs. Jimmy Stewart), Donna Mills, Stefanie Powers, Barbara Sinatra, Joan Van Ark, Dick Van Patten, Dionne Warwick, Dennis Weaver, Raquel Welch, and Betty White.

Taped at Warner Brothers Studios on November 18, 1984 and aired on CBS on December 9, 1984. Due to the December air date, the room is decorated in poinsettias. Lucy makes her entrance holding a dozen long-stem roses. At Lucy's center table is her husband Gary Morton, Frank and Barbara Sinatra, Burt Reynolds and Loni Anderson, Jimmy and Gloria Stewart, Cary Grant and Barbara Harris.

Variety, the Children's Charity is an organization founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1927, when a group of eleven men involved in show business set up a social club which they named the Variety Club. On Christmas Eve 1928, a baby was left on the steps of the Sheridan Square Film Theatre. When efforts to trace the mother failed, the Variety Club named the child Catherine Variety Sheridan, after the club and the theatre on whose steps she was found, and undertook to fund the child's living expenses and education. Later the club decided to raise funds for other disadvantaged children. The discovery of the baby inspired the film Variety Girl (1947).

The program was the second highest rated show of the night with a 21.7 share, second only to its lead-in “Murder She Wrote” with a 22.3 share.  

Monty Hall says that this is the 9th annual Variety Club All-Star Party. Two years later, Lucille Ball hosted the 1986 event honoring Clint Eastwood. In 1982 she participated in the All-Star Party for Carol Burnett.

In an interview to promote the program, Lucy said that Lucie Arnaz wrote the lyrics to the “I Love Lucy” tribute song that she and Desi Jr. sang. But on the show, Burt Reynolds claims the special lyrics were by Sammy Cahn.  

Also in the interview, Lucy says she'd never do another series again. Two years later she changed her mind and agreed to do “Life With Lucy” for Aaron Spelling and ABC. She also says she'd like to do a drama about seniors being driven from their homes. It is likely that by November 1984 Lucy was already in talks to do her final film, TV's Stone Pillow, which would begin filming in April 1985 and air in November of that same year.

To kick off the event, the Nelson Riddle Orchestra plays “Hey Look Me Over” as Lucy's entrance music. Lucille Ball introduced the song in the 1960 Broadway musical Wildcat by Cy Coleman.

Joan Collins (TV's “Dynasty”) details Lucy's background and rise to fame; 76 films and over 500 television programs. She reminds Lucy that she auditioned for the role of Scarlet O'Hara in Gone With The Wind. In 1987 Collins was honored with her own All-Star Party.

Joan: “Not even Clark Gable could look into that face and say 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn’”.

Frank Sinatra sings “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” to Lucy, a 1973 song written and recorded by Stevie Wonder.

Sinatra says to Lucy “You're the best thing to happen to Adam's rib.” This causes a quizzical look to come over Lucy's face. Later in life, Sinatra was known for his occasional odd references and non-sequitur. He had been honored by Variety Clubs the previous year, 1983.

Cary Grant reads a letter from President Ronald Reagan. Reagan was honored with an All-Star Party the following year, 1985. When first addressing Ball, Grant says “Lucy, Lucy, Lucy,” imitating his falsely attributed quote “Judy, Judy, Judy.” Grant would also read a congratulatory telegram from President Reagan in 1986, when Clint Eastwood was honored.

Carl Reiner introduces and interviews Sid Caesar as (all the way from Germany) Professor Ludwig Von Blearyeyes, the world's most renowned viewer of Lucille Ball's television shows. The Professor describes his second favorite episode of “I Love Lucy” which is a crazy mash-up of parts of several episodes, including “Lucy Goes To The Hospital” (ILL S2;E16), “The Audition” (ILL S1;E16), and “Pioneer Women” (ILL S1;E25). The Professor then recounts the same episode in Italian, proving that Lucy is known all over the world. The description of the Professor's favorite episode sounds like the plot to King Kong.

John Ritter is introduced as a 'member of Lucy's mutual admiration society,' a fellow comedic actor on TV. Lucille Ball had hosted a two-part retrospective of Ritter's show “Three's Company” in 1982. Ritter would be Ball's first celebrity guest-star on “Life With Lucy” in 1986.

Ritter introduces Olympian Carl Lewis and Vicki McClure, a young woman from Los Angeles chosen to sing at the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics. McClure reprises the song she sang at the ceremonies, “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand).” The song by Ashford and Simpson was the debut solo single of Motown singer Diana Ross, released in April 1970. McClure, a checkout girl at the Hughes Market in Canoga Park, was at first just the rehearsal stand-in for Ross but she was chosen for the real thing because as an unknown, she reflected the youthful image that organizers hoped to project for the games.

Shelley Long (TV's “Cheers”) admits that she never worked with Lucy, but admires her as a role model working mother. 

Long 'passes the baton' to Dean Martin, while the Nelson Riddle Orchestra plays his signature song “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime,” a song written in 1947 by Sam Coslow. Martin sang it  in “Lucy Dates Dean Martin” (TLS S4;E21), as well as on "Lucy Gets Lucky," their 1975 special. Martin (with Ken Lane at the piano) sings “When You're Smiling” by Larry Shay, Mark Fisher and Joe Goodwin. He changes the lyrics to suit the occasion:

“When you're Lucy,  When you're Lucy, You're never off TV. When you're Lucy, That's all you see, You're own life constantly. On Channel 7, 5, 4, 9, 8 or 10, Wherever you turn, That's our Lucy again. When you're Lucy, When you're Lucy, You're never off of TV.”

Jimmy Stewart says that Lucy and Gary are celebrating their wedding anniversary. Stewart introduces Gary Morton, who presents Lucy with an Olympic-style medal for being a “gold medal wife.”

Sammy Davis Jr.'s first remarks incorporate references to the 1961 musical Stop the World – I Want To Get Off by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse. Davis starred in the 1978 Broadway revival of the show as well as the TV special “Sammy Stops the World” that same year. He then gives a heartfelt and emotion tribute to Lucy's world-wide and timeless appeal.  

Sammy: “Lucille Desiree Ball, daughter of Desiree and Henry Ball, who stopped the world and said 'I wanna get on' in Jamestown, New York. On an August the sixth, this world of ours took little note then, but will long, long remember.  Be proud, Lucy, of your legacy.  Very proud.  Be aware, as you sit here among your grateful friends, the sun never sets on Lucille Ball. All over this worried world tonight. Nations of untold millions are watching reruns they also watched the first time around. In Iran and Iraq on this very night, the fighting stops long enough for frightened people to laugh again as you hide the frozen meat in the furnace. In Finland after a long hard day at the factory, husbands and father are just settling down to watch the American girl they love the most get half bombed on her first TV commercial. And in Lebanon, ravished Lebanon, worried parents of many fates share a common experience, with innocent war-torn children, who tune in to forget the debris long enough to feed their hungry souls with laughter as you parade down the Champs Elysee in an outfit that drove the Paris designers to double aperitifs. Across the world in Singapore, Japan, whole families gather for a 'Lucy break' as laughter erases their problems watching you rehearse your trip to the hospital for television's first birth. And in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, San Salvador, Venezuela, and other sunshine countries, laughter crosses friendly and unfriendly borders as you try to keep up with the chocolates on the assembly line. Yes, my dear friend, Lucy, you are the one they love most.”

The specific “I Love Lucy” episodes Davis is referring to (in order) are “The Freezer (ILL S1;E29); “Lucy Does a TV Commercial” (ILL S1;E30); “Lucy Gets a Paris Gown” (ILL S5;E20); “Lucy Goes to the Hospital” (ILL S2;E16); and “Job Switching” (ILL S2;E1).  Lucy later said that Davis wrote the above speech himself.

Monty Hall returns to tell Lucy that Variety Clubs International has added new facilities in children's hospitals dedicated to John Wayne (in Miami), Elizabeth Taylor (in New York City), Jimmy Stewart (in Minnesota), Ingrid Bergman (in Des Moines), Jack Lemmon (in Buffalo), Burt Reynolds (in Atlanta), Carol Burnett (in Los Angeles), and Frank Sinatra (in Seattle).  

Burt Reynolds recounts his first meeting Lucy, through an introduction by Lucie Arnaz. Lucie and Reynolds dated for a year and a half. Nelson Riddle and the Orchestra play the “I Love Lucy” theme by Eliot Daniel. Lucie and Desi Jr. then sing the song to their mother with special lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Ball struggles to hold back the tears. Lucie Arnaz is noticeably pregnant. She would give birth to her daughter, Katherine Luckinbill, on January 11, 1985.

To the strains of the title song from Mame, Lucy joins Monty Hall at the front of the room where he  informs her of the naming of a research library in her honor at the Barbara Davis Juvenile Diabetes Hospital in Denver, Colorado.

Lucille Ball thanks everyone for the tribute. She asks Mike Frankovich of Variety Clubs to stand and take a bow.

Lucy: “To everyone who said such wonderful things about me tonight, I just wish you were all under oath.”

At the very end, the entire crowd sings “Happy Anniversary” (to the tune of “Happy Birthday”) to Lucy and Gary, who were married on November 19, 1961.

Oops! Over the entrance music, Lucille Ball can be heard to greet Dionne Warwick saying “Hi Diane.” Did she think Warwick was Diahann Carroll?  When Lucy sees Eva, she just repeats over and over “A Gabor!  A Gabor!  A Gabor!” perhaps unsure if it is Eva or Zsa Zsa. Bear in mind that Ball did not know the guest list ahead of time. While the announcer reads off the guests stars for the opening credits, Lucy can be heard to say “I hope I remember the names.”

When Gary Morton puts the Olympic medal around Lucy's neck, she says “Turn it around!” Lucy wanted the front of the medal facing the camera. She then jokes that she is “always directing.”  

This Date in Lucy History –  December 9

"Don Juan and the Starlets" (ILL S4;E18) filmed on December 9, 1955

"Lucy and the Military Academy" (TLS S2;E10) aired December 9, 1963

"Guess Who Owes Lucy $23.50" (HL S1;E11) aired December 9, 1968

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The Midheaven: How You Will Be Remembered

The Midheaven (MC) is commonly thought to describe one’s career path. Although this is a decent indicator of one’s overall path, it can be hard to relate to a specific career so early in one’s life. So, if you don’t relate to your Midheaven like, “Oh, you have a MC in Aries, so you’re probably going to be a police officer, solider, or athlete" then maybe try thinking of the Midheaven as how you will be remembered or what you are generally associated with. (Always trust your dominant sign to describe you the most- *a post similar to this coming soon) ✨No matter what career you decide, you will be remembered by your peers, co-workers, friends, and family by traits from the sign, aspects*, and planets* bestowed upon your 10th House.✨

♈ Aries MC: will be remembered for their courage, boldness, intimidating/unsettling nature, and/or originality. (ex. Stephen King, Meryl Streep, Kanye West, Joan of Arc, Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie, Madalyn Murry O'Hair, Pablo Picasso, Rachel Maddow, Will Smith, Franz Kafka, Tyra Banks, Aleister Crowley, Tina Fey, Francisco de Goya, Julia Roberts, Chris Farley, Joseph Goebbels, Marvin Gaye, Iggy Pop, Kate Moss, Alfred Hitchcock, George Wallace, Hank Williams, Ayn Rand, Rob Zombie, Alexandre Dumas, John Steinbeck, Anne Frank, Twiggy, Jack Black, William Blake, Celine Dion, Galileo Galilei, Al Gore, Emmylou Harris, Las Vegas-Nevada, Manhattan-New York)

♉ Taurus MC: will be remembered for their extravagant style or possessions, their values, and/or “diva” attitude. (ex. Henry VIII, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, Tina Turner, Pope Francis, Jackie Robinson, Selena Gomez, Drake, Donald Trump, Freddie Mercury, Agatha Christie, Muhammad Ali, Frida Kahlo, O. J. Simpson, Justin Timberlake, Marlene Dietrich, Malala Yousafzai, Christopher Columbus, Michael Bay, Luciano Pavarotti, Nicole Richie, Woody Allen, Marilyn Manson, Maya Angelou, Martin Scorsese, Bernie Madoff, Ringo, Josephine Baker, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sarah Palin, Josh Groban, Chris Brown, Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, Norway)

♊ Gemini MC: will be remembered for/through words (writing, phrase, acting, thoughts, speech), their cleverness, and/or mental/emotional detachment. (ex. Jean-Jaques Rousseau, Albert Camus, Madonna, J.R.R. Tolkein, Donna Summer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Chelsea Handler, Alex Trebek, Kurt Cobain, Julie Andrews, Oscar Wilde, Jay-Z, Richard Nixon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tom Hanks, Kris Jenner, Walt Disney, Miss Cleo, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Hugh Hefner, Lizzie Borden, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Kathy Bates, Winston Churchill, Melissa Ethridge, Ernest Hemingway, Margaret Mitchell, Paul Simon, Greece, Tokyo-Japan)

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S T A Y

I'm slowly catching up 😅 Pt One HERE

Tw: su!c!d3 mention (tears alert), drugs

Sally and I met at the park just like we'd agreed. He ran to me and enveloped me in the best hug of my life, lifting me a few inches from the ground and spinning in a tight circle before he sat me back down. His eyes were crinkled at the sides, my only indication of the smile he wore under his prosthetic.

"I missed you so much" Sally laughed as he released me.

"We texted the whole three days" I laughed, "but... I missed you too."

I really had. All I'd been able to think about for the past seventy two hours had been Sally, and our situation. He'd infiltrated my mind like a song you can't get out of your head, even after you hear it again, rendering me powerless to do anything but meet him. Of course, Sally made it easy to think about him, texting at all hours with pictures and videos from his reality.

And then there were the dreams. I hadn't told Sally about it, but I'm pretty sure I'd been dreaming about the Grace from his reality, her memories specifically.

Over the past three nights, sleep had come oddly easily to me. I would fall asleep as soon as I closed my eyes and the dreams would begin, playing out from Grace's point of view, making the immersion complete. The first time Grace saw Sally, weeks before they got paired up by their professor, Dr. Wardwell. The shy glances they stole of each other were enough to make you sick from the sweetness. I saw dates, hangouts, a night where Sally played the guitar and serenaded Grace in a smooth bass-baritone.

I saw more private moments, too. The first time Grace saw Sally without his prosthetic and she told him he was beautiful in his ruination, like the Coliseum in Greece. Babysitting Soda for Maple and Chug. The first time they made love, when Ash told Grace that Sally had been arrested. The sadness she felt as she visited Todd in the psychiatric hospital and as she watched Maple slowly become a feral thing, eventually having to cage her up like an animal, knowing Sally could save them if only they'd let him out. The nights spent with Ash and Neil pouring over law books as Neil explained things, trying to use his prelaw major to help. Grace slowly learning defensive law. Grace arguing with Ash before and after Sally's trial, not talking to her for weeks after. The reconciled after Grace's request to the governor for a stay of execution was denied, shortly after Grace uncovered that the governor happened to be a member of the DOG. Her growing hopelessness and depression.

I even got to experience Grace's last moments, the fact that she threw up the first handful of pills out of nervousness. And that the last thing she saw was a picture of her and Sally two weeks before the incident, smiling with Larry, Todd, Maple, Chug, Soda and Neil at the lake.

So maybe all of that also had a hand in it.

Or maybe it was how I couldn't help but smile when I looked at him, or how I waited for his texts. Thanks to Grace's memories, I had xray vision when it came to his prosthetic, knowing every scar and line on his face. He was beautiful, I agreed, and I could tell he still would be without the scars. And he didn't even know it. Maybe it was the way my heart pitter pattered when he held my hand or if he looked at me too long, his sapphire gaze drawing me in like drowning pools every time. We spent spans of minutes lost in each others gazes as we looped around the park a few times.

"Can I see your house?" Sally asked, "It's pretty cold out. And you know you always get a head cold if you stay out in it too long." I opened my mouth to suggest the diner or maybe the cafe across town, but Sally cut me off, "Plus, we can talk more freely there."

He had a point. Besides, who was I to quibble about personal space? I'd dreamed about Grace and Sally trying to have quiet sex so Todd and Neil couldn't hear from the living room, even though the radio was blaring.

"Sure" I said and Sally started pulling me to my car. He excitedly opened the driver door for me, and then raced around to the passenger side, practically ripping the door open before hopping in and slamming it behind him. I got in and laughed as we buckled up, "Excited, are we?"

The tops of Sally's ears pinkened as he nodded, "Your place is always so cool. Do you have Olivia by chance? And Punky? You got them to help picked a hairless breed because they have fewer teeth that aren't sharp... And because the Aztec's thought they were the guardians of hell."

I smiled fondly, nodding and said, "My chupacabras" as Sally said "Our chupcabras" and I had to fight not to look at him I pulled into traffic, "Yeah, I have them. But Olivia is an old lady, twelve."

"She always is. She was older when you adopted her and she died while I was prison. You gave Punky to your friend, Crow before... Well you know."

The silence was heavy as I drove the short distance home, "She couldn't have known" I said quietly and Sally nodded.

"I know. No one was expecting me to live."

I pulled into my parking spot and turned the car off, "Well, here we are!"

Sally flew out of his seat, slamming the door to stand in front of my modest white stone bungalow. I walked up next to him just in time for him to stride up onto the porch. I watched as he looked around for a moment, before picking up a flower pot with last summer's dirt still in it. He picked up my key and let himself in, replacing the key and pot. He could've picked any of the six sitting there, and I had a feeling it wasn't luck that he found it.

I followed Sal inside as he looked everywhere inside, seemingly orientating himself and then taking off into the kitchen. I caught up to him in time to see him pulling two mugs down from the cabinet, going straight to it, and then picking up the kettle and filling it.

"Do you want white chocolate mint or apple cinnamon?" Sally asked as he turned the burner for the kettle on. "You can go either way on a day like this."

I blinked in shock, feeling somewhat like an amnesiac since Sally knew me so well, but I only knew him from a long conversation, texts, and memories from a me from a different reality. It was bizarre and oddly comforting.

"I'm feeling more apple cinnamon at the moment, but get a white chocolate for later" I said as I took a seat on a stool at the counter. Sally went to my drawer where I kept my teas and pulled out two of each.

I watched as Sally made tea, sitting our mugs next to each other on the counter in front of me. Then he stripped off his hoodie, revealing a Metallica shirt (Kill Em All), tucking his beanie into the hoodie's pocket. I noticed he was sweating, small beads of sweat collecting in the ridges of the scars that traced down his neck from under his prosthetic. He sat down next to me, trying to play it off nonchalantly.

"You can take your prosthetic off if you need to" I told Sally and he immediately started unbuckling it. He caught it in one hand, lowering it from his face slowly. He sat it on the counter with worry etching is face.

The lighter scarred side of his face, the left side, bored pink skin from the heat trapped under Sally's mask, a bead about to drop from his brow into his eye. I caught it on a knuckle just as it was about to fall and then used my hands to clear the sheen of sweat from his face on both sides. I kept eye contact the entire time, feeling it was of the utmost importance to. I didn't focus on the scars. I already knew them like the back of my own hand.

After I was done, I wiped my hands on my jeans and then brought my hands back up to hold his face between them. Sal froze like a deer in headlights, face still worried, but hopeful. Slowly I leaned in and kissed Sally's torn lips.

Sally's tension left in a rush of air through his nares (medical terminology for nose holes) as he kissed me back. I could feel all nine years of his yearning for just this in his kiss and he pulled me closer, wrapping his arms around me. As we kissed, I traced the scars on his face lightly with my fingertips, exploring pits and ridges both smooth and rough, letting my left thumb run along the curve of the scar that hooked his right cheek, exposing his back teeth on that side. Sally's hands moved to cover mine as he slowly pulled away to rest his head on my forehead, eyes still closed.

"What made you come around?" Sally asked peacefully, just holding my hands to his face.

"You, Sally, just you." I said quietly, "And I may or may not have started having dreams. I saw how much you loved each other."

Sally's eyes snapped open and he pulled back slightly, now gripping my upper arms, "How much did you see?"

"Everything" I whispered, tears forming in my vision as I remembered. I wanted to kiss him again, so I did. Sally responded passionately, honestly not the best at it, but that only made it more endearing. It seemed right and I apparently knew just how to respond, matching his intensity until he pulled away reluctantly. Sally stood to hug me, holding me tight to his chest. His heart beat betrayed his calm breathing. It was beating a mile a minute in his chest as we held each other while I breathed in the crisp, clean scent of him.

"Does this mean I can stay?" Sally asked, pulling back to look down at me and I nodded.

"Yes" I said, "You can stay."

I barely got a breath in before I was crushed against Sally's chest. He let out a loud whoop that brought Punky running in from her spot with Olivia next to the heater vent, bouncing as she barked at Sally's presence, having missed when he came in. Sally kissed the top of my head and let me go.

"I'll go get my things tonight after you go to sleep, tell Todd and Ash that I'm staying. I can leave my new phone with them so we can stay in touch." He leaned in and gave me a quick kiss, "But for now, got any good movies?"

"Um yeah" I said, realizing that while Netflix did exist in 2006, it was a service that mailed you DVDs. The company had really done well over the years. I grabbed our mugs, now that they had cooled enough to drink and led Sally into the living room. Punky followed us, now curious.

I put our mugs on the coffee table and picked up the remote, switching the TV on and putting on Netflix. I watched awe come over Sally's face as I signed in and handed him the remote so he could scroll.

"Holy fuck knuckles" Sally breathed, stopping on Year One. "Is that Slip from Neverending Story 3?!" He gestured at Jack Black with the remote.

"Yeah, he kinda became a big thing in comedy. This one's a comedy about Biblical times. Stoner humor. Wanna watch? I have something that can set the mood right", I said, pulling my smoke tray from under the couch.

"Oh good" Sally chuckled as he sat down on the couch and picked the tray up, "I won't have to talk you into smoking with me again. You were pretty adament about it at first." He hit the OK button and put the remote down to deal with the weed, loading my pipe with graceful movements as I settled in beside him.

"Sally?" I asked as I watched him close everything up.

"Mmhmm?" He hummed as he lit the pipe, taking a big hit and holding it.

"One letter, four letters, three letters, two" I said, remembering it from a dream, "I still don't know what it means, but I know I'm supposed to say it back." I took the pipe, inhaling carefully as it was still lit.

Sally smiled and it was radiant. "It means, 'I love you too'. But I want you to say it because you want to, not because you know I want you to."

I exhaled and laughed, "You are all I've thought about since we met. I've got all of Grace's memories." I tapped my temple, "I'm Grace, just from a different time and place, just like you said. If it's not love, it's heading that way fast."

Sally's eyes were wet with unshed tears. I put down the pipe and he pulled me into his arms. "I love you Gracie Face."

I smiled and kissed his cheek, "I love you too, Sally Face."

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I’m going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. – Eddie Murphy • I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There’s leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane – Hanshan • I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. – Johnny Depp • I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. – Sean Bean • I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides. – Ian Bogost • I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions. – Elsa Barker • I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau • I’d rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. – Jared Diamond • If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. – Alan Bennett • If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have “a heart at leisure from itself,” then I know nothing of Calvary love. – Amy Carmichael • If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. • If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources – partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder. – Alan Thein Durning • If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure. – Steve Earle • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle – absolute busyness – then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy – and without consciousness. – Gunter Grass • If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. – Logan Pearsall Smith • I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus • In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes. – Thorstein Veblen • In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him – Charles Buxton • In the year 2000 you’re going to have a problem…Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. – Edie Sedgwick • Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. – Benjamin Disraeli • It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. – W. H. Auden • It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier • It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man’s plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected. – Robert Louis Stevenson • It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure. – William Butler Yeats • It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it. – John Dewey • It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. – Paul Goodman • Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. – Ovid • Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson • Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. – Margaret Mead • Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. – Fulton J. Sheen • leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. – Nan Fairbrother • Leisure is gone,–gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. – George Eliot • Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. – Gilbert Highet • Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! – Edward Young • Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. – Branch Rickey • Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. – William Russell • Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. – George Bernard Shaw • Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. • Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts. – Mary McCarthy • Leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. – Seneca the Younger • Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. – George Zimmerman • Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. – Aldous Huxley • Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. – Amelia B. Edwards • Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. – Oliver Herford • Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. – Lord Byron • Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure. – William Shakespeare • Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. – C. Wright Mills • My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. – Michael Strahan • NCL … stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry. – Micky Arison • News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. – Thomas Hood • No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. – Gertrude Atherton • No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? – William Wilberforce • No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. – James K. Polk • Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. – Isabel Paterson • Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. – Seneca the Younger • Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing – not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends – nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God. – John Piper • O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship. – John Baillie • One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book. – Frances Harper • One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government. – Michelangelo Antonioni • One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. ‘One-size-fits-all,’ and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is ‘slavery.’ – David Mamet • Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. – James Ellis • Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. – Henry James • People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. – Andrea Bocelli • People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. – Zhang Yimou • People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. – Madame Roland • People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are. – Raoul Vaneigem • People would have more leisure time if it weren’t for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. – Peg Bracken • Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour. – Richard Steele • Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. – Aristotle • Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. – Ovid • Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long…. This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness. – Henri Lefebvre • Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, ’tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain. – Samuel Johnson • Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. – William Congreve • Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness. – Dalai Lama • Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. – Isocrates • Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? – John Sullivan Dwight • Take away leisure and Cupid’s bow is broken – Ovid • Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we’re seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry. – Gary Shapiro • Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. – William Taylor • That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th’ account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure. – William Shakespeare • The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. – Cyril Connolly • The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen • The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. – Robin Sharma • The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. – Laurence J. Peter • The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. – Irwin Edman • The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement – Raymond Chandler • The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle • The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day – it’s people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure. – Rachel Holmes • The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau • The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure – Aristotle • The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. – H. L. Mencken • The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. – Bertrand Russell • The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance. – Paul Goodman • The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both. – James A. Michener • The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. – Ezra Pound • The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw • The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us. – Ronald Reagan • The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. – Arthur Lacey • The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. – Henry David Thoreau • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses. – Samuel Johnson • The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. – Oliver DeMille • The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. – Bertrand Russell • The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. – Patrick Murray • The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer’s hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. – Thorstein Veblen • There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau • There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. – Henry Ward Beecher • There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass “”no day without a line””-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. – Herman Melville • Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. – William Lyon Phelps • Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. – William Congreve • To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. – Bertrand Russell • To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God’s love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship. – John Stott • To work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward • Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. – Guy Debord • Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant. – Russell L. Ackoff • Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. – Mason Cooley • Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. – Josef Pieper • Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God’s power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature. – Elizabeth Gilbert • Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. – Isadora Duncan • War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli • We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, ‘Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard’ (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, ‘He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go’ (Ps. 39:6). – Pachomius the Great • We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan • We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. – Charles Spurgeon • We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. – Aristotle • We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. – John Dryden • We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. – Vernon Lee • What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. – Samuel Gompers • What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can’t even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure. – Henry Louis Gates • What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. – Saint Basil • What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. – Henry David Thoreau • What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky. – Victor Hugo • What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. – George Eastman • What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us. – Margaret Mead • What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure. – Aldous Huxley • When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. – Boy George • When you write an essay, of course you’re going to get pushback, but you’re going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You’re going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do. – George Saunders • Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself. – Bernard Berenson • Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. – William Shakespeare • Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. – Hippocrates • Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. – Marcus Aurelius • Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams • Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow – security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself. – Sean O’Casey • You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for – Christopher Dawson

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. – Henry David Thoreau • A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. – Henry David Thoreau • A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams. – Henry David Thoreau • A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. – Benjamin Franklin • A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both classes to spiritual sterility. – Lewis Mumford • Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our initiative attacks; then it develops according to its inner logic, passes its climax, seeks its cadence, ends, and restores silence, leisure again. Action and leisure are thus interdependent; echoing and recalling each other, so that action enlivens leisure with its memories and anticipations, and leisure expands and raises action beyond its mere immediate self and gives it a permanent meaning. – Salvador de Madariaga • All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. – John Gunther • All intellectual improvement arises from leisure. – Samuel Johnson • All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times. – John Woolman • Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room. – Anthony Burgess • Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. – Allan Bloom • Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. – James Madison • Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of housework to punctuate the paragraphs, was a more difficult achievement than to write it at leisure in a quiet room. – Anna Garlin Spencer • As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent. – Anthony Trollope • As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. – Allan Bloom • As work weeks get longer and leisure time shrinks, people are becoming sicker, more distracted, absent, unproductive, and less innovative. – Brigid Schulte • At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure. – Charles de Gaulle • Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that – we probably had the word ‘cappuccino’ about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously. – Hugh Jackman • Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done! – Jerry Brown

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[clickbank-storefront-bestselling] • Destroy our leisure and you break love’s bow. – Ovid • Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. – Farkas Bolyai • Do not love leisure. Waste not a minute. Be bold. Realize the Truth, here and now! – Sivananda • Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class. – Clive Bell • Do not say, ‘When I have leisure, I will study,’ because you may never have leisure. – Hillel the Elder • Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure. – W. Somerset Maugham • Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics. – Jerome K. Jerome • Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure. – Benjamin Franklin • Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed. – Prince Philip • For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief. – Sallust • For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains. – Katharine Anthony • Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity. – Mortimer Adler • From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure; nor continually to excuse the neglect of duties required by our relation to those with whom we live, by alleging urgent occupations. – Marcus Aurelius • Good will, that curious product of consciousness, of leisure and energy to spare and share. That thing we put out against the forces of interest. That extra thing. Religions and nations and political parties have taken it and used it as coinage, have said you must only give it in exchange for value. – Naomi Mitchison • Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace. – Aristotle • He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate. – Henry David Thoreau • He hath no leisure who useth it not. – George Herbert • Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life. – Dorothy Kelley Patterson • How to use your leisure time is the biggest problem of a ballplayer. – Branch Rickey • I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking. – Pearl S. Buck • I am in musical theatre, but it isn’t necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean? – Patti LuPone • I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible. – Marcus Vitruvius Pollio I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. – Audrey Hepburn • I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn’t have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked ’til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on – it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am. – Jack Kirby • I hate leisure, except reading. I’m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work. – Karl Lagerfeld • I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work… I try to think of sketch ideas, stand-up pieces. I am incapable of leisure and leisure time. – Fred Armisen • I have no leisure to think of style or of polish, or to select the best language, the best English – no time to shine as an authoress. I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting. – Isabel Burton • I keep telling people I’ll make movies until I’m fifty and then I’ll go and do something else. I’m going to be a professional gentleman of leisure. – Eddie Murphy • I love the joy of mountains Wandering free with no concerns Every day I find food for this old body There’s leisure for thinking, nothing to do Often I carry an ancient book Sometimes I climb a rock pavilion To look down a thousand foot precipice Overhead are swirling clouds A cold moon chilly cold My body feels like a flying crane – Hanshan • I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste. – Johnny Depp • I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. – Sean Bean • I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides. – Ian Bogost • I wish you could arrange your life so as to have a little more leisure. I do not want you to be lazy, but the passive conditions of the mind are quite as valuable as the active conditions. – Elsa Barker • I would not exchange my leisure hours for all the wealth in the world. – Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau • I’d rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun. – Jared Diamond • If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. – Alan Bennett • If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have “a heart at leisure from itself,” then I know nothing of Calvary love. – Amy Carmichael • If the individuals who compose the purest circles of aristocracy in Europe, the guarded blood of centuries, should pass in review,in such manner as that we could, at leisure, and critically inspect their behavior, we might find no gentleman, and no lady; for, although excellent specimens of courtesy and high-breeding would gratify us in the assemblage, in the particulars, we should detect offence. Because, elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth. • If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources – partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder. – Alan Thein Durning • If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I’m it, and that’s what passes for leisure. – Steve Earle • If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle – absolute busyness – then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy – and without consciousness. – Gunter Grass • If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. – Logan Pearsall Smith • I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone. – Scipio Africanus • In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men’s eyes. – Thorstein Veblen • In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him – Charles Buxton • In the year 2000 you’re going to have a problem…Leisure time will be a problem in the year 2000. I just want you to realize, I just want to make sure that you know of it now. – Edie Sedgwick • Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man. – Benjamin Disraeli • It is already possible to imagine a society in which the majority of the population, that is to say, its laborers, will have almost as much leisure as in earlier times was enjoyed by the aristocracy. When one recalls how aristocracies in the past actually behaved, the prospect is not cheerful. – W. H. Auden • It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier • It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man’s plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected. – Robert Louis Stevenson • It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure. – William Butler Yeats • It may be said that an education which does not succeed in making poetry a resource in the business of life as well as in its leisure, has something the matter with it. – John Dewey • It takes application, a fine sense of value, and a powerful community-spirit for a people to have serious leisure, and this has not been the genius of the Americans. – Paul Goodman • Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things. – Ovid • Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. – Samuel Johnson • Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. – Margaret Mead • Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall. – Fulton J. Sheen • leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. – Nan Fairbrother • Leisure is gone,–gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. – George Eliot • Leisure is one of the three greatest rewards of being a teacher. It is, unfortunately, the privilege which teachers most often misuse. – Gilbert Highet • Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life! – Edward Young • Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil. – Branch Rickey • Leisure is the most challenging responsibility a man can be offered. – William Russell • Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. – Thomas Hobbes • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – Benjamin Franklin • Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation. – George Bernard Shaw • Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. • Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts. – Mary McCarthy • Leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man. – Seneca the Younger • Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. – George Zimmerman • Leisure, the highest happiness upon earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always afford leisure; for true leisure is frequently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful duty from an agreeable recreation; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. – Aldous Huxley • Literature is, in fact, the fruit of leisure. – Amelia B. Edwards • Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. – Oliver Herford • Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. – Lord Byron • Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure. – William Shakespeare • Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it. – C. Wright Mills • My hobbies and leisure activities include cars and golf. – Michael Strahan • NCL … stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry. – Micky Arison • News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned. – Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann • No blessed leisure for love or hope, But only time for grief. – Thomas Hood • No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. – Gertrude Atherton • No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate? – William Wilberforce • No president who performs his duties faithfully and conscientiously can have any leisure. – James K. Polk • Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure. – Isabel Paterson • Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy. – Seneca the Younger • Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing – not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends – nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God. – John Piper • O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship. – John Baillie • One needs both leisure and money to make a successful book. – Frances Harper • One of the problems of the future world will be the use of leisure time. How will it be filled up? Maybe drugs will be distributed free of charge by the government. – Michelangelo Antonioni • One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. ‘One-size-fits-all,’ and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is ‘slavery.’ – David Mamet • Our leisure is the time the Devil seizes upon to make us work for him; and the only way we can avoid conscription into his ranks is to keep all our leisure moments profitably employed. – James Ellis • Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure. – Henry James • People are often quite surprised by the sport and leisure activities practised by the blind. For example, tandem cycling is very popular. – Andrea Bocelli • People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life. – Zhang Yimou • People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments, while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry. – Madame Roland • People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination. This means that people are not really tired of comfort, culture and leisure, but of the use to which they are. – Raoul Vaneigem • People would have more leisure time if it weren’t for all the leisure-time activities that use it up. – Peg Bracken • Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour. – Richard Steele • Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. – Aristotle • Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. – Ovid • Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long…. This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness. – Henri Lefebvre • Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, ’tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain. – Samuel Johnson • Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. – William Congreve • Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness. – Dalai Lama • Spend your leisure time in cultivating an ear attentive to discourse, for in this way you will find that you learn with ease what others have found out with difficulty. – Isocrates • Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil? – John Sullivan Dwight • Take away leisure and Cupid’s bow is broken – Ovid • Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we’re seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry. – Gary Shapiro • Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred. – William Taylor • That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th’ account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure. – William Shakespeare • The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. – Cyril Connolly • The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods. – Thorstein Veblen • The best in business spend far more time on learning than in leisure. – Robin Sharma • The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. – Laurence J. Peter • The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure. – Irwin Edman • The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement – Raymond Chandler • The coming peril is the intellectual, educational, psychological and artistic overproduction, which, equally with economic overproduction, threatens the well-being of contemporary civilisation. People are inundated, blinded, deafened, and mentally paralysed by a flood of vulgar and tasteless externals, leaving them no time for leisure, thought, or creation from within themselves. – Gilbert K. Chesterton • The end of labor is to gain leisure. – Aristotle • The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day – it’s people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure. – Rachel Holmes • The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. – Henry David Thoreau • The goal of war is peace, of business, leisure – Aristotle • The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him. – H. L. Mencken • The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. – Bertrand Russell • The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance. – Paul Goodman • The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he’s always doing both. – James A. Michener • The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero • The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation. – Ezra Pound • The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. – George Bernard Shaw • The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance. It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice; and, in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure, and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination. – Ralph Waldo Emerson • The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter. – Blaise Pascal • The preservation of parks, wilderness, and wildlife has also aided liberty by keeping alive the 19th century sense of adventure and awe with which our forefathers greeted the American West. Many laws protecting environmental quality have promoted liberty by securing property against the destructive trespass of pollution. In our own time, the nearly universal appreciation of these preserved landscapes, restored waters, and cleaner air through outdoor recreation is a modern expression of our freedom and leisure to enjoy the wonderful life that generations past have built for us. – Ronald Reagan • The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one’s mind a pleasant place in which to spend one’s leisure. – Sydney J. Harris • The real problem of leisure time is how to keep others from using yours. – Arthur Lacey • The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. – Henry David Thoreau • The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses. – Samuel Johnson • The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. – Oliver DeMille • The thing that I should wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. – Bertrand Russell • The trouble with the Internet is that it’s replacing masturbation as a leisure activity. – Patrick Murray • The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer’s hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. – Thorstein Veblen • There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. – Henry David Thoreau • There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. – Henry Ward Beecher • There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass “”no day without a line””-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have. – William Hazlitt • They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure. – Herman Melville • Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation – what are they? They are the happiest people in the world. – William Lyon Phelps • Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. – William Congreve • To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. – Bertrand Russell • To describe my scarce leisure time in today’s terms, I always default to reading. – Jimmy Buffett • To encounter Christ is to touch reality and experience transcendence. He gives us a sense of self-worth or personal significance, because He assures us of God’s love for us. He sets us free from guilt because He died for us and from paralyzing fear because He reigns. He gives meaning to marriage and home, work and leisure, personhood and citizenship. – John Stott • To work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a goodblacksmith more than a lady of leisure. – Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward • Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal. – Guy Debord • Traditional education focuses on teaching, not learning. It incorrectly assumes that for every ounce of teaching there is an ounce of learning by those who are taught. However, most of what we learn before, during, and after attending schools is learned without its being taught to us. A child learns such fundamental things as how to walk, talk, eat, dress, and so on without being taught these things. Adults learn most of what they use at work or at leisure while at work or leisure. Most of what is taught in classroom settings is forgotten, and much or what is remembered is irrelevant. – Russell L. Ackoff • Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. – Mason Cooley • Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. – Josef Pieper • Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God’s power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature. – Elizabeth Gilbert • Virtuous people are simply those who have not been tempted sufficiently, because they live in a vegetative state, or because their purposes are so concentrated in one direction that they have not had the leisure to glance around them. – Isadora Duncan • War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli • We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, ‘Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard’ (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, ‘He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go’ (Ps. 39:6). – Pachomius the Great • We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan • We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. – Charles Spurgeon • We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace. – Aristotle • We must beat the iron while it is hot, but we may polish it at leisure. – John Dryden • We seldom enjoy leisure we haven’t earned. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. • What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined. – Vernon Lee • What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright. – Samuel Gompers • What happened in the interim is, billions of records have been digitized. Historians and scholars have always used genealogical records to tell the story of American history. It takes months and years of research. I can’t even tell you how laborious that is. You have to be somebody who has a lot of free time, like a professor who can take tenure or someone with a great deal of leisure. – Henry Louis Gates • What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness. – Saint Basil • What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind. – Henry David Thoreau • What was more needed by this old man who divided the leisure hours of his life, where he had so little leisure, between gardening in the daytime, and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with the sky for a background, enough to enable him to adore God in his most beautiful as well as in his most sublime works? Indeed, is not that all, and what more can be desired? A little garden to walk, and immensity to reflect upon. At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate upon: a few flowers on the earth, and all the stars in the sky. – Victor Hugo • What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. – George Eastman • What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us. – Margaret Mead • What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure. – Aldous Huxley • When Culture Club broke up, I hadn’t been going out a lot because we’d been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London. – Boy George • When you write an essay, of course you’re going to get pushback, but you’re going to be allowed to make your case at leisure. You’re going to be allowed to take into account possible objections and to fully humanize your reader. That feels to me like a much more sane thing to do. – George Saunders • Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed? How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried. There was time for work, for play, for love, the confidence that if a task was not done at the appointed time, I easily could fit it into another hour. I used to take leisure for granted, as I did time itself. – Bernard Berenson • Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure. – William Shakespeare • Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure. – Hippocrates • Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro. – Marcus Aurelius • Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. – Abigail Adams • Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow – security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself. – Sean O’Casey • You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for – Christopher Dawson

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9 nuovi trailer che dovresti vedere questa settimana

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9 nuovi trailer che dovresti vedere questa settimana

9 nuovi trailer che dovresti vedere questa settimana

9 nuovi trailer che dovresti vedere questa settimana

I trailer non sono altro che brevi filmati promozionali di film che a breve saranno nelle sale di tutte le regioni italiane.

Il loro compito è quello di creare attesa, di dare vita ad una certa dose di hype del film che viene promosso, affinchè si corra subito a vederlo già nei primi giorni di uscita.

Ma quali sono i trailer da vedere, usciti questa settimana? Scopriamo insieme!

Fast & Furious – Hobbs & Shaw

La serie di Fast & Furious sembra non arrestarsi mai, tanto che dopo aver incassato qualcosa come quasi 5 miliardi di dollari in tutto il mondo, ritorna con un film che sarà una storia indipendente e non vero e proprio capitolo della serie. Questo, dal titolo Fast & Furious – Hobbs  & Shaw vedrà protagonisti i già visti Luke Hobbs e Deckard Shaw, interpretati da Dwayne Johnson e Jason Statham.

Dal primo affronto in Fast & Furious 7 (2015), in cui il corpulento veterano del dipartimento di polizia Hobbs (Johnson), fedele agente del Diplomatic Security Service americano e il fuorilegge Shaw (Statham), ex membro delle forze speciali britanniche, entrambi non si sono risparmi dei colpi bassi nel tentativo di annientarsi a vicenda, scambiandosi battute.

Tuttavia, quando l’anarchico Brixton (Idris Elba), cyber-geneticamente potenziato, riesce ad ottenere il controllo di un’insidiosa arma biologica che potrebbe modificare per sempre l’umanità – riuscendo a surclassare un’agente del MI& brillante e indomita (interpretata da Vanessa Kirby) che risulta essere anche sorella di Shaw – i due nemici giurati saranno costretti a collaborare insieme e ad allearsi per poter annientare l’unico cattivo che potrebbe essere peggio di loro.

Diretto da David Leitch (Deadpool 2), Fast & Furious – Hobbs & Shaw apre direttamente la porta verso quello che potrebbe essere l’universo di Fast & Furious, propagando l’azione tipica che ha contraddistinto tutti i film della serie. La sceneggiatura del film è di Chris Morgan, mentre è prodotto dagli stessi Morgan, Johnson, Statham e Hiram Garcia. I produttori esecutivi solo Dany Garcia, Kelly McCormick, Steven hasman, Ethan Smith e Ainsley Davies.

Avengers: Endgame

Dopo averci accompagnato per più di dieci anni e dopo Avengers: Infinity War, l’Infinity Saga si avvierà alla propria conclusione con Avengers: Endgame, film che promette di districare tutte le trame costruite fino ad ora dal MCU.

Al fine di celebrare l’evento e le tappe che hanno contribuito a far uscire il quarto film dedicato ai Vendicatori, i Marvel Studios hanno rilasciato un trailer finale che ripercorre tutti i film che hanno fatto parte di questa decade, a partire da Iron Man (2008) per arrivare a Infinity War (2018), mostrando gli eventi più memorabili e anche quelli più toccanti.

Dopo i devastanti eventi di Avengers: Infinity War , l’universo si trova in rovina a causa degli sforzi di Thanos. Con l’aiuto degli alleati rimasti in vita dopo il portentoso schiocco, i Vendicatori dovranno riunirsi ancora una volta per annullare le azione compiute da Titano Pazzo e ripristinare l’ordine dell’universo una volta per tutte, indipendentemente dalle possibili conseguenze.

Nel cast del film vi saranno filmRobert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Josh Brolin, Chris Pratt, Jeremy Renner, Evangeline Lilly, Jon Favreau, Paul Rudd eBrie Larson.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Non manca molto all’arrivo al cinema di X-Men: Dark Phoenix, tanto che la 20th Century Fox ha deciso di rilasciare il final trailer del nuovo e atteso film dedicato ai mutanti Marvel e targato Fox.

Questo film narrerà la storia di Jean Grey, uno dei personaggi più amati della saga degli X-Men, che si evolve nell’iconica Dark Phoenix. Durante una pericolosa missiosne nello spazio, Jean viene colpita da una potente forza cosmica che la trasforma inuno dei mutanti più potenti di tutti i tempi.

La ragazza si troverà sempre a lottare contro questo potere che sembra essere sempre più instabile e anche con i suoi demoni personali: Jean perde il controllo e chiude qualsiasi legame con la famiglia degli X-Men, minacciando di distruggere il pianeta. Questo film promette di essere il culmine dei vent’anni dedicati agli X-Men, la famiglia unita e molto amata che si trova a combattere contro uno di loro.

Scritto e diretto da Simon Kinberg, questo nuovo episodio è interpretato da Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp e Jessica Chastain.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

La Star Wars Celebration in quel di Chicago aveva promesso grandi emozioni e così è stato con la diffusione del primo teaser trailer di Star Wars Episodio IX, intitolato Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, capitolo ultimo della terza trilogia della saga diretto da J. J. Abrams.

La trama non è ancora proprio chiara, ma quello che è certo è che tornerà Leia Organa, che sarà interpretata nuovamente dalla compianta Carrie Fisher, grazie a del materiale girato mai visto prima e ricavato da Star Wars: Il risveglio della Forza: “Tutti noi amiamo disperatamente Carrie Fisher – ha dichiarato Abrams – Abbiamo cercato una perfetta conclusione alla saga degli Skywalker nonostante la sua assenza.

Non sceglieremo mai un altra attrice per il ruolo, né mai potremmo usare la computer grafica. Con il supporto e la benedizione della figlia, Billie, abbiamo trovato il modo di onorare l’eredità di Carrie e il ruolo di Leia in Episodio IX, usando del girato mai visto che abbiamo girato insieme per Episodio VII.”

Nel cast Daisy Ridley, Oscar Isaac, John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, Naomi Ackie, Joonas Suotamo, Adam Driver, Anthony Daniels, Billy Dee Williams, Lupita Nyong’o, Domhnall Gleeson, Billie Lourd e il veterano del franchise Mark Hamill. Tra le new entry c’è Richard E. Grant.

Annabelle Comes Home

Il terzo capitolo della saga horror di Annabelle, prodotta da James Wan, è finalmente in arrivo e già solo il titolo, Annabelle Comes Home, la dice lunga. La protagonista è ancora la ormai celebre bambola demoniaca e questa terza pellicola è diretta dallo sceneggiatore Gary Dauberman (The Nun – La Vocazione del Male, IT, Annabelle) ed è pronta a raccontare una storia terrificante.

I Demonologi Ed e Lorraine Warren vogliono impedire che Annabelle continui a seminare il caos e la portano nella stanza dei manufatti, chiusa a chiave nella loro casa, mettendola al sicuro dietro un vetro consacrato e ottenendo la santa benedizione di un sacerdote. Ma ciò che li attende non è altro che una notte di orrore puro, che inizia quando la bambola risveglia gli spiriti maligni nella stanza, pronti a mettere gli occhi su un nuovo bersaglio, ovvero Judy, la figlia di dieci anni dei Warren, e sulle sue amiche.

In Annabelle Comes Home recitano McKenna Grace (Captain Marvel) nel ruolo di Judy; Madison Iseman (Jumanji: Benvenuti nella Giungla) è la sua babysitter, Mary Ellen; e Katie Sarife nei panni dell’amica tormentata Daniela, mentre Patrick Wilso e Vera Farmiga riprendono rispettivamente i loro ruoli di Ed e Lorraine Warren.

Dauberman ne ha anche scritto la sceneggiatura da una storia di Wan e Dauberman. I produttori esecutivi del film sono Michael Clear e Michelle Morrissey, mentre la squadra creativa di Dauberman che ha lavorato dietro le quinte include il direttore della fotografia Michael Burgess (La Llorona – Le Lacrime del Male), la scenografa Jennifer Spence (Annabelle: Creation) e la costumista Leah Butler (Annabelle: Creation).

Dolor Y Gloria

Dolor Y Gloria è il nuovo e atteso film di Pedro Almodovar che arriverà nei cinema italiani dopo essere passato al Festival di Cannes. Questo film, che vede la presenza di Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Nora Navas e Penélope Cruz, narra di una serie di ricongiungimenti di Salvador Mallo, un regista cinematografico ormai sul viale del tramonto.

Alcuni ricongiungimenti sono fisici e altri ricordati: la sua infanzia negli anni ’60, il primo desiderio, il primo amore negli anni ’80, il dolore della sua rottura e la scrittura come unica terapia per dimenticare l’indimenticabile, a cui si unisce la scoperta del cinema e il senso del vuoto causato dall’impossibilità di continuare a girare film.

Dolor y Gloria parla della creazione artistica, della difficoltà di separarla dalle passioni che le danno significato e speranza, e dalla propria vita.

Veronica Mars 4

Veronica Mars è pronta a tornare con l’attesa quarta stagione della sereie, ed è stata la stessa attrice protagonista, Kristen Bell, ad annunciare le date di debutto.

La serie, che arriverà su HULU venerdì 26 Giugno, ruota attorno a Veronica Mars, una studentessa del liceo di Neptune, una cittadina immaginaria che si trova sulla costa della California e che si caratterizza per l’atmosfera particolarmente classista.

Figlia del rispettato sceriffo Keith Mars, quando la sua migliore amica Lilly Kare, sorella del suo fidanzato Duncan, viene uccisa, la sua vita cambia totalmente. Suo padre viene messo a capo delle indagini, che verranno interrotte quando un uomo, tale Abel Koontz, si costituisce dichiarandosi colpevole.

Keith Mars viene obbligato a dimessersi dalla sua carica per aver accusato di omicidio il padre della vittima, un milionario e presidente della Kane Software, mentre Veronica è si trova costretta a scegliere tra suo padre e i suoi amici, finendo ad essere emarginata dai suoi compagni di scuola. Mentre la madre di Veronica scappa, poichè non riesce a reggere la tensione, la ragazza e il padre aprono un’agenzia investigativa.

Veronica Mars 4 è una serie creata da Rob Thomas e nel cast torneranno i personaggi delle precedenti stagioni, ovvero Kristen Bell, Enrico Colantoni,Percy Daggs III, Jason Dohring, Francis Capra, Michael Muhney e Tina Majorino.

Il Grande Spirito

Il Grande Spirito è la nuova commedia di Sergio Rubini che racconta l’incontro rocambolesco tra un rapinatore malmello e un eccentri infividuo che vede il mondo a suo modo, sui tetti della periferia di Taranto.

Dopo Dobbiamo parlare, Rubini si è impegnato a dirigere una action comedy originale in cui due anime molto diverse ed entrambe emarginate cercano una via di fuga, con i vecchi lavatoi e le terrazze dei palazzi di periferia a fare da cornice.

Nel cast, oltre a Sergio Rubini e Rocco Papaleo, vi sono anche Ivana Lotito, Bianca Guaccero e Geno Diana.

Glass: il trailer onesto

Dopo tre mesi dall’uscita nei nostri cinema, più precisamente il 17 gennaio 2019, Screen Junkies ha dedicato un trailer onesto a Glass, l’ultimo film M. Night Shyamalan con Bruce Willis, James McAvoy e Samuel L. Jackson. Con questo film, il regista ha riportato sullo schermo i protagonisti di Unbreakable e Split, realizzando la sua trilogia supereroistica.

Non a caso, Glass, riporta alla luce le vicende narrate nei precedenti due film, con David Dunn all’inseguimento dell’identità sovraumana di Kevin Wendell Crumb, aka La Bestia, in un susseguirsi di incontri sempre più pericolosi. Elijah Price, noto anche con il nome di L’uomo di Vetro, emergerà dall’ombra con dei segreti decisivi per entrambi gli uomini.

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9 nuovi trailer che dovresti vedere questa settimana

I trailer non sono altro che brevi filmati promozionali di film che a breve saranno nelle sale di tutte le regioni italiane. Il loro compito è quello di creare attesa, di dare vita ad una certa dose di hype del film che viene promosso, affinchè si corra subito a vederlo già nei primi giorni di […]

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Corey Brewer，雷霆終於找到的拼圖？

【運動視界/編輯/張正邦】

2012年夏天，初嚐總冠軍賽滋味的奧克拉荷馬雷霆隊做出變動，由於和James Harden無法取得共識，雷霆將他換到火箭隊，但從那一刻開始，似乎總是為了陣容裡最後一塊拼圖而苦惱著。

擁有Kevin Durant、Russell Westbrook、Serge Ibaka等核心，雷霆卻時常得要讓陣容裡由像Derek Fisher、Caron Butler這種生涯末期的老將或是Andre Roberson、Alex Abrines這樣功能單一的球員佔據，甚至還要面對KD揮手離去後造成的更大缺陷，但從去年夏天開始一連串的補強後，直到最近在買斷市場上，雷霆似乎終於找到另一個適合搭配的角色：Corey Brewer。

本季雷霆原定的先發五人Westbrook、Roberson、Paul George、Carmelo Anthony、Steven Adams本季不停地起伏，開季他們打得並不順，經過一段時間磨合後卻有很大的效果，在兩大優異側翼防守者Roberson和George的帶領下，雷霆這五人組的搭配，在539分鐘內繳出的防守效率值是95.9這種頂尖的數據，Roberson+George的防線，從例行賽對戰的突出，完全可以期待這樣的雷霆能在季後賽給勇士、火箭這種強權帶來龐大的壓力，但這一切，就在Roberson因髕腱斷裂而整季報銷後化為烏有。

延伸閱讀：誰補蘿蔔坑

但這樣的組合也不是沒有隱憂，很明確的就是Roberson在進攻端幾乎沒有威脅，以去年雷霆對火箭的首輪五場比賽來看，當Roberson不在場上的時候，雷霆每100次進攻可以比Roberson在場上的時候多得9.8分，當然Roberson的貢獻來自於防守端，而他在例行賽也一直是雷霆陣容裡的重要一環，例行賽他的進攻表現也沒有這麼差，但在季後賽的短兵相接，所有缺點都會被放大，當火箭可以明顯忽略Roberson的進攻時，這個問題就不可謂不嚴重。

但當Roberson報銷、而雷霆在三月初簽下被湖人買斷的Brewer之後，情況有了改變。

上季只要Roberson不在場上，雷霆的防守就有明顯的下滑，這可以因為Brewer的加入而稍稍緩解，Brewer先發的比賽裡，雷霆防守效率值是104.8，雖然不像前述Roberson所在的五人組合那麼頂尖，但也有聯盟前11名的水準，進攻端的效率卻十分顯著，雷霆本季到目前為止的進攻效率值是110.4，全聯盟第8名，Brewer站上先發後的7場比賽，雷霆有五場進攻效率高於本季平均，對暴龍之戰更高達130.1，在上一場戲劇性的遭塞爾提克絕殺之前，雷霆拿下6連勝，攻守看起來是整季最均衡的一陣子。

當然7場比賽還只是小樣本，但雷霆因為Brewer站上先發而有了更好的表現是事實，這段期間雷霆的淨效率值高居聯盟第三，比近期最火燙的拓荒者和火箭還要高。

Brewer在進攻端的加分，是對照於Roberson的貧攻而更顯著的，早在佛羅里達大學時期，Brewer就是鱷魚幫重要的反擊箭頭，攻守轉換間的早攻是他的拿手好戲，來到雷霆後，雷霆的pace factor從之前的97.4大幅提升至105.0，攻守轉換時永遠會看到Brewer跑在最前面讓雷霆保有快攻的機會，但從前述雷霆依舊擁有不錯的防守效率值可見，這樣的貢獻並不是來自於棄防的偷跑。也就是說，Brewer在防守端讓雷霆不致大幅下滑、而能止血的同時，卻在進攻端提供明顯的幫助。

Brewer在雷霆的9場比賽，三分球命中率達0.382，比生涯平均的0.282好了一大截，這或許有待時間證明是否為短期高峰，但能在外線、空間和速度都給雷霆幫助，這也正好符合現代籃球的幾個重要元素，當然不能保證到了季後賽，Brewer還能有如此高效能的進攻，但這對照於Roberson還是擁有顯著提升，這並非要貶低Roberson的貢獻，特別是他的防守的確對於雷霆難以取代，但對於Brewer，這還是他應得的肯定。

Brewer的加入，讓當時缺少Roberson的雷霆有了更多調整陣容的選擇，以搭配三巨頭為例來討論，當Jerami Grant和Adams同時上場時擁有身高優勢，但要擔心速度，Alex Abrines的防守是一大缺陷，僅兩年經驗的Josh Huertis有些生嫩，這時擁有一雙快手、極佳轉換速度、卻已是第11個球季的Brewer無疑可填補上述所有缺失。

雷霆或許還沒有因為Roberson換成Brewer而搖身一變成了足以爭冠的頂尖強權，但和Roberson報銷當時的愁雲慘霧看起來，絕對堪稱稱職綠葉的Brewer的確給了雷霆止跌回升的機會，而他們如今也正在這條路上前進。至少若現在就在季後賽碰上勇士、火箭等強敵，雷霆手中馬上就有一個人選可以讓他們在不擔心影響進攻主力的狀況下，直接推上前線看管Stephen Curry、James Harden等頂尖球星，要把Brewer當成什麼救世主固然太誇大其詞，不過只要Brewer的表現不要馬上出現劇烈的下滑，雷霆就依舊能持有逐鹿中原的期待。

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Boehm: Checking in with the MLS quintet as CONCACAF Champions League looms

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February 19, 201810:30AM EST

Most MLS teams are entering their final two weeks of preseason preparations for opening day 2018. But it’s just about gametime for the five clubs representing the league in CONCACAF Champions League, with the first legs of the competition’s eight Round of 16 matchups kicking off in a matter of hours, starting with Colorado vs. Toronto on Tuesday night and running through Thursday, when Honduras’ Olimpia and the New York Red Bulls wrap up the first week of action. 

Here’s where each of those five clubs stand as of today; for comparison’s sake, you may also wish to peruse this similar rundown from earlier in preseason.

Colorado Rapids

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What will Anthony Hudson’s Rapids renaissance look like on its first matchday? That’s still a pretty open question. Colorado continue to be linked to a range of overseas transfer targets and didn’t play quite the lineups I’d expect in their preseason games to date. Notably, attacking star Shkelzen Gashi (though he apparently reported to camp in great shape) looks to be out of the XI for now due to a nagging calf injury. Hudson’s style of play stresses width, movement and aggressive pressing, and I don’t expect the squad to have mastered it in time to beat defending treble winners Toronto FC. The Front Range’s fickle late-winter weather may prove to be the Rapids’ best hope on Tuesday, with bone-chilling temps and snow showers in the forecast.

Projected Starting XI (3-5-2, left to right): Tim Howard – Deklan Wynne, Tommy Smith, Kortne Ford – Edgar Castillo, Nana Boateng, Johan Blomberg, Jack Price, Marlon Hairston – Jack McBean, Dominique Badji

Colorado Rapids ROSTERED PLAYERS (25 of 30 spots filled as of Feb. 18, 2018):

GK (2): Andrew Dykstra, Tim Howard (DP), Zac MacMath DEF (9): Kip Colvey, Edgar Castillo, Kortne Ford (HG), Eric Miller, Axel Sjoberg (INT’L), Tommy Smith (INT’L), Jared Watts, Danny Wilson (INT’L), Deklan Wynne MID (9): Micheal Azira, Johan Blomberg (INT’L), Nana Boateng (INT’L), Mike Grella, Marlon Hairston, Sam Hamilton, Ricardo Perez (HG), Jack Price (INT’L), Dillon Serna (HG) FWD (5): Stefan Aigner (INT’L), Dominique Badji (INT’L), Caleb Calvert, Shkelzen Gashi (DP, INT’L), Jack McBean

ACQUISITIONS (9): Johan Blomberg, Edgar Castillo, Kip Colvey, Mike Grella, Jack McBean, Jack Price, Tommy Smith, Danny Wilson, Deklan Wynne DEPARTURES (9): John Berner, Bobby Burling, Dennis Castillo, Kevin Doyle, Josh Gatt, Luis Gil, Alan Gordon, Mohammed Saeid, Mekeil Williams

FC Dallas

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Dallas have made significant upgrades to a group that underachieved in 2017, and remains hungry to top the CCL run that ended (painfully) at the semifinals stage almost a year ago. New signings Anton Nedyalkov, Reto Ziegler and Santiago Mosquera appear to be ready to step right into the lineup for Wednesday’s tricky-looking first leg vs. Tauro FC in Panama. One major complication hit Oscar Pareja’s plans over the weekend, however: Star center mid Kellyn Acosta seems to have suffered a setback in his struggle with a groin problem and looks set for a stint on the sidelines. Jacori Hayes is in the mix to take his spot, but I’ve got the more experienced Victor Ulloa in that No. 8 role for now. 

Projected Starting XI (4-2-3-1, left to right): Jesse Gonzalez – Anton Nedyalkov, Reto Ziegler, Matt Hedges, Reggie Cannon – Carlos Gruezo, Victor Ulloa – Michael Barrios, Mauro Diaz, Santiago Mosquera – Maxi Urruti

FC Dallas ROSTERED PLAYERS (28 of 30 spots filled as of Feb. 18, 2018):

GK (2): Jesse Gonzalez (HG), Jimmy Maurer DEF (7): Reggie Cannon (HG), Jordan Cano (HG), Maynor Figueroa (INT’L), Matt Hedges, Anton Nedyalkov (INT’L), Kris Reaves, Reto Ziegler (INT’L) MID (11): Kellyn Acosta (HG), Michael Barrios (INT’L), Mauro Diaz (DP), Carlos Gruezo (DP, INT’L), Jacori Hayes, Ryan Hollingshead, Roland Lamah (INT’L), Santiago Mosquera (DP, INT’L), Paxton Pomykal (HG), Brandon Servania (HG), Victor Ulloa (HG) FWD (8): Tesho Akindele, Francis Atuahene (INT’L), Cristian Colman (DP, INT’L), Jesus Ferreira (HG), Adonijah Reid, Bryan Reynolds (HG), Ema Twumasi (INT’L), Maximiliano Urruti

ACQUISITIONS (9): Francis Atuahene, Jordan Cano, Jimmy Maurer, Santiiago Mosquera, Anton Nedyalkov, Kris Reaves, Brandon Servania, Ema Twumasi, Reto Ziegler DEPARTURES (11): Carlos Cermeño, Eduardo Cortes, Coy Craft, Hernan Grana, Luis Gonzalez, Aaron Guillen, Atiba Harris, Walker Hume, Javier Morales, Chris Seitz, Walker Zimmerman

New York Red Bulls

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As entertaining as RBNY fans made the drawn-out wait for winger Alejandro Romero Gamarra’s official signing, better known as #KakuWatch, the New York Red Bulls are surely relieved to have their prized offseason acquisition in the fold in time for their trip to Costa Rica to face Honduras’ Olimpia. That said, coach Jesse Marsch & Co. seem intent on imbuing their preparations with a similar sense of mystery, sharing relatively little in the way of lineup or formation info on public channels. So I’ve had to apply a hefty dose of guesswork to this XI. Will they keep with last year’s 3-3-3-1, or return to Marsch’s beloved (and elusive) 4-2-2-2? For now, I’m betting on a 4-3-3/4-2-3-1-ish look. What isn’t a mystery: They’ll high-press til they’re blue (well, red) in the face. 

Projected Starting XI (4-2-3-1, left to right): Luis Robles – Kemar Lawrence, Aurelien Collin, Aaron Long, Michael Amir Murillo – Felipe, Tyler Adams – Alex Muyl, Sean Davis, Daniel Royer – Bradley Wright-Phillips

New York Red Bulls ROSTERED PLAYERS (27 of 30 spots filled as of Feb. 18, 2018):

GK (3): Ryan Meara, Luis Robles DEF (9): Aurelien Collin (INT’L), Fidel Escobar (INT’L), Connor Lade (HG), Kemar Lawrence (INT’L), Aaron Long, Michael Amir Murillo (INT’L), Hassan Ndam (INT’L), Kevin Politz (HG), Tommy Redding (HG) MID (12): Tyler Adams (HG), Vincent Bezecourt (INT’l), Cristian Casseres Jr. (INT’L), Sean Davis (HG), Derrick Etienne Jr. (HG), Felipe, Ben Mines (HG), Alex Muyl (HG), Carlos Rivas, Alexandro Romero Gamarra (DP, INT’L), Daniel Royer (INT’L), Marc Rzatkowski (INT’L) FWD (3): Stefano Bonomo, Amando Moreno, Bradley Wright-Phillips (DP)

ACQUISITIONS (10): Stefano Bonomo, Cristian Casseres Jr., Ben Mines, Amando Moreno, Kevin Politz, Tommy Redding, Carlos Rivas, Alejandro Romero Gamarra, Marc Rzatkowski, Florian Valot  DEPARTURES (11): Brandon Allen, Arun Basuljevic, Gideon Baah, Mike Grella, Dilly Duka, Sacha Kljestan, Zeiko Lewis, Dan Metzger, Damien Perrinelle, Gonzalo Veron, Sal Zizzo

Seattle Sounders

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The back-to-back MLS Cup finalists and perennial CCL hopefuls haven’t had to make wholesale changes to an already-decent squad, though some of their supporting cast will look different in 2018. One source of preseason intrigue, however: Coach Brian Schmetzer has experimented with a 4-4-2 diamond formation, seeking to maximize the usefulness of his packed midfield corps. That said, with a trip to El Salvador on the docket for this week, I’d be surprised if the Rave Green overcomplicate things right out of the gates, so I’m predicting the incumbent shape and personnel for the Santa Tecla clash. And has newcomer Magnus Wolff Eikrem earned a spot in the lineup?

Projected Starting XI (4-2-3-1, left to right): Stefan Frei – Nouhou Tolo, Chad Marshall, Roman Torres, Jordy Delem – Gustav Svensson, Cristian Roldan – Jordan Morris, Clint Dempsey, Nicolas Lodeiro – Will Bruin

Seattle Sounders ROSTERED PLAYERS (25 of 30 spots filled as of Feb. 18, 2018):

GK (2): Stefan Frei, Bryan Meredith DEF (7): Tony Alfaro, Waylon Francis, Kelvin Leerdam (INT’L), Chad Marshall, Jordan McCrary, Nouhou Tolo (INT’L), Roman Torres (INT’L) MID (12): Osvaldo Alonso (DP), Handwalla Bwana (HG), Jordy Delem (INT’L), Magnus Wolff Eikrem (INT’L), Nicolas Lodeiro (DP, INT’L), Zach Mathers, Victor Rodriguez (INT’L), Alex Roldan, Cristian Roldan, Harry Shipp, Gustav Svensson (INT’L), Henry Wingo (HG) FWD (4): Seyi Adekoya (HG), Will Bruin, Clint Dempsey (DP), Jordan Morris (HG)

ACQUISITIONS (5):  Handwalla Bwana, Magnus Wolff Eikrem (INT’L), Waylon Francis, Jordan McCrary, Alex Roldan DEPARTURES (7): Brad Evans, Oniel Fisher, Joevin Jones, Aaron Kovar, Calum Mallace, Lamar Neagle, Tyler Miller

Toronto FC

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The defending MLS Cup, Supporters’ Shield and Canadian Championship holders have every right to be considered as MLS’ top CCL challenger. The Reds made only modest tweaks to their loaded roster over the winter, most prominently with the signing of former Dutch international Gregory van der Wiel. Both he and fellow defender Chris Mavingadid not travel to Colorado for the first leg of their showdown with the Rapids in Tuesday, though, so I’ve got Nick Hagglund and Nicolas Hasler in their expected spots instead. Thanks to the typically frigid February conditions in Toronto and Colorado, there’s extra uncertainty built into this series, which may be as much about survival as excellence. TFC’s 3-5-2 could well shift into a 4-4-2 diamond, as it often has under coach Greg Vanney.

Projected Starting XI (3-5-2, left to right): Alex Bono – Nick Hagglund, Drew Moor, Eriq Zavaleta – Justin Morrow, Marky Delgado, Michael Bradley, Victor Vazquez, Nicolas Hasler – Sebastian Giovinco, Jozy Altidore

Toronto FC ROSTERED PLAYERS (23 of 30 spots filled as of Feb. 18, 2018):

GK (3): Alex Bono (GA), Clint Irwin, Caleb Patterson-Sewell DEF (9): Auro (INT’L), Nick Hagglund, Nicolas Hasler (INT’L), Chris Mavinga (INT’L), Ashtone Morgan (HG), Drew Moor, Justin Morrow, Gregory van der Wiel, Eriq Zavaleta MID (6): Michael Bradley (DP), Jay Chapman (HG), Marky Delgado, Liam Fraser (HG), Jonathan Osorio (HG), Victor Vazquez (INT’L) FWD (5): Jozy Altidore (DP), Sebastian Giovinco (DP, INT’L), Jordan Hamilton (HG), Tosaint Ricketts, Ben Spencer (HG)

ACQUISITIONS (5): Auro (INT’L), Ayo Akinola (HG), Liam Fraser (HG), Caleb Patterson-Sewell, Gregory van der Wiel DEPARTURES (10): Brandon Aubrey, Oyvind Alseth, Steven Beitashour, Sergio Camargo, Armando Cooper, Benoit Cheyrou, Raheem Edwards, Tsubasa Endoh, Jason Hernandez, Mark Pais

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Which players would your team keep in an MLB Expansion Draft?

Your team gets to protect 15 players. The Montreal Youppis get to sniff around the rest. Good luck.

Two weeks ago, the NHL’s (Las) Vegas Golden Knights held the first major-league expansion draft in 13 years. It’s been almost two decades since the Rays and Diamondbacks got the chance to poach players from rosters around the league, and I thought it would be fun to think about what would happen if Major League Baseball did something similar. So I set out to figure out which players each organization would protect from being selected if, let’s say, the Montreal Youppis! or Monterrey Canyons joined the league.

For the purposes of this mock exercise, I’ll use rules similar to the rules of the last MLB expansion draft, which took place after the 1997 season, and I’ll assume that this draft is being completed after the 2017 season. This means that any player who is set for free agency this winter will not be protected and that we’ll ignore what will likely happen at next month’s trade deadline. We are also not factoring in no-trade clauses.

Here are our rules from 1997, adjusted to the 2017 baseball world:

For the first round, teams may protect 15 players from the rosters of their entire organization—both their 40-man roster, plus all minor-league affiliates.

In addition, players chosen in the 2016 and 2017 amateur drafts were automatically protected, plus players who were 18 or younger when signed in 2015.

Players who are free agents after the end of the 2017 season need not be protected.

Special thanks to SB Nation’s team site managers for their help in compiling these lists.

Arizona Diamondbacks:

Protected: 1B Paul Goldschmidt, OF A.J. Pollock, OF David Peralta, INF Brandon Drury, INF Chris Owings, 3B Jake Lamb, RHP Archie Bradley, RHP Zack Godley, LHP Robbie Ray, RHP Taijuan Walker, LHP Anthony Banda, LHP Patrick Corbin, INF Domingo Leyba, INF Dawel Lugo, RHP Shelby Miller

Notable exemptions: 1B Pavin Smith, RHP Jon Duplantier, 3B Drew Ellis, C Daulton Varsho, OF Anfernee Grier

Notes: A bit of a tough organization, with two big contracts (Zack Greinke and Yasmany Tomas) they’d probably be fine shedding and zero prospects in the top 100 in baseball. Corbin and Miller get a bit of a longer leash because of potential, leaving pieces like Nick Ahmed and Randall Delgado exposed.

Atlanta Braves:

Protected: 1B Freddie Freeman, SS Dansby Swanson, OF Ender Inciarte, RHP Julio Teheran, RHP Mike Foltynewicz, RHP Arodys Vizcaino, RHP Jason Hursh, INF Ozzie Albies, LHP Kolby Allard, SS Kevin Maitan, RHP Mike Soroka, LHP Sean Newcomb, OF Ronald Acuna, LHP Max Fried, 2B Travis Demeritte

Notable exemptions: RHP Kyle Wright, RHP Ian Anderson, SS Kevin Maitan, OF Drew Waters

Notes: Atlanta lucks out a bit with four top prospects (including two top-5 picks) already being exempt, and is very prospect-heavy, as expected. Matt Kemp’s resurgence and Matt Adams’ success thus far are not significant enough to push them ahead of the prospects John Coppolella has dealt for in the last few years, though Kemp would be an unlikely pick for an expansion team, anyway.

Baltimore Orioles:

Protected: 3B Manny Machado, OF Adam Jones, 1B Trey Mancini, 2B Jonathan Schoop, OF Mark Trumbo, LHP Zach Britton, RHP Brad Brach, RHP Dylan Bundy, RHP Kevin Gausman, RHP Darren O’Day, OF Joey Rickard, RHP Mychal Givens, C Chance Sisco, RHP Hunter Harvey, SS Ryan Mountcastle

Notable exemptions: LHP D.L. Hall, RHP Cody Sedlock, LHP Keegan Akin, OF Austin Hays

Notes: Trumbo and O’Day barely made the cut, but keeping them around makes a lot of sense for the Orioles in their current state. Both contracts aren’t that bad, and having both veterans on a club with a closing window (Machado and Jones are free agents after 2018) is probably the avenue the O��s, who are loyal to their guys, would take. There’s not really a lot of talent in the minors they’d need to protect, anyway. Chris Davis’ regression and monster deal means he goes unprotected.

Boston Red Sox:

Protected: OF Mookie Betts, OF Andrew Benintendi, OF Jackie Bradley Jr., SS Xander Bogaerts, 2B Dustin Pedroia, LHP Chris Sale, LHP Eduardo Rodriguez, RHP Rick Porcello, LHP Drew Pomeranz, RHP Craig Kimbrel, 3B Rafael Devers, C Christian Vazquez, RHP Joe Kelly, 1B Sam Travis, 1B/DH Hanley Ramirez

Notable exemptions: LHP Jay Groome, 3B Bobby Dalbec, RHP Tanner Houck, SS C.J. Chatham

Notes: Ramirez gets protected just because the Red Sox’ time to win is now, and there aren’t a ton of prospects that were left unprotected. Brian Johnson and Matt Barnes almost made the cut, though an expansion team would be unlikely to claim David Price and a change of scenery may be the best thing for him anyway.

Chicago Cubs:

Protected: 3B Kris Bryant, 1B Anthony Rizzo, 2B Addison Russell, LHP Jon Lester, RHP Carl Edwards Jr., RHP Kyle Hendricks, LHP Mike Montgomery, OF Kyle Schwarber, INF Javier Baez, OF Albert Almora, C Willson Contreras, OF Ian Happ, OF Eloy Jimenez, RHP Dylan Cease, C/1B Victor Caratini

Notable exemptions: LHP Brendon Little, RHP Alex Lange

Notes: The Cubs had a lot of obvious picks, headlined of course by the Bryzzo duo. Things got a little trickier down the stretch, as it made more sense to protect younger players than vets Ben Zobrist and Jason Heyward. An expansion team would be unlikely to take on Heyward’s contract in this scenario, making him a good choice to stay unprotected.

Chicago White Sox:

Protected: LHP Jose Quintana, LHP Carlos Rodon, 1B Jose Abreu, OF Avisail Garcia, SS Tim Anderson, RHP Tyler Danish, RHP Nate Jones, 3B Matt Davidson, 2B Yoan Moncada, RHP Michael Kopech, SS Luis Robert, RHP Lucas Giolito, RHP Reynaldo Lopez, RHP Carson Fulmer, OF Luis Alexander Basabe

Notable exemptions: C Zack Collins, 3B Jake Burger, RHP Zack Burdi, RHP Alec Hansen, RHP Dane Dunning

Notes: The ChiSox are actually one of the toughest teams to do this for, as they have tons of controllable talent in their system and would likely want to protect about 25 guys. They’re helped out a little bit by the exemptions but still likely wouldn’t have room for Yolmer Sanchez, Leury Garcia or Zach Putnam, who have been big-league contributors. They wouldn’t let any recent trade acquisitions go unprotected.

Cincinnati Reds:

Protected: 1B Joey Votto, OF Adam Duvall, OF Scott Schebler, OF Billy Hamilton, 3B Eugenio Suarez, 2B Jose Peraza, LHP Brandon Finnegan, LHP Amir Garrett, RHP Raisel Iglesias, RHP Michael Lorenzen, RHP Anthony DeSclafani, OF Jesse Winker, LHP Cody Reed, RHP Robert Stephenson, RHP Luis Castillo

Notable exemptions: SS/RHP Hunter Greene, 3B Nick Senzel, OF Taylor Trammell, SS Jeter Downs

Notes: Cincinnati’s protected list benefits from having two of its high-end prospects (Greene and Senzel) exempt, letting high-upside guys like Stephenson and Luis Castillo make the cut. Rookie Davis, Homer Bailey and Tucker Barnhart fell short of the prospect-heavy list of 15.

Cleveland Indians:

Protected: SS Francisco Lindor, 2B Jason Kipnis, 3B Jose Ramirez, OF Bradley Zimmer, OF Michael Brantley, DH Edwin Encarnacion, RHP Corey Kluber, RHP Carlos Carrasco, LHP Andrew Miller, RHP Cody Allen, RHP Trevor Bauer, C Francisco Mejia, RHP Triston McKenzie, 1B Bobby Bradley, OF Greg Allen

Notable exemptions: 3B Nolan Jones, OF Will Benson

Notes: Encarnacion’s big contract was the toughest call here, though Cleveland did guarantee him $60 million knowing their window is open for the next couple years. Danny Salazar and Lonnie Chisenhall, who are both under club control, were tough cuts in a talented org.

Colorado Rockies:

Protected: 3B Nolan Arenado, OF Charlie Blackmon, 2B D.J. LeMahieu, SS Trevor Story, RHP Jeff Hoffman, LHP Kyle Freeland, OF David Dahl, RHP Jonathan Gray, RHP Tyler Anderson, RHP German Marquez, C Tom Murphy, SS Brendan Rodgers, OF Raimel Tapia, 3B Ryan McMahon, RHP Ryan Castellani

Notable exemptions: RHP Riley Pint, 3B Ryan Vilade

Notes: The Rockies have a ton of major-league talent under control and a few top prospects, meaning there were some tough decisions at the back-end of their list. It makes sense that a team that plays in Coors Field would value controllable, young pitching, so we stocked them with arms instead of other options such as Ian Desmond and his significant contract, which would probably not be taken anyway.

Detroit Tigers:

Protected: 1B Miguel Cabrera, RHP Justin Verlander, 2B Ian Kinsler, LHP Justin Wilson, RHP Michael Fulmer, LHP Daniel Norris, RHP Shane Greene, LHP Matthew Boyd, 3B Nick Castellanos, RHP Alex Wilson, OF JaCoby Jones, OF Christin Stewart, RHP Joe Jimenez, RHP Beau Burrows, OF Michael Gerber

Notable exemptions: RHP Alex Faedo, RHP Matt Manning, RHP Kyle Funkhouser

Notes: Detroit is in the wonderful spot of having a subpar major-league team and weak farm system. That’ll likely change at the trade deadline, but we’re acting like that’s not happening so all of the likely trade chips (Verlander, Kinsler, Wilson, etc.) should be protected. Some prospects made the cut over major-leaguers like Jose Iglesias, Justin Upton and Jordan Zimmermann, with the latter two having huge contracts that the Tigers would likely love to get rid of.

Houston Astros:

Protected: OF George Springer, SS Carlos Correa, 2B Jose Altuve, 3B Alex Bregman, 1B Yulieski Gurriel, LHP Dallas Keuchel, RHP Lance McCullers, RHP Mike Fiers, RHP Ken Giles, RHP Will Harris, RHP Chris Devenski, RHP Francis Martes, OF Kyle Tucker, OF Derek Fisher, RHP Franklin Perez

Notable exemptions: RHP Forrest Whitley, RHP J.B. Bukauskas

Notes: There’s so much talent throughout this organization that the last few picks were some of the toughest of this entire exercise. Obviously, Houston’s window is open now so it makes sense to protect some successful major-league pieces (Giles, Harris, Fiers) over projectable talents like David Paulino and A.J. Reed. Collin McHugh and Joe Musgrove also came under consideration.

Kansas City Royals:

Protected: C Salvador Perez, 2B Whit Merrifield, LHP Danny Duffy, RHP Kelvin Herrera, RHP Matt Strahm, RHP Nathan Karns, OF Jorge Soler, 3B/OF Hunter Dozier, RHP Jake Junis, LHP Foster Griffin, C Chase Vallot, RHP Josh Staumont, 1B Ryan O’Hearn, SS Raul Mondesi, OF Jorge Bonifacio

Notable exemptions: OF Nick Pratto, C M.J. Melendez, RHP A.J. Puckett

Notes: With so many veterans set to depart in free agency this winter and a shallow farm system, the Royals would have to dig deep to find 15 solid options to protect. Alex Gordon, Paulo Orlando, Eric Skoglund and Joakim Soria among the cuts.

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim:

Protected: OF Mike Trout, OF Kole Calhoun, SS Andrelton Simmons, RHP Alex Meyer, LHP Andrew Heaney, RHP Matt Shoemaker, LHP Tyler Skaggs, RHP Nick Tropeano, RHP Garrett Richards, RHP Cam Bedrosian, RHP Keynan Middleton, 1B C.J. Cron, OF Jahmai Jones, RHP Chris Rodriguez, RHP Jaime Barria

Notable exemptions: OF Jordon Adell, 1B Matt Thaiss, OF Brandon Marsh, RHP Griffin Canning

Notes: I wish I could’ve just protected Trout 15 times. Lots of injured starters in here, but they’re some of the guys with the most potential long-term value. With almost all of the top prospects already exempt, an extremely hard list to fill out (see Cron, C.J.). No expansion team is taking Pujols...

Los Angeles Dodgers

Protected: LHP Clayton Kershaw, SS Corey Seager, OF Cody Bellinger, 3B Justin Turner, RHP Kenley Jansen, LHP Alex Wood, LHP Julio Urias, OF Joc Pederson, OF Chris Taylor, RHP Yadier Alvarez, OF Alex Verdugo, 2B Willie Calhoun, RHP Walker Buehler, RHP Brock Stewart, C Austin Barnes

Notable exemptions: SS Gavin Lux, OF Jeren Kendall, RHP Mitchell White, RHP Jordan Sheffield

Notes: There were a ton of great options for the Dodgers to protect, which is a great problem to have. Besides the obvious plays, Pederson and Taylor made it based on control and potential. Toughest cuts: Yusniel Diaz and Kenta Maeda.

Miami Marlins:

Protected: OF Christian Yelich, OF Marcell Ozuna, 1B Justin Bour, C J.T. Realmuto, 2B Dee Gordon, RHP Dan Straily, RHP Jose Urena, RHP Kyle Barraclough, RHP Tyler Kolek, INF J.T. Riddle, RHP A.J. Ramos, LHP Adam Conley, INF Miguel Ramos, LHP Nick Wittgren, 3B Brian Anderson

Notable exemptions: LHP Trevor Rogers, OF Brian Miller, LHP Braxton Garrett

Notes: An expansion team wouldn’t be likely to claim Giancarlo Stanton’s mega-deal, so he’s left off. The rest is the too-heavy collection of controllable talent Miami has due to a weak farm system. Even more reason for them to look to move Ozuna, Yelich, Ramos and others this summer (in real life).

Milwaukee Brewers:

Protected: 3B Travis Shaw, 1B Eric Thames, RHP Corey Knebel, OF Domingo Santana, SS Orlando Arcia, RHP Jimmy Nelson, RHP Chase Anderson, RHP Junior Guerra, RHP Zach Davies, INF Jonathan Villar, OF Lewis Brinson, LHP Josh Hader, RHP Luis Ortiz, SS Isan Diaz, RHP Brandon Woodruff

Notable exemptions: OF Corey Ray, OF/2B Keston Hiura, OF Tristen Lutz, RHP Lucas Erceg

Notes: Ryan Braun’s mega-deal (and regression so far this season) would cause him to go unprotected. It was hard to keep all four major-league starters, though they’re all controllable and have shown upside. Very difficult group overall, weighing prospects against guys with about a year of service time. Jacob Barnes, Trent Clark and Hernan Perez didn’t make it.

Minnesota Twins:

Protected: 2B Brian Dozier, 3B Miguel Sano, RHP Jose Berrios, RHP Ervin Santana, OF Byron Buxton, OF Max Kepler, OF Eddie Rosario, SS Jorge Polanco, SS Nick Gordon, LHP Stephen Gonsalves, RHP Fernando Romero, LHP Adalberto Mejia, RHP Kohl Stewart, LHP Tyler Jay, RHP Felix Jorge

Notable exemptions: SS Royce Lewis, OF Alex Kirilloff, 1B Brent Rooker, RHP Blayne Enlow

Notes: A really solid list for Minnesota, aided by two top picks being automatically exempt. Not yet ready to give up on the two first-round pitchers (Stewart and Jay), which made for some tough unprotected guys (Tyler Duffey, Zack Granite, J.T. Chargois, Trevor May).

New York Mets:

Protected: OF Michael Conforto, OF Yoenis Cespedes, RHP Jacob deGrom, RHP Noah Syndergaard, RHP Zack Wheeler, LHP Steven Matz, RHP Jeurys Familia, C Travis d’Arnaud, INF Wilmer Flores, RHP Matt Harvey, OF Juan Lagares, RHP Seth Lugo, SS Amed Rosario, 1B Dominic Smith, SS Luis Guillorme

Notable exemptions: RHP Justin Dunn, LHP David Peterson, INF Mark Vientos

Notes: This one was the hardest no matter what because of the reaction from a very angry #MetsTwitter. Harvey gets one last shot in my book. Too many other candidates underperforming this year (Brandon Nimmo, Gavin Cecchini, Desmond Lindsay, Robert Gsellman)

New York Yankees:

Protected: OF Aaron Judge, C Gary Sanchez, OF Brett Gardner, RHP Luis Severino, RHP Dellin Betances, SS Didi Gregorius, 2B Starlin Castro, SS Gleyber Torres, OF Clint Frazier, RHP Chance Adams, LHP Justus Sheffield, 1B/OF Tyler Austin, INF Jorge Mateo, RHP James Kaprielian, 1B Greg Bird

Notable exemptions: OF Blake Rutherford, RHP Clarke Schmidt

Notes: Doing this makes you realize how ludicrously talented the Yankees’ organization is. Luis Cessa, Jordan Montgomery, Aaron Hicks and high-priced guys like Aroldis Chapman and Jacoby Ellsbury on the outside looking in.

Oakland Athletics:

Protected: RHP Sonny Gray, RHP Khris Davis, 3B Ryon Healy, SS Franklin Barreto, LHP Sean Manaea, RHP Jharel Cotton, SS Marcus Semien, RHP Kendall Graveman, RHP Grant Holmes, 3B Matt Chapman, OF Matt Olson, RHP Daniel Gossett, SS Lazaro Armenteros, RHP Frankie Montas, INF Yairo Munoz

Notable exemptions: LHP A.J. Puk, OF Austin Beck, SS Kevin Merrell, RHP Daulton Jefferies, RHP Logan Shore

Notes: Tons of young talent here, making things hard. Jed Lowrie, Bruce Maxwell, Ryan Dull and Chad Pinder just missed it.

Philadelphia Phillies:

Protected: OF Odubel Herrera, 3B Maikel Franco, OF Aaron Altherr, 2B Cesar Hernandez, RHP Vincent Velasquez, RHP Aaron Nola, RHP Jerad Eickhoff, SS J.P. Crawford, C Jorge Alfaro, OF Nick Williams, RHP Franklyn Kilome, RHP Sixto Sanchez, 2B Scott Kingery, OF Dylan Cozens, 1B Rhys Hoskins

Notable exemptions: OF Mickey Moniak, OF Adam Haseley, RHP Kevin Gowdy

Notes: A prospect-heavy protection list for Philadelphia, which isn’t surprising. Even the struggling major-leaguers get a long leash here.

Pittsburgh Pirates:

Protected: 2B Josh Harrison, 1B Josh Bell, OF Andrew McCutchen, OF Starling Marte, OF Gregory Polanco, RHP Gerrit Cole, RHP Jameson Taillon, LHP Felipe Rivero, RHP Ivan Nova, OF Austin Meadows, RHP Mitch Keller, 2B Kevin Newman, RHP Tyler Glasnow, LHP Steven Brault, OF Adam Frazier

Notable exemptions: RHP Shane Baz, RHP Steven Jennings, 1B Will Craig

Notes: Pittsburgh has a nice mix of major-league talent and prospects, so 15 was just about the right number for them. McCutchen and Cole are trade bait, of course.

San Diego Padres:

Protected: 1B Wil Myers, INF Yangervis Solarte, LHP Brad Hand, OF Manuel Margot, OF Hunter Renfroe, OF Cory Spangenberg, RHP Anderson Espinoza, LHP Adrian Morejon, RHP Jacob Nix, SS Fernando Tatis Jr., OF Jorge Ona, LHP Logan Allen, INF Luis Urias, 1B Josh Naylor, 2B Carlos Asuaje

Notable exemptions: LHP MacKenzie Gore, C Luis Campusano-Bracero, RHP Cal Quantrill, LHP Eric Lauer

Notes: Would be some tough choices for a rebuilding club, mixing major-league guys with trade value and prospects. In the end, an interesting balance of both. Carlos Asuaje, Ryan Schimpf, and Travis Jankowski on the outside looking in.

San Francisco Giants:

Protected: C Buster Posey, LHP Madison Bumgarner, 2B Joe Panik, 1B Brandon Belt, SS Brandon Crawford, LHP Matt Moore, LHP Ty Blach, RHP Hunter Strickland, OF Austin Slater, RHP Jeff Samardzija, RHP Tyler Beede, SS Christian Arroyo, 1B Chris Shaw, RHP Joan Gregorio, LHP Andrew Suarez

Notable exemptions: OF Heliot Ramos, OF Bryan Reynolds, OF Heath Quinn

Notes: The Giants’ struggles this year have shocked everyone, but they still do have a lot of controllable talent on the roster that will either benefit them on the field or in trades. Samardzija and Strickland were especially tough calls. We’re counting Johnny Cueto as a free agent, though he could opt in and remain with the Giants.

Seattle Mariners:

Protected: 3B Kyle Seager, SS Jean Segura, RHP Edwin Diaz, OF/DH Nelson Cruz, OF Mitch Haniger, OF Ben Gamel, LHP James Paxton, LHP Drew Smyly, C Mike Zunino, LHP Ariel Miranda, 1B/DH Dan Vogelbach, OF Tyler O’Neill, RHP Nick Neidert, RHP Andrew Moore, RHP Max Povse

Notable exemptions: OF Kyle Lewis, 1B Evan White, RHP Sam Carlson

Notes: Some obvious picks for Seattle, some not so obvious. It’s extremely unlikely anyone would take on the contracts of Robinson Cano or Felix Hernandez, so they’re unprotected. Cruz was a tough call, but ultimately made the cut for an injury-destroyed team that could contend in 2018. Same with Smyly.

St. Louis Cardinals:

Protected: RHP Carlos Martinez, 1B Matt Carpenter, OF Stephen Piscotty, C Yadier Molina, RHP Mike Leake, 2B Kolten Wong, OF Dexter Fowler, SS Aledmys Diaz, 2B Jedd Gyorko, RHP Alex Reyes, C Carson Kelly, RHP Luke Weaver, RHP Jack Flaherty, OF Magneuris Sierra, RHP Sandy Alcantara

Notable exemptions: SS Delvin Perez

Notes: Leake’s big deal was tough to keep around, but leaving Adam Wainwright and Michael Wacha unprotected created a bigger need for proven major-league pitching alongside Martinez. Randal Grichuk, Tommy Pham, Marco Gonzalez and Harrison Bader were some tough cuts; Trevor Rosenthal’s free agency after 2018 made him vulnerable.

Tampa Bay Rays:

Protected: RHP Chris Archer, 3B Evan Longoria, OF Kevin Kiermaier, OF/DH Corey Dickerson, RHP Alex Colome, RHP Jake Odorizzi, LHP Blake Snell, SS Willy Adames, RHP Brent Honeywell, RHP Jose De Leon, OF/1B Jake Bauers, 1B Casey Gillaspie, OF Mallex Smith, INF Matt Duffy, RHP Jacob Faria

Notable exemptions: LHP/1B Brendan McKay, RHP Drew Rasmussen, 3B Josh Lowe, RHP Michael Mercado

Notes: Tampa is top-heavy on prospects and has a nice mix of current veterans under control for a while as well. Duffy (controlled through 2020) and Smith (through 2021) were big pieces of recent pitching trades, leading to them being protected over Wilson Ramos, Steven Souza, Matt Andriese or Brad Miller. Some really tough cuts at the end.

Texas Rangers:

Protected: OF Nomar Mazara, 2B Rougned Odor, 1B Joey Gallo, LHP Cole Hamels, LHP Martin Perez, SS Elvis Andrus, 3B Adrian Beltre, RHP Matt Bush, RHP Keone Kela, OF Delino DeShields, OF Leody Taveras, 1B Ronald Guzman, RHP Ariel Jurado, LHP Brett Martin, LHP Yohander Méndez

Notable exemptions: LHP Cole Ragans, OF Bubba Thompson, SS Christopher Seise

Notes: Hamels is too good to risk letting go, big deal and all. Andrus will probably opt out after 2018, so he’s protected too. Not a lot of prospect meat here, but Jurickson Profar and Shin-soo Choo still didn’t make the cut.

Toronto Blue Jays:

Protected: OF Kevin Pillar, 3B Josh Donaldson, RHP Marcus Stroman, RHP Roberto Osuna, RHP Joe Biagini, 2B Devon Travis, RHP Aaron Sanchez, RHP Ryan Tepera, 1B Justin Smoak, OF Dalton Pompey, 3B Vladimir Guerrero Jr., RHP Sean Reid-Foley, OF Anthony Alford, SS Richard Urena, RHP Conner Greene

Notable exemptions: INF Bo Bichette, RHP T.J. Zeuch, SS Logan Warmoth, RHP Nate Pearson, C Hagen Danner

Notes: Toronto has a few contracts they’d be fine ridding themselves of, leaving Jose Bautista, Troy Tulowitzki and Russell Martin unprotected. Controllable studs and high-level prospects are key for them moving forward.

Washington Nationals:

Protected: OF Bryce Harper, SS Trea Turner, 2B Daniel Murphy, 3B Anthony Rendon, 1B Ryan Zimmerman, RHP Max Scherzer, RHP Stephen Strasburg, OF Adam Eaton, LHP Gio Gonzalez, OF Michael A. Taylor, RHP Joe Ross, RHP Tanner Roark, OF Victor Robles, RHP Erick Fedde, OF Juan Soto

Notable exemptions: SS Carter Kieboom, 3B Sheldon Neuse

Notes: Protecting Gonzalez (we’re assuming his option vests at 180 innings) is unorthodox for sure, but we’re figuring the Nats will want as much major-league talent as possible in what is likely Bryce Harper’s final year in D.C. Scherzer and Strasburg have big contracts, but are worth protecting due to performance. It’s all-in for the Nats.

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Salvador Anthony Fisher Headcanons

So you guys should know by now, I'm a self shipper and proud, I like sharing my thoughts with you guys! Now, these headcanons are for my personal Sal Fisher. Sal is actually my first self ship, but he's been fine with not being in the spotlight... Until now. Strap in because this is gonna be a ride, but, may I introduce

Salvador Anthony Fisher

(Under the cut because of length)

Born: December 13, 1976 to Diane Elizabeth Collins Fisher and Henry William Fisher at 3:33am in Hoboken, NJ.

Diane was a fan of Salvador Dali, and wanted to pay tribute.

Facial scarring happened in late summer of 1984, when Sal was seven.

Diane stepped in front of a shotgun blast meant for Sal.

Shrapnel made of shotgun ammo and bone fragments from Diane caused the scars

Plastic surgery wasn't the best back then, but the doctors tried their best, salvaging what they could and using skin grafts from Sal's back to patch some places.

He's got three scars on his back that look like patches in a blanket from the skin they took for grafts.

Diane died shortly after Sal's initial surgery, and intellectually, Sal knew she was gone. But he stayed in a state of denial for several months after her death

After he was released from the hospital, Sal still explored and adventured in the surrounding area around his house.

He found Gizmo one day and Gizmo just kind of... Injected himself into the family

He helped heal the rift that was starting to form between Sal and Henry. Henry stopped acting so angry, but his negligence continued throughout Sal's teenage years.

After moving to Nockfell and meeting the gang, Sal really came into his own.

I mean, yeah he still had bullies, but the gang made up for it and made it so much more bearable.

We've talked about Sal's bully experiences before, but we'll do it again.

Even back in Jersey, Sal was a magnet for bullies. He didn't move to Nockfell until he was 15, so Sal had more than his share of bullies by the time he got to Nockfell.

They always want to rip off Sal's prosthetic so they can make fun of his face.

That's why he started wearing pigtails. It makes it harder to pull his prosthetic off

But it also exerts a lot of force on Sal's neck when someone tries.

So Sal's got some neck problems. But he knows how to fight, so it's not like he's helpless.

Sal took physical therapy for his neck problems

It's resulted in him having a pretty thick neck.

He mostly took the physical therapy because his neck injuries were causing migraines.

Takes: antidepressants (which he hates), antianxiety meds (which barely work) and migraine meds.

When Sal met Larry, there was an instant bond, like two puzzle pieces fitting together.

Sal was Larry's "brother from another mother"

Ash and Today are actually a year ahead of Sal in school. Larry got held back a year, but Sal managed to graduate early

No matter the subject, Sal got top marks in all of his classes. School came easily to Sal, his brain like a sponge, absorbing any and all information.

Got over his crush on Ash relatively quickly, deciding he liked her more as a sister or friend

Became good friends with Travis, but let it low profile, not wanting to make waves for Travis at home

When Henry and Lisa got married, Sal was Lisa's maid of honor, wearing a yellow dress because that was Lisa's favorite color.

Ash and Maple curled his hair and put it up in a pretty bun.

Larry gave Lisa away, there wasn't a dry eye in the courthouse.

Sal is really sassy. He's got a little bit of little man's syndrome and he's from Jersey too.

By the time Sal was 21, he was 5'6", not having his final growth spurt until he was 25.

Sal was always a late bloomer.

Has a deep voice caused from damage to his neck from his accident. His accent is 100% Frank Iero, but his voice is closer to Corey Taylor from Slipknot.

Sal can get loud, especially if he's not got his prosthetic on.

The fiberglass it's made of is really thick, so it won't break easily, and there's just a slit for the mouth.

So he had to learn to project early on.

Larry started teaching Sal bass in 93, introducing him to metal like Sanity's Fall, Korn, Metallica, Black Sabbath, and Slipknot.

Sal found other bands like Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, Meat Puppets, and Soundgarden on his own.

The Grace of Sal's dimension met Sal at Nockfell Community College in autumn of 99 in Psych 101.

They got paired up for a project and it was kismet from then on.

That's what Sally calls it, kismet

There was instant attraction on both parts, Grace not just accepting but loving Sally and all of his scars

Their personalities just meshed and hangouts culminated into dates and dates into Sal showing Grace his face and then asking her to wear his necklace, a silver chain with a bass pick on it. I have it now.

Sal says that there is no difference between me and that Grace, except for some time differences due to dimensional stuff, but we'll get to that, and that I never ended up in Nockfell.

Sal and Grace were talking about her moving in when the Addison killings happened.

Part of Sal's cult research and ghost hunting, Grace immediately believed Sal's story and advocated for his release.

She tried to get someone, anyone, to look at the temple under the apartments, but no one seemed too keen on believing the girlfriend of a mass murderer.

Sal hit his final growth spurt, finally standing at 5'8"

He also bulked up. Death row inmates normally are kept in solitary confinement. It was either work out, or go crazy

Grace and Ash tried everything, but the odds were heavily stacked against Sal

They eventually tried Ash's idea, which was too little, too late.

Sal was put in the electric chair at 6:33 pm, and subjected to three rounds of electricity at the age of 28 in August of 2004.

Grace, unable to face life knowing her Sally was dead, fatally overdosed on sleeping pills minutes later.

Never knowing that

Sal survived

He was absolutely heartbroken when Ash broke the news at the hospital, where they were keeping Sal for observation, as well as treating injuries from the force of the chair: a broken right forearm, a broken left femur, a broken right hand, and so many severely strained muscles that they kept him for a month.

Other than the injuries, Sal was healthy

Sal accidentally shifted dimensions one night a couple of weeks later. He saw a rubberhose Sal and Grace

When Sal came back, he decided he'd learn to go to as many dimensions as he could, and find one with a Grace who didn't have a Sal

It took him two years, but Sal found me when he was 30. This me, in this dimension. In this dimension, it was in December of 2019.

This is where it gets complicated, but apparently, our dimension takes place thirteen years ahead of Sal's

Another difference is that in his dimension, Ireland is part of the UK

So you can imagine my surprise when this guy comes up to me in the park. He's not dressed for the season, just in a black hoodie and black jeans. But he seems vaguely familiar in that deja vu kinda way.

He wore a white and pink mask and obviously had a glass eye but who am I to judge

His eyes were bright sapphire blue in the hazy gray December light.

And he just... Struck up a conversation like he'd known me forever, introducing himself as Sally. Sally Fisher.

I gave him my number, and he pulled out this ancient flip phone.

I was kinda horrified and insisted on at least him getting a burner phone. I took him a few blocks over to the Dollar Store and picked a Galaxy from a few seasons ago, and Sally paid for it in cash, old bills.

Then we went to a nearby diner and I ended up having to teach him how to use it.

It struck me as odd to have to do that. I only ever have to teach my parents how to use new phones.

"What gives Sally? Who are you?"

"Do you believe in kismet?" and I nodded, remembering the term for fate/destiny from a movie.

Then he told me everything. His life story from facial injuries to the cult, his crimes, prison, the electric chair, Grace's death, and then his search through dimensions.

"You have to see that it's meant to be, you and me" he said "Every place I've been to has had a version of me. And those versions of me always had you. Always. There's always an Ash and Todd too, and I always die, so does Larry. Except in mine. And yours. Where's your Sal, true?"

Sally's eyes pleaded with me and I told him I'd think about it, making sure we had each others numbers. I had to leave for home soon after.

We kept talking through text, the cell reception in Sal's dimension just enough to get through to my number. He sent me pictures over the course of a couple weeks that left me with no other choice but to believe him

Pictures of low res MTV shows I remembered from 2006, newspaper headlines, etc.

I ran a search and found that this dimension's Sal Fisher of Hoboken, New Jersey by way of Nockfell, Pennsylvania died in a car crash the January before all of the other Sals and Graces met, when he was 21.

We started dating, Sal coming to stay with me for nights, and then weekends

When it got to the point that neither of us were happy about when time for him to leave came, I asked if he would stay.

Sally decided that, yes, he would stay, and went to his dimension one last time to explain and tell Ash and Todd goodbye.

They understood and wished us luck, and Ash wrote a note telling me that she trusted me to love Sal as much as the Grace from her dimension did.

TLDR: Sal came from a dimension 13 years behind us after surviving the electric chair. He picked this one because my Sal died when he was 21. He found me in 2019 and we've been happy ever since, bringing Toby and now Jeff into our poly family.

So let's talk about my Sal, our relationship, etc!

Kinda just... Took over the dead Sal's identity. Reported that there was a mistake, that he wasn't dead.

It was a process but we got it done.

Still a metalhead, he's delighted we share the same bands exactly in both dimensions

He also likes The Flaming Lips, Talking Heads, The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr, and Strfkr because of me

Also a HUGE fan of Gorillaz, Opeth, Frog Leap Studios, and MSI (though he's disgusted by the scandal with the front man)

Loves how advanced video games have gotten. We have both Xbox and Playstation consoles, only the newest, and a gaming computer and laptop to keep up with Sal's admitted gaming addiction.

He's a bottomless pit. He can eat so much, and has to actually put in effort to gain weight. He eats a lot and only does the barest daily workout.

Doesn't wear his prosthetic much around the house, preferring a backwards cap and his hair down.

I suspect it's because he's touch starved and naturally prefers real kisses to prosthetic ones any day.

One of my favorite ways to find Sal is sprawled across the couch, Smokey in his lap, cap on backwards to keep the hair from his eyes, biting his torn lower lip in concentration as he solves some puzzle or another in a game.

Is 5'8.6" tall and weighs 157 lbs

Has a little tummy pudge, like a dad bod lite™

We've noticed his hair is getting darker as he ages. It was bright cornflower blue when he got here, but over the past few years it's darkened a couple of shades. It's barely noticeable.

His eyes are like if sunlight were behind a sapphire, though the glass one is more dull.

Apparently, he needs to get to the oculist sooner than planned for his six month check up. He says his glass eye has been uncomfortable lately and it doesn't point straight as easily anymore.

So he's been going without it.

His eyelid says over the socket, but luckily, he's got a double row of dark blue eyelashes to distract from it.

He's restarted his collection of prosthetics, both facial and ocular.

Has to wear reading glasses to read and drive

Can drive, but doesn't like to

Paints his nails black every morning. He lets me pick a color to do an accent nail for each hand. Today is swampy green

His Metallica hat is sacred to him and very symbolic. The lettering on it is dark blue, for the Ride the Lightning single.

Sal jokes that "Ride the Lightning" is his song because he rode the lightning and lived.

One of those sappy boyfriends, he's got a plethora of names he calls me, his favorites in bold (we've been together for two years this December, it's quite a list): Gracie, Gracie face, baby, dream, precious, toots (pronounced tʰuts), peaches, phillie, honeybee, bb, bugaboo, beauty (calls himself beast), eyes, pockets, doll face, goddess, queenie, pinkie pie, Molly (every man has his Molly), sweet pickle, minx, vixen, genius, evil woman, itchy witch, hellcat, muffin, hotcakes, jellybean, sunny, and emerald.

Likes when I call him: dear, darling, babe, sweetheart, honey, love, teddy bear, Sally boy, and salamander

Finds it weird but cool that there's a game about his life basically. He thinks it's a cool coincidence.

Big fan of kisses, his entire day will be ruined if I forget to kiss him good morning and he has trouble sleeping without me

Found this dimensions Larry, he now lives in the apartment next door, in another brownstone loft.

Made sure I had only the cutest masks when we had to start wearing them. He's actually pretty partial to the medical mask design but some days his face just needs the support of his prosthetic.

Hates wearing his prosthetic in the summer. He stays so hot and will wear tank tops and gym shorts all summer, only breaking out hoodies for me, but not wearing them at all till mid October.

We work together at a smoke shop/dispensary. I work on the dispensary side, helping patients find the right strain for their condition, and Sal sells vape products, CBD products, and accessories for the medicinal side of clientele.

Can't stand cigarettes, but loves the concept of vaping. He keeps the most efficient mod and has a huge collection of flavors ranging from fruity to baked goods and desserts that can satisfy any craving you have.

Is a medical marijuana patient for his injuries, migraines, and PTSD.

We have a few cats, but only one stays inside, a Russian blue hair named Smokey.

We also have a blue tongued skink

We've been working on Sal's phobia of dogs, especially since he knows it was actually Kenneth Phelps who attacked him, not an actual dog

So we have two Mexican hairless dogs because they have less and more dull teeth than most dogs.

He's still nervous around Toby's dog, Seven, though, since he's bigger.