#star walk: the walkening

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also like. "The Chase" (TNG S6E20) is set up as a race for some Super Special Advanced Technology that winds up actually being just. like. a very generic "hi kids we're so proud of you" greeting card and honestly i NEED DIS S5 to end with the same thing, just another absolutely sweet yet banal greeting from amorphous rubber aliens giving a Watsonian explanation for something that absolutely did not need to be explained — hi kids, we're so proud of you, here's why your uniforms keep changing every five years it's us we're doing it in the background, it definitely has nothing to do with TV production cycles shhhhhhhh

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Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice 2001

The song features a lead vocal by American funk musician Bootsy Collins. On the album version, Collins's normal vocals are heard through the right audio channel; the same vocals, distorted to a much deeper pitch, are heard through the left. The song features a prominent sample of Sly & the Family Stone's 1968 song "Into My Own Thing", as well as samples from "All Strung Out Over You" by The Chambers Brothers and "Word Play" by The X-Ecutioners. The lines "Walk without rhythm/and it won't attract the worm" quote the science fiction novel Dune, while the line "tone of my voice" may be the titular weapon, as used by some of the book's characters. The line "halfway between the gutter and the stars" refers to a line in Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan: "We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars", and was also used as the album title.

The music video features actor Christopher Walken Dancen dancing around a deserted hotel lobby. It won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Music Video, six awards at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards, and Christopher Walken was awarded one of MTV's Moonmen for Best Choreography.

I think it's safe to say that the video is one of the truly greatest music videos ever made, and needs to be watched by everybody. Your whole life will be vastly improved by having this video in your life. Check it out now, funk soul brothers.

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I've changed my mind on the live action movie I absolutely want a Mel Brooks-style Zelda movie starring Daniel Radcliffe as Link

The running gag is everyone decides he's a teenager despite him being visibly in his 30s. Kumail Nanjiani is an exhausted Ganondorf. Kristen Schaal is Zelda. Melissa McCarthy in increasingly obvious party city wigs is every Great Fairy. Michelle Yeoh is Impa. Alan Tudyk is there.

Jim Rash is the Happy Mask Salesman

Dwayne Johnson is the goron leader but it's not cg it's just him in very good cosplay (he's the rock, you see)

John Cena is dark link and Daniel Radcliffe Link thinks that's very unfair

Idris Elba is there and people assume he's Ganondorf but he's just selling his wares and is like 'wtf u think I look like ganonodorf for, just cause my eyes are yellow and my skin's dark? i'm from lurelin me mum's a zora ya prick'

everybody talks in their normal voice, no character voices, no additional accents

alan tudyk is just every background character that would be a recycled model. daniel exhausts his dialogue options and alan just repeats himself like four times. daniel walks away and someone else asks alan a question and he repeats himself again and is like 'wait you're someone else, hang on' and starts his dialogue tree over in the background

Andrew Koji plays sheik and Kristen Schaal claims he was her the whole time and Daniel's like, 'no it definitely wasn't' and she's like 'yeah it was, you just didn't recognize me because i put my hair up. i'm very clever.'

The Great Deku Tree is a puppet voiced by Sir Ian McKellan. Patrick Stewart plays Kepora Gebora. While Ian is trying to impart the legend, Patrick keeps interrupting him with corrections until the Deku tree up and dies in protest. Patrick takes this as a win. Daniel is horrified.

Will Ferrel plays the King of Hyrule. I have no guidance for this one it just feels right.

Kepora Gebora turns into Rauru and Rauru is played by Christopher Walken

Kumaildorf is just trying to get a teensy bit of world domination, as a treat, is that so much to ask

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as a fellow Walken fan i need to know is puss in boots that bad . i would love to hear your review

its Not Great its pretty boring not a whole lot happens but hes the star & he dances & sings & looks cute & the ogre looks like tommy rugrats. the cat sounds are out of control. i pondered to my dad whether it would be more entertaining to a kid & we both agreed Probably Not. anyways the only reason i could imagine an adult sitting through it is to see him & he definitely delivers

also theres this shot at the end where he like walks behind a pillar as a dude & then its empty boots on the other side & the cut is SO ROUGH for no reason. youll see what i mean. its on tubi. go on get movin

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'Every great actor understands how to harness the tools they've been given. For Christopher Walken, it's his pinball-esque grasp of cadence. For Jack Nicholson, it's the Play-Doh structure of his face. Then there's Cillian Murphy. Some may say it's the eyes, those piercing almost-translucent blue orbs that help him oscillate from warm to terrifying in a split second. But no, sorry, they're wrong. Nothing but love to those pearly peepers, but the real magic of Murphy's face is that razor-sharp set of blades hugging the side of his head.

Those cheekbones, so sharp you could probably run his face up a bottle of champagne and the cork would fly off. So cutting you could make sushi with them. You would probably have to baby-proof his face for fear of toddlers happening across those dangerous corners. But beyond just how they look (very good), Murphy understands the power they have in his performances. They can transform him from menacing to ghoulish to inviting, sometimes in the space of one role. With Oppenheimer on the horizon, we've ranked Murphy's cheekbone-iest roles to date.

6. Batman Begins (2008)

As the Kens of Barbie are defined by their jobs, the style and mood of a movie will dictate how the Cillian Murphy cheekbones operate on screen: in Oppenheimer, they remind us of the deathly, apocalyptic stakes of the A-bomb. In 28 Days Later, they make everything a little more scary. In Red Eye, they’re serving. Which brings us to Batman Begins, in which Murphy portrays the DC series’ central purveyor of spook, Jonathan Crane, AKA the Scarecrow, ooooh. It’s most appropriate, then, that the tautness of Murphy’s face gives him a hot, skeletal allure, which is also kinda spooky. He can dose us with a demonic hallucinogen any day. JK

5. Red Eye (2005)

We're about to say something Cillian Murphy will, at worst, hate, or, at best, be utterly baffled by thanks to his refusal to exist in the age of the internet. But those cheekbones? In the 2005 Wes Craven underrated film Red Eye? They're serving cunt. Slicey McGee's second consecutive villain role after Batman Begins traded the burlap sack for an eye mask in this thriller where he plays a seemingly nice hot man who turns out to be a terrorist. Modern dating, amirite? The cheekbones do some transformative heavy lifting in this, getting more hollow the more menacing he needs to be. He's essentially Wolverine but the retractable knives are on his face. And, just in case it needed to be confirmed, yes, the cheekbones still hold up under airplane bathroom lighting. The jammy sod. LF

4. Sunshine (2007)

After 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle's second Murphy team-up upped the ante in a fashion any good sequel should: they took the cheekbones all the way to space. If we learned anything about those staggering face cliffs over the course of Murphy’s early career, it’s that they always, always deserve the best lighting possible. Nay, they demand it. Which is presumably why Boyle took Murphy to the surface of a dying star, because fuck a ring light when you’ve got cheeks like these. Chris Nolan would essentially do the same years later with Oppenheimer, though substituting the sun for an atomic explosion. Do NOT turn down the brightness. JK

3. Peaky Blinders (2013-2022)

Has the term peaky blinders been used as slang for cheekbones yet? If not, it should. Think about it, “That boy Cillian's got a cracking set of peaky blinders on him”. It just works. Murphy's almost decade-long tenure as gang leader Tommy Shelby did so much for the landscape of men's fashion – You could barely walk down the street without seeing at least a handful of lads sporting his drastic undercut. And while we're not here to yuck anyone's yum, the real secret sauce of that haircut that so many failed to recognise is that it was following the severe line of his 90-degree, razor-sharp cheekbones. They were simply two parallel lines fighting for supremacy on one man's head, but we know who came out on top in the end. LF

2. 28 Days Later (2002)

Like Watergate, the Moon landing and 9/11, most people can remember where they were when they first saw 28 Days Later, because it was the day that Danny Boyle introduced the Cillibones to the world. Lives were changed, the planet shook, something shifted: here was the most archetypal Man to Be Shot in Close-Up ever seen on screen, unleashing upon the world a cheekbone fever stronger and all the more unhinged than a rage-inducing virus. People literally died. Good movie, too. JK

Oppenheimer (2023)

Christopher Nolan loves Cillian Murphy's face so much he shoots it in pretty much every way he can in Oppenheimer – Colour, black and white, extremely close-up, lit by the fire of 100 tons of plutonium. Not to mention the IMAX cameras! The man just wants to see his guy look glorious on the biggest screen possible, and the result is blinding. Hand us the welder's glass, Oppy, we're about to lose our retinas here. Murphy shed weight to play the emaciated father of the atomic bomb, which give the Cillibones™ a chance to pop even more than usual. He ends up looking like a besuited Grim Reaper which, for someone who utters the iconic phrase “I am become death, destroyer of worlds”, tracks. When the time comes for Murphy to inevitably win an Oscar for this role, we hope there's enough room on the plaque to engrave a co-winner in the shape of his own bone structure. LF'

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BBC - Drama - Shakespeare - The Taming of the Shrew - Shirley Henderson as Katherine movie of the day, p2

Shirley was delighted to work with Rufus again, having co-starred with him in Charles II.

"We work in a similar way and we jump in at the deep end and help each other. I'm not scared to try things out in front of him and he's the same with me. He's a gorgeous, lovely man, full of life and has so much to offer – a real jack-in-a-box."

video taco | puttin' on the ritz *hot guys sewell & walken* movie of the day: the taming of the shrew, p3 Rufus Sewell (Petruchio, Jacob Hood) and Christopher Walken (Pennies from Heaven, Plots with a View, Roseland)

If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to Why don't you go where fashion sits? Puttin' on the Ritz Different types who wear a day coat Pants with stripes and cutaway coat, perfect fits Puttin' on the Ritz  Dressed up like a million-dollar trouper Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper) Come, let's mix where Rockefellers Walk with sticks or umbrellas in their mitts Puttin' on the Ritz (...)

Für die Rolle des Petruchio in einer modernen Neufassung von William Shakespeares "Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung" wird Rufus 2006 bei den British Academy Television Awards in der Kategorie als bester Darsteller nominiert.

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Eleanor Tomlinson cuts a stylish figure in a backless brown leather dress as she arrives at the preview of The Couple Next Door thriller

By Lily Jobson For Mailonline

21:31 01 Nov 2023, updated 21:36 01 Nov 2023

Eleanor Tomlinson cut a stylish figure in a backless brown leather dress as she arrived at the preview of The Couple Next Door on Wednesday.

The actress, 31, who plays the main role in the thriller, oozed elegance in the stunning dress as she posed up a storm for cameras.

The auburn-haired beauty flashed her slender physique in the racy midi dress, teamed with black court heels.

Eleanor stars alongside Alfred Enoch, who rose to fame playing Wes in hit American drama How To Get Away With Murder.

The Poldark star joined actors Sam Heughan and Alfred for a sweet photo at the preview event.

Gowrgeous: Eleanor Tomlinson, 31, cut a stylish figure in a backless brown leather dress as she arrived at the preview of The Couple Next Door on Wednesday

Gorgeous: The actress, who plays the main role in the thriller, oozed elegance in the stunning dress as she posed up a storm for cameras

The six-part psychological thriller explores the claustrophobic feel of suburbia and the troubles of giving in to romantic desires - the date is yet to be announced.

Eleanor is in a happy relationship with her husband Will Owen, who first went public with their relationship when the British actress shared a loved-up snap on social media in February last year.

She sparked rumours of an engagement last November when she was seen leaving a supermarket in London wearing a diamond ring.

In July she shared photos of their wedding ceremony at Euridge Manor, near Bath. She wore an off-the-shoulder Pronovias gown with a huge princess-style skirt and Christian Louboutin heels.

Will, who plays for Clifton Rugby Club, has previously played for Leicester Tigers, Doncaster Knights and Nottingham Rugby Club.

Elsewhere, Eleanor has been hard at work filming the hotly-anticipated third series of The Outlaws, where she's starring opposite Darren Boyd.

Eleanor, who plays posh-girl influencer and socialite Gabby on the show, truly looked the part in her stunning costumes.

Season three of The Outlaws started filming in April in Bristol, which is show creator Stephen Merchant's hometown.

Alongside Eleanor, the show's stars include Oscar award winning legend Christopher Walken, Rhianne Barreto, Gamba Cole, Darren Boyd and Clare Perkins.

Stars: The Poldark star joined actors Sam Heughan (L) and Alfred Enoch (R) for a sweet photo at the preview event

Dapper: Sam looked handsome in a black tuxedo as he posed for a sweet snap with gorgeous Eleanor

Glamorous: The auburn-haired beauty flashed her slender physique in the racy midi dress, teamed with black court heels

Behind the magic: Eleanor and The Couple Next Door crew all pictured together

Beaming: Eleanor appeared to be in great spirits as she got chatting with the audience

The comedy thriller follows seven strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a Community Payback sentence in Bristol.

In a past interview, she said of her character: 'Gabby is a social-media influencer with a drink and drug problem.

'She is wild and uncontrollable and, without being unkind, blissfully unaware of the lives of others around her, which makes her outrageously funny to play

The comedy thriller follows seven strangers from different walks of life forced together to complete a Community Payback sentence in Bristol.

In a past interview, she said of her character: 'Gabby is a social-media influencer with a drink and drug problem.

'She is wild and uncontrollable and, without being unkind, blissfully unaware of the lives of others around her, which makes her outrageously funny to play.'

Its second series ended with her character attending a support group to try get off drugs.

Meanwhile Stephen's character Greg impulsively quit his job and taking the plunge with a date, Frank, played by Christopher Walken, was asked to leave his family home by his daughter.

While series one was highly acclaimed, series two had more mixed reviews.

The Stephen Merchant-written production was formerly known as The Offenders however it was announced it would be known as The Outlaws in September 2021.

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** The MailOnline TV & Showbiz UK article cited is about actress Eleanor Tomlinson, not about SH.

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Hackney Diamonds is out. The Stones performed with Lady gaga in NY at the release party. In attendance were Elvis Costello, Diana Krall, Jimmy Fallon, Chris Rock, Trevor Noah, Christie Brinkley and Daniel Craig. The Stones are all in their 70’s and 80’s but Mick was still showing some nip. 

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Foo Fighters are heading out on tour in 2024!!! 

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If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking. - Andrea Junker 

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In May. Russia banned all late- night shows except Fallon. 

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Did ya catch the rant that Congresswoman Jasmine Crocket had?? She called out the lack of evidence against Biden and wondered why our Government’s secrets were in Trump’s “shitter.” 

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New York was flooded. 

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Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift (Traylor) are keeping the NFL and the gossip pages talking. 

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It seems that the last few years, China is rehearsing war in Taiwan. 

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Gwen Stefani got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 

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Hooray for Vera Wang. When asked what keeps her ageless at 74, she told us, “Vodka, McDonalds, Dunkin and hardwork.”  

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Matt Gaetz filed a motion to vacate and they voted out Kevin McCarthy on October 2. McCarthy blamed the Democrats. 45 Republicans issued a letter that things have to change and they were embarrased about what is happening. They put a speaker pro tempre, Patrick McHenry, in place for a bit. Steve Scalise seemed a better choice but he wasn’t it. They went with Jim Jordan but there weren’t enough votes. In the end, the fifth choice was Mike Johnson. The Trumper who is an election denier and won’t even discuss the subject, was voted in. I can’t wait to see what his scandal is. Bill Maher commented, “Loves Jesus, hates democracy.” **And, what of  this terrible Virginia Fox from N. Carolina who told the reporter to shut up when asking Johnson legitimate questions. Another democracy hater, no doubt. 

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Chloe Troast is the newest SNL cast member to join. They came back live on October 14 with Pete Davidson.** Mick Jagger made a couple of cameos on the Bad Bunny episode!!** Chris Walken popped up on the Nate Bargatze show. 

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The Writers settled their strike. SAG AFTRA is still trying. Healthcare workers are on strike. It seems like the UAW may have settled. 

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Biden’s dog, Commander, keeps biting people. 

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There is a new coke for the younger set, Coca- Cola Y3000. Ok. 

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Stevie Nicks has a barbie with her name on it. 

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Days alert: Ok, there is no rhyme or reason to the ‘new’ Theresa. After the initial shock, her colleagues are cheering her on. Nothing against Emily O’Brien but bring Jen Lilley back!! Talia and Chloe and Phillip are headed out of town for a while. Clyde and Lucas are back. Holly and Tate have been soap aged and are back as teens. ** Is that Nick that is back?? Same actor but this time he is Everett with a link to Stephanie and Jada. The Pawn storyline is coming back around. Since Everett seems to have a past with children of men from stories of the past, is he a part of it??** And speaking of Jen Lilley, during covid she started ‘Christmas is not cancelled.’ The program has bought toys for 72,000 kids so far!! 

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Jessica Lange is getting ready to retire. 

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Joaquin Phoenix is Napoleon in the new film of the same name. 

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The Vet aid concerts will be held in San Diego on Nov. 12 with Joe Walsh, Stephen Stills, The Flaming Lips and ELO. 

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The B-52's were to perform at the White House on Oct. 25 but instead were guests. It was decided that the ongoing crises in the world, there should just be instrumental background music. So, nobody should be happy? 

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George Santos and Meghan McCain were on a podcast together. That sounds about right. I could see them becoming a duo. The man has 23 counts against him. By the time you read this, he may be ousted!! 

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The World Series has the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Texas Rangers. 

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Pete Holmes has quit drinking he seems much louder now. 

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What?? Geddy Lee has a show about bass players and all they can do?? What?? I am there!! 

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The film, David Holmes: The Boy who lived will be out on Nov. 15. David and Daniel Radcliffe got together to work on the tale of David, Radcliffe’s stunt double on Harry Potter who became paralyzed after a stunt. 

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Simone Biles is now the most decorated female gymnast in history. ** Apparently, Mary Lou Retton has no medical insurance and is in a Texas hospital with pneumonia. 

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Hamas attacked Israel. Militants carried out early morning surprise murders and abductions. Israel responded by telling the world they were at war.  

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Mike Lindell says he is out of money and can’t pay his legal bills. All these shady republicans from the Trump posse could not have been as rich as they kept claiming. They all seem to be unable to pay their bills. 

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About 1,000 migrating birds crashed into McCormick Place in Chicago.  

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Biden says that he has no choice but to work on the border wall. 

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The story of Jimmy Saville is coming to the BBC. The story itself is horrendous but needs to be told. The Reckoning stars Steve Coogan. Will it come to the U.S.?? 

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I have noticed that true crime shows are telling tales of the covid years. Murder continued thru the pandemic. 

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Prequel is the new book from Rachel Maddow. This looks like an interesting, timely and frightening lesson in the silver shirts. I never knew Eric Severeid discovered and infiltrated the American Nazi’s. The Christian front plot involved those in our own Government. There are a lot of books coming out. There was a great deal of writing going on during covid. 

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Sly Stone has a memoir out, Oh that gotta be wow! (thank you falettinme be mice elf agin), brought to you by Questlove.  

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Barbra Streisand also has a memoir, My name is Barbra coming out Nov.7. 

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Wayne Brady stars in the Wiz on Broadway and has just told the world that he is pansexual. 

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The Zuckers and Abraham also have a book, Surely, you can’t be serious. 

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Leslie Jones has a memoir too: Leslie f#cking Jones. 

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Henry Winkler wrote Being Henry: The Fonz and beyond. 

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Channing Tatum and Zoe Kravitz are engaged. 

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The Great British Baking Show will have no more theme weeks. There were some complaints after Mexican week. 

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About a year ago Schwann updated how they do their service and became Yelloh.  

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California law will ban red dye #3, potassium Bromate, brominated vegetable oil and propylparaben. 

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Bobby Kennedy Jr. Has become an independent. Four of his siblings have already condemned him. 

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Steely Dan was replaced as opener on the Eagles Farewell tour. Steve Miller Band will take over. 

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The Peoria Journal Star will become postal delivery only. 

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There is a film coming out about Anita Pallenberg. 

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Clarence Thomas is recusing himself over a suit about the 2020 election. 

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Dean Phillips is running for President. Mike Pence has dropped out. 

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Scary Clown 45 is teaching us so much like we need to dampen the forests and that the letters u and s are in U.S. and that spells us.** He also announced that, “People in Beverly Hills, generally don’t smell too good.”** Another gem:  “the low rated late- night creeps are back.”** The Trump parade of trials continue. In the NY civil fraud trial, he is already guilty, they are just figuring out the rest. Trump was again fined cuz he can’t keep a thought to himself. The Trumps could lose control of their company. They repeatedly submitted fraudulent documents. 

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Sidney Powell pled guilty to Georgia election charges. She received 6 years probation, fines, must give an apology to the citizens of Georgia and testify against other defendants. Ken Chesebro pled guilty to conspiracy to commit filing false documents. These fucking people are like spoiled rotten children. If they don’t get what they want, they do whatever they please to get it. ** Courts have told us 60 times that the election was good. Will it ever sink in? 

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Congressman Jared Moskowitz is proposing that if Trump insists that Mar A Lago is worth 1.5 billion (100 times what the tax man says it is really worth), then they should raise his taxes accordingly. 

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Word is that 1 oz. Gold bars are selling like crazy at Costco. 

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Governor Huckabee Sanders of Arkansas got into some hot water over a $19 thousand podium and fudging government tallies.  

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Kari Lake is running for Senate. 

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Lesley Matvszak, former CEO of WTVP passed away. The board is now looking into, “questionable, unauthorized and improper use of funds.” The station also owned Peoria magazine and that seems to have now gone under with all the budget cuts. 

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It seems that the migrants shipped to Martha’s Vineyard and other places was done illegally. The covert criminal operation is being looked into by a Sheriff I nBexar Co. Texas who is not too happy about the whole situation. Deception and unlawful restraint are just the start of it. Operatives including former U.S. Army intelligence are suspected of driving around approaching migrants. Calls from the operatives go back to Gov. DeSantis office where the $600 thousand in costs seemed to come from Florida. The migrants were given gift cards if they signed a paper that allowed transport. They claimed to be promised housing and jobs. 

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Wolfgang Van Halen married Andraia Allsop.** Frances Cobain married Riley Hawk. 

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The Dept. Of the Treasury has put sanctions on 11 entities. 

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Sen. John Kennedy’s advice to his colleagues: “Take your meds.” 

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The latest in sexual misconduct: 7 women have alleged sexual and physical abuse by Brian Foster.** 2 women have accused Danny Elfman of sexual abuse. He was ordered to pay $830,000 to Nomi Abadi but did not pay the full amount.  

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Watch for the film, The Treasure of Foggy Mountain from Please Don’t Destroy. The offering from Ben Marshall, John Higgins and Martin Herlihy with Conan O’Brien will air on Peacock on Nov. 17. 

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The guinea worm problem continues to decline. Infections are down 27% from 2021. 

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Netflix will open Netflix House, real stores with merch and events. 

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Carl Ruderman, an executive whose family once owned Playgirl, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud in a $250 mil scheme. 

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X-rays on the Mona Lisa (Lisa Gherardini) have shown that a unique chemical was used . The make- up of the paint used plumbonacrite, a by- product of lead oxide. The paint in each of his works was different. 

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R.I.P. Dick Butkus, Keith Giffen, Phyllis Coates, Rudolph Isley, Tim Wakefield, Mark Goddard, Suzanne Somers, Louise Gluck, Hughes Van Ellis, Charles Feeney, Al Petteway, Burt Young, Lara Parker, Joanna Merlin, Louie Meriweather, Joan Evans, Rock Brynner, Richard Roundtree, Judy Nugent, Aaron Spears, Tyler Christopher, Matthew Perry and Piper Laurie. 

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Christopher Walken's 10 Best Movie Quotes, Ranked

Award-winning actor Christopher Walken is an iconic legend. He has easily attained his standing as a triumphant star in film, television, and on the stage. Recognized for his haughty tone and eccentric characters, Walken always delivers a performance that audiences pay attention to. RELATED: ‘The Walking Dead’: 9 Best Negan Quotes And with his recent appearance in the hit series Severance, it is…

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Congrats on watching all of Star Trek! Did you have a good time

mostly yes, altho i'm going to be real that Enterprise was a rough time. anyway i know this ask is from a million years ago but i finally went thru and made a rec list for the entire franchise and by rec list i mean thirty seven pages of digressions, inside jokes, and tangential commentary about broader trends in speculative fiction and US masculinities here you go if you are curious have fun: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1keGBG3FL9UvxMQw4hfD0xFWQBw7NwBBZTJ9C4qOF6tQ/edit?usp=sharing

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Penguin from batman

Penguin from batman tv#

It also picked up nods in the same categories at the Bafta Awards where it again was thwarted by Death Becomes Her and The Last Of The Mohicans. It was recognised at the Oscars and Baftasīatman Returns received Oscar nominations in the Best Visual Effects and Best Makeup and Hairstyling categories but lost out to Death Becomes Her and Bram Stoker’s Dracula respectively. Written and performed by Australian troubadour Vance Joy, acoustic ballad Riptide reached No.10 on the UK charts in 2013.įeaturing the lyric ‘I swear she’s destined for the screen/Closest thing to Michelle Pfeiffer that you’ve ever seen’, the song was partially inspired by the actress’ performance in Batman Returns. McDonald’s was forced to scrap its Happy Meal tie-in following floods of complaints from parents about the film’s violent tone. Reviewers weren’t the only ones to get a little upset about Batman Returns’ inherent darkness. Tim Burton’s Batman films are virtually technicolour fairy tales compared to Christopher Nolan’s gritty reboot, but back in 1992 critics weren’t prepared for dark, comic-book tales.Įsteemed reviewer Roger Ebert argued that ‘superheroes and film noir don’t go together’, while the Los Angeles Times described its tone as ‘claustrophobic, oppressive’ and one which ‘strangles almost all the enjoyment out of the movie’. In a 2007 interview she revealed she never wanted to see a Catwoman costume again, perhaps due to the fact that it was so tightly sealed she only had a brief amount of time to act her lines before she passed out. Michelle Pfeiffer wasn’t a particular fan of the wardrobe department’s work. Indeed, 12 king penguins and 30 African penguins were used over the course of the shoot, with men in suits, robotics and CGI standing in for the real thing during the more difficult scenes. While computer generated animation was used for the bats, The Penguin’s bird army was a mixture of nature and technology. Sadly, the aging star fell ill shortly before filming and he had to be replaced by Pee-wee Herman, aka Paul Reubens, who also reprised the role for several episodes of Gotham.

Penguin from batman tv#

The original Penguin was supposed to make a cameoīurgess Meredith, who played The Penguin in the cartoonish 60s TV series, signed on to play the Penguin’s father Tucker Cobblepot. The director only agreed to return when he was given more creative control and allowed to commission a rewritten script from Heathers screenwriter Waters. Tim Burton appeared to have had enough of the Caped Crusader after bringing him back to life with 1989’s Batman, describing the possibility of a sequel as a ‘most dumbfounded idea’. Marlon Wayans had not only been cast as Robin in Batman Returns, he’d also been measured up for a suit.īut he never got to wear it onscreen when the sidekick was rested due to the film having too many characters. These included John Candy, Bob Hoskins, Dean Martin, Christopher Lloyd and Dustin Hoffman. Marlon Brando was just one of several big-name actors who were considered for the role of The Penguin before it was given to Danny DeVito. Marlon Brando could have played The Penguin The musical icon, who instead took a role in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, had previously passed on another role Walker then assumed – Max Zorin in A View to Kill. But none other than David Bowie was the first name that producers had in mind. Named after Nosferatu actor Max Schreck, Batman Returns’ all-human villain was played by Christopher Walken. Producers wanted David Bowie to play Max Schreck Madonna, Cher, Raquel Welch, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Bridget Fonda were just some of the other names in contention for the role.īut no one was more distraught on missing out than Sean Young – the actress actually turned up to the production offices in a homemade Catwoman outfit to demand an audition.

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BatFam as things my family has said

Bruce: You tell me about your dream about rats in detail but not about a man following you on your walk?

Selina: You ruined my day and the corpse's buried beneath me!

Alfred: Build a Bear and get over it.

Dick: Are you ok? You usually laugh when I take my pants off.

Jason: I almost hit that guy. I forgot what I was doing. I thought I was playing a game where you're supposed to hit people with your car.

Tim: Do you think it means something that whenever I played Lego Star Wars as a kid, I used to just kill myself over & over?

Cass: I met Christopher Walken once. But by the time I got to him, he had already turned back into a skeleton.

Duke: Holy cow in Heaven!

Damian: God damn motherfucker. I have the hiccups. I hate this life that I have. Everything is wrong.

Steph: Why aren't we Monster Mashing right now? *Crashes car*

Barbara: I can't delete my blog, I just reblogged the Money Dog!

[dichenlachmandaily]

TV WEEK: Memory Blank

Dichen Lachman stars in a darkly comic tale

Dichen Lachman has built a career with tough-as-nails roles in superhero series such as Agents of SHIELD, cyberpunk fantasies such as Altered Carbon, and acclaimed dramas like Animal Kingdom. But when the Australian actress found herself recently on a stark business-office set, sitting still, and wearing a conservative suit while delivering deadpan lines in thriller Severance, she loved it. “I couldn’t put the scripts down,” Dichen, 40, tells TV WEEK. “I stayed up all night because I just had to get to the next episode.”

In Severance, employees on a special floor of Lumon Industries have undergone a procedure where thy have no memories of their life outside of work, but once they leave for the day, their regular selves have no idea what they did at Lumon. Dichen plays Ms Casey, the counsellor who doles out bits of info to workers about how their other half lives. “She’s very curious, Ms Casey,” Dichen teases. “But when you’re memorising lines, like an argument or something the character cares about, your mind can write a story to help you remember what your character’s feeling and thinking. When it’s a list of random stuff? It took me six months to memorise, because it doesn’t make any sense!”

Dichen, who got her start in acting as rebel Katya Kinski in Neighbours in 2005, was waiting to film her part in Jurassic World Dominion when she met with director and executive producer Ben Stiller over Zoom. “He was so passionate about this project,” she recalls. “And Ms Casey is so different to what I have been doing the last few years. It’s nerve-racking to do something different, but I think that’s when you grow, and I know that Ben wouldn’t have kept going if he didn’t think I had ‘it’.”

Months later, when she arrived in New York to film Severance, she hit the ground running opposite Christopher Walken and John Turturro. “On my first day, I come in right at the end and call for John’s character to come into the room,” Dichen says. “I had one line! I was on the other side of the door, where the camera operator was, so I could watch the scene play out before Ms Casey walks in. It was electrifying to see these two incredible performers.”

In her own outside life, the Los Angeles-based star and six-year-old daughter Mathilda were in London visiting family when her husband, actor Maximilian Osinski (The Walking Dead: World Beyond), booked a role, delaying their return to California, and Australia. “I hop all this instability in terms of Mathilda’s environment isn’t messing her up,” Dichen says. “No-one does a perfect job of parenting, and we love her so much. I hope she remembers all these trips and all the travel.”

More career adventures await Dichen, office setting or not. “I do like being thrown around and getting rough and tumbled,” she confesses with a laugh. “But in terms of where I started and the kind of work and people I want to be working with, it’s been extraordinary. I’m so grateful.”

[writerchickmarie]

John Lloyd Young At The Carmichael - Modern Classics From An Old Soul

John Lloyd Young may have been born in the seventies and grown up in the eighties...but his soul has been around for much longer.

In both the music he performs and the insights he shares, he reveals depth and  wisdom beyond his years, all while entertaining an audience and holding them spellbound from the moment he walks onto the stage and sings the first note. That type of magic is rare to find - and he has it in spades. 

JLY began each evening with a rich, impassioned “My Prayer”, then moved into the pure joy of “Oh What A Night”, inviting all of us to clap along as he scanned the room for faces both familiar and new.  He mentioned how much he loves the lighting and setup of Feinstein’s At Hotel Carmichael, because he can actually see most of the audience throughout the night, no matter where they are seated. There is not a bad seat in the house - from the perspective of both audience members and performers. 

He performed “Hurt So Bad”, and shared some great Little Anthony stories to go along with it. He then donned his shades again to perform “Only The Lonely”, making the Roy Orbison tune his own, as he does so well with all of the classics that he performs. He breathes new life into each of them, with his gifts of both impeccable vocals and pure emotion carrying them to a new level.

Next up was “You Are Everything”, which has only recently been added to his sets, but is already done to perfection, as he moves seamlessly to falsetto and back throughout the song. His vocal range is like no other - those who only know him for his Tony-winning performance and starring movie role as Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys are in for a surprise and a treat when they discover that he can truly sing anything, in his own abundant voice.  

Speaking of Jersey Boys, JLY shared several fun, entertaining stories from the movie set, and the wisdom earned from leaning how to play Frankie and working with Clint Eastwood and Christopher Walken.  He performed several songs from JB in conjunction with these stories - “My Eyes Adored You”, “Walk Like A Man”, “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”, and more. Especially poignant was “My Mother’s Eyes”, which was done in its entirety...and it was mesmerizing to watch him move right into every single facial mannerism that you see in the movie - both muscle memory and the emotions of the character kicked in as we watched an actor who truly embodies his craft bring the scene to life. 

Musical director Tommy Faragher had his opportunity to shine as well on Sam Cooke’s “Bring It On Home To Me”, showing why he is a true soul singer in his own right, in addition to the many other hats he wears in the music industry.

At different points in the evening, JLY came out into the audience to greet everyone up close as he did “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me” and “Cara Mia”.  We were all delighted to have him back among us as he worked the room and sang individually to all of us, and you could tell that he enjoys it as much as we all do.  And whether he is in the middle of the room or performing from the stage, he finds ways to connect with everyone...which is another special gift that he possesses.  

On the first night, he performed “Say No More”, an unreleased Roy Orbison track that is now truly JLY’s song - and powerfully done.  It’s so good to hear it again in the set.  On the second night he sang  “Just One Smile” - a Randy Newman tune made famous by Gene Pitney and Dusty Springfield.  This is another favorite that we are glad to hear again...and nobody does it with more emotion than JLY.

Each night he performed his out-of-this-world version of “Unchained Melody”, and concluded the set with everyone on their feet for “Working My Way Back To You” and “Sherry”, with all of us singing along and ending the evening on a high note. 

Every time I experience a JLY performance, I always think that there’s no possible way that he can improve on the perfection of the performance before - but each and every time, he finds a way to do just that.  He has truly come into his own, and even the sky is not the limit for him.  I can’t wait to see what’s next on this magical journey...and I’m so happy that we are all on it with him! 

[22drunkb]

Please tell me about the Tim Curry phenomenon?

Hoist on my own petard! Okay.

So just in case what I said was unclear, when I said “Tim Curry as a phenomenon” I didn’t mean that there was some Thing That Happened, like [rummages in ancient tumblr lore] mishapocalypse or something. I just mean what Tim Curry has come to signify in popular culture for certain kinds and generations of people. I would not consider myself a Tim Curry expert, I don’t know a ton about his life and filmography, but I do experience him as that kind of icon or signifier, so all I’m going to be talking about is that (and for this reason I have determined I am not going to look anything up). (@tafadhali​ I’m going to need to you let me know how I did when this is all over.) So:

Tim Curry is an actor. He is probably best known for The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue, Muppet Treasure Island, Home Alone 2, the 90s miniseries of It, and maybe now that one clip of him that circulates online from time to time where he’s yelling about going to space and trying not to laugh. The key facts are:

Tim Curry has incredible presence and charisma. He is not an actor who “disappears into the role.” He is a very skilled performer--it’s not like he plays the same thing in every role, and if somebody else could do what he does, many more people would be doing it--but he’s the kind of actor who gets used as a shorthand to describe characters, or other actors. “A Tim Curry type.” He works in Muppet Treasure Island because he’s in no way naturalistic, and so he can play off puppets no problem. We could comparatively describe this as The Jack Black Factor.

Tim Curry has a very distinctive voice (speaking and singing) and way of delivering lines, such that his accent comes off as almost put-on or parodic without ever quite going over the top. (This is true when he’s actually putting on an accent and when he’s not.) His delivery has unusual emphases that make the lines stick with you. These qualities are equally suited to comedy and creepiness, and he reasonably often does both at the same time. So he easily becomes a kind of factory for references, a meme factory before we called things memes. We could comparatively describe this as The Christopher Walken Factor.

Tim Curry has been in a lot of movies. These movies’ quality ranges from “hilariously bad” to “not good by mainstream standards, but objectively incredible at being the kind of movie it is” to “beloved hit, but nobody would call it High Cinema.” (If Tim Curry has also been in prestige films recognized as such,* I do not disrespect them or him, but I don’t know about it! And that’s part of the Tim Curry phenomenon!) I have not come up with a comparison for this--it’s less a distinctive thing than something that becomes important in combination with the first two.

Tim Curry always does an incredible job in these movies, whatever their quality. And he always seems to be having a great time doing it. One of the top YouTube comments on that clip I linked reads, “A reviewer once said about Tim Curry: ‘For every 1-star movie he's been in, he's the reason that movie got that star.’” He delivers a specific feeling of intense talent being directed, with great pleasure, to a purpose that is, on some level, inexplicable. (No one else would say this line this way! Why is he doing that! Because he’s Tim Curry, and that’s good enough, dammit!) This creates a sensation that somehow combines “admiration” and “this is hilarious,” but in a different way than you might admire a great stand-up set. It’s on purpose without feeling deliberate. It’s cheese being executed at the level of high art. It’s ridiculous and it’s fantastic. IT’S CAMP, BABY. Put that together with the ability to walk a knife-edge between hilarious clown and scary villain (he played Pennywise, hello), in the context of what the film industry outside of Very Special Episode morality tales has been for most of his career, and you have a recipe for a queer culture icon. I give you Frank-N-Furter.

So Tim Curry at this point means a certain quality or texture of zaniness--but one that’s not maniacal or exactly cartoonish, just like, orthogonal to what’s expected or normal. You get Tim Curry for a role when you want things to feel a little too much but in the best way; when you want to sit right on the line between “this character is out of sync with reality” and “telling the audience this is a heightened reality.” This is assuming you’re a good filmmaker who knows what you’re doing. He is the best thing in some bad movies because he reliably creates this delightful sensation even when the movie doesn’t have a clear purpose for it; he can make objectively bad material fun to watch because the things that made the writing dumb or the costuming bad are campy and fun in his hands. This is kind of what I meant by an inexplicable purpose: it doesn’t need to make sense to work. This is also what I mean about being on the line between “is the character acting nuts or is this the kind of world the movie is setting up”--when it’s not what the movie is trying to do, but the movie is failing at what it is trying to do, Tim Curry suddenly makes that fun to watch because whatever he’s doing is both of quality and basically ineffable.

So this is why we live in a world where, say, Justin McElroy can build a whole bit on MBMaM around just repeatedly spitting out the words “CHEESE! PIZZA!” in a Tim Curry voice, or Tim Curry appears on The Simpsons. At this point Tim Curry is not just a man or an actor, he’s a mood. And because that mood is hard to describe, we mostly only invoke it by referring to him. But it’s a wonderful thing that has a lot of room in it to be enjoyed in different ways, whether it’s about queerness or comedy or surrealism or performance craft that isn’t smothered by the uptight standards of “naturalism” or “realism” or “subtlety.” And Clue is one of the best venues for it because it is a good movie made by people who did know what they were doing, and what they were doing was aimed exactly at creating the Tim Curry Experience: it’s clever and artful at being campy and cheesy, and its darkness and funniness are wrapped together in so many layers you can’t separate them.

BONUS:

Evidence of Tim Curry’s skill as a performer: look at him Not Being Tim Curry on SNL here with Eddie Murphy, maybe the one time I can think of that he’s in the “straight man” role. (An FYI more than a warning: The sketch is poking at racism--I think it holds up really well, but it’s deliberately pushing ~the line.)

__________________________________ *I know a lot of Film People etc. now consider Clue a genuine genius classic--for good reason! it’s incredible!--but it wasn’t received that way, and to the extent that it has gained this recognition it’s by that rubric of “succeeds at what it’s trying to do, which is more important than whether what it’s trying to do is be Citizen Kane Paddington 2.”