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Andor Season 2 Writing Credits!

Episodes 1-3 by Tony Gilroy

Episodes 4-6 by Beau Willimon

Episodes 7-9 by Dan Gilroy

Episodes 10-12 by Tom Bissell

Source: The WGA

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“What’s most striking about the scene is the superhuman grace and composure displayed by Lolita herself. She’s been through a series of experiences more harrowing than most of us could endure, but she doesn’t feel sorry for herself or seek the revenge upon Humbert she is very much entitled to. In fact, she pities him. Humbert hands over to her quite a lot more money than she requested, after which he asks her to run away with him. Lolita misunderstands the offer. “You mean,” she asks, “you mean you will give us that money only if I go with you to a motel.” She can’t imagine Humbert having higher aspirations than prostituting her. She can’t, with eminently good reason, imagine a selfless Humbert. Even so, her apparent willingness to go with Humbert proves her selflessness. To secure her child’s future, she’ll suffer one final indignity. Humbert assures her that’s not what he means. He wants them to have a life together, a real life that’s not a “parody of incest,” as he calls it. Lolita turns him down (“No, honey, no”) and takes the money. She is at last free to display the attribute Humbert denied her: an autonomous self.””

- Nabokov’s Rocking Chair: Lolita at the Movies || Tom Bissell

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Tim Bissell discovers Marcus Aurelius: “Death had never been an easy hill for me. I looked upon it with unease and climbed it (and we’re all climbing it, every day, without pause) with unalloyed dread. Thoughts of death—my own, certainly, but everyone else’s too—often gave me night terrors so intense that I had to get out of bed and walk around the house, touching things to ground myself. I eventually learned a calming trick, devised for me by the one and only therapist I’ve ever consulted. Unfortunately the trick stopped working after a while, at which point I decided to let the terror happen when it happened. To try to live in it. Lying there, terrified, I’d whisper to myself, Just be brave.”

[Time Is a Violent Stream :: by Tom Bissell :: On losing a father and finding Stoicism ::  Harpers Magazine]  

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Creative Types and Other Stories

By Tom Bissell.

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"Vodka is Not a Beverage"

A friend I met in Israel, lives in the Hollywood Hills and writes books for living. (Great job if you have the talent for it and Tom Bissell has it.). Anyway, in one of his books, Chasing the Sea: Lost Among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asia, says the Vodka is not a beverage. “It is a memory-erasing headache fuel.” (p. 199 in the paperback edition). He’s probably right but I want to use his…

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🎧 SOTD: Like a Prayer by Madonna

Did some reading in advance: His Finest Moment by Tom Bissell. I did not expect the whole sexual assault thing but yk! Literature... just gonna annotate it and I guess I'll see what direction my professor takes us with these pretty heavy themes in next lecture...

Went out for dinner with my best friends and had so much fun :) I'm glad I can feel safe around them, and I'm excited to continue my university life.

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t h e t i m e m a c h i n e, 1960 🎬 dir. george pal

'Well, there's one thing I'll say for you, George. You always could tell a good story. Best adventure yarn I've heard for years. You're a truly fine inventor, George!' - bridewell

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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

~ Tom Bissell

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Get To Know Me Better Tag Game

Thanks for the tag @lemonlyman-dotcom!

Favorite color- Purple of varying kinds

Last Song- Pillowtalk by Zayn

Currently Reading-Do audiobooks count? I've always preferred actual books but for some reason I've been on an audiobook kick lately so The Disaster Artist by Greg Sistero and Tom Bissel. It's actually pretty interesting.

Currently Watching-I just finished The Boys and I just started Rob Lowe's show with his son Unstable season 2. I'm enjoying it, it's a nice light-hearted show that you can just turn your brain off to enjoy.

Currently Craving- French fries for some reason.

Coffee or Tea-Coffee only because I need the energy boost in the morning. And I can only stomach it with as much sweetness and chocolate as possible.

Hobby to try-Probably meditation. I tend to get stressed and emotional a lot and I want to try meditation to help me deal with it.

Sweet/spicy/savory- All three. All three is good.

Current Obsession-Well if it wasn't totally obvious, 911 Lone Star!

Relationship Status-Happily single

As always, I am going to leave an open tag because I never know who to tag and I want to give every one a chance to share! So please share your favorite color and whether you prefer coffee or tea!

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Review: The Disaster Artist

Synopsis:

In 2003, an independent film called The Room—written, produced, directed, and starring a very rich social misfit of indeterminate age and origin named Tommy Wiseau—made its disastrous debut in Los Angeles. Described by one reviewer as “like getting stabbed in the head,” the $6 million film earned a grand total of $1,800 at the box office and closed after two weeks. Now in its tenth anniversary year, The Room is an international phenomenon to rival The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Thousands of fans wait in line for hours to attend screenings complete with costumes, audience rituals, merchandising, and thousands of plastic spoons.

Readers need not have seen The Room to appreciate its costar Greg Sestero’s account of how Tommy Wiseau defied every law of artistry, business, and interpersonal relationships to achieve the dream only he could love. While it does unravel mysteries for fans, The Disaster Artist is more than just an hilarious story about cinematic hubris: It is ultimately a surprisingly inspiring tour de force that reads like a page-turning novel, an open-hearted portrait of a supremely enigmatic man who will capture your heart.

Plot:

Greg Sestero wanted to be an actor. His French mother did not approve and took every opportunity to tell her son to pursue a different career. After molding in high school, Greg needed to join an acting class to be considered by agents in Los Angeles. The class he signed up for was led by Jean Shelton, who was terrifying. Ready to rip anyone apart, there was no pleasing Shelton with the skits they had to perform. Only one person was not afraid of Shelton and that was Pirate Guy. Later, Greg learned his name to be Tommy Wiseau, who was fearless, and stood up to Shelton about how he wanted his scene to be. Wanting that same kind of fearlessness, Greg asked Tommy to be his scene partner, which led to a friendship like no other. On their first of many dinner runs, Tommy gives Greg this advice: “You have to be the best” (51).  Working together on their L.A dream, Greg found a much-needed friend in Tommy, someone he could be himself with and not be afraid of rejection. For Tommy, we never knew what he saw in Greg, only that it led to a type of friendship that led to the creation of The Room. 

The Room was a movie Greg did not want to be in. Even though he was helping Tommy, the other cast members saw Greg as a summer intern, and not an actor himself. Tommy however saw no other way, and was constantly at him to play Mark, who in the film is Tommy’s character, Johnny, best friend’s and the person who sleeps with Johnny’s future wife, Lisa. Promising him a large sum of money and a new car, Greg’s girlfriend, Amber, also told him to take the part, sealing Greg’s fate of being in The Room. Greg goes into the details of the making of The Room, explaining why Johnny has plastic spoons in frames during the living room set, that Tommy showed up four hours late on the first day, and how he expected everyone to show up, every day, even if their scenes were not being shot. The rooftop scene was being filmed outside, thus different lighting in all the scenes. Johnny's ‘I did not hit here’ line took three hours and thirty-two takes. Greg details out all the behind the scenes issues of The Room, the moments that at the time did not seem significant, but we're. All in all, The Room happened, four months late and cost over six million to make.

Thoughts:

As a fan of The Room, this book was absolute gold. The Room is a cult classic film because it was so bad, it would make the grumpiest people laugh. With plots that go nowhere and bad acting (or was it just a bad script?) The Room is a movie everyone must see at least once. Taking his experience from The Room, along with his personal friendship with Tommy, Greg Sestero, along with Tom Bissell, wrote this book about the making of The Room for us super fans. Read like a story, this book switches from the making of the Room, to Sestero’s life, with and without Tommy, before the script for the Room was written. You got to read from Sestero’s point of view of meeting Tommy, how he moves into Tommy’s L.A apartment, to their friendship falling out and coming back strong in the end. The Disaster Artist, tilted appropriately because that is what Tommy Wiseau is, as an artist, he is a disaster. This book, to me, is better if you know the plot of The Room, as it helps to make the connections easier as you understand what scene Sestero is explaining. If unable to stomach the movie itself, The Disaster Artist film, starring James Franco as Tommy and Dave Franco as Greg, is another great film that truly captures the horribleness that was The Room. A fun, inspiring and funny story, The Disaster Artist, is about Tommy’s escapade to defeat the Hollywood system of making the movie, and his best friend Greg, who was at his side when this happened.

Read more reviews: Goodreads

Buy the book: Amazon

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Hi @an-aura-about-you 👋🏻 I love doing these Q&A things with my followers and those who I follow! So, I thought it would be fun to ask some friendship questions to you, as you seem like a very lovely person that makes me want to get to know you better, and the fact that we both follow each other! 🥺🥺

1. What is your favorite season and why?

2. What is your favorite genre of music and why? If you have one, what is your current favorite song/artist?)

3. What are your favorite ships and why? 🤔

4. What is your favorite book genre? (If you have one, what is your favorite book series/book/author?)

Thank you for taking the time to read this! ❤️❤️

*sees that I hadn't been following you and re-follows* That was probably an "I'm catching up on my tumblr backlog" thing. XD; But rest assured, should I unfollow someone, it is not out of malice or thinking we're not friends. (I've unfollowed irl friends before just because blogs didn't jive, y'know?)

My favorite season is a tie between spring and autumn. As I get older, I find I don't like extremes as much. The welcome warmth of spring and the refreshing chill of autumn are my favorite times. But honestly, there is some charm in every season.

My favorite genre of music is classical music, but more often than not nowadays I find I like music that tells stories. So not just opera and ballet but also concept albums. Covering all my bases on that, my current favorite song is Blood and Whiskey from High Noon Over Camelot by The Mechanisms and my favorite... well, not artist so much as composer is Tchaikovsky.

My favorite ships are: Jon/Martin from The Magnus Archives (I am not immune to office worker enemy to lover romance in my horror media, but also how they just genuinely become friends on the way to becoming a couple), Hamid/Azu from Rusty Quill Gaming (not just romantically but any way you could put them together, they're best friends and have such an instant rapport, like I swear Azu picked Hamid up and That Changed Him As A Person), Aziraphale/Crowley from Good Omens (I am also not immune to the opposites attract/not so different dynamic, especially when it's been going on for literal ages), and Mytho/Rue from Princess Tutu (so the thing both Mytho and Rue are missing for most of the series is agency but while Mytho's problem is he's a storybook character who literally lost his ability to make choices Rue's problem is coercion via parental abuse and I really fucking love that the first time she ever truly makes a choice on her own it's for his sake and hers).

Somehow I think my favorite book genre has become celebrity autobiography? I wasn't seeking this out as a genre, but my favorite book and some others I'm fond of can be called that. Right now, my favorite is The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero with help from Tom Bissell. It is Sestero's account of his friendship with notable So Bad It's Good movie director Tommy Wiseau and how his magnum opus The Room came to be.

Thank you for sending these in! <3

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Rebecca Ferguson and Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation (Christopher McQuarrie, 2015)

Cast: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Ving Rhames, Sean Harris, Simon McBurney, Alec Baldwin. Screenplay: Christopher McQuarrie, Drew Pearce. Cinematography: Robert Elswit. Production design: Jim Bissell. Film editing: Eddie Hamilton. Music: Joe Kraemer. 

Tom Cruise's involvement with Scientology has made him a controversial and sometimes even ridiculous figure, but one of his redeeming virtues is his willingness to share the spotlight in his films with actors who are in some ways more likable than he is. In the case of Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation, they include Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, and Rebecca Ferguson. He has also shed the tendency to flash the famous toothy grin on any occasion, though his Ethan Hunt in this film doesn't have much to grin about. As the movie begins, the Impossible Missions Force is about to be disbanded and its members labeled "shoot to kill" by CIA director Alan Hunley (Alec Baldwin). It's a good premise for a thriller, if perhaps an over-familiar one: Make your good guys the target not only of the bad guys but also the other good guys. So off we go on a round of stunts that don't bear summarizing, but Christopher McQuarrie's script and direction keep the gee-whiz response pumping for an enjoyable couple of hours. Some critics thought the chief villain, a rogue MI6 agent named Solomon Lane (Sean Harris), wasn't villainous enough, but I have liked Harris's work since I first noticed him as Cesare Borgia's gay henchman Micheletto on the Showtime series The Borgias (2011-2013). He underplays in Rogue Nation, and the decision to dye his hair blond was probably a mistake, but I thought his subtlety was an effective contrast to Cruise's usual tendency to overplay. It has to be said that, at 55, Cruise is just beginning to be a bit implausible in his action sequences, especially the one at the film's beginning that has him leaping onto the wing of a cargo plane and clinging to it as it takes off, Perhaps it's true that he still does his own stunts, but in this golden age of camera tricks and CGI, that seems unnecessary: Audience are going to think it's faked anyway. There may in fact be a nod or two in the movie to Cruise's aging: After the extended underwater swim, Hunt has to be resuscitated, and there are a few moments, played mostly for comic relief by Pegg, when Hunt's disoriented state becomes a matter for concern. 

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The Disaster Artist: Kisah di Balik Film Kultus "The Room"

"The Disaster Artist," yang dirilis pada tahun 2017, adalah sebuah film komedi-drama biografi yang disutradarai oleh James Franco. Film ini mengangkat kisah nyata di balik pembuatan film "The Room," yang sering disebut sebagai salah satu film terburuk yang pernah dibuat, namun telah mencapai status kultus di kalangan penggemar film. "The Disaster Artist" dibintangi oleh James Franco sebagai Tommy Wiseau, pencipta dan bintang "The Room," dan Dave Franco sebagai Greg Sestero, sahabat Wiseau yang juga berperan dalam film tersebut.

Latar Belakang

"The Room," yang dirilis pada tahun 2003, adalah sebuah film independen yang disutradarai, ditulis, diproduksi, dan dibintangi oleh Tommy Wiseau. Meskipun awalnya mendapatkan kritik pedas karena kualitas produksi yang buruk, dialog yang aneh, dan akting yang canggung, film ini kemudian mendapatkan pengikut setia yang menikmati film ini karena keburukannya yang unik.

Kisah dalam "The Disaster Artist"

"The Disaster Artist" didasarkan pada buku memoar dengan judul yang sama yang ditulis oleh Greg Sestero dan Tom Bissell. Buku ini menceritakan pengalaman Sestero dalam pembuatan "The Room" dan hubungannya dengan Tommy Wiseau.

Film ini dimulai dengan pertemuan Greg Sestero dan Tommy Wiseau di sebuah kelas akting di San Francisco. Terpesona oleh keberanian dan keunikan Wiseau, Sestero menjalin persahabatan dengan Wiseau, dan keduanya pindah ke Los Angeles untuk mengejar impian mereka di dunia film. Setelah menghadapi berbagai penolakan dari industri, Wiseau memutuskan untuk membuat filmnya sendiri, "The Room."

Produksi "The Room"

Proses produksi "The Room" digambarkan sebagai pengalaman yang penuh tantangan dan kekacauan. Wiseau, yang memiliki visi artistik yang tidak konvensional dan sering kali sulit dipahami, mendanai film tersebut dengan sumber dana yang misterius. Sikap otoriter Wiseau di lokasi syuting, ditambah dengan keputusan-keputusan aneh dan ketiadaan pengalaman teknis, membuat produksi film ini menjadi pengalaman yang tak terlupakan bagi semua yang terlibat.

Kesuksesan yang Tak Terduga

Meskipun "The Room" awalnya gagal di box office dan mendapat ulasan negatif, film ini kemudian menemukan kehidupan baru sebagai film kultus. Penonton mulai menghargai film ini karena keanehan dan ketidaksempurnaannya, mengadakan pemutaran tengah malam yang penuh dengan interaksi penonton.

"The Disaster Artist" menyoroti bagaimana Tommy Wiseau dan Greg Sestero akhirnya menemukan kesuksesan dan pengakuan, meskipun tidak seperti yang mereka bayangkan. Film ini juga menyoroti tema-tema persahabatan, ketekunan, dan mengejar impian meskipun menghadapi banyak rintangan.

Kesimpulan

"The Disaster Artist" adalah sebuah penghargaan yang menyentuh dan lucu terhadap salah satu film terburuk yang pernah dibuat, sekaligus merayakan semangat pantang menyerah dalam mengejar impian. Dengan penampilan brilian dari James Franco sebagai Tommy Wiseau, film ini berhasil menangkap esensi dari kegilaan dan ketulusan di balik pembuatan "The Room." "The Disaster Artist" adalah sebuah kisah tentang bagaimana kegagalan yang luar biasa bisa berubah menjadi kesuksesan yang tak terduga dan inspiratif.

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Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation

By Tom Bissell.

Design by Linda Huang.

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In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Newton Knight: Matthew McConaughey Rachel: Gugu Mbatha-Raw Moses Washington: Mahershala Ali Serena Knight: Keri Russell Daniel: Jacob Lofland Sumrall: Sean Bridgers Lieutenant Barbour: Brad Carter Miss Ellie: Jane McNeill Prosecuting Attorney: Gary Grubbs Jasper: Christopher Berry Amos Deason: Joe Chrest Quitman: David Jensen Injured Soldier: Kurt Krause Confederate Color Guard: Carlton Caudle Freedman 1: Martin Bats Bradford Matthew Yates: Matt Lintz Mary: Kerry Cahill Annie: Jessica Collins Confederate Soldier: Juan Gaspard Junie Lee: Liza J. Bennett Polling Station Clerk: David Maldonado Schoolgirl: Serenity Neil Chester: Lawrence Turner Mrs. Deason: Lara Grice Col. Robert Lowry: Wayne Pére Farmer 1: Jim Klock Town Folk: Emily Bossak Sergeant: P.J. Marshall Third Man: Ritchie Montgomery Stillman Coleman: Mattie Liptak Aunt Sally: Jill Jane Clements Col. McLemore: Thomas Francis Murphy Old Man: Johnny McPhail Lt. Barbour: Bill Tangradi First Man: William Mark McCullough Edward James – Cotton Field Worker: Sam Malone Boy at Alice Hotel: Kylen Davis Farmer 2: Will Beinbrink George: Troy Hogan Confederate Soldier: Cy Parks Ward: Dane Rhodes Second Woman / Yeoman Farmer: Lucy Faust Yeoman Girl: Stella Allen Older Coleman Brother: Cade Mansfield Cooksey Maroon (uncredited): Tahj Vaughans Davis Knight: Brian Lee Franklin Film Crew: Casting: Debra Zane Production Design: Philip Messina Costume Design: Louise Frogley Editor: Juliette Welfling Producer: Jon Kilik Supervising Art Director: Dan Webster Editor: Pamela Martin Director of Photography: Benoît Delhomme Producer: Scott Stuber Executive Producer: Oren Aviv Set Decoration: Larry Dias Writer: Gary Ross Executive Producer: Robert Simonds Executive Producer: Robin Bissell Art Direction: Andrew Max Cahn Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Paul Hsu Executive Producer: Wang Zhonglei Executive Producer: Stuart Ford Prosthetics: Gary Archer Foley: Marko Costanzo Makeup Department Head: Nikoletta Skarlatos Executive Producer: Wang Zhongjun Co-Producer: David Pomier First Assistant Director: Eric Heffron Assistant Costume Designer: Meagan McLaughlin Foley: Eric Milano Second Unit Director: Garrett Warren Visual Effects Editor: Gershon Hinkson Executive Producer: Michael Bassick Makeup Artist: Kris Evans Executive Producer: Bruce Nachbar “B” Camera Operator: Jerry M. Jacob Executive Producer: Matt Jackson Additional Camera: Michael Watson Executive Producer: Christopher Woodrow Hairstylist: Felicity Bowring Casting: Meagan Lewis Music Editor: John Finklea Executive Producer: Jerry Ye Set Designer: Randall D. Wilkins Still Photographer: Murray Close Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mike Prestwood Smith First Assistant “A” Camera: Chad Rivetti Special Effects Coordinator: David K. Nami Hair Department Head: Jules Holdren Key Hair Stylist: Melizah Anguiano Wheat Set Costumer: Adriane Bennett Costume Supervisor: Carlane Passman Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Matthew O’Toole Visual Effects Producer: Lisa Beroud Key Hair Stylist: Theraesa Rivers Executive Producer: Russell Levine Additional Camera: Greg Morris Set Costumer: Tom Cummins Art Department Coordinator: Wylie Griffin Supervising Dialogue Editor: Branka Mrkic Visual Effects Supervisor: Kelly Port Second Assistant “C” Camera: Griffin McCann Set Costumer: Lisa Magee Wigmaker: Khanh Trance Art Direction: Chris Craine Gaffer: Bob Bates Original Music Composer: Nicholas Britell First Assistant “C” Camera: Wade Whitley Co-Producer: Diana Alvarez Second Second Assistant Director: Marvin Williams “A” Came...