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These kids are so amazing. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I’m so proud.

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Stanley Weber, Andrew Gower, and Sam Heughan seemed to take some rather convincing falls in the series. Caitriona has even commented on how Weber and Gower were authentic in their falls. When Sam Heughan fainted, it too looked pretty realistic. He is quoted as saying he had to fall about 10 times. My question concerns this. Surely, these actors are protected from injury during these scenes. So how is that accomplished?

@hopewinsout The planning and execution of stunts are an important part of the director and DPs jobs on a show with action elements. You want to do everything in your power to prevent injury to your actors. 

Many actors who attend drama school take courses in stunt training which will sometimes also include training with weapons. There are ways to fall to prevent injuries, which is particularly important in theatre when an actor is falling 7 or more times a week.

In any show where there are stunts, the show will hire a stunt coordinator whose job it is to design the falls and other stunts in a way that achieves the visual that the director and producers want and that keeps the actors safe. 

Many time, there are pads that cushion the falls and that are covered with green screen materials that can be changed in editing. Often, too, there is a cut from the fall to the person on the floor that is almost undetectable. 

Relatively speaking, Outlander has few stunts when compared with shows that are pure action. Designing the stunts for the show is probably very simple for any stunt coordinator.

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I love her sm tbh.

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Mae West. So ahead of her time.

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This is my favorite screwball comedy, and it’s great to see the original story!

Bringing Up Baby by Hagan Wilde

The original short story the film is based on.

First appeared in Collier’s Weekly on April 10, 1937

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Burbling waist fountain

I’m not feeling the weird ostrich neck pouff thing around Margot Robbie’s waist. I prefer my pouffs to be at the hem, where they belong!

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Little Prom on the Prarie

Kate Hudson showed up wearing the ugliest 80s prom dress ever, and she didn’t even give us the courtesy of big 80s hair.

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Last night it occurred to me that perhaps Sam Heughan's role in "The Spy Who Dumped Me" is an audition for a future James Bond movie. Your thoughts are appreciated.

Well, @fshnski, to quote something attributed to Freud, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” In this case, I think Sam did TSWDM because it fit his hiatus schedule, and it was something a little different from what he’d done before.

As far as James Bond goes, Sam wouldn’t have the time to shoot a Bond movie as long as he is still doing Outlander. From what I understand, the Bond movies take the better part of a year to shoot. As long as he is under contract to Outlander, Outlander is in first position, meaning that his duties on the show take precedence over all other projects. And that takes us back to TSWDM, which he was able to fit into his hiatus.

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Sorry, @phidiaspickle , I can claim to have any real knowledge of endorsement deals. It does seem as if he has quite a few, but in my experience, many actors like to think of themselves as “artists” and endorsement deals don’t always fit in with that. Many actors of note in the past, for example, wouldn’t appear in commercials unless it was in a foreign country. For example, I remember that Paul Newman used to have endorsement/commercial deals but only in Japan.

Personally, I think Sam is smart to get while the getting is good.

Can @roxlet or anyone that knows answer a question for me.  I know Sam has endorsement deals, like with Audi.  And in his recent tweet, Audi takes center stage in his thanks but he also includes

Three other endorsements besides Audi.  Is this a lot?  Do stars of his status, rising C/B list, usually have this many?  Plus he also has Plaget? watches, his Barbour deal.  He’s said he going to start his own whiskey brand.  I think he’s being very smart but is it common to have this many going on? 

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Alma Haser

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William Blake (English, 1767-1827)

Songs Of Innocence and Of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul, circa 1789-1794

More William Blake on hideback

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After watching "The Shape of Water" and "Nimanji" (I needed a light-hearted break) I was wondering how these movies were cast. I know there are casting directors, but my question is: At what point, do the actors stop auditioning and are pursued for a specific role?

There’s a saying in Hollywood -- Everyone has “No” power, but very few have “Yes” power, which means that there is no easy answer to your question, fshnski. Much depends on how much power of the director or actor wields. In many instances, it’s the money people (sometimes a studio or an investor) who may have the power in casting.

A studio who is anxious to work with a director might allow the director to say who they want to cast without requiring that the actor auditions for a role. If the studio executives are unfamiliar with an actor, then they would almost certainly look at film on a proposed actor.

Once an actor is well-known (or thinks she is well-known) casting lists often have notations after an actor’s name. Things like “Will not audition, but will meet” or “Will not audition and will not meet” appear next to certain actor’s names. Often, it is the actor or her agent who determines these parameters. 

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Outlander the Male Gaze

It’s time to quit the Outlander fandom when:

1) You hate the genius who wrote  the books, Diana Gabaldon, because she exposes you to unpleasant realities like rape and torture and racism and slavery  and because she fawns over Sam and hates Cait. You know she hates Cait because she never praises her acting, so she must hate her. QED

2) You hate Ronald D Moore, the show-runner who brought you the TV series. Because he’s a privileged white male and  he represents the patriarchy and he thought Tobias Menzies was a damn fine actor.  You hate Starz because they brought you the TV series, and because their PR isn’t as good as it would be if you did the PR.

3) You hate Matt Roberts who wrote some of the best scenes, for what he left out (except it was Sam who left out the best bit, oops)  from your favourite books whose author you hate, and doesn’t respond well  to your inane criticisms on Twitter. And because he represent the patriarchy

4) You hate Sam, or Cait (delete to taste), because they left out your favourite lines from the book whose author you hate, and they don’t respond to your inane questions on twitter, and they don’t kiss tongue to tongue  like they used to.

5) You hate Sam or Cait because you suspect though you deny  that they’re not madly in love with Cait or Sam, and have the damn impudence to have SOs outside the set, and go on holidays with them, rather than spending 24/7, 12 months a year with their god-given true-loves. You yourself spend every hour of every day of every month with your partner, and never need a break, you lucky thing)

6) You hate Sam ‘cos he’s not like the Jamie you imagined from the books, or Cait  because she’s not like the Claire you imagined from the books, which were written by the author you hate. You hate their wigs; who cares if their hair falls out  or they get cancer from constant dyeing and perming?

7) You hate Season 2 ‘cos there wasn’t enough sex intimacy, and you hated Season 1 ‘cos the best bits, in your opinion, got cut. You hate season 3 ‘cos there’s too much/too little of Sam’s/Cait’s butt. And far too much of that bitch whassername, the one who raped Sam. You know already that you are going to hate Season 4,  too.

8) You hate Season 3  episodes 2 and 4 because  because there was too much sex, between the wrong people

9) You hated Frank Fronk. There was too much Frank in the TV series, and in the books, and Tobias played him like Claire describes him, a decent man gone wrong. That’s why you hate RDM. This series is all about James and Claire, so you hate every moment there’s another actor on the screen (unless they are cute like Lord John or Yie Tien Cho) especially Bree.

.10) You hate Terry because there was far too much emphasis on all those beautiful  costumes worn by Claire in Season 2

11) You hate Terry because Claire wears the same damn costume throughout Season 3, except for episodes 1 through 5, and 11 though 13, you hope

12) You hate whassername who played thingamebob

13)) You hate whassisname who played thingamejig

14)  You hate whojamaflip and thimblerig ‘cos they have no chemistry, or at least, not as much as Sam and Cait, and anyway, they can’t act, and he or she is mean to shippers. Only Sam and Cait can have chemistry. You are dreading Season 4

15) You hate the  whole cast and crew because they are such hypocrites and mean to bat shit crazy shippers, and so many of the Highland warriors  and ship’s crew are played by patriarchal and privileged white men,and anyway they are all in league with  Captain Voldemort and will throw you under a bus if you write inane letters to them, or will throw Sam under a bus if he misinterprets a key scene.

16) You hate most of the other fans in this fandom, except for x, y and z . But then they wrote something on their blog you didn’t agree with, even if yesterday you agreed with them, so now you hate them, ‘cos they are in league with the dark side,  the deniers.

17) You are having a bad day, so you are going to thwow your teddy out of your pram and stamp your feet and scweam and scweam until you are  thick. 

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Two churches located across the street from each other. At least the Catholics have a sense of humor.

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Bringing Up Baby, one of the funniest movies ever made.

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One of the issues in Alabama is education. Spelling especially.