#Actress Extraordinaire

[theomenmedia]

Birthday Special: 10 Roles By Emilia Clarke Which Prove That She's Way More Than The Mother Of Our Beloved Dragons

Emilia Clarke turns a year older, and we're counting down her non-GOT iconic roles! From Sarah Connor to Qi'ra, see how she's conquered every genre.

Read the full article here: https://www.theomenmedia.com/post/emilia-clarke-beyond-daenerys-celebrating-10-iconic-roles-on-her-birthday

[mononijikayu]

hey lover! series

"did you hear?"

"huh? about what?"

"that actor ryomen sukuna!"

"what about him?"

"apparently he's dating his co-star!"

"what, really!?"

"yeah, but get this!"

"what?"

"we don't really know!"

GENRE: alternate universe - actors/celeb au

WARNING/S: not safe for work (nsfw), r-18 and above, singers au!, romance, fluff, minor angst, slow burn, humour, slice of life, will they won't they, light-hearted, flirting, playful, possessiveness, teasing, explicit content, possible, kissing, sexual content, innuendos, drama, feels, hurt/comfort, falling in love, love, happy ending, actor/singer! sukuna, actress/celeb! reader;

(a still from their romance upcoming film, winter)

ARE RYOMEN SUKUNA AND [Your Name] SECRETLY DATING? FANS ARE SPIRALLING AS THE TENSION CONTINUES TO BOIL!

By Akira Himasa, Writer for the Shibuya Scoop; Gossip Guru Extraordinaire;

Move over, celebrity couples of the year! The world has only one question on its mind: Are Sukuna and (Y/N) secretly dating?

Rumors have been swirling faster than a cursed energy storm, and fans are in a frenzy after the latest on-set shenanigans between the two enigmatic co-stars!

The notorious King of Curses, played by the enigmatic and charming Ryomen Sukuna, has always been known for his intense, bone-chilling stare and deadly aura.

But lately, sharp-eyed fans have noticed something peculiar: Sukuna seems to have a soft spot when it comes to actress (YN).

While the two have shared screen time in plenty of heated battles, the off-screen tension is what’s truly raising eyebrows.

Sources close to the set have reported seeing Sukuna offering you snacks between takes (Snacks! from the King of Curses!!) and making suspiciously heartfelt eye contact during rehearsals. And even enjoys private times in each other's trailer!!!

"You can cut the tension with a knife." said one insider, who claims they even saw the two laughing together. Laughing. Together. Are the sparks flying, or are they just that good at acting?

This week, both stars were spotted leaving a trendy Tokyo restaurant together. Sukuna, as usual, attempted to keep things mysterious by scowling (standard Sukuna protocol), while you looked effortlessly relaxed, sporting a mischievous grin that drove the internet WILD.

Fans on Twitter immediately exploded with theories.

“They’re totally dating! The way they look at each other can’t be just acting,” one fan tweeted. Another added, “I’m ready to ship it! Ryomen Sukuna x (Y/N) are THE couple of the century.”

But not everyone is buying it. Some skeptics claim it’s all a clever marketing ploy to build hype for the upcoming season.

"There's no way Sukuna would let anyone get that close," scoffed one source close to the actor's entourage. "He's Ryomen freaking Sukuna—romance isn't in his script!"

Meanwhile, fans worldwide are dissecting every interview, every behind-the-scenes video, and even Sukuna’s posture next to you during press events.

The alleged chemistry has reached fever pitch, with TikTok compilations of your most flirtatious moments going viral, and conspiracy theories flying about Sukuna’s infamous smirk during your most recent interview.

So, are they? Or aren’t they?

In a cryptic joint statement (because of course there’s a statement), Ryomen Sukuna and (L/N) (Y/N) had this to say: “We’re just very close.” (WINK WINK.)

Is this the biggest non-denial of the year? Or are we all being played like cursed puppets?

The world may never know. But one thing's for sure: Sukuna and [Your Name] are the hottest topic in town, and we can’t look away!

Stay tuned for more updates—because whether it’s love or just top-tier acting, we’re hooked!

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THE SOURCE SAYS..................

CHAPTER (1) — RUMOURS

CHAPTER (2) — THE FEELS

CHAPTER (3) — OMG

CHAPTER (4) — WE GO

CHAPTER (5) — HIS PRIMADONNA

CHAPTER (6) — WHITE CHRISTMAS

CHAPTER (7) — TBA

CHAPTER (8) — TBA

[COMING SOON]

[hotvintagepoll]

Edna May Oliver (Alice in Wonderland; Murder on a Honeymoon)— we're so back it's her time to shine shes scrungly to me for her snark and unique face. i called her the womens equivalent of the weird little guy when i submitted her for the main tournament and i was so right to say that. she used it to her advantage in her comedic performances, though her comments on her looks often came across as self defacing, commenting for example that despite her musical talents she never pursued theatre or opera primarily because "[with a horse face like mine] what else can i do but play comedy" well i just think shes swell is the thing! her performances as hildegarde withers give scrungle to me not due to appearance or weirdguy swag or the standard scrungly vibes i think most people judge characters by, but from the characters delicate balancing act between "NOT made for an investigative career" and "extremely fucking good at noticing details and therefore being SUITED for investigation"  

Donald Sutherland (The Dirty Dozen, M*A*S*H)—googly pale eyes and perpetually looks sick

This is round 1 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here. Reminder to please keep your propaganda limited to their work before 1970.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Edna May Oliver:

This woman's energy in literally all of her films is INSANE. Yeah she loves fiercely but boy is she also ready to kill. In A Tale of Two Cities (1935) she literally fights a woman to the death. She also played a female sleuth in the 1930s which I think is pretty fucking neat :)

EDNA MY LOVE. a character actress extraordinaire and iconic female weird little guy (actually she was tall and spindly but weird little guy is a state of mind yn). she was frequently found in 30s and 40s movies playing a spinter aunt or something of that ilk, who was not about to take anybody's nonsense and had cutting retorts to spare. she also starred in a series of murder mysteries in which she is a DELIGHT as schoolteacher turned amateur detective hildegard withers, who waltzes in does the cops' jobs better than them and wears some really great hats. she pops up a lot in adaptations of classic literature, playing lady catherine de bourgh in pride and prejudice, the nurse in romeo and juliet, the red queen in the 1933 alice in wonderland which has an insane cast loaded with vintage scrunglers, aunt trotwood in david copperfield and others, but she was equally at home in modern comedies. whoever she was playing you know she probably had some hard truths and/or sharp witticisms to drop on everybody around her with her distinctive vocal delivery, or just volumes to speak with her terrifically expressive face.

Donald Sutherland:

[bitter69uk]

“Dietrich is not a woman, not a man, but a phantom as could only come out of Central Europe.” Doyenne of fashion Diana Vreeland quoted in the book Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (1990) by Bob Colacello.

“She has sex but no positive gender. Her masculinity appeals to women and her sexuality to men.” Kenneth Tynan.

“If we had to invent someone to be the ideal woman … we would have to invent Marlene Dietrich.” Billy Wilder.

Let’s all pause for a moment of old-school diva worship! Supremely world-weary, enigmatic and throaty-voiced German actress, chanteuse, personification of Continental decadence and all-round international glamourpuss extraordinaire, Marlene Dietrich (27 December 1901 – 6 May 1992) was born on this day! Pictured: portrait of Dietrich by John Engstead, promoting the 1940 film Seven Sinners.

[mrs-stans]

SCAD Savannah Film Fest: ‘Blitz’ to Open, ‘Emilia Pérez’ and ‘Anora’ Stars Among 11 Honorees

The fest will fête a host of top talent including Annette Bening, Jerry Bruckheimer, Colman Domingo, Karla Sofia Gascón, Jharrel Jerome, Richard Linklater, Mikey Madison, Isabela Merced, Steve McQueen, Lupita Nyong’o, Daisy Ridley and Sebastian Stan.

BY SCOTT FEINBERG

The SCAD Savannah Film Festival, an increasingly important stop on the road to the Oscars, will kick off its 2024 edition on Oct. 26 with a screening of Apple’s Blitz — writer/director Steve McQueen will be on hand to collect the fest’s Outstanding Achievement in Directing Award — and will also screen many other top awards contenders including Netflix’s Emilia Pérez, Neon’s Anora, A24’s Sing Sing and DreamWorks’ The Wild Robot, The Hollywood Reporter can exclusively report.

A host of prominent individuals who are in awards contention will make appearances — and collect special honors — at the largest university-run film festival in the nation.

A trio of best actress contenders will be on hand: Karla Sofía Gascón will receive the Distinguished Performance Award at a screening of Emilia Pérez; Mikey Madison will receive the Breakthrough Award at a screening of Anora; and Daisy Ridley will receive the Lumiere Award in recognition of her current projects Magpie and Young Woman and the Sea.

As will be three best actor contenders: Colman Domingo will receive the Spotlight Award at a screening of Sing Sing; Sebastian Stan will receive the Maverick Award at a screening of A Different Man; and Jharrel Jerome will receive the Lumiere Award at a screening of Unstoppable.

Lupita Nyong’o, who voices a principal character in The Wild Robot, will receive the Virtuoso Award at a screening of that film. Writer/director Richard Linklater will receive the Lifetime Achievement in Screenwriting Award at a screening of Hit Man. And 23-year-old actress Isabela Merced will receive the Rising Star Award at a screening of Alien: Romulus.

Additionally, producer extraordinaire Jerry Bruckheimer, who worked on Young Woman and the Sea, will receive the Legend of Entertainment Award at an In Conversation event discussing his career; and Annette Bening will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at a screening of her 1990 film The Grifters.

“This year’s honorees epitomize the extraordinary breadth of talent within the world of cinema, from seasoned veterans to Hollywood’s rising stars,” Christina Routhier, the fest’s executive director, tells THR. “I am thrilled for our students and attendees to witness the incredible star power coming to Savannah.”

This year’s SCAD Savannah Film Festival, which will run from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2, will announce a number of other prominent attendees in the coming days, including the filmmakers whose documentaries will be featured on the 11th annual Docs to Watch Panel, which will be moderated, as always, by yours truly, this year on Wednesday, Oct. 30.

[waterlilyvioletfog]

Screenshots from YYXH Ep. 1

Ling Miaomiao, drama consumer extraordinaire spends her whole day off reading a brand new book by her favorite fantasy author only for it to turn out to be a rank, idiotic, mediocre romance!! The betrayal!!

Miaomiao now somewhat bemused to find herself in aforementioned mediocre romance as the no-good, no-brain, vicious secondary female lead, trapped by a System into playing out that role.

Omg hi!! It’s this actress!! Off the top of my head, she showed up last year in A Journey to Love as the empress and in TTEOTM as the SFL. Her character, the mirror demon, gets immediately defeated, but she also apparently has an official character poster. Possibilities: she’s relevant again later (who’s this master she mentions?); they wanted to show off this sick-ass character design (who can blame them); they were marketing to her fans (most likely option).

Meet our secondary leads! This moment is a good example of showing the audience how Fuyi and Mu Yao were the original novel’s leads.

After TWENTY-FIVE MINUTES, our male lead finally shows up in style via guitar riff accompanied song, blasting in as a fireball, single-handedly beating our little mirror demon.

Miaomiao and Mu Sheng… do not hit it off. He’s insanely protective of his sister and is (justifiably) suspicious that Lin Yu (the character Miaomiao has entered) has bad intentions. But they do have pretty intense chemistry! Mu Sheng is sneaky, crafty, petty, often quite mean, and the baby brother of all time. He also operates on a slightly different moral system than either Fuyi or Mu Yao. The scene before this one, he is about to kill the mirror demon despite Fuyi’s directives because she hurt Mu Yao, until he gets distracted looking after Mu Yao because the mirror demon hurt her. 🤷 Essentially, at this point his motivations can be boiled down to “A-jie?? Is a-jie okay??? If you hurt a-jie, die!! If you fail to pay proper attention to a-jie, die!!! If you steal my a-jie’s attention, DIEEEEEEEE!!!!!”

After defeating the mirror demon, Miaomiao meets her character’s dad, who by complete coincidence is played by the same actor as HER dad, who is dead. THAT’S RIGHT, BABY!! DADDY ISSUES WILL LITERALLY FOLLOW YOU WHEREVER YOU GO!!!

[partiallypearl]

Camille Roberts: Actress Extraordinaire

best girl. logan didn't deserve her. popstar in her heart, actress irl.

taglist: @selangkir @myloveforhergoeson @raging-violets @ceruleanmusings @zackmartin @happinessismagicc

[broadwaydivastournament]

Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 4

Two-time Tony-winning dancer-extraordinaire Bebe Neuwirth (1958) is best known for her winning role as Velma Kelly in Chicago (1996) alongside her beloved Annie Reinking. After playing Velma off-and-on for some years, she then took on Roxie, and later Matron "Mama" Morton. Bebe has also won for Sweet Charity (1986), and is a two-time Emmy winner for, of course, Lilith in Cheers. Other credits include Here Lies Jenny (2004), Fosse (2001), and Cabaret (2024), which opened to glowing reviews for Bebe, and dismal reviews for basically everything else. In addition to her beloved stage, Bebe is a devoted cat-lover, and activist. She founded the Dancers' Resource program to provide support for injured and/or aging dancers.

Anika Noni Rose (1972) is a Tony-winning actress known for Caroline, or Change (2004), A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and the 2013 first workshop of Hamilton where she originated Angelica Schuyler. She is also known for being one of the iconic Dreamgirls in the 2006 film, as well as the voice of Tiana in Disney's The Princess and the Frog. In 2011, alongside Lea Salonga, she was named a certified, official, Disney Legend. Her latest Broadway show, Uncle Vanya, just opened this past week.

NEW PROPAGANDA AND MEDIA UNDER CUT: ALL POLLS HERE

"Bebe Neuwirth, my beloved, I have at last seen you in Cabaret, and I am so sorry. You deserve a far better production, and a far better show social media team that recognizes your abundant talent and rave reviews. Please continue to post cat photos, because they bring me nothing but joy."

"Does Anika Noni Rose not have a pet? In my quest to get a photo of every Diva with their animal, she turned up empty, so...that's something. Also, her Vanya revival wasn't well-received, so that's two Divas in this poll in substandard revivals. Woo-hoo."

[riverdrowning]

Here’s part 1 to our little fanfic / oneshot moment!! Excuse the mediocre writing but I just felt the need to help feed the tiny Sessanator community 😌 I think I’m gonna try and do both versions of it but this is the jumping off point for both.

Dominic had been away filming a new movie for 3 months in California. You were proud of him but god, did you miss him. You hadn’t been able to take time off of work to go and visit or stay in Cali with him during filming so you were forced to stay 2,800 miles away from the love of your life. You had been together for almost a year so you knew the lack of seeing him would cause a strain on the relationship that you had been worried about, some nights staying up and pacing your shared apartment (surely bothering your downstairs neighbors) wondering if he was even thinking of you while out in California with his new friends and co-workers. You weren’t famous, but like him you were in the media industry, just more behind the scenes than on the silver screen and red carpets. You worried he may have found someone more famous and was with them while he was away. Of course you’d heard the Hollywood horror stories and drama, headlines plastered with words along the lines of “Super famous man exposed for cheating on normal partner with ultra gorgeous famous successful actress - model - climate change activist extraordinaire while away filming! My goodness! The scandal!” and all of it got to your head. Not to mention the time difference from east coast to west wasn’t helping your busy schedules line up so your communication mostly consisted of late night phone calls and Facetimes where either one of you were absolutely exhausted and incoherent, or sporadic texts while you were on break at work and Dom was in between scenes. But finally the day had come where filming had just finally wrapped last Wednesday so he was ready to tie up the loose ends on set and come home to you. You knew that the first 2 days of him being home would be full of jet lag and making up for lost sleep, but you were ready with your weekend off, calendar cleared, plenty of blankets, water, pillows, and your renewed Netflix subscription. Friends of his knew that he would be tired and wasn’t going to want an immediate welcome home party, so a few friends sent congrats presents to the apartment ahead of time for when he got home and then would treat him to a small get together when he was feeling more like himself after much needed rest. Everything was set up in the apartment so he could immediately crash once he got home to you, now it was just time to go pick him up from the airport.

To Be Continued…

-xoxo 🎬

muahahahahahha 😈

sessa nation is eating good tonight. we are feasting even. the three members of this fandom are jumping for joy as the 5th fic about dominic sessa ever is dropped.

today is declared a national holiday.

sending you 50 billion kisses 🎬 <333

[rosesnink]

Oliver M. Berry High's Tigress Trinity

As I showed earlier, I have more HSS MCs, but these ones were the first to be created and follow most of the canon

Director's Cut of them under the cut

Gala Moschen, The Founder

Gala was the daughter of a deadbeat father and a single mom who was a Brazilian immigrant looking for the famous 'American Dream' and found herself disappointed by the system and how many people it abandoned and left to fend for themselves. Her great-grandma died and left her and her mom a significant sum, and Gala had a great mind for numbers, and with the supervision of her mother and lawyer, Oliver Miguel Berry, an old but sly and brilliant man, built it from the ground, first called Cedar Cove High, and would be called Oliver M. Berry when he retired as a lawyer and stepped up as a principal, his true passion (and the one to pick Hughs as principal). She was intelligent, quiet, observant and incredibly passionate, with a strong sense of justice and a shrewd girl, she was at first not very pretty: she had big glasses, short hair and a lot of acne, but made up for having charm and charisma for days, and her kind, generous and genuine heart attracted many, especially Julian.

They dated very soon, and Julian slowly seemed to become a better man by Gala's side and were each other's kiss, relationship and 'I love you's. Until Julian, young and immature, broke up with Gala and started dating Autumn. Gala dated Ace, whom had redeemed himself after trying to shut the school down. She caught a prestigious scholarship and flew to Switzerland for the rest of the school day before graduation. She came back a changed woman: grew a few inches, as well as impressive curves that her Brazilian mother told her she'd get and started to truly take care of herself, all thanks to her socialite friend that she made in there. She and Julian would meet again at Ohio University, where he'd win her back and never let go. They married two years after graduating university, where she got a master's degree in Political Sciences and had two children, Mirena and Aaron Castillo-Moschen.

Elisa Connor, The Glue of Berry

Eldest of triplets, born of a Spanish immigrant and an American man with Hispanic ancestry, she used to live in Maryland before moving to Cedar Cove after her parents' divorce and job offer to her father, Scott, who took joint custody with his ex-wife. Out of her sisters, she was the one looking forward most to start anew. She instantly felt a connection to Berry, like she finally belonged somewhere, and was the one to win prom queen, homecoming queen and guest of honour, take down Isa and create a tentative olive branch between Hearst and Berry after half a decade of rivalry. She fell in love with Emma Hawkins, who was her best friend, girlfriend and everything.

She didn't appear much during the CA timeline, but rather her more artistic sister Elena, who was beautiful, talented and beloved by the student body and teachers, among them Mr. Olson. Preppy, assertive, optimistic and with a rebellious streak, she was the one to unite the HSS gang and make it a strong group, uniting otherwise separated brands, such as band, cheerleading and jocks. She was considered to run for student body president, but politely declined, being more happy in the sidelines, having had enough time in the spotlight, and thoroughly supported Rory, while Edurne supported Teddy. She was the smartest of the sisters and got generous offers from Penn and graduated a year early, studying a bachelor and master's degree in Children's Education and became a kindergarten's teacher. She and Emma married soon after graduation and had a double wedding with Elena and Maria and had a daughter, Julie Connor.

Halley Buchaneer, Humanist Extraordinaire

The youngest of the pack, she knew she wanted to be an actress for a long time, and dedicated herself to the humanities. Although she had a sorta puppy crush on Rory, it faded away when she met Skye, and was soon crushing hard on her. She was one of the most talented actresses to ever grace Berry, apart from Cira Jacobs, the first girl actor of Berry High and who had just debuted in a famous film.

She resented Danielle for sabotaging her and deep down, never truly forgave her or ever trusted her, and advocated for both Rory and Teddy, but eventually Rory won and she became official with Skye and encouraged her to emancipate from her abusive parents and find a foster home until she was 18. She graduated in an Ivy League university for the arts and soon began working for famous actress and producer Kiara Clark, being one of the newest faces in Hollywood. The two never married and only had children when they were both in their late thirties, adopted twin girls Abigail and Aurora Buchaneer.

@hss-appreciation-events

gala's sprite was made by @cadybear420 all credits to her! she also inspired me to make an in-deep post about my Big Three 🫶🏻

[accio-victuuri]

the circle is really small huh. so one of zz’s co-stars in wdb posted a video of him playing the violin and in the bg is ‘joker’. we know zz/wyb loves that film and i guess everyone else. lol. so people started looking at his profile and well —- he is also following wyb. which is interesting cause they haven’t worked together before. but looks like he is fond of skateboards, and wyb is skateboard ambassador extraordinaire so that may be the link here. tho that’s just one photo on his weibo where he took a picture and the background is a wall of skateboards. nothing of him doing it. so we could also be wrong and he just found that background cool to take a photo. or maybe he is yibo movie fan. who knows.

another example of people they work with following the other and we can’t figure out what’s the connection except zz & wyb. like those SDC people following zz suddenly. this person only follows 94 accounts so i think he is not the type to just randomly follow someone just because. wyb barely posts on his weibo so it’s not like you can keep up with his life if you follow him. yesterday i was talking about that other actress who mentioned yibo and now this. what’s with the wdb team? lol. do you all know something we don’t? 🤭🤭🤭

[redeyedroid]

We all have those guys we love. The actors and actresses who rarely get top billing, but when you see them, you're happy because you know you'll enjoy their work, whatever the quality of the movie or show.

Stanley Tucci used to be one of them, before he graduated into being the internet's favourite DILF. Stephen Root is. Alison Janney is assuredly among their number. Even with the Oscar wins, JK Simmons and Melissa Leo probably are, too. Scenery-chewer extraordinaire, Peter Stormare definitely is. Amy Ryan. Margo Martindale. Walton Goggins. You all have a favourite.

Ray Stevenson was one of mine.

As Titus Pullo in Rome - the terrible, duty-shirking, maybe Caesarion-fathering offset to Kevin McKidd's straight-laced, honourable Vorenus. Or in Outpost - a Nazi zombie counterpart to McKidd's werewolf genre movie, Dog Soldiers. The small roles in the Thor movies and the fantastic turn as Blackbeard in the perpetually underrated Black Sails.

He's a guy whose work I will miss.

[hotvintagepoll]

Edna May Oliver (Alice in Wonderland; Murder on a Honeymoon)— we're so back it's her time to shine shes scrungly to me for her snark and unique face. i called her the womens equivalent of the weird little guy when i submitted her for the main tournament and i was so right to say that. she used it to her advantage in her comedic performances, though her comments on her looks often came across as self defacing, commenting for example that despite her musical talents she never pursued theatre or opera primarily because "[with a horse face like mine] what else can i do but play comedy" well i just think shes swell is the thing! her performances as hildegarde withers give scrungle to me not due to appearance or weirdguy swag or the standard scrungly vibes i think most people judge characters by, but from the characters delicate balancing act between "NOT made for an investigative career" and "extremely fucking good at noticing details and therefore being SUITED for investigation"  

Max Schreck (Nosferatu)—He played Count friggin' Orlok in Nosferatu (the 1922 unlicensed adaptation of Dracula)! One of the most iconically scrungly performances in cinema history, with his ratlike face, claw-like hands, and jerky, stilted body language, Schreck was so convincing that people speculated he really was a vampire, a theory that was later adapted into 2000's Shadow of the Vampire feat. modern scrungly actor Willem Dafoe as vampire!Schreck. Schreck was scrungly in other movies, too, e.g. as The Sinister Conspirator in The Finances of the Grand Duke, but Orlok is by far his most significant, well-known and easily-viewable performance, and it's such a landmark that that alone should be enough to place him as one of the top-ranked scrungly actors of all time.

This is round 2 of the contest. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. If you're confused on what a scrungle is, or any of the rules of the contest, click here.

[additional submitted propaganda + scrungly videos under the cut]

Edna May Oliver:

This woman's energy in literally all of her films is INSANE. Yeah she loves fiercely but boy is she also ready to kill. In A Tale of Two Cities (1935) she literally fights a woman to the death. She also played a female sleuth in the 1930s which I think is pretty fucking neat :)

EDNA MY LOVE. a character actress extraordinaire and iconic female weird little guy (actually she was tall and spindly but weird little guy is a state of mind yn). she was frequently found in 30s and 40s movies playing a spinter aunt or something of that ilk, who was not about to take anybody's nonsense and had cutting retorts to spare. she also starred in a series of murder mysteries in which she is a DELIGHT as schoolteacher turned amateur detective hildegard withers, who waltzes in does the cops' jobs better than them and wears some really great hats. she pops up a lot in adaptations of classic literature, playing lady catherine de bourgh in pride and prejudice, the nurse in romeo and juliet, the red queen in the 1933 alice in wonderland which has an insane cast loaded with vintage scrunglers, aunt trotwood in david copperfield and others, but she was equally at home in modern comedies. whoever she was playing you know she probably had some hard truths and/or sharp witticisms to drop on everybody around her with her distinctive vocal delivery, or just volumes to speak with her terrifically expressive face.

Max Schreck:

Most scrungly onscreen vampire has gotta be Count Orlock, (and the second is Willem Dafoe playing Max Shreck playing Count Orlock, so technically he takes up both the top spots)

Bizarre, fun, can’t look away - Literally blinks once

[bitter69uk]

Born on this day 93 years ago: voluptuous mid-20th century actress and pin-up Anita Ekberg (29 September 1931 - 11 January 2015). In the fifties, the statuesque Swedish sex goddess reigned alongside peers Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield and Diana Dors as one Hollywood’s preeminent glamour queens. By the early sixties, Ekberg was triumphing in Europe, cavorting in the Trevi fountain beside Marcello Mastroianni in Federico Fellini’s visionary masterpiece La Dolce Vita (1960). Fellini and Ekberg memorably reunited for Boccaccio ’70 (1962). (He was definitely the director who knew best how to utilize her charms). But as a connoisseur of cinematic perversity, I love Ekberg at her gloriously wooden best in the serial killer shocker Screaming Mimi (1958) and later bargain basement Eurotrash horror movies Fangs of the Living Dead (1969) and Killer Nun (1979). Even in these indignities, as author Sam Staggs puts it, Ekberg “can steal any scene just by standing still.” In 1999 the BBC made a documentary about Ekberg, capturing her craggy temperamental monstre sacré later years. She relished trashing her contemporaries. (Asked about Sophia Loren: “Who is that?” On Brigitte Bardot: “she was pretty. You can’t say beautiful. She was – how you say? – very “Barbie.””). After gossip columnist extraordinaire Michael Musto experienced her diva’s wrath in 1999, he rechristened her “Anita Yecch-berg.” (From his 2007 book La Dolce Musto: “All I could hear was Ekberg yelling, “Why do they keep letting Sophia Loren into the country? She was in jail for a month for tax evasion!” Between courses, other arresting pronouncements came fast and furiously: “Frank Sinatra was not a good lover!”; “If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people chewing gum. It’s like cows out to pasture!”; and “Not being able to smoke in restaurants is against the Constitution!”). Still, you can’t help but love her – Anita Ekberg made the world a more glamorous place. Pictured: Ekberg by Helmut Newton, 1988.

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AUTHOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

'I’m so lucky I’m always getting ideas. I’ve reams and reams of ideas written down. Sometimes they might make a book, sometimes just a chapter.'

'Writers are like actors and actresses who make up a persona. We make up these people, we give them lives, we even put the wallpaper on the wall. There is an element of who we are in that main character. I think there’s a little bit of us in all of our books.'

'You go to these writing conferences and you always have a guy who puts his hand up and asks, what’s fashionable these days? But, it doesn’t work like that. You write what you’re comfortable writing. Often people try to be pretentious and clever in their writing. In my experience, that never works.'

'The lovely thing I say about being a writer is that you can be with people you want to be with all day and if they get on your nerves you can kill them off!'

Author Extraordinaire Martina Cole

[ammwriting]

Bad Habits

Part 3

Angel Torres x Jupes Assistant!Reader

Requested? Absolutely not.

A/N: Thank you all for the support on this series, it seriously means the most to me. I've alway wanted to contribute to a fandom or a community in some way so I'm glad you guys are enjoying it. I've been going through a lot in my personal life (dumb I know) so I appreciate everyone's patience with this follow up!

I didn't even realize the Haywood's had stopped walking with us, I was more worried about finally questioning this guy now that we were alone for the first time in the last week on the status of our "relationship". I'll admit that was even putting it out there a bit, but I don't think strangers/mutual acquaintances would be sharing a bed the way we were at this point.

"So do you have a girlfriend?"

I'm so fucking stupid. I've only been sharing a bed with him for a week and I'm going to ask that now? If I were lucky I could just blame it on...unfortunate recent developments, i.e. an assumed alien eating my boss, which I think would be a reasonable excuse in this case.

"Um...no. I mean I did! But she broke up with me. She booked a pilot on the CW and dumped me after four years. I mean it's fine. She was a model and actress, Rebecc-"

"What the fuck? You can't just drop that you just broke up with your model-slash-actress girlfriend of four fucking years dude! We slept in the same bed!"

It only took me halfway through his statement to realize he wasn't really over it, and it was my own fault for asking honestly, but still...did he like me? Does this shit even matter at this point? Well in that case, fair enough. Maybe it's just me, but he could've said something before we started sharing joints and, I don't know, beds?

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to yell at you...but you could have mentioned at any point before this one that you just broke up with a girlfriend of four years...who has since gone on to be an actress and model...for the C-fucking-W"

I was trying to be sympathetic I mean who wants to get dumped over some shit like that?

"...the CW fucking sucks."

I looked up and he was looking at me after he said it. Not talking directly to or glancing over at me.

Looking.

How long had it been since someone talked to me? Apparently a long fucking time since I started tearing up over it, but really was it so hard to look at someone and say something nice? Was it nice or am I desperate? Probably both but luckily for him I was willing to risk it all for just that statement.

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Getting back to the Haywood's Ranch was the worst decision I think I've ever made in my current life, like, who's idea was it? Well obviously it was the Haywood's since OJ was ready to catch this thing on camera if it was the last thing he did.

At this point it just might be.

When we made it back we saw the filmography extraordinaire himself, Antlers, standing there. He was looking at the "cloud" over on the edge of the farm when we walked up before he mentioned it hadn't moved in hours. Why was he staring at it for hours? Who knows it's probably a film thing, but he did have a vibe about him that just screamed "Whatever it takes to get the shot" and I could feel it.

We had a meeting where we picked...monopoly pieces. That's right! God damn monopoly pieces to represent our part in this get rich or die trying scheme. Obviously I chose the battleship and informed them I'd be with Em watching the cameras until they went out and we'd eventually make a break for the house ideally.

We had one night before shit went off and I intended to make everything as clear as I could before we potentially died tomorrow.

We saw ourselves out to a sitting room in the Haywoods house,

"So if I said when all this shit is over, when "Jean Jacket" is dead, and we have our picture...we're going on a date right? I would say I don't want to assume, but to be honest I don't think I can sleep or exist without you nearby and hopefully it's vice versa?"

That was a lot...based on the way he was staring at me, and he wasn't saying anything. Fuck. Fuck I totally jumped the gun on this, who says that?

"Is this rejection? Are you turning me down? Oh my god, this is embarrassing, I totally thought we were on the same page. Why didn't you say anything? Dude I thought this was a trauma bond for life and it's not-"

"No! No, oh my god no! I just wasn't expecting you to bring it up, but I shouldn't be surprised because of how we've been going so far honestly." He pauses and looks at me. "You've been very forward I mean-"

"I know what you mean" I deadpan back.

"...I might be able to get the time off for a date, but it might just be Denny's or something. If that's cool...with you...?"

I looked back at him after being so fucking embarrassed about being almost brushed off by the cutest loser I'd ever met thus far, but I saw nothing but sincerity to the point it was almost insecurity. That definitely made me feel better about asking in the first place that he was just as nervous as me.

"Yeah. I'd like that. Let's survive this fucking cosmic horror tomorrow...and maybe we can even spend the night again."

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The whole function went to complete shit not even one full hour after it'd commenced. I didn't even think it was possible for something to go so wrong after it'd just started honestly.

Antlers and Angel were up on a small hill a small distance away, in sight but definitely out of range should anything go wrong while me and Em were in the house setting up speakers while she chose something to play for...hype? Motivation? I'm not too sure but I'm not saying anything to my only company and the one person who's holding me down right now cause I was about to piss myself.

I had given Angel a brief goodbye after our agreement the night before. If we both live, then we'll leave here together. If.

I'll be honest I don't remember much after me and Em went to the shack to check the cameras. I remember the douche on the motorcycle showing up, yelling at him to get lost with his weird chrome helmet? Him completely ignoring me and riding out to play investigator, crashing, and getting fucking eaten by JJ.

I remember watching Antlers die for the perfect shot.

I remember beginning to watch JJ come back for Him, Angel, before looking away because I couldn't take it if she grabbed him.

Finally I remember running back to the shack to look at the cameras, at OJ, the guy who saved me that night after I'd lost what I deemed everything. My job, my boss, and my future within a few hours. Then the roof was ripped away, Em and I carried up with it.

Then she dropped us.

When I woke up I was face down on the dirt, my left leg not responding to my drive to stand up and the sun setting in the distance. JJ was in her full form. A fucking nightmare. That's what this all was, one big fucking nightmare.

I could see what looked like...the Jupe balloon? Kid Sheriff? Floating towards her before it "looked" at her and she...swallowed it? I don't know...I don't know what's happening.

Then there he was. My Angel. Sat down in the dirt almost like he was waiting for me. wrapped in a blue tarp I recognized as the one he Antlers were under what felt like years ago, but in reality was only a few hours ago.

I limped for a few feet before I fell and started crawling towards him before he noticed and started limping towards me on the ground. I hadn't even realized I started crying and it was slowly turning into sobbing. I rolled on my back looking at the sky as the sun disappeared behind the hills and was just heaving as I sobbed.

He made it to me and threw himself on the ground before he finished crawling to me, picking my head up and cradling it in his hands. I could see him through my tears just barely, trying to control my breathing enough to focus on him.

"It's over? It's done? Please tell me...-"

"It's done! We're okay! They did it, we're okay!" he kept saying while trying to push may hair and tears away. I don't know if OJ was okay. Or if Em was okay. Antlers was dead and almost took my Angel with him.

I was alive. I did next to nothing, but I'm alive and my Angel and I were free.