#Alan Brady

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carl reiner as alan brady in season three of mad about you

primetime emmy award winner for outstanding guest actor in a comedy series

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Road (Alan Clarke, 1987)

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“Impossible loves were the only loves worth having.”

Alan Keightley, ‘Ian Brady: The Untold Story of the Moors Murders’

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Taskmaster series groups (part 3) and their vibes

Series 11: All on a night course for something.

Is Charlotte studying something to do with children? Yes.

What are the others studying? We have no clue but they're working darn hard. (And by that I mean they like to discuss their life more than actually work. They got on the topic of the etymology of tree once.)

Night school makes them feel like they're in a different world, with only them and the building they're in. Oh well. They won't lose their minds, maybe?

Series 12: Book reading evening, not a book club despite what many of them think.

Honestly they just came to get out of the house and actually talk to people, helps pass the time doesn't it.

Series 13: A community drama group.

Honestly none of them are big on acting or drama in general but they suppose they might as well. Just a mash of characters that don't really fit but none of them are going to start a fight with each other. (Not really, Chris wouldn't really allow that since he is the peace-keeper.)

Series 14: Family vibes, found family vibes.

Dara and Sarah definitely are an uncle and aunt from different sides of the family just trying to herd the others and hope they don't get hurt. Fern and John are the most like their kids and Munya is sure he doesn't even need parenting. (Munya does need parenting but it's just better to let him think he doesn't.)

Series 15: Detention kids.

Has Frankie been called in because Ivo's been in detention from not talking to teachers too much? Yes.

Did he also end up in detention? Yes.

Jenny would be there for ignoring the rules during lunch time.

Kiell because he gave attitude to a teacher.

Mae because they started a fight.

It's a very awkward situation because Ivo really just doesn't want to be here. Frankie is planning to leave at the first chance he can get, dragging Ivo with him and the others if they want. Jenny is also making an escape plan but it involves less 'walking-out-the-door' and more costumes and sneaking. Kiell is playing on his phone and has already had his headphones confiscated. Mae wants to break the silence but is very aware they're the only one willing to talk to the others in the room.

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Dick Van Dyke.

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hi happy pride!!!!! A+Alan and 6 for the ask game :]

-cora

My favourite topic of conversation!!!

A How do they celebrate Pride Month?

Just for clarification, I’m answering this with TOS Alan in mind.

I can definitely see Alan repaint his race car with a rainbow pattern for Pride Month. Even if he doesn’t have a race during the month, he’d still do it and drive around in it. I mean, it’s Alan. The lad is out, proud, and loud.

Alan would probably also be wearing some pride shirts and other merch, such as pins and badges, throughout the month.

6 Recommend a favourite piece of queer media

Anyone who knows me knows that I have to bring up Mysterious Skin, both the novel and the movie adaptation. It’s intense, but an absolutely brilliant work of queer art as well! And the movie stars Brady Corbet😃. Last year, I wrote an essay about the queer representation in the book/movie for uni. Still dead proud of that.

I also want to mention Rebel Without A Cause, as I feel not enough people are aware that it is a canon queer movie. Not too mention queer icon James Dean is in it💪🏻🏳️‍🌈

Thanks for the ask! I really enjoyed answering this one :)

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Photo of the main cast of The Dick Van Dyke Show, 1962. Above: Mary Tyler Moore (Laura) and Dick Van Dyke (Rob). Lower: Morey Amsterdam (Buddy), Richard Deacon (Mel) and Rose Marie (Sally).

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My Man Godfrey (1936) Gregory La Cava

February 8th 2023

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Best Young Actor 

Joe Bird in Talk To Me 

Wyatt Oleff in Stay Awake

Brady Hepner in The Holdovers

Alan S Kim in Theatre Camp

Christopher Convery in Prisoner’s Daughter

Alexander Bello in Theatre Camp

Gabriel Chung in May December

Christopher Woodley in Our Son

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ScreenPlay: Road (BBC, 1987)

"Everyone's worried sick for you, you know. You can't just do this!"

"Why not?"

"Oh, come on. We all feel like this some time. But life must go on."

"Why?"

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I'm really hoping they wind up with like, Alan Sugar presenting Match of the Day

Someone completely unqualified because pretty much anyone who can do football punditry isn't that much of right-wing knob

(Also Alan Sugar has posted multiple partisan political opinions on his personal platforms whilst not getting barred from working with the BBC, presumably because he supports the tories)

i know this was sent a few days ago so it's not totally relevant (sorry my bad), but yeah i agree! i saw a small number of middle-aged men on twitter saying that they could present match of the day easily and i was immediately like... you absolutely could not lads :-) i think the absence of gary lineker (and the whole motd team) helped us appreciate just how good he is

and yeah, you're totally right about alan sugar - and his right-hand woman karren brady is literally a tory peer. she probably has much more influence in the literal house of lords than gary lineker has on twitter. not to mention people like andrew neil who has been chairperson of the spectator since 2008, during which time he also worked for the bbc news team!

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Road (Alan Clarke, 1987)

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“I used them [tarot cards] from a psychological viewpoint, not occult. The combination of intricate designs and colours, plus the multi-interpretational relationship of meanings, made the cards not only a meditative but also a psychological conduit, providing a conduit to the subconscious, reflecting inner doubts or confidence in some immediate project in hand.”

Alan Keightley, ‘Ian Brady: The Untold Story of the Moors Murders’

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A House committee on Friday made public six years of former President Donald Trump's tax returns, which showed he paid relatively little in taxes in the years before and during his presidency.

The House Ways and Means Committee had voted to make the thousands of pages of returns public in a party-line vote last week, but their release was delayed while staffers redacted sensitive personal information like Social Security numbers from the documents. Friday's release, the culmination of years of legal wrangling and speculation, included both personal and business records.

Trump on Friday blasted the release in a statement and on his Truth Social platform, saying “the Democrats should have never done it, the Supreme Court should have never approved it, and it’s going to lead to horrible things for so many people."

He also maintained the returns he fought to keep hidden — despite modern precedent that Presidents make their returns public — "show how proudly successful I have been and how I have been able to use depreciation and various other tax deductions as an incentive for creating thousands of jobs and magnificent structures and enterprises.”

The panel’s top Republican, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, called the release of the documents “unprecedented,” and said Democrats had unleashed “a dangerous new political weapon that reaches far beyond the former President, overturning decades of privacy protections for average Americans.”

“This is a regrettable stain on the Ways and Means Committee and Congress, and will make American politics even more divisive and disheartening. In the long run, Democrats will come to regret it,” Brady said.

The returns confirm much of what was contained in a 39-page report from the Joint Committee on Taxation released last week, including summaries from Trump’s personal tax forms and business entities.

For example, in 2020, Trump appeared to owe nothing in taxes, the report showed. That was thanks to Trump claiming $15 million in business losses, which resulted in him having negative $4 million in adjusted gross income. Trump then claimed a $5 million refund.

Trump reported millions in negative income in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2020, and he paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017.

In 2019, Trump and his wife, Melania, reported significant losses of more than $16.4 million but reported a total income of $4.4 million.

The returns also show Trump had numerous foreign bank accounts between 2015 and 2016, including in China, the United Kingdom, Ireland and St. Martin. The existence of the China account was first reported by the New York Times in 2020. Trump Organization lawyer Alan Garten told the paper then that the company had “opened an account with a Chinese bank having offices in the United States in order to pay the local taxes” after opening an office “to explore the potential for hotel deals in Asia.”

The other accounts were in countries where Trump had properties. His 2018 through 2020 returns only note having an account in the U.K. “I have many bank accounts and they’re all listed and they’re all over the place,” Trump said during an Oct. 2020 presidential debate. “I was a businessman doing business.”

The committee report also listed several overarching issues it believed the IRS should have investigated. For example, Trump claimed large cash donations to charities, but the report said the IRS did not verify them. The report also said that while Trump’s tax filings were large and complicated, the IRS does not appear to have assigned experts to work on them.

The Ways and Means Committee separately released a 29-page report summarizing its investigation into an IRS policy that mandates audits of returns filed by presidents and vice presidents. The committee found that the IRS had largely not followed its own internal requirements, beginning to examine Trump’s returns only after the House panel inquired about the process. Just one year of Trump’s returns was officially selected for the mandatory review while he was in office, and that audit of Trump's 2016 taxes was not complete by the time he left the White House, according to the report.

An audit of Trump's 2015 taxes was started shortly before the 2016 audit in 2019 — the same day the Ways and Means committee asked for information on the mandatory audits. Neither the 2015 audit nor audits of Trump's 2017-19 taxes that began after he left office were marked as being part of the audit program, and as of last month, none had been marked as completed either, the committee said.

The committee obtained Trump's tax returns in November, following a yearslong court fight for documents that other presidents have routinely made public since the 1970s.

The dispute ended up at the Supreme Court, which rejected Trump’s last-ditch plea to block the release of his tax records to House Democrats in a brief order handed down just before Thanksgiving.

Trump's refusal to release his returns led to a swirl of suspicions about what he might be trying to hide — foreign business dealings, a smaller fortune than he'd claimed publicly or paying less in taxes than the average American.

During the 2016 campaign, Trump maintained that he couldn't release his returns because they were under audit, and that he would make them public when it was completed — a vow he walked away from after he took office.

Information about his taxes has dripped out over the years.

In October 2016, The New York Times published some of Trump's 1995 state taxes and reported that he'd declared a $916 million loss that year. Three tax experts hired by the paper said the size of the loss and tax rules governing wealthy filers at the time could have allowed Trump to legally pay no federal income taxes for 18 years.

After Trump took office in 2017, reporter David Cay Johnston went on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" with what he said were two pages of Trump's Form 1040 from 2005.

The documents, which were published on Johnston's site DCReport.org, showed that Trump had paid $38 million in federal income tax on more than $150 million in income.

In September 2020, the Times reported that it had obtained two decades of Trump’s tax information, which showed he had not paid any income taxes in 10 of the prior 15 years, mostly because he reported significant losses. In the year he won the presidency and his first year in office, he paid just $750 in federal income tax, the paper found.

Asked about the report at the time, the then-president said the story was “made up" and that he’s “paid a lot of money in state” taxes. He later tweeted that he’d “paid many millions of dollars in taxes but was entitled, like everyone else, to depreciation & tax credits.”

Trump also fought unsuccessfully to keep his tax information out of the hands of investigators in New York, who were probing his business practices. That clash also went all the way to the Supreme Court, which denied Trump's attempt to block a grand jury from getting Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns in February of last year.

Those returns helped prosecutors from the Manhattan district attorney's office build a tax fraud case against Trump's company, the Trump Organization. The company was convicted this month of carrying out a 15-year tax fraud scheme that prosecutors said was orchestrated by top executives at the company.

During the trial, Trump's accountant Donald Bender testified that the former President had losses totaling $900 million in 2009 and 2010.

The company is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 13. Trump, who was not charged in the case, has dismissed the allegations and conviction as part of a politically motivated "witch hunt."

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BALL & THE BUTCHERS!

The Butchers & Meat Markets of the Lucyverse

Before supermarkets and online ordering, consumers visited local buthers and meat markets to shop.  Here’s a look at the butchers of the Lucyverse!

Lucille Ball had a huge imagination when she was a child in Jamestown NY. In order to attempt to control her daughter, her mother made a deal with the local butcher for Lucy to run up and down the street between his shop and their home. It was in his butcher shop that Lucille first made her entertainment debut. In her autobiography, Ball shares details of her first performance on the butcher's counter. Lucy loved to dance and twirl for them, as well as giving her rendition of a jumping frog. She would stick her tongue out and croak. Customers would give her some pennies or a sweet treat to show their appreciation. 

In 1942 Lucille Ball was the subject of a newspaper article titled “Conversation in the Kitchen” by Susan Thrift. The article details how the wartime homemaker can save money and conserve resources.

“If you have a freezing unit in your refrigerator, you can buy meat for the week. You’ve probably learned that you can depend much on a reliable butcher and standard brands. For the rest, remember what your mother taught you about the purchase of meat:”

“Valentine’s Day” (1949)

Katie the Maid (Ruth Perrot), is sweet on Mr. Dabney the butcher (Hans Conried), and Liz (Lucille Ball) offers to help. But when Liz's Valentine to her favorite husband gets switched with her check to pay the butcher's bill, Mr. Dabney gets the wrong idea.

Katie says she has a written a Valentine poem for Mr. Dabney the butcher. Liz calls him “old heavy thumbs”.    

KATIE: “Some people may have better beef, but his liver’s good. And no one has oxtails and pig’s feet like him!”

Mr. Dabney reads the Valentine aloud:

“If you’ll be mine, then I’ll be thyne. You set my heart a-quiver. Say you’ll be my Valentine, And send two pounds of liver.”

Hans Conreid also played Mr. Dabney the butcher in “Overweight” (1949) where a dieting weigh-in is held at his butcher shop.

Mr. Dabney returns in “Reminiscing” (1949), a re-dramatization of “Valentine’s Day” as part of a “My Favorite Husband” retrospective episode. 

When the "Valentine’s Day” script was made for television in 1952 in “Lucy Plays Cupid”, Mr. Dabney the butcher, played by Hans Conried, became Mr. Ritter, a grocer, played by Edward Everett Horton. 

“The Freezer” (1952)

Hoping to save money, Lucy and Ethel purchases a walk-in freezer from Ethel’s Uncle Oscar, a butcher.  When Lucy hears Ethel say that he has a “big cold chest,” Lucy drily replies, “Why don’t you knit him a sweater?”   

After buying the freezer, they buy the meat to fill it at 69 cents a pound. Lucy over-orders two sides of beef from Johnson’s Meat Packing, a wholesale butcher. Lucy tells Ricky that bacon costs 75 cents a pound. The girls end up ordering 700 pounds of meat for a total of $483!  Lucy immediately demands they take it back. 

DELIVERY MAN: “Look, ladies, even if you defrosted it, pasted it back together and taught it to walk, I couldn’t take it back!” 

To shift some of the meat, Lucy and other stake out the local butcher shop, stashing the meat in a baby stroller. 

LUCY (to a customer): “Are you interested in some high-class beef? Are you tired of paying high prices? Do you want a bargain? Tell you what I'm gonna do. I got sirloin, tenderloin T-bone, rump, pot roast, chuck roast, oxtail stump.”

Fred Aldrich plays the butcher who is none too happy about Lucy and Ethel poaching his customers.    

A December 1952 Philip Morris cartoon ad starts with the butcher delivering a side of beef to Lucy and Ethel, inspired by “The Freezer”.

“Together for Christmas” (1962)

The holiday episode opens with Lucy and Viv at the butcher shop, where Ernie the butcher (Joe Mell) is wrapping up Lucy’s Christmas turkey, even though Viv's family traditionally has a goose. 

Ernie the butcher jokingly suggests stuffing the turkey with a goose!  

“Lucy and the Plumber” (1964)

Lucy’s first talent discovery was made in Mr. Krause’s butcher shop when she saw his German Shepard Beauty “howl like the Beatles” when Mr. Krause (Tom G. Linder) played the harmonica. 

”Lucy and the Great Bank Robbery” (1964)

Reading The Danfield Tribune, Viv notes that Oscar the butcher has a special on rump roast. This may be a throwback to Ethel Mertz’s Uncle Oscar the butcher. 

“Lucy Gets Her Maid” (1965)

When Lucy and Viv take jobs as maids for a wealthy philanthopist, they realize that they not only have to prepare and serve the meals, but they have to act as their own butcher, too!

“Lucy and the Old Mansion” (1965)

A wrong number on the telephone keeps trying to reach Irving's Meat Market.

“Lucy Meets Mickey Rooney” (1966)

The backdrop for the Charlie Chaplin sketch features a sign for a market that has “Low Prices on Meat’s”.  The grammatically incorrect possessive apostrophe is particularly odd. By that logic, the episode should be titled “Lucy Meet’s Mickey Rooney”! 

“Someone’s on the Ski Lift with Dinah” (1971)

Harry feels entitled to approach Dinah Shore because his butcher’s cousin’s son’s best friend is engaged to her manicurist.

“Mary Jane’s Boyfriend” (1974)

Mary Jane’s boyfriend of the title owns a meat market. His name is Walter Butley (Cliff Norton). Harry calls Walter “meathead” because when he walked in the door, Lucy had just plopped a package of ground round on his head.

Possibly the most famous butcher on television was Sam Franklin, played by Allan Melvin on “The Brady Bunch.”  Desi Arnaz Jr. appeared on the show in 1970, although Melvin did not appear on that episode. Also, Eve Plumb (Jan Brady) played Lucy Carter’s niece on a 1972 episode of “Here’s Lucy.” 

Melvin appeared with Lucille Ball in a 1959 episode of “Sergeant Bilko” (aka “The Phil Silvers Show”) titled “Bilko and the Ape Man.” Melvin also appeared in several Desilu series: “Vacation Playhouse”, “The Danny Thomas Show,” “The Joey Bishop Show,” “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.,” “Mayberry R.F.D.” 

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Thoughts on Alan in Thunderbirds (2004 film)?

Behold! One of my all time favourite questions!

In one word: perfection 👌🏻

Brady Corbet had one job and he fucking nailed it! He very successfully managed to capture the original character and yet make it his own.

I know I have said this many times before but I still regard 2004 Alan as incredibly realistic portrayal of a 14 y/o kid. I’ve seen many adolescent characters that are either too perfect and/or too mature for their age or that are completely out of touch with reality. But 2004 Alan is a real character. He is not perfect, he has his character flaws, just like everyone else. He was played by an actor who was actually (near) the same age as the character. Too many teen characters are played by actors in their 20s. 2004 Alan is complex and there is a depth to him. You see him struggle with emotions, family dynamics, and with his place in the world. I’m still a firm believer that he is an ADHD icon and that means the world to me 😤💪🏻.

In short, Alan is a highly underrated character who is doing his damn best in a very intense and dire situation.

Does that answer your question?😆