#Alan Merrill actor

[thiefbird]

Can't remember which number, Which actors would you cast for a movie of your fav DA game?

Oh, hmmmmm....

Unfortunately I am. So Bad at remembering actors' names.

Lets see, dream casting and dream DA movie?

I would actually not want a movie of any of the games, I think; I want a movie of The Stolen Throne with Loghain and Maric. Do I know who should play them? No idea lol. An older, DAO Loghain I would have loved Alan Rickman, but a younger one... No idea. Maric... maybe a slightly younger Chris Pine? He has the sort of golden-boy charisma in the new Star Trek movies that I think suits my idea of Maric.

But casting one of the games? Maaaaaaaybe a young Michelle Dockery(Susan Sto Helit in Hogfather) as default fem Hawke? I cannot imagine anyone else's voice as Merrill but Eve Myles, and same thing with Varric and Brian Bloom who looks nothing like Varric at all. I think in order to make me happy they would have to overdub everyone's voice with their voice actors, tbh...

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Birthdays 5.17

Beer Birthdays

Bert Grant (1928)

JJ Jay (1959)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Sandro Botticelli; Italian artist (1444)

Craig Ferguson; comedian, television talk show host (1962)

Bob Saget; comedian, actor (1956)

Erik Satie; composer (1866)

Dave Sim; comic book artist (1956)

Famous Birthdays

Sasha Alexander; actor (1973)

Stewart Alsop; journalist (1914)

James "Cool Papa" Bell; St. Louis Stars CF (1903)

Bill Bruford; rock drummer (1949)

Andrea Corr; pop singer (1974)

Horace Elgin Dodge; auto maker (1868)

Enya; pop singer (1961)

Dennis Hopper; actor (1936)

Edward Jenner; invented vaccinations (1749)

Alan Kay; computer scientist (1940)

Sugar Ray Leonard; boxer (1956)

Taj Mahal; singer, songwriter (1942)

Jackie McLean; jazz saxophonist (1932)

Bob Merrill; songwriter (1921)

Jim Nantz; television sportscaster (1959)

Brigitte Nielsen; actor (1963)

Birgit Nilsson; opera soprano (1918)

Maureen O'Sullivan; actor (1911)

Bill Paxton; actor (1955)

John Penn; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1741)

Dennis Potter; writer (1935)

Trent Reznor; rock singer, musician (1965)

Seth Warner; revolutionary war hero (1743)

[project1939]

100 Films of 1952 

Film number 95: Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick 

Release date: April 12th, 1952. 

Studio: Paramount 

Genre: Musical 

Director: Claude Binyon 

Producer: William Pearlberg, George Seaton 

Actors: Alan Young, Dinah Shore, Robert Merrill, Adele Jergens 

Plot Summary: Josie is a country girl who dreams of selling her farm and living in the city. She also wants to marry her neighbor Aaron, but he loves the country and never wants to leave. When some big city guests arrive, Josie is dazzled, but all is not what it seems. Suddenly they announce they want to buy her farm... 

My Rating (out of five stars): **½  

During Project 1952 I saw an ad for this film in a magazine, and I thought, “WTF? Is that actually real?!” Indeed it is. Unfortunately, the film lived up to my worst stereotypical expectations for a story about “country folk versus city folk.” The “country folk” were ridiculously idealized and the city folk were ridiculously villainized. 

The Good: 

Dinah Shore. She was easily the most charismatic and enjoyable actor in the movie. I really like her singing voice as well- it reminds me a lot of Doris Day’s. 

The Technicolor. As usual, I stan Technicolor. The print of the film I saw was quite poor, but even so, the color was luscious. 

There was a lot of music. This is a musical that barely takes a breath to stop singing, which was a big plus for me.   

The costumes were gorgeous. The film takes place in the early 1900s- it looked very Edwardian- and the period costumes were beautiful, colorful, and fun. (Ooh, I just discovered that Edith Head was the designer here, so that makes sense!)

The Bad: 

The cast overall was kinda blah. Aside from Shore, no one else really pulled me in. Alan Young was cute as Aaron but not terribly interesting. 

The music was not the most memorable. None of the songs were bad, but they certainly weren’t bangers. The only one I can remember after having just finished the film is the opening “Chores” number. 

The characters were very one dimensional with little to no depth. 

It was way too simplified in terms of country vs city. The country folk lived in a paradise of harmony and simplicity- they were all good people who loved going to church and dancing on the weekends. The city folk were cynical snobs, con men, criminals, and bawdy chorus girls. I know it’s just a comedy, but it was incredibly annoying and insulting. Especially as someone who has lived large portions of my life in both the city and the country. 

I got bored more than once with the story and had a hard time staying focused. Once Josie went to the city things kind of fell apart for me. 

Here’s an example from the opening song of the insipid “country vs city” stuff: “The country girls are natural folk, they like to laugh and like to joke. City girls are learning to smoke behind the parlor doors.” 

Oh, and yet again we get more jokes about men slapping their women around. During a fight, a guy says to his fiancé, “Oh my sweetheart, how I look forward to marrying you and being arrested for wife-beating!” Facepalm. 

And why does the guy get his name in the title when the woman is the main protagonist? Yes, yes, I know, “Aaron Slick” and “Punkin Crick” rhyme, but it could easily have been “Josie Slick from Punkin Crick,” couldn’t it? I just thought it was weird that she didn’t get first billing in her own film. (But not terribly surprising in some ways!) 

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BANDA SONORA

FUNNY GIRL

Los productores Sonia Friedman, Scott Landis y David Babani, junto con Gemini Theatrical, Accidental Jacket y Sony Masterworks Broadway, se complacen en anunciar el lanzamiento en CD de FUNNY GIRL - New Broadway Cast Recording, el viernes 20 de enero de 2023. Ya disponible en formato digital.

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Los productores Sonia Friedman, Scott Landis y David Babani, junto con Gemini Theatrical, Accidental Jacket y Sony Masterworks Broadway, se complacen en anunciar el lanzamiento digital de FUNNY GIRL - New Broadway Cast Recording, que saldrá a la venta mañana, viernes 18 de noviembre de 2022, a las 12:01 AM ET. Producido por David Caddick y David Lai y que incluye la partitura clásica de Jule Styne (música) y Bob Merrill (letra), el CD físico saldrá a la venta el viernes 20 de enero de 2023. Además, el álbum ha sido producido por Evan McGill y coproducido por Brian Gillet, Huck Walton, Sean Keller, Marc Levine, Michael Mayer, Sonia Friedman, Scott Landis y David Babani.

FUNNY GIRL está protagonizada por la nominada a los premios Emmy Lea Michele como Fanny Brice, el nominado a los premios Tony y Olivier Ramin Karimloo como Nick Arnstein, el nominado a los premios Tony y Drama Desk 2022 y ganador del premio Chita Rivera Jared Grimes como Eddie Ryan, y la cuatro veces nominada a los premios Tony Tovah Feldshuh como Mrs. Rosie Brice en el August Wilson Theatre (245 West 52nd Street). Les acompañan Peter Francis James como Florenz Ziegfeld, Ephie Aardema como Emma/Sra. Nadler, Debra Cardona como Mrs. Meeker, Toni DiBuono como Mrs. Strakosh, Martin Moran como Tom Keeney, y una compañía de actores que incluye a Miriam Ali, Amber Ardolino, Daniel Beeman, Colin Bradbury, Kurt Csolak, John Michael Fiumara, Leslie Donna Flesner, Afra Hines, Masumi Iwai, Aliah James, Jeremiah James, Danielle Kelsey, Stephen Mark Lukas, Alicia Lundgren, John Manzari, Liz McCartney, Connor McRory Katie Mitchell, Justin Prescott, Mariah Reives, Barbara Tirrell, Leslie Blake Walker y la suplente de "Fanny Brice" Julie Benko, que interpreta el papel todos los jueves.

El ganador del premio Tony, Michael Mayer, dirige esta nueva versión de FUNNY GIRL, con la clásica partitura de la ganadora de los premios Tony, Grammy y de la Academia, Jule Styne, y letras del nominado al premio Tony y ganador del Grammy, Bob Merrill, (con canciones adicionales de Styne y Merrill). El libro original de Isobel Lennart, a partir de una historia original de Lennart, está revisado por el ganador del premio Tony Harvey Fierstein.

FUNNY GIRL cuenta con la coreografía de Ellenore Scott, la coreografía de claqué de Ayodele Casel, el diseño escénico del ganador del premio Tony David Zinn, el diseño de vestuario de la ganadora del premio Tony Susan Hilferty, el diseño de iluminación del ganador del premio Tony Kevin Adams, el diseño de sonido del ganador del premio Tony Brian Ronan, el diseño de peluquería de Campbell Young Associates, la dirección musical y la supervisión del ganador del premio Emmy Michael Rafter, el reparto de Jim Carnahan, CSA y Jason Thinger, CSA, la orquestación de Chris Walker, los arreglos de danza, vocales y de música incidental de Alan Williams, y los arreglos adicionales de David Dabbon y Carmel Dean.

Esta comedia agridulce es la historia de la indomable Fanny Brice, una chica del Lower East Side que soñaba con una vida sobre el escenario. Todo el mundo le dijo que nunca sería una estrella, pero entonces ocurrió algo curioso: se convirtió en una de las intérpretes más queridas de la historia, brillando más que las luces más brillantes de Broadway. Con algunas de las canciones más emblemáticas de la historia del teatro, como "Don't Rain On My Parade", "I'm the Greatest Star" y "People", la nueva y audaz producción de Michael Mayer es la primera vez que FUNNY GIRL vuelve a Broadway desde su debut hace 58 años.

Las entradas para FUNNY GIRL están ya a la venta hasta el domingo 28 de mayo de 2023 en https://seatgeek.com/funny-girl-tickets. Los precios son a partir de 69,00 dólares.

El día de la función, si se agotan las entradas de pie, habrá un número limitado de ellas en la taquilla. Las entradas de pie son por orden de llegada.

FUNNY GIRL está producida por Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott Landis, David Babani, Roy Furman, No Guarantees, Adam Blanshay Productions, Daryl Roth, Stephanie P. McClelland, Lang Entertainment Group, Playing Field, Gavin Kalin, Charles & Nicolas Talar, Fakston Productions, Sanford Robertson, Craig Balsam, Cue to Cue Productions, LenoffFedermanWolofsky Productions, Judith Ann Abrams / Peter May, Hunter Arnold, Creative Partners Productions, Elizabeth Armstrong, Jane Bergère, Jean Doumanian, Larry Magid, Rosalind Productions, Iris Smith, Kevin & Trudy Sullivan, Julie Boardman / Kate Cannova, Heni Koenigsberg / Michelle Riley, Mira Road Productions / Seaview, In Fine Company, Elie Landau, Brian Moreland, Henry R. Muñoz III & Kyle Ferari Muñoz,  MaggioAbrams / Brian & Dayna Lee.

Los productores asociados de FUNNY GIRL – New Broadway Cast Recording son Joanna Drowos, Abby Green y Pickelstar.

SONY MUSIC MASTERWORKS es una compañía global de entretenimiento especializada en música grabada y experiencias en directo. Entre nuestras producciones teatrales y álbumes de reparto se encuentran  Almost Famous, KPOP, Lempicka, Macbeth (Daniel Craig), Back to the Future, Sing Street, SpongeBob, Harry Potter, Flying Over Sunset, Hello, Dolly! (Bette Midler), Kinky Boots y Once. Para actualizaciones por email y más información, visita www.sonymusicmasterworks.com/.

ACCIDENTAL JACKET ENTERTAINMENT es una productora creativa que combina el cine, el teatro y la música. Hacemos anuncios, películas, vídeos musicales, producciones en directo y álbumes, todo ello con el impulso de contar historias convincentes. Nuestro álbum más reciente fue The Music Man, protagonizado por Hugh Jackman y Sutton Foster.

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Gracias a Lucky Seat, habrá un número limitado de entradas disponibles para cada función de FUNNY GIRL por 47,50 $ la entrada. Las loterías digitales comenzarán cada lunes a las 10 AM ET y se cerrarán el día anterior a la actuación a las 10:30 AM ET. Los ganadores serán notificados aproximadamente a las 11 de la mañana, hora del este, del día anterior a la actuación, por correo electrónico y por SMS. Una vez informados, los ganadores tendrán un tiempo limitado para reclamar y pagar su(s) billete(s). Los participantes en la lotería deben ser mayores de 18 años. Los billetes son intransferibles. Todas las ventas son definitivas. No hay cambios ni devoluciones. Los límites y precios de las entradas son a discreción del espectáculo y están sujetos a cambios. Para ver las reglas adicionales e información sobre cómo participar, visita: https://www.luckyseat.com/shows/funnygirl-newyork.

FUNNY GIRL – NEW BROADWAY CAST RECORDING (TRACKLIST):

1. Overture

Nuevo reparto de Funny Girl en Broadway

2. Who Are You Now?

Lea Michele

3. If a Girl Isn't Pretty

Tovah Feldshuh y Toni DiBuono

4. I'm the Greatest Star

Lea Michele

5. Eddie's Tap

Jared Grimes

6. Cornet Man

Lea Michele, Kurt Csolak, Justin Prescott

7. His Love Makes Me Beautiful

Lea Michele, Daniel Beeman y la compañía

8. I Want to Be Seen with You

Lea Michele y Ramin Karimloo

9. Henry Street

Tovah Feldshuh, Toni DiBuono, Debra Cardona, Jared Grimes, Martin Moran, Lea Michele y la compañía

10. People

Lea Michele

11. You Are Woman, I Am Man

Lea Michele y Ramin Karimloo

12. Don't Rain on My Parade

Lea Michele

13. Sadie, Sadie

Lea Michele y Ramin Karimloo

14. Who Taught Her Everything She Knows?

Tovah Feldshuh y Jared Grimes

15. Temporary Arrangement

Ramin Karimloo, Daniel Beeman, Kurt Csolak, John Manzari y Justin Prescott

16. Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat

Lea Michele y la compañía

17. Who Are You Now? (Repetición)

Lea Michele y Ramin Karimloo

18. You're a Funny Girl / Beekman Call

Ramin Karimloo

19. What Do Happy People Do?

Nuevo reparto de Funny Girl en Broadway

20. The Music That Makes Me Dance

Lea Michele

21. Dream Ballet

Nuevo reparto de Funny Girl en Broadway

22. Finale Act 2

Lea Michele

[alanmerrill]

Took a taxi to Troma film studios today and did two separate scenes for producer/director Dylan Mars Greenberg’s epic film “Spirit Riser” including motorbike scene and after that a few scenes (after climbing the ladder to the roof) and fighting off (no spoiler!) very bad things, with Lloyd’s help. A lovely sunny day for filming! Nice breeze! 

[moodboardmix]

Alan Merrill ( February 19, 1951 - March 29, 2020)

Rock Musician, Singer, Singwriter for Half a Million Years!

Alan Past Of Covid 19 ....

"I Love Rock N Roll" Featuring Lead Singer Alan Merrill. 

The original a-side version from 1975 by the band the Arrows. The group were produced by British legend Mickie Most, and the tune was written by Alan Merrill and Jake Hooker. 

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SAG Awards 2022

(L-R) Eugenio Derbez, Daniel Durant, Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur, and Emilia Jones accept the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture award for 'CODA' onstage during the 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards at Barker Hangar on February 27, 2022 in Santa Monica, California.

Will Smith and Jessica Chastain win Best Performance in a Leading Role

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) (WINNER) Olivia Colman (The Lost Daughter) Lady Gaga (House of Gucci) Jennifer Hudson (Respect) Nicole Kidman (Being the Ricardos)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role Will Smith (King Richard) (WINNER) Javier Bardem (Being the Ricardos) Benedict Cumberbatch (The Power of the Dog) Andrew Garfield (Tick, Tick … Boom!) Denzel Washington (The Tragedy of Macbeth)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role Ariana DeBose (West Side Story) (WINNER) Caitriona Balfe (Belfast) Cate Blanchett (Nightmare Alley) Kirsten Dunst (The Power of the Dog) Ruth Negga (Passing)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Troy Kotsur (CODA) (WINNER) Ben Affleck (The Tender Bar) Bradley Cooper (Licorice Pizza) Jared Leto (House of Gucci) Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Power of the Dog

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture No Time to Die (WINNER) Black Widow Dune The Matrix: Resurrections Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

TV categories:

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series Succession — Nicholas Braun, Juliana Canfield, Brian Cox, Kieran Culkin, Dagmara Dominczyk, Peter Friedman, Jihae, Justine Lupe, Matthew Macfadyen, Dasha Nekrasova, Scott Nicholson, David Rasche, Alan Ruck, J. Smith-Cameron, Sarah Snook, Fisher Stevens, Jeremy Strong, Zoë Winters (WINNER) The Handmaid’s Tale — Alexis Bledel, Madeline Brewer, Amanda Brugel, Ann Dowd, O-T Fagbenle, Joseph Fiennes, Sam Jaeger, Max Minghella, Elisabeth Moss, Yvonne Strahovski, Bradley Whitford, Samira Wiley The Morning Show — Jennifer Aniston, Shari Belafonte, Eli Bildner, Nestor Carbonell, Steve Carell, Billy Crudup, Mark Duplass, Amber Friendly, Janina Gavankar, Valeria Golino, Tara Karsian, Hannah Leder, Greta Lee, Julianna Margulies, Joe Marinelli, Michelle Meredith, Ruairi O’Connor,Joe Pacheco, Karen Pittman, Victoria Tate, Desean K. Terry, Reese Witherspoon Squid Game — Heo Sung-Tae, Jun Young-Soo, Jung Ho-Yeon, Kim Joo-Ryoung, Lee Byung-Hun, Lee Jung-Jae, Oh Young-Soo, Park Hae-Soo, Anupam Tripathi, Wi Ha-Jun Yellowstone — Kelsey Asbille, Wes Bentley, Ryan Bingham, Gil Birmingham, Ian Bohen, Eden Brolin, Kevin Costner, Hugh Dillon, Luke Grimes, Hassie Harrison, Cole Hauser, Jen Landon, Finn Little, Brecken Merrill, Will Patton, Piper Perabo, Kelly Reilly, Denim Richards, Taylor Sheridan, Forrie J. Smith, Jefferson White

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game) (WINNER) Brian Cox (Succession) Billy Crudup (The Morning Show) Kieran Culkin (Succession) Jeremy Strong (Succession)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series Jung Ho-yeon (Squid Game) (WINNER) Jennifer Aniston (The Morning Show) Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) Sarah Snook (Succession) Reese Witherspoon (The Morning Show)

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series Ted Lasso — Annette Badland, Kola Bokinni, Phil Dunster, Cristo Fernández, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt, Toheeb Jimoh, Nick Mohammed, Sarah Niles, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Swift, Juno Temple, Hannah Waddingham (WINNER) The Great — Julian Barratt, Belinda Bromilow, Sacha Dhawan, Elle Fanning, Phoebe Fox, Bayo Gbadamosi, Adam Godley, Douglas Hodge, Nicholas Hoult, Florence Keith-Roach, Gwilym Lee, Charity Wakefield Hacks — Rose Abdoo, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Paul W. Downs, Hannah Einbinder, Mark Indelicato, Poppy Liu, Chris McDonald, Jean Smart, Megan Stalter The Kominsky Method — Jenna Lyng Adams, Sarah Baker, Casey Thomas Brown, Michael Douglas, Lisa Edelstein, Ashleigh Lathrop, Emily Osment, Haley Joel Osment, Paul Reiser, Graham Rogers, Melissa Tang, Kathleen Turner Only Murders in the Building — Aaron Dominguez, Selena Gomez, Jackie Hoffman, Jayne Houdyshell, Steve Martin, Amy Ryan, Martin Short

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series Jason Sudeikis (Ted Lasso) (WINNER) Michael Douglas (The Kominsky Method) Brett Goldstein (Ted Lasso) Steve Martin (Only Murders in the Building) Martin Short (Only Murders in the Building)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series Jean Smart (Hacks) (WINNER) Elle Fanning (The Great) Sandra Oh (The Chair) Juno Temple (Ted Lasso) Hannah Waddingham (Ted Lasso)

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series Michael Keaton (Dopesick) (WINNER) Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus) Oscar Isaac (Scenes From a Marriage) Ewan McGregor (Halston) Evan Peters (Mare of Easttown)

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series Kate Winslet (Mare of Easttown) (WINNER) Jennifer Coolidge (The White Lotus) Cynthia Erivo (Genius: Aretha) Margaret Qualley (Maid) Jean Smart (Mare of Easttown)

Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series Squid Game (WINNER) Cobra Kai The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Loki Mare of Easttown

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Celebrity Deaths 2020

JANUARY Lexii Alijai - Jan. 1 (Rapper) Nick Gordon - Jan. 1 (Reality Star) Carlos De Leon - Jan. 1 (Boxer) Don Larsen - Jan. 1 (Baseball Player) Sam Wyche - Jan. 2 (Football Coach) John Baldessari - Jan. 2 (Conceptual Artist) Derek Acorah - Jan. 3 (TV Show Host) Gene Reynolds - Jan. 3 (Director) Andrea Arruti - Jan. 3 (Voice Actress) Walter Learning - Jan. 5 (Director) Ria Irawan - Jan. 6 (Movie Actress) Neil Peart - Jan. 7 (Drummer) Silvio Horta - Jan. 7 (Screenwriter) Elizabeth Wurtzel - Jan. 7 (Novelist) Harry Hains - Jan. 7 (TV Actor) *Edd Byrnes - Jan. 8 (TV Actor) Buck Henry - Jan. 8 (Screenwriter) Maxie - Jan. 8 (YouTube Star) Alexis Eddy - Jan. 9 (Reality Star) Brian James - Jan. 10 (Rugby Player) Stan Kirsch - Jan. 11 (TV Actor) La Parka - Jan. 12 (Wrestler) Rocky Johnson - Jan. 15 (Wrestler) *Dwayne Johnson's Dad* Christopher Tolkien - Jan. 16 (Novelist) David Olney - Jan. 18 (Folk Singer) Bubby Jones - Jan. 18 (Race Car Driver) Joe Shishido - Jan. 18 (Movie Actor) Jimmy Heath - Jan. 19 (Saxophonist) Terry Jones - Jan. 21 (Comedian) Jim Lehrer - Jan. 2(Journalist) Gudrun Pausewang - Jan. 23 (Young Adult Author) Jim Lehrer - Jan. 23 (Journalist) Clayton Christensen - Jan. 23 (Non-Fiction Author) Sean Reinert - Jan. 24 (Drummer) Rob Rensenbrink - Jan. 24 (Soccer Player) **Kobe Bryant - Jan. 26 (Basketball Player) *Gianna Bryant - Jan. 26 (Family Member) *Kobe's Daughter* Bob Shane - Jan. 26 (Rock Singer) John Altobelli - Jan. 26 (Baseball Manager) Keri Altobelli - Jan. 26 (Family Member) Jack Burns - Jan. 27 (Comedian) Harriet Frank Jr. - Jan. 28 (Screenwriter) Nicholas Parsons - Jan. 28 (TV Show Host) Tofig Gasimov - Jan. 29 (Politician) John Andretti - Jan. 30 (Race Car Driver) Fred Silverman - Jan. 30 (TV Producer) Mary Higgins Clark - Jan. 31 (Novelist) Anne Cox Chambers - Jan. 31 (Entrepreneur) 

FEBRUARY Gene Reynolds - Feb. 3 (Director) Nadia Lutfi - Feb. 4 (Movie Actress) Kamau Brathwaite - Feb. 4 (Poet) Kirk Douglas - Feb. 5 (Movie Actor) Beverly Pepper - Feb. 5 (Sculptor) *Raphael Coleman - Feb. 6 (Movie Actor) Jhon Jairo Velásquez - Feb. 6 (Criminal) Orson Bean - Feb. 7 (Movie Actor) Paula Kelly - Feb. 8 (Stage Actress) Robert Conrad - Feb. 8 (TV Actor) Qing Han - Feb. 8 (Illustrator) Keelin Shanley - Feb. 8 (Journalist) Mirella Freni - Feb. 9 (Opera Singer) Abam Bocey - Feb. 10 (Comedian) Lyle Mays - Feb. 10 (Planist) Louis-Edmond Hamelin - Feb. 11 (Non-Fiction Author) Jamie Gilson - Feb. 11 (Children's Author) Hamish Milne - Feb. 12 (Pianist) Jimmy Thunder - Feb. 13 (Boxer) Lynn Cohen - Feb. 14 (Movie Actress) Esther Scott - Feb. 14 (Voice Actress) John Shrapnel - Feb. 14 (Movie Actor) Caroline Flack - Feb. 15 (TV Show Host) Amie Harwick - Feb. 15 (Doctor) Vatroslav Mimica - Feb. 15 (Director) Jason Davis - Feb. 16 (Voice Actor) Zoe Caldwell - Feb. 16 (Stage Actress) Tony Fernandez - Feb. 16 (Baseball Player) Frances Cuka - Feb. 16 (TV Actress) Harry Gregg - Feb. 16 (Soccer Player) Ja'net Dubois - Feb. 17 (TV Actress) Owen Bieber - Feb. 17 (Activist) Charles Portis - Feb. 17 (Novelist) Lindsey Lagestee - Feb. 18 (Country Singer) Ashraf Sinclair - Feb. 18 (Movie Actor) Pop Smoke - Feb. 19 (Rapper) Jose Mojica Marins - Feb. 19 (Director) Gust Graas - Feb. 19 (Painter) Lisel Mueller - Feb. 21 (Poet) Tao Porchon-Lynch - Feb. 21 (Fitness Instructor) Katherine Johnson - Feb. 24 (Mathematician) Clive Cussler - Feb. 24 (Oceanographer) David Roback - Feb. 24 (Guitarist) Ben Cooper - Feb. 24 (Movie Actor) Mario Bunge - Feb. 24 (Philosopher) Jahn Teigen - Feb. 24 (Pop Singer) Dieter Laser - Feb. 29 (Movie Actor)

MARCH Jack Welch - March 1 (Entrepreneur) James Lipton - March 2 (TV Producer) Roscoe Born - March 3 (Soap Opera Actor) Nicholas Tucci - March 3 (Movie Actor) Roscoe Born - March 3 (Soap Opera Actor) Javier Perez De Cuellar - March 4 (Politician) Marnie the Dog  - March 5 (Dog) Danny Tidwell - March 6 (Dancer) McCoy Tyner - March 6 (Pianist) Henri Richard - March 6 (Hockey Player) Mart Crowley - March 7 (Playwright) Max Von Sydow - March 8 (Movie Actor) **Cookie Pansino - March 8 (Dog) Josie Harris - March 9 (Reality Star) Lorenzo Brino - March 9 (TV Actor) Eric Taylor - March 9 (Country Singer) Beba Selimovic - March 10 (Folk Singer) Josie Harris - March 10 (Reality Star) Michel Roux - March 11 (Chef) Charles Wuorinen - March 11 (Composer) Genesis P-Orridge - March 14 (Rock Singer) Roy Hudd - March 15 (Comedian) Wolf Kahn - March 15 (Painter) Stuart Whitman - March 16 (TV Actor) Roger Mayweather - March 17 (Boxer) Lyle Waggoner - March 17 (TV Actor) Alfred Worden - March 18 (Astronaut) Peter Whittingham - March 19 (Soccer Player) Kenny Rogers - March 20 (Country Singer) Pradip Kumar Banerjee - March 20 (Soccer Player) Mike Longo - March 21 (Pianist) Sol Kerzner - March 21 (Entrepreneur) Carmen De Mairena - March 22 (TV Actress) Serena Liu - March 22 (TV Actress) Stuart Gordon - March 24 (Screenwriter) Terrence McNally - March 24 (Playwright) Manu Dibango - March 24 (Saxophonist) Bill Rieflin - March 24 (Drummer) Floyd Cardoz - March 25 (Chef) Fred "Curly" Neal - March 26 (Basketball Player) Jimmy Wynn - March 26 (Baseball Player) Mark Blum - March 26 (Movie Actor) John Callahan - March 28 (Soap Opera Actor) Jan Howard - March 28 (Country Singer) Tom Coburn - March 28 (Politician) Linda Roper - March 28 (TikTok Star) Alan Merrill - March 29 (Rock Singer) Joe Diffie - March 29 (Country Singer) Krzysztof Penderecki - March 29 (Composer) Bill Withers - March 30 (Soul Singer) Tomie dePaola - March 30 (Children's Author) Andrew Jack - March 31 (Voice Actor) Smokinhottballz - March 31 (TikTok Star) Wallace Roney - March 31 (Trumpet Player)

APRIL Bucky Pizzarelli - April 1 (Guitarist) Ellis Marsalis Jr. - April 1 (Piantist) Adam Schlesinger - April 1 (Bassist) Eddie Large - April 2 (Comedian) Logan Williams - April 2 (TV Actor) Tom Dempsey - April 4 (Football Player) Shirley Douglas - April 5 (TV Actress) Honor Blackman - April 5 (Movie Actress) James Drury - April 6 (Movie Actor) Mac P Dawg - April 6 (Rapper) Earl G. Graves Sr. - April 6 (Entrepreneur) Al Kaline - April 6 (Baseball Player) Ital Samson - April 6 (Rapper) John Prine - April 7 (Country Singer) Hal Willner - April 7 (Music Producer) Allen Garfield - April 7 (Movie Actor) Mort Drucker - April 8 (Cartoonist) Chynna Rogers - April 8 (Rapper) Linda Tripp - April 8 (Politician) Glenn Fredly - April 8 (R&B Singer) Tarvaris Jackson - April 12 (Football Player) Tim Brooke-Taylor - April 12 (Comedian) Stirling Moss - April 12 (Race Car Driver) Luminor - April 12 (Rock Singer) Rick May - April 13 (Voice Actor) Brian Dennehy - April 15 (Stage Actor) Lee Konitz - April 15 (Saxophonist) Adam Alsing - April 15 (TV Show Host) Henry Grimes - April 15 (Bassist) Howard Finkel - April 16 (Sportscaster) Steve Cash - April 16 (YouTube Star) Jane Dee Hull - April 16 (Politician) Norman Hunter - April 17 (Soccer Player) Peter Beard - April 19 (Photographer) Tom Lester - April 20 (TV Actor) Derek Jones - April 21 (Guitarist) Jerry Bishop - April 21 (Radio Host) Laisenia Qarase - April 21 (Politician) Shirley Knight - April 22 (Movie Actress) Fred the Godson - April 23 (Rapper) Jace Prescott - April 23 (Family Member) *Dak Prescott's Brother* Harold Reid - April 24 (Country Singer) Per Olov Enquist - April 25 (Playwright) Aarón Hernán - April 26 (Soap Opera Actor) Ashley Ross - April 27 (Reality Star) Troy Sneed - April 27 (Gospel Singer) Nur Yerlitas - April 27 (Fashion Designer) Eavan Boland - April 27 (Poet) Mark Beech - April 27 (Non-Fiction Author) Jill Gascoine - April 28 (TV Actress) Yahya Hassan - April 29 (Poet) Irrfan Khan - April 29 (Movie Actor) Sam Lloyd - April 30 (TV Actor) Rishi Kapoor - April 30 (Movie Actor) Chuni Goswami - April 30 (Cricket Player)

MAY Matt Keough - May 1 (Baseball Player) Cady Groves - May 2 (Country Singer) Erwin Prasetya - May 2 (Bassist) Dave Greenfield - May 3 (Pianist) Don Shula - May 4 (Football Coach) Michael McClure - May 4 (Poet) Millie Small - May 5 (World Music Singer) Didi Kempot - May 5 (Pop Singer) Brian Howe - May 6 (Rock Singer) Florian Schneider - May 6 (Flute Player) Ben Chijioke - May 7 (Rapper) Andre Harrell - May 7 (Entrepreneur) *Roy Horn - May 8 (Magician) Percy Inglis - May 8 (Facebook Star) **Little Richard - May 9 (Rock Singer) Kristina Lugn - May 9 (Poet) **Corey La Barrie - May 10 (YouTube Star) Nick Blixky - May 10 (Rapper) Betty Wright - May 10 (R&B Singer) Jerry Stiller - May 11 (Movie Actor) Hutton Gibson - May 11 (Family Member) *Mel Gibson's Father* Michel Piccoli - May 12 (Movie Actor) *Gregory Tyree Boyce - May 13 (Movie Actor) Beckett Cypher - May 13 (Family Member) *Melissa Etheridge's Son* Rolf Hochhuth - May 13 (Playwright) Phyllis George - May 14 (Sportscaster) Fred Willard - May 15 (Movie Actor) Jorge Santana - May 15 (Guitarist) Lynn Shelton - May 15 (Screenwriter) El Chino Antrax - May 16 (Criminal) Shad Gaspard - May 17 (Wrestler) Ken Osmond - May 18 (TV Actor) Ravi Zacharias - May 19 (Religious Leader) Hagen Mills - May 19 (TV Actor) Jerry Sloan - May 22 (Basketball Coach) Mory Kante - May 22 (World Music Singer) Zara Abid - May 22 (Model) Eddie Sutton - May 23 (Basketball Coach) Hana Kimura - May 23 (Wrestler) Mota Jr - May 23 (Rapper) Jimmy Cobb - May 24 (Drummer) Anthony James - May 26 (TV Actor) Richard Herd - May 26 (TV Actor) Stanley Ho - May 26 (Entrepreneur) Larry Kramer - May 27 (Screenwriter) Houdini - May 27 (Rapper) Sam Johnson - May 27 (Politician) Bob Kulick - May 29 (Guitarist) Hassan Hosny - May 30 (Movie Actor) Blake Fly - May 30 (Instagram Star) Christo - May 31 (Painter)

JUNE Joey Image - June 1 (Drummer) Kailum O'Connor - June 1 (Snapchat Star) Chris Trousdale - June 2 (Pop Singer) Wes Unseld - June 2 (Basketball Player) Héctor Suárez - June 2 (Movie Actor) Mary Pat Gleason - June 2 (TV Actress) Bruce Jay Friedman - June 3 (Novelist) Steve Priest - June 4 (Bassist) Ybc Bam - June 4 (TikTok Star) Basu Chatterjee - June 4 (Director) Reche Caldwell - June 6 (Football Player) Chirru Sarja - June 7 (Movie Actor) Bonnie Pointer - June 8 (Rock Singer) Pierre Nkurunziza - June 8 (Politician) Ain Kaalep - June 9 (Poet) Paul Chapman - June 9 (Guitarist) Pau Donés - June 9 (Pop Singer) Jas Waters - June 9 (Screenwriter) George Canseco - June 12 (TikTok Star) Grandma Daisy - June 13 (Instagram Star) Sabiha Khanum - June 13 (Movie Actress) Sushant Singh Rajput - June 14 (Movie Actor) Yohan - June 16 (Pop Singer) Charles Webb - June 16 (Novelist) Eden Pastora - June 16 (Politician) Vera Lynn - June 18 (Pop Singer) John Bredenkamp - June 18 (Entrepreneur) Ian Holm - June 19 (Movie Actor) Tray Savage - June 19 (Rapper) Carlos Ruiz Zafon - June 19 (Young Adult Author) Pedro Lima - June 20 (Soap Opera Actor) Jim Kiick - June 20 (Football Player) Nastya Tropicelle - June 21 (YouTube Star) Steve Bing - June 22 (Film Producer) Joel Schumacher - June 22 (Director) Siya Kakkar - June 24 (TikTok Star) Huey - June 25 (Rapper) Kelly Asbury - June 26 (Director) Ramon Revilla Sr. - June 26 (Movie Actor) Linda Cristal - June 27 (Movie Actress) Pete Carr - June 27 (Guitarist) Rudolfo Anaya - June 28 (Novelist) Carl Reiner - June 29 (TV Actor) Johnny Mandel - June 29 (Composer) Benny Nardones - June 29 (Pop Singer) Young Curt - June 29 (Rapper) Willie Wright - June 29 (Soul Singer) Ida Haendel - June 30 (Violinist)

JULY Hugh Downs - July 1 (TV Show Host) Reckful - July 2 (Twitch Star) Earl Cameron - July 3 (Movie Actor) Saroj Khan - July 3 (Dancer) Sebastián Athié - July 4 (TV Actor) Bhakti Charu Swami - July 4 (Religious Leader) Nick Cordero - July 5 (Stage Actor) Charlie Daniels - July 6 (Country Singer) Ennio Morricone - July 6 (Composer) **Naya Rivera - July 8 (TV Actress) Flossie Wong-Staal - July 8 (Biologist) Jack Charlton - July 10 (Socccer Player) Morris Cerullo - July 10 (Religious Leader) Marlo - July 11 (Rapper) Nicole Thea - July 11 (Dancer) **Kelly Preston - July 12 (Movie Actress) Joanna Cole - July 12 (Children's Author) Benjamin Keough - July 12 (Family Member) *Elvis Presley's Grandson* Grant Imahara - July 13 (Reality Star) Zindzi Mandela - July 13 (Politician) Galyn Gorg - July 14 (TV Actress) John Lewis - July 17 (Politician) Zizi Jeanmaire - July 17 (Dancer) Miura Haruma - July 18 (TV Actor) El Dany - July 18 (Rapper) Kansai Yamamoto - July 21 (Fashion Designer) Demitra Roche - July 22 (Reality Star) *Regis Philbin - July 24 (TV Show Host) John Saxon - July 25 (Movie Actor) Peter Green - 25 (Guitarist) Olivia De Havilland - July 26 (Movie Actress) Malik B - July 29 (Rapper) Herman Cain - July 30 (Politician) Karen Berg - July 30 (Self-Help Author) Alan Parker - July 31 (Director)

AUGUST Wilford Brimley - Aug. 1 (TV Actor) Ryan Breaux - Aug. 2 (Family Member) *Frank Ocean's Brother* Leon Fleisher - Aug. 2 (Pianist) John Hume - Aug. 3 (Politician) Dick Goddard - Aug. 4 (TV Show Host) FBG Duck - Aug. 4 (Rapper) Horace Clarke Aug. 5 (Baseball Player) Isidora Bjelica - Aug. 5 (Playwright) James Drury - Aug. 6 (Movie Actor) Kurt Luedtke - Aug. 9 (Screenwriter) Tetsuya Watari - Aug. 10 (Movie Actor) Trini Lopez - Aug. 11 (World Music Singer) Ash Christian - Aug. 13 (TV Actor) Linda Manz - Aug. 14 (Movie Actress) Julian Bream - Aug. 14 (Guitarist) Shwikar - Aug. 14 (Movie Actress) Robert Trump - Aug. 15 (Family Memeber) *Donald Trump's Brother Emman Nimedez - Aug. 16 (Director) Kobe Nunez - Aug. 17 (YouTube Star) Gary Cowling - Aug. 17 (Stage Actor) Dale Hawerchuk - Aug. 18 (Hockey Player) Ben Cross - Aug. 18 (Movie Actor) Jack Sherman - Aug. 18 (Guitarist) Landon Clifford - Aug. 19 (YouTube Star) Chi Chi DeVayne - Aug. 20 (Reality Star) Frankie Banali - Aug. 20 (Drummer) Allan Rich - Aug. 22 (Movie Actor) Lori Nelson - Aug. 23 (Movie Actress) Benny Chan - Aug. 23 (TV Actor) Riley Gale - Aug. 24 (Rock Singer) Gail Sheehy - Aug. 24 (Non-Fiction Author) Lute Olson - Aug. 27 (Basketball Coach) **Chadwick Boseman - Aug. 28 (Movie Actor) El Loco Valdés - Aug. 28 (Comedian) Cliff Robinson - Aug. 29 (Basketball Player) John Thompson - Aug. 30 (Basketball Coach) Tom Seaver - Aug. 31 (Baseball Player) Pranab Mukherjee - Aug. 31 (Politician)

SEPTEMBER Erick Morillo - Sept. 1 (DJ) Ian Mitchell - Sept. 2 (Guitarist) Annie Cordy - Sept. 4 (Movie Actress) Lloyd Cadena - Sept. 4 (YouTube Star) Lucille Starr - Sept. 4 (Country Singer) Ethan Peters - Sept. 5 (Instagram Star) Kevin Dobson - Sept. 6 (Soap Opera Actor) Lou Brock - Sept. 6 (Baseball Player) Xavier Ortiz - Sept. 7 (TV Actor) Stevie Lee - Sept. 9 (Movie Actor) Diana Rigg - Sept. 10 (Movie Actress) Barbara Jefford - Sept. 12 (Stage Actress) Anthony Woodle - Sept. 13 (Director) Alien Huang - Sept. 16 (TV Show Host) Winston Groom - Sept. 17 (Novelist) Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Sept. 18 (Supreme Court Justice) Destiny Riekeberg - Sept. 19 (TikTok Star) Jackie Stallone - Sept. 21 (Family Member) *Sylvester Stallone's Mother* Michael Lonsdale - Sept. 21 (Movie Actor) Tommy DeVito - Sept. 21 (Guitarist) Zaywoah - Sept. 22 (Instagram Star) Joe Laurinaitis - Sept. 22 (Wrestler) Archie Lyndhurst - Sept. 22 (TV Actor) Juliette Greco - Sept. 23 (Movie Actress) Gale Sayers - Sept. 23 (Football Player) Dean Jones - Sept. 24 (Cricket Player) Yuko Takeuchi - Sept. 27 (TV Actress) Mac Davis - Sept. 29 (Country Singer) Helen Reddy - Sept. 29 (Pop Singer) Archie Lyndhurst - Sept. 30 (TV Actor) Quino - Sept. 30 (Cartoonist)

OCTOBER Derek Mahon - Oct. 1 (Poet) Murray Schisgal - Oct. 1 (Screenwriter) Bob Gibson - Oct. 2 (Baseball Player) Thomas Jefferson Byrd - Oct. 3 (Movie Actor) Kenzo Takada - Oct. 4 (Fashion Designer) Armelia McQueen - Oct. 4 (Stage Actress) Johhny Nash - Oct. 6 (Pop Singer) Eddie Van Halen - Oct. 6 (Guitarist) Tommy Rall - Oct. 6 (Dancer) Mario Molina - Oct. 7 (Chemist) Whitey Ford - Oct. 8 (Baseball Player) María García Galisteo - Oct. 9 (TV Actress) Joe Morgan - Oct. 11 (Baseball Player) Conchata Ferrell - Oct. 12 (TV Actress) Saint Dog - Oct. 13 (Rapper) Rhonda Fleming - Oct. 14 (Movie Actress) Fred Dean - Oct. 14 (Football Player) Johnny Bush - Oct. 16 (Country Singer) Doreen Montalvo - Oct. 17 (Stage Actress) Pinky Curvy - Oct. 17 (Instagram Star) James Redford - Oct. 17 (Director) Sid Hartman - Oct. 18 (Journalist) Spencer Davis - Oct. 19 (Guitarist) Marge Champion - Oct. 21 (Dancer) Frank Bough Oct. 21 (TV Show Host) Matt Blair - Oct. 22 (Football Player) Kastiop - Oct. 23 (YouTube Star) Jerry Jeff Walker - Oct. 23 (Country Singer) Diane DiPrima - Oct. 25 (Poet) Lee Kun-hee - Oct. 25 (Entrepreneur) DeOndra Dixon - Oct. 26 (Family Member) *Jamie Foxx's Sister* Billy Joe Shaver - Oct. 28 (Country Singer) Tracy Smothers - Oct. 28 (Wrestler) Bobby Ball - Oct. 28 (Comedian) Leanza Cornett - Oct. 28 (Pageant Contestant) Travis Roy - Oct. 29 (Memoirist) Nobby Stiles - Oct. 30 (Soccer Player) Herb Adderley - Oct. 30 (Football Player) *Sean Connery - Oct. 31 (Movie Actor) Rance Allen - Oct. 31 (Religious Leader) Betty Dodson - Oct. 31 (Novelist) MF Doom - Oct. 31 (Rapper)

NOVEMBER Eddie Hassell - Nov. 1 (TV Actor) Nikki McKibbin - Nov. 1 (Pop Singer) Magda Rodríguez - Nov. 1 (TV Producer) John Sessions - Nov. 2 (Comedian) Max Ward - Nov. 2 (Entrepreneur) Elsa Raven - Nov. 3 (Movie Actress) Ken Hensley - Nov. 4 (Rock Singer) Geoffrey Palmer - Nov. 5 (Movie Actor) BraxAttacks - Nov. 5 (Rapper) King Von - Nov. 6 (Rapper) SauxePaxk TB - Nov. 6 (Rapper) **Alex Trebek - Nov. 8 (Game Show Host) Bert Belasco - Nov. 8 (TV Actor) Tom Heinsohn - Nov. 10 (Basketball Player) Phyllis McGuire - Nov. 11 (Football Player) Mo3 - Nov. 11 (Rapper) Asif Basra - Nov. 12 (Movie Actor) Doug Supernaw - Nov. 13 (Country Singer) Paul Hornung - Nov. 13 (Football Player) Des O'Connor - Nov. 14 (TV Show Host) Soumitra Chatterjee - Nov. 15 (Movie Actor) Ray Clemence - Nov. 15 (Soccer Player) Kirby Morrow Nov. 18 (Voice Actor) Bobby Brown Jr - Nov. 18 (Family Member) *Bobby Brown's Son* Jake Scott - Nov. 19 (Football Player) Jan Morris - Nov. 20 (Non-Fiction Author) Mustafa Nadarevic - Nov. 22 (TV Actor) Hal Ketchum - Nov. 23 (Country Singer) David Dinkins - Nov. 23 (Politician) Abby Dalton - Nov. 23 (TV Actress) i_o - Nov. 23 (DJ) Joe Luna - Nov. 23 (Comedian) Bob Ryder - Nov. 24 (Journalist) Aaron Melzer - Nov. 24 (Rock Singer) Flor Silvestre - Nov. 25 (World Music Singer) Ahmad Mukhtar - Nov. 25 (Politician) Heavy D - Nov. 25 (Reality Star) Diego Maradona - Nov. 25 (Soccer Player) Markus Paul - Nov. 25 (Football Coach) Sadiq Al-Mahdi - Nov. 26 (Politician) Tony Hsieh - Nov. 27 (Entrepreneur) David Prowse - Nov. 28 (Bodybuilder) Lil Yase Nov. 28 (Rapper) Ben Bova - Nov. 29 (Non-Fiction Author) Papa Bouba Diop - Nov. 29 (Soccer Player) Jerry Demara - Nov. 30 (World Music Singer) Paid Will - Nov. 30 (Rapper) Nobby Stiles - Nov. 30 (Soccer Player)

DECEMBER Hugh Keays-Byrne - Dec. 1 (Movie Actor) Alexis Sharkey - Dec. 1 (Instagram Star) Michael Marion - Dec. 1 (Family Member) *Bobbie Thomas's Husband* Pamela Tiffin - Dec. 2 (Movie Actress) DC Fontana - Dec. 2 (Screenwriter) Pat Patterson - Dec. 2 (Wrestler) Alison Lurie - Dec. 3 (Novelist) Whitney Collings - Dec. 3 (Reality Star) David Lander - Dec. 4 (TV Actor) Sara Carreira - Dec. 5 (Instagram Star) Tabaré Vázquez - Dec. 6 (Politician) Natalie Desselle-Reid - Dec. 7 (TV Actress) Dick Allen - Dec. 7 (Baseball Player) Joselyn Cano - Dec. 7 (Instagram Star) Alejandro Sabella - Dec. 8 (Soccer Coach) Paolo Rossi - Dec. 9 (Soccer Player) V.J. Chitra - Dec. 9 (TV Actress) Phil Linz - Dec. 9 (Baseball Player) Barbara Windsor - Dec. 10 (Soap Opera Actress) Tommy Lister - Dec. 10 (Movie Actor) Carol Sutton - Dec. 10 (Movie Actress) Kim Ki-duk - Dec. 11 (Director) John Le Carre - Dec. 12 (Novelist) Ann Reinking - Dec. 12 (Stage Actress) Terry Kay - Dec. 12 (Novelist) Charley Pride - Dec. 12 (Country Singer) Gérard Houllier - Dec. 14 (Soccer Coach) *Jeremy Bulloch - Dec. 17 (Movie Actor) Rosalind Knight - Dec. 19 (TV Actress) K.T. Oslin - Dec. 21 (Country Singer) PlasmaMasterDon - Dec. 21 (YouTube Star) Stella Tennant - Dec. 22 (Model) Rika Zarai - Dec. 23 (World Music Singer) Rebecca Luker - Dec. 23 (Stage Actress) Leslie West - Dec. 23 (Guitarist) Kay Purcell - Dec. 23 (TV Actress) Danny Hodge - Dec. 24 (Wrestler) Genevieve Musci - Dec. 25 (YouTube Star) KC Jones - Dec. 25 (Basketball Player) Tony Rice - Dec. 25 (Guitarist) Lin Qi - Dec. 25 (Entrepreneur) Brodie Lee - Dec. 26 (Wrestler) Phil Niekro - Dec. 26 (Baseball Player) Tito Rojas - Dec. 26 (Folk Singer) Ty Jordan - Dec. 26 (Football Player) Nick McGlashan - Dec. 27 (Reality Star) William Link - Dec. 27 (Screenwriter) Fou Ts'ong - Dec. 28 (Pianist) Armando Manzanero - Dec. 28 (Composer) Jessica Campbell - Dec. 29 (Movie Actress) Pierre Cardin - Dec. 29 (Entrepreneur) Luke Letlow - Dec. 29 (Politician) Shabba Doo - Dec. 30 (Movie Actor) Frank Kimbrough - Dec. 30 (Pianist) Phyllis McGuire - Dec. 31 (Pop Singer) Alexi Laiho - Dec. ?? (Guitarist) 

[miguelmarias]

Homenaje a Arthur Freed

Érase una vez

Hubo en tiempos buenos productores. Darryl F. Zanuck, David O. Selznick, hasta Samuel Goldwyn —aunque proclives al intervencionismo excesivo— lo fueron a menudo. También, tal vez menos prepotentes pero más cultos, John Houseman, Jerry Wald y algunos más, como el enigmático Nicholas Naytack, el justamente reivindicado Val Lewton o, en fechas más recientes, ese prospector de futuros talentos que sigue siendo Roger Corman; creo prematuro hablar de la capacidad como productores de George Lucas o Francis Coppola, enturbiada, además, por el hecho de ser también, como Alan J. Pakula, realizadores. Pocos lo hicieron siempre, o casi siempre, como es debido, pero a ellos debe el cine americano buena parte de su pasado y perdurable esplendor; la ausencia de auténticos producers y su suplantación por actores-estrella a porcentaje y tocados de narcisismo, por directores megalómanos tan pendientes de su imagen y su fortuna personal que apenas puede calificárseles de «independientes», por consejos de administración de bancos y multinacionales en pos de una creciente diversificación de actividades, por comisiones y comités que permiten o impulsan empresas que ningún individuo medianamente inteligente o razonable aprobaría, abogados y asesores fiscales en busca de un tax shelter rentable y seguro para clientes tan ricos que ni siquiera quieren saber en qué invierten su exceso de liquidez, y sobre todo, agentes (o agencias) de escritores, actores y directores que procuran montar un «paquete» no importa cuán disparatado e incoherente, con tal de que en él figure el máximo posible de sus representados (para así cobrar no una o dos comisiones, sino tantas como logre colar en el package deal), es decir, la desaparición de la figura del promotor entusiasta, enamorado del cine, con sentido del espectáculo y de la amenidad, capaz de arriesgarse por una película en la que cree, explica también, en buena medida, la etapa de decadencia —siempre relativa— tanto artística como industrial que ha atravesado el cine americano desde mediados de los años 60 hasta hace dos o tres, sin que pueda decirse que haya salido todavía del bache ni quepa ya esperar que lo consiga permanentemente.

En estos momentos, pues, en que vuelve a plantearse la necesidad de un coordinador que sepa qué se trae entre manos, que lea más Variety que el Wall Street Journal, que vaya al cine alguna vez, y que se fíe más de sus gustos o su olfato que de las encuestas de opinión, el marketing o la prospectiva, parece conveniente volverse al pasado, no para imitarlo, sino para tratar de comprender qué es lo que hacían unos artesanos —a veces, verdaderos artistas— en vías de extinción, y ver, si es posible, qué es lo que de ellos cabe aprender. Y dentro de un bloque informativo dedicado, como la retrospectiva en curso de la Filmoteca Nacional, al musical, resulta todavía más oportuno, ya que este género es uno de los que más precisan de alguien que se ocupe de combinar los talentos respectivos de los numerosos artistas que colaboran en su realización; si el cine es, casi siempre, una empresa colectiva, aunque a menudo dominada por la personalidad —cuando la tiene— del miembro del equipo con mayor capacidad de decisión —habitualmente el director, incluso si el poder nominal o económico lo tiene el productor, hasta cuando parte de un material literario cuya letra debe respetar—, en el musical tal carácter colectivo es máximo, puesto que es el tipo de cine que más se aproxima a la concepción —propugnada por algunos teóricos— de este medio como «suma de todas las artes» (o «síntesis», igual da): no es fácil, en efecto, que un director pueda entender de música y danza, además de tener conocimientos acerca de decorados, vestuario, maquillaje, peinados, efectos especiales y otros factores de la puesta en escena o de la confección final del producto que cobran en el musical una importancia muy superior a la que tienen en otros géneros; además, las películas musicales han sido siempre más caras de lo habitual, y requieren un cuidado, una cantidad de ensayos y un lujo de medios que obliga a que su fabricación esté supervisada por una persona con capacidad organizativa y de gestión económica que muy a menudo están fuera del alcance y del interés de quienes se consideran artistas ante todo y desprecian las cuestiones de intendencia.

El cine para quien lo trabaja

Una visión romántica, maniquea y un tanto exculpatoria del papel del director, producto de una reacción tanto contra los «literatos» que se obstinan en dar a los guionistas un protagonismo excesivo como contra la industria —especialmente americana—, que tiende a hacer de la compañía productora la dueña y señora absoluta de las obras realizadas por sus empleados, ha hecho que la crítica actual, derivada o contagiada de los criterios relativamente innovadores e inconformistas propugnados por Cahiers du Cinéma en los años 50, no haya prestado la menor atención a los productores, salvo para servirse de ellos, ocasionalmente, como «cabezas de turco» o «chivos expiatorios» y convertirlos sistemáticamente en el «villano» de la pieza siempre que se daba algún conflicto entre el director y la industria. Sin propugnar, ni mucho menos, dar vuelta a la tortilla, ni una actitud conciliatoria cuando los representantes del dinero atenten a la libertad artística, creo que no estaría de más ocuparse alguna que otra vez de ciertos productores, que pueden tener tanto que ver como el director con el fracaso o el acierto de una película.

Además, entre los producers americanos de la «edad de oro» hay personajes admirables dignos del mayor respeto. De ellos, he sentido siempre especial simpatía por dos «mirlos blancos» de los que —si la memoria no me juega una mala pasada— ningún director parece haber tenido nunca motivos de queja, que —por lo visto— jamás entorpecieron el trabajo de quienes consideraban sus colaboradores, sino que procuraron poner a su disposición los medios necesarios y los técnicos y artistas idóneos en cada caso, y que así contribuyeron —sin duda, decisivamente— al éxito artístico, a la amenidad y a la rentabilidad de las películas que produjeron y —casi siempre— concibieron u originaron. Uno fue Aaron Rosenberg, a quien debe la Universal sus mejores películas del Oeste y de aventuras del decenio 1950-1959. y gracias al cual pudieron encontrarse a sí mismos y demostrar de lo que eran capaces el director Anthony Mann, el actor James Stewart y el guionista Borden Chase, a menudo reunidos por Rosenberg como núcleo de un equipo técnico-artístico casi autónomo dentro de la productora. El otro, al que voy a rendir aquí el tributo de gratitud a que se ha hecho acreedor, fue Arthur Freed (1894-1973), letrista de canciones del Tin Pan Alley convertido en capitán de una «unidad», casi independiente en el interior de la controladísima M.G.M., especializada en la producción de comedias musicales, y de la que salieron las muestras más insignes y deliciosas del género en su período de apogeo, desde las precursoras The Pirate de Minnelli, Summer Holiday de Mamoulian, Take Me Out to the Ball Game de Berkeley —con alguna escena dirigida por Kelly & Donen, antes de su debut oficial al año siguiente— y Easter Parade de Walters —las cuatro en 1948—, hasta las obras maestras finales que fueron, sucesivamente, It's Always Fair Weather (1955) de Kelly & Donen, Silk Stockings (1957) de Mamoulian y Bells Are Ringing (1960) de Minnelli.

Entre 1948 y 1960, en efecto, puede situarse la vigencia del musical en estado puro, es decir, del musical por antonomasia, que no debe identificarse con el de la Metro en general, sino, más concretamente, con el «inventado», «creado» o «promovido» por Arthur Freed: On the Town (1949), Singin' in the Rain (1951) —de Kelly & Donen—, An American in Paris (1951), The Band Wagon (1953), Brigadoon (1954), Gigi (1958) —de Minnelli—, son, con las ya mencionadas, algunas de las principales y más características películas del género producidas por Freed: cualquier fan encontrará en ellas, si no su musical favorito, al menos uno —o más bien varios— de los que prefiere.

En realidad, no hay mejor defensa —si fuera preciso— o elogio —que merece como pocas personas relacionadas con el cine— de Arthur Freed que su filmografía. La simple relación de las películas por él producidas entre 1939 y 1961 es suficientemente expresiva y reveladora de su particular talento para elegir y combinar elementos y personalidades; dejando de lado The Wizard of Oz (El mago de Oz, 1939), dirigida por Victor Fleming (y King Vidor y Richard Thorpe), de la que fue únicamente productor asociado de Mervyn LeRoy, y las cuatro no musicales que produjo en toda su carrera —Any Number Can Play (Hagan juego, 1949) de LeRoy, Crisis (1950) de Richard Brooks, The Subterraneans (1960) de Ranald MacDougall y Light in the Piazza (Luz en la ciudad, 1961) de Guy Green, todas interesantes o intrigantes—, la aportación de Freed al musical de la Metro Goldwyn Mayer comprende las cuarenta películas siguientes, enumeradas en orden cronológico de producción (aunque algunas se acabasen o estrenasen más tarde que otras emprendidas anteriormente, a menudo por la necesidad de remontar o hacer retakes después de las previews, no siempre a cargo del director titular): Babes in Arms (Los hijos de la farándula, 1939) y Strike Up the Band (Armonías de juventud, 1940) de Busby Berkeley; Little Nellie Kelly (1940) de Norman Taurog; Lady Be Good (1941) de Norman Z. McLeod (y Roy Del Ruth); For Me and My Gal (1942) de Berkeley; Du Barry Was a Lady (1942) de Del Ruth; Cabin in the Sky (1943) de Vincente Minnelli; Best Foot Forward (1943) de Edward Buzzell; Girl Crazy (1943) de Taurog (y Berkeley); Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) de Minnelli; Ziegfield Follies (1945/6) de Minnelli (y Sidney, Lemuel Ayers, Robert Lewis, Del Ruth, Taurog, Merrill Pye); The Clock (1945) de Minnelli (empezada por Fred Zinnemann y Jack Conway); Yolanda and the Thief (1945) de Minnelli; The Harvey Girls (1945) de Sidney; Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) de Richard Whorf (y Sidney); Summer Holiday (1946/8) de Rouben Mamoulian; The Pirate (El pirata, 1947/8) de Minnelli; Good News (1947) y Easter Parade (1948) de Charles Walters; Words and Music (1948) de Taurog; Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1948) de Busby Berkeley (y Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen); The Barkleys of Broadway (Vuelve a mí, 1949) de Walters; On the Town (Un día en Nueva York, 1949) de Kelly & Donen; Annie Get your Gun (La reina del Oeste, 1950) de Sidney; Pagan Love Song (1950) de Robert Alton; An American in Paris (Un americano en París, 1951) de Minnelli; Royal Wedding (1951) de Donen; Show Boat (Magnolia, 1951) de Sidney (y Roger Edens); The Belle of New York (1951) de Walters; Singin' in the Rain (Cantando bajo la lluvia, 1951/2) de Kelly & Donen; Invitation to the Dance (Invitación a la danza, 1952/6) de Kelly; The Band Wagon (Melodías de Broadway 1955, 1953) y Brigadoon (1954) de Minnelli; It's Always Fair Weather (Siempre hace buen tiempo, 1955) de Kelly & Donen; Kismet (1955) de Minnelli (acabada por Donen); Silk Stockings (La bella de Moscú, 1957) de Mamoulian; Gigi (1958) de Minnelli (y Walters); y, finalmente, Bells Are Ringing (1960) de Minnelli.

Se puede observar, al pasar revista a estas películas, que ciertos nombres se repiten muy a menudo: Minnelli (doce veces), Donen, Berkeley y Sidney (seis), Walters y Kelly (cinco); es decir, los más claros representantes del cine musical americano. Casi todos ellos empezaron su carrera de la mano de Freed, o la terminaron (Take Me Out to the Ball Game es el último film que dirigió Berkeley). También dio su primera oportunidad —si no todas las buenas— al equipo de guionistas formado por Betty Comden & Adolph Green, cuya nueva concepción del musical no se ha valorado suficientemente. Freed utilizó en sus películas, como es lógico, a la flor y la nata de los bailarines y cantantes americanos: Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Ann Miller, Vera-Ellen, Judy Holliday, Lena Horne, Jules Munshin, Lucille Bremer, Betty Garrett, Frank Sinatra, y empleó en alguna ocasión a Dolores Gray, Eleanor Powell, Rita Moreno, Gower y Marge Champion, Janis Paige, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Ginger Rogers, Dean Martin; a veces da la sensación de que tuvo que contentarse con intérpretes bajo contrato con la Metro, como Mickey Rooney y Esther Williams, pero no parece casual que recurriese también a Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray, Michael Kidd, Dan Dailey, Jack Buchanan, Alice Pearce y otros actores relativamente infrecuentes en la casa, en el musical o en el cine mismo. Freed contrató, igualmente, a los mejores coreógrafos: antes de ser directores, Donen, Kelly, Minnelli, Walters, Robert Alton, Kidd, Robert Lewis y Jack Donahue se ocuparon de los bailes, lo mismo que Berkeley, Hermes Pan, Jack Cole, Seymour Felix, Eugene Loring, Carol Haney, Nick Castle, Jerome Robbins... se diría que no falta ninguno, salvo, curiosamente, Bob Fosse. La nómina de compositores y letristas, contemporáneos o fallecidos, es también bastante impresionante: George e Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Harry Warren, Johnny Mercer, Jule Styne, Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin, Cole Porter, Lew Brown, Nacio Herb Brown, Arthur Freed, Burton Lane, B. G. De Sylva, Leonard Bernstein, André Previn, Irving Berlin, Adolph Deutsch, Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart, Harold Arlen, Richard Arlen, E. Y. Harburg, George M. Cohan, Ralph Freed, Howard Dietz y Arthur Schwartz fueron asimilados y potenciados por el equipo musical integrado por Roger Edens —luego productor por cuenta propia—, el orquestador Conrad Salinger, Lennie Hayton, Johnny Green, George Stoll, Leo Arnaud, George Bassman, Skip Martin, Alexander Courage, Saul Chaplin, Kay Thompson y Robert Tucker. No es extraño, pues, que el genérico de cualquier otra película al menos parcialmente musical de la M.G.M., pero no producida por Freed, como Les Girls (Las Girls, 1957) de George Cukor, esté lleno de nombres del antiguo grupo capitaneado por Freed (1).

Tampoco hay que olvidar la importancia para lo que Freed consideraba su «Unit» de una serie de técnicos magistrales. Entre los directores de fotografía de una serie destacaban Harold Rosson, Charles Rosher, Ray June, Harry Stradling, Joseph Ruttenberg y, sobre todo, por la cantidad de veces que trabajó para Freed, George Folsey, sin olvidar las muy especiales colaboraciones esporádicas de Harry Jackson (The Band Wagon), Milton Krasner, Robert Plank, Karl Freund, John Alton o el olvidado y genial Robert Bronner. El equipo de decorado —bajo la supervisión nominal de Cedric Gibbons—, peluquería, maquillaje y vestuario fue el habitual de la compañía, aunque siempre pareció particularmente inspirado y audaz cuando trabajaba para Freed, tal vez porque éste les estimulase y les permitiese escapar de la rígida tradición impuesta por su jefe de departamento. Otro factor importante en el musical es el montaje: todo el trabajo del director, los intérpretes y los encargados de la banda sonora para adecuar los movimientos de cámara y actores al ritmo de la música puede resultar inútil si la película cae en manos de un montador sin «oído»; tal vez por eso, dentro de los muchos de que disponía la Metro, Freed mostrase una especial predilección por Albert Akst (que se encargó de trece de sus películas) y Adrienne Fazan (habitual de Minnelli, hasta en sus melodramas, que se ocupó de otras ocho producciones de Freed).

Arts gratia artis

Confío en que sirva para algo esta relación, tal vez premiosa, de títulos y nombres que poco o nada dirán, mucho me temo, a la mayoría de los improbables lectores que todavía me sigan. Los cito porque me llama la atención, en la Filmoteca, que ya no se oye un murmullo de admiración o expectación cuando en los títulos de crédito se nos anuncia que la fotografía es de Robert Surtees, Harry Jackson, William H. Clothier, Lucien Ballard, Tony Gaudio, Arthur C. Miller o Karl Freund; sólo Gregg Toland parece decir algo a los nuevos cinéfilos, y no quiero imaginar la cara que pondrían la mayor parte de ellos si se les pidiese detectar las diferencias que pueden darse entre tres films de la M. G. M. con «color consultants» tan característicos como Charles K. Hagedon, Alvord Eiseman o George Hoyningen-Huene, y que serían perceptibles incluso en el caso de que el director o el operador-jefe fuesen los mismos. Digo esto porque me parece curioso que, en una época que ha visto cómo se intentaba —sin demasiado éxito, claro— sepultar la noción de «autor» y se fundaban anónimos «colectivos», se tiende a olvidar o despreciar sistemáticamente a todos aquellos miembros del equipo que no aparecen en las carteleras: por supuesto, sigue vigente el «star system», al menos para los cinéfilos, con la única novedad de que se ha añadido al director como «superestrella», incluso cuando es un debutante o un mediocre artesano rutinario y sin estilo ni personalidad (esto ni siquiera es original: hace más de quince años ya se dedicaron sesudos artículos a desentrañar las «constantes» de la «obra» de Pedro Lazaga, no recuerdo cuál de los Romero-Marchent, Jesús Franco, Germán Lorente, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe, Rudolph Maté, Gordon Douglas y otros fabricantes de salchichas, unos buenos y otros malos); algunos, más eruditos, cultivan la adoración por ciertos guionistas —pese a lo difícil que es saber si tuvieron algo que ver con las películas que firmaron, o si sus mejores trabajos aparecen bajo el nombre de otros—, y muchos, curiosamente, parecen capaces de ir a ver una película por el simple hecho de que la música esté compuesta por Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota o Henry Mancini, afición cuyo resultado bien pudiera ser la actual proliferación de disco-films (2). Mucho me temo que los que siempre hemos pasado por «cahieristas» —más que nada, por preferir Cukor y Minnelli a René Clair, un ejemplo cuya evidencia ha puesto de relieve la revisión consecutiva, en dos días, de Les Girls, Porte des Lilas y The Band Wagon— y, en consecuencia, por ser lo que en América llaman absurdamente auteurists, hemos sido bastante más conscientes del carácter de «trabajo de equipo» que tiene el cine, por mucho que hayamos insistido en el papel fundamental que puede o debe tener el director (que es, al fin y al cabo, quien «dirige» a los demás). Tal vez nos fijásemos más en las películas, ya que no habíamos tenido la peligrosa ocasión de acostumbrarnos a que se nos «retrasmitiese» su argumento (y una parte, deteriorada, de sus imágenes, convertidas así en ilustrativas y, por tanto, en secundarias) por televisión; o puede que tuviésemos más entusiasmo y curiosidad, y tendiésemos —sin proponérnoslo, ni aspirar a ningún tipo de erudición— a convertirnos en «archivos vivientes» a fuerza de escrutar las fichas técnicas de obras que nunca veríamos y las filmografías total o parcialmente desconocidas, pero creo que, fuesen unas u otras las causas de este hecho, estábamos en mejores condiciones para apreciar cabalmente el logro que suponen las cumbres del cine musical. Porque no hay que olvidar que buena parte del atractivo de films como Les Girls, The Band Wagon, Singin' in the Rain se debe a lo que en Hollywood llaman production values, «valores de producción», y que para obtenerlos en tal grado no basta con mucho dinero —aunque sea condición sine qua non, necesaria pero no suficiente—, y bien empleado —en crear las imágenes y sonidos de la película, no en promoción y publicidad como ahora—, sino que se requiere un cuidado, un amor a lo que se hace, un grado de autoexigencia que son las señas de identidad del «maestro artesano», se trate de un director (que puede ser, además, un «autor», pero de los de verdad, no de esos que se ocupan más de su propia imagen que las imágenes de «su» película), de un fotógrafo, de un decorador, de un músico, de un actor o de un bailarín. De otro modo no se explica la asombrosa —y hoy inalcanzable, inimitable, irrepetible— belleza de tres o cuatro planos de enlace de The Band Wagon que muestran un tren que avanza en la noche, transportando a la compañía de una ciudad a otra antes del estreno en Broadway de la nueva comedia musical, planos que probablemente no habrá rodado Minnelli, sino un ayudante, y que habrán costado miles de dólares por décima de segundo; no se entiende el cuidado, la inventiva y el buen gusto con que Cukor, Robert Surtees, Hoyningen-Huene, Gene Allen y seguramente unas cuantas personas más han dispuesto los decorados, los trajes, los colores, las luces y el movimiento de cámara en Les Girls, para dar vida y tensión a un guion que, en manos más torpes o apresuradas, hubiera dado lugar a una película banal, como tantas otras, y no a una obra maestra de la comedia. En fin, temo que este elogio de Arthur Freed se esté convirtiendo, sin que yo quiera, más que en una celebración de su figura, o de su función en varias de las películas que más placer me han proporcionado, en un lamento por un cine (o, mejor dicho, una forma de hacer cine) que pertenece decididamente al pasado. Sin embargo, puede que estas distinciones entre lo que se entendía por «buen cine» hace unos años y lo que por tal cosa deben de entender los que hoy lo hacen también rindan cuenta con fidelidad y precisión, aunque sea a modo de corolario, de lo que Arthur Freed aportó al cine.

El secreto de Freed

Como productor específicamente de películas musicales, a las que se consagró casi en exclusiva durante los veintidós años que consiguió mantenerse en activo, la contribución de Freed es decisiva. Ignoro en qué película y en qué año ha de situarse el hallazgo —he visto 30 de las 45 que produjo, y no conozco algunas importantes, como Yolanda and the Thief, Summer Holiday, Good News, de las anteriores a 1948—, pero creo que tuvo que ser Freed el inventor del rasgo que para mí determina si un film es o no un verdadero musical, y cuya ausencia excluye del género, a mi modo de ver, tanto las operetas de la Paramount —The Love Parade (El desfile del amor, 1929), Monte Carlo (Monte Carlo, 1930), The Smiling Lieutenant (El teniente seductor, 1931) y One Hour With You (Una hora contigo, 1932) de Lubitsch; Love Me Tonight (Ámame esta noche, 1932) de Mamoulian— o de la M.G.M. —The Merry Widow (La viuda alegre, 1934) de Lubitsch y las de W. S. Van Dyke II y Robert Z. Leonard con la estupenda Jeanette MacDonald, mejor sin el melifluo Nelson Eddy— como los biopics de la Fox —pese a obras maestras como Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938) de Henry King, con Alice Faye por lo general— y los híbridos de realismo social (a cargo de Lloyd Bacon) y fantasías caleidoscópicas (encomendadas al delirante pero monótono e inhumano Berkeley de los años 30) que producía la Warner. Si acaso, creo que podría hallarse un precedente parcial de lo que descubriría y llevaría a la práctica Freed (a través de Mamoulian, Donen, Kelly, Minnelli y Walters sobre todo) en algunas escenas —impulsadas, sin duda, por Fred Astaire— de las deliciosas comedias lubitschianas (Edward Everett Horton hace la conexión evidente), con alucinantes decorados de Van Nest Polglase y la pareja Astaire-Ginger Rogers como protagonistas, producidas por Pandro S. Berman para la R.K.O. durante los años 30 y muy bien dirigidas por el menospreciado Mark Rex Sandrich (The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Follow the Fleet, Shall We Dance, Carefree), un George Stevens que —como era frecuente por aquella época, véase Vivacious Lady (1938), por ejemplo— estaba todavía más cerca de sus tiempos de operador de cortos de Laurel & Hardy que de sus pretenciosas superproducciones oscarizables, y era ágil y ligero (Swing Time), William A. Seiter (Roberta) o Thornton Freeland (Flying Down to Rio); también —de ahí que atribuya tal tendencia a Astaire— en algunas películas con otras parejas (A Damsel in Distress de Stevens, con Joan Fontaine) y para productoras diferentes (You'll Never Get Rich de Sidney Lanfield, You Were Never Lovelier de Seiter), y tanto en solos de claqué espontáneos como cuando empieza a volar arrastrando a su compañera por una pista de baile, un parque, la suite de un hotel de lujo o un escenario, puede verse un antecedente del musical «freediano»; curiosamente, en la primera que hizo el genial bailarín para la M.G.M. (Broadway Melody of 1940, 1940, de Taurog, con su réplica femenina, Eleanor Powell), este aspecto se vio reprimido —como en la última que rodó en la R.K.O. con Ginger Rogers, The Story of Vernon & Irene Castle de H. C. Potter)— por el guion, tendente a confinar la danza en los estrechos límites de un escenario. Sería fundamental ver Yolanda and the Thief (1945), que es el primer musical de Freed con Astaire, ya que en el primero que utilizó a Gene Kelly (For Me and Me Gal, 1940) no es posible todavía vislumbrar esa característica que creo haber intuido en algunas escenas de Astaire y que es el rasgo común de casi todas las producciones de Arthur Freed entre 1948 y 1960: la continuidad existente entre los momentos de comedia —o incluso drama— normal y las canciones o los bailes; es decir, la ausencia de una ruptura que delate el paso del movimiento «normal» (aunque sin duda estilizadísimo, incluso más de lo habitual en el cine americano de la época) y la dicción «realista», hablada, a la danza y el canto. Conseguir que no haya solución de continuidad, que no se produzcan rozamientos más o menos chirriantes en los puntos de inflexión que anuncian o señalan la transición de la comedia al musical no es empresa fácil, como pudo comprobar el estimable Jacques Demy con Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (Los paraguas de Cherburgo, 1963), pese a tratarse de una película cantada permanentemente y sin bailes propiamente dichos, e incluso —aun contando con Gene Kelly— en Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (Las señoritas de Rochefort, 1967). No sólo es éste un objetivo difícil de alcanzar, sino además fundamental, creo yo, para el pleno éxito de la operación de encantamiento que realiza todo musical.

This Happy Feeling

Lo que hace del musical un género cinematográfico importante —más allá del número de obras maestras que haya dado, indudablemente inferior al que han producido otros varios, lo que, de paso, indica hasta qué punto es fácil fracasar en este terreno, o no llegar plenamente, lo que ocasiona al espectador un sentimiento de frustración e insatisfacción, cuando no de molesta incomodidad y hasta de rechazo, singularmente acusado e irreparable una vez que «el hechizo se ha roto», a veces inexplicable racionalmente, con argumentos, pero experimentado con tal viveza que no caben dudas al respecto— es, sobre todo, su capacidad para comunicar al público el impulso vital, armónico y ligero, casi alado, que transporta a los personajes cuando sus cuerpos se mueven libre y rítmicamente en un espacio que, de pronto, se ha hecho ilimitado, cuando las palabras les salen de la boca con sorprendente y melódica facilidad. Al lado de esta contagiosa liberación, unas veces suave y elegante, otras dinámica y enérgica, melancólica y amorosamente acariciadora o entusiasta y alegremente saltarina, explosivamente feliz, alocada en ocasiones, discreta y solitaria otras, las demás virtudes del musical pasan a ocupar un lugar secundario, aunque no por ello despreciable (la superación del naturalismo llevada a su punto máximo, la recuperación de la mímica como forma de expresión, el enlace a través del sonido plenamente utilizado con el espíritu y la dirección de actores estilizada del cine mudo, la actitud insumisa y dinamitera que se permite adoptar frente a las normas narrativas, la fusión de géneros y artes que propicia y exige, etc.).

Pero para que todo esto suceda realmente, sin baches, sin quiebros distanciadores, hace falta mucho talento, sentido del ritmo y —como decía Gene Kelly en Cantando bajo la lluvia, para mí la cumbre del musical— «dignidad, siempre dignidad». Porque mantener ese precario equilibrio ya pese al constante tránsito del diálogo (o el monólogo) a las canciones (a coro, a tres, a dúo o en solitario) y del código gestual de la comedia a la danza exige poner en práctica, sin un desmayo, esa regla de oro de los hombres del espectáculo que reza the show must go on, «la función debe continuar», entendida aquí como que no admite rupturas ni interrupciones, porque una vez perdida la magia no es posible recobrarla, como si nada hubiese sucedido. Hay, pues, que tomar al pie de la letra la famosa canción That's Entertainment de The Band Wagon, cuando sus protagonistas proclaman que the stage is a world, the world is a stage no están haciendo un juego de palabras, sino revelando su fórmula mágica, es decir, que «la escena es un mundo» y que «el mundo es una escena», y que, por tanto, hay identidad entre el escenario teatral (o el plato cinematográfico) y el mundo, y no hay que establecer diferencias entre una «escena» y otra, ni debe haber solución de continuidad al pasar de una a otra porque no ha de ser distinta la conducta en cada uno de los «decorados» en que los actores se mueven. De ahí que los bailes y las canciones no queden confinados, en los musicales de Freed, al reino de las candilejas, al tablado del escenario de un teatro, sino que salga a toda Nueva York, al metro, a los muelles, a Central Park, a una pista de patinaje, a un gimnasio, a una calle de Hollywood bajo la lluvia, a una estación de ferrocarril, a una «penny arcade» de la calle 42, a una colina brumosa de Escocia, al Bois de Boulogne, a los quais del Sena, a Montmartre y la torre Eiffel, al mundo entero, de noche y de día, al aire libre o en el espacio más estrecho, y que quienes bailan y cantan no necesiten ser profesionales del espectáculo, o lo hagan también en sus horas libres, improvisadamente, con espontaneidad —y hasta con aparente torpeza, sin voz o sin agilidad suficiente, como el Peter Lorre de Silk Stockings—, por gusto, cuando les apetece, obedeciendo a un impulso irresistible, con unos amigos, con la mujer amada o a solas, con o sin público de pago, sin necesidad de ofrecerse en espectáculo —aunque sin importarles nada darlo, como Gene Kelly sobre patines en Siempre hace buen tiempo—, por su cuenta o enzarzando en la danza a cuantos tengan alrededor, pues no cantan y bailan porque para eso les pagan o porque es su oficio, sino porque se sienten felices o desdichados y ésa es la manera de expresarlo que les viene a la cabeza. En estos musicales, la danza y la canción no tienen por objeto impresionar, sino la función de expresar los sentimientos y los estados de ánimo, los deseos y los sueños convertidos —mediante el baile o las canciones— en realidad. Está claro que para Arthur Freed y sus discípulos, amigos y secuaces la vida era una improvisación coreográfica.

Miguel Marías

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(1) Sobre el funcionamiento de este equipo, así como de lo que el propio productor consideraba la «Arthur Freed Unit», pueden leerse con provecho el muy interesante libro de Hugh Fordin The World of Entertainment - Hollywood's Greatest Musicals - The Freed Unit at M.G.M. (Doubleday, 1975; An Equinox Book published by Avon Books, 1976), la entrevista con Stanley Donen publicada en el n.° 24 de la revista inglesa Movie y la autobiografía de Vincente Minnelli (en colaboración con Hector Arce) I Remember It Well (Doubleday, 1974; A. Berkley Medallion Book, 1975).

(2) Todo es, dicen, cuestión de gustos, pero no creo imposible empezar por preferir claramente la música de Nino Rota a la de Franz Lehár o la de Max Steiner a la de Richard Wagner, por ejemplo, y acabar entusiasmándose con los productos de Robert Stigwood con John Travolta y Olivia Newton-John.

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Is it true that all of Stephen King's novels and movies based on his novels are all part of the same universe?

Yes. Dick Hallorann from The Shining, Christin,e and Gatlin, Nebraska (home to the Children of the Corn) all make appearances in IT. Beverly Marsh and Richie Tozier from IT also appear in 11/22/63. Sheriff George Bannerman of The Dead Zone is killed by the dog in Cujo, his replacement Alan Pangborn plays a large role in The Dark Half and is the major protagonist in Needful Things. 

Needful Things also sees the return of Ace Merrill, the bully from The Body/Stand by Me. The Shop, the evil organization trying to kidnap and control Charlie McGee in Firestarter also plays a large role in The Tommyknockers and in the film adaptation of The Lawnmower Man. A character in The Tommyknockers also sees Pennywise in a storm drain. There’s grafitti in Dreamcatcher that reads PENNYWISE LIVES.

The town of Chester’s Mill in Under the Dome is the neighboring town to Tarker’s Mills, the town in Cycle of the Werewolf/Silver Bullet. 

Randall Flagg, the villain from The Stand, is a recurring character in Stephen King’s works, though he wears many different forms and takes different names. He appears as The Man in Black/Walter in the Dark Tower series, he’s also the dark magician Flagg in The Eyes of the Dragon. In general, The Dark Tower is a series built on those connections within the universe of Stephen King and built on references to many other universes as well. The post-apocalyptic earth of The Stand is visited in that series. Father Callahan, the priest from Salem’s Lot, becomes a prominent character in the later Dark Tower books.

Salem’s Lot also has two short follow-ups, both in the short story collection Night Shift. “Jerusalem’s Lot” is a prequel that’s more of an HP Lovecraft homage focusing on the paranoia and inherent fear within the town, whereas “One For the Road” is a sequel to Salem’s Lot about a man and his family getting stranded in the abandoned village and assaulted by vampires during a snowstorm. 

Gerald’s Game shares a few deep connections with Dolores Claiborne. Shawshank prison in general is a place that factors into a lot of Stephen King stories. 

Even the various anthology segments in Creepshow share loose connections. Though played by different actors, the young boy in the wraparound segments of Creepshow 1 and 2 are the same character. The college students in “The Raft” in Creepshow 2 are from the same university as “The Crate” in Creepshow.

These are literally just a few examples. They’re the tip of the iceberg. King loves to throw in those connections between his stories, to expand the universe and (mostly) just as a fun thing to see if his Constant Readers will notice.

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Birthdays 5.17

Beer Birthdays

Bert Grant (1928)

JJ Jay (1959)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Sandro Botticelli; Italian artist (1444)

Craig Ferguson; comedian, television talk show host (1962)

Bob Saget; comedian, actor (1956)

Erik Satie; composer (1866)

Dave Sim; comic book artist (1956)

Famous Birthdays

Sasha Alexander; actor (1973)

Stewart Alsop; journalist (1914)

James "Cool Papa" Bell; St. Louis Stars CF (1903)

Bill Bruford; rock drummer (1949)

Andrea Corr; pop singer (1974)

Horace Elgin Dodge; auto maker (1868)

Enya; pop singer (1961)

Dennis Hopper; actor (1936)

Edward Jenner; invented vaccinations (1749)

Alan Kay; computer scientist (1940)

Sugar Ray Leonard; boxer (1956)

Taj Mahal; singer, songwriter (1942)

Jackie McLean; jazz saxophonist (1932)

Bob Merrill; songwriter (1921)

Jim Nantz; television sportscaster (1959)

Brigitte Nielsen; actor (1963)

Birgit Nilsson; opera soprano (1918)

Maureen O'Sullivan; actor (1911)

Bill Paxton; actor (1955)

John Penn; signer of the Declaration of Independence (1741)

Dennis Potter; writer (1935)

Trent Reznor; rock singer, musician (1965)

Seth Warner; revolutionary war hero (1743)

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Hawaii Five-0: Daniel Dae Kim reveals he is cured of the Coronavirus

Series star was diagnosed with Covid-19

The actor Daniel Dae Kim surprised many fans of Hawaii Five-0 when, a few days ago, he revealed through his social media that he had been diagnosed with coronavirus.

Dae Kim, who also participated in series like Lost and The Good Doctor, joined several other celebrities who made their diagnoses public. At the time, he was quite candid with fans about the details of his symptoms and diagnosis. In addition, he highlighted how his doctors made him treat his condition. Now, however, he has returned to tell the fans very good news: he has overcome the disease.

At the Instagram, he posted a video to update everyone about his diagnosis and, after detailing a setback in his recovery, which caused him to lose his sense of smell and taste for a while, he revealed the good news. In addition, he stressed that his intention is to help people who are diagnosed, encouraging that it is possible to beat Covid-19 with proper care.

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“The good news is that I am now considered cured of the virus. My necessary period of self-isolation ended, and I was released to… walk around my yard. I am now free to explore exotic places in the world. That includes my living room, and doing daring things like taking out the trash and walking my dog ​​on my street… But now that I am considered recovered, I also wanted to let you know that this will be my last post on this experience… more voices, much more important than mine, as doctors and scientists that we should all listen and pay attention to. I have always considered my journey only a small part of how this disease has affected our collective lives, and now that I am better, it seems like the natural time to end it. ”

Check out the video below.

Daniel Dae Kim and Covid-19

Obviously, the fact that Daniel Dae Kim has fully recovered is very good news. A truly unfortunate number of people were not so lucky, including celebrities such as Top Chef Masters winner Floyd Cardoz, composer Alan Merrill and actor Mark Blum, who succumbed to the virus.

The actor made his diagnosis public on March 19, when he reported the symptoms he was experiencing, and the way he was diagnosed. Since then, he has remained in isolation and, through social networks, defended the permanence of people at home to contain the transmission of what is already considered a pandemic.

Daniel Dae Kim was in Lost between 2004 and 2010 and, shortly after, he joined the cast of Hawaii Five-0, series that stayed for seven seasons. He is currently one of the series producers The Good Doctor, from ABC, which finished filming its third season a few weeks ago.

Before being diagnosed, days before, he was in New York, recording the series New Amsterdam from NBC, where, as he ironically notes, he will play a doctor helping with a new type of pandemic.

The impact of the new Coronavirus is affecting the entire industry, with several TV series stopping production. In the news of Series Mix, some articles highlight these interruptions. Earlier, we published a list of the series that were interrupted due to the pandemic.

So stay tuned on Series Mix for more news. In addition, any news about Covid-19 in the entertainment world will be updated on Coronavirus TAG, so keep an eye out. And remember: STAY AT HOME.

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'I Love Rock 'N' Rol', Writer Died: Alan Merrill Biography, Wiki, Age, Family, Net Worth, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Fast Facts You Need to Know

‘I Love Rock ‘N’ Rol’, Writer Died: Alan Merrill Biography, Wiki, Age, Family, Net Worth, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Fast Facts You Need to Know

Alan Merrill Biography, ‘I Love Rock ‘N’ Rol’, Writer Alan Merrill Wiki

Alan Merrill was an American vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and model. He was best known for the I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll, which he wrote and originally performed. Merrill has died on Sunday at the age of 69 from the consequences of the coronavirus, his daughter announced on Facebook.

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When developer Michael Kirchmann confused from South Africa to New York City as a twenty-something in 1997, he spent his aboriginal few nights in a copse bazaar on Renwick Artery in Tribeca. Now he lives, works and flips absolute acreage in the neighborhood, which has continued aback confused from copse shops and artists’ lofts to condominiums and flush restaurants.

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The 46-year-old affiliated ancestor of two spent 11 years designing appointment barrio in western Europe at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), afore ambience off on his own to begin an architectonics and development close alleged Global Architectonics Strategies (GDSNY) in 2008. While he had originally planned to focus on development, the Abundant Recession waylaid his affairs for a brace years. His baby close rode out the angular years accomplishing architectonics work, including two 34-story ablaze installations for the 2012 London Olympics, the adept plan for a mixed-use development in Bahrain and autogenous architectonics for a restaurant in London. Kirchmann additionally got into designing products, including jets, archetypal motorcycles and Porsches.

Perhaps his better accomplishment has been a gig allowance L M Development Partners body and apple-pie affordable accommodation projects throughout the bristles boroughs. In Far Rockaway, Queens, he revamped a 1,093-unit Section 8 accommodation development, Arverne View, that had been damaged by Superstorm Sandy. His close and OCV Architects came up with the abstraction that they could reclad the facades of the 11 low- and mid-rise barrio with an exoteric insulation system, giving them a new, blooming white-and-gray attending and much-needed insulation from the elements.

The barrio “weren’t cloistral and they leaked,” said Jeffrey Moelis, the development administrator of canning at L M (and accessory to L M co-Founder Ron Moelis). The new bluff panels “solved those problems and accustomed Michael to actualize this [architectural] vision. And [they] accustomed us to do it in a way that helped us accomplish our budget.”

In Brownsville, Brooklyn, Kirchmann teamed up with L M to reimagine the Marcus Garvey Apartments, a townhouse-style residential circuitous with 693 federally subsidized apartments. GDSNY created a new lighting arrangement for the exterior, devised new agriculture for the courtyards in amid the barrio and installed solar panels on the roofs of the sprawling development. As allotment of the bluff renovation, they advised two-story, perforated metal panels that resembled blooming ivy and installed them on tall, light-up panels, which awning attenuated stretches of the facades aloft the doorways on the Marcus Garvey buildings.

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“He absolutely buys into that abstraction that there’s no acumen why bodies who alive in affordable accommodation can’t alive in a admirable place,” Moelis said. “It doesn’t amount a accomplished lot more. If they feel like they’re in a nice place, they’re activity to account it and booty affliction of it. We’ve apparent a big bead in abuse [at Marcus Garvey]. It’s not all attributed to the architecture—there’s beefed up security—but I anticipate bodies are appreciative of area they live, and they don’t appetite their neighbors and guests antibacterial the place.”

Kirchmann estimated that he has completed 20 projects with L M, including the redevelopment of six New York City Accommodation Authority complexes with 875 apartments—Bronxchester Houses in the South Bronx, Saratoga Aboveboard in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Millbank-Frawley Apartments in axial Harlem, and Campos Plaza in Alphabet City. He additionally brought his artful talents to L M’s four-year-old residential barrio at 1951 Park Avenue in East Harlem, area he created what he calls an 80-foot-long metal “art wall,” with fins of differing base that assume to agitate as one passes by on the animated Metro North tracks.  

But in the accomplished two years, he’s assuredly started to assignment on the affectionate of projects he set out to do added than a decade ago—ground-up buildings. Abutting to the High Line in West Chelsea, GDSNY is amalgam a 10-story, eight-unit affluence address architectonics at 500 West 25th Street. Each high adventure except for the accommodation holds a full-floor, three-bedroom, three-bath accommodation with a clandestine terrace. Asking prices ambit from $5.5 actor for a 2,100-square-foot address on the third attic to $16.9 actor for a four-bedroom, four-bath bifold accommodation advance beyond 4,300 aboveboard feet. The boxlike anatomy cantilevers over the High Line, which Kirchmann considers the best cogent allotment of architectonics in New York City. Its facade, clad in anemic gray Alabama limestone, will borrow architectonics cues from the elevated-freight-line-turned-park. Kirchmann brought in the lighting artisan that formed on the High Line, a French close alleged L’Observatoire, to ability night-time lighting for the exoteric of 500 West 25th. Wrought adamant railings forth the balconies and gold aluminum emphasis panels are additionally declared to adjure the 1920s architectonics and stainless animate railings of the High Line. The developer additionally assassin Swedish-born bounded artery artisan Tony Sjöman, additionally accepted as Rubin, to actualize a geometric board art allotment to beautify the lobby.

“We capital to do article absorbing but not crazy” on West 25th Street, he said. “Our apartments are actual high-end, but they get to the point. We try not to accept any mirrorballs or annihilation blind in the lobby. It’s aloof like apple-pie Scanda-modern blazon stuff.”

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In fact, alive with artists—and creating art of its own—is a big allotment of GDSNY’s business. Afore he adapted a Soho attic architectonics at 25 Mercer Artery into condos, he accustomed British artisan Shantell Martin to draw faces on the walls. (He larboard her assets below the drywall for address owners to acquisition aback they apple-pie their apartments in a decade or two.) He additionally hosted a laser art accession and ball achievement in the building, with lasers by artisan Matthew Schreiber and choreography from Kathryn Boren of the American Ballet Theatre. And in February of aftermost year, he teamed up with an ad bureau to spray-paint a sky-blue and fire-engine red mural featuring aerial seagulls on his development armpit at 10th Avenue on West 25th Street, abutting to the High Line. The mural was allotment of a beyond activity alleged “Wall That Unites,” and was meant to beef Admiral Donald Trump’s planned bound bank with Mexico.

And Kirchmann has assuredly gotten aback to designing new appointment buildings. He and his business partner, Alan Rudikoff, active a 99-year arena charter in April for one of the aftermost abortive sites in NoMad, at 1241 Broadway at the bend of West 31st Street. They plan to body a 170,000-square-foot bazaar appointment building, with Kirchmann’s above administration from SOM administration the design.

T.J. Gottesdiener, a managing accomplice at SOM’s New York City office, is alive carefully with Kirchmann on 1241 Broadway. Aback Gottesdiener met him 15 years ago, Kirchmann was his employee. Now he’s a client, which is “kind of awkward but fun,” Gottesdeiner said. At SOM, “he was tenacious. He’d accept an abstraction and he would accompany it. It’s not a abruptness to me that he went into development.” As a developer, Gottesdiener added, Kirchmann “talks about the art of architecture. You can see his auto axis aback we appearance him the ground-floor amplitude or the lobby. He talks about what he can do to accompany some affectionate of art into the affairs and how bodies will acknowledge to it, how it will be lit at night. [There are] abundant burghal issues that he’s cerebration about.”

Douglas Mass, the admiral of engineering close Cosentini Associates, has accepted Kirchmann aback he started at SOM 21 years ago. The brace aboriginal met while alive on an appointment belfry in Paris for developer Howard Ronson, whose HRO International was a abounding artist of appointment amplitude in Manhattan and western Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. They’ve formed on over 20 bartering projects together, mostly in Paris, London and Germany,  Mass said.

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“I apparently formed on every activity with him at SOM,” the artist explained. “Not too abounding bodies his age or any age accept done 8 actor aboveboard anxiety of amplitude in 25 buildings.” Mass alleged Kirchmann’s artful “classic adapted architecture” while acknowledging that “he knows about budgets and he’s a abundant collaborator.”

The South African artist additionally met his business partner, Rudikoff, while alive on Ronson’s projects. Rudikoff was Ronson’s right-hand man, Kirchmann said, and he after went on to begin his own development close in Sweden in 2007. During his bristles years active in Stockholm, Rudikoff helped accounts and advance a $350 million, 800,000-square-foot office, auberge and assemblage centermost circuitous alleged the Waterfront.

Kirchmann has appear a continued way from his adolescence in Johannesburg, area he was one of seven kids built-in to a absolute acreage developer ancestor and autogenous artisan mother. He larboard to abstraction architectonics in Cape Town and confused to New York City in 1997, area he anon landed a job as a architectonics artist at SOM beneath Roger Duffy. Once he absitively to get aback into the development game, he went aback to academy to apprentice the banking ancillary of the business and completed a master’s amount in absolute acreage at New York University in 2007. He concluded up giving a few lectures on architectonics as a master’s student. Then Columbia University’s Graduate Academy of Architecture, Planning and Canning asked him to advise a absolute acreage advance with Jared Della Valle and A.J. Pires, two added architects-turned-developers who founded Alloy Development.

Although GDSNY is still a baby angle in the development world, Kirchmann argues that his acquaintance as an architect—combined with his business partner’s assignment accumulating a huge mixed-use activity in Stockholm—makes them a decidedly active firm.

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“We see all the pieces in advanced of us from the business to the architectonics to the architectonics to the engineering to the finance,” he explained. “We’re in a different bearings area we can amalgamate those actual finer and actual efficiently. [When] we attending at projects, for example, we’re able to accede those projects actual bound because we can do zoning studies in-house. We can do planning in-house. It’s article that happens in a few hours as against to a few weeks. That absolutely gives us a aggressive bend aback we are out there attractive for properties.”

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Dylan Greenberg’s “ReAgitator Revenge of the Parody”, Shot in our Seltzer Rooms Studios.

Earlier this month, the Anthology Film Archives held the world premiere of Dylan Greenberg’s new feature film ReAgitator Revenge of the Parody. Viewers were treated to a bizarre visual feast that is hard to put into words. Watch the trailer above and get a glimpse of this unique film.

“Goth superstar Aurelio Voltaire is VERUM and original gangsta rapper Schoolly D is THE PRESIDENT in this cult camp catastrophe. In this send up of the horror genre, a beautiful aristocrat (Amanda Flowers) is resurrected by mad doctor ORBERT WESCRAFT (Jurgen Azazel Munster) at the request of her obsessed husband (Rock N Roll legend Alan Merrill). When she rebels against the Doctor and joins a cult of the undead, it's pandemonium as the sinister creatures resurrect a giant monster to destroy all mortals. Will two wacky journalists (Yolpie Kaiser, Mickala McFarlane) a mad teenage girl bent on revenge (Sofe Cote) and a perma tripping boy genius (Max Husten) be able to save the world in time?” - IMDb

Dylan Greenberg spoke with Cvlt Nation about her new project. Read excerpts below:

“CN: First of all, this film looks incredibly awesome. What inspired you to come up with this?

DG: My last film was very minimalist and I felt I had drifted away from my maximalist sensibilities, so I decided to make a film that is just a huge send up of horror and basically just had everything I could possibly think of happen. Furthermore I wanted to make something that is not just a movie but a theatrical spectacle, so I have musical numbers, lots of special effects, explosions, rock stars, monsters, zombies stunts and a lot more. It actually all started with “my next movie needs to have a sword fighting skeleton.

CN: What was it like working with Aurelio Voltaire? He seems like a fun, personable guy!

DG: Working with Voltaire is such an incredible experience, because it’s like working with a grand movie star and crooner who just stepped out of the 1920s and into the room. He is a true gentleman and just such a fantastic emotional actor who really knows how to channel his feelings in his acting, he literally leaps out of the screen, and yes, I said literally. He is the real deal, a truly larger than life independent artist and a great guy.

CN: Can you tell me about the other special effects used in the film? Judging by the teaser trailer there seems to be a lot of them!

DG: Great question! We used a lot of miniatures in the movie and we had a blue screen studio for one day thanks to Brooklyn Fire Proof Kenneth Filmer and Thomas Burr Dodd so we green screened the actors into the miniatures, many of which were constructed by Neva Gentlman from scratch. She is so talented she’s both a dancer and an artist and she made these sort of yellow submarine esque buildings. We have a scene where a church blows up which I achieved by taking a real photograph of a church in my neighborhood and I took a lighter and blew a bottle of WD-40 through a hole I cut in the door from the back, so fire was spraying through the door and really gave it this three dimensional explosion effect. We also have a lot of laser effects which is a hand drawn animation I composited over my actors. Another favorite special effect of mine is when Alan Merrill is a disembodied head; the effect was all in camera, inspired by the tricks of the great George Melies. We dressed Alan in all black and had Brenda Dunns character holding him by his hair. We had them in front of an all black background effectively making his body look like it had vanished because it camouflaged against its backdrop.”

Dylan Greenberg is currently offering the film for screenings. If you’d like to schedule a showing of ReAgitator Revenge of the Parody, please contact her at thisisdylangreenberg@gmail.com

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Celebrity Deaths 2017

JANUARY Francine York - Jan. 6 (Movie Actress) Om Puri - Jan. 6 (Movie Actor) Mario Soares - Jan. 7 (Politician) Roy Innis - Jan. 8 (Civil Rights Leader) Tony Rosato - Jan. 10 (Voice Actor) Buddy Greco - Jan. 10 (Jazz Singer) William Peter Blatty - Jan. 12 (Novelist) Graham Taylor - Jan. 12 (Soccer Coach) Lord Snowdon - Jan. 13 (Royalty) Richard Gautier - Jan. 13 (Movie Actor) Yama Buddha - Jan. 14 (Rapper) Jimmy Snuka - Jan. 15 (Wrestler) Roberta Peters - Jan. 18 (Opera Singer) *Miguel Ferrer - Jan. 19 (Movie Actor) Andy Marte - Jan. 22 (Baseball Player) Gorden Kaye - Jan. 23 (TV Actor) Marvell Thomas - Jan. 23 (Keyboardist) Bimba Bosé - Jan. 23 (Model) Lee O'Denat - Jan. 23 (Entrepreneur) Butch Trucks - Jan. 24 (Drummer) **Mary Tyler Moore - Jan. 25 (TV Actress) Mike Connors - Jan. 26 (TV Actor) Barbara Hale - Jan. 26 (TV Actress) **John Hurt - Jan. 27 (Movie Actor) Emmanuelle Riva - Jan. 27 (Movie Actress) Robert Ellis Miller - Jan. 27 (Film Director)   Geoff Nicholls - Jan. 28 (Musician) Richard Portman - Jan. 28 (Sound Engineer) Bobby Freeman - Jan. 28 (Soul Singer) Rob Stewart - Jan. 31 (Director) Frank Pellegrino - Jan. 31 (Actor) John Wetton - Jan. 31 (Rock Singer)

FEBRUARY Ken Morrison - Feb.1 (Entrepreneur) Alec McOwen - Feb. 6 (Movie Actor) Irwin Corey - Feb. 6 (Stand-Up Comic) Christine Dolce Feb. 6 (Reality Star) Richard Hatch - Feb. 7 (Reality Star) Tara Palmer-Tomkinson - Feb. 8 (TV Show Host) Mike Ilitch - Feb. 10 (Entrepreneur) Fab Melo - Feb 11 (Basketball Player) Al Jarreau - Feb. 12 (Jazz Singer) Seijun Suzuki - Feb. 13 (Director) Trish Doan - Feb. 13 (Bassist) E-Dubble - Feb. 13 (Youtube Star) Stuart Mclean - Feb. 15 (Radio Host)   George Steele - Feb. 16 (Wrestler) Warren Frost - Feb. 17 (TV Actor) Nicole Bass - Feb. 17 (Wrestler) Clyde Stubblefield - Feb. 18 (Drummer) Richard Schickel - Feb. 18 (Historian) Daniel Vickerman - Feb. 18 (Rugby Player) Ivan Koloff - Feb. 18 (Wrestler) Larry Coryell - Feb. 19 (Guitarist) Brian Vigneault - Feb. 19 (Twitch Star) Alan Colmes - Feb. 23 (TV Show Host) **Bill Paxton - Feb. 25 (Movie Actor) Neil Fingleton - Feb. 25 (TV Actor) Judge Joseph Wapner - Feb. 26 (TV Show Host/Former Judge) Trinity Faith Moran - Feb. 28 (Musical.ly Star)

MARCH Paula Fox - March 1  (Memoirist) Tommy Page - March 3 (Pop Singer) Misha Mengelberg - March 3 (Pianist) Robert Osborne - March 6 (Actor) Joni Sledge - March 10 (Pop Singer) James Cotton - March 16 (Blues Singer) Chuck Berry - March 18 (Rock Singer) Miloslav Vlk - March 18 (Religous Leader) Bernie Wrightson - March 18 (Illustrator) Jimmy Breslin - March 19 (Journalist) David Rockefeller - March 20 (Entrepreneur) Chuck Barris - March 21 (TV Show Host) Martin McGuinness - March 21 (Politician) Lola Albright - March 23 (Movie Actress) Dave Steele - March 25 (Race Car Driver) Clay Adler - March 26 (Reality Star) Darlene Cates - March 26 (Movie Actress) Enn Vetemaa - March 28 (Novelist) Donald Harvey - March 30 (Criminal)

APRIL Lonnie Brooks - April 1 (Singer) *Don Rickles - April 6 (Comedian) Tim Pigott-Smith - April 7 (TV Actor) Ben Speer - April 7 (Gospel Singer) Linda Hopkins - April 10 (Stage Actress) Peter Hansen - April 10 (TV Actor) Dorothy Mengering - April 11 (David Letterman's Mother) John Warren Geils Jr. - April 11 (Guitarist) **Charlie Murphy - April 12 (Comedian) Dan Rooney - April 13 (Politcian) Martin Elias Diaz - April 14 (World Music Singer) Allan Holdsworth - April 15 (Guitarist) Emma Morano - April 15 (Supercentenarian) **Cuba Gooding Sr. - April 20 (R&B Singer) Magdalena Abakanowicz - April 21 (Sculptor) **Erin Moran - April 22 (TV Actress) Gustavo Rojo - April 22 (Movie Actor) Michael Mantenuto - April 24 (Actor) Jonathan Demme - April 26 (Director) Vinod Khanna - April 27 (Movie Actor) BTY YoungN - April 29 (Rapper) Jean Stein - April 30 (Author) Ueli Steck - April 30 (Mountain Climber)

MAY Bruce Hampton - May 1 (Musician) Harriet Shelley - May 7 (Family Member/George Shelley's Sister) Curt Lowens - May 8 (Actor) Robert Miles - May 9 (Music Producer) **Christopher 'Big Black' Boykin - May 9 (Reality Star) Michael Parks - May 10 (TV Actor) Mauno Koivisto - May 12 (Politician) Powers Boothe - May 14 (TV Actor) Jean Fritz - May 14 (Children's Author) Brad Grey - May 14 (Entrepreneur) London Dior - May 15 (Rapper) Chris Cornell - May 17 (Rock Singer) Lisa Spoonauer - May 20 (Movie Actress) Dina Merrill - May 22 (Movie Actress) Nicky Hayden - May 22 (Motorcycle Racer) Roger Moore - May 23 (Movie Actor) Cortez Kennedy - May 23 (Football Player) Jared Martin - May 24 (Soap Opera Actor) Denis Johnson - May 25 (Poet) Jim Bunning - May 26 (Baseball Player) Gregg Allman - May 27 (Rock Singer) Frank Deford - May 28 (Novelist) Robert Michael Morris - May 30 (TV Actor) Michael Nance - May 30 (Reality Star)

JUNE Peter Sallis - June 2 (Voice Actor) Roger Smith - June 4 (TV Actor) Cheick Tiote - June 5 (Soccer Player) Glenne Headly - June 8 (Movie Actress) Norro Wilson - June 8 (Singer) *Adam West - June 9 (TV Actor) Julia Perez - June 10 (Movie Actress) Brandon Rogers - June 11 (Pop Singer) Bill Dana - June 15 (Comedian) Robin Twist - June 20 (Harry Style's Step-Father) Michael Nyqvist - June 27 (Movie Actor)

JULY Stevie Ryan - July 1 (TV Actress) Ji-Tu Cumbuka - July 4 (Movie Actor) Joan Lee - July 6 (Family Member/Stan Lee's Wife) Nelsan Ellis - July 8 (TV Actor) Elsa Martinelli - July 8 (Movie Actress) George A. Romero - July 16 (Director) Harvey Atkin - July 17 (Movie Actor) **Chester Bennington - July 20 (Rock Singer) **John Heard - July 21 (Movie Actor) Abby Nicole - July 23 (Singer) Michael Johnson - July 25 (Singer) June Foray - July 26 (Voice Actress) Leonard Landy - July 26 (Actor) Sam Shepard - July 27 (Playwright) D.L. Menard - July 27 (Singer) Marty Sklar - July 27 (Walt Disney Co. Imagineer) Jeanne Moreau - July 31 (Movie Actress) Chuck Loeb - July 31 (Guitarist)

AUGUST Daniel Licht - Aug. 2 (Musician) **Robert Hardy - Aug. 3 (Movie Actor) Ty Hardin - Aug. 3 (TV Actor) Yung Mazi - Aug. 6 (Rapper) Barbara Cook - Aug. 8 (Movie Actress) Yisrael Kristal - Aug. 11 (Supercentenarian) Joseph Bologna - Aug. 13 (TV Actor) Frank Broyles - Aug. 14 (Football Coach) Tom Hawkins - Aug. 16 (Basketball Player) Dick Gregory - Aug. 19 (Comedian) Jerry Lewis - Aug. 20 (Movie Actor) Jay Thomas - Aug. 24 (TV Actor) Rich Piana - Aug. 25 (Bodybuilder) Louise Hay - Aug. 30 (Self-Help Author)

SEPTEMBER Elizabeth Kemp - Sept. 1 (TV Actress) Amos Abplanalp - Sept. 7 (Evie Clair's Father) Troy Gentry - Sept. 8 (Country Singer) Blake Heron - Sept. 8 (Movie Actor) Bobby Heenan - Sept. 17 (TV Show Host) Liliane Bettencourt - Sept. 21 (Entrepreneur) Charles Bradley - Sept. 23 (Soul Singer) Elizabeth Dawn - Sept. 25 (Soap Opera Actress) **Hugh Hefner - Sept. 27 (Entrepreneur)

OCTOBER Tom Petty - Oct. 2 (Rock Singer) Ralphie May - Oct. 6 (Comedian) YA Tittle - Oct. 9 (Football Player) Sean Hughes - Oct. 16 (Comedian) Robert Guillaume - Oct. 24 (TV Actor)

NOVEMBER Hannah Stone - Nov.1 (Younow Star) John Hillerman - Nov. 9 (TV Actor) Lil Peep - Nov. 15 (Rapper) Ann Wedgeworth - Nov. 16 (TV Actress) Charles Manson - Nov. 19 (Criminal) David Cassidy - Nov. 21 (TV Actor) Rodney Bewes - Nov. 21 (TV Actor) Rance Howard - Nov. 25 (TV Actor)

DECEMBER Kevin Robinson - Dec. 9 (BMX Rider)