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giraffe44 · 2 years ago
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The Youngest Profession, 1943, Is Playing on TCM on May 25 (USA)
The Youngest Profession, 1943, is playing on Turner Classic Movies on May 25 at 6:45 a.m. est.    Strictly speaking, this isn’t a Robert Taylor movie but it’s fun and he does appear in it. Jean Porter and Robert Taylor Virginia Weidler and Jean Porter are part of a young girls’ fan club of the stars who collect their autographs. In fact, Virginia is the president of the club, who outlines the…
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brandonsdrunkagain · 2 years ago
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Last Call for the Holidays! 2022 Bourbon County Brand Stout from Goose Island, Infinite Ghost DIPA from Parish Brewing, Quaker Oatmeal Stout from Tin Roof Brewing, DDH Grace and Grit from Great Raft Brewing, Left Hand Brewing White Russian Nitro Milk Stout, Castle Pale Ale, Uncle Dank from Pompano Beach Brewing, French Press from Saint Arnold Brewing and Ducks On The Pond Imperial Porter and “Three” Triple West Coast Style IPA from Rally Cap Brewing!
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badmovieihave · 1 year ago
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Bad movie I have Lon Chaney Jr. The Wolf Man: The Legacy Collection It has The Wolf Man 1941 , Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man 1943 , The She Wolf of London 1946 and Werewolf of London 1935
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mydaddywiki · 7 months ago
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Physique: Average Build Height: 5′9½″ (1.77 m)
Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944-) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. The the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history, Dodd served as Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee from 2007 until his retirement from politics. In 2006, Dodd ran for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States, but eventually withdrew after running behind several competitors. Dodd then served as chairman and chief lobbyist for MPAA from 2011 to 2017. In 2018, Dodd returned to the practice of law, joining the firm Arnold & Porter.
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The handsome, silver-haired Connecticut native and a graduate of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Maryland, and Providence College. He served in the Peace Corps for two years prior to entering the University of Louisville School of Law, and during law school concurrently served in the United States Army Reserve before running for office.
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Twice married, first in 1970 to 1982. Afterwards, he dated at different times Bianca Jagger and Carrie Fisher, among others. Wait.. he banged Princess Leia? Respect. Apparently, he was Ted Kennedy's wingman too. Now you know Dodd must have been in some pussy along side Kennedy. Eventually in 1999, Dodd settled down, marrying for the second time and the couple has two daughters.
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ssriuser · 1 year ago
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long list of celebs who are currently or have a history of supporting israel if u see someone not on this list please add to it in the comments or tags!!
amy schumer, sacha baron cohen, selena gomez, gal gadot, fran drescher, pharrell williams, jamie lee curtis, sarah silverman, gerard butler, ashton kutcher, katharine mcphee, arnold schwarzenegger, mayim bialik, michael rapaport, floyd mayweather, seal, debra messing, josh gad, noah schnapp, jerry seinfeld, timothee chalamet, madonna, chris rock, bella thorne, adam sandler, eugene levy, james corden, courteney cox, billy porter, barbra streisand, pamela anderson jack black, isla fisher, jason sudeikis, justin timberlake, jessica biel, jon hamm, judd apatow, annabelle dexter-jones, ben stiller, chelsea handler, mandy moore, eli roth, karlie kloss, chloe fineman, natalie portman, helen mirren, michael douglas, josh peck, jason alexander, lance bass, jim gaffigan, kris jenner, florence pugh, liev schreiber, ashley tisdale, reese witherspoon, justin bieber, mila kunis, sofia richie, nina dobrev, paris jackson, rita ora, katy perry, lindsay lohan, dwayne johnson, chris pine, andy garcia, nikki glaser, zachary levi, george lopez, howie mandel, quentin tarantino, nicholas sparks, kathy griffin, heather locklear, sarah michelle gellar, andy cohen, bono, max greenfield, jennifer love hewitt, busy philipps, alison brie, sara bareilles, sarah paulson, brooklyn beckham, jk rowling, patton oswalt, lebron james, jon voight, ellen degeneres, kim karshian, khloe kardashian, demi lovato, slyvester stallone, jessie j, addison rae, jon bon jovi, sharon osbourne, neil patrick harris
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La liste des stars de la musique, du cinéma et de la télévision qui ont soutenu Kamala : Oprah Winfrey, Taylor Swift, Jon Bon Jovi, Tyler Perry, Bruce Springsteen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Beyoncee, George Clooney, Robert De Niro, Barbra Streisand, David Letterman, Jennifer Lopez, Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Julia Roberts, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Tessa Thompson, Bryan Tyree Henry, Scarlet Johanson, Robert Downey, Jr., Don Cheadle, Mark Ruffalo, Paul Bettany, Chris Evans, Dania Guria, Ben Stiller, Andy Cohen, Harrison Ford, Jack Black, Billie Eilish, Anne Hathaway, Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Porter, Jennifer Lawrence, Eminem, Jason Bateman, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner, Jessica Alba, Patton Oswalt, Emmy Rossum, Glenn Close, Kumail Nanjiani, Jason Alexander, Kevin Smith, Steven Colbert, Larry David, Morgan Freeman, Cher, Nick Offerman, Michael Keaton, Jeff Bridges, Josh Bag, Sean Aston, Bradley Whitford, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Kelly, Paul Schreer, Misha Collins, Mark Hamill, Lance Bass, Josh Groban, Matt Damon, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Will Ferrel, Billy Eichner, Alicia Keys, Usher, Dave Bautista, Jimmy Kimmel, membrii formației Mumford & Sons, John Legend, Pink, Maren Morris, Keenan Thompson, Lil John, Eva Longoria, Mindy Kaling, Tony Goldwyn, D.L. Hughley, Lizzo, Martin Sheen, Sigourney Weaver, George Lopez, Howard Stern, Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Marc Anthony, Sam Elliot, Keegan Michael Key, John Stamos, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, Jon Hamm, Cecily Strong, Tiffany Haddish, Ike Barinholtz, Rosie O' Donnel, Kathy Griffin, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Anthony Anderson, Sally Field, Rob Reiner, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julianne Moore, Cynthia Nixon, George Takei, Mia Farrow, Alyssa Milano, Sandra Bernhard, John Cleese, Michael Ian Black, Piper Perabo, Stephen King, Michael Moore, Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, Marisa Hargitay, Sheryl Lee Ralph, GloRilla, Padma Lashmi, Matthew Modine, Aubrey Plaza, Fat Joe, Christina Aquilera, Dick Van Dyke, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, LeBron James, Jennifer Aniston, Bad Bunny, Ariana Grande, Ricky Martin, Chappel Roan, Martha Stewart, Steph Curry, Sara Bareilles, Olivia Rodrigo, Tina Knowles, Shonda Rhimes.
📍Les journaux nationaux et les chaînes de télévision qui ont soutenu Kamala : CBS, NBC, MSNBC, abc, CNN, New York Times, The Economist, The New Yorker, Houston Chronicle, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, Las Vegas Sun, The Philadephia Inquirer, Rolling Stone, Daily Herald, Times Union, Newsday, Lincoln Journal Star, Vogue, The Republican, The Sun Chronicle, The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Observer et d’autres plus petites.
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justforbooks · 3 months ago
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Alain Delon
One of the most popular male stars of French cinema who often played tough guys and calculated killers
The actor Alain Delon, with his finely chiselled features and glacial gaze, was known as the “ice cold angel”. As a young man, his handsome, impassive face was a blank page on which apparently any emotion could be written. This served to cover the passion or perversity beneath, a trait used effectively by such directors as Luchino Visconti, Louis Malle, Joseph Losey, Jean-Pierre Melville and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Delon’s best work was done in the 1960s and 70s, the first two decades of a career spanning half a century. After this exciting initial period, he settled down, with occasional exceptions, to consolidating his tough-guy persona, becoming one of the most popular male stars in French cinema.
In the light of his unpromising background, Delon, who has died aged 88, deserved the success he achieved. Born in Sceaux, a large suburb in the south of Paris, he was the son of Edith (nee Arnold) and Fabien Delon. They divorced when Alain was four, and he was brought up by foster parents until they died in a car accident. He then moved back to live with his mother and her new husband, Paul Boulogne, a butcher, to whom Delon was unhappily apprenticed when he was 14.
This was soon after he completed his sporadic education, having been expelled from several schools for bad behaviour. At 17, he joined the French navy, serving in Indochina as a parachutist during the siege of Dien Bien Phu.
Out of his four years in the military, Delon spent 11 months in prison for being “undisciplined”. In 1956, after being dishonourably discharged, he returned to civilian life, working as a porter, a waiter and a salesman. During this time he became friends with the actors Brigitte Auber and Jean-Claude Brialy, and went with them to the 1957 Cannes film festival.
There, his looks attracted attention, especially from a talent scout for the producer David O Selznick, who offered him a Hollywood contract, provided that he learned English. But after Auber persuaded the director Yves Allégret to cast the young would-be actor in Quand la Femme s’en Mêle (When a Woman Meddles, 1957), Delon decided to start acting in France.
Surrounded by such veterans as Edwige Feuill��re, Jean Servais and Bernard Blier, Delon, looking much younger than 22, made an impression as a hitman, the sort of role he perfected in later films. Despite being touted as France’s answer to James Dean, Delon was closer to the young Alan Ladd.
In Sois Belle Et Tais-Toi (Be Beautiful But Shut Up, 1958), directed by Marc Allégret, Yves’s older brother, Delon was cast as a petty crook, partnered by Jean-Paul Belmondo, who was to equal Delon in popularity in the 60s and 70s. They were later to appear together again in Borsalino (1970), Borsalino and Co (1974) and as sexagenarian action heroes in Une Chance sur Deux (Half a Chance, 1998).
Christine (1958), a love story set in Vienna at the turn of the century, gave Delon his first major role as a romantic lead, opposite Romy Schneider. During the shooting of the film – a remake of Max Ophüls’ Liebelei (1932) – the couple fell in love and became engaged soon afterwards. The romance lasted four years, and Delon and Schneider remained close until her death in 1982. They appeared together on stage in 1961 in a Parisian production of ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, directed by Visconti, as well as in the films La Piscine (The Swimming Pool, 1969) and Losey’s The Assassination of Trotsky (1972).
It was in 1960 that Delon became an international star with his portrayal of Patricia Highsmith’s Tom Ripley in René Clément’s Plein Soleil (Purple Noon). With his pretty-boy looks, Delon perfectly reflected the calculated charm, indolence and coldness of the ambiguous character, who schemes to take his friend’s clothes, yacht, girlfriend and life.
In contrast, in the same year, Visconti cast him as a “wise fool” in Rocco and His Brothers, an epic three-hour neorealist drama. To save his poverty-stricken family, who have immigrated to Milan from southern Italy, Rocco (Delon) takes up boxing, a sport he detests. Dubbed into Italian, Delon does his best to convince as a saintly character, though it is doubtful whether any boxer could be so gentle and yet so successful.
Dubbed again into Italian, Delon was superb as an arrogant and materialistic stockbroker who has an affair with a translator (Monica Vitti) in L’Eclisse (Eclipse, 1962), the third in Antonioni’s trilogy of alienation. Delon’s third notable Italian film was Visconti’s The Leopard (1963), in which he played the dashing and cynical young revolutionary Tancredi. As a hotheaded opportunist who represents the future of Italy, Delon’s performance is in sharp contrast to Burt Lancaster’s contemplative one as his aristocratic uncle, who represents the past.
Back in France, Delon began to take on less challenging roles, mostly in swashbucklers and thrillers. The main interest of the conventional heist movie, Mélodie en Sous-Sol (Any Number Can Win, 1963), was the coming together of the biggest French star of the 30s, Jean Gabin, and the rising star of the 60s. As interesting was his pairing with Simone Signoret, 14 years his senior, in The Widow Couderc (1971).
Delon also appeared in several English-language films at the time, including The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964), in which he was an Italian photographer cum gigolo making a play for a gangster’s moll (Shirley MacLaine), and a Spanish aristocrat in the comedy-western Texas Across the River (1966). At the time, Delon could claim to be an equal in fame to any movie star in large-budget films such as Once a Thief (1965), opposite Ann-Margret and Jack Palance; Lost Command (1966), a war film with Anthony Quinn and George Segal; and Red Sun (1971) with Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune, cashing in on Delon’s huge popularity in Japan.
In the artily erotic The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968), directed and photographed by Jack Cardiff, Delon played Marianne Faithfull’s lover, unzipping her leather gear with his teeth and murmuring: “Your toes are like tombstones.”
In 1964 Delon married Nathalie Barthélémy, who made her screen acting debut opposite him in Melville’s Le Samouraï (1967), the first of three ritualistic and atmospheric crime thrillers directed by Melville and starring Delon. In Le Samouraï, he was an expressionless hired killer; in Le Cercle Rouge (1970), he was a cool ex-con; and in Un Flic (Dirty Money, 1972), Melville’s final film, he was equally effective as a bitter cop.
Delon’s standing as a screen tough guy was enhanced when, in 1968, he and his wife, whom he was about to divorce, were implicated in a sensational political scandal. The discovery of the corpse of his bodyguard Stevan Marković in a rubbish dump – he had been shot in the head – led to revelations of drug and sex orgies involving a host of personalities from the world of politics and show business, including the wife of the president, Georges Pompidou.
Delon’s friend, the Corsican gangster François Marcantoni, was charged as an accessory to murder but was later released due to lack of evidence. Both Alain and Nathalie were held for questioning, but were not accused. What had alerted police was a letter Marković sent to his brother in which he wrote: “If I get killed, it’s 100% the fault of Alain Delon and his godfather François Marcantoni.”
In the same year, Delon began a 15-year relationship with the actor Mireille Darc, with whom he co-starred in Jeff (1969), the first film made by his own company, Adel, and a few other pictures.
During the same period, under Malle’s direction, he portrayed William Wilson, an Austrian officer and gambler, who murders his doppelganger, in one of three segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories in Spirits of the Dead (1968).
Another of his outstanding performances was the title role of Losey’s Mr Klein (1976), as a French-Catholic art dealer who is mistaken for a Jew of the same name during the occupation in 1942. Unable to convince the Gestapo of the mistaken identity, he is deported.
Many years later, Delon claimed to be a supporter of the far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. “He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere,” Delon declared. “He says out loud what many people think, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”
In the 80s, Delon, already a producer of a dozen movies, tried his hand at directing. His two films, Pour la Peau d’un Flic (For a Cop’s Hide, 1981) and Le Battant (The Fighter, 1983), were pale imitations of Melville. But, in 1984, Delon was given two of his last chances to display his acting talents. In Bertrand Blier’s Notre Histoire (Our Story), he was a morose alcoholic, and, in one of the most surprising casting decisions, he played the decadent gay dandy Baron de Charlus in Volker Schlöndorff’s Swann in Love, based on the first volume of Marcel Proust’s novel.
Following his dual role in Jean-Luc Godard’s Nouvelle Vague (1990), and a number of poorly received films, Delon announced his decision to retire from acting in 1997, although he did star in a television cop series, Frank Riva (2003-04), and made an unexpected appearance as Julius Caesar in Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008). A final TV role came in the drama Une Journée Ordinaire (2011), and he appeared as himself in S Novym Godom, Mamy! (2012), the story of a Russian New Year’s Eve, and Disclaimer (2019), as a talkshow guest.
An honorary Palme d’Or in 2019 provoked complaints against Delon’s history of misogynistic comments and support for the far right. The Cannes festival responded that its concern lay with achievement in cinema: “We’re not going to give (him) the Nobel peace prize.” Also that year came the video release of the song, Paroles, Paroles, that had given the singer Dalida and him a hit in 1973.
Delon, who became a Swiss citizen after many years’ residence in Geneva, with a second home in Douchy, south of Paris, spent most of his later years as president of a company that produced a variety of products such as perfume, wristwatches, clothing and sunglasses, all with the label AD.
The Velvet Underground singer Nico said that Delon was the father of her son Ari, though he denied it – the boy was adopted by Delon’s mother and stepfather, and took their surname, Boulogne; he died in 2023. Delon is survived by his son, Anthony, from his first marriage, and his children, Anouchka and Alain-Fabien, from his second marriage, to Rosalie van Breemen, which ended in divorce in 2002.
🔔 Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon, actor and producer, born 8 November 1935; died 18 August 2024
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kick-a-long · 3 months ago
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The new school year is bringing fresh protections for Jewish students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, following the administration’s announcement on Tuesday that its nondiscrimination policy will now extend to harassment or discrimination based on Jewish students’ connections to Israel and Zionism.
The guidelines are part of a new agreement with Hillel International, Illini Hillel and the Jewish United Fund, Chicago’s federation, and it comes as several elite universities have received criticism for a lack of transparency about specific messaging as to what university policies are and how they are going to be enforced.
Under the agreement, announced on Tuesday, the University of Illinois declared that the protections offered by the university’s nondiscrimination policy extend to harassment or discrimination of Jewish students, including harassment or discrimination based on Jewish students’ connections to Israel and Zionism.
UIUC published a set of examples, for the first time, of discrimination and harassment of protected classes as part of its nondiscrimination policy.
The examples include the use of antisemitic slurs and stereotypes, blaming a Jewish student for Israel’s policies, physical contact with an individual and derogatory or hostile messages on social media.
In 2020, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the law firm of Arnold & Porter filed a Title VI complaint on behalf of University of Illinois Jewish students who alleged antisemitism on campus. Also on Tuesday, a resolution agreement issued by the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) was reached.
Catherine Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education, said that UIUC “has now agreed to take the steps necessary to ensure its education community can learn, teach, and work without an unredressed antisemitic hostile environment, or any other hostility related to stereotypes about shared ancestry.”
Lonnie Nasatir, president of JUF, told Jewish Insider that “the terms in this settlement are the best achieved across the country and will have a significant positive impact on the campus climate for Jewish students.”
Additionally, the university agreed to publish a summary report of bias incidents every month, commit to mandatory antisemitism training for administrators and students and hire an expert on campus antisemitism to enhance the university policies.
The agreement does not include implementation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s working definition of antisemitism, a definition that mainstream Jewish groups and congressional leaders have called for universities to adopt as schools confront antisemitism on campus. .
In a statement, Robert Jones, UIUC’s chancellor, said that the university is “deeply committed to implementing the Mutual Understandings we are announcing today and to working together to provide a safe and supportive educational environment for our entire Jewish student community and for all students at Illinois.”
Erez Cohen, executive director at Illini Hillel, said in a separate statement that Hillel will “work alongside UIUC during the implementation of their new policies and to help reaffirm their promise to protect the rights of Jewish students on campus.”
While antisemitism on campuses has skyrocketed since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks and the subsequent war in Gaza, the university’s agreement with Jewish groups had already been in discussion for several years. An OCR investigation from 2015 through December 2023 found 135 allegations of anti-Jewish discrimination (compared to four related to anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian or anti-Arab discrimination). Incidents in the OCR investigation include flyers distributed around campus via plastic bags containing rocks stating, “Every single aspect of the Covid agenda is Jewish” and a student throwing a rock toward an event at the Hillel Center.
Brandeis Center President Alyza Lewin said in a statement that “UIUC’s administration began engaging in meaningful discussions with the Jewish community about how to address antisemitism on campus after we filed our OCR complaint years ago.”
Lewin called the agreement “a significant milestone,” adding that it will “when implemented, improve the campus climate for Jewish students
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skylarmoon71 · 5 months ago
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Grimm - Masterlist
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swayhere · 5 months ago
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canon starter call - open to anyone !
i have a strong urge to write some canon muses, so if you would be interested in writing against any of the canon muses listed under the READ MORE below, please comment/IM me and i can send a starter your way or reply to one of your starters.
i do not require you to know anything about my muse's canon, but i'm more than happy to tell you about it if you ask. i'd be happy to write canon muses against your ocs! also, mixing fandoms is 100% ok with me unless your canon muse is problematic and makes me uncomfy. my canon muses do not have all their memories or relationships from their life unless we plot it, but they will have the same general personality/ambitions.
if you are willing to write against my canon muses but don't care which, just like this post, and i'll take a look at your open starters and/or send you a closed starter at random with a muse i think fits the vibe.
*please don't agree to write against my canon muses if you're one of those picky weirdos that will be up in arms if i don't write a cannon muse exactly how you would.
( if you'd prefer to write against an oc muse only, check this post. )
canon muses i'd like to write: bold = extra big muse rn. strikethrough = exclusive, so not rn.
muses from tv shows: 
911 — eddie diaz , evan buckley , athena grant , bobby nash , karen wilson
911: lonestar — carlos reyes , grace ryder , judson ryder , t.k. strand , owen strand
as the world turns — dr. reid oliver , luke snyder
boy meets world — shawn hunter , jack hunter , angela moore , topanga lawrence
chuck — sarah walker , chuck bartowski , bryce larkin 
degrassi — jimmy brooks , sean cameron , ellie nash , marco del rossi , sav bhandari , drew torres , zoe rivas , miles hollingsworth iii , tiny bell , esme song , 
gilmore girls — jess , luke
good trouble — gael martinez , jamie hunter , callie adams foster , mariana adams foster , evan speck , joaquin perez , dennis cooper 
how i met your father — sid , ian , sophie , jesse
how i met your mother — marshall eriksen , lily aldrin , victoria
how to get away with murder — laurel castillo , connor walsh , oliver hampton , michaela pratt , frank delfino 
jessica jones — jessica jones
lost — kate austen , juliet burke , daniel faraday , desmond hume , sayid jarrah , sun-hwa kwon , claire littleton , walter ‘walt’ lloyd , charlie pace , hugo ‘hurley’ reyes , shannon rutherford , miles straume 
new amsterdam — lauren bloom , elizabeth wilder , casey acosta
new girl — nick miller , winston bishop , cece parekh
one tree hill — nathan scott , lucas scott , keith scott , chase adams , brooke davis 
outer banks (obx) — jj maybank , kiara carrera
please like me — arnold 
rosewell, new mexico — michael guerin , maria deluca , isobel evans
scandal — olivia pope , prezzy fitz
scooby doo — daphne blake
stranger things — robin buckley , steve harrington , jim hopper , chrissy cunningham , eddie munson , max mayfield , eleven , mike wheeler 
superstore — jonah simms
the 100 — finn collins
the bear — richie jerimovich, carmy berzatto , marcus , sydney adamu  
the mindy project — danny castellano 
the office — ryan howard , jim halpert , pam halpert , kelly kapoor , holly flax
the politician — river barkley , astrid sloan 
the young & the restless — sally spectra , adam newman , chelsea lawson , phyllis summers , lily winters , sharon newman , chance chancellor , victoria newman , tessa porter , amanda sinclair , cole howard
younger — josh , kelsey peters
muses from books: 
along for the ride ( book version only ) — eli stock , auden west , maggie  
one of us is lying ( book version only ) — cooper clay , nate
red white & royal blue — alex claremont-diaz , prince henry , zahra bankston
we were liars — gatwick ‘gat’ matthew patil
muses from movies: 
dead poets society — neil perry , charlie dalton , todd anderson
harry potter — lee jordan
les mis — enjolras , grantaire 
super 8 — joe lamb , martin , preston
twilight — irina denali , jasper cullen
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nightwhispcrs · 3 months ago
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✧・゚: ✧・゚ — here's my post-hiatus/new season starter call for my muses that could use more threads! at least some of these will have a fall/autumn theme and for my sanity many of them will probably be set at my muses' place of work.
adam newman, 33, senator & coffee shop owner — ( 1/3 ) drusilla
arnold novak, 28, socially awkward landscaper — ( 1/3 ) helaena targaryen
craig manning, 23, musician & photographer — ( 2/3 ) emily junk, nettles
gael martinez, 29, artist — (2/2 ) nie huaisang, kauul hilo
irina denali, 28, vampire esthetician law school student — ( 2/3 ) nettles, lucy westenra
dr. jack shephard, 35, spinal surgeon — ( 2/3 ) carlisle, pildo
jim hopper, 45, private investigator — ( 2/3 ) jihyo, joel miller
lenny pierce, appears 25, twilight oc hybrid — ( 1/2 ) astrid hofferson
michael guerin, appears 31, space alien cowboy — ( 2/3 ) jake wheeler, martin blackwood
monica geller — ( 1/1 ) dain aetos
naomi pierce, 34, luxuy smuggler socialite — ( 1/2 ) kenna
ramona flowers, 25, vintage store manager — ( 2/3 ) helaena targaryen, evie grimhilde
dr. reid oliver, 37, asshole neurosurgeon — ( 0/3 )
roman roy, 36, bar owner — ( 0/2 )
sarah walker, 29, cia agent — ( 3/3 ) mia winters, dale cooper, will graham
sue storm, 31, meterologist — (2/3 ) kate carter, yoon jisoo
violet baudelaire, 24, mechanical engineer — ( 1/3 ) archie kennedy
zoe rivas, 24, actress & wine bar host — ( 2/2 ) gina porter, jeremiah fisher
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shoshiwrites · 1 month ago
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1. Contact sheet shows Tuskegee airman Woodrow W. Crockett; Edward C. Gleed, Lawrence, KS, Group Operations Officer; and others at the left.
2. Contact sheet shows a large group of Tuskegee airmen attending a briefing. Among those shown are: Hiram E. Mann, Cleveland, OH; Newman C. Golden, Cincinnati, OH; Bertram W. Wilson, Jr., Brooklyn, NY; Samuel W. Watts, Jr., New York, NY; Armour G. McDemoe, Martinsville, VA; Howard C. Gamble, Charles Town, WV; Harry T. Steward, Jr. Corona, NY; Earle R. Lane, Wickliffe, OH; Wyrain T. Shell, Brooklyn, NY; Harold M. Morris, Seattle, WA; John E. Edwards, Steubenville, OH; John H. Porter, Cleveland, OH; James H. Fischer?, Stoughton, MA; Wyrain T. Shell, Brooklyn, NY; William E. "Porky" Rice?, Swarthmore, PA; Tony Weaver?; Charles L. White?, St. Louis, MO; George Arnold Lynch, Valley Stream; Samuel L. Washington, Cleveland, OH; Calvin J. Spann, Rutherford, NJ, Frank N. Wright, Elmsford, NY.
Ramitelli, Italy. Toni Frissell, March 1945.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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glowing-disciple · 11 months ago
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Reading List - 2024
Currently Reading:
The Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbit
Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie
Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD by Jonas Jonasson
Books Read:
101 Famous Poems by Various Authors
The Abraham Lincoln Joke Book by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
The Ancient Aliens Question by Philip Coppens
The Art of Computer Designing by Osamu Sato
The Broken Dice, and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance by Ivar Ekeland
The Cairngorms by Patrick Baker
The Codebreaker's Handbook by Herbie Brennan
The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown
The Complete Book of Kitchen Collecting by Barbera E. Mauzy
Dinosaurs, Beware! A Safety Guide by Marc Brown
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dreaming the Biosphere by Rebecca Reider
Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Funny Number Tricks by Rose Wyler
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Giant Sea Creatures, Real and Fantastic by John Frederick Waters
Great Mysteries of the Ice and Snow by Edward F. Dolan
Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis
Hiram's Red Shirt by Mabel Watts
A History of Chess by Jerzy Gizycki
I don't care by JoAnn Nelson
An Introduction to Linguistics by Loreto Todd
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes by Robin Robertson
Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
MASH: An Army Surgeon in Korea by Otto F. Apel
The Messier Objects Field Guide by Stephen James O'Meara
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks
Reflections on Evolution by Fredrick Sproull
Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay by Matt McGinn
Some of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown in Nottinghamshire by Howard Pyle
Strange Creatures of the Ice and Snow by Edward F. Dolan
Time for Bed, Sleepyheads by Normand Chartier
Weird Islands by Jean de Boschère
Future Reading:
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
Adventures in Cryptozoology Vol. 1 by Richard Freeman
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions by Philip S. Callahan
The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress
The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle
The Art Nouveau Style by Stephan Tschudi Madsen
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Evolution by Nowell Stebbing
Expressionism by Ashley Bassie
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson
Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Freaks on the Fells by R. M. Ballantyne
Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter
Fundamentals of Character Design by Various Authors
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Humorous Ghost Stories by Various Authors
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Joan Miro by Joan Miro
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey
Living by the Sword by Eric Demski
The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Otis Spofford by Beverly Clearly
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Shining by Stephen King
The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
The River by Gary Paulsen
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
The Third Man Factor by John Geiger
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill
The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd
The White Mountains by John Christopher
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ultraericthered · 15 days ago
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Favorite Takes - Marvel/Spider-Man
Where I cite my personal favorite non-source material (so film, TV, and video games only) adaptations of some comic book characters.
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Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Insomniac Games (Yuri Lowenthal)
Marvel VS Capcom (Josh Keaton)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Christopher Daniel Barnes)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Josh Keaton)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Robbie Daymond)
Sony/MCU (Tobey Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland)
NOTE: And the Spider-Men voiced by Paul Soles, Dan Gilvezan, Ted Schwartz, Rino Romano, Neil Patrick Harris, Chris Edgerly, James Arnold Taylor, Mike Vaughn, Mike Kelley, Sam Reigel, Sean Chiplock, Griffin Burns, Jake Johnson, and Hudson Thames are all contenders.
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Mary Jane Watson
Insomniac Games (Laura Bailey)
Sam Raimi Trilogy (Kirsten Dunst)
MCU (Zendaya Coleman)
MTV Spider-Man New Animated Series (Lisa Loeb)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Vanessa Marshall)
Marvel Rising (Tara Strong) and Marvel's Spider-Man (Felicia Day)
NOTE: Other fine MJs are Andrea Taylor in the Ultimate Spider-Man video game, Dana Seltzer in Web of Shadows, Laura Vandervoort in Edge Of Time, Quinn Ljoka in Marvel Avengers Academy, and Zoe Kravitz in Into The Spiderverse. Kari Wahlgren also did a decent Kirsten Dunst in the Spider-Man 3 video game, and Erika Harlacher Stone was spot on casting for her in Spider-Geddon, albeit wasted.
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Gwen Stacy
Marvel's Spider-Man (Laura Bailey)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Lacey Chabert)
Spiderverse Trilogy (Hailee Steinfeld)
Marvel Rising (Dove Cameron)
Mark Webb Duology (Emma Stone)
Sam Raimi Trilogy (Bryce Dallas Howard)
NOTE: Yeah, Laura Bailey is Best MJ AND Best Gwen! And the only other Gwens I think come close to contending with these ones would be the ones voiced by Mary Kay Bergman and Ashley Johnson.
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Harry Osborn
Sam Raimi Trilogy (James Franco)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (James Arnold Taylor)
MTV Spider-Man New Animated Series (Ian Ziering)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Max Mittelman)
Insomniac Games (Scott Porter, Graham Philips)
Mark Webb Duology (Dane Dehaan)
NOTE: Shout out to Josh Keaton and Kevin Dorman here too!
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J. Jonah Jameson
Sam Raimi Trilogy (JK Simmons)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Daran Norris)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Ed Asner)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Bob Joles)
Insomniac Games (Darin De Paul)
Edge Of Time (Fred Tatasciore)
NOTE: Paul Kligman, William Woodson, Richard Newman, Dee Bradley Baker, and Chris Edgerly also did some respectable Jonahs.
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Flash Thompson
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Josh LeBarr)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Patrick Labyorteaux)
MTV Spider-Man New Animated Series (Devon Edward Sawa)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Ben Diskin)
Mark Webb Duology (Chris Zylka)
MCU (Tony Revolori)
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Betty Brant
Sam Raimi Trilogy (Elizabeth Banks)
MCU (Angourie Rice)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Grey Griffin)
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Grey Griffin)
Spider-Man Cartoon (Peg Dixon)
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Liz Allan
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Alanna Ulbach)
MCU (Laura Harrier)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Natalie Lander)
Spider-Man 90s Animated Series (Marla Rubinoff)
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George Stacy
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Clancy Brown)
Spiderverse Trilogy (Shea Whigham)
Mark Webb Duology (Dennis Leary)
Sam Raimi Trilogy (James Cromwell)
Marvel Rising (Steven Weber)
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May Parker
Sam Raimi Trilogy (Rosemary Harris)
Spiderverse Trilogy (Lily Tomlin)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Deborah Strang)
Insomniac Games (Nancy Linari)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Nancy Linari)
Mark Webb Duology (Sally Fields) and MCU (Marisa Tomei)
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Miles Morales
Spiderverse Trilogy (Shamiek Moore)
Insomniac Games (Nadji Jeter)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Nadji Jeter)
Ultimate Spider-Man (Donald Glover, Ogie Banks)
Marvel Avengers Academy (Brandon James Winckler)
NOTE: I'm not OK with the casting of that last one, though. Why???
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Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Alan Rachins, Steve Blum)
Sam Raimi Trilogy + MCU (Willem Dafoe)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Josh Keaton)
Spider-Man 90s Animated Series (Neil Ross)
Insomniac Games (Mark Rolston) and The Black Order (Steve Blum)
LEGO Marvel (Nolan North, Josh Keaton)
NOTE: Steven Weber in Ultimate Spider-Man was a decent Norman but an awful Goblin, while Len Carlson, Dennis Marks, and Sam Vincent all did good Green Goblins but weren't really Normans.
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Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus
Sam Raimi Trilogy + MCU (Alfred Molina)
Insomniac Games and The Black Order (William Salyers)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Peter Macnicol)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Scott Menville)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.)
Universal Studios Ride (Rodger Bumpass)
NOTE: Olivia Octavius isn't included here since this is just for Otto. Vernon Chapman, Cam Clarke, Joe Alaskey, Charlie Adler, Tom Kenny, Kyle Hebert, and Dee Bradley Baker were also good Ottos.
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Venom
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Hank Azaria)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Ben Diskin, Ben Pronsky)
Insomniac Games (Tony Todd)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Ben Diskin)
Spider-Man PS1 (Daran Norris) and Sony/MCU (Tom Hardy)
Web of Shadows (Keith Szarabajka) and Sam Raimi Trilogy
NOTE: Brian Drummond was also a top tier Venom voice. Shame the Venom/Eddie Brock he was voicing had to be such trash.
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Eddie Brock
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Ben Diskin)
Ultimate Spider-Man Game (Daniel Capallero)
Sony/MCU (Tom Hardy)
Sam Raimi Trilogy (Topher Grace)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Hank Azaria)
Spider-Man PS1 (Daran Norris)
NOTE: Ben Pronsky's Eddie was alright too, but he was disposable.
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The Lizard
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Dee Bradley Baker)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Joseph Campanella)
MTV Spider-Man New Animated Series (Rob Zombie)
Insomniac Games (Mark Whitten)
Mark Webb Duology + MCU (Rhys Ifans)
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The Sandman
The Spectacular Spider-Man (John DiMaggio)
Shattered Dimensions (Dimitri Diatchenko)
Sam Raimi Trilogy + MCU (Thomas Hayden Church)
The Black Order (Richard Epcar)
Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends (Chris Latta)
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The Rhino
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Clancy Brown)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Don Stark)
Sam Raimi Trilogy Video Games (John DiMaggio, Steve Blum)
Insomniac Games (Fred Tatasciore)
Web Of Shadows (Fred Tatasciore)
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Electro
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Crispin Freeman)
Insomniac Games (Josh Keaton)
Ultimate Spider-Man (Christopher Daniel Barnes)
Mark Webb Duology + MCU (Jamie Foxx)
MTV Spider-Man New Animated Series (Ethan Embry)
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The Vulture
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Robert Englund)
Sam Raimi Trilogy Video Games (Dwight Schultz)
MCU (Michael Keaton)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Alastair Duncan)
Insomniac Games (Dwight Schultz)
NOTE: Gillie Fenwick, Paul Soles, Don Messick, Christopher Tabori, Brian George and Steve Blum also deserve acknowledgement here.
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Mysterio
Spider-Man Cartoon and Spider-Man 80's Animated Series (Chris Wiggins, Michael Rye and Peter Cullen).
MCU (Jake Gyllenthal)
Shattered Dimensions (David Kaye)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Xander Berkley)
Spider-Man 90's Animated (Gregg Berger)
NOTE: Also mesmerizing as Mysterio were Daran Norris, Dee Bradley Baker, James Arnold Taylor, Robin Atkins Downes, Greg Baldwin, and Crispin Freeman.
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Hobgoblin
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Mark Hamill)
Marvel Superhero Adventures (Andrew Francis)
Universal Studios Ride (Patrick Fraley)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Courtney B. Vance)
Shattered Dimensions (Steve Blum)
NOTE: Marvel's Spider-Man barely counts for this, as it was just Harry and Norman respectively wearing a phony superhero identity.
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Scorpion
Sam Raimi Trilogy Video Games (Michael McColl, Dee Bradley Baker)
Insomniac Games (Jason Spisak)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Martin Landau, Richard Moll)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Jason Spisak)
Ultimate Spider-Man (Dante Basco, Eric Bauza)
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The Chameleon
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (N/A)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Steve Blum)
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (Hans Conried)
Mark Webb Duology Video Games (Glenn Steinbaum)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Patton Oswald)
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Kraven the Hunter
Shattered Dimensions (Jim Cummings)
Marvel's Spider-Man (Troy Baker)
MTV Spider-Man New Animated (Michael Dorn)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series and Ultimate Spider-Man (Gregg Berger and Diedrich Bader)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Eric Vesbit)
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Black Cat
Insomniac Games (Erica Lindbeck)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Jennifer Hale)
The Spectacular Spider-Man (Tricia Helfer)
Sam Raimi Trilogy Video Games (Holly Fields)
Mark Webb Duology Video Games (Ali Hillis)
NOTE: Audrey Wasilewski, Katee Sachkhoff, Grey Griffin, Mel Gorsha, and Erika Harlacher Stone were also contenders here.
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Michael Morbius
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Nick Jameson)
Sony/MCU (Jared Leto)
Ultimate Spider-Man (Ben Diskin)
Sam Raimi Trilogy Games (Sean Donnellan)
Marvel Superhero Squad (Tom Kenny)
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Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin
MCU (Vincent D'onofrio)
Sony Daredevil 2003/MTV Spider-Man New Animated Series (Michael Clarke Duncan)
Spider-Man 90's Animated Series (Roscoe Lee Brown)
The Punisher Video Game (David Sobolov)
Raimi Trilogy Video Game (Bob Joles)
Insomniac Games (Travis Willingham) and The Black Order (Tim Blaney)
NOTE: Tom Harvey, Stan Jones, Stephen Stanton, Gregg Berger, Jim Cummings and JB Blanc also gave commendable takes on Fisk that worked for the iterations they were playing. Sorry to say, Spiderverse fans, but Liev Schreiber's Kingpin does nothing for me.
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Doctor Doom
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (Clive Revill)
90's Animated Marvel (Neil Ross, Simon Templeman, Tom Kane, Ross Marquand)
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Lex Lang)
Marvel VS Capcom (Paul Dobson)
Disney Marvel Animation and The Black Order (Maurice LeMarche)
The Fantastic Four '94 film (Joseph Culp)
Spider-Man 80's Animated Series (Ralph James)
NOTE: Henry Ramer, Freddy Stebbin, Charlie Adler, Fred Tatasciore, Travis Willingham, and Grahama McTavish are also good Dooms.
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melliotwrites · 4 months ago
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can you elaborate on how montana was influenced by old montana country songs?
Sure! Partially we just listened to a ton of country stations on the drive over, which gave me a sense of the lyrical rhythms and rhymes I could use. Some we saved from the radio (from various eras - 1960s to, like, 2000s) were Buckaroo Man, T-R-O-U-B-L-E, Boondocks, Mama's Broken Heart, The Race Is On, Prop Me Up Beside The Jukebox If I Die, and We'll Sing in the Sunshine.
Beyond that, we also listened to oldie Mountain West country we found online like There Stands The Glass, Don't Think Twice, It's Alright, and Walkin' After Midnight.
But mostly I was referring to another odd occasion of country and musical theater being unlikely bedfellows -- Don't Fence Me In. At our first rest stop in Montana there was a placard about it and I was just fascinated. Bob Fletcher, from Helena, Montana, was inspired by Montana's natural landscape (much like Joey!) to write this poem:
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In 1934, Cole Porter (yeah, that Cole Porter!) bought the poem from him for $250 to write a song for a cowboy movie. He received sole authorship credit for many years, until Fletcher sued. The resulting song became a standard part of the Great American Songbook, covered by folks like Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Ella Fitzgerald but originally performed by Roy Rogers:
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Anyway, I just think it's kind of a fascinating bit of Broadway-to-Montana crossover history a long time before we got here (especially interesting because of the "I wouldn't trade a western trail/for Broadway anytime" lyrics!) I wanted to write a song about Montana, and draw on other writers who were inspired by the landscape (and this sense of? anonymity? lost-ness? the lines in the middle about the cities seemed a lot like what Joey might write), so I was studying up on what kinds of lyrical styles (simple, repeated choruses, long ABAB verses, that little hanging A-section at the end of the song) had been used in the past to frame those ideas!
~ Mel Don't have much to add because it wasn't inspired by Montana-specific country in terms of music. Musically I was thinking about Eddy Arnold, I guess, but he's nowhere near Montana lol. It was originally written for guitar, though, so what you hear on the YouTube is a?? piano cover of it technically I guess??? -- so more of that vibe will probably be coming through in future iterations of it. - Elliot
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jacensolodjo · 10 months ago
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The Texas law prohibiting medically necessary care for transgender youth is SB14. In July of 2023, the ACLU of Texas, ACLU National, Lambda Legal, and Transgender Law Center, along with Scott Douglass & McConnico LLP, and Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP filed a lawsuit challenging SB14.
Oral argument in that case is scheduled before the Texas Supreme Court for Tuesday, January 30th 2024.
(picture courtesy of Southern Equality.)
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