#Bye Bye Braverman

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bye bye braverman, sidney lumet 1968

[harrison-abbott]

Suella Braverman sacked as home secretary – UK politics live (theguardian.com)

I often try not to get political. Despite the U.K. having gone so downhill in recent times (or indeed for such a long time). And Westminster has nothing to do with me or anything I usually write about. I’m a good man and a moral person and I try to be good with other people.

For a long time I’ve been totally disillusioned with politics. Because there seems nothing I can do about it, to make changes. Even with mini protest. Or even with the vote.

I engage with literature heavily and I help people out who need it when I can.

But when it comes to people like Suella Braverman. Ha. F*ck off. Good riddance. Nasty piece of shit. Bye bye. Racist bigoted c*nt. Farewell.

[anthonysstupiddailyblog]

Anthony's Stupid Daily Blog (840): Fri 5th Jul 2024

I was realy tempted to stay up to watch the results of the election start piling in because normally if I don't stay up and watch the whole thing it ends up disastrous. be that a Trump victory or the LA Lakers getting thrashed but thankfully Labour won by a landslide. This win means that Sunak lied to us: a Labour won WAS a foregone conclussion. He just couldn't help trying to pull the wool over our eyes one last time before getting booted out could he the smug little bastard? The one thing that's bugged me about this whole election even though I knew I was going to get the result I wanted as that this loss means nothing to Sunak. Sure his ego and his intellectual superiority may have taken a bit of a bashing but the guy's wife is worth half a billion pounds and she spoils the shit out of the cunt. He's hardly going to be sulking around the house in his dressing gown is he? He's going to be living it up in his holiday home in Hawaii, although since this stupid twat doesn't know that you get wet if you go out in the rain hopefully he also doesn't know that you get burned if you go on the beachwithout any sun lotion. Well it's it’s finally over. The Tories have claimed their final victims…well except for the animals that will die so Suella Braverman can eat their cocks when she goes on I’m A Celebrity.Bye bye Tory cunts, fuck the lot of you. Oh and fuck all the people who voted Labour this time but voted for Boris Johnson last time, you wankers are almost as much at fault. That fat fuck lied through he yellow teeth all the way through the last election and you fucking idiots bought into all of it and the deaths of all the people who died from covid because of Johnson's ignorance and selfishness are just as much down to you as they are to him.

Tuned into tonight's Hollyoaks which featured Zoe preparring to get her scan to make sure the baby she's having with Hunter (or more likely Prince) is okay. WHile she was talking to Sally we got this really unintentionally racist moment:

Zoe: I’m a bit nervous about my scan Sally: One of us will come with you. It’ll be good to meet our new clan member

………….Sally does realise she said this to a black woman right? Later on we got more bollocks from Kitty and Beau as the former burned all the items she still had belonging to Ivy, the woman whose identity she stole and Beau struggled to shake the guilt from killing Declan. At one point Kitty was looking at a doll she was given by her long lost mother which she'd held onto since childhood and I put the following hypothetical exchange on Twitter: Kitty: I held onto this doll for so long thinking if I did my mum would find her way back to me Beau: Why has it got a tracking device in it?

[lboogie1906]

Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 – November 29, 1976) was a stand-up comic and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time in 1965 as “one of the country’s foremost celebrated Negro comedians.”

His parents, dissatisfied with the New York Public School System, sent him to live with his grandparents in Sydney, Nova Scotia during his primary school years. When he was 13, Cambridge moved back to New York and attended Flushing High School in Flushing, Queens.

He studied medicine at Hofstra College, which he attended for three years before pursuing a career in acting.

His memorable film roles include The Last Angry Man, The President’s Analyst, and Watermelon Man, in which he played the lead character. He had a starring role in Cotton Comes to Harlem, as well as its sequel, Come Back, Charleston Blue. He made a cameo appearance in Bye Bye Braverman and Friday Foster. His other film appearances included roles in The Busy Body, The Biggest Bundle of Them All, The Biscuit Eater, and Beware! The Blob, and Whiffs.

He appeared on several network television programs, including Car 54 Where Are You? The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy, The Monkees, and Police Story. He had a small speaking part on The Phil Silvers Show. He gave an acclaimed performance in Night Gallery. He perhaps reached his largest television audience in a series of comical commercials for Jockey brand underwear.

He appeared in The Blacks: A Clown Show, giving a performance that earned him an Obie Award. He did a stock version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

He had major success as a stand-up comedian. By 1965 he was earning “as much as $4,000 a week...in all respects, a headliner, working the best places, such as San Francisco’s Hungry i and Hollywood’s Crescendo.” He appeared on The Tonight Show and The Hollywood Palace. His routines were imbued with biting sarcasm and the trenchant topical humor that was common in comedic circles at the time. He was noted for comic lapses from standard educated speech to Black street-speak. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Bye Bye Braverman (1968)

[sagindie]

Jessica Walter and George Segal

[tcm]

The Longevity of George Segal by Susan King

Newer generations of audiences primarily know George Segal as a sitcom actor who played the publisher of a fashion magazine on the NBC comedy series Just Shoot Me!, and for the past six seasons, the amiable grandfather always eager to give advice on ABC’s The Goldbergs. But to baby boomers, he was one of top leading men of the 1970s. He may not have reached the heights of Burt Reynolds, Paul Newman, Robert Redford or Al Pacino during the decade, but nobody could do romantic comedy better than Segal. He was charming, adorable, sexy and a bit world-weary. Sort of a neurotic New York Jewish Cary Grant with a fabulous head of thick air.

Segal starred in such comedies as 1970’s WHERE’S POPPA? (the funniest scene is when Ruth Gordon pulls down his pants and bites him on the tuchus) and THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, THE HOT ROCK (‘72), BLUME IN LOVE (‘73) and A TOUCH OF CLASS (‘73), for which he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor and his costar, Glenda Jackson, took home the Best Actress Oscar.

Segal, now 85, told me during an interview I did with him in 2011 for the Los Angeles Times at the famed eatery Musso & Franks that he had “no notion I was going to take a comedy direction.” In fact, one of his first major stage roles was in 1956 in Jose Quintero’s legendary off-Broadway production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, starring Jason Robards in his signature role of Hickey.

And when he began in features in the early 1960s, Segal starred in such dramatic fare as 1965’s SHIP OF FOOL; Mike Nichols’ superb WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (‘66), for which Segal earned an Oscar nomination for supporting actor; the 1966 thriller THE QUILLER MEMORANDUM and that same year, CBS’ broadcast of Arthur Miller’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN.

Segal was also a popular guest on daytime and evening talk shows where he got to demonstrate his goofy charming side. He’d always bring out his banjo and sing the 1909 song “The Yama Yama Man.” Housewives and mothers—mine included—fell in love with him.

And so did director Jack Smight, who, Segal noted, thought he would be perfect for his 1968 dark comedy NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY. Segal was pitch perfect as Morris Brummel, a tough-nosed New York detective out to kill a flamboyant serial killer (Rod Steiger) with major mother issue.

Hollywood realized they had a romantic leading man on their hands.

The depth and breadth of Segal’s talent—both comedic and dramatic—can be seen in Bryan Forbes’ searing 1965 World War II drama, KING RAT. Segal plays one of the 10,000 American, Australian and British prisoners at a Japanese POW II. But Segal’s Captain King is a ruthless hustler who runs the black-market operation in the camp. Segal’s skill is also present in Robert Altman’s underrated CALIFORIA SPLIT (‘74), a comedy with dramatic overtones with Segal and Elliott Gould as gamblers who bond over the gambling tables.

Segal is in full flower as a romantic leading man in Paul Mazursky’s comedy BLUME IN LOVE. He plays a divorce attorney who falls in love with the beautiful Nina (Susan Anspach), marries her, cheats on her then tries to win her back after they divorce. The film also stars Marsha Mason in her film debut and a delightful Kris Kristofferson.

At the time of my interview, Segal and the late Mazursky were still the best of friends and met for breakfast several times a month. “I just saw him this morning,” he noted. “I meet these geezers at the Farmer’s Market. We usually talk about showbusiness, the old days and what’s happening now.”

Segal didn’t turn his back on dramas in the 1970s, as witnessed with Irvin Kershner’s superb 1970 dramedy LOVING, in which he plays a commercial artist living in the suburbs with his wife (Eva Marie Saint) and their kids while not dealing very well with a mid-life crisis.

Segal also starred in Sidney Lumet’s 1968 dramedy BYE BYE BRAVERMAN, a box-office flop the filmmaker didn’t like: “It should have been a soufflé, but it turned out a pancake.” The film about four Jewish intellectuals—Segal, Jack Warden, Sorrell Booke and Joseph Wiseman—that travel to a friend’s funeral in a cramped Volkswagen Beetle, may not have excited the critics either, but it’s a wonderful opportunity to catch an early comedic turn by Segal as a public relations writer. Time singled out Segal: “As the story’s central character, actor Segal shows flashes of a comic talent hitherto unexplored by Hollywood.”

By the end of the 1970s and early 80s, Segal’s career slowed because his films weren’t burning up the box office. “Most of us get about 10 years at best [at the top],” Segal confessed. “As you get into playing father roles, the parts dry up because, I don’t mean to say it’s a sex thing, but you have that testosterone vitality. But there are certain actors, like Jack Nicholson, who crested and just kept going. I am in another group, whatever that group is, but I have been tremendously lucky. You just have to keep bellying up to the table.”

[this-is-a-love-story-isnt-it]

Parenthood 5x07

Hank Rizzoli- king of segues 😂

[citizenscreen]

Director Sidney Lumet and George Segal during the filming of BYE BYE BRAVERMAN (1968)

[magicwhistle]

794- BYE BYE BRAVERMAN (1968) Four writers travel through Brooklyn for funeral of friend. Seinfeld for those who have actually met (or are) Jewish people and lived in New York. A must for location nerds and chance to see Sorrell Booke not being Boss Hogg.

[chiara13]

Miles Heizer as Drew Holt Braverman in Parenthood 1x09 "Perchance to Dream" and as Alex Standall in 13 Reasons Why 2x13 "Bye"

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[alesario]

Sidney Lumet, left, with George Segal in Brooklyn in 1967 during the filming of "Bye Bye Braverman." Credit Sam Falk/The New York Times

[lboogie1906]

Godfrey MacArthur Cambridge (February 26, 1933 – November 29, 1976) was a stand-up comic and actor. Alongside Bill Cosby, Dick Gregory, and Nipsey Russell, he was acclaimed by Time in 1965 as "one of the country's foremost celebrated Negro comedians." His parents, dissatisfied with the New York Public School System, sent him to live with his grandparents in Sydney, Nova Scotia during his primary school years. When he was 13, Cambridge moved back to New York and attended Flushing High School in Flushing, Queens. He studied medicine at Hofstra College, which he attended for three years before pursuing a career in acting. His memorable film roles include The Last Angry Man, The President's Analyst, and Watermelon Man, in which he played the lead character. He had a starring role in Cotton Comes to Harlem, as well as its sequel, Come Back, Charleston Blue. He made a cameo appearance in Bye Bye Braverman and Friday Foster. His other film appearances included roles in The Busy Body, The Biggest Bundle of Them All, The Biscuit Eater, and Beware! The Blob, and Whiffs. He appeared on several network television programs, including Car 54 Where Are You? The Dick Van Dyke Show, I Spy, The Monkees, and Police Story. He had a small speaking part on The Phil Silvers Show. He gave an acclaimed performance in Night Gallery. He perhaps reached his largest television audience in a series of comical commercials for Jockey brand underwear. He appeared in The Blacks: A Clown Show, giving a performance that earned him an Obie Award. He did a stock version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He had major success as a stand-up comedian. By 1965 he was earning "as much as $4,000 a week...in all respects, a headliner, working the best places, such as San Francisco's Hungry i and Hollywood's Crescendo." He appeared on The Tonight Show and The Hollywood Palace. His routines were imbued with biting sarcasm and the trenchant topical humor that was common in comedic circles at the time. He was noted for comic lapses from standard educated speech to Black street-speak. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence https://www.instagram.com/p/CpIGcV_LwFz/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[blairemclaren]

George Segal Cause Of Death - Obituary | George Segal Has Died

George Segal Death - Dead,  Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: So sad about the loss of George Segal. I grew up loving his films, from “Where’s Poppa?” to Sidney Lumet’s “Bye Bye Braverman,” to “The Hot Rock.” I got to work... Click to read and leave a tribute.

George Segal Death – Dead,  Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: So sad about the loss of George Segal. I grew up loving his films, from “Where’s Poppa?” to Sidney Lumet’s “Bye Bye Braverman,” to “The Hot Rock.” I got to work with him several times. This was last year at lunch. My deep sympathies to his family and friends. With a heavy heart, we announce the passing of George Segal,…

[robsmithjr]

A bit about George Segal you may not have known....

A bit about George Segal you may not have known….

I very rarely reflect on deaths of any kind, but wanted to share a bit of George Segal some may not know. I’ve always been a huge fan of Segal. I sure loved his turn in ‘Fun with Dick and Jane’ and his performance in ‘King Rat’ was jarring. My favorite was his role in ‘Bye Bye Braverman’. However what I loved most about Segal was the terrific fun he created with a banjo as part of the ‘Beverly…