#Cynthia O'Neal

[genevieveetguy]

. - Do you always answer a question with a question? - Do you always date your best friend's girlfriend?

Carnal Knowledge, Mike Nichols (1971)

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[porquevi]

"Ânsia de amar" (carnal knowledge) - mubi.

O Mubi educadamente avisa que um filme na sua lista vai sair do catálogo e esse está pra ir embora. Assim, vamos ver. De 1971, com Jack Nicholson e dirigido por Mike Nichols que tinha lançado antes "Primeira noite de um homem" (the graduate), longa que me agrada bastante.

depois de ver: filme de 1971, mas os homens continuam bestas. aqui já se vê a masculinidade frágil. lindo elenco feminino e me espantou ver o Garfunkel (ele mesmo, da dupla com Simon) como ator.

[theresah331]

https://www.jstor.org/stable/30247257

[theoscarsproject]

Carnal Knowledge (1971). Chronicling the lifelong sexual development of two men who meet and befriend one another in college.

I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I was expecting. While its gender politics are certainly dated, it’s elevated by a uniquely paced script and some really charismatic performances across the board. The result is something both charming and evocative, compelling and jarring – the movie building relationships that hold a lot of weight and none at the same time. It’s a pretty interesting exercise and a pretty interesting film.

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[oldschoolteenflicks]

Cynthia Nixon as Sunshine in Little Darlings (1980) dir. by Ronald F. Maxwell

[ananula]

‘Little Darlings’ (Ronald F. Maxwell, 1980).

[byneddiedingo]

Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols, 1971) Cast: Jack Nicholson, Ann-Margret, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen, Rita Moreno, Cynthia O'Neal, Carol Kane. Screenplay: Jules Feiffer. Cinematography: Giuseppe Rotunno. Production design: Richard Sylbert. Film editing: Sam O'Steen. Carnal Knowledge begins as a light comedy of manners set in the late 1940s, when college students were supposedly less casual and more poorly informed about sex. Jonathan (Jack Nicholson), who claims to be more sexually experienced than his Amherst roommate, Sandy (Art Garfunkel), gives Sandy some advice on how to approach Smith College student Susan (Candice Bergen) at a mixer. The scene has some of the keen ear for awkward attempts at communication found in screenwriter Jules Feiffer's cartoons and in director Mike Nichols's comedy routines with Elaine May. Eventually, Sandy and Susan get together, with Jonathan still coaching Sandy on sex, until Jonathan himself makes his own moves -- unknown to Sandy -- on Susan. He succeeds, in an excruciating scene in which Susan's confusion about the loss of her virginity plays across her face, partly obscured by the grunting Jonathan on top of her. And from then the film becomes increasingly sour, as the years pass and the misogynistic Jonathan continues to meddle in Sandy's life but also makes a mess of his own relationships with women. He takes up with Bobbie, a model played by Ann-Margret, for what begins as a passionate fling and ends in misery. By the end of the film he is being serviced by Louise (Rita Moreno), a sex worker whom he hires to perform a routine designed to give him an erection, and he abuses her when she doesn't follow his plan. It's a sad, rather hopeless film that despite fine performances from all the actors never quite convinces us that its characters are anything but puppets of the writer and director. Jonathan and Sandy seem incapable of change and growth. Something makes me think that Carnal Knowledge would have been a better film if it had been told from the women's point of view, that it would have made a more telling point about the male ego and about the great gulf between the sexes if we had seen Jonathan and Sandy through Susan and Bobbie's eyes. We get glimpses of that, but Susan disappears from the film after she marries Sandy and he, egged on by Jonathan, drifts into mid-life affairs. Bobbie's entrapment into Jonathan's world leads to a failed suicide attempt, after which she, too, vanishes from the story. Feiffer and Nichols never make it clear whether their film is a satire on sex in modern society or just a particularly bleak story about unhappy people.

[the-forest-library]

July 2021 Reads

Any Way the Wind Blows - Rainbow Rowell

Playing the Palace - Paul Rudnick

My Contrary Mary - Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

Much Ado About You - Samantha Young

Good Riddance - Elinor Lipman

Gray Hair Don't Care - Karen Booth

Lycanthropy & Other Chronic Illnesses - Kristen O'Neal

Only Mostly Devastated - Sophie Gonzales

Cool for the Summer - Dahlia Adler

We Can't Keep Meeting Like This - Rachel Lynn Solomon

The Girl's I've Been - Tess Sharpe

Good Girl, Bad Blood - Holly Jackson

The Naturals - Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Cousins - Karen M. McManus

The Cheerleaders - Kara Thomas

Timeless - Gail Carriger

The Curious Case of the Werewolf that Wasn't - Gail Carriger

Mistborn - Brandon Sanderson

Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks & Scones - Ngozi Ukazu

My Little Golden Book about Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Shana Corey

May B - Caroline Starr Rose

I am Jazz - Jessica Herthel & Jazz Jennings

Brat: An 80s Story - Andrew McCarthy

Girl Walks into a Bar - Rachel Dratch

The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell - W. Kamau Bell

Well-Read Black Girl - Glory Edim

Shrill - Lindy West

Shit, Actually - Lindy West

Grammar Girl's Quick & Dirty Tips for Better Writing - Mignon Fogarty

Bold = Highly Recommend Italics = Worth It Crossed out = Nope

Thoughts: No matter what other books I read this month, it would be dominated by Any Way the Wind Blows. I really loved how it wrapped up the series and was so pleased with how this journey ended for the characters. My Contrary Mary was a lovely trip back into the world of Ethians. And I laughed out loud throughout all of Shit, Actually. It was hilarious and dragged movies relentlessly (even though I can't agree with her on The Fugitive - Ralph Fiennes deserved the Oscar that went to Tommy Lee Jones, and I have never gotten over it).

Goodreads Goal: 164/100

2017 Reads | 2018 Reads | 2019 Reads | 2020 Reads | 2021 Reads

[concerthopperblog]

I Hope You Had the Time of your Life, Kade Martin

Kade Martin, 25, of Chattanooga, Tennessee died Sunday, November 22, 2020 in Woodstock, GA tragically taken by an impaired driver.

Kade was born on April 23, 1995, in Chattanooga to Lt. Gary R. and Lisa (McDowell) Martin.

They graduated from East Hamilton High School. Kade graduated with honors from Chattanooga State Community College with an Associate’s Degree in Journalism. 

They were a Community Manager for High Road Craft Ice Cream, where they even had a hand in creating a signature flavor for GRiZ - DJ, songwriter, and electronic producer. 

Kade’s creativity, love of live music, and talent for writing and photography made them an asset to ConcertHopper.com. For the website, Kade interviewed artists such as Cherub and Maddy O'Neal, and covered music festivals and concerts such as Suwannee Hulaween. Kade also combined their love of food and music festivals to create and manage ConcertHopper.com’s Bars & Bites column.

ConcertHopper.com will be setting up a memorial Music Festival/Music Camp Scholarship in Kade’s honor. With this scholarship they hope to give someone the opportunity to experience the joy and community that Kade felt while enjoying music. The fundraising and application process will begin early in 2021.

Kade was an active supporter of and participant in the arts, especially photography. Kade was a gifted guitarist. They were plucked from the crowd two different times while seeing their favorite band, Green Day in concert.The second time they took the stage, they actually played guitar with Green Day!

They enjoyed cooking and sharing food with others. They also enjoyed hiking, camping and kayaking.

Kade was the loudest cheerleader for everyone lucky enough to call them a friend. Kade carried the spirit of Camp Kulabunga with them everywhere after attending in 2019. Camp Kulabunga is focused on creating a safe space of radical inclusion, community, self-empowerment, and wellness.

They are survived by their parents, Lt. Gary R. and Lisa Martin; grandparents, Judy and Melvin McDowell of Chattanooga, and Frances Jenkins of Chattanooga; aunts, Karen McDowell of Ooltewah, Karen (Glenn) Gass of Chattanooga, and Debra (Lonnie) Essex of Virginia; an uncle, Lt. Brian McDowell of Chattanooga; and her cousins, Drew, Ashlyn, and Abbey McDowell, Nicholas Gass, and Cassie Essex.

They also leave behind their best friend, Austin Adderholt, two cats, Fink and Nala, and a chosen family of Camp Kulabunga campers, concert hoppers, and artists all over the country.

Kade is preceded in death by their great-grandparents, Cynthia Tripp, James Monroe Tripp, and Willie McVeigh; and their grandfather, Ray Jenkins.

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[thatsmovietalk]

Just Pinned to Jack Nicholson: Jack Nicholson and Cynthia O'Neal in Carnal Knowledge (1971) http://bit.ly/2HW1o3X

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Little Darlings (1980) dir. by Ronald F. Maxwell

[jacknicholsonfansclub1]

#CarnalKnowledge @mgm_studios Cast #JackNicholson as Jonathan Candice Bergen as Susan Art Garfunkel as Sandy Ann-Margret as Bobbie Rita Moreno as Louise Cynthia O'Neal as Cindy Carol Kane as Jennifer Produced and directed by Mike Nichols #movie #review by Roger Ebert July 6, 1971 Mike Nichols' "Carnal Knowledge" opens on a darkened screen, and we hear the traditional Glenn Miller arrangement of "Moonlight Serenade." And then we hear two young men earnestly talking of young women, and sex, and their ambitions in those two directions. Advertisement We learn that the first young man hopes to meet a high-class girl, one with morals, who will tell him things he never knew about himself. We learn that the second young man wants exactly that kind of girl too, only with big boobs. And then... from http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/carnal-knowledge-1971 #photo #mr #nicholson #set