#David starsky the man you are

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Fourth MLM Ship Bracket Propaganda Submissions

Below you will find all of the submitted and approved ships for the Fourth MLM Ship Bracket Tournament along with the form to submit further propaganda at the bottom

This is another opportunity to submit propaganda for your favorite ships. Wether you were unable to submit propaganda for them in the initial form or you spot your favorite ship who has no propaganda submitted. Ships with a strikethrough have propaganda submitted, I will continue to update this post as propaganda is submitted. I will accept further propaganda for ships with already submitted propaganda but please prioritize those with out.

The goal is to have propaganda for all ships but I understand that may not be possible. Therefore I will be leaving the form open for a few weeks to see if we receive propaganda for at least half the ships.

Note: Please reach out to me if you spot any mistakes in character or fandom names, even if it is only formatting or spelling issues.

Monkey D. Luffy/Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)

Kyojuro Rengoku/Akaza (Demon Slayer)

Mikhail”Misha” [Heavy]/Dr. Ludwig [Medic] (Team Fortress 2)

Dave Strider/Karkat Vantas (Homestuck)

Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng (Guardian, 2018)

Oliver Marks/James Farrow (If We Were Villains)

David Starsky/Kenneth "Hutch" Hutchinson (Starsky & Hutch)

Tinn/Gun (My School President)

Loki Odinson/Mobius M. Mobius (Loki)

Jaime Reyes/Bart Allen (DC Comics)

Levi Schmitt/Nico Kim (Grey's Anatomy)

Ren Amamiya or Akira Kurusu/Goro Akechi (Persona 5)

Wallace Price/ Hugo Freeman (Under the Whispering Door)

Daffy Duck/Bugs Bunny (Looney Toons)

Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan (Guardian, 2018)

Isak Valtersen/Even Bech Næsheim (SKAM)

Henry "Monty" Montague/Percy Newton (Montague Siblings)

Nico di Angelo/Will Solace (Camp Half-Blood Chronicles)

Argos/Mr. Plant (The World of Mr. Plant)

Richard St Vier/Alec Campion (Swordspoint Universe)

Klaus Hargreeves/Dave Katz (The Umbrella Academy)

Woody/Buzz Lightyear (Toy Story)

Victor Lawson/Hap (In the Lives of Puppets

Charlie/Babe (Pit Babe The Series)

Fred/Shaggy (Scooby-Doo)

Simon Snow/Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Grimm-Pitch (Carry On)

Gaius Octavius/Jedediah Smith (Night at the Museum)

Sound/Win (My School President)

Pat/Pran (Bad Buddy)

Mike Wazowski/James "Sulley" P. Sullivan (Monsters, Inc.)

Nicholas “Nick” Bell/ Seth Gray (The Extraordinaries)

Evan 'Buck' Buckley/Edmundo 'Eddie' Diaz (9-1-1)

Sean/White (Not Me: The Series)

Vegas Theerapanyakun/Pete Saengtham (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Runaan/Ethari (The Dragon Prince)

Larry Daley/Ahkmenrah (Night at the Museum)

Tintin/Captain Archibald Haddock (Tintin comics)

Bai Lang/Jin Xun An (My Tooth Your Love)

Napoleon Solo/Illya Kuryakin (The Man from U.N.C.L.E)

Wario/Waluigi (Mario franchise)

Peter Parker/Miguel O'Hará (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse)

Steve Rogers/Anthony "Tony" Stark (Marvel Comics)

Dave Miller/Jack "Old sport" Kennedy (Dayshift at Freddy's)

Boston/Nick (Only Friends)

Kinn Theerapanyakun/Porsche Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Satoru Gojo/Suguru Geto (Jujutsu Kaisen)

Craig Cuttlefish/Octavio Takowasa (Splatoon)

Tulio/Miguel (The Road to El Dorado)

Sun Wukong/Neptune Vasilias (RWBY)

Zachary Ezra Rawlins/Dorian (The Starless Sea)

Fox Mulder/Alex Krycek (The X-Files)

Thomas/Newt (The Maze Runner)

Fulgrim/Ferrus Manus (Warhammer 40k)

Kim Theerapanyakun/Porchay Kittisawasd (Kinnporsche: The Series)

Alec Lightwood/Magnus Bane (The Mortal Instruments)

Tan/Bun (Manner of Death)

Qrow Branwen/Clover Ebi (RWBY)

Rhy Maresh/Alucard Emery (Shades of Magic)

Yashiro Isana/Kuroh Yatogami (K Project)

Jaskier/Geralt of Rivia (The Witcher)

Dustfinger/Mortimer "Mo" Folchart (Inkworld series)

Brandon/Sky (Winx Club)

Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum/Phillip Carlyle (The Greatest Showman)

Alfred Hillinghead/Henry Ashe (Bodies TV Show)

Baal/Inanna (The Wicked + the Divine)

Timothy "Tim" Drake/Bernard Dowd (DC Comics)

Vash the Stampede/Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun Stampede)

Anthony Lockwood/Quill Kipps (Lockwood and Co)

Henry Winter/Francis Abernathy (The Secret History)

Crowley/Aziraphale (Good Omens)

Dainix/Falst (Aurora Comic)

Prince Rupert/Prince Amir (The Two Princes)

Finn/Poe Dameron (Star Wars)

Jean Luc Picard/Q (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Will Stronghold/Warren Peace (Sky High)

Heart/Li Ming (Moonlight Chicken)

Wallace Wells/Todd Ingram (Scott Pilgrim Takes Off)

Sunai/Veyadi Lut (The Archive Undying)

Linus Baker/Arthur Parnassus (The House in the Cerulean Sea)

Aaron Slaughter/Jace Boucher (House of Slaughter)

Hercule Poirot/Captain Arthur Hastings (Hercule Poirot)

Phaya/Tharn (The Sign)

Hercules/Iolaus (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys)

Todd/Black (Not Me: The Series)

Julio "Rictor" Esteban Richter/Shatterstar (Marvel Comics)

Wen Kexing/Zhou Zishu (Word of Honor)

Siffrin/Isabeau (In Stars and time)

Kendall Knight/Logan Mitchell (Big Time Rush TV Show)

Yuichiro Hiyakuya/Mikaela Hyakuya (Owari no Seraph/Seraph of the End)

Palm/Nuengdiao (Never Let Me Go)

Khatha/Dome (Midnight Museum)

Asterix/Obelix (Asterix Comics)

Bowser/Luigi (Mario Franchise)

Lucien "Luc" O'Donnell/Oliver Blackwood (London Calling)

Kazuki Kurusu/Rei Suwa (Buddy Daddies)

Benjamin “Ben” Tennyson/Kevin Ethan Levin (Ben 10: Alien Force)

Lumière/Cogsworth (Beauty and the Beast)

Damian Wayne/Jon Kent (DC Comics)

Spy/Dell Conagher [Engineer] (Team Fortress 2)

Shanks/Buggy (One Piece)

Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Ecks (Six of Crows)

Harold Finch/John Reese (Person of Interest)

Ulrich Stern/Odd Della Robbia (Code Lyoko)

Vincent Freeman/Jerome Morrow (Gattaca)

Eustass Kid/Killer (One Piece)

Christopher Hitchcock/Jalil Sherman (Everworld)

Frodo Baggins/Samwise Gamgee (Lord of the Rings)

Edgin Darvis/Xenk Yendar (Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves)

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

Miami Vice S1E8: No Exit

Bruce Willis plays one of the sleaziest villains in all of Vice, directed by David Soul.

One of my favorite early episodes-- this is definitely a good candidate for trying to convince someone to watch Miami Vice. Fair warning that it’s fairly upsetting!

While Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) directs 3 episodes of Vice, David Soul (Hutch) only did this one. PMG’s episodes are brisk, sarcastic, and laden with visual metaphor. This episode from Soul is dark, contemplative, and artistically spare. Both directors, however, use music absolutely beautifully, and seem to understand the almost visceral connection between Sonny and Rico, even this early in the series. It’s a shame we never got another Soul episode, but this one is damn good.

I love that Tubbs mentions that he is scared of machine guns, because it’s something that sets him apart from the other men in the department. He’s willing to admit his weaknesses and fear and isn’t as wrapped up in the I’m-the-toughest-cop-here machismo bullshit. His ability to be a little more honest with himself is almost certainly a protective factor in terms of why he doesn’t crash and burn quite as badly as the other characters over the course of the show.

Poor Lester the bug man. Lester is one of those early Vice characters who was clearly intended to be recurring, but he mostly spends the beginning of this episode trying to explain how his tools work while Tubbs is like “shut up I’m creepily looking at ladies through a telescope” again. Jesus, Tubbs.

Sonny and Rico are so fucking mean to Paul, the FBI agent who is supposed to be going undercover. Sonny jokes that the guy “must’ve taken drama in high school” and Rico patronizingly says that he “thinks they’ll handle it.” Then they proceed to send Rico, who has like 3 months of inconsistent undercover work under his belt, and whose Jamaican accent occasionally sounds Transylvanian, to do the job instead. Great work, boys.

God. Just-- the way Sonny is simultaneously truly, genuinely, and deeply concerned about Rita and wants to get her out of Tony’s grasp, and yet in the next breath he’s utterly manipulating her so Vice can use her. “Can you do that, Rita?,” he asks her, looking desperate and mournful, “Can you buy us some time?” It’s so goddamn bald-faced. You wonder if he justifies it to himself-- he has to make her do this to save her-- or if he just goes home hating himself that night because he knows what a bastard he was for even asking.

The sequence that follows is utterly wrenching. Tony offers Rita earrings, and when she doesn’t react with the level of excitement (fawning?) he was hoping for, he slowly stalks her down the spare, white hall and then slaps her so hard she falls to the ground. It’s a repetition of the same slow, white-backgrounded violence from the interrogation scene in Calderone’s Return pt. 2; it’s shot and framed like Tony is a horror movie monster; it’s set to the tinkly, synthy, shmaltzy strains of Stay with Me by Teddy Pendergrass. The intentional musical mismatch makes it all the more painful to watch; the age-old excuse that abuse comes from love or the fear of losing the victim’s affection falls apart when a love song is juxtaposed with such stark violence.

I think it’s very telling that Sonny’s call to Rita after he witnesses this (and, rightly, blames himself for it happening) is shot with him standing in almost exactly the same way at the exact same kind of payphone as when he calls Caroline in the pilot. In both cases, he’s calling theoretically to offer some kind of support or reassurance, but in actuality appears to need reassurance himself. He wants Caroline’s confirmation that she did love him once; he wants Rita’s forgiveness. Sonny’s ongoing issue with women comes from the same place as his issues with his self-esteem; he sees himself as a hired weapon at worst and a protector of the innocent at best. When he fails to protect someone, especially a woman or a child, his self-image starts to collapse. He doesn’t believe he’s good for anything else-- so in S1, he asks those he’s failed for reassurance that he is still a good protector. In later seasons, he just believes he really isn’t good for anything.

Sonny: Well, time for you to go to jail / Tony: No one can ever make me go to jail / Random government agent: Yeah uhh so we use him for proxy wars in the Southern Hemisphere, you know how it is with the US government and guns and cocaine and something something contras, so uh, yeah, he can go free

....but Miami Vice definitely is just about speedboats, right

I consider the ending of this to be the most classic/the “ur” Miami Vice Freeze Frame ending. It’s perfect, because like. Yeah, sure, there could be a denouement, but... why bother? There’s nothing that can be said that hasn’t already been said, and nothing that can fix what has happened that wouldn’t utterly undermine the themes of the story. It just sucks! The system is corrupt! They failed because they were set up to fail! You can’t fix the justice system from inside the justice system! This is the theme of the series in one abrupt freeze!

Okay. Okay. So. If Don Johnson is to be believed, he got Bruce Willis either the role or the audition for the role here. And he knew him because Bruce Willis was a waiter at a restaurant he liked. Not to put my tinfoil hat on or anything, but I find it utterly hilarious that Phillip Michael Thomas and not Don “hey boss, I need you to give a job to this hot talented waiter I know” Johnson has a scene here where he and Bruce Willis feel each other up in a men’s room. Look up photos of DJ and Bruce Willis from the 80′s. Look at DJ’s face and tell me I’m wrong.

[itwoodbeprefect]

there is, apparently, a 1982 miniseries entitled word war III starring rock hudson as us president and david soul as an army colonel, and then also dutch actor JEROEN KRABBÉ as a SOVIET AGENT and a) this sounded so fake to me for about five minutes that i had to wonder. is this real??? am i falling for a goncharov???, b) this collection of actors somehow makes sense at the same time as feeling utterly impossible to me, and finally c) a dutch actor??? as soviet agent, aka a russian??? i have no idea what sort of accent krabbé threw at this role, but i'm imagining another starsky & hutch body worth guarding monique van de ven disaster, and somehow david soul is the connective thread here. david soul what's up man. why do you carry around a curse that makes film and television productions hire dutch actors to play russians, and how do i help you lift it

[ao3feed-starsky-hutch]

Love Button

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/QPdwCHR by cmsprite79 Hutch has lost a button. Apparently, this is cause for great consternation. Words: 881, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Starsky & Hutch Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Ken Hutchinson, David Starsky Relationships: Ken Hutchinson/David Starsky Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hutch loses it, but he finds it again so it’s okay, Stress Release, men crying well one man anyway, first kiss? you decide, Declarations Of Love, Pre-Slash, caring Starsky, unexplained metaphors, It’s The Simple Things, Schmoop, Post S04E22 Sweet Revenge read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/QPdwCHR

[docrotten]

HORROR MOVIE NEWS for January 9, 2024 – Frankenstein, Wolf Man, Dreyfuss, and more!

Welcome back to HNR season three as Doc and Dave cover the weekly HORROR MOVIE NEWS on Gruesome Magazine. This week, we have news about Guillermo del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN, Blumhouse’s upcoming WOLF MAN, Richard Dreyfuss returning to the shark movie genre, and more. Please let us know which news item interests you the most and, please, like and subscribe. Every click will help us find more horror fans just like you!

HORROR MOVIES NEWS for JANUARY 9, 2024

Blumhouse and Universal add Julia Garner to WOLF MAN opposite Christopher Abbott

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/julia-garner-wolf-man-christopher-abbott-blumhouse-universal-1235862813/

Jacob Elordi replaces Andrew Garfield in Guillermo Del Toro’s FRANKENSTEIN for NETFLIX

https://deadline.com/2024/01/jacob-elordi-frankenstein-guillermo-del-toro-1235697452/

RIP David Soul star of SALEM’S LOT and STARSKY & HUTCH

https://deadline.com/2024/01/david-soul-dies-starsky-hutch-star-80-1235695784/

Richard Dreyfuss heads off another great white in INTO THE DEEP

https://thedailyjaws.com/blog/jaws-actor-richard-dreyfuss-heads-into-the-deep-in-new-shark-film

As Steamboat Willie enters public domain, prepare for MICKEY’S MOUSE TRAP

https://deadline.com/2024/01/mickey-mouse-horror-movie-trailer-mickeys-mouse-trap-1235693579/

A New Exorcism movie coming our way titled SHADOW OF GOD

https://deadline.com/2024/01/terrifier-coven-exorcist-horror-movie-shadow-god-mark-obrien-jacqueline-byers-1235695694/

Check out this episode!

[husky-and-starch]

So, I was doing that thing I do—you know, thinking about Starsky and Hutch—and my friend was fixating on Eddie Munson again and something has come to my attention.

Ken Hutchinson and Steve Harrington:

Hutch is a High School jock who’s had some kind of fall from grace. He works with/is best friends with a queer person and his hair get mentioned a lot. He’s known as a pretty boy. He’s been in dangerous situation after dangerous situation and he’s come out on top almost every time. Hutch also has a problem with adopting kids; he hasn’t the time but he just can’t help himself. He’s had this problem since he was in high school.

Steve is a High School jock who fell from grace. He works with and is best friends with a queer person and his hair is mentioned a lot. He’s known as a pretty boy. He’s been in dangerous situation after dangerous situation and he’s come out on top almost every time. Steve has a problem adopting kids which all started in high school.

David Starsky and Eddie Munson:

Starsky has never once sat in a chair correctly. He’s also a little weird, sometimes people are unsettled by his presence but most people who know him well are fond of him. He is a very fruity man with naturally curly hair. He’s had real chemistry with only one (1) woman and she died. Lots of colleagues don’t like him for various reasons; some think death follows him. He’s been hunted and wanted dead. Has almost died.

Eddie probably doesn’t sit in chairs correctly. He’s a little weird, people are unsettled by his presence but most people who know him well are fond of him. He’s a very fruity man with long naturally curly hair. He’s had real chemistry with only one (1) woman and she died. Most of his peers don’t like him for various reasons; some think he’s a killer. He’s been hunted and wanted dead. Has died/almost died.

Stutch and Steddie:

Stutch is a ship between the mom friend and the 0 personal space gay uncle friend. They have like 5 kids and will likely have more. They solve mysteries together and have almost died together. Saving each other’s life many times.

Steddie is a ship between the mom friend and the 0 personal space gay uncle friend. They have like 6 kids and will likely have more. They solve mysteries together and have almost died a lot. They’ve saved each other’s lives.

Closing statement: they’re gay your honor

[marley-manson]

☕ Starsky and Hutch (and the 2004 movie if you've seen it and are feeling bold)

Thank you!

The Show:

It's a 70s cop show, the plots can occasionally be somewhat entertaining but they are fundamentally mediocre copaganda. The reason the show is worth watching at all is 100% the actors and their chemistry and the Starsky and Hutch relationship, and it's totally worth watching for that.

Liiiike it’s impossible to overstate their homoerotic vibe, normies in the 70s noticed it. Hutch said they’re basically a gay couple in the gay episode. There’s no heterosexual explanation for the ending of Starsky VS Hutch. But like it’s also in every single episode, there’s always something worth watching when they’re on screen because their vibe is just so constantly affectionately close, give or take season 4, which compensates for the somewhat strained vibe by basically inviting a gay explanation for it.

I was never that into it in a fandom way, like I read some fic but not a whole lot, but I watched every episode at least twice back in the day because it’s just so delightful. Also the sheer number of fanficcy hurt/comfort plots in the show needs to be seen to be believed lol.

The movie:

Oh man I did watch it like back in 2007 or something, but I barely remember it. I remember thinking that it was a little funny but mostly kind of obnoxious. I wasn't a big fan of the, yk, mid 00s-style gay jokes. I did enjoy that they homaged the gay beach photoshoot lol, they did their homework there. Paul Michael Glasier and David Soul's cameo was cute.

send me a ☕️ and a topic and i’ll talk about how i feel about it

[ocw-archive]

'STARSKY' PREMIERE GETS PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT OWEN WILSON'S 'SINGING' (2004)

LOS ANGELES ��� So how does Owen Wilson's take on "Don't Give Up on Us Baby," a hit for original "Hutch" David Soul, compare to the '70s original?

"There's no comparison," his "Starsky & Hutch" co-star Ben Stiller reported at the movie's premiere Thursday, "because Owen Wilson, first of all, just to get his voice even close to on key, they had to put him through one of those computers and he broke two of them."

"David Soul has a great voice, and I have a terrible voice," Owen admitted. "I mean, you can't even call it a 'terrible voice,' because it's just incredibly tuneless."

"And then, of course, when he sings the song, there's almost a soullessness in his eyes," Stiller added, speaking specifically of the scene in the movie where Wilson picks up a guitar and belts out the sappy tune. "It's almost as if 'The Manchurian Candidate' was singing to you. He's just not really a very charismatic singer and he doesn't really sing in tune, either, so the whole thing is sort of a disaster."

Nevertheless, the tune will find its way onto the soundtrack for the movie, a comedy take on the classic 1970s cop show, written and directed by "Old School" mastermind Todd Phillips (see "Big Collars And Even Bigger Pimpin' On The Set Of 'Starsky & Hutch'").

"I almost got more excited about [being on the soundtrack] than my salary," Wilson joked. "I was like, 'I'm gonna get residuals? Whoa, how much can I get?!' That's the thing I've latched onto the most."

Snoop Dogg, who provided one of his own cars to the filmmakers in order to bring that "extra flavor" to street informant Huggy Bear (see "Snoop Plans To Outdo Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' Video"), isn't sweating having competition with the film's music. "It's sharp, it's slick, you know what I'm saying? I can dig that," he said of the track. "There ain't no limit to what he can do. Owen is the man. I've liked him in everything he's done."

"Snoop was great to work with," Wilson reciprocated. "I became good friends with Snoop and especially good friends with his spiritual advisor, Don 'Magic' Juan. In fact, he gave me a big gold diamond chalice for champagne that has my name in diamonds or rhinestones on the side."

Another person at the premiere in a unique position to judge Wilson's musical abilities (or apparent lack thereof) was Carmen Electra, who has a small part in the movie. After all, she is married to a rock star. "Owen Wilson was so adorable, he worked so hard on that song," she said. "Just to watch him actually sing it, and he played guitar, sort of, it was sweet. It was cute."

"I plan to burn CDs of it and put it out on my own label," joked her beau, Dave Navarro. "It's phenomenal."

Wilson admitted he was nervous to have the original Hutch hear his take on "Don't Give Up on Us Baby," or for that matter, see him reprising the role he loved as a kid on television.

"It's like him playing Abraham Lincoln or something," joked his brother, Luke. "It's pretty cool. [David Soul]'s definitely a guy we grew up watching. It's pretty funny to see Owen playing Hutch."

Stiller was visibly nervous standing next to both of the show's original actors, who he had just learned hadn't yet seen the movie. "I was wondering why they were so friendly when I first saw them," he laughed as he made his way down a red carpet that also welcomed Vince Vaughn, Juliette Lewis, Jon Favreau and Rachel Bilson of "The O.C."

"The humor in the movie comes out in Owen and I attempting to be as cool as they originally were in the show," Stiller pointed out. "Hopefully they'll see that and understand that we couldn't be who they are, because they just have a natural thing. And we did our natural thing."

"Starsky & Hutch" hits theaters March 5.

[zandracourt]

I’ve been reflecting a lot on Cas’ recent confession of love and the responses I’ve been seeing across tumblr and Twitter. As a Destiel fic writer, I am thrilled to see this become canon and as a queer woman, also really touched to see how much Misha has embraced this as a really significant thing. I already ordered my Only Love merch. So I’m content with it all as much as it is. SPN has never made queer representation its issue. SPN *has* responded to its fanbase, who have both pushed the importance of representation and also brought the actors into a realm of growth over queer issues that they may never have come to without this show and this fandom. For that reason, I don’t think it’s helpful to be mad at Jensen or the Showrunners for Destiel not being perfect. You don’t have to celebrate them as allies, but the anger and vitriol just doesn’t help, in my opinion.

BUT...where my thoughts have been going is around what it means to be an actor in a ‘ship and what the impact of the story has on the actors, the fandom, and the constant dance of who controls the story because I think this has been something that even with straight characters has had serious impacts on how fans feel about an ending.

My first fandom, Starsky & Hutch, was mostly written by a gay man who wrote “straight” characters because that was what they had to be in 1974. The characters and show plots were such that the actors felt the love underneath the words and acted accordingly. Back then, it wasn’t so much queer baiting as queer coding. I find it amazing that my parents never thought for a minute Starsky and Hutch were gay, but even as a 7 year old, I knew they were in love and saw them that way. And anyone who watches the show now, it’s so clear that it’s almost laughable. When their show won the Peopel’s Choice award in 1977, David Soul said in his acceptance speech that the best part of being on this show was that people saw two men who “could be anything”. He knew that queer folk read their characters as gay and that straight folks saw them as straight and he was happy for both to be true. While the show never had an explicitly romantic declaration, the characters held hands, hugged, and in the final episode, their final scene is Hutch crawling into Starsky’s hospital bed with him, something done with amusement, but was completely coded to mean something else. It was never “canon”, but the ‘ship has lasted 46 years with new fic being written even now.

In the new SW films, actor Oscar Isaac was not at all quiet about his feelings that his character, Poe Dameron, was in love with Finn. He stated he played him that way (and was not directed otherwise) and he even explicitly asked for that ship to be made canon. He was told no and that is not how the story ended. The romance plot was instead focused on two other characters. Some fans liked that. Many didn’t. In general, though, the story is open-ended enough that shippers could have Stormpilot be their ship and there is nothing that really contradicts that. In that scenario, Oscar had his sense of who this character was and felt strongly about that, but in the end, it wasn’t his story, so the ending was what it was.

Hawai’i Five-0 ended its 10 year run last spring. Actor Scott Caan said in an interview during the show’s 5-year mark that he wanted to see his charcter have a romantic story line with his other lead, Steve McGarrett. And while Scott did not go so far as Oscar Isaac did to say he made his acting choices based on that, watching him and Alex play their characters, there was definitely some intention to show their characters as loving one another. Actor Alex O’Loughlin voiced a few times over the years that he felt his character would not get back together with Catherine, a woman his character was on-again, off-again with, because he felt Steve had reached his limit with what Catherine had done to him. The series made a decision to end with Steve leaving Hawai’i behind and flying away with Catherine. Neither actor has commented much about the show’s ending, but clearly it went against what both actors had publicly expressed in the past. Again, they don’t control the story, but they do understand their characters after playing them for so many years and they are invested in that. In that sense, the actor’s subsequent silence about how the show ended says quite a bit. And McDanno fans were very unsatisfied with the show’s ending, myself included.

So we come to Destiel. Over the years, this ship has been very controversial in part because one actor (Misha) has clearly been OK with his character being perceived as being in love with Dean, while the other actor (Jensen) has not. At times he has been very negative about it, and that has been taken by some fans to imply how Jensen feels about homosexuality in general. I’m not convinced it does, but I understand why people feel that way. Over the 12 years since Cas’ introduction on the show, there clearly has been a shift from the writers and showrunners avoiding the topic entirely, to talking about it, and now to having Cas confess his feelings of love to Dean in canon. In the days since, Misha has been unequivocal in saying Cas is romantically in love with Dean and that he has played him that way, at least for this season and likely longer. Misha is proud that he was able to advocate for Cas to be gay and he clearly understands why it is important for the show to have made this choice. For Jensen’s part, however, he has stated he has not played Dean that way and from video clips of him talking about the show’s ending, it appears that he needed some convincing to accept this as the story. To his credit though, once he was convinced that this was something show creator (Eric Kripke) could envision as part of Dean’s character arc, he was on-board with this ending and feels statisfied with it. And I think some of the frustration folks feel stems from both in how the actors portrayed their characters and in which takes were chosen to be in the final cuts of episodes. In that way, the show has fed this ship, whether the actors realized it or not, and that is why Destiel has felt particularly painful at times. The fanbase has been gaslighted for seeing it at all (from actors and showrunners) while the directors have seemed to go out of their way to choose shots where the actor’s choices were more tender and affectionate and write lines where characters make explicit statements about Dean and Cas as romantic. I can’t help but wonder if Jensen really didn’t see Dean as being in love with Cas, but that we saw Jensen’s own affinity for Misha bleed through in their incredible chemsitry together or if Jensen has just been in denial of this ‘ship having teeth for his own personal reasons. I don’t know and so far, he hasn’t been willing to talk about that. Maybe he will once it’s over. Maybe he won’t and I’m not going to be angry with him for it. He’s an incredible actor and he’s lived this character for 15 years, so he has a right to who he believed Dean is and isn’t.

The issues of representation continue to be pressing and what I see happening with Destiel and these other ‘ships is exciting because it shows growth on all sides. We have audiences able to voice not only how they perceive characters without shame but can express a desire for characters to be together. None of that is new for straight characters, but it is for queer characters. We have actors who not only can see these same things, but feel enough ownership of their characters to expresss what they believe their characters would do or feel. And we have showrunners who are going to make their story, sometimes in response to feedback from their fans and actors, and sometimes in spite of it.

What Destiel becoming canon gives me hope for is that as new shows come into being, characters that take off, actors who have unexpected chemistry, and ‘ships that gain a life of their own, will lead to shows that are less inclined to care if those ships are queer or not and just go with what fans respond to. That it will normalize that people can (and do) come out an all different times of life, even after being het-married, having kids, or presenting as straight to everyone else for 40 years. That it will reflect that sometimes, it’s not about having been queer or straight from the beginning, but be about that ONE relationship that just is different, special, or grows into a deep love regardless of the genders of the people. I hope we can get to a place where deep intimacy between same-gender characters doesn’t have to be a war over romance vs. platonic and the story can just develop without the pressure of representation because queer characters will be so prevalent that we don’t have to feel like we must cling so tightly to every one we get. I hope we can come to a place where sometimes relationships don’t go romantic because one person (regardless of gender) just doesn’t feel that way, because that is very fucking true in real life. I want to watch shows where the sexual identity of any character doesn’t have to be etched in stone from the word go, never to change ever because that’s boring and limiting, and honestly, not real life.

I am deeply grateful for actors like Isaac, Caan, and Collins who are willing to see characters outside the heteronormative lens and to advocate for queer romantic arcs. I’m thankful to showrunners who are making shows with greater queer representation than ever before. And I’m grateful to actors like Ackles, who while it wasn’t who he thought his character was, was able to expand his view enough to go where the story was going to go. The arc of the universe does bend towards justice, and we will get there. Until then, there’s fic. And thank God for that.

[glennmillerorchestra]

i was tagged by the fantastic maddie @horaetio to answer these fun little questions! let's see what i've got to say this time around :)

favorite color: at the moment, i'm having an intense lavender and soft green phase! they're very calming colors to me, and go so nicely together

currently reading: i'm re-reading alan alda's things i overheard while talking to myself in print, because i never feel like i get the full experience reading e-books! great read btw, highly recommend

last song: i don't want to tell you all that it was, in fact, black bean soup by david soul. i am a woman tormented by a country folk song about food and love sung by a blonde man!

last series: technically, it's starsky & hutch, because i've been cherry picking episodes to watch with some friends, but i'm also currently watching the first season of columbo!

last movie: i watched the love witch (2016) because i've been meaning to for years! i thought it was gorgeous, very beautifully and methodically shot and designed, but i do think it dragged at some parts. it also gave me serious mephisto waltz energy which means i might have to do a double feature on halloween...

sweet, savory or spicy: recently, spicy! i've been on a big gochujang kick, and i have a tendency to add sriracha and/or cholula hot sauce to any and all foods

craving: middle eastern pickled turnips which may sound like a weird craving to have, but i just really miss eating them straight out of the jar like i did as a kid at my grandparents' house (and they're absolutely delicious)

tea or coffee: wholeheartedly tea. i barely drink coffee, usually only in sips from friends' cups if i do. i had the nicest cup of vanilla rooibos tea the other day actually!

currently working on: far too much to be good for me. i am a little bit at the end of my rope, if i'm going to be honest! i have a big project i need to finish as soon as possible in order to submit it for review (by which i mean i have to finish my proposal), a couple work-related things on my plate, and altogether just a big pile of things i really am despairing to even start. creatively, i'd like to start writing a script for a short film i have in mind, but i have to get all the un-fun things out of the way first :( and fic wise! working on finishing up the mash noir fic i have going, and working slowly but steadily on a massive hawkeye-centric character study project that was probably an ambitious goal considering how bad i am at consistently writing

i would be delighted to hear many of my mutuals' answers to this, so i'll tag @crickelwood / @frogeye-pierce / @plaid-nightmares / @mashseason4 / @goatmilkoatmilk / and @freshfigs!

[scarletmanuka]

How about 1 & 13, any fandom? <3

1.First ship you remember

I didn't have any same sex ships until my thirties although I definitely thrilled to what would be regarded as shippy male interaction, such as Kirk and Spock, and Starsky and Hutch.

The first couples I remember being invested in as couples were Daniel and Kate Westin from the 1970s David McCallum Invisible Man, and Mark and Elizabeth from The Man From Atlantis when I was a wee teen Mab. The first slash ship I read was Blake/Avon. The first ship I read for slash was Bodie/Doyle. The first slash ship I wrote was Jim/Blair.

13.Most shippable character

I am so into character dynamics that I can't imagine a singly shippable character. When it comes to my pairings, there's got to be interaction. This isn't to say I don't have characters that I like outside of their pairing options. I just don't have a 'fandom bicycle' character.

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

You Should Watch Miami Vice:

A treatise on the most poorly-remembered show of the 80′s

If you’re like most people, when you hear Miami Vice outside the context of a bar, you picture the following: shoulder pads, speed boats, bikinis, and pink and teal pastel. You probably think about the worst excesses of the 1980′s, of a kind of cultural sinkhole where there was nothing cooler than Ray-Bans and masculine posturing.

However, much like Captain Kirk is (mis)remembered as a sleazy womanizer, and the first Rambo movie is (mis)remembered as a paean to how AWESOME KNIVES ARE, Miami Vice has been frozen in pop-culture memory as something it really isn’t. A funhouse mirror reflection of what it was actually all about.  Because the thing is: Miami Vice is good. Like, really good. 

At its core, it’s a show that is:

Well-written, with a coherent emotional and thematic arc across its seasons, despite being made before the era of arc-based TV

Incredibly beautiful, with cinematography, directing, and musical/sound editing choices that literally changed the way television was produced

Deeply, sometimes painfully human, with main characters who are often wrong and/or make bad decisions with real consequences, and who often ‘lose’

And on top of that, it’s not really copaganda (no, really), and it’s pretty damn queer (yes, really.) It’s also an old-school episodic show, which means the characters have a ton of space to breathe and grow and be multi-faceted, and the production has room to experiment, both with technical stuff and the writing. There are episodes that are so deadly serious your mouth feels dry as the credits roll; there are weird, silly, fun episodes where utterly bonkers things happen; there are episodes that feel like David Lynch was moonlighting as director. It’s neo-noir, it’s magical realism, it’s a workplace comedy, it’s a treatise on how there’s no reforming unjust systems, it’s a love story about two men who refuse to grapple with the idea that they’re the most important thing in each other’s lives.

You should watch it. But let me keep trying to convince you, anyway.

Vice was the brainchild of Michael Mann and Anthony Yerkovitch, and in 1984, it looked and sounded like nothing else on TV. There’s an auteur touch to the majority of episodes-- not just a unified look, but a willingness to try things that worked in the movies on the small screen. When you watch a lot of shows from the early to mid 80′s, they look the same as shows from the 70′s-- en episode of Spenser for Hire could’ve been shot on the same day as an episode of Starsky and Hutch. People talk about the legacy of shows that led to our modern era of “prestige TV--” there’d have been no Sopranos without The Wire, etc-- but in a lot of ways, with its artistic, film-like framing, melancholic New Wave aesthetics, and abnormally high production values, Miami Vice is the grandpappy of all of them. 

The recurring cast is very small: for most of the show, it’s these seven characters. (No, I don’t know why this cast photo is posed like they’re at a wedding for someone they don’t seem to like very much. Literally all of the promo photos for this show look like terrible wedding or prom shoots.)

From the top left, we have Larry Zito (Hawaiian shirt) and Stan Switek (pink stripes); they’re initially the comic relief. They love Elvis and bicker like an old married couple, and as partners they get a lot of the surveillance jobs. They do not escape the show unscathed.

The two ladies are Gina Calabrese (blue belted dress) and Trudy Joplin (palm tree dress); I adore them and they are wonderful, and each of them gets a couple of solid episodes, but they aren’t always given the most spectacular scripts. Gina is both the sweetest, most naive member of the group and the one most likely to shoot first and ask questions later; Trudy is an expert researcher and cannot be arsed to do emotional labor for her dumb male colleagues.

The man in the black suit with the moustache is the squad’s lieutenant, Martin Castillo. Castillo doesn’t show up until episode six, and when he does the show’s whole tone kind of suddenly clicks into place. Castillo is weird. He speaks very little and blinks less; he makes eye contact with no one unless he is making so much eye contact it makes you want to bury yourself in the dirt. Also he’s maybe secretly a samurai?

Then we have the two assholes in front, our main characters: Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Sonny (white guy in spring green and lavendar, the kind of man who wears a sleeveless shirt under a blazer) is a career Miami cop with a history of unprocessed trauma, a conga line of dead friends and partners, a wife who is trying her best to divorce him, and a six year old son he has no idea how to parent but loves very deeply. Rico (Black guy in grey and white, the kind of man who wears a three piece suit in 98 degree weather with 100% humidity) is a New York transplant with a dead brother, an utterly bizarre sense of humor, the world’s worst taste in women, and a terminal need to fix every broken person he’s ever come across while also probably sleeping with them. Their relationship is the emotional core of the series. Neither of them is equipped to handle this.

Sonny is probably the worst-remembered part of the whole badly-remembered series. Pop culture positions him as a wise-cracking cowboy cop who drives too fast and lives even faster, when in reality mostly Sonny is just very depressed, very lonely, and almost certainly a self-hating closeted bisexual.

He is a sad, bitchy pretty boy who legitimately thinks the only thing he’s good for is waving a gun around, and he only drives his government-owned drug dealer Ferrari so fast because he’s trying to drive away from his feelings.

Vice is a five season show, and unfortunately, you’ll often see fans arguing about the seasons and whether or not you can or should skip any of them. Here’s the thing: it’s an episodic show from the 80′s. No matter how much Mann or any of the other showrunners tried to make it consistent across its runtime, that’s not really how TV works. 113 episodes does not a movie make. Because of this, each season does feel a bit different from prior seasons, and which season you prefer is going to depend a lot on your personal tastes. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t recommend skipping any of them-- when you do watch the show from the pilot to the finale, it really does feel like one coherent storyline.

Season 1: Many people’s favorite season. A good mixture of tragedy, comedy, mystery, etc. The first six episodes are still kind of “working things out” tonally, but the whole season is worth watching. My personal favorite S1 episode (Evan, the second to last of the season) isn’t available on all sources, but is an absolute must watch, especially in terms of providing context for understanding Sonny as a closeted queer man.

Season 2: My favorite season. The show has its footing and knows what it wants from its characters and its audience. I would argue that almost every episode of this season is a good one, and it’s thematically very consistent. (Also, I think, possibly the most “fun” season despite a lot of darkness?)

Season 3: Also a lot of people’s favorite season, although PERSONALLY I think of S3 as “the police brutality is good, actually” season. Dick Wolf (yes, that Dick Wolf) was the showrunner for this one, and he wanted it to be “grittier.” I think S3 is necessary for understanding Sonny and especially for understanding the relationship between Sonny and Rico, but it’s definitely the copaganda season.

Season 4: The season a lot of people feel you should skip, because it’s “too weird” or where the show jumped the shark. There are some... real strange episodes in this season, including one about aliens and another about cow semen. For real. I’ll be honest: I kind of love S4. It backpedals the grittiness and focuses more on the characters’ inner lives again, S4 also ends with a fantastic two part cliffhanger that is picked up at the beginning of S5.

Season 5: A truncated half-season with a couple of “lost” episodes that actually fit in before the finale. Season Five is sad. The fallout from the end of S4 is heavy, grim stuff, and S5 doesn’t shy away from showing how that has fucked everyone to hell and back. The finale of the show is thematically excellent and emotionally satisfying; while the show was cancelled, they wrapped it up successfully.

“Okay, fine,” you say, sipping the cafecito I handed you while I explained all of this, “so it’s not just about a cool guy in an Armani suit driving an Italian car really fast. But you mentioned it was gay? It still doesn’t sound very gay.”

Well. Let’s see.

There’s what should be a cringey “very special episode” about gay cops in 1984 that is instead one of the most heartfelt and upsetting episodes in the series. Never once does this episode no-homo the main characters, and in fact, men being able to touch each other is positioned as healing and necessary.

Sonny and Rico are the only people who think the other is funny. Their hands and eyes are on each other all the time. Rico used to watch Sonny’s college games on TV and remembers his number. They both repeatedly throw missions for each others’ sakes. They spend all of their time together. There’s an on-screen “I love you” (there’s a ‘man’ at the end but it rings like someone hedging his bets) and a few episodes later the character who received the I love you marries a random woman he literally met less than a week ago in what can only be described as the saddest and most desperate attempt to Not Be Gay Anymore ever caught on film. They cradle each others’ heads more than once. A song about “loving the boy with the pretty green eyes” plays in the background of a conversation they have about following each other to the end of the earth in the finale.

All.

these.

prom.

photo.

shoots.

  and whatever the fuck this is.

You finish your third cafecito, shaking slightly from the caffeine, trying to prevent me from handing you a fourth. “Fine,” you admit. “But I still need more convincing. I can’t just watch something that’s good and thematically whole and about two sad men in love. It needs to also have... have some kind of, I don’t know, je ne sais quoi about it. A little extra spice.” Your hand rattles the demitasse against the saucer as you speak.

I pull off my food service uniform to reveal that underneath, I’m dressed as a carnival barker.

WELL. LET ME TELL YOU, FRIEND, WE’VE GOT:

An absolutely golden 80′s soundtrack that is atmospheric, consistently used at pitch-perfect moments, and which has been preserved in its entirety without any licensing issues

A guest cast list that includes a ton of super fucking cool genre actors, musicians, poets, and other assorted famous people playing weird, fun roles (James Hong! Earth Kitt! Pam Grier! Frank Zappa! James Brown! ...G. Gordon Liddy!?) AND many of the future stars of the 90′s before they were famous (Bruce Willis! Julia Roberts! Liam Neeson! Helena Bonham Carter!)

Sonny has an actual pet alligator named Elvis. He lives on his boat and sometimes Sonny has to take him to the vet

Jai Alai

Rico is a vegetarian, which feels like a difficult thing to be in Miami in the 80′s

Izzy. Just. Izzy. The most perfect, most ridiculous, rat-bastard con man and wannabe poet, Izzy.

Episodes directed by both Starsky and Hutch

Sonny’s pathological need to put things in his mouth

Whatever is happening here:

I watch your face carefully for signs of acquiescence, but all the frothing at the mouth I’ve been doing has made it a bit hard to see through the foam. I assume you are convinced and hand you a seventh cafecito. You have not drank the fifth or the sixth. I will drink them when you leave, that’s fine.

MY JOB HERE IS DONE, I announce.

You ask me to elaborate on the whole “not copaganda” thing, trying to grab me by the candy-striped suspenders.

I can’t totally elaborate on that without spoiling a bunch of the show, but suffice to say: ultimately, Vice is about how you can’t change corrupt systems from the inside, that the police serve the rich and powerful, the function of vice cops is basically to create the illusion of order while letting the government quietly destabilize the countries the drugs are originally coming from, and that anyone who tries to be a “good cop” ends up eaten by the system, corrupt, or dead.

There’s some backpedaling on this in the middle of the series with the whole Dick Wolf thing (that man loves his fucking cops), and not every episode is totally consistent with its messaging, but season five definitely doubles down on “this is actually a bad system that really can’t be fixed.”

The show isn’t perfect (I mean. it’s still a cop show from the 80′s)-- it’s a product of its time, for better or for worse. But Miami Vice is really damn good. It’ll make your heart hurt in the best way possible. You will want, desperately, for Sonny to figure out that he’s worth something more than his career as a police officer. You’ll come out of it with a lot of feelings about Phil Collins. I think anyone who likes a good story about people has the potential to really fall in love with Vice-- I’ll admit I literally started watching it as a joke, and realized pretty quickly that everything I thought I knew about the show was wrong.

Satisfied with my answers, you try to leave.

I hit you with a plate of cocaine.

[tabloidtoc]

National Examiner, October 12

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: 50th Anniversary Tribute to The Partridge Family -- where are they now? 

Page 2: How the rich and famous protect themselves -- from beefy bodyguards to bulletproof mansions these celebs go the extra mile -- Pope Francis, Mark Zuckerberg, Beyonce and Jay-Z, Bill Gates 

Page 3: Queen Elizabeth, Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un, Floyd Mayweather Jr. 

Page 4: Richard Gere -- his style leaves us breathless -- he’s an officer, a gentleman, a gigolo and gorgeous 

Page 6: When John Travolta was starting out as an actor his mom gave him some advice which he’s glad he didn’t take -- in 1975 he was offered the role of Vinnie Barbarino in Welcome Back Kotter but his mom Helen who was an acting teacher thought he’d be typecast 

Page 7: Big-hearted country star Brad Paisley and his wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley are hitting the road to feed American families financially hit by the pandemic, Neil Patrick Harris recently revealed some bad news and good news -- he and his family contracted COVID-19 but thankfully they’ve recovered from it, Sam Elliott has grabbed a TV role on the animated show Family Guy, Joan Collins says her late sister Jackie Collins sent her a message from beyond the grave on the fifth anniversary of her death 

Page 9: Cher confessed that Elvis Presley was the one that got away and she’s always regretted it -- she’s also kicking herself about Marlon Brando

Page 10: A black and white spotted dog spotted trouble and ended up saving his entire human family from a blaze that swept through their home 

Page 11: Your Health -- 6 symptoms that are not a sign of normal aging 

Page 12: Crime Countdown: Our Top 12 Fave Screen Detectives -- Columbo, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, The Rockford Files 

Page 13: Miami Vice, Cagney & Lacey, Law & Order: SVU, Murder She Wrote (continued on page 16) 

Page 14: Dear Tony, America’s Top Psychic Healer -- use gifts you are given -- it’s never too late, Tony predicts Annette Bening will get really involved in the lives of transgender people bringing attention to those on screen and off showing who they really are 

Page 15: Some couples have a special song but this Indiana couple has a special aisle at the grocery store where they reconnected last summer and that’s where he got down on one knee and asked her to marry him 

Page 16: Remington Steele, Mannix, Magnum, P.I. 

Page 17: #1 -- NCIS 

Page 19: A former druggie thanked an Alabama cop who had her locked up multiples times by giving him a kidney 

Page 20: Cover Story -- The Partridge Family at 50 -- triumphs and tragedies of TV’s bubbly band -- Shirley Jones, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, Danny Bonaduce, Suzanne Crough, Jeremy Gelbwaks and Brian Forster 

Page 22: A hero delivery driver who took a wrong turn wound up taking a second detour to save a drowning dog 

Page 24: A woman in Michigan just received a cute postcard sent 100 years ago 

Page 25: How to choose fruit that’s ripe for the picking 

Page 26: Tony’s Mystic World -- the ancient power of Halloween 

Page 30: The Good Doctor -- Dr. Anthony Fauci recommends two vitamins to keep your immune system strong 

Page 33: Look Who’s Talking Meow -- a guide to understanding what your cat is trying to say 

Page 36: Sylvester Stallone paints -- Rambo tough guy Sly says his heart is with his art 

Page 41: How to carve perfect pumpkins 

Page 44: Eyes on the Stars -- Kaley Cuoco strikes a pose in Brooklyn while filming her upcoming show The Flight Attendant (picture), Anne Heche before her Dancing With the Stars rehearsal (picture), Mira Sorvino would jump at a chance for a reunion with Lisa Kudrow in a sequel to 1997′s Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, Eddie Murphy is delaying his return to stand-up comedy because of the pandemic, Christina Anstead split from husband No. 2 Ant Anstead

Page 45: Brad Pitt helps raise money for charity (picture), Jason Alexander (picture), Katie Holmes and Emilio Vitolo Jr. step out in the big apple (picture), Martin Scorsese wears a mask as he strolls around NYC with a bandaged hand (picture), Jodie Turner-Smith says hubby Joshua Jackson has become a new man since they welcomed their daughter Janie and said she is really in love with her husband, fans are fuming after this year’s Country Music Awards ended in a tie between Carrie Underwood and Thomas Rhett for Entertainer of the Year, things are heating up between Kaia Gerber and Jacob Elordi who jetted to Cabo San Lucas with her parents, Lady Gaga admits her popularity left her feeling down in the dumps but swears she’ll keep making music 

Page 46: There’s a silver lining to the coronavirus pandemic -- two-thirds of Americans think it has made them better people 

Page 47: Like Mother, Like Daughter -- Christie Brinkley and Sailor Brinkley-Cook, Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber, Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Apple Martin, Reese Witherspoon and Ava Phillippe, Lisa Bonet and Zoe Kravitz, Uma Thurman and Maya Thurman Hawke

[ao3feed-starsky-hutch]

Love Button

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/QPdwCHR by cmsprite79 Hutch has lost a button. Apparently, this is cause for great consternation. Words: 881, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Starsky & Hutch Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Ken Hutchinson, David Starsky Relationships: Ken Hutchinson/David Starsky Additional Tags: Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Hutch loses it, but he finds it again so it’s okay, Stress Release, men crying well one man anyway, first kiss? you decide, Declarations Of Love, Pre-Slash, caring Starsky, unexplained metaphors, It’s The Simple Things, Schmoop, Post S04E22 Sweet Revenge read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/QPdwCHR

[unicornery]

For my own amusement, I started tracking how the songs from the Billboard Hot 100 from this week in 1974 have been used in movie soundtracks. Feature Films only people! As you read, you will see the “gimmes” that made me think of the idea, but I’m putting this behind a cut because there ended up being so many which had a soundtrack match. As a reminder, you can follow along as I do the Hot 100 each week corresponding to which classic AT40 and VJ Big 40 get played on SiriusXM ‘70s on 7 and ‘80s on 8 respectively with my ever-changing Spotify playlist. 

100. “Beyond the Blue Horizon” - Lou Christie. This one is a cheat because when I looked it up on Spotify it showed up on the Rain Man soundtrack. The only song I could have told you off the top of my head was in Rain Main is the Belle Stars’ version of “Iko Iko.” Rain Man marked the first soundtrack appearance for Christie’s version. 

98. “The Air That I Breathe” - The Hollies. Very memorable appearance in The Virgin Suicides, which had the score done by, wait for it, French electronica duo Air. The song would go on to be heard in other movies. 

90. “Billy Don’t Be a Hero” - Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods. The Paper Lace version appears in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Both acts topped the charts with the song on opposite sides of the pond: Paper Lace in the UK and Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods in the US. [Update: the BD&H version may be in "To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday"] 

87. “Hollywood Swinging” - Kool & the Gang. This oft-sampled track first appeared in a feature film in the 2005 Get Shorty sequel Be Cool. 

84. “La Grange” - ZZ Top. Armageddon first, followed by others. 

68. “Band on the Run” - Paul McCartney and Wings.  I didn’t search for this at first because I didn’t think there would be anything, but then Jet was on the chart at #27, so I did a twofer search on imdb. Jet has not been in any films (save “One Hand Clapping, a rockumentary on Paul, which I don’t count for purposes of this discussion) but “Band on the Run” appears in The Killing Fields, in a shocking scene that contrasts the light tone of the pop song with the horrors of the Khmer Rouge’s executions of Cambodian citizens. 

66. “For the Love of Money” - The O’Jays. Has been used many times, according to IMDb the first feature film use was the Richard Pryor roman a clef (if I’m using that right, I only know it from Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man) Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. 

59. “Rock Around the Clock” - Bill Haley and his Comets. Notably used in Blackboard Jungle, the song is on this 1974 chart for its appearance in American Graffiti. 

55. “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo” - Rick Derringer. First one that comes to mind is Dazed and Confused bc I had that soundtrack, but it has been in others.

49. “Love’s Theme” - the Love Unlimited Orchestra. The swirling strings of this song indicate that someone is indeed falling in love. That’s my way of saying, if you think you haven’t heard this, you have. Imdb has it in Mean Girls, among others. 

47. “The Way We Were” - Barbra Streisand. The titular song of the 1973 film The Way We Were, starring Barbra and Robert Redford. A little long, but worth a watch bc Barbra is amazing in it. At the 1974 Academy Awards, Marvin Hamslich won Best Original Song honors for this tune, and was awarded Best Original Dramatic Score for his other musical work on the film. I always think of Lisa Loopner’s big crush on him.  

44. “Don’t You Worry ‘Bout a Thing” - Stevie Wonder. First feature film usage was the 1998 Eddie Murphy flop Holy Man, which surprised me as it’s such a good song, you’d think it would have been in something earlier. Notable given Eddie’s impression of Stevie Wonder he performed on SNL! 

42. “Rock On” - David Essex. Michael Damian’s cover (or remix as described by Patton Oswalt) was recorded for the 1989 2 Coreys classic Dream a Little Dream, and per imdb, David Essex’s original appears in the alternate-history comedy Dick, from 1999. 

37. “Oh Very Young” - Cat Stevens/Yusef Islam. Surprisingly, this sweet song appears in the gross-out bowling comedy Kingpin. 

36. “Jungle Boogie” - Kool & the Gang. This song may have been used in the most films and tv shows of any I’ve researched so far, but its first appearance was in Pulp Fiction. 

34. “The Payback - Part 1” - James Brown. First feature film appearance was in 1995′s Dead Presidents. A different James Brown track appears on the soundtrack for racist-ass Melly Gibson’s Payback from 1999. 

33. “Help Me” - Joni Mitchell.  Another why’d-it-take-ya-so-long shocker, this mellow tune first appeared in the 2018 sci-fi movie Kin, narrowly beating Welcome to Marwen from 2019. 

31. “The Entertainer” - Marvin Hamlisch. The title theme from the Redford/Newman team-up The Sting. Hamlisch won a record-tying third Academy Award in 1974 for Best Original Score for The Sting.  It seems at this time Best Original Score and Best Original Dramatic Score were separate categories. Hamlisch would win Grammys for both this and “The Way We Were,” eventually becoming an EGOT winner in 1995.

30. “Eres Tú” - Mocedades. This Spanish Eurovision entry notably appears in the buddy comedy Tommy Boy when Chris Farley and David Spade’s characters sing along with the radio. 

28. “Midnight at the Oasis” - Maria Muldaur. Catherine O’Hara and Fred Willard perform their own rendition in the Christopher Guest film Waiting for Guffman. That should be all you need, but imdb has the first film appearance for the song as 1995′s Falcon and the Snowman. 

24. “Let it Ride” - Bachman-Turner Overdrive. This lesser-known but not less great BTO jam has appeared in a handful of films, the first being Ash Wednesday, starring Elijah Wood and directed by Edward Burns and not Garry Marshall. Note: it does not seem to be in the Richard Dreyfuss gambling movie Let It Ride, a classic VHS cover of my youth. 

18. “Mockingbird” - James Taylor and Carly Simon. Memorably performed by Harry and Lloyd in the dog van in Dumb and Dumber, later joined by a Latinx family on guitar and vocals.  Before that, Beverly D’Angelo and Chevy Chase’s characters also sang it on their road trip in National Lampoon’s Vacation. I couldn’t find an instance where James and Carly’s version played in a movie but I am sayin’ there’s a chance. That it could be someday. 

16. “Tubular Bells” - Mike Oldfield. This instrumental is best known for being the theme to The Exorcist, but I was surprised to learn from the Wiki entry that it was not written for the film. Tubular Bells or something that’s meant to sound like it has been in a ton of other things, generally uncredited. Of note: Mike Oldfield would go on to do the score for The Killing Fields. 

14. “Seasons in the Sun” - Terry Jacks. Now here is the type of song that ‘70s haters point to as an example of the whiny wuss rock that they feel over-dominated the era. It’s not one of my favorites but I appreciate it for how weird it is. I suppose being translated into English from a French/Belgian poem will do that to ya. Before I did my search, I imagined I would find it in a Farrelly Brothers movie or two, possibly the Anchorman sequel. However, the only feature film match I found was the 2002 indie flick Cherish, a movie I have never seen despite being confronted by the cover many times at rental places over the years. Before today, when I watched the trailer, I would have told you it starred Jennifer Love Hewitt and was about “a band trying to make it.” It turns out I am thinking of the 1999 film The Suburbans. Anyway Cherish seems aggressively indie and very of-its-time in a way that makes me want to watch it. 

13. “Dancing Machine” - The Jackson 5. The song appears in the Blaxploitation spoof I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, as well as the movie of Starsky & Hutch.

11. “Lookin’ For A Love” - Bobby Womack. This was in the movie of The Ladies Man starring Tim Meadows as his SNL character Leon Phelps. I almost skipped this one but I’m glad I didn’t because Tim Meadows rules.

8. “The Loco-Motion” - Grand Funk Railroad (the single and album it was on are credited to Grand Funk). We have our second song from the Kirsten Dunst/Michelle Williams movie Dick. Since that was satirizing Nixon and Watergate, well done to the filmmakers for including these 1974 hits!  It appeared in one earlier film, My Girl 2. 

5. “Come and Get Your Love” - Redbone. Known to modern listeners for appearing in Guardians of the Galaxy. [Sidebar: if you can find a way to listen to the With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus episode T.G.I.G.O.T.G.OST (Thank God It’s the Guardians of the Galaxy Original Soundtrack) with Sean Clements and Hayes Davenport, do it!] The song first appeared in Dance Me Outside, a Canadian film about First Nations youth, which is a cool parallel with Redbone being composed of Native American musicians. “Come and Get Your Love” is also in Dick! 

4. “Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me” - Gladys Knight & the Pips. Another SNL feature pops up on our list, 1994′s It’s Pat: The Movie. 

3. “Hooked on a Feeling” - Blue Swede. ALSO known to modern listeners as being from the GOTG, but possibly only in the trailer? I’m fuzzy. The song ALSO also appears in Dick, and its first feature film appearance was Reservoir Dogs. 

2. “Bennie and the Jets” - Elton John. You know it, you love it, you cackle at the gag in Mystery Team. IMDb has this song down as first appearing in the low budget feature Aloha, Bobby and Rose, from 1975. It is ALSO in My Girl 2, with proper credit for Sir Elton. 

1. “TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)” - MFSB featuring The Three Degrees. IMDb says this appeared in the Al Pacino film Carlito’s Way, and I have no reason to doubt them because it means we are done! Thanks for readin’ and rockin’ along.