#Dorian Film Awards

[thequeereview]

LGBTQ Critics announce winners of 14th Dorian Film Awards - Everything Everywhere All at Once named Film of the Year

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has just revealed the winners of its 14th Dorian Film Awards, with Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s breathtaking Everything Everywhere All at Once named both Film of the Year and LGBTQ Film of the Year. Distributed by A24, the genre-defying movie which features a touching storyline between a mother (Michelle Yeoh) and her queer daughter (Stephanie…

[denimbex1986]

'...Leading the Dorian Film Awards (yet curiously snubbed from the Oscars), is Andrew Haigh’s heartbreaking All of Us Strangers with nine nominations...

Film of the Year All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Barbie (Warner Bros.) May December(Netflix) Past Lives (A24) Poor Things (Searchlight) LGBTQ Film of the Year All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Bottoms (MGM) Passages (MUBI, SBS) Rustin (Netflix) Saltburn (Amazon MGM) Director of the Year Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.) Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Todd Haynes, May December (Netflix) Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal) Celine Song, Past Lives (A24)

Screenplay of the Year Original or adapted Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.) Samy Burch, May December (Netflix) Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON) Celine Song, Past Lives (A24) LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year (new) Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON) Dustin Lance Black, Julian Breece, Rustin (Netflix) Arlette Langmann, Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias, Passages (MUBI) Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, Bottoms (MGM)

Film Performance of the Year Colman Domingo, Rustin (Netflix) Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Focus Features) Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple, Paramount) Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON) Greta Lee, Past Lives (A24) Trace Lysette, Monica (IFC) Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (Universal) Natalie Portman, May December (Netflix) Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Emma Stone, Poor Things (Searchlight)

Supporting Film Performance of the Year Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple (Warner Bros.) Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (Universal) Jodie Foster, NYAD (Netflix) Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros.) Rachel McAdams, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate) Charles Melton, May December (Netflix) Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Rosamind Pike, Saltburn (Amazon MGM) Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)

Genre Film of the Year (new) For excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Godzilla Minus One (Toho) M3GAN (Universal) Poor Things (Searchlight) Talk To Me(A24)

GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity Colman Domingo Jodie Foster Andrew Haigh Todd Haynes Andrew Scott...'

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Propaganda

Jeremy Brett (My Fair Lady)—"...he was beautiful. A strange adjective to use in describing a man. I use it not to suggest effeminacy or a kind of male prettiness, but in the same way I would use it to describe a throughbred stallion, Michelangelo's David or Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue. There was with Jeremy Huggins [Brett's non- stage name] a perfection and sublime symmetry in his features that was beautiful." [quote from "Bending the Willow" by David Stuart Davies]

Toshiro Mifune (Rashumon, Seven Samurai, Grand Prix, Stray Dog)—i love and respect my boi tab hunter (rest in peace you beautiful, beautiful man ❤️), but after i watched like 12 of his movies in a row on tcm last year, i ALSO love and respect toshiro mifune, son of a literal actual hatamoto’s (a high-ranking samurai) daughter, also very possibly related to the best judokan EVER, AND, he’s the guy who SHOULD have been obi-wan kenobi. the fact that he’s ALSO hot as hell just adds to his appeal.

This is one of four polls in the tournament quarterfinals. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage man.

THIS POLL LASTS FOR 24 HOURS.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Jeremy Brett propaganda:

"according to critic Kenneth Tynan a 'too beautiful' Hamlet."

"he’s such a himbo sunshine boy in my fair lady"

“not technically propaganda because it won’t let me save the images but just found out my bi king jeremy brett played patroclus https://www.jeremy-brett.fr/crbst_183.html and also apparently dorian gray in the 60s and basil hallward in the 70s?? range.”

"...as a dashing D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (1966/67) (Duelling is no problem! XD)”

“dropping to sleep - Jeremy is far too handsome to play d'art and also too tall, lol”

Toshiro Mifune propaganda:

"In addition, he spoke fluent mandarin and every time he was casted in foreign films, he said his lines in the language of the movie (although they ended up dubbing him. He wasn’t happy about it though).”

Submitted: this gifset

Also submitted: this video (yes, that one)

"Crucial Toshiro Mifune propaganda: THOSE LEGS."

"That is hella muscle. Go watch The Hidden Fortress, aka Star Wars A New Hope. His thighs deserve an award."

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

Congratulations to Laura Donnelly has been nominated for Best Actress in a Play this year. The Olivier Awards 2024 is theatre’s most prestigious honour and has announced its nominations.

The Olivier Awards are recognised internationally as the highest honour in British theatre 🎭 equivalent to the BAFTA Awards for film and television, and the BRIT Awards for music.

Olivier Awards 2024: list of Best Actress nominations

-Laura Donnelly for The Hills of California at the Harold Pinter theatre

-Sophie Okonedo for Medea at @sohoplace

-Sarah Jessica Parker for Plaza Suite at the Savoy theatre

-Sheridan Smith for Shirley Valentine at the Duke of York’s theatre

-Sarah Snook for The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

Best new play

-Dear England by James Graham at the National Theatre – Olivier and Prince Edward Theatre

-The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth at the Harold Pinter theatre

-The Motive and the Cue by Jack Thorne at the National Theatre – Lyttelton and Noël Coward theatre

-Till the Stars Come Down by Beth Steel at the National Theatre – Dorfman

The competition for nominations has been fierce during an outstanding year for theatre with significantly more productions than last year. There has been a record-breaking number of new plays gracing the stage and a stunning array of on-screen stars treading the boards – including those in striking one-person performances, have stunned with their ground-breaking creativity.

The annual awards will take place on Sunday 14 April at the iconic Royal Albert Hall with a highlights package broadcast on ITV that evening.

@olivierawards @laurafdonnelly #bestactress #OlivierAwards2024 #TheHillsofCalifornia

Posted 6th April 2024

[byneddiedingo]

Tim Roth and Edward Furlong in Little Odessa (James Gray, 1994)

Cast: Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Moira Kelly, Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Paul Guilfoyle, Natalya Andrejchenko, David Vadim. Screenplay: James Gray. Cinematography: Tom Richmond. Production design: Kevin Thompson. Film editing: Dorian Harris. 

James Gray's debut film, Little Odessa, is a chilly movie about a dysfunctional family, set in wintry Brighton Beach, the Brooklyn neighborhood adjacent to Coney Island. Gray uses the seasonally shut down amusement park and boardwalk as a correlative for the frozen lives of the Shapira family, for which a reviving spring will never arrive. The film won more favor from European critics, winning an award at the Venice Film Festival and praise from director Claude Chabrol, than it did from Americans, who have less taste for grimness. And Little Odessa is almost unrelievedly grim in its account of what happens when the older son, Joshua, returns to the home where his mother, Irina (Vanessa Redgrave), is dying of cancer. He hates his father, Arkady (Maximilian Schell), who is having an affair with a younger woman while tending to Irina in her final days. Joshua feels close, however, to his teenage brother, Reuben (Edward Furlong), who dutifully helps his father run a small newsstand and look after his mother, but he has secretly stopped going to school, hiding the letters to his parents from the school in his sock drawer. Joshua is a hitman for the Russian mob. He has avoided returning home, but he can't refuse an order to rub out an Iranian jeweler with a store located in Brighton Beach. There are violent consequences not only for Joshua's target but also for his own family. The Shapira family is not so poetic and articulate as the Tyrones of Long Day's Journey Into Night (Sidney Lumet, 1962) but they have a similar lacerating candor that gives actors free rein to perform. And it's mostly the performances that justify spending 98 minutes with them (as compared to the nearly three hours we spend with the Tyrones in Lumet's film). Redgrave, as always, is a marvel, all fragility and grit and love for her family, and Furlong demonstrates the kind of promise as an actor that his personal problems have never allowed him to fulfill. I think Schell is somewhat miscast as the father, who gets the blame for what has happened to his sons, but he gives the role substance if not the undertones of selfishness and desperation that it needs. The real star is Roth, an undervalued actor who always performs to the mark and beyond. Gray's screenplay is a touch too melodramatic, especially in the final confrontation of Joshua and his father, but with the help of Tom Richmond's cinematography and Kevin Thompson's production design, he maintains the oppressive mood and gloomy milieu effectively.  

[pwmovz]

hcs + dorian

give me a character and i’ll give you 10 headcanons ; dorian rhodes

a primeira vez que pisou num palco foi numa peça de escola, ainda pequeno. foi tão elogiado pelos professores que seus pais viram uma oportunidade de investir e desenvolver o potencial mostrado por ele, colocando-o em aulas de canto e teatro e levando-o em diversas audições abertas - seu primeiro papel na broadway foi como gavroche em les miserable, aos nove anos de idade.

alguns anos atrás, voltou a fazer parte do elenco de les miserables como enjolras, e foi feita toda uma campanha de marketing em cima da "volta às origens" - além desse, outros pontos altos de sua carreira foi quando protagonizou heathers interpretando jason dean, rent interpretando roger davis e once interpretando guy.

dorian foi indicado ao tony award duas vezes em sua carreira, mas não chegou a ganhar em nenhuma delas. espera fortemente conseguir o premio com sua interpretação como christian em moulin rouge.

acabou conseguindo uma boa fanbase, principalmente após heathers. acha engraçado a quantidade de mensagens que recebe nas redes sociais e faz questão de ficar para assinar os programas nos stage doors.

dorian é conhecido por ser um player. nunca teve muitos problemas para conquistar mulheres, principalmente depois de estabilizar a sua carreira, e ele se utiliza bastante de seu status na hora de cativar seus casos.

sempre tenta se mostrar solicito, sendo normalmente o front man, faz o que pode para deixar o ambiente nos ensaios agradável e sempre está ajudando os novatos, mas as vezes acaba soando presunçoso e arrogante ao fazê-lo.

liderando o primeiro revival depois do debut de moulin rouge, dorian consegue seguir a pressão de protagonizar um musical tão amado, a fanbase vinda desde o filme de 2001, e se sente constantemente ansioso para as previews e as primeiras criticas, na esperança de conseguir indicações aos prêmios.

foi chamado para gravar a demo de um grande filme musical de hollywood e achou, ingenuamente, que esse seria o próximo passo da sua carreira - pena que um ator de nome (que não sabia cantar tão bem) acabou sendo chamado para o papel.

depois de conhecê-la no elenco de rent e namorar por um ano, foi noivo por três mese de vanessa garcia, atriz que fazia a mimi marquez. o motivo do termino nunca foi revelado ao público.

apesar de se mostrar sempre bastante confiante, tem medo de sua carreira acabar por algum motivo, e por isso é extremamente regrado com sua vida pública. cancelamento de internet? seu próprio pesadelo. dorian sabe que é bom no que faz, mas acredita ser a única coisa que sabe fazer bem e não quer deixar de ter a vida confortável que conquistou.

[eurovision-facts]

Eurovision Fact #254:

The 2020 movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga was nominated for 28 awards, one of which was the Oscar for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Song) for the song 'Husavik.' However, the song lost to Judas and the Black Messiah's 'Fight for You.'

Out of the films 28 nominations, it won six awards:

At GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (2021), the movie won the Dorian Award for Campy Flick of the Year.

From the Hollywood Critics Association (2021), they won the HCA Award for Best Original Song, again for 'Husavik.'

At the International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA) in 2020, Fire Saga took home the Halfway Award, once again for best original song.

The movie took home the Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Feature Musical at Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA (2021).

At New Mexico Film Critics (2021), the move once again won Best original song with the NMFC Award.

Once again winning with 'Husavik,' Fire Saga won the Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards (2021)'s SCL Award for Outstanding Original Song for Visual Media.

[Sources]

Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga Awards, IMDb.com.

Oscars 2021, IMDb.com.

HCA Awards 2021, IMDb.com.

Awards (INOCA) 2020, IMBd.com.

USA 2021, IMDb.com.

NMFC Award 2021, IMDb.com.

SCL Awards 2021, IMDb.com.

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

LOST ANGELA

Our dog Othello was a fan of Angela Lansbury.

My mother-in-law would often dogsit him, and she, like many people of her generation, was a devoted viewer of Murder, She Wrote, Lansbury's series that ran from 1984 to 1996 on CBS, and for decades thereafter in syndication. So she and Othello would sit happily on the couch together and enjoy the adventures of mystery novelist and small-town slueth Jessica Fletcher.

This is how many people will remember Lansbury. But her remarkable career is far from defined by the hugely successful Murder, She Wrote.

Sometimes the death of a famous person who has attained great age can be oddly more startling than that of a younger celebrity. This was the case, for me, with Lansbury, who passed on last October; today would be her 98th birthday. She was around so long, and so vitally, that she had become almost a symbol of geriatric health, agency and relevancy. She was on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit in 2005, and was still acting as recently as Mary Poppins Returns in 2018; she also had a cameo as herself in Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. It seemed like she might outlive us all.

A native of London, Lansbury came to the U.S. in her teens when her family fled the Blitz. She studied at the American Theatre Wing, then made her movie debut, at the age of 17, in support of Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in 1944's Gaslight. Her role as a shifty maid in that film got her the first of three Oscar nominations. The second came a year later, when she played Sybil Vane in The Picture of Dorian Gray. 

Many other film and television roles followed, from The Harvey Girls to The Court Jester to The Long, Hot Summer to Bedknobs and Broomsticks to Death on the Nile, but in the '60s and '70s Lansbury ascended to legendary stardom on the Broadway stage, with leads in productions of Mame, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd and others. She won a total of six Tony Awards, from eight nominations. In the  '90s, she provided the voice of Mrs. Potts in Disney's animated Beauty and the Beast, probably the role by which younger audiences know her the best, and sweetly sang the title song.

An impressive career by any standard. But none of the above achievements are what I think of first when I think of Angela Lansbury. No, for me her most memorable role is the one that brought her a third Oscar nomination, in one of my top ten all-time favorite movies: that of  Eleanor Iselin, mother of poor Laurence Harvey's hapless brainwashed Raymond Shaw in John Frankenheimer's 1962 political thriller The Manchurian Candidate.

Lansbury's Eleanor is the true power behind the title character, buffonish McCarthy-esque Red-baiting Senator Johnny Iselin (James Gregory), and she's more than willing to conspire with Communists and to sacrifice her son Raymond's mind and heart to steer Johnny to the White House. Her performance is hard-edged and scary and despicable, but also strong, intelligent and witty, with a touch of wry lechery toward her husband and an unsavory Oedipal undercurrent toward her son.

It's strange to think that the same Angela Lansbury who played Jessica Fletcher and Mrs. Potts could also have created one of the great villains in American movies. But watch The Manchurian Candidate and you'll see the iron behind the sweetness.

[wellthatwasaletdown]

My Policeman didn't even get nominations for lgbt awards lol https://awardswatch.com/society-of-lgbtq-entertainment-critics-galeca-dorian-film-awards-nominations-everything-everywhere-all-at-once-tar-aftersun-lead/

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[shotbyafool]

this is just like when I made up a Dorian Gray musical, allegedly by Dave Malloy, and created track lists/thematic beats/cast breakdowns to the point where some people thought it was a real thing. except instead of being by much-beloved niche musical composer Dave Malloy, it is Academy award winning director Martin Scorcese, and instead of being a four-person musical (with an additional ensemble) it is a 3-hour long mafia film set in Naples starring Robert de Niro, Harvey Keitel, and Cybill Shepherd. and instead of just being on my tumblr blog, it is on everyone on planet earth's tumblr blog. Art is good actually.

[thequeereview]

Winners revealed in Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics' 15th annual Dorian Film Awards

GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has revealed the winners for its 15th annual Dorian Film Awards. Andrew Haigh’s beautifully haunting drama All of Us Strangers was voted both Film of the Year and LGBTQ Film of Year by the 500-member organization of professional journalists, while Haigh also won the Dorian for LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year for his adaptation of the 1987 Japanese…

[denimbex1986]

'...Leading the pack with an impressive nine nominations, including Film of the Year, is the haunting masterpiece "All of Us Strangers," written and directed by Andrew Haigh...

Film of the Year

All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Barbie (Warner Bros.) May December (Netflix) Past Lives (A24) Poor Things (Searchlight) LGBTQ Film of the Year All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Bottoms (MGM) Passages (MUBI, SBS) Rustin (Netflix) Saltburn (Amazon MGM) Director of the Year Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.) Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Todd Haynes, May December (Netflix) Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer (Universal) Celine Song, Past Lives (A24) Screenplay of the Year Original or adapted Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig, Barbie (Warner Bros.) Samy Burch, May December (Netflix) Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON) Celine Song, Past Lives (A24) LGBTQ Screenplay of the Year (new) Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Arthur Harari, Justine Triet, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON) Dustin Lance Black, Julian Breece, Rustin (Netflix) Arlette Langmann, Ira Sachs, Mauricio Zacharias, Passages (MUBI) Emma Seligman, Rachel Sennott, Bottoms (MGM)

Film Performance of the Year Colman Domingo, Rustin (Netflix) Paul Giamatti, The Holdovers (Focus Features) Lily Gladstone, Killers of the Flower Moon (Apple, Paramount) Sandra Hüller, Anatomy of a Fall (NEON) Greta Lee, Past Lives (A24) Trace Lysette, Monica (IFC) Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer (Universal) Natalie Portman, May December (Netflix) Andrew Scott, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Emma Stone, Poor Things (Searchlight) Supporting Film Performance of the Year Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple (Warner Bros.) Robert Downey Jr., Oppenheimer (Universal) Jodie Foster, NYAD (Netflix) Claire Foy, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Ryan Gosling, Barbie (Warner Bros.) Rachel McAdams, Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret (Lionsgate) Charles Melton, May December (Netflix) Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Rosamind Pike, Saltburn (Amazon MGM) Da'Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers (Focus Features)

Genre Film of the Year (new) For excellence in science fiction, fantasy and horror All of Us Strangers (Searchlight) Godzilla Minus One (Toho) M3GAN (Universal) Poor Things (Searchlight) Talk To Me (A24)

GALECA LGBTQIA+ Film Trailblazer Award For creating art that inspires empathy, truth and equity Colman Domingo Jodie Foster Andrew Haigh Todd Haynes Andrew Scott...'

[buxberg]

Acteur britannique de théâtre, de cinéma et de télévision

Il est né à Greyshott, Hampshire, Angleterre.

 Le père de Colin a enseigné l'histoire au King Alfred's College de Winchester.  La mère est professeur universitaire de religion.  Colin a passé sa petite enfance au Nigeria, où ses grands-parents étaient des missionnaires méthodistes, retournant en Angleterre à l'âge de cinq ans.

A joué dans des films tels que "The English Patient" (1996), "Shakespeare in Love" (1998), "Blue Blood" (2000), "Bridget Jones's Diary" (2001), "What a Girl Wants" (2003), "La fille de la boucle d'oreille en perles" (2003), "Real Love" (2003), "Where the Truth Lies" (2005), "The Last Legion" (2007), "Mamma Mia" (2008), "Genoa" ( 2008), "Easy Behavior" (2008), "Dorian Gray" (2009), "A Lonely Man" (2009) et bien d'autres.

 Pour son rôle dans A Single Man, le premier film de Tom Ford, Colin Firth a remporté le prix du meilleur acteur à la Mostra de Venise et le prix BAFTA du meilleur acteur, et a été nominé pour un Oscar.

 Le 13 janvier 2011, une étoile portant son nom a été dévoilée sur le Hollywood Walk of Fame et le 16 janvier, Firth a remporté le Golden Globe Award du meilleur acteur dans un drame pour son rôle dans The King Speaks !  (2010), en outre, ce rôle a valu à l'acteur sa deuxième nomination aux Oscars.

 Firth écrit de la fiction et a récemment publié sa première histoire, The Department of Nothing.

[goldenivygarden]

ok so MOST of my oscar predictions came true specifically for the major categories ! the only surprises were best actor (was expecting butler) and adapted screenplay (i thought ”all quiet” was a shoo-in but congrats women talking!!) but! overall once again a very expected type of academy award fare aka expression of how the academy wants to be perceived by the public

alright so first things first congratulations to 'everything everywhere all at once' the silly little weird genre anarchy film that took the conventions of narrative filmmaking and blew it up, smashing a few glass ceilings in the process. anyone with a camera can take a couple weird videos together and call it a “genre anarchy” film but it takes a real & rare kind of talent to  do one that actually has a heart at its core.

also think it's worthy of note that four years ago the first asian film won best picture with parasite, a film that basically excelled at every filmmaking technique in the book & elevating them all to create a tour de force of a film, and now four years later for another asian-led film that takes all those conventions and blows them all up in cinema anarchy to win best picture again only brings to mind how asian artistry really has always been excellent 

i'm always for everything everywhere to win all the awards  it deserves, but if we’re talking personal favorites that would probably be “banshees of inisherin” if i'm honest but i am biased cause its irish lol but it deserved at LEAST one win 

stephanie hsu (“everything everywhere”) and kerry condon (“banshees”) my beloveds I will avenge u both!!!! also dolly de leon!!!!

irks me a little bit that “all quiet” gets so much hate from film twitter for being probably the most earnest film in this season’s roster. “all quiet” is objectively and subjectively a decent film and film twitter are simply some of the most annoying ppl on the internet! what i loved most about it is that it isn’t made as an homage to any war heroes unlike others in its genre—it’s a faithful anti-war film adaptation of a landmark anti-war novel that stands squarely with the truth. “epiphany” by taylor recently played shortly after seeing this and i couldn’t function for a few minutes 

barry keoghan from “banshees” and felix kammerer from “all quiet” i am free to hang anytime btw !

shoutout  to “decision to leave” !! theres a certain way park chan wook manages to capture & hold attention like few other directors can, it's like he rebirths cinema with each of his films

Also the fabelmans! aftersun! tar! women talking! wow!!!!

other things that took up most of my headspace, some new, some resurgences:

music: not strong enough by boygenius, american teenager by ethel cain, on the street by hope feat j.cole (how does bangtan manage to surprise with how good they are every time) 

watching the arctic monkeys and carly rae jepsen concerts via other people’s stories

miss girl bridgers at the time awards

robert f kennedy, the complications of human nature, and the unrelenting attempt at goodness in spite of violence (it’s a long story)

good television! specifically bad sisters (2022) and under the banner of heaven (2022)

“all the light we cannot see” by anthony doerr

“the picture of dorian gray” by oscar wilde

please do forgive me for not being much active on socials! technically i am still banned but a girl can only hold so much. pls pretend this post does not exist (& neither do i) lolz and hope u all have a good week!!

[shredmytapestry]

DORIAN ROMERO ( HE/HIM ) is a CIS MALE, FORTY-TWO year old ACTOR/AUTHOR who has been living in Moorbrooke for TWO MONTHS. They were born on JULY 23 and right now, they are currently residing in ELMSETT GREEN. It has been said that they look suspiciously like OSCAR ISAAC and if they had to choose a song to describe themselves, they would choose THE LUCKY ONE by TAYLOR SWIFT.

cw: racism mention, cheating

stats.

full name: dorian romero nicknames: romeo age: forty-two faceclaim: oscar isaac birthday: july 23, 1980 zodiac: leo gender: cis male pronouns: he/him sexual orientation: bisexual   birthplace: guatemala city, guatemala occupation: actor, author, film maker location: elmsett green, moorbrooke

biography.

dorian romero was always enamoured with hollywood. growing up in moorbrooke, he was far away from it but he spent a lot of time watching tv and writing his own shows. he wrote and acted in his own plays. his family was always excited to see what the great romero would be cast in next! all he knew was that he wanted to be an actor, and that he’d be a really good one.

by the time he got to middle school, he began to audition for local commercials and department store modelling gigs. sadly he didn’t have much luck, he never understood why. his parents just told him to focus on school instead but never made him feel like less than just because the white kids were getting cast and he wasn���t. because of this he was a little sheltered, of course he wasn’t clueless about racist remarks but he it wasn’t until a school bully made an off hand comment of how cheerios would never cast a brown kid. the comment sent dorian off the edge, he acted out violently and got suspended for the week.

that week changed his life. all the time he stayed home he rewatched all those shows he loved and he finally saw that no one looked like him. everyone was white in hollywood and he made a vow to change that. this situation did crush his spirit and he stopped going to auditions, and instead just focused on his writing. it never really took off either, but he never stopped writing.

by the time he graduated with an acting degree from moorbrooke uni, hollywood was already starting to be a little more diverse. his career was still slow, he acted as the funny best friends, the sidekicks, the villains and never the main character. dorian was devoted to his craft, though. he wanted to be a great actor one day, he wanted to have his name in lights. he continued to act, published short stories and just kept working.

he moved around a lot, even tried la but ended up putting his roots in new york.

by the time he reached his late 20s and still hadn’t landed a permanent role, he thought maybe he needed to change his game. in university there was this one man who had caught dorian’s attention, but he was taken. dorian never acted on his feelings, he never said anything. he only watched from a distance and admired and he wrote. he still that notebook, filled with ideas about his fleeting muse. he started working on that story, he even got an agent and it was in the work of getting released.

he worked on that book for a whole year. he worked on it the night he turned 30 and that afternoon, on his birthday.. he got his big break. his book was up for several awards and was seen as a queer beacon in the community. his book was up for movie rights and thus changed dorian’s life.

the movie was an success. overnight the world knew who dorian romero was. he wrote and acted in the movie alongside, santiago. his name was on everyone’s tongue and it wasn’t long until he landed a tv show. it was a family drama that was on tv for 10 years. dorian’s every dream came true, he was finally a famous actor. his name was up in lights for years. he was finally satisfied.

unfortunately for him, the marriage agreement turned actual marriage with diana guo was now in shambled. he was busy, he was neglectful and she was cheating with his childhood friend. they divorced when dorian was 38. dorian stayed in new york until his show ended four years later. now he’s 42 and back in the sweet town he once called home.

he is satisfied with his career, and maybe even looking for love at this point. he’s in no rush. he wants to focus more on writing and catch his breath from the whirlwind that’s been his life.

connections.

childhood friends! he was in moorbrooke until the end of his degree ( 22 ) - silas ward

exes - anyone, either in nyc or in mb

dates - he’s been a part of the dating scene a little so i reckon he’s gone on a few dates, maybe some have even been more than one

more to come

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Michael Brown (born August 3, 1973), professionally known as Michael Ealy, is an actor. He is known for his roles in Barbershop, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Takers, For Colored Girls, Think Like a Man, About Last Night, Think Like a Man Too, The Perfect Guy, and The Intruder. He starred as Dorian the android in the Fox TV science fiction police drama series Almost Human.

He was born in DC and raised in Silver Spring, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland in College Park with a BA in English.

He started his acting career appearing in several off-Broadway stage productions. Among his first film roles were Bad Company and Kissing Jessica Stein. His breakout role came in Barbershop. He appeared in Never Die Alone. He appeared in Mariah Carey’s music video for her hit single “Get Your Number”.

He co-starred in the Television film version of Their Eyes Were Watching God. He starred in the independent film Jellysmoke. He starred in the television series Sleeper Cell and Sleeper Cell: American Terror.

He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in Sleeper Cell: American Terror in the category of Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. He was featured in the movie Seven Pounds. He starred as the male lead in Beyoncé’s “Halo” and the television series FlashForward and Being Mary Jane.

He married Afghan-American entrepreneur Khatira Rafiqzada (2012) and they have a son and a daughter. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence