#Francis L Sullivan

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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) Gabriel Pascal

March 9th 2025

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Francis L. Sullivan

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THE DRUM:

Maharaja killed

His son wanted British soldiers

Pro colonial

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“Plunder of the Sun” (1953)

“Plunder of the Sun” (1953) Drama Running Time: 82 minutes Written by: Jonathan Latimer Directed by: John Farrow Featuring: Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina and Francis L. Sullivan Julie Barnes: “You stood me up because you think I’m a tramp.” Al Colby: “I don’t think you’re a tramp.” Julie Barnes: “Yes you do… cuz I am. I’m a tramp and everybody knows it; Julie the tramp. What’s a…

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In 1992, Disney released a new movie musical featuring songs by Alan Menken and an unconventional hero who steals food, runs from the law, and lies about his identity.

Oh, wait.

Or did they release two?

Here is my incomplete list of similarities and connections between Newsies (released 10 April 1992) and Aladdin (released 11 November 1992)

1- Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Lyricist Howard Ashman is responsible for pitching the idea for Aladdin to Disney and initially it was him and Alan Menken who wrote the songs for the animated film. The same duo was supposed to write the songs for Newsies, however Ashman was unable to work with Menken on Newsies due to his illness from AIDS and Jack Feldman was brought in to write the lyrics for Newsies instead. Ashman died in 1991 the day before songwriting for Newsies officially began[x].

2- Street Rats. As mentioned in my introduction, Jack Kelly and Aladdin find themselves in very similar circumstances. The similarity between the two characters isn't hard to spot.

3- Rooftop Trust Exercise? In both the Newsies 1991 film script and Newsies: a novel, there is a scene on the rooftop where Jack, David, and Les are being chased by Snyder and Jack leads the Jacobs brothers between rooftops across a plank. In the novel, David looks down when he's halfway across and Jack calls out to him and holds out a hand to calm David and get him across.

Unfortunately, the scene was cut and isn't in the final film. However, a similar concept seems to have made its way into Aladdin instead. The one scene from Newsies is split into two and the plank part isn't in the middle of a chase (also, Jasmine takes the situation much better than David did), but the similarity is no less interesting. I think it's also significant to note that the Newsies scene is not found in Hard Promises and was in fact a Disney rewrite.

Top: Newsies 1991 film script and Newsies: a novel excerpts. Bottom: Aladdin (1992) screencaps.

4- Importance of Identity. Once again there is a similarity between the two main characters. Francis Sullivan becomes Jack Kelly, and Aladdin becomes Prince Ali. I think it could be argued that in both cases the facade or new identity is used as a form of escapism so that the hero can at least try to obtain the thing he wants. Francis Sullivan has a father in jail and a dead mother (and brother), but Jack Kelly has a family waiting for him out west. Aladdin is a thief with no honest money to his name, but Prince Ali can afford luxury and win the heart of a princess.

5- Proud of Your Boy. The song, "Proud of Your Boy" was originally written in 1988 by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for Aladdin, however it was cut when Aladdin went through rewrites that cut Aladdin's mother from the story. Later on, the song would be reincorporated into the stage musical version of Aladdin, but before then it would gain an odd connection to Newsies.

There have been rumors that "Proud of Your Boy" might have been intended to be used for David in Newsies, and while it's not impossible I have found no evidence that the song was ever officially associated with Newsies beyond the fact that Howard Ashman was supposed to have written the lyrics for Newsies as stated in my first point. However, regardless of whatever Disney intended to do with the song, an "illegal" stage adaptation of Newsies cropped up written by Philip L McBride that gave the song to David anyways. I have a post that explains this further which you can find here.

Left: "Newsies Libretto," page 57. Right: Aladdin Jr. script, page 18.

6- Stage Adaptations. Curiously, just as the original films were both released in 1992, Newsies and Aladdin both took to the stage for the first time in 2011. Newsies at Paper Mill Playhouse, and Aladdin at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle.

Honorable mentions:

The Aladdin (2019) chase scene has been described as being more similar to the chase scene in Newsies (1992) than to the original in Aladdin (1992). [x]

This last note is more of a fun fact, but Pierre Marais who played Jack Kelly in the Theatre Under The Stars production of Newsies last year was also in Aladdin.

Left: Pierre Marais as Aladdin in Broadway's Aladdin on tour, and Right: Pierre Marais as Jack Kelly at the Theatre Under The Stars.

I think it's interesting that, although these two stories seem to be intertwined, Newsies initially flopped whereas Aladdin was met with wide success and became the highest-grossing film of 1992.

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1) QES

2) Elon Musk

3) Vladimir Putin

4) Jensen Stoltenberg

5) Prince Edward, Duke of Kent

March 1

6) Alexander Bortnikov

7) Emmanuel Macron

8) Xi Jinping

9) Alex Soros

10) George Soros

11) Avril Haines

April 20

First coffin phone

12) Billie Eilish

13) Nathaniel Philip Rothschild, 5th Baron Rothschild

14) Jurgen Stock

15) Larry Fink

16) Narendra Modi

17) Sergey Shoigu

18) Nikolai Patrushev

19) Nikolay Bogdanovsky

20) Andrei Yermak

21) Mohammed Bin Salman

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May 16

Second coffin phone

22) Alina Kabaeva

23) Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen

24) Vitalik Buterin

25) Ebrahim Raisi

26) Hossein Amir-Abdollahian

27) Malek Rahmati

28) Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem

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30) Second Vladimir Putin

31) Viktoria Godunova

32) Dmitry Medvedev

33) Georgia Meloni

34) David S. Cohen

35) Priscilla Chan

36) Paul Abbate

37) Jon Lenzner

38) Jake Sullivan

39) Ronald L. Rowe Jr

40) Larissa L. Knapp

41) Christopher Asher Wray

42) Olena Zelenska

43) Kimberly A. Cheattle

44) Second Elon Musk

45) George Pavlov

46) Third Vladimir Putin

47) Sergey Brin

48) Mariya Putina

49) Pope Francis

50) Jack Dorsey

51) Mark Zuckerberg

52) William J. Burns

53) Mark Rutte

54) Katerina Tikhonova

55) Second Taylor Swift Horodnitskii Black White.

56) Antonio Manuel de Oliveira Guterres

57) Second Ariana Grande

58) Joe Alwyn

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60) Donald Trump

61) King Charles III

62) William, Prince of Wales

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65) Robyn Denholm

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67) Igor Olegovich Kostyukov

68) Kyrylo Budanov

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73) Volodymyr Zelenskyy

74) Cara Delevingne

75) Kamala Harris

76) Sergey Sobyanin

77) Second King Charles III

78) Li Qiang

79) Joe Biden (Not to eliminate repeatedly within bulk order, unless specific order appears)

80) Second Christopher Asher Wray

81) Christopher G. Cavoli

82) Jenna Marie Ortega

83) Fifth Vladimir Putin

84) Second Nathaniel Philip Rothschild, 5th Baron Rothschild

85) Lily Cole

86) Second Joe Alwyn

87) Third Chris Wray

88) Valery Gerasimov

89) Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov

90) Benjamin Netanyahu

91) Second Ursula von der Leyen

92) Cecilie Richards

93) Richard Moore

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108) Olha Stefanishyna

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118) James David Vance

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121) Second Mark Zuckerberg

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124) Third Prince Edward, Duke of Kent

125) Second Jack Dorsey

126) Third Elon Musk

127) Kash Patel

128) John Ratcliffe

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130) Keir Starmer

131) Marc Rowan

132) Second Alexander Bortnikov

133) Third Donald Trump

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136) Katsuragi Horodnitskii

137) Richard J. Kessler

138) Second Igor Kostyukov

139) Third Emmanuel Macron

140) Third Mark Zuckerberg

141) Second Vladimir Zelenskii

142) Fourth Elon Musk

143) Third Mark Rutte

144) Third King Charles III

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148) Sherry Horodnitskii

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Monday Munchies 😋 Richard's chaRActers chow down (l-r): While planning Earth's demise, James Sullivan takes a lunch break 🥪 (Space Sweepers, 2021), Francis Dolarhyde caught in the act of devouring art 🖼️ (Hannibal, 2015); don't disturb Ellis Stagger when he's serving breakfast 🥐 (Missing You, 2025); the dwarves pillaged Bilbo's pantry and all Thorin got was a bowl of soup?! 🥣 (The Hobbit: AUJ, 2012); pre-makeover John Standring's "tea" on a stick 🍖 (Sparkhouse, 2002).

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Her Last Affaire (1936) Michael Powell

March 17th 2024

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Newbie Newsies

A guide for new Newsie fans

Chapter two: Characters

Previous chapter: the basics->•

Chapter index ->•

Imma just start lf with a basic list of Characters. Only names. Nothing else. Then i‘ll give you the looks (and versions of that) and actors that played them and how to reckognise them (also split in versions) bc theres A L O T so like whos who‘sies

Then i‘ll tell you about some oc‘s and then i‘ll go into some lore for each of the characters that have one. That includes fannon

Imma try not to go TOO much into detail bc this is gonna be long enough as it is and there already are posts about them

Characters

This isn’t gonna have any specific order i literally not even sure if i didnt miss any.

Jack “Cowboy“ Kelly/ Francis Sullivan

Davey (“a walkin mouth”) Jacobs

Sarah Jacobs

Les Jacobs

Ed “Racetrack” Higgins

?“Spot” Conlon

Romeo ?

Katherine Plumber (but actually Pullitzer)

?“Mush” Meyers

Louis “Kid Blink” Balletti

Albert DaSilva

Isaac “Ike” ?

Michael “Mike”

Patrick ? ?

Hotshot “Hotshot” Hotshot

? Smalls ?

Jeany “Mack” MacDonald

Archie “Sniper” Wah

Niklas “York” ?

Samuel “Specs”?

Gabe “Boots” Argus

?”scobe”?

Patrick “Finch” Cortes

Elmer Kasprzak (pls tell me i spelled this right)

(Benjamin) “buttons” Davenport

Josephino Jorgelino “JoJo” De laGuerra (this is not a joke. That is his name.)

Kenny?

?”Graves”?

Niamh??

?Myron?

?”Splint”?

(Charlie) “Crutchie” Morris

Henry?

? “Skittery”?

?”bumlets”?

?”swifty”?

Gabriel “snaps” ?

?”splasher”?

?”comet”?

?”pie eater”

Thomas “Tommy boy”?

?”snipeshooter”?

?(“tumbler”)?

?”goldie”?

Looks

Imma have to handle this w repost cuz u can only add ten photos and all that ykyk

Jack:

His main four appearances are christian bale (92‘sies), jeremy jordan (obc and livesies), corey cott (broadway and toursies (i think)) michael ahomka (uk‘sies) and pierre marias (TUTS)

Imma be honest i wanted to list everyone that plyed the characters but i don’t think i can even find that all so im just gonna go woth the most famous ones each

Basically the only thing thats always the same about him is the vest

Davey has been played by David Moscow(92‘sies) Ben Fankhauser (obc& live‘sies) ryan kopel (uk‘sies) and Ben Diamond (TUTS)

He usually has a rather small face and a prominent nose. His hair has always been dark so far. He always has something blue about him sticking out/ is generally held in a blue vibe.

Sarah was played by ela keats. She was only in 92‘sies. She was originally planned to be in the theatre versions but her character was cut completely.

She has lightbrown/darkblonde long hair and- well theres only one actress so u can see for urself

The most famous Race‘s have been Max Castella (92‘sies), Ryan breslin (obc), ben cook (livesies) and josh barnet (uk‘sies) and Cole Zieser (TUTS)

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By Thomas L. Friedman

Opinion Columnist

Every so often there is a piece of legislation on Capitol Hill that defines America and its values — that shows what kind of country we want to be. I would argue that when it comes to the $118.3 billion bipartisan compromise bill in the Senate to repair our broken immigration system and supply vital aid to Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel, its passage or failure won’t define just America but also the world that we’re going to inhabit.

There are hinges in history, and this is one of them. What Washington does — or does not do — this year to support its allies and secure our border will say so much about our approach to security and stability in this new post-post-Cold War era. Will America carry the red, white and blue flag into the future or just a white flag? Given the pessimistic talk coming out of the Capitol, it is looking more and more like the white flag, autographed by Donald Trump.

Barring some last-minute surprise that saves the compromise bill, a terrible thing is about to happen, thanks largely to a Republican Party that has lost its way as it falls in lock step behind a man whose philosophy is not “America First” but “Donald Trump First.” “Trump First” means that a bill that would strengthen America and its allies must be set aside so that America can continue to boil in polarization, Vladimir Putin can triumph in Ukraine and our southern border can remain an open sore — until and unless Trump becomes president once more. Our allies be damned. Our enemies be emboldened. Our children’s future security be mortgaged.

Today’s G.O.P. bumper sticker: Trump First. Putin Second. America Third.

“The United States has for some time ceased to be a serious country. Our extreme polarization combined with institutional rules that privilege minorities makes it impossible for us to meet our international obligations,” the political theorist Francis Fukuyama remarked on the American Purpose website. “The Republican Party has grown very adept at hostage holding. … The hard-core MAGA wing represents a minority within a minority, yet our institutional rules permit them to veto decisions clearly favored by a majority of Americans.”

Alas, though, while the current dysfunction of the Republican Party can explain why this particular legislation is likely to fail, how we came to this awful moment is a longer, deeper story.

This emerging post-post-Cold War era is a real throwback to the kind of dangerous, traditional great-power competition prevalent in the Cold War and World War II and most of history before that. Unfortunately, we have arrived at this moment with too many elected officials — especially in the senior ranks of the Republican Party — who never experienced such a world and with a defense-industrial base woefully unprepared for this world. Believe it or not, President Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, has had to spend hours of valuable time each month searching the world for 155-millimeter shells for the Ukrainian Army because we don’t have enough.

That’s crazy. And it is particularly crazy at a time when three revisionist powers (Russia, China and Iran) are each simultaneously probing every day to see if they can push back America and its allies along three different frontiers (Europe, the South China Sea and the Middle East). They probe, individually and through proxies, to see how we react — if we react — and then probe some more. In Putin’s case, when the time seemed right, he launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

“Because of generational change, most of America’s political elite today grew up in the relatively benign Pax Americana post-Cold War era, 1989 to 2022” (when Putin invaded Ukraine), “and they have lost the habit and the knack of thinking about global politics in military terms,” the U.S. foreign policy historian Michael Mandelbaum told me. “Very few members of the elite today have served in the military.”

This is “very different from the Cold War era, when most of our policymaking elite were people who experienced World War II,” added Mandelbaum, the author of the forthcoming book “The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They Made.” “Now, after 30 years of the post-Cold War era, Joe Biden is one of the few remaining leaders who was a policymaker during the Cold War — and issues of grand strategy and the management of great-power competition are no longer a major part of our public discourse.”

Trump, like Biden, grew up in the Cold War, but he spent a lot of it contemplating his wealth rather than contemplating the world. Trump’s instincts, Mandelbaum noted, are really a throwback to the interwar period between World War I and World War II, when a whole segment of the elite felt World War I was a failure and a mistake — the equivalent today of Iraq and Afghanistan — and then approached the dawn of World War II as isolationists and protectionists, seeing our allies as either hopeless or leeches.

As for House Speaker Mike Johnson, I wonder how often he uses his passport. I wonder if he has a passport. He is one of the most powerful people in America, following in the footsteps of both Republican and Democratic speakers who advanced our interests and made us strong in the world for decades. So far, he seems to care only about serving Trump’s interests, even if that means playing extremely risky games with foreign policy.

Meanwhile, many on the left emerged from this post-Cold War era with the view that the biggest problem in the world is not too little American power but too much — the lessons they drew from Iraq and Afghanistan.

And so who will tell the people? Who will tell the people that America is the tent pole that holds up the world? If we let that pole disintegrate, your kids won’t grow up in just a different America; they’ll grow up in a different world, and a much worse one.

After Ukraine inflicted a terrible defeat on the Russian Army — thanks to U.S. and NATO funding and weapons — without costing a single American soldier’s life, Putin now has to be licking his chops at the thought that we will walk away from Ukraine, leaving him surely counting the days until Kyiv’s missile stocks run out and he will own the skies. Then it’s bombs away.

As the Financial Times columnist Gideon Rachman reported, the ammunition shortage in Ukraine “has already led to an increase in Ukrainian casualties. … The shortage of weaponry is also having an effect on the willingness of Ukrainians to volunteer for military service. The mounting pressure on the Kyiv government is part of the explanation for the public falling-out between President Volodymyr Zelensky and his commander in chief, Valeriy Zaluzhny.”

If this is the future and our friends from Europe to the Middle East to Asia sense that we are going into hibernation, they will all start to cut deals — European allies with Putin, Arab allies with Iran, Asian allies with China. We won’t feel the change overnight, but, unless we pass this bill or something close to it, we will feel it over time.

America’s ability to assemble alliances against the probes of Russia, China and Iran will gradually be diminished. Our ability to sustain sanctions on pariah nations like North Korea will erode. The rules governing trade, banking and the sanctity of borders being violated by force — rules that America set, enforced and benefited from since World War II — will increasingly be set by others and by their interests.

Yes, America still has considerable power, but that power led to influence because allies and enemies knew we were ready to use it to defend ourselves and help our friends defend themselves and our shared values. All of that will now be in doubt if this bill goes down for good.

Remember this week, folks — because historians surely will.

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John Howard Davies and Robert Newton in Oliver Twist (David Lean, 1948)

Cast: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Francis L. Sullivan, Henry Stephenson, Mary Clare, Anthony Newley. Screenplay: David Lean, Stanley Haynes, based on a novel by Charles Dickens. Cinematography: Guy Greene. Art direction: John Bryan. Film editing: Jack Harris. Music: Arnold Bax.

After George Cukor's 1935 David Copperfield, this is my favorite adaptation of Dickens for film or TV. What Lean does right is to treat the Dickens book as a fable, not a novel. A novel takes its characters seriously as human beings; a fable sees them as embodiments of good and evil. And there's plenty of evil on display in Oliver Twist, from the brute evil of Bill Sikes (Robert Newton) to the venal evil of Fagin (Alec Guinness) to the stupid evil of Mr. Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan) and Mrs. Corney (Mary Clare). Oliver (John Howard Davies) is innocently good, whereas Mr. Brownlow (Henry Stephenson) is a man of good will. Nancy (Kay Walsh) and, to a lesser extent, the Artful Dodger (Anthony Newley) are potentially good people who have been corrupted by evil. The performers are all beautifully cast, especially Davies as Oliver: He's just real-looking enough in the role that he doesn't become saccharine, the way some prettier Olivers do. This is Lean in what I think of as his great period, when he was making beautifully filmed movies with just the right measure of sentiment: Brief Encounter (1945) and Great Expectations (1946) in addition to this one. But he would be bit by the epic bug while working on The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and its success would betray him into bigger but not necessarily better movies: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and the rest of his later oeuvre would have the same attention to visual detail that make his early movies so rich, but they seem to me chilly in comparison. Here he benefits not only from a perfect cast, but also from Guy Green's photography of John Bryan's set designs. There are probably few more terrifying scenes in movies than Sikes's murder of Nancy, which sends Sikes's dog (one of the most impressive performances by an animal in movies) into a frenzy. Running it a close second is Sikes's death, seen from a vertiginous rooftop angle. We don't actually see the death, but only the swift tautening of the rope as he plunges, punctuated by a sudden snap. The film is not as well known in America as in Great Britain: Guinness's portrayal of Fagin elicited charges of anti-Semitism, especially since the film appeared so soon after the world learned about the Holocaust. Guinness doesn't play to Jewish stereotypes, but Fagin's absurdly exaggerated nose (which makeup artist Stuart Freeborn copied from George Cruikshank's illustrations for the novel) does evoke some of the caricatures in the Nazi newspaper Der Stürmer. The film was edited to remove some of the shots of Fagin in profile, and was held from release in the United States until 1951.