#Gary McCormack

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Leonardo DiCaprio, Gary McCormack, and Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York (Martin Scorsese, 2002) 

Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas, Liam Neeson, Brendan Gleeson, Gary Lewis, Stephen Graham, Eddie Marsan, Alec McCowen, David Hemmings. Screenplay: Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, Kenneth Lonergan. Cinematography: Michael Ballhaus. Production design: Dante Ferretti. Film editing: Thelma Schoonmaker. Music: Howard Shore. 

Gangs of New York is such a sprawling, unfocused movie that I can almost imagine the filmmakers throwing up their hands and sighing, "Well, at least we've got Daniel." Because Daniel Day-Lewis's performance as Bill "The Butcher" Cutting holds the film together whenever it tends to sink into the banality of its revenge plot or to wander off into the eddies of New York City history. A historical drama like Gangs of New York needs two things: a compelling central story and an audience that knows something about the history on which it's based. But for all their violence and their anticipation of problems that continue to manifest themselves in the United States, the Draft Riots of 1863 and the almost two decades of gang wars that led up to them are mostly textbook footnotes to most Americans. Director Martin Scorsese's determination to depict them led to the hiring of a formidable team of screenwriters -- Jay Cocks, who wrote the story, and Steven Zaillian and Kenneth Lonergan, who collaborated with Cocks on the screenplay. Unfortunately, the narrative thread that they came up with is tired. As a boy, Amsterdam Vallon saw his father, an Irish Catholic nicknamed "Priest" (Liam Neeson), cut down by Bill the Butcher in a huge battle between the Irish immigrant gang, the Dead Rabbits, and Bill's Protestant gang, the Natives. Sixteen years later Vallon (Leonardo DiCaprio) returns to the Five Points neighborhood determined to get revenge on Bill, who has managed to make peace with many of the old members of Vallon's father's gang and to become a power-player aligned with Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed (Jim Broadbent). Vallon is introduced to Bill's criminal enterprise by an old boyhood friend, Johnny (Henry Thomas), and he begins to fall under Bill's spell -- along with that of a pretty pickpocket, Jenny Everdeane (Cameron Diaz). But the relationship between Vallon and Jenny stirs the jealousy of Johnny, who is smitten with her, and he reveals to Bill that Vallon is the son of his old enemy, leading to a climactic showdown -- one that just happens to occur simultaneously with the Draft Riots. There's a lot of good stuff in Gangs of New York, including Michael Ballhaus's cinematography and Dante Ferretti's production design -- the sets were constructed at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. But the awkward attempt to merge the romantic revenge plot with the historical background shifts the focus away from what the film is supposedly about: racism, anti-immigrant nativism, political corruption, and exploitation of the poor. "You can always hire one half of the poor to kill the other half," Tweed says. Oddly (and sadly), Gangs of New York seems more relevant today than it did in 2002, when the country was recovering from the 9/11 attacks. Then, the Oscar-nominated anthem by U2,  "The Hands That Built America," which concludes the film seemed to promise a spirit of unity, an affirmation that the country had overcome the antagonisms depicted in the movie. Today it has a far more ironic effect.

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He could be one of the men of the ton trying to court lady Danbury in her s3 of a Bridgerton story like look at him he’s so pretty and he’s from downtown abbey so he definitely knows the period drama genre come on give us a period man thats not yt just this once Shonda

Like we get it you love a yt Shonda but for once give us a black or asian man that’s high status and we’ll like in the ton we so tired of the same shape of basic bland yt every szn just one szn with non yt man would be nice!

I know she loves a yt x woc ship too so this definitely aint never happening sadly but a girl can dream hope!

Or him these three better be options for my girl season!

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New “Blake's 7: Origins” limited edition book collection debuts from Big Finish

A splendid treat for Terry Nation's SF adventure series - new novelisations of the show's early stories from a top notch crew of writers

Big Finish has just published Blake’s 7: Origins, a collection of novelisations adapting early episodes of Terry Nation’s SF adventure series, as a collection of seven premium hardback novelisations, the stories adapted by Paul Cornell, Gary Russell, Una McCormack and others. The set includes James Goss’ adaptation of the first season cliffhanger, “Orac” first broadcast 45 years ago today, on…

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Slow Horses Season 02

Slow Horses Season 02    [trailer]

Follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve as a dumping ground department of MI5 due to their career-ending mistakes.

Another good old-fashioned spy story. Tense, tight, not unnecessarily stretched. The smaller budget works as an advantage over movies, no boring action showdown at the end.

It took me a while to again get used to the way Lamb constantly insults his team, even if we know he deeply cares about them. Though some of the verbal exchanges are quite sharp and funny.

Seeing Oldman eating disgustingly is definitely an improvement over him farting all of the time.

I regret the fact that the ridiculous, arrogant character, who feels more like over-the-top parody than real, apparently survived.

I'm already looking forward to another mini-season.

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Happy Birthday James “Midge” Ure born October 10th 1953 in Cambuslang.

Born to a working class family Ure attended Cambuslang Primary School and Rutherglen Academy in Glasgow until he was 15 years old. For the first 10 years of his life he lived in a one-bedroom tenement flat. After leaving school Ure attended Motherwell Technical College and then began to work as an engineer, training at the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL), in nearby East Kilbride.

Midge started playing music in a Glasgow band called Stumble in 1969, before joining Salvation, a Glasgow-based group that became the bubblegum band Slik in 1974. Upset in the change of direction, Ure left the band to join the Rich Kids, a punk-pop group led by former Sex Pistol bassist Glen Matlock. The Rich Kids only released one album, 1978’s Ghosts of Princes in Towers, before breaking up later that year. Ure spent a brief time with the Misfits (not the American band) before forming Visage with drummer Rusty Egan and vocalist Steve Strange; he left the group to replace Gary Moore in Thin Lizzy, who had left in the middle of an American tour. After the tour was finished, Ure fulfilled an agreement to join Ultravox as the replacement for John Foxx.

Once he joined the band in 1980, Ure helped make Ultravox a mainstream success; during this time he also worked as a producer, making records with Steve Harley and Modern Man. In 1982, Ure released a solo single, a cover of the Walker Brothers’ hit “No Regrets”; it climbed into the U.K. Top Ten. Ure and Bob Geldof formed Band Aid, a special project to aid famine relief efforts in Ethiopia, in 1984. The two wrote the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and assembled an all-star band of musicians to record the single; it sold millions of copies over the 1984 holiday season.

In 1985, Ultravox was put on hiatus and Ure began to pursue a full-time solo career. Recorded entirely by Ure, his 1985 solo debut, The Gift, launched the number one single “If I Was,” as well as the minor hits “That Certain Smile” and “Call of the Wild.” The following year, he recorded the final Ultravox album; in 1987, the band broke up and he began recording his second solo album. The resulting record, 1988’s Answers to Nothing, was less successful than The Gift in the U.K., yet it charted in the U.S., which is something Ure’s previous album failed to do. Three years later, Ure released his third album, Pure; while it didn’t do any business in America, the album featured the Top 20 British hit “Cold, Cold Heart.” He attempted a comeback in 1996 with Breathe, which went ignored by both the American and British markets. Four years later, his score for the Jon Cryer drama-comedy Went to Coney Island was issued by the Evenmore label.

Ure’s recording activity during the 2000s began with Move Me, which featured some surprisingly hard rocking material. A few years later, he published an autobiography, If I Was, and then, with Geldof, arranged the Live 8 concerts.

Following the release of the covers-oriented 10 IN 2008, Ure participated in an Ultravox reunion and continued to record as a solo artist. Fragile was issued in 2014, and featured the Moby collaboration “Dark, Dark Night.” In 2017, he collaborated with composer Ty Unwin on the album Orchestrated, which featured orchestral reworkings of Ultravox songs, as well as songs from his solo career.

In 2020 Midge released an album Soundtrack 1978-2019, he was one of the lucky artists to have completed his tour promoting this in February that year.

Midge has recently revealed why he turned down an offer to join the Sex Pistols, telling The Telegraph that he considered that taking up the invitation from the band's manager Malcolm McLaren would have been like "joining a slightly edgier Bay City ­Rollers". He received the offer to join the fledgling punk band back in 1975, while on a visit to McCormack’s instrument hire shop in Glasgow.

In an interview published in the Telegraph he said;

"I was stopped in the street by the Clash’s manager, Bernie Rhodes, who then introduced me to Malcolm McLaren, I didn’t know who either of them was, but they literally asked me to join the Sex Pistols without even asking what I did. To me it would have been like joining a slightly edgier Bay City Rollers, so I turned them down.

On 4th October he celebrated seven decades of music with a concert at the Royal Albert Hall. He is married with four daughters and lives in Somerset.

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a continuously updating list of books I would like to read, the crossed out titles are those I’ve finished;

Crime and punishment, fyodor dostoyeysky

Where they burn books they also burn people, marcos antonio hernandez

The mind of god, dr. jay lombard

The evolution or mortality, richard joyce

The fear of the feminine, erich neumann

The yiddish policemen's union, michael chabon

Memoirs of lady trent, marie brennan

All's well, mona awad

If we were villains, M.L. Rio

The outsider, albert camus

The metamorphosis, Kafka

Sleepless nights, elizabeth hardwick

Heaven, Mieko Kawakami

The Kites, Romain Gary

House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski

How to Justify Torture, Alex Adams

Paradise Rot, Jenny Hval

The Man Who Watched The Trains Go By, Georges Simenon

The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fear and Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard

Lust For Life, Irving Stone

Existentialism From Dostoevsky to Sartre, Walter Kaufmann

A Certain Hunger, Chelsea G. Summers

The Collector, John Fowles

Frankenstein, Mary Shelly

The Resurrectionist, E.B. Hadspeth

Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest

Newsflash, Mira Grant

Seven Against Thebes, Aeschylus

Lysistrata, Aristophanes

The Wasps, Aristophranes

Smoke, Dan Vyleta

The Count of Monte-Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

Froth On The Daydream, Boris Vian

Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant

Howl’s Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones

Native Tongue, Suzette Haden Elgin

The Judas Rose, Suzette Haden Elgin

Earthsong, Suzette Haden Elgin

The Deeper The Water The Uglier The Fish, Katya Apekina

If The Body Allows It, Megan Cummings

Am I Disturbing You?, Anne Hebert

Things We Lost In The Fire, Mariana Enriquez

Nightbitch, Rachel Yoder

Parasite Eve, Hideaki Sena

The Red Market, Scott Carney

Women In The Picture, Catherine McCormack

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Who I write for

I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen 🖊️

requests - open

Actors

Rob Lowe

Ralph Macchio

C. Thomas Howell

Patrick Swayze

Tom Cruise

Matt Dillon

Emilio Estevez

Sean Astin

Corey Feldman

Josh Brolin

Corey Haim

River Phoenix

Micheal J. Fox

Andrew Mccarthy

John Cusack

Anthony Micheal Hall

Kevin Bacon

Wil Wheaton

William Zabka

Matthew Broderick

Christian Slater

Judd Nelson

Characters:

Sodapop Curtis (The Outsiders)

Billy Hicks (St. Elmo’s Fire)

Johnny Cade (The Outsiders)

Daniel Larusso (Karate Kid)

Ponyboy Curtis (The Outsiders)

Darryl Curtis (The Outsiders)

Johnny Castle (Dirty Dancing)

John Dalton (Roadhouse)

Steve Randle (The Outsiders)

Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Top Gun)

Dallas Winston (The Outsiders)

Two Bit Matthews (The Outsiders)

Kirby Keger (St. Elmo’s Fire)

Andrew Clark (Breakfast Club)

Mikey Walsh (The Goonies)

Billy Tepper (Toy Soldiers)

Clark ‘Mouth’ Devereaux (The Goonies)

Brand Walsh (The Goonies)

Les Anderson (License to Drive)

Chris Chambers (Stand By Me)

Marty McFly (Back To The Future)

Scott Howard (Teen Wolf)

Larry Wilson (Weekend at Bernie’s)

Kevin Dolenz (St. Elmo’s Fire)

Johnathon Switcher (Mannequin)

Blane McDonagh (Pretty in Pink)

Lloyd Dobler (Say Anything)

Lane Meyer (Better Off Dead)

Brian Johnson (Breakfast Club)

Ted Farmer (16 Candles)

Gary Wallace (Weird Science)

Ren McCormack (Footloose)

Willard Hewitt (Footloose)

Gordie Lachance (Stand By Me)

Joey Trotta (Toy Soldiers)

Johnny Lawerence (Karate Kid)

Ferris Bueller (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)

John Bender (Breakfast Club)

Alex Newbury (St. Elmo’s Fire)

Indian Jones (Indiana Jones Franchise)

Neil Perry (Dead Poets Society)

Charlie Dalton (Dead Poets Society)

Todd Anderson (Dead Poets Society)

Knox Overstreet (Dead Poets Society)

Benny ‘The Jet’ Rodriguez (Sandlot)

I’m sure there is more so if someone isn’t on this list, just request it, and I’ll let you know ♡

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THE 100 GREATEST SCREEN-PAIRS IN HISTORY OF WORLD CINEMA (@INDIES)!

.RAJESH KHANNA - MUMTAZ

.WALTER PIDGEON – GREER GARSON

.HUMPHREY BOGART – INGRID BERGMAN

.RICHARD BURTON – ELIZABETH TAYLOR

.ETHAN HAWKE – JULIE DELPY

.CHARLES CHAPLIN – EDNA PURVIANCE

.HUGH GRANT – JULIA ROBERTS

.KEANU REEVES – CARRIE-ANN MOSS

.RICHARD GERE - JULIA ROBERTS

.REX HARRISON – AUDREY HEPBURN

.CHARLES FARRELL – JANET GAYNOR

.CLARK GABLE – VIVIEN LEIGH

.UTTAM KUMAR – SUCHITRA SEN

.ROBERT REDFORD – BARBRA STREISAND

.DEV ANAND – WAHEEDA REHMAN

.CARY GRANT – INGRID BERGMAN

.KEANU REEVES – SANDRA BULLOCK

.GARY COOPER – INGRID BERGMAN

.JOSEPH FIENNES – GWYNETH PALTROW

.CHARLES BOYER – INGRID BERGMAN

.CARY GRANT – KATHERINE HEPBURN

.GURU DUTT – WAHEEDA REHMAN

.RAJESH KHANNA - TANUJA

.DILIP KUMAR - MADHUBALA

.TOM HANKS – MEG RYAN

.RAJESH KHANNA – SHARMILA TAGORE

.HUGH GRANT – RENEE ZELLWEGER

.SPENCOR TRACY – KATHERINE HEPBURN

.AMITABH BACHCHAN – PARVEEN BABI

.MICHEL PICCOLI – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.WOODY ALLEN – DIANE KEATON

.RAJESH KHANNA – REKHA

.MICHAEL DOUGLAS – GLENN CLOSE

.ALAIN DELON – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.ROD STEIGER – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.SHAMMI KAPOOR – ASHA PAREKH

.MARCELO MASTROIANNI – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.YVES MONTAND – SIMONE SIGNORET

.ALAIN DELON – ANNIE GIRARDOT

.JOHNNY DEPP – JULIETTE BINOCHE

.LAURENCE OLIVIER – VIVIEN LEIGH

.CLARK GABLE – JOAN CRAWFORD

.TREVOR HOWARD – CELIA JOHNSON

.PATRICK SWAYZE – JENNIFER GREY

.PREM NAZIR - SHEELA

.VINCENT CASSEL – MONICA BELLUCCI

.CLARK GABLE – AVA GARDNER

.JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.JACK LEMMON – SHIRLEY MACLAINE

.HEATH LEDGER - JULIA STILES

.ANTHONY PERKINS – INGRID BERGMAN

.TOBEY MAGUIRE – KIRSTEN DUNST

.GREGORY PECK – AUDREY HEPBURN

.TOM CRUISE – RENEE ZELLWEGER

.AMITABH BACHCHAN - REKHA

.JAMES STEWART – MARGARET SULLAVAN

.RYAN GOSLING – RACHEL MCADAMS

.PRADEEP KUMAR – MEENA KUMARI

.ROBERT MONTGOMERY – ROSALIND RUSSELL

.JOHNNY DEPP – HELENA BONHAM CARTER

.BOBBY VERNON – GLORIA SWANSON

.DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. – LORETTA YOUNG

.CLARK GABLE – CLAUDETTE COLBERT

.RAJESH KHANNA – ZEENAT AMAN

.GLENN FORD – GERALDINE PAGE

.LEONARDO DI CAPRIO – KATE WINSLET

.RAJESH KHANNA – ASHA PAREKH

.MEL GIBSON – CATHERINE MCCORMACK

.RAJ KAPOOR - NARGIS

.BRAD PITT – ANGELINA JOLIE

.CHRISTOPHER REEVE – MARGOT KIDDER

.CARY GRANT – SOPHIA LOREN

.SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE – MADHABI MUKHERJEE

.HUMPHREY BOGART – AUDREY HEPBURN

.SALMAN KHAN – AISHWARYA RAI

.ANTONIA BANDERAS – CATHERINE ZETA JONES

.RYAN O’ NEAL – BARBRA STREISAND

.JOHNNY DEPP – GWYNETH PALTROW

.MICHAEL DOUGLAS – KATHLEEN TURNER

.JAMES STEWART – CLAUDETTE COLBERT

.LAURENT MALET – ANNIE GIRARDOT

.DICK POWELL – OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

.TOMMY STEELE – GERALDINE PAGE

.GEORGE BRENT – OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

.MAURICE RONET – BRIGITTE BARDOT

.RAJESH KHANNA - SRIDEVI

.WILLIAM POWELL – MYRNA LOY

.ANTHONY PERKINS – ROMY SCHNEIDER

.MICKEY ROONEY – JUDY GARLAND

.RAJESH KHANNA - RAAKHEE

.SHAH RUKH KHAN - KAJOL

.RAAJ KUMAR – MEENA KUMARI

.MAHIPAL – ANITA GUHA

.RALPH FIENNES – JULIETTE BINOCHE

.ERROL FLYNN – OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

.JOHN BOLES – BARBARA STANWYCK

.DHARMENDRA – MEENA KUMARI

.PETER FINCH – AUDREY HEPBURN

.MARLON BRANDO – KIM HUNTER

.MAURICE RONET – ROMY SCHNEIDER .

(P.S. - THE 2 PEOPLE WITH MOST ENTRIES IN THIS LIST, ARE-

RAJESH KHANNA OF INDIA WITH 8 ENTRIES, FOLLOWED BY ROMY SCHNEIDER OF AUSTRIA/FRANCE WITH 7 ENTRIES!)

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Harold and the Purple Crayon

Scheda informativa

Titolo italiano: Il Magico Mondo di Harold

Regia: Carlos Saldanha

Cast: Alfred Molina (Narratore), Zachary Levi (Harold), Lil Rel Howery (Moose), Zooey Deschanel (Terry), Benjamin Bottani (Mel), Tanya Reynolds (Porcupine), Jemaine Clement (Gary), Pete Gardner (Detective Love), Camille Guaty (Junior Detective Silva), Ravi Patel (Prasad), Zele Avradopopoulos (Ms. Hemm), Boston William-Inez Pierce (bullo #1), Salathiel Murphy (bullo #2), Vartam (Mayhem), Brisco De Poalio (bambino nella biblioteca), Lauren Halperin (mamma del bambino nella libreria), Seth Zenn Robbins (Oscar), Catherine Davis (Kat), Michael Lee Kimel (Mark), Grace Junot (Yasmin), Jef Holbrook (employee), Mallory Hoff (anchorwoman), Elizabeth Becka (Ms. Barnaby), Phil Ortiz (Mr. Perez), Mason Douglas (ragazzino), Jasmine Thomas (cameriera), Dijon Means (cameriere), Theresa O'Shea (anziana al negozio), Baby Dro (bambino sull'elicottero), Avangeline Friedlander (bambina da Tiffy), Devin De Angelo (guardia #1), Steven McCormack (guardia #2), Carolyn Emeric (guardia #3), Hillary Harley (signora in macchina #1), Wesley Jetton (maestro), Jennifer Chung (signora in macchina #2), TJ Jackson (jogger), Stephanie Dunnam (signora dell'antiquariato), Elizabeth Carlie (signora con il cane), Danny Vinson (anziano con il bastone), Eliza Khalik (bambina al parco), Dajalinn Sanchez (testimone dell'aereo #1), Prescott Morgan (testimone dell'aereo #2), Patrice Fisher (preside), Caleb Black (prank kid #1), Brady Ryan (prank kid #2), John Mullis (anziano #1), Gerard Catus (anziano #2), Kermit Rolison (anziano #3), Mike Benitez (venditore)

Produzione: Columbia Pictures, Davis Entertainment, TSG Entertainment

Distribuzione: Sony Pictures Realising

Sceneggiatura: David Guion, Michael Handelman

Fotografia: Gabriel Beristain

Musiche: Batu Sener

Costumi:

Uscita: 21 luglio 2024 (Culver City, LA, U.S.A.), 2 agosto 2024 (U.S.A.), 12 settembre 2024 (Italia)

Durata: 90 minuti

Trama

Harold è un bambino che vive in un libro insieme ai suoi due migliori amici, Moose e Porcupine. Grazie a un pastello viola magico può far diventare reale ciò che disegna.

Quando Harold cresce, il narratore che chiama "Old Man" scompare misteriosamente, e per andare a cercarlo disegna una porta per andare nel Mondo Reale.

Recensione

Il film è un tributo all'immaginazione più pura, contenuta nel potere magico di un pastello viola ma che, se unita a un'intera scatola di altri pastelli colorati, ha un potere davvero potente. E, come dimostra il film stesso, il potere dell'immaginazione contenuto in quel singolo pastello viola è davvero immenso, perché non c'è limite a quello che una singola persona può immaginare.

I wanted to show folks that with a little imagination you can make your life whatever you want it to be. Volevo mostrare alle persone che con un po' di immaginazione puoi trasformare la tua vita in qualunque cosa tu voglia.

È una storia che insegna a usare la propria fantasia per rendere felici le persone che ci stanno attorno, in quanto già il mondo reale è pieno di crudeltà e tristezza. Ma è anche una storia che dimostra quanto, oltre che la fantasia e l'immaginazione, è necessario impegnarsi. Per raggiungere i propri obiettivi occorre anche tenere i piedi per terra e la testa sulle spalle: l'immaginazione deve aiutare ad addolcire le difficoltà che si incontrano nel scalare la vetta, senza sostituirsi al mondo reale perché, in tal caso, sarà qualcun altro a scrivere la tua storia. A condire il tutto vi è anche l'importanza dell'amicizia, e in particolare quella verache nei momenti più difficili ti viene ad aiutare senza farselo ripetere due volte.

Because life isn't just something that happens to you, it's something you create. The trick is in the imagining. Perché la vita non è solo qualcosa che ti capita, ma è qualcosa che crei. Il trucco è nell'immaginazione.

È una commedia dalla trama molto lineare e divertente, che segue la linea viola tracciata dal pastello di Harold donatogli dal suo creatore Crockett Johnson. Belli sono gli effetti speciali, ma ottimo è l'uso dell'animazione.

Valutazione

★★★★★ 5/5

Note aggiuntive

La storia è tratta dall'omonimo libro per bambini scritto da Crockett Johnson, ed è da considerarsi come il suo sequel.

L'azienda statunitense Crayola ha stretto una partnership con Sony cogliendo la palla al balzo per promuovere il film, lanciando il concorso "Find the purple crayon" in stile Willy Wonka e la Fabbrica di Cioccolato: Harold ha nascosto dei pastelli speciali all'interno delle confezioni da 24 pastelli. Si tratta di una caccia nazionale sul territorio statunitense, che può vedere una famiglia vincere una vacanza a New York City e visitare la Crayola experience, o altri premi tra i quali una TV Sony o bundle di prodotti viola Crayola.

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Who has been nominated for a NTA Award?

The NTA longlist was unveiled on Tuesday 21st May.

New Drama

A Gentleman in Moscow

After The Flood

Baby Reindeer

Breathtaking

Coma

Criminal Record

Fallout

Fifteen-Love

Fool Me Once

Hijack

Interview with the Vampire

Mary & George

Masters of the Air

Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Murder Is Easy

One Day

Passenger

Red Eye

Renegade Nell

Shardlake

Shōgun

The Couple Next Door

The Long Shadow

The Marlow Murder Club

The Reckoning

The Sixth Commandment

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

The Woman in the Wall

Wilderness

Wolf

Drama Performance

Adeel Akhtar, DS Sami Kierce, Fool Me Once

Aidan Turner, Glenn Lapthorn, Fifteen-Love

Ambika Mod, Emma Morley, One Day

Anna Próchniak, Gita, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Anne Reid, Ann Moore-Martin, The Sixth Commandment

Arthur Hughes, Matthew Shardlake, Shardlake

Ashley Jensen, DI Ruth Calder, Shetland

Ashley Walters, Dushane Hill, Top Boy

Austin Butler, Major Gale 'Buck' Cleven, Masters of the Air

Brenda Blethyn, DCI Vera Stanhope, Vera

Callum Turner, Major John 'Bucky' Egan, Masters of the Air

Cliff Parisi, Fred Buckle, Call the Midwife

Cosmo Jarvis, John Blackthorne, Shōgun

Cush Jumbo, DS June Lenker, Criminal Record

Danielle Macdonald, Helen Chambers, The Tourist

Daryl McCormack, Detective Colman Akande, The Woman In The Wall

David Tennant, The Fourteenth Doctor, Doctor Who

David Jonsson, Luke Fitzwilliam, Murder Is Easy

Dominic West, Charles, Prince of Wales, The Crown

Eleanor Tomlinson, Evie, The Couple Next Door

Ella Lily Hyland, Justine Pearce, Fifteen-Love

Ella Purnell, Lucy MacLean, Fallout

Emilia Fox, Nikki Alexander, Silent Witness

Ewan McGregor, Count Alexander Rostov, A Gentleman in Moscow

Gary Oldman, Jackson Lamb, Slow Horses

Gemma Whelan, Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins, The Tower

Georgie Glen, Miss Millicent Higgins, Call the Midwife

Idris Elba, Sam Nelson, Hijack

Imelda Staunton, Queen Elizabeth II, The Crown

Jacob Anderson, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Interview with the Vampire

Jamie Dornan, Elliot Stanley, The Tourist

Jared Harris, Hari Seldon, Foundation

Jason Watkins, Simon, Coma

Jenna Coleman, Liv Taylor, Wilderness

Jennifer Aniston, Alex Levy, The Morning Show

Jeremy Allen White, Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto, The Bear

Jessica Gunning, Martha, Baby Reindeer

Jing Lusi, DC Hana Li, Red Eye

Joanne Froggatt, Dr Abbey Henderson, Breathtaking

Jonah Hauer-King, Lali, The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Julianne Moore, Mary Villiers, Mary & George

Kane Robinson, Gerald 'Sully' Sullivan, Top Boy

Katherine Kelly, Emily Jackson, The Long Shadow

Angela Van den Bogerd, Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Kris Marshall, Humphrey Goodman, Beyond Paradise

Leo Woodall, Dexter Mayhew, One Day

Lesley Sharp, DI Hannah Laing, Before We Die

Louisa Harland, Nell Jackson, Renegade Nell

Luke Newton, Colin Bridgerton, Bridgerton

Martin Short, Oliver Putnam, Only Murders in the Building

Michelle Keegan, Maya Stern, Fool Me Once

Monica Dolan, Jo Hamilton, Mr Bates vs The Post Office

Ncuti Gatwa, The Fifteenth Doctor, Doctor Who

Nicholas Galitzine, George Villiers, Mary & George

Nicholas Ralph, James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small

Nicola Coughlan, Penelope Featherington, Bridgerton

Nicola Walker, DI Annika Strandhed, Annika

Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Will, Wilderness

Paapa Essiedu, George, The Lazarus Project

Peter Capaldi, DCI Daniel Hegarty, Criminal Record

Ralf Little, DI Neville Parker, Death in Paradise

Reese Witherspoon, Bradley Jackson, The Morning Show

Richard Armitage, Dr Matthew Nolan, Red Eye

Joe Burkett, Fool Me Once

Richard Gadd, Donny Dunn, Baby Reindeer

Robert Carlyle, Robert Sutherland, COBRA: Rebellion

Ruth Wilson, Lorna Brady, The Woman In The Wall

Sam Heughan, Danny, The Couple Next Door

Sam Reid, Lestat de Lioncourt, Interview with the Vampire

Samantha Bond, Judith Potts, The Marlow Murder Club

Selena Gomez, Mabel Mora, Only Murders in the Building

Siân Brooke, Grace Ellis, Blue Lights

Sonequa Martin-Green, Captain Michael Burnham, Star Trek: Discovery

Sophie Rundle, PC Joanna Marshall, After The Flood

Steve Coogan, Jimmy Savile, The Reckoning

Steve Martin, Charles-Haden Savage, Only Murders in the Building

Suranne Jones, Amy Silva, Vigil

Timothy Spall, Peter Farquhar, The Sixth Commandment

Toby Jones, Alan Bates, Mr Bates vs The Post Office

DCS Dennis Hoban, The Long Shadow

Tom Hiddleston, Loki, Loki

Ukweli Roach, DI Jack Caffery, Wolf

Vicky McClure, Lana Washington, Trigger Point

Wunmi Mosaku, DI Riya Ajunwa, Passenger

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Shows and individuals are nominated in the longlist for the 2024 National Television Awards. This year is so competitive 😉

Posted 22nd May 2024

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Birthdays 2.8

Beer Birthdays

Lüder Rutenberg; Beck's co-founder (1816)

A.J. Houghton (1830)

Andrew MacElhone; owner of Harry's New York Bar, Paris (1923)

Pat Mace (1960)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Samuel Butler; English poet (1612)

Charles Ruggles; actor (1886)

Joseph A. Schumpeter; economist (1883)

Bruce Timm; cartoonist, animator (1961)

Jules Verne; science fiction writer (1828)

Famous Birthdays

Brooke Adams; actor (1949)

Elizabeth Bishop; poet (1911)

Martin Buber; German writer, theologian (1878)

Richard Burton; English writer (1577)

Jim Capaldi; rock musician (1944)

Neal Cassady; writer (1926)

Kate Chopin; writer (1851)

Susan Clark; actor (1940)

Gary Coleman; actor (1968)

James Dean; actor (1931)

Edith Evans; actor (1888)

Seth Green; actor, comedian (1974)

John Grisham; writer (1955)

Bridgette Kerkove; porn actress (1977)

Robert Klein; comedian (1942)

Ted Koppel; television journalist (1940)

Alice Kramden; "Honeymooners'" tv character

Jack Larson; actor (1933)

Jack Lemmon; actor (1925)

Mathilda May; actor (1965)

Mary McCormack; actor (1969)

Audrey Meadows; actor (1926)

Dmitri Mendeleev; chemist (1834)

Buddy Morrow; bandleader (1919)

Vince Neil; rock musician (1961)

Nick Nolte; actor (1941)

Henry Roth; writer (1909)

John Rushkin; English writer, critic (1819)

Dan Seals; pop singer (1948)

William Tecumseh Sherman; Union general (1820)

Kimbo Slice; mixed martial artist (1974)

Mary Steenburgen; actor (1953)

Abi Titmuss; English model (1976)

Lana Turner; actor (1921)

Elbert King" Vidor; film director (1888)

John Williams; composer (1932)

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New Star Trek Explorer stories collection out in January

Titan will publish Star Trek "The Mission" & Other Stories, a collection of short stories from Star Trek Explorer next month, featuring tales from 2000AD’s Michael Carroll, longtime Star Trek authors Greg Cox, Una McCormack, and more.

Titan will publish Star Trek “The Mission” & Other Stories, a collection of short stories from Star Trek Explorer next month, featuring tales from 2000AD’s Michael Carroll, longtime Star Trek authors Greg Cox, Una McCormack, and more. The short fiction collection is edited by Jonathan Wilkins, mainly stories commissioned by John Freeman that were first published in Star Trek Explorer, some…

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Cindy Hinds in The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)

Cast: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Fitzgerald, Cindy Hinds, Susan Hogan, Gary McKeehan, Michael Magee, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Shaw, Larry Solway, Reiner Schwarz. Screenplay: David Cronenberg. Cinematography: Mark Irwin. Art direction: Carol Spier. Film editing: Alan Collins. Music: Howard Shore. 

Creepy children have become a staple of horror movies ever since Patty McCormack terrorized everyone as Rhoda Penmark in The Bad Seed (Mervyn LeRoy, 1956). The key here is the depiction of evil lurking behind a façade of innocence. Actually, the creepy child in The Brood is not Candice Carveth (Cindy Hinds), an otherwise ordinary 5-year-old, except as a vehicle for bringing out the creepy childlike creatures that are the movie's menace. It's a good, bloody, somewhat queasy film that plays on all sorts of phobias, including our suspicions about psychiatrists, and our tolerance for bodily functions. It proved too much for some of its early critics, including Roger Ebert, who dismissed it as an exploitation film, "reprehensible trash," and a bore. It may be the first, and perhaps the second -- given that one person's trash is another person's genre classic -- but it's certainly not the last. David Cronenberg is an insidious filmmaker, who constantly plays on our nerves without resorting to cheap jump scares. He makes you back off at times: In the scene that made most people feel at least faintly nauseated, I found myself saying, "It's only corn syrup and food coloring." We may also debate whether the film is fair to the psychiatric profession and even if there's a touch of antifeminism, but that means he's left you with something to think about. To dismiss The Brood as exploitative is to overlook the satire with which it's laced. 

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Sharing Birthday drinks with the legend that is Gary Mccormack who is 62 today and looking great!

Gary was a member of the Edinburgh punk band Exploited for a time before taking to acting and sharing the big screen with the likes of Leonardo Dicaprio, Daniel Day Lewis and a host of stars in Gangs of New York, Irvine Welsh's Acid House with Michelle Gomez and Sweet 16, which launched Martin Compstons career, as well as a regular in River City, Gary also had a small part in Outlaw King. That's Gary between Dicaprio and Day- Lewis. He has left the acting business and is now a security guard on night shift at Edinburgh Zoo, which he says is a brilliant job.

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M&A Source Announces Top Performing Advisors & Firms of 2022

The Spring Conference + Deal Market, hosted in Orlando, FL, by M&A Source®, the premier trade association for lower middle market transaction advisors, saw the announcement of the award winners for 2022 deal activity. The awards recognized outstanding performance at both the individual and firm levels, as well as commendable collaborations with private equity and service provider firms. “It is with great pleasure that we acknowledge the hard work and excellence of our largest awards group yet,” stated Kylene Golubski, M&A Source Executive Director. “These individuals and firms represent some of the best professionals in the lower middle market and we congratulate them on their success.” The event served as a platform to recognize and celebrate the achievements of these exceptional professionals, highlighting their contributions to the field of lower middle market transactions. It showcased the industry's commitment to excellence, collaboration, and service, while providing valuable networking opportunities for attendees. Below is a list of categories and recipients: Executive Club Presented to all deal makers that have completed sell–side or buy–side deals totaling more than $5M in combined enterprise value in the prior calendar year. The M&A Source is pleased to congratulate: Andrew Brown PACIFIC MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, INC Valerie Vaughn APEX BUSINESS ADVISORS Lisa Riley DELTA BUSINESS ADVISORS Eric James Gall EDISON BUSINESS ADVISORS, LLC Steven Niehaus EDISON BUSINESS ADVISORS, LLC Kara Gibson Brzytwa EXIT EQUITY, LLC Gary Papay IBG BUSINESS Katrina Loftin M&A BUSINESS ADVISORS Craig White PACIFIC MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, INC. Jeff MacAdam THE BRIDLEBROOK GROUP Samuel Thompson TRANSITIONS IN BUSINESS Tony Khoury TRANSWORLD BUSINESS ADVISORS OF EASTERN NC Tina Wright TRANSWORLD BUSINESS ADVISORS OF RALEIGH Jason Ward TRUVIEW BUSINESS ADVISORS Baris Guler VR BUSINESS BROKERS, M&A Jeffrey Elder INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EXCHANGE M&A Source Advisor of the Year Presented to the one deal maker who has the highest combined enterprise value of completed deals in the previous calendar year. The M&A Source is pleased to congratulate: Robert McCormack MURPHY MCCORMACK CAPITAL ADVISORS M&A Source Collaboration Award Presented to an M&A advisor that has completed a deal with a PE firm that attended at least 1 Deal Market event in the previous year and/or works with one of the sponsors to complete a deal. The M&A Source is pleased to congratulate: Charles Mullins, III QUIET LIGHT BROKERAGE Rob Margeton RYCO ADVISORS, LLC The M&A Source Top Firm of the Year Awarded to the firms that have the highest total enterprise value of completed deals for the previous calendar year. The M&A Source is pleased to congratulate: Marsh Creek Advisors 1 PERSON Mertz Taggart 2-5 PERSON FIRM Murphy McCormack Capital Advisors 5-10 PERSON FIRM Blue River Financial Group 10+ PERSON FIRM The Zabel Companies PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM OF THE YEAR Platinum Club Presented to all deal makers that have completed sell–side or buy–side deals totaling more than $15M in combined enterprise value in the calendar year. The M&A Source is pleased to congratulate: Roland Davis DAVIS BUSINESS APPRAISERS Dean McDonald WALDEN BUSINESSES, INC. Erica Lewandowski COASTAL BUSINESS INTERMEDIARIES ​Sean Brelsford AGENCY BROKERAGE CONSULTANTS Stephen Wain CALDER ASSOCIATES, INC. Brenda Sali COASTAL BUSINESS INTERMEDIARIES ​Jason Salisbury CORNERSTONE BUSINESS SERVICES, INC. Jim Afinowich IBG / FOX & FIN Jay M. Inbar INBAR GROUP, INC. Charles Harvey INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EXCHANGE, INC. Gary Rogers KINGSLEY GROUP John Marsh MARSH CREEK ADVISORS Cory Mertz MERTZ TAGGART Russell Cohen MURPHY BUSINESS Russell Miller MURPHY BUSINESS & FINANCIAL CORPORATION OF NJ Cliff Brown MURPHY MCCORMACK CAPITAL ADVISORS Robert McCormack MURPHY MCCORMACK CAPITAL ADVISORS Jack Schroeder MURPHY MCCORMACK CAPITAL ADVISORS Charles Mullins III QUIET LIGHT BROKERAGE Robert Margeton RYCO ADVISORS, LLC Faraaz Ali ​THE RAIVAX GROUP, INC. Randy J. Bring TRANSWORLD BUSINESS ADVISORS Gerald G. Brisson TRANSWORLD BUSINESS ADVISORS OF HOUSTON Michael Wildeveld THE VELD GROUP Teija Heikkila PET|VET M&A, SALES AND ADVISORY William Loftis BLUE RIVER FINANCIAL GROUP Christopher Wozniak QUIET LIGHT BROKERAGE Bradley G Marlor UTAH BUSINESS CONSULTANTS Read the full article