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Emmy Award Winning Producer & Film Historian Jud Newborn | Tales From Hollywoodland

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Emmy Award Winning Producer & Film Historian Jud Newborn | Tales From Hollywoodland

Dive into the latest episode of Tales From Hollywoodland, where we welcome Emmy Award-winning producer and renowned film historian, Dr. Jud Newborn. Join us for an engaging conversation as Dr. Newborn shares his fascinating insights into the world of film history, his experiences as a producer, and the stories behind Hollywood’s golden era. Discover behind-the-scenes anecdotes, the art of storytelling, and the impact of cinema on culture and society. Whether you’re a movie buff or just love captivating stories, this episode is a must-listen for fans of Hollywood’s rich legacy. Don’t miss it!

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Oliver Wood (2) Masterlist

part one

All I Want to do Right Now (ao3) - orphan_account hermione/oliver M, 24k

Summary: Marcus had told himself this so many times, he wasn’t gay. He just couldn’t be gay. But Oliver Wood had his attention and as much as he hated it, he did feel a way about him he shouldn’t.

Catch Your Breath (And Maybe Mine While You’re at It) (ao3) - tamerofdarkstars marcus/oliver T, 14k

Summary: Between the weirdness with the Bludgers, the Dementors that aren’t staying put at the school gates, and the fear that drives the breath from his lungs whenever he thinks too long about how terrible he’s doing in Charms, Marcus Flint is having a hell of a year.

And that’s not even mentioning that little skip his heart keeps doing whenever Oliver Wood tosses a grin his way.

Could It Be? (ao3) - Thenewmrsweasley hermione/oliver N/R, 24k

Summary: Hermione works for the twins in their joke shop. When one of their old friends starts working with her will she be the cool collected girl everyone has known to love, or will her fear of rejection keep her from staying that way?

Disillusionment (ao3) - Glass Wolf (tlanon) percy/oliver T, 7k

Summary: Oliver Wood and Percy Weasley reconnect after the war.

Hell Island (ao3) - Miraphina Atherton (mew_tsubaki) oliver/charlie T, 3k

Summary: Oliver knows one thing: Distractions rarely serve a Quidditch player well.

Hidden Shame (ao3) - relativelyscorpius percy/oliver G, 3k

Summary: Percy Weasley and Oliver Wood have been dating in secret since their Third-Year at Hogwarts and none of the Weasleys know about it. After Gryffindor win the Quidditch House Cup, Ginny overhears Oliver ask Percy if they can have some alone time and worries that her older brother is being forced to stay silent.

Upon confronting him, it becomes apparent that Oliver isn't the one that's ashamed ... it's Percy.

love the way you love me back (ao3) - slyther_ing marcus/oliver M, 16k

Summary: Weddings and marriages aren’t forever, his grandmother always said - but with the way Oliver is glowing across from him, Marcus is pretty sure that statement doesn’t apply to them.

(In which Marcus knows he doesn’t live in a fairy tale, but Oliver is better than any happy ending he could’ve imagined.)

Open Your Eyes (ao3) - sugarshake24 katie/oliver T, 41k

Summary: Katie Bell and Oliver Wood are best friends and roommates, living together following their Hogwarts days. Oliver is the starting Keeper for Puddlemere United and Katie is engaged to a coworker. As her wedding approaches, the two must confront their inner feelings before it's too late.

Our Story (ao3) - KrysKrossZee oliver/charlie M, 6k

Summary: Oliver has fallen for his roommate and George has decided that he needs to do something about it.

Pictures Of You (ao3) - MandyinKC katie/oliver T, 59k

Summary: Oliver Wood has carried a torch for Katie Bell since her 15th birthday, but has never done anything about it. He thinks now might be the right time to change that, but will the war get in the way?

Quidditch Stars Oliver Wood and Marcus Flint on Coming Out Together: Exclusive Tell-All (Daily Prophet, August 3rd, 2001) (ao3) - sleepstxtic marcus/oliver E, 11k

Summary: How Oliver Wood and Marcus Flint fell in love, as told through scenes from their lives and an interview with the Daily Prophet.

Tell Me How to Fall in Love the Way You Want Me To (ao3) - saturdaychild29 hermione/oliver G, 9k

Summary: Oliver’s back in town because after retiring from Quidditch at the ripe old age of 31, he has absolutely no idea what to do with himself. Hermione’s a famous author—having documented the exploits of the Golden Trio. Recently, she’s embarked on a new life course. But, even with a new position within the Ministry and some old friends to keep her grounded, something still feels like it’s missing. Add in some meddling Weasleys and nothing goes as planned.

The Oliver Wood School of Flight (ao3) - hollywoodland hermione/oliver E, 2k

Summary: With Oliver as instructor, Hermione learns more at remedial flying lessons than she ever expected.

The Perfect Match (ao3) - lady_mahadevi marcus/oliver T, 2k

Summary: Nothing gets to Oliver quite like Quidditch does.

the Wrong Number (ao3) - IAM_Kneazle (writing_as_tracey), writing_as_tracey oliver/katie, hermione/oliver M, 7k

Summary: While trying to send his crush a text message, Oliver Wood misses a number and sends a text message to someone else… someone who might actually be who he’s looking for.

two’s company, three’s a crowd (ao3) - findingmywednesday marcus/percy/oliver, marcus/oliver T, 5k

Summary: When the wizarding world was made aware of a third person in Marcus and Oliver’s relationship, people did not give the same reaction, to say the least. Witches and wizards and wixen all over disapproved; another man in the relationship? It was unseemly. And Percy Weasley, a gangly, nerdy, government worker? Why on earth would those two Quidditch gods choose Percy Weasley?

What Pride Doesn’t Know (ao3) - igrockspock percy/oliver G, 3k

Summary: How Percy Weasley came to dance with Oliver Wood at Ginny’s wedding is a long story, and he may have forgotten to tell his family a few parts of it – like how he’s gay, and in a relationship with a man.

World Cup of Memories (ao3) - Errarevox percy/oliver T, 1k

Summary: Percy and Oliver discover that opposites attract during the World Cup.

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Ben Affleck: Greek Tragedy

I'm fascinated by his tragedy.

I was watching this 2006 interview of Ben Affleck on The View, where he talks about his role as the actor George Reeves, in Hollywoodland. He's just won "Best Actor" for this role at the Venice Film Festival.

Interviewer: "It's a story about George Reeves, who played Superman on TV, and then his mysterious death. When you first read the script, what were your thoughts?" Ben Affleck: "Uhm, you know, when I first read the script, I thought, oh, this is a great role. I hope they hire me. That was kind of my first thought, to be honest, because it was just such a clearly powerful thing.

The guy was so famous for being Superman and so uncomfortable with that. He didn't like it, wanted to be a serious actor, and was so pained by that. He had this kind of...humiliation...but he bore it with such dignity, and there's something really tragic about that. Everywhere he went, all the time, he was reminded of the thing that just made him shudder and feel inadequate and humiliated. He had to kind of keep it together. He always felt that he would have been a greater actor. He wanted to be a serious actor. He had the talent.

It’s a powerful parallel and adds a layer of poignancy to Ben Affleck’s career. His understanding of George Reeves’ struggle—the feeling of being trapped in a role, the yearning for artistic legitimacy, and the humiliation of being reduced to a caricature—is deeply personal, reflecting an intimate knowledge of how fame can become both a gift and a curse. Affleck’s empathy for Reeves wasn’t just an actor interpreting a role; it was a man who seemed to foresee, or perhaps already experience, the toll fame can take on one's sense of self.

Ben’s own career arc echoes this. Early fame as a heartthrob and an Oscar winner (with Good Will Hunting) set the stage for great expectations, but his rocky path through Hollywood—with roles that received both acclaim and ridicule—mirrors the tragic hero’s journey. The highs of Argo and winning another Oscar as a director show his desire to be taken seriously as an artist, similar to how Reeves longed for acknowledgment beyond the Superman persona.

But then there’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), where Affleck stepped into the role of an icon, only to face a backlash that was entirely outside his control. His portrayal was nuanced, bringing depth to a darker, weary Bruce Wayne, but the context of a poorly received movie franchise and relentless media scrutiny overshadowed the effort. The “Sad Affleck” meme became emblematic, almost like a chorus in a Greek tragedy, amplifying his pain to the audience.

Affleck’s life, like a tragic hero’s, is full of hubris and vulnerability. His battles with alcoholism, the exhaustion evident in his interactions with the paparazzi, and the way his personal struggles have been turned into public spectacle—these are all elements of tragedy where the hero is brought low, not solely by his own actions, but by the forces and expectations around him. The constant visibility and pressure to maintain composure, while also battling inner demons, reflect the same “humiliation with dignity” he described in Reeves.

It’s haunting, really. Ben’s trajectory feels like a modern tragedy, his personal and professional struggles intertwined with the roles he’s taken on. The idea of being haunted by a role, as Reeves was with Superman and Affleck with Batman, is such a vivid metaphor for the curse of fame. It’s as if both men were trapped in their own armor—symbols of strength that ended up shackling them.

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38.

He’s spiraling in Sacramento, snakebitten and heartsick. He’s resisting the urge to hurl a haymaker through the interview microphones being shoved under his chin. He’s leaving opaque messages for Scully and petitioning wide-eyed prison waifs. He’s glued to the tube in the dark.

Scully tracks him down, ever his pissy guardian angel, her voice of reason rattling around his skull like a marble. But there are other voices, too: Laura and Addie and Karen-Ann. Michelle, Amy, Lucy, Madison. Allison and Gabriela and Faith, Yesenia, Stephanie, Brianna, Rachel, Ayala, Rosa-Maria, Sylvia. Gloria, Kylie, Francine.

Emily. Samantha. Amber-Lynn.

Teena.

For decades, he and his mother have circled one another like wary street dogs; approached one another in the fussy, skittish way an orangutan approaches her reflection in the primatologist's mirror. But nevertheless, they’ve always had a preternatural understanding of one another, something muscle-deep and primal, something intimate and spiritual.

So when Scully delivers the news of her demise, soft and straightforward, the first feeling he can identify is confusion—shouldn’t he have felt it? Shouldn’t he have known?

-

Sleeping pills, gas turned to 10, towels taped to the door frames. His sister’s singed face peering up from a trash bin time capsule.

This can’t be his mother’s work. His elegant mother, who wore velvet house slippers and oleander cologne. Surely she’d do something more poetic. She’d leap from the Hollywoodland sign or the 86th floor of the Empire State. She’d get herself drowned off of Catalina Island.

He paces the asylum-white halls of her home and thinks of her body, her broad-shouldered body that assembled him over 42 weeks, manufacturing him from Lobster Thermidor, Cobb salad, a nightly glass of chilled Viognier. He thinks of her manicured hands that sifted calmingly through his hair as a wizened doctor plucked shards of gravel from his bloodied knees. He thinks and paces and thinks and paces until he works himself up into a quasi-Oedipal obsession with her skin, her eyes, the polar hue of her hair. He doesn’t want anybody touching her but Scully.

-

Scully, who is honest-to-God. Scully, who, with a handful of words, makes it all real.

-

His mother, an unlit cigarette dangling from her bottom lip like she was a Midwestern cowgirl in a past life, braiding Sam’s hair on the sand-whipped front porch. His mother, lighting the menorah in the north-facing window, her face warm and plump and quiet in the candlelight. His mother, the only other person who could possibly understand what it’s been like.

-

Scully makes him coffee. He slams the billiard ball coat rack into the wall. He digs out old family photo albums. He vomits three times. She lets him fuck her on a pile of unfolded laundry, and he gets embarrassed at the maudlin way he weeps into her breasts afterwards. He realizes he knows next to nothing about his mother’s youth. Scully sits on the ledge of the bathroom sink and carefully shaves his jaw. Scully toasts him a bagel. Scully scrubs his back in the shower.

Scully answers the door. Scully refuses to let him go it alone.

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Incrementum

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The Golden Globes were on Sunday and this year I had the honor to help host the red carpet. I had such an amazing time getting to meet and talk to some of my heroes in this industry. I’m not sure I could pick a favorite person that I interviewed, but I could tell you my favorite moment from the night was when I walked into the Beverly Hilton Hotel before the show started and within seconds Beyoncé had complimented my dress. I’m not really sure what happened after that, but I do know I immediately dropped to the ground and sat on the floor for a few minutes, my sister Paulina made sure to get a picture of me sitting in shock. I think I’m still in shock, so while I recover fill me in on life. How was everyone’s weekend? @hollywoodland-hqs​

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Karen David Interview for In Hollywoodland | ABFF 2020

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How long have you been roleplaying? Ten years! I started in 2010 in the Glee RPC, what a time that was.

What are your hobbies outside of writing? I read off and on, depending on my mood. And I watch an insane amount of tv, usually just rewatching New Girl and Friends constantly.

Do you have any pets? Tell us about them! I do! I have a poodle/bichon mix, her name is Sadie. I’ve had her for ten years and she’s going to be 12 in August. I call her my little old lady.

If you had a month of free time to learn to do something new, what would you choose? Learn to play guitar! I’ve always wanted to, but never taken the time.

Do you listen to music while you write? What are three songs on your playlist? I always have spotify going, but I don’t have any specific songs. Right now I’m listening to a playlist called Country Gold with Unforgettable by Thomas Rhett playing.

What’s a favorite recent youtube video/channel? I don’t really watch anything on youtube other than music videos and interviews of my faves.

Tell us one random fact about you! I’m pretty sure 90% of my body is made up of Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, and any of the Flaming Hot chips due to how much I have of them. 

Who is an FC you’ve always wanted to use but haven’t yet? It’s been Daniel Diemer since I watched The Half of It but he has no resources yet.

What’s a plot you’ve always wanted to write but haven’t yet? I would love to do a successful poly ship one day! I got a taste of it once, but it never really went anywhere and ended very quickly.

Do you have a favorite plot you’ve seen someone else in the group do? The Vanessa in me wants to say watching Natom happen.

Who on the dash makes you smile? I love everyone in this group, you’ve all made me smile at some point. But I’ll give special shout outs to @ohlizzo @itsnataliadyr @tmhclland @ariagrans @joekcery @diannahq because they’re amazing writers but they’re also amazing admins. No one understands how much work goes into keeping a group running smoothly, but they work their asses off and I love getting to watch them thrive ic and ooc. 

What is your favorite memory in the group? Oh, man. Trying to narrow that down is so hard. I loved the earthquake/power outage event, it was a fun way to pair people up. I also loved all the Riverdale drama from last year that we were all so involved in, it was a lot of fun to write out.

What’s your favorite thing about your celeb(s)? Vanessa is so laid back but at the same time so passionate, especially for equality and BLM which I really, really love and respect so much. I personally don’t talk about BLM on my Vanessa because as a white woman, I don’t feel like it’s my place to pretend to be a woman of color talking about it. 

What’s a plot you miss? Kenari, definitely Kenari. But I also miss a lot of my old stuff on Vanessa. The clean slate is fun, but sometimes I miss the history I had built on her for nearly two years. 

What would you love to see this group do in the future? I love AU weeks, personally.

@hollywoodland-hqs​

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All of The Movies I’ve Seen With the Actors From The Outsiders In Them, Besides The Outsiders

(As of September 30, 2019)

Tom Cruise

Endless Love

Taps

Losin’ It

Risky Business

All the Right Moves

Legend 

Top Gun

Cocktail

Rain Man

Born on the Fourth of July

Days of Thunder

Far and Away

A Few Good Men

The Firm

Interview with the Vampire

Mission: Impossible

Jerry Maguire

Eyes Wide Shut

Mission: Impossible II

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Vanilla Sky

Minority Report

The Last Samurai

Collateral

War of the Worlds

Mission: Impossible III

Tropic Thunder

Valkyrie

Knight and Day

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Rock of Ages

Jack Reacher

Oblivion

Edge of Tomorrow

Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

The Mummy

American Made

Mission: Impossible - Fallout

Rob Lowe

Class

The Hotel New Hampshire

Oxford Blues

St. Elmo’s Fire

Youngblood

About Last Night...

Square Dance

Masquerade

Bad Influence

If the Shoe Fits

The Dark Backward

Wayne’s World

The Finest Hour

Tommy Boy

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Outrage

Thank You For Smoking

Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming

Behind the Candelabra

Sex Tape

Monster Trucks

The Bad Seed

Matt Dillon

Over the Edge

My Bodygaurd

Liar’s Moon

Tex

Rumble Fish

The Flamingo Kid

The Big Town

Drugstore Cowboy

Beautiful Girls

Wild Things

There’s Something About Mary

Crash

Herbie Fully Loaded

Sunlight Jr.

The House That Jack Built

Emilio Estevez

Badlands

In the Custody of Strangers

Tex

Repo Man

The Breakfast Club

St. Elmo’s Fire

That Was Then... This Is Now

Young Guns

Men at Work

The Mighty Ducks

Mission: Impossible

The Way

The Public

Patrick Swayze

Grandview, U.S.A.

Red Dawn

Youngblood

Dirty Dancing

Road House

Ghost 

Point Break

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar

One Last Dance

C Thomas Howell

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Grandview, U.S.A.

Red Dawn

Secret Admirer

The Hitcher

That Night

Payback

Killer Bees

The Amazing Spider-Man

Diane Lane

Rumble Fish

The Cotton Club

The Big Town

Chaplin

Under the Tuscan Sun

Hollywoodland

Inside Out

Ralph Macchio

The Karate Kid

Teachers

My Cousin Vinny

A Little Game

Michelle Meyrink

Valley Girl

Revenge of the Nerds

Real Genius

Darren Dalton

Red Dawn

Daddy

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This Dodgeball Star Is Gorgeous Once You Remove Her Fake Teeth

This Dodgeball Star Is Gorgeous Once You Remove Her Fake Teeth

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Top Rated Celebrities and Most Popular Celebrities, Walt Hollywood Pictures Celebrities, This Dodgeball Star Is Gorgeous Once You Remove Her Fake Teeth.

A Wrinkle In Time Film Celebrity News 2017 Official News film production Walt Hollywood Studios The Walt Hollywood Studios is an American film studio, one of the four major businesses of The Walt Hollywood Company and the main component of its Studio Entertainment segment. The studio, best known for its multi-faceted film division, which is one of Hollywood’s major film studios, is based at the eponymous Walt Hollywood Studios in Burbank, California.

Who married Sleeping Beauty?

Prince Phillip tells his father that he has met a young woman in the forest and that he will marry her, against his father’s will. Unbeknownst to Hubert, this young woman is Aurora under the disguise of “Briar Rose”, the fake identity the fairies have given her to protect her from Maleficent.

How many official Hollywood princesses are there?

As of 2017, the eleven characters considered part of the franchise are Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, and Merida. The franchise has released dolls, sing-along videos, apparel, home decor, toys, and a variety of other products featuring the Hollywood Princesses.

What is Hollywoodland Resort?

Enjoy even more Hollywood magic on select attractions in one of the parks before it opens with Extra Magic Hour—available each morning to Guests of the 3 Hotels of the Hollywoodland Resort! Valid theme park admission required.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story joined the ranks of other beloved sports comedy films like Caddyshack, Kingpin, and The Sandlot in 2004. Led by movie stars Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller, this flick boasted an impressive cast of other famous faces, including an unrecognizable Missi Pyle as Fran Stalinovskovichdavidovitchsky

This mid-2000s classic centers on Peter LaFleur’s Average Joe’s Gym and its ongoing rivalry with the neighboring fitness chain Globo Gym, owned by White Goodman. When Average Joe’s faces foreclosure and demolition, Peter enters the Dodgeball Championships in Las Vegas with a team full of misfits to earn enough money to save his business from White. Standing in Peter’s way is White’s team of elite players, including the “Romanovian” dodgeball champion Fran.

Even those readers who can quote Dodgeball word-for-word may not have recognized the gorgeous actress behind Fran, who underwent a major transformation in her portrayal of the scene-stealing character via brunette side buns, a fake mole, a unibrow, and bad teeth.

However, in real life, Pyle is a blonde bombshell and prolific on-screen talent, so chances are you’ve seen her other work.

As a major player in film and television, 46-year-old Pyle is a hilarious, go-to character actress in Hollywood. According to her IMDb page, she’s accumulated an astounding 170 credits to her name over the last two decades. Some of her other notable gigs include appearances in films like Galaxy Quest and Anchorman, as well as appearances on the small screen on shows like Friends, Frasier, and Soul Man.

And she shows no signs of slowing down. Besides returning for season 2 of the hit YouTube series Impulse, she’s already scheduled to appear in at least six films and TV movies in 2019, including Deported, Ma, and Ghosting.

During an interview with The A.V. Club in 2016, Pyle revealed that she went the whole nine yards when auditioning for her fan-favorite Dodgeball character.

“I drew on eyebrows and didn’t wear any makeup, just bright red lipstick. I think I drew a mole on. […] I looked so ridiculous.”

While the filming experience was “a lot of fun,” Pyle went on to admit that her costume made her feel self-conscious about her looks.

“I was also so unattractive in that movie. I had the fake teeth. It was hard because all those dodgeball tournament scenes — you know, getting extras for a scene like that — a lot of extras were from halfway houses or work-release programs where you have to put in hours. Every time I’d come out, people would be like, ‘Ugh!'”

The uncomfortable realities of movie magic aside, Pyle not only looked nothing like Fran in real life, she also unfortunately lacked the character’s mad dodgeball skills. On the first day of practice, the actress threw out her neck, then got drilled in the face with a dodgeball. She said,

“It was very humiliating. […] I’ve always considered myself an athletic person, but I think I’m just somebody who likes to try athletics. Because I’m tall, so you’d think I’d be better than I am, but I’m not necessarily that great.”

Dodgeball was a commercial and critical success. Grossing $167.7 million worldwide, the film scored a 70% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with the site’s critical consensus reading

“Proudly profane and splendidly silly, Dodgeball is a worthy spiritual successor to the goofball comedies of the 1980s.”

While rumors of a long-awaited sequel have been circulating since 2013, the future of Dodgeball 2 unfortunately remains unclear. However, comedy fans were treated to a surprising reunion of sorts in June 2017, when multiple cast members —including Stiller, Vaughn, Justin Long, and Christine Taylor — joined forces for a charitable competition through Omaze to benefit the Stiller Foundation. According to its website,

“[The charity] seeks to promote the well-being of children worldwide through initiatives that support education.”

Also reprising her popular on-screen alter ego was Missi Pyle herself as Fran!

As the sage Dodgeball saying goes, if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball, and if you’re Missi Pyle, you can deliver a stand-out performance even in disguise.

#Dodgeball #MissiPyle #GloboGym

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Hollywood continued to focus its talents on television throughout the 1950s. Its weekday afternoon children’s television program The Mickey Mouse Club, featuring its roster of young “Mouseketeers”, premiered in 1955 to great success, as did the Davy Crockett miniseries, starring Fess Parker and broadcast on the Hollywoodland anthology show. List Of 2018 Hollywood Films, This Dodgeball Star Is Gorgeous Once You Remove Her Fake Teeth.

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A Conversation with Deborah Rennard and Al Sapienza | Tales From Hollywoodland

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A Conversation with Deborah Rennard and Al Sapienza | Tales From Hollywoodland

Don’t miss this exciting episode of the Tales From Hollywoodland Podcast as we sit down with talented entertainers Deborah Rennard and Al Sapienza! Known for their iconic roles in hit shows and films, Deborah and Al share stories from their dynamic careers in Hollywood, insights into the entertainment industry, and the creative journeys that have shaped their lives. From memorable roles to behind-the-scenes experiences, this conversation is filled with inspiration, laughter, and insider perspectives. Tune in for an unforgettable chat with these two Hollywood stars!

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The Unbearable Sadness Of Ben Affleck

The Ben Affleck of the late ‘90s was a charm machine: goofy, self-effacing, and deep in a highly public bromance with the equally winning Matt Damon. Within five years, he was a punchline. It took a decade for his career to recover. Today, he's once again at war with his image. So what's Affleck so ashamed of?

By: Anne Helen Petersen

March 28, 2016

The year after Daredevil, Ben Affleck told People magazine that “I can’t imagine doing another action movie.” In 2002, he called his earlier desire to do blockbusters “an adolescent aspiration.” In 2003, he described his “fundamental code” as “being honest, doing things with which I can live, rather than be ashamed of — doing estimable things.” In 2006, he told USA Today that “I’ve been in movies that earned a lot of money that ... I wish I wasn’t in, honestly.” Later that year, in an interview for his “comeback” role in Hollywoodland, he was relieved because “I don’t have to feel, like, embarrassed anymore.”

Affleck has an issue with shame. Over the last 20 years of stardom, he’s voiced that shame about the roles that he’s taken, the relationships he’s made public, his lack of education, his drinking habits, and, most recently, his tattoo, which, after a swift and public backlash, he quickly (and rather dubiously) claimed to be “fake.” He has not, it should be noted, been ashamed of his gambling habits or his extramarital affair — allegations of which, at least publicly, he still denies.

During his career renaissance in the late 2000s, the shame receded: He was directing, which is much less embarrassing than acting in bad movies, and in 2013, he won a Best Picture Oscar for Argo. But recently, Affleck has returned to the source of his embarrassment: In signing up for the role of Batman, he’s wed himself to a decade of action movies. Reviews for Batman v Superman are so bad that fans of the film have conjured a conspiracy theory that they were paid for by (DC Comics rival) Marvel. And in videos like this one, currently meme-ing its way across the internet, you can watch, in real time, as that old shame creeps in:

It’s the same look he sported at the Gigli premiere in 2004, laden with the realization that he’d done something horribly, irrevocably wrong. It's a look that shows up so often there's an entire deliriously well-stocked Tumblr of “Ben Affleck Looking Sad.” But the Sadfleck look doesn't inspire pity. Instead, there's a palpable desire to punch him in the face.

Stars, the understanding goes, should be grateful for what our fandom has given them. They should be gracious when we award them their fame, and when reviews are bad, they should smile and keep spinning, as Henry Cavill gamefully does in the Sadfleck Interview. And they should do all of this because they are getting paid mountains of money.

Affleck breaks that implicit pact. It’s one thing to make fun of your past, but it’s quite another to resent your present. Especially, in the case of Batman v Superman, because Affleck has been through it all before: He hates action movies. He especially hates superhero movies. His self-flagellation is off-putting because it’s tinged with resentment — toward the very filmmakers who would hire him again and, by extension, the millions of fans who’ve paid to see him.

It wasn’t always this way. Before the slew of genre films that made him seem like a paint-by-numbers leading man, Affleck had something like charisma. Early on, he played beefhead bullies in supporting roles — see Dazed and Confused (1993) and Mallrats (1995) — in part because, at 6’2”, he towers over most actors. “I had some producer try to talk me out of casting Ben in Chasing Amy,” director Kevin Smith told People magazine. “Because he was ‘too big’ to be a romantic leading man.”

In Chasing Amy (1997), Affleck was finally in the lead role, but he was still no leading man: just a New Jersey schmoe who, like the movie itself, doesn’t really understand lesbians. The moment when Amy (Joey Lauren Adams) takes the stage and begins singing to someone in the crowd, and Holden (Affleck) thinks that someone is him — it's a sublime moment of oblivious doofery. Not slapstick, just complete ego annihilation. As Holden, Affleck is all goatee and bad cardigans, but you have to trust me when I say it was hot for the time. It also helped launch his career: As Amy hit theaters, Good Will Hunting, Dogma, and Armageddon were all in production.

Good Will Hunting was a ready-made Oscar campaign, elevated to even more epic levels with the help of the Weinsteins — who, in 1997, were at the very top of their promotional game. According to the well-recited narrative, Affleck and Damon had met as kids in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Damon went to Harvard; Affleck went to the University of Vermont where, after two months, he dropped out and went to Hollywood, chasing the dream of acting after he’d appeared in a few bit roles as a teen. Damon, by contrast, wrote a screenplay, which sat in wait until he dropped out of school and moved to Hollywood, where he and Affleck started to act out scenes, rewrite, expand, and refine the script, anchoring it in big, meaty moments where one of them (or the psychologist character, played by Robin Williams) could give tour-de-force performances.

Which helps explain why the movie endures as a collection of scenes: the “Dem Apples” moment at the bar, Williams talking about his wife, Affleck telling Damon that he’ll kill him if he decides to squander his talent. The image of Damon and Affleck as a pair of hometown-boys-made-good was at the center of the publicity campaign, but Damon was clearly the star — and given most of the credit for the screenplay (at least, that is, when others weren’t floating conspiracy theories that the script had been written, or at least heavily doctored, by someone else).

“I took the whole writer thing very seriously,” Affleck told Talk magazine in 2000. “In retrospect, if I’d known then what I know now, I would have expanded the part that I played. Matt had a bigger part in School Ties and he had been a lead in Geronimo. Both movies totally bombed, and nobody was offering him any parts, but you could make the case that he was the actor. I’d only had supporting roles, and there wasn’t a lot of room [in the script] for us both to star, especially because we needed to have a big name [Robin Williams] in order to get it made. So I felt like, well, okay, we’ll cut my scenes out.”

When the pair won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, they were scrappy favorites — wearing gifted tuxes and bringing their moms as dates — that fit, in many ways, with their onscreen images as working-class Massholes. They remained self-deprecating (Damon: “If you put us together, you might actually make a whole, creative, interesting individual”) and graciously accepted the next step in their Hollywood wunderkind path: blockbuster stardom: Damon, with Spielberg, in Saving Private Ryan; Affleck, with Michael Bay, in Armageddon.

Still, Affleck managed to avoid insufferability. He still wasn’t the lead lead — that was reserved for Bruce Willis — instead, he gamely played with animal crackers on Liv Tyler’s stomach. But in his first big cover story forVanity Fair in 1999, hints of his macho self-consciousness started to become visible. “He may not be Bike Guy or Adrenaline-Junkie Guy, but spend a few minutes with Affleck, who’s usually seen around town in baggy army pants, a t-shirt, and a leather jacket, and one thing becomes clear: he sure as hell is a guy.” “He longs for the time when models looked like Christie Brinkley,” the profile declared. “He thinks Tom Cruise is a god. He stands behind Hootie. He has been known to forgo sex for video games.”

And as a guy, a guy’s guy, still friends with all his friends from home, Entourage style, Affleck was terrified of the feminizing effects of publicity. “His favorite words seem to be ‘chump,’ ‘weak,’ and especially ‘jackass,’” the profile continues. “‘Jackass,’ to Affleck, is the worst of insults. A jackass is what he fears he sounds like in profiles like this one.” Later in the interview, Affleck admits that the media version of his friendship with Damon was “so gay.” “If I had gone by the tabloid stories of it,” he elaborated, “I would have been like ‘Look at these fuckin’ chumps. I just want to smack these people.' And I kind of wanted to smack myself.”

Vanity Fair goes on to declare that Affleck, in his self-awareness, is the opposite of a jackass, but that fear — of the way that publicity will effectively castrate him — was merited. Male and female stars have always required publicity (posing for photo shoots, sitting for interviews) in order to maintain their status in the public eye and promote their newest product. But there’s a type of publicity that’s masculine (profiles in men’s magazines, photos in classy suits, interviews in established newspapers) and another that’s feminizing (gossip magazines, tabloids, photo shoots that signal a willingness to believe that you’re hot). The cover of Vanity Fair isn’t feminizing. Being named People’s Sexiest Man Alive — and posing for a mildly embarrassing photo shoot — is.

It’s a counterintuitive process: that becoming a heartthrob can de-masculinize you. Attractiveness to women should up a male star’s virility quotient, but in truth, or, at least, in media, it makes him subject to the gaze — a passive pin-up. It’s what happened to Rudolph Valentino back in the ‘20s; it’s what nearly happened to Burt Reynolds in the ‘70s, when he posed nude for a Cosmopolitan centerfold that he’s recently admitted he regrets. (Leonardo DiCaprio has fought the impulse by getting as ugly as possible in every other film.)

Whether Affleck was conscious of that process or not, publicity clearly inflamed his anxiety — which, judging from his own comments, sprung from an acute case of class consciousness. Affleck described his upbringing as “working class” — his mother was an elementary school teacher, his father was, among other things, a mechanic, a bookie, a construction worker, a bartender, and a drunk, who left the family when Affleck was a boy, leaving his mother to raise him and his brother Casey on a single income. Affleck’s mother, Chris, was raised on the Upper East Side and attended Harvard; her father (Affleck’s grandfather) had been a Democratic activist — an inclination that was passed down to Affleck, who has been active, in some capacity, in Democratic politics his entire adult life.

Which is all to say that Affleck, living in Cambridge, surrounded by schools like MIT and Harvard, and living with a Harvard-educated mother, was incredibly attuned to class differences. “I’ve always been insecure because I only had a little bit of college and knew a lot of people from fancy schools,” Affleck told Rolling Stone. “All that sort of resentment in Good Will Hunting about people who went to college came from me feeling on the fringe.”

He hated being called “fratty” because it pointed to a class level that he also never achieved. “The idea that I’m this frat guy is odd, because I only went to college for one semester,” he told Talk. “I was never in fraternity. It speaks to a kind of upper-class upbringing that I didn’t have.”

Which isn’t to say that he didn’t dress and act like a different style of frat boy: His idea of the good life, according to longtime friend and producer Chris Moore, was “eating at Subway and playing video games”; when Bay cast him in Armageddon, his first order was that Affleck get his teeth, one of the ultimate signifiers of class, fixed.

At the same time, Affleck had affixed himself to Gwyneth Paltrow — arguably the most high-class star of the last 25 years. Paltrow, who, pre-Goop, was still the woman who’d attended the most exclusive New York private school, who’d grown up surrounded by Hollywood, and who'd, according to writer-director Don Roose, offered Affleck “lots of unsolicited advice” about his decor. “To hear her talk you’d think there were mattresses on the floor and Led Zeppelin posters on the wall.”

In truth, it was more like a keg of Guinness and a rotating set of friends in his Hollywood home, but Paltrow, according to People, “wanted to show that there’s a real man inside him, a thinker and a sensitive guy. She doesn’t let him skate by on that frat-boy thing.” Put differently, she was trying to reform — re-class — him.

Anxiety over the public perception of his intelligence, apparently fueled by his own girlfriend, might have been part of why Affleck so eagerly stumped for Al Gore, embraced plans to adapt Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States, or spoke publicly at Harvard with Damon and Zinn about raising wages for the university’s service employees. “They spoke very passionately,” Zinn said. “Ben talked about how his father had worked at Harvard at a menial job and how he understood what it was like to work for an enormously rich corporation and get a pittance.”

Affleck’s affiliation with Zinn, whose work also made an appearance in Good Will Hunting, crystallized his ambivalent relationship with his own class: He wanted to be a populist — someone who’s not ashamed of his working-class roots — but everything around him, including his own girlfriend, wanted him to disaffiliate with that same past in order to be famous.

Affleck and Paltrow broke up in 1999, but his subsequent roles suggest an oscillating desire to align himself with the (high-class) art house film and the (not-so-high-class) genre film — there’s his wan straight man opposite Sandra Bullock in rom-com Forces of Nature, a return to Smith in Dogma, classic indie ensemble work in 200 Cigarettes, and what was intended as a prestige role alongside Paltrow in the unremarkable Bounce: “If you don’t like my performance in this movie,” Affleck proclaimed, “then you will never like me or believe me in any movie, and probably should never go see another movie I do.”

He agreed to make Reindeer Games because its director, John Frankenheimer, was responsible for The Manchurian Candidate; he said yes to Daddy and Them because it was Armageddon co-star Billy Bob Thornton’s first directorial project since Slingblade. He did Boiler Room, one can assume, because he wanted to have a juicy Glengarry Glen Ross-type speech, though it did not transform him into a serious actor — or at least the sort of actor that wouldn’t have to do the kind of PR that would make his class an issue.

And so Affleck leaned into handsome-leading-man roles, even though, as he was quick to admit, he felt alienated from them. He was unmemorable in Pearl Harbor, fell flat taking over for Harrison Ford as Jack Ryan in The Sum of All Fears, was just fine opposite Samuel L. Jackson in Changing Lanes, and had every scene stolen from him by Jennifer Garner in Daredevil.

And then there was J.Lo.

Consider Affleck’s mindset at the time. He’d spent time in rehab (brought to the Promises Center in 2001 by Charlie Sheen after an all-night bender; just think about that for a second) as a “pre-emptive strike” to counter what he viewed as a family inclination toward alcoholism. After the disappointments of the late ‘90s and early 2000s, he’d become a major and successful movie star. But not a respected one — especially when compared, as he always was, with Damon, who’d given a tour de force performance in The Talented Mr. Ripley and attached himself to much less flashy (and better) franchises with Bourne and Ocean’s Eleven. If Damon’s career choices were Whole Foods, Affleck’s were increasingly Costco.

When Affleck began working with Lopez on Gigli in 2002, she was married to dancer Cris Judd, and enormously successful, but, at heart, a celebrity, not a star. The two became close on set, but according to Affleck, only as friends.

It was during this friendship that Affleck decided to publicly assert the extent of Lopez’s talents. In March 2002, he took out $20,000 in ads in Variety and The Hollywood Reporter declaring how much he loved working with her — and how impressed he was with her acting skills. “In a lot of ways it was in contrast to what some of my preconceptions were about Jennifer,” he wrote. “I thought I’d write a paragraph saying what a professional, decent person she is and how kind she is.” (Note: the Hollywood trade magazines have a long history of congratulatory ads, but this particular ad “raised eyebrows.”)

They were "just friends," but Affleck was nevertheless concerned with the public perception — which goes unnamed here, but can be insinuated as “low class” — of his co-star. To be sure, Affleck did actually find Lopez impressive, professional, decent, and kind. But to take out an ad proclaiming as much says more about how he’d like to be perceived for working with her and less about his actual concern for her image. Put differently, she wasn’t ashamed; he was.

In June 2002, Lopez announced her separation from Judd; a month later, she and Affleck announced their relationship, as one does, via public appearance, dining with Lopez’s manager and producer Babyface at “New York’s see-and-be-seen” sushi restaurant Nobu. “They were cuddling at the table,” an employee told Us Weekly, adding that Lopez had worn beige-and-white sweatpants with her name embroidered across the back.

Thus launched one of the most high-profile — and heavily degraded — relationships in the modern celebrity era. They were the first couple to win a celebrity moniker, “Bennifer,” which pointed to the ways in which their relationship became the central commodity, exploited and expanded by the burgeoning rivalry between People magazine and the newly rejuvenated Us Weekly.

Dozens of couples had been tracked with similar ferocity before, and dozens would be in the decade to come. But the sentiment that hovered around Bennifer was one of distaste. The press was filled with reports of their lavish gifts to one another — a $100,000 toilet seat encrusted with jewels, a 6.1-carat pink solitaire ring, a six-figure Aston Martin sports car. While modern celebrity is distinguished, in no small part, through displays of conspicuous consumption, Bennifer’s tipped into new-money gaudiness — too conspicuous, especially when paired with equally conspicuous displays of affection.

Usually, we love when celebrities kiss or hold hands for the cameras, but Bennifer exceeded the unspoken limits of good taste, especially when Affleck appeared in the video for Lopez’s “Jenny from the Block” — cuddling, kissing, cupping her ass on the back of a yacht. “The reason I did the video was as a commentary on the crazy tabloid paparazzi attention,” Affleck explained. “But it was covered without any irony whatsoever.” Instead of satirizing paparazzi surveillance, it seemed like Lopez and Affleck were celebrating, or at least catering, to it.

In the press, Lopez was figured as a “bad fit” for Affleck: She was "ravenously ambitious” (Vanity Fair), “the Zsa Zsa Gabor of our generation” (Rolling Stone) who wore velour J.Lo jumpsuits and loved Deuce Bigalow. “The problem, of course, is that J.Lo is no Julia,” an editorial for The Hollywood Reporter explained, comparing her to Roberts, whose love life had also been in the press. “You never saw Roberts show up at the Oscars dressed in Saran Wrap, for instance. No one gushes about Roberts’ rear end as being intrinsic to her success.”

The unspoken connotation of all this rhetoric? Lopez was trashy. She wasn’t talented like other Hollywood stars — she was an OK singer, a forgettable actor. Instead, her celebrity was rooted in her raced, classed body: in her dancing ability, but also in her body’s beauty, which she exploited without shame. She had been arrested, along with ex-boyfriend Sean “Puffy” Combs, in connection to a Manhattan shooting. She was the opposite of Paltrow.

And even though Affleck attempted to emphasize the similarities between him and Lopez — "We are both from working-class families in culturally diverse neighborhoods in east coast cities,” he told The Mirror — the rhetoric around their relationship remained that of a mismatch. When Vanity Fair asserted that Lopez was “perhaps the last woman on earth Affleck should have chosen if he really wanted to maintain a lower profile,” he responded: “That occurred to me. Why did I fall in love with this person? What does that say about me? Maybe I am conflicted, but I also have a contrary streak.”

Which might explain Affleck’s conflicting impulse to both defend Lopez and transform her. He corrected those who called her “J.Lo” instead of Jennifer, a move that presaged Tom Cruise’s attempt to turn Katie Holmes into “Kate.” He toned down her sexuality: “Jen has had fewer boyfriends than your average high-school junior,” he said. “In the physical sense, she’s extremely chaste. She’s had a much simpler, more easily explainable, more clean romantic history than I have.” He encouraged Lopez to fire her longtime manager, who’d help craft the tabloid-friendly strategy that made her famous. The “popular theory,” according to Newsweek, was that Affleck wanted to “sophisticate his wife-to-be’s image in case his long-rumored aspirations of a political life as a congressman from Massachusetts become a reality.”

The pair went on Dateline in late July to promote Gigli, which was set to premiere August 1, 2003. The interview itself was overkill (Entertainment Weekly charted its progress with a “Pain-o-Meter”), but the distaste was further amplified when, the night that it aired, Affleck was “caught” at a strip club in Vancouver with Christian Slater and Tara Reid — where, depending on the report, he either drank water all night and touched no one, or hooked up with a dancer, went back to Slater’s house, and had sex with her.

Affleck and Lopez issued statements maintaining that Affleck had attended the club with Lopez’s permission, but it mattered little — he was still at a strip club. If anything, her “approval” simply reinforced her lack of class. When the pair showed up to Gigli, the looks on their faces as they posed on the red carpet were overly bronzed and pained.

Gigli became a legendary flop, immediately likened to ur-flop Ishtar; studio head Joe Roth called its $7 million international gross, on a budget of $54 million, “humiliating.” A month later, Affleck and Lopez called off their $2 million wedding, purportedly due to too much media scrutiny. By January 2004, the pair officially ended their relationship. But they still had a second collaboration — Jersey Girl — to promote, and Affleck was back on the publicity circuit in March, making fun of Gigli and his own overexposure, owning the shame and sporting a hideous goatee and tatted-up arms on the cover of Rolling Stone.

He’d also been thinking about why, exactly, his relationship had incited such vitriol. He suspected it “had something to do with race and class,” he told Vanity Fair. “That pushed a button. This is a country that flew into a gigantic uproar about Janet Jackson’s breast. There’s still a heavy-duty puritan influence going on, and we still hold ourselves to a pretty chaste ideal, which includes, buried within it, the tradition of people being with people like them. We were thought of as two different kinds of people, not just racially but culturally.”

The explanation didn’t feel credible at the time, but in hindsight, race and class anxieties were redolent, if coded, in the rhetoric used to describe their relationship. Affleck himself seemed to have internalized that anxiety. He turned away from publicity, at least until, a year later, he began dating Jennifer Garner — a woman who, in addition to her burgeoning role as avatar of the middle-class femininity, upholds, as Affleck had put it, “the tradition of people being with people like them.”

It was literally Bennifer 2.0, but Affleck kept the relationship as low-key — as classy — as possible: They married yet rarely appeared together in public, Garner’s career receded, and the only images of their three children were playing, as a family, in the park. Garner didn’t offer him the class elevation that Paltrow would’ve, but she also didn’t inflame his own working-class connotations the way J.Lo had. She was wonderfully, soothingly safe, roundly respectable — an image that slowly, by extension, became Affleck’s as well.

As Affleck’s halo of shame receded, his likability increased. He was humble and tragic in Hollywoodland, was easy to root for as the director of Gone Baby Gone, and gave a completely unflashy performance in Argo. He’d found his low-key niche — the one, back in the early 2000s, he’d dreamed of. But something happened in the aftermath — as if he’d forgotten the lessons of a decade before. He seemed cocksure, arrogant; he was gambling and fighting constant rumors of infidelity, specifically with Gone Girl co-star Emily Ratajkowski. He’s great in Gone Girl not because he’d returned to the gleeful doofiness of Chasing Amy and Shakespeare in Love, but because the doof had grown up, soured, turned on itself. “He’s perfect in Gone Girl,” a friend told me, “because that movie knows he’s trash.”

When Affleck and Garner announced their divorce, it was against a backdrop of continued gambling problems (in October 2014, Affleck was thrown out of a casino for counting cards) and an alleged affair with the family’s nanny — perhaps the trashiest in the tabloid hierarchy of affairs. Yet it came as no surprise: We’d seen this cycle play out once before. Now that Batman v Superman has been pummeled in the press, his reaction feels not just like sadness in the wake of bad reviews, but a deep shame stemming from a series of disappointing decisions.

Class and race are the primary ways that we decide a person’s worth in this country, and while the history of Hollywood stardom is filled with men and women who transcended their original class, any anxiety, regret, or shame about their current or past class is carefully scrubbed from their images. That sort of insecurity isn’t read as sympathetic or relatable — instead, it’s a sign of image instability.

Even though we encourage the people who surround us to grow, change, and deliberate, there’s an expectation that stars, and the ideologies their images come to represent, remain static. Affleck’s oscillation between class anxiety and class capitulation — in his actions, his facial expressions, his interviews — makes him seem like a man who refuses to own himself or his decisions.

Back in 2000, still in the first act of his career, Affleck turned philosophical: “Being in the position that I’m in now, I tend to look at lot of these older actors and say, ‘Well, where are their lives now? Who do you want to be in life?’ So many of them seem so unhappy and so fucked up: confused or lost or bitter or hateful or venomous or in agony. None of them are happy. And you think, God, I don’t want that life.”

It seems, at least publicly, that Affleck has found in that vortex of stardom, still at war with his image, his career choices, and what he’s come to represent. That’s the realization that seems to descend upon Affleck in the clip: the dark understanding that even an Oscar can’t rescue him from the specter of his past shame — compounded by time and regret and failed relationships and superhero carapaces and the everlasting comparison to Damon — returning for him.

[future-fangirl]

Lover’s Eyes

Lord forget all of my sins

Or let me die where I lie

Beneath the curse of my lovers’ eyes

Lovers’ Eyes by Mumford and Sons

“We're good?” He questioned.

“We're good.” She confirmed. But it was a lie. She’d gotten all too good at lying in the last three weeks. At smiling when everything in her wanted to break apart. She’d gotten good at pushing him towards Jessica despite the desire to pull him in. To take up the slight hints that he wanted more with her. That was now all over. Jessica was pregnant. Wyatt was leaving. She’d never see him again. The pain in her heart seemed a physical thing. She could fairly see her own heart breaking. 

Wyatt started to brush past her but she reached out. Almost forced him to turn around and face her. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her face against his shoulder. For a second he hesitated and then his arms went around her waist. Held her closer as she felt him let out an exhale. For one delicious moment, they were together once again. Jessica fell away. All the ways he’d hurt her no longer mattered. She glanced up knowing somehow it was dangerous and yet unable to resist it. 

His eyes fixed on hers and it was like taking a drink of water after wandering in the desert. She knew that was a terrible analogy but it felt just like it. It had been so long since they could look at each other freely. Since that moment by the fan. Their gazes locked together for a long moment. Lucy almost pulled away. She should move. She had to move because she knew that heated stare. It had been fixed on her before. She knew what was coming. 

It would have been easier to claim she didn’t know. That she didn’t want this to happen. To blame him. But that would be a lie. She wasn’t sure who moved first. Was it him? Or her? Or had they moved together like two magnets let loose. The next instant they were kissing and it was so different from Hollywoodland. That had been a beginning. A glorious uncertain beginning but a beginning no less. This was goodbye. This was desperate and painful and achingly sad. She felt a tear slid down her cheeks as his tongue slid over hers. Lucy felt his hand cradling the back of her neck tremble. This was wrong…so wrong…and yet she couldn’t figure out why. Perhaps it wasn’t so very wrong. Because he was leaving. Probably in the morning. And this was goodbye. 

She wished it’d go on forever. But they both had to breathe. He pulled away panting slightly. And then they were looking at each other again. Lucy tried to take in another breath to ease the ache in her chest. And the realization of what happened seemed to strike them both at the same moment. She moved back and looked into his eyes. Saw the guilt and pain in his eyes. What kind of person kissed another woman’s husband when she was pregnant? What kind of person took advantage of that? 

“I’m sorry.” He whispered. “I shouldn’t have…”

Lucy shook her head. The tears were falling fast now, like raindrops in the middle of a winter shower. “It was my fault. I just…goodbye Wyatt.”

He didn’t say it back. Lucy didn’t glance back. She couldn’t. Because if she did she might just break down completely. Run into his arms and disgrace herself by trying to get him to stay. Be everything she wasn’t. At least she shouldn’t be. She rushed towards the bathroom and locked herself inside. Lucy pressed her hands to her dripping face. Oh god, what had she done? She ought to feel guilty. She ought to. And she did. But she knew in that moment she’d do it again. And that…that was the worst. 

xxxxx

Neither of them saw the shadowy figure watching them from the hall. They didn’t see her face contort with rage before she silently turned back to her room. Jessica Logan resolved first to kill him. Then she decided to do something else. Make him fall. Make Lucy Preston hate him. And make him watch her fall into bed with someone else. Make him feel the same pain and jealousy she experienced. He deserved it. And Lucy…well she’d get her punishment. Emma and Jessica would make sure of it.

xxxxx

Twenty-four hours later Lucy was sitting on the floor by the infamous fan as Wyatt sat down beside her. Confessed his love for her. Lucy didn’t know what to think. Had it all been a game? Had they ever really loved each other or had they just thought they had? But regardless he wasn’t leaving. She wasn’t sure if she was happy or sad. Her heart felt too battered for thinking. Did it matter? His presence hurt her. Made every single nerve in her body light up, mostly painfully now.

Then their future selves showed up from five years in the future. They promised to bring Rufus back. Lucy paused in front of her future self. “Do you feel guilty about that night?” She asked knowing that she would know exactly what she was referring to.

“Yes, I do. But somehow…it got us here. Didn’t it?” The other self confessed.

“Did it? Because I don’t feel like it?” Lucy confessed.

“It’s happening. Just give it time.” Her other self replied.

Lucy knew then that despite the pain in her heart and the lack of trust somehow, someway Wyatt Logan would find his way back into her heart. He hadn’t lost her yet. Just like she hadn’t lost him yet. 

Author’s Note: I got the idea of this fic from the interview with Matt which said that he actually considered inserting a kiss into the scene. It sure looked like they’d kiss in this scene in the promos. I hesitated on posting this because I never want to give the impression I condone cheating. It seems a trifle out of character but once again I think it’s a desperate goodbye. Who knows what you’d do in that instance? This scene is my favorite for so many reasons. Lucy reaches out and offers comfort he really doesn’t deserve. It shows her love so strongly. 

[extasiswings]

Is there any confirmation yet from any advance reviews/screener spoilers from 2x07 that Garcy is meant to be interpreted as romantic rather than platonic? I'm really hoping something happened in Flynn's room to hint that they could be more than just friends but still not sure which way the writers want us to view their relationship, and that ending scene in 2x06 is very open to interpretation! What do you think?

Wow, there’s…a lot to unpack here. 

Firstly, the comment of the season on their relationship came from Goran right before Hollywoodland aired where he said that he wasn’t sure if it was “shipping” but “we do a lot of things that are unspoken, and you can ask a lot of questions.” Of course, he then followed that up a couple weeks later in another interview by making it pretty clear that as far as he’s concerned, Flynn has feelings for Lucy and she knows he does. And then, there’s all the press promotion, which is totally shipper bait and should therefore be taken with a grain of salt, but they wouldn’t be bothering at all if they didn’t realize it could be taken romantically and that there are people who do so (which is a huge shift from last season where the response was basically ???? there are people who ship that???? Huh, interesting). So, do I think they were writing Garcy this season to be explicitly romantic? No. But at the same time, they’re also clearly laying the foundation for something, and what’s more, I don’t believe they could have written them any differently and stayed true to the characters. This was always going to be a slow burn. 

As for everything else…A) when it comes to how I view relationships in media, I really don’t care how the writers want it to be viewed? Especially as a queer person who has spent a lot of time looking for representation in an incredibly heteronormative media culture, what the writers intended does not matter to me one bit. What matters is what they wrote. And where they’ve written something that can strongly be interpreted as romantic, that ticks all my boxes for what I like to see in romantic relationships, I’m probably going to ship it. 

B) I really don’t understand this idea that something (with the implication that it was something physical or sexual) must have happened between people for them to be more than “just friends.” Apologies, nonny, because I’m sure you didn’t realize you were stepping on a land mine with that, but this is one thing that gets my hackles up in a big way.  But as I wrote in this post, emotional intimacy is so incredibly important. In my opinion, it’s far more important than physical intimacy where there’s a romantic relationship that’s built to last. And the idea that something physical must happen for a ship to be officially seen as romantic also flies in the face of pretty much every slow burn romance ever. Where you get emotional intimacy and romantic tension and sexual tension for seasons until finally it all resolves. And for the most part, when I’ve been in fandoms with slow burn ships, no one (or very few people) has questioned that the relationship was romantic and was headed in a clear direction. And if Garcy were the only ship here, I’m pretty sure whether they’re meant to be romantic or strictly platonic wouldn’t be a conversation. Because their emotional intimacy right now? Is off the charts. They’re there for one another, trusting one another, respecting one another, supporting one another. Lucy has allowed Flynn to be there for her when she’s not letting anyone else in. They’ve told each other things they haven’t told anyone else. 

When I get snarky and sarcastic about people saying they’re platonic and how great their friendship is, it’s not that I don’t agree that they’re friends and that this is a great friendship. I get irritated because the people saying that are saying it as though there is no other potential there and no possibility for even more development, which…is just untrue. 

Lucy is not in a position right now to be in a romantic relationship. Which is why I don’t want anything to have happened in Flynn’s room (not to mention the fact that I’m greedy and want to see every single milestone in their relationship development). But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing there. As far as I’m concerned, Flynn’s in love with her (which is how Goran’s acting it and far be it from me to argue with his choices), and Lucy is at least intrigued and willing to give him a chance and trusts him enough to be vulnerable with him which says a lot given how much she’s been hurt over the past two seasons. 

If I had my way, we’d get 9 seasons and a movie and Lucy and Flynn would X-Files the hell out of a slow burn (although…maybe…not quite that slow of a burn because I still have needs), but as it is now, I think they have romantic tension, I think they have sexual tension, and the fact that they aren’t acting on it doesn’t mean anything other than that they both respect one another and the potential of their future relationship too much to move too fast.       

[lanformant]

Land of the multiple titles

Historical fact: Hollywood use to be called Hollywoodland but the land part was dropped after the City of LA realized that the entertainment industry was taking over the town.

There’s no denying why Hollywood is so popular as its reputation speaks for itself.

This popularity continues drawing people of all kinds in packs, like moths to a flame.

The volume of diverse people who flock here whether they be dreamers, artists, entrepreneurs, or travelers has added an extremely unique nature to the community.

In an interview for the movie “Maps to the Stars,” John Cusack stated:

“LA seems to be a place where a guy can say he’s a ‘life-coach-channeller-masseur’,” says Cusack. “It just seems to be ripe with all these frontier crazies.”

[fullerology]

1. If you could spend the rest of your life inside one movie or TV show, which would it be and why?

Caroline Dhavernas: Wow, that’s a tough one. I haven’t been watching a lot of TV recently, so it’d be hard to pick one. My favorite, and I’ve said this before, I know, but my favorite TV show of all time is Twin Peaks. I don’t know how great it would be to live in that show, though, because you’re always on the verge of being killed. I would probably, if I were to be part of that show, fall in love with Kyle MacLachlan’s character and live happily ever after until we both become evil and crazy.

2. Do you have a favorite swear word or phrase, how often do you use it, and in what circumstances?

CD: So if it’s a phrase, it has to include the swear word.

AVC: Presumably.

CD: For those who know the French-Canadian culture, we swear against the church. So there’s a bunch of them to pick from. One of them would probably be “calisse.” When you stub your toe, it’s so good to say it. It really kind of gets the anger out and the frustration.

AVC: So it’s an injury swear.

CD: For me, it is.

AVC: But you wouldn’t normally use it in other circumstances. You wouldn’t call someone that.

CD: No, unless you were really angry with them, or hate their guts. But I try to keep it for stubbing the toe and getting hurt.

3. How did you spend your last birthday?

CD: I had a party with friends. A friend of mine opened his restaurant. But I was sick, so I couldn’t drink too much.

AVC: You were sick on your birthday?

CD: Yeah, and this year I’ll be traveling on my birthday. I’ll be on a plane.

AVC: Are you usually somebody who doesn’t make a big to-do of your birthday?

CD: I used to love those parties for my birthday, and now as I’m getting older, I don’t want that attention on my birthday as much. So what I do is, all my friends are Tauruses for some reason, most of them. I don’t do it on purpose, but we have like 30 parties to celebrate in May every year. We do Taurus parties so people don’t have to spend every day of their month of May going to a party. So I share my birthday now with buddies, which is a good thing.

AVC: So you just do one big Taurus party? Is there something that distinguishes a Taurus party from a non-Taurus party?

CD: Well, you can hire a bull and do that, which we did a couple years ago. A friend of mine rented a French-fry machine and a bull. So that was cool.

4. What is the worst professional advice you ever received?

CD: Can you do it again but better? A director said that to me once.

AVC: Did it make you want to rebel?

CD: It made me want to scream and leave the premises. It’s like, you’re telling me I sucked, you’re telling me you want something else, but you’re not telling me what. So I’m just left frustrated. It was a couple years ago, like 10 years ago.

5. If you were a medical doctor, what kind of doctor would you want to be and why?

CD: Not E.R. because that seems so stressful. Neurologist, perhaps. It’s interesting, the brain. I was reading an article recently about how a lot of illness can be very close to the actual illness, but not be that, just because the body emotions are… I think they’re starting to reflect upon the power of emotions on illness and I’ve always felt a direct connection between emotion and body. It’s fascinating that neurologists are starting to tell their patients that yes, they are sick, the symptoms are there, but it’s probably happening because an emotion is not coming out the way it could and should.

AVC: Oh, that’s interesting. Have you always been fascinated by emotional intelligence kind of stuff?

CD: Yeah, I think I feel everything very strongly, and I guess that’s why I’m an actress. I’ve made such clear connections between some of my chronic boo-boos in my body and emotion. It’s kind of fascinating. I really feel like as a society, we need tap into that and embrace that more and more instead of wondering why we’re sick.

AVC: Did you ever get a doctor trying to diagnose you or something and it turned out you were just actually feeling stressed or upset or something?

CD: Yeah, so many times. And I’m not saying certain illnesses don’t come from genetic baggage and all that. It would be too simplistic to summarize and make it all about emotion, but yeah, so many times, I’ve been to doctors trying to pinpoint what it was exactly and finally it just went away. It was a stressful time in my life.

AVC: That would be a good reason to be like, “Maybe not so much with the medical diagnosis without the emotional.”

CD: Exactly. I think a lot of people get into what they’re eating. Yes, it’s important, but at some point, let’s think about what we’re feeling. It can become a control issue to control everything that you’re eating and the exercise that you’re doing. I think it’s good to do a bit of everything, but to just notice how you’re feeling when you wake up in the morning.

6. What’s your perfect Sunday?

CD: I’m not a big fan of Sundays, but now that my life is kind of chaotic, structure-wise, I don’t really notice it’s Sunday most of the time. But I used to associate it—when I was in school—to back to school on Monday, so I didn’t like that day. I guess going for a walk on the mountain. I’m from Montreal, and I’m right by the mountain, so taking a walk and embracing nature in the middle of a city.

AVC: Okay, so going for a walk would be definitely part of it. Let me rephrase. What’s your perfect day off?

CD: I’ve started taking Zumba lessons.

AVC: You’re getting into Zumba?

CD: It’s fun! I really prefer the teachers that make it more about Latina dancing more than aerobics and stuff. So I guess working out a little bit and then going to the country and reading. I haven’t been watching TV lately because I’ve been reading more books, which is such a good feeling. So yeah, I guess going to the country, walking around, going snowshoeing, and skiing. That’s my perfect day, going skiing.

AVC: Cross-country or downhill?

CD: Downhill, but I started doing a bit of cross-country. Very different.

AVC: You mentioned books. Do you have a favorite genre or preference, if you were going to pick up a book or go to a section of the library?

CD: I try to be open-minded. I’m not really into sci-fi or horror or thrillers. I’m reading a Krishnamurti book right now. It’s a fascinating book. I deeply recommend it to anybody. Freedom From the Known.

7. What do you get snobby about?

CD: That’s a good question. I guess sometimes when people make a very clear mistake with language. The French language is a very hard language to speak, and so many people, including myself, make mistakes while expressing themselves in French. And sometimes, when it’s a really intense mistake, I get a little, “Uh.” But I understand where it’s coming from, it’s just, part of me can’t help it sometimes.

AVC: And you want to tap them on the shoulder and be like, “Actually…”

CD: You can’t tell someone, “You just said this, but it’s wrong. You made a mistake.” You can’t be that person. So you have to kind of live with it inside yourself and carry on.

8. What book have you read the most?

CD: Like, over and over again? I don’t think I’ve ever read a book twice.

AVC: So once you’ve processed something, you want to move on to the next thing?

CD: I guess some graphic novels that I read as a kid, but there are so many things to read and discover that I feel like once I’ve read a book I need to go somewhere else. I get a little stressed even sometimes knowing all the things I want to read, I won’t have enough time in this lifetime. The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.

9. What are you afraid of?

CD: Cockroaches. I lived in New York, so, you know. Rats. Mice.

AVC: Anything like that. Did it develop while you were in New York?

CD: My mother was always afraid of mice, and her mother was too. So you just pass that on. So if I have kids, I’m going to try to be really cool if I see a mouse. A mice. A mouse. Mice. See, I’m making mistakes now.

AVC: But cockroaches versus mice?

CD: Roaches are gross.

AVC: Are you not a bugs person in general?

CD: Well, I just went to Costa Rica and I saw a bunch of beautiful things in the forest. I saw a tarantula, which I thought I was afraid of, but seeing it in its own environment is fine. When they’re in your environment, not as cool.

I had a do a scene once with a roach crawling up my neck. Bastard, they cut it. They never used it. So they made me go through that for nothing.

10. Who are you a big fan of that we wouldn’t necessarily expect you to be a big fan of?

CD: I was just talking about this yesterday. Blazing Saddles, the movie… Gene Wilder. I love him. There’s something about the intelligence that you can read in his eyes and the choices that he made. He was so natural, and I think he was kind of ahead of his time in many ways.

AVC: When did you first discover him?

CD: The Frankenstein movie. Young Frankenstein. He doesn’t take himself too seriously in his roles, and I really think that’s pretty sexy.

AVC: I think most people see Charlie and The Chocolate Factory first, which is also great, but there’s something about that Young Frankenstein performance, too, where he’s so manic but just very normal at the same time.

CD: Exactly. You feel like he’s not really into himself all that much, he’s just having a good time and going crazy and having fun. I love that. Gregory Peck, too. My all-time fantasy.

AVC: When did you stumble on to Gregory Peck?

CD: To Kill A Mockingbird, the movie. That’s the first time I saw him act. I think he’s one of the most gorgeous humans to have ever walked upon this Earth. There’s a calming, soothing energy to him that I really like.

11. What advice would you give your younger self?

CD: I feel like I’m the same person so I can’t really talk to myself, even the old version of me. I don’t want to give myself advice. I would rather give myself advice for the future, I suppose. But I can’t really talk to what I used to be.

AVC: When you say you’d rather give yourself advice for the future, what would that entail?

CD: I guess most of us have to work on that, not minding what other people think, or to disappoint people, or to not fit in. That one is a hard lesson to learn. I think it causes a lot of anxiety and a lot of pressure. So yeah, that lesson.

AVC: It’s hard though, right? It’s the people that you don’t know that you don’t want to, but there’s also still family or whoever, where you do care what they think, and you should.

CD: It’s a funky limit or balance to find. I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it’s not always easy to find the right balance.

AVC: So you haven’t found the ideal balance?

CD: No, I look for it every day.

Bonus 12th question from Grace And Frankie‘s June Diane Raphael: When was the last time you had a lot of fun? And it can’t be performing, because that’s always fun.

CD: Oh, is it? Sometimes it’s not.

Yeah, the most fun I had recently… traveling. I went to Greece in October, and that was a revelation. I went in October when the tourists had all gone and I had complete beaches to myself and that was a great feeling. The beauty of that place is stunning, and the variety of that beauty—and the food, yeah.

AVC: When you’re traveling, do you like to get quality alone time?

CD: Yeah, I need it. Going to museums, too, is a lot of fun for me. Having a moment alone in front of a painting that really rocks my world, that’s a lot of fun for me.

AVC: Do you have a favorite museum or place?

CD: Yeah, a couple. I love in Sydney, the MCA. I saw really beautiful exhibits there. New York, too—MOMA is great. There’s the one close to New York, you have to train through from Manhattan. I think it’s called the Dia:Beacon. You get off the train and you’re in this small town, a little village that you would have probably never gone to, and to know that someone took the time to think this museum had its place in this small town. It’s amazing. I love that.

AVC: That means we’re at the end, which means you get to pick the 12th question for the next person that we’re going to talk to.

CD: What’s the piece of clothing in your wardrobe that you would never get rid of?

AVC: You immediately have to answer your own question, of course.

CD: Okay. It’s a jean jacket that my dad wore in the ’70s. It’s all patched up and old, and it has this kind of imitation sheep-skin on the cuffs. It’s a real rock star jacket. I think my dad was wearing it when he met my mom, which makes it even cooler. I’ve had people try to buy it off my shoulders in New York City, so I guess it must be really cool.