#Jason Wolk

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Invaluable Industry Insights with Spears & Arrows Founder, Managing Director, EP Jason Wolk

Thrilled to welcome back Jason Wolk – Founder, Managing Director, and Executive Producer of Spears & Arrows. As the leader of one of the top commercial production companies, Jason has a truly unique insight into the ever-changing advertising world and production. Jason and I explore the myriad ways the industry has evolved just in the past few years alone. From shifts in camera techniques and…

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SPINNING GOLD (2023)

Starring Jeremy Jordan, Wiz Khalifa, Jason Isaacs, Jason Derulo, Jay Pharoah, Michelle Monaghan, Dan Fogler, Sebastian Maniscalco, Winslow Fegley, Ledisi, Sam Harris, Caylee Cowan, Chris Redd, James Wolk, Tayla Parx, Lyndsy Fonseca, Peyton List, Pink Sweats, Casey Likes, Alex Gaskarth, Michael Ian Black and Vincent Pastore.

Screenplay by Timothy Scott Bogart.

Directed by Timothy Scott Bogart.

Distributed by Hero Entertainment. 137 minutes. Rated R.

Neil Bogart was a larger-than-life legend in the music business, even if very few people other than music nerds like me still have a clue who he was.

Bogart ran Casablanca Record and Filmworks, which after a very rocky start became the most successful independent record label of the 1970s. Bogart worked with and/or discovered such acts as KISS, Donna Summer, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Bill Withers, The Village People, Parliament/Funkadelic and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. He worked hard, lived hard, partied hard. He ran up monumental debts and threw legendary parties. He ran afoul of music biz execs and the mob. All of that before dying way too young at 39 of cancer.

It's a fascinating, under-explored story about the highs and the lows of the music business in its glory days. Bogart’s son Tim has long felt that it was important to tell his dad’s story and has been working to get his dad’s story on film since the 1990s. (Early on, Justin Timberlake was in talks to portray Bogart, although eventually he had to drop out because his musical schedule was packed, and he could not fit it in.)

Now, finally, after decades of waiting, Tim Bogart has gotten his father’s life story onscreen. He did it in a way that his own dad would appreciate – going the independent route and taking on the tough work (screenwriting and directing) himself, and basically willing it into existence.

“Getting that story out… is… moving for me,” Bogart told me in a recent interview. “I do think this is a great parallel in the perseverance and the dream I had in making it.”

Bogart has captured a fascinating look back at the wild west days of the old music world, sex, drugs and rock & roll back when it was safe and normal. Like many recent music biopics, Spinning Gold is a mix of hard reality and fanciful romanticization. Sometimes it feels like a serious gangster drama of the 1970s, at other times a jukebox musical with some damn good music provided by current singers playing the legends of days past.

While most of the celeb singers have the voices to pull off the roles, they mostly look almost nothing like the performers they are playing, such as Donna Summer, Gladys Knight and Bill Withers. Also, a personal note to Wiz Khalifa, in 1976 almost no one had nose piercings, not even someone as wild and funky and willfully out there as George Clinton. So you may want to take those things out when portraying a real-life character from another era.

However, I suppose this is not supposed to be a tribute act. The song is the thing, and mostly the re-recordings of legendary hits of the 1970s work surprisingly well.

Holding it all together – the ringleader of the film portraying the ringleader of Casablanca – is Broadway and TV star Jeremy Jordan (Newsies, Little Shop of Horrors, Supergirl) who can access both Bogart’s showmanship and hard-nosed determination. It’s a fascinating bit of myth-building.

“That was kind of Neil's vibe,” Jordan told me in that same interview. “He just wanted to make you dance and wanted to entertain. He was a showman.

“He's writing his own ending, and it is really kind of beautiful and magical and different in that way,” Jordan continued. “We don't feel tied to ultra reality, and this is the exact perfect way that this happened. It doesn't have to be [real] because it was sex, drugs, rock and roll. It was the journey as opposed to the actual truth of it all.”

You could say that about the 1970s in general.

Spinning Gold is spinning some fascinating tales of life on the periphery of superstardom and the high you reach by going all in and creating some genre-defining art. Plus, it’s got a great beat, and you can dance to it. What more can you ask?

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: March 31, 2023.

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Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, Rutger Hauer | Escape From Sobibor (1987) | 

Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British made-for-television movie.  The film aired on ITV and CBS. The movie is about the mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor,  The Escape From Sobibor was the most successful.  Escapes also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka. Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacuła, and Rutger Hauer are the stars. Cast Alan Arkin as Leon Feldhendler Joanna Pacuła as Luka (Gertrude Poppert-Schonborn) Rutger Hauer as Lieutenant Aleksandr 'Sasha' Pechersky Hartmut Becker as SS-Hauptscharführer Gustav Wagner Jack Shepherd as Itzhak Lichtman Emil Wolk as Samuel Freiberg Simon Gregor as Stanisław 'Shlomo' Szmajzner Linal Haft as Kapo Porchek Jason Norman as Thomas 'Toivi' Blatt Robert Gwilym as Chaim Engel Eli Nathenson as Moses Szmajzner Kurt Raab as SS-Oberscharführer Karl Frenzel Eric Caspar as SS-Hauptsturmführer Franz Reichleitner Hugo Bower as SS-Oberscharführer Rudolf Beckmann Klaus Grünberg as SS-Oberscharführer Erich Bauer Wolfgang Bathke as SS-Unterscharführer Hurst Henning Gissel as SS-Scharführer Josef Fallaster Henry Stolow as SS-Untersturmführer Johann Niemann Ullrich Haupt as SS-Scharführer Josef Wolf Patti Love as Eda Fiszer Lichtman Judith Sharp as Bajle Sobol Ellis van Maarseveen [nl] as Selma Wijnberg David Miller as Tailor Mundek Jack Chissick as Hershel Zuckerman Ned Vukovic as Morris Sara Sugarman as Naomi Peter Jonfield as Kapo Sturm Dijana Kržanić as Esther Terner Irfan Mensur as Kalimali Zoran Stojiljković as Boris Svetolik Nikačević as Old Man Miša Janketić as Oberkapo Berliner Dejan Čavić as Kapo Spitz Zlatan Fazlagić as Weiss Predrag Milinković as Kapo Jacob Svetislav Goncić as Gardener Never miss a video. Join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

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Spinning Gold

Release Date: March 31, 2023 | Theaters

SYNOPSIS:

The life story of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart, who discovered KISS, Donna Summer, and the Village People, as well as branching out to produce films.

REVIEW:

A great biopic of Neil Bogart, and the title could hardly be more appropriate – Spinning Gold. In the ’60s and ’70s, his Buddah and Casablanca labels gave rise to Donna Summer, KISS, Parliament, Village People, The Isley Brothers, Gladys Knight, and Bill Withers, to name but a few.

The music alone should make this a great film.

CAST: Jeremy Jordan, Wiz Khalifa, Jason Isaacs, Jason Derulo, Jay Pharoah, Michelle Monaghan, Dan Fogler, Sebastian Maniscalco, Ledisi, Sam Harris, Caylee Cowan, Chris Redd, James Wolk, Tayla Parx, Lyndsy Fonseca, Peyton List, Pink Sweats, Casey Likes, Alex Gaskarth, Michael Ian Black, Vincent Pastore

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The latest music set film "Spinning Gold" about 70s music producer Neil Bogart just announced their cast and it's full of so many actors playing 70s musicians!!! :D Here's the full cast list so far but Donna Summer's actress will be announced soon.

Jeremy Jordan - Neil Bogart Michelle Monaghan - Neil's wife Beth Samuel L. Jackson - George Clinton Keenan Thompson - Barry Gordy Jason Isaacs - Neil's father Al Jason Derulo - Ron Isley of the Isley Brothers Jay Pharaoh - radio DJ Frankie Crocker D.L. Hughley - Bootsy Collins of Parliament Jazmine Sullivan - Gladys Knight Steven Strait - Gene Simmons of KISS Sam Harris from X Ambassadors - Paul Stanley of KISS Neil Patrick Harris - KISS' manager Bill Aucion

Cast in unnamed roles are Dan Fogler, Chris Reid, and James Wolk.

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Whumpees (actors)

All the actors on this blog (so far):

Search for the name or use this link and add the name you're looking for https://whump-collector.tumblr.com/tagged/

I use the tag compilation for posts with several whumpees.

a: aaron ashmore - aaron tveit - adam palsson - adarsh gourav - aidan turner - alex o'loughlin - alexander dreymon - ali tarik findik - allison scagliotti - andreas pietschmann - andrew j. west - andrew scott - anson mount

b: ben barnes - ben hardy - ben levin - ben mckenzie - ben wishaw - benedict cumberbatch - brian austin green - burc kümbetlioglu

c: callum turner - channing tatum - charlie cox - charlie hunnam - charlie vickers - chris hemsworth - chris pine - chris pratt - christian bale - christipher egan - cillian murphy - colin farrell - colin morgan - colin o'donoghue

d: dan lewis - daniel brühl - daniel craig - daniel sharman - david boreanaz - david dastmalchian - david duchovny - david tennant - david wenham - diego klattenhoff - diego luna - dirk benedict - dominic cooper - drake rodger

e: eamon farren - engin akyürek - eric christian olsen - ethan hawke - ewan mcgregor

f: freddie stroma - freddy carter

g: gael garcia bernal - gavin drea - giacomo gianniotti - guy pearce

h: halil ibrahim ceyhan - harold perrineau - henry cavill - henry golding - hisham tawfiq - hugh dancy - hunter doohan

i: iain de caestecker - ian somerhalder - iko uwais - ioan gruffudd

j: jack bannon - jack davenport - jack martin - jack quaid - jake mclaughlin - james mcavoy - james spader - james wolk - jared padalecki - jason isaacs - jay hernandez - jd pardo - jenna ortega - jensen ackles - jeremy allen white - jim sturgess - joe flanigan - joe gilgun - joe keery - joel kinnaman - joey batey - john cho - john cusack - john reardon - jon bernthal - jonas nay - jonny harris - jordan bridges - joshua jackson - jude law - julian morris

k: karl urban - keegan allen - kevin alejandro - kiefer sutherland - kit harington

l: lee pace - liam hemsworth - louis hofmann - lucas till - luke evans - luke mitchell

m: mads mikkelsen - mark hamill - mark waschke - markus brandl - martin henderson - martin shaw - martin wallström - matt barr - matt bomer - matt czuchry - matt lanter - matt smith - max thieriot - megan boone - mel gibson - michael fassbender - michael hurst - michael shanks - michael sheen - michael weatherly - mike farrell - milos bikovic

n: nathan fillion - nathan parsons - ncuti gatwa - nicholas galitzine - nikolaj coster waldau - noah centineo

o: oliver rayon - oscar isaac

p: pablo schreiber - paul bettany - paul hassall - pedro pascal - pierce brosnan - pio marmai

r: raj yadav - rami malek - renee o'connor - richard armitage - richard harmon - richard madden - rish shah - robert downey jr - robert james-collier - robert kazinsky - robin lord taylor - rodger corser - rufus sewell - rupert evans - rupert penry jones - russell crowe - ryan guzman - ryan kelley - ryan reynolds

s: sabin tambrea - sam heughan - sam riley - santiago cabrera - scott caan - sean bean - sebastian stan - shawn ashmore - simon baker - stanley tucci - stephen amell - steve burton

t: thomas elms - thomas gibson - tim dekay - tim roth - timothy granaderos - tobey maguire - tolga saritas - tom austen - tom ellis - tom hiddleston - tom holland - tom payne - tom riley - tom sturridge - tomer capone - torrance coombs

v: viggo mortensen - vladimir burlakov

w: william shatner

y: yon gonzalez

z: zach mcgowan - zeeko za

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Puck FC ideas?

Seth Gabel

Matt Cohen

Alden Ehrenreich

Justin Baldoni

Ben Schnetzer

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Jeremy Jordan

Jesse Eisenberg

Skylar Austin

Zac Efron

Seth Rogen

Chris Pine

Jonah Hill

Pablo Schreiber

Josh Peck

Justin Bartha

Jason Schwartzman

Julian Morris

Ben Barnes

Jonathan Keltz

James Wolk

John Francis Daley

Jon Foster

Some of these are older than the general age range here right now in 2022, but they were in content when they were younger too.

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How I’d Fix Titans on HBO Max

So this is just a little post to release some pent-up steam about the Titans show because this is the third season, and this is the third time I’ve let myself be bamboozled into thinking I’d enjoy the major storyline. And I’ve got a lot of thoughts since the first season about things I’d’ve done differently if I were given creative control of the show.

DISCLAIMER: I’ll only be plotting out the season story beats, as this is what I believe is the worst crime of the show. I think the casting is fine, even if a few wouldn’t be my first choice (*cough* Iain Glen as Bruce Wayne *cough*). My only note for set design is BETTER LIGHTING. I’m not the most well-versed in cinematography; I do think they’ve improved over the seasons, but pinpointing all the little details will take too much time and that’s not what this is focused on.

Starting with SEASON 1:

Trigon should not have been our s1 big bad. The audience for Titans will mostly be made up of people who probably were introduced to comics and these characters from shows like Justice League and Teen Titans, the latter of which already handled the Trigon storyline very well with most of the heroes Titans decided to use. Besides that, the SFX for Trigon alone would - despite the massive budget HBO Max allowed for projects like this - ultimately disappoint (and we were... at least I was). It’s not like animation or comics where the depiction of the battle between a massive demon and a team of superheroes would be better resolved. Exploring Raven’s powers and origins, however, was the right choice for season 1 since - in George Perez’s Titans - Raven was the one who assembled them together. Yes, this was to battle Trigon in the end... but it doesn’t have to be that way.

The season 1 threat should have been Sebastian Blood and his cult. It seemed like they were the B-villains, but the followers of Trigon felt kind of generic and, like Trigon, disappointing. There’d be a lot more freedom to handle this because Brother Blood wasn’t as well explored in Titans media, the only incarnation being from the Teen Titans cartoon but stripped of his cult-and-demon origins. Infusing these elements back into the character would make it original and, if done correctly, timely. Like, a good representation of who Sebastian Blood could have been is a portrayal similar to James Wolk as Joe Keene, Jr. on Watchmen the series; someone who is viewed favorably with good press but ultimately runs a secret cabal with many followers a goal of world domination under the banner of ‘The Four-Eyed Demon’. And to do this, they need the Demon’s daughter.

Which brings us to Rachel. Having her be pursued still works as a great set-up, however instead of followers of Trigon they’re followers of Sebastian Blood. She needs help. Especially if we keep the scene of her foster mother being murdered. Instead of Dick, though, she runs into Starfire.

And our entry point into Starfire would be different, too. We find her on an alien spaceship, in its jail, but then she sees visions as the ship passes over Earth and invigorated by the machine’s malfunctioning (due to Raven’s spirit, as we’d find out), Starfire manages to escape and finds her way to Rachel. Saving Rachel ( “I believe we can help each other”). In this way the Starfire and Raven relationship replacing the Dick and Raven relationship as the crux of season 1.

I’d still include Dick, albeit in a different capacity and with a lot changed. When he finds Rachel and Starfire, it’s because he was investigating activity in the area (he’d been tracking the cult for a while). He’s working undercover but also as the Robin persona. He still believes in the mission while, at this point in the story, Batman has given up and retired. This is because Jason Todd had died a year ago, and because of this and thinking it’s his fault - Bruce gave up and abandoned Gotham for parts unknown to deal with his grief. Dick helps Starfire and Rachel, and together the trio leave for elsewhere - Dick aware of how the cult needs Rachel and haunted that he couldn’t look after Jason, he sees how he can protect Rachel and clings to tha, Rachel curious about why a cult would want her and what her origins are, and Starfire, free of her imprisonment and indebted to Rachel but also homesick as she didn’t leave of her own choice. Over the course of the series they’d grow closer as a family, especially when Gar joins them (I would keep the Doom Patrol episode because that episode served its purpose well, of being a backdoor pilot - maybe change a few things but those details are so minute it’s not worth mentioning).

A big change - no Hawk and Dove. I think Minka Kelly and Alan Ritchson were great choices and acted well with what was given to them, plus I enjoyed Hank’s backstory and think, if they wanted to, a Hawk and Dove miniseries would have been fantastic to explore that better (and allow for a better paced introduction between Dawn and Hank). That being said, my main reason for cutting out Hawk & Dove is two-fold. First, how they killed Dawn’s mom and Don Hall. That was so dirty and so badly conceived. Second, the weird love triangle between Dick, Dawn, and Hank. It just made no sense. 

Instead of Hawk and Dove, I think a better choice to introduce into live action would be Karen Beecher and Mal Duncan - Bumblebee and Herald. Especially after reading their issue of ‘Secret History of the DC Universe’. Have Mal want to be a hero, then meeting Karen, and not wanting him to go it alone she joins him with her tech. They are approached to join the Titans and do, only being superheroes begins to put a stressor on their relationship. And one night Karen and Dick, a little drunk, a little sad from events that will be explained in s2 hook up. Once this is found out Karen and Herald leave and this marks the end of the Titans. This will also tie into Dick’s feelings about how he felt he keeps losing his family, and the Titans breaking up was viewed as his fault, so instead of being against personal relationships he is the one trying to make this new team - Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy - his third chance). Instead of Dawn being knocked into a coma, I say it should be Mal (because then we can get Karen trying to save him and giving him robotic vocal chords which will allow him to do more, like sonic screams or whatever a la Vox, his post-Infinite Crisis identity). This will also further shine a light on their issues, because while Mal gave up heroics altogether, Karen would suit up time to time and Mal feels like Karen used his coma as an opportunity to give him powers because she wants him to be someone he’s not.

Their adaptation of the Nuclear Family was iconic™ so that’d definitely stay in (especially because Nuclear Family - one of the values they in the group believe in lol). The convent episode, too, although instead of flashbacks to Dick’s past we should have Starfire and how she grew up being the prisoner of warlords and experimented on; which is why she’s uneasy leaving Rachel with the sisters and then explodes when she sees Rachel strapped down because it triggers her. We will also have some of these hallucinations in the asylum scene. The episode with Dick and Jason would be replaced by the aliens who captured Kory coming back to take her to their planet, the team coming together to rescue her.

The biggest diversion, I think, would be after the asylum episode. The group escapes, except there’s no Arella, and it’s believed that Rachel sacrificed herself to tear the organization down and without her the group goes their separate ways. Dick goes to Donna Troy because he wants to know why, no matter how hard he tries, he can’t keep anyone around. Starfire is stuck on Earth and unsure about what to do next after finding out, in the replaced Jason Todd episode, that her sister sold her to the enemy. Gar doesn’t believe Rachel is dead. The three of them (plus Karen and Mal) receive visions from Rachel and realize that she’s still in danger and go to help.

Rachel is being held by the Cult of Blood and are working on setting up the ritual. By the time the group arrives to where she is, she is a happy member, and she tells them that they should join and be saved. They’re confused by the dreams they have - it’s Raven’s soul self fighting against her chains.

This season would culminate with the Cult of Blood capturing the group after Dick, not knowing when to leave well enough alone, rushes in and gets ‘baptized’ into the Cult and is brainwashed like Raven (although not like in that dumb dream episode that was ridiculous). He, like the others, are in attendance for the wedding between Sebastian Blood and Raven (which would be creepy because he’s 32 she’s 14), but at the pleading of Starfire Dick is freed from his mind control and releases them and they fight to free Rachel. It’s too late, however, as the ritual is completed and the ‘kiss’ is Sebastian drinking Rachel’s blood. Doing this opens up a portal which sucks up Sebastian and his followers, and is only closed after Starfire breaks through to Rachel and she gets control and closes the portal herself. The group leaves, stronger than ever, and assured that being Titans means more than being a team.

We’d get after credits scenes of the cult learning of Sebastian’s demise and their next plans, saying that “Junior” will have to be prepared earlier tha expected. Then, the other after credits scene - because Raven’s portal caused disasters across the world (”Raven ‘cleansing’ the world for Trigon’s arrival) - is Superboy breaking free.

Also, goes without saying, RAVEN WOULD HAVE HAD A BETTER WIG!

SEASON 2:

Goes without saying that season 2 would explore themes from the 1st season. Dick Grayson defining himself by who he is surrounded by, a season long search for an identity that is his and not what’s given to him (by Batman) and settling into the role as a leader as Nightwing (also, by retiring Robin, he won’t let the past haunt him). Starfire settling on Earth, her choice, and making friendships and relationships that last and help her realize this is her home. Raven is struggling to control the darker aspects of her powers after them being awakened during the ritual while also allowing herself to be a teenage girl. Beast Boy trying to fit in with this group while also wanting to prove that he can do more than just ‘turn into a green tiger’. Karen and Mal’s relationship would definitely hit rough patches (especially when Mal leaves the team and Karen because he only stayed with the team because of Karen). Donna recovering from the trauma of the original incarnation of Teen Titans, which is brought to the forefront once we introduce Deathstroke as having returned.

The second season, however, would start out not with any of these characters but with the continuation of the second after credits scene that introduced Superboy. That was one of my biggest gripes with the second season, how DELAYED the introduction of Conner was. You don’t have that scene and then keep us waiting for five episodes. Second season we enter on Superboy from the JUMP. Do the entire ‘Conner’ episode but only changing the ending, where instead of him saving Jason (because remember, Jason’s ‘dead’ at this point). Instead of that, he and Krypto are stumbling around a non-descript city, lost, unsure of what to do with their power, until they see a broadcast of the Titans saving people and realize that’s where they should head. On the other side of this, Mercy - having failed in recapturing Superboy - hire Deathstroke to go and find him. He accepts, and begins on his trail. This will help tie the antagonists’ storylines together so it’s not as disjointed as it felt in season 2 (instead of competing for the narrative they share it).

Then, we have the Titans doing their thing - Robin, Bumblebee, Vox, and Wonder Girl back in their costumes while Gar, Raven, and Starfire are training and learning while also helping take down villains in the San Francisco base. There are memories there, sure, but the others are doing their best to make it look like it’s not bothering them, Donna especially. We can have Arthur Light break out and go on a warpath for the Titans, and this can be our lead-in to the backstory episode of how the Titans became the Titans (because ‘Aqualad’ was one of the worst episodes of anything I’ve ever seen, badly written, poorly edited, and so misplaced). We see Robin, Wonder Girl, Aqualad and Speedy - Mia Dearden - coming together to chase down Dr. Light after an alert came in to the League that went unanswered because the League was busy dealing with something else. While fighting him, they receive help from Mal (in his Guardian identity) and Karen, and together they decide being a team is great and it’s nice having peers instead of mentors working iwth, so they form the Titans.

While in the midst of the big climactic battle with Dr. Light, where he’s firing on innocent civilians, he hits Superboy and nothing happens and Superboy helps them defeat Dr. Light. As they welcome Conner and he explains why he’s there, he’s struck in the back by a kryptonite bullet and we see Deathstroke watching from above telling Mercy it’s done. “So you’ll be bringing the subject back?” “Actually... there’s some business here I’ll need to settle first.” We’ll have another scene where, in an apartment, a young girl with white hair is watching footage from when Superboy was shot and recognizes a blur on the rooftop. She tells her brother, who tells her to leave it alone and if they lay low maybe Deathstroke will leave without realizing they’re here. She tells him that, despite what he or their mom thinks, she’s going to take care of him once and for all. This is Rose and Jericho.

Superboy is in a coma, the team trying to save him as the bullet didn’t fully kill him. Donna is shaken because it reminds her of what happened in the past, the last blow that spelled the end for the first generation of Titans. We get some more flashbacks. Showing Dick and Karen getting closer while Mal sort of stews silently, Aqualad getting into fights with everyone because he’s been trying their patience a lot (kind of like the friend you only hang out with because your dad is friends with his dad), and awkwardness between Donna and Mia since we learn they were interested in each other but never acted on it (because Donna is a lesbian and her and Aqualad were compulsory heterosexuality PLUS they could only mention Roy Harper but not actually show him). Soon we find out that Donna is being called back to Themyscria to finish her training, and the team throws a goodbye party. This is where Mal and Karen have a fight and she gets a bit too drunk, so does Dick because Donna is his best friend and he’s going to miss her, and they both have been feeling stress, so they hook up. Also, Mia leaves to tell Donna that she’s in love with her at the airport, and asks if it’s okay if she comes with (”It is an island full of women after all. I’m sure... this, us... would be more accepted than here.”) Before Donna can say yes Mia is shot dead by Deathstroke before her eyes. This, coupled with Mal finding Dick and Karen in bed together, leads to the Titans’ disolvement. We’ll see Kory comforting her while Dick searches for who shot the bullet with Karen and Mal, fearing that Donna might be right - and angry when she is.

They save Conner and he joins the Titans just in time to help them face Deathstroke, but also have to contend with Rose who isn’t on Deathstroke’s side but also isn’t friendly with them. It’s only when Jericho comes to them and explains his and Rose’s backstory, of being Slade’s kids, do they understand and work out an agreement to help take down Deathstroke and his backers (who turn out to be Cadmus).

Meanwhile, with Deathstroke taking too long, Mercy approaches Conner with an offer to let them help him and that the Titans are only pretending to be his friend, meanwhile they only care about his powers; but in the end they’re kids and don’t know what they’re doing. When this fails to work, they kidnap him and Krypto, replacing him with a version of Conner who is obedient to them to work as an infiltrator. Mercy then approaches Deathstroke, showing him she has a guy on the inside, and tells him that she’ll help him take down the Titans but they’re doing this her way.

Eve, imprisoned by CADMUS, helps Conner and Krypto escape (by sacrificing herself or not by sacrificing herself, dealer’s choice), and they hurry to the final battle between Deathstroke & Cadmus vs. the Titans. Just when it looks like they have Deathstroke beat, ‘Superboy’ turns and starts attacking the others. Conner hasn’t arrived, and it looks like everyone is down for the count. The fake Superboy (Match) has Kory in his grips and is attacking her, only for Donna to recover and tackle him. She batters him, punches him, and as she’s about to strike him again he uses his laser vision to strike Donna through the heart (a la Graduation Day - a much better way to ‘kill Donna’ then by electricity). Superboy arrives too late to save her, but he does take the other Superboy away before he explodes (Mercy’s final play - it would’ve killed Deathstroke too). Conner is still alive, and he’s saved everyone. In the confusion, Deathstroke slipped away.

We wind down, Rose and Jericho promise to hunt Deathstroke down and make him pay for his crimes. This will at least explain why they aren’t in s3 (which sucks, because Rose was GOOD). Raven still promises to bring Donna to Themyscira and work on bringing her back. Conner isn’t blamed for Donna’s death and they reassure him that they’re his family and welcome him back. Dick has taken on the Nightwing mantle and accepts the responsibility of being a leader, and that while he might not have been mature enough in the past, he can’t let that define him - only he can define who he is). Kory wants to go with Raven, but understands that she needs to stay with the team and only wishes Rachel luck, hoping Donna can return from the dead. Mal rejoins the team, he and Karen promising to be better to each other. Gar’s feelings of uselessness will continue because, as Conner’s best friend, he should have known something was off.(I don’t see this plot point ever being fully resolved until maybe later on).

Deathstroke wouldn’t die because you don’t WASTE Deathstroke! Killing Deathstroke cuts off so much potential in terms of storylines. I mean, there goes the Judas Contract which, despite us already having a varied animated retellings, would be beloved if done live-action and right.

Also, sorry to my DickKory fans but season 2 would lay the groundwork for some DonnaKory endgame - although the main romantic struggle would be between Dick, Donna, and Kory, with Kory at the middle and Dick and Donna the best friends who fight over her.

SEASON 3:

If we are working within the parameters of this season, and want to tackle Red Hood, there is a possibility that I’ve been thinking over and will expand upon here.

As I’ve mentioned before, Jason is dead. Because of this, Batman has abandoned his crusade against crime in Gotham because he feels there is no point to his battle and can’t continue. He’s been gone for a long time, however, this is the season where I would introduce him. He comes to visit San Francisco and Dick a very changed man, smiling, brightly-colored clothes, very into new age mysticism (”This is Batman?”). We find out that, after Jason’s death, Bruce went out on a new mission, to find a way to be at peace over the things he can’t control, and so through this journey he’s discovered inner peace and how to live despite all he’s lost. And he’s come back to Dick to share this knowledge with him, as a way to make up for indoctrinating him with these bad habits and instead lead a healthier life (crimefighting being like a drug). This will put Dick in a crossroads, questioning if he’s doing this (this being heroics) because he’s trying to use it to heal or if he really is meant to be a hero. This will be the season where the driving question is - Why Do We Don the Masks?

At the end of the first episode, however, we do the scene where the crime bosses meet up and Red Hood introduces himself, saying that he’s going to be taking control of all the criminal enterprises in Gotham.

This catches Barbara’s attention, and so she contacts Dick to fly back to Gotham and help contain this. After her appointment as Commissioner, she’s made great strides in helping clean up Gotham - especially in the tough months that followed once Batman retired (”Joker’s been imprisoned in the Slab, and he’s been abnormally quiet”). They still come up against costumed criminals but the police are better prepared to fight them, especially with help from Barbara, who knows the strategies, and Lucius Fox, CEO of Wayne, who helps develop non-lethal tech for the police to use in the battles. What’s also been helping is a small group of crimefighters who have taken to the streets, picking up the slack after Batman’s disappearance. (Barbara, “But this Red Hood... he might be too much for them to handle. We don’t want another me, or worse... another Jason.”) Dick promises to help, with both Red Hood and this group of kids - especially because one of them has taken to calling himself Robin.

That’s right! I’d introduce Young Justice in s3 - composed of Robin (Tim Drake), Spoilers (Stephanie Brown), Hawk and Dove (Hank Hall and Don Hall). Tim saw what was happening to his city after Batman quit, and decided enough was enough and became a vigilante to honor him and Jason, taking up the Robin mantle. He met up with Stephanie Brown, daughter of criminal Cluemaster, and brother Hank and Don Hall, who were working as vigilantes targeting molestors (very in-line with how Titans showed them, they’d just be younger). They’ll end up in a situation where they’re in over their heads, only to be saved by Nightwing who tells them with no uncertainty that they need to shut their operation down or else they’ll end up hurt (because they’re untrained).

Meanwhile, back in San Francisco, Starfire isn’t handling Donna’s death nor Rachel’s absence well, and is being inundated with strange visions that is making her act out of character. What’s not helping is that Bruce Wayne has decided to stay in San Francisco with them while Dick is in Gotham. Conner and Gar are enjoying this relaxed, free-spirited Bruce (he’s like the fun uncle), but it drives Kory crazy. These visions are from her sister, and even though she hates her for selling her, after finding out she’s on Earth and trapped somewhere, she goes to rescue her with Gar and Conner at her sides. They resuce her and bring her back, and Blackfire ‘apologizes’, telling Starfire that it was either Kory or their planet - and as the eldest she made the tough choice so their people wouldn’t suffer anymore harm. Starfire accepts this and welcomes her back. Also happening in San Francisco, Karen and Mal are at a crossroads because of a new development - she’s pregnant. This has put a stop on her hero journey, and while she is excited about being a mother she also wants to be a hero and we see more of them trying to work through their problems. Gar is also using Bruce to indulge himself so he doesn’t have to think about being the ‘useless’ member of the team, using his powers like a party trick to feel like he’s useful, which worries Conner.

In Themyscira, Raven pours through their texts to see how she can resurrect Donna. While there, she befriends and is aided by a young girl, Cassie Sandsmark, who is staying on the island with her mom while doing work (archaeology work); together, they find a way to reach Donna in the afterlife through an ancient ritual most of the Amazons are wary of. This doesn’t stop them, and together they perform the ritual. Raven journeys into the afterlife while Cassie is there to wake Raven if things look rough; while in the afterlife she hears the voices of Sebastian Blood and the ‘dark’ side of her, but is reminded of who she’s searching for by a soft, familiar woman’s voice and makes it to Elysium. There Rachel finds Donna and Mia, together. Donna is wary about going back, because she is happy with Mia; but Mia and Rachel remind her that there’s happiness down on Earth and there’s a lot left to live for. Donna agrees to follow Raven back, but not before saying goodbye to Mia who tells Donna she will find love again, only she shouldn’t be afraid this time to say something about it. I’d also love to see a way to involve Dark Angel somehow, maybe as a dark force approaching to prevent Donna from returning to life?

Nightwing is working with Barbara to shut down Red Hood’s operations, but it’s not going too well. It’s starting to feel like Nightwing is being taunted now, too, because a lot of what Red Hood is doing feels personal, like he knows Nightwing behind the mask. Ultimately, when Red Hood catches Young Justice and gives them a good beating, Dick stops him and it’s revealed that Jason is under the helmet. We then find out how he was brought back to life when, just as Dick has Nightwing beat, someone intervenes and saves Jason - Thalia al Ghul. We get an episode dedicated to Jason’s backstory, where he wasn’t killed, only badly beaten to the point of death. However, it was assumed he died because of the explosion. Bruce couldn’t find the body, he assumed it had been obliterated. Really, Jason had wandered away and was found by strangers and admitted to a hospital with severe brain damage. One day someone came to collect him, Talia al Ghul. She brought him to her home and used the Lazarus Pits to revive him, then trained him in assasinry so he could do the one thing Bruce never could - save Gotham.

Dick, while recovering in the Manor with the kids from Young Justice, calls up Bruce and tells him that Jason is alive. This will lead to Kory finally confronting Bruce and yelling at him that he hasn’t ‘found peace’ and instead switched coping mechanisms. This inspires Bruce to return to Gotham, the Titans following him (save Karen and Mal). Donna and Rachel meet them there, and we get the reunions plus Young Justice meeting the Titans.

We get reports that the Joker has escaped the Slab, and we find out Jason has kidnapped him. As the team investigates across Gotham, Dick goes on his own to where he knows Jason has Joker. They fight, with Jason threatening to blow them all up because as long as the Joker is dead it doesn’t matter. “He deserves it. He deserves it for all hat he’s done. For what he did to me! Please... why can’t you let me do this?” Bruce arrives, at that point, to tell him why. Because it won’t change things. Jason yells at Bruce, then, and Bruce accepts it. We also hear from Bruce about why he didn’t kill Joker, though he was close. Bruce admits that he snuck into Arkham with the decision to kill the Joker, but stopped just outside his cell. He realized that it wouldn’t bring Jason back, just as it wouldn’t bring his parents back, and he didn’t want to disappoint Jason by becoming a killer. Jason and Bruce make up, though Joker still dies - Thalia kills him. “If you won’t ensure a safer world, my Darling, I’ll do it for you.” She then detonates the explosives to escape and the three barely escape with their lives.

You’d think they’d get some rest, then, huh? WRONG! Because while searching for Jason, Blackfire betrays Kory and reveals she sold Kory so she could secure her position as ruler of Tamaran. A warship then appears in the sky where Blackfire takes Kory, announcing that Gotham will be the first city to fall during the invasion.

The s3 finale would then be the Titans vs. aliens as they drive off the alient threat, with Donna, Jason, and Dick working together to free Starfire from her sister. We’ll get a final battle between Starfire and Blackfire where Starfire asserts her status as the stronger sister, and that while she wishes Blackfire wanted a relationship between them, she won’t cry over it anymore. Blackfire takes her fleet and leaves Earth after facing humilation, and the group returns to Wayne Manor to celebrate.

Bruce has decided that, not only will he return to Gotham, but Batman will be coming back. He won’t be alone, as he’ll have a team with him. Jason decides to stay in Gotham and work on his relationship with Bruce, although knowing he will have to go out and find Thalia at some point. Hopefully by then, Tim and Steph will be well-prepared to stand on their own as Robin and Spoiler - inducted into the Batfamily. Hank and Don choose to go with the Titans back to San Francisco, especially since they were very impressed with their teamwork and Gar, who was able to transform past a tiger into something else.

We won’t be involving the Scarecrow in this. Scarecrow’s involvement wasn’t about the Titans and more of DC trying to tie him in elsewhere since Fear State will be starting soon. Plus *spoilers* Bruce killing Joker was the worst decision for Titans to do. It only served to do away with Bruce Wayne so he wouldn’t be involved in the show anymore which they could have easily solved if he wasn’t introduced too early. Keeping the Titans in Gotham for the entire season feels incongruent to who the team is and what the team is about, so if they divided the storyline between Gotham and San Francisco it’d probably play easier and allow for the characters to grow in their own way instead of being chained to the one prevailing storyline that is Under the Red Hood. And when they come back to San Francisco the Titans realize the benefits of training the youth of heroics and commit to teaching Rachel, Gar, Conner, Hank, and Don - and they introduce Cassie who joins them after getting the go-ahead from her mom and Diana. While Karen might not be able to delve into heroics for awhile because of her baby, she can still help by teaching. This will then lead into the next season which would be Titans vs. H.I.V.E. Academy, reintroduction of Slade, and bringing Terra into the fold while also having Rose and Jericho return, too.

Season three would sort of test everyone, give them the option to walk away from being a hero or choose being a hero, and strengthens their resolve to continue, comforted by how this is their choice and it’s what they’re good at.

If anyone from Titans reads this and wants me for s4 feel free to contact me

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What to know about New York Fashion Week 2020 (September)? A review

This year's NYFW (New York Fashion Show) held in September did not reach the height of its predecessors. Still, it gifted us with a lot of beautiful designs and designers. 

Every year, New York Fashion Week (NYFW) gives us some of the best collections, looks, and more. This year was no exception either. Despite all the restrictions, NYFW managed to do what it does best, inspire people. The event was held both virtually and live, however, the number of attendees was reduced significantly due to COVID protocols. 

It was held between September 13 and September 17, each day filled with tons of events and entertainment. The overall fashion show reviews in New York for it were positive. A lot of brands and their owners attended the show, either in-person or digitally. These are: 

ADEAM

Aknvas (new)

Anne Klein (new)

Badgley 

Mischka 

Bibhu Mohapatra 

Bronx and Banco 

C+ plus series 

Chloe Gosselin 

Chocheng 

Christian Cowan 

Cinq a Sept 

Claudia Li

Christian Siriano 

Concept Korea 

Colleen Allen 

Dur Doux (new)

Faith Connection 

Frere (new)

Jason Wu 

Jonathan Simkhai 

Kim Shui 

Lavie by CK 

Libertine 

Marina Moscone 

Maxhose Africa 

Monse 

Nicole Miller 

Oqliq 

PHS

Private Policy 

Proenza Schouler 

Rasiavanessa

Rebecca Minkoff 

RVNG Couture 

Studio One Eighty Nine 

Tadashi Shoji 

Tanya Taylor 

Tiffany Brown Designs 

Veronica Beard 

Victor Glemaud 

Vivienne Hu

Eckhaus Latta 

Imitation of Christ (new)

Oak & Acorn (new)

VenicW (new)

Duncan (new)

Wiederhoeft (new)

Wolk Morais (new)

Despite some big and some new names that appeared on the show, some big brands were missing. These designers instead chose to launch their collections digitally and privately. These are: 

Tommy Hilfiger 

Michael Kors 

Marc Jacobs 

Gabriela Hearst 

Oscar de la Renta 

Proenza Schouler 

Tory Burch 

Prabal Gurung 

Jason Woo and Rebecca Minkoff hosted live shows in limited physical viewership. These were live streamed too, and thousands of people around the world watched models walk on the catwalk wearing those designs. A new platform was introduced earlier this year, Runway 360. This AR (Augmented Reality)/ VR (Virtual Reality) platform has features like 360-degree viewing capacity. Using this technology, designers can organize fashion shows, live streams, press conferences, etc. Brands, media personalities, and consumers can make use of this technical feature.  

On 13th September, Harlem's Fashion show hosted the 13th Annual Style Awards. The main hosts of this event were Kimberly Goldson, Kristian Loren, and Rich Fresh. This was made publicly available on September 19th, with lots of behind-the-scene actions, and Q&A's. Designer of the Year award was awarded to Kerby jean-Raymond (from Pyer Moss). 

Some other notable changes were also made, with a focus on gender-fluid and menswear designers. 10 of them were noticed during this event, which is a preview of the fashion industry's changing dynamics and preferences. These designers are mentioned below: 

Apotts 

Carter Young

David Hart 

Future Lovers of Tomorrow 

Ka Wa Key 

Official Rebrand 

Stan 

Teddy Vonranson 

Timo Weiland 

Wataru Tominaga 

Of course, the NYFW was not as grand as it could have been due to obvious reasons. But still, it received positive fashion show reviews in New York and the rest of the world. We have to take a look at this year's top looks and designs in the next article. Until then, take care and stay in the know.

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19/06/2020

Oké, ik ga zo voor Methoden A leren, maar ik moet even mededelen wat voor een dom iets ik heb gedaan. Ik wilde thee, dus ik zette water op en ik maakte mijn thermoskan schoon, bla, bla, bla. Toen het water gekookt was, deed ik het in de fles en de suiker ging erbij. Hoera!

Eenmaal in mijn kamer, schonk ik mijn thee in en... ik was de thee vergeten. Ik  was vergeten om een theezakje in het water te doen.

Facepalming cat time.

***

Ik ga dadelijk weer eens extensief over Animal Crossing praten, maar er is een Corona update. Deze headlines zeggen genoeg:

Zo. Op woensdag zijn er 8 nieuwe besmettingen bijgekomen. Uhm, holy shit. En ik weet dat 8 als weinig klinkt, maar hier was het gemiddelde rond de 1 - 2 besmettingen per dag. Binnen 3 dagen is de kijk naar toerisme veranderd, want het blijkt dat een deel van die besmettingen via toeristen is gekomen. Als resultaat is er weer quarantaineplicht voor landen zoals Kroatië en Bosnië.

Voorlopig nog geen Nederland (of West-Europese landen in het algemeen), maar één van die nieuwe besmettingen komt via een Zweed, dus je weet maar nooit. Er zijn inderdaad ook buitenlandse toeristen binnen aan het komen. Gisteren hoorde ik al een hele groep Duitsers en dat was best leuk.

Hopelijk blijft het leuk. Slovenië is nu net zoals Nieuw-Zeeland. Nieuw-Zeeland had ook de epidemie ten einde verklaart en toen brachten toeristen het terug. Als je wilt reizen... go for it, maar ben wel zeker dat je het niet meeneemt. Mensen beginnen er weer te laks over te denken 🤷🏻‍♀️. 

Dit is ook een binnenlands probleem. Ik word er juist ziek van dat mensen buitenlanders blijven beschuldigen van alles. “Ja, die Duitsers die allemaal naar Nederland komen-” shut the fuck up, man. Mensen die onverantwoordelijk weer doen alsof er niets aan de hand is, komen overal voort. Er zijn vast ook onverantwoorde Nederlanders die binnen Nederland onverantwoord reizen. Een idioot kan het verspreiden van Maastricht naar Berlijn, maar ook van Maastricht naar Amsterdam. Er zijn waarschijnlijk ook veel verantwoorde toeristen die op weg zijn op vakantie naar het buitenland. Helaas lijkt het erop dat die paar toeristen die naar Slovenië zijn gekomen toch niet alles op orde hadden en nu moet het hele land ervoor boeten.

Gewoon.... pfffff.... richt je frustraties niet op één doelgroep. Het is mega shit (Aziatisch zijn in Corona-tijd: 0/5 do not recommend) en het helpt niemand.

Nu hoop ik gewoon dat de strenge regels bij Kroatië, Bosnië, Servië en Kosovo blijven. Ik kijk namelijk heel erg uit naar de komst van de familie. 

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20/06/2020

Het is 0:01, dus het is een nieuwe dag, maar we gaan nog even terug naar 18/06/2020, want ik was een belangrijk iets vergeten.

Een hond!

Een fluffy, fluffy hond!!! Deze hond liep vaak achter andere honden aan. Wat een schatje.

Oh en er zijn veel oranje lelies in mijn buurt. Die heb ik ook op Animal Crossing.

Verder, weet iemand wat dit is? Is dit een appelboom? Hebben we een appelboom in de tuin?

Over bloemen gesproken. Ik heb dus gisteren 4 uur gespendeerd aan een shitty bloemenveld op Animal Crossing. Ik post het hier apart, want anders krijg je 4 screenshots van Animal Crossing. Ja, dat kostte 4 uur. Ik heb heel veel Showmance geluisterd tijdens het verbouwen. Het staat tenminste mooi en mijn villagers vinden het ook fijn. Ze letten goed op de bloemen.

Vandaag heb ik dus weer gespeeld en verder heb ik Methode A doorgenomen. Ik ben er best wel nerveus voor. Ik weet dat het een open boek tentamen is, maar ik moet dit halen damnit.

Om 18:00 ging ik naar het centrum voor Open Kitchen met Victor. Eerst dacht ik dat ik de tijd fout had gelezen en dat ik de bus had gemist, maar er zijn dus toch nog steeds afwijkende tijden. De tijden op mijn Travana app kloppen en die op de busstations niet. Goed om te weten.

Het heeft vandaag wel geregend, maar niet mega lang. Het onweerde wel keihard in het centrum. Ik zag een grote grijze wolk boven het centrum hangen. In mijn buurt viel het allemaal wel mee.

Eenmaal in het centrum liep ik door een zijstraatje (het straatje met de kledingwinkel waar Lulu haar blazer heeft gekocht) en het was opmerkelijk druk bij een restaurant. Er stond een bord met Michelin 2020 bij de ingang. Ik las eerder vandaag dat zes restaurants in Slovenië Michelin sterren hebben gekregen. De eersten in het land. Hiša Franko in de stad Kobarid heeft er zelfs twee gekregen. Dit was dus bar en restaurant Atelje. Good for you.

Toen liep ik naar Pseren. Er stond al politie als voorbereiding voor het wekelijkse protest, maar daar had ik geen zin in. Victor wachtte bij de Three Bridges.

Oh en ja, Victor is nog steeds in het land. Hij hoorde eergisteren (17e) te vertrekken naar Frankrijk, maar op het laatste nippertje werd alles geannuleerd wegens Corona. 

Yup.

Gelukkig heeft hij nog een week huur, dus nog een week om een nieuw plan te vormen. Hij zei dat hij met de bus naar München kan en vanaf daar naar Brussel en vanaf daar naar Parijs en vanaf daar naar zijn stad in Frankrijk (ik ben de naam kwijt). Dat is niet te doen. Maar hey, meer tijd voor Open Kitchen. Het was iets minder druk dan vorige week, maar het was nog steeds druk. Er waren ook een paar nieuwe stands, waaronder een Egyptische stand met wraps en kip. Daar nam ik iets.

Ik ben de naam vergeten en ik kan het ook niet herkennen op de Vendors pagina van Open Kitchen, maar het was heel goed. Er waren twee soorten kip: één gekruid met 7 Egyptische kruiden en één met komijn (???) en curry. 

Victor nam varkensvlees bij Super Hrust. Er lag een heel gebraad varken op de kraam en de kok haalde er stukken vanaf. Ik heb er zelf geen foto van gemaakt, maar op één van de foto’s op de site zie je de varkenskop. 

We hebben gewoon gezeten en gepraat over van alles. We namen ook wat Cola van de bar en we genoten van de lage prijzen in Slovenië. Oké, Open Kitchen is duur, maar dat is dan ook echt duur. 

Na een uur of zo hadden we zin in iets anders en we zagen één kraam met taartjes. Het heette Moji štruklji Slovenije. We hadden geen idee wat het was, dus we vroegen het gewoon. Het bleken dus bepaalde dumplings met cake te zijn. Die dumplings heten štruklji en ze worden dan gestoomd en daarna wordt er zoetigheid overheen gegoten (zoals chocolade en nootjes). De vrouw legde uit dat het typisch Sloveens is en dat ze uit de berggebieden komen. We kregen een flyer mee, maar het is helemaal in het Sloveens.

Misschien gooi ik het morgen door Google Translate. De vrouw vroeg of we reizigers waren, maar we vertelden haar dat we Erasmus studenten waren en dat vond ze ook cool. Achteraf realiseerden we dat ze waarschijnlijk dacht dat we een koppel waren. Victor zei ook al: “Yes, they see two Asians, so they must be together.” Het was best ironisch.

De štruklji was heel goed. Er waren verschillende smaken en ik nam de chocolade smaak en Victor nam aardbei. Er is ook een hartige versie met kaas en spinazie, maar ik had zin in een toetje, dus chocolade time!

De vrouw zei ook dat ze heel licht op de maag waren, maar uh... nee. We namen het mee naar het universiteitsplein (newest hangout spot, yo) en woah, we kregen bijna niet op. Ik zit nog steeds vol.

Rond 22:19 ging ik naar huis met de city bike. Victor liep mee tot aan het uitende van het centrum en toen fietste ik door. Misschien zie ik hem nog, want hey, hij is er nog. Om 23:00 was ik thuis en ik wilde dit gaan schrijven, maar iemand op Discord had hele goede stonks en andere native fruit op Animal Crossing, dus ik heb even 400.000 Bells verdiend.

En nu is het 0:33 en ik heb zin in thee en ik wil Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years in Concert afluisteren, want het heeft Joshua Henry en Cynthia Erivo in de cast. Goed moment voor een kopje thee. Hopelijk vergeet ik nu niet mijn theezakje 🤦🏻‍♀️.

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Invaluable Industry Insights with Spears & Arrows Founder, Managing Director, EP Jason Wolk

Thrilled to welcome back Jason Wolk - Founder, Managing Director, and Executive Producer of Spears & Arrows. As the leader of one of the top commercial production companies, Jason has a truly unique insight into the ever-changing advertising world and production.

Jason and I explore the myriad ways the industry has evolved just in the past few years alone. From shifts in camera techniques and storytelling approaches, to changing client expectations, directors must constantly adapt to remain on top of the latest trends. Jason offers some invaluable advice for landing jobs and developing a singular directing style that helps talent stand out. Whether you're a seasoned vet or emerging creator, this conversation provides perspective that should benefit any filmmaker working in ads today.

Thanks to our editor Jake Brady We could not do the show without him and love this guy behind words. Need your pod spruced up? Check out his Podcast Wax.

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Jacob L 6”//8.5” T100

Luke C 5.5”//8.5” T100

Dan Tai 5”//8.5” T90

Tyler Posey 5”//8.5” T75

Henry Cavill 7”//8” T95

TJ Thyne 6.5”//8” T90

Ethan S 6.5”//8” T95

Michael Grant Terry 6”//8” T90

Ted Pullin 6”//8” T75

Kit Harrington 6”//8” T100

Will Smith 6”//8” T100

Harry K 6”//8” T50

Josh Dun 6”//8” T90

Max Irons 6”//8” T95

Mark Wahlberg 6”//8” T100

James Wolk 6”//8” T80

David Duchovny 6”//8” T100

Daniel Craig 6”//8” T100

Beau Mirchoff 6”//8” T90

Liam Payne 6”//8” T85

Jack Griffo 6”//8” T100

Daniel Ricciardo 6”//8” T95

Miles Fisher 6”//8” T90

Devon Sawa 6”//8” T100

John Legend 6”//8” T100

Chris Ramsey 6”//8” T90

Logan Miller 6”//8” T100

Tom Hardy 6”//8” T90

Alexander Ludwig 6”//8” T100

Ramin Karimloo 5.5”//8” T100

Jake Johnson 5.5”//8” T90

Mark Salling 5.5”/8” T100

John Krasinski 5.5”//8” T90

Matthew Morrison 5.5”//8” T95

Tom Summerbee 5.5”//8” T95

Lee Mack 5”//8” T100

William McSherry 5”//8” T50

Greg Rutherford 5”//8” T100

Darren Criss 6”//7.5” T75

Owen Farrell 6”//7.5” T95

Tom Holland 6”//7.5” T50

Paddy McGuinness 6”//7.5” T95

Gino D’Acampo 6”//7.5” T100

Ben Shepherd 6”//7.5” T100

Shawn Mendes 6”//7.5” T45

Mark Shadrick 6”/7.5” T100

Ben G 6”//7.5” T70

John Francis Daley 5”//7.5” T85

Avan Jogia 5”//7.5” T50

Matt LeBlanc 5”//7.5” T100

David Caves 5”//7.5” T100

Eric Szmanda 5”//7.5” T45

Jonathan Brown 5”//7.5” T95

Alex M 5”//7.5” T100

Jace Norman 5”//7.5” T85

Jimmy Fallon 5”//7.5” T90

Huw Rees 5”//7.5” T100

Asa Butterfield 5”//7.5” T65

Nick Jonas 4.5”//7.5” T65

Fred Siriex 6.5”//7” T80

Jamie Redknapp 6”//7” T75

Jamie T 6”//7” T85

Rhys M 6”//7” T60

Barnaby Wakeford 6”//7” T85

Russell Howard 5.5”//7” T90

Adam Levine 5.5”//7” T85

Ollie C 5.5”//7” T90

Joe Jonas 5”//7” T70

Jake Gyllenhaal 5”//7” T90

Tom Cruise 5”//7” T100

Cory Monteith 5”/7” T90

Claudiu N 5”//7” T100

Ethan M 5”//7” T80

Max Whitlock 5”//7” T80

Gethin Jones 5”//7” T100

John Boyd 5”//7” T60

Jon Richardson 5”//7” T45

Asher Angel 5”//7” T60

Jacob Sartorius 5”//7” T40

Tom Ellis 5”//7” T75

Thomas Kuc 5”//7” T60

Jack G 5”//7” T50

Shawn Ashmore 5”//7” T65

Evan M 5”//7” T40

Josh Hutcherson 5”//7” T75

Aneurin Barnard 4.5”//7” T80

Robert Irwin 4.5”//7” T60

Cristiano Ronaldo 4”//7” T100

Pete Wentz 5”//6.5” T80

Joel Dommett 5”//6.5” T90

Jeremy Renner 5”//6.5” T90

Woody S 5”//6.5” T90

Chaning Tatum 5”//6.5” T100

Ryan Bergara 4”//6.5” T100

Scott Mitchell 4”//6.5” T90

Max Emerson 4”//6.5” T35

Will Mellor 5”//6” T100

Kevin Pietersen 5”//6” T60

Harry E 5”//6” T85

Rob Beckett 4.5”//6” T95

Justin Bieber 4”//6” T40

Jimmy Carr 4”//6” T65

Romesh Ranganathan 4”//6” T95

Richard Wells 4”//6” T100

Dan P 4”//5.5” T30

Lewis T 4”//5.5” T20

Niall C 4”//5” T10

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Event: 2017 Pre-Grammy Gala – February 2017 Stylist: Jason Bolden @jasonbolden Wearing: Wolk Morais – Collection 4 Spring 2017 @wolkmorais Shoes: Tamara Mellon @tamaramellon Clutch: Gucci @gucci Earrings: David Webb @davidwebbjewels (at DMV Area) https://www.instagram.com/p/CADgL8gBapt/?igshid=rz2k69cdl3d7

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adam mccarthy / jared padalecki

adolfo villanueva / miguel herran

aidan riordan / jamie dornan

alasdair macmillan / james mcavoy

amelia mckinnon / chris pratt

anderson watts / ricky whittle

andrew holland / armie hammer

asher de rouvroy / dacre montgomery

atticus selwyn / matthew noszka

aurora de rouvroy / chris hemsworth

austin radwell / brant daugherty

benji salazar / froy gutierrez

bradley harrington / zac efron

cain woodhouse / jon bernthal

carlos castilla / alfonso herrera

carter fawcett / james wolk

casper st clair / kj apa

cedric st clair / richard madden

chad maddock / matt barr

charity st clair / kj apa

cheyenne rivers / gavin leatherwood

clint montgomery / murray bartlett

cole macintyre / joe dempsie

colin fleetwood / ryan kwanten

connor fleetwood / william moseley

conrad st clair / michael fassbender

corinna sharp / noah centineo

cormac riordan / colin o'donoghue

cyrus patel / avan jogia

damian dent / finn wittrock

daphne macnamara / chris evans

darcy lockhart / shawn mendes

david chambers / mitchell hope

dean o'callaghan / derek theler

derek o'callaghan / max thieriot

desiree delavergne / charles michael davis

dmitri markov / tom hardy

dominic king / michael b jordan

dorian van dyke / grant gustin

drake summers / cheyenne jackson

duke collins / dwayne johnson

duncan riordan / chris wood

dustin greer / jeremy jordan

elliot burke / sebastian stan

emily riordan / josh dallas

emmett rabnott / aaron tveit

ernest mccarthy / mark ruffalo

ethan fletcher / jacob elordi

evan anthony / luke mitchell

ezra adler / adam brody

felix castilla / alberto rosende

finn sheridan / sean maguire

fletcher o'bryen / taron egerton

flynn maguire / tom holland

frank harrington / jeffrey dean morgan

gareth dearborn / luke evans

garrett khan / zayn malik

gemma bertinelli / beau mirchoff

george hamilton / david harbour

gianni mantovani / dj cotrona

grace zhao / charles melton

graham o'gorham / ben affleck

gregory dobbs / richard harmon

guinevere abbott / matt bomer

harvey frost / Alex Fitzalan

hayden granger / matthew morrison

henry chamberlain / john krasinski

holden cavanaugh / miles heizer

ian mccluskey / dustin milligan

isabella castilla / miguel angel silvestre

jackson platt / gregg sulkin

jakob stark / john barrowman

jared buchanan / andrew lincoln

jasper bertinelli / nico tortorella

jeremy leighton / zachary levi

jeremy wallace / robert downey jr

julian maxwell / david ramsey

justin antwhistle / casey cott

kenneth o'malley / nick zano

killian sheridan / niall horan

kyle armstrong / scott eastwood

lana talbot / ryan reynolds

lance harville / charlie hunnam

lars nystrom / mike vogel

leopold zielinsky /aaron taylor-johnson

lewis birch / hunter parrish

lincoln teller / jai courtney

linus von essen / joseph morgan

lloyd llewellyn / ian bohen

logan preece / elliot fletcher

lucas west / brandon routh

lucas west / brandon routh

lucrezia de vitis / joe manganiello

lydia pryde / tom ellis

magnus nystrom / dominic sherwood

malcolm brant / dylan mcdermott

marcel de rouvroy / justin hartley

marina grimaldi / justin baldoni

markos apostolidis / theo james

marshall dunbar / michael evans behling

martin abercrombie / penn badgley

matthew fell / dan stevens

max fleming / dylan o'brien

micah rybinski / ross lynch

miles sheppard / dylan minnette

nate rockwell / ben mckenzie

nicolas de rouvroy / logan shroyer

noah benson / liam payne

nolan o'shea / casey deidrick

oliver hawkins / brett dalton

owen lee / markiplier

parker penn / jason ralph

patrick talbot / jason ralph

percival snow / daniel gillies

peter rabnott / robert buckley

peyton summers / cody christian

phillip mccann / paul rudd

piper macnamara / colton haynes

preston macnamara / oliver stark

quentin radcliffe / thomas doherty

quinn o'callaghan / gus kenworthy

rafael cortez / mark consuelos

ramon rosales / oscar isaac

raymond voltoni / milo ventimeglia

reynard payne / rome flynn

roderick macnair / david tennant

roger madison / hugh jackman

romeo grimaldi / nick jonas

roscoe royale / keiynan lonsdale

rowan summers / tyler blackburn

ryan kingsleigh / charlie puth

scott maguire / jake gyllenhaal

sean prewett / tyler hoechlin

sebastian luczynski / antoni porowski

solomon zimmerman / daniel sunjata

sophia platt / henry cavill

stefan nystrom / alexander skarsgrd

sullivan tate / rob kazinsky

teddy farley / wolfgang Novogratz

tim anderson / bob morley

todd salazar / josh segarra

tristan zhao / ross butler

ulysseus khan / rahul kohli

valentino cortez / tyler posey

vicente cortez / michael trevino

victoria fawley / stephen amell

vijay balaji / manish dayal

vishal balaji / arjun gupta

warren vablatsky / matt czuchry

willa rabnott / chace crawford

winston wilcox / charlie cox

wyatt stretton / steven r mcqueen

xavier brady / amadeus serafini

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mwfcs?

Opa, segura aí que vem um listão, meu amor! 

Glen Powell, Tyler Hoechlin, Jamie Dornan, Jason Momoa, Kit Harington, Chris Hemsworth, Michael B Jordan, Chadwick Boseman, Mena Massoud, David Giuntoli, James Wolk, Alfie Allen, Joe Dempsie, Michael B Jordan rs, Liam Hemsworth,  Luke Mitchell, Robert Downey Jr + (todo o elenco dos Avengers, por favor).

Aja Naomi King, Sophie Turner, Deborah Ann Woll, Karla Souza, Priyanka Chopra, Lucy Liu, Natalie Dormer, Ashley Johnson, Shay Mitchell, Emilia Clarke, Katheryn Winnick, Amber Heard, Johanna Braddy, Anne Hathaway, Meghan Markle, Keira Knightley, Jessica Chastain, Gal Gadot.