#Jim Annan

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GO2: “The Ball” [S02E05].

Serie: Good Omens. Skapare: Neil Gaiman. Författare: Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman (boken). Författare: Neil Gaiman & John Finnemore (avsnittet). Regissör: Douglas Mackinnon (avsnittet). Publicerad: 2023. Medium: Amazon Prime Video.

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¡Oi! Spoilers, stavfel och alternativa fakta kan förekomma rakt föröver!

Man känner att det börjar dra ihop sig i det här avsnittet där Aziraphale till synes omedveten om att snaran dras åt runt bokhandeln pliktskyldigt årsmötet för de lokala entreprenörernas förening. Jag säger entreprenörer då Azirazphale är mer inkluderande än man kanske skulle kunna tro. Tänker på att även sömmerskan blev inbjuden.  😇🤣

Apropå bokhandeln – undrar om den runda dörröppningen till foajén på insidan av butiken är ett homage till Tolkiens ”The Hobbit”?

På det hela taget ännu ett roligt avsnitt där det är en idel samling fummelpellar på bägge sidor om skranket. Furfur och Shax är roliga på sin sida och Muriel håller fanan högt som himmelens utsända ”spion” kring den lilla bokhandeln. Michael är imponerad är jag säker på. Sedan att Gabriel (i egenskap som ”Jim”) kliver ut och annonserar att han är där – men ingen tror honom.

Intressant inblick för övrigt vi får i vad som hände Gabriel, det verkar som om han medvetet gömt sina minnen för att skydda sig eller någon annan. Frågan är då, ingick det i planen att dumpa sig själv utanför bokhandeln? Visste han att, vad det nu än är som pågår i kulisserna, att Aziraphale och Crowley var de bästa kandidaterna att hjälpa honom/reda ut saker och ting? Är apokalypsen på ingång? Igen?

Lite fundersam är jag kring sms:en Nina fick, att de visas på griffeltavlan men det verkar som om det var ett listigt sätt bara att visualisera dem för tittarna. Undrar f.ö. hur intrigen med Nina och Maggie passar in i den större intrigen, något säger mig att det här är mer än bara ett tidsfördriv för Aziraphale och Crowley att tussa ihop dem.

Säsongsavslutning nästa avsnitt. Ser verkligen fram emot det!

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15th January 1923 saw the birth of the wonderfully eccentric and very funny Ivor Cutler.

I was first introduced to the wacky world of Ivor Cutler when I was in my late teens, my best friend;s mother had moved down to Teeside in the North of England and we used to hitch hike down the A1 onto the A19 into Stckton, we would race each other down, happy days, I sadly lost him to a drugs overdose a few years later in a flat we shared in Edinburgh.

Anyway, Ruth, my mate's mum had a wonderfulrecord collection, much of it were the country classics from years ago, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Jim Reeves and the wonderful Kris Kristofferson. While thumbing through them I found, Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2, and asked about it, "Oh you'll love this" he said slipping the vinyl from the sleeve and onto ther turntable. Thisv was when the alternative comedians were beginning to make their mark, Willie and I had similar tastes in comedy. After listening to it, laughing at the nonsensical humour I asked asbout Volume 1, there isn't one I was dissapointed to hear, but it actually made sense in the strange world Ivor invented.

Born Isadore Cutler in Govan, Glasgow, into a middle-class Jewish family of Eastern European descent. His father Jack Moris Cutler was a wholesale jeweller and had premises at 85 Queen Street. He cited his childhood as the source of his artistic temperament, recalling a sense of displacement when his younger brother was born: "Without that I would not have been so screwed up as I am, and therefore not as creative." And creative he was!

Ivor was educated at the Shawlands Academy.[4] In 1939 Cutler was evacuated to Annan. He joined the Royal Air Force as a navigator in 1942 but was soon grounded for "dreaminess", apparently more interested in looking at the clouds from the cockpit window than locating a flight path, and worked as a storeman. After the war he studied at Glasgow School of Art and became a schoolteacher.

Working at a school in Paisley, however, did not agree with Cutler. He hated discipline that required the strap, having received it more than 200 times himself, and in a dramatic gesture took the instrument from his desk, cut it into pieces and dispensed them to the class.

Leaving Scotland was, he claimed, "the beginning of my life". He settled in London for a time teaching music, dance, drama and poetry to 7- to 11-year-olds. Oh how I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall in on of his classrooms.

His dour recordings bely his existence growing up in Glasgow and seeing his peers arriving at school with bare feet - a fact which, he later claimed, helped form his leftwing political views, aged five - appeared in his hilarious writings, Life in a Scotch Sitting Room Volume 2. With lines such as "Voiding bowels in those days was unheard of. People just kept it in," he used a string of fantastical untruths to expose the reality of his life and the Spartan - and sometimes sadistic - Scottish existence.

He also taught for a time at A S Neil's Summerhill school. Dubbed a hippy academy where a different approach to education was fostered, Summerhill was run with rules agreed between staff and pupils, and the premise was to educate the whole person. This alternative philosophy appealed to Cutler. He lived in the grounds of the school. Ivor married for a time, but his parenting skills did not go down too well with his then wife, they had two sons, he sent one, on his first day at school wearing a kilt, I can see that going down well in England! His son remembers his father once taking him fake fishing,taking him out in the street, with a stick and bit of string and a fork tied on the end dangling in a puddle, being his fishing line, he also says "I couldn't say I was pleased when he felt the need to walk down the street with a carpet sample in place of a tie."

During the late 50's and into the 60's he mixed his teaching with that of entertainment, managing to secure a slot on Acker Bilk Show and Late Night Line-Up. On one such appearance he was spotted by Paul McCartney, who invited Cutler to appear in the Beatles' film Magical Mystery Tour where he played the bus conductor Buster Bloodvessel, and yes the lead singer of Bad Manners took his name from this and was also a fan of Cutler.

Through music, poetry and children’s books the songwriter, poet and ��unjoiner” of thoughts perfected a brand of eccentric mischief that made him a favourite of many.

His absurdist songs – sung in dour Glaswegian tones with a wheezing harmonium for company – were an ever-present on John Peel’s radio shows, second only in rotation to The Fall. His darkly whimsical eye can be seen in contemporary British artists like David Shrigley and Martin Creed. And yet Cutler remains something of a marginal figure, known only to a devoted few.

For the latter part of his career, Cutler lived on his own in a flat on Parliament Hill Fields, north London, which he found by placing an ad in the New Statesman saying "Ivor Cutler seeks room near Heath. Cheap!". There he would receive visitors, and his companion Phyllis King, in a reception room filled with clutter, pictures and curios, including his harmonium, some ivory cutlery (a pun, of course) and a wax ear stapled to the wall with six-inch nails - proof of his dedication to the Noise Abatement Society, because of which he forbade his audience ever to whistle in appreciation at his work. The bicycle was his preferred mode of transport, its cow-horn handlebars in the sit-up-and-beg position in line with his Alexander technique practice.

He could quote from Homer, taught himself Chinese and was in the habit of frequenting Soho's Chinatown, where he could display his knowledge - although, typically, he chose Chinese above Japanese because the textbooks were cheaper. With the onset of old age he was increasingly worried about losing his memory, given that his father and brother had both developed Alzheimer's disease. It was a fear that was to be tragically fulfilled. He retired from the stage at the age of 82.

His main champion in the late 70's and 80's John Peel once remarked that Cutler was probably the only performer whose work had been featured on Radio 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Ivor Cutler died after a massive stroke on March 3rd 2006 aged 83.

I could no doubt find many stories about Ivor online but will give you some of his own whimsical word instead, first up is some wise advice from Mr Cutler.

5 Wise Saws

1. Do not kick a grocer on the leg.

2. If you kick a grocer on the leg, make sure it’s not a green grocer.

3. If you throw a ball, it moves in the air.

4. You can not erase a love letter with a nipple, no matter how rubbery.

5. If you empty your bowels at night, a shepherd will have a red face in the morning.

Life in a Scotch Sitting Room, Vol. 2. Episode 6.

Scotland gets its brains from the herring,’ said Grandpa, and we all nodded our heads with complete incomprehension. Sometimes, for a treat, we got playing with their heads; glutinous bony affairs, without room for brains, and a look of lust on their narrow soprano jaws.

The time I lifted the lid of the midden on a winter night,   and there,   a cool blue gleam – herring heads . . .  Other heads do not gleam in the dark. So perhaps Grandpa was right.

To make sure we ate the most intelligent herring, he fished the estuary. Planted a notice, ‘Literate herring this way!‘ below the water-line at the corner where it met the sea. The paint for the notice was made of crushed heads. Red-eyed herring, sore from  reading, would round the corner, read the notice and sense the estuary water, bland and eye-easing. A few feet brought them within the confining friendliness of his manilla net and a purposeful end.

There was only one way to cook it: a deep batter of porridge left from breakfast was patted round and it was fed on to the hot griddle athwart the coal fire. In seconds, a thick aroma leaned around and bent against the walls. We lay down and dribbled on the carpet. Also, the air was fresher. Time passed. In exactly twenty-five minutes the porridge cracked, and juice steamed through with a glad fizz. We ate the batter first to take the edge off our appetites, so that we could eat the herring with respect. Which we did,  including the bones.

After supper, assuming the herring to have worked, we were asked questions. In Latin, Greek and Hebrew, we had to know the principal parts of verbs. In Geography, the five main glove-manufacturing towns in the Midlands, and in History, the development of Glasgow’s sewage system.

There’s nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

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Det bästa tal som någonsin hållitsPASSIONSVECKANS TRÖST MED JS BACHAtt gå in i passionsveckan i en plågad värld. Låt detta gripande framförande av JS Bachs aria "Have mercy" av Marian Anderson och bilderna från hennes framträdande på Lincoln Memorial 1939 beröra ditt hjärta och hjärtat av denna värld.ALMUT FURCHERTDEN 24 MAR, 20242782Aktie"Erbarme dich, mein Gott" (Förbarma dig, min Gud) från Matteuspassionen1 Till minne av Marian Anderson (1897-1993)Detta är den första av våra Passionsveckans tröst 2024. Om du vill resa med oss och få våra dagliga tröstmeddelanden i din inkorg, se till att du har valt den betalda prenumerationsnivån. Om du behöver ett stipendium för denna resa, eller vill skicka ditt erbjudande på ett annat sätt, vänligen svara på detta e-postmeddelande så kommer jag att kompa dig så fort som möjligt. Du kan också hantera din prenumeration här. Kära medpilgrim,Jag har alltid älskat JS Bachs aria "Erbarme Dich" ur hans Matteuspassion, och jag har hört många gripande tolkningar genom åren, en del när jag själv sjöng i Bachkören på Münchenfilharmonikerna.Men när jag stötte på den här tolkningen av Marian Anderson för nästan åtta decennier sedan brast mitt hjärta. Smärtan av att under ett helt år ha sett den här världen gå djupare och djupare ner i krig och splittring och apokalyptiska nyheter, strömmade ut genom mina tårar. Det blev genast tydligt att jag måste dela detta spöklika stycke med dig. Måste be er att stanna upp och lyssna och låta ert hjärta beröras, så att vi kan förflytta denna plågade värld tillsammans. Måste be er att dela den med en annan själ som kommer att dela den med en annan själ så att vi alla tillsammans kan förenas i en gemensam klagosång som ropar på Gudomlig barmhärtighet för vår plågade värld och våra plågade hjärtan. Så innan vi skalar av de många lagren av berättelsen (viss kontext ges också i själva videon) inbjuder jag dig att ta 8 minuter av din dag idag och fördjupa dig i komplexiteten och skönheten i denna föreställning, i lagren av personlig och nationell historia, och bärandet av smärta och vaktande av hopp som delats genom århundradena. Lyssna med hjärtat, om du kan. Var inte rädd för dina tårar. Vi kommer att torka dem senare. Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zähren willen! Schaue hier, Herz und Auge weint vor dir bitterlich. **Förbarma dig, Min Gud, för mina tårars skull; Se hit, hjärta och ögon gråta bittert inför dig .AktieSkalar av lagrenBachs aria "Erbarme Dich" i hans Matteuspassion är förmodligen den mest kända och älskade av ariorna. I repetitiva rörelser lutar sig sångerskan mot sitt värkande hjärta och behovet av gudomlig barmhärtighet, med stöd av några gamla instrument som härmar hjärtats gråt. Med sin passion har JS Bach skapat en storslagen klagosång. Hans musik erbjuder oss en behållare för våra sorger och förför oss till vacker klagosång. Att delta i denna orkestrerade sorgeupplevelse kan vara självlugnande och en strategi för motståndskraft inför tragedier. Den berömda alten Marian Anderson föddes i Philadelphia den 27 februari 1897 och beskrevs av den berömde italienske dirigenten Arturo Toscanini som en röst som dyker upp "en gång på hundra år". Den 9 april 1939 uppträdde Marian Anderson framför Lincoln Memorial eftersom hon nekades tillträde till Constitutional Hall av Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) på grund av sin ras. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt var medlem i DAR. Upprörd över deras beslut avgick hon som bekant från organisationen. Denna uppmärksammade kontrovers ledde till en inbjudan, sponsrad av hundratals av Washingtons elit, att sjunga på trappan till Lincoln Memorial.En folkmassa på mer än 75 000 människor kom ut för att höra och stödja henne, som sändes live till miljontals fler.21939 was a year of turning and foreboding around the world. It was the year when Europe fell into the most ugly and unforgiving war of the last century. It was still the height of the brutal Jim Crow South and the Great Migration of black people away from the oppression in the South on the American continent.Denna passionshistoria är historien om rasdiskriminering som nekade en skicklig musiker hennes scen, förlöst av det heroiska motståndet från ledare och en tyst publik på 75 000 människor i hjärtat av nationen.Jeffrey Stevers, som skapade denna kusliga version av konsertbilderna från 1939 tillsammans med inspelningen av Bachs aria från 1946, "satte både artisten och frågan om rasdiskriminering i det nationella rampljuset."Marian Anderson var den första afroamerikanska sångerskan att uppträda i Vita huset och den första afroamerikanen att sjunga med New Yorks Metropolitan Opera.Hon sjöng vid invigningarna av Dwight D. Eisenhower och John F. Kennedy. År 1957 reste hon runt i Indien och Fjärran Östern som goodwillambassadör genom USA:s utrikesdepartement.Anderson har fått många utmärkelser och utmärkelser och tilldelades Presidential Medal of Freedom 1963, Congressional Gold Medal 1977, Kennedy Center Honors 1978, National Medal of Arts 1986 och en Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award 1991. Prenumerera på Passionsveckans tröstKlagan och modJag har alltid trott att om vi ändrar ett hjärta kommer vi att förändra vår värld. Och att börja med mitt eget hjärta är det svåraste stället att börja på.Världen förändrades inte omedelbart efter denna otroliga konsert 1939 som berörde USA och världen, inte heller inspelningen av Bachs aria 1946. Och ändå har modet fått fäste och förändring har förts till mångas hjärtan.Och så var det modet hos First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Hon var medlem i DAR. Upprörd över deras beslut att neka Anderson tillträde till konserthuset på grund av hennes ras, avgick hon som bekant från organisationen.Att förändra ett hjärta, kära människor, är fortfarande det som förändrar världen. Genom att förändra hjärtat hos den person som säger "nu får det vara nog", jag står inte ut med det längre, jag måste hålla fast vid det som är humant och det som är sant.Passionshistorien är inte en berättelse om makt och makt. Den lär inte ut storhet utan ödmjukhet. Den ställer inte ras mot ras, religion mot religion eller höger mot vänster.Korsets väg leder oss till att luta oss mot barmhärtighet, inte makt."Förbarma dig, min Gud, för mina tårars skull; Se hit, hjärta och ögon gråta bittert inför dig."En välsignelse för din passionsresaWorried, sorrowful, hopeful, let us now come as we are and walk together holding our sorrows and the sorrows of this world towards the glimmering Easter light of renewed life. And may Divine mercy walk among us.With love, AlmutPS: Leave a heart or a phrase, a word, or a line which resonated with you in the comments section so we know you have been here. 🙏Leave a commentFor the subscribers of our Passion JourneyKära medpilgrimer, tack för att ni är här, för att ni upprätthåller denna resa och för att ni litar på mig under denna Stilla vecka. Morgondagens inlägg kommer att samla oss för vår pilgrimsfärd i en mer intim miljö av betalda prenumeranter (så här uppgraderar du) eftersom vi kommer att låta vårt hjärta följa veckans rörelse och Bachs passionsoratorium. Allt du behöver ta med dig är ett fönster av ostörd tid under hela dagen (20 minuter rekommenderas) och ett öppet hjärta. En del reserverar också en längre tid på påskafton som en privat retreat för att läsa eller läsa om var och en av våra dagliga tröster.Om du är en betald prenumerant men inte vill få dagliga e-postmeddelanden från passionsveckan kan du stänga av dem här.Om du är i behov av ett stipendium för att delta eller vill skicka ditt erbjudande på ett annat sätt, vänligen svara på detta e-postmeddelande så kommer jag att kompa dig så fort som möjligt.Prenumerera på Passionsveckans tröstOm AlmutAlmut FurchertPsych. är en tysk-amerikansk forskare och praktiker, en psykolog som blev filosof och blev författare, resenär, fotograf, retreatledare och mamma till ett förskolebarn. Hon har undervisat och publicerat om författare som Kierkegaard, Buber, Frankl, Yalom, Edith Stein och Hildegard av Bingen. Almut är också benediktinoblat och bor med sin familj i en liten universitetsstad i övre mellanvästern.1BWV 244 av Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Marian Anderson, alt Joseph Fuchs, soloviolin RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra Robert Shaw, dirigent Inspelad juni 1946

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Ben's at Home

Ben who is in his 30's has recently been heartbroken by a breakup. This leads to him having an existential crisis. He decides that he's tired of living in the happy charades of life. For example going out and going to bars to meet people ect, ect. So he decides that he could just stay at home and be equally happy. He gets a job online where he won't have to set foot in the outside world and gets all his groceries, essentials and even entertainment via the internet. His fool proof plan to avoid the heartbreaks of the outside world is going to be tested when he meets a kind stranger and his friends keep pushing him to come out of his home.

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Spectres Continue To Appear Along A Scotland Highway Road

Spectres Continue To Appear Along A Scotland Highway Road

The road has been well regarded as one of the most haunted places in the world. Many have seen spooky spectres appear here as they drive. Annan Road, A75 Kinmount Straight is a roadway that reaches through Dornock. 

At some point, there was talk of Scottish officials improving the road, but they believe the restless souls that stir here wouldn’t be happy about it. Villagers believe in these…

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Anne with an E  -  CBC / Netflix  -  March 19, 2017 - November 24, 2019

Period Drama (27 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Amybeth McNulty as Anne Shirley

Geraldine James as Marilla Cuthbert

Dalila Bela as Diana Barry

Lucas Jade Zumann as Gilbert Blythe

Aymeric Jett Montaz as Jerry Baynard

R. H. Thomson as Matthew Cuthbert

Corrine Koslo as Rachel Lynde (seasons 2–3; recurring season 1)

Dalmar Abuzeid as Sebastian "Bash" Lacroix (seasons 2–3)

Cory Grüter-Andrew as Cole Mackenzie (seasons 2–3)

Joanna Douglas as Miss Muriel Stacy (season 3; recurring season 2)

Recurring and guest

Jonathan Holmes as Mr. William Barry

Helen Johns as Mrs. Eliza Barry

Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Minnie May Barry

Deborah Grover as Josephine Barry

Wayne Best as John Blythe

Phillip Williams as Thomas Lynde

David Ingram as Mr. Harmon Andrews

Janet Porter as Mrs. Andrews

Christian Martyn as Billy Andrews

Lia Pappas-Kemps as Jane Andrews

Ella Jonas Farlinger as Prissy Andrews

Jim Annan as Mr. Gillis

Fiona Byrne as Mrs. Gillis

Kyla Matthews as Ruby Gillis

Jacob Ursomarzo as Moody Spurgeon

Stephen Tracey as Mr. Phillips

Miranda McKeon as Josie Pye

Glenna Walters as Tillie Boulter

Katelyn Wells as Mary Joe

Jacob Horsley as Charlie Sloane

Taras Lavren as Nate

Shane Carty as Mr. Dunlop

Cara Ricketts as Mary LaCroix

Araya Mengesha as Elijah Hanford

Nicky Lawrence as Jocelyn

Lisa Codrington as Constance

Melanie Nicholls-King as Hazel Lacroix

Kiawenti:io Tarbell as Ka'kwet

Brandon Oakes as Aluk

Dana Jeffrey as Oqwatnuk

Ashleigh Stewart as Winifred "Winnie" Rose

Ines Feghouli as Sandy Baynard

Trenna Keating as Mrs. Pye

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A student in 1960s U.S., Kofi Annan had traveled to the Jim Crow South. He needed a haircut, but was told by a racist white barber: “I do not cut nigger hair.” Annan, who is Ghanaian, responded: “I am not a nigger, I am an African.” In doing this, Annan did not challenge the degradation pre-assigned to him by virtue of his skin color, and accepted the premise that there is something inherently pathological about American blackness to which black people from Africa are impervious.

This line of thought is not uncommon. As Chimamanda Adichie, herself a Nigerian immigrant to the U.S., has stated: “When you’re an immigrant and you come to this country, it’s very easy to internalize the mainstream ideas. It’s easy, for example, to think, ‘Oh, the ghettos are full of black people because they’re just lazy and they like to live in the ghettos.’”

The evidence put forth by the characters that showed up from America on our living room TV in Tema, in Ghana where I spent my early life, seemed bent on conveying that black people were a problematic sect in the United States. Whether from CNN’s discussion of crime and violence, or in the rap videos buoyed by the twin manifesto of brute force and wealth, this perennial drip feeding meant that even before our plane had taken of from Accra and headed to JFK, I’d be admonished by extended family, pastors, market women and an air hostess – none of whom had lived in America – to not become like “those black people,” the Akata people.

The problem of such marching orders is that in America the definition of blackness – with its complex history – often lies in the eye of the beholder. It is as the truth for many Africans, as the novelist Yaa Gyasi wrote, that “when my little brother had the police called on him by our new neighbors while riding his bike on a nearby lot, he couldn’t say to those officers, ‘It’s O.K., I’m Ghanaian-American’.”

Unlike in Kofi Annan’s (problematic) case, most Africans – particularly poorer immigrants – don’t get a “get out of black free” card in instances of race prejudice. It wasn’t the case when four plainclothes officers shot Amadou Diallo (an immigrant from Guinea in West Africa) 41 times, as he pulled out his wallet in 1999. Seventeen years later we are again suffering with the tasering, shooting and summary killing of Ugandan immigrant, Alfred Olango, in San Diego. What these acts of police violence show is that the desire to self segregate in matters of race prejudice is indulging in a fantasy.

The fantasy may derive from a superiority complex. As Pew research shows, there are more African immigrants with college degrees relative to the overall U.S. population. But respectability or the lack thereof is no reason for someone to die, no matter their race. What matters is that the black immigrant population has grown by 137 percent in the last decade, and forms a relatively larger percentage of the overall U.S. black population. In America these days, Africans are the new blacks. Studies show that by the second generation many black immigrants lose the cadences and other linguistic signs that their parents still maintain. Children leave the tightknit community to go to college, and families in general disperse around the country in search of education and better opportunities, melting into the general black experience in America. Whatever challenges stand in the way of black individuals and families in the U.S.are our prerogatives.

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Celebrity Deaths 2018

JANUARY Jon Paul Steuer - Jan. 1 (TV Actor) Robert Mann - Jan. 1 (Violinist) Rick Hall - Jan. 2 (Music Producer) Thomas Monson - Jan. 2 (Religous Leader) Bruce Halle - Jan. 4 (Entrepreneur) John Young - Jan. 5 (Astronaut) Jerry Van Dyke - Jan. 5 (TV Show)  *Dick Van Dyke's Brother* Donnelly Rhodes - Jan. 8 (TV Actor) Doreen Tracey - Jan. 10 (TV Actor) Eddie Clarke - Jan. 10 (Guitarist) Jessica Falkholt - Jan. 11 (TV Actress) Keith Jackson - Jan. 12 (Sportscaster) Bobby Zarin - Jan. 13 (Reality Star) Dolores O'Riordan - Jan. 15 (Rock Singer) Peter Wyngarde - Jan. 15 (TV Actor) Bradford Dillman - Jan. 16 (Movie Actor) Jo Jo White - Jan. 16 (Basketball Player) Jessica Falkholt - Jan. 17 (TV Actress) Dorothy Malone - Jan. 19 (Movie Actress) Fredo Santana - Jan. 19 (Rapper) Olivia Cole - Jan. 19 (TV Actress) Dorothy Malone - Jan. 19 (Movie Actress) Paul Bocuse - Jan. 20 (Chef) Jim Rodford - Jan. 20 (Musician) Bob Smith - Jan. 20 (Activist) Connie Sawyer - Jan. 21 (TV Actress) Ursula K. Leguin - Jan. 22 (Children's Author) Hugh Masekela - Jan. 23 (Composer) Joel Taylor - Jan. 23 (Meteorologist) Nicanor Parra - Jan. 23 (Poet) Lari White - Jan. 23 (Country Singer) Mark E. Smith - Jan. 24 (Punk Singer) Warren Miller - Jan. 24 (Director) Ingvar Kamprad - Jan. 27 (Entrepreneur) **Mark Salling - Jan. 30 (TV Actor) Louis Zorich - Jan. 30 (TV Actor) Ann Gillis - Jan. 31 (Movie Actress) Rasual Butler - Jan. 31 (Basketball Player) Leah LaBelle - Jan. 31 (Pop Singer)

FEBRUAY Dennis Edwards - Feb. 1 (Rock Singer) John Mahoney - Feb. 4 (TV Actor) Khalif Smith - Feb. 5 (Youtuber Star) Mickey Jones - Feb. 7 (TV Actor) Ebony Reigns - Feb. 8 (Reggae Singer) John Gavin - Feb. 9 (Movie Actor) Reg E. Cathey - Feb. 9 (TV Actor) Jóhann Jóhannsson - Feb. 9 (Composer) Vic Damone - Feb. 11 (Pop Singer) Jan Maxwell - Feb. 11 (TV Actress) Daryle Singletary - Feb. 12 (Country Singer) Marty Allen - Feb. 12 (Comedian) Morgan Tsvangirai - Feb. 14 (Politician) Billy Graham - Feb. 21 (Religious Leader) Emma Chambers - Feb. 21 (TV Actress) Nanette Fabray - Feb. 22 (TV Actress) Ensa Cosby - Feb. 23 (Family Member) *Bill Cosby's Daugher* Bud Luckey - Feb. 24 (Cartoonist) Sridevi Kapoor - Feb. 24 (Movie Actress) Rogelio Guerra - Feb. 28 (Soap Opera Actor)

MARCH David Ogden Stiers- March 3 (TV Actor) Roger Bannister - March 3 (Runner) Hubert de Givenchy - March 10 (Fashion Designer) Ken Dodd - March 11 (Comedian) Craig Mack - March 12 (Rapper) Nokie Edwards - March 12 (Guitarist) Stephen Hawking - March 14 (Physicist) Jim Bowen - March 14 (Game Show Host) Ed Charles - March 15 (Baseball Player)   Tom Benson - March 15 (Entrepreneur) Tripp Halstead -March 15 (Blogger) Dushon Monique Brown - March 13 (TV Actress) Mike MacDonald - March 17 (Comedian) Charles Lazarus - March 22 (Entrepreneur) Fergus Anckorn - March 22 (War Hero) Morgana King - March 22 - (Movie Actress) Dushon Monique Brown - March 23 (TV Actress) Stéphane Audran - March 27 (Movie Actress) Rusty Staub - March 29 (Baseball Player) Bill Maynard - March 30 (Comedian)

APRIL Steven Bochco - April 1 (TV Producer) Winnie Madikizela-Mandela - April 2 (Politician) Susan Anspach - April 2 (Movie Actress) Ray Wilkins - April 4 (Soccer Coach) Eric Bristow - April 5 (Darts Player) Tim O'Connor - April 5 (TV Actor) Cecil Taylor - April 5 (Pianist) Jonathan Pitre - April 6 (Activist) Chuck McCann - April 8 (TV Actor) Art Bell - April 13 (Radio Host) R. Lee Ermey - April 15 (TV Actor) Pamela Gidley - April 16 (Movie Actress) Hal Greer - April 16 (Basketball Player) Harry Anderson - April 16 (TV Actor) Barbara Bush - April 17 (Political Wife) Dale Winton - April 18 (TV Show Host) Avicii - April 20 (DJ) **Verne Troyer - April 21 (Movie Actor) Bob Dorough - April 23 (Jazz Singer) Johnny Bennett - April 25 (TV Show Host) Kristin Nelson - April 27 (TV Actress) Judith Leiber - April 28 (Fashion Designer) Lil Lonnie - April 29 (Rapper) Robert Mandan - April 29 (Soap Opera Actor)

MAY Scott Hutchison - May 10 (Guitarist) Hubert de Givenchy - May 10 (Fashion Designer) Margot Kidder - May 13 (Movie Actress) Doug Ford - May 14 (Golfer) Tom Wolfe - May 14 (Journalist) Hugh Dane - May 16 (TV Actor) Joseph Campanella - May 16 (TV Actor) Young King Dave - May 17 (Instagram Star) Stephanie Adams - May 18 (Model) Robert Indiana - May 19 (Pop Artist) Clint Walker - May 21 (Movie Actor) Nara Almeida - Nay 21 (Fashion Designer) Allyn Ann McLerie - May 21 (Dancer) Philip Roth - May 22 (Novelist) Elizabeth Sung - May 22 (TV Actress) John Bain - May 24 (Youtube Star) Blake Painter - May 24 (Reality Star) Jerry Maren - May 24 (Movie Actor) Blake Painter - May 25 (Reality Star) Cornelia Frances - May 28 (TV Actress)

JUNE Sophia Gall - June 1 (Instagram Star) Georgann Johnson - June 4 (TV Actress) Dwight Clark - June 4 (Football Player) **Kate Spade - June 5 (Fashion Designer) Alan O'Neill - June 6 (TV Actor) Peter Stringfellow - June 7 (Entrepreneur) Anthony Bourdain - June 8 (Chef) Jackson Odell - June 8 (Movie Actor) Eunice Gayson - June 8 (Movie Actress) Neal Boyd - June 10 (Opera Singer) D.J. Fontana - June 13 (Drummer) Matt Murphy - June 15 (Guitarist) Leslie Grantham - June 15 (Soap Opera Actor) Xxxtentacion - June 18 (Rapper) Big Van Vader - June 18 (Wrestler)   Sophie Gradon - June 20 (Reality Star) Charles Krauthammer - June 21 (Journalist) Vinnie Paul - June 22 (Drummer) The Random Toon Show - June 24 (Youtube Star) Richard Harrison - June 25 (Reality Star) Harlan Ellison - June 27 (Novelist) Steve Soto - June 27 (Musician) **Joe Jackson - June 27 (Talent Manager) *Michael Jackson's Father* Emily Hayward - June 28 (Youtube Star) Derrick O'Connor - June 29 (Theatre Actor) Steve Ditko - June 29 (Cartoonist) Smoke Dawg - June 30 (Rapper)

JULY Alan Longmuir - July 2 (Bassist) Richard Swift - July 3 (Music Producer) Ed Schultz - July 5 (Radio Host) Claude Lanzmann - July 5 (Director) Alan Longmuir - July 7 (Bassist) Tab Hunter - July 8 (Movie Actor) Jorge Valenzuela - July 8 (World Music Singer) Annabelle Neilson - July 12 (Reality Star) Roger Perry - July 12 (TV Actor) Ray Emery - July 15 (Hockey Player) Jon Schnepp - July 19 (Director) Elmarie Wendel - July 21 (TV Actress) Oliver Dragojevic - July 28 (Rock Singer) Arielis Paulino - July 29 (TikTok Star) Nikolai Volkoff - July 29 (Wrestler)

AUGUST Rick Genest - August 1 (Tattoo Artist) C. Struggs - August 3 (Rapper) *Charlotte Rae - August 5 (TV Actress) Barry Chuckle - August 5 (Comedian) Stan Mikita - August 7 (Hockey Player) Jill Janus - August 14 (Metal Singer) **Aretha Franklin - August 16 (Soul Singer) Atal Bihari Vajpayee - August 16 (Politician) Kofi Annan - August 18 (Politician) Craig Zadan - August 20 (Film Producer) **Stefan Karl Stefansson - August 21 (TV Actor) Barbara Harris - August 21 (Movie Actress) Ed King - August 22 (Rock Singer) Robin Leach - August 24 (TV Show Host) John McCain - August 25 (Politician) Neil Simon - August 26 (Playwright) Vanessa Marquez - August 30 (TV Actress)

SEPTEMBER Bill Daily - Sept. 4 (TV Actor) Burt Reynolds - Sept. 6 (Movie Actor) **Mac Miller - Sept. 7 (Rapper) Kim Porter - Sept. 11 (Movie Actress) Rachid Taha - Sept. 12 (Rock Singer) Marin Mazzie - Sept. 13 (Stage Actress) Denis Norden - Sept. 19 (Radio Host) Al Matthews - Sept. 22 (Movie Actor) Chas Hodges - Sept. 22 (Rock Singer) Gary Kurtz - Sept. 23 (Film Producer) PeeWeeToms - Sept. 28 (Youtube Star) Kim Larsen - Sept. 30 (Rock Singer)

OCTOBER Charles Aznavour - Oct. 1 (Pop Singer) Geoff Emerick - Oct. 2 (Sound Desinger) Will Vinton - Oct. 4 (Film Producer) Audrey Wells - Oct. 4 (Screen Writer) Hamiet Bluiett - Oct. 4 (Saxophonist) **Scott Wilson - Oct. 6 (Movie Actor) Peggy McCay - Oct. 7 (Soap Opera Actress) Paul Allen - Oct. 15 (Entrepreneur) Dennis Hof - Oct. 16 (Entrepreneur) Oli Herbert - Oct. 17 (Guitarist) James Karen - Oct. 23 (Movie Actor) Ntozake Shange - Oct. 27 (Poet) James Karen - Oct. 28 (Movie Actor) Jin Yong - Oct. 30 (Novelist) Willie McCovey - Oct. 31 (Baseball Player)

NOVEMBER Roy Hargrove - Nov. 2 (Trumpet Player) Sondra Locke - Nov. 3 (Movie Actress) **Stan Lee - Nov. 12 (Comic Book Author) David Pearson - Nov. 12 (Race Car Driver) Katherine MacGregor - Nov. 13 (TV Actress) Kim Porter - Nov. 15 (Model) Roy Clark - Nov. 15 (TV Show Host) Devin Lima - Nov. 21 (Pop Singer) Nicolas Roeg - Nov. 23 (Director) Ricky Jay - Nov. 24 (TV Actor) Stephen Hillenburg - Nov. 26 (Director) Bernardo Bertolucci - Nov. 26 (Director) *George H.W. Bush - Nov. 30 (US President)

DECEMBER Ken Berry - Dec. 1 (TV Actor) Geoff Murphy - Dec. 3 (Director) Philip Bosco - Dec. 3 (Stage Actor) Pete Shelley - Dec. 6 (Punk Singer) Nancy Wilson - Dec. 13 (Jazz Singer) **Penny Marshall - Dec. 17 (Director) Donald Moffat - Dec. 20 (Movie Actor)

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Denna månad bjuder på ... fredriksdal, klassiker, the asylum och science fiction med rötter i italien. Plus att jag såg filmatiseringen av "A sound of Thunder" som jag läste ursprungsnovellen till förra månaden. Observera att jag denna månad flyttar eventuella länkar till tjänster (📺) till ikon-raden.

A Sound of Thunder (2005) [👍] Med tanke hur kort novellen är så är det förvånande att man fått ihop en så pass bra film som andas av sin förlaga. Är kanske inte helt utan problem, men avgjort en film värd att se om.

Age of Dinosaurs (2013) [_] Treat Williams, någon annan ursäkt har jag inte att se den här filmen...

De Nya Gladiatorerna / Guerrieri Dell'anno 2072 (1984) [_] Interessant premiss och avgjort en kulig idé. Men vet inte om den når riktigt ända fram. Actionscenerna på arenan är tungrodda matta och den grundläggande intrigen svår att ta till sig.

Deep Rising (1998) [👍] Bra monsterfilm från 90-talet, med estetiken som bara fanns då. Bra fokus på storyn och actionscenerna kryddar filmen (inte som idag då de ofta är den stora poängen).

Djungel-Jim och Leopardkvinnan / Captive Girl (1950) [👍] Jag väljer att ge den här filmen tummen upp, trots att den får en del problem när man skådar den i sömmarna (alla bärande roller, inklusive den inhemska befolkningen spelas av vita). Weissmüller är inte oscars-material med har karisma nog att bära filmen. I övrigt en charmig och underhållande film i klass med de tidiga Tarzan-filmerna med samme skådespelare.

Dune Drifter (2020) [_] Småtråkig science fiction-film om en rymdskyttel och dess förare som hamnar på en isolerade på en planet lika obebodd som ogästvänlig.

Godzilla: Monstret från Havet / Gojira (1954) [👍📺🆓] Klassisk monster-/skräckfilm från Japan som inte bara grundade franchisen utan är, med rätta, monsterfilmens kung och härskare.

Man of the Forest (1933) [_] En gammal matiné i kategorin "halv-western" som jag främst var nyfiken på då den färglagts artificiellt. Småtråkig story och en "hjälte" som inte är så mycket bättre än skurkarna.

Människojakt på Djävulsön / L'isola Degli Uomini Pesce (1979) [👎] HG Welles ”The Island of Dr. Moreau” korsat med ”Creature from the Black Lagoon” (inte för att jag sett den sistnämnda i sin helhet). Roger Corman-raffel man kan lämna på hyllan.

Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021) [_] Karolina Fjellborg träffar helt rätt i sin recension av filmen, och jag önskar att jag kunnat kondensera upplevelsen av den här filmen lika bra som hon.

R.I.P.D. (2013) [_] En film som skulle kunnat vara lika bra som MIB-filmerna men som tappas bort bland actionscener och oneliners. Jeff Bridges gör en jäkligt märklig roll. Var det här ens kul 2013?

Vita Hästen (1986) [ 🎭] Favoriten Berit Carlbergs debut på Fredriksdal.

En och annan film där man kan nöja sig med att beskåda titeln, men också en och annan som är väl värd att ge en chans. Personligen håller jag Godzilla/Gojira som en av förra månadens prestationer.

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Film Independent Spirit Award Nominees Announced

ICYMI: The Film Independent Spirit Awards nominations were announced last week, with Eliza Hittman’s drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always leading with seven nominations. For the first time in Spirit Awards history, five new TV award categories were announced: Best New Scripted Series, Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series, Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series, Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series and Best Ensemble Cast in a New Scripted Series.

Winners, who are selected by Film Independent Members, will be announced at the Spirit Awards on Thursday, April 22. The awards ceremony is also changing this year from a live daytime event on a Saturday afternoon to prime time on  Thursday, broadcast live exclusively on IFC at 10 pm ET / 7 pm PT.

FILM CATEGORIES

BEST FEATURE (Award given to the producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.)

First Cow Producers: Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Producers: Todd Black, Denzel Washington, Dany Wolf

Minari Producers: Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Christina Oh

Never Rarely Sometimes Always Producers: Sara Murphy, Adele Romanski

Nomadland Producers: Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand, Peter Spears, Chloé Zhao

BEST FIRST FEATURE (Award given to director and producer)

I Carry You With Me Director/Producer: Heidi Ewing Producers: Edher Campos, Mynette Louie, Gabriela Maire

The Forty-Year-Old Version Director/Producer: Radha Blank Producers: Inuka Bacote-Capiga, Jordan Fudge, Rishi Rajani, Jennifer Semler, Lena Waithe

Miss Juneteenth Director: Channing Godfrey Peoples Producers: Toby Halbrooks, Tim Headington, Jeanie Igoe, James M. Johnston, Theresa Steele Page, Neil Creque Williams

Nine Days Director: Edson Oda Producers: Jason Michael Berman, Mette-Marie Kongsved, Matthew Lindner, Laura Tunstall, Datari Turner

Sound of Metal Director: Darius Marder Producers: Bill Benz, Kathy Benz, Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche

JOHN CASSAVETES AWARD – Given to the best feature made for under $500,000 (Award given to the writer, director and producer. Executive Producers are not awarded.)

The Killing of Two Lovers Writer/Director/Producer: Robert Machoian Producers: Scott Christopherson, Clayne Crawford

La Leyenda Negra Writer/Director: Patricia Vidal Delgado Producers: Alicia Herder, Marcel Perez

Lingua Franca Writer/Director/Producer: Isabel Sandoval Producers: Darlene Catly Malimas, Jhett Tolentino, Carlo Velayo

Residue Writer/Director: Merawi Gerima

Saint Frances Director/Producer: Alex Thompson Writer: Kelly O’Sullivan Producers: James Choi, Pierce Cravens, Ian Keiser, Eddie Linker, Raphael Nash, Roger Welp

BEST DIRECTOR

Lee Isaac Chung Minari

Emerald Fennell Promising Young Woman

Eliza Hittman Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Kelly Reichardt First Cow

Chloé Zhao Nomadland

BEST SCREENPLAY

Lee Isaac Chung Minari

Emerald Fennell Promising Young Woman

Eliza Hittman Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Mike Makowsky Bad Education

Alice Wu The Half of It

BEST FIRST SCREENPLAY

Kitty Green The Assistant

Noah Hutton Lapsis

Channing Godfrey Peoples Miss Juneteenth

Andy Siara Palm Springs

James Sweeney Straight Up

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Jay Keitel She Dies Tomorrow

Shabier Kirchner Bull

Michael Latham The Assistant

Hélène Louvart Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Joshua James Richards Nomadland

BEST EDITING

Andy Canny The Invisible Man

Scott Cummings Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Merawi Gerima Residue

Enat Sidi I Carry You With Me

Chloé Zhao Nomadland

BEST FEMALE LEAD

Nicole Beharie Miss Juneteenth

Viola Davis Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Sidney Flanigan Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Julia Garner The Assistant

Frances McDormand Nomadland

Carey Mulligan Promising Young Woman

BEST MALE LEAD

Riz Ahmed Sound of Metal

Chadwick Boseman Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Adarsh Gourav The White Tiger

Rob Morgan Bull

Steven Yeun Minari

BEST SUPPORTING FEMALE

Alexis Chikaeze Miss Juneteenth

Yeri Han Minari

Valerie Mahaffey French Exit

Talia Ryder Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Yuh-jung Youn Minari

BEST SUPPORTING MALE

Colman Domingo Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Orion Lee First Cow

Paul Raci Sound of Metal

Glynn Turman Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Benedict Wong Nine Days

ROBERT ALTMAN AWARD – Given to one film’s director, casting director and ensemble cast

One Night in Miami… Director: Regina King Casting Director: Kimberly R. Hardin Ensemble Cast: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr.

BEST DOCUMENTARY (Award given to the director and producer)

Collective Director/Producer: Alexander Nanau Producers: Hanka Kastelicová, Bernard Michaux, Bianca Oana

Crip Camp Directors/Producers: Jim LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham Producer: Sara Bolder

Dick Johnson is Dead Director/Producer: Kirsten Johnson Producers: Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness

The Mole Agent Director: Maite Alberdi Producer: Marcela Santibáñez

Time Director/Producer: Garrett Bradley Producers: Lauren Domino, Kellen Quinn

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM (Award given to the director)

Bacurau Brazil Directors: Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho

The Disciple India Director: Chaitanya Tamhane

Night of the Kings Ivory Coast Director: Philippe Lacôte

Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time Hungary Director: Lili Horvát

Quo Vadis, Aida? Bosnia and Herzegovina Director: Jasmila Žbanić

PRODUCERS AWARD – The Producers Award, now in its 24th year, honors emerging producers who, despite highly limited resources, demonstrate the creativity, tenacity and vision required to produce quality independent films.

Kara Durrett

Lucas Joaquin

Gerry Kim

SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD – The Someone to Watch Award, now in its 27th year, recognizes a talented filmmaker of singular vision who has not yet received appropriate recognition.

David Midell Director of The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain

Ekwa Msangi Director of Farewell Amor

Annie Silverstein Director of Bull

TRUER THAN FICTION AWARD – The Truer Than Fiction Award, now in its 26th year, is presented to an emerging director of non-fiction features who has not yet received significant recognition.

Cecilia Aldarondo Director of Landfall

Elegance Bratton Director of Pier Kids

Elizabeth Lo Director of Stray

TELEVISON CATEGORIES

BEST NEW NON-SCRIPTED OR DOCUMENTARY SERIES (Award given to the Creator, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer)

Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children Executive Producers: Jeff Dupre, Joshua Bennett, Sam Pollard, Maro Chermayeff, John Legend, Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorius

City So Real Produced by: Zak Piper, Steve James Executive Producers: Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann, Alex Kotlowitz, Gordon Quinn, Betsy Steinberg, Jolene Pinder

Immigration Nation Executive Producers: Christina Clusiau, Shaul Schwarz, Dan Cogan, Jenny Raskin, Brandon Hill, Christian Thompson Co-Executive Producers: Andrey Alistratov, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg, Lauren Haber

Love Fraud Executive Producers: Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing, Amy Goodman Kass, Vinnie Malhotra, Jihan Robinson, Michael Bloom, Maria Zuckerman

We’re Here Creators/Executive Producers: Stephen Warren, Johnnie Ingram Executive Producers: Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Peter LoGreco Co-Executive Producers: Erin Haglund, Sabrina Mar

BEST NEW SCRIPTED SERIES (Award given to the Creator, Executive Producer, Co-Executive Producer)

I May Destroy You Creator/Executive Producer: Michaela Coel Executive Producers: Phil Clarke, Roberto Troni

Little America Executive Producers: Lee Eisenberg, Joshuah Bearman, Joshua Davis, Arthur Spector, Alan Yang, Siân Heder, Kumail Nanjiani, Emily V. Gordon

Small Axe Executive Producers: Tracey Scoffield, David Tanner, Steve McQueen

A Teacher Creator/Executive Producer: Hannah Fidell Executive Producers: Michael Costigan, Kate Mara, Louise Shore, Jason Bateman, Danny Brocklehurst Co-Executive Producer: Daniel Pipski

Unorthodox Creator/Executive Producer: Anna Winger Creator: Alexa Karolinski Executive Producer: Henning Kamm

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Elle Fanning The Great

Shira Haas Unorthodox

Abby McEnany Work in Progress

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan Never Have I Ever

Jordan Kristine Seamón We Are Who We Are

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

Adam Ali Little America

Nicco Annan P-Valley

Conphidance Little America

Amit Rahav Unorthodox

Harold Torres ZeroZeroZero

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST IN A NEW SCRIPTED SERIES

I May Destroy You Ensemble Cast: Michaela Coel, Paapa Essiedu, Weruche Opia, Stephen Wight

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“Lew Hayman and His Defiant But Battered Scullers Await Tomorrow,” Toronto Star. October 25, 1940. Page 14. ---- ARGOS READY TO DO OR DIE Crippled by the worst crop of injuries ever to hit an Argo team and facing Ottawa Rough Riders, one of the most powerful football machines ever assembled in Canada. Argos are still fr from downhearted. In fact all figure they have a good chance of winning tomorrow’s  Big Four grid battle at Varcity Stadium. ABOVE are a few pre-practice shots taken by Nat Turofsky in the Sculler’s dressing room. LEFT to RIGHT: Annie Stukus goes about the business of lacing his shoes with one hand to ease a broken flipper. Chuck McLean gets a sore leg taped by Trainer Joe Carruthers. Jim Follwell poses for shot before visiting the doctor to have his damaged mouth attended to. Lew Hayman talks things over with Len Staughton and Doug Annan, two of his sound men. Annan, on the RIGHT, will play the backfield for the first time this season.

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Des militaires syriens disent qu'il a abattu un avion de chasse turc

 Des militaires syriens disent qu'il a abattu un avion de chasse turc

L'armée syrienne a déclaré avoir abattu un avion de guerre turc "volant dans l'espace aérien au-dessus des eaux syriennes".

Un porte-parole a déclaré que l'avion, un F-4 Phantom, avait été traité "conformément aux lois régissant de telles situations", a indiqué l'agence de presse d'Etat Sana.

Le Premier ministre turc a déclaré que son pays "prendrait les mesures nécessaires" une fois que tous les faits seraient connus.

Les marines turque et syrienne sont quant à elles engagées dans une recherche commune des deux membres d'équipage disparus.

Le F-4 Phantom a disparu au-dessus de la Méditerranée, au sud-ouest de la province turque de Hatay, près de la côte syrienne.

Une analyse

Par Jim MuirBBC News, Beyrouth

Le ton de la déclaration syrienne était strictement factuel et il n'y avait aucune expression de regret. Si l'avion a effectivement violé l'espace aérien syrien, cela, et la facilité apparente avec laquelle il a été abattu, constitueront une gêne considérable pour le gouvernement turc.

La chaîne de télévision du Hezbollah au Liban, al-Manar, qui a été parmi les premiers à signaler l'incident, l'a décrit comme "un message clair à l'OTAN" sur les dangers d'une intervention militaire extérieure dans la crise syrienne.

L'armée turque a déclaré avoir perdu le contact radio avec le F-4 à 11h58 (08h58 GMT) alors qu'il survolait Hatay, environ 90 minutes après son décollage de la base aérienne d'Erhac dans la province de Malatya, au nord- Ouest.

Un communiqué militaire syrien a déclaré qu'une "cible aérienne non identifiée" avait pénétré dans l'espace aérien syrien depuis l'ouest à 11h40 heure locale (08h40 GMT), se déplaçant à très basse altitude et à grande vitesse.

Il a déclaré que, conformément aux lois en vigueur dans de tels cas, les défenses aériennes syriennes ont engagé l'engin et ont touché directement à environ 1 km (0,6 mile) de sa côte.

Il a pris feu et s'est écrasé dans la mer à un point situé à 10 km (6 miles) du village d'Om al-Tuyour, au large des côtes de la province de Lattaquié, bien dans les eaux territoriales syriennes, a ajouté le communiqué.

La télévision syrienne a montré une carte retraçant les mouvements de l'avion, venant de la mer près du nord de Chypre.

La déclaration a indiqué qu'après qu'il "soit devenu clair que la cible était un avion militaire turc qui était entré dans notre espace aérien", les commandements navals des deux pays étaient en contact et une opération conjointe se poursuivait pour retrouver les membres d'équipage manquants.

«Incident grave»

La Turquie présentera sa position finale après que l'incident aura été pleinement révélé et prendra les mesures nécessaires de manière décisive

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Premier ministre turc

Plus tôt vendredi soir, le Premier ministre turc Recep Tayyip Erdogan a tenu une réunion d'urgence de deux heures avec ses ministres de l'Intérieur, de la Défense et des Affaires étrangères et le chef de l'état-major général, le général Necdet Ozel.

"Suite aux informations obtenues lors de l'évaluation de nos institutions concernées et au sein des opérations conjointes de recherche et de sauvetage avec la Syrie, il est entendu que notre avion a été abattu par la Syrie", a déclaré le bureau de M. Erdogan dans un communiqué.

"La Turquie présentera sa position finale après que l'incident aura été pleinement révélé et prendra les mesures nécessaires de manière décisive."

Un porte-parole du secrétaire général de l'ONU, Ban Ki-moon, a déclaré qu'il suivait la situation de près.

"Il espère que ce grave incident pourra être traité avec retenue par les deux parties par la voie diplomatique", bapteme en avion de chasse a déclaré Martin Nesirky aux journalistes.

Compte tenu de la rupture des relations entre les deux pays au cours du conflit syrien, cet incident pourrait provoquer une grave crise, rapporte Jonathan Head à Istanbul de la BBC.

Beaucoup dépendra de la survie des pilotes turcs, selon notre correspondant.

Sinon, la colère publique pourrait pousser le gouvernement à une sorte de sanction contre la Syrie, ajoute-t-il.

Les relations entre la Turquie, membre de l'OTAN, et la Syrie, autrefois proches alliés, se sont fortement détériorées depuis le début du soulèvement contre le président syrien Bachar al-Assad en mars 2011.

Des dizaines de milliers de réfugiés syriens ont fui la violence à travers la frontière vers la Turquie.

Violence à Alep

À l'intérieur de la Syrie, les violences se sont poursuivies jeudi, les médias officiels signalant que des "groupes terroristes armés" avaient enlevé et massacré 25 villageois dans la province d'Alep.

Des militants ont déclaré que les rebelles avaient abattu 26 partisans du gouvernement qui seraient des miliciens.

Dans la ville d'Alep, des militants ont déclaré qu'un certain nombre de personnes sont mortes lorsque les forces de sécurité ont ouvert le feu sur une manifestation après la prière du vendredi.

Pendant ce temps, l'envoyé international Kofi Annan a déclaré qu'il était temps que le monde exerce une plus grande pression pour mettre fin à la violence en Syrie.

M. Annan a appelé à ce que l'Iran soit impliqué dans les tentatives de mettre fin à la violence, une proposition avancée par la Russie mais rejetée par les États-Unis.

Dans un développement distinct, la BBC a appris que des responsables du gouvernement britannique ont décidé d'empêcher le chef du Comité olympique syrien, le général Mowaffak Joumaa, de se rendre à Londres pour les Jeux.

L'interdiction de visa serait liée à sa relation avec le gouvernement du président Bachar al-Assad.

[whitewaterpaper]

Tomb Invader (2018) [US]

¡Oi! Spoilers, stavfel och alternativa fakta kan förekomma rakt föröver!

Amazon Prime Video visade sig inte bara ha en hel hög gamla lågbudget Science Fiction/Fantasy-filmer. De har ett helt gäng filmer från the Asylum med. Lycka!

2018 var inte bara året då Alicia Vikander röjde på biograferna som Lara Croft i Tomb Raider -- det var också året då The Asylum släppte sin mockbuster på temat. Tomb Invader, för i säkerhets skull, har dock kanske mer gemensamt med Indiana Jones än Lara Croft. Arkeologen och professorn Alabama 'Ally' Channing (Gina Vitori) får chansen att, via miljardären Tim Parker (Evan Sloan), att återuppta jakten på en mäktig artefakt som hennes mor Julie Channing (Tammy Klein) en gång letade efter. Med sig på expeditionen tar hon bästa vännerna Helena (Samantha Bowling), som specialiserar sig på språk och Bennie Blum (Shawn McConnell). Väl på plats i området där hennes mor en gång försvann visar det sig att hennes stora rival Nathan (Andrew Katers) också är inbjuden.

Trots att den här filmens grund har mer gemensamt med Indiana Jones har den en och annan detalj som även känns igen från Tomb Raider. Den försvunna föräldern till exempel som försvann på sin sista expedition och en tjej som inte räds att sparka rumpa. Nu är det här en film från The Asylum, så den har en story som kanske känns aningen förenklad och en dialog som inte alltid sitter där den skall, men den håller en klass som för studion i fråga avgjort måste kallas över medel. Cgi:n är riktigt bra, iaf för sin budget och de flesta av fightingscenerna är riktigt bra. (Det sistnämnda kan också bero på de billiga 80-tals fantasy-filmerna jag sett på sistone). Filmens stora akilleshäl är kanske dess stora skurkroll, för min del så funkar det inte riktigt att passa ihop "kallt beräknande med ont uppsåt i bakfickan" med en karaktär som starkt påminner om "Andy" från komediserien "Jims värld / According to Jim".

Man slår inte på en av The Asylums filmer och förväntar sig en upplevelse i klass med de stora blockbustrarna. Det här är varken "Tomb Raider" eller "Indiana Jones", men väl ett välproducerat lågbudgetraffel, och säga vad man vill om The Asylum: de är inte rädda för att låta kvinnliga karaktärer ta plats. Och från någon som ett gäng lågbudgetrullar från 70- och 80-talen, nä så pjåkigt är det här inte.

Våren 2021, lite förvånande, beräknas Lara Croft åter springa in på biograferna. Visst håller vi tummarna att vi även får se Alabama Channing springa in på våra streamingtjänster veckan innan?

Den här filmen är även känd som “Tomb Hunter” och “The Tomb: Heart of the Dragon”.

Länkar:

Tomb Invader @ The Asylum.

Tomb Invader @ IMDb.

Tomb Invader @ Vodeville.

Tomb Invader @ YouTube.

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: The Prodigy

Año: 2019

Duración: 92 min.

País: Estados Unidos

Director: Nicholas McCarthy

Guion: Jeff Buhler

Música: Joseph Bishara

Fotografía: Bridger Nielson

Reparto: Taylor Schilling, Jackson Robert Scott, Peter Mooney, Colm Feore, Paul Fauteux, Brittany Allen, Olunike Adeliyi, David Kohlsmith, Mark Sparks, Michael Dyson, Ava Augustin, Ashley Black, Byron Abalos, Paula Boudreau, Elisa Moolecherry, Janet Land, Martin Roach, Tristan Vasquez, Nicholas McCarthy, Jim Annan, Milton Barnes, Grace Armas, Brock Johnson, Martha Girvin, Olivia Croft

Productora: Coproducción Estados Unidos-Hong Kong; Orion Pictures / Vinson Films / XYZ Films / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Distribuida por Orion Pictures

Género: Horror, Thriller

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4504044/

TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC4cyYRxjFk

[culturizando]

#UnDíaComoHoy: 13 de diciembre en la historia

El 13 de diciembre es el día 347º día del año. Quedan 18 días para finalizar el año. Estos son algunos de los eventos más destacados que ocurrieron un día como hoy 13 de diciembre.

-1466: en Florencia (Italia), fallece Donatello, escultor italiano, uno de los creadores del auténtico estilo renacentista. Su “David” de bronce y el tratamiento que hizo de los relieves dentro de un mínimo plano son buena muestra de su maestría.

-1854: nace Thomas A. Watson, inventor estadounidense. Watson era un contador y un carpintero antes de encontrar un trabajo más a su gusto en la tienda de la máquina de Charles Williams en Boston Luego fue contratado por Alexander Graham Bell, que era entonces profesor de la Universidad de Boston. El 25 de enero de 1915, Watson fue en el 333 de Grant Avenue, en San Francisco para recibir la primera llamada telefónica transcontinental.

-1925: nace Dick Van Dyke, actor, cantante y productor. Conocido por su participación en Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Night at the Museum, entre otras.

-1929: nace Christopher Plummer, actor canadiense. Conocido por ser parte del elenco de La novicia rebelde, 12 Monkeys, Alexander, The Lake House, Beginners, entre muchas otras más.

-1937: en el contexto de la Guerra chino japonesa, la ciudad de Nanking (China) se entrega a las fuerzas japonesas y el gobierno chino se ve obligado a huir de la capital. El general japonés Matsui Iwane, ordena la destrucción de Nanking prendiendo fuego a la ciudad y cometiendo auténticas atrocidades contra la población civil. Este lamentable episodio pasará a la historia como la “violación de Nanking”, uno de los más atroces crímenes contra la humanidad que se halla registrado nunca, al asesinar a no menos de 300.000 civiles de manera repugnante: decapitándolos, atravesándolos con las bayonetas, descuartizándolos, quemándolos, enterrándolos vivos, fusilándolos, aplastándolos con los tanques, violando a miles de mujeres y niñas que previamente han sido vejadas y sometidas a las más atroces barbaridades que haya ideado la miseria más oscura del alma humana. Al finalizar la II Guerra Mundial, el general Matsui fue declarado culpable de todos los crímenes de guerra por el Tribunal Militar Internacional para el Lejano Oriente y fue ejecutado.

-1957: nace Steve Buscemi, actor estadounidense y es célebre mundialmente por su actuación en películas como Reservoir Dogs, El gran Lebowski, Fargo, Con Air, Ghost World, Big Fish, Delirious y por sus cameos en películas de Adam Sandler.

Ha trabajado repetidas veces con directores como Jim Jarmusch, Robert Rodriguez, Michael Bay, Terry Zwigoff, Tom DiCillo y hasta la fecha, es el actor que más ha trabajado con los hermanos Coen. En el año 2011 fue posicionado como ganador del Globo de Oro a Mejor Actor de Serie de Televisión Dramática gracias a Boardwalk Empire.

Algo interesante sobre Steve y que no muchos saben, es que antes de incursionar dentro del mundo cinematográfico era un dedicado bombero, y se convirtió en ‘héroe’ cuando voluntariamente decidió volver al cuerpo de bomberos del que 16 años antes había formado parte para ayudar a sus compañeros durante el atentado terrorista del 11-S.

-1961: nace Irene Sáez, modelo y politóloga venezolana. Ganadora del concurso de belleza Miss Universo en su edición de 1981. Posteriormente, luego de concluir sus estudios de Ciencias Políticas en la Universidad Central de Venezuela, fue electa en dos oportunidades alcaldesa del Municipio Chacao, en Caracas; fue también candidata a la presidencia de la República y a la gobernación del Estado Nueva Esparta.

-1967: nace Jamie Foxx. Se le conoce internacionalmente por su desempeño como actor y cantante de origen estadounidense, algunas de sus actuaciones más destacadas pertencen a películas como ”Spider-Man 2” (en donde dio vida al personaje de Electro), la película dirigida por Quentin Tarantino ”Django Desencadenado”, ”Collateral”, ”Ray”, ”Miami Vic”e y ”Baby Driver”. En el mundo musical destac�� con un estilo R&B y aunque no tuvo gran éxito comercial lanzó 5 álbumes, el último de ellos en el año 2015 el cual se titula como ‘Hollywood: A Story of a Dozen Roses’.

-1974: nace Nick McCarthy, cantante y guitarrista inglés de Franz Ferdinand y Box Car Racer.

-1974: Malta se convierte en república.

-1981: nace Amy Lynn Hartzler, mejor conocida como Amy Lee, cantante estadounidense de Evanescence

-1989: nace Taylor Swift, cantautora estadounidense.

-1996: Naciones Unidas, Kofi Annan es elegido secretario general.

-1997: en Guadalajara, el Fenómeno del Niño provoca la única nevada registrada en 116 años (la anterior había sido en 1881).

-2003: en Tikrit (Irak) soldados estadounidenses capturan al ex dictador Saddam Hussein. Durante la segunda invasión de Estados Unidos a Irak, el 13 de diciembre de 2003 el dictador fue hallado en su escondite y arrestado por soldados estadounidenses. Después de ser mantenido bajo custodia, Husein fue condenado a muerte en la horca por crímenes contra la humanidad. Su ejecución tuvo lugar el 30 de diciembre de 2006. A pesar de una intensa búsqueda, las armas de destrucción masiva nunca fueron encontradas en Irak.

-2004: en Chile, Augusto Pinochet es puesto en arresto domiciliario, por los cargos de 9 secuestros seguidos de asesinato.

-2006: es lanzado el videojuego The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

-2006: se anuncia la extinción del baiji (delfín chino de río).

La entrada #UnDíaComoHoy: 13 de diciembre en la historia aparece primero en culturizando.com | Alimenta tu Mente.

[victoriaeldey]

Það sem árið 2017 kenndi mér.

1. Fólk kemur og fer. Ég eignaðist vinkonu í 1. bekk í grunnskóla. Við vorum góðar vinkonur og hittumst alveg reglulega alveg þangað til á þessu ári. Við byrjuðum að tala illa um hvor aðra, ég sagði hluti og hún sagði hluti. Á endanum sagði hún mér að hún hafði ekki áhuga á því að vera vinkona mín lengur. Ég svaraði henni eins og mér væri sama en mér var ekkert það sama þótt við vorum löngu búnar að “drifta” í sundur.

2. Ekki allir strákar eru skíthælar. Á síðasta ári eignaðist ég alveg frábæran kærasta, eða svo ég helt. Við vorum góð fyrstu mánuðina af sambandinu okkar en svo byrjuðu stanslausu rifrildin og hann að banna mér allt sem mig langaði að gera. Hann var búin að láta undarlega og mig byrjaði að gruna að eitthvað væri að gerast. Ég komst að einu sem hann gerði, ég fékk nóg og við hættum saman. Seinna hitti ég annan strák sem býr aðeins lengra frá mér. Hann var búinn að sjá hvernig seinasti kom fram við mig, honum fannst það alls ekki í lagi og fannst honum sjálfsagt að koma rétt fram við mig. Og ég er mjög ánægð að geta kallað hann minn.

3. Fólk GETUR breyst á nokkrum mánuðum, jafnvel nokkrum vikum, eða innan við klukkutíma. Ég þekki nokkrar manneskjur, sem myndu breytu öllu innan við klukkutíma fyrir ákveðna manneskju. Hér er dæmi; Þessi stelpa er ekki beint vinkona mín, en við þekkjumst sæmilega. Þessi stelpa á vinkonu, sem henni greinilega finnst vera svo rosalega töff og nett, svo hún breytist innan við klukkutíma til þess að vekja hrifningu. Hún byrjar að láta öðruvísi við mig og aðra í kringum þessa vinkonu hennar. Ég held hún taki ekki eftir því að ég er alveg meðvituð hegðuninni hennar.

4. Þú breytist. Á síðasta ári var ég allt önnur manneskja og ég er núna. Í fyrra var ég alveg týnd í lífinu, vissi ekkert hvað ég væri að gera eða hvað ég ÁTTI að gera. Á þessu ári kynntist ég fólki sem létu mig fatta hver ég virkilega væri og hvernig manneskja ég gæti orðið ef ég myndi rífa mig saman og prófa nýja hluti.

5. Fólk getur ekki alltaf verið til staðar fyrir þig. Ég er mjög oft i mínum þunglynda heimi, og vantar að tala við einhvern, en það er enginn til þess að tala við. Þá verð ég að rífa mig saman enn og aftur og vera sterk því það eru ekki allir alltaf til staðar.

“ Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” - Jim Rohn

Victoria Eldey, 12/30/2017 1:03 AM