#John Berchtold

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John Berchtold

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Tiny Beautiful Things

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Mini-serieJahr: 2023 (April) Genre: Comedy / Drama Hauptrollen: Kathryn Hahn, John Berchtold, Julien Marlon Samani, Aneasa Yacoub, Merritt Wever, Michaela Watkins, Quentin Plair, Melanie Hutsell, Sarah Pidgeon, Russell Hodgkinson, Elizabeth Hinkler, Tasha Ames, Gabrielle Sanalitro, Owen Painter, Ian Owens, Jonathan Stanley, Tijuana Ricks, Shannan Leigh Reeve, Tensaye Yosef, Michelle…

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The duality of my Pinterest home page:

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Johnny Berchtold thinks he's bisexual Cole Sprouse. Cole Sprouse thinks he's straight John Lennon. John Lennon thought he was Jesus Christ with sex appeal

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 6/ 10

Título Original: The Passenger

Año: 2023

Duración: 94 min

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: Carter Smith

Guion: Jack Stanley

Música: Christopher Bear

Fotografía: Lyn Moncrief

Reparto: Kyle Gallner, Liza Weil, John Berchtold, Billy Slaughter, Jordan Sherley, Merah Benoit, Sue Rock, Matthew Laureano, Betsy Borrego, Rob Eubanks

Productora: Blumhouse Productions. Distribuidora: Blumhouse Productions

Género: Thriller; Drama

TRAILER:

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john berchtold I know what you are

mentally im still there

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Noticias de series de la semana

Renovaciones

Netflix ha renovado You por una cuarta temporada

Amazon ha renovado Jack Ryan por una cuarta temporada

Starz ha renovado Blindspotting por una segunda temporada

HBO Max ha renovado Doom Patrol por una cuarta temporada

HBO Max ha renovado Titans por una cuarta temporada

Pennyworth se muda de EPIX a HBO Max, que la renueva por una tercera temporada

Noticias cortas

CBS encarga temporada completa de NCIS: Hawaii y FBI: International.

Bosé será desarrollada por Paramount+.

Jennifer Coolidge (Tanya) volverá en la segunda temporada de The White Lotus.

Octavio Pisano (Joe Velasco) será regular en la vigesimotercera temporada de Law & Order: SVU.

Fichajes

Emma Corrin (The Crown) protagonizará Retreat. Será una joven detective.

Common (Never Have I Ever, Hell on Wheels) será Sims, el jefe de la seguridad judicial del silo, en��Wool. Tim Robbins (Mystic River, Dead Man Walking), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation, The Office) y David Oyelowo (Selma, Nightingale) serán Bernard, jefe del departamento de informática; Allison, trabajadora del departamento de informática y esposa de Holston; y Holston, el sheriff del silo.

Harvey Keitel (Bugsy, Reservation Dogs), Laura Harrier (Hollywood, One Life to Live), Grace Zabriskie (Twin Peaks, Big Love), Olunike Adeliyi (Workin' Moms, Flashpoint) y T.J. Atoms (Wu-Tang: An American Saga) se unen a Iron Mike como recurrentes. Serán Cus D'Amato, el primer entrenador de Tyson (Trevante Rhodes); Robin Givens, la actriz y primera esposa de Tyson; Camile D'Amato, la esposa de Cus; Lorna Mae, la madre de Tyson; y Barkim, ladrón y amigo de Tyson.

Michael Peña (Narcos: Mexico, The Shield) se une a la cuarta temporada de Jack Ryan. Se desconocen detalles.

Melanie Lynskey (Castle Rock, Two and a Half Men) será Betty Gore, la amiga de Candy Montgomery (Jessica Biel) en Candy.

Patton Oswalt (The Goldbergs, King of Queens), Nat Faxon (Ben & Kate, The Conners), Carlos Valdes (The Flash, Arrow), Erinn Hayes (Childrens Hospital, Kevin Can Wait), Patrick Walker, Raphael Sbarge (Once Upon a Time, Murder in the First), Chris Conner (Altered Carbon, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story), Anne Dudek (Mad Men, House M.D.), Brian Geraghty (Big Sky, Chicago PD), Nelson Franklin (Black-ish, Veep), Reed Diamond (13 Reasons Why, Homicide: Life on the Street), Johnny Berchtold, Adam Ray (American Vandal) y Billy Smith (Homeland) serán Chuck Colson, consejero de Nixon (Danny Winn); Bob Haldeman, jefe de gabinete de la Casa Blanca; Paul Magallanes, agente del FBI; Peggy Ebbitt, amiga de los Mitchell; Frank Willis, guardia de seguridad; Charles N. Shaffer, abogado de John Dean (Dan Stevens); John Ehrlichman, la mano derecha de Nixon; Diana Oweiss, la secretaria de John Mitchell (Sean Penn); Peter, el guardia de seguridad de los Mitchell; Dick Moore, mano derecha de John Dean; Mark Felt, director asociado del FBI; Jay Jennings, hijo de Martha Mitchell (Julia Roberts); Ron Ziegler, secretario de prensa de la Casa Blanca; y Ken Ebbitt, amigo de John Mitchell; en Gaslit.

Celia Weston (Modern Family, American Horror Story), Michael O'Neill (Rectify, Scandal) y Gable Swanlund (The Shrink Next Door) se unen como regulares a Echoes. Tyner Rushing (The Terminal List), Hazel y Ginger Mason (The Blacklist, The Post), Alise Willis (Ruthless) y Madie Nichols (The Outsider) serán recurrentes.

Kathleen Robertson (Bates Motel; Beverly Hills, 90210) será Rosenfeld Guoliang, miembro importante del círculo de confianza de Marco Inaros (Keon Alexander),W en la sexta y última temporada de The Expanse.

Natasha O'Keeffe (Peaky Blinders, Misfits), Meera Syal (The Kumars, The Split) y Ceara Coveney se unen a la segunda temporada de The Wheel of Time.

Adam Korson (SurrealEstate, Imposters) será recurrente en Maggie como Daniel, un hombre dulce y autocrítico que ha abandonado el crossfit.

Bryana Salaz (Team Kaylie, Best Friends Whenever), Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Ciara Riley Wilson (L.A.'s Finest) y Shiv Pai (Iron Fist) protagonizarán Freeridge.

Melissa De Sousa (Valley of the Dolls, The Best Man) y McKinley Freeman (Hit the Floor, Queen Sugar) serán recurrentes en Our Kind of People como Alex Rivera, reportera financiera y exmujer de Raymond (Morris Chestnut); y el padre de Nikki (Alana Bright).

Lily Cardone (Bernie the Dolphin) y Lowrey Brown (The Gifted) serán las versiones jóvenes de Irene (Sissy Spacek) y Franklin (J.K. Simmons) en Lightyears.

Djouliet Amara (Guilty Party) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Superman & Lois. Interpretará a una estudiante de Smallville High con un pasado lleno de secretos.

Kausar Mohammed (What Men Want), Wilder Yari y Theo Germaine (The Politician, Work in Progress) serán recurrentes en 4400 como Soraya, amiga de Jharrel (Joseph David-Jones) que trabaja en el departamento de informática; Jessica, agente de Seguridad Nacional y exnovia de Keisha (Ireon Roach); y Noah, uno de los aparecidos.

Kalyne Coleman será recurrente en Interview With the Vampire como Grace, hermana de Louis (Jacob Anderson).

Pósters

              Nuevas series

AMC encarga Tales of The Walking Dead, antología episódica en la que veremos a personajes nuevos y antiguos.

Apple TV+ ha encargado diez episodios de Shrinking, que sigue a un terapeuta en duelo (Jason Segel; How I Met Your Mother, Freaks and Geeks) que comienza a incumplir las normas y decir a sus clientes exactamente lo que piensa, ignorando su formación y la ética, originando así enormes cambios en las vidas de los demás y también en la suya. Escrita y producida por Segel junto a Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Spin City) y Brett Goldstein, guionistas de Ted Lasso.

FX encarga The Bear, comedia sobre un joven chef (Jeremy Allen White; Shameless, Homecoming) que vuelve a Chicago para llevar el restaurante familiar. Con Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Girls, NOS4A2), Ayo Edebiri (Dickinson, Big Mouth), Lionel Boyce (Hap & Leonard), Abby Elliott (Odd Mom Out, How I Met Your Mother), Liza Colón-Zayas (In Treatment, David Makes Man), Edwin Lee Gibson (Fargo) y Matty Matheson (Workin' Moms). Creada y producida por Christopher Storer (Ramy, Dickinson), que dirigió el piloto.

Ryan Murphy y Jamie Lee Curtis quieren producir Outfielder, sobre el hombre que inventó el high five, para Netflix. Se trata de Glenn Burke, de Los Angeles Dodgers, que chocó esos cinco el 2 de octubre de 1977. Burke fue el primer jugador de las Grandes Ligas de Béisbol en salir del armario durante su carrera profesional. Escrita por Robert O'Hara (Slave Play, Insurrection), que también la dirigiría.

Patricia Clarkson (Sharp Objects, Six Feet Under) y Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones, Four Weddings and a Funeral) protagonizarán Gray, thriller de espionaje basado en una idea original del novelista David Baldacci, escrita por John McLaughlin (Black Swan, Carnivàle) y dirigida por Ruba Nadda (Frankie Drake Mysteries). Producen Baldacci y Clarkson, que interpretará a Cornelia Gray, una espía que lleva 20 años huyendo de los agentes del gobierno que sospechan que es una traidora y regresa a su antigua vida justo cuando se descubre que hay un nuevo topo dentro de su vieja red de espionaje poniéndola a ella y a su red en peligro.

Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) escribirá para televisión la limited series The Children's Hour, adaptación de la obra de Lillian Hellman (1934) que tuvo versión cinematográfica en 1961 y que trata sobre dos mujeres que dirigen un internado de chicas y son acusadas falsamente de mantener una relación sentimental. La serie expandirá la historia para incluir detalles del caso legal en el que está basada la obra y profundizar en la comunidad que rodea a la escuela y en la mente de la joven acusadora. Produce Jon Robin Baitz (Brothers & Sisters, The Slap).

Fechas

La segunda temporada de Temple llega a Sky Max el 28 de octubre

La decimotercera temporada de Doctor Who se estrena en BBC One el 31 de octubre

Head of the Class llega a HBO Max el 4 de noviembre

La segunda temporada de Saved by the Bell se estrena en Peacock el 24 de noviembre

La tercera temporada de Hanna se estrena en Prime Video el 24 de noviembre

La segunda temporada de Alex Rider se estrena en IMDb TV el 3 de diciembre

La sexta y última temporada de The Expanse se estrena en Prime Video el 10 de diciembre

La segunda temporada de Crossing Swords se estrena en Hulu el 10 de diciembre

Stay Close llega a Netflix el 31 de diciembre

Peacemaker se estrena en HBO Max el 13 de enero

La segunda parte de la undécima y última temporada de The Walking Dead se estrena en AMC el 20 de febrero

Tráilers y promos

The Shrink Next Door

Temple - Temporada 2

Dickinson - Temporada 3 y última

La casa de papel - Últimos episodios

Doctor Who - Temporada 13

Colin in Black & White

Gentefied - Temporada 2

Narcos: Mexico - Temporada 3 y última

You - Temporada 4

The Sex Lives of College Girls

Curb Your Enthusiasm - Temporada 11

Saved by the Bell - Temporada 2

The Expanse - Temporada 6 y última

Hanna - Temporada 3

Alex Rider - Temporada 2

Mayor of Kingstown

Hawkeye

Swagger

Big Mouth - Temporada 5

Peacemaker

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Meet Frau Perchta - or, if you're on friendly terms, you can call her Bertha.

She was once considered a goddess in Southern Germanic/Alpine pagan traditions, and her name means "the bright one". Jacob Grimm [the eldest of the Brothers Grimm] posited her connection to the Germanic goddess Holda, since in their respective folklore they were both known for overseeing the crafts of spinning and weaving, and appearing during the 12 Days of Christmas. Another commonality had them both being "guardians of the beasts".

The beast thing comes from the folks involved in the Wild Hunt, also known as the Wild Army or Furious Army back in the day in Germany. Now, get this - at various times, the leader of the Wild Hunt was said to be anyone from Krampus [not covering him here, he's old news], to Berchtold [the male equivalent of Berchta or - ahem - Bertha], to the aforementioned Holda, and even to Santa's buddy Knecht Ruprecht, the farmhand, he of the you-get-coal-if-you-are-bad tradition [though some said he was a "wild foundling" that Ol' Nick took in and raised, because why not].  So, tough broad, and a craft enthusiast, too.

Going back to that "bright one" moniker, Bertha's appearance was said to be "white as snow", spirit-like and wearing white robes, and that she was "beautiful". In Bavaria and Austria, her jam was to roam around, visiting houses during the 12th Night of Christmas, doing the whole knows-if-you're-sleeping, knows-if-you're-awake shtick. And if you were a good and hard-working child or young [probs indentured, let's be real] servant who had spun all of your assigned flax/wool during the year, you'd wake to find a silver coin in your shoe, maybe your pail [hopefully not your potty pail, but a buck's a buck].

Then again, we all have our challenging days.

Grimm relates that in some stories, Bertha had one large foot - a "goose foot" or "swan foot" - and that the symbology behind that could mean she had the power to shapeshift into animals. And this part of her description popped up not just in German tales, but in French ("Berthe au grand pied") and Latin (“Berhta cum magno pede”). Said Grimm: 

“It is apparently a swan-maiden’s foot, which as a mark of her higher [goddess] nature she cannot lay aside, and at the same time the spinning-woman’s splayfoot that worked the treadle”. 

Other stories kept it simple, said she sometimes presented as an old, crone-y hag, hence the basis of the two-faced costume in the photo above. Depending on what she learned about the children she visited, she'd turn on a dime. Er, a silver coin.

What caused her to flip out on the kids? The slacking on the weaving, of course, and if they'd eaten something other than the traditional meal with which she was associated, yummy fish and gruel. The punishment? A split-open belly. Bonus round: all organs and entrails were scooped out, then she'd stuff the cavity with straw and pebbles.

Happy Holidays!

[PS: Interesting modern take on how she might've been tied to the increase of women in the textile workforce after the cut]

From John B. Smith's Perchta the Belly-Slitter and Her Kin: A View of Some Traditional Threatening Figures, Threats and Punishments (2007):

“In the contemporary folklore of Austria, Frau Perchta (active during the twelve days of Christmas) is depicted as the rewarder of the generous and the punisher of the bad. But the punishments she inflicts, such as ripping out a person's guts and replacing them with refuse, do not seem to fit the crime. [...] Initially Perchta was the enforcer of communal taboos, hunting down those who spun on holidays or who failed to partake sufficiently in collective feasting (a propitious act designed to ensure future plenty). However, with the growing involvement of peasant women in the market economy (particularly for textiles), Perchta's role changed to the punisher of the lazy.”

Sources: [x] [x] / Top image [x] / Bottom images [x] [x]   h/t Elizabeth May

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Die Frau mit dem Hut

 Atelierbesuch bei Barbara Anna Husar

Künstlerportrait in NobleSee, das Magazin der historischen Schifffahrt Bodensee / Ausgabe 2020

An einem sonnigen Frühlingstag schreiten die Auserwählten unter Kamerablicken zur Jungfernfahrt auf die wiedererstandene OESTERREICH. Mitten unter ihnen, eingerahmt von namhaften Altkünstlern, eine Frau im Staubmantel, um die Taille ein Gürtel und auf ihrem blonden, schulterlangen Haar ein karierter Hut. Ein royaler Hut? Ein Männerhut? Ein Designerhut? Kein gewöhnlicher Hut jedenfalls. Wer ist sie? Da hört man es von rundum munkeln: „Das ist die mit dem fliegenden Euter.“ Die, was bitte? Die, wie bitte? Die, wer bitte? Die Frau heißt Barbara Anna Husar, ist 1975 in Feldkirch geboren, studierte an der Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Wien, erhielt das österreichische Staatsstipendium und trägt den Hubert Berchtold Preis. Studienjahre verbrachte sie in Amsterdam, New York, Paris und in China. Nichts jedoch hat sie so nachhaltig geprägt wie ihre seit siebzehn Jahren andauernden Reisen auf die Halbinsel Sinai. Dort besitzt sie Ziegenherde besitzt, die von den Frauen eines Nomadenstammes gehütet wird. Das Leben der Beduinen inspiriert ihren eigenen künstlerischen Kosmos. Von dieser Ziegenherde stammen auch die Nabelschnüre, aus denen sie sich nicht nur eine kleine Hängematte, sondern sich auch einen Namen in die Kunstwelt geknüpft hat. Barbara Anna Husar verknüpft prinzipiell gerne. Sie verknüpft Menschen und Ideen, Kulturen und 4535 Millionen Jahre Erdgeschichte: in ihrer Arbeit finden Meteoriten, Trilobiten, Libellen, Dinosaurier, Kühe und Ziegenherden unterschiedliche Darstellungsformen. Eigentlich hatte sie Malerin werden wollen. Das Zeichnen ist ihr am nächsten. Ihre Prozesse beginnen mit lockeren Skizzen und enden in Skulpturen, Filmen, Fotografien, Installationen, Performances, Ölgemälden, Poesien oder in einem Heißluftballon – ihr fliegendes Euter ist ein Aufschrei gegen die globale Maximierungsperversion. Und es erhebt sich überall dort, wo jemand nachhaltige Pionierleistung leistet und der Grenzgedanke weit weg ist. In Zukunft wird eine Frau den Ballon fahren. Markus Flatz – maßgeblich an der Wiederauferstehung der OESTERREICH beteiligt – ist ein begeisterter Anhänger des Euters und erwarb das symbolische, geistige Eigentum der 15 Meter langen Südzitze. Im Gegenzug dazu fertigte Barbara Anna Husar neunzig Kunstdrucke an, die sie dem Schiff zur Verfügung stellt und die man erwerben kann. Ein paar Tage nach ihrer Rückkehr aus Hard lädt sie Freunde in ihr Atelier ein, das sie „Schiff ohne See“ nennt. Es ist ein Sonntagnachmittag und es schüttet in Strömen. Die Freunde fahren mit der 49er Straßenbahnlinie fast bis Hütteldorf, gehen über einen verlassenen Parkplatz durch große Glastüren in ein alleinstehendes, schäbig und verlassen wirkendes Hochhaus aus den 1970er Jahren. Im Erdgeschoss reihen sich unzählige Firmenschilder aneinander. Existieren diese Firmen noch? Hier wohnt kein Mensch – nur Barbara Anna Husar – in der Kantine einer ehemaligen Erzeugungsstätte für pneumatische und elektrische Antriebstechnik. Unwillkürlich denkt man an eine Szene aus „Being John Malkovich“. Der Lastenlift führt allerdings nicht wie im Film in den 7 ½. Stock, sondern nur in den siebten. Von dort steigt man über eine dunkle Treppe nach oben in den 8. Stock, um sein blaues Wunder zu erleben. Wie eine Schiffsbrücke befindet sich Barbara Anna Husars Atelier am höchsten Punkt des Turms. Glasfronten in alle Himmelsrichtungen. Der Kubus ist umgeben von einer Terrasse, ausgelegt mit brüchigen, von Unkraut übersäten Waschbetonplatten und Kies. Ein Dschungel aus seltenen Pflanzensorten, knallorange Sitzbälle wie chinesische Lampions zum Balkongeländer umfunktioniert, ein rosa Schwan, ein Rettungsring, goldverschnörkelte Bilderrahmen ohne Bilder, Rosmarin auf Tonnen, Sitzgelegenheiten aller Art. Flammen lodern aus einer Feuerschale, um die sich die Besucher unter einem Schirm drängen, den der Wind stets aufklappen lässt. „Land in Sicht!“, will man schreien, vor lauter Verzückung, weil ganz Wien zu Füßen liegt. Nur drüben auf der Baumgartnerhöhe glänzt im Regen das goldene Kuppeldach der Otto Wagner Kirche. Barbara Anna Husar zieht an einer selbstgedrehten Zigarette, trägt einen königsblau glänzenden Ganzkörper-Arbeitsanzug, eine Kunstpelzjacke und ihren Hut. „Ich bin Teil, Zwischenteil und Teilchenbeschleuniger“, sagt sie von sich. Jeder in ihrer Nähe wird unweigerlich von ihr mitgerissen wie ein Saturnring in die Umlaufbahn.   In ihrem Atelier stehen die wundersamsten Dinge: eine Meteoritenfalle aus Frittierkörben, Paradiesvögel auf Goldpapier, Zeiträder aus Sanduhren, scheinbar miteinander kommunizierende Flakons und Alexander von Humboldt, den sie sich gemalt hat, weil er der Urvater des Umweltbewusstseins ist, weil er die großen Zusammenhänge wahrgenommen hat, weil er seit dreihundert Jahren tot ist und sie sich ihm trotzdem nahe fühlt. „Mit Humboldt an meiner Seite bin ich eine hochgeistige Patchworkfamilie“, steht unter dem Gemälde. An jenem Sonntagnachmittag feiert Barbara Anna Husar nicht eines ihrer legendären „Blitzkonzerte“, die immer dann stattfinden, wenn der Wetterbericht ein Gewitter ankündigt, sondern ihre neue Homepage, an der sie mit den fähigsten Menschen Monate lang gearbeitet hat. Eine Homepage so eindrucksvoll wie das Universum der Barbara Anna Husar – nahe am Himmel, am Wasser, im Wald und in der Wüste. Nehmen Sie sich Zeit, gehen Sie hinein und sehen Sie mit eigenen Augen, was hier versucht wird mit Worten zu beschreiben, auf:  https://husar.solar/

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How 'Manhunt: Unabomber' built Ted Kaczynski's backstory: Your burning questions answered

Paul Bettany as Ted Kaczynski in ‘Manhunt: Unabomber’ (Photo: Discovery)

Episode 6 of Discovery’s Manhunt: Unabomber, which aired Tuesday night, dove deep into Ted Kaczynski’s troubled life, from the first bomb he made in grade school to his years at Harvard University, where he was recruited for a CIA-sponsored brainwashing experiment, to whether he was capable of keeping his promise to stop mailing bombs if his 35,000-word manifesto was printed for all to read.

As Paul Bettany, who stars as adult Kaczynski, wants to clearly reiterate, the TV show is in no way looking for sympathy for Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured 23 in his 17-year campaign — but it does try to elicit your empathy. “There’s a part of Ted that was a child and 16-years-old and experimented on by the CIA, and humiliated, and that is an awful thing for anybody to have gone through. I think there’s an argument to say that it went somewhere toward destroying him and weaponizing him one way or another,” Bettany says. “We’re not going to get anywhere if the conversation ends with, ‘He’s a monster,’ and not with, ‘How the f**k did this person not feel that this was his home anymore? That somehow he wasn’t welcome in this world.’ That’s a really interesting question to ask ourselves: Why do children — not just in this country, but yes, from this country, and in the UK and throughout Europe — feel so alienated in their country that they run off to Syria, for instance? How can we help people who experience such intense alienation that they no longer feel a part of their communities?”

To answer some of our burning questions about how the show built Kaczynski’s backstory, Yahoo TV spoke separately with Bettany, series co-creator/writer Andrew Sodroski, and director/showrunner Greg Yaitanes.

The episode is framed as a letter Ted is writing to his brother, David, contemplating how he ended up the man he became and whether it’s too late to change. Did he really express those ideas in a letter to David?

Andrew Sodroski: There is no one document where he lays it all out like that. That kind of emotional landscape is something that you piece together. I read thousands of pages of letters by Ted Kaczynski, his autobiography, all these different things. Really for me, it came out of this paradox that he promised to stop bombing if his manifesto was published and yet when they arrested him, they found a new bomb under his bed. I talked to Jim Fitzgerald [the FBI profiler played by Sam Worthington in the series] a lot about this, and he was like, “Well, that was his hobby. He probably was never going to send the bomb but he had nothing else to do.”

I started really thinking about this, like, “Okay, here is a guy, he says he’s going to stop bombing, and he probably means it. He actually really wants to stop bombing, but he somehow ends up, despite himself, with a bomb under his bed.” The idea of telling the story of the last bomb gave me the way into piecing together all those character moments — this desire to change and the inability to change. Threading those lines and that complexity gave me both the form of the episode — which is one day, publication day, the day when his whole life is supposed to change — and then also the content of that letter.

Greg Yaitanes: Andrew and I differ on that bomb under Ted’s bed. Andrew believes that Ted was going to stop bombing; I believe that there was a bomb under Ted’s bed and Ted would not have been able to stop himself and would have sent it. That difference actually helped us arrive on the approach. We really zeroed in on the addiction aspect of his bomb-making: Can a guy who’s done something his whole life separate from it?

(Photo: Discovery)

Paul Bettany: There were days when Greg and I would turn up and we’d have an hour or two before we started shooting, and we’d just sit in the cabin and talk things through and figure stuff out. How do we express that — whether he’s gonna have a clean slate and he’s not build bombs anymore? We shot it like it was an addiction: he packs [the bomb materials] away, and we have the bag in the foreground, and he’s looking at the bag, and the peace that brings him of finally getting a hit again.

(Photo: Discovery)

Yaitanes: We went into the elation [when he believes he can stop], which led to the dancing, which was a great piece out of Ted’s journal, how he would dance to Bach music.

Bettany: He writes about a dance for the rabbits that he would do, and it was a really pretty uneventful dance. He describes it as stomping his left foot and stomping his right foot, and so we thought, “Well, that’s eminently uncinematic. What can we do?” We put some music on and had him dance with himself and then invite, rather sadly, an imaginary partner to waltz with him, and sort of somehow express that longing for somebody that he had a lot of difficulty expressing.

Yaitanes: Then that [lure of the last bomb] was the spine of which to play against as he struggles to be able to be alone with himself, which was something he could never do. For a guy that talked about how mass entertainment is distracting us, he had his own distraction, which was making bombs and killing people.

We see young Ted (Grady Port) build his first bomb, in retaliation for losing a friend after that classmate got a girlfriend. Is that story true?

Sodroski: He had this intense friendship with this boy when he was in grade school, and later he wrote this weird short story called How I Blew Up Harold Snilly, which is a semi-fictional account of his first bomb, which was in chemistry class in grade school. I took a lot of his grade school experiences and condensed them into that one relationship, but there is this way in which, even early on, Ted was trapped in this cycle of getting close to somebody, then [feeling betrayed], and then lashing out in this self-destructive way. That became the story of his life.

(Photo: Discovery)

Ted (played by John Berchtold) went to Harvard at the age of 16 and thought he found a trusted confidante in psychology professor Henry A. Murray (Brian d’Arcy James), who was actually grooming him for a three-year-long experiment that was part of MKUltra, the CIA’s mind-control project working to perfect brainwashing techniques to use on Soviet spies. How accurate is the show’s depiction of those sessions?

Sodroski: There are videotapes in Harvard’s archives of some of the sessions. We can’t see the tapes of the sessions because Ted has publicly talked about them, and so they are under lock and key until Ted dies. We were able to get a transcript of some of those sessions with Murray.

Yaitanes: We had to condense it, but we were able to glean what we could from transcripts, from Ted’s journaling, from other people that have been through the program. We feel that that very accurately represents what was there on the day.

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Sodroski: The one really sad thing [was] Ted talks about the Murray experiments in his autobiography or in some of his journals, and there’s this moment when he says, “Why did I keep going back?” In the show, we say, “It’s to prove that he couldn’t break me,” which I think is the heart of the matter. But in his journals, Ted says, “He just promised me at the end there would be a party with girls at it, and I thought if I just hung in there, I would be invited to that party. Still to this day, it bothers me that there was no party.” You just think, “Wow.” I feel like if we had had Ted say that, it’s too much — nobody would believe it. But when you read it in his journals, it’s really heartbreaking because he was literally looking for connection.

There were drafts of this script where we went into his sexual history, which is really interesting. At one point, he wanted to have a sex-change operation. His relationship with his [childhood friend] is sort of borderline homosexual, in a kind of 11-year-old experimental way. We kept trying to thread those moments through in a way that was compassionate and that was part of the total picture of Ted Kaczynski. … but as soon as you put in “Ted Kaczynski wants a sex-change operation,” suddenly everything becomes about that, where it isn’t really about that. It isn’t about sexual confusion; it’s about a desire to just connect with someone, anyone, who can understand me and feel my pain. If we’re talking about Ted, we can say, “Yeah, there’s definitely a sexual component to his isolation and to his mental landscape,” but as soon as you experience that onscreen, it’s like, “Oh, he’s just a sex-crazed freak,” and suddenly, we are on the outside looking in on Ted, whereas I think the power of the story we’re telling is that we are with Ted on this journey and this life review and experiencing it with him.

Yaitanes: He couldn’t put a read on human interaction, so he didn’t know where he fit in. I think thematically, there was something interesting to unpack there, but there was not the room nor the time to do it in a way that would have been respectful to what it was, which was more complex and gray than anything we could have tackled without really having an additional episode to explore it. Our thesis is, and rightly so, that your sexuality does not define you as a person, and I think that is no more apparent than the conversation that is happening out there today, and yet, we continually see that. We just saw it in the news [with the ban on transgender soldiers serving in the military]. We didn’t want to contribute to that conversation in any kind of light that didn’t fully respect our in-depth take of what our research showed us.

We see Murray tell Ted that his mother, Wanda, wrote him and gave him permission to do this humiliating experiment on her son. In the show, Ted says he later learned Murray had lied about the letter.

Sodroski: There is an actual letter from Wanda to Murray saying, “Thank you for choosing my son, and I really hope you’ll be able to help him.” It doesn’t go into all that detail about how he’s a creep and a bed-wetter and a compulsive masturbator. We decided that it’s a little too cruel to have an actual letter from Wanda to Murray, and that it helped tell our story better if it’s a fake letter, even though in reality, Wanda signed a permission slip and wrote on it, “Maybe you’ll be able to help my poor son. He’s totally messed up. A Harvard psych professor — here’s what he needs in his life.” For me, the important thing there was just understanding that Ted came out of this experience distrustful of everyone in his life, including himself.

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In the series, Ted imagines what his life could have been like had he used all the time he spent being angry and building bombs on finding love and having a child. We see him invited to a birthday party for the local librarian’s son, and amazingly, we desperately want him to go. Did those people really exist?

Sodroski: What’s interesting about Ted is he really did tutor the librarian’s son in math, and he really was friends with the local librarian. This is one of these paradoxes of Ted, which is that he lived totally alone in the woods, he cuts off all his ties with everyone who loves him, and yet he still bicycles into town, he tutors this kid, he’s friends with the librarian. People who knew him kind of liked him; they thought he was a little odd but was a nice guy. Digging into that paradox, there is this kind of fantasy life. He’s sort of trapped in these choices. There is one path he could have taken, that he wants to take, which is about connecting with other people, and yet somehow he is unable to connect with others. There’s this feeling that if he had one real human connection in his life, he could have been saved, but somehow, because of circumstance, because of what happened to him, and because of his own inner flaws, he was never able to find that thing, that love that could have saved him.

Yaitanes: From prison, he was sending practice problems to the character we based Timmy on. That’s not something that we invented. What made him be able to do that? That interested me, [but] Andrew really connected to that. I would always be the counterpoint to that. I was like, “Dude, the guy killed people,” and he would be like, “Yeah, I know but…” People just don’t fall in a clear-cut category. Nowhere in any of my education or research is anything clean cut, is anybody just simply a monster, all good or all bad.
 I was a Judaic studies minor focusing on the Holocaust and the psychology of the Nazi doctors’ ability to double their personalities, to be able to go home to their wife and kids and then be able to kill children the next day. What did it take, and what did it do to those kind of people? I wanted to present that complexity and how Ted lived his life. I had to put my own personal feelings aside.

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Sodroski: With Ted’s fantasy family, we wrote the skeleton of it on the page, but to see what happens when you put Paul and a two-year-old in the cabin, and when you put Paul and Timmy together in the garden, I didn’t expect that to be as emotional as it is, either on the day that we were shooting it or on the screen. When the kids were introduced into the cabin, it was heaven for them because there’s nothing digital — there are instruments and books and tools and trees. Our DP [director of photography], Zack Galler, shot that stuff in this beautiful, beautiful way. It really was like watching it onscreen, where you have seen Paul alone in his cabin for so long and then suddenly, you’re watching this totally other person living this beautiful life. Then as soon as that was over, the kids were released and we were back to him building bombs in the cabin.

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Yaitanes: I’m a huge Terrence Malick fan, and if this show is All the President’s Men, then Episode 6 is kind of like a Malick film dropped into the middle of it. To shoot something with that kind of poetry of an imagined future was really, truly some of my favorite stuff that I shot. It looked exactly how I wanted it to look. I’m showing you what he longed for. He didn’t long for it through the filter of a monster; he didn’t see himself that way. The beauty of that [dream] was important to represent. I tried to be honest in everything that the research spoke about and tried to really put myself in his point of view and show that he was conflicted. … Something like at the end: it was scripted that we revisited these images [of young Ted and Harvard Ted], but it wasn’t as specific as they were all staring at the camera, taking inventory of each other.

Bettany: We figured that out on the morning of shooting it. That was Greg and I in a room before the crew showed up, and it was really special.

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Yaitanes: We worked out that flow so that it geographically made sense. Ted’s in bed, and he’s imagining himself sitting [with the baby] and looking down on the floor. The floor is the grass [where young Ted is lying, and he turns and becomes Harvard Ted, who looks back at adult Ted in bed]. That little circle is my favorite moment. It was about three months between when I did that with Paul and when I finished it. I went back to those images I took of Paul on my iPhone and showed them to the young Ted actors. That was something that was born out of, “Hey, what if we try this?”

I know a lot of directors that over-prepare, and because of the tight prep on this series that we had, there just was not that opportunity to do that, so you all have to depend on each other creatively to take you through the day. That ended up making it an incredibly collaborative experience in Episode 6. We would always start the day just walking through the journey of that character that day so that everything felt lived in.
 “Ted spent an enormous amount of time in the library. Where does he like to sit? How does he help?” These are all things that just had to feel like he’s done them a million times. I could have watched hours of Paul doing Ted stuff. The original cut of this episode was an hour and a half. I just couldn’t get enough of what Paul was doing.

Sodroski: The thing about Paul — he is so present and so interested in the details of that life. He would ask things like, “Which end of the bed was Ted’s head on when he slept? Was there a mattress? Where did he keep the carrots? What did he eat for breakfast when he woke up in the morning?” You could see the more time he spent in the cabin, the more it felt like his home in this amazing way. Between takes, he would go into the cabin and he would close the doors. It was like he was inhabiting that role and inhabiting that space in a way that allowed those moments to really come to life because he was experiencing this stuff as a person who doesn’t interact with anybody.

Did Bettany meet the actors who played young Ted while filming?

Bettany: I did a lot of taping of stuff for them, so they could listen to how my voice was, but I didn’t meet them in person. I thought they did such a great job. The pair of them were really moving.

Yaitanes: Paul had, on his own, recorded all of John’s lines [for Harvard Ted] just so he could hear the dialect, so that it would line up.
 That wasn’t something I asked for; that was something that he did unsolicited. Paul is also a director and understands about the bigger good. I find that actors who have directed are even more collaborative because they’ve been there and they know their instinct as a director is to want to help people through things. It just re-frames your whole way of thinking.

Young Ted [Grady Port] really shouldn’t be dismissed in the process, because his work was so beautiful and so hard being a kid and acting
 [those difficult scenes]. And Harvard Ted [John Berchtold] did the heavy-lifting. I wanted to make sure that he had another presence in there, so casting someone of heft like Brian [d’Arcy James] for Murray was also crucial. The end of that montage of his with Murray — those were entire scenes to be shot so we could extract a piece that we wanted. John came in off-book with 10 pages of monologues in one day that were perfect. It was unbelievable.

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Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Team Up to Try to Disrupt Health Care

They are moving into an industry where the lines between traditionally distinct areas, such as pharmacies, insurers and providers, are increasingly blurry. CVS Health’s deal last month to buy the health insurer Aetna for about $69 billion is just one example of the changes underway. Separately, Amazon’s potential entry into the pharmacy business continues to rattle major drug companies and distributors.

The companies said the initiative, which is in its early stages, would be “free from profit-making incentives and constraints,” but did not specify whether that meant they would create a nonprofit organization. The tax implications were also unclear because so few details were released.

Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, said in a statement that the effort could eventually be expanded to benefit all Americans.

“The health care system is complex, and we enter into this challenge open-eyed about the degree of difficulty,” Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, said in a statement. “Hard as it might be, reducing health care’s burden on the economy while improving outcomes for employees and their families would be worth the effort.”

Taking On ‘the Hungry Tapeworm’

A look at the three companies that announced a joint health care initiative on Tuesday.

The announcement touched off a wave of speculation about what the new company might do, especially given Amazon’s extensive reach into the daily lives of Americans — from where they buy their paper towels to what they watch on television. It follows speculation that the company, which recently purchased the grocery chain Whole Foods, might use its stores as locations for pharmacies or clinics.

“It could be big,” Ed Kaplan, who negotiates health coverage on behalf of large employers as the national health practice leader for the Segal Group, said of the announcement. “Those are three big players, and I think if they get into health care insurance or the health care coverage space, they are going to make a big impact.”

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But others were less sure, noting that the three companies — which, combined, employ more than one million people — might still hold little sway over the largest insurers and pharmacy benefit managers, who oversee the benefits of tens of millions of Americans.

“This is not news in terms of jumbo employers being frustrated with what they can get through the traditional system,” said Sam Glick of the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman in San Francisco. He played down the notion that the three partners would have more success getting lower prices from hospitals and doctors. “The idea that they could have any sort of negotiation leverage with unit cost is a pretty far stretch.”

Even the three companies don’t seem to be sure of how to shake up health care. People briefed on the plan, who asked for anonymity because the discussions were private, said the executives decided to announce the initiative while still a concept in part so they can begin hiring staff for the new company.

Three people familiar with the partnership said it took shape as Mr. Bezos, Mr. Buffett, and Mr. Dimon, who are friends, discussed the challenges of providing insurance to their employees. They decided their combined access to data about how consumers make choices, along with an understanding of the intricacies of health insurance, would inevitably lead to some kind of new efficiency — whatever it might turn out to be.

“The ballooning costs of health care act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy,” Mr. Buffett said in the statement. “Our group does not come to this problem with answers. But we also do not accept it as inevitable.”

Over the past several months, the three had met formally — along with Todd Combs, an investment officer at Berkshire Hathaway who is also on JPMorgan’s board — to discuss the idea, according to a person familiar with Mr. Buffett’s thinking.

The three chief executives saw one another at the Alfalfa Club dinner in Washington on Saturday, but by then each had already had dozens of conversations with the small in-house teams they had assembled. The plan was set.

Mr. Buffett’s motivation stems in part from conversations he has had with two people close to him who have been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, according to the person. Mr. Buffett, the person said, believes the condition of the country’s health care system is a root cause of economic inequality, with wealthier people enjoying better, longer lives because they can afford good coverage As Mr. Buffett himself has aged — he is 87 — the contrast between his moneyed friends and others has grown starker, the person said.

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The e-commerce giant’s actions – some big, like buying Whole Foods Markets; some smaller, like Amazon meal kits – have led to stock sell-offs for a wide range of businesses.

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The companies said they would initially focus on using technology to simplify care, but did not elaborate on how they intended to do that or bring down costs. One of the people briefed on the alliance said the new company wouldn’t replace existing health insurers or hospitals.

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Planning for the new company is being led by Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a JPMorgan managing director who was previously head of the Swiss drugmaker Novartis’s mergers and acquisitions strategy; Mr. Combs; and Beth Galetti, a senior vice president at Amazon.

One potential avenue for the partnership might be an online health care dashboard that connects employees with the closest and best doctor specializing in whatever ailment they select from a drop-down menu. Perhaps the companies would strike deals to offer employee discounts with service providers like medical testing facilities.

“Each of those companies has extensive experience using transformative technology in their own businesses,” said John Sculley, the former chief executive of Apple who is now chairman of a health care start-up, RxAdvance. “I think it’s a great counterweight to what government leadership hasn’t done, which is to focus on how do we make this health care system sustainable.”

Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, predicted that the companies would attempt to modernize the cumbersome process of doctor appointments by making it more like booking a restaurant reservation on OpenTable, while eliminating the need to regularly fill out paper forms on clipboards.

Premiums Are Rising Faster Than Earnings and Inflation

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“I think they will bring the customer-facing, patient-facing thing into your smartphone,” he said.

Amazon has long been mentioned by health care analysts and industry executives as a potential new player in the sector. While the company has remained quiet about its plans, some analysts noted that companies often use their own employees as a testing ground for future initiatives.

The entry of Amazon and its partners adds to the upheaval in an industry where much is changing, from government programs after the overhaul of the tax law to the uncertain future of the Affordable Care Act. All the while, medical costs have persistently been on the rise.

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Nationwide, average premiums for family coverage for employees rose to $18,764 last year, an increase of 19 percent since 2012, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. Workers are increasingly paying a greater share of those costs — they now pay 30 percent of the premium, in addition to high deductibles and growing co-payments.

“Our members’ balance sheets speak for themselves — health care is a growing cost at a time when other costs are either not rising or falling,” said Robert Andrews, chief executive of the Healthcare Transformation Alliance, a group of 46 companies, including Coca-Cola and American Express, that have banded together to lower health care costs.

Other major employers have also sought more direct control over their employees’ health care. Walmart contracted with groups like the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo and Geisinger, among others, to take care of employees who need organ transplants and heart and spine care. Caterpillar, the construction equipment manufacturer, sets its own rules for drug coverage, which it has said saves it millions of dollars per year, even though it still uses a pharmacy benefit manager to process its claims.

Suzanne Delbanco, the executive director for the Catalyst for Payment Reform, a nonprofit group that mainly represents employers, said controlling rising prices is especially hard in markets where a local hospital or medical group dominates. While some have tried to tackle the issue in different ways, like sending employees with heart conditions to a specific group, “it’s piecemeal,” she said.

She added, “There are so many opportunities to do this better.”

The issue is not solely a 21st-century concern: In 1915, Henry Ford became increasingly worried about the quality of health care available to his growing work force in Detroit, so he opened the Henry Ford Hospital. It is still in existence today.

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Follow the rules before you define them

Black & White Self-portrait wit glasses by Wix Photographer Juliette Jourdain

“This above ALL:  to thine own self be true.”

~ William Shakespeare

 (Hamlet)

LOL, I have to chuckle.  I admit that I try a number of different online outlets or portals to connect and network.  As I continue to explore, I extrapolate a lot of mistakes being made by a similar group of people.

It would appear as though the majority of marketers think that their prospective clients are dumb or tuned out.  They think they are making the rules, when , in fact, they are breaking the rules.  I thought of a few to get started to those who reach out to prospect for others to hire you as a social media expert. Rule No. 1 Know your audience and what they are looking for Rule No. 2 Lead by example Rule No. 3 Ensure your follower to follow ratio is weighted by who is following you, not the other way around. Rule No. 4 Try to get a few online influencers in your corner. Rule No. 5  Be your own unique voice, don’t try to say what you THINK others want to hear. Rule No. 6  Be creative, be thought provoking, be visual Rule No. 7  Don’t try to build your acclaim by 3 degrees of separation Rule No. 8  Do NOT plagiarize others’ ideas and claim them as your own. Rule No. 9  Give credit where credit is due Rule No. 10  Say thank you, show gratitude, share appreciation These rules can be expanded.  I likely will.  The main idea is to get started with the idea and then let things flow and the ideas evolve.     Rule No. 11  Test your ideas, check for traction, respond to interaction or reaction Start at Rule No. 1 again.  Like a snowball, go through the process again, see what you can attract and build upon as you go through the steps each time. Rule No. 12  Comment to an idea originator if something they said, you tried, and share what worked, what didn’t work. Rule No. 13  You will only build a crowd once you fade into the crowd or are enveloped within one.

Tulip:  my favorite flower

As today putters to an end, I bid adieu to 55 and resolve to coasting towards 60 now that I’ve crossed from the mid-point to the other side.  Thanks to one of my greatest Social Media friends, Mott, shared Conan O’Brien’s birthday post on Facebook and I happened to see this morning.  How cool is that eh?    I like the idea of having “something in common with Conan O’Brien” …. and a whole list of greatest in the following company whom we keep on celebrating an April 18th birthday …. Bon Fete mes ami :o)

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April 18 Famous Birthdays (SOURCE: BIRTHDAY NINJAs)

The zodiac sign of a person born on April 18 is Aries ♈.

The following famous people celebrate their birthday on April 18th. The list is arranged in chronological order and includes celebrities like actors, actresses, models, singers, rappers and producers. Click the    after the name to explore the birth date info and know the meaning of their life path number.

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1480

Lucrezia Borgia, Italian daughter of Pope Alexander VI (d. 1519). Life path number 8

1503

Henry II of Navarre, (d. 1555). Life path number 22

1590

Ahmed I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1617). Life path number 1

1605

Giacomo Carissimi, Italian priest and composer (d. 1674). Life path number 7

1648

Jeanne Guyon, French mystic and author (d. 1717). Life path number 5

1666

Jean-Féry Rebel, French violinist and composer (d. 1747). Life path number 5

1740

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (d. 1810). Life path number 7

1759

Jacques Widerkehr, French cellist and composer (d. 1823). Life path number 8

1771

Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg (d. 1820). Life path number 2

1772

David Ricardo, English economist and politician (d. 1823). Life path number 3

1794

William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (d. 1863). Life path number 7

1797

Adolphe Thiers, French historian and politician, 2nd President of France (d. 1877). Life path number 1

1813

James McCune Smith, American physician and author (d. 1865). Life path number 8

1819

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban lawyer and activist (d. 1874). Life path number 5

1819

Franz von Suppé, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1895). Life path number 5

1838

Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran, French chemist and academic (d. 1912). Life path number 6

1857

Clarence Darrow, American lawyer (d. 1938). Life path number 7

1857

Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and author (d. 1935). Life path number 7

1858

Dhondo Keshav Karve, Indian educator and activist, Bharat Ratna Awardee (d. 1962). Life path number 8

1863

Count Leopold Berchtold, Austrian-Hungarian politician and diplomat, Joint Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary (d. 1942). Life path number 22

1863

Linton Hope, English sailor and architect (d. 1920). Life path number 22

1864

Richard Harding Davis, American journalist and author (d. 1916). Life path number 5

1874

Abd-ru-shin, German author (d. 1941). Life path number 6

1874

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić, Croatian author and poet (d. 1938). Life path number 6

1877

Vicente Sotto, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1950). Life path number 9

1879

Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist and scholar (d. 1962). Life path number 2

1880

Sam Crawford, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (d. 1968). Life path number 3

1882

Isaac Babalola Akinyele, Nigerian ruler (d. 1964). Life path number 5

1882

Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (d. 1977). Life path number 5

1884

Jaan Anvelt, Estonian educator and politician (d. 1937). Life path number 7

1888

Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 1979). Life path number 2

1889

Jessie Street, Australian activist (d. 1970). Life path number 3

1893

Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower (d. 1944). Life path number 7

1896

Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (d. 1948). Life path number 1

1897

Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer (d. 2001). Life path number 2

1897

Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish skier (d. 1975). Life path number 2

1898

Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman (d. 1981). Life path number 3

1901

Al Lewis, American songwriter (d. 1967). Life path number 6  

1901

László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright (d. 1975). Life path number 6  

1902

Waldemar Hammenhög, Swedish author (d. 1972). Life path number 7  

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1902

Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981). Life path number 7  

1904

Pigmeat Markham, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1981). Life path number 9  

1905

Sydney Halter, Canadian lawyer and businessman (d. 1990). Life path number 1  

1905

George H. Hitchings, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998). Life path number 1  

1907

Miklós Rózsa, Hungarian-American composer and conductor (d. 1995). Life path number 3  

1911

Ilario Bandini, Italian businessman and race car driver (d. 1992). Life path number 7  

1911

Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (d. 2011). Life path number 7  

1914

Claire Martin, Canadian author (d. 2014). Life path number 1  

1915

Joy Davidman, American poet and author (d. 1960). Life path number 2  

1916

Carl Burgos, American illustrator (d. 1984). Life path number 3  

1916

Doug Peden, Canadian basketball player (d. 2005). Life path number 3  

1917

Ty LaForest, Canadian-American baseball player (d. 1947). Life path number 22  

1917

Frederica of Hanover (d. 1981). Life path number 22  

1918

Gabriel Axel, Danish-French actor, director, and producer (d. 2014). Life path number 5  

1918

André Bazin, French critic and theorist (d. 1958). Life path number 5  

1918

Shinobu Hashimoto, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 5  

1918

Clifton Hillegass, American publisher, founded ”CliffsNotes” (d. 2001). Life path number 5  

1918

Tony Mottola, American guitarist and composer (d. 2004). Life path number 5  

1919

Vondell Darr, American actress (d. 2012). Life path number 6  

1919

Virginia O’Brien, American actress and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 6  

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1920

John F. Wiley, American football player and coach (d. 2013). Life path number 7  

1921

Jean Richard, French actor and singer (d. 2001). Life path number 8  

1922

Barbara Hale, American actress. Life path number 9  

1922

Lord Kitchner, Trinidadian singer (d. 2000). Life path number 9  

1923

Alfred Bieler, Swiss ice hockey player (d. 2013). Life path number 1  

1923

Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, English engineer and politician (d. 2015). Life path number 1  

1924

Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2005). Life path number 2  

1924

Henry Hyde, American commander, lawyer, and politician (d. 2007). Life path number 2  

1924

Roy Mason, English miner and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (d. 2015). Life path number 2  

1925

Bob Hastings, American actor (d. 2014). Life path number 3  

1925

Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005). Life path number 3  

1926

Doug Insole, English cricketer. Life path number 22  

1926

Günter Meisner, German actor (d. 1994). Life path number 22  

1927

Samuel P. Huntington, American political scientist, author, and academic (d. 2008). Life path number 5  

1927

Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (d. 2013). Life path number 5  

1927

Charles Pasqua, French businessman and politician, French Minister of the Interior (d. 2015). Life path number 5  

1928

Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (d. 2015). Life path number 6  

1928

Otto Piene, German sculptor and academic (d. 2014). Life path number 6  

1929

Peter Hordern, English soldier and politician. Life path number 7  

1930

Clive Revill, New Zealand-English actor and singer. Life path number 8  

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1931

Bill Miles, American director and producer (d. 2013). Life path number 9  

1934

James Drury, American actor. Life path number 3  

1934

George Shirley, American tenor and educator. Life path number 3  

1935

Jerry Dexter, American voice actor (d. 2013). Life path number 22  

1935

Costas Ferris, Egyptian-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22  

1936

Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer. Life path number 5  

1936

Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (d. 1997). Life path number 5  

1936

Tommy Ivo, American actor and race car driver. Life path number 5  

1937

Jan Kaplický, Czech architect, designed the Selfridges Building (d. 2009). Life path number 6  

1937

Tatyana Shchelkanova, Russian long jumper and heptathlete (d. 2011). Life path number 6  

1937

Teddy Taylor, Scottish journalist and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland. Life path number 6  

1939

Thomas J. Moyer, American lawyer and judge (d. 2010). Life path number 8  

1940

Joseph L. Goldstein, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Life path number 9  

1940

Jaak Lipso, Estonian basketball player and coach. Life path number 9  

1940

Mike Vickers, English guitarist, saxophonist, and songwriter (Manfred Mann and The Manfreds). Life path number 9  

1941

Michael D. Higgins, Irish sociologist and politician, 9th President of Ireland. Life path number 1  

1942

Michael Beloff, English lawyer and academic. Life path number 2  

1942

Steve Blass, American baseball player and sportscaster. Life path number 2  

1942

Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic. Life path number 2  

1942

Jochen Rindt, German-Austrian race car driver (d. 1970). Life path number 2  

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1943

Zeki Alasya, Turkish actor and director (d. 2015). Life path number 3  

1944

Frances D’Souza, Baroness D’Souza, English academic and politician. Life path number 22  

1944

Robert Hanssen, American FBI agent and spy. Life path number 22  

1944

Philip Jackson, Scottish sculptor and photographer. Life path number 22  

1945

Bernard Arcand, Canadian anthropologist and author (d. 2009). Life path number 5  

1945

Richard Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5  

1945

Robert Bausch, American author and academic. Life path number 5  

1945

Margaret Hassan, Irish-Iraqi aid worker (d. 2004). Life path number 5  

1946

Jean-François Balmer, Swiss actor. Life path number 6  

1946

Irene Fernandez, Malaysian activist (d. 2014). Life path number 6  

1946

Hayley Mills, English actress and singer. Life path number 6  

1946

Skip Spence, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, drummer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) (d. 1999). Life path number 6  

1947

Kathy Acker, American author and poet (d. 1997). Life path number 7  

1947

Moses Blah, Liberian general and politician, 23rd President of Liberia (d. 2013). Life path number 7  

1947

Dorothy Lyman, American actress, director, and producer. Life path number 7  

1947

Herbert Mullin, American serial killer. Life path number 7  

1947

Cindy Pickett, American actress. Life path number 7  

1947

Greg Quill, Australian-Canadian singer-songwriter and journalist (d. 2013). Life path number 7  

1947

Jerzy Stuhr, Polish actor, director, and screenwriter. Life path number 7  

1947

James Woods, American actor and producer. Life path number 7  

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1948

Régis Wargnier, French director, producer, and screenwriter. Life path number 8  

1949

Geoff Bodine, American race car driver. Life path number 9  

1950

Paul Callery, Australian footballer. Life path number 1  

1950

Tina Chow, American model and jewelry designer (d. 1992). Life path number 1  

1950

Kenny Ortega, American director, producer, and choreographer. Life path number 1  

1950

Grigory Sokolov, Russian pianist and composer. Life path number 1  

1951

Ricardo Fortaleza, Australian-Filipino boxer and coach. Life path number 2  

1951

Pierre Pettigrew, Canadian businessman and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Life path number 2  

1953

Rick Moranis, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter. Life path number 22  

1954

Robert Greenberg, American pianist and composer. Life path number 5  

1956

Eric Roberts, American actor. Life path number 7  

1956

Melody Thomas Scott, American actress. Life path number 7  

1957

Ian Campbell, Australian jumper. Life path number 8  

1957

Anna Kathryn Holbrook, American actress and educator. Life path number 8  

1958

Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian cricketer and coach (d. 1999). Life path number 9  

1958

Karen Mayo-Chandler, English actress and model (d. 2006). Life path number 9  

1958

Thomas Simaku, Albanian-English composer. Life path number 9  

1958

Tarmo Teder, Estonian poet and critic. Life path number 9  

1959

Susan Faludi, American journalist and author. Life path number 1  

1959

Frank Mulholland, Scottish lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for Scotland. Life path number 1  

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Noticias de series de la semana: El grupo de 'Once Upon a Time' se reduce

Más sobre el reset de Once Upon a Time

Habrá cambios importantes en OUAT si es renovada por una séptima temporada. Ya se conocen detalles sobre los nuevos personajes -un treintañero fuerte pero vulnerable que perdió su optimismo y una niña de diez años proveniente de un hogar roto-, que aparecerán por primera vez en la season finale, pero además sabemos que solamente Robert Carlyle (Gold), Lana Parrilla (Regina), Jennifer Morrison (Emma) y Colin O'Donoghue (Hook) están en conversaciones para volver. Una nueva historia podría centrarse en ellos. [Fuente]

This Is Us gana a How I Met Your Father

Isaac Aptaker y Elizabeth Berger, guionistas de This Is Us, serán showrunners de la segunda temporada junto a Dan Fogelman, creador de la serie. Esto significa que habrá que aparcar su proyecto de How I Met Your Father, todavía sin cadena, por un tiempo. La season finale de This Is Us se emite este martes 14 de marzo. [Fuente]

¿Volverán Gilmore Girls y The Night Manager?

BBC ha confirmado que una segunda temporada de The Night Manager está en primeras etapas de desarrollo, pero -palabras textuales- nada es definitivo aún y no tienen nada que anunciar. Susanne Bier, directora de la serie, comenta que están preparando guiones pero no quieren apresurarse. La primera temporada fue una adaptación de la novela de John le Carré y, ya que no hay continuación, se desconoce si el escritor estará involucrado. [Fuente] En un caso similar, Sarandos, número dos de Netflix, confirma las primeras conversaciones para un segundo regreso de Las Chicas Gilmore. Parece que se están centrando en ficciones británicas, como The Crown y Black Mirror, y en coproducciones como Troy: Fall of a City junto a BBC. [Fuente]

Renovaciones de series

The CW ha renovado Riverdale por una segunda temporada

BBC One ha renovado Taboo por una segunda temporada

Showtime ha renovado Billions por una tercera temporada

FX ha renovado Baskets por una tercera temporada

CBC ha renovado Schitt's Creek por una cuarta temporada

The CW ha renovado The 100 por una quinta temporada

Cancelaciones de series

PBS ha cancelado Mercy Street tras su segunda temporada

CBS emitirá los siete episodios restantes de Training Day en sábado a partir del 8 de abril

Incorporaciones y fichajes de series

Sean Astin (The Lord of the Rings, The Goonies) será el comisario Theodore Roosevelt, antes de convertirse en Presidente de Estados Unidos, en The Alienist.

Bobby Cannavale (Vinyl, Boardwalk Empire) se une como regular a la tercera temporada de Mr. Robot. Será Irving, un vendedor de coches usados.

Patricia Clarkson (Shutter Island, The Green Mile) será Adora, la madre de Camille Preaker (Amy Adams), en Sharp Objects, adaptación de la novela de Gillian Flynn para HBO.

Brandon Jay McLaren (The Killing, Graceland) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de UnREAL como el doctor Simon, el nuevo psicólogo de Everlasting.

Rachel Bilson (The O.C., Hart of Dixie) y Kaitlin Doubleday (Empire) se unen a la quinta temporada de Nashville.

Adam West (Batman) será Dean West, el presidente de Wayne Industries, en un episodio de Powerless.

Jane Lynch (Glee) participará en el noveno episodio de The Good Fight como la agente del FBI Madeline Starkey. No se descartan futuras apariciones.

Jason Isaacs (The OA, Harry Potter) será Lorca, el capitán de la nave Discovery, en Star Trek: Discovery. Mary Wiseman (Baskets, Longmire) también se une a la serie.

Andrew J. West (Dead of Summer, The Walking Dead) y Alison Fernandez (Jane the Virgin, Orange Is the New Black) participarán en la season finale de Once Upon A Time y se convertirán en regulares si la serie es renovada por una séptima temporada.

Marie-Josée Croze (Les invasions barbares, Le scaphandre et le papillon) y Mena Massoud (Open Heart) serán recurrentes en Jack Ryan como Sandrine, agente de inteligencia en París, y Tarek Kassar, analista de la CIA.

David Dastmalchian (Gotham, Ant-Man) será Abra Kadabra en The Flash.

John Berchtold (Make Me A Star) será la versión joven del Unabomber (Paul Bettany) en Manhunt: The Unabomber, antes conocida como Manifesto.

Arden Myrin (MADtv, Shameless) y Natalie Dreyfuss (The Originals) se unen como recurrentes a la segunda temporada de Still the King. Serán Kaitlynn, la dueña de Betty's, y Leia, nuevo interés amoroso de Walt (Travis Nicholson).

Nadine Nicole (Dante's Cove), Austin Basis (Life Unexpected, Beauty and the Beast) y Kerri Kenney (Love, Reno 911!) serán recurrentes en la tercera temporada de Casual como una activista medioambiental, un compañero de clase de Valerie (Michaela Watkins) y la profesora.

Noah Taylor (Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders), Pip Torrens (The Crown, Versailles) y Julie Ann Emery (Fargo, Better Call Saul) se unen como regulares a la segunda temporada de Preacher. Malcolm Barrett (Timeless, Better Off Ted), Justin Prentice (Awkward, 13 Reasons Why) y Ronald Guttman lo hacen como recurrentes.

Pósters de series

    Nuevas series

BBC One y HBO han encargado ocho episodios de Shibden Hall, drama de Sally Wainwright (Doctor Foster, Last Tango in Halifax) sobre Anne Lister, la conocida viajera y montañera lesbiana del siglo XIX a veces conocida como la primera lesbiana de la era moderna.

ITV ha dado luz verde a Bad Move, sitcom de seis episodios escrita por Jack Dee y Pete Sinclair y protagonizada por Dee y Kerry Godliman sobre un matrimonio que decide vivir en el campo buscando una vida idílica y obviamente no la encuentra.

HBO convertirá en miniserie las pasadas elecciones de 2016 basándose en el próximo libro de Mark Halperin y John Heilemann, autores de Game Change.

Fechas de series

La séptima temporada de Vera llega a ITV el 19 de marzo

Carters Get Rich se estrena en Sky1 el 31 de marzo

La segunda parte de la segunda temporada de Shadowhunters llega a Freeform el 5 de junio

La tercera temporada de Stitchers se estrena en Freeform el 5 de junio

La quinta temporada de The Fosters se estrena en Freeform el 11 de junio

La segunda temporada de Preacher llega a AMC el 19 de junio

La séptima temporada de Game of Thrones se estrena en HBO el 16 de julio

Tráilers de series

Game of Thrones - Temporada 7

Crossover musical de The Flash y Supergirl

The Get Down - Parte II

Nashville - Temporada 5

Manhunt: The Unabomber

Better Call Saul - Temporada 3

Fargo - Temporada 3

Never ignore the warning signs. #Fargo's all new story begins April 19 on @FXNetworks. http://pic.twitter.com/LcoOKm2CVk

— Fargo (@FargoFX) 6 de marzo de 2017

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John Berchtold was the Grand Prize Winner of the Pernicious vocabulary video contest. Check out his behind-the-scenes video and learn more about his journey as a young filmmaker! 

1. It says on your profile that you're an actor/filmmaker/YouTuber/performer -- wanna share the secret of how you keep up so many things in your life? When did you get started?

I realized at a very young age that I absolutely love to entertain. I never limited myself to a specific medium of entertainment, either. Whether I was up on a stage, in front of a camera, performing for a crowd, or behind a camera, I got an adrenaline rush entertaining those who were willing to watch. I currently am a film major in college while auditioning for acting gigs and making YouTube videos on the side. I guess I stay sane by remember why I do it and realize how much passion I have for entertaining, along with the thrill I get from the reaction of others -- it truly is a humbling feeling. 

2. What's your favorite subject in school, and how does it influence your work?

Growing up in school, my favorite classes were always the ones where I could let my creativity out. I was fortunate enough to go to a high school where drama class and multiple film classes were offered. Now, a film major in college, I find film classes such as cinematography and film editing extremely exciting. 

3. Where do you see filmmaking taking you?

Ideally, I hope to continue with my love for filmmaking while pursuing acting simultaneously. I'd love to succeed to the best of my ability within the industry and use my knowledge and love for filmmaking and acting to create and inspire (and hopefully make the next great horror flick!). 

4. Any word of advice for our aspiring creators?

My advice to aspiring creators is to really put you and your work out there and to push forward with your passion. Use failure as a launching pad to succeed, keep on doing what you love and don't ever let giving up be an option. 

View John's winning video.