#Katherine Cusack

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Diana, Princess of Wales  ||  Katherine Cusack

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Today's joy with Rachel Joy Scott Friday edits is Rest In Peace to those famous stars & angels Verne Troyer, Richard Griffiths, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris, Michael Gambon, John Hurt, Robbie Coltrane, Helen McCrory, Roberts Blossom, Billie Burke, Frank Sutton, Jim Nabors, Judy Garland, Margaret Hamilton, Clara Blandick, Shirley Temple and baby Leroy, Paul Grant, Leslie Phillips, Robert Hardy, Timothy Bateson, Terence Bayler, Robert Knox, Sam Beazley, Paul Ritter, Dave Legeno, Peter Cartwright, Derek Deadman, Hazel Douglas, Alfred Burke, Jimmy Gardner, Elizabeth Spriggs, Bob Newhart, Tom Poston, Dean Martin, Mary Frann, Betty White, Rik Mayall, Brian Nickels, Jerry Reed, Matthew Perry, Raymond Burr, Mary Ann Jackson, Dorothy DeBorba, Mary Kornman, Mildred Kornman, Peaches Jackson, Peggy Cartwright, Darla Jean Hood, Jean Darling, Peggy Montgomery, Bob Barker, Lucille Ricksen, Michael Kenneth Williams, Pat E. Johnson, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Roger Lloyd Pack, Peter Frye, John Boswell, James Walker, Shirley Rosemary Stelfox, Shirley Jean Rickert, Janet Key, June Marlowe, Virginia Weidler, Jane Withers, Peter Michael Falk, Bruce Kirby, Mike Lally, John Finnegan, Robert Culp, Vito Scotti, Val Avery, Fred Draper, Alan Fudge, Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Richard Belzer, Richard Bull, Jerome Guardino, Bill Zuckert, Steven Gilborn, Ed McCready, Paul Carr, James Avery, Parley Edward Baer, Sherman Hemsley, Ellen Albertini Dow, Carl Reiner, Alan Wolf Arkin, Michael Jeter, Debbie Lee Carrington, James Caan, Ed Asner, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Paul Newman, Madge Sinclair, Robert Guillaume, Mary Ethel Gregory, Michael Landon, Katherine MacGregor, Kevin Hagen, Dabbs Greer, John Heard, Leonard Stone, John Candy, Victor Edwin French, Robin Williams, Peter Fonda, Geoffrey Palmer, Olivia Newton-John, Eve Arden, Rose Joan Blondell, Alice Ghostley, Darrell Zwerling, Dody Goodman, Lance Reddick, Andy Griffith, Don Knotts, Anissa Jones, Bridgette Andersen, Dominique Dunne, Samantha Reed Smith, Heather and Judith Barsi, Fred Rogers, Olivia Twenty Dahl, Roald Dahl, Sofie Magdalene Dahl, Walter Elias Disney, Ruth Flora Disney, Denise Marie Nickerson, Louis XVII, Lois Janes, Marie Thérèse de France, Christopher Plummer, Eazy-E, Peter Cartwright, John William "Johnny" Carson,

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Things I appreciated today - 231028 to 231223

231223

Barry Keoghan's death at the end of Banshees of Inishein as the end of the road for those remaining on the island + caution against being trapped by the isolating and increasingly self-involved lifestyle

231221

Hozier's anthropomorphization of mythological figures lends them new depth, allows him to access deep understandings via intertextuality

231213

The movie Eileen portrays the desolation of being raised without a support system and the power of having a single person believe in you, even if it is Anne Hathaway preparing to frame you for homicide

231210

Saltburn: (1) pre-twist: the angst of financial disparity, queer longing, (2) post-twist: the critique of both bourgeoisie emptiness and middle-class aspirators, (3) personal insecurities about how I describe my background, (4) actors are exceptional, (5) movie is beautiful

231203

Wind River shows us how private land-owning companies are used to further white supremacy, and how the consequences are felt throughout communities

231202

The Banshees of Inisherin's comedic beats are exceptional in their brutality

Pushkin's depiction of a moment of grace in "The Angel"

Man'yoshu's combination of natural and manmade imagery to depict longing (e.g. to be the dew on your lover's coat as they leave in the morning)

231126

Saltburn's twist ending captured my personal fears of some of the worst things people could say about me

231125:

Ling Ma's magical realist space and in-text academic criticism in "Office Hours"

The suspicion and ambiguity in Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

231124:

The keys in "Sloop John B" by Dick Dale sound so cool

231105:

Proverbs: "The healthy wear a crown only the sick can see," and "The grass is always greener where you water it."

231104

Martin Scorsese makes movies that are direct without being dry; the tension feels very grounded

231101

Chuck Palahniuk knows how to make an interesting premise; has a narrative style that feels intimate like John Cusack in High Fidelity

231029

Wong Kar-Wai understands how absurd and delusional romantic coping can become

Katherine Dunn can make someone's strange behavior completely rational

The Turkish cured meat pastirma tastes savory and spiced instead of salty—and more enjoyable to my palette

231028

Wong Kar-wai understands the mind of a pathetic man; the comedy and farce underlying masculine angst

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Josie Stone: costumier

Costumier Josie Stone was born in London and lived and worked there most of her life but is now based in Rochester in Kent. She’s been in the business “going back to the Flower Power days of the sixties” in London’s King’s Road, and worked for a lot of up-and-coming pop groups, selling clothes to Tommy Roberts’ Kleptomania in Carnaby Street. She made fashion samples for designers Paddy Campbell and Katherine Cusack, and one Christmas Liberty’s department store had windows showcasing Cusack’s dresses – including one for Diana, Princess of Wales – all of which Josie had made. She also created samples for adverts in the boutique Medusa near Sloane Square. 

Later Josie moved into the entertainment industry, making outfits for both the children’s and adults’ Royal Variety Performances, as well as doing TV work for the Des O’Connor Show, the Michael Barrymore Show, the Lesley Garrett and Frank Skinner shows, TFI Friday and for organisations such as Butlins and Bassline Circus. She’s made costumes for shows on cruise ships and for films such as Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, and has made those for Thursford Christmas Spectacular for many years. Even though Thursford always credits her work, her considerable contribution to the industry has largely gone unrecognised. 

She is performer Becky [Rebecca] Burford’s mother, and her son-in-law is stunt man Andrew Burford. The Widow’s Liz Arratoon has always regarded costumes as a vital part of any show and was delighted when Josie agreed to chat about her impressive – and lengthy – career. 

The Widow Stanton: Have you always loved clothes and fashion? Josie Stone: It was always in me. I was one of these kids that when my mother and father bought me a sewing machine I made all my dolls’ clothes.

Was this skill in your family background? No, my mum was very good at sewing… very good. But no they didn’t do this. My father was a printer. I learnt a lot at school and a lot from my mum. I didn’t go to college; we had lessons at school for making… millinery classes and also sewing classes.

That’s amazing! We had sewing classes at school but we never learnt anything worthwhile. How did you start out actually working in the industry? I left school and went to a couple of places making shirts but that didn’t last long. Then I met up with this guy who had his workroom above Tesco’s in Victoria. He was very keen to start making… it was like Flower Power days but you couldn’t buy shirts and trousers and things like that for the pop groups. Those sort of things just weren’t around. So I went to work with him. It was a rented flat he lived in and we were all working in there making these things. Then he suddenly got this place down King’s Road in Chelsea called The Potato Shop; on the corner in World’s End. At the time Granny Takes a Trip was just down the road from us, with this American car sticking out the window that appeared to crash through on to the step. It was great! I mean good fun, great fun!

Do you design as well as make? No, I don’t design. I get a drawing and that’s it. It depends on who the designer is… sometimes you get ‘I want that at the bottom, I want the skirt to look like that and the top to look like that’. 

Can you remember any of the pop groups you worked for? [Laughs] No! You’re talking a lot of years ago, lots of years ago. It was any group that was starting out in that industry and they had nowhere to buy their things. We would buy Indian bedspreads and make them into kaftans, sailors’ trousers, dyeing them all different colours and altering them, and frilly shirts that would be sold to the antique market at the Sloane Square end of the King’s Road, near the town hall. We had one floor in The Potato Shop and there were crazy carryings on downstairs in the basement. We didn’t really know what it was all about but it was a bit naughty. One night we sneaked back into the place and worked all night so this guy could get his order out. 

We always hear about the Swinging Sixties… how much fun was it?  Oh, King’s Road was lovely. Beautiful, beautiful. It was a wonderful place to be in the sixties with all the Flower Power, then the punks. It was great fun; it was wonderful fun. It was all unknown to me; it was all new and that was the start of me getting into that type of work. My dad worked just off of Carnaby Street and he got us work from Kleptomania, a big, big place where all the pop groups used to go. We’d be making more kaftans and shirts with frills all down the sides and the centre. There still weren’t many shops around that were selling that type of thing. Tommy Roberts would sell to people like Jimi Hendrix and The Who. It was just fun. [Laughs] I was a single girl having great fun going from one place to the next, really. 

After that I worked in a boutique called Medusa. I was downstairs making samples all the time. I didn’t used to do much production. Mainly I’d make a sample up and then if they liked it it would go off to wherever, to a factory or somewhere like that to do production. Medusa was a swinging place, it was in a little alleyway off the King’s Road next to Sainsbury’s. I believe it was called Elystan Place. It was an up-and-coming boutique. That was at the time when Zandra Rhodes was big, and those sort of people. One time we made some samples for Apple Records, the Beatles’ label, but it never came to anything. 

What was the best part of your life then? I was young and having fun and it was all the unknown. I lived then in Wandsworth Road with my parents, and these were all Chelsea people and they were different, completely different to the life I’d led, and it was just really way out, anything went. It didn’t matter what you wore, anything went. And I loved my job. I’d work any hours because I loved it. I didn’t always like the places, I’d go from job to job, but I did love my work and I then started having my own workroom. I decided I’d work from home. I worked with a friend from my first mother-in-law’s house and we were still doing the kaftans… a guy used to pull up in this black cab that was all painted with psychedelic patterns. It was at Tulse Hill – they were very quiet there – and the neighbours used to look in absolute amazement at everything going on. But we loved it, my mother-in-law loved it and it was good fun.

So, let’s jump ahead, how did the Liberty’s window display come about? I worked for somebody called Katherine Cusack. That was just when Rebecca was born and I was working from home. I think Katherine advertised in The Stage and she wanted to start doing semi-couture work. I’d make her samples and then she’d have a party and invite all these quite wealthy people to her lounge. It was a beautiful Edwardian house in Grafton Square in Clapham Common. Then she managed to get into Liberty’s and that Christmas the whole front had all the dresses that I’d made. 

Which of Lady Di’s dresses did you make?  It was a beautiful silk velvet in a beautiful deep blue. It had long sleeves and rouleau loops with little buttons all the way down. I think Di went into Liberty’s and bought it. I believe she was photographed wearing it for The Lady. Katherine was over the moon. But it was real pain to make because silk velvet takes its own route. It’s not the easiest of fabrics to work on because it’s so soft. It is beautiful but it’s not easy to make. You’ve go to have the right feed on your machine otherwise when you’re joining the seams up you’ll lose it and it will be longer one end. Josie! That dress was later auctioned for thousands and thousands! £48,000, I believe.

How did you make the move into showbusiness?  I moved into that when Rebecca started at Sylvia Young’s. They used to put on shows all the time because it’s a theatre school and I started making costumes. Then I went on to doing the children’s Royal Variety. 

Is that how you got on to the adults’ Royal Variety Performance? I’d got into a workroom at Acton doing samples for someone I met on the children’s Royal Variety. Then I went into my own workroom at Acton and I used to help her out. Various different designers got my name and we took on the work. That’s how we gradually started doing all the shows. She didn’t want to go on the shows so I used to go to the studios or anywhere where the work was and I’d fit the costumes and then come back and we’d finish them, but she stayed in the workroom to do whatever needed to be done there. 

Can you tell us about any really nice celebs you worked with? Oh God, who haven’t I met? [Laughs] I worked on the Royal Variety for years with a wonderful designer called Linda Martin. That’s years and years so that’s one helluva lot of people I’ve met. Des O’Connor was sweet. He was lovely, lovely, absolutely charming and so was his wife. We used to do a lunchtime show with him. I did that for a lot of years. Michael Barrymore was also lovely. I was really upset when he went off the scene because he was a nice guy. 

Does anyone else stand out? There’s very few that weren’t nice. They were all very nice. No one was horrible. I worked on Michael Barrymore’s show at Wimbledon Theatre and there were so many celebs on it that they had to share dressing rooms. This one particular share was with Warren Mitchell and Chris Eubank. And Warren Mitchell didn’t want to share with Chris Eubank at all. At the time Chris Eubank had this electric scooter that he would go all round the corridors on it. I could understand Warren Mitchell not wanting to share with him because he was a bit wild at this point. He’s the only one I can say wasn’t very pleasant, but I think it was because he was unhappy about sharing because he and Chris were complete opposites. 

Do you know how many years you’ve done Thursford for?  If we go this time, probably 20 years. The designer I work with there is Stephen Adnitt; he was Cilla’s designer. I worked with Linda Martin for 12 or 13 years doing Thursford. I’d never met Stephen, I knew of him, and he asked me to join his team. The designer gets the job and they’ll have a team and usually they keep that same team all the time. I’ve worked with him for eight years. 

How many costumes might be involved in its Christmas show? We have to dress everybody at Thursford, even the orchestra. So you have 56 singers, 23 dancers and almost two full orchestras. 

So when would you start to plan something like that? We – I work with Rita Best – would start end of May, beginning of June. Our designs would come in before then. We’d measure people and make the costumes and fit them in September. There are probably eight or nine sets of costumes to make. It’s enormous! Enormous. It’s the biggest show I think in Europe. We’d spend three weeks in Norfolk just making sure that it all works on the set; making sure that sequins don’t come off – I mean it’s covered, absolutely covered in sequins – and we’ll be sitting for hours and hours sticking them on. But again, we love it. We’d see the rehearsals and the preview and the day the show starts we’d come home. Our job was done. When I was working for Linda there, I’d be there working late at night. That didn’t happen so much with Stephen. He’d be like: “We’ve got to finish now.” 

You mentioned doing millinery at school so do you do headdresses and that sort of thing? No, I would have liked to have done but for Thursford we have a milliner who comes with us; Shirley Davis, who has also been in the business a very long time.

What advice would you give to someone wanting to follow in your footsteps? Get into a workroom and learn how it goes. Learn how people work because what they learn at college is not how a workroom works. And really to earn any money at it, you’ve got to have a bit of speed on the machine. You can’t hang about. You can’t take a week or two or three weeks to make something. It’s nice if they can get into a workroom and see it first hand. I mean I get my work through various designers that I’ve known over the years or another maker who will ring me up completely out of the blue. Last week I helped someone out on a film. I’ll work on anything that needs a costume. I did Red or Black? at Wembley Arena, a game show developed by Simon Cowell. You could win a £1 million. It was massive. I worked with another designer called Scott Landridge, who did the children’s TV series The Worst Witch, the TV series Mile High and the sitcom Citizen Khan.

Have you had any costume disasters? Not really. [Laughs] I’ve had a lot of late nights or working all night to finish a costume off. You get the occasional broken strap and you have to quickly run down to the stage or on to the set and pin them up, or something doesn’t fit when they arrive. But no major disasters.

Have you been doing anything during the lockdown?  Just before the lockdown we had all these shows on cruise ships lined up but that all went. At first I was making scrubs for the hospitals. I did loads of voluntary work for anyone who needed them. Sometimes they gave me the material and sometimes I’d provide it. They were using all kinds of material in the end, even bedspreads. I did that for a while and I also made these little pairs of hearts. They were to send to hospices and hospitals so the patient could have one to hold and the family would have the other one. I made them out of all the material I have here. I also did masks, but I’m not doing so many now.

Do you ever think about retiring? No! [Laughs] I love what I do. But the work will get less and less and that will be it. I mean we’ve had hardly anything this year. We did a few bits for Butlins and a big Dame’s costume, which I don’t think ever got used because that show was cut. 

Can you pick out a few career highlights? I loved working on the Royal Variety at the Royal Albert Hall. I loved doing it in there. I did that quite a few times. Beautiful, beautiful. It’s a beautiful building and it’s just lovely to work in. If you look back at all the names that have been on the Royal and I did it for more than twenty years, there are a hell of a lot of names I’ve met. And that was quite fun. 

Josie is hoping that Thursford Christmas Spectacular in Thursford, Norfolk will go ahead this year. If so, it will run from 9 November – 23 December 2021 at 2pm and 7pm. 

In the meantime she can be contacted on 07956 832261 for commissions.

For Thursford tickets click here

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Weird Movies You Might Actually Enjoy

I am in my 40s now and have been watching and recommending movies for a quarter of a century. I have seen thousands of films and television shows over that time and one thing that I have often been asked is "what is the weirdest movie you have ever seen?" What is weird to one person might not be so odd to another, but I admit there have been a lot of films that I have watched that I liked due to it being so strange. The weirdness is the appeal. With the current film under review being 2001: A Space Odyssey (which has a very odd beginning and ending), I thought I would share some movies that I have seen that are both weird and very enjoyable to the point I would recommend them to others who might not be into weird films. SPOILER ALERT is in effect, so, in no particular order....

(Note: I am going to try and avoid art house and horror films because they are unsettling in a more graphic way and the weirdness is not really meant to be enjoyable but to terrify or assault your senses. If that is what you want, then check out the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky or Dario Argento)

Being John Malkovich (1999)

Directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, this was bound to be a weird one. It is the story of a former puppeteer who takes an office job filing with his amazing dexterity. The position is on a half-sized floor in a giant building where everything is scaled down. If that wasn't strange enough, he finds that there is a door in his new office that leads into the mind of Jon Malkovich. One can take over the actor's brain for a short period of time before they are unceremoniously kicked out and land on a highway outside of New Jersey. At some point during the film, Jon Malkovich finds out and takes a turn going into his own conscious. The film is kind of amazing, utilizing the acting talents of John Cusack, Katherine Keener, Cameron Diaz, and (of course) John Malkovich. The film earned three Oscar nominations including Best Screenplay and Best Director. The movie carries a 94% Rotten Tomato score and a 90 Metacritic score, showing that the film is really a crowd pleaser. The perfect film to dip your toe into the world of weird media.

Brazil (1985)

A British dystopian black comedy, this film was created and directed by one of the minds behind Monty Python. The story is of a bureaucrat who looks into an incident in which a citizen is taken away and executed because of an administrative error. This government representative is promoted for covering up the mistake but is hounded by a freedom fighter who lived near the man who was killed. He goes through an existential crisis about doing the right thing and accepting his placement and accidently becomes part of the freedom movement. Or does he? There is a lot of ambiguity throughout the film about what comes of the main character, but it doesn't really matter because the visuals and the soundtrack are amazing. Lots of weird dream sequences make the film hard to comprehend at times, but really very enjoyable in my opinion.

The City of Lost Children (1995)

This was my first experience with work by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and it definitely was not my last. This is a French language film so I thought the subtitles would bother me, but the story is so engaging that you soon forget that you are reading. The acclaimed director went on to make the beloved film Amelie in 2001, and is, in my humble opinion, one of the best world building directors of all time. This is the story of a strong man in a circus and a little orphan girl who traverse a world where a mad scientist is stealing children to help him find a way to get to sleep without nightmares. Most of the characters are along the lines of circus side-show performers (little people, quadruplets, conjoined twins, strong men) and make a fascinating story. The movie includes Ron Perlman speaking the French language which makes some things kind of funny in an unintentional manner. There are also some cross language jokes that are surprising and make you feel smart for getting it. I will admit that I have shared this with a couple of people who absolutely hated it due to the subtitles and theme of stealing and harming children, but I still think it is fantastic and worth a watch.

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind (2004)

Combine the writing style of Charlie Kaufman and the acting of Jim Carrey in his prime and you have a very strange movie. This film tells the story of a man who wants to forget his ex-girlfriend, so a team of scientists go into his mind while he is sleeping and erase any memories that involve his ex. This is problematic because the patient decides he doesn't want to forget her mid operation and tries to fight the process in his mind. The patient jumps around in his own memories with his visualization of his ex, trying hard not lose his memory. Charlie Kaufman does a lot of writing about people being trapped in their own brain and this mental state is apparent in his screen plays. This film won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and absolutely deserved it. Following a character through their lifetime of memories is fascinating and the film is very cinematic and extremely well-acted. High recommendation on this one.

Dune (1984)

Yes, David Lynch directed a version of Dune back in the 80s and it was crazy. I have never experienced a film that had so much ADR narration because the movie was too complicated and needed to be explained. I don't think there is any way that a viewer would understand this film without some kind of knowledge of the source material. The costumes are crazy, the characters are out of a nightmare, Sting plays a villain, Patrick Stewart is a warrior, and people control weapons with their voice. Pretty weird. Even more strange is David Lynch's description of a sci-fi world. The new version that came out is pretty strange and is cut into at least two parts. This is a rather strange director trying to pack the entire story in a little over two hours. The visuals are amazing, especially if you are familiar with the Frank Herbert novel, and the music is fantastic, so there is plenty to experience. Just don't expect to really understand everything.

Swiss Army Man (2016)

This is a fine film starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe about a man who is stranded on a deserted island and finds a dead body that washes to shore. The body can speak slightly when air is pumped into it, unfortunately it then passes that air out through flatulence. The stranded man uses the properties of the dead body (stiffness, bloating, posability) to live in the wild and eventually the two become friends. There is some question as to whether the stranded man is fantasizing the whole thing, if the body is a zombie, or if this is just a strange situation where the body wasn't fully dead and is useful for getting off the island. The film is pretty funny if you just buy into the full premise but will not be fun if you try and point out plot inconsistencies. A strong suspension of disbelief is needed to really enjoy this fun film.

Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

There is something very Canadian about this film which stars Ryan Gosling and a full-sized sex doll. This is a modern adaptation of Pygmalion in which a socially incapable man is traumatized and only begins to address his issues with a fake woman. Lars lives in a very small, isolated town in Wisconsin and the town population realizes that the doll (named Bianca) might be helpful, so everybody just plays along. This film has some of the most awkward scenes of any movie I know, especially when Lars is first introducing the doll to people. The doll starts out as a house guest but eventually travels with him on errands and even accompanies him to church. There are some really funny parts, and I don't want to spoil things, but Ryan Gosling really shows off his acting talents. Really highly recommendation.

Enemy (2013)

Another interesting Candian film, this time directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, about doppelgangers who run into each other. One of the physical twins is a married actor and the other is a history professor. The professor becomes obsessed with the actor and starts to stalk him. The two finally meet and trade places in which things go pretty poorly. The weirdest thing about this is the constant reference to tarantulas and the very ending sees one of the two walk into a room expecting his significant other and instead finds a room sized spider. He sighs in resignation and the movie ends. This actually became a little bit of a meme because it doesn't really make much sense. This is another well-acted film that is set in a world that is just slightly different from reality, making it creepy. I really like it.

The Lobster (2015)

I don't even know where to begin with this one. This is a British film that was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Oscars and at the BAFTAs. The acting is purposefully kind of bland, but the story premise and setting is just absurd. The film takes place in a dystopian world in which everyone has to have a partner once they turn 18 or they are sent out to farms in which they are given 45 days to find a partner, or they are turned into animals. The lead is played by Colin Farrell, and he is sent to one of these farms when his wife leaves him. He understands the severity because his brother was turned into a dog and follows him around. He tries to bond with different women but finally runs away into the forest in desperation and meets a group that live unpartnered out in the woods. He does not like either condition and ends up stuck between two worlds, all the while trying not to be caught and turned into a lobster. It is exceptionally weird and fascinating. I did not really like it the first time through because it was too much, but I have grown to really enjoy this film.

There are a lot of other weird films that are exceptionally gory or artistic to the point that they are incomprehensible, but the films listed about really struck me and I would be glad to watch any of them again. Give one of them a try if you are looking for something weird.

[artloversaustralia]

This piece is about capturing the light glistening on the country farming fields and the sunset blasting the sky with warm sun rays.

Even the smallest amount of light can shine through darkness and make an impact.

This has been Katherine’s latest focus across her works.

Katherine Cusack Light that Dances Mini 2 Acrylic on stretched canvas Size: 15w x 15h x 2d cms 

Available at: https://artloversaustralia.com.au/product/light-that-dances-mini-2/

[filmleltar]

Csekély esély

Long Shot, 2019, Jonathan Levine

Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Andy Serkis, June Diane Raphael, Bob Odenkirk, Alexander Skarsgård, Ravi Patel, Aviva Mongillo, Braxton Herda, Randall Park, Lisa Kudrow

Ez a lassacskán önálló szubzsánerré váló filmtípus, melyben gyakran a method acting lehetséges csúcsaként akár filmről filmre is ugyanabban a karakterben maradó Seth Rogen az, aki sokkal vonzóbb, csodálatos (általában szőke) nőket hódít meg, újabb igazán élvezetes, szórakoztató, magát most valamivel mélyebbnek mutatni próbáló filmmel gazdagodott.

A legeklatánsabb példa a korábban említettekre alighanem Rogen első sztárcsináló főszerepe a Felkoppintva (Knocked Up, 2007, Judd Apatow) című hatalmas sikert aratott vígjátékban, ahol Katherine Heigl adja a pár hölgytagját, aki teherbe esik egy részeg egyéjszakás kaland során. Alison Scott (Heigl) gyönyörű, karrierjében épp egy hatalmas ugrás előtt áll, még éppen egészséges mértékben törekvő és felelőségtudó. Rogen figurája itt egy lusta, buta, a felelőségvállalás gondolatától is iszonyodó stoner, aki érzelmi téren valamivel érettebb, mint egyéb területeken, ahol talán még fejleszthető. A különbség kettejük státuszában olyan óriási, hogy Apatow és színészei munkájának nagy dícsérete, ha egy pillanatra is elhisszük a kapcsolatukat. A következő említésre érdemes példa a Kevin Smith rendezte Zack és Miri pornót forgat (Zack and Miri Make a Porno, 2008). Elizabeth Banks itt inkább csak szépsége okán alkot valamelyest furcsa párost az átlagos megjelenésű Rogennel, hiszen karaktereik jó barátok, lakótársak, hasonlóan gondolkodnak az életről, ahol nagyjából ugyanott is tartanak, mind financiális, mind romantikus, mind egyéb tereken. Ez a film inkább mocskos humor és átélhetően ábrázolt őszinte érzelmek ragyogó érzékkel kivitelezett vegyítésével emlékeztet a Csekély esélyre. Rogen forgatott további hasonló szokatlan párosokat szerepeltető filmeket [A zöld darázs (The Green Hornet, 2011, Michel Gondry), Volt egy tánc (Take This Waltz, 2011, Sarah Polley)] amikben kevésbé hangsúlyosan jelenik meg a főhősök kívánatossági inbalansza.

Hasonló filmeket persze más színészekkel is láthattunk már korábban is, mint hogy a Felkoppintva sikere divatba hozta volna őket. Adam Sandler, Steve Carrell, Jason Segel vagy John Cusack mind alakították már szerelmespár objektív szemlélő számára szerencsésebbnek tűnő felét, de ahogy Rob Harvilla a The Ringer újságírója emlékeztetett rá, már Woody Allen is sportot űzött fantasztikus nők szerepeltetéséből az általában saját maga által játszott főhősök oldalán. A jelenség persze nem korlátozódik mozifilmekre. Matt Feeney egy 2005-ös cikkében a népszerű tévés vígjátéksorozatok otthonos testű férjeit és cheerleader feleségeiket elemezte hasonló szempontból a Slate magazinban.

A Csekély esély női főhőse minden bizonnyal felülmúlhatatlanul elérhetetlen egy normál fickó számára. Charlotte Field (Theron) az Amerikai Egyesült Államok történetének legfiatalabb külügyminisztere, csodaszép, nagyon népszerű, és komoly esélyekkel indul a következő elnökválasztáson. Zavarbaejtő, igen. Csak igen enyhén árnyalja a képet, de a teljes igazsághoz hozzátartozik, hogy Fred Flarsky valószínűleg a legkevésbé reménytelen a hasonló filmek Rogen-karakterei közül. Gyerekkorukból már ismerik egymást és Charlotte jó szívvel emlékszik rá, újságíró (mondjuk munka nélkül), politikailag aktív, tele van tettvággyal, valamint nagyon tiszteli és mindenben támogatja a nőt. Viszont természetesen egy lépést sem tesz fű (és ecstasy) nélkül, robbanékony és olyan szűrő nélküli igazságérzete van mint egy gyereknek. Gondolkodás nélkül felmond az egyetlen bevételi forrását jelentő lapnál mikor megtudja, hogy egy Rupert Murdoch-ra emlékeztető mogul felvásárolta azt, hogy propaganda ("Not the good kind that's right, the bad kind, that's wrong") cikkekkel spékelje meg. Olyan fickó akivel bárki szívesen összehaverkodna, de meghökkentő egy Hillary-Barbie oldalán látni.

Bár Charlotte egy olyan férfit választ társául akit a közvélekedés méltatlannak tarthat hozzá, és ezáltal úgy tűnhet lebecsüli önmagát, a film valójában az átlagnál jóval erősebb feminista üzenettel bír. Sajnos pár klisé itt is megjelenik, mint például a feltételezés, hogy ha egy nő sikeres, kitűnő egzisztenciát teremtett magának, már csak egy vágya lehet: egy férfi. Jelenlegi férfi szereplőnk személyében még egy elkoptatott motívum jelenik meg, a temperamentumos, szegényebb/iskolázatlanabb, lentről jövő karakter, aki életrevalóságból leckét ad a steril jómódban élő kifinomultabb társának, akinek segít megtalálni az egyéniségét, és egy új, teljesebb élet lehetőségével ajándékozza meg (Ld.: Titanic, 1997, James Cameron). Mitöbb, jelen filmben Rogen karaktere hivatásszerűen végzi mindezt (Ld.: Életrevalók, Intouchables, 2011, Olivier Nakache és Éric Toledano). A külügyminiszternek szüksége van valakire, aki okos, de sótlan beszédeit felturbózná egy-két jól elhelyezett vicces kiszólással. Fred lesz az, aki a nyilvánosság szemében karakterjegyekkel ruházza fel a kedvelt, de merevnek gondolt politikusnőt. Charlotte Field azonban a mozik sikeres nőalakjaitól eltérően valójában nem merev, és nem is unalmasan tökéletes, de nagyon céltudatos, van humora, káromkodik, tud bulizni, szereti a szexet, és irtóra beleéli magát a filmnézésbe. Tökéletesen a tudatában van saját vonzerejének, de soha nem használná politikai céljai eléréséhez. És természetesen van olyan érzékeny és intelligens, hogy ne megjelenésbeli kompatibilitás alapján válasszon társat. Ez a társ pedig a konzervatívabb romkomoktól eltérően végre nem lehúzni, normalizálni (értsd: átlagossá tenni) akarja kivételesen tehetséges partnerét, hanem magát próbálja fejleszteni, hogy minél hatékonyabban segíthesse őt céljai elérésében. Itt ugyanis a nőnek kivételesen nem kell választania karrierálmai beteljesítése és egy normális szerelmi élet lehetősége között.

A készítők politikai vonalon kevés újszerű vagy szokatlan gondolattal álltak elő, de azért akad pár érdekes részlet. A Hollywood által nem preferált oldal gyakran veti a filmgyár szemére, hogy politikailag elkötelezett, ami néhány kivételtől eltekintve igaz is. Jelen esetben is nagy az egyetértés, a film pozitív karaktereinek nézetei is résmentesen illeszkednek a hollywoodi tradícióba. Valamint azonosak a témáról egyébként az átlagnál gyakrabban és szívesebben megszólaló színész Seth Rogen nézeteivel is. Rogen köztudottan baloldali, liberális, és minden értelemben zöld. A  prominens republikánus politikust Paul Ryant például igen durván hajtotta el, mikor az közös képet szeretett volna egy rendezvényen. (Charlize Theron számos emberjogi és jótékonysági szervezet munkájában vesz részt, pártpolitikával nyilvánosan nem foglalkozik.) A film konkrét politikai kérdésekhez csak selyemkesztyűs kézzel nyúl. Charlotte elsődleges feladata egy környezetvédelmi paktum aláiratása a világ vezető politikusaival, mely esetében a "környezetvédelem" természetesen klímaváltozást jelent, de a szó tabu a filmben. A film olyannyira kockázatkerülő, hogy még egy erőszakkal beszuszakolt, izzadságszagú jelenetben Fred és (a világ) legjobb barátja Lance (O'Shea Jackson) arra jutnak, hogy demokratáknak és republikánusoknak közösen kell tenniük azért, hogy Amerika újra nagyszerű legyen. Az efféle centrista politikai gondolkodás Bill Clinton regnálása után erősödött valamennyit az USÁ-ban, de igazán népszerűvé, vagy komoly harmadik erővé soha nem vált. Sok amerikai szerint az irányzat túl liberális, valamint döntésképtelenséget sugall. Mitöbb inkább depolitizálja a problémákat, mintsem valós megoldást kínálna rájuk. Csakúgy mint ez az erőltetett jelenet, amit minden bizonnyal a film bevételi mutatóiért felelős szakemberek patikamérlege mutatott nélkülözhetetlennek minden egyes potenciális jegyvásárló megszólításához.

A Csekély esély úgy istenigazából nem is tesz komolyabb erőfeszítéseket azért, hogy szatírának állítsa be magát, a politika világa leginkább csak kulisszaként, humorforrásként szerepel, a nemek dinamikájáról ellenben kínál izgalmasabb gondolatokat. A film egy amúgy pompásan sikerült romantikus vígjáték, két őszintén kedvelhető főszereplővel, akik között az első pillanattól megvan az a szikra amitől érdekelhet minket mi történik velük. Rogen és Theron is kiveszi a részét mind az andalgósabb részekből, mind a gegek elsütéséből. Előbbi színészi dimenziói legyenek bár szűkösebbek, a kritika által sokkal inkább elismert kollégája mellett egy pillanatra sem vall szégyent. A megszámolhatatlanul sokadik arcát megmutató Charlize Theron pedig nyilván kapott már ennél jóval komolyabb színészi feladatot is, de legújabb adalékként már egyértelmű, vicces szerepekre is bátran választható, komikus időzítése épp olyan hibátlan mint humoros oldaláról inkább ismert partneréé.

[love-little-lotte]

“Think of me waking, silent and resigned.”

[illyanarasputinfan]

Katherine Cusack

[tabloidtoc]

Life & Style, February 18

Cover: Mila Kunis trapped in a bad marriage to Ashton Kutcher 

Page 1: Please don’t wear fur 

Page 2: Contents

Page 3: Say What?! Ryan Reynolds praising Emily Blunt, Idina Menzel on the Tooth Fairy, Claire Foy, Anne Hathaway on her son hating her voice, Chrissy Teigen on garlic 

Page 4: Top 10 SAG Awards Looks -- Rachel Weisz, Constance Wu, Laura Harrier, Cara Santana, Amy Adams 

Page 5: Emily Blunt, Lady Gaga, Emma Stone, Yara Shahidi, Mandy Moore 

Page 6: Twinning -- Jamie Lee Curtis vs. Timothee Chalamet, Sylvia Hoeks vs. Zendaya Coleman, John Krasinski vs. Chris Pratt 

Page 8: Jenni “JWoww” Farley’s divorce gets nasty 

Page 9: Sober Kelly Osbourne embracing her curves, Throwback -- Jennifer Garner, Biggest Spenders of the Week -- Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Future, Kylie Jenner, Celine Dion, Cardi B 

Page 10: Viggo Mortensen’s secret love affair, Ryan Reynolds’ daddy-daughter date, Whose T-Shirt Is It? Kendall Jenner, Rita Ora, Kate Beckinsale, Kristin Chenoweth, Victoria Beckham, Katy Perry 

Page 12: Anne Hathaway has vowed to stay sober until her son is grown but she could have used a drink when recent film Serenity flopped 

Page 13: Bachelor in Paradise’s Tanner and Jade Tolbert expecting baby no. 2, Cameron Diaz and Nicole Richie’s girls’ night out, VIP Style -- Kristin Chenoweth, Pete Davidson, Naomi Watts, Teresa Giudice, Hailee Steinfeld, Hilary Swank, Alan Cumming, Bobby Flay 

Page 14: The Week in Photos -- Celine Dion 

Page 15: Animal Planet’s Dave Salmoni with a zebra and Tracy Morgan on Jimmy Kimmel, Ed Helms and Demi Moore 

Page 16: Serena Williams and daughter Alexis, Cara Delevingne, Busy Philipps and Chris Sullivan of This Is Us 

Page 18: Alex Pettyfer, Angelina Jolie and daughter Vivienne, Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager and Blindspot actress Jaimie Alexander 

Page 19: Taraji P. Henson with fiance Kelvin Hayden and Mary J. Blige 

Page 20: Rebecca Romijn and Jerry O’Connell with Andy Cohen on WWHL, Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin, Khloe Kardashian 

Page 22: Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow on The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Page 23: Pete Davidson, Sienna Miller and daughter 

Page 24: Rita Ora, Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson, Avril Lavigne and Macy Gray 

Page 26: Stars Behaving Badly -- Jamie Foxx, Kate Hudson, Jaden Smith 

Page 30: Kourtney Kardashian’s new man is David Dee Duron 

Page 31: Chris Harrison’s new girl Lauren Zima using him for fame, Rami Malek and Lucy Boynton living together, Romance Report Card -- Alex Rodriguez, Jessica Biel, Taran Killam 

Page 32: Anna Faris wants her boyfriend Michael Barrett to propose after her ex Chris Pratt got engaged to Katherine Schwarzenegger 

Page 33: Debra Messing’s dating dry spell, John Cusack is on the celeb dating app Raya 

Page 34: Cover Story -- Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher marriage problems 

Page 38: Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan fighting over daughter 

Page 40: Sandra Bullock secretly married 

Page 42: Lady Gaga and Margot Robbie over feuding over Bradley Cooper, the same roles, red-carpet snubs and who is Hollywood’s newest golden girl 

Page 44: Fab at 50 -- Cate Blanchett 

Page 45: Catherine Zeta-Jones 

Page 46: Gwen Stefani, Ellen Pompeo, Jennifer Lopez 

Page 47: Renee Zellweger, Jennifer Aniston 

Page 48: Who Lives Here? Tia Mowry-Hardrict

Page 50: Entertainment 

Page 51: Star Review -- Teddi Mellencamp

Page 52: Valentine’s Gifts -- Karlie Kloss 

Page 55: Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively 

Page 56: Beauty -- Emily Ratajkowski 

Page 58: Beauty Crush -- Rachel Brosnahan 

Page 60: How She Got That Body -- Kate Upton

Page 62: The Fabulous Life of Taylor Swift 

Page 64: Diva or Down-to-Earth -- Alessandra Ambrosio, Alec Baldwin and son Rafael, Ben Affleck 

Page 66: Social Stars Posts of the Week -- Mandy Moore and Jon Huertas and Eric Baker and Faithe C. Herman of This Is Us, Jennifer Garner, Kourtney Kardashian and Luka Sabbat and Fai Khadra, animal activist Ricky Gervais 

Page 67: Khloe Kardashian’s daughter True, Dua Lipa, David Beckham and Karlie Kloss and Jonah Hill 

Page 68: Horoscope -- Aquarius Jennifer Aniston, They’re Not Together But They Should Be -- Gemini Iggy Azalea and Libra Eminem

Page 70: Made Ya Look -- Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 

Page 72: What I’m Into -- Gus Smyrnios

[glenngaylord]

THE DEVIL WEARS TJ MAXX - My Review of LATE NIGHT (3 Stars)

[Excerpted from https://thequeerreview.com/ ]

Growing up, I always had a soft spot for big budget American studio films.  I subconsciously knew most lacked subtlety and sophistication, but man was it fun to watch Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase rappel down the side of a building in Foul Play or see Liza Minnelli, Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds share the screen in the forgotten programmer Lucky Lady.  That silly, loud American spirit meant something to me that the French New Wave or “Art Films” couldn’t provide.  I have also always loved a good workplace comedy, and for me, nothing has ever come as close to perfection as Broadcast News.  It was around that time, in fact, that my tastes started to change.  I got tired of the formula, the laziness, and I started to crave jump cuts, handheld cameras, and brazen audacity.  For me, the studios rarely made anything but forgettable eye candy.  To a degree, they still do, with an occasional rare gem shining out from a giant turd pile.  

It’s with this older, wiser, more cynical and, yes, perhaps bitter eye that I came to Late Night, a new workplace comedy written by and starring Mindy Kaling.  Despite coming from a good place and pushing all of the correct “woke” buttons, it’s no Broadcast News.  Hell, it’s no The Devil Wears Prada either, despite feeling like its distant cousin from your Great Uncle’s side of the family.  Kaling, whose own career trajectory somewhat mirrors that of her character, plays Molly Patel, a worker in a chemical plant who finds herself as a diversity hire on an all-male writing staff for a network talk show.  Its host, Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson), a volatile, cold boss, has coasted for such a long stretch that the network has now considered replacing her.  Can she find the energy to save her show and maybe give her good qualities a chance to shine?  Can Molly contribute to this and find her voice as a writer, and maybe, just maybe, find love?  If you’ve seen big budget American studio films before (and full disclosure, this was an independent film, but it sure feels like a programmer), then I think you know the answer.  

Along the way, we meet Molly’s co-workers, a ramshackle group of guys not unlike those portrayed on 30 Rock, and they include Hugh Dancy as her romantic interest, Reid Scott (Veep), unexpectedly showing a sweet side to his usually wiseass persona as Newbury’s chief monologue writer, Max Casella as the lifer, and the talented but underutilized John Early as the maybe gay writer who never gets a backstory, so we’ll just put a pin in that one for now.  We also meet Newbury’s husband (John Lithgow), whose marital problems with her have a way of exposing her humanity, while also giving Lithgow some wonderful scenes.  

All of this is to say that I had a good time watching this film, but make no mistake, it’s standard issue all the way.  Director Nisha Ganatra (Chutney Popcorn), who has shown with her prior work that she has a great visual sensibility, does a bland, faceless but professional job here, because that’s all this movie aspires towards.  It wants to entertain, nothing more, nothing less.  On this front, we get a terrific performance from Thompson.  You love to hate her when she calls her writers by numbers instead of their names, yet you root for her when she makes an effort to show up for someone.  Kaling has written such a fantastic part for her, that it seems she forgot to do so for herself.  Molly has a fun, adorable personality, especially when she puts her head on Katherine’s shoulder when the press start taking pictures of them, but her sudden rise as a writer and her feistiness didn’t draw me in as much as Thompson’s shoot for the moon style.  Molly feels somewhat superfluous, making this more Katherine’s journey than her own.  Still, it’s a classic three act structure and it does have something to say about busting through the patriarchy as a woman and as a person of color.  

But….it lacks those singular moments.  When I think of Broadcast News, I think of Holly Hunter unplugging her phone every day and crying. I think of Albert Brooks flop-sweating on live TV. I think of William Hurt faking tears to get a story.  I think of Joan Cusack running with the tape.  When I look back on Late Night, alas, I’m going to say, “I think I saw it.  Yeah.  Yeah.  Yeah.  The best moment is depicted in the poster. “  Ahhh, America.  

[artwalktv]

A retired teacher confronts some unexpected emotions as she struggles through the discomfort of a heatwave. Cast: Niamh Cusack as Sarah Simon Shepherd as Ed David Beames as Andrew Crew: Written and Directed by Lucy Bridger Producer: Ailsa Vanessa Tapping Executive Producer: Myles Payne Casting: Francesca Devas 1st Assistant Director: Gabriel O'Donohoe 2nd Assistant Director: Sam Barnham Cinematographer: Nick Morris Editor: Jack Williams Production Coordinator: Noemi Varga Production Assistant: Federico Barni 1st Assistant Camera: Raúl Menéndez 2nd Assistant Camera: Klára Rychtarčiková Grip: Jack Glascodine Gaffer: Dimitris Lambridis Spark - Jono Smith Spark - Jason Clare Electrician: Hugh Donnelly Electrician: Charles Power Electrician: Werner Van Peppen Sound Operator: Kirstie Howell Sound Operator: Mirko Simoni Production Designer: Anna Mould Art Assistant: Katherine Burke Costume Designer: April Church Make-up Artist: Charlotte Kraftman Make-up Artist: Naomi Slack Location Manager: Hermione Taylor Runner: Lucy Alder Original Score: Sam Beste (Vernon Spring) Sound Design: Neil Johnson at 750mph VFX: Kieran Baxter at Envy Colour Grade: Jodie Davidson at Technicolor Titles: Studio Thomas Stills: Laura Mccluskey

[vic-of-thor]

Kato - Ciri 1 by Katherine-Cusack

[erica-rayann-fagan]

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[artloversaustralia]

This artwork is an abstract impressionist artwork of Coolum Beach, Queensland.

The work captures the moments after an afternoon storm had hit. The sun is out, the sky is fresh and the storm can now be seen out at sea.  

The Seascape is about capturing the movement of the ocean.

Katherine Cusack Summer Storms Acrylic on canvas Size: 91w x 91h x 4d cms

Available at: https://artloversaustralia.com.au/product/summer-storms/