#Kerr Hall South

[ulrichgebert]

Der naheliegende und farbenfrohe Gedenkfilm für Mitzi Gaynor. Geweint. Mache ich da ja aber sowieso immer.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.11 (1920-1980)

1919 – Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence. 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery. 1923 – Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch. 1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established. 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia. 1940 – World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history. 1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan. 1942 – World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton. 1942 – The Turkish parliament passes the Varlık Vergisi, a capital tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens with the unofficial aim to inflict financial ruin on them and end their prominence in the country's economy. 1960 – A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed. 1961 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu. 1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. 1965 – Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia. 1965 – United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43. 1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12. 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden. 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam. 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam. 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December. 1975 – Independence of Angola. 1977 – A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people.

[greaterstokesawareness]

Stokes Song Spotlight: “This Nearly Was Mine”

this third song spotlight is brought to you by a teenage Lindsey Buckingham obsession and a lifelong curiosity about the everything of it all (✦ ‿ ✦)

I spend a ton of time just coming across a song I really like and finding every single version of it and just like studying for however long I feel like it. This is how I carried the song "This Nearly Was Mine" in my soul for years and this is how I discovered Brian Stokes Mitchell. I first heard "This Nearly Was Mine" in the year of our lord Fleetwood Mac reunion 1997, I was 13 years old and I thought Lindsey Buckingham was just the coolest, weirdest guitar player and performer ever. He was out there on MTV just shaking his entire upper body to get the right vibration of the song. It was the kind of performance that gets you to devote your entire remaining existence to an artist, and that's what I started to do and how I found the masterpiece that is his 1992 Out of the Cradle album. The whole thing is no skips for me and it ends with an instrumental version of "This Nearly Was Mine" that runs into the last track "Say We'll Meet Again" which is really dreamlike and these two tracks are inseparable in my mind; when I think of one I think of the other to this day.

A few years later when I got around to studying movie musicals (just in a nerdy way and not like officially, wait can you do that officially I should really look into that) and I finally watched South Pacific, I heard "This Nearly Was Mine" again and just lost it, I knew this song. It's a really funny feeling that I chase constantly, to find references to things I love in other things I love. Anyway, that's the first time I ever heard the words to it and I fell in love some more. And I don't even know how to explain why I love it, it's not like it's some autobiographical story or that I particularly identify with lost love or anything like that, it just hits me in the center of my chest every time I hear it.

“This Nearly Was Mine” is the 11 o’clock number from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific. There’s also a grand-scale 1958 movie musical version. Don’t get me started on movie musicals and their weird tendency to cast dramatic actors and then dub their singing voices. I have thoughts. The song is performed by the male lead Emile de Becque in a climactic moment of sadness and desperation. He eventually signs up for a suicide mission because his love has rejected him (Emile, sir, you still have two children, respectfully wtf).

My nerdy journey that led me to discover Stokes’s version one dark February in the middle of Covid lockdown times goes like this: Christopher Plummer died so I rewatched The Sound of Music for like a week straight, then because I was enjoying Bill Lee’s voice (dubbed for Plummer) I rewatched South Pacific (he dubs John Kerr’s voice), [also Rossano Brazzi you are very pretty, but lip-syncing is not your strong suit] then the nerd journey took me to a YouTube search of all the performances of “This Nearly Was Mine” Philip Quast you are a star ⭐️ And that’s how I found Brian Stokes Mitchell singing the song and the rest is nerd history.

The other wonderful thing about Stokes singing this particular song is that when he sings it in concert he turns off his microphone and creeps to the edge of the stage to sing it out to the last row like they used to do before the technology for personal microphones became a thing in theater. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Stokes sing this song three times and all three of those times I was in the front row. And I swear to you with all the might of my nerdy heart and soul it is one of the most special experiences of all time every time ♥️

Links:

Stokes performance of the song at the Carnegie Hall South Pacific concert, 2006 (x)

My video of Stokes singing the song at 54 Below, 2022 (x)

Song facts, playlists, and lyrics from the Rodgers and Hammerstein official site (x)

Lindsey Buckingham’s instrumental version from Out of the Cradle, 1992 (x) (x) and a live version of “TNWM” paired with the mournful “Street of Dreams” from the same album (x)

[scrapesaladofficial]

U.S. men win 4x400 relay thriller in Olympic-record time

Aug 9, 2024; Saint-Denis, FRANCE; Rai Benjamin (USA) celebrates winning the men's 400m hurdles final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games at Stade de France. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports PARIS -- The United States continued its dominance of the Olympic 4x400 meters relay on Saturday as Rai Benjamin held off Botswana's Letsile Tebogo in a thrilling last-leg battle between two individual gold medalists. The U.S. as expected, dropped Quincy Wilson, the 16-year-old who struggled badly in the heats, but did not bring in individual 400-meter champion Quincy Hall, instead adding 400m hurdles champion Benjamin to run the final leg. Chris Bailey took them out but handed over the baton in third to Vernon Norwood, who ran a stormer in the heats and repeated it in the final to send Bryce Deadmon off in the lead. Botswana's Anthony Pesela, however, closed the gap to set up a dramatic finale. Tebogo the 200m champion who was drafted in at the last minute to run the first leg for Botswana in the heats on Friday, sat on Benjamin's shoulder and looked poised to pass him entering the final straight. Benjamin's one-lap speed endurance showed, however, as he held him off to win in an Olympic record two minutes, 54:43 seconds. It was a remarkable 19th gold in the event for the U.S. Botswana, bronze medalists in Tokyo, took silver in an African record 2:54.53 with Britain taking bronze in a European record 2:55.83. The race was of such high quality that fourth-place Belgium and fifth-placed South Africa set national records, and Japan in sixth set an Asian record. HIGH JUMP New Zealand's Hamish Kerr won gold in the men's high jump with a best effort of 2.36 meters (7.74 feet) after a long and grueling final, securing his country's first medal in the event. Defending champion Mutaz Barshim of Qatar got the bronze with a season's best 2.34 (7.68 feet), leading to a war of attrition between Kerr and American Shelby McEwen as they sparred for the gold. Both started to tire and failed to make it over 2.38m (7.81 feet) in three attempts. The bar was lowered back to 2.36, then to 2.34, which Kerr was the first to clear and clinch victory. After sailing over the bar, the Kiwi ran into the middle of the field and flopped onto the grass in joy and relief. It was an impressive result for McEwen, too, a personal best and a huge improvement after finishing 12th in Tokyo. Barshim was likely feeling a sense of deja vu as he watched the duel. It was after such a stalemate in the Tokyo final that he and Italy's Gianmarco Tamberi decided to share the gold medal. The Qatari did a celebratory backflip off the mat after his last jump, with the bronze his fourth medal in as many Olympic appearances. Tamberi, who was suffering from kidney colic, fell out of contention early on, distraught after failing to clear 2.27m. 5,000 METERS Norway's Jakob Ingebrigtsen bounced back from defeat in the 1,500 meters to win the Olympic 5,000 meters gold with a fierce final lap, just as he did in the last two world championships. Ingebrigtsen was the defending Olympic champion over 1,500 but was run out of the medals and was determined to make amends in the longer distance, having taken gold in the 5,000 in the past two world championships after also losing in his favorite event. His rivals played into his hands on Saturday by running most of the race at pedestrian pace, keeping the huge field of 22 together until the last few laps. Ingebrigtsen was initially caught in the pack, but did not panic, easing his way through and forging ahead with 250 meters to go to come home well clear in 13 minutes, 13.66 seconds. Kenya's Ronald Kwemoi got ahead in a charge for the line to take silver with American Grant Fisher adding a brilliant bronze to the one he picked up in the 10,000. "For me the 5,000m is over triple my usual distance, so it was a very tough race," Ingebrigtsen told reporters. "With the level being so high, people are running so fast this year, I knew I had to be at my very best to be able to fight for medals." 800 METERS Kenya's Emmanuel Wanyonyi held off one of the strongest fields in history to win the gold medal in the men's 800 meters, securing his country's fifth consecutive Olympic title in the event. The 20-year-old Wanyonyi blazed to a time of one minute, 41.19 seconds, making him the third-fastest man ever over the distance. Canada's world champion Marco Arop furiously tried to overtake the Kenyan over the final 100 meters, but finished one-hundredth of a second behind in 1:41.20. Algeria's Djamel Sedjati, the favorite after going unbeaten all season and setting four world-leading times, made a tactical error in sitting near the back of the pack for too long and crossed the line in 1:41.50 for bronze. MARATHON Ethiopia's Tamirat Tola won gold in the men's marathon while Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, who had been bidding for an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic crown, failed to finish. Belgium's Bashir Abdi took silver, improving on his bronze from Tokyo, and Kenya's Benson Kipruto claimed bronze. Tola built a strong lead early on and crossed the finish line in two hours, six minutes and 26 seconds, an Olympic record time especially impressive given the course was the toughest of any Olympics or championship, according to World Athletics. "My intention was just to keep up with the people who were going out and then after some point I decided to try to push on my own," Tola said. Emerging from a pack of frontrunners from the first steep ascent of an exceptionally hilly course, the former cross country specialist seemed only to strengthen on the second hill as others faded behind him. Tola had an 18-second lead by the 35km mark, which he extended as the Eiffel Tower came into sight and crowds lining the streets roared him on. He became the first Ethiopian winner of the Olympic men's marathon in 24 years. Abdi and Kipruto were jostling with Ethiopia's Deresa Geleta for the next two steps on the podium but Geleta faded in the last two kilometers. Abdi, who began his career competing in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, finished in 2:06:47 with 33-year-old Kipruto posting a time of 2:07:00. Kipruto had posted the fastest time in the world this year having won the Tokyo Marathon in March in a personal best of 2:02:16. Britain's Emile Cairess finished an impressive fourth in 2:07:29. Kipchoge, widely considered the greatest marathon runner of all time, failed to bag a third consecutive gold, defeated by the first ascent of the course that took athletes out to Versailles. He had been among the frontrunners but that hill broke up the leading pack and proved too much for the 39-year-old, who was participating in his fifth Olympics. Kipchoge clutched his side as challengers streamed ahead of him. After the race he said back pain had overwhelmed him and made him stop. Read the full article

[whatilistenedtoatwork]

From March 11th to March 14th, 2024

11-03-2024

NIGEL KENNEDY “The Kennedy Experience”; PEGGY LEE “Black Coffee With Peggy Lee”; LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS “Changin' Times”; SARAH VAUGHAN “Sarah Vaughan”; T.REX “Zinc Alloy & The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow”; SQUAREPUSHER “Ultravisitor”; GRUFF RHYS “(Don't) Welcome The Plague As A Blessing – The Babelsberg Basement Files”; KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE “The McGarrigle Hour”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Under The Bushes, Under The Stars”; FOO FIGHTERS “The Colour & The Shape”; SARAH VAUGHAN “Swingin' Easy”; ANDREW LLOYD-WEBBER & TIM RICE “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”; SWEET BABOO “The Vending Machine”; GEORGE HARRISON “Thirty Three & A Third”; SUPERGRASS “Supergrass”

12-03-2024

T.REX “Live At The BBC 1970-71”; HAPPY MONDAYS “Squirrel & G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)”; KIRK FRANKLIN & THE FAMILY “Kirk Franklin & The Family”; ELIZA CARTHY & NANCY KERR “Shape Of Scrape”; BRIAN WILSON “That Lucky Old Sun”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Cool Planet”; THE CARDIGANS “Emmerdale”; SUPER FURRY ANIMALS “Love Kraft”; CHAMPION JACK DUPRE “Junkers Blues”; MICHAEL DOUCET & BEAUSOLEIL “Parle Nous A Boire”; NADA SURF “The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy”; TANYA DONELLY “This Hungry Life”

13-03-2024

T.REX “Bolan's Zip Gun”; BRIAN WILSON & VAN DYKE PARKS “Orange Crate Art”; SPARKS “Music That You Can Dance To”; THE JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET “Supernatural Feeling”; ABNER JAY “The True Story Of Dixie”; TALLY HALL “Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum”; HAPPY MONDAYS “Bummed”; NADA SURF “You Know Who You Are”; DOROTHY LOVE COATES & THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES “The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes, Volume 2”; SARAH VAUGHAN “Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin, Volume 1”; ENNIO MORRICONE “Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo”; JAY SEMKO & VARIOUS ARTISTS “Due South Original Television Soundtrack”; MOTORHEAD “Motorhead”; WASHINGTON PHILLIPS “What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?”; SARAH VAUGHAN & BILLY ECKSTINE “Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine Sing The Best Of Irving Berlin”; THE MUMMIES “Fuck The Mummies”

14-03-2024

EUROS CHILDS “Cheer Gone”; LEON ROSSELSON “Intruders”; SUGAR “Copper Blue”; RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN “The Sound Of Music Original Soundtrack”; ROLAND ALPHONSO “King Sax”; CHUCK BERRY “New Juke Box Hits”; PARQUET COURTS “Light Up Gold”; HOMEWORK “Homework”; CHRIS ARDOIN & DOUBLE CLUTCHIN' “Best Kept Secret”; MOTORHEAD “Overkill”; KATE RUSBY “The Girl Who Couldn't Fly”; NADA SURF “High-Low”; CAB CALLOWAY & HIS ORCHESTRA “Cab Calloway 1931-1932”; JOHN HARDEE “John Hardee 1946-1948”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Warp & Woof”; THE CORAL “Distance Inbetween”

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South Pacific (1958) Movie Recommendation

Oscar Nominations – South Pacific: An Epic Tale of Love During WWII ABC Film Challenge – Oscar Nominations – S Director: Joshua Logan Writer: Paul Osborn (Screenplay) Writer: Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II, Joshua Logan, James A Michener (Play) Cast Rossano Brazzi (The Italian Job) Mitzi Gaynor (Les Girls) John Kerr (Pit and the Pendulum) Ray Walston (The Sting) Juanita Hall…

[rabbitcruiser]

Clocks (No. 8)

Old City Hall, Toronto (six pics)

Union Station, Toronto

Kerr Hall South, Toronto (two)

Distillery District, Toronto

[dweemeister]

South Pacific (1958)

With the 1955 movie adaptation of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s Oklahoma! proving to be a popular success a roadshow attraction, producers at the other Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musicals began laying the groundwork for cinematic versions. Oklahoma! was released by RKO, but the three R&H adaptations to follow were housed at 20th Century Fox. Within Fox’s domain, South Pacific followed Carousel (1956) and The King and I (1956). The stage musical South Pacific was based on a short story collection by James A. Michener entitled Tales of the South Pacific – the winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In taking Michener’s work as inspiration, R&H implemented themes of racial prejudice that might have seemed groundbreaking upon the Broadway premiere in 1949 and the film’s late ‘50s release, but has become less norm-breaking in retrospect. Similar issues also affect The King and I. But when it comes to the theatrical releases, the craftwork and acting has assured The King and I’s place as one of the best Hollywood musicals. Shot on location in Hawai’i, South Pacific is an enormous production, but it contains less cinematic intrigue than other R&H adaptations.

Much of that is down to director Joshua Logan – experienced on the Broadway stage (the original runs for Annie Get Your Gun and Mister Roberts) not so much with movies (1955′s Picnic, 1956′s Bus Stop). Logan directed the original run for South Pacific for its five-year stay on the Great White Way. But the skillset for a successful stage director is not necessarily compatible with that of a film director’s. For example, when The Sound of Music first appeared on Broadway, it was not as universally acclaimed by audiences and theater critics. With its immortal 1965 adaptation under veteran film director Robert Wise, The Sound of Music surpassed its stagebound source material by embracing the Alpine scenery surrounding it, stretching images that makes possible what a Broadway audience might imagine.

Somewhere in South Pacific during World War II, the United States Navy and its Seabees are stationed, waiting for their next assignment. Aside from the usual tropical maladies, the most infectious affliction among the men is boredom. After an early song in which a local trader, Bloody Mary (Juanita Hall in yellowface; singing dubbed by Muriel Smith), describes the sexual mysteries of a nearby, forbidden island called Bali Ha’i, a few of the men find themselves aroused by the thought of easygoing dames. It is from here South Pacific establishes two storylines. The first centers around the love affair of Ensign Nellie Forbush (Mitzi Gaynor, the only major actor to do her own singing; her character is a nurse) and Emile de Becque (Rossano Brazzi; dubbed by Giorgio Tozzi) – a wealthy expat French planter with a guarded past – a past simultaneously hidden by time and in plain sight. The other subplot does not truly integrate itself until the second half, when Lieutenant Joseph Cable (John Kerr; dubbed by Bill Lee) visits Bali Ha’i and falls for Liat (France Nuyen).

Other significant characters include Luther Billis (Ray Walston), Captain George Brackett (Russ Brown), Commander Bill Harbison (Floyd Simmons), the Professor (Jack Mullaney), and Stewpot (Ken Clark; dubbed by the inimitable Thurl Ravenscroft). Elizabeth Taylor was considered by the producers for the role of Nellie, but, during her audition, she was so intimidated by Richard Rodgers that she could barely sing. It matters not, though, because Mitzi Gaynor’s performance is tremendous. Juanita Hall, as Bloody Mary, is the only original Broadway cast member to reprise her role.

Melodrama reigns. And melodrama, when paired with excellent filmmaking, can pack emotional wallops for even the steel-hearted viewers. Excellent filmmaking is not present here; far from it! The first appearance of major faults comes with Bloody Mary’s introduction, the song “Bali Ha’i”. Do not adjust the color configurations of whatever device you are reading this piece on – those saturated Technicolor filters blanketing the screen are present during many of the musical numbers and most dramatic scenes. During the film’s post-production, director Joshua Logan was concerned about how the rapid weather changes might appear in theaters. To mitigate that, Logan shot those aforementioned parts of the film through color filters – unintentionally mimicking the effects of mood lighting one might see on a stage play. Logan disliked the decision after seeing the final print, believing that the film processing lab saturated the colors to extremes. He requested reshoots but, because of South Pacific’s roadshow release schedule in which theater bookings were finalized months in advance, those never occurred. Logan reflected that the filters were the worst mistake of his filmmaking career, and I concur. Where these color tricks might work on stage, film is a different beast. As South Pacific is not a silent film, viewers do not expect tinting to that extent. Often occurring in the movie’s most romantic sequences, the oversaturation adds nothing to the poignancy onscreen. The filters are more suited for drinking games – not that I am giving you any suggestions.

Logan and cinematographer Leon Shamroy (1944′s Wilson, The King and I) botch the camerawork. The colorized filters interfering with the audience’s appreciation of the backgrounds, and this issue is exacerbated by Shamroy’s insistence on medium and medium-close shots for many of the musical numbers, as well as placing many props or foliage in the foreground. Shamroy sometimes carries over the same aesthetic and framing tendencies between musical numbers shot in the same general area (“There is Nothing Like a Dame” and “Bali Ha’i” in particular). The visuals, amid beautiful sights on Kaua’i, are frustratingly adequate given the on-location shooting.

As entertaining as South Pacific, it buckles with its gendered behaviors, questionable romance, and flawed arguments around racial relations. The secondary plot concerning Liat and Joseph Cable is grounded in the fears of Liat’s mother, Bloody Mary. With war raging across the Pacific and the fact that the economic presence of the U.S. Navy could disappear at a moment’s notice, Bloody Mary wants her child to enjoy the benefits of Western society and escape from the poverty of the islands. Liat, portrayed by Nuyen, has no agency and no choice of suitors because of her mother’s arrangements. Among their exotified neighbors, Liat, who does not speak a single word in this film adaptation (because apparently the worst sort of woman is someone who dares speak out concerning a man’s worst behaviors), embodies the Oriental feminine ideal pushed by artists over several hundred years: submissive, seductive, pale-skinned, giggling. Yet the musical and the film adaptation tends to play this for laughs, burying the narrative lede behind mother and daughter: the former preventing the latter from discovering love for herself, in the name of economic benefits (given how much money Bloody Mary claims she has made – and taking her at her word and inflation into account – their income probably far exceeds that of the average islander) and wartime expediency. Asian characters in Western narrative art – especially women – are often infantile, finding themselves at the mercy of underdeveloped, acquisition-hungry, and horny white characters. Where a musical like The King and I had its lead Asian and white protagonists on equal footing in terms of power and agency, that dynamic reverts to its stereotypical norm here. South Pacific has much to say about interracial romance – and not just with Liat and Cable – but its approach was and is regressive.

Not that the primary romance between Nellie and Emile is any better. From the moment they lay eyes on each other and an interested eyebrow is raised, Emile repeatedly engages in prevarication. He does this thinking that Nellie will not accept his truths – and really, too much of the drama in South Pacific occurs because of characters failing to explain their pasts or their reasoning (it’s tearing-hair-out-in-large-clumps stuff). Now, I’m all for forgiveness in leading one’s life. But Nellie, whose resentments are based on her personal racial intolerance and Emile’s history of obfuscation, forgives Emile too quickly, too easily to be believed. The two leads here are playing characters with an array of personal flaws that can be overcome. The resolution of those flaws plays out in the most dramatic fashion possible because, hey, it’s the Second World War and they have to put some war violence in there somehow!

It is my hope that you are watching South Pacific for its music, and not for the plot. Because the entire score from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical is intact, albeit many songs have been placed far differently from when they appear in the original stage musical. Credit to this film adaptation that the rearrangement of the song order makes greater sense here. Instead of jumping headfirst into Nellie and Emile’s romance, the film opts to introduce “Bloody Mary” and the Naval non-coms and Lieutenant Cable first with “There Is Nothing Like a Dame” – an enjoyable opening which establishes their longing for female company and restlessness. “Bali Ha’i” and the first appearance of the atrocious filters follows.

Soon after this the musical’s best works appear where in the stage version they were featured far too early. Nellie and Emile’s budding relationship is outlined by three songs following the other: “A Cock-Eyed Optimist” is followed by “Twin Soliloquies” and South Pacific’s signature song – “Some Enchanted Evening”. Also preserved in their spots from the stage musical are “I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair” – the film unfortunately cuts two minutes from the song – and “I’m in Love with a Wonderful Guy”. The partial deletion of the former song speaks to how the filmmakers wanted to champion falling in love (as opposed to loving someone), but that does not make me adore the latter song any less. As an example of how poorly South Pacific treats its Asian characters, “Happy Talk” is featured in all of its glorious pidgin English embarrassment (the song is often cut in contemporary productions, including the 2001 television version). This is the only Rodgers and Hammerstein film adaptation in which all of the songs are intact – “My Girl Back Home” being the one addition (and it was cut from the original stage musical).

This review is based on the general release version which runs 157 minutes long and does not include the intermission. The roadshow version runs for 171 minutes; includes an overture, intermission, entr’acte, and exit music; and contains additional scenes. Both the general and roadshow versions are available on home media.

For South Pacific, various elements of this film version – from how it handles its two romantic subplots and its commentary on interracial romance and relations – have not aged gracefully. The Rodgers and Hammerstein score, even if this does not represent the height of their collective musical acumen, remains indelible. Forget the love declarations and probably one-sided relationships. Stay for the music.

My rating: 6/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found here.

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Juanita Hall, John Kerr, and Ray Walston in SOUTH PACIFIC (1958)

[theoscarsproject]

South Pacific (1958). On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.

This really is a dated musical, particularly in it’s handling of race, and it’s really important to watch this it with that in mind. That said, it’s well-paced, and the music is pretty terrific and upbeat, and the costumes are really solid. It’s an interesting musical. 7/10.

[haslemere]

Daniel Jonathan Stevens

Born 10 October 1982 in Croydon, Surrey UK Dan was adopted shortly after his birth and raised in Wales and later Sussex along with a brother (also adopted). His parents are retired teachers. During the summers when he was young, his family visited friends in North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany. He also briefly did an internship in Germany. He attended Holmewood House prep school at 10.

“I think growing up around people with faith is a very interesting thing to have witnessed. I feel very lucky,” he says. “My grandfather is a very devout man, and I found that dedication and the spirit with which it infused his whole life was very inspiring, really. I could only ever hope to be that at peace,” 

At 13 he earned an academic scholarship to Tonbridge School  in Kent where he starred in school productions of Macbeth, Murder in the Cathedral, and Henry IV Pt I under the guidance of Jonathan Smith. In the summers from the age of 15 he acted with the National Youth Theater under the guidance of his other mentor Sir Peter Hall.  Dan, after completing his A levels, won another academic scholarship to study English Literature at Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 2001. There he joined the Marlowe Society (where he once again played Macbeth with friend and flat mate Rebecca Hall as Lady Macbeth) and was active in the Footlights (where he directed and performed in shows like Cabaret  (I'd love to have seen that), comedic skits, writing and performing his own stand-up routines.

“I had very, very long hair. I was quite active when I was younger and, quite naïvely, I used to go on May Day marches every year and anti-capitalist things, before I really knew what any of that meant...now I’m a bit jaded.’”

He starred alongside Rebecca Hall in an acclaimed production under her father Sir Peter Hall’s direction of As You Like It in 2004 first in London and then in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. They will go on to co-star in Permission as well as the new King Kong v Godzilla movie

Dan met his soon to be wife South African Royal Academy of Music post graduate scholar Susie Hariet in 2006 while performing Romans in Britain in Sheffield. They married in 2009. 

“My wife once built me a bookcase,” chips in Stevens. “It is probably the most romantic thing anyone has ever done for me.” They have three children: Willow, Aubrey, and Eden and currently reside in a suburb of Los Angeles, CA.

“I don’t really fully engage with something unless I’m a little bit scared. I don’t want to be terrified stalk-still, but I don’t love the feeling that something’s too easy.”

In 2006 he starred as Nick Guest in the BBC adaptation of the Man Booker prize winning novel The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst and adapted by Andrew Davies. Watch Dan in LoB and you’ll see how he can hold the screen with mesmerizing skill. 

He starred in numerous plays over the next few years including Hay Fever with Dame Judi Dench and Arcadia playing Septimus Hodge. In 2006 he played Marban the Druid in Samuel West’s revival of The Romans in Britain to critical acclaim. Film and TV highlights would include 2008’s Sense & Sensibility as Edward Ferrars, 2009’s Hilde in which he first spoke fluent German playing Hildegarde Knef’s husband David Cameron. In 2010 he was cast as Matthew Crawley in ITV’s Downton Abbey which launched him to international success alongside Michelle Dockery when they memorably played Matthew and Mary Crawley.  

Rebecca Eaton, PBS Masterpiece exec producer, noted that “Dan and Michelle had each other’s back and loved to cut loose before interviews. She said before one panel they were dancing in the wings as the music blasted the Petula Clark oldie “Downtown.”

In 2012 he moved with his family to New York City where he made his Broadway debut opposite Jessica Chastain in The Heiress at the Walter Kerr Theater in October 2012. They later lived in Brooklyn Heights for four years. Dan appeared in numerous movies including Summer in February, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Criminal Activities, and as Sir Lancelot in Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb. No Dan fan should miss his turn as Colin in High Maintenance (Rachel, Museebat, Solo)

In 2014 he earned critical acclaim and cult status for his role as David Collins in The Guest.

“I play characters who begin with  the  polite home invasion… Then I kill everyone or cause a political scandal.”

In March 2015 Dan was cast as The Beast in Walt Disney’s live action remake of Beauty and the Beast. Filming took up much of the summer of 2015 as the complicated process of bringing the Beast to life required him to essentially play the role once in a cgi suit with Emma Watson (Belle), another using MOVA technology to animate the Beast’s face, and a third for the voice and singing.

Beauty and the Beast had its world wide release 17 March 2017 and  went on to earn over $1 billion at the world wide box office.

In 2016 he was cast as the lead David Haller in Noah Hawley’s take on the X Men franchise Legion for FX television. The show premiered in February 2017. The final season of Legion ended in August 2019 where it received almost 100% critical acclaim on Rotten Tomatoes.

Projects also released in 2017  included The Ticket, Norman, and Colossal. Marshall – where he played the prosecutor Lorin Willis going up against Chadwick Boseman’s Thurgood Marshall and saw him co star once again with Josh Gad.  Dan played the young Charles Dickens in The Man Who Invented Christmas. This role will always be one of my very very favorites… that scene with the children never fails to make me smile… those kids adore him.

Other projects included Apostle, directed by Gareth Evans, the indie film directed by Alex Perry Ross, Her Smell with Elisabeth Moss, Lucy in the Sky and Call of the Wild. Eurovision, starring Will Ferrell. and Rachel McAdams was released in June 2020 on Netflix to great critical acclaim for Dan playing the billionaire, lion loving singer Alexander Lemtov.

The Rental, Blithe Spirit, and Solos are other projects of the 2020 pandemic era. In 2021 Dan starred in and received his first Best Actor nomination (German Film Awards, the Lolas) for the German language Film Ich bin dein Mensch (I’m Your Man) from Emmy award winning director Maria Schrader and starring Maren Eggert.  I’m Your Man won Best Film of 2021 at the German Film Awards, Deutscher Filmpreis, known as the Lolas.

“Tom, played with elegant, fluent German” by Stevens who “delivers a performance that’s subtly comical and stylized. The “surreal twist of Stevens being Stevens is that he’s always the most human being onscreen, regardless of the role.”

Dan was the original star of Martin McDonagh play Hangmen as the brooding, mysterious character Peter Mooney. The play was supposed to run from February - July 2020 but was cut short because of the Covid-19 global pandemic. He had two glorious weeks on stage.

“Security is also terrifying. There’s something thrilling in not going the coziest route…” Dan will never take the easy route. It’s too boring lol :) “I look at other performances ... whether it’s imitative or trying to absorb the modes of acting in my memory bank, I don’t know.” 

In addition to film and theater work Dan has other interests. In 2012 Dan sat on the Man Booker literary prize committee.  He’s written freelance stories and articles and is an acclaimed audiobook narrator having won prizes for reading Louisa Young’s My Dear I Wanted to Tell You and The Heroes’ Welcome and Stef Penney’s The Invisible Ones. He has read over 30 audio books and numerous BBC radio plays. He also has a lot of animated voice work-- Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts, Earwig and the Witch, Cinema Toast, Central Park, The Sea Beast, and Love, Death, and Robots to name a few. In 2023 he joined the cast of Solar Opposites.

2022 work included the Starz mini series Gaslit playing John Dean in the Watergate scandal.

Dan was in Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities episode The Outside, directed by friend and Legion Ch 10 director Ana Lily Amipour

Dan played Paul Snider (promoter and pimp and all around scary guy) in Kumail Nanjiani’s Welcome to Chippendales, with yes another ‘tache. 

Future projects include indie horror Tilman Singer’s Cuckoo co starring with Hunter Schafer which will be released in Fall 2023.

Dan filmed in Australia in the summer of 2022 Godzilla x Kong which will reunite him with The Guest mastermind Adam Wingard--this will be released in April 2024 -- pending an end to the SAG-AFTRA /WGA strike that Dan fully supports.

Hopefully Godzilla will also result in the greatly anticipated (at least by me) sequel to The Guest that Dan and Adam keep hinting at.

“There's still some rebelling in me to be done. Maybe I’ll now rebel against my own career. For my next part I should choose something completely out of character to what everyone expects.”

To sum up (so you don’t just have to take my word for it lol: The Times of London (a paper usually averse to admitting Dan even exists, much less praise him) said: “More versatile than Eddie Redmayne, more nuanced than Tom Hiddleston (both Cambridge peers of Dan), Stevens has been effortlessly firing out these types of roles every since the Downton gamble paid off with a vibrant Hollywood career as a chameleonic leading man and eccentric supporting player.”

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Der Jubilarin ein dreifaches Bali ha’i! Wie angekündigt: South Pacific angeschaut. Geweint.

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Events 11.11 (after 1920)

1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery. 1923 – Adolf Hitler is arrested in Munich for high treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch. 1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System is established. 1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance is opened in Melbourne, Australia. 1940 – World War II: In the Battle of Taranto, the Royal Navy launches the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history. 1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan. 1942 – World War II: France's zone libre is occupied by German forces in Case Anton. 1942 – The Turkish parliament passes the Varlık Vergisi, a capital tax mostly levied on non-Muslim citizens with the unofficial aim to inflict financial ruin on them and end their prominence in the country's economy. 1960 – A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed. 1961 – Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu. 1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait. 1965 – Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia. 1965 – United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43. 1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12. 1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden. 1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam. 1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization: The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam. 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December. 1975 – Independence of Angola. 1977 – A munitions explosion at a train station in Iri, South Korea kills at least 56 people. 1981 – Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations. 1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests. 1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. 1999 – The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage. 2000 – Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria. 2001 – Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in. 2002 – A Fokker F27 Friendship operating as Laoag International Airlines Flight 585 crashes into Manila Bay shortly after takeoff from Ninoy Aquino International Airport, killing 19 people. 2004 – New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington. 2006 – Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army. 2012 – A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people. 2014 – Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province. 2022 – Russo-Ukrainian War: Ukrainian armed forces enter the city of Kherson following a successful two-month southern counteroffensive.

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                                                                JULY                                   2021

 THE RIB PAGE

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They are still uncovering statues on Easter Island.

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Everyone is talking about ‘Exterminate all the Brutes” from Raoul Peck.

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Vampire bats, prevalent in Latin America may be on the way to the U.S.

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What they call faith, I call strength.

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Criss angel will open CABLP, a restaurant in Overton, Nevada. The letters stand for breakfast, lunch and pizza and will include a free meal outreach program to help under privileged and pediatric cancer families.

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A fifth ocean in Antartica??** There have also found 4 new ocean species: Apolemia, Tegula Kusairo, Leptarma Biju and Duobrachium Sparksae.

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In China they have found a possible new species in a skull that is 140,000 years old.

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Why would Jeffrey Toobin be back at CNN?? Surely there are more young deserving talking heads around.

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The Keystone pipeline is dead.

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5,000 pounds of explosives were discovered in a home in South LA. LAPD seems to have detonated the fireworks in a truck right there in the neighborhood. They were too dangerous to transport but not enough to blow them up??? How stupid are these people??

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Days alert : So glad to see Clyde again even if it is only for a moment!! **BTW, I do not understand the Daytime Emmy noms this year as they relate to Days. I really was pulling for Victoria Koneful (Ciara) and she won but George DelHoya (Orpheus), Tamara Braun (Ava) and Cady McClain (Jennifer)??? I was shocked when Cady McClain won. I mean, she was so whiny. I question my own ability to judge a performance. In most categories, the winner was usually the one I thought was the worst option. I was happy for Max Gail and CBS Sunday Morning.  Some performances were sure overlooked. What about James Read (Clyde), Paul Telfer (Xander), Bryan Dattilo (Lucas), Robert Scott Wilson (Ben), Daniel Kerr (Eli) and Lindsay Arnold (Allie) ?? As annoying as the Kristen character is and as long as it took me to get used to Stacy Haiduk in the role, she kicked ass this year. Did they even submit clips?? And,  they are not often on but Tony and Anna forever!!!!!!** And how wonderful is it to see the Dimera boys all together and recounting the whole fam for the votes? **And one more thing, Days was not even nominated for writing while Bold and the Beautiful spends every other show with the Liam character standing in front of the fireplace making excuses for the same shit! Just push repeat, C,mon!!**Philip had a great line for Brady about following Kristen like a zombie.** Dis Eli really say, “Peacock and chill??’ Are these the things they will have to do to do to stay on the air? It took me right out of the show. It was the same day the ads for Days on Peacock started. OMG

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Texas Gov. Abbott vetoed a bill that would make it illegal to chain up dogs without water.**ATexas churches have lost their 501(c) (3) status because it actively ‘educates’ its members on electing specific Republican politicians. –Pete West* This should have been happening long ago. Many churches I know of do this and should not be allowed to have it both ways. #tax the church

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Ellen Burstyn, Jane Curtin, Loretta Devine, Christopher Lloyd, James Caan, French Stewart and Ann-Margaret in Queen Bees and directed by Michael Lembeck?? Yes please!!

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NY has suspended Giuliani’s law license.

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Miracle Workers: The Oregon Trail is coming to TBS, this will be season 3 in the series.

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What is this about Bowen Yang?? A podcast about a sperm bank heist?? Yeow!!

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David Geffen has given $150,000,000 to Yale drama school: Every student will be tuition- free in perpetuity.

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Allison Mack was sentenced to 3 years.

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The latest in sexual assault news: James Franco has agreed to 2.2 mil settlement in sexual misconduct case.** Kyle Massey was charged with immoral communication with a minor.**Bill Cosby is out and here are some reactions: A terrible wrong is being righted.: a miscarriage of justice is corrected. I fully support survivors of sexual assault coming forward.- Phylicia Rashad*I really don’t ever want to hear again as to why many survivors don’t report their rape or assault.- Charlotte Clymer* Women are showing great restraint in not burning everything to the ground right now and I don’t know how they do it.-Jeff Tiedrich

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Amazon is making a series of A League of Their Own with Nick Offerman as the coach.

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Does anyone else have family members that are rich, transient, know it all snobs??

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It looks like New York’s ranked choice voting is leaning toward Eric Adams for Mayor.

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Michigan republicans investigating voter fraud found 2 incidents. One is for a lady who voted by mail and then died, the other was confusion over a man who had the same name as his Father. That was it!

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Jamie Lee Curtis will get the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 78th Venice International Film Fest in September.

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Jerry Seinfeld will star in and direct ‘Unfrosted’ about Pop-Tarts.

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Why is Airbnb still listing properties in illegal settlements and outposts in Palestinian occupied territories? –James J. Zogby

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Merrick Garland has announced that the Justice department sued Georgia over the voting rights.

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The NFL says that it will halt the use of “race norming” which assumed black players started out with lower cognitive functioning in a $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims. The practice had made it harder for black players to qualify. –The Associated Press.

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Scary Clown 45 ended his ‘From the desk of Donald J. Trump’ blog after 29 days. Word is that he felt he was being mocked in the media.

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Religious leadership keeps engaging in partisan politics on behalf of politicians that are particularly unpopular with younger people and they wonder why younger people are disenchanted with the church. – Schooley ** Give young people credit as well for seeing through the hype and lies of these religious hypocrites who use God only as a weapon and a threat. –Larry Charles

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Amazon will stop drug testing for employment. Can every other company jump on this bandwagon? Let’s judge employees on the work they give.

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The Backstreet Boys and NSync are going to work together??!!

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Showtime is bringing back American Gigolo with Jon Bernthal.

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If Biden can carry out air strikes without proper authorization, the Senate can raise the minimum wage without the Parliamentarian.  –Alexandra M. Hunt

Reality Winner is out!!

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Judy Woodruff has been given the Peabody award for journalistic integrity.

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Donald Glover is bringing us Hive. Malia Obama will be a writer.

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Nicholas Cage has married Riko Shibata.

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Catch and Kill: The podcast tapes, is here on HBO.

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Bryan Cranston and Annette Bening will star in Jerry and Marge go large.

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Amblin Partners and Netflix are partners.

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Fall 2022 will bring the Roybal School of film and television production for underserved communities. They are looking to help 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students. Among others, the program was cofounded by George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Kerry Washington, Mindy Kaling and Eva Longoria.

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Will there be a Wedding Crashers2??

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The Mysterious Benedict Society stars Tony Hale.** I would love to see he and Danny Pudi in something together.

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Actor Stephen Amell from Arrow was removed from a plane after getting into it with his wife.  A source said he was drunk and screaming. An official source said that they removed “an unruly customer.”** Andy Dick was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, allegedly assaulting his partner, Lucas with a metal chair.

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So.. Fox news was digitally altering the faces of people they did not care for??? Is there no end to their bullshit????

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Mark Ronson is set to marry Grace Gummer.

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Crime shows seem to be in the cycle of prisoners and the women who get a thrill from helping them escape.

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Wolfgang Van Halen has released a debut album: Mammoth

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Everyone seems to love Danny Trejo’s memoir and its honesty.

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David Spade will take over as host of Bachelor in Paradise.

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I am sickened when I see the first question that pops up on an online search is the net worth of a person. Oh this twisted world.

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Life is a short pause between 2 great mysteries. –Jung

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Prince Harry and Meghan had a daughter that they named Lilibet ‘Lili” Diana.

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Michael Flynn’s brother Charles (who withheld help from the capitol on Jan. 6), leads the U.S. Army Pacific and commands 90,000 troops.

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I am so excited to read ‘The Boys’ from Clint and Ron Howard, due out in October.

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Dave Chappelle closed out the Tribeca film fest with a surprise concert. This was the first in person film fest since Covid. Look for This time, this place which premiered there.

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Ron Wood will release the album Mr. Luck: A tribute to Jimmy Reed on Sept. 3

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Howard Stern signed a new $500 mil contract with Sirius XM. He is taking the whole summer off and many fans say they will cancel their subscription because they don’t want to pay for a summer of reruns.

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Acorn will bring Jane Seymour back to a series. Seymour will be co -executive produce on Harry Wild. Her character will be a retired University professor who loves her whiskey and solves crimes.

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Annie Murphy  stasr in ‘Kevin can f*** himself about a sitcom wife which airs on AMC.

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I still do not understand why Rep. Mike Nearman hasn’t been arrested for letting insurrectionists into the Capitol.

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There is a wing shortage??

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The Pulitzer prizes have been announced. The list includes Ben Faub, Barry Blitt, Katori Hall, Emilio Morenatti, AP photographers Marcio Jose Sanchez, Alex Brandon, David Goldman, Julio Cortez, John Minchillo, Frank Franklin II, Ringo H.W. Chiu, Evan Vucci, Mike Stewart and Noah Berger. There was a special citation for Darnella Frazier who filmed the death of George Floyd.

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Conan’s last TBS guests were Martin Short, Jack Black, Bill Hader, Mila Kunis, Dana Carvey, Patton Oswalt and JB Smoove. There were some surprises.  The big musical number never happened when Jack Black hurt himself. It was all funny and sweet but Conan never mentioned the band in the last show WTF????????????????????????????????????????? Music is so important to him and he does not thank the band? ** Colbert and Brian Stack gave Conan a cute send after4, 368 shows on CBS calling him a ‘Slenderman Ron Weasly’.  Kimmel wished Conn well also.** Hope his HBO MAX variety show goes well.** BTW, the Duvall interview with Colbert was great to see but why does nobody ever mention ‘Get Low?’ What a performance!!

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Tattoos are on the rise.

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Fast food drive thru’s sometime close with fake excuses like the equipment is down or something because they don’t feel like working. Good people can’t find work and so many waste the opportunities they have. AAAAGHH!!

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Valerie Bertinelli and Demi Lovato will star in ‘Hungry’ on NBC.

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Hulu will bring us David E. Kelley’s Nine Perfect Strangers with Nicole Kidman, Michael Shannon, Regina Hall, Bobby Cannavale and Melissa McCarthy.

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R.I.P. Gavin Macleod, Frank Bonner, Joy Vogelsang, Benigno Aquino, Champ Biden, victims of the Miami building collapse, Robert Sacchi, Stuart Damon, Johnny Solinger  and Clarence Williams III.

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DIDDLY SQUAT from Frank Lebon on Vimeo.

A film about home.

"In this hyperkinetic short drama, a young couple in need of shelter breaks into a rundown South London carpentry studio only to find themselves in an escalating faceoff with the building’s owner… Told from the perspective of both the squatter and the squatted, Diddly Squat pulls off an electrifying style combining live action, still photos and animation." Le Cinéma Club

CREDITS

Writer, Director & Editor - Frank Lebon Producers - Nat Baring & Jill Ferraro Executive Producer - Anastasia Ehrich Director of Photography - Molly Manning Walker Composers - Mount Kimbie & Cedie Janson Production Designer - Jabez Bartlett Sound Designer - Will Berger Casting Director - Georgia Topley Casting Director (Supporting Artists) - Sarah Small Costume Designer - Edie Ashley Colourist - Joseph Bicknell 1st AD - Joseph Jones Gaffer - Owain Morgan

Archy - Charley Palmer Rothwell Rachel - Rebecca Stone Kenny - Mark Monero Hak - Hak Baker Simon - Jack Rolf Santi - Raf Shah Phylis - Sonya Baring Busker - Marla Mbemba Police Officer - Deborah Oyelade Heavy - Tayla Clarke Heavy - Haroun Bangura Heavy - TJ Silon Preacher - Carlton Sweeper - Eyasu Developer - Tyrone Lebon Estate Agent - Sonia Krishna Brother May - Brother May

SQAUTERS Cosima Von Moreau, Jake Hurley, Momin Mukhtar, Alistair Kleboe, Lola Gentry PARTY PEOPLE Seyi Adelekun, Hector Henderson, Charlie Farley, Agathe DeLussy, Genc Kuci, Ruby Lake, Sorcha Bacon, Emil Torrens, Finbar Lenahan, Gilbert Bannerman, Tancred Campbell, Daniel Simpson, Bryant Mclaughlin Vanlow, Carmen Rosy Hall, Natty Wylah

1st Assistant Camera - Rhys Warren 1st Assistant Camera - Benjy Kirkman 2nd Assistant Camera - Rory McLean Steadi Cam Operator - Rick Woolard B-roll Operator - Joel Kerr Spark - Rory Cole Spark - Sam Donvito Spark - Max Conran Grip - George Nock Make Up Artist - Bagy Winwood Make Up Artist - Phoebe Llewellyn Hair Stylist - Takuya Uchiyama 2nd AD - Sidney Arthur 3rd AD - Nana Quartey Production Coordinator - TJ Silon Production Coordinator - Celeste Doig Production Assistant - Maria Grierson Production Assistant - Joshua Collings Production Assistant - Lachlan Monroe Production Assistant - Luca Ward Catering - Adam Davies Art Assistant - Ellen Wilson Art Assistant - Phoebe Shakespeare Art Assistant - Harry Beedle Sound Mixer - Will Berger Boom Op - Gus Collins Animal Wrangler - Trevor Costume Assistant - Charlie McCoskers Colour Producer - Alexandra Lubrano Grade Facility - Company 3 Assistant Editor/VFX - Rory McLean Music Supervisor - Alex Grey Script Editors - David Young & Karim Khan Second Poster Design - Frankie Browne

Special Thanks To Michael Kopelman, Gimme 5, Panavision, DoBeDo Represents, Judith & Danny Kleinman, Roi Cydulkin, Carmen Hall, Mark Lebon, Camilla Arthur, Mica Levi, Paddy Gibson, Marta Cruanas, Tyrone Lebon

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OCAD University and Ryerson University Student Learning Centre, Toronto

OCAD University, officially the Ontario College of Art and Design University, (French: Université de l’École d’art et de design de l’Ontario) is a public university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The school is within the Grange Park neighbourhood, and adjacent to the Art Gallery of Ontario. The school is Canada's largest and oldest educational institution for art and design. OCAD U offers courses through the Faculties of Art, Design, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and alternative programs. The enabling legislation is Ontario College of Art and Design University Act, 2002.

Source: Wikipedia

Ryerson University, simply Ryerson or RyeU, is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its urban campus surrounds the Yonge–Dundas Square, located at one of the busiest intersections in downtown Toronto.

The majority of its buildings are in the blocks northeast of the Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto's Garden District. Ryerson's business school, Ted Rogers School of Management, is on the southwest end of the Yonge-Dundas Square, located on Bay Street, slightly north of Toronto's Financial District and is attached to the Toronto Eaton Centre. The university has expanded substantially in recent years with new buildings such as the Mattamy Athletic Centre, in the historical Maple Leaf Gardens arena, former home of the Toronto Maple Leafs. The university's administration services are also housed in 1 Dundas and 495 Yonge Street. The university is composed of 39,000+ undergraduate students, 2,600 graduate students, and 12,000 continuing education students. Ryerson is ranked 4th in Ontario and 10th in Canada by student enrollment.

Ryerson University is home to Canada's largest undergraduate business school, the Ted Rogers School of Management, and Canada's third largest undergraduate engineering school, the Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, as well as the Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Communication & Design, Faculty of Community Services, and the Faculty of Science.

In 2017, the university was approved by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada to begin working towards establishing a social justice and innovation focused law school. The school will mark the third law school in Toronto after York's Osgoode program and University of Toronto's Law degree.

In addition to offering full-time and part-time undergraduate and graduate programs leading to Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees, the university also offers part-time degrees, distance education, and certificates through the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education.

Source: Wikipedia