#Leonard Wexler

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There’s a popular post about how Leonard Nimoy went to a Yiddish speaking therapist just to practice the language, but the first time I ever heard him speak it was when I stumbled into the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project.

This video is just a piece of a nearly 2 hour long video interview that you can find at the Wexler Oral History Project’s website.

If you don’t feel like listening to the whole 2 hours straight, they’ve divided it into bite sized chunks of different interview topics if you scroll down a bit.

It’s a really beautiful story. And language. What a fascinating history.

[theighthhorcrux]

A Thousand Yards notes:

- It being Jackie’s 60th birthday made me google Paula Newsome, and she’s apparently 62 (how??!), also I could swear she was meant to be a few years younger than Vance (born in ‘63)

- I thought of Lee Wuan Kai when Vance collapsed- something about it seemed like her

- Air Force One!!! Our very first episode

- I love these recent seasons’ Curtis Hubley resurgence, and we got a ‘probie’ mention

- Jared’s agent behavior was very sweet

- Kasie got to namedrop the title!

- Sniper on a rooftop? Oof

- Morrow family crypt, Dr. Kate’s sister mention, Chucky(!) mention, and poor Fornell- his garage is his office (also Knight needs to brush up on her history)

- How hard would it have been to get a NOLA cast member?

- McGee putting his foot in his mouth! Also McDirector returns

- Vance looking to Parker for advice like he would Gibbs was just ❤️

- I appreciated Parker’s stance on billionaires- a nice change from ‘Left Unsaid’, using the name ‘Voss’ was a risky move, considering the plot of ‘Dead Man Talking’ (also the actor was in ‘One Shot, One Kill’)

- Somebody not being able to get into MTAC- fun times

- Jared being manipulated online? Come on, seriously?

- Bringing drinks to the lab- nice Abby reference

- They missed an opportunity for the Adams House

- Everybody giving Lindsey Wexler death stares was great

- Fornell and a couch? Hmm

- Well, the conspiracy theory about Jackie was right

- Rule 39! One of my favorites

- Camera-clicking in a ball cap and another Gibbs reference!

- Gaslit? Facepalm but a GREMLIN MENTION makes up for it

- His name was Leonard Rush, writers :/, also I knew Lindsey would be the daughter of someone from the early days, but I didn’t guess him

- Threat to Air Force One- full-circle moment!

- William Baer Jr. was a relatively-obscure reference, I approve

- Driving through the gates- a very Gibbs move, more approval

- They did a great job making Vance look younger, and we got a flashback montage right back to ‘Hung Out To Dry’, although I wish they’d included Reeves, Abby, and Jenny

- Bringing up how they never get credit omg

Overall, this was a great episode that took us right back to the beginning. Here’s to all those to come

[foodfightnovelization]

Chapter 1: Analysis and Discussion

So we're starting where almost every good story starts: at the beginning. But even before the beginning, we have to talk about the inside cover page. It's not mentioned on the front, but here we can see this was written by children's author Irene Trimble. I'm only taking the time to point this out so A. People know who wrote this, and B. because Irene Trimble ALSO wrote the junior novelization for Disney's Wreck-It Ralph, a movie which is very conceptually similar to Foodfight. (Even down to being mostly about original characters and only featuring famous ones in cameo roles). Lawrence Kasanoff, Joshua Wexler, Sean Derek, Rebecca Swanson and Brent Friedman are also given writing credit, although this is clearly just for the script to the movie itself.

Anyway with that out of the way, the first page of Chapter 1 is mostly identical to what's seen in the finished film- the last customer of the night says goodbye to Leonard, the manager, as he closes up the supermarket for the day. The dialogue is even exactly the same! So nothing much to talk about so far. Incidentally though, in an early trailer for the movie from 2002, the sign above Leonard's supermarket says "Carlson's Market". In the finished movie from 2012 however, the sign says "Marketropolis Market" (which is a far worse name, in my opinion). Here neither name is used, so I guess we'll never know what the store is called in this version of the story!

The following page of Chapter 1 continues as the lights of the grocery store shut off and the place closes for the night. For a brief second everything is still, and then it miraculously comes to life, transforming into a bustling metropolis. The shelves turn into buildings, and the mascots of various products turn into "Ikes" (short for "brand icons"). This term isn't used right away in the novelization, however it's used so frequently in the movie itself and also later in the book that I think we should establish the preferred nomenclature right away.

Anyway, with the supermarket now full of life we focus in on a "large bird in glasses" who sees a helium balloon drifting across the store and says "We're in a pickle now!". It's not explicitly spelled out, but this is clearly supposed to be the Vlasic Stork (the mascot for a real-life brand of pickles.) Presumably they couldn't get the rights to any real-world brands for the novelization, so it's just being alluded to here as much as possible without saying his name. This is a trend that's also seen in author Irene Trimble's later work on the Wreck-It Ralph novelization, where none of the videogame characters are actually named but instead just implied (e.g. simply referring to Zangeif from Street Fighter as a large Russian wrestler.) The Vlasic Stork also doesn't have any dialogue in the actual movie, so it's up to interpretation whether this line was added to the novelization to clarify who he was, or if it was in the movie at one point but cut out.

Riding the helium balloon is Fat Cat Burglar, the mascot for the Fat Cat Litter brand. In the movie, this character is introduced without explaining who he is or what he's the Ike for, so it's nice to get some clarification here. We also get introduced to our main character, Dex Dogtective, the mascot for Cinnamon Sleuth cereal. In the novelization, he jumps from atop his shelf onto the giant balloon, but in the movie he's introduced already standing atop it. In general, this whole sequence so far has played out slightly differently to how it does in the movie, but not enough to be hugely noteworthy so far.

Okay, here we are on the next page and just like I did a few paragraphs ago, the book has established that brand icons are named "Ikes" in this world. It's good to be ahead of the curve though, right? Dex tells Fat Cat Burglar to hand over a basket of stolen kittens or else- this dialogue is mostly identical to how it is in the movie. However, of note is that Fat Cat Burglar is described as an "overstuffed cat" here, with mention of him twirling his whiskers. Now, I don't know if you've seen the actual movie (Please say you have I can't imagine why you'd be reading this blog if you haven't) but in the movie, Fat Cat Burglar is clearly a giant rat.

I mean, look at him, that's a rat. There's no two ways about it, there's no mistaking him for an entirely different species. So either Irene Trimble read the script and just assumed from the name that Fat Cat Burglar was a cat himself, OR at some point during production the character WAS actually a cat and this was changed later on. We may never know! But here, in the novelization, we can say for sure that he's a cat. Moving on, the rest of the page continues very similar to the movie- Fat Cat sends a group of hamster henchmen after Dex with the intention of pulverizing him.

Dex proceeds to beat up the hamsters with some slick martial arts moves before throwing them off the balloon with a roundhouse kick. This doesn't happen in the movie at all- already the differences are starting to add up. In the movie, he simply throws a piece of cheese off the balloon and the hamsters mindlessly run after it before falling Looney Tunes-style into the streets below. It's just Dex and Fat Cat now, and Dex demands he hand over the basket of kittens. Fat Cat refuses, and explains he needs to use the cats to make "black market Kitty Litter cookies" and Dex takes the time tell him this idea is in fact terrible and weird. Again, the explanation for why he's stealing kittens in the first place isn't in the movie either! 4 pages in (there are 128 total) and there are already so many differences! It makes you wonder just how different the rest of the novelization is gonna be, right?

Dex punctures the balloon with a cocktail sword and catches the kittens in midair, before using his price tag gun like a whip/lasso (think Indiana Jones) to hook onto a nearby building and land himself safely in nearby Produce Park. In the movie, Fat Cat gets a line of dialogue as the balloon flies away crying "I just wanna be loved...IS THAT SO WRONG?" that isn't present here at all, but that's about the only difference.

Dex hands over the basket of kittens to Hairy Hold, a fox Ike and the mascot for a brand of hair-care products. This character isn't a part of the scene in the movie, and in fact isn't introduced until later on, but here the novelization briefly tells us who he is and what Dex thinks about him. Dex also changes out of his leather jacket and hat (again, think Indiana Jones) into a fancy white tuxedo, however in the movie he's still in his adventuring getup for the rest of the scene.

As Chapter 1 draws to a close, we're introduced to Hedda Shopper, a newspaper reporter who remarks this is the five-hundredth case he's solved as head of the USDA (the United Supermarket Defense Association, not the United States Department of Agriculture) and asks what his secret is. Dex delivers his catchphrase "The secret's inside", and the chapter draws to a close. There's not a whole lot to say here as this exchange is identical to how it is in the movie.

So, that's Chapter 1 of this strange, strange book. 6 pages in and there are already major diversions from the movie, which is common for novelizations (they're usually based on earlier drafts of a movie's script, e.g. the infamous Back To The Future novelization) but it's especially interesting with Foodfight as it had such a troubled production, and like I mentioned at the start of this blog this appears to be the only copy of the novelization in existence so nobody else has EVER seen this. It's cool to get some insight on how this movie changed over the course of production, right? And that's not even getting into the changes to the story made in later chapters... if you thought THIS was different from the final film, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Stay tuned for the analysis/discussion of Chapter 2, coming soon!

[cheesybadgers]

Name 10 Characters From 10 Fandoms That You Love

Thanks for the tag @alonelyturtle ❤️

1. Javier Peña and Horacio Carrillo from Narcos (Ok a bit of a cheat, I know lol, but I'm sorry, I can't pick one and not the other after everything I've put them through in my fic...these two have become my go-to comfort characters and I will not be taking any questions)

2. Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad (The urge to hug him is still strong)

3. Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler from Better Call Saul (The show already separated McWexler enough as it is, so they once again come as a pair...and I'm classing it as a different fandom to BrBa for the purposes of this game lol)

4. Louis de Pointe du Lac and Lestat de Lioncourt from AMC's Interview with the Vampire (Again, sorry, I can't separate them, they're deranged soulmates, damnit!!)

5. Kendall Roy from Succession (Such a pathetic mess of a man, I can't wait to watch him suffer again next year lol)

6. John Childermass from Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell (I get giddy just thinking about one gruff, eyerolling, 100% done Yorkshire magician)

7. David Rose and Patrick Brewer from Schitt's Creek (Sorry, another couple I couldn't bring myself to separate lol)

8. Faith Lehane from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Not that I realised it at the time, but she was my bi awakening)

9. Leia Organa from Star Wars (Iconic and I always wanted her hair when I was a kid)

10. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy from Star Trek (AOS) (My favourite space grump)

No pressure tags: @mariamariquinha, @thoroughlymodernminutia, @massivecolorspygiant, @queenofthefaceless and anyone else who wants to play!

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Barre Seid gives Ramaswamy $1.6 billion

-Epstein/Wexler fund?

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Update: Ok , acutaluuually given to Leo who will then disperse to Vivek:

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RIP Robert Forster . . .

favourite film boxer / cameraman and tv dad

with a face for the ages 😭

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headcanons for:

dallas / leo / harlan / fin / tj

DALLAS 

Dallas is my resident jock lets talk about what positions you can catch him playing in his various sports.  Baseball is his main and I'd say it's where he finds his most success in most of my verses.  In high school he rotated most infield positions but in college he mostly plays first base where his long wingspan can be utilized.  He's also great at bat and is usually a heavy hitter.  In hockey Dallas plays the right wing position.  Thanks to his large stature while he's not the fastest player on the ice he has incredible aim and shooting skills.  Dallas is also known to be fairly aggressive on the ice.  Basketball rounds out the last of Dallas's favorite sports.  It was the sport most heavily pushed by his father so it's definitely the sport he drops the fastest but while he played he was an excellent shooting guard.  

LEO

Leo has been speaking French as long as he's been speaking English.  His mother is a native French speaker and always dreamed of being able to speak with her children in her native tongue.  All of Leo's nannies have spoken French, but some had varying dialects so he'd pick up regional phrases that would bewilder his mother.  It's his instinct to curse in French before English and the more passionate he is speaking about something the more likely he is to accidentally slip in a french word or phrase as his mind is going a mile a minute.  

HARLAN

For many years after his mother's disappearance it was just Harlan and his father, Mathias.  How they each handled that trauma was two sides of the same coin while Harlan became obsessed with the case, Mathias shut it out entirely.  The more time that went by the less Mathias spoke of his late wife.  Despite his silence Harlan was still very surprised when his father remarried about ten years later.   Harlan was 23 and within the next year he had a half brother on the way.  It takes a while (and a fair amount of therapy) before he can even really address his step mom.  He does eventually come around on being a big brother despite the age difference.  

FIN

Fin's favorite genre of music is classic rock and that has everything to do with the fact that's what they were raised on.  Fin's dad was constantly listening to Rush, Zeppelin, Boston, etc.  It's the music they learned to drum too and is a tether to their father who they don’t have much else in common with. These artists created a pipeline for them getting involved in the punk scene (not something their dad generally approved of but he's a jerk so it doesn't matter what he thinks!!).  While Fin will always have a complicated relationship with their father they are thankful to at least have this brief common ground with him.  

TJ

When TJ first left her small town to pursue her boxing career there was a period where it felt like it was going nowhere.  She spent countless hours training and it felt futile to continue (not even underground clubs wanted to take her on).  She was a newcomer who needed to prove her worth and while she's never one to back down from a challenge she needed a physical outlet that sparring just wasn't doing for her.  So, she was convinced to give roller derby a try despite never being on skates a day in my life.  Learning to skate humbled her and being on the track helped trained her reflexes in a vital way.  After three years TJ hung up her skates when she started booking more fights (she still goes and supports her former teammates whenever possible).  

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[Transcript: Notable Absolute Nightmares: Bert, Mae Borowski, Rose DeWitt Bukater, Enjolras, Paris Geller, Chiron Harris, Sherlock Holmes, Gregory House, Jessica Jones, Kim Kardashian, Larry the Cucumber, Greggory “Gregg” Lee, Robert Pope Leonard, Lumiere, Christine “Lady Bird” MacPherson, Dennis Reynolds, Sufjan Stevens, Ilana Wexler, Woody, Mark Zuckerberg]

[Transcript: Notable Sweaterboys: Abbi Abrams, Bob the Tomato, Cardinal Steven, Cogsworth, Jack Dawson, Angus Delaney, Drake, Ernie, Rory Gilmore, Grantaire, Kevin Jones, Buzz Lightyear, Mac, Bea Santello, Eduardo Saverin, Julianne “Julie” Steffans, Trish Walker, John Watson, Kanye West, James Wilson]

for ppl who weren't on tumblr circa 2018 or otherwise were passed by by The Dynamic i present these screenshots without context (source)

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2. Album Of The Year (General Field)

Award to Artist(s) and to Featured Artist(s), Songwriter(s) of new material, Producer(s), Recording Engineer(s), Mixer(s) and Mastering Engineer(s).

We Are

Jon Batiste

Full album here.

Craig Adams, David Gauthier, Braedon Gautier, Brennon Gautier, Gospel Soul Children Choir, Hot 8 Brass Band, PJ Morton, Autumn Rowe, Zadie Smith, St. Augustine High School Marching 100 & Trombone Shorty, featured artists; Jon Batiste, Mikey Freedom Hart, DJ Khalil, King Garbage, Kizzo, Sunny Levine, Nate Mercereau, David Pimentel, Ricky Reed, Autumn Rowe, Jahaan Sweet & Nick Waterhouse, producers; Jon Batiste, Russ Elevado, Mischa Kachkachishvili, Kizzo, Joseph Lorge, Manny Marroquin, Ken Oriole, David Pimentel, Ricky Reed, Jaclyn Sanchez, Matt Vertere, Marc Whitmore & Alex Williams, engineers/mixers; Andrae Alexander, Troy Andrews, Jon Batiste, Zach Cooper, Vic Dimotsis, Eric Frederic, Kizzo, Sunny Levine, Steve McEwan, PJ Morton, Autumn Rowe & Mavis Staples, songwriters; Michelle Mancini, mastering engineer

Love For Sale

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

Full album here.

Dae Bennett, producer; Dae Bennett, Josh Coleman & Billy Cumella, engineers/mixers; Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone, mastering engineers

Justice (Triple Chucks Deluxe)

Justin Bieber

Full album here.

BEAM, benny blanco, Burna Boy, Daniel Caesar, Chance The Rapper, DaBaby, Dominic Fike, Giveon, Jaden, Tori Kelly, Khalid, The Kid LAROI, Lil Uzi Vert & Quavo, featured artists; Amy Allen, Louis Bell, Jon Bellion, Justin Bieber, benny blanco, BMW Kenny, Capi, Dreamlab, Dvlp, Jason Evigan, FINNEAS, The Futuristics, German, Josh Gudwin, Jimmie Gutch, HARV, Marvin "Tony" Hemmings, Ilya, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Stefan Johnson, KCdaproducer, Denis Kosiak, The Monsters & Strangerz, Jorgen Odegard, Michael Pollack, Poo Bear, Shndo, Skrillex, Jake Torrey, Trackz, Andrew Watt & Ido Zmishlany, producers; Cory Bice, benny blanco, Kevin "Capi" Carbo, Edwin Diaz, DJ Durel, Dreamlab, FINNEAS, Josh Gudwin, Sam Holland, Daniel James, Antonio Kearney, Denis Kosiak, Paul LaMalfa, Jeremy Lertola, Devin Nakao, Chris "TEK" O'Ryan, Andres Osorio, Micah Pettit & Benjamin Thomas, engineers/mixers; Amy Allen, Delacey (Brittany Amaradio), Louis Bell, Jonathan Bellion, Chancelor Johnathon Bennett, Justin Bieber, David Bowden, Jason Boyd, Scott Braun, Tommy Lee Brown, Valentin Brunn, Kevin Carbo, Kenneth Coby, Kevin Coby, Raul Cubina, Jordan Douglas, Giveon Dezmann Evans, Jason Evigan, Dominic David Fike, Kameron Glasper, Jacob Greenspan, Josh Gudwin, James Gutch, Scott Harris, Bernard Harvey, Leah Haywood, Gregory Aldae Hein, Marvin Hemmings, Jeffrey Howard, Alexander Izquierdo, Daniel James, Jace Logan Jennings, Rodney Jerkins, Jordan K. Johnson, Stefan Johnson, Anthony M. Jones, Antonio Kearney, Charlton Kenneth, Joe Khajadourian, Felisha "Fury" King, Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, Matthew Sean Leon, Benjamin Levin, Marcus Lomax, Quavious Keyate Marshall, Luis Manuel Martinez Jr., Sonny Moore, Finneas O’Connell, Jorgen Odegard, Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, Tayla Parx, Oliver Peterhof, Whitney Phillips, Michael Pollack, Khalid Donnel Robinson, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Alex Schwartz, Tia Scola, Aaron Simmonds, Ashton Simmonds, Gian Stone, Ali Tamposi, Ryan Tedder, Tyshane Thompson, Jake Torrey, Billy Walsh, Freddy Wexler, Symere Woods, Andrew Wotman, Rami Yacoub, Keavan Yazdani, Bigram Zayas & Ido Zmishlany, songwriters; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer

Planet Her (Deluxe)

Doja Cat

Full album here.

Eve, Ariana Grande, Gunna, JID, SZA, The Weeknd & Young Thug, featured artists; Aaron Bow, Rogét Chahayed, Crate Classics, Digi, Dr. Luke, f a l l e n, Mayer Hawthorne, Mike Hector, Linden Jay, Aynzli Jones, Kurtis McKenzie, Jason Quenneville, Reef, Khaled Rohaim, Al Shux, Sully, tizhimself, Yeti Beats & Y2K, producers; Rob Bisel, Jesse Ray Ernster, Serban Ghenea, Clint Gibbs, Rian Lewis, NealHPogue, Tyler Sheppard, Kalani Thompson, Joe Visciano & Jeff Ellis Worldwide, engineers/mixers; Ilana Armida, Aaron Bow, Rogét Chahayed, Jamil Chammas, Sheldon Yu-Ting Cheung, Antwoine Collins, Amala Zandile Dlamini, Lukasz Gottwald, Ariana Grande, Mayer Hawthorne, Mike Hector, Aaron Horn, Taneisha Damielle Jackson, Linden Jay, Eve Jihan Jeffers, Aynzli Jones, Sergio Kitchens, Carter Lang, Siddharth Mallick, Maciej Margol-Gromada, Kurtis McKenzie, Jidenna Mobisson, Gerard A. Powell II, Geordan Reid-Campbell, Khaled Rohaim, Destin Route, Solána Rowe, Laura Roy, Al Shuckburgh, David Sprecher, Ari Starace, Lee Stashenko, Abel Tesfaye, Rob Tewlow & Jeffery Lamar Williams, songwriters; Dale Becker & Mike Bozzi, mastering engineers

Happier Than Ever

Billie Eilish

Full album here.

FINNEAS, producer; Billie Eilish, FINNEAS & Rob Kinelski, engineers/mixers; Billie Eilish O'Connell & Finneas O'Connell, songwriters; John Greenham & Dave Kutch, mastering engineers

Back Of My Mind

H.E.R.

Full album here.

Chris Brown, Cordae, DJ Khaled, Lil Baby, Thundercat, Bryson Tiller, Ty Dolla $ign, YG & Yung Bleu, featured artists; Tarik Azzouz, Bordeaux, Nelson Bridges, DJ Camper, Cardiak, Cardo, Chi Chi, Steven J. Collins, Flip, Jeff "Gitty" Gitelman, GRADES, H.E.R., Hit-Boy, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Walter Jones, KAYTRANADA, DJ Khaled, Mario Luciano, Mike Will Made-It, NonNative, NOVA WAV, Scribz Riley, Jeff Robinson, STREETRUNNER, Hue Strother, Asa Taccone, Thundercat, Thurdi & Wu10, producers; Rafael Fai Bautista, Luis Bordeaux, Dee Brown, Anthony Cruz, Ayanna Depas, Morning Estrada, Chris Galland, H.E.R., Jaycen Joshua, KAYTRANADA, Derek Keota, Omar Loya, Manny Marroquin, Tim McClain, Juan "AyoJuan" Peña, Micah Pettit, Patrizio Pigliapoco, Alex Pyle, Jaclyn Sanchez, Miki Tsutsumi & Tito "Earcandy" Vasquez, engineers/mixers; Denisia “Blu June” Andrews, Nasri Atweh, Tarik Azzouz, Stacy Barthe, Jeremy Biddle, Nelson “Keyz” Bridges, Chris Brown, Stephen Bruner, Darhyl Camper Jr., Luis Campozano, Louis Kevin Celestin, Anthony Clemons Jr., Steven J. Collins, Ronald “Flip” Colson, Brittany “Chi” Coney, Elijah Dias, Cordae Dunston, Jeff Gitelman, Tyrone Griffin Jr., Priscilla “Priscilla Renea” Hamilton, H.E.R., Charles A. Hinshaw, Chauncey Hollis, Latisha Twana Hyman, Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson, Rodney Jerkins, Dominique Jones, Khaled Khaled, Ron Latour, Gamal “Lunchmoney” Lewis, Mario Luciano, Carl McCormick, Leon McQuay III, Julia Michaels, Maxx Moore, Vurdell “V. Script” Muller, Chidi Osondu, Karriem Riggins, Mike “Scribz” Riley, Seandrea Sledge, Hue Strother, Asa Taccone, Tiara Thomas, Bryson Tiller, Daniel James Traynor, Brendan Walsh, Nicholas Warwar, Jabrile Hashim Willliams, Michael L. Williams II, Robert Williams & Kelvin Wooten, songwriters; Colin Leonard, mastering engineer

Montero

Lil Nas X

Full album here.

Miley Cyrus, Doja Cat, Jack Harlow, Elton John & Megan Thee Stallion, featured artists; Denzel Baptiste, David Biral, John Cunningham, Omer Fedi, Kuk Harrell, Jasper Harris, KBeaZy, Carter Lang, Nick Lee, Roy Lenzo, Tom Levesque, Jasper Sheff, Blake Slatkin, Drew Sliger, Take A Daytrip, Ryan Tedder & Kanye West, producers; Denzel Baptiste, David Biral, Jon Castelli, John Cunningham, Jelli Dorman, Tom Elmhirst, Serban Ghenea, John Hanes, Kuk Harrell, Roy Lenzo, Manny Marroquin, Nickie Jon Pabon, Patrizio 'Teezio' Pigliapoco, Blake Slatkin, Drew Sliger, Ryan Tedder & Joe Visciano, engineers/mixers; Keegan Bach, Denzel Baptiste, David Biral, John Cunningham, Miley Ray Cyrus, Amala Zandile Dlamini, Omer Fedi, Vincent Goodyer, Jack Harlow, Jasper Harris, Montero Hill, Ilsey Juber, Carter Lang, Nick Lee, Roy Lenzo, Thomas James Levesque, Andrew Luce, Michael Olmo, Jasper Sheff, Blake Slatkin, R.L. Stafford, Ryan Tedder, William K. Ward & Kanye West, songwriters; Chris Gehringer, Eric Lagg & Randy Merrill, mastering engineers

Sour

Olivia Rodrigo

Full album here.

Alexander 23, Daniel Nigro & Olivia Rodrigo, producers; Ryan Linvill, Mitch McCarthy & Daniel Nigro, engineers/mixers; Daniel Nigro, Olivia Rodrigo & Casey Smith, songwriters; Randy Merrill, mastering engineer

Evermore

Taylor Swift

Full album here.

Bon Iver, Haim & The National, featured artists; Jack Antonoff, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner & Taylor Swift, producers; Thomas Bartlett, JT Bates, Robin Baynton, Stuart Bogie, Gabriel Cabezas, CJ Camerieri, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Scott Devendorf, Matt DiMona, Jon Gautier, Trevor Hagen, Mikey Freedom Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Josh Kaufman, Benjamin Lanz, Nick Lloyd, Jonathan Low, James McAlister, Dave Nelson, Sean O'Brien, Ryan Olson, Ariel Rechtshaid, Kyle Resnick, Michael Riddleberger, Laura Sisk, Evan Smith, Alex Sopp & Justin Vernon, engineers/mixers; Jack Antonoff, William Bowery, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Taylor Swift & Justin Vernon, songwriters; Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone, mastering engineers

Donda

Kanye West

Full album here.

Baby Keem, Chris Brown, Conway The Machine, DaBaby, Jay Electronica, Fivio Foreign, Westside Gunn, JAY-Z, Syleena Johnson, Kid Cudi, Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Lil Yachty, The LOX, Marilyn Manson, Playboi Carti, Pop Smoke, Roddy Ricch, Rooga, Travis Scott, Shenseea, Swizz Beatz, Young Thug, Don Toliver, Ty Dolla $ign, Vory, The Weeknd, Westside Gunn & Lil Yachty, featured artists; Allday, Audi, AyoAA, Roark Bailey, Louis Bell, Jeff Bhasker, Boi-1Da, BoogzDaBeast, Warryn Campbell, Cubeatz, David & Eli, Mike Dean, Dem Jointz, Digital Nas, DJ Khalil, DRTWRK, 88-Keys, E.Vax, FNZ, Gesaffelstein, Nikki Grier, Cory Henry, Ronny J, DJ Khalil, Wallis Lane, Digital Nas, Nascent, Ojivolta, Shuko, Sloane, Sean Solymar, Sucuki, Arron “Arrow” Sunday, Swizz Beatz, Zen Tachi, 30 Roc, Bastian Völkel, Mia Wallis, Kanye West, Wheezy & Jason White, producers; Josh Berg, Todd Bergman, Rashade Benani Bevel Sr., Will Chason, Dem Jointz, IRKO, Jess Jackson, Nagaris Johnson, Shin Kamiyama, Gimel "Young Guru" Keaton, James Kelso, Scott McDowell, Kalam Ali Muttalib, Jonathan Pfarr, Drrique Rendeer, Alejandro Rodriguez-Dawson, Mikalai Skrobat, Devon Wilson & Lorenzo Wolff, engineers/mixers; Dwayne Abernathy Jr., Elpadaro F. Electronica Allah, Aswad Asif, Roark Bailey, Durk Banks, Sam Barsh, Christoph Bauss, Louis Bell, Jeff Bhasker, Isaac De Boni, Christopher Brown, Jahshua Brown, Tahrence Brown, Aaron Butts, Warryn Campbell, Hykeem Carter Jr., Jordan Terrell Carter, Shawn Carter, Denzel Charles, Raul Cubina, Isaac De Boni, Kasseem Dean, Michael Dean, Tim Friedrich, Wesley Glass, Samuel Gloade, Kevin Gomringer, Tim Gomringer, Tyrone Griffin Jr., Jahmal Gwin, Cory Henry, Tavoris Javon Hollins Jr., Larry Hoover Jr., Bashar Jackson, Sean Jacob, Nima Jahanbin, Paimon Jahanbin, Syleena Johnson, Dominique Armani Jones, Eli Klughammer, Chinsea Lee, Mike Lévy, Evan Mast, Mark Mbogo, Miles McCollum, Josh Mease, Scott Medcudi, Brian Miller, Rodrick Wayne Moore Jr., Michael Mulé, Mark Myrie, Charles M. Njapa, Nasir Pemberton, Carlos St. John Phillips, Jason Phillips, Khalil Abdul Rahman, Laraya Ashlee Robinson, Christopher Ruelas, David Ruoff, Maxie Lee Ryles III, Matthew Samuels, Daniel Seeff, Eric Sloan Jr., Sean Solymar, Ronald O’Neill Spence Jr., David Styles, Michael Suski, Aqeel Tate, Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, Caleb Zackery Toliver, Bastian Völkel, Brian Hugh Warner, Jacques Webster II, Kanye West, Orlando Wilder, Jeffery Williams & Mark Williams, songwriters; Irko, mastering engineer

[dontbesillyo]

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RIP Carla Cugino's tv dad ;o(

RIP Robert Forster 1941-2019

This truly sucks bigtime! One of my favorite actors Robert Forster has died at 78. He was excellent in so many films and TV shows, even when the film or show was bad, he was consistently good.

Forster in Medium Cool

He has 186 acting credits on his IMDB, several are in my collection. He was the lead in Haskell Wexler’s political drama Medium Cool, one of my favorite Jaws rip-offs Alligator, the doctor in Gus Van Sant’s Psycho remake, the indie Diamond Men, David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, the father-in-law in Alexander Payne’s brilliant The Descendants, small but noteworthy role on Breaking Bad, Sheriff Frank Truman on Lynch’s Twin Peaks revival, and the news sadly comes as he re-appeared in the Breaking Bad role in the just-released El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. 

On Twin Peaks

Possibly his greatest performance of all was the career comeback he got in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. Forster auditioned but didn’t get the part of Joe in Reservoir Dogs, but QT kept him in mind for the bail bondsman Max Cherry in Jackie Brown, his adaptation of Elmore Leonard’s novel. It was such a great performance among a phenomenal cast. After it was released in 1997, so much attention was on star Pam Grier, but then when the Academy Award nominations were announced, Forster was nominated for Best Supporting Actor, the film’s only nomination. Years later, he returned to Elmore Leonard’s universe when he starred on the short-lived but very good Karen Sisco.

Pam Grier and Forster in Jackie Brown

At the 2002 Marco Island Film Festival, I attended the fest with my short To Be John Woo. The lifetime achievement recipient was Forster. Just knowing that my film was selected to be a part of the same festival that Forster was also a part of was a tremendous honor for me. Unfortunately he wasn’t able to make it to the festival because he had been cast in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle at the last minute. But they had a little montage of his films, he called in to say thank you, and they screened his indie film Roads to Riches he did with Rose McGowan.

In the 2000s, I had a screenplay I wrote and one of my casting choices was Forster for a supporting role. Sadly I never got my screenplay to him and never got to direct him.

The link above is the obit from Hollywood Reporter.

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Tagged by @seraphtrevs, thank you!! ❤️

Ten favorite characters from 10 different fandoms. I gotta say, thanks to my level of BCS consumption, I struggled to even think of 10 fandoms I’m in lmao. 

1) Better Call Saul - Kim Wexler 

2) Breaking Bad - Jesse Pinkman

3) Star Trek TOS - Leonard McCoy

4) Star Trek TNG - Data

5) Black Mirror - Colin Ritman 

6) Hannibal - Will Graham  

7) The End of the F***ing World - James

8) Lucifer - Charlotte Richards

9) The Good Place - Janet

10) Sherlock - James Moriarty 

Tagging @aradeia @unremarkable-house @the-regalest @jimmymcgools @callmcgills if you want to participate! 

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Inside  Fotografía

‘Side by side. El impacto del cine digital' ('Side by side’), Christopher Kenneally, 2012, VOSE.

Producido por Keanu Reeves, analiza los pros y los contras de los procesos digitales y los fotoquímicos y muestra la revolución que los nuevos procesos digitales han supuesto en la producción cinematográfica.

Con entrevistas a conocidos directores, directores de fotografía, estudiantes, técnicos, montadores y distribuidores, el documental examina el impacto en todas las fases de producción de una película, desde el rodaje, el montaje, el telecinado o los efectos visuales, hasta su posterior exhibición e incluso el archivo de un largometraje. Intervienen reconocidos directores como Steven Soderbergh, James Cameron, David Lynch, Richard Linklater, Martin Scorsese, los hermanos Wachowski, Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, George Lucas, Lars von Trier y Danny Boyle entre otros.

‘Kodak master class series’. Kodak cinematography.

'Lighting Dances with wolves with Dean Semler’, VO, SE en YouTube.

'Lighting Dead poets society with John Seale’, VO.

'Location lighting with Geoff Burton’, VO.

'Studio lighting a comparative workshop with Dennis McAlphine & Denis Lenoir', VO. 

'Kodak master class series: Shooting for drama', VO.

'Behind the Camera: Freddie Young', Richard Blanshard, VO.

‘Composition in storytelling’, Channel Criswell, 2016, VO, SE en YouTube.

'Colour in storytelling', Channel Criswell, 2016, VO, SE en YouTube.

'135 Shots that will restore your faith in cinema', Flavorwire, 2012, VO.

‘The art of the car chase’, Filmnørdens Hjørne, 2015, VO. Vídeo ensayo.

‘The art of the opening shot’, Filmnørdens Hjørne, 2015, VO. Vídeo ensayo.

‘James Wong Howe: Cinematographer’, University Film, Video Foundation, 1990, VO.

Biografía de James Wong Howe, China, agosto, 28, 1899 – Julio, 12, 1976, director de fotografía de más de 130 películas.

‘Vilmos Zsigmond: Finding the right light’, Phil Whitehead, 2016, VO.

‘What is composition’, Press Play Video Blog, 2014, VO.

'Cinema compilation: Silhouettes', Jacob T. Swinney, 2014, VO.

Recopilación de siluetas presentes a lo largo de la historia del cine.

'Cinema compilation: POV shots', Jacob T. Swinney, 2014, VO.

Recopila varios planos subjetivos pertenecientes a unos cien films, e incluye las perspectivas desde los personajes y también desde objetos inanimados.

Phedon Papamichael.

Janusz Kaminski.

‘Kodak presents a conversation with Janusz Kaminski and Phedon Papamichael’, VO, SE en YouTube.

‘Phedon Papamichael: A life behind te lens’, Alexandros Maragos, 2015, VO.

'Andrew Dominik sobre el arte en la era digital’, Istanbul International Culture Festival, 2012, VO.

‘On Sven Nykvist: With one eye he cries’, Greg Carson, 2004, VO.

Presenta una mirada sobre la obra del director de fotografía Sven Nykvist.

'The motion picture camera: Past, present and future', Jery October, 2014.

Masters of cinematography - ‘Six kinds of light: John Alcott’, BPS, Film on film, 1986, VO, SE en YouTube.

‘Writing with light’, David Thompson, 1992, VO, SE en YouTube.   Vittorio Storaro es unos de los directores de fotografía más importantes e influyentes del pasado cercado y del presente. Entre sus trabajos figuran títulos como ‘Novecento’, ‘El conformista’, ‘El último tango en París’, ‘Golpe al corazón’, ‘Bulworth’, ‘El cielo protector’, ‘Tucker: Un hombre y su sueño’, ‘Apocalypse now’ en la que ganó su primer Oscar en 1979, ‘Rojos’ por la que obtuvo su segundo Oscar en 1981 y ‘El último Emperador’ ganado nuevamente el Oscar en 1987, entre otros films.

En el documental Storaro comenta su trabajo acompañado de varios directores, entre ellos Warren Beatty (trabajó con él en ‘Dick Tracy’ obteniendo una nominación con ella) y Bernardo Bertolucci entre otros, junto a compañeros de la talla de Néstor Almendros. También se presenta footage en el set de ‘Dick Tracy’ y ‘El cielo protector’, comenta sus teorías acerca de la luz y el color en narrativa, y resume la historia de la iluminación en el cine.

‘Visions of light. The Art of cinematography’ ('Maestros de la luz’), Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Stuart Samuel, 1992, VOSE.

Repasa la historia del cine con opiniones de reconocidos directores relacionados con este arte. 'Maestros de la luz’ es una viaje en el tiempo dentro del mundo de la cinematografía, recordando a los artistas que han iluminado algunas de las caras y de las escenas más hermosas en las 125 mejores películas de los últimos 100 años.

En 'Maestros de la luz’, que es un tributo cariñoso a la historia de la cinematografía, participan mediante entrevistas y opiniones Ernest Dickerson, Michael Chapman, Allen Daviau, Caleb Deschanel, Lisa Rinzler, Conrad L. Hall, William A. Fraker, John Bailey, Néstor Almendros, Charles D. Rasher, Vilmos Zsigmond, Stephen H. Burum, Harry L. Wolf y Charles Lang entre otros.

‘No subtitles necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos’, James Chressanthis, 2008, VO.

Retrato de las vidas y carreras de László Kovacs y Vilmos Zgismond, dos de los grandes directores de fotografía de la historia del cine. Desde sus inicios como refugiados húngaros huidos del comunismo hasta sus triunfos en Hollywood y su contribución a la revolución de la industria con la nueva ola americana. Incluye declaraciones de directores, actores y otros directores de fotografía, todos expresando su admiración por el arte y el éxito de estos dos maestros que nunca dejaron de ser amigos toda la vida.

Con la presencia de Vilmos Zsigmond, László Kovács, Vittorio Storaro, John Boorman, Richard Donner, Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Rafelson, Leonard Maltin, Ellen Kuras, Steven Poster, Rob McLachlan, Haskell Wexler, Sandra Bullock, Karen Black, Tatum O’Neal, John Williams, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Sharon Stone, Jon Voight, Allen Daviau y Owen Roizman entre otros.

‘In the mood for Doyle’, Yves Montmayeur, 2007, VO.

Durante un año el inquieto realizador de documentales Montmayeur compartió la imprevisible agenda de Christopher Doyle, veterano y solicitado director de fotografía que ha definido nuevas estéticas visuales y ha trabajado con directores de la talla de Wong Kar-wai o M. Night Shyamalan entre otros muchos. Un trepidante y cosmopolita retrato de este genuino artista australiano.

‘Cinematographer style’, Jon Fauer, 2006, VO.

Trata sobre el arte de la cinematografía y de cómo funciona, desde las experiencias de vida a la tecnología, las influencias y las formas del estilo visual de un individuo. Debido al fuerte impacto que el estilo visual de una película puede tener, este documental puede ofrecer a los contemporáneos información valiosa sobre las opciones dramáticas que toman los cineastas, y se espera que el material tendrá un valor histórico significativo.

Con la participación de Remi Adefarasin, Russ T. Alsobrook, Howard A. Anderson III, Howard A. Anderson, Peter Anderson, Roger Deakins, Vittorio Storaro, László Kovács, Gordon Willis, Haskell Wexler y Vilmos Zsigmond entre otros.

‘Light and shadow. Greatest cinematographers of the World’, Steve Weiss, 2014, VO.

Directores de fotografía legendarios comparten sus puntos de vista sobre su profesión y lo que significa para ellos.

El documental ganó el Premio Emmy en dos categorías por parte de la Academia Nacional de Artes y Ciencias Televisivas (NATAS) en 2013.

Con la participación de Vilmos Zsigmond, Richard Crudo, Philip Bloom, Polly Morgan, Conrad Hall, Frederic Goodich, Stephen Goldblatt, Ryan Walters, Den Lennie, Michael Negrin, Nancy Schreider, Francis Kenny, Stephen Lighthill, Michael Koerbel, Daryn Okada, Victor Kemper, Mick Jones, Ron Garcia, Rodney Charters, Russell Boyd, Isidore Mankofsky, Colt Seman, Gordon Willis, Roger Deakins, Vittorio Storaro y Alan Thatcher entre otros.

‘Cameraman: The life and work of Jack Cardiff’, Craig McCall, 2010, VOSE.

Sobre el cámara y director de cine Jack Cardiff, 1914 - 2009, quien en 2001 se convirtió en el primer director de fotografía en ganar un Oscar honorífico, y durante setenta años ejerció su carrera en Inglaterra, Estados Unidos y otros países.

Con la presencia de Jack Cardiff, Martin Scorsese, Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, John Mills, Alan Parker, Thelma Schoonmaker, Freddie Francis, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Richard Fleischer, Peter Yates, Kathleen Byron, Christopher Challis, Kevin McClory, Ian Christie, Moira Shearer, Peter Handford, George E. Turner, Michel Ciment, Michael Powell, Dustin Hoffman, Humphrey Bogart, Sophia Loren, Craig McCall, Niki Cardiff y Deborah Kerr entre otros.

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Yehuda’s Soft Tissue Sarcoma Story

New Story has been published on https://enzaime.com/yehudas-soft-tissue-sarcoma-story/

Yehuda’s Soft Tissue Sarcoma Story

When six-year-old Yehuda developed sudden, unexplainable leg pain, his parents were stunned when he was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare cancer that involves the bone and soft tissue. Because the tumor was located near his spine, Yehuda was at risk of losing the use of his leg. His family brought him to Memorial Sloan Kettering, where Yehuda had four rounds of chemotherapy before undergoing a 14-hour surgery to remove the tumor and preserve the use of his leg.

Yehuda Furman was not the kind of six-year-old boy who complained much. So it was something of a surprise when during the April 2005 Passover holiday, Yehuda started to complain about a pain in his leg. That night he was crying in his sleep from the pain and by the next morning, it had become so bad that he could not walk.

Yehuda’s parents, Mark and Miriam, immediately took him to his pediatrician. After an examination and a series of blood tests, the doctor asked the Furmans to try and remember if Yehuda had been involved in any recent accidents.

“The one thing we could think of,” Miriam remembers, “is a fall he had taken off the monkey bars in the neighborhood playground a number of days earlier.” Based on this and a spike in Yehuda’s temperature, the pediatrician’s initial diagnosis was transient synovitis of the hip, a condition in which the hip joint’s inner lining, known as the synovium, becomes inflamed.

Trying to Find a Diagnosis

The doctor made an emergency appointment with an orthopedist. After ordering x-rays, the orthopedist reviewed the results of the initial blood tests, which included abnormally high white blood cell counts, suggesting an infection. Because the x-rays did show a fluid buildup in the affected hip joint, the orthopedist became concerned that Yehuda might be suffering from a bacterial infection, which could affect his heart. Yehuda was immediately admitted to the local hospital.

Further testing in the hospital’s emergency department seemed to discount the possibility of a bacterial infection, with the emergency room doctors still suspecting transient synovitis. However, while not positive of the diagnosis and with Yehuda in increasing pain and running a fever, the doctors admitted Yehuda for observation and testing. Meanwhile, the pain had moved from Yehuda’s upper leg down to his calf and foot. The pain was so bad that he couldn’t walk and would barely let anyone touch his leg for an examination.

“Not being satisfied with their explanations, I asked the doctor if it could be something more serious,” Mark says. “But he looked at me like I was nuts, saying with firmness ’This is a bone infection. We just don’t know exactly where the infection is located.’”

By the morning of the following day, Wednesday, as the discharge papers were being prepared, Yehuda’s temperature spiked again. The pain was now so bad that he had to be placed on a morphine drip. On Thursday, doctors performed an MRI and an ultrasound of his hip joint and lower extremities. When both those screening exams proved inconclusive, the radiologist performed a CT scan.

“It’s Bad. It’s Real Bad.”

After another long hour’s wait, the orthopedist called with the news. Mark and Miriam will never forget his first words: “It’s bad. It’s real bad.” He went on to explain that the CT scans revealed a tumor that had penetrated Yehuda’s spinal cord. It was located in the upper sacrum, which is the large triangular bone located between the two hip bones at the base of the spine.

The doctors suspected cancer and the oncologist on call at the hospital that day ordered a biopsy of the tumor for the following morning. At the same time, Mark’s brother-in-law took a copy of the films to be reviewed by a neuroradiologist at NYU Medical Center.

“If It’s Cancer, We Want to be at Sloan Kettering”

The surgeon who was supposed to perform the biopsy informed the Furmans that they did not have the expertise to perform surgery on a tumor in such a “tricky” location. The surgeon canceled the biopsy, explaining that when possible, the doctor who performs the surgery should be the one performing the biopsy. When they asked who did have the expertise, they were given the names of two doctors — one at Mt. Sinai Medical Center and Patrick J. Boland, an orthopedic surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering. “Our thinking was, If it’s cancer, we want to be at Sloan Kettering,” Miriam explains.

“Literally a minute later,” Mark adds, “my brother-in-law called from NYU and said that their initial diagnosis from looking at the scans was Ewing sarcoma.” (A rare cancer that involves the bone as well as the soft tissue, Ewing sarcoma was first described in 1921 by Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist James Ewing.) The advice he passed along to Mark and Miriam was that they should see Leonard Wexler, a pediatric oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering who specializes in the treatment of children with bone and soft tissue sarcomas. “At that time, we didn’t even realize that Dr. Boland was a surgeon and Dr. Wexler was a medical oncologist,” Mark says, laughing at the memory.

Two hours later, after a series of phone calls, Yehuda was in an ambulance being transferred to Memorial Sloan Kettering. “Our world was being turned upside down,” Miriam remarks. Mark went along with Yehuda, while Miriam went home to attend to the couple’s three other children.

“We had our initial consultation with Dr. Wexler, who was very conservative,” Mark recounts. “Until he had the results of all the tests, especially of the biopsy, which still needed to be done, he didn’t want to assume it was cancer.”

Wednesday Biopsy, Friday Diagnosis Confirmed

Yehuda was admitted to Memorial Sloan Kettering on a Friday afternoon. CT and MRI scans were completed on Saturday, and the biopsy was performed on Wednesday. By Friday, it was confirmed: Yehuda had Ewing sarcoma. The Furmans had their initiation meeting with Dr. Wexler that day, and on Saturday Yehuda started the three-cycle presurgery chemotherapy portion of his treatment, which was given to shrink the tumor so it could be safely removed by surgery. (Some patients, depending on the location, extent, and type of the tumor, also receive radiation therapy as part of the Ewing sarcoma treatmentcombination.)

The tumor’s location near the spine meant that three nerve clusters leading to the leg might be involved. If these nerves had to be removed as part of the surgery, or were damaged during the surgery (or radiation), there would be a very real chance that Yehuda would lose the use of that leg. (The three nerves potentially involved were the S1 nerve, which controls the bottom of the foot and the calf muscle; the S2, which controls the hamstring muscle; and the L5, which controls the quadriceps muscle.)

“You know you’re going to have this life and death fight ahead of you,” Mark explains. “You look at the survival statistics, and you hope and pray that your child will end up at the good end of the numbers. But you also are forced to deal with the fact that all these dreams you had for your child may not come true. I had dreamt of playing baseball with my son, and now doctors were telling me that even if he beats cancer he may never walk again.”

Superb Prognosis Meets Rough Start of Treatment

Still, the Furmans never allowed themselves to be pessimistic about Yehuda’s chance of survival. “It helped that Dr. Wexler told us that Yehuda had a ’superb’ prognosis, meaning it was a treatable subtype of Ewing sarcoma that was caught much earlier than these type of tumors usually are — seven days versus the typical three to four months,” Mark says. “So they caught it early, before it had a chance to spread too far. And though the location was obviously not ideal for having to remove it, being near all those nerves, it did generate a lot of immediate pain, which gave us this early-warning signal.”

You need to go to a place with experts in treating your child’s cancer. That’s why we went to Memorial Sloan Kettering.

Mark FurmanYehuda’s Father

The Furmans split the days into shifts, with Miriam spending days with Yehuda at the hospital and Mark spending nights. The night after the first chemotherapy treatment was difficult. “He started vomiting, which alternated with uncontrollable diarrhea,” Mark says, wincing at the memory. “He couldn’t walk, so I was carrying him back and forth from the bathroom. In the middle of all of this, he looked up at me and asked, ’Am I dying?’ I told him no, that it was just his body trying to get rid of the chemo, which he was taking to kill the blob. That’s how we referred to the cancer, as ’the blob.’ That was the worst night. By the next day, the doctors and nurses figured out which combination of antinausea drugs would work for Yehuda.”

After the second cycle of chemotherapy was completed, Yehuda was rescanned to determine if the tumor was shrinking. While the tumor had shrunk considerably as a result of the chemotherapy, Dr. Boland still considered it to be too close to the spinal cord to remove safely with good margins, meaning that no tumor cells would be left behind. Leaving cells behind would require the use of radiation to kill them, which could possibly affect the nearby tissue, thereby negating the benefits of surgery.

Following the completion of the third round of chemotherapy, Dr. Boland was still not comfortable doing the surgery because he felt there was a high probability that Yehuda would require radiation therapy to deal with the cancer cells in the margins. As a result of the complexity resulting from the tumor location, Yehuda’s case was brought before a group of orthopedic specialists — called the Orthopedic Tumor Review Board — who review orthopedic cases at Memorial Sloan Kettering. While the Furmans prepared Yehuda for radiation treatment — a process that involved meeting the radiation team, discussing possible treatment and late effects, and going through the set-up and radiation simulation — Yehuda began the fourth cycle of chemotherapy. The plan was to start radiation after the fourth cycle was finished.

Towards the completion of the fourth cycle, the Orthopedic Tumor Review Board concluded that there was a 75 percent chance that Dr. Boland could remove the entire tumor. This left the Furmans with a choice. “Our personal opinion was that radiation was the last resort,” Mark notes. “We believed that surgery would give Yehuda the best chance of survival.” The Furmans discussed the options with Drs. Wexler and Boland and the decision was made to go ahead with surgery.

Seven-Hour Surgery Becomes 14 Hours

The day of surgery, August 22, 2005, will forever be etched in the Furmans’ minds. They were told that the surgery would most likely last about seven hours. Mark remembers the sight of Yehuda being wheeled into surgery, holding his beloved Nintendo Game Boy video game above his face. Unfortunately for the Furmans, who were waiting anxiously, the expected seven-hour surgery, which began at nine in the morning, turned into a 14-hour marathon procedure. “The nurses were good at giving us updates every two hours, but by five o’clock, the waiting area started to thin out and we began to worry,” Mark says. “By seven o’clock, we were one of the few families left.”

Around ten o’clock, Dr. Boland came out to tell the Furmans that while the surgery had gone well, the tumor being removed with good margins, they were having some difficulty stopping the bleeding. At 11 o’clock, they received word that the bleeding had been stopped. When they spoke with Dr. Boland at 1:00 am, he explained that the chemo had shrunk the tumor much more than he had initially expected. He said he had worked hard to preserve the S2 and L5 nerves, but to remove the entire tumor he had had to cut the S1 nerve. Still, he felt very positive about Yehuda’s chances to maintain function.

Full Lower-Body Cast, Post-Surgery Chemo, and Finally, Success

After recovering from the marathon surgery, Yehuda was placed in a full lower-body cast to straighten his leg and to protect the structure at the base of the spine supporting the lower limbs. His legs were separated in the cast by a sawed-off broomstick. “He couldn’t sit up,” Mark remembers. “He couldn’t roll over. He couldn’t do anything. It was rough.” Miriam agrees, “It was nuts, but we would use the broomstick as a handle. You’d put one arm beneath his back and one hand on the broomstick and that’s how we would carry him. We’d have to go through doors sideways!”

Yehuda received three cycles of postsurgery chemotherapy, which was meant to kill any remaining cancer cells. The final cycle was completed in November 2005, approximately six months after he was diagnosed. He was walking again by February. More than three years later, not only can Yehuda walk, he runs, jumps, and climbs just like any other healthy nine-year-old boy.

Yehuda has made an extraordinary and near-total neurologic recovery. I was privileged to see him running around camp with his mischievous smile, being just a ‘regular’ kid, less than two years after his surgery.

When asked if they have any advice for other families going through a similar cancer experience, the Furmans are realistic. “The good news is, when you’re going through this hugely traumatic experience, it’s all sort of a blur,” Mark recounts. “You’re so caught up in the survival aspect of everything that you just do whatever needs to be done. We never really sat down and discussed how crazy everything we went through was until much later, when it was all over with. Which is how you survive it. Getting as much information as you possibly can also helps. As a parent, you have to be your child’s best advocate.”

“And you need to go to a place with experts in treating your child’s cancer,” Mark adds. “That’s why we went to Memorial Sloan Kettering. Dr. Boland and Dr. Wexler saved our son’s life. We will be forever indebted to them both.”

[burgerfiction]

Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (1927/28) - Charles Rosher & Karl Struss

White Shadows In The South Seas (1928/29) - Clyde De Vinna

With Byrd At The South Pole (1929/30) - Joseph T. Rucker & Willard Van der Veer

Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas (1930/31) - Floyd Crosby

Shanghai Express (1931/32) - Lee Garmes

A Farewell To Arms (1932/33) - Charles Lang

Cleopatra (1934) - Victor Milner

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935) - Hal Mohr

Anthony Adverse (1936 B&W) - Tony Gaudio

The Garden Of Allah (1936 COLOR) - W. Howard Greene & Harold Rosson

The Good Earth (1937 B&W) - Karl Freund

A Star Is Born (1937 COLOR) - W. Howard Greene

The Great Waltz (1938 B&W) - Joseph Ruttenberg

Sweethearts (1938 COLOR) - Oliver T. Marsh & Allen Davey

Wuthering Heights (1939 B&W) - Gregg Toland

Gone With The Wind (1939 COLOR) - Ernest Haller & Ray Rennahan

Rebecca (1940 B&W) - George Barnes

The Thief Of Bagdad (1940 COLOR) - Georges Perinal

How Green Was My Valley (1941 B&W) - Arthur C. Miller

Blood And Sand (1941 COLOR) - Ernest Palmer & Ray Rennahan

Mrs. Miniver (1942 B&W) - Joseph Ruttenberg

The Black Swan (1942 COLOR) - Leon Shamroy

The Song Of Bernadette (1943 B&W) - Arthur C. Miller

Phantom Of The Opera (1943 COLOR) - Hal Mohr & W. Howard Greene

Laura (1944 B&W) - Joseph LaShelle

Wilson (1944 COLOR) - Leon Shamroy

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1945 B&W) - Harry Stradling

Leave Her To Heaven (1945 COLOR) - Leon Shamroy

Anna And The King Of Siam (1945 B&W) - Arthur C. Miller

The Yearling (1946 COLOR) - Charles Rosher, Leonard Smith & Arthur E. Arling

Great Expectations (1947 B&W) - Guy Green

Black Narcissus (1947 COLOR) - Jack Cardiff

The Naked City (1948 B&W) - William H. Daniels

Joan Of Arc (1948 COLOR) - Joseph A. Valentine, William V. Skall & Winton Hoch

Battleground (1949 B&W) - Paul C. Vogel

She Wore A Yellow Ribbon (1949 COLOR) - Winton Hoch

The Third Man (1950 B&W) - Robert Krasker

King Solomon’s Mines (1950 COLOR) - Robert Surtees

A Place In The Sun (1951 B&W) - William C. Mellor

An American In Paris (1951 COLOR) - Alfred Gilks & John Alton

The Bad And The Beautiful (1952 B&W) - Robert Surtees

The Quiet Man (1952 COLOR) - Winton Hoch & Archie Stout

From Here To Eternity (1953 B&W) - Burnett Guffey

Shane (1953 COLOR) - Loyal Griggs

On The Waterfront (1954 B&W) - Boris Kaufman

Three Coins In The Fountain (1954 COLOR) - Milton R. Krasner

The Rose Tattoo (1955 B&W) - James Wong Howe

To Catch A Thief (1955 COLOR) - Robert Burks

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956 B&W) - Joseph Ruttenberg

Around The World In 80 Days (1956 COLOR) - Lionel Lindon

The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) - Jack Hildyard

The Defiant Ones (1958 B&W) - Sam Leavitt

Gigi (1958 COLOR) - Joseph Ruttenberg

The Diary Of Anne Frank (1959 B&W) - William C. Mellor

Ben-Hur (1959 COLOR) - Robert Surtees

Sons And Lovers (1960 B&W) - Freddie Francis

Spartacus (1960 COLOR) - Russel Metty

The Hustler (1961 B&W) - Eugen Schufftan

West Side Story (1961 COLOR) - Daniel L. Fapp

The Longest Day (1962 B&W) - Jean Bourgoin & Walter Wottitz

Lawrence Of Arabia (1962 COLOR) - Freddie Young

Hud (1963 B&W) - James Wong Howe

Cleopatra (1963 COLOR) - Leon Shamroy

Zorba The Greek (1964 B&W) - Walter Lassally

My Fair Lady (1964 COLOR) - Harry Stradling

Ship Of Fools (1965 B&W) - Ernest Laszlo

Doctor Zhivago (1965 COLOR) - Freddie Young

Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? (1966 B&W) - Haskell Wexler

A Man For All Seasons (1966 COLOR) - Ted Moore

Bonnie And Clyde (1967) - Burnett Guffey

Romeo And Juliet (1968) - Pasqualino De Santis

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid (1969) - Conrad L. Hall

Ryan’s Daughter (1970) - Freddie Young

Fiddler On The Roof (1971) - Oswald Morris

Cabaret (1972) - Geoffrey Unsworth

Cries And Whispers (1973) - Sven Nykvist

The Towering Inferno (1974) - Fred J. Koenekamp & Joseph F. Biroc

Barry Lyndon (1975) - John Alcott

Bound For Glory (1976) - Haskell Wexler

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) - Vilmos Zsigmond

Days Of Heaven (1978) - Nestor Almendros

Apocalypse Now (1979) - Vittorio Storaro

Tess (1980) - Geoffrey Unsworth & Ghislain Cloquet

Reds (1981) - Vittorio Storaro

Gandhi (1982) - Billy Williams & Ronnie Taylor

Fanny And Alexander (1983) - Sven Nykvist

The Killing Fields (1984) - Chris Menges

Out Of Africa (1985) - David Watkin

The Mission (1986) - Chris Menges

The Last Emperor (1987) - Vittorio Storaro

Mississippi Burning (1988) - Peter Biziou

Glory (1989) - Freddie Francis

Dances With Wolves (1990) - Dean Semler

JFK (1991) - Robert Richardson

A River Runs Through It (1992) - Philippe Rousselot

Schindler’s List (1993) - Janusz Kaminski

Legends Of The Fall (1994) - John Toll

Braveheart (1995) - John Toll

The English Patient (1996) - John Seale

Titanic (1997) - Russell Carpenter

Saving Private Ryan (1998) - Janusz Kaminski

American Beauty (1999) - Conrad L. Hall

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Peter Pau

The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring (2001) - Andrew Lesnie

Road To Perdition (2002) - Conrad L. Hall

Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World (2003) - Russell Boyd

The Aviator (2004) - Robert Richardson

Memoirs Of A Geisha (2005) - Dion Beebe

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) - Guillermo Navarro

There Will Be Blood (2007) - Robert Elswit

Slumdog Millionaire (2008) - Anthony Dod Mantle

Avatar (2009) - Mauro Fiore

Inception (2010) - Wally Pfister

Hugo (2011) - Robert Richardson

Life Of Pi (2012) - Claudio Miranda

Gravity (2013) - Emmanuel Lubezki

Birdman (2014) - Emmanuel Lubezki

The Revenant (2015) - Emmanuel Lubezki

La La Land (2016) - Linus Sandgren

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - Roger Deakins

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亞當•山德勒

H0128：天方夜談的主角，無厘頭的故事編演者。20221119W6

維基百科介紹：

亞當·理查·山德勒是一位美國電影演員、電影製作人。在成為一名傑出的喜劇人和在美國喜劇節目《週六夜現場》之後，山德勒晉升為好萊塢的重要演員，並且演出了7部製作預算超過1億美元的大型電影。 維基百科

出生資訊： 1966 年 9 月 9 日（56歲），美國紐約紐約布鲁克林

身高： 1.77 公尺

配偶： 潔奇・山德勒 (結婚於 2003 年)

子女： 莎蒂·麥狄遜·山德勒， 珊妮・瑪德琳・山德勒

兄弟姊妹： 斯科特·山德勒， 伊莉莎白·山德勒， 薇樂莉·山德勒

父母： 史丹利·山德勒， 茱蒂·山德勒

電影

年份標題角色職位附註演員監製編劇1989下水（英語：Going Overboard）Schecky Moskowitz1991搖晃小丑（英語：Shakes the Clown）Dink the Clown1993尖頭外星族Carmine Weiner1994搖滾總動員（英語：Airheads）Pip救命恩人Louie1995阿呆闖學府（英語：Billy Madison）Billy Madison1996高爾夫球也瘋狂Happy Gilmore冤家路窄Archie Moses1998婚禮歌手Robbie Hart下流勾當（英語：Dirty Work (1998 film)）Satan客串；未掛名[1]呆呆向前衝（英語：The Waterboy）Robert "Bobby" Boucher, Jr.���執行製片人1999冒牌老爸（英語：Big Daddy (1999 film)）Sonny Koufax執行製片人哈拉猛男秀（英語：Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo）Robert Justin配音

客串；未掛名[2]

兼執行製片人2000魔鬼接班人（英語：Little Nicky）Nicky執行製片人2001獸性大發Townie客串

兼執行製片人傻喬歷險記（英語：Joe Dirt）—執行製片人2002凸槌大亨（英語：Mr. Deeds）Mr. Longfellow Deeds執行製片人戀愛雞尾酒Barry Egan驚奇八夜（英語：Eight Crazy Nights）Davey Stone，Whitey Duvall，Eleanore Duvall配音驚奇八夜（英語：Eight Crazy Nights）Mambuza Bongo Guy客串；未掛名[3]

兼執行製片人變裝大師（英語：The Master of Disguise）—執行製片人2003抓狂管訓班（英語：Anger Management (film)）Dave Buznik執行製片人波利死後（英語：Pauly Shore Is Dead）他自己配音

客串扭轉過去（英語：Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star）—2004我的失憶女友Henry Roth真情快譯通（英語：Spanglish (film)）John Clasky2005鐵男總動員Paul Crewe執行製片人哈拉猛男秀2：歐亞種馬（英語：Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo）Mike Bigelow客串；未掛名[4]2006命運好好玩Michael Newman賴家宅男（英語：Grandma's Boy (2006 film)）—執行製片人冷板凳少棒隊（英語：The Benchwarmers）—2007從心開始Charles "Charlie" Fineman當我們「假」在一起Charles "Chuck" Levine2008特勤沙龍Zohan Dvir / Scrappy Coco天方夜談Skeeter Bronson瘋狂野生秀（英語：Strange Wilderness）—執行製片人女郎我最兔—2009命運好好笑（英語：Funny People）George Simmons百貨戰警—近道抄出命（英語：The Shortcut）—執行製片人2010亞當等大人Leonard "Lenny" Feder2011愛情大臨演Dr. Daniel Leroy "Danny" Maccabee III全民情獸Donald the Capuchin Monkey配音龍鳳大雙胞（英語：Jack and Jill (2011 film)）Jack Sadelstein / Jill Sadelstein脫星世家（英語：Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star）—2012我老爸卡好Donald "Donny" Berger尖叫旅社德古拉配音

兼執行製片人好景在望—執行製片人2013亞當等大人2（英語：Grown Ups 2）Leonard "Lenny" Feder2014當我們混在一起Jim Friedman雲端男女（英語：Men, Women & Children (film)）Don Truby命運鞋奏曲（英語：The Cobbler (2014 film)）Max Simkin喜劇人生他自己客串2015世界大對戰Sam Brenner我就是克里斯法利（英語：I Am Chris Farley）他自己紀錄片百貨戰警2—尖叫旅社2德古拉配音

兼執行製片人荒唐六蛟龍（英語：The Ridiculous 6）Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn2016假死新人生（英語：The Do-Over）Max Kessler2017魯蛇鳥經紀（英語：Sandy Wexler）Sandy Wexler邁耶維茨家的故事 (全新增訂版)Danny MeyerowitzPuppy!（英語：Hotel Transylvania (franchise)#Puppy!）德古拉配音

短片2018The Week Of（英語：The Week Of）Kenny Lustig尖叫旅社3：怪獸假期德古拉配音

兼執行製片人Adam Sandler 100% Fresh他自己獨角喜劇電影2019奪命鴛殃Nick Spitz原鑽Howard Ratner2020Goldman v SilvermanRod Goldman短片；未掛名小姐妳哪位？（英語：The Wrong Missy）萬聖節救星修比Hubie Dubois2022必勝球探Stanley Beren波希米亞太空人（英語：Spaceman (upcoming film)）Jakub Prochãzka奪命鴛殃2（英語：Murder Mystery 2）Nick Spit

電視

年份標題角色附註1987–88天才老爹Smitty4集1987–90Remote Control（英語：Remote Control (game show)）The Stud Boy and the Trivia Delinquent主要演員

遊戲節目1990The Marshall ChroniclesUsher單集："Brightman SATyricon"1990ABC課後特別時間（英語：ABC Afterschool Special）Drug Dealer單集："Testing Dirty"1990–95週六夜現場Various87集1993賴瑞桑德斯秀（英語：The Larry Sanders Show）他自己Episode: "Hank's Wedding"2001主修未定（英語：Undeclared）他自己單集："The Assistant"2003CouchCouch Testing Guy電視短片2005GetawayHenry Roth單集："Found"2007–13約會規則執行製片人2007皇后區之王（英語：The King of Queens）Jeff "The Beast" Sussman未掛名；單集："Mild Bunch"[5]2009芝麻街他自己2集2013小潔的保姆日記他自己單集："Punched Dumped Love"2014神煩警察他自己單集："Operation: Broken Feather"2016、2018凱文的退休生活（英語：Kevin Can Wait）Jimmy Lander未掛名；2集2017真實的勞勃（英語：Real Rob）Adam單集："Authentic Self"2020家庭電影：公主新娘（英語：Home Movie: The Princess Bride）Grandfather單集："As You Wish"德魯·巴里摩爾秀（英語：The Drew Barrymore Show）他自己單集："Cameron Diaz, Lucy Liu, Adam Sandler"

關閉

喜劇專輯

《They're All Gonna Laugh At You!》（1993年）

《What The Hell Happened To Me?》（1996年）

《What's Your Name?》（1997年）

《Stan and Judy's Kid》（1999年）

《Shhh...Don't Tell》（2004）

獎項和提名