#Leslie Moran

[fabiansteinhauer]

[paulandjohn]

John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs tells the story of the tempestuous, tender, intimate, phenomenally creative relationship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It’s about how two damaged young men merged their souls and multiplied their talents to create one of the greatest bodies of music in history.

It starts in 1957, when the two of them meet, before taking us through their rise to fame, stupendous success, acrimonious split and aftermath. I tell the story through songs, since it’s my belief that it’s impossible to understand the music of the Beatles except through the alchemy between John and Paul - and you can’t understand that alchemy except through the songs. John & Paul offers a whole new narrative of the Beatles; one which scrapes away the clichés in order to reveal the group and its two principals afresh. It’s a story full of joy, love, pain and pathos. But don’t take my word for it…

The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.

Caitlin Moran

No writer has ever gotten to the heart of the John/Paul saga as brilliantly as Ian Leslie. This extraordinary book sheds light on a cultural mystery: how two nowhere boys from Liverpool formed a teenage bond that transformed the future, and in so many ways, invented it. John and Paul is a bold, original, empathetic revelation of why our world is still fascinated by this friendship-and still trying to live up to it.

Rob Sheffield

I’ve been working on this book for the last three years and it’s now pretty much done - we’re in the very last round of copy edits. It’s the best thing I’ve ever written and I can’t wait to share the whole thing with you. The notes section has been completed (I am so glad to say). The pages have been typeset. Most excitingly: we have a jacket design. Actually two, because John & Paul has two terrific publishers, one in the UK (Faber), one in the US (Celadon).

The Ruffian is deeply intertwined with John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs. The book sprang from a long piece that I wrote about McCartney on here back in 2020. It went so unexpectedly viral that I started to think, huh, what if…? I’d already been thinking, vaguely, of a book about the two of them, but now it seemed viable. I got a similar response to my piece on Peter Jackson’s Get Back, also published on The Ruffian. Those two pieces became my kind of standard for the book - I wanted the whole thing to elicit as powerful a response as they did.

It’s been a massive undertaking and without income from The Ruffian I simply wouldn’t have had time to do this story justice. Over the months to come, especially as we get nearer to publication, I’ll be sending J&P-related posts exclusively to paid subscribers. These will include pieces on the writing of the book, extra material I had to leave out, and perhaps some extracts. There will be other goodies too; my publishers have some exciting plans.

YOU CAN NOW PRE-ORDER ‘JOHN & PAUL’

Yes, it’s out there on the virtual shelves, waiting for you. And I would absolutely love you to pre-order (to those of you annoyed by this arguably redundant term, I apologise but it’s handy).

Every sale of this book counts but some sales count more than others. Pre-orders are simply more valuable to authors. Why? Because they move the algorithmic needles. The more orders a book receives before its publication date, the more prominence the retailers give it when it arrives, and so the better it does on release It’s all about the big mo. The prize is a spot on the bestseller lists in that first week. So let’s give it a go…

If you can afford it, please smash your preferred link and get your order in now (UK and US retailers below):

UK

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U.S.

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[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Season 1 Episode 8

My Hero - Model of Blossom (aka The Lady Editor) - NBC - December 27, 1952

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Robert Cummings, Jack Elinson and Norman Paul

Produced by Edmund Beloin, Robert Cummings and Mort Greene

Directed by Leslie Goodwins and Oscar Rudolph

Stars:

Bob Cummings as Robert Beanblossom

John Litel as Willis Thackery

Julie Bishop as Julie Marshall

Dolores Moran as Rosalind Turner

Jerome Cowan as Mr. Norman

Fritz Feld as Maitre d'

[ulkaralakbarova]

Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Hunter Conrad: Haley Bennett Richie Conrad: Austin Stowell Katherine Conrad: Elizabeth Marvel Michael Conrad: David Rasche Erwin William: Denis O’Hare Lucy: Luna Lauren Velez Alice: Zabryna Guevara Luay: Laith Nakli Aaron: Babak Tafti Bev: Nicole Kang Nurse: Myra Lucretia Taylor Dr. Santos: Maya Days Jill: Alyssa Bresnahan Nim: Olivia Perez Lillian: Kristi Kirk Dr. Reyes: Elise Santora Film Crew: Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis Editor: Joe Murphy Director of Photography: Katelin Arizmendi Assistant Location Manager: Lauren Andrade Associate Producer: Gregory Horoupian Producer: Mynette Louie Producer: Frédéric Fiore Co-Executive Producer: Katy Drake Bettner Associate Producer: Adam Kersh Background Casting Director: Olivia Crist Producer: Mollye Asher Producer: Carole Baraton Assistant Editor: Henry Butash Original Music Composer: Nathan Halpern Colorist: Sam Daley Visual Effects Supervisor: Alex Noble Foley Artist: Leslie Bloome Foley Mixer: Ryan Collison Foley Artist: Joanna Fang Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Kurihara First Assistant Director: Jake Martin Makeup Department Head: Kai Stamps Hair Department Head: Meagan Coyle Costume Design: Liene Dobrāja Production Design: Erin Magill Executive Producer: Haley Bennett Executive Producer: Joe Wright Executive Producer: Constantin Briest Executive Producer: Yohann Comte Executive Producer: Pierre Mazars Executive Producer: Eric Tavitian Executive Producer: Sam Bisbee Co-Executive Producer: David Boies III Co-Executive Producer: David Stone Co-Executive Producer: Julie Parker Benello Casting: Allison Twardziak Music Supervisor: Joe Rudge Line Producer: Javier Gonzalez Second Assistant Director: Brian Johanson Still Photographer: Anna Kooris Gaffer: Lorenzo Pace Leadman: Jake Harms Set Decoration: Frank Baran Property Master: Luke Carr Script Supervisor: Jodi Domanic Special Effects Supervisor: Pete Gerner First Assistant Camera: Vincent Weiler Second Assistant Camera: Emma Penrose Digital Imaging Technician: Jake Westphal Production Sound Mixer: Dan Bricker Boom Operator: Finn Pfeffer Additional Production Sound Mixer: Viktor Weiszhaupt Assistant Costume Designer: Celeste Montalvo Best Boy Electric: Anna Cocuzzo Key Grip: Alexander Prokos Best Boy Grip: Nick Neary Hairstylist: Kristin Nawrocki Location Manager: Lauren B. Taylor Casting Associate: Juliet Axon Production Manager: Maggie Ambrose Production Accountant: Jay Britton Production Accountant: Margret P. Dunlap Assistant Editor: Susannah Kalb ADR Recordist: Chris White Foley Editor: Nick Seaman Foley Editor: Laura Heinzinger Music Coordinator: Blake Jessee Additional Music Supervisor: Laura Katz Compositing Artist: Dulany Foster IV Set Dresser: Linnea Crabtree Art Department Assistant: Tommy Mitchell Art Department Assistant: Dan Normile Art Department Assistant: Bruno Vernaschi-Berman Art Department Assistant: Michael Allegro Script Supervisor: Abe Kemmis Costumer: Kelsey Sasportas Makeup Artist: Rosie Sklar Makeup Artist: Tracey Hussey Makeup & Hair: Lia Parks Second Second Assistant Director: Mike Moran Craft Service: Zola Zimmerman Craft Service: Mauricio Villalobos Craft Service: Joe Facey Post Production Supervisor: Javian Ashton Le Additional Music: Chris Ruggiero Thanks: Stewart Thorndike Movie Reviews: liena: I sadly missed the chance to watch Swallow on the theatre when it hit a film festival in İstanbul while I was there, but I’ve been keeping an eye on this movie since it wrapped and I talked non-stop about how much I wanted to be able to see it. Now that I finally saw it on VOD, I heard there is a possibility for it to re-run in cinemas in Turkey soon and I will certainly go see it again. This film made me sick, I hated every scene while it rolled but at the same time I fell in love with it. So well acted, extremely pretty to...

[wahwealth]

🎬Arthur Wontner, Lyn Harding | The Triumph Of Sherlock Homes (1935) | Fu...

The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes is a 1935 British mystery film, which was directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. The movie stars Arthur Wontneras Holmes. It was based on the 1915 Sherlock Holmes novel The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle.  It is the fourth film in the 1931–1937 Sherlock Holmes film series by Flamingo Productions starring Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. Cast Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes Lyn Harding as Professor Moriarty Leslie Perrins as John Douglas Jane Carr as Ettie Douglas Ian Fleming as Dr. Watson Charles Mortimer as Inspector Lestrade Minnie Rayner as Mrs. Hudson Michael Shepley as Cecil Barker Ben Welden as Ted Balding Roy Emerton as Boss McGinty Conway Dixon as Ames Wilfrid Caithness as Col. Sebastian Moran Edmund D'Alby as Capt. Marvin Ernest Lynds as Jacob Shafter Never miss a video. Join the channel so that Mr. P can notify you when new videos are uploaded: https://www.youtube.com/@nrpsmovieclassics

[90secondnewbery]

Holes by Louis Sachar

1999 Newbery Medal Winner

Adapted by 3rd and 4th grade: Huxley Duvall, Aalya Fakih, Suniai Fernandez, Vivian Kominski, Charlotte Leslie, Jack McGuire, Orrin Melonas, Amelie Milling, Samuel Mozen-Platz, Astrid Newell, Oliver Poulton, Emma Reese, Django Wallace, Sailor Gaines, Fawn Griffith, Alexandra Hall, Maxine Hoogenakker, Beatrice Hufford, Victoria Brooklyn Hunter, Yele Mozen-Platz, Finn Moran, Lila Peniston, and Ryleigh Potter-Bowers, with teachers Barbi Brittain and Liz Mason Moore of Odyssey Community School (2022)

From Asheville, NC

Judges' Remarks: THIS WAS AMAZING! It was a brilliant idea to tell the story of the book by rewriting the lyrics of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off." But this was more than a great idea—it was fantastic execution, too! The lyrics succinctly and entertainingly summed up the plot (culminating in the "hey hey hey" spoken word part, which handled the climax and denouement really smoothly), and the singing performances were clear, strong, and full of spirit. There were no half-measures in this movie! (It was also a smart idea to subtitle all the lyrics.) The inventive cinematography and editing made this shine—I liked the clever way the movie made it look like the kids were "climbing God's thumb,” and the choreographed dancing of many orange-shirted prisoners was impressive . . . culminating with the shovels rhythmically banging on the ground at the end of the song’s bridge! I appreciated the attention to detail: Mr. Sir eating the sunflower seeds, the prison-looking tent looming in the background, and the visual storytelling (boiling a boot on the stovetop, Stanley teaching Zero how to read, Madame Zeroni in a great costume while Stanley's grandfather holds a comical stuffed pig . . . this movie has it all! This was an incredible movie, and it's exactly in the spirit of the 90-Second Newbery. Bravo!

[ct-trans-toolkit]

mental health / counseling / psychiatry

Please note - these practitioners were collected from recommendations, internet searches, messaging boards, and membership at WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health). This list is not exhaustive. Not all may be accepting patients and quality of services provided is unknown. Please comment with your experiences with any of these practitioners!!

✨Rainbow Recovery (Hamden)

Counseling

✨Adrienne Benjamin, LCSW (Newington)

Counseling, WPATH member

✨Christina Borel, LCSW, LICSW, MSW (Litchfield)

Behavioral Health, Counseling, Hospital/Practice Administration, LGBTQ Therapy, Other Social Science (Anthropology/Education/Political Science/Sociology, Pediatrics: Psychology, Social Work), WPATH member

✨Jillian Celentano, LMSW (West Haven)

Counseling, Education, Graduate Student, Social Work, WPATH member

✨Sara Cyr, LCSW (Old Saybrook)

Behavioral Health, LGBTQ Therapy, Social Work, WPATH member

✨Rebecca Degnan, LPC (Killingworth)

Behavioral Health, Counseling, Education, Professional Counselor, WPATH member

✨Derek Fenwick, PsyD (Hartford)

Behavioral Health, LGBTQ Therapy, Psychology, WPATH member

✨Sarah Larkin, APRN (Prospect)

Behavioral Health, Education, Graduate Student, Nurse Practitioner, Pediatrics: Psychiatry, Psychiatry, WPATH member

✨Kristin Marchesani, LMFT (Rockville)

Counseling, Education, LGBTQ Therapy, Marriage and Family Therapy, Professional Counselor, WPATH member

✨Michael Miarecki, LCSW, MSW (Middletown)

Behavioral Health, Counseling, LGBTQ Therapy, Social Work, WPATH member

✨Edward Moran, LCSW (Norwalk)

Counseling, LGBTQ Therapy, Marriage and Family Therapy, Social Work, WPATH member

✨Matthew Phillips, LCSW (Stamford)

Graduate Student, LGBTQ Therapy, Sexology/Sex Therapy/Sex Research, Social Work, WPATH member

✨​​Amanda Poling-Tierney, PsyD (Weston)

Psychology, WPATH member

✨leslie pollack, MSW (Hamden)

Behavioral Health, Counseling, Social Work, WPATH member

✨Dr. Kayti Protos, LCSW (Avon)

Behavioral Health, Counseling, LGBTQ Therapy, Social Work, WPATH member

✨Whit Ryan, PsyD (Glastonbury)

Behavioral Health, Fellow, LGBTQ Therapy, Other Health or Physical Science, WPATH member

✨Ashley Sanchez Ramos, MD (Hartford)

Psychiatry, WPATH member

✨Laura Saunders, PsyD (Wethersfield)

LGBTQ Therapy, Psychology, WPATH member

✨Richard Stillson, PhD (Hartford)

Behavioral Health, Counseling, Education, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ Therapy, Psychology, WPATH member

✨Nathalie Szilagyi, MD (Meriden)

Psychiatry, WPATH member

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[nonsensical-pendulum]

💡 and 🦺 for the ask game!! - @magic-is-something-we-create

@magic-is-something-we-create ty for the ask!!

💡 What inspired your WIP? Does it have the same “vibes” as it originally did? If not, how do you think of it now, compared to before?

oh god... early days petrichor was, and i am entirely serious, initially inspired by ya sci-fi dystopia stuff. because i started the very first versions of it in fifth and sixth grade. and also i vaguely recall something about there being like. magic gems and spells? i only watched steven universe like. a few moths ago. so i think the whole gems thing was because i had friends who were into it at the time so i got vaguely inspired by it by proxy. the spells came from harry potter (:////////). now, both those aspects of the worldbuilding are Entirely Gone :)

as you might imagine the vibes are uh. very, very different. we have gone from """""gritty""""" ya sci-fi dystopia (but with magic??) to "i have an obsession with film noir can you tell" + character focus. also it's historical fantasy now so there's that

🦺 What is a plot hole that popped up in your WIP, and how did you fix it? (Alternatively, what is something you added to your story to make it more believable/coherent?)

oh boy. as of The Current Draft Of Petrichor I'm Attempting... there are no plot holes because i'm. fifteen pages in and i don't outline :)

as far as coherency, i'm constantly tinkering with the worldbuilding and lore of petrichor's world to make things make sense. you may remember a month or so ago my timeline issues with regards to rory darling, his song about lupa, and america's borders closing--but i think the most recent major change to make the worldbuilding make more sense (and also less Very Potentially A Thing I Should Not Write) was the change in how, exactly wwii (as we know it) didn't happen--initially, the nazis were still A Thing, but had allied with the commars. now, obviously the nazi party still exists in petrichor, and hitler was likely elected due to the Everything in our history, but the commars were already in a larger sort of control, having gotten a foothold in the chaos following wwi, making the german government one of their puppet governments (i am still working on the details of this but. that's the gist!)

the other Coherency Thing of petrichor i'm currently hashing out is lupa/lycaon/leslie moran/maylum--i.e. who knows him as what alias, why, how that affects things, how his magic affects things, etc., what aspects of his leslie moran persona are attributed to lycaon, and all that jazz

[lesbiancolumbo]

hello !! do you have any recommendations for 20s/30s movies?? I've been watching a lot of 40s and 50s ones lately but I'm not sure where to start with earlier stuff ❤

sure! i’m actually gonna go back even farther to the 1910s because if you’re going back that far you might as well go all the way back :) (also there was a movie i want to recommend but it’s from 1916 lol)

this is going to be long - i’ve highlighted the films i think you should start with, though i’d recommend any of these. i also just want to say that because this is my list and it’s my taste, when editing this down (yes, it was longer) i took out as many of the most “popular” films as i could because i want some underseen gems to get more love! that’s all - happy watching! 💛

shoes (1916, lois weber) scandal (1915, lois weber) falling leaves (1912, alice guy blache) mabel’s strange predicament (1914, mabel normand) bread (1918, ida may park) the dream lady (1918, elise jane wilson) the cheat (1915, cecil b. demille) the curse of quon gwon (1917, marion e. wong) la cigarette (1919, germaine dulac)

safety last! (1923, fred c. newmeyer and sam taylor) the grub stake (1923, nell shipman) the smiling madame beudet (1923, germaine dulac) sherlock jr. (1924, buster keaton) strike (1925, sergei eisenstein) the adventures of prince achmed (1926, lotte reininger) flesh and the devil (1926, clarence brown) metropolis (1927, fritz lang) sunrise: a song of two humans (1927, fw murnau) the passion of joan of arc (1928, carl th. dreyer) celles qui s’en font (1928, germaine dulac) show people (1928, king vidor) a woman of affairs (1928, clarence brown) ethnographic films (1929, zora neal hurston) the letter (1929, jean de limur) the wild party (1929, dorothy arzner)

the divorcee (1930, robert z. leonard) m (1931, fritz lang) private lives (1931, sidney franklin) merrily we go to hell (1932, dorothy arzner) back street (1932, john m. dahl) one way passage (1932, tay garnett) i am a fugitive from a chain gang! (1932, mervyn leroy) frisco jenny (1932, william a. wellman) the eagle and the hawk (1933, stuart walker) the story of temple drake (1933, stephen roberts) baby face (1933, alfred e. green) dinner at eight (1933, george cukor) design for living (1933, ernst lubitsch) night flight (1933, clarence brown) the sin of nora moran (1933, phil goldstone) journal of a crime (1934, william keighley) magnificent obsession (1935, john m. dahl) hands across the table (1935, mitchell leisen) the petrified forest (1936, archie mayo) dodsworth (1936, william wyler) born to dance (1936, roy del ruth) the last of mrs. cheyney (1937, dorothy arzner and richard boleslawski) stage door (1937, gregory la cava) the bride wore red (1937, dorothy arzner) it’s love i’m after (1937, archie mayo) the divorce of lady x (1938, tim whelen) holiday (1938, george cukor) pygmalion (1938, anthony asquith and leslie howard) the mad miss manton (1938, leigh jason) tail spin (1939, roy del ruth) love affair (1939, leo mccarey) only angels have wings (1939, howard hawks) the rules of the game (1939, jean renoir) bachelor mother (1939, garson kanin)

[outoftowninac]

HER CARDBOARD LOVER

1926

Her Cardboard Lover is a three-act play by Valerie Wyngate and P.G. Wodehouse, adapted from the French play Dans sa candeur naïve by Jacques Deval. It was originally produced by Charles Frohman Inc. and A.H. Woods. It was staged by Gilbert Miller. 

The Story: To make her handsome and popular lover Tony jealous, Simone enlists Andre to pretend to be her new love interest. She doesn’t count on the complications brought on by her doting cardboard lover.

The French play opened in Paris on January 13, 1926. The English translation  premiered on Long Island NY on September 23, 1926, then on to Stamford CT on the 24th and 25th. 

It arrived at at Nixon’s Apollo Theatre in Atlantic City on September 27, 1926 starring Laurette Taylor as Simone and Leslie Howard as Andre. Plans were for an October 7th arrival on the Great White Way. But instead, October 4th found the troupe in Washington DC. Then a full week in Baltimore MD. 

A funny thing happened on the way to the Rialto. 

The show was shut down after Baltimore, before Broadway, giving the opportunity to makes some changes to the script.

Brady wanted to recast Taylor to suit the revised script, but the star had a ‘run of play’ contract and there was an impasse about her withdrawal. 

The matter was then referred to Equity and a lawsuit was initiated. 

With Taylor out, who would play Simone? 

Brady considered Katherine Cornell. Cornell considered it, but eventually passed on the project. 

Brady finally settled on Jeanne Eagels, who gave up her role in a little play named Chicago to take the role. 

In advance of its Broadway premiere, the new script tried out in Newark NJ where a critic noticed that the relationship between the characters had changed since Atlantic City. 

The leading character was previously described as a mistress, but now called a divorcee. 

The play finally opened on Broadway at the Empire Theatre (1430 Broadway) on March 21, 1927 where it ran for 152 performances. 

A 1928 London tour of the play starred Tallulah Bankhead, with Leslie Howard reprising the role, running for 173 performances. Five minutes of the play was released in UK cinemas as a silent short. After the West End, she toured the play in the UK for much of 1929. 

In 1941, the play enjoyed a US tour of regional theatres starring Bankhead reprising her role. One of the theatres was located in Maplewood NJ. It also played Ogunquit ME, White Plains NY, and other summer stock venues. 

As soon as the play closed in New York City, Marion Davies bought the screen rights for herself. The silent film adaptation played in Atlantic City at the Capitol Theatre on Atlantic Avenue in September 1928. The title had been slightly changed to THE Cardboard Lover. 

A second film version (totally rewritten) opened in Atlantic City at the Strand Theatre on Valentine’s Day 1932. The title was much more different, choosing instead The Passionate Plumber. It starred Polly Moran and Jimmy Durante. The film was also released in French, perhaps as a tribute to the play’s Parisian origins. 

The final film version returned to its original title: Her Cardboard Lover. It opened at the Apollo Theatre in June 1942, the same theatre that had hosted the play starring Laurette Taylor in 1926. Considered a bomb, it was the final film of Norma Shearer. 

[edsonlnoe]

MG Awards 2020 Efectos Visuales / Especiales 1917 Greg Butler, Guillaume Rocheron, Dominic Tuohy Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn Mark Hawker, Brendan Seals, Thrain Shadbolt, Greg Steele The Invisible Man Aevar Bjarnason, Marcus Bolton, Jonathan Dearing, Matt Ebb The Midnight Sky Matthew Kasmir, Christopher Lawrence, Max Solomon, David Watkins Project Power Yves De Bono, Leslie Hough, Ivan Moran, Joao Sita, Matthew Twyford Tenet Scott R. Fisher, Andrew Jackson, David Lee, Andrew Lockley Película Animada The Croods: A New Age Onward Over the Moon Scoob! A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon Soul Off-Screen Performance Cathy Ang Over the Moon Angela Bassett Soul Jamie Foxx Soul Tom Holland Onward Rachel House Soul Ben Schwartz Sonic the Hedgehog Diseño de Créditos Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn Shine The invisible Man Greenhaus GFX Mulan Luke Colson, Ej Kang Project Power Teddy Blanks Underwater Filmograph Waves Caspar Newbolt

[ultimatecryptid]

woo! thanks for the tag this looks like fun!

Tagged by: @ellierenae

Last Song: i was working on a character playlist last night so it was Bottom of the River by Delta Rae (it made it on the playlist)

Last TV Show: idk if it super counts but in counting it so it was No Laugh Newsroom via dropout

Currently Watching: nothing rn

Currently Reading: ahhhhh here we go. The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinburg, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic Vol. 2, La ruta del hielo y la sal by José Luis Zárate, The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Introduction to Phenomenalogy by Dermot Moran

tagging @sweatermuppet @starsprung @lend-your-lungs-to-me @crippleking @carrionkid with no pressure

[quilloftheclouds]

hello i bring you lupa content because i have brainrot for one of his aliases-leslie moran, who is one of the funniest and most on-brand characters i have ever created. he is initially a broadway star. except he's in one (1) show as the star and then he Vanishes and becomes a cryptid and then he shows up in england as lycaon's second in command but nobody's sure if it's the same leslie moran. it doesn't help that nobody was ever sure if moran was british or just has a strong transatlantic accent

I assume you meant allies rather than aliases? Honestly though, Lupa has the COOLEST of allies. I'm still over here pining after Mx. X. Help.

Oh, oh Leslie. Oh dear. WHY? Why give up a broadway career for crime??? And to just simply disappear to reappear elsewhere with everyone questioning if it's actually him! WHAT A MYSTERY. Makes for an intriguing one, though~ :P

Because of her immortality, Dione has had to fake her own death upon multiple occasions. For those unaware of just how she ages, many think her more modern appearances are actually the descendants of the original green-eyed witch--that's if they met her when they were very young, or perhaps their own grandparents met her or something. Dione's been around!

It's just especially funny to me because Dione thinks the concept of her having children is frankly disgusting. XD So she has to very awkwardly nod (very unconvincingly) when anyone asks.

[tiger-moran]

Let’s have a little look at a small selection of some of the Conan Doyle Estate’s bullshit shall we, with even more reaction images.

“The Conan Doyle Estate is the only authentic network of experts who provide specialist knowledge of Arthur Conan Doyle’s life, adventures and his many fictional characters.”

Yeah about as authentic as a nine pound note. Their ‘experts’ are lawyers and PR people, their website is obsessed with the “brand” and “licensing” and “trademarks and copyright” ahead of anything else and most of their ‘facts’ are completely wrong and many are clearly taken directly from Sherlock not from the canon. Also remember how Leslie S Klinger had to challenge them in court over their bullshit? That’s what actual Holmes and Conan Doyle experts think of them.

“The Conan Doyle Estate is formed from the family of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”

“Most of the family are relations of Sir Arthur, by marriage or blood.”

Yet very strangely they only provide any information about very distant connections between 3 of those “family” and one of those is a step great grandson not even a blood relation. That is their idea of “most” apparently, 3 out of 8 people. None of Arthur Conan Doyle’s children had children; he has no direct descendents and even if they were more closely linked to him through blood, that still wouldn’t make them “experts” as they seem to like to imply they are. Being related to someone even through blood does not make you an expert or make your motives in trying to claim ownership of that person’s works any less mercenary. Plus I’m sure there are thousands of people in the world who can also claim to have an equally tenuous connection to Arthur Conan Doyle, they’re not special in any way.

“The Conan Doyle Estate Ltd owns the last remaining protected story and character copyrights in the USA”

Funny how they ignore that all of the stories are out of copyright in the UK though and have been for 20 years, and the “last remaining protected story in the USA” is just one of 56 stories.

“Holmes and Watson initially admire Moran for his many stories of iron nerve … until they become the game he is hunting at Moriarty’s behest.”

That... never happened in the canon. Moran doesn’t hunt Watson. He doesn’t hunt Holmes “at Moriarty’s behest” like that and Moran’s “stories of iron nerve” are only brought up after he’s caught. All of this is just factually wrong.

Also why the fuck would you give ‘Sebastian’ from Without A Clue - a character who has so little character development he isn’t even given a surname in the film and is shown as little more than a rather dim thug - as an example of a portrayal of Moran but totally leave out someone like Patrick Allen?

Moriarty is “Sherlock’s number one nemesis and obsessive fan.”

Yeah, that obsessive fan who appeared 1 (one) time in the canon in Holmes’s rooms totally pissed off at Holmes for foiling his other schemes, such a fan, so much obsession there.

Also reducing Moriarty to an “obsessive fan” of Holmes anyway. What the fuck. Don’t fucking insult my boy like that.

“Moriarty appears in only two tales directly, "The Final Problem" and "The Valley of Fear" but he is alluded to in five others.

No he doesn’t and no he isn’t. He doesn’t actually even appear directly in any story. He’s directly relevant to the plot and referred to by other characters besides Watson in The Final Problem, The Empty House and The Valley of Fear; all of his scenes are however second hand accounts described by other characters to Watson, not direct appearances which Watson witnessed and is able to directly recount except for one or two fleeting glimpses of someone who may have been Moriarty or may have been someone else entirely. And that is 3 stories, not 2.

He is then also mentioned very briefly in a context which has nothing to do with the plot and are literally just fleeting mentions in 4 other stories (The Norwood Builder, The Missing Three-Quarter, The Illustrious Client and His Last Bow). Anything about him in any other story or criminal scheme within them is pure speculation/fanon, not canon, or a reference to some non-canonical source. Those 4 are literally just a few words long mentions of him, not him being “alluded” to in any meaningful way as they’re trying to imply he is. There is nothing in the canon about him being involved in any other crimes or plots; he’s given no further character development in those other stories. And that is 4 not 5.

And here’s one of their most glaring and yet easily checked up on errors I found before my soul entirely departed my body and I had to stop looking at their garbage:

“Mycroft is one of three children. He is the older brother to both Sherlock and Eurus.”

Eurus is an original character from Sherlock and has absolutely nothing to do with the canon and in fact there isn’t any evidence of them having a younger sister or even any other sibling at all. (What are they gonna do next, try to sue the BBC for stealing Eurus from them?) The sheer ignorance of this supposed “family” of “experts” is just unbelievable.

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Josh Duhamel & Leslie Bibb As James O’Connor & Libby Moran In New Released Stills From “The Lost Husband” (2020).