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Peter Graves May Have Set Mark For Gray Hair Vogue Sarasota Journal - Monday, March 1, 1971 by Joyce Haber

Image sourced from [Here]. Shout-out to @chiickies for putting me onto this fansite! Transcription of the above image below the "Read More".

When Peter Graves was in Louisville last year for the Kentucky Derby, two of his women-fans came up to him and asked what he used on his hair to make it silver. “Nothing,” Peter answered. “It’s natural.” “Come on,” said one of the ladies. “You don’t have to play that game with us.” As the suave, decisive, unruffled and prematurely-gray chief of the impossible missions force, the only game Graves actually plays is on CBS’ suspenseful, Emmy-award winning series, “Mission: Impossible” which is in its fifth season. This year, he took the Golden Globe Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for best actor in a dramatic series for his portrayal of Jim Phelps. But the lady was wrong. Peter Graves is, for the most part, precisely what he seems. His hair, for example, began going gray when Peter was in his mid-20s. “I woke up one morning,” he says, “and there was this patch of gray right there.”

As we sat in Hollywood’s famous restaurant, Scandia, which boasts, among other things, a superb array of dishes ranging from Caesar salad to smorgasbord, Graves touched his left temple and laughed. “I thought ‘Oops’ - and it just continued. When I started going gray over-all. I appeared on a big TV star’s variety show. He started kidding me about it right on the air - as did everybody. Next day he came and apologized. ‘I’ve been gray myself for 15 years,’ he admitted, ‘But I touch it up.’” If gray is in now in Hollywood, as it seems to be, Peter started the trend. I noticed that actor George Kennedy, at the Golden Globes Awards, was completely silver-polled. He used to be very blond. But gray wasn’t always in, not even for Graves. Only three years ago, when Universal cast him opposite Doris Day in “The Ballad of Josie,” director Andrew McLaglen took him aside. “Listen,” he said, “no big star has ever been gray,” and; against the star’s protests McLaglen took Peter to makeup, where they “put on something from a bottle called Frivolous Fawn.” Andy McLaglen took one look and said, “OK, you win. We go back to gray.” The late Martin Melcher, Doris Day’s husband and manager, took a look at Graves’ first day rushes, gray and all, and asked him, “How come you aren’t a big star?” Quipped Graves: “Because I’m not married to Martin Melcher.”

But Melcher was wrong (Miss Day hadn’t started her TV series at that point). In terms of audience, Graves was even then a big star. “More people have seen me on TV in two nights,” he once put it, “than the total number of people who have paid to see ‘Gone With the Wind’ for 30-odd years.” Graves recalls a conversation with Joel McCrea in which the movie actor referred to Graves’ brother, Jim Arness, the seemingly eternal star of “Gunsmoke”. He commented on what a great job Jim had done and talked about how many years he’d lasted. He said when he was in studios seven years was the average endurance of a star, not the big ones - the Gables, the Bogarts - but take Dana Andrews.

"I’d guess,” says Peter, “if you look back, he was a star for only seven years.“ “In a sense, the stars today are on TV, because that is the medium. Movie stars, as we knew them, no longer exist, but I think they can again. For the past 10 years, everything has been anti-hero, but I sense a change. The heroes of the ‘60s were the John Kennedys or the John Glenns. People now want a hero they can identify with or admire. Once the motion pictures straighten themselves out, the first girl to make three good pictures in a row will be a star.” Graves, who once made a movie with Gary Cooper (“The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell,” 1955), was impressed with the late great star’s reply when someone asked him to what he owed his success: “Good parts in good pictures,” said the man who was spare with words, on-screen and off. “No truer words were ever spoken,” says Peter. “You can do bad parts in good pictures or good parts in bad pictures and maybe get a little personal satisfaction. But the key to it all is good parts in good pictures.”

It occurred to me then that for Graves, the “good part” might as well be the one that reflects his own self. He sat, the debonair man of 6 foot 3 inches, conservatively dressed in a Madison Avenue-gray worsted suit, a Rep tie that evoked the Brooks Bros. (logo [illegible] and all), a pale blue shirt that duplicated the costume-requirements of the early days of color TV. “Do you know what parts are right for you?” I asked. “Well, I think so. I doubt very much that I’d remove all my clothing and simulate any sex act on screen,” said Peter soberly. “I think that kind of appearance on screen is strictly faddistic and confined to its time. It fascinates me that the Readers Digest has had one article an issue for the past 40 years on sex education. I don’t know if that means that everyone is uncertain about sex.” “I think the general public’s attitude, particularly in the United States, has changed greatly vis-a-vis sex. I think whatever the Puritan ethic was that dictated restrictions on sex is being broken down. I think that’s a good thing, particularly concerning the teaching of the young. I think the pornographic movies do appeal to the prurient in us.” “People do want to read about sex in the Readers Digest. But they also want to see it on the screen, but pornography on the screen can be faddish, because the screen belongs first of all to the writer. When writers write good stories, people will go to look at them.” “Watching the sex act may turn you on for a while, but it’s got to get tiring. Pornographic films cater to the basic instinct, but not to all that instinct implies - which is love. I think that’s the reason for the high success of ‘Love Story.’ It’s about two people who go to bed together, yes - but mostly they’re in love.” Graves learned about love, and the Puritan ethic, as the son of a traveling salesman for a surgical supply company. He was born Peter Aurness on March 18, 1926, in Minneapolis. “I think we were born 6 feet tall and then started to grow from there,” he says.

His brother, Jim, is three years older and three inches taller than Peter. “My dad’s not particularly tall, only 5 feet, 11 inches," but his mother was almost 6 feet and straight as a ramrod - "a German woman who used to scare the hell out of me.” During high school, Peter took up the clarinet and the saxophone. At 15, he became the youngest member of the musicians’ union, playing with local dance bands for spending money. He once turned down a request to play with the Lawrence Welk Orchestra, then on tour in nearby South Dakota. “I was at school, so there was no chance.” He’d joined the staff of radio station WMIN as an announcer at the age of 16. Upon graduation he enlisted in the Air Corps. After his discharge two years later, he wanted to go to the Julliard School of Music, but finally entered the University of Minnesota instead. Peter majored in drama, which led him west to Hollywood. His brother, Jim, already was here, but he’d had no degree of success. “He was a disaster case,” says Peter. “I came out with a friend from school, (director) Jack Smight. I remember we told the porter on the train we were going to be actors, and he said ‘Don’t. They’re all going the other way - to New York.’ “Jim met us at the station and said, ‘Go back.’ We wouldn’t, so he checked me into the Hollywood YMCA, which is a far cry from Hotel Bel-Air, I’ll tell you. Jim gave me a copy of the Hollywood Reporter and said, ‘Go.’” “We went, making the usual rounds of agents, but the going was rough.”

His college sweetheart, Joan Endress, followed him from Minnesota, and after he landed a job in a feature, “Rogue River”, with Rory Calhoun, Joan and Peter were married. Joan worked for some time as a doctor’s receptionist to keep them afloat in those difficult days when TV was just starting and giving the movie industry problems. Peter had taken a name from his mother’s side, Graves, because his brother was using their simplified family name, Arness. Peter’s first big break came with Billy Wilder’s movie, “Stalag 17”; “Paramount had seen me in a couple of Westerns, and said ‘No, Graves looks like an all-American. We need someone who looks like a German spy.’ My agent, Paul Kohner, persisted. He knew Billy Wilder. We went to Wilder’s house on afternoon and he kept walking around and looking at me like and going like this-“ Peter spread his hands on either side of his face, imitating the director’s gesture that simulates what you see through a camera lens - the frame. Wilder gave him a screen test and the part. But after the movie, at option time, “Paramount said, ‘Forget it. We’re only going to make two pictures a year. Not only that, but you’re a German spy. We’re looking for an all-American boy.’”

A new producer, Howard Koch (“Odd Couple”) used Peter in several films. With “Beneath the 12 Mile Reef” at Fox, that studio took an option for a contract. “I thought that was it. We were shooting in Florida and they kept saying, ‘Darryl Zanuck likes you.’ Pretty soon came word that Zanuck did like me, but he was dropping me because Fox was only going to make one picture in the next year.” The picture was “The Egyptian,” an extravagant project intended for Marlon Brando, who dropped out. Zanuck wanted to test his then-girlfriend Bella Daryl, for a role. He asked Graves to test with her. “It was massive,” he recalls. “Full wardrobes. Huge sets. We rehearsed for two weeks in Michael Curtiz’s office. Leon Samroy (a very top cinematographer) shot it. Well, anyway, Bella got the part but I didn’t.” (Edmund Purdom starred in the film.) Peter’s one try at Broadway was unsuccessful: He played in Paul Gregory’s “The Captains and the Kings,” which got “so-so notices,” and folded after 10 performances. Graves really found his legs, so to speak, in TV. Paramount’s “Mission” is his fourth series. The others were “Fury,” “Whiplash” and “Court Martial.”

Joan and Peter live with their three daughters in a house in Santa Monica, Calif., which Peter says is haunted. It was built by a German couple called Von Lichtenberg. “There was some sort of tragedy. I’ve never seen the ghost, but I’ve heard it. We have a cukoo clock that hasn’t worked for 20 years. Occasionally it strikes.” Although he works for the American Cancer Society, he hasn’t given up smoking: “I enjoy it, and I haven’t gotten to the point where it’s affected me. I resent the label on cigarets. If they’re going to warn you why don’t they put the same sign at the entrance to every freeway, or on every banana that’s sold? You can slip on the peel, you know.” The only “romantic lead” Graves ever wanted to play is the starring role in a remake of “Dodsworth”: “That story could be updated to now and would make a great picture. But I think Sam Goldwyn still owns it.”

On the other hand, with his conservatism, it’s unlikely the man who is as he seems would back a film. “You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and foibles of a human psyche is fascinating. All of which adds up to the fact that I might not put a dime of my own in a movie right now.” With “Mission” and Graves both near-institutions, it’s not very likely he’ll ever have to.

[paulinedorchester]

Hanukkah, 1944: Civil religion in New York City, London, and Nottingham

Above, from The New York Times, December 18th, 1944.

Lt. s.g. Bazell (1901-1963), a Reform rabbi, was born in Russia and was brought to the United States as an infant. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati, and received his ordination in 1923 (they were ordained really young in those days) from Hebrew Union College. Prior to induction in 1943 he served Temple Brith Sholom in Louisville, Kentucky. I've been unable to trace his post-war career; he seems to have been still in the Navy in late 1945. His son Haskell Bazell, a lawyer, was our neighbor in Berkeley, California, when I was an infant, and remained a good friend after we moved to Chicago. We lost touch at some point.

When I first moved to New York City in 1996 I lived just a few minutes' walk from Congregation Rodeph Shalom, and visited while "synagogue shopping." Even at a higher resolution, this photograph would hardly begin to do justice to the beauty of that sanctuary, and the music was excellent at the time. I found the overall atmosphere a bit chilly, however, and kept looking.

Meanwhile, in London, both the West London Chronicle on December 8th (above) and the Middlesex Independent and West London Star on December 9th carried notices for what was no doubt an interesting service...

...but I haven't been able to find any coverage of the event itself.

That wasn't the case in Nottingham, where the Nottingham Journal both announced a local service on December 9th...

...and reported on it (and what followed) on December 11th:

Captain Sidney K. Mossman, an Orthodox rabbi, was born in Canada in 1913 and came to the United States in 1930. In 1936 he graduated from DePaul University, here in Chicago, with a Bachelor of Laws degree (a credential that no longer exists); just two years later he received ordination from Hebrew Theological College, then in Chicago and how in Skokie. Prior to joining up in 1943 he served Congregation Knesseth Israel in Hammond, Indiana. He was still in the Army in late 1945; once again, I've been unable to trace his post-war movements.

(All images except the first are ©The British Library Board. All Rights Reserved.)

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3rd September Sanatana Dharma Day

United States City Louisville Declares 3rd September As Sanatana Dharma Day

The mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, in the United States, has officially designated September 3 Sanatana Dharma Day.

Mayor Craig Greenberg of Louisville, Kentucky, has designated September 3 as Sanatana Dharma Day, highlighting the importance of encouraging peace, tolerance, and understanding among many cultures.

Mayor Craig Greenberg’s Participation in Hindu Temple Re-consecration Ceremony Draws Spiritual Leaders and Dignitaries

On September 3, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg attended a re-consecration ceremony, or 'Mahakumbh Abhishekam', at the Hindu Temple of Kentucky. His deputy, Barbara Sexton Smith, read the official proclamation. Several spiritual leaders and celebrities attended the event, including Chidanand Saraswati, president of the Parmarth Niketan in Rishikesh, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, and Bhagawati Saraswati, as well as Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman and Deputy Chief of Staff Keisha Dorsey.

Former Louisville Mayor Greg Fisher declared July 20 as 'Encyclopaedia of Hinduism' Day in Kentucky.

Sanatana Dharma: An Spirituality Legacy 

Sanatana Dharma, also known as Hinduism, is among the world's oldest spiritual traditions. It is founded on ancient scriptures and philosophical principles and incorporates a vast range of beliefs, practices, and rites. Sanatana Dharma is a way of life for millions of people worldwide that encourages spiritual growth, compassion, and respect for all living beings.

Bhagawati Saraswati stressed Hinduism's connection to science and spirituality, demonstrating how the two fields intersect and overlap. Following the remarks, the deputy mayor awarded Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Chidanand Saraswati honorary citizenship in Louisville. In addition to being appointed a Kentucky Colonel, a high state honor, the latter had already acquired the Key to the City of Louisville.

He voiced his worry over the recent controversy surrounding the offensive remarks made by Tamil Nadu Minister and leader of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Udhayanidhi Stalin. ""It is quite unfortunate that certain individuals in India are so hostile towards Sanatan Dharma without appreciating or comprehending its profundity and worth, and yet here in America, in Louisville, Kentucky, we are celebrating the great declaration by the government of a day dedicated to Sanatan Dharma."

Paras Parivaar Charitable Trust’s Contribution for Snanatan Dharam

Paras Parivaar Charitable Trust, We believe in the extraordinary power of humanity to make the world a better place. Our story is one of unwavering dedication, boundless compassion, and a relentless commitment to improving lives. We are not just an organization; we are a family united by a shared vision of creating positive change in the lives of those in need.

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Events 4.10 (after 1920)

1925 – The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons. 1938 – The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria. 1939 – Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.'s "Big Book", is first published. 1941 – World War II: The Axis powers establish the Independent State of Croatia. 1944 – Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp. 1963 – One hundred twenty-nine American sailors die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea. 1968 – The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died. 1970 – Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons. 1971 – Ping-pong diplomacy: In an attempt to thaw relations with the United States, China hosts the U.S. table tennis team for a week-long visit. 1972 – Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong. 1972 – Vietnam War: For the first time since November 1967, American B-52 bombers reportedly begin bombing North Vietnam. 1973 – Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 crashes in a snowstorm on approach to Basel, Switzerland, killing 108 people. 1979 – Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people. 1988 – The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan. 1991 – Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140. 1991 – A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites. 1998 – The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland. 2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis. 2010 – Polish Air Force Tu-154M crashes near Smolensk, Russia, killing 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, and dozens of other senior officials and dignitaries. 2016 – The Paravur temple accident in which a devastating fire caused by the explosion of firecrackers stored for Vishu, kills more than one hundred people out of the thousands gathered for seventh day of Bhadrakali worship. 2016 – An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, impacting India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan. 2019 – Scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope project announce the first ever image of a black hole, which was located in the centre of the M87 galaxy. 2023 – A mass shooting occurs at the Old National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky that leaves five victims dead and eight wounded.

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College Football Breakdown - 2023 Week Four.

SEC: Golden Boot (Conference Game) - Arkansas at LSU. LSU leads the series, 43-23-2.

Conference Game - Ole Miss at Alabama. Alabama leads the series, 54-10-2.

Conference Game - Auburn at Texas A&M. Texas A&M leads the series, 7-6.

Conference Game - Kentucky at Vanderbilt. Kentucky leads the series, 48-43-4.

Conference Game - Mississippi State at South Carolina. South Carolina leads the series, 9-7.

Undefeated Matchup - Memphis vs Missouri in St. Louis. Missouri leads the series, 3-1.

UTSA at Tennessee. First meeting.

UAB at Georgia. Georgia leads the series, 3-0.

Charlotte at Florida. First meeting.

Big Ten: Conference Game - Rutgers at Michigan. Michigan leads the series, 8-1.

Conference Game - Iowa at Penn State. Penn State leads the series, 17-14.

Conference Game - Wisconsin at Purdue. Wisconsin leads the series, 52-29-8. (Wisconsin has won 16 straight meetings.)

Conference Game - Minnesota at Northwestern. Minnesota leads the series, 56-36-5.

Conference Game - Maryland at Michigan State. Michigan State leads the series, 10-3.

Undefeated Matchup - Ohio State at Notre Dame. Ohio State leads the series, 5-2.

Akron at Indiana. Indiana leads the series, 3-0.

Florida Atlantic at Illinois. First meeting.

Louisiana Tech at Nebraska. Nebraska leads the series, 2-0.

PAC12: Conference Game - Colorado at Oregon. Oregon leads the series, 15-9.

Conference Game - UCLA at Utah. UCLA leads the series, 12-8.

Conference Game - Oregon State at Washington State. Washington State leads the series, 56-48-3.

Conference Game - Arizona at Stanford. Stanford leads the series, 17-14.

Conference Game - California at Washington. Washington leads the series, 56-41-4.

Conference Game - Southern California at Arizona State. Southern Cal leads the series, 24-14.

Big 12: Conference Game - Texas at Baylor. Texas leads the series, 80-28-4.

Conference Game - Oklahoma State at Iowa State. Oklahoma State leads the series, 34-20-3.

Conference Game - Oklahoma at Cincinnati. Oklahoma leads the series, 2-0.

Conference Game - BYU at Kansas. Kansas leads the series, 1-0. (That game was played in 1992.)

Conference Game - Central Florida at Kansas State. Kansas State leads the series, 1-0.

Conference Game - Texas Tech vs West Virginia. The series is tied, 6-6.

Iron Skillet Trophy Game - SMU at TCU. TCU leads the series, 52-42-7.

Sam Houston State at Houston. Houston leads the series, 4-2.

ACC: Conference Game - Florida State at Clemson. Florida State leads the series, 20-15.

Conference Game - Georgia Tech at Wake Forest. Georgia Tech leads the series, 23-8.

Conference Game - North Carolina State at Virginia. NC State leads the series, 36-22-1.

Conference Game - Boston College at Louisville. Louisville leads the series, 8-7.

Conference Game - North Carolina at Pittsburgh. North Carolina leads the series, 11-5.

Miami (FL.) at Temple. Da U leads the series, 13-0-1.

Virginia Tech at Marshall. Virginia Tech leads the series, 11-2.

Army at Syracuse. Syracuse leads the series, 11-10. (They last played in 1996.)

Duke at Connecticut. Connecticut leads the series, 2-0.

AAC: Conference Game - Rice at South Florida. First meeting.

Tulsa at Northern Illinois. Tulsa leads the series, 1-0.

Gardner Webb at East Carolina. ECU leads the series, 1-0.

Nicholls State at Tulane. Tulane leads the series, 1-0.

Mountain West: Conference Game - Boise State at San Diego State. The series is tied, 4-4.

Conference Game - Air Force at San Jose State. Air Force leads the series, 4-2.

Appalachian State at Wyoming. The series is tied, 1-1.

Colorado State at Middle Tennessee State. Middle Tennessee leads the series, 1-0.

Kent State at Fresno State. First meeting.

James Madison at Utah State.

Nevada at Texas State. Nevada leads the series, 2-0.

New Mexico State at Hawaii. Hawaii leads the series, 10-1.

UNLV at UTEP. UNLV leads the series, 6-2.

New Mexico at Massachusetts. First meeting.

Sun Belt: Conference Game - Georgia State at Coastal Carolina. The series is tied, 3-3.

Conference Game - Southern Mississippi at Arkansas State. Southern Miss leads the series, 10-2.

Western Kentucky at Troy State. Troy State leads the series, 10-2-1.

Central Michigan at South Alabama. South Alabama leads the series, 1-0.

Buffalo at UL Lafayette. First meeting.

Georgia Southern at Ball State. Georgia Southern leads the series, 1-0.

Texas A&M - Commerce at Old Dominion.

CUSA: Conference Game - Liberty at Florida International. Liberty leads the series, 1-0.

Eastern Michigan at Jacksonville State.

MACtion: Conference Game - Western Michigan at Toledo. Toledo leads the series, 45-32.

Conference Game - Ohio at Bowling Green. Bowling Green leads the series, 41-31-2.

Delaware State at Miami (Oh.). First meeting.

AAC: Conference Game - Rice at South Florida. First meeting.

Tulsa at Northern Illinois. Tulsa leads the series, 1-0.

Gardner Webb at East Carolina. ECU leads the series, 1-0.

Nicholls State at Tulane. Tulane leads the series, 1-0.

Mountain West: Conference Game - Boise State at San Diego State. The series is tied, 4-4.

Conference Game - Air Force at San Jose State. Air Force leads the series, 4-2.

Appalachian State at Wyoming. The series is tied, 1-1.

Colorado State at Middle Tennessee State. Middle Tennessee leads the series, 1-0.

Kent State at Fresno State. First meeting.

James Madison at Utah State.

Nevada at Texas State. Nevada leads the series, 2-0.

New Mexico State at Hawaii. Hawaii leads the series, 10-1.

UNLV at UTEP. UNLV leads the series, 6-2.

New Mexico at Massachusetts. First meeting.

Sun Belt: Conference Game - Georgia State at Coastal Carolina. The series is tied, 3-3.

Conference Game - Southern Mississippi at Arkansas State. Southern Miss leads the series, 10-2.

Western Kentucky at Troy State. Troy State leads the series, 10-2-1.

Central Michigan at South Alabama. South Alabama leads the series, 1-0.

Buffalo at UL Lafayette. First meeting.

Georgia Southern at Ball State. Georgia Southern leads the series, 1-0.

Texas A&M - Commerce at Old Dominion.

CUSA: Conference Game - Liberty at Florida International. Liberty leads the series, 1-0.

Eastern Michigan at Jacksonville State.

MACtion: Conference Game - Western Michigan at Toledo. Toledo leads the series, 45-32.

Conference Game - Ohio at Bowling Green. Bowling Green leads the series, 41-31-2.

Delaware State at Miami (Oh.). First meeting.

Other Games: Thursday, September 21st UAPB at Alabama A&M 6:30 pm ESPNU / ESPN Video Friday, September 22nd Brown at Harvard 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Saturday, September 23rd Abilene Christian at Central Arkansas 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Alabama State at Florida A&M 5:00 pm $espn+ Video Albany at Morgan State 5:00 pm $espn+ Video Austin Peay at Stephen F. Austin 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Bethune Cookman vs. Jackson State 2:00 pm $espn+ Video Bryant at Princeton 2:00 pm $espn+ Video Butler at Stetson 11:00 am $espn+ Video Cal Poly at Portland State 3:00 pm $espn+ Video Charleston Southern at Western Carolina 1:30 pm $espn+ Video Chattanooga at Samford 2:00 pm $espn+ Video DII: Clark Atlanta at Miles 3:00 pm $espn+ Video Colgate at Holy Cross 1:00 pm $espn+ Video Cornell at Yale 11:00 am $espn+ Video Dayton at San Diego 4:00 pm $espn+ Video Eastern Washington at UC Davis 9:00 pm $espn+ Video Elon at Campbell 5:00 pm $Flo Video Georgetown at Columbia 11:30 am $espn+ Video Houston Christian at SE Louisiana 3:00 pm $espn+ Video Kennesaw State at Tennessee Tech 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Lehigh at Dartmouth 12:30 pm $espn+ Video Lincoln (CA) at Lamar 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Lindenwood at Illinois State 12:00 pm $espn+ Video Maine at William & Mary 2:30 pm $Flo Video Marist at Valparaiso 12:00 pm $espn+ Video McNeese at Eastern Illinois 2:00 pm $espn+ Video Mercer at Furman 1:00 pm $espn+ Video / Nexstar (cable) Merrimack at Wagner 12:00 pm NEC Front Row Video Monmouth at Lafayette 2:30 pm $espn+ Video Montana at Northern Arizona 3:00 pm $espn+ Video Montana State at Weber State 7:00 pm $espn+ Video / Scripps / MTN TV Morehouse at Edward Waters 1:00 pm $espn+ Video New Hampshire at Delaware 5:00 pm $Flo Video Norfolk State at Towson 3:00 pm $Flo Video North American at Incarnate Word 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Northern Colorado at Idaho State 5:00 pm $espn+ Video Penn at Bucknell 2:30 pm $espn+ Video Rhode Island at Villanova 1:00 pm $Flo Video Richmond at Stony Brook 2:30 pm $Flo Video NAIA: Roosevelt at Indiana Wesleyan 11:00 am $espn+ Video Sacramento State at Idaho 3:00 pm $espn+ Video / KMAX-31 (cable) Sacred Heart at Saint Francis 11:00 am NEC Front Row Video SEMO at Eastern Kentucky 5:00 pm $espn+ Video Southwest Baptist at Tarleton State 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Stonehill at Fordham 12:00 pm $espn+ Video The Citadel at SC State 5:00 pm $espn+ Video UT Martin at North Alabama 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Utah Tech at Missouri State 2:00 pm $espn+ Video Virginia Lynchburg at Robert Morris 2:00 pm $espn+ Video Western Illinois at Southern Utah 7:00 pm $espn+ Video Wofford at VMI 12:30 pm $espn+ Video

[mvdbutler]

THE 10 NCAA PRO SCHOOLS

PROMO-FLO SPORTS https://www.youtube.com/@FloSports/videos ATLANTIC EAST https://www.youtube.com/@HarrisHighlights UCONN BOSTON COLLEGE BOSTON UNIV UMASS NAVY MARYLAND RUTGERS SETON HALL ST.JOHN'S SYRACUSE ARMY PENN STATE PITTSBURGH VILLANOVA PROVIDENCE GEORGETOWN VIRGINIA VIRGINIA TECH WEST VIRGINIA MARSHALL BIG DOWNTOWN https://www.youtube.com/@SheGotSports UAB SOUTH ALABAMA GRAND CANYON AIR FORCE FRESNO STATE SAN DIEGO STATE SAN JOSE STATE WEST FLORIDA UCF SOUTH FLORIDA BUTLER WICHITA STATE SAINT LOUIS CREIGHTON NEW MEXICO BUFFALO CINCINNATI TEMPLE UTEP OLD DOMINION MIDWEST BIG 18 https://www.youtube.com/@Jason0662 IOWA IOWA STATE ILLINOIS NORTHWESTERN INDIANA PURDUE NOTRE DAME KANSAS KANSAS STATE KENTUCKY LOUISVILLE MICHIGAN MICHIGAN STATE MINNESOTA MISSOURI NEBRASKA OHIO STATE WISCONSIN PACIFIC MOUNTAIN 18 https://www.youtube.com/@HummBabyBaseball ARIZONA ARIZONA STATE CALIFORNIA STANFORD UCLA USC COLORADO COLORADO STATE BOISE STATE IDAHO UNLV NEVADA OREGON OREGON STATE BYU UTAH WASHINGTON WASHINGTON STATE SOUTHEAST UNITED https://www.youtube.com/@ColeAdams ALABAMA AUBURN FLORIDA FLORIDA STATE MIAMI (FL) GEORGIA GEORGIA TECH DUKE NORTH CAROLINA NC STATE WAKE FOREST ECU CLEMSON SOUTH CAROLINA TENNESSEE VANDERBILT SOUTHWEST XVI https://www.youtube.com/@lukeontheplains ARKANSAS LSU TULANE LOUISIANA TECH MISSISSIPPI STATE OLE MISS OKLAHOMA OKLAHOMA STATE TEXAS TEXAS A&M MEMPHIS TEXAS TECH BAYLOR SMU TCU HOUSTON

[the-firebird69]

Louisville shooting at Old National Bank: 5 killed, 8 injured; suspected gunman dead - CBS News

Louisville Kentucky

St Louis Missouri

So my husband's money and the shooter went in there to try and take it and he was intercepted by the local police who happened to be armed with AR15's and a compliment to his weaponry except they had armor piercing. Mac was shot in the chest fell over and hit him and they did remove the money as evidence the bank requested it back and they said no and they said don't put it in the articles and it made it into a few those people are sought on warrants.

This article not being repressed and suppressed means you're using this code and they didn't even try by the way it says that they are to straighten out the money situation in the United States first and they're going ahead and trying to do that meaning take it back from us. We've had incident said Banks and Max for doing it and we are not allowing them to tamper with people's accounts as they wish to unless they produce evidence that they're criminals. Otherwise be treated as criminal behavior as is this incident where he was instigated to shoot his people try and take the money. However my husband says some of the money will leave and go overseas and it is because of this incident and because of his comments is better somewhere else and mac daddy is furious it doesn't have a right to be in a bunch of wiggly little animals trying to get an impression across and we don't care for it you're not a good negotiator either or a speaker and you're not very intelligent Mac I'm going to prove it he also brain surgery done by someone on you and you are part retard and it makes you more deplorable than you were and people like you fall unless you get it fixed and you're heading towards it and you don't seem to care this is overt code just like the retards are doing it is very destructive to your people and your realm and they can read it without our assistance very clearly and easily little kids are

Hera

Zues

Watch your mouth by bja is stuck in me and I can't stop myself and nobody's helping me so you have to practically defeat all of them because they're all on you like you put them on me I do understand his point of view he's stuck here like I am like St John the Baptist and that stupid Temple it's ridiculous this guy Tommy f is such a huge loser needs to die completely I got shot in the head and he's still running around being a huge a****** to everybody and you can't have that it's like a whole bunch of juvenile it's a liquids running around naked telling people secrets some theory it'll cause chaos his stuff is ridiculous and I saw a friend laughing at him on the bus he said you won't laugh I said your stuff is cheesy okay and it works and stuff when you try you're running around like d****** and d****** doing this other stuff and now you have the attention he almost cried and said this out loud now you told me I said now you have the attention and you're telling people what the f*** it's like this cuz they have brains that don't work right and they used to being beggars and this is terrible it is terrible I have to do this report what happened here is a tragedy but it had to do it if somebody's getting off their fat ass to stop morons. Really his lifestyle so bad and his treatment is so bad it's just like what you saw in the picture he posted I'm going to work and I don't want to hear anymore about this s*** if something is happening sending truth and take care of the idiot or police or whatever you have to be beside him in chains

Mac daddy

I'm going to put an effort forward to do it I'm going to start doing it today it's ridiculous the traipsing yourself all over the place night traipsing us all over and telling everybody so you play toys will be ruined. So the reason why you're doing that Tommy F that we should know about.

Daniel

No and I'm not a moron I'm telling you on purpose kind of seem stupid doesn't it I fume so much people have to figure out what I'm fuming about I get that. I sort of figured out something I'm running around saying retard s*** all the time it's kind of this guy's fault Trump everybody's down here hitting each other well stupid as hell it's going to get f***** up no matter what I get what I'm saying but he's saying is I'm stupid and I'm stupid when I went up there I can't tell if it's a damn computer or not who's this old check what is right we shouldn't be talking about it

Tommy f

They see what I'm saying the stupid movie hasn't happened with the dragon and Matthew McConaughey took tons of tons of heat and it looks like he dies. It's not in Jesus Christ and they think he is and this movie is going to start in Britain and this guy is family crest it's a dragon it sounds like he's the dragon we've been looking for so I'm not a dragon you idiot so I'm laughing cuz that's not what we mean so dragon can turn into a human and I don't believe that but in mind it's a mutant it's like a super mutant I'm starting to see something to dragon it's aurthor Pendragon dragon, but they call him father and call her mother and I heard them say it I don't have any time for this he knows why cuz I was meddling with him so is Mr dick hole dragons weren't good enough that were T-Rex so we're off to adventure okay this is real we're in dungeons and dragons now but he liked it or not that's why it's not afraid of you and wants you to shut up you retarded Tommy f

Mac daddy

Oh they're all real like the dragon up there in Disney world or whatever it's universal studios by the way. Everybody asked about it they go to Disney and go over the other one also saying it's good cover it's good cover oh hell so it's funny because by the time I get there mad and they look up and they say what does that look real and it seem like this gash and they use cameras they see that looks more real than I want oh my money back cuz it's so damn real for some retards that went back to the ticket booth so we need our money back because that dragon is real is il legal to have it here. Chris I didn't give it back I said we have evidence so the guy gives them money back. And he leaves is having them followed and all sudden it was obvious something's going on and the clerk was mad and it was happy later he said I'm a hero I said you are these things are nasty this guy's crest and he's Arthur been dragging and I thought it was me and he says you'll have to prove that you weren't manipulating them a threatening society threatening to blow a tunnel or something so I'm starting to get a little sick inside

Tommy f

It's really going to be threatening for the power to move them around and these guys are moving them makes a lot of sense we find them doing it too

Mac

Olympus this message is approved to go out

[templetuesday]

TEMPLE NEWS: 18 Additional Temples Set To Reopen

The Church has announced the next group of temples to reopen as part of the first phase of a 4-phase plan to reopen all temples worldwide. The following temples will reopen for living sealings of previously endowed members on Monday, 25 May 2020:

Anchorage Alaska Temple

Cardston Alberta Temple

Columbus Ohio Temple

Dallas Texas Temple

Denver Colorado Temple

Draper Utah Temple

Edmonton Alberta Temple

Fort Collins Colorado Temple

Helsinki Finland Temple

Houston Texas Temple

Kansas City Missouri Temple

Louisville Kentucky Temple

Mount Timpanogos Temple

Oklahoma City Oklahoma Temple

Orlando Florida Temple

Regina Saskatchewan Temple

St. Paul Minnesota Temple

Vancouver British Columbia Temple

Phase 1 of the reopening process allows for living husband-and-wife sealing ordinances to be performed for members who have been previously endowed, with the sealing ordinances to follow strict guidelines and safety precautions. Only members of the Church living in that temple’s assigned district may schedule living sealings.

There are now 52 temples that have either reopened or are preparing to reopen as part of Phase 1. The Church will reopen additional temples, as well as progress to additional phases of the reopening process, as changing restrictions and local conditions allow.

Source: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/first-presidency-limited-reopening-temples

[heavyhitterheaux]

NDA Part 3

AN: to fumble the bag or to not fumble the bag?

Synopsis: As your due date grows closer, you have some important decisions to make regarding your future with your child's father.

Pairing: Jack Harlow x Reader

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Part 1

Part 2

There was less than a month to go until your due date and you were now putting the finishing touches on the nursery.

The nursery that was located in Louisville, Kentucky.

With some long hours of thinking, you decided to finally make the move not wanting to put it off anymore.

Communication between the two of you had gotten a lot better.

It wasn't quite at the point where it was before you found out what he had been hiding from you, but it was something.

Before you had left home, Jack insisted on meeting your parents and wanted to reassure them that you would be taken care of and wouldn’t want for nothing.

They immediately had taken to him and was even more surprised at the sight of your protruding midsection since you literally hadn’t told anyone and anytime you would Facetime with them, they could only see you from the chest up.

He really was trying and proving to you that he wanted you and only you.

Therefore, you had to give him credit for that.

When you had finally touched down in Kentucky, you met his.

They immediately took to you and was finally happy to meet the girl who had stolen their older son's heart for the past year.

They were also happy that Ava wouldn't be a problem anymore.

If she ever opened her mouth speaking on their past relationship, Jack could sue her for up to 10 million dollars.

Safe to say, she knew better if she wanted to be paying that off for the rest of her life.

You were currently trying to reach down to place the last few outfits in the bottom drawer of the dresser, when Jack immediately took from you.

You hadn't even heard him come in the room.

"I got it, mamas." He said while kissing your temple and reaching down to put them in their rightful place before standing back up to place his hands on your stomach.

"How are my babies feeling today?"

You simply sighed.

You were tired of being pregnant.

You loved it, but you were ready for this baby to be out of you.

"Tired."

"I know it's getting harder for you to get comfortable at night when you sleep."

"It seems like they don't want mommy to sleep."

"How about this? We put you in the living room with all of your pregnancy pillows and try to get you to sleep. It might be easier since you're sitting up."

"Well, it can't hurt."

"Head downstairs for me baby and I'll grab everything."

"Okay."

Jack had led you to the steps and made sure that you got down the steps okay before going back into your shared room and grabbing anything and everything that he thought would help to get you comfortable.

Once he got downstairs, he came right over to you, putting multiple pillows behind your back, elevating your legs and placing one of your favorite comforters on you.

"How's that so far baby girl?"

"So far so good."

"I'll leave the tv on for some background noise, but try and sleep. I have a few things to do, but I'll still be here so call me if you need me."

"Okay, thank you."

"I love you." Jack said while placing a kiss on your forehead.

"I love you too."

---

When Jack finally got you to sleep, he simply went into his home office to call Neelam to see what he had coming up for the week and the conversation quickly turned to how you were and how you were feeling.

“How is Y/N doing?”

You Neelam, Urban, and Metta had quickly grown closer along with the other members of PG. You were a breath of fresh air compared to Ava and they saw how happy Jack made you and vice versa despite the huge secret that he had kept from you.

“She’s miserable and I feel so bad. She can hardly sleep at night so I set her up in the living room with all of her pregnancy pillows and her favorite comforter and I finally got her to doze off.”

He requested that if he had to make any appearances or anything, that it had to be around Louisville because the last thing he wanted was for you to go into labor and he had to get on a plane in order to come back to you.

Despite you having an entire month left, he wasn’t taking any chances.

If you could have went into labor yesterday and had a full term healthy baby, you would have been here for it.

“Hopefully she rests up before the baby gets here. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy yet?”

“Not yet. She just wanted to wait until they were born and that’s fine by me. Everything is gender neutral that we got so it could go either way.”

“I am so proud of you.”

“I didn’t do anything.”

“Yes you have. You realized your worth and realized that the ex-wife whose name we do not speak wasn’t really your soulmate to begin with. You deserve this happiness.”

“Thank you. It means a lot coming from you.”

“You seriously hit the jackpot with Y/N.”

“Couldn’t agree with you more.”

“Go spend time with your girl.”

Once Jack hung up with Neelam, he went to go check on you to see that you were knocked out. This is the most he had seen you sleep in weeks and not wanting to disturb you, he took advantage of this as well sitting next to you and bringing you on top of him while still laying on your side.

You were always so nervous to do this claiming that you didn’t want to put all your weight on him, but there was no way in the world he would mind because you were bringing life into the world and carrying his child.

Jack eventually fell asleep himself and a few hours had passed by.

He woke up while hearing you laugh and he opened his eyes to see you watching Never Have I Ever on Netflix.

He simply placed a kiss on top of your head and you turned around to look at him.

“Looks like I’m not the only one who needed sleep.”

“You know that you’re my first priority and I’m always going to make sure that you’re good first. I could care less about me.”

“No, because I care about you and I’m going to need for you to take some time out for yourself too. I’ll be okay.”

“Do you feel any better?”

“A lot better. Oh!”

“What’s wrong?!”

“The baby kicked and caught me off guard that’s all.”

Jack then put both of his hands on your stomach and began talking to your bump.

“Cut it out, no hurting your mother.” Which led to you laughing, but they settled down after he said that.

“Hmm, looks like they’ll probably only listen to you and try to get over on me for everything.”

“Nuh uh. They haven’t heard when you get annoyed or pissed off. That makes me want to run for the hills when you get like that.”

“I am not that bad!”

“Says who?!”

“Stop playin!”

“When we were at that restaurant and I told them I didn’t want tomatoes and they sent it anyway by accident, I just knew I was going to have to bail you out of jail that night.”

“You telling stories, Jackman. I’m as sweet as can be.”

“You definitely are, however, not when you get mad.”

“Look my baby didn’t want tomatoes so I had to let them know. Don’t play with us like that.”

“Wouldn’t want it any other way.” You answered while playing with his Private Garden ring.

“Baby girl?”

“What’s wrong?” You answered while looking up at him.

“I... I know I said that I wouldn’t bring this up again and that you wanted to make a decision in your own time but...”

“Yes, Jack I do still want to marry you if that’s what you’re getting at.”

“How did you...?”

“Consider it my mom instincts kicking in early. I took a lot of time to think about it, and I don’t want to be with anyone else. And over these past few months you really tried your hardest to prove that I was the only person you wanted and... I’m thankful for that. You’re the same person that I met that night who swept me off my feet and you have given me nothing but the world. I don’t want to lose that and I don’t want to lose you. But, we have another person depending on us now and we have to be on the same page, okay?”

“Without a doubt, my baby. One more question.”

“No, I don’t want princess cut anymore because Ava had it. Next question.”

“Damn, are you a mind reader?”

“I just know my boyfriend very well. I’m leaning towards a Marquise or a Heart diamond cut.”

“Consider it done.”

“And we can’t get married until after I lose this baby weight  because I already have my dress envisioned in my mind.”

“You just let me know when you’re ready my baby.”

---

You were now 7 centimeters dilated and wanted to kill Jack.

You got to the hospital too late to have a epidural so natural birth it was.

“Baby?”

“What Jackman?” You asked through gritted teeth and you gripped the side rails of the hospital bed.

“Did you want more ice chips?” He quietly asked. You admit Jack had been doing his best, but you were in so much pain that all you could see was red. 

You also wanted to bite his head off and even threatened to never let him touch you again, but you already know that wasn’t true.

“No, I want your child out of me.” You responded while grabbing the neck of his hoodie and bringing him down eye level to you.

Your parents were on their way and so were Maggie and Brian. Neelam was currently on your left side as she was watching you fuss at your boyfriend.

“Hey, baby girl. Deep breaths. You tensing up is not going to help and it’s only going to make it worse.” You let go of Jack’s hoodie and turned your attention to Neelam and simply nodded.  

“Only three more to go. It’s going to be okay, just think of how pretty your baby will be and you’ll get to hold them. You’ve been waiting for this for nine months.”

You simply nodded as Neelam tried to talk you off the cliff and Jack had placed a wet washcloth on your forehead. 

“Okay, I can do this. AHHHHH SHIT!” You grabbed Jack’s hand and he just knew that you were about to break it.

“So, your contractions are getting closer so it’s definitely almost time to push.”

“Nee, how do you know all this?”

“I watch a lot of medical shows. I’m going to go get the nurse, but in the mean time, don’t kill your baby daddy, okay?”

“Easier said than done, but okay.”

Neelam sprinted out of the room as Jack placed a kiss on your cheek.

“I hope you know I love you and I don’t mean to yell at you.” You confessed and Jack pinched your cheek.

“I know mamas. And I hate seeing you in pain. Not too much longer, though.”

You simply nodded your head as Neelam came back with an entire team of nurses and your doctor right behind her.

“Okay, sweetheart, I’m going to check to see how far you are and if you’re at 10 we can get this show on the road.”

You nodded as she began to check.

Once she took her hand out, she had nothing but a smile on her face and you already knew what that meant. 

“Okay, Y/N, push when I say, okay?”

“Wait, I’m not ready.”

“Yes, you are honey. Nine months in the making so let’s do this. Your baby is ready to meet you and their father.”

You simply nodded as Jack held your right leg and Neelam held your left.

“On 3. 1..2..3. Big push, big push.”

“AHHH OH MY! FUCK!”

“You’re doing good, come on give me another one.”

“IT HURTSSSSS!”

“I know, I know it does.”

“You’re doing amazing baby girl. You’re that much closer to holding them. You got this.”

You simply nodded and proceeded to push again.

“Give me another one, almost!”

You did as you were told, and next thing you knew, they could see the head.

“You’re doing great mama! Give me another one!”

On the next push, their shoulders were completely out.

“Y/N, if you want to reach down and pull them out you can.”

You nodded and proceeded to do so, pulling your first born the rest of the way out and placing them on your chest.

“It’s a boy!”

“You were amazing baby. I knew you could do it and look at what we made. He’s gorgeous.” Jack exclaimed while his eyes began to water. 

“He has your eyes.” You looked down to see those pretty ocean blue eyes staring back at you and realized that the pain had been worth it. 

“And definitely has your nose.”

They took him from you to clean him off and run some tests before placing him back on your chest.

“So proud of you, Y/N! I told you it would be worth it once you saw them.” Neelam stated while coming over to hold his hand. 

“It definitely was. Here daddy, come hold your son.” You turned to Jack and noticed that he was a little hesitant.

“It’s okay, babe. You won’t hurt him and he’s reaching for you.”

Jack nodded before you went to place your son in his arms.

“Hi little one. I’m your daddy.”

You immediately melted at the sight of seeing the two of them interact and began to cry. Neelam immediately noticed and handed you a tissue.

“Hey, are you okay?” She asked while putting an arm around you.

You simply nodded while trying to find your words.

“I’m just really happy.”

“And so is Jack.”

You looked back over to see your son had one of Jack’s fingers in a death grip and all you could do was smile.

Even though your relationship had been tested, deciding to stay and work through your problems had all been worth it.

You had your boyfriend.

You had your son.

You had your house.

And were due to be married within the next year.

Maybe signing that NDA wasn’t so bad. 

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jackharlow: welcome to the world Ezra Jameson Harlow. Mommy and daddy already love you so much ❤

druski2funny: I'm going to need some type of explanation because... WHAT, WHEN?

jackharlow: druski2funny it took 9 months my boy like it always does

druski2funny: jackharlow I know that much but still... WHAT

neelamthadhani: Mama did such a good job!

jackharlow: neelamthadhani I just knew she was about to kill me lol

neelamthadhani: jackharlow it was looking bleak there for a second 🤣😂

jackharlow: neelamthadhani my hand is about to be bruised for awhile 🙃

urbanwyatt: on my way to meet my nephew. congratulations man

jackharlow: urbanwyatt can you bring Y/N some pizza and wings? And a orange hi-c from McDonald's? She was like either you get it for me or I'm getting my ass out this bed 😫

urbanwyatt: jackharlow no worries I got her. I'll bring two.

jackharlowsource: that came completely out of left field, but... WE'RE SO HAPPY FOR YOU DADDY HARLOW!

urbanandjack24: right?!?! Like he kept this shit hidden.

jackharlow: what can I say? Got some amazing people around me.

yourinstagramname: hmm he has your big ass forehead too

jackharlow: Baby was that really necessary? 😫

neelamthadhani: jackharlow she's not lying tho 👀

druski2funny: 🤣🤣🤣🤣

yourinstagramname: yes and I love you anyway 😘

yourinstagramname: urbanwyatt where is my food sir?!?!

urbanwyatt: yourinstagramname will you let me get off the elevator first!?

yourinstagramname: urbanwyatt yes 🥰 thank you Urby. Love you 😘

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[gender-void-partially-stars]

ok naming us cities now

hawaii: honolulu, wakiki, hilo, kahala?, lihue? (5)

alaska: anchorage, fairbanks, juneau, nome, barrow (5)

washington: seattle, tacoma, olympia, spokane, vancouver (5)

oregon: portland, salem, eugene, bend (4)

california: los angeles, san diego, san jose, san francisco, oakland, crescent city, eureka, camarillo, san luis obispo, fresno, bakersfield, davis, merced, sacremento, monterrey, carmel on the sea, san bernadino, riverside, pasedena, hollywood, burbank, glendale, san gabriel, long beach, carlsbad, irvine, anaheim, palo alto, barstow (29)

idaho: boise, coeur de alene, pocatello (3)

nevada: las vegas, henderson, carson city, reno (4)

arizona: phoenix, tuscon, flagstaff, yuma, mesa, sedona, scottsdale, kings canyon (8)

utah: salt lake city, provo, st george (3)

montana: helena, billings, missoula (3)

wyoming: cheyenne, laramie, jackson hole, casper (4)

colorado: denver, fort collins, pueblo, boulder (4)

new mexico: alberquerque, santa fe, taos, las cruces, truth or consequences (5)

texas (sorry in advance): dallas, fort worth, houston, san antonio, austin, corpus christi, el paso, laredo, brownsville, mcallen, galveston, nagodoches, midland, odessa, amarillo, lubbock, witchita falls, waco, temple, hillsboro, ennis, corsicana, spring, the woodlands, sugar land, san marcos, arlington, grapevine, colleyville, denton, sherman, texarkana, euless, bedland, irving, duncanville, plano, richardson, frisco, mckinney, garland, rockwall, lindale, azle, grand prarie, victoria, paris, georgetown, round rock (49)

oklahoma: oklahoma city, tulsa, broken arrow (3)

kansas: topeka, witchita, manhattan, kansas city (4)

nebraska: omaha, lincoln (2)

south dakota: pierre, rapid city, sioux city (3)

north dakota: bismarck, fargo (2)

minnesota: minneapolis, st paul, northfield, dundas, moorhead, rochester, apple valley, bloomington, duluth (9)

iowa: des monies, davenport (2)

missouri: st louis, jefferson city, kansas city, branson (3)

arkansas: little rock, hot springs, texarkana (3)

lousiana: new orleans, baton rouge, shreveport (3)

mississippi: jackson, biloxi (2)

tennessee: memphis, nashville, knoxville (3)

kentucky: lexington, frankfort, louisville (3)

illinois: chicago, joliet, aurora, peroria, springfield (5)

wisconsin: milwaukee, madison, green bay, la crosse (4)

michigan: detroit, lansing, ann arbor, grand rapids (4)

indiana: indianapolis, fort wayne, gary (3)

ohio: columbus, cleveland, toledo, cinncinati, dayton, youngstown, akron (7)

alabama: birmingham, montgomery, tuscaloosa, mobile (4)

florida: jacksonville, tallahasee, orlando, tampa, st petersburg, miami, west palm beach, pensacola beach (8)

georgia: atlanta, savannah, columbus (3)

south carolina: charleston, columbia, greenville, spartanburg (4)

north carolina: raleigh, durham, charlotte, greensboro (4)

virginia: richmond, charlottesville, norfolk, virginia beach, arlington, chesapeake (6)

maryland: baltimore, annapolis (2)

delware: dover, wilmington (2)

pennsylvania: philadelphia, pittsburgh, harrisburg, erie, scranton, king of prussia (6)

new jersey: newark, trenton, camden, princeton, atlantic city (5)

new york: new york city, irvington, ithaca, buffalo, niagara falls, syracuse, rochester, albany, corning, elmira (10)

connecticut: new haven, hartford, bridgetown (3)

rhode island: providence, warwick (2)

massachusetts: boston, worcester, springfield, pittsfield, cambridge, somerville, medford, lexington, concord, carlisle, lincoln, sudbury, dover, needham, dedham, westwood, quincy, milton, sharon, tabor, provincetown, plymouth, franklin (23)

vermont: montpelier, burlington (2)

new hampshire: concord, manchester, hanover (3)

maine: portland, augusta, watertown (3)

286 cities for an average of 5.72 cities per state! this took a very long time

what the fuck

[thecollegefootballguy]

The Real 2020 Season: Week 13

Welcome back to The Real 2020 Season! We’re imagining how things would have gone in the 2020 football season if COVID hadn’t ruined everything. It’s rivalry week! We’ve come to the end of the regular season and the end of the division races! Let’s see how everything shakes out!

Check out the previous weeks here if you’d like a bit of context: Week 0, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12

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The Rankings

Week 13 College Football Playoff Rankings

1. Alabama 11-0 (7-0) 2. Notre Dame 11-0 3. Florida 10-1 (7-1) 4. Oregon 10-1 (7-1) 5. Ohio State 10-1 (8-0) 6. Clemson 10-1 (8-0) 7. Texas A&M 10-1 (6-1) 8. Iowa State 9-2 (7-1) 9. Georgia 9-2 (6-2) 10. Cincinnati 11-0 (7-0) 11. Indiana 10-1 (7-1) 12. Oklahoma 9-2 (6-2) 13. Oklahoma State 9-2 (6-2) 14. Auburn 9-2 (5-2) 15. USC 8-3 (7-2) 16. Wisconsin 8-3 (6-2) 17. Tulsa 9-2 (6-1) 18. Stanford 8-3 (7-2) 19. Texas 8-3 (5-3) 20. Coastal Carolina 11-0 (7-0) 21. Arizona State 8-3 (5-3) 22. Northwestern 8-3 (5-3) 23. North Carolina 8-3 (6-1) 24. BYU 9-2 25. Iowa 8-3 (5-3)

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The Narrative

The Playoff race itself is crystalizing around a few races. The SEC Champion, either #1 Alabama or #3 Florida, will certainly be selected. And if the Gators win I expect the Crimson Tide to get an at-large bid. #2 Notre Dame will have a spot at the table assuming they finish undefeated. #4 Oregon also has a clear path if they can capture the PAC-12 Championship. #5 Ohio State is hoping to leap over one of the SEC teams if they can, the Buckeyes will be the likely victim if Florida beats Alabama but the Tide don’t tumble out of the rankings.

With such a crowded race among the Power conferences, the G5 wasn’t really allowed into the Playoff race despite both #10 Cincinnati and #20 Coastal Carolina putting on dominant performances through unbeaten seasons. If they both run the table likely only the Bearcats get the reward of a New Year’s Bowl, not even a spot in the Playoff. It’ll have to wait for another year.

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The Games

Rivalry week is always packed full of consequential games and brawls full of hatred, sometimes both. All division races will be decided here and many teams will see their seasons end. Time to assess the damage.

Winning teams are highlighted in bold.

Boston College at Wake Forest South Carolina at #6 Clemson #3 Florida at Florida State Kentucky at Louisville NC State at #23 North Carolina Syracuse at Pittsburgh Duke at Miami FL Georgia Tech at #9 Georgia Virginia at Virginia Tech Kansas State at Baylor West Virginia at #8 Iowa State TCU at Kansas #12 Oklahoma at Texas Tech #19 Texas at #13 Oklahoma State Purdue at #11 Indiana Michigan State at Maryland Michigan at #5 Ohio State Penn State at Rutgers Illinois at #22 Northwestern #16 Wisconsin at #25 Iowa Minnesota at Nebraska Western Kentucky at Charlotte Florida Atlantic at Middle Tennessee Louisiana Tech at FIU Marshall at Old Dominion North Texas at UTSA UTEP at Rice Southern Miss at UAB Akron at Ohio Northern Illinois at Bowling Green Buffalo at Western Michigan Central Michigan at Kent State Eastern Michigan at Miami OH Ball State at Toledo Air Force at Utah State Colorado State at Boise State Wyoming at New Mexico San Jose State at Fresno State Hawaii at San Diego State Nevada at UNLV UCLA at California #4 Oregon at Oregon State #24 BYU at #18 Stanford Washington at Washington State #21 Arizona State at Arizona Utah at Colorado #2 Notre Dame at #15 USC Arkansas vs Missouri Tennessee at Vanderbilt #14 Auburn at #1 Alabama LSU at #7 Texas A&M Mississippi State at Ole Miss Troy at Appalachian State #20 Coastal Carolina at Texas State Georgia Southern at Georgia State South Alabama at Arkansas State Louisiana at Louisiana-Monroe Army at Connecticut Massachusetts at Liberty #10 Cincinnati at Temple SMU at East Carolina #17 Tulsa at Houston Memphis at Tulane UCF at South Florida

I don’t think anybody is too surprised that the PAC-12 messed everything up. #4 Oregon blew their Playoff opportunity by losing to rival 5-6 Oregon State. Oh well, better luck next year PAC-12, again. Their loss is #5 Ohio State’s gain. The Buckeyes have been playing like a top 4 team ever since their close loss in Eugene to start the season and they’ll most likely take Oregon’s spot if they can win the Big Ten Championship. That’s not all. The PAC-12 had a parting blow for the Playoff race after making their exit. #15 USC upset #2 Notre Dame in Los Angeles. With the Irish ending the season 11-1, they’ll now be in a pool including #3 Florida, #6 Clemson, #7 Texas A&M, and potentially even a 2 loss Big 12 Champion for the final spot in the Playoff. Notre Dame still has an advantage with a head to head win over Clemson, it may give them the edge.

The rest of the division races have all been decided. #23 North Carolina torched rival NC State to claim the Coastal Division. The red hot Tar Heels will face #7 Clemson in the ACC Champion Game. #8 Iowa State and #12 Oklahoma both easily defeated their weaker conference opponents and will have a rematch in the Big 12 Championship Game. #13 Oklahoma State lost at home to #19 Texas, ensuring both team finished the year disappointed and tied for third. #5 Ohio State crushed archrival Michigan, finishing the year 11-1, Big Ten East champions, and in position for a Playoff spot assuming they beat #22 Northwestern in the Championship Game. The Wildcats were gifted the division title following #25 Iowa’s defeat of #16 Wisconsin. NU holds the head to head advantage over the Hawkeye’s, breaking their first place tie. #1 Alabama of course destroyed #14 Auburn in the Iron Bowl to clinch the SEC West and a date with #3 Florida in the title game.

#10 Cincinnati and #20 Coastal Carolina are the only other teams to finish the year undefeated besides the #1 Crimson Tide. They likely won’t make anything of it, and the Chanticleers likely won’t even make a New Year’s Bowl.

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The Standings

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The Big Picture

Congratulations to the champions! Here’s the roll call of all 10 FBS conferences:

#10 Cincinnati went unbeaten through the strong American Athletic Conference, proving themselves to be the cream of the G5 crop. The Bearcats will face #17 Tulsa, who finished the year 9-3 and in 2nd place in the AAC standings.

#6 Clemson once again repeated as ACC Atlantic champions. The Tigers ran roughshod over a weak field that featured no serious contenders. #23 North Carolina managed to overcome a competitive field in the ACC Coastal. Miami, Pittsburgh, Virginia, and Virginia Tech finished in a four-way tie for second place.

#8 Iowa State and #12 Oklahoma will face off in the Big 12 Championship Game. For the Sooners it’s just another day at the office for the best program in the conference, for the Cyclones it’s a chance to win their first league title since 1912.

#5 Ohio State had a surprisingly easy path through the Big Ten East as would-be powers Michigan and Penn State both collapsed. Only #12 Indiana posed any kind of threat but in the end the Buckeyes took the East undefeated in league play. The picture in the West was much muddier. #25 Iowa, #22 Northwestern, and 16 Wisconsin ended up in a three-way tie for first place. The Wildcats held head to head wins over both teams, so they advance to challenge OSU in Indianapolis.

Marshall and UAB won their respective Divisions easily, they’ll represent the East and West respectively in the Conference USA Championship Game.

Buffalo rather easily won the MAC East ahead of lackluster talent. Ball State emerged victorious in the West out of a busy race with Toledo, CMU, and WMU. They’ll meet next week to decide the MAC.

Boise State easily won the Mountain West’s Mountain Division. The Broncos will meet San Jose State, who have a head to head victory over West Division co-champion Nevada.

#4 Oregon won the PAC-12 North despite their loss to Oregon State at the end of the season. The Ducks own a head to head tie over Stanford and will have the pleasure of once again facing #15 USC. The Trojans beat out Arizona State for the South title and have put together a solid resume despite having already lost to Oregon.

Of course the SEC Championship Game is the biggest event of the season. It will pit #1 Alabama and #3 Florida, and the Gators may own the #2 spot before the game. The eternal East and West foes will clash once more to decide first in line for the national championship.

The Sun Belt Championship see #20 Coastal Carolina of the East Division facing off in a rematch against West champ Louisiana. Both teams were far and away better than their peers, it’s hard to reckon just how good they really are.

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The New Rankings

Week 14 College Football Playoff Rankings

1. Alabama 12-0 (8-0) 2. Ohio State 11-1 (9-0) 3. Florida 11-1 (7-1) 4. Texas A&M 11-1 (7-1) 5. Clemson 11-1 (8-0) 6. Notre Dame 11-1 7. Iowa State 10-2 (8-1) 8. Oklahoma 10-2 (7-2) 9. Georgia 10-2 (6-2) 10. Cincinnati 12-0 (8-0) 11. Indiana 11-1 (8-1) 12. Oregon 10-2 (7-2) 13. Texas 9-3 (6-3) 14. USC 9-3 (7-2) 15. Auburn 9-3 (5-3) 16. Oklahoma State 9-3 (6-3) 17. Stanford 9-3 (7-2) 18. Iowa 9-3 (6-3) 19. Arizona State 9-3 (6-3) 20. Northwestern 9-3 (6-3) 21. North Carolina 9-3 (7-1) 22. Coastal Carolina 12-0 (8-0) 23. Wisconsin 8-4 (6-3) 24. Miami FL 9-3 (5-3) 25. Liberty 11-1

Well this is certainly setting up to be an SEC-fest huh? Three SEC teams in the top 4 in the last week of the season raises plenty of questions. It’s not certain what it would mean for three schools from one conference to make the Playoff. The conference championship games are the last chance for all of the teams to make an impression. We’ll see if it gives the Committee a reason to move a champion like #5 Clemson into the Playoff.

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[riovidalharkness]

Today, AJ and I took out our endowments.

It was such a wonderful experience. We had to get up early to get to Kentucky and to the temple on time but I didnt mind waking up early for once.

For the first time, I didnt feel scared or anxious about anything. I'm so grateful for my anti-anxiety medication and the Spirit who was with me the entire time.

Next time, I'll be entering the Indianapolis, Indiana temple to be sealed to my eternal spouse. I couldn't be more excited. Only 7 more days 💛 @ Louisville LDS Temple

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College Football Breakdown - 2023 Week Three

SEC: Conference Game - South Carolina at Georgia. Georgia leads the series, 54-19-2.

Conference Game - Tennessee at Florida. Florida leads the series, 31-21.

Conference Game - LSU at Mississippi State. LSU leads the series, 77-36-3.

Kansas State at Missouri. Missouri leads the series, 60-33-5.

Georgia Tech at Ole Miss. Ole Miss leads the series, 3-2.

BYU at Arkansas. Arkansas leads the series, 1-0.

Alabama at South Florida. Alabama leads the series, 1-0.

UL Monroe at Texas A&M. Texas A&M leads the series, 4-0.

Akron at Kentucky. Kentucky leads the series, 1-0.

Vanderbilt at UNLV. UNLV leads the series, 1-0.

Samford at Auburn. Auburn leads the series, 28-0-1.

Big Ten: Conference Game - Penn State at Illinois. Penn State leads the series, 20-6.

Syracuse at Purdue. The series is tied, 1-1.

Minnesota at North Carolina. First meeting.

Virginia at Maryland. Maryland leads the series, 44-32-2.

Virginia Tech at Rutgers. Virginia Tech leads the series, 12-3.

Louisville at Indiana. Indiana leads the series, 2-0. (They last played in 1986).

Northwestern at Duke. Duke leads the series, 12-10.

Washington at Michigan State. Washington leads the series, 3-1.

Western Kentucky at Ohio State. First meeting.

Bowling Green at Michigan. Michigan leads the series, 2-0.

Western Michigan at Iowa. Western Michigan leads the series, 2-1.

Northern Illinois at Nebraska. Nebraska leads the series, 3-1.

Georgia Southern at Wisconsin. First meeting.

PAC12: Rocky Mountain Showdown - Colorado vs Colorado State. Colorado leads the series, 67-22-2.

San Diego State at Oregon State. Oregon State leads the series, 3-2.

Fresno State at Arizona State. Arizona State leads the series, 3-1.

UTEP at Arizona. Arizona leads the series, 39-11-2. (Arizona has won 13 straight meetings).

Hawaii at Oregon. Oregon leads the series, 4-3. (They last played in 1994).

Idaho at California. First meeting.

Sacramento State at Stanford. First meeting.

Weber State at Utah. Utah leads the series, 6-0. (This series used to be part of the "Beehive Boot" rivalry series).

North Carolina Central at UCLA. First meeting.

Northern Colorado at Washington State. Washington State leads the series, 1-0.

Big 12: Backyard Brawl - Pittsburgh at West Virginia. Pittsburgh leads the series, 62-40-3.

Conference Game - TCU at Houston. Houston leads the series, 13-12.

Oklahoma at Tulsa. Oklahoma leads the series, 20-7-1.

Wyoming at Texas. Texas leads the series, 5-0.

Iowa State at Ohio. Iowa State leads the series, 8-0.

Kansas at Nevada. First meeting.

Battle For The Victory Bell - Miami (Oh.) at Cincinnati. Cincinnati leads the series, 60-59-7. (Cincinnati has won 16 straight meetings).

Villanova at Central Florida. UCF leads the series, 1-0.

South Alabama at Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State leads the series, 2-0.

Tarleton State at Texas Tech. First meeting.

Long Island University at Baylor. First meeting.

ACC: Conference Game - Florida State at Boston College. Florida State leads the series, 14-5.

Florida Atlantic at Clemson. Clemson leads the series, 1-0.

Bethune Cookman at Miami (FL.). Da U leads the series, 6-0.

Wake Forest at Old Dominion. Wake Forest leads the series, 1-0.

VMI at North Carolina State. VMI leads the series, 11-7-1.

AAC: Conference Game - Navy at Memphis. Memphis leads the series, 5-3.

Tulane at Southern Mississippi. Southern Miss leads the series, 24-9.

East Carolina at Appalachian State. App State leads the series, 20-12.

Army at UTSA. Army leads the series, 2-1.

Georgia State at Charlotte. The series is tied, 2-2.

UL Lafayette at UAB. UAB leads the series, 4-3.

North Texas at Louisiana Tech. Louisiana Tech leads the series, 13-8.

Prairie View A&M at SMU. First meeting.

Texas Southern at Rice. Rice leads the series, 1-0.

Norfolk State vs Temple. First meeting.

Mountain West: Conference Game - Utah State at Air Force. The series is tied, 5-5.

Rio Grande Rivalry - New Mexico State at New Mexico. New Mexico leads the series, 73-34-5.

San Jose State at Toledo. Toledo leads the series, 1-0. (They last played in 1981).

North Dakota at Boise State. First meeting.

Sun Belt: Conference Game - James Madison at Troy State.

Duquesne at Coastal Carolina.

Jackson State at Texas State. First meeting.

Stony Brook at Arkansas State. First meeting.

CUSA: Liberty at Buffalo. Liberty leads the series, 2-0.

Florida International at Connecticut. Connecticut leads the series, 1-0.

Murray State at Middle Tennessee State. Middle Tennessee State leads the series, 37-30-3.

MAC: Central Michigan at Notre Dame. First meeting.

Massachusetts at Eastern Michigan. The series is tied, 2-2.

Indiana State at Ball State. Ball State leads the series, 38-24-1.

Central Connecticut State at Kent State. First meeting.

Other Games: Drake at South Dakota State 2:30 pm $espn+ Video Central Arkansas at North Dakota State 2:30 pm $espn+ Video / ABC ND (cable) Illinois State at Eastern Illinois 2:00 pm $espn+ Video Lindenwood at Western Illinois 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Robert Morris at Youngstown State 1:00 pm $espn+ Video Stetson at Montana State 2:00 pm $espn+ Video / SWX (cable) Ferris State at Montana 7:00 pm $espn+ Video / SWX (cable) Lamar at South Dakota 1:00 pm $espn+ Video Northern Iowa at Idaho State 5:00 pm $espn+ Video SE Louisiana at Eastern Washington 3:00 pm $espn+ Video / SWX (cable) Southern Illinois at SEMO 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Southern Utah at UC Davis 9:00 pm $espn+ Video / My58 (cable) Utah Tech at Northern Arizona 3:00 pm $espn+ Video Dartmouth at New Hampshire 5:00 pm $Flo Video Holy Cross at Yale 11:00 am $espn+ Video Rhode Island at Maine 2:30 pm $Flo Video Incarnate Word at Abilene Christian 7:00 pm $espn+ Video Houston Christian at UT Martin 6:00 pm $espn+ Video SFA at Northwestern State 6:00 pm $espn+ Video The Citadel at Chattanooga 5:00 pm $espn+ Video / Nexstar (cable) Furman at Kennesaw State 4:00 pm $espn+ Video ETSU at Austin Peay 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Cornell at Lehigh 11:00 am $espn+ Video Penn at Colgate 12:00 pm $espn+ Video Columbia at Lafayette 11:30 am $espn+ Video Brown at Bryant 3:00 pm $espn+ Video WCU at Eastern Kentucky 5:00 pm $espn+ Video William & Mary at CSU 3:00 pm $espn+ Video St. Francis (PA) at Delaware 5:00 pm $Flo Video Delaware State at Richmond 2:30 pm $Flo Video McNeese at Alcorn 6:00 pm Alcorn Video St. Thomas MN at Harvard 12:00 pm $espn+ Video Presbyterian at Wofford 5:00 pm $espn+ Video Campbell at Monmouth 12:00 pm SNY / $Flo Video DII: Shaw at Bowie State 12:00 pm GrioTV / Plex Video DII: Morehouse at Albany State 2:00 pm CNBC / Peacock Video Alabama A&M at Southern 6:00 pm $espn+ Video Davidson at Marist 12:00 pm $espn+ Video Florida Memorial at Grambling 2:00 pm $espn+ Video Gardner Webb at Tennessee State 5:00 pm $espn+ Video Hampton at Howard 2:30 pm $espn+ Video Lincoln (CA) at Cal Poly 7:00 pm $espn+ Video Miles at UAPB 4:00 pm UAPB Video MVSU at Delta State 6:00 pm $Flo Video North Alabama at Tennessee Tech 6:00 pm $espn+ Video North American at Portland State 3:00 pm $espn+ Video North Carolina A&T at Elon 2:00 pm $Flo Video Princeton at San Diego 3:00 pm $espn+ Video Stonehill at Georgetown 11:30 am $espn+ Video Taylor at Dayton 12:00 pm Facebook Video Towson at Morgan State 5:00 pm $espn+ Video Virginia Lynchburg at Merrimack 5:00 pm NEC Front Row Video Wabash College at Butler 5:00 pm $Flo Video Wagner at Sacred Heart 12:00 pm NEC Front Row Video West Florida at Florida A&M 5:00 pm HBCU Go Video

[andimthedad]

Road Trip: Oh, the Places You’ll Go

On our 10,000-mile road trip, we saw dozens of sights and stopped in more than 30 states. Along the way, we marked our route and several stops on a fold-out paper map, above. Here’s a list of almost everything...

Lolo Pass, Idaho: historical site in the Bitterroot Mountains where Lewis and Clark passed during their explorations.

Berkeley Pit Mine, Berkeley, Montana: one of the largest and most expensive Superfund pollution sites in America.

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: Mammoth Hot Springs, Old Faithful, wild bison, and more at America’s first national park.

Medicine Wheel, Big Horn National Forest, Wyoming: a Native American religious site, thousands of years old and still used today.

Crazy Horse Memorial, Crazy Horse, South Dakota: still carving a mountain into the likeness of the famous warrior.

Ken’s Minerals & Trading Post, Custer, South Dakota: a nice rock shop where we probably bought too much.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Keystone, South Dakota: four stony-faced presidents carved into a mountain.

Wall Drug Store, Wall, South Dakota: famous for its free ice water and legions of billboards.

Badlands National Park, Rapid City, South Dakota: beautiful and alien landscapes, all at the same time.

Prairie Homestead, Philip, South Dakota: a preserved frontier house made out of sod.

Dignity Statue, Chamberlain, South Dakota: a 50-foot-tall Native American woman.

World’s Only Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota: where people nail corn cobs to the wall as art.

Mall of America, Bloomington, Minnesota: the largest shopping mall in America, and one of the largest in the world.

Cady Cheese, Wilson, Wisconsin: yummy cheese made here (and, in our case, consumed here).

Chicago, Illinois: the Sears/Willis Tower, Lake Michigan, Cloud Gate, Buckingham Fountains, Chicago-style pizza, elevated trains, and more.

Grand Rapids, Michigan: to visit relatives.

Flint, Michigan: site of a serious water crisis that symbolizes all kinds of issues around government, racism, and economics.

Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, Michigan: highlights all kinds of positive Ford achievements, and included a tour of the nearby Rouge plant that produces F-150 trucks.

Cudell Recreation Center, Cleveland, Ohio: site where Tamir Rice, a black child, was murdered by a white cop a few years ago; a memorable example in the debates around police brutality.

Presque Isle State Park, Erie, Pennsylvania: beautiful beaches overlooking Lake Erie.

Niagara Falls, New York: amazing waterfall experiences at America’s first state park.

Schenectady, New York: to visit relatives.

Hogback Mountain, Vermont: saw the so-called “100 mile view”.

Maine: from Portland’s Commercial and Exchange Streets, to whale watching in Boothbay Harbor, to beaches, to all kinds of seafood… and side trips to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and more. Saw a lot of relatives too.

Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield, Massachusetts: honoring the masters of the game at its birthplace.

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: we drove through the campus, so the kids can now say they went to Yale.

Jersey City, New Jersey: to visit relatives.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: climbing the “Rocky Steps” and enjoying genuine Philly Cheesesteak.

Washington, DC: the White House; monuments to Lincoln and Washington; memorials for World War II and Vietnam; the Holocaust Museum; the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum; the Museum of the Bible; the U.S. Capitol; and more.

Rotunda, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia: Thomas Jefferson’s historic building at the university he founded.

Claudia Sanders Dinner House, Shelbyville, Kentucky: the original KFC.

Farmington Historic Plantation, Louisville, Kentucky: owned by the Speed family, who had ties to Lincoln, Jefferson, and Washington.

Kentucky Derby Museum, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky: learning about the legends of the sport, as well as the money.

Gateway Arch, St. Louis, Missouri: as seen from the Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park, East St. Louis, Illinois.

Pappy’s Smokehouse, St. Louis, Missouri: considered by some to be the best BBQ ribs in the country.

Percival, Iowa: a farm community representative of flooding that has plagued the Midwest this year.

Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, Omaha, Nebraska: the world’s biggest zoo did not disappoint.

World’s Largest Ball of Twine, Cawker City, Kansas: yep.

Pike’s Peak, Cascade, Colorado: one of the most famous mountains in America, and at 14,000+ feet, the highest we’ve ever been outside of an airplane.

Mesa Verde National Park, Mesa Verde, Colorado: amazing cliffside homes built almost a thousand years ago by Native Americans.

Four Corners Monument, Teec Nos Pos, Arizona: where you can stand (or sit, or bounce a ball) in four states at once.

Arches National Park, Moab, Utah: beautiful, alien rock formations.

Moab Isolation Center Ruins, Moab, Utah: site of a Japanese internment concentration camp during World War II.

Dinosaur Quarry Visitor Center, Jensen, Utah: seeing and touching the fossils of giant dinosaurs, still embedded in the ground.

Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah: Mormon HQ.

Great Salt Lake State Park, Magna, Utah: the city’s namesake, and some of the saltiest water on earth.

ATK Rocket Garden, Northrop Grumman, Corinne, Utah: examples of various rockets and missiles, including Space Shuttle booster engine parts.

As I emphasized to the kids over and over, we are only seeing a glimpse of everything. We could spend a week or more visiting many of these places.

We also stopped in all of the following states, including our beginning and end:

Washington

Idaho

Montana

Wyoming

South Dakota

Minnesota

Iowa

Wisconsin

Illinois

Indiana

Michigan

Ohio

Pennsylvania

New York

Vermont

New Hampshire

Maine

Massachusetts

Connecticut

New Jersey

Maryland

Delaware

Washington, DC

Virginia

West Virginia

Kentucky

Missouri

Nebraska

Kansas

Colorado

Utah

Oregon

Does DC count as a separate state? Maybe.  The kids did their trip activities there. And if you want to count New Mexico and Arizona from our visit to Four Corners, then we’re up to 34 states... though the kids did not do their activities there.

We didn’t go to North Dakota, choosing South Dakota instead for our eastbound trip.  And we didn’t realize it until it was too late, but we completely forgot about visiting Rhode Island. Sorry, Rhode Islanders!  Ironically, it is the only state that actually has the sound of “road” in its name.

Of course, as I asked in one of the FAQs... Does It Really Count As “Visiting” A State If You Only Drive Through A Little Piece Of It? 

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Read notes from every day of the road trip:

Eastward: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.

Westward: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.

And various posts from the FAQ.

[themastercylinder]

SUMMARY

Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) is a psychic who has been using his talents solely for personal gain, which mainly consists of gambling and womanizing. When he was 19 years old, Alex had been the prime subject of a scientific research project documenting his psychic ability, but in the midst of the study, he disappeared. After running afoul of a local gangster/extortionist named Snead (Redmond Gleeson), Alex evades two of Snead’s thugs by allowing himself to be taken by two men: Finch (Peter Jason) and Babcock (Chris Mulkey), who identify themselves as being from an academic institution.

At the institution, Alex is reunited with his former mentor Dr. Paul Novotny (Max von Sydow) who is now involved in government-funded psychic research. Novotny, aided by fellow scientist Dr. Jane DeVries (Kate Capshaw), has developed a technique that allows psychics to voluntarily link with the minds of others by projecting themselves into the subconscious during REM sleep. Novotny equates the original idea for the dreamscape project to the practice of the Senoi natives of Malaysia, who believe the dream world is just as real as reality.

The project was intended for clinical use to diagnose and treat sleep disorders, particularly nightmares, but it has been hijacked by Bob Blair (Christopher Plummer), a powerful government agent. Novotny convinces Alex to join the program in order to investigate Blair’s intentions. Alex gains experience with the technique by helping a man who is worried about his wife’s infidelity and by treating a young boy named Buddy (Cory Yothers), who is plagued with nightmares so terrible that a previous psychic lost his sanity trying to help him. Buddy’s nightmare involves a large sinister “snake-man.”

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A subplot involving Alex and Jane’s growing infatuation culminates with him sneaking into Jane’s dream to have sex with her. He does this without technological aid—something no one else has been able to achieve. With the help of novelist Charlie Prince (George Wendt), who has been covertly investigating the project for a new book, Alex learns that Blair intends to use the dream-linking technique for assassination.

Blair murders Prince and Novotny to silence them. The president of the United States (Eddie Albert) is admitted as a patient due to recurring nightmares. Blair assigns Tommy Ray Glatman (David Patrick Kelly), a psychopath who murdered his own father, to enter the president’s nightmare and assassinate him—people who die in their dreams also die in the real world. Blair considers the president’s nightmares about nuclear holocaust as a sign of political weakness, which he deems a liability in the upcoming negotiations for nuclear disarmament.

Alex projects himself into the president’s dream—a nightmare of a post nuclear war wasteland—to try and protect him. After a fight in which Tommy rips out a police officer’s heart, attempts to incite a mutant-mob against the president, and battles Alex in the form of the snake-man from Buddy’s dream. Alex assumes the appearance of Tommy’s murdered father (Eric Gold) in order to distract him, allowing the president to impale him with a spear. The president is grateful to Alex but reluctant to confront Blair, who wields considerable political power. To protect himself and Jane, Alex enters Blair’s dream and kills him before Blair can retaliate.

The film ends with Jane and Alex boarding a train to Louisville, Kentucky, intent on making their previous dream encounter a reality. They are surprised to meet the ticket collector from Jane’s dream.

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The Dream Master Roger Zelazny

According to Roger Zelazny, the film developed from an initial outline that he wrote in 1981, based in part upon his novella “He Who Shapes” and novel The Dream Master. He was not involved in the project after 20th Century Fox bought his outline. Because he did not write the film treatment or the script, his name does not appear in the credits; assertions that he removed his name from the credits are unfounded.

    DEVELOPMENT

DREAMSCAPE’s title encapsulates both the film and the mental landscape that its independent filmmakers occupied for almost three years. Its creators hoped that the production would not only prove to be a success, but that it would also give them the clout to go on to bigger, even more ambitious projects. Featuring elaborate special effects by Peter Kuran’s Visual Concept Engineering Company and makeup effects by Craig Reardon, the film was launched as the first outing of newly-formed Zupnik-Curtis Productions.

Producer Bruce Cohn Curtis is one of the few men left in Hollywood who still has ties to its fabled beginnings, the nephew of the legendary Harry Cohn, one of the founders of Columbia Pictures. Looking the producer, from his immaculately clipped hair down to his tailored, sharply creased suits, a chill falls over any set that Curtis walks onto. With a military air of no-nonsense, Curtis keeps a close eye on his productions and is happy only if filming is on schedule.

“I’m tyrannical on a set,” Curtis says with a smile of relaxed authority. “That’s why I use the people I have as well as I do. Many of the people on DREAMSCAPE have worked with me before and have come back because I am a perfectionist and won’t settle for less. I have a standard of excellence in my films that I’ve always maintained, no matter what the cost, so that even though you might not like the stories I’ve done, the look of the film is always rich.”

Remembering that he had to prove himself publicly in an industry filled with people just waiting for the newest Cohn to fail, for his first effort Curtis made OTLEY, a sharp-edged spy spoof/drama with Tom Courtney as an ersatz spy who finds his make-believe assignment being taken very seriously by the other side. The film died at the box office, but drew good critical notices. The industry sat up and noticed; Harry Cohn’s nephew was off and running.

Curtis partnered with various producers for awhile, including Irwin Yablans on HELL NIGHT, but chafed at being the junior partner without clout. The matter came to a head when he was making THE SEDUCTION with Yablans and grew tired of having his ideas ignored.

Curtis resolved to start his own company and make pictures his way. He found financial backing from businessman Stanley Zupnik, and was looking for scripts to start Zupnik-Curtis Productions when associate producer Chuck Russell brought in director Joe Ruben and the DREAMSCAPE script. Curtis had worked previously with both and gave the green light for Ruben and Russell to begin revising the script, written by David Loughery.

Ruben discovered Lowery’s script in 1981 at the William Morris Agency, which represents both artists. Lowery, a television writer, had come out to Hollywood in 1979 after winning a script writing contest sponsored by Columbia Pictures, while a student at the University of Iowa. Ruben had just finished directing the TV-pilot for BREAKING AWAY, and was looking for a new project.

Once Ruben started reading the DREAMSCAPE script he found he couldn’t put it down. The vision Loughery described was breathtaking, with rivers ablaze and boats filled with the undead. Ruben was excited by the property and showed it to Russell, his assistant director on JOY RIDE and GORP (also starring Dennis Quaid), films made with Bruce Cohn Curtis for producer Samuel Z. Arkoff. Russell suggested they take the script to Curtis and his new company.

It took seven months for Ruben and Russell to rewrite DREAMSCAPE; with Curtis providing detailed criticism and ideas throughout. Loughery was brought back in to help write the final draft.

“We knew some things in Loughery’s script, like the holocaust dream at the end, were so expansive that it was virtually un-filmable,” said Russell about the changes that were made. “The original ending was set in New York. We changed that so we could do the movie out here in Los Angeles. In Loughery’s script you saw all of New York on fire after the bomb had hit. You saw the Statue of Liberty, ferry boats filled with the undead, and flames across the harbor. It was really great, but I knew we couldn’t afford to do it like that.”

Putting a screenplay into production inevitably means rewrites and not always by the original writer. In the final billing, Loughery receives story credit, while sharing screenwriting credit with director Joe Ruben and associate producer Chuck Russell. When I started writing with Joe and Chuck,” he says, “the original screenplay was pretty ferme, about 108 pages. They wanted to work some more on the characters, and their relationships. That was a good thing the development of the characters gave the audience more reason to care for the people and what happened to them.”

One of the things that really worried us about the character of Alex Gardner is that he’s something of a smart ass. So, we were afraid the audience wouldn’t like him. As soon as Dennis went to work, it was obvious we weren’t going to have any problem.

“My favorite character is Tommy Ray, the psychotic psychic, played by David Patrick Kelly. He doesn’t have many scenes, but when he’s on, he does a great job. The ‘have a heart scene is going to be seen by the audience as a rip off of Temple of Doom, but the fact is we shot it months before Temple of Doom even went into production. That is Chuck’s idea; he has a grisly and macabre sense of humor.”

Russell and Ruben beefed-up the character of Buddy (Cory “Bumper” Yothers), the little boy whose nightmares are cured by the film’s dream research project. In Loughery’s script Buddy wasn’t a running character. The idea for Buddy’s character arose from concepts the writers picked up from the study of dream research.

“We found the case of a little boy who was having such terrible nightmares that he couldn’t sleep,” said Russell. “It was affecting him physically; we used that case as our model for Buddy. The first time in the film when Alex (Dennis Quaid) acts unselfishly is when he enters Buddy’s dream to try and help him. He rises to the occasion and fulfills the role of hero.”

  THE DREAM CHAMBER

On an adjacent stage the set for the Dream Chamber was built. Outside, the set looked like a plywood igloo circled with florescent lights. Inside however, a small, padded chamber led to a main control room by a door and a large window. The set was a quiet haven, even when the normal racket of production was going on outside.

“The initial sketches of the set design for the Dream Chamber were some wild approaches that we felt were interesting, but not what we wanted,” Russell said. “Some of them made us feel too much like we were on a spaceship, while others were more like a classic, BRAINSTORM-type, wire-strewn lab. We decided we didn’t want a lot of whirling lights and buzzers, but something quiet and womb-like. It was a very difficult set to design because we were trying to make something that looked authentic, but we didn’t have any precedent for it.”

From an aesthetic standpoint, the design worked wonderfully. From a practical standpoint however, problems cropped up immediately that led to several delays in shooting. The set itself had been designed by Alan Jones without consulting with director of photography Brian Tufano. Jones then abruptly left the production for personal reasons so that when the set was built, Tufano had still not been consulted during the shuffle to find a new set designer. Tufano had great difficulty in setting up his lights and camera within the small confines of the set. An outside computer graphics firm had been brought in to supply authentic looking medical displays for the many small monitors built into the set. Unfortunately, the computer wouldn’t work right and left a full crew standing around collecting pay while technicians tried to figure out what had gone wrong with their expensive battery of equipment. Later, one of the technicians would quietly tell Russell that an Apple home computer would have been sufficient to give them the displays they wanted.

  BEHIND THE SCENES / SPECIAL EFFECTS

 “Some of the rough figures from effects companies were just staggering in the amount of money, research and development time they would need.” – Chuck Russell

Chuck Russell was told to shop around for people who could create the film’s extensive special effects and draw up a budget.

“It was very exciting to shop the script around and find out what could and couldn’t be done,” said Russell. “Some of the rough figures I got from effects companies were staggering in the amount of money, research and development time they would need. We just didn’t have the preparation time or budget of something like ALTERED STATES.

“When we found Peter Kuran’s VCE and Craig Reardon, and they got excited about the project, we knew they were perfect for it. They even helped sell the project because of their reputations, Reardon’s for working on Steven Spielberg’s POLTERGEIST and Kuran from his work with George Lucas.”

Russell assigned the live action makeup effects to Reardon, and the miniature and optical work to Kuran’s VCE company. Richard Taylor’s MAGI company was also asked to contribute computer animated imagery for the film’s “Dream Tunnel” effects. For the Dream Tunnel, Russell and Ruben wanted a semi-abstract look different from the other effects work in the picture, a “hazy.” dreamlike look, with an object or two from the upcoming scene to form and float towards the viewer to act as a visual cue for what was about to happen.

The effects sequences were storyboarded by Len Morganti; the budget was finalized on the basis of those storyboards. Because director Joe Ruben had not worked with special effects before, he carefully went through each scene with the storyboard artist.

“I knew that I had to be totally committed to my boards,” said Ruben. “I spent a lot of time thinking through the sequences and how I wanted to shoot them because I knew if I didn’t, the film would go out of control because the special effects people wouldn’t know what they were responsible for and what had to be done with each shot. I was able to get just what I was looking for. Morganti would sketch out something and if I asked him to move it a little lower and more to the right, he’d be able to do it with just a few strokes of his pencil. It was almost like working with a camera.”

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BUDDY”S NIGHTMARE

To try and save money while providing a sense of heightened realism, Russell and Ruben had wanted to shoot the “Buddy” dream, the little boy’s nightmare, on location.

“We found an old Victorian house and were actually shooting,” said Russell. “We realized that by the time you put in the lightning and thunder, it was going to look like Vincent Price was going to come around the corner. It was too on the nose, too traditional. We asked Jeff Stags, our art director, to do something different. He came up at the last minute with the idea of a forced perspective set, sort of Dr. Caligari style. It was a small set, but much more effective, as well as inexpensive. Buddy’s dream is really my favorite because it has much more impact, even though it’s not as spectacular as the last dream.”

Another problem that cropped up involved Reardon’s Snake man suit. Although an impressive work up close, Ruben felt that at even minor distances, it would seem as just a man in a rubber suit. Ruben and Russell still hoped that flickering low-level lighting would help. but Ruben began to realize that even with the extensive work he had put into planning the storyboard angles, the lighting was not going to be enough to sell the suit to an audience. Reardon firmly disagreed, “Contrary to negative thinking about rubber suits, you’ve got to see them as something delightful, and full of potential for doing something wonderful,” said Reardon. “You have to think of them almost as toys. Right when we were about to shoot the basement struggle scene, I went aside with Ruben and said there are two ways of looking at this; you can think of this as a rubber suit which will look bad, or as something which, with the proper angles and lighting, will convince people that they’re looking at a living, breathing, snarling Snake man. Now when Ruben first saw it, he said ‘Oh boy, Reardon, I don’t know…it’s a rubber suit. I thought that had a dangerous ring to it if he really believed it, which was hard to tell because he, Russell, and Loughery had this camaraderie among the three of them based on this constant derogatory kidding. That’s well and good and worth a few chuckles, but where it begins to become pernicious is when it begins to condition thinking to be truly negative.”

Reardon also objected to the low-level lighting strategy that Ruben and cinematographer Brian Tufano used to film the suit. “Tufano seemed to have a fine contempt for any kind of supplementary light which would be, in logical terms arbitrary, but in dramatic terms exciting and interesting … something that would catch the eye, something that would fill in a face or create a little cross light to show textures,” said Reardon. “The naturalistic photography Tufano used can be very detrimental, I think, to SF and fantasy stories. You contrast this with the work of John Hora, who shot THE HOWLING and GREMLINS, and you see that special effects profit enormously from using special tiny spots and direct lighting. But I didn’t feel it was my place to raise the issue.”

Reardon did try to get his viewpoint across to the filmmakers by preparing a lighting test on video. The test was crude but illustrated the alternative Reardon was suggesting. “They ignored it,” said Reardon of the test. “Yet, when they got on the set, they were completely vapor locked on the suit. They didn’t know what to do with it, and they didn’t have any ideas. All the storyboards that had been prepared in advance were completely ignored. Not once did I see anybody bring up a storyboard and crack it open and say that for this frame here we need to set up this angle. All the audacious plans evaporated. Ruben was at a loss to shoot special effects or rubber suits.”

Aupperle s first job was to coordinate the sculpture of the stop-motion Snake man, which was being done by Steve Czerkas, with the suit being built by Craig Reardon.

“They told me that they wanted to feature Craig’s suit prominently, so I was going to try and make the miniature as close as possible to Craig’s suit,” said Aupperle. “We started with a man’s armature and sculpted Craig’s design over it. I knew we were going to have to make some changes, like making the tail longer so it could whip around, but I wanted to avoid one of those instances where the suit never matches the miniature. I’d run back and forth to Craig and measure his design with calipers just to make sure we were dead on.

“Since Craig’s suit was being done in pieces our model was the first time the producers saw the way the design was going to come together. They wanted more changes than I ever expected. They actually had Steve Czerkas re-sculpt the model. It got away from the manlike design and no longer really matched the suit. I was a little concerned that the two would intercut, but that’s what they insisted upon.”

Causing Aupperle the most concern was the production’s seeming lack of respect for the story boards. *They wanted to be able to use Craig’s suit any way they wanted,” said Aupperle. “They didn’t want to be tied down by storyboards. At one time they asked me to revise the storyboards. They said they’d just have to wing it on the set. That attitude left me little to do until they were done with the live action. I found the situation very distressing.”

  Perhaps the greatest disappointment for Reardon was the scant use made of a full snake-man costume.  The suit appears in the film for just a few frames, as the man-snake breaks through a door; most of the action originally planned for Cedar was replaced by Jim Aupperle’s animation using models built, following Reardon’s design, by Steve Czerkas.

THE SNAKE MAN

Most changes made in the script did not alter Loughery’s story significantly. In Loughery’s original draft, the creature that menaces Buddy in the boy’s dream and later reappears as the creature stalking the President and Alex was to be a rat-man. “We changed that because so much had been done with werewolves,” said Russell. “This was right after THE HOWLING and AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON and we felt the difference between a man with a rat’s face and a man with a wolf’s face would be minimal.

“We wanted to take a different approach,” Russell continued. “Not the direction of John Carpenter’s Thing but something identifiable, so that when Tommy Ray changed into something to scare Alex, you would be able to see that it was Tommy Ray’s version of the same creature. Joe Ruben wanted to go with something that scared him, and since he’s scared of snakes, we went in that direction. I did some sketches of a snake creature and came up with something that really excited us because it was a departure from anything either of us had seen before. I think part of it came to me from my memories of seeing THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO. When we showed it later to our effects people, Peter Kuran and Craig Reardon, they were really sparked by it too.

A stop-motion animator was the last member of the effects team to be hired, done through VCE. Both Russell and Ruben had agreed early on that the best and cheapest way to get what they wanted from the Snake man sequences would be with a mixture of live-action and stop-motion effects, but they were unsure just how they would mix the combination.

“I knew we would need a good animator,” said Russell. “I knew a live-action Snake man with its long neck and swishing tail would never work in a master shot. We didn’t have umpteen million dollars for physical effects.” Russell and Ruben planned to use low-key, flickering lighting for the sequences in order to seamlessly blend the two effects techniques.

Said Russell, “ Joe and I sat down with the special effects people on the Buddy sequence storyboards, which is the first appearance of the Snake man, and asked which way it made more sense to do it? It made sense to do the wide shots in stop motion and the close-ups in live action, and in the cases where we weren’t sure, we would have both of them overlap and whichever worked better, then that’s what we would go with.”

Although this arrangement was made in good faith and with the best intentions, the decision to let the two techniques overlap and not make a clear distinction between which shots would be assigned to each ultimately proved to be a decision that led to tensions and feelings of betrayal between makeup expert Craig Reardon and the production company.

  Opticals were also used to create the clouds and background sky for the first dream that Quaid enters, the vertigo dream where he goes into the mind of a steelworker and falls. “There’s one shot where Dennis Quaid is supposed to be falling. said Kuran. “I spent some time trying to figure out how a person should fall so it will look right on film. We had a good plate of a falling background, and they rigged an elaborate harness at Raleigh to hold Dennis. When we were on the set. Ruben asked me how a person should fall, and I went through the motions of what Dennis should do, but Joe didn’t do that. He told Dennis to do something else that looks really corny. He ruined the shot. There was no way that I could think of to fix it and I think it looks really cheesy right now.

THE PRESIDENTS NIGHTMARES

At a budget of over $300,000 for some 90-odd cuts, DREAMSCAPE was one of the largest jobs VCE had taken on, as well as one of the most difficult. As the producers were continually asking VCE to create more or make changes with what they had done, Kuran wasn’t under pressure to have all the special effects done by the original deadline. Kuran pretty much improvises his effects as he goes along. The more they wanted him to do, the less certain he was about how much longer it would actually take to finish the effects. One thing was certain. There was no way they’d be able to get the movie out in the fall as Russell had originally hoped.

In a way though, the delays had been a good thing; something everyone was almost afraid to acknowledge because of all the tribulations the film had gone through. Kuran was creating the effects layer by layer, and even with only early tests to show, the effects still looked very good. It helped convince Curtis that even though the schedule and budget had gone to hell, it was still within limits he could work with—he was getting a better product for his money than he ever dreamed possible. The more Kuran tinkered with the visuals, the better they got. The live action footage of the actors had come out better than expected, too. Quaid and Von Sydow were marvelous in their roles, and if they could just get the effects to come out anywhere near what had been described in the script, they all began to feel they might have a movie yet, even if they did have to grimace a bit when they realized that the work on the film was still far from over.

Working with Zupnik-Curtis productions was not without its problems for Kuran in the beginning. Because Curtis had never worked with special effects before, he wasn’t sure what to expect.

“We started getting pressure from them early on,” said Kuran. “They had a rough cut of some of the sequences for us to work from, and they wanted to see something. But they kept changing the cutting without realizing that it meant we’d have to go back and redo the whole scene. There was a trolley shot that they wanted to make longer by one foot of film. At that point, all the backgrounds had been shot to length. All the miniatures had been broken down. I managed to talk them out of that one.”

Another problem is the very nature of post-production work. “When somebody does a movie, they make a little mistake here and a little mistake there, and if it doesn’t work, they just kind of throw the shit over their shoulders and it lands on them in post-production,” said Kuran. “Unfortunately, this is where we do most of our work. People are at their worst to deal with in post-production. They’re under deadlines, and if the movie doesn’t work they’re in even worse shit. The people who shot the movie are gone and they usually refuse to accept the fact that the movie is crummy because of them. Lots of people can go onto a production and create a lot of shit and come off smelling like a rose because the movie’s not finished when they leave it.”

Although VCE was contributing some 90 cuts to the film, the majority of the effects were going to be clustered around the holocaust dream near the end, and at the start, including the terrific A-Bomb teaser which opens the film. “I thought the bombs in THE DAY AFTER just didn’t look right,” said Kuran. “They looked so dark and cold. You look at a nuclear test and you can see it’s a very bright fireball, so we wanted a very hot look to our bomb.”

The Trolly/Subway Cart

 Reardon’s and Kuran’s most elaborate work is seen in the climactic sequence, a surreal view of the day after Nuclear Armageddon. Dennis Quaid enters a dream which represents the President’s worst fears of nuclear war, the setting is an old trolley car that travels among the bombed-out ruins of Washington, D.C., past several surrealistic tableaux-travelling mattes and miniatures courtesy of Peter Kuran’s V.C.E. David Kelley, Plummer’s henchman, enters the dream as well, for a climactic confrontation with Quaid.

 For the holocaust dream at the end, Kuran’s basic effects strategy was to have a live-action foreground element, an intermediate miniature behind that, and then have a matte or tinted water tank shot as the background. The scenes were difficult because Kuran needed something that would convey a sense of extremely large scale while still having realistic detail, a tall order on the show’s tight budget.

Russell had originally wanted to do the holocaust effects scenes first and rear-project them as they were shooting the live action. Kuran pointed out that it would take thousands and thousands of feet of film to try and generate the footage they would need, and that they would have a better chance of making sure the background footage matched with the live-action trolley car if they shot the trolley first and then had it to play the backgrounds against.

“Jim Belohovek and Sue Turner built the miniatures for the scenes, and we photographed them in different layers,” said Kuran. “To get good depth of field, we shot them at one frame per second. Then we started adding the fires. Because those had to be slowed down, we shot them at 72 frames a second. We don’t have any motion control equipment. I set up a dolly for the camera, filled the room with smoke, then lit the fires. It takes a couple of seconds to get the camera up to speed. Then we pushed the dolly down the tracks until eventually timed the push right and got it to look the same speed that we thought the trolley would be moving at. The background is a water tank shot that we used to make it look moody by adding some glows and fires. Counting everything I’d say there’s about 20 elements in that shot.”

While Kuran labored in the bowels of VCE, director Ruben and Academy Award winning editor Richard Halsey were slowly cutting the film together using unfinished optical tests that were the right length and Jim Aupperle’s Snake man animation. Kuran had been able to find them an east coast underground filmmaker named Dennis Pies (pronounced “pees”) to do the Dream Tunnel effects and the stuff looked wonderful. It was exactly what they wanted. But now it was time to decide how they were going to mix the live action Snake man and the animation, and to a great degree, they were coming down against the live action footage.

With the will to manipulate the dream to his own ends, Kelly at one point extends his fingernails into stilletos, which he uses to rip the heart from the car’s conductor, with the logic of dreams, the trolley then becomes a subway car, populated with a dozen grisly war victims, looking more dead than alive, Shortly after, Kelley transforms into a snake monster.

Reardon details the other effects he did for Dreamscape. “Tommy Ray Kelly transforms with knives springing from his fingers. He uses these to tear out someone’s heart which sits beating in his fingers,” the effects Technician says. “We made a prosthetic hand and an artificial heart for this scene. 

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“We made 12 mutants up for them, Reardon says of the subway denizens, “all extremely exaggerated in their ugliness, so that, in the heavy shadows and flickering light that was planned for the shot, they would still prove effective. The design is heavy-handed, but suitably macabre for the scene.

“I hogged all the major sculpture on the picture for myself, but there were a number of other people working with me on this that also deserve mention. My greatest praise must go to Bruce Kasson, who took the weight off my shoulders where mechanical work is concerned. He worked out the mechanical effect used for the death of one of the characters at the end, as well as the stilleto fingernails. David Miller was our acrylic man, doing all the hard plastic pieces, and certainly one of my right hand men in doing the sculpture, along with David Cellitti.

Snake Man Transformation Effect

Following the completion of principal photography, there was a brief hiatus, during which Reardon re-stirred his somewhat-dampened enthusiasm, before tackling the transformation sequence.

Replacement animation is a variety of stop motion that uses separate, slightly differing sculptures, rather than the movable models most frequently associated with the form. Pioneered by George Pal, replacement animation is nowadays seen mostly in David Allen’s television commercials featuring such animated characters as Mrs. Butterworth and the Pillsbury Doughboy. Reardon’s suggestion to try this technique for an unusual transformation. Because of the frame-by-frame nature of the animation process, the sequence would be a short one-less than two seconds in sculpting work than Reardon (or, most likely, anyone else) had ever expended on a transformation effect of such short duration; 32 heads, each altered slightly from the previous head in sequence, each making a barely more than subliminal appearance in the film. It was this rapidity, and the violence of the change, that Reardon felt would make it entirely unique.

“The major problem was one of time,” Reardon says. “How was I to produce 32 different heads for this sequence within a reasonable schedule? The first thing you want to consider in a situation like this is, can you do it full-size? It took me about 15 seconds of heavy thought to realize that would be a killer, because of the molds that would be involved, and the sheer awkwardness of doing such an extensive sequence in full scale. From the beginning, they wanted David Kelley’s features discernible in the snake head’s face, so l also briefly considered taking a cast of Kelley’s face and using reduction techniques, like special shrinking molds, to bring it down to scale-but there is enough distortion in the reduction process that it wouldn’t likely be worth the effort. So I finally decided on doing a miniature portrait sculpture based on his features.

“One way to have gone would have been to produce molds of each and every stage cast one head, alter it a little further, make a mold from that and cast another stage. I ruled that out; it takes about a day to make one mold, so it would have taken a full month to prepare for the sequence.

“Instead, I took a master mold of the first stage turned out a dozen or so duplicates of that, and altered each of them to cover the first third of the total transformation. I then made another mold from the last of these, and changed those progressively. That way, I had to make no more than three molds. As the work progressed, I did some rough tests on video, which helped to show up a number of small glitches. Some of these proved very difficult to correct-seen side by side, two heads might appear to match perfectly, but tiny variances would show immediately on video.”

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A chief problem with all stop motion effects is that of temporal aliasing,” a term used to describe the unnatural look of objects seen to be in motion, but not blurred as they would be if actually filmed in real-time. All along, Chuck kept saying, ‘I hope this won’t look like animation,” says Reardon, “and of course all I could say was, I hope so, too.’

“Jim Aupperle, who did the stop motion animation on the snake monster, and my friend Randy Cook, made some suggestions to counter that problem. Both suggested that if each stage would be slightly dissolved into the next stage, that would soften the edges, and disguise whatever anomalies there were from one head to the next. So Peter took the negative and a dupe negative, printing them to a single positive with overlapping frames, so that no single frame gives a really razor sharp image of one sculpture.

The Caves

Another kind of problem arose in shooting the climax of the President’s holocaust dream, set in a cave-like underground grotto decorated with fires, twisted girders and a glowing pool of green water. Originally it was planned to shoot the scene on a section of the ruins” set at Raleigh Studios. But Russell found out that he could get a few days shooting time at Bronson Canyon. The site, long a favorite locale for low-budget productions, is actually a short “Y” shaped tunnel through a jutting canyon wall in the nearby Hollywood hills. Open at all three ends and with a high ceiling, Ruben and Russell felt they could put up a more effective set inside the cave at relatively little cost to the production.

The art department scrambled on something like 48 hours notice to come up with a revised set for the cave. They did well, but lighting the set so that the lights themselves wouldn’t show was a difficult task made harder by the fact that creating the pool of water just past the junction of the “Y” in the cave had turned the rest of its sandy floor into gritty muck that forced the crew to support the lights and camera on wooden planks and sandbags the best they could. Working in the enclosed confines quickly turned miserable too. Brian Tufano, who had been hired because of his work on QUADROPHENIA and THE LORDS OF DISCIPLINE, is yet another British cinematographer who likes to use smoke to diffuse his lighting to give the set greater visual depth. Every time Ruben went for a take, Tufano’s assistants would pump the small, sealed cave full of hot, oily smoke and wait to see if the density was right. While the crew and stars quietly gasped behind their respirators, either more smoke would be pumped in if it wasn’t enough.

According to Craig Reardon, the first scenes that were supposed to be shot in the caves were thought to be relatively straightforward. Quaid, followed by Albert, is moving through the cave when they are attacked by a mutant dog. For the dog’s costume, Reardon’s assistant, Michiko Tagawa, had made some wonderfully revolting costumes.

“They were beautiful.” Reardon said. “They had entrails bulging out of the body and exposed rib cages and boils and french fried skin. Now we were told that a Doberman would wear the costume, and in fact, the trainer had auditioned the dogs in a costume they worked in on the BUCK ROGERS television show. So Michiko went to a great deal of trouble to measure the Dobermans and I contributed sculptures for the heads while she built the body parts up from reject castings for the subway zombies.” Once we got them suited up at the Bronson location however, the Dobermans refused to perform.

“The dogs trouped around in the mud and the zippers and their fur got packed with it,” said Reardon. “It was a disaster. They took one of the suits and tried to put it on a German Shepherd, a dog which is considerably different in body build.”

In his big scene the dog was supposed to run a short distance and jump at Quaid. In take after take however, the dog merely trotted up to Quaid and stopped at his feet to try and shake the costume off. Eyes turned on the dog’s embarrassed handlers who quickly explained that the dog usually didn’t act like that; it was probably because he felt uncomfortable with the costume.

Reardon snipped parts of the costume’s legs away, hoping to make it more comfortable, but this produced no better reaction. Next, the dog’s owners took to furiously waving a little furry target at the dog. then quickly sticking it just inside Quaid’s shirt while everyone enthusiastically urged the dog to attack. This made the dog think everyone just wanted to play. It would run up to Quaid, half-hop once, then bark excitedly while waiting for his trainers to get the toy again.

Quipped Reardon, Bruce Cohn Curtis said the mutant dog looked like someone’s dirty laundry running across the floor.” Finally the dog made one decent leap past Quaid and Ruben called it a take. The shot is still in the film, although the rest of the mutant dogs were replaced with German Shepherd with their fur shaved in patches and dabbled with red goo.

“The script also called for these two raggedy dogs to chase after Quaid and Albert in the dream. It seemed that the easiest way to achieve a really striking appearance for the dogs would be to suit them in a costume covered with foam latex. I consulted with the trainers on the feasibility of it, and they said

‘Yeah, sure.’ So l sculpted two mutated dog heads, and Michiko Tagawa, a very good craftsperson who’s done work with Winston and Burman, did a beautiful job on the body suits-really hideous and nasty. She took some reject castings from the subway mutants, and reworked them into twisted body shapes, warped, burned and decked with growths. But the dogs wouldn’t wear them, and the trainers sort of shrugged, and said ‘What do you expect?’

“Those trainers were let go, and replaced by Karl Miller, who allowed them to shave his dogs in erratic patches, and we gobbed all kinds of blood, goo and crap on them. Good enough, but it’s unfortunate that Michiko’s suits will never be seen.”

VCE generated the bits and pieces that would help add life and highlights to the live action effects. A red glow was added to the mutant dog’s eyes, as well as crawling purple electrical effects when the dogs vanish. Opticals materialized David Patrick Kelly’s nunchaku weapons smoothly into his hands as well as allowed Dennis Quaid to heal his wounds and transform himself into Kelly’s father.

  Snake Man Showdown

The next scene planned for the cave involved Quaid and Albert, discovering it is a dead end and that the Snakeman is right behind them. It comes out of a side tunnel, snarls, and attacks Quaid. Ruben decided he wanted to use the full-sized Snakeman suit for the shot, and Reardon was given short notice to get it ready. At the time, Reardon was working full tilt to prepare the suit needed for the basement struggle in the boy’s nightmare. A different head would be needed for the cave sequence.

“Russell got a hold of Bronson Canyon and said we’ve got to do the Kelly head to look like David Patrick Kelly, playing the President’s assassin) right away. You can’t change things around like that. I said I’d try when I should have told him no.”

Ruben shot Reardon’s live Snakeman suit in the cave, although eventually discarded most of it and replaced the scene with a stop-motion cut. Also discarded was a small but important effect Reardon had worked very hard on getting right, a brief shot where Dennis Quaid “heals” a wound in his shoulder.

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“We created a sort of bite effect, then put a plastic membrane over it and melted it with a plastic solvent so that when they ran the film backwards, the wound would heal,” explained Reardon. “It didn’t work as well as it did on the bench, which is frequently the case, but you did get a feeling of the actual fleshy material knitting itself. They opted to have Peter Kuran redo it with animation.”

More successful was a Reardon designed effect where Kelly, now distracted by an ingenious ploy of Quaid’s, reverts to a half-human, half-snake form. While diverted, Albert sneaks up behind him and drives a length of pipe through Kelly’s chest. For this shot, Reardon made a false chest with a mechanical rubber pole section inside that was connected to a spring and operated by cable. Albert would sneak up holding the pipe, then drop it out of camera sight as he lunged for Kelly, and the rubber pipe would burst through a section of painted tissue paper. Although the complex mechanical effect took some time to rig, it was accomplished in only three takes and is gruesomely realistic. It made for a happy interlude before the crew was to run into yet more problems once they left Bronson Canyon and returned to Raleigh Studios.

                                      Dave Millers Unused Snake Man

“I also worked on a snake man head, the one that was originally going to be in the elevator sequence, emerging from the head of Dennis Quaid. But then, they had some kind of quibble over Craig’s head of Quaid–they said it didn’t look like him, or some such garbage-and they hired Greg Cannom to do that sequence over. Greg did another head of Quaid, which they wound up not even showing, though it looked perfect, and another snakeman, which-sorry, Greg I didn’t care for too much. It didn’t seem to have much definition; it was hard to tell what it was. Plus, it was pretty badly edited.” – David Miller

  BOB BLAIR’S DREAM DEMISE

The “Buddy” dream completed the bulk of the main shooting. DREAMSCAPE moved from the largest soundstage at Raleigh into one small stage for what was hoped would be the final shot of the would grasp what was happening. Because Quaid’s strike against Plummer was to be a surprise, Ruben and Russell felt it was absolutely necessary to make sure that the lighting look realistic right up to the moment of the attack. This meant shooting the effect not with lighting that would highlight the makeup, but with ordinary florescent lighting. Reardon hated the lighting, but went along with Ruben’s insistence that changing the lighting would tip-off people that something was about to happen.

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About a month earlier, in late June, Reardon had supplied a transformation head, known as a “change-0” head in the business, for a scene late in the film in which Dennis Quaid confronts political schemer Christopher Plummer in the one place where Plummer is vulnerable, inside Plummer’s own dream. Quaid borrows a trick from dream assassin David Patrick Kelly and changes into his own version of the Snakeman before killing Plummer. The effect was planned to first show Quaid’s head beginning to change, cut back to Plummer as the Snakeman’s hands shoot out for his throat (a very brief scene which was shot earlier) then a quick cut back to Dennis Quaid’s Snakeman head coming for the camera.

“We prepared a head, which I felt was better than a lot of THE HOWLING heads,” said Reardon. “We didn’t content ourselves with just having the face bulge out. We had the eyes blink, and when they opened they were snake eyes. At the same time the neck elongated and the cheeks distended, and the eyes began to pop out of their sockets. The mouth opens unnaturally wide and the teeth elongate. But nobody liked it. Ruben said to me, ‘Geez Reardon, I expected something like AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON.’ That’s great. You give me six months and six hundred thousand dollars and maybe you could get that. Besides, that effect was five different heads. I told them all along that I was only going to come up with one head and do as much with it as I could.”

Neither Russell nor Ruben had been happy with the head when Reardon had brought it in. Under the flat lighting of the elevator mockup, the hair looked too bushy and still, the face too lifeless, and the neck far thicker than Quaid’s. The head didn’t work well either. with eyes that frequently jammed as they started to roll up. It took several takes to get the mechanism to work right. But beyond that, when Ruben and Russell saw footage of the effect, they realized that what they thought would be a good visual just wasn’t that exciting.

“Forget that it wasn’t convincing on film,” Ruben said. “When I saw it, I just realized that we needed a more shocking effect.”

“It wasn’t exciting enough,” added Russell. “We didn’t realize that until we saw it. It was a subtle effect that just wasn’t explosive enough. Craig’s head didn’t show anything either that would connect it with the Snakeman, and we decided we needed that, so we racked our brains and decided on something simple, like a guy’s head ripping apart with the Snakeman’s head coming out of the pieces.”

Russell contacted Reardon, but by this time, Reardon was both fed up with the production and busy trying to finish the replacement animation for David Patrick Kelly’s Snakeman transformation so he could be done with the film. Since Reardon was busy, Russell had to find someone who could do the effect and do it quickly. He decided on Greg Cannom, a former assistant to Rick Baker and Rob Bottin.  Cannom’s first solo assignment was THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER, and more recently he assisted Baker with the apes for GREYSTOKE.

Cannom had talked with Russell about a year before DREAMSCAPE about another film project that never went through. Cannom was interested in the assignment, but checked with Craig Reardon first, before committing himself. Reardon gave his blessing. Cannom went into his workshop and tried an effect which would combine the two concepts that Russell discussed, creating a skull that would not only split apart, but split apart and turn into a monster at the same time. “I could see the use of the Snakeman with the kid’s nightmare, but going into an adult’s nightmare, I thought it should be a lot more horrendous and scary,” said Cannom.

Cannom’s first prototype makeup was deemed unacceptable by producer Bruce Cohn Curtis. It was a bitter decision because of the amount of effort Cannom had put into it. Cannom took a fiberglass skull which he cut and hinged so it could be pulled apart. Inside the skull, Cannom used a soft foam and sculpted a hideous face so that when the skull was pulled apart, the jaw would drop down and the foam face would come out to form the monster.

“I loved Cannom’s first approach,” said associate producer Chuck Russell. “I think it was terrific. The dangerous thing about the makeup was that in a very quick cut, with a man splitting his head open and something gooey, dark, and spongy coming out, it might look like brains. It was hard to argue for it because of that.”

Curtis told Cannom that they wanted something closer to Reardon’s Snakeman concept. Cannom tried to figure out how to fit Reardon’s Snakeman design into a reworked version of the splitting skull but finally gave up and settled for a two-piece approach. Cannom first built a small, embryonic Snakeman head which would be moved like a hand puppet inside the skull after it split apart. Cannom wanted to stop the camera and replace the small head with a fullsized but slimmer Snakeman head that would rise out of the neck and lunge for the camera dripping goo and skin. As with Reardon before him, Cannom was less than happy with the treatment he felt his makeup got from Ruben and Curtis. Assisted by Jill Rocklow, Kevin Yagher and Brian Wade, Cannom did the effect, but felt little enthusiasm for the final product.

“Bruce Cohn Curtis and the other producer, Jerry Tokofsky, were so insulting and rude to me it was incredible,” said Cannom. “It was like they already had something against me and wanted to find fault. I never want to see Bruce Cohn Curtis again.

“I don’t really think my effect works either,” added Cannom. “It’s not done the way we wanted to set it up. We were very careful about it. First, the skull would split apart, then we would cut away, put the snake creature back into the neck and put skin all around it, and then have it come at the camera. I spent hours getting the chicken skins for the makeup and preparing them, then setting-up the effect. Ruben looked at it and said, ‘That’s not what I want. No neck and no skin. I just want the head coming at the camera.’ I told him that didn’t make any sense! But that’s what he wanted, so we did it his way.”

POST PRODUCTION

Because Ruben and Halsey had been able to do much of the editing work while the final opticals were being generated, the final scoring and assembly of the footage was completed quickly. Curtis had a finished film only a month later and premiered it to his friends in mid-January at a small mixing theater in Hollywood. Although there were some clunky spots that hadn’t been fixed because of time and budgetary problems, the final cut was deftly edited around most of them and they were visible only if you knew what to look for. The audience gave the film a big hand and Curtis was very happy, as well as Kuran. Russell, Ruben and Loughery, who now looked forward to having a potential hit associated with their names. Although Craig Reardon liked the film, he was still unhappy with director Ruben.

Ruben defended his decision to replace Reardon’s work. “Craig was under tremendous pressure to deliver an awful lot of complicated physical effects,” said Ruben. “I wouldn’t be able to see a finished physical effect practically until the day we were ready to shoot it. That was a rough way for both of us to work. I was disappointed some times, and I’m sure he was disappointed in the way I was shooting things, although at no time can I remember him making specific suggestions. I think that the main thing I would change if I were to do it again, and I wouldn’t mind working with Craig again.

  Dreamscape (1984) Music by Maurice Jarre 01.DREAMSCAPE 2:58 02.THE JOURNEY 4:22 03.FIRST EXPERIMENT 1:55 04.SUSPENSE 2:09 05.JEALOUSY MERRY-GO ROUND 2:56 06.THE SNAKEMAN 1:08 07.ENTERING THE NIGHTMARE 4:17 08.LOVE DREAMS 4:10

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  Dreamscape (1984) Retrospective SUMMARY Alex Gardner (Dennis Quaid) is a psychic who has been using his talents solely for personal gain, which mainly consists of gambling and womanizing.