#Nancy Q Studio

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She's offering a pearl to the human world. The inner glow of a pearl is thought to tap into inner wisdom and nurture love. www.NancyQstudio

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this is a poll for a movie that doesn't exist.

It is vintage times. The powers that be have decided to again remake the classic vampire novel Dracula for the screen. in an amazing show of inter-studio solidarity, Hollywood’s most elite hotties are up for the starring roles. the producers know whoever they cast will greatly impact the genre, quality, and tone of the finished film, so they are turning to their wisest voices for guidance.

you are the new casting director for this star-studded epic. choose your players wisely.

Previously cast:

Jonathan Harker—Jimmy Stewart

The Old Woman—Martita Hunt

Count Dracula—Gloria Holden

Mina Murray—Setsuko Hara

Lucy Westenra—Judy Garland (rip)

The Three Voluptuous Women—Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall

The Agonized Mother—Mary Philbin (rip)

Dr. Jack Seward—Vincent Price

Quincey P. Morris—Toshiro Mifune

Arthur Holmwood—Sidney Poitier

R.M. Renfield—Conrad Veidt

The Captain of the Demeter—Omar Sharif (rip)

The First Mate of the Demeter—Leonard Nimoy (rip)

Mr. Swales—Ed Wynn (rip)

The Correspondent for The Daily Graph—Ethel Waters

Dracula in dog form—Frank Oz with a puppet

Sister Agatha—Angela Lansbury

Mrs. Westenra—Gladys Cooper (rip)

Dracula's solicitors—Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee

Dr. Van Helsing—Orson Welles

Thomas Bilder, zookeeper—Lon Chaney Jr.

Thomas Bilder's wife—Elsa Lanchester

The Reporter from the Pall Mall Gazette—Hattie McDaniel

Patrick Hennessey M. D., M. R. C. S. L. K. Q. C. P. I.—George Takei

The Cockneys from the carrier's cart—Wilkins and Wontkins

This character does not speak, but Mina is so enraptured by her she doesn't notice the nearby Dracula, so I’m including her for kicks.

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Nancy Qart ~ Nancy Q Studio

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This is the complete list of characters I would have cameo at a Universal Animation assemblage similar to Once Upon a Studio.

Felix the Cat: Felix the Cat

Woody Woodpecker: Woody Woodpecker, Winnie Woodpecker

An American Tail: Fievel Mousekewitz, Tanya Mousekewitz, Papa Mousekewitz, Mama Mousekewitz, Yasha Mousekewitz, Tiger, Henri le pigeon, female pigeons, Tony Toponi, Bridget, Honest John, Gussie Mausheimer, Warren T. Cat, Digit, Maus Street Maulers, Cat R. Waul, TR Chula, the Cactus Cat Gang, Miss Kitty, Wylie Burp

Land Before Time: Littlefoot, Cera, Petrie, Ducky, Spike, Littlefoot's grandparents, Chomper

Opus 'n Bill: Opus, Bill the Cat, the ducks

We're Back!: A Dinosaur's Story: Rex, Elsa, Woog, Dweeb, Louie, Cecilia, Vorb, Stubbs, Captain Neweyes, Dr. Bleeb

Casper: Casper the Friendly Ghost, Stretch, Fatso, Stinky

Babe: Babe, Fly, Rex, Ferdinand, the mice

Balto: Balto, Jenna, Boris, Steele, Muk, Luk, Nikki, Kaltag, Star, Dixie, Sylvie, Rosy

Rocky & Bullwinkle: Rocket J. Squirrel, Bullwinkle J. Moose (in their 2D/CG 2000 looks), Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov, Natasha Femme-Fatale (in their 2D 2000 looks)

Curious George: Curious George, Ted the Man in the Yellow Hat, Maggie Dunlop

The Tale of Desperaux: Desperaux, his parents, Chiaroscuro "Roscuro", Chef Andre, Boldo

Despicable Me: Felonious Gru, Lucy Wilde, the Minions, Dr. Nefario, Margo, Agnes, Edith, Kyle, Vector, Mr. Perkins, Silas Ramsbottom, Eduardo Perez/El Macho, Antonio Perez, Scarlett Overkill, Herb Overkill, the Nelsons, Balthazar Bratt, Dru Gru, Marlena Gru, Fritz, Clive the Robot, the Vicious Six, Master Chow, Wild Knuckles' henchmen

Hop: EB, Easter Bunny, the Pink Berets, Carlos, Phil, bunnies, chicks

The Lorax: the Lorax, the Once-ler, Ted, Audrey, Mrs. Wiggins, Granny Norma, Aloysius O'Hare, O'Hare's bodyguards, Sy the Delivery Guy, the Hummingfish, the Swommee-Swans, the Barbaloots

The Secret Life of Pets: Max, Katie, Duke, Gidget, Snowball, Mel, Buddy, Pops, Tiberius, Rooster, Chuck, Liam, Daisy, Hu, Sergei, wolves

Sing: Buster Moon, Miss Crawley, Herman, Rosita, Norman, their piglets, Gunther, Johnny, Marcus, Stan, Barry, Ash, Lance, Becky, Eddie Noodleman, Nana Noodleman, Mr. and Mrs. Noodleman, Hobbes, Meena, her mother and grandparents, Mike, Nancy, Suki Lane, Porsha Crystal, Jimmy Crystal, Jerry, Nooshy, Darius, Klaus Kickenklober, Clay Calloway, the Q-Teez

The Grinch: the Grinch, Max, Fred, his mate and calf, Donna Who, Cindy-Lou Who, Bean, Buster, Bricklebaum, Mabel, Groopert, Axl, Izzy, Ozzy

Super Mario Bros.: Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Toad, Bowser Koopa, Donkey Kong, Cranky Kong, Kamek, penguins, Giuseppe

Migration: the duck family, Delroy, Pigeon, Erin

Characters I'm unsure would make the assemblage:

The Veggies of VeggieTales

The Jetsons, Mr. Spacely and anyone involved in Jetsons the Movie

And for real-life people:

Steven Spielberg, David Kirschner, George Miller, and Chris Meledandri as themselves.

What do you think?

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Nexus Studios - 'Silent Running' by Gorillaz, directed by Jamie Hewlett & Fx Goby from Nexus Studios on Vimeo.

Directors: Jamie Hewlett & Fx Goby Executive Producers: Jamie Hewlett & Damon Albarn Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn are managed by Eleven Management A Nexus Studios & Gorillaz Production

London Studio Executive Producers: Charlotte Bavasso & Chris O'Reilly, Mike Bell, Fx Goby CG Supervisor: Dave Hunt VFX Supervisor: Germán Díez Director of Photography: Ricky Patel Lead Compositor: Sacha Danjou Editor: Dave Slade Producer: Isobel Conroy, Jo Bierton Production Manager: Ruyi Meer Production Coordinator: Tyler Antin Head of Pipeline: Tom Melson Systems Engineer: Ryan Cawthorne Character Modeller: Andrew Hickinbottom Character Texture Artist: Florian Caspar Lead 3D Animator: William Lorton 3D Animators: Marylou Mao, Tom Lowe 3D Generalist: Josh Barlow, Matilde Vinther 2DFX Animator: Bethany Levy Compositors: Sander Saks, Gareth Tredrea Storyboard Artists: Emmanuelle Walker, Louis Kynd Lead Rigger: Niko Rossi Rigger: Nayla Nassar VFX Editors: Andrea Zantiras, Zaki Fulford Designer: Ieuan Lewis Creative & Talent Development: Delfina Maria Head of Production: Rachel Moss Head of Resourcing: Natalie Busuttil Studio Resourcing Coordinator: Meg Dupont Studio Systems Administrator: Rory Bedward IT Support: Vinicius Donadio PR & Marketing: Valentina Tarelli, Nancy Edmondson, Steph Anjo

Sydney Studio Executive Creative Producer: Darren Price Executive Producer: Tina Braham Producer: Diana Angelius Head of Studio: Ben Seager IT Manager: Jason Yee Head of 2D: Gary Fouchy Lead Compositor: Navid Bagherzadeh Compositor: Mat McCosker, Daniel Alvarez, Chris Charlton Digital Matte Painter: Jamie Phillips Junior Compositor: Wendy Lu Head of Lighting: Mike Lomas Lighting: Trent Rogan, Cosmo Park

3D Tracking: PEANUT Roto: Team VFX Artist

Sound FX Designer: JM Finch Additional Sound FX elements recorded at Brain Audio

Grade Company: Black Kite Studios Colourist: George K Colour Assist: Billy Dawson Colour Producer: Jade Denne

Live Action Service Production Company: Tuna Icon Executive Producer: Ivana Antic Line Producer: Diana Bojovic Production Manager: Janko Djoric Production Coordinators: Igor Milakov, Jovana Krnic PAs: Tara Koljkovic, Aleksandar Jelic 1st AD: Ivan Grbin 2nd AD: Boris Obrenov Production Designer: Goran Joksimovic PD Assistants: Nevena Mijuskovic, Izabela Radovanovic SFX Coordinator: Zamal M'Barek Costume Stylist: Ivana Ivic Stylist Assistants: Ivana Djuric, Sofija Jaksic Hair Stylist: Jelena Dujovic Makeup Artist: Irena Miletic Lead Prosthetic makeup artists: Katarina Bugarski Gajic, Nenad Gajic Prosthetics (workshop): Kosta Kolaric, Kristina Tekic, Milan Mihailovic 1st assistant prosthetic makeup artist: Olga Baturan 2nd assistant prosthetic makeup artist: Teodora Davidovic 3rd assistant prosthetic makeup artist: Nikola Rakovic Key Grip: Ivan Lekovic Gaffer: Igor Pavlovic Light Desk Operator: Nikola Uzelac Stunt Supervisor: Slavisa Ivanovic Rigging: Djole Alavanja Tras Coordinator: Pedja Mos Focus Puller: Milan Kostic 2nd AC: Nikola Cojcic Video Assistant: Zeljko Nikolic Q-take: Ivan Tanaskovic DIT: Jovan Nikolic Playback Operator: Aleksa Racic Unit Manager: Oliver Rnjak Transport Coordinator: Nikola Kopilanovic Stunts: Jelena Bakovic, Dejan Popadic

Cast: 2D, Noodle, Russel Hobbs, Murdoc Niccals

Supporting Cast: Milica Tepavac, Dejan Kolarov, Jelena Tjapkin, Budimir Stosic, Anisja Stojkovic, Ljubica Ikic, Dimitrij Ponkratenko

Eleven Management are: Niamh Byrne, Regine Moylett, Tanyel Vahdettin, Stars Redmond, Astrid Ferguson, Gaby Power, Ellie Nolan, Katherine Nash, Suzi Grossman, Selena Dion, Saskia Blow, Clare Moss, Hannah Norris

Official Biographers: Ed Caurana & Tom O’Malley

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RIP GLORIA MCMILLAN

1933-2022

Gloria McMillan is probably best known to the world as Harriet Conklin on the radio and television sitcom "Our Miss Brooks” (starring Eve Arden).  She also played the role in a 1956 big screen version of the show from Warner Brothers.  

She began playing the role in 1948 on radio. The character was daughter to Osgood Conklin, the Principal of the High School where Miss Brooks worked as a teacher.  The series moved to television in 1952, just one year after “I Love Lucy”. It was produced by Desilu Studios. As a production of Desilu, McMillan worked with many actors who also appeared on “I Love Lucy”.  

Chief among them was Gale Gordon, who, as one of the busiest radio artists in history, did double duty as Osgood Conklin and Mr. Atterbury on Lucy’s radio show “My Favorite Husband,” which aired concurrently with “Our Miss Brooks”.  Despite being busy with other projects, Gordon found time to appear as Alvin Littlefield, owner of the Tropicana, in two episodes of “I Love Lucy”. 

McMillan considered Eve Arden a friend and mentor. In turn Arden considered McMillan her “TV daughter” (even though the characters were not related on the show). 

As an old friend of Lucille Ball’s from their RKO days, Arden did a cameo on “I Love Lucy” when the Ricardos and Mertzes first arrive in Hollywood.  

At around the same time, Desi Arnaz played himself in one 1955 episode of “Our Miss Brooks,” but McMillan’s character did not appear that week. 

McMillan did, however, work with Richard Crenna, who played Arthur Morton, a teenage boy who had a crush on Lucy Ricardo in “The Young Fans”. Crenna created the role of Walter Denton on “Eve” and, like McMillan, played the role on radio and television. The two characters (Denton / Morton) were deliberately similar. Crenna also appeared as a similar type on Lucy’s radio show “My Favorite Husband.” 

Also making the switch from radio to TV with her character was McMillan’s TV mom, Paula Winslowe as Mrs. Martha Conklin. On “I Love Lucy” Winslowe appeared on the deck of the SS Constitution in “Second Honeymoon”, one of the biggest and most expensive episodes of television to be produced at the time. 

Other “Lucy” actors who worked with McMillan on the “Brooks” set include Mary Jane Croft, Frank Nelson, Jerry Hausner, Elvia Allman, Hy Averback, Joe Kearns, Peter Leeds, Maurice Marsac, Nancy Kulp, Herb Vigran, Parley Baer, Gail Bonney, Sammy Ogg, Florence Bates, Arhtur Q. Bryan, as well as many of the Desilu technical and production personnel.

After “Our Miss Brooks”, McMillan appeared on a 1966 episode of NBC’s “Dr. Kildare”; as a judge in the beauty-pageant satire Smile (1975); in the miniseries “Centennial”; and on a 1990 installment of “Perfect Strangers”, her final credit. From 1974 to 2018, McMillan taught acting and tap dancing to kids.

She leaves behind a husband of 49 years, five children, nine grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.  Gloria McMillan was 88 years old. 

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You know that deep deep feeling / When you love someone so much / You feel your heart’s gonna burst / The feeling goes from best to worst / You feel your heart is gonna burst

Here in my heart / I feel a deep devotion / It almost hurts / It’s such a deep emotion

Now every time it rains / It sometimes gets too much / You know I feel the pain / When I feel your loving touch

Emotion burns an ocean of love / You got that hot emotion / Burns an ocean of love 

The deep deep pain of feeling / The deep deep pain of feeling / The deep deep pain

So intense the joy of giving / How does it feel / So immense the thrill of living / How does it feel

Sometimes I wish it would stay / Sometimes I wish it would go away / Emotion…

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Q: One of my favourite songs on the album is the midway point of ‘Deep Deep Feeling’, which is over eight minutes long. If people are expecting your lockdown album to feel like lockdown, that’s the track that feels the most claustrophobic to me, despite it being essentially about love.

PAUL: That was one of the songs that I’d actually started last year. If I’m lucky, I’ll have a bit of time when I’ll go into the studio and just make something up, and so I try to just do something that I haven’t done before. This was one of those that I didn’t finish. To me, what it was about was, sometimes ��� I don’t how it happens of even what it is – when you’re feeling real love towards someone, sometimes it can manifest in a tingling over your whole body, and it’s a pretty funny feeling, and you almost don’t like it – ‘What the hell is this?!’ – like you’re about to be beamed up into a spaceship or something. On this song I was fascinated with the idea of that – that deep, deep feeling when you love someone so much it almost hurts. 

— Paul McCartney, interviewed by with Stuart Stubbs for the Loud And Quiet magazine (October 2020).

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Out of the blue, I met this girl and we started talking and she happened to say, ‘I knew Linda.’ So that was emotional. I wouldn’t meet, typically, many people who knew Linda, and who knew her during her cancer treatment – and Nancy did. She’s a cancer survivor herself. So it got very deep, very quickly, and it was like, 'What the hell was that?’ And then I ran into her a couple of more times on the holiday, and we got to know each other and started dating. So the song [’Scared’] is about that, about this depth of emotion, of feeling – but totally being scared to say or do anything about it. Like a tongue-tied teenager.

— Paul McCartney, interview with Miranda Sawyer for The Guardian (13 October 2013).

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Maybe I’m Amazed (1970): Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time / And maybe I'm afraid of the way I love you

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I wrote ‘Maybe I’m Amazed’ in my early days with Linda. I was sitting in London, playing my piano, and the song kind of wrote itself – reflecting my feelings towards her. It’s remained a favourite of mine.

— Paul McCartney, in Wingspan: Paul McCartney's Band on the Run (2002).

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It was my first trip with John, or with any of the guys. We stayed up all night, sat around and hallucinated a lot.

Me and John, we’d known each other for a long time. Along with George and Ringo, we were best mates. And we looked into each other’s eyes, the eye contact thing we used to do, which is fairly mind-boggling. You dissolve into each other. But that’s what we did, round about that time, that’s what we did a lot. And it was amazing. You’re looking into each other’s eyes and you would want to look away, but you wouldn’t, and you could see yourself in the other person. It was a very freaky experience and I was totally blown away.

There’s something disturbing about it. You ask yourself, 'How do you come back from it? How do you then lead a normal life after that?’ And the answer is, you don’t. After that you’ve got to get trepanned or you’ve got to meditate for the rest of your life. You’ve got to make a decision which way you’re going to go.

— Paul McCartney, in Barry Miles’ Many Years From Now (1997).

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[Sometimes, it’s not just about being scared of showing your feelings. It’s being scared of feeling them in the first place.]

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QUARANTINE Q AND A

I was tagged by @chloexdecker

ARE YOU STAYING HOME FROM WORK AND SCHOOL? Yup, I’m working from home

IF YOU’RE STAYING HOME, WHO’S THERE WITH YOU? I live alone in a small studio apartment but I call my family often to stay sane

ARE YOU A HOMEBODY? YES!!!

AN EVENT THAT YOU WERE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT GOT CANCELLED? ONE??? I’m mostly just bummed that Lucifer and other TV shows had to suspend filming because it either cut their season short or delayed the release :(

WHAT MOVIES HAVE YOU WATCHED RECENTLY? The last movie I watched in theaters before everything went to hell was Birds of Prey. I liked it :)

WHAT SHOWS ARE YOU WATCHING? Lucifer (duh), the Rookie, Good Girls, Killing Eve, the Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, Nancy Drew, Riverdale, Brooklyn Nine Nine, and Superstore plus I’m rewatching Castle and tearing my way through my Netflix list.

WHAT MUSIC ARE YOU LISTENING TO? Indie Pop is my favorite genre. Right now I’ve got Phoenix, A R I Z O N A, and Jon Bellion on repeat.

WHAT ARE YOU READING? Deckerstar fan fiction

WHAT ARE YOU DOING FOR SELF-CARE? Nothing special. I try to get some exercise, even indoors, and call my friends and family often.

If you want to play, I’ll tag @sanoiro @ships-sailing-in-the-night @thewollfgang @bluespacetoucan @csdeckerstar @greenleaf777 and anyone else who wants to play

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Disney Channel Animation Events At D23 Expo 2019

Saturday, August 24 Over at Stage 28, Amphibia stars Disney Legend Bill Farmer, Amanda Leighton, and Justin Felbinger and series creator/executive producer Matt Braly will join Big City Greens cast members Marieve Herington and Bob Joles, and creators/executive producers Chris and Shane Houghton for a lively Q&A session featuring the one-and-only Kermit the Frog.

Friday, August 23 9 a.m. Fancy Nancy character appearance 10 a.m. Vampirina character appearance

Saturday, August 24 9 a.m. Vampirina character appearance 10 a.m. Fancy Nancy character appearance 

5 p.m. DuckTales stars Bobby Moynihan and Toks Olagundoye 

Sunday, August 25

Meet the stars of the Emmy® Award-nominated Big Hero 6 The Series, based on Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Academy Award®-winning feature film, as well as cast members from the Disney Channel Original Movie ZOMBIES and fan-favorite Disney Channel series BUNK’D.

9 a.m, Big Hero 6 The Series stars Genesis Rodriguez and Brooks Whelan

3 p.m. Vampirina character appearance 4 p.m. Fancy Nancy character appearance

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Day 47 of COVID-19 shelter-in-place

In which I “attend” a “dance concert”!

Although I went to bed much later than necessary last night, it was a pretty good day. I dreamt about being in a crowded dance class taught by a teacher I love and miss. It was a weird mix of the joy of dancing together in a group in one physical space, and anxiety about the impossibility of staying 6 feet apart.

We went to the farmers’ market slightly earlier than usual, and there was a lot of exciting fruit! I had the weird moment of confusion about what month this is, but I was very excited to buy cherries, apricots, mulberries (which I’m not sure I’d ever seen before, plus I thought they were white/yellow, and these were dark red/purple), and blueberries in addition to the strawberries we’ve had for several weeks. I also bought some vegetables. 

After lunch (as well as last night) I spent some time posting photos from the past couple of weeks: public art 1, public art 2, Golden Gate Park walk, flowers & cats & cocktails, more flowers, nature hike. I’d been meaning to do that for ages so it felt like an accomplishment!

In the late afternoon, I “attended” a “dance concert”. The dance studio where I take class also produces shows in the studio, but of course, due to the pandemic everything is canceled. So what they did is to commission six choreographers to make solos to music by one composer (who was, I think, paid for the use of his music, but he didn’t compose new work for this project--but he was there for the “performance”). Each of the solos had been prerecorded on video and they were edited together. The studio sold tickets online (sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds) and we all joined a video conference at 5pm. It was great to see lots of familiar faces, including some of the performers and a lot of people from the dance studio community. The organisers explained the logistics and the rationale, and then the artists introduced their work. The one who taught the class in my dream dedicated his to Nancy Stark Smith, one of the pioneers of contact improvisation and a true luminary; I took a workshop from her once. She died yesterday of ovarian cancer, a tragic loss. 

Then we all opened up YouTube to watch the show together. Four of the pieces were performed/filmed in the dancer’s home, one was outside (climbing on the chain-link fence of a school) and one was done in a warehouse space. It was really nourishing to see people dancing--it absolutely fed my soul. The choreography consisted of, mostly, interesting explorations of solitude and the predicament of adapting what is usually a community activity done in a larger space in the physical presence of others. But of course we were watching it in community, even while we were in different physical spaces. Afterwards we returned to the video conference for a short Q&A. There were over 100 people “there”, and after the Q&A many of us hung around for an extra several minutes smiling at each other and enjoying the sight of so many unmasked noses and mouths! One of my favorite people from dance classes pointed out that although there is a dizzying array of online dance content available right now, this was much more important and much more special because it was scheduled. We had all committed to being there at the same time and had bought tickets and were there as a community to have a shared experience.

What a joy, even if it makes me miss more than ever what we do not have right now.

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My mermaid painting.  She’s sitting on an ocean beach day dreaming.  11x14 on stretched canvas.  www.NancyQstudio.com

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Nancy Quart of Nancy Q Studios

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Q&A - books

Since I received so many questions that it would be too long for one post, I’m splitting them into three parts: [movies/TV shows] [books] [other questions].

1. WLW book recs:

The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson (2012): it’s a sort of gothic novel about witches, the WLW part is just a small part of the story and that story and the book both don’t have a happy ending, but it’s a really gripping novel, also Jeanette Winterson is a lesbian

Pages for You/Pages for Her by Sylvia Brownrigg (2002/2017): it’s a two-part book series about a college girl (later author), who falls in love with her tutor (later college professor), they break up at the end of the first book, but meet again during the second and it’s left open to interpretation if they start dating again or not, and Sylvia Brownrigg is bisexual

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (1985): it’s a semi-biographical novel about Jeanette Winterson’s upbringing in a very religious family, even though there are some difficult scenes in it (she has to undergo an exorcism, for example), it’s quite funny to read and it has a happy ending

The Price of Salt/Carol by Patricia Highsmith (1952): it’s the book Carol is based on, it’s nicely written, some parts are different from the movie, of course, but that doesn’t matter, has a happy ending, and Patricia Highsmith was a lesbian

Anything by Sarah Waters (ranked from my least favourite to my favourite – excluding The Little Stranger because there aren’t any WLW in it):

Fingersmith (2002): set in the 19th century, it’s about a thief who is involved in a plot to trick a rich woman into marrying one of her thief-friends, however, she falls in love with the woman herself, has a happy ending

Affinity (1999): set in the 19th century, about a woman who pays frequent visits to a female prisoner and is tricked by her into helping her escape, doesn’t have a happy ending

Tipping the Velvet (1998): set in the 19th century, about a woman who falls in love with a woman who dresses up as a man to perform on stage and who follows her to London to be with her, has a happy ending

The Night Watch (2006): set during WWII, about different women and their stories, told anti-chronologically, very depressing, doesn’t really have a happy ending

The Paying Guests (2014): set during the 1920s, about a woman and her mother who sublet part of her house to a young couple, the daughter and the woman fall in love, the first part is very wholesome but the second part is very depressing, does have a happy ending though

Anything by Stefanie Zesewitz (but her books are only available in German):

Der Duft von Seide (The Scent of Silk) (2012): set during the 19th century, about a woman who is unhappily married and falls in love with a woman who has her own silk empire, rather suspenseful, but has a happy ending

Wie ein Versprechen (Like a Promise) (2013): set during WWII, about a young photographer who falls in love with a woman she meets at the studio she works at, the main character survives the book, but the other woman dies

Donaunebel (Danubian Fog) (2015): set during WWI, it’s about an Austrian woman and a Russian woman, I’m still in the middle of reading it though, so I can’t say anything more about it

Other books with happy endings that I’ve read: Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule (1964), Far from the World We Know by Harper Bliss (2016), Across the Pond by Cheri Crystal (2015), Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (2006)

2. Books with WOC:

Unfortunately, I haven’t read any books with WOC yet, but I wanted to do a PhD on this topic, so I can recommend a couple (which are all written by WOC as well), but I have no idea how they end, if there is homophobia in them and so on

The Colour Purple by Alice Walker (1982): about the life of black women in the South during the 1930s

I Can’t Think Straight by Shamim Sarif (2008): it’s the book the movie of the same name is based on

Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (2016): about a Puerto Rican woman moving from the Bronx to Portland, Oregon

Life is Wonderful, People are Terrific by Meliza Bañales (2015): about a Chicana woman who leaves her home to go to college in Santa Cruz

Loving Her by Ann Allen Shockley (1974): is considered the first novel with lesbian themes about an African-American woman

The Necessary Hunger by Nina Revoyr (1997): about a Japanese-American girl who is raised in a mostly African-American community in L.A., is also concerned with the tensions between the Asian and the African-American communities

Under the Emerald Sky by Olukemi Amala (2011): about a woman with Nigerian ancestors who lives in the UK

Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta (2015): set in Nigeria during the civil war, about two girls who meet as fugitives and fall in love

The World Unseen by Shamim Sarif (2008): it’s the book the movie of the same name is based on

3. WLW book recs that deal with coming out:

I don’t think I’ve read books that deal specifically with coming out, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson and Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel sort of deal with that topic though. However, I did a quick Google search and I found a couple of books:

Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden (1982): it’s set in the 80s and it’s about two high school girls who fall in love and even get a happy ending (which was unusual for that time)

Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen (2014): it’s about a girl in high school who falls for her best friend

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown (1973): it’s about a girl who grows up in the South and realises she’s a lesbian and how she deals with that discovery

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Back Market: Monster from Johnny Kelly on Vimeo.

Monster realises Monster is a monster.

We were commissioned by Back Market to tell this story to help encourage people to wean themselves off tech product launch cycles. We used a combination of live action puppetry, 2D facial animation and stop motion.

A lovely bunch of people worked on this, to name but a few: James Noellert designed the human characters. Andy Gent and his team made the puppets and some sets. Other sets were made by Aslyum. Previs and VFX adeptly handled by the beautiful brainiacs at Nexus. Full credits below——>

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CREDITS

Client: Back Market Co-Founder & CCO: Vianney Vaute Strategic Advisor: Seth Farbman Creative Director: Jeff Johnson Creative Director: Steve Peck Head of US Marketing: Woody Wright Executive Producer: Melanie Baublis Strategic Consultant: Jeff Kenyon Lead Art Director: Victor Antonelli Head of Content: Eugena Ossi Expert Copywriter: Adam Pasulka Hannah Laloum: Creative Studio Manager Lucy Hargrove: Social Media Manager

Production Company: Nexus Studios Director: Johnny Kelly Executive Producer: Josephine Gallagher Executive Producer: Camila de Biaggi Senior Producer: Josephine Gallagher Production Manager: Ruyi Meer Production Assistant: Max Bigg VFX Supervisor & Lead Compositor: Germán Diez Studio CG Supervisor: Mark Davies Editor: Dave Slade Art Directors: Melanie Climent & Callum Strachan Character Designer: James Noellert 2D Animators: Chris Cray, Joe Sparkes, Matt Partridge Motion Graphics Animation: Bethany Levy, Abel Kohen Compositors: Gareth Tredrea, Hugo Vieites Caamano, Sander Saks, Victori Jalabert, Alexandre Gaudiano Storyboards: Richard Buxton Puppet & Set Build: Arch Model Studio Sets & Puppets: Andy Gent, Lisa Hill Set Build: Asylum Set Supervisor: Peter Tilbe Set Technician: Josh Guess, Tom Bull, Daniel Tynan

Live-Action & Puppetry: Director of Photography: Matt Fox 1st AD: Robert Thorpe Production Manager: Rhian Gwenlan Runner: Kai Rajakulasingam 2nd AC: Rosamund Freeman Grip: Kevin Foy DIT: Phoebe Frazer CCTV Operator: Liam Coles Focus Puller: Ben Jones Gaffer: Paul Allen Electricians: Jono Yates, Bill Rae Smith, Michael Smit, Ed Riley, Tim Jordan, Auxane Verdier, Ana Krkljus Catering: Lords of Poké

Lead Puppeteer: Tim Cherry Jones Puppeteers: Shakara Carter, Kim Scopes Lead Animator: Tobias Fouracre 1st AC (stop motion): George Warren Set Maintenance: Mark Chippington Puppet Maintenance: Sofia Serrano

Grade: Aubrey Woodiwiss Post house: Untold Studios Grade Producer: Simon Downie 

Voice Over: Geoff Grimwood, Pacific Blain Sound Design and Mix: Jon Clarke Audio Producer: Ciara Wakley Sound Studio: Factory

Music Composition: Q Department PR & Marketing: Valentina Tarelli, Nancy Edmondson, Isobel Wise, Stephanie Anjo Behind The Scenes: Juliette Dalton @ 2Dice Productions Medics: Simon Lee, Paul Mawson

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GEORGE O’HANLON

November 23, 1912

George Samuel O'Hanlon was best known for his role as Joe McDoakes in the Warner Brothers live-action Joe McDoakes short subjects (1942-1956) and as the voice of George Jetson in Hanna-Barbera's 1962 prime-time animated television series “The Jetsons” and its 1985 revival. He started working at 16 with his own stage show, but was fired after a few weeks due to a fight over wages.  His cousin, Virginia O'Hanlon, is the subject of the famous editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus". 

The 63 Joe McDoakes ten-minute shorts are also known as the Behind the Eight Ball series (for the large eight ball Joe appeared behind in the opening credits) or the So You Want... series (as most of the film titles began with this phrase). “Behind the eight ball” is an expression that signifies the inability to get ahead of something. The character's name comes from "Joe Doakes," which was then a popular slang term for the ‘average man’ akin to ‘John Doe’. The series was often co-written by O’Hanlon, who was generally uncredited as writer. 

From 1947 to 1949, the series earned three consecutive Academy Award nominations for Short Subject.  Actors from the series who also worked with Lucille Ball on television and radio include: Frank Nelson (above with O’Hanlon), Iron Eyes Cody, Arthur Q. Bryan (who voiced Elmer Fudd), Bobby Jellison, Fritz Feld, Jesslyn Fax, Phil Arnold, Joi Lansing, and Herb Vigran. 

O’Hanlon was originally hired to voice Fred Flintstone for “The Flintstones” (1960) but one of the sponsors didn't think he was right for the part and he was replaced by Alan Reed. Two years later, they created “The Jetsons” for him, even using his first name for the character. He did, however, later do various voice on “The Flintstone Kids” (1986-88). 

He made his big screen debut as a background actor in 1932′s The Death Kiss starring Bela Lugosi. 

His first time on television was a 1953 episode of “My Little Margie”. 

His only appearance with Lucille Ball was in “Lucy and Superman” (ILL S6;E13) in 1957. The episode was filmed on November 15, 1956. O’Hanlon played Charley Appleby, Caroline’s husband and little Stevie’s father, a role originated by Hy Averback in “Baby Pictures” (ILL S3;E5). Both Charleys were very proud of their son!  

In addition to O’Hanlon, “The Jetsons” also featured Lucy alumni Janet Waldo who played Peggy in “The Young Fans” (ILL S1;E20) in 1952 and Lucy’s sister Marge on a 1963 episode of "The Lucy Show.”  Waldo voiced Judy Jetson, George’s teenage daughter. Jean Vander Pyl, who voiced the Jetson’s maid Rosie the Robot and was perhaps best known as the voice of Wilma Flintstone, did several episodes of “My Favorite Husband”, Lucille Ball’s popular radio series. Other “Lucy” actors who could be heard on “The Jetsons” include Hal Smith, Shepard Menken, Paul Winchell, Bea Benadaret, and Frank Nelson, to name a few.  

From 1954 to 1958, O’Hanlon played the recurring role of Calvin on NBC’s “The Life of Riley.” While the show was not related to “Lucy” or Desilu, it did feature many of the same performers. 

In 1959, he worked for Desilu again in “Martin’s Folly,” an episode of the “Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse”. It also starred Bart Braverman, Phil Ober, Tony Randall, and Jay North, all of who had (or would) work with Lucy.  As with all episodes of the anthology series, the story was introduced by Desi Arnaz. 

From 1958 to 1961, O’Hanlon did three episodes of Desilu’s “The Ann Sothern Show,” two as Jerry Doolittle. He co-wrote several episodes, including one that  he appeared on. Lucille Ball guest-starred on the series as Lucy Ricardo in 1959.

During the same period (1955 to 1961), O’Hanlon did three episode of “The Danny Thomas Show” as various characters. It was filmed at Desilu Studios. In 1958, the series switched from ABC to CBS and did reciprocal crossover episodes with “The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.”  This would be his final time at Desilu. 

His final role was voicing his most famous character, George Jetson, in an animated feature film reboot Jetsons in 1990. During a recording session, he suffered a second stroke. He was rushed to the hospital where he died. The film was dedicated to him.

His first wife was Inez Yvonne Witt. They were married in February 1932 and divorced in May 1948. The following year he wed Martha Stewart (not relation to the current lifestyle icon) but they divorced in 1952. In 1953 he married Nancy Owens with whom he had two children. The marriage last until his death.