#Nicolette Scorsese

[jaywade]

https://youtu.be/hEvGKUXW0iI

Mele Kalikimaka

[buckeyeinthebluegrass]

Some might call me crazy but even as a young man, I preferred Ellen(Beverley D'Angelo)over Mary(Nicolette Scorsese).

Both are beautiful women, but Ellen had much more sex appeal.

What do you think?

[dollarbin]

Shakey Sundays #35:

Hitchhiker (plus A Snapshot in Time)

Six months is a century in Shakeytown.

These days Neil will summon the Stop Shopping Choir for a whistle stop tour, release 4-5 new Archive records, reroute 6 barns worth of toy trains, publish a Greenville zine or two, respond to 4,672 fan emails on his forever Beta-version website, each in 7 words or less and each response featuring the words "peace," "love" and "Al Gore", write 36 new songs, all of them with the working title Love Earth (Or Else), and publish yet another memoir, this one dedicated to his penchant for hip hop, all in a six month window.

Case in point: Archives 3 is about ten minutes old and he's already promoting a forthcoming and utterly unrelated live record from his first tour with Cranky, Silly, and Gnash. Apparently Joni was at the show, gnashing her own teeth in anguish while Graham "Honey Baked" Hash debuted Our House; by the end of the show Mitchell surely instructed Grahamcracker to retitle his song My House (Cuz Joni Just Slipped Out The Back, Jack). Nash, apparently, refused to make the change.

All of Neil's productivity is cool; it's a great time to be a Shakey fan. But these days he lives beside a Colorado lake with Daryl, her dogs, 64 of his cars and the grinning ghosts of David Briggs and Ben Keith; 48 years ago he lived utterly alone in a psychedelic tepee of his very own design.

After all, just try and get your mind around all he accomplished between August 76 and March 77:

He got high as a kite and recorded the primary subject of this week's post in a single night.

He wrote an entirely different record (this week's secondary subject) and taught it to Nicolette Larson and Linda Ronstadt in one sitting.

He recorded 1/2 of that second album with a full band, eventually releasing it as the Side A of American Stars and Bars.

He wrote the highlight of that album - Will To Love, which is arguably the single greatest song of his entire career - and then spent another single night in the studio layering up instruments for it in front of his signature crackling fire - and he has not played the track again a single time since in any setting of any kind, ever. Guess he's had too much else to do.

He released a mixed-at-best record he'd made in the previous six months with Stephen Stills and Joe Freakin' Lala.

He began a full tour with those dopes, playing a month's worth of shows before making new plans Stan and telling them in writing to eat a peach and finish up without him.

He played a full US tour with Crazy Horse instead.

He performed at The Last Waltz.

He found the time to do a lot of cocaine, which is apparently obvious in Scorsese's footage. I've never been able to see the rock in question, however. My working knowledge of Belushidust is clearly negligible.

He continued to write songs about his recent breakup with Carrie Snodgress while starting to romance both the aforementioned Larson and his future beleaguered wife, Pegi. (Plus he surely probably slept with countless other women in this period; Neil was quoted at the time as "really enjoying the bachelor life," which sounds even sleazier than the reality television show of that moniker, which, by the way, should totally feature Neil in its next Golden iteration; after all, he's already demonstrated that he is perfectly willing to ditch his current wife so as to play the field.) Okay, that was just mean. Sorry Neil!

And, right around the moment those six months were up, Young joined yet another band - The Ducks - which was entirely unrelated to all the other bands listed above, and began the process of learning 20+ of their songs.

Plus he chewed a whole lot of Bubblicous and guzzled a whole lot of Natty Light throughout it all.

Yeah, he did all that - except #12: fooled you there! Both delectable items were introduced in the following six months, during which time Young, you guessed it, recorded yet another album of unrelated songs with entirely new musicians.

So, I gotta ask: what the hell did you accomplish between the late summer of 76 and the Spring of 77? I'll bet you can't compete with me or Neil. After all, I crapped my diaper, repeatedly. My mother reports that I "looked just like a frog." I'll bet your lazy ass wasn't even born yet.

Anyway, I stand before you on this very Shakey Sunday prepared to argue that the greatest thing Neil did in that incredibly crammed six months, except for Will To Love, is Hitchiker, the done-in-a-single-altered-night acoustic record which he waited a mere 40 years to release rather than waiting the full 48 so as to include it on Archives 3.

Let's drop the needle already and talk about Hitchhiker's shimmering greatness.

First of all, the whole thing is a poetic work of art. I'm serious. Pocahontas and Powderfinger set the table: both are dreamscape anthems, chock full of heartbreak, guns and waterfowl. And Campaigner may well be Neil's lyrical high-water mark. When roads stretch out like healthy veins and wild gift horses strain the rains I kinda freak out.

Note the previously edited out second verse featured on Hitchhiker: you know a song is lyrically exceptional when a line like "traffic cops are all color blind and people steal from their own kind" submits to the editor's ax.

Plus, beauty has rarely been draped in such stark and hopeless wonder. Indeed, the only record I can think of with a tone to match Hitchhiker is Pink Moon - and what higher praise can you think of than comparing anything to Nick Drake's unadorned-by-anything-or-anyone-else Pink Moon? Neil and Nick had both had it, at least for the moment, with arranging records. So instead they just took the Plastic Ono Band approach and upped Lennon's ante by laying all the songs down in a single take, every last bit of their armor set aside so as to reveal their very souls.

Just compare Give Me Strength and Which Will. Hear two men who could not have been more fundamentally different both asking the kind of fundamental and elemental questions which males are still instructed to avoid out of false courage and idiocy.

Yeah, I know: Neil's song coulda' used one more take as he loses track of the chord structure and melody altogether for parts of the closing. But I still say my comparison is apt even if Shakey and Drake couldn't be further apart on the sobriety and perfectionist spectrums.

Hitchhiker's tone could not be more different than its newly surfaced companion, the here, let-me-show-you-how-our-record-is-gonna-sound session Neil concocted for Linda and Nicolette six months later and which Neil has titled A Snapshot In Time for Archives 3. Snapshot replaces the earlier record's stark and trembling poetics with a big dose of what Ronstadt instantly recognizes on tape as "obnoxiousness."

On the one hand you have the songs Linda was directly referring to: check out, if you can get your hands on it (Neil seems to be clutching many of the tracks from Archives 3 in his self-appointed greedy hands rather than posting them for free on the internet) Young posing as a randy, grinning and stumbling creeper in Saddle Up the Palomino.

Here's the eventual band track.

Neil's mood had clearly shifted a great deal in the intervening six months. Lines like, "it's a cold bowl of chili when life lets you down but to it's the neighbor's wife I'm after" would have had no place whatsoever on Hitchhiker. Nor would the song's attempt at an arena rock riff.

On the other hand, even Snapshot's non-boneheaded songs are a bit obnoxious. Imagine inviting Linda Ronstadt over and then asking her to sing along with lyrics like "hey babe, say your mine all mine" over and over again. She'll do it - if you're Neil Young. But don't fool yourself; she'd rather have been taught Give Me Stength.

Look: I love every moment of A Snapshot in Time, not to mention the first half of the classic record it spawned. But it sure ain't high art.

Hitchhiker though? It'd take me a solid six months just to shout all its transcendent praises.

[byneddiedingo]

Pam Grier and Robert Forster in Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)

Cast: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, Michael Keaton, Robert De Niro, Michael Bowen, Chris Tucker, LisaGay Hamilton. Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino, based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro. Production design: David Wasco. Film editing: Sally Menke.  Sometimes called "the Tarantino movie for people who don't like Tarantino movies," Jackie Brown feels a bit like Tarantino under the influence of Martin Scorsese. That's not just because of the presence of Robert De Niro in the cast, but also because it's the Tarantino film that feels most under control, with its long takes and following shots. It's also the first Tarantino movie adapted from other material, in this case the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard, which imposes a certain rhythm on the material, unlike Tarantino's usual jazzy riffs and variations. On the other hand, any time that Samuel L. Jackson (who is to Tarantino what De Niro used to be to Scorsese) is on screen, you can feel the obvious synergy between director and star. The real star, however, is Pam Grier, whose Jackie Brown is a force of nature, proud and statuesque, like Sophia Loren or Anna Magnani in their prime. Delivering her lines out of the side of her mouth, she's clearly in control even when things seem to be going against her. She's well-matched with Robert Forster's wearily implacable Max Cherry, a bail bondsman who can't help getting too involved with his clients. It's clear from the outset that Jackie and Max have what it takes to triumph just by sheer persistence over Jackson's flamboyant Ordell Robbie, not to mention his somewhat too stoned accomplices, Louis (De Niro) and Melanie (Bridget Fonda), and the wiseass ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton). The pleasure of the film consists largely in watching this gallery of top-notch actors go through the paces of the plot.

[apwmagazine]

Nicolette Scorsese leaked videos on twitter and reddit

Nicolette Scorsese leaked videos on twitter and reddit

Nicolette is an American model and actress, best known for her role as Marie in the film National Lampoon’s Christmas Break. Although she has not acted for 21 years, she is still remembered for her wonderful performances in film and television dramas such as “Boxing Helena” and “Girl in Prison”. Who Plays Mary Over Christmas Break? The role is played by Nicolette. Mary is a young woman who works…

[cradle-view]

Nicolette Scorsese Net Worth

Nicolette Scorsese is an American actress best recognized for her roles in popular films like National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) and Boxing Helena (1993), as well as the TV series NYPD Blue (1993). Her breakout role came in 1989’s Christmas Vacation, based on the short story “Christmas ’59” published in National Lampoon magazine. Here is the Nicolette Scorsese net worth, wealth and…

[influencermagazineuk]

Nicolette Scorsese: The Actress with Timeless Charm

Nicolette Scorsese / Image: Instagram / Production House of Movie - Christmas Vacation Nicolette Scorsese, born on January 6, 1954, is a versatile actress whose magnetic presence has graced both the big and small screens. Best known for her memorable roles in iconic films such as "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (1989) and "Boxing Helena" (1993), Scorsese has captivated audiences with her talent and beauty for decades. Born into a world of creativity and imagination, Scorsese's passion for the arts was evident from a young age. With her innate charm and undeniable talent, she quickly made a name for herself in the competitive world of entertainment, carving out a niche for herself as a sought-after actress in Hollywood. Despite her surname, Scorsese has no relation to the acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese, a fact that often surprises fans and critics alike. However, she has managed to carve out her own unique identity in the industry, earning accolades for her performances and establishing herself as a respected actress in her own right. Scorsese's journey in the entertainment industry began as a model, where she honed her craft and caught the eye of fellow actor and model Antonio Sabato Jr., with whom she had a relationship. Her foray into acting soon followed, with her breakout role in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" solidifying her status as a rising star in Hollywood. In addition to her film work, Scorsese has also made notable appearances on television, including a memorable role on the hit series "NYPD Blue" in 1993. Her versatility as an actress has allowed her to tackle a diverse range of roles, from comedic to dramatic, earning her praise and admiration from audiences and critics alike. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Scorsese's personal life has also garnered attention from the media. She has been romantically linked to several high-profile figures in Hollywood, including actor Sean Penn, further adding to her mystique and allure as a Hollywood icon. As we celebrate the life and career of Nicolette Scorsese, let us recognize her contributions to the world of entertainment and honor her enduring legacy as a talented actress and timeless beauty. From her captivating performances on screen to her undeniable charisma off-screen, Scorsese continues to captivate audiences with her talent and grace, reminding us all of the transformative power of art and storytelling. Read the full article

[scarymovies101]

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

[slimewalk]

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

[herownsunshinefactory]

How a creepy customer thinks I’ll look like when he hits on me:

What I actually look like:

[retropunch]

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) - trailer

The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.

[nojillnolife]

[jaques-b]

Chevy Chase & Nicolette Scorsese. Never quite understood why Clark was into her as for me, Ellen looks much hotter.

[whippedcloudsofcream]

Nicolette Scorsese in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)