#Prizzi

[a-state-of-bliss]

Anjelica Huston in 'Prizzi's Honour' (1985)

[80smovies]

[jerichopalms]

#75: Prizzi's Honor (1985, dir. by John Huston)

[carrymelikeimcute]

This was apparently all I needed to consider shipping them.

Samba Schutte

[theoscarsproject]

Prizzi's Honor (1985). Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it’s love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can’t turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.

I'm not entirely sure where to start with this one. John Huston has directed some films I've really loved, but man, this is Not It. A tonal disaster that not even the film's terrific cast can save. It's been a few days since I watched it now, and I'm still not entirely sure what it was trying to be. Just a mess. Anjelica Huston looked amazing though at least. 3/10.

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Remembering Academy Award Winning writer and filmmaker John Huston! ^__^

[prizzy-art]

6.28.2023🎤

Lilli for my new pfp✨

[citizenscreen]

John Huston’s PRIZZI’S HONOR hit theaters across the U.S. today in 1985.

The film was nominated for 7 Oscars and had one historic win, Best Supporting Actress Anjelica Huston, which made John Huston the only director to direct 2 members of his family to Oscars. Previously he directed his father Walter to a Best Supporting Actor win in THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE 1948.

[femmes-et-art]

Victor Gadino, La Famille Prizzi, 1986.

[ms-m-astrologer]

Transiting Venus enters Libra

Wednesday, November 8 - Monday, December 4

The good news is, Venus rules Libra, and she’s very happy to be home for a while. The bad news is, she’ll have a lot of challenges. Style over substance, “going along to get along” and refusing to take a stand when it’s necessary, being manipulative - things like that. And the hopeful news is that, if we can remember and adhere to Libra’s higher ground, we can spend this time making real progress.

How this could manifest in Venus’ various areas:

Art - as any music lover will tell you, “popular” doesn’t necessarily equate to “good.” If it did? As an example, Bruce Springsteen has never had a #1 hit song in the US - granted, he was competing against Prince in 1984, but what about the rest of the years?

Beauty - I remember reading a review of “Prizzi’s Honor” which described it as a conflict between “pretty” (Kathleen Turner) and “beautiful” (Angelica Huston). If we tend toward pretty, we’re missing out on depth of character.

Love - seeking personal validation through having a particular spouse (like wanting to date the most popular kid in high school), rather than a true partner. And then doing whatever it takes to acquire that “validating” spouse.

Money - blowing it all on makeup and disposable fashion. Or, we buy something because it’s impressive and not because it has any particular meaning for us.

These are the non-lunar aspects Venus will make. Give them a day or so on either side.

Wednesday, November 8 - Venus/Libra inconjunct Saturn/Pisces, 0°31’. Right off the bat, we have a difficult adjustment to make. Remember that Saturn is exalted in Libra - we’re being asked about our standards of justice and fairness.

Monday, November 13 - Venus/Libra (6°03’) sesquiquad Uranus Rx/Taurus (21°03’). Frustrations; “all that glisters is not gold” springs to mind.

Tuesday, November 14 - Venus/Libra square Vesta Rx/Cancer, 7°00’. We may turn ourselves off, sexually, if we think it will get us something we want.

Wednesday, November 15 - Venus/Libra inconjunct Jupiter Rx/Taurus, 8°45’. More “all that glisters;” with perhaps a little of “your eyes were bigger than your stomach.” Taking on toi much, or realizing it’s a much bigger and more difficult task than we anticipated.

Friday, November 17 - Venus/Libra (10°06’) semi-square Mars/Scorpio (25°06’). People in sexual relationships may feel this especially acutely. One partner may (as with the Vesta square) “turn off” or, conversely, be more demanding.

A “two-fer” with minor aspects from Lady Asteroids, on Sunday, November 19:

Venus/Libra semi-sextile Juno/Virgo, 12°11’

Venus/Libra (12°40’) semi-square Ceres/Scorpio (27°40’)

We’re trying to coordinate between demands of our partners (Juno) and our families (Ceres).

Another two-fer on Wednesday, November 22:

Venus/Libra (15°48’) sesquiquad Saturn/Pisces (0°48’)

Venus/Libra oppose Chiron Rx/Aries, 15°58’

These are rather more serious than what we’ve experiences so far - as are the remaining aspects. Even if we’ve been as tactful and graceful as we can manage, it isn’t enough. It’s important to really listen to what other people have to say. They get to have free will, too.

Sunday, November 26 - Venus/Libra inconjunct Uranus Rx/Taurus, 20°32’. A difficult adjustment. If we overindulged, it’s coming back to bite us in the butt.

Tuesday, November 27 - Venus/Libra opposite North Node/Aries, conjunct South Node/Libra, 22°39’. An opportunity to examine (at least) those Libra ways we mess ourselves up.

Wednesday, November 28 - Venus/Libra opposite Eris Rx/Aries, 24°19’. What did I say? Other people get to have free will, too. And if the shoe is on the other foot, and we find we’ve been manipulated, this is the day we could fight back.

Thursday, November 29 - Venus/Libra inconjunct Neptune Rx/Pisces, 24°54’. Taking those rose-colored glasses off, or having them removed for us.

Sunday, December 3 - Venus/Libra square Pluto/Capricorn, 28°33’. We’re aware that we haven’t done Venus or Libra very well (not just this transit, but in our past). We’ve seen that our past machinations were unfair - that our cowardice and complacency haven’t served us well - so, either we resolve to fix it during Venus’ imminent trip through Scorpio; or in Steven Forrest’s words, “we fail to look at ourselves; we imagine the issue to have its sole origin in the other person’s intransigence.”

Painful, I know. The higher Libra traits include justice and fairness; valuing other people; tact and diplomacy. We just need to be more consistent about expressing them - and we need to use them to reach out for the higher Aries traits, as represented by the North Node.

[justforbooks]

In the late 1960s, Burt Young dashed off a letter to Lee Strasberg, who ran the Actors Studio in New York, hoping to be taken on as a student. “Seriously, Lee, I don’t know if acting has anything for me, or vice versa, but I’m treading water,” he wrote. “So see me.”

The letter was intended to curry favour with a woman whom Young was trying to impress, and whose dream it was to study with Strasberg. Both she and Young were invited to audition. She quit after drying up during her first acting class but Strasberg was impressed by the stubby, paunchy Young, telling him: “You have huge tension about you. I feel you’re an emotional library.”

Less than a decade later, Young, who has died aged 83, found fame playing Paulie Pennino, the gormless, rough-and-tumble butcher who is brother-in-law to the aspiring prizefighter Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) in the rags-to-riches hit Rocky (1976).

“I thought the script had the cleanest street prose I’d ever read,” said Young. Among the film’s 10 Oscar nominations was one for him as best supporting actor. It won three prizes, including best picture.

In Young’s hands, Paulie was roguishly endearing as well as exasperating. The actor described him as “all burly on the outside and all quicksand inside”. Paulie’s tenderness toward Rocky is forever being complicated by his jealousy at the boxer’s success. Any initial tension or piquancy in the drama, however, was diluted by a stream of sequels in which Stallone and Young reprised their roles. One low-point was Rocky IV (1985), which begins with Paulie receiving a robot butler as a gift from Rocky, whose success has made him profligate. Paulie modifies the robot to give it a female voice.

He is last seen in the sixth instalment, Rocky Balboa (2006), where he is once again the boxer’s corner-man. The character’s death is alluded to in the spin-off Creed (2015), in which Young does not appear.

Paulie was typical of many of the roles that came Young’s way: you could hear the hair growing in their ears, smell the stink on their singlets, feel their brain cells dying. In Back to School (1986), for instance, he played a tough-guy chauffeur described by the hero, played by the comic Rodney Dangerfield, as “an animal. In his family, he’s only the second generation to stand upright.”

For Young, it was never that simple. In Robert Aldrich’s vulgar cop comedy The Choirboys (1977), his turn as a cackling sergeant was singled out by the Washington Post as “human and appealing”. Cast as the flawed, the coarse or the criminal in films such as Sergio Leone’s gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984) or Alan Alda’s whimsical Betsy’s Wedding (1989), he allowed a rumpled warmth to shine through the cracks, his actorly intelligence informing every choice.

Esteemed co-stars respected his craft. Jack Nicholson shared a scene with Young at the start of Roman Polanski’s neo-noir thriller Chinatown (1974), and was said to have greatly admired the actor and to have used him as the model for the laconic hood he played in Prizzi’s Honour (1985).

James Caan, with whom Young first worked on the shore-leave love story Cinderella Liberty (1973), wangled parts for him in The Gambler (1974), inspired by (though not adapted from) the Dostoevsky novella of the same name, and The Killer Elite (1975). The latter was the first of two films that Young made for the director Sam Peckinpah, the other being the action-comedy Convoy (1978).

“Everybody was scared of [Peckinpah],” said Young. “The studios were scared of him. The other actors. And so they would go through me, because I had no fear of nobody.”

It was Aldrich who became Young’s friend and loyal collaborator, directing him in The Choirboys, the nuclear-age thriller Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) and …All the Marbles (1981), a salty comedy about female wrestling released outside the US as The California Dolls.

A 1978 Esquire magazine profile dwelt on the actor’s history of juvenile delinquency and general criminality, noting that his life was “lifted right out of the pages of Damon Runyon”.

He was born in Queens, New York. His birth name has been listed variously as Gerald De Louise and Richard Morea, with Burt Young the name he adopted once he became an actor. His mother, Josephine, and father, Michael, an ice-delivery man and sheet metal worker who later trained as a teacher, tried to improve his chances by sending him to Bryant high school, an establishment in a better neighbourhood, but he was soon expelled. He attended St Anne’s academy, from which he was also ejected.

At 16, he joined the Marines, served tours of duty in Japan and the Philippines, and developed an aptitude for boxing. After a dishonourable discharge, he returned to New York and boxed professionally, training under the renowned Cus D’Amato and Charley Goldman. Fighting under three different aliases, he claimed to have amassed a record of 17 wins to one loss.

He became a truck driver, managed a silk-screen printing business that went bankrupt, part-owned a bakery and a bar, and worked for his brother’s Manhattan carpet-cleaning firm, before starting an outlet of his own in Queens. He later opened his own restaurant, Burt Young’s Il Boschetto, in the Bronx.

His first acting jobs included parts in the daytime soap The Doctors (1969) and the crime comedy The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight (1971). Over more than half a century, he accumulated around 160 movie and TV credits including The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984) with Mickey Rourke, a harrowing adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr’s Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), the Hugh Grant comedy Mickey Blue Eyes (1999), which reunited him with Caan, and Transamerica (2005), in which he was the father of a trans woman played by Felicity Huffman.

He also wrote and starred in two films: the TV movie Daddy, I Don’t Like It Like This, about a boy whose father tries to toughen him up, and the sentimental Uncle Joe Shannon (both 1978), in which he played a bereaved trumpeter. In recent times, Young devoted much of his life to painting.

One of his most wrenching performances was in a 2001 episode of the HBO series The Sopranos. He played an ageing hoodlum, dying of cancer and grateful to be given one final hit to carry out. The assignment ends unforgettably in blood and bathos.

Crime was an area he felt he might have lapsed into were it not for the approval he received from Strasberg. “I come from that life,” he said. “To this day, two of my best friends are doing 100 years.”

But he was acting well into his dotage. “Rather than flying high, I’m wide,” he said in 2002. “I still have ambition, but I’m slow. I’ll never be Tom Cruise.”

Nor would anyone have wanted him to be: there was more character in one grin or grimace from Young than in a dozen vehicles featuring sleeker, shinier stars.

He is survived by Anne, his daughter, from his marriage to Gloria, who died in 1974.

🔔 Burt Young (Gerald De Louise), actor, born 30 April 1940; died 8 October 2023

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tagged by @e-n-t-r-o-p-i-c-f-r-o-g thanks!! i've never done this before so exciting!

@apiratefellinlovewithastar and @izzy-prizzy i'll pass it on to you guys :]

[qiscasino]

hello Qi, I'm back!

I got lost in the caves, ran out of salad. You know the deal.

Man, came out with a prizzy though!

So Qi, do you want it? Already got a chest full of the crap so, here!

Love ya!💙💙

-Soup Löff-Guard

Ps I painted it to look like a qi fruit so it'd match.

Sure. Make sure to stock up on salads for your next trip. And… I like the paint job.

[rucciavelli]

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎‎‎MUSE LIST

JEVON CHATMAN, 30. [ BDLILBROTHER ] — STUDENT, HAIR STYLIST [ARROGANT TAE TALENT CLAIM]. | -BIGMOUTH & +FRIENDLY.

ISIAH WILEY, 31. [ PARDISON FONTAINE ] — ‘CANCELED’ RAPPER. | -WEAKWILLED & +BRAVE.

SANTRELL BUTLER, 29.  [ STEFON DIGGS ] — CLUB OWNER, NFL PLAYER. | -HOSTILE & +HONORABLE.

MARCELLO PRIZZI, 22. [ JAY CINCO ] — HOTEL HEIR. | -SADIST & +ARTICULATE. | [rich dude acting hood.]

JIRANI HEARD, 21.  [ JOSH CHRISTOPHER ] — STUDENT ATHLETE — BASKETBALL. | -OVERCONFIDENT & +WITTY. | [involved with paying refs and gambling on games.]

JASEN HEARD, 22.  [ JALEN GREEN ] —  STUDENT ATHLETE — BASKETBALL. | -ARROGANT & +WORLDLY.

BASIM RODGERS, 33. [ QUAVO ] — FIREFIGHTER & GANGBANGER. | -CALLOUS & +SELF CRITICAL.

JAFARIS BATTLE, 25. [ NLE CHOPPA ] — MECHANIC, EX-DEALER. | -SKEWED PRIORITIES & +GENUINE. | [moved from Baltimore to North Carolina after a fight, living with his pastor uncle.] 

DWANE ‘PLUTO’ PALMER, 39. [ FUTURE HENDRIX ] — MEGA CHURCH PASTOR. | -SLIMEBALL & +FORTHRIGHT. | [dirty pastor.] 

K’AUNTÉ FLOWERS, 25. [ TOOSII ] — STUDENT ATHLETE — FOOTBALL. | -SPOILED & +MORAL. | [nepo baby, son of hall of famer.’]

NASSAU MILLS, 27. [KEY GLOCK] — ENFORCER, MAN-FOR-HIRE. | -OVERPROTECTIVE & +LOGICAL. | [raised by a drug dealer after his mother sold hold for drugs.]

NOEL HARMON, 30. [ TEYANA TAYLOR ] — NASCAR DRIVER. | -REBELLIOUS & +FORTHRIGHT.

RASHED 'LIL GLOCK' ALSTON, 23. [ LIL TJAY ] — BREAKOUT RAPPER. | -NEAT FREAK & +LEVEL HEADED.

GIOVANTE WARREN, 29. [ LIL BABY ] — ASPIRING BOXER. | -PERFECTIONIST & +DISCREET.

RAIN MORGAN, 29. [ DWAYNE BACON ] — RODEO COWBOY. | -HERO SYNDROME & +CHARISMATIC.

TORIELLE MOSLEY, 23. [BKTHERULA] — STRUGGLING DJ. | -EGOTISTICAL & +PLAYFUL.

‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎﹒──── ✩！ᶻz ⸜⸜⸜⸜⸜⸜⸜⸜ㆍ﹒

[starbage]

side characters

their names are Halcyon Swirl, Prismatic "Prizzy" Debris, and my personal favorite, Synthesizer Turquoise.

[thatgeekwiththeclipons]

Happy 86th Birthday to 3x Academy Award Winning, 6x Golden Globe Winning, 3x BAFTA Winner, SAG Award Winning, Grammy Winning actor Jack Nicholson! ^__^