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2020: Claudette Nevins, nata Claudette Weintraub, attrice statunitense. (n. 1937) 2019: Gaia Germani, attrice italiana, iniziò a sfilare e a prendere parte a dei fotoromanzi. (n. 1942) 2019: Chelo Alonso o talora Alonzo (pseudonimo di Isabella García), è stata una ballerina, attrice e showgirl cubana, attiva nel cinema italiano a fine anni cinquanta e nei primi anni sessanta. (n.…

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CAITRÍONA BALFE

ACTRESS

"I still get Backstage emails 'cause I still subscribe to Backstage. [Backstage is) kind of the Bible in the beginning, which is amazing. Samuel French and Backstage go hand in hand, you know? You go there for your plays when you're in classes, and then you get your Backstage."

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Brian’s Note: The following story originally appeared in April 2015. Most recent update is December 2020.

The Gorgeous Determination of Caitríona Balfe

Caitríona Balfe is on the move. That's been true most of her adult life— especially the 10 years she was modeling for Victoria's Secret, Dolce & Gabbana, and others—but as she sits on the rooftop patio of a West Hollywood hotel in mid-March, she mentions that she's pulling up stakes from Los Angeles.

"It just feels silly to have an empty place for 10 months until I figure out what I'm doing with my life," the Irish-born actor says. "I've rented the same place for the last four years and now I have to give it up." Her apartment is being razed to put in condos, but her departure from L.A. is extra poignant considering this is the city where Balfe journeyed when she decided to put aside that successful modeling career and focus on the vocation she'd always wanted: acting.

Photo: Luc-Richard Elie

"I've moved so much since I was 18," she says. "I mean, l've lived so many places. New York, I lived in for almost eight years [while modeling], and that's been the longest of anywhere since I left Ireland. But L.A. is where I came and said, 'OK, this is what I wanna do with my life.' "

She refuses to think of her move as a permanent one, though. "I'll be back," she declares, "but it feels really sad. My little apartment, it's got so many memories."

Balfe's sadness is no doubt mitigated by the fact that part of her need to move is due to the precipitous rise in her fortunes. She'll soon be flying to Scotland to shoot the second season of "Outlander," which returns to Starz April 4 to conclude Season 1.

When last we saw Balfe's Claire, the resourceful British nurse who comes home after World War |I only to be inexplicably teleported into the 18th-century Highlands, she was half-naked with a knife to her breast. Don't worry: Claire will get out of that scrape, but more perils await-to say nothing of the emerging multi-era romantic triangle developing between her, the Scottish warrior Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), and her 20th-century husband, Frank Randall (Tobias Menzies), who wonders where she's gone.

Based on the much-beloved Diana Gabaldon novels and developed for television by "Battlestar Galactica" rebooter Ronald D. Moore, "Outlander" is an ostensibly lush period-piece-within-a-period-piece drama that's consistently richer and thornier than its romance-novel trappings suggest. And much of the credit goes to Balfe, who had managed small parts in films such as “Super 8” and “Now You See Me” before landing the central role in this adaptation.

In person, Balfe is far less imposing than the steely Claire, who has to weather the dangers of being a woman in sexist, violent Scotland in the 1740s. Cast late in the preproduction of “Outlander”—Moore has mentioned in interviews how hard it was to find the right Claire—she didn’t have time to consider what the role would do to her life. “I’m so bad on social media," she confesses on this warm afternoon, nestled underneath a cabana. "I had set up an account on Twitter maybe a year or so before I got this job and had, I thought, a lot of followers — 250 or something, and most of them are my friends. Within about a month or two, it was thousands of people — and my phone, I didn't know how to turn off the alerts, so it was just going all the time. That was the beginning of the awareness."

Growing up in the small Irish community of Monaghan, Balfe had considered acting from an early age. ("I was devastated that I wasn't a child actor," she says, smiling. But after traveling to Dublin to study theater, she changed course once she received an offer to model. It wasn't a secret passion of hers, but who turns down a trip to Paris? "My parents felt that I should finish college," Balfe recalls, "but l'm slightly headstrong, so l took their advice and I completely ignored it."

Over the next decade, she lived in France, Italy, Germany, and Japan, her modeling inexperience hardly a detriment. "You'd be amazed how little information or training goes into it," she says. "When I first arrived in Paris, I was told to take a bus to the office. I left my suitcase — I barely spoke any French — and someone took me across the street, helped me buy a Carte Orange. They printed out five addresses that I had to go to that day, and then they sent me off." She still remembers at 18 riding the subway alongside 16-year-old aspiring Russian models, who knew no French or English, homesick and sobbing their eyes out. "That was just the way it was," says Balfe. "You become pretty tough. When I went to Japan, it was similar: They would drive you to their castings, but the minute you got a job, it would be like, 'Here's an address, here's a map. Good luck.' They don't have signposts in English in Japan, so the map and the address are not always very helpful."

Hear Balfe recount her early misadventures in modeling and you can't help but think of Claire, who's equally thrown to the wolves once she arrives in the 18th century amid people wary of the English in general and assertive women in particular. "Honestly, l've been in so many situations in my life where you just are completely displaced," Balfe says. “You have to adapt very quickly and figure it out. I definitely think that informs Claire a lot. It helped me understand her."

Did moving to Paris at such a young age teach Balfe that she can cope in any circumstance? "I think I didn't really realize that until many years later," she replies. "I have a great knack of not thinking about things and just going for it. You learn the hard way sometimes that you're able to get through, but sometimes it's quite tough when you're in a situation where you don't know anyone and you're trying to find your way around cities. But if an opportunity presents itself and it seems like a good idea, l'm just like, 'OK, let's do it, then I'll figure it out.'”

The decision to reconnect with her acting ambitions was conducted just as boldly. Ready to quit modeling, she moved to Los Angeles because a writer she was dating lived there. He was the only person she knew, but she had read a Vanity Fair interview with Amy Adams in which she said she trained with Warner Loughlin. "I could walk to that place from my ex-boyfriend's house," she says, "so l was like, 'Well, I'm gonna go there because I can't really drive. I started from scratch. I didn't have any managers, I didn't know any agents, I hadn't acted in almost a decade." But she just kept taking classes, moving from Loughlin to the studios of Sanford Meisner and Judith Weston. "I think when I first got here, I had a nice little air of delusion: 'It's gonna work out,'" she says with a laugh. “You just don't know how."

And then came "Outlander." By email, Moore admits that he didn't know Balfe's work until her audition tape came unsolicited to his office from her agent. Once she was chosen for Claire, he made it clear how demanding the job would be. “I told her in our first meeting that this was going to be an even bigger responsibility and workload than the normal TV lead," he writes. "Because the story was being told from Claire's point of view, Cait was going to be in every scene, every day for months, which is an extraordinary amount of work, far beyond what most actors are ever asked to do."

Moore's warning didn't faze Balfe. Writes Moore, "After she met with the president of Starz... and it was clear that she was going to land the role, I walked her to the elevator and just before the doors closed on her, I said 'Your life is about to change forever,' and she gave me a grin that was both thrilled and slightly nervous. I never saw her hesitate after that."

She's never hesitated before. As Balfe prepares to say goodbye to L.A. (for now, she thinks back to her early days in the city, trying to convince casting directors that she was more than just a model. "I went on many, many, many, many auditions that were Hot Girl No. 2 — you wanna shoot yourself," she says, laughing. "But, you know, I'm very lucky that l was even getting those auditions in the beginning. And it toughens you up. At least for me, to have that fuel to prove people wrong—it definitely spurs me on and makes me wanna work harder." Then she smiles conspiratorially. "And shove it to them."

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Remember… I told her in our first meeting that this was going to be an even bigger responsibility and workload than the normal TV lead. — Ronald D Moore

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Richard Avedon Allen Ginsberg, New York City 1963

Aunt Rose—now—might I see you with your thin face and buck tooth smile and pain of rheumatism—and a long black heavy shoe for your bony left leg limping down the long hall in Newark on the running carpet past the black grand piano in the day room where the parties were and I sang Spanish loyalist songs in a high squeaky voice (hysterical) the committee listening while you limped around the room collected the money— Aunt Honey, Uncle Sam, a stranger with a cloth arm in his pocket and huge young bald head of Abraham Lincoln Brigade

—your long sad face your tears of sexual frustration (what smothered sobs and bony hips under the pillows of Osborne Terrace) —the time I stood on the toilet seat naked and you powdered my thighs with calamine against the poison ivy—my tender and shamed first black curled hairs what were you thinking in secret heart then knowing me a man already— and I an ignorant girl of family silence on the thin pedestal of my legs in the bathroom—Museum of Newark.

Aunt Rose

Hitler is dead, Hitler is in Eternity; Hitler is with Tamburlane and Emily Brontë

Though I see you walking still, a ghost on Osborne Terrace down the long dark hall to the front door limping a little with a pinched smile in what must have been a silken flower dress welcoming my father, the Poet, on his visit to Newark —see you arriving in the living room dancing on your crippled leg and clapping hands his book had been accepted by Liveright

Hitler is dead and Liveright’s gone out of business The Attic of the Past and Everlasting Minute are out of print Uncle Harry sold his last silk stocking Claire quit interpretive dancing school Buba sits a wrinkled monument in Old Ladies Home blinking at new babies

last time I saw you was the hospital pale skull protruding under ashen skin blue veined unconscious girl in an oxygen tent the war in Spain has ended long ago Aunt Rose

-- Allen Ginsberg, "To Aunt Rose" 1961

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Allen Ginsberg, poet, New York, December 30, 1963.Photograph by Richard Avedon.

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Whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.

Born to a turbulent family on a Mississippi farm, James Earl Jones passed away today. He was ninety-three years old. Abandoned by his parents as a child and raised by a racist grandmother (although he later reconciled with his actor father and performed alongside him as an adult), the trauma of his childhood developed into a stutter that followed him through his primary school years – sometimes, his stutter was so debilitating, he could not speak at all. In high school, Jones found in an English teacher someone who found in him a talent for written expression, and encouraged him to write and recite poetry in class. He overcame his stutter by graduation, although the effects of it carried over for the remainder of his life.

Jones' most accomplished roles may have been on the Broadway stage, where he won three Tonys (twice winning Best Actor in a Play for originating the lead roles in 1969's The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler and 1987's Fences by August Wilson) and was considered one of the best Shakespearean actors of his time.

But his contributions to cinema left an impact on audiences, too. Jones received an Honorary Academy Award alongside makeup artist Dick Smith (1972's The Godfather, 1984's Amadeus) in 2011. From the end of Hollywood's Golden Age to the dawn of the summer Hollywood blockbuster in the 1970s to the present, Jones' presence – and his basso profundo voice – could scarcely be ignored. Though he could not sing like Paul Robeson nor had the looks of Sidney Poitier, his presence and command put him in league of both of his acting predecessors.

Ten of the films James Earl Jones appeared in, whether in-person or voice acting, follow (left-right, descending):

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – directed by Stanley Kubrick; also starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim Pickens

The Great White Hope (1970) – directed by Martin Ritt; also starring Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook Beah Richards, and Moses Gunn

Star Wars saga (1977-2019; A New Hope pictured) – multiple directors, as the voice of Darth Vader, also starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Frank Oz

Claudine (1974) – directed by John Berry; also starring Diahann Carroll, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and Tamu Blackwell

Conan the Barbarian (1982) – directed by John Milius; also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman, Ben Davidson, Cassandra Gaviola, Gerry Lopez, Mako, Valerie Quennessen, William Smith, and Max von Sydow

Coming to America series (1988 and 2021; original pictured) – multiple directors; also starring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Shari Headley, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, and KiKi Layne

The Hunt for Red October (1990) – directed by John McTiernan; also starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, and Sam Neill

The Sandlot (1993) – directed by David Mickey Evans; also staring Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, Brandon Adams, Grant Gelt, Shane Obedzinski, Victor DiMattia, Denis Leary, and Karen Allen

The Lion King (1994) – directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, as the voice of Mufasa; also starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly, Niketa Calame, Ernie Sabella, Nathan Lane, and Robert Guillaume, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, Jim Cummings, and Madge Sinclair

Field of Dreams (1989) – directed by Phil Alden Robinson; also starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Ray Liotta, and Burt Lancaster

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Wild History, (announcement card), Edited by Richard Prince, Tanam Press, New York, NY, 1985 [Granary Books, New York, NY]

Contributors include: Tina Lhotsky, Reese Williams, Anne Turyn, Constance DeJong, Peter Nadin, Roberta Allen, Glenn O'Brien, Gary Indiana, Kathy Acker, Richard Prince, Sylvia Reed, Robin Winters, Collins/Milazzo, Cookie Mueller, Lynne Tillman, Paul McMahon, Spalding Gray, and Wharton Tiers

The text on the cover is from At Night by Constance DeJong

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If any city in American deserves the title of home of the Beat Generation, it is San Francisco. Although New York can rightly boast to be the birthplace of the Beats, the literary group came to maturity and national prominence in this most beautiful city by the bay. In the 1950s San Francisco was a magnet attracting inventive writers, artists, and thinkers during the conservative postwar years. Intellectual freedom blossomed with the publication and trial of “Howl” and by the 1960s, San Francisco was the destination of choice for a new generation of radical innovators.

La foto di copertina, di Larry Keenan, scattata davanti al City Lights Bookstore, è del 1965 e comparve anche sulla copertina del numero tre del City Lights Journal che uscì con data 1° gennaio 1966. Lawrence (aka Lorenzo) Ferlinghetti voleva documentare la scena Beat di San Francisco con lo stesso spirito delle classiche foto degli artisti e scrittori bohémien di Parigi agli inizi del '900. I Beat: fila in basso da sinistra a destra: Robert LaVigne, Shig Murao, Larry Fagin, Leland Meyezove (sdraiato), Lew Welch, Peter Orlovsky. Seconda fila: David Meltzer, Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Daniel Langton, Steve (?), Richard Brautigan, Gary Goodrow (a metà). Dietro: Stella Levy e Lawrence Ferlinghetti che col suo ombrello della casa editrice City Lights Books protegge tutto il gruppo.

B. Morgan, The beat generation in San Francisco. A literary tour, San Francisco, City Lights Books, 2003

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maleah barzal

Malakai Elise Barzal

Career: Business Owner

Height: 5”6

Hometown: Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada

College

Harvard University

Accepted in 2015 when she 16.

She got her Major Degree in Business Administration and her Minor in Fashion.

Received the Lucy Allen Paton Award in Humanities.

Received the Detur Book Prize.

Received the Louise Donovan Award.

Received the Artist Albert Alcalay Prize.

Received the Richard Glover Ames and Henry Russell Ames Award.

Received the Helen Choate Bell Prize.

Received the Carl Schurz Prize.

Received the Joseph Barrett Award.

Received the Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award.

Received the Sophia De Mello Breyner Andersen Prize

Received the Jeremy Belknap Prize.

Graduated the top of her class of 2020.

Languages she can speak

French

German

Portuguese

Spanish

Italian

Arabic

Swish German

Chinese

Japanese

Persian

Russian

Vietnamese

Mandarin

Turkish

Korean

Hindi

Bengali

Greek

Urdu

Indonesian

Marathi

Swedish

Latin

Hungarian

Polish

Thai

Icelandic

Cantonese

Serbian

Bulgarian

Czech

Mongolian

Basque

Danish

Dutch

Hebrew

Albanian

Ancient Greek

Egyptian

Babylonian

Business

She first sold a pieces of clothes when she was young at little set up shops, when she 15 she started her online business and started to sell clothes more often and had her first warehouse, she had pop up shops and eventually got her first real shop and it blew up even bigger and it she quickly needed more locations. Within in a few years she had hundreds of locations and skyline in New York City. By the time she was barely 19 she was already proffering millions of dollars. By 2021 she had one of the biggest companies in the whole world.

Her business name has always been τόλμη which means darling in Greek.

Personal

Born July 31, 1999

Daughter of Mike and Nadia

Has two siblings Matthew and Liana

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Hey that Seinfeld meme you posted where the text over the photo of George has a 9/11 joke? That wasn’t from the show. I’m all for make whatever jokes you want or cover over the text from the actual show but your photo doesn’t show that the original text is covered. It looks like it’s from the show. Seinfeld ended in 1998. 9/11 happened in 2001. Maybe consider deleting or clarifying so people don’t think a show that aired before it happened had a 9/11 joke?

Just to clarify in case folks think Kramer did 9/11 and it's referenced in the show... Kramer did not do 9/11, he's a character on a TV show that was cancelled in 1998--even by 90s meta-sitcom logic, that'd be a bit of a stretch. The images above reference an episode (season 5, episode 14) where Kramer is practicing his golf swing on the beach and happens to hit a ball right into the blowhole of a whale. Later in the episode, George, pretending to be a marine biologist because of a scheme by Jerry to impress a crush (Diane, played by Rosalind Allen, who played Dr. Wendy Smith on seaQuest DSV) has to help save the whale. Michael Richards (the actor who played Kramer) was conveniently across the country shooting the Michael Richards show when 9/11 occurred. Golf balls can't melt steel beams.

However...Michael Richards (the sculptor) was killed in the World Trade Center attacks (his studio was on the 92nd floor of the North Tower. Here's a retrospective of his work and a piece on it from the New York Times.

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“BED-IN” Yoko Ono / 小野 洋子 (Japanese, 1933) & John Lennon (English, 1940 - 1980) Hilton Amsterdam & Queen Elizabeth Hotel // March 25–31, 1969 & May 26 – June 1, 1969 Gerry Deiter. © Joan Athey // 1969, Montreal

The Bed-ins for Peace were two week-long nonviolent protests against the Vietnam War, the idea derived from sit-ins. Yoko Ono and her new husband John Lennon held their first bed-in at the Hilton Hotel in Amsterdam during their honeymoon. Originally planned for New York City, the couple’s second bed-in was eventually moved to Montreal after John Lennon was denied entry into the United States due to a November 1968 conviction for cannabis possession. On the last day of their Montreal bed-in, Lennon and friends including Timothy Leary, Tommy Smothers, Dick Gregory, Murray the K, and Allen Ginsberg recorded the anti-war song Give Peace a Chance.

Yoko and I, when we got together, we knew whatever we did was going to be in the papers, you know? Whether it’s Richard or Liz, or so and so gets married, or whatever people like us do, it’s going to be in the papers. So, we decided to utilise the space we would occupy anyway by getting married with a commercial for peace, and also a theatrical event. And the theatrical event we came up with, which utilised the least energy with the maximum effect, was to work from bed. And what we virtually had was a seven-day press conference in bed.

The first day they fought at the door to get in thinking that there was something, you know, sexy going on, and they found two people talking about peace. And reporters always have five minutes with you, ten minutes with you. We let them ask anything for as long as they wanted for seven days, and all the time we just kept plugging peace, and the story became "John and Yoko do bed-in for peace." And we were just promoting peace like you promote any product. They promote war, "join the marines, join this." We were promoting peace.

John Lennon on The Tomorrow Show (April 8, 1975)

You know, the more I think about it, how lucky we were, you know, because I didn't know anybody in Liverpool or anything – I didn't think about him as a Liverpudlian. And I was sure that he didn't think, "Oh, she comes from Tokyo," you know, at all. But as far distant that we were, we were so much alike. No argument. "Let's do it." "Okay, this way, that way," and that's it. It's almost like we didn't think about it, and we were given from the sky or something.

John and I thought after Bed-In, "The war is going to end." How naive we were, you know? But the thing is, things take time. I think it's going to happen. I mean, that I think we're going to have a peaceful world. But it's just taking a little bit more time than we thought then.

Yoko Ono to The Museum of Modern Art (c. 2015)

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It’s Fine Press Friday! 

We are excited to share Ivanhoe, a romance by Scottish historiacal novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832),  illustrated with linocuts by American artist and illustrator, Arthur Allen Lewis (1873-1957) published in two volumes by the Limited Editions Club, New York, in 1940. Ivanhoe is a historical novel that was first published in three volumes by Archibald Constable (1774-1827), Edinburgh, and Hurst, Robinson and Co., London, in 1819. 

The perceptions of some popular historical figures have been shaped by Ivanhoe, like King Richard the Lionheart, Prince John, and most famously Robin Hood.  Allen Lewis’s illustrations are funny and energetic. He strategically created  interaction across the the page-spread by separating the illustrations with the gutter. The characters awkwardly navigate the space of the page with the effect of them running, falling, jabbing across the book space. The space also may suggest a greater distance, where some characters are just out of reach.  This edition was planned by Allen Lewis who also cut the initials that begin each chapter and the linocut illustrations in two colors. The book was printed at the Marchbanks Press in New York. The type is Monotype Kennerly. The rag paper was produced by Worthy Paper Company, made specially for this edition, and the book was bound by the Russell-Rutter Company in New York. The book boards are wrapped with a silver pyroxylin cloth that is embossed in a chain-mail design. The whole book is cohesive and beautifully designed. It is definitely a favorite of mine. 

Look at how cute! Knights reading books! 

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Earth X #5

Thor seems different than usual.

It’s probably the braids.

Earth X: what you get when you ask Alex Ross to write a Kingdom Come tier story for Marvel. It is Bad Future! Uatu the Watcher has been blinded and he’s forced Aaron to be his seeing eye robot.

If you’re wondering what their dynamic is, it’s this:

The world is a mess with mind-control squids and body-control forever teens. Everyone has been mutated and Reed Richards blames himself. Many of the heroes we know are dead, retired, or in the clutches of the squid or the kid. And the world may be destroyed by vibranium or humanity may super-evolve into space gods.

As we go on and learn more about this setting, there are more and more plot threads.

Captain America in a flag yoga and Wyatt Wingfoot went to California to investigate the Skull, a horrible teen with the power to control people. The Skull took Wyatt for his growing army but left Steve alone because it was funnier that way.

While Steve sits and despairs about the hopelessness of the situation, circus Daredevil shows up and offers to become Steve’s new sidekick.

I am alarmed that this guy is relevant to the plot.

Also… I’m kind of wondering if he’s supposed to be Deadpool. Not actually Wade Wilson Deadpool himself but he has a lot of Deadpool energy and almost nothing to do with Matt Murdock. Alex Ross usually doesn’t like anything introduced after the death of Barry Allen but I wonder if he liked Deadpool enough to want to include someone like him.

This circus Daredevil is given an actual origin in a prequel from a few years back but the idea is sticking in my mind.

He’s red and black, he wants to work with Cap, he’s got an irreverent sense of humor, and he’s got a healing factor so strong he can’t die and has little self-preservation instinct anymore.

Anyway.

The Inhumans continue their journey to find their missing prince. Last issue, Reed Doom promised he’d help by getting a Cerebro and reprogramming it to find Inhumans. He takes off - using a teleportation device made out of Lockjaw… Aww, best doggo is dead? This really is Bad Future.

Reed leaving causes the Doombots of Castle Doom to suddenly register the Inhumans as intruders.

Their fight against the bots leads Medusa and Luna to discovering Dr Doom’s time platform… and Reed’s notes on it, reflecting he really wants to use it to save Sue from exploding but he doesn’t know when he’d stop altering history if he started.

Elsewhere, Cyclops is contacted by Corsair, Havok, and Polaris. FROM SPACE!

They know something bad is going to happen to Earth and want to bring Scott away to space safety.

He refuses to leave without Jean, even though she chose Wolverine over him in the love triangle.

Also, when Alex Ross doesn’t like a character, you know it. And he seems to hate Wolverine.

The appendix reveals that all the psychics are dead (Professor X, MODOK) or depowered (Jean).

Not sure yet why but it means there’s nobody to counter the kid or the squid.

Over in New York, Kid Bruce and Gorilla Hulk visit Sorcerer Supreme Clea.

Clea and Wong explain to Bruce that Strange’s astral form was destroyed while it was out of his body. His body still lives but he’s essentially dead. And that’s why Clea is sorcererly supreme.

So Bruce explains what he’s there for. He’s been having the oddest recurring dream.

Of Captain Marvel on his Death of Captain Marvel deathbed. In the dream, he rises out of bed and shows the assembled crowd of friends, allies, and respected enemies that he has the universe inside him. And then dies.

A universe inside a person sounds to Clea like Eternity. But Eternity is dead. Despite being the universe. Not sure how that happens.

Bruce really wants Mar-Vell to explain the dream to him so he asks Clea to dunk him into the Realm of Death.

I feel like there’s intermediate steps you could try but what do I know.

And geez, Bruce’s dream of the universe inside a dude and visiting death to interpret it on top of the world possibly ending and superpowered menaces running amok with nobody to stop them… This universe is a mess.

(By the way, the appendix notes that Carol Danvers is the current Captain Marvel and that she’s in space helping the Kree on their destroyed capital. So Earth X gets two more tallies for things the 616 would copy later.)

Now then. Let’s talk cover Thor.

Earth X wants to paint the entire history of Marvel with one brushstroke. Superpowers and even super genius is the result of Celestial meddling.

The gods were mentioned in issue 0 as being in conflict with the Celestials but I guess Ross didn’t feel like actual gods fit the picture he was painting.

On Earth X, the Asgardians aren’t gods. They’re super advanced shapeshifting emphatic aliens with no personality of their own who take their identity from those who observe them.

They came to Earth and were viewed as the Norse gods so the Norse gods they became.

Their powers became what people expected them to be. Their personalities became what people expected them to be.

I have no idea how this alien race of blank slates managed to invent space travel.

I don’t particularly like this worldbuilding idea for Thor’s slice of Marvel. His mythos feels diminished if it’s just aliens play-acting old stories.

Anyway, girl bod Thor is fighting some storm giants that made their way to Midgard* alongside the Iron Avengers, who Thor treats as friends.

*Earth

Tony Stark in his isolation somewhere tells the Iron Avengers to respond to another crisis because Thor’s got this one handled.

Vision in a cool hood wants to argue, feeling Tony is being manipulated by President Norman Osborn but ultimately does what Tony asks.

Back of the book appendix info: when the mass empowering event started, Tony sealed himself in isolation, afraid of being changed. He didn’t know but Scott Lang Ant-Man snuck himself and his daughter Cassie into Tony’s isolated environment to try to protect her. But she wound up changing anyway. And now they’re stuck because they can’t leave without compromising Tony’s sealed environment.

The people outside that were mutated came to resent Tony for not being mutated so kept trying to attack his bunker or whatever. So he created the Iron Avengers and gave them his dead friends’ personalities.

Honestly, I can’t wait for the issue that focuses on Tony. There seems to be a lot to unpack.

Also in appendix news, Osborn went on a secret killing spree of supervillains before he took power. He wiped out a lot of Tony’s rogues gallery, for example. And he was never elected as president. He just had himself declared as such and a jaded mutated populace went okay whatever.

Earth X is a mess.

After fighting off the storm giants, Thor calls Loki out as responsible for the attack.

Interesting new design Loki. Could do with you being less interpersonally gross though.

Unsurprisingly, Loki is behind Thor’s new look, having somehow tricked Odin into turning his brother into a woman as his latest trial of humility.

And if Thor goes back to Asgard to tell Odin that Loki is up to his shit again, Loki will lock Thor away from Earth so he can’t stop his evil scheming.

This is a weird plot point.

I’ve heard that it inspired Jane Foster Thor but I’m pretty sure both this and Jane Foster Thor were inspired by the What If where Jane Foster became Thor.

Thor seems only mildly irritated by this whole thing but sheesh, with everything else going on why throw this in?

Earth X is a mess. Captain America is demoralized and wearing the flag as a toga. Cyclops is depressed and lost the love of his life, again. Spider-Man is depressed and has a Venom daughter. Reed is depressed and blames himself for the state of the world.

And Thor has been rule 63’d. But at least he’s not depressed?

[hustledimension]

The Cast of The Road to El Dorado

From here

KEVIN KLINE (Tulio) has been honored for his work on the stage and the screen. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the comedy "A Fish Called Wanda." More recently, he was recognized with the IFP’s Gotham Award for "The Ice Storm," and a Golden Globe nomination for "In & Out." He had previously received Golden Globe nominations for his performances in "Dave," "Soapdish" and "Sophie’s Choice."

Kline is a two-time Tony Award winner for his work on Broadway in "The Pirates of Penzance" and Hal Prince’s production of "On the Twentieth Century." He also garnered Drama Desk Awards for both productions.

A graduate of the Juilliard School of Drama, Kline is a founding member of John Houseman’s The Acting Company, with which he made his Broadway debut in Chekov’s "The Three Sisters." His additional theatre credits include "Arms and the Man" and "Loose Ends," both at Circle in the Square; the title role in Chekov’s "Ivanov" at the Lincoln Center Theatre; the title role in the 1986 and 1990 productions of "Hamlet" at New York’s Public Theatre, the latter of which he also directed, both for the stage and again for PBS’ Great Performances series; and the New York Shakespeare Festival presentations of "Richard III," "Henry V," "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Measure For Measure."

Kline made an auspicious feature film debut in Alan Pakula’s "Sophie’s Choice," opposite Meryl Streep. He then joined the ensemble cast of "The Big Chill," which began his long association with writer/director Lawrence Kasdan. They have since collaborated on "Silverado," "I Love You to Death," "Grand Canyon" and "French Kiss." Kline’s other film credits include "A Midsummer Night’s Dream," "Wild Wild West," "Fierce Creatures," the voice of Captain Phoebus in the animated musical "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "Looking for Richard," "Princess Caraboo," "Chaplin," "Cry Freedom" and the screen version of "The Pirates of Penzance."

KENNETH BRANAGH (Miguel) is an award-winning actor, director, writer and producer. He adapted, directed and starred in 1989’s "Henry V," which brought him dual Academy Award nominations for Best Actor and Best Director and for which he won BAFTA and National Board of Review Awards for Best Director. He was more recently Oscar-nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 1996 release "Hamlet," which he also starred in and directed. Branagh also received a SAG Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in "Othello," and produced, adapted, directed and starred in "Much Ado About Nothing," which earned an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Feature. His upcoming film credits include a musical version of Shakespeare’s "Love’s Labour’s Lost," which he adapted, directed and stars in.

In addition, Branagh directed and starred in "Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein," which he also produced, "Peter’s Friends" and "Dead Again." His other credits as an actor include "Alien Love Triangle," "Wild Wild West," Robert Altman’s "The Gingerbread Man," Woody Allen’s "Celebrity," "The Theory of Flight," "Swing Kids," "A Month in the Country" and "High Season." He also narrated the Oscar-winning documentary "Anne Frank Remembered," and, in 1993, received an Oscar nomination for Best Live Action Short for "Swan Song." That same year, he was honored with the British Academy’s Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema.

Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Branagh studied at England’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and made his professional stage debut in "Another Country." Joining the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was seen in such plays as "Love’s Labour’s Lost," "Hamlet" and "Henry V" before leaving to form his own successful theatre company. His other stage work includes sold-out productions of "Hamlet," "King Lear" and "A Midsummer Night’s Dream."

ROSIE PEREZ (Chel) received an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe nomination for her work opposite Jeff Bridges in Peter Weir’s "Fearless." She was discovered by Spike Lee, who cast her in "Do The Right Thing," and she subsequently starred in such films as Ron Shelton’s "White Men Can’t Jump," Jim Jarmusch’s "Night on Earth," Tony Bill’s "Untamed Heart," Andrew Bergman’s "It Could Happen to You," Alexandre Rockwell’s "Somebody to Love," Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s "A Brother’s Kiss" and Nancy Savoca’s "The 24 Hour Woman," which she also co-produced. She will next be seen starring opposite John Leguizamo in Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s "King of the Jungle."

Perez began her career as a choreographer for such artists as Bobby Brown, LL Cool J and Diana Ross. She went on to choreograph and direct the Fly Girls on Fox TV’s "In Living Color."

She made her first foray into producing with "Rosie Perez Presents Society’s Ride," which ran as three parts on HBO. She conceived and executive produced "Subway Stories," an anthology of short films by prominent and new directors, which also aired on HBO. Most recently, Perez entered into a unique deal with Artists Television Group (ATG) to develop, star in and executive produce a television comedy series.

ARMAND ASSANTE (Tzekel-Kan) has most recently been recognized for his work in a number of acclaimed network and cable projects. He won an Emmy Award and garnered Golden Globe and SAG Award nominations for his portrayal of John Gotti in the HBO movie "Gotti." He also earned a Golden Globe nomination for his performance as Odysseus in the miniseries "The Odyssey," and both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his work in the miniseries "Jack the Ripper." Most recently, Assante starred as the Confederate commander of the first submarine in TNT’s true-life Civil War drama "The Hunley."

On the big screen, Assante received a Golden Globe nomination for his work in Sidney Lumet’s "Q&A," and won a Special Jury Prize at the USA Film Festival for his performance in the title role of "Belizaire, The Cajun." Among his additional film credits are "Striptease," "Judge Dredd," "Trial by Jury," "The Mambo Kings," "Hoffa," "1492: Conquest for Paradise," "The Marrying Man," "I, the Jury," "Little Darlings," "Private Benjamin" and "Paradise Alley."

A native New Yorker, Assante graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He made his professional acting debut on the stage in "Why I Went Crazy," under the direction of Joshua Logan. His subsequent stage credits include the Broadway productions of "Boccaccio," "Comedians," "Romeo and Juliet" and "Kingdoms."

EDWARD JAMES OLMOS (The Chief) has received honors for his work in films and on television. He garnered both Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and won an Independent Spirit Award for his portrayal of inspirational teacher Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver." He more recently earned acclaim for his role in Gregory Nava’s biopic "Selena," in which he starred as the Tejano singer’s father. He had previously worked with Nava in the film "My Family/Mi Familia."

On the small screen, Olmos won a Golden Globe Award and earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in the HBO drama "A Burning Season." He had earlier collected his first Golden Globe for his starring role in the series "Miami Vice." This season, Olmos appears in the recurring role of Judge Mendoza on the new series hit "The West Wing." He has also starred in such longform projects as "Bonanno: A Godfather’s Story," "The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three," "12 Angry Men," "Hollywood Confidential," "Dead Man’s Walk" and "Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills."

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Olmos first gained attention for his performance in the Broadway musical "Zoot Suit," for which he received a Tony Award nomination. He later recreated his role in the film adaptation. His film credits also include "Wolfen," "Blade Runner," and five films for director Robert M. Young: "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez," "Saving Grace," "Triumph of the Spirit," "Talent for the Game" and "Caught."

In 1992, Olmos made his feature film directorial debut with "American Me," in which he also starred. He also executive produced the award-winning documentary "Lives in Hazard," which addressed gang prevention.

[heavenlyhoundoom]

Cuphead charcter parents.(head cannon)

Dads

.Brewster Porcelain.

Species: Mug person.

Color: Red.

Age: 32

Date of birth: 3/16/1900

Birthplace: Inkwell. (Isle one)

Occupation: Cab driver.

Kids: Cuphead Porcelain and Mugman Porcelain.

.Matteo Carbone

Species: Human.

Race: European.

Hair color: Black.

Eye color: Blue.

Age: 60

Date of birth: 5/23/1872

Birthplace: New York City.

Occupation: Artist.

Kids: Sebastian Web and Walter Web.

.Richard Lightbug

Species: Firefly.

Color: Purple.

Hair color: Blonde.

Eye color: Brown.

Age: 44 at death.

Date of birth: 6/20/1867

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California.

Date of death: 8/25/1911

Cause of death: Car accident.

Occupation: None.(he lived off of his parents' wealth)

Kids: Mildred Lightbug, Bertha Lightbug, Elizabeth Lightbug, Oliver Lightbug, Anges Lightbug, Rose Lightbug, and Lucy Lightbug.

.Alfred Anteater

Species: Anteater.

Fur color: Gray.

Eye color: Purple.

Age: 62

Date of birth: 1/29/1870

Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey.

Occupation: Wrestler

Kids: Albert Anteater, Abigail Anteater, Alice Anteater, Allen Anteater, Anna Anteater, and Anthony Anteater.

.Foka Petrov

Species: Snail.

Color: Green.

Eye color: Brown.

Age: 58

Date of birth: 6/17/1874

Birthplace: Inkwell. (Isle four)

Occupation: Mob boss.(retired)

Kid: Sheldon Petrov.

.Philippe Lavigne

Species: Pepper shaker.

Age: 59

Date of birth: 1/24/1873

Birthplace: Paris, France.

Occupation: Orchardist.

Kid: Saltbaker Shaker.

.Brown bull

Species: Bull

.Age: 48

Date of birth: 4/7/1884

Birthplace: Inkwell Meatfarms.

Occupation: None.

Kids: Esther Winchester, five other girl calves and three boy calves.

.Comet Saluki

Species: Saluki.

Fur color: Tan and black.

Age: 50

Date of birth: 9/15/1882

Occupation: Pilot.

Kids: Penelope Saluki, and Angel Saluki.

.Brutus Giant

Species: Giant.

Race: European.

Hair color: Ginger.

Age: 55

Date of birth: 2/9/1877

Birthplace: Inkwell. (Isle four)

Occupation: Security guard.

Kids: Helga Giant and Glumstone Giant.

.Otto Buzzman

Species: House fly

Color: Black.

Age: 34 at death.

Date of birth: 7/30/1880

Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts.

Date of death: 10/5/1914

Cause of death: Eaten by a spider.(not related to Walter in any way)

Occupation: Electrician.

Kids: Garry Buzzman, Larry Buzzman, and Jerry Buzzman.

Moms

Mocha Porcelain

Species: Cup person.

Color: Blue.

Age: 32

Date of birth: 6/27/1900

Birthplace: Ottawa, Canada.

Occupation: Kindergarten teacher.

Kids: Cuphead Porcelain and Mugman Porcelain.

.Edna Web

Species: Spider.

Fur color: Gray.

Hair color: Orange.

Eye color: Yellow.

Age: 60.

Date of birth: 2/6/1872

Birthplace: New York City.

Occupation: Construction worker.

Kids: Sebastian Web and Walter Web.

.Hannah Lightbug

Species: Firefly.

Color: Black.

Hair color: Red.

Eye color: Green.

Age: 44 at death.

Date of birth: 4/13/1867

Birthplace: Malibu, California.

Date of death: 8/25/1911

Cause of death: Car accident.

Occupation: House wife.

Kids: Mildred Lightbug, Bertha Lightbug, Elizabeth Lightbug, Oliver Lightbug, Agnes Lightbug, Rose Lightbug, and Lucy Lightbug.

.Amber Anteater

Species: Anteater.

Fur color: Brown.

Eye color: Orange.

Age: 62

Date of birth: 9/4/1870

Birthplace: Inkwell.(Isle three)

Occupation: Waitress.

Kids: Albert Anteater, Abigail Anteater, Alice Anteater, Allen Anteater, Anna Anteater, and Anthony Anteater.

.Jennifer Petrov.

Species: Snail

Color: Yellow.

Eye color: Light blue.

Age: 58

Date of birth: 7/2/1874

Birthplace: New York City.

Occupation: House wife.

Kid: Sheldon Petrov.

.Mary Shaker

Species: Pepper shaker.

Age: 59

Date of birth: 5/16/1873

Birthplace: Inkwell.(Isle four)

Occupation: Baker.

Kid: Saltbaker Shaker.

.Black cow

Species: Cow.

Age: 48

Date of birth: 11/12/1884

Birthplace: Scotland meat farms.

Occupation: None.

Kids: Esther Winchester, five more girl calves, and three boy calves.

.Rita Saluki

Species: Saluki.

Fur color: White and Black.

Age: 50

Date of birth: 3/21/1882

Birthplace: Edgewood, Florida.

Occupation: Hair stylist.

Kids: Penelope Saluki and Angel Saluki.

.Rhonda Giant

Species: Giant.

Race: European.

Hair color: White.

Age: 55

Date of birth: 6/25/1877

Birthplace: Pembroke, Wales.

Occupation: Optician.

Kids: Helga Giant and Glumstone Giant.

.Gale Buzzman

Species: House fly.

Color: Green

Age: 52

Date of birth: 1/6/1880

Birthplace: Calabash, North Carolina.

Occupation: Nurse.

Kids: Garry Buzzman, Larry Buzzman, and Jerry Buzzman.