#Roger Thornhill

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My Russell Ziskey headcannon

Hey Ramgart Fans I headcannon that Roger thornhill is Russell Ziskeys Adopted Father

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Update

violet and rose is drawing to a close (maybe 3-4 chapters left)

i will finish cold dead heart but that fic will end when the timeline catches up with the end of violet and rose.

after this i'm not doing any other multichapters with those OCs but I certainly will write oneshots about Larissa x Fern or Marilyn x Rowan.

i love these characters more than you could possibly know, but I want to end on a high note rather than dragging out this series longer than it should be.

i have a new idea in the works with a new OC!! I'm very excited for her character and the new universe I am going to introduce you guys to!!

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Eve Kendall: [Hanging by their fingers from Mount Rushmore] What happened with your first two marriages?

Roger Thornhill: My wives divorced me.

Eve Kendall: Why?

Roger Thornhill: They said I led too dull a life.

North by Northwest (1959)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock.

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Cary Grant as Roger O. Thornhill “North by Northwest” (Alfred Hitchcock 1959)

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Time for another new episode!

Script below the break.

Hello and welcome back to The Rewatch Rewind! My name is Jane, and this is the podcast where I count down my top 40 most frequently rewatched movies in a 20-year period. Today I will be discussing number 11 on my list: MGM’s 1959 spy thriller North by Northwest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason.

New York advertising man Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for government agent George Kaplan by men working for foreign spy Phillip Vandamm (James Mason). Their initial attempt to rub him out is unsuccessful, but nobody believes Roger’s story, and he is forced to go on the run when Vandamm’s men make it look like he committed murder. Roger sneaks onto the 20th Century Limited train to Chicago, where he runs into a beautiful young lady named Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) who helps him hide from the police. But when instructions that Eve claims she received from the elusive George Kaplan nearly get him killed, Roger begins to suspect that she is also working for Vandamm. And if you haven’t seen this movie, I would recommend watching it before listening because it has an absolute roller coaster of a plot and I will be spoiling most of the twists.

As I mentioned in the Notorious episode, North by Northwest was the first Hitchcock movie I ever saw. I was kind of hesitant to watch it because I had heard that Hitchcock made scary movies, and I’ve never been into horror. But my mom assured me that this one was more of a mystery adventure and wasn’t actually that scary, so I gave it a try and was immediately hooked. I watched it three times in 2004, once in 2005, once in 2009, four times in 2010, three times in 2011, once in 2012, 2013, and 2014, twice in 2015, twice in 2017, once in 2019, twice in 2020, once in 2021, and twice in 2022. This, like His Girl Friday, was one of the films I wrote a paper about in my Film as Literature class, so that explains why I watched it so often in 2010. I used to always include it in my Cary Grant birthday marathon, but in more recent years I’ve tended to save it for Eva Marie Saint’s birthday, which happens to be the 4th of July – an appropriate day to watch a movie featuring American landmarks. Some years I watch it on both their birthdays. And when I don’t, I often watch it on Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday, because even now that I’ve seen over 40 of his films, the first one I watched is still my favorite. There is a part of me that wants to have a more obscure favorite – North by Northwest is, after all, one of his most famous films, and therefore a very basic choice. Even people who have never seen it tend to be at least vaguely familiar with the crop-dusting scene and the chase across Mount Rushmore. It seems like a movie that somebody who hasn’t seen many Hitchcock films would claim as their favorite Hitchcock film. But I’ve watched it 25 times and still can’t get over how good it is, so, basic or not, I love this movie, and I’m pretty sure it will always be one of my favorite movies in general, not just among this particular director’s work.

And I mean, obviously, a big part of that is because of Cary Grant. If I had to pick one movie that most perfectly displays everything I love about Cary Grant, I’d have to go with North by Northwest. In this movie, he’s simultaneously a comedian, a romantic lead, an action hero, and a confused victim of circumstance. His character is upset by all the awful things that happen to him but remains relatively unfazed and undaunted. He’s suave and sophisticated but also goofy and relatable. I love every moment of his performance. As always, he’s at his best when he’s being funny, so one of my favorite parts is when Roger is trying to escape from an art auction when Vandamm and his cronies have sealed off the exits, so he starts calling out ridiculous numbers, hoping someone will call the police to have him removed from the premises. Grant does such a great job of being disruptive in the most charming but silly way possible, relieving some of the tension without completely derailing the suspenseful tone of the story, and it’s so perfect. But he also plays the darker moments very well. In a lot of my other favorite Cary Grant movies, you can’t ever really take anything his character says at face value because he’s always joking or at least being a little sarcastic. In this movie, while Roger takes most things in his stride and doesn’t let them throw him too much, there are moments when he’s truly hurt or stunned, and he plays them very believably. It’s kind of jarring, in a good way, to see a man who is mostly poised despite all the chaos around him, actually get thrown off balance occasionally. Roger Thornhill generally doesn’t take himself or the world too seriously, but his tolerance for bullshit does have limits, and it’s interesting to see how he acts when he’s beyond tired of going with the flow. A lot of Hitchcock’s films start to feel kind of tedious after two or three watches because once you know where it’s leading, the building of suspense loses some of its intensity and can feel kind of draggy. But, aside from the fact that you kind of need to watch this one a few times to fully understand its convoluted plot, I could watch Cary Grant playing Roger Thornhill for ages without getting tired of it, which is one of the reasons I keep revisiting this one.

But I can’t give Grant all the credit. Every performance in this movie is excellent. James Mason is a delectably menacing Phillip Vandamm, and Jessie Royce Landis brings some welcome levity toward the beginning as Roger’s mother. And, of course, there’s Eva Marie Saint, who, as I alluded to at the end of last episode, is, at the time of recording, as far as I know, still alive at 99, making her the oldest living Oscar winner. She didn’t win an Oscar for North by Northwest – she won for her film debut in On the Waterfront five years earlier – but boy does she give a fascinating performance in this movie. She doesn’t even show up until about 45 minutes in, and at first her character just seems like a sexy love interest for Roger, who has had a very rough 45 minutes’ worth of story and could use a break. But then it’s revealed that oh no, she’s working for Vandamm! And then it’s like, but is she really? Wait, she’s actually spying on Vandamm! But then she shoots Roger? Oh, just kidding, they were blanks, she’s still a good guy, never mind. And now she’s in danger! The audience’s perception of Eve changes so many times that it must have been very difficult to keep track of how she needed to come across in each scene, but Saint absolutely nails it. She’s perfectly mysterious and even sinister when she needs to be, but easily transitions to open and vulnerable and likable when the audience is supposed to be rooting for her. It’s an extremely complicated role and it absolutely could not have been played better. And the way she and Grant interact throughout these transitions is brilliant. Roger’s perceptions of Eve follow a similar path to the audience’s, but not quite at the same time. For instance, while Roger and Eve are together in her train compartment, we see a porter deliver a note to Vandamm from her that says, “What should I do with him in the morning?” Which, on the one hand, is kind of weird, because like, how are they supposed to get a response back to her without Roger seeing it? But the purpose of that is obviously to show the audience that – gasp – Eve is not just some random woman Roger happened to run into; she’s involved in this somehow! But Roger doesn’t begin to suspect her until after he’s been crop-dusted and the hotel clerk tells him that George Kaplan checked out before he supposedly gave Eve instructions on where to meet him. So there’s a whole section when the audience knows something Roger doesn’t. But then later the opposite happens, when Eve shoots Roger during the confrontation in the Mount Rushmore cafeteria – both Roger and Eve know it’s fake, but the audience doesn’t until later.

The way the movie so deliberately and gradually reveals information to the audience is fascinating even when you’ve seen it a bunch of times and already know what’s coming. And while this required the brilliant performances of Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint to be effective, I have to give major props to screenwriter Ernest Lehman for crafting such a well-told narrative. (He also wrote the screenplay for The Sound of Music, which I mention just to give an idea of the wide range of his talent.) This story is ridiculously complex, and while not all of the details quite hold up under scrutiny, overall the important storylines track remarkably well upon rewatch. I can’t claim this movie is perfect because it does feature one of my all-time favorite movie mistakes, although I didn’t notice it until Eva Marie Saint herself pointed it out in a DVD special feature, but now I can’t watch this movie without noticing it. In the scene with the fake shooting, right as she pulls out the gun, there’s a boy in the background who plugs his ears, even though nobody is supposed to know that she’s going to actually fire it. It seems very odd that someone with as much attention to detail as Hitchcock would have allowed that to end up in the final cut, but it makes me smile every time. And there are definitely several aspects of the story that don’t really make a lot of sense if you think about them too hard. But again, the story is so complex and is told so well overall that poking holes in it just feels pedantic. If anything, its flaws make me love it all the more.

While this movie is decidedly neither aromantic nor asexual, it does portray romance and sex in a somewhat unusual way. The character of Eve Kendall is rather similar to Alicia Huberman in Notorious, in that they both use sex for spy purposes – the main difference being that we never have any doubts about which side Alicia is on. As I’ve mentioned in previous episodes, characters faking sexual attraction to use sex for personal or political gain makes more sense to me as an asexual person than characters expressing genuine feelings of sexual attraction, which might explain why, in general, the movies that have made it into my top 40 that include sexual content tend to feature ulterior motives behind the sex. Eve does develop real feelings for Roger, but in order to keep Vandamm from suspecting her, she has to pretend she only slept with Roger under Vandamm’s orders, which adds an intriguing layer to the whole situation. Another interesting thing about North by Northwest, especially when compared with Notorious, is that while production codes were still in effect in 1959, they were clearly starting to relax. Notorious was as explicit as it was allowed to be, but all the sexual activity is cloaked in innuendo, however thin. No modern audience would consider North by Northwest a sexually explicit movie, but at least the characters could say that they had sex. In Notorious, when Alex finds out that Alicia is a spy, he berates himself for “believing in her with her clinging kisses” but nothing more risqué than that, whereas in North by Northwest, Roger vents about Eve “using sex like some people use a flyswatter.” As an Old Hollywood fan, I find it endlessly fascinating to see what content was allowed when, and as James and I discussed in the Notorious episode, Hitchcock loved to push the envelope. So while there’s no nudity or anything like that in this movie, there is definitely clear sexual content. And while I wouldn’t go so far as to claim that any of the characters is asexual, there is at least one who is very strongly implied to be gay. Leonard, played by Martin Landau, is Vandamm’s right hand man who seems to have a thing for Vandamm. He’s accused of being jealous that Vandamm likes Eve, and he refers to his own “woman’s intuition.” The rules may have been relaxing around discussions of heterosexual activities, but references to homosexuality still weren’t allowed to be more overt than that. Still, I think we can safely claim Leonard as LGBT+ representation. Landau himself was very open about intentionally playing him as gay, which both Hitchcock and Lehman supported.

Hitchcock also pushed the envelope with this movie in ways unrelated to sexual content. For example, he was refused permission to film the outside of the United Nations building, but he went ahead and did it anyway, from a camera hidden in a truck across the street. Similarly, the government didn’t want to allow the climactic chase across Mount Rushmore, as they felt it was disrespectful. This was finally allowed under the conditions that they didn’t film on the real monument, and that the characters never climbed across the presidents’ faces. They were allowed to film the shooting-with-blanks scene in the Memorial View Building in the park, but the monument they climb down during the climax was a model on a soundstage – which was probably much safer than filming on the actual mountain anyway. Although Eva Marie Saint did slip and bang her elbow, which made it into the movie. Personally, I think the best part of that chase scene is the music, written by Bernard Herrmann, who also wrote the scores for six other Hitchcock movies, including the iconic screeching Psycho theme. The North by Northwest theme is somewhat less well known, but it’s very intense and adventurous, and it greatly enhances the climax. Definitely the perfect “escaping from desperate enemy spies who are trying to kill you” song, and that scene in particular would be significantly less effective without it.

Not to constantly be harping on about people’s ages, but I must point out that Jessie Royce Landis, who plays Cary Grant’s mother in this movie, was only seven years older than him, while Eva Marie Saint, who plays his love interest, was 20 years younger than him. Much as I love this cast and wouldn’t want to see any of them replaced, it’s still rather upsetting to me that a 55-year-old man can still play the lead, while a 62-year-old woman is relegated to the minor “mother” role. She does get one of the best lines in the movie (“You gentlemen aren’t REALLY trying to kill my son, are you?”), but she doesn’t have nearly enough screentime. More good roles for older actresses, please! Also, Eve Kendall says she’s 26 when Eva Marie Saint was really 35, and I don’t understand why they felt the need to pretend she was so much younger. Couldn’t they have just let her character be in her 30s? That would have made her relationships with men in their 50s at least a little less creepy. But maybe the creepiness was the point. Or maybe Grant and Mason were meant to be playing younger characters too. Anyway, the ages may be all wrong, but the performances are all perfect, and that’s what really matters.

Ultimately, I think the main reason this is my most frequently rewatched Hitchcock movie boils down to the fact that even when the suspense is no longer effectively suspenseful, it’s still a very fun movie to watch. Intense things happen, but overall the tone isn’t nearly as dark as most of his other films. And so much is going on that there are always more details to be noticed. And again, if nothing else, Cary Grant is there being Cary Grant.

Speaking of which, you may recall that way back when Grant made his first appearance on this podcast, in #33, Holiday, I mentioned that he was going to appear in 10 movies on this list. Since then, I’ve talked about him in Monkey Business, Father Goose, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, Bringing Up Baby, Notorious, His Girl Friday, and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, which means North by Northwest is his ninth movie on here. Somehow he only made it into one of the top 10, and it is number one, so I won’t be talking about him again for a while. Funnily enough, each of the four actors who appear in at least four of my top 40 most rewatched films – Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers, and Julie Andrews – is in exactly one of my top 10. So stay tuned for my favorite movie that each of them made. I cannot believe I’m three-quarters of the way through this list already. Thank you so much to those of you who have listened to every episode since the beginning of this project, and to those of you who have only listened to this episode, and to those of you who have listened to a few episodes here and there. I am so grateful that anyone is interested in what I have to say about these movies that I love. I hope you will enjoy the final quarter, which will begin with a movie that is quite different from anything I’ve talked about thus far, although it does involve travelling across the United States so it’s a little like North by Northwest, except not. Anyway, as always, I will leave you with a quote from that next movie: “Thoughts raced through his mind. Did she really want him? What had he done to deserve this bounty? Does God exist? Who invented liquid soap and why?”

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Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill-core

aka Roger Thornhill suffering mild annoyances for 2 hours 16 minutes whilst accidentally committing identity theft

North by Northwest (1959)

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Cary Grant in North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)

Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll, Josephine Hutchinson, Martin Landau, Philip Ober. Screenplay:  Ernest Lehman. Cinematography: Robert Burks. Production design: Robert F. Boyle. Film editing: George Tomasini. Music: Bernard Herrmann. 

There's a famous gaffe in North by Northwest, in the scene in which Eve Kendall (Eva Marie Saint) shoots Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant). Before she fires the gun, you see a young extra in the background stop his ears against the noise, even though it's supposed to surprise and panic the crowd. It's so obvious a mistake that you wonder how the editor, George Tomasini (who was nominated for an Oscar for the film), could have missed it. The usual explanation is that he couldn't find a way to cut it out, or didn't have footage to replace it. And after all, in the days before home video, would the audience in the theater notice? Even if they did, they would have no easy way to confirm that they had actually seen it. But I have a different suspicion: I think that they showed the goof to Alfred Hitchcock, and that he laughed and left it in. For above all else, North by Northwest is a spoof, a good-natured Hitchcockian jest about a genre that he had virtually invented in 1935 with The 39 Steps: the wrong man chase thriller, in which the good guy finds himself on the run, pursued by both the bad guys and other good guys. The ear-plugging kid fits in with the film's general insouciance about plausibility. A couple who climb down the face of Mount Rushmore, she in heels (and later in stocking feet) and he in street shoes? A lavish modern house with a private air strip that seems to be on top of the mountain, only a few hundred yards from the monument? A good-looking man who seems to go unnoticed by the crowds in New York and Chicago and on the train in between, even though his face is on the front page of every newspaper? A beautiful blond woman who shows up just at the right moment to take him in and not only hide him on the train but also make love to him? Only a director with Hitchcock's skill and aplomb could take on such a tall tale and make it work, keeping you thoroughly entertained in the process. Of course, he had one of the greatest leading men of all time to work with and a leading lady with enough skill to evoke his favorite, Grace Kelly, without embarrassing herself. He had Bernard Herrmann's wonderful score, alternately pulse-pounding and romantic, and Robert Burks's cinematography. He had James Mason, Martin Landau, and Jessie Royce Landis as support. I would call it my favorite Hitchcock film, but only when I've just seen it, and my ranking will probably change the next time I see Notorious (1946) or Rear Window (1954) again.

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Somebody draw me Russell Ziskey with his adopted Father Roger Thornhill

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Stately Sequoia Ch. 13

GUYYYSSS. Even though it is finals week, I am addicted to this storyline. Things are beginning to escalate between our characters and their stalker. 

Please keep leaving me comments and replies! I love reading all of your thoughts! 

“So I found the common name for Prunus laurocerasus, it’s Common Laurel. Does that have any significance?” You sat by the fire in Larissa’s office as you two shared afternoon tea. 

Larissa’s blood went ice cold and she bit her lip. She was terrified. Could it be her? It would all make so much sense. In the letter that arrived to her room yesterday, it read: I know you remember me. You should remember I’m the one that knows all of your secrets. Don’t think I can be replaced so easily. Signed, Prunus laurocerasus.

She played it off nicely, however. In all your months together, Larissa had never told you about her death or Marilyn Thornhill or the monster in the woods. “I can’t say that I do. Maybe the initials of the person is actually PL?” She suggested with a smile. 

You shrug in response, “Perhaps. You know more people associated with this school than I do.”

You had no clue how much Larissa had been keeping from you. The principal thought she had been protecting you, but she was putting you in more harms way than she could ever imagine.  

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“Dr. Rogers! Come quick! Ajax isn’t feeling too well.” Yoko called out behind you, she and him had been working in the greenhouse. 

You had been working with Bianca on an creating a bioactive terrarium for aquatic plants. The advanced botany class was based on projects selected by each student, making this specific class a bit of a hectic one. 

You hand off the tools to Bianca, making long strides to get to the greenhouse. When you entered, Ajax was supporting himself with a hand against the wall. His head was slowly lolling back and forth and he looked somewhat disconnected from this plane of reality. 

“What happened? What did you touch? Which plants were you working with?” You were talking to Yoko, as Ajax was verbally nonresponsive. You put your shoulder under his arm and guide him to a sitting position. 

“We were working with the Lamiaceae family, mainly mints and herbs. But a window broke earlier, Ajax went to check it out and when he came back he was like this.” Yoko stated the facts quickly allowing you to assess the situation. 

“Thank you, Yoko. Please go fetch one of the nurses. Take Divina with you and have her get Principal Weems.” 

You lightly slap Ajax on the cheek, trying to get him to come out of his hallucination so he could tell you what happened. He makes light eye contact with you for a moment, acknowledging that he can hear your words, “Ajax, what did you touch?”

You were assuming that he made physical contact with a sap of a poisonous plant as all of the students knew not to eat anything out of your greenhouses. 

“There was a note attached...” He mumbled, eyes rolling back in his head and you had to catch him as he leaned forward, almost falling off the chair. 

Typically, you tried not to use this part of your ability, but you were realizing whatever ointment or salve had been applied to the object that broke the window had accutely poisoned your student. With your connection to plants, not only could you give your energy to them for them to grow, you could pull energy from them. Pulling pure phytotoxins out of people was the easy part, it was only afterwards that created more of a problem for you. 

Taking Ajax’s hands in yours, you focused on trying to locate the toxins within him. Belladonna is what had poisoned Ajax. Otherwise known as deadly nightshade. As your own focus came in and out of view, you saw a very worried Ajax in front of you. The phytotoxin was now attacking your own body. The reaction would subside, but for the next 5-10 minutes you would feel the  hallucinations, lightness and the sensation of flying typically associated with dermal poisoning of nightshade. 

Larissa arrived to the greenhouse before the nurse. Divina had found her in the hall. You tried to maintain your grip on reality, but you stumbled, catching yourself on the table. 

“Ajax and Divina, please go back to the classroom. Don’t let any students enter.” Larissa ordered, trying to think as Principal first. Those students didn’t need to witness this. 

“Fern. Fern, look at me.” Larissa was at your side in a flash and held you steady.

You felt your eyes close for what felt like forever, your head lolling to the side. Now you were experiencing exactly what Ajax had, only you weren’t handling it as near as well as he. 

You felt your legs give way beneath you and the world went black. 

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You weren’t out for long, coming back to in a few minutes when your body had neutralized the poison. A concerned Larissa had your head in her lap, her eyes wide with fear, “Oh, Fern! Are you alright?”

You blinked away the last of the blurred vision, your head was throbbing and your mouth was dry. You felt absolutely dreadful. Before you requested to retire back to your bed, you needed to find whatever broke the window and the note attached. 

“I’ll be fine. I need to get up.” You reached forward, focusing hard on engaging your core so you could grab the leg to the workbench. 

“Fern, what are you doing?” Larissa scolded. 

“Dear, you should probably lay down.” The nurse offered in agreement. 

“Help me up.” Your tone was harsh and serious. Larissa immediately helped pull you upwards into a standing position, holding most of your body weight in her arms. You felt lightheaded in the new standing position so you gladly accepted Larissa’s help, “Where is the broken window?”

Larissa glanced around the room, helping you even though she was confused by your domineering and insistent requests, “There is one over there by the palm, but what does it-” 

You took a stumbling step towards where she had gestured, Larissa followed closely behind, helping you towards the hole in the glass. Larissa called over her shoulder to the nurse, “You can return to your station. If Dr. Rogers needs you, I will bring her to you myself.”

As you made your way to the opposite side of the greenhouse, your footing became more sure with every step, not needing Larissa when you reached the broken pane of glass. Now you frantically were looking everywhere for the object Ajax had dropped. 

“I mean, honestly, Fern. Are you okay?” Larissa was standing with her hands on her hips, remaining on the pavement of the greenhouse, not willing to dirty her heels walking into the soil filled sections. 

“Grab me some rubber gloves off the shelf.” 

“Fern. I swear to god.” 

“Larissa, please.” 

You hear her breathe out loudly, sharing her displeasure with you. 

Finally, you found it. A blackened round stone, about the size of your fist, wrapped up with brown string, a white note attached beneath the wrapping. You squat down to take a closer look without touching it.

“Okay, fine. Here are your gloves.” Larissa offers them to your outstreached hand and you them on quickly so you can pick up the stone. It is slick with the phytotoxin. 

You pull on the bow that kept the note secured, allowing the string and stone to fall to the floor. As you look at it closer, the writing is on the backside of a photo taken of you and Larissa. In the photo, you were kissing in her living room, clearly the photo was taken outside the front window. You flip over the photo, quickly reading the words, I hope this finds you well. I’m watching you too. This is just a sample of what’s coming. -PL

Your eyes look up from the note, making eye contact with your lover, holding up the photo as evidence, “It seems like our friend PL is sending me a warning. We are being watched.”

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[priokskfm]

#MixOfDay #Podcast #Radioshow #LiveDjset Funkier Sounds 5th Birthday - Sam Redmore Guest Mix My little show has turned five! Five years ago, just days before my second child was due to be born, I for some reason decided it was a good time to start a radio show. And so that’s what I did - the show was called Funkier Radio and it wasn’t a real radio show, because I prerecorded it and just put it up on Soundcloud. But now it’s live, on a real radio station and has been renamed Funkier Sounds. Over the years I’ve had some brilliant guests including The Reflex, Michael Gray, Danielle Moore, loads of less known but still brilliant DJs and a whole load of my friends, and for this celebratory episode I brought you another very special guest. My guest was Sam Redmore, a DJ and producer who I’ve loved for a few years now. Someone on the more funk & soul side of the sounds I’m into rather than the house and disco side, Sam was the perfect selector to help me mark the fifth birthday. Sam’s mix is brimming with funky delights - funk and soul originals and reworks, some hip hop stuff, some jazzy stuff, some of his own stuff… a fast moving, funky and really enjoyable mix! Big thanks to Sam, and please show him some internet lovin' - https://ift.tt/ABUC8Dv https://ift.tt/jU0LFpw HOUR 1 TRACKLIST 1 FMAC - Listen To The Wind Blow (V's edit) 2 The Allergies - Every Trick In The Book 3 A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation 4 Lo Fidelity Allstars - Deep Ellum... (feat. Jaime Liddell) 5 Rabzooz - The Funk Go Round 6 Chales Wright - Express Yourself [The Reflex Revision] 7 XL Middleton - I Can't Get Away 8 G-noF - Montpeull 9 Syrup - Sink Mess 10 Commodores - Brick House 11 Luxar - Found A Way 12 Scruscru - Slightly Wiggle 13 Dele Sosimi - E Go Betta (O'Flynn Re-Edit) 14 Dr Packer - Taxis in Space 15 A Skillz ft. Beardyman - Got The Rhythm 16 Bazuka - Dynomite (SLY Edit) 17 Finesse - Feel It (Dj ''S'' Remix) 18 Jack District, Marelua - Essa Menina 19 Smashed Atoms - Doing It For The Kids 20 JMMSTR - Me & Myself 21 Even Funkier - Party On The Move 22 Tru Tones, Roger Thornhill - Dancing (Roger Thornhill Edit) SAM REDMORE GUEST MIX 1. Night Owls - Cramp Your Style (feat. N'Dea Davenport) 2. The Mighty Mocambos - Struggle & Triumph 3. Leisure Allstars - Get Your Hands In The Air 4. Max Sedgley - Happy 5. K.C. & The Sunshine Band - I Get Lifted 6. Betty Wright - Let Me Be Your Lovemaker 7. Carl Carlton - Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours 8. Dee Edwards - Put Your Love On The Line 9. Patrice Rushen - Let There Be Funk (The Reflex Revision) 10. Merry Clayton - Grandma's Hands (Scrimshire Get's Merry Re-Edit) 11. Aretha Franklin - Rock Steady 12. Gladys Knight & The Pips - Who Is She And What Is She To You 13. DJ Nu-Mark - Hot In Herre (feat. The Traffic) 14. The Patchouli Brothers - Wicked One 15. Mo Horizons - Tu Fiesta Personal (TM Juke Remix) 16. Edwin Starr - I Just Wanna Do My Thing 17. Lyn Collins - Rock Me Again & Again 18. Sophisticated Ladies - This Ain't Really Love 19. Spanky Wilson - You 20. The Rebirth - Evil Vibrations 21. Herman Kelly & Life - Dance To The Drummer’s Beat 22. Funkadelic - (Not Just) Knee Deep (Sam Redmore's Freak Mix) Dj, Funk, Soul, "radio ", "radio show", "radio mix", "dj mix", "dj set", "guest mix", "special guest", "funk and soul", "funk & soul" www.priokskfm.online https://ift.tt/MAYJ34b

[writingandbaking]

🍒 characters i write for

☎️ marvel

🍒 peter parker(spiderman)

☎️ wanda maximoff(scarlet witch)

🍒 pietro maximoff(quicksilver)

☎️ tony stark(iron man)

🍒 steve rogers(captain america)

☎️ bucky barnes(the winter soldier)

🍒 natasha romanoff(black widow)

☎️ mj jones

🍒 wednesday

☎️ wednesday addams

🍒 enid sinclair

☎️ larissa weems

🍒 marilyn thornhill

☎️ stranger things

🍒eddie munson

☎️ steve harrington

🍒 nancy wheeler

☎️ max mayfield

🍒 mike wheeler

☎️ dustin henderson

🍒 lucas sinclair

☎️ jim hopper

🍒 robin buckley

☎️ chrissy cunningham

🍒 joyce byers

☎️ karen wheeler

🍒 hazbin hotel

☎️ lucifer

🍒 angel dust

☎️ husker

🍒 valentino

☎️ vox

🍒 alastor(platonic)

☎️ sir pentious

🍒 adam

☎️ lute

🍒 charlie

☎️ niffty(platonic)

[codycawdren]

North by Northwest (1959)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt. Roger Thornhill is an advertising executive. When he gets kidnapped and is taken to a mansion, the kidnapper, Lester, addresses him…

[chillingcinemachronicles]

the 5 best action movies that redefine the genre. 💥🍿

5. Enter the Dragon (1973)

Bruce Lee had already released three blockbuster action films i Hong Kong, one of which he directed, before joining Robert Clouse’s international star vehicle for Warner Brothers. Focused on a high-profile martial arts tournament mounted by a suspected crime lord, the film not only gave Lee the perfect platform to showcase the physical and philosophical underpinnings of the Jeet June Do style that he pioneered, but features some unforgettable, inventive action sequences (which he also choreographed). Sadly, its impact on Lee’s career was all posthumous, but “Enter the Dragon” both immortalized him as a star and offered a gateway to martial arts filmmaking that audiences outside of China had not widely

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4. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas put their blockbuster brains together to create whip-snapping, wise-cracking archeologist Indiana Jones. The populist duo tapped into their shared love for Hollywood adventure serials, casting Han Solo himself (Harrison Ford) as the snake-averse adventure magnet. His first outing proved a cinematic roller coaster every bit as exciting as John Williams’ galloping score suggests, from the thrilling opening sequence, which finds Indy one unshaven whisker away from being pancaked by a massive boulder, to the infamous ending, where the treasure he risked his life to rescue gets stored away in a giant warehouse. Who’d have thought he’d still be stealing artifacts from Nazis at age 80, four sequels later?

3. North by Northwest (1959)

Its propulsion, its antic air of lethal gamesmanship, and its vision of a lone man outrunning the forces of fate were, in 1959, shockingly new, rendering Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller nothing less than the formal and spiritual progenitor of the James Bond series. But it’s in the legendary crop-dusting sequence where Hitchcock, pushing the envelope of danger, reinvented what cinema could be. As Cary Grant’s Roger Thornhill stands in that cornfield, pursued by a propellor plane he must somehow outrun, a set piece, for the first time, splits off from the movie around it to become its own reality. At that moment the seed of all modern action cinema was planted.

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2. Die Hard (1988)

Bruce Willis bleeds in the course of trying to rescue his wife (Bonnie Bedelia) from Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and a gang posing as deranged German terrorists, who’ve seized her Los Angeles office tower during a Christmas party. Seeing Willis crawling through glass, covered in cuts, makes all the difference in distinguishing his character, off-duty NYPD Detective John McClane, from so many steroid-swollen ’80s action heroes: He wasn’t an invincible killing machine so much as an ordinary man in way over his head (audiences loved him in the role, which redefined the comedic “Moonlighting” star as a tough guy, and the label stuck until his recent retirement). By pitting such a relatable protagonist against Rickman’s snarling, all-time-great screen villain, “Die Hard” found a recipe for infinite re-watchability — one whose holiday backdrop has made it an irreverent annual tradition for superfans who can’t get enough of Willis’ yippee-ki-yay antics, whether it’s crawling through air ducts or dropping baddies from upper stories.

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1. The Road Warrior (1981)

In 1979, George Miller’s “Mad Max” was a Hell’s Angels movie gone psychotic. It was made on a drive-in-film budget but became such a global phenomenon that Miller was able to transform the sequel into something vastly bigger, more scary-cool, more grandly nihilistic. One of the great dystopian spectacles, “The Road Warrior” presents the vision of a civilization reduced to patched-together cars and cutthroat survival. The film’s scrappy kinesthetic genius is that it incarnates the very godlessness of that world by turning it into an existential demolition derby. As Mel Gibson’s Max, in his form-fitting wasteland leather, joins forces with a colony of straggling desperados to escape the Lord Humungus and his hooligan horde, the film gets heightened into the most delirious action sequence ever filmed: an epic car chase of jalopies from hell, with nightmare foes like the mohawked punk Wez leaping from their vehicles onto yours, the whole thing so fearsomely sustained it’s like a single combustible jolt of energy. In “The Road Warrior,” action is excitement, it’s destruction, it’s war, it’s the rusty speeding pulse of life itself.