#Suzy Ami’s

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Wake up babe, new Doctor Who snog chart just dropped. (insp.)

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NADJA (1994) dir. Michael Almereyda After the death of Count Dracula, his daughter Nadja and her familiar Renfield arrive in New York to burn it his corpse, hoping this ritual will free her from her own vampiric curse, but then Nadja gets sidetracked when she meets a lost soul in a bar. Lucy is not a vampire, but she too is suffering from ennui – bored by her life and her relationship with husband Jim. Meanwhile, Jim is bailing his uncle, Van Helsing, out of jail: after learning of the disappearance of the Count's corpse, he enlists his nephew in his quest to destroy any trace of any vampire still left in the city. As the plot develops, Nadja visits her sickly brother, Edgar, who’s being looked after by a nurse called Cassandra. Van Helsing and Jim’s quest to seek out Dracula’s descendants also leads them to Edgar, bringing the two halves of the story together... (link in title)

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~ A Night in the Life of a Bat in Gotham

This is such a cute short story! The bat following Batman around, copying him, and being a detective with him! Bruce caring about stopping animal abuse and trafficking! Bruce saying that the bats of Gotham aren't his pets, they are their family! And he knows each one of them! I didn't know I needed Bruce gently holding a bat and calling it "my hero" until now, it's fucking adorable!

And the whole thing is a metaphor about the Batfam! About how they cannot be kept in captivity, how their falily is important and they need it, but each of them comes and goes as they wish and they respect it, and each have their own story to tell.

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M!IK as Brandon Rogers clips

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Nimue: "No need, I know everything."

Lancelot: "EVERYTHING?!"

Based on a scene from the fic: "Be a Fool, Be Happy" by @sonysakura

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TITANIC — 1997, dir. James Cameron

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Galitzine HC FW 1982.

Model: Suzy Amis.

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The Big Town, US lobby card #7. 1987

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New Amy Jo Johnson edit

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My Peak TV journey *The Marvelous Mrs Maisel*

Prior to the final I made some predictions about where the show would end up. one was that Esther would grow up to resent her mother like Lorelei resented Emily Gilmore. I was right about that. I also speculated that maybe this was the story of how Midge could make anybody laugh, but could not make it as a comic. I was wrong about Midge’s career.

I liked the flash forwards but some of the choices of people she would be involved with seemed more funny peculiar than funny haha. It implies she was involved with Mike Nichols. In the first season there was an episode where she did not know about his act with Elaine May and almost ended up in a Nichols and May knock off act, making this later implication funnier. The flash forwards made a big deal about her working with Bob Hope which tracks with aspirational dialogue from earlier in the series. While Hope had a long and successful career, (meaning I understand why he was chosen as the symbol of what success in the field looked like), he also fell incredibly out of fashion starting in the late sixties. As a choice, it says Midge never quite seemed “young” in her career. Which, I guess makes sense.

That said I really liked the final season. In earlier posts about the show I acknowledge criticism that the Weisman’s players by goy actors were so much more likable than the Maisels, played by actually Jewish actors. This season seemed to recognize it and subtly correct.

The elder Maisels were suddenly hilarious, if still crass and unkind. The Wiseman’s reliance on their housekeeper Zelda, who got married and retired over the season revealed some very unappealing aspects of their characters.

The show sometimes felt like it took place in 1960 for multiple years. As a series The Marvelous Mrs Maisel didn’t exact love the time period in which it took place, so much as it loves the pop culture from its time. It never made me want to be there, just to keep watching people in their colorful, well tailored clothes. But it was not particularly critical, nor interested in a “this is what led to things being the way they are now” type of rational for its existence. As a choice it’s doesn’t clarify, but doesn’t let you wallow for the good old days either. Sometimes it felt like every year on screen was 1960. This disinterested ambivalence occasionally led to wanting to me I’d want to fact check it, but rarely actually doing it. The one time I did was regarding Clark Gable’s death, which I thought took place a year after the season was set. I was wrong. 

In the final episode there was an establishing shot of the Ansonia indicating that is where Midge live in 2005. Later she makes a comment about Yoko Ono being one of her neighbors. Ono famously lives in the Dakota, several avenues from the Ansonia. I was going list this as another thing that makes me doubt the interest in veracity o the series. Then I found this discussed in this post finale interview with Amy Sherman-Palladino. It’s a fictional building in a fictional timeline. Don’t make a big deal about it. Some how this made define with it.

I want to end this by praising the actors who joined the series late players. 

Some how I forgot that Julie Klausner joined the series late in the fourth season, but she regularly had me giggling over her appearances in the final season.  (Interestingly, Klausner is not a Lenny Bruce fan.)

Alfie Fuller is new to me and she was so great as Dinah. I hope Dinah has as great a management career and I look forward to seeing Fuller in something soon.

Reid Scott is such a charming bully as Gordon Ford, you almost don’t resent his character’s success. (Though I think the no writer on the show rule was a good one) 

I’ve liked Chris Eigeman since those Whit Stillman films and I really liked seeing him run the Village Voice here.

Jason Ralph, (Rachel Brosnahan’s real life husband) had some very funny bits as Mike, especially in relation to Suzie. Seeing him here mostly made me think how I want to see him as a lead again. 

Nina Arianda has intrigued me since I saw her play Stan Laurel’s wife in Stan and Ollie. She still does as Gordon’s wife/Susie’s ex, Hedy. 

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TITANIC 1997

I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You learn to take life as it comes at you... to make each day count.

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FANDANGO fan made movie poster.

Art by Dirk Fowler | Instagram

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Volume 266

0:00:00 — "Winner Takes It All" by Marie Cain (1984)

0:04:13 — "In Your Wildest Dreams" by Keni Yarbro (1991)

0:06:01 — DJ

0:11:58 — "Love Salvation" by Odette Springer (1991)

0:14:42 — "Talk Nasty to Me" by J.C. Jackson (1988)

0:15:49 — "Over Anxious" by Craig Safan (1985)

0:18:51 — "Pass the Loot" by Perla Batalla (1988)

0:19:58 — "Here with You" by Suzy and the Knockouts (1995)

0:20:58 — DJ

0:25:55 — "Pistol Whipped" by Marky DeSade (1989)

0:27:27 — "Move" by Antony Alda (1987)

0:28:06 — "Spring Break / Come Together" by Jeff Mills & Asrock (1989)

0:29:34 — "Tender is the Night (This Side of Paradise)" by Andd More (1987)

0:32:22 — "Motion City Moves" by John Tucker (1984)

0:33:53 — "Illusions are Real" by Carol Connors & Patrick Gleeson (1987)

0:37:04 — DJ

0:42:49 — "Lost in Illusions" by Dorian Harewood (1989)

0:44:54 — "Someone to Love Me Right" by Jimmy Hodges (1993)

0:49:17 — "A Fool for Love" by Jim Gilstrap (1986)

0:53:36 — "Taking a Stand" by Jim Gilstrap (1986)

0:54:35 — DJ

0:57:50 — "Through the Eyes of a Child" by Keni Yarbro (1991)

1:00:49 — "Black and White" by Amy Robinson & Keni Yarbro (1991)

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