#The Bonfire of the Vanities

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The Shining (1980), dir. Stanley Kubrick

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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), dir. Brian De Palma

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

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The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990 Brian De Palma

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The Bonfire of the Vanities • Director Brian De Palma

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FILMES DISPONÍVEIS DE GRAÇA NO YOUTUBE DE DIVERSOS GÊNEROS PARA VOCÊ CONFERIR ESSA SEMANA!

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The Bonfire of the Vanities - Original Theatrical Trailer

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Remembering Richard Belzer 1944-2023

What a weekend following the passing of Stella Stevens, Gerald Fried, and Oliver Wood, now comes the news of the passing of comedian / actor Richard Belzer at age 78.

Belzer got his start in the 70s NYC comedy scene. He was a part of the National Lampoon Comedy Hour and appeared in the doc Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead about it. He was a part of the classic 70s sketch comedy film The Groove Tube. He was the warm-up comedian for the early years of SNL. He even occasionally appeared in a few episodes in those first 5 years. 

Belzer circa 1980s

He also appeared in some episodes of Sesame Street, Ron Howard’s best movie IMHO Night Shift, Brian De Palma’s Scarface and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Spike Lee’s Girl 6 and Get on the Bus, Milos Forman’s Man on the Moon, and a few episodes of 30 Rock. There was of course his character Detective Munch who appeared on several crime shows, but I always dug his stand-up. Fun fact: he was Henry Winkler’s cousin!

The link above is the obit from CNN.

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Film Journal

"The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Brian De Palma

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THE BORGIAS (2011 - 2013) | Season Two Group Promotional Pictures

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The Bonfire of the Thrawnities

When Thrawn critics go all medieval on your ass.

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The Big Short

Uyarlanan Kitabın Yazarı: Michael Lewis

En İyi Uyarlanan Film (2015 Oscar)

Yönetmen: Adam McKay

Oyuncular: Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Strong, Marisa Tomei, Margot Robbie

Konut ve kredi balonunun 2007 ve 2008 yıllarında birikmesi ve ardından çöküşünü öngören (diğer bir adıyla küresel mali kriz) ve bunlardan kazanç sağlayan birkaç Amerikalı finans uzmanının hayatına odaklanıyor. Ancak The Big Short, sadece finansal krize yol açan olaylara değil, aynı zamanda krizi çok önceden öngören birkaç kişinin çelişkili ahlakına da odaklanan karakter odaklı bir eserdir.

2010'da yayımlanan The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Lewis'in 1980'lerde Solomon Brothers'taki iş deneyimlerinin bir kronolojisi olan Liar's Poker adlı çok satan kitabının kısa bir devamı niteliğindedir. Her iki kurgu olmayan eser de, birçok Wall Street profesyonelinin ve finans dünyasının yaşamlarına, iş yerlerine ve psikolojisine derin bir bakış sunuyor.

İlhami Cengiz

Wall Street ile ilgili diğer film ve uyarlamalar.

The Big Short, 2015

Barbarians at the Gate, 1989

The Bonfire of the Vanities, 1990

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Bonfire of the Vanities 1990 Brian De Palma

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There are a couple of posts recently about companions who are only in one story and whether they count.

https://penny-anna.tumblr.com/post/709511371006541824/ and https://penny-anna.tumblr.com/post/709513022569431040/

It’s hard to judge who counts and who doesn’t and everyone is gonna have their own opinions about each.

But the one I instantly think about who only got a single story but would’ve obviously had more off screen is Allie Kay. Who is, sadly, pretty obscure. I even realised I hadn’t mentioned him on this blog yet which is remiss of me.

Under the cut will be spoilers and discussion of Big Finish’s Companion Chronicles range. Specifically First Doctor’s second and third boxset, both of which I strongly recommend.

Big Finish in their Companion Chronicles boxsets set up a canonical explanation for Polly and Ben having more adventures with the First Doctor in between The Smugglers and The Tenth Planet.

There’d been books and comics with that team before but the ending of The Smugglers, their first trip in the TARDIS was very strongly implied to lead directly into The Tenth Planet.

Big Finish decided in the trailer for the second volume to have off screen Dalek interference during the Time War cause the team to land somewhere else instead of “the coldest place in the world!” in the audio The Bonfires of the Vanities, setting up a new era for the team. The very next story in that boxset; The Plague of Dreams, ended with the situation resolved and the Doctor and company sent on to Antarctica as they had meant to be. But the implication and intention was obviously for more stories to be set in between.

This was followed up in the very next set in a single story: The Crumbling Magician. In it the team were trapped in a nightmarish hospital and one of their fellow prisoners/patients was an eight year old boy who had been aged by a temporal accident into an elderly body. At the end of the story the TARDIS team took him with them to look after him.

This was obviously intended to lead to more stories and I was hugely looking forward to them at the time.

Problem was first the actor playing the recast version of Ben quit. Then the Companion Chronicles range got cancelled. Then the actor who played Allie sadly died. Now it seems we’ll never hear any more about the character and his travels.

I suppose they could do it in that new Audio Novels range and just have it read by Anneke or Stephen Noonan, but I doubt they’d devote a whole novel to following up a loose thread from nearly five years ago.

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Tom Hanks on Bonfire of the Vanities

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Bonfire of Our Vanities

The first reading is from the Prophet Ezekiel from a larger section known as the “Oracles Against the Nations.” In our reading the charge leveled against the prince of Tyre is simple and direct: you have become arrogant, or as we read “haughty of heart”. The prophet outlines three dimensions of his hubris: the king claims to be divine, possessing divine authority and divine intelligence/wisdom.…