#Thornton A. Jenkins

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Billy Bob Thornton is 'The Man Who Wasn't There' on Criterion Channel

Joel Coen shared the Best Director prize at Cannes with David Lynch for The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001), a devious melodrama of adultery, embezzlement, blackmail, and murder. That darkly comic pulp story, however, is secondary to the crumbled dreams and mechanical lives of its deadened characters, a whisper to a scream tale of madness, repression, and soul-suffocating dislocation in 1950s small…

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Bad movie I have What If 2010

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Long Post!!! Let me take you on a little tour of miss Ruby Thornton's real estate in the rainy town of Olympia 👀

First up is her actual post modern styled home at 202 Okafor Projects

Barbie pink 80s bathroom with full floor rugs bc why not 💗

She runs her detective agency from a different building a few blocks over at 101 Jenkins Tower, which also houses her side gig bar, which she runs with two associates, at least one of whom has got to be named Jack, and which is accessible directly from the reception area:

(there is no bar gameplay that's just in mah head)

To the left of the reception area, her office, to the right: the bar and lounge

Behind the bar, a kitchen, and behind the kitchen, a briefing room for storing valuables, maybe a diamond or two, definitely a tommy gun, plotting heists, and also, probably, whiskey and cigars 🍹🚬

Then she rents a third one bedroom apartment on the Farrar Grove commercial tower's first floor, exclusively set up as an entrapment den for blackmail purposes because she does play dirty like that 🤫

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Anyway you guys wanna read about some sailors tattoos that were described in the jail records?

John Thornton 1875 26 years of age, 5 ft 6 ¼ inches high. Dark complexion- an anchor on each arm (tattooed)

George McFarland 1883 31 years of age, 5 ft 7 1/2 inches high. Light grey eyes, light complexion. Tattooed on right arm below elbow: woman mounted on spread eagle bearing an American flag on a staff

William Jenkins 1884 21 years of age- 5ft 6 inches high. Blue eyes, dark brown hair. Anchor tattooed on back side of left wrist

Charles O. Brown 1885 26 years of age 5ft 8 in high. Light brown hair, light mustache. Blue eyes. On right wrist is a broad bracelet tattooed. Anchor on back part of right wrist. Man’s head wearing turban in front. On his left wrist is a broad bracelet tattooed. On left hand is a large star between the thumb and forefinger.

Edward E. Reed 1886 23 years of age. 5ft 81/2 inches high. Dark brown hair, blue eyes, light complexion. Backs of both hands covered with tattooed work in India ink

Patrick Sweeney 1886 39 years of age, 5ft 7 inches high. Dark brown hair right arm marked with a star and the letters PS

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mw counterparts?

this  list  got  a  little  bit  longer  than  anticipated.  as  there's  soooooo  many  counterparts  to  consider  choosing  from  !  so,  i  put  it  under  a  read  more  for  you  !

counterparts:  monica  geller, ross geller, joey  tribbiani,  chandler bing, janice litman, mike hannigan, ursula buffay, aria  montgomery,  emily  fields,  spencer  hastings,  mona  vanderwaal,  alison  dilaurentis,  caleb  rivers,  maya  st  germain,  toby  cavanaugh,  betty  cooper,  veronica  lodge,  cheryl  blossom,  archie  andrews,  reggie  mantle,  toni  topaz,  tabitha  tate,  quinn  fabray,  rachel  berry,  brittany  pierce,  olivia  baker,  layla  keating,  jordan  baker,  jaymee, spencer  james,  lucas  scott,  peyton  sawyer, brooke  davis,  quinn  james,  julian  baker,  anna taggaro, rachel  gatina,  blair  waldorf,  serena  van  der  woodsen,  dan  humphrey,  nate  archibald,  callie  adams  foster,  mariana  foster,  buffy  summers,  willow  rosenberg,  tara mclay, kendra young, faith  lehane,  cordelia  chase,  heather  mcnamara,  marissa  cooper,  summer  roberts,  seth  cohen,  angel, anya jenkins, ryan  atwood,  taylor  townsend,  elena  gilbert,  caroline  forbes,  bonnie  bennett,  stefan  salvatore, anna zhu, enzo  st  john,  sandy  olson,  betty  rizzo,  frenchy,  danny  zuko,  marty, jan, sonny,  jackie  burkhart,  donna  pinciotti,  eric  forman,  laurie  forman,  belly  conklin,  sloane  peterson,  ferris  bueller,  duckie  dale,  bianca  stratford,  kat  stratford,  patrick  verona,  mia thermopolis, sabrina spellman, harvey kinkle, libby chessler, barbie  roberts,  ken  carson,  jenna  rink,  allie  hamilton,  noah  calhoun,  brandon  walsh,  david  silver,  brenda  walsh,  kelly  taylor,  donna  martin,  conrad  fisher,  jeremiah  fisher,  steven  cokin,  taylor  jewel,  sarah  cameron,  jj  maybank,  john  b  routledge,  kiara  carerra,  pope  heywood,  cleo, topper  thornton,  prue  halliwell,  paige  matthews,  piper  halliwell,  phoebe  halliwell,  meredith  grey,  arizona  robbins,  jackson  avery,  callie  torres,  april  kepner,  derek  shephard,  alex  karev,  cristina  yang,  lizzie  stevens,  callie  torres,  jo  wilson,  addison  montgomery,  lexi  grey,  atticus  lincoln,  nancy  drew,  lucy  grey,  sam  montgomery,  austin  ames,  jen  lindley,  pacey  witter,  dawson  leery,  katherine  pierce,  rebekah  mikaelson,  hayley  marshall,  tatum  riley,  sidney  prescott,  casey  becker,  tara  carpenter,  samantha  carpenter,  beca  mitchell,  chloe  beale,  jessica  day,  winston schmidt, cece  parekh, laney  boggs,  dewey  riley,  gale  weathers,  georgina  sparks,  elle  woods,  francesca  bridgerton,  daphne  bridgerton,  penelope  featherington,  sookie  stackhouse,  karen  smith,  regina  george,  gretchen  weiners,  janis  ian,  cady  heron,  aaron  samuels,  dj  tanner,  stephanie  tanner,  marcia  brady,  cindy  brady,  greg  brady,  carrie  bradshaw,  cher  horowitz,  kirby  reed,  jim  halpert,  michael  scott,  kelly  kapoor,  pam  beesly,  peter  parker,  mary  jane  watson,  analise  keating,  olivia  pope,  tony  stonem,  effy  stonem,  joey  donner,  john  bender,  allison  argent,  scott  mccall,  lydia  martin,  olive  penderghast,  maggie  greene,  marty  mcfly,  bella  swan,  alice  cullen,  charlie  swan,  emmett  cullen,  jacob  black,  carlisle  cullen,  esme  cullen,  jane  volturi,  morticia  addams,  donna  and  sophie  sheridan,  lorraine  banes,  jennifer  parker,  sam  winchester,  luke  danes,  dean  forester,  tristan  dugray,  lane  kim,  paris  geller,  logan  huntzberger,  jeanie  bueller,  simon  basset,  kate  sharma,  colin  bridgerton,  shiv  roy,  gerri  kellman,  roman  roy,  olivia  benson,  clary  fray,  isabelle  lightwood,  jace  herondale,  simon  lewis,  daphne  blake,  shaggy  rogers,  velma  dinkley,  fred  jones,  cinderella, ariel, tiana, jasmine, tom  wambsgans,  kendall  roy,  greg  hirsch,  lestat  de  lioncourt,  louis  de  point  du  lac,  and  claudia  !

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The Bombshell Political Report So Shocking A U.S. President Tried To Pretend It Didn't Exist! LBJ Tried To Torpedo The Official Kerner Commission Record. Instead It Became A Bestseller

— May 10, 2024 | Jelani Cobb

President Lyndon Baines Johnson listens during a meeting in the White House Cabinet Room, March 26, 1968. LBJ Presidential Library.

When President Lyndon Baines Johnson created the [Kerner] commission in July 1967 it was tasked with understanding what had happened up to that moment. Nearly two dozen uprisings or, in the antiseptic language of the report, “civil disorders,” had occurred between 1964 and 1967, with the largest and most destructive taking place in the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles over the course of five days in August 1965.

Kerner has endured not simply for its prescience but also for the breadth of its analysis of the moment when it was conceived. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which became more commonly known as the Kerner Commission—a reference to then-governor of Illinois Otto Kerner, who served as its chairman—was created by President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11365 on July 28, 1967. The order was issued as entire stretches of the city of Detroit lay smoldering.

On July 23, 1967, a police raid on an after-hours bar in Detroit sparked an explosion in which residents hurled rocks and bottles at police and culminated in a nearly week-long uprising marked by arson, looting, and forty-three deaths. Just eleven days earlier, the city of Newark had detonated following the assault on John Smith, a Black cab driver, by white police officers. The reactions in the community were immediate and incendiary. In the chaos of social retribution that ensued, twenty-six people were killed and hundreds more injured, while the city sustained an estimated ten million dollars in damage.

Newark and Detroit were just the most notable of more than two dozen American cities that ignited in revolts in that summer of 1967. It appeared as though a valve of the city reservoir had been opened. An apocalyptic fury, the response to decades of discriminatory policy and centuries of racial exploitation, suddenly spewed out in American cities.

Johnson charged the eleven-member Kerner panel with answering three questions: “What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?” These were Johnson’s precise words. Addressing these questions, however, would mean answering dozens of subsidiary questions the roots of which lay deeply tangled in American history and public policy.

The members themselves represented a cross section, albeit not a representative one, of domestic interests. Chaired by Kerner, the second-term Democratic governor of Illinois, the commission included two of his fellow Democratic elected officials, Congressman James Corman, the fourth-term representative of California’s twenty-second district, and freshman senator Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma. They were joined by three Republicans, New York City mayor John V. Lindsay, Rep. William M. McCulloch of Ohio’s fourth district, and Edward Brooke, the freshman Massachusetts lawmaker and the sole African American serving in the United States Senate at the time.

By current standards the commission was overwhelmingly white (nine of the eleven members) and male (ten of eleven). Katherine Peden, the commerce secretary of Kentucky, was the sole female commission member. Roy Wilkins, the political moderate and executive director of the NAACP, joined Brooke as the only Black people at the table. In addition, I. W. Abel, president of the United Steelworkers of America, represented labor in the proceedings, and Herbert Jenkins, the police chief of Atlanta, Georgia, represented law enforcement. Charles Thornton, the CEO of Litton Industries, spoke for the manufacturing sector.

President Lyndon Johnson (seated, center) shakes hands with members of the Kerner Commission. July 29, 1967. White House Photo Office Collection, LBJ Presidential Library.

What differentiated the Kerner Commission from the outset was the historical scope of the investigations: the members were not seeking to understand a singular incident of disorder, but the phenomenon of rioting itself. Despite the heterogeneity of interests, if not the bipartisan backgrounds, of the members, the concluding report spoke with a strikingly unified voice about the problems that the various committee participants sought to understand. And that voice was an unabashedly integrationist one. Their most immediate and salient observation was that, even though the police had been involved in these most volatile incidents, American cities were not simply facing a crisis of policing. Rather, police were simply the spear’s tip of much broader systemic and institutional failures.

[T]he Kerner Report noted that the “problem” had been, first and foremost, inaccurately diagnosed. The so-called Negro problem was, in fact, a white problem. Or, as the report noted in one of the oft-quoted sections of the summary, “What white Americans have never fully understood—but what the Negro can never forget—is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.”

In a best-case scenario, Kerner would have become a kind of guidebook for the War on Poverty policies then being enacted by the Johnson administration. In more practical terms, the commission recommended new community-based guidelines covering how police needed to interact with citizens of “the ghetto,” as Black communities were dubiously classified in the report. It devoted an entire chapter to the ways in which justice should be administered in the course of riots; it suggested a national network of neighborhood task forces, local institutions that could bypass the bureaucracy and red tape of city administration and head off problems before they erupted into crises. It suggested “neighborhood service centers” to connect residents of these communities with job placement and other forms of assistance and proposed expanded municipal employment as a means of diminishing chronically high unemployment in these areas.

Perceptively, its members suggested that the monochromatically white news media that reported on these uprisings was also a symptom of the bigger problem. That social upheaval that had been created by overwhelmingly white institutions and maintained by said white institutions was then investigated and reported upon by yet another overwhelmingly white institution constituted, in their assessment, a racial conflict of interest. They closed with a raft of specific recommendations for housing, employment, welfare, and education. Kerner was possibly a victim of its own meticulousness. The report brims with suggestions. One reason why its proposals were not realized might be that it simply made too many of them.

The commission could not have known when it released its findings in March 1968 that it was issuing a preface, not a postscript. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated the following month, and more than one hundred American cities exploded into just the type of violence that the Kerner Commission had sought to understand if not prevent. [T]he Report was fated, from the moment it reached shelves, to operate more crucially as a forecast than a review. “Our Nation,” it warned in 1968, “is moving toward two societies, one black, one white—separate and unequal.”

— Excerpted From "Introduction" By Jelani Cobb, From The Essential Kerner Commission Report, Edited By Jelani Cobb, With Matthew Guariglia.

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Captain Gilbert's journal

Note 1 We've arrived at the location. Our mission is to secure the lab area. We're not supposed to know what they're doing there, although Corporal Jenkins is trying hard to find out. I suspect the scientists are building a new weapon, possibly biological, judging by the distance from the town.

Note 5 I don't know why the hell we were sent here. There's no curious gawkers coming in here. There's nothing going on here at all. The guys are bored out of their minds. That is not what we were taught.

Note 9 Jenkins has unearthed something. Looks like a meteorite hit here before the lab was built. And apparently some scientists were interested in it. Stevenson's already got a bunch of conspiracy theories about making us super-soldiers with alien powers. It's all out of idleness, yeah.

Note 16 Today I saw something out of the ordinary. One of the scientists was walking around the compound with a smile from ear to ear and a crooked gait. Then two medics ran up to her and, like some crazy psycho, twisted her around and took her into the building. She was far away from me, but there was something wrong with her. What the fuck are they doing in there?

Note 23 Sgt. Kaman swears there are some kind of pink particles in the air. Barlow thinks we've already been affected by alien shit. Stevenson and his conspiracy theories have everyone scared.

Note 25 Jenkins is sick with something strange. She smiles like a freak, eyes bulging, fingers curled. And she's talking crazy shit. Something about water being love and life. It's hard to understand her, Doc says, because her tongue is swollen. At first, we thought she was bored, smoking marijuana or some other drug. But she's been like that for three days.

Note 27 Jenkins was locked up in the sickbay. Tests came back nothing. Doc says he's never seen anything like it. She hasn't slept in days, and she hasn't eaten anything either, but she's actively walking around the room in a strange gait with a crazy smile on her face. I think if I'd gotten up close then, that scientist would have looked exactly like Jenkins does now.

Note 29 The scientists explained nothing. They just took Jenkins back to their lab for testing.

Note 32 Barlow got sick today. First she started coughing like an asthma attack. And then it was like her bones were breaking and rearranging themselves. Ten minutes later, she was smiling just like Jenkins. She was taken, too. Still no news from Jenkins.

Note 33 Sergeant Anker killed himself. I know it's against the rules, but he and Barlow were close. And apparently he had given up hope that she would recover.

Note 34 I reported the situation upstairs. I was hoping we would be recalled to base and the scientists' project would be shut down. But the General said that everything was under control and that we should stay here. This is beyond my understanding. Are we being sent here as expendable experimental material?! Stevenson's theories don't seem so crazy anymore…

Note 37 We decided to sneak into the lab with Longberg and Bennett at night. It's time to see what they're up to.

Note 38 That's just fucked up! We found women in the cells, all smiling. And Jenkins and Barlow in the cells. Even in war, they treat prisoners more humanely.

Note 39 Bennett has broken the code lock on the lower levels. I'm trying to write this calmly, but my hands are shaking from nervous tension. Longberg is dead, killed by some alien creature from the underground level. It just caught him with its long tentacle and slammed him into the concrete wall. He was left there. To take the body was to get too close to this monster.

Note 40 Bennett offered to end the whole mess. We had a meeting among ourselves. We told everyone about Longberg's death and what was happening outside the lab. Everyone was in favor of eliminating the scientists and destroying the equipment. I gave the soldiers a choice, but no one wanted to leave. I had to order Thornton and Lawrence back to the base. I recognize the risk that not all of them will be able to return home, and I don't want to bear that sin on my soul by leaving their children fatherless. By the time they get to the base, this will all be over.

Note 42 This is the last note. We have eliminated the scientists we could find. We don't know what the experiment was, but they must die for what they did. We released insane women from their cells. Nobody had the guts to shoot innocent women. The world needs to know about this terrible madness of scientists. Maybe the women can still be helped. All my soldiers died trying to destroy this monster. I write all this sitting with a gun to my head. I hope someone else will finish what we couldn't.

Captain Alex Gilbert

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quais personagens femininos querem por aqui?

bonnie bennett, hayley marshall, hope mikaelson, josie saltzman, lizzie saltzman, freya mikaelson, camille o'connell (tvdu), betty cooper, cheryl blossom, polly cooper, toni topaz, veronica lodge (riverdale), daphne bridgerton, eloise bridgerton, francesca, hyacinth bridgerton, penelope featherington, marina thompson, kate sharma, edwina sharma, rainha charlotte, lady danbury (bridgerton), willow rosenberg, faith, dawn summers, tara maclay, anya jenkins (buffy), sookie stackhouse, jessica hamby, tara thornton, pamela swynford de beaufort, sara newlin, arlene flower, sophie-anne leclerq (true blood), piper halliwell, prue halliwell, phoebe halliwell, paige halliwell (charmed), alex danvers, kara zor-el, laurel lance, sara lance, selina kyle, pamela isley (dc comics), anna of arendelle, elsa of arendelle, cinderella, rapunzel corona, tiana, charlotte la bouff, lilo pelekai, nani pelekai, megara, alice kingsleigh, sally (disney/pixar), mira sorrengail, jesinia neilwart, rhiannon matthias, imogen, sloane mairi, syrena cordella (the empyrean), aelin galathynius, sorrel blackbeak, gwyneth bardara, morrigan, emerie (maasverse), gwen stacy, meredith quill, rachel summers, yelena belova, wanda maximoff, america chavez, carol danvers, cassie lang, ororo monroe, felicia hardy, jean grey, sue storm, michelle 'mj' jones, gamora (marvel). players, fiquem a vontade para deixar seus pedidos nos comentários!!

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Katherine Borowitz in The Man Who Wasn't There (Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, 2001) Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Frances McDormand, Michael Badalucco, James Gandolfini, Katherine Borowitz, Jon Polito, Tony Shalhoub, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Jenkins. Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. Cinematography: Roger Deakins. Production design: Dennis Gassner. Music: Carter Burwell. The Man Who Wasn't There is a bit like a Twilight Zone episode written by James M. Cain. A barber (Billy Bob Thornton) works in a shop owned by his wife's brother (Michael Badalucco). She (Frances McDormand) has been unfaithful to him with her boss (James Gandolfini), so when a get-rich scheme is proposed to him, the barber tries to blackmail his wife's lover. Nothing goes quite right, however, and after calamity succeeds calamity, the barber is presented with what appears to be a solution to his problems. It comes, however, from a UFO that hovers overhead, and he rejects it. Perhaps only Joel and Ethan Coen could have accomplished this fusion of film noir and sci-fi with quite the success they achieve, thanks largely to a superb cast, the extraordinary black-and-white cinematography of Roger Deakins, and a score by Carter Burwell that blends unobtrusively with some melancholy-meditative excerpts from Beethoven's piano sonatas.

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The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Florence Foster Jenkins: Meryl Streep St. Clair Bayfield: Hugh Grant Cosmé McMoon: Simon Helberg Kathleen Weatherley: Rebecca Ferguson Agnes Stark: Nina Arianda Phineas Stark: Stanley Townsend John Totten: Allan Corduner Earl Wilson: Christian McKay Carlo Edwards: David Haig Dr. Hermann: John Sessions Kitty: Brid Brennan Arturo Toscanini: John Kavanagh Mrs Vanderbilt: Pat Starr Mrs. James O’Flaherty: Maggie Steed Mrs Oscar Garmunder: Thelma Barlow Mrs EE Patterson: Liza Ross Baroness Le Feyre: Paola Dionisotti Mrs Patsy Snow: Rhoda Lewis Lily Pons: Aida Garifullina Augustus Corbin: David Mills Carlton Smith: David Menkin Cpl. Jones: Sid Phoenix Pvt. Smith: Tunji Kasim Orlando Adams: Carl Davis Microphone Engineer: Lloyd Hutchinson Elevator Operator: Richard Kilgour Ernest Ziegler: Jonathan Plowright Donaghy: Josh O’Connor Tallulah Bankhead: Nat Luurtsema Colonel: Ewan Stewart Gino: Cameron Cuffe News Vendor: John Guerrasio Edgar Booth Cunningham Jr: Elliot Levey Clifford B. Thornton III: Danny Mahoney Cole Porter: Mark Arnold Film Crew: Writer: Stephen Frears Director of Photography: Danny Cohen Screenplay: Nicholas Martin Producer: Michael Kuhn Producer: Tracey Seaward Editor: Valerio Bonelli Casting: Kathleen Chopin Casting: Leo Davis Casting: Lissy Holm Art Direction: Gareth Cousins Art Direction: Christopher Wyatt Production Design: Alan MacDonald Costume Design: Consolata Boyle Supervising Art Director: Patrick Rolfe Script Supervisor: Sue Hills Music Director: Terry Davies Music Editor: Stuart Morton Music Supervisor: Karen Elliott Assistant Costume Designer: Rosie Grant Costume Supervisor: Marion Weise Camera Operator: Iain Mackay Gaffer: Paul McGeachan Camera Operator: Lucy Bristow First Assistant Camera: Andrew Banwell First Assistant Camera: Iain Struthers Additional Camera: Jason Ewart Special Effects Supervisor: Manex Efrem Visual Effects Coordinator: Jenny King Visual Effects Producer: Noga Alon Stein Visual Effects Supervisor: Adam Gascoyne Visual Effects Editor: Edd Gamlin Sound Effects Editor: Phil Lee Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dafydd Archard Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mike Dowson Supervising Sound Editor: Becki Ponting Supervising Sound Editor: Ian Wilson Makeup Artist: J. Roy Helland Hairstylist: Anita Burger Hairstylist: Andrea Cracknell Hairstylist: Beverley Binda Makeup Designer: Daniel Phillips Makeup Artist: Karen Cohen Makeup Artist: Tahira Herold Wigmaker: Ray Marston Digital Intermediate: Rob Farris Digital Intermediate: Patrick Malone Digital Intermediate: Gemma McKeon First Assistant Editor: Karenjit Sahota Stunt Coordinator: Eunice Huthart Stunt Coordinator: Jo McLaren Assistant Art Director: Aoife Warren Original Music Composer: Alexandre Desplat Foley Artist: Andrea King Conceptual Design: Elo Soode Carpenter: Josh Wood Movie Reviews: Reno: **Nothing is greater than to have a supportive life partner by side.** I follow closely what films are announced and what are getting released. Sometimes its common that some films comes out without my knowledge, particularly non-Hollywood English language films. This British film was about a wealthy couple from the New York, especially the husband who tries his best to fulfill his seriously ill wife’s dream to be an opera singer. The problem is she’s not any good. Not just him, but everybody who is close to them and once laughed at her, try to understand them and give their support. But not all the occasion seems to remain the same. So on one such a big event, the disaster strikes and how it affects the couple is the rest of the tale to disclose. A very surprising film. I thought it was just a comedy like it brings small smiles on our face, but I laughed out loud on many occasions. This is definitely a right time, because I felt like it was a music and cinematic version of the American presidential candidate Don Trump. Yep, there not much difference, but still this ...

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2023 Reading Wrap-Up: the Good, the Bad, and the Meh

Below is a list of books that I read in 2023. I’ve sorted them into 3 categories: the good (books I loved), the bad (books I didn’t like), and the meh (books I thought were just ok). Other than these categories, the books aren’t listed in any special order or ranking.

Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

The Good

The Beautifu Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Civilizations by Laurent Binet

Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel

Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis

Powers of Darkness by Valdimar Asmundsson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Say Yes to the Marquess by Tessa Dare

Romancing the Duke by Tessa Dare

A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare

The Square of Sevens by Laura Robinson-Shepherd

Japanese Ghost Stories by Lafcadio Hearn

Unlocked by Courtney Milan

Writing Fiction by Janet Burroway

The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

If We Were Villains by ML Rio

Under the Eye of Power by Colin Dickey

Proof By Seduction by Courtney Milan

Our Hideous Progeny by CE McGill

Bea Wulf by Zach Weinersmith

Hen Fever by Olivia Waite

The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh by KJ Charles

Lord Dashwood Missed Out by Tessa Dare

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

Any Duchess Will Do by Tessa Dare

A Lady by Midnight by Tessa Dare

A Rogue's Rules for Seduction by Eva Leigh

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Affective Medievalism by Thomas Prendergast and Stephanie Trigg

A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

Kent State by Derf Backderf

Anti-Christ by Mernard McGinn

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

The Meh

The Nothing Man by Katherine Ryan Howard

A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

A Christmas Bride by Mary Balogh

A True Account by Katherine Howe

The Disenchantment by Celia Bell

Hazardous Spirits by Anbara Salam

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare

Penguin's Poems for Love by Laura Barber

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron

Marry Me By Midnight by Felicia Grossman

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

Trial By Desire by Courtney Milan

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

Beauty and the Blacksmith by Tessa Dare

The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw

Weyward by Emilia Hart

The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

The Twenty Days of Turin by Giorgio de Maria

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake by Sara MacLean

How the Wallflower Was Won by Eva Leigh

The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling

Erotic Medievalisms by Elan Justice Pavlinich

Hit Me With Your Best Scot by Suzanne Enoch

Forbidden by Beverly Jenkins

Prize for the Fire by Rilla Askew

Bisclavret by KL Noone

The Witches of New York by Ami McKay

A Natural History of the Romance Novel by Pamela Regis

The Bad

A Love By Design by Elizabeth Everett

Mr. Malcolm's List by Suzanne Allain

A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Finding Meaning by David Kessler

Do You Want to Start a Scandal by Tessa Dare

The Prince of Prohibition by Marilyn Marks

The Heiress Hunt by Joanna Shupe

The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley

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Hypothetical titles for season twenty of 88

A Fifth Avenue funeral. Season premiere. Part one. The Five Families gather together to say goodbye to two of their own when a minor disaster strikes.

Where’s the corpse? Season premiere. art two. Deucalion and Jacob try to come to terms with their new roles as Kimberly and Thornton look for Lionel’s coffin. Final appearances of Jeff Bridges as Minos Wilkins and Lou Diamond Phillips as Lionel Spratt.

Puttanesca. The team takes a case involving an Italian restaurant that shares property with an Italian brothel.

There are no red lights in a car chase. Drummond gets stalked by an unknown assailant. Unfortunately for him. He’s in the car with David who’s still on probation and doesn’t have a valid drivers license.

Somebody to lean on. It’s Jacob and Deucalion’s first council meeting as the head of their families. Findlay locum’s for an otherwise indisposed Jones and meets Clyde’s abusive mother Noreen (Debra Messing) in the process.

Expert witness. Mary and Joseph Carpenter’s suit against Godfrey begins in earnest. Matters aren’t helped when Jacob’s old law school rival States Attorney Kenny Palmerston (Neve Campbell) makes it even more personal than it already was when she brings in one of Godfrey’s other children to testify against him. Also guest starring Levi Miller as Gabriel Christensen.

The sit in. Findlay and Delaney antagonise a store owner at Mulligan Mall when they decide to keep a group of teenagers from getting kicked out for sitting on a bench.

Motherly wiles. Macy unsuccessfully tries to pull a parent trap on Adam and Lilith.

Dichotomy. Jonah learns the meaning of damned if you do and damned if you don’t when he gets interviewed for a teen magazine.

Vigilante. Findlay and Jacob help a young man with aspirations of being a superhero navigate a lawsuit. Guest starring Caleb McLaughlin as Virgil Jenson

Ill met by moonlight. A message has been sent throughout the world. Only four words. But it is feared by all those who recognise history. It. Will. Happen. Again. Guest starring Maxwell Jenkins and Toby Stephens as Robin Goodfellow.

Violent delights. Midseason finale. Part one. The heirs to two rival car manufacturing companies go missing on Christmas Eve. And the investigation brings Lucia face to face with her former stepson after nearly sixty years. Guest starring Charlie Heaton as Roland Morris, Natalia Dyer as Julia Cowan and Bryan Cranston as Chester Morris.

Violent ends. Midseason premiere. Part two. A week and a half after they go missing. The team finally track down Roland and Julia with tragic results. Meanwhile Lucia passed ches things up with Chester. Guest starring Mariska Hargitay as Coraline “Courtland” Cowan, Jensen Ackles as Mick Morris and Laura Benanti as Maura Morris.

Family unity. The Wilkins’s grieving process is interrupted when Deucalion’s biological mother and his ex stepmother both turn up on the same day. Guest starring Olga Merediz as Fernanda “Fern” Marquez and Sigourney Weaver as Natalia Clifton.

Hypochondria. A visit to Dr Corsica after Theo swallows some postage stamps turns into Die Hard for Oswald when a psychopath holds the hospital hostage.

Like mother like daughter. Palmerston’s daughter represents Roxas Winchesters wife in a lawsuit against Drummond for getting him arrested for Lysander’s paralysis. And she definitely learned at her mother’s knee. Guest starring Kieran Shipka as Hallie Palmerston and Zendaya as Kylie Winchester.

Urquhart. Fern and Natalia have two unwelcome surprises for Deucalion. One. They’re together. Two. Fern is running for mayor of New York City.

Status and tactics. Findlay is called to the stand in the Carpenters lawsuit against Godfrey and wastes no time in giving her honest opinion on the situation

Pheasant crumble. Arlene tries, and fails, to keep Findlay away from Van Buren University when the finance manager comes to review the school’s expenditures.

A spoonful of sugar. Sidney comes to the rescue when Theo refuses to go back to Dr Corsica’s clinic for a tetanus booster after the hostage situation two months ago.

Husband or idol decision. Findlay achieves a personal dream of hers when she’s put on the judges panel for the Mr Fanservice completion. Which soon turns into a personal nightmare when the two finalist’s turn out to be Sidney and Emerson Davenport (recurring guest star Chris Pratt).

Cartography of scars. Jacob enlists Maybelle Archer’s help to unravel Hallie Palmerston’s case against the Wilkins family.

Dots. Season finale. Part one. Lucia recruits Sidney, Jacob, Gideon and Solaris’s help in tracking down both Jesse’s birth certificate and the woman who encouraged Mary to sue Godfrey in the first place. Meanwhile. Findlay has to talk Barnaby and Jonah out of an embarrassing situation of their own devising.

Jesus wept. Season finale. Part two. Jesse finally has enough of his mother’s insanity and demands that she drop the suit under threat of disownment. Final appearance of Winslow Fegley as Barnaby Sullivan and Walker Scobell as Jonah Sullivan.

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Boston Red Sox Defeat Cleveland Indians 6-3 in Home Opener

Fenway Park, Boston - In their home opener at Fenway Park on Thursday, April 7, 1977, the Boston Red Sox secured a convincing 6-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians. Fueled by strong performances from their players and the support of an enthusiastic home crowd, the Red Sox showcased their talent and demonstrated why they are a force to be reckoned with this season.

The Red Sox took an early lead in the third inning, scoring three runs to set the tone for the game. Rick Burleson, Don Doyle, and Jim Rice each contributed with key hits to put Boston ahead. Rice, in particular, continued his impressive form by going 2-for-4 with a crucial RBI.

The Red Sox maintained their momentum throughout the game, adding another run in the fifth inning and two more in the sixth. This offensive surge was led by Carl Yastrzemski, George Scott, and Bernie Carbo, who combined for five hits and four RBIs. Carbo's home run in the sixth inning, a solo shot, further solidified the Red Sox's dominance.

On the pitching front, Fergie Jenkins delivered an exceptional performance on the mound for Boston. The veteran pitcher went the distance, tossing a complete game while allowing only two earned runs. Jenkins showcased his experience and skill, striking out two batters and limiting Cleveland's scoring opportunities.

Despite facing a talented Red Sox lineup, Cleveland fought hard to stay in the game. They managed to score two runs in the top of the sixth inning, courtesy of RBI singles from Andre Thornton. However, it wasn't enough to overcome the Red Sox's offensive firepower and strong pitching.

For the Indians, Duane Kuiper and Joe Norris made notable contributions at the plate, going 1-for-3 and 3-for-4, respectively. Kuiper's single and Norris's three hits demonstrated their ability to connect with the ball and generate scoring opportunities for their team.

Defensively, Boston showcased their prowess with three double plays, highlighting their commitment to solidifying their lead and shutting down Cleveland's offense. The Red Sox demonstrated their ability to excel in all facets of the game, combining strong hitting, effective pitching, and exceptional fielding.

With this victory, the Red Sox sent a strong message to their opponents that they are a team to be feared in the upcoming season. The support of the passionate Fenway Park crowd undoubtedly played a role in Boston's success, as the fans rallied behind their team and provided an electric atmosphere throughout the game.

As the season progresses, the Red Sox will look to build on this impressive win and continue their pursuit of a championship. With a talented roster, strong leadership, and the support of their loyal fans, the Red Sox are poised for an exciting and successful season ahead.

WP- Fergie Jenkins (1-0)

LP- Dennis Eckersley (0-1)

Home Runs: Boston - B. Carbo (1), Butch Hobson (1)

MVP: Fergie Jenkins (Boston Red Sox)

Red Sox (1-0), Cleveland Indians (0-1)

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Emma Thompson offers her view on why people are still so invested in Love Actually

The inspiration

Curtis has guaranteed that it was watching friends and family rejoining at Remiss that previously propelled him to compose Love Really - and a couple of the lighthearted comedy's best-cherished scenes likewise pull from life. Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and Juliet's (Keira Knightley) wedding gestures to the burial service of the maker of the Muppets, Jim Henson, which Curtis went to at St Paul's Church building. He makes sense of in the film's discourse track: "It worked out that every one of the folks in the remembrance administration had carried their manikins with them, and they lifted them up, and when you turned around and looked in reverse, there were 50 manikins generally singing… It was something phenomenal. So this was our little wound at that." Later in the film, Imprint's (Andrew Lincoln) well known statement of affection for Juliet follows the sheets in Weave Dylan's video for 'Underground Yearning to go home Blues'. Curtis clearly put together the personality of Imprint with respect to himself - composing five distinct adaptations of the scene to get it great.

The casting

Curtis generally expected for Hugh Award and Emma Thompson to play the state leader and his sister, and he really composed the piece of Natalie for Martine McCutcheon subsequent to considering her to be Tiffany Mitchell in EastEnders. Different jobs were less direct to project, in any case. Daniel's (Liam Neeson) love interest was intended to a like a be played by an entertainer supermodel, yet when none of the ones who tried out were very correct, Curtis wound up requesting that Claudia Schiffer step in. Also, he composed written by hand letters to Americans Laura Linney, Billy Weave Thornton and Denise Richards to request that they think about taking on parts. Likewise significant: Curtis kept the projecting locked down at whatever point he could. His girl with spouse Emma Freud shows up as the second lobster in the Nativity, while the shrewd man with the Bug Man face paint is the couple's child. Concerning the maid at Bringing down Road? She's played by Freud's mom.

The names

Broadly, every Curtis film incorporates a surly person named Bernard for a particular explanation: Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin took Curtis' better half at college. David Haig plays a lovelorn Bernard in Four Weddings and a Burial service; Hugh Bonneville is poor Bernie in Notting Slope; and Dominic McHale shows up as relative Bernard in Bridget Jones' Journal, who goes to the dropped tarts and vicars party dressed as an ecclesiastical overseer. In Affection Really, Bernard is Emma Thompson's "appalling" child with Alan Rickman. Curtis additionally deliberately named Colin Firth's personality Jamie after his own sibling, just so the children could say "I disdain Uncle Jamie!"

The areas

The film was taken shots at various notable London areas. Charge Nighy recorded 'Christmas Is All over' at Nunnery Street Studios, while the opening and shutting scenes were shot with stowed away cameras at Heathrow Air terminal. (Indeed, those are genuine explorers in the introduction.) Concerning Rowan Atkinson's splendid appearance as a present covering, it was shot in Selfridges at 12 PM - and was initially composed with Atkinson as a Christmas holy messenger, purposely moving gradually to attempt to forestall Harry (Alan Rickman) from taking part in an extramarital entanglements. Another great truth: the lake that Jamie (Colin Firth) and Aurelia (Lúcia Moniz) plunge into was only 18 inches down and loaded up with mosquitos. The main spot that was thoroughly untouchable to cameras? 10 Bringing down Road. Curtis and his creation originator Jim Dirt were just given a vigorously directed visit through the home - reproducing the insides from memory at Shepperton Studios.

The music

Curtis' #1 scene in Affection Really has a melodic component: Karen (Emma Thompson) crying to Joni Mitchell's "The two Sides Presently" in the wake of acknowledging Harry (Alan Rickman) is engaging in extramarital relations. Thompson quite ad libbed the crying - taking motivation from the aggravation she felt after her previous spouse Kenneth Branagh left her for Helena Bonham Carter. On a lighter note, Hugh Award's well known dance scene in 10 Bringing down Road was initially set to a Jackson 5 track - however was changed to The Pointer Sisters' "Hop (For My Affection)" at Award's solicitation. With respect to the Nativity execution, Thomas Brodie-Sangster needed to gain proficiency with the drums as far as it matters for him as Sam. Olivia Olson, then again, was excessively artistically capable for her job as Sam's affection interest Joanna. The creation had saved two days for her to record 'All I Need For Christmas Is You', yet she nailed it in a solitary take - to the degree that Curtis really had her re-try it to sound less wonderful in the event that watchers thought it was phony. Stay informed and stay connected with us for the latest headlines Read the full article