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William Zeckendorf, Senior, six feet tall, powerfully built and with an unusually large, bald, oval head, often topped by a pale grey homburg, was always overflowing with ideas. His brain was dangerously ingenious and fertile. "If I had been a woman," he once remarked, "I would have been pregnant every nine months."
Incredible... possibly the most large happy and sexually normal description I've ever heard
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I don't believe it! Remember these "Stairs That Can Kill You" I posted a few days ago? Well, I just stumbled across the whole house on a real estate site. What a find. Check it out.
The 1989 home is located in Bowdon, UK and was sold for £1.350M / S1.639M. 4bds, 3ba, and killer stairs w/a matching hallway.
I'm surprised that the first we encounter as we enter are the death stairs. And, look, it's the death hall above.
Let's look at the 1st fl. and then we'll go back to the stairs. This is a nice sunny part of the living room.
The living room is huge. Isn't that a fascinating feature- the columns standing in the middle as a divider. Then, on this end is a fireplace. I don't think I like the carpet. It's too much in a large space.
The dining room also has the same sunny windows.
The kitchen is kind of quirky- look at the island. There's also a loveseat, in here. The kitchen table is in a lovely sunroom, though.
Spacious family room.
A home office.
And, a roomy guest powder room.
Okay, we've come full circle to the infamous stairs. Note the absence of railings.
This is perilous and I can't think of any reason at all for the openings in the floor. And, not even a railing for safety.
The primary bedroom is large and has doors to a terrace.
In the poorly designed en-suite, one must use the toilet, then underwear around the ankles, hop around the tub (mind the step) to get to the bidet.
Pretty, peachy secondary bedroom has a nice round stained glass window.
At least the toilet is in closer proximity to the bidet.
I like the blue accents in this bedroom, the window, and the ceiling beams.
The 3rd bath is nice and finally, the toilet and the bidet are correctly placed side by side.
In the back of the house you can see the lovely sunrooms.
The property is gated.
That sign should say "Home of the Death Stairs and Hall."
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The ripple effect
So finally, it would seem the news from Hollywood are not good at all. A press release from SAG-AFTRA informs us that AMPTP/TPTB chose to drop the towel after a very long negotiation process (not a good sign, in my book), that continued even after their latest unacceptable offer, as you can read down below (https://x.com/sagaftra/status/1712368110253285730?s=20):
The mainstream media (always NYT, in this house) reported also on the studios' offer, which may or may not be helpful for understanding what exactly is at stake (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/business/media/actors-strike-talks-suspended.html?searchResultPosition=2):
Now that is a very hardball, completely insolent position. I am peeling my eyes in disbelief at the idea of offering 'further protections around the use of A.I.', when it was hoped that the use of A.I. would be treated as an exception, not as future reality the industry should work 'around'. This is what really is at stake, not the almost abusive allegation of 'unbearable economic burden' (that is a mafioso pretext) an 800 million USD yearly viewership bonus would supposedly entail. The real financial impact of such a compromise solution, as disclosed by SAG-AFTRA, is negligible: 'less than 57 cents/subscriber'.
And, to make things worse, it would seem the studios deliberately lied to the press, too (it would not be the first time - we shippers know it so well, eh?):
All this circus, despite a cataclysmic impact on California's economy:
(Sourced at: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/realestate/writers-strike-rent-ny-la.html).
And that was the situation three weeks ago, when I found this article and promptly set it aside, waiting for the right moment to share it with you. And you know the situation is serious, when news like these are to be found not in the business, but in the real estate section of the newspaper. Along with this kind of comments, likely to suggest the possibility of unrest, if things go on like this:
People living in their flats without electricity or sleeping in their cars: it would seem this strike added unwanted insult to the drastic COVID injury in this particular sector of the labor market.
But what interested me the most about this whole affair was the ripple effect on the British film industry, in an attempt to see what is next for OL's Season 8. Thankfully, I didn't have to go very far and speculate more than the NYT did itself. Oh, and before Mordor starts shouting insanities, their LHR's correspondent paper, back in September, is called 'Hollywood Strikes Send a Chill Through Britain’s Film Industry' (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/19/business/hollywood-strikes-uk-filmmaking-industry.html):
Despite my unflappable optimism, I have to say that doesn't sound good at all, especially when you know this is precisely the case for OL, a production 'with stars who are SAG-AFTRA members' (or at least compelled to stand in solidarity with the strike, by SAG-AFTRA's own statement of conduct). I predict a very late start for the shooting of Season 8. And further unrest in the UK sector 'in the middle of next year' means that UK based and staffed productions may be fewer and less important, since that calendar announced by Equity could seriously compromise their promotion, a risk not many studios are willing to take. So less alternatives for both S&C, at least for the UK alone.
The writers' strike was a very long one - five months. I suppose the studios are willing to play for time and prefer a long stalemate of the negotiations with SAG-AFTRA, in the attempt of breaking the union consensus from the inside. With people's economies gone and the prospect of a dire, uncertain way ahead, there is no way SAG-AFTRA's compensations, mainly aimed at keeping people afloat with their rent costs, could cover the real impact on its members' everyday lives, on the long run. They would also prefer to foolishly cry over a fictitious 800 million USD 'burden' and not see the (at least) six times bigger negative impact on the local economy, which translates both in net losses of profit for thousands of businesses (mainly SMEs) and thousands of lost jobs.
And in the middle of all this, it would seem that Herself is on her way to the NYCC. Whatever for, sweet summer child, I would brazenly ask this strange, diminutive woman who started it all.
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