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Year of Lists

March Films

more awards-related stuff and then FREEDOM (what I chose to do with it is another thing but one thing I cannot be judged for is there are a LOT of movies this month, and that is positive)

must-watches in bold (these are in relation to other movies watched, and the time, not necessarily must-watches of all time)

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always (2023) *6ish, I guess? - does this count? It's nostalgia in an hour's worth. it's every bit as bad as you would hope. Great stuff.

American Fiction (2023) *7.5 - hell yeah. Finally, something important done in a pleasant, human, enjoyable way (see how much I sobbed during this awards season: so.many.super.sad movies - or if not sad, just.so.much, overall). Performances are out of this world; it has everything: humour, nuance, a bit of romance, a bit of sadness; it was so damn good to watch.

The Zone of Interest (2023) *6 - how do you rate this? that six is not representative of the movie at all, but here we are. Everything you've heard about this is true: it's masterful, definitely a gut punch, Sandra Hüller is having a great year; the sound(track) is out of this world. It says so much with so little. Yes, it's a movie about the Holocaust, but it's also, really, a movie about how we stand by and allow atrocities to happen. It's a movie about humanity's cruellest side: indifference - right now, and then, and always. There is much to be said here, a lot of conversation was around how Schindler's List worked as a movie, therefore, romanticised, by the movie lens, the Holocaust. I can see how The Zone of Interest tried really hard not to do that, and I can confidently say it's done so much for exposing how useless we can be in the face of tragedy, but with every day that passes, I keep thinking more and more that it hasn't escaped that movie lens. However, it does really well at asking the question of whether we can portray atrocities of this kind, and does it really make a difference when we try?

Dune: Part Two (2024) *7.5 - umm, this is so long I need to rewatch it to even have a formed opinion. In lieu of a rewatch, here are my current thoughts: it wouldn't have been half the movie it is without the soundtrack. Also currently my favourite soundtrack of all time. I could rave and rave about it. The performances were great all round. I really love that Villeneuve doesn't try to constantly capture people like the mega starts they are: see Timmy's double chin, constipated face, present in both movies, and at a close-up at that. Some scenes were visually and emotionally breathtaking but I'm not sure if this was the case because of the anticipation of seeing something loved in a book portrayed on screen. It felt busy and a bit disjointed, especially in comparison to Part 1. I so wish they'd done the romance differently. I was constantly thinking of The Bear and how well that worked there. I wish they'd let Paul and Chani's connection breathe and mature, taken us along for the ride.

Alice, Darling (2022) *6 - this gave How to Have Sex vibes. I love when a movie addresses difficult subjects (in this case, abuse) in a slice-of-life, uber real, awkward way. It dexterously looks at the outward indicators of abuse, the responsibility of friendship - some mild body horror for both symbolic and literal purposes.

The Sixth Sense (1999) *7.5 - they don't make them like this anymore. Boy, do I envy anyone who hasn't watched this and doesn't know anything about it. If you know that person, please, make them known, I want to sit them down and pop this in the cassette player (Netflix or Prime or whatever, but you know). It's only the second time I watched this because I thought there wasn't much reason to, apart from nostalgia. Surely, it's just so worthy because of the set-up. Yeah, yeah, I was wrong. I had to pause a couple of times to allow myself to digest the mastery of what this movie is when YOU DO KNOW.

Scarface (1983) *7 - what can I say? Yup, it's great. Colours are a highlight, as is Michelle Pfeiffer.

A Time to Kill (1996) *6 - disclaimer: I am going through legal dramas, I love 'em. This was fun, much more timely than I expected. Samuel L Jackson has a beautiful, beautiful speech. A man fancies a woman that is not his wife, and she is pretty, and young, and smart, and she ignites a spark in him, and she believes in what he's doing in all the ways his wife doesn't, and yet, said man doesn't cheat on said wife. Woohoo. I'm all for complexity and non-monogamy (when both, or more parties, agree to it) but it is just so beautiful to see a good marriage challenged and withstand the challenge. Bonus points for young Matthew McConaughey and infant Sandy Bullock. It's serious, it's legal fun, a bit naïve; the nineties in a two and a half hour ride.

Rush Hour; Rush Hour 2; Rush Hour 3 (1998) (2001) (2007) *6 *6 *5 - WAR UGH ... SO MUCH FUN. Yeah, they shouldn't be bunched together, yeah, a lot of it reads problematic, yeah, I wish I'd been watching them all my life. Great stuff. Don't look away at all the racist jokes, both ways, and any other way you can imagine. This is a superb example of looking at what we made for fun: there's so much to digest, learn from, appreciate. I LOVE JACKIE CHAN. When I was a kid, it was considered embarrassing to appreciate his work. I had a stupid-ass, DUH, moment of realisation watching this: oh, that 'martial arts movies are sub-par' idea? Yeah, blatant racism. It feels so good to come to this now. Side-note: Zhang Ziyi showing up in 2, what a treat. I'm not one for recycling material but can we have Rush Hour 4 please, please, please?

Blow Out (1981) *6 - another Brian de Palma, another good movie with its merits. Some of it was delicious in a movie buff way, but I was bored nonetheless. If you're into your legal, crime, journalistic slow-burners, go for it.

Decision to Leave (2022) *9 - triple bold. This is my favourite movie. It has been since I saw it in the cinema and cried in the toilets after. It is a masterpiece, Park Chan-Wook might well be my favourite director. There are not enough good things or good enough words I could say. Here's the best I can do rn: noir at its best, romance at its most complex, human nature at its barest, lyricism, depth, story for days, really unapologetic storytelling, no infantilising the audience here, crime at its most beautiful, and potentially the best ending scene cinema has ever seen. Watch this, watch The Handmaiden, watch Stoker, watch Oldboy (when I watch more of his movies, they'll be added to this). They're all in my great movies of all time (fictional) list. Side-note: WE ARE SLEEPING ON KOREAN CINEMA. We're getting there, but we're not even close. Still underrated.

Joy Ride (2023) *6 - does what it says on the tin. Also SO MUCH FUN.

[medievalandfantasymelee]

Candidates for the title of

🌹Queen of Love & Beauty🌹

Candidates were given priority based on the number of submissions they received (in brackets behind their names and credentials). After all candidates with multiple submissions were entered, single submission candidates were admitted in order of submission.

Guinevere [Angel Coulby], BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012) [17]

Morgana Pendragon [Katie McGrath], BBC’s Merlin (2008-2012) [11]

Lady Éowyn of Rohan [Miranda Otto], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) [10]

Lady Marian Fitzwalter [Olivia de Havilland], The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) [9]

Isabeau of Anjou [Michelle Pfeiffer], Ladyhawke (1985) [8]

Arwen Undomiel [Liv Tyler], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) [7]

Galadriel of Lothlórien [Cate Blanchett], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003) [7]

Princess Buttercup [Robin Wright], The Princess Bride (1987) [6]

Lucrezia Borgia [Holliday Grainger], The Borgias (2011-2013) [6]

Princess Isabella Maria Lucia Elizabetta of Valencia [Karen David], Galavant (2015-2016) [5]

Lagertha [Katheryn Winnick], Vikings (2013-2020) [5]

Sorsha [Joanne Whalley], Willow (1988) [5]

Lady Æthelflæd of Mercia [Millie Brady], The Last Kingdom (2015-2022) [4]

Princess Gwendolyn [Angela Lansbury], The Court Jester (1955) [4]

Maid Jean [Glynis Johns], The Court Jester (1955) [4]

Lady Marion of Leaford [Judi Trott], Robin of Sherwood (1984-1986) [4]

Rebecca of York [Olivia Hussey], Ivanhoe (1982) [4]

Alicent Hightower [Olivia Cooke], House of the Dragon (2022-) [3]

Aliena [Hayley Atwell], The Pillars of the Earth (2010) [3]

Queen Cersei Lannister [Lena Headey], Game of Thrones (2011-2019) [3]

Princess Daenerys Targaryen [Emilia Clarke], Game of Thrones (2011-2019) [3]

Danielle de Barbarac [Drew Barrymore], Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998) [3]

Devasena [Anushka Shetty], Baahubali (2017) [3]

Elizabeth de Burgh [Florence Pugh], Outlaw King (2018) [3]

Queen Guinevere [Vanessa Redgrave], Camelot (1967) [3]

Hürrem Sultan [Meryem Uzleri], Magnificent Century {Muhteşem Yüzyıl} (2011-2014) [3]

Lady Jocelyn [Shannyn Sossamon], A Knight’s Tale (2001) [3]

Princess Lili [Mia Sara], Legend (1985) [3]

Lady Margaery Tyrell [Natalie Dormer], Game of Thrones (2011-2019) [3]

Marian of Knighton [Lucy Griffiths], BBC’s Robin Hood (2006-2009) [3]

Lady Sansa Stark [Sophie Turner], Game of Thrones (2011-2019) [3]

Sheng Minglan [Zhang Liying], The Story of Minglan (2018) [3]

Queen Susan the Gentle [Sophie Winkleman], The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010) [3]

Lady Anne Neville [Claire Bloom], Richard III (1955) [2]

Lady Anne Neville [Phoebe Fox], The Hollow Crown (2012-2016) [2]

Brienne of Tarth [Gwendoline Christie], Game of Thrones (2011-2019) [2]

Bronwyn [Nazanin Bonialdi], The Rings of Power (2022-) [2]

Queen Catherine of Aragon [Maria Doyle Kennedy], The Tudors (2007-2010) [2]

Contessina de Bardi [Annabel Scholey], Medici (2016-2019) [2]

Egwene Al’Vere [Madeleine Madden], The Wheel of Time (2021-) [2]

Queen Eleanore of Aquitane [Katharine Hepburn], The Lion in Winter (1968) [2]

Queen Elizabeth Woodville [Rebecca Ferguson], The White Queen (2013) [2]

Donna Giulia Farnese [Lotte Verbeek], The Borgias (2011-2013) [2]

Queen Guinevere [Cheri Lunghi], Excalibur (1981) [2]

Jadis, the White Witch [Tilda Swinton], The Chronicles of Narnia (2005-2010) [2]

Jeanne d’Arc [Renee Falconetti], The Passion of Joan of Arc {La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc} (1928) [2]

Joan of Arc [Milla Jovovich], The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) [2]

Kate [Laura Fraser], A Knight’s Tale (2001) [2]

Lady Kate Percy [Michelle Dockery], The Hollow Crown (2012-2016) [2]

Queen Lucy the Valiant [Rachael Henley] [2]

Queen Madelena [Mallory Jansen], Galavant (2015-2016) [2]

Queen Margaret of Anjou [Sophie Okonedo], The Hollow Crown (2012-2016) [2]

Lady Mary Boleyn [Charity Wakefield], Wolf Hall (2015-2024) [2]

Moiraine Damodred [Rosamund Pike], The Wheel of Time (2021-) [2]

Morgana Pendragon [Eva Green], Camelot (2011) [2]

Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen [Emma D’Arcy], House of the Dragon (2022-) [2]

Queen Sibylla of Jerusalem [Eva Green], Kingdom of Heaven (2005) [2]

Eliška Pomořanská [Jana Brejchová], A Night at Karlstein {Noc na Karlštejně} (1973) [1]

Lady Marian [Audrey Hepburn], Robin & Marian (1976) [1]

Ophelia [Jean Simmons], Hamlet (1948) [1]

Aykız Hatun [Hande Subaşı], Diriliş: Ertuğrul (2014-2019) [1]

Roberta Steingas [Clare Foster], Galavant (2015-2016) [1]

Tamina [Gemma Arterton], Prince of Persia (2010) [1]

Princess Isabelle [Sophie Marceau], Braveheart (1995) [1]

Alexandra [Geraldine Viswanathan], Miracle Workers: The Dark Ages (2020) [1]

Isabella of Valois [Emma Hamilton], RSC’s Richard II (2013) [1]

Jade Claymore [Erin Kellyman], Willow (2022) [1]

Anne Boleyn [Genevieve Bujold], Anne of the Thousand Days (1969) [1]

Mu Nihuang [Liu Tao], Nirvana in Fire (2015-2018) [1]

Padmavati [Deepika Padukone], Padmaavat (2018) [1]

Queen Isabella [Tilda Swinton], Edward II (1991) [1]

Djaq [Anjali Jay], BBC’s Robin Hood (2006-2009) [1]

Below is a list of Honorable Mentions...

Anne Boleyn [Natalie Portman], The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)

Aslaug [Alyssa Sutherland], Vikings (2013-2020)

Aviendha [Ayoola Smart], The Wheel of Time (2021-)

Catherine of Aragon [Charlotte Hope], The Spanish Princess (2019-2020)

Cecilia Algotsdotter [Sofia Helin], Arn: The Knight Templar (2007)

Doric [Sophia Lillis], Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023)

Queen Elizabeth of York [Jodie Comer], The White Princess (2017)

Jiang Yanli [Xuan Lu], The Untamed (2019)

Guinevere [Julia Ormond], First Knight (1995)

Hafsa Sultan [Nebahat Çehre], Magnificent Century {Muhteşem Yüzyıl} (2011-2014)

Hatice Sultan [Selma Ergeç], Magnificent Century {Muhteşem Yüzyıl} (2011-2014)

Queen Isabella of Castile [Michelle Jenner], Isabel (2011-2014)

Isolde [Sophia Myles], Tristan + Isolde (2006)

Joan of Arc [Ingrid Bergman], Joan of Arc (1948)

Kira [Lisa Maxwell, Kathryn Mullen], The Dark Crystal (1982)

Queen Mab [Miranda Richardson], Merlin (1998)

Maleficent [Angelina Jolie], Maleficent (2014)

Lady Margaret Tudor [Georgie Henley], The Spanish Princess (2019-2020)

Marian Dubois [Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio], Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

Lady Mary Tudor [Sai Bennett], The Spanish Princess (2019-2020)

Empress Maude [Alison Pill], The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

Morgaine [Julianna Marguiles], The Mists of Avalon (2001)

Queen Ravenna [Charlize Theron], Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)

Rebecca of York [Elizabeth Taylor], Ivanhoe (1952)

Rosie Cotton [Sarah MacLeod], The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)

Sharako Lohar [Abigail Thorn], House of the Dragon (2022-)

Tár-Miriel [Cynthia Addai-Robinson], The Rings of Power (2022-)

Ygritte [Rose Leslie], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

Yara Greyjoy [Gemma Whelan], Game of Thrones (2011-2019)

[rendezvouz-fling]

Celebrities you share placements with Pisces Placements Edition

Pisces rising:

• Whitney Houston

• Michael Jackson

• Gwyneth Paltrow

• Ryan Gosling

• Richard Pryor

• Billie Eilish

• Andrew Garfield

• Ringo Starr

• Tony Hawk

• Kourtney Kardashian

• Ellen DeGeneres

• Zayn Malik

• John Stamos

• Demi Moore

• Antonio Banderas

• Jay-Z

• Brandy Norwood

• Nancy Spungen

• Amanda Bynes

• Phylicia Rashad

Pisces sun:

• Elizabeth Taylor

• Eva Longoria

• Victoria Justice

• Kurt Cobain

• Trever Noah

• Steve Jobs

• Adam Levine

• George Harrison

• Camila Cabello

• Stephen Curry

• Olivia Rodrigo

• Shaq

• Queen Latifah

• Cindy Crawford

• Floyd Mayweather Jr.

• Terrence Howard

• Rebel Wilson

• Dakota Fanning

• Becky G

• Kat Von D

Pisces moon:

• Prince

• Axl Rose

• Lacey Chabert

• Jhene Aiko

• Bad Bunny

• Erykah Badu

• Freddie Prince Sr.

• Shailene Woodley

• Jason Statham

• Dylan O'Brien

• Felicity Jones

• Robert De Niro

• Kidada Jones

• Sarah Michelle Gellar

• Luke Mitchell

• Vanessa Hudgens

• Macaulay Culkin

• Joey King

• Kevin James

• Matt LeBlanc

Pisces mercury:

• Heath Ledger

• Lady Gaga

• Lily Collins

• Reese Witherspoon

• Shay Mitchell

• Ashley Greene

• Jennifer Grey

• Joan Crawford

• Daniel Gillies

• Michael B. Jordan

• Vida Guerra

• Pharrell Williams

• Jenny Slate

• Matthew Lawrence

• Luke Evans

• Vince Neil

• Eddie Murphy

• Jackie Chan

• Jennifer Love Hewitt

• Christina Ricci

Pisces venus:

• Selena Quintanilla

• Brandi Quiñones

• Drew Barrymore

• Orlando Bloom

• Michelle Pfeiffer

• Kristen Stewart

• Barbra Streisand

• John Travolta

• Emma Watson

• Jon Bon Jovi

• Diana Ross

• Iggy Pop

• Alice Cooper

• Victoria Beckham

• Celine Dion

• Justin Bieber

• Michelle Obama

• Samantha Fox

• Dave Grohl

• Dove Cameron

Pisces mars:

• Denzel Washington

• Rowan Atkinson

• Tom Hanks

• Marilyn Monroe

• Shirley Temple

• Tina Turner

• Bob Dylan

• Phil Collins

• Heidi Klum

• Paris Hilton

• Elton John

• Enrique Iglesias

• Eric Clapton

• Ellie Goulding

• Ricky Martin

• Lisa Marie Presley

• Paco Rabanne

• LL Cool J

• Kelly Rowland

• Big Pun

[littlequeenies]

LEE STARKEY. THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF "BEATLE" RINGO STARR IS TODAY A FASHION DESIGNER AND HAS OPENED A FASHION BOUTIQUE IN HOLLYWOOD

1991, October 17th - ¡Hola! magazine, Spain

The Yesterday and Today of the protagonists of the news

LEE STARKEY. THE YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF "BEATLE" RINGO STARR IS TODAY A FASHION DESIGNER AND HAS OPENED A FASHION BOUTIQUE IN HOLLYWOOD

The mythical Hollywood of the big stars looks at Lee Starkey, youngest daughter of Ringo Starr, the ex-member of The Beatles. Lee is now twenty-one years old, but she seems younger (“People look at me" –she explains– "and still think that I’m thirteen”) and she has become owner of a “boutique” in the elegant district of Los Angeles, where she sells bright spangles trousers, daring miniskirts and psychedelic fur tunics like if they were hot pastries. The shop is at the heart of the most fashion district of LA, Melrose Avenue, where famous stars like Madonna, Michelle Pfeiffer and Julia Roberts make their purchases.

“Daddy hasn’t helped me with money”, tells Lee, while she shows us her most favourite clothes designed by herself and her thirty-year-old partner Christian Paris. Lee continues explaining that her father gave her moral support and brought lots of friends to the opening of the boutique, which was last month [sic]. “He’s much exited" – she remarks – "that in the end I’ve found something that I love to do”.

Lee Starkey – that’s Ringo’s real surname – was five years old when her mother, Maureen, and her very famous father divorced in 1975. Both of them married again: her mother with Isaac Tigrett, Hard Rock Cafe founder, and Ringo with the actress Barbara Bach. However, when the youngest daughter of the former Beatle opened her “boutique” in Hollywood both parents attended with her brothers Zak, 25, and Jason, 24 [sic], to wish her luck.

“I’m not an expert of The Beatles”, admits Lee with a smile, adding next: “If I want to know something about them I ask to my father. But I’m a drawer and designer of sixties fashion. Is in those years where I find my inspiration. I’ve tried to bring the vibrations, the colours and the freedom of that style to the nineties”.

In what there is not any doubt is that with their store, Planet Alice, Lee is making a good business, showing that her idea was spot on. Lee, before being devoted to this, tried to introduce herself to the acting world, went to a make-up school and even she wanted to play drums. In the end she met her partner, Christian Paris, a well-known clothes designer of whom she says: “We are very affectionate to each other and this is platonic”. Paris was already owner of a Planet Alice shop in London, namely in Portobello. Also he owns one of the most fashionable discotheques in London, Alice in Wonderland. Now attending to Lee’s wishes, he has opened a new “boutique” in Hollywood.

“We opened it a month ago, but I can already say that Lee's idea has been successful. The sales demonstrate it”, says Christian, happy, after they’ve achieved to sell clothes that worth 1000$ to a group of Latin visitors from Miami, that they were dressed with clothes bought in Planet Alice. “Lee has a lot of energy and wonderful ideas" – he continues – "and when she starts to work, like today, the cash begins to sound”.

Ringo Starr and his first wife, Maureen, parents, like we’ve said before, of three children Zak, Jason and Lee, where divorced sixteen years ago, after having lived a great love story since their adolescence. Maureen was eighteen years old when she married Ringo. She worked then in a hairdresser of Liverpool and after marrying she passed of living in a modest neighbourhood with her family to a luxurious and elegant mansion in Tittenhurst Park, without limitation of expenses. However, those happy years would leave to the fret when Ringo, crawled by a vortex of the fame and the popularity, began to stop worrying of her and began to be related with other women. In the divorce demand that finally she had to outline, Maureen mentioned a model, Nancy Andrews, a young and very pretty dark-haired Californian woman, as the cause of the end of her marriage. This romance, however, didn't have a happy ending and time later the famous Beatles' drummer got married with the actress Barbara Bach, who had been married an Italian producer before. "I had never wanted to get divorced" - said Maureen later -."I adored Richie (it is this way she called to Ringo) and I felt a great affection and respect towards him." When her lawyer told her that to obtain the separation she should say to the judge that she didn't stand to live beside his husband, she cried bitterly and time later recognized: "I shouldn’t never have said that, because it was not true."

The three children of the marriage continued living with their mother, giving them Ringo Starr a generous pension. However, with time, Maureen claimed in the tribunals an increase of it sustaining that, used to the deluxe life that her husband had accustomed them, she had requested little money. "The boys continue living with me" - she said - "and for them I take this step." Each one followed their own road later and, in 1985, Ringo and Maureen became grandparents. Their older son, Zak, then aged nineteen years old and being drummer like his father, had a daughter named Tatia Jayne. Ringo Starr was the first member of the Beatles to become a grandfather. In that occasion Ringo Starr himself, his former-wife, Maureen, and with them their other two children Jason and Lee, they went together to the hospital where the little girl was born. Maureen Kox [sic] - this was her maiden name - married time later the millionaire Isaac Bach [sic] and in 1987 they had a daughter.

Pictures by Vanegas Barrand (Keystone-Nemes)

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Our translation.

[porcelainseashore]

ask game!! (i wish i could ask them all)

🦴🍬🍄

your unpopular opinion better not be that chris is ugly!! jk obv :)))))

Of course, my dear Liz, I would NEVER say Chris is ugly 🤣😏 Ty for the asks though, it's nice to see you here in my little space! 💝

🦴 ⇢ is there a piece of media that inspires your writing? 

Yes! Actually, mostly songs, but a couple of times books and series as well. I'll name them here:

Ghosts from the Past from the Where We Left Our Love series was inspired by the Suspiria film remake. I had thought up both parts from the start and always wanted to have it eventually set in Berlin, with an antagonist like Madame Blanc.

Heavenly Creatures was inspired by Wolf Alice's song of the same name and both the book and series Normal People by Sally Rooney. I just loved the idea of a secret relationship between two people who seemed to be so different, yet understood each other like no one else could.

Us was inspired by Ethel Cain's Michelle Pfeiffer and the book and series One Day by David Nicholls. I literally had the song on repeat for days and for once, felt compelled to write a fluffy romance between two friends who had the potential to be so much more.

🍬 ⇢ post an unpopular opinion about a popular fandom character

It's a cop out, but honestly I can't think of an unpopular opinion I have about an RE character. Guess that makes me a populist? Anyway, imo the only interesting thing that Chris has ever done in the RE series was to lead the Hound Wolf Squad and go rogue against BSAA. I would also like to see Ada on her own and not as a crutch romantic interest for someone else's *cough* personal development. Don't know if those are unpopular enough though! 😁

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

I've not been super into ships for RE, also considering how Capcom decided to write off any sort of viable romance between the characters. However, I did like Cleon when I was young and my hc would be that they created a found family together with Sherry and are living happily ever after (as much as they can possibly with the circumstances) rent-free in my head 🫶

[katiedora]

Listen, if you liked Ghostbusters (2016), Ocean's Eight (2018), or Charlie's Angels (2019), then have I got a book for you!

I finally finished reading Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourne (my concentration has been shot so it took me a couple weeks to get through the first half, but then I read the entire second half today), and it was a good time! It wasn’t wildly complicated nor was there any dramatic character development, but it was a solid mystery/action book and I’m so glad I picked it up.

I’ve also spent my evening fancasting a movie, and I’ve decided on the following:

Patricia Clarkson as Helen

Michelle Pfeiffer as Natalie

Andie MacDowell as Billie

Valerie Bertinelli as Mary Alice

[adamwatchesmovies]

Dark Shadows (2012)

While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...

Dark Shadows shows promise at first, with tried-and-true but effective “fish out of water” humour. From there, the plot gets progressively unsure of where it wants to go, until it starts throwing stuff at the screen haphazardly. I don’t know if anyone could’ve salvaged a workable film from the woeful screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith but director Tim Burton doesn’t seem to be trying very hard.

In 1760, Barnabas Collins (Johnny Depp) breaks the heart of his servant, Angelique (Eva Green). After she uses dark magic to kill Barnabas' fiancée (Bella Heathcote) she transform him into a vampire - so that he will outlive anyone he ever loves. Soon after, he is captured by villagers and buried "alive" in a coffin. Escaping from his prison in 1972, Barnabas finds his descendants in financial ruin, his beloved reincarnated as their new nanny (Bella Heathcote as Victoria), and Angelique still alive and still obsessed with him.

After the fact, it’s obvious Barnabas is the film’s main character. While watching, it isn’t so clear. You think Victoria will be a major player but she’s an afterthought with no personality. Most of the character feel like director Tim Burton self-indulging a little by tossing a bone to his favourite performers (Christopher Lee has a minor role which can’t have taken more than a day to shoot) or like inclusions put there just because they had an equivalent in the original 1966 television series. The film lasts nearly two hours. If you cut out Helena Bonham Carter as the Collins family doctor who does very little doctoring, the kinda-sorta misfit son David (Gully McGrath), his ne’er-do-well father (Johnny Lee Miller), the rebellious teenage daughter (Chloë Grace Moretz), the elderly maid (Ray Shirley) and the drunken groundskeeper (Jackie Earle Haley), you probably wouldn’t have more than 40-minutes’ worth of a movie. That’s not much but it’d be tighter, focussed and more enjoyable. None of these people have anything to do, and the less said about Alice Cooper’s cameo as himself, the better.

It feels like a bad soap opera that’s being made-up on the spot. Stuff just happens and sure, sometimes it’s funny but nothing’s building up to anything bigger. Now Dr. Hoffman is seducing Barnabas. Ok? Why? So we can cement that everyone finds Johnny Depp in vampire makeup irresistible? I guess that’s a thing but I don’t really get it.

Then, finally, a facsimile of a plot rears its ugly head. Ah! So the film is about Angelique and Barnabas’ rivalry. Wait. She waited 200 years for him to escape from the box she buried him in and in the meantime, she’s been using her fishing business to drive the Collins out of house and home? What a lame way to use your magic powers. It all builds to a lacklustre conclusion in which people are thrown around by magic. I think we’re supposed to feel upset about doomed romances and people caught between two irreconcilable worlds but so little time has been spent fleshing out the mushy stuff you just don’t care.

As an 18th-century vampire struggling to keep up with “modern” technology and sensibilities, Johnny Depp does well. He delivers all of the film’s best moments and yeah, some of it you’ve seen before but it’s still effective. The costumes, sets and art direction are also quite good so visually, Dark Shadows is pleasant to look at - especially when Eva Green is seducing Barnabas. Just about everything else is cringe-inducing and tone-deaf. Sexy as she may look, Green is terrible in this role and I can’t even blame her. No one shines thanks to the weak screenplay and scatterbrained direction torn between drama, horror and comedy. I nearly completely forgot about Michelle Pfeiffer, which is too bad because her character actually contributes something of value to the story.

The first time I saw Dark Shadows, I didn’t love it but found things to enjoy and gave it a mildly positive review. Re-examining it now, 3 stars seems way too generous. Although never awful, Dark Shadows doesn't give you many reasons to watch it. (April 5, 2019)

[borispfeiffer]

Das Spiel geht weiter

// von Boris Pfeiffer // Ich merke, dass mich die Wahlergebnisse in den USA vollkommen kalt lassen. Es ist keine innere Emigration, die ich mache, es ist Gleichgültigkeit mit der Menschenheit, die so wählt. Auch bin ich ohne Trauer. Auch die keifende Stimme von Alice Weidel am Morgen im Deutschlandfunkinterview lässt mich unberührt. Ich höre, wie sie keift, aber es und der Ton schert mich nicht.…

[simsrecordkeeping]

Here Lies my Legacy Save.

Computer died, lost years of play, and so the records I was keeping are now done being collected and are now simply kept.

I WAS renaming my sims by generation because I couldn't tell who was what generation in gameplay and it made it weird when they had the same childhood crush as their children. So the first generation was A-named, next was B, etc.

I did rename some of them funky, I didn't rename others, and some I tried to rename but failed because I couldn't get the names to stick.

All of Gen C were born to played Sims.

Last/family names were mixed from the parents, whose were mixed from their parents. Manning and Falcon became Falman, and when Falman and Blackburn got together, they became Falburn.

When two of the same names have babies (usually because sibling affairs with in-laws), I mixed it up. Once, it was a lady who seduced a mother and son, so Beckman plus Scales became Scaleman and Beckscales. I tend to keep it at 1-5 syllables at most, generally 2, so it's not too messy, but I definitely start losing great grandparent names.

The 'official' records are: Snapshots, where I recap a household at time of switching families and Eulogies, where I recap a Sim's lifetime after their deaths.

Families always went Teen Daughter, Child Son in the beginning. I tried to go by household, but it turns out that those constantly change in ways that don't record well. ^ ^;

Due to length and link issues, I will likely be making a second page for Table of Contents. The links on this page are Eulogies

In only some order, my Save started with...

The Pancakes Family - married pair Bob and Eliza

The Whitfield Family - Craig, Dana, and their children Katherin and Stetson

The Angel Family - Lance, Ellie, and their children Danika and Waylon

The Overton Family - Jennifer and Maddox

The Cullen Family - Anna and her son Valentino

The Pike Family - Gabrielle and Rory, and their children Shawn and Jordan

The York Family - Cleo, and her children Ahmad and Fatima

The Pace Family - Katrina, and her children Kristina and Jefferson

The Scales Family - Shieu, and her children Janice and Dawson

The Holloway Family - Susan, and her children Evageline and Barry

The Brice Family - Chad and Nadine, and their son Walton

The Spencer-Kim-Lewis-Davis Family - Grandparents Dennis and Lydia, Parents Alice and Eric, and child Olivia

The Helton Family - Teens Dillon and Fernanda, and their grandparents who died early

The Pfeiffer Family - Genevieve and her children Benjamin, and Heven

The Blackburn Family - Husband and Wife couple, Annabelle and Bill

The McFarland Family - An old man and his unofficially adopted son, Javier

The Landgrabb Family - married couple Nancy and Geoffrey and YA son Malcolm

The Banks Family - Ayden, Krysten, and their children Lillian and Alan

The Walters Family - Husband and Wife whose names were lost by the game

The Caruso Family - Single Mother whose name was eaten by the game and her son Judah

The Merrill Family - Annie and her child Belmont

Individuals who didn't start as family but ended up paired

Imani Falcon - a sim I made in CAS to pair with someone

Colleen Manning - a townie Imani fell for instead

Lisa Moore - A townie I put into the Overtons to help raise Maddox

Jessie Boston - A townie Alien who lived with Colleen and Imani

Kian Padgett - a townie alien who lived with Jessie, Colleen, and Imani

Tiffani Hobson - a townie who Kian impregnated

Tatum Nixon - a townie that married (b) India Pancakes

Elsa Harms - an Alien who had a baby with Freddie Knapp

Freddie Knapp - A business man who hated kids but liked making them.

NPCs (not playing to death; leaving in the game) - Jana Puckett - A-gen - Mother of several and a high ranking surgeon - Sera Cerda - A-gen - A journalist and socialite

-Fatima York and Janice Scales - B gen - Hate Children and ran away to run a bakery

-Bianca Pancakes - B-gen - A womanizing Police Chief

Special Mention goes to townie Ariella Petty for Gino Pettyburn

Special Mention to townie Ava Tinsley for Ashlynn Puckley

Special Mention also goes to the hiccup with MCCC settings, resulting in Elaina Vatore, as resulting from Lilith and [I changed the game stuff so I can't see the other parent] and Justice Straus, child of Eden Ho and Vladislaus.

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Since I'm only linking eulogies, I can't link to anyone not dead/decommissioned yet. Will update as I can.

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yasss

Ethel Cain - Michelle Pfeiffer

Marty Robbins - El Paso

Lingua Ignota - THE ORDER OF SPIRITUAL VIRGINS

Crystal Castles - Alice Practice

Jazmin Bean - Hello Kitty

The Northern Boys - Party Time

Sir Chloe - Center

Ethel Cain - Strangers

Lingua Ignota - PERPETUAL FLAME OF CENTRALIA

Crystal Castles - Love and Caring

tagging @raigash @spinosaurusdex and anyone else who wants to

Thanks for the tag @two-hands-toward-the-sun !!!

(Put your "On Repeat" playlist on shuffle and list the first ten songs, then tag ten people)

1. First Light, by Hozier (YEAHHHHHHH. this is one of my fave songs to sing in the shower)

2. Battle Cry, by Imagine Dragons (this one and several others are on an OC playlist i have!!!)

3. There Are Other Ways, from Epic: The Musical (I AM BEGGING EVERYONE TO LISTEN TO THIS MUSICAL)

4. Wild Things, by Alessia Cara (OC playlist but also i love her)

5. Castle, by Halsey (OC playlist but also it slaps)

6. Growing Pains, by Alessia Cara (OC playlist)

7. Wouldn't You Like, from Epic: The Musical

8. Just A Man, from Epic (god i fucking love this musical)

9. Fast Times, by Sabrina Carpenter (another fave for singing in the shower!)

10. Karma, by Taylor Swift (..... OC playlist. i have nothing to say for myself)

Tags (no pressure!!!): @milfzatannaz @gatorinator @unreal-unearthing @bookish-bi-mormon @phuckphragmites @willshaper @lostacelonnie @burnt-kloverfield @the-troijan-horse @aroace-rizgukgak i love seeing y'all in my notes and on my dash 💜💜💜

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[dailydccomics]

yeah she does!

[perfettamentechic]

André Courrèges, nato in Francia il 9 marzo del ’23, è stato uno stilista francese. Si laurea in ingegneria civile. Partecipa alla seconda guerra mondiale come pilota di aerei. Tornato dalla guerra, comincia a progettare ponti, e come hobby gioca a rugby e fa scalate in montagna.

Courrèges a differenza di molti stilisti suoi contemporanei non studiò moda ma si laureò in ingegneria civile. Nel 1949 la passione per il design lo porta a farsi assumere come tagliatore dallo spagnolo Cristóbal Balenciaga, che ha l’atelier a Parigi. Nel 1963 apre un salone di alta moda, con la moglie Coqueline Barrière. Le prime presentazioni hanno subito riscosso il successo, ma il vero riconoscimento pubblico arriverà subito dopo l’arrivo dei piccoli stivali bianchi.

Nel 1965, la casa si trasferisce in 40 rue François 1er a Parigi, dove si trova ancora. Emmanuel Ungaro lavora con lui come assistente. Si fa apprezzare da personaggi celebri (per l’Italia, Gianni e Marella Agnelli), che apprezzano in lui la purezza delle linee e la semplicità dei tagli. “Un design tipicamente automobilistico” dirà qualche sarto. Coco Chanel affonda la lama, suggerendo

che Courrèges toglie sensualità alle donne, per infagottarle in bianchi capi in lana che starebbero meglio indosso alle bambinette di 2 o 3 anni.

In risposta Courrèges rispondeva

che la sua moda ringiovaniva le signore, senza farle ricorrere al bisturi.

Nel gennaio del 1965, la collezione Courrèges rivoluzionò la creazione con le sue linee geometriche, i suoi abiti “trapezio”, i suoi toni acidi, contribuendo al successo della nuovissima minigonna , tagliando “un palmo sopra il ginocchio”. Courrèges accorcia ulteriormente le lunghezze, gioca con materiali e forme. Questa presentazione è un manifesto per i giovani, che promuove un nuovo stile di vita.

Lo stile di Courrèges era considerato futuristico, perché disegnava abiti fatti con materiali all’epoca innovativi e inusuali, come il Pvc e la pelle in vernice. Sceglieva colori molto vivaci, come il rosso e l’arancione, e linee semplici e dritte che cambiarono la tradizionale visione della silhouette femminile, che prima esaltava le curve delle donne.

Il suo stile incontra il favore del pubblico, e per un decennio sarà uno dei capifila dell’alta moda francese. André Courrèges rende il bianco sacro, quindi moltiplica le variazioni di colore e nuovi materiali come il vinile o il plexi.

Courrèges fu innovativo anche nel modo in cui presentava le sue creazioni. All’epoca infatti gli stilisti lo facevano con defilé nei propri atelier, mentre Courrèges iniziò a servirsi di filmati girati in luoghi famosi di Parigi o in scenari ispirati a film, come “2001: Odissea nello Spazio”.

Tra i suoi clienti più famosi c’era Audrey Hepburn, per la quale Courrèges disegnò gli abiti del film Due per la strada, in cui la vestì con uno stile molto diverso da quello bon ton a cui tutti erano abituati.

Courrèges si ispirò spesso a figure extraterrestri e a paesaggi lunari, tanto che nel 1964 fece uscire la “Moon Girl Collection”, una collezione ispirata alla luna, con abiti e gonne a trapezio, giacchini squadrati e i famosi go-go boots, gli stivaletti bianchi dal tacco basso che da qualche anno sono tornati di moda, rilanciati da altri stilisti.

Il suo stile rappresentava il mito del futuro e della conquista dello spazio, per questo disegnava spesso sui vestiti lune e stelle stilizzate, oppure oblò che si aprivano sui mini abiti.

La giornalista di moda Alice Pfeiffer racconta in un articolo su Le Monde

i nuovi capi e accessori che Courrèges introdusse nel guardaroba femminile, a partire dalla minigonna: si racconta che venne inventata dalla stilista inglese Mary Quant ma che divenne famosa grazie a Courrèges che la introdusse nelle sfilate di haute couture.

Courrèges è anche l’inventore dei fuseaux, una via dimezzo tra i collant e i pantaloni, portati come una seconda pelle.

Nel 1965 lanciò le famose Lunettes Eskimo, occhiali da sole con lenti molto grandi e una fessura sottile al centro a ricordare una palpebra socchiusa.

Uno dei suoi capi più distintivi è la “petite robe blanche”, ovvero il mini abito bianco, che propose in molte collezioni e che divenne comunissimo tra le donne negli anni Settanta.

Dagli anni settanta firma anche occhiali, ombrelli, gioielli, profumi, vestiario per l’infanzia e vestiti da sposa.

Negli anni ’70, il marchio aveva 180 punti vendita. Il marchio ha lanciato il suo primo profumo Empreinte. Al momento diventerà uno dei tre profumi più venduti in Francia. La sua linea di abbigliamento sportivo Hyperbole è commercializzata in successione.

Appassionato di sport, Courrèges ha creato le dieci linee di abbigliamento ufficiali per lo staff delle Olimpiadi estive del 1972. Una collezione per uomo, con abiti larghi e flessibili, fu lanciata nel 1973 con il marchio Courrèges Homme. Un profumo chiamato FH77 è nato nel 1977. Courrèges aprì una boutique a New York, sulla 57th Street 28, poi commercializzò Eau de Courrèges, che sarebbe diventata una fragranza femminile di grande successo. Nel 1979, Courrèges si diversificò in numerosi prodotti e commercializzò una nuova fragranza per donna, America, seguita da In blue nel 1983. Nel 1981 fu venduta una tavola da windsurf, oltre a una gamma di abbigliamento isolante adatto per questo sport.

Nel 1983, il gruppo giapponese Itokin, uno dei due licenziatari del marchio Courrèges in Giappone, acquisto il 50% della maison appartenente a L’Oréal (nel 1964 aveva acquisito delle quote di Courrèges). La casa, che ha cambiato proprietà più volte, tornerà ad André e Coqueline pochi anni dopo.

Nel gennaio 1986, la società Courrèges ha commercializzato una linea Courrèges Men appositamente per il mercato americano. Il designer, che vuole dedicare più tempo al suo dipartimento di Courrèges Design, reclutò nel 1993 Jean-Charles de Castelbajac per disegnare, sotto il suo impulso, due collezioni visionari.

La fragranza Sweet è apparsa nel 1993, poi Niagara, per gli uomini due anni dopo. L’anno seguente, Generation ha prodotto un profumo per donna, seguito rapidamente dal 2020.

A metà degli anni 1990, il marchio, che sembra essere inattivo, è scomparso dai media per diversi anni. Fu acquistato dal un gruppo giapponese e Coqueline assunse la direzione artistica fino al 2000, mentre sua figlia Marie aprì un caffè, il Café Blanc proprio accanto alla boutique parigina.

Nel 1997, la maison assunse Paul Deneve come direttore generale per cinque anni e riorienta le varie attività di Courrèges.

Courrèges ha avuto un grande successo per circa venti anni prima di essere più discreta dagli anni ’80. Tre decenni dopo, è rinato grazie all’impulso di due imprenditori che hanno acquistato il marchio, ma anche il patrimonio culturale di esso.

Nel 2010 venne acquistata dai soci Jacques Bungert e Frédéric Torloting, copresidenti dell’agenzia pubblicitaria Young & Rubicam, che ora sono entrambi copresidenti dell’azienda.

Non conoscevamo questo ambiente, ma la moda, come l’ambiente da cui proveniamo, è un territorio creativo

Nel 2011, in occasione del 50 ° anniversario di Courrèges, hanno rilanciato il marchio, con ristampe di abiti trapezio, giacche in vinile, minigonne e borse colorate; oltre che un negozio online, il digitale è una parte importante della strategia aziendale. Il marchio ha archivi di 25.000 pezzi. Hanno cercato di rilanciare il marchio collaborando con il brand di accessori Eastpak, con l’azienda di acqua Evian e con quella di cosmetici Estée Lauder, attraverso collezioni disegnate da un team creativo interno alla maison.

Un nuovo profumo, Blanc de Courrèges, viene commercializzato e due vecchi, Eau de Courrèges ed Empreinte, vengono riproposti.

Nel 2013, i designer dell’azienda hanno firmato una capsule collection per il catalogo La Redoute e la sua collezione autunno-inverno 2013-2014.

Nel maggio 2015 Bungert e Torloting hanno affidato la direzione artistica al duo di stilisti Sebastien Meyer, per lo styling,  e Arnaud Vaillant, per lo spot; a settembre hanno presentato la loro prima collezione, quella per la primavera/estate 2016, caratterizzata da body attillati e giubbini in pelle che nei colori e nelle forme rievocavano lo stile di Courrèges.

Meyer e Vaillant avevano in precedenza fondato l’azienda Coperni, che hanno poi messo da parte per dedicarsi totalmente al nuovo lavoro. Jacques Bungert ha spiegato al giornale di moda Women’s Wear Daily di averli scelti perché

sono incredibilmente talentuosi. Hanno lanciato la propria azienda, il che significa che considerano sia gli aspetti creativi che quelli commerciali nelle cose che fanno, come la vestibilità di ciò che creano. Dal loro lavoro si vede che sono molto appassionati di tessuti e questo è importante per noi, perché da Courrèges il tessuto è il re.

La notte del 7 gennaio del 2016 muore lo stilista André Courrèges, aveva 92 anni ed era malato di Parkinson, come hanno scritto, in un comunicato stampa, la casa di moda Courrèges.

Nel 2017, Courrèges ha lanciato la fragranza Eau Hyper Fraiche, e nel 2018 Mini Jupe, un cenno alle origini del marchio.

Jacques Bungert e Frédéric Torloting hanno lasciato l’azienda all’inizio del 2018. Con una prima collezione fresca e contemporanea, il duo aveva sedotto il pubblico. Però, passato il primo entusiasmo, il marchio transalpino non è mai riuscito a decollare, in particolare all’estero, dove il suo nome è meno conosciuto. A settembre dello stesso anno, Artemis, la holding della famiglia Pinault, che già possedeva il 40% della casa francese Courrèges, assunse il controllo del 100% della maison Courrèges, che era in difficoltà finanziaria.

La Maison Courrèges annuncia la nomina di Yolanda Zobel come sua nuova direttrice artistica.

La stilista di origine tedesca per parte di padre (un designer di gioielli) e francese da parte di madre, specializzata nel prêt-à-porter donna, sarà operativa per la  collezione primavera-estate 2019. 

Gennaio 2020: Yolanda Zobel lascia la maison. Secondo una comunicazione ufficiale del brand del 3 gennaio 2020:

decisione comune

Tuttavia, arriva dopo alcune sfilate che non hanno ricevuto un’accoglienza buona, dove erano state presentate, nella Collezione primavera/estate 2020, un nuovo vinile a base di alghe; un materiale eco-responsabile che dovrebbe sostituire l’iconico materiale plastico di Courrèges.

aggiornato al 5 gennaio 2020

Autore: Lynda Di Natale Fonte: courreges.com, ilpost.it, fashionnetwork.com, wikipedia.org, web

André Courrèges - Maison Courrèges #AndréCourrèges #Courrèges #creatordellostile #creatoridellamoda #perfettamentechic #felicementechic #lynda André Courrèges, nato in Francia il 9 marzo del '23, è stato uno stilista francese. Si laurea in ingegneria civile.

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Time to rewatch the entirety of Indoor Boys because I’m feeling nostalgic

[filmnoirsbian]

have you seen ginger snaps & if so what did you think? love your blog :)

Yes its one of the films that impacted my malleable adolescent brain so now i have a special room in my heart for monster women <3