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#Hot Pursuit#Hot Pursuit 1987#Sweet Lorraine#Back to the Beach#John Cusack#Steven Lisberger#Steven W. Carabatsos#Tom Mankiewicz#Steve Gomer#Michael Zettler#Shelly Altman#George Malko#Lyndall Hobbs#James Komack#Bill Norton#Bruce Kirschbaum#Peter Krikes#Steve Meerson#Chris Thompson#Lou Rusoff#80s
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Missing the beach today
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Staff Pick: Back to the Beach (1987)
For the uninitiated: After decades spent deep in midwest suburbia, 60’s beach blanket boppers Frankie and Annette head back to Los Angeles - only to discover the 80's happened. A lot.
Damian Slade steals the show as their Punk son with a mean aversion to peanut Butter (80s kids saturated with Skippy commercials will know what that’s all about) and Connie Stevens, well, steals everything else.
This tubular Frank Mancuso Jr.-produced love letter to the old campy beach musicals has been a gnarly guilty pleasure since I first saw it in theaters - yes I was lured by the rad TV spot promising Pee-Wee, Don Adams and Gilligan in one big Paramount-produced music-fuelled bodacious beach blowout. I wasn’t disappointed.
Like a Stunned Mullet in a coconut shell, it’s been a perfect nostalgia cocktail ever since.
Drink up, big Kahuna.
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Existential Nihilism Squad™
#atla#avatar the last airbender#atla fanart#atla art#ozai's angels#dangerous ladies#azula art#azula fanart#atla azula#princess azula#azula#ty lee atla#ty lee fanart#ty lee#mai fanart#mai art#atla mai#mai#ba sing se#the beach episode#atla meme#ozais angels#fire nation#Now you know why they get along so well#It's the existential nihilism of it all#Not existential crisis! Those are Zuko's specialty#“I'm never happy” “Think about our place in the universe” *yells to the universe* “You've never held back before” *drops into a moral coma*#he's really going through it#Meanwhile these three bad ladies are just ✨vibing✨ through it#existing is exhausting
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Hey y'all, now is a particularly good time to show solidarity with the Haitian refugee community of Ohio by donating to groups working on their behalf like The Haitian Bridge Alliance or Advocates for Basic Legal Equity.
The Republican goons are trying to stir up a racist hate mob against them based on extremely sinister lies. To hell with the sorts of people who want racist violence and for those of us nowhere near Ohio, this sort of donation is a decent way of telling both the Haitian community and their tormentors that we have the backs of refugees.
#On the beaches in the trenches on the fuckin cul de sacs we will fight these fuckers and we will win#Theirs is not a world that we can let come to pass#Having each other's backs is the genuine strength of the left as much as the well earned reputation of infighting suggests otherwise#But this is an important point to show them that an injury to one is an injury to all#We will not accept any targets they put on people no matter how disposable they want us to believe those people are.#Let's let 'em know
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if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing
#imagine you're a boy who's going to die. you're in love with the girl you've been watching from afar. you know your fate.#you just want to help her‚ but then there's the announcement and she's here in front of you‚ kissing you‚ risking her life for you and you#think‚ i could live and i could love. you think she loves you when she hands you the berries‚ when she puts them in her mouth.#then you both survive and you go back home and nothing is real anymore. you have nothing. no family. no friends. no love. just an empty#house. a drunk for a neighbor. the love of your life walking into somebody else's arms. you think‚ i survived the games. i could survive#this. and you also think‚ i should've bit down on those berries‚ should've felt the juice burst before i died.#and then the third quarter quell announcement rings in your ears and you think‚ she will live and i will die as i should have in the first#place. the girl you love kisses you on the beach and somewhere you heart stirs and your mind revolts and you savor every touch she has ever#given to you‚ in front of the cameras and off. because you are a tribute and you are always being watched and snow's presence looms and#you think‚ i know she cares. but you get taken. you get drugged. you get tortured‚ your mind altered. the girl is a mutt‚ a murderer. she's#everything you despise‚ your mind stirs. your heart revolts. you gain more awareness but cannot distinguish reality from fiction and you#have never known katniss' love. the war ends. you heal. you come home. you plant primrose for her. years down the line‚ you grow in love#more than you thought possible. but some days‚ you cannot tell fiction from reality so you ask the love of your life‚ you love me.#real or not real? and she says‚ real‚ and kisses you.#and you sigh and kiss her back and revel in this. a home. a life. a love.#lit#the hunger games#everlark#otp: real or not real?#katniss everdeen#peeta mellark#text#tais toi lys#thgpost
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Based on what is in my collection
#the byrds#peter paul and mary#jonas brothers#flight of the conchords#paul revere and the raiders#back to the beach#salem ilese#gary puckett and the union gap#m.i.a.#gene pitney#christina aguilera#michael jackson#selena quintanilla perez#donovan#kesha#american graffiti#cher#liz phair#shakira#megan thee stallion#the beatles#nancy sinatra#iggy azalea#gloria estefan#lizzie mcguire#jade bird#high school musical#Spotify#releases this week
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RIP Paul Reubens 1952-2023
I've been out sick this past week, so less time blogging. I briefly wrote about the passing of comic genius and gifted actor Paul Reubens at the age of 70, but here is my expanded remembrance.
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Paul Reubens came up in the 1970s comedy scene in L.A. as a member of the The Groundlings. He and fellow Groundling, the late great Phil Hartman, worked on a lot of characters together. In 1978, Reubens created the character of Pee-Wee Herman, a man-child dressed in a suit and bowtie. It slowly started to catch on and soon enough he got an early HBO special in 1981's The Pee-Wee Herman Show. I rented it years later and it was wildly entertaining. Reubens himself had small roles in The Blues Brothers, an episode of Mork & Mindy, Cheech & Chong movies, and more.
Hartman and Reubens on Pee-Wee's Playhouse
In the 80s, there were a lot of comedians who created characters who were celebrities in and of themselves and the comedian was rarely seen outside of that character, i.e. Cassandra Peterson (a fellow Groundling of Reubens) as Elvira or Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell. Pee-Wee Herman was among the biggest of those comedic characters. When he appeared on MTV, hosted SNL, or was a guest on talk shows, it was Pee-Wee Herman who was the guest, not Reubens. But the character of Pee-Wee was so engaging: he was childish and but was wildly funny with physical comedy, and there was a real heart to him and had a moral compass that was admirable (i.e. running into a burning pet shop to save all of the animals). The 1980s was an era of comedians who had a unique voice literally and figuratively, i.e. Sam Kinison, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Emo Phillips, Gilbert Gottfried, and Judy Tenuta just to name a few. But Reubens was possibly the most unique voice of all of them.
Reubens in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
In Summer 1985, my Dad took me to the movies to see Pee-wee's Big Adventure , which was a true meeting of the minds of young director Tim Burton making his debut and Reubens. The plot was so simple, but yet it worked: Pee-Wee's bike gets stolen so he has to go across country to find it and along the way there's loads of hijinks and LOL scenes. To this day visitors of the Alamo ask where the basement is! The film is highly quotable and it's also a movie that everyone I knew my age also knew and loved. In the years that followed Pee-Wee had cameos in a number of films including Back to the Beach, Moonwalker, and Flight of the Navigator, which technically wasn't Pee-Wee it was Paul under the pseudonym Paul Mall, but the voice was obviously Pee-Wee. The follow-up movie was Big Top Pee-wee, in which Pee-Wee has a small farm and the circus comes to town, shaking up his relationship. The movie wasn't as bad as a lot of people thought, but it lacked the pure artifice of the last movie. I think people also didn't want to see a movie where Pee-Wee cheats on his fiancee for a acrobat...just not what you expect from a Pee-Wee movie and Tim Burton not directing hurt.
Pee-Wee and friends
But the Pee-Wee character really shined on TV, in the Saturday morning kids' show Pee-wee's Playhouse (CBS 1986-1991). I was still of the age of loving Saturday morning cartoons and shows when it premiered and it was loads of fun: Pee-Wee's wacky and fun playhouse surrounded with various friends, screaming the secret word, being imaginative, and learning from each other was worth tuning in each week. I loved the show and in 1988, I even began buying some episodes as they were released on VHS. I also began buying the toys, talking doll and memorabilia (sometime in the mid-00s I sold my collection to a friend). The genius in the show was that it was super funny, but without being hurtful or mean-spirited. So many talents got their start on the show too: Lawrence Fishburne as Cowboy Curtis, Natasha Lyonne, and behind the scenes you had music by Mark Mothersbaugh, and before-they-were-famous production assistants John Singleton and Rob Zombie. The series became so popular that in 1988, they even did a primetime special Christmas at Pee-wee's Playhouse.
Pee-Wee's Playhouse toys I had as a kid
It's impossible to talk about Reubens without his controversies and run-ins with the law. In 1991, he was arrested for indecent exposure during an undercover police raid of an adult theater in Sarasota, FL. CBS pulled the remaining reruns of Playhouse, toys were pulled from Toys R Us, his voice was pulled from rides at Disney. He was cancelled way before there was cancel culture. True, he was a children's show host on TV at that time. But he wasn't in character or costume and he was inappropriate in, well, an inappropriate place...which in a strange way made it kind of appropriate given the inappropriate location. Whatever your opinion is, he got a raw deal. As a TV host and on the set of his show, he was very good with kids and had really positive lessons. What he did was private and separate from the Pee-Wee character. But Reubens had the last laugh when he presented the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards to uproarious applause and asked "heard any good jokes lately?".
Denis Leary, Ted Demme and Reubens at the Blow premiere in 2001
Reubens did slowly return in some supporting roles separate from Pee-Wee and many of them were scene-stealers: as Penguin's father in Batman Returns, as a vampire in the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer (one of the greatest vampire deaths ever), the voice of Lock in The Nightmare Before Christmas, as Spleen in the underrated Mystery Men, and as Derek Foreal in Ted Demme's Blow. As Derek, he was the comic relief in the crime biopic, but he also showed off his dramatic skills too. A few years prior to the 2001 release, I was an intern at Demme’s production company Spanky Pictures and the book it was based on was in development. I was blown away by Reubens' performance when I saw the movie.
In 2002 as Reubens' second act was in full swing, another arrest was made, this time it was child pornography charges. Reubens had a apparently purchased bulk collectible magazines of kitsch muscle magazines from the 1920s and some he didn't order were slipped in. I am not defending him, but I think there is an extreme difference between this type of thing and actual criminals like Kevin Spacey or R. Kelly. In 2004, the charges were dropped in exchange for a lesser obscenity charge.
Apatow and Reubens
In the years that followed, Reubens continued to have some small supporting roles including The Raconteurs' music video for "Steady as She Goes", as well as episodes of 30 Rock and Portlandia. Then something happened in the 2010s: Pee-Wee came back! First in some Funny or Die videos Pee-Wee Gets an iPad! and Pee-wee Goes to Sturgis. He, then, did a Pee-Wee live show in L.A. and then Broadway and one of the last ones became the live HBO special The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway. There was also the funny SNL sketch with Andy Samberg where they got drunk on the town together. Interest in Pee-Wee continued and in 2016, there was the Netflix special Pee-wee's Big Holiday, produced by Judd Apatow. I can't say that was bad, but the bar was quite high and it was hard to live up to the nostalgia.
Reubens himself was a comic genius. That's a term I rarely use, but it is fitting for him. He understood comedy and in the last week people who knew comedy have praised him. He had a lot to do with my early interest in comedy. His films, TV and wacky (almost drug-induced) style will be remembered. Between MTV News shutting down and the deaths of Andy Rourke of The Smiths, Sinead O'Connor and now Paul Reubens it is a bad year for nostalgic Gen-Xers like me. But fortunately Reubens' work will live on!
#paul reubens#pee wee herman#rip#the pee-wee herman show#the blues brothers#cheech and chong#pee wee's big adventure#tim burton#back to the beach#flight of the navigator#big top pee wee#pee wee's playhouse#batman returns#buffy the vampire slayer#the nightmare before christmas#mystery men#blow#ted demme#the raconteurs#30 rock#pee wee's big holiday#comedy#film geek#tv
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Pee Wee Herman - Bird is the Word - 'Surfin Bird Rest in Peace, Paul Reubens.
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it's not too late for a summer beach episode, is it? 🥲
#waaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!#lol momo and mina def diligent about the SPF lol#bakugo trying so hard to keep the shirt on but it's HOT lol and kiri's hero suit gives him a wicked tan haha#the saltwater dries out poor tsu but she's happy to play in the water with friends!!!!#izuku just............ lol#todoroki and iida are honorary beach hunks#lol tell me why i want more MHA filler eps PLEASE#mha#bnha#mha art#bnha art#izuku midoriya#deku#katsuki bakugo#eijiro kirishima#shouto todoroki#ochako uraraka#mina ashido#tsuyu asui#momo yaoyorozu#jirou kyouka#denki kaminari#kamijiroo#my hero academia art#my hero academia#i feel like i'm forgetting people but i can't look back lmao#boku no hero fanart#pjseveryday#illustration#anime art
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