#berlin mackenzie

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Apoiei a taça de vinho sobre a mesa e então me inclinei sobre Mayra, tomando seu rosto em mãos e a beijando com calma, como se fosse uma introdução do assunto que tinha pendente com ela. E enquanto meus lábios se moviam sobre os dela, a pergunta que não queria calar era como eu conseguia fazer esse tipo de coisa - comer a advogada dos meus irmãos - sem temer o que poderia me acontecer no dia seguinte. E eu tinha as resposta fácil gravada no meu cérebro: a prática leva a perfeição.

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A Palos Verdes fez parte de boa parte do meu desenvolvimento. Falo isso como pessoa, como político e como um Mackenzie. Tem essa coisa que corre na nossa família: nós levamos a sério demais o nosso próprio carisma, confiando que ele vai nos tirar das piores situações possíveis. Não existe nada que um sorriso confiante e umas palavras bem colocadas não resolvam. O maior exemplo disso? O fato de que consegui deslizar da sala de aula uma vez para ter uma conversa em particular com Katniss Rose na sala dos Young Politicians.

— Essa sua boca é tão macia... Isso, bem aí. Continue — a instruía, segurando seus cabelos escuros entre meus dedos enquanto a morena afundava o rosto entre minhas pernas. A determinação com que ela chupava meu pau me fazia sentir gratidão por estar escorado contra a parede ou minhas pernas vacilariam. — Você é uma putinha tão boa... Eu sou tão sortudo de ter você aqui e agora.

E embora tivesse a convencido a assinar um termo de confidencialidade para que no futuro ela não falasse de todas as coisas que eu falava para ela sempre que ela colocava aqueles lábios de plumas ao redor do meu caralho, valia super a pena, especialmente quando ela abria as pernas em cima da mesa e me deixava afundar dentro dela, me movimentando com toda a determinação focada em fazê-la gritar, mesmo que minha mão estivesse sobre sua boca, a impedindo de emitir qualquer som mais alto.

Foi um entretenimento legal, até ela começar a se apegar. O que me levou a dar um desdobro grande o suficiente nela que a fez nunca mais tocar no assunto comigo. E me fez ficar preocupado o suficiente para procurá-la para resolver isso de modo diplomático, aka perguntando qual o preço para ela não espalhar por aí que eu era um merda.

Porém Katniss tinha saído da escola quando tentei a alcançar no vestiário das líderes de torcida. Mas Nini Wright ainda estava lá, usando apenas uma toalha, enquanto secava os cabelos.

— Acho que errei de corredor — arrisquei uma piadinha na direção da garota, antes de esticar o olhar para suas pernas, subindo por seu tronco, admirar o volume de seus seios por baixo da toalha e então chegar novamente em seu rosto. Arqueei a sobrancelha em sua direção, me encostando em um dos armários. — Ou será que estou no lugar certo?

Líderes de torcida são ótimas, para ser sincero. Você consegue jogar as pernas delas para o alto, dobrando-as contra o seu peito, enfiando o cacete fundo em sua buceta, e elas conseguem aguentar porque simplesmente não conhecem os limites de não ser flexíveis. Enquanto fazia Nini gemer debaixo de mim, fodendo-a como se minha vida dependesse disso, pensei brevemente em parabenizar a técnica do seu time, pois estava vendo bem ali todas as recompensas de um treino duro.

— O som do seu gemido é tão, tão bom — afirmava a ela, sentando a mão em sua bunda, me sentindo invencível enquanto a dobrava como bem queria e continuava a fazendo pedir por mais.

Aquele colégio me proporcionou grandes momentos em minha vida, era evidente.

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Meu pai sempre me alertou para o perigo de fazer sexo sem proteção. Mas não exatamente como os outros pais.

— Se você pegar alguma doença na rua, já pensou no que vão dizer? "Berlin Mackenzie, o governador da Califórnia, foi visto hoje no hospital recebendo tratamento para a sua IST". Isso não pega bem, e você sabe o nível de estigma que carrega — Julius me dizia, apontando diretamente para o meu peito, enquanto eu acenava com a cabeça, compreensivo, na minha primeira semana de férias de volta da faculdade.

Meu pai acreditava nas minhas aspirações políticas, assim como minha mãe, desde o começo. Certo, ele apostava baixo, porque sempre acreditou em passos pequenos para não se perder no caminho. Mas a parte da ambição vinha do lado Clarington, e eu tinha aquele objetivo de chegar a Casa Branca desde quando tinha 7 anos e não iria sossegar enquanto não chegasse lá. Não importasse o que eu tivesse que fazer para conseguir o cargo.

— Você não vai dizer uma só palavra sem a minha autorização, está entendendo? — Minha mão estava fechada ao redor do pescoço da loira, que ria para mim com um sorriso cínico. — Não vou ter meus planos frustrados por uma...

Me refreei, ouvindo a risada abafada de Jordyn Holiday.

— Diz. Diz que eu sou uma vagabunda, uma mulher fácil que você encontrou no caminho. Diz que eu sou uma qualquer que não tem qualquer classe e que você usou apenas como um depósito de porra em meio a um casamento fracassado. — Suas palavras me agrediam e a força com que a enforcava ficava um tanto desproporcional e sabia que podia machucá-la, mas ela não tirava aquele sorriso do rosto. E eu sabia que ela não tiraria, especialmente pelo brilho nos seus olhos. — Mas sou eu quem faço você se sentir vivo.

— Você não é absolutamente nada para mim — afirmei, aproximando meu rosto dela, sentido minhas veias pulsando fortemente. — Você é apenas uma vagabunda que gosta quando eu fodo você e prometo te levar aos céus e muito mais. E eu sou muito, muito, mais do que qualquer dia você vai conseguir capturar com as suas artimanhas.

— Nós somos o equilíbrio perfeito de uma destruição — Jordyn rebateu, e eu a beijei logo em seguida, sem conseguir evitar o toque de sua pele contra a minha.

Enquanto a penetrava sobre a mesa do meu próprio escritório, sua bunda ficando vermelha a cada tapa que acertava em sua pele, sabia que estava abrindo espaço para o perigo, o maior de todos os que meu pai me alertou, anos antes.

"E se, pior ainda, você arranjar um bastardo?"

As chances eram reais e elas pioocavam em minha mente, quando Jacqueline surgiu de roupão e um colar de diamantes, me dando as boas novas. E eu jurei a ela que jamais iria falhar com ela ou com nosso futuro bebê. Mas, novamente, estava deixando todo o carisma falar por mim. Porque precisava dele para escapar das consequências dos meus atos. Foi graças a ele que consegui despir seu roupão, o deixando cair sobre o chão do quarto antes de me colocar de joelhos e encaixar minha boca na buceta de minha esposa, sentindo suas unhas arranharem meus ombros e ouvindo todos os xingamentos que ela direcionava a mim.

Não que eu realmente me importasse. Não enquanto estava ocupado provando mais uma vez de seu gosto inebriante e afundando dois dedos em sua cabidade quente e molhada. E a cada "meu Deus" que Jacqueline pronunciava, eu tinha a certeza de que ela não se referia a nenhuma entidade superior que não a mim.

Mas sabia que tudo teria um preço bem alto a ser pago, eventualmente.

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O divórcio foi algo que era esperado, depois de todos os eventos decorrentes do debate que nunca aconteceu. Assinei em uma noite e na noite seguinte estava fazendo fotos saindo da terapia, pois claramente eu tinha um problema muito grande. Meus irmãos diziam que era uma questão de estar a procura do amor verdadeiro, ao meu modo, e que nisso eu metia os pés pelas mãos. Mas a verdade é que eu tinha um único relacionamento ao qual eu levava a sério e era a minha carreira política. E enquanto a poeira abaixava, me dedicava a diversos projetos ao mesmo tempo, mantendo a minha limpeza de imagem em dia. Inclusive, inaugurando prédios por toda a Califórnia. Até mesmo um novo centro esportivo para atletas da ginástica, evento esse que contou com a participação de ninguém mais, ninguém menos, que Billie Muller.

E eu deveria pensar duas vezes no assunto antes de fazer a pergunta. A mulher era a melhor amiga da minha ex-amante. Mas ela ficava uma tentação naquele vestido e eu queria muito confirmar que ela não usava nada por debaixo dele. Então encostei minha mão em suas costas, em uma das várias fotos oficiais do evento, e desci a palma por sua coluna, a apalpando em um movimento extremamente sutil. Nossos olhares se cruzaram e eu mal pude conter o sorriso em meu rosto. Porque ele revelaria toda a verdade: a de que estava morrendo de vontade de fodê-la.

— Se me permite — falei a ela, no momento em que passamos para dentro do quarto do Château Mormont. Ergui suas pernas até a altura de minha cintura e colei meus lábios nos seus, minhas mãos segurando a firmeza de sua bunda como se fosse um troféu.

E conforme a despia, e meus lábios buscavam cada espaço de pele à mostra, tinha aberto mão de alguma justificativa para meus atos. Eu gostava de sexo, eu gostava da adrenalina de me envolver com alguém e eventualmente ser pego. Eu gostava de ser a pessoa mais poderosa em um quarto e que poderia ser derrubada assim que aquela outra pessoa abrisse a boca e contasse tudo o que tínhamos vivido juntos. Jordyn estava errada, afinal. Era isso que me fazia sentir vivo.

— Abra a boca — ordenei a Billie, a colocando de joelhos a minha frente, a vendo estimular seu próprio clitóris. Minha mão acariciava meu pau, o punhetando com firmeza, um sorriso perverso em meu rosto. Preferia gozar dentro e enchê-la com a minha porra? Sim. Mas aprendi ao menos uma lição nessa confusão inteira: a de que podia marcar as pessoas de outras formas. — Não desperdice uma só gota.

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Era claro que levava como um grande esporte, um no qual eu poderia perder tudo de uma única vez. Mas quando dei por mim, estava piscando para Mayra Zizes enquanto ela passava uma descompostura em Moscow por sonegar impostos. Ela e a ruivinha na sala passavam por maus bocados nas mãos dos meus irmãos - e do meu contador, que seguia a mesma cartilha que eles -, mas o que eu não conseguia desgrudar o olhar era da forma furiosa e sem medo com que ela discutia com meu irmão mais velho. Como se ela fosse derrubá-lo no chão a qualquer momento e enchê-lo de socos e pontapés. Ela era feroz.

E meu pau endureceu assim que ela abriu um sorriso mordaz.

— Qual o número da sua advogada mesmo? — Questionei Moscow, assim que a dupla saiu. Ao receber o olhar questionador de meu irmão, acrescentei: — Mayra. Não vi anel algum em sua mão esquerda, então suponho que a levar para uma degustação de vinhos não será realmente um crime.

Fora o problema de jogo de interesses, é claro, mas eu não lembrava desse mero detalhe quando puxei sua calcinha para o lado e toquei sua buceta. Escondi meu rosto em seu pescoço, aspirando o seu perfume, a dedando devagar, a tendo sentada em meu colo, meu pau latejando dentro das minhas roupas.

— Eu prometo ser gentil... A não ser que não queira — avisei, antes de morder seu ombro, dois dedos a estocando e um brincando com o seu clitóris.

Só parei quando a senti derreter em meus braços, tão entregue que tirar suas roupas se tornou uma luta. Fechei minha boca em um de seus peitos com a roupa embolada em sua cintura, sem paciência alguma para esperar por mais. De frente para mim, minhas mãos a guiavam em meu colo, sentindo meu caralho afundar dentro daquela buceta tão quente e receptiva. Meus dentes arranharam cada canto que consegui alcançar, antes de se prenderem em seu pescoço, deixando uma marca que acusaria o ocorrido no dia seguinte, enquanto sentia um orgasmo me levar ao fim daquele ato. Beijei sua testa antes de ir lidar com a camisinha e retornar para o ambiente, a pegando no colo, um sorriso sereno.

— Eu vou cuidar de você. Prometo.

E foi o que eu fiz. Com anos e anos de experiência. Com a disposição de uma vida inteira. Com a adrenalina correndo por minhas veias. Exatamente como eu jamais poderia me cansar de ter.

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Mackenzie Foy & Julio Peña Fernández

Les gifs de Mackenzie & Julio sont la propriété de leurs créateurs, que je remercie d'avoir mis en libre-service !

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Happy Birthday filmmaker Gillian Berrie, born on September 8th 1967 in Glasgow.

In 1996 Gillian co-founded Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie, writing and producing serial award-winning shorts, 'California Sunshine' and 'Somersault'.

Alongside, Gillian gained experience in numerous film and television roles, ie Casting Director on Ken Loach's 'My Name is Joe' (for which Peter Mullan won the Palme D'or in Cannes) and Lynne Ramsay's legendary 'Ratcatcher'.

Casting experience on the aforementioned led Gillian to create the charity, 'Starfish' which then became 'Jumpcut', which morphed into 'Short Circuit', and 'Big Fish Casting' which segued into Kahleen Crawford Casting

Gillian then produced many of David Mackenzie's films including: Last Great Wilderness, Hallam Foe, Young Adam, You Instead (aka Tonight You're Mine), Perfect Sense, Starred Up and the biggest film ever to be make in Scotland, Outlaw King. She was also heavily involved in the post-production, festival, UK/US theatrical release and Oscar campaign for Academy Award Nominee 'Hell or High Water'.

Sigma's films regularly premiere at A-List festivals and have received over 150 awards internationally, including the Prix de Jury in Cannes for Red Road, and the Silver Bear in Berlin for Hallam Foe, as well as numerous BIFA and BAFTA nominations and awards.

At the Scottish BAFTA New Talent Awards in 2002 Gillian won the BAFTA for Outstanding Achievement.

In order to create a vibrant hub for the film community in Scotland, Gillian founded the 65,000 square ft state of the art, Film City Glasgow in 2004. Since then it has been a full house of productions and film-makers.

In 2012 she founded 'Jumpcut', the UK's one and only, intensive, mentor-led Summer School to provide a fast-track for youngsters into working in the film industry. This project was a runaway success. Over 75% of the participants went onto working in the industry. It ran for two years and won several awards.

She also co-produced the multi-prize winner 'Dear Frankie' and Jonathan's Glazer's 'Under the Skin' (which won 23 awards and received 110 nominations).

Gillian also produced several features for first time feature film directors, including David Mackenzie, Colin Kennedy, Andrea Arnold, Morag MacKinnon and Ciaran Foy, as well as numerous additional shorts including the lauded I Love Luci.

Gillian continues to contribute to the next generation of Scottish film-makers through Short Circuit, which is in its 3rd year and has so far given the first opportunities in film-making to hundreds of new-comers and produced dozens of short films and is developing a number of feature films.

Short Circuit is Scotland's hub for filmmaking talent, supporting the creative and professional development of new and emerging writers, directors, and producers.

Over three years, Short Circuit's film commissioning strand ‘Sharp Shorts’ will award over £400,000 in funding across 27 filmmaking teams, creating opportunities for Scotland's most exciting emerging new screen talent.

‘Sharp Shorts’ has become one of Scotland's most diverse creative initiatives, with an overwhelming majority of female filmmakers as well as significant representation across the LGBTQ+, non-white and disabled communities.

The first batch of short films are screening internationally at festivals such as SXSW, BFI Flare, EIFF, Dinard, LSFF, Berlin, with multiple awards. In particular, Sean Lionadh's short Too Rough has won 11 awards to date.

The ‘First Features’ strand, with a fund of over £300,000, will support 30 new writers, directors, and producers, enabling Scotland-based filmmakers to take a career-defining step towards making their debut feature.

In 2022, Berrie exec-produced the critically acclaimed Pilot and 2nd episode of the Disney/ FX series Under the Banner of Heaven for which Andrew Garfield was nominated for an Emmy .She also produced Taron Egerton's feature, Tetris, which I was impressed with.

Relay, about a broker of lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten them breaks his own rules when a new client seeks his protection to stay alive. is the latest film she has produced, it actually premieres today at the Toronto International Film Festival. Next up is a thrilled called Fuze where construction workers in London unearth an unexploded WWII bomb, forcing evacuation. Opportunistic thieves use the chaos as cover for an elaborate heist.

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Mackenzie Foy💗

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📷 Raven Berlin

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Tom Blyth and Mackenzie Lansing

Berlin, 2022

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hello cat and ( sometimes ) mouse! can you suggest me faceclaims with resources that are fitting for a 80's spy setting? aged 25-40, any gender as i haven't decided on anything more yet about the character. thank you!

Matthew Rhys (1974) - in The Americans.

David Harbour (1975) - in Stanger Things.

Keri Russell (1976) - in The Americans.

Luke Evans (1979) - is gay - in Anna - Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

Lee Pace (1979) - is queer - in Halt and Catch Fire.

T'Nia Miller (1980) Afro Jamaican - is a lesbian - in The Haunting of Bly Manor.

Angelica Ross (1980) African-American - is trans - in American Horry Story 1984.

Kate Siegel (1982) Ashkenazi Jewish - is bisexual - in The Haunting of Bly Manor.

Andrew Garfield (1983) Ashkenazi Jewish / English - in Under the Banner of Heaven.

Kerry Bishé (1984) - in Halt and Catch Fire.

Rahul Kohli (1985) Punjabi Indian - in American Horry Story 1984.

Mackenzie Davis (1987) - in Halt and Catch Fire.

Mayra Hermosillo (1987) Mexican - in Narcos.

Ritu Arya (1988) Indian - in The Umbrella Academy.

David Castañeda (1989) Mexican - in The Umbrella Academy.

Damson Idris (1991) Yoruba Nigerian - in Snowfall.

Rawan Mahdi (1992) Iraqi - in The Exchange.

Sasha Luss (1992) - in Anna - Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

Jella Haase (1992) - in Kleo - After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a former spy killer is set free and embarks on a revenge spree against the people who conspired to betray her.

I'm not great at period asks but here you go!

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NIKE JUKU Ft.「WOO! GO!」by ATARASHII GAKKOU from Mackenzie Sheppard on Vimeo.

WINNER - Ciclope Asia GOLD 2022 - Best Director WINNER - Ciclope Berlin SILVER 2022 - Choreography 1.4 Awards - Flying High, Shortlist, Longlist - Branded

Nike Juku music video I directed [Woo! Go!] by Atarashii Gakkou. Credits below!

WIEDEN+KENNEDY TOKYO @wktokyo Creative Director Curro de la Villa (クーロ・デ・ラ・ヴィラ) @currodlv Senior Copywriter Nedal Ahmed (ネダル・アハメド) @nedallll Yumiko Ota (太田祐美子) @yuninota Senior Art Director Kazuhi Yoshikawa (吉川一陽) @kazuhi_yoshikawa Lead Producer Kosuke Sasaki (佐々木洸介) @kosukelawrence Account Director Jordan Cappadocia (ジョーダン・カパドーシャ) @jordancap Account Supervisor Chelsea Hayashi (ハヤシ・チェルシー) @chelseamiwa Kaede Ose (大瀬楓) @kadesyrup Account Executive Ryu Kaida (海田隆) @ryukaida727 Producers Ty Demura (出村太) @tydemura Yoko Onodera (小野寺陽子) @choco2910 Comms Planning Director Justin Lam (ジャスティン・ラム) @justinclam Comms Planner Joanna Fukae (深江ジョアナ) @joyofu Strategic Planning Director Thijs van de Wouw (タイス・ヴォン・デ・ウォ) @thijs.vandewouw Strategic Planner Rina Deguchi (出口莉奈) @rinadagucci Studio Designer Akane Yasuda (安田茜) @akaa.ne Shotaro Tomiyama（富山庄太郎） Studio Manager Aiwei Ichikawa (市川愛維) Agency Editor Vinod Vijayasankaran (ヴィジャヤサンカラン　ヴィノド) @videovinod PR Midori Sugama (菅間碧) @midorisugama Translator Mako Tomita (富田万木子) Executive Creative Director Scott Dungate (スコット・ダンゲート) @scotty_fingers Managing Director Yosuke Suzuki (鈴木洋介) @mrnobody8695

WELCOME FILM PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION COMPANY AOI Pro. Director Mackenzie Sheppard (マッケンジー・シェパード) @mackshepp Creative Assistant w/ Mack - Kai Sandy Producer Daisuke Misu（三須大輔）@misu_da Director of Photography Mikul Eriksson（マイケル・エリクソン) ＠_mikul Line Producer Anna Liu（アンナ・リュウ）/ Sumire Matsumura（松村すみれ） Production Manager Kazuki Omi（近江和希）/ Kanako Sato (佐藤果南子) Assistant Director Hideaki Jimbo（神保英昭）/ Kai Hoshino Sandy (サンデイー・ホシノ・カイ) Production Designer Masami Tanaka（田中 真紗美）@masamit0125 Casting Director (for Atarashii Gakko!) Shohei Ueno (上野昇平) @shohey02 Casting Director Mai Ikeda（池田舞）/Misaki Matsui（松井美咲）/Rikiya Takano（髙野力哉） Lighting Director Arata Ijichi（伊地知新） Stylist YOPPY（よっぴー）@yoppy0123456789 Hair & Make up PHOEBE（フィービー）@feebz_ Choreographer Nozomi de Lencquesaing (ド・ランクザン・望) @nozominski

STUDY BREAK PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION COMPANY AOI Pro. Director ZUMI（中角壮一）@zoomin.graph Producer Daisuke Misu（三須大輔）@misu_da Production Manager Kai Tsuyuguchi（露口 凱）@kai_0425 /Yurika Yamada (山田 百合佳) Director of Photography Shun Murakami（村上 俊）@shun_murakami_ Casting Director Mai Ikeda（池田 舞） Lighting Director Yamato Watanabe（渡邉 大和）@yamato0326_ Wardrobe | Costume | Styling YOPPY（よっぴー）@yoppy0123456789 Hair & Make up PHOEBE（フィービー）@feebz_ Production Design Masami Tanaka（田中 真紗美）@masamit0125

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Editor Sachi Sasaki @ssachi0528 Assistant editor Tomonori Watanabe @_tomostudio Sound Designer Mike Regan (マイク・リーガン) @mikeregannoise Sound Mixer yoshizaki.masaaki（吉崎 雅章）/Hiroki.Okumura（奥村 宏貴） Colorist Mikey Rossiter (マイキー・ロシター) @mikolour / Haruka.Okutsu（奥津春香） Film Transfer Metropolis Post (メトロポリスポスト) Compositor Murata Chitoshi（村田 千登志）/ Yamaguchi Sakiyo（山口 紗清） FX Artist Naomi Hayashi（林 直美） Animation Takashi Ohashi (大橋史) @ohashitakashi

STILL PRODUCTION Photographer Masumi Ishida (石田真澄）@8msmsm8 Assistant Photographer Ryuji Tamaki (玉城竜次) Retoucher Takuya Tsugane (津金 卓也)

STUDY BREAK - LA TEAM Production Company Couscous @couscous Executive Producer Bear Damen @beardamen Producer Salim El Arja 1st AD Kat Nguyen @katnguyenfilm Line Producer Po-Wei Su @poweisub Production Accountant Neil Engelman Locations Manager Tom Macdonnald DoP Logan Triplett @logan_triplett 1st AC Mike Lemnitzer @hellyeamike 2nd AC/Loader Vinnie Bredemus @vinniebredemus Key Grip Shun Goldin Grip Oscar Matute Audio Mixer Jeremy Emery @jeremyemery Medic / CCO Chris Serafin Driver PA Alessandro Sassi Processing/Scan Fotokem @fotokem_la Dailies Producer David Boito

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Hello lovely helpers!! I hope you’re having a nice Valentine’s Day! Can I please ask for some female (and non binary) faceclaims between 18-40 who can play the sisters of a Lyndsy Fonseca faceclaim, please? Thank you so much in advance <3 :)

happy valentine's day! the answer is under the cut.

bella ramsey (19) – bella is genderfluid and uses any pronouns!

talia ryder (20)

maddie ziegler (20)

zoe colletti (21)

ava allan (22)

landry bender (22)

mackenzie foy (22)

brenna d’amico (22)

maisie peters (22)

milly alcock (22)

thomasin mckenzie (22)

bailee madison (23)

kiernan shipka (23)

danielle rose russell (23)

katelyn nacon (23)

alva bratt (24)

ryan simpkins – (24) ryan is nonbinary and uses they/she pronouns!

maya hawke (24)

eliana jones (25)

nicole maines (25) – nicole is a trans woman!

maisie williams (25)

kristine froseth (26)

lorde (26)

madison davenport (26)

katherine langford (26)

ella purnell (26)

kaitlyn dever (26)

haley lu richardson (27)

liv hewson (27) – liv is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns!

emma mackey (27)

emma corrin (27) – emma is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns!

liana liberato (27)

natalia dyer (28)

danielle campbell (28)

bridgette lundy paine (28) – bridgette is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns!

margaret qualley (28)

emilija baranac (28)

liz gillies (29)

barbara palvin (29)

alycia debnam carey (29)

emily rudd (29)

india eisley (29)

daisy ridley (30)

er fightmaster (30) – er is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns!

gracie gillam (30)

katie stevens (30)

theo germaine (30) – theo is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns!

kaya scodelario (30)

jessica barden (30)

willa holland (31)

spencer locke (31)

kacey rohl (31)

lauren berlin (32)

eliot sumner (32) – elliot is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns!

rachel brosnahan (32)

dominique provost-chalkley (32) – dominique is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns!

sarah hyland (32)

cassie scerbo (32)

meghann fahy (32)

dakota johnson (33)

lucy hale (33)

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[lboogie1906]

Matthew Mackenzie “Mack” Robinson (July 18, 1914 – March 12, 2000) was born in Cairo, Georgia. He grew up with three other siblings, including Jackie Robinson. His mother Mallie Robinson decided to take her five children to California. They moved to Pasadena by train in 1920 where the athletic careers of the Robinson brothers would blossom.

While at Pasadena Junior College, he excelled in track and field; he would set national junior college records in the 100m, 200m, and the long jump. The 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles inspired him to train for the succeeding games. He trained despite his health issues and earned a spot on the 1936 US Olympic team. He traveled with the team that summer to the Berlin Games which were hosted by Nazi Germany. He was one of eighteen Black athletes, including twelve track-and-field competitors, to represent the US.

He along with the rest of the African American athletes, performed remarkably well, collecting 83 of America’s 167 points. He contributed with a silver medal in the 200 meters behind Jesse Owens. He befriended University of Oregon head coach Bill Hayward who persuaded him to enroll there. He won numerous titles and set a school record in the 220-yard hurdles. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in Physical Education.

He applied for work with the city of Pasadena he was given a pushcart and a broom and worked as a street sweeper on the night shift. On cold nights he wore his Olympic jacket much to the irritation of may local residents.

He became an advocate against street crime in jobs with various organizations and in volunteer work. During the opening ceremony of the 1984 Olympics, Robinson, along with other medalists, carried the giant Olympic flag into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. He received the prestigious Webfoot Award from the University of Oregon Alumni Association in recognition of his accomplishments. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[gloomth-and-wanderings]

Mackenzie and the Berlin Doctors would be a good band name

[irisfilmcollective]

We are excited to have Iris Film Collective member Alex MacKenzie participating in the third and final phase of the SPECTRAL Wanderings research seminar in Nantes (France) followed by a european tour of his EXPERIMENTS FOR A SINGLE PROJECTOR with workshops as well in Nantes, Rennes, Berlin, Riga, Helsinki and Vaasa between February 17 and March 11, 2024. Be sure to check it out if you are in the neighbourhood!

Details and links at alexmackenzie.ca

[montysworld]

NIKE JUKU Ft.「WOO! GO!」by ATARASHII GAKKOU from Mackenzie Sheppard on Vimeo.

WINNER - Cannes Lions 2023 - FILM | Silver Nominated - the One Show 2023 - Best Director WINNER - Spikes GOLD 2023 - Best Director WINNER - Spikes SILVER 2022 - Best Casting WINNER - Ciclope Asia GOLD 2022 - Best Director WINNER - Ciclope Berlin SILVER 2022 - Choreography 1.4 Awards - Flying High, Shortlist, Longlist - Branded

Nike Juku music video I directed [Woo! Go!] by Atarashii Gakkou. Credits below!

WIEDEN+KENNEDY TOKYO @wktokyo Creative Director Curro de la Villa (クーロ・デ・ラ・ヴィラ) @currodlv Senior Copywriter Nedal Ahmed (ネダル・アハメド) @nedallll Yumiko Ota (太田祐美子) @yuninota Senior Art Director Kazuhi Yoshikawa (吉川一陽) @kazuhi_yoshikawa Lead Producer Kosuke Sasaki (佐々木洸介) @kosukelawrence Account Director Jordan Cappadocia (ジョーダン・カパドーシャ) @jordancap Account Supervisor Chelsea Hayashi (ハヤシ・チェルシー) @chelseamiwa Kaede Ose (大瀬楓) @kadesyrup Account Executive Ryu Kaida (海田隆) @ryukaida727 Producers Ty Demura (出村太) @tydemura Yoko Onodera (小野寺陽子) @choco2910 Comms Planning Director Justin Lam (ジャスティン・ラム) @justinclam Comms Planner Joanna Fukae (深江ジョアナ) @joyofu Strategic Planning Director Thijs van de Wouw (タイス・ヴォン・デ・ウォ) @thijs.vandewouw Strategic Planner Rina Deguchi (出口莉奈) @rinadagucci Studio Designer Akane Yasuda (安田茜) @akaa.ne Shotaro Tomiyama（富山庄太郎） Studio Manager Aiwei Ichikawa (市川愛維) Agency Editor Vinod Vijayasankaran (ヴィジャヤサンカラン　ヴィノド) @videovinod PR Midori Sugama (菅間碧) @midorisugama Translator Mako Tomita (富田万木子) Executive Creative Director Scott Dungate (スコット・ダンゲート) @scotty_fingers Managing Director Yosuke Suzuki (鈴木洋介) @mrnobody8695

WELCOME FILM PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION COMPANY AOI Pro. Director Mackenzie Sheppard (マッケンジー・シェパード) @mackshepp Creative Assistant w/ Mack - Kai Sandy Producer Daisuke Misu（三須大輔）@misu_da Director of Photography Mikul Eriksson（マイケル・エリクソン) ＠_mikul Line Producer Anna Liu（アンナ・リュウ）/ Sumire Matsumura（松村すみれ） Production Manager Kazuki Omi（近江和希）/ Kanako Sato (佐藤果南子) Assistant Director Hideaki Jimbo（神保英昭）/ Kai Hoshino Sandy (サンデイー・ホシノ・カイ) Production Designer Masami Tanaka（田中 真紗美）@masamit0125 Casting Director (for Atarashii Gakko!) Shohei Ueno (上野昇平) @shohey02 Casting Director Mai Ikeda（池田舞）/Misaki Matsui（松井美咲）/Rikiya Takano（髙野力哉） Lighting Director Arata Ijichi（伊地知新） Stylist YOPPY（よっぴー）@yoppy0123456789 Hair & Make up PHOEBE（フィービー）@feebz_ Choreographer Nozomi de Lencquesaing (ド・ランクザン・望) @nozominski

STUDY BREAK PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION COMPANY AOI Pro. Director ZUMI（中角壮一）@zoomin.graph Producer Daisuke Misu（三須大輔）@misu_da Production Manager Kai Tsuyuguchi（露口 凱）@kai_0425 /Yurika Yamada (山田 百合佳) Director of Photography Shun Murakami（村上 俊）@shun_murakami_ Casting Director Mai Ikeda（池田 舞） Lighting Director Yamato Watanabe（渡邉 大和）@yamato0326_ Wardrobe | Costume | Styling YOPPY（よっぴー）@yoppy0123456789 Hair & Make up PHOEBE（フィービー）@feebz_ Production Design Masami Tanaka（田中 真紗美）@masamit0125

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Editor Sachi Sasaki @ssachi0528 Assistant editor Tomonori Watanabe @_tomostudio Sound Designer Mike Regan (マイク・リーガン) @mikeregannoise Sound Mixer yoshizaki.masaaki（吉崎 雅章）/Hiroki.Okumura（奥村 宏貴） Colorist Mikey Rossiter (マイキー・ロシター) @mikolour / Haruka.Okutsu（奥津春香） Film Transfer Metropolis Post (メトロポリスポスト) Compositor Murata Chitoshi（村田 千登志）/ Yamaguchi Sakiyo（山口 紗清） FX Artist Naomi Hayashi（林 直美） Animation Takashi Ohashi (大橋史) @ohashitakashi

STILL PRODUCTION Photographer Masumi Ishida (石田真澄）@8msmsm8 Assistant Photographer Ryuji Tamaki (玉城竜次) Retoucher Takuya Tsugane (津金 卓也)

STUDY BREAK - LA TEAM Production Company Couscous @couscous Executive Producer Bear Damen @beardamen Producer Salim El Arja 1st AD Kat Nguyen @katnguyenfilm Line Producer Po-Wei Su @poweisub Production Accountant Neil Engelman Locations Manager Tom Macdonnald DoP Logan Triplett @logan_triplett 1st AC Mike Lemnitzer @hellyeamike 2nd AC/Loader Vinnie Bredemus @vinniebredemus Key Grip Shun Goldin Grip Oscar Matute Audio Mixer Jeremy Emery @jeremyemery Medic / CCO Chris Serafin Driver PA Alessandro Sassi Processing/Scan Fotokem @fotokem_la Dailies Producer David Boito

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[atletasudando]

Flor Denis Ruiz, la heroína colombiana en Budapest

La medalla de plata obtenida por la colombiana Flor Denis Ruiz en el lanzamiento de jabalina fue la gran sorpresa del atletismo sudamericano en el Campeonato Mundial en Budapest, que culmina este domingo 27 de agosto. Ruiz había participado en tres Mundiales, aunque nunca llegó a la fase decisiva (algo que sí consiguió en los Juegos Olímpicos de Rio 2016, donde terminó novena). Con su gran actuación en Budapest, no solo volvió a batir el récord sudamericano que colocó en 65.47, sino que se constituyó en la primera atleta de nuestra región que consigue una medalla en el sector de lanzamientos. Otras dos atletas sudamericanas también estuvieron en esta final, el viernes 25: la brasileña Jucilene Sales de Lima (8ª. con 60.34) y la colombiana María Lucelly Murillo (11ª. con 54.85). La campeona, con su último disparo, fue la japonesa Haruka Kitaguchi (66.73), quien había logrado la medalla de bronce el año pasado en Eugene y lideraba el ranking de esta temporada con sus 67.04 desde la Diamond League en Chorzow, en julio. La campeona en Eugene 2022 fue la australiana Kelseu-Lee Barber, quien ahora buscaba convertirse en la primera jabalinista con tres títulos consecutivos, pero terminó 7ª. con 61.19. EN cambio, su compatriota Mackenzie Little se llevó la medalla de bronce con 63.38. Fue en el último intento donde Kitaguchi pudo desplazar a Ruiz de la vanguardia. Y también en la última ronda donde Little ascendió al bronce, desalojando a la letona Anete Kocina (terminó cuarta con 63.18). La serie de la colombiana fue: 65.47 62.45 62.89 59.73 nulo y 60.97.                 "Estuve entrenando muy duro para esto durante toda la temporada. Estuve nerviosa todo el tiempo, luchando contra la ansiedad, pero ahora he aprendido a controlarla y eso me alcanzó para ganarme una plata", comentó Ruiz. "Logré mi mejor marca personal con este lanzamiento de hoy. Realmente estoy sin palabras. He estado soñando, soñando, soñando, y finalmente mi sueño se convirtió en realidad", afirmó. Ahora vienen nuevos desafíos para Flor Denis, en los Juegos Panamericanos en Chile, los Juegos Nacionales, también en noviembre; para cerrar este ciclo en París 2024, donde ya tiene asegurada una casilla, tras superar la marca de los 64,00 metros. Ruiz viene de Praderas (Valle), donde nació el 29 de enero de 1991.   Todas las campeonas mundiales de jabalina 1983 Stuttgart: Tiina Lillak (Finlandia) 70.82 1987 Roma Fatima Whitbread (Gran Bretña) 76.64 1991 Tokio: Xu Demei (China) 68.78 1993 Stuttgart: Trine Hattestad (Noruega) 69.18 1995 Gotenburgo: Natalya Shikolenko (Belarús) 67.56 1997 Atenas: Trine Hattestad (Noruega) 68.78 1999 Sevilla: Mirela Tzelili (Grecia) 67.09 2001 Edmonton: Osleidys Menéndez (Cuba) 69.53 2003 París: Mirela Manjani (Grecia) 68.52 2005 Helsinki: Osleidys Menéndez (Cuba) 71.70 2007 Osaka: Barbora Spotákova (República Checa) 67.07 2009 Berlin: Steffi Nerius (Alemania) 67.30 2011 Daegu: Barbora Spotákova (República Checa) 71.58 2013 Moscú: Christian Obergföll (Alemnia) 69.05 2015 Beijing: Katharina Molitor (Alemania) 67.69 2017 Londres. Barbora Spotákova (República Checa) 66.76 2019 Doha: Kelsey-Lee Barber (Australia) 66.56 2022 Eugene: Kelsey-Lee Barber (Australia) 66.91 2023 Haruka Kitaguchi (Japón) 66.73 Read the full article

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday filmmaker Gillian Berrie, born on September 8th 1967 in Glasgow.

In 1996 Gillian co-founded Sigma Films with director David Mackenzie, writing and producing serial award-winning shorts, 'California Sunshine' and 'Somersault'.

Alongside, Gillian gained experience in numerous film and television roles, ie Casting Director on Ken Loach's 'My Name is Joe' (for which Peter Mullan won the Palme D'or in Cannes) and Lynne Ramsay's legendary 'Ratcatcher'.

Casting experience on the aforementioned led Gillian to create the charity, 'Starfish' which then became 'Jumpcut', which morphed into 'Short Circuit', and 'Big Fish Casting' which segued into Kahleen Crawford Casting

Gillian then produced many of David Mackenzie's films including: Last Great Wilderness, Hallam Foe, Young Adam, You Instead (aka Tonight You're Mine), Perfect Sense, Starred Up and the biggest film ever to be make in Scotland, Outlaw King. She was also heavily involved in the post-production, festival, UK/US theatrical release and Oscar campaign for Academy Award Nominee 'Hell or High Water'.

Sigma's films regularly premiere at A-List festivals and have received over 150 awards internationally, including the Prix de Jury in Cannes for Red Road, and the Silver Bear in Berlin for Hallam Foe, as well as numerous BIFA and BAFTA nominations and awards.

At the Scottish BAFTA New Talent Awards in 2002 Gillian won the BAFTA for Outstanding Achievement.

In order to create a vibrant hub for the film community in Scotland, Gillian founded the 65,000 square ft state of the art, Film City Glasgow in 2004. Since then it has been a full house of productions and film-makers.

In 2012 she founded 'Jumpcut', the UK's one and only, intensive, mentor-led Summer School to provide a fast-track for youngsters into working in the film industry. This project was a runaway success. Over 75% of the participants went onto working in the industry. It ran for two years and won several awards.

She also co-produced the multi-prize winner 'Dear Frankie' and Jonathan's Glazer's 'Under the Skin' (which won 23 awards and received 110 nominations).

Gillian also produced several features for first time feature film directors, including David Mackenzie, Colin Kennedy, Andrea Arnold, Morag MacKinnon and Ciaran Foy, as well as numerous additional shorts including the lauded I Love Luci.

Gillian continues to contribute to the next generation of Scottish film-makers through Short Circuit, which is in its 3rd year and has so far given the first opportunities in film-making to hundreds of new-comers and produced dozens of short films and is developing a number of feature films.

Short Circuit is Scotland's hub for filmmaking talent, supporting the creative and professional development of new and emerging writers, directors, and producers.

Over three years, Short Circuit's film commissioning strand ‘Sharp Shorts’ will award over £400,000 in funding across 27 filmmaking teams, creating opportunities for Scotland's most exciting emerging new screen talent.

‘Sharp Shorts’ has become one of Scotland's most diverse creative initiatives, with an overwhelming majority of female filmmakers as well as significant representation across the LGBTQ+, non-white and disabled communities.

The first batch of short films are screening internationally at festivals such as SXSW, BFI Flare, EIFF, Dinard, LSFF, Berlin, with multiple awards. In particular, Sean Lionadh's short Too Rough has won 11 awards to date.

The ‘First Features��� strand, with a fund of over £300,000, will support 30 new writers, directors, and producers, enabling Scotland-based filmmakers to take a career-defining step towards making their debut feature.

Most recently, Berrie exec-produced the critically acclaimed Pilot and 2nd episode of the Disney/ FX series Under the Banner of Heaven for which Andrew Garfield was nominated for an Emmy (2022). She also produced Taron Egerton's feature, Tetris, which I watched a few weeks ago and was impressed with .

[denimbex1986]

'Lilli Schwenk Hornig was 23 years old when she arrived at Los Alamos to contribute to the development of an atomic bomb that would end World War II. A passionate chemist, Lilli battled sexism throughout her academic and professional careers and remained a steadfast advocate for female scientists like herself.

Lilli Hornig: What I remember in my mind is the—these sort of boiling clouds and color—vivid colors like violet, purple, orange, yellow, red, just everything. And we were all kind of shaken up.

Katie Hafner: That’s the scientist Lilli Hornig, describing what she recalls of the first test of a nuclear bomb on 16 July 1945 in the New Mexico desert.

This is Lost Women of the Manhattan Project, a special series of Lost Women of Science focusing on the female scientists and their contributions to the building of the first atomic bomb.

In this episode, we share the story of a young chemist who experienced Nazism firsthand in Europe before finding herself in the middle of the United States’ war against Hitler, working against time to develop the detonating device that would make the Trinity test possible. After that test, and the bombs themselves that were dropped on Japan, she was shaken, and haunted.

We also want to tell you Lilli Hornig’s story because she's an example of something we keep seeing over and over at Lost Women of Science: female scientists who follow their scientist husbands to new jobs in academe or industry. The Manhattan Project scooped up many of these spouses though it’s impossible to put a number on just how many.

And there’s more about Lilli Hornig: she’s the only female scientist named in Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film. Her cameo appearance isn’t far off the mark. She’s shown as a woman determined to work as a chemist, not a secretary.

In 2011, the year she turned 90, the real Lilli Hornig sat down for an oral history interview with the Atomic Heritage Foundation. The audio you’ll hear from that conversation is a little bit scratchy, and although Hornig is still as sharp as can be, it’s clear that she’s, well, 90.

Producer Mackenzie Tatananni brings us Lilli Hornig’s story.

Mackenzie Tatananni: Lilli Schwenk was born on March 22, 1921, to Jewish parents in a tiny Czech town about 50 miles outside of Prague. Her father was an organic chemist, her mother a pediatrician. Lilli was introduced to science during her formative years, and the interest stuck.

Hornig: My father took me occasionally, very occasionally, on a Sunday to his lab, and I just loved all the glassware, and he gave me some micro-sized glassware for my doll house. So, I always assumed I would be either a chemist or a physician. And I was kind of squeamish at the time, so I went for chemistry.

Tatananni: In 1929, when Lilli was eight years old, she moved with her family to Berlin, where her father began work for a pharmaceutical company. But anti-semitism was on the rise and the Nazis were establishing a stronghold throughout Germany. The danger to the Schwenk family was palpable.

Hornig: After Hitler came to power, my father was actually being threatened with being taken off to a concentration camp.

Tatananni: Fearing for his life, her father fled alone to the United States in 1933. It would be months before Lilli and her mother were able to join him, settling in Montclair, New Jersey.

The U.S. was a daunting new world for Lilli. She barely spoke English. School was the biggest shock of all. Everything was unfamiliar, from the placement tests she took at the start to the creamed carrots she prepared in cooking class.

But she wasn’t deterred. Lilli earned a B.A. in chemistry from Bryn Mawr in 1942 before moving on to a graduate chemistry program at Harvard. Unlike Bryn Mawr, a women’s college, Harvard’s chemistry department was far from inviting for women. For one thing, there was no ladies’ room in the building.

Hornig: I had to go to another building. I had to get a key for it. And that sort of gave me a message.

Tatananni: At a meeting with chemistry faculty, she was told that women always had trouble with physical chemistry. Lilli did NOT want to prove them right. She studied rigorously, poring over the notes of fellow chemist Donald Hornig, a PhD student whom she’d met on her first day and soon began dating. But she flunked the first semester and was forced to retake it, only to ace it the second time around.

In spite of these trials, she earned her master's in chemistry in 1943, the same year she married Don Hornig. Don was already involved in the effort to develop nuclear weapons. His doctoral thesis investigated blast measurement, and he was studying ways to measure blasts in midair.

In 1944, Don was approached by his thesis advisor, Bright Wilson, with a job offer. But he wouldn’t elaborate on just what the job would be.

Hornig: Bright said, “Well I can’t tell you much about it.”

And Don said, “Well tell me where it is.”

And he said, “No I can’t tell you.”

“Well, can you at least tell me, is it north, south, west?”

“No, couldn’t tell you.”

Tatananni: Don relayed what little information he had to Lilli. The job offer was shrouded in so much mystery that they jointly decided that Don would turn it down. However, Don continued to face pressure, particularly from George Kistiakowsky, a physical chemist who had gone to Los Alamos to develop explosives. Kistiakowsky called Don and told him he needed him badly.

Hornig: And with a few curses, which was very much his style—he said, “Dammit, you come out here.”

Tatananni: Kistiakowsky managed to talk Don into taking the job. But–

Hornig: I said, “What am I going to do there?”

And so Don talked to George some more, and after that George said, “Oh we’re scouring the country for anybody with a Master’s in chemistry, especially from Harvard, is going to be more than welcome.”

Tatananni: She was in. They were both 23.

Hornig: You know we were so young. When I look now at our grandchildren, the youngest ones are about the age we were then and they don’t think of themselves as having adult responsibilities. It’s very striking to me because we had no doubt that we were grown up.

That spring, the couple sold their Massachusetts home and their sailboat, bought a 1937 Ford Coupe and drove to Los Alamos, New Mexico.

When they arrived…Don went straight to work…

Hornig: And I went to the personnel office. And the first question was, “How fast can you type?” And I said, “I don’t type.”

Tatananni: We see a version of this scene in the film Oppenheimer. The character Lilli Hornig catches up with Oppenheimer as he’s walking with a group of men.

[Start clip from the film Oppenheimer]

Hornig: Dr. Oppenheimer, I tried personnel. They asked if I could type.

J. Robert Oppenheimer: Can you?

Hornig: Harvard forgot to teach that on the graduate chemistry course.

[End clip from the film Oppenheimer]

Tatananni: Oppenheimer turns to one of his scientists and says, "Put Mrs. Hornig on the plutonium team.

She started with the plutonium group as soon as her security clearance came through, and she quickly found that her new life was…lonely.

Ellen McGehee: She did not have children. She was even more isolated from her, sort of female peers, because she kind of worked within her own group and socialized with her husband's friends and those couples.

Tatananni: That’s Ellen McGehee, a lab historian at the Los Alamos National Laboratory who has researched the life of Lilli Hornig.

McGehee: I sense that she had almost a, she had a pretty compartmentalized scientific experience. Even though she knew what the goal was.

Tatananni: Here’s how Lilli saw it:

Hornig: There was one other woman in the division, she and I worked together, and we had our little cubby hole and did our little procedures and put them under the geiger counter. And nobody actually really spoke to us.

Tatananni: Plutonium chemistry was a mystery at the time, as almost none of the artificial element had been created. Lilli’s group was working on studying plutonium-239, the isotope that was believed to be a powerful fuel for the atomic bomb. However, in the summer of 1944, there was a disappointing discovery. It turned out that using plutonium in a bomb would be harder than expected. Los Alamos scientists found that plutonium created in a nuclear reactor contained traces of the isotope plutonium-240, which is formed when plutonium-239 absorbs another neutron while still inside the reactor. Plutonium-240 had an extremely high rate of spontaneous fission, and could not be removed from the valuable plutonium-239. While uranium could be used in a very simple bomb design, a plutonium bomb made that way would prematurely detonate, destroying itself before its reaction got large-enough to be a viable weapon.

So the Los Alamos scientists had to pivot. And quickly.

At that time, most of the work at Los Alamos had been focused on a simple bomb design called the gun-type, in which one piece of fissile material was shot into another through a gun tube. The plutonium gun design, called Thin Man, was discontinued when it was discovered that it would pre-detonate. The scientists understood that to use plutonium in an atomic bomb, they would need to do something different.

They decided to focus on implosion, a much faster method of assembly. A sphere of plutonium would be surrounded by tons of specially-designed high explosives, detonated at exactly the same moment and potentially leading to a powerful and efficient explosion. But nothing like implosion had ever been done before. The entire organization of Los Alamos was shifted in the summer of 1944 to tackle and solve the implosion problem.

When that happened, both Lilli and the other woman were taken off work that directly involved plutonium. The men in charge were concerned that radioactive materials would affect fertility. This scene also appears in the Oppenheimer movie, but don’t blink or you’ll miss it. In case you did miss it, here’s how Lilli described her reaction to the men's concern for her health:

Hornig: They were worried obviously about reproductive damage. I tried delicately to point out that they might be more susceptible than I was; that didn’t go over well.

Tatananni: Lilli went on to join her husband in the high explosives unit. The need for precision in the explosives and their detonators was unprecedented, and that unit proved crucial to the success of the new plutonium bomb, which was codenamed Fat Man.

Here's Ellen McGehee, the Los Alamos historian, again:

McGehee: They really needed to figure out how implosion was working. And so they had to come up with all these different methods and new technologies that had to be invented on the spot and facilities that actually had to be built.

Tatananni: Lilli’s group worked on the explosive lenses used in Fat Man to focus the implosion shockwave and guarantee that pressure was uniform around the plutonium core. But just two days before the Trinity test, there was a misfire on the spark gap switch, a sensitive electronic device that Don had designed to send an electrical signal to all 32 of the lens detonators within a microsecond.

Hornig: And at two o’clock in the morning our group leader Lewis Fussell was knocking on my bedroom window saying, “You have to get up, we have some work to do.”

Tatananni: So Hornig and Fussell headed to the stock room with a list of equipment they had to replace. In a matter of hours, they located the parts, which were shipped off on a truck that same morning.

Forty eight hours later, Lilli was sitting atop a mountain in the Sandia range with colleagues, 110 miles from the test site, watching and waiting for ignition.

Hornig: We put sleeping bags on the ground. None of us slept very well, so we got up about three o'clock, I guess. And started waiting for the shock, kept keeping our eyes glued on, on the site.

Tatananni: They waited and waited, but nothing happened. They decided the test wasn't happening that day after all, and started to leave.

Hornig: I was sitting in the car reaching for my ignition key—and the thing bloomed in front of us and it was just incredible.

Tatananni: It didn’t take long for Lilli and her colleagues to understand in the most concrete of terms the potential for destruction on an unprecedented scale.

Germany had surrendered two months earlier, in May of 1945, so the war in Europe was over, but it raged on in the Pacific as Japan refused to surrender.

Lilli – and many others working on the Manhattan Project – had been in favor of building a bomb to stop the Nazis, especially if the Germans were working on one as well. But once Germany surrendered, and …

Hornig: Once the European war was over with, well, a lot of people left right away.

Tatananni: There was now a question about whether it was really necessary to drop the bomb on Japan.

Leo Szilard, a physicist working with Enrico Fermi’s group in Chicago, circulated a petition among the scientists there that called on President Truman to consider dropping the bomb only if an announcement was made first and Japan still refused to surrender.

Hornig: I remember the petition came around just after the test. Some of my friends were signing it and I thought about it and I thought that was a good idea.

We thought in our innocence that if we petitioned hard enough, they might do a demonstration test, and invite the Japanese to witness it. But of course the military I think had made the decision well before that they were going to use it no matter what. And so we had very mixed feelings about that.

Tatananni: In the end, Lilli wasn’t one of the 70 scientists who signed the petition - although she appears in the movie, speaking out against the dropping of the bomb. And she wasn’t at Los Alamos when the Americans dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan. She was in Milwaukee, visiting her in-laws.

Hornig: We knew the drop was imminent. We didn’t know the precise moment. Certainly Don’s parents didn’t have TV at the time and I don’t know if there were ever any news on, but Don and I went downtown. There were all the papers with the headlines, so we knew it had gone off.

That was an odd mix of feelings. I mean, certainly some triumph and the destruction was just so incredible. I think we’ve all been a little haunted by that over the years.

Tatananni: Shortly afterwards, Lilli fell ill with hepatitis and couldn’t return to Los Alamos. So she returned to her studies. Again she followed her husband, this time to Brown University, where she was offered lab space, all while commuting to Harvard to attend lectures.

In 1947, when Brown found itself short on chemistry faculty, Lilli stepped up to teach.

Hornig: And it was very hard to hire faculty then because there were so many guys coming back, making huge classes, and you know with that many men graduating or getting their graduate degrees during the war. Here I was with a brand new baby, with a Master’s Degree, teaching 250 guys, and I think there were six girls in the first class.

Tatananni: Lilli received her doctorate in chemistry from Harvard in 1950, and no, typing wasn’t taught in the doctoral program there, either. She continued teaching at Brown and later at Trinity College as chair of the chemistry department.

She became an outspoken champion of women in science, paying forward the hard-won role she played during a pivotal time in U.S. history. It’s hard to say what Lilli would have thought of the film in which she appears as the only female scientist. Chances are she’d have been amused, perhaps even honored. Then again, she might have been pissed off on behalf of all the women who were left out, not just of that movie, but left out of a history rich with the stories of hundreds of female scientists like her.

Tatananni: Lilli Hornig died in Rhode Island in 2017 at the age of 96.

Hafner: This has been Lost Women of the Manhattan Project. Mackenzie Tatananni produced this episode with help from Deborah Unger and from me, Katie Hafner...

Thanks, too, to Alex Wellerstein, John Townsend, the physics department of Harvey Mudd College and the American Institute of Physics for helping us get the science straight.

Those excerpts you heard from the Lilli Hornig interview were used with permission from the Atomic Heritage Foundation and the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History.

Lost Women of Science is funded in part by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Schmidt Futures. We’re distributed by PRX and produced in partnership with Scientific American.

For more about Lost Women of Science, please visit us at lostwomenofscience.org...

Hafner: A special shout-out to the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory for helping us tell the stories of the women who worked on the Manhattan Project.

We can’t tell you all their stories, but we can tell you many of their names, which we’ve been reading aloud for you on and off through this series. Here are a few more….

Speaker: Pat Patterson.

Speaker: Hazel Genzel.

Speaker: Ida Cunningham.

Speaker: Joan Clark.

Speaker: Amanda Bloom.

Speaker: Kathleen Gavin.

Speaker: Mary Rose Ford.

Speaker: Gladys Morgan Hopper.

Speaker: Creola Green McCamey

Speaker: Patricia Lear.

Speaker: Doris Dixon.

Speaker: Sonia Katz...'

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Events 8.17 (after 1900)

1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. 1915 – Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after his death sentence is commuted by Governor John Slaton. 1916 – World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side. 1918 – Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin. 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. 1943 – World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. 1943 – World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. 1945 – Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. 1945 – The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published. 1945 – Evacuation of Manchukuo: At Talitzou by the Sino-Korean border, Puyi, then the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, formally renounces the imperial throne, dissolves the state, and cedes its territory to the Republic of China. 1947 – The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed. 1949 – The 6.7 Ms  Karlıova earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 320–450 dead. 1953 – First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California. 1958 – Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country. 1959 – Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.2 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. 1960 – Aeroflot Flight 036 crashes in Soviet Ukraine, killing 34. 1962 – Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall. 1969 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage. 1970 – Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). 1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. 1978 – Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. 1985 – The 1985–86 Hormel strike begins in Austin, Minnesota. 1991 – Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself. 1999 – The 7.6 Mw  İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured. 2004 – The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country. 2005 – The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, starts. 2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games. 2009 – An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.