#boyd hilton

[deadsweight]

hard knocks trailer released… how’re we feeling 🫠

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Via Something About the Beatles’ Girls FB🌸🌺🌻🪷

[jaynedolluk]

Last few weekends of the Times have included reviews of A Little Life (play starring James Norton based on book of same name) + Paris Hilton’s book as well as Reach for the Stars (about late 90s pop) + Cuddy (Benjamin Myers’ latest) + a review of Lana Del Rey’s latest album.

They also had reviews of George Michael: Outed, We Need To Talk About Cosby, Paula and a piece on the upcoming TV adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s Rivals. They had a little mention for an upcoming documentary called Black Barbie which I’ve read looks at the launch of the 1st Black Barbie and a review of the film, Rye Lane which looks great.

They had interviews with Patricia Field, a great piece on Betsey Johnson’s home and an article on model scouts and a great one on the continuing appeal of pirates. Plus Brian Cox and Nicholas Braun for the new series of Succession and Brooke Shields for her upcoming documentary, Pretty Baby. Also Floella Benjamin (who still looks amazing), Jenny Boyd, Jenna Ortega, John Boyega, and Gilbert & George. 

[soupy-sez]

A Tribe Called Quest, Brand Nubian, Cypress Hill, Nikki D, MC EIHT, and DJ Mike T at the Jack The Rapper music convention at the Atlanta Hilton hotel, August 1991, © Raymond Boyd

[missjaneasher]

Lovely Jane Asher accompanied by back then boyfriend Paul McCartney, brother in law Mike McCartney, John Lennon, Cynthia Powell Lennon, and Pattie Boyd Harrison while attending a lecture by Maharishi Mahes Yogui at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane, London. August 24th, 1967. 🌹

[likeawolfatthemoon]

books read in 2024 📚

💖 > 👍 > ✅ > 👎

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett ✅

The Guest List by Lucy Foley 👎

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt 💖

Pageboy by Elliot Page 👍

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab 💖

Don't You Dare by C.E. Ricci 👎

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult by Maria Bamford ✅

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (1/3) 👍

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy 💖

Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar ✅

Yellowface by R.F. Kuang 👍

The Lemon by S.E. Boyd ✅

The Woman in Me by Britney Spears ✅

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister 👍

Kill Joy by Holly Jackson (.5/3) ✅

The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner 💖

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann ✅

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak 💖

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson (2/3) 👍

The Grace Year by Kim Liggett 👍

The Girls by Emma Cline 👍

Dyscalculia by Camonghne Felix 👍

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn 💖

As Good as Dead by Holly Jackson (3/3) 👍

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins ✅

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig ✅

The Diviners by Libba Bray (1/4) 👍

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara 💖

The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer ✅

Educated by Tara Westover 👍

The Butcher and the Wren by Alaina Urquhart 👍

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins 👍

The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones 👍

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell 💖

Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray (2/4) 💖

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner 👍

Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera ✅

The Wife Upstairs by Freida McFadden ✅

No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood 💖

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson 👍

A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham 👍

The Only One Left by Riley Sager 👍

The Fury by Alex Michaelides 💖

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris 💖

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn ✅

The London Seance Society by Sarah Penner 👍

The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters 👍

The Debutantes by Olivia Worley 💖

Weyward by Emilia Hart 💖

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins 👍

Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton 👍

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn 💖

[tardis-stowaway]

I spent the weekend at DragonCon, a convention I've been attending off and on for decades. Some notable experiences and thoughts this year include:

Jodie Whittaker was there, and her panel was an absolute delight. I lined up almost an hour in advance and ended up with a pretty good seat. She talks with her hands constantly. The other celeb panels I saw (Catherine Tate and a LOTR panel with Elijah Wood, Billy Boyd, and Dominic Monaghan) were also really fun.

One of the more notable moments of the con happened as I was failing to get into a panel. A huge line formed waiting for the Science vs. Movies panel Sunday night, and it got routed down a corridor of the Hilton that I'd never seen before. It wasn't signed as a staff-only area, but it was an intensely liminal and weird space. After passing through multiple turns, I ended up finding the end of the line in an area where half the overhead lights were out! The carpet had weird swirls and a bit of color theory. Many of the locked doors along the corridor were labeled as meeting rooms (why wasn't the con using them in its constant need for more space?), but others had signs like "Fire Control." Even through my mask it smelled faintly of mildew. The Distortion vibes were strong. I am delighted to report that someone on reddit posted a photo of what I believe is the exact area where I joined the line. Luckily the people in line near me were all good-humored and fun. When the line finally moved we did not make it into the panel, but the corridor did allow us to exit with our lives and what remained of our sanity.

I spotted a Magnus Archives/Protocol photoshoot on the schedule Friday, so I went to that to see cosplay and say hi to people in the fandom. It was held at night outside on a very noisy party patio, which impaired photography and conversation. Still, I had fun! There were some very cool costumes. A Jane Prentiss cosplayer gave me (gummy) worms.

I cosplayed one day this year. I was Carpenter from The Silt Verses, during S2 when she's carrying the homesick corpse. I'd originally conceived of trying to make a backpack into a whole cloth-wrapped corpse with limbs, but I wasn't able to get that construction to work in the time I had. Instead I just had a wrapped head sticking out of a backpack with attached speech balloon saying "Please...I have to get home." Presumably the rest of the shriveled corpse is shoved in the bag. I knew that the odds of being recognized were very low since the costume is for a podcast, and not even a podcast where fanart is super widespread or settled in distinguishing characteristics. Still, I figured that horror podcast fan overlap meant that I might find other Silt Verses fans at the Magnus event. Sure enough, I had one (1) person recognize me there. Silt Verses fan with the long colorful hair, you made my con!

The Our Flag Means Death fan panel was a good time. The love was strong in that room.

Masking, while more common at the con than in your average store or public building these days, was still way too low considering how many people were crowded in after traveling from all over. I kept my mask on indoors except when eating or drinking, and ate almost all of my meals outside. We'll see if that was enough to keep me healthy.

The Brit Track needs to do a better job at getting some new voices with more varied opinions on their Doctor Who discussion panels.

I saw lots of Fourteenth Doctors, which I expected, but I was sad not to have seen any Fifteenth Doctors cosplayers.

In general I feel like I saw slightly less really impressive cosplay than in some past DragonCons, but that may have been just my habit of avoiding some of the really crowded lobby zones when possible. Still plenty of awesome cosplay work around.

As usual it was far too crowded inside and too hot outside. I'm now tired and super achey (in a too much time on my feet way, not in a con crud/covid way for now). Nevertheless, I had an excellent time.

[raylangivins]

thank u for tagging me @tenderlady and @javelinbk <3

Tagging five people I want to know better: @pinkmaned @paulmccartneyinsemination (love the new url 😘) and @oatflatwhite @scurator @freshfigs

Three ships: i guess mclennon seeing as it's the ship du jour, but idk if that one stands the test of time for me yet. as for ones that definitely do: raylan/boyd, always. and pacey/joey set my standards of romance forever.

First ship: derek/casey from life with derek, and while i don't think this necessarily says anything about me, i do think it's funny that i kicked off this whole life journey with step-siblings

Last song: pink pony club by miss chappell roan

Last TV Show: that i finished - america's sweethearts: dallas cowboys cheerleaders, which was kind of fascinating in the same way the paris hilton documentary was weirdly fascinating. i also sort of finished the bear in that i gave up 30 mins into the last episode of this season because it hit my boredom threshold.

Currently watching: house of the dragon let's gooooo dragon fight!!! i'm about to wrap up my mad men rewatch as well :(

Currently reading: as well as watching mad men i've been reading mad men carousel: the complete critical companion for some extra flavour. i plan to start the heart of a dog by mikhail bulgakov when i'm done.

Currently eating: had a mini cup of haagen dazs strawberry ice cream about 20 mins ago (my fave)

Currently craving: a day off work and for my period to be over.

[vintagelasvegas]

Desert Villa Motel / Barbary Coast / The Cromwell

3595 Las Vegas Blvd S. at Flamingo Rd.

Desert Villa Motel '58-'74 Times Square Motel '74

'57/58: Built in '57. Opened in '57 or '58. Phil Empey was the landowner, builder, and motel owner. (RJ 5/8/57; RJ 8/14/84)

'73: Jun., motel leased by Stanley Korman and became Times Square Motel (RJ 1/20/74). Empey remains landowner.

'74: Desert Villa signage is replaced with Times Square sign no earlier than Feb. Times Square Motel closed late in the year.

Barbary Coast '79-'07 Bill's Gamblin' Hall 2007-2013 The Cromwell 2014-

'76: Jan., Plans for Barbary Coast announced by partners Michael Gaughan, Jackie Gaughan, Kenny Epstein, and Frank Toti, to be built on Empey’s land, and a parking lot on land bought from Battista Locatelli. MGM Grand and Flamingo (Hilton Corp) oppose; the dispute continues until late ’77 when M. Gaughan presents altered plans.

'78: Feb, demolition of Times Square Motel is completed and construction of Barbary Coast begins. Barbary Coast is designed to accommodate power lines that traveled parallel to Flamingo Road and over the property.

'79: Mar. 2, grand opening of Barbary Coast.

'96: Hotel painted white.

2005: Barbary Coast bought by Boyd Gaming.

2007: Boyd Gaming transfers the property to Harrah’s Entertainment; renamed Bill’s Gamblin’ Hall.

2009: Work begins on a $60M project that will bury the power lines from the substation at Flamingo Rd & Koval, to the west side of Caesars. The project is funded by Harrah’s Operating Company Inc as a part of a special improvement district approved by Clark County. The work begins early '09, completed late 2010.

2013: Feb. 4, Bill’s closed for remodeling into The Cromwell,

2014: Apr. 14, opening of The Cromwell and the parking garage.

Photos of Desert Villa | Times Square | Barbary Coast

Photos: (1) Desert Villa, '58. (2) Times Square Motel, c. '76 (3) Construction of Barbary Coast, c. '78, by Tom Jones IV, Las Vegas Sun.

Sources include: New Construction. Review-Journal, 5/8/57 p3; Daryl Gibson. Hotel approved despite protests. Review-Journal, 1/7/76; Daryl Gibson. Barbary Coast Hotel Approved. Review-Journal, 2/18/76; Gary Ebbels. County sued for approving hotel. Review-Journal, 3/9/76; Guaghan alters Barbary plans. Review-Journal, 6/1/77 p12; All Clear on Barbary Coast. Review-Journal, 2/19/78 p1K; Businessman Philip Empey dead at 74. Review-Journal, 8/14/84 p6C; F. McCabe. The Road Warrior. Review-Journal, 3/1/2009; NV Energy: Flamingo Underground Conversion Project. Wilson Construction.

Timeline updated 12/8/2024

[ladyjaneasherr]

Lovely Jane Asher accompanied by boyfriend Paul McCartney, brother in law Mike McCartney, Cynthia Lennon, John Lennon, Pattie Boyd, George Harrison, Jenny Boyd and others during a lecture by the Marahishi Mahesh Yogi at the Hilton Hotel on Park Lane in London, August 24th, 1967.

Pictures 1, 2, 3 and 5 photographed by Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images. The other pictures are my sceeencaps from The Beatles and India documentary (2021). 🌸

[aaliyahunleashed]

Aaliyah poses for photos backstage after her performance during the Big Beat/Atlantic Records showcase at the Impact Music Convention at the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida in April 1997

Photographer: Raymond Boyd // Getty Images for more images from this event.

[perezhilton]

This will make deciding child custody a bit harder then!

[goldrushreads]

My Favorite Books of 2023

It's been 2 months since 2023, but here are my favorite books of 2023. To be clear, these are the books I read in 2023, not books that were published in 2023. And the books are (in no particular order):

The Celebrants, by Seteven Rowley

Anyone who knows me knows how I’ve been obsessed with the idea of death. The last book by Steven Rowley that I read was The Guncle, and I loved how he tackled the idea of a loved one dying with this bittersweet angle - like the heart expands to make room for the grief in addition to all the love you have for this person. The Celebrants had the exact same effect on me. 

It’s a story about six friends who met in college and made a pact- to throw each other living funerals so that they don’t doubt how much value they each held in the world. I will think about this book (like I think about The Guncle) for a very long time.  

Tom Lake, by Ann Patchett

This was my very first Ann Patchett (I know!) and I just know I’ll be reading so many more books from her. It’s about young love and the fresh and gutting memory of it. It’s about parenthood and how you will never truly know about your parents. It’s about (the complexities of?) family and of relationships that you are bound by whether it be via blood or via memory. Meryl Streep needs to do more audiobooks, that's for sure!

Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner

To call it a memoir about losing your mother is a disservice to the expansiveness of this book. I would call it a memoir about belonging, independence, and food. It’s also about the complicated feelings you have with your mother, especially when the mother’s worldview is very different from yours. It’s about how particular food brings out particular emotions and memories. It’s about hardship and reconciliation at a breakneck speed. What I’ll also say is: everyone was right about this book and it is truly what you should pick up if you want a good snotty cry. I should most definitely not have read it at the tail-end of my trip home. I think I’ll be haunted by the raw emotionality of this book for a long time.

Paris: The Memoir, by Paris Hilton

I don’t remember the early 2000s, and after reading this harrowing book, I am so glad I don’t remember. I also don’t remember Paris Hilton from that time and don’t know what she’s up to at any time. This is probably why I assumed it would be a pink frilly fun book, but it devastated me (girlhood!). There is a lot that needs to be said about how we treat girls and young women in our society, the expectations we have from them, and the sharpness of the steel of the knife we use to cut them open with. I thought this book is important and should be read by anyone who is fascinated by celebrity culture.    

All the Lovers in the Night, by Meiko Kawakami (translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd)

Meiko Kawakami’s books always have a way to uncannily linger long after I’ve finished reading them. All the Lovers… was no different. It is a poignant narrative written in masterful prose about a copywriter in her mid-thirties living in a city where it’s difficult to form new relationships. It’s a book about the unsettling comfort of loneliness, and about feeling like your life is slipping away from you so fast that you don’t recognize the person who is staring back at you in the mirror. But then again, to me, Kawakami has always painted a vivid picture of the yearning for connection and solitude and striving and failing to find the delicate balance between the two.    

Pyre, by Perumal Murugan (translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan)

This is a sobering novel about the harsh realities of intercaste marriages and how marriages are somehow everyone’s business in India, and how everyone somehow has an opinion about the people within them. Everyone at Kumaresan’s family and village have something biting to say about Kumaresan and Saroja’s marriage. You always think that the annoying little remarks and the constant nagging and scornful quips are trivial, but they simmer until they burn into a pyre. And that’s where Perumal Murugan’s excellent writing (and Aniruddhan Vasudevan’s seemingly-effortless translation) shines.  

Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors, by Aravind Jayan

This is a novel about the aftermath of an illegally-shot video of Sreenath and his girlfriend Anita posted on an adult website(s) and going viral. Where do you (and your families and friends) go from there? 

I’ll be quite honest, I initially did not think of this book as one of my absolute favorites from the year. But it seeped in slowly- I periodically kept thinking about the book. The author has somehow perfectly captured the sense of annoyance you feel when dealing with an arrogant young adult who thinks they know everything, the always-present tangible tension between siblings, and the absolutely wretched and unsympathetic allure of other people’s mistakes and misfortunes. 

Ducks, by Kate Beaton

I first read Ducks because I loved Kate Beaton’s hilarious comics about Jane Austen. I don’t think that prepared me, because Ducks is about Alberta’s oil rush. I don’t know how to talk about a graphic novel about what seemed to me the most boring thing on earth- working in your twenties in an oil sand. And yet, this one is gripping in a very bleak way. Beaton is one of the very few women in a freezing-cold and isolated camp. She has just graduated from college with an arts degree and massive debt. She comes from an area where people have to leave to other places in order to make a living. I don’t know how anyone can write about this experience, let alone draw and create a graphic memoir.   

Uncanny Valley, by Anna Weiner

At the height of the tech boom, Anna Weiner leaves a job in publishing for one in a big-data start-up. The bubble seems surreal and extravagant and abundant at first and from a distance. And then comes disillusionment. I’ll tell you it had me sat! I am always so fascinated by culture and tech, and this one scratched all my itches about a non-tech role in a tech space. As someone who grew up surrounded by tech people who love behaving like just studying engineering in some unknown college makes them god’s gift to earth, this book just felt oh-so-familiar. 

Palo Alto, by Malcom Harris

I just wanted a light book about California, but this was just the opposite of it, in an excellent way. (I am entirely at fault here; who reads the subtitle “A History of California, Capitalism, and the World” and thinks, oh yeah, light reading?). I came out enraged at everything and everyone. I wish there were more history books with this level of analysis and expertly-crafted narrative, because it was so gripping. I was not bored once, even though it was a 720-page tome. Riveting stuff.   

Shubeik Lubeik, by Deena Mohamed

Shubeik Lubeik is a gorgeous graphic novel with magical elements woven so effortlessly and seamlessly that I know I wouldn’t be able to stop thinking about this book for a long time. In the novel’s world, wishes (like wishes from a genie in the bottle) are real. However, these wishes are monetized and commodified as a part of a quintillion-dollar industry. What happens when wishes can be licensed by world governments, have a frustrating bureaucratic process, and mirror the all-too-familiar prejudices ingrained in our society? What if you could pool your resources to buy a wish to use literal dragons as a war weapon? Shubeik Lubeik is exasperating and heartwarming- exactly what it sets out to be.  

Heartstopper: Volume 5, by Alice Oseman

What do I even say about Heartstopper that hasn’t been said a million times? I love this universe so much and I am so upset that it ends soon. What do you mean Heartstopper cannot go on and on indefinitely?! These books have been filling me with so much tenderness and joy since I’ve been seeing snippets of them back in the day. My heart is always brimming when I am reading these books- I want these characters to be so happy forever. The plotline in this book hit me a bit too hard that I wanted to sob, but Alice Oseman being Alice Oseman dealt with these themes with so much consideration and affection that I physically could not sob. Instead, I felt calm and affirmed. And that is a typical Heartbreaker reading experience for you.

Shout out to my local public library and the Libby app for making it available to me the day it was published! Lifesavers! I was in anguish thinking I’d have to wait the estimated 10 weeks!  

[sasa-chan]

February Birthdays

Celebrities part 2

Elisabeth Olsen - February 16, 1989

Dominic Purcell - February 17, 1970

Billie Joe Armstrong - February 17, 1972

Paris Hilton - February 17, 1981

Joseph Gordon-Levitt - February 17, 1981

Chord Overstreet - February 17, 1989

Ed Sheeran - February 17, 1991

Bonnie Wright - February 17, 1991

John Travolta - February 18, 1954

Victoria Justice - February 19, 1993

Rihanna - February 20, 1988

Olivia Rodrigo - February 20, 2003

Alan Rickman - February 21, 1946

Jennifer Love Hewitt - February 21, 1979

Ashley Greene - February 21, 1987

Corbin Bleu - February 21, 1989

Julie Walters - February 22, 1950

Drew Barrymore - February 22, 1975

Zach Roerig - February 22, 1985

Emily Blunt - February 23, 1983

Aziz Ansari - February 23, 1983

Dakota Fanning - February 23, 1994

Shinsuke Nakamura - February 24, 1980

Corey Graves - February 24, 1984

James Phelps - February 25, 1986

Oliver Phelps - February 25, 1986

JWoww - February 27, 1986

Jenny Boyd - February 27, 1991

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Numa violenta cidade do Velho Oeste, diversos bandidos, mercenários e aventureiros tentam se apossar de uma grande quantia em ouro. Entre eles está o pistoleiro Sartana (George Hilton) e seus oponentes, um banqueiro corrupto (Piero Lulli), um louco bandito mexicano (Nello Pazzafini) e dois irmãos psicóticos, interpretados pela dupla Rick Boyd e Luciano Rossi. Um excêntrico personagem chamado Sabata também disputa o tesouro, com seus hábitos estranho de vestir-se de branco e beber chá o tempo todo.

[truthaboutthebeatlesgirls]

August 24, 1967 at the London Hilton attending their first meditation lecture. Ringo wasn't there because he was visiting Maureen in the hospital and taking photos with newborn son Jason. (L to R): Paul, Jane, Mike McCartney, John, Cynthia, Pattie, George and Jenny Boyd (out of frame). The next day they took the train to Bangor, Wales...

Paul and Jane, Beatles press representative Derek Taylor, John and Cyn, George and Pattie and Jenny Boyd attending a seminar on Transcendental meditation by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi🌸🌺🌻💐

Were they in Bangor?

In which date was that?

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