#brad de plastic

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Acest tip de brad artificial va fi o alegere potrivita pentru caminul tau pentru ca se monteaza/demonteaza simplu si rapid, se poate depozita in spatii inguste astfel incat sa il poti refolosi multi ani la rand.

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Molly’s Cracker Jack Collection

Cracker Jack was a popular caramel popcorn and peanut food and every box came with a prize. Molly loved to collect and trade small toys from inside these boxes. Open the Cracker Jack Box and help Molly eat the pretend popcorn. She keeps her growing collection in an old cigar box. It includes two marbles, a ring, two tiny animals, a World War II airplane and three paper toys.

Details about Cracker Jack and how I made the collection under the cut.

What are Cracker Jack prizes?

Cracker Jack is a caramel coated popcorn and peanut mix that was first sold around 1896. It is a staple of American baseball games and other sporting events. It’s even mentioned in the song that plays at every baseball game, “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”, written in 1908: “Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don’t care if I never get back”. 

Cracker Jack started giving prizes in their boxes in 1912, and throughout most of the century, these prizes were highly collectable among kids. Most of the prizes are plastic animals and other trinkets, as well as many paper or cardboard items like games and collectible cards. Some even included tiny books or flipbooks or dollhouse furniture. It’s fascinating to look through the years and see how things changed, from metal to plastic, the different pop culture references, the war years, et cetera.

Frito-Lay bought the company in 1997 and changed all of the prizes to flat things like tattoos, stickers, and jokes. Not the same experience at all–that’s what I remember from growing up. And now they don’t even include anything but a QR code for an online game.

Research

To make Molly’s collection, I looked through the 1940s pages of a collector’s guide on Internet Archive to get a sense of what was available at the time. I took some things from the 1930s and 1950s too. I printed out some of the flat games and collected other items based on what I could find in a teeny tiny scale–these toys were already really small so it was hard to find things that are small on an American Girl scale. I also did some searching about how kids collected these, and someone said they were often kept in old cigar boxes, which might not be PC enough for PC, but I liked the idea so I made a cigar box out of a fancy cardboard jewelry box I had. (more on collecting and trading below).

I have ideas to add more prizes, like printing out movie star trading cards and coming up with a way to make pins–I’m picturing something like the doll Grin Pins. 

Molly Lore (head-canon)

I can imagine Molly trading away all of the warplane cards and toys to her brother Ricky for dollhouse furniture, jewelry, animals, movie star items, and so on. There were, unsurprisingly, tons of planes and other war items in Cracker Jack in the 1940s. It seemed like Molly was always getting planes and Ricky was always getting stupid doll furniture! They both liked the games, though. Molly and Ricky gave any leftover prizes they didn’t want to Brad. 

One day Jill decided she was “too mature” for Cracker Jack and gave her collection to Molly, which was more annoying than it should have been, because there’s something kind of not fun about suddenly getting things all at once that you’ve been collecting slowly. Molly invited Susan and Linda over to pick through Jill’s collection, each girl choosing one thing at a time until it was divvied up. At least sharing with her best friends and not keeping it all to herself made it a little more fun. 

Resources:

This collector’s guide was instrumental in my research. It both gave me specific ideas and a general sense of the experience and patterns of the prizes. There were a few telling editorial remarks like this one about Barrettes on page 127: “Left a lot to be desired if a little boy got it. (Then again, I’m sure that many a little girl was disappointed to get a “war” prize).” This is what gave me the image of Ricky and Molly trading their prizes and both of them being happy about it!

https://archive.org/details/crackerjacktoysc0000whit

Another resource I used was this selling website:

Although the search function is pretty awful, it is good for scans of paper prizes. 

Here is the google doc I used to collect the pictures I wanted to print in what seemed an appropriate size: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/196ByHxFQ8G21VbtBmT5H2ZCmigQnAYsUfbzru0buivM/edit?usp=sharing 

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just finished watching the iwtv movie (because i refuse* to pay the paywall on amazon) (*i will end up paying the paywall on amazon :( unless someone has super legal way for me to watch the show 🥺)

review: it was good i think maybe uh like… roughly 7.629 / 10

claudia’s performance absolutely slayed she was perfect. literally giving kirsten (my best friend i am on a first name basis (i had not heard of her before today)) a 10/10.

tom and brad (<- i am on first name basis with them also) did ok i guess,, i mean they definitely got their characterisation down. louis is the perfect little miserable milk sog webkinz wall throw plushie and lestat is a massive bitch and also That Guy so i mean,, yeah. yeah they did well. that’s them. they just looked a little odd.

some of the effects were a little goofy but thats part of the fun. i love obviously plastic rat numbers 1-67 (i did not count them but there were so many) and also plastic bats 1, 2 and 3.

very funny they couldnt spring the budget for the telepathy. made the Bad realisation that this version of louis is like bella swan, so now it’s hilarious.

loses points for making the lateral incisors fangs. regains them for having bonus canine fangs as well. thats like 8 fangs each. almost overkill, but thats what vampires are built for. so it’s allowed. in my humble opinion. loses points again for i think being inconsistent with fang placement idk i was only sort of paying attention. who am i kidding i was paying attention im like 80% sure that they were inconsistent. i am also inconsistent in that ive already decided the final score of this movie in that this does not affect the score at all.

speaking of fangs they shouldve given themselves more time to get used to having fangs because sometimes the way they held their mouth looked remarkably uncomfortable. not the point. this one did affect the score slightly.

not homosexual enough. why did they give louis a wife and kid albeit a dead one what happened to his brother ? censorship more like censorSHIT !! amiright chat

crusty ass theatre des vampires. also why was lestat not there ? what was the reason

ending ??? didnt make much sense??? lestat was there immediately after??????? like within 10 minutes of louis leaving??? how did he know. oh fuck the lack of telepathy made ME forget the telepathy. but why tf was he in sanfran (<- im on nickname basis with this city too)

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NYC Agrees To Pay MILLIONS To BLM Rioters In Settlement $13,000,000

NEW: NYC Agrees To Pay MILLIONS To BLM Rioters In Shocking Settlement

By ChrisJuly 20, 2023

New York City has reached an agreement to compensate over 1,000 protesters with a sum exceeding $13 million. These individuals were either arrested or had encounters with the police during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. This settlement, which is currently awaiting a judge’s approval, is one of the largest ever in terms of mass arrests and was filed in Manhattan’s federal court.

The lawsuit pertains to 18 protests that took place in New York City in the week following the tragic death of George Floyd in May 2020. Those eligible for the settlement can expect to receive $9,950 each. The aftermath of Floyd’s death led to protests and riots that caused at least 18 fatalities, property damage amounting to $350 million in the Minneapolis area, and nearly $2 billion across the nation. In just a few days, about 10,000 people were arrested.

The settlement provides a way for the city to sidestep a potentially costly and politically sensitive trial. This comes as numerous other cities across the U.S. are in the process of negotiating their own settlements related to the handling of protesters, some of whom caused fires, threw objects, broke windows, and damaged buildings.

However, the settlement excludes protesters who were arrested in connection with violent activities — those charged with trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, arson, or weapons possession. Also, those captured on video obstructing police from making arrests may be deemed ineligible.

The lawsuit lists former Mayor Bill de Blasio, retired NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea, and other police leaders as defendants. As per the settlement agreement, neither the city nor the NYPD is obliged to admit any wrongdoing. The National Lawyers Guild, representing the plaintiffs, accused the NYPD leaders of violating protesters’ First Amendment rights through harsh tactics and unlawful arrests.

City attorneys defended the police officers, stating they were responding to an unruly and unprecedented situation. They pointed out protests where police vehicles were set ablaze and officers were attacked with rocks and plastic bottles, arguing that there was no systematic effort to suppress people’s right to protest.

This settlement does not mandate any changes in NYPD’s policing practices, unlike several other ongoing lawsuits seeking injunctive relief. Earlier this year, another class-action settlement was announced that would award $21,500 to protesters arrested in the Bronx, potentially totaling around $10 million, including legal fees.

In addition, over 600 individuals have lodged separate claims against New York City relating to police action during the 2020 protests, according to the city’s comptroller, Brad Lander. The settlements in these cases have so far cost the city nearly $12 million.

The 2020 protests were a catalyst for what could potentially set a precedent for how similar lawsuits are handled in the future.

However, the ongoing lawsuits could potentially lead to further changes in NYPD’s policing practices, a city that’s been plagued with crime over recent months. Just a few weeks ago, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg confessed his own personal anxieties about crime in the city, despite his office’s attempts to reduce crime rates.

This confession occurred against a backdrop of public belief that crime is widespread in New York, a belief that contradicts the most recent NYPD statistics. “I know the statistics that transit crime is down. But when one of my family members gets on the train, I get a knot in my stomach,” Bragg said.

“I live here, I’m raising my family here, so we have a lot more work to do. We do a number of long-term investigations involving wire taps,” state the DA who indicted Trump. “We do targeted enforcement, so we are seeing the returns on that investigative work, and we’re going to do that kind of work.”

[bonfire-at-the-crossroads]

“You were recommended to me by Adams Auctions in Dublin.”

I am DELIGHTED. It would be brilliant if I can receive restoration work from the premier auction house in Ireland - and it seems like this is the first shot they’ve given me.

Wow!

Anyway…Catherine drove here, and unloaded this BIG canvas for me to re-stretch. The painting is very fun, and is by “ a neighbor artist, elderly, sort of an unconventional person…”

There’s a huge, beat-up frame which I will tackle when the painting is completed, hopefully can marry the two things together?

Started work this afternoon.

Everything that’s possible to be done WRONG - has been achieved here.

The painting is not painted on canvas - it’s some sort of heavy-weave linen?

It’s “tacked” onto the wooden stretcher bars with actual brads, hammered in halfway, then pounded flat. About a million of these.

The painting is attached to the WRONG side of the stretcher bars - the flat side, rather than the side which slopes toward the center, so you don’t see the imprint of the bars.

I’ve never seen a painting more curled, cockled or bulging.

The strainer has weird hardware rather than standard slots for keys. Made in Italy, the plastic parts do NOT hold, and just collapse inward.

The strainer bars are a solid ONE INCH out of square - in other words, they were cut wrong.

The painting is out of square - and the artist has trimmed off ALL but 1/2” of the tacking edge, so there’s simply nothing to grab with the canvas pliers.

It’s gotten damp along the bottom edge, and the paint surface is de-laminating.

It’s a wonderland…..

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House Parts January 27, 2024

Image: Moomin House! listen to the show

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night Irma Thomas - These Four Walls

DJ speaks over Brad Linde, Patrick Booth, Aaron Quinn and Jonathan Taylor - Housetop

Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra - I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise Public Enemy - Raise the Roof K.U.K.L. - Open the Window and Let the Spirit Fly Free Emitt Rhodes - With My Face on the Floor Dislocation Dance - Roof Is Leaking

DJ speaks over Delia Derbyshire - Door to Door

Men Without Hats - Ideas for Walls The Shangri-Las - Footsteps On the Roof Crass - Walls (Fun in the Oven) Milton Nascimento and Lô Borges - Paisagem de Janela Viagra Boys - Down in the Basement The Toms - The Door Dropdead - Foundation BEIRUT SLUMP - Staircase Come On - Don't Walk On the Kitchen Floor

DJ speaks over The Sensational Guitars of Dan and Dale - Batman and Robin Over the Roofs

Fugazi - Shut the Door Cleoma Breaux - Leve Tes Fenetres Haut Sprung aus den Wolken - Auf dem Boden Stampfen Lithics - A Highly Textured Ceiling Rat Cage - Spitting on the Ceiling Plastic People Of The Universe - Okolo Okno Eighth Route Army - Outside My Window

DJ speaks over Blue Oil - Free Fleas on the Roof

Tactics - Standing by My Window Hassisen Kone - Seinat Litige - Sur les toits Eddie & Ernie - Who's That Knocking at My Door Sophie Pascal - Je ne Frapperai a Ta Porte Stranger Cole - Stranger At the Door

DJ speaks over Lithics - Cricket Song Through Open Window

Dianah - Kelderbeat Überspannung - Boden Beakers - I'm Crawling (on the Floor)

DJ speaks over The Living Strings - When Loves Comes Knocking at Your Door

Gogol Bordello - Through the Roof 'n' Underground

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Az év zenei legjei szerintünk: Grungery-toplisták 2023!

Az év zenei legjei szerintünk: Grungery-toplisták 2023! - https://metalindex.hu/2024/01/01/az-ev-zenei-legjei-szerintunk-grungery-toplistak-2023/ -

Idén is összeállítottuk a tavalyi év legjeit, vagyis azokat a lemezeket, dalokat és más kulturális kedvenceinket, amiket 2023-ban a legjobbaknak tartottunk. Bíró Máté, Kiss Ákos és Pintér Miklós személyes kedvencei húszhuszonháromból. Ahogyan a tavalyi évben, úgy idén is jóval heterogénebbek lettek a listáink, mint korábban, emiatt szerkesztőségi összesítést most sem készítettünk, mert nem sok értelme lett volna. Ezúttal is tartózkodtunk a szöveges magyarázatoktól, kizárólag a listákra koncentráltunk, de azért egy általános összefoglalóban mindannyian leírtunk a gondolatainkat 2023-ról. Jó böngészést mindenkinek! *** Pintér Miklós, főszerkesztő Az év lemeze: Tesseract – War of Being AZ ÉV LEMEZEI Tesseract – War of Being Ayron Jones – Chronicles of the Kid Brad – In The Moment That You’re Born 3rd Secret – 2nd 3rd Secret Candlebox – The Long Goodbye Metallica – 72 Seasons Mudhoney – Plastic Eternity Duff McKagan – Lighthouse Sky Cries Mary – Everything Goes Somewhere Temic – Terror Management Theory AZ ÉV DALAI Brad – In The Moment That You’re Born Ayron Jones – Blood in the Water Tesseract – Echoes és The Grey Mammal – Keanu Reeves The Pulltops – Seasons Change +1 Rett Smith and Jessica Lea Mayfield – Cabin Song +2 Terra Twin – Hanging Around KULT TOP …

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Sitges2023 - ¡Películas confirmadas!

Sitges alza el vuelo con el anuncio del programa completo

Los últimos trabajos de Hayao Miyazaki, Yorgos Lanthimos, Takeshi Kitano, Hideo Nakata y muchos más, anidarán en nuestras salas. Queda menos de un mes para el inicio del SITGES – Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya y sabemos que tenéis ganas de conocer todos los títulos para ir poniendo apunto vuestras listas. ¡Ya no tenéis que esperar más! Os traemos una larga batería de nombres y títulos, con la que cualquier fan del género va a estar salivando, ya que llegan algunas de las películas de terror, ciencia ficción y fantástico más esperadas y prometedoras del año.

Sección Oficial Fantástico Competición (SOFC)

‘ACIDE’ - Just Philippot (Francia)

‘BEST WISHES TO ALL’ - Yûta Shimotsu (Japón)

‘CLUB ZERO’ - Jessica Hausner (Austria/Reino Unido)

‘CONANN’ - Bertrand Mandico (Francia/Luxemburgo/Bélgica)

‘CUANDO ACECHA LA MALDAD (WHEN EVIL LURKS)’ - Demian Rugna (Argentina)

‘DIVINITY’ - Eddie Alcazar (Estados Unidos)

‘EL REINO ANIMAL’ - Thomas Cailley (Francia)

‘IN FLAMES’ - Zarrar Khan (Canadá/Pakistán)

‘VIVE DENTRO’ - Bishal Dutta (Estados Unidos)

‘KUBI’ - Takeshi Kitano (Japón)

‘LA ESPERA’ - F. Javier Gutierrez (España)

‘LA MORSURE’ - Romain de Saint-Blanquat (Francia)

‘LATE NIGHT WITH THE DEVIL’ - Colin Cairnes, Cameron Cairnes (Australia)

‘LES CHAMBRES ROUGES’ - Pascal Plante (Canadá)

‘MOSCAS’ - Aritz Moreno (España/Argentina)

‘OMEN’ - Baloji Tshiani (Congo/Países Bajos/Francia/Bélgica/Alemania/Sudáfrica)

‘RIDDLE OF FIRE’ - Weston Razooli (Estados Unidos)

‘ROBOT DREAMS’ - Pablo Berger (España/Francia)

‘ROMANCE ASESINO’ - Lee Won-suk (Corea del Sur)

‘SALEM’ - Jean-Bernard Marlin (Francia)

‘SLEEP’ - Jason Yu (Corea del Sur)

‘SORCERY’ - Christopher Murray (Chile/México/Alemania)

‘STOPMOTION’ - Robert Morgan (Estados Unidos)

‘THE SEEDING’ - Barnaby Clay (Estados Unidos)

‘THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING’ - Timm Kröger (Alemania)

‘THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE BARN’ - Magnus Martens (Noruega)

‘TIGER STRIPES’ - Amanda Nell Eu (Malasia/Taiwan/Francia/Alemania/Países Bajos/Indonesia)

‘VERMIN: LA PLAGA’ - Sébastien Vanicek (Francia)

‘VINCENT DEBE MORIR’ - Stéphan Castang (Francia)

‘WAKE UP’ - François Simard, Annouk Whissel, Yoann-Karl Whissel (Francia)

‘WHITE PLASTIC SKY’ - Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó (Hungría/Eslovaquia)

Sección Oficial - Sesiones Especiales

‘ALIENS ABDUCTED MY PARENTS AND NOW I FEEL KINDA LEFT OUT’ - Jake Van Wagoner (Estados Unidos)

‘AMELIA’S CHILDREN’ - Gabriel Abrantes (Portugal)

‘AWARENESS’ - Daniel Benmayor (Estados Unidos/España)

‘BLOOD DE BRAD ANDERSON’ - Brad Anderson (Estados Unidos)

‘EL CHICO Y LA GARZA’ - Hayao Miyazaki (Japón)

‘LA ERMITA’ - Carlota Pereda (España)

‘LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE’ - J.A. Bayona (España)

‘POBRES CRIATURAS’ - Yorgos Lanthimos (Reino Unido)

‘THE TOXIC AVENGER’ - Macon Blair (Estados Unidos)

‘UFO SWEDEN’ - Crazy Pictures (Suecia)

Oficial Fantástico - Especial Mitjanit

‘LA BALA DE DIOS’ - Nick Cassavetes (Estados Unidos)

‘THE DEEP DARK’ - Mathieu Turi (Francia)

Òrbita

‘BLACK FLIES’ - Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire (Estados Unidos)

‘CONCRETE UTOPIA’ - Um Tae-Hwa (Corea del Sur)

‘DIABOLIK: GINKO ALL’ATTACCO’ - Marco Manetti, Antonio Manetti (Italia)

‘FUERZA BRUTA: SIN SALIDA’ - Lee Sang-yong (Corea del Sur)

‘JACKDAW’ - Jamie Childs (Reino Unido)

‘JERICHO RIDGE – Will Gilbey (Kosovo/Reino Unido/Irlanda del Norte)

‘LA EXTORSIÓN’ - Martino Zaidelis (Argentina)

‘LOS OJOS DE LA NOCHE’ - Ahn Tae-jin (Corea del Sur)

‘LUMBERJACK THE MONSTER’ - Takashi Miike (Japón)

‘MAD FATE’ - Soi Cheang (Hong Kong)

‘NIGHT OF THE HUNTED’ - Franck Khalfoun (Francia)

‘PRORIEDADE’ - Daniel Bandeira (Brasil)

‘SMUGGLERS’ - Ryoo Seung-wang (Corea del Sur)

‘THE CHILDE’ - Park Hoon-jung (Corea del Sur)

‘THE LAST STOP IN YUMA COUNTY’ - Francis Galluppi (Estados Unidos)

‘WHERE THE WIND BLOWS’ - Philip Yung (China/Hong Kong)

Panorama

‘#MANHOLE’ - Kazuyoshi Kumakiri (Japón)

‘APPENDAGE’ - Anna Zlokovic, Alex Familia (Estados Unidos)

‘BLACKOUT’ - Larry Fessenden (Estados Unidos)

‘BROOKLYN 45’ - Ted Geoghegan (Estados Unidos)

‘EL EXORCISMO DE EASTFIELD’ - Nick Kozakis (Australia)

‘HOOD WITCH’ - Saïd Belktibia (Francia)

‘LAST STRAW’ - Alan Scott Neal (Estados Unidos)

‘LET IT GHOST’ - Hoi Wong (Hong Kong)

‘NINA DEI LUPI’ - Antonio Pisu (Italia)

‘ONYX THE FORTUITOUS AND THE LALISMAN OF SOULS’ - Andrew Bowser (Estados Unidos)

‘PROJECT SILENCE’ - Kim Tae-gon (Corea del Sur)

‘RABIA’ - Jorge Michel Grau (México)

‘RESTORE POINT’ - Robert Hloz (República Checa)

‘SUPERPOSITION’ - Karoline Lyngbye (Dinamarca)

‘THE FORBIDDEN PLAY’ - Hideo Nakata (Japón)

‘THE SACRIFICE GAME’ - Jenn Wexler (Canadá/Estados Unidos)

‘YOU’LL NEVER FIND ME’ - Josiah Allen, Indianna Bell, Josiah Allen (Australia)

Panorama – Fuera de Competición

‘CUANDO LOS AMOS DUERMEN’ - Santiago Alvarado (España)

‘IMMERSION’ - Takashi Shimizu (Japón)

‘THE PRIMEVALS’ - David Allen (Estados Unidos)

‘TOKYO REVENGERS 2: PART I’ - Tsutomu Hanabusa (Japón)

‘TOKYO REVENGERS 2: PART II’ - Tsutomu Hanabusa (Japón)

Noves Visions

‘EL DESPRECIO’ (4K) - Jean-Luc Godard (Francia/Italia) (Sesión Especial)

‘EMBRYO LARVA BUTTERFLY’ - Kyros Papavassiliou (Grecia/Chipre)

‘EN ATTENDANT LA NUIT’ - Céline Rouzet (Francia)

‘HALFWAY HOME’ - Madarász Isti (Hungría)

‘HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKS CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON’ - Ariane Louis-Seize (Canadá)

‘HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS’ - Mike Cheslik (Estados Unidos)

‘IN MY MOTHER’S SKIN’ - Kenneth Dagatan (Filipinas/Singapur/Taiwán)

‘LA ÚLTIMA NOCHE DE SANDRA M.’ - Borja de la Vega (España)

‘LUKA’ - Jessica Woodworth (Bélgica/Italia/Países Bajos/Bulgaria/Armenia)

‘MIMÌ - PRINCE OF DARKNESS’ - Brando de Sica (Italia)

‘MONDAYS: SEE YOU “THIS” WEEK!’ - Ryo Takebayashi (Japón)

‘MONOLITH’ - Matt Vesely (Australia)

‘MOON GARDEN’ - Ryan Stevens Harris (Estados Unidos)

‘MOTEL MELATI’ - Mike Wiluan, Billy Christian (Indonesia, Singapur)

‘MY ANIMAL’ - Jacqueline Castel (Canadá)

‘PANDEMONIUM’ - Quarxx (Francia)

‘RAGING GRACE’ - Paris Zarcilla (Reino Unido/Irlanda del Norte)

‘RIVER’ - Junta Yamaguchi (Japón)

‘TELA DE ARAÑA (COBWEB)’ - Kim Jee-won (Corea del Sur)

‘THE FUNERAL’ - Orçun Behram (Turquía)

‘THE INVISIBLE FIGHT’ - Rainer Sarnet (Estonia/Lituania/Grecia/Finlandia)

‘THE LAST ASHES’ - Loïc Tanson (Bélgica/Luxemburgo)

‘THE UNCLE’ - David Kapac, Andrija Mardesic (Serbia/Croacia)

‘THE VOURDALAK’ - Adrien Beau (Francia)

‘WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS’ - Zelda Adams, John Adams, Toby Poser (Estados Unidos)

Anima’t

‘DEEP SEA’ - Tianxiao Peng (China)

‘FOUR SOULS OF COYOTE’ - Áron Gauder (Hungría)

‘HEAVIES TENDRES’ - Joan Tomàs, Carlos Pérez-Reche, Juanjo Sáez (España)

‘KOMADA - A WHISKY FAMILY’ - Masayuki Yoshihara (Japón)

‘LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR’ - Keiichi Hara, Takakazu Nagamoto, Keiichi Hara (Japón)

‘MARS EXPRESS’ - Jéremie Perin (Francia)

‘ROBOT DREAMS’ - Pablo Berger (España/Francia)

‘SAND LAND’ - Toshihisha Yokoshima (Japón)

‘TONY, SHELLY AND THE MAGIC LIGHT’ - Filip Posivac (República Checa/Hungría/Eslovaquia)

‘WHITE PLASTIC SKY’ - Tibor Bánóczki, Sarolta Szabó (Hungría/Eslovaquia)

Anima’t - Sesiones Especiales

‘PHOENIX: REMINISCENCE OF FLOWER’ - Shojiro Nishimi (Japón)

‘THE FEAST OF AMRITA’ - Saku Sakamoto (Japón)

Anima’t - Sitges Clàssics

‘LES MAÎTRES DU TEMPS’ (4K) - René Laloux (Francia/Hungría/Suiza)

‘THE SOLDIER’S TALE’ - R. O. Blechman (Estados Unidos)

‘100 AÑOS DE WALT DISNEY ANIMATION STUDIOS: UN HOMENAJE A SUS CORTOS’ - Varios Autores (Estados Unidos)

Sitges Clàssics

‘ACCIÓN MUTANTE’ - Álex de la Iglesia (España)

‘ANGUSTIA DEL SILENCIO’ - Lucio Fulci (Italia)

‘CALÍGULA - THE ULTIMATE CUT’ (4K) - Tinto Brass (Estados Unidos/Italia)

‘LOS NUEVOS EXTRATERRESTRES’ (4K) - Juan Piquer Simón (España)

‘EL RESPLANDOR’ (4K) - Stanley Kubrick (Estados Unidos)

‘EL EXORCISTA’ (4K) - William Friedkin (Estados Unidos)

‘ENTER THE GAME OF DEATH’ - Tso Nam Lee (Hong Kong)

‘LAKE MICHIGAN MONSTER’ - Ryland Brickson Cole Tews (Estados Unidos)

‘PSYCHIC VISION: JAGANREI’ - Teruyoshi Ishii (Japón)

‘KING KONG’ (1933) - Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack (Estados Unidos)

‘EL HOMBRE DE MIMBRE’ (THE WICKER MAN) (4K) - Robin Hardy (Reino Unido/Irlanda del Norte)

‘LA MÁSCARA DEL DEMONIO’ - Lamberto Bava (Italia)

‘DRAGON LIVES AGAIN’ - Chi Chih Lo (Hong Kong)

‘MUNDO CANÍBAL, MUNDO SALVAJE’ - Ruggero Deodato (Italia)

‘THE RAID’ - Gareth Evans (Indonesia)

‘STAR TREK – THE MOTION PICTURE – THE DIRECTOR’S CUT’ - Robert Wise (Estados Unidos)

‘SIESTA’ - Mary Lambert (Estados Unidos)

Sitges Documenta

‘A DISTURBANCE IN THE FORCE’ - Jeremy Coon, Steve Kozak (Estados Unidos)

‘DARIO ARGENTO PANICO’ (4K) - Simone Scafidi (Reino Unido/Irlanda del Norte)

‘DREAM TIME’ - Claudio Lattanzi (Italia)

‘ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE’ - David Gregory (Estados Unidos)

‘KAIDAN. STRANGE STORIES OF JAPANESE GHOSTS’ - Yves Montmayeur (Francia)

‘KIM’S VIDEO’ (4K) - David Redmon, Ashley Sabin (Estados Unidos)

‘LIVING WITH CHUCKY’ - Kyra Elise Gardner (Estados Unidos)

‘LOCH NESS: THEY CREATED A MONSTER’ - John MacLaverty (Reino Unido)

‘MUJERES SIN CENSURA’ - Eva Vizcarra (España)

‘OTRA PELÍCULA MALDITA’ - Alberto Fasce (Argentina)

‘THE HISTORY OF METAL AND HORROR’ - Mike Schiff (Estados Unidos)

‘SATAN WANTS YOU’ - Sean Horlor, Steve J. Adams, Sean Horlor (Canadá)

‘SHARKSPLOITATION’ - Stephen Scarlata (Estados Unidos)

‘SPOOKTACULAR!’ - Quinn Monahan (Estados Unidos)

‘THE DARK SIDE OF SOCIETY’ - Larry Wade Carrell (Estados Unidos)

‘THE J-HORROR VIRUS’ - Sarah Appleton, Jasper Sharp (Japón, Reino Unido)

‘UN MILLÓN DE ZOMBIES: LA HISTORIA DE PLAGA ZOMBIE’ - Nicanor Loreti, Camilo de Cabo (Argentina)

‘YOU CAN CALL ME BILL’ - Alexandre O. Philippe (Estados Unidos)

Retrospectiva - Ciudad Pánico

‘AMENAZA EN LA SOMBRA’ - Nicolas Roeg (Reino Unido)

‘HOLLYWOOD 90028’ (4K) - Christina Hornisher (Estados Unidos)

‘PÁJAROS DE CIUDAD’ - Jose María Sánchez Álvaro (España/Italia)

‘EL ALMUERZO DESNUDO’ (4K) - David Cronenberg (Canadá/Reino Unido)

‘LA CASA SIN FRONTERAS’ - Pedro Olea (España)

‘GOD TOLD ME TO’ - Larry Cohen (Estados Unidos)

‘LOS ÚLTIMOS DÍAS’ - Àlex Pastor, David Pastor (España) 

Midnight X-Treme

‘ALL YOU NEED IS BLOOD’ - Cooper Roberts (Estados Unidos)

‘KILL’ - Nikhil Nagest Bhat (India)

‘MAD CATS’ - Reiki Tsuno (Japón)

‘OS REVIENTO’ - Kike Narcea (España)

‘THE WELL’ - Federico Zampaglione (Italia)

‘THE WRATH OF BECKY’ - Matt Angel, Suzanne Coote (Estados Unidos)

‘TRIGGERED’ - Richard V. Somes (Filipinas)

‘WE ARE ZOMBIES’- François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell (Canadá)

‘WINNIE THE POOH: MIEL Y SANGRE’ - Rhys Frake-Waterfield (Reino Unido)

Brigadoon

‘IL BOSS’ - Fernando Di Leo (Italia)

‘OTRA PELÍCULA MALDITA’ - Alberto Fasce & Mario Varela (Argentina)

‘ALGUIEN TE ESTÁ MIRANDO’ -Gustavo Cova & Horacio Maldonado (Argentina)

‘AUXILIO’ - Tamae Garateguy (Argentina)

‘UN MILLÓN DE ZOMBIES: LA HISTORIA DE PLAGA ZOMBIE’ - Nicanor Loretti & Camilo de Cabo (Argentina)

‘PLAGA ZOMBIE’ - Pablo Parés & Hernán Sáez (Argentina)

‘LA DAMA ROJA MATA SIETE VECES’ - Emilio P. Miraglia (Italia)

‘THORNS’ - Douglas Schulze (Estados Unidos)

‘SHARKSPLOITATION’ - Stephen Scarlata (Estados Unidos)

‘MONSTER HEAVEN: GHOST HERO’ - Makoto Tezuka (Japón)

‘CUT AND RUN’ - Ruggero Deodato (Italia)

‘MUJERES SIN CENSURA’- Eva Vizcarra (España)

‘TAKE A HARD RIDE (POR LA SENDA MÁS DURA)’- Antonio Margheriti (Italia)

‘MARIA’S STOMACH’- Hideyuki Hirayama (Japón)

‘LOS INVASORES DEL ABISMO’ - Ruggero Deodato (Italia)

‘TINTORERA’ - René Cardona Jr (México)

‘ALLA RICERCA DEL PIACERE’ - Silvio Amadio (Italia)

‘SAMURAI NINJA ONIMANJI’ - Yoshihiro Nishimura (Japón)

‘TIBURÓN 3 - L’ULTIMO SQUALO’ - Enzo G. Castellari (Italia)

‘DOOR’ - Benmei Takahashi (Japón)

‘MILÁN CALIBRE 9 (MILANO CALIBRO 9)’ -Fernando di Leo (Italia)

‘BLOOD SUCKING TREE’ - Shunji Iwai, Masaharu Ota & Akira Yoneta (Japón)

‘EL PANTANO DE LOS CUERVOS’ - Manuel Caño (España)

‘THE DARKSIDE OF SOCIETY’ - Larry Wade Carrell (Estados Unidos)

‘MARIA’ - Gabriel Grieco & Nicanor Loreti (Argentina)

‘LA VENGANZA DE LA MOMIA’ -Carlos Aured (España)

‘IL MUSEO DEGLI ORRORI DI DARIO ARGENTO’ - Luigi Cozzi (Italia)

‘THE BARN PART II’- Justin M. Seaman (Estados Unidos)

‘OLDBOY’ - Park Chan-Wook (Corea del Sur)

‘LA TARÁNTULA DEL VIENTRE NEGRO’ - Paolo Cavara (Italia)

‘SANTO CONTRA LOS ZOMBIES’ - Benito Alazraki (México)

‘HUMANOID PUPPET’ - Hidehiro Ito (Japón)

[carissimipaixao]

— ALIVE

[ fourth entry of thirty themes challenge ] published on: june 8, 2020 pairing: michael de santa & reader word count: 1.8k+ soundtrack: tombstone (2017 version), in lupin the third: the blood spray of goemon ishikawa

Stepping outside, [Name] pulled out her phone and quickly dialed the cabs company’s number. After a few rings, her request for a cab was denied, as they had every cab and driver occupied. The woman swore under her breath and started to walk away from the old factory. Perhaps, she would use the bus instead.

When rain started to pour down, she humorlessly laughed at her luck. First, I almost get dragged into some gang bullshit. Then, my car breaks down and I can only use it in a few days after it’s repaired. My old friend contacts me to come to his new safehouse or what-the fuck-ever, and now it’s raining.

A car slowed down as she stood by the road, waiting for a green light. She ignored it with a huff until the window rolled down and a familiar voice called out. [Name] finally turned and narrowed her eyes for a second before sighing and approaching the car.

‘Hey,’ the man inside the expensive car started.

‘“Hey” yourself,’ she snapped.

He rose his hand as if in peace offering, ‘Woah, calm down, alright?’ He sighed, ‘Do you need a ride home?’ His icy gaze burnt into hers and she looked down for a moment before staring into his eyes again. Nodding, he unlocked the car and allowed her to slide into the comfortable seat.

‘Thanks,’ she said, crossing her arms over her chest, ignoring the wetness from the rain that clung onto her clothes. If she had her car or any other means to get home, she surely would not have accepted his offer.

‘No problem.’

The ride was silent as he stepped onto the pedal. The lights outside seemed like a blur as he sped down the road. The radio’s volume was low, and she recognized the station—Los Santos Rock Radio. A faint quirk appeared on her lips. Seems like some things haven’t changed.

He turned to glance at her for a brief moment, ‘So, where do I drop you off?’

‘Sandy Shores,’ she crossed her arms and leaned against the seat.

The older man chuckled, ‘Why am I not surprised you chose that place? Somewhere far from civilization, but close to crazy drug dealers?’

She turned to look at him, giving a humorless quirk of her lips, ‘Why am I not surprised you chose to live among the rich fuckers in Los Santos?’ His smile fell and he frowned, gripping the wheel tighter. ‘No, really, it suits you. That's where most assholes and snakes hide, around luxury and fake people and their plastic surgeries.’

‘[Name], I—’

‘No! Shut the fuck up, Michael!’ She snapped, turning her torso so she could stare at him furiously as he drove in the highway.

Michael sighed but remained quiet, allowing her to continue, ‘You expect us to just forget about it? Brad is in prison, from what Trevor has told me, you turn out to be alive and living the fucking American Dream, and we…’ She took a deep breath, rubbing the bridge of her nose.

The woman looked out the window for a moment, staring at the moon. ‘I… I mourned you. We all did. And turns out you were alive, out here.’

‘Look, [Name], it's complicated,’ Michael glanced over, trying to make her gaze meet his icy stare. ‘I just want to apologize for the trouble I made you go through. I'm sorry for making this so… painful to you.’

There was a knowing tone in his voice, as if there was a secret only both of them were aware of. She ignored his comment and focused on listening to the radio. But, it was not long until she started to ponder about something else—a friend. 

‘What about Brad?’

‘What about him?’ His voice got rougher.

‘Does he know? That you're alive?’

‘I honestly don't know.’

‘We’ll need to find a way to help him escape,’ she mumbled. With a sigh, Michael looked at her from the corner of his eyes before shaking his head. ‘What? Did you expect me to just let him rot there?’ [Name] crossed her arms, raising an eyebrow.

He did not answer; instead, he just focused on the road, eyes narrowed and hands tight around the wheel. The woman turned away, staring out the window, as the voice of the legendary vocalist of Queen echoed through the vehicle.

She recalled the old times, when the gang was still together. Brad, Lester, Trevor and Michael; they were more than just allies to her. They were close friends. She trusted them with her life, and they trusted her with theirs. They were like…

A family. My family. But it had been torn apart, years ago. Perhaps, there was still hope to reunite it. She knew that Lester and Michael were well and safe—and her heart trembled at the thought of them, of him, being gone. Brad just needed to be rescued from prison.

‘How’s Trevor?’

‘He’s fine. He got himself a new “business”.’

‘“Business”?’ Michael echoed.

‘Gun trafficking and meth,’ she shrugged. ‘Welcome to Trevor Phillips Enterprises, my friend. Though, Lester has probably told you. And I’m sure he has more details about the business as well, if you’re that interested.’

‘Are you two still in contact? Does he ask you to help him out in his “business”?’ She remained silent, frowning. ‘I’ll take that as a “no”, then.’

‘We kind of parted ways, after your… “death”. Back then, when you and Brad got shot, as you know, both of us tried to fight the cops off.’

Trevor gripped his gun with a desperated look, ‘Ain’t gonna leave you, Mikey!’

‘Go!’ Michael pressed a hand against the wound, grimacing. Brad groaned weakly beside him. ‘God, I'm not gonna make it. Fucking gonna bleed out.’

‘We’ll get both of you out of here!’ [Name] tried to approach the two, stepping out of the cover.

‘No, stay back!’

Just as he said that, a bullet hit where she would have stood next. A shiver went down her spine; she would have been dead if she had continued. ‘I’m not gonna leave you here, Michael Townley! I can’t—’

‘Just, go!’ There was a hint of fear in his eyes; was he afraid of dying right there and then? Or was it fear for something else?

The sound of the sirens increased, and [Name] felt like the world was coming to the end. There was little possibility of her and Trevor surviving and escaping the police. But, what about Michael and Brad? Her heart ached and her hands shook.

‘What the fuck are you doing, just standing there?!’ Trevor’s howl made her snap back to reality, ‘Fucking shoot! Kill those motherfuckers!’

‘Fucking hell!’ She yelled before aiming at the nearest officer. Before even making sure he had dropped dead, she moved on to the next. Everything was a blur, as her eyes watered. Is this the end?

Michael hissed in pain, and pled them to leave. Brad was silent, and she feared the worst. However, she could not look away from the enemy; she continued shooting and shooting. The police officers kept falling, but more kept arriving to fight against her and Trevor.

‘[Name]!’

They were running out of ammunition, as well as outnumbered; two criminals against what seemed like hundreds of cops. She spared a glance at Trevor, who quickly reloaded his weapon, shouting swears and growling. His gaze would have scared her, once. However, in that moment, it did again—there was only pure rage and bloodthirst.

‘[Name]!’

She moved away from the window with a jump. Michael was giving her a worried look. The woman sighed and glanced away, ‘Sorry. I was just… thinking.’ He did not press further.

They were slowly approaching Sandy Shores, and she felt that same asphyxiating sensation on her chest. That same anxiety that had tormented for years. [Name] found it so hard to believe he was really alive. When she heard that he was alive from Lester—when he sent those pictures—, she thought for sure they were fake. Yet, there was hope in her heart and she agreed to work on whatever he was planning if what he was saying was indeed true.

And so, her heart was beating rapidly as her hand reached for the doorknob. Swinging it open, she found herself in shock and awe—perhaps happiness and bitterness. The same man she had mourned and loved for years was standing right there, in front of her. He looked different, but the woman saw Michael Towney. Except, he was now De Santa; and the truth broke her. Knowing that he had been so close, while she spent almost ten years mourning and crying and destroying her life (or what was left of it) because of a man who had lied to his partners, his friends.

Despite her anger, despite every twisted and bitter thought in her head—

Fuck.

The woman groaned and rubbed the bridge of her nose. ‘Something the matter?’ Michael quickly looked in her direction.

‘No,’ she waved her hand. ‘I’m… tired, that’s all. It’s been a long day.’

‘Yeah, I bet,’ he chuckled.

‘You pop out of nowhere. How did you expect me to react?’

He was quiet for a moment, before sighing. ‘Well, definitely not as calm as you were. I expected you to punch me or something.’

She nodded and scoffed, ‘Well, I definitely wanted to punch you.’ The woman placed her hand on her chest, ‘But, I decided to be a professional.’ The man shook his head. ‘No, really. Not only were we doing business, I thought of Lester’s poor asthma.’

‘Right,’ he said.

As they approached the location, she quietly indicated him where to turn. In comparison to the city, Sandy Shores looked miserable. It did not mean it was any safer than Los Santos, but she felt better when being by herself and surrounded by people who seemed to resemble her kind.

‘There,’ the woman pointed at a small, white house. It was not in any better condition than the others, but as long as she had a roof over her head, she would not complain. The man stared at the house with what seemed to be disgust, but he quickly wiped that face off his face. The car slowly stopped by the house and [Name] spared him a glance. ‘Well, thanks for the ride.’ She quickly opened the door and exited the car.

‘Wait, [Name]!’ Michael called. She froze mid-way of closing the door and leaned down to stare at him in confusion. He looked away for a moment, as if sheepishly, before turning to her again, ‘I need you to keep this a secret—especially from Trevor.’

‘Really? You want to continue this lie for how long, exactly?’

He sighed, annoyed, ‘It’s complicated. And you know Trevor. If he finds out—’

When he finds out, she thought. ‘He’s gonna be pissed.’ He went silent. She shrugged, ‘Well, it’s not like we are still in contact, but… sure. Even if I don’t approve.’

‘Thank you,’ he smiled faintly. ‘Look, I, uh… I’ll keep in touch.’

She nodded and forced herself to bring a smile to her lips, despite the painful sensation on her chest, ‘See you soon.’ The woman closed the door and stepped away from the car, watching longingly as he slowly drove off.

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National Enquirer, October 26

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Cover Story: Death Mysteries -- Whitney Houston autopsy cover-up; Kenny Rogers’ body is missing 

Page 2: Reba McEntire’s new romance with Rex Linn convinced Kelly Clarkson she needed to walk away from her unhappy marriage -- while Reba’s love life was heating up Kelly’s relationship with husband Brandon Blackstock who is Reba’s former stepson was hitting the rocks and Kelly remained very close with Reba and Reba would tell her how happy Rex had made her

Page 3: Control freak Tom Cruise is a basket case after he couldn’t charm Cher into leaving their steamy fling out of her upcoming memoir and the image-conscious actor was so panicky over Cher spilling their sexy secrets that he personally called her -- they had a strong physical attraction when they met at a White House event back in the ‘80s and eventually they hooked up and it was very hot and very intense and over in a matter of weeks but it left a nice impression on Cher so she only has good things to say about their relationship but what happened between them could prove very embarrassing if it got out and Tom doesn’t want that to happen -- unfortunately for Tom Cher wouldn’t say anything about what she intends to write and wouldn’t promise to leave Tom out and that’s made Tom even more paranoid and he’s wondering if he’s going to have to take legal action

Page 4: Kanye West is keeping a secret divorce diary to use against wife Kim Kardashian and its potential dishy dirt has her famous family quaking in their boots -- Kanye’s convinced Kim’s about the kick him to the curb and is putting together collateral to crush her and her family is the couple spirals into a $2.2 billion divorce, Jennifer Garner at 48 is flaunting her best body ever and her motivation is to compete with ex-husband Ben Affleck’s 32-year-old girlfriend Ana de Armas because Jen was tired of hearing how Ben’s fallen head over heels for Ana and wanted to remind him what he’s missing -- Jen’s always been very confident of her looks but she decided to step out of mom mode to remind everyone how hot she still is 

Page 5: Devastated Lisa Marie Presley has been relying on an old pal Smashing Pumpkins rocker Billy Corgan to repair her shattered life in the wake of the suicide of her son -- Lisa Marie and Billy were spotted together at Graceland not long ago and he’s been a huge source of support for her -- though they were rumored to have had a romance in 2018 Billy’s fully committed to his baby mama fashion designer Chloe Mendel and Lisa Marie would like nothing better for them to make beautiful music again but she knows he’s taken and she needs his friendship more than ever. 

Page 6: Ambitious anchor Gayle King is calling the shots at CBS This Morning after executive producer Diana Miller quit in the latest backstage shake-up; there was tension between Gayle and Diana and now Diana is gone -- it’s like the show gave Gayle the keys to the car and even if she runs it into a ditch the network gives her more power -- Gayle also clashed with former co-host Norah O’Donnell who successfully snagged the anchor chair at CBS Evening News but Norah hasn’t wowed in the ratings and it’s a matter of time before Gayle gets the coveted job 

Page 7: The mystery over the fate of country great Kenny Rogers’ body has left his own family members in the dark -- sources close to the singer said he’d been cremated while others charged his body is still on ice and Kenny’s body is missing as far as most people are concerned and there’s no place fans can go and pay their respects -- it’s most likely he’s been cremated and the ashes have yet to be scattered but there have also been whispers in certain circles that he could have been cryogenically frozen to preserve his body for a later date, many of Hollywood’s biggest names are abandoning Tinseltown to escape the COVID-19 pandemic and a collapsing entertainment industry -- Julia Roberts hightailing it to San Francisco and Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson getting citizenship in Greece and Pierce Brosnan put his Malibu mansion on the market and Jim Cameron is peddling his prized L.A. compound

Page 8: Frustrated Jon Stewart’s plans to reinvent himself as the next Steven Spielberg have flopped and he’s pretty unhappy about it and he wants to be viewed as a respected serious filmmaker but he’s hit more roadblocks than he ever saw as a comedian or talk show host -- he was left fuming when Irresistible his latest outing as a director was met by mediocre reviews and limited to pay-per-view and streaming services last summer even with box office draw and best buddy Steve Carell in the cast -- he could snap his fingers and get any TV project but he’s setting his sights much higher and he’s walked away from millions of dollars to go back to TV because he wants to prove he is a creative force in the film industry 

Page 9: Frustrated Brad Pitt is threatening to have ex Angelina Jolie dragged to jail if she refuses to end her harassment campaign against him and hash out a divorce and custody agreement and he’s had it with Angie’s intimidation tactics and is fed up with being labeled a bad dad and it’s no exaggeration to say Brad’s scared of Angie and he wants professional witnesses around them at all times when he attempts to see their children but for Brad though it would be the ultimate revenge to see Angie led away in handcuffs, Nashville legend Travis Tritt is trying to keep up with country music’s up-and-comers by getting a lift from plastic surgery and recent photos show the 57-year-old almost unrecognizable with a line-free face and skin as tight as a drum -- Travis is getting ready to put out his first album of new music in more than ten years and it’s hard to blame the guy when he’s completing against singers 30 years younger 

Page 10: Hot Shots -- Julia Garner got a touch-up on the Staten Island set of Inventing Anna, Reverend Run visited a mural of slain Run-DMC bandmate Jam Master Jay in NYC’s Hollis Queens, Vanessa Paradis and daughter Lily-Rose Depp in Paris

Page 11: Lovestruck Chrissy Metz is already talking marriage and babies with newly unveiled beau Bradley Collins but she has a history of falling for guys fast which has previously been a recipe for heartbreak and while nobody’s doubting Bradley’s intentions there’s a lot of confusion about why they kept their romance totally hidden until now, the devastating fire that tore through Rachael Ray’s home has made her reassess her life and she and husband John Cusimano are now considering adopting a baby -- losing so many of their possessions in the fire made them realize they weren’t all that important anyway so they bulldozed the house and are rebuilding and the word is they’ll add a nursery

Page 12: Straight Shuter -- Danny Trejo cuddled a rescue pup (picture), Lizzo is the first plus-sized Black woman to ever grace the cover of Vogue but pulling off the shoot was a challenge with most designers unable to find clothes that fit her, Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are very private and they’re livid with Lance Bass after he confirmed that they had another baby, when he was NBC’s biggest star Matt Lauer conducted almost every high-profile interview and now editors and doing a lot of cropping and zooming to preserve archived footage while removing Matt 

Page 14: Crime 

Page 15: Rock guitar god Eddie Van Halen who tragically died after a brave battle with cancer wanted to be buried with one of his Frankenstrat guitars that he created to define his signature sound -- Eddie felt like he owed his whole life to that instrument and he loved that thing as much as his family, Perez Hilton dished he kissed notorious skirt-chaser John Mayer in a New York nightclub and the lip-lock happened right in front of John’s then girlfriend Jessica Simpson who didn’t seem to know whether she was incredibly embarrassed or really turned on

Page 16: Cover Story -- explosive new autopsy evidence proves superstar Whitney Houston didn’t have to die -- eight years after she passed mysteries about her final moments and blatant blunders at the death scene point to murder and a shocking coverup and now investigators are demanding a new probe into the 2012 tragedy in a Los Angeles hotel bathroom and for Whitney’s body to be exhumed -- a private eye believes the autopsy proves Whitney was murdered but the case was never pursued because she was dismissed as a druggie and she was marginalized by law enforcement as a dead drug user 

Page 18: American Life

Page 19: Horror movie legend John Saxon’s family started battling over his fortune even before he passed on July 25 -- in legal papers filed in May his son Antonio claimed the actor’s third wife Gloria Martel had been pocketing money against John’s wishes, Netflix faces criminal charges in Texas over the controversial film Cuties -- according to court documents a Tyler County grand jury indicted Netflix claiming it knowingly promoted visual material that depicts the lewd exhibition of the private parts of a clothed or partially clothed child younger than 18 -- Netflix said in a statement that Cuties is a social commentary about the sexualization of young children and this charge is without merit 

Page 20: Suzanne Somers recently cheated death when she and husband Alan Hamel fell down a flight of stairs at their Palm Springs home and although Alan wasn’t seriously injured the terrifying spill left Suzanne in agony with two displaced vertebrae and forced her to undergo delicate neck surgery but she said the surgery went off without a hitch and promised she is on the mend, Hollywood Hookups -- Sofia Richie has unfollowed Scott Disick on Instagram, Zac Efron hopes to marry Vanessa Valladares, Sharon Stone and Mindy Kaling are both on the market 

Page 21: Twelve years after she was placed under conservatorship Britney Spears remains unable to sign her own name on official documents -- Britney recently made moves asking to allow a different financial group to step in and help run her life as well as gain more freedom but lawyer Andrew Wallet said Britney to this day does not have the capacity to sign documents and make decisions for herself and she is susceptible to undue influences, the audience for the Saturday Night Live season premiere came away with more than just a few yuks they also received $150 because to get around New York State pandemic guidelines SNL gave each guest a parting gift of $150 paychecks as if they were employees, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may soon have a new neighbor in heavy metal maniac Tommy Lee -- the drummer was recently spotted checking out a $2.3 million three-acre plot next to the rogue royals’ $14 million home in Montecito and he was obviously pumped about living there but building the tattooed rocker’s home would mean tons of truck traffic and hopefully Harry and Meghan don’t get upset with the building work he’s planning 

Page 22: ABC is reeling from a barrage of allegations from employees and on-air talent who’ve blasted it as a toxic and racist working environment -- the network which is owned by the family-friendly Walt Disney Corporation was rocked when Sunny Hostin the popular co-host of The View accused company executives of institutional and personal racism in her memoir and in later interviews about the book

Page 26: Lonely country singer Kenny Chesney is looking to find a new ladylove and is talking about finally settling down for good -- he is unhappily single after his eight-year relationship with model Mary Nolan hit the rocks -- he spends all the time he’s not on the road at his island paradise in Antigua but he misses having a partner and he’s even asked pals Matthew McConaughey and Richard Branson to play matchmaker 

Page 28: America is preparing for World War III as China amps up war games in the South Pacific and readies plans to invade U.S. allies -- military insiders warn China and Russia and their tyrannical accomplices in Iran and North Korea and Syria and Turkey are bracing to launch a coordinated attack against America and the west that could end in nuclear disaster 

Page 36: Health Watch 

Page 38: Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood has traded in his debauched days of sex drugs and rock ‘n’ roll for knitting, Rod Stewart revealed there’s a deep freeze between him and former close pal Elton John and that Elton refused his attempts to that things out -- the two ‘70s icons had been friends for decades before Rod blasted Elton’s biopic and his most recent music tour -- when Rod realized he was in the doghouse he tried to bait Elton with a bone for his kids by inviting Elton’s boys Zachary and Elijah to come play soccer with his sons Alistair and Aiden only to be greeted with the sounds of silence 

Page 42: Red Carpet -- The Christian Siriano collection 

Page 45: Spot the Differences -- Sophie Okonedo in Ratched 

Page 47: Odd List 

[someguyscaliforniavoterguide]

Select L.A. County/California Races, March 3, 2020

Hi friends, it’s me again. I am here to offer my opinions on how you should vote. As before I am up front about my biases: I am a Warren supporter, I live in L.A. and I am actively pro-density (Yay SB50, you deserved better) and pro-transit. I live in the east Valley, so I tend to focus more closely on the issues that directly impact my side of town, though I try to keep an ear out on things countywide. 

Last time I did this a couple of folks reached out to give me gifts to say thanks for doing this guide. This year, I would encourage anybody who wants to say thanks to donate $5 to Fair Fight,  a group founded by Stacey Abrams to fight voter suppression in the 2020 election. We’re gonna need all the help we can get in November to defeat the GOP, and Abrams is doing it in a smart way. 

Other voting guides

This is my voting guide and reflects my general opinion on things. However, I am indebeted to many other guides, including the Knock L.A. Voter Guide and the L.A. Podcast Voter Guide for their takes. I don’t always agree with them, but both of these are invaluable resources for the progressive voter in Los Angeles. 

L.A. City Council 

This year the even numbered seats are up for re-election. Half of them are effectively uncontested, a couple are very much contested, and two are free for all because of term limits. 

CD2: Ayinde Jones

Look none of these candidates set my heart afire. I work with Councilmember Krekorian’s office a lot (remember, I live in the east Valley) and he’s a competent politician with a ton of endorsements and community ties, I have no illusion he’s going to win his full term comfortably on March 3. However, I believe it’s good to encourage competition, and Ayinde Jones did a good (not great) job at the candidate forum I attended hitting on themes of how the parts of CD2 north of Victory are being left behind as the area evolves. I wish he were better on S50, but then again all three candidates were opposed, so that’s kind of a wash. I look forward to hearing more from Jones in the future. 

CD4: Sarah Kate Levy

From a paucity of options to a surplus of options next door. CD4 is currently represented by David Ryu, a politician who came out of the Neighborhood Council system and went on to become...a city hall politician. Both his opponents are great. Nithya Raman is the founder of SELAH, a group that does amazing work helping the unhoused in Los Angeles, and recently led Times Up! Hollywood for a year. I’d vote for her in a heartbeat, but I am encouraging people to vote for Sarah Kate Levy for two reasons: first, Levy is unabashedly supportive of SB50 and we need this kind of leadership, and second I am hoping these two excellent women will get so many votes that they overwhelm Ryu and leave him in third place. Fingers crossed. 

CD6: Bill Haller 

This is another shoo-in. Nury Martinez is the City Council president and has the backing of the County party and all the local clubs. I am endorsing Bill Haller because he supports an agenda that includes more public funding for affordable housing, more and better transit, and climate justice.  

CD8: Marqueece Harris-Dawson 

There are no other candidates in this race, so congratulations on your re-election Councilmember Harris-Dawson. 

CD10: Aura Vasquez 

This is an open seat, and the smart money has Mark Ridley-Thomas as the frontrunner. Ridley-Thomas is a current member of the L.A. County Board of Supervisors (more on them later) who is termed out of that position. I’m endorsing Aura Vasquez, a progressive activist with ties to Mid-City who has served as a commissioner for LADWP and led fights for renewable energy, banning single use plastics, and housing affordability in her community. 

CD12: Loraine Lundquist 

Dr. Lundquist rules. She takes public transit to debates, she is an honest to goodness scientist, and she nearly beat a Republican in what is the most conservative district in L.A. during a special election. I have donated money to this lady because we need to win this one. Her opponent, John Lee, wasted no time in trying to block housing for the homeless in his district and in attacking a successful safer streets project on Reseda Blvd. The city has a chance - a really great chance thanks to the realigned municipal elections - to toss out the worst possible councilmember in favor of the most progressive voice, don’t mess it up. 

CD14: Cyndi Otteson

This race is Kevin de Léon’s to lose, but he won’t commit to serving a full term since he really wants to be mayor. I say let him have his spare time to run for mayor and select Ms. Otteson, a grassroots activist who has the support of the UTLA and who is the only voice in favor of the Colorado Blvd alignment of the NoHo to Pasadena BRT project. Transit equity matters, and Ms. Otteson deserves your vote this March. 

LAUSD School Board 

Deferring to the teachers’ endorsements on this one. 

Board Seat 1: George McKenna

Board Seat 3: Scott Schmerlson

Board Seat 5: Jackie Goldberg

Board Seat 7: Patricia Castellanos

Glendale City Council: Dan Brotman 

An environmental activist with progresive views, Brotman will be a useful voice in Glendale’s city hall. 

District Attorney: Rachel Rossi 

George Gascón and Rachel Rossi will both be light years better than the current county D.A., Jackie Lacey. Both have promised to make substantial reforms in the office. I am really torn on this one, since I think Gascón’s experience as a Deputy DA in San Francisco is a big deal, and since he has the backing of the County Party. I am endorsing Rossi in a tilt-at-windmills hope that somehow she and Gascón make it to the final ballot in November and give us a thoughtful debate between a career prosecutor bent on reform and a public defender whose goal is reform about methods and ideas. Anyway, don’t vote for Jackie Lacey is all I am saying here. 

Superior Court

Voting for judges is stupid. We shouldn’t be doing this, but since we have to, I’ll make some suggestions. My math is based on other progressive endorsements, Party endorsements, and reverse-engineering some well known conservative voting guides to, if nothing else, make sure I am not voting for their endorsement. 

Office 17: Shannon Kathleen Cooley (the race is uncontested) 

Office 42: Linda Sun

Office 72: Myanna Dellinger

Office 76: Emily Cole (Cole is a prosecutor, but her opponent is a man who literally changed his name to “Judge” after serving as a judge in Stanislaus County) 

Office 80: Klint James McKay

Currently an administrative law judge, he impressed Public Defender Union representatives with his thoughtful and articulate answers to their questioning.

Office 97: Sherry L. Powell (Powell’s opponent ran as a conservative Republican for state assembly in 2018, this is a defensive vote)

Office 129: Kenneth Fuller

Office 131: Michelle Kelley (the race is uncontested)

Office 141: Lana Kim (the race is uncontested)

Office 145: Troy Slaten (Slaten’s opponent has a troubling history of misconduct and should not be elected to a judgeship) 

Office 150: Tom Parsekian

Office 162: David D. Diamond

L.A. County Board of Supervisors

The Supervisors oversee policy for the County, including all unincorporated areas, the LASD, County Health services, etc. For a county of TEN MILLION PEOPLE, there are only five supervisors, so they have a hugely outsized influence. 

Seat 2: Jorge Nuno 

A lot of progressives are endorsing Holly Mitchell in this seat. Me, I just can’t go there when she’s speaking at events for Livable California and when she gave a floor speech opposing SB50. Though he’s the front runner, Herb Wesson doesn’t deserve your vote - he was City Council president when the homelessness crisis exploded and he’s done little to address it. Nuno is a progressive and has an ambitious platform. 

Seat 4: Janice Hahn 

She’s solid, and nobody’s pushing her from the left. 

Seat 5: John Harabedian 

Kathryn Barger, the incumbent, is a Republican who supports Trump’s immigration policies. John Harabedian is a solidly Center Left Democrat who has the backing of the county party and who could, in this presidential election year, win an upset in what is traditionally a Republican stronghold of L.A. County. Vote for him. 

County Ballot Measures

Measure R: YES YES YES 

This will provide crucial tools to the already existing civilian oversight committee for the LASD, including subpoena powers. It also requires the commission to study ways to divert offenders from jail. You need to vote yes on this. 

State Ballot Measures 

Prop 13: Yes

$15B in bonds to invest in public schools and “local control” to allow local school districts to issue larger bonds. The only real opposition is from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, a revanchist organization that is singlehandedly responsible for much of our state and local problems in the past few decades. Don’t listen to them. 

Congressional Elections 

Despite some misgivings, I am generally supporting the progressive challengers here to hopefully lead to a Progressive/Center Left election in the fall. 

CD 25: Christy Smith 

She has a good track record in the state assembly and a strong local support network. She’s not a carpetbagger with a YouTube show, and she’s not a Republican. 

CD 28: Adam Schiff 

He’s not the most progressive guy in Congress but he’s been critical to holding Trump accountable. He’s earned this vote. 

CD 29: Angelica Duenas 

Tony Cardenas is a bit of a non-entity on the national stage but he does good local work and he was an early vote in favor of impeachment. The rape allegations against him which troubled me last time were dismissed with prejudice in 2019. Cardenas has a progressive challenger, Angelica Marie Duenas, who has run in the past as a Green Party candidate. I don’t trust her decision to abandon that label and come into the Democrats after getting drubbed in 2018, but overall I like her ideas and I’d be happy to see her and Cardenas in a runoff this year. 

CD 30: CJ Berina 

Brad Sherman is an okay Congressmember. CJ Berina is a young, progressive challenger who’s attracted the attention of the Sunrise Movement. I’d vote for him to try to push the GOP out of the runoff and make this a race between the Center Left and the Progressive Left. 

CD 34: Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla

Jimmy Gomez is solid; let’s push the GOP out of the runoff though by supporting this progressive. 

State House 

District 39: Luz Rivas

District 41: Chris Holden 

District 43: Laura Friedman 

District 44: Jacqui Irwin

District 45: Jesse Gabriel 

District 46: Adrin Nazarian

District 48: Blanca Rubio 

District 49: Edwin Chau 

District 50: Richard Bloom

District 51: Wendy Carillo

District 53: Godfrey Plata

District 54: Tracey Jones

District 55: Andrew Rodriguez

District 58: Margaret Villa

District 59: Reggie Jones-Sawyer

District 62: Autumn Burke

District 63: Anthony Rendon

District 64: Fatima Iqbal-Zubair

District 66: Al Muratsuchi

District 70: Patrick O’Donnell

State Senate

SD 21: Kipp Mueller

SD 23: Abigail Medina

SD 25: No Endorsement - I rarely do this but honestly Anthony Portantino does not deserve your vote. Write in Mickey Mouse. 

SD 27: Henry Stern

SD 29: Josh Newman

SD 31: Richard Roth

SD 33: Lena Gonzalez

SD 35: Steven Bradford

County Committees 

Look this is getting waaaaaaaaaaaaaay into the weeds. What I am going to say is this: I know that a lot of “progressive” slates are out there and I encourage you to try your best to vet them. In my district, one of the candidates is somebody I know personally - she actively campaigned for Jill Stein, she circulated the decades-old “Clinton Death List” to voters, and she pushed Pizzagate theories. I am not voting for this person, but she is endorsed by “Progressive California” so...just be careful. 

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Debunking

We’ve talked about this scene before- the Kurt rant given by Santana. Naya just said she was uncomfortable and she mentioned that Chris was upset. ��sugdendingle just posted that Chris “liked” her Tweet where she called out how much she didn’t like it.  She added a second comment that includes: 

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None of the other cast were personally attacked in the ways Chris was and to the extent Chris was. I don’t know what Ryan Murphy’s issues were with Chris but he clearly he had some....I’m talking about real life here. About how Ryan Murphy and his writers used the character of Kurt to personally attack Chris Colfer on a regular basis and it’s clear Chris agrees to some extent as he liked my tweet.

That scene in season six was one of the worst examples but hardly the only one. Chris not being traditionally masculine was like a running joke on that show. As was remarks about his voice, his appearance, his sexuality, how he danced, etc. Yes other characters faced insults but it never got as personal as it did with Chris and it wasn’t as extensive either. The insults to Kurt went on right to the end of the show you can’t say the same for the other characters. It’s just really sad that Chris had to endure a work enivorment like this especially considering he was bullied when he was younger.

Abby adds: 

My opinion. The poor treatment stems from extreme jealousy. For many, many reasons. And of course c’s refusal to do as he’s told.(X)

Debunk #1 

None of the other cast were personally attacked in the ways Chris was and to the extent Chris was. Was Chris harassed by the writers “more than any other character”?  I spent a few minutes looking at Santana’s rants-and Santana seems to be the ranter on Glee. I don’t believe her rants about Chris’s failings is any worse than she she said about Finn’s weight. Rachel or really Lea’s nose being too big had an entire episode-and several comments through the years- and Kurt staged a flashmob at the mall to talk her out of plastic surgery. Sam was called Trouty Mouth as a running joke including a song “Trouty Mouth” sang by Santana. 

“Every time you open your humongous mouth to do an impression or to moisten a enormous stamp for a lazy giant you take on step closer to everyone seeing that you’re actually a dork” (X)

“I just heard the news that Trouty Mouth was back in town. I’ve been keeping a notebook, just in case this day ever came. Welcome back, Lisa Rinna. I’ve missed you so much since your family packed their bags, loaded them in your mouth and skipped town. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve wanted to enjoy a crisp pickle, but couldn’t find anyone to suck the lid off the jar. I assume you’ve been working as a baby polisher where young mothers place their infants’ heads in your mouth to get back that newborn shine. So glad you’re back. I haven’t seen a smile that big since the acclamation abominable snowman got his teeth pulled by that little gay elf dentist. Love, Santana” (X)

This gets loooonnnngggg so under a cut 

This one she also hit at Tina’s Asian eyes and Rachels nose- though I didn’t include that part. 

Santana: Hold up, could we all just get real here for a second? I hear that Rachel has a bit of a schnoz. I mean I wouldn't know because like Medusa I try to avoid eye contact with her. But can we all just stop lying about how there aren't things we don't want to change about ourselves? I'm sure that Sam has been at the doctor's office and riffled through pamphlets on mouth reductions. I'll bet Artie's thought about getting his legs removed since he's not really using them anyway. And I'm definitely sure Tina has looked into eye de-slanting. Tina: That's extraordinarily racist. Santana: Just keeping it real. Tina: Sorry Santana, I'm a beautiful person. I'm in love with myself and I would never change a thing. Mike: Is that why you're wearing blue contacts today, Tina? [whispers] Self hating Asian. Tina: Not too many Asian sex symbols, Mike. I'm just trying to mirror what I see in magazines. Finn: My dancing kind of bothers me. It almost killed Rachel but I like the way I look. Santana: Oh please. You have weird puffy pyramid nipples. Sam: [tries to look at Finn's nipples] Finn: [slaps Sam's hand away] Santana: They look like they're filled with custard. Or you could dust them off with powdered sugar and pass it off as some sort of dessert. Look, maybe Rachel is fine with having an enormous beak. Maybe she needs it to crack hard seeds. All I'm saying is if you look in the mirror and you don't like what you see, you should change it.”(X)

“I’ve kissed Finn, and can I just say… not worth a buck. I would, however, pay a hundred dollars to jiggle one of his man boobs”. (X)

Santana: “Please stick a sock in it or ship yourself back to Scotland. I’m trying to apologize to Lumps The Clown. I am sorry, Finn. I mean, really, I’m sorry that the New Directions are gonna get crushed by the Troubletones. And I’m also sorry that you have no talent. Sorry that you sing like you’re getting your prostate checked, and you dance like you’ve been asleep for years and someone just woke you up. Have fun riding on Rachel’s coattails for the rest of your life, although, you know what, I would just watch out for her come holiday time if I were him, because if I were her, I’d stick a stent in one of those boobs and let the Finn blubber light the Hanukkah lamp for eight magical nights.” (X)

Santana: “Why is everyone staring at me like I’m Finn and I just won a butter eating contest” (X)

She even hit him during The Quarterback “Okay, I know that Finn had his doubts about God but I am convinced that Squishy Teets is up in heaven right now plopped down next to his new best friend Fat Elvis helping themselves to a picnic of baby back ribs smothered in butterscotch pudding and TaterTot grease so this is for you Hudson” (X)

She also did a combo Finn/Sam rant “Not only am I giving you full visitation rights to the set of rambunctious twins that live on my rig cage, you get the chance to show that pastry bag Finn that he can’t mess with Sam Evans. And not just because you can unlock your humongous jaw and swallow him whole like a python…” (X)

The Kurt rant 

“Kurt I took what you said to heart, and I thought long and hard about it, and it occurred to me that you may have a point. Okay, maybe Brittany and I are too young to get married. I mean, after all, that's why it didn't work out with you and Blaine, right? Or maybe it didn't work out because you're a judgmental little gentrophile with a mouth like a cat's ass. Maybe Blaine got tired of hearing your shrill, self-aggrandizing lecture about how you felt the two of you were at the very apex of the gay rights movement every time you so much as cooked macaroni and cheese together or farted. Maybe Blaine didn't want to be with someone who looks like they just removed their top row of dentures every time they smile or someone who doesn't dress like an extra out of one of Andy Dick's more elaborate wet dreams. Maybe Blaine grew weary of dating a breathier, more feminine Quinn Fabray. Maybe he finally got freaked out about your strange obsession with old people that causes you to skulk around nursing homes like one of those cats that can smell cancer. Maybe he got tired of watching you drape yourself on every piano you happen to pass to entertain exactly no one with, say, some song that Judy Garland choked on her tongue in the middle of or some sassy old Broadway standard made famous by another dead alcoholic crone. Maybe Blaine woke up one day and said, "You know what I don't want to marry a sexless, self-centered baton twirler. Maybe I need someone who knows more than three dance moves: "the finger wag", "the shoulder shimmy" and the one where you pretend to twirl two invisible rainbow-colored ribbons attached to your hips. So, you know what, maybe that's why it didn't work out. Maybe it has nothing to do with me and Brittany. Maybe it's just that you are utterly, utterly intolerable. Maybe that has something to do with it."(X)

Conclusion: Chris was not attacked more than other actors on Glee.  The writers were pretty vicious about the physical characteristics of Rachel’s nose, Finn’s weight and man boobs and Sam’s nose. They also wrote about Damian’s height referring to as Leprechaun. All are very personal attacks about the actor; not the character.  Finn’s boobs were used as fodder for humor after he died so the idea that no other character was humiliated throughout the show is untrue.  

Debunk #2 

I don’t know what Ryan Murphy’s issues were with Chris but he clearly he had some. Ryan didn’t write Santana’s vicious lines-Brad Falchuk did.  I spent enough time researching this and finding late-season interview is hard but earlier interviews show that Ryan really respected Chris and Kurt.

Ryan did an interview with NYT in 2010  Q:Is this story in any way autobiographical or a reflection on your own experiences growing up?

A:It wasn’t really true to my experience at all. But I know so many people that it was true to. It was very true to Chris Colfer’s experience, and working with him for the past year, he would tell me stories. It’s amazing to me — last year when we did the “Glee” tour, every time Chris Colfer came out on that stage for his bows, 100 percent, he got the loudest cheers and applause, from all groups of people. Little girls, parents. A lot of people have embraced him and he’s part of their television-going family, so to see an episode in which he’s physically threatened is very upsetting for people, I think. But it puts a face on it. 

Q: It’s still rare to see gay characters on prime-time network programs, let alone one who is out in the way that Kurt is, and at a young age. Is there ever any pressure on you to tone down the portrayal of that character?

A: No, surprisingly not. Three episodes into the series last year, when we did the “Single Ladies” football number with him, he became an audience favorite and people started to write about that character and Chris Colfer. I think that character is in many ways the most important character on television, particularly for kids. When I was growing up, there was nobody like that. I think that character changes lives. I think that character launches conversation, both good and bad, and that’s a very powerful thing. I’ve done shows where if a character is a little bit controversial, the network and the studio are like, “Could you please tone that down?” They never did that at all with this character, and they were all very supportive of the story line. (X)

“Growing up in Indianapolis, Murphy sang in his church choir and immersed himself in high school musicals. His father was a semi-pro hockey player who was baffled by a son who requested a Vogue subscription when he was 5 years old and performed in his bedroom, holding a hairbrush in front of a mirror. He may not have understood his son, but he accepted him, even when Murphy revealed that he was gay at 15″.

“Having a dad that loves you as a young man is a very powerful thing that you carry into the world,” Murphy said. “Because no matter what you do, in some weird, unconscious way, if you’re a guy, you always try to please your dad. I think it’s a great thing to put on television. You’ve seen the gay character that gets kicked out of the house or is beaten up. You haven’t seen the gay character that is teased a little bit, but wins and triumphs.”

“The scene in which he tells his father was taken verbatim from Murphy's own life. Murphy felt that the scene was "a great thing to put on television", because, while gay characters are often isolated and attacked, audiences have rarely seen an openly gay character who "wins and triumphs". He further explained, "The show is about making you feel good in the end. It's about happy endings and optimism and the power of your personal journey and making you feel that the weird thing about me is the great thing about me. I've done other shows with gay characters, and I will say that in many of those cases, the gay characters didn't have a happy ending. And I thought you know what? Enough."(X)(X)

We also know that Ryan created the role of Kurt specifically for Chris. 

We don’t know what happened with the fall out(s) on set. Chris said he wouldn’t work for Ryan and 

“To this day, I'm devastated by everything that happened with that show." (X)

Other interring things I found:

“Over the course of six seasons of Glee, which petered out earlier this year, there was plenty written about backstage drama, fractured relationships and the death of star Cory Monteith from a drug overdose. All Murphy will offer are his own misgivings about his role on the show. "I was there with them all day long, and then we'd finish work and we'd go out and have fun all night, and I guess in a weird, twisted way, I was trying to relive the childhood I never had," he says. "I thought they wanted a parent, and they didn't. They didn't want me to tell them what to f—ing do. They didn't want me to tell them how to treat each other or what the world was like at the end of the day. I wish I could go back and do that differently with a lot of those actors. Some of them I'm still very close to: Lea Michele, Chord Overstreet, Darren Criss — but there were some that didn't work out well, and I regret that. I guess I just wish I had been able to let them figure it out for themselves."(X)

Conclusion: Ryan is a grown man and didn’t have it out for Chris. He respected Chris and used the Kurt role to tell his story of being a gay boy in small midwest town.   

Debunk #3

The poor treatment stems from extreme jealousy. For many, many reasons. 

Abby has claimed Ryan is jealous of Chris many times over the years-it still isnt’ true.  Ryan is a very successful producer, writer, creator.  I found a few quotes to back that up.  

“It's a peculiar thing to be asked by Murphy, 50, the closest thing the TV industry has to a proven hitmaker, save, perhaps, for Shonda Rhimes. Over the past decade and a half, he's made pop-culture juggernauts out of plastic surgeons on Nip/Tuck, high school misfits on Glee and witches, nuns and nymphomaniacs on American Horror Story. And in that time, he's become a name brand himself, more famous than all but the biggest stars in his sprawling casts. The showrunner, both pop savant and provocateur, has one of the richest eight-figure deals in television and a coterie of loyalists that includes Gwyneth Paltrow(with whom he's about to pitch a musical dramedy), Julia Roberts, Jessica Lange and now Lady Gaga. He's hosted President Obama at his home for a $40,000-a-couple fundraiser, and when he mentions his friends Norman, Barbra and David, he's referring to Lear, Streisand and Geffen.(X)

"There's a limited number of creators in film or TV where if you put the title plus their name — if you say, 'Steven Spielberg's blah blah blah' or 'Marvel's blah blah blah' — you're going to get a different answer than if you don't," Landgraf says, "and Ryan is one of those guys."(X)

Chris is a successful writer and if he is successful in writing and directing the TLOS movie, he could be a power player in Hollywood. But right now- even with his Time 100 award, he isn’t anywhere near Ryan Murphy.  I suppose Ryan could be jealous of something other than Chris’s success but I have seen no evidence of that. 

Conclusion: Nope. 

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Globe, November 30

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Cover: The palace lured Princess Diana into death trap 

Page 2: Up Front & Personal -- Sienna Miller shooting Anatomy of a Scandal, former soap star Wanda De Jesus and longtime partner Jimmy Smits take a walk in Brentwood, Mama June Shannon gambles on plastic surgery 

Page 3: Billy Dee Williams may walk with a cane but he doesn’t let that stop him from taking the wheel in West Hollywood, Joey Fatone at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Ariel Winter lugs around a massive roll of bubble wrap in L.A. 

Page 4: Courageous Al Roker has battled health problems for years and now his new devastating prostate cancer diagnosis seals his rep as the unluckiest man on TV

* Patrick Duffy and Linda Purl are proof that love can be just as wonderful in your golden years and now pals predict their whirlwind romance will lead them to an elopement -- the former Dallas star was heartbroken after his wife of 43 years died of cancer in 2017 but Happy Days alum Linda brought joy back into his life -- the greying sweethearts plan to spend the holidays with both their families and then go house hunting for their own place

Page 5: Kanye West thinks he’s so smart and wonderful and creative he’s showering bucks on a project to make a posse of his own personal mini-mes and he sees his clones as his gift to the world claiming it’s his duty to keep himself on the planet at all costs long after he’s gone so death doesn’t have to be the end of Kanye -- Kanye’s wife Kim Kardashian has given Kanye permission to double down on himself -- he’s also fascinated by cryogenics and no one would be surprised if he arranges to have himself stored in a chamber when he dies so he can be revived years later 

Page 6: Britney Spears is having another family feud because she wants her dad Jamie Spears suspended immediately from his role as co-conservator of her estate claiming he installed a new business manager to run her $60 million fortune without consulting his daughter in what she brands a blatant attempt to get full functional control of her assets and books and records in the face of Britney’s objections

* Ryan Seacrest is turning into a bloated recluse as career and personal problems have worried pals thinking about an intervention -- he’s so devastated by his breakup with Shayna Taylor and the end of cash cow Keeping Up with the Kardashians that he’s shutting himself away for days on end and ignoring calls from friends and co-workers and only responding to texts and he’s stuffing his face with junk food and sloppy takeout and pizzas and he’s come close to belching on camera a few times 

Page 7: Devastated widow Paulina Porizkova who her bitter husband Ric Ocasek cut out of his will even though she took care of him in his final days suffered a shocking collapse -- she had gone to Costa Rica with her sons for a change of scenery following the death of Ric who was divorcing her -- she says she had a total nervous breakdown in the airport and they had to put her in a wheelchair to take her back to the plane

* Abby Lee Miller is learning to walking again -- the former Dance Moms star had been using a wheelchair after undergoing chemo for Burkitt lymphoma and having life-saving spinal surgery but she’s now cancer-free and recently underwent an elective operation to help regain mobility -- even though Lifetime canned her plan spinoff Abby’s Virtual Dance Off over charges she’s racist she claims to have a scripted show and two reality series in the works 

Page 8: Mike Tyson says he once used a prosthetic penis loaded with his infant son’s pee to pass a drug test during his hard-hitting heyday in the ring and although he swears he never took performance-enhancing drugs he has been blunt about his history of toking weed and snorting cocaine 

* Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond reveals she has a foster son named Jamar -- Ree who has four children explains she couldn’t talk about Jamar until he turned 18 and state agency restrictions no longer applied 

Page 9: Beloved Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek went to his grave harboring a bitter grudge against talk star and game show rival Regis Philbin -- Alex and Regis began their feud in 2000 when Alex slammed Regis’ Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as a game show for dummies and Regis was deeply hurt by the dig and shot back that face to face if Alex says anything about Millionaire he’d just look him in the eye and say is that your final answer, Alex? 

Page 10: Inside the modern Mafia -- blogs and blunders and killer cops

Page 12: Celebrity Buzz -- Adam Brody shows off his bod in Malibu (picture), Lamar Odom was seemingly back on a marriage track to wed fitness instructor Sabrina Parr next year but Lamar’s engagement was abruptly called off amid ominous sparks of ongoing trouble for the athlete and Sabrina sad she’s no longer able to be by Lamar’s side while he seeks the help he so desperately needs, Mina Starsiak of Good Bones wants a postpartum tummy tuck pronto, things got bristlier than an old broom for Anne Hathaway groveling her way out of massive fan backlash for her appearance on The Witches remake for the insensitive way she portrayed a three-fingered witch with split hands, behind the scenes at The Tonight Show where Jimmy Fallon recently extended his lucrative contract to host the struggling late-night talk show past 2021 but his head writer Rebecca Drysdale lasted six months of butting heads with Jimmy and his cronies before getting dumped 

Page 13: Katie Holmes and boyfriend Emilio Vitolo Jr. (picture), Sean Stewart in a leg cast in Beverly Hills (picture), Busy Philipps puts on lip gloss on the NYC set of Girls5Eva (picture)

Page 14: Dave Grohl got scared stiff recording an upcoming album in an eerie L.A. home reportedly rocking with paranormal activity and when he got nosy about the place’s past he apparently got answers from the landlord along with an NDA form meant to keep him from spilling secrets, RHOBH star Kyle Richards’ half-sister Kathy Hilton is joining the show; socialite Kathy cold-shouldered Kyle and her husband Mauricio Umansky when he left her husband Rick Hilton’s real estate company to launch a rival biz 

* Fashion Verdict -- Jana Kramer 7/10, Michelle Dockery 4/10, Gretta Monahan 3/10, Charlize Theron 2/10

Page 16: Ailing pop star Phil Collins is being so publicly humiliated by his two-timing ex-wife Orianne Cevey who dashed his dreams of a permanent reunion by secretly marrying another guy pals now fear for his life -- Phil is currently battling Orianne in court over his $38.6 million waterside Miami mansion which she and new husband Thomas Bates have now agreed to vacate but Orianne is demanding half of the home insisting Phil promised her a 50 percent share when they moved into it in 2016 -- Orianne also claims that Phil became a hopeless addict in 2017 hooked on booze and pain pills and after two years of drug hell he was incapable of having sex and he stopped showering and brushing his teeth and had become a hermit 

Page 17: Troubled Jonathan Rhys Meyers crashed his car in Malibu and failed a field sobriety test and was slapped with a misdemeanor DUI 

* Teresa Giudice has found new love with business man Louie Ruelas just two months after divorcing deported jailbird Joe Giudice -- the Real Housewives of New Jersey star who has four girls with Joe hooked up with the dad of two and digital marketing whiz and both are very happy 

Page 19: 10 Things You Don’t Know About David Giuntoli 

* Sophia Loren says early in her career she told a director to buzz off when he suggested she surgically alter her nose -- she recalls telling the meddling moviemakers her nose is going to stay there forever and it has a lot of personality 

* Parkinson’s patient Michael J. Fox admits he may be forced to say goodbye to Hollywood because his short-term memory is shot and acting is getting tougher to do 

Page 20: True Crime 

Page 21: Desperate to salvage his tarnished reputation and career Johnny Depp is hoping to hook up with another Hollywood outcast in former co-star Angelina Jolie -- Johnny and Angie first flirted while filming The Tourist in 2010 but at the time Johnny was with Vanessa Paradis and Angie was with Brad Pitt -- Johnny recently reached out to Angie to jumpstart their friendship and he’s been sending her poems written with her in mind and suggestions for book to read and music to listen to and they’ve exchanged a series of emails and texts and talk on the phone quite a bit so Johnny has hope to win her heart and they’re making plans to meet in L.A. very soon but the ball is in Angie’s court and she’s open to having a little fun but don’t count on anything getting too serious 

* Johnny Depp’s career has taken another hit as he’s been axed from the Fantastic Beasts film franchise after a British court determined he beat ex-wife Amber Heard at least a dozen times

Page 24: Cover Story -- Princess Diana was lured to her death by a twisted dirty tricks campaign orchestrated by the palace -- acting at the direction of Queen Elizabeth’s hard-case husband Prince Philip British intelligence officers mounted a clever operation to drive Prince Charles’ emotionally fragile wife to the breaking point and they knew she was frantic and suicidal and vulnerable and played on her worst fears -- Diana’s own brother Charles Spencer has also broken a 25-year silence to expose a plot against the People’s Princess and he reveals forged documents and a whisper campaign hinting at treacherous betrayals fueled her paranoia and desperation and despair and pushed her into a decision that ultimately cost her life 

Page 26: Health Report

Page 30: Rock legend Jerry Lee Lewis vowed to keep wailing ‘til the end but the 85-year-old stroke victim now spends his days listening to his old hits and staring out the window and his health has taken a tragic turn for the worse since he was clobbered by the stroke last year -- he’s hunched over and seems confused and he’s forgetful and can’t remember some of the lyrics to his oldest hits; he tries to play the piano and just can’t because his hands are so stiff and don’t move the way he wants them to 

* Mel B claims she’ll go bankrupt if a judge doesn’t lower the $500,000 she’s been ordered to pay her ex-husband and if the sum isn’t modified she will in all likelihood have to file for bankruptcy -- Mel and ex Stephen Belafonte divorced three years ago and have been slugging it out in court ever since

Page 44: Straight Talk -- lifestyle queen bees Martha Stewart and Gwyneth Paltrow are at each other’s throats but their furious feud is hard to understand because they’re not really in the same business -- Martha is the ultimate homemaker peddling recipes and furnishings and decorating tips while Gwyneth’s New Age-style Goop website is a sleazy sex shop with items normally found in tacky joints along West Hollywood’s sleazy Santa Monica Boulevard 

Page 45: Sinead O’Connor is taking a break to enter a one-year trauma and addiction treatment program after losing a loved one and she admits she’s been addicted to weed for 34 years but became briefly addicted to another drug following her loss

* Sean Connery’s wealthy widow Micheline Roquebrune could end up behind bars and fined a whopping $28 million if convicted of stiffing the Spanish taxman -- the tax-cheat case spans back to 1999 when Sean sold their Marbella mansion on the glitzy Costa del Sol; Connery’s lawyer and the mayor of Marbella and six other elected officials were jailed over a tax-cheat scam involving the property but in 2014 Sean was told he wouldn’t be prosecuted but now Spanish bigwigs say the case has not gone away and want to indict his widow for tax fraud

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Mango sticky rice sushi. Mango sticky rice sushi is made with coconut sugar and coconut milk for a rich, decadent texture. Each roll is filled with fresh slices of mango, which is Why we love it: Sushi isn't always a go-to for vegans because most Japanese restaurants don't have a large variety of veggie sushi, unless it's an. This mango sticky rice recipe requires just a few ingredients.

So several years went by, and I started experimenting with Sushi. And I had an idea on how to CHEAT making sticky rice with mango. You can refrigerate the rice for some time, but you may need to warm it slightly to get it to an appropriate consistancy to mold into sushi or ball shapes.

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mango sticky rice sushi. One of my favorites. This time, I'm gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mango sticky rice sushi is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It's appreciated by millions daily. It's easy, it's fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Mango sticky rice sushi is something which I have loved my entire life.

Mango sticky rice sushi is made with coconut sugar and coconut milk for a rich, decadent texture. Each roll is filled with fresh slices of mango, which is Why we love it: Sushi isn't always a go-to for vegans because most Japanese restaurants don't have a large variety of veggie sushi, unless it's an. This mango sticky rice recipe requires just a few ingredients.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mango sticky rice sushi using 8 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mango sticky rice sushi:

{Make ready 1/2 cup of jasmine rice.

{Take 1/2 cup of glutinous rice.

{Prepare 1 of mango.

{Prepare 4 of oreo cookies.

{Prepare 3 tbsp of condensed milk.

{Take 4 tbsp of dessicated coconut.

{Prepare 4 tbsp of brown sugar.

{Make ready Dash of cocoa powder.

Something for sushi lovers, and sushi haters! If you love Thai coconut sticky rice with mango, you will love this fun twist! I love how the creamy coconut sauce melds together with the sticky rice and mango. This dessert sushi isn't too sweet, but yet they are completely satisfying.

Instructions to make Mango sticky rice sushi:

Soak glutinous rice in cold water for a few hours.

Cook both jasmine and glutinous rice (in a rice cooker or however you'd like).

Peel and cut mango into 1cm by 1cm strips. Also cut into thin slices for topping..

In a microwaveable bowl, combine brown sugar and coconut, microwave for 30s so the brown sugar is partially melted.

In a food processor, pulverize oreos into a powder. Use a bag and fists if you must.

When the rice is ready, mix in a few tablespoons a condensed milk until the desired texture is acheived. We don’t want a pudding texture, nor do we want individual grains..

When the rice is properly combined, lay out a piece of plastic wrap on your sushi mat. Spread out the rice into a square, keeping the thickness to 0.5-1cm..

Try to fill the square as much as possible, while allowing overflow space. Sprinkle the oreo crumbs on top until it’s evenly covered. Now take your mango strips and coconut mixture, and place in a line 2 inches near the edge of one side. The photo here replaces cranberry sauce but tbh coconut is better.

Roll up one side while holding onto your fillings to avoid it from slipping. Tuck it around your filling, while pulling out the plastic wrap so it doesn’t get rolled in. Continue rolling, while evenly applying pressure to the roll. Once you get to the other side, give it a full roll to regain the circular shape..

Slice (dip knife in water in between), and top with mango slices and a sprinkling of cocoa powder..

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