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Carol Collins-Miles @ Lanvin Fall/Winter, 1982 Haute Couture

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A L I E N S but make it fashion

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THE TOURNAMENT IS OVER! Eartha Kitt lounges in her deck chair in the sun, dipping her toes in the pool with Toshiro Mifune and sipping a brightly colored fruity something with an umbrella in it.

Far below in the shadow realm, however, the fallen hotties dance in the dark—let's take a minute to look back at them under the cut.

PRELIM PRETTIES:

Claude Gensac, Silvia Pinal, Ewa Aulin, Rita Tushingham, Annette Funicello, Norma Bengell, Catherine Spaak, Brigitte Auber, Micheline Presle, Nanette Fabray, Libertad Lamarque, Vera Miles, Martha Raye, Catherine McLeod, Virginia Mayo, Elizabeth Allan, Belle Bennet, Virginia Cherill, Mary Brian, Ruth Chatterton, Agnes Ayres, Merna Kennedy, Marie Prevost, Corinne Griffith, May Allison, Virginia Brown Faire, Alice Brady, and Jetta Goudal

ROUND ONE WONDERS:

Angie Dickinson, Thelma Ritter, Geraldine Chaplin, Evelyn Preer, Vanessa Brown, Betty Blythe, Susan Hayward, Mae Clarke, Sally Ann Howes, Ossi Oswalda, Adrienne La Russa, Hermione Gingold, Barbara Bouchet, Melina Mercouri, Anna Karina, Edwige Fenech, Charmian Carr, Pina Pellicer, Marlène Jobert, Tsuru Aoki, Alice Roberts, Leila Hyams, Lady Tsen Mei, Geneviève Bujold, Dolores Hart, Anita Berber, Bonita Granville, Vonetta McGee, Claire Windsor, Zizi Jeanmaire, Tuesday Weld, Grace Darmond, Carol Channing, Deanna Durbin, Laraine Day, Mariette Hartey, Wendy Hiller, Candy Darling, Hermione Baddely, Valeria Creti, Ella Raines, Ann Miller, Dana Wynter, Dalida, Martine Beswick, Gale Storm, Simone Signoret, Cristina Gaioni, Mabel Normand, Stéphane Audran, Ruth Weyher, Anna Wiazemsky, Ann Sheridan, Sandhya Shantaram, Alice White, Anne Francis, Gena Rowlands, Lyda Borelli, May Whitty, Cathleen Nesbitt, Jessica Walter, Virna Lisi, Barbara Shelley, Iris Hall, Heather Angel, Anne Shirley, Joanna Pettet, Virginia O'Brien, Joan Collins, Greer Garson, Gracie Allen, Peggy Ryan, Frances Dee, Shirley Maclaine, Geraldine Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Margaret Hamilton, Eva Gabor, Francesca Bertini, Julie Adams, Olga Baclanova, Misa Uehara, Yvette Vickers, Milena Dravić, Jenny Jugo, Madeleine Carroll, Benita Hume, Olive Borden, Shirley Jones, Miyoshi Umeki, Dorothy Lamour, Gale Sondergaard, Mary Anderson, Charlotte Greenwood, Sybil Seely, Mona Barrie, Kathryn Grayson, Katharine Ross, Madge Bellamy, Rhonda Fleming, Sally Gray, Jana Brejchová, Debra Paget, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Evelyn Brent, Zelma O'Neal, Marie Laforêt, Türkan Şoray, Beatriz Costa, Irene Zazians, Eleanor Powell, Susan Luckey, Patsy Kelly, Lil Dagover, Norma Talmadge, Dorothy Mackaill, Madge Evans, Virginia McKenna, Amália Rodrigues, Mamie Van Doren, Valerie Hobson, Isabel Jeans, Beata Tyszkiewicz, Claire Luce, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Nieves Navarro Garcia, Janet Leigh, Carmen Miranda, Jean Harlow, Aud Egedge-Nissen, Nina Foch, Jean Simmons, Piper Laurie, Katy Jurado, Jayne Mansfield, Anita Garvin, Frances Farmer, Lizabeth Scott, Joan Greenwood, Una Merkel, Arlene Francis, Ethel Merman, Doris Day, Suzanne Pleshette, Ruta Lee, Carolyn Jones, June Richmond, Eva Nil, Diana Dors, Anna Chang, Colleen Moore, Alexis Smith, Yvette Mimieux, Ruby Keeler, Viola Dana, Dolores Grey, Marie Windsor, Danielle Darieux, Jean Parker, Julie Christie, Acquanetta, Leatrice Joy, Ghita Nørby, Julie Newmar, Joanne Woodward, Sandra Dee, Eva Marie Saint, Simone Simon, Katherine Dunham, Birgitte Price, Lee Grant, Anita Page, Flora Robson, Martha Sleeper, Elsie Ames, Isabel "Coca" Sarli, Glenda Farrell, Kathleen Burke, Linden Travers, Diane Baker, Joan Davis, Joan Leslie, Sylvia Sidney, Marie Dressler, June Lockhart, Emmanuelle Riva, Libertad Leblanc, Susannah Foster, Susan Fleming, Dolores Costello, Ann Smyrner, Luise Rainer, Anna Massey, Evelyn Ankers, Ruth Gordon, Eva Dahlbeck, Ansa Ikonen, Diana Wynyard, Patricia Neal, Etta Lee, Gloria Stuart, Arletty, Dorothy McGuire, Mitzi Gaynor, Gwen Verdon, Maria Schell, Lili Damita, Ethel Moses, Gloria Holden, Kay Thompson, Jeanne Crain, Edna May Oliver, Lili Liliana, Ruth Chatterton, Giulietta Masina, Claire Bloom, Dinah Sheridan, Carroll Baker, Brenda de Banzie, Milú, Hertha Thiele, Hanka Ordonówna, Lillian Roth, Jane Powell, Carol Ohmart, Betty Garrett, Kalina Jędrusik, Edana Romney, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Kay Kendall, Ruth Hussey, Véra Clouzot, Jadwiga Smosarska, Marge Champion, Mary Astor, Ann Harding, María Casares, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mildred Natwick, Michèle Morgan, Romy Schneider, Elisabeth Bergner, Celeste Holm, Betty Hutton, Susan Peters, Mehtab, Leslie Caron, Anna Sten, Janet Munro, Nataša Gollová, Eve Arden, Ida Lupino, Regina Linnanheimo, Sonja Henie, and Terry (what a good girl)

ROUND TWO BEAUTIES:

Evelyn Nesbit, Thelma Todd, Tura Satana, Helen Gibson, Maureen O'Hara, Rocío Dúrcal, Mary Nolan, Lois Maxwell, Maggie Smith, Zulma Faiad, Ursula Andress, Musidora, Delphine Seyrig, Marian Marsh, Leatrice Joy, Sharon Tate, Pina Menichelli, Teresa Wright, Shelley Winters, Lee Remick, Jane Wyman, Martita Hunt, Barbara Bates, Susan Strasberg, Marie Bryant, Diana Rigg, Jane Birkin, Rosalind Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, Brigitte Helm, Gloria Grahame, Rosemary Clooney, Bebe Daniels, Constance Bennett, Lilian Bond, Ann Dvorak, Jeanette Macdonald, Pouri Banayi, Raquel Welch, Vilma Bánky, Dorothy Malone, Olive Thomas, Celia Johnson, Moira Shearer, Priscilla Lane, Dolores del Río, Ann Sothern, Françoise Rosay, June Allyson, Carole Lombard, Jeni Le Gon, Takako Irie, Barbara Steele, Claudette Colbert, Lalita Pawar, Asta Nielsen, Sandra Milo, Maria Montez, Mae West, Alma Rose Aguirre, Bibi Andersson, Joan Blondell, Anne Bancroft, Elsa Lanchester, Nita Naldi, Suchitra Sen, Dorothy Van Engle, Elisabeth Welch, Esther Williams, Loretta Young, Margueritte De La Motte, Ita Rina, Constance Talmadge, Margaret Lockwood, Barbara Bedford, Josette Day, Stefania Sandrelli, Jane Russell, Doris Dowling, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Donna Reed, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands, Billie Burke, Kyōko Kagawa, Françoise Dorléac, Hend Rostom, Monica Vitti, Lilian Harvey, Marjorie Main, Jeanne Moreau, Lola Flores, Ann Blyth, Janet Gaynor, Jennifer Jones, Margaret Sullavan, Sadhana, Ruby Myers, Lotus Long, Honor Blackman, Marsha Hunt, Debbie Reynolds, Michèle Mercier, Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, Judy Holliday, Tippi Hedren, Susse Wold, Vera-Ellen, Carmelita González, Nargis Dutt, Purnima, Harriet Andersson, Yvonne De Carlo, Miroslava Stern, Sheila Guyse, Helen, Margaret Dumont, Betty Grable, Joan Bennett, Jane Greer, Judith Anderson, Liv Ullman, Vera Zorina, Joan Fontaine, Silvana Mangano, and Lee Ya-Ching

ROUND THREE ELECTRIFIERS:

Jean Hagen, Sumiko Mizukubo, Mary Philbin, Ann-Margret, Margaret Rutherford, Claudia Cardinale, Eleanor Parker, Jessie Matthews, Theresa Harris, Brigitte Bardot, Alla Nazimova, Faye Dunaway, Marion Davies, Anna Magnani, Theda Bara, Myrna Loy, Kay Francis, Fay Wray, Barbra Streisand, Bette Davis, Hideko Takamine, France Nuyen, Claudine Auger, Miriam Hopkins, Maylia Fong, Samia Gamal, Maude Fealy, Machiko Kyō, Sharmila Tagore, Lucille Ball, Ginger Rogers, Juanita Moore, Anna Fougez, Waheeda Rehman, Ruan Lingyu, Nina Mae McKinney, Ethel Waters, Nadira, Olivia de Havilland, Abbey Lincoln, Louise Beavers, Agnes Moorehead, Lana Turner, Norma Shearer, Maria Falconetti, Reiko Sato, Marie Doro, Clara Bow, Margaret Lindsay, Catherine Denueve, Madhabi Mukherjee, Rosaura Revueltas, Hu Die, Mary Pickford, Fredi Washington, Louise Brooks, Leonor Maia, Merle Oberon, Paulette Goddard, Vivien Leigh, Francine Everett, Savitri, Tita Merello, and Meena Kumari

ROUND FOUR STUNNERS:

Judy Garland, Dorothy Dandridge, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Marilyn Monroe, Irene Papas, Lupe Vélez, Pola Negri, Gene Tierney, Barbara Stanwyck, Gina Lollobrigida, Lena Horne, Nutan, Jean Seberg, Kim Novak, Gladys Cooper, Tallulah Bankhead, Linda Darnell, Julie Andrews, Carmen Sevilla, Gloria Swanson, Glynis Johns, Anne Baxter, Angela Lansbury, Anita Ekberg, Toshia Mori, Deborah Kerr, Hazel Scott, Chelo Alonso, Cyd Charisse, Nancy Kwan, Devika Rani, Shima Iwashita, and Anouk Aimée

ROUND FIVE SMOKESHOWS:

Setsuko Hara, Pearl Bailey, Joan Crawford, Madhubala, Marpessa Dawn, Keiko Awaji, Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, Ava Gardner, Greta Garbo, Grace Kelly, Xia Meng, Suraiya, Natalie Wood, María Félix, and Mbissine Thérèse Diop

ROUND SIX SEXY LADIES:

Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Vyjyanthimala, Jane Fonda, Katharine Hepburn, Josephine Baker, Elizabeth Taylor, and Ingrid Bergman

QUARTER FINALIST GLAMAZONS:

Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong, and Lauren Bacall

SEMIFINALIST ICONS:

Rita Moreno, Diahann Carroll

FINALIST FABULOSITY:

Hedy Lamarr

ULTIMATE CHAMPION OF THE HOT & VINTAGE MOVIE WOMAN TOURNAMENT:

Eartha Kitt

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There was another space last night. Only found out about it this morning and apparently they mentioned a dog animatronic named Ringo. Could you do a recap on it?

OK twitter space recap again. Just for clarity, a lot of these answers are effectively verbatim, but have been chopped down for clarity and to remove some less relevant information.

-Someone asks what the hardest part of making an episode is and Martin goes 'Fucking, coming up with what's gonna happen in it.' And talks about how like, if TWF4 took three years to make, half the time was just preproduction and him figuring out what the hell was going to happen. He talks about how TWF4 was originally going to be a return to form for the series, and then one day he woke up and thought about it and was like "this is fucking shit." and that's when he decided to make it more cinematic.

-Someone asks if TWF4 will have Spanish subtitles, and Martin says no, because writing the English ones was a pain and he doesn't want to go through that again.

-Somebody asks who Martin would cast for Brian if The Walten Files was a live action series, and Kyle extends the question to 'Who would you cast for Everyone?'. They spend the next while just spitballing answers, which I've condensed here:

Kyle thinks it'd be fun to cast Jack as "Weird" Al Yankovic, and Martin thinks that's funny. He doesn't know who he would cast for Jack. Martin says Brian would be "The guy from Whiplash", who is Miles Teller.

Martin says Derek Collins would be Michael Mckean, but Kyle picks Clancy Brown.

Kyle says Charles should be Adam Driver.

Martin says Felix would be Michael Douglas as he is in Falling Down, and says that he's always thinking of him whenever he goes to draw Felix.

Martin says Sophie would be Ally Sheedy as she is in The Breakfast Club, and how Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy's character in The Breakfast Club) was in part inspiration for Sophie's character. Secondary pick Martin gives is Mia Goth, but says they aren't the same in the face or the mannerisms, just that Mia Goth would make a good portrayal of the character because she's such a good actress.

Martin picks Shelley Duvall for Rosemary, saying again that they don't really look alike, but that she'd do a great job portraying the character. Kyle says a young Jane Kaczmarek would make a good Rosemary, too, and Martin mentions that he could also see a very young Carol Burnett, "...because she has a very smile-shaped smile."

Martin says that they aren't at all the same physically, but that Tina Parker would make a great Susan. Inspired heavily by her role in Better Call Saul.

-Martin hems and haws for a bit about who a good Jenny would be, saying that it's difficult, because she has such a particular face. On the topic, Kyle brings up how fans so often portray Jenny as "chubby", and how that's really impacted how he thinks of Jenny as a character, where he imagines the fanon version of her before even the canon one.

Martin agrees like, "This kinda influenced the way I draw her. I've been drawing concept art for Jenny recently and I noticed I've started drawing her a little chubbier. Not to the extent of the fanon, but the way I look at the character has changed a lot because of the way the fandom draws her... But I could definitely see Jenny as a chubby character, she just has that vibe." (<-Mostly paraphrased)

-Martin and Kyle say they both keep running into a funny problem where they google Charles using his full name, and wonder why all of the results just call him 'Charles Walten Files', forgetting that his full name is not public information yet.

-Martin says that if there was anything he would change about The Walten Files, he'd make Bon less adjacent to Bonnie from Five Nights at Freddy's. He says he wishes he'd made Bon a dog named Ringo, and that the name "Ringo" has a specific lore reason behind it (Unrelated to. The Beatles.)

-Martin talks about how when he first named Bon's Burgers, he thought he was being really clever, because in French "Bon" means "Good", so it was like calling it "Good Burgers".

-Someone asks what Martin would rename Bon's Burgers to if Bon's name had been different, and he says he'd call it "Wonderland".

-Martin gives a story about him actually seriously injuring himself opening a can of Palmitos, slicing his palm open and needing to get stitches, but how the main thing he was worried about was it keeping him from releasing TWF4 on time, and how he was really scared of the fan reaction of like, 'he always fucking does this, he always delays the episode', before he talked to some friends and calmed down about it. This all happened like less than a week ago. He tells everyone not to worry to much about it, that he's still in some pain, but he's fine.

-Someone asks about the "Bontest", the contest where people could submit their original characters to appear briefly in TWF4, and Martin says that he plans to work on it last, as a reward for himself.

-Someone asks if a Welcome to Bon's Burgers remake could ever happen, Martin answers: "No. I would have wanted to, but I'm really trying to stay, like, legally distinct from Five Nights at Freddys. So no more Welcome to Bon's Burgers, ever."

-Martin asks Kyle, "Is Charles mean? or nice?" and Kyle says he thinks Charles has like. Fun Uncle energy. That he's the sort of person you'd maybe think was mean, but that he's ultimately pretty silly and laid-back. He calls him the type of person to doodle in the margins of his work.

-Someone asks if Boozoo is a magician or a ringmaster, and Martin says that he is both. When he's not on stage, he falls into the ringmaster persona, but when he's performing he's doing magic tricks and the like. He switches between both.

-"Boozoo has a mechanism where he can take off his hat, and there's a very tiny plush rabbit in his hat"

-"Will we ever get to know how Jenny and Sophie met and/or became a couple?" "Yes. We will see it in the series, I have the whole thing planned out. Yippie!"

-Martin talks about how when making WTBB, he went through a phase where he really hated Banny, and took her out of the game. Then he was like, fuck, I need a new girl character, and that's why he created Sha.

-"Who has been your favorite character to develop personality-wise and role-wise?" "Felix Kranken. I fucking love but I fucking hate Felix kranken... I feel like the viewer keeps indirectly giving Felix chances, like, to make things right. And you will see how he uses those chances."

-Someone asks for a Felix Fact, and Kyle jokes that he smells bad. Martin says he disagrees, and that he thinks Felix smells like car air freshener.

-Actual Felix Fact: He loves Louis Wain's paintings, and has many in his office. Martin says he really connects with the story around them, and that he also feels a deep connection to cats.

-"How many takes did the phone call in BunnyFarm take to get right? Was the wavering in Jack's voice before he got angry intentional?" "It took three takes and yeah, yes it was. I did one take that was like, screaming angry, and another one was very whispery, and then i got the version that was used." They talk for a bit and then Martin goes "I think Jack here like, works best when he's not like, exaggerated, but you can tell that he's on the verge of just-- punching you fucking skull, but he doesn't like, explode. And it's this tension of like, when will we see this character like, genuinely lose his mind, yknow?"

-Someone asks if Bon could ever learn to like or be nice to Banny, and Martin says that if the showstoppers had any kind of linear story then he would probably grow to be nicer to her eventually, but because they're in like an episodic thing where everything resets, he's just gonna hate her forever

-Linda Lore: This isn't necessarily canon, but Martin kinda imagines that she'd move out of hurricane after only a couple of weeks because it's such a ghost town, so she moves to Nashville end ends up starting a family there and having two children.

-My question! I asked Kyle and Martin what musicians/bands they listen to. Kyle lists Gorillaz, Tally Hall, and Tenacious D. Martin lists MF Doom, Tyler, the Creator, and Canserbero.

-Martin mentions an incident with Bon's Burgers where a guy showed up and stood on a table demanding to eat pizza, and stayed there for 20 hours demanding to eat pizza.

-Martin imagines a funny scenario where Charles' car breaks down on the way to work and Jack gives him a ride. Charles asks to listen to some music, and Jack starts playing "obscure 30s music", and Charles is like, "what the fuck?", while Jack is bobbing his head like he's listening to heavy metal.

-Someone asks if there's any Autistic characters in The Walten Files, and Kyle brings up his personal headcanon that both Sophie and Jenny have autism, but that Jenny has it comorbid with ADHD. Martin mentions that it's actually canon that Charles has ADHD, and how it was one of the first things he decided on for his character.

-Kyle specifically asks if there's any Walten Files characters Martin can imagine being Autistic, and Martin gives a long answer I've written out as follows:

"Okay, so, this is really complicated, but the episode 5 draft is finished, and I sent it to Eva, and- this episode has a bigger focus on Sophie, episode 5, and I think a lot of things- Eva- I talked a lot about it with Eva, and she mentioned how Sophie, was like, had many many traits that imply that she is autistic.

And, while I said yes, that the intention was to like, sorta allude to it? I would never confirm it because I wouldn't be able to represent it properly. I would never be able to fully represent it, because it's not an experience I've gone through. But there's a lot of like, unintentional double meaning with Autism, with like, what's going on in her head and how like, she behaves, in a way?

But I feel like, from what Eva told me, from her experience as an Autistic person, she told me it was a really good representation, for like, the character. Even if it wasn't intentional, because she's never represented as like, mentally unstable, or not fit to, like-not competent... But you can still see some of her personal struggles in her behavior."

-They talk for a while about how Kyle likes to think that Boozoo is gay, but he's not especially a fan of the relatively popular ship between him and Bon. Martin says that a better Boozoo ship idea could maybe be Pete the Hippo, provided that the recasted his VA.

-On the same topic, Martin agrees that Boozoo and Bon would be a bad ship idea, because he doesn't like the idea of Bon being with anybody who he treats poorly, and how this is the reason why he really tries to be nice to Sha, even if he isn't especially good at it. Martin mentions that the thing that really makes Bon like Sha is that she's the one person who can really tell him off, and for a while he was a little scared of her.

-Martin talks about a funny showstoppers story he's thought of, where Banny gets a crush on a girl from school and Boozoo and Sha help her work up the courage to ask her out, but the girl is just so unapologetically mean to Banny and totally breaks her heart, and so all the showstoppers come to defend Banny, and they go and beat up this teenager on her behalf.

-Someone asks for a "Susan Fun Fact" but typos it as "Susan Gun Fact". Martin says that Susan would think that the American attitude towards guns and gun control is one of the things most wrong with the United States. Kyle says it'd be funny if she was the type to believe that, but then own a gun anyway.

-Martin says that he really loves Susan's voice, and thinks it's so perfect for her character.

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Carol Collins-Miles @ Jean-Louis Scherrer ss1983 Ready-to-Wear

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Octobre MMXXIV

Films

Quartet (2012) de Dustin Hoffman avec Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins, Sheridan Smith, Michael Gambon, Andrew Sachs et Gwyneth Jones

Bob le flambeur (1956) de Jean-Pierre Melville avec Roger Duchesne, Isabelle Corey, Daniel Cauchy, Guy Decomble, Simone Paris, André Garret, Claude Cerval et Colette Fleury

Indian Palace (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) (2011) de John Madden avec Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Celia Imrie, Dev Patel, Ronald Pickup et Penelope Wilton

Grosse Fatigue (1994) de et avec Michel Blanc et aussi Carole Bouquet, Philippe Noiret, Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Guillaume Durand, Charlotte Gainsbourg, David Hallyday, Estelle Lefébure et Gérard Jugnot

L'Air de rien (2012) de Grégory Magne et Stéphane Viard avec Grégory Montel, Fred Scotlande, Céline Milliat-Baumgartner, Michel Delpech, Martine Schambacher, Miossec, Jérôme Huguet, Benoît Belleville et Pauline Moulène

Code Mercury (Mercury Rising) (1998) de Harold Becker avec Bruce Willis, Miko Hughes, Alec Baldwin, Chi McBride, John Carroll Lynch, John Doman, Peter Stormare et Kim Dickens

Le Privé (The Long Goodbye) (1973) de Robert Altman avec Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin, David Carradine et Arnold Schwarzenegger

Mon oncle Benjamin (1969) d'Édouard Molinaro avec Jacques Brel, Claude Jade, Bernard Alane, Paul Frankeur, Rosy Varte, Lyne Chardonnet, Robert Dalban, Bernard Blier et Armand Mestral

Le Tueur triste (1984) de Nicolas Gessner avec Guy Marchand, Edwige Feuillère, Michel Creton, Béatrice Agenin, Franck Olivier Bonnet, Jean Louis Richard, Jacques François, Amélie Gonin et Marcelle Barreau

Indian Palace : Suite royale (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) (2015) de John Madde avec Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel, Celia Imrie, Ronald Pickup, Diana Hardcastle, Richard Gere et Tina Desai

Gremlins 2 : La Nouvelle Génération (Gremlins 2: The New Batch) (1990) de Joe Dante avec Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo, Christopher Lee, Haviland Morris, Dick Miller, Jackie Joseph et Kathleen Freeman

L’Été meurtrier (1983) de Jean Becker avec Isabelle Adjani, Alain Souchon, Suzanne Flon, Jenny Clève, Maria Machado, Évelyne Didi, Jean Gaven, François Cluzet, Michel Galabru et Roger Carel

Baisers volés (1968) de François Truffaut avec Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Delphine Seyrig, Michael Lonsdale, Harry-Max, André Falcon, Daniel Ceccaldi, Claire Duhamel et Catherine Lutz

Key Largo (1948) de John Huston avec Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis et John Rodney

Soleil rouge (1971) de Terence Young avec Charles Bronson, Ursula Andress, Toshirō Mifune, Alain Delon, Capucine, Bart Barry et Lee Burton

Le Chien des Baskerville (The Hound of the Baskervilles) (1958) de Terence Fisher avec Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, David Oxley, Francis De Wolff, Miles Malleson et Ewen Solon

L'Arnaque (The Sting) (1973) de George Roy Hill avec Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen Brennan, Harold Gould, John Heffernan, Dana Elcar et Dimitra Arliss

Au service de Sara (Serving Sara) (2002) de Reginald Hudlin avec Matthew Perry, Elizabeth Hurley, Vincent Pastore, Bruce Campbell, Cedric the Entertainer, Amy Adams et Terry Crews

Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) de François Truffaut avec Charles Aznavour, Marie Dubois, Nicole Berger, Michèle Mercier, Serge Davri, Claude Mansard et Richard Kanayan

Séries

L'été rouge

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5

Castle Saison 8

M. et Mme Castle - Meurtre a cappella - Témoin-clé - L'Espion qui venait du froid - Huis clos - Le Rêve américain - Escapade à L.A. - Le ver est dans le fruit - Le Cœur ou la Raison - Votre mort est un ordre - Trahisons - L'immortel - Beaucoup de bruit pour un meurtre - La Fin du monde - Tirs croisés

Psych Saison 1, 2, 3

Voyances et Manigances - T-R-I-C-H-E-U-R - Qu'il parle maintenant ou se taise à jamais - Esprit, es-tu là ? - 9 vies - Champ de bataille - La Maison hantée - Shawn chez les super-héros - Souvenirs, souvenirs - La Guerre de l'étoile - Coup de soleil - Avis de meurtre - Jeu, Set et Meurtre - Poker menteur - Esprits féminin - Les Nouvelles Stars - 65 Millions d'années plus tôt - Un médium de trop - Trop facile pour être possible - Petit… mais costaud - Un plat qui se mange froid - Les Petits Génies - Recherche nounous désespérément - Chasseurs de primes - Un mort au pied du sapin - Mariage en sursis - Coups de vieux - Un rôle de composition - Dans le secret de la loge - Fashion victimes - Une nuit au musée - Chasse aux fantômes - La Folle Soirée de Shawn - Le médium qui tombe à pic - La Chasse au trésor - Au pays de l'or noir - Henry les bons tuyaux - Comme sur des roulettes - Haut les mains !

Friends Saison 1, 2, 3

Celui qui avait un singe - Celui qui rêve par procuration - Celui qui a failli rater l'accouchement - Celui qui fait craquer Rachel - Celui qui a une nouvelle fiancée - Celui qui détestait le lait maternel - Celui qui est mort dans l'appart du dessous - Celui qui avait viré de bord - Celui qui se faisait passer pour Bob - Celui qui a oublié un bébé dans le bus - Celui qui tombe des nues - Celui qui a été très maladroit - Celui qui cassait les radiateurs - Celui qui se dédouble - Celui qui n'apprécie pas certains mariages - Celui qui retrouve son singe : première partie - Celui qui retrouve son singe : deuxième partie - Celui qui a failli aller au bal de promo - Celui qui a fait on ne sait quoi avec Rachel - Celui qui vit sa vie - Celui qui remplace celui qui part - Celui qui disparaît de la série - Celui qui ne voulait pas partir - Celui qui se met à parler - Celui qui affronte les voyous - Celui qui faisait le lien - Celui qui attrape la varicelle - Celui qui embrassait mal - Celui qui rêvait de la princesse Leia - Celui qui a du mal à se préparer - Celui qui avait la technique du câlin - Celui qui ne supportait pas les poupées - Celui qui bricolait - Celui qui se souvient - Celui qui était prof et élève - Celui qui avait pris un coup sur la tête - Celui pour qui le foot c'est pas le pied - Celui qui fait démissionner Rachel - Celui qui ne s'y retrouvait plus - Celui qui était très jaloux - Celui qui persiste et signe - Celui que les prothèses ne gênaient pas - Celui qui vivait mal la rupture - Celui qui a survécu au lendemain - Celui qui était laissé pour compte - Celui qui s'auto-hypnotisait

Affaires sensibles

La chute de Nicolas Hulot - Blur vs Oasis : la bataille d'Angleterre - Août 44, La Libération de Paris, Épisode 1/2 : Août 44, des Parisiens en armes - Août 44, La Libération de Paris, Épisode 2/2 : Eté 44, De Gaulle, la marche d’un président - Docteur Petiot, faux résistant, vrai tueur - Hitler l'insaisissable cadavre - Benito Mussolini, un cadavre en cavale - Le mystère des noyés de la Deûle - Les trois de West Memphis - "Naissance d’une nation" : Naissance d’une contestation - Little Rock, neuf lycéens noirs contre la ségrégation - Emmett Till, le lynchage de trop - Marseille 1973, quand le racisme tue en toute impunité - L'argent russe du Front National - Affaire Alstom : la guerre secrète - Le procès de Lady Chatterley - Les survivants de la Cordillère des Andes - "Tcherno-Blaye" : le scénario d'un Tchernobyl français ? - La tour Montparnasse ou la folie des grandeurs en direct des Rendez-vous de l'histoire de Blois - « Sans haine, sans arme, ni violence » : le casse du siècle de Nice - "La Grande Bouffe" ou le festin orgiaque - Taylor Swift, le phénomène total - L’abominable homme des neiges, une rencontre au sommet

Brokenwood Saison 9, 3

Comme chien et chat - En plein cœur - La mariée était en cuir - Le veuf noir

Le Coffre à Catch

#188 : La dernière avec UVA !

Les Brigades du Tigre : « Les Années-Folles » Saison 6

Les Princes de la nuit - Rita et le Caïd - La Grande Duchesse Tatiana - Les Fantômes de Noël - La Fille de l'air - Lacs et Entrelacs

Commissaire Moulin Saison 1

Le Diable aussi a des ailes - Intox - Fausses notes - Les Brebis égarées

Les Simpson Saison 3

Mon pote Michael Jackson - Lisa va à Washington - Le Palais du Gaucher - Le Petit Parrain - Une belle simpsonnerie - Tel père, tel clown - Simpson Horror Show II - Le Poney de Lisa - Un père dans la course - Un cocktail d'enfer - Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk - Vive les mariés - Un puits de mensonges - L'Enfer du jeu - Homer au foyer - Bart le tombeur - Homer la foudre - Le Flic et la Rebelle - Chienne de vie - Imprésario de mon cœur - La Veuve noire - Le Permis d'Otto Bus - Séparés par l'amour - Le Retour du frère prodigue

Belphégor ou le Fantôme du Louvre

Le Louvre - Le secret du Louvre

Nestor Burma saison 6

Panique à Saint-Patrick - Atout cœur

Rematch

Episode 1 - Episode 2 - Episode 3 - Episode 4 - Episode 5 - Episode 6

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Saison 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Halloween - Halloween II - Halloween III - Halloween IV - Halloween V

Le tribunal de l'impossible

La Bête du Gévaudan

Spectacles

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii, Director's Cut (1972) d'Adrian Maben

Chers parents (2024) de Emmanuel Patron & Armelle Patron avec Elise Diamant, Bernard Alane, Emmanuel Patron, Rudy Milstein et Frédérique Tirmont

Stevie Wonder: Live at Last (2008)

R.E.M : Perfect Square (2004)

Bénabar : la tournée des indociles (2022)

Le Chien des Baskerville (1974) de Jean Marcillac avec Raymond Gerome, André Haber, Christian Alers, Jean Pierre Gernez, Bernard Musson, Christiane Moinet, Pierre Hatet, Colette Teissedre, Robert Bazil, Liliane Patrick et Jean Jacques Steen

Livres

Putzi de Thomas Snégaroff

Kaamelott, tome 10 : Karadoc et l'Icosaèdre d'Alexandre Astier et Steven Dupré

Lucky Luke, tome 28 : Le Pony Express de Morris, Xavier Fauche et Jean Léturgie

Philip Marlowe : Le Grand Sommeil de Raymond Chandler

OSS 117 : Agonie en Patagonie de Jean Bruce

Batman : Un long Halloween de Jeph Loeb et Tim Sale

[jefferyryanlong]

Infinite Pau Hana - November 1, 2023

"reflections"

Hour 1

Prester John - Animal Collective The Way I Deux - Little Wings Autumn Leaves - James Moody So Far Away - Carole King California - Joni Mitchell I'll Follow the Sun - The Beatles Monsters - Band of Horses Yesterday's Dreams - Freddie Hubbard In a Japanese Garden - Oliver Nelson Sunday Morning (live) - The Velvet Underground Coney Island Baby - Lou Reed

Hour 2

Ride into the Sun (Demo) - The Velvet Underground Old Friends - Simon and Garfunkel Bookends Theme - Simon and Garfunkel I Drew My Ship - Shirley Collins Time - Tom Waits Moon Dreams - Miles Davis In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning - Frank Sinatra It Was a Very Good Year - Gabor Szabo Nap Song - Kikagaku Moyo I Know It's Over - The Smiths Jack the Ripper - Colin Meloy In My Room - The Langley Schools Music Project Songs from Friday Afternoons, Op. 7: "Cuckoo!" - Choir of Sownside School, Purley Tangled Up in Blue - Bob Dylan

Hour 3

Idiot Wind - Bob Dylan Diamonds and Rust - Joan Baez Catch the Wind - Donovan There's a Small Hotel - Dorothy Ashby Baby Daughter - Jeff Majors I Dream a Highway - Gillian Welch First of the Gang - Zee Avi Love in Vain - The Rolling Stones

KTUH FM - 90.1 FM Honolulu, 91.1 FM North Shore. ktuh.org

[cartiercoochie]

Thierry Mugler SS 1980 Show invitation card

(Model: Carol Collins-Miles)

[whimsicaldragonette]

ARC Review: A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall

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Publication Date: May 24, 2022

Synopsis:

A lush, sweeping queer historical romance from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material—perfect for fans of Netflix’s Bridgerton, Evie Dunmore, and Manda Collins! When Viola Caroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself. But freedom does not come without a price, and Viola paid for hers with the loss of her wealth, her title, and her closest companion, Justin de Vere, the Duke of Gracewood. Only when their families reconnect, years after the war, does Viola learn how deep that loss truly was. Shattered without her, Gracewood has retreated so far into grief that Viola barely recognises her old friend in the lonely, brooding man he has become. As Viola strives to bring Gracewood back to himself, fresh desires give new names to old feelings. Feelings that would have been impossible once and may be impossible still, but which Viola cannot deny. Even if they cost her everything, all over again.

My Rating: ★★★★★

**My Review and Favorite Quotes below the cut.

My Review:

This was Everything. I am aware that I say that... not infrequently, but when I love things, I really love them. And this... I had high hopes, because lets be honest, I love everything Alexis Hall writes, but this was so much more. Regency romance? check. Loads of pining? check. Loads of queer and unconventional characters? check. I've read books like that before, of course. Not many, not nearly as many as I would like, but there are some. But I've never read one with a trans main character, and I didn't anticipate how deeply it would hit me, as a nonbinary person who, like Viola, has struggled with my identity and my body and my desire. Viola Caroll is strong and determined and fierce and deeply, painfully relatable. She is unapologetically herself and I love her for that. Gracewood accepts her and loves her as she is and it's possibly the most revolutionary idea in the whole book. Most dukes would not be so accepting, I think -- although Gracewood has spent his life trying to break free of the idea of what a duke can be so maybe it's not so surprising. Surprising or not, it makes for a beautiful love story. This falls more on the angsty side than the humorous side, unlike many of Alexis Hall's other works, though it is still funny in parts. It's what I was in the mood for, though, so it worked out. The writing is, as I have come to expect, absolutely gorgeous. I highlighted so many passages, and I know I will be returning to it again. I just hope we get a sequel - Mira's story would be an excellent candidate. This book also touches on grief, child abuse, addiction, and chronic pain, and tackles these topics gracefully. The characters are flawed and human and real, even the side characters. And, more than anything, it shows the deep love and acceptance between the characters, despite their flaws. I loved every minute of it.

--- update 5/28/22---

I have now listened to the audio arc and can say that the narrator performs the story beautifully, though I had my doubts in the first few minutes. The character voices are distinct and easy to understand and fit the characters' personalities and the emotion and humor come through perfectly (which is good, because this story is all about a lot of emotion).

*Thanks to NetGalley, Forever (Grand Central Publishing), and Hachette Audio for providing an e-arc and audio arc for review.

Favorite Quotes:

“What other options? Men and women are permitted to interact in three ways: marriage, ruination, and polite indifference.”

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“She’s a seventeen-year-old girl. She should be in London, having love affairs with unsuitable young men in a controlled environment. Not stuck in a mouldering fortress miles from anywhere.”

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It made Viola feel oddly safe, this reminder that everyone lived their own illusions, chose their own truths, performed their own quiet magic before indifferent crowds.

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She turned slowly, in case she scattered into dried leaves and dust.

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“Loubear,” whispered Badger. “You have to be quiet when you’re eavesdropping. Otherwise it’s just a logistically difficult conversation.”

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Viola was not certain that be virtuous, because vice is too much bother was quite the lesson a young gentleman was meant to be learning in these days of reason and enlightenment, but she let it go.

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But there was a larger loneliness, one that came from inhabiting a space she’d had no choice but to build for herself, only to find that nobody could inhabit it with her.

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As though he had become a man in a fable: lain with the wild ocean and woken, salt-stricken, forever changed, upon an unfamiliar shore.

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“Suffering isn’t something we earn, Gracewood. It’s something we bear.”

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Because that was the truth of trust. It was neither weak nor fleeting. It was steel and fire. And would endure as long as you let it.

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Besides, it would not have done to read his sister’s intimate correspondence when there were ladies to do it for him.

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The night beyond the city was mild and clear, the landscape a silvered forever—mirror-smooth fields, the ribbon twist of an occasional stream, ash trees, in curly-headed silhouette, cast like images from a magic lantern against the sky.

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The night had been long and fraught and could have ended badly in so many ways. Could, in fact, end badly regardless. But still. What a marvel it was. What freedom. To be a woman unabashedly in love beneath a multitude of stars.

[girlwhodoeskratom]

Carol Collins-Miles & Sonji Anderson @ Jean-Louis Scherrer Fall/Winter, 1987 Ready-to-Wear

[unhinged-summer-fun]

CONGRATS ON 300 BABY!! 💕💕

You deserve em all and all of those still to come!! I'm gonna snag one of those drabble slots with this:

What can you tell me about TBAD Dave and Carol and their first date?

^me listening with rapt attention

AHHHHHHHHH thank you so much Birdie!!!! <3 You know the way to my heart is through the Yorks. This was so cute and sweet! I hope you enjoy this lil bitta fluff! This takes place pre-story in the universe of To Build a Dynasty! (700 words)

Prompt 3/30 finished! Keep sending me prompts! (20+ spots open)

April, 1989.

Caroline Collins had a date tonight. David Dessner-York from across the street had come up to her in homeroom two days ago, hands in fists at his sides, and said, “Carol, I have tickets to Indiana Jones this Friday, would you like to go with me?” as if she was able to actually speak to him without stumbling over her words. He’d been so earnest, big brown eyes standing out like stars in the night sky, that she could only nod. When it happened, David had relaxed so wholly, she realized he must have been tensing every muscle in his body. It was like when he relaxed, she tensed up instead, and that had been two days ago.

And now she had a date.

Her eight siblings were luckily more worried about themselves, and her parents hadn’t worried about her since she was 10. At 16, she’d gotten herself a job, her driver’s license, and started saving for college, because there was no tuition money in a family of 11.

“CC, where are you going tonight?” her sister Elizabeth asked, leaning on the door to their shared room. “You never get this dressed up.”

Caroline didn’t turn around. Recently, she’d been toying with the idea of rejecting that nickname, given to her from a young age, when her parents couldn’t be bothered to call her by her name. David had called her Carol, and she felt like a woman around him. He made fireworks pop behind her eyes and doves take flight in her chest. “A date.”

“Ooooooh,” Elizabeth invited herself into Caroline’s space, peering at her like she was a science experiment. “You need me to cover for you in case you’re out all night?” she leered.

Caroline leveled her with an unimpressed look. “Buzz off. We’re just going to the movies.”

“You know what going to the movies means, right? Did mom and dad ever give you that talk?”

Caroline’s parents hadn’t talked to her, let alone looked at her, in several days. There were always more interesting things happening with her other siblings.

“I know what sex is, Elizabeth.”

“Sure, CC, sure.”

David picked her up right at 6 like they’d planned. She was jittery, and hardly remembered anything they talked about on the drive to the theater, but she remembered for years how safely he drove, and how safe he made her feel when they were alone. She hardly remembered the movie itself, but she remembered the way his pinky traced the edge of hers, tentative and heartstoppingly sweet. She’d interlaced their fingers, neither caring about the clammy teenager hands or the popcorn butter and salt between them. They were holding hands. The pair grinned at the screen as Indy fell off a cliff in a tank.

After the movie, they walked to the diner across the street to talk. This was the part of the date Caroline had looked forward to, getting to know him without the lens of school to color it all. “You called me Carol,” she said offhand.

“I’m sorry, did you prefer—”

“If you call me CC I’m walking home.”

David didn’t blush at her threat, but he did blush at her tone. He liked her a lot. He liked how she spoke in class, how smart she was, and how much she cared about her friends. He liked how she tutored the younger grades, and the care she took explaining difficult concepts. It had made his heart pound in his chest like he’d been running for miles. She’d never been outright demanding of anyone that he’d seen before. To hear her assert herself thrilled him.

“Very well. It’s nice to meet you, Carol Collins.”

“And it’s nice to meet you…?”

Carol got the feeling she had found a kindred spirit in David. They had been trapped by their respective families, either by being ignored or being relied on too much, and they almost never got the chance to choose for themselves. David caught on.

“David D-... Dave York.”

Carol lit up. “Dave York, I like you a lot. Thank you for taking me out tonight.”

“Carol Collins, the pleasure’s all mine. For the record… I like you too.”

[tundrakatiebean]

Media List 2023

Ok I’m making a list of the things I want to watch/read/have been suggested to me etc before I lose track lol and so people can look if they want to see I guess. I’m putting suggestions on this list too even if I haven’t looked into them very hard and I think it goes without saying that just because it’s on the list doesn’t mean I’ll get to it.

None of these are in any real order, but I’m doing a numbered list so I can use a random number generator if I’m getting decision paralysis. I’m putting where I can personally watch them for reference, they may be available other places that I don’t have a subscription to.

Movies

Pinocchio (2022), Netflix

Glass Onion (2022), Netflix

Girl in the Picture (2022), Netflix

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006), rent/buy

Bird’s of Prey (2020), HBOMax, Owned

Carol (2015), Prime

Blue is the Warmest Color (2013), rent/buy

Love Simon (2018), rent/buy

Moonlight (2016), rent/buy

Parasite (2019), Hulu

The Batman (2022), HBOMax

Lighthouse (2019), rent/buy

Bladerunner 2049 (2017), Hulu

Vertigo (1958), Rent/buy

Pleasure Unwoven (2009), youtube?

Weird: The Al Yankovich Story (2022), ?

The Last Unicorn (1982), Prime

The Green Mile (1999), rent/buy

Spirited Away (2001), HBOMax

Princess Mononoke (1997), HBOMax

Everything Everywhere All At once (2022), rent/buy

Possession (1981), rent/buy

Bicycle Thieves (1948), HBOMax

The Menu (2022), HBOMax

Amélie (2001), ?

Brokeback Mountain (2005), Netflix

Wall-E (2008), rent/buy

Black Girl (1956), rent/buy

Yi Yi (1999), rent/buy

Sunset Boulevard (1950), rent/buy

Imitation of Life (1959), rent/buy

The Apartment (1960), Paramount+

Taxi Driver (1976), Paramount+

Seven Samurai (1954), HBOMax

The Godfather (1972), Prime

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), HBOMax

Tokyo Story (1953), HBOMax

The Invitation (2022), Netflix

Shows

Castlevania, Netflix (started and need to finish)

The Haunting of Bly Manor, Netflix

Midnight Mass, Netflix

Fleabag, Prime

Xena, ?

The Two People Who Can’t Fall in Love, ?

Dead End: Paranormal Park, Netflix

Wellington Paranormal, HBOMax

James Acaster comedy, Netflix

Centaurworld, Netflix

Tuca & Bertie, Netflix

Kid Cosmic, Netflix

What We Do In the Shadows, Hulu

Veronica Mars, Hulu

Defunctland, YouTube

Ted Lasso, Apple+

Books

How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr

Unmasking Autism by Devon Price

The Roots of Desire by Marion Roach

Why Does He Do That? by Lundy Bancroft

The Kalevala

Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA by Richard English

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

ADHD After Dark by Ari Tuckman

Your Brain’s Not Broken  by Tamara Rosier (audiobook)

Misfit Mage by Michael Taggart

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (audiobook)

The Affair of the Poisons by Anne Somerset

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The Ex-Con, Voodoo Priest, Goddess, and the African King by William Jones

My Name is Ron by the family of Ron Goldman

I did it by Fred and Kim Goldman

Death of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley

The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgramage by Haruki Murakami

If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley

How to be an Artist by Jerry Saltz

The Blood Never Dried by John Newsinger

Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón

History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage (audiobook)

A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell (audiobook)

Hate to Want You by Alisha Rai (audiobook)

Lazy Does Not Exist by Devon Price (audiobook)

How to be an Artist by Jerry Saltz (gift)

An Anthology of Finnish Folktales edited and translated by Helena Henderson

Games

Venba (spring 2023)

Dordgone (spring 2023)

Storyteller (March 23, 2023)

Fe (skipping, it makes me cranky)

LOVE

A Short Hike

To The Moon

Finding Paradise

Night in the Woods

Life is Strange one and two

Spiritfarer

Life is Strange: True Colors

Powerwash Simulator

[cosmicanger]

Pat Cleveland, Lynn Watts, & Carol Collins-Miles @ Chloé Fall/Winter, 1979 Ready-to-Wear

[duggardata]

Everybody’s Birthdays  (By Month)

Here’s the full list of DOBs for all Predictor People...   Accurate as of March 2, 2021.

January—

1   William Gilvin (“Gil”) Bates  (1965)

1   Anthym Bliss Collins  (2021)

4   Olivia Mercy Rodrigues  (2012)

2   Caleb _____ Shrader  (2018)

6   Praise T.L. Helferich  (1995)

7   Grace Annette (“Gracie”) Duggar–Burnett  (2020)

11   Karissa Beth (Goering) Collins  (1984)

12   Jana Marie Duggar  (1990)

12   John David Duggar  (1990)

13   John Steven Maxwell  (1991)

13   Lincoln “Taylor” Bontrager  (2002)

17   Enoch _____ Shrader  (2003)

18   Simon Peter Maxwell–Hamilton  (2020)

19   Sarah Rae Maxwell  (1982)

20   Joseph Garrett Duggar  (1995)

20   Nehemiah _____ Shrader  (2007)

21   Asher Benjamin Dominguez  (2013)

23   Michaela Christian (Bates) Keilen  (1990)

25   Caleb Alexander Maxwell–Frost  (2020)

26   Lexi Mae Webster  (2017)

26   Axton John Maxwell–Bontrager  (2019)

27   Jesiah Mathew Caldwell  (2015)

29   Chelsy Renee (Bontrager) Maxwell  (1991)

31   Layla Rae Stewart  (2020)

February—

1   Trace Whitfield Bates  (1997)

1   Marjorie Ellen Jackson  (1998) (Josiah Duggar’s Ex)

1   Jeb Colton Bates  (2012)

4   Sara Nicole Smith  (1983) (Chris Maxwell’s Ex)

5   Robert Alan (“Bobby”) Ballinger, Jr.  (1994)

6   Henry Wilberforce Seewald  (2017)

6   Ansyr Blue Collins  (2018)

9   Maci Jo Webster  (2021)

10   Tiffany Lian Espensen (1999)

16   Robert Ellis (“Bobby”) Smith III  (1995)

17   Bryn _____ (Leppert) Bontrager  (1994)

17   Jackzon Ezekiel Bates  (2002)

17   Addallee Hope Bates  (2006)

18   Ruthanne Elizabeth Maxwell–Hamilton  (2014)

19   Brooklyn Praise Duggar–Caldwell  (2021)

21   Benjamin Steven Maxwell–Maher  (2017)

23   Gideon Martyn Forsyth  (2018)

23   Elizabeth Grace Maxwell–Hamilton  (2018)

27   Claire Yvonne (Spivey) Duggar  (2001)

27   Judah Miles Young  (2020)

28   Elijah _____ Shrader  (2010)

March—

1   Kyle Jeremiah Maxwell–Frost  (2018)

3   Joshua James Duggar  (1988)

5   Nathan Paul Caldwell  (2007)

6   Sophia Joy Shrader  (2013)

8   Travis J. Clark  (2001)

8   Joseph Tumelo Shrader  (2020)

9   Derick Michael Dillard  (1989)

10   Christopher Owen Rogers  (1988)

12   Micah Joe Bontrager–Leppert  (2019)

13   Alatheia Grace Shrader  (2004)

13   Clint _____ Rogers  (2010)

15   Timothy David Rodrigues  (2000)

16   Paul William Waller  (2013)

23   Lydia Joy Maxwell–Hamilton  (2015)

24   Joshua Maxwell Bontrager  (1997)

25   Micah Joel Caldwell  (2004)

25   Kolter Gray Smith  (2020)

28   Harper Lynn Ballinger  (2017)

28   Zoey Joy Webster  (2018)

30   Marlin Joe Bontrager  (1967)

30   Everly Hope Paine  (2018)

April—

1   Carolina Katherine (Bowers) Bontrager  (1995)

4   Courtney Ann (Harkins) Rogers  (1984)

6   Israel David Dillard  (2015)

9   Lillie “Suzette” (Stembridge) Keller  (1955)

11   Carlin Brianne (Bates) Stewart  (1998)

11   Allie Jane Webster  (2015)

11   Janessa Ruth Rodrigues  (2018)

16   Abbie Grace (Burnett) Duggar  (1992)

18   Charles Stephen (“Chad”) Paine III  (1987)

19   Anna Marie (Hamilton) Maxwell  (1986)

19   Nurie Katelin (Rodrigues) Keller  (1999)

21   Jason Michael Duggar  (2000)

22   Winston Marshall Bontrager–Bowers  (2020)

23   Nathan Edward Keller  (1996)

24   Joseph Howard Maxwell  (1989)

28   Ellie Bridget Bates  (2007)

May—

2   Erin Elise (Bates) Paine  (1991)

2   Ashley _____ Salyer  (1995) (Nathan Bates’s Ex)

4   Jeremiah Seth Helferich  (1996)

5   Christopher Lloyd Maxwell  (1979)

6   Timothy _____ Caldwell  (2009)

6   Peter David Waller  (2020)

9   Esther Joy (Keller) Shrader  (1981)

9   Calena _____ Rogers  (2017)

13   Allison Nicole (Bontrager) Helferich  (1994)

13   Deborah Carol Maxwell–Maher  (2019)

14   Anna Patrice (Craig) Maxwell  (2000)

14   Charles Stephen (“Carson”) Paine IV  (2015)

15   Ava Joy Young  (2018)

17   Jill Michelle (Duggar) Dillard  (1991)

18   Lauren Milagro (Swanson) Duggar  (1999)

18   Abigail Grace Maxwell–Maher  (2008)

19   Benjamin Michael Seewald  (1995)

19   Warden Justice Bates  (2003)

22   Lauren Hope Caldwell  (2000)

23   Jackson Levi Duggar  (2004)

26   Gabriel Victor Rodrigues  (2006)

26   Brecken Lee Young  (2016)

26   Ivy Jane Seewald  (2019)

29   David John Rodrigues  (1972)

June—

2   Joshua Christopher Maxwell–Hamilton  (2012)

2   Marcus Anthony Duggar–Keller  (2013)

2   Isaiah Kasimpe Shrader  (2016)

3   Agape Faith Shrader  (2008)

5   Kristen Nicole (Barnard) Young  (1992)

6   Coralee Jean Rogers  (2019)

8   Garrett David Duggar–Caldwell  (2018)

10   Caydie _____ Rogers  (2018)

15   Michael James Duggar–Keller  (2011)

15   Christina Mercy Maxwell–Maher  (2012)

18   Renee Crystine Rodrigues  (2002)

19   Elliot Rex Maxwell–Bontrager  (2020)

20   Kaci Lynn Bates–Perkins  (2016)

23   Anna Renne (Keller) Duggar  (1988)

25   Charis Elisabeth Shrader  (2011)

27   Mark _____ Dominguez  (1981)

29   John Eric Shrader  (1977)

July—

2   Mitchell Joe Bontrager  (1992)

2   Titus James Hall  (1993)

2   Cassidy Grace (Bowers) Bontrager  (1997)

3   Christina Marie (Hamrick) Caldwell  (1979)

3   Priscilla Lynn (Keller) Waller  (1986)

4   Kelton Edward Balka  (1995)

5   Kaylee Arlissa Rodrigues  (2001)

5   Andrew James Maxwell–Maher  (2014)

5   Daniel Titus Maxwell–Hamilton  (2016)

7   James Andrew Duggar  (2001)

8   Olivia Grace (“Gracie”) Caldwell  (2010)

8   Samuel Scott Dillard–Duggar  (2017)

9   Tessie Elizabeth Rodrigues  (2007)

9   Robert Alan (“Bear”) Ballinger III  (2020)

15   Sofia Amy Julianne Rodrigues  (2015)

15   Jubilee Katherine Bontrager–Bowers  (2018)

16   Meredith Grace Duggar–Keller  (2015)

16   Wallace Bradford Bontrager–Bowers  (2018)

17   Andersyn Brooklyn Collins  (2015)

18   James Robert (“Jim Bob”) Duggar  (1965)

19   Felicity Nicole Vuolo  (2018)

19   Willow Kristy Balka  (2019)

22   Phillip Jonathan Rodrigues  (2003)

25   Andrae Cardell Collins  (2011)

25   Calena Ann Rogers  (2013)

26   Clay Mason Rogers  (2011)

27   William “Lawson” Bates  (1992)

29   Khai David Dominguez  (2010)

August—

2   Timothy _____ Shrader  (2005)

2   Jennifer Danielle Duggar  (2007)

2   Callie–Anna Rose Bates  (2009)

4   Josie Kellyn (Bates) Balka  (1999)

6   Brooklyn Elise Paine  (2016)

7   Steven R. Maxwell  (1951)

11   Kendra Renee (Caldwell) Duggar  (1998)

13   Bethany Faith (“Betsy”) Maxwell–Maher  (2010)

17   Teri L. (Frazer) Maxwell  (1955)

21   Mary Carol Maxwell  (1996)

21   Evelyn Mae Forsyth  (2020)

24   Evan Patrick Stewart  (1995)

27   Jemima Virtue Bontrager–Bowers  (2020)

28   Josiah Matthew Duggar  (1996)

29   Kenneth Nathaniel (“Nathan”) Bates  (1993)

31   Anchor Christian Collins  (2019)

September—

1   Melanie Sue (Maher) Maxwell  (1975)

1   Ellyn Joy Dominguez  (2014)

5   Jeremy Joseph Vuolo  (1987)

6   Daylon Gabriel Dominguez  (2011)

8   David William Waller  (1986)

9   Chaney Grace Kahle  (1998)

9   Rebecca Shania Bontrager  (2007)

9   Marlie Denise Ballinger  (2018)

10   Sierra Jolene (Baird) Dominguez  (1989)

10   Stephen Lushomo Shrader  (2014)

12   Colt _____ Rogers  (2015)

12   Case _____ Rogers  (2015)

12   Mason Garrett Duggar–Keller  (2017)

13   Michelle Annette (Ruark) Duggar  (1966)

15   Brandon Timothy Keilen  (1989)

15   Judson Wyatt Bates  (2010)

16   Cade _____ Rogers  (2012)

18   Jesse Paul Maxwell  (1994)

21   Whitney Eileen (Perkins) Bates  (1993)

28   Meagan Elizabeth (Forsyth) Ballinger  (1991)

28   Merrick Zion Dominguez  (2019)

30   Hannah Faith Rodrigues  (2008)

October—

2   Destiny Faith Waller  (2018)

4   Calia Grace Maxwell–Frost  (2015)

5   Katie Grace Bates  (2000)

8   Mackynzie Renee Duggar–Keller  (2009)

10   Elissa Marie (Frost) Maxwell  (1991)

11   Johannah Faith Duggar  (2005)

14   Rebecca (“Becky”) Marie (Stolzfus) Bontrager  (1967)

14   Esther Joy Keyes  (1997)

16   Isaiah Courage Bates  (2004)

15   Hudson Reed Bontrager  (2005)

19   Phillip Andrew Waller  (2016)

24   Cash _____ Rogers  (2014)

26   Kelly Jo (Callaham) Bates  (1966)

28   Michael Edward Keller  (1959)

28   Joy–Anna (Duggar) Forsyth  (1997)

29   Bradley Gilvin Bates–Perkins  (2014)

31   Anna Elizabeth Maxwell  (1992)

November—

2   Annistan Breanne Collins  (2012)

2   Addison Renee Duggar–Caldwell  (2019)

3   Jill Christine (Noyes) Rodrigues  (1978)

4   Sarah Elizabeth Reith  (1988)

4   Jessa Lauren (Duggar) Seewald  (1992)

5   Carson Wayne Bontrager  (1995)

5   Spurgeon Elliot Seewald  (2015)

7   Khloé Eileen Bates–Perkins  (2019)

8   Bella Milagro Duggar–Swanson  (2019)

9   Alyssa Joy (Bates) Webster  (1994)

9   Robert Ellis (“Kade”) Smith IV  (2018)

12   Davia Lynn Waller  (2014)

12   Edyn Grace Dominguez  (2015)

13   Mandrae Cardell Collins  (1983)

15   Justin Samuel Duggar  (2002)

19   Isaiah Gabriel Caldwell  (2018)

21   John Elliott Webster  (1989)

22   Evangeline Jo Vuolo  (2020)

24   Samuel Richard Rodrigues  (2004)

26   Holland Grace Paine  (2019)

27   Sadie Patricia Rodrigues  (2013)

27   Maryella Hope Duggar–Keller  (2019)

28   Caris Audrey Rogers  (2020)

December—

5   Nathan James Maxwell  (1976)

5   Denver Elliot Bontrager  (1999)

7   Tucker Allen Bontrager–Leppert  (2020)

9   Ayngel Belle Collins  (2016)

10   Justin Lee Young  (1991)

10   Josie Brooklyn Duggar  (2009)

11   Austin Martyn Forsyth  (1993)

12   Anissa Beth Collins  (2009)

14   Anjalie Brielle Collins  (2014)

18   Elizabeth Caresse Bontrager  (2003)

18   Jordyn–Grace Makiya Duggar  (2008)

20   Tori Layne (Bates) Smith  (1995)

21   Jinger Nicole (Duggar) Vuolo  (1993)

29   Brooks Zechariah Dominguez  (2017)

30   Zachary Gilvin Bates  (1988)

30   Jedidiah Robert Duggar  (1998)

30   Jeremiah Robert Duggar  (1998)

Unknown—

Gene “Paul” Caldwell  (c. 1977)

Elizabeth _____ Munck  (c. 1992) (Joseph Maxwell’s Ex)

Stay tuned for Everybody’s Anniversaries!

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Hattie McDaniel

Hattie McDaniel (June 10, 1893 – October 26, 1952) was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as "Mammy” in Gone with the Wind (1939), becoming the first African American to win an Oscar.

In addition to acting in many films, McDaniel recorded 16 blues sides between 1926–1929 (10 were issued) and was a radio performer and television star; she was the first black woman to sing on radio in the United States. She appeared in over 300 films, although she received screen credits for only 83.

Encountering racism and racial segregation throughout her career, McDaniel was unable to attend the premiere of Gone with the Wind in Atlanta because it was held at a whites-only theater, and at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles she sat at a segregated table at the side of the room; the Ambassador Hotel where the ceremony was held was for whites only, but allowed McDaniel in as a favor. When she died in 1952, her final wish--to be buried in Hollywood Cemetery--was denied because the graveyard was restricted to whites only.

McDaniel has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood: one at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard for her contributions to radio;  and one at 1719 Vine Street for acting in motion pictures. She was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 2006 she became the first black Oscar winner honored with a U.S. postage stamp. In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame.

McDaniel, the youngest of 13 children, was born in Denver in 1893 to formerly-enslaved parents in Wichita, Kansas. Her mother, Susan Holbert (1850–1920), was a singer of gospel music, and her father, Henry McDaniel (1845–1922), fought in the Civil War with the 122nd United States Colored Troops. In 1900, the family moved to Colorado, living first in Fort Collins and then in Denver, where Hattie attended Denver East High School (1908-1910) and in 1908 entered a contest sponsored by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, reciting "Convict Joe", later claiming she had won first place. Her brother, Sam McDaniel (1886–1962), played the butler in the 1948 Three Stooges' short film Heavenly Daze. Her sister Etta McDaniel was also an actress. 

McDaniel was a songwriter as well as a performer. She honed her songwriting skills while working with her brother Otis McDaniel's carnival company, a minstrel show. McDaniel and her sister Etta Goff launched an all-female minstrel show in 1914 called the McDaniel Sisters Company. After the death of her brother Otis in 1916, the troupe began to lose money, and Hattie did not get her next big break until 1920. From 1920 to 1925, she appeared with Professor George Morrison's Melody Hounds, a black touring ensemble. In the mid-1920s, she embarked on a radio career, singing with the Melody Hounds on station KOA in Denver. From 1926 to 1929, she recorded many of her songs for Okeh Records and Paramount Records in Chicago. McDaniel recorded seven sessions: one in the summer of 1926 on the rare Kansas City label Meritt; four sessions in Chicago for Okeh from late 1926 to late 1927 (of the 10 sides recorded, only four were issued), and two sessions in Chicago for Paramount in March 1929.

After the stock market crashed in 1929, McDaniel could only find work as a washroom attendant at Sam Pick's Club Madrid near Milwaukee. Despite the owner's reluctance to let her perform, she was eventually allowed to take the stage and soon became a regular performer.

In 1931, McDaniel moved to Los Angeles to join her brother Sam, and sisters Etta and Orlena. When she could not get film work, she took jobs as a maid or cook. Sam was working on a KNX radio program, The Optimistic Do-Nut Hour, and was able to get his sister a spot. She performed on radio as "Hi-Hat Hattie", a bossy maid who often "forgets her place". Her show became popular, but her salary was so low that she had to keep working as a maid. She made her first film appearance in The Golden West (1932), in which she played a maid. Her second appearance came in the highly successful Mae West film I'm No Angel (1933), in which she played one of the black maids with whom West camped it up backstage. She received several other uncredited film roles in the early 1930s, often singing in choruses. In 1934, McDaniel joined the Screen Actors Guild. She began to attract attention and landed larger film roles, which began to win her screen credits. Fox Film Corporation put her under contract to appear in The Little Colonel (1935), with Shirley Temple, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Lionel Barrymore.

Judge Priest (1934), directed by John Ford and starring Will Rogers, was the first film in which she played a major role. She had a leading part in the film and demonstrated her singing talent, including a duet with Rogers. McDaniel and Rogers became friends during filming. In 1935, McDaniel had prominent roles, as a slovenly maid in Alice Adams (RKO Pictures); a comic part as Jean Harlow's maid and traveling companion in China Seas (MGM) (McDaniels's first film with Clark Gable); and as the maid Isabella in Murder by Television, with Béla Lugosi. She appeared in the 1938 film Vivacious Lady, starring James Stewart and Ginger Rogers. McDaniel had a featured role as Queenie in the 1936 film Show Boat (Universal Pictures), starring Allan Jones and Irene Dunne, in which she sang a verse of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man with Dunne, Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, and a black chorus. She and Robeson sang "I Still Suits Me", written for the film by Kern and Hammerstein. After Show Boat, she had major roles in MGM's Saratoga (1937), starring Jean Harlow and Clark Gable; The Shopworn Angel (1938), with Margaret Sullavan; and The Mad Miss Manton (1938), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. She had a minor role in the Carole Lombard–Frederic March film Nothing Sacred (1937), in which she played the wife of a shoeshine man (Troy Brown) masquerading as a sultan.

McDaniel was a friend of many of Hollywood's most popular stars, including Joan Crawford, Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis, Shirley Temple, Henry Fonda, Ronald Reagan, Olivia de Havilland, and Clark Gable. She starred with de Havilland and Gable in Gone with the Wind (1939). Around this time, she was criticized by members of the black community for the roles she accepted and for pursuing roles aggressively rather than rocking the Hollywood boat. For example, in The Little Colonel (1935), she played one of the black servants longing to return to the Old South, but her portrayal of Malena in RKO Pictures's Alice Adams angered white Southern audiences, because she stole several scenes from the film's white star, Katharine Hepburn. McDaniel ultimately became best known for playing a sassy, opinionated maid.

The competition to win the part of Mammy in Gone with the Wind was almost as fierce as that for Scarlett O'Hara. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote to film producer David O. Selznick to ask that her own maid, Elizabeth McDuffie, be given the part. McDaniel did not think she would be chosen because she had earned her reputation as a comic actress. One source claimed that Clark Gable recommended that the role be given to McDaniel; in any case, she went to her audition dressed in an authentic maid's uniform and won the part.

Upon hearing of the planned film adaptation, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) fought hard to require the film's producer and director to delete racial epithets from the movie (in particular the offensive slur "nigger") and to alter scenes that might be incendiary and that, in their view, were historically inaccurate. Of particular concern was a scene from the novel in which black men attack Scarlett O'Hara, after which the Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of provoking terror on black communities, is presented as a savior. Throughout the South, black men were being lynched based upon false allegations they had harmed white women. That attack scene was altered, and some offensive language was modified, but another epithet, "darkie", remained in the film, and the film's message with respect to slavery remained essentially the same. Consistent with the book, the film's screenplay also referred to poor whites as "white trash", and it ascribed these words equally to characters black and white.

Loew's Grand Theater on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia was selected by the studio as the site for the Friday, December 15, 1939 premiere of Gone with the Wind.  Studio head David O. Selznick asked that McDaniel be permitted to attend, but MGM advised him not to, because of Georgia's segregation laws. Clark Gable threatened to boycott the Atlanta premiere unless McDaniel were allowed to attend, but McDaniel convinced him to attend anyway.

Most of Atlanta's 300,000 citizens crowded the route of the seven-mile  motorcade that carried the film's other stars and executives from the airport to the Georgian Terrace Hotel, where they stayed. While Jim Crow laws kept McDaniel from the Atlanta premiere, she did attend the film's Hollywood debut on December 28, 1939. Upon Selznick's insistence, her picture was also featured prominently in the program.

For her performance as the house slave who repeatedly scolds her owner's daughter, Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), and scoffs at Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), McDaniel won the 1939 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the first black actor to have been nominated and win an Oscar. "I loved Mammy," McDaniel said when speaking to the white press about the character. "I think I understood her because my own grandmother worked on a plantation not unlike Tara." Her role in Gone with the Wind had alarmed some whites in the South; there were complaints that in the film she had been too "familiar" with her white owners. At least one writer pointed out that McDaniel's character did not significantly depart from Mammy's persona in Margaret Mitchell's novel, and that in both the film and the book, the much younger Scarlett speaks to Mammy in ways that would be deemed inappropriate for a Southern teenager of that era to speak to a much older white person, and that neither the book nor the film hints of the existence of Mammy's own children (dead or alive), her own family (dead or alive), a real name, or her desires to have anything other than a life at Tara, serving on a slave plantation. Moreover, while Mammy scolds the younger Scarlett, she never crosses Mrs. O'Hara, the more senior white woman in the household. Some critics felt that McDaniel not only accepted the roles but also in her statements to the press acquiesced in Hollywood's stereotypes, providing fuel for critics of those who were fighting for black civil rights. Later, when McDaniel tried to take her "Mammy" character on a road show, black audiences did not prove receptive.

While many black people were happy over McDaniel's personal victory, they also viewed it as bittersweet. They believed Gone With the Wind celebrated the slave system and condemned the forces that destroyed it. For them, the unique accolade McDaniel had won suggested that only those who did not protest Hollywood's systemic use of racial stereotypes could find work and success there.

The Twelfth Academy Awards took place at the Coconut Grove Restaurant of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It was preceded by a banquet in the same room. Louella Parsons, an American gossip columnist, wrote about Oscar night, February 29, 1940:

Hattie McDaniel earned that gold Oscar by her fine performance of 'Mammy' in Gone with the Wind. If you had seen her face when she walked up to the platform and took the gold trophy, you would have had the choke in your voice that all of us had when Hattie, hair trimmed with gardenias, face alight, and dress up to the queen's taste, accepted the honor in one of the finest speeches ever given on the Academy floor.

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, fellow members of the motion picture industry and honored guests: This is one of the happiest moments of my life, and I want to thank each one of you who had a part in selecting me for one of their awards, for your kindness. It has made me feel very, very humble; and I shall always hold it as a beacon for anything that I may be able to do in the future. I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry. My heart is too full to tell you just how I feel, and may I say thank you and God bless you.

McDaniel received a plaque-style Oscar, approximately 5.5 inches by 6 inches, the type awarded to all Best Supporting Actors and Actresses at that time. She and her escort were required to sit at a segregated table for two at the far wall of the room; her white agent, William Meiklejohn, sat at the same table. The hotel had a strict no-blacks policy, but allowed McDaniel in as a favor. The discrimination continued after the award ceremony as well as her white co-stars went to a "no-blacks" club, where McDaniel was also denied entry. Another black woman did not win an Oscar again for 50 years, with Whoopi Goldberg winning Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ghost. Weeks prior to McDaniel winning her Oscar, there was even more controversy. David Selznick, the producer of Gone With the Wind, omitted the faces of all the black actors on the posters advertising the movie in the South. None of the black cast members were allowed to attend the premiere for the movie.

Gone with the Wind won eight Academy Awards. It was later named by the American Film Institute (AFI) as number four among the top 100 American films of all time in the 1998 ranking and number six in the 2007 ranking.

In the Warner Bros. film In This Our Life (1942), starring Bette Davis and directed by John Huston, McDaniel once again played a domestic, but one who confronts racial issues when her son, a law student, is wrongly accused of manslaughter. McDaniel was in the same studio's Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943), with Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis. In its review of the film, Time wrote that McDaniel was comic relief in an otherwise "grim study," writing, "Hattie McDaniel, whose bubbling, blaring good humor more than redeems the roaring bad taste of a Harlem number called Ice Cold Katie". McDaniel continued to play maids during the war years for Warners in The Male Animal (1942) and United Artists' Since You Went Away (1944), but her feistiness was toned down to reflect the era's somber news. She also played the maid in Song of the South (1946) for Disney.

She made her last film appearances in Mickey (1948) and Family Honeymoon (1949), where that same year, she appeared on the live CBS television program The Ed Wynn Show. She remained active on radio and television in her final years, becoming the first black actor to star in her own radio show with the comedy series Beulah. She also starred in the television version of the show, replacing Ethel Waters after the first season. (Waters had apparently expressed concerns over stereotypes in the role.) Beulah was a hit, however, and earned McDaniel $2,000 per week; however, the show was controversial. In 1951, the United States Army ceased broadcasting Beulah in Asia because troops complained that the show perpetuated negative stereotypes of black men as shiftless and lazy and interfered with the ability of black troops to perform their mission. After filming a handful of episodes, however, McDaniel learned she had breast cancer. By the spring of 1952, she was too ill to work and was replaced by Louise Beavers.

As her fame grew, McDaniel faced growing criticism from some members of the black community. Groups such as the NAACP complained that Hollywood stereotypes not only restricted black actors to servant roles but often portrayed them as lazy, dim-witted, satisfied with lowly positions, or violent. In addition to addressing the studios, they called upon actors, and especially leading black actors, to pressure studios to offer more substantive roles and at least not pander to stereotypes. They also argued that these portrayals were unfair as well as inaccurate and that, coupled with segregation and other forms of discrimination, such stereotypes were making it difficult for all black people, not only actors, to overcome racism and succeed in the entertainment industry. Some attacked McDaniel for being an "Uncle Tom"—a person willing to advance personally by perpetuating racial stereotypes or being an agreeable agent of offensive racial restrictions. McDaniel characterized these challenges as class-based biases against domestics, a claim that white columnists seemed to accept. And she reportedly said, "Why should I complain about making $700 a week playing a maid? If I didn't, I'd be making $7 a week being one."

McDaniel may also have been criticized because, unlike many other black entertainers, she was not associated with civil rights protests and was largely absent from efforts to establish a commercial base for independent black films. She did not join the Negro Actors Guild of America until 1947, late in her career. McDaniel hired one of the few white agents who would represent black actors at the time, William Meiklejohn, to advance her career. Evidence suggests her avoidance of political controversy was deliberate. When columnist Hedda Hopper sent her Richard Nixon placards and asked McDaniel to distribute them, McDaniel declined, replying she had long ago decided to stay out of politics. "Beulah is everybody's friend," she said. Since she was earning a living honestly, she added, she should not be criticized for accepting such work as was offered. Her critics, especially Walter White of the NAACP, claimed that she and other actors who agreed to portray stereotypes were not a neutral force but rather willing agents of black oppression.

McDaniel and other black actresses and actors feared that their roles would evaporate if the NAACP and other Hollywood critics complained too loudly. She blamed these critics for hindering her career and sought the help of allies of doubtful reputation. After speaking with McDaniel, Hedda Hopper even claimed that McDaniel's career troubles were not the result of racism but had been caused by McDaniel's "own people".

In August 1950, McDaniel suffered a heart ailment and entered Temple Hospital in semi-critical condition. She was released in October to recuperate at home, and she was cited by United Press on January 3, 1951, as showing "slight improvement in her recovery from a mild stroke."

McDaniel died of breast cancer at age 59 on October 26, 1952, in the hospital on the grounds of the Motion Picture House in Woodland Hills, California. She was survived by her brother Sam McDaniel. Thousands of mourners turned out to celebrate her life and achievements. In her will, McDaniel wrote,

"I desire a white casket and a white shroud; white gardenias in my hair and in my hands, together with a white gardenia blanket and a pillow of red roses. I also wish to be buried in the Hollywood Cemetery".

Hollywood Cemetery, on Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, is the resting place of movie stars such as Douglas Fairbanks and Rudolph Valentino. Its owner at the time, Jules Roth, refused to allow her to be buried there, because, at the time of McDaniel's death, the cemetery practiced racial segregation and would not accept the remains of black people for burial. Her second choice was Rosedale Cemetery (now known as Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery), where she lies today.

In 1999, Tyler Cassidy, the new owner of the Hollywood Cemetery (renamed the Hollywood Forever Cemetery), offered to have McDaniel re-interred there. Her family did not wish to disturb her remains and declined the offer. Instead, Hollywood Forever Cemetery built a large cenotaph on the lawn overlooking its lake. It is one of Hollywood's most popular tourist attractions.

McDaniel's last will and testament of December 1951 bequeathed her Oscar to Howard University, where she had been honored by the students with a luncheon after she had won her Oscar. At the time of her death, McDaniel would have had few options. Very few white institutions in that day preserved black history. Historically, black colleges had been where such artifacts were placed. Despite evidence McDaniel had earned an excellent income as an actress, her final estate was less than $10,000. The IRS claimed the estate owed more than $11,000 in taxes. In the end, the probate court ordered all of her property, including her Oscar, sold to pay off creditors. Years later, the Oscar turned up where McDaniel wanted it to be: Howard University, where, according to reports, it was displayed in a glass case in the university's drama department.

The whereabouts of McDaniel's Oscar are currently unknown. In 1992, Jet magazine reported that Howard University could not find it and alleged that it had disappeared during protests in the 1960s. In 1998, Howard University stated that it could find no written record of the Oscar having arrived at Howard. In 2007, an article in The Huffington Post repeated rumors that the Oscar had been cast into the Potomac River by angry civil rights protesters in the 1960s. The assertion reappeared in The Huffington Post under the same byline in 2009.

In 2010, Mo'Nique, the winner of the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in Precious, wearing a blue dress and gardenias in her hair, as McDaniel had at the ceremony in 1940, in her acceptance speech thanked McDaniel "for enduring all that she had to so that I would not have to". Her speech revived interest in the whereabouts of McDaniel's Oscar.

In November 2011, W. B. Carter, of the George Washington University Law School, published the results of her year-and-a-half-long investigation into the Oscar's fate. Carter rejected claims that students had stolen the Oscar (and thrown it in the Potomac River) as wild speculation or fabrication that traded on long-perpetuated stereotypes of blacks. She questioned the sourcing of The Huffington Post stories. Instead, she argued that the Oscar had likely been returned to Howard University's Channing Pollack Theater Collection between the spring of 1971 and the summer of 1973 or had possibly been boxed and stored in the drama department at that time. The reason for its removal, she argued, was not civil rights unrest but rather efforts to make room for a new generation of black performers. If neither the Oscar nor any paper trail of its ultimate destiny can be found at Howard today, she suggested, inadequate storage or record-keeping in a time of financial constraints and national turbulence may be blamed. She also suggested that a new generation of caretakers may have failed to realize the historic significance of the award.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_McDaniel

[themousefromfantasyland]

The Creatures of Yuletide: The Ghosts of Christmas

"There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago."

So, keeping up with my rant about Christmas creatures and hidden holiday lore, last post I talked about how Santa is secretly Odin. Today, I will discuss another very import staple of the season, the Christmas Ghosts from Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and their surprising origins.

Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future appeared for the first time in 1843 in Dickens' classic novella. I guess we are all more than familiar to the story. It became almost like a cliché of the holiday. Ebenezer Scrooge is greed and cruel, so the ghosts appear to him during Christmas Eve to try to change him into a better person before it’s too late. It is an amazing novel; you should read it. The novel is more about the harsh economic inequality in Victorian London and the true value of charity and compassion than just “Christmas rocks!”

I have a question for you? Of all the possible times for the ghosts to appear, why did they chose the Christmas season? It’s important to note that Scrooge not only saw these four, but he also saw thousands of ghosts and spirits during his first meeting with Marley. All of this during Christmas Eve. What’s going on?

First, we need to understand the setting better. Did you know that people used to tell ghost stories during the Christmas season?

I will just pause here to say, 👏BRING 👏BACK 👏CHRISTMAS 👏GHOSTS👏 STORIES, 👏YOU 👏COWARDS!!!

Now, let’s continue it. 😊

Telling Ghosts Stories during Christmas time was once an integral party of the holidays in Victorian times. Because of the intense cold and the dark and somber weather, people used to sit around the fireplace to tell grim stories and anecdotes about ghostly apparitions. This idea of telling chilling tales during the winter actually dates back centuries. Tales of heroism and monstrous and supernatural beings became a huge part of midwinter traditions.

In 1623, in "The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare wrote: " “A sad tale’s best for winter, I have one. Of sprites and goblins."

The titular Jew of Malta in Christopher Marlowe’s play at one point muses, “Now I remember those old women’s words, Who in my wealth would tell me winter’s tales, And speak of spirits and ghosts by night.”

Jerome K. Jerome once wrote: "Nothing satisfies us on Christmas Eve but to hear each other tell authentic anecdotes about specters". In 1891 he wrote an entire book of Christmas ghost stories, “After Supper Ghost Stories: And Other Tales”. Both Elizabeth Gaskell and Wilkie Collins published stories in this genre.

American writer Henry James managed to cement it in the US too. In his 1848’s horror novella, “The Turn of the Screw”, an unnamed governess is contracted by a man to take care of his young niece and nephew, Flora and Miles. While taking care of the children in his country house, the Bly Estate, she becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted, after starting to see the figures of a man and woman whom she doesn’t recognize. Later she discovers that the figures are the ghosts of Miss Jessel and Peter Quint, deceased employees of the household, and that the children can see and interact with them very well. The entire thing is told by man named Douglas, who reads the governess’s account to his friends as a ghost story during Christmas Eve.

Heck, the Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven takes place in DECEMBER.

But why to tell ghosts stories during winter? What do ghosts have to do with Jesus? Well, my friend, the answer to this question, along with many other holiday traditions, is found in Pagan times. The winter solstice festivals celebrated death and rebirth, and the changing of the seasons. The sunlight almost literally dies out, giving space to the longest night of the year. Winter is beautiful, but still terrifying. It was believed that during winter the veil between the world of the living and dead would be most thin, so the spirits of the dead could enter into the world of the living.

In my last post I talked about the Wild Hunt, a procession of thousands of specters and spirits riding the howling winds during the Winter nights. They were leaded by Odin himself, and it was his spectral flight during the Yule nights that later inspired Santa Claus. So yeah, during the Christmas season, the dead are allowed to return to our world.

Later, thanks to traditions adopted by Irish and Scottish immigrants in the US, everything spooky was moved to Halloween, that became almost universally recognized as the “spooky season”, while Christmas became “the most wonderful time of the year”.

To put it simply, Christmas and Halloween are best friends, but while the former grew out of his goth phase and is now a preppy, the later still is a goth.

Just to finish, all I have to say is, please, let’s bring the spooky ghosts back to the Holiday season. Let’s make this season the most wonderful spooky time of the year! Please!