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The Delinquents (1957) Robert Altman

March 2nd 2024

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Bad movie I have Giantess Battle Attack 2022

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Early DC villains adapted to live action part 2

Killer Moth played by Tim Herbert -Batgirl (THis was a short pilot ,Killer Moth doesnt do much ,Herberts OK

Baroness PAula Von Gunther and Fausta Grables played by Christine Belford and Lynda Day George in Wonder Woman (Both actresses are menacing though I assume these villains were chosen cause they are some of Wonder Womans less fantastic rogues )

Lex Luthor played by Gene Hackman in Superman the Movie,Superman II and Superman IV The Quest for PEace (So as years have gone on Gene Hackmans Lex has become my favorite supervillain in film .Now it isnt an accurate take, but its a fun take .While at the time Lex was a mad scientist,I kind of love how th movie update him to be an eccentric criminal genius ,almost like a Bond villain and Hackman is such a delight to watch )

General Zod played by Terrance Stamp from Superman the Movie and Superman II (Stamp owns this role ,very commanding ,very menacing ,a perfect foil for the Man of Steel )

Solomon Grundy ,Weather Wizard ,Sinestro ,Giganta ,Dr Sivana ,Mordru and Aunt Minerva played by Micky Morton ,Jeff Altman,Charlie Callas ,Aleshia Brevard ,Howard Morris ,Gabriel Dell and Ruth Buzzie (NOt much to say about these guys honestly,they basically toook a bunch of comedic actors and dressed them up as supervillains ,Micky Morton is a pretty good Grundy ,Jeff Altman is decent ,Charlie Calla is an OK comedic take on Sinestro,Aleshia Brevard doesnt have much to do as Giganta ,Howard Morris is perfect as Sivana ,GAbriel Dell is meh (Though his musical number is fun ) ,and Ruth Buzzie is hilarious

Anton Arcane played by Louis Jourdan(Human form )/Ben Bates(Monster form first movie ) in Swamp Thing/The Return of Swamp Thing (Havent seen the second film but in the first film Louie Jourdan is an effective menacing villain,though his monster form isnt that convincing )

To Be Continued

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David Alan Grier (June 30, 1956) is an actor and comedian. He is known for his work on the sketch comedy television show In Living Color, as Bernard on Damon (1998), as David Bellows on Life with Bonnie (2002–04), as Joe Carmichael on The Carmichael Show (2015–17), as Hal on A Series of Unfortunate Events (2018), and for his movie roles such as Roger in Streamers (1983), Carl Bentley in Jumanji (1995), and Jim Fields in Bewitched (2005).

He graduated from Detroit’s magnet high school, Cass Tech, and received a BA in Radio, Television, and Film from the University of Michigan, and an MFA. from the Yale School of Drama. He was singled out by visiting lecturer, Rachel Roberts, performing for her one night in a piece entitled The Place of the Spirit Dance.

After graduating from Yale, he landed the role of Jackie Robinson in the short-lived Broadway musical The First. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and won the Theatre World Award for The First. He got his start on the National Public Radio radio drama adaptation of Star Wars in 1981. He was the voice of a nameless X-wing fighter pilot during the Battle of Yavin.

He starred as James “Thunder” Early in the hit Broadway musical Dreamgirls. He made his film debut in 1983 in Streamers, directed by Robert Altman. He won the Golden Lion for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival for the film. He appeared in the Negro Ensemble Company production A Soldier’s Play and reprised his role in the film version of A Soldier’s Story. He appeared as a geology professor at Hillman College in A Different World.

In January 2020, he returned to the stage for the Broadway production of A Soldier’s Play, this time playing Tech Sergeant Vernon C. Waters, the role originated by Adolph Caesar in the off-Broadway production. For this role, he won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play.

He married to Maritza Rivera (1997). He married Christine Y. Kim (2007-09) an associate curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. They have a daughter. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Sam Altman backs Slope’s $30M round to digitize, scale B2B payments

Slope’s customer pipeline has evolved into mainly enterprise. As a result, both volume and company revenue have increased 17x since last year. Go to Source Christine Hall

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Night Court - The New Judge (S4-E7)

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Fancast Challenge ⭐

#15/? with Dylan Sprayberry as Teddy Altman (Hulkling)

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EastEnders' June Brown Still Mothers Nasty Nick John Altman Like Dot Cotton Would! Loose Women

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characters & fandoms *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧

overview: the 100, greys anatomy, the walking dead, private practice, glee, victorious, pitch perfect, pretty little liars, gilmore girls, once upon a time, manifest, degrassi, shameless, criminal minds, the fosters, orange is the new black, switched at birth, riverdale, the vampire diaries, the originals, legacies, marvel, friends, lost in space, supergirl, mom (sitcom), full / fuller house, one day at a time, outer banks, rizzoli & isles, american horror story, how to get away with murder, blue bloods, law & order svu, reign, disney fandoms.

the one hundred:

raven reyes

anya kom trikru

echo kom spacekru

abby griffin

bellamy blake

octavia blake

luna kom flourkru

emori kom spacekru

lincoln kom trikru

john murphy

jasper jordan

monty greene

harper mcintyre

clarke griffin

indra kom trikru

commander lexa

grey’s anatomy:

addison montgomery

teddy altman

arizona robbins

meredith grey

miranda bailey

amelia shepherd

lexie grey

callie torres

cristina yang

izzie stevens

april kepner

jo wilson

carina deluca

alex karev

george o’malley

jackson avery

mark sloan

derek shepherd

ellis shepherd (best kid <3)

the walking dead:

maggie rhee

beth greene

glenn rhee

carol peletier

daryl dixon

michonne

andrea harrison

rick grimes

rosita espinosa

carl grimes

sasha williams

tara chambler

mika samuels

yumiko

connie

princess

private practice:

charlotte king

addison montgomery

amelia shepherd

pete wilder

violet turner

glee:

santana lopez

brittany pierce

quinn fabray

mercedes jones

tina cohen-chang

shelby corcoran

holly holliday

victorious:

jade west

cat valentine

beck oliver

andre harris

tori vega

pitch perfect:

aubrey posen

chloe beale

emily junk

beca mitchell

pretty little liars:

alison dilaurentis

spencer hastings

hanna marin

emily fields

mona vanderwaal

toby cavanaugh

caleb rivers

aria montgomery

gilmore girls:

lorelai gilmore

paris geller

luke danes

sookie st. james

emily gilmore

richard gilmore

lane kim

rory gilmore

dean forester

once upon a time:

regina mills

emma swan

zelena mills

snow white / mary margaret blanchard

maleficent

mulan

ruby lucas

belle french

hope swan-mills

henry mills

prince charming / david nolan

manifest:

olive stone

grace stone

michaela stone

ben stone

saanvi bahl

zeke landon

cal stone

degrassi:

paige michalchuk

manny santos

christine nelson

archie simpson

jt yorke

ellie nash

ashley kerwin

jimmy brooks

spinner mason

toby isaacs

liberty van zandt

holly j sinclair

imogen moreno

adam torres

alli bhandari

clare edwards

eli goldsworthy

zoë rivas

grace cardinal

tristan milligan

shameless:

fiona gallagher

veronica fisher

angela (season 5)

kevin ball

lip gallagher

ian gallagher

debbie gallagher

carl gallagher

liam gallagher

sheila jackson

mandy milkovich

mickey milkovich

criminal minds:

emily prentiss

elle greenaway

penelope garcia

derek morgan

aaron hotchner

david rossi

jennifer jareau

the fosters:

stef foster

lena adams

mariana adams-foster

jesus adams-foster

jude adams-foster

orange is the new black:

piper chapman

nicky nichols

poussey washington

alex vause

lorna morello

galina reznikov (red)

gloria mendoza

sophia burset

maritza ramos

switched at birth:

bay kennish

regina vasquez

kathryn kennish

toby kennish

lily summers

melody bledsoe

daphne vasques

riverdale:

alice cooper

betty cooper

veronica lodge

cheryl blossom

kevin keller

archie andrews

toni topaz

hermione lodge

the vampire diaries:

caroline forbes

bonnie bennett

stefan salvatore

katherine pierce

elena gilbert

the originals:

rebekah mikaelson

hayley marshall

elijah mikaelson

klaus mikaelson

legacies:

lizzie saltzman

hope mikaelson

rafael waithe

penelope park

mg

marvel:

jemma simmons (agents of shield)

melinda may (agents of shield)

natasha romanoff (black widow)

yelena belova (black widow)

maria hill (agents of shield)

victoria hand (agents of shield)

bobbi morse (agents of shield)

kate bishop (hawkeye)

lance hunter (agents of shield)

elena rodriguez (agents of shield)

alphonso mackenzie (agents of shield)

leo fitz (agents of shield)

phil coulson (agents of shield)

skye / daisy johnson (agents of shield)

friends:

rachel green

monica geller

phoebe buffay

joey tribbiani

chandler bing

lost in space (2018):

maureen robinson

penny robinson

john robinson

don west

judy robinson

supergirl:

kara danvers

alex danvers

lena luthor

cat grant

astra

mom (sitcom):

bonnie plunkett

christy plunkett

full / fuller house:

dj tanner

stephanie tanner

kimmy gibbler

michelle tanner

ramona gibbler

rocki mahan

jesse katsopolis

joey gladstone

one day at a time:

penelope alvarez

elena alvarez

alex alvarez

lydia alvarez

schneider

outer banks:

kiara carrera

jj maybank

pope heyward

john b routledge

sarah cameron (s2 only)

rizzoli & isles:

jane rizzoli

maura isles

barry frost

angela rizzoli

american horror story:

cordelia goode

misty day

madison montgomery

zoe benson

myrtle snow

queenie

nan

mallory

coco st. pierre vanderbilt

wilhemina venable

how to get away with murder:

bonnie winterbottom

michaela pratt

annalise keating

connor walsh

asher millstone

wes gibbins

laurel castillo

blue bloods:

eddie janko

maria baez

jackie curatola

linda reagan

jamie reagan

danny reagan

erin reagan

law & order (svu):

alex cabot

olivia benson

amanda rollins

reign:

catherine medici

mary stuart

disney:

raven baxter (tsr / raven’s home)

chelsea baxter (tsr / raven’s home)

miley stewart (hannah montana)

lilly truscott (hannah montana)

alex russo (wizards of waverly place)

teddy duncan (good luck charlie)

london tipton (suite life on deck)

maddie fitzpatrick (suite life of zack & cody)

sharpay evans (high school musical)

olivia, mo, & stella (lemonade mouth)

mal, evie, carlos, & jay (descendants)

riley matthews (girl meets world)

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David Crosby and Christine Hinton backstage the Big Sur Folk Music Festival where Dave’s supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young performed. Photo taken by Rob Altman on September 15th, 1969.

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I know theres a LOT but who are all the characters / series in your new years edit?

If you click on each image, the comic names will appear, although this only works on desktop.

Anyway, I’ll write all characters here! I’m also including links for our tags for each character and comics, and I’ve added to our list those who weren’t there yet.

Vita Slatter x Charlie Ellison - Crowded (Image Comics)

Zola Telsa x Daphne Walters, Bernard x Ronnie - Ghosted in L.A. (Boom! Studios)

Saffy x Daisy Wooton - Giant Days (Boom! Studios); Nancy Salazar x Veronica Hotchkiss - Morning in America (Oni Press)

Shen Li-Min x Angela Spica x Jenny Sparks - The Wild Storm (DC Comics); [sorry I don’t know their names, may update later] - Sunstone (Image Comics)

Eleanor Rigby/Lucifer x Laura Wilson/Persephone - The Wicked + The Divine (Image Comics)

Shay Smith x  Ying - The Unstoppable Wasp (Marvel); Becky Barnes x Valkyrie - Exiles (Marvel)

Kimber Benton x Mary Phillips/Stormer - Synergy: a Hasbro creators showcase (IDW); Ren Kimura x Annabelle Riggs - Asgardians of The Galaxy (Marvel)

Rikki Barnes x Julie Power -  Future Foundation (Marvel); Raz Malhotra x Isaac Ikeda - Agents of ATLAS (Marvel)

Rick Sanchez - Rick and Morty Presents: The Flesh Curtains (Oni Press); Kate Strand - Calamity Kate (Dark Horse)

Midnighter x Apollo - The Wild Storm (DC Comics)

Sera x Angela/Aldrif Odinsdottir - Asgardians of The Galaxy (Marvel)

Tabu x Peter Cannon - Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt (Dynamite)

Atlantiades - Wonder Woman (DC Comics)

Olivia x Charlie, Tyler x Jay - The Avant-Guards (Boom! Studios)

Miguel Montez - Dial H For Hero (DC Comics); Jo Mullein - Far Sector (DC Comics); Jinny Hex - Young Justice (DC Comics)

Brrkk xVnn - Avengers (Marvel); Mackenzie Coyle x KJ - Paper Girls (Image Comics)

Viv Vision - Champions (Marvel); Noh-Varr + Johnny Watts - West Coast Avengers (Marvel)

Vexana x [don’t know, may update later] - The Forgotten Queen (Valiant Comics; Evie Pierce x Tabitha - Triage (Dark Horse)

Aleph Null - Test (Vault Comics); Niki -  Moth and Whisper (Aftershock Comics)

Bree Wander x Christine Ocampo, Annie Leong x Bree Wander, Doug Koch x Omar Steinberg - Money Shot (Vault Comics)

Harley Quinn + her family of drag queens [may list each of them later] - Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass (DC Comics)

[don’t know, may update later] - Smooth Criminals (Boom! Studios); Detective Reyes - Skulldigger and Skeleton Boy (Dark Horse); Esperanza xShannon - Sex Death Revolution (Black Mask Studios)

Stephen - Deadly Class (Image Comics); Xiomara Rojas/Crush - Teen Titans (DC Comics)

Victory x Vampirella - Vampirella (Dynamite Comics); Faith x Poppy - Faithless (Boom! Studios)

Sir Dahvlan x Sir Scotiar - The White Trees (Image Comics); Terrence x Joey Wilson - Deathstroke (DC Comics)

America Chavez xRamone Watts - West Coast Avengers (Marvel);  Teddy Altman x Billy Kaplan - War Of The Realms: War Scrolls(Marvel)

Max Caulfield x Chloe Price - Life is Strange (Titan Comics)

Karolina Dean x Nico Minoru -Runaways (Marvel); Xena x Gabrielle - Xena: Warrior Princess (Dynamite Comics)

2019 RETROSPECTIVE

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Directors mentioned by name:

• Jean-Luc Godard • William Greaves • Christopher Nolan • Judd Apatow • Billy Wilder • Charlie Kaufman (meta!) • George Clooney (mentioned as a handsome celebrity, not a director) • Sidney Drew • Jean-Pierre Melville • Alain Resnais • Oscar Micheaux • Georges Méliès • Wes Anderson (later nicknamed Wanderson) • Martin Scorsese (later as 'Scorseso', then later as 'Marvin Scorsesso') • Quentin Tarantino (deliberately misspelled as 'Tarrantinoo') • Sidney Poitier (mentioned for his acting work in To Sir, With Love) • Alfred Hitchcock • Harvey Weinstein (mentioned as a terrible human being, he also happens to have directing credits) • William Dear (protagonist B. Rosenberg's film professor) • Paul Thomas Anderson (nicknamed Panderson, later mentioned as one of the Paul Andersons) • Jean Cocteau • Ron Howard (as 'Ronson Howard') • Giuseppe de Liguoro • Francesco Bertolini • Adolfo Padovan • Sam Shepard • Vsevolod Pudovkin • Tony Scott (in reference to A.O. Scott, possibly a tribute to the director) • Marc Forster • Zach Helm (as 'Zachary H. Elms', in reference to his Stranger Than Fiction writing credit) • Manolo Cruz • Carlos del Castillo • Lav Diaz • Juho Kuosmanen • Danis Tanovic • Koji Fukada • Thomas Vinterberg • Hannes Holm • Makoto Shinkai • Martin Zandvliet • Preston Sturges • Alec Baldwin (as a Baldwin brother) • Angelia Jolie (as married to Brad Pitt) • Russell Crowe (as 'Russ Crow', for "crazy blinking" in A Beautiful Mind) • W.C. Fields • Luis Bunuel • Alexander Payne • Francois Truffaut • Kurt Maetzig • Lana & Lily Wachowski • David Cronenberg (as 'David Cronenbauer', and later as 'Dave Cronenberg') • Robert Altman (as 'Bobert Altman') • Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne • Vittorio De Sica • Satyajit Ray • Bob Balaban (mentioned as an actor in B. Rosenberg's daughter's film, playing a fictionalized version of B.) • Jonah Hill (mentioned as the star of a hypothetical Charlie Kaufman film) • Warren Beatty • Michael Cimino • Diane Keaton (mentioned as who B. had a falling out over with Warren Beatty) • Duke Johnson • Art Clokey • Andrei Tarkovsky • Ray Harryhausen • Willis H. O'Brien (initially misspelled as Wallis O'Brian) • Andy Warhol • Hal Roach • Yoko Ono (mentioned in reference to her art piece 'Wish Tree') • Giovanni Pastrone • Richard Burton (referenced as one of Bettie Page's ex-husbands, which is false) • Goldie Hawn (President Donald J. Trunk has a signed photograph in B.'s dream) • Lin-Manuel Miranda (in reference to a fictional White House rap. Note: Lin's directorial debut is in production) • Mike Myers (in reference to Austin Powers/Dr. Evil) • Alexander Sokurov • Francois Ozon • Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck • Claire Denis • Dome Karukoski • Masato Harada • Jakub Paczek • John Trengove • Charlie Chaplin (mentioned for his "dapper insouciance") • James Cagney (an actor who wore lifts) • Burgess Meredith (an actor who wore lifts) • Al Pacino (an actor who will wear lifts) • Buster Keaton • Melvin Frank • Mike Nichols (as 'Michael Nichols') • Nicolas Cage (mentioned as star of Adaptation.) • Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • Sofia Coppola • Jerry Lewis • Shawn Levy • Rainer Werner Fassbinder • Paul Reubens (reference to Pee-wee Herman) • Robert Downey Sr. • Werner Herzog • Steven Spielberg (as 'Steve Spielman', later as 'Steve Spielberg') • Frederick Wiseman • John Candy (reference to Uncle Buck) • Beyonce (a safe talking point) • John Carpenter • Stephen King (as author of Christine) • Antonio Campos • James Cagney (as star of Man of a Thousand Faces) • Ludmil Staikov • Burt Reynolds (as star of fictional Children of a Lesser God theatre production) • Gary Oldman (mentioned in reference to his performance as Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour) • Carl Theodor Dreyer • Robert De Niro (incorrectly mentioned as star of Taxi) • Tod Browning • Alan Alda (reference to his character in M*A*S*H) • Ingmar Bergman • Ike Barinholtz • William Friedkin • Maya Deren • Samuel Fuller

Note: Directors most frequently mentioned throughout the novel are Jean-Luc Godard, Christopher Nolan, Judd Apatow, Charlie Kaufman & Wes Anderson.

TV shows mentioned:

• The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1969–1972) • Blossom (1991–1995) • Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969–1974) • The Bernie Mac Show (2001–2006) • Friends (1994–2004) • Grey's Anatomy (2005–present) • M*A*S*H (1972–1983) • Black Mirror (2011–present) • The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) • American Idol (2002–present) • Happy Days (1974–1984) • The Flintstones (1960–1966) • Doctor Who (2005–present) • Fox & Friends (1998–present) • Taxi (1978–1983) • Mad TV (1995–2009) • Trapper John, M.D. (1979–1986) • Bob's Burgers (2011–present)

Fictional films and TV shows mentioned:

• Herbert and Dunham Ride Bicycles (1896) [prologue] • Moutarde (dir. Rene Chauvin) • Gravity in Essence (dir. B. Rosenberg) • Ich Habe Keine Augapfel (dir. Heinrich Telemucher) • Untitled (dir. Ingo Cutbirth) • Help Me, Teach! (starring Robin Williams) • Teacher of the Year II (starring Robin Williams) • The Teacher Who Cared Very Much (starring Robin Williams) • Professor Salvador Sapperstein and the Sad Students of Salisbury High (starring Robin Williams) • Help Me Again, Teach! (starring Robin Williams) • I Am Your Teacher and I Love You (starring Robin Williams) • Jolly Roger (dir. Nunley, 1952) • Found Again (dir. Kertes Onegin) • Thyestes/Obliviate (dir. Tobleg) • 10th Birthday Party for Bobby [home video] • It's Tough Being a Teen Comedian in the Eighties! (dir. Judd Apatow) [#4 in B. Rosenberg's top 10 of 2016.] • Soy un Chimpance (dir. Unknown) • Untitled [orphan film festival film B. Rosenberg watches and describes in detail] • So You Want To Be a Funny Guy? (dir. Judd Apatow) • It's Not Appropriate to Punch Him (Cowlick) • Shrimp Coctail for Two [TV show] • The Doctor Is In[sane]! [TV show] • Who Shall Remain Nameless [hypothetical film directed by B. Rosenberg] • Dysgu i gi bach gachu (dir. Talfan) • Here Come a Coupla Fellas (starring Mudd & Molloy) • Ain't She a Corker, Boys? (starring Lucy Chalmers) • Abbott and Costello meet the Killer Robot From the Phantom Creeps [fictional film within Ingo Cutbirth's film] • Father Nose Jest (dir. Grace Farrow, B. Rosenberg's daughter) • A Coming of Rage Story (dir. Grace Less) [film within Grace Farrow's film above] • Dreams of Absent-Minded Transgression (dir. Charlie Kaufman) • Guns Blazing (dir. B. Rosenberg) [hypothetical film] • Woomin! (dir. Grace Farrow) • Woman of the Ear (dir. Sharon Old Bear) • Citizen Funny Guy (dir. Judd Apatow, a Citizen Kane remake) • The Notorious Vice Lords (starring Lance Farmer, who is an actual tornado) • What's Buzzin', Cousin (starring Rooney & Doodle) • What's Tickin', Chicken [hypothetical competing Abbott & Costello film in Cutbirth's film] • Mudd and Molloy Meet the Unseen Man [planned Mudd & Molloy film] • Fingerspitzengefuhl (dir. Sterne) [#5 in B. Rosenberg's top 10 of 2016.] • Hey, Timothy Gibbons, This Is Your Mother Calling! (dir. Judd Apatow) [#4 in B. Rosenberg's top 10 of 2017.] • Bad Luck in Bumfuck (starring Mudd & Molloy) • Mudd and Molloy Meet the 32 Foot Man (starring Mudd & Molloy) • Well Plastered (starring Rooney & Doodle) • Morons of Arabia [planned Mudd & Molloy film] • Scream Me to Sleep (dir. Egg Friedlander) • I Wake Up Sleeping [film within B's dream] • Willibald and Winibald [Hanna-Barbera TV show] • Pachinko (dir. Eisentstein) • Effluence (dir. Frederick Wiseman, 1978) • Quod Erat Demonstandum (dir. B. Rosenberg) • Issues at Hand (dir. B. Rosenberg) • Cave (dir. Plato) • Lumpy Mattress (dir. Mamoud, 1958) • Kitsui Kutsu (Tight Shoes) (dir. Kitagawa, 1997) • Hey, I'm Not Just a Towel Boy, Fellas (dir. Judd Apatow) • What A Sight! (directed by and starring Calcium, an ant) • Calcium Carbonate (directed by and starring Calcium)

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Best Meryl Streep Musical Performances (Including The Prom!)

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Who would have thought 30 years ago Meryl Streep would become the musical diva of our age? Maybe those who watched her bashfully (and beautifully) sing “You Don’t Know Me” in 1990’s Postcards from the Edge. But largely she was associated with the serious dramas of the ‘70s and ‘80s that won her two Oscars (and saw her nominated for three more) by the time she was 35: Kramer vs. Kramer, The Deer Hunter, Sophie’s Choice. Sober-eyed tearjerkers all.

But an amazing thing happened in the 21st century, didn’t it? Streep, the First Lady of the Academy Awards stage, reinvented herself as the prima donna of the musical-comedy. Sometimes that includes performances so rich that they sing even without any lyrics, such as the imperious Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. But often they come with music and verse too, be it ham-fisted kitsch like Mamma Mia! or something as ambitious as playing the Witch in an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods.

And today she’s back on the musical big screen—or at least the one in your living room—via Ryan Murphy and Netflix’s The Prom. It’s an all-out musical extravaganza where Streep transcends into her best self: a reigning diva of Broadway. So join us as we use the occasion to count down her greatest cinematic solos.

10. “Changing Lives” in The Prom

For whatever faults The Prom might contain, the Netflix film’s vicious satire of celebrity vanity and performative social action is not one of them. And rarely is that better felt than in Meryl and James Corden’s first big number “Changing Lives.” As a pair of tone-deaf Narcissuses, Streep’s Dee Dee Allen and Corden’s Barry Glickman put on a hell of a show, singing from the lights of 44th St. to the glitzy interiors of Sardis about how being a Broadway star is basically the same thing as Eleanor and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Is it a great song? Not necessarily. Is it great to hear Streep exclaim she only wants to hear a review if it’s a rave or mixed-to-positive while downing champagne? Absolutely.

9. “Super Trouper” in Mamma Mia!

We know everyone has thoughts about Mammia Mia! and where its qualities (or sometimes lack thereof) lie. But Meryl Streep’s performance as Donna is inarguably one of its great strengths. Her matriarch of an idyllic little Greek island seems a far cry from the apparent free spirit and hellraiser she once was. Yet in “Super Trouper,” her young daughter (Amanda Seyfried) gets a glimpse of the dynamo Donna once was (and secretly still is) as she takes the disco stage alongside Julie Walters and Christine Baranski.

The trio still make the ‘70s excess of their outfits work, crooning about last nights in Glasgow and reawakening that magic for the next generation. Even Donna’s tuneless exes in the back get swept back in time. It’s sweet, and one of several Mamma Mia numbers to appear here.

8. “Goodbye to My Mama” in A Prairie Home Companion

One of the best films mentioned on this list, A Prairie Home Companion was director Robert Altman’s final film—and the movie appears aware of this. Nowhere is that more tangible in this heart-wringing ballad written in the tradition of early 20th century Country and Western music by Garrison Keillor. An ode to a childhood long gone, and both an aspiration and understated fear about seeing a lost mother again on the other side, the song is an elegy realized in soulful duet by Streep and Lily Tomlin. It harkens the Angel of Death backstage, but in isolation it’s still plenty heartbreaking.

7. “The Winner Takes It All” in Mamma Mia!

We said there’d be more ABBA. And here it is with “The Winner Takes It All,” Streep’s single actual solo. In this moment director Phyllida Lloyd knows exactly where to put the camera, capturing the postcard beauty of a Greek isle at sunset as Meryl sings her heart out, and smashes Pierce Brosnan’s for good measure. Appealingly melodramatic, and with perfect high notes for Streep’s range, the scene puts this Oscar winner in the movie equivalent of a romance novel cover. And who doesn’t want to open that?!

6. “It’s Not About Me” in The Prom

Again rarely does The Prom’s satire land better than in its opening number… but Streep’s big solo “It’s Not About Me” is that rare exception. Strutting into an Indiana PTA meeting in a red mink and extravagant mood, Streep’s Dee Dee introduces herself by belting that she’s here after reading three quarters of an article to ask, “You bigoted monsters, just who do you think you are?” And it’s all downhill from there for her argument, and uphill for our entertainment.

Hijacking a vulnerable teenager’s platform to whine about a New York Post notice and to demand soft lighting and a rainbow coalition of colorful streamers for her Insta-ready moment, Streep is given permission by The Prom to make everything about her. More, please.

5. “Stay with Me” in Into the Woods

Attempting to sing Sondheim is a challenge few take up lightly. With his typically complex lyrics, myriad key changes, and sharp musical bridges, Sondheim has thwarted many a movie star who’s tried. Streep is not one of them. As the villainous and somewhat misunderstood Witch of Into the Woods, Streep dominates the film as an antagonistic force who sees all the other fairy tale archetypes for the schmucks they are.

But that does not include her adopted daughter Rapunzel (Mackenzie Mauzy). As the daughter the Witch never had, Rapunzel is kept secluded away in the woods, but it’s for her own protection. Written years before Tangled, a mother’s fanged psychological warfare and pleas to “stay with me” from the danger in the world is as haunting as it is toxic. And it’s Streep’s best moment in Disney and Rob Marshall’s ambitious, yet bloated, movie adaptation.

4. “Dancing Queen” in Mamma Mia!

Yes, it’s that song and that scene: ABBA’s most overplayed earworm brought to treacly life with maximum cheese, including slow-motion shots of Meryl Streep jumping on a bed and skipping along a Greek coastline. Look over there! Why is that old fisherman playing a piano in the water?! And over here! Where did the hundreds of locals on this tiny, largely uninhabited island come from?!

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It doesn’t matter! You know from the first time you heard Streep and company belt this that you sang along. You probably still do, joining in at the parade of empowered women, from ages two to 92, who’ve been liberated by the joy of their youth, now or remembered. As they dance badly across the world’s grooviest pier, it plays as loud; as camp; and as a goddamn delight.

3. “My Minnesota Home” in A Prairie Home Companion

Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin’s other major duet in A Prairie Home Companion, “My Minnesota Home” reworks Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home” to give it a Lake Wobegon tenor. It is also the sweetest showcase for Streep and Tomlin’s chemistry, both as singers and human beings. The give and take between the pair, and then Streep’s rousing vibrato during the final chorus, has the air of genuine inspiration and real pleasure. Here are two performers finding harmony together on the stage and before our eyes. It’s big hearted and irresistible.

2. “I’m Checking Out” in Postcards from the Edge

Meryl’s first major musical moment came during the grand finale of director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Carrie Fisher’s wonderful little dramedy. Loosely and nakedly based on Fisher’s own relationship with her movie star mother Debbie Reynolds, Postcards from the Edge is a revealing and sometimes blunt exercise in getting things off a writer’s chest. And one thing Fisher really wanted to clear the air about was her mother’s desire to push her toward musical performance. While Fisher resisted in her own life, she allows the fictional Suzanne Vale (Streep) to give in to mother Doris Mann (Shirley MacLaine).

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In doing so, she also gives into herself and sings this full-hearted rendition of “I’m Checking Out.” A country hymn to the bitterness of living in the heartbreak hotel, the song allows Suzanne (and hopefully Carrie) to bury some pain, and for Streep to reveal her formidable stage and screen presence in front of a microphone. It is probably the rawest and most intelligent performance on this list.

1. “Mamma Mia” in Mamma Mia!

Among Meryl Streep’s many songs in Mamma Mia!—including a few we did not put on this list, believe it or not—it’s her rendition of the movie’s title song that works best. Imbuing the tune with an infectious playfulness, and leaning into the impatience that pours from ABBA’s lyrics, Streep pounces around the screen like a cat who’s just spotted a bird… or at least three turkeys in the shapes of her exes (Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, and Stellan Skarsgård).

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As she creeps and creaks around their goathouse (don’t ask), debating whether to sneak another peak, the film finally makes sharp use of a movie’s ability to edit together imagery: We cut between Streep, the exiled suitors, Donna’s daughter and friends, and even an honest to Zeus Greek chorus of extras sticking their heads into the frame to chastise Streep. Not that she can resist her curiosity, nor do we resist watching it. In fact, we want to egg it on as Streep rolls around in overalls and crosses herself before embracing the next crescendo.

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RULES: Answer 20 questions, then tag 5 bloggers you want to get to know better.  

Name: christine

Nicknames: chris, xtine, princess

Height: 173cm, or 5′8″

Languages: english, french, some mandarin, and i’m learning german

Nationality: uh american but my family came here from poland like...pretty recently lol, we have big eastern europe energy

Favorite season: spring

Favorite flower: white roses, camellias

Favorite scent: ocean, fresh laundry, linen

Favorite color: pink, white, dark green

Favorite animal: sloths, red pandas, manatees, otters, whale sharks...i like all animals really

Favorite fictional characters: teddy altman, princess leia, ellie sattler, cordelia from ahs, olivia benson, azula from a:tla, cersei lannister

Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: coffee

Average sleep hour: like six idek anymore

Dog or cat person: i have a cat, but i like both pretty equally. for right now i’ll say cats because they’re less maintenance 

Number of blankets you sleep with: depends on the season but like two

Dream trip: hmmm i think it would be cool to do an eco tour of the arctic or antarctic so let’s go with that

Blog established: unfortunately i have been on here for years...NO i would not like to discuss it

Number of followers: like 1000? idk i don’t check. i don’t get any asks anyway haha

Random fact: i committed to grad school for this fall so...i guess i’ll be moving in august lol

i’m tagging the first five people that come up when I @: @juanitasupreme, @stepmom, @damitucorazon, @catherinedemedici, @willingblams

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EVERY MOVIE I WATCHED IN 2019

(the orange ones are films I really, really loved)

1. 20th Century Women (2016, dir. Mike Mills)

2. 6 Underground (2019, dir. Michael Bay)

3. A Dirty Shame (2004, dir. John Waters)

4. Absence of Malice (1981, dir. Sydney Pollack)

5. Anima (2019, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

6. Ánimas (2018, dir. Laura Alvea & José F. Ortuño)

7. Antiquities (2018, dir. Daniel Campbell)

8. Apocalypse Now (1979, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

9. Aquaman (2018, dir. James Wan)

10. Badlands (1973, dir. Terrence Malick)

11. Barbary-Coast Bunny (1956, dir. Chuck Jones)

12. Batman and Robin (1997, dir. Joel Schumacher)

13. Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019, dir. Scott Aukerman)

14. Blackfish (2013, dir. Gabriela Cowperthwaite)

15. Bound (1996, dir. Lana & Lilly Wachowski)

16. Bon Iver: Autumn (2019, dir. Andrew Swant)

17. Booksmart (2019, dir. Olivia Wilde)

18. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

19. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018, dir. Marielle Heller)

20. Casino (1995, dir. Martin Scorsese)

21. Cher: Live in Concert from Las Vegas (1999, dir. David Mallet)

22. Chinatown (1974, dir. Roman Polanski)

23. Christine (2016, dir. Antonio Campos)

24. CinemAbility (2013, dir. Jenni Gold)

25. Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, dir. Agnès Varda)

26. Close (2019, dir. Vicky Jewson)

27. Country Music (2019, dir. Ken Burns)

28. Drag Me to Hell (2009, dir. Sam Raimi)

29. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019, dir. Vince Gilligan)

30. Female Trouble (1974, dir. John Waters)

31. First Man (2018, dir. Damien Chazelle)

32. Flesh + Blood (1985, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

33. Gloria Bell (2018, dir. Sebastián Lelio)

34. Gosford Park (2001, dir. Robert Altman)

35. Greta (2018, dir. Neil Jordan)

36. He Got Game (1998, dir. Spike Lee)

37. Her Smell (2018, dir. Alex Ross Perry)

38. Hereditary (2018, dir. Ari Aster)

39. High Flying Bird (2019, dir. Steven Soderbergh)

40. High Life (2018, dir. Claire Denis)

41. His Girl Friday (1940, dir. Howard Hawks)

42. I Am Easy to Find (2019, dir. Mike Mills)

43. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016, dir. Oz Perkins)

44. If Beale Street Could Talk (2018, dir. Barry Jenkins)

45. Inherent Vice (2014, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

46. Jenny Slate: Stage Fright (2019, dir. Gillian Robespierre)

47. Joe Pera Talks You to Sleep (2016, dir. Kieran O’Hare)

48. John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019, dir. Rhys Thomas)

49. Late Spring (1949, dir. Yasujirȏ Ozu)

50. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2018, dir. Bi Gan)

51. Lyle (2014, dir. Stewart Thorndike)

52. Ma (2019, dir. Tate Taylor)

53. Magnolia (1999, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

54. Man with a Movie Camera (1929, dir. Dziga Vertov)

55. Maniac (2018, dir. Cary Joji Fukunaga)

56. Marriage Story (2019, dir. Noah Baumbach)

57. Maudie (2016, dir. Aisling Walsh)

58. Mean Streets (1973, dir. Martin Scorsese)

59. Metropolis (1927, dir. Fritz Lang)

60. Miami Vice (2006, dir. Michael Mann)

61. Michelle Wolf: Joke Show (2019, dir. Lance Bangs)

62. Midsommar (2019, dir. Ari Aster)

63. Mike Birbiglia: My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend (2013, dir. Seth Barrish)

64. Molly’s Game (2017, dir. Aaron Sorkin)

65. Move Over, Darling (1963, dir. Michael Gordon)

66. Nowhere (1997, dir. Gregg Araki)

67. Okja (2017, dir. Bong Joon-ho)

68. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019, dir. Quentin Tarantino)

69. Pet Sematary (2019, dir. Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer)

70. Pink Flamingos (1972, dir. John Waters)

71. Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej Żuławski)

72. R.E.M.: Road Movie (1996, dir. Peter Care)

73. Reality Bites (1994, dir. Ben Stiller)

74. Rocketman (2019, dir. Dexter Fletcher)

75. Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017, dir. Dan Gilroy)

76. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini)

77. Sátántangó (1994, dir. Béla Tarr)

78. Serial Mom (1994, dir. John Waters)

79. Scandal Sheet (1952, dir. Phil Karlson)

80. Scooby-Doo (2002, dir. Raja Gosnell)

81. She’s All That (1999, dir. Robert Iscove)

82. Shocker (1989, dir. Wes Craven)

83. Song to Song (2017, dir. Terrence Malick)

84. Sorcerer (1977, dir. William Friedkin)

85. Southland Tales (2006, dir. Richard Kelly)

86. Suspiria (2018, dir. Luca Guadagnino)

87. The Age of Innocence (1993, dir. Martin Scorsese)

88. The Aviator (2004, dir. Martin Scorsese)

89. The Beach Bum (2019, dir. Harmony Korine)

90. The Bellboy (1960, dir. Jerry Lewis)

91. The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015, dir. Oz Perkins)

92. The Box (2009, dir. Richard Kelly)

93. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene)

94. The Dead Don’t Die (2019, dir. Jim Jarmusch)

95. The Farewell (2019, dir. Lulu Wang)

96. The Fast and the Furious (2001, dir. Rob Cohen)

97. The Favourite (2018, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

98. The Fourth Man (1983, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

99. The Goodbye Place (1996, dir. Richard Kelly)

100. The House That Jack Built (2018, dir. Lars von Trier)

101. The Invitation (2015, dir. Karyn Kusama)

102. The Irishman (2019, dir. Martin Scorsese)

103. The King of Comedy (1982, dir. Martin Scorsese)

104. The Little Hours (2017, dir. Jeff Baena)

105. The Long Day Closes (1992, dir. Terence Davies)

106. The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018, dir. Terry Gilliam)

107. The New World (2005, dir. Terrence Malick)

108. The Polka King (2017, dir. Maya Forbes)

109. The Queen (1968, dir. Frank Simon)

110. The Rainmaker (1997, dir. Francis Ford Coppola)

111. The Skin I Live In (2011, dir. Pedro Almodóvar)

112. The Lonely Island Presents: The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience (2019, dir. Mike Diva & Akiva Schaffer)

113. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948, dir. John Huston)

114. The War Room (1993, dir. Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker)

115. The Warriors (1979, dir. Walter Hill)

116. True Romance (1993, dir. Tony Scott)

117. Unedited Footage of a Bear (2014, dir. Ben O’Brien & Alan Resnick)

118. Us (2019, dir. Jordan Peele)

119. Under the Silver Lake (2018, dir. David Robert Mitchell)

120. When I Get Home (2019, dir. Alan Ferguson, Solange Knowles, Terence Nance, Jacolby Satterwhite & Ray Tintori)

121. Widows (2018, dir. Steve McQueen)

122. Zach Galifianakis: Live at the Purple Onion (2006, dir. Michael Bliedevn)