#cuban film stars

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Ana - a pack of Polos are now 60 pence! ...Well you can get a 5-pack for £1.50. Oh! thanks Ana - bargain!!

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Propaganda

Lupe Vélez (Cuban Love Song, The Girl from Mexico, Naná)—iconic Mexican glamor, known for her dramatic romances and hot temper. she could do unspeakable things <3 to me <3

Greta Garbo (Camille, Anna Karenina, Queen Christina)—Enigmatic and alluring and made me bisexual. The perfect example of the eroticism in silent films that literally transcends text. Could literally not change anything about her expression but you knew by looking at her eyes what she was thinking. She’s so gorgeous.

This is round 4 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Lupe Vélez:

(joint propaganda for del Río and Vélez) When I asked my 58-year-old coworker who I have been keeping updated on the vintage men tournament if there was anyone she wanted me to submit on her behalf, almost immediately she said Dolores del Río, soon followed by her assigned rival by studios (due to being the first major Mexican actresses in Hollywood) Lupe Vélez - which del Río did not play into and Vélez did. We love queens who know what they're about. No drama vs drama for the sake of publicity. These ladies are fantastic, my coworker has excellent taste.

A beautiful girl with a beautiful singing voice. She also loved small dogs.

Garbo:

A cold-ass Swedish WLW Sphinx. Had plans to murder Hitler that she never got around to. "She will remain always a child of vikings, moved about by a snowy dream."

First of all, she's on the money; that's how much of a treasure she is. She's beautiful in such a distinct way you need very few lines to draw her. (Drawing by Einar Nerman) She managed to be mesmerizing in both silent and sound films. She kissed a woman in Queen Christina (and probably several more in real life). She was super dry and really funny in Ninotchka. She got the hell out of Hollywood and stayed out, living for almost 50 years after her retirement.

Garbo is one of the many reasons why I'm gay. If you haven't seen Queen Christina please do, She is so gender in that film. Also her accent makes it sound like she's always talking in cursive and it's so hypnotic (or at least I think so).

She's a gay introvert, like all of us here on Tumblr.

Probabaly a lesbian, absolutely a mood when she retired

Mysterious and aloof, charismatic and enigmatic, with beautiful androgynous characteristics, Garbo is undoubtedly the most eccentric and unique Hollywood vintage star. Her aversion to fame and stardom makes her even more desirable to the audience, and her insane chemistry with the camera, an actress one of a kind! Her particularity and her oddity is what discerns her strongly from her hollywood co workers at the time, noone was like her and would never be like her. I think, to the utmost extent, that she deserves the title of the hottest vintage star, even though that would be an understatement of what she is!

SO gorgeous, her thick Swedish accent makes will turn your brain into pudding

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"of course i order too many hats and too many dresses and too many everything – but i want them" - camille, 1936, dir. george cukor

wanted to make an old film star :) cc links and creator tags under the cut!

check my resources page and genetics tag for genetics

multiple : twisted-cat's basics please eyeshadow / mlyssimblr's sybil rolled updo / zurkdesign's medium pulled up curls / chere-indolente's clara lipstick / chere-indolente's half-moon long almond nails / rusty's jackie gloves / waxesnostalgic's cuban heel mary janes

everyday / house : gilded-ghosts' deco darling dress

going out #1 : sorrowsims c'est nuit beret / twentiethcenturysims' viola dress / pickypikachu's beaky booties

going out #2 : waxesnostalgic's alpine style fedora / nolan-sims' retro blouse / satterlly's betty pants

formal : rusty's elegant wavy hair / christopher067's opulent earrings / pepperoni-puffin's claudia gown / ice-creamforbreakfast's miss scarlet gloves / serenity-cc's lissa shoes

athletic : anoherm's tea dress

undergarments : serenity-cc's celia bra / raindropsoncowplants’ simtimates add-on silk lace shorts

sleepwear : satterlly's alicia dress

party : simandy's mousse hair / renorasims' pearls for our girls with amulet / historysims4's samedi soir / sentate's olivia gloves

beach : blahberry-pancake's tilda hat / nords-sims' scientists glasses / dzifasims' beach pajamas

swimwear : waxesnostalgic's halter-top swimsuit

spring : gilded-ghosts' absolutely tilt-ilating hat + breezy blues blouse + sweet and spicy skirt / huiernxoxo's marry gloves

summer : gilded-ghosts' sweet shopgirl dress / boonstow's rosalie shoes

fall : gilded-ghosts' moderne muse + glamour gloves / simtone's oxford heels

winter : moon-simmer's aureliana cloche (rc of happylifesims' guest cloche) + hirma coat (rc of javitrulovesims' la maison blanche coat)

thank you to @twisted-cat @mlyssimblr @zurkdesign @chere-indolente @waxesnostalgic @rustys-cc @gilded-ghosts @twentiethcenturysims @pickypikachu @nolan-sims @satterlly @christopher067 @pepperoni-puffin @ice-creamforbreakfast @serenity-cc @raindropsoncowplants @simandy @renorasims @historysims4 @sentate @blahberry-pancake @nords-sims @dzifasims @huiernxoxo @simtone @moon-simmers

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Screen International Stars of Tomorrow 2023 winner: Kit Connor

source: screen daily (X)

Screen International’s annual Stars of Tomorrow award, which spotlights the most talented up-and-coming actors and filmmakers in the UK and Ireland, named Kit Connor for its 2023 awards.

Interview follows:

From ScreenDaily’s announcement (X):

Though only 19 years old, Kit Connor has been working as an actor for over a decade, across advertising, film, TV and theatre. Having been catapulted to fame by hit Net­flix show Heartstopper — playing the popular, sporty teen who surprises a gay schoolmate by returning his romantic interest — he is now getting the opportunity to take on fresh challenges, including two new feature films. “I remember a time when I was doing three auditions a day,” he says. “Going from that to suddenly projects coming my way, where it’s more of a collaboration, is exciting.”

Born in Croydon, south London, Connor describes falling into acting “by accident” when his parents enrolled him in classes to address his shyness. What he liked most about his early jobs was simply being on set: “It wasn’t until my first film that I started to think about acting as something I was enjoying, and that I might be able to do for longer than just my childhood.” That film was Christopher Smith’s 2014 festive comedy Get Santa, which later led to playing “older Reggie” in Elton John musical biopic Rocketman and a key role in Jessica Hausner’s drama Little Joe.

Connor has wrapped filming the male romantic lead in A Cuban Girl’s Guide To Tea And Tomorrow, adapted from Laura Taylor Namey’s YA novel; and Belfast-shot whodunit One Of Us, directed by Stefan van de Graaff, in which members of a family start dying one by one at a funeral. The two projects are very different from one another. “I want to do things that are unexpected.

“I was looking for something super-challenging and out there,” he says of his role in One Of Us, “and this was exactly that. I’d like to be known as someone willing to take risks.”

Inspired by movie stars like Marlon Brando and James Dean, Connor is most keen to work in film but remains “very much in the market” for theatre roles, while more Heartstopper will follow season two which airs in August. One day, he hopes to take on another challenge: “Acting will always be my main gig, but I’d love to get to a point where I can direct.”

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On 50sdale, Telenovelas, and Veronica Lodge

In the grand Genres reading of Riverdale I think it's important to place Veronica's family in the context of the telenovela, which makes for an interesting point in making her parents television stars in 50sdale. Not only were some of the first telenovelas released in the 50s, but in a modern US context the telenovela often represents family, either in content or viewing practices (since it's often something you watch with family), which ties well into the popularity of the nuclear family sitcoms in the 1950s (I Love Lucy being the most obvious). With that being said, the representation of an "alternative" family in Oh Mija! brings it closer to the family sitcoms of the 60s that were interested in palatable Otherness (Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, The Munsters, and perhaps most relevantly The Addams Family, where the family was originally of Castilian descent but has since become incredibly Latine).

Palatability in this case I think operates on two levels: 1950s taste and modern taste. In the case of the 1950s, we have the show directly addressing what that could mean for an actor through morality clauses and communist suspicion related to Cuban ties; which I think is especially interesting considering that one of the first telenovelas was the Cuban Senderos de amor in 1952. In a through line from 1950s to modern media there stands the question of representation (who gets to represent and tell these stories), which in some ways comes through Veronica's role as daughter being recast and given to Tillie Thompson. The US sitcomification of the telenovela in this case then acts as the driving force for familial separation, where garnering acceptance at large through some level of cultural assimilation and behavior monitoring comes at the sacrifice of family and ones own latinidad. Interestingly enough, Veronica does eventually return to Hollywood as a producer, originally by means of Josie who highlights the importance of own voices productions on every level.

It's also of note that Peter Roth also gives Veronica a chance in the show - same as he did for Riverdale in real life. Others have spoken to Jughead being RAS's love for comics, Kevin his love for musical theater, and if we approach this through a similar lens, in some ways I think Veronica speaks to an appreciation for his position in film and television (did you know: the National Hispanic Media Coalition awarded RAS for his work as an "Outstanding Executive Producer"). While I think the show's approach to Veronica's latinidad is often a bit... odd, the show's telenovela sensibilities have always run strong. In a season where many of the character arcs revolved around taking control of their own stories across mediums, I think to some degree Veronica taking control on a production level speaks to a history of Latines in Hollywood.

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Origin of the Cuban Heel

The Cuban heel style actually draws its name from the early 20th-century dance culture of Cuba. The high, tapered heel was initially designed for men’s flamenco and other Latin dances, where agility and posture were key. The heel helped create that sharp, confident stance that’s essential for commanding the floor.

How It Spread

This heel design became a favorite in the 1950s and 60s when rock ’n’ roll icons like Elvis Presley and The Beatles made them a fashion statement. They evolved beyond the dance floor and into everyday fashion, becoming synonymous with rebellion, style, and swagger. By then, their original Cuban dance roots were a cool cultural footnote.

The Texas Connection

Now, how’d they end up connected to Texas? Fashion in Texas has always flirted with the dramatic—think cowboy boots, wide-brim hats, and bold belt buckles. Cuban heels share some DNA with the cowboy boot’s slanted heel, which is all about balance in the stirrups and looking sharp on the dance floor. The Cuban heel brought a more modern, urban twist, and Texans—always keen on style with substance—adopted them for their swagger and versatility.

Are They Actually from Cuba?

Not quite. The name references the heel’s association with Cuban dance culture, but the boots themselves were popularized and crafted worldwide, especially in Europe and the Americas. It’s more about the vibe than literal geography.

So while Cuban heel boots tip their hat to Cuba, they've since strolled across the globe, picking up influences everywhere—including Texas, where they fit right in with the bold, confident, and stylish. 🌟

In the series, Things you didn't know you wanted to know, but now you know! 😊 Thanks Anon 🧡

And for some more things you didn't know you wanted to know; I couldn't help thinking about this movie called Tango from Carlos Saura while reading your message. Especially this amazing dance clip from the movie.

About the movie:

Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film. Lonely after his wife (one of the film's stars) has left him, Mario must find the themes that will hold the film together, while simultaneously permitting his musicians and dancers the freedom of expression that is necessary to satisfy the tango-hungry Argentine audience. Things become complicated when Mario falls in love with Elena, a beautiful and talented young dancer who is the girlfriend of the powerful and dangerous Angelo Larroca, an investor in the picture. And Mario's creative vision is challenged by his investors when he plans a scene that recreates Argentina's dark years of political suppression and "disappearances".

source: IMDb

Music: Astor Piazzolla - Calambre

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A Black actor recently spoke out against diversity hiring practices in the workplace, calling them an "insult."

In a lengthy post on X, formerly Twitter, Clifton Duncan detailed his story as an up-and-coming actor and how after 2020 he spoke with a friend who asked if he thinks being Black had anything to do with his success.

"That uncertainty gets to the heart of my issue with diversity hiring," Duncan wrote. "On one hand I'm certain I benefited due to my skin color. It's nice that people were looking to boost minorities like me. On the other hand people of all races have been in my corner since I was 16—long before "Wokeness" emerged. Everyone predicted I had a long career ahead of me, and I fulfilled that promise.

"And that's why I reject 'Diversity' hiring: I never needed it. It's an insult to any minority with a shred of self-respect. It casts a shadow over all I've done, because I'm not sure how much of my success is due to me, and how much is due to white guilt."

The post comes amid ongoing conversations surrounding diversity hiring practices that prompted an online argument between X CEO Elon Musk and Dallas Mavericks part-owner Mark Cuban. Musk recently criticized a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) hiring effort made by United Airlines resulting in a response from Cuban and an ongoing argument between the two over the past few days.

In his post, Duncan explained that he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree "from the finest acting conservatory in the US," that accepts only 2 percent of applicants. According to his IMDB profile, Duncan attended Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond for his undergraduate degree and then was admitted to New York University's graduate program at the Tisch School of the Arts.

"I secured a great agent and was taking meetings with major casting directors before even finishing the program. Over the span of 10 years I managed to build a body of work spanning everything from musical comedy to Shakespearean tragedy," Duncan wrote. "I was working with stars, scoring award nominations, and winning praise from industry legends [including the late Stephen Sondheim—a moment I'll cherish forever]."

Duncan's IMDB profile shows he has starred in the 2020 film Estella Scrooge: A Christmas Carol with a Twist, and several shows such as The Good Fight, NCIS: New Orleans, Elementary and Proven Innocent.

Newsweek reached out to Duncan via email and social media for comment.

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Movie Musical Divas Tournament: Round 1

Alice White (1904-1983): Broadway Babies (1929) - Dee Foster | Showgirl in Hollywood (1930) - Dixie Dugan | Sweet Mama (1930) - Goldie | Playing Around (1930) - Sheba Miller | Sweethearts on Parade (1930) - Helen

"alice white was an early musical star, transitioning from silent films. she played a string of bubbly, vivacious flappers and showgirls, and she was just absolutely adorable look at her. she's like a real life kewpie doll." - anonymous

Lupe Vélez (1908-1944): The Cuban Love Song, Hollywood Party, High Flyers

"She was so incredibly vivacious. Whenever she was onscreen, even if she wasn't singing, she just lit up the room." - anonymous

This is Round 1 of the Movie Musical Divas tournament. Additional polls in this round may be found by searching #mmround1, or by clicking the link below. Add your propaganda and support by reblogging this post.

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Alice White:

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Eva Mendes Gif Pack

Eva Mendes is a 49 year old American actress, model and businesswoman of Cuban descent. She’s best known for her roles in Hitch, Ghost Rider and 2 Fast 2 Furious, along with many other projects.

There are 59 gifs in this pack from her role as Crystal Allen in The Women (2008).

Please bear in mind Eva will have been around 33/34 when she starred in this film.

All gifs were made by me for personal use.

Please like/reblog this post if you use any.

Please don’t use these in gif hunts - thank you.

↠ click on the source link below for the gif page ↞

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Propaganda

Chelo Alonso (Sign of Rome Morgan the Pirate La ragazza sotto il lenzuolo)— She was an international star, and she was so hot she had to turn down marrying a prince, and became so famous for being hot that Fidel Castro sent Che Guevara to beg her to go back to Cuba. She was also called the Cuban H-Bomb. She makes me light-headed.

Ingrid Bergman (Gaslight, Casablanca, Notorious)—Where do I even begin with Ingrid Bergman? I fell in love with her with her astounding performance in the 1956 version of Anastasia -- the best Anastasia movie in large part due to her wonderful and touching performance. She's got this amazing, fascinating intensity to her in whatever role she's in. She commits 100%, and she's got this light in whatever she's in that's stunning. She's utterly convincing no matter what she plays, from an amnesiac possible lost princess, from a nun, from a woman taking her revenge on the town that wronged her, to light romantic comedy. She's never missed in any role I've seen her in! Also she became quite the MILF.

This is round 4 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Chelo Alonso:

"forgive me sending in more pictures of her but i CANNOT be normal about here asdhgkljhahgjkhgkajshgajghshgjl"

Ingrid Bergman:

God, she's fantastic. She's both beautiful and a compelling actor who's more than capable of putting the whole movie on her shoulders if necessary. It's worth noting that while her beauty is conventional, she was seen as refreshingly "natural" with more eyebrows and less makeup than many other leading ladies of the time. She's well known for her role in Casablanca, but in Notorious, Spellbound, (both available on archive.org ) and Gaslight (1944) she shows how immensely capable she is.

I mean...she's Ingrid Bergman. I feel like that should be enough, you know? She's physically beautiful (her eyes!) but watching her is like a transcendent experience. Her voice, her expressions... beautiful woman, beautiful actor.

I'm a gay man but even I understand her appeal. I'll watch any movie she shows up in. Gorgeous woman.

Just try and watch her movies without sighing wistfully, then get back to me!

Choosing 1-3 movies where Bergman was at her hottest was agony because, of course, she was always at her hottest. Not just because she was beautiful but because she was absolutely willing to go up against the bs women in Hollywood were constantly dealing with. When exiled from Hollywood for having an affair with Roberto Rossellini, not only did she refuse to apologize at any point, but she went on to say that Hollywood's films had grown stagnant and boring to her. Though she said she appreciated her time working there, she wanted to try new, different techniques (hence starring in Italian neorealist films, working on stage, and acting under directors like Ingmar Bergman). She was not afraid to chase after her artistic ideals and go outside the box regardless of what society had to say about it. From her first movie to her last she killed it. There's so much more to say about Bergman's career and life, but I've already written five million words so I'll stop at that.

ion words so I'll stop at that.

One of the most incredible actors I've ever seen on film. Her facial expressions are so intricate and poignant that I cannot look away. I'm either ace or straight, but damn she made me question that.

SEVEN TIME OSCAR NOMINEE QUEEN. Girl also PULLED, having affairs with famously hot men Gary Cooper and Gregory Peck IN ADDITION to her three marriages...sexy

She has a very natural beauty to her, and she's from Sweden!

She left Hollywood and only became more beautiful. You could drown in her eyes. She can look innocent AND like she's seen it all. She is effortlessly elegant. She's played Joan of Arc (automatically hot) AND was in the movie that coined gaslight as a term. And where would we be without that!

She was known for being a breath of fresh air on the movie scene at the time with her windswept hair, dreamy smile and soulful eyes. I have loved her in every movie I have seen her in - she was just magnetic!

Where do I even start. There's a neighborly quality to this beautiful, talented actress that makes her hotness one of a kind and her looks impossible to forget

With a career spanning five decades, Bergman is often regarded as one of the most influential screen figures in cinematic history. Known for her naturally luminous beauty, Bergman spoke five languages – Swedish, English, German, Italian and French – and acted in each.

She's hot, don't get me wrong, but I've always found her very approachable, like she could easily be a member of my friend group

A lot of the time hotness in a movie is just about words and framing. "You're the most beautiful person here" [vaseline lens] well I sure hope so because that's who you cast. But when, in Casablanca, they call Ingrid Bergman the most beautiful woman in the world... they were not fucking lying. And such a dynamite actor too!! I'd only seen Casablanca up until last year, and there she's confined to love interest. But in Gaslight she was maybe one of the most incredible actors I've ever seen!!!! Goddddd shes so fucking hot and cool.

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Chief Petty Officer Adolph Caesar (December 5, 1933 – March 6, 1986) was an actor, voice actor, theatre director, playwright, dancer, and choreographer.

Known for his signature deep voice, he was a staple of Off-Broadway as a member of the Negro Ensemble Company, and as a voiceover artist for numerous film trailers. He earned widespread acclaim for his performance as a Sgt. Vernon Waters in A Soldier’s Play, a role he reprised in the 1984 film adaptation A Soldier’s Story, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe Award and won an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.

He was born in Harlem as the youngest of three sons born to a Dominican mother and an African American father. At age 12, he contracted laryngitis which led to his notably deep voice.

He enlisted in the Navy during the Korean War era, serving as a hospital corpsman for five years, achieving the rank of chief petty officer. He decided to break into the theater and went on to study and graduate drama at New York University.

He made his film debut in 1969 in Che!, playing Cuban revolutionary Juan Almeida Bosque. He became an announcer for and then joined the Negro Ensemble Company in 1970 for productions such as The River Niger, Square Root of the Soul, and The Brownsville Raid. He worked with the Minnesota Theater Company, Inner City Repertory Company, and the American Shakespeare Theatre. He had a stint on the soap operas Guiding Light and General Hospital. He starred as Old Mister Johnson in The Color Purple.

He found work as a voice-over artist for television and radio commercials, including theatrical previews and radio commercials for many films such as Cleopatra Jones, Superfly, Truck Turner, and The Spook Who Sat by the Door. He was the voice of the United Negro College Fund’s publicity campaign, reciting the iconic slogan “...because a mind is a terrible thing to waste.”

He lent his voice to the animated series Silverhawks, in which he voiced Hotwing. He appeared in Fist of Fear, Touch of Death. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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Shout Select has revealed the specs for its Matinee 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray, which releases on June 25. John Goodman stars in the 1993 comedy as a filmmaker inspired by B-movie legend William Castle.

Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) directs from a script by Charles S. Haas (Gremlins 2: The New Batch). Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, and Lisa Jakub round out the cast.

Matinee has been newly restored in 4K from the original negative, supervised by Dante, with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary by film critics Drew McWeeny and Eric Vespe (new)

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary by film critics Drew McWeeny and Eric Vespe (new)

Interview with actress Kellie Martin (new)

Interview with actor David Clennon (new)

Interview with director Joe Dante

Interview with actress Cathy Moriarty

Interview with actress Lisa Jakub

Interview with production designer Steven Legler

Interview with editor Marshall Harvey

Interview with director of photography John Hora

MANTastic! The Making of a Mant

Paranoia In Ant Vision – Joe Dante discusses the making of the film

Vintage making of featurette

Behind the scenes footage courtesy of Joe Dante

Deleted and extended scene

Still gallery

It’s 1962, and fifteen-year-old fan Gene Loomis (Simon Fenton) can’t wait for the arrival of Woolsey, who is in town to promote his latest offering of atomic power gone berserk, Mant! But the absurd vision of Woolsey’s tale takes on a sudden urgency as the Cuban Missile Crisis places the real threat of atomic horror just 90 miles off the coast. With the help of Woolsey’s leading lady, Ruth (Cathy Moriarty), the master showman gives Key West a premiere they’ll never forget.

Pre-order Matinee.

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Happy Birthday To The Hottest And Most Bodacious Geeky Nerdy Bad@$$ Actress of Many Favoritable Movies and Shows of the 21st Century. The Awesome Latina Wonder Woman👩🏾🇵🇷🇨🇺🤎🧡 herself.

She is an American actress. She made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids. Her subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), Men in Black II (2002), The Rundown (2003), Rent (2005), Sin City (2005), Clerks II (2006), Death Proof (2007), Seven Pounds (2008), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Unstoppable (2010), Zookeeper (2011), Trance (2013), Top Five (2014), Zombieland: Double Tap (2019), and Clerks 3 (2022). Dawson has provided voice-over work for��Disney/Marvel, Warner Bros./DC Comics, and ViacomCBS's Nickelodeon unit.

Rosario Dawson was born on May 9, 1979, in New York City. Her mother, Isabel Celeste, is of Puerto Rican, Taíno, Cuban and African ancestry. Isabel was 17 years old when Rosario was born; she never married Rosario's biological father, Patrick C. Harris. When Dawson was a year old, Isabel married Greg Dawson, a construction worker. Isabel and Greg moved into a reclaimed building on East 13th Street after being approved as members of an affordable housing plan. The family later moved to Garland, Texas.

As a child, Dawson made a brief appearance on Sesame Street. At the age of 15, she was discovered on her front-porch step by photographer Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, with Korine deciding that she was perfect for a part he had written in his screenplay for the controversial 1995 film Kids. 

Dawson had several roles in film and television adaptations of comic books. These include Gail in Sin City (2005) and Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Claire Temple in five of the Marvel Netflix series (2015–2018), and providing the voices of Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in the DC Animated Movie Universe and Space Jam: A New Legacy and Barbara Gordon / Batgirl in The Lego Batman Movie. In 2020, she portrayed Ahsoka Tano in the second season of The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, and stars in Disney+ original series Ahsoka. In 2021, she had a recurring role in the Dwayne Johnson autobiographical comedy series Young Rock and a main role in the Hulu miniseries Dopesick.

I always thought she was Afro Latina. Oh well

PLEASE WISH THIS MOST AWESOME & BAD@$$ LATINA AMERICAN ACTRESS OF MANY FORMS OF ENTERTAINMENT & HOT NERD 🤓 🔥

A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

YOU KNOW HER

YOU SEEN HER MOVIES 🎥 , TV APPEARANCES 📺 & GEEK OUT ON SUPERHERO FILMS 🎥

& SHE IS STILL RADIANT TO THIS VERY DAY

THE 1 & THE ONLY

MS ROSARIO ISABEL DAWSON👩🏾 🇵🇷🇨🇺🤎🧡

HAPPY 45TH BIRTHDAY 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 TO YOU MS. DAWNSON👩🏾🇵🇷🇨🇺🤎🧡 & HERE'S TO MANY MORE YEARS TO COME

#RosarioDawson

[altcvnningham]

so out of all the Robert Redford movies you watched so far, which one is your favorite currently?

bwuhhh this is the hardest question ever bc i love them all /)-(\ long ramble bc i luv himb and i can’t be normal and just give u a straight answer sksjsjskhsjs

i have a soft spot for the way we were bc it was the first i’d seen with him and i adoooore barbra streisand, but i tend to skip the third part of the movie to the end bc it’s too sad :’) but he is so so handsome in it, there’s a scene where he comes home wearing sunglasses and i’m yelling at the screen pointing like RUSSELL ADLER???????

unfortunately obsessed w an indecent proposal bc 56 yo billionaire obsessive weirdo robert redford is……. well . do i even need to elaborate how insane that would make a fatherless bitch like me

ofc sneakers is so so so good, his delivery and comedic timing in that movie always gets me bc i’m so used to him being a more serious actor; BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID AND THE STING……… him and paul newman were made to be onscreen together . both have made me want to try some adlerbell au’s inspired by them,,,

buuuut my favourite has remained havana since i saw it. i have literally no clue why. it was nominated for an oscar yet it’s hard to find it anywhere. u can only rent it on amazon. no clear scenes posted to yt. no good screencaps of robert redford in that movie for me to even make a post about. i don’t even think it’s particularly good with how it portrays bobby (his love interest)’s involvement with the cuban revolution given she kinda just willingly dips because he’s like pleeeease 🥺🙏🏻 and that’s a gripe i’ve had with the movie since i watched it……

but there’s just something about it. it has everything i love- it’s historical, but set on the borderlines of the revolution, it has a morally grey character forced to face reality and realign his priorities in jack weil (robert redford), and i ADORE his character (makes me want to write a gambler!adler x bell au so so so so bad), the soundtrack is amazing, the set design is beautiful, it feels so authentic and lively and colourful, there’s allusions to the american mafia with meyer lansky- i’m a huge lover of historical mafia, @mafianoir btw- and i’m a sucker for star-crossed romance which this movie has in spades. there’s a scene between jack and bobby later in the film where he bathes her and they’re just talking, opening up to one another, playfully flirting and for all of redford’s incredible acting and numerous roles he just feels so real in this scene that it moves me every time. and the opening credits with the soundtrack over it just gets me so excited every time. i don’t understand why i love it so much because it’s nowhere near being redford’s best film- i don’t even know if it’s good. but it feels like it was made for me, and the fact that nobody knows about it makes it feel like my little secret :’)

anyway, sorry for the long answer, i’d been meaning to rant about havana for a while because that film baffles me as to why i love it so much. and thanks for letting me ramble on about robert redford!! i love him >.<

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A Complete Unknown

Director James Mangold Stars Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Monica Barbaro, Elle Fanning USA 2024 Language English 2hrs 21mins Colour 

Curly-haired bloke buys an electric guitar. Lots of people, some supposedly responsible adults, act like someone had chainsawed their children 

Here’s why I think this film following Bob Dylan from 1961 to 1965 exists:

Bob Dylan remains a undimmable hero to the Baby Boomers, controversial in his prime but now less, uh, complicated than many of his peers, and has some traction with the succeeding generations, too

Music biopics continue to do good business. Last year’s Bob Marley: One Love made no discernible cultural impact but picked up $180m worldwide at the box office 

Timothée Chalamet is now indisputably a movie star and has the bushy mop of hair needed to play Dylan

With Walk The Line and Ford v Ferrari, director James Mangold has shown he can recreate the 1960s in a way that’s both handsomely cinematic and feels alive* 

Here are four works whose existence meant I was doubtful that there was any artistic need for A Complete Unknown:

Don’t Look Back – DA Pennebaker’s extraordinary fly-on-the-wall documentary shows us snarky, sarky, sulky, sparky Dylan at his peak in 1965

No Direction Home – Martin Scorsese’s comprehensive (3 hours plus) doc taking us from Dylan’s childhood up to 1966, framed with footage taken from Eat The Document, Pennebaker’s long-lost follow-up to Don’t Look Back. Many of the key figures in A Complete Unknown, including creaky old Bob, contribute

I’m Not There – Todd Haynes’ ambitious attempt at reinventing the biopic, with assorted Dylan personas filmed with different actors (Cate Blanchett, Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere and more) and in different styles. It doesn’t all work but often does and the concept is a great one

Inside Llewyn Davis – Dylan himself is only glimpsed but the Coen brothers’ somehow both loving and brutal portrait of folk-boom-era Greenwich Village captures the moment without that getting in the way of a terrific character study

Leading to the resulting question: could A Complete Unknown add much that those four films don’t already have? We’ll get back to that.

The first thing to say is that James Mangold, as expected, delivers a pretty, visually satisfying film rich with, but not suffocated by, period detail. Here, 1964 feels organically different from 1961 without people shouting ‘Have you heard the Beatles?’ (I mean, we do get lots of Walter Cronkite on the TV updating us on the Cuban Missile Crisis, March on Washington etc, but I think in the context of this story, that’s fair enough.)

The second is that Chalamet is really good. It’s unsettling when you get to a song playing over the closing credits and suddenly clock that he doesn’t actually sound like Dylan, when for the running time of the film, at least for me, watching him act as Dylan had fooled my brain to hearing him as Dylan. 

And indeed, almost the whole gang are immaculate. Monica Barbaro, as many people have said, is remarkable as Joan Baez – the cast all did their own singing, and pulling off a decent Baez seems like a steeper technical challenge than wheezing the Bob way. Ed Norton made me feel sympathy for folk ideologue Pete Seeger, a figure who I’ve never really warmed to. Will Harrison is perfect casting as Dylan’s ever-present mid-‘60s sidekick Bob Neuwirth.** The only stumble is Boyd Holbrook as Johnny Cash, but Cash is a tough ask, and maybe I’m just chronically anti-Holbrook because of the godawful Narcos. 

That’s all lovely, but still: does this amount to more than either one of those TV movie musician life stories but with top-end talent and production, or one of those West End biog musicals? In narrative terms, the film takes us from Dylan hitchhiking his way into New York to visit his hero Woody Guthrie (Scoot McNairy) in hospital, meeting Seeger there and beginning a rapid ascent through the folk scene until he feels he’s outgrown it, all leading us to the notorious 1965 Newport Folk Festival.

Meanwhile, women find him initially irresistible but learn that they can’t get him to open up emotionally and that he’d rather write songs than talk. 

While it’s thankfully not doing the cradle-to-grave thing, the five years covered were still too packed with stuff happening in the world and in Dylan’s career to squeeze in, making it feel like we’re just skimming the surface as we race through time.

So maybe it’s a film of ideas and ideals, maybe it’s a film about an impatient young man outgrowing his mentor, maybe it’s a bad boyfriend movie. And in all those cases, you can’t spend too long digging into them because Mangold urgently needs to show us people singing again. 

As with Ford v Ferrari, I’m not convinced Mangold has a sophisticated grip on the ideas he’s playing with. After this film, I’m no closer to understanding why quite so many fans felt so violently betrayed by Dylan. (I’m broadly clear about why Seeger and folksong collector Alan Lomax – the true villain of this film – were so narked.)

If this a bloke and his mentor pic, it’s not operating at Paul Thomas Anderson levels. And if you want bad boyfriends, you’d probably be better off with something like Passages.

But of course, the underlying aim here, like the aim of most music biopics, is to let the audience indulge in a couple of hours spent with their hero, even if (as here) the movie seems to think that hero was a bit of a prick. In the sense that the songs are all diegetic, this isn’t what most people would describe as a musical. But it is a film whose ability to deliver pleasure is fully dependent on having people sing for us as often as possible. 

And that’s where I come back to the fact that so much footage exists – it’s easy to watch what actually happened at the Newport Folk Festival. And, yes, that’s on stage, but with Dylan at this time, we also have Don’t Look Back and the fragments from Eat The Document – you can see him interacting with fans, other musicians, the media… and yes, strumming away in hotel rooms. It’s all there. 

I went to see A Complete Unknown with a mate of mine who loves a bit of Bob (she is, it should be said, on the saner side of Dylan fandom.) She really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed it as an object, as a texture, as something I can see will work really well when you rewatch individual scenes. I’m just not sold that it fully hangs together as a piece of narrative, nor is it any way radical enough to be a film that rejects the need to tell a story.

*My view, though, is that much as in the narrative June Carter through sheer force of will saves Johnny Cash, Reese Witherspoon through sheer force of will gives the movie emotional life

**Along with a bunch of other things, Neuwirth was the link between the Dylan scene and Warhol’s Factory