#don farrell

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I think it's a dig at Trump serving McDonalds to whatever team that was at the White House in his first term. And doing his worker cosplay at a McDonald's during the last election cycle.

He's calling him cheap and stupid. It's amazing.

lmao

[notearsnora]

Ariana Grande will be a guest on The Graham Norton show on January 24th alongside Reese Witherspoon, Will Ferrell and Don Gilet.

[ljones41]

Favorite Streaming Productions From 2024

Below is a list of my favorite productions that appeared on streaming channels in 2024 (in alphabetical order):

FAVORITE STREAMING PRODUCTIONS FROM 2024

"Belgravia: The Next Chapter" - This sequel to Julian Fellowes' 2020 limited series, "Belgravia", aired on MGM+. Set thirty years later, the limited series starred Benjamin Wainwright and Harriet Slater.

"Cross" (Season One) - Starring Aldis Hodge, this crime thriller television series about a Washington D.C. forensic psychologist and homicide detective is based on James Patterson's "Alex Cross" novel series, now airing on Amazon Prime Video.

"The Empress" (Season Two) - Devrim Lingnau and Philip Froissant star in this Netflix historical drama about Empress Elisabeth and Emperor Franz-Josef I of Austria.

"Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist" - Kevin Hart and Samuel L. Jackson starred in Peacock's limited series about an infamous armed robbery held on the night of Muhammad Ali's historic 1970 comeback fight in Atlanta. Don Cheadle, Taraji P. Henson and Terence Howard co-starred.

"Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (Season One) - Donald Glover and Maya Erskine starred in this Amazon Prime Video remake of the 2005 comedy thriller about two strangers and trained espionage agents, impersonating a married couple, while working for a mysterious organization.

"The Penguin" - Colin Farrell reprised his role as Oswald "Oz" Cobb aka the Penguin from the 2022 D.C. Comics movie, "The Batman", in this HBO/Max limited series about the titled character's rise to power in Gotham City's underworld.

"Shōgun" - This second adaptation of James Clavell's 1975 novel about a shipwrecked English soldier and his association with a powerful daimyo in early 17th century Japan aired on the FX on Hulu channel and starred Hiroyuki Sanada, Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai and Tadanobu Asano.

"Star Wars: The Acolyte" - Amandla Stenberg and Lee Jung-jae starred in this Disney Plus limited series about the Jedi Order's investigation of a series of crimes during the High Republic era.

"Star Wars: Skeleton Crew" - Jude Law starred in this Disney Plus limited series about four children, who make a discovery on their home planet, get lost in the galaxy and go on an adventure to get back home. The series is set during the early New Republic era.

[nerds-yearbook]

Captain America briefly considers running for President of the United States in Captain America 250#, cover date October, 1980. However, he ultimately decides against officially running. What if 26#, cover date April, 1981, would go on to explore what could have happened if Captain had decided to run after all. The issue also introduced Agent Zimmer, the MLA, Congressman Gundersen, Samuel T Underwood, Charlie, Harv, Marty, and Edna Crosley created by Roger Stern, Don Perlin, Roger McKenzie, Jim Shooter, John Byrne, and Ed Hannigan. ("Cap for President!", Captain America 250#, Marvel Comic Event)

[cantsayidont]

Some bad teevee:

FIGHT NIGHT: THE MILLION-DOLLAR HEIST (2024): Tasteless, embarrassingly bad eight-part Peacock miniseries wastes a high-profile Black cast (including Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Taraji P. Henson, Chloe Bailey, and Terrence Howard) in a clumsy attempt to turn a true crime podcast, about the armed robbery of an afterparty for the October 1970 Muhammad Ali–Jerry Quarry fight, into a self-consciously retro blaxploitation pastiche. Starring comedian Kevin Hart as Gordon "Chicken Man" Williams, the Atlanta hustler who organized the party for an array of top Black mob figures and then found himself on the hook after the robbery, the show is a tonally uneasy mix of grim drama and leaden shtick, which smothers some flailing stabs at social commentary while giving the more serious scenes (which are often quite brutal) an inappropriately campy vibe. Hart (who also produced) acts like he's in a latter-day FRIDAY sequel with all the punchlines removed, while Henson looks so uncomfortable that you can't help cringing every time she's onscreen; even Don Cheadle's weary dignity is very hard-pressed, and Dexter Darden's weak caricature of Ali doesn't help. Worse, the story just isn't interesting enough to sustain eight one-hour episodes. CONTAINS LESBIANS? No. VERDICT: One can see what they were going for ("COTTON COMES TO HARLEM meets ACROSS 110TH STREET, but based on a true story!"), but it's a complete train wreck.

NOBODY WANTS THIS (2024): Thinly plotted, stupid sitcom about an obnoxious blond shiksa (Kristen Bell), who runs a confessional podcast with her equally obnoxious sister (Justine Lupe), unexpectedly falling for a cute rabbi (Adam Brody), whose family and friends can't believe he's dumped the hot Jewish woman (Emily Arlook) everyone expected him to marry. Feels like a (bad) romcom feature script stretched awkwardly into 10 half-hour episodes, and it becomes more and more offensive as it goes on, villifying every Jewish woman older than about 15 in a vain attempt to make the boorishly antisemitic heroine seem like a reasonable romantic choice. CONTAINS LESBIANS? The main character periodically mentions that she was a lesbian for a year, but she's not now. VERDICT: Aptly titled.

PENANCE (2020): Eye-rolling British drama/thriller, based on a Kate O'Riordan novel (strictly beach and bathtub reading, one assumes), about a middle-aged mum (Julie Graham), reeling from the unexpected death of her 20-year-old son, who has a Horniness Crisis™ involving a hunky, manipulative young man (Nico Mirallegro), who's also dating her teenage daughter (Tallulah Greive) and is plainly up to no good. Not at all credible even before some absurd third-act contrivances, it's essentially a wish fulfillment fantasy (or porn scenario) drenched in just enough sour self-loathing and turgid melodrama for the target audience (Tory-voting sexually frustrated middle-aged white women) to reassure themselves that they're not really having fun. Just to make sure, Art Malik costars as the kind of insufferably chummy local priest Pat O'Brien used to play. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Nope. VERDICT: Probably well-tailored for its intended audience, but for everyone else, it's too silly to take seriously and too dour to even constitute good trash.

THE PENGUIN (2024): HBO Max dared to ask, "Will the market bear yet another Batman-less Batman TV project?" and came up this spinoff of THE BATMAN (2022), returning the film's version of the Penguin (Colin Farrell, buried beneath half his weight in prosthetics), maneuvering between the rival crime families of Alberto Falcone (Michael Zegen) and Sal Maroni (Clancy Brown), with his only ally a Black teenager (Rhenzy Feliz) who becomes his driver and protégé (not unlike the relationship between Dwight and Tyson in TULSA KING). Cristin Milioti costars as Alberto's unstable sister Sofia Falcone, newly released from Arkham Asylum, with Shohreh Aghdashloo as Sal's ruthless wife Nadia. There's no reason to assume this show won't follow exactly the same pattern as GOTHAM and PENNYWORTH — i.e., a brief flirtation with gritty urban crime drama that quickly goes off the rails into campy derangement while stuffing its pockets with as many second-tier Bat-adjacent characters as Warner Bros. will permit. (Alberto and Sofia are borrowed from the Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale series BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN and DARK VICTORY, although this version of them bears only a vague resemblance to the original.) Since the show's only apparent reason for being is to juice interest in the eventual Matt Reeves/Robert Pattinson theatrical sequel without impacting that sequel (or even showing Batman) in any meaningful way, why bother? CONTAINS LESBIANS? TBD. VERDICT: Lucy with the football.

[kwebtv]

From the Golden Age of Television

Series Premiere

My Little Margie - Reverse Psychology - CBS - June 9, 1952

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Teleplay by Frank Fox and G. Carleton Brown

Produced by Hal Roach Jr.

Directed by Hal Yates

Stars

Gale Storm as Margie Albright

Charles Farrell as Vern Albright

Clarence Kolb as George Honeywell

Don Hayden as Freddie Wilson

Hillary Brooke as Roberta Townsend

Willie Best as Charlie (Elevator Operator)

Eileen Stevens as Mildred

[balanchine-ballet-master]

Dulcinea and Don Quixote, 1965.

[reasonsforhope]

"The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, has announced plans to ban political donations from state elections, paving the way for nation-leading electoral reforms.

The state’s electoral amendment bill announced on Wednesday [June 12, 2024] night will ban electoral donations and gifts to registered political parties, members of parliament and candidates. The state will provide funding to allow parties and candidates to contest elections, run campaigns and promote political ideas.

Malinauskas said his bill would put South Australia on the “cusp of becoming a world leader in ending the nexus between money and political power”.

“We want money out of politics. We know this is not easy. These reforms may well face legal challenge,” Malinauskas said.

“But we are determined to deliver them, with this bill to be introduced in the parliament in the near future.”

In a subtle challenge to his federal and state counterparts, the premier told Guardian Australia he thought it was “something that democracies everywhere should be pursuing”.

The Albanese government pledged to introduce spending and donation caps, and truth in political advertising laws, as revealed by Guardian Australia after the 2022 federal election and confirmed by a parliamentary inquiry that reported last July.

The special minister of state, Don Farrell, said last month an agreement between the major parties and the crossbench had not yet been reached. An amendment bill is still expected by the middle of the year.

In order to level the playing field for newly created parties and independent candidates, the South Australia bill will allow candidates to receive donations up to $2,700, although they will remain subject to campaign spending caps.

Those spending caps have been set at $100,000, multiplied by the number of candidates up to a maximum of $500,000.

If the bill is passed, a registered political party will be entitled to a one-off payment of $200,000 before 31 August 2026. Whichever is lower out of $700,000 or the number of party members of parliament multiplied by $47,000 will also be given to parties for operational funding.

Membership fees will be allowed to continue but will be capped at $100 or less a year.

To deter attempts to circumvent the proposed changes, a maximum penalty of $50,000 or 10 years’ imprisonment will apply.

The guide acknowledges the proposal would lead to a rise in the cost of South Australia’s electoral system, but says a tightening of expenditure and party registration rules will keep costs to a minimum.

The Albanese government is under crossbench pressure to introduce electoral reforms before the next federal election.

Lower house independents, including Kate Chaney, Zali Steggall, the Greens, David Pocock, Lidia Thorpe and the Jacqui Lambie Network, joined forces to introduce a bill for fair and transparent elections in March [2024].

The bill contained a suite of reforms including truth-in-political advertising, a ban on donations from socially harmful industries including fossil fuels, and tightening the definition of gifts to capture major party fundraisers, including dinners and business forums."

-via The Guardian, March 18, 2024

[vintagetvstars]

Hot Vintage TV Men's Bracket - Round 1 - Part 1/2 (Polls 1-99)

Round 1 (All Polls)

Ted Bessell Vs. Dick Van Dyke

Jonathan Frid Vs. William Hartnell

Claude Rains Vs. William Hopper

Eric Idle Vs. Peter Tork

Henry Winkler Vs. Tom Smothers

Martin Kove Vs. Tom Selleck

Jeff Conaway Vs. John de Lancie

Dave Foley Vs. Michael J. Fox

David Hyde Pierce Vs. Tony Shalhoub

Jason Bateman Vs. Rob Lowe

Ted Cassidy Vs. Boris Karloff

Eddie Albert Vs. Russell Johnson

Bobby Sherman Vs. Micky Dolenz

Robin Williams Vs. Fred Grandy

Kevin Smith Vs. Bruce Campbell

Brad Dourif Vs. LeVar Burton

Seth Green Vs. Brandon Quinn

Matthew Perry Vs. Tim Daly

Mike Farrell Vs. Judd Hirsch

Matt Bomer Vs. Timothy Olyphant

Larry Hagman Vs. Kent McCord

Fred Rogers Vs. Bobby Troup

David Cassidy Vs. Luke Halpin

George Takei Vs. Richard Hatch

Ricardo Montalban Vs. John Forsythe

Richard Dean Anderson Vs. Bruce Willis

Anthony Head Vs. Paul McGann

Thorsten Kaye Vs. Michael Horse

Darren E. Burrows Vs. Dana Ashbrook

Adam Brody Vs. Milo Ventimiglia

Adam West Vs. Richard Chamberlain

Randy Boone Vs. Dean Butler

Clint Walker Vs. George Maharis

Erik Estrada Vs. Paul Michael Glaser

Billy Dee Williams Vs. Rock Hudson

Ted Danson Vs. Jameson Parker

Sylvester McCoy Vs. Armin Shimerman

Joe Lando Vs. Spencer Rochfort

Ben Browder Vs. Keith Hamilton Cobb

Richard Ayoade Vs. Kevin McDonald

Patrick McGoohan Vs. Robert Vaughn

Chad Everett Vs. DeForest Kelley

Jon Pertwee Vs. Mark Lenard

Darren McGavin Vs. Peter Falk

Terry Jones Vs. Alan Alda

Michael Tylo Vs. Timothy Dalton

Sean Bean Vs. Valentine Pelka

Ioan Gruffudd Vs. Colin Firth

David Tennant Vs. Robert Carlyle

Jason Priestley Vs. Tom Welling

Martin Milner Vs. James Garner

David Soul Vs. Lee Majors

Derek Jacobi Vs. Andrew Robinson

David Hasselhoff Vs. Stephen Nichols

Jimmy Smits Vs. Hal Linden

Brent Spiner Vs. Ted Raimi

Patrick Troughton Vs. Andreas Katsulas

Miguel Ferrer Vs. Mitch Pileggi

David James Elliot Vs. Andre Braugher

Blair Underwood Vs. Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Don Adams Vs. Cesar Romero

Bob Crane Vs. John Astin

Walter Koenig Vs. Davy Jones

Tom Baker Vs. Jamie Farr

Woody Harrelson Vs. John Schneider

John Goodman Vs. Joseph Marcell

Danny John-Jules Vs. Marc Alaimo

Michael Praed Vs. Kevin Sorbo

Mark McKinney Vs. Colm Meaney

Neil Patrick Harris Vs. David Schwimmer

James Arness Vs. Robert Fuller

Clint Eastwood Vs. Robert Conrad

Jonathan Frakes Vs. Michael Hurst

David Duchovny Vs. Michael T. Weiss

Luke Perry Vs. Jeremy Sisto

Matt LeBlanc Vs. John Stamos

Reece Shearsmith Vs. Alexander Siddig

Eric Close Vs. William Shockley

Daniel Dae Kim Vs. Robert Beltran

Scott Cohen Vs. Scott Patterson

Dick Gautier Vs. Michael Landon

Wayne Rogers Vs. Alejandro Rey

Gerald McRaney Vs. Robert Wagner

Simon Williams Vs. John Cleese

Brian Blessed Vs. James Earl Jones

Noah Wyle Vs. Kyle MacLachlan

James Marsters Vs. Paul Gross

Paolo Montalban Vs. Robert Duncan McNeill

Garrett Wang Vs. Nate Richert

Christian Kane Vs. Michael Vartan

David McCallum Vs. David Selby

Leonard Nimoy Vs. Colin Baker

Randolph Mantooth Vs. Michael Nesmith

Demond Wilson Vs. Tony Danza

Ron Perlman Vs. Mr. T

Ron Glass Vs. Dirk Benedict

John Shea Vs. Michael Ontkean

Jeffrey Combs Vs. Rowan Atkinson

Tim Russ Vs. Bruce Boxleitner

Round 1 Polls 100 - 128

[citizenscreen]

Having a great time on set of YOU FOR ME (1952) are Jane Greer, Gig Young, Charlie the monkey, and Tommy Farrell. Director: Don Weis

[demigodsanswer]

On Your Toes -- Don Q

I know this isn't something anyone's asked for, but I was inspired. And since this is my hobby, I will write what I want. I think I'm going to pull together this and my other two Don Q ficlets (here and here) for a longer AO3 story.

This one is set prior to Twice, when Annabeth is 23 and still with Luke.

~

Annabeth caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror. She knew she had a bit of a resting bitch face, but the look on her face now wasn’t that. This was a genuine, visible, frustration. She tried to bury her feelings, or at least get them off her face. But a few minutes later, she was scowling again. 

Chiron was staging Don Q. They never did Don Q. After Balanchine’s falling out with Suzanne Farrell, Balanchine’s choreography was taken out of their repertory.

But Chiron had finally grown tired of the embargo on Don Q, and he’d taken it upon himself to stage Petipa’s version. 

Annabeth had literally jumped for joy when she heard. Since she was nineteen, she’d been first in line for full length principal roles. She was an adagio dancer at heart, with the stamina and bravura to take up the stage for three hours. With Juliet, Swnahilda, and the swans under her belt, Kitri felt like the natural next step. 

Oh, and she knew she’d be perfect for it. As Balanchine dancers, they were trained to hold moments, suspend time with quick technical precision. And that was the part she always felt she was best at -- balancing, holding the moment, making space for more movement, almost as if she were stealing time from the music itself. It actually made dancing the white swan a unique challenge; everything in that role needed to stay soft and fluid. 

But not Kitri. There were balances, promenades, lifts. Moments to freeze, hold the audience in the wonder and spectacle of the moment. Especially in act three. And after four different runs of Swan Lake, she could do thirty-two fouettes in her sleep and stay in one spot the whole time. 

So it remained a mystery to her why she and Beck were in the back of rehearsal, watching, not set in any particular cast yet. Oh sure, the casting wouldn’t be finalized until two weeks before the performance, but it was clear to everyone that Annabeth and Beck were the backups. 

She was learning Mercedes in one cast, Queen of the Dryads in another. If Annabeth was dancing Kitri for real, they’d have pulled her from those rehearsals. No, they didn’t want her for Kitri.  

It wasn’t just that she didn’t get the big principal part she wanted. Mercedes was fun, and Queen of the Dryads also really suited her. At another time, she’d love those roles. But Kitri was the perfect opportunity to show Chiron she was ready for Aurora. He promised her the role five years ago, and he hadn’t staged the ballet since. Everyone said it was the hardest role in the classical canon. It took immense technical precision, skill, and artistry. But she could do it, she was so sure she could do it. Aurora and Kitri were very different tonally and in the story they told, but the technical bits were similar. If she could prove she could do Kitri, she might finally prove that she was ready for Aurora. 

She was. She was. 

So why was she in the back, watching Luke lift Helen, trying to learn the steps without getting in their way, and trying to remember which studio her Dryad’s rehearsal was in? 

“You don’t get all the leading ladies just because you’re you, babe,” Luke had said to her last night while she was complaining. 

“But don’t you think I’d be so perfect for it?” Annabeth asked, stretching her legs out on the couch, her feet resting in his lap, before she leaned forward to grab her feet and stretch her hamstrings. 

“Sure,” he agreed, playing with her hair as she rested her forehead on her thighs, “but you aren’t doing it this time. You’ll get your chance. And you’re going to make a very sexy Mercedes.” 

That was true at least. Annabeth was having fun in those rehearsals, and her back was getting more flexible than she knew it could. Annabeth, for all her long legs and arms, had a pretty short torso; she didn’t know if there was going to be room for those big back bends, but she was finding it. 

“Maybe at least now people will stop thinking of me as just the little cutesy poo,” Annabeth said. 

She tended to get cast in romantic, sweet, or sassy roles, like Flower Festival and Stars and Stripes. Juliet and the Swans were barely exceptions either. Young, sad young women in love. The same thing as all the others just with a tragic twist. 

 Annabeth leaned back again, and Luke started to massage her calf for her. It felt nice. 

“I don’t think anyone’s ever thought of you like that,” Luke said with a teasing smile. 

Annabeth rolled her eyes. “Well, sure, no one who knows me. But I mean Chiron and fans and things.” 

“Right, Annabeth Chase and her hoards of fans,” Luke said, still teasing but … different this time. 

“I have fans,” she protested as Luke stood up. 

“I know you do!” He was annoyed, she could tell. She wasn’t exactly sure where she’d misstepped, but she was sure she had. “They all adore you. So they’ll be thrilled to see you in two casts. Double the performances.” Annabeth turned and saw him in the kitchen, pouring two glasses of red wine. 

“I don’t want one,” she told him. He handed her the glass anyway. 

“You’re being uptight. It’s pissing me off. Drink it,” Luke said. 

“No,” Annabeth repeated, holding the glass out to him. Luke just sighed and ignored her as he sat back down next to him with his own drink in hand. Frustration vibrated under her skin, and her heart beat faster with anticipation. 

“I don’t want it,” Annabeth said again. She felt goosebumps on her arms, and the rapid pace of her heart beat was making it hard for her to breathe. 

Luke pushed her arm back towards her softly but with enough force that her arm did move. “For fucks sake, Annie, have the goddamn drink!” 

It felt like all the strings of her insanity momentarily untied, and her tether to her own sense of self preservation abandoned her. Annabeth flung the glass towards him, holding the stem as the red wine sloshed out onto his face and chest, staining his shirt and the couch under him. 

Before she could process her choice and apologize, Luke ripped the glass from her hand and shattered it on the floor next to where she was sitting. 

Annabeth stared at him, cold and furious. 

“Fuck you, I’m going to bed,” she told him, climbing over the backside of the couch to avoid the shattered glass. 

“Annie, get back here! You’re not going to clean up your fucking mess?” 

“I guess not!” She said, before slamming the bedroom door and locking him out. 

The only satisfaction she had today was that Luke was dancing like a man who’d slept on the couch. He hadn’t talked to her all day, but she was mostly okay with that. She wasn’t in any rush to apologize to him. Beck said she could stay over tonight night, so she didn’t need to go home to Luke. 

All she had to do was sit in rehearsal and watch him move stiffly and artlessly. 

When the music stopped, Chiron glanced around the room, and Annabeth tried to look more like a leading lady and less like a sour, jealous bitch. 

“Annabeth, Charles, let’s see you do it,” Chiron said. 

It was the act one finale. It started with Bassilo’s variation, and then Kitri’s famous variation. The rest of their would-be cast perked up too, waiting to hear it would just be the variations or the whole thing. 

“Oh sure, bring the corps and the soloists!” Chiron said. Annabeth smiled as people gathered around them. Drew Tanaka and Piper McLean were, theoretically, cast to play her friends. They were each also a Cupid in different casts. It had made for great company drama as the two women couldn’t actually stand each other for reasons no one could quite explain. But they danced well despite it. 

Beck muttered something to one of the rascals -- Percy, a man she’d never really gotten to know much. They never seemed to get thrown together, no matter how often he understudied Beck. 

Annabeth bent forward, giving her legs one last quick stretch before they took their places. 

Beckendorf was perfect as Basilio. All of the jumps and long lines were perfect, as always. He was the future of ballet, Annabeth was sure, the gold standard for gentlemen of their generation. And he brought the kind and flirty vibe to Basilio that the show needed. 

And then it was her turn. Annabeth’s goal was to stay on the music, make her développés and jumps look effortless, and to act the shit out of the character. By the first développé, her shin nearly met her face, a higher extension than she usually pulled off, and she knew she had it. 

Even in the classics, they spotted front, which made the diagonal series of pirouettes a challenge. She couldn’t watch where she was going. But she could watch Chiron at the front of the room as she suspended the last pirouette, drawing her leg forward in a ninety degree angle, stealing time from the music and showing off. She hit her final balance, an attitude arabesque, with her back bent dramatically, her arms stylized to match the Spanish setting. And she held that balance one … two … the music ended … three … four … eh, that was enough. No need to be a show off. She rolled down off pointe and made her way to the side for the friends and rascals. 

When she and Beck came back on “stage,” she was grateful to have found a partner like him. They’d both agreed to find and make time to rehearse all of the pas de deux’s, even if they had to do it on their own. They were both fighting for a cast. And when he hoisted her up on one hand and held her there, as she spread her legs in a split, she caught sight of them in the mirror. They were absolutely perfect. The rest they danced in perfect unison, completely on the same page as one another. Synchronized beginning to end. 

The company had brought in a rehearsal cart for them to use; Annabeth and Beck climbed into it as some funny business with a fish happened. The cart was pulled away by a corps member, and Annabeth waved to the foppish Gamache, as if to say “sorry, I won’t be marrying you after all.” 

It made her bitterly happy to see Luke standing on the side of the room behind Gamache, right in her line of sight, as if she were waving goodbye to him. 

The music stopped, and Annabeth and Beckendorf climbed out of the cart, both still breathing hard. 

They stood in front of Chiron, and the room seemed to hum with anticipation. 

Chiron nodded a little and offered them nothing but a simple: “Good.” 

Annabeth smiled. 

They had it. She knew it. 

~

Annabeth was glad that Beckendorf and Silena’s couch was more comfortable than hers. She wasn’t quite so achy when she came in the next day. That was sure to piss Luke off even more, probably. He’d been enough of a pain in the ass about her spending the night there (“What are you two going to do at your little sleep over?” “Oh, I think group sex with his girlfriend while we recite lines from Romeo and Juliet at each other!”). 

She wasn’t in any rush to go back, but she figured she’d have to at some point. In any case, she’d left Marzi behind. And if Luke hurt her teddy bear, Annabeth was going to be on the fucking news. 

Annabeth walked in with Beckendorf, coffee cup in her hand, and a smile on her face for once. And then they saw Lee Fletcher running full speed at them. It was known in the company, but not beyond their walls, that this was his last year in the company, and that was breaking Annabeth’s heart a little. 

“You guys got it!” He yelled at them. Lee always seemed to know what was going on before anyone else did. “You got a cast! Chiron is giving you two a cast!” 

They made their way down the hall to the bulletin board, and there they were. Third cast: Chase / Beckendorf. Beck picked her up and sat her on his shoulder, triumphant. 

By the end of the day, Luke had apologized to her and all but begged her to come home. 

[esperata]

How is the new Penguin show?

Is it worth checking out for someone like me who didn't like Reeves's The Batman (2022)? I thought it was well made but I found it too dark-and-gritty and I didn't like how much of an asshole Bruce was. I want more whimsy from my Batman properties. And Colin Farrell did a good job, but I'm so put off by how they wanted a fat Oswald but wouldn't hire a fat actor. And Oz Cobb? Why would they do that!?

On a scale of 1 to 10, how babygirl is Penguin in the new show? Does he come off as queer at all? Do you think they'll make him fancier as the series goes on? These are the things I want in a Penguin.

Personally I enjoyed the new Penguin episode but it has pros and cons. A few of us have likewise remarked on the annoyance of casting someone slim and then using (impressive) effects to simulate a fatter man. Especially when we have a shirtless scene. It's distracting to be conscious of the unreality of what we're seeing.

There's no denying the series is going for gritty as The Batman did. It is violent and has a gangster show vibe. If that's not your thing then you may not like it. In many ways it's similar to Gotham in how they play on the clash of crime families and Penguin manipulating things to his advantage.

Colin Farrell does act Oswald well, and I am sure I heard that name as well as Oz in the episode. Cobb has not been canonised in the show yet so to me it isn't real yet. There seem to be more hints of his family which I hope will actually be expanded on. Thus far, he loves his mother, so again Gotham-esque.

As to the character, he has a wish to be loved, a sense of humour, and a bit of a soft heart. He appears to be an ally but not noticeably queer himself, at least thus far. We met one casual girlfriend but no big love interest yet. The street workers seemed happy to greet him.

He took a young boy with a speech impediment under his wing. He listens to Dolly Parton when he's alone. His foot is mangled and painful. He favours purple and plum colours in his wardrobe and car. Will he gain any fancier attributes? I don't know. With the way people speak of this version as being "grounded in reality" I can't see us getting the monocle or top hat.

I think he's a fine Penguin, prone to lashing out but primarily a tactician. His desire to be revered like the Don he grew up admiring makes him desperate to be seen as a provider. He wants to be the man to go to. But he also wants to have a personal connection and he clearly struggles finding that within the circles he moves in.

So I can't say it has whimsy, queerness or anything fancy. It has an Oz with dreams of being admired and giving off sugar daddy vibes.

[bebitaworld]

Hace poco pasaron un par de sucesos importantes. A continuación una lista de ellos: 1. j-hope viaja a París para la Men Fashion Week Fall Winter 2025 por Louis Vuitton, esto fue el 21 de enero, aquí se puede rescatar que al final del show dan un adelanto de la nueva canción de j-hope junto a Don Toliver. Esta canción es producida por Farrell. Y antes que cualquier anti hable basura, Hobi participó como unos de los compositores de la canción llamada por cierto, LV BAG, un nombre tan cool y nice como la canción.

Hobi en las calles de Paris que guapo y sexy mi sunshine. 😘💕🌞👑❤️💚

[storkmuffin]

Do you have any general media recommendations? Like music, TV shows, movies, or books!

I don't want this to get like my other crazy essays where I start and then I can't stop so I'm going to just uhh toss things out. Lemme know if any of these are your favorites too!

Books: Jeanette Winterson's books, all of them, but my especial favorites: Oranges are not the only fruit, The Passion, Sexing the Cherry, The Powerbook, Written on the Body. Her memoir is also excellent. Saturday by Ian McEwan, but do not read Comfort of Strangers. Possession by AS Byatt. The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Bishop is about a physically unattractive woman who makes a meaningful life, which is SO RARE in fiction. Sholokhov's The Quiet Don. If you want to know what it's like being a Korean woman of a certain generation, I would recommend Kim Ji-young, Born 1982, which I think was translated into English to some acclaim. Katherine Harrison wrote a terrifying and beautiful and grotesque memoir about an incestuous affair with her estranged father that began when she was an adult, The Kiss, which haunts me. For light reading, Murderbot the series is fantastic. Doppelganger by Naomi Klein is a fun to read and very clear layout of exactly how the world works right now. I recommend everything ever written by Alison Bechdel - Dykes to Watch out For, Are you my mother?, The Secret to Superhuman Strength. (I love books by the way, and I'm a compulsive reader so I will just artificially stop here, but like seriously, I can go on forever.)

Movies: I had such a thing for Gerard Depardieu as a weird little girl (he was my first movie star crush, believe it or not), so I say Le Retour de Martin Guerre is SO worth a watch. The Last Temptation of Christ with Willem Dafoe (another obsession) had me genuinely worried I was going to go to hell as I watched and it's fantastic. My Best Fiend a documentary by Werner Herzog about Klaus Kinski (another obsession) (I like weird looking white dudes, what can I say) taught me a lot about filmmaking. Lost in La Mancha, a documentary about Terry Gilliam failing to make a Don Quixote movie was also terrific. Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre Wrath of God (director Herzog, starring Kinski) can't be watched more than once but they'll stay in your mind forever. Himmel Uber Berlin by Wim Wenders. It's just beautiful. Do not watch the horrible Hollywood murder of that film. Pina also by Wim Wenders, which will show you awesome modern dancing. Penelope, where Christina Ricci is a girl born with a pig's snout and James McAvoy is in it. Oh, Atonement has the James McAvoy scene of all time, where he runs after the bus his girlfriend is leaving on. It's Ian McEwan's book as the base so you will be very wounded at the end. The Piano Teacher starring Isabelle Huppert is ... is sure something? It's perverse and gross and lovely, and very important, I think, in stories about women. Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse is the documentary that got me obsessed with ballet, and Balanchine, and basically changed my whole cultural life. Dunno if it's available anywhere though - I own a DVD of it. OH, Truth or Dare, which is a Madonna concert documentary is fabulous.

Uh. Do you want Bollywood recommendations? Because I can do that too.

TV Shows: I tend to not watch any tv, and then I get hooked on one tv show and watch it like, a bazillion times. RIVERDALE. Watch Riverdale. Be a RIverdale understander. Also this is my Riverdale Sideblog: @riverdale-retread. I also loved SCANDAL by Shonda Rhimes, starring Kerry Washington, because I received the same education from more or less the same schools as Olivia Pope and I found that so funny at first.

That's all for now but I'll answer any questions or do more specific recommendations if you're curious about anything I put here!

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My ranking based on tracks off:

Linkin Parks - Meteora

Released on March 25, 2003, through Warners Bros. The album was produced by the band alongside Don Gilmore. The title Meteora is taken from the Greek Orthodox monasteries originally bearing the name. Meteora has a similar sound to Hybrid Theory, as described by critics, and the album took almost a year to be recorded. It is the first Linkin Park studio album to feature bassist Dave "Phoenix" Farrell after he rejoined the band in 2000 following his temporary touring with other bands. Meteora debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, selling over 810,000 copies in its first week.

Meteora received generally positive reviews, although some critics felt the album's style was too similar to its predecessor.

Please recommend other albums for me to rank-

I’m open to any genre but favor:

Rock, Pop, Heavy metal, Punk rock, Alternative rock, Indie, Grunge, Pop rock, Gothic, Synth, New wave.

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LOGAN Star Boyd Holbrook Rumored To Be In Talks To Play Two-Face In THE BATMAN - PART II

(source: comicbookmovie.com)

A new rumor doing the rounds online is claiming that Boyd Holbrook (Logan, The Sandman) is in talks to play Harvey Dent/Two-Face in Matt Reeves' The Batman sequel…

Plot details for Matt Reeves' highly-anticipated sequel to The Batman are still under wraps, but several rumors relating to certain characters that could be introduced have been doing the rounds over the past few months. DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn appeared to debunk reports that the likes of Scarecrow, Clayface, Professor Pyg, and Hush, were set to appear in the movie, but we're now hearing that Harvey Dent, aka Two-Face, may have a part to play. According to CanWeGetSomeToast, Boyd Holbrook is in talks to play the classic Batman villain in the upcoming sequel. Holbrook has quite a bit of experience portraying bad guys, having appeared as Donald Pierce in Logan, The Corinthian in Netflix's The Sandman, and more recently, Kaber in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. When the new DCU slate was announced, James Gunn confirmed that Reeves' "BatVerse" will remain separate from the DCU, so this movie, along with Todd Phillips' Joker sequel, will be considered "Elseworlds" tales. A new actor will don the cape and cowl for Batman: The Brave and the Bold, which will also feature a different take on Robin - The Caped Crusader's son, Damian Wayne. Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Andy Serkis, Jeffrey Wright, and Colin Farrell are all expected to reprise their respective roles, and characters introduced in the Penguin Max spin-off series are also likely to appear. As far as official info goes, Reeves has stated that his sequel will continue this "epic crime saga," but that's about all we have to go on. One rumor did claim that the story will be at least partially based on Geoff Johns' Batman: Earth One. Of course, the first film took a certain amount of inspiration from Vol. 1, so we assume the sequel would be more influenced by Volumes 2 and 3. For those unfamiliar with the comic, Earth One takes place in the alternate continuity and features an updated and more realistic reinterpretation of the classic Batman origin and characters. Hush does not appear, but the later volumes do feature Clayface, Scarecrow, and a female take on Two-Face in Harvey Dent's twin sister Jessica. What do you make of this casting rumor? Assuming Two-Face will appear, do you think Holbrook would be a good pick for the character?