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timekeepertwister · 8 months ago

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Case 1R-1 - File 1 - Dispatch

Lead Inspector: Frosted Shortcake Cookie

Department: Disaster Response Division

Assistants: Pomegranate Priestess Cookie, Dream Express No. 223 Food Cart Vendor

Dispatch Region: PET-OE-G/L1

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Meanwhile, back at the Time Registry Division…

☕️🍬 Baguette Cookie? You might wanna look at this…

🥖 Hm? What’s this, Coffee Candy Cookie? A previous snippet of the Dark Cacao Kingdom? Is there something you would like to report?

☕️🍬 Look closely at this area right here. It’s Croissant Cookie! From our present time! Talking with someone who doesn’t look like a Cookie!

🥖 Good work. It seems that you’ve found one of the misplaced individuals from a reported time rift that appeared since Croissant Cookie departed. Forward this record to the Time Investigation Division immediately. Although I do not suspect malicious intent, they will help determine which temporal region that individual came from so we can send a Cookie from the Disaster Response Division to said region in order to determine what caused this time rift to open, and to close it on their end. This will also determine whether we can extract Croissant Cookie’s group directly from the Dark Cacao Kingdom.

☕️🍬 W-wait! How does this affect me?!

🥖 You’re a fellow Supervisor for the Support Division in “Operation: Time Twister” and my subordinate in the Time Registry Division. If those two are talking because they both landed in the Dark Cacao Kingdom of the past despite coming from different temporal regions, this may be something else caused by the Blue Cheese Watch after it was broken by Dark Enchantress Cookie.

☕️🍬 And what’ll you be doing in the meantime?

🥖 I will submit this finding to the Director and attempt to contact Croissant Cookie directly. Once us two have finished our reports, we will reconvene for lunch. Dismissed.

☕️🍬 …WAIT!

🥖 Hm? What did you forget to say, Coffee Candy Cookie?

☕️🍬 How will we address them in the Subject Roster?

🥖 This is not a new matter, but it’s something we seldom address. Take the subjects’ first names and append the word “Cookie” to them unless they declare their own names. That is the general routine for such Cookies, and they could very well have turned into Cookies or something similar to any of Earthbread’s vast expanse of living beings after entering Earthbread through the time rift from their origin region. These effects should undo themselves when they leave through either the same or another time rift, so there are no immediate long-lasting consequences of them staying in that era for an extended period of time besides the mark they leave on the timeline… which is something that our division will splice into the main timeline directly as per the Director’s emergency directive upon implementing “Operation: Time Twister” as written in her schematics. It’s written that there will be no divergences in regions of interest pertaining to the operation. But for now, send these reports to String Gummy Cookie and the Time Investigation Division so they can process them properly. I will send the proper documentation of these findings to the Director so she can verify the situations at hand. Dismissed.

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Perspective: Frosted Shortcake Cookie, who just received a call from the TBD regarding a new mission

…And then, I was on the case. One phone call from String Gummy Cookie and the Time Investigation Division was all I needed. With case files in hand and a couple of associates to assist me, we departed from the TBD Disaster Response Division’s satellite office in the Moontide Republic’s northeastern Tidal Province at dawn. Coastal Bay Faerie Cookie bid me well from the northern shrine as the Timecraft took off into the time streams. But now that I think about it, these coordinates seem too familiar. I wonder why… wait. Hold on a moment.

Where are my manners? I haven’t even introduced myself proper, but I might as well since we’re still in transit. My name’s Frosted Shortcake Cookie, member of the TBD’s Disaster Response Division and Head Priestess of the Moontide Republic with a side hobby in studying celestial and demonic beings for academia. Yes, I can see the reactions from a lot of you. Unoriginal name, I know. All it takes is one new word to make it seem unique to all the others, and I have considered some ideas, but that’s not the point here. I could go on for hours about how I got these jobs and talk about the history and culture of the Moontide Republic just south of Beast-Yeast- yet left unmarked on most official maps- but that’s also not why I’m making this report. No, instead I’m going on a mission for the TBD with Pomegranate Priestess Cookie- the high priestess of Pomegranate Village- and a snack vendor from the dream world that happened to be visiting the Republic.

For conveniences’ sake, the vendor’s unique characteristics will allow you as the Time Twister Support Division to directly communicate with us for the duration of this mission. Take a moment to see who you’ll be communicating with us through in the attached image.

“Hi everyone! I’m gonna be your main source of communication with the two priestess Cookies and whoever else we run into during this mission. If you wanna ask some questions to me or anyone else here or to anyone we encounter, if you need me to do anything else to help them out, or if you really just need a snack in the office, just send an ask our way and interact with us on this whole thing!”

The destination for our mission this time is a place where… well… I trained a bit to be a priestess while in a three-year coma, but now in the present day years after those events. The TBD’s archives denote this region as Region [PET-OE-G/L1], but for you and me, we’ll just call it as it is in Outer Earthbread: Gensokyo, Japan. What? Did I make your heart jump from shock? Was that an unsavory reaction I just saw from some of you through the screen? Or did I just call someone out in the Support Office who just happened to know more about Touhou than the soundtracks? Hahaha…! Anyways, none of that matters now; back to the mission at hand. This might be our first crossover mission on this operation, but you can bet this isn’t gonna be our last.

Our objective is to interview some of the locals who could have witnessed the time rift opening on its own, determine whether the Blue Cheese Watch’s fragments were responsible for this incident, track down anyone who could have fallen into the rift and return them safely, and then close the rift properly. Now hold on tight, we’re approaching our stop through the opened rift and there’s incoming debris on the approach. Let’s hope we can find a map or something so we know where we’re going here. Or maybe we’ll find some people that can help us out.

Support Division Tasks

In order to complete some of these tasks, you might have to interact with the blog’s Ask Box. Think of it as a bit of a “choose your own adventure” story where you can make a few decisions to influence the outcome. Completing some of these tasks will add more features to future posts.

Cross-Examine archived TBD records as to familiarize yourself with the case at hand

Get to know your on-mission colleagues Strawberry Shortcake Cookie and Pomegranate Priestess Cookie (they are open for asks)

Fine-tune communications optics to receive more visuals through the Vendor (requires tuning the designated communicator in the TBD’s offices)

Procure a map of the area

Suggest and find a local who knows the land’s geography and landmarks (five locals have been listed in the report as temporally displaced and deemed absent from our investigations)

Re-establish communications with Croissant Cookie’s group to provide support and methods for group extraction from the past (advanced cross-dimensional signal tuning device required)

Be on the lookout for parts of the Blue Cheese Watch and White Lily Cookie’s Soulstones (just cue them in when you think they’re coming up or suspect someone’s holding them)

[End of File 1] - [Next: File 2 - “The Shrine”]

[Incident File 1: “Crash Site”] - [Incident File 2: “Incident Afoot”]

[Return to Investigation Record] - [Return to Case Record]

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sesiondemadrugada · 2 years ago

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Moontide (Fritz Lang & Archie Mayo, 1942).

#moontide #moontide (1942)#fritz lang #archie mayo #ida lupino #jean gabin #charles g. clarke #lucien ballard #william reynolds #james basevi #richard day #thomas little #guy pearce

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tvln · 3 years ago

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moontide (us, mayo/lang 42)

#moontide #archie mayo #fritz lang #jean gabin #ida lupino #claude rains #charles g. clarke #lucien ballard

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timeless-hollywood-classics · 4 years ago

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Ida Lupino (4 February 1918 – 3 August 1995) was an English-American actress, singer, director, and producer. She is widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker working in the 1950s during the Hollywood studio system. With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir with The Hitch-Hiker in 1953. Among her other directed films the best known are Not Wanted about unwed pregnancy (she took over for a sick director and refused directorial credit), Never Fear (1949) loosely based upon her own experiences battling paralyzing polio, Outrage (1950) one of the first films about rape, The Bigamist (1953) (which was named in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die) and The Trouble with Angels (1966).

Throughout her 48-year career, she made acting appearances in 59 films and directed eight others, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. As an actress her best known films are The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) with Basil Rathbone, They Drive by Night (1940) with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart, High Sierra (1941) with Bogart, The Sea Wolf (1941) with Edward G. Robinson and John Garfield, Ladies in Retirement (1941) with Louis Hayward, Moontide (1942) with Jean Gabin, The Hard Way (1943), Deep Valley (1947) with Dane Clark, Road House (1948) with Cornel Wilde and Richard Widmark, While the City Sleeps (1956) with Dana Andrews and Vincent Price. and Junior Bonner (1972) with Steve McQueen.

She also directed more than 100 episodes of television productions in a variety of genres including westerns, supernatural tales, situation comedies, murder mysteries, and gangster stories. She was the only woman to direct an episode of the original The Twilight Zone series ("The Masks"), as well as the only director to have starred in an episode of the show ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine").

Lupino was born in Herne Hill, London, to actress Connie O'Shea (also known as Connie Emerald) and music hall comedian Stanley Lupino, a member of the theatrical Lupino family, which included Lupino Lane, a song-and-dance man. Her father, a top name in musical comedy in the UK and a member of a centuries-old theatrical dynasty dating back to Renaissance Italy, encouraged her to perform at an early age. He built a backyard theatre for Lupino and her sister Rita (1920–2016), who also became an actress and dancer. Lupino wrote her first play at age seven and toured with a travelling theatre company as a child. By the age of ten, Lupino had memorised the leading female roles in each of Shakespeare's plays. After her intense childhood training for stage plays, Ida's uncle Lupino Lane assisted her in moving towards film acting by getting her work as a background actress at British International Studios.

She wanted to be a writer, but in order to please her father, Lupino enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She excelled in a number of "bad girl" film roles, often playing prostitutes. Lupino did not enjoy being an actress and felt uncomfortable with many of the early roles she was given. She felt that she was pushed into the profession due to her family history.

Lupino worked as both a stage and screen actress. She first took to the stage in 1934 as the lead in The Pursuit of Happiness at the Paramount Studio Theatre.[10] Lupino made her first film appearance in The Love Race (1931) and the following year, aged 14, she worked under director Allan Dwan in Her First Affaire, in a role for which her mother had previously tested.[11] She played leading roles in five British films in 1933 at Warner Bros.' Teddington studios and for Julius Hagen at Twickenham, including The Ghost Camera with John Mills and I Lived with You with Ivor Novello.

Dubbed "the English Jean Harlow", she was discovered by Paramount in the 1933 film Money for Speed, playing a good girl/bad girl dual role. Lupino claimed the talent scouts saw her play only the sweet girl in the film and not the part of the prostitute, so she was asked to try out for the lead role in Alice in Wonderland (1933). When she arrived in Hollywood, the Paramount producers did not know what to make of their sultry potential leading lady, but she did get a five-year contract.

Lupino starred in over a dozen films in the mid-1930s, working with Columbia in a two-film deal, one of which, The Light That Failed (1939), was a role she acquired after running into the director's office unannounced, demanding an audition. After this breakthrough performance as a spiteful cockney model who torments Ronald Colman, she began to be taken seriously as a dramatic actress. As a result, her parts improved during the 1940s, and she jokingly referred to herself as "the poor man's Bette Davis", taking the roles that Davis refused.

Mark Hellinger, associate producer at Warner Bros., was impressed by Lupino's performance in The Light That Failed, and hired her for the femme-fatale role in the Raoul Walsh-directed They Drive by Night (1940), opposite stars George Raft, Ann Sheridan and Humphrey Bogart. The film did well and the critical consensus was that Lupino stole the movie, particularly in her unhinged courtroom scene. Warner Bros. offered her a contract which she negotiated to include some freelance rights. She worked with Walsh and Bogart again in High Sierra (1941), where she impressed critic Bosley Crowther in her role as an "adoring moll".

Her performance in The Hard Way (1943) won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. She starred in Pillow to Post (1945), which was her only comedic leading role. After the drama Deep Valley (1947) finished shooting, neither Warner Bros. nor Lupino moved to renew her contract and she left the studio in 1947. Although in demand throughout the 1940s, she arguably never became a major star although she often had top billing in her pictures, above actors such as Humphrey Bogart, and was repeatedly critically lauded for her realistic, direct acting style.

She often incurred the ire of studio boss Jack Warner by objecting to her casting, refusing poorly written roles that she felt were beneath her dignity as an actress, and making script revisions deemed unacceptable by the studio. As a result, she spent a great deal of her time at Warner Bros. suspended. In 1942, she rejected an offer to star with Ronald Reagan in Kings Row, and was immediately put on suspension at the studio. Eventually, a tentative rapprochement was brokered, but her relationship with the studio remained strained. In 1947, Lupino left Warner Brothers and appeared for 20th Century Fox as a nightclub singer in the film noir Road House, performing her musical numbers in the film. She starred in On Dangerous Ground in 1951, and may have taken on some of the directing tasks of the film while director Nicholas Ray was ill.

While on suspension, Lupino had ample time to observe filming and editing processes, and she became interested in directing. She described how bored she was on set while "someone else seemed to be doing all the interesting work".

She and her husband Collier Young formed an independent company, The Filmakers, to produce, direct, and write low-budget, issue-oriented films. Her first directing job came unexpectedly in 1949 when director Elmer Clifton suffered a mild heart attack and was unable to finish Not Wanted, a film Lupino co-produced and co-wrote. Lupino stepped in to finish the film without taking directorial credit out of respect for Clifton. Although the film's subject of out-of-wedlock pregnancy was controversial, it received a vast amount of publicity, and she was invited to discuss the film with Eleanor Roosevelt on a national radio program.

Never Fear (1949), a film about polio (which she had personally experienced replete with paralysis at age 16), was her first director's credit. After producing four more films about social issues, including Outrage (1950), a film about rape (while this word is never used in the movie), Lupino directed her first hard-paced, all-male-cast film, The Hitch-Hiker (1953), making her the first woman to direct a film noir. The Filmakers went on to produce 12 feature films, six of which Lupino directed or co-directed, five of which she wrote or co-wrote, three of which she acted in, and one of which she co-produced.

Lupino once called herself a "bulldozer" to secure financing for her production company, but she referred to herself as "mother" while on set. On set, the back of her director's chair was labeled "Mother of Us All".[3] Her studio emphasized her femininity, often at the urging of Lupino herself. She credited her refusal to renew her contract with Warner Bros. under the pretenses of domesticity, claiming "I had decided that nothing lay ahead of me but the life of the neurotic star with no family and no home." She made a point to seem nonthreatening in a male-dominated environment, stating, "That's where being a man makes a great deal of difference. I don't suppose the men particularly care about leaving their wives and children. During the vacation period, the wife can always fly over and be with him. It's difficult for a wife to say to her husband, come sit on the set and watch."

Although directing became Lupino's passion, the drive for money kept her on camera, so she could acquire the funds to make her own productions. She became a wily low-budget filmmaker, reusing sets from other studio productions and talking her physician into appearing as a doctor in the delivery scene of Not Wanted. She used what is now called product placement, placing Coke, Cadillac, and other brands in her films, such as The Bigamist. She shot in public places to avoid set-rental costs and planned scenes in pre-production to avoid technical mistakes and retakes. She joked that if she had been the "poor man's Bette Davis" as an actress, she had now become the "poor man's Don Siegel" as a director.

The Filmakers production company closed shop in 1955, and Lupino turned almost immediately to television, directing episodes of more than thirty US TV series from 1956 through 1968. She also helmed a feature film in 1965 for the Catholic schoolgirl comedy The Trouble With Angels, starring Hayley Mills and Rosalind Russell; this was Lupino's last theatrical film as a director. She continued acting as well, going on to a successful television career throughout the 1960s and '70s.

Lupino's career as a director continued through 1968. Her directing efforts during these years were almost exclusively for television productions such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Thriller, The Twilight Zone, Have Gun – Will Travel, Honey West, The Donna Reed Show, Gilligan's Island, 77 Sunset Strip, The Rifleman, The Virginian, Sam Benedict, The Untouchables, Hong Kong, The Fugitive, and Bewitched.

After the demise of The Filmakers, Lupino continued working as an actress until the end of the 1970s, mainly in television. Lupino appeared in 19 episodes of Four Star Playhouse from 1952 to 1956, an endeavor involving partners Charles Boyer, Dick Powell and David Niven. From January 1957 to September 1958, Lupino starred with her then-husband Howard Duff in the sitcom Mr. Adams and Eve, in which the duo played husband-and-wife film stars named Howard Adams and Eve Drake, living in Beverly Hills, California.[22] Duff and Lupino also co-starred as themselves in 1959 in one of the 13 one-hour installments of The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour and an episode of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show in 1960. Lupino guest-starred in numerous television shows, including The Ford Television Theatre (1954), Bonanza (1959), Burke's Law (1963–64), The Virginian (1963–65), Batman (1968), The Mod Squad (1969), Family Affair (1969–70), The Wild, Wild West (1969), Nanny and the Professor (1971), Columbo: Short Fuse (1972), Columbo: Swan Song (1974) in which she plays Johnny Cash's character's zealous wife, Barnaby Jones (1974), The Streets of San Francisco, Ellery Queen (1975), Police Woman (1975), and Charlie's Angels (1977). Her final acting appearance was in the 1979 film My Boys Are Good Boys.

Lupino has two distinctions with The Twilight Zone series, as the only woman to have directed an episode ("The Masks") and the only person to have worked as both actor for one episode ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"), and director for another.

Lupino's Filmakers movies deal with unconventional and controversial subject matter that studio producers would not touch, including out-of-wedlock pregnancy, bigamy, and rape. She described her independent work as "films that had social significance and yet were entertainment ... base on true stories, things the public could understand because they had happened or been of news value." She focused on women's issues for many of her films and she liked strong characters, "[Not] women who have masculine qualities about them, but [a role] that has intestinal fortitude, some guts to it."

In the film The Bigamist, the two women characters represent the career woman and the homemaker. The title character is married to a woman (Joan Fontaine) who, unable to have children, has devoted her energy to her career. While on one of many business trips, he meets a waitress (Lupino) with whom he has a child, and then marries her.[25] Marsha Orgeron, in her book Hollywood Ambitions, describes these characters as "struggling to figure out their place in environments that mirror the social constraints that Lupino faced".[13] However, Donati, in his biography of Lupino, said "The solutions to the character's problems within the films were often conventional, even conservative, more reinforcing the 1950s' ideology than undercutting it."

Ahead of her time within the studio system, Lupino was intent on creating films that were rooted in reality. On Never Fear, Lupino said, "People are tired of having the wool pulled over their eyes. They pay out good money for their theatre tickets and they want something in return. They want realism. And you can't be realistic with the same glamorous mugs on the screen all the time."

Lupino's films are critical of many traditional social institutions, which reflect her contempt for the patriarchal structure that existed in Hollywood. Lupino rejected the commodification of female stars and as an actress, she resisted becoming an object of desire. She said in 1949, "Hollywood careers are perishable commodities", and sought to avoid such a fate for herself.

Ida Lupino was diagnosed with polio in 1934. The New York Times reported that the outbreak of polio within the Hollywood community was due to contaminated swimming pools. The disease severely affected her ability to work, and her contract with Paramount fell apart shortly after her diagnosis. Lupino recovered and eventually directed, produced, and wrote many films, including a film loosely based upon her travails with polio titled Never Fear in 1949, the first film that she was credited for directing (she had earlier stepped in for an ill director on Not Wanted and refused directorial credit out of respect for her colleague). Her experience with the disease gave Lupino the courage to focus on her intellectual abilities over simply her physical appearance. In an interview with Hollywood, Lupino said, "I realized that my life and my courage and my hopes did not lie in my body. If that body was paralyzed, my brain could still work industriously...If I weren't able to act, I would be able to write. Even if I weren't able to use a pencil or typewriter, I could dictate."[31] Film magazines from the 1930s and 1940s, such as The Hollywood Reporter and Motion Picture Daily, frequently published updates on her condition. Lupino worked for various non-profit organizations to help raise funds for polio research.

Lupino's interests outside the entertainment industry included writing short stories and children's books, and composing music. Her composition "Aladdin's Suite" was performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1937. She composed this piece while on bedrest due to polio in 1935.

She became an American citizen in June 1948 and a staunch Democrat who supported the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Lupino was Catholic.

Lupino died from a stroke while undergoing treatment for colon cancer in Los Angeles on 3 August 1995, at the age of 77. Her memoirs, Ida Lupino: Beyond the Camera, were edited after her death and published by Mary Ann Anderson.

Lupino learned filmmaking from everyone she observed on set, including William Ziegler, the cameraman for Not Wanted. When in preproduction on Never Fear, she conferred with Michael Gordon on directorial technique, organization, and plotting. Cinematographer Archie Stout said of Ms. Lupino, "Ida has more knowledge of camera angles and lenses than any director I've ever worked with, with the exception of Victor Fleming. She knows how a woman looks on the screen and what light that woman should have, probably better than I do." Lupino also worked with editor Stanford Tischler, who said of her, "She wasn't the kind of director who would shoot something, then hope any flaws could be fixed in the cutting room. The acting was always there, to her credit."

Author Ally Acker compares Lupino to pioneering silent-film director Lois Weber for their focus on controversial, socially relevant topics. With their ambiguous endings, Lupino's films never offered simple solutions for her troubled characters, and Acker finds parallels to her storytelling style in the work of the modern European "New Wave" directors, such as Margarethe von Trotta.

Ronnie Scheib, who issued a Kino release of three of Lupino's films, likens Lupino's themes and directorial style to directors Nicholas Ray, Sam Fuller, and Robert Aldrich, saying, "Lupino very much belongs to that generation of modernist filmmakers." On whether Lupino should be considered a feminist filmmaker, Scheib states, "I don't think Lupino was concerned with showing strong people, men or women. She often said that she was interested in lost, bewildered people, and I think she was talking about the postwar trauma of people who couldn't go home again."

Author Richard Koszarski noted Lupino's choice to play with gender roles regarding women's film stereotypes during the studio era: "Her films display the obsessions and consistencies of a true auteur... In her films The Bigamist and The Hitch-Hiker, Lupino was able to reduce the male to the same sort of dangerous, irrational force that women represented in most male-directed examples of Hollywood film noir."

Lupino did not openly consider herself a feminist, saying, "I had to do something to fill up my time between contracts. Keeping a feminine approach is vital — men hate bossy females ... Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation." Village Voice writer Carrie Rickey, though, holds Lupino up as a model of modern feminist filmmaking: "Not only did Lupino take control of production, direction, and screenplay, but [also] each of her movies addresses the brutal repercussions of sexuality, independence and dependence."

By 1972, Lupino said she wished more women were hired as directors and producers in Hollywood, noting that only very powerful actresses or writers had the chance to work in the field. She directed or costarred a number of times with young, fellow British actresses on a similar journey of developing their American film careers like Hayley Mills and Pamela Franklin.

Actress Bea Arthur, best remembered for her work in Maude and The Golden Girls, was motivated to escape her stifling hometown by following in Lupino's footsteps and becoming an actress, saying, "My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression."

Lupino has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for contributions to the fields of television and film — located at 1724 Vine Street and 6821 Hollywood Boulevard.

New York Film Critics Circle Award - Best Actress, The Hard Way, 1943

Inaugural Saturn Award - Best Supporting Actress, The Devil's Rain, 1975

A Commemorative Blue Plaque is dedicated to Lupino and her father Stanley Lupino by The Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America and the Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America at the house where she was born in Herne Hill, London, 16 February 2016

Composer Carla Bley paid tribute to Lupino with her jazz composition "Ida Lupino" in 1964.

The Hitch-Hiker was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1998 while Outrage was inducted in 2020.

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blastikmusik · 6 years ago

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theonetruewilkipedia · 8 years ago

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Bela Fleck

Liked Songs: 151/179 (.844)

1000-Song Set Influence: 11.993 (3)

1000-Song Set Charting Songs: 40

Sampler Playlist:

https://open.spotify.com/user/rhwilk/playlist/2j4a7eqQ22qxWiWYjACKRD

Complete List of Liked Songs (by ranking, set ranking in parentheses):

Sanctuary (5)

Some Roads Lead Home (25)

Petunia (41)

Deviation (43)

Throw Down Your Heart (48)

Four Wheel Drive (53)

Let's Go (59)

Railroad (61)

Slipstream (62)

Down In The Swamp (63)

Spain (65)

Dear Old Dixie (66)

Bitter Gap (75)

What'cha Gonna Do (76)

Another Morning (77)

Earl Scruggs Medley (91)

Free Improvisation #2 (93)

Let Me Show You What To Do (102)

That Ragtime Feeling (103)

The Final Countdown (104)

Natchez Trace (105)

Crucial County Breakdown (106)

Double Play (107)

The Legend (108)

Whitewater (113)

Moto Perpetuo, Op. 11, No. 2 (129)

Pretty Polly (130)

Rocky Road (133)

The Open Road (136)

Snakes Alive (137)

Hudson's Bay (138)

Ambrose (139)

Reading In The Dark (147)

Punchdrunk (148)

Crossfire (154)

Black Forest (155)

Jeff Davis Medley (169)

Crossing The Tracks (170)

The Natural Bridge Suite (180)

One Blue Truth (181)

Flexibility

Bill Cheatham

Ireland

Up And Around The Bend

Kinetsa

Applebutter

Twisted Teen

October Winds

Topaika

Old Joe Clark / June Apple

Places

Lowdown

Frosty Morning

Perplexed

The Dancing Girl

That Old Thing

Right As Rain

Kalimba

Jalmon With Salmon

I'm Gonna Tell You This Story One More Time

Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow

Sweet Rolls

The Old Country

Djorolen

Growling Old Man And The Grumbling Old Woman

Hao Hua Hong

Spunk

Silverbell

Seven Variations on “God Save The King”

Fiddler's Dream

John Hardy

Close To Home

Beaumont Rag

Across The Imaginary Divide

2fourteen

Pakugyenda Balebauo

Mariam

The Fast Lane

Christina's Jig / Plain Brown Jig

Dawg's Due

Did You Ever Meet Gary Owen, Uncle Joe?

The Sunshine And The Moonlight

Toninio

Triplet Fever

Ready To Go

The Bullfrog Shuffle

Middle Eastern Medley

Geocentricity

Reverie

Mbanza

Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4

Liberec

Thula Mama

Spring Thaw

Texas Barbeque

Shotgun Blues

See Rock City

Somerset

Keyboard Sonata In C Major (K. 159, L. 104)

Inman Square

How Can You Face Me Now

New South Africa

Nuns For Nixon

Old Hickory Waltz

Carukesi

Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum from Children's Corner

Banjo Banjo

Daybreak

Killer Bees On Caffeine

Evening In Transylvania

The Jade Princess

Twilight

The Way Of Love

Kingfisher's Wing

Ah Ndiya

Earl In Shanghai

Presto in G minor

Prelude from Partita No. 3 for Solo Violin (BWV 1006)

Mazurka in F-sharp minor, Op. 6, No. 1

Melody in E-flat

Ladies And Gentlemen

Solaris / Flapperette / Red Pepper-Spicy Rag

Tulinesangala

Yaha Yaha

Assunta

Angelina

Beatles Medley

Jesus Is The Only Answer

Oma And Opa

Prelude from Suite for Unaccompanied Cello No. 1 (BWV 1007)

Matitu

Moontides

Ajula / Mbamba

Buribalal

Max And Gus

Keyboard Sonata in D minor (K. 213, L. 108)

Green Willis / Whiskey Before Breakfast

Two-Part Invention No. 6 (BWV 777)

Three-Part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 7 (BWV 793)

Two-Part Invention No. 13 (BWV 784)

Three-Part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 15 (BWV 801)

Mazurkas, Op. 59: No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor

Emperor's Mare

Far Away

Two-Part Invention No. 11 (BWV 782)

Three-Part Invention (Sinfonia) No. 10 (BWV 796)

Light Speed

Ruben's Wah Wah

Radha Krsna Lila

Adagio sostenuto from Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2

Bach Violin Partita In D Minor (BWV 1004)

#artists #bela fleck

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windupnamazu · 1 year ago

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if we listen to each other's heart!

ffxivwrite2023 #09: fair a gathering of stalls and amusements for public entertainment.

Pre-relationship Butter/@hqmillioncorn's Babycorn, with Moontide Manor friends. Post-Endwalker, pre-Dawntrail. 1202wc. ⮞ In this family, Moonfire Faire stirs up a lot of romance. And silliness. And tornado potatoes.

"Lunya, you dragged us out here to stalk Butter and Babycorn, not to play games out where they could see us," Sirius scolded, hands on his hips as he glared down his best friend and her husband giggling over the gigantic plush dog they'd just won. "Keep your head in the game."

"Right!" Lunya squeaked between peals of laughter as she accepted G'raha's arm to sit on, clinging to her prize as he lifted her onto his shoulder. She did feel a little bad about yet another year of destroying the same poor carney's test of strength, but he was the one who kept goading her into playing! It wasn't her fault if he always claimed that this will be the year I defeat you, Lunya Lanya! and she ended up sending the bell flying across Costa del Sol! Besides, G'raha always got a kick out of it. "Do you have sight of them still, kids?"

"They're eating tornado potatoes!" Pancake said, standing on top of a bench with a cheap spyglass in hand. Butter and Babycorn weren't actually far away enough for her to need one, but Linnet won it for her from a game of whack-a-hedgemole and Pancake insisted she absolutely had to use it.

"Tornado potato…" Lunya said longingly, looking in the direction of said stall.

G'raha laughed, reaching up to hold her hand as their group began to discreetly trail after their two small friends. "When they move onto the next attraction we'll go and buy some," he promised.

"Potato! Potato!" cheered Linnet and Pancake.

"Potato!" cheered Cinnamon in a proportionally quieter voice, though only Lunya could understand the faerie and the tornado potatoes were actually twice as long as she was.

"Shh," hissed Sirius even though there was next to no chance Butter or Babycorn could hear them over the noise of Moonfire Faire's crowds and fireworks. He'd been awfully tense since they left the mansion; maybe it was because he was wearing all black and long sleeves in the middle of summer while everyone else was wearing beachwear. Felis bumped shoulders with him.

"Come on," Felis said, grinning toothily. On his shoulders, Cola leaned over to pat Sirius's head with her tiny hands and he relaxed just a fraction. "We're doing this for fun, not as a job. Let's try to enjoy ourselves first and foremost."

"Right," Sirius muttered. "If Lunya were paying us that'd be another thing."

"You want gil?" Lunya wondered atop her steed of a husband.

"No! Learn how to save for once!"

"Miss Lunya, they're headed for the beach!" Linnet cried, bouncing on the heels of her ribboned sandals. "Do we follow them or get tornado potatoes?!"

Lunya bit her lip, looking back and forth between the allure of the tornado potato stall (also selling corn on the cob with a table of spices you could douse them with at will!) and the two friends she goaded Sirius out of the house with the mission of spying on. As much as she wanted to make sure Butter wouldn't totally blow his chance with Babycorn, he'd come a long way from that timid 16-year-old they picked up in the Shroud a decade ago, so he'd probably be fine, right…? Sure, the other party was Babycorn "wouldn't know a confession if a bouquet of roses hit her in the face" Starsinger, but…!

"Potato," Lunya decided, and the three kids (and Cinnamon) started whooping and hollering as the party veered away from the ramp down to the beach.

"Butter," Babycorn began as she contemplated her snow cone, the latest in the line of snacks her friend had bought her that was starting to give her suspicions she normally wouldn't have. "Is this a date?"

"It's strawberry," Butter said automatically, then he seemed to process what she said and turned a fascinating shade of red. "I—I, uh, I thought you were talking about the snow cone, I, um. Would—would it be okay if it was? A date, I mean?"

Babycorn's smile was blinding. "Sure! It's been a fun date so far! Ah, Butts, are—are you okay?"

Her friend was somehow even more red than he was just a minute ago. It was almost impressive but mostly worrisome. She leaned over and pressed her forehead to his.

"I don't think you got a fever." She pouted slightly, brow wrinkling in thought. Butter watched her face just ilms away with wide, almost dazed eyes. "Do you need to sit down?"

"No! no," Butter said quickly, taking a step back. After a moment he reached over and grabbed Babycorn's hands, which was nice. Babycorn liked holding hands with Butter! "Babycorn, can I tell you something?"

"You can tell me anything, Butts!" Babycorn agreed instantly.

"I…" Butter shuffled on one sandaled foot to the other. "I like you, Babycorn! Not as just your friend. Like, romantically, like how Lunya and G'raha feel about each other or Melmeltan and Coco or Sirius and Felis. And…! I have for years! I know you're still hoping Hildibrand will notice you"—and Babycorn wasn't sure what the expression on Butter's face when he said Hildibrand's name meant, but she thought that maybe she should bring up how she wasn't all that sure about still liking Hildibrand ever since they found out about the whole Mandervillan thing in Radz-at-Han—"but until then, would… would you let me try to, um, I guess the word Lunya used is woo… you…?"

Meanwhile in the bushes nearby, Lunya had to be stopped by both Sirius and G'raha from hollering WOO! in glee. G'raha ripped off a piece of his tornado potato to shove in her mouth.

"Basically, um, it's okay if you don't like me back the same way, but if you're okay with it I also want to do my best to make you like me too! N-not by force or anything but naturally! By impressing you!"

Oh!

This was like those—all those weird proposals strangers kept coming to her with! With the rings Lunya and Tilika kept telling her to not eat!!!

Don't eat the ring, Babycorn! she told herself. This is Butter! You cannot eat that ring!!!!!!

There wasn't a ring, because a confession and proposal are usually two different things.

"How are you gonna impress me?" Babycorn wondered instead of really registering the emotional weight of the conversation, though she was taking it much more seriously than she had all the other confessions and proposals she'd been flooded with across her travels.

"Uh." Damn. He hadn't thought this far. "I'll do things like…! This!"

Butter did a cartwheel in the sand. Babycorn gasped and clapped her hands furiously.

Ba-BUMP!

That's weird! Babycorn thought, placing a hand over her silly heart doing silly things, and out loud she said, "Okay, Butts! You can 'woo' me! Woo!"

"Woo!" Butter exclaimed, doing another cartwheel.

Back in the bushes, Cinnamon and Pancake finally came over from the fairground stalls, the teenager carrying two cobs of corn slathered in butter and salt and sweet paprika for them.

"I MISSED IT?" Cinnamon's indignant shriek carried over the water, not that there were many other Echo users out on the beach to understand her. "WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY TALK ABOUT???"

#ffxiv #ffxivwrite #ffxivwrite2023 #lalafell #babycorn #oc: butter #oc: lunya #oc: sirius #oc: linnet #oc: pancake #oc: felis #oc: cinnamon #oc: cola #s: a beat away from you to me #tales from the warriors of light #ITS MIDNIGHT SO I DIDNT FINISH IT THE WAY I WANTED TO... BUT moving day finale tomorrow!!!!!!!!#im realizing like 2 minutes after posting that it should be tornado popoto #listen. im so exhausted this week.#g: moontide

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twelve forbid girls do anything!

ffxivwrite2023 #04: off the hook no longer in difficulty or trouble.

Pancake & Linnet with Lunya & Sirius. Post-Stormblood. 1423wc. ⮞ Linnet might be a gremlin, but it's only because Pancake enables her. OR: the one where two girls of the ages of 10 and 11 curse a fully grown man only one of them has ever met once.

"I know it's in here somewhere," cried Linnet, her voice drifting over the stacks and stacks and stacks of weird knick-knacks and mysterious boxes and chests and statues creating a maze in the room across the hall from Lunya's. Pancake nervously stepped around a floor-to-ceiling tower of belts and a gigantic stone statue of what its label called a komainu, and she found her best friend folded over the side of an ornate coffer twice their collective size, stubby tail straight in the air and legs kicking for more leverage as she dug through its contents.

Technically speaking, there were only two people in the mansion allowed in this room unsupervised, and two girls between the ages of 10 and 11 summers absolutely weren't them—in fact, Lunya warned them about the very dangerous things in this room every time Linnet gave the door so much as a yearning look. Sirius hopefully wouldn't notice the missing key to Lunya's personal vault from his keyring, but if they got tangled up in something bad they'd probably die, or worse, get discovered and grounded.

"Lin, hurry up," Pancake shout-whispered urgently, looking around the room. Honestly, the things they did for true love—her brother was going to owe her a million snacks if they pulled this off.

"I'm trying!" Linnet called back, voice muffled by the chest, until she shot up with a loud "OOH!" and raised an ominous looking tome emblazoned with a creepy face and the words 1000 Terryble and Fantastyc Curses To Place Upun Thy Enemye (Beginner's Edition) in the air right as a familiar voice went ahem behind them.

"What are you girls doing?"

Pancake nearly jumped out of her skin. "Mo—Lunya!"

"Miss Lunya!" Linnet said cheerily as she swiftly shoved the grimoire in her satchel before she wiggled around to face their guardian with a disarming kilowatt smile she learned from the woman herself. "Fancy seeing you here today!"

"Yes, little bird," Lunya said, thankfully quite amused as she stood down the same path they came, arms akimbo. "It certainly is surprising seeing you both in my vault. Now, care to tell me what you're doing here alone?"

"Wellllll," sang Linnet as she pushed herself out of the box and back onto the floor with an oof, rubbing at her stomach, "I told Pancake that last time I was in here with you I saw this neat mammet, and Mister Sirius said you weren't gonna be home until tomorrow and I got a little impatient…" That was mostly true—she actually did tell Pancake about the last time she went into the vault with Lunya, but it wasn't the mammet she was interested in, not when Pancake brought up her brother's latest complaint about a certain someone.

Somehow, Lunya seemed satisfied enough with that answer even though Pancake was certain she saw Linnet pocket the grimoire. "I'm afraid I haven't completely vetted the loot from that chest yet, so it'll be a few more days before you can play with it, alright?"

"Mhm!"

"You better give the key back to Sirius," Lunya warned them. "And no more running in here without one of us, okay?"

"Yes, Lunya."

"Yes, Miss Lunya!"

Giggling, Linnet crashed into Pancake's side, linking arms with her before pulling her through the maze and out the room.

"Kids these days," they heard Lunya say fondly before the door closed behind them, and Pancake tried not to feel an immediate crushing guilt that they'd not only stolen a rare grimoire from their pseudo-mother's collection but they'd done it for the sole purpose of placing a real actual curse on someone. Said someone was her big brother's nemesis and the only thing standing between her getting Babycorn as a sister, but—

Down the hall, a man in a finely-pressed butler's suit stepped out from around the corner, crimson eyes ablaze. The girls yelped in unison.

"Linnet Qhael and Pancake Veil," Sirius barked, arms crossed and every bit the image of the Loyal Hound of the Moontide Manor. "Just yesterday I went to the Mouries' house to reassure Oleo's mother that the children of this house were well-behaved and a good influence on her son so she didn't have to worry about him coming over so often and Butter could continue to enjoy his best friend's presence, so what do you two think you're doing stealing from my keyring and sneaking into an off-limits room on your own?"

"Miss Lunya said it was fine!" Linnet said, stepping forward and shielding Pancake behind her. She very deliberately left out the fact that Lunya did not really say that or why they did any of that to begin with.

Sirius eyed her doubtfully, but Linnet persevered.

"You can ask her!" she insisted, even though everyone in the mansion knew Sirius hated bothering Lunya with things he considered trivial like follow-up questions. It was clear Sirius himself knew what she was trying to do, but he just grumbled.

"Key," he said gruffly, and Linnet bounced forward to put it in his hand. He sighed, dropping a handful of strawberry candies onto her own in trade. "Go out and play."

"Yessir!" Linnet cheered, doubling back so she could grab Pancake and pull her past him. "See you later, Mister Sirius!"

There was a shed out in the front yard designated as storage for the kids' toys, which was where Linnet and Pancake opened the grimoire to view its full contents in peace.

"Should we give him fleas?" Linnet asked, jotting down her favourite ideas on a piece of scrap parchment in crayon, which in reality weren't actual notes and more like silly example doodles. "Or, or, we could make him have a permanent wedgie or make all his juice taste salty for 10 years! Or every time he smiles he has a piece of spinach stuck in his teeth or—"

Pancake turned the page. "Um, this one says we can control him if we make this doll!"

"I love dolls!" Linnet gasped, leaning into her side to read the entry. "Huh, we need a piece of his hair. I bet Babycorn has some somewhere—she's weird like that."

No she's not! Pancake wanted to shout in protest, but Linnet was probably right. "I'll go ask Cherry if he knows where she'd keep one."

"Got it! I'll get my sewing kit!"

A bell and a half later and Pancake had a lock of Hildibrand's hair in a literal heart-shaped locket and Linnet had a hand full of bandages and a roughly sewn doll based on Pancake's description of him. The girls hunched over the grimoire together as they checked over the steps of their cursed object.

"It says we gotta give it his full name."

"Um…" Pancake's brother complained about him all the time, and she sorta remembered the guy saying his name a lot when they first met him, but she was like six then and could barely remember the whole thing now. "It was really long…"

"That would be Hildibrand Helidor Maximilian Manderville," Lunya said behind them, "but what did I say about taking things that aren't yours?"

"Uh," said Pancake, turning to smile weakly at her.

"Hildibrand Helidor Maximilian Manderville!" Linnet shouted to the doll right before she jammed a needle in its heart. Pancake faintly thought that maybe she should have stopped her. "You said that it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission!"

Lunya did a really good impression of a fish before she pursed her lips, shaking her head with a swish of her pretty white hair. "Right. Note to self, leave Elysiane in charge of the ethics and pick up a copy of Moral Lessons for the Tweenage Soul. Don't do this next time or you're grounded."

"Yes, ma'am…"

It was only a week or two later when Babycorn burst into the mansion foyer screaming and crying about her beloved Hildibrand getting absorbed into a black hole—whatever that was. Butter visibly had to stop himself from leaping into the air and clicking his heels with a loud YIPPIE! of delight. Behind him, Pancake and Linnet could only look at each other in genuine surprise, thinking about how just the night before they'd put their voodoo doll through Himbo Hooters's new magitek food processor.

Down on the main floor, where a crowd was growing around the despondent Babycorn, Lunya looked up at the girls peering through the second floor balustrade with a strange look on her face, wondering just what kind of grimoire she plucked off that random bandit all those moons ago.

#ffxiv #ffxivwrite #ffxivwrite2023 #tales from the warriors of light #oc: pancake #oc: linnet #oc: lunya #oc: sirius #g: moontide

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