#gilliam barton

[aiaantarctica]

A dream is born…

English businessman Gilliam Barton had always dreamed of creating something of his own. He fell into a family fortune, and despite never having to need to work another day in his life, Gilliam took to philanthropy to fill his time. Known as a bit of an eccentric, he was known to take chances on risky start up companies, giving him the nickname “Risky Gilly”. As he attended the International Electrical Exhibit in 1883, Gilliam was astounded at a device he saw there. Invented by Austrian Josef Friedländer, the first wind turbine was put on display at the event. This device became somewhat of an obsession of Gilliam, enjoying the idea of clean, renewable energy. Many of his investments involved alternatives to coal for energy during the industrial revolution, this seemed like the most viable option. After successfully implementing a wind generator farm in Scotland just 5 years later, Gilliam’s mind was buzzing with ideas on what to do with the invention next.

(First wind Turbine, circa 1983)

A community of dreamers…

Wanting to expand his endeavors further, it wasn’t enough for Gillaim to set up a new, large wind turbine farm just anywhere. He wanted to first maximize the output of electricity meaning he would need to go someplace with exceptional wind. Secondly, he wanted enough space for not only the wind farm but for expansion. After a few years of implementing studies all over the world, Antarctica became not only perfect in his criteria, but was a risk that more than intrigues Risky Gilly. In 1898 the first team of installers arrived inland of Antarctica, setting up a modest 6 generators. Through hard work and frostbite, the engineers were amazed at the amount of electricity this relatively small farm produced. Gilliam and his construction company invited anyone to come and live in this small community, so long as they volunteered their services to the team. Whether it be engineering, medical expertise, culinary skills or scientific studies, all were welcome to be a part of this global community.

[thezombieprostitute]

Sparks Fly - Part 3

Summary: After working as an engineer for Wilford & Gilliam Trust for several years you find evidence of seedy dealings and burned books. After turning in the evidence you find yourself in danger and seek help. You're taken into the protection of a mob family where you run into your high school best friend, Mace.

Word Count: ~2k

Warnings: Implied violence and attempted murder. Please let me know if I missed any.

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Unsurprisingly you woke up several times during the night. Your stress from the past week or so isn’t going to disappear overnight, no matter how good Mace’s grilled cheese is. Each time you tiptoed out to the main area and were comforted at the site of Mace sleeping in front of the door, as he promised. You were able to calm yourself down each time and get some more sleep, thinking through all the different security measures Mace talked you through. 

At one point you wake up to the smell of bacon cooking in the kitchen. Your stomach rumbles so you get out of bed. Mace is cooking up bacon, eggs and toast for two. He looks up and smiles as he sees you, “coffee just started brewing. I’ll get you a mug when it’s ready.” You nod, still tired, and sit down at the table, watching him work.

He’s definitely bulked up since high school. He was kinda lanky back then but his arms have definitely gotten bigger and his shirt hints at some serious muscle underneath. Part of you wonders if he built that through work or exercise. The rest of you is wondering how it would feel to be held close in those muscly arms. 

He brings over a plate, “hope you don’t mind your eggs scrambled with cheese. Also got some strawberry jam for your toast, if you’d like.”

“Thanks, AC,” you smile, quickly digging into the food. He sets his own plate down and comes back with a couple mugs of coffee before eating. 

“We’re going to be getting some more food stuff delivered today,” he says between bites. “If you’d like to request anything specific let me know before noon or so.” You nod in understanding. “GBH will be regularly trading shifts with Barton, another one of the best in the security business. Again, you’re not likely to see him, but he’s definitely watching out for us. Probably both of them will be on task when it comes time for your testimony.”

You freeze at that. You’d been so busy trying to stay alive you hadn’t had time to think about the actual trial. Mace notices and starts gently rubbing the back of your hand. “Hey,” he whispers. “You’re gonna be okay. We’ll be there for you every step of the way, alright?”

“Can you be there with me,” you whisper back, voice strained with emotion.

“I’ll talk about it with the Bosses, okay?”

You nod and pick at the rest of your food, appetite suppressed by fear. Mace’s face goes from worried to slightly mischievous as he goes for his phone. “I know a few things to add to the grocery list,” he comments as he types. 

“What are you getting?”

“It’s gonna be a surprise. A good surprise, I promise.”

“As opposed to the surprise birthday gift you tried to get me by hacking the school grading systems and giving Pacifica all C’s and D’s?”

“In my defense, it was a great plan,” he argues. “Low grades meant more time with her tutors, which meant less time in her precious social circles. Maybe then she would’ve left you alone.”

“And, instead, you forgot that Pacifica’s parents were rich enough to correct your work,” you chuckle.

Mace sighs, “thus, your birthday surprise of Pacifica not being on the honor roll was thwarted.” He shakes his head as he smiles, “but I promise, this will actually be a good surprise.”

You’re both on the couch, watching reruns of Mythbusters, when Mace lets you know that the groceries have arrived. He encourages you to stay seated while he goes to the door, waiting for the knock. As he walks away you can’t help but think about smacking his ass, which has also “improved” since high school.

Mace heard the quiet knock and checked the peephole, confirming it was Curtis. He opened the door and started taking some of the bags. They walked them into the kitchen, Curtis confirming the door was closed and locked behind him. 

“This is all the food stuff that was on the list,” Curtis said. “Also got a bag of clothes for you.”

“Thanks,” Mace nodded. 

“Teach was the one to get the clothes,” Curtis admitted. “She’s got you at least a week’s worth of everything. Hope you don’t mind that she went through your clothes.”

“Nah, I trust her as much as I trust you,” Mace shook his head. “Thanks for agreeing to the personnel change for this.”

“Not much of a choice,” Curtis grumbled. “Between Teach and Rogers, I was clearly never gonna win. Good thing I already support you doing this.” Curtis patted Mace on the back. “You’ve got your regular jobs covered?”

“Yeah,” Mace nodded as he started putting away groceries. “Called in a favor or two, said it was a family emergency and they’d get paid the on-call level wages.” Curtis nods his approval. “Also,” Mace continued, “need to talk to someone about going to the courthouse with her.”

Curtis’s face snaps up at that, “you sure?”

“She’s requested it. Said it’ll help her keep calm. I’m inclined to believe her.”

“I’ll talk to the security team. See what they can do.” Curtis pauses a moment before asking, “you’re willing to do all of this for an old friend? Or is it the promise of bringing down Wilford & Gilliam?”

Mace considered. “A combination?”

“Have you thought about what’s going to happen after she testifies?”

“I haven’t let myself get that far,” Mace admitted.

“You’ll want to talk to her about her options,” Curtis confided. Mace nodded his agreement and they finished putting things away in silence before Curtis headed out.

You’d stayed on the couch, not wanting to interfere with their conversation and because you don’t want to ruin Mace’s surprise. But you heard the man’s comments about “after she testifies” and your brain starts going into panic mode again. What options did you have if things went well? What if they went bad? You can’t expect to be kept safe here forever. Do you have anywhere else to go? How far would Willford & Gilliam go to silence you? To make you pay for your testimony? 

Mace turns from the door after making sure it’s locked and sees you gently rocking on the couch. He slowly approaches, quietly calling your name until you stop to look at him. He’s shocked by how scared you look. “DC, what’s going on?”

You can only whisper, “what do I do after I testify? They’ve already tried to kill me. Will they keep trying? Where can I go? What options do I have?” 

You start rocking again and Mace starts rubbing the back of your hand making gentle shush sounds, trying to soothe you. When that doesn’t work he pulls you to him and holds you, gently running his hand up and down your back. You appreciate the touch and find yourself leaning into it, putting  your head on his shoulder. 

When he senses you’ve calmed down he asks, “how about I get to work on that surprise?” You give him a small smile and nod. He goes into the kitchen and gets to work. You try to follow him but he tells you to go back to watching Mythbusters so you don’t ruin the surprise. Chuckling at his earnestness you comply and go sit on the couch. 

A while later the apartment is filled with sounds and smells of Mace’s cooking. You’re pretty sure he’s cooking up burgers. Your mind goes back to a school play, some really bad, cheap knock off of Grease. You and Mace needed the credits and ended up playing the tertiary couple at the sock hop. It was the closest either of you had ever gotten to a date and you remember hoping it would have led to a real one. 

Mace calls out from the kitchen, “would you be willing to move to the table?”

“Of course,” you chirp as you get up to move. 

He starts bringing food over as you sit down. Sure enough, there’s cheeseburgers, and a giant pile of freshly baked french fries. You smile and he runs back to the kitchen and brings out a couple of chocolate malts. He sets yours down in front of you and looks at you, expectantly. 

Your smile grows, “this looks amazing.”

“And feel free to eat up all of the fries. I know they’re your favorite.”

“I’m not gonna eat all of them,” you argue. Mace raises an eyebrow and you chuckle. “Seriously, I’m not eating all of them. Just, maybe, 80% or so.” He laughs at your response and you both dig into the food. His cooking really is great. 

“I was thinking of that sock-hop knock off play from high school,” Mace says between bites. “It was a dumb play, but we had a lot of fun.”

“Yeah, that poodle skirt was something else,” you chuckle. “So glad I never had to wear it again.”

“It looked really cute on you.”

“Yeah, but it was so heavy and under those stage lights I got so hot so fast.”

“Fair. At least neither of us had to wear those leather jackets.”

“Mmm! Yes! I remember Donny almost got heat stroke or something!”

“I also really enjoyed, just…” Mace stops. You tilt your head, questioning. He sighs, “it’s nothing. How’s the food?”

“Oh no you don’t,” you correct him. “I’ve been telling you all of my feelings. You don’t get to hold back yours. That was never our friendship.”

“It was, actually,” he says quietly. 

“How do you mean? We told each other everything.”

Mace takes a deep sigh, “no. I didn’t tell you everything. Couldn’t tell you everything, because I was a dumb kid.”

“You can tell me now. We’re definitely not teenagers anymore.”

“I wanted to ask you out. On a real date,” he confesses. “That play was the closest I knew I’d ever get to the real thing. That’s why it’s burned into my brain. None of my lines, none of the other characters, just you and me, on a date.”

“Why didn’t you ever say anything?”

“Like I said, I was a dumb kid,” he gulps. “Knew you’d be on your way to bigger and better things. Knew you’d be able to do so much better than me. High school was a pain in the ass for my self-confidence, too. As much as I thought I could be good for you, I knew you’d be able to find someone better than me. That you shouldn’t be tied to me for no other reason than we were high school sweethearts.”

“Meanwhile I was just waiting for you to make a move,” you sigh. “I’m so sorry.”

He furrows his brow, “why are you apologizing?”

“If I’d felt more confident, maybe I could’ve asked you out instead. Then we wouldn’t have gotten separated and out of touch. And I probably wouldn’t be hiding for my life.”

“It’s not your fault. It takes two people to stop talking to each other. I could’ve tried harder.”

“Well, at least we get another chance,” you smile. “If you’re willing, that is.”

“I definitely don’t want to waste this chance,” he confesses. 

You get up from your seat and sit yourself on his lap, putting your arms around his neck. “Just friends, or more?”

Mace gulps, his eyes darkening, “more, please.”

You kiss him with more passion and want than you’ve ever kissed anyone before, enjoying the electricity at his touch as he returns the kiss. 

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And many thanks to @krirebr for the inspiration for the surprise!

[eesirachs]

hey im crazy interested in theology but my environment has never rlly fostered it and ive really only gotten as far as the book of revelation. do you have like an extensive list of stuff you've learned about/read/are interested in?? like the real historical deep dives? i know the basics but i want to really learn the details and the fringe stuff but i don't even know what im looking for. just like. anything to do w theology especially catholic. if you have the time though of course so np if not!! thank you either way:))

i am happy to make a list! below i've condensed an mdiv and half a doctorate in theology. if you need any particular recs, any pdfs, or any syllabi on a subject, dont hesitate to pm me. ofc some of these broad categories overlap. i've tried to keep this to books and not articles because that would overwhelm me

tanakh

coogan & chapman historical & literary intro to the hb; trible god & the rhetoric of sexuality; christine hayes' yale divinity school lecture series; bellis & kaminsky jews, christians, and the theology of hebrew scripture; near eastern archeology (journal); ex audito (journal); robert alter (translations); walter brueggeman; anchor bible series; john barton critical companion to hb

early christianity

(primary sources): gnostic texts; irenaeus; ignatius of antioch; eusebius; ambrose; jerome; augustine; nestorius; cyril of alexandria; capadocian fathers; dionysius; bede; meister eckhart; aquinas (secondary sources): norris christological controversy

martyrs & mystics

(primary sources): perpetua & felicity; blandina, queen pulcheria (read of her from nestorius); julian of norwich, hildegard von bingen; macrina; quintilla & priscilla (montanists writ large); theresa of avila (secondary sources): mandelker & powers pilgrim souls; beverly lanzetta womens body as mystical text; patricia donahue-white reading divine maternity; estelle jelinek tradition of women's autobiography; bernard ginn the varieties of vernacular mysticism; anne jensen god's self-confident daughters; peterson handamiden's of the lord; peter brown the body & society; epstein & schraub body guards: the cultural politics of gender ambiguity; gilliam clark the female man of god; herbert musirello the acts of christian martyrs; taylor petrey resurrecting parts; many will also recommend caroline bynam holy feast & holy fast and rudolph bell holy anorexia--i do not recommend these but they may be essential context

feminist, womanist theologies; asian theologies, mujerista theologies, disability theology, ecotheology

(keep in mind that some of these are first and second wave feminsim and do not reflect theological standards of inclusivity) rosemary ruether sexism and god talk; elizabeth johnson she who is; delores williams sisters in the wilderness; monica coleman making a way of out no way; m. shawn copeland enfleshing freedom; melanie harris ecowomanism; mary daly beyond god the father; jacquelyn grant white women's christ and black women's jesus; elizabeth johnson women, earth, creator spirit; katie canon katie's canon; marit trelstad cross examninations; monica coleman ain't i a womanist too?; virginia fabella & sun ai lee park we dare to dream; ada maria isasi-diaz en la lucha, daphne hampson on autonomy and heteronomy; kwok pui lan introducing asian feminist theology; elizabeth schussler-fiorenza in memory of her; phyllis trible texts of terror; eboni marshall turnman towards a womanist ethic of incarnation; lai ling elizabeth ngan ways of being, ways of reading; kelly brown douglass the black christ; chung myun kyung struggle to be the sun again; carol christ rebirth of the goddess; sallie mcfague models of god; mayra rivera decolonizing epistemologies; crscy john we dare to dream; karen baker-fletcher sisters of dust, sisters of spirit; sharon v betcher spirit and the politics of disablement; darby kathleen ray deceiving the devil; rita nakashima brock & rebecca parker proverbs of ashes: violence, redemptive suffering, and the search for what saves us; readings in ecology and feminist theology; elizabeth johnson ask the beasts; kwon pui-lan postcolonial imagination & feminist theology; kelly brown douglas sexuality & the black church; marcella althaus reid indecent theology; monica r. miller in ain't i a womanist too?; the oxford handbook of theology, sexuality, and gender; isasi-diaz in our own voices: latino/a renditions of theology

critical theory and carnal hermeneutics

richard kearney carnal hermeneutics; emmanuel falque the metamorphosis of finitude; jean-luc marion god without being; elaine scary the body in pain: the making and unmaking of the world; bataille eroticism: death and sensuality; thomas lacquer making sex; jean-luc nancy on being; emmanuel falque the wedding feast of the lamb; noel carrol the philosophy of horror; monster theory; jean-luc nancy corpus; lacan's fifth seminar; jean-luc nancy being with the without

horror

the medusa reader; richard kearney stranger's gods and monsters; gerard loughlin alien sex; barbara creed the monstrous feminine; daniel stephen hey the malady lingers on; julia kristeva powers of horror; yi fu tuan landscapes of fear; jacques derrida the animal that i am; elizabeth klaver images of the corpse; foucault the abormal; rene girard violence and the sacred; adams christ and horrors; kristeva stabat mater; philip johnston shades of sheol

queer theory

pak su yon coming home/coming out; gloria anzaldua speaking in tongues; tina beattie queen of heaven; dale b martin sex and the single savior; joseph marchal bodies on the verge: queering pauline epistles; rhiannon graybill are we not men? unstable masculinity in the hebrew bible; queer theology: rethinking the western body

appetites

t&t clark handbook to early christian meals in the greco-roman world; peter-ben smit fellowship & food in the kingdom; pitre brant jesus & the last supper; mary douglas food & the social order; mary douglas deciphering a meal; panayotis coutsoumpos, paul and the lords supper; reta halteman finger of widows & meals; hal taussig in the beginning was the meal; david grummet material eucharist

aesthetics & art

bal mieke contemporary art, preposterous history; jo cherylo exum between the text and the canvas: the bible and art in dialogue; richard taylor how to read a church; david gordon finding beauty where god finds beauty: a biblical foundation of aesthetics; rosalind hackett art & religion in africa; steven pinker on mentalese; thames & hudson the reenchanment of art; elizabeth grosz chaos, territory, art: deleuze and the framing of the world; griselda pollack psychoanalysis and the image; john berger ways of seeing; james elkins the object stares back; james elkins pictures & tears; helene cixous stigmata; gaston bachelard the poetics of space; james elkins on the strange place of religion in art; theodore adorno aesthetic theory; gilles deleuze pure immanence; david morgan the sacred gaze

sacraments

(primary sources): hans boersma heavenly participation; calvin institutes; hubmaier balthasar; luther; edward schillebeeckx christ the sacrament of the encounter of god; alenxander schmeman; tertullian de baptismo; aquinas summa contra gentiles; zwingli (secondary sources): gustaf aulen eucharist & sacrafice; r swanson unity & diversity in the church; john behr the trinitarian being of the church; paul f bradshaw (prolific in this subject); yngve brillioth eucharistic faith & practice; clifford dugmore the mass & english reformers; gayle felton this gift of water; j fisher christian initiation; edward kilmartin the active role of christ and the holy spirit in the sanctification; jack lewis baptismal practices of 2nd and 3rd century church; andrew mcgowan is there a liturgical text in this gospel?; john mckenna eucharistic presence; frank meige sacramental semiosis; kyle pasewark the body in ecstasy; h. m. riley christian initiation; herman sasse this is my body; e. j. yarnouth anaphoras without institution narratives; kimberly belcher hope efficacious engagement; brightman the english rite

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NUVO DALLAS RESULTS 22/23

NUBIE SOLOS:

1st Madison Wadsworth - PRODIGY

MINI SOLOS:

1st Anita Rodriguez - STARS DJP!

2nd Brooklyn Ward - CSPAS DJP!

3rd AvaLeigh Mackaron - NEXT STEP DJP!

3rd Stella Brinkerhoff - CSPAS DJP!

4th Allyn Green - SOUTH TULSA

4th Elliot Mclean - BOBBIE’S

5th Emma Mugati - NEXT STEP

5th Gabrielle Agoma - MOTIV8ION

5th Arianna Claxton - THE POINTE

5th Tabitha Nan - CSPAS

6th Ariella Scott - BEYOND BELIEF

6th Naomi Harper - CSPAS

6th Olivia Yang - BOBBIE’S

6th Chloe Schomas - BOBBIE’S

7th Kennedy Biddle - DIPAC

7th Willa Salter - BOBBIE’S

7th Kadyn Comer - PRODIGY

7th Blake Barton - THE MOVEMENT

7th Leighton White - SOUTH TULSA

7th Vivienne Abshire - THE MOVEMENT

8th Charley Gladney - NEXT STEP

8th ?? - BOBBIE’S

9th Ellison Burbank - NEXT STEP

9th Aria Surrec - BOBBIE’S

9th Emory Gilliam - CSPAS

10th Navy Wittgren - HEART OF AMERICA

MINI DUO/TRIOS:

1st Barbapappa’s Groove - NEXT STEP DJP!

2nd 100 More I Love Yous - BOBBIE’S

3rd To Pluck A Heart String - BOBBIE’S

[zebraabraham]

i’ll show you the life of the mind!

neglected / deteriorating interiors in american films about neglected / deteriorating humans between 1990 and 1999

[theinternetmoviedataband]

My 100 best movies of all time

As a start, this is a top 100 I made back in 2018.

To make things tasty, the first rule I followed was "no more than one movie per director". The second one was "don't get mad trying to order that top 100, just write it down".

I told myself a lot of lies about the fact that this top could change any day but I'm too lazy to make a new one every day. So here I am, stuck with this one :)

BEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME ACCORDING TO ME (with no particular order)

Kiss Me Deadly (1955, Robert Aldrich)

The Professionals (1966, Richard Brooks)

Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (1970, Elio Petri)

Queimada (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo)

C'eravamo tanto amati (1974, Ettore Scola)

Reservoir dogs (1992, Quentin Tarantino)

The Killing (1956, Stanley Kubrick)

Notorious (1946, Alfred Hitchcock)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950, John Huston)

Les enfants du paradis (1946, Marcel Carné)

Kiss Me Stupid (1964, Billy Wilder)

Sullivan's Travels (1941, Preston Sturges)

The Shop Around The Corner (1940, Ernst Lubitsch)

Rio Bravo (1959, Howard Hawks)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, John Ford)

The Conversation (1974, Francis Ford Coppola)

Le trou (1960, Jacques Becker)

Dead Poets Society (1989, Peter Weir)

Le salaire de la peur (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)

Judex (1963, Georges Franju)

The Departed (2006, Martin Scorsese)

The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)

Unbreakable (M. Night Shyamalan)

Le cercle rouge (1970, Jean-Pierre Melville)

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (1966, Sergio Leone)

Curse of the Demon (1957, Jacques Tourneur)

Singin' In The Rain (1952, Stanley Donnen - Gene Kelly)

Hero (1992, Stephen Frears)

It's a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)

All About Eve (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

Das indische Grabmal (1959, Fritz Lang)

Le voleur (1967, Louis Malle)

Born Yesterday (1950, George Cukor)

Ben-Hur (1959, William Wyler)

Seven Samurai (1954, Akira Kurosawa)

Ginger e Fred (1986, Federico Fellini)

Small Time Crooks (2000, Woody Allen)

Barton Fink (1991, Joel and Ethan Coen)

Batman returns (1992, Tim Burton)

I due superpiedi quasi piatti (1977, Enzo Barboni)

The Goonies (1985, Richard Donner)

Carlito's Way (1993, Brian De Palma)

French Connection (1971, William Friedkin)

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957, Jack Arnold)

Gremlins 2 (1990, Joe Dante)

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952, Vincente Minnelli)

Warlock (1959, Edward Dmytryk)

The Unknown (1927, Tod Browning)

Johnny Got His Gun (1971, Dalton Trumbo)

El ángel exterminador (1962, Luis Buñuel)

Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (1972, Yves Robert)

Down by Law (1986, Jim Jarmusch)

Jurassic Park (1993, Steven Spielberg)

Ladri di biciclette (1948, Vittorio De Sica)

Man without a Star (1955, King Vidor)

Peter Ibbetson (1935, Henry Hathaway)

City Lights (1931, Charlie Chaplin)

Il mio nome è Nessuno (1973, Tonino Valerii)

Excalibur (1981, John Boorman)

Dance of the Vampires (1967, Roman Polanski)

Au hasard Balthazar (1966, Robert Bresson)

Be Kind Rewind (2008, Michel Gondry)

The Fly (1986, David Cronenberg)

Mononoke hime (1997, Hayao Miyazaki)

Les Douze Travaux d'Asterix (1976, René Goscinny - Albert Uderzo)

Touch Of Evil (1958, Orson Welles)

Star Wars (1977, George Lucas)

The Empire Strikes Back (1980, Irvin Kershner)

Groundhog Day (1993, Harold Ramis)

The Front (1976, Martin Ritt)

Big (1988, Penny Marshall)

El secreto de sus ojos (2009, Juan José Campanella)

Amores perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)

El espinazo del diablo (2001, Guillermo del Toro)

The Man in the White Suit (1951, Alexander Mackendrick)

Village of the Damned (1960, Wolf Rilla)

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

Ms. 45 (1981, Abel Ferrara)

The Gunfighter (1951, Henry King)

Copland (1997, James Mangold)

Terminator 2 (1991, James Cameron)

Starship Troopers (1997, Paul Verhoeven)

Le Schpountz (1938, Marcel Pagnol)

12 Monkeys (1995, Terry Gilliam)

Man on the Moon (1999, Milos Forman)

Imitation of Life (1959, Douglas Sirk)

The Most Dangerous Game (1932, Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel)

A Perfect World (1993, Clint Eastwood)

Dances with Wolves (1990, Kevin Costner)

Gentleman Jim (1942, Raoul Walsh)

Good Will Hunting (1997, Gus Van Sant)

Elephant Man (1980, David Lynch)

Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955, Otto Preminger)

The Killers (1946, Robert Siodmak)

Punch-Drunk Love (2002, Paul Thomas Anderson)

L'Atalante (1934, Jean Vigo)

La classe américaine (1993, Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mézerette)

Back to the Future (1985, Robert Zemeckis)

Un singe en hiver (1962, Henri Verneuil)

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Ian Holm, the versatile actor who played everything from androids to hobbits via Harold Pinter and King Lear, has died in London aged 88, his agent confirmed to the Guardian.

“It is with great sadness that the actor Sir Ian Holm CBE passed away this morning at the age of 88,” they said. “He died peacefully in hospital, with his family and carer,” adding that his illness was Parkinson’s related. “Charming, kind and ferociously talented, we will miss him hugely.”

Holm’s final days were documented in a series of pastel portraits by his wife, Sophie de Stempel.

Holm, who won a Bafta and was nominated for an Oscar for his role as maverick athletics coach Sam Mussabini in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, may have looked destined for a career in colourful supporting roles on screen – especially after quitting the theatre in 1976 after a severe case of stage fright – but he found a new generation of admirers after being cast as Bilbo Baggins in the blockbusting Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Earlier this month, he expressed his sadness that he was unable to participate in a virtual reunion for the films, saying: “I am sorry to not see you in person, I miss you all and hope your adventures have taken you to many places, I am in lockdown in my hobbit home, or holm.”

Holm was born in 1931 in Essex, where his father was superintendent of the West Ham Corporation psychiatric hospital; he later described his childhood there as “a pretty idyllic existence”. Falling in love with acting at an early age, he went from Rada in London to the Shakespeare Memorial theatre in Stratford, staying on to become part of the Royal Shakespeare Company on its foundation in 1960.

Holm became a leading figure at the RSC, winning an Evening Standard best actor award for Henry V in 1965, part of the seminal Wars of the Roses cycle put together by Peter Hall and John Barton. He also earned plaudits for his work with Pinter, playing Lenny in the premiere production of The Homecoming (which won him a Tony award after its transfer to Broadway) and then in the 1973 film version, directed by Hall. Not least of all from Pinter himself, who is reported to have said of Holm: “He puts on my shoe, and it fits!”

Holm underwent severe stage fright, which he described as “a sort of breakdown” during a performance of The Iceman Cometh in 1976, which he described as “a scar on my memory that will never go away”. Having abandoned the theatre, Holm developed his screen-acting career, which had hitherto largely been confined to regular but sporadic parts in British films such as The Bofors Gun, Oh! What a Lovely War and Young Winston. Seen as a safe pair of hands, his casting as the android Ash in the Ridley Scott-directed Alien gave him hitherto undreamed-of international exposure. This role was followed up by his turn as Mussabini, the ostracised running coach of sprinter Harold Abrahams in Chariots of Fire.

After his best supporting actor nomination for Chariots of Fire in 1982 (which he lost to John Giegud for Arthur), Holm was now a bona fide acting grandee, though one whose eccentric-seeming, pugnacious qualities were best suited for memorable supporting parts. He played Napoleon in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandits, and hapless Mr Kurtzmann in the same director’s Brazil; other highlights included Lewis Carroll in the Dennis Potter-scripted Alice fantasy Dreamchild, Dr Willis in The Madness of King George, and Father Cornelius in Luc Besson’s sci-fi epic The Fifth Element. However, he did find a leading role in Atom Egoyan’s adaptation of Russell Banks’s The Sweet Hereafter, released in 1997, playing the smooth-talking lawyer who persuades grieving parents to launch a class-action suit after several children are killed in a bus crash.

Holm returned to Shakespeare in 1997, in the Richard Eyre-directed King Lear at the National Theatre in London, and was knighted a year later for “services to drama”. Having played Frodo Baggins in a 1981 radio adaptation of Lord of the Rings, Holm was cast as Bilbo in Peter Jackson’s mammoth three-part screen adaptation, with filming on The Fellowship of the Ring beginning in 1999. Bilbo did not appear in The Two Towers, but Holm returned for the final part, The Return of the King, as well as the first and third instalments of the Hobbit trilogy, which were released in 2012 and 2014 respectively.

In between the two sets of Tolkien adaptations, Holm developed an unexpected reputation as a lothario, after the publication of his autobiography in 2004. Hailed by the Daily Mail as “Lord of the Flings”, he candidly chronicled his serial marriages and extramarital affairs. He is survived by his fourth wife, de Stempel, and five children from previous relationships, as well as his third wife, the actor Penelope Wilton.

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Ghosted Films: A Director’s Nightmare.

To mark a conversation with Peter Medak about his new documentary The Ghost of Peter Sellers, which details a particularly tumultuous early 1970s film shoot, Dominic Corry looks at how the inherently nightmarish pursuit that is filmmaking has informed other movies.

“Every frame you set up references yourself and your entire life, so bits and pieces indirectly of your life go into every movie.” —Peter Medak

On a certain level, filmmaking is an essentially traumatic experience. The extreme number of moving parts, umpteen tiers of variables—both creative and practical—and the cacophony of egos involved all amount to what in the best-case scenario could generously be considered organized chaos.

And for the most part, it all falls on the director’s shoulders. Although the long-prevailing auteur theory is regularly and healthily challenged these days, our default perception tends to be that whatever happens, good or bad, it’s the director’s fault. Some directors process their filmmaking nightmares by writing a review of the film on Letterboxd. But in the case of journeyman filmmaker Peter Medak (The Changeling, The Krays, Romeo Is Bleeding), he chose to process his filmmaking trauma by… making a film about it.

The Ghost of Peter Sellers revisits the making of the 1974 Peter Sellers-starring pirate comedy Ghost in the Noonday Sun, an infamous folly of a film that has long haunted Medak. It’s also one of those rare films on Letterboxd: at the time of writing it has just two reviews, and only 26 members in a community of two million have noted seeing it. Giving it one and a half stars, EWMasters writes: “Pretty awful. I mean talk about throwing it on the stoop and seeing if the cat’ll lick it up. There is one very good sequence where the crew goes to town on this big plate of fish and vegetables that’s really well done—but otherwise, this is really only worth the time of a Sellers completist”. (Perhaps the main character’s name—Dick Scratcher—should have sounded alarm bells.)

Medak is not the first filmmaker to spin non-fictional gold out of a director’s nightmare (in this case, his own). His movie follows in the footsteps of legendary documentaries such as Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper’s 1991 film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, which revealed the full extent of the already infamous insanity that comprised the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 classic Apocalypse Now, and used extensive footage shot at the time by Coppola’s filmmaker wife Eleanor (filmmaker spouses are handy to have along for the ride, as Nicolas Winding Refn also knows). And there’s Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe’s 2002 work Lost in La Mancha, which detailed Terry Gilliam’s (ironically?) Sisyphean efforts to film an adaptation of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

In both instances, the films in question were (eventually) made—and released to some acclaim (one considerably more than the other)—but as The Ghost of Peter Sellers shows, the shooting of Ghost in the Noonday Sun was such an epic boondoggle that the unfinished film sat unreleased for years and was much later released to no acclaim whatsoever.

The uphill battle to make his never-released horror movie Northwestern made indie filmmaker Mark Borshadt an unlikely filmmaking hero thanks to the breakout success of Chris Smith’s 1999 documentary American Movie. Like with Ghost in the Noonday Sun, the efforts to make a film proved more interesting than the film being made.

Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kevin Bacon in ‘The Big Picture’ (1989).

There are several narrative films of note that have successfully captured the specific pandemonium of filmmaking. Richard Rush’s 1980 cult classic The Stunt Man follows a fugitive who stumbles his way into the titular job on a big chaotic Hollywood production (Peter O’Toole plays the Machiavellian director), while Christopher Guest’s under-appreciated 1989 comedy The Big Picture stars Kevin Bacon as a hot young director who is roughed up by the Hollywood machine. It’s a notable and often overlooked antecedent to The Player, and like the Robert Altman classic, is more about ‘the business’ overall than the specifics of filmmaking, although in both cases Hollywood proves itself analogically appropriate.

Playwright, writer and director David Mamet’s own filmmaking experiences obviously inform his 2000 comedy State and Main, in which a Hollywood production takes over and smothers a small town with its singular thinking. It’s not hard to imagine Mamet processing his own filmmaking trauma in State and Main, just as the Coen brothers famously did in Barton Fink, their ode to writer’s block supposedly inspired by the difficulty they had penning the screenplay for Miller’s Crossing.

Charlie Kaufman channeled his own creative struggles into the screenplay for the 2002 masterpiece Adaptation, then built on those themes with his wildly ambitious 2008 directorial debut Synecdoche, New York, whose more maddening aspects arguably capture the irrational nightmare that is filmmaking better than any film directly ‘about’ filmmaking.

With her 2018 documentary Shirkers, writer Sandi Tan gained some measure of closure regarding an indie film she had starred in and written in her home country of Singapore, in 1992. The documentary (which shares its name with the original movie) has her revisiting the footage from the never-released film, which was stolen (!) 25 years previously by its director—and Tan’s filmmaking mentor—George Cardona.

Back to Peter Medak. In The Ghost of Peter Sellers, which premiered at Telluride Film Festival in 2018 and has just had its virtual screening release, we learn that Hungarian-born Medak was a rising directing star in the early 1970s in London, hot off the Oscar-nominated Peter O’Toole film The Ruling Class. Unable to resist an offer to work with Peter Sellers, then comedy’s reigning superstar—mostly thanks to Blake Edwards’ Pink Panther films—Medak set about shooting a treasure-hunting pirate film on the island nation of Cyprus in the Mediterranean.

In addition to the usual production problems associated with shooting on boats, Medak had to contend with the titanically and infamously fickle Sellers, who quickly turned on him and attempted to get him fired. Sellers also antagonized the other actors, then, after failing to get the production shut down, brought in his friend and longtime creative collaborator Spike Milligan to try and salvage the film, but things kept going wrong, leaving Ghost in the Noonday Sun unfinished and Medak with the blame for the production’s troubles.

Director Peter Medak with Peter Sellers (as Dick Scratcher) and Spike Milligan (as Bill Bombay) on the set of ‘Ghost in the Noonday Sun’, finally released in 1984.

Although Medak’s career recovered, he has clearly been carrying around a lot of hurt associated with the experience, and it’s remarkable watching him work through that on screen by revisiting Cyprus, telling the story of the shoot, and talking to some of the people involved. Sellers (who died in 1980) looms large over the film, but it also has interesting content surrounding the great Spike Milligan, who died in 2002.

Why did you decide to revisit this experience with a documentary? Peter Medak: Because it’s been haunting me for all these years. Because it should’ve been a really very successful film and I was blamed for everything going wrong, when in fact it had nothing to do with me. It was due to Peter’s changing mind and state of mind, and all kinds of things had physically gone wrong on the film. It was always easiest to blame the director for everything and my career at the time was very high up after [The] Ruling Class and this should’ve been the icing on the cake and it wasn’t.

It really bothered me for many years afterwards, even though I went on working. I was asked to do it by the producer of the documentary and I originally said “It’s the last thing I want to do”, because it would mean I would have to go back to Cyprus where I shot the original movie and go on the water, and I never want anything to do with water anymore because a lot of the disasters on the film, production-wise, were all connected with shooting at sea, which is totally impossible to do. Then I thought: well, you know, I should just do it and try to explain what happened on the film. And because some of the explanations were funnier scenes than the original film. So that’s why I did it.

Peter Medak fishing for answers in ‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’.

In the documentary, you talk about needing to free yourself from the experience by making this film. Do you feel like you achieved that? Well, I think I did because I had a wonderful time doing it. A very sad time at the same time because when you go back to places where you shot 45 years before, it creates a very strange kind of illusion inside your mind, your heart and everything of the time. And having been there then and then being there again, it’s a very strange kind of a supernatural feeling in a way. It felt like you have died and your ghost is actually revisiting all these things you know. I called it The Ghost of Peter Sellers because it sounds good and also because the original film was called Ghost in the Noonday Sun, and this ghostly feeling of mine of revisiting that island after all these years, it’s a very, very strange feeling and somehow the film captures that emotionally.

Do you feel like the large distance from the shoot was necessary to be able to revisit it? It’s not that I thought about it every day of my life, but I talked about it to all the people who I worked with in my following career. When I was doing Romeo Is Bleeding with Gary Oldman, my darling Gary said to me one day, “You know, we are crazy, what we should do is make a movie about your movie, but I don’t want to play Peter Sellers, I want to play you, with your Hungarian, broken-English accent.” We had a script written but we never did it. That was a good 25 years ago.

Peter Medak in front of a promotional poster for ‘Zorro, The Gay Blade’, his 1981 film starring George Hamilton and Lauren Hutton.

So you had considered doing a scripted version of it? Yeah, but I don’t know quite what we would’ve done. I said to Gary at the time: “I never want to go on a boat again”, and so I thought in my mind that the scenes would start each day [with] the characters getting off the pirate ship and they come ashore—that’s where the scenes would begin. I’m sure we would’ve done something quite wonderful, and it would’ve maybe explained the things the [documentary is] trying to explain because I guess that’s what has unconsciously driven me. Because [for the documentary], we didn’t write one word of it, I just completely did it out of instinct. Where I want to shoot, what I want to shoot, and how we should go from here to there. I loved it, so going back on to it was quite easy. It did show me actually what a wonderful medium it is, documentary, because you can do anything with it. It’s a much freer form than scripted movies. Which is rigid. And this is liquid.

Did you have any other documentaries about filmmaking in mind when you went into this? Not really. I knew Terry Gilliam’s Lost in La Mancha, because I love Terry and I love his films and we know each other and knew each other. Terry was very fortunate, because he had so much trouble before on Baron Munchausen, that he decided to have a documentary film crew filming the whole process, so he had the material available, which allowed him to make his film. I said to him after [a screening], “You were lucky because you didn’t make the movie. I had to suffer through 90-something days of shooting with Peter [Sellers].” But of course since then, Terry made the film, and he made something slightly different than what he was originally gonna do.

Peter Medak retraces his steps in ‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’.

Did any of your subsequent films feel nearly as difficult? Most movies are very difficult to make, and always when you anticipate problems, they never seem to happen. When I did The Changeling, everybody said “George C. Scott is very, very difficult to work with” and he was an absolute angel with me and [it was] the easiest thing to do. It was a wonderful ghost story. I’m very proud of that film. It will live forever. All movies are like your kids, your own children, because you put so much emotion, so much of your soul. That’s what I’m saying to [Ghost in the Noonday Sun executive producer] John Heyman [in The Ghost of Peter Sellers]: the director’s viewpoint is completely different from the producer’s because every frame you set up references yourself and your entire life, so bits and pieces indirectly of your life go into every movie. Because of that it becomes an incredibly personal journey when you put your absolute soul on the line. When it gets criticized or not accepted or whatever, one takes it very personally because the whole thing came from a very personal experience, even though the subject may be nothing to do with you.

Peter Sellers on the set of ‘Ghost in the Noonday Sun’.

Even within the canon of famously difficult performers, Peter Sellers is notorious. How would you describe him to a modern audience? Well he was a genius, there’s no question about it. But he was a manic-depressive person. And it’s a generalization, but most of the great comics are manic-depressive. And he changes his mind all the time. One minute, he loves you, next minute, he hates you. One minute he loves the subject, next minute he doesn’t wanna do it, he wants to get out and all that. So it is very up and down. When you’re running film with a crew of 150 people, and boats on the sea, and weather’s changing and everything, you can’t have that, because you fall behind the schedule and things go wrong.

At one point very early on, all he wanted to do was get off the movie. And then he did everything he [could] to sabotage the film so the film would close down and he wouldn’t have to finish it. But it didn’t just happen on my film, it happened with all his biggest successes, including the Pink Panther movies. Because if you look into Blake Edwards, each one was an absolute nightmare for the director and for the film company, United Artists. And I was gonna include that in the documentary but it had nothing to do with the Ghost in the Noonday Sun so I didn’t. I actually shot some scenes with one of the executives from United Artists at that time who had to deal with the insanity of Peter and also Blake Edwards. I say ‘insanity’; I didn’t want to say it too much in the documentary because I love Peter, even today. And it’s wrong for me to accuse him of those things because it sounds like I’m excusing myself. Peter was crazy. There’s no other way one can describe it. Touched by God. And so was Spike Milligan. But Spike had the love of goodness. Peter had kind of a nasty streak on him when he turned on people.

There’s a moment in the documentary where you suggest that Spike Milligan is more influential than he gets credit for. Do you think he’s under-appreciated? Totally. Totally. Totally. Because his talent was absolutely, monumentally genius. I always say this, but Spike basically created Peter Sellers through [legendary BBC radio programme] The Goon Show. And he also gave him all those various characters and developed those voices for him. It’s all in The Goon Show. The Monty Pythons, they were inspired by The Goon Show and they made it into television. Not story wise, but style wise. That kind of zany, insane humor. Spike was a total genius. Not that Peter wasn’t, but they stood together, completely overwhelmingly wonderfully insane. But Spike was quite something. He was incredibly human, he was incredibly gentle. And incredibly kind. Peter was incredibly combative. And he had that most incredible ego.

But all our lives come from our backgrounds and what our past was and where we come from, and Peter had a very sad upbringing and a very sad life and he was tremendously influenced by his mother. When his mother passed away, he kept on talking to her for ten years. When he came to Cyprus to make the movie, he arrived with big blow-up [photos] of Liza Minnelli—who he’d just broken up with a week before—and his mum. And it sounds terrible when one says it, but psychologically, some of the answers are there. But at the same time, both Peter and Spike, I can’t tell you what a gift it was… I mean the reason I did the film is: who could give up the chance of actually working with Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan? It doesn’t matter what the fucking script is, you know? It was a wonderful thing and I would do it all over again tomorrow.

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‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’ is screening in virtual theaters now. It will be available via video on demand services from June 23. A list of all the films mentioned in this article can be found here. Comments have been edited for clarity and length.

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On August 31st 1947 the first EIFF, Edinburgh International  Festival opened.

The Film Festival we know today actually originated in 1947 as a festival of the documentary form, describing itself as the "First International Festival of Documentary Films". 

The first films of the new festival were The Cumberland Story, The Seventh Age and The Festival of Youth, while Roberto Rossellini's Paisà, with its examination of the liberation of Italy during World War II, was screened at the festival's Closing Gala. The festival was opened by John Grierson, pioneering Scottish documentary maker and the first person to coin the term Documentary.

By the 50's the Festival had morphed into the entity we know today, chief amongst the filmmakers whose UK reputations the Festival helped establish was Ingmar Bergman, with premieres given over five consecutive Festivals between 1957 and 1961. 

Ealing Studios classic and excellent film, The Man in the White Suit opened the 1951 Festival, while another legend, Orson Welles, delivered a sold-out two hour lecture on the power of cinema at 1953's Festival.

Hollywood legend Gene Kelly was in attendance at the 1956 Festival for the premiere of Invitation to the Dance, saying "I have always been a confirmed believer in the "Film Festival" as an incentive to higher standards of creative work, and anyone who has been to Edinburgh will tell you that every visitor leaves with the resolve to do better things."

With Peter Fonda's passing away last week I think it is right to mention Easy Rider. The classic road movie was intended for very limited release over here and its studio, Columbia Pictures, were none-too-happy when they found out that the Edinburgh International Film Festival planned to screen it in the 3000 seat Playhouse.

However, when a huge queue of Hell's Angels who had roared over from Fife appeared outside the venue for the premiere attended by Fonda they had a bit of a rethink!

Over the years, EIFF has welcomed a huge number of guests, including John Huston, Jacques Tati, Jennifer Lawrence, Tilda Swinton, Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, David Cronenberg, Cate Blanchett, Clint Eastwood and Sir Sean Connery.

The Festival has hosted UK premieres of Blade Runner, Alien, Back to the Future, Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, Withnail & I, The Usual Suspects, Amelie, The Hurt Locker and many, many more.

More up to date we saw other major films screened at the Festival in the 1990s they included Barton Fink and Boyz in The Hood in 1991, Strictly Ballroom in 1992, The Piano in 1993, Shallow Grave in 1994 and Terry Gilliam's amazing adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in 1998.

Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist opened the 2010 Film Festival, thrilling Edinburgh cinephiles in particular with its wonderful animations depicting the Scottish capital, as seen in the screenshots in the other two pics. Appearances by Patrick Stewart in 2010 and Bill Nighy in 2011 were followed by premieres for more great animated work, with Brave in 2012 and Finding Dory in 2016.

Now on earlier in the year, in June, this years EIFF showcased 121 new features, including 18 feature film World Premieres, 12 International Premieres, 8 European Premieres and 78 UK Premieres from many countries across the globe reaching 70,000 Festival-goers including 15,000 attendees enjoying the Festival's weekend of outdoor screenings, as part of Film Fest in the City with Edinburgh Live. More than 500 filmmakers were in attendance this year to support their films with over 800 press and industry delegates and 270 youth delegates also present.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival may not be the most prestigious or the biggest in the world, and is also overshadowed by our Festival Fringe, but it does have the distinction of being the longest continually running film festival in the world.

[wernerbertzog]

Favorite Films Shot Collection (#85-#76)

#85: Swiss Army Man (2016, dir. Daniels)

#84: Ivan’s Childhood (1962, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)

#83: Die Hard (1988, dir. John McTierman)

#82: Samsara (2011, dir. Ron Fricke)

#81: Brazil (1985, dir. Terry Gilliam)

#80: Bad Lieutenant (1992, dir. Abel Ferrara) 

#79: Phantom Thread (2017, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

#78: The Salt Of The Earth (2014, dir. Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado)

#77: Barton Fink (1991, dir. Joel Coen)

#76: Inherent Vice (2014, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

[aiaantarctica]

("Arrival Of The South Pole Settlement", off the coast of Barton County, 1898)

This is the first photograph of the "South Pole Settlement" team, including Gilliam Barton (second from the left). Their arrival on the S.S. Santa Luna took a week longer than scheduled, due to stormy weather. On the right side of the photo, in the group of men the first variation of Antarctic flag is held, this piece is on display in the Gilliamsburg National Museum. --From the Gilliamsburg Antarctic National Archives

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Sparks Fly - Part 5

Summary: After working as an engineer for Wilford & Gilliam Trust for several years you find evidence of seedy dealings and burned books. After turning in the evidence you find yourself in danger and seek help. You're taken into the protection of a mob family where you run into your high school best friend, Mace.

Word Count: ~1300

Warnings: Courtroom stress. Implied violence and attempted murder. Please let me know if I missed any.

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The day of the testimony arrives way too quickly for you. You can barely eat anything that morning and only do so at Mace’s insistence. You’re already scared and don’t want the threat of vomiting making your nerves worse. 

He talks you through everything, emphasizing the security his people are gonna have looking out for you. “Barton’s gonna have an aerial view over the courthouse. GBH is gonna be in the crowds around the place, following any leads Barton gives him. And inside the courthouse is gonna be Nick.” He shows you a photo of Nick so you can search for him if you need to. “On top of that, Huffman’s taken care of the mole in his office and our intel guys have triple checked the rest of his team so the legitimate security force you have is going to protect you as well.”

You fight another wave of fear as you remember your first days in witness protection. The nonstop fear and seemingly never ending line of people wanting to kill you. Mace sees you tense and immediately pulls you in for a hug, gently kissing the top of your head, rubbing your arm.

“And after today,” you whisper, “do we know what’ll happen to me?”

“Teach managed to get you another week of being in this safehouse, pending emergency situations,” Mace tells you. “That way we can see if Wilford & Gilliam even have the resources to retaliate after everything.”

“They seem the type to spend their last penny on taking out someone who cost them so much.”

“Yeah, but at the same time, your testimony is going to do a lot of good for a lot of people hurt by their products, tactics and everything else,” Mace comforts. “I know it might not mean much to you, but you really are doing a lot of good with this. A major civil case, at the very least, is going to be able to use your testimony to give families some kind of retribution.” 

Mace had been talking with Barber, the Family’s lawyer, on a daily basis. He wanted to make sure that when he gave you information, comfort, it was backed up by someone who actually knew their stuff. Barber was quick to give Mace and Teach support for keeping you safe because of the good involved in taking down Wilford & Gilliam. There was a major class action lawsuit only able to go forward because of you. It affected several people in the Family’s territory which helped the push for more protection for you. 

You push yourself up, “I should probably get showered and dressed. Huffman’s gonna be here in an hour or so, right?”

“Right,” Mace confirmed. “And you know I wouldn’t let you leave with someone I didn’t trust to keep you safe.”

“Right,” you nod.

Mace is first to the courthouse. He’s not allowed on the text chain between either of your security teams but he is allowed to text if he sees something or someone questionable. He’s keeping an eye on the courthouse website’s calendar, making sure he knows if any changes happen. He’s nervous about the whole thing and grateful they don’t have good coffee or he’d be even more jittery. 

Once the proceedings begin, though, he calms down a bit. He’s in the back row of the right room at the right time. He takes a look around at the other people in the room, trying to memorize important identifiers in case identification is needed later. He’s practiced at making sure to not immediately look up when someone enters or leaves the room. He knows how to look like just another bored face. I’ve got this, he lets himself think. 

The room is far from empty, the giant conglomerate that is Wilford & Gilliam is on trial. The rows are occupied by victims and press alike. Because of that, he isn’t surprised when someone sits a little too close to him. What does surprise him is that he recognizes the signet ring on the person’s hand. Trying to not be obvious Mace looks as best he can from the corner of his eye but the guy is too tall. He needs a new angle. 

Thankfully that’s when you’re brought in, dressed in the business formal attire Teach had picked up for you. Your entry was the excuse he needed to look up and glance to his side, confirming his suspicions. Franco the Younger, hitman for Wilford & Gilliam. How the hell did he get past Barton and G? Mace wastes no time subtly pulling out his phone and texting a message to the team. 

He makes sure to keep looking forward, in case you need him, but his focus is on Franco, searching for any and all movement. The Franco’s were dedicated to their corporate overlords. All Mace knew was that they had no limits. They’d do whatever was needed to get their prey. They’re the ones that killed Curtis’s brother Edgar, eager to be rid of the competition for the favor of their CEO’s. The fact that Curtis could confirm some of the more heinous rumors about the brothers made Mace’s skin crawl.

His relief comes in the form of Nick taking the seat on the other side of Franco. Nick stretches his arms on the back of the pew, he’s able to pat Mace’s shoulder a little in an attempt to be comforting. 

Franco looks at Nick who whispers, just loud enough that Mace can make it out, “you know, me and my Lady have a party to go to in a few days that has me all kinds of worked up and stressed. I’d love to take that energy out on someone. What do you say, Franco? You wanna help me with that?”

Mace lets himself smile as he sees Franco’s hand clench into a fist. The Franco’s may have the stronger reputation for ruthlessness but Nick’s reputation for efficiency in causing pain is well nigh legendary. Franco wordlessly stands and walks outside of the courtroom. Nick follows a few minutes later, letting Mace focus on you. 

You’ve been doing an amazing job in your testimony. You’re hitting all the important notes, making sure your explanations aren’t overly technical while not being so dumbed down that holes can be poked in your words, allowing doubt to seep in. It took up so much of your brain power you didn’t have the energy to be scared or look around for Mace. You keep your attention on the questions only occasionally needing to fidget with something for your nerves. 

As much as you’d wanted to keep Mace nearby for the pre-trial prep you had to admit, Huffman was likely the better person for it. He talked you through all of the things that were going to happen, gave you some advice for how to handle yourself and speak to the jury at their level. You took all of his advice to heart and, given the looks you’ve seen from the lawyers and the families in the gallery, you’ve been doing well. 

The only thing that you couldn’t really prepare for was how much time was needed. It felt like you’d been answering questions for hours without a break. Maybe that was their tactic? Wear you down to make you less intelligible? Less trustworthy as a source? It was a major relief to you when the judge called for a recess. You’d get some food and some friendly company to help settle your nerves before round two. 

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Happy New Year, Here’s Every Movie I Watched In 2017!

Bold = First Viewing

Dracula (1958, dir. Terence Fisher) Hot Fuzz (2007, dir. Edgar Wright) Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986, dir. John Heyn & Jeff Krulik) Obvious Child (2014, dir. Gillian Robespierre) Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979, dir. Robert Wise) Barbarella (1968, dir. Roger Vadim) Kagemusha (1980, dir. Akira Kurosawa) The Last Samurai (2003, dir. Edward Zwick) Red Desert (1964, dir. Michelangelo Antonioni) 07/27/1978 (2017, dir. lasagnacat) The Mind’s Eye: A Computer Animation Odyssey (1990, dir. Jan Nickman) Godzilla Vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993, dir. Takao Okawara) Captain America: Civil War (2016, dir. Anthony & Joe Russo) The Secret Life of Pets (2016, dir. Chris Renaud & Yarrow Cheney) Godzilla Vs. Spacegodzilla (1994, dir. Kensho Yamashita) Zaat (1971, dir. Don Barton) Legend of the Drunken Master (1994, dir. Lau Kar-leung & Jackie Chan) Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (2016, dir. Jake Szymanski) Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster (1964, dir. Ishiro Honda) Ikiru (1952, dir. Akira Kurosawa) Get Out (2017, dir. Jordan Peele) A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, dir. Ana Lily Amirpour) Silent Running (1972, dir. Douglas Trumbull) Heavy Metal Picnic (2010, dir. Jeff Krulik) Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986, dir. John Heyn & Jeff Krulik) Deadpool (2016, dir. Tim Miller) Keanu (2016, dir. Peter Atencio) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, dir. Jim Sharman) Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah (1995, dir. Takao Okawara) Doctor Strange (2016, dir. Scott Derrickson) Independence Day (1996, dir. Roland Emmerich) Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954, dir. Jack Arnold) Star Trek Beyond (2016, dir. Justin Lin) The Heat (2013, dir. Paul Feig) The Exorcist (1973, dir. William Peter Blatty) Godzilla (1998, dir. Roland Emmerich) Day of the Dead (1985, dir. George Romero) Ashik Kerib (1988, dir. Sergei Parajanov) Eyes Without A Face (1959, dir. Georges Franju) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, dir. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones) Versus (2000, dir. Ryuhei Kitamura) Godzilla 2000 (1999, dir. Takao Okawara) Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965, dir. Ishiro Honda) Stenka Razin (1908, dir. Vladimir Romashkov) Queen of Spades (1910, dir. Pyotr Chardynin) Airplane! (1980, dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, & Jerry Zucker) Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982, dir. Nicholas Meyer) The Big Sick (2017, dir. Michael Showalter) Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus (2000, dir. Masaaki Tezuka) Steamboat Willie (1928, dir. Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks) Stalker (1979, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, dir. Robert Wiene) The Wizard of Oz (1939, dir. Victor Fleming, King Vidor, George Cukor, and Norman Taurog) Final Destination (2000, dir. James Wong) Final Destination 2 (2003, dir. David Ellis) Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998, dir. Tom Ellery & Bradley Raymond) Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Special Edition w/ Red Letter Media Commentary Track (1977, dir. George Lucas) Scream (1996, dir. Wes Craven) Hellraiser (1987, dir. Clive Barker) Logan (2017, dir. James Mangold) The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999, dir. Katt Shea) Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992, dir. Francis Ford Coppola) Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001, dir. Shusuke Kaneko) Popstar: Never Stop Stopping (2016, dir. Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone) Cube (1997, dir. Vincenzo Natali) Screwed (2000, dir. Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski) The Ascent (1977, dir. Larisa Shepitko) Landline (2017, dir. Gillian Robespierre) Get Smart (2008, dir. Peter Segal) Chemicals Like God (2017, dir. Matthew Roe & Kat Parker) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003, dir. Gore Verbinski) Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002, dir. Masaaki Tezuka) Lady Bird (2017, dir. Greta Gerwig) The Giant Claw (1957, dir. Fred F. Sears) The Stranger (1946, dir. Orson Welles) The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station (1896, dir. Auguste Lumière & Louis Lumière) Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies (1986, dir. Daisuke Nishio) Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace w/ Rifftrax Commentary Track (1999, dir. George Lucas) Primary (1960, dir. Robert Drew) Too Funny to Fail: The Life & Death of The Dana Carvey Show (2017, dir. Josh Greenbaum) 12 Dates of Christmas (2011, dir. James Hayman) Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015, dir. J.J. Abrams) Adventures on the New Frontier (1961, dir. Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker, & Kenneth Stilson) A Christmas Prince (2017, dir. Alex Zamm) Christmas Inheritance (2017, dir. Ernie Barbarash) La Chambre (1972, dir. Chantal Akerman) Hotel Monterey (1972, dir. Chantal Akerman) Pearls of the Deep (1966, dir. Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, & Jaromil Jireš) Catch Me If You Can (2002, dir. Steven Spielberg) News From Home (1976, dir. Chantal Akerman) Daisies (1966, dir. Věra Chytilová)

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10 Years of Later... 30 Great Live Performances Coletânea de apresentações do Later... with Jools Holland Mais informações: Discogs Usado

36 Golpes Mortais San shi liu mi xing quan (1977) Chi-Hwa Chen DVD de revista Usado

A Canção da Vitória Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Michael Curtiz Edição especial, DVD duplo, caixa amaray com luva Novo (lacrado)

A Grande Ilusão All the King's Men (1949) Robert Rossen Novo (lacrado)

A Lista de Schindler Schindler's List (1993) Steven Spielberg Edição limitada no. 0869 com DVD edição especial duplo, livro com imagens de David James, trilha sonora de John Williams, Senitype edição limitada (no. 199965) feita a partir de um fotograma do filme, luva, caixa grande Mais informações: Jotacê, YouTube Usado

A Marca da Maldade Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles Novo (lacrado)

A Marca do Dragão Jian Hua Yan Yu Jiang Nan (1977) Lo Wei Novo (lacrado)

A Mulher Faz o Homem Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) Frank Capra Usado

A Múmia The Mummy (1932) Karl Freund Novo (lacrado)

A Noiva de Frankenstein The Bride of Frankenstein (1935) James Whale Novo (lacrado)

A Nova Fúria do Dragão Xin Ching-wu Men (1976) Lo Wei Novo (lacrado)

A Paixão de Cristo The Passion of the Christ (2004) Mel Gibson Usado

A Ponte do Rio Kwai The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) David Lean Exclusiva edição limitada, DVD duplo, disco de extras, livreto com o texto original de 1957, com a história e curiosidades da produção Novo (lacrado)

A Queda! As Últimas Horas de Hitler Der Untergang (2004) Oliver Hirschbiegel Duplo, com luva Novo (lacrado)

A Sangue Frio In Cold Blood (1967) Richard Brooks Usado

A Sombra de uma Dúvida Shadow of a Doubt (1942) Alfred Hitchcock Usado

A Última Tentação de Cristo The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) Martin Scorsese Usado

A Viagem de Chihiro Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi (2001) Hayao Miyazaki Usado

AC/DC: Live at Donington AC/DC: Live at Donington (1992) DVD de revista Usado

Aconteceu Naquela Noite It Happened One Night (1934) Frank Capra Usado

Aerosmith: Big Ones You Can Look At Aerosmith: Big Ones You Can Look At (1994) DVD de revista Usado

Agora Seremos Felizes Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Vincente Minnelli Edição especial, DVD duplo, caixa amaray com luva Novo (lacrado)

Agora Seremos Felizes Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Vincente Minnelli Edição especial, DVD duplo, caixa amaray sem luva Novo (lacrado)

Ajuste Final Miller's Crossing (1990) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Edição especial Novo (lacrado)

Alta Fidelidade High Fidelity (2000) Stephen Frears Usado

Amnésia Memento (2000) Cristopher Nolan Usado

Anatomia de um Crime Anatomy of a Murder (1959) Otto Preminger Novo (lacrado)

Antes do Pôr-do-Sol Before Sunset (2004) Richard Linklater Usado

Kiss: Animalize Live Uncensored Kiss: Animalize Live Uncensored (1985) DVD de revista Mais informações: Wikipédia Usado

Apertem os Cintos, o Piloto Sumiu Airplane! (1980) Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker Usado

As Panteras Charlie's Angels (2000) McG Edição especial Usado

As Séries Olímpicas: Momentos Inesquecíveis 1920-2002 The Olympic Series: Golden Moments 1920-2002 (2003) Edição especial de colecionador, DVD triplo, luva Novo (lacrado)

Assassinos por Natureza Natural Born Killers (1994) Oliver Stone Novo (lacrado)

Bagdad Café Out of Rosenheim (1988) Percy Adlon Usado

Barton Fink: Delírios de Hollywood Barton Fink (1991) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Novo (lacrado)

Best of Bowie Best of Bowie (2002) DVD duplo Usado

Brazil Brazil (1985) Terry Gilliam Novo (lacrado)

Brilho Eterno de uma Mente sem Lembranças Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry Usado

Brilho Eterno de uma Mente sem Lembranças Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Michel Gondry Unidade de locadora (100% Vídeo) Usado

Cabo do Medo Cape Fear (1991) Martin Scorsese DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Cães de Aluguel Reservoir Dogs (1992) Quentin Tarantino Usado

Calígula Caligula (1979) Tinto Brass Edição especial de 20 anos, versão com cenas adicionais Novo (lacrado)

Casablanca Casablanca (1943) Michael Curtiz Edição especial deluxe com DVD edição especial duplo, lata de metal, luva, booklet folheto, 6 fotos 21x15 cm, pôster original de cinema em tecido 62x92 cm Mais informações: Jotacê, YouTube Usado

Celebridades Celebrity (1998) Woody Allen Novo (lacrado)

Chinatown Chinatown (1974) Roman Polanski Novo (lacrado)

O Super Dragão Chinês Ren zhe wu di (1982) Cheh Chang DVD de revista Novo (lacrado)

Clube da Luta Fight Club (1999) David Fincher Usado

Coleção Battlefield: Batalha de Okinawa Destination Okinawa (2002) Episódio da série Battlefield Novo (lacrado)

Coleção Battlefield: Operação Market Garden Operation Market Garden (2001) Episódio da série Battlefield Novo (lacrado)

Corra Lola, Corra Lola Rennt (1998) Tom Tykwer DVD com dois lados (lado A widescreen, lado B standard) Novo (lacrado)

Cowboy Bebop: O Filme Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) Shinichiro Watanabe Usado

David Bowie: Serious Moonlight David Bowie: Serious Moonlight (1984) Mais informações: Wikipédia Usado

Deep Purple Machine Head Live 1972 DVD de revista Usado

Depois Daquele Beijo Blowup (1966) Michelangelo Antonioni Novo (lacrado)

Do Mundo Nada Se Leva You Can't Take It with You (1938) Frank Capra Usado

A Doce Vida La Dolce Vita (1960) Federico Fellini Coleção Folha Cine Europeu (com livreto) Usado

Doutor Jivago Doctor Zhivago (1965) David Lean DVD duplo, com luva Usado

Down from the Mountain Down from the Mountain (2000) Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, D A Pennebaker A live performance by the artists & musicians of the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou? Usado

Dr. Fantástico Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) Stanley Kubrick Edição especial Usado

Duke Ellington: Memórias de Duke Memories of Duke (1980) Gary Keys Usado

E o Vento Levou Gone with the Wind (1939) Victor Fleming Edição de colecionador com luva, DVD quádruplo Usado

Eagles: Hell Freezes Over Eagles: Hell Freezes Over (1994) Beth McCarthy Usado

Ed Wood Ed Wood (1994) Tim Burton Novo (lacrado)

Elis & Tom Elis & Tom (1974) Edição especial de 2004 (CD + DVD, 5.1 DTS, Dolby, PCM, MLP Lossless, DVD-Video, DVD-Audio) Usado

Elvis Presley - O Retorno em 68 Elvis (1968) DVD simples de revista Mais informações: Wikipédia Usado

Encontros e Desencontros Lost in Translation (2004) Sofia Coppola Usado

Entre Dois Amores Out of Africa (1985) Sydney Pollack Edição de colecionador, DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Era uma Vez no Oeste Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Sergio Leone Edição especial para colecionadores, DVD duplo, sem luva Novo (lacrado)

Eric Clapton Live 1986 Show de 1986 com participação de Phil Collins Mais informações: Wikipédia Usado

Esquentando o Alasca Mystery, Alaska (1999) Jay Roach Novo (lacrado)

Falcão: Meninos do Tráfico Falcão: Meninos do Tráfico (2006) Mais informações: Wikipédia Novo (lacrado)

Fargo: Uma Comédia de Erros Fargo (1996) Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Edição especial Usado

Feitiço do Tempo Groundhog Day (1993) Harold Ramis Edição especial Usado

Festim Diabólico Rope (1948) Alfred Hitchcock Novo (lacrado)

Festival Express Festival Express (2003) Bob Smeaton Edição especial, DVD duplo Usado

Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo (1982) Werner Herzog Coleção Folha Cine Europeu (com livreto) Usado

Fogo contra Fogo Heat (1995) Michael Mann Edição especial, DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Fora de Rumo Derailed (2005) Mikael Håfström Usado

Forrest Gump: O Contador de Histórias Forrest Gump (1994) Robert Zemeckis Edição especial para colecionadores, DVD duplo Usado

Forrest Gump: O Contador de Histórias Forrest Gump (1994) Robert Zemeckis DVD simples Novo (lacrado)

Frankenstein Frankenstein (1931) James Whale Novo (lacrado)

Friends: Os Cinco Melhores Episódios - 1a. Temporada Novo (lacrado)

Garras do Dragão She Hao Ba Bu (1978) Chi-Hwa Chen Novo (lacrado)

Gigi Gigi (1958) Vincente Minnelli Novo (lacrado)

Gimme Shelter Gimme Shelter (1970) David Mayles, Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin DVD de revista Usado

Golpe de Mestre The Sting (1973) George Roy Hill Edição especial Novo (lacrado)

Guerreiros do Fogo Red Sonja (1985) Richard Fleischer Novo (lacrado)

Homem-Aranha Spider-Man (2002) Sam Raimi Com luva, DVD duplo Usado

Homem-Aranha 2 Spider-Man 2 (2004) Sam Raimi DVD duplo Usado

Imagine: John Lennon Imagine: John Lennon (1988) Andrew Solt Novo (lacrado)

Iris Iris (2001) Richard Eyre Usado

Janela Indiscreta Rear Window (1954) Alfred Hitchcock Novo (lacrado)

Jazz Jazz (2000) Ken Burns Edição especial, box com 4 discos, caixa amaray, luva, livreto de 36 páginas Usado

Jejum de Amor His Girl Friday (1940) Howard Hawks Novo (lacrado)

JFK: A Pergunta que Não Quer Calar JFK (1991) Oliver Stone DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Jobim, Vinicius & Toquinho com Miucha - I Concerti Live at RTSI 18 Ottobre 1978 Usado

Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes Joe Satriani: The Satch Tapes (1993) Carlos Grasso Usado

Jogos Patrióticos Patriot Games (1992) Phillip Noyce Edição especial Novo (lacrado)

Keppel Road: A Vida e a Música do Grupo Bee Gees Keppel Road: The Life and Music of the Bee Gees (1997) Tony Cash DVD de revista Usado

Koyaanisqatsi Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Godfrey Reggio Usado

K-Pax: O Caminho da Luz K-Pax (2001) Iain Softley Novo (lacrado)

Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin (2003) Jimmy Page, Dick Carruthers Com luva, DVD duplo Usado

Meeting People Is Easy Meeting People Is Easy (1998) Grant Gee Documentário sobre o Radiohead Usado

Mens@gem para Você You've Got Mail (1998) Nora Ephron Usado

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Metropolis Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang Edição especial restaurada Novo (lacrado)

Miami Vice Miami Vice (2006) Michael Mann Novo (lacrado)

Minha Bela Dama My Fair Lady (1964) George Cukor Edição especial, DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Mississippi em Chamas Mississippi Burning (1988) Alan Parker Novo (lacrado)

Monterey Jazz Festival: 40 Anos de História Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years (1998) William Harper Usado

Monty Python: A Vida de Brian Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) Terry Jones Usado

Monty Python: Em Busca do Cálice Sagrado Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones Usado

Monty Python: O Sentido da Vida Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983) Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam Edição especial, DVD duplo Usado

Morte em Veneza Morte a Venezia (1971) Luchino Visconti Usado

Mulheres e Chantagens High Heels and Low Lifes (2001) Mel Smith Novo (lacrado)

Nascido para Matar Full Metal Jacket (1987) Stanley Kubrick Novo (lacrado)

Nelson Freire Nelson Freire (2003) João Moreira Salles Edição de colecionador, DVD duplo, luva, disco com riscos Usado

Nuremberg: Nazistas no Banco dos Réus Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (2006) Documentário da BBC com três filmes Novo (lacrado)

O Barco: Inferno no Mar Das Boot (1981) Wolfgang Petersen Director's cut Novo (lacrado)

O Carteiro e o Poeta Il Postino (1994) Michael Radford Usado

O Drácula Dracula (1931) Tod Browning Usado

O Exterminador do Futuro The Terminator (1984) James Cameron Edição especial, DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

O Exterminador do Futuro 2: O Julgamento Final Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) James Cameron Edição especial, DVD duplo Usado

O Fantasma da Ópera Phantom of the Opera (1943) Arthur Lubin Novo (lacrado)

O Homem Elefante The Elephant Man (1980) David Lynch Acompanha revista DVD Video Cine Premiere (Editora Escala) Novo (lacrado)

O Homem que Copiava O Homem que Copiava (2003) Jorge Furtado Novo (lacrado)

O Homem que Matou o Facínora The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) John Ford Usado

O Lobisomem The Wolf Man (1941) George Waggner Novo (lacrado)

O Mágico de Oz The Wizard of Oz (1939) Victor Fleming Edição especial de colecionador com luva, DVD triplo Novo (lacrado)

O Médico e o Monstro Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931, 1941) Rouben Mamoulian (1931), Victor Fleming (1941) DVD com dois lados (lado A: versão de 1931, lado B: versão de 1941) Novo (lacrado)

O Mestre Invencível Jui Kuen (1978) Yuen Woo Ping Usado

O Monstro da Lagoa Negra Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) Jack Arnold Novo (lacrado)

O Nome da Rosa The Name of the Rose (1986) Jean-Jacques Annaud Novo (lacrado)

O Paraíso Infernal Only Angels Have Wings (1939) Howard Hawks Novo (lacrado)

O Pecado Mora ao Lado The Seven Year Itch (1955) Billy Wilder Usado

O Plano Perfeito Inside Man (2006) Spike Lee Usado

O Segredo do Abismo The Abyss (1989) James Cameron Edição especial, DVD duplo, versão estendida do filme Novo (lacrado)

O Show Deve Continuar All That Jazz (1979) Bob Fosse Novo (lacrado)

O Silêncio dos Inocentes The Silence of the Lambs (1990) Jonathan Demme Edição especial Novo (lacrado)

O Último Hurrah The Last Hurrah (1958) John Ford Novo (lacrado)

Onze Homens e Um Segredo Ocean's 11 (1960) Lewis Milestone Novo (lacrado)

Operação Dragão Enter the Dragon (1973) Robert Clouse Edição especial, DVD duplo Usado

Os Bons Companheiros Goodfellas (1990) Martin Scorsese Edição especial, DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Os Brutos Também Amam Shane (1952) George Stevens Novo (lacrado)

Os Eleitos The Right Stuff (1983) Philip Kaufman Edição especial, DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Os Imperdoáveis Unforgiven (1992) Clint Eastwood Edição especial, DVD duplo, caixa amaray com luva Novo (lacrado)

Os Incompreendidos Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959) François Truffaut Novo (lacrado)

Os Intocáveis The Untouchables (1987) Brian de Palma Edição especial Usado

Os Irmãos Cara de Pau The Blues Brothers (1980) John Landis Usado

Os Primeiros 50 Anos da 20th Century Fox 20th Century-Fox: The First 50 Years (1997) Novo (lacrado)

Os Reis do Iê Iê Iê A Hard Day's Night (1964) Richard Lester DVD duplo Usado

Os Rivais Tin Men (1987) Barry Levinson Novo (lacrado)

Os Simpsons - 1a. Temporada Matt Groening Edição para colecionador, DVD triplo, com luva Usado

Os Simpsons - 2a. Temporada Matt Groening Edição para colecionador, luva levemente amassada Usado

Os Simpsons - 3a. Temporada Matt Groening Edi�o para colecionador, luva levemente amassada Novo (lacrado)

Os Simpsons - 4a. Temporada Matt Groening Edição para colecionador, DVD quádruplo, com luva Novo (lacrado)

Os Simpsons - 5a. Temporada Matt Groening Edição para colecionador, com luva Novo (lacrado)

Os Simpsons - 6a. Temporada Matt Groening Embalagem cabeça do Homer Novo (lacrado)

Os Simpsons - 8a. Temporada Matt Groening Embalagem cabeça da Maggie Novo (lacrado)

Papillon Papillon (1973) Franklin J. Schaffner Usado

Paul McCartney in Red Square Paul McCartney in Red Square (2003) Mark Haefeli Com luva Usado

Paul McCartney Live at the Cavern Club! Paul McCartney Live at the Cavern Club! (1999) Geoff Wonfor Usado

Pelé Eterno Pelé Eterno (2004) Anibal Massaini Neto Novo (lacrado)

Perdidos na Noite Midnight Cowboys (1969) John Schlesinger Usado

Perigo Real e Imediato Clear and Present Danger (1994) Phillip Noyce Edição especial para colecionador Novo (lacrado)

Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii (1971) Adrian Maben Versão do diretor (2003) Usado

Pixies Pixies (2004) Mais informações: Discogs Novo (lacrado)

Planeta Estranho: Índia Exótica DVD duplo, com luva e embalagem Digipak Usado

Platoon Platoon (1986) Oliver Stone Edição especial Novo (lacrado)

Procurando Nemo Finding Nemo (2003) Andrew Stanton Edição especial duplo Usado

Psicose Psycho (1960) Alfred Hitchcock Edição comemorativa, DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Punk History Coletânea de clipes de punk rock Mais informações: DVD Magazine Usado

Quanto Mais Quente Melhor Some Like It Hot (1959) Billy Wilder Usado

Quase Famosos Almost Famous (2001) Cameron Crowe Edição definitiva, DVD duplo com versões do cinema e estendida Usado

Quatro Casamentos e um Funeral Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) Mike Newell Usado

Queen + The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert Queen + The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert () David Mallet, Rudi Dolezal, Hannes Rossacher Edição especial do aniversário de 10 anos, DVD duplo, encarte com 24 páginas Usado

Quero Ser John Malkovich Being John Malkovich (1999) Spike Jonze Usado

Racing Through Time: O Melhor de Correndo no Tempo - n. 1 Grandes Equipes Coleção Fórmula 1 Classics - Quatro Rodas Novo (lacrado)

Racing Through Time: O Melhor de Correndo no Tempo - n. 2 Passado e Presente coleção Fórmula 1 Classics - Quatro Rodas Novo (lacrado)

Racing Through Time: O Melhor de Correndo no Tempo - n. 3 Grandes Pilotos coleção Fórmula 1 Classics - Quatro Rodas Novo (lacrado)

Racionais Mc's 1000 Trutas 1000 Tretas Racionais Mc's 1000 Trutas 1000 Tretas (2006) Usado

Rastros de Ódio The Searchers (1956) John Ford Edição especial do aniversário de 50 anos, DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Ray Ray (2004) Taylor Hackford Versão estendida, edição premiada com 2 discos, caixa amaray com luva Usado

Rio Vermelho Red River (1948) Howard Hawks Novo (lacrado)

Roberta Miranda - A Majestade, O Sabiá (Ao Vivo) Gravado no Palace, em São Paulo, em 7 de novembro de 1999 Usado

Rocky: Um Lutador Rocky (1976) John G. Avildsen Edição especial de aniversário de 25 anos Usado

The Rolling Stones: Live at the Max The Rolling Stones: Live at the Max (1991) Novo (lacrado)

Romeu + Julieta (Blu-ray + DVD) Romeo + Juliet (1996) Baz Luhrmann Blu-ray e DVD, com luva Usado

Romeu + Julieta Romeo + Juliet (1996) Baz Luhrmann DVD importado do Japão, região 2 Usado

Scarface Scarface (1983) Brian de Palma Edição especial, DVD duplo Usado

Segredos e Mentiras Secrets & Lies (1996) Mike Leigh Usado

Sem Destino Easy Rider (1969) Dennis Hopper Edição especial 30o. aniversário Novo (lacrado)

Serge Gainsbourg: D'Autres Nouvelles des Étoiles DVD importado, duplo, com luva e 2 embalagens amaray. Tem legendas em inglês. Escolhido como o melhor DVD de 2005 por Craig Keller (DVD Beaver) Mais informações: DVD Beaver, Discogs Usado

Sid & Nancy Sid and Nancy (1986) Alex Cox Novo (lacrado)

Sin City: A Cidade do Pecado Sin City (2005) Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez Usado

Sindicato de Ladrões On the Waterfront (1954) Elia Kazan Edição especial Usado

Sinfonia de Paris An American in Paris (1951) Vincente Minnelli Novo (lacrado)

Sob o Domínio do Mal The Manchurian Candidate (1962) John Frankenheimer Novo (lacrado)

Spartacus Spartacus (1960) Stanley Kubrick Edição especial, DVD duplo Novo (lacrado)

Splash: Uma Sereia em Minha Vida Splash (1984) Ron Howard Novo (lacrado)

Stalingrado Stalingrad (2003) Produção Broadview TV em associação com ZDF, 3 filmes (O Ataque, O Caldeirão, A Morte) Novo (lacrado)

Super Campeões - Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002 Volume 1 Parte integrante da revista Anime News n. 2 Usado

Super Campeões - Captain Tsubasa: Road to 2002 Volume 2 Parte integrante da revista Anime News n. 3 Usado

Taxi Driver Taxi Driver (1976) Martin Scorsese Edição de colecionador, disco de dois lados (fullscreen e widescreen) Novo (lacrado)

The Beach Boys - Good Timin': Live at Knebworth England 1980 Mais informações: Wikipédia Usado

The Chemical Brothers Singles 93-03 Novo (lacrado)

The Last Waltz - O Último Concerto de Rock The Last Waltz (1978) Martin Scorsese Usado

The Miles Davis Story The Miles Davis Story (2001) Michael Dibb Novo (lacrado)

The Who - 20 Sucessos da Banda Mais Explosiva do Rock DVD de revista Usado

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Woodbury Lions Club hosting American Red Cross blood drives

Blood Drives in Cannon County for over 60 years.

It has been said that the Lions Club drives are the best in the Tennessee Valley Region Blood Services area, which includes all of Tennessee, parts of Kentucky, and Alabama.

The extra effort put forth by the Lions Club has little to do with it. The Woodbury Lions Club has a committee of members that work together to help insure that everything runs smoothly, along with community volunteers who like to help out.

Some of the volunteers have more experience working with blood drives that the actual Red Cross staff who go out daily working with blood drives within the area.

Committee chairmen’s Patsy and Carl Hirlston and Bobby Bogard with committee members Ken and Artie Jean McIntyre, Lois Larimer, Clyde Thomas, Nolan Northcutt, Robert Jennings, Charlie Brown, Clyde and Kitty Bush, Chris Brushaber, Danny Miller, Cliff Swoape, Andy Jacobs, Doug Combs, and Gina Mitchell, all work together along with community volunteers of Bessie Miller, Orval and Esther Gray, Juanita Burks, Cathey Parker, Betty Harder, Shirley Borren, Jane Jennings, Grace Young, Nile Young, Della Young, Robert Young, Kay Campbell, Carol Davenport, Bobbie Henline, Jim Henline, Betty Paschal, Ann Todd, Mary Sue Vinson, and Mary Nelle Hillis too create a professional staff that assist members of the American Red Cross staff.

The Lions Club assigns a task of greeting donors and signing them in, handing out water and assigning donors with a number.

Copies of the Cannon Courier are provided for donors to read before or after their donation.

Red Cross provides snacks and the Woodbury Lions Club has additional snacks such as: a one-of-a-kind trail mix, peanut butter and crackers, baloney and crackers, and cheese and crackers.

A staff works in the canteen area who assist the donors after they have donated by getting them a drink of juice, water, soda, or coffee and then sitting with them and talking. They also watch the donor to see if the donors face color changes or if their arm starts bleeding from where the donor had given blood.

Woodbury Club also keeps records of each donation and awards donors with pins and Certificates when completing gallon donations. Along with taking pictures of donors receiving awards and being pinned with a gallon donation pin, plus having members of the Lions Club calling and reminding donors of upcoming blood drives also adds a little bit more to why Cannon County Blood Drives are better and produces more regular donors than other areas which has a larger population.

Woodbury Lions Club host six blood drives a year, always the third Thursday in January, March, May, July, September, and November. Each blood drive is noon until six pm except May’s drive, which runs from 9 am until 6 pm. May’s blood drive is a donor appreciation drive, and most of the businesses in Cannon County donate door prizes.

In the last five to six years, each donor was able to win three of four items because of the generosity of the businesses and their support of the Lions Club and wanting to reward the true everyday heroes of Cannon County, those who give of themselves to help save the lives of others. In most cases, they are saving the lives of people who they do not know.

On May 20th, 2010 the following businesses provided door prizes for the heroes of Cannon County: A Touch of Home Flower’s & Gifts, Arts Center of Cannon County, Auto Zone, Birdsong Adhesives, Boyd’s Garage, Briar Rose Flowers and Gifts, Bromley/Jennings Automotive, Cannon County Chiropractic, Cannon Market, Captain D’s, CareAll, Cell Plus, Coco Tan & Spa, Chilangoes Mexican Restaurant, Curves, Cutting Edge Hair Salon, D J’s Pizza and Steakhouse, Family Dentistry Deason & Bucher, Farm Bureau Insurance, First National Bank, Flower Occasions, Gina’s Boutique, Hardee’s, Hayes Bros Auto Care, Hibdon’s Body Shop, Higgins Car Wash, J P’s Fine Swine Bar-B-Que, Jennings Jewelers, Joe’s Place, Legendary Cuts, Lightwriters Photography, Lions Pizza Den, The Millennium Hair Salon, Moonlite Drive-In, NAPA, The Old Feed Store, One Stop Market, Parsley’s Market & Deli, Paul Reed’s Furniture, Paul’s Auto Service, Piggly Wiggly, Potter’s Ace Hardware, Quick Shop Market, Reed’s Building Supply, Regions Bank, Roger Hindman Body Shop, Scavenger Hunt Flea Market, Scavenger Hunt Trading Post, The Scoreboard, Shirt Shack, Shotgun County Pawn & Gun, Smitty Tire Shop, Stewart’s Printing, Stone Gait Tack and Feed, Subway, West End Tobacco Store, Woodbury Auto Express, Woodbury Insurance Agency, and Woodbury Lawn & Garden. Every donor and volunteer received a promotional ink pen from DTC, a pillbox from Middle Tennessee Electric Membership Cooperation, Chap Stick from FirstBank, a value meal card from Sonic, and a 3 pound bag of stone ground corn meal from The Readyville Mill.

The Red Cross also provided promotional items and the Woodbury Lions Club provided $10 gift certificates and a grand prize of $100 gift card.

It is very hard to find another community that has so many businesses that support a civic club as much as the ones in Cannon County.

Most all the businesses give support to the Woodbury Lions Club for sponsorship of the Lions Club Horse Show, White Cane donations, and door prizes for the donor appreciation Blood Drive. Without support from the local businesses, the Woodbury Lions Club would not be able to do as much as it does within the community, state, country, and world. Local businesses are one of the leading reasons why Cannon County Blood Drives are so much better that anywhere else in the state.

Another reason and probably the number one reason the blood drives are the best anywhere is the volume of regular donors in Cannon County. In any community only a certain per cent are eligible to donate and of that per cent only about 3 to 5 percent actually donates, but the donors in Cannon County has a much higher percent.

This is not due to the Lions Club and its part, nor the businesses and its part, but it is the individual donor and the way of life in Cannon County, the way most have been raised to want to help others in need in any way they can.

The mentality of the average person in Cannon County is to serve in any way they can. This mentality is one of the reasons Woodbury Lions Club is one of the largest clubs in the state.

It is why the businesses give as much as they do, and why so many volunteers do jobs within the county for little or no pay. The parents, schools and churches within the community teach the children from an early age of the importance of giving back to the community in which they live and the lesson that it is more blessed to give than to receive.

This is why Cannon County has had over 360 donors in the past 2-½ years. Woodbury Lions Club and the American Red Cross both use fiscal years that begin on 1 July and end 30 June.

The following is a list of local heroes who gave during the 2009-2010 fiscal year. Those donating Double Red Blood Cells count as two donations, the max number of times any one can give in a fiscal year in whole blood or double red cells is 6. The number that follows a persons name is the amount of pints given as of 30 June 2010.

One-time donors: Stephanie D. Alford 5, Annie L. Barton 60, Peggy S. Baxter 30, Timothy L. Bell 11, Stephen E. Blonder 10, Brenda Bogard 23, Candace Jones Bond 1, Charles H. Bowman 20, Tami M. Bragg 12, Billy D. Brinkley 3, Charles E. Brown 33, Joe R. Bryson 23, William H. Bryson 33, Stephen A. Burnett 3, Clyde W. Bush 14, Charmaine D. Cawthorn 1, Patrick A. Cecil 1, Manuel Chapa Jr. 15, Karen J. Chumbley 11, Barbara Daingerfield 44, Mary Carole Davenport 42, Paul W. Denninger 7, Bonita O. Doxey 30, Frances Edwards 1, Clint A. Fann 5, Angela M. Ford 11, Mary Frances Foster 9, Autumn M. Fly Franks 1, Tonya Gannon 4, Leslie Joe Giley 28, Nora Lee Gilliam 10, Eric M. Good 4, Donna B. Gunter 4, Marilyn E. Hale 7, Sharon L. Hay 14, Carolyn E. Barton Hemby 7, Barry D. Hibdon 33, Erin T. Higdon 5, Sharon Duggin Hindman 25, Melisa L. Hobbs 17, Shannon D. Jett 9, Fairy L. Johnson 2, Lori J. Malay 7, Perry M. Markum 5, Vicky L. Melton 34, Brittany L. Mingle 7, Angela P. Moore 18, Danielle Nicole Mosley 12, Talma S. Mosley 8, Lauren M. Nicolay 2, Rita G. Nokes 7, Misty G. Orr 1, Brittne H. Parker 4, Joseph A. Patterson 11, Brenda Faye Phillips 15, Jo Ann Pirtle 1, Joy Pope 3, Janice O. Purvis 28, Walter E. Reifschneider 19, Shantika M. Reiter 2, Phyllis S. Robinson 47, Marianne Teresa Sadler 15, Amber M. Scott 1, Kelly Edward Sissom 30, Valerie D. Smith 4, Wayne P. Smithson 26, Olivia D. Snyder 1, Teresa S. Stoetzel 6, Crystal B. Street 4, Eddie N. Taylor 41, Jamie A. Trail 2, J. D. Underhill II 2, Falischa Urban 1, Jennifer Vallieres 2, Sean N. Vance 3, Amanda J. Winfrey 1, Dorothy D. Winnett 13, Tracey L. Winters 9, and Alan D. Wollard 8.

Two time donors: Misty D. Bain 14, Teresa D. Bain 19, Ronald F. Born 6, Christopher B. Brandon 2, David L. Brown 3, Lacey N. Buchanan 9, Charles Ronny Burks 34, Jennifer M. Coppinger 16, James Morgan Cummings 90, Franklin Daniel 12, Edgar E. Davenport 6, Rebecca M. Davenport 68, Andrew L. Duggin 5, Joyce Frazier 2, Kenneth P. Garrett 11, Andrea K. George 4, Rodney Lee Gilliam 17, Kay F. Goff 69, Cory S. Hollandsworth 14, Christopher J. Hollenbeck 5, Pamela F. Hoskins 43, Christopher Johnson 5, Robert D. Jones 27, Thomas D. Mason 56, Tammy W. Mathis 14, Shelby J. Merriman 60, Brandon S. Mims 8, Dean More 6, Jennifer R. Mosley 5, Travis C. Prater 9, Michael T. Reed 3, Xavier P. Romero 18, Melody R. Rutledge 9, John W. Sanborn 56, Roger J. Smith 14, Darrell G. Snyder 26, McKenzie Solomon 5, Candice B. Stoetzel 13, Nancy L. Studd 9, Jessica L. Sullivan 3, Brandee S. Summers 5, Garry L. Underhill 12, James E. Weller 3, and Nile Young 45.

Three time donors: Richard D. Burks Sr. 83, Joshua W. Demembreum 4, Jeffery D. Denny 11, Russell D. Fann 33, Jo Ann Francis 54, Randy A. Gerdes 47, James W. Henline 44, Patsy Miller Hirlston 43, Debbie Renee Israel 12, Jennifer M. Johnson 8, Melanie G. Lyon 4, Ann D. McBride 53, Calvin F. Orwig 39, Alan W. Paschal 17, Jan Powell 34, Kenny Denard Sanders 5, Brittany A. Stluka 6, David L. Stone 7, Nellie F. Stone 5, Melissa L. Talley 3, Annette A. Tidwell 3, Billy R. Tidwell Jr. 5, Charie Ann Urban 4, Micki M. Vinson 74, Jack B. West 16, Michael L. Witty 41, and David W. Zabriskie 3. Four time donors: Jimmy Alexander 39, Cynthia D. Betts 39, Carmella K. Burton 13, Mary E. Duncan 42, Jana M. Gannon 62, Joan Hayes 14, Kayla E. Hindman 14, Joseph E. Hurst 16, James L. Logan 48, Gina A. Mitchell 38, Valerie L. Morton 4, Tracy A. Parker 39, Rebekah L. Parton 19, Karin P. Petty 40, James F. Sabia 44, Billy K. Tenpenny 33, Juan S. Urban 4, Travis M. Urban 5, April D. Vance 12, and Millisa A. White 17.

Five time donors: Guy Alexander Jr. 41, Jeff R. Campbell 8, Gabriel S. Cantrell 9, Rita F. Cook 12, Randal L. Curtis 52, James P. Davenport 12, Andrew B. Dimartino Sr. 84, Cheryl K. Franklin 44, Timothy H. Grandey 50, Esther E. Gray 39, Orval L. Gray 55, Herbert C. Haley 64, John Arthur Haugh 9, Roger G. Hindman 28, Sandy K. Hollandsworth 77, Timothy A. Minerd 15, Charlie Luther Mooneyham 48, Steve R. Perkerson 67, James Powers 38, and Leland J. Schwamberger 19.

Six time donors: Christopher E. Brushaber 6, Allen Wade Duggin 29, Rainey Hunt 48, Charles W. Jennings 18, Stephen R. Moss 20, Teddy L. Powers 77, Steve A. Smith 140, and Howard W. Witty 163.

The Woodbury Lions Club has received several awards of appreciation from the American Red Cross for their support of the Community Blood Program, and there is a lot of speculation as to why a small community does so well on the blood drives.

A lot of the credit is given to the Lions Club for putting out an extra effort.

Some credit is given for having good media coverage with the Cannon Courier, the Cannon Wire, and WBRY radio. Some credit is given for the support given by the businesses in Cannon County.

Any community can have a civic organization that puts forth the extra effort, and have good media and local businesses supporting them, but they don’t have the attitude and dedication of serving others that is instilled into Cannon Countians from birth until death.

The Woodbury Lions Club expresses heartfelt gratitude to all the media, businesses, and donors for exceeding the yearly goals set forth by the Red Cross based on past history.

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Extension of Replacement Period for Livestock Sold on Account of Drought on Cook & Co. News

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Extension of Replacement Period for Livestock Sold on Account of Drought

Notice 2019- 54

SECTION 1. PURPOSE This notice provides guidance regarding an extension of the replacement period under § 1033(e) of the Internal Revenue Code for livestock sold on account of drought in specified counties.

SECTION 2. BACKGROUND .01 Nonrecognition of Gain on Involuntary Conversion of Livestock. Section 1033(a) generally provides for nonrecognition of gain when property is involuntarily converted and replaced with property that is similar or related in service or use. Section 1033(e)(1) provides that a sale or exchange of livestock (other than poultry) held by a taxpayer for draft, breeding, or dairy purposes in excess of the number that would be sold following the taxpayer’s usual business practices is treated as an involuntary conversion if the livestock is sold or exchanged solely on account of drought, flood, or other weather-related conditions.

.02 Replacement Period. Section 1033(a)(2)(A) generally provides that gain from an involuntary conversion is recognized only to the extent the amount realized on the conversion exceeds the cost of replacement property purchased during the replacement period. If a sale or exchange of livestock is treated as an involuntary conversion under § 1033(e)(1) and is solely on account of drought, flood, or other weather-related conditions that result in the area being designated as eligible for assistance by the federal government, § 1033(e)(2)(A) provides that the replacement period ends four years after the close of the first taxable year in which any part of the gain from the conversion is realized. Section 1033(e)(2)(B) provides that the Secretary may extend this replacement period on a regional basis for such additional time as the Secretary determines appropriate if the weather-related conditions that resulted in the area being designated as eligible for assistance by the federal government continue for more than three years. Section 1033(e)(2) is effective for any taxable year with respect to which the due date (without regard to extensions) for a taxpayer’s return is after December 31, 2002.

SECTION 3. EXTENSION OF REPLACEMENT PERIOD UNDER § 1033(e)(2)(B) Notice 2006-82, 2006-2 C.B. 529, provides for extensions of the replacement period under § 1033(e)(2)(B). If a sale or exchange of livestock is treated as an involuntary conversion on account of drought and the taxpayer’s replacement period is determined under § 1033(e)(2)(A), the replacement period will be extended under § 1033(e)(2)(B) and Notice 2006-82 until the end of the taxpayer’s first taxable year ending after the first drought-free year for the applicable region.

For this purpose, the first drought-free year for the applicable region is the first 12-month period that:

(1) ends August 31;

(2) ends in or after the last year of the taxpayer’s four-year replacement period determined under § 1033(e)(2)(A); and (3) does not include any weekly period for which exceptional, extreme, or severe drought is reported for any location in the applicable region. The applicable region is the county that experienced the drought conditions on account of which the livestock was sold or exchanged and all counties that are contiguous to that county.

A taxpayer may determine whether exceptional, extreme, or severe drought is reported for any location in the applicable region by reference to U.S. Drought Monitor maps that are produced on a weekly basis by the National Drought Mitigation Center.

U.S. Drought Monitor maps are archived at http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/MapArchive.aspx.

In addition, Notice 2006-82 provides that the Internal Revenue Service will publish in September of each year a list of counties1 for which exceptional, extreme, or severe drought was reported during the preceding 12 months. Taxpayers may use this list instead of U.S. Drought Monitor maps to determine whether exceptional, extreme, or severe drought has been reported for any location in the applicable region.

The Appendix to this notice contains the list of counties for which exceptional, extreme, or severe drought was reported during the 12-month period ending August 31,

Under Notice 2006-82, the 12-month period ended on August 31, 2019, is not a drought-free year for an applicable region that includes any county on this list. Accordingly, for a taxpayer who qualified for a four-year replacement period for livestock sold or exchanged on account of drought and whose replacement period is scheduled to expire at the end of 2019 (or, in the case of a fiscal year taxpayer, at the end of the taxable year that includes August 31, 2019), the replacement period will be extended under § 1033(e)(2) and Notice 2006-82 if the applicable region includes any county on this list. This extension will continue until the end of the taxpayer’s first taxable year ending after a drought-free year for the applicable region.

SECTION 4. DRAFTING INFORMATION The principal author of this notice is Lewis Saideman of the Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Income Tax & Accounting). For further information regarding this notice, please contact Mr. Saideman at (202) 317-7006 (not a toll-free call).

APPENDIX

Alabama

Counties of Barbour, Bibb, Chilton, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Jefferson, Shelby, and Tuscaloosa.

Alaska

Municipality of Anchorage. Boroughs of Kenai Peninsula, Ketchikan Gateway, Kodiak Island, Lake and Peninsula, Matanuska-Susitna. Census Areas of Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan, Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon, Valdez-Cordova, Wrangell-Petersburg, and Yukon-Koyukuk.

Arizona

Counties of Apache, Cochise, Coconino, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Mohave, Navajo, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, and Yuma.

Arkansas

Counties of Columbia, Lafayette, and Union.

California

Counties of Del Norte, Humboldt, Imperial, Los Angeles, Modoc, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Siskiyou, Trinity, and Ventura.

Colorado

Counties of Alamosa, Archuleta, Baca, Bent, Boulder, Chaffee, Clear Creek, Conejos, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Delta, Dolores, Eagle, Elbert, El Paso, Fremont, Garfield, Gilpin, Grand, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Huerfano, Jackson, Kiowa, Lake, La Plata, Larimer, Las Animas, Lincoln, Mesa, Mineral, Moffat, Montezuma, Montrose, Otero, Ouray, Park, Pitkin, Prowers, Pueblo, Rio Blanco, Rio Grande, Routt, Saguache, San Juan, San Miguel, and Summit.

Florida

Counties of Brevard, Holmes, Indian River, Jackson, Martin, Okaloosa, Palm Beach, Saint Lucie, and Walton.

Georgia

Counties of Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Charlton, Chatham, Clay, Clinch, Coffee, Cook, Early, Effingham, Irwin, Jeff Davis, Lanier, Pierce, Screven, and Ware.

Hawaii

Counties of Hawaii, Honolulu, Kauai, and Maui.

Idaho

Counties of Bannock, Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Canyon, Cassia, Franklin, Kootenai, Oneida, Owyhee, Payette, Power, Shoshone, Twin Falls, and Washington.

Illinois

Counties of Hancock, Henderson, Mercer, Rock Island, and Warren.

Iowa

Counties of Appanoose, Clarke, Davis, Decatur, Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Lee, Louisa, Lucas, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe, Ringgold, Van Buren, Wapello, and Wayne.

Kansas

Counties of Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Chase, Coffey, Dickinson, Douglas, Franklin, Geary, Greenwood, Harvey, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Lyon, McPherson, Marion, Marshall, Miami, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Pottawatomie, Riley, Saline, Shawnee, Wabaunsee, and Wyandotte.

Louisiana

Parishes of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Claiborne, De Soto, Jackson, Lincoln, Natchitoches, Red River, Union, Webster, and Winn.

Maine

Counties of Cumberland, Hancock, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, and Waldo.

Michigan

Counties of Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Crawford, Emmet, Kalkaska, Mackinac, Montmorency, Oscoda, Otsego, and Presque Isle.

Minnesota

County of Marshall.

Missouri

Counties of Adair, Andrew, Audrain, Barry, Barton, Benton, Boone, Buchanan, Caldwell, Callaway, Carroll, Cass, Cedar, Chariton, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Cole, Cooper, Dade, Dallas, Daviess, DeKalb, Douglas, Gentry, Greene, Grundy, Harrison, Hickory, Holt, Howard, Jackson, Jasper, Johnson, Knox, Laclede, Lafayette, Lawrence, Lewis, Linn, Livingston, McDonald, Macon, Maries, Mercer, Moniteau, Monroe, Morgan, Newton, Nodaway, Osage, Pettis, Phelps, Platte, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Ray, Saint Clair, Saline, Schuyler, Scotland, Stone, Sullivan, Taney, Webster, Worth, and Wright.

Montana

Counties of Blaine, Flathead, Lincoln, Mineral, Phillips, Sanders, and Valley.

Nevada

Counties of Clark, Elko, Humboldt, Washoe, and White Pine.

New Mexico

Counties of Bernalillo, Catron, Chaves, Cibola, Colfax, Curry, DeBaca, Eddy, Grant, Guadalupe, Harding, Lea, Lincoln, Los Alamos, McKinley, Mora, Otero, Quay, Rio Arriba, Roosevelt, Sandoval, San Juan, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Sierra, Socorro, Taos, Torrance, Union, and Valencia.

New York

Counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Hamilton, and Warren.

North Dakota

Counties of Benson, Bottineau, Burke, Cavalier, Divide, Eddy, Foster, Grand Forks, Hettinger, McHenry, Mountrail, Nelson, Pembina, Pierce, Ramsey, Renville, Rolette, Sheridan, Stark, Towner, Walsh, Ward, and Wells.

Oklahoma

Counties of Beckham, Blaine, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Cimarron, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Ellis, Garvin, Grady, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Kay, Kiowa, Love, McClain, Noble, Nowata, Osage, Pawnee, Roger Mills, Rogers, Stephens, Tillman, Tulsa, Washington, and Washita.

Oregon

Counties of Baker, Benton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Crook, Curry, Deschutes, Douglas, Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Hood River, Jackson, Jefferson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Malheur, Marion, Morrow, Multnomah, Polk, Sherman, Tillamook, Umatilla, Union, Wasco, Washington, Wheeler, and Yamhill.

South Carolina

Counties of Allendale, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton, and Jasper.

South Dakota

Counties of Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, Haakon, McPherson, Spink, and Ziebach.

Texas

Counties of Anderson, Aransas, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brazos, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Callahan, Camp, Carson, Cass, Castro, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Coke, Coleman, Collingsworth, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Coryell, Cottle, Crosby, Culberson, Dallas, Dawson, Deaf Smith, Delta, Denton, Dickens, Dimmit, Donley, Duval, Eastland, Edwards, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fisher, Floyd, Foard, Franklin, Freestone, Frio, Gaines, Garza, Gillespie, Glasscock, Gonzales, Gray, Gregg, Guadalupe, Hale, Hall, Hamilton, Hardeman, Harrison, Haskell, Hays, Hill, Hockley, Hood, Hopkins, Houston, Howard, Hudspeth, Jack, Jeff Davis, Jim Hogg, Jim Wells, Johnson, Jones, Kendall, Kent, Kerr, Kimble, King, Kinney, Kleberg, Knox, Lamar, Lamb, Lampasas, La Salle, Leon, Limestone, Live Oak, Llano, Lubbock, Lynn, McCulloch, McLennan, McMullen, Madison, Marion, Martin, Mason, Maverick, Medina, Menard, Midland, Milam, Mills, Mitchell, Montague, Morris, Motley, Navarro, Nolan, Nueces, Oldham, Palo Pinto, Panola, Parker, Potter, Presidio, Randall, Reagan, Real, Red River, Refugio, Robertson, Runnels, Rusk, San Patricio, San Saba, Schleicher, Scurry, Shackelford, Smith, Somervell, Starr, Stephens, Sterling, Stonewall, Sutton, Swisher, Tarrant, Taylor, Terrell, Terry, Throckmorton, Titus, Travis, Upshur, Upton, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Webb, Wheeler, Wichita, Wilbarger, Williamson, Wilson, Wise, Wood, Young, Zapata, and Zavala.

Utah

Counties of Beaver, Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Daggett, Davis, Duchesne, Emery, Garfield, Grand, Iron, Juab, Kane, Millard, Morgan, Piute, Rich, Salt Lake, San Juan, Sanpete, Sevier, Summit, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Wasatch, Washington, Wayne, and Weber.

Vermont

Counties of Addison, Chittenden, Franklin, Lamoille, Orleans, and Washington. Washington

Counties of Clallam, Clark, Cowlitz, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Kitsap, Klickitat, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Pend Oreille, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish, Stevens, Thurston, Wahkiakum, and Whatcom.

Wyoming

Counties of Carbon and Sweetwater.

Guam Island of Guam.

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Islands of Rota and Saipan.

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico

Municipalities of Aibonito, Barranquitas, Cabo Rojo, Cayey, Cidra, Coamo, Comerio, Guanica, Guayama, Guayanilla, Juana Diaz, Lajas, Penuelas, Ponce, Sabana Grande, Salinas, Santa Isabel, Villalba, and Yauco.

United States Virgin Islands

Islands of Saint Croix and Saint Thomas.