#gloria kovac

[0tter-burden]

when i tell my friends about Mission: Rejected, I just say it's about a white boy who loves organising, a white man actor who knows basically every other actor in existence, a hacker who ends up warming up to the team, and an underestimated girlboss of a woman who shares a name with the hippo from Madagascar

I love telling people about Mission: Rejected and then getting to tell them that my favorite episode is when a former KGB interrogator took over the Des Moines parking authority

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Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed nomini tuo da gloriam!Non a noi, o Signore, non a noi, ma al tuo nome da' gloria!

#InternationalPolice#policija#NotSecure#genocide#tuzilastvo#Criminology#tutorial#JusticeDepartment#JusticeForVictims#JusticeMatters#TrumpTeam#securityG4SCenter for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM)SECURITY / BODYGUARD/ LAW ENFORCEMENT/ TACTICAL GROUP AND MARCIAL ARTSSECURITY NEWSCenter for Security Policy ODJEBITE OD MENE I MOG ŽIVOTA 1 ZA SVAGDA!!!!!!!POVAMPIRENI LAŽNI DUŠEBRIZNICI.VODITE SVOJ ŽIVOT.

NEČU DA DOZVOLIM DA SE NASILJE PONAVLJA I DA BUDEM IČIJA ŽRTVA I MOJA OBITELJ.

JASNO!!!

#hrvatsponosom#hrvatskihelsinskiodbor

Napomjen:TAKO je I neosudjena Kovač Dragana izbacena iz stana br 14 KOJI se vodi na pokojnu zrtvu nasilja NIKOLIC LJUBICU,maltretirala mog kolegu I proganjala identicnim pitanjima:"Je cuvas Simonu OD Simone" da bi epilog bio sljedeci_njen sin Nikola je razbio glavu pajserom Cobankinom muzu KOJI JE nekakvo obezbjedjenje u Drazerovoj ZAVODU za NARKOMANE I onda su Kovac konacno iselili UZ pomoc veze Cobanke TRIFUNOVIC u POLICIJI rodjak iz SAJ-a I ostala PANDURSKA JAJA.

No u znak odmazde Srbijansko TUZILASTVO je povuklo Cobankinu tuzbu jer nije postupala po ZAKONU,VEC po vjezi,a ova je "ocistila"cio pokojnicin Stan I pokrala OD igle do locomotive.

ZNAMO SVE ODLICNO I SAMO OD MENE SIKTER!!!NIJESAM VISE ONA ISTA OSOBA DA PRASTAM NEOPROSTIVO,BAS ME NEZULJA GUZICA ZA ROBIJANJE LESEVA.

Pa nek se sjeti TKO je pozivao na javni linc Simone.Tko je maltretirao Simoninu MALOLJETNU kci kad djete dodje SAMO IZ SKOLE I arlaukao NAJGORE pogrde:"sektasica;kurva,drolja"govorio pod Simoninim prozorima da je NAKAZA!!!DA SE GOL POLICAJAC SETA U GACAMA I IZLAZI NA PROZOR.JOS TO NAKAZNO PISMO UBACENO U POSTANSKO SANDUCE CUVAM DA SE SJETIM KAKVO I KOLIKO ZLO POSTOJI.JOS SE SJECAM CUPANJA ZA KOSU I UDARANJA PESNICAMA U POTILJACNI DIO LOBANJE I UDRUZENE DISKRIMINACIJE DOGOVORNO OD KOJIH BATINA SAM GINEKOLOSKI PROKRVARILA A NA GINEKOLOGIJI MI POSTAVILI PONIZAVAJUCE PITANJE-"JESAM LI SILOVANA OD TE 3 MAJMUNICE KOJE SU ME "TUKLE",JER SAM IM JA TO DOPUSTILA KAO STO JE I POKOJNA NIKOLIC LJUBICA TUCENA U BASTICI SA OTETOM MOTIKICOM

DAJ BRE SKOTOVI ODJEBITE VISE NAMAM VISE NERAVA NIKOG DA TRPIM JER OCITO ZAKON NEPOSTOJI.DAKLE,FUCK OFF IDIOTI DALJE OD MENE!!!NIJESAM NISTA ZABORAVILA,ALI SAM OPROSTILA NEOPROSTIVO STO NEZNACI DA CU I UBUDUCER

NEKI LJUDI BAS NEUMEJU DA SE ZASTIDE NAD SAMIMA SOBOM NE BIH DA IMENUJEM.TOLIKO!!!

POZORNOST:3 Dana prije BATINA SAM obavjestena OD TADA zive pokojnice NIKOLIC LJUBICE da cu BITI bijena I da mi se spremaju batine OD psihicki labilnih osoba STO se I obistinilo TADA,KAO STO sam I 3 Dana prije nego CE da ispadne karambola sa Kovac Draganom bila obavjestena da CE da"izleti"I da se nemjesam,pozvata sam u Stan br 4 naspram mene da mi se predoci.Ispostovala sam NEUTRALNOST.

DAKLE,IZ SVEGA OPISANOG SLIJEDI:

1.UDRUZENA DOGOVORNA DISKRIMINACIJA TARGETIRANIH

2.UMJESANOST KORUMPIRANE POLICIJE

3.NEAGILNOST I REVANS TUZILASTVA

4.SVI ELEMENTI AGRESIVNOG NASILJA UKLJUCENI,MANIPULACIJE I UMJESANOST UTUZENIH AKTERA KOJI NIJESU OSUDJENI UPRAVO ZBOG UDRUZENE DOGOVORNE DISKRIMINACIJE AKTERA U SURADNJI SA ISTO TAKVOM POLICIJOM I TUZILASTVOM=BITANGI I PROPALITETA KOJIMA JE ZANIMANJE I ZVANJE KRIMINAL I KORUPCIJA.

5.ODJEBITE "NEMAM VISE VRIJEMENA"-D.M. DA SE BAVIM OLOSIMA I DA PRIJEKO MOJE GRBINE ZARADJUJU PLACE IDIOTI IZ SRBIJANSKOG TUZILASTVA I POLICIJE,CAST RETKIM IZUZECIMA.

I Am that I Am!

07.08.2019.MARAKANA!!!

NA SJEVERU MARAKANE FK Crvena zvezda NIJESAM PREŠUTALA DA SAM Fudbalski klub Partizan Naravno da sam dobila pretnju SMRĆU.NA TO SE NE OBAZIREM IZ NAVIKE!!!SRBIJA=GENOCIDNA ROBIJA!!!

-pretnje smrcu sam zadobila radici obezbijedjenje na Sjeveru Marakane na 33 stepeniku polozaja od lica extremnog navijaca koji je htio iz ciste obijesti da mi cepa zuti prsluk,odg sam da sam ja zaduzena prslukom i da mooram da se razduzim nakon utakmice i da je trebao zastavu ili dres Zvijezde da ponese pa da CEPA.UPITANA ZA KOGA JA NAVIJAM-mirno sam odg.za PARTIZAN i tad mi je uputio-''da ce morati da me UBIJE''...***I SVE TO ZA DNEVNICU I STAJANJE 10H ZA TRICAVIH 1.500RSD ETO TOLIKO VRIJEDI ZIVOT U GENOCIDNOJ SRBIJI NI PISLJIVA BOBA ZBPOG AV SNS MAFIJE.VUCIC DRZI SJEVER I OSTALO!!!

#partizanbelgrade#RedStarBelgrade#severzvezda

#InternationalPolice#Criminology#JusticeDepartment#security#policija#genocide#tuzilastvo#tutorial

#hrvatsponosom#hrvatskihelsinskiodbor

"JOKER"

pokojnica nije bila Vidovita Zorka vec je imala saznanja,kao i ja uostalom za Kovac,a od siline okrsaja Kovac i Cobanke Trifunovic,pas moje kcerke se bukvalno i doslovce USRALA od straha i nasilja i od posljedica nasilja ima problematicnu probavu (U TRENUTKU NJIHOVOG OKRSAJA,JA SAM BILA PRIKOVANA ZA SVOJ KREVET OD ULKUSA ZELUCA I BOLOVA SVE OD POSLJEDICA DUGOTRPELJIVOG NASILJA U ZEMLJI BEZAKONJA)DRUZE SVE SAMO NE PREDSEDAVAJUCI VJT. 

https://youtu.be/CO_LLOmgBoQ?si=uUIR6MxAVGpbSyr4

[thecomicsnexus]

The Abyss Gazes Also

WATCHMEN #6 FEBRUARY 1987 BY ALAN MOORE, DAVE GIBBONS AND JOHN HIGGINS

SYNOPSIS (FROM DC DATABASE)

On October 25th, Clinical psychologist, Dr. Malcolm Long, examines Rorschach, whose public identity is Walter Kovacs, at Sing-Sing. Dr. Long hopes that he has the chance of helping Walter and as well finding out why he is so alienated and emotionally withdrawn.

Revealed through flashbacks and Dr. Long's notes, Walter was born in 1940 to Sylvia Kovacs. His father is unknown. His mother was a prostitute who resented his interference in her business, and abused him viciously. At age 10, Walter attacked two bullies that had cruelly abused him, partially blinding one with the bully's own lit cigarette. This incident lead the authorities to investigate Walter's home life and removed him from his mother's custody. Walter became a ward of the state and his life improved with excellence in schoolwork, although he is usually a quiet child.

On October 26th, Dr. Long continues his session with Walter and ask him to talk about his alter ego Rorschach. Walter suddenly tells Dr. Long that he doesn't like him for not understanding "pain" but agrees to tell about Rorschach. In 1956, Walter left the Children's home and became an unskilled laborer at a garment industry. Working in this capacity, in 1962 he grew fascinated by a new fabric made possible through technologies developed by Doctor Manhattan. Two viscous liquids, one black and one white, between two layers of latex, continually shifted in response to heat and pressure, forming symmetrical patterns like a Rorschach inkblot test while never mixing to produce a grey colour. Walter learned of the fabric when a young woman chose not to buy a dress which she had ordered made from it; subsequently Walter took the dress home and experimented with the fabric. He learned to cut the fabric and maintain the seal using heated scissors. By March 1964, Walter learned about the murder of Kitty Genovese in which she was raped and killed in front of a building full of tenants who didn't bother to help her. The murder convinced Walter to finally being ashamed of humanity.

Dr. Long tries to conclude that the Genovese murder made Walter to think that humanity is rotten and tries to reason that there are good people like himself. But Walter dismisses Dr. Long's claims and asking why he bother to spending time with him rather than the other violent inmates. When Dr. Long tries to explain that he wants to help Walter, but Walter believe otherwise and sees that Dr. Long wants to diagnose a more famous person to get to be known in the journals and know what makes him sick. Before being taken back to his cell, Walter enigmatically tells Dr. Long that he will soon find out what makes him sick. On the same day, Walter escaped an attempt on his life in the cafeteria by calmly and wordlessly grabbing a pot full of boiling cooking grease and hurling it into the assailant's face. Walter was hauled to solitary confinement and the assailant suffered from his burns. As he was being dragged away, Walter spoke to the other inmates: "None of your understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked up in here with me."

The next day, Dr. Long picks up where Walter left off on becoming Rorschach. Dr. Long assumes that the Genovese murder inspired Walter to becoming Rorschach, but Walter replies that he wasn't Rorschach then. In his words, he was "Kovacs pretending to be Rorschach." At that time he was considered "soft" because he left criminals to live prior to 1975. In 1965, Rorschach was acquainted with Nite Owl II and became partners in bringing down street gangs and important criminal figures such as The Big Figure. But Walter considered Nite Owl and other costumed crime fighters to be soft and that none of them lasted long, except for the Comedian whom Walter considered him to truly understood how the world work. By the end of the interview, Walter states people like Rorschach and the Comedian do it "because [they] have to. We do it because we are compelled."

Dr. Long now knows that Walter wasn't compelled to become Rorschach not because of his childhood or the Genovese murder that caused him to overreact the injustice in the world, but something else. All the while his evaluation with Walter becomes an obsession for him and consequently causing damage to his marriage.

On October 28th, Dr. Long tries some more blot tests with Walter, as Dr. Long knows that his patient has been holding back on what he actually sees. Walter looks at one and answers that he sees a dog's head split in half. Walter then reveals to Dr. Long about the 1975 kidnapping case of six-year-old Blaire Roche in which he investigated. Rorschach found the captor's vacant hideout and learned to his horror that the girl had been murdered, butchered, and fed to two German Shepherd dogs. He killed the dogs with a meat cleaver and waited for the kidnapper. Once the man arrived, Rorschach wordlessly chained him to a pipe, ignoring his claims of innocence, then placed a hacksaw near him and set the house on fire. Finally speaking, he told the terrified man that he would not have time to cut through his restraints before the fire killed him (implying that he would have to sever his own arm to escape). Walter calmly watched the structure burn from across the street; the suspected kidnapper did not emerge. At this moment Rorschach ceased to be Walter Kovacs and became Rorschach. After finishing his story, Walter is taken back to his cell while Dr. Long is left shocked.

Dr. Long returns to his home with his previous optimistic outlook on life completely shattered. During a dinner party with guests invited by his wife Gloria, the guests start to tease Dr. Long about his interview with Walter. Unamused, Long tells them in detail about the murder of Claire Roche. The dinner soon ended with the guests quietly leaving. Gloria is furious and left Malcolm. Dr. Long sits on his bed looking over a Rorschach blot and trying to pretend it looked like a spreading tree, but it didn't. Instead, it reminds him of a dead cat he once found.

REVIEW

This was a really captivating issue. You cannot help but feel drawn to its narration. This issue puts a lot of books to shame.

There is a recurring theme in this chapter about shapes and the meaning we give to them, mostly around the “Hiroshima couple” graffiti that appears all over the book in different shapes. Ink and coffee spots are usually symmetrical, to play with the Rorschach theme.

I do not enjoy dogs getting killed in fiction, and I am able to put that aside in this particular situation. The whole scene is horrifying, so a couple of dead dogs is just another horrible thing in that chain of events.

The police and psychological report at the end is full of typos and errors, and those are on purpose (it is clear when you see many). It helps to make those part of the world, otherwise it would look like an editor adding “secret files”.

I have to admit, Dave Gibbons draws very realistic god teeth.

To be continued...

[icharchivist]

The Journey So Far - A Mix of DGM songs on spotify // Others Playlists

or “i am too lazy to sort them out by invididual playlists just take it” the dgm playlist by yours truly.

Each song’s names are under the cut by alphabetical order with a vague reason why they’re on the list. Might also edit it as time goes by.

current song number: 158 songs, 11h02m of listening

A.

Abel and Cain - D’espairsRay (Mana&Nea) / Alive - Superchick (Lenalee) / All Fall Down - OneRepublic (Allen) / All of Everything, Erased - Kevin Devine (Allen) / All We Are - OneRepublic (Allen/Exorcists) - Alone Together - Fall Out Boy (Allen/Exorcists) / And We Run - Within Temptation (Lavi) / Anonymous - Three Days Grace (Lavi or Allen) / As We Fly South - Walking On Cars (Lavi)

B.

Back From the Dead - Skillet (Allen) / Battle Cry - Skillet (Exorcists) /  A Beautiful lie - 30 Seconds to Mars (Lavi) / Bleed It Out - Linkin Park (Kanda) / Broken Crown - Mumford and Sons (Mana&Nea) / Buried Alive - Lovers & Liars (Kanda) / Burn - Three Days Grace (Lavi) / Burning Down - Skillet (Lavi) 

C.

Carnivore - Startset (Nea) / Castle - Halsey (Nea) / The Cave - Mumford and Sons (Lavi) / Closed Eyes Still Look Forward - Chiodos (Allen) / Color - The Maine (Allen) / Come With Me Now - KONGOS (Allen) / Control - Halsey (Mana&Nea) / Copy of a Copy - Dead Poetic (Allen) / Crawl (Carry Me Through) - Superchick (Lenalee) / Creatures - Shinedown (Noah&Allen) / The Crooked Kind - Radical Face (Lavi)/ Crossfire - Stephen (Allen&Exorcists) / Cry For Help - Shinedown (Cross) / Cynics & Critics - Icon for Hire (Exorcists) 

D.

Dangerous - Within Temptation (Kanda) /  A Dangerous Mind - Within Temptation (Allen&Nea) / Dark Matter - Les Friction (Earl&Noah) / The Dark of You - Breaking Benjamin (Allen&Nea)/ Darkside - Shinedown (Earl&Noah) /  A Day’s Pay For a Day’s Work - Darkstar (Kanda) / A Demon’s Fate - Within Temptation (Allen&Nea) / Devil in Me - Halsey (Allen&Nea) / Devour - Shinedown (Earl&Noah) / Dirty Night Clowns - Chris Garneau (Allen&Mana) / The Disappearance of the Girl - PHIDEL (Lenalee) / Dog Days - Within Temptation (Kanda) / Dust Bowl Dance - Mumford and Sons (Allen) / The Dying Kind - Joy Williams (Gen)

E.

Earth - Sleeping At Last (Allen) / East Jesus Nowhere - Green Day (the Order) / Edge of the World - Within Temptation (Allen) / Emperor’s New Clothes - Panic! At the Disco (Earl&Noah) / Endless War - Within Temptation (Allen) / Erl King - Ghost Bees (Allen&Earl) / Every you, Every me - Placebo (Kanda&Alma) / Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde (Order&Noah) / Evolve - Shinedown (Nea&Allen&Noah) 

F.

Figure It Out - Royal Blood (Allen&Nea) / Final Destination - Within Temptation (Allen&Nea) / Flawed Design - Stabilo (Lavi) / Float - The Neighbourhood (Allen) / Floods - Sir Sly (Allen&Mana&Earl) / Fool Like You - KOVACS (Alma) / Forgiven - Within Temptation (Kanda/Alma) / Frozen - Within Temptation (Alma) 

G.

Get Out Alive - Three Days Grace (Kanda) / Ghost Town - Radical Face (Allen) / Ghost Town - Shiny Toy Guns (Exorcists) / Gift For You - Celldweller (Alma) / Going Under - Evanescence (Kanda/Alma)

H.

Hand of Sorrow - Within Temptation (Allen&Mana) / Happy Ending - Mika (Kanda/Alma) / HeavyDirtySoul - Twenty One Pilots (Allen) / Help I’m Alive - Metric (Allen) / Hero - Skillet (Lavi) / Holding Onto You - Twenty One Pilots (Allen) / Human - Daughter (Allen) / Humility - Gorillaz (Nea&Mana) / Hurricane - 30 Seconds to Mars (Kanda/Alma) 

I.

Illusion - VNV Nation (Kanda/Alma) / In Vain - Within Temptation (War&Allen) / Iron - Within Temptation (Nea) /  It Has Begun - Starset (War) / It’s the Fear - Within Temptation (Allen&Nea) 

J.

The Judge - Twenty One Pilots (Allen) / Junior - Stateless (Lavi) / Jupiter - Sleeping at Last (Allen) 

L.

 Let Us Burn - Within Temptation (Lavi) / Let’s Kill Tonight - Panic! At the Disco (Nea&Noah) /  A Light That Never Comes - Linkin Park (Kanda) / Little Lion Man - Mumford and Sons (Lavi) / Louder Than Words - Les Friction (War)��

M. 

Mad World - Within Temptation (Allen&War) / The March - Hypnogaja (Allen&Exorcists) / Marchin On - OneRepublic (Allen&Exorcists) / Melting In My Icebox - Bronze Radio Return (Lavi) / Memories - Within Temptation (Allen&Mana) / Mercury - Sleeping At Last (Allen) / Mercy Mirror - Within Temptation (Nea&Mana) / Message Man - Twenty One Pilots (Allen) / Metamorphosis - Blue Stahli (Alma) / Mirror Mirror - Jeff Williams (Allen&Nea) / Miss Missing You - Fall Out Boy (Kanda/Alma) / Mirror - D’espairsRay (Mana) / Monster - Imagine Dragons (Alma) / Murder - Within Temptation (Nea) / My Blood - Ellie Goulding (Kanda) / My Demons - Starset (Allen) / My Song Knows What You Did In the Dark - Fall Out Boy (Allen&Earl) 

N.O.

Nashville - Noah Gundersen (Allen) / Nearly Morning - Luke Sital-Singh (Allen) / Neptune - Sleeping At Last (Lavi)/ Our Solemn Hour - Within Temptation (Innocence) / Out Of It - Fallulah (Allen) 

P.R.

Pale - Within Temptation (Kanda) / Paradise (What About Us) - Within Temptation (Exorcists) / Pluto - Sleeping At Last (Allen) / Polarize - Twenty One Pilots (Lavi) / Raise Your Banner - Within Temptation (War) / The Recknoning - Within Temptation (War) / Rediscover (No Parallels) - Hands Like Houses (Allen&Exorcists) / The Resistance - Skillet (Exorcists) / Running With The Wild Things - Against the Current (Exorcists) 

S.

Savior - 30 Seconds To Mars (Allen) / Savages - MARINA (Lavi&Humanity) / Scared - Three Days Grace (Allen&Nea) / She’s A Handsome Woman - Panic! At The Disco (I.. don’t even know just...) / Shed Some Light - Shinedown (Lavi) / Silver Moonlight - Within Temptation (Allen) / Slow Fade - Casting Crowns (Allen) / Somewhere - Within Temptation (Kanda) / Still Breathing - Green Day (Allen) /  A Strange Education - The Cinematics (Allen)   / String Theory - Les Friction (Mana&Nea) 

T.U.

This is a Call - Les Friction (Mana&Nea) - Trapdoor - Twenty One Pilots (Allen) / Trouble - TV on the Radio (Allen) /  The Truth Beneath the Rose - Within Temptation (Allen) / Unbreakable - Three Days Grace (Allen) / Undefeated - Skillet (Allen) / Uneven Odds - Sleeping at Last (Mana or Cross & Allen) / Us Against The World - Coldplay (Exorcists) 

V.W.

Viva La Gloria (Little Girl) - Green Day (Lenalee) / Viva La Vida - Coldplay (Earl) / Wake me Up When September Ends - Green Day (Allen&Mana) / Walk Unafraid - First Aid Kit (Allen) / Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance (Allen) / What Have You Done - Within Temptation (Kanda/Alma) / What I’ve Done - Linkin Park (Kanda) / Where is the Edge - Within Temptation (Nea&Allen) / Who Will Save You Now - The Friction (Nea) / Whole World is Watching - Within Temptation (Allen) / Wicked Ones - DOROTHY (Noah) 

X.Y.Z.

X-Amount Of Words - Blue October (Kanda) /  Yami ni Furu Kiseki - D’espairsRay (Kanda/Alma) /  You’re Gonna Go Far Kid - The Offspring (Lavi) / Young and a Menace - Fall Out Boy (Allen) / Youth - Daughter (Lenalee&Exorcists) / Zombie - The Pretty Reckless (Alma) 

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Dark Horses 4

Becca jerked awake as Kovac tossed in his sleep, he was drenched in sweat and as she reached out for him Kovac sat upright with a gasp, he looked around wildly and then a shudder seemed to pass through him. Becca reached a hand out to touch his shoulder, he flinched violently and stumbled out of the bed, there was a crash as he overturned a bedside table.

"It's ok, it's ok, baby it was only a dream," Becca hurried round the bed to his side, Kovac turned to her, nude and gleaming with sweat, his eyes were wide and he was still shaking.

The door burst open and Knickers was in the doorway, a pistol in her right hand supported on her left wrist, in her left hand was a long bladed knife. She scanned the room and on seeing Kovac, his back to the room his muscles taut and his breathing heavy she lowered the weapons and hurriedly crossed the room.

"Same dream big man?" She asked softly.

Kovac blinked and looked down at her, He nodded mutely and let her reach up and hook her fingers round the back of his neck, she pulled his head down so their foreheads touched. They paused like this for barely a moment and then pulled apart, Knickers nodded to Becca and turned for the door.

Becca stared after the soldier for a moment and then turned to Kovac who looked calmer again. "You alright?" She handed him a glass of water.

Kovac took a drink and nodded, "I'm sorry, did I scare you?"

"One of these days you're going to explain to me why I have no problem with you and Knickers sharing a naked cuddle in our bedroom...does she know what your dreams are about?"

"Yes."

"Then why don't I? Look I love the woman but I've known you longer, we go back to the academy."

Kovac closed his eyes for a moment and then turned to face Becca directly, "When you and Wolf and all our old friends were settling into your first commands I was burying a wife and child and when she..." he pointed after Knickers and then paused, "we've been through a lot together and we've helped each other out."

"Ok, are you alright now? Do you want to talk? Look if the dream keeps happening maybe we should retire, you've been through enough surely."

"I sleep fine after battles Bex, that has never been my problem, I'm alright," he kissed her, "Thank you, I might go down to the gym, not going to sleep much more tonight."

Dawn found Becca sitting with Wolf watching Kovac in the ring, "didn't fancy facing him yourself today?"

Wolf shook his head, "No fear, not in this mood, I'll stay out of his way."

In the ring stood Ty a soldier from Captain Dorman's 3 Troop and probably the largest man in the squadron, nearly equal in height to Kovac's 6 and a half feet, he was bigger in build, the Major and Trooper had enjoyed a competative sparring rivalry since their days in the 88th.

The two men circled one another, and locked up, Ty's dark black skin contrasting against the white of Kovac's hair as the Major was forced to one knee. The watching crowd stood and roared it's approval as the Major had to break free.

Becca could barely see as she heard the shouts of the soldiers.

"That's it Ty batter him, don't let him out of the corner, keep the pressure on,"

"He's gone southpaw Ty, look out!"

"No, move quicker, don't let him circle you like that!"

"No stop him moving, lock it up, use your strength."

Wolf who was standing on his chair looked like he was close to joining in he was so animated, "god Kovac is quick, COME ON TY!, GO ON SON PIN HIM IN THE CORN....OOooooh."

Becca clambered onto her chair to look over the heads in front, Ty was staggering backwards but unloaded a thunderous right hook that Kovac ducked under before straightening and with a jump bringing his own left cross into the side of Ty's jaw. Ty dropped to his knees clearly dazed and Kovac applied a sleeper hold, it was over moments later.

When the two officers reached the front Kovac was shaking hands with Ty who was in full flow explaining the origin of the term "southpaw".

That afternoon in Kovac's office after Staff King had been by to reprimand the Major for injuring himself and a trooper Kovac delivered the news everyone had been expecting.

"We've been back for long enough, time to go out to Fo-ro-shall and deal with the Bartuq. Gilly is content with the set up out there although he would like some bigger guns...wouldn't we all."

"The sergeant-major has been briefing the sergeants so stay out of their way, let them do their jobs and look closely at the new info Gilly sent back."

"Bartuq pirates are a nuisance out there but isn't it more of a concern that any troop movement out there is going to stir up the Xhost? Do we need permission to carry out our operation?" Becca asked, it was a question she had asked before.

"That's being handled." Kovac replied.

The exact solution to the issue was revealed the day after the Dark Horses had deployed en masse to Fo-ro-shall the Towoli planet. Kovac was sitting with Wolf when Capt ain Gillespie arrived with two others in tow.

Wolf saw them coming and stood, Kovac turned and copied his Captain.

Gillespie stopped and turned to introduce the man on his right, "Major I'm sure you're pleased to make the reacquaintance of Staff Sergeant Sam White, call sign 'Ugly', Gunner extraordinaire of Griffin Battery and," said Gillespie turning to his left, "needs no introduction but I like saying it; Brigadier-General Michaela Jones."

The four officers shook hands, "Major, how are my soldiers?" The general asked.

"Well ma'am, it's good to see you," Kovac said to the small heavy set woman opposite.

"Your soldiers ma'am?" Ugly asked.

"Oh not anymore, not since Kovac stole them," Michaela replied with a grin.

"Still your soldiers ma'am, like their OC they'd follow you anywhere, I'd have invaded Hell if you'd led the way"

"I think with two more of you I could conquer it, but I think the day this lot were anything but yours is long gone, gone up in Aprasi smoke," the general said taking a seat.

"That's right I heard about this, you were on Doltoi-4 when the Korlax attacked and you received orders to retreat," Ugly said leaning out of his seat to point at Kovac.

"The Aprasi had declined membership to the Galactic Council and so were not entitled to our defence was the decision, so when the Korlax Dominion struck and were systematically wiping out whole villages we were told to retreat to Council space." Kovac said.

"The Major here, fresh from whatever heroics he'd pulled in the Reinax system decided he wasn't going anywhere." Michaela said with a faint smile.

"We'd been there as an envoy, a good faith mission, 1st batallion the 88th Combat Engineers had been constructing some new planetary docks as a hearts&minds effort," Gillespie said, staring into the night, "we saw first hand what the Korlax were doing."

"I saw the parents of the Aprasi young form a living wall between the Korlax and the creche...mothers and fathers facing down war machines, so I decided I was going to have their backs." Kovac said a little harshly.

"And you pinched a batallion of combat engineers to do it," the general teased.

"I ordered my men off the planet and then I went about my business," Kovac said calmly.

"To a man, the 88th followed Kovac," said Gillespie proudly.

"I heard that because a whole batallion defected they couldn't hold all those courts marshal so they just let you all go as a band of mercenaries?" Ugly queried.

"With the help of a sympathetic Brigadier," Kovac said nodding to the general, "it was bad press, hero humans save the day and get charged."

"Human pack-bonding is how it was sold to the media," said the General.

"It wasn't, was just the right thing to do," said Kovac, "We were engineers, ubique, quo fas et gloria ducunt and all that, seemed the right thing to do. So I reformed the survivors into a squadron and we became the Dark Horses, the Brigadier as she was then made sure we were looked after."

Michaela waved the comment away and gave a gesture to the darkness, "what is the situation here Major? What are you dealing with?"

"Short version? The Towoli are getting raided by the Bartuq and the presence of the Xhost border is stopping any involvement of the GCDF, nobody wants to rile up the zealots. We've been approached to deal with the raiders."

"It's unlikely the Xhost will take offence at the presence of a mercenary unit but I'll do what I can to ensure them we have no intent to increase our presence here."

"And the presence of the EDC near Thresh?" Kovac asked.

"Is not the purview of a mercenary leader nor of a Combat Engineers Squadron leader," the general replied a little abruptly.

Kovac and Gilly shared a glance and Gilly turned to Ugly, "you know Kovac is with Becca? Uhh Captain Hayward?"

Talk moved away from the past to the present and the future, and thoughts moved away from the violence that was to come.

Dawn broke on a cold grey morning, the Dark Horses shivered through stand to, and then broke camp and the three troops were moved into position.

Captain Gillespie looked through his omni-goggles and called positions through his comms, 1 troop advanced quietly as 3 troop pushed forward hard, racing to get in position.

For a minute there was peace and then the silence of the morning splintered as Griffin Battery opened their first volley, directed to their targets by Captain Gillespie one more time, in the years since they had worked together Ugly and his men had lost none of their skill and in the 10s flight time of the first shell the guns sounded twice more, in less than a minute the 18 targets were reduced to rubble and Griffin Battery fell silent.

On the sound of the first gun Captain Dorman led his men out, the guns sounded their last retort as Gray led his men through the new breech. The outer defences reduced to rubble Wolf led his men forward into the killing ground and as the Bartuq defenders opened fire 2 Troop started to hammer their position. Gillespie directed howitzer fire to the centre of the Bartuq defences, many of the shells were deflected off but they were enough to limit the Bartuq defence.

Inside the Bartuq fortifications Captain Dorman and his men were hard pressed, Dorman knelt over the wounded trooper Ito shielding him from further harm. He shouted orders and directed fire as the defender's numbers started to count against his men. Aware he was being flanked Dorman pulled some of his men back and raced round the edge of a building.

Attacking a group of armed aggressors with hand to hand combat was not wise or logical but it was unexpected and would hopefully buy his men the time they needed to receive the back up from Wolf. Besides Dorman was a human and that counted for something, the Bartuq would be more afraid that humans were attacking than they would by superior numbers, or so he hoped.

Hearing the approach of the Bartuq unit Dorman closed his eyes and repeated the only prayer he thought might work, "God I hope I live through this."

As they rounded the corner the Bartuq were met by a single human, armed with a knife and a side arm he dropped the first three amphibians before the creatures could react. Dorman did not have the skill of Wolf nor the speed and power of Kovac but he was a human, powered by human adrenaline and fear and he was frantic. By keeping in their midst he neutralized their weapons but he couldn't do much about their numerical advantage, his attack lasted nearly 30 seconds and he injured over a dozen before they knocked him off his feet and the shots rang out.

Dorman had his hands over his head when Fluke reached him, "sorry sir, couldn't open fire till you were down or we may have hit you. We're in sir, Captain Wolf asks if you can regroup your men and move to the west post for the next advance to contact."

Dorman thanked the sergeant, took a moment to ensure he was bullet free and turned to find his men, Sergeant Webb had them in position when he joined them, the career soldier gave his commanding officer a nod and dropped back.

The Dark Horses pushed through the defences of the Bartuq meeting stiff resistance but only suffering minor casualties. Wolf and Dorman used their troops to good effect, capturing choke points and stopping the enemy from organising.

The humans didn't have it all their own way, the Bartuq rallied and counter attacked cutting off a small group of soldiers, the attack itself was stopped by Captain Becca's 2 Troop who were moving behind the two advance troops for precisely that reason. Communications relayed the situation, Kovac had been cut off with three soldiers, Ty, Costa and Butlanska.

"We can't cut our way out, but we can hole up till you push through, over" Kovac assured his concerned Captains.

"Wolf is going to hold position, Dorman and I will push through together and get to you, over" Becca said, she lowered her communications device and gestured at her Sergeant "why was Kovac that far advanced!?" Knickers gave a shrug.

"Negative, maintain the advance, this is what they want, they want to break us up and big us down, maintain the advance, Wolf must keep pushing forward. We can hold until Dorman gets to us, 2 Troop must maintain the screen, acknowledge, over" Kovac's voice came over the communicator.

Becca swore, "confirmed, continue advance, over,"

"We're secure here, we're able to..." Kovac cut off.

"Kovac!?" Becca sent the call repeatedly.

"Wait. out," came the terse reply.

Kovac and Costa flattened against the wall as the Bartuq hurried past, Kovac growled in irritation, "these counters are going to keep happening unless they keep the pressure in and we'll end up just rescuing people all day."

"Can we not fight through sir?" Costa asked.

"Not bloody likely, we can still be a thorn in their arse though, god knows you and Ty have enough practice..." Kovac broke off as two Bartuq rounded the corner.

Costa raised his rifle but lowered it as Kovac sprang into the gap, he drove his body into the Bartuq on his right and stabbed out with his long bladed knife at the amphibian on the left. He rounded on the winded Bartuq and stabbed it through the skull.

The two humans fell back to the room Ty and Butlanska were concealed in, both were nursing injuries, neither life threatening but enough to put them at risk if attacked. Kovac checked them both and returned to the doorway.

"Listen Costa, the only way we stop them from clearing us out is by making them think we are more than two non-injured soldiers. That means no extended firefights, get in close and personal. Side arm and that damn kukri I'm not supposed to know you carry," Kovac clapped a hand on his shoulder, "you're quicker and faster than the Bartuq but remember they outweigh us, a frog your size will have significant weight on you so avoid a wrestling match."

"Sir I'm not sure I'm up to this, I'm not you or Captain Wolf or Sergeant Knickers." Costa said weakly.

"You're afraid? Good, fear makes you quick, human adrenaline is a black market drug in the outer rim," Kovac turned to face Costa, "stick a collar on that beast in your chest and ride it till we're done. If you want to keep waking up with Ty and sneaking back to your own room then you'd best fight to keep them away from that room, and trooper while we're on the subject, it's been 3 years, you're a couple just accept it." With that Kovac leapt out on three Bartuq.

For the rest of his life Costa remembered that afternoon as a blur, the Bartuq seemed to move at quarter speed and all the while he battled a fear that threatened to overwhelm him.

When Sergeant Knickers led a sortie into the tunnels they found dozens of Bartuq dead, Kovac was covered head to toe in the purplish blood of the Bartuq, Costa imagined he must look similar. The Major gave him a nod before heading off to meet with his captains.

The Bartuq had suffered heavy casualties and lost much of their equipment, their heavily defended compound was captured but two more bolt holes had been found and would need clearing before they could go home.

It's a subject of much debate wether humans are the galaxy's best warriors. Many would say the Flet are superior and it's accepted that the Rhul are both stronger and faster, certain other races like the Frell possess weapons of mass destruction to rival the human's.

In my experience humans don't all possess an affinity for war, but those trained to do it can tap into a level of ingenuity and physical capability that no other race possess.

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El Bayern se enfrenta dos semanas claves en medio de discusiones sobre Kovac

Berlín, 13 may (EFE).- El Bayern se enfrenta dos semanas en las que se juega toda la temporada, en la última jornada de la Bundesliga y en la final de la Copa de Alemania, en medio de discusiones sobre el futuro del entrenador, Niko Kovac.

El presidente del club, Uli Hoeness, ha tratado de acallar las discusiones y ha mostrado su respaldo a Kovac incluso en los momentos más críticos del curso.

El otro peso pesado del club, Karlheinz Rummenigge, en cambio, se ha mostrado más reacio y ha dicho que en el Bayern no hay garantía de continuidad para nadie y que todo depende del rendimiento.

Aunque Rummenigge posteriormente ha relativizado esas declaraciones el tema sigue abierto e incluso cuando alguien del club, como el director deportivo Hasan Salihamidzic, expresa su respaldo a Kovac parece como si sólo fuera una posición entre varias.

"Él tiene todo mi respaldo", dijo Salhamidzic en el programa Sportschau de la televisión pública alemana.

Sin embargo, al ser interrogado acerca de si también toda la cúpula respaldaba a Kovac, Salihamidzic comentó que sólo podía hablar a título personal.

La temporada ha tenido muchos altibajos. Tras un buen comienzo vino una fase de crisis y, en un momento en el que el club se había recuperado, llegó la eliminación en octavos de final de la Liga de Campeones a manos del Liverpool.

Sin embargo, la campaña puede todavía tener un final conciliador con el doblete y los dos próximos partidos decidirán en buena parte la calificación que reciba el preparador croata a final de curso.

Si no gana la Bundesliga la temporada se verá como un fracaso y si gana al doblete, pese al lunar de la Liga de Campeones, se verá como un éxito.

En la historia del Bayern sólo cuatro entrenadores -Branco Zebek, Felix Magath, Louis van Gaal y Pep Guardiola- han logrado ganar el doblete en su primera temporada con lo que Kovac entraría en un club bastante exclusivo.

A favor del croata habla también el oficio que mostró en los momentos mas difíciles de esta campaña para reconducir la situación.

En Dortmund llegó a tener ocho puntos y 24 de goles de ventaja sobre el Bayern. Ahora el Bayern está 2 puntos y 17 goles por encima. En principio le bastaría un empate en la última jornada contra el Eintracht Fráncfort para lograr su séptima Bundesliga consecutiva.

Es verdad que parte de la crisis se debió a errores del propio Kovac -como el abuso de las rotaciones en la primera parte de la temporada- pero también es cierto que mostró una gran flexibilidad a la hora de corregir sus propios fallos.

Otro punto a favor de Kovac es el hecho de que el Bayern asumió esta temporada como de transición, sin grandes fichajes y, según el propio Hoeness, asumiendo incluso el riesgo de cerrar el curso sin títulos.

Eso apunta a que lo que decidirá el futuro de Kovac en el Bayern no serán los títulos sino la pregunta de si la cúpula lo considera el entrenador adecuado para llevar al Bayern de regreso a lo más alto del fútbol europeo en los próximos tres años.

También tendrá peso la opinión de los líderes del vestuario. En los últimos días han circulado informaciones acerca de un presunto descontento por la falta de una estrategia ofensiva clara y de la apuesta de Kovac por dar prioridad a consolidar la defensiva.

De parte de las viejas glorias del Bayern Kovac ha recibido apoyo de Ottmar Hitzfeld y de Steffan Effenberg, el entrenador y el capitán del equipo que ganó la Liga de Campeones en 2001.

"Karl-Heinz Rummenigge siempre tiende al pesimismo cuando no se gran tres títulos. Todavía se pueden ganar dos por lo que me parece exagerado que se cuestione todo", dijo Hitzfeld.

Rodrigo Zuleta

(c) Agencia EFE

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El Inter busca el regreso de Kovacic la próxima temporada

En principio, el croata no podrá continuar en el Chelsea por la sanción y el Inter se postula como un posible destino para el mediocentro.

Mateo Kovacic está en una situación de incertidumbre. Pese a que no ha tenido la mejor temporada de su vida en el Chelsea, Maurizio Sarri ha declarado públicamente que quiere que el croata siga en Stamford Bridge más allá de este junio. Solo existe un problema y es que el conjunto del oeste de Londres está sancionado. Aquí es donde entra en juego el Inter de Milán, que reforzará su centro del campo con el objetivo de volver alcanzar la gloria.

Según Calciomercato, los neroazzurri manejan una lista de tres nombres: Mateo Kovacic, Sergey Milinkovic-Savic e Ilkay Gundogan. El alemán no ha terminado de adaptarse al esquema de Pep Guardiola en el Manchester City. El catalán le pedía una mayor implicación defensiva, ya sea de manera posicional o concapacidad física, pero el exjugador del Dortmund ha rendido por debajo de las expectativas.

Milinkovic-Savic, en el derbi entre la Lazio y la Roma Reuters

El serbio sonó la pasada temporada como un posible refuerzo para los grandes clubes europeos. Muchos equipos de todo el mundo se interesaron por la situación de un jugador que suele situarse en la zona de tres cuartos del campo, pese a su gran tamaño. Su rendimiento, más bien pobre, sobre todo en el apartado goleador, ha hecho que su caché haya disminuido un poco.

Kovacic sería la opción más factible. El campeón de Europa y del mundo con el Madrid ya creció en el Giuseppe Meazza y se verá obligado a buscarse un nuevo destino. Salvo que el TAS salve al Chelsea, no se enfundará más la camiseta blue a partir de esta temporada.

En el Madrid tendrán que decidir si quieren contar con él. Sin embargo, ya se han interesado por él varios equipos, como el Atlético o el Zenit, pero de momento no se sabe donde jugará el jugador de Linz.

[Más información: Kovacic, "el jugador más inútil de la Premier League" para FourFourTwo]

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Doomsday Clock’s Rorscach, as seen in issue three.

Image: Gary Frank and Brad Anderson (DC Comics)

Doomsday Clock is the slowest of slow burns. Its biggest mysteries—like just where Dr. Manhattan is in the DC Universe, or how the hell a mime can mime himself a lethal weapon—still remain barely explored, let alone solved. But it’s finally started to lift the lid on one of its most intriguing additions: the new person underneath Rorschach’s mask.

The parallels between Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, and Brad Anderson’s Doomsday Clock and its legendary predecessor Watchmen mean that having a new, African American Rorschach as the driving heart of the new series should be no surprise, given Walter Kovacs’ central role in the original. But over the course of the first three issues, the character’s lack of connection to the original Watchmen, both the team and the graphic novel, has made this Rorschach feel somewhat untethered from the story, even though he’s clearly representing something unknown.

Rorschach skulking around at the end of the world in Doomsday Clock’s first issue.

Image: Gary Frank and Brad Anderson (DC Comics)

Yes, he’s skulked around the same jacket and mask as Kovacs, and yes he gets looped into Ozmandiyas/Adrian Veidt’s plans to find Dr. Manhattan and stop the world from ending itself again. But he’s been a certain distance removed, an outsider looking in on the ramifications and fallout of a series we know more intimately at this point than Kovacs had been. But finally, the fourth and latest issue of Doomsday Clock has identified the person who has taken the shifting mask of the vigilante, and revealed the character has a much deeper and in many ways more tragic connection to the original series than anyone suspected.

While the previous issues hinted at a fascinating backstory for the new Rorschach—one of the thousands who survived Veidt’s psychic monster attack on New York, irrevocably mentally scarred instead of killed in an instant—Doomsday Clock #4, mostly told through flashback, reveals his life before that moment. The new Rorschach is a young man named Reggie Long, and he’s the son of Dr. Malcolm Long. Yes, that Dr. Long.

Dr. Malcolm Long meets Walter Kovacs in Watchmen #6.

Image: Dave Gibbons and John Higgins (DC Comics)

That should be a familiar name to fans of the original series. Dr. Long plays a small yet crucial role in Watchmen, specifically in the sixth issue, when he is called in to psychologically evaluate Kovacs while he’s incarcerated at Sing Sing. In the original Watchmen, we see Dr. Long and his wife Gloria as Long becomes steadily more and more engrossed in his attempts to help Kovacs, and ultimately finds his worldview changed by the awful story of how Kovacs became Rorschach in the first place. We see the couple again in Watchmen #11, as immediate victims of the arrival of Veidt’s psychic alien in New York. But what Doomsday Clock adds to Watchmen and the Longs’ story is that they had a son, Reggie, an only child who at the time of Watchmen’s events was away at college.

A younger Reggie Long and his frazzled parents in Doomsday Clock #4.

Image: Gary Frank and Brad Anderson (DC Comics)

When tensions between the US and the Soviets rose to a fever pitch, Reggie returned to New York to be with his family (he didn’t know that his parents’ relationship had broken down after his father’s encounters with Kovacs) in case nuclear war actually broke out—only to be on the edges of the city stuck in traffic when Veidt’s monster attacked. He was far enough away to not be brutally slaughtered by its screams, but close enough to be driven insane by its psychic death throes and grimly committed to Fitzgerald Mental Home.

Doomsday Clock #4 ties Reggie into Watchmen’s legacy of costumed heroes beyond his father. One of his fellow inmates at Fitzgerald is actually Byron Lewis, formerly the hero Mothman, and a member of the Minutemen briefly featured in the original comics. Committed to Fitzgerald after years of alcohol and drug abuse caused by the pain of his vigilante work, Byron becomes close friends with Reggie, and uses his rebuilt Mothman wings to occasionally break out of the institute and smuggle in contraband for the two—including Dr. Long’s files, full of notes about Kovacs. Byron even starts teaching Reggie how to fight, using techniques he learned during his time in the Minutemen.

Bryon Lewis befriends Reggie in Doomsday Clock #4.

Image: Gary Frank and Brad Anderson (DC Comics)

But it’s Dr. Long’s files that really set Reggie on the path to becoming Rorschach. As the revelation that Veidt created the psychic monster that annihilated New York City eventually became public, Reggie finds himself, like his father before him, enthralled by Kovacs’ worldview. It’s another parallel to the original series, but with a twist: While Dr. Long found himself leaning to Kovacs’ lonely, fatalist worldview after their encounter, his son picks up on Kovacs’ rage, as it’s so similar to the one already brewing inside him. It causes him to target Veidt, the man he now knows is responsible for his parents’ death. Escaping Fitzgerald on a mission of vengeance, and now armed with Rorschach’s mask and his stilted, murmured manner of speaking as a symbolic continuation of Kovacs’ anger at the world, Reggie made his way to Antarctica to kill the now-globally-reviled Veidt... only to find that he can’t bring himself to do it.

That’s because the Veidt he finds is not the Veidt he had angrily imagined in the time he spent at Fitzgerald, but a man haunted by his misguided attempts to save the world—and a man, as previously revealed, slowly dying from cancer. For all the connections he has to the original Watchmen story, the profound difference between Reggie and Kovacs in the end is that even with all he’s gone through, Reggie still has a broader view of morality that has more to it Kovacs’s extreme dichotomy of either wholly good or wholly evil. Like Dr. Long before him, deep down under the layers of trauma Reggie knows that anyone who does wrong can still be capable of redemption. And so the villain he became obsessed with killing became the man he begrudgingly worked with to try and stop the world from ending all over again.

Reggie fails to stop Veidt once and for all, just as Walter Kovacs did before him.

Image: Gary Frank and Brad Anderson (DC Comics)

There’s a dramatic irony in the fact that a man who is now so intimately familiar with the truth of what Adrian Veidt did in the climax of Watchmen—the truth that Walter Kovacs was so unprepared to hide from the world he asked to die instead of keep it a secret—is now working with him to try and prevent another apocalyptic event befalling Watchmen’s world. Time will tell what comes of their relationship; after all, there’s still another eight issues of Doomsday Clock to go. But already, even in a world of supernaturally deadly mimes and nuclear war, the reforging of the broken man behind Rorschach’s mask is one of the most enthralling aspects of the series.

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Espoleado por la contundente victoria europea ante el Apoel, y con la autoestima de Cristiano Ronaldo y Benzema reforzada por los dobletes que firmaron en Nicosia, el Real Madrid recibe en el Santiago Bernabéu al Málaga, el equipo ante el que selló su último título de Liga, con el objetivo de dar el pistoletazo de salida a la ‘operación remontada’. La visita de un rival de la zona baja de la tabla que no conoce la victoria en el coliseo blanco y que cuenta por derrotas todas sus salidas en lo que va de campaña, en las que ni siquiera ha marcado un gol, combinada con el complicado encuentro ante el Valencia que habrá de afrontar el domingo el Barça en Mestalla dibujan un escenario propicio, a priori, para que la escuadra de Chamartín empiece a descontar la considerable ventaja que le lleva el líder. El margen de error se ha agotado y en Chamartín saben que no pueden fallar este sábado si quieren mantenerse con vida en la principal competición doméstica.

Lo asumió Zidane al reconocer que nunca se imaginó estar a estas alturas de temporada a diez puntos del Barça, aunque se mostró confiado en las posibilidades de reducir esa distancia. «Sabemos dónde estamos y sabemos lo que tenemos que hacer. Somos positivos y mentalmente estamos bastante fuertes, sabiendo que estos partidos, de aquí al final de año, serán decisivos para recortar puntos y preparar nuestro próximo título, que es el Mundial de Clubes», indicó el técnico. Espera dar el primer paso este fin de semana aprovechando el duelo entre el primer y el segundo clasificado. «Uno de los dos equipos va a perder puntos. Lo que más nos interesa a nosotros es hacer nuestro partido, sumar tres puntos y luego ver lo que va a pasar el domingo», señaló.

Ganó confianza el vigente campeón con la goleada en Chipre y Zidane recupera además efectivos. Keylor Navas, Kovacic y Bale volvieron a entrenarse esta semana con el grupo. Los dos primeros entraron en la lista -no así el galés-, aunque aún es pronto para verles en acción. Cauto por naturaleza, el francés no quiere arriesgar ante posibles recaídas, teniendo en cuenta el exigente calendario que aguarda de aquí a final de año. Tampoco lo hará con Sergio Ramos, que ensayó ya con la máscara con la que se protegerá tras la fractura en el tabique nasal que sufrió en el derbi del Wanda Metropolitano y cuyo objetivo es estar listo para el choque ante el Athletic de la próxima jornada, lo que dará una oportunidad en el eje de la zaga a Vallejo, toda vez que Nacho está sancionado por acumulación de amonestaciones.

Baja es también Marco Asensio, al que una lesión en el obturador externo de la pierna derecha le apartará igualmente del duelo copero del próximo martes ante el Fuenlabrada y probablemente tampoco pueda estar en San Mamés. Ausente el balear, Isco volverá a ser el encargado de enlazar con Cristiano y Benzema. Apaciguados sus fantasmas en Champions, el luso y el francés quieren espantarlos definitivamente también en la Liga, donde sólo han mojado frente al Getafe. Su falta de tino ante la portería ha sido clave para que los blancos presenten su balance ofensivo más pobre desde hace once temporadas, con 22 tantos, la mitad de ellos en su feudo. Dato no del todo desolador si se tiene en cuenta que ese Real Madrid del curso 2006-2007, que dirigía Fabio Capello, acabó levantando el título gracias al ‘Tamudazo’ y con el holandés Van Nistelrooy como Pichichi con 25 dianas.

No encajar

A su anemia ofensiva, contraponen los blancos su mayor eficiencia defensiva, con tres partidos consecutivos sin encajar gol en una temporada en la que han recibido siete tantos menos que el curso pasado a estas alturas de campaña. No han visto perforada su meta tampoco en los tres últimos choques que ha acogido el Santiago Bernabéu, estadio que este sábado pisará además un Málaga que no sabe lo que es anotar a domicilio en lo que va de Liga. Girona, Atlético, Valencia, Sevilla, Barcelona y Villarreal salieron sin una magulladura de sus enfrentamientos con el cuadro de Míchel, aunque tanto en el Wanda como en el Camp Nou compitió bien.

A esa demostración de carácter ante los grandes, y a la debilidad que han exhibido los pupilos de Zidane ante adversarios de inferior rango como el Levante o el Betis se agarra Míchel, que regresa al estadio en el que conoció la gloria como futbolista aliviado por los dos triunfos cosechados en los tres últimos partidos y que advirtió que llegan al Bernabéu «con intenciones», aunque para ello tendrán que mostrar una solidez atrás que hasta ahora no han exhibido. «No podemos pretender tener un buen futuro si no mantenemos nuestra puerta a cero. Siempre recibimos goles y es algo que nos atormenta. Es duro jugar bien y recibir tantos goles», recalcó el madrileño.

-Alineaciones probables:

Real Madrid: Casilla, Carvajal, Varane, Vallejo, Marcelo, Casemiro, Ceballos, Modric, Isco, Cristiano Ronaldo y Benzema.

Málaga: Roberto, Rosales, Baysse, Luis Hernández, Juan Carlos, Keko, Recio, Adrián, ‘Chory’ Castro, Peñaranda y Rolan.

Árbitro: Gil Manzano (Colegio extremeño).

Estadio: Santiago Bernabéu.

Horario: 16.15.

TV: beIN LaLiga

Fuente: El Norte de Castilla

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El Madrid busca abrir la ‘operación remontada’

Espoleado por la contundente victoria europea ante el Apoel, y con la autoestima de Cristiano Ronaldo y Benzema reforzada por los dobletes que firmaron en Nicosia, el Real Madrid recibe en el Santiago Bernabéu al Málaga, el equipo ante el que selló su último título de Liga, con el objetivo de dar el pistoletazo de salida a la ‘operación remontada’. La visita de un rival de la zona baja de la tabla que no conoce la victoria en el coliseo blanco y que cuenta por derrotas todas sus salidas en lo que va de campaña, en las que ni siquiera ha marcado un gol, combinada con el complicado encuentro ante el Valencia que habrá de afrontar el domingo el Barça en Mestalla dibujan un escenario propicio, a priori, para que la escuadra de Chamartín empiece a descontar la considerable ventaja que le lleva el líder. El margen de error se ha agotado y en Chamartín saben que no pueden fallar este sábado si quieren mantenerse con vida en la principal competición doméstica.

Lo asumió Zidane al reconocer que nunca se imaginó estar a estas alturas de temporada a diez puntos del Barça, aunque se mostró confiado en las posibilidades de reducir esa distancia. «Sabemos dónde estamos y sabemos lo que tenemos que hacer. Somos positivos y mentalmente estamos bastante fuertes, sabiendo que estos partidos, de aquí al final de año, serán decisivos para recortar puntos y preparar nuestro próximo título, que es el Mundial de Clubes», indicó el técnico. Espera dar el primer paso este fin de semana aprovechando el duelo entre el primer y el segundo clasificado. «Uno de los dos equipos va a perder puntos. Lo que más nos interesa a nosotros es hacer nuestro partido, sumar tres puntos y luego ver lo que va a pasar el domingo», señaló.

Ganó confianza el vigente campeón con la goleada en Chipre y Zidane recupera además efectivos. Keylor Navas, Kovacic y Bale volvieron a entrenarse esta semana con el grupo. Los dos primeros entraron en la lista -no así el galés-, aunque aún es pronto para verles en acción. Cauto por naturaleza, el francés no quiere arriesgar ante posibles recaídas, teniendo en cuenta el exigente calendario que aguarda de aquí a final de año. Tampoco lo hará con Sergio Ramos, que ensayó ya con la máscara con la que se protegerá tras la fractura en el tabique nasal que sufrió en el derbi del Wanda Metropolitano y cuyo objetivo es estar listo para el choque ante el Athletic de la próxima jornada, lo que dará una oportunidad en el eje de la zaga a Vallejo, toda vez que Nacho está sancionado por acumulación de amonestaciones.

Baja es también Marco Asensio, al que una lesión en el obturador externo de la pierna derecha le apartará igualmente del duelo copero del próximo martes ante el Fuenlabrada y probablemente tampoco pueda estar en San Mamés. Ausente el balear, Isco volverá a ser el encargado de enlazar con Cristiano y Benzema. Apaciguados sus fantasmas en Champions, el luso y el francés quieren espantarlos definitivamente también en la Liga, donde sólo han mojado frente al Getafe. Su falta de tino ante la portería ha sido clave para que los blancos presenten su balance ofensivo más pobre desde hace once temporadas, con 22 tantos, la mitad de ellos en su feudo. Dato no del todo desolador si se tiene en cuenta que ese Real Madrid del curso 2006-2007, que dirigía Fabio Capello, acabó levantando el título gracias al ‘Tamudazo’ y con el holandés Van Nistelrooy como Pichichi con 25 dianas.

No encajar

A su anemia ofensiva, contraponen los blancos su mayor eficiencia defensiva, con tres partidos consecutivos sin encajar gol en una temporada en la que han recibido siete tantos menos que el curso pasado a estas alturas de campaña. No han visto perforada su meta tampoco en los tres últimos choques que ha acogido el Santiago Bernabéu, estadio que este sábado pisará además un Málaga que no sabe lo que es anotar a domicilio en lo que va de Liga. Girona, Atlético, Valencia, Sevilla, Barcelona y Villarreal salieron sin una magulladura de sus enfrentamientos con el cuadro de Míchel, aunque tanto en el Wanda como en el Camp Nou compitió bien.

A esa demostración de carácter ante los grandes, y a la debilidad que han exhibido los pupilos de Zidane ante adversarios de inferior rango como el Levante o el Betis se agarra Míchel, que regresa al estadio en el que conoció la gloria como futbolista aliviado por los dos triunfos cosechados en los tres últimos partidos y que advirtió que llegan al Bernabéu «con intenciones», aunque para ello tendrán que mostrar una solidez atrás que hasta ahora no han exhibido. «No podemos pretender tener un buen futuro si no mantenemos nuestra puerta a cero. Siempre recibimos goles y es algo que nos atormenta. Es duro jugar bien y recibir tantos goles», recalcó el madrileño.

-Alineaciones probables:

Real Madrid: Casilla, Carvajal, Varane, Vallejo, Marcelo, Casemiro, Ceballos, Modric, Isco, Cristiano Ronaldo y Benzema.

Málaga: Roberto, Rosales, Baysse, Luis Hernández, Juan Carlos, Keko, Recio, Adrián, ‘Chory’ Castro, Peñaranda y Rolan.

Árbitro: Gil Manzano (Colegio extremeño).

Estadio: Santiago Bernabéu.

Horario: 16.15.

TV: beIN LaLiga

Fuente: El Norte de Castilla

El Madrid busca abrir la ‘operación remontada’ was originally published on Noticias

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El Barcelona y Real Madrid volvieron a dejar un partido para el recuerdo, que tras un primer tiempo insípido se volvió un vendaval en una segunda parte histórica que dejó golazos, postales magníficas y mucha polémica. Todo terminó desembocando en un 1-3 que deja muy favorable a los blancos de cara al título de la Supercopa de España.

Las cosas arrancaron con la sensación de ser un encuentro más de pretemporada, más aún  por como ambas escuadras se tomaron la primera mitad. Entre la inoperancia azulgrana y el control de un Madrid superior, se colaron las genialidades de Isco y las faltas para contener a Lionel Messi como lo único destacable de ese primer capítulo para el olvido.

Pero es que la victoria del Madrid se empezó a fraguar en una segunda parte maravillosa en la no solo demostraron ser mejor equipo, para a quien todavía quedaban dudas, sino que también plasmó las falencias de un Barcelona que quedó en paños menores en su propio estadio.

El poderío de Isco en el mediocampo

El mago de Arroyo de la Miel sigue maravillando a propios y extraños. Lo de Isco es increíble, cada vez que sale le hace honor al sobrenombre que le colocaron sus compañeros: “Magia”. Isco se cargó al equipo en la tarea ofensiva; más aún ante la intrascendencia de Gareth Bale y Karim Benzema, porque aunque galés hizo de todo para evitarla y el francés ya vive en ella, quedó claro que el español ya es imprescindible.

Pisadas, ruletas, pases, ayudas a sus compañeros y siempre ofreciéndose como salida. Lo de Isco fue descomunal y fue muy uno de los puntos fuertes de un mediocampo que en la primera parte controló, pero en la segunda se desató para firmar una victoria de época. El malagueño sobresalió, pero no fue el único que dejó su sello en el Camp Nou.

Kovacic fue un coloso en la mitad

La idea era que Casemiro se encargara de marcar a Messi durante el duelo, para entorpecer los movimientos del argentino; sin embargo una tempranera amarilla entorpeció los planes. Zidane, dando muestra de que es un entrenador muy bueno (una vez más, para los que todavía dudan) cambió el plan sin preocuparse: ahora sería Mateo Kovacic la sombra de Messi. Solo con su salida por lesión, Messi pudo desperezarse y dejó más en evidencia su magnificó trabajo.

El croata fue un maestro del trabajo sencillo al que se le une una calidad en el esfuerzo que no es despreciable. Puede hacer de Casemiro, de Toni Kroos o de Luka Modric, como sucedió en este partido de ida, y en todos los roles destaca. Simple en el pase, bueno en la conducción, no se excedió en faltas al argentino y no le perdió pisada ni cuando se metía entre los centrales madridistas; Kovacic secó a Messi haciendo de la sencillez su mejor arma, demostrando que sin estridencias muchas veces se hacen cosas buenas. Casemiro, Kroos, Isco y Kovacic devoraron con esfuerzo, clase y eficacia descomunal el mediocampo del Barça que todavía no sabe que les pasó por encima.

Sin lateral derecho y sin extremo izquierdo

Casi en su totalidad, el mérito del triunfo cae en el club capitalino, aunque el Barcelona puso su granito de arena al colocar un equipo al que le urgen cambios de mucho peso y lo que se vio fue una copia, y algo deslucida de la temporada pasada. En todas las líneas hubo fallos y casi nadie se salva de la hoguera, pero los que se lanzaron en ella sin pensar fueron Aleix Vidal y Gerard Deulofeu.

El lateral derecho del Barça nunca llegó y cuando el Madrid se percató de que no estaba sus ataques se centraron tanto de ese lado que puede que esté algo hundido. Nunca incordió a Marcelo ni pudo parar a un Isco gigante. Todos los duelos en defensa los perdió, tanto que por ahí llegaron los tres goles que el Madrid, y no fue apoyo de un Barcelona que al no ayudarse con las bandas se chocó una y otra vez contra una pared blanca en el centro y allí estuvo otro falló.

Deulofeu trató de ayudar mucho a Jordi Alba por la izquierda, pero no gravitó arriba ni fue de peso abajo. Su presencia hizo que se extrañara aún más a Neymar, que mientras hacía asistencias y goles casi a la misma hora, el español observaba impávido como unos tipos vestidos de turquesa le pasaban por encima pese a todo su esfuerzo. Para algunos partidos Valverde podrá confiar en Vidal y Deulofeu, pero para los grandes quedó en evidencia que tendrá que pensar mucho a quien deberá poner.

Cristiano estelar y banquillo de jerarquía

La ausencia de Cristiano Ronaldo aumentó más esa sensación de partido de pretemporada, no obstante cuando salió el duelo se volvió un Clásico. Metió miedo al público y al equipo catalán, casi marca de tijera, le anularon un gol y anotó otro de antología, de los que se repetirán en videos por siempre, y lo expulsaron de forma injusta, todo eso en algo más de 20 minutos. Su influencia fue vital y viniendo desde el banco hizo más estragos aún a la defensa del Barça.

No solo él, porque una de las grandes diferencias de este Madrid superior al Barcelona está en el banquillo. Marco Asencio entró como un rayo, además que marcó el tercer tanto dejó más retratada la labor de Bale y Benzema; y Lucas Vásquez, estuvo certero y asistió en el gol del balear. Valverde volteó al banquillo y no vio respuestas y las que creyó ver (entraron Denis Suárez, Sergi Roberto y Paco Alcacer) tampoco hicieron mucho ante un Madrid y probaron que la inferioridad no solo estuvo sobre el césped.

Messi se quedó solo

Los cambios en el Barcelona no funcionaron, pero lo que estuvo en el campo desde el inició tampoco lo hizo, solo Messi sacó la casta para intentar levantar a un equipo sumido en sus propios errores.

Luis Suárez no aportó nada más que fallos, broncas con compañeros y un buen teatro para inventar el penal; Gerard Piqué, tal vez concentrado en su próximo tweet, salió mal parado en los tres goles mostrándose lento y muy superado; y Andrés Iniesta, luciendo cansado y sin peso en el partido, no pareció aquel que llevó a España a la gloria en Sudáfrica 2010. Messi se esforzó pero ni el mejor puede solo sin un equipo que lo ayude. El fútbol solo lo puso él, mientras el resto se enfrascó en otras cosas. Aunque queda el partido de vuelta, la Supercopa luce más blanca que nunca, más si solo es Messi el que quiere ganarla.

Coutinho y Dembélé pueden palear un poco las tristezas blaugranas, pero serán paños calientes para un Barcelona herido que mucho debe cambiar, desde la parte de la gerencia, pasando por la dirección técnica y terminando en los jugadores, si en algún momento quiere volver a los primeros puestos.

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Cinema Legends Between 95-105 + Years Old Still Alive (as of 1/1/2020)

Here are the old timers that have made it to the new decade.

Ruthie Tompson - animator (b. 1910)

Renée Simonot - dubbing actress (b. 1911)

Katzumi Tezuka - actor (b. 1912)?

Viola Smith - musician, actress (b. 1912)

Pappukutty Bhagavathar - actor, singer (b. 1913) † 6/22/2020

Aldo Rossi - screenwriter, director (b. 1913) † 4/9/2020

Norman Lloyd - actor, producer, director (b. 1914)

Alfredo Varelli - actor (b. 1914)

Norman Spencer - producer (b. 1914)

Mary Ward - actress (b. 1915)

Giuseppe La Torre - cinematographer (b. 1915)

Rita Livesi - actress (b. 1915)

Olivia De Havilland - actress (b. 1916)

Kirk Douglas - actor (b. 1916) † 2/5/2020

Eric Bentley - screenwriter, playwright (b. 1916)

Beverly Cleary - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1916)

Jean Erdman - choreographer (b. 1916) † 5/4/2020

Ivy Baker - costume designer (b. 1916)

Anna Maria Bottini - actress (b. 1916)

Roberto Bruni - actor (b. 1916)

Lily Vincenti - actress (b. 1916)

Harriet Frank Jr. - screenwriter (b. 1917) † 1/28/2020

Vera Lynn - singer, actress (b. 1917) † 6/18/2020

Earl Cameron - actor (b. 1917)

Marsha Hunt - actress (b. 1917)

Suzy Delair - actress (b. 1917) † 3/15/2020

A. E. Hotchner - novelist, screenwriter, playwright (b. 1917) † 2/15/2020

Lise Nørgaard - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1917)

Anne Hegira - actress (b. 1917)

Don Marion Davis - actor (b. 1917)

Fabien Collin - director (b. 1917)

Bob Cunningham - actor (b. 1917)

Antonio Gradoli - actor (b. 1917)

Lucy Jarvis - producer (b. 1917) † 1/30/2020

Baby Peggy - actress (b. 1918) † 2/24/2020

Dusty Anderson - actress (b. 1918)

Doreen Turner - actress (b. 1918)

Jeanne Manet - actress (b. 1918)

Nino Borghi - production designer (b. 1918)

Jean Moussette - director, editor, cameraman (b. 1918)

Adriana Sivieri - actress (b. 1918)

René de Obaldia - playwright, screenwriter (b. 1918)

Tao Porchon-Lynch - actress (b. 1918) † 2/21/2020

Ida Schuster - actress (b. 1918) † 4/9/2020

Branka Veselinovic - actress (b. 1918)

Nehemiah Persoff - actor (b. 1919)

Walter Bernstein - screenwriter (b. 1919)

Marge Champion - actress, dancer (b. 1919)

Caren Marsh - dancer, actress (b. 1919)

Grace Albertson - actress (b. 1919)

Betty Brodel - singer, actress (b. 1919)

Alfie Scopp - actor (b. 1919)

Armin Dahlen - actor, director (b. 1919)

Jean Barker - editor (b. 1919)

Helge Robbert - cinematographer, director (b. 1919)

June Spencer - actress (b. 1919)

Helmuth Ashley - director, cinematographer (b. 1919)

Orlando Drummond - actor, voice actor (b. 1919)

Guido Gorgatti - actor (b. 1919)

Don Kennedy - actor (b. 1920)

Franca Valeri - actress (b. 1920)

Jack Edwards - actor (b. 1920)

Norma Barzman - screenwriter (b. 1920)

Sergio Mendizábal - actor (b. 1920)

Gudrun Parker - producer, director (b. 1920)

Doudou Babet - actress (b. 1920)

Susan Miller - actress (b. 1920)

Nicolette Bernard - actress (b. 1920)

Francis Rigaud - director, screenwriter (b. 1920)

Ann Triola - actress, singer (b. 1920)

Agnès Delahaie - producer (b. 1920)

Hilda Bernard - actress (b. 1920)

Gianrico Tedeschi - actor (b. 1920)

Arnold Yarrow - actor (b. 1920)

Diana Maggi - actress (b. 1920)

Jack Rader - actor (b. 1921)

Geoffrey Chater - actor (b. 1921)

Bill Butler - cinematographer (b. 1921)

Walter Mirisch - producer (b. 1921)

Tom Felleghy - actor (b. 1921)

Patricia Marmont - actress (b. 1921)

Carlo Lastricati - assistant director (b. 1921)

Grisha Dabat - screenwriter (b. 1921)

Herbert Kofer - actor (b. 1921)

Dobroslav Srámek - sound editor (b. 1921)

Yu Lan - actress (b. 1921) † 6/27/2020

Zygmunt Nowak - sound editor (b. 1921)

Miriam Nevo - actress (b. 1921)

John Aldred - sound mixer (b. 1921)

George Lefferts - producer, screenwriter (b. 1921)

Wally Campo - actor (b. 1921)

Derek Granger - producer (b. 1921)

Simone Berthier - actress (b. 1921)

Beulah Garrick - actress (b. 1921)

Betty White - actress (b. 1922)

Ray Anthony - musician, actor (b. 1922)

Carl Reiner - actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1922) † 6/29/2020

Margia Dea - actress (b. 1922)

Helen Mowery - actress (b. 1922)

Joan Copeland - actress (b. 1922)

Tony Charmoli - dancer, choreographer, director (b. 1922)

Charles Csuri - animator (b. 1922)

Norman Lear - producer (b. 1922)

Micheline Presle - actress (b. 1922)

Ivry Gitlis - violinist, actor (b. 1922)

Janis Paige - actress (b. 1922)

Bert I. Gordon - director (b. 1922)

Françoise Javet - editor (b. 1922)

Ebrahim Golestan - director (b. 1922)

Angel Wagenstein - screenwriter (b. 1922)

Jacqueline White - actress (b. 1922)

Paula Valenska - actress (b. 1922)

Ivan King - art director (b. 1922)

Maurice Delbez - director (b. 1922)

Christian Alers - actor (b. 1922)

Chandrashekhar - actor (b. 1922)

John Shirley - editor (b. 1922)

Dilip Kumar - actor (b. 1922)

Alan Scott - actor (b. 1922)

Qin Yi - actress (b. 1922)

Doreen Brownstone - actress (b. 1922)

Mariya Portnaya - animator (b. 1922)

Enrico Bomba - producer, director (b. 1922)

Rudolf Kovac - production designer (b. 1922)

Peter Berkos - sound editor (b. 1922)

Marcel Berbert - producer (b. 1922)

Raffaele La Capria - screenwriter (b. 1922)

Robert Fletcher - costume designer (b. 1922)

Jacqueline Duc - actress (b. 1922)

Martha Stewart - actress (b. 1922)

Eleonora Morana - actress (b. 1922)

Cate Bauer - voice actress (b. 1922)

Sydney Bettex - production designer (b. 1923)

Larry Storch - actor (b. 1923)

Rosita Fornes - actress (b. 1923) † 6/10/2020

Gloria Henry - actress (b. 1923)

Gene Reynolds - actor, screenwriter, producer, director (b. 1923) † 2/3/2020

Stan Waterman - producer, cinematographer (b. 1923)

Donald Elson - actor (b. 1923)

Paul Muller - actor (b. 1923)

Jaromír Janácek - editor (b. 1923)

Jimmy Lydon - child actor, producer (b. 1923)

Michael Medwin - actor, producer (b. 1923) † 2/26/2020

Val Bettin - actor (b. 1923)

Ralph Senensky - director (b. 1923)

Edward Ryan - actor (b. 1923)

Rhonda Fleming - actress (b. 1923)

Werner Lenz - cinematographer (b. 1923)

Glynis Johns - actress (b. 1923)

Nicholas Parsons - actor (b. 1923) † 1/28/2020

Józef Hen - screenwriter, novelist (b. 1923)

Bob Barker - game show host (b. 1923)

Mike Nussbaum - actor (b. 1923)

Vatroslav Mimica - director (b. 1923) † 2/15/2020

Kim Yaroshevskaya - actress (b. 1923)

Barbara Chilcott - actress (b. 1923)

Ruth Geller - actress (b. 1923)

Billy Watson - child actor (b. 1923)

Sam Gray - actor (b. 1923)

Patrick Gordon - actor (b. 1923)

Bernard Gersten - producer (b. 1923) † 4/27/2020

William Kraft - film composer (b. 1923)

Jo-Carroll Dennison - actress (b. 1923)

Norman Klenman - screenwriter (b. 1923)

Paul Harding - actor (b. 1923)

Brian Taylor - producer (b. 1923)

Bob Young - film composer (b. 1923)

Marie Harmon - actress (b. 1923)

Lynne Murphy - actress (b. 1923)

Alain Adair - actor (b. 1923)

Jean Gillespie - actress (b. 1923)

Eva Marie Saint - actress (b. 1924)

Cicely Tyson - actress (b. 1924)

Gene Deitch - animator, director, producer (b. 1924) † 4/17/2020

Robert M. Young - director (b. 1924)

Anne Vernon - actress (b. 1924)

Carole Cook - actress (b. 1924)

Noreen Nash - actress (b. 1924)

Leslie Phillips - actor (b. 1924)

Zizi Jeanmarie - dancer, actress (b. 1924)

Sheldon Harnick - lyricist (b. 1924)

Jane Morgan - actress, singer (b. 1924)

Priscilla Pointer - actress (b. 1924)

Andro Lustic - actor, screenwriter (b. 1924)

Leza Holland - director, screenwriter (b. 1924)

Espen Skjønberg - actor (b. 1924)

Gerard Schurmann - film composer (b. 1924) † 3/24/2020

Jutta Hering - editor (b. 1924)

Jan Chaloupek - editor (b. 1924)

Peg Murray - actress (b. 1924)

Bob Markell - producer, art director (b. 1924) † 1/25/2020

Lucine Amara - opera singer, actress (b. 1924)

Johnny Gilbert - announcer (b. 1924)

Lee Adams - lyricist (b. 1924)

Joyce Randolph - actress (b. 1924)

William Russell - actor (b. 1924)

Maria Riva - actress (b. 1924)

Marge Redmond - actress (b. 1924) † 2/10/2020

Jack Couffer - cinematographer (b. 1924)

Gerry O’Hara - director (b. 1924)

Mark Miller - actor (b. 1924)

Kenneth V. Jones - film composer (b. 1924)

Donnie Smith - child actor (b. 1924)

Barbara Collentine - actress (b. 1924)

Árni Tryggvason - actor (b. 1924)

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Cinema Legends Between 95-105 + Years Old Still Alive (as of 6/1/2019)

An overdue update:

Mario Sequi - director, screenwriter (b. 1910 or 1913)?

Ruthie Tompson - animator (b. 1910)

Renée Simonot - dubbing actress (b. 1911)

Urho Harkola - actor (b. 1911)

Katsumi Tezuka - actor (b. 1912)

Viola Smith - musician, actress (b. 1912)

Milton Quon - animator (b. 1913) † 6/22/2019

Julie Gibson - actress (b. 1913) † 10/2/2019

Pappukutty Bhagavathar - actor, singer (b. 1913)

Aldo Rossi - screenwriter, director (b. 1913)

Norman Lloyd - actor, producer, director (b. 1914)

Alfredo Varelli - actor (b. 1914)

Norman Spencer - producer (b. 1914)

Mary Ward - actress (b. 1915)

Giuseppe La Torre - cinematographer (b. 1915)

Rita Livesi - actress (b. 1915)

Olivia De Havilland - actress (b. 1916)

Kirk Douglas - actor (b. 1916)

Eric Bentley - screenwriter, playwright (b. 1916)

Elisa Stella - actress (b. 1916)

Beverly Cleary - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1916)

Jean Erdman - choreographer (b. 1916)

Ivy Baker - costume designer (b. 1916)

Anna Maria Bottini - actress (b. 1916)

Roberto Bruni - actor (b. 1916)

Lily Vincenti - actress (b. 1916)

Sumiko Mizukubo - actress (b. 1916)?

Harriet Frank Jr. - screenwriter (b. 1917)

Vera Lynn - singer, actress (b. 1917)

Earl Cameron - actor (b. 1917)

Marsha Hunt - actress (b. 1917)

Suzy Delair - actress (b. 1917)

Lise Nørgaard - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1917)

Anne Hegira - actress (b. 1917)

Don Marion Davis - actor (b. 1917)

Fabien Collin - director (b. 1917)

Bob Cunningham - actor (b. 1917)

Antonio Gradoli - actor (b. 1917)

Lucy Jarvis - producer (b. 1917)

Artur Brauner - producer (b. 1918) † 7/7/2019

Baby Peggy - actress (b. 1918)

Ivy Bethune - actress (b. 1918)

Dusty Anderson - actress (b. 1918)

Doreen Turner - actress (b. 1918)

Jeanne Manet - actress (b. 1918)

Nino Borghi - production designer (b. 1918)

Jean Moussette - director, editor, cameraman (b. 1918)

Adriana Sivieri - actress (b. 1918)

René de Obaldia - playwright, screenwriter (b. 1918)

Tao Porchon-Lynch - actress (b. 1918)

Ida Schuster - actress (b. 1918)

Branka Veselinovic - actress (b. 1918)

Maurice Marks - actor, stuntman (b. 1918)

Dave Bartholomew - musician, lyricist (b. 1918) † 6/23/2019

Sid Ramin - composer (b. 1919) † 7/1/2019

Nehemiah Persoff - actor (b. 1919)

Walter Bernstein - screenwriter (b. 1919)

Marge Champion - actress, dancer (b. 1919)

Joachim Tomaschewsky - actor (b. 1919)

Caren Marsh - dancer, actress (b. 1919)

Grace Albertson - actress (b. 1919)

Betty Brodel - singer, actress (b. 1919)

Sheila Mercier - actress (b. 1919) † 12/13/2019

Alfie Scopp - actor (b. 1919)

Helen Shingler - actress (b. 1919) † 10/8/2019

Doris Merrick - actress (b. 1919)

Armin Dahlen - actor, director (b. 1919)

Jean Barker - editor (b. 1919)

Helge Robbert - cinematographer, director (b. 1919)

June Spencer - actress (b. 1919)

Max Berliner - actor (b. 1919) † 8/26/2019

Helmuth Ashley - director, cinematographer (b. 1919)

Orlando Drummond - actor, voice actor (b. 1919)

Guido Gorgatti - actor (b. 1919)

Doris Merrick - actress (b. 1920)

Don Kennedy - actor (b. 1920)

Franca Valeri - actress (b. 1920)

Jack Edwards - actor (b. 1920)

Norma Barzman - screenwriter (b. 1920)

Sergio Mendizábal - actor (b. 1920)

A. E. Hotchner - novelist, screenwriter, playwright (b. 1920)

Gudrun Parker - producer, director (b. 1920)

Doudou Babet - actress (b. 1920)

Joan Ellacott - costume designer (b. 1920)

Vera Bergman - actress (b. 1920)

Susan Miller - actress (b. 1920)

Nicolette Bernard - actress (b. 1920)

Claude Accursi - screenwriter (b. 1920)

Francis Rigaud - director, screenwriter (b. 1920)

Ann Triola - actress, singer (b. 1920)

Agnès Delahaie - producer (b. 1920)

Edward Lewis - producer, screenwriter (b. 1920) † 7/27/2019

Hilda Bernard - actress (b. 1920)

Josip Elic - actor (b. 1921) † 10/21/2019

Ruth de Souza - actress (b. 1921) † 7/27/2019

Jack Rader - actor (b. 1921)

Geoffrey Chater - actor (b. 1921)

Bill Butler - cinematographer (b. 1921)

Walter Mirisch - producer (b. 1921)

Tom Felleghy - actor (b. 1921)

Patricia Marmont - actress (b. 1921)

Carlo Lastricati - assistant director (b. 1921)

Grisha Dabat - screenwriter (b. 1921)

Herbert Kofer - actor (b. 1921)

Dobroslav Srámek - sound editor (b. 1921)

Yu Lan - actress (b. 1921)

Zygmunt Nowak - sound editor (b. 1921)

Miriam Nevo - actress (b. 1921)

John Aldred - sound mixer (b. 1921)

George Lefferts - producer, screenwriter (b. 1921)

Wally Campo - actor (b. 1921)

Derek Granger - producer (b. 1921)

Herbert Westbrook - art director, production designer (b. 1921)

Simone Berthier - actress (b. 1921)

Betty White - actress (b. 1922)

Ray Anthony - musician, actor (b. 1922)

Carl Reiner - actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1922)

Margia Dea - actress (b. 1922)

Helen Mowery - actress (b. 1922)

Bill Macy - actor (b. 1922) † 10/17/2019

Joan Copeland - actress (b. 1922)

Tony Charmoli - dancer, choreographer, director (b. 1922)

Charles Csuri - animator (b. 1922)

Norman Lear - producer (b. 1922)

Micheline Presle - actress (b. 1922)

Ivry Gitlis - violinist, actor (b. 1922)

Janis Paige - actress (b. 1922)

Bert I. Gordon - director (b. 1922)

Françoise Javet - editor (b. 1922)

Ebrahim Golestan - director (b. 1922)

Ethmer Roten - film score musician (b. 1922)

Angel Wagenstein - screenwriter (b. 1922)

Gershon Kingsley - film composer (b. 1922) † 12/10/2019

Jacqueline White - actress (b. 1922)

Paula Valenska - actress (b. 1922)

Ivan King - art director (b. 1922)

Maurice Delbez - director (b. 1922)

Christian Alers - actor (b. 1922)

Mona Lisa - actress (b. 1922) † 8/25/2019

Chandrashekhar - actor (b. 1922)

John Shirley - editor (b. 1922)

Dilip Kumar - actor (b. 1922)

Alan Scott - actor (b. 1922)

Qin Yi - actress (b. 1922)

Doreen Brownstone - actress (b. 1922)

Mariya Portnaya - animator (b. 1922)

Enrico Bomba - producer, director (b. 1922)

Agustina Bessa-Luís - playwright, screenwriter (b. 1922) † 6/3/2019

Terence Kelly - actor (b. 1922)

Vladimir Etush - actor (b. 1922)

Rudolf Kovac - production designer (b. 1922)

Peter Berkos - sound editor (b. 1922)

Marcel Berbert - producer (b. 1922)

Raffaele La Capria - screenwriter (b. 1922)

Robert Fletcher - costume designer (b. 1922)

Jacqueline Duc - actress (b. 1922)

Martha Stewart - actress (b. 1922)

Eleonora Morana - actress (b. 1922)

Sydney Bettex - production designer (b. 1923)

Larry Storch - actor (b. 1923)

Valentina Cortese - actress (b. 1923) † 7/10/2019

Rosita Fornes - actress (b. 1923)

Franco Zeffirelli - director (b. 1923) † 6/15/2019

Gloria Henry - actress (b. 1923)

Gene Reynolds - actor, screenwriter, producer, director (b. 1923)

Stan Waterman - producer, cinematographer (b. 1923)

Donald Elson - actor (b. 1923)

Paul Muller - actor (b. 1923)

Jaromír Janácek - editor (b. 1923)

Elizabeth Sellars - actress (b. 1923) † 12/28/2019

Jimmy Lydon - child actor, producer (b. 1923)

Michael Medwin - actor, producer (b. 1923)

Val Bettin - actor (b. 1923)

Ralph Senensky - director (b. 1923)

Edward Ryan - actor (b. 1923)

Rhonda Fleming - actress (b. 1923)

Werner Lenz - cinematographer (b. 1923)

Glynis Johns - actress (b. 1923)

Nicholas Parsons - actor (b. 1923)

Józef Hen - screenwriter, novelist (b. 1923)

Bob Barker - game show host (b. 1923)

Mike Nussbaum - actor (b. 1923)

Vatroslav Mimica - director (b. 1923)

Kim Yaroshevskaya - actress (b. 1923)

Barbara Chilcott - actress (b. 1923)

Ruth Geller - actress (b. 1923)

Billy Watson - child actor (b. 1923)

Sam Gray - actor (b. 1923)

Patrick Gordon - actor (b. 1923)

Bernard Gersten - producer (b. 1923)

William Kraft - film composer (b. 1923)

Jo-Carroll Dennison - actress (b. 1923)

Norman Klenman - screenwriter (b. 1923)

Anne Vernon - actress (b. 1924)

Carole Cook - actress (b. 1924)

Noreen Nash - actress (b. 1924)

Leslie Phillips - actor (b. 1924)

Eric Pleskow - producer (b. 1924) † 10/1/2019

Zizi Jeanmarie - dancer, actress (b. 1924)

Sheldon Harnick - lyricist (b. 1924)

Jane Morgan - actress, singer (b. 1924)

Priscilla Pointer - actress (b. 1924)

Andro Lustic - actor, screenwriter (b. 1924)

Leza Holland - director, screenwriter (b. 1924)

Espen Skjønberg - actor (b. 1924)

Gerard Schurmann - film composer (b. 1924)

Jutta Hering - editor (b. 1924)

Jan Chaloupek - editor (b. 1924)

Peg Murray - actress (b. 1924)

Bob Markell - producer, art director (b. 1924)

Lucine Amara - opera singer, actress (b. 1924)

[dannyreviews]

Cinema Legends Between 95-105 + Years Old Still Alive (as of 1/1/2019)

Here are the following old timers that made it into the new year.

Mario Sequi - director, screenwriter (b. 1910 or 1913)?

Ruthie Tompson - animator (b. 1910)

Yuaka Sada - actor (b. 1911)

Renée Simonot - dubbing actress (b. 1911)

Urho Harkola - actor (b. 1911)

Katsumi Tezuka - actor (b. 1912)

Viola Smith - musician, actress (b. 1912)

Milton Quon - animator (b. 1913)

Julie Gibson - actress (b. 1913)

Pappukutty Bhagavathar - actor, singer (b. 1913)

Aldo Rossi - screenwriter, director (b. 1913)?

Norman Lloyd - actor, producer, director (b. 1914)

Fred Fox - soundtrack musician (b. 1914) † 5/21/2019

Alfredo Varelli - actor (b. 1914)

Norman Spencer - producer (b. 1914)

Mary Ward - actress (b. 1915)

Herman Wouk - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1915) † 5/17/2019

Giuseppe La Torre - cinematographer (b. 1915)

Rita Livesi - actress (b. 1915)

Mag Bodard - producer (b. 1916) † 2/28/2019

Olivia De Havilland - actress (b. 1916)

Kirk Douglas - actor (b. 1916)

Eric Bentley - screenwriter, playwright (b. 1916)

Elisa Stella - actress (b. 1916)

Beverly Cleary - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1916)

Jean Erdman - choreographer (b. 1916)

Ivy Baker - costume designer (b. 1916)

Anna Maria Bottini - actress (b. 1916)

Roberto Bruni - actor (b. 1916)

Lily Vincenti - actress (b. 1916)

Sumiko Mizukubo - actress (b. 1916)?

Harriet Frank Jr. - screenwriter (b. 1917)

Vera Lynn - singer, actress (b. 1917)

Earl Cameron - actor (b. 1917)

Marsha Hunt - actress (b. 1917)

Suzy Delair - actress (b. 1917)

Lise Nørgaard - novelist, screenwriter (b. 1917)

Hilde Zadek - opera singer, actress (b. 1917) † 2/21/2019

Anne Hegira - actress (b. 1917)

Don Marion Davis - actor (b. 1917)

Fabien Collin - director (b. 1917)

Bob Cunningham - actor (b. 1917)

Antonio Gradoli - actor (b. 1917)

Lucy Jarvis - producer (b. 1917)

Fay McKenzie - actress (b. 1918) † 4/16/2019

Artur Brauner - producer (b. 1918)

Baby Peggy - actress (b. 1918)

Ivy Bethune - actress (b. 1918)

Dusty Anderson - actress (b. 1918)

Guje Lagerwall - actress (b. 1918) † 1/8/2019

Doreen Turner - actress (b. 1918)

Jeanne Manet - actress (b. 1918)

Nino Borghi - production designer (b. 1918)

Jean Moussette - director, editor, cameraman (b. 1918)

Adriana Sivieri - actress (b. 1918)

René de Obaldia - playwright, screenwriter (b. 1918)

Tao Porchon-Lynch - actress (b. 1918)

Ida Schuster - actress (b. 1918)

Branka Veselinovic - actress (b. 1918)

Maurice Marks - actor, stuntman (b. 1918)

Dave Bartholomew - musician, lyricist (b. 1918)

Sid Ramin - composer (b. 1919)

Nehemiah Persoff - actor (b. 1919)

Walter Bernstein - screenwriter (b. 1919)

Marge Champion - actress, dancer (b. 1919)

Joachim Tomaschewsky - actor (b. 1919)

Caren Marsh - dancer, actress (b. 1919)

Grace Albertson - actress (b. 1919)

Betty Brodel - singer, actress (b. 1919)

Sheila Mercier - actress (b. 1919)

Norma Miller - dancer, actress (b. 1919) † 5/6/2019

Alfie Scopp - actor (b. 1919)

Helen Shingler - actress (b. 1919)

Doris Merrick - actress (b. 1919)

Armin Dahlen - actor, director (b. 1919)

Jean Barker - editor (b. 1919)

Helge Robbert - cinematographer, director (b. 1919)

June Spencer - actress (b. 1919)

Max Berliner - actor (b. 1919)

Doris Merrick - actress (b. 1920)

Don Kennedy - actor (b. 1920)

Noah Keen - actor (b. 1920) † 3/24/2019

Victor Platt - actor (b. 1920)

Kate Murtagh - actress (b. 1920)

Franca Valeri - actress (b. 1920)

Jack Edwards - actor (b. 1920)

Norma Barzman - screenwriter (b. 1920)

Sergio Mendizábal - actor (b. 1920)

A. E. Hotchner - novelist, screenwriter, playwright (b. 1920)

Gudrun Parker - producer, director (b. 1920)

Doudou Babet - actress (b. 1920)

Joan Ellacott - costume designer (b. 1920)

Vera Bergman - actress (b. 1920)

Susan Miller - actress (b. 1920)

Nicolette Bernard - actress (b. 1920)

Claude Accursi - screenwriter (b. 1920)

Francis Rigaud - director, screenwriter (b. 1920)

Ann Triola - actress, singer (b. 1920)

Agnès Delahaie - producer (b. 1920)

Edward Lewis - producer, screenwriter (b. 1920)

Hilda Bernard - actress (b. 1920)

Carol Channing - actress (b. 1921) † 1/15/2019

Josip Elic - actor (b. 1921)

Ruth de Souza - actress (b. 1921)

Jack Rader - actor (b. 1921)

Geoffrey Chater - actor (b. 1921)

Bill Butler - cinematographer (b. 1921)

Muriel Pavlow - actress (b. 1921) † 1/19/2019

Walter Mirisch - producer (b. 1921)

Tom Felleghy - actor (b. 1921)

Teddi Sherman - screenwriter (b. 1921) † 1/16/2019

Patricia Marmont - actress (b. 1921)

Carlo Lastricati - assistant director (b. 1921)

Grisha Dabat - screenwriter (b. 1921)

Herbert Kofer - actor (b. 1921)

Dobroslav Srámek - sound editor (b. 1921)

Yu Lan - actress (b. 1921)

Zygmunt Nowak - sound editor (b. 1921)

Miriam Nevo - actress (b. 1921)

John Aldred - sound mixer (b. 1921)

George Lefferts - producer, screenwriter (b. 1921)

Wally Campo - actor (b. 1921)

Derek Granger - producer (b. 1921)

Herbert Westbrook - art director, production designer (b. 1921)

Betty White - actress (b. 1922)

Ray Anthony - musician, actor (b. 1922)

Carl Reiner - actor, director, screenwriter (b. 1922)

Doris Day - actress, singer (b. 1922) † 5/13/2019

Margia Dea - actress (b. 1922)

Helen Mowery - actress (b. 1922)

Bill Macy - actor (b. 1922)

Joan Copeland - actress (b. 1922)

Bibi Ferreira - actress (b. 1922) † 2/13/2019

Tony Charmoli - dancer, choreographer, director (b. 1922)

Charles Csuri - animator (b. 1922)

Norman Lear - producer (b. 1922)

Micheline Presle - actress (b. 1922)

Ivry Gitlis - violinist, actor (b. 1922)

Janis Paige - actress (b. 1922)

Bert I. Gordon - director (b. 1922)

Peter Hughes - actor (b. 1922) † 2/5/2019

Françoise Javet - editor (b. 1922)

Ebrahim Golestan - director (b. 1922)

Ethmer Roten - film score musician (b. 1922)

Angel Wagenstein - screenwriter (b. 1922)

Gershon Kingsley - film composer (b. 1922)

Jacqueline White - actress (b. 1922)

Jonas Mekas - director (b. 1922) † 1/23/2019

Paula Valenska - actress (b. 1922)

Ivan King - art director (b. 1922)

Maurice Delbez - director (b. 1922)

Christian Alers - actor (b. 1922)

Mona Lisa - actress (b. 1922)

Chandrashekhar - actor (b. 1922)

John Shirley - editor (b. 1922)

Dilip Kumar - actor (b. 1922)

Alan Scott - actor (b. 1922)

Qin Yi - actress (b. 1922)

Doreen Brownstone - actress (b. 1922)

Mariya Portnaya - animator (b. 1922)

Enrico Bomba - producer, director (b. 1922)

Agustina Bessa-Luís - playwright, screenwriter (b. 1922)

Terence Kelly - actor (b. 1922)

Vladimir Etush - actor (b. 1922)

Rudolf Kovac - production designer (b. 1922)

Peter Berkos - sound editor (b. 1922)

Marcel Berbert - producer (b. 1922)

Raffaele La Capria - screenwriter (b. 1922)

Robert Fletcher - costume designer (b. 1922)

Jacqueline Duc - actress (b. 1922)

Sydney Bettex - production designer (b. 1923)

Larry Storch - actor (b. 1923)

Valentina Cortese - actress (b. 1923)

Rosita Fornes - actress (b. 1923)

Franco Zeffirelli - director (b. 1923)

Gloria Henry - actress (b. 1923)

Gene Reynolds - actor, screenwriter, producer, director (b. 1923)

Stan Waterman - producer, cinematographer (b. 1923)

Donald Elson - actor (b. 1923)

Paul Muller - actor (b. 1923)

Jaromír Janácek - editor (b. 1923)

Elizabeth Sellars - actress (b. 1923)

Jimmy Lydon - child actor, producer (b. 1923)

Peggy Stewart - actress (b. 1923) † 5/29/2019

Michael Medwin - actor, producer (b. 1923)

Val Bettin - actor (b. 1923)

Ralph Senensky - director (b. 1923)

Edward Ryan - actor (b. 1923)

Rhonda Fleming - actress (b. 1923)

Werner Lenz - cinematographer (b. 1923)

Glynis Johns - actress (b. 1923)

Nicholas Parsons - actor (b. 1923)

Józef Hen - screenwriter, novelist (b. 1923)

Bob Barker - game show host (b. 1923)

Mike Nussbaum - actor (b. 1923)

Vatroslav Mimica - director (b. 1923)

Kim Yaroshevskaya - actress (b. 1923)

Barbara Chilcott - actress (b. 1923)

Ruth Geller - actress (b. 1923)

Billy Watson - child actor (b. 1923)

Sam Gray - actor (b. 1923)

Patrick Gordon - actor (b. 1923)

Bernard Gersten - producer (b. 1923)