#jeannie stevens

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Night of the Ghouls (1959)

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1960s Sitcom Couples and Throuples!

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Remembering Jeannie Epper 1941-2024

Actress and stuntwoman Jeannie Epper has died at 83. If you haven't seen it yet, she is one of the subjects of the documentary Double Dare. Great doc!

She acted and/or did stunts in countless films and TV show notably Foxy Brown (that's her in the barroom brawl), Switchblade Sisters, Lynda Carter's double on Wonder Woman (CBS 1975-79), The Fugitive, Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Minority Report (one of a number of Steven Spielberg collaborations), and QT's Kill Bill: Vol. 2 as Mrs. Harmony.

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July 16th is the 19th anniversary of the show premiering on the SyFy Channel here in the States. Just a heads up that I'm planning on posting nothing but SGA and I'm even going to attempt to get my creative juices back online and make some new things in celebration of the day. (It's been a while, I admit.)

And, of course, everyone is absolutely invited to join in the fun!

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"You can't just love something. You also have to take care of it."

The Fabelmans (2022) Directed by Steven Spielberg Cinematography by Janusz Kamiński

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The Fabelmans

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You do what your heart says you have to. 'Cause you don't owe anyone your life. Not even me.

The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg (2022)

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Los Fabelman… Los Años Maravillosos.

No cabe duda como en anteriores ocasiones lo he mencionado, ROMA de Alfonso Cuarón ha sido todo un parte aguas, a tal grado que ha influenciado a directores para hacer una revisión de su vida y dedicar una película a sus años más amados. Los Fabelman es un viaje en el mismo sentido, los años maravillosos de Steven Spielberg. (more…) “”

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Films Watched in 2023:

19. The Fabelmans (2022) - Dir. Steven Spielberg

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The Fabelmans (2022, dir. Steven Spielberg) - review by Rookie-Critic

The Fabelmans was better than I was anticipating it to be. It wasn't the perfect movie, and Spielberg has a tendency to lean a little too much into the big sweeping moments of triumph or emotion. This was something that really worked for the big spectacle movies of his heyday (i.e. E.T., Close Encounters, etc.), but hasn't necessarily aged well and kind of detracts from those moments now more than adds to them. The whole movie also has what I've been calling the "Spielberg Sheen." It's not something I really know how to describe, but I feel like if you've seen any of Spielberg's films post-Munich you get what I'm talking about. It is beautiful and gives a lot of the movie a dream-like quality (I'm not entirely sure if that was the desired effect or, if it was, what significance that holds, but that's the impression I got from it). It's mostly innocuous, but I felt myself becoming distracted by it a lot, and I'm not certain that's a good thing.

However, the story surprised me. You walk into a Steven Spielberg movie expecting a certain sentimentality, at least, a lot of the most popular Spielberg films carry that frame of mind. I was expecting Fabelmans to have a lot of that sentimentality towards the art of making movies, the trailers sure marketed the film that way. However, while definitely having its moments of sentimentality, this takes the approach of showing a slightly uglier side of the artist's struggle. The ways in which the artist's brain can take instead of give, how the total dedication to a craft has the ability to consume and shut out, and that a happy ending one way doesn't necessarily mean a happy ending all around. It's an interesting, darker (albeit slightly) side to Spielberg's film making, one that doesn't come out but maybe once every 5th or 6th film. We saw it in Munich, you see it in Jaws, if you go real far back into his catalogue you can see it in a TV movie he did called Duel, and, although it wears the mask of his more grand movies, you can see it in The Fabelmans as well. Spielberg is undoubtedly a great director, and I wish he'd feel a little less beholden to himself sometimes and really allow his movies to breath their own air outside of just being quite-so "Spielbergian," because the best parts of The Fabelmans are the parts where he breaks away from that mold, and it puts it right on the borderline of being great.

Score: 7/10

Currently only in theaters.

Shoutouts to Seth Rogen and Paul Dano, who really stand out. Also, to David Lynch, who really steals the show in the final scene of the movie.

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The Fabelmans

★★★★★ En las navidades de 1982, un niño de diez años salió de casa una tarde de viernes enfundado en su abrigo austriaco camino del cine. Manos en los bolsillos y con el dinero de la entrada apretado en su puñito derecho. La película era E. T. el extraterrestre, el cine era el ya difunto Vistarama y aquel niño, que acudía por primera vez él solo a ver una película y regresó hechizado por lo que…

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The Black Ghost (Jeannie Stevens) in Night of the Ghouls (1959)

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A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG BOYCHIK

In theaters for Thanksgiving (a safe and Happy Thanksgiving, by the way!):

The Fabelmans--It begins with little Sammy Fabelman being taken to his first movie, in New Jersey in 1952. A cautious, slightly fretful 7-year-old, Sammy (Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord) is not sure if he's up for the experience; he's heard the people onscreen are gigantic, and the idea worries him. So his adoring parents attempt to reassure him, from opposite sides: his practical-minded, scientific dad Burt (Paul Dano) explains how film works technically, while his whimsical pixie of a mom Mitzi (Michelle Williams) says that movies are beautiful dreams.

The dream in question turns out to be DeMille's The Greatest Show on Earth, and the big train wreck scene hits Sammy's psyche like...well, like a speeding train. He tries to re-create it with the Lionel train set he gets for Hannukah, and later he films his re-creations with a home movie camera.

As you probably know, this is Steven Spielberg's autobiographical coming-of-age movie, scripted by Tony Kushner from a synopsis they worked up together, and made by the usual gang: filmed by Janusz Kaminski with a score by John Williams. The episodes that follow depict the family's life as Burt, a computer genius, chases work in the budding industry from New Jersey to Arizona, where Sammy makes war epics, to northern California, where he encounters anti-Semitic bullies.

Mitzi, who gave up a career as a concert pianist to be a wife and mom, shows signs of restlessness and depression, except when she's interacting with Burt's best friend Bennie (Seth Rogen), or when she impulsively buys a monkey, who she names Bennie. All of these strands are filtered through the growth of the relationship between Sam (Gabriel LaBelle as an older kid) and the art and craft of moviemaking.

Even though he's one of the most commercially successful popular artists in the world, I think that Spielberg has, in a sense, been critically underappreciated for decades. After the initial, unprecedented splash he made with Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. and Raiders of the Lost Ark, he went through a slump in the late '80s and early '90s and cranked out some real bummers; cloying, heavy-handed, trying-too-hard stuff like Hook and Always that made him seem like a phony.

I'm not sure that many critics noticed the way he rediscovered and deepened and sharpened his style with the films he's made in recent years, even when their scripts have sometimes been uneven. Works that range with seemingly equal ease from crisp yet almost invisible technique like The Post to Hitchcockian panache like Bridge of Spies to flashy showmanship like West Side Story suggest an artist who has matured, and who might have something interesting to say about his own life.

And so he does, by turning his gaze outward. Sammy is likable enough, but he's not a rich or idiosyncratic protagonist. What's important is his point of view on Burt and Mitzi. Spielberg here dramatizes the anger and terror, the sense of betrayal, that can result when you begin to see your parents--as Sammy does through his footage of them, while editing home movies--not as stock figures in your story but as complex characters in their own.

And Dano and Williams create vivid, warm portraits of imperfect but unconditionally loving people. So does Rogen, and so does Judd Hirsch in a showcase role as a crazy visionary uncle who tells Sammy hard prophetic truths. So do Jeannie Berlin and Robin Bartlett as the Grandmas, and so do the excellent kids who play the younger sisters. So for that matter, does the monkey.

Not everything in The Fabelmans comes off. There's maybe a scene or two more than is needed of Williams sadly playing sad piano, and the stuff with the bullies, who look like they stepped out of Nazi poster art, feels psychologically confused and uneasy. A scene in which Sammy has a fraught confrontation with a bully he's tried to flatter through moviemaking is potentially interesting for what it hints at about the director's willingness to use his art calculatingly, but it thrashes around and fails, somehow, to come into dramatic focus.

On the other hand, the scenes involving Sammy's early romantic encounters are livened up by the hilarious Chloe East as Monica, his both religiously ecstatic and sexually avid girlfriend, who sees Jesus as one more teen heartthrob. While chaste in the typical Spielbergian manner, they offer a peek at the character's, and the director's, bemused reaction to Christianity.

The movie closes with a depiction of Spielberg's familiar anecdote about his first brush with Hollywood greatness. It allows him to end the film with a self-deprecating "meta" joke that also slyly reminds us that what we've just seen, however honestly intended, is nonetheless a carefully curated official story.

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July 2024 Birthdays | Monday, 07.01.24

Down below are this month's list of upcoming birthdays in the month of July 2024, including:

Monday, 7/1

Rino Romano (voice of Batman and Spider-Man; 55th birthday today!)

Wednesday, 7/3

Jill Harris (30th birthday this Wednesday; voiced Rikka Takarada in SSSS.Gridman)

Sarah Wiedenheft

Thursday, 7/4

Ursula Taherian (voice of Tawna Bandicoot in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time/Crash Team Rumble)

Saturday, 7/6

Erik Scott Kimerer

Monday, 7/8

Rachel Lillis

Xander Mobus

Tuesday, 7/9

Fred Savage (voice of Noah Nixon Generator Rex)

Kira Vincent-Davis (45th birthday next week)

Tyler Walker

Wednesday, 7/10

Gwendoline Yeo (voice of Hamato Karai in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Thursday, 7/11

Cristina Vee

Jason Liebrecht

Friday, 7/12

Christine Marie Cabanos

Saturday, 7/13

Kari Wahlgren

Sandy Fox

Tom Kenny (voice of both SpongeBob Squarepants and Spyro the Dragon in their respective series)

Sunday, 7/14

Mike McFarland

Tuesday, 7/16

Kira Buckland

Philece Sampler

Friday, 7/19

Cherami Leigh

Jeannie Tirado

Reuben Langdon

Saturday, 7/20

Carlos Alazraqui (voiced Rocko Rama in Rocko's Modern Life and Lazlo in Camp Lazlo)

Sunday, 7/21

Allison Sumrall

Monday, 7/22

James Arnold Taylor (55th birthday coming soon)

Tuesday, 7/23

Blake Shepard

Dani Chambers

David Kaufman (voice of Danny Fenton/Danny Phantom)

Thursday, 7/25

Dave B. Mitchell (voice of Knuckles the Echidna since 2019; 55th birthday soon)

Saturday, 7/27

Felecia Angelle

Monday, 7/29

Emily Neves

Richard Steven Horvitz (voice of Zim in Invader Zim)

Tuesday, 7/30

Jerry Jewell (voice of Principal Nezu in My Hero Academia)

Wednesday, 7/31

Mela Lee

Wally Kurth (voice of Agent Six in Generator Rex)

Enjoy the rest of July and stay tuned for Anime Expo 2024 available between Thursday, July 4 through Sunday, July 7/7! Can't wait to see a look of Sonic X Shadow Generations: Dark Beginnings (produced under Studio Giggex), an anime short promoting the upcoming Sonic X Shadow Generations remaster of Sonic Generations releasing this October.

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New works featured in UW-Stevens Point’s 'Danstage 2024'

STEVENS POINT _ Featuring new dance works by faculty and guest artists, “Danstage 2024” will conclude the spring University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Department of Theatre and Dance season with performances May 3-5. “Danstage 2024” will be held at 7:30 p.m. May 3-4 and at 2 p.m. May 4-5 in the Studio Theater. This year’s concerts feature new choreography by Assistant Professor Sarah Olson,…

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jeannie berlin acting in a spielberg semi autobiographical film is so funny considering her mother trashed on ET one time lol