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"DAVID COPPERFIELD" (2000) Review

"DAVID COPPERFIELD" (2000) Review

For the past eight to nine months, I have been increasingly obsessed with Charles Dickens . . . namely television and movie adaptations of his novels and stories. Many may not find this odd, but I do, considering my previous disregard of his writing. Yes, I have seen various Dickens adaptations over the years. But for nearly a year, I have viewed many Dickens adaptations with a vengeance, including the 2000 made-for-television adaptation of his 1850 novel, "DAVID COPPERFIELD".

This adaptation of "David Copperfield" was a joint American-Irish production that had two Britons - John Davis and Greg Smith; along with an American named Robert A. Halmi serving as the film's producers. However, the director, Peter Medak, shot the movie in Ireland. Starring Hugh Dancy in the title role, "DAVID COPPERFIELD" told the story of an English author living in Switzerland, as he recounts his life up to that point from his childhood to early adulthood.

While living in Switzerland, David Copperfield has a chance encounter with his stepfather, the brutal Edward Murdstone, who seemed to be courting a wealthy young Englishwoman. David uses this encounter to write his autobiography, beginning with his birth some six months after his father's death. David recalls his widowed mother and the family's kind housekeeper Clara Peggotty raising him in an ideal setting. Following his and Peggotty's visit to the latter's family in Yarmouth, they return to discover Mrs. Copperfield's marriage to the harsh Mr. Murdstone. They also meet the latter's equally loathsome sister, Jane Murdstone. After a physical encounter with Mr. Murdstone, the latter enrolls David into a boarding school under a ruthless headmaster named Mr. Creakle. This decision sets David's journey in motion in which he makes new friends, forms new enemies and finds love as he matures into adulthood.

Dickens had regarded his 1850 novel as one of his favorite, regarding it as a strong similarity to his own life. Knowing a bit about the author's life, I found this assessment of his a bit hard to swallow. Perhaps this was wishful thinking on Dickens' part? Who knows. But I must admit that his story seemed first-class and the beginning of a more mature approach to his writing. This 2000 television movie seemed to reflect both qualities of Dickens' novel. Although I believe "DAVID COPPERFIELD" seems like a very faithful adaptation of the novel, I believe it is not as close to the latter as some might have believed it should.

I had a few issues with the movie. One, I believe it had made the mistake of closely following the 1935 movie adaptation, produced by David O. Selznick. I thought it had merely paid lip service to the story arc involving David's schoolfriend James Steerforth and Emily Peggotty and her family. In fact, most of the story involving this arc happened off-screen, much to my disappointment. Also, screenwriter John Goldsmith had reduced law clerk Uriah Heep's complex embezzlement scheme to a simple one involving stolen diamonds. Perhaps that is why this particular plotline seemed as if it had come out of the blue to simply serve as the character's downfall. In fact, the movie's last twenty-to-thirty minutes seemed very rushed to me. I also had one or two issues regarding the casting, but I will later touch upon it.

Despite my issues with parts of the movie's screenplay, I cannot deny that I had enjoyed "DAVID COPPERFIELD". I realized this is not the first or last adaptation of Dickens' novel, but it proved to be the first adaptation I have viewed. Like I said . . . I enjoyed it. Between Goldsmith's screenplay and Peter Medak's direction, I believe the movie took care to set up David's story as a flashback, using his encounter with his old foe as a means to kick start the narrative. "DAVID COPPERFIELD" proved to be a solid, yet entertaining story about the protagonist's coming-of-age, through his experiences - good, bad and tragic, and the people he met. I honestly thought I would be bored with this movie at least thirty minutes into the story. But I found myself both intrigued and entertained.

Also, it seemed a miracle that the David Copperfield character had not been overshadowed by the more colorful ones that appeared in this story. One has to credit Hugh Darcy for his skillful, yet emotional portrayal of the movie's protagonist. The actor had received a few negative reviews from critics who thought he had given a weak performance. I . . . have no idea on how to respond to that. I was more than satisfied with his performance.

"DAVID COPPERFIELD" also featured some very competent performances from the rest of the cast. Max Dolbey proved to be effective as the young David. Both Anthony Andrews and Eileen Atkins provided plenty of subtle menace as the cruel Murdstone siblings. Both Emily Hamilton and Julie Cox gave charming performances as David's two potential love interests - Agnes Wickfield and Dora Spinlow. Judy Cornwell and Nigel Davenport gave skillful performances as the Copperfields' housekeeper Clara Peggotty and her solid and dependable brother, Dan Peggotty. Dudley Sutton proved to be both charming and eccentric as Aunt Betsy Trotwood's close friend and tenant. The movie also featured solid performances from the likes of Lesley Manville, Oliver Ford Davies, Edward Hardwicke, Freddie Jones and Simon Delaney.

The two Americans in the cast for "DAVID COPPERFIELD" - Sally Field and Michael Richards - had received a good deal of criticism for their performances. Frankly, I can honestly say that such criticism were unwarranted. At least in my eyes. Granted, it seemed odd hearing that comical voice emitting from Field's mouth, when she first appeared as Aunt Betsey Trotwood. But in the end, I rather enjoyed her performance. I also enjoyed Michael Richards' performance as the genial, yet unreliable law clerk Wilkins Micawber. But I must admit there were a few times when the actor had allowed his Cosmo Kramer character from the television series, "SEINFELD" creep into his performance every now and then. Paul Bettany made a first-rate James Steerforth. It seemed a pity that the movie had given him very little screen time. I also feel the same about Sarah Farooqui and Anna Maguire, who had portrayed both the adult and young Emily Piggotty. We finally come to Frank McCusker's performance as the villain in the story's second half - Uriah Heep. I thought McCusker gave a skillful portrayal of the character. But at the same time, I found his performance rather exaggerated at times . . . bordering on cartoonish.

"DAVID COPPERFIELD" featured some lovely cinematography, thanks to Elemér Ragályi's colorful photography of the Irish locations. Michael Pickwoad's photography and Josie MacAvin's set decorations did a great job in re-creating early Victorian Britain. And I must admit that I really enjoyed Joan Bergin's costume designs. Most of the narrative for "DAVID COPPERFIELD" is supposed to be set in the 1840s, but the images below seemed to hint at a late 1850s or early 1860s setting for this particular film:

Overall, "DAVID COPPERFIELD" proved to be an entertaining adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1850 novel. Granted, I had some issues with the movie's decision to push most of the James Steerforth and Emily Peggotty arc off-screen and the simplification of Uriah Heep's scheme. Otherwise, I really enjoyed the movie, thanks to Peter Medak's direction, John Goldsmith's screenplay and a very skillful cast led by Hugh Dancy in the title role.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

Imogen and Twinka at Yosemite (1974) by Judy Dater

[carewyncromwell]

"I don't really need this in my life... Why don't we forget about it? (Go and take your soul...) (Go and take your soul...)

Thing is -- (Thing is -- ) Time was -- (Time was --) Part of me used to love you: Part of me still does... This light here -- Some become strangers..."

~"Some Become Strangers" by Stevie Nicks

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Carewyn's dress inspiration // the other main song I listened to while drawing this

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So I thoroughly blame @dat-silvers-girl for this...but while talking with her about my recent Evan Bach post, I mentioned that since Evan and the remainder of his family is in Westminster, just south of London, and Carewyn ends up settling in London to work for the Ministry of Magic, there would be a very good chance that the two could cross paths, even unknowingly.

When Evan was taking the Tube to work one day as usual, though, he did cross paths with Carewyn -- and on his end, at least, it was very knowingly. What first caught his attention was the teenage boy in his train car talking to someone on his other side.

"Ms. Cromwell? You okay?"

It was the name "Cromwell" that caught Evan's attention. He'd heard it more than once before, of course -- it was a relatively common surname -- but it still made him start every time, since it was Lane's maiden name. And according to that frankly kind of meddlesome witch Donna, Evan knew that his children had gone back to using that surname too, rather than his. When he looked up this time, though, he was confronted with the sight of the teenage boy standing on the train talking to a well-dressed young woman with ginger-red hair, sitting down a short ways away and holding her forehead in her hand.

"Mm...yes," she said lowly, after a moment. She forced a small ruby red smile as she looked up at him. "I just haven't...been in such tight proximity with so many people, in a while. It's...louder, than I remember it."

Evan blanched when he took note of the woman's eyes -- a bit sunken-in, but almond-shaped, and bright blue. However shadowed, they were Lane's.

Evan very quickly turned away, his heart racing. God, why -- why here, why her? Why his daughter? Why here, on his daily commute, right now...?

Was Lane here too? Jacob? God, the thought of seeing either of them almost made Evan feel more nauseous. Seeing Lane after so many years was a prospect that daunted Evan, but seeing his son was almost more terrifying. Jacob had always had a temper, and he'd so strangely latched onto his sister even as a baby that Evan thought it'd be likely he'd have to physically defend himself, if Jacob caught sight of him...that is, if Lane wasn't there to diffuse things. Lane had always been the one to try to calm things down...

Despite himself, Evan scanned the train car, searching for his ex-wife. When he didn't see her or Jacob, he felt the faintest flicker of disappointment, and then a wave of overwhelming relief. Not only did he hate the thought of his estranged family causing a scene...but he didn't think how much more strain his heart could've taken, seeing Lane again after so long...

"Do you not take the Tube much?" asked the teenage boy from behind Evan.

"Well, no. As you know, there are many other ways to get around. But well, considering where we're going, I figured those methods wouldn't be as ideal."

"You can Apparate with other people too, right?" said the boy mischievously. "That sounds fun."

"Mind what you say in public, Erik," said Carewyn, before adding something a bit quieter under her breath. Evan just barely picked out the word "Muggle."

Evan's lips came together tightly. So this boy was like Carewyn and Jacob, then? He was part of that...freak world of theirs too? To think that such a promising young boy would be molded in their image rather than live a normal life, same as Jacob was...

A thought occurred to Evan that made him straighten up sharply. Was this boy -- ?!

When Evan looked at the boy called Erik, though, he found he didn't resemble Carewyn much at all. Plus he looked to be 13 or 14, at least...Carewyn couldn't be his mother: she would've had to have been a mere child herself when he was born, if she had been. And Erik had called her "Ms. Cromwell" -- he couldn't be related to her by blood. If he was her son, he'd have called her "Mother," and if he was her sibling through another marriage (this thought made Evan's stomach squirm), he would've just called her by her name. And yet the way Carewyn spoke to him...it wasn't just platonic, there was something almost maternal there...

Was this boy her stepson, perhaps? Evan wondered. Had Winnie married an older man -- someone already married? She was a young adult now, it wasn't out of the realm of possibility that she'd be married...she was probably the same age Evan was, when he married Lane. But to marry someone who had a son this old already... Evan couldn't help but frown disapprovingly, imagining his daughter marrying a man a good twenty years her senior.

"Anyway...thanks for this, Ms. Cromwell," said Erik. "Coming with me to the cinema and all."

"Well, I could hardly just drop you off and leave you there," Carewyn said with a wry smile.

"I told you you could."

"You can tell me whatever you want: it doesn't mean I'll agree with it. And besides...this clearly means a lot to you. I want to be there with you for it."

The way Carewyn spoke to Erik startled Evan yet again. It certainly didn't sound like how he expected a mother to speak to her son -- Lane certainly had never sounded so casual with Jacob, and she was always much more coddling of him than Evan himself was. It was almost sibling-esque, the way they interacted -- and yet Carewyn's sentiment still came across as so...maternal, for lack of a better word. So fond and proud...

Evan turned around, just in time to see Erik's snarky expression seemed to visibly soften.

"...Thanks, Ms. Cromwell."

The boy with the curly blond hair then seemed to sober slightly.

"...Ms. Cromwell...I wanted to say I'm sorry. For what I said the other day."

Carewyn blinked, startled.

"To that biddy in Diagon Alley," Erik prompted. "You know, the one who called you my mum."

Carewyn seemed to immediately understand, and her face grew much more gentle. "Erik..."

"I shouldn't have made such a big deal about it," Erik muttered, his eyes awkwardly drifting over to his and Carewyn's reflections in the window. "I mean, yeah, she was stupid to think it, when you're not even that much older than me and we don't look a thing alike -- but well, you do kind of act like my -- like a mum sometimes -- and you were with me while I was getting my school supplies, so it was only logical for her to think it. And well...I don't want you to think I'm ungrateful...you know, for everything..."

"Erik," Carewyn cut him off very firmly. She brought a hand up and took hold of his shoulder, giving it a reassuring squeeze. "That is the last thing I would think."

She paused. Despite himself, Evan couldn't help but listen that bit more intently, even while trying to not draw attention to himself.

"...After what happened to your mother...I understand you being upset about what that woman said," Carewyn said softly. "Of course I don't think it was right for you to have sworn at her...but I know your anger came out of trauma and pain, not anything vindictive or cruel. And the last thing I'd ever want to do is replace your mother...or your father. I know I never could, even if I wanted to."

Her eyes fell on her own hand on Erik's shoulder rather than staying locked on his.

"...I don't want to be your mother, Erik. I'm very happy just being your guardian, for however long you need me. That's all I sought from the court, and that's all I want to be."

"Guardian." Then Carewyn had adopted this boy, as his legal guardian? Evan tried to envision raising Jacob on his own in his mid-twenties without Lane, and the mental image was intimidating. Being raised by his great-uncle more than his own parents, Evan would've been utterly clueless in being a single parent -- even Lane he always assumed did a better job of it than he ever would have...

Erik's face had lost nearly all of its edge by this point -- if anything, his expression betrayed something much warmer.

"You really are smashing, Ms. Cromwell," he said. "I hope you know that."

His smile then grew a bit more devilish again.

"...So...since you're not mad about what I said...does this mean you'll give me some more of those special lessons you promised me?"

Carewyn gave a loud huff. "Those 'special lessons' are supposed to be to help you defend yourself -- they're not a reward to be taken away when I'm unhappy with you. But I could very well withhold some of the rather nice Christmas presents I've set aside, if you don't learn to clean up your language."

Erik gave a loud, cackling laugh that prompted Carewyn to smile a bit more wryly herself as she got up.

"Well, come on, then -- here's our stop."

Her sparkly starred heels clapped against the floor as she crossed to the closest door. Evan watched his daughter go, wrapping her arm around her ward as the two climbed off the train and into the crowd of the underground station. Then, silently shifting his gaze out the opposite window, Evan watched the wall fly past him as the train picked up steam and sped off toward the next stop.

Because Carewyn had been focused so tightly on Erik and his mind, so as to quiet the thoughts of all the other people on the train she could've picked up, she'd had no idea that she'd been sitting mere feet away from her father. Even if she had chosen to look anywhere besides Erik, it's likely she still wouldn't have noticed him -- for she had no memory of the man's face and would therefore have likely only seen him as a stranger. Which, sadly enough, he practically was, even while they still lived together...

Carewyn was a stranger to him. Evan knew it, and he'd known it, even when she was small. He'd never "gotten" her, largely because part of him had been afraid to -- failing so badly to connect with Jacob had been so painful that the thought of messing up again, and worse, with Carewyn had made him withdraw from her, hesitant to let her in. But there had been moments, here and there, where he'd deeply regretted not knowing her. Times when she -- strangely enough -- almost seemed more like him than Jacob had been. More respectful of the rules -- more interested in pleasing others. And yet Evan knew he truly hadn't known Carewyn. How could he, when it was so blatantly obvious to Lane that she had magic, same as Jacob? And now it was all the more obvious that Carewyn was nothing like Evan. The way she talked to her adopted son -- her "ward"...it was nothing like how Evan had ever talked to Jacob, let alone her. She sounded gentle, affectionate, playful...

She sounded...happy. Raising Erik in her strange World, on her own...Carewyn was happy.

"Are you okay, mister?"

Evan looked up, startled, to see a little girl with cornrows and a sunhat sitting across from him with her mother, who had looked up from her purse with muted concern. It was only when Evan looked up at the two that he saw himself reflected in the window behind him -- and the tear that had leaked out the side of his right eye down his face.

He quickly swept it off his face with one hand.

"Ahem -- yes, I'm...fine."

Feeling embarrassed, Evan turned his focus back out the window, away from the girl and her mother.

Carewyn was happy. It was a thought that was a wave of grief that drowned Evan's soul, and yet...that wave felt strangely comforting, all the same. He stayed floating in that feeling for the rest of his commute, until he finally reached his destination, at which point he walked to work.

Once he reached his office, Evan closed the door and put on an Elvis record as he got to work. It was something he often did, to help pass the time when the day was slow and his depression made it hard for him to soldier through -- and, unbeknownst to Evan, was also what Carewyn herself did, whenever she had trouble focusing on what she was doing.

"Today I stumbled from my bed With thunder crashing in my head, My pillow still wet from last night's tears... And as I think of giving up, A voice inside my coffee cup Kept crying out, ringing in my ears...

'Don't cry, Daddy... Daddy, please, don't cry... Daddy, you've still got me and little Tommy, And together we'll find a brand new mommy... Daddy, Daddy, please laugh again -- Daddy, ride us on your back again -- Oh, Daddy...please, don't cry...'"

[justforbooks]

The actor Michael Jayston, who has died aged 88, was a distinguished performer on stage and screen. The roles that made his name were as the doomed Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in Franklin Schaffner’s sumptuous account of the last days of the Romanovs in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), and as Alec Guinness’s intelligence minder in John Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy on television in 1979. He never made a song and dance about himself and perhaps as a consequence was not launched in Hollywood, as were many of his contemporaries.

Before these two parts, he had already played a key role in The Power Game on television and Henry Ireton, Cromwell’s son-in-law, in Ken Hughes’s fine Cromwell (1969), with Richard Harris in the title role and Guinness as King Charles I. And this followed five years with the Royal Shakespeare Company including a trip to Broadway in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, in which he replaced Michael Bryant as Teddy, the brother who returns to the US and leaves his wife in London to “take care of” his father and siblings.

Jayston, who was not flamboyantly good-looking but clearly and solidly attractive, with a steely, no-nonsense, demeanour and a steady, piercing gaze, could “do” the Pinter menace as well as anyone, and that cast – who also made the 1973 movie directed by Peter Hall – included Pinter’s then wife, Vivien Merchant, as well as Paul Rogers and Ian Holm.

Jayston had found a replacement family in the theatre. Born Michael James in Nottingham, he was the only child of Myfanwy (nee Llewelyn) and Vincent; his father died of pneumonia, following a serious accident on the rugby field, when Michael was one, and his mother died when he was a barely a teenager. He was then brought up by his grandmother and an uncle, and found himself involved in amateur theatre while doing national service in the army; he directed a production of The Happiest Days of Your Life.

He continued in amateur theatre while working for two years as a trainee accountant for the National Coal Board and in Nottingham fish market, before winning a scholarship, aged 23, to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where he was five years older than everyone else on his course. He played in rep in Bangor, Northern Ireland, and at the Salisbury Playhouse before joining the Bristol Old Vic for two seasons in 1963.

At the RSC from 1965, he enjoyed good roles – Oswald in Ghosts, Bertram in All’s Well That Ends Well, Laertes to David Warner’s Hamlet – and was Demetrius in Hall’s film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1968), with Warner as Lysander in a romantic foursome with Diana Rigg and Helen Mirren.

But his RSC associate status did not translate itself into the stardom of, say, Alan Howard, Warner, Judi Dench, Ian Richardson and others at the time. He was never fazed or underrated in this company, but his career proceeded in a somewhat nebulous fashion, and Nicholas and Alexandra, for all its success and ballyhoo, did not bring him offers from the US.

Instead, he played Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1972), a so-so British musical film version with music and lyrics by John Barry and Don Black, with Michael Crawford as the White Rabbit and Peter Sellers the March Hare. In 1979 he was a colonel in Zulu Dawn, a historically explanatory prequel to the earlier smash hit Zulu.

As an actor he seemed not to be a glory-hunter. Instead, in the 1980s, he turned in stylish and well-received leading performances in Noël Coward’s Private Lives, at the Duchess, opposite Maria Aitken (1980); as Captain von Trapp in the first major London revival of The Sound of Music at the Apollo Victoria in 1981, opposite Petula Clark; and, best of all, as Mirabell, often a thankless role, in William Gaskill’s superb 1984 revival, at Chichester and the Haymarket, of The Way of the World, by William Congreve, opposite Maggie Smith as Millamant.

Nor was he averse to taking over the leading roles in plays such as Peter Shaffer’s Equus (1973) or Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa (1992), roles first occupied in London by Alec McCowen. He rejoined the National Theatre – he had been Gratiano with Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright in The Merchant of Venice directed by Jonathan Miller in 1974 – to play a delightful Home Counties Ratty in the return of Alan Bennett’s blissful, Edwardian The Wind in the Willows in 1994.

On television, he was a favourite side-kick of David Jason in 13 episodes of David Nobbs’s A Bit of a Do (1989) – as the solicitor Neville Badger in a series of social functions and parties across West Yorkshire – and in four episodes of The Darling Buds of May (1992) as Ernest Bristow, the brewery owner. He appeared again with Jason in a 1996 episode of Only Fools and Horses.

He figured for the first time on fan sites when he appeared in the 1986 Doctor Who season The Trial of a Time Lord as Valeyard, the prosecuting counsel. In the new millennium he passed through both EastEnders and Coronation Street before bolstering the most lurid storyline of all in Emmerdale (2007-08): he was Donald de Souza, an unpleasant old cove who fell out with his family and invited his disaffected wife to push him off a cliff on the moors in his wheelchair, but died later of a heart attack.

By now living on the south coast, Jayston gravitated easily towards Chichester as a crusty old colonel – married to Wendy Craig – in Coward’s engaging early play Easy Virtue, in 1999, and, three years later, in 2002, as a hectored husband, called Hector, to Patricia Routledge’s dotty duchess in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s translation of Jean Anouilh’s Léocadia under the title Wild Orchids.

And then, in 2007, he exuded a tough spirituality as a confessor to David Suchet’s pragmatic pope-maker in The Last Confession, an old-fashioned but gripping Vatican thriller of financial and political finagling told in flashback. Roger Crane’s play transferred from Chichester to the Haymarket and toured abroad with a fine panoply of senior British actors, Jayston included.

After another collaboration with Jason, and Warner, in the television movie Albert’s Memorial (2009), a touching tale of old war-time buddies making sure one of them is buried on the German soil where first they met, and a theatre tour in Ronald Harwood’s musicians-in-retirement Quartet in 2010 with Susannah York, Gwen Taylor and Timothy West, he made occasional television appearances in Midsomer Murders, Doctors and Casualty. Last year he provided an introduction to a re-run of Tinker Tailor on BBC Four. He seemed always to be busy, available for all seasons.

As a keen cricketer (he also played darts and chess), Jayston was a member of the MCC and the Lord’s Taverners. After moving to Brighton, he became a member of Sussex county cricket club and played for Rottingdean, where he was also president.

His first two marriages – to the actor Lynn Farleigh in 1965 and the glass engraver Heather Sneddon in 1970 – ended in divorce. From his second marriage he had two sons, Tom and Ben, and a daughter, Li-an. In 1979 he married Ann Smithson, a nurse, and they had a son, Richard, and daughter, Katie.

🔔 Michael Jayston (Michael James), actor, born 29 October 1935; died 5 February 2024

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[littlelioncub43]

who are your top 5 favorite actors/actresses?

Oo good question!

Actresses:

Kathy Bates — has killed every single role shes ever done. Can do comedy and drama with the same level of dedication and expertise that puts her at the top of my list.

Marilyn Monroe — talented beyond belief! Unparalleled comedic timing, and still had the chops to do serious films. Amazing and phenomenal.

Katherine Hepburn — perfected the art of acting that even influenced Sir Anthony Hopkins. Plus her clothes were amazing. But man, she could act.

Octavia Spencer — I believe her character, no matter what, I believe it. Ive never once said "man, they shouldn't have casted Olivia Spencer." She's so good!

Michelle Yeoh — ever since I saw her in Memoirs of A Geisha when I was a kid, I knew she was great. And then I learned that she did stunts??? Amazing. I love when actresses are also stunt people, it's amazing.

Honorable mentions: Lucy Liu, Vicky Krieps, Renée Zellweger, Judy Garland, Mae West and many many many many more

Actors:

Anthony Hopkins — the way he is just so freaking natural no matter what role he plays is absolutely enchanting. He's simply being. It's incredible. He's not trying, he is. And I love it.

Michael Caine — He was the perfect Ebenezer Scrooge in The Muppets Christmas Carol, no one else should try. Plus his other bodies of work are impressive as heck.

Boris Karloff — he was the actor who played Frankenstein's Monster in the original Frankenstein in the 1930s. He made a bunch of other old horror films back then that are really fun!

James Cromwell — you should see him in L.A. Confidential. He's great in anything he's in, but that one movie is especially great.

Daniel Day-Lewis — this guy can freaking act. From classics like My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and The Age of Innocence to newer films like The Phantom Thread, he is absolutely captivating in all his work. Grated, he's a method actor, but when the product is something of this quality, I can allow it.

My brain is broken and I cant list any honorable mentions for the men, but I'm sure there are more out there bahaha

[michailazee]

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                                                                          JUNE  2024 

 THE RIB PAGE 

***** 

Climax Foods won at the Good Food awards for their vegan cheese but they were disqualified! The rules claimed the product had to be retail ready and could nnot contain kokum butter. PETA ended up giving them an award. Why does Ted Cruz pronounce it, “vagan?” ** Why is Cruz against Biden’s help for airline passengers? 

***** 

The Stones are still on tour. They played Jazz fest in NOLA. They sure did justice to Let it Bleed but Out of Time was a bit loooong!! 

***** 

Seinfeld’s movie, Unfrosted is not getting the best reviews but I did love what he said on Kimmel. With disdain he said, “I don’t do twitter.” Yes! ** But.. Jerry has finally brought some controversy into his life. Protestors are ruining his gigs and students walked out at Duke U for his commencement address because of his support of Israel. 

***** 

Days alert: The character Rita is fucking awesome. I am reminded of Elinor Donahue from earlier Dimera times. EJ needs an assistant who knows the secrets and puts up with no shit! ** Holly really is horrible. OD ing did nothing to help her attitude. ** Bring Jen Lilley back!! ** I couldn’t be more thrilled about Diedre Hall and Christopher Lloyd’s successful turn on Hacks!!!!! ** Hooray.. Lucas is back on the scene! More Please!! ** I miss Wendy and Tripp!! ** The gang is meeting up in Montana. Do we have a summer adventure?? Just don’t kill off Clyde.  

***** 

Protesters attempted to storm the Berlin Tesla factory. ** Neurolink’s first brain chip has malfunctioned. 

***** 

So loved Jodie Whittaker but also hooray for Ncuti Gatwa of Dr. Who!!!!!! 

***** 

Joe Manchin has registered as an independent. 

***** 

The French Open put an alcohol ban in place. 

Giuliani thought he was so funny when he taunted those trying to serve him a warrant. It was the last day and he teased on his podcast that they could not find him. This made it easy to find him and the warrant was served. 

***** 

Judge Judy has sued the National Enquirer and In Touch magazine. 

***** 

Riley Keough and Elvis Presley Enterprises had to put a halt to a company called Naussany Investments and their attempt to auction off Graceland. Word is they had fraudulent paperwork that claimed Lisa Marie had taken out a loan and never repaid it. This company will probably be shunned, Elvis fans don’t fucking kid around. 

***** 

Vermont is the first state to require oil companies to pay for damage from climate change. 

***** 

Israel shut down an Ap news feed in Gaza. They later said they would return the equipment. ***** 

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Was fined $75,000 by Nascar for a brawl with Kyle Busch. Busch knocked him out in the 2nd lap of the race. Stenhouse waited the race out to confront Busch. Stenhouse Sr. and 2 other teammates were also punished. Most think the $75,000 fine was too much. ** Christopher Bell won the Coca Cola 600. ** Stewart Haas racing will fold after this season. 

***** 

Watched a couple of Apple’s newer offerings. Sugar, with James Cromwell and Colin Farrel gave us that film noir vibe and held surprises. And Cromwell was lookin’ fine as hell!!!!Palm Royale took a bit for me to get into but once Mindy Cohn and Julia Duffy got going, forget it, I was hooked. Hooray for Carol Burnett and the cliffhanger that makes me suddenly very excited for this show to come back!! 

***** 

In Virginia, Stonewall Jackson high’s name was changed to Mountain View and Ashby-Lee was changed to Honey Run elementary. Locals have now voted to change them back. I guess they can’t celebrate their traitors enough. 

***** 

On her 18th birthday, Shiloh Jolie-Pitt has filed to drop the ‘Pitt’ from her name. Other siblings have dropped the ‘Pitt’ as well. 

***** 

An appeals court has upheld Steve Bannon’s conviction. 

***** 

An investigation is looking into Matthew Perry’s death. 

***** 

Camryn Manheim has left Law and Order. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! No Sam? No Camryn? Ok.. Tony Goldwyn makes sense to replace Waterston but Manheim was my favorite part of the new L&O. We were just beginning to learn her character’s story. She was perfect!!!!! Also.. NBC boneheads have moved Organized Crime to Peacock. Way to ruin a perfect line-up! 

***** 

I am so happy for Cole Escola and his Broadway triumph with Oh Mary! 

***** 

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. -Robert Kennedy 

***** 

Daily weed use has surpassed the daily use of alcohol. 

***** 

Uvalde shooting victims families have a $2mil settlement with the city. They are now getting ready to file lawsuits against dozens of Texas department of public safety officers and the school district. 

***** 

Louisianna has approved a bill to classify abortion pills as a controlled substance. 

***** 

The U.S. has sued Live Nation to break up the Ticketmaster monopoly. 

***** 

Kristi Noem has now been banned from ALL tribal lands in her state of South Dakota. 

***** 

Carlo Acutis died in 2006 and is now on track to become the youngest saint. 

***** 

Farm Family Foods is opening a farm to table grocery in Benson, Il and hoping to expand. Small towns are slowly losing their grocery stores. Some are left with Dollar stores, convenient stores or nothing. Good luck!!! 

***** 

So.. Harrison Butker, who I had never heard of, seems like a real pig. The Kansas City Chief seems completely unaware that he does not live in1824. He attacked pride month, the transgender community and working women. His commencement speech at the Benedictine college has been poo poo’d by nearly everyone including the college itself and especially the Benedictine sisters. They released a statement: The Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college don’t believe this represents what the founders envisioned. Instead of promoting unity, his comments seem to foster division. One of our concerns was the assertion that being a homemaker is the highest calling for a woman. We sisters have dedicated our lives to God and God’s people including many women whom we have taught and influenced over the past 160 years.** The NFL has also spoke up to let us know these are not their views.** The only people afraid of a strong, financially independent and successful female, is men like this. And the only reason they are afraid is because it diminishes their power and their control. -Celeste Yvonne 

***** 

The International Court is requesting the arrest of Hamas leader Sinwar and Benjamin Netanyahu. Yes! ** What happened is not genocide. We reject that. -Joe Biden 

***** 

Get ready for a new Downton Abbey film with Paul Giamatti!!!! 

***** 

In Kansas, Ricky Alderete went to court for a stolen Jackie Robinson statue taken to scrap the metal. The community raised money to replace it but now MLB has replaced it. 

***** 

Frankie Valli and the four seasons got a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame. 

***** 

Roger Daltrey is working on a biopic of Keith Moon. 

***** 

Jordan Klepper has really been on fire lately. So you think you can Pence?  

***** 

The Arizona Senate repealed the 1864 abortion ban. 

***** 

Mystik Dan won the Kentucky Derby. 

***** 

On his visit to Biden : “The most legislatively successful President in my lifetime”. -Mark Hamill 

***** 

Trump only seems to pay attention in court when they are looking at clips of Trump .** Why do we have to hear about the gas and his general odor? ** I can see why the man looks up to President Jackson because this sounds familiar. “He assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.” - Andrew Jackson’s Senate censure which was removed 3 years later. ** Does Fox news know how a trial works? They sure want special treatment for their boy. They kept up the mantra: “Is this America?” Yes, the process is working. Duh?!  ** Rod Blagojevich endorsed Trump. A bunch of the minions put on their red ties and showed up at the trial. J.D. Vance who once called out Trump is now one of the biggest VP wannabes. Is he a psychopath or did he also drink the flavor-aid? ** It seems that this is what it all comes down to. So many people think they can do any fucking thing they want with no consequences. Was he more influenced by Nietzsche or Cohn? ** As the defense began, witness Robert Costello was a smart ass to the judge and the courtroom was cleared. There is no respect for anyone. Trump vowed to testify but he did not. ** Eric was there every day and Don Jr. Showed up on the final day of testimony. On May 30, Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts. He will be sentenced in July. I know we’re all glad that he is starting to pay for his sins but we can’t drop the ball now. November is coming. **“I’m a very innocent man.” -Scary Clown 45/34. The trump trial is done and the Hunter Biden trial begins. ** Chad Daybell was also found guilty May 30, a great day for justice. 

***** 

Now that Trump has been found guilty, his cult members are angry. They do not seem to want to face reality. Why is violence always their answer? ** Justice has been served. Donald Trump is a racist, a homophobe, a grifter and a threat to this country. He can now add 1 more title to his list- a felon. - JB Pritzker ** People keep saying, “How can he run for President when he can’t even vote?” I do not understand this because from what I can tell, When a Florida resident is convicted, the state defers to the state the conviction came from. In NY, he CAN vote IF he is not incarcerated. But, I mean it’s time.. Lock him up. ** Social media went crazy with pics of Hillary outside the jail cell and gold Trump sneakers with ankle monitors. ** I wonder how many people in here have cars? - Trump 

***** 

Colbert called Trump’s campaign The complaining for Applause tour. ** DC Weekly is a publication out of Russia. It is said to be widely read by republicans. The paper loves to call the Truth Social crowd, “useful idiots.” When I hear Trump trying to make sense of what they, “believe,” It seems like wrestling with dementia. ** I nearly escaped death. - Trump ** I often think that the left gets so perplexed by some of the right is that this country should have progressed so much more by now. People should be much more educated now and with more knowledge there should be less racism and differences to fight over. There should be some common ideas we agree on but ignorance keeps that from happening. It is like the old slavers and successionists have just begat Trumpers. 

***** 

Truth Social lost $328 mil. ** So what is it? Is Biden a mastermind or is he a dottering old fool?  Trump claims both. ** Trump issued a cease and desist for the Trump movie that premiered at Cannes. Of course he did. The man lives for court! It will be great publicity. ** This is my country. This guy wants to destroy it. -Robert DeNiro 

***** 

Queer Planet sounds interesting!! 

***** 

Night Court was renewed for season 3. ** Hacks was renewed for season 4!! 

***** 

Randy Travis with the use of some A.I. has new music with More life!!  And he still looks great! 

***** 

The Black Keys and J Lo have cancelled their 2024 tours. 

***** 

CBS is bringing Hollywood Squares back AGAIN! 

***** 

Thanks to Holly and Beekeeper Mel for restoring my faith in nice people. 

***** 

Jennifer Aniston is producing a reimagining of 9 to 5. 

***** 

New research shows that part of the River Nile was right near most of the pyramids at the time of construction. This would make transport so much easier. This answers one of the big questions. 

***** 

The Pace Program in Illinois is a new all -inclusive care for the elderly. The program, which should be available in June, will simplify access to services and prevent fragmented care. The elderly should be able to stay in their homes longer and things should be more streamlined. I sure hope this works because it can be a mess to get started in the system. 

***** 

David DePape who was found guilty of attempting to kidnap Paul Pelosi and was given 30 years. 

***** 

Every Rainbow Fades. 

***** 

El Califade Leon in Mexico City is the first taco stand to ever get a Michelin star. 

***** 

Richard Blumenthal informed us that Justice Alito had a ‘stop the steal’ sign at his house. He flew an upside- down flag outside his house in January along with other pro Trumpers to show support. Alito claims it was his wife (just like Menedez), retaliating against the Pro Biden neighbors. This is not the only flag that they flew. Other property flew the appeal to heaven flag. Dick Durbin has asked him to recuse himself from the Jan. 6 cases. He refuses! Pretty fucking unpatriotic Mr. Alito!! It figures that you would have no respect for our flag. ** Hey.. Thomas! Alito! Resign!! 

***** 

It turns out that RFK Jr. has a lifeless worm in his brain. A past divorce claimed he couldn’t earn much for the ex because of memory loss etc. from worm and mercury poisoning. Kevin Spacey and Rob Schneider have endorsed him. So... Candidates in their 80’s or in their 70’s with worm? What? ** RFK Jr. Says that he opposes gender affirming care and hormone therapy for minors. So.. Do you want the government in your life or not?? 

***** 

Joe Biden is holding back some weapons to Israel just as Reagan and Bush did before him. ** The State Department gave $275 mil in aid to Ukraine. ** Oreos are being made again in Ukraine after the factory was repaired. 

***** 

Biden and Trump claim they will debate on June 27 and Sept. 10. 

***** 

Giuliani says that he is a pauper and can’t pay his legal bills. Why are these greedy fucks still free? 

***** 

The Green Goblin (MTG) is at it again as she tries to belittle others. The house got heated and in retaliation, she was called a blonde bad built butch body. 

***** 

The Florida Republicans wanted Barron Trump to be at the convention this year since he is 18. The Republican convention will be held in Milwaukee July 15-18. Scary Clown 45 gave his blessing but Melania’s camp said, “no.” Apparently, he has prior commitments. ** Mike Johnson and other court jesters showed up dressed like Trump to support him in court. Talk about showboating! ** Jeff Sessions was back in the news when Michael Cohen testified about trying to quash investigations into campaign contributions. ** Cohen was stealing from the Trump organization. Cohen still lives in a Trump building. What? 

***** 

Cannes brought controversy this year. Francis Ford Coppola with Megalopolis and Kevin Costner with Horizon have bet their own $ on their epics. Other films include The Apprentice, about a younger Trump that stars Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn. The film is having trouble finding a distributor. Bird and The Substance are getting lots of buzz! There is also Kinds of Kindness and All we Imagine as light. Meryl Streep and George Lucas received honorary awards. There are rumors that the French media would release a list of alleged abusive actors and directors. ** Black Dog won the Un Certain Regard, Anora won the Pale d’Or, the women of Emilia Perez won best actress and Jesse Plemons took best actor. Best screenplay went to the Substance. 

***** 

Red Lobster has filed for bankruptcy and closed dozens of stores. Everybody blames the endless shrimp. I am telling you, it’s the biscuits. Switching to using frozen and not fresh makes all the difference. Besides, middle of the road eateries are falling away. 

***** 

There was a Tom Brady roast. With tempers the way they are, it might be best to put those to bed for a while.  

***** 

The Conners will end after a shortened season 7. 

***** 

Turkey has halted trade with Israel. 

***** 

Camryn Manheim will leave Law and Order. NOOOOOO! She is the best thing there. Goldwyn is good but no Sam and no Camryn? Bummer. 

***** 

Now that Barry is done, A Gene Cousineau film from prison would be great. 

***** 

If my uterus shot bullets, would you stop regulating it?? 

***** 

The late- night hosts make fun of local news that all repeat the same lines. The latest was,” I can’t believe it’s May1st.” I grew up with the people who said this stuff all the time. This generic dialogue really works for those people. I have never really understood those who say the same things every year, are surprised when the first snow comes or wonder at how it gets dark so early. These things should no longer be a surprise to adults! 

***** 

Kristi Noem seems to have gone down for killing animals. I guess there is a limit! ** Her book was changed before it even came out. She talked of meeting Kim Jong Un but she didn’t and won’t admit it but took it out of the book? What other lies are in there?  

***** 

Millie Bobby Brown married Jake Bongiovi. 

***** 

Natasha Lyonne will join the Fantastic Four. 

**** 

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot. 

***** 

Sexual assault news: Liam Neeson and others are starting to stick up for Kevin Spacey so he may come back. ** David C. Field has a new batch of allegations by 16 women. He has been accused of sexual abuse, lewd conduct, groping, drugging and rape. ** Video was released of Sean Combs beating and kicking Cassie Ventura. Big surprise.. Another lying abuser! ** Writer, producer Eric Weinberg has been charged with 28 counts of rape and sexual battery. 

***** 

The Met Gala came. The garden theme brought such interesting looks. Mindy Kaling and Demi Moore had such structure.  J Lo showed it all and Cardi B needed 10 men. My favorites were Zendaya, Bad Bunny, Gigi Hadid, La La Anthony, Nicole Kidman, Lana Del Ray, Ayo Edebiri, Usher, Lily James, Cole Escola, Kieran Culkin, Jazz Charton, Sydney Sweeney, Michelle Williams, Meg Ryan, Daniel Levy, Cynthia Erivo, Odell Beckham, Josh O’Conner and Sarah Paulson. Greta Gerwig looked so uncomfortable. Tyla was in sand!  

***** 

Russia is apparently using North Korean weapons and Cuban soldiers to kill Ukrainians. 

***** 

Knives Out 3 with Daniel Craig is in the works. 

***** 

I want some Bob Schieffer art!!!!!! 

***** 

R.I.P. Duane Eddy, Taji the giraffe, Richard Tandy, Susan Backlinie, Darius Morris, Edgar Lansbury, Bernard Hill, Daniel Kramer, Andrew Davis, Susan Buckner, Sam Rubin, Bob Ellison, Rudy Moreno, Jim Simons, victims of the Houston storms, Gayle McKinney- Griffin, Pete McCoskey, Ian Gelder, Alice Stewart, Jon Wysocki, Bill Walton, Sam Butcher, Richard Foronjy, Iowa tornado victims, Chester, Pa. Shooting victims, war victims, Richard Sherman, Johnny Wactor, Memorial Day storm victims, Mexico election victims, Morgan Spurlock, Darryl Hickman, Haiti missionaries, Alice Munroe, Charlie Colin, Caleb Carr, President Raisi, Hossein Amirabdollahian, Jeannie Epper, landslide victims, Grayson Murray, Gujarat fire victims, Mark Damon, Dabney Coleman and Roger Corman. 

[the-firebird69]

Just stop making the Grand Am in 2006 this is one of the last models and we're going to start making it with a similar Hood it'll look more like the Dodge bully and we're going to call it the Grand Am and he wants it and knows it'll sell it's a smaller chassis there's a certain vehicle it'll work on like the Dodge neon and his son and daughter-in-law love it and there's the same for her a son and daughter-in-law. We're going to start making these two they come with a lower profile tires and the new rims it's a lower profile vehicle and it's going to have a lot of power when you use 120 horsepower motor it'll go about 180 right out of the shoot it's very fast for this type of vehicle it's a two-door or four-door and you get up to about 300 horsepower some of the sit-inset size it's standard for the sedan that size the car will go about 380 mph and it can handle it and we're going to make them with carbon at first in the standard kits we told you about but the interior is going to be nice weather and it's going to have a wood grain and it's going to be really nice it's plastic wood grain but it's nice looking and the dashboard is really cool he probably get one of these if you could

Frank Castle hardcastle

This is a sleeper car we had up in Canada and I'll tell you what we're going around corners and it handled like a dream and we're up on the ridge and we're going along at like 60 and he didn't get too nervous but he knew we were going fast and said what is this car and he's looking at it real close and we said don't touch it and started laughing I said it's a Dodge and he said wow no way and said that we laughed but he started looking at it and it was amazed it handled like a dream

Trudy and yeah I'm a trumpster

We had a lot of fun back then and we had a lot of fun with this Uncle Cromwell and he's a smart man and we learned a lot and we act like him that's why

Lisa I really am Judy

We're going to start production now and he wants to put them in commercial and so does Hera

Olympus

We're going to start making these now we're going to put them in our commercial it says it can't be in your commercial if they're in our commercial they're going to be at the racetrack cuz you don't have one cuz he gave it all away to be a dick head here and he says the last part and it's pretty much true but we have a race track and they're going to be an hour commercial it says no it's going to be able to tell the difference it's going to be an art commercial first no he won't go have the car built our car is built already and we're going to go at it mono amano you and your fat stupid loopy body I don't want to do that but we're going to build the car they don't want to do that either cuz I'm going to have to touch you he says that

Trump

Well that was fun A lot of fun

Alicia

We're getting to it now we're going to make these cars they're going to be in his car maybe yours and we won't know it he's a mystery man

Trisha

Hands off you dope heads

Emily blunt

Publish already okay

Olympus

Not till we have our say we have to have this this is awesome it's fast it doesn't look it when we need it

Jenna

I don't care what you say we have to get into the stupid Mall they're not switching out to see what's like with Ken alone price take you guys are a couple weirdos you said no I bet he would think that I thought I wasn't thinking I was thinking it ding-a-ling so I get that and yeah it might be me

Lily

Yeah who's me and it says good the effeminate guy but it's not an offended car it's made for people his size and that was him I guess I'm saying it too for ladies I like one of these right away I think I'm going to try and find his but I think I want the firebird it's more appropriate he says good way up over the top you can handle the back last night and that's true the backlash ding-a-lings

Jason

That was my cue but I had him do it but still he's in trouble for putting it there I'm telling you what I'm going to get one of these right away these are a famous car for being a sleeper car and nobody really knows it and we drive by it looks like all these other dumb cars sounds normal too and I better tires and the motor was souped up and better rooms and suspension it really rode very nice this is going to blow all those away and people want it and it can be like a sedan people can buy that to go to work in

Hera

[darkitsunex]

It can be only readable in ff.net and ao3 the one-shot, unfortunately. in Wattpad it’s still in progress as the third part it’s going to be up extremely soon. :)

[awardseason]

25th Critics’ Choice Awards Film Nominations

BEST PICTURE Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Parasite Uncut Gems

BEST DIRECTOR Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story Greta Gerwig – Little Women Bong Joon Ho – Parasite Sam Mendes – 1917 Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie – Uncut Gems Martin Scorsese – The Irishman Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

BEST ACTOR Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory Robert De Niro – The Irishman Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Adam Driver – Marriage Story Eddie Murphy – Dolemite Is My Name Joaquin Phoenix – Joker Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems

BEST ACTRESS Awkwafina – The Farewell Cynthia Erivo – Harriet Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story Lupita Nyong’o – Us Saoirse Ronan – Little Women Charlize Theron – Bombshell Renée Zellweger – Judy

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes Al Pacino – The Irishman Joe Pesci – The Irishman Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Laura Dern – Marriage Story Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers Florence Pugh – Little Women Margot Robbie – Bombshell Zhao Shuzhen – The Farewell

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS Julia Butters – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Roman Griffin Davis – Jojo Rabbit Noah Jupe – Honey Boy Thomasin McKenzie – Jojo Rabbit Shahadi Wright Joseph – Us Archie Yates – Jojo Rabbit

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE Bombshell The Irishman Knives Out Little Women Marriage Story Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Parasite

BEST DIRECTOR Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story Greta Gerwig – Little Women Bong Joon Ho – Parasite Sam Mendes – 1917 Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie – Uncut Gems Martin Scorsese – The Irishman Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story Rian Johnson – Knives Out Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won – Parasite Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood Lulu Wang – The Farewell

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Greta Gerwig – Little Women Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Anthony McCarten – The Two Popes Todd Phillips & Scott Silver – Joker Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit Steven Zaillian – The Irishman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Jarin Blaschke – The Lighthouse Roger Deakins – 1917 Phedon Papamichael – Ford v Ferrari Rodrigo Prieto – The Irishman Robert Richardson – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Lawrence Sher – Joker

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran – Joker Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales – 1917 Jess Gonchor, Claire Kaufman – Little Women Lee Ha Jun – Parasite Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Bob Shaw, Regina Graves – The Irishman Donal Woods, Gina Cromwell – Downton Abbey

BEST EDITING Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie – Uncut Gems Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker – Ford v Ferrari Yang Jinmo – Parasite Fred Raskin – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Thelma Schoonmaker – The Irishman Lee Smith – 1917

BEST COSTUME DESIGN Ruth E. Carter – Dolemite Is My Name Julian Day – Rocketman Jacqueline Durran – Little Women Arianne Phillips – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Sandy Powell, Christopher Peterson – The Irishman Anna Robbins – Downton Abbey

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP Bombshell Dolemite Is My Name The Irishman Joker Judy Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Rocketman

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 1917 Ad Astra The Aeronauts Avengers: Endgame Ford v Ferrari The Irishman The Lion King

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Abominable Frozen II How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World I Lost My Body Missing Link Toy Story 4

BEST ACTION MOVIE 1917 Avengers: Endgame Ford v Ferrari John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Spider-Man: Far From Home

BEST COMEDY Booksmart Dolemite Is My Name The Farewell Jojo Rabbit Knives Out

BEST SCI-FI OR HORROR MOVIE Ad Astra Avengers: Endgame Midsommar Us

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Atlantics Les Misérables Pain and Glory Parasite Portrait of a Lady on Fire

BEST SONG Glasgow (No Place Like Home) – Wild Rose (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again – Rocketman I’m Standing With You – Breakthrough Into the Unknown – Frozen II Speechless – Aladdin Spirit – The Lion King Stand Up – Harriet

BEST SCORE Michael Abels – Us Alexandre Desplat – Little Women Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker Randy Newman – Marriage Story Thomas Newman – 1917 Robbie Robertson – The Irishman

The 25th annual Critics’ Choice Awards will take place on January 12, 2020 at Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California.

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『 𝓒𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝓞𝐅 𝓝𝐄𝐖 𝓨𝐎𝐑𝐊 』

❝ 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝑮𝒐𝒅, 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍, 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏 ❞

❝ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇᴠᴇʀ ɪ ɢᴏ﹐ ʏᴏᴜ ɢᴏ. ʏᴏᴜ’ʀᴇ ᴍʏ ʀɪɢʜᴛ ʜᴀɴᴅ. ʏᴏᴜ’ʟʟ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ sᴜᴘᴇʀɪᴏʀ﹐ ᴏᴠᴇʀsᴇᴇɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴏᴜsᴀɴᴅs ᴏғ ɴᴜɴs ᴡʜᴏ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴀᴅᴅʀᴇss ʏᴏᴜ ᴀs ··ʀᴇᴠᴇʀᴇɴᴅ ᴍᴏᴛʜᴇʀ.·· ᴀɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇɴ﹐ ᴡɪᴛʜ ɢᴏᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴏɴ ᴍʏ sɪᴅᴇ... ɪ sᴇᴇ ɴᴏ ʀᴇᴀsᴏɴ ᴡʜʏ ɪ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅɴ·ᴛ ᴀsᴄᴇɴᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏғғɪᴄᴇ ᴏғ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴀɴɢʟᴏ﹣ᴀᴍᴇʀɪᴄᴀɴ ᴘᴏᴘᴇ. ʏᴏᴜ·ᴅ ᴇɴᴊᴏʏ ʀᴏᴍᴇ. ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅɴ·ᴛ ʏᴏᴜ﹐ sɪsᴛᴇʀ﹖ ❞

❝ ᴡʜʏ ᴅɪᴅɴ·ᴛ ɪ ʟɪsᴛᴇɴ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜ﹖ ᴡʜʏ ᴡᴀs ɪ sᴏ sᴛᴜʙʙᴏʀɴ﹖ sʜᴇ’s ᴅᴇsᴛʀᴏʏᴇᴅ ʏᴏᴜ. ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴏᴡ sʜᴇ·s ᴅᴇsᴛʀᴏʏᴇᴅ ᴍᴇ. ᴍʏ ᴠɪʀᴛᴜᴇ ɪs ɢᴏɴᴇ﹐ ᴊᴜᴅᴇ. sʜᴇ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ɪᴛ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴍᴇ﹐ ᴠɪᴏʟᴀᴛᴇᴅ ᴍᴇ. ɪ ᴛʀɪᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇsɪsᴛ﹐ ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴅᴏɴ·ᴛ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴇʟsᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛᴜʀɴ. ɪ’ᴍ sᴛʀᴜɢɢʟɪɴɢ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴡʜᴇᴛʜᴇʀ ɪ sʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ʀᴇɴᴏᴜɴᴄᴇ ᴍʏ ᴠᴏᴡs. ɪ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴄᴏᴜɴsᴇʟ. sʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ɪ ᴄᴏɴғᴇss ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀʟᴋ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ғʀᴏᴍ ᴍʏ ʙᴇʟᴏᴠᴇᴅ ᴄʜᴜʀᴄʜ ᴀɴᴅ ᴍʏ ᴅʀᴇᴀᴍ﹖ ᴡʜᴀᴛ sʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ɪ ᴅᴏ﹖ ❞

• A partly cannon and partly AU portrayal of Timothy Howard from FX’s show American Horror Story (FC: Joseph Fiennes)

• Unknown parents, One brother

• Raised in America but went to England just before he entered the Church. Met a stripped named Estelle Dean Thomas of whom he fell in-love and they had a child (Benjamin Dean Howard - @sensingghosts ). The child was dumped on him by Estelle, but he gave Ben to the Church Foster Care and fled back to America to take his vows. (FCs: Nicholas Hoult and Eva Green)

• Rose through the ranks of the Church to become Monsignor and assigned to run Briarcliffe Manor. There he met His future wife, Sister Jude Martin with whom he fell in-love with but kept his feelings under control as it was against God for men of the Church to have liasons with other men or women. He also met his future adopted son and daughter — Kit Walker and Lana Winters ( @amultiudeofmuses ). (FCs: Jessica Lange, Evan Peters and Sarah Paulson)

• Timothy eventually became Cardinal of New York and was allowed to marry Jude Martin. Turning from Canon, Jude was not housed in Briarcliffe but instead continued to run the place but allowed Lana to ‘escape’ and tell the state/newpapers what was happening. Dr Arden, was made to take the fall and was give the death penatly for his crimes. (FCs: James Cromwell)

• Timothy and Jude both helped to raise Lana’s daughter, Amelia (she gave Johnny ( @bananunson ) up when he was three) and also adopted Lana as their daughter along with Kit Walker and Lana’s birth sister, Amelia Winters. (FCs: Connie Britton, Dylan McDermott and Cate Blanchett)

• Timothy and Jude also have a biological son together named Timothy Joseph Howard or TJ for short. (FC: Hero Fiennes-Tiffin)

• Job: Cardinal Of New York and Religous Education secondary school teacher.

• @/MultiMuseAHS on Twitter

• Penned By: #ШΘLFƤΘШΣΓ

• Ship:

» Timothy x Jude Martin (ONLY)

» Looking for a descriptive & literative Jude ‘Judy’ Martin to SINGLE SHIP with my Timothy Howard and roleplay along with his storyline.

• Notes: SINGLE SHIP ONLY! I am very new to Tumblr RP, please barewith me. Descriptive RP to be done in DMs mostly. Banter on the TL. Plotting in DMs. Desc&Lit. MV. Crossovers welcome. OCs loved.

[askauradonprep]

Wrestling Inspiration

As part of the wrestling AU, @scream-qween and I were talking about the different kids and wrestlers who could have served as inspiration for them. Let’s pretend for a second the WWE exists in this universe. Other wrestler suggestions are welcome, I’m just picking ones I’m familiar with (and I’m relatively new to wrestling - I’ve only watched for two years and only watched WWE).

Note: I am referring to the wrestlers as in their kayfabe personas. Any mention of them here should not be read as an endorsement of anything they may have said or done elsewhere. 

Mal = Paige, Sonya Deville, Mandy Rose, Undertaker, Kane, Ruby Riott, Sarah Logan, Liv Morgan, Jody Threat, Molly McCoy, Maria Manic, Tamina and Nia Jax (as a heel). 

Uma = Kairi Sane, Io Shirai, Becky Lynch, Roman Reigns, Drew McIntyre, Sasha Banks, Creatures of the Deep, Trish Stratus, Jordynne Grace, The Sea Stars, Chyna, Rhea Ripley, Shotzi Blackheart, Lita, Allie, Kofi Kingston, Nia Jax, Beth Phoenix, Randy Orton, Seth Rollins, Bianca Belair, and Ronda Rousey.

Freddie = Undertaker, Kane, Cameron, Carmella, Damian Priestly, Bray Wyatt, Ember Moon, AJ Lee, Paige, New Age Outlaws, Hawlee Cromwell, Elias, Sanity, Su Yung, Nikki Roxx, Aliyah, and Ruby Riott.

Celia = Undertaker, Bray Wyatt, New Age Outlaws, Ember Moon, Tamina, Aleister Black, Sting, Solo Darling, Nikki Roxx, Willow Nightingale, and Vivian St. John

Jay = Baron Corbin, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Miz, Natalya, Seth Rollins, Becky Lynch, Dean Ambrose, Imperium, British Strong Style, Pete Dunne, Goldberg, Ember Moon, Big Show, Jericho, Bret Hart, Bullet Club, Kurt Angle, Rey Mysterio, Alex Zayne, Roman Reigns, Warhorse, The Rock, and the Undertaker

Evie = Nikki Bella, Brie Bella, Alexa Bliss, Sasha Banks, Cameron, Mandy Rose, Naomi (especially as a face), Scarlette Bordeaux, Velveteen Dream, Laynie Luck, Breezango, Kylie Rae, and Bayley (especially at the height of her ‘hugger’ days), Charlotte Flair and Ric Flair.

Carlos = Carmella, R-Truth, the Usos, New Day, Shield (as faces), Mark Henry, Big Show, Heath Slater, Undisputed Era, Jordynne Grace, Alex Ohlson, IFHY, Lana, Marko and Logan Stunt, No Way Jose, Lucha House Party, Xyberhawx 2000, and Naomi.

Harry = Nikki Cross, Drew McIntyre, Aleister Black, AJ Lee, Bray Wyatt, Kane, Kairi Sane, Shayna Baszler, Space Pirates, Becky Lynch, Jon Moxley, Jordynne Grace, The Sea Stars, Creatures of the Deep, Damian Priestly, Ember Moon, Randy Orton, Shawn Michaels, Mick Moretti, The Carnies, Undertaker, and Finn Balor (as the demon).

Gil = Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, Bobby Lashley, Randy Orton, Drew McIntyre, New Day, Heavy Machinery, Space Pirates, the Viking Raiders, Oleg the Usurper, Creatures of the Deep, Warhorse, Mark Henry, Kane, Big Show, and Kairi Sane.

Ben = John Cena, Kurt Angle, Bruno Sanmartino, Bret Hart, Finn Balor, Diamond Dallas Page, Bayley, Naomi, Natalya, Boomer Hatfield, Levi Everett, Dynamite Dino Dude, and Roman Reigns (especially after he came back from leukaemia).

Chad = Baron Corbin, Randy Orton, Carmella (as a heel), the Miz (as a heel), the Shield (as heels), Kane, Sasha Banks (as a heel), Shane McMahon, Stephanie McMahon, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Vince McMahon, Darin Corbin, GPA, Breezango, and the Usos. 

Lonnie = Asuka’s NXT heel run, Xia Li, Becky Lynch (especially as ‘the Man’), Sonya Deville, Gail Kim, Bianca Belair, Minerva, Velveteen Dream, Johnny Gargano, Jason Jordan, The Bar, Titus O’Neil Rhea Ripley, Shayna Baszler, Tamina, Lacey Lane, Mia Yim, and Natalya. 

Jane = Bayley, Asuka (as a face), Candice LeRae, Dakota Kai, Bobby Roode, Sara Del Ray, Summer Rae, Willow Nightingale, Solo Darling, Jordynne Grace, and Charlotte Flair

Audrey = SASHA BANKS, Charlotte Flair, Bianca Belair, the Rock, AJ Lee (as a heel), Alexa Bliss, Nikki Bella, Brie Bella, Mercedes Martinez, Velveteen Dream, Renee Michelle, Roman Reigns, Princess Kimberlee, Mickie James, Lacey Evans and Tamina.

Jordan = Sasha Banks, Carmella, R-Truth, Cameron, Miz, Maryse, Nikki Bella, Nia Jax, Becky Lynch, Natalya, CM Punk, Roddy Piper, Tegan Nox, Santana Garrett, Kacy Catanzaro, D-Generation-X, Molly Holly, LuFisto, Lacey Lane, Ronda Rousey.

Ally = Harley Wonderland, Nikki Cross, Allison Wonderland, Alexa Bliss, Maria Kanellis, Rhea Ripley, Lita, Elias, Heavy Machinery, EFFY, AJ Lee, Bayley, and Lacey Evans, Nina Samuels, Jinny.

CJ = Kairi Sane and Io Shirai are all she cares about.

Aziz = Ricochet, Ali, AJ Styles (as a face), B-Team, Bayley, Dolph Ziggler, Jinder Mahal, Finn Balor, Kurt Angle, Dana Brooke, the New Day, Jordan Devlin, Sonny Daze, Goldust.

Herkie = Shinsuke Nakamura, Rusev, Kevin Owens, Brock Lesnar, Mark Henry, Samoa Joe, Bobby Lashley, Becky Lynch, Titus O’Neil, Shelton Benjamin, Kurt Angle, Mandy Rose, and Punishment Martinez.

Maddy = AJ Lee, Aksana, Ember Moon, CM Punk, Paige, Emma, Lita, Charlotte Flair, Rosa Mendes, Victoria, The Beautiful People, Ric Flair, The Ascension, Laycool, and Alexa Bliss, Jinny, Reina Gonzalez.

Ginny = Alexa Bliss, Alicia Fox, Candice LeRae, Mandy Rose, Charlotte Flair, Maryse, Zelina Vega, Lana, Randy Savage, Maria Kanellis, Dolph Ziggler, Laycool, The Iiconics, Candy Floss, Carmella.

Harriet = Kairi Sane, Io Shirai, Mia Yim, Shane Saber, Shelly Martinez, Shayna Baszler, Paul and Katie Lea Burchill, Rhea Ripley, Batista, Kay Lee Ray, Jazzy Gabert, Natalya, Becky Lynch, and Toni Storm.

Ruby = Bayley, Bobby Roode, Dolph Ziggler, Naomi, New Day, Candice LeRae, Dakota Kai, Lucha House Party, Rey Mysterio, Bianca Belair, Jericho, No Way Jose, Dana Brooke, Xia Brookside, Carmella and R-Truth, Humberto Carrillo, Jurassic Express, Cain Velasquez, Andrade, Sin Cara, Zelina Vega, Sarah Stock, Catalina Garcia.

Anxelin = Baron Corbin, Alexa Bliss, Carmella, Charlotte Flair, Ember Moon, Sasha Banks, Paige, Eddie Guerrero, Apollo Crews, Cedric Alexander, Dana Brooke, Titus O’Neil, Shelton Benjamin.

Yi-Min = She’s mostly seen Chinese wrestling promotions, so Black Mamba, Ho Ho Lun, King of Man, Ash Silva, Slam, Hangwan, Voodoo, Candy Brother, Dalton Bragg, and Jason New are her inspirations from those promotions. She’s got a few wrestlers whose careers she follows in English though - Xia Li, Karen Q, Lin Byron, Kenny Li, Rocky, and Big Boa.

Arabella = Daniel Bryan, Rowan, Brie Bella, Asuka, Rusev, Lana, Natalya, Alexa Bliss, Braun Strowman, Becky Lynch, Sami Zayn, Sasha Banks, Finn Balor, Apollo Crews, The Miz, Mandy Rose, Goldust, Elias, Bayley, Bobby Roode, Charlotte Flair, Jimmy Uso, Naomi, Shinsuke Nakamura, Big E, Carmella, Ember Moon, Mickie James, Bobby Lashley, Jinder Mahal, Alicia Fox, Kevin Owens, AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, R-Truth, and Nia Jax.

Jade = Aliyah, Jayme Hachey, Bianca Belair, Vanessa Borne, Abbey Laith, Ayesha Raymond, Candice LeRae, Dakota Kai, Jazzy Gabert, Kairi Sane, Kavita Devi, Kay Lee Ray, Lacey Evans, Marti Belle, Mercedes Martinez, Mia Yim, Miranda Salinas, Nicole Savoy, Piper Niven, Princesa Sugehit, Rachel Evers, Reina Gonzalez, Renee Michelle, Rhea Ripley, Sage Beckett, Santana Garrett, Sarah Logan, Serena Deeb, Shayna Baszler, Taynara Conti, Tessa Blanchard, Toni Storm, Xia Li, Zeda, Tegan Nox, Barbi Hayden, Deonna Purrazzo, Jessica James, Lei’D Tapa, Nicole Matthews, Alundra Blayze, Lita, Triple H, Corey Graves, Aerial Monroe, Allysin Kay, Ashley Rayne, Hiroyo Matsumoto, Io Shirai, Isla Dawn, Jessica Elaban, Jinny, Kacy Catanzaro, Kaitlyn, Karen Q, Killer Kelly, Lacey Lane, Meiko Satomura, MJ Jenkins, Priscilla Kelly, Vanessa Kraven, Xia Brookside, Zatara, Zeuxis, Beth Pheonix

Zevon = Steve Austin, Triple H, Brock Lesnar, Batista, Rey Mysterio, Undertaker, John Cena, Randy Orton, Edge, Sheamus, Roman Reigns, Shinsuke Nakamura, Asuka, Becky Lynch, Seth Rollins, Drew McIntyre, Charlotte Flair,  Booker T, William Regal, Bad News Barrett, Baron Corbin, Christian, The Miz, Daniel Bryan, CM Punk, MVP

Anthony = Steve Austin, Triple H, Kurt Angle, Rob Van Dam, Brock Lesnar, Batista, John Cena, Randy Orton, AJ Styles, The Miz, CM Punk, Daniel Bryan, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Kazuchika Okada, Kenny Omega, Ted DiBiase, Ric Flair, The Rock, William Regal, Prince Devitt, Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Mustafa Ali, Prince Nana, Prince Puma, Awesome Kong, Mickie James, Michelle McCool, Madison Eagles, Gail Kim, Cheerleader Melissa, Paige, Nikki Bella, Asuka, Ronda Rousey, Becky Lynch, Natalya, Jimmy Jacobs, Aliyah, Alexa Bliss, The Authority, Kairi Sane, Carmella, Toni Storm, Chrissy Rivera, Chelsea Green

Claudine = Michelle McCool, Kurt Angle, Roman Reigns, Rey Mysterio, AJ Styles, Quinn Ojinnaka, Eddie Guerrero, Pat Patterson, Shawn Michaels, Naomi, Nor Diana, Goldberg, Mustafa Ali, Kacy Catanzaro, Ricochet, Candice LeRae, Mandy Rose, Lacey Evans (as a face), Bayley (as a face), Becky Lynch (as The Lasskicker), Dana Brooke, Sami Zayn (as a face).

Diego = Elias, Street Profits, R-Truth, Carmella, Sasha Banks, Bayley, Shawn Michaels, Jericho, Cameron, Naomi, Marty Jannetty, Shayna Baszler, Drake Maverick, The Rockstar, John Cena, Lita, Mickie James, Jeff Jarrett, Jeff Hardy, Matt Hardy, Samoa Joe, Lio Rush, Braun Strowman, Rusev, The Rock, Aiden English, Bobby Roode, Hulk Hogan, Lana

Opal = Ricochet, Kota Ibushi, Rey Mysterio, Io Shirai, AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, Evan Bourne, Owen Hart, Jushin Thunder Liger, Kane, Randy Savage, Scott Steiner, Lita, Christian, Jamie Noble, Matt Hardy, Gail Kim, Daniel Bryan, Xavier Woods, Kofi Kingston, Tajiri, Zelina Vega, Ayako Hamada, Aliyah, Naomi, Mio Shirai

Ariana = Lady Apache, La Amapola, Marcela, Lioness Asuka, Dynamite Kansai, Chigusa Nagayo, Dump Matsumoto, Mae Young, Luna Vachon, Leilani Kai, Sarah Stock, Natalya, Cheerleader Melissa, Ayako Hamada, Beth Phoenix, Mariko Yoshida, Gail Kim, Mickie James, Sara Del Rey, Akira Hokuto, Alundra Blayze, Judy Grable, Wendi Richter, Bull Nakano, June Byers, Jaguar Yokota, Chyna, Sherri Martel, Awesome Kong, Lita, Mildred Burke, Aja Kong, Trish Stratus, Manami Toyota, Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Paige, AJ Lee, Marie LaVerne, Joyce Grable, Ann Casey, Sue Green, Rachel Dubois, Debra, Stephanie McMahon, Victoria, Candice Michelle, MsChif, Sasha Banks, Asuka, Michelle McCool, Madison Eagles, Jazz, Jacqueline, Nikki Bella, Alicia Fox, Ivory, Roman Reigns, and Seth Rollins

Lil’ Shang = Edge, Christian, Rey Mysterio, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, Brett Hart, Jim Neidhart, Undertaker, Kane, Finn Balor, Ho Ho Lun, Big Boa, Rocky, The Rock, Rikishi, Mick Foley, Kurt Angle, Chris Jericho, Daniel Bryan, Jinder Mahal, Booker T, Fit Finlay, R-Truth, Trish Stratus, Lita, Victoria, Jazz, Molly Holly, Beth Phoenix, LuFisto, Lance Storm, Road Dogg, Umaga, The New Day, Bianca Belair, Street Profits

Artie = Tyler Bate, Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Jordan Devlin, Kenny Williams, Ligero, Nick Aldis, Drew McIntyre, Finn Balor, Sheamus, Becky Lynch, Nikki Cross, Paige, James Drake, Bea Priestley, Ayesha Raymond, Zoe Lucas, Tegan Nox, Layla, Lana Austin, Bad News Barrett, Drake Maverick, Isla Dawn, Priscilla Kelly, Joe and Mark Coffey, Finlay, Nadia Sapphire, Eddie Dennis, Mark Andrews, Morgan Webster

Carina = Andre the Giant, Tamina, Lana, Maryse, Taynara Conti, Gisele Shaw, Becky Lynch, Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks, Trish Stratus, Rhea Ripley, Indi Hartwell, Alexa Bliss, Bayley, Liv Morgan, Natalya, Toni Storm, Kay Lee Ray, Nia Jax, Mortar, Tegan Nox, Chyna, Lita, Asuka, Kairi Sane, Io Shirai, Kagetsu, Melanie Cruise, Shotzi Blackheart, Dakota Kai, Mia Yim, Candice LeRae, Riho, Sarah Logan, Hikaru Shida, Aja Kong, Bull Nakano

Doug is a manager. As a manager, his inspirations are Paul Heyman, Zelina Vega, Lana, and Bobby Heenan. Smee kids and Elle are commentators. The boys tend to like Michael Cole, Beth Phoenix and Byron Saxton. Elle tends towards JR, Corey Graves and Renee Young. Dizzy is a reporter back stage, but her favourite wrestlers to watch are Bayley, Kylie Rae, Breezango, and Princess Kimberly as a face. She gets her professional inspiration from Renee Young, Gene Okerlund, Charly Caruso and Cathy Kelley.

[carewyncromwell]

“Is it rude to say I’d volunteer  For a day of fun just once a year? I’d fly the coop, if only I could... But I've got a really bad case of being good! I’d go find trouble if there was some to get in: Ask a friend to play if I had one to let in... Nana’s rocker sawing through the floor -- Every day just like the one before --  We lock ourselves behind that door... Is it wrong to wish for something more?

~“Good Girl Winnie Foster” from Tuck Everlasting (musical)

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Carewyn’s gingham dress based on this design // original photo used for the background, edited with Lunapic! 💚

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If asked about her childhood, Carewyn Cromwell would always say that even if her family was poor and she had to wear a lot of second-hand dresses when she was growing up, she, her mother Lane, and her brother Jacob still were nonetheless able to manage all right. What Carewyn often did not talk about was at just how young of an age she was forced to start looking after herself -- something that many people would look at with quite a bit more dismay than Carewyn herself did, looking back at her own circumstances. 

Now to be clear, Lane Cromwell was a very loving and caring mother -- but with the abandonment of her husband Evan and the abrupt lack of financial income that came with it, Lane had to take on the role of both breadwinner and caregiver simultaneously. While Carewyn was a toddler, that forced Lane to do menial laundry and seamstressing work from home, as well borrow some money from her good friend Judy Castine to help make ends meet until Carewyn could start public school. Once Carewyn did start school, however, Lane still couldn’t afford childcare -- and so, after doing a lot of research and preparation, Lane made the difficult decision to teach her nearly-five-year-old daughter how to walk home from her new primary school. Understandably worried for Carewyn’s safety walking anywhere by herself, Lane used both magical and Muggle means to ensure she would know Carewyn’s location at all times, on her way coming home from school. Lane made contact with several trustworthy adults along Carewyn’s route, like the elderly owner of the local ice cream parlor, Mrs. Sackett, and introduced Carewyn to each of them, so that they could help Carewyn get home in case of an emergency or even call Lane if they didn’t see Carewyn walk by at a specific time. Lane also taught Carewyn about the Knight Bus, which she could always call by sticking her left hand out over the street, just in case anyone tried to hurt or grab her. Judy even gifted Lane a small Magical-Child-Monitor watch from Diagon Alley in preparation of Carewyn’s first year at school, which could always tell Lane whether Carewyn was at “school” or “home,” whether she was “traveling,” or even whether she was “lost” or “in distress.” (The last feature Judy customized to make the watch chirp loudly, just in case Lane didn’t notice it immediately. Lane kind of had wished she hadn’t, given how loud it was, but appreciated the sentiment.)

Most children about to turn five would’ve been petrified at the thought of walking anywhere by themselves. Carewyn, fortunately, had always been a rather brave and independent child -- and considering that she knew her mother needed to keep her job in order to provide for all of them, the little girl took the responsibility onto her tiny shoulders like a champ, walking home with her head held high every day with no sense of fear or resentment. She and Jacob were all their Mum had now, after all, and with Jacob away at school, Carewyn knew she had to do her best to help take care of Lane, just like Lane did her and Jacob. Jacob always made her promise to take care of their mother and flat before leaving for Hogwarts every year...and Carewyn would never break a promise to her brother. 

So every day, from the age of 4 all the way to 11, Carewyn Cromwell walked home from school every single day by herself, straight home to her mother’s and her flat, where she’d lock the door and stay safe inside until her mum came home. And to Lane’s relief, in that entire time, the single mother never heard her Magical-Child-Monitor watch chirp once -- for truly, Carewyn had always been a rather risk-adverse child. Her brother Jacob used to break into the kitchen cabinets and try to drink bleach as a baby, but Carewyn? Lane herself would often compare her daughter to a “little angel,” never starting trouble or getting into anything she shouldn’t. And because Carewyn knew Lane was working so hard trying to do well for her and Jacob, the last thing Carewyn wanted to do was make things more difficult for her mother -- so she stoically followed the same routine every day without complaint, going to school just for her classes and then heading straight home, all the while trying hard to not to let any accidental magic slip out that could make anyone side-eye Carewyn or her family any more than they already did. 

This didn’t mean that Carewyn didn’t ever quietly lament the arrangement, of course. What child wouldn’t? It was hard having to see other kids getting picked up by their parents in their cars when it was wet or snowing outside. It was hard to have to walk straight home when there was an exciting football match going on in the field near the local secondary school. It was hard to sit cooped-up inside when Carewyn could hear all the neighborhood kids riding their bikes on a sunny Friday afternoon. 

But hey, Carewyn told herself gloomily -- she didn’t even have a bike to ride on next to them anyway. And really, she thought more stubbornly, they’d probably just think she was a freak like everyone else did, which meant they’d only say nasty things that would make her upset and make her cast magic by accident anyway. And then she’d scare everyone, and the Ministry would have to come in and fix things...and her mother would worry. Carewyn couldn’t worry Lane...

And so Carewyn stayed inside dutifully, day after lonely day, soldiering through with no complaint. Because really, all of that silence was worth it, the moment Jacob would come home for a holiday break. As soon as he was home, Carewyn wouldn’t be alone, and with someone else around at home, it was safer to go outside without her mother. She and Jacob could walk to the park or the library -- to Mrs. Sackett’s ice cream parlor, or maybe even take a trip to the beach. Even being inside some of the time wasn’t so hard, when Carewyn didn’t always have to be by herself. And then once Lane was home too, they could all eat dinner together, the way Carewyn wished they could every night -- laughing and talking and sharing and bonding the way they all loved doing. And once Carewyn started at Hogwarts herself...well, then she’d be able to go wherever she wanted, whenever she wanted -- be the great witch she wanted to be, instead of the “freak” ginger that the Muggles in her neighborhood would never understand. She’d be able to play out every single wild daydream Jacob and Lane had sparked to life inside of her through all their stories about the magical school -- cast spells, brew potions, visit all the shops of Hogsmeade village...play Quidditch, sing for the Frog Choir...maybe even tame a real-life dragon! 

Carewyn held fast to this thought and never let go of it. Once she could go to Hogwarts and chase her dreams, Jacob and her mother rooting for her all the while...all those silent, cooped-up, lonely days of the past would be worth it. 

[caddyxjellyby]

deepest Avi cuts based on how many users have shelved the book on LibraryThing

Loyalty - 2

Keep Your Eye on Amanda - 12

Amanda Joins the Circus - 16

Ragweed and Poppy - 20

The End of the World and Beyond - 26

Things That Sometimes Happen - 37

The Bird, The Frog, and The Light - 38

The Most Important Thing - 39

The History of Helpless Harry - 40

Gold Rush Girl - 43

The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts - 50

Punch with Judy - 51

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25th Critics’ Choice Awards - Film Winners

BEST PICTURE Ford v Ferrari The Irishman Jojo Rabbit Joker Little Women Marriage Story 1917 Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood — WINNER Parasite Uncut Gems

BEST DIRECTOR Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story Greta Gerwig – Little Women Bong Joon Ho – Parasite — WINNER (TIE) Sam Mendes – 1917 — WINNER (TIE) Josh Safdie and Benny Safdie – Uncut Gems Martin Scorsese – The Irishman Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

BEST ACTOR Antonio Banderas – Pain and Glory Robert De Niro – The Irishman Leonardo DiCaprio – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Adam Driver – Marriage Story Eddie Murphy – Dolemite Is My Name Joaquin Phoenix – Joker — WINNER Adam Sandler – Uncut Gems

BEST ACTRESS Awkwafina – The Farewell Cynthia Erivo – Harriet Scarlett Johansson – Marriage Story Lupita Nyong’o – Us Saoirse Ronan – Little Women Charlize Theron – Bombshell Renée Zellweger – Judy — WINNER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Willem Dafoe – The Lighthouse Tom Hanks – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Anthony Hopkins – The Two Popes Al Pacino – The Irishman Joe Pesci – The Irishman Brad Pitt – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood — WINNER

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Laura Dern – Marriage Story — WINNER Scarlett Johansson – Jojo Rabbit Jennifer Lopez – Hustlers Florence Pugh – Little Women Margot Robbie – Bombshell Zhao Shuzhen – The Farewell

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS Julia Butters – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Roman Griffin Davis – Jojo Rabbit — WINNER Noah Jupe – Honey Boy Thomasin McKenzie – Jojo Rabbit Shahadi Wright Joseph – Us Archie Yates – Jojo Rabbit

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE Bombshell The Irishman — WINNER Knives Out Little Women Marriage Story Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Parasite

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Noah Baumbach – Marriage Story Rian Johnson – Knives Out Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won – Parasite Quentin Tarantino – Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood — WINNER Lulu Wang – The Farewell

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Greta Gerwig – Little Women — WINNER Noah Harpster and Micah Fitzerman-Blue – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Anthony McCarten – The Two Popes Todd Phillips & Scott Silver – Joker Taika Waititi – Jojo Rabbit Steven Zaillian – The Irishman

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Jarin Blaschke – The Lighthouse Roger Deakins – 1917 — WINNER Phedon Papamichael – Ford v Ferrari Rodrigo Prieto – The Irishman Robert Richardson – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Lawrence Sher – Joker

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Mark Friedberg, Kris Moran – Joker Dennis Gassner, Lee Sandales – 1917 Jess Gonchor, Claire Kaufman – Little Women Lee Ha Jun – Parasite Barbara Ling, Nancy Haigh – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood — WINNER Bob Shaw, Regina Graves – The Irishman Donal Woods, Gina Cromwell – Downton Abbey

BEST EDITING Ronald Bronstein, Benny Safdie – Uncut Gems Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker – Ford v Ferrari Yang Jinmo – Parasite Fred Raskin – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Thelma Schoonmaker – The Irishman Lee Smith – 1917 — WINNER

BEST COSTUME DESIGN Ruth E. Carter – Dolemite Is My Name — WINNER Julian Day – Rocketman Jacqueline Durran – Little Women Arianne Phillips – Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Sandy Powell, Christopher Peterson – The Irishman Anna Robbins – Downton Abbey

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP Bombshell — WINNER Dolemite Is My Name The Irishman Joker Judy Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Rocketman

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS 1917 Ad Astra The Aeronauts Avengers: Endgame — WINNER Ford v Ferrari The Irishman The Lion King

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Abominable Frozen II How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World I Lost My Body Missing Link Toy Story 4 — WINNER

BEST ACTION MOVIE 1917 Avengers: Endgame — WINNER Ford v Ferrari John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Spider-Man: Far From Home

BEST COMEDY Booksmart Dolemite Is My Name — WINNER The Farewell Jojo Rabbit Knives Out

BEST SCI-FI OR HORROR MOVIE Ad Astra Avengers: Endgame Midsommar Us — WINNER

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Atlantics Les Misérables Pain and Glory Parasite — WINNER Portrait of a Lady on Fire

BEST SONG Glasgow (No Place Like Home) – Wild Rose — WINNER (TIE) (I’m Gonna) Love Me Again – Rocketman — WINNER (TIE) I’m Standing With You – Breakthrough Into the Unknown – Frozen II Speechless – Aladdin Spirit – The Lion King Stand Up – Harriet

BEST SCORE Michael Abels – Us Alexandre Desplat – Little Women Hildur Guðnadóttir – Joker — WINNER Randy Newman – Marriage Story Thomas Newman – 1917 Robbie Robertson – The Irishman

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD Eddie Murphy

#SEEHER AWARD Kristen Bell