#leonard mcgraw

[amphoterrible]

I started my House re-watch, want a preview of the first three episodes of season 1???

Season One (or: I don’t remember Wilson looking like such a baby the first time I saw this how old is Robert Sean Leonard in season one? THIRTY-FIVE?? FUCK)

In “Pilot” (or “Everybody Lies” if you’re feeling frisky) there’s not much going on in Vicodin Land. Our acetaminophen dose ranges from 1500-2250 mg. Boring.

“Paternity,” again, acetaminophen 1000-1500 mg.

Oh, “Occam’s Razor.” Dosage of acetaminophen is 1500-2250 mg, but this is our first medication tangent. Colchicine toxicity! Did you know the FDA told drug companies to stop manufacturing unapproved injectable colchicine in 2008?(1) Because I didn’t! There is no antidote for colchicine toxicity, it’s all supportive treatment. When I was re-watching this episode, I actually thought they confused colchicine for digoxin which I thought was weird because I feel like digoxin is so well known. But it turns out there is experimental colchicine-specific antibodies, but they’re not commercially available.(2) How did you get them, House? How did you get them so quickly?? Literally there is one published case report where they used Fab fragments for colchicine toxicity and it was published in 1995.(3) One patient! Nine years before this episode aired!

References

The Rheumatologist. FDA enforcement against injectable colchicine. https://www.the-rheumatologist.org/article/fda-enforcement-against-injectable-colchicine/. Accessed January 8, 2024.

Schier JG. Colchicine, podophyllin and the vinca alkaloids. In: Nelson LS, Howland M, Lewin NA, Smith SW, Goldfrank LR, Hoffman RS, eds. Goldfrank’s Toxicologic Emergencies, 11e. McGraw-Hill; 2019:537-547.

Baud FJ, et al. Treatment of severe colchicine overdose with colchicine-specific fab fragments. N Engl J Med. 1995;332:642-645.

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A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids’ wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Allison Torres: Jennifer Garner Carlos Torres: Edgar Ramírez Katie Torres: Jenna Ortega Nando Torres: Julian Lerner Ellie Torres: Everly Carganilla H.E.R.: H.E.R. Mr. Deacon: Nat Faxon Hiring Executive: Molly Sims Jean the Paramedic: Fortune Feimster Officer Jones: Arturo Castro Billie / Concert Coordinator: Tracie Thoms Layla: Megan Stott Tara: Yimmy Yim Hailey Peterson: Snowden Grey Officer Chang: Hayden Szeto Julie: Alana Baer Brian: Graham Phillips Brent: Wolf Fleetwood-Ross Trevor: Adam Faison Mr. Hwang: James Kyson Counter Gal: Michelle La Mr. Chan: Leonardo Nam Miss Hoffling: Naomi Ekperigin Chase: James Calixte Rob: Alek Cole Jeremy: William Samiri Tony: Ruy Iskandar Teacher Beth: Cloie Wyatt Taylor Nurse Linda: Joanna Strapp Bob: Brent Morin Joan: Cass Buggé Karen: Lynn Andrews Security Guard: Jordan Johnson-Hinds KC: K.C. Clyde Mary: Katie Baker Rosemary: Ava Allan Brad: Cameron Johnson Woman on Something: Taylor Cooper Mom in Car: Faryn Einhorn Kablowey Maroon Team Player: Jeremy Culhane Kablowey Green Team Player: Kristi Lauren Kablowey Blue Team Player: Olivia Norman Korean Customer: Arvin Lee Man from Bathroom: Peter S. Kim Officiant: Ron Yerxa Helium Kid #1: Nicholas Sean Johnny Helium Kid #2: Cameron James Elie Seven Year Old Nando: Romyn Smith Ten Year Old Katie: Aliyah Torres Terrified Kid: Joshua Gallup Stevie: Danielle Jalade Woman in Cheetah Suit: Erin Allin O’Reilly Officer Antonio: Rafael Boza Harry: Tyler Riggin Kablowey Orange Team Player: Mike Lane Kablowey Orange Team Player #2: Sandy Fletcher Sound Mixer: Chase Meyer Party Kid #1: Lola Raie Party Kid #2: Aidan McGraw Maid of Honor: Rachel Amanda Bryant Athletic Kid #1: Coral Coye Athletic Kid #2: Kodiak Lehman Athletic Kid #3: Makea Leonard H.E.R. Band Member: Keithen Foster H.E.R. Band Member: Carrington Brown H.E.R. Band Member: Alonzo Harris H.E.R. Band Member: Ricardo Ramos H.E.R. Band Member: Ajanee Hambrick H.E.R. Band Member: Malik Spence Allah-Las Band Member: Miles Michaud Allah-Las Band Member: Matthew Correia Allah-Las Band Member: Pedrum Siadatian Allah-Las Band Member: Timothy Hill Film Crew: Production Design: Doug J. Meerdink Original Music Composer: Michael Andrews Producer: Jennifer Garner Set Decoration: Rosemary Brandenburg Makeup Artist: Deborah La Mia Denaver Director of Photography: Terry Stacey Executive Producer: Miguel Arteta Assistant Art Director: Mike Piccirillo Editor: Jay Deuby Costume Design: Susie DeSanto Supervising Sound Editor: Darren Sunny Warkentin Supervising Sound Editor: Andrew DeCristofaro Executive Producer: Mark Moran Producer: Daniel Rappaport Costume Supervisor: Mitchell Ray Kenney Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Will Files Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Paterson Visual Effects Supervisor: Jean-François Ferland Executive Producer: Justin Malen Stunts: Kelli Barksdale Makeup Department Head: Cristina Waltz Producer: Lawrence Grey Set Costumer: Natasha Romanow Set Costumer: Cesha Ventre Visual Effects Producer: Marie-Claude Lafontaine Second Unit Director: Shauna Duggins Set Dresser: Fante Zamora Book: Tom Lichtenheld Utility Stunts: Mallory Thompson Set Decoration Buyer: Jennifer Pray Producer: Ben Everard Art Direction: Jason Perrine Production Coordinator: Sally Potters Makeup Artist: Jamie Hess Book: Amy Krouse Rosenthal Producer: Nicole King Executive Producer: Adam Simpson-Marshall Visual Effects Producer: Erin Hewitt Set Dresser: Max Bostic Visual Effects Supervisor: Brandon Nelson VFX Artist: Sébastien Chartier VFX Artist: Jason Evanko VFX Artist: Alyssa Koncelik-Diemer Movie Reviews: r96sk: Rather unoriginal, though the cast make it more likeable than it would otherwise be. ‘Yes Day’ is exactly what it says on the tin, you will not be shocked to find out what the plot is. It plays out in the most predictable way possible, even the hearty moments are a little too sickly at times. With that sai...

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thank you so much for tagging me @jemgirl86 i’m sorry it took so long to do this!

just to see you smile - tim mcgraw

bitter - meshell ndegeocello

avalanche - leonard cohen

renegades of funk - rage against the machine

nothing’s wrong - haim

eyes like sparks - grandpaboy

sail - awolnation

we’ve got it goin’ on - backstreet boys

i 2 i - tevin campbell

les fleurs - clara luciani

sleep to dream - fiona apple

oh what a beautiful morning - oklahoma ost

nothing better - the postal service

i tag @ninesdb @spinachgarden @eusuntgratie @xoxoviva and anyone else who’d like to play

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[krispyweiss]

Eponymous Band Leader, Session Man and “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” Singer Charlie Daniels Dead at 83

Charlie Daniels, the session man turned County Music Hall of Famer best known for “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” died suddenly July 6 of a stroke, according to an announcement on his website.

Daniels was 83.

“Tragic news,” Hank (Williams) 3 wrote on Facebook. “Charlie was a true legend and patriot. Deepest condolences to his family and all those touched by his music and actions.”

The Academy of Country Music mourned the multi-instrumentalist as one of the genre’s “greatest giants,” while Ricky Skaggs called Daniels “one of my favorite people on this earth.”

“Oh, how he will be missed at the Grand Ole Opry and everywhere else he was loved,” Skaggs tweeted.

“Charlie, thank you for all of the music and joy you’ve given us,” the Opry tweeted.

Before launching his eponymous Band, Daniels worked as a session musician, playing guitar and bass on Bob Dylan’s Nashville Skyline, New Morning and Self Portrait albums, contributing to Ringo Starr’s 1970 country record Beaucoups of Blues and working with Leonard Cohen, the Marshall Tucker Band and others.

Daniels had his biggest success in 1979 with “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and hosted a series of mammoth Volunteer Jam concerts between 1974 and 1996.

In a tweet, Country Music Hall of Fame CEO Kyle Young called the 2016 inductee “a reverential innovator” and summed up Daniels’ career thusly:

“His music fused the immediacy of Southern Rock with the classic country storytelling he heard as a child. He brought new audiences to country music, pointing people to the sources even as he explored the edges."

“He was a maverick,” Wynonna tweeted.

A “heartbroken” Jason Aldean eulogized the man he called “Mr. Charlie” as “one of the nicest/kindest people I have ever met.”

“I grew up on his music - brilliant songs and smokin' records,” Tim McGraw tweeted.

“And always, without fail, every time I had the pleasure of being around him, he was one of most genuine, kind and thoughtful folks I've ever run across.”

7/6/20

[uwmspeccoll]

A Da Vinci Birthday Anniversary

Italian artist, engineer, scientist, and Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci was born 568 years ago today on April 15, 1452. In commemoration we present a few pages from our facsimile of Da Vinci’s Madrid Codices, published in New York by McGraw-Hill in 1974. The codices consist of two volumes of manuscript notes discovered in the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid in 1965 that include such topics as mechanics, statics, geometry, and the construction of fortifications, and also displays his famous mirror writing. Codex I was finished during 1490 and 1499, and II from 1503 to 1505. The last two images are from Codex II and show a plan for the head of Leonardo’s Sforza monument and a map of Pisa and its surroundings showing plans for water diversions. 

Happy Birthday Anniversary Leonard Da Vinci!

[ccristata]

So I’ve been looking for Star Trek playlists for a while and usually they have different genres than I listen to or just aren’t the vibes I’m looking for so I present to you: my take on playlists for Jim Kirk and Leonard McCoy. I’m still making edits so I welcome feedback!

Just a note, I’m more familiar with AOS/2009/Kelvin timeline so that’s more of what these are based off of but feel free to picture TOS!

Yes the order is intentional, I’m happy to go into great detail. Let me know what you think/if you have suggestions!

“JTK” (Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0p7f3tm7y7DzCLujpSJHoL?si=qQLv-7BBTDiS8mp0acl7EA)

JTK:

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Salt And The Sea - The Lumineers

Gloria - The Lumineers

Leader Of The Landslide - The Lumineers

Jimmy Sparks - The Lumineers

Twin Size Mattress - The Front Bottoms

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gold rush - Taylor Swift

Carmen - Lana Del Rey

august - Taylor Swift

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Luck - American Authors

Johnny Boy - Twenty One Pilots

Icarus - Bastille

Come Back Down - Greg Laswell

Achilles Come Down - Gang of Youths

Sunflower - Post Malone

Bad at Love - Halsey

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Whatever it Takes - Imagine Dragons

Dance Monkey - Tones And I

Sledgehammer - Rihanna

Line Without a Hook - Ricky Montgomery

happiness - Taylor Swift

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Beyond the Horizon - Melodysheep

Hopeless Wanderer - Mumford & Sons

Pioneer - The Band Perry

King and Lionheart - Of Monsters and Men

Light - Sleeping at Last

What A Wonderful World - Reuben And The Dark

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Major Tom - Shiny Toy Guns

Oblivion - Bastille

Good Enough - Little Mix

Till Forever Falls Apart - Ashe, FINNEAS

I Gave You All - Mumford & Sons

Sabotage - Beastie Boys

Iowa - Dar Williams

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Lover of the Light - Mumford & Sons

hope ur ok - Olivia Rodrigo

the lakes - Taylor Swift

Ballad of Serenity - Sonny Rhodes

“I Feel It in My Bones” (Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2c8RIwStd24PLza4FVHzdG?si=f_dp1zjkQNOy-M5Wc9KVQA)

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Love at the Five and Dime - Nancy Griffith

Tennessee - Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors

Hey, Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams

Song of the South - Alabama

Hurricane - The Band of Heathens

Something to Be Proud of - Montgomery Gentry

35 mph Town - Toby Keith

I’ll Be Your Man (Song for a Daughter) - Zac Brown Band

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Unsteady - X Ambassadors

Soon You’ll Get Better - Taylor Swift

Long Way from Home (extended live performance) - The Lumineers

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Make You Feel My Love - Adele

tolerate it - Taylor Swift

To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra

Where’s My Love - SYML

Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi

Those Days are Gone, and My Heart Is Breaking - Barton Carroll

Moral of the Story - Ashe

My Little Girl - Tim McGraw

My Eyes - The Lumineers

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How to Save a Life - The Fray

Liability - Lorde

White Blank Page - Mumford & Sons

Another Love - Tom Odell

Highway 20 Ride - Zac Brown Band

Nobody Knows - The Lumineers

What It Is - Kodaline

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Summer Highland Falls - Billy Joel

Pluto - Sleeping at Last

Lemon Boy - Cavetown

Someone Saved My Life Tonight - Mumford & Sons

I Bet My Life - Imagine Dragons

Galileo - Indigo Girls

Closer to Fine - Indigo Girls

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Bleeding Out - Imagine Dragons

Two - Sleeping at Last

epiphany - Taylor Swift

The Boxer - Mumford & Sons

Fare Thee Well - Oscar Issac, Marcus Mumford

[ljones41]

Favorite Movies Set Aboard Trains

Below is a list of my favorite movies set aboard a train:

1.  “Murder on the Orient Express” (1974) - Sidney Lumet directed this all-star adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel about Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solving the murder of an American passenger aboard the famed Orient Express.  Albert Finney starred.

2.  “The Tall Target” - Dick Powell starred as a New York City detective who struggles to foil an assassination plot against President-elect Abraham Lincoln during the latter’s rail journey to Washington D.C. in 1861.  Anthony Mann directed.

3.  “North West Frontier aka Flame Over India” (1959) - Kenneth More and Lauren Bacall starred in this adventure tale about a British Army officer ordered to escort and protect a young Indian prince and his American-born governess during their train journey to Delhi during an uprising in the North West province.  J. Lee Thompson directed.

4.  “Silver Streak” (1976) - Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor teamed up for the first time in this comedy thriller about a book editor who stumbles across a murder plot during a train journey from Los Angeles to Chicago.  Arthur Hiller directed.

5.  “Murder on the Orient Express” (2017) - Kenneth Branagh directed and starred in this all-star adaptation of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel about Belgian detective Hercule Poirot solving the murder of an American passenger aboard the famed Orient Express.  

6.  “From Russia With Love” (1963) - Sean Connery starred as British agent James Bond in this adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1957 novel about a plot to assassinate the agent.  Terence Young directed.

7.  “Narrow Margin” (1990) - Gene Hackman and Anne Archer starred in this remake of the 1952 movie, “The Narrow Margin”, about a Los Angeles deputy district attorney who attempts to keep a murder witness safe from hit men while traveling through the Canadian wilderness aboard a train.  Peter Hyams directed.

8.  “The Lady Vanishes” (1938) - Alfred Hitchcock directed this adaptation of Ethel Lina White’s 1936 novel, “The Wheel Spins”, which is about a young English tourist, who discovers that her elderly travelling companion seems to have disappeared from the train they were traveling aboard.  Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave and Dame May Whitty starred.

9.  “The First Great Train Robbery” (1978-79) - Michael Crichton wrote and directed this adaptation of his 1975 novel about a master criminal’s plan to rob a train carrying gold to British Army troops during the Crimean War.  Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down starred.

10.  “The Narrow Margin” (1952) - Richard Fleischer directed this adaptation of  Martin Goldsmith and Jack Leonard’s unpublished novel about a Los Angeles Police detective and his partner assigned to protect a mob boss’s widow during a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.  Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, and Jacqueline White starred.

Honorable Mention:  “Shanghai Express” (1932) - Josef von Sternberg directed and actress Marlene Dietrich starred in this film about a group of first-class train travelers who are held hostage by a warlord during the Chinese Civil War.  Anna May Wong, Clive Brook and Warner Oland co-starred.

[kwebtv]

Character Actor

Hans Georg Conried Jr. (April 15, 1917 – January 5, 1982)  Actor and comedian, who was active in voice-over roles.  

He was known for providing the voices of Walt Disney's Mr. George Darling, and Captain Hook in Peter Pan (1953), for playing the villainous title role in The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Dr. Miller on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Snidely Whiplash in Jay Ward's Dudley Do-Right cartoons, Professor Kropotkin on the radio and film versions of My Friend Irma, his work as Uncle Tonoose on Danny Thomas' sitcom Make Room for Daddy, and multiple roles on I Love Lucy.

Besides hosting Fractured Flickers, Conried was a regular panelist on the pantomime program Stump the Stars and a semi-regular guest on the Ernie Kovacs-hosted game show Take a Good Look. He was a regular guest on Jack Paar's Tonight Show from 1959 to 1962. Conried joined the cast of The Tony Randall Show during the 1977-78 season.

Guest appearances included I Love Lucy (as the English tutor Percy Livermore) Davy Crockett, The Californians, Meet McGraw, Hey, Jeannie!, The Ray Milland Show, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Real McCoys, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Mister Ed, The Islanders, Ben Casey, Dr. Kildare, Lost in Space, Daniel Boone, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Lucy Show, Gilligan's Island, The Monkees, Have Gun – Will Travel, Love, American Style, Here's Lucy, Kolchak, Alice, Laverne & Shirley, The Love Boat, Hogan's Heroes, Match Game, Maverick, The Donna Reed Show, What's It For, Fantasy Island and Quark.

From 1955 to 1964, Conried made 21 guest appearances as Danny Thomas' Uncle Tonoose in Make Room for Daddy on ABC and then CBS. He was featured in the 1958 episode "What Makes Opera Grand?" on the anthology series Omnibus. The episode, an analysis by Leonard Bernstein, showing the powerful effect of music in opera, featured Conried as Marcello in a spoken dramatization of Act III of Puccini's La Bohème. The program demonstrated the effect of the music in La Bohème by having actors speak portions of the libretto in English, followed by opera singers singing the same lines in the original Italian.  (Wikipedia)

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Leonard Maltin and Jerry Beck kicked me into my cartoon future.

I’ve written before about the watch that led me to Hanna-Barbera, but never how Leonard Maltin and Jerry Beck kicked me headlong into the cartoon business to begin with, even though we’d never met.

There are music nerds, football nerds, art nerds, computer nerds. But me, I’m a media nerd. Even when I was sure that my path was to become a chemist, I was a devouring all the reading I could about various parts of the media business. Geoffrey Stokes’ “Star Making Machinery” deconstructed what major record companies did to rock bands, David Halberstam’s “The Powers That Be” about print and broadcast giants, Todd Gitlin’s “The Whole World is Watching: The Making and Unmaking of the New Left,”  Timothy Crouse’s “The Boys on the Bus” tracking the reporters on a political campaign were just four among many I devoured.

But most of them were pretty serious. So, it was with a relaxed joy that I fell into “Of Mice and Magic: A History of American Animated Cartoons.“ 

(*In the first edition, Jerry Beck is on the title page as Research Associate, but Amazon has him listed as an author too.) 

When I was a kid, I devoured cartoons. Any kind at any time. 6 in the morning, old, crummy Farmer Gray silents with a ticky-tacky soundtrack. As the day progressed it was Heckle & Jeckle or the original Mighty Mouse from Terrytoons, maybe Woody Woodpecker or Popeye. Later on it could be Crusader Rabbit or the endless great loops of Looney Tunes or Tom & Jerry. As the years went by the H&B greats of The Huckleberry Hound Show (one of my favorites), Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi, Top Cat, Magilla Gorilla, the entire pre-Flinstones gang.

Other than my total and immersive delight in those days before rock’n’roll, I knew absolutely nothing about them. Little did I know that those years were a complete cultural education in some of the greatest comedy films of all time.

Leonard’s and Jerry’s book filled in hundreds of gaps in my knowledge base. I won’t bore you with the details (I’ll post the table of contents below to give you an idea of what’s there), but suffice it to say that I got a total dose of what made the cartoon business famous around the world. It was a snapshot of the creative chaos by which Walt Disney and everyone else from the Warner Bros. gang to Hanna & Barbera ignited their explosions.

What does this have to do with me? You know how it’s said that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing?” Well, that’s me. If I think I know a little something, if I’m not careful, it can explode into a very big something. Like me and cartoons.

When I read the book I was already a media professional, having spent time in radio and television programming, dipping my toe into graphics animation for MTV and Nickelodeon branding. So I started asking some of my animation friends a little more about what they knew about the cartoon side of animation. When the programming heads of Nickelodeon asked me to help them figure out an original cartoon strategy for the channel –up until then all their animated shows were licensed, like Belle & Sebastian, Danger Mouse, and Yogi Bear– I didn’t really know anything other than what I read in “Of Mice and Magic.” They didn’t seem to care.

So I started pontificating about the explosively creative era of theatrical shorts. “Yeah, that’s what you need to do. Shorts! Just like the great old days!”

The Nick folks sort of agreed, but they interpreted my suggestions differently than I meant them. Their takeaway was that the industry generally didn’t do pilots, so if Nick did pilots they could test them and improve them. I hated –I still hate– pilots. From my perspective, a pilot is something only an executive sees, which they can then opinionate on and change if they feel like it. A pilot doesn’t give the filmmaker the right juice, the feeling of true creative risk that only comes when you know an audience will have their chance to judge. Just like what happened with the great theatricals back in the day.

Look, Nickelodeon did better than OK with their approach. They got Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats and Doug, right out of the box. Not too shabby a start.

But me? I was ticked off and held it in until I got offered the Hanna-Barbera gig by Turner’s Scott Sassa. Honestly, if I hadn’t been so annoyed I might have never taken the job. Seriously. Damn it, I wanted to prove that I was right! So I went West, launched “What A Cartoon!” and my life has never been the same. In so many ways, that’s all thanks to Leonard and Jerry. Thanks guys!

Of Mice and Magic: Table of Contents

Preface 1. The Silent Era 2. Walt Disney 3. Max Fleischer 4. Paul Terry and Terrytoons 5. Walter Lantz 6. Ub Iwerks 7. The Van Beuren Studio 8. Columbia: Charles Mintz and Screen Jems 9. Warner Brothers 10. MGM 11. Paramount/Famous Studios 12. UPA 13. The Rest of the Story

[theoscarsproject]

The Narrow Margin (1952). A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against their assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.

This is a fun little cat and mouse movie, with some great framing and set-ups. It utilises it’s premise fully, and it makes for a tense, dramatic crime thriller that works more often than it doesn’t. 7/10. 

[chwesolai]

Training

Characters: Richard Madden x Reader Warning: Smut A/N: my first shot at smut and hopefully I don’t make you cringe... just enjoy and the song goes with the write ok enjoy ;)

Summary: You and Richard become co-stars for a new upcoming action film where you both agreed on doing your own stunts and with doing your own stunts, comes a ton of training time aka your time to stare at the jaw-dropping body of your lovely co-star and after all the trainers leave you two alone, some things lead to another

-- Your POV

Rigs, hoists, flips, jumps, parkour, you name it, the trainers were probably having me do. 

“I guess my years as a failed Olympic gymnast are finally paying of,” I laugh as I practice my back tucks and then pretending to high kick someone.

One of our trainers, Pat, laughed, “I guess so, we just need to make those movements more fluid. After your tuck, bounce into the kick, don’t pause then kick. Just kick.”

I nod, going again and again until Pat was satisfied with my landing. Moving on to more contact stunting, Pat pairs me up with a couple of our stuntmen and I begin to practice sparring. This movie followed a highly-trained criminal teaming up with a secret service agent and blah blah blah, don’t want to give too much away. And with my character being the secret service agent, I had to be fit and able to do the defense training an agent would do.

Grunts escape from my mouth as I kick and punch as if these two stuntmen were coming at me for my life. I practiced taking a gun out of their hands and unloading the gun, not the easiest thing to do. And Pat begins to clap, “My my my, y/n you’ve truly have become kickass at this whole stunt game.” 

I couldn’t help but smile. It was about two months in training and the long-awaited words came out of Pat’s mouth, “I think its time to put you and Madden up to the test.”

It was nerve-racking. Richard has been in way more of these type of things as this is my first big gig. Not to mention, Richard is absolutely gorgeous. Richard and I only met up for script reasons and chemistry tests, so I guess you can say this is where the real fun begins.

Pat and I continue to practice with the rigs and me being launched into the air as the doors to the gym swing open and there he was. Richard and Leonard, our other trainer, come walking in as I do one last pretend explosion run.

“Atta kid!” I hear Leonard say as I finish the stunt, “it was only last month you hated doing those y/n!”

“Hey, Leonard! And I know right, the things progress does.” I laugh as I detach myself from the rig, “Are you ready for this Richard?”

Caught completely off guard, Richard just smiles and nods. 

-- Richard’s POV

Dear God, she’s breath-taking. How is it possible for someone to look THAT attractive whilst sweating and yanked by a rig? And I’ll be acting beside her for the next two months, fuck me. 

“Are you ready for this, Richard?” I hear her say and all I could do is just nod and smile like a dummy, what the fuck is wrong with you? She’s just another co-star. 

Before I set my things down I check my phone seeing another text from Taron: Rich, you just need to suck it up and ask her dinner after your training! I believe in you!

Ok, I think I could do it. Ok. Ok. 

Fuck me. 

-- Your POV

Pat and Leonard set up the scenario where Richard’s character and mine meet for the first time and my character attacks him, as he’s an enemy in the beginning. Pat and Leonard demonstrate and Richard and I observe, “Fairly easy. Let���s do this.”

We set up the scene, my back facing Richard and Richard opposite of me. Then, Richard begins to recite his lines, “Hello? Anyone in here? I’m Trevor Card and I-” His line gets cut off by me screaming, running full force at him.

 “Wait for a second! This is a misunderstanding! I’m not-” Richard continues in character. I tackle him to the ground and point my fake gun at him, “How could I misunderstand looking at a criminal?”

“A retired criminal. Ms. Weiss, I’m your new assignment.” Richard looks up at me as I’m basically straddling him. I help him up and we are face to face.

“Oh my. I’m so sorry about that, Mr. Card, I-” My line gets but off with Richard grabbing my left arm back and pulling me harshly, nearly whispers into my ear, “All is forgiven, Ms. Weiss. Now let’s discuss our assignment shall we?”

Fuck me that accent is the hottest thing I’ve ever heard.

“And, cut!” Leonard and Pat clap their hands in amazement, “pure naturals, I have to say. So, we’re gonna do more action packed stuff for the next hour and then we’ll see you guys on set!”

I nod and look over at Richard in pure awe.

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Our hour was up and I was so sweaty it was unbearable how disgusting my clothes were. Richard gave up wearing a shirt after about 30 minutes and I was in a sports bra practically clinging to me.

“So, we’ll see you guys on set tomorrow!” Leonard and Pat wave the two of us goodbye as they leave the gym.

“So, how are you feeling about all this?” Richard asks me as we clean up the bench we laid all our belonging on.

“Honestly, really good. It’s really helpful to not be going through all this training alone, ya know?”

“I feel you on that one. All this training was intense but when you have a partner to do it with, I think it becomes fun.” He smiles at me, “also, just wanted to say you’ve got some wandering eyes, ms. y/n”

Well yeah, I do you’re fucking gorgeous.

“Well, I mean I’d have to say the about you.”

“You are attractive, y/n if you didn’t know. And I did not think you’d be so flexible.” His eyes began to darken, those baby blues became night sky blue. Fuck Me. 

“Are you implying something, Madden?” I begin inching closer to him, “your eyes have done some damage throughout the day, I think you owe me something.”

His eyebrows rose intrigued, “Me? Owe you? I mean I was going to ask you to dinner but the gym is empty and I just couldn’t stop thinking about myself feeling you. All of you.” His hand trailed up my back and brought me up against his chest.

I felt his shorts come in contact with my leg and holy fuck I’m in for it right now, “Richard, what are you waiting for? Kiss me already.” 

“Naughty, I love it.” He growls and he pulls me for a kiss and it’s slow at first. Our lips slowly find a rhythm and my tongue begins to explore. Our kisses escalate and get sloppier and sloppier, the tension building up in the both of us and I jump, wrapping my legs around Richard. His hands grab my ass and massage it and I let a moan escape.

“Baby, I need to hear from you. Louder,” Richard begins kissing down my neck and my moans begin to echo in the empty gym, “That’s it.” He lays me down on the bench, “We don’t need to do this, y/n. Tell me if you’re uncomfortable and I’ll stop.”

“We’ve barely begun.” I grab his face and begin kissing him as we both begin stripping down. His mouth travels south, leaving marks down my stomach and he begins kissing down my inner thighs and his hands rubbing against me, moans getting louder. “I can’t wait to take a taste.” He looks up at me and I all I could do it nod.

He traces his tongue from my entrance to my clit and I reach down to pull him in closer but he grabs my wrist, “Patience, love. Patience.” His whispers vibrate inside me and I lose my mind. Richard hums, opening his mouth and lapping at your clit with his breath coming hard against you. His fingers find my clit as his tongue enters inside. Gripping his hair, he licks you continuously up and down and comes back up and kisses you, sharing the taste.

“Ready?”

“Never been more ready.” We both laugh and he brings me in close, “I’m not doing this just because you’re my co-star, I really do like you, y/n.”

“I like you too.” My face feeling 10x hotter than it already it, “Now show me how much you need me.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

He lined himself up with my entrance, leaning over and kissing down my spine. I simply nodded my head in response. He buried himself in me, a low grunt and small gasp leaving his lips. I gripped onto what of the bench I could reach and shut my eyes tight.

"Holy sh-," I mumbled, biting my lip as Richard slowly pulled his entire length out before entering me again. He began this steady rhythm of slow thrusts. He would thrust halfway out two or three times and then the fourth thrust would be his entire length. I’m sure my eyes were at the back of my head by the time he had groaned out that he was close. His thumb reached around to our conjoined bodies, making fast circles on my clit against his slow thrusts. I came with a toe-curling orgasm and he followed soon after. He removed the condom and threw it in the bin by the benches.

Richard carries me, bridal-style, “let’s shower and I’ll treat to the nicest dinner you’ve ever had.”

“Sounds like a plan.” I smile and kiss his cheek.

[michelleplayswithfire]

Top 20 Top 40 Hits of 2016

Honorable mentions: Love Yourself -- Justin Bieber (#1 -- peak Feb. 13) (#1 -- YE 2016) My Way -- Calvin Harris (#24 -- peak Oct. 8) Stressed Out -- twenty one pilots (#2 -- peak Feb. 27) (#5 -- YE 2016) Panda -- Desiigner (#1 -- peak May 7) (#6 -- YE 2016) Cold Water -- Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber & MO (#2 -- peak Aug. 13) (#25 -- YE 2016) Say It -- Tory Lanez (#23 -- peak Feb. 6) (#74 -- YE 2016) Never Forget You -- Zara Larsson & MNEK (#13 -- peak Jun. 4) (#46 -- YE 2016) Hymn For The Weekend -- Coldplay (#25 -- peak Oct. 8) (#73 -- YE 2016) Humble and Kind -- Tim McGraw (#30 -- peak Apr. 23) (#96 -- YE 2016) Youth -- Troye Sivan (#23 -- peak Apr. 2) Peter Pan -- Kelsea Ballerini (#35 -- peak Sep. 24) No Role Modelz -- J. Cole (#36 -- peak Jan. 2) Foldin Clothes -- J. Cole (#30 -- peak Dec. 31)

20. Cake By The Ocean -- DNCE (#9 -- peak Mar. 12) (#18 -- YE 2016) 19. Adventure For The Weekend -- Coldplay (#13 -- peak Feb. 27) (#95 -- YE 2016) 18. Can’t Stop The Feeling! -- Justin Timberlake (#1 -- peak May 28) (#9 -- YE 2016) 17. Closer -- The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey (#1 -- peak Sep. 3) (#10 -- YE 2016) 16. Tiimmy Turner -- Desiigner (#34 -- peak Sep. 10) (#98 -- YE 2016) 15. Ride -- twenty one pilots (#5 -- peak Sep. 10) (#20 -- YE 2016) 14. Here -- Alessia Cara (#5 -- peak Feb. 6) (#39 -- YE 2016) 13b. The Greatest -- Sia featuring Kendrick Lamar (#18 -- peak Dec. 10) 13a. Cheap Thrills -- Sia featuring Sean Paul (#1 -- peak Aug. 6) (#11 -- YE 2016) 12. I Took A Pill In Ibiza (remix) -- Mike Posner (#4 -- peak May 21) (#15 -- YE 2016) 11b. Into You -- Ariana Grande (#13 -- peak Aug. 27) (#51 -- YE 2016) 11a. Dangerous Woman -- Ariana Grande (#8 -- peak Jun. 11) (#36 -- YE 2016) 10. Too Good -- Drake featuring Rihanna (#14 -- peak Sep. 3) (#29 -- YE 2016) 9. I Got The Keys -- DJ Khaled featuring Jay-Z & Future (#30 -- peak Aug. 6) 8. Let It Go -- James Bay (#16 -- peak Jul. 23) (#44 -- YE 2016) 7. When We Were Young -- Adele (#14 -- peak Mar. 5) (#83 -- YE 2016) 6. Let Me Love You -- DJ Snake featuring Justin Bieber (#4 -- peak Oct. 8) (#47 -- YE 2016) 5b. Sorry -- Beyonce (#11 -- peak May 14) (#71 -- YE 2016) 5a. Formation -- Beyonce (#10 -- peak May 14) 4. This Girl -- Kungs vs. Cookin’ on 3 Burners (#26 -- peak Oct. 8) 3. Burning House -- Cam (#29 -- peak Jan. 2) 2. 24K Magic -- Bruno Mars (#4 -- peak Dec. 10) (#16 -- YE 2017) 1. Lazarus -- David Bowie (#40 -- peak Jan. 30)

Albums Worth Checking Out: Lemonade -- Beyonce Blackstar -- David Bowie We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service -- A Tribe Called Quest A Seat at the Table -- Solange Coloring Book -- Chance the Rapper A Moon Shaped Pool -- Radiohead ANTI -- Rihanna The Life of Pablo -- Kanye West Starboy -- The Weeknd Post Pop Depression -- Iggy Pop Wonderful Crazy Night -- Elton John Midwest Farmer’s Daughter -- Margo Price My Woman -- Angel Olsen Views -- Drake You Want It Darker -- Leonard Cohen This Is Acting -- Sia Dangerous Woman -- Ariana Grande Awaken, My Love! -- Childish Gambino

The Bottom of the Pile: Blackstar -- David Bowie (#78 -- peak Jan. 30) New Americana -- Halsey (#60 -- peak Jan. 16) Daddy Lessons -- Beyonce (#41 -- peak May 14) Dibs -- Kelsea Ballerini (#58 -- peak Feb. 27) I Got The Boy -- Jana Kramer (#56 -- peak Jan. 30) Burning House -- Emily Ann Roberts (#56 -- peak Jan. 2) Death of a Bachelor -- Panic! At The Disco (#92 -- peak Feb. 6) Victorious -- Panic! At The Disco (#89 -- peak Feb. 6) My Church -- Maren Morris (#50 -- peak Apr. 16) Hollow -- Tori Kelly (#68 -- peak Mar. 5) Heartbeat -- Carrie Underwood (#42 -- peak Mar. 5) Fly Shit Only -- Future (#67 -- peak Feb. 27) The Sound of Silence -- Disturbed (#42 -- peak Apr. 30) We The People... -- A Tribe Called Quest (#77 -- peak Dec. 3) Vice -- Miranda Lambert (#47 -- peak Aug. 6) Lush Life -- Zara Larsson (#75 -- peak Aug. 20) Ain’t My Fault -- Zara Larsson (#76 -- peak Dec. 10) Look At My Dab -- Migos (#87 -- peak Mar. 12) Nikes -- Frank Ocean (#79 -- peak Sep. 10) Bored To Death -- blink-182 (#85 -- peak Jul. 23) Dark Necessities -- Red Hot Chili Peppers (#67 -- peak Jul. 9) Noise -- Kenny Chesney (#79 -- peak Apr. 16) New Level -- A$AP Ferg featuring Future (#90 -- peak May 14) Ophelia -- The Lumineers (#66 -- peak Apr. 30) Wild Things -- Alessia Cara (#50 -- peak Jun. 11) Cranes In The Sky -- Solange (#74 -- peak Oct. 22) Don’t Touch My Hair -- Solange featuring Sampha (#91 -- peak Oct. 22) Til It Happens To You -- Lady Gaga (#95 -- peak Mar. 19) Toothbrush -- DNCE (#44 -- peak Jul. 30)

[dylanissicc]

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XPWEW Friday Night Pyro 9/4/2020

XPWEW Friday Night Pyro Date: September 4th, 2020 Episode: 442 Channel: VICE TV @ 10PM EST

-Intro song plays- and both participants are in the ring already and boom the Number 1 Contendership Match for Leonard McGraw's XPWEW World Title is on! The undefeated El Demonio (3-0) and Joe Gacy (6-9-1) with 4 of those wins being in the last month, Upward trajectory. (Leonard is the world champion and his record is spotty)

Number 1 contedendership Match 1 on 1 M1: El Demonio def. Joe Gacy (w/ Audrey Carbine) ***MATCH OF THE NIGHT***

(Amazing back and forth battle with two clashing styles, Ultimately a Pedrigree Package Piledriver from Demonio put away the death machine for the 1-2-3 and Carbine can't control herself from defending her fellow partner, Gacy (who burned her in a 'Ring of Fire' match just two weeks ago, they gained some mutual respect in that match) - Carbine locks on 'The Art of Ballistics' chicken wing on Demonio to which XPWEW World Heavyweight Champion: Leonard McGraw runs down to the ring and runs at rapid speed with his Buckshot clothesline from hell, Demonio while being choked by Carbine, McGraw clotheslines both of them with a wicked lariat. Leonard is unhinged, However Gacy has the title and he's about to whack McGraw with it from behind, McGraw turns around and has a stardown with Joe Gacy who is holding his world title, McGraw stares into Gacy's soul. Gacy then lets his guard down, holds McGraw's belt out from him and then spits a gigantic loogie on McGraw's World Title and then drops it on the ground. McGraw starts swining wildly and him and Gacy trade punches until Gacy verbally submits with an "okay okay okay" Gacy slides out of the ring in congruence with a stunned Audrey Carbine as they walk backward up the ramp, McGraw helps El Demonio up from the canvas and Demonio grabs a microphone. El Demonio: "LADDER MATCH!!!!!!!!!" ESCALA DE LA MURETA!!!!!!!!!!! McGraw: *extends handshake* Demonio: accepts handshake, McGraw tightens his grip and aggressively pulls Demonio nose to nose with him. McGraw: "I don't speak spanish but..I'm not a afraid of heights but son I'll shove that God damn Ladder up your ass. And Joe Gacy, you big crooked nose bastard! Look at me! You like to spit huh? Next week come on down, spit on these ladders, lube it up so I can stick it up both y'all's asses" - McGraws music plays....What a segment.

In ring segment: Mr. Case Your Luck Romeo Roselli with his new protegé Doxy Deity (Romeo speaks on the importance of his briefcase and that at any time he can become the world champion, Who's to say I don't climb that ladder next week!) - Jake Awesome (c) enters with Myron Reed, Kotto Brazil & Jordan Oliver (c) (Jake speaks on his recent run-in with Milwaukee Bucks player Giannis Antetokounmp and how he is still the INTERNATIONAL champion and Giannis is still not a champion. You wouldn't dare cash in on me, So I'll do one better. Next week. I'll defend the International Title. But if I win you gotta hand your briefcase over to a member of The Set that I feel has earned it. (Myron, Kotto & Jordan stand confidently) Jake: and Romeo, I doubt you'll pass the test Doxy Deity: Jake, I doubt you could pass a piss test, you are on more gas than Citgo..So bring those Spongebob Squarepants blow up muscles next week and my man will become the new International Champion Jake: *chuckles* that's cute, Doxy, is that your name? Doxy? Speak ill on my name and I'll dox you and your whole family. I myself will find every member of your family and kick their f****** teeth down their throat, So watch your mouth (Myron, Kotto & Jordan jawjacking at Romeo however the subtitles can't process it)

The Tessa Blanchard XPWEW Women's Title Open Challenge 1 on 1 M2: Tessa Blanchard (c) def. Kiera Hogan * Lotus' music plays as if to cash in her CYL briefcase, nothing happens. Tessa mouths off, Open Challenge bitch! Open challenge for a reason! I ain't scared of you little girl!

Backstage: Locker room we see Garrett Thompson at a locker looking through his gym bag; when former XPWEW Champion Champagne Clausen waltzes up pretending as if he just bumped into him Garrett: Can I help you? Champagne: Oh.....well I can help myself. Last year in October I was in a sea full of hicks and I won the world title, and Garrett: I said can I help you not can I listen to you, I'm not interested in hearing your bull**** today Champagne: Ah, I see GT. Is it because you've never been a world champion? Hmm Sure 2013 you main evented Lockdown 5 in a what, multi man 4 way dance. And wait you lost, as a matter of fact Garrett you were the first man eliminated. Garrett: stares intensely Champagne: In this industry I am here and you are...right here. You don't measure up.. Garrett decks Champagne and they start slugging it out in the locker room with fiery fists until Ethan Bedlam and 3M3 break them up, Champagne has a bloody lip Champagne: You wanna box? You wanna bare knuckle box boy huh, This ain't Rocky huh, jobbers....... Ethan Bedlam: You got a death wish? Champagne: If he wants to box, then let's box...

- Jacques Dudley enters - Masato Tanaka enters

1 on 1 M3: Masato Tanaka def. Jacques Dudley in a hard fought win between these veterans, Jacques walks off looking defeated... James Westerbeck holds a post match interview with Tanaka at ringside, Tanaka says I am striving to win the world title before I call it a career, I'm far from done. ( Joe Gacy comes out and spits in Tanaka's face, Tanaka goes to retaliate and Gacy just irish whips him into the ringpost, Audrey Carbine holds Tanaka still and Gacy takes a steel chair, scares away James Westerbeck with it then with Tanaka's head of the steel steps, Gacy smashes the chair over Tanaka's head and walks away and when Tanaka rolls over he's covered in a bloody crimson mask. Gruesome attack on Masato Tanaka from The Death Machines

- Anarchy Rules 2020 PPV ad - 16 days away!!!! - VICE TV is free to stream ALL SEPTEMBER ad!!!

Tag Team Match M4: The Set (Myron Reed & Kotto Brazil) w/ Jordan Oliver (c) def. The Vaudevillains of The Marauder Simon Gotch & Drama King Aiden English w/ Mandy Leon - Myron picked up the win over Gotch in the finish after hitting the clout cutter, Jake Awesome walks out on stage and applauds The Set and then has a chat with Myron (possibly because he picked up the win for the team, If Awesome defeats Roselli next week maybe Myron is who 'deserves' the Case Your Luck briefcase PENDING IF AWESOME successfully defeats Romeo Roselli next week)

- 1/2 of the XPWEW Tag Team Champions: Golden Bryce enters (We see Alveno watching on a monitor backstage, rooting his cousin on) - Former World Champion: Ruckus enters with Siaka Lexoni and Chrissy Rivera of The SET

1 on 1 Lockdown Seven Rematch M5: Ruckus def. Golden Bryce (c)

After the match 1/2 of the XPWEW Tag Team Champions: Alveno La Flare comes down the ramp to console Bryce on his loss, Ruckus and Lexoni with Rivera mock Alveno doing 'crybaby' faces as they laugh up the ramp. The Set is victorious as Pyro comes to a close. Alveno extends his hand and helps Bryce to his feet, As it appears they might be defending those Tag Titles against The Set on the 20th at Anarchy Rules

Show Ends

[hapless-and-hopeless]

name 10 favourite characters challenge

Tagged by @farouchetrash , thank you so much!

1. Les Misérables ➡️ Grantaire

2. Good Omens ➡️ Aziraphale

3. The Book Thief ➡️ Death

4. Black Sails ➡️ James ‘Flint’ McGraw

5. If We Were Villains  ➡️ Filippa Kosta 

6. The Good Place ➡️ Tahani Al Jamil

7. Star Trek  ➡️ Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy

8. Hamilton ➡️ Angelica Schuyler 

9. Hadestown ➡️ Eurydice

10. Discworld ➡️ Sam Vimes

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