#leslie tyron

[colorhollywood]

Old Hollywood stars on the bicycles

[hotvintagepoll]

Congrats to the ultimate winner of the Hot & Vintage Movie Men Tournament, Mr. Toshiro Mifune! May he live happily and well where the sun always shines, enjoying the glories of a battle hard fought.

A loving farewell to all of our previous contestants, who are now banished to the shadow realm and all its dark joys and whispered horrors—I hear there's a picnic on the village green today. If you want to remember the fallen heroes, you can find them all beneath the cut.

What happens next? I'll be taking a break of two weeks to rest from this and prep for the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament. I'll still be around but only minimally, posting a few last odes to the hot men before transitioning into a little early ladies content, just like I did with this last tournament. The submission form for the Hot & Vintage Ladies tournament will remain up for one more week (closing February 21st), so get your submissions in for that asap! Once the form closes, there will be one more week of break. The first round of the Hot & Vintage Ladies Tournament will be posted on February 29th, as Leap Year Day seems like a fitting allusion to leaping into these ladies' arms.

Thanks for being here! Enjoy the two weeks off, and send me some great propaganda.

In order of the last round they survived—

ROUND ONE HOTTIES:

Richard Burton

Tony Curtis

Red Skelton

Keir Dullea

Jack Lemmon

Kirk Douglas

Marcello Mastroianni

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Robert Wagner

James Garner

James Coburn

Rex Harrison

George Chakiris

Dean Martin

Sean Connery

Tab Hunter

Howard Keel

James Mason

Steve McQueen

George Peppard

Elvis Presley

Rudolph Valentino

Joseph Schildkraut

Ray Milland

Claude Rains

John Wayne

William Holden

Douglas Fairbanks Sr.

Harold Lloyd

Charlie Chaplin

John Gilbert

Ramon Novarro

Slim Thompson

John Barrymore

Edward G. Robinson

William Powell

Leslie Howard

Peter Lawford

Mel Ferrer

Joseph Cotten

Keye Luke

Ivan Mosjoukine

Spencer Tracy

Felix Bressart

Ronald Reagan (here to be dunked on)

Peter Lorre

Bob Hope

Paul Muni

Cornel Wilde

John Garfield

Cantinflas

Henry Fonda

Robert Mitchum

Van Johnson

José Ferrer

Robert Preston

Jack Benny

Fredric March

Gene Autry

Alec Guinness

Fayard Nicholas

Ray Bolger

Orson Welles

Mickey Rooney

Glenn Ford

James Cagney

ROUND TWO SWOONERS:

Dick Van Dyke

James Edwards

Sammy Davis Jr.

Alain Delon

Peter O'Toole

Robert Redford

Charlton Heston

Cesar Romero

Noble Johnson

Lex Barker

David Niven

Robert Earl Jones

Turhan Bey

Bela Lugosi

Donald O'Connor

Carman Newsome

Oscar Micheaux

Benson Fong

Clint Eastwood

Sabu Dastagir

Rex Ingram

Burt Lancaster

Paul Newman

Montgomery Clift

Fred Astaire

Boris Karloff

Gilbert Roland

Peter Cushing

Frank Sinatra

Harold Nicholas

Guy Madison

Danny Kaye

John Carradine

Ricardo Montalbán

Bing Crosby

ROUND THREE SMOKESHOWS:

Marlon Brando

Anthony Perkins

Michael Redgrave

Gary Cooper

Conrad Veidt

Ronald Colman

Rock Hudson

Basil Rathbone

Laurence Olivier

Christopher Plummer

Johnny Weismuller

Clark Gable

Fernando Lamas

Errol Flynn

Tyrone Power

Humphrey Bogart

ROUND 4 STUNGUNS:

James Dean

Cary Grant

Gregory Peck

Sessue Hayakawa

Harry Belafonte

James Stewart

Gene Kelly

Peter Falk

QUARTERFINALIST VOLCANIC TOWERS OF LUST:

Jeremy Brett

Vincent Price

James Shigeta

Buster Keaton

SEMIFINALIST SUPERMEN:

Omar Sharif

Paul Robeson

FINALIST FANTASIES:

Sidney Poitier

Toshiro Mifune

and ok, sure, here's the shadow-bracket-style winner's portrait of Toshiro Mifune.

[rhyme-or-rising]

Acevedo, Elizabeth

“With the Fire On High”

Rating: 3/5

I was biased before I even started this book, and I can’t tell in which direction.

Theoretically: I love Elizabeth Acevedo. I love all her previous work. I love “Clap When You Land” more than anything else I’ve read, I think. So, since I have such deep affection for this author and her style, I’d be more willing to pardon the ways in which this particular book is lacking.

However: I love Elizabeth Acevedo. I love “Clap When You Land.” And knowing all the ways in which she can make absolute magic with words on a page makes it all the more disappointing that this particular book falls so horribly flat.

That’s not to say I don’t like “With the Fire On High.” I enjoyed reading it, and the story was entertaining. Elizabeth Acevedo is a master of dynamic characters, engaging yet small side plots, and diverse cultural infusion that doesn’t feel forced. She illustrated varying cultures, identities, backgrounds and traditions, all through one first-person POV, and none of it seemed like she didn’t know what she was talking about or was only including it for “diversity points.” “With the Fire On High” has the same lovable yet flawed character and relationship types as her previous work.

The main difference is the format. “The Poet X” and “Clap When You Land” are both books of poetry, and they are stunning. “With the Fire On High” is a normal YA-style novel, and I have a couple issues with this.

While the story of Emoni and her classmates would likely be best told through pose instead of poetry, Acevedo’s complex and emotional style is heavily undermined by the full sentences and paragraphs. In my opinion, her previous work was so hard-hitting and beautiful because poetry leaves no room for fluff. “With the Fire On High” makes it clear that Acevedo doesn’t seem to know how to do “fluff.”

The subject matter— college applications, teenage pregnancy and parenting, apprehension regarding sex and relationships, etc, etc— is clearly aimed at older high schoolers. However, the book is set up like something more for preteens, with simple chapter titles and childish “gimmicks” (for example, throughout the book, the POV character begins to swear in her narrations before catching and comedically correcting herself). It not only looks “YA,” it reads extremely YA, which in this case, I don’t think is a good thing.

There’s nothing wrong with experimenting with a different style or younger audience, but the topics should shift with those elements. I felt like I was reading a grown-up story jammed into a cute teen drama format, and it made the whole thing seem a bit… plastic.

Some other, quicker complaints: All problems were resolved in a very predictable manner. Emoni is reminiscent of Xiomara in a way that feels less like a sweet parallel and more like Acevedo can’t seem to create a unique protagonist, which surprised me since she’s normally so excellent with characters. “Pretty Leslie”’s character was a letdown— Acevedo came very close to bringing her into the story with more complexity and depth, but it felt a bit like she stopped halfway through, giving half-answers for a lot of the questions Emoni had about her. Tyrone’s character seemed kind of plain, like Acevedo lazily decided to give him personality and redemption in the last 50 pages, and his mother read like a walking stereotype.

Still, I can’t deny that it’s a good story. “With the Fire On High” braids together many different stories and small things that readers are made to care about, and most of the characters are, as always, incredibly designed. I honestly think it would be a better read without the prior expectations shapes by Acevedo’s other works, and if you’re able to overlook the childish appearances and tone, it’s absolutely worth picking up.

[pynkhues]

but yeah sam's bone structure is wild

I feel this way too, his face is so striking to me beyond just the standard "handsome man with cheekbones" thing, and I'm trying to articulate why, so I'm curious if you could say why his bone structure is wild to you? If that's not a strange thing to ask lol

I don't know if I have that many thoughts on it beyond the fact that he has a face I like looking at, haha, but I will say that I think he's got a pretty early-Golden Age Hollywood face in terms of his features, which is just not really a look that we see very much on screen anymore?

The sort of preferred appearance / beauty ideal for Western actors usually changes with shifts in cinema history and popularity of genre, and that sort of masculine, square-jawed, high cheekboned face shape with delicate, almost feminine, almost pretty features was just a lot more popular in the 1930s / pre-WWII cinema era (see also: Tyrone Power, Robert Montgomery, Robert Donat, Leslie Howard, etc.)

I do think there's a shift post-WWII, where you see more of the rise of gristly looking Men Who've Seen Things (i.e. Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, Glenn Ford, Cary Grant, etc.) which isn't to say there wasn't crossover - there was, a lot of those 30s film stars had very long careers - but Western masculinity looked very different pre-and-post WWII, and movie stars reflected that.

(It also reflects the rise, I think, of the American movie star, given most of those 1930s actors I listed above are English, and most of the ones I listed after WWII are American.)

So yeah, I think Sam just has a very 1930s movie star face - like, I actually think in terms of bone structure and features (if not in colouring) he looks a lot like a young Laurence Olivier:

[yourforgottenbookshelf]

Updated Fandom List (TV Series)

Created: 26/02/2023

Updated: 31/11/2023

The following list contains fandoms and characters I take requests for.

You can find my Movies Fandom List here.

13 Reasons Why

Jeff Atkins

Clay Jensen

Jessica Devis

Zack Dempsey

Montgomery de la Cruz

Tyler Down

Justin Foley

Sheri Holland

Alex Randall

Charlie St. George

Diego Torres

Scott Reed

Winston Williams

911

Evan Buckley

Athena Grant-Nash

Eddie Diaz

Bobby Nash

Howard Han

Maddie Buckley

All American

Asher Adams

Darnell Hayes

Jordan Baker

Layla Keating

Olivia Baker

Spencer James

Tyrone Morris

Chicago Fire

Kelly Severide

Matthew Casey

Leslie Shay

Sylvie Brett

Stella Kidd

Wallace Boden

Gabriella Dawson

Peter Mills

Jimmy Borelli

Chris Herrmann

Jessica Chilton

Chicago P.D.

Kim Burgess

Antonio Dawnson

Jay Halstead

Erin Lindsay

Hailey Upton

Hank Voight

Control Z

Alex Salomone

Dario

Ernesto

Gerry Granda

Isabela de La Fuente

Javier Williams

Luis Navarro

Maria Alexander

Natalia Alexander

Raul Leon

Rosita Restrepo

Sofia Herrera

El Club

Matias Anda

Nicolas Farah

Rablo Caballero

Santiago Caballero

Sofia de Leon

Elite

Ander Muñoz

Carla Rosón Caleruega

Christian Varela Expósito

Guzmán Nunier Osuna

Lucrecia Montesinos Hendrich

Marina Nunier Osuna

Nadia Shanaa

Omar Shanaa

Patrick Blanco Commerford

Polo Benavent Villada

Samuel García Domínguez

Valerio Montesinos Rojas

House M.D.

Gregory House

James Wilson

Lisa Cuddy

Eric Foreman

Robert Chase

Allison Cameron

Thirteen

Muted

Sergio Siscar

Anna Dussuel

Marta Ortega

Eneko

Station 19

Maya Bishop

Carina DeLuca

Theo Ruiz

Teen Wolf

Brett Talbot

Chris Argent

Danny Mahealani

Deucalion

Derek Hale

Aiden Steiner

Ethan Steiner

Isaac Lahey

Jackson Whittemore

Kira Yukimura

Liam Dunbar

Lydia Martin

Scott McCall

Stiles Stilinski

The Resident

AJ Austin

Barett Cain

Billie Sutton

Conrad Hawkings

Nic Nevin

Devon Pravesh

Kit Voss

Randolph Bell

[quoththemaven]

2023 Favoritest Flicks

Take out your five faves and it'd still be a dynamite year for movies. My tops = Poor Things. Fave performance = Da'Vine Joy Randolph in The Holdovers. Fave score = Poor Things. Fave G'lord WTF is This Wild Gem = Dug Dug. The movie I liked a lot more than I expected to = Air. The Can't Wait for Their Next One = Kristoffer Borgli's Dream Scenario. Congratulations to all winners, you've won special mention on this Tumblr page 🏆

Loved!

Air

American Fiction

Anatomy of a Fall

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.

Asteroid City

Barbie

Beau is Afraid

Blackberry

Bottoms

Dream Scenario

Dug Dug

Ferrari

Godzilla Minus One

How to Blow up a Pipeline

Knock at the Cabin

M3GAN

May December

Napoleon

Oldboy (20th Anniversary Remastered)

Oppenheimer

Past Lives

Poor Things

Saltburn

Society of the Snow

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Stop Making Sense (rerelease)

The Boy and the Heron

The Holdovers

The Iron Claw

The Killer

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, The Swan, The Rat Catcher, Poison

The Zone of Interest

Liked!

65

A Haunting in Venice

A Thousand and One

Alice Darling

AKA

All of Us Strangers

Ballerina

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020)

Biosphere

Blue Beetle

Boston Strangler

Broker

The Burial

Cassandro

Cat Person

Creed III

Dark Harvest

Dicks: The Musical

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

Dogleg

Dumb Money

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

Eileen

El Conde

Elemental

Evil Dead Rise

Fair Play

Fallen Leaves

Fast X

Fingernails

Five Nights at Freddy’s

Flora and Son

Good Grief

Gran Turismo

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Halfway Home

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.

If You Were the Last

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Inside

It’s a Wonderful Knife

John Wick 4

Joy Ride

Landscape with Invisible Hand

Leave the World Behind

Little Bone Lodge

Luther: The Fallen Sun

Lyla

Maaveeran

Maestro

Maggie Moore(s)

Missing

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One

Monk and the Gun

Mountain Woman

Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie

Mutt

Nairobby

Nimona

No One Will Save You

Nowhere

Nyad

Origin

Paint

Para Betina Pengikut Iblis

Plane

Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

Priscilla

Quiz Lady

Raging Grace

Renfield

River

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken

Sanctuary

Self-Reliance

Sharper

Shin Kamen Rider

Showing Up

Sisu

Skinamarink

Sometimes I Think About Dying

Starling Girl

Still Time

Stopmotion

Strays

Suzume

Talk to Me

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Tetris

The Boogeyman

The Book of Clarence

The Call

The Covenant

The Kitchen

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

The Machine

The Royal Hotel

The Strays

The Taste of Things

Theater Camp

There’s Something Wrong With the Children

They Cloned Tyrone

To Leslie

Vesper

Wil

You Hurt My Feelings

[herecomesthefirstday]

herecomesthefirstday's year in review

Big things: Published a paper & a letter with my job, moved out of my parents' house and in with my boyfriend, stopped having a job, started watching One Piece, flew to Atlanta even though I hate flying, caught up with One Piece

TOP 20 FILMS OF 2023 / more & more year in review (music, TV, books, games) under readmore

Bottoms

Past Lives

Polite Society

The Holdovers

Oppenheimer

John Wick Chapter 4

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Rye Lane

Killers of the Flower Moon

May December

Barbie

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning

The Pope's Exorcist

Asteroid City

Theater Camp

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

You Hurt My Feelings

Poor Things

They Cloned Tyrone

80 For Brady

BEST SHORT OF 2023: Take Me Home

Songs on repeat / movies I watched and rated 4.5 or 5 stars / books read / TV watched / games played by month

January 🎵 Marigolds - Kishi Bashi American Teenager - Ethel Cain 🎬 Hail, Caesar! (2016) 4.5 Embrace of the Serpent (2015) 5 Fail Safe (1964) 4.5 Honorable mention: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 3.5 📚 World War Z - Max Brooks 🔁1/16 Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 1/18 Harrow the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 1/23 Nona the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir 1/26 📺 Dark

February 🎵 Partita for 8 Voices - Roomful of Teeth God Is a Freak - Peach PRC 🎬 Third Kind (2018) 4.5 Showgirls (1995) 4.5 Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) 🔁 5 📚 The Memory Police - Yōko Ogawa 2/7 Authority - Jeff VanderMeer 2/15 📺 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 🔁 Bloodline S1

March 🎵 Not Another Rockstar - Maisie Peters 🎬 Banshees of Inisherin (2022) 4.5 John Wick (2014) 🔁 4.5 John Wick: Chapter 3 (2019) 🔁 5 Honorable mention: 80 for Brady (2023) 3 📚 Acceptance - Jeff VanderMeer 3/4 How To Hide An Empire - Daniel Immerwahr 📺 Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 🔁 Yellowjackets S1 🔁 S2 Poker Face Defending Jacob

April 🎵 2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) - Lizzo Daytona Sand - Orville Peck Little Dark Age - MGMT 🎬 John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) 4.5 Honorable mention: Rye Lane (2023) 4 📚 How To Hide An Empire - Daniel Immerwahr 4/1 📺 Succession Grey's Anatomy Yellowjackets

May 🎵 Home - Diana Ross Lipstick Lover - Janelle Monáe Gloria - Laura Branigan 🎬 Polite Society (2023) 5 The Joy Luck Club (1993) 4.5 Crank (2006) 4.5 📺 Succession Grey's Anatomy Yellowjackets White Lotus 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom

June 🎵 Lipstick Lover - Janelle Monáe Movin' Out - Billy Joel 🎬 The Fabelmans (2022) 4.5 Casablanca (1942) 🔁 4.5 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 4.5 Deep Blue Sea (1999) 5 What We Do In The Shadows (2014) 🔁 5 📺 White Lotus Grey's Anatomy Marriage The Bear 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom

July 🎵 My House - Diana Ross Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell 🎬 Lady Bird (2017) 🔁 4.5 Pacific Rim (2013) 🔁 5 Whiplash (2014) 5 The Watermelon Woman (1996) 4.5 Howl's Moving Castle (2004) 🔁 4.5 Oppenheimer (2023) 4.5 📺 The Bear Grey's Anatomy Black Mirror What We Do In The Shadows Foundation 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom Rocket League

August 🎵 It's All Coming Back To Me Now - Celine Dion Adagio in D Minor - John Murphy 🎬 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) 4.5 📺 Foundation Only Murders in the Building Grey's Anatomy One Piece 🎮 Tears of the Kingdom We Love Katamari 📚 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

September 🎵 American Pie - Don McLean 🎬 Bottoms (2023) 5 📺 One Piece Foundation Grey's Anatomy 🎮 We Love Katamari 📚 The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco (9/9) Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg (9/26)

October 🎵 No One Comes Close - Infinity Song New Body Rhumba - LCD Soundsystem No One Dies From Love - Tove Lo 🎬 Past Lives (2023) 5 Deep Blue Sea (1999) 🔁 5 📺 One Piece Grey's Anatomy Lupin GBBO 📚 Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief - Maurice Leblanc (10/26)

November 🎵 Liability - Lorde Together in Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder 🎬 Annette (2021) 4.5 Electric Dreams (1984) 5 Honorable Mention: Light & Magic (2022) 4 📺 One Piece Grey's Anatomy GBBO The Crown Mindhunter 🔁 📚 The Uranium Club - Miriam E. Hiebert (11/16)

December 🎵 Isumagijunnaitaungituq (The Unforgiven) - Elisapie Butchered Tongue - Hozier Christmas Baby - Infinity Song Home For Christmas - Infinity Song 🎬 The Holdovers (2023) 4.5 x2 Take Me Home (2023) 5 - short Pro Pool (2022) 4.5 - short Mamma Mia! (2008) 5 🔁 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) 5 🔁 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) 5 🔁 Honorable mention: The Quiet Girl (2022) 4 📺 One Piece Grey's Anatomy Only Murders in the Building New Amsterdam Frieren Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury The Crown Pokémon Concierge 🎮 Fall Guys Super Smash Bros. Ultimate 📚 Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel (12/25)

[macabremomo]

Trailer Park Boys Collection (37/95) Level 1: Sunnyvale 5-0 Level 4: Lahey Level 5: Bubbles, Bunk BQ Level 6: Ricky Level 7: Julian Level 8: Leslie Dancer, Steve French Level 10: Barb, Trinity Level 11: Candy (S10), Don, Donna, Mr. Finch, Mrs. Peterson, J-Roc, Jacob, Lucy, Phil Collins, Treena, Trevor Level 12: Bernie Sanford, Cory, Detroit Velvet Smooth, Erica Miller, Marguerite, Rascal, Sam, Shitty Bill, Thomas Collins, Willy Goat Level 13: Candy, Coconut, MC Flurry, Sarah, Steve Rogers Level 14: Tyrone

[impossibleperfectionnerd]

maiden RINA dug out (1980 to present)is in UP & San Beda college. We have to dig up memories & things of: Severina Caravana -Rivera Lim & Susanna Rivera Lim. (Both are real children). JEGL & those 2 kids & that fritata of his is looting them. He’s been caught! The feel of the 2 prime women above: bad marriages. Not separated but touched by Serrano. (Illegitimate pipol & indirectly by Muslim)- The sound of music. Splendor in the Grass. Romeo & Juliet. My Fair Lady. Movies of Audrey Hepburn. MGM musicals. Thorn birds. (My taste). Leslie Caron. Alain Delon. Gigi the musical. James Bond. All Sean Connery movies. Tyrone Powers. The way we were. The reader by Bernard Schlink. (My taste). The shoes of the fisherman (my taste). Stewart Granger movies - Prince Valiant. Scaramouche. The legend of Zelda. Quo Vadis- Peter Ustinov. Flower drum song.

Marco Polo Weinstein company. Netflix. Kevin kwan the movie- crazy rich Asians- rich people problems. FH Batacan’s soho crime novels- marvel comics Thor- von doom- dr. Strange. risen starring Ralph fiennes.

[swanlake1998]

charmaine hunter, tyrone brooks, and leslie anne cardona photographed in arthur mitchell’s fête noire by martha swope

[ipgbook]

New & Notable

The Thumbtack Dancer By Leslie Tyron, Illustrated by Jan Spivey Gilchrist

A sweet story about one talented and creative go-getter. Gus is a most promising, most energetic and most talented young dancer who figures out how to make enough money to upgrade his tip-a-tap thumbtack sneakers to a new pair of real tap shoes that could slap-a-dee-dap, slap-a-dee-dap on a real dance floor. He uses his public street dancing and thumbtack shoes to tap his way down the sidewalk and right up to the big red door of the dance studio. 

[incorrectoldhollywoodquotes]

(and now, for the most ambitious crossover before infinity war)

Hedy: Every single odd number has an "e" in it.

Vivien: ...

David: LISTEN-

Leslie: Not all of them. 30 and 50 aren't spelled with the letter e in it...

Myrna: (shrugs smugly)

Claudette: Father God.

Carole: If you can split a number in half evenly, it's even. 30 and 50 are odd.

Myrna: (shrugs smugly)

Errol, mildly peeved: 15+15=30. 25+25=30.

Judy: 25+25=30? You sure about that??

Olivia: Lord have mercy...

Katharine: Bye

Veronica: 3 days into 1941. I'm speechless.

Alan: [laughs hysterically]

Lauren: ...

Tyrone: One, three, five nine. And since everything after that is a variant of these numbers, then all odds have the letter 'E'.

Judy: YOU FORGOT SEVEN!!

Joan: It keeps getting worse.

Bette: WHAT IS GOING ON

Ginger: ...

Frank: My head hurts...

Bogart: This is why that Hollywood University shit was the dumbest idea ever. Just look at this.

Greta: Who failed you all?

Lana: IM SCREAMING

Marlene: Yes, this is what it's like calculating the tip when you are bi and don't know math. We're going to die here.

Cary: You completely forgot about eight - a number with an e and is pretty fucking even.

Fredric: Why would 8 be brought up if it's EVEN in a conversation about ODDS??? Hedy said "every single ODD number has an 'e' in it" not every single number with an 'e' is odd". What the fuck?

Rita: 3 days until 1942 and we're still here.

Fred: Happy new year's eve.

Janet: I'm going to bring this flaming dumpster into 1942 so future generations can see what a mistake these Hollywood conventions were.

Gene: Er, guys, two is odd and doesn't have an e. Just saying...

Clark: Did you just try to tell me two is odd? Throw MGM away.

Glenn: I'm only getting involved in this conversation because of what Mr. Gable said.

Ava: The one thing I notice is no matter how much you want to completely discard this conversation, you just can't.

Spencer: TWO IS ODD?!?!

Angela: Wait, what about zero, that's an odd number, right?

Cyd: ...

Errol: Okay, but hear me out: Fifty and thirty make up for the fact they have no E by the way they are pronounced. Third-E and Fifth-E.

Ann: Mr. Flynn why do 30 and 50 even matter THEY'RE FUCKING EVEN

Jimmy: What the actual fuck is happening?

William, burying his face in his hands: You are all so STUPID

[hotvintagepoll]

List of those already nominated below per @momsforroadhead's suggestion! Submissions close 12/14/2023

Alec Guiness

Basil Rathbone

Bela Lugosi

Benson Fong

Bing Crosby

Bob Fosse

Bob Hope

Boris Karloff

Buster Keaton

Cantinflas

Carman Newsome

Cary Grant

Cesar Romero

Charlie Chaplin

Christopher Plummer

Clark Gable

Claude Rains

Clint Eastwood

Conrad Veidt

Cornel Wilde

Danny Kaye

David Niven

Dean Martin

Dev Anand

Dick Van Dyke

Donald O'Connor

Douglas Fairbanks

Elvis Presley

Errol Flynn

Fayard Nicholas

Fernando Lamas

Frank Sinatra

Fred Astaire

Frederick March

Gary Cooper

Gene Kelly

George Chakiris

George Peppard

Glenn Ford

Gregory Peck

Guy Madison

Harold Lloyd

Harold Nicholas

Harry Belafonte

Henry Fonda

Howard Keel

Humphrey Bogart

Jack Lemmon

James Cagney

James Coburn

James Dean

James Edwards

James Garner

James Shigeta

James Stewart

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jimmy Stewart

John Barrymore

John Carradine

John Garfield

John Wayne

José Ferrer

Keye Luke

Kirk Douglas

Laurence Olivier

Leslie Howard

Marlon Brando

Michael Redgrave

Mickey Rooney

Montgomery Clift

Omar Sharif

Orson Welles

Oscar Micheaux

Paul Newman

Peter Cushing

Peter Falk

Peter Lawford

Peter O'Toole

Ramon Novarro

Ray Bolger

Ray milland

Rex Harrison

Ricardo Montalbon

Richard Burton

Robert Earl Jones

Robert Mitchum

Robert Preston

Rock Hudson

Ronald Colman

Rudolph Valentino

Sammy Davis Jr.

Sean Connery

Sessue Hayakawa

Sidney Poitier

Slim Thompson

Spencer Tracy

Steve McQueen

Tony Curtis

Toshiro Mifune

Tyrone Power

Van Johnson

Vincent Price

William Holden

William Powell

Nominated but thrown out of the competition:

Harrison Ford (not really working in movies in the 1910s-1960s, so outside the scope of this bracket)

Leonard Nimoy (not a movie leading man but a television dude)

Welcome to the HOT AND VINTAGE MOVIE STARS bracket! we are currently collecting submissions for the HOTTEST and VINTAGEST male movie stars from 1910-1970. (we will do the ladies next.) if you have a hot vintage man in mind, please fill out the submission sheet above or send us an ask with the appropriate propaganda!

To be counted in the bracket, your submission must (1) be a male movie star from classical Hollywood cinema, i.e. from the 1910s through the late 1960s, and (2) be considered to have been leading man material, i.e. hot, sexy, and on the marquee in big bright lights. In consideration of the Hollywood studio system's racist and narrow-minded casting policies, submissions of supporting actors who did not achieve leading man status in their time but clearly had the charisma and charm to have thrived if they'd been given the chance are welcome. If you're submitting someone not particularly well known, please link a picture where we can see your nominee at his hottest.

Feel free to submit as many times as you like, but one submission per form please. If you have a photo of your hot vintage man in his "best" era (several of these stars had multi-decade careers), please include a link so I don't show a pic of them at their crustiest and worst

This submissions page closes 12/14/2023, and the bracket should be up by 12/16/2023 :)

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I’M SO EXCITED!!!

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The Pittsburgh Press, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1938

Aleen Wetstein (Leslie) answers questions from Tyrone Power’s Popularity Test (which was featured in Hollywood magazine April 1938 and quite popular at the time), called “The Hostess Takes the Cake”

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Morgan v. Hennigan Complaint (p. 1, 5), 3/15/1972.

This suit alleged that the defendants “have effected racial segregation and discrimination in the Boston public schools . . . “ 

In 1974, Boston public schools were ordered to desegregate by redistricting and busing.

Series: Tallulah Morgan et al. vs James W. Hennigan et al. Case File, 1972 - 1995

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009

Transcription:

101   MR 1572-1972

10:30 A.M.

C.A. 72-911-G

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS

Mrs. Tallulah Morgan, Petri Morgan, Kimberly Morgan, and Kirsten Morgan; Mrs. Sandra Purcelle, Dee Anna Purcelle and Michael Purcelle; Richard N. Yarde, Leslie R. Yarde and Richard N. Yarde II; Mrs. Lorraine Wheaton and Teddy Wheaton; Mrs. Joann Reed, Aaron Thomas Reed and Leigh Ann Reed; Mrs. Addell Vaughn, Raymond Joseph Vaughn and Kevin Arthur Vaughn; Arthur Eskew, Kemya Eskew, Tashia Eskew, and Toure Eskew; Mrs. Carrie Phillips, Norman Arthur Phillips, Tyrone Phillips and Robert Phillips; Mrs. Earline Pruitts, Lynnette Pruitts, Betty Jean Pruitts, Valerie Pruitts, Robert Edward Pruitts, James Neal Pruitts, Denise Pruitts and Kevin Pruitts; Mrs. Diane Bassett and Celeste Bassett; Mrs. Fern Burdette, Pamela Burdette and Yvonne Burdette; Mrs. Mary Crocket, Phillipa Crockett, Adrienne Crockett, Arthur Crockett, Cheryl Crockett and Beverly Crockett; Mrs. Mary Murphy, Anthony Murphy, Arnold Murphy and Ricky Murphy; Mrs. Grace Means, Hudis Means, Karen Means, Donna Means, Michael Means, Bryan Means, Kevin Means and Corey Means,

Plaintiffs,

vs.

James W. Hennigan, as Chairman and Member, and Paul J. Ellison, John J. Kerrigan, John J. McDonough, and Paul R. Tierney as Members of the Boston School Committee; William H. Ohrenberger as Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools; the School Committee of the City of Boston; the Board of Education of the State of Massachusetts; Mrs. Rae Cecilia Kipp, as Chairman and Member, and Richard L. Banks, Walter N. Borg, Mrs. Ramona L. Corriveau, William P. Densmore, J. Richard Early, Allan R. Finlay, Mrs. David K. Hardenbergh, Joseph Salerno, John S. Sullivan, Miss Janet Tobey and Joseph G. Weisberg as Members of the State Board of Education; and Neil V. Sullivan as Commissioner of Education,

Defendants.

1.  This is a class action brought by black children attending the Boston public schools and their parents. Injunctive and declaratory

Civil Action No.

COMPLAINT

1. 1.     1.     1

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9. The defendants named in paragraph 5(a), (b) and (c) (hereafter referred to as Boston defendants), and their predecessors, have effected racial segregation and discrimination in the Boston public schools and have otherwise denied equality of educational opportunity to black children by acts and practices including, but not limited to:

(a) Adopting and maintaining parent-pupil school selection policies and practices, including open enrollment transfers and optional school attendance zones, which have contributed to pupil racial segregation;

(b) establishing and manipulating district lines, attendance areas for schools and classes, assignments within and among attendance areas, and school feeder patterns in ways promoting racial segregation of students:

(c) transporting pupils to schools in ways promoting racial segregation of students;

(d) establishing and manipulating the organization of schools and grade structures in ways promoting racial segregation of pupils;

(e) adopting and maintaining pupil assignment policies and practices which have built upon and reflected residential racial segregation resulting from public and private discrimination in housing;

(f) administering school capacity, enlargement, and construction policies in ways promoting racial segregation of students;

(g) failing and refusing without justification to adopt, implement, or continue policies reasonably available to remedy pupil racial segregation;

(h) adopting and implementing pupil classification practices which discriminate against some children, in their admission to certain schools, classes, and courses of study, on the basis of their race and color, and which deny to such children, on the basis of their race and color, educational opportunities

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