#lincoln continental actor

[mlobsters]

supernatural s1e14 nightmare (w. sera gamble, raelle tucker)

dude being in that smoky exhaust vintage car reminded me of b dylan hollis showcasing his '78 lincoln continental mark v, it's a boat of a car (longer than the impala but 2 doors and puny backseat, no less). he mentioned it gets 7mpg. always thinking about baby and fuel expenses

see there's the advantage of being in arm's reach i was talking about, shake him right out of bed

DEAN Yeah, that makes sense. You're dreaming about our house, your girlfriend. This guy in your dream, you ever seen him before? SAM No. DEAN No. Exactly. Why would you have premonitions about some random dude in Michigan.

sam with the "i was right, jerk" stare lol

rolling my eyes thinking about that's some peak post 9/11 hyper patriotic bullshit with the giant flag on the police car, then noticed it's also an ugly modern impala ha

SAM I don't know what it was. I don't know why I'm having these dreams, I don't know what the hell is happening Dean. What. DEAN Nothing. I'm just, I'm worried about you man. SAM Well, don't look at me like that! DEAN I'm not looking at you like anything. Though I gotta say, you do look like crap. SAM Nice. Thanks.

so begins the sam starting to get freaked out over (dean) thinking he's a freak storyline?

SAM Dean, you saw them, they're devastated. They're not going to want to talk to us. DEAN Yeah, you're right. But I think I know who they will talk to.

excuse to play dress up

pretty sure i commented on this first time watching but it cracks me up that for his priestly getup, sam combs his bangs to the side. extra forehead also means extra sympathetic face via forehead crinkles

i know the mom (beth broderick) from something, all i can figure is sabrina the teenage witch, but i didn't think i'd seen much of that show? but she's so familiar and i definitely know her voice. ah well

i definitely know these ladies though?? the 5 mrs buchanans???? 17 episodes in 1994-5. focus, nic. the dumbass green laser gadget is soon

SAM I know it's rough, losing a parent. Especially when you don't have all the answers.

uh huh

s1e14 brendan fletcher as max miller / the killing s3e3 as goldie

thought he played belko in the killing for a minute and was very confused. both actors are named brendan too! lol

truly the green lasers that does me in every time. it's just so out of step with the general vibe of this show lol and thankfully never to be seen again

sweaty jared sighting

jensen was givin a lot of neck in this little gun cleaning situation

the classic grab for the amulet/chest. rewatched the clip from 2x11 because i know you can see the amulet sorta flash by like he had it gripped before he grabbed dean's face but wasn't sure if we see him grab him (we don't) but noticed that it's the mushy music theme at the end of that scene!! (also little insight into why the music reminded me of top gun!)

DEAN If you're gunna hurl I'll pull the car over you know, cause the upholstery…

surely they've got towels or blankets for protecting the precious upholstery being how often they're covered in blood and viscera. also, plastic bags aren't just for trash

sam sweaty and freaked out, dean doing a bad job at not looking freaked out

SAM Dean, I'm scared, man. These nightmares weren't bad enough, now I'm seeing things when I'm awake? And these, visions, or whatever, they're getting more intense. And painful. DEAN Come on man, you'll be all right. It'll be fine. SAM What is it about the Millers? Why am I connected to them, why am I watching them die? Why the hell is this happening to me? DEAN I don't know, Sam, but we'll figure it out. We've faced the unexplainable every day. This is just another thing. SAM No. It's never been us. It's never been in the family like this. Tell the truth, you can't tell me this doesn't freak you out. DEAN (After staring straight ahead for a long moment) This doesn't freak me out.

some cute little parkour there getting up dude's building, will i make gifs no one cares about again? maybe so

had to go brighten this up, look at those jeans pockets. how very 2000s lol. and i think sam's actually wearing boots in this sprint up the fire escape

of course i made the gifs. parkour!

sammy bout to walk into traffic, i'm sure dean taught you better :p

SAM Well, I know one thing I have in common with these people. DEAN What's that? SAM Both our families are cursed. DEAN Our family's not cursed! We just...had our dark spots. SAM Our dark spots are...pretty dark. DEAN You're....dark.

okay that was cute and i laughed

man, this actor that plays max is really good at this. i remembered him being he was really good at crying/playing sad but this conversation where sam and dean are trying to gently push for info on his dad and uncle, everyone does such a good job. max seems genuinely upset and scared but trying to put on a good front unsuccessfully, dean pushes but not too hard and then also is the one to be pretty soft about suggesting they should head out and let max get some rest.

fun fact i used this moment for my tiny sam and dean in my motel acrylic painting, you can take the first shower

MAN Well, in my life I've never seen a child treated like that. I mean I'd hear Mr Miller yelling and throwing things clear across the street, he was a mean drunk. He used to beat the tar outta Max. Bruises. Broke his arm two times that I know of. SAM This was going on regularly? MAN Practically every day. In fact that thug brother of his was just as likely to take a swing at the boy but the worst part was the stepmother. She'd just stand there, checked out, not lifting a finger to protect him. I must have called the police seven or eight times. Never did any good.

cps has problems too but that's who they should have been contacting

SAM These visions, this whole time -- I wasn't connecting to the Millers, I was connecting to Max! The thing is I don't get why, man. I guess -- because we're so alike? DEAN What are you talking about? The dude's nothing like you. SAM Well. We both have psychic abilities, we both... DEAN Both what? Sam, Max is a monster, he's already killed two people, now he's gunning for a third. SAM Well, with what he went through, the beatings, to want revenge on those people? I'm sorry, man, I hate to say it, but it's not that insane. DEAN Yeah but it doesn't justify murdering your entire family! SAM Dean... DEAN He's no different from anything else we've hunted, all right? We gotta end him. SAM We're not going to kill Max. DEAN Then what? Hand him over to the cops and say 'Lock him up officer; he kills with the power of his mind.' SAM No way. Forget it. DEAN Sam...

dean's face to the "promise me" line lol

SAM Dean. He's a person. We can talk to him. Hey, promise me you'll follow my lead on this one. DEAN All right fine. But I'm not letting him hurt anybody else.

this had to go down in only way where someone's hand is forced, painted themselves into a corner. far from the days where they can be like, if we catch wind if you killing someone, it's curtains 😠 (like kate in bitten 8x04) classic slip slide around a moral quandary

what a beautiful shot of him. and interesting with their pushing sam to admit that john never hated him, with this conversation. john raised them like soldiers, stole their childhoods, neglected them, etc. but he never hated them

MAX It wasn't about getting away. Just knowing they would still be out there. It was about...not being afraid. When my Dad used to look at me, there was hate in his eyes. Do you know what that feels like? SAM No.

feels like jared is *this close* to really hitting this conversation where he realizes max's mom got killed by azazel too, but felt kind of clunky. but it's also kind of an awkward vibe generally because sam's in puzzle solving mode and kind of fired up because he's figuring it out but max is still crying (and doing really well at keeping that despair and fear going so long). i think all the times in the rewatch i felt a little wobbly about jared's performance is portraying this type of emotion, think he just hasn't quite nailed down where to go with it

more sweaty sam out of nowhere which i'm blaming on sweaty jared

floating gun effects are rough. the knife wasn't great but it was easier to ignore but this is big and bright and shiny all over and they're rotating it and it's like mmmmkay. that's a real gun!

sammy with his one-time (other than when he's juiced up on demon blood) telekinesis, because if there's anything that's gonna bring out the psychic powers it's gonna be saving dean

ugh i forgot max killed himself. blugh.

SAM Well, I'll tell you one thing. We're lucky we had Dad. DEAN Well, I never thought I'd hear you say that. SAM Well, it coulda gone a whole other way after Mom. I little more tequila and a little less demon hunting and we woulda had Max's childhood. All things considered, we turned out ok. Thanks to him. DEAN All things considered.

in spite of him, bro! john's lucky dean was able to take care of everyone. as a child! sure, it could have been worse, that doesn't make it good either :p

my goodness sam giving the babiest sweetest puppy face in all the lands

SAM Yeah, maybe. Aren't you worried, man? Aren't you worried I could turn into Max or something? DEAN Nope. No way. You know why? SAM No. Why? DEAN Cause you got one advantage Max didn't have. SAM Dad? Because Dad's not here, Dean. DEAN No. Me. As long as I'm around, nothing bad is gonna happen to you.

moment of despair over how very much this is not the case, despite all his efforts

[notasfilosoficas]

“No puedes escaparte de la responsabilidad de mañana al evadirla hoy”

Abraham Lincoln

Fue un politico, y abogado estadounidense nacido en Hodgenville Kentucky en febrero de 1809.

Sus padres eran pioneros agricultores nacidos en Virginia, procedentes de Inglaterra. Se establecieron en Nueva Jersey, Virginia, Pensilvania y Kentucky en donde su padre Thomas Lincoln a los 28 años se casa con Nancy Hanks en 1806.

Aunque Abraham fue educado en una familia de cristianos bautistas, nunca se unió a ninguna iglesia ni profesó explícitamente sus creencias religiosas.

Lincoln creció entre los estados de Kentucky e Indiana, en lo que entonces era el lejano oeste, fue un hombre en gran parte autodidacta que llegó a ser abogado de Illinois, líder del partido Whig y posteriormente elegido como miembro de la cámara de representantes de Illinois durante 8 años.

Lincoln tenia turbulentos cambios de humor que se alternaban entre la grandiosidad y la depresión, se casó con Mary Todd Lincoln en 1842 y tuvo 4 hijos, dos de ellos murieron antes de que Lincoln ocupara la presidencia.

En 1854, se convirtió en líder de la construcción del nuevo Partido Republicano que tenia una gran masa de votantes de Illinois y en 1860 Lincoln aseguró su candidatura a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos de America por el Partido Republicano.

Como líder de la facción moderada de los republicanos, Lincoln se enfrentó a la ala mas radical de su partido, la cual exigía mayor dureza contra los estados del sur, a los demócratas contrarios a la guerra, y a secesionistas irreconciliables que conspiraron para asesinarlo. 

Su discurso de Gettysburg se convirtió en una icónica defensa de los principios del patriotismo, republicanismo, igualdad de derechos, libertad y democracia.

Durante su presidencia, Lincoln tiene un reconocimiento de haber liberado a los esclavos mediante la Proclamación de Emancipación. 

Durante la Guerra Civil Estadounidense, que se convirtió en el conflicto más sangriento en el continente, Lincoln intentó mediar entre los estados del norte y del sur, y acabó entrando en una guerra que intentó evitar hasta el final. El origen fueron las disputas por la cuestión de la esclavitud, puesto que los estados del sur no querían renunciar a este antiguo privilegio.

La reconstrucción de la Unión fue un gran peso sobre la mente presidencial. Él estaba decidido a tomar un curso que no alienara permanentemente a los antiguos estados Confederados.

En 1864 Lincoln obtuvo el equivalente al 55% de los votos en las elecciones presidenciales de 1864 iniciando un segundo mandato presidencial consecutivo en marzo de 1865.

La noche de abril de 1865, Lincoln y su esposa salieron para asistir a una representación en el teatro Ford en la ciudad de Washington. Cuando Lincoln se sentó en el palco, un actor de Maryland, residente de Virginia y simpatizante del Sur, apareció por detrás y disparó un único tiro con una pistola Deringer de bala redonda a la cabeza del presidente, tras la cual gritó una expresión en latin que significa “así siempre a los tiranos”. El presidente mortalmente herido, fue llevado a una casa atravesando la calle donde entró en coma y muriendo nueve horas después.

Lincoln muere el 15 de abril de 1865 a la edad de 56 años.

Fuente: Wikipedia

[conflagrate]

Autumn 2023 Anime + TV Season

I can’t believe it’s another season!

Anime

Despite a strike-filled quarter in the Western world, I still found very little anime suitable to my tastes. I must accept that, like how Vtubees and Holothingies dominate the conversations these days, that the industry has moved on without me! (not that I really care…). But boy, is it hard to write a season preview when it’s the norm for shows to have a screwed-up production schedule to the point where they spillover into the following cour (here’s looking at you, Zombie show…)

Rankings 1. Horimiya -piece- 2. Jujutsu Kaisen 3. Bungou Stray Dogs S5 4. Zom 100

Shows (to be) completed: 6 Continuing: 1

Well that’s an awful number...but expected!

Moving on to autumn….

Must Watch: Seijo no Maryoku S2 (YES YES YES), MahoYome S2 pt 2, Goblin Slayer S2 (might as well….), Arknights S2 (sigh), SPY x FAMILY S2, Kusuriya no Hitorigoto, Sousou no Frieren [off to a great start already!]

Sounds Interesting! Hope It Doesn’t Suck!: Overtake!, Kamonohashi Ron no Kindan Suiri, 16bit Sensation, Pluto, Under Ninja, Hoshikuzu Telepath, Kawagoe Boys Sing

Not My Thing but Who Knows!: Megumi no Daigo, Ragna Crimson, Yuzuki-san’chi no Yonkyodai, Kamierabi, Onmyoji, Migi to Dali (the manga is so-so but I might watch cos RIP Sano Nami), Good Night World, Undead Unluck, Hametsu no Okoku, Akuma-kun, Atarashii Joushi wa Dotennen, Dog Signal

Do I Have To…? (No I Don’t): Ojo to Banken-kun, Shangri-La Frontier, Dekoboko Majo, SHY, Bullbuster, Kikansha no Mahou, Bokura no Ameiro Protocol, 100Kano, Hanako-kun, Matsuinu

Sequel/Spinoff Hell: Captain Tsubasa S2, FLCL (just why??), MF Ghost (it’s an Initial D thing so I may just give it a go??), Tokyo Revengers, Kage no Jitsuryokusha S2, Kizuna no Allele S2, Uma Musume S3, Beyblade X, Tate no Yusha S3, Kanojo mo Kanojo S2, Otona Precure, Saihate no Paladin S2, Nanatsu no Taizai, Dead Mount Death Play Pt 2, Dr Stone New World Pt2, Rail Romanesque S2 (WHYYYY)

Light Novel/Isekai/Villainess Hell: S Rank Musume, Boshoku no Berserk, Wataoshi, Toaru Ossan, Ikenai Koto, Kimizero, Hikikomari Kyuketsuki, Buta no Liver, Tearmoon Teikoku Monogatari, Potion-danomi,

Idol/Vtuber/AI/Musical Hell: B Project, Paradox Live, HypMic S2 (do I really want to torture myself again?), Imas Million Live

Continuing: Jujutsu Kaisen S2

Expected Load: 10

Oh shit I’m scared I may pick up too many shows for autumn!

TV & Streaming

What I’ve been watching in 3Q23…

Disney+/Hulu: Only Murders in the Building S3, Ahsoka, Kisetsu no nai Machi Netflix: The Lincoln Lawyer S2, Heartstopper S2 HBO: Full Circle, Mare of Easttown+ Apple TV: Hijack Amazon Prime: Wilderness, Deadloch Peacock: Twisted Metal, The Continental* BBC: Wolf, The Woman in the Wall,Colin From Accounts S1 [Binge Aus], Sherwood S1+, The Thick Of It+ S1-4, Funland+ Others: Special Ops: Lioness (Paramount+), The Newsreader S1+2 (ABC Australia), The Ipcress File+ (ITV), The Prisoner+ (ATV), Tsukutabe (NHK+), The Booth at the End (City)

+=older show, *=continuing

Total series completed: 23 Full-length films watched: 45

Holy moley guacamole I watched way too many films…

Writers’ strike just ended (pending ratification) and actors are still picketing so who knows when we’ll get new episodes of any network telly worth watching? Meanwhile, the ROTW & streaming keeps truckin’ on…

CBS: NCIS: Sydney(?) NBC: Irrational(?) Disney+/Hulu: Loki S2, A Murder at the End of the World, Culprits Netflix: Bodies, The Fall of the House of Usher(?), All The Light We Cannot See(?) HBO/Max: Julia S2 Apple TV: Slow Horses S3, Lessons In Chemistry BBC: Boiling Point, Time series 2, Vigil S2, The Way(?) ITV: The Long Shadow, Payback, Breathtaking(?), Orphan Black: Echoes(?) Showtime: Fellow Travelers(?), The Curse Gameshows: Only Connect, Richard Osman’s House of Games Reality: Produce 101 Japan S3 + older shows whenever I feel like it...

Why am I watching so much stuff instead of doing something productive with my time?

[fahrni]

Saturday Morning Coffee

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️

My time as a pinch hitter on my current project comes to an end next Wednesday but I’ve enjoyed the ride.

My next project is undecided at the moment but I know there are two possibilities. I’d be happy to work on either.

Lisa Respers France • CNN

Paul Reubens, who found fame as the quirky man-child character Pee-wee Herman, has died, according to an announcement on his verified social media.

I liked Mr. Reubens as the flatulent “superhero” Spleen in Mystery Men. Pure sophomoric comedy.

RIP 🪦

Naomi Nix and Will Oremus • Washington Post

Initially, the team carried just two product managers and one or two designers alongside dozens of engineers — a flatter and more coder-dominated group than most Meta product teams, Mosseri said. (At launch, it had grown to three product managers, three designers and 50 coders.) Instead of 30-minute presentations on a single design decision, typical at Facebook and Instagram, “It would be like, ‘Here are six things we need to go through this week.’”

Lean teams can often pull off amazing things if they’re extremely talented. I’d imagine this team is extremely talented. The other thing that helped them succeed was the freedom to cut to the bare minimum allowed to make a great 1.0.

Also, 50 engineers isn’t a small team. 😃

Raymond Chen • The Old New Thing

Depending on what version of Windows you have, you might see a body of water where Poland should be.

Mr. Chen has been involved with the Windows team for 30 years and has been sharing his stories on The Old New Thing for 20. He’s a real gift to us old guys who wrote Windows apps.

His title should be Microsoft Historian. 📜

Gleb Tsipursky • Fortune

Unispace found that nearly half (42%) of companies with return-to-office mandates witnessed a higher level of employee attrition than they had anticipated. And almost a third (29%) of companies enforcing office returns are struggling with recruitment. In other words, employers knew the mandates would cause some attrition, but they weren’t ready for the serious problems that would result.

This doesn’t shock me. Once you settle into a routine at home it’s really difficult to muster the desire to go back to the office. Some folks need to be in an office with other folks but other, like me, don’t need it.

I like the control I have over my environment. My desk, my chair, heck I even bought my own monitor so I could make my setup just the way I want it. Couple that with no commute and the convenience of walking up stairs to our kitchen for lunch or coffee and it’s hard to beat. 🏡

Kim Zetter • WIRED

The backdoor, known for years by vendors that sold the technology but not necessarily by customers, exists in an encryption algorithm baked into radios sold for commercial use in critical infrastructure. It’s used to transmit encrypted data and commands in pipelines, railways, the electric grid, mass transit, and freight trains. It would allow someone to snoop on communications to learn how a system works, then potentially send commands to the radios that could trigger blackouts, halt gas pipeline flows, or reroute trains.

Wow. This is a nightmare. We work really hard to make sure our code isn’t exploitable and here you have a company who intentionally made their software just that, exploitable. If you have a back door it’s an invite to every bad actor to walk right on in. 🫣

Jim ODonnell • Barn Finds

Before I could get this post completed, this 1947 Lincoln Continental cabriolet disappeared from Facebook Marketplace.

I love this car! Design in the 40’s and 50’s was beautiful. Lots of curves and fins and just plain style. Restoring a car like this would be a real honor.

Beyond the beauty of the design it sported a whopping 125 horse power from its 292 V12. 😆

Kylie Robison • Fortune

But in June, Bluesky found itself embroiled in its own controversy after a user signed up for the service with a racist handle incorporating the N-word, and had apparently been permitted to use the platform for weeks without anyone at the company seeming to object.

Bluesky seems to be attracting a lot of the folks who make Twitter so attractive to many and with that it’s also attracting the terrible people.

I miss some actors and writers from Twitter and some seem to have taken to Bluesky. But if Bluesky is going to allow racism and hate to exist on the platform then I really don’t care to use it.

Yes, I have an account but I rarely use it. I’ve found a home in Mastodon.

Joshua Sokol • The Atlantic

One dusky June evening, two days before the 2022 Pennsylvania Firefly Festival, the biologist Sarah Lower sat on a back porch, watching the sky for a specific gradation of twilight. A group of Lower’s students from Bucknell University hung around her, armed with butterfly nets and stopwatches for counting the time between firefly flashes—a way to differentiate between the multiple lightning-bug species that live here at the edge of Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest.

I love fireflies! It’s one of the things I’ve come to love and look forward to here in Virginia. Little critters with butts that light up! What could be better?

I feel fortunate to be able to walk outside and watch these beautiful creatures at work. Alas, it seems they’re almost finished for the season but watching them was a real joy while it lasted.🧡

Justine Bateman • The Daily Beast

Hollywood CEOs Would Sooner Wreck an Industry Than Suffer Bruised Egos

It feels like this could get really ugly and I hope for the sake of the writers this whole mess will work itself out in their favor, but I’m not holding my breath. 😮‍💨

Lauren Forristal • TechCrunch

Warner Bros. Discovery reported its second-quarter earnings results Thursday, revealing that it dropped in 1.8 million streaming subscribers across HBO, Discovery+ and its new combined streaming service Max.

This is a real bummer. Max is my most watched service, but only from the HBO perspective. To see them combine the catalogs of Discovery and HBO feels like a bad idea. Why not have two apps with one set of credentials? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[mrpashun]

We got the ANTIQUE VIDEO SHOOT on SUNDAY FEBRUARY 18TH with @phreshkyd_ @4n_dolla and @gtokda ! BRING OUT YOU, YOUR FAM, YOUR CREW, AND YOUR OLD SCHOOLS! KNOW SOMEBODY WITH ONE? TELL EM PULL UP! • • • • • #DonSouthEnt #4NINTL #Antique #VideoShoot #Nashville #TN #OldSchools #Lincoln #Continental #Kydluminati #BrokeBoyBillionaires #PMB #musicvideo #MusicIsLife #Pashunmusicbranch #actors #actress #extras #bystanders #rubberneckers #onlookers (at Nissan Stadium)

[toasters-and-rockets]

WELCOME!

I’ve gained a few followers lately, thanks to my newfound Cars obsession. Welcome, everyone, and thank you for joining me on this wild ride! 

Call me Kate or Toasters. She/her pronouns. I’m 25 and currently a graduate student specializing in archives and libraries. I’m also a lifelong history nerd and science fiction fan, and these interests tend to influence my characters and stories. Right now I have two main OCs whose lore I’m working on developing.

Arlene Emerson - 1975 Lincoln Continental Town Coupe. TV show host, former aspiring actor, master impressionist, mom friend, and the funniest lady you’ll ever meet. I ship her with Mel Dorado.

Vincent Furness - 1960 Cadillac Eureka Hearse. Professional history geek (er, I mean historian), documentary watcher, mystery lover, foodie, and kitschy art collector.

I’m more of a writer than an artist. When I’m not busy with real-life stuff, I post my stories as toastersandrockets on AO3. You can also find me as ToastersAndRockets on DeviantArt. Feel free to ask for my Discord.

My ask box is always open, especially for questions about my OCs, or just to say Hi!

[butterflies-dragons]

The first two great loves of my life were girls I met at the chess club —GRRM

Well Played

DECEMBER 27, 2020

In the deep of winter, the nights are long and dark… and we all need good books to read, good shows to watch.   We cannot go to the movies or to the theatre so long as the pandemic lasts (not if we are sane), but we still have television, with more choices than ever before.

Looking for something good to watch?   Then let me recommend that you check out QUEEN’S GAMBIT, if you have not done so already.

It’s an adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel about a chess prodigy in the 60s and 70s.   A very faithful adaptation (yay) of a very strong novel (yay), beautifully written, acted, and directed.   I think you will all like it.   If there is any justice, the series should contend for awards.

It also resonated with me very strongly.   I know that world.  Chess was a huge part of my life in high school, in college, and especially in the years after college, the early 70s.    QUEEN’S GAMBIT brought it all back to me vividly.   Like the protagonist, I learned chess when I was still quite young, and got pretty good pretty fast (though never nearly as good as her).   I was the captain of my high school chess team, the founder and president of my college chess club.  I wrote and edited the club’s newsletter, GLEEP.  The first two great loves of my life were girls I met at the chess club (but that’s another tale for another time).

The heroine of the Tevis novel becomes a Grandmaster and contends for the world championship; I topped out at Expert, and that only very briefly before falling back down to a lower ranking.   There was even a time, back in college, when I played with the notion of devoting myself to chess after graduation.   I chose writing instead.   I think I made the right call.   If I had lived and breathed and studied chess all day every day for years, I could have become a better player, I have no doubt… but only to a point.   It was not in me to climb the heights attained by the protagonist of QUEEN’S GAMBIT.

But even after I had stopped playing, chess was a big part of my life.   Back in the first half of the 70s, when trying to establish myself as a writer, I directed chess tournaments all over the midwest and south for the Continental Chess Association.   Indianapolis, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Madison, Milwaukee, Lincoln, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Cleveland… I was living in Chicago then, but every Friday I was on a plane (or a Greyhound) with a suitcase full of score sheets to set up and run another tourney in another city, usually in the center of the city in some grand old hotel that had known better days where the rooms… and the ballrooms… were cheap.   Most young writers had to work day jobs five days a week so they could write on the weekends.   I was lucky; I worked on the weekends and had the week to write.   Running chess tournaments did not make anyone rich, even in the Fischer heydey, but I made enough to pay my share of the rent on the rundown Uptown apartment I shared with half a dozen college friends and roommates.    And there was one point where I crossed the streams, where my two lives met: my first sale to ANALOG was not a story, but rather an article about computer chess called “The Computer Was A Fish.”   (Half a century out of date now, of course).   The first thing Ben Bova ever bought from me.  I never sold another article to ANALOG… but it opened the door for all the stories I would place there in the years that followed.

It has been many many decades since I last ran a chess tournament or even played a game of chess, and the memories had faded… but QUEEN’S GAMBIT brought them all back.   It’s a fine series in all respects, I think, but I was especially impressed that the producers and directors got the chess right.   All too many of the chess games one sees in films and television are crap.  Supposedly great players are shown making elementary mistakes, the pieces on the board are in impossible positions, the game is obviously over yet no one has resigned, and so forth, and so on.   Not here.   The games one glimpses in QUEEN’S GAMBIT are real.   It must have been a challenge for the actors.   Not only did they have to learn their lines, they had to learn their moves, and make them in the right order.

All in all, a terrific piece of television, says this old patzer.

Oh George!

A few curious facts: 

In Spanish the Queen is also called Lady (Dama) so the series’ name was translated as “Gambito de Dama.”

We have to say thank you to Anya Taylor-Joy who asked the creators of the show for Beth to be a redhead (in the book Beth had brown hair): “When I first read it (the script), I was like ‘She needs to have red hair because I want her to be completely identifiable event if she doesn’t want to be.”  

Finally, the only other Auburn haired girl George wrote in his short stories, besides Laurie from A Song for Lya, was the one in his Chess story, Kathy from Unsound Variations, who is described as a ���sweet lady’: “She stood up, and shook loose her hair. It was long and auburn and it fell around her shoulders gorgeously, and Peter remembered the sweet lady he had married eight years ago, when he was a bright young writer working hard on his first novel. He smiled. ‘You look nice,’ he said.”

Now we all get why George likes The Queen’s Gambit so much.  

This is probabbly my last post of this 2020... So *Happy 2021 everyone* See you the next year!

[stone-man-warrior]

June 24, 2020: 8:41 pm: A generalized look at what is happening, and what took place to get us into this predicament.

I want to try to put things into a basic nutshell with information that just only touches the turning points with regard to where the terror coup Global Domination take-over began, how it grew, and how I see the history of what I have been calling #SAGcoup, from just after it's beginnings in World War Two, to where we are today. I'll start with the Diary of Ann Frank.

The Diary of Ann Frank is an important document with regard to the US involvement in World War Two. 1970's US Public School education taught students that the Diary was used, considered, and then acted upon, by the president of USA, Theodore Roosevelt. US School students were taught the the Diary was the single most important contributing factor for US involvement in World War Two. After consideration, I feel the document is false. I see that it is more likely to have been a lure, to get USA involved in a war far from home. A Humanitarian effort, and effort to keep that kind of Nazi oppression from gaining momentum in the world.

I am not a historian, and don't know much about that war, I only start there, because it makes sense to start there with explaining where we are today. It might be beneficial to leave that out of an explanation of circumstance, for fear of having the explaining that I do, viewed as false. I am only trying to get some help, no help comes, the things I explain are things that happen, are as true as my eyes and ears will allow me to understand them, and the time it has taken to learn what I explain in order to get help, has included much eye-witness of mass murder, and thousands of attempts to kill me, because of the information presented here. With that, I maintain that the Diary of Ann Frank is an important place for more qualified historians to reconsider with regard to it's intended purpose. So the next place I want to skip forward to, is the attack at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. That is where things may be easier to see truth. Since I am not a historian or war expert, I don't have much to say about that attack. What I do have to say, is I also believe what we are told, is false. You will need photographic reference materials that were published from as close to the time of the attack at Pearl Harbor as is possible, to see the truth. The Japanese Zero's, were fitted with Mercedes Benz engines. They were not Japanese airplanes. They were other, European manufacture aircraft, and were modeled after the Japanese Zero.

I propose that the reason none of the US Navy boats made it out of the harbor, is because all indications were that the only vessels in range of radio communications, patrols, and radar, were “friendly” vessels. I propose that the “friendly” vessels is where the “Zero's” came from. I further propose that the US Navy was in contact with the “friendly” vessels, and there was no apparent threat from them. The attack came from European “friendly's”. The Zero's were powered by Mercedes Benz engines, and that much can be seen in old photographic evidence of the attack. There are a number of photographs of crashed “Zero's”, and their engines contained in US Public School books that were in circulation in the 1970's. I have seen them, and they are clearly Mercedes Benz engines. After the attack, the retaliation on Japan from USA was in the form of basically one bomb, that Hiroshima Hydrogen bomb. USA stopped short of annihilating Japan. Why was the USA response limited to one bomb? The attack, if from Japan, should have warranted a more comprehensive response in my opinion. Nothing less than complete elimination of all of the controlling government, and it's military forces is what should have occurred if USA truly believed that it indeed was an attack at Pearl Harbor from Japan. I say, the truth about the Zero's being fake was known by US Military command, just at the point of the detonation of that hydrogen bomb, and USA stopped short of destroying Japan completely because of knowing the truth, at least in part. Who made the fake Zero's, and who specifically was responsible for the Pearl Harbor attack, was still an unanswered question. So far, I told about a false document that was designed intentionally as a lure to get USA into a European war, on their turf. I have told you about fakery, by Europeans, to blame Japan, for an attack on a US Navy base on Hawaii. Now, I want to fast forward to 1962. John F. Kennedy is shot to death on live television during a parade, while riding in a convertible Lincoln Continental. The Lincoln Continental Convertible is more important then anyone has ever publicly considered. I will just remind you of the importance of symbolism, and move on with the generalization of circumstances of Global Domination efforts of European origin. There was a parade, a US President. There were television cameras everywhere, the news networks knew of the route ahead of time. There was a shooter. The US Presidents head was rolling around on the trunk of a Lincoln Continental Convertible on live television during a parade. There was a magic bullet, a warehouse, and a grassy knoll.

There was another shooter, that shot the shooter, that shot John.

Symbolism on television news:

Warehouse = Coup

Grassy Knoll = Grass

“Coup de Gras”

From Google: Coup de grâce. A French phrase meaning blow of mercy, that is, a final killing blow that puts a fatally wounded person out of his misery; used to mean the action or event that finally destroys or ends something.

Now, with the murder of John F. Kennedy, on television and live on a parade, I offer this to sum up how it fits into the other parts of this generalization, where the Diary of Ann Frank is false, is a lure into a European war on their turf, and an attack on a US Navy base, when the Navy was never able to get into a defensive position, because there was no perceived enemy anywhere to be found, and the response to the attack, was far less then what it should have been if Japan indeed was the offensive party. Enter Britain, at some point after the attack at Pearl Harbor, and before the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Make some assumptions here. Do a “Quantum Leap” to find truth. Historians may be able to find further, more compelling and evident history to support a notion that Britain is behind the fakery, has always been behind it, and Britain still feels that USA belongs to Britain, discounting anything that occurred post Boston Tea Party. “The Brit's feel that they are the rightful owners of USA”, is the kind of Quantum Leap that is necessary to get at truth.

So, with that, and at some point after Peal Harbor attack and before the JFK parade spectacle, make an assumption that the Brit's made an alliance with the US News Media Networks. The Brit's shared their plans of Global Domination with US News Media executives, and made an offer. “Prove that you are able to handle the task, and we will grant you equal controlling share in the resulting domination efforts” Something like that was offered to US Network News Media. US News Media Networks were not amused by this speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AZV3qnwkA They agreed to prove themselves to Britain in exchange for equal share in the controlling parties of “Global Domination Under the Cross”, which is the direction the advance of Global take-over efforts were drawn from, same as they ever have been, a Christian Crusade of “global cleansing”. US News Media Networks arranged the Jacqueline Onassis would murder John F. Kennedy during a parade on live television, and they used Marilyn Monroe as the catalyst in order to convince Jacqueline that John was cheating on her, with Marilyn. “US News Media US President Live Television Murder on a Parade w/Lincoln Continental Convertible”, was a success. US News Media, proved their worth, to Britain. So, now Britain, had gained the strength of the backbone of every US household's main source of information, and entertainment, the television. Britain shared the secret weapon with the entire US News Media, and the whole Screen Actor Guild Union, and all of its sub unions was at the command of Britain, with the secret weapon, Nitrous Oxide. Britain, with full blown global take-over and domination in mind, and with a thousand years of knowledge about the power of music, enlisted the Vatican Choir, in the form of “Rock & Roll Music”. The Brits invented Rock & Roll, and used it as a means to enter the US entertainment arena. The British Invasion of 1964 was more than a musical one. It was the beginnings of a command language, and served as an excuse to travel across the Atlantic, for business in the entertainment industries, for the purpose of planting British and Vatican operatives throughout USA into positions in the entertainment industries.

New York, where the transatlantic flights need to land first, provided that Broadway was established as a base of operations. Midway, Nashville Tennessee became a command center. In Hollywood, the brass of the offensive British/Vatican war machine was installed. It was 1964.

Plans, language, and agreements were made.

Britain began to secretly train Canadians for a terror attack on USA, and by 1970, the Canadian terror army was ready.

With the help from US News media, the attacking army began to decent from the skies, in the San Fernando Valley California.

They came by parachute, one adult, and one child per parachute, thousands of them, armed with nitrous oxide, and swords. They hit the ground in metropolitan parts of the San Fernando Valley, waited at the traffic lights, and when the traffic stopped for the red light, the terror soldiers murdered the drivers, at the stop lights, and disappeared into the San Fernando Valley with the vehicles that belonged to the people they killed at the traffic lights. The terror soldiers simply took the victims cars, to the addresses listed on the victims drivers licenses, and went to those addresses with the cars that belong there.

They killed as they needed for cover at the address where the vehicle owner lived. Many thousands of tandem paratropping terror soldiers from Canada descended, armed,  trained to kill, to find a vehicle, find a home, and blend in to the population of San Fernando Valley California.

The air-raid sirens howled for two weeks. No help ever came. Then, there were no more air-raid sirens. The terror soldiers turned them off. It was 1971.

News media in Hollywood covered the advance of the terror soldiers with silence and confusion tactics to fool public safety personnel, and aided the terror soldiers to take over West Valley Police Precinct right away.

Police station take-over was the immediate goal of the terror army, and US News Media helped them achieve that goal in the greater Los Angeles area. The schools were immediate targets, all of the students were killed and replaced with the children of the trained, Canadian terror army. There were no police to stop them, and US Military was fooled by SAG. That provided the seeds of the take-over of USA, in the form of a trained army from Canada that looks exactly the same as the people who lived in the area. The Los Angeles area taken over by the terror army, helped to allow that the US Media in Hollywood, could command them. The army protected the media, and the media protected the army, while provididung their marching orders on the evening news, and eventually, as parts of the script and screenplay of our favorite sit-coms, movies, plays, news programs, and the commercials in between. The advertising agencies were consumed and made part of the command chain.

SAG gained a terror army to command, compliments of Britian, and the terror army was trained and eager to take their commands, from SAG, over the airwaves on television news, in the music of the 1970's, and in newspapers and magazines.

Today, in 2020, we have the culmination on the cusp of the beginnings of a new Kingdom that will be replacing Canada, USA, and Mexico, by this time next year.

The end of USA, is upon us now.

No one has answered the calls for help, no one is willing to defend the USA, and there are no US Military or National Guard left alive anywhere to stop the new Kingdom, and the extreme communism and slavery it will bring with it from becoming a reality etched forever in the blood of many millions of USA Citizens, stained on the hands of our favorite entertainers. SAG's equal share of control of the global domination, is that Screen Actor Guild members, and it's sub-union members, are to be the “Master Race” in the future of that new Kingdom. Public education will include that the students, are taught that they are a human sub-species, and taught that they are put on Earth, to serve the needs of the “Master Race”, SAG. That, is why the forced amputation victims that are called “Partners, Side-Kicks. Companions” and other terms to describe them, are being experimentally crafted, so the the surgical advance will create a situation where humans are born in captivity, surgically altered with amputation and plastic surgery, such that the people do not resemble human beings anymore. They will be taught from birth onward that they are not human, and are there to serve the Screen Actor Guild, “Master Race”. Since the surgical interventions are applied from birth onward in parallel tandem with the “British Still” education, the subjects will not recognize themselves as ever having been a human being. They will be crafted with surgically specific goals in mind to perform specific tasks, while machinery is matched to the standardized varieties of human, custom made, slave labor, to serve the Screen Actor Guild. Custom made people that ergonomically fit into custom made machinery for the purpose of performing tasks to serve the “Master Race” that SAG will have become, by order of the Queen of Britain.

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That is a generalization of what is going on in USA and around the world, and what took place to get us into this predicament, and is what the future holds for human beings all over the world, in the event that there is no army available and willing to fight against the advance of Global Domination Under the Cross. There is much information here about more specific details. I have seeking some help for a long time, and am held captive in my home, by aggressive, and offensive terror soldiers from Canada. There are no police to call, all of the police in Oregon have been killed and replaced with impostors.

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The French Connection (1971); AFI #93

The current movie under review  is one of the biggest award winning police action dramas ever created, The French Connection (1971). The film was nominated for 8 Academy Awards and won 5 Oscars in 1972 for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Gene Hackman), Best Screenplay, and Best Editing. The story also includes Roy Scheider prior to his Jaws fame as a buddy sidekick. In fact, this movie was part of a string of great “buddy” movies that included In the Heat of the Night (1967), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Butch Cassidy NS the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), and All the President’s Men (1976). The French Connection has a lot of interesting Americana connections that I want to discuss, but first let’s go over the plot. Of course that means the usual:

SPOILER ALERT!!! LEGITAMATELY!!! A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THE GENERAL STORY AND PROBABLY THE PLOT OUTLINE WITHOUT EVER SEEING THE FILM!!! CHECK OUT THE FILM FIRST AND THEN COME BACK TO AVOID SPOILER DETAILS!!!

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The movie starts in France where an undercover detective is following a heroine smuggler named Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). This detective is then followed home by Charnier's hitman, Pierre Nicoli (Marcel Bozzuffi), and is assassinated. Charnier plans to smuggle $32 million worth of heroin into the United States by hiding it in the car of his unsuspecting friend, television personality Henri Devereaux, who is traveling to New York City by ship.

Flash to New York City, where we see detectives Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo are staking out a club trying to nab a perp. They get a tip that some low level mobsters are part of a deal to sell a bunch of French heroin to gangs in America. Out at the Copacabana, Popeye notices Salvatore "Sal" Boca and his young wife, Angie, entertaining mobsters involved in narcotics. They tail the couple and establish a link between the Bocas and lawyer Joel Weinstock, who is part of the narcotics underworld.

Popeye goes to a bar that seems to serve only black patrons and shakes down everybody there. He secretly has an informant in the group and learns that a massive shipment of heroin will arrive in the next two weeks. The detectives convince their supervisor to wiretap the Bocas' phones. Popeye and Cloudy are joined by federal agents Mulderig and Klein, both of whom Popeye is not a fan of.

The drug car arrives in New York City. Boca is impatient to make the purchase—reflecting Charnier's desire to return to France as soon as possible—while Weinstock, with more experience in smuggling, urges patience, knowing Boca's phone is tapped and that they are being investigated.

Charnier realizes he is being observed. He "makes" Popeye and escapes on a departing subway shuttle. To avoid being tailed, he has Boca meet him in Washington D.C., where Boca asks for a delay to avoid the police. Charnier, however, wants to conclude the deal quickly. On the flight back to New York City, Nicoli offers to kill Popeye, but Charnier objects, knowing that Popeye would be replaced by another policeman. Nicoli insists, however, saying they will be back in France before a replacement is assigned.

Soon after, Nicoli attempts to shoot Popeye but misses and hits an innocent bystander instead. Popeye chases Nicoli up on a roof and eventually onto an elevated train that Nicoli makes and Popeye does not. Popeye commandeers a car and races to the next stop while barely avoiding traffic. Realizing he is being pursued, Nicoli works his way forward through the carriages, shoots a policeman who tries to intervene, and hijacks the motorman at gunpoint, forcing him to drive straight through the next station, also shooting the train conductor. The motorman passes out and they are just about to slam into a stationary train when an emergency trackside brake engages, hurling the assassin against a glass window. Popeye arrives to see the killer descending from the platform in an attempt to escape. When the killer sees Popeye, he turns to run but is shot dead by Popeye.

Popeye and Cloudy have a lengthy stakeout of the car that connects all the mobsters and has the opportunity to impound it when some gangsters see it and attempt to strip it. He and his team take it apart searching for the drugs, but come up empty-handed. Cloudy notes that the vehicle's shipping weight is 120 pounds over its listed manufacturer's weight. They remove the rocker panels and discover the heroin concealed therein. The police restore the car to its original condition and return it to Devereaux, who delivers the Lincoln Continental to Charnier.

Charnier drives to an old factory on Wards Island to meet Weinstock and deliver the drugs. After Charnier has the rocker panels removed, Weinstock's chemist tests one of the bags and confirms its quality. Charnier removes the drugs and hides the money, concealing it beneath the rocker panels of another car purchased at an auction of junk cars, which he will take back to France. Charnier and Sal drive off in the Lincoln, but hit a roadblock with a large contingent of police led by Popeye. The police chase the Lincoln back to the factory, where Boca is killed during a shootout while most of the other criminals surrender.

Charnier escapes into the warehouse with Popeye and Cloudy in pursuit. Popeye sees a shadowy figure in the distance and opens fire a split-second after shouting a warning, killing one of the feds, Mulderig, that he had been partnered with. Undaunted, Popeye tells Cloudy that he will get Charnier. After reloading his gun, Popeye runs into another room and a single gunshot is heard.

Title cards note that Weinstock was indicted but his case dismissed for "lack of proper evidence"; Angie Boca received a suspended sentence for an unspecified misdemeanor; Lou Boca received a reduced sentence; Devereaux served four years in a federal penitentiary for conspiracy; and Charnier was never caught. Popeye and Cloudy were transferred out of the narcotics division and reassigned.

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So this film has some of the most well known scenes in cinema history and I say this because they are copied a lot. The first scene when Popeye and Cloudy are on a stakeout, Popeye is disguised as Santa and receives a knife wound in his hand. This came back years later in Hot Fuzz! when Simon Pegg, as a police officer, was stabbed through the hand by a man dressed as Santa. In the Jackie Chan film Rush Hour, Chris Tucker goes into a bar pretending to shake down the group when he actually knows the group and jokingly asks his informant questions. 

Maybe one of the biggest aspects of the realism of the movie that director Friedkin insisted upon, was that the two cops that Popeye and Cloudy were based upon were in the movie. Jimmy Doyle was based on a cop named Eddie Egan and Buddy Rosso was based upon his partner Sonny Grosso. Egan and Grosso broke up the actual French Connection back in 1951. A book by Robin Moore that shares the name of the movie details the bust and this is what the movie was based on. For extra realism, the two real cops played the chief and one of the feds. Well, I say promote realism although Friedkin did not like the book and didn’t follow it as closely as he claims. There was no chase or shootout in the book. That was all there for drama.

The ending title cards were very interesting because it reminds the audience that 1) Friedkin cut his teeth with documentaries 2) the movie wasn’t going to show the whole seven month drug bust and 3) all the bad guys got away or got slaps on the wrist and the two cops were transferred out. This was a huge bust that didn’t really work out (although it stopped the trafficking) allowing the mobsters to escape and putting a stop to two careers. It is what I like most, however, because I don’t want to see a realistic movie in which the only interesting scenes are the ones that are not based on any facts. 

So should this movie be on the AFI list? Yes. It was the basis for gritty TV cop shows like The Streets of San Francisco and Starsky & Hutch. It has one of the greatest car chase scenes in cinema history. It won many awards and is known by those who haven’t seen the film. It is definitely AFI material. Would I recommend it? Well...not to kids. It has a ton of overt racism that is pretty uncomfortable to watch as well as some pretty terrible police work. The two cops were on set and they were OK with this? The film claims to be based on a real bust and the only cinematic parts of interest were made up. These white cops keep going into black bars and knocking everyone around but just chase after the French guys. White men are all detectives and assassins and mob bosses while anyone of color are just props to be knocked around to move the plot along. I would watch it again as a piece of cinema history and it is a progenitor of the 70s cop dramas, but I wouldn’t show it to my students because I don’t want them to think that it is OK for the police to rough up any number of black people as long as it might bring information about a mob boss. It is a good story with a bad message that needs some maturity to recognize the faults.

[marymosley]

The 25 Best Lawyer Movies of All Time

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that you’ve had a wonderful 2019 and are looking forward to paying off debt, building wealth and achieving financial independence in 2020.

Today’s post is totally for fun – and I hope you have as much fun with it as I had creating it. Below are the 25 best lawyer movies of all times (in my opinion), complete with clips from some of the best scenes. Did I leave anything out? If so, let me know in the comments.

Enjoy the downtime during the holidays (assuming you got it) and enjoy the cheap entertainment below, some of which can be streamed on Netflix and all of which can probably be obtained for less than $10.

1. My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Directed by Jonathan Lynn and written by Dale Launer, My Cousin Vinny follows two young New Yorkers, Bill Gambini and Stan Rothenstein, who are arrested and put on trial for murder while traveling in rural Alabama. The fate of these men rests in the hands of Vincent Gambini (Vinny) a cousin of Bill’s and a lawyer who’s just barely passed the bar exam. 

Gambini, played by Joe Pesci, does his best to defend his cousin and his cousin’s friend but makes a number of missteps along the way. Gambini’s fiancee, Mona Lisa, who is played by Marisa Tomei, is instrumental in helping him with his defense.

Trivia: Marisa Tomei received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role.

2. 12 Angry Men (1957)

This classic courtroom drama was directed by Sidney Lumet and details the deliberations of 12 men, all of whom are part of the jury deciding the fate of a poor young man who’s been accused of murder. If found guilty, he will face the death penalty.

The film begins with all jurors except for Juror 8 agreeing that the young man is guilty. Juror 8, played by Henry Fonda, encourages his fellow jurors to discuss the defendant’s case before sentencing him to death. Throughout the discussions, many of the jurors go back and forth, changing their votes as their forced to confront certain aspects of the case that they initially dismissed.

Trivia: The film was shot in less than three weeks.

3. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)

Deemed one of the greatest courtroom dramas of all time and based on the novel with the same title, Anatomy of a Murder follows Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler (played by James Stewart), who has his work cut out for him after agreeing to defend Lt. Manion (played by Ben Gazzarra), who murdered a local bar owner after learning he’s been accused of rape.

Biegler, who is encouraged to take the case by his mentor, Parnell McCarthy, played by Arthur O’Connell, must go up against big-city prosecutor Claude Dancer (played by George C. Scott) in order to help his client.

Trivia: The novel upon which the film is based was written by John D. Voelker (under the pseudonym Robert Traver), a Michigan Supreme Court justice.

4. The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)

Directed by Brad Furman, The Lincoln Lawyer stars Matthew McConaughey as Mick Haller, a defense attorney who runs his law practice out of a Lincoln Continental. Mick’s clientele is comprised mainly of petty criminals, but he’s surprisingly presented with an opportunity to defend a wealthy Beverly Hills playboy by the name of Louis Ross Roulet, played by Ryan Phillippe, who’s been accused of attempted murder.

At first, Mick assumes that the case will be an easy, open-and-shut affair. He soon learns, though, that there’s more to it than meets the eye and that it’s connected with a previous case of his.

Trivia: After starring in the film, McConaughey went on to become a spokesman for the Lincoln brand in 2014.

5. Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

In this film, Tyrone Power plays Leonard Vole, who has been accused of murdering a wealthy woman. Vole is represented by the legendary Sir Wilfrid Robarts (played by Charles Laughton) and, in order to win his case, must have his alibi corroborated by his wife, Christine (played by Marlene Dietrich).

In a shocking turn of events, Christine decides to appear in court and testify against him. Several other twists and turns occur throughout the award-winning film as Sir Wilfrid does his best to defend his client and close the case.

Trivia: Witness for the Prosecution was the last film that Power completed before he died of a heart attack in November of 1958.

6. Legally Blonde (2001)

Based on the novel by Amanda Brown, Legally Blonde is a courtroom comedy that stars Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods, a sorority girl from California. Elle follows her ex, Warner Huntington III (played by Matthew Davis), to Harvard law school after he breaks up with her on the night when she expects him to propose.

While her initial goal is to win back Warner, Elle soon falls in love with the legal profession as she works to overcome the challenges of being a first-year law student. She goes on to realize that she has the potential to become a great lawyer in her own right.

Trivia: Reese Witherspoon’s contract allowed her to keep all of the costumes she wore in the movie after filming ended.

7. Philadelphia (1993)

Directed by Jonathan Demme, Philadelphia tells the story of lawyer Andrew Beckett, who struggles to hide his homosexuality, as well as his HIV status, for fear that they will have a negative impact on his career at a prestigious Philadelphia law firm. Eventually, his secrets are exposed by a colleague.

After losing his job at the firm, Beckett decides he must sue on the grounds of discrimination. The only lawyer who will help him with his case is Joe Miller, played by Denzel Washington. The two men work together as they face down Belinda Conine, one of the firm’s top litigators, who is played by Mary Steenburgen.

Trivia: Initially, Demme planned to cast a comedic actor in the role of Joe Miller, but he changed his mind after Washington showed an interest in the part.

8. Erin Brockovich (2000)

Erin Brockovich tells the true story of a woman who fought hard against the giant energy corporation Pacific Gas and Electric after learning about a cover-up that was exposing a local community to contaminated water and contributing to serious illnesses.

In the film, directed by Steven Soderbergh, Brockovich is played by Julia Roberts. Her attorney, Ed Masry, who eventually hires her at his firm, is played by Albert Finney. It is when she starts working at Masry’s firm that Brockovich discovers medical records related to the case and kicks off her investigation.

Trivia: Julia Roberts’ salary for her role as Erin Brockovich made her the first actress in Hollywood to earn more than $20 million.

9. The Verdict (1982)

The Verdict follows Frank Galvin, played by Paul Newman, a once-promising attorney who’s down on his luck after being fired from a Boston law firm for accusations of jury tampering. At the beginning of the film, directed by Sidney Lumet, as a favor to his friend Mickey (played by Jack Warden), Galvin agrees to take on a medical malpractice case.

Galvin initially plans to settle the case, but declines the offer from the hospital and decides to take it to trial instead, much to the surprise of the judge and the relatives of the victim.

Trivia: Two of the film’s cast members, Jack Warden and Edward Binns, starred in 12 Angry Men, which Lumet also directed.

10. Presumed Innocent (1990)

Directed by Alan J. Pakula, Presumed Innocent tells the story of Rusty Sabich, a chief deputy played by Harrison Ford, who is assigned by prosecuting attorney Raymond Horgan (played by Brian Dennehy) to investigate the rape and murder of his colleague, Carolyn Polhemus (played by Greta Scacchi).

At the time of the assignment, Horgan doesn’t know that Polhemus and Sabich are involved in an affair. Eventually, though, evidence implicates Sabich and causes Horgan’s enemies to demand his arrest. Sabich must call on defense attorney Sandy Stern (played by Raul Julia) to help him with his defense.

Trivia: Before Harrison Ford was cast as Rusty Sabich, both Robert Redford and Kevin Costner turned down the role.

11. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

Set in the late 1940s post-World War II, this political drama follows nazis who are tried in an American court in Germany. In the film, directed by Stanley Kramer, these individuals must face a military tribunal and address charges of crimes against humanity.

Chief Justice Haywood, played by Spencer Tracy, must hear from the lead defendant Ernst Janning (played by Burt Lancaster) as well as his defense attorney (played by Maximillian Schell), the widow of a Nazi general, a US army captain (played by William Shatner), and a witness named Irene Wallner (played by Judy Garland).

Trivia: Maximillian Schell’s Academy Award for Best Actor made him the lowest-billed winner in history (he was billed fifth on the film’s cast list).

12. A Man for All Seasons (1966)

Directed by Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons is set in 16th Century England and tells the story of Sir Thomas More, played by Paul Scofield.

More is known for standing up to King Henry VIII (played by Robert Shaw) and refusing to pressure the Pope into allowing the king to have his marriage annulled so he could remarry. More, who was a devout Catholic, stood by his convictions to not allow the king to divorce, despite intense pressure to do otherwise. The king and his loyalists responded by charging More with treason.

Trivia: Fred Zinneman describes A Man for All Seasons as the easiest film he’s ever made, thanks to the talent and cooperation of the cast and crew.

13. A Few Good Men (1992)

Directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men tells the story of military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee (played by Tom Cruise) as he defends two Marines who have been charged with killing another Marine at Guantanamo Bay.

Kaffee is convinced by another lawyer, played by Demi Moore, that he should not seek a plea bargain for these Marines. Instead, she convinces him that they were acting on the orders of a commanding officer, Col. Nathan Jessep, who is played by Jack Nicholson.

Trivia: The American Film Association named the film’s famous line “You can’t handle the truth!” as one of the top movie quotes of all time (it ranks #29 on the list).

14. The Rainmaker (1997)

The Rainmaker, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, follows a new attorney by the name of Rudy Baylor, who, struggling to find work, is forced to take a job under another lawyer of questionable morals, played by Mickey Rourke.

While working for this lawyer, Baylor meets Deck Shifflet, a paralegal played by Danny DeVito and Dot Black (played by Mary Kay Place), whose insurance provider will not provide coverage for her dying son. When he learns of this information, Baylor decides to team up with Shifflet to take on Black’s insurance company and its formidable attorney (played by Jon Voight).

Trivia: Danny DeVito wore fake teeth for his role in the film.

15. Kramer vs Kramer (1979)

Written and directed by Robert Benton, Kramer vs Kramer follows advertising executive Ted Kramer (played by Dustin Hoffman) after he finds out that his wife (played by Meryl Streep) is abandoning him and his young son.

Despite losing his advertising job, Ted goes on to develop a much stronger relationship with his son, helped along by a fellow single parent named Margaret, played by Jane Alexander. This causes problems later when his wife returns to try and win back custody. An arduous courtroom battle ensues as a result and has serious implications for all who are involved in the case.

Trivia: Meryl Streep wrote her own courtroom speech when she was unhappy with the original speech she was given.

16. The Paper Chase (1973)

In The Paper Chase, written and directed by James Bridges, a first-year Harvard law student named James Hart (played by Timothy Bottoms) who faces a series of academic challenges. His load becomes even heavier, though, when he has a run-in with an intimidating contracts professor, Charles W. Kingsfield (played by John Houseman).

Despite Kingsfield’s intensity in the classroom and the harsh demands he places upon his students, which cause many to abandon their pursuits and drop out altogether, James perseveres and even begins to date his professor’s daughter, Susan, who is played by Lindsay Wagner.

Trivia: The film received three Academy Award nominations and received one for Best Supporting Actor.

17. The Firm (1993)

In The Firm, directed by Sydney Pollack and based on the legal thriller by John Grisham, a young lawyer by the name of Mitch McDeere (played by Tom Cruise) joins the ranks of a small and prestigious firm. Although at first honored to be part of the firm, McDeere soon learns, with the help of a receptionist played by Holly Hunter, that there’s more than meets the eye and that the firm is involved in laundering money for the mob.

McDeere finds himself in a jam when the FBI contacts him to gather evidence about the actions of his colleagues. As a result, he must decide between doing what’s best in the eyes of the law and making the decision that will keep him alive.

Trivia: Holly Hunter’s performance lasts five minutes and 59 seconds, making it one of the shortest Oscar-nominated performances of all time.

18. Compulsion (1959)

This crime drama, directed by Richard Fleischer, tells the story of two sociopathic students, Artie Straus (played by Bradford Dillman) and Judd Steiner (played by Dean Stockwell). Artie and Judd find themselves in serious trouble after they commit a murder in an attempt to pull off a flawless crime. They leave behind a crucial piece of evidence and end up arrested for what they’ve done.

Their lawyer, played by Orson Welles, must then work hard to defend the two young men and save them from execution. The film is based on the well-known and often-cited Leopold and Loeb case of 1924.

Trivia: Despite his top-billed status, Welles does not appear in the film until an hour and five minutes in.

19. And Justice for All (1979)

Directed by Norman Jewison, follows Arthur Kirkland, a Baltimore defense attorney played by Al Pacino, who finds himself in jail after punching Judge Henry T. Fleming (played by John Forsythe) while arguing in defense of his client, Jeff McCullaugh (played by Thomas G. Waites). McCullaugh, after being stopped for a minor traffic defense, was mistaken for a murderer with the same name.

Kirkland eventually gets out of jail and later finds himself hired to defend Judge Fleming, who has been accused of the brutal assault and rape of a young woman. Fleming wants Kirkland as his lawyer because he believes it will work in his favor to have someone who openly hates him defending him.

Trivia: And Justice for All marks the theatrical film debut of acclaimed actor Jeffrey Tambor.

20. A Time to Kill (1996)

In this film, directed by Joel Schumacher, Samuel L. Jackson Carl Lee Hailey, a man who shoots the bigoted men who brutally raped his daughter when they are on their way to being tried for their crime. Hailey must then rely on the help of defense lawyer Jake Brigance, played by Matthew McConaughey, to help him get acquitted.

Brigance feels that the chances of an acquittal are slim, due in part to the fact that Hailey resides in a small and segregated town in the South, but he takes on the man’s case regardless when he shows unshakable faith in his abilities.

Trivia: Woody Harrelson had an interest in playing Jake Brigance, but John Grisham objected.

21. A Civil Action (1998)

In this film, written and directed by Steven Zaillian and based on a true story, John Travolta stars as personal injury attorney Jan Schlichtmann. Schlichtmann finds himself involved in a case that, while seemingly straightforward at first, ends up being incredibly difficult and appears to have the potential to be his undoing.

The case involves a major company responsible for contaminating a town’s water supply and causing several of its residents to develop leukemia. At the risk of bankrupting his firm and ending his career, Schlichtmann goes up against a powerhouse attorney played by Robert Duval in an attempt to make things right and hold the company accountable.

Trivia: This was the only non-Best Picture nominee for the year to receive a nomination for Best Cinematography.

22. The Conspirator (2010)

Directed by Robert Redford, The Conspirator tells the story of the aftermath of the assassination of President Lincoln. After the President is assassinated, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to murder him, the vice president, and the secretary of state.

The lone woman, Mary Surratt (played by Robin Wright), is represented by the reluctant lawyer Frederick Aiken (played by James McAvoy). Surratt owns the boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and the other men planned their crimes. Convinced that Surratt may be innocent, Aiken works hard to defend her throughout the film and prove that she’s being used to try and capture her son, another suspect who is still at large.

Trivia: This was the American Film Association’s first film.

23. Amistad (1997)

Set in 1839, Amistad tells the story of a slave ship sailing from Cuba to the United States. In the film, directed by Steven Spielberg, Cinque (played by Djimon Hounsou) leads the slaves in an uprising, which results in them being held as prisoners in Connecticut.

Theodore Joadson, a freed slave played by Morgan Freeman, learns of the plight of these individuals and recruits the help of property lawyer Roger Baldwin (played by Matthew McCaughnehey) to defend and exonerate them. Their pursuit later wins the support of John Quincy Adams, who is played by Anthony Hopkins.

Trivia: This was the theatrical film debut of Chiwetel Ejiofor.

24. The Devil’s Advocate (1997)

Keanu Reeves stars in the film as Kevin Lomax, a Florida defense attorney who takes a position at a New York law firm headed by John Milton (played by Al Pacino).

As Kevin moves up the ranks within the firm, his mentally ill wife, Mary Ann (played by Charlize Theron), has a series of progressively more severe frightening and mystical experiences that alter her perception of reality. While dealing with the strain of his wife’s illness, Kevin also learns that his boss is involved in some nefarious activities and is not who he claims to be.

Trivia: Charlize Theron spent an hour per day working with a psychotherapist to learn how to play a schizophrenic in an accurate way.

25. RBG (2018)

RBG chronicles the career of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which spans several decades, and how she developed a legal legacy while becoming a pop culture icon.

After frankly answering questions about abortion and discrimination at her Senate confirmation hearings, Ginsburg was confirmed by a vote of 96 to 3, which President Clinton notes was astounding given the partisan political environment of the 1990s.

Trivia: The nickname is inspired by the “Notorious” honorific from the name of rap artist Notorious B.I.G. Ginsburg shows a good-natured embrace of her nickname, noting that she and the rapper have much in common: they were both born in Brooklyn.

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2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance

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2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance – Back in 2015, my partner and I discovered these Lincoln Continental, an ambitious sedan which had been acting to be the principal forerunner regarding the leading brand reborn. The majority of people had been thrilled about the statement, including those who currently shed any belief for this carmaker, the one that still left its marvelous days and nights considerably powering.

2018 Lincoln Continental Future

That will concept referred to as the exact Lincoln Continental planned to innovate found in phrases of high end, delivering a reliable solution to the middle of the the-level marketplace. Industry experts believed that that car could be competing with our CT6 because of Cadillac, yet another sedan that was intending to rejuvenate its brand. In the past, Lincoln manufactured particular its motives of making these Continental any truth; a fully working production model.

2018 Lincoln Continental Exterior And Interior

Within the front side fascia, Lincoln Continental could not refute numerous similitudes utilizing Jaguar substantial-conclusion cars, which is often considered in the very same segment. Alluring working lighting fixtures go with the actual headlights, a particular factor which will make certain elegance. Available in our rear finish, the exact very same Lincoln fashion is there. My partner and I care to mention that these vast LED together with chrome solar panel around the actual rear will need changes as it seems like from an additional time. Acquiring inside of is easy and comfy thanks to helping enormous portals, another key element of elegance. On the inside Lincoln Continental, every thing is top-notch, padded throughout the actual best substance we might assume with this segment. Should we need to highlight one thing inside any Continental’s interior, that might be the seats’ modifications, something which assures the greatest ease and comfort feasible? The satisfied users may also get the best possible spine positioning after a few weeks of use.

2018 Lincoln Continental Engine

To accomplish the setup, Lincoln is introducing a 6-velocity auto gearbox along with manual changing setting, looking to in no way overlook all of the sports spirits that each well-known sedan can be now offering. Nevertheless, this background and also other elements involved with all the Continental do not satisfy the original expectations regarding performance. When taking pleasure in a reasonable volume of horsepower and additional torque, that Continental is still in some way slow and also slow-moving. At the very least in comparison with the most potent rivals within its segment. Estimated times show just how this luxurious sedan will take almost six secs to attain all of the 60-mph-symbol (100 km/h). Getting to 100 mph may even get 14 moments. The top rate is constrained to be able to 130 mph, which often is discouraging.

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Release Date

The original Lincoln Continental is actually for sale in a fabulous extremely complicated construction of amounts and additionally models, the same as its German competitors do. However, Lincoln may try to an easier framework together with a broad range of possibilities. That could be a highly effective more to easily simplify all of the offers you and also have some lengthier attain in technical terms. This basic price tag is US$46,645, which unfortunately is substantially under some of it is major rivals.

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“A menudo se requiere más coraje para atreverse a hacer lo correcto que para temer a hacer lo incorrecto”

Abraham Lincoln 

Fue un politico, y abogado estadounidense nacido en Hodgenville Kentucky en febrero de 1809.

Sus padres eran pioneros agricultores nacidos en Virginia, procedentes de Inglaterra. Se establecieron en Nueva Jersey, Virginia, Pensilvania y Kentucky en donde su padre Thomas Lincoln a los 28 años se casa con Nancy Hanks en 1806.

Aunque Abraham fue educado en una familia de cristianos bautistas, nunca se unió a ninguna iglesia ni profesó explícitamente sus creencias religiosas.

Lincoln creció entre los estados de Kentucky e Indiana, en lo que entonces era el lejano oeste, fue un hombre en gran parte autodidacta que llegó a ser abogado de Illinois, líder del partido Whig y posteriormente elegido como miembro de la cámara de representantes de Illinois durante 8 años.

Lincoln tenia turbulentos cambios de humor que se alternaban entre la grandiosidad y la depresión, se casó con Mary Todd Lincoln en 1842 y tuvo 4 hijos, dos de ellos murieron antes de que Lincoln ocupara la presidencia.

En 1854, se convirtió en líder de la construcción del nuevo Partido Republicano que tenia una gran masa de votantes de Illinois y en 1860 Lincoln aseguró su candidatura a la presidencia de los Estados Unidos de America por el Partido Republicano.

Como líder de la facción moderada de los republicanos, Lincoln se enfrentó a la ala mas radical de su partido, la cual exigía mayor dureza contra los estados del sur, a los demócratas contrarios a la guerra, y a secesionistas irreconciliables que conspiraron para asesinarlo. Su discurso de Gettysburg se convirtió en una icónica defensa de los principios del patriotismo, republicanismo, igualdad de derechos, libertad y democracia.

Durante su presidencia, Lincoln tiene un reconocimiento de haber liberado a los esclavos mediante la Proclamación de Emancipación. 

Durante la Guerra Civil Estadounidense, que se convirtió en el conflicto más sangriento en el continente, Lincoln intentó mediar entre los estados del norte y del sur, y acabó entrando en una guerra que intentó evitar hasta el final. El origen fueron las disputas por la cuestión de la esclavitud, puesto que los estados del sur no querían renunciar a este antiguo privilegio.

La reconstrucción de la Unión fue un gran peso sobre la mente presidencial. Él estaba decidido a tomar un curso que no alienara permanentemente a los antiguos estados Confederados.

En 1864 Lincoln obtuvo el equivalente al 55% de los votos en las elecciones presidenciales de 1864 iniciando un segundo mandato presidencial consecutivo en marzo de 1865.

La noche de abril de 1865, Lincoln y su esposa salieron para asistir a una representación en el teatro Ford en la ciudad de Washington. Cuando Lincoln se sentó en el palco, un actor de Maryland, residente de Virginia y simpatizante del Sur, apareció por detrás y disparó un único tiro con una pistola Deringer de bala redonda a la cabeza del presidente, tras la cual gritó una expresión en latin que significa “así siempre a los tiranos”. El presidente mortalmente herido, fue llevado a una casa atravesando la calle donde entró en coma y muriendo nueve horas después.

Lincoln muere el 15 de abril de 1865 a la edad de 56 años.

Fuente: Wikipedia

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2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance

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2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance – Back in 2015, my partner and I discovered these Lincoln Continental, an ambitious sedan which had been acting to be the principal forerunner regarding the leading brand reborn. The majority of people had been thrilled about the statement, including those who currently shed any belief for this carmaker, the one that still left its marvelous days and nights considerably powering.

2018 Lincoln Continental Future

That will concept referred to as the exact Lincoln Continental planned to innovate found in phrases of high end, delivering a reliable solution to the middle of the the-level marketplace. Industry experts believed that that car could be competing with our CT6 because of Cadillac, yet another sedan that was intending to rejuvenate its brand. In the past, Lincoln manufactured particular its motives of making these Continental any truth; a fully working production model.

2018 Lincoln Continental Exterior And Interior

Within the front side fascia, Lincoln Continental could not refute numerous similitudes utilizing Jaguar substantial-conclusion cars, which is often considered in the very same segment. Alluring working lighting fixtures go with the actual headlights, a particular factor which will make certain elegance. Available in our rear finish, the exact very same Lincoln fashion is there. My partner and I care to mention that these vast LED together with chrome solar panel around the actual rear will need changes as it seems like from an additional time. Acquiring inside of is easy and comfy thanks to helping enormous portals, another key element of elegance. On the inside Lincoln Continental, every thing is top-notch, padded throughout the actual best substance we might assume with this segment. Should we need to highlight one thing inside any Continental’s interior, that might be the seats’ modifications, something which assures the greatest ease and comfort feasible? The satisfied users may also get the best possible spine positioning after a few weeks of use.

2018 Lincoln Continental Engine

To accomplish the setup, Lincoln is introducing a 6-velocity auto gearbox along with manual changing setting, looking to in no way overlook all of the sports spirits that each well-known sedan can be now offering. Nevertheless, this background and also other elements involved with all the Continental do not satisfy the original expectations regarding performance. When taking pleasure in a reasonable volume of horsepower and additional torque, that Continental is still in some way slow and also slow-moving. At the very least in comparison with the most potent rivals within its segment. Estimated times show just how this luxurious sedan will take almost six secs to attain all of the 60-mph-symbol (100 km/h). Getting to 100 mph may even get 14 moments. The top rate is constrained to be able to 130 mph, which often is discouraging.

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Release Date

The original Lincoln Continental is actually for sale in a fabulous extremely complicated construction of amounts and additionally models, the same as its German competitors do. However, Lincoln may try to an easier framework together with a broad range of possibilities. That could be a highly effective more to easily simplify all of the offers you and also have some lengthier attain in technical terms. This basic price tag is US$46,645, which unfortunately is substantially under some of it is major rivals.

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2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance

New Post has been published on https://www.usautorelease.com/2018-lincoln-continental-price-perfomance/

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance – Back in 2015, my partner and I discovered these Lincoln Continental, an ambitious sedan which had been acting to be the principal forerunner regarding the leading brand reborn. The majority of people had been thrilled about the statement, including those who currently shed any belief for this carmaker, the one that still left its marvelous days and nights considerably powering.

2018 Lincoln Continental Future

That will concept referred to as the exact Lincoln Continental planned to innovate found in phrases of high end, delivering a reliable solution to the middle of the the-level marketplace. Industry experts believed that that car could be competing with our CT6 because of Cadillac, yet another sedan that was intending to rejuvenate its brand. In the past, Lincoln manufactured particular its motives of making these Continental any truth; a fully working production model.

2018 Lincoln Continental Exterior And Interior

Within the front side fascia, Lincoln Continental could not refute numerous similitudes utilizing Jaguar substantial-conclusion cars, which is often considered in the very same segment. Alluring working lighting fixtures go with the actual headlights, a particular factor which will make certain elegance. Available in our rear finish, the exact very same Lincoln fashion is there. My partner and I care to mention that these vast LED together with chrome solar panel around the actual rear will need changes as it seems like from an additional time. Acquiring inside of is easy and comfy thanks to helping enormous portals, another key element of elegance. On the inside Lincoln Continental, every thing is top-notch, padded throughout the actual best substance we might assume with this segment. Should we need to highlight one thing inside any Continental’s interior, that might be the seats’ modifications, something which assures the greatest ease and comfort feasible? The satisfied users may also get the best possible spine positioning after a few weeks of use.

2018 Lincoln Continental Engine

To accomplish the setup, Lincoln is introducing a 6-velocity auto gearbox along with manual changing setting, looking to in no way overlook all of the sports spirits that each well-known sedan can be now offering. Nevertheless, this background and also other elements involved with all the Continental do not satisfy the original expectations regarding performance. When taking pleasure in a reasonable volume of horsepower and additional torque, that Continental is still in some way slow and also slow-moving. At the very least in comparison with the most potent rivals within its segment. Estimated times show just how this luxurious sedan will take almost six secs to attain all of the 60-mph-symbol (100 km/h). Getting to 100 mph may even get 14 moments. The top rate is constrained to be able to 130 mph, which often is discouraging.

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Release Date

The original Lincoln Continental is actually for sale in a fabulous extremely complicated construction of amounts and additionally models, the same as its German competitors do. However, Lincoln may try to an easier framework together with a broad range of possibilities. That could be a highly effective more to easily simplify all of the offers you and also have some lengthier attain in technical terms. This basic price tag is US$46,645, which unfortunately is substantially under some of it is major rivals.

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2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance

New Post has been published on https://www.usautorelease.com/2018-lincoln-continental-price-perfomance/

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Perfomance – Back in 2015, my partner and I discovered these Lincoln Continental, an ambitious sedan which had been acting to be the principal forerunner regarding the leading brand reborn. The majority of people had been thrilled about the statement, including those who currently shed any belief for this carmaker, the one that still left its marvelous days and nights considerably powering.

2018 Lincoln Continental Future

That will concept referred to as the exact Lincoln Continental planned to innovate found in phrases of high end, delivering a reliable solution to the middle of the the-level marketplace. Industry experts believed that that car could be competing with our CT6 because of Cadillac, yet another sedan that was intending to rejuvenate its brand. In the past, Lincoln manufactured particular its motives of making these Continental any truth; a fully working production model.

2018 Lincoln Continental Exterior And Interior

Within the front side fascia, Lincoln Continental could not refute numerous similitudes utilizing Jaguar substantial-conclusion cars, which is often considered in the very same segment. Alluring working lighting fixtures go with the actual headlights, a particular factor which will make certain elegance. Available in our rear finish, the exact very same Lincoln fashion is there. My partner and I care to mention that these vast LED together with chrome solar panel around the actual rear will need changes as it seems like from an additional time. Acquiring inside of is easy and comfy thanks to helping enormous portals, another key element of elegance. On the inside Lincoln Continental, every thing is top-notch, padded throughout the actual best substance we might assume with this segment. Should we need to highlight one thing inside any Continental’s interior, that might be the seats’ modifications, something which assures the greatest ease and comfort feasible? The satisfied users may also get the best possible spine positioning after a few weeks of use.

2018 Lincoln Continental Engine

To accomplish the setup, Lincoln is introducing a 6-velocity auto gearbox along with manual changing setting, looking to in no way overlook all of the sports spirits that each well-known sedan can be now offering. Nevertheless, this background and also other elements involved with all the Continental do not satisfy the original expectations regarding performance. When taking pleasure in a reasonable volume of horsepower and additional torque, that Continental is still in some way slow and also slow-moving. At the very least in comparison with the most potent rivals within its segment. Estimated times show just how this luxurious sedan will take almost six secs to attain all of the 60-mph-symbol (100 km/h). Getting to 100 mph may even get 14 moments. The top rate is constrained to be able to 130 mph, which often is discouraging.

2018 Lincoln Continental Price And Release Date

The original Lincoln Continental is actually for sale in a fabulous extremely complicated construction of amounts and additionally models, the same as its German competitors do. However, Lincoln may try to an easier framework together with a broad range of possibilities. That could be a highly effective more to easily simplify all of the offers you and also have some lengthier attain in technical terms. This basic price tag is US$46,645, which unfortunately is substantially under some of it is major rivals.

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Character Bio: Arlene Emerson

Full Name: Arlene Emerson

Nicknames: Lena (only to her sister and close friends)

Car Model: 1975 Lincoln Continental Coupe

Appearance Notes: Dark blue with white roof, chrome bumpers and grille. Wears glasses with chain (aka “grandma glasses”). Has several pairs that she alternates from day to day, depending on what strikes her fancy.

Age: Based on her model, she’s in her late forties. Mental age-wise, I think of her as mid-late fifties.

Occupation: Host of The Arlene Emerson Show. Previously worked in radio, dabbled in acting.

Relatives: One younger sister, Janet. Parents deceased.

The Razzle-Dazzle Begins: Early Years

Arlene had a sparkle to her. No, it wasn’t just the chrome! Ever since she was a young car, she had the uncanny ability to put a smile on others’ faces. Quick-witted and keenly observant of her surroundings, she always got the first word and the last laugh. And oh, how she loved to make folks laugh! It was her favorite thing in the world. Surely, she thought, if she could brighten someone’s day, even for a brief moment, then she was doing a good thing.

She was a regular in school theatre productions, usually playing a “character” part instead of the lead, but more often than not giving the most memorable performance. Also killed it on the school’s debate team. She could pick apart a faulty argument and build a better one like a skilled mechanic.

A gifted impressionist whose mimicry had everyone in stitches. Once she had this pompous math teacher who droned on and on like the quadratic formula was the sacred Word of the Great Manufacturer. She did her impression of him in the hallway after class, got caught in the act, and subsequently got detention for a week. To this day, she swears it was worth it, and occasionally revives the impression on her show.

Considered becoming an actor, and even got accepted to a performing arts college. It would have been fun, she mused, but at the end of the day she would have been playing pretend. Arlene didn’t want to play characters forever—she wanted to be herself. So she went to the state college instead.

At college, Arlene got involved with the campus radio station, first as a reporter on various student-affairs stories (plus a scandal or two), and later as the host of a twice-a-week variety program. The latter effort caught the attention of a talent scout at National Car News (NCN). By the time she graduated with her Journalism degree, she had a job lined up at the network as a production assistant.

Queen of Daytime, Long May She Reign

Arlene started at the bottom and drove her way straight to the top. It wasn’t always easy—live television was a demanding medium—but she relished the challenge. Luckily, she had some good cars to guide her. Stu Baker, host of The Dinoco Oil Variety Hour, taught her everything he knew about “the biz”: how to steer an interview (no pun intended), how to put a nervous guest at ease, how to make the best of an awkward situation, and much more. Arlene credited him as her biggest influence.

When Arlene started working at NCN, the network’s shining star was legendary comedian Lucy Bonneville. Lucy had been in the business a while, and she knew it was rough on smart, funny women who wouldn’t “mind their place” like the men in charge thought they should. She gave Arlene a crash-course on standing up for herself and not tolerating nonsense from guys with half her experience. “You’ve gotta be your own best friend,” Lucy said. Arlene took that lesson to heart, learning to advocate for herself and, later, for the young cars she mentored. 

At the beginning of her career, Arlene was an offscreen production assistant for The Dinoco Oil Variety Hour. Then Stu gave her a shot by letting her present short segments on the show. These bit parts involved introducing the musical guests and asking a question or two of her own when Stu conducted interviews. Audiences responded well to her appearances, and soon she was promoted to substitute host whenever Stu was out. When Stu announced his retirement, Arlene took over full-time hosting duties. She was so popular among viewers (as demonstrated by the show’s ratings, and the fan mail she received) that after a couple of years, the program was renamed The Arlene Emerson Show.

What, exactly, was The Arlene Emerson Show? It was a mix of talk, performances, and comedy. An average episode started with Arlene interviewing a guest. If they were an actor, she might show a clip from their newest movie. If they were a singer or musician, they would perform in the studio. Arlene was famous for her rapid-fire banter with guests. She was sharp, but not mean-spirited, remembering Stu’s lessons about putting the guest at ease. It was neither her job nor her place to ruffle feathers. 

At least, that was the expectation. Cars watched Arlene’s show to be entertained. To forget their troubles for an hour while the host made them laugh. Arlene always loved making folks laugh, and she understood the value of escapism. Who doesn’t want to get away from it all, now and then? At the same time, she envied her colleagues who got to do the “big idea” pieces, interviewing authors, businesscars, and politicians. “We have big ideas in the daytime, too!” she protested. She wasn’t stuck doing the lighthearted “fluff” because of her gender—there were female news anchors and commentators at NCN. No, Arlene had fallen victim to the very thing she tried to avoid by skipping out on acting school. She’d been typecast. For the rest of her days, she’d be the make-’em-laugh lady, the Queen of Daytime, and while there were certainly far worse things to be, getting put in a box like that still felt unfair. 

What was there to do? Arlene really loved her job. It was rewarding, despite the above mentioned drawbacks. She cherished every message from fans telling her how the show kept their spirits up during the toughest times of their lives. That was worth so much more than the Golden Fenders she collected across the years. As much as Arlene felt dissatisfied with the state of things, she tried to embrace the role she found herself playing.

Meeting the Caddy with the Golden Touch

Arlene’s career at NCN spanned three decades, from the mid-70s to the mid-2000s. Then NCN merged with World Car News (WCN). The NCN team continued in their roles, now under the parent network’s name. The Arlene Emerson Show survived the merger unscathed. It was the nation’s top daytime show, after all. Even better, the bosses at WCN seemed receptive to Arlene’s ideas for helping the show “spread its wings a little,” as she called it, giving her their blessing to start branching out beyond entertainment and feel-good stories.

The NCN/WCN merger meant that now, legendary daytime host Arlene Emerson and legendary primetime host Mel Dorado worked for the same network. They knew of one another before then, of course–they were two of the most beloved television personalities in the country–but they’d never spoken beyond a quick hello at an industry function. 

Their first meeting as colleagues became the stuff of network legend. One of the evening news anchors heard that Arlene was great at impressions. Arlene confirmed the rumor by doing one of the anchor, much to the other car’s amusement. “Do Mel next,” the anchor said. So Arlene did, and as she had the whole room roaring with laughter, the Caddy with the Golden Touch drove through the door. Everyone froze. Arlene broke the tension by launching right back into her impression. And then, something strange happened. Mel laughed. He laughed so hard his glasses nearly fell off. His colleagues were shocked. Mel, so confident on his show, was typically quiet and even shy off-camera. This display was decidedly out-of-character for him. As if realizing that, Mel abruptly stopped laughing. He quickly introduced himself to Arlene, then left.

Arlene, worried that she took the impression too far, went to Mel’s office to apologize. Mel said she had nothing to apologize for, that he thought her impression of him was funny and spot-on. Then he apologized for hightailing it out of the green room like that. It was only that he’d remembered some task he had to complete before that evening’s show. This was a bold-faced lie, and they both knew it, but Arlene didn’t want to jeopardize a potential work-friendship, so she kept her peace.

With Arlene’s show in the afternoon and Mel’s in the evening, the Continental and the Caddy only saw one another in passing most days. That was enough for Arlene to realize Mel had a crush on her. His cheerful, talkative demeanor around her stood in stark contrast to his usual polite reserve. Arlene didn’t mind. A car was allowed his feelings. Plus he wasn’t acting like he expected her to reciprocate. There were plenty of men in the world who thought themselves entitled to a lady’s affection because they were “nice” to her, but Mel Dorado was, thankfully, not one of those.

The revamped version of The Arlene Emerson Show was a smash success. Arlene kept the fun elements she was known for, but added a few new touches. The musical guests stayed, but now she asked them meatier questions about their work. Questions that the NCN execs would have called “too technical” for a daytime show. She brought in cars with interesting occupations and gave them free rein to talk about what they did. The viewers loved this segment, called “Everycar.” Thousands auditioned when the studio put out a casting call. Arlene considered it the best thing she ever did on television.

Mel and Arlene started talking more. She’d stay at work a little later, or he’d arrive a little earlier, so they could catch up and bounce ideas off of each other. Mel helped Arlene refine her “Everycar” pitch. Arlene helped Mel come up with questions for particularly difficult interviewees. These veterans of the small screen had tremendous respect for one another, and grew to trust each other as friends and confidantes. 

Slowly but surely, Arlene began to fall for Mel. She was surprised at herself. Oh, she’d never been against the idea of finding someone. It simply hadn’t happened. For the past thirty-odd years, Arlene had led a restless life dominated by a demanding career in the public eye. She couldn’t imagine trying to make a relationship work with all of that going on. But now she was settled, sure of herself and her work and the direction her life was headed. Why not now? Why not him? 

She didn’t say anything, at least, not at first. They had such a good thing going as working partners and friends. Arlene doesn’t want to risk ruining that with the weirdness of romance. 

The situation was not lost on Arlene and Mel’s colleagues. It was the worst-kept secret at WCN. The sportscasters took bets on which one would crack and admit their feelings first. The weathervan made joking “predictions” on the same theme. Meanwhile Mel and Arlene kept on doing what they were doing: talking, sharing ideas, and growing closer. 

In hindsight, Arlene should have seen this coming from miles away. When Mel smiled that dorky smile at her, she was a goner.