#marlon corbett

[ufonaut]

Be cool, cowboy.

The Challengers in Challengers of the Unknown (1997) #1

[nephilimsss]

𝗹𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁. elvis presley

PAIRING ➨ elvis presley x f!reader

GENRE ➨ smut

SUMMARY ➨ when you get accepted to play the role of ellie corbett in blue hawaii, you never knew how a single role in your entire career could change your life.

WARNINGS ➨ smut, oral (m receiving), spanking, fingering, multiple orgasms.

SELENE NOTE ➨ another spur of the moment thing, you can imagine it with either austin butler!elvis or irl!elvis, but it's supposed to be elvis, nonetheless.

MASTERLIST

you seemed to be getting bent over things recently. just yesterday, elvis had you bent over his knees, spanking you as hard and fast as he could for the scene the two of you had to shoot, and today, once filming had been done, he had your head bent over the side of his bed, dangling off as he thrusted himself deep into your mouth, your hands gripping onto his thighs as tightly as you could without stopping any circulation. his skin tasted sweet, rubbing along the length of your tongue, while the tip was salty, precum dripping along your tongue to the back of your throat. 

a while ago you stopped taking the deep breaths your lungs screamed at you for, burning deep in your chest as your esophagus was being abused by the singer. any other man and you wouldn’t have allowed them to use you like this, wouldn’t have allowed them to brandish their teeth marks against your skin as their cock imprinted its size and shape into your throat. but here you were, doing just that, and you would feel elvis’ guitar fingers rub against the folds of your cunt, going in fast circles against your clit to give you the pleasure you so greatly sought, and whenever you would gag around him, the firm slaps he would place against them. he’s brought you to however many orgasms to the point where you could feel the now cool cum pooling underneath your ass, sticking to the inside of your thighs, all while your throat has taken so many of his own orgasms to the point where all you could feel was the viscous liquid keeping your passageways lubed up for him. 

he would often pull out to let you breathe and regain your composure, as well as releasing his cum onto your cheeks or tits, taking his free hand to rub it into your skin. you knew for sure that you weren’t going to be able to speak as well as you normally would the next day, the abuse he had put on your poor throat would eventually show up as soreness and the occasional rasp you would surely have. 

but as of right now, with elvis singing praises into the night air, you really couldn’t give two shits. not when he was saying your name in such a way that brought tingles to your pussy.

you had started as a minor actress in large movies, usually playing background characters, before you finally got your big break in a streetcar named desire next to marlon brando, and shortly after that, loving each other’s performances and the casting directors noticing the natural chemistry the two of you had, they began casting the two of you opposite each other in other films, usually as the leading couple.

despite the slight repetitiveness of it, the two of you had remained good friends, and even having to go as far as the repeating that many times whenever you two would give interviews to the press. not a single person bought it, of course, as they only ever saw the two of you on-screen, and not in your day to day lives. he usually lived in his mansion in los angeles while you lived in a quaint apartment in new york, preferring to save your money in case any career problems arise. it was finally in 1960, almost nine years since continuously filming romance movies with marlon brando, with the odd role where you were just friends, you had finally landed the role of ellie corbett in blue hawaii opposite elvis presley, and to say that you were excited was an understatement. in all honesty, you have left a nice y/n sized hole in your bedroom ceiling after having jumped on your bed too high. 

not that you would tell elvis that. 

meeting him had been a fever dream. the man that had been around since 1956, making it big within a couple of weeks of releasing his first album, was incredibly down-to-earth and polite. he made sure to shake your hand and ask your name when you were introduced as his co-star. 

when everyone had down time from filming, he would pick up his guitar, immediately strumming a familiar tune to everyone, and he would sing, loud and clear, for everyone to hear before the director called for everyone to get in their places. 

the scene you were most anxious to film was the drowning scene, where your character would run out into the water before elvis saved her, giving her a punishment shortly after for doing such a thing. however, it wasn’t the fact that it would be elvis spanking you that made you anxious, it was your reaction to it. something that you had found out years prior was the love for the feeling of someone marking their handprints on your ass, and seeing elvis strum his guitar did nothing to help that. his hands were big, strong, capable to lifting both yourself and your co-stars whenever the scene called for it. 

you had gotten obsessed with the way they felt, when they would push you away from him, as the script said, and whenever they pushed your hair back from your face when the wind picked up. they were warm too, you realized, when you had to be picked up onto a counter, and he had gotten a little too close to your breasts, thumbs rubbing against the bottom as his hands encased your ribs. he surely felt all of the air rush out of you, leaving you breathless and peering deep into his eyes, trying to seem like a scolded child and not a some aroused woman.

“you know what you need?” he asked, anger pouring through his eyes. he was indeed a good actor, you had realized these past few months. “a good ol’ fashioned spanking.” this had awakened something in your core, and you tried everything in your power to not let the smirk make its way across your face. 

“m- maybe i do,” you had cried, letting the tears fall down your cheeks. “nobody ever cared enough about me, even for that.”

“alright, eleanor, if that’ll prove that somebody does care,” he roughly pulled your arm, causing you to bend over his lap, gripping onto his thighs as you looked down at the ground. “you wouldn’t dare!”

“wouldn’t i dare? wouldn’t i?” his hand raised up, landing firm smacks against your soft bottom, and you cried as you were told to do, but sometime in the middle, when you had finally stopped caring for the noises you were making, a moan had finally erupted from your mouth, and with burning cheeks, you realized what had made you do that. 

sometime during his harsh spanks, elvis had lost his hand placement, and had landed a firm smack against your cunt, sending pleasure shooting along your already too-stimulated body. thankfully, none of the others caught on to it, and the two of you continued the scene like nothing happened. when norman taurog finally called, “cut!”, you scrambled out of the singer’s lap, looking down at your feet as you rushed to your dressing room. 

embarrassment burned against your cheeks, and you wished that a hole would swallow you up to get away from elvis. you knew he had heard your moan, as when it had come out, he landed another firm smack against your cunt and you had seen him do his little left-sided smirk when you looked back at him. “please don’t,” your eyes had pleaded to him. he knew of your crush on him, one of the crew members had told him one drunken night while they watched everyone else ate s’mores around a fire.

he could tell from the way your eyes looked at him during certain scenes, when your character was trying to find a way to get his character, chadwick, to fall in love with her. 

he decided to follow you back to your dressing room, quietly as he followed the pink chiffon robe you had been forced to wear. when you had tried closing your door, he stuck his hand out to stop it, a loud bang! emerging from the interruption, and you had jumped around to face him. “elvis, what are you -” you had only begun before he smashed his lips against yours, his long arms wrapping around you to get you closer to him. 

his hand had come down to grip your ass, and he felt himself smirk when he heard you moan against him. 

“maybe you really do need a good ol’ fashioned spanking.”

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True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Review

True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) Review

The story of Ned Kelly an Australian outlaw who was forced to hide from the authorities with his gang in the 1870s. Based on Peter Carey’s novel of the same name.

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Celebrity Circumcised List (1982)

Here’s a piece of worthless information. An excerpt from “Men’s Magazine 1982”

Who is circumcised and who isn’t?

NAME                     CUT/UNCUT

AAMES,WILLIE             CUT

ABDUL-JABBAR,KAREEM      CUT

    ADAMS,NICK               UNCUT

    AGENSO,ANDERS            UNCUT

    ALI,MUHAMMAD             CUT

    ALLEN,PETER              CUT

    ALLEN,WOODY              CUT

    ALLMAN,GREG              CUT

    ALLMAN,WAYNE             CUT

    ALOU,FELIPE              UNCUT

    ALOU,JESUS               UNCUT

    ALOU,MATTY               UNCUT

    ALPERT,HERB              CUT

    AMSTERDAM,MOREY          CUT

    ANDRETTI,MARIO           UNCUT

    PRINCE ANDREW            CUT

    ARKIN,ALAN               CUT

    ARNESS,JAMES             UNCUT

    ARTHUR,ROBERT            CUT

    ASNER,ED                 CUT

    ATKINS,CHRISTOPHER       CUT

    BAER,MAX SR.             UNCUT

    BAIO,SCOTT               UNCUT

    BALSAM,MARTIN            CUT

    BARYSHNIKOV,MIKHAIL      UNCUT

    BARRY,GENE               CUT

    BATES,ALAN               CUT

    BEAN,ORSON               UNCUT

    BEATTY,WARREN            CUT

    BEGIN,MENACHEM           CUT

    BENJAMIN,RICHARD         CUT

    BENNETT,TONY             CUT

    BENNY,JACK               CUT

    BENSON,ROBBY             CUT

    BERGER,HELMUT            UNCUT

    BERLINGER,WARREN         CUT

    BERRY,KEN                UNCUT

    BIKEL,THEODORE           CUT

    BISHOP,JOEY              CUT

    BLAKE,ROBERT             CUT

    BLOCKER,DAN              UNCUT

    BLODGETT,MICHAEL         CUT

    BLUE,VIDA                UNCUT

    BOONE,PAT                CUT

    BOTTOMS,JOSEPH           CUT

    BOTTOMS,SAM              CUT

    BOTTOMS,TIMOTHY          CUT

    BOWIE,DAVID              UNCUT

    BOYLE,PETER              CUT

    BRADBURY,RAY             CUT

    BRADY,SCOTT              CUT

    BRANDO,CHRISTIAN         CUT

    BRANDO,MARLON            UNCUT

    BRAVOS,PETER             UNCUT

    BRIDGES,BEAU             CUT

    BRIDGES,JEFF             CUT

    BRONSON,CHARLES          CUT

    BROOKS,MEL               CUT

BROWN,JERRY              CUT

    BROWN,PETER              CUT

    BRUCE,LENNY              CUT

    BRYNNER,YUL              UNCUT

    BUCHOLZ,HORST            UNCUT

    BUCHWALD,ART             CUT

    BURR,RAYMOND             CUT

    BURTON,DREW              CUT

    BURTON,RICHARD           UNCUT

    BUTTONS,RED              CUT

    BYERG,PETER              UNCUT

    BYRNES,EDD               UNCUT

    CAAN,JAMES               CUT

    CALHOUN,RORY             CUT

    CALLAN,MICHAEL           CUT

    CANARY,DAVID             CUT

    CANTOR,EDDIE             CUT

    CAPOTE,TRUMAN            UNCUT

    CAREY,MCDONALD           CUT

    CARPENTER,CARLTON        CUT

    CARSON,JOHNNY            CUT

    CARTER,JACK              CUT

    CARTER,JIMMY             CUT

    CASH,JOHNNY              UNCUT

    CASSIDY,DAVID            CUT

    CASSIDY,SHAUN            CUT

    CAVETT,DICK              CUT

    CEY,RON                  CUT

    CHAKIRIS,GEORGE          UNCUT

    PRINCE CHARLES           CUT

    CLAY,NICHOLAS            UNCUT

    CLIBURN,VAN              CUT

CLIFT,MONTGOMERY         UNCUT

    COBURN,JAMES             CUT

    COLE,MICHAEL             UNCUT

    COLLINS,GARY             UNCUT

    CONRAD,ROBERT            CUT

    CONRAD,WILLIAM           UNCUT

    CONWAY,GARY              CUT

    COOGAN,JACKIE            CUT

    COOPER,ALICE             CUT

    COOPER,GARY              CUT

    COOPER,JACKIE            UNCUT

    COPPOLA,FRANCIS FORD     UNCUT

    CORBETT,GLEN             CUT

    CRAIG,MICHAEL            CUT

    CRANE,BOB                UNCUT

    CRAWFORD,JOHNNY          UNCUT

    CRENNA,RICHARD           CUT

    CROSBY,BING              UNCUT

    CROSBY,HARRY             CUT

    CROSBY,NATHANIEL         CUT

    CROWE,LYNDON             UNCUT

    CRUZ,BRANDON             UNCUT

    CURRY,JOHN               UNCUT

    CURTIS,TONY              CUT

    DALLESANDRO,JOE          CUT

    DALTRY,ROGER             UNCUT

    DANA,BILL                CUT

    DANZA,TONY               UNCUT

    DARIN,BOBBY              CUT

    DAVIS,ANTHONY            UNCUT

    DAVIS,BRAD               CUT

    DAVIS,SAMMY JR.          CUT

    DEACON,RICHARD           CUT

    DEAN,JIMMY               CUT

    DELON,ALAIN              UNCUT

    DEMPSEY,JACK             UNCUT

    DENVER,JOHN              UNCUT

    DEPARDIEU,GERARD         UNCUT

    DEWLDE,BRANDON           CUT

    DIAMOND,NEIL             CUT

    DIMAGGIO,JOE             UNCUT

    DONAHUE,PHIL             CUT

    DONHUE,TROY              CUT

    DOUGLAS,KIRK             CUT

    DOUGLAS,MICHAEL          CUT

    DRAMER,JOEL              CUT

    DREYFUSS,RICHARD         CUT

    DUELL,PETE               CUT

    DUFFY,PATRICK            CUT

    DULLEA,KEIR              CUT

    DYLAN,BOB                CUT

    EBSEN,BUDDY              UNCUT

    EDDY,DUANE               UNCUT

    PRINCE EDWARD            CUT

    EDWARDS,STEVE            CUT

    EDWARDS,VINCE            UNCUT

    EISENMANN,IKE            CUT

    ELY,RON                  CUT

    ESTRADA,ERIK             UNCUT

    EVERLY,DON               UNCUT

    EVERLY,PHIL              UNCUT

    FALK,PETER               UNCUT

    FASSBINDER,RAINER WERNER UNCUT

    FERRIGNO,LOU             UNCUT

    FIRTH,PETER              UNCUT

    FISHER,EDDIE             CUT

    FONDA,PETER              CUT

    FORD,GLENN               CUT

    FORREST,BOB              CUT

    FORSTER,TERRY            UNCUT

    FORTE,FABIAN             CUT

    FOWLER,CRAIG             CUT

    FRAMPTON,PETER           CUT

    FRANCIOSA,TONY           UNCUT

    FRANCISCUS,JAMES         CUT

    FRANK,GARY               CUT

    FREUD,SIGMUND            CUT

    FREY,LEONARD             CUT

    FULLER,ROBERT            CUT

    GABLE,CLARK              UNCUT

    GARAGIOLA,JOE            UNCUT

    GARFUNKEL,ART            CUT

    GARVEY,STEVE             CUT

    GAVIN,JOHN               UNCUT

    GAZZARA,BEN              UNCUT

    GEFFEN,DAVID             CUT

    GELLER,URI               CUT

    KING GEORGE V            CUT

    GEORGE,CHRISTOPHER       UNCUT

    GETTY,J. PAUL III        CUT

    GIBB,ANDY                CUT

    GIBB,BARRY               CUT

    GIBSON,JOHN              CUT

    GIFFORD,FRANK            UNCUT

    GILFORD,JACK             CUT

    GLASER,PAUL MICHAEL      CUT

    GOLDBLUM,JEFF            CUT

    GORMAN,CLIFF             UNCUT

    GOULD,ELLIOTT            CUT

    GOULET,ROBERT            UNCUT

GRANGER,STEWART          UNCUT

    GRANT,CARY               CUT

    GRAVES,PETER             UNCUT

    GREENBERG,HANK           CUT

    GREER,MICHAEL            UNCUT

    GREER,ROSIE              UNCUT

    GRETZKY,WAYNE            CUT

    GREY,JOEL                CUT

    GRIFFITH,ANDY            UNCUT

    HACKETT,BUDDY            CUT

    HALL,MONTY               CUT

    HAMILTON,GEORGE          CUT

    HAMLIN,HARRY             CUT

    HAMMOND,NICHOLAS         CUT

    HARDIN,TY                CUT

    HARMON,MARK              CUT

    HARRISON,GEORGE          UNCUT

    HARRISON,RICHARD         CUT

    HARVEY,LAWRENCE          CUT

    HAUER,RUTGER             UNCUT

    HEFNER,HUGH              UNCUT

    HEIDEN,ERIC              CUT

    HESTON,CHARLTON          CUT

    HICKMAN,DWAYNE           CUT

    HILL,BENNY               UNCUT

    HIRSCH,JUDD              CUT

    HOCKNEY,DAVID            UNCUT

    HOFFMAN,DUSTIN           CUT

    HOOK,DR.                 UNCUT

    HOWARD,CLINT             UNCUT

    HOWARD,RON               UNCUT

    HUDSON,ROCK              UNCUT

    HUMPERDINK,ENGELBERT     CUT

    HUNTER,JEFFREY           CUT

    HUNTER,TAB               CUT

    IRONS,JEREMY             UNCUT

    JACOBI,DEREK             CUT

    JACOBY,SCOTT             CUT

    JAECKEL,RICHARD          CUT

    JAGGER,MICK              CUT

    JANSSEN,DAVID            CUT

    JESSEL,GEORGE            CUT

    JOEL,BILLY               CUT

    JOHN,ELTON               UNCUT

    JOHNCOCK,GORDON          UNCUT

    JOHNSON,DON              CUT

    JOHNSON,VAN              UNCUT

    JONES,SAM                CUT

    JONES,TOM                CUT

    JOURDAN,LOUIS            UNCUT

    KALINE,AL                CUT

    KAPLAN,MARVIN            CUT

    KAYE,DANNY               CUT

    KAZNAR,KURT              UNCUT

    KELLY,GENE               UNCUT

    KENNEDY,JOHN F.          CUT

    KENNEDY,ROBERT F.        UNCUT

    KENNEDY,TED              UNCUT

    KERR,JOHN                CUT

    KILEY,JEAN CLAUDE        UNCUT

    KING,ALAN                CUT

    KING,HARRY               UNCUT

    KING,PERRY               CUT

    KIRK,TOMMY               CUT

    KISSINGER,HENRY          CUT

    KLICKSTEIN,AARON         CUT

    KLINE,KEVIN              CUT

    KNIGHT,CHRISTOPHER       CUT

    KOPAY,DAVID              CUT

    KOUFAX,SANDY             CUT

    KRIZA,JOHN               CUT

    LADD,ALAN JR.            CUT

    LADD,ALAN SR.            UNCUT

    LADD,DAVID               CUT

    LALANE,JACK              UNCUT

    LANDON,MICHAEL           CUT

    LANE,FRANKIE             CUT

    LANZA,MARIO              UNCUT

    LAROSA,JULIUS            UNCUT

    LASSISTER,JIM            CUT

    LAW,JOHN PHILLIP         UNCUT

    LEE,BRUCE                CUT

    LENNON,JOHN              UNCUT

    LEWIS,JERRY              CUT

    LEWIS,JERRY LEE          UNCUT

    LIEBMAN,RON              CUT

    LINDEN,HAL               CUT

    KING LOUIS XVI           CUT?

    LUPTON,JOHN              CUT

    LUPUS,PETER              CUT

    LYNDE,PAUL               CUT

    MACARTHUR,JAMES          UNCUT

    MACLAREN,MALCOLM         CUT

    MAJORS,LEE               CUT

    MARCELLINO,JOCKO         CUT

    MARVIN,LEE               UNCUT

    MASSIE,ROBERT            CUT

    MATHIS,JOHNNY            UNCUT

    MATTHAU,WALTER           CUT

    MATURE,VICTOR            UNCUT

    MAUPIN,ARMISTEAD         UNCUT

    MAZZILLI,LEE             CUT

MCCALLUM,DAVID           UNCUT

    MCCARTNEY,PAUL           UNCUT

    MCCLURE,DOUG             CUT

    MCCLUSKEY,ROGER          UNCUT

    MCCORD,KENT              CUT

    MCDOWELL,MALCOLM         UNCUT

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Rock and Roll Storytime #5: Brian Jones and His Five(?) Children

While I will absolutely admit to being infatuated with dead rock stars, that doesn’t mean I’m going to give them a pass for everything they’ve ever done. Take for example, Brian Jones. While I think he is quite cute and an extraordinarily talented musician, there’s the fact that he was also abusive towards women, and he was never really involved in the lives of any of the multiple children he sired.

Hell, he was so bad in regards to having responsible sex, we don’t even know how many children he had for sure.

What I’m going to do with this is tell you how his five confirmed children came into the world and maybe even talk about some of the speculated ones this time. 

Confirmed:

1. Barry David Corbett (aka Simon): So, let’s face it, Brian started out young, being just seventeen when he got his then girlfriend, Valerie Corbett pregnant (sources vary as to whether she was fourteen or seventeen when this happened). What’s important to remember is that the adults of Brian’s generation heavily disapproved of teenage pregnancy (some of it owing to how we used to be a lot more religious), and if Call the Midwife is anything to go by (great show by the way), it was usually the parents who would determine whether a teenage mother was able to keep her unborn child. Most often, it seems, the child would be given up for adoption, though it seems that sometimes, a shotgun wedding would be initiated, and in rarer cases, the grandparents would bring the child up under the impression that the mother was actually an older sister, whilst they posed as the biological parents (think Jack Nicholson). Reportedly, Brian encouraged Valerie to get an abortion, which, mind you was illegal at the time, but she refused. She gave birth to little Barry on May 29, 1960, and he was subsequently adopted out and renamed Simon. Reportedly, he eventually found out that Brian was his father in 2004, and by then, he was married with two kids of his own.

2. Unknown (Known as Belinda or Carol depending on the source): within months of getting Valerie pregnant, Brian was at it again. In this instance, he met a woman only known as Angelique at a dance and the two had a one-night-stand. As it turns out, the 23-year-old was married and had been going through a rough patch with her husband. When she turned up pregnant, she and her husband ultimately decided to keep the baby, and on August 4, 1960, Brian’s only known daughter was born. According to Bill Wyman, Brian never knew about his eldest daughter’s birth, and in a similar vein, the subject of Brian Jones was taboo in Belinda’s household, given the pain it caused both her parents (which is also the reason we don’t know her real name). Bill’s book Stone Alone, states that she realized that her father wasn’t her biological father when she was six, and that she realized Brian was her father when she was fifteen after her brother brought home a Rolling Stones record (Through the Past Darkly, Big Hits Vol. 2). In talking to Belinda, Bill also discovered that she had temporal lobe epilepsy, which to the pair of them, explained Brian’s hypochondriac tendencies, as well as some of his behaviors (for instance, Bill said that in about a minute, Brian would go from being fully engaged in a conversation to being completely disengaged). While the truth of the matter is, we’ll never know for sure whether or not Brian had epilepsy (because we knew jackshit about mental health back in the day), I personally think it’s an interesting explanation for Brian’s health problems, and that theory might even shine a light on what might have happened the night he drowned.

3. Julian Mark Andrews: Surely, Brian was living the “Sex, drugs, and rock and roll” lifestyle well before he became a rock star. After returning to Cheltenham after the scandal that was him getting Valerie pregnant, Brian began dating 15-year-old Pat Andrews. When she was sixteen, she fell pregnant with his child, and by her own admission, she was so naive about childbirth that she didn’t even realize she was pregnant until her sister marched her into the doctor’s office. On October 22, 1961, she gave birth to Julian Mark, named after Julian “Cannonball” Adderley. By all accounts, on the day Mark was born, Brian sold four of his records (his most prized possessions) in order to buy flowers for Pat and clothes for his newborn son. He was even involved in their lives for a while, but sadly, this arrangement wouldn’t last. For one thing, Brian was very promiscuous, and he was never good at the whole “fidelity” thing. Another possible explanation is that one time, when Pat and Mark came to spend a day with Brian after he became famous, his manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, started bitching about how Brian shouldn’t be seen as a “family man” (even though Bill Wyman was married and had a young son). Apparently, Andrew wanted to market Brian as a hot young bachelor that the fangirls would have no qualms squeeing over. In either case, Brian soon cut all ties with Pat. In addition, according to Paul Trynka, Mick Jagger once made a drunken pass at Pat (she rejected his advances), and Mick apparently bragged to Brian that they’d had a drunken fling. According to Pat, Brian never gave her a chance to explain her side of the story, and that was around the time Brian cut all ties. In 1966, she sued Brian for child support, and when Brian failed to show up to court, the very pissed-off judge awarded Pat the maximum sum allowed at the time: £2.50 a week for Mark as well as another  £78 to cover Pat’s court costs and confinement expenses. After Brian’s death though, the payments stopped coming in. On a side-note: Laura Jackson’s book states that Mark has no memories of his father.

4. Julian Brian Lawrence Leitch: Before anyone says anything, yes Brian has two sons named Julian, and allegedly, he wanted all of his sons to be named after Cannonball Adderley. In 1964, Brian had been dating a 17-year-old Linda Lawrence for two years. She subsequently gave birth to his third son on July 23, 1964. Reportedly, he was involved for a brief while whilst he lived with Linda and her parents, but then he was kicked out after it became clear that he had no intentions of marrying Linda. She came forward against Brian with a paternity suit in 1965, and ultimately, she received a £1,000 settlement. In October 1970, she married Brian’s friend and fellow musician Donovan Leitch (simply known as Donovan in most parts) who later taught Julian to play guitar. For the curious, there are clips of him online singing “Sympathy for the Devil,” and he later became the father of Joolz Leitch Jones, who like his father, grandfather, and step-grandfather, is a musician.

5. Paul Molloy (John Maynard): This one is an utter doozy even when you take into account the usual low standards surrounding any given rock star and his/her children. This story starts with Brian dating 19-year-old Dawn Molloy on and off again throughout 1964 (while he was still seeing Linda, mind you), and her eventually becoming pregnant. At around this time, Brian was ordered by Andrew to never contact her again. Subsequently, Andrew, in a case of severely misguided damage control, essentially coerced Dawn into signing a non-disclosure agreement, which stated that the matter was now closed and she would never go to the public or press about the child being Brian’s (the whole thing was witnessed by Mick Jagger). In exchange for her silence, she would be awarded £700. Her parents were not supportive of her during her pregnancy, and she was sent to a home for unmarried, expectant mothers, where, on March 24, 1965, she gave birth to Paul. Soon after, she was forced to give up her son for adoption, and told that she would never be able to see him again (those of you who’ve seen the film Philomena or Call the Midwife will probably get an idea of what I’ve been describing). Paul was renamed John, and while he did know that he was adopted, he did, at least, know he was loved. Some thirty years later, John, having married and had three kids of his own, went looking for his birth family, and was eventually able to find his birth mother and information about his late birth father. Mother and son have both spoken about their experiences since; Dawn wrote a book entitled Not Fade Away, and John spoke to the Daily Mail, where he said of Brian, “First, I'd probably hit him for what he did to Dawn. Then I'd brush him down and ask him if he wanted a coffee. I'd like to chat with him. To get to know him and for him to get to know me. He'd like me, I know he would. I'd want him to be proud of me. To be honest, I'd just want him to be my dad.”

Unconfirmed/Rumored:

-Marlon Richards: For a while, people suspected that Marlon was actually Brian’s son for a while because when he was little, he was blond and had a cherubic face, though I could argue that this came more from his mother, Anita Pallenberg. Even if I could already dispute the idea that Marlon is Brian’s son, given how Brian and Anita’s relationship came to a legendarily messy finish in 1967, there’s also the fact that Marlon grew up to look exactly like Keith. Still, figured I might as well debunk this old rumor.

-Timmy Faithless: This one comes straight from Australian tabloids in which it is claimed his mother, Loriann (the article will make sure you remember she was a Satanist, which doesn’t matter to me, but whatever), conceived after a Melbourne concert. As with anything in the tabloids though, I tend to doubt the veracity of such claims (it might help if we had Brian’s DNA on file, but last I checked, police don’t really have a good reason to dig up Brian’s skeleton).

-Anna Wohlin claimed to have been carrying Brian’s child, but miscarried shortly after his death, likely due to the high stress and duress caused by the situation. However, I personally think she’s a bit of an unreliable witness, so I’ll just leave that to conjecture.

-Barbara Wolf: In 2019, she came out of the woodworks to allege that Brian was her father and that he was murdered by Frank Thorogood (she is not the only one of Brian’s children to believe he was murdered). Once again though, considering this story seems to have originated in a tabloid, I’ll just sit over here being my highly skeptical self.

-David Lars “Cannonball” Brandstone: Claimed to be writing a book about his dad set for release in 2008. Once again though, I find myself sorely doubting his claims about Brian (some of the details he gives in his interview are a bit... suspect to say the least).

If there’s anything to be taken away from what you just read, it’s that sometimes, people are going to be irresponsible as hell when it comes to... relations. As someone who has experienced something similar to what Brian’s children went through (teenage mother, absent father), I can certainly say that, while I respect Brian’s musical ability, I simply cannot condone his behavior in any of these cases. I know that it was a different time, but still, the fact that he got so many women pregnant and subsequently abandoned them is simply inexcusable.

Thank god for contraception and better sex ed. 

Sources: Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones by Paul Trynka Brian Jones: The Untold Life and Mysterious Death of a Legend by Laura Jackson 27: A History of the 27 Club through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse by Howard Sounes Stone Alone by Bill Wyman https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1353783/Being-Brian-Joness-son-greatest-thing-happened-me.html http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/sixtiesfish/kidsweb/kids.html https://iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,2325726,2325735 http://www.angelfire.com/rock3/sixtiesfish/brianjones_son.html https://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-rolling-stones-children/ https://www.earcandymag.com/foundationstonebook-2.htm https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/daughter-rolling-stones-wild-child-17479033 https://born-late.blogspot.com/2011/09/legend-of-girl-child-linda.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Jones#Early_life_and_children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8OANZg8_iE

[futuristicallytoocollectorworld]

Portugal. The Man - Modern Jesus [Official Music Video] from Portugal The Man on Vimeo.

From the album 'Evil Friends' - Available Now: smarturl.it/evilfriends Director :: AG Rojas Producers :: Anna Rau + Corbett Jones Cinematographer :: Michael Ragen

Researchers :: Ali Rubinfeld, Julie Hook, Carmela Makela

Prep Assistant Camera :: Dustin Miller

New Orleans Fixer :: Rusty Lazer | rustylazer.com

Detroit Community Liaison :: Tony DiMambro Detroit Locations :: John Grover | detroiturbex.com Detroit Steadicam :: Patrick Pask Detroit PA :: Karl Williams Jr.

Post Supervisor :: Terry Huynh Editor :: Justin Dial Assistant Editor :: Sam Griffith

Producer, The Mill :: LaRue Anderson Colorist :: Gregory Reese

Very Special Thanks to Carmela Makela, Rich Hutchins, Keith Matthews, Chris Black

SOMERSET, TEXAS Alex Garza | on.fb.me/156E5pD Robert Vega Humberto Tamez Kyle Ripley Paul Lex Austen Garza Ben Garza

MORGAN CITY, LOUISIANA Brett Legendre Paul Legendre

NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA DJ Paul Jane Lennon Pierre Pressure James Oroc Laquania Nickarson Otis Cooper AJ Cooper Corey Wilson

PLAQUEMINE, LOUISIANA Ceddy Bu | http://bit.ly/1c8Vyrd Daniel Williams Antwan Young Arthur Johnson Galvin Delmore Kelon Landry Nathan Brown Reginald Jackson Kentrell Tasker Derrick Clark Dantrel McGrew Young Wee-zo Chuck Martin Jonathan Jackson Nicholas Hardy Stephen Keys Joe Turner Marlon Bennett Dominique Basset Kenya Bolton

BYRAM, MISSISSIPPI Lil Rent | http://bit.ly/188zQxU Tyrus Chambers

MURFREESBORO, TENNESSEE Daniel Rothwell | http://bit.ly/19M2FnL Thomas Maupin

WEST VIRGINIA Brandon Butcher Nathan Broce Dustin McCoy Cameron Bailey Tyler Grimmett

DETROIT, MICHIGAN Omar Twilley Mateayo Savage Kyle Morgan Malachi Hendricks

CHEYENNE, WYOMING Steve Price

OGDEN, UTAH Doug Compton

TAFT, CA Jazmine Edwards Cicely Evans Michael Fannon Craig Gotcher Breanna Macaulay Destiny Patterson

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True History of the Kelly Gang Review

True History of the Kelly Gang Review

Rating: 

8.75/10

Cast:

George MacKay as Ned Kelly

Orlando Schwerdt as young Ned Kelly

Russell Crowe as Harry Power

Nicholas Hoult as Constable Fitzpatrick

Essie Davis as Ellen Kelly

Sean Keenan as Joe Byrne

Jacob Collins-Levy as Thomas Curnow

Thomasin McKenzie as Mary

Charlie Hunnam as Sergeant O’Neill

Claudia Karvan as Ms. Shelton

Marlon Williams as George King

Gentle Ben Corbett as Red Kelly

E…

[fathersonholygore]

Queer Deconstructions of Australian Masculinity & Nationalism in TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG

Queer Deconstructions of Australian Masculinity & Nationalism in TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG

True History of the Kelly Gang (2020) Directed by Justin Kurzel. Screenplay by Shaun Grant, based on the novel by Peter Carey. Starring George MacKay, Ben Corbett, Orlando Schwerdt, Charlie Hunnam, Essie Davis, Claudia Karvan, Russell Crowe, Jack Charles, Sean Keenan, Nicholas Hoult, Earl Cave, Marlon Williams, Jillian Nguyen, &…

[ufonaut]

If you want information, ask politely. Didn’t anyone ever teach you manners?

Challengers of the Unknown (1997) #11

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Episode 253: Reviews of Lighter Than My Shadow, Now #1, and The Family Trade #1

Time Codes:

00:00:30 - Introduction

00:03:12 - The tragedy of the California wildfires

00:05:58 - Lighter Than My Shadow

00:48:27 - Now #1

01:14:03 - The Family Trade #1

01:31:28 - Wrap up

01:32:31 - Contact us

This week Paul and Derek take on three exciting new titles. They begin with a moving memoir from UK creator Katie Green, Lighter Than My Shadow (Roar-Lion Forge). In this work, Green reveals the eating disorders she struggled with as a young girl and into adulthood. Growing up obsessive-compulsive, Green chronicles how this condition contributed to her anorexic behavior, later evolving into problems with binging. Green also narrates her many attempts to address these problems with various doctors and therapists, the most notorious of whom ends up sexually abusing her...providing even more obstacles to her recovery. The guys are impressed by Green's honesty and storytelling abilities -- particularly taken by her art and the visual metaphors she employs throughout -- although toward the end of their conversation about this title, they wonder if perhaps the memoir could have been streamlined just a little. This is a 500+ page text, after all.

Next, the Two Guys look at a brand new anthology from Fantagraphics, Now #1. Edited by Eric Reynolds, this collection of diverse and experimental comic art brings to mind Fantagraphics previous anthology, Mome (which both Derek and Paul dearly miss). In fact, the guys begin their discussion of Now by referencing the earlier anthology, with Paul feeling that the latest efforts are more experimental than Mome, while Derek see it as more similar to the previous series. The only difference is number of new and/or unfamiliar creators in Now (and, Derek argues, such was also the case several years ago with Mome). Some of the standouts in this first issue of Now are Dash Shaw's "Scorpio," Gabrielle Bell's "Dear Naked Guy...," Sammy Harkham's "I, Marlon," Malachi Ward and Matt Sheean's "Widening Horizon," and especially Noah Van Sciver's "Wall of Shame" (for Derek, the best of the collection). But the guys are also impressed, and at times curiously confused, by the contributions from creators that are new to them, such as Sara Corbett, J.C. Menu, Antoine Cossé, and Kaela Graham. But as Paul and Derek argue, the entire issue of Now is compelling and works successfully as an anthology. They can't wait until the second issue, due for release in January.

Finally, the Two Guys wrap up with a discussion of Justin Jordan, Nikki Ryan, and Morgan Beem's The Family Trade #1 (Image Comics). This is another example of the kind of world-building often found at Image, and it's the story of a neutral territory in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, the Float, ruled by the descendants of the ship captains that originally founded the realm -- called the Clans -- and the Family, descendants of the hands who had worked for the captains. This first issue opens with the protagonist, Jessa Wynn, attempting to assassinate Stagger Berghardt, a Trump-like charismatic demagogue who appeals to the base instincts of the citizens of the Float. She bungles the assassination, but her efforts put into motion a series of encounters that will propel the narrative into the next issues. Both Derek and Paul are impressed by this first issue, especially Beem's art, and both plan on remaining on board for the rest of the series.

Check out this episode!

[ufonaut]

The Challengers in Challengers of the Unknown (1997) #1

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Are there things you cannot possibly explain? Are strange things happening to you? These four may be your last hope!

The Challengers of the Unknown section on the DC Comics website from July 1997.

Transcripts under the cut:

INTRO:

Step into The Light...

CHALLENGERS OF THE UNKNOWN

The scene: A jumbo jetliner crashes in the Rockies. In the aftermath, four lone survivors pull themselves from the wreckage and are instantly transfixed by a mysterious bright light bathing the disaster site. The light, growing brighter and brighter by the second, "sings" to them, envelops them, until it is all... until it is everything!

After the accident, race car driver Clay Brody, theoretical physicist Brenda Ruskin, game designer Kenn Kawa, and pilot Marlon Corbet go back to their lives - lives which now seem shallow and unreal. In the weeks that follow the strange occurrence, each is haunted by recurring dreams of the crash and its aftermath, blindly unaware of the changes that have taken place - altering their lives forever!

The four are unexpectedly reunited by Sands, an elderly gentleman with a very special power: the ability to recognize others who have also been touched by The Light. The mysterious benefactor makes them an intriguing offer: If they agree to band together to continue his work, he'll fund them, give them access to information he's gathered over the years, and help them develop their newfound powers. This could be the turning point.. the moment they've been waiting for: to seek the truth, explore the unexplainable... to challenge the unknown!

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BRENDA RUSKIN:

Flamboyant in style, Ruskin is deeply passionate about her career and most other things in her life. Easily the smartest of the Challengers, she became one of the youngest theoretical physicist in history, working out the mysteries of quarks and dark matter, and her nerve and straightforwardness put her in demand on the lecture circuit. Her love life is less successful, and whereas Brody has no relationships, she has too many of them, with old boyfriends tending to pop up at the worst possible times. Her romances tend to be short-fused and burn out rapidly.

While she has no surviving family, she's ardent both in theorizing about the unknown and in placing those theories in the context of existing scientific knowledge, to make the unknown understandable, though she has a more liberal definition of understandable than most. Her innate empathy with technology seems somehow stronger since the incident that created the Challengers, but it doesn't unsettle her.

An only child pushed to excellence by parents at the expense of friends, Ruskin seeks companionship as much as knowledge from the Challengers. But the one she feels closest to is Kenn. Though she's serious about being friends with all of them; she's almost always at odds with Corbett, and finds Brody alternately arrogant and smothering, as if he can't believe she can take care of herself. Sparks of all kinds occasionally fly between her and all members of the group. She just loves the adventure and the sheer "unintellectuality" of the whole thing.

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MARLON CORBETT:

Pilot, from Denver, CO. Marlon comes from a middle-class background with strong family values, including strong but not overbearing, traditional religious beliefs and a liberal political tradition. Though the urge that drove him to fly was to find something beyond all that.

Following a liberal arts college education, Corbett enlisted in the air force, and later became a civilian pilot. His family is large, supportive and tightly knit, he's probably the most eager of all the Challengers to dig into their mission, and easily the most lighthearted.

Of the four of them, Corbett has the most to lose by his involvement in the Challengers. His family and fiancee, (who's threatening to end their engagement), don't understand his involvement with "the occult" along with his willingness to abandon his job, and he's not even certain he understands it himself. The situation becomes a test of his family's strength.

Marlon has been troubled by unsettling dreams since the incident that created the Challengers. He disregards the feelings until he meets Sands and realizes they are all changed.

Because he has the strongest family life of the four of them, he is both the most supportive member of the group and apparently the most tenuous, since he has a life elsewhere. But he's tied to the group by the desire to be something more than what he has been, to not be just a member of his family or of a nondescript flight crew, but to stand out, to prove himself. the most easygoing of the group, he openly likes everyone, rising above their petty squabbles and frequently providing the viewpoint that lets the rest of the group rise above them, too.

His natural charm makes him a good front man for the group when they have to deal with the public or smooth the ruffled features of officials.

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KENN KAWA:

The hardest to pigeonhole of all the Challengers, Kawa designs role-playing games for a living, and enjoys his skill at "playing" widely diverse characters. A firm believer in believing, his beliefs are equally mutable, tending toward wilder concepts; one week he'll espouse psychic surgery, the next primal scream therapy, the next Zen meditation. His family offers no clue to his true nature: his parents divorced, they and his sister are scattered across the globe, and he rarely sees them, though they exchange the usual birthday and holiday cards.

Unknown to anyone, he has an ex-wife and child, but prefers to keep them away from this part of his life. Kawa meanders through relationships with women, who tend to remain his friend rather than angry ex-lovers when he breaks up with them. But Kawa has constants: loyalty, an active practical imagination, an eye for details, a zest for new possibilities - and the ability to keep a secret.

Certain aspects of his fluid character are affecting his everyday life since the incident that created the Challengers, but he welcomes it, embracing anything new as a positive change in his being. Kawa enjoys periodically changing the direction of his life, so the Challengers come at the right time for him. There's little malicious about Kawa, but he delights in testing, seeing how far things can be pushed before he has to go a different way, and this is his chance to test reality. He "tests" his fellow Challengers as well, constantly challenging their preconceptions; he's the most open to the unknown of all of them. He particularly pushes Ruskin's buttons, triggered by her hot temper and her subtle claims to intellectual superiority, but underneath it all they enjoy each others company.

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CLAY BRODY:

Race car driver, from Pikeville KY. Coming from a coal mining family, Brody is solid and dependable, but his childhood also left him with a taste for risk, and beating it. His father is dead, his mother and his three sisters have never left KY; and since a wild period in his teens when they wrote him off as bad, he hasn't dealt with any of them.

He's very methodological, believing only in what he can see, feel, plan or strategize. Even following his encounter with The Light, Brody resists acceptance of the paranormal and particularly of the spiritual, viewing everything with a skeptical, grounded eye. But, even he cannot deny that his experience during the incident that created the Challengers has changed him, and that change frightens him the more he understands it. Until he meets Sands, and learns the others have been similarly changed, he thinks he's going crazy.

While pleasant enough toward the others, and far from hostile, Brody is guarded around them, determined to find rational explanations for what they investigate, to ground the group in what he perceives as reality. In many ways, he's their anchor. He stays with the Challengers due to a secret need for a family he never really had, but learned behavior with his own family gets in the way. What the others mistake for occasional arrogance is actually shyness. He's rarely without black driving gloves, not really for his image, he wears them to guard himself from... something.

[ufonaut]

And since the crash... well... doesn’t it bother you? Even a little?

Clay Brody & Marlon Corbett in Challengers of the Unknown (1997) #3

Bonus:

[ufonaut]

Kenn, it’s not statistically possible for you to keep winning and winning and winning...

The Challengers in Challengers of the Unknown (1997) #2

Bonus:

[ufonaut]

The Challengers of the Unknown in Conjurors (1999) #2

[ufonaut]

All I could think about was that others might be alive and in pain, and I had to help them. But it was a field of death. I wanted to throw up, I wanted to run. Nothing made any sense.

The Challengers’ origin in Challengers of the Unknown (1997) #8