#martyn turner

[aunti-christ-ine]

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[anothermanoutoftime]

Today in The Irish Times, by cartoonist Martyn Turner.

(Copyright of the artist is acknowledged)

[musicandoldmovies]

Well, with all respect, it were Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh (two third of Heaven 17, operating under the name of their side-project B.E.F.) who re-launched Tina Turner's career by lettling her cover "Ball of Confusion" on their album "Music of Quality and Distinction". Martyn Ware then co-produced Tina Turner's comeback hit "Let's stay together", which put her back on track. The rest is history.

"After she escaped Ike Turner, Tina Turner was written off by the whole music business. She was a Black woman in her 40s. It was time for the oldies circuit.

"The night that changed her life was in NYC, January 1983. David Bowie was having dinner with his new record label, right before Let's Dance came out, getting wined and dined, but he informed them he had plans for the night: He was going to see Tina Turner live. He wouldn't dream of missing her. He dragged everyone along with him. Her manager Roger Davies got a last-minute call, asking for 63 spots on the guest list. 'My Cinderella moment,' she called it in her book. 'That night at the Ritz was the equivalent of going to the ball (minus the part about Prince Charming) because it changed my life dramatically.'

"After the show, she raised hell all night with Bowie, Keith Richards and Ron Wood, sitting around the hotel piano, singing Motown classics, guzzling Dom Perignon. They posed for one of the coolest rock photos of all time: Tina, Keith and Bowie all drinking from the same bottle of Jack Daniels. She was a rock star now, forever. Her story was just beginning."

[justforbooks]

When Tina Turner, who has died aged 83, walked out on her abusive husband Ike in Dallas, Texas, she feared it would spell the end of her showbusiness career. It was 1976, and she had been performing with Ike for two decades, since she had first jumped onstage and sang with his band at the Manhattan club in East St Louis, Missouri. Yet, although she was desperate and had only 36 cents in her pocket, she was on her way to a renaissance as one of the most successful performers in popular music during the 1980s and 90s.

She had to endure several lean years, but a turning point came in 1983, when David Bowie told Capitol Records that she was his favourite singer. A version of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together followed. Produced by the electro-poppers Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh from Heaven 17, the track went to No 6 in the UK, then cracked the US Top 30 the following year.

Turner cemented the upturn in her fortunes with the album Private Dancer (1984). Driven by the huge hit What’s Love Got to Do With It? (her first American No 1), the album became a phenomenon, lodging itself in the American Top 10 for nine months and going on to sell more than 10m copies. Suddenly Turner was one of the biggest acts in an era of stadium superstars such as Michael Jackson, Dire Straits and Phil Collins.

In 1985 she was recruited to play Aunt Entity in the film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, for which she recorded another international chartbuster, We Don’t Need Another Hero. A second Thunderdome single, One of the Living, won her a Grammy award, and she was an automatic choice to join the Live Aid benefit concert in that year, as well as to participate in its American theme song, We Are the World.

Her follow-up album, Break Every Rule (1986), launched Turner on a global touring campaign, during which a crowd of 184,000 watched her in Rio de Janeiro. The tour spun off a double album, Tina Live in Europe (1988).

The album Foreign Affair (1989) sold 6m copies and generated another trademark anthem, The Best, which was subsequently used to add oomph to numerous TV commercials and adopted both by the tennis ace Martina Navratilova and the racing driver Ayrton Senna. The subsequent Foreign Affair tour ended in Rotterdam in 1990, after which she duetted with Rod Stewart on the old Tammi Terrell/Marvin Gaye hit It Takes Two. Designed as the theme for a Pepsi advert, the track was a chart hit across Europe.

Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, to Zelma Currie, a factory worker, and her husband, Floyd Bullock, a Baptist deacon. Abandoned by their father and temporarily by their mother, in 1956 Annie and her elder sister, Alline, moved to St Louis, Missouri, where they encountered Ike Turner and his band the Rhythm Kings. After Annie had talked the initially reluctant Ike into letting her sing with the band, he recruited her as one of his backing singers.

It was in 1960 that Tina – who had by then changed her name because it reminded Ike of the cartoon character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle – first sang a lead vocal with Ike’s band. A session singer failed to turn up, and Tina’s stand-in performance of A Fool in Love was a hit on both the pop and R&B charts. Ike immediately rebuilt his act around Tina, and christened it the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. They married in 1962.

Featuring nine musicians and a trio of skimpily dressed backing singers, the Ikettes, the Revue took the R&B circuit by storm. Tina rapidly developed into a mesmerising performer, radiating raw sexuality and bludgeoning audiences with the unvarnished force of her voice. They began to pepper the charts with hits, including I Idolise You, Poor Fool and Tra La La La La, and even if they only intermittently crossed over from the R&B charts to the pop mainstream, the band’s performing reputation was second to none. Evidence of their stage prowess was preserved on the 1965 album Live! The Ike and Tina Turner Show, recorded on tour in Texas.

However, the seeds of the couple’s destruction were being sown in their successful but intense lifestyle. Ike was a habitual womaniser, and also developed a destructive cocaine habit. This provoked violent outbursts against Tina, who, as she later revealed in her 1986 autobiography, I, Tina, was beaten, burned with cigarettes and scalded with hot coffee. She gained a glimpse of what life beyond Ike’s intimidating orbit might be like when she worked with the “Wall of Sound” producer Phil Spector in 1966. To Ike’s frustration, Spector refused to allow him in the studio while he worked on the single River Deep, Mountain High, which subsequently became regarded as a high point of both Spector’s and Turner’s careers.

The Turners’ work won them the admiration of many of their peers, not least the Rolling Stones, who invited them to open a UK tour for them in 1966, then to join them on their American tour in 1969. Mick Jagger was regularly spotted at the side of the stage during Tina’s performances, fascinated by her stage presence and dance routines. One of the high points of Live Aid in 1985 was Tina and Jagger performing together at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

Working with the Stones prompted the Turners to import a rock-orientated edge into their work, a ploy that worked most successfully when they recorded John Fogerty’s Proud Mary in 1971. It was their first million-selling single and a Top five hit on the American pop charts. In 1973 they notched up another landmark with Tina’s feisty composition Nutbush City Limits, inspired by her Tennessee origins. She took the role of the Acid Queen in Ken Russell’s film of The Who’s rock opera, Tommy (1975): her performance was one of its few critically acclaimed moments, though her spin-off solo album, The Acid Queen, made little impression on the charts.

After her split from Ike, Tina stayed with friends and was forced to survive on food stamps. When their divorce was finalised in 1978, she preferred to take no money or property from the settlement, to establish a complete break from her husband. She earned cash from TV guest appearances on the Donny & Marie and the Sonny & Cher shows, but her late-70s albums Rough and Love Explosion sold poorly.

In 1980 she signed a management deal with Roger Davies, an Australian promoter working in the US, who secured some lucrative engagements in Las Vegas. The following year the Rolling Stones galloped to the rescue once again by booking her as the opening act on their Tattoo You tour of the US, and she also appeared with Stewart in a California concert broadcast internationally by satellite.

By the time she was inducted (with Ike, though he was then in jail) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, Turner had little left to prove. She was able to spend more time at the homes in Switzerland and the Cote d’Azur that she now shared with the German record executive Erwin Bach. A singles collection, Simply the Best (1991), reeled in more platinum discs as Turner entered the senior stateswoman phase of her career.

In 1993, as she launched her first US tour in six years, her film biography, What’s Love Got to Do With It, based on I, Tina, was released, starring Angela Bassett as Turner. The film brought forth a bestselling soundtrack album and another hit single with its opening track, I Don’t Wanna Fight.

A three-disc anthology, The Collected Recordings – Sixties to Nineties, appeared in 1994, and the following year came Turner’s recording of GoldenEye, the theme tune of the eponymous James Bond movie. The tour that accompanied her eighth studio album, Wildest Dreams (1996), became another record-breaker, grossing more than $100m in Europe alone. Twenty Four Seven (1999) teed up what Turner announced would be her last major arena and stadium tour. She had intended to tour with Elton John, but the idea was scrapped after she argued with him about the piano arrangement for Proud Mary during rehearsals for a TV special, Divas Live ’99. Her subsequent solo dates became the top-grossing tour of 2000.

A quiet period ensued, during which Turner confined herself to hand-picked events, such as a 2005 performance on the Oprah Winfrey Show. She contributed a version of Edith and the Kingpin to River: The Joni Letters (2007), a tribute album produced by Herbie Hancock. She performed alongside Beyoncé at the Grammy awards in 2008.

That October she went back on the road with the Tina! 50th Anniversary Tour, synchronised with the compilation album Tina: The Platinum Collection. In 2010 she became the first female artist to score top 40 hits in the UK in six consecutive decades (1960s-2010s) when The Best bounced back into the UK Top 10. Her Love Songs compilation appeared in 2014, and her remix of What’s Love Got to Do With It with the Norwegian DJ Kygo in 2020 made for a seventh decade containing UK hits.

Between 2009 and 2014 Turner appeared on four albums by Beyond, an all-woman group formed with her neighbours in Küsnacht, near Zürich. The music reflected the spiritual and religious beliefs of the participants, with Turner considering herself a Baptist-Buddhist (she was raised as a Baptist, but began practising Nichiren Buddhism in 1973).

In 2013 she married Bach and gave up her American citizenship to become a Swiss citizen. Three weeks after the marriage she suffered a stroke, and in 2016 she was diagnosed with intestinal cancer, then suffered kidney failure when “the toxins in my body had started taking over”, as she put it in her second autobiography, Tina Turner: My Love Story (2018). Her husband volunteered to give her one of his kidneys and a transplant operation was carried out successfully in 2017.

The following year, the biographical stage musical Tina opened at Aldwych theatre in London, directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Adrienne Warren in the title role. Turner received a Grammy lifetime achievement award, to go with her existing tally of eight Grammy awards and three Grammy Hall of Fame awards. Among her vast collection of honours, Turner also had five American Music awards, two World Music awards and three MTV Video Music awards.

In 2021 she joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an outright solo performer and sold the rights to her music catalogue to the publishing company BMG for an estimated $50m. Ready to retire fully, she bade farewell to her fans with the two-part HBO documentary Tina.

Alline died in 2010. Tina’s eldest son, Craig, from a relationship with the saxophonist Raymond Hill, took his own life in 2018. Ronnie, her son with Ike, died in 2022.

She is survived by Erwin and two sons, Ike Jr and Michael, from Ike’s first marriage.

🔔 Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock), singer and songwriter, born 26 November 1939; died 24 May 2023

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[t4t4tclethian]

timmy turner voice i hope everyone who twinkifies impulse or skizzleman or cleo or martyn or cub goes to hell no matter what

[nerdyenby]

Blame Jordan’s curiosity for this existing but longest no-win streaks in MCC history!!

This is all just for fun, if I see anyone being mean about this it’s on sight /hsrs

Kara- 26+: her team won the very first MCC but she hasn’t won since, despite having been in 26 canon events

Jordan- 21: he participated in 21 canon events before winning for the first time in MCC22

Shelby- 20: she won two events in season one before hitting a streak of not winning for 20 events in a row, this was broken in MCC22

Krtzyy- 17: they won MCC1 along with Kara and had a similar pattern of not winning for the rest of seasons one and two. However, he participated in less events and was able to break his curse in MCC29

Ranboo- 16+: he has been in 16 canon events and have not yet gotten their first win.

Pearl, Puffy, and Quig- 15(+): Pearl has been in 15 canon events and have yet to win. Puffy won her first coin in MCC6 and is currently at 15 canon participations since without another win. Quig participated in 15 events between his victories in MCC5 and MCC23

Jack, Martyn, Tommy, and Wilbur- 14(+): Jack has been in 14 canon events and has yet to win. Martyn participated in 14 events before winning his first canon event in MCC23. Tommy participated in 14 canon events between his wins in MCC4 and MCC19. Wilbur has won twice, but not in any of the 14 canon events he’s been in since MCC12

Sylvee- 13: she participated in 13 canon events before getting her first win in MCC18

Fruit, Jimmy, Pete, Punz, RyGuy, and Vixella- 12(+): Fruit participated in 12 canon events between his wins in MCC9 and MCC26. Jimmy went 12 events before getting his first win in MCC14. Pete has had 12 canon participations since his last win in MCC17. Punz had a similar situation to Fruit between his victories in MCC13 and MCC28. RyGuy won MCC2 and has not won again in his 12 canon participations since. Vixella has been in 12 canon events and has yet to get her first win

DrGluon, Gumi, James Turner, Joel, Niki, and Zeuz- 11(+): DrGluon and James have participated in 11 events together and have yet to win. Gumi has been in 11 canon events and has yet to get her first win. Joel went 11 participations between his wins in MCC10 and MCC25. Niki participated in 11 canon events and has yet to win. Zeuz was in 11 events before getting his first win in MCC21

Fundy, Oli, Scott, and TapL- 10(+): Fundy won his first event in MCC6 and did not win again in his following 10 canon participations. Oli went 10 events before he got his first win in MCC22. Scott had 10 canon participations between his wins in MCC18 and MCC30. TapL has also been in 10 canon events since his win in MCC12

[diderots]

James Ellis Ford talks his new music, Palestine, Alex Turner/Monkeys & TLSP, Depeche Mode and more on the Electronically Yours podcast

[fountainpenguin]

“I come to you with all my secrets... And you never, ever judge.” (x)

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New Dog's Life chapter today!

Chapter 11 - “Phantom Hour (Martyn, Joel, Honey)”

Read on AO3

Start from Chapter 1

End of Session 1

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Martyn gets called into work, but drops by Scott on the way. Scott's fighting through his own problems that not a single one of his friends can relate to. Meanwhile, Joel invites Grian to Empires to visit Hermes- Y'know, that kid Joel insists is real and Grian claimed was an armor stand last chapter.

Lastly, Grian returns to his wife on their home server. Their marriage may be arranged and awkward, but he's locked in offline status with her for another month straight, so he may as well get cozy...

(First 1,000 words under the cut)

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InTheLittleWood

- Card-carrying member of the Broken Hearts Club

- Kept hungry on purpose for nights like this

💚  💛  ❤️

If you're not hearing James Turner cry out "Aww, bat too!" every time Pearl swoops down on his head with wings unfurled, or listening to the constant hum of bee wings in your ear, are you even in Simmers' Quarter? Martyn spreads his arms and wings for balance, meandering across the copper rod rail that spans between the rooftop of one building and the next. Oh, sure… Flapping your wings is easy, but that sort of takes away the thrill and the rush of the tightrope, doesn't it?

Funny joke. I've got 24/7 vertigo anyway.

He takes every step with his eyes shut, tongue sticking out from one corner of his lips. Technically this is the Australian Quarter, but literally no one ever calls it that. Not even Pearl, and she's an Australian Minecrafter. It's just that all the Simmers live together down in this corner: not because they have to (or even because their time zones match up), but because they're such good friends.

Simmers' Quarter also happens to be the edge of the perimeter where Scott assigns housing to the accounts played by fairly young creators who are still learning their way around Minecraft. Basically, you'll never find any fewer than a hundred babies running around, and if you ask Martyn, the Simmers always look exhausted, like managing their needs in mere proximity of noisy children leaves them drained. But if they really didn't like it, they could file the paperwork to move, right?

I mean, they're Simmers… Maybe some of them still think we pay for things with consistent currency instead of doodles and build tips.

Martyn wobbles in an imaginary breeze. His vertigo kicks on a little stronger, a little more demanding. It swirls his stomach and guts in circles like he's mixing homemade ice cream. Whoa. Martyn keeps his eyes pinned shut. He doesn't peek. He only breathes.

I am not falling.

He balances on the copper rod, which Scott probably installed here for the many bat hybrids that call this area their home. Besides little rods and decorative bits like these, everything in Simmers' Quarter is built from wood and chiseled stone. The block palettes are pretty simple, but it works… The young, newbie builders don't often care for fancy designs (and setting them up with pretty stone and wood is a good way to guarantee they won't settle for less tasteful blocks like cobblestone or emerald). Most of the Simmers dump a few leaf blocks down for bushes, but largely prefer interiors, so in the end? It's a win-win.

Martyn's not here to talk to any Simmers. Or any of the hundred kids. At the end of the copper rail, he swings down and drops with a thump on the landing pad. The door's not locked. He waltzes right in. Just without a waltzing partner.

Ah, I'd love a waltzing partner. I oughta talk to Skizz.

The hallway's lit with golden lanterns. He's on the top floor. Nobody else is wandering. Martyn strolls along until he finds Room 810. He sifts through his pockets, digs out his spare key, and pushes it in the lock.

"There we are…"

Home bitter home.

The flat's a lot tidier since Scott packed his things and moved out. That's not to say Scott caused a big mess when he lived here. Jimmy just… never redecorated. Martyn can't even blame him. He's not redecorated in, eeeehhhh… Probably getting close to 300 years at this point. Definitely over 250. Dunno, honestly. Math is hard and everyone's brains are scrambled. There's not really much point in decorating, is there? Jimmy's the one who spends the most time in it, and while Jimmy and Scott were dating, Martyn hadn't seen a reason to get in the way. He keeps his stuff and private portal in his room, but so much of his station time is spent at the flock roost or else combing the perimeter. The flat is…

… Martyn only has a flat at all because of the people he came to stay with.

Martyn kicks his crocs at the front door, sliding into his slippers instead. All the lanterns are off. Jimmy's not home yet, still at the first of many late-night parties. All their games are gone too. There's no food here that Martyn's anivore body will get any pleasure from. And Scott took the blankets and throw pillows. He left the printscreens now framed along their walls - even had the decency not to crop his own face out when he left - but Martyn glances at exactly none of them. He'd just… rather not right now.

His room's the left one at the end of the hall. Jimmy's and Scott's (Jimmy's) is the right. The third door, straight ahead, is the one he came here for. As he walks, Martyn reaches into his pocket and withdraws a letter. He wrote it over break while they were killing time, waiting for Grian and Etho to account for Scar's glitch. Martyn swats it several times against his palm and opens the last door. The purple, wooden N hanging on its front clacks as he pushes through. This room never had a bed. The old occupant never saw the point in one, seeing as you can't sleep in the Between dimension.

It's not as quiet in this abandoned room as Martyn would like. He can hear screeching children playing in the road outside. He can hear Gluon's distinctive bee wings humming very, very near the edge of the apartment. Martyn makes a mental note to take him and his fez out first next time he gets the chance.

Ah, well… It's Simmers' Quarter. Whatcha gonna do?

He gives a little love-tap to the sugar glider hoodie hanging abandoned on the hook behind the door. Hasn't been worn in a few hundred years, but it's nice to know it's still there. No matter how hungry Martyn's gotten… he's never been hungry enough to eat that.

[Full chapter on AO3 - Link at top]

[grandmaster-anne]

22 February 2023 The Cayman Islands Coast Guard (CICG) was honoured to host His Royal Highness (HRH) The Earl of Wessex and Fulfar, at its base in Savannah Newlands. Due to its size and location, the CICG Base was selected as the venue of choice for HRH to receive a Royal Salute from The Cayman Islands Cadet Corps (CICC), and to inspect equipment that will be used by the Cayman Islands Regiment (CIR) when deploying to assist in Humanitarian Aid & Disaster Recovery operations. During this visit, HRH toured the facility, and received a walking brief on the CICG’s current capabilities and future initiatives. While on site, HRH also met with, and engaged in discussions with members of Recruit Class 02, who were participating in training exercises that day. This is the first Member of the Royal Family to visit with the CICG since its inception, and it is was quite an honour, especially as HRH is a staunch supporter of youth development programmes, and maritime conservation initiatives. Accompanying HRH on his tour of the base and his interactions with the CIR and CICC, was HE The Governor of the Cayman Islands, Mr. Martyn Roper. The Minister Responsible for Home Affairs, Hon. Sabrina Turner, and the acting Chief Officer in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mr. Julian Lewis. 📸: Adrian Clarke & @picturesbyshankar — Cayman Islands Coast Guard

[amplesalty]

Christmas 2022 - Day 2 - Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012)

On t he second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

...two thousand dollars worth of tools!

Oh hey, we’ve reached the point where they got embarrassed about the number of sequels they were making. We took a diversion last year to look at the newest entry in the franchise, Home Sweet Home Alone, but we’re going back into the archives now to check out the last new to me entry actually set at Christmas. I’ve never seen 3 but I know that’s not set at Christmas and doesn’t involve the McAllisters either but maybe I’ll look at that one day as a random review just for the sake of completeness. With this coming out in 2012, it almost sort of maybe looks like they’re going for a ‘once a generation’ thing where they draw in one bunch of kids, then hit the next batch when the others have grown up. I mean, you had the original and the sequel at the beginning of the 90’s, 3 came out mid-to-late 90’s, then 4 was early noughties, now this one in the early tens and finally HSHA in 2021. At this rate I suppose we can look forward to the next entry in the early 2030’s. Maybe by then it’ll be set on a terraformed Mars.

I don’t know why but I’ve somehow always managed to misjudge this art for the film. I think something about the hair looking floppy made me think he was a spoilt little rich kid. Plus what is quite plainly a hoodie I’d somehow seen as like a blazer of sorts with a tie. I can only assume I only ever glanced at this and didn’t pay too much attention because boy is that ever a wide of the mark assessment. Indeed, this is the story of your average American family with 2.4 kids who have moved all the way from California to Maine in aid of mom’s new job.

At least he’s doing the whole ‘scream’ thing here to immediately remind you of the old movies. They even mention the painting at one point and the kids get oddly embarrassed at their parents doing the pose. I don’t know if he’s really selling fear here though, he just looks slightly appalled by something.

Fittingly for Maine the house is allegedly haunted by the spirit of an old timey bootlegger but we’re not exactly going into Stephen King territory here. It does give extra reason for our young protagonist, Finn (played by Christian Martyn), to be scared senseless but he doesn’t exactly need any help since he’s pretty much scared of his own shadow most of the time. It’s also the motivation for our obligatory gang of baddies as they plan to steal a painting which is said to reside in the house.

And hey, there are actual recognisable people in these roles again! Malcolm McDowell makes another appearance on our Christmas list, this time as the ringleader Sinclair. Alongside him he has Jessica played by Debi Mazar who sort of looks familiar but I don’t think that’s down to some of the more logical places I would have seen her like Goodfellas or Empire Records. She’s apparently Madonna’s bestie as well and she’s been in a whole bunch of her videos.

Maybe it’s because she looks like she’s come straight out of that Jim Carrey Grinch movie at one point. Definite Who vibe off her here. Plus there’s Eddie Steeples who was ‘Crab Man’ Darnell Turner on My Name is Earl and was also in Would You Rather that I watched during Halloween a year or two back.

Say what you will about these sequels being cash ins but they put their hand in their pocket sometimes to get people you might actually know. Granted, McDowell is very much a working actor and whilst thoughts do obviously turn to A Clockwork Orange, you can just as easily find him providing voice work to Pinocchio 3000 (okay that sounds stupid and I kinda want to see it) or Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes (...same) so it’s probably not an amazing ‘get’ but I imagine he doesn’t come cheap.

Another recognisable face is Edward Asner who just feels destined to turn up in so many Christmas films. I swear it’s either him or the goddamned Northen Lights. At least he’s not playing Santa this time. It’s kind of a weird performance because he’s hosting this Christmas party and the mum is his new hire, only they’re trying to play him off as being massively drunk but it’s not that far removed from just being a vaguely senile old man.

The whole former bootlegger house does very nearly come close to giving this movie a gimmick and some sort of identity as pretty early on Finn inadvertently finds a hidden safe in the basement. Eventually he and his sister find out that it has a hidden wall that has a speakeasy behind it which, when his sister tries to steal a bottle of alcohol, triggers the door to shut behind her and lock her in. The idea of the house itself having these sort of traps built in and leftover from it’s former occupant would’ve been a new dynamic and you could potentially have moments of peril from Finn accidently finding himself on the wrong end of one. But it doesn’t really come up so we’re just left with the results of Finn’s imagination; icing up the front porch (a classic), pouring oil over people or baking poisoned cookies full of hot sauce. Hey, Home Sweet Home Alone took that one! That movie has clearly sunk to a new low if it’s having to rip off this movie. Thinking about it though, the kid in these movies is meant to be the viewer analogue, the little boys and girls watching at home are meant to be able to imagine themselves being the one setting the traps and getting their own back on all the mean grownups so it doesn’t exactly work if the kid isn’t the one actively setting the traps.

His big secret weapon is the power of sexual harassment as Jessica gets stuck in a window trying to break in so, when he two partners in crime try to pull her out, Finn keeps firing things at her that smack her on the arse and makes her think the guys are trying to cop a feel. A swift mule kick to the nards sorts them right out though. I don’t know if I want to run the risk of upsetting the moderation bots of Tumblr again though in order to show you, I’m not sure what the party line is on a nice bottom.

The traps feel a little tame in comparison to the other movies, especially when you consider the multiple times Kevin nearly killed the Wet/Sticky bandits with blunt force trauma, electrocution, burning, falls, Birdemic... Honestly, the most violent act isn’t even directed at the bad guys, it’s when he’s convinced the house is haunted so tries to collect evidence and ends up shooting his own Father with a taser. I know these kids are shown to be resourceful in these movies but where did he get that from?!It’s like the reverse Chekhov’s Gun as it never shows up again.

Or when this one guy pretty much gets Swatted and maced by about a dozen cops.  See, there’s this whole subplot where Finn just wants to play videogames and not make any actual real life friends, only it comes across vaguely weird when the one guy he’s talking to online is this one dude in like his mid 20’s. Finn kinda has this whole borderline social issue though as he seems geniunely anxious at the thought of any human interaction with his peers. His sister is portrayed as being obssesed with her phone so it’s very much the type of writing you expect from that relatively early period of smart phones where adults are complaining about how their kids just wont get off the dang cell phone or those violent viddy games!

Then there’s this whole scene where Finn tells the guy they’re being robbed so he hacks Finn’s gamertag, gets his mum’s mobile number from the account details and calls her to tell her what’s happening. Only it turns into this whole misunderstanding where she thinks he’s grooming her son and has her daughter locked in the basement. Oh, noncing and child abuse, what japes we have.

Honestly, this one wasn’t too bad. It’s massively derivative and there’s no reason to watch it over 1 or 2 but it’s not the worst thing in the world. It’s just a very safe rehash that makes absolutely no attempt to try and stray from the formula, it just settles into the well worn arse groove that the original movie and the sequel already made and is quite content with that. It’s just the same movie but adjusted 20 years down the line with some new possibilities thanks to the advancement of technology.  Still, because it’s giving itself such a low bar it didn’t really come across as making any massively glaring faults. Whereas last year I think Home Sweet Home Alone kind of forgot it even was a Home Alone movie for large portions so it’s a lot easier to pick fault with it. Maybe that one just set some low expectations for me that this one was able to meet.

It’s not to say there aren’t problems. Like Finn is just a massive dweeb who seems to have this sad look on his face the entire movie. Plus, him being scared borders on the ridiciousless on occasions. Like there’s one moment where he manages to run screaming out of the secret room, through the basement, up the stairs, through the kitchen, up another flight of stairs, into his room, throw off the covers and then dive under them. It feels like one of those jokes where someone is falling for a really long time so they have to stop to breathe before starting to scream again. Granted, Kevin was pretty scared in the first movie but he was a good couple of years younger, was actively left alone for days on end rather then just a couple of hours whilst his parents went to a party and the Wet Bandits were a lot more intimidating the guy guys on show here.  These guys are only interested in the painting and even when they do discover Finn and his sister, they just try to keep them out of the way. The Bandits though, they took that shit seriously when Kevin was fighting back against them and you really did think they were going to kill him before Old Man Marley showed up with that snow shovel. I suppose this is a kids movie after all though and you’ve got to keep the menace and fear to a minimum.

[mccbrackets]

Round 1 masterpost

Round 1A (closed)

Cyan 3 (RT, Techno, Toxxxic, Wilbur) vs Orange 27 (AntVenom, BaboAbe, Dan, Gumi)

Yellow P22 (Gem, Grian, Scott, Shelby) vs Orange 15 (Grian, H/Pete, Pearl, Shelby)

Krimson Krakens (Jordan, Kara, Krinios, Krtzy) vs Lime 18 (Fundy, Gee, Illumina, Puffy)

Lime 21 (Grian, Jimmy, Pete, Scar) vs Aqua 19 (Fruit, Gumi, RyGuy, Sam)

Orange 19 (Gem, Grian, Jimmy, Pete) vs Aqua 7 (False, Grian, Pearl, Ren)

Purple 14 (Grian, Martyn, Pete, Oli) vs Orange 12 (Burren, Fundy, H, Niki)

Cyan 18 (Jordan, Ranboo, Sneeg, Wilbur) vs Red 23 (Callum, Shelby, Tommy, Zeuz)

Yellow 17 (Ranboo, Scott, Shelby, Wilbur) vs Orange 28 (Beky, Impulse, Purpled, Scott)

Round 1B (closed)

Aqua 9 (Calvin, F1nn, Spifey, Techno) vs Pink 6 (Callum, Phil, Techno, Wilbur)

Aqua 24 (Cub, Fruit, Joel, Scar) vs Orange 21 (Elaina, Illumina, Phil, Shelby)

Red 24 (Puffy, Purpled, Ranboo, Wilbur) vs Aqua 10 (Pokimane, Tommy, Tubbo, Wilbur)

Lime 10 (Eret, Niki, Techno, Wilbur) vs Cyan 29 (Gee, Jojo, Ranboo, Scott)

Yellow 4 (False, FWhip, Katherine, Ren) vs Red 16 (Phil, Ranboo, Tommy, Wilbur)

Purple 24 (Illumina, Krinios, Michael, RyGuy) vs Lime 14 (Cub, False, Fruit, Ren)

Sapphire Simmers (DrGluon, James Turner, Vixella, Zeuz) vs Yellow 16 (George, H, Jordan, Ponk)

Orange 29 (Impulse, Joel, Phil, RyGuy) vs Yellow 13 (H, Joel, Oli, Sylvee)

Round 1C (closed)

Aqua 5 (Eret, Pete, Tommy, Vikk) vs Cyan 23 (False, Jojo, Pearl, Scott)

Yellow 2 (Callum, Jimmy, Katherine, Martyn) vs Cyan P22 (5up, Aimsey, Gumi, Tubbo)

Pink 17 (Fruit, Illumina, Vixella, Zeuz) vs Purple 13 (False, Grian, Kara, Pete)

Red 2 (Meghan, Scott, Techno, Wilbur) vs Aqua 12 (False, FWhip, Grian, Ren)

Orange 6 (H, Jimmy, Martyn, Pete) vs Pink 26 (Blushi, Charlie, Purpled, Ranboo)

Purple 11 (Fundy, Quackity, Tommy, Wilbur) vs Pink P22 (Ethan, Jack, Ranboo, Sapnap)

Blue 25 (Elaina, Flase, Illumina, Pearl) vs Cyan 22 (Callum, Ranboo, Wilbur, Wisp)

Orange 24 (H, Jack, Tommy, Tubbo) vs Green 5 (Cub, False, Iskall, Ren)

Round 1D (closed)

Green 28 (Gee, Illumina, Jack, Tommy) vs Yellow 1 (Jack, Phil, RyGuy, Wilbur)

Purple 18 (Callum, Jimmy, Joel, Oli) vs Pink 15 (Ranboo, TapL, Tubbo, Wilbur)

Blue 12 (Illumina, Kara, Puffy, Punz) vs Green 29 (George, Gumi, Purpled, Sniff)

Cyan 13 (Fundy, Phil, Quackity, Wilbur) vs Red 27 (Gee, Hannah, Lizzie, Pearl)

Aqua 22 (False, Grian, H, Scar) vs Purple 23 (Gee, Joel, Pete, Phil)

Lime 5 (Phil, Techno, VoiceOver Pete, Wilbur) vs Red 1 (Joel, Lizzie, Scott, Yammy)

Red 28 (Gem, Jojo, Ranboo, Scar) vs Cyan 20 (Martyn, Pete, RyGuy, Scar)

Yellow 23 (Elaina, George, Gumi, Sapnap) vs Lime 11 (False, Fruit, Grian, Ren)

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„PRIVATE DANCER” eröffnete 1984 sensationell die glänzende zweite Karriere der großen Sängerin VON ARNE WILLANDER

SIE HATTE 36 CENT UND EINE TANKKARTE, ALS SIE Ike Turner verließ und in ein Hotel in Dallas flüchtete. Und sie musste für die ausgefallenen Konzerte der Tournee bezahlen. Ike glaubte, dass Tina bald zurückkehren werde: Er überließ ihr die Kinder, um den ökonomischen Druck zu erhöhen.

Aber Tina kehrte nicht zu ihm zurück.

Ihre Auftritte in kleinen Clubs fanden vor zweihundert Zuschauern statt. Sie musste wieder von vorn beginnen. Die Musik hatte sich geändert, die Produktionsmethoden, die Vermarktung. Donna Summer war mit „Love To Love You Baby" der Star der Stunde, die Bee Gees machten jetzt Disco. Tina nahm das Album „Rough“ auf, es war ein Misserfolg. 1979 übernahm der australische Produzent Roger Davies das Management. Die nächste Platte, „Love Explosion“ (1979), belehnte den Disco-Sound, als er beinahe vorbei war. Davies hörte die engeschen Flektronik-Pop-Bands, die Anfang der 80er-Jahre reüssierten, darunter die British Electric Foundation, die aus Ian Craig Marsh und Martyn Ware, den Musikern von The Human League, bestand. Mit Ware nahmen sie 1983 eine Version von Al Greens „Let's Stay Together“ auf, die Platz 5 der englischen Charts erreichte und Rang 21 in den USA. Mit Capitol Records schlossen sie einen Vertrag für ein Album.

Das Album war „Private Dancer“ und erschien im Mai 1984. Auf dem Papier ist es ein eklektischer Mischmasch aus alten Songs und neu geschriebenen Stücken: Mark Knopfler gab Tina „Private Dancer“, Terry Britten schrieb „What's Love Got To Do With It“ und „Show Some Respect“ (mit Sue Shifrin), Rupert Hine „I Might Have Been Queen“ Dazu „Let's Stay Together“, Ann Peebles' „I Can't Stand The Rain“, „Better Be Good To Me“ von Holly Knight und Mike Chapman, „Help!“ von den Beatles, „1984“ von David Bowie und „Steel Claw“ von dem irischen Songschreiber Paul Brady. Unter den acht Produzenten sind Terry Britten, Rupert Hine, Martyn Ware und Joe Sample.

Die Platte ist also nicht kohärent. Ja, stimmt, aber sie ist auf interessante Weise nicht kohärent. Sie klingt absolut zeitgenössisch. Sie klingt wie Soul, ist aber Rock. Sie vereint die Talente vollkommen unterschiedlicher Autoren und Produzenten in dem Talent von Tina Turner, unverkennbar zu sein.

Auf dem Cover ist Tina Turner die Löwin in schwarzem Kleid und Netzstrümpfen, die Lippen rot geschminkt. Der an den Mund geführte Zeigefinger sagt beides: “Komm her!" und “Du kannst mich mal!". Die schwarze Katze im Vordergrund sieht aus wie ein Puma. Auf der Rückseite sind Tinas Beine aufs, die Erwachen zu sehen. Es ist die Art von Plate, und die sich Sene sich ins Wohnzimmer stellten. Und die sie wirklich hörten. Private Dancer* Nurde gekauft wie verrückt. Tina war 45 Jahre alt.

Das Comeback gehört zu den großen Mythen der Rockmusik (des Films, des Theaters, der Literatur, des Boxsports, des Lebens). Tina Turners Comeback war die Wiederkehr einer Frau, von der viele Menschen noch nie gehört hatten, zumal in Europa. Sie hatte eine Geschichte, das war klar, aber die Geschichte musste jetzt erst erzählt werden. Mit Kurt Loder erzählte sie die Geschichte in der Autobiografie „I, Tina“ Ihr Lieblingsfilm sei der zweite „Mad Max“ sagte sie. 1985 spielte sie im dritten „Mad Max“ „Jenseits der Donnerkuppel“, mit aufgerüschtem Kopfputz, ein bisschen wie die Acid Queen in „Tommy“. Der Titelsong „We Don't Need Another Hero“ wurde ein Riesenhit. Bei Live Aid sang sie in Philadelphia „State Of Shock“ mit Mick Jagger, der damals sein erstes Soloalbum, „She's The Boss“, herausbrachte. Sie zog dieses Duett einem Auftritt mit David Bowie in London vor. Später erzählte sie freimütig, dass sie seit den Sechzigern in Jagger verliebt war; 1966 war sie im Vorprogramm einer Tournee der Rolling Stones. 1986 erschien „Break Every Rule“. Damals wurden Schallplatten noch an den Supermarkt-kassen verkauft, und „Break Every Rule“ ist eine Kassenplatte. Man kam einfach nicht an ihr vorbei.

„Typical Male“ röhrte aus dem Radio. Wie überhaupt „die Röhre“ zum Synonym für Tina Turner wurde. Und das andere Synonym war die Löwen-mähne, der “Shag", eine der ikonischen Frisuren der 80er-Jahre, wie man heute sagen würde. Variationen dieser Haartracht trug Tina bis zur letzen Platte, Ende der 90er-Jahre.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2023 11pm ET: Feature LP: Tina Turner - Private Dancer (1984)

Private Dancer is the fifth solo studio album by Tina Turner. It was released by Capitol Records in May 1984, and was her first album released through the label. Recording sessions for the album took place at several studios in England and was overseen by four different production teams, including Rupert Hine, and Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh of Heaven 17. A radical departure from the rhythm…

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