#meryl brûlée

[thewheelhouse99]

Meet Meryl Brûlée

Since she debuted in ‘Family Vacation’ I had her have quite a colourful life.

She and her husband decided to have a new outlook on life. Breaking their summer routines and trying to do more exciting things in their life. Meryl lives by the ‘Adventure before dementia’ motto.

Her husband Peter did more simple things like taking up biking or rock climbing. Starting off small at least, while Meryl went straight to things like bungee jumping, buying a sports car to race across the highway and trying strange new recipes for each family meal.

Her more outlandish personality shift was much for Peter but it got to a point where, of all things to split over, Meryl called him out on leaving a meal at a restaurant unfinished. Things got heated and they divorced.

Since then though, Charlene and Sharron Brûlée found their mum a little annoying with how chaotic things can get but Meryl still retains her discipline at the best of times, helping her children with homework, sometimes through first hand experience with the clubs she joins (astronomy, derby biking etc).

Meryl’s also something of a retro gamer, pulling out consoles from her 80’s teen hood for her downtime.

Oh and she stans Ava-Max which helped her with her divorce (thanks Myles).

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well....it’s over........

Best Picture (predicting 9)

Green Book

A Star Is Born

Roma

BlacKkKlansman

The Favourite

Black Panther

Vice

Bohemian Rhapsody

If Beale Street Could Talk

First Man Alt: Crazy Rich Asians I hear you but are there enough stans?: Cold War Surprise!: A Quiet Place No one actually watched it guys: Leave No Trace Thanks for playing!: Mary Poppins Returns

Best Director

Alfonso Cuarón - Roma

Spike Lee - BlacKkKlansman

Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born

Peter Farrelly - Green Book

Yorgos Lanthimos - The Favourite Alt: Adam McKay - Vice Both of their movies are better than the ones they won Oscars for so what’s happening here????????: Barry Jenkins - If Beale Street Could Talk & Damien Chazelle - First Man I still don’t buy it - Pawel Pawlikowski - Cold War SHE DESERVES - Lynne Ramsay - You Were Never Really Here

Best Actress

Glenn Close - The Wife

Olivia Colman - The Favourite

Lady Gaga - A Star Is Born

Melissa McCarthy - Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Yalitza Aparicio - Roma Alt: Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins Returns Does she have Meryl Streep level power yet?: Viola Davis - Widows Did they WATCH IT??: Toni Collette - Hereditary

Best Actor

Christian Bale - Vice

Bradley Cooper - A Star Is Born

Viggo Mortensen - Green Book

Rami Malek - Bohemian Rhapsody

John David Washington - BlacKkKlansman You did your best critics: Ethan Hawke - First Reformed Surprise!: Idk Willem Dafoe - At Eternity’s Gate?? If they care about actually good biopic performances that don’t involve yelling in heavy makeup: Ryan Gosling - First Man

Supporting Actress

Rachel Weisz - The Favourite (most likely to be nominated not most likely to win)

Emma Stone - The Favourite

Amy Adams - Vice

Regina King - If Beale Street Could Talk

Claire Foy - First Man Alt: The Clown from It: Mary Queen of Scots Hovering: Nicole Kidman - Boy Erased

Supporting Actor

Mahershala Ali - Green Book

Richard E. Grant - Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Adam Driver - BlacKkKlansman

Sam Elliott - A Star Is Born

Tammany Hall Crème Brûlée - Beautiful Bussy Alt: Sam Rockwell - Vice Don’t even think about it: Michael B. Jordan - Black Panther

Adapted Screenplay

BlacKkKlansman

If Beale Street Could Talk

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

A Star Is Born

First Man Alt: Black Panther Surprise!: Leave No Trace

Original Screenplay

Green Book

The Favourite

Roma

Vice

Eighth Grade OH WELL: First Reformed They absolutely would: A Quiet Place

Cinematography

Roma

The Favourite

First Man

Cold War

A Star Is Born Alt: If Beale Street Could Talk Why: Bohemian Rhapsody

Costume Design

The Favourite

Black Panther

Mary Queen of Scots

Mary Poppins Returns

Bohemian Rhapsody Alt: Crazy Rich Asians Who?: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms There will be backlash from that win: Harry Potter 576

Film Editing

First Man

Vice

A Star Is Born

Roma

BlacKkKlansman Alt: Green Book Would not be surprised: Black Panther Still wouldn’t be surprised: The Favourite This category is very hard to predict: Bohemian Rhapsody $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$: Mission Impossible

Makeup and Hair

Vice

Black Panther

Border (never doubt the Swedes!) Alt: Bohemian Rhapsody Wigs: Mary Queen of Scots I think we’re ALL she: Suspiria The other one: Stan and Ollie

Production Design

Black Panther

The Favourite

Mary Poppins Returns

First Man

Roma #StopStuartCraig: Fantastic Beasts Other: Mary Queen of Scots

*ANNIHILATION NOISE*

First Man

If Beale Street Could Talk

Isle of Dogs

Black Panther

A Quiet Place Alt: Mary Poppins Returns This apparently had a score: BlacKkKlansman

Abolish this category 2020

Noise from A Star Is Born

I turned Black Panther off the second the credits hit

That one from Mary Poppins

That other one from Mary Poppins

Academy Award Nominee Troye Sivan Alt: The one from that movie that you all said Jennifer Aniston was gonna win an Oscar for a year ago sdkaljfdhlskdjh Surprise: “Nor does the word Freedom your honor”

Sound Editing

First Man

Black Panther

A Quiet Place

Mission Impossible

Ready Player One Alt: Roma Unnecessary if you ask me!: A Star Is Born

Sound Mixing

First Man

A Star Is Born

Black Panther

A Quiet Place

Bohemian Rhapsody Alt: Roma It’s a MUSICAL: Mary Poppins Returns

Visual Effects

Black Panther (but what about the lovely Annihilation?)

Avengers (this isn’t Annihilation either)

Ready Player One (nope still not Annihilation)

Mary Poppins Returns (Jennifer Jason Leigh literally turned into an orb of light but go off I guess)

Solo (wrong movie with aliens!) No aliens on the moon!: First Man We deserve to be annihilated: Welcome to Marwen

Animated Feature

Amy Pascal’s wig

Incredibles 2

Isle of Dogs

Mirai

Ralph Breaks the Internet Alt: Ruben Brandt, Collector Surprise!: Early Man and literally any of the other ones

Documentary

Free Solo

Won’t You Be My Neighbor

Minding the Gap

Three Identical Strangers

RBG Alt: Shirkers Surprise!: Hale County This Morning, This Evening

Foreign Language Film

Roma

Cold War

Shoplifters

Capernaum

Never Look Away I TRIED: Burning Attention spans may be short: The Guilty

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Favorites 2019

Favorite food is:  cheese

My favorite candy is:  milk chocolate 

Favorite sandwich is:  reuben

Favorite dessert is: creme brûlée

Favorite restaurant is:  La Mirabelle

5 memorable things in 2019: 

     1. Said good-bye to sweet Willy.

     2.  23 years of teaching.

     3.  Made Christmas cut-out cookies with Aunt Janet’s recipe.

     4.  Saw Bruce Springsteen in concert.

     5. 3rd Masters degree from SUNY New Paltz.

Hardest thing:  put Willy down.

Proudest thing:  finished another degree this year.

By next year’s end:

1.  Retired.  

2.  Lost weight 50 lbs.

3.  Traveled up the West Coast.

4.  Finished a first draft of novel.  

5 memorable things that happened in the world this year:

     1.  Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives.

     2.  The Mueller Report on Russian interference in our elections.

     3.  Bees are declared the most important living beings on Earth.

     4.  The second patient ever to be cleared of HIV infection signals that a cure is possible. Both patients were free of the virus that causes AIDS after a  bone marrow stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare genetic mutation of the CCR5 gene.

     5.  Fires:  Amazon Rain Forest, Notre Dame Cathedral, Australia, California.

Favorite band: 

Favorite band of all time: Beatles

Favorite female singer:    

Favorite male singer: 

Favorite song: 

Favorite TV show:  This Is Us

Favorite mini series:  Victoria (PBS)

Favorite movie this year is:  1917

Favorite movie of all time:  Being There

Favorite movie musical of all time is:  West Side Story

Favorite actor is:  Tom Hanks

Favorite actress is: Meryl Streep

Live Theatre productions I saw this year: 

Live Dance performances I saw this year:  Nutcracker

Live Music performances I saw this year: Zilch

Museums I visited this year: MMMA

Lectures I went to this year: Literacy

If I could buy anything (and money is no object), I would buy: real estate in all the places I love.

Favorite hobby is:  list making

Favorite book read this year is:  Where the Crawdads Sing

Favorite book of all time is: To Kill a Mockingbird

Favorite website is: Pintrest

Favorite season is:  Spring/Autumn

Favorite holiday is:  Christmas

Wish I could meet: Barbra Streisand

Live anywhere in the world: Paris, Nantucket, Manhattan

Can’t live without: my children.

Person I look up to the most:

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I had a farm in Africa…     

     “ J’ai possédé une ferme en Afrique au pied du Ngong. La ligne de l’Équateur passait dans les montagnes à vingt-cinq milles au Nord ; mais nous étions à deux mille mètres d’altitude. Au milieu de la journée nous avions l’impression d’être tout près du soleil, alors que les après-midi et les soirées étaient frais et les nuits froides.

     L’altitude combinée au climat équatorial composait un paysage sans pareil. Paysage dépouillé, aux lignes allongées et pures, l’exubérance de couleur et de végétation qui caractérise la plaine tropicale en était absente : ce paysage avait la teinte sèche et brûlée de certaines poteries.

     Le feuillage léger des arbres, au lieu de former un dôme comme en Europe, s’étageait en couches horizontales et paraboliques. Cette structure particulière donnait aux arbres isolés tantôt la silhouette de grands phœnix aux palmes mouvantes, tantôt l’attitude fière et héroïque d’un trois-mâts les voiles carguées ; à la lisière du bois, un frémissement étrange semblait courir et gagner toute la forêt.

     Quelques aubépines vieilles et rabougries surgissaient de place en place dans la plaine dont l’herbe sentait le thym et le piment ; l’odeur en était parfois si forte qu’elle prenait aux narines. Les fleurs des prés, les lianes de la forêt étaient en général minuscules, comme celles des plantes grasses qui fixent les dunes. Pourtant, au début de la saison des pluies, on voyait fleurir différentes variétés de grands lis odorants. Il y en avait à perte de vue, libres et fiers comme la nature de ce pays. ”

     Karen Blixen, La ferme africaine (Out of Africa), 1937. Traduit du danois par Yvonne Manceron. Premières pages.

     Photo : still du film Out of Africa de Sydney Pollack avec Meryl Streep et Robert Redford, 1985.

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Télé. Le film à voir ce soir "Out of Africa" de Sydney Pollack

Télé. Le film à voir ce soir “Out of Africa” de Sydney Pollack

Télé/Cinéma. “Out of Africa” est une fresque romanesque filmée par Sydney Pollack, d’après le roman “La Ferme africaine” de la Danoise Karen Blixen, avec deux acteurs inoubliables, Meryl Streep en amoureuse passionnée et Robert Redforden aventurier séduisant. Tout y est: les cieux rougeoyants sur lesquels se détachent des acacias épineux, les hautes herbes brûlées par le soleil, ondoyant sous le…

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40-50 for the unusual asks 😚

40. Favorite book of all time?I honestly couldn’t tell you my favourite but I’m reading game of thrones at the moment so we’ll go with that

41. Favorite actor?daniel radcliffe (is there anything he can’t do??)

42. Favorite actress?meryl streep or maggie smith

43. Favorite dessert?créme brûlée 😋

44. Favorite food?anything with pasta and/or chicken

45. Last text you sent?���love you 😘 goodnight ❤️🌹”

46. Last person you called?my dad

47. What is your favorite place to shop?honestly, penny’s 😂

48. Favorite model?cara delevingne

49. What language do you want to learn?japanese

50. What are your favorite make up brands?morphe, I guess?

thanks for asking 💕

[thewheelhouse99]

Brigette, Eileen and a new face to this blog I believe, Meryl Brûlée, attending the Winter Break Awards at Jefferson County.

I have a ton of head canons for our dear Meryl here, which will be posted later.