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rohdutch · 7 years ago

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I don’t know anything about movies so do it. :-D answer as many as you can from 1-60

Oh my gooooodddddd. Soph this will be my death. Okay, okay, I got this.

1. A movie you’ve seen most times in the cinema.

I’ve never seen a movie more than once in theater, but I kind of wish that I would’ve gone to see Gifted more than once bc crying in the theater is an e x p e r i e n c e.

2. Your most rewatched movie.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

3. A movie you quote on a daily basis.

I just quoted Mean Girls earlier today.

4. Favorite movie soundtrack.

The Greatest Showman.

5. Top 5 films of your favorite actor and actress.

I’ll choose Sebastian Stan for this (even tho Richard Armitage is my favorite):

-the Bronze

-I, Tonya

-the Martian

-the Captain America trilogy

-Gone

Meg Ryan:

-Fan Girl

-Anastasia

-Sleepless in Seattle

-You’ve Got Mail

-City of Angels

6. Top 5 performances of your favorite actor and actress.

Seb’s are the same except replace Gone with Political Animals, his performance as TJ is iconic and I’m so sad they ended that show. Meg’s are the same too.

7. A movie storyline you wished you had actually lived.

I’ve always dreamt of being apart of the Fast & Furious movies soooo

8. A movie that reminds you of your mom.

Any of the Star Wars.

9. A movie thar reminds you of your dad.

Grease.

10. Favorite movies from your childhood.

My parents didn’t care what I really watched as a kid so a lot of my favorites consist of actual kids movies and horror movies. Disney movies like Robin Hood (I loved both Disney’s version and Prince of Thieves), Mulan, Cinderella, Aladdin, Lion King 2. And then other movies like Underworld, Van Helsing, Halloween, and Resident Evil. I had a strange obsession with the third Resident Evil.

11. Favorite quote(s).

I can’t remember the exact line, but “that kid from Brooklyn who didn’t know how to walk away from a fight, I’m following him,” which Bucky says to Steve in the first Cap film. And obv any Mean Girls quote.

12. Top 5 female performances.

-Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter-Emilia Clarke in Me Before You-Helen Mirren in Winchester-Michelle Pfeiffer in Grease 2-Michelle Pfeiffer in Stardust

13. Top 5 male performances.

-Martin Freeman as Everett Ross-Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange-Sebastian Stan in the Bronze-Leonardo DiCaprio in the Departed-Jack Nicholson in the Departed

14. Favorite year for movies.

I don’t think I have a specific year? Although 2018 has been a fantastic year for movies so far. I do have a preference for movies from 90s and early 2000s.

18. An underrated actor.

A year ago I would’ve said Sebastian Stan, but he’s recently been doing a lot of big things and has like four movies he’s doing that he plays a main character in. Now I’ll shoot for Blair Redford.

19. An underrated actress.

Emilia Clarke. People need to appreciate her more.

20. An underrated director.

Taika Waititi.

21. An overrated actor.

I’ve never cared for George Clooney tbh.

22. An overrated actress.

I love her, but Scarlett Johansson.

23. An overrated director.

Woody Allen. Not even sorry.

24. A film you wish you had seen on the big screen.

Every MCU movie besides Guardians of the Galaxy and Black Panther. I watched Black Panther with my sister and saw Guardians at a drive-in. I had to wait to see all the others :(

25. A movie you’ve seen that you think no one else here will have heard of?

Like Sunday, Like Rain. Please watch it. It’s absolutely amazing.

26. Favorite movie characters.

Oh my gosh. Okay. Doctor Strange. Bucky Barnes. Thorin Oakenshield. Lance Tucker. Everett Ross. Jason Bourne. Owen and Deckard Shaw. There’s more, but that’s who I can think of rn.

27. A film that was better than the book.

I personally prefer the Hobbit movies over the book, but the book is great too.

28. Best Remake.

The Goodbye Girl!

29. Your first favorite actor.

I wanna say it’s Josh Hartnett? Maybe Paul Rudd?? I loved the Halloween movies as a kid and Josh was in H2O while Paul was in the Curse of Michael Myers and I loved them both. As a kid I didn’t really care much about the actors, but I’ve realized a lot of people I liked in movies as a kid are now some of my favorites.

30. Your first favorite actress.

Like I said, loved the Halloween movies. Jamie Lee Curtis. Also Milla Jovavich.

31. Favorite animated film.

I will always, with my entire heart, love Lion King 2. I still have the VHS tape.

32. Your most anticipated films.

Ocean’s 8. Robin Hood. Solo. Ant-Man and the Wasp. Incredibles 2. I wasn’t that into Venom, but after seeing the trailer, I’m pumped.

33. Last movie that disappointed you.

The Apparition was made a while back, but i didn’t watch it til recent and I really didn’t like it whatsoever.

34. Last movie that surpassed your expectations.

Like the Apparition, Dance of the Dead was made a while ago, but I watched it about two months back and oh. My. God. It was glorious. Watch it. It’ll be worth it.

37. Share an unpopular film opinion you have.

I love romance and I don’t mind seeing it in movies that don’t necessarily need it. I mean, of course I draw the line somewhere, but for example, Kili and Tauriel’s romance in the films? I know it wasn’t in the book, and a lot of people didn’t like it, but I loved it.

38. Favorite Oscar win/speech.

This is a tie between two speeches that happened right after one another at the 2017 Oscars. Gael García Bernal’s speech before presenting an award, and the Zootopia directors’ speech when they came up to accept that award. It’s truly a wonderful thing and I remember watching it and being so grateful for people like them.

39. Biggest Oscar snub(s).

Literally. Every. Time. Leonardo. DiCaprio. Lost.

40. Who do you think is overdue for another Oscar nomination/win?

Tom Hanks.

41. How many movies have you seen (rough estimation)?

Close to 1,000, I’d think.

42. A movie that made you go ‘wtf was that’.

The Apparition and The Shape of Water. At least The Shape of Water was actually good 👀👀

43. A film that scarred you.

Oh my god, I don’t know the name, but it was something that was on tv at like 2 am when I slept in the living room one time as a kid and it terrified me. It was something about werewolves and made me question my love of werewolves for days.

44. Most movies watched in a single day.

I once watched 7 of the Fast & Furious movies in one day.

45. A film that always makes you cry.

Gifted. I cried three times when I saw it in theaters and I cry every time I rewatch it.

46. A film that always makes you laugh.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

47. Movies that you think everyone should watch (not necessarily your favorites).

The Jason Bourne series. 10 Things I Hate About You. Blended. Back to School.

48. A movie that took you a couple viewings to appreciate.

Princess & the Frog. Now it’s one of my favorite Disney movies.

49. A book that you want to see adapted to the big screen.

Either I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson or Stalking Jack The Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco.

50. A book you really, really, really don’t want to see made into a film.

I love the third Percy Jackson book so so much, and I’d kill to see that scene where they’re all on Apollo’s sun chariot on the big screen, but if it turned out like the other two Percy Jackson movies I don’t think I’d ever forgive myself.

54. Favorite coming-of-age film.

Like Sunday, Like Rain.

55. Favorite superhero film.

The first Captain America just bc it’s nostalgic for both me and those characters, and Doctor Strange. I love the Winter Soldier too so I might as well include it.

57. Movies you know you should watch, but can’t bring yourself to do it?

Thor: Ragnarok. That’s the only one I’m absolutely sure that I need to watch.

58. Favorite genres.

I’m a big rom-com and action geek tbh.

59. Least favorite genres.

Not a huge fan of paranormal type horrors, but once in a while I’ll find one I like (like Winchester).

60. Biggest movie pet peeve.

I’m not too picky, I guess? I just don’t like when they don’t give enough details so the story doesn’t make sense or they mess up and the facts don’t match up.

Yep. It’s official. Sophia, I’m dead.

#i hope the layout of this isn't weird bc i spent so long making sure it didnt end up as a block of text #i skipped the ones that had a fill in the blank or ones i didnt have an answer to #this took me so long omg #soph i hope youre happy

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subostartrek · 7 years ago

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STAR TREK DISCOVERY Review 01.01 and 01.02 - “The Vulcan Hello” and “Battle of the Binary Stars”

When writing this review, I tried numerous different ways to start it by mentioning my love for Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies, which happen to be the only works of Bryan Fuller that I am familiar with. But I found that tonally and topically, there is basically no common ground between those series and the premiere of Star Trek Discovery.

Then I tried to approach this from the perspective of Nicholas Meyer, infamous cynic and creator of some of Star Trek’s best films, despite holding the franchise in low esteem (which makes me suspect that he wrote the absurdly campy Voyage Home as a joke, but the production team couldn’t tell and ran with it. I hope this isn’t the case). But I could find none of his signature flaws - namely casual sexism and excessive literary references - on these two episodes.

Sometimes, it is impossible to express how you feel about something from an oblique perspective; in such cases communication of these thoughts is only possible through statements of the lowest subtlety.

This could become the best Star Trek series yet, or even one of the greatest sci-fi series of modern day.

*PROXIMITY ALERT*

I do not use the term “sci-fi” lightly. I’m not one of those elitists who believes that anything after Arthur C. Clarke does not deserve to be called scifi, but I do believe that the term is applied far too casually these days (Like, is Stranger Things scifi? Is it really?). To me, science fiction is defined by two things:

A: a sense of innovation, of encountering new possibilities (or being encountered as a new possibility for an external party) through objective, measurable means (it may not be measurable to actual science, but it has to be measurable in-universe), and the examination of what these new possibilities entail for the discovering parties.

B: a reflection of some kind of social reality, with the scrutinization of a population that has experienced history, reflects upon upcoming possibilities, and can be connected to the real world.

Throughout the premiere, Discovery establishes itself as science fiction. Blueprints of modern technology are drawn and lovingly disassembled in the title sequence. The personnel of Starfleet approach exploration with formality and caution, but when it comes time to observe what they find, it’s obvious that all of them are still compelled by the spark of innovation. Various species within Federation space have their physiological traits, social propensities, and even evolutionary history on display. Each of the main characters reflects different histories and attitudes within both the Federation and human civilization, and their disagreements over the course of action to take on the eve of a galactic war are marvelous to watch.

Sarek has now appeared in more Star Trek series than his son has. (And no, Spock’s appearance in Deep Space Nine doesn’t count because that was archive footage.)

The tremendous effort of the cast and crew to sell the Federation as a technologically advanced conglomerate of species shines through. The set design, while obviously retconned from The Original Series, is glorious, reflecting a metallic futurism that puts itself in convenient contrast with the plastic retrofuturism of The Orville. Sonequa Martin-Jones is perfect as Commander Burnham, reflecting the intensity and courage of conviction that the episodes display. Doug Jones is a great physical actor, and his subtle body motions are put to compelling use with the Kelpien lanky build and turquoise eyes, capturing the nuances of a species that’s had to run for their lives throughout their existence. I’ve been familiar with Michelle Yeoh since watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a child, and seeing her as the worn but optimistic Starfleet captain fits right into her own transition from 90′s action heroine to warrior of words.

And when this brilliantly crafted Federation goes to war, Discovery is perfectly capable of creating legendary moments. Without going into spoilers, I will just say that the battle at the Binary Stars is the most riveting Star Trek has been in decades, and there are several points in the battle which will hopefully go down in Trek history.

The problem is in the depiction of the Klingons. Simply put, they are too alien, to the point where there is no real connection that can be made between them and the Federation. More importantly, there is no scientific innovation depicted in their society or even their set design; everything about them looks entirely ceremonial. I can see how this could perhaps be intentional - a state in disarray and civil war that must resort to affirmations of tradition and nationalism when it feels threatened by the innovation of its neighbors - but this point will have to be specifically addressed later in the show for it to be tolerated. Otherwise, the Klingons will simply be weak antagonists.

But as for everything else - the writing, the acting, the visuals, the delivery of freaking epic moments - Discovery is an incredible success.

5 cochranes / 5.

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS:

Survival is a theme throughout the two episodes; when to run vs. when to fight, survival of cultural and political identities, and when it is in your best interests of survival to spare your enemy instead of taking the obvious route and killing them.

T’Kuvma’s Klingons are rather obsessed with collecting and entombing the bodies of fallen warriors, which seems contradictory to the Klingons we’ve seen before, who tossed aside dead bodies with no care whatsoever. I actually like this, because before in Star Trek we’ve seen too many monocultural alien civilizations, and perhaps we’ll see that there were some cultural schisms which lead to this major difference.

FAVORITE QUOTE:

Science Officer Saru: “They contain Klingon biological material in various states of decay; remote dating is wildly divergent, some bones date back thousands of years, others are only hours old.” Commander Burnham: “Their entire ship is covered with coffins.” Science Officer Saru: “Commander, the captain listens to you. Tell her, we must withdraw.” Commander Burnham: “...I’m afraid that’s no longer possible.” Science Officer Saru: “Your world has food chains. Mine does not. Our species map is binary; we are either predator or prey. My people were hunted, bred, farmed; we are your livestock of old. We were biologically determined for one purpose: to sense the coming of death.”

“I sense it coming now.”.

#startrek #star trek #discovery #star trek discovery #DIS #science fiction #sci-fi #the vulcan hello #battle of the binary stars

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gamerszone2019-blog · 5 years ago

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If You Can't Wait for Cyberpunk 2077, Check Out Killjoys

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If You Can't Wait for Cyberpunk 2077, Check Out Killjoys

Cyberpunk 2077 is dropping in April 2020, but it already boasts the pedigree and promise to capture the imaginations of gamers worldwide. The wait may feel excruciating, but in the meantime, there’s a TV show airing now that could scratch your itch for cool, cyberpunk-infused storytelling: Killjoys, created by Michelle Lovretta – purveyor of sleek, sexy, speculative narratives like the series Lost Girl (which followed the life of a succubus straddling the human and fae worlds).

Killjoys began its fifth and final season on Friday, July 19. The stylish show has strong cyberpunk elements recognizable to many sci-fi fans, like a looming Company that needs no other name because its authoritarian rule is absolute, and the regular use of cybernetics to augment human bodies.

Killjoys follows three agents of the Reclamation Apprehension Coalition (The RAC), an agency of apolitical bounty hunters working across a planet and its three moons (The Quad). RAC agents are colloquially known as “killjoys,” and the titular killjoys: Johnny, D’avin, and team leader Dutch, find out that the agency motto of, “Take no sides, take no bribes, the warrant is all,” gets complicated when the very survival of humanity is at risk.

Killjoys showrunner (and avid gamer) Adam Barken spoke with IGN about the show’s evolution and how he thinks the term “cyberpunk” relates to it. Barken helped Lovretta develop Killjoys and was the only producer who had been there with her from the beginning when Syfy and Canadian network Space told them in 2017 that they had two seasons to wrap things up. That made Barken the logical choice to take over the day-to-day running of the show when Lovretta wanted to step back.

“I was up for it, but it felt so much like her show and her voice, so she said ‘I would only stay writing if you would run it.’ And I said, ‘I will only run it if you stayed writing,’” Barken admitted. “Thankfully she was always there, so the ending that we came up with while I was running the day-to-day felt very much like her vision.”

Despite the use of cyberpunk conventions from the beginning, Barken said the term was not exactly at the forefront of Killjoys during the development process: “[Cyberpunk] is certainly a word that’s come up. It’s one of those words that I’m not a hundred percent sure what the exact definition is. I grew up reading William Gibson and [Neal] Stephenson… so I think the times that the idea of cyberpunk would come up is usually when we were dealing with this mix of advanced computer technology and identity. I think aesthetically we knew we were in similar territory; we were dealing with one major corporation that controls things. It’s a world where people can modify themselves. That being said, I don’t think we [specifically] wanted to get into the cyber realm.” In fact, Barken explained, “One of Michelle’s influences was the great Peter Hyam-Sean Connery movie, Outland, which was like a mining western in space.”

Killjoys Season 5

After the first season, however, a concept referred to as “The Green” was introduced – a parasitic space goop which can be used to create a link between minds and share information across vast distances. “As we moved forward and got into concepts like The Green, I’d say that’s probably when we got more into the idea of cyberspace, or at least a realm that exists outside of physical reality. We internally would refer to The Green as like the Cloud, and referred to the way people interfaced with it in these computer-like terms,” Barken said.

“I think it was Arthur C. Clarke with the quote about how any technology at a certain point will look like magic to people who aren’t used to it, so that was the idea behind The Green; it would look somewhat mystical and magical, but we’d have logic and rules behind it that were a lot more like cyberspace,” he added. “So I don’t know that the term ‘cyberpunk’ was used a lot, but we were certainly living in that space.”

The Green is not the only Killjoys concept that might seem at home in Night City. In the Season 2 premiere, a new faction was introduced: hackmods – humans who were abducted into a black market slave trade where they were forcibly cybernetically modified beyond legal limits and sold as property. Their society wasn’t fully explored until the two-part Season 3 premiere (with a visit to a town called Rat City, interestingly enough). The ethical quandaries and identity politics explored across these episodes added to the richness of Killjoys’ universe, but also made a pretty strong statement in ours, since Lovretta made sure to cast amputee actors in all the major hackmod roles, including “bionic artist” Viktoria Modesta.

So if you’re counting the days until April 16, 2020, gather your party and enjoy these soon-to-be 50 episodes of a complete cyberpunk story. It just might take the edge off while you wait to burn the city with Keanu Reeves next Spring. Killjoys Seasons 1-4 can be streamed on Amazon and Syfy. The final season is airing Fridays at 10 p.m. on Syfy.

Check out Adam Barken’s 5 favorite video games, and for more, here’s everything we know about Cyberpunk 2077.

Source : IGN

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rachelcarsoncenter · 6 years ago

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By David Munns

*Featured image: Mars Rover. Image: Idaho National Laboratory, [CC-BY 2.0], via Flicker.

We need a “hardy, soiled kind of wisdom,” Donna Haraway wrote in her recent book Staying With the Trouble, if we are to avert disaster from climate change even a little bit. Challenging and controversial, the wisdom Haraway seeks comes from string figures, nonhuman companions, and her own garden—and, she hopes, will produce a time when the Earth possesses at most 2 or 3 billion humans. Haraway’s call to “make kin, not babies” has garnered reviews disturbed by her radical positions. In confronting climate, there are difficult choices ahead, with voluntary childlessness one effective solution: If we are going to reduce our carbon emissions, why not also reduce our biological presence?

Haraway’s call for a steady, controlled, and peaceful population decline over a century or more, in fact, seems hardly confronting in contrast to the wisdom learned during the heyday of the Space Age. Haraway’s call to not make babies echoes the overriding metaphor for environmentalists in the 1960s, “Spaceship Earth.” In Spaceship Earth, all resources were finite and thus the idea broke with easy and complacent notions of unlimited bounty, resources, or growth. The Earth was likened to a closed ecological space ship, lunar base, or Mars station, wherein air, food, and water become supremely rare and precious commodities. Confrontingly, from the earliest days of the Space Race, NASA administrators knew as well as science fiction writers that no material could be discarded as waste just because it became urine and excrement, or indeed the deceased body of one’s crewmate. Time magazine’s science editor in the mid-1960s (quoted by famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke) even suggested that, in order to ensure complete closure of an artificial environment for long-duration space travel, “cannibalism would be compulsory among interstellar travelers.”

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The first astrobiological missions in the late-1950s launched dogs, mice, and monkeys into low-Earth orbit for just hours or a few days. By the early 1960s, large-scale experiments attempted unsuccessfully to replicate a working closed environment where material and energy moved continuously through the components and cycles of a complete ecosystem. NASA understood the gravity of the problem of creating and sustaining a closed environment in which life could be sustained. NASA’s earliest closed environments failed because toxins rapidly built up over just days and poisoned everyone in them; they were verily the forecast of Rachel Carson about the reality of living in an increasingly concentrating, rather than diffusing, toxic environment made real. Ecologists like Harold and Eugene Odum readily described new ecosystems, but it was the engineers and life scientists of Boeing, Lockheed, and General Dynamics, all contracted by NASA to build a closed environment, who actually built them. Visionary biologist Lynn Margulis said that “human voyages into deep space require ecosystems composed of many nonhuman organisms to recycle waste into food” in the 1970s,[1] but that was a decade after NASA and its contractors discovered an environment to be a complex, multilayered, cyclical, and interdependent thing (as my recent paper with Kärin Nickelsen explores). In one notable example, NASA and its contractors struggled with the realization that carbon dioxide, methane, and even water vapor could be, if sufficiently present in too large a quantity, toxins every bit as fatal as those that came from industry and flowed out to poison an environment, as Rachel Carson highlighted. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a waste product produced by all animals from breathing, but equally CO2 is simultaneously a nutrient for respiration by plants. It is not its existence that is the problem, only its concentration and context: at six percent inside a greenhouse CO2 will help plants grow faster, but the same amount inside Apollo 13 nearly killed everyone.

In a recent RCC Perspectives volume, The Good Muck, pioneering environmental historian Donald Worster has come to the conclusion that historians have not paid enough attention to excremental histories, bowdlerizing environmental history by focusing on where food comes from and not where the waste goes. Environmental history, so impressive at illuminating how nature is understood and has been used, stops short when it confronts unsightly and odorous waste. David Soll’s Empire of Water, for example, is marvelously detailed on the evolving story of how New York City consumes nearly a billion gallons per day of water but says almost nothing about the outflow of those same billion gallons. Equally silent about waste have been histories of consumption: unrivaled consumption without thought to waste production is one of the most significant social shifts in human history since just the 1950s, with people in the United States (and elsewhere) embracing the idea that “waste” could just be thrown away.

Image: MPCA photos [CC BY-NC 2.0], via Flickr.

These days, courtesy of the work of Michelle Murphy and Naomi Klein, it seems obvious that the emergence of the “throw-away” society remains the era’s most pernicious legacy. Now horrifying to millennials, the baby boomers took pride in a time when everything was disposable: as illustrated in the iconic period drama Mad Men, when the protagonist Don Draper and his family go for a picnic to a park in Season 2, episode 7, “The Gold Violin.” At the end of the meal, his wife Betty first checks the cleanliness of her children’s hands before shaking off from the picnic blanket the unwanted containers, drink bottles and caps, paper plates, and napkins. Leaving the “trash” strewn across the grass, everybody walks unconcernedly back to the car. In the same episode, Draper’s advertising staff are trying to put together a campaign to sell Pampers diapers, which while expensive, have one key advantage: “You get to throw them away.” As Haraway has already said, environmental waste was intimately connected to human reproduction and childcare.

My coauthor, Kärin Nickelsen, and I are exploring how “waste” was reconsidered in the Space Age in the ongoing attempts to build an artificial environment to live in space. Our forthcoming book, To Live Among the Stars, offers the stories of the many inventions to let space travelers drink recycled toilet water or eat algae grown from feces. Unexpectedly, it is the Space Age—not ecologists or environmentalists—that first created equipment to regenerate useful materials from waste products. Just like NASA and its military-industrial contractors, Soviet space scientists and engineers concluded in 1971 that life support in a closed system “consists of the members of the system eating each other’s metabolites.” At NASA’s Langley Research Center, oxygen reclamation studies took place next to a million-dollar facility devoted to building a life support system capable of supporting four men for one year by recycling all water. Over at the Manned Spaceflight Center in Houston, people were working on food and waste management.

The International Space Station’s complex water recycling system reclaims wastewater from astronauts and the environment, turning it into potable water. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this image of part of the device with the remark: “Recycle Good to the last drop! Making pee potable and turning it into coffee on @space station. #NoPlaceLikeHome.” Image credit: NASA

NASA has been obsessed by waste for decades now: in the 1990s, Wendell Mendell of NASA’s Mission Science and Technology office told an audience that “one might even consider establishing tourist facilities as long as they pay their way and leave their waste!” as a way to economically move material into space. Mendell could make such a claim because on Spaceship Earth, just as in a spaceship orbiting Earth, there is no waste. “Sewage” is not a pollutant to be eliminated or disposed of but rather a valuable and available source of unprocessed nutrients to be reused, recycled, and returned to a crew. Yet, decades after the world was made aware of the dangers of global climate change, the global glut of waste, and overpopulation, those same problems that the Space Age faced in the 1960s have barely been mentioned, let alone addressed. For all our efforts in recycling or limiting CO2 emissions, closing cyclings of waste from our bodies to make food for our bodies is invisible or unmentionable. As we all travel in Spaceship Earth, waste remains a diseased by-product to be eliminated, not a source of nutrients to be recycled back to ourselves. My claim, then, is that humans must go to Mars to demonstrate that they can correctly engineer the problem of living on Earth. The lack of substantial progress in this field has chronically delayed not only the further exploration of space but the potential for its habitation, and has lessened our hope of our own continued habitation on Earth.

[1] Our thanks to Luis Campos for this reference.

The Case to Go to Mars—And the Hope for the Earth By David Munns *Featured image: Mars Rover. Image: Idaho National Laboratory, [CC-BY 2.0], via Flicker.

#artificial environments #life support systems #space travel #technology #waste #waste management

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m-y-c01 · 7 years ago

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Palm Beach real estate: What were the season’s biggest sales?

The home of the late Discount Tire billionaire Bruce T. Halle and his wife, Diane, sold in March for a recorded $39.4 million at 1473 N. Ocean Blvd. in Palm Beach. Photo by Lifestyle Production Group, courtesy Sotheby’s International Realty

The season that just ended saw Palm Beach homebuyers and sellers inking contracts at a dizzying pace, a sea change from the same eight-month period last year.

And real estate watchers whose eyes were trained on the top of the market likely found their heads swimming as they tried to keep track of all the digits in the sales prices recorded with the deeds.

Here’s a look at the single family properties that sold between Oct. 1 and May 1 at recorded prices above $17 million. There were a dozen of those deals this season, compared to just seven for the same period 12 months ago.

And proving that waterfront land never goes out of style, the list includes several vacant lots as well as houses slated for demolition.

The listing also includes the top six condominium sales, each sold at a price topping $6 million.

Unless otherwise noted, quoted are the ones recorded by the Palm Beach County Clerk’s office.

SINGLE FAMILY PROPERTIES AND LAND

$39 million— 1473 N. Ocean Blvd.: The biggest single-family sale involved the North End oceanfront vacation estate of Diane Halle and her late husband, Discount Tire billionaire Bruce Halle, who died Jan. 4. The buyers in the March sale were investment entrepreneurs William C. Powers and Marianne Elaine Elmasri. With a total of 17,804 square feet, the house, built in 1960, and guesthouse, added in 1972, have four bedrooms each. They stand on a lot of nearly 2 acres with 156 feet of ocean frontage. Listing agents Cristina Condon and Todd F. Peter of Sotheby’s International Realty negotiated opposite broker Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate, who acted for the buyers.

+ The home of the late Discount Tire billionaire Bruce T. Halle and his wife, Diane, sold in March for a recorded

$37.375 million — 1800 S. Ocean Blvd.: On Billionaires Row, the ocean-to-lake estate socialite Mary Montgomery shared with her late husband, attorney Robert M. Montgomery Jr., sold in April to a buyer whose identity remains cloaked behind a Florida limited liability company named after the property’s address. The town already has green-lighted the demolition of the Mediterranean-style mansion and outbuildings, which have 26,351 total square feet. The 2½-acre property has 300 feet of beachfront and nearly the same amount of frontage on the Intracoastal Waterway. The estate was technically listed with broker Bill Yahn of the Corcoran Group because agent Jim McCann, who closed the deal, had the listing there before he left for Premier Estate Properties. Brown Harris Stevens agents A. Whitney McGurk and Liza Pulitzer represented the buyer in the sale.

+ Mary Montgomery’s home at 1800 S. Ocean Blvd. sold in April for $37.375 million, the price recorded with the deed. The

$37 million — 535 N. County Road:The second of three lots subdivided from an oceanfront estate once owned by President Donald Trump changed hands in October for $37 million. The 2-acre vacant lot is the northernmost of the lots carved from the estate that Trump sold for a recorded $95 million in 2008 to a company linked to businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev. A Rybolovlev family trust controls the limited liability company that sold the property in this season’s deal to an entity affiliated with Boca Raton-based luxury homebuilder Mark Pulte of Mark Timothy Inc. In March, Pulte won the town’s approval to built a contemporary-style house on the lot. Broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates handled both sides of the sale in October.

+ The Architectural Commission has granted approval for this contemporary house to be built at 535 N. County Road on land once

$29.14 million — 901 N. Ocean Blvd.:This 2.3-acre oceanfront estate immediately north of the Palm Beach Country Club sold as two separate lots for $14.57 million each in simultaneous transactions in December. Developer Pat Carney spearheaded both deals and bought the northernmost lot, since re-addressed as 905 N. Ocean Blvd., where he and his wife, Lillian, plan to build a home for their use. An entity affiliated with real estate developer Clark Beaty bought the other lot, where Beaty has struggled to win the Architectural Commission’s approval for a house he wants to build on speculation; a number of neighbors say the project should be scaled down. The land was sold by a trust in the name of the late Lorraine Friedman, who had lived there in a 1970s-era compound with her late husband, Jack. The buildings were demolished before the sale closed. Agent Jim McCann — then of the Corcoran Group but today with Premier Estate Properties — handled both sales.

+ In December, two oceanfront lots at 901 and 905 N. Ocean Boulevard sold for $14.57 million each in simultaneous transactions.

$23.8 million — 735 Island Drive: A Florida limited liability company in October paid a recorded $23.8 million for a house at 735 Island Drive. The Everglades Island property was sold by an entity affiliated with the estate of the late Stephen Ames, who built the house with his wife, Ann. The seven-bedroom, 11,775-square foot house was co-listed by agents Mary Boykin and Crissy Poorman of Sotheby’s International Realty. Linda Gary of Linda A. Gary Real Estate represented the buyer.

+ In October, a Florida limited liability company named Ocean Island One paid a recorded $23.8 million for this Georgian-style house at

$22.25 million— 726 Hi-Mount Road: Investments executive Jeffrey B. Lane and his wife, Nancy, in January sold their Colonial-style, four-bedroom house — with 150 feet of Intracoastal Waterway frontage — on the street with the highest elevation in town. The buyer of the 10,442-square-foot house was a Boca Raton-based limited liability company co-managed by Irina Liner and Marcel Van Poecke, an entrepreneur and asset manager in the energy industry. The town green-lighted the house’s demolition before the sale. Broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates had the listing, while agent Crista Ryan of Tina Fanjul Associates represented the buyer.

+ Changing hands for $22.25 million in January, a house at 726 Hi-Mount Road stands on one of the highest points in

$21.355 million— 1460 N. Lake Way: Former Town Council President David Rosow and his wife, Jeanne, in April sold their North End custom home, which stands on three-quarters of an acre with 160 feet of lakefront. P.W. Starret paid a recorded $21.355 million for the property, the deed showed. Completed in 2005 with a later garage addition, the five-bedroom house has 15,613 square feet of living space, inside and out. Broker Christian J. Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate had the listing. Brown Harris Stevens agent Ashley Copeland represented the buyer.

+ Built by David and Jeanne Rosow and sold in April for $21.355 million, this five-bedroom house at 1460 N. Lake Way

$20.5 million— 460 Worth Ave.: Karl Heinz and Marianne Andresen of Germany in November sold their lakefront mansion at the west end of Worth Avenue to Immohome A.G., a public limited company administered by a Liechtenstein-based trust company. Property records show that its main residence and an outbuilding have a total of 10,847 square feet. The irregularly shaped lot measures about a little more than a third of an acre with about 155 feet of lakefront. Completed in 1991, the Mediterranean-style house was not listed for sale when it sold, and no real estate agents appear to have been involved in the transaction.

+ In mid-November, a Mediterranean-style house at 460 Worth Ave. changed hands for a recorded $20.5 million, one of the sales that

$19.5 million— 1045 S. Ocean Blvd.: Michele “Shelly” Borislow sold her contemporary-style oceanfront house near President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in February for a recorded $19.5 million. She is the widow of the late communications entrepreneur Dan Borislow, who spearheaded a major renovation at the 1970-era house. Merchant banker and investment manager Lionel Kerrin Vickar bought the four-bedroom house with nearly 10,000 total square feet. The lot measures nearly an acre, including a vacant parcel on the north side. Agent Traci DeGeorge of Waterfront Properties and Club Communities represented the seller, and agent Wally Turner of Sotheby’s International Realty handled the buyer’s side.

+ Sold for $19.5 million via a deed recorded in March, a contemporary-style house at 1045 S. Ocean Blvd. faces the ocean

$19.4 million— 910 and 916 S. Ocean Blvd.: In December, two side-by-side vacant lots facing the ocean in the Estate Section changed hands separately in simultaneous transactions totaling nearly $20 million. They were sold by an entity controlled by Michigan businessman Charles “Chuck” E. Becker. Agent Jim McCann, then of the Corcoran Group, was the listing agent, with agents Martin Conroy and Dean Stokes of The Fite Group handling the buyer’s end of both sales.

An entity affiliated with Lifton Green LLC (a company in Southampton, N.Y., run by contractors and developers Bruce Lifton and Jason Green) paid $7.4 million for the northern lot at 910 S. Ocean Blvd. — and then, a month later, sold the lot to another company for $17.59 million. The buyer in the second deal was a company linked to Thomas J. Campbell, founder of DC Capital Partners, a private-equity investment firm. Conroy and Stokes represented the sellers, while Corcoran agents Brad and Pam Miller acted on behalf of the buyer. The lot changed hands both times with plans for a Mediterranean-style house approved by the town in September.

Meanwhile, the buyers of the southern lot at 916 S. Ocean Blvd. in December also did a little contractual gymnastics. When the lot sold for $12 million, the initial buyer, Lifton Green LLC, “assigned” the contract to a new owner, a company managed by Brian Stock, CEO of Stock Development, which develops luxury homes in southwest Florida. In April, the Architectural Commission reviewed a house proposed for the lot but asked for revisions to be presented later this month.

+ Two adjacent vacant lots at the intersection of South Ocean Boulevard and Clarendon Avenue sold in Decemeber for a combined $19.4

$18.25 million— 89 Middle Road: This landmarked seaside house designed in 1921 by noted society architect Addison Mizner sold in April to Mora Middle Investments Inc., which is headed by developer Larry Morassutti of the Morasutti Group, a Toronto real estate company. The four-bedroom house with 5,541 square feet of living space faces 150 feet of ocean frontage across South Ocean Boulevard. Christian Angle of Christian Angle Real Estate represented the buyer and the seller, British insurance magnate and Palm Beach developer Sir Peter Wood. Audita was once part of the estate owned by the late billionaire John W. Kluge, which Wood bought in 2016 and subdivided into five vacant lots immediately west of Audita.

+ Sir Peter Wood stands on the east lawn at Audita, 89 Middle Road, in a 2016 file photo. The landmarked house

$17.68 million — 330 Island Road: In March, an entity affiliated with real estate investors Arthur F. Minerof and Lawrence Genco sold the landmarked house they completely rebuilt on Island Road, the street that connects South County Road to Everglades Island. A trust bought the six-bedroom house, with 9,795 total square feet, facing 126 feet of lakefront. Corcoran Group agents Paulette Koch and Dana Koch had the listing. Sotheby’s International Realty agents Christine Gibbons and Lisa Cregan represented the buyer. Built in 1939, the red-brick house was the longtime home of the late Standard Oil scion and conservationist Frances Archbold Hufty and her late husband, Mann Randolph Page Hufty.

+ Viewed from the Lake Worth Lagoon, a restored landmarked house at 330 Island Drive changed hands in March for a recorded

CONDOS AND CO-OPS

Two members of the family that founded the Hasbro toy empire were responsible for the two highest-dollar condominium sales this season. They were among six sales in multi-family buildings that recorded at more than $6 million.

$13.25 million— No. N-PH2, 2 N. Breakers Row: In December, former Hasbro CEO Alan G. Hassenfeld sold his oceanfront penthouse to his sister, Ellen Hassenfeld Block, in an off-market deal. The sales price worked out to $3,895 per square foot for the three-bedroom condo, which has 3,401 total square feet. The price was the fifth-highest ever fetched by a condo in Palm Beach — and the third-highest for a unit on the ocean. The apartment is on the northeast corner of the northern building in the two-building development, where some of the most expensive condos in town change hands. The buildings stand on beachfront property owned by The Breakers. It’s unclear whether any real estate agents were involved in the sale.

$11.5 million— No. S-24, 2 N. Breakers Row:Ellen Hassenfeld Block in April sold her longtime condo in the south building of the complex where she had bought her brother’s penthouse in December. She sold her three-bedroom unit — with 3,322 total square feet —and a pool cabana to a buyer who is likely retired investment banker Richard L. Menschel. The buyer paid $3,461 per square foot, based on sales price. Broker Cristina Condon of Sotheby’s International Realty handled both sides of the deal, which marked the fifth-most-expensive unit ever to sell at 2 N. Breakers Row.

$6.75 million— No. S-41, 2 N. Breakers Row: A company linked to textile investor Martin Trust in December bought the three-bedroom condo and a cabana in the south building from Clarke Avenue Investments Inc., a Delaware entity for which Etienne Ramos-Esteban Jr. served as president. With some ocean views, the condo has 3,243 square feet of living space, inside and on its balcony. The purchase price worked out to $2,081 per square foot. Corcoran Group agents Suzanne Frisbie, Dana Koch and Paulette Koch shared the listing. Broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens acted for the buyer. Martin Trust and his wife, Diane, own another unit at 2 N. Breakers, which they bought five years ago when they sold their Palm Beach home to shock-jock Howard Stern and his wife, Beth Ostrosky.

+ Two N. Breakers Row had three large sales this season.

$7.9 million— PH C, 425 Worth Ave.: The estate of the late Ulf L. Albert sold this four-bedroom, lakeview penthouse at The Villas to corporate-insurance specialist Peter Van Ingen in March. The co-operative unit has 6,466 square feet of living space, inside and on its wraparound terrace. Based on the total space, the buyer paid $1,223 per square foot. Broker Linda Olsson of Linda R. Olsson Inc. had the listing opposite agent Patricia Mahaney of Sotheby’s International Realty.

$7 million— Unit 614/616, 100 Worth Ave.: At the Winthrop House, this two-bedroom condo was sold in March by Linda J. and Thomas Grudovich, who had combined side-by-side apartments on the sixth floor to total 3,993 square feet. A trust paid $1,753 per square foot based on the total square footage. Broker Christine Franks of Wilshire International Realty had the listing, and agent Crista Ryan of Tina Fanjul Associates negotiated for the buyer.

+ The living room on the sixth floor at 100 Worth Ave. “Our living spaces are nice and gracious,” Tom Grudovich says

$6.7 million— 7 PHS, 3000 S. Ocean Blvd.: Toronto hedge-fund manager Anne L. Spork sold her three-bedroom penthouse and its poolside cabana at Bellaria via a deed recorded May 2. Financial executive Dexter D. Earle and his wife, Carol A. Zipkin, bought the condo, which has 7,191 total square feet of living space inside and on its balconies. In the south building of the two-building complex, the condo sold for $932 per square foot. The sale price — which didn’t include the furnishings that changed hands in the deal — set a building record. The apartment faces the ocean and also offers views of the Intracoastal Waterway. Agents John M. Campbell and Colleen Jackson Hanson, both of the Corcoran Group, had the listing. Brown Harris Stevens agents A. Whitney McGurk and Liza Pulitzer acted on behalf of the buyers.

+ With 7,191 total square feet, Penthouse 7 in the south building at Bellaria, 3000 S. Ocean Blvd., changed hands in April

$6.4 million— No. 4C, 120 Sunset Ave.: At the Leverett House — just north of The Breakers — this fourth-floor apartment sold at $1,730 per square foot, figured on the unit’s overall size of 3,700 total square feet, according to a listing updated April 30 in the Palm Beach Board of Realtors Multiple Listing Service. The sellers were Ronald G. and Cindy L. McMackin, who own a pipe manufacturing business. As of press time, the buyer’ identity was unknown, because a deed for the sale had not been recorded. Broker Lawrence A. Moens handled both sides of the deal.

+ Penthouse 4-C in Leverett House’s west building at 120 Sunset Ave. just sold for a recorded $6.25 million to a couple

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Curb Your Enthusiasm - “The TiVo Guy”; Flight of the Conchords - “Mugged”; How I Met Your Mother - “Ten Sessions”; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - “The Aluminum Monster vs. Fatty McGoo”; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - “The Gang Sells Out”; The New Adventures of Old Christine - “One and a Half Men”; The Office - “Branch Wars”; The Office - “Dinner Party”; The Office - “Money”; Pushing Daisies - “Dummy”; Pushing Daisies - “Pigeon”; Reaper - “Cancun”; The Sarah Silverman Program - “Bored of the Rings”; 30 Rock - “Sandwich Day”; 30 Rock - “Seinfeld Vision”; 30 Rock - “Somebody to Love”; Ugly Betty - “A Nice Day for a Posh Wedding”; Weeds - “Bill Sussman” Best Guest Actor - Comedy Series: Will Arnett, 30 Rock - "Succession" Raul Esparza, Pushing Daisies - "The Fun in Funeral" Ken Marino, Reaper - "Cancun" Craig T. Nelson, My Name Is Earl - "Early Release" David Schwimmer, 30 Rock - "Greenzo" Dean Winters, 30 Rock - "Subway Hero" HONORABLE MENTION: Aziz Ansari, Flight of the Conchords; Matt Bomer, Chuck; Beau Bridges, My Name Is Earl; Matthew Broderick, 30 Rock; Steve Buscemi, 30 Rock; Tim Conway, 30 Rock; Val Matt Emmich, 30 Rock; Ben Feldman, The New Adventures of Old Christine; Ben Foster, My Name Is Earl; Demetri Martin, Flight of the Conchords; Patton Oswalt, Reaper; Giovanni Ribisi, My Name Is Earl; Chris Rock, Everybody Hates Chris; Jerry Seinfeld, 30 Rock; Tucker Smallwood, The Sarah Silverman Program Best Guest Actress - Comedy Series: Rachel Bilson, Chuck - "Chuck Versus the Imported Hard Salami" Sarah Chalke, How I Met Your Mother - "Ten Sessions" Edie Falco, 30 Rock - "Episode 210" Amy Ryan, The Office - "Goodbye, Toby, Parts 1 & 2" Brooke Smith, Weeds - "Release the Hounds" Elaine Stritch, 30 Rock - "Ludachristmas" HONORABLE MENTION: Barbara Barrie, Pushing Daisies; Polly Bergen, Desperate Housewives; Eliza Coupe, Flight of the Conchords; Carrie Fisher, 30 Rock; Sutton Foster, Flight of the Conchords; Judy Greer, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Rashida Jones, The Office; Riki Lindhome, Pushing Daisies; Sherri Shepherd, 30 Rock; Sarah Silverman, Monk; Betty White, Ugly Betty Best Ensemble - Comedy Series: How I Met Your Mother The Office Pushing Daisies 30 Rock Ugly Betty Weeds HONORABLE MENTION: Aliens in America, The Big Bang Theory, Chuck, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives, Entourage, Everybody Hates Chris, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, My Name Is Earl, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Reaper, Samantha Who?, Scrubs Best New Comedy Series: Aliens in America The Big Bang Theory Chuck Flight of the Conchords Pushing Daisies Reaper HONORABLE MENTION: Back to You, Miss Guided, The Return of Jezebel James, Samantha Who?, Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union Best TV Movie/Miniseries: Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale Five Days John Adams A Raisin in the Sun Recount HONORABLE MENTION: An American Crime, As You Like It, Battlestar Galactica: Razor, Bernard and Doris, High School Musical 2, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Mitch Albom’s For One More Day, The Russell Girl Best Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries: Ralph Fiennes, Bernard and Doris Ricky Gervais, Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale Paul Giamatti, John Adams David Oyelowo, Five Days Kevin Spacey, Recount HONORABLE MENTION: Hugh Bonneville, Five Days; Sean Combs, A Raisin in the Sun; Jeff Daniels, Sweet Nothing in My Ear; Zac Efron, High School Musical 2; Michael Imperioli, Mitch Albom’s For One More Day; Dermot Mulroney, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Best Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries: Bryce Dallas Howard, As You Like It Stephanie Jacobsen, Battlestar Galactica: Razor Catherine Keener, An American Crime Laura Linney, John Adams Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun HONORABLE MENTION: Ellen Burstyn, Mitch Albom’s For One More Day; Janet McTeer, Five Days; Ellen Page, An American Crime; Susan Sarandon, Bernard and Doris; Sissy Spacek, Pictures of Hollis Woods; Amber Tamblyn, The Russell Girl Best Supporting Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries: Stephen Dillane, John Adams Zeljko Ivanek, John Adams Kevin Kline, As You Like It Patrick Malahide, Five Days David Oyelowo, As You Like It HONORABLE MENTION: Andre Braugher, The Andromeda Strain; James Franco, An American Crime; Rory Kinnear, Five Days; Denis Leary, Recount; Alfred Molina, As You Like It; David Morse, John Adams; Rufus Sewell, John Adams; Tom Wilkinson, John Adams; Tom Wilkinson, Recount; Edward Woodward, Five Days Best Supporting Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries: Laura Dern, Recount Michelle Forbes, Battlestar Galactica: Razor Ashley Jensen, Extras: The Extra Special Series Finale Sanaa Lathan, A Raisin in the Sun Audra McDonald, A Raisin in the Sun HONORABLE MENTION: Michelle Bonnard, Five Days; Linda Cardellini, Comanche Moon; Jennifer Ehle, The Russell Girl; Romola Garai, As You Like It; Emily Watson, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter; Penelope Wilton, Five Days; Alfre Woodard, Pictures of Hollis Woods Best Variety Series: The Colbert Report The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Late Show with David Letterman Real Time with Bill Maher Saturday Night Live The Soup HONORABLE MENTION: Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union Best Variety Special: Camelot (Live From Lincoln Center) Company (Great Performances) Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveShow: Live From Madison Square Garden Kathy Griffin: Straight to Hell The 61st Annual Tony Awards HONORABLE MENTION: The 80th Annual Academy Awards, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Greatest Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition, Bill Maher: The Decider, Kathy Griffin: Everybody Can Suck It, Legally Blonde: The Musical, Movies Rock!, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project, The 2007 MTV Movie Awards, Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education Best Male Performer - Variety Series/Special: Fred Armisen, Saturday Night Live Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report Raul Esparza, Company (Great Performances) Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Justin Timberlake, Justin Timberlake FutureSex/LoveShow: Live From Madison Square Garden HONORABLE MENTION: Christian Borle, Legally Blonde: The Musical; Will Forte, Saturday Night Live; Nathan Gunn, Camelot (Live From Lincoln Center); Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live; Jonah Hill, Saturday Night Live; Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher; Joel McHale, The Soup; Don Rickles, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project; Andy Samberg, Saturday Night Live; Kenan Thompson, Saturday Night Live Best Female Performer - Variety Series/Special: Laura Bell Bundy, Legally Blonde: The Musical Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live Tracey Ullman, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union Barbara Walsh, Company (Great Performances) Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live HONORABLE MENTION: Fergie, Movies Rock!; Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live; Kathy Griffin, Kathy Griffin: Everybody Can Suck It; Kathy Griffin, Kathy Griffin: Straight to Hell; Heather Laws, Company (Great Performances); Marin Mazzie, Camelot (Live From Lincoln Center); Orfeh, Legally Blonde: The Musical Best Animated Series: King of the Hill The Simpsons South Park HONORABLE MENTION: Family Guy Best Voice-Over Performer - Animated Series: Dan Castellaneta, The Simpsons - "The Homer of Seville" Mike Judge, King of the Hill - "Death Picks Cotton" Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy - "Stewie Kills Lois" Trey Parker, South Park - "Eek, a Penis!" Yeardley Smith, The Simpsons - "All About Lisa" Matt Stone, South Park - "Imaginationland, Part 3" HONORABLE MENTION: Alex Borstein, Family Guy; Nancy Cartwright, The Simpsons; Seth Green, Family Guy; Johnny Hardwick, King of the Hill; Toby Huss, King of the Hill; Julie Kavner, The Simpsons; Kathy Najimy, King of the Hill Best Reality Series - Competition: The Amazing Race American Idol Project Runway So You Think You Can Dance Survivor Top Chef HONORABLE MENTION: America’s Next Top Model, Big Brother, The Celebrity Apprentice, Hell’s Kitchen, Make Me a Supermodel, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet III, World Series of Pop Culture Best Reality Series - Non-Competition: Flipping Out The Hills Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List Kitchen Nightmares The Paper Wife Swap HONORABLE MENTION: Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, The Real Housewives of New York City, Supernanny, Work Out Breakthrough Male Performance: Jemaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords Adhir Kalyan, Aliens in America Bret McKenzie, Flight of the Conchords Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory Aaron Paul, Big Love AND Breaking Bad HONORABLE MENTION: Benny Ciaramello, Friday Night Lights; Gareth David-Lloyd, Torchwood; Seth Gabel, Dirty Sexy Money; Kunal Nayyar, The Big Bang Theory; Rich Sommer, Mad Men; Aaron Staton, Mad Men Breakthrough Female Performance: Michelle Borth, Tell Me You Love Me Anastasia Griffith, Damages Stephanie Jacobsen, Battlestar Galactica: Razor Yvonne Strahovski, Chuck Mia Wasikowska, In Treatment HONORABLE MENTION: Lucinda Dryzek, Five Days; Kiernan Shipka, Mad Men; Tara Summers, Boston Legal; Casey Wilson, Saturday Night Live Best Documentary Program: Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq - Jon Alpert & Ellen Goosenberg Kent Austism: The Musical - Tricia Regan Bad Voodoo's War (Frontline) - Deborah Scranton Bush's War (Frontline) - Michael Kirk Today's Man (Independent Lens) - Lizzie Gottlieb HONORABLE MENTION: The Last Lecture: A Love Story of Your Life (Primetime Live)

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