#sheila armstrong

[semper-legens]

169. Falling Animals, by Sheila Armstrong

Owned: No, library Page count: 226 My summary: A man is sitting, dead, on the beach. Nobody knows who he is, how he got there, or how he died. But searching for the answers uncovers a long, long history of death and tragedy on the small island where these events unfolded. But who was the man, and what led him to the beach that fateful day? My rating: 3.5/5 My commentary:

This was an odd duck. Recommended to me by a borrower at work, I had absolutely no idea what to expect going into it, other than the slightly surreal, dreamlike experience that she described. The story centres around a dead body found on a beach - a man who, by all accounts, just went out there one day and died sitting down, serene and at peace, with no marks of injury or signs of duress at all. He just sat down and died. The story chronicles the finding of the body, then winds back the clock and widens the scope to hint at just who this man was, how he died, and the larger questions around the whys and wherefores of his eventual demise. It was an interesting book. I can't say that I wholeheartedly enjoyed it (or even that I completely understood it), but I'm certainly glad that I gave it a try, at least.

Armstrong had only published short stories before this novel, something that is readily apparent from the framing device. Each chapter is a short story from a different point of view - no person narrates twice, but some of the point of view characters appear in other people's chapters. On their own, the chapters are about a single thing, not immediately related to the wider story - it's only when you take them as a whole that the picture begins to properly form. I really admired Armstrong's ability to build a strong character in such a short space of time. I always felt like the point of view character for each chapter was a full person, that they had a full life outside of the brief glimpse we got of them in the story, which is really impressive when you consider just how many of these characters show up over the course of the narrative.

As for the wider story, it unfolds with these smaller pieces of the puzzle as the chapters progress. Honestly, while I love ambiguity in a work of fiction, I did find some of the pieces to come down too heavily on the side of being a bit too obtuse. Some of them, their relevance was revealed as the story went on - some of them were only barely connected to the wider puzzle, and just felt like they were there to drive up the mystery in the story rather than to add anything to the plot. That's not a dealbreaker for me or anything, it's just an unfortunate side-effect of this style of writing. On the other hand, I really did love the ambiguity that was present in the story. There were no easy answers, no gathering together of suspects in the study building towards a big reveal. The reader was invited to draw their own conclusions, particularly when it comes to the smaller details of what exactly occurred that day, and that's both an interesting and mature style of fiction. I enjoyed this book, and despite some hiccups, I think you might too!

Next, witches convene to once again alter the fate of the world.

[lilianeruyters]

Sheila Armstrong || Falling Animals

Falling Animals was discussed on BBCs Between the Covers, it had me starting the novel with an advantage. I knew the novel was a collection of different perspectives, some characters recurring on the background in the perspective of other ones. I had also been told that the novel was lovely, a precious insight into people’s lives. Falling Animals starts off with the discovery of a body on the…

[greendayauthority]

Billie Joe and Sheila E. at the Pre-Grammy Gala & Grammy Salute to Industry Icons Honoring Jon Platt on 3 February 2024

[degrassi-fandom-confessions]

My favorite episode of degrassi is when Liberty and Jimmy discover that Sheila the lunch lady is putting drugs in the chicken nuggets and then they have to team up with Coach Armstrong so even the vegetarians can get the drugs

[companion-showdown]

Hottest Companion Nominations are Now Open!

You can nominate any character in the Whoniverse, human, alien, robot, it does not matter, the only rule is that they should pass the Harkness test (human intelligence or greater, able to communicate using language, sexually mature for their species)

Current Nominations:

Masters:

Missy

Delgado!Master

Simm!Master

Dhawan!Master

Crispy!Master

Shalka!Master

Jacobi!Master

Ainley!Master

Roberts!Master from MASTER!

Roberts!Master

Classic Who Characters:

Erato (The Creature from the Pit)

Duggan

Meglos!4

Allison Williams (Remembrance of the Daleks)

Rachel Jensen (Remembrance of the Daleks)

Sara Kingdom

Alternate Universe!Liz

Ramón Salamander

Osgood (no this isn't the new who one)

The Rani

Queen Thalira (The Curse of Pleadon)

Andred

Carol (the Sensorites)

Penley (the Ice Warriors)

Isobel (the Invasion)

Kelly (Seeds of Death)

New Who Characters:

Dalek Sec

Tasha Lem

Idris!TARDIS

2000s Sarah-Jane (70s Sarah-Jane will be the automatically qualifying Sarah)

Kate Stewart

Jenny Flint

Vastra

Jabe

Chantho

Shakespeare (this is the most recognisable place he appears in Doctor Who)

Ruth!Doctor

Osgood

Handles

Danny Pink

Bel

Vinder

Jake (Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel)

Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)

Jethro (Midnight)

Lady Christina de Souza (Planet of the Dead)

Gwen Cooper

Tallulah (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)

Lynda (Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways)

Liz 10 (The Beast Below)

Frank (Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks)

Heather (The Pilot)

Sally Sparrow (Blink)

Madam de Pompadour

Miss Evangelista (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)

Ada Lovelace

Billy Shipton (Blink)

Lorna Bucket

Tosh

Stacy Campbell (Partners in Crime)

Anita (Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead)

Girl who was the sex gas

Frobisher (Torchwood)

EU Characters:

Fey Truscott-Sade

Hebe Harrison

Tom Campbell (Dalek Invasion of Earth 2150AD)

Valarie Lockwood

Compassion

Zagreus!TARDIS

Irving Braxiatel

Trey!Romana

War Queen!Romana

Narvin

Sibling Different

Chris Cwej (first incarnation)

Father Kreiner

Chris Cwej (second incarnation)

Chris Cwej (third incarnation)

Chris Cwej (V Cwej)

Dalek Prime Strategist (Time Lord Victorious)

The Graak (Destiny of the Doctors)

Sheila (Señor 105's companion)

Carmen Yeh (Companion of the Sixth Doctor in a charity anthology and latter companion of Compassion in Book of the War. Also implied to be a companion of the Eighth Doctor as well)

Scarlette (eight doctors wife)

Nivet (Compassions first companion)

Cousin Eliza (Cousin Justine's companion aka the Grandfather Paradox (who has a slim chance of being the Doctor so that backs it up)

Sally Armstrong (the Master’s companion (the master might also part of the Doctor depending on the source, or at the very least a reincarnation of the same person)

Patience (the Others wife or the first doctors wife or the infinity doctors wife, depends on source)

Daisy Weston the companion of the Robert Banks Stewart Doctor

Alison Cheney

The City of the Saved

Laura Tobin

The War King

Marie

Ulysses

Penelope Gate

Homunculette

Lolita

Marnal

Captain Scarlet

Doctor Fawn

The Mysterons

Colonel White

Steve Zodiac

Venus (Fireball XL5)

Captain Black

Jane Fonda!Iris Wildthyme

Claudia Marwood

Lauren Anderson

Other polls about the running of this tournament:

splitting up men and women for as long as numbers allow

including or excluding companions it is very difficult or impossible to read as adults (all their actors are adults)

Nominations will be open for 24 hours, closing around 13:30 BST (UTC + 1), 03/09

[soulmusicsongs]

Female Funk

Female Funk is a list of great female soul singers you might have forgotten. Soul singers with unforgettable voices and iconic songs. Listen to 20 female soul songs!

Baby I’m Leaving You - Geraldine Jones (Baby I’m Leaving You / When You Get Tired Of Me, 1964)

Baby Your A Jive Cat - Sheila Wilkerson (Baby Your A Jive Cat /Can You Do It, 1969)

Boog-A-Dunk - (Sweet Linda Divine, 1970)

Candy Man - Josephine Jones (Candy Man / Candy Man (Instrumental), 197?)

Feelin Good - Sunday’s Child (Sunday’s Child, 1970)

I Can’t Live Without You - Byrdie Green (Sister Byrdie!, 1968)

I Don’t Mind Doin’ It - Jackie Lavant & The Fashions (What Goes Up / I Don’t Mind Doin’ It, 1972)

I'm Not Trying To Make You Pay Pt. 1 - Brenda George (I'm Not Trying To Make You Pay Pt. 1 / I'm Not Trying To Make You Pay Pt. 2, 1971)

The Lady, The Doctor And The Prescription - Inez Foxx (Inez Foxx At Memphis, 1973)

Money Honey - Esther Marrow (Newport News, Virginia, 1970)

Only Mama That’ll Walk The Line - Pat Lundy (Only Mama That’ll Walk The Line / Only Mama That’ll Walk The Line, 1970)

Sad But True - Elaine Armstrong (Sad But True / Precious Minutes, 1968)

Somebody’s Been Lovin’ You (But It Ain’t Been Me) - Jean Wells (Somebody’s Been Lovin’ You (But It Ain’t Been Me) / He Ain’t Doing Bad, 1970)

They're Coming To Take Me Away - Rose Brooks (They're Coming To Take Me Away / I'm Moanin', 1966)

Things Got to Get Better (Get Together) - Marva Whitney (It’s my Thing, 1969)

Think About Me - Marlena Shaw (Just a Matter of Time, 1976)

This Is The Me Me (Not The You You) - Brenda Jones With Groove Holmes (This Is The Me Me (Not The You You) / Morning Children, 1976)

Tightrope - Ten Wheel Drive With Genya Ravan (Construction #1, 1969)

Watch The Dog That Bring The Bone - Sandy Gaye (Talk is Cheap / Watch The Dog That Bring The Bone, 1969)

You - Spanky Wilson (Doin’ It, 1969)

More Soul Music

Female Funk

Feminist Soul Music: 10 songs

Female Soul in 25 songs

Female Soul, Part 2

Female Soul, part 3

Female Soul in 50 songs

[karliahs]

hey so after reading through your entire ao3 account i just have to tell you that you’re hands down one of the most moving writers i’ve read in a long long time?? i guess i was just wondering what kinds of things influence your writing style and if you have any favorite books you’d recommend!! basically your prose is incredible and i would absolutely eat up more of it/anything like it

💛💛💛💛💛💛 this is such a sweet message and i can't tell you how happy it made me!! that means a great deal to me that you like my stuff enough to want to read more things like it

i don't necessarily know that there are writers who i feel like i'm emulating with my prose/writing style, or who i feel are similar to me. it's kind of hard to see that stuff with your own work, maybe? BUT i will absolutely ramble about some of my fave authors/books that i think everyone should read

i do think my stuff is influenced by the fact that i have read a lot of children's fiction - i studied children's lit a fair bit at uni and it's what i wrote my undergrad dissertation about. and while i know adults read/enjoy my work as well as teens, i think i take a fair bit from the children's/YA world in terms of writing about big/intense topics but gently

one of my fave children's authors and authors in general is frances hardinge. she is just...christ. her imagination, her world-building, her characters. one of the best things a book can do imo is take you to a really dark place and then back out of it with equal conviction, and the lie tree is one of the best examples i've seen of that. and i think about a face like glass and its worldbuilding constantly, and a skinful of shadows has the sickest premise on earth and absolutely delivers on it

i do also read a lot of short stories! they are underrated imo and very much their own artform. in the fic world if you lean towards oneshots/shorter works like mine then i'd recommend trying them out! i will say my taste in short stories tends to lean towards the weird and unsettling...like mouthful of birds by samanta schweblin, how to gut a fish by sheila armstrong, salt slow by julia armfield, eyes guts throat bones by moira fowley-doyle

hmmm people have previously commented on my writing being quite introspective and grounded, more about people feeling things than about plot, and my favourite book along those lines is very cold people by sarah manguso. it's so vivid and emotive and well-told. i have recced it to several people by being like listen nothing happens in this book and also it slaps.

i try to infuse my writing with a sense of compassion, and authors who do this really well imo are becky chambers, a long way to a small angry planet especially, and martha wells with murderbot, too.

uhhh these next ones i don't think i can draw even a tenuous connection with my own writing, but i think they're so good and everyone should read them. the mercies and the dance tree by kiran millwood hargrave are gorgeous and devastating. so is idaho by emily ruskovich, one of those books that's too good for me to even really talk about it coherently. piranesi by susanna clarke also - too good, can't say anything about it. courtney summers writes with uncomprising vivid rage, and i come back to her work often because of it: the project and sadie are my biggest recs, though maybe look up content warnings for sadie first because it's...a lot. actually lots of the ones in this paragraph have some very heavy subject matter so read with caution/possibly look up warnings first

i don't know that i answered the question you asked exactly but thank you very much for asking it, and happy reading!

[kdo-three]

Carl Orff ~ ”Carmina Burana” - No. 25 ~ Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi O Fortuna (Reprise) (1975) Composer: Carl Orff | Composed in 1935 and 1936

Cantata | Classical Music | Modern Classical Music

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Personnel: Conductor: Andre Previn The London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus St. Clement Danes Grammer School Boys’ Choir Vocals: Sheila Armstrong Gerald English Thomas Allen

Produced by Christopher Bishop

Recorded: @ Kingsway Hall in London, England UK November 25, 1974 - November 27, 1974

Released: in 1975

EMI Electrola Die Stimme seines Herrn (German imprint of “His Master’s Voice”)

[burlveneer-music]

Yussef Dayes - Black Classical Music - his long-awaited debut solo studio album is out today

Today, celebrated multi-instrumentalist and visionary artist Yussef Dayes announces his highly anticipated debut solo studio album ‘Black Classical Music’, released on September 8th via the revered Brownswood Recordings, Warners and Cashmere Thoughts Recordings. Alongside this, Dayes shares a first taster of the record, the title track “Black Classical Music” featuring Venna & Charlie Stacey. Dayes introduces Black Classical Music in his own words; "What is jazz? Where did the word derive from? Birthed in New Orleans, born in the belly of the Mississippi River, rooted in the gumbo pot of the Caribbean, South American culture & African rituals. Continuing a lineage of Miles Davis, Rahssan Roland kirk, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong ~ music that is forever evolving & limitless in its potential. The groove, it’s feeling, the compositions, the spontaneity, with a love for family, the discipline & dedication in maintaining the very high bar set by the pantheon of Black Classical Musicians. Chasing the rhythm of drums that imitated one's heartbeat, the melodies for the mind and spirit, the bass for the core. A Regal sound for this body of music." “Black Classical Music” is Dayes 19 track debut solo studio album. At every turn, Dayes distinctive drum licks and Rocco Palladino’s bass are the sturdy anchors; aided by Charlie Stacey (keys/synths), Venna (saxophone), Alexander Bourt (percussion), and a whole host of honourable features including: Chronixx, Masego, Jamilah Barry, Tom Misch, Elijah Fox, Shabaka Hutchings, Miles James, Sheila Maurice Grey, Nathaniel Cross, Theon Cross and the Chineke! Orchestra, the first professional orchestra in Europe to be made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians.

[lovahopie]

Y'all get to suffer and be forced to see my TD ocs

This is Team Retro

Alison Armstrong (birth name: Alejandra)

Appearance: Long brown hair, jade green eyes, upturned eyes, small nose, full lips, pale skin.

Height: 5'7

Age: 17

Birthday: March 11

Ethnicity: Japanese, Chinese, Swedish, Spanish, and Peruvian.

Personality: Sarcastic, blunt, honest, loyal, standoffish, the mean but caring mom friend.

Sexuality: Straight

Parents: Heather and Alejandro

River Nelson

Appearance: Short pixie cut black hair, hazel eyes, thin almond eyes, small nose, full lips, dark tan skin.

Height: 5'7

Age: 17

Birthday: April 10

Personality: Loud, rowdy, confident, caring, jokester, impulsive, adventurous.

Ethnicity: Native American (Inuit and Cree)

Sexuality: Straight

Parents: Amaruq (oc) and Aurora (oc)

Dandy Becker (birth name: Daniella)

Appearance: Short brown hair that is dyed platinum blonde, light brown eyes, round eyes, small nose, full lips, light tan skin.

Height: 5'6

Age: 17

Birthday: April 27

Ethnicity: Mostly just German with some Finnish.

Personality: Sweet, kind, soft spoken, the nice mom friend, humble

Sexuality: Straight

Parents: Lindsey and Tyler

Roza Burromuerto

Appearance: Black hair in butterfly locs, dark green eyes, round eyes, small round nose, full lips, espresso color skin.

Height: 5'1

Age: 17

Birthday: June 23

Ethnicity: Spanish, Peruvian, and Barbadian/Bajan

Personality: Meek, shy, empathetic, honest, friendly, optimistic

Sexuality: Straight

Parents: Jose and Sheila (oc)

Malea Akuma

Appearance: Short black hair, light grey eyes, upturned eyes, small nose, full lips, dark tan skin.

Height: 5'6

Age: 17

Birthday: October 17

Ethnicity: Hawaiian Native and Iranian/Persian.

Personality: Kind, considerate, bold, confident, creative

Sexuality: Bisexual

Parents: Kawikani (oc) and Yasmin (oc)

Ryan Sokolova

Appearance: Long red hair, brown eyes, almond eyes, medium roman nose, full lips, pale skin.

Height: 5'9

Age: 17

Birthday: May 30

Ethnicity: Russian, Slovak and Danish

Personality: Comes off as cold at first, protective, quiet, tends to be a loner

Sexuality: Lesbian

Parents: Konstantin (oc) and Liva (oc)

You can just imagine the guys. I suck at drawing the male species

Josh Smith (birth name: Joshua)

Appearance: Short blond hair, olive green eyes, round eyes, medium nose, semi-full lips, light tan skin.

Height: 5'11

Age: 17

Birthday: February 26

Ethnicity: German, Greek, and Swiss.

Personality: Easy going, decent at cracking jokes, that one friend that you can tell everything to, honest, cares for his friends a lot.

Sexuality: Straight

Parents: Geoff and Brigette

Brandon Keona

Appearance: Short brown hair, dark brown eyes, monolid eyes, medium nose, semi-full lips, dark tan skin.

Height: 5'11 ½

Age: 17

Birthday: June 22

Ethnicity: Hawaii Native, Japanese, and Native American (Navajo)

Personality: Tends to keep to himself, tries to help out wherever he is needed, tends to stay up late into the night, is loyal to his friends, kind, a bit shy to new people.

Sexuality: Straight

Parents: Justin and Jucy (oc)

Corey Zello

Appearance: Short black hair that sometimes covers his eyes, bright teal eyes, upturned eyes, medium nose, semi-full lips, dark tan skin.

Height: 6'0

Age: 17

Birthday: January 14

Ethnicity: Puerto Rican, Italian, and Korean.

Personality: Cold, calculated, stoic, aloof, distant, calm, quiet, patient, observant, the strong silent and deadly type.

Sexuality: Straight

Parents: Duncan and Courtney

Casey Hunt

Appearance: Long black hair, dark brown eyes, almond eyes, medium nose, semi-full lips, dark tan skin.

Height: 6'0

Age: 17

Birthday: February 2

Ethnicity: Native American (Cree)

Personality: Calm, easy going, caring, humble, considerate, dolce

Sexuality: Straight

Parents: James and Amanda

[semper-legens]

34. How To Gut A Fish, by Sheila Armstrong

Owned: No, library Page count: 207 My summary: A girl is bound and sold at a market. A fisherman takes a stag group to a small island. A man is plagued through his life by the monkey his mother abandoned. My rating: 2.5/5 My commentary:

Hey there! Sorry for the sporadic updates - I've been having what I'm going to call a little bit of a brain problem, and I've had to leave some things by the wayside while I sort myself out. Similarly, I know I said that next time would be a different book, but that one is proving a bit too much for the ol' brain right now, so I read this one in between. Short stories are easier on the noggin, right? Well, yes and no. While I did find this book way easier to read, I didn't really get a lot out of it. The book promised weird short stories, which it did deliver, but I wasn't really engaged with a lot of them.

The problem with these stories, as a whole, is that I didn't really see a reason to care about what was going on in a lot of them. None of them really had much of a point to them, they were just describing something weird happening or a situation a character was in, but they didn't go anywhere or do anything. Maybe it's me, maybe I'm missing something or not looking deep enough, but to me this just seemed to be what I really don't like about litfic - a lot of pretentious rambling that isn't engaging. I hesitate, even, to call most of these stories, because there wasn't a story there! It was just 'here's a guy who hates his wife rambling and being disgusting' or 'here's some people disappearing and a little about their lives'. That, plus it had another litfic pet peeve of mine - no, describing your characters pissing isn't edgy or interesting or anything. It's just kind of gross and not needed. I struggle to even distinguish the different stories from each other here. A lot of them just kind of rambled their way into nothingness. I don't care about this couple who have split up for never-explored reasons and one's at home while the other goes on holiday in Iceland. You haven't given me a reason to. Even the day after I finished the book, I'm finding it hard to remember many details! The prose was so florid as to be purple and it was just waffling. (Kinda like I'm doing here. Oops.)

That's not to say that there was no effective writing in this collection. The title story was actually pretty good; a set of instructions on, well, how to gut a fish, mixed up with the ongoing story of the fisherman and his apparently kind of shady dealings. The story where a woman was auctioned at a market was interesting in how it blended together a pretty mundane scene with something that most readers would find absolutely horrifying just on principle. And the prose was at times very evocative and descriptive! It's just that all of these parts didn't add up to a greater whole that kept my engagement at all. I wasn't impressed, and I'm probably gonna forget about this book the second I schedule this post.

Next up, trans history and trans husbands!

[hellcheerocracy]

🎸 :)

and now a few little chrissy songs:

honorable mention to nancy sinatra's "sugar town" which is the ultimate for me but also which i posted like 3 weeks ago, so.

re: this post

[stlhandyman]

Supreme Court, U.S FILED In The OCT 2 2022 Supreme Court ofthe United States  RALAND J BRUNSON, Petitioner,

Named persons in their capacities as United States House Representatives: ALMA S. ADAMS; PETE AGUILAR; COLIN Z. ALLRED; MARK E. AMODEI; KELLY ARMSTRONG; JAKE AUCHINCLOSS; CYNTHIA AXNE; DON BACON; TROY BALDERSON; ANDY BARR; NANETTE DIAZ BARRAGAN; KAREN BASS; JOYCE BEATTY; AMI BERA; DONALD S. BEYER JR.; GUS M. ILIRAKIS; SANFORD D. BISHOP JR.; EARL BLUMENAUER; LISA BLUNT ROCHESTER; SUZANNE BONAMICI; CAROLYN BOURDEAUX; JAMAAL BOWMAN; BRENDAN F. BOYLE; KEVIN BRADY; ANTHONY G. BROWN; JULIA BROWNLEY; VERN BUCHANAN; KEN BUCK; LARRY BUCSHON; CORI BUSH; CHERI BUSTOS; G. K. BUTTERFIELD; SALUD 0. CARBAJAL; TONY CARDENAS; ANDRE CARSON; MATT CARTWRIGHT; ED CASE; SEAN CASTEN; KATHY CASTOR; JOAQUIN CASTRO; LIZ CHENEY; JUDY CHU; DAVID N. CICILLINE; KATHERINE M. CLARK; YVETTE D. CLARKE; EMANUEL CLEAVER; JAMES E. CLYBURN; STEVE COHEN; JAMES COMER; GERALD E. CONNOLLY; JIM COOPER; J. LUIS CORREA; JIM COSTA; JOE COURTNEY; ANGIE CRAIG; DAN CRENSHAW; CHARLIE CRIST; JASON CROW; HENRY CUELLAR; JOHN R. 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Eddie Shaw, Peter Falk, and Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes, 1974)

Cast: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Lady Rowlands, Fred Draper. Katherine Cassavetes, Matthew Labyorteaux, Matthew Cassel, Christina Grisanti, George Dunn, Mario Gallo, Eddie Shaw. Screenplay: John Cassavetes. Cinematography: Mitch Breit, Al Ruban. Film editing: David Armstrong, Sheila Viseltear.

Presenting raw, unfiltered life in a fiction film is no mean task, and what makes A Woman Under the Influence work as well as it does is that, in Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk, John Cassavetes had actors who were more than capable of giving their all to the task. The problem for me is that the film comes off as an acting showcase rather than a convincing depiction of a real situation. Cassavetes takes his players and puts them in real surroundings: a construction site, a wintry beach, a rather louche bar, and most of all a cramped house. It's somewhat like the reverse of Marianne Moore's "imaginary gardens with real toads": In A Woman Under the Influence the gardens are real, if rather weedy and untended, but the toads -- Mabel and Nick Longhetti and their children and in-laws and friends -- are imaginary, i.e., actors acting up a storm. The title is a little misleading, too. Mabel is not "under the influence" in the sense that we use it in the phrase abbreviated as DUI. Her problem is not drugs or alcohol, although she certainly gets loaded on the latter and there are hints that she has been taking pills (probably prescribed by the odious Dr. Zepp). Her problem is the influence of other people, especially her husband, who give mixed signals about how she should behave: Sometimes she's told "just be yourself," but when Mabel is most Mabel -- giddy and affectionate and generous -- she can't help crossing the invisible boundaries others set for her. And her husband, Nick, is as crazy as she is, except in a different way, and he has outlets -- his job and his buddies -- that allow him to blow off much of his steam. Mabel's only outlet is her children, who adore her, and that proves threatening to people like her mother-in-law (in an extraordinary performance by the director's mother, Katherine Cassavetes), who have their own fixed and unalterable ideas about child-raising. Ironically, Mabel's encouraging the kids to dance and play dress-up are much healthier than Nick's bullying them at the beach and letting them drink beer while riding in the back of a truck. I still don't think A Woman Under the Influence is a great film, as critics like Roger Ebert and Kent Jones��do. I'm not sure it's even a good one. But it's an important and even fascinating one and I'll let it go at that.

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Dr. Oz is a fraud? Shocking. And the Associated Press didn’t thoroughly vet a glowing puff piece on him? Amazing.

SN: I am neither shocked nor amazed.

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House of the Long Shadows (1983)

"Falling in love is very realistic, people do it all the time."

"Not in my novels they don't, I don't believe in it."

"Seems to be the current trend among you young writers."

"Well, it's a cynical age we live in."

"Don't I know it! When I think of Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens - where are they all now, I ask myself?"

"I think they're dead, Sam."