#steve berenson

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

You mentioned in a previous post the Jean hates A-town because its uses the trope that “Obviously Jake Berenson’s parents are the most clueless idiots ever to breathe air.” What was the moment like when Jake and Tom's parents find out about their sons' "extracurricular activities" in the Yeerk Pool? How did they react?

I have tried to at least speculate about this, I promise... and I'm giving up. I can't figure out a way to write it. This moment would involve 0 character interaction — there are yeerks controlling all of the involved parties — and there are a gazillion other things going on at the time. So all I can come up with is Jean and Steve going "huh, Tom's acting weird... huh, Tom's acting really weird... HOLY CRAP ALIENS... Oh wow, turns out Jake's also involved with this whole mess... HOLY CRAP I'M BEING MIND-CONTROLLED BY AN ALIEN."

Anyway, if someone else has more inspiration than this, I'd love to hear it.

[broadwaydivastournament]

Broadway Divas: Obscure Sondheim

To highlight how vast and varied Sondheim's roles and shows are, these five Divas have a singular Sondheim credit to their repertoire that are a little more obscure than most. So obscure that my dream of finding pictures to dazzle you all with was quickly shattered.

Bebe Neuwirth as Cinderella's Stepsister, Florinda, in a reading of Into the Woods for a 1994 movie that never came to fruition. This reading took place at director Penny Marshall's house and had a truly breathtaking cast: Robin Williams (The Baker), Goldie Hawn (The Baker's Wife), Steve Martin (The Wolf), Danny DeVito (The Giant), Carrie Fisher (Lucinda), and fucking CHER as The Witch. Bebe Neuwirth and Carrie Fisher as catty sisters tormenting Cinderella and getting their eyes pecked out. And then Cher trying to feed them to Danny DeVito. We were robbed of a masterpiece.

Judith Light as Joanne in a Reprise! presentation of Company at UCLA's Freud Playhouse. Though not known for her singing abilities, Judith was nevertheless part of an all-star cast for this two-week run in 2004. The only review I could find was...not favorable. It's been twenty years, and I, for one, think Judith Light deserves her chance at redemption.

Linda Emond as Mary in Merrily We Roll Along, 1988. The Seattle-based ACT company produced Sondheim's biggest flop musical through the month of May in 1988. Linda, then in her late twenties, played the female lead in a rare musical role for her. And I do have a picture thanks to ACT's fantastic archival system.

Pictured: Linda Emond (Mary) center, surrounded by Joseph Dellger (Franklin Shepherd) and Joseph McNally (Charley). And no, I cannot tell which man is which...

4. Susan Blackwell as The Giant in a 2019 one-night-only staged concert of Into the Woods. If you thought the recent Broadway revival was bare-bones, it had nothing on this staged concert at the Town Hall in NYC. There is one singular photo that includes Susan, and without knowing she was meant to be there, you'd never be able to identify her.

Pictured (L to R):

5. Paula Leggett Chase as Stella Deems in Follies, a one-night-only special event in Tangier, Morocco featuring a transcontinental cast of Divas. Since 2013 (excluding pandemic years), Rob Ashford has staged fundraising productions of shows such as A Little Night Music, The Crucible, and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Confusingly, though Paula sang Stella Deems' song "Who's That Woman," she was credited in the program as Emily Whitman (presumably they just combined the roles for this production and gave them to the dancer in the cast?)

Pictured (L to R): The late Haydn Gwynn (Phyllis Rogers Stone, my beloved), Marisa Berenson (Solange LaFitte), Harolyn Blackwell (Heidi Schiller), Jenna Russel (Sally Durant Plummer), Paula Leggett Chase (Emily Whitman), Harriet Harris (Hattie Walker).

[krakendra]

(two different screenshots, first of jean telling tom/jake about saddler's hospitalization, second of jake telling rachel about it)

What the actual fuck, Jean and Steve? You didn't call Naomi? I can forgive Ellen and George, their kid is in the hospital, but you two know better. Rachel, Jordan and Sarah deserved to know.

The real villains of the David trilogy: the piss poor communication of the Berenson family.

[darkmaga-returns]

Comorbidity differences perhaps? Nah, I'm not buying it and I'll show you why. Also, new New Zealand FOIA results show a 5X increase in < age 40 in cardiac ER calls post vax rollout!

Steve Kirsch

Oct 13, 2024

Executive summary

A new paper published in the peer-reviewed medical literature (Yang) looking at over 300,000 kids aged 5-18 (mostly in the US) shows a highly statistically significant 5.7X higher mortality rate for those who opted to get vaccinated. The authors didn’t mention that at all. Furthermore, when they were asked about it, they refused to comment on it. So I will.

I’ll show you that the overall susceptibility to disease in the two groups was very similar, yet the mortality (measured from one month after the PCR test that was used as the index date for enrollment until 1 year post enrollment) was 5.7X higher in the group that was vaccinated at the time of enrollment.

Secondly, a new FOIA response in New Zealand shows nearly a stunning 5X increase in cardiac-related ER visits in those under age 40 after the COVID shots rolled out from 4406 in 2020 to 21416 in the first full year after the shots rolled out. That’s a Z-score of 256 which means something very serious is causing this; it is in no way a statistical fluke.

Each of these should cause health authorities to investigate. But in today’s society, you could be fired for asking questions like this. So many people will continue to believe the vaccines are safe.

The Yang paper showed a 5.7X higher mortality in vaccinated kids 5-18

The association between COVID-19 vaccine/infection and new-onset asthma in children - based on the global TriNetX database

Alex Berenson first wrote about this 11 days ago, but I ran into it independently, verified it all independently, and then later found out about his article.

He was absolutely right to call attention to it. It’s stunning.

Alex also points out that there were higher comorbidities in the group that was vaccinated prior to enrollment in the trial. I totally agree. But I’ll go one step further and show you why this cannot explain the 5.7X higher mortality.

About the study:

Use TriNetX global database (mostly US kids)

Ages 5 to 18 with average age around 12

There was a vaxxed and unvaxxed cohort defined based on vax status prior to the index date.

The propensity matching was ONLY within the COVID / non-COVID of each cohort.

The two cohorts were NOT propensity matched to each other. t

The vaccinated cohort (Cohort 2) had higher comorbidities than the unvaxxed (Cohort 1), but the COVID vs. non-COVID groups were matched.

The index data (enrollment date) was based on PCR test results.

Vax status was set at index time.

The index date was between January 1, 2021, and December 31, 2022 and was set at the day of the test.

Participants were followed for 1 year post-enrollment, but the 30 days post COVID test period was ignored.

You can only find the death numbers of the two groups buried in the Supplement 1 of the paper. It should have been noted in the abstract as the differences are stunning. I guess they wanted their paper to be published rather than rejected.

The paper itself made no mention of the fact that the vaccinated kids died at a 5.7X higher rate than the unvaccinated kids. It was only in a table in the Supplement and the authors didn’t call attention to it.

As Berenson noted in his Substack, the authors refused to comment on the death differences between the groups. So this wasn’t an “oversight.” They just do not want to talk about it. In science, you can get fired for opposing the narrative.

For me and my misinformation spreader friends, the heart of this paper is completely buried in Supplement 1, a Word document that most people will never see. Here it is

[kwebtv]

Loose Change - NBC - February 26-28, 1978

Drama (3 Episodes)

Running Time: 360 Minutes Total

Stars:

Cristina Raines as Kate Evans

Season Hubley as Tanya Berenson

Laurie Heineman as Jenny Reston

Guy Boyd as Rob Kagan

John Getz as John Campbell

Gregg Henry as Hank Okrun

June Lockhart as Irene Evans

Ben Masters as Joe Morgan

Joshua Shelley as Sol Berenson

Judy Strangis as Judy Berenson

Carl Franklin as Ed Thomas

Paula Wagner as Roxanne

Stephen Macht as Peter Lane

Michael Tolan as Mark Stewart

Stuart Nisbet as Steve Evans

Richard Stanley as Timmy Reston

Theodore Bikel as Tom Feiffer

Alice Hirson  as Rosemary

Kate Reid as Hilda

David Wayne as Dr. Moe Sinden

[womantryingtoexist]

Animorphs: Endgame

It begins at the End. It begins with Rachels death. 

The Ellimist talks to her, lets her tell her story, tells his story, and then: She dies. And wakes up again, with the voice of the Ellimist still in her head: “This is not a second chance, this is something different - for all of you”

For the rest of them the world continues - until it doesn`t.

Ax blinks out of existence when The One enters him, Jake, Marco, and Tobias die trying to save him. And they take The One with them. 

All of them wake up again, the voice of the Ellimist in their head.

Cassie survives. Cassie thrives. She becomes Governor. She marries. She becomes Diplomat. She loves. She gets to live. Her children are born. 

Her husband dies. She is alone, when she falls down the stairs. She knows she could morph and save her life, but she is tired, too. She dies with 78.

She wakes up again.

They are in a room, all of them 16 again. 

Jake breaks down crying. One of his greatest failures stands in front of him: Rachel. She is here. She is alive.

Tobias demorphs as fast as he can. They only just came into existence and yet, he is already hugging Rachel, kissing her. It had been a long time since he was human.

Ax is shocked. He is here. He is alive. Marco hugs him, hugs Cassie. All the while laughing like a maniac. 

Cassie sits down next to Jake. He stares at her as if he could still not believe it. As if he had just seen an angel. 

There are words that have to be said, apologies that have to be heard, emotions that have to be felt, but the shrill sound of an alarm interrupts them.

They fall back into war mode instantly. Even Cassie, who has not fought for 60 years, resumes her position fluidly. 

They run and they fight and they bleed and they kill.

As soon as the fight is over, they cry. Again. They made their way out of whatever facility they were in. They found a wood. 

But they are drained. 

Jake just wants things to be over. Are they ever going to be? Is he ever going to be allowed to rest? To just be dead?

It does not appear so.

They find shelter. Tobias hunts. He feels so much younger than he has in years. 

Rachel does not know how to deal. The others survived her death - she is happy about that. They won the war - she is happy about that. But she can also see their lost.

She sees it in Tobias longing glance, in the muttered apologies Jake spouts, in the manic moods of Marco. She sees it in the old, old eyes of Cassie.

Did they really survive? Or did they just stay alive?

They make the forest their home. But not for long: They are found.

A man made of Iron stands in front of them. He tells them to be calm, to come willingly. And honestly? They are tired. They come, silently.

The man is named Tony Stark. He is a “superhero”. None of the Animorphs can hear that word without feeling sick. There are no heroes in this world. There are only monsters.

He brings them to the Avengers Compound. A Secret Facility. A place for mutants, and weirdos, and - apparently - kids from another dimension.

When they tell him that Ax is an alien, Tony is hostile. Ax does not care. He is still trying to figure himself out. Did he die? Did his crew die with him? Is he really a prince? Or a fraud? He looks at Jake, before looking away again. Jake has no answer - he did not have an answer for years. Ax is tired of waiting.

But what can the Man of Iron do? He talks to Fury. He talks to Rhodney. He talks to Steve Rogers. He talks with everyone except the weird kids that destroyed one of Dr. Dooms secret laboratories. 

This is a mistake. The Animorphs talk. They share. They yell at each other. Why did they try to die? Why did only Cassie stand a chance? Why did it always end like this? Why is all they can do is fight? 

When Fury comes to finally confront them, they built a front. Not behind Jake, but behind Cassie. Not a hierarchy but a united force. 

He asks them about their families. About their lives. About their aliens. And why one of them is a bird. 

He gets no answers.

And again it seems their fate is harsh: They get locked up.

 And on after another the Avengers talk to them. And they share their stories. And in return, they get gruesome details.

Tony cries one night, not being able to deal with the fact that these children were sold to war. Steve his disturbed by the truths about war crimes that spout out of Jake`s mouth. Natasha fears the dead glee in Rachel`s eyes when she retells killing. Bruce sees a boy who choose to be the wild animal instead of the human.

And Marco makes Fury furious. Because all Marco tells him again and again and again, is that there is no such thing as Superheroes. There are only monsters.

And if they could not yet see it, they would someday. 

And then Marco smiles: “You either die a hero or life old enough to become a villain - that`s why we choose to die. And yet here we are. I wonder what that says about us?”

They should look them away. At least that would mean peace.

[lorenfangor]

What if Tom was never a Controller?

anon I need you to know I love this with my whole soul.

here we go. my heartfelt thanks to @nikosheba for letting me scream about this, because I never could have done it otherwise.

things begin basically the same way they do in the leadup to book 1 except for one crucial point: Tom was home sick with a cold on the fateful evening when he was infested in canon. He doesn't see the girl he's dating go into the back, he doesn't assume she's cheating on him, and he's never caught and Yeerked.

Elfangor crashes, the kids get the morphing power, they escape, etc.

Tom invites Jake and the others to the beach party; they go, and Marco is very aggressively hit on by a cheerleader Controller

he's really smug about this while also being lowkey terrified of her extremely in-your-face methods, and Rachel teases him about it - "A cheerleader hit on you? Either this story is super fake or that girl is a space ali - oh shit."

Marco is indignant, and decides to go to the meeting of The Sharing that she invited him to just to prove that they're all wrong and this girl is not a Controller and he is very cute and masculine. The others follow him as backup after acquiring some stealth morphs and raptors from the clinic.

Marco is caught snooping around by the same girl who hit on him and dragged down to the Yeerk Pool - she suspects that he's one of the kids "setting off fireworks" who everyone's been looking for. The others morph and go after him, managing to free him. The girl dies when Marco shoves her down some stairs and she breaks her neck.

Their time in the Pool is so horrific and awful that they're all convinced to join the fight. Marco realizes that nothing he does will help him or his dad escape except for action, Jake and Rachel and Cassie are traumatized by the vast extent of the invasion and determined to save as much of the Earth as possible, and Tobias (who gets trapped in morph, as in canon) is fighting for freedom and for the memory of Elfangor.

the events of books 2-5 happen as in canon - Melissa, the ship and the trout and Tobias's existential crisis, Ax's rescue from the Dome, the trip to space and the revelation that Eva is the host for Visser One. there's not really a major change until Jake is shot in the hospital and becomes infested by Temrash. he was in the head of the girl who was trying to recruit Marco, and he's as arrogant as ever.

Ax still morphs Jake, but this time Tom's not a puppet for a slug, and he catches his 'brother' demorphing in the bathroom.

Ax knocks him out, and Tom wakes up in the empty house in his neighborhood (the same one amnesiac!Rachel crashes in during MM1), surrounded by his cousin, his brother's best friend, and a blue furry centaur alien.

"Don't freak out," Marco tells him, "but Jake's been infested with a space alien brain slug who we're trying to kill by starvation. Cassie's with him now. We can't stick around for long, but come with us and we'll prove it to you."

He goes. He's almost convinced by the Yeerk's acting. Almost. Jake was never that arrogant, or bitter, or brash. He listens to Marco and Rachel and Cassie, helps Ax survive the Berenson household, and sees Temrash crawl out of Jake's ear and die a day and a half later.

"You're not fighting this war all by yourselves," he tells his brother, and he means it. "I want in."

"So break up with your girlfriend," Jake says. "She's a real space alien." He does.

He runs interference with parents, drives the getaway car, fakes being a chaperone for mall trips or weekend missions disguised as camping, and does anything else that's needed. He's got a support role, but that's fine. He does have one request, though: bring back any Dracon beams they can.

Jean is often out of the house with friends, and Steve works long hours, so Tom has plenty of time to hide an armory of stolen guns all over the Berenson household. He visits Ax and Tobias in the forest and practices with alien weaponry - he might not be able to morph, but he can sure as shit be a sniper. He starts taking point on some missions, wearing all black and a ski mask, providing support from rooftops and fire escapes.

And then, one day, word gets to him that a kid at the middle school has the alien box that lets you morph.

His brother and the others make a real mess of the retrieval, ending with a destroyed house, a pair of infested adults, and an unconscious boy whose fate is essentially up to him. The team is split - Rachel, Tobias, and Cassie are for making this kid who had the box an Animorph, and Jake, Marco, and Ax are unsure.

"No," Tom says. They look at him, stunned. Cassie opens her mouth, ready to say something, but he shuts her down. "Where are we going to let him live? My room? Your room, midget? Marco sure as hell doesn't have the space, and no offense Rachel but I think he'd probably say your house is infested with cooties. And we're not making him sleep in a barn. Besides, we don't know him. He's a snotty little brat, that's it, and we can't trust that. No, this is a bad idea. It sucks for him that he's gonna get infested? But we can't risk the human race for one kid."

No one argues with him. They all know he's made the only reasonable call. They still feel guilty about it, though.

Tom's invited to the next planning meeting, where they're plotting how to fix the G8 Summit problem. He wasn't expecting the other six to offer to make him a real Animorph. He accepts.

The mission goes only slightly better than it does in canon, with the only real advantage being that this time there's not a traitor there to sell them out to the Yeerks. They all almost get stuck in morph, and only Tom's quick thinking gets them out a back entrance and in the clear. He's angry with Jake - from his perspective his kid brother is too young to lead. He challenges for leadership. Jake backs down and lets him take it, with only Ax and Marco telling him it's a bad idea.

Tom comes up with the idea to phone in a bomb threat to the hotel, canceling the summit. The others are impressed with his quick thinking.

Under him, the missions turn espionage-heavy - a lot of spying, a lot of intelligence gathering, a lot of cooperation with the Chee. They split the team when the call comes to go to the Arctic, with Marco, Rachel, and Ax going north with him and Jake, Cassie, and Tobias staying home to hold down the fort.

But Tom has a weakness: he's good at spying, he's good at divide-and-conquer when it's not combat, he's good at sniping and holding a line, but he's not good at tactics. He can't see how a battle works, he can't lead from the front. When the Ellimist comes calling and takes the team to the Iskoort homeworld, he freezes in the fights against the Howlers. He doesn't know what to do.

Jake, though? Jake shines. He comes to life as a tactician, directing and taking charge and keeping everyone alive. He finds a way to defeat their enemy, he takes the victory, and he gets to kiss the girl at the end. Tom can tell a born hero when he sees one, and he steps down from the leadership position.

"I'd rather be support anyway," he says, and when Erek gives him and Jake Chee-modified cell phones, he decides he's going to start really aiding the fight from the home front. He makes inroads with other Chee, and he's the first to notice them go down when there's an issue with the Pemalite ship. He goes to Sharing meetings and events, feigning interest in low-level membership. He gets good at sniping, he learns Yeerk and Andalite computer systems from Ax, and he's a source of cash for when somebody needs a Cinnabon run.

When the Yeerks come for Jean and Steve and Tom, they don't expect to be greeted with blazing gunfire. Tom's not sure where Marco and Rachel got the Dracon cannon from, but he hid it in the attic, and he uses it to blast the van of Controllers coming down their street. From there, it's easy enough to turn into a stork (what an embarrassing mission, all told) and back to human; this buys him enough time to explain what's happening. The Berensons evacuate, going on the run to the Hork-Bajir Valley, and Jake enters the final stages of the war with a little bit more of his soul intact.

[alexlacquemanne]

Avril MMXX

Films

L'aventure c'est l'aventure (1972) de Claude Lelouch avec Jacques Brel, Lino Ventura et Charles Denner

L'Emmerdeur (1973) de Édouard Molinaro avec Lino Ventura, Jacques Brel et Caroline Cellier

3 h 10 pour Yuma (3:10 to Yuma) (2007) de James Mangold avec Russell Crowe, Christian Bale et Ben Foster

La Veuve Couderc (1971) de Pierre Granier-Deferre avec Simone Signoret et Alain Delon

Habemus papam (2011) de Nanni Moretti avec Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti et Margherita Buy

La Septième Compagnie au clair de lune (1977) de Robert Lamoureux avec Pierre Mondy, Jean Lefebvre et Henri Guybet

La Princesse de Montpensier (2010) de Bertrand Tavernier avec Mélanie Thierry, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Raphaël Personnaz et Lambert Wilson

Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Gérard Depardieu, Anne Brochet, Vincent Pérez et Jacques Weber

Le Sauvage (1975) de Jean-Paul Rappeneau avec Catherine Deneuve, Yves Montand et Luigi Vannucchi

Barry Lyndon (1975) de Stanley Kubrick avec Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson et Leon Vitali

Jo (1971) de Jean Girault avec Louis de Funès, Bernard Blier et Claude Gensac

Le rouge est mis (1957) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura et Annie Girardot

Mélodie en sous-sol (1963) de Henri Verneuil avec Jean Gabin, Alain Delon et Maurice Biraud

Bullitt (1968) de Peter Yates avec Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn et Jacqueline Bisset

Le cave se rebiffe (1961) de Gilles Grangier avec Jean Gabin, Maurice Biraud et Bernard Blier

1492 : Christophe Colomb (1492: Conquest of Paradise) (1992) de Ridley Scott avec Gérard Depardieu, Sigourney Weaver et Armand Assante

L'Homme de Rio (1964) de Philippe de Broca avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac et Jean Servais

La Fille de d'Artagnan (1994) de Bertrand Tavernier avec Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret et Claude Rich

Symphonie pour un massacre (1963) de Jacques Deray avec Charles Vanel, Jean Rochefort et Claude Dauphin

Le Soleil des voyous (1967) de Jean Delannoy avec Jean Gabin, Robert Stack et Margaret Lee

Comment épouser un millionnaire (How to Marry a Millionaire) (1953) de Jean Negulesco avec Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall et Betty Grable

Spectacle

Ben l'Oncle Soul - Tribute to Frank Sinatra (2016)

Le sommelier (2018) de Patrick Sébastien avec Didier Gustin, Philippe Chevallier, Marianne Giraud et Kym Thiriot

One World: Together at Home (2020)

Séries

Psych Saison 7

Une soirée mystérieuse - Quel cirque ! - Mariage mouvementé - Vies parallèles - Jeune femme partagerait appartement - Impair et Maire - Meurtre au bureau - Radio meurtre - Une affaire qui déride ! - La Truite sur le dos - Tous en scène ! Acte 1 - Tous en scène ! Acte 2 

Castle Saison 4

47 secondes

Maguy Saison 1

Changer de look, quel souk ! - A visage redécouvert'’

Chapeau Melon et Bottes de Cuir Saison 6, 5, 4

L'Invasion des Terriens - George et Fred - Une petite gare désaffectée - Mon rêve le plus fou - Rien ne va plus dans la nursery - Voyage sans retour

Top Gear Saison 14, 18, 19, 20, 12, 16, 22, 13, 10, 11

Du grand art ! - Surfin’ USA - Spécial Journée Circuit - Rugbymobile - Mission Camping-Car - Trois camions d’enfer - La fiesta dans tous ses états - Le choc des titans - James VS Tanner - Une voiture pour chaque situation - La traversée de Londres - Apprentis policiers - Routes de rêve - Spécial Bolivie

Meurtres au paradis Saison 9

La Lettre à Élise - De Manchester à Sainte-Marie - Opération Survie - Le Salon de coiffure

Kaamelott Livre I, II, VI

Præceptores

Livres

OSS 117 : Cité secrète de Jean Bruce

Les Aventures de Tintin : Les Cigares du pharaon d’Hergé

Le Catch : Ma vie, notre passion ! de Christophe Agius

Kaamelott Tome 1 : L'Armée du Nécromant de Alexandre Astier et Steven Dupré

[tabloidtoc]

National Examiner, December 28

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood’s family changed by COVID 

Page 2: The Apartment -- secrets behind the Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine flick 

Page 4: Nicole Kidman -- her style in her movies 

Page 6: A Dirty Dancing sequel is in the works and Jennifer Grey is set to reprise her role as Baby but Patrick Swayze who died in 2009 won’t be replaced -- for now Jennifer is keeping the plot and premiere date of the sequel under wraps 

Page 7: Richard Thomas who played John-boy on The Waltons is 69 now and still working steadily as an actor and he’s more than grateful he survived the ride -- these days he and his wife Georgiana make their home in New York City 

Page 8: Baby it’s dry inside -- breathe easier and save money by adding moisture in simple ways 

Page 9: Tony’s Mystic World -- the days of our lives 

Page 10: Brenda Van Sickle was 16 when she gave up her newborn baby for adoption and she thought about him every day since then, hoping he had a good life and 45 years later they have found each other 

Page 11: Your Health -- health problems your doctor may miss -- be persistent and get these dangerous symptoms checked out 

* Seniors are more physically vulnerable to COVID-19 but they have an advantage over younger people -- they are better at handling the psychological trauma of the pandemic 

Page 12: Dating was the name of the game for future stars -- winners and losers on The Dating Game before they got famous -- Vicki Lawrence, Michael Jackson, Steve Martin, Farrah Fawcett, Arnold Schwarzenegger 

Page 13: Suzanne Somers, Sally Field, John Ritter, Tom Selleck, Burt Reynolds 

Page 14: Dear Tony, America’s Top Psychic Healer -- good news! True love arrives in Spring 2021 -- Tony predicts Wesley Snipes will be back on the big screen in the near future and he will work behind the scenes for prison reform -- Tony also predicts a very cold winter coming for us 

Page 15: Smash hit Home Improvement also didn’t happen -- Patricia Richardson who played Tim Allen’s wife Jill Taylor says when she was cast in the series she had just had twins and wasn’t sure if it was the right time for her to take on a role and she’d never heard of Tim Allen but producers called her in and quickly saw the chemistry between Tim and Patricia and from 1991 until 1999 they made sitcom magic 

Page 16: In an emotional final farewell I Love Lucy stars Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance shared tears and laughter as they looked back on a lifetime of love and friendship -- the two got together shortly before Vivian passed at age 70 on August 17, 1979 

Page 18: A moving company College HUNKS Hauling is giving free help to victims of domestic violence so they can get away from abusive situations and set up a household elsewhere 

Page 19: When the Stitt family set out to raise money for a new wheelchair for their 17-year-old son Jake who has cerebral palsy they never suspected a superstar would come to the rescue -- but that’s just what happened when Justin Timberlake heard about the family’s financial plight and stepped in to pay for a custom-built van and wheelchair 

Page 20: Cover Story -- Country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are heroically carrying on during the worldwide pandemic singing their hearts out on a TV special for their millions of overjoyed fans but behind the scenes the couple and their family were bravely dealing with gut-wrenching terror as 24-year-old daughter Allie Colleen tested positive for the deadly COVID-19 virus and Allie’s brush with the disease turned their world upside down 

Page 22: Utah has opened its first overpass designed exclusively for wildlife and it’s working -- officials placed a video camera at the spot and were overjoyed to see deer, bears, moose, elk and all sorts of critters using the crossing which was designated animals only after so many of our four-legged friends were killed on that highway in the last couple of years -- lobbied for by a group called Save People Save Animals the overpass cost $5 million and was built by Utah’s Department of Transportation 

Page 24: A boater who clung to his overturned vessel for days in the waters off Florida’s Atlantic coastline is miraculously alive and well after a container ship spotted him and hauled him in 

Page 25: An Alabama mother of four got the shock of her life when a stranger in a footwear store paid for a pair of boots she’d had her eye on for years but couldn’t afford 

* A New Hampshire mom of three made an impulse buy that stunned and delighted her neighbors when she paid for the groceries of the next eight people in the supermarket checkout line 

Page 26: Heaven must have sent us these Angels -- checking in with Charlie’s famous femme crime fighters -- Kate Jackson, Farrah Fawcett 

Page 27: Jaclyn Smith, Cheryl Ladd 

Page 28: Shelley Hack, Tanya Roberts 

Page 29: The Reboot -- Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz 

Page 30: The Good Doctor 

Page 31: Drug-free headache relief 

Page 32: Look Who They Dug Up -- why these famous names couldn’t rest in peace -- Christopher Columbus, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln, Judy Garland 

Page 33: Daniel Boone, Jesse James, Sammie Davis Jr., Eva Peron 

Page 40: Stars Who Married Gay Men and Didn’t Know -- husbands hid the truth to save their careers -- Berry Berenson, Judy Garland, Amanda Blake, Fran Drescher, Betsy Drake 

Page 41: Angela Lansbury, Liza Minnelli, Carol Channing, Charlotte Rae, Vanessa Redgrave, Carrie Fisher 

Page 44: Eyes on the Stars -- Dolly Parton performs tunes from her album A Holly Dolly Christmas (picture), Diane Keaton on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (picture), Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani are gearing up to tie the knot at his Oklahoma ranch, a handgun used by Sean Connery in his first screen appearance as James Bond has blown away expectations by selling for $256,000 at auction, Bryan Cranston says he was socked by COVID-19 in March and still hasn’t recovered his sense of smell, Ryan Reynolds seems to want no part of a recent honor suggested by fans to name a street after him in his home city of Vancouver, social media lit up after legendary singer Dionne Warwick teased Chance the Rapper by tweeting at him 

Page 45: Joan Collins at the ribbon-cutting for the Burlington Arcade department store in London (picture), saying goodbye to Squiggy -- actor David Lander died from multiple sclerosis complications at age 73 

Page 46: A Kentucky schoolteacher who went in an hour early each day to help an immigrant child learn English just got her reward 40 years later -- that kid went on to become a lawyer and Harvard grad who has tracked her down to thank her in person 

Page 47: The names are crazy but the places are real 

[long70s]

ALI MacGRAW

Actress Ali MacGraw graduated from Wellesley College and worked as Diana Vreeland’s photographic assistant at Vogue before turning to modeling and acting. Her marriage to Paramount’s head of production, Robert Evans and chiseled good looks earned her the female lead in the prestigious adaptation of Phillip Roth's novel Goodbye, Columbus (1969), for which she won a Golden Globe Award.

It was her starring role as the working-class Radcliffe girl in the adaptation of Erich Segal’s tearjerker, Love Story (1970) that made the 31-year old MacGraw the most famous and sought-after actress in the world overnight. Her character’s assertion "love means never having to say you're sorry" ranks as one of the most famous lines in film history. Fifty years after its release, Love Story remains one of the highest grossing films of all times.

MacGraw's next film, The Getaway, was directed by the uncompromising, heavy-drinking, maverick, Sam Peckinpah. For the heist film, MacGraw and co-star Steve McQueen were cast as married bank robbers. Evans urged MacGraw to take the role of a hardened criminal to prevent her from becoming typecast as a New Engand college girl. The screenplay certified her character’s inherent trashiness when it called for the fugitives to evade capture by hiding in a garbage truck that dumps them in a landfill.

During the film's production, MacGraw left Evans for McQueen, whom she married in 1973. The Getaway was one of McQueen’s and Peckinpah’s greatest box office successes, but their combined professional experience and hardcore masculinity intimidated MacGraw, whose relatively limited acting experience was thrown into high contrast. Convinced her performance was a disgrace, and no longer married to the head of production at a major studio, at the height of her fame, Ali MacGraw withdrew from acting.

Her hiatus from acting and her rocky marriage to McQueen (which the tabloids followed almost as closely as Cher and Greg Allman) both ended in 1978. Her comeback vehicle, Convoy, which was based on a novelty song of the same title, spawned by the brief, popular craze for truckers and Citizen’s Band radios, reunited her with the dissolute Peckinpah. Like Smokey and the Bandit the year before, the easy-going , populist Convoy was an enormous hit, but MacGraw’s last. By the early 1980s she was working in television, still viewed at the time as the last resort of former stars.

Like Cher and Marissa Berenson, MacGraw’s status as a style icon of the 1970s may prove to be a more important legacy than her acting career. Her lanky, severe beauty and poker straight center-parted hair perfectly suited the fashion trends of the period. Whereas other female stars like Barbra Steisand insuccessfully chased fashion trends, MacGraw possessed the unerring sense of style of a former Vogue staffer and the experience as a professional model to carry it off effortlessly.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

You are so very correct.

I'd love if controller-Steve used the thing from AniTV where the medic controllers make any excuse to take people's temperatures with one of those ear thermometers, only with a yeerk concealed inside. That's the kind of thing a pediatrician does like 8 times a day, without comment.

Who would be the most devastating family member infested by the yeerks in each animorphs family?

Huh. I assume parents would be worse than siblings, and within-home family would be worse than those who live elsewhere.

Tobias: Ax. For the obvious reason that, if an Animorph is a controller, the whole team is screwed.

Ax: Tobias. See above.

Rachel: Naomi, probably. Dan eventually becomes a controller in #49 but he lives out of state so he can only do so much damage. Jordan and Sara are out because IMHO you need a driver's license and the ability to carry a gun to be really dangerous in the U.S.

Cassie: Walter. As Cassie's dad he has direct power over her, and unlike Michelle he works from home. He has reason to wander into the barn at any time of day or night, without warning.

Jake: Hard to say between Jean and Steve. Tom's occasionally Jake's guardian (#21), and does have a driver's license (MM4), but he doesn't have formal power over Jake and isn't expected to know Jake's whereabouts. Jean writes, but it's not clear if she does so from home (e.g. novelist) or not (e.g. journalist). Steve being a pediatrician means he's away from the house a lot more, but MDs have enormous amounts of soft power in our society. I'd say that if Jean does her job on a home computer then she's the worst option, but that if she does it out of an office then Steve would be.

Marco: I don't think it gets worse than Eva. Peter becomes non-functional without Eva, neglecting and parentifying Marco. Eva would get by fine without Peter. Eva gets taken to monitor Peter and also fulfill Visser One's creepy mom fetish, whereas Peter being taken would just result in the yeerks doing a catch-and-kill on his scientific advancements before sending "Peter" home to resume life as usual.

[goldenretriever-nicknelson]

Firstly... congrats on the 1.5K lovely!! You deserve it (and more!) 💕 but I wanted to ask these: ✏️📖💌 🚢 Tom&Co/MCU. 🧐 - loveseat, stargaze, bath bomb, velvet and seaside? + Cast 5 mutuals as FFH characters/ from any of your favourite romcoms.. Yikes, sorry, that's quite a lot to ask from you! I got a little too carried away.. 😂🙈

Thank you!! 💖 you’re so sweet! And that’s okay I love it all 🥰

✏️line from one of my wips - Peter wanted to figure her out, know what mysteries those eyes held behind the mask and why they felt familiar to him. He wanted to know her.

📖something I’m currently reading - Cherry by Nico Walker

💌compliment - my fellow Brit! I adore you! I love our long messages and even though I’m always super late at replying I love talking to you! I can’t wait for your list of movies to watch and I wish you all the luck for when you start uni soon! 💕💕💕

🚢 I ship you with Steve Rogers! - you’re cool and I know you love Cap already so 😉💙

Questions:

Loveseat (ideal house?) - my ideal house would be really homey and warm. It would be big so I could have people stay over if they needed and I’d have a whole room dedicated to all my nerdy shit 😂

Stargaze (celebrity crush?) - THOMAS STANLEY HOLLAND 💖💖

Bath bomb (best form of self care?) - I think taking time for yourself and doing whatever is that makes you feel better whether it’s going for a walk, taking a nap, video games or listening to music (of which I do all 3) even just for an hour is the best form of self care. Also drinking lots of water and getting enough sleep is important (but I don’t really do either oops)

Velvet (What is your style?) - it’s usually a logo tea and leggings or jeans but if I’m feeling up to making more of an effort it’s a co-ordinated outfitmaybe with a skirt if I’m feeling confident enough.

Seaside (ideal date?) - Okay super cheesy but it would probably be something low-key like a coffee shop date or a picnic or the classic of dinner and a movie.

I did ffh already so I’m going to do cast my mutuals as romcom characters since you know I love them and I know you do too 😂:

@marvelrreigns as Bridget Jones from Bridget Jones Diary

@spidey-waffles11 as Jenna Rink from 13 going on 30

@devin-marie as Cher Horowitz from Clueless

@eeyore101247 Elle Woods from Legally Blonde

@tyemmamarvel as Lara Jean from To all the Boys I’ve loved before

@parkerpuffwrites as Holly Berenson from Life as we know it

All of these characters are icons and I love them all 💗

🎉sleepover🎉

[lilacsolanum]

I posted this as a reply to a post a while ago, but I wanted to repost it as it’s own meta. I often see people saying “We don’t REALLY know how Rachel and Jake are related” “Rachel’s last name isn’t necessarily Berenson” and I’m always like “NO. NO. NO PEOPLE. IT’S CALLED CONTEXT CLUES.” SO! We know Jake’s mom isn’t blood related to Rachel because of #31, when it’s directly stated: <You will not attend this burial ceremony, Rachel?> Ax asked. “No, I’m not really related,” Rachel said. “Grandpa G was Jake’s great-grandfather on his mother’s side. We’re related on his father’s side.” <Ah. And that is important?>

And then there’s #21, which I guess is technically unclear, but!

“Why can’t they stay with Rachel’s family?” Tom asked. “They’re cousins, too.” “Well, since Rachel’s mom and dad got divorced, Ellen and George haven’t felt like they were all that close to Rachel’s mom.” “Lucky Rachel,” Tom muttered.

Hilarity of Tom randomly referring to his Aunt Naomi’s family by one random daughter who just happens to be a protagonist of the series we’re reading aside, this is inferring that Naomi isn’t blood related to the rest of the Berensons. I mean, it’s not clear, maybe they thought Dan was just the bee knees and peaced out on their blood sister when she left him or something, or Naomi did something terrible in the divorce that estranged her blood siblings, or Applegate and Grant had a really complex family dynamic going on that never made it to the page. But I think the simplest solution is Naomi is not blood related to the Ellen/George family and the relationship is now awkward, but might still be on good terms with the Steve/Jean family because their children go to school together. There’s also MM4. These are some problematique quotes involving racism and anti semitism, get ready!

I had long suspected that Cassie might have slightly radical tendencies. A lot of blacks did. Blacks and a lot of Jews, although not in my family. My dad was a certified POE - Patriot of Empire. (Jake) <And the Holocaust,> Rachel said. <Holocaust?> <The Germans, the Nazis under Hitler, murdered six million Jews - men, women, and children> Obviously Rachel had misspoken. <These Jews were an opposing army?> <No. Jews are a religion, or a race, I guess. My dad’s Jewish. Mostly the Jews in the Holocaust were Germans and Poles. You know, civilians. Normal people. Others, too: Gypsies, gays, handicapped people. They were taken to camps and shot or starved or killed with poison gas. Children killed in their mothers’ arms.> Ooooh that racist alternate AU chapter opening. Shiver. The whole Rachel and Jake being Jewish thing has always read to me as a random decision Applegate and Grant made halfway through the series that they did not bother to internalize or research, and I am thrilled to see people throw that garbage out the window and restructure these families with more sensitivity. In fanon, both Rachel and Jake are typically portrayed with Judaism sewn into every part of their being (well, at least, my personal fave fanons), and I love it. However, in canon, it seems to be implied that Jake considers himself and his whole family Jewish (even though he has Christmas lights in the attic and I believe I’ve read that Grandpa G’s funeral does not address Jewish burial practices, I am unfortunately ignorant on the subject myself, anyway SOLID work Applegrant), but Rachel specifically says only her father is Jewish, thus cementing that Rachel’s father is blood related to Jake’s father, thus cementing that her last name is most likely Berenson. Of course, everyone is entitled to their own headcanons. Perhaps the girls were born out of wedlock and have Naomi’s last name, perhaps they were given Naomi’s last name for whichever reason, perhaps the family name is hyphenated. Regardless, yes, Rachel and Jake are related through their fathers. Thus concludes my essay on why Rachel’s last name is absolutely Berenson, thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[featherquillpen]

Chapters: 9/9 Fandom: Animorphs - Katherine A. Applegate Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Gafinilan-Estrif-Valad/Mertil-Iscar-Elmand, Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill & Mertil-Iscar-Elmand, Jake Berenson/Cassie/Marco Characters: Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, Cassie (Animorphs), Loren (Animorphs), Tobias (Animorphs), Jake Berenson, Marco (Animorphs), Rachel (Animorphs), Mertil-Iscar-Elmand, Illim, Jean Berenson, Steve Berenson, Tom Berenson, Original Yeerk Character(s), Mr. Tidwell (Animorphs), Toby Hamee, Walter (Animorphs), Peter (Animorphs), Original Hork-Bajir Character(s), Estrid-Corill-Darrath, Arbat-Elivat-Estoni, Visser Three | Esplin 9466, Aloth-Attamil-Gahar, Gonrod-Isfall-Sonilli Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Daemons, Daemons, Family, Angst, Andalites, Worldbuilding, Alien Culture, Moral Ambiguity, Teenage Drama, Chatlogs, Book 40: The Other, Book 38: The Arrival, Disability, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence Series: Part 22 of Dæmorphing Summary:

The Animorphs and their allies decide just how far they are willing to go, how much they are willing to compromise, which lines they are willing to cross, to win this war.

Chapter 9: «The garden plant outgrows the trellis»

Encyclopedia of Concepts and Imagery in Andalite Thought-Speech Entry: Graduation «The garden plant outgrows the trellis» «I correct my elder’s shormitor»

In which Ax hears some difficult truths, Eva has a message for a friend, and a graduation ceremony is held.

[stevejh1961]

A tweet

RT @DeTocqueville14: Reminder: Every word of the Alex Berenson tweet that got him suspended was 100% accurate. https://t.co/tgDdaWDy9V

— Steve Hutton (@stevejh48) Apr 27, 2022

[alterannews]

Steve Deace Show | The Cavalry Ain't Coming | Guests: Rep. Chip Roy & Alex Berenson | 12/2/21

Steve Deace Show | The Cavalry Ain’t Coming | Guests: Rep. Chip Roy & Alex Berenson | 12/2/21

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