#the producers 1968

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On April 13, 1978, The Producers was re-released in Porto, Portugal.

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Diamond D was born April 5, 1968

[eirianerisdar]

If anyone's wondering why I deleted the last post I reblogged about Carlos and Charles looking like they're using the same small boat with a blue and white interior, it's because I did some digging and the photo of Carlos in that particular boat was from two years ago in Mallorca. Charles' photo came from the Peroni shoot on Lake Como in Italy two weeks ago. Seems to be just a coincidence in terms of what brand and model the boat was.

[yourdailyqueer]

Ian Iqbal Rashid

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: Born 1968  

Ethnicity: Indian

Nationality: Tanzanian / Canadian

Occupation: Poet, writer, screenwriter, journalist, producer, director

[mariocki]

Twisted Nerve (1968)

"Martin's dead. He's been bad. N- not Georgie. Bad, bad Martin. And now... I lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep... if I die before I wake... if I die before I... wake..."

[onesourceofbadinformation]

they would be writing the craziest yaoi about these guys if the producers premiered in 2023 and by they i of course mean me

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

GOODBYE, DIMPLES -- HELLO, TA-TA'S!

PIC INFO: Spotlight on a candid snap of a dirty look from Zero Mostel, star of "The Producers" (1968), directed by Mel Brooks, noticing that ex-child film starlet Shirley Temple is now a full grown woman (photographed at a public reception). ����: ❓

Source: www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCelebs/comments/14x57zm.

[mybeingthere]

Fabric sample ‘Ornito’ with a pattern of stylized birds that have been designed with an enlarged fingerprint to which have been added beaks, eyes and legs. Material: cotton, metal, paper, 1968. Designer: Heinz Edelmann (1934-2009). Produced by the fabric manufacturer Weverij De Ploeg. TextielMuseum, Tilburg, Netherlands.

[ansonmountdaily]

Star Trek franchise wins the Peabody Institutional Award → June 9 2024

At the 84th Annual Peabody Awards, the Star Trek franchise received the Peabody Institutional Award which is given annually to recognize an organization or long-running television program that has made an indelible mark on the American broadcasting landscape.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast members Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck joined fellow Star Trek franchise actors and creatives on stage as executive producer Alex Kurtzman accepted the award.

Kurtzman spoke about the almost 60 year legacy of the franchise that has given hope to us all and that no matter who you are there is a place for you in the Star Trek family. He also recognized Bjo Trimble, who was in attendance, and was part of a successful "Save Star Trek" campaign in 1968, generally credited with allowing the series to run for a third season rather than being cancelled after two.

Also in attendance were Patrick Stewart, LeVar Burton, Scott Bakula, Jeri Ryan, Wilson Cruz, Doug Jones, Tawny Newsome, Sam Richardson, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers, Michelle Paradise, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Noga Landau, Jenny Lumet, Trevor Roth and J.J. Abrams.

Credit: StarTrek.com, speech clip

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Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World 1967

"What a Wonderful World" is a song written by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss. It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released in 1967 as a single. In April 1968, it topped the pop chart in the UK where it also became the biggest-selling single of the year, but it performed poorly in the US because Larry Newton, the president of ABC Records, disliked the song and refused to promote it. ABC Records' European distributor EMI forced ABC to issue a What a Wonderful World album in 1968. It did not chart in the US, due to ABC not promoting it, but charted in the UK where it was issued by Stateside Records and peaked at number 37.

The song gradually became something of a pop standard. An episode of The Muppet Show produced in 1977 and broadcast early in 1978 featured Rowlf the Dog singing the song to a puppy. In 1978, it was featured in the closing scenes of BBC radio's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and was repeated for BBC's 1981 TV adaptation of the series, as well as being used for the teaser trailer to the 2005 film version. In 1988, Armstrong's recording was used in the film Good Morning, Vietnam and was re-released as a single, reaching number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in February 1988. It peaked at number 1 in 1988 on the Australian chart.

"What a Wonderful World" received a total of 90,6% yes votes!

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Spy tf2 and his identity

Character analysis (or at least my vision on him, if you believe my reasoning)

What do we know about Spy? He's a disguise mastermind. He can pretend to be anyone in order to infiltrate into the scene to do his job - quite literally, stab people on the back. But when he's not in the battle, what is he to his teammates? A suave Frenchman, a gentleman with taste, somewhat a leader.

At least, that's the persona he prefers to show. But is he really..?

What if I tell you that this person never drops his disguise?

For a man who always wears a mask and who's identity being secret is a sacred part of his role in this job, isn't this persona too much to show if it is real? Frenchman, rich, ladykiller... Wouldn't it be too easy to decipher his identity with so much clues provided? Wouldn't it be dangerous?

While Miss Pauling and the Administrator definitely know Spy's real identity, hiding it is a major thing for whatever reason. One could assume it might be because of Scout (obvious guess) but I doubt he's a sole reason. Spy very much enjoys being the Spy all by himself. Do what's the deal?

Let's start from the beginning.

Why did Spy join Mann Co. in the first place?

Let's take this assumption as a fact: people come here out of desperation. They are professionals in their field, yet in their past/casual life there is a pattern of them having difficulties that push them into joining this service. I don't see why Spy would be an exception.

The reason for joining is usually money. Some people question why Spy, a wealthy man from higher society, would join Mann Co. if he has it all already.

Well, probably because he really does not.

Have you ever met an aristocrat? Wealthy people don't get so protective about their expensive suits, they can afford cleaning or a new one. Regardless, rich people don't usually get stingy about material goods, especially if they're mass produced.

At least, not those who were born into wealth.

Spy's defensiveness about his "wealthy stuff", his pomp-ness, disgust and arrogance towards "plebs" gives off a man who knows what it means to live in poverty and who doesn't want to be associated with it ever again.

(Not even talking about his own filthy habits such as not washing his mask and pissing on walls? Jesus Christ)

Dare I even guess that he might be not French at all? His French is so broken. (Although, so is Medic's German, but at least he uses his language much more frequently and in more complex sentences, while Spy only uses French to say some basic expressions, occasionally confusing them with other languages). Definitely not a native.

If anything, he's not giving "rich man" at all, he's giving con man. And that fits my picture perfectly.

So, poor upbringing. How old is Spy? If he's Scout's father (and he was young when he was conceived), I'd say he's no less than 20 years older than him. I'd give him a few more years actually. So, approximately Spy is around 50 at the events of the game (1968-1972). Let's assume he was born somewhere in the 1910s.

Even if he's not French, I still agree that he's probably European. Hmm, what was happening in Europe at the time Spy was a kid?

Oh yeah. The Great Depression.

See my picture: imagine, a child from a lower class family during the Great Depression, his parents were most likely to not take good care about him (both because of the economical situation AND as an echo to Spy's struggles with his own fatherhood). He has to run away from home early and start to make money. Any way possible.

Unavoidably, it leads to crime.

Petty theft, blackmail, scams. Changing identities. Selling low quality products and services. Changing identities again. When older, seducing rich women to stay at their homes overnight, be fed and supported. Running away from the police. Walking into a trap of the mafia, and then joining them as their goon.

In this nightmare of a life he just had to keep pretending to be someone else, someone better and stronger, in order to his ego to not completely shutter. He had to imagine he was an invincible mastermind trickster of some sort, not just a poor boo-hoo victim of poverty who has never knew normal life and care.

And if you pretend for long enough, you become your role eventually... Right?

His true self was long lost forgotten under many layers of new identities. Worse, his true self was never known. And he didn't want it to be known in its ugly and disgusting vulnerability. Narcissism became his lifeline.

It's so much better to be Spy. To be rich and elegant and respected. His ego rebuilt.

[fieldghoul]

A round-up of ministry technology:

Chapter Two: The Cardinal

Copia is carrying the Siemens R836 stereo, produced c. 1988

Chapter 5: The Call

The TV in the hospital is the Toshiba T277Z, produced c. 1977

p.s., the first clip playing on the TV is twins running away in Chapter 1 :-)

Chapter Seven: New World Redro

Nihil's typewriter is the Olympia SM9, produced c. 1965-1968

Chapter Ten: Home Coming and Special Guests

The record player in Cardi's room is actually not vintage! It's the Victrola 3-in-1 Bluetooth Record Player, produced c. 2017

To get deep into minutiae, the other thing they pan past on the shelf that looks like an antique cathedral radio is actually a piece of ceramic -- you can see it's holding a book. It's made from a commercially available plaster mold, namely the Duncan DM-355 B, which was manufactured in the late 70s. Here are photos of the same ceramic with a different glaze, and the mold itself :-)

Chapter Twelve: Ghost Goes Hollywood

Cardi's camcorder is part of the Sony CCD-TRVX5 series, produced c. 1998

(My understanding is the CCD-TRV75, 85 and 93 all have the same body -- but it's one of those.)

Chapter 16: Tax Season

Cardi's TV is the Samsung BT-317TR, produced c. 1984

He is, of course, playing the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), produced c. 1986-1990

The radio is the Motorola TT23FS, produced c. 1968

The phone gadget is the Tele-Rest, produced c. 1958

The alarm clock is a Lawson Model 215 Sierra, produced c. 1948-1981 (Lawson clock history seems... complicated)

As for the phone itself... I can tell you it's this exact phone, since this prop house seems to have supplied all the props in this video, but there are too many identical puke-green rotary phones produced between the 1940s and 1970s for me to pretend I can tell which one it is (same goes for the other two rotary phones in Chapter Five).

Rite Here Rite Now

The TV backstage is (probably) a Magnavox 20MT4405/17, produced c. 2006

If you turn the brightness on RHRN way the fuck up, you can see a piece of tape over the brand badge on the TV. (But that can't stop me!!!)

I'm sure most of the tech choices are just for humor and Tobias's personal nostalgia as a child of the 80s, but I do love way all of the old tech characterizes the ministry. It's not clear if they're just luddites, cheapskates, out of money, too bureaucratically inefficient to upgrade (like the government!) or if it's something completely different. But that's why set dressing is fun, it tells stories indirectly :-)

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Erick Sermon of EPMD was born November 25, 1968

[retropopcult]

The kids behind the Peanuts characters, featured in a 1968 TV Guide story - Sally Dryer as Lucy, Gail DeFaria as Patty, Peter Robbins as Charlie Brown, and Christopher Shea as Linus.

Before the Peanuts animated specials, voices of children in the cartoons were performed by adult actors. But Charles Schulz, producer Lee Mendelson and director Bill Melendez decided that their shows would feature authentic child voices.

[yourdailyqueer]

Ellen Spiro

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: Born 1968   

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Producer, director, professor, activist

[mariocki]

Lochinvar (1968, untransmitted)

"I've never seen a saddle like that before, where's that come from?"

"From the Americas."

"The colonies, so that's where you're from is it?"

"That's right."

"A sailor was telling us they're having some sort of a trouble out there, a kind of a rebellion."

"Rebellion? We call it a war of independence."