#vanessa kensington

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: Silver Redux

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery / Elizabeth Hurley as Vanessa Kensington

This metallic silver minidress with halter collar and matching go-go boots evokes the 1960s. The T-strap in the back may be a nod to Rosie Carver's white minidress from Live and Let Die.

Dr. Evil describes the outfit as "quasi-futuristic" and says he designed it himself. (Costumes for this movie were actually designed by Deena Appel.)

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YEA BABY YEA

had the shagadellic urge to draw the ladies of austin powers

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Vanessa Fembot in a different outfit!

Here's my quick photoshop of Vanessa in Britney's outfit from the film to a friend of mine. One of my better face swap with only using Photoshop!

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Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1997)

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Vanessa Kensington - Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

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The reason austin powers pursue some women

Austin powers only pursue Vanessa because he couldn't be with her mother.

Austin powers pursue felicity because she is female version of him.

Austin powers pursue foxxy cleopetra because he hurt her in the past with his womanizing.

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Found an Austin Powers collection and watched the first one this time !  It had been a while

-- Austin Powers is in it, and plays a role in the events

-- He’s frozen and comes back later, not unlike Aang or Fry

-- He dresses like Miles Edgeworth--his favourite character !

-- I liked when Vanessa wears glasses.  You can also see her Feet, if that kind of thing is your bag.  It looked like they were having a lot of fun at that point !

-- I hope he didn’t make her uncomfortable at first

-- Alotta seems to be an Italian weeb [?]; I wonder what her favourite anime is...mine is Shaman King !

-- The FemBots exploding brought robot Foot Soldiers[TMNT] to mind

-- A right-hand man with an eyepatch brought Sagat [Street Fighter movie] to mind

-- Dr. Evil always says “Gentlemen”, even if there are ladies present.  And, that’s not even the worst thing he does !

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Book Showcase: THE HIGHLANDER'S KILTED BRIDE by Vanessa Kelly

Read an #excerpt from the #historicalromance THE HIGHLANDER'S KILTED BRIDE by #VanessaKelly, book 6 of the Clan Kendrick series. #blogtour #fiction #historicalfiction #ScottishHistorical #romance #ZebraBooks #KensingtonBooks #TLCBookTours

The Highlander’s Kilted Bride: Clan Kendrick Book 6, by Vanessa KellyISBN: 9781420154559 (Paperback)ISBN: 9781420154566 (ebook)ISBN: 9798765082782 (Digital audiobook)ASIN: B0BNCKHJG8 (Kindle edition)Page Count: 352Publication Date: August 22, 2023Publisher: Zebra BooksGenre: Fiction | Historical Fiction | Historical Romance The youngest brother in Clan Kendrick has become a charismatic force in…

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*Mac, in a bad British accent* Yeah, groovy, baby!

Had the idea for months to draw Macdennis as Austin Powers and his girl for Halloween. (And for Vanessa Kensington, all they had to do was just make a few modifications to the silver dress Dennis already had.)

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Title: Austin Powers

Rating: PG-13

Director: Jay Roach

Cast: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Mimi Rogers, Robert Wagner, Seth Green, Fabiana Udenio, Mindy Sterling, Paul Dillon, Charles Napier, Will Ferrell, Joann Richter, Anastasia Sakelaris, Afifi Alaouie, Monet Mazur, Mark Bringelson, Clint Howard

Release year: 1997

Genres: comedy, science fiction, crime

Blurb: As a swingin' fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the 1960s' most shagadelic spy, baby...but can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the '90s? With the help of sexy sidekick Vanessa Kensington, he just might.

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Before I recently discovered that the fembot who landed on Austin was an actual stunt actress, I honestly thought it was some kind of animatronic or something. Would they have gone that route if they couldn't get an an actual female to do the stunt?

Anita was down to also do stunts as Vanessa Kensington, plus her Fembot scene had her have hair on fire, lunging after Austin and also doing the cartwheels with Cris, so her hanging from a trapeze may not have been much more of a stretch.

That said, the B roll shows there were likely multiple takes, so I wouldn't want to be the one hanging.

Animatronics were used though, for the close-up shots of Cheryl's nozzles deploying, so it could have maybe been an option available, but I'm glad they went with what they did.

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Ships that have already qualified (read before submitting):

Jude Lizowski/Jonesy Garcia

Tyler Kennedy "TK" Strand/Carlos Reyes

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Gwen Stacey

Willow Rosenberg/Winifred "Fred" Burkle

Francine Frensky/Muffy Crosswire

Susan Ivanova/Marcus Cole

Kate Kane (Batwoman)/Renee Montoya

Barry B. Benson/Vanessa Bloome

Jake Peralta/Amy Santiago

Willow Rosenberg/Tara Maclay

Jack Zimmermann/Eric "Bitty" Bittle

Justin "Ransom" Oluransi/Adam "Holster" Birkholtz

Danny/Reuven

Larissa "Lara" Bogdan/Jasmine

Kelsey Pokly/Isabella "Stacks" Alvarado

Rebecca Bunch/Audra Levine

Rebecca Bunch/Greg Serrano

Rebecca Bunch/Nathaniel Plimpton

Samantha "Sam" Manson/Danniel "Danny" Fenton

Bruce Wayne (Batman)/Selina Kyla (Catwoman)

Bruce Wayne (Batman)/Clark Kent (Superman)

Clark Kent (Superman)/Lois Lane

Harley Quinn/Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy)

Barney Guttman/Logan Nguyen

Leah/Chanan

Shay Goldstein/Dominic Yun

Marvin/Whizzer

Trina/Mendel Weisenbachfeld

Perchik/Hodel

Tzeitel/Motel

Monica Gellar/Chandler Bing

Molly McGee/Libby Stein Torres

Rachel Berry/Noah Puckerman

Fiddleford McGucket/Stanford Pines

Cristina Yang/Owen Hunt

Cristina Yang/Preston Burke

Levi Schmidt/Nico Kim

Rose Lalonde/Kanaya Maryam

James Wilson/Gregory House

The Baker and/The Baker's Wife

Kim Possible/Ron Stoppable

The Jewish People/The Shabbat Bride

Alec Hardison/Parker

Max Eisenhardt (Magneto)/Charles Xavier (Professor X)

Steve Rogers (Captain America)/James "Bucky" Barnes

Arnold "Arnie" Roth/Michael Bech

Arnold "Arnie" Roth/Steve Rogers (Captain America)

Billy Kaplan (Wiccan)/Teddy Altman (Hulkling)

Bobby Drake (Iceman)/Hank McCoy (Beast)

Bobby Drake (Iceman)/Johnny Storm (The Human Torch)

Layla El Faouly/Mark Spector (Moon Knight)

Matthew Hawk (Two-Gun Kid II)/Clint Barton (Hawkeye)

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Betty Brant

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Eugene "Flash" Thompson

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/ Felicia Hardy

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/ Harry Osborn

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Mary Jane "MJ" Watson

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Wade Wilson (Deadpool)

Steve Rogers/Bernadette "Bernie" Rosenthal

Wanda Maximoff/The Vision

Midge Maisel/Susie Myerson

Hal Emmerich (Otacon)/Solid Snake

Casey Goldberg-Calderon/Lunella Lafayette

Fran Fine/Max Sheffield

Ben Gross/Devi Vishwakumar

Winston Schmidt/Cece Parekh

David Jacobs/Jack Kelly

Seth Cohen/Summer Roberts

Scout Touzani/Elias Wyrick

KJ Brandman/Mac Coyle

Lavinia Asimov/Poison Oak

Phineas Flynn/Isabella Garcia-Shapiro

Anon's Mom/Dad

The person reading this & their partner

Jerry Seinfeld/Cosmo Kramer

Simon Lewis/Isabel Lightwood

Danielle/Maya

Bram Greenfeld/Simon Spier

Miryem Mandelstam/The Staryk King

David Rose/Patrick Brewer

James T Kirk/S'chn T'gai Spock

Worf Rozhenko/Jadzia Dax

Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla

Brian Jeeter/Krejjh

Bobby Singer/Rufus Turner

Jonah Simms/Amy Sosa

Reish Lakish/Rabbi Yochanen

King David/Yonatan

Devorah/Barak

Moses/Tzipporah

Ruth/Naomi

Yaakov/The Angel

Rowan Roth/Neil Mcnair

Klaus Hargreeves/Dave Katz

Cecil Palmer/Carlos The Scientist

Josh Lyman/Donna Moss

Little Ash/Uriel

Lucille "Lucy" Kensington/Dr. Edison "Ed" Tucker

Fox Mulder/Dana Scully

Anshel/Avigdor

Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer

Wanda Maximoff (The Scarlet Witch)/Jericho Drumm

Bruce Wayne (Batman)/Shondra Kinsolving

Bruce Wayne (Batman)/Talia Al Ghul

Ben Grimm (The Thing)/Alicia Masters

Velma Dinkley/Daphne Blake

Velma Dinkley/Marcie Fleach

Didi Pickles/Stu Pickles

Velma Dinkley/Coco Diablo

Babushka (Tatiana)/Dedushka (Ivan)

Kitty Pryde/Illyana Rasputin

Natasha Romanoff/Wanda Maximoff

Marc Spector (Moon Knight)/Clint Barton (Hawkeye)

Hillel/Shammai

S'chn T'gai Spock/James T Kirk/Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

S'chn T'gai Spock/Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

Frankie Bergstein/Grace Hanson

Annie Edison/Jeff Winger

Maxine Myers/Paula Cohen

Baby Houseman/Johnny Castle

Tevye/Golde

Michael "Mike" Wazowski/Celia Mae

Talmudic couple having gay sex in the attic

Tim Drake/Kon El (Conner Kent)

Violet Baudelaire/Quigley Quagmire

Reuben Kent/Feliks Kaufmann

Anshel/Avigdor/Hadass

Amram/Zelikman

Anshel/Hadass

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN UNTIL MAY 8, 2023 @ 12:00 AM EDT

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Vanessa Kensington

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August 2023 Diverse Reads

August 2023 Diverse Reads

•”Happiness Falls” by Angie Kim, August 29, Hogarth Press, Literary Mystery 

•”Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare” by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto, August 29, Bloomsbury Publishing, Short Story Collection — Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology (Hawaiian Identify) 

•”The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride, Riverhead Books, Historical

•”Family Lore” by Elizabeth Acevedo, August 1, Ecco Press, Literary/Magical Realism

“A Council of Dolls” by Mona Susan Power, August 7, Mariner Books, Literary — Coming of Age/Native American & Aboriginal/Magical Realism

•”Tomb Sweeping: Stories” by Alexandra Chang, August 8, Ecco Press, Short Story Collection — Asian American  

•”The End of August” by Yu Miri, Translated by Morgan Giles, August 1, Riverhead Books, Historical/Saga 

•”Holler, Child: Stories” by Latoya Watkins, August 29, Tiny Reparations Books, Short Story Collection — African American  

•”Vampires of El Norte” by Isabel Cañas, August 15, Berkley Books, Gothic Thriller/Horror/Suspense 

•”Las Madres” by Esmeralda Santiago, August 1, 

Knopf Publishing Group, Literary

•”Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women” by Sandra Guzman, August 15, Amistad Press, Anthology — American: Hispanic & Latino

•”Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls” by Kai Cheng Thom, August 01, Dual Press,  Nonfiction/Poetry/Motivation

•”The Art of Scandal” by Regina Black, August 1, Grand Central Publishing, Romance

•”Her Radiant Curse” by Elizabeth Lim, August 29, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, Fantasy/Fairy Tales/Folklore 

•”The Apology” by Jimin Han, August 1, Little Brown and Company, Family Saga/Magical Realism

•”The Water Outlaws” by S. L. Huang, August 22, Tordotcom, Fantasy

•”The Queen of the Valley” by Lorena Hughes, August 22, Kensington Publishing, Historical

•”I Will Greet the Sun Again” by Khashayar J. Khabushani, August 1, Hogarth Press, Contemporary — Coming of Age/LGBTQ+/Muslim

•”The Peach Seed” by Anita Gail Jones, August 1, Henry Holt & Company, Literary 

•”Lush Lives” by J. Vanessa Lyon, August 1, Roxane Gay Books, Literary

Happy Reading!

Mo✌️

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Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery (1997)

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The Night Hollow

What is it —

A 2D animated musical fantasy film that is a much darker take on the type of fairy tale adaptations that Disney, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox would do in the 80s and 90s with it being eventually revealed to be a stealth sequel to one of them.

PREMISE:

Set in medieval times and in a high ranking academy for girls, we follow Eilonwy Spring, a young blonde 15 year old girl who's struggling to live up to her noble family's name despite her almost bubbly attitude which leads to her being a social outcast that doesn't fit in well with any of her peers.

It's here that everything is about to change for her when after being humiliated in front of the whole school, she runs off alone into the forest surrounding the academy and finds, to her shock and surprise, little fire sprites who form a trail that she follows one at a time and Eilonwy discovers a series of different magical orbs of numerous different elements. Mesmerized by one in particular where a stunning singing voice is coming from, she makes the mistake of touching it and it absorbs into her. It grants her a magical singing voice that can turn into a smoky aura out of her mouth and control things with her emotions.

Realizing she can at long last prove she's worthy of her family name and isn't the laughingstock of the entire academy, Eilonwy decides to spread her discoveries around to the kingdomfolk herself as if it's Christmas and give all of the orbs to the boys and girls in her own way. All of this ultimately leads to a disaster of epic proportions all the while the woman she witnessed in the orb that gave her the singing ability, Queen Ariel, is quite literally dragged (or rather kidnapped and bagged) into this where she's brought to and confronted by an old foe of hers that may be more responsible for everything that's happening more than she looks.

NOTES/TRIVIA/DETAILS:

• The voices for the three leads are Kensington Tallman as Eilonwy Spring and yes, Jodi Benson herself as both Ariel and Vaness..... Ursula with the latter's dual roles allow her voice actress to show the range that she does have.

• The animation style is believe it or not heavily inspired by the animation in The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, with the smoothness, colors, expressions, thin lines and movements. But of course, with a darker and almost macabre look that's akin to The Black Cauldron, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow (1949) and yes the animated works of Tim Burton WHILE at the same time clearly making it its very own thing and offering something completely new we haven't seen yet.

• As for who is the director of this movie, the choices are in my mind Gil Kenan, Shane Acker, Louis Leterrier, David Yarovesky and Kevin Munroe for different reasons. Gil and Shane so they can bring the same dark and intense, scary edge that both Monster House (2006) and 9 (2009) had, Louis so he can bring the same ambition The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance (Netflix) had, David so he can bring the same level of appropriately weird that Nightbooks (2021) had and Kevin so that he can definitely bring the same dark look and harsh shadows of TMNT (2007) to this.

• It will be kept ambigious how Ursula came back to life, retained her form as Vanessa and even keeping her Ariel voice but it will be alluded to a fair amount of times and an obvious but nice touch is she still has a hole in her stomach.

• What does make it interesting is that believe it or not, even though she starts off as the villain and is revealed to be secretly responsible for the events of the movie, Ursula ends up deciding to help Ariel stop Eilonwy and does sort of become an anti-hero somewhat, sort of. She's still not a good person and she enjoys being twisted but she does have more of a code now that it's been years later and has grown a soft spot for Ariel with her now being impressed by her.