Miami Dolphins fans set up a makeshift strip club in the parking lot before the game.
Miami tailgates just slap different pic.twitter.com/fhX3l8OqfU
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) September 9, 2019
One wag tweeted: “Disgusting! Does anyone know when the next Miami home game is?”
Hey, it’s good to root in Miami. Outdoors at Lambeau we’re lucky to set up a makeshift igloo. I once saw some guys ice fishing in their truck bed.
And that was a pre-season game in August.
This is the film with Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe / Norma Jeane. Julianne plays Norma Jeane’s deeply disturbed mother.
The Ana de Armas pictures are here.
Ana de Armas created an uncanny portrayal of MM. I especially loved the scene when she tells Arthur Miller things he didn’t know about his own play. Adrian Brody also did a great job in that scene, portraying Miller at first suspicious of, and utterly flabbergasted by, Marilyn’s erudite comments, then completely moved by her insightful grasp of the characters.
Arthur Miller disappointed Marilyn and betrayed her trust, but he came off better than Joe DiMaggio and JFK, who are portrayed as a couple of complete douchebags. A callous JFK treats Marilyn like a sex slave. Joltin’ Joe, although he seems to care for MM in his way, is a simple, jealous, paternalistic brute who slaps her around.
Despite great performers like de Armas, Brody and Bobby Cannavale, I wasn’t crazy about the film, which is too long in general, and contains several individual scenes that seem to drag on long after they have made their points. And those are often hypothetical or purely imaginary points, since the film is not a Marilyn Monroe biopic. In fact, it bears only a superficial resemblance to her life story. Slate did a good job of covering the differences between this film and reality. Blonde is a combination of facts, speculation, and pure invention, based on a novel by Joyce Carol Oates. The names of her famous lovers and husbands are never even mentioned in the credits, although their identities are obvious. They are credited as “the ex-athlete,” “the playwright,” and “the President.” The underlying essence of the film is that Marilyn spent her life with an aching emptiness over her missing father, and that her long-term relationships always reflected her search for a father figure.
By the way, the identity of her biological father has been quite convincingly determined by DNA. It was a studio executive named Charles Stanley Gifford. That was no great surprise. Gifford was Marilyn’s mother’s boss. According to some reports, Marilyn probably knew that he was her father, because she allegedly made repeated efforts to contact him and was always rebuffed. That parentage means that Marilyn was a direct descendant of John Alden, a famous historical figure who came over on the Mayflower, and whose marriage to a fellow colonist was immortalized in a famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Courtship of Miles Standish.” Other descendants of Alden include John Adams, Orson Welles, and the aforementioned Longfellow, so Marilyn was in good company. (Other distant relatives include Dan Quayle, Julia Child, Jodie Foster and Raquel Welch.)
The film’s sensationalistic NC-17 rating seems totally unnecessary. There is a fellatio scene (no visible penis), and much sex and nudity, but there is nothing that you might not see in any R-rated film. On the other hand, TV Insider thinks the NC-17 was justified, not by one or two moments, but by the overwhelming impact of scene after scene.
“Kitten Natividad, the busty adult-film actress who became a pop culture icon via her work with director Russ Meyer, reportedly died suddenly over the weekend.”
Louise Fletcher won an Oscar for that role, after many prominent actresses turned it down. She continued to work steadily for another four decades, but never again made that kind of impression.
“On its 2003 list of the 100 greatest villains in the annals of motion pictures, the American Film Institute placed Nurse Ratched at No. 5, behind only Hannibal Lecter, Norman Bates, Darth Vader and the Wicked Witch of the West.”
“The generated portraits look like they recently sat to have their pictures taken.”
It’s nipple tape, and not just a little patch, but a piece of tape about the size of Midland, Texas. It is so large that some of it peeled off in the sex scene and they just left it hanging because the remaining part still covered almost the entire breast.
“If you share that dream, the Switchblade was designed for you.”
“Samson Sky say the reservation list for the Switchblade has reached 2100, with reservation holders in 52 countries, and in all 50 states in the U.S.”
I believe I have may have rickrolled myself by clicking on something I posted a decade earlier, so that would be a simple self-rickroll, but since he is Rick, this constitutes the dreaded meta-self-rickroll.
Is this now the most famous song in the world? I’ll bet Rick could sing this in any country to a crowd of any age group, and the audience would sing along enthusiastically in English. He is now the world’s cultural ambassador because the world has been rickrolled. (Possibly excepting North Korea?)
Hey, Rachel, I think Pete Davidson is free.
“While attending the premiere of her new show She-Hulk: Attorney at Law on Monday (August 15), the 36-year-old actress revealed a rather embarrassing and NSFW injury she suffered on set.”
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“U.S. actress Anne Heche dies after being pulled off life support”
Frankly, this sounds like bullshit, but for what it’s worth …
This is kind of a fun time-waster. It is based entirely on where somebody was born, so some people may be associated with surprising places.
As I noted in the comments, many of those people could not have been born in their alleged birthplaces because there are no hospitals there. To illustrate, my parents lived in Irondequoit, NY when my sister was born, but she was born in Rochester, because that’s where the hospitals were. Billionaire Tom Golisano (real name Blase Golisano) is associated with Irondequoit, NY on the linked interactive map, but he was also born in Rochester, based on the same logic that applies to my sister. The official NY State birth records agree, as does Wikipedia.
Per the comments below, I can’t explain why Kid Cudi is associated with Crofton, Maryland. That doesn’t appear to make any sense at all.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 3, 2022
Ol’ Vin and I led very different lives, but we both loved old-time baseball, graduated from Fordham and got our start in radio at WFUV. I feel like I lost an uncle.
“People say ‘Oh, she gets naked onscreen, she’s a sex symbol.’ And I can’t get past that. I have no problems with those scenes, and I won’t stop doing them.”
The reason: there is not enough paper in the entire world!
“Nichols was born Grace Dell Nichols near Chicago in 1932. (Unhappy with Grace, she took the name Nichelle when she was a teenager.) Her grandfather was a White Southerner who married a Black woman, causing a rift in his family.
Blessed with a four-octave vocal range, Nichols was performing in local clubs by the time she was 14. Among the performers she met was Duke Ellington, who later took her on tour. She also worked extensively in Chicago clubs and in theater.
She moved to Los Angeles in the early ’60s and landed a role in a Gene Roddenberry series, ‘The Lieutenant.’ A number of Star Trek veterans, including Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig and Majel Barrett, also worked on the show.”
Nichelle never did any screen nudity, but she wore a mighty sexy outfit in a 1974 film called Truck Turner:
According to Celebrity Sleuth magazine, she also posed for this nude photoshoot:
