Saoirse Ronan in Mary, Queen of Scots (2018)
Actually, I think they left the comma out of the movie title, but you get the idea.
“President Trump will sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action — including a national emergency.”
And so … the legal battle will probably begin.
“WCW Wanted Buff Bagwell To Die In A Plane Crash And Become A Ghost For An Angle”
My personal favorite “bad gimmick” was when Kevin Sullivan went out to the ocean and conjured the Purple Haze, a demon from hell or the dark side of the moon or some such place to be his partner in a tag team match against the mighty Road Warriors. Never mind that the Haze looked exactly like veteran wrestler Maniac Marc Lewin, and later turned out to have a thick New York accent. That’s not the good part. What was best about it is that they actually filmed the Haze rising out of the sea, so we were supposed to believe that Sullivan really was partnered with a supernatural power, the very spawn of Satan himself …
and he still lost to the Road Warriors.
Just goes to show you Satan isn’t what he used to be.
“Inside America’s eerie abandoned malls: How shopping centers that once buzzed with eager shoppers are now being transformed into Amazon depots staffed by robots“
“For $5,000 You Can Hunt Bigfoot With Jose Canseco”
Or vice-versa.
Numa Perrier in SMILF [S2E3]
Cruise is filming on an aircraft carrier, and the crew is not to make eye contact with the holy one.
I’m not sure I buy into this story, but …
by the way, how much does the Navy charge to use a Nimitz-class carrier for a freakin’ movie? I hope it’s a shitload so I’m not picking up the tab through my taxes and the military budget.
Update from the comments section:
How much they charge depends on how valuable to the cause of the military they think the movie might be. In the case of a Top Gun II, given Top Gun was the single best Navy Recruitment movie ever made, I’d be willing to the navy paying *them*!
But a story that was on the LD release from the navy liaison about the opening scene of flight ops preparing as the sun rose is interesting. The carrier started to turn into the wind and the sun went sailing off the side of the ship. The director was all ‘My light! I’ve got to have that gorgeous light, we need to then the ship back.” The liaison told him that he could request it of the captain, but he’d have to charge him a per hour fee for interfering with operations, and quoted an enormous number. The director said he only needed 15 minutes. They pointed out the aircraft carrier was the size of a town and would need to stop, maneuver back. Wait, maneuver back again, and it was going to use up most of an hour. I think they quoted him 100K+ for it. He “had to have his light” and agreed. But he said that he was pretty sure the navy decided that if it was that important to him he’d pay 100k, they could let it go this time, and he got his shot.
I don’t even understand the question. I always think “Black enough for what?”
Is she trying to win the Oval Office or a hip-hop Grammy?
Is this one black enough? Is this one feminine enough? Is this one guilty of cultural appropriation? This kind of cannibalism, the people of the left eating their own, is a good reason why liberals frequently end up fielding their second team and thus losing elections to drooling idiots, stumblebums and racists.
Is Harris representative of the average African American? I suppose not, but I can’t imagine what difference that makes. Look at her policies and character. If you don’t like them, try to educate her about your concerns, then move on to another candidate if she’s unresponsive.
I really don’t know anything about her, other than that she fucked up on that tweet about the tax refunds, meaning she is just as bad at numbers as every other politician. I did like that interview where she said she smoked dope and she inhaled the shit out of it. I know she is descended from Jamaican slaves and attended Howard University, which sounds pretty fuckin’ black to me, but what do I know? Given that I’m so white I could be the mutant offspring of Edgar Winter and a female polar bear, I don’t really get a vote on black authenticity.
I have no problem with this concept, but I have a question or two …
1. If this is a secret program, why do I know about it?
2. If I know about it, doesn’t that mean Iran also knows?
Another great sex scene from the 80s – Kaprisky and Richard Gere in Breathless (1982)
Fuck ’em
Cutting back on televised categories is EXACTLY what they should do to make the show watchable, but somebody really screwed up when they decided to include editing and cinematography in the excised group.
Here are the words of the academy member who nailed it:
“You move the Oscars for the two jobs that are hand-in-hand collaborations with the director but televise the award for animated short.”
If this were my choice, I’d televise ONLY
Best Picture
Best Animated Feature
Best Foreign-Language Picture
Best Documentary Feature
The four acting categories
The two writing categories
The two music categories
Editing
Cinematography
Absolutely nobody cares about shorts of any kind.
I am not discounting the value of production design or sound editing or special effects or anything else, but the viewers simply don’t know any of the nominees and therefore have no interest in the outcome.
While that is also true of editing and cinematography, it obvious that the overall pace and coherence of the film, as well as its appearance, are two of the most important elements in the process. As Alfonso Cuaron wrote, “In the history of CINEMA, masterpieces have existed without sound, without color, without a story, without actors and without music. No one single film has ever existed without CINEMAtography and without editing.”
Actually, I think Cuaron is wrong in saying no film has ever existed without editing. Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark, a complex feature-length film which is considered a masterpiece by some, was shot entirely with the camera rolling in one single uninterrupted take, and went straight from the camera to the theaters. But Sokurov just did that to prove he could do it. Cuaron’s point is valid in general.
Jokes aside, some of these accusations involve serious criminal behavior.
He didn’t use the word “lied.” He said “contradicted by other evidence.”
“The committee has identified several individuals with direct knowledge of the phone calls you denied receiving from the White House.”
The king of the Big Dick Toilets was not subpoenaed, but he did testify under oath.
Oops.
Whitaker’s 15 minutes are just about up. In fact, he may no longer be acting AG when you read this. Barr’s confirmation vote should be held on Thursday.
“Lyndon LaRouche, the political extremist and conspiracy theorist who ran for president in eight consecutive national elections, died Tuesday, his political action committee confirmed. He was 96.”
One of the more fascinating tidbits: he ran one of his eight Presidential campaigns from prison! He was sentenced to 15 years in prison for running some scam or another, but he only served about six years. I presume they let him out early because they just got tired of listening to him. I think even Charles Manson found him “a little out there.”
Although he did nothing that I know of on the internet, he was the true father of internet nutbaggery. He was a prominent nutburger before it was even a thing. If you took ten of his wackiest positions and intermingled them with ten headlines from the late, lamented Weekly World News, nobody but a true LaRouche expert could tell the difference.
Although LaRouche was pretty much wrong about everything he ever said, I suppose he may well turn out to be right about his overall premise:
“A central tenet of his apocalyptic platform warned of an inevitable global downward slide into crisis.”
True enough. That may not happen in the next ten or a hundred or even a million years, but I suppose it is inevitable. Maybe it will occur fairly soon in cosmic terms, or maybe not until the sun burns out. Making that prediction is sort of like predicting that Dwayne Johnson will die. No matter how fit and healthy he seems today, your prediction has to be right eventually.
Skylar Grey wearing a bikini at a beach (Feb 13th Instagram)
Given her trim figure, I assume that is more bread than she has eaten in her lifetime.
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“Prior to becoming a model, she had wanted to be a tennis player and was a keen competitive player for nine years.”
If you’re like me, you haven’t seen her in years. That’s probably because we don’t watch the Hallmark Channel, where she seems to be in every movie. (That’s only a slight exaggeration. She has appeared in 17 Hallmark productions to date.)
Heather Graham hates bras. (And she has the physique to allow that hatred.)
Always worth another look …
Front view: completely nude, but using her hands strategically. Rear view: nude but for a thong.
She was nearly 40 at the time, and looked exactly the same as when she started her career. She’s like a living advertisement for the benefits of cocaine.
Joey Heatherton in Bluebeard (1972)
I’ve told the story many times, but for those of you who haven’t heard it, she once hit on me. I was in the piano bar at The Sign of the Dove, in a toney area of uptown Manhattan on 3rd Avenue, which was my favorite hang-out when I was in NYC. (It is no longer there. It was razed around the turn of the century when its block was cleared for a high-rise.)
The idea that Joey Heatherton hit on me sounds ridiculous until you realize that she did not look like the Joey Heatherton in the film clip linked above. THAT Joey Heatherton would have been hanging out with Sinatra and his pals and she probably would have had her entourage throw me in a puddle so she could use me to step over it. MY Joey looked sick – terribly thin. Some of the people in the bar told me she had some substance abuse problems, but I don’t know that for a fact. I do know that she looked more like the “now” version of Joey in this picture, and that she was wacked out of her tree that night, either drunk or stoned. Hell, she must have been out of her mind to hit on me.
She became livid when I declined, so enraged that the bartender called security and had her ejected. I felt kinda flattered by the attention – until the barkeep told me that it was a recurring scene there, and that she always reacted like that when rejected, which happened frequently.
This pic of Lady Gaga must be an old one, but I don’t remember it.
By the way, nice fingernails!
Now if you want real classic Gaga, I’d go with the pic of Gaga spreadin’ ’em.
