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This is from the red-band trailer for Immaculate:

There are no reviews or ratings on IMDb. I gather that it has a creepy, Rosemary’s Baby vibe. The official description:

“Cecilia (Sydney Sweeney) is a woman of devout faith who is offered a fulfilling new role at an illustrious Italian convent. Her warm welcome to the picture-perfect Italian countryside is soon interrupted as it becomes clearer to Cecilia that her new home harbors some dark and horrifying secrets.”

They had me at “Sydney Sweeney nearly naked.”

As reported by The Verge:

“Sexually explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift have been circulating on X (formerly Twitter) over the last day in the latest example of the proliferation of AI-generated fake pornography and the challenge of stopping it from spreading.

One of the most prominent examples on X attracted more than 45 million views, 24,000 re-posts, and hundreds of thousands of likes and bookmarks before the verified user who shared the images had their account suspended for violating platform policy. The post was live on the platform for around 17 hours prior to its removal.

A report from 404 Media found that the images may have originated in a group on Telegram, where users share explicit AI-generated images of women often made with Microsoft Designer. Users in the group reportedly joked about how the images of Swift went viral on X.”

She was 40ish at the time, but gravity had not yet claimed its due on the 6’1″ stunner. (In fact she did a later topless scene at age 50 in Albert Nobbs.)


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She is also a very fine actress, known as such by film and theater savants, but largely unrecognized by the general public. She has been nominated for two Oscars and an Emmy, but her greatest success has come on the stage, where she has been nominated for three Tonys and six Oliviers, winning one of each.

Ellen Burstyn

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Julia Anne Robinson

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The very obscure and ethereally beautiful Julia Anne Robinson was the unlikely subject of one of my in-depth essays. Although nobody remembers her but me, she managed to pack a lot of living into a very short life. She was a brilliant student, but chose to forego college in order to experience life. She was an Eileen Ford model who made major magazine covers. She partied with Andy Warhol. She rode the Magic Bus with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. She co-starred with Jack Nicholson in a major film.

All of that happened before she turned 22.

As fast as she rose, she fell even faster. Within a year after the release of her Nicholson film, she was back in her home town, performing in junior college theater. Within another year or two, she was dead.

Everything I just mentioned happened between 1968 and early 1975. If you define the hippie era as the period between the Summer of Love and Nixon’s resignation, Julia’s adult life was almost perfectly concurrent with that era, and perfectly symbolized it. She was like a real life version of Forrest Gump, having played every iconic chord and met every counter-cultural idol in her brief adulthood. How did she miss being introduced by a rock star on the stage at Woodstock?

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Elsewhere: my comments on the movie.

Soused Stepdad offers:

“Madisyn Shipman looks like she was some child star nerd, at least according to her WIKIPEDIA picture where she’s rocking a big set of teeth and a pair of nerd glasses, which to some of you is probably a fetish, but to me is fucking lesbianic and weird. Luckily for me, she’s broke out of the pervert sex work that is working for Nickelodeon and at 21 years old has figured out how fun posting half naked pics on the internet can be ….”