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Little Women (1994) dir. Gillian Armstrong

#perioddramaedit #little women #little women 1994 #louisa may alcott #filmedit #march sisters #meg march #jo march #beth march #amy march #winona ryder #trini alvarado #claire danes #susan sarandon #kirsten dunst

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this, I can’t tell you enough about how much I agree with this. ⤴️

I'm going to need someone to say sike about Chris Evans playing Gene Kelly.

1. Because Kelly specifically asked that no biopic be made about him, and while I know this is not a exact biopic (it is essentially a self insert fanfiction) it's in some cases worse, because it takes Kelly's name and likeness and creating a "character" out of him. One that will most likely be a caricature of his true self because the story is being told from the perspective a child. Why not keep the premise of the story while inventing a completely new character?

2. You can be a dance enthusiast as much as you like, it does not mean you are a good dancer, let alone capable of imitating one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century. It's great that Chris loves to tap dance and has shared many heartwarming stories about his mother teaching him, but he is not at the level of a professional dancer. Chris liking tap dance does not equal him being a good Gene Kelly any more than Ryan Gosling would be a good Johnny Castle just because he can do the Dirty Dancing lift. The recent casting of Tom Holland as Fred Astaire barely makes sense, but at least Holland has a steady dance background and danced into adulthood. Jamie Bell as Astaire makes a great deal more sense and is arguably great casting. If not for the fact that Astaire also said he never wanted a biopic made about him. If Chris was a decent producer he would cast a professional dancer and singer for the role, I can think of at least 10 Broadway guys who could nail it.

3. Even if we ignored the first two points, it's still a terrible casting choice because the men do not resemble each other at all. Their eyes are both almond shaped, that's about it. Structurally they are built completely different, height, weight, build. Kelly (5'7) was a bulldog, stocky but raw power. Evans is much leaner and taller (6'0), his lines as a dancer could never resemble Kelly. At least Holland (5'9), Bell (5'8), and Astaire (5'9) are close.

4. This really feels like a vanity project. I love Chris truly I am a huge fan of his but it feels like he's been getting more anxious over the years about his post Marvel success. He's definitely trying to step out of the Captian America shadow and prove himself as a serious actor. Defending Jacob was definitely Emmy Bait with a huge Emmy campaign. This really feels like an Oscar Bait film, to be completely honest it feels like an Oscar winning film because the plot is extremely similar to Jojo Rabbit. If Evans wants to do an Oscar Bait biopic he should have done a drama about Gary Cooper, but he has no buisness playing Gene Kelly

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Singin' in the Rain (1952) - dir. Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

#Donald O'Connor #Gene Kelly #Singin' In The Rain #1952 #1950s #screen caps #i love this moment so much

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My Neighbor Totoro

#My Neighbour Totoro

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Happy Birthday Gene Kelly!!!❤️🎂

(August 23, 1912-♾)

#Happy Birthday Gene Kelly ❤️

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ladies & gentlemen.... her

#audrey fleurot #fanart #dame du lac #kaamelott #study #so beautiful #french side of tumblr

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my man Croki <3

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Time for Heroes

#reblog #art or graphic #docto who

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Sunny

#dw

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Independence. Authority. Style.

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Fuck it. It is ungodly early in the morning and I’m going to make a post I’m about to regret. Sorry if the spacing’s weird, this is a mobile post.

So John Barrowman is #canceled right now, so much so that Immersive Theater Now, who are putting together an immersive Doctor Who play. are removing the pre-recorded Captain Jack bits (they confirmed this via their FAQ, but it’s well hidden under four clicks needed to get there on their website). And ummmm…I’m feeling a certain way about this, especially given the context.

Context. Trigger Warning: discussion of sexual harassment, assault, and indecent exposure. Please don’t read further if those topics are triggering to you.

So last week it came light that Noel Clarke who played Mickey Smith on Doctor Who had been sexually harassing, assaulting, and intimidating women on set pretty much the entirety of his career. Without going into my personal history with assault, let’s just say to put it mildly: this was a hard read for me. I didn’t follow Clarke’s work post-Doctor Who/Torchwood (his character never appeared on Torchwood but he wrote the episode Combat), but I always enjoyed Mickey. I’d been cheerleading the possibility of a Martha Jones/Mickey audio spin off. The fact that he was an (and I don’t say this lightly) absolute monster of a person this whole time, came as a pretty big blow. He was awarded a high honor for his acting, and that was the final straw for 20+ women who’d he’d harassed, assaulted and threatened. He was (rightfully) stripped of the award.

So a day or two later it comes out that John Barrowman had a habit of getting naked as a joke in front of his costars. And that gave me some pause because…wait a minute? Wasn’t this already public knowledge?

So to back up a bit…look if you know me you know I’m a HUGE Torchwood fan. I’ve been various levels of active in the fandom since 2013 or so when I first watched it. My attachment to the show goes beyond the show itself, and I have a special place for the actors in my heart. Seeing the Torchwood panels at Megacon was a really important bonding thing with some of my best friends. I’ve paid to meet cast members and have Barrowman sign art I own. Something, something, Parasocial relationship.

So as someone that is a fan of the cast I’ve watched A LOT of cast interviews. It’s one of those shows were the cast seem to be genuinely close friends with each other outside of a work context. And like I don’t know these people in real life, maybe there’s more behind the scenes I’m not privy too, but they seem to genuinely enjoy spending time together.

So fast forward back to present. These allegations come out that Barrowman exposed himself on set. Given the context of the accusations against Noel Clarke (I say “accusations” here in sort of the legal, “allegedly” sense, i believe these women), the two things kind of meld together. Especially because there’s a video out there of a con panel where Clarke appears to say Barrowman can “get away” with getting naked on set because he’s gay.

And ummm here’s the thing. Public nudity in a work setting is absolutely not ok. It shouldn’t have happened. I don’t support this, and I want to be clear on that. But…Noel Clarke was using his power to threaten women’s careers. He was touching women without consent. Barrowman was stripping in a non sexual context (or I guess as non sexual as that action can be) as a joke in front of his cast mates who from what I can tell, laughed right along. The latter isnt good or really okay, but it’s also very much not the same as the first thing? At all?

So anyways I spend a few days chewing on this. Am I going “easier” on Barrowman because unlike Clarke I’m still following his work? Something, something parasocial relationship. And what I kind of land on is I don’t think that’s it. But I am really uncomfortable with that framing I mentioned above, and that seems to be my issue.

Because it goes beyond treating the two as equivalent (which they’re not). People start assigning discomfort to various Torchwood actors and that feels wrong. Let them speak for themselves, one way or the other. Especially given the fact I have seen them joke about Barrowman’s on set antics (we’ll come back to this).

There’s also a weird narrative that emerges where this kind of becomes about Christopher Ecclestian being the good guy hero in all this (because he quit the show)? And that starts starts feel a bit a like a lot of extraction of vague statements but even more importantly, that we’ve lost the plot. The plot being: we should be supporting Noel’s victims, and propping up their voices. And I’m not, at this point in the timeline, seeing much of that. What am seeing is this weird need to assign a “good” person in this narrative.

So at this point, fourish days ago, what I’m thinking is that I definitely think the BBC fostered a bad environment that let Clarke’s offenses go unchecked. Barrowman’s dumb ass antics played a part in fostering that environment. What I land on is Barrowman needs to issue a statement especially if there were set workers who felt uncomfortable with this, and apologize for his behavior.

Fast forward a few days and, through the press…literally exactly that happens? Two former set runners are interviewed one makes a really big point to emphasize that Barrowman’s antics were not sexual and not meant meant to harm anyone they were just…to paraphrase a bit, dumbass attempts at being funny. The other says that it was uncomfortable but she never felt unsafe or threatened. Both seem to support the fact the context is different than Noel.

So in this same article Barrowman apologizes, states that the whole nudity thing was a high energy shenanigan meant to entertain and that with the benefit of hindsight he is sorry, and sorry he didn’t consider those around him (which is incidentally pretty similar to the apology, I a rando on the internet, kind of wanted to see out of this). But also, and this kind the crucial bit, he already apologized in 2008.

The BBC did know about this and he was formally reprimanded for his behavior. In 2008. To that into perspective I’m 27. In 2008 I was 14 years old, in middle school. Anyways according to the producer Julie Gardner, Barrowman was talked to with lawyers and his agent present at the time, he apologized at the time, this particular brand of dumbassery stops as far as she’s aware. He takes her threat of further action if it doesn’t, seriously.

So that’s it then? Barrowman’s behavior was bad but he apologized for it (twice now), faced formal consequences for it, and it was dealt with more than a decade ago? Time to shift the focus back to that discussion about the culture of sets and Noel’s victims? Yeah no, of course not.

So a few things happen here. First, Gareth David-Llyod who plays John’s on screen love interest Ianto, gives a statement basically saying (paraphrasing this all a bit) that cast were close friends and sometimes personal and professional boundaries blurred—he was also young (Gareth was in his 20s at the time), and maybe he didn’t have the experience yet to realize this was not okay. But also that John is a really good person, never meant any harm, and is still his good friend. And the particular context was that they had really long set days, and John’s antics were attempt to break the tension and keep the energy of the cast up.

So ummm…there’s this thing that happens when people want to see you as a victim or put words in your mouth and then you contradict their narrative. They get big mad about it. I definitely saw people putting words in Gareth’s mouth claiming he was “assaulted” as a result of John’s actions before this. He more or less says that’s not true with this statement, and that he’s standing with his friend. And suddenly Gareth’s mentions are low key filled with bots accusing him of supporting a sex pest. That’s…huh. (When I say low key it’s definitely much, much less than John’s, but still very much there).

There’s some misleading headlines as other outlets pick this all up. I’m sent one by a friend I’d actually met Barrowman with, from I believe was Entertainment Weekly. It lumps both him in Noel together in the headline, then the actual body of it includes the quote from the set worker emphasizing this wasn’t sexual on Barrowman’s part and the context was different. But you wouldn’t get that if you just read the headline (which my friend had only read the headline).

There’s radio silence on John’s Twitter still. People are calling for his full and total deplatforming. And that’s when I start to see some troubling patterns in who even cares.

First people seem to care more about deplatforming John than Noel. Maybe that’s a warped perspective because of who I follow, but…not only is John Barrowman being framed as just as bad as Noel Clarke…he’s getting framed as worse? And I think there’s reason for this but also…that its wrong. So first, John played Captain Jack Harkness on TV in 2020. He, Gareth, and David Tennant have a highly anticipated audio coming out this month. A few days before all this broke it was announced he was coming back to screen as Captain Jack again as part of the immersive theater thing I mentioned way at the top of this too long, and there were rumors swirling he’d be back as Captain Jack in the upcoming Doctor Who season again. Clarke was in mostly indie stuff from what I can tell. Lots of artistic cred, but nothing with the kind of pop culture appeal as who. So we can’t run Noel Clarke off popular network TV. But here’s John Barrowman who’s career is swirling and absolutely can be run off.

Alright so who’s “cancelling” him? Obviously a lot of Doctor Who and Torchwood fans that are hurt by hearing all of this and want accountability. Valid. Very valid. But let’s come back to “accountability” in a second. There’s also:

A conservative MP that wants him off an ice dancing reality show he’s a part of. Hmmm. I wonder why a conservative MP would want an outspoken gay activist deplatformed? Is this really about dumbass nudity antics in 2008, or is this about taking political power away from an LGBT advocate?

There’s people calling on the Big Finish audios to stop working with him. But what’s interesting is they talk about someone else that Big Finish stopped working for having “the wrong opinions”. I’m admittedly not completely aware of who they’re talking about but…this sounds like the talking point of someone that’s mad they stopped working with someone that said racist, sexist, etc things?

Throw in some right wing bots, TERFs, and bored keyboard warriors that are spending quite frankly weird amounts of time on this—and I think we have to maybe be a little careful as to who even “wins” in a situation like this

So and I’m genuinely asking here: what’s the stopping point? What does “accountability” mean in this situation? Does Twitter as a nebulous collective, become happy if John keeps up his social media freeze? Because if that happens we lose a voice for LGBT, and especially LGBT youth rights, and especially, especially trans youth rights.

Do we bar him from ever working in this town again (wether this town is Cardiff or Hollywood)? Considering he’s already been pulled from the play (in quite frankly a really sneaky and underhanded way), are we already on the way there? Because again, we lose an activist voice if we do this. We lose more appearances by Captain Jack Harkness, still to this day one of the only positive portrayals of a queer action hero.

And I don’t…have the answers here. I’m not claiming I do. But what’s the end game? What does the collective wanting accountability actually want?

Or should there be no further action taken considering this was over ten years ago, everyone involved has said it was pretty close to harmless (uncomfortable at worst), and he already publicly apologized and faced a professional warning? What’s the statue of limitations of how long ago we can partake in dumbass behavior before it can be retried in the court of public opinion?

So that’s kind of where am at with this. I don’t think John should be #canceled frankly. I still plan to buy big finish audios, and I’m hoping he stays on. I think his apology was sufficient.

But if the pattern of the canceled Captain Jack appearance in the play holds that doesn’t seem to be where this heading and that’s…kind of troubling to me to be honest. Because the punishment doesn’t seem to be fitting the context.

So anyways I’m going to put my money where my mouth is. Tumblr doesn’t like links so I’ll be putting them in the notes—links to uk based sexual assault charities, to kind of try to re-rail this conversation where it should be. Listen to women, and support those that came public about Noel, both anonymously and not

#torchwood #john barrowman

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Remembering Harry Lillis “BING” CROSBY on his birthday

“I’ll keep singing ‘till I die.”

Born May 02, 1904 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington, USA

Died October 14, 1977 in Alcobendas, Provincia de Madrid, Spain 

There are many disagreements on Bing’s date of birth. In fact, he had no birth certificate. Regarding the year of his birth, most of the sources quote 1903, but on his gravestone the year 1904 was engraved by order of his family. The same confusion obviously exists concerning the day of birth (which the epitaph unfortunately does not contain), both May 2 and May 3 are given by several sources. Bing himself celebrated May 2, 1904 as his birthday. Make your own decision �� In the end, it is not important at all in order to honor him!

Bing Crosby will always be the beloved and immortal “Voice of Christmas”, but he must not be reduced to that only. He is one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, having sold over one billion records, tapes, CD’s and digital downloads. Of course, his Christmas songs are a significant proportion of his amazing success. But if you have listened once to his wonderful bass-baritone voice interpreting so many timeless songs of the Great American Song Book, you’ll realize why he deserves the crown! Personally, I love his great Irish songs. In addition, he was such a fine and talented actor, one of the ‘Good Ol’ Times’ ❤!

“Honestly, I think I’ve stretched a talent which is so thin it’s almost transparent over a quite unbelievable term of years.”

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.

“Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can’t learn anything when you’re talking!”

~ Bing Crosby ~

#Bing Crosby #2 May 1904 #happy birthday ❤️

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Gene Kelly

Photographed by John Florea.

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RIP Helen McCrory (1968-2021)

I don’t think I’ve ever been interested in any play about the happy, successful, lighter moments of life. I think that’s a very modern, pervasive idea in our entertainment, whether it’s on Instagram or in fiction, to show only the good and the perfect side of yourself. It’s just a lie and it’s very dull, and it’s nothing that anyone should even strive for.

#Helen McCrory #R.I.P. darling ❤️ #16.04.2021

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Tom Hiddleston, on stage, presenting the EE BAFTA Outstanding British Film for 'Promising Young Woman' at the Royal Albert Hall on April 11, 2021 in London, England.

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Timon d'Athènes mis en scène par Jean-Christophe HEMBERT aux Subsistances (2001)

Thomas COUSSEAU (en blanc au centre), Alexandre ASTIER (écharpe rouge), Alexis HÉNON (avec le gilet jaune) et Jean-Christophe HEMBERT (à droite)

Nicolas GABION, Thomas COUSSEAU (de dos) et Loïc VARRAUT (tenant le tableau)

Aurélien PORTEHAUT et Thomas COUSSEAU

Thomas COUSSEAU, Alexis HÉNON et Alexandre ASTIER (dans le coin)

Jean-Christophe HEMBERT et Thomas COUSSEAU (de dos)

Jean-Robert LOMBARD

Nicolas GABION, Loïc VARRAUT et Thomas COUSSEAU

Bonus vues d'ensemble :

Nicolas GABION (3e à gauche), Alexandre ASTIER (avec l'écharpe) et Thomas COUSSEAU (de dos)

Thibaut ROUX ? (en haut à gauche) et Thomas COUSSEAU (en blanc au centre)

Sources images : Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon - Photographes en Rhônes-Alpes

#Timon d'Athènes #Kaamelott #look at them #So young! #So precious! #I had no idea there were pictures of that play #I've got so many feels right now #Thank you so much for posting this I love you! #Jean-Christophe Hembert #Thomas Cousseau #Loïc Varraut #Jean-Robert Lombard #Alexandre Astier #Nicolas Gabion #Aurélien Portehaut #Thibaut Roux #Alexis Hénon

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27 March 1952 … a musical masterpiece sees the light of the day:

SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN celebrates its world premiere at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet … the show must go on!

“There is no movie musical more fun than Singin’ In The Rain, and a few that remain as fresh over the years. It is a tremendous experience, and no one who loves movies can afford to miss it.“ Roger Egbert, film critic & screenwriter

♡ Happy Anniversary SITR ♡