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Such is life! Behold, a new Post published on Greater And Grander about How to Make a Career in Hollywood? with Adam Lazarre-White; S2 E26

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How to Make a Career in Hollywood? with Adam Lazarre-White; S2 E26

Adam grew up in New York City, graduated Harvard University. Adam was nominated for an NAACP Image Award as 'Nathan Hastings' on The Young & Restless. He adapted/produced Just Passin' Through & What Angles Fear for Dreambuilder Foundation & Proctor & Gamble; both won EMMYs for Regional TV and consecutive Regional EMMYs as 'Lead Actor' for Adam. More recent highlights include upcoming "Flinch" by director/writer Cameron Van Hoy (Suicide Girls), 2018 hit, "Uncle Drew", Joel Edgerton's hit directorial debut, "The Gift", Lethal Weapon, Rosewood, Glow (Netflix/Jenji Kohan), his role as a "B613 assassin" in Scandal, recurring on Heroes, Criminal Minds, Love's Routine (w/ W. Defoe) and "Ocean's 13" (w/ Al Pacino). Adam co-wrote, produced and starred in, "Forgiveness", which won of the Martha's Vineyard Film Fest. HBO Prize; and swept the San Diego Film Black Fest., including Best Feature Film & Best Supporting Actor for him. He was a writer on staff of Vin Desil's ground-breaking web-series, "The Ropes" on Netflix & Crackle. Raised in the theater, Adam's challenging roles include "Mercutio" in Michael Arabian's "Romeo & Juliet", Bobby Seale in Ron Sossi's "Chicago Conspiracy Trial", "Cody" in Neil LaBute's "This is How It Goes"; and was an executive member of the renowned Circle Rep. West Company. In high school, Adam excelled in music, playing guitar and saxophone, and was a All-County athlete, achieving honors in football & baseball. Adam started at QB for the Harvard Crimson, earning Ivy League Player of the Week, E.C.A.C player of The Week, and The New England Sports Writers' Player of the Week. Adam's father is a NY City & State Commissioner; his mother, an author and former professor at The New School for Social Research. His brother, Khary Lazarre-White, the Founder of "The Brotherhood/Sister Sol", an award winning Harlem based Youth Organization, published his first novel in 2017, "Passage". As a director, Adam's short film "200 Years" produced by Rob Fried (Collateral, Rudy, Boondock Saints), for Feeln' Originals, reached the 3rd round of Oscar voting. He lives with his wife, actress, Dendrie Taylor, and their beloved daughter, Aiyana.

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Forgiveness with Richard T. Jones

Just Passin' Through with Adam Gifford

Brotherly Love with Jefferson Moore

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artfilmfan · 5 months

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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson, 2023)

cinematography: Jomo Fray

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pineconecowgirl · 1 year

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If you, like me, wish we spent more time talking about the women of the civil rights movement, here’s a really big moment that often goes unsung: the 1969 Charleston Hospital Strike.

Protesting discriminatory treatment, the unjust termination of 12 employees, and abysmal wages, more than 60 hospital workers, all Black, most women, went on strike for 2 months. The demonstrations they staged provoked a response of over 1,000 state troopers and members of the national guard. The movement was notably supported by Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr., pictured above (front center).

The investigation of the hospital that followed found 37 instances of civil rights violation, and when the state was threatened with a $12 million cut in federal funds, they yielded, rehiring the 12 employees who had been fired and agreeing to a pay increase.

One of the participants in the demonstrations, Madeline Anderson, since inducted to the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame, made a phenomenal 30 minute documentary called “I am Somebody”. If you can find it, watch it. I was able to find a DVD at my local public library. If you’re interested in reading what I had to say about the movie, you can read my letterboxd review here.

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blkgirlsreadfanfic2 · 4 months

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hello, gorgeous

for black girls, by black girls

stranger things

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who you gon' call? (steve harrington x black!fem!oc)

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waste-it-on-something-useful · 2 years

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Wipe transition from Deep Cover (Bill Duke, 1992), edited by pioneering film editor John Carter, at that time 70 years old!

The craziest technique you’ve seen in a minute, right?

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typerception · 2 years

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jyslifetimes · 1 year

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Yin & Young Episode 65 - Matty Beavers - Cinematographer

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Welcome back to Yin & Young the podcast! In this episode we chat with Matty Beavers! Matty is a cinematographer, filmmaker, YouTuber, vlogger, anime fan, Japanese language learner, and an all around good dude. In this episode we get to hear about Matty’s artistic beginnings and aspirations, his lived experience as an African American and Filipino, and much more.

Matty’s work: https://linktr.ee/mattybeavs

Matty’s Instagram (@mattybeavs): https://www.instagram.com/mattybeavs/

Highlights:

Matty is currently pursuing his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Cinematography at the University of Southern California (USC).

Matty met James at California State University, Northridge (CSUN) when he was doing his undergrad in Television Production.

Grew up in Camarillo and Central Valley, California.

Family background is African and Filipino. Did not pick up Ilocano (spoken by his Filipino grandparents) growing up, but is currently learning Japanese.

“I, Robot” kicked off his passion for filmmaking.

Marvels at the technical aspects of lighting and filming scenes. Also admires Marvel films for their achievement in this area.

Taking a chance on himself by taking on debt for grad school.

Has learned so much from his family and their struggles. Applies those life lessons to his own work.

Completed his thesis project recently as Director of Photography for the film “Go Dani Go.” (@go_dani_go_: www.instagram.com/go_dani_go_). Stills from the film can be seen in this episode's thumbnail.

Language Corner: Japanese

We all do our best to give a self-introduction (自己紹介 jikoshokai).

趣味 (shumi) - hobbies

中二病　(chūnibyou) - 8th grader sickness. typically used to describe early teens who have grandiose delusions, believe they have secret powers, etc…(Wikipedia).

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lizardsfromspace · 2 months

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The queen of dubious Hollywood plagiarism cases is Sophia Stewart. She's the woman who The Matrix and The Terminator were stolen from, if you've heard that legend; she won a billion dollars and her victory over the studios was so big it was only ever reported by...the college paper of Salt Lake Community College. In truth she didn't win the case, she won the right to not have it dismissed, which it eventually was when she failed to show up.

Like, she wasn't claiming The Matrix and The Terminator were stolen from her work as a whole; she claimed they were stolen from the same story, even though the only real similarity they have is "robots destroyed the Earth and there's human rebels". How can this be? Well the story was unpublished in the 80s. But you can buy it now! ...but that version's from after she made her case, so who knows if it looks like the original. The Amazon reviews include a lot of glowing ones from people without avatars, and a lot of one star ones from people who seem to exist saying that it's more or less a plot outline and the majority of the book is just legal documents

But you don't have to dig into that bc she claims she sent it to a contest for story ideas run by the Wachowskis. In 1986. When they were not only not filmmakers, but a teenager and in college respectively. That's ten years before they made their first feature film, and she claims they were running a contest for story ideas in a national magazine she cannot name, even though she obsessively documents every other aspect of the plagiarism case. You literally don't have to look up any other facet of her argument: this one basic fact making no sense chronologically, and being the only element she can't produce, lets you dismiss the rest. The Wachowskis simply were not running national filmmaking competitions when they were in college

And yet! It spreads. It still spreads. When the fourth Matrix movie came out there were "Actually, the Wachowskis stole The Matrix from an African-American woman" reminders everywhere. It spreads on TikTok, Twitter, and even Tumblr. All from people who haven't actually tried looking up her story, and who are going off a Utah community college paper's misinterpretation that her slightly delaying losing her case was somehow her winning billions. It sounds good, and that's all that matters

#film #movies #plagiarism

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292pantone · 2 years

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I am once again thinking about the movie Nope and I just realized that a seemingly throwaway line actually has a lot more depth behind it than I anticipated. Tech support worker Angel makes a comment about the TV show "Ancient Aliens", which seems like a comic relief moment at first, but actually really highlights some of the film's underlying themes.

For those unfamiliar with the show, Ancient Aliens is a History channel show in America that basically promotes the "ancient aliens" hypothesis, i.e. that some past extraterrestrial race must have come to earth and is secretly behind technological marvels like the Egyptian pyramids. It focuses a lot on things built by non-Western cultures, from Native Americans to Africans to South Americans, with the heavily implied undertone that people of color couldn't possibly have been advanced enough to create things without the help of aliens. The show has been rightfully criticized for racism and its extremely pseudoscientific content with sparse and misleading evidence. Not only does Ancient Aliens perfectly encompass the concept of spectacle in pop culture, but it constantly erases and downplays the scientific and artistic advancements of whole cultures.

The concept of cultural erasure came up earlier in Nope with Em's speech about being descended from the first Black stuntman, who despite his contributions to film history was overlooked by Hollywood. The Haywood family are some of the only Black horse trainers in the industry, but struggle to keep their business afloat as predominantly white filmmakers dismiss and disrespect them. Em and OJ spend much of the film striving to get the perfect "Oprah shot" that will finally launch them from obscurity and earn them fame and fortune.

Angel's casual reference seems too on-the-nose to be a coincidence. Even as he joins the search for aliens, his whole frame of reference is a clickbaity show that promotes conspiracy theories undermining the achievements and contributions of people of color.

#nope #nope 2022 #jordan peele #jordan peele nope #discussion #movies #movie analysis #nope movie #nope spoilers

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ricardotomasz · 1 year

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Such is life! Behold, a new Post published on Greater And Grander about Danny Glover’s Producing Partner, Carolyn McDonald; S2 E18

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Danny Glover’s Producing Partner, Carolyn McDonald; S2 E18

With a diverse career in the film industry, Carolyn McDonald continues to expand her creative disciplines. Some of her recent endeavors include, executive producing, co-writing and directing P.N.O.K., a short film featuring Irma P. Hall, Danny Glover, Robert Ri'chard and Elle Fanning, executive producing Country artist Big Kenny Alphin's (Big & Rich) documentary "Bearing Light" which aired on National Geographic Channel, directing the Shannon Sanders music video "Run" and co-writing the comedy "Return of the Sweetbirds" from her story for 20th Century Fox. As partner of Danny Glover at Carrie Productions, she executive produced the Emmy & Image Award nominated TNT civil rights saga, "Freedom Song". Written and directed by Oscar® nominee Phil Alden Robinson ("Field of Dreams"), the film features Vondi Curtis-Hall, David Strathairn and Loretta Devine. Carolyn also co-produced the critically acclaimed Western "Buffalo Soldiers". Earlier at Carrie, she executive produced the prestigious HBO trilogy "America's Dream". Comprised of powerful short stories by celebrated African-American authors, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright & Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the film featured Wesley Snipes, Danny Glover & Jasmine Guy, with segments directed by Bill Duke, Kevin Sullivan & Emmy-winner Paris Barclay. The program won 4 Cable Aces and an NAACP Image Award for Best Made-for-TV Movie. Prior to joining Carrie, Carolyn served as a Creative Executive at Cinecom Entertainment Group, where she was involved in various stages of development & production on such films as "The Handmaid's Tale", "Once Around", "Mississippi Masala" and "Tune in Tomorrow". Fresh out of NYU's Dramatic Writing Program, Carolyn joined the East Coast advertising/publicity division of Warner Bros. Television in New York. There she ran buyer screenings and developed network publicity campaigns for such films as "The Road Warrior, "Chariots of Fire" and "Blade Runner", and conceived marketing campaigns for the Warner Bros. cartoon catalogue. Committed to giving back to youth and community, Carolyn produced and directed the documentary and short film "Who's Real" for Nashville Film Festival's Youth Outreach Film Program. She continues to produce the program, comprised of inner city teens generating short films based on their own lives. In 2011, she produced and directed the documentary "Design Your Neighborhood" for the Nashville Civic Design Center, a program also supporting youth education. Carolyn was a consultant for the American Film Institute's Digital Content Lab, a mentor for FilmIndependent's Project: Involve, studied acting with Uta Hagen and Geraldine Page, and is an alumni of Judith Weston's Actor/Director Lab.

You can also check out Carolyn in Film Festival Radio about her new book “Light Needs Night” which she will be shooting a short film adaptation for in April.

Connect with her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/createdbycarolyn/

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Buffalo Soldiers starring Danny Glover

America’s Dream starring Wesley Snipes

Freedom Song starring David Strathairn

Fly starring Bruce Boxleitner

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readyforevolution · 2 months

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Did You Know That Magic Johnson And Michael Jordan.. Two Legends In The World Of The NBA.. Played A Significant Role In FInancing The Film Malcolm X??..

Directed By The Renowned Filmmaker Spike Lee.. The Film Starred Denzel Washington In The Lead Role..

Bringing To Life The Story Of Malcolm X.. A Prominent Figure In African-American History...

#malcom x #magic johnson #michael jordan #blacktumblr #black history #black liberation #african history

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artfilmfan · 8 months

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Earth Mama (Savanah Leaf, 2023)

#tia nomore #earth mama #savanah leaf #a24 #female filmmakers #female film directors #female directors #female directed films #women in film #african american #black history month

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cartermagazine · 3 months

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Today In History

Hollywood icon, director, activist, and diplomat Sidney Poitier was the first African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, receiving the honor in 1964 for his performance in ‘Lilies of the Field.’

Poitier was born in Miami, FL, on this date February 20, 1924-two and a half months prematurely while his parents were on vacation from the Bahamas.

Poitier portrayal of resolute heroes in films like “To Sir With Love,” “In the Heat of the Night” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” established him as Hollywood’s first Black matinee idol and helped open the door for Black actors in the film industry.

He rose to prominence when the civil rights movement was beginning to make headway in the United States. Although often simmering with repressed anger, his characters responded to injustice with quiet determination. They met hatred with reason and forgiveness, sending a reassuring message to white audiences.

With the rise of Black filmmakers like Gordon Parks and Melvin Van Peebles in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Mr. Poitier, now in his 40s, turned to directing and producing. He had proposed the idea for the romantic comedy “For Love of Ivy” (1968), in which he starred with Abbey Lincoln. After joining with Paul Newman and Barbra Streisand in 1969 to form a production company called First Artists, he directed the western “Buck and the Preacher” (1972), in which he acted opposite Mr. Belafonte, and a series of comedies, notably “Uptown Saturday Night” (1974) and “Let’s Do It Again” (1975), in which Mr. Poitier and Bill Cosby teamed up to play a pair of scheming ne’er-do-wells, and “Stir Crazy” (1980), with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder.

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kemetic-dreams · 5 months

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House is a music genre characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 120 beats per minute as a re-emergence of 1970's disco. It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture and evolved slowly in the early/mid 1980s, and as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat. By early 1988, House became mainstream and supplanted the typical 80s music beat

House was created and pioneered by DJs and producers in Chicago such as Frankie Knuckles, Ron Hardy, Jesse Saunders, Chip E., Joe Smooth, Steve "Silk" Hurley, Farley "Jackmaster" Funk, Marshall Jefferson, Phuture, and others. House music initially expanded internationally, to London, then to other American cities, such as New York City, and ultimately a worldwide phenomenon.

In its most typical form, the genre is characterized by repetitive 4/4rhythms including bass drums, off-beat hi-hats, snare drums, claps, and/or snaps at a tempo of between 120 and 130 beats per minute (bpm); synthesizerriffs; deep basslines; and often, but not necessarily, sung, spoken or sampled vocals. In house, the bass drum is usually sounded on beats one, two, three, and four, and the snare drum, claps, or other higher-pitched percussion on beats two and four. The drum beats in house music are almost always provided by an electronic drum machine, often a Roland TR-808, TR-909, or a TR-707. Claps, shakers, snare drum, or hi-hat sounds are used to add syncopation. One of the signature rhythm riffs, especially in early Chicago house, is built on the clave pattern. Congas and bongos may be added for an African sound, or metallic percussion for a Latin feel

One book from 2009 states the name "house music" originated from a Chicago club called the Warehouse that was open from 1977 to 1982. Clubbers to the Warehouse were primarily African, gay men, who came to dance to music played by the club's resident DJ, Frankie Knuckles, who fans refer to as the "godfather of house". Frankie began the trend of splicing together different records when he found that the records he had were not long enough to satisfy his audience of dancers. After the Warehouse closed in 1983, eventually the crowds went to Knuckles' new club, The Power House, later to be called The Power Plant, and the club was renamed, yet again, into Music Box with Ron Hardy as the resident DJ. The 1986 documentary, "House Music in Chicago", by filmmaker, Phil Ranstrom, captured opening night at The Power House, and stands as the only film or video to capture a young Frankie Knuckles in this early era, right after his departure from The Warehouse.

In the Channel 4 documentary Pump Up the Volume, Knuckles remarks that the first time he heard the term "house music" was upon seeing "we play house music" on a sign in the window of a bar on Chicago's South Side. One of the people in the car joked, "you know that's the kind of music you play down at the Warehouse!" In self-published statements, South-Side Chicago DJ Leonard "Remix" Rroy claimed he put such a sign in a tavern window because it was where he played music that one might find in one's home; in his case, it referred to his mother's soul and disco records, which he worked into his sets

#house music #african music #chicago #african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #brownskin #africans #brown skin #afrakans #african culture #frankie knuckles #Farley “Jackmaster” Funk #dance #evolution of african american music

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michaun · 23 hours

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Documentaries

13th (2016) - Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.

Jenin, Jenin (2002) - Documentary about the 2002 deadly confrontations between armed Israeli soldiers and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

Three Identical Strangers (2018) - Identical triplets become separated at birth and adopted by three different families. Years later, their amazing reunion becomes a global sensation, but it also unearths an unimaginable secret that has radical repercussions.

Titicut Follies (1967) - Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman exposes conditions at a Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane.

Unrest (2017) - When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.

Dear Zachary (2008) - In 2001, 28-year-old Dr. Andrew Bagby is found dead in a park in Pennsylvania. He had been shot by his ex-girlfriend, who then fled to Canada, where she was able to walk free on bail, pregnant with Andrew's child. Andrew's enraged parents campaign to gain custody of the child and convict their son's killer. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne pairs this story with home movies and interviews with those who knew Andrew, hoping to give his best friend's son an opportunity to discover who his dad was.

The Act of Killing (2012) - Filmmakers expose the horrifying mass executions of accused communists in Indonesia and those who are celebrated in their country for perpetrating the crime.

Tell Me Who I Am (2019) - When Alex loses his memory after a serious motorcycle accident, he trusts his twin Marcus to tell him about his past, but he later discovers that Marcus is hiding a dark family secret.

Paris Is Burning (1990) - This documentary focuses on drag queens living in New York City and their "house" culture, which provides a sense of community and support for the flamboyant and often socially shunned performers. Groups from each house compete in elaborate balls that take cues from the world of fashion. Also touching on issues of racism and poverty, the film features interviews with a number of renowned drag queens, including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija and Dorian Corey.

#filmedit #movies #moviegifs #documentary #thing i made

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kwebtv · 23 days

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Terry Carter (born John Everett DeCoste; December 16, 1928 – April 23, 2024) Actor and filmmaker, known for his roles as Sgt. Joe Broadhurst on the TV series McCloud and as Colonel Tigh on the original Battlestar Galactica.

Carter acted in numerous television series, specials, and theatrical films. Carter was a regular cast member of The Phil Silvers Show (popularly known as Sergeant Bilko), appearing as Pvt. Sugie Sugarman in 91 episodes between 1955 and '59. Carter played boxer Rosie Palmer in a 1964 episode of the ABC drama Breaking Point. In 1965 he was the only black actor to have a role in the World War II drama Combat! in the season three episode "The Long Wait". He is best known internationally for his co-starring role as Colonel Tigh in the popular science-fiction TV series Battlestar Galactica. He was originally cast as Lieutenant Boomer, but was cut following a roller skating accident that fractured his ankle. After replacing Carter with Herb Jefferson, Jr., producer Glen A. Larson instead offered Terry Carter the role of Colonel Tigh, second in command of the ragtag fleet of starships, giving the series the distinction for the time of having more than one regular African-American character in the principal cast. Carter also starred as Dennis Weaver's partner, Sergeant Joe Broadhurst in the detective series McCloud for seven years.

In 1975, Carter started a small Los Angeles corporation, Meta/4 Productions, Inc. for which he produced and directed industrial and educational presentations on film and videotape for the federal government. Carter was president of Council for Positive Images, Inc., a non-profit organization he formed in 1979, dedicated to enhancing intercultural and interethnic understanding through audiovisual communication. Under the council's auspices, Carter produced and directed award-winning dramatic and documentary programs for presentation on PBS and distribution worldwide. (Wikipedia)

#Terry Carter #TV #Obit #Obituary #O2024 #Battlestar Galactica #McCloud #The Phil Silvers Show

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