#George Tomasini

[sesiondemadrugada]

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960).

#psycho #psycho (1960) #alfred hitchcock #john gavin #vera miles #george tomasini #john l. russell #robert clatworthy #george milo #rita riggs

[thethirdman8]

Strangers on a Train - Robert Walker gets pounded by Farley Granger in 1951

North by Northwest - Martin Landau gets his block knocked off by James Mason in 1959

#strangers on a train #north by northwest #alfred hitchcock #william ziegler #george tomasini #1959 #1951

[genevieveetguy]

She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother.

Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock (1960)

#Alfred Hitchcock #Joseph Stefano #Anthony Perkins #Vera Miles #John Gavin #Janet Leigh #Martin Balsam #John McIntire #Simon Oakland #Frank Albertson #Patricia Hitchcock #Vaughn Taylor #Lurene Tuttle #John Anderson #Mort Mills #John L. Russell #Bernard Herrmann #George Tomasini #1960

[screamscenepodcast]

Anthony Perkins. Janet Leigh. Alfred Hitchcock. It's 1960's PSYCHO! In a nearly three hour long episode, your hosts dig into the novel, its film adaptation, and how everything changes after PSYCHO's release.

General content warning for discussion of transphobia, violence against women, psychosis, serial killers and cannibalism.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 40:23-44:30; Discussion 1:38:02; Ranking 2:32:39

#horror #podcast #anthony perkins #janet leigh #alfred hitchcock #vera miles #john gavin #martin balsam #robert bloch #ed gein #joseph stefano #john l russell #george tomasini #bernard herrmann #paramount pictures #peggy robertson #james cavanagh #psycho #SoundCloud

[balanchine-ballet-master]

Nutcracker Kids Grow Up

Terry Trucco has a lovely article in Playbill about three current NYCB dancers who performed in The Nutcracker as children.

The Polichinelles in 1985. Photo: Martha Swope --------------------------------------------------------------------------

A hallmark of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker is its roster of 126 children, aged 7 to 13, in two alternating casts, who all study in the Children’s Division at the School of American Ballet (SAB), New York City Ballet’s official school. A small percentage of those students will eventually move up to the Advanced Division at SAB, and at the end of their studies, a few will be invited to join NYCB, achieving the total Nutcracker experience—returning to Balanchine’s quintessential holiday ballet to perform as adults.

That storied third group includes former NYCB Principal Dancers Peter Boal, Jennie Somogyi, Gelsey Kirkland, and Judith Fugate, among others, as well as current corps de ballet members Shelby Mann, Mckenzie Bernardino Soares, and Rommie Tomasini, who each enrolled in SAB at the age of 6. Now coming back to the production as members of the corps de ballet, which they joined in 2022, they shared their fond memories of those formative years performing in George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker.

Shelby Mann’s earliest recollections of being in The Nutcracker are of playing jacks, a favored pre-show ritual for young cast members, and of her trailing hairpiece in the Party Scene. “My memories of The Nutcracker are so heightened,” she says. “Every time I smell hairspray, it’s like I’m back in the lower concourse of the theatre during The Nutcracker.”

From her debut at age 7 in the Party Scene, Mann sprinted up the Nutcracker ladder, appearing as an Angel, a Polichinelle, a Mouse, and then, at the ripe age of 11, a Candy Cane. “We would all look forward to The Nutcracker each year. It was what defined our childhood and our winter,” she says.

Born into a dance-world family in Harlem—her grandfather Jacques d’Amboise, grandmother Carolyn George, and uncle Christopher d’Amboise all danced with NYCB, and her parents are acclaimed Broadway performers Charlotte d’Amboise and Terrence Mann—Mann discovered her passion for dance through the iconic holiday ballet. “I loved that in rehearsals, because you were playing a character, you got to build your performance. Being in The Nutcracker made me realize that this is what I wanted to do.”

Since joining NYCB, Mann has danced Dolls, Snow, Hot Chocolate, and Flowers, and her affection for Balanchine’s two-act masterpiece—and the camaraderie that develops naturally among the cast, no matter what age—remains undiminished. “I love how The Nutcracker connects to the holidays,” she says. “We all decorate our dressing rooms, have Secret Santas, and bring cookies.”

Left: Shelby Mann as a Polichinelle in 2013. Photo: Paul Kolnik Right: Mann in Waltz of the Flowers, 2022. Photo: Erin Baiano

During his childhood performances in The Nutcracker, Mckenzie Bernardino Soares made a point of watching the effervescent Hot Chocolate. “The music, the spice—I just loved it,” he says. “And I remember thinking, dancing this is all I want to do in my life.”

Fast forward to 2021. As a freshly minted NYCB apprentice, Soares landed his dream role and repeated it last year as a member of the corps de ballet. The verdict? “It’s always a fun time on stage, and you get to show your personality,” he says. “And if it gets a little repetitive sometimes, I just think, well, little Mckenzie would have loved to do this.”

Growing up in Danbury, Connecticut, Soares’ Nutcracker experience was punctuated by long hours in the family car, driving 65 miles each way to rehearsals and performances. “Being on stage made it all worth it,” he says. He also enjoyed supervising the younger dancers backstage during “the gap” when SAB students are too old for children’s parts, and he relished hearing advice from Company members backstage and in the wings. This season, Soares, who added Mouse King to his Nutcracker repertory last year, looks forward to using the roles he dances to expand his artistry. “It’s actually nice that the choreography is the same every day, so it becomes about what you bring to each performance,” he says.

Left: Mckenzie Bernardino Soares as a Soldier in 2012. Photo: Paul Kolnik Right: Soares with Shelby Mann in Hot Chocolate, 2022. Photo: Erin Baiano

Rommie Tomasini remembers begging her mother to let her audition for SAB, where her older sister was a student, and quickly discovering a love of dance. At age 7, she was cast as the Bunny in The Nutcracker. A season as a Mouse and a Polichinelle followed, and for two years, she was Marie. When the time came to begin pointe work, she decided that ballet was her future. “I didn’t want to do anything else after school, and I thought, This is a done deal,” she says.

Her earliest Nutcracker memory dates from her first dress rehearsal. “I was the Bunny, and I remember looking at all the mouse heads on the Mouse King’s crown and being too terrified to pull his tail,” she recalls.

Yet looking back, Tomasini, who grew up on the Upper East Side, marvels at how confident she felt on stage as a child. “I was never nervous. I was just so happy to be out there. I’m amazed at how much we learned about acting and artistry so young.”

Dolls, Snow, Hot Chocolate, and Tea are among the Nutcracker parts Tomasini has performed since she became an apprentice in 2021. But her recollections of being in a swarm of Nutcracker kids, scrutinizing the steps and making up versions of Hot Chocolate, Marzipan, and Coffee, remain vivid. “It’s mind-blowing that we’re now dancing the roles that we once pretended to do backstage,” she says.

Left: Rommie Tomasini as the Bunny in 2011. Photo: Paul Kolnik Right: Tomasini in Waltz of the Snowflakes in 2021. Photo: Erin Baiano

#The Nutcracker #Nutcracker ballet #Balanchine #New York City Ballet #NYCB #dancing children #Shelby Mann #Mckenzie Bernardino Soares #Rommie Tomasini #professional children #child dancers #then & now #10 years later

[byneddiedingo]

Robert Mitchum and Gregory Peck in Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)

Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Lori Martin, Martin Balsam, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, Barrie Chase. Screenplay: James R. Webb, based on a novel by John D. MacDonald. Cinematography: Sam Leavit. Art direction: Robert F. Boyle, Alexander Golitzen. Film editing: George Tomasini. Music: Bernard Herrmann.

When I watched Martin Scorsese's 1991 remake of Cape Fear, I hadn't seen J. Lee Thompson's 1962 version. Now that I've seen it, I don't know why Scorsese wanted to remake it. The earlier version, with a screenplay by James R. Webb from the same John D. MacDonald novel, The Executioners, is a tense, well-cast movie with a Bernard Herrmann score that Scorsese had Elmer Bernstein adapt for his version. What Scorsese's screenwriter, Wesley Strick, did was to add more complications to the characters in the later film. Gregory Peck's Sam Bowden is a straight arrow compared to Nick Nolte's, and both Jessica Lange and Juliette Lange bring greater depth to Bowden's wife and daughter than Polly Bergen and Lori Martin do in the earlier version. But given that the movie in both cases is essentially a suspense thriller, I'm not sure that this is necessarily an improvement: The earlier film's emphasis on the innocence of the Bowdens makes the threat posed by Robert Mitchum's Max Cady more intense than that posed by Robert De Niro to the more morally compromised Bowdens of the Scorsese film. So in short, I have to say I prefer the earlier version. No one is saying that Lee Thompson was a better director, or that the screenwriter and actors in his version are superior to Scorsese and company. But if the intent of the film is to shock and to have the audience on the edge of their seats, then the earlier version does the job better. I have never been a fan of Gregory Peck, who is an actor who never surprises me with a line delivery or facial expression, as Nolte has been known to do, and Bergen and Martin are decidedly inferior to Lange and Lewis as actors, but they make better victims, which is all that the movie asks of them. The one performance that seems to me superior is Mitchum's, perhaps because there is a brutishness in his very persona that is lacking in De Niro, who has many film personae. I think De Niro overacts feverishly to make his Cady menacing, at the expense of becoming ludicrous. Mitchum, on the other hand, has only to narrow his sleepy eyes to suggest the deep psychosis of his character, and his menacing of Bergen, in which Mitchum apparently improvised the device of breaking an egg and smearing her with it, is truly chilling. Although Lee Thompson's final sequence, in which Cady sneaks up on the Bowdens' houseboat, is somewhat botched -- we're never quite sure where Cady, Bowden, and the detective assigned to guard them are at any given moment -- I still think it's preferable to the special-effects-laden storm that destroys the houseboat in Scorsese's film. Lee Thompson, whose only other really memorable film was The Guns of Navarone (1961), was never the filmmaker that Scorsese is, but here I think he does a better job of keeping the audience on edge.

#Cape Fear #J. Lee Thompson #Robert Mitchum #Gregory Peck

[nahasjungle]

Academy award movies from 2017

#ACADEMY AWARD MOVIES FROM 2017 PROFESSIONAL#

nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Janet Leigh).nominated for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen ( Ernest Lehman).nominated for Best Film Editing ( George Tomasini).nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color.nominated for Best Sound ( George Dutton).nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White Or Color ( Hal Pereira & Henry Bumstead).nominated for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color ( Hal Pereira).nominated for Best Costume Design, Color ( Edith Head).nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay ( John Michael Hayes).nominated for Best Sound, Recording ( Loren L.nominated for Best Cinematography, Color ( Robert Burks).nominated Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( Robert Burks).nominated for Best Actress In A Supporting Role ( Ethel Barrymore).nominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay ( Ben Hecht).nominated for Best Actor In A Supporting Role ( Claude Rains).nominated for Best Effects, Special Effects ( Jack Cosgrove).nominated for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( George Barnes).nominated Best Actor In A Supporting Role ( Michael Chekhov).nominated for Best Writing, Original Story ( John Steinbeck).nominated for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( Glen MacWilliams).nominated for Best Writing, Original Story ( Gordon McDonell for " Uncle Charlie").nominated for Best Picture ( Alfred Hitchcock).nominated for Best Music, Scoring Of A Dramatic Picture ( Franz Waxman).nominated for Best Writing, Original Screenplay ( Charles Bennett & Joan Harrison).nominated for Best Picture ( Walter Wanger).nominated for Best Effects, Special Effects ( Paul Eagler & Thomas T.nominated for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( Rudolph Maté).nominated for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White ( Alexander Golitzen).nominated Best Actor In A Supporting Role ( Albert Bassermann).nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay ( Robert E.nominated for Best Music, Original Score ( Franz Waxman).nominated for Best Film Editing ( Hal C.nominated for Best Effects, Special Effects ( Jack Cosgrove & Arthur Johns).nominated for Best Director ( Alfred Hitchcock).nominated for Best Art Direction, Black-and-White ( Lyle R.nominated for Best Actress In A Supporting Role ( Judith Anderson).nominated for Best Actress In A Leading Role ( Joan Fontaine).nominated for Best Actor In A Leading Role ( Laurence Olivier).recipient of the 2008 Honorary Academy Award for his work as a Production Designer.won Best Music, Original Song for the song " Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" ( Jay Livingston & Ray Evans).won Best Cinematography, Color ( Robert Burks).won Best Music, Scoring Of A Dramatic Or Comedy Picture ( Miklós Rózsa).won Best Actress In A Leading Role ( Joan Fontaine).won Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( George Barnes).In 2008, the honorary Academy Award was presented to 98 year old production designer Robert F. In 1968, Alfred Hitchcock was presented with the Irving G. The annual Oscar presentation has been held since 1929. They are intended for the films and persons the Academy believes have the top achievements of the year. The votes have been tabulated and certified by the auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers for 72 years, since close to the awards' inception.

#ACADEMY AWARD MOVIES FROM 2017 PROFESSIONAL#

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States and most watched awards ceremony in the world.Īcademy Awards are granted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a professional honorary organization.

#Academy award movies from 2017

[lamiaprigione]

Vertigo (1958)

#vertigo #la donna che visse due volte #hitchcock #kim novak #james stewart #barbara bel geddes #robert burks #george tomasini

[howardhawkshollywoodannex]

Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren in a scene from Marnie (1964), edited by George Tomasini, George was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, and had 23 editor credits including Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Wrong Man, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Psycho. His other credits include Stalag 17, The Time Machine, The Misfits, Cape Fear, and his final credit, In Harms Way.

#pierce brosnan #tippi hedren #marnie #george tomasini #alfred hitchcock

[guillotineman]

#Happy Mother's Day #Mother's Day #Psycho #Alfred Hitchcock #Hitchcock #director #filmmaker #master #Robert Bloch #Joseph Stefano #George Tomasini #John L. Russell #Bernard Herrmann #Janet Leigh #Anthony Perkins #black and white #mystery #crime #thriller #horror #film #movie #60s #cinema

[masonskaya]

#james john stewart #james stewart #grace patricia kelly #grace kelly #gif #rear window #50's #1954 #alfred hitchcock #cornell woolrich #john michael hayes #robert burks #franz waxman #george tomasini

[sesiondemadrugada]

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954).

#vertigo (1958) #vertigo #alfred hitchcock #grace kelly #james stewart #robert burks #george tomasini #henry bumstead #hal pereira #edith head

[obeyfeline]

1951 ad for the “Official Group of Tailors of Quality of Paris”. Lorys was a tailor that had moved from the Left Bank of Paris in the 1930s; Arnys moved into its old address there. 

#swansongsRJdM #Paul Vauclair #Della Valle #Paris tailor #grande mesure #bespoke #custom #Paris style #French style #Landi #Roger Roque #Feferling-Lacaze #Lorys #Cesar Tomasini #Guillin #Massari #Zeleny #J Goffman #Georges Mathey #Zytner #G Talon

[genevieveetguy]

I'm an advertising man, not a red herring. I've got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don't intend to disappoint them all by getting myself "slightly" killed.

North by Northwest, Alfred Hitchcock (1959)

#Alfred Hitchcock #Ernest Lehman #Cary Grant #Eva Marie Saint #James Mason #Jessie Royce Landis #Leo G. Carroll #Josephine Hutchinson #Philip Ober #Martin Landau #Adam Williams #Edward Platt #Robert Ellenstein #Robert Burks #Bernard Herrmann #George Tomasini #1959

[screamscenepodcast]

This episode features a confession... I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE (1958)! This title and film comes from director Gene Fowler Jr and stars Tom Tryan and Gloria Talbott. Does this horror live up to its lurid title?

Full disclosure: your deadicated hosts recorded this in advance of the U.S. Supreme Court leak about overturning Roe v. Wade. In the context of this development, we'd like to add content warnings about discussion of the Me Too Movement, rape culture, domestic violence and pregnancy.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 17:16; Discussion 39:20; Ranking 1:08:50

#podcast #horror #horror movie #classic horror #i married a monster from outer space #paramount #paramount pictures #gene fowler jr #louis vittes #tom tryon #gloria talbott #haskell boggs #george tomasini #peter baldwin #robert ivers #rape culture #domestic violence #i was a teenage werewolf #they've come for our women! #the blob

[nofatclips]

Dieu dans le Bordel by Mirco Magnani + Ernesto Tomasini from the album MADAME E. - Director: Kiril Bikov, Mirco Magnani

#somethingneweveryday #music #italian music #ernesto tomasini #mirco magnani #stella veloce #madame edwarda #georges bataille #pierre angelique #video #music video #bw #kiril bikov #thalia paraskeva #valentina bardazzi #andrei yakovlev mich