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Books of 2023

Book 35 of 2023

Title: The Frost Weeds: Vietnam: 1964-1965 Authors: James Oliveri ISBN: 9781555717612 Tags: A-1 Skyraiders AUS ADF Australian Defence Force AUS Australia B-57 Canberra Buddhism (Religion) C-123 Provider C-7 Caribou CH-34 Choctaw FRA France LAO Laos LAO Laotian Civil War (1959-1975) LAO Pathet Lao LAO Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma LAO Prince Souvanna Phouma LAO RLA 33rd Laotian Elephant Bn LAO RLA Royal Laotian Army LAO RLAF Royal Lao Air Force Nungs O-1 Bird Dog SpecOps U-1 Otter US Ambassador Maxwell Taylor US CIA Central Intelligence Agency US Medal Of Honor US President Lyndon B. Johnson US Raymond Burr (Actor) US USA 1st Cavalry Division US USA 86th Engineer Bn US USA Col Roger Donlon (MOH) US USA Fort Dix NJ US USA Fort Dix NJ - Intermediate Speed Radio Operators Course (ISROC) US USA General Paul D. Harkins US USA General William Westmoreland US USA United States Army US USA USSF 5th SFG US USA USSF 7th SFG US USA USSF Green Berets US USA USSF Special Forces US USA USSF Team A-113 US USA USSF Team A-323 US USA USSF Team A-726 US USMC 9th MEB US USMC United States Marine Corps US USN 7th Fleet US USN United States Navy US USN USS Maddox (DD-731) US USN USS Ticonderoga (CV-14) US USN USS Turner Joy (DD-951) US USO United Service Organizations VNM 1968 Tet Offensive (1968) (Vietnam War) VNM A Louie Airstrip VNM A Shau Special Forces Camp (Vietnam War) VNM A Shau Valley VNM AUS ADF Australian Army Training Team (Vietnam War) VNM Battle of Hue City (1968) (Tet Offensive) (Vietnam War) VNM Battle of Nam Dong CIDG Camp (1964) (Vietnam War) VNM Cam Lo VNM Central Highlands VNM Cholon VNM Con Thien VNM Cua Viet VNM Da Lat VNM Da Nang VNM Da Nang - Red Beach Base Area (Vietnam War) VNM Da Nang Air Base VNM DMZ Demilitarized Zone - 17th Parallel (Vietnam War) VNM Dong Ap Bia VNM Dong Ha VNM Dong Hoi VNM Dong Nai River VNM DRV NVA Col Bui Tin (Engineer) VNM DRV NVA Col Dong Si Nguyen (Minister of Construction) VNM DRV NVA North Vietnamese Army VNM DRV VC Viet Cong VNM FRA Felix Poilane (Plantation Owner) VNM Gio Linh VNM Gulf of Tonkin Incident (1964) (Vietnam War) VNM Highway 1 VNM Highway 14 VNM Highway 548 VNM Highway 9 VNM Ho Chi Minh Trail (Vietnam War) VNM Hue VNM Hue - Business District VNM Hue - Capitol Building VNM Hue - Cercle Sportif VNM Hue - Duy Tan St VNM Hue - Hue Stadium VNM Hue - Hue University VNM Hue - Joan of Arc Cathedral VNM Hue - Le Loi St VNM Hue - Nguyen Hoang Bridge VNM Hue - Perfume River VNM Hue - Public Health and Hospital Complex VNM Hue - Tay Loc Airfield (Vietnam War) VNM Hue - The Citadel VNM Hue - Tran Cao Van St VNM Hue - Tran Hung Dao St VNM I Corps (Vietnam War) VNM Ia Drang Valley VNM III Corps (Vietnam War) VNM Lang Troi VNM Lang Vei VNM Lang Vei Special Forces Camp (Vietnam War) VNM Montagnard - Bru VNM Montagnards VNM Montagnards - Katu VNM Nam Dong VNM Nam Dong Special Forces Camp (Vietnam War) VNM Nha Trang VNM Operation Flaming Dart (1965) (Vietnam War) VNM Operation Ranch Hand (1962-1971) (Vietnam War) VNM Operation Rolling Thunder (1965-1968) (Vietnam War) VNM Phu Bai VNM Pleiku VNM Quang Tri VNM Quang Tri Province VNM Rao Lao River VNM Rao Quang River VNM Red River VNM RVN ARVN 1st ID VNM RVN ARVN 2nd Regiment VNM RVN ARVN 2nd Regiment - 3/2 VNM RVN ARVN 36th Ranger Bn VNM RVN ARVN 3rd Regiment VNM RVN ARVN 3rd Regiment - 3/3 VNM RVN ARVN Army of the Republic of Vietnam VNM RVN ARVN CIDG Civilian Irregular Defense Group VNM RVN ARVN General Nguyen Chanh Thi VNM RVN ARVN LLDB Luc Luong Dac Biet Special Forces VNM RVN ARVN MP Quan Canh Military Police VNM RVN ARVN Nam Dong CIDG Camp VNM RVN ARVN Vietnamese Rangers - Biet Dong Quan VNM RVN General Duonh Van Minh (Big Minh) VNM RVN Nguyen Cao Ky VNM RVN Nguyen Khanh VNM RVN RVNP Can Sat National Police VNM RVN SVNAF South Vietnamese Air Force VNM RVN Tran Van Huong VNM Saigon VNM Saigon - Brinks Hotel VNM Saigon - Brinks Hotel Bombing (1964) VNM Saigon - Capital Hotel VNM Saigon - Tu Do St (Rue Catinat) VNM Som Bai VNM Ta Bat VNM Ta Bat Airfield VNM Ta Rau VNM Tan Son Nhut Air Base VNM Thua Thien Province VNM Tonkin Gulf VNM US Agent Orange (Vietnam War) VNM US MAAG Advisory Team 3 (Vietnam War) VNM US MAAG Military Assistance Advisory Group Vietnam (Vietnam War) VNM US MACV Advisory Team 3 (Vietnam War) VNM US MACV Advisory Teams (Vietnam War) VNM US MACV Military Assistance Command Vietnam (Vietnam War) VNM US USMC KSCB Khe Sanh Combat Base (Vietnam War) VNM US USSF Mobile Strike Force (MIKE) (Vietnam War) VNM Vietnam VNM Vietnam War (1955-1975) Rating: ★★★★★ (5 Stars) Subject: Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.ARVN, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Specops.ARVN, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.Specops.Green Berets, Books.Military.20th-21st Century.Asia.Vietnam War.US Army.Advisor

Description: During the early years of the Vietnam War, a small group of American soldiers carried the fight to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army, often under difficult circumstances. Their sacrifices generally went unrecognized and unappreciated by a mostly indifferent nation. But a massive influx of American troops would soon alter the entire nature and perception of the war. THE FROST WEEDS graphically describes the horror, the heroism and even the humor of the Vietnam experience while offering a far different perspective of the war than that epitomized by the larger conflict that followed. It is an astonishing account of a small U.S. military advisory team struggling to deal with a ruthless enemy and an often exasperating ally.

Review: This was an excellent book by an excellent author. He was able to craft a good narrative and understood pacing and flow which is rare for many of these books. The tales he told of the early years of the vietnam war, the 64/65 period, of what it was like at Ta Bat, A Shau, and Khe Sanh, his explorations of Hue, and the battle of Nam Dong were well done and gave you a really good sense of who was there, what happened, and what the experience was like being an Advisor radioman attached to an ARVN unit.

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SHIVERS (1975) – Episode 198 – Decades Of Horror 1970s

“So what he came up with … was a parasite that’s a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease that will hopefully turn the world into one beautiful, mindless orgy.” Wait a minute. Hopefully? Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Bill Mulligan, Chad Hunt, and Jeff Mohr – as they check out David Cronenberg’s first “official” movie, Shivers (1975). Do you feel the frisson?

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 198 – Shivers (1975)

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Decades of Horror 1970s is partnering with the WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL (https://wickedhorrortv.com/) which now includes video episodes of the podcast and is available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, and its online website across all OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop.

The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out to infect others with the slightest sexual contact.

Writer/Director: David Cronenberg

Producer: Ivan Reitman

Executive Producers: John Dunning, André Link

Creatures Creator / Special Makeup Artist: Joe Blasco

Selected Cast:

Paul Hampton as Roger St. Luc

Joe Silver as Rollo Linsky

Lynn Lowry as Nurse Forsythe

Allan Kolman as Nicholas Tudor (as Alan Migicovsky)

Susan Petrie as Janine Tudor

Barbara Steele as Betts

Ronald Mlodzik as Merrick

Barry Baldaro as Detective Heller (as Barry Boldero)

Camil Ducharme as Mr. Guilbault (as Camille Ducharme)

Hanna Poznanska as Mrs. Guilbault (as Hanka Posnanska)

Fred Doederlein as Emil Hobbes

Cathy Graham as Annabelle

David Cronenberg as Infected Crowd Member / Stabbed Shoulder (uncredited)

Whether you remember it as The Parasite Murders or They Came from Within, David Cronenberg’s early horror film from 1975, Shivers, is one of cinematic curiosity, taboo/body-horror, and skin-crawling terror. Produced by Ivan Reitman, the film features the beautiful Lynn Lowry and the stunning Barbara Steele along with character actor supreme Joe Silver with the calm, cool, and collected Paul Hampton in the lead. Oh, yeah, and dozens – if not hundreds – of sleazy, slimy, fat, worm-like mind-altering monsters. Cronenberg made a career of pushing the celluloid limits and Shivers is a perfect example of what is to come from Canada’s top master of horror.

At the time of this writing, Shivers is available to stream from Wicked Horror TV, Tubi, and multiple PPV sources. The film is also available on physical media as a Blu-ray in the Vestron Video Collector’s Series from Lionsgate.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode, chosen by Chad, will be Black Magic (1975). Abracadabra, Shaw Brothers please, and thank you!

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at [email protected].

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The Many Saints of Newark Is a Trashy Gangster B-Movie, There’s Nothing Wrong with That

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When I first walked out of The Many Saints of Newark, my initial reaction was to call it a B-movie. What I didn’t say at the time, however, was how much I love B-movies. While I saw the flaws in the film and couldn’t wholly endorse it to cinemagoers spoiled by the perfection of The Godfather, Goodfellas, and New Jack City, I can wholeheartedly recommend it to people like me. Those who appreciate the low-budget gangster movies sometimes because of their warts. A majority of fans of The Sopranos will have the same reaction: Meh, The Many Saints of Newark could have been better. So when’s it playing next? I plan to see it again, more than once, on the big screen.

In one of the film’s quieter moments, the Soprano family is gathered around a TV set, watching the classic Key Largo (1948). The specific scene on the screen begins when Humphrey Bogart’s cynical combat veteran Frank McCloud defuses a tense situation with the gangster Johnny Rocco. Played by Edward G. Robinson, Rocco is very loosely based on Charles “Lucky” Luciano, the godfather of organized crime, who had been deported and barred from American soil. He is suffering the same doubts Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) worries about in the pilot episode of The Sopranos: Are the best days of this “thing” over?

All gangsters want, as the black and white film explains, is more. Will they ever get enough? They never have. I don’t suppose they will. It is the same for gangster genre fans. We want more. And it doesn’t have to be great. “I don’t want it good. I want it Tuesday,” Jack Warner famously said about the gangster films his studio excelled in. Warner Bros. invented the gangster genre, and I felt a thrill when their name came first on the screen during The Many Saints of Newark. WB’s Key Largo is a prestige film. It’s got John Huston directing, he’d go on to make amazing mob movies, culminating with his magnificent Prizzi’s Honor. Key Largo boasts an A-list offering with top stars like Lauren Bacall, Claire Trevor, and Lionel Barrymore. And it’s a pairing of two legends who take their performances seriously, and believe in the art of acting: Bogart and Robinson.

But Bogart and Robinson made four B-movie gangster classics before they made the prestigious Key Largo: Bullets or Ballots, Kid Galahad, Brother Orchid, and The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, which was so badly scripted that the two leads took to calling it “The Amazing Dr. Clitoris.” I’ve seen it eight times. Are there holes in the story? Of course. And they don’t get any better after the third viewing. What does get better is watching the performances of two professional actors in films they are on record as saying they did not like. Twice, as it turns out, because it was revived as a radio play a few years later, according to the book Bogart, by A.M. Sperber and Eric Lax.

Robinson played a psychiatrist, studying Bogart’s gangster, and the two characters bond while keeping a wary distance. This is very similar to the dynamic between Tony Soprano and Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) on The Sopranos. She even worried the mob boss was using their therapeutic sessions in the furtherance of crime, something Bogart’s character did in the B-movie gangster film, King of the Underworld, which is awful and I never miss. I love that movie, not in spite of Bogie’s misunderstanding of the meaning of “the moronic type,” but because of it. He doesn’t do that in other movies, even in the masterful B-movie gangster comedies, It All Came True and All Through the Night.

But Bogart also made Dead End (1937), a quality piece, which happens to be my favorite film, ever. Based on the play by Sidney Kingsley, it spends a lot of its time in the same way The Many Saints of Newark does: teaching the young generation how to be gangsters. This is seen even more blatantly in the film Angels With Dirty Faces (1938), which paired James Cagney with the Dead End Kids. But threads of this even reach the juvenile delinquent movie Blackboard Jungle, also not a big-budget film, but realistic enough to show the teenagers were actually moving swag for bigger names.

It happens in real life, the mob looks to street gangs for promising young movers. Future dons make their bones wearing colors. Gangster films capture this. From Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) in Mario Van Peebles’ New Jack City to Spike Lee’s Clockers, original gangstas groom carbon copies. Dickie Moltisanti (Alessandro Nivola) sees potential in young Tony Soprano (Michael Gandolfini) during The Many Saints of Newark. Great potential.

When Tony and his young gang hijack the Mr. Softee truck and give out ice cream to kids for free, it feels like The Sopranos creator and The Many Saints of Newark co-screenwriter, David Chase, was chasing the feel of the East Side Kids. Old Bowery Boys movies were aired weekly in the New York/New Jersey area when Tony was growing up, and all those movies were made by the icon of B-Movie studios, Monogram Pictures.

Monogram Pictures sat on Hollywood’s “poverty row,” and churned out pictures as fast as Detroit made cars. The Bowery Boys comedy troupe made almost a picture a month alone. But just like the Warner Brothers assembly line occasionally manufactured transcendent art, some of the cheapies are magnificently crafted. Sopranos fans should watch Angels in Disguise, one of the lesser-known gangster comedies, directed by Jean Yarbrough in 1949. It is, if not the first, one of the first mock-documentaries, and it is a good bet David Chase saw it, more than once. Leo Gorcey is even more of a master of the malaprop than Carmine Lupertazzi Jr. (Ray Abruzzo) on The Sopranos.

Monogram Pictures also caught the attention of French directors François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, who structured films based on their model, according to the book The Films of Jean-Luc Godard by Wheeler W. Dixon. It is no wonder, the studio’s almost-no-budget 1947 quickie Dillinger turned RKO contract player Lawrence Tierney into an icon of film noir. The Fall Guy, from the same year, dared to coke up the star Leonard Penn, and we’re not talking soda pop.

Also in 1947, 20th Century Fox’s low budget Kiss of Death introduced the screen audiences to the sadistic Tommy Udo. The role earned Richard Widmark an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and the admiration of “Crazy” Joe Gallo, whose insurrection against the Five Families of New York crime was the basis for Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather.

Low budget studio production paved the way for the independent film movement in America, which The Many Saints of Newark proudly emulates. Director Alan Taylor recently admitted to Den of Geek that he’s “drunk deep at the well of Scorsese,” and we can see Mean Streets all over the Sopranos prequel. Also in evidence is Barry Shear’s Across 110th Street (1972), which pitted the Italian mob against Black gangsters; John Cassavetes’s 1976 indie classic, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie; The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984), directed by Stuart Rosenberg; and Abel Ferraro’s King of New York (1990).

The Many Saints of Newark is also too closely related to Wim Wenders’ 1977 gangster film, The American Friend, which cut corners on plot points as much as it did on budget. Logic is replaced by street smarts, and continuity is a game of three card monte in B-movie gangster films. The Many Saints of Newark is not exempt. There is a scene where one mobster’s mistress is sleeping with the rival for his turf. Except for one rude stare, the audience doesn’t see it coming. But how it turns out, with the convenient surf and turf to cover the evidence, is telegraphed from a mile away.

Movies

Once Upon a Time in America Is Every Bit as Great a Gangster Movie as The Godfather

By Tony Sokol

Culture

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Real-Life and Pop Culture

By Tony Sokol

Arthur Penn’s genre-redefining Bonnie and Clyde came out in 1967, the same year as The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Roger Corman spared every expense for his B-movie mobsterpiece. There are scenes where it is visibly apparent that a fleet of vintage background cars are just the same few automobiles driven in circles around the set. I’ve seen both movies multiple times, and enjoy them equally each time.

Just because The Many Saints of Newark isn’t a perfect film does not make it less of a classic. It certainly doesn’t make it less appealing for repeated viewings. The film follows a grand tradition of gangster filmmaking: street legal over mainstream currency, it could have fallen off the back of a truck. I would love to see whatever scenes were cut to make it fit into a two-hour viewing, because the film felt rushed. But I will watch it again.

The Many Saints of Newark premieres in theaters and on HBO Max on Friday, Oct. 1.

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Textbooks PDF (email [email protected])

1. International Marketing by Philip Cateora, John Graham, Mary Gilly, Bruce Money, 7th Edition

2. Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle

3. Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions in Criminal Justice by Joycelyn M. Pollock, 7th Edition

4. Marketing: The Core by Roger A. Kerin and Steven W. Hartley, 7th Edition

5. Organizational Behavior: A Practical, Problem-Solving Approach by Angelo Kinicki and Mel Fugate, 2nd Edition

6. Corrections Today by Larry Siegel and Clemens Bartollas

7. Corrections Today by Larry Siegel and Clemens Bartollas, Study Guide, 2nd Edition

8. Juvenile Justice by Karen M. Hess, 5th Edition

9. The Age of Unreason (1989), by Charles Handy

10. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras

11. Competing for the Future (1996), by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad

12. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), by Michael E. Porter

13. Emotional Intelligence (1995), by Daniel Goleman

14. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don't Work and What to Do about It (1985), by Michael E. Gerber

15. The Essential Drucker (2001), by Peter Drucker

16. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), by Peter Senge

17. First, Break All the Rules (1999), by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

18. The Goal (1984), by Eliyahu Goldratt

19. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ... and Others Don't (2001), by Jim Collins

20. Guerilla Marketing (1984), by Jay Conrad Levinson

21. How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), by Dale Carnegie

22. The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), by Douglas McGregor

23. The Innovator's Dilemma (1997), by Clayton Christensen

24. Leading Change (1996), by John P. Kotter

25. On Becoming a Leader (1989), by Warren Bennis

26. Out of the Crisis (1982), by W. Edwards Deming

27. My Years with General Motors (1964), by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.

28. The One Minute Manager (1982), by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson

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30. The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), by Stephen R. Covey

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33. Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), by Spencer Johnson

34. Introduction To The Economics Of Financial Markets by James Bradfield

35. Generalized Convexity And Related Topics by Igor V. Konnov, Dinh The Luc, Alexander M. Rubinov, 1st Edition

36. Models in Cooperative Game Theory: Crisp, Fuzzy, and Multi-Choice Games by Professor Dr. Rodica Branzei, Dr. Dinko Dimitrov, Professor Dr. Stef Tijs, 1st Edition

37. Sociology and organization theory : positivism, paradigms and postmodernity by John Hassard

38. Encyclopedia of sociology by Edgar F. Borgatta, Rhonda J. V. Montgomery volume 1, 2nd Edition

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44. Project Management by Harvey Maylor, 4th Edition

45. Human Development: A cultural approach by Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

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47. Operations Management by William J. Stevenson, 12th Edition

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49. Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text and Cases by Gerry Johnson, Kevan Scholes, Richard Whittington, 8th Edition

50. The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Nina Baym, 6th Edition

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69. If Tomorrow Comes (1985) by Sidney Sheldon

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72. Memories of Midnight (1990) by Sidney Sheldon

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2020 Olympics Canada Roster

Athletics

Trevor Hofbauer (Guelph, Ontario)

Evan Dunfee (Richmond, British Columbia)

Bismark Boateng (Toronto, Ontario)

Andre De Grasse (Markham, Ontario)

Gavin Smellie (Toronto, Ontario)

Aaron Brown (Toronto, Ontario)

Brendon Rodney (Brampton, Ontario)

Marco Arop (Edmonton, Alberta)

Brandon McBride (Windsor, Ontario)

Mohammed Ahmed (St. Catherines, Ontario)

Lucas Bruchet (Surrey, British Columbia)

Justyn Knight (Toronto, Ontario)

John Gay (Kelowna, British Columbia)

Matthew Hughes (Oshawa, Ontario)

Jerome Blake (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Cameron Levins (Campbell River, British Columbia)

Ben Preisner (Milton, Ontario)

Mathieu Bilodeau (Quebec City, Quebec)

Django Lovett (Langley, British Columbia)

Michael Mason (New Westminster, British Columbia)

Tim Nedow (Brockville, Ontario)

Pierce LePage (Toronto, Ontario)

Damian Warner (London, Ontario)

Dayna Pidhoresky (Windsor, Ontario)

Khamica Bingham (Brampton, Ontario)

Crystal Emmanuel (Toronto, Ontario)

Kyra Constantine (Brampton, Ontario)

Natassha McDonald (Mississauga, Ontario)

Melissa Bishop-Nriagu (Lakeshore, Ontario)

Lindsey Butterworth (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Madeleine Kelly (Pembroke, Ontario)

Gabriela Stafford (Toronto, Ontario)

Natalia Hawthorn (Bracebridge, Ontario)

Lucia Stafford (Toronto, Ontario)

Andrea Seccafien (Guelph, Ontario)

Julie-Anne Staehli (Lucknow, Ontario)

Noelle Montcalm (Windsor, Ontario)

Sage Watson (Medicine Hat, Alberta)

Alycia Butterworth (Parksville, British Columbia)

Geneviève Lalonde (Moncton, New Brunswick)

Regan Yee (South Hazleton, British Columbia)

Alicia Brown (Ottawa, Ontario)

Madeline Price (San Francisco, California)

Malindi Elmore (Kelowna, British Columbia)

Tasha Wodak (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Christabel Nettey (Brampton, Ontario)

Anicka Newell (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Alysha Newman (London, Ontario)

Brittany Crew (Mississauga, Ontario)

Sarah Mitton (Brooklyn, Nova Scotia)

Liz Gleadle (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Camryn Rogers (Richmond, British Columbia)

Jillian Weir (Sunnyvale, California)

Georgia Ellenwood (Langley, British Columbia)

Canoeing

Cam Smedley-Audet (Ottawa, Ontario)

Michael Tayler (Ottawa, Ontario)

Connor Fitzpatrick (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia)

Roland Varga (Aurora, Ontario)

Mark De Jonge (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Nicholas Matveev (Toronto, Ontario)

Simon McTavish (Oakville, Ontario)

Vincent Jourdenais (Chambly, Quebec)

Brian Malfesi (Maple Ridge, British Columbia)

Pierre-Luc Poulin (Quebec City, Quebec)

Katie Vincent (Mississauga, Ontario)

Haley Daniels (Calgary, Alberta)

Florence Maheu (Salaberry-De-Valleyfield, Quebec)

Laurie Lapointe (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Andréanne Langlois (Quebec City, Quebec)

Michelle Russell (Fall River, Nova Scotia)

Alanna Bray-Lougheed (Oakville, Ontario)

Madeline Schmidt (Ottawa, Ontario)

Cycling

Nick Wammes (London, Ontario)

Hugo Houle (Nicolet, Quebec)

Michael Woods (Toronto, Ontario)

Hugo Barrette (Santa Monica, California)

Vincent De Haître (Ottawa, Ontario)

Michael Foley (Montreal, Quebec)

Derek Gee (Ottawa, Ontario)

Jay Lamoureux (Victoria, British Columbia)

Guillaume Boivin (Montreal, Quebec)

Peter Disera (Kitchener, Ontario)

James Palmer (North Vancouver, British Columbia)

Karol-Ann Canuel (Amos, Quebec)

Leah Kirchmann (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Lauriane Genest (Montreal, Quebec)

Kelsey Mitchell (Sherwood Park, Alberta)

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Sailing

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Jacob Saunders (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

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Sarah Douglas (Toronto, Ontario)

Climbing

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Swimming

Markus Thormeyer (Vancouver, British Columbia)

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Joshua Liendo-Edwards (Markham, Ontario)

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Mary-Sophie Harvey (Laval, Quebec)

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Claudia Holzner (Montreal, Quebec)

Jacqueline Simoneau (Montreal, Quebec)

Emily Armstrong (Toronto, Ontario)

Rosalie Boissonneault (Drummondville, Quebec)

Andrée-Anne Côté (Quebec City, Quebec)

Camille Fiola-Dion (Rimouski, Quebec)

Audrey Joly (Saint-Eustache, Quebec)

Halle Pratt (Edmonton, Alberta)

Table Tennis

Jeremy Hazin (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Mo Zhang (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Eugene Wang (Aurora, Ontario)

Taekwondo

Skylar Park (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Yvette Yong (Toronto, Ontario)

Wrestling

Amar Dhesi (Surrey, British Columbia)

Jordan Steen (Ottawa, Ontario)

Danielle Lappage (Olds, Alberta)

Erica Wiebe (Stittsville, Ontario)

Archery

Crispin Duenas (Toronto, Ontario)

Stephanie Barrett (Newmarket, Ontario)

Badminton

Brian Yáng (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Jason Ho-Shue (Markham, Ontario)

Nyl Yakura (Toronto, Ontario)

Joshua Hurlburt-Yu (Toronto, Ontario)

Michelle Man-Shan (Markham, Ontario)

Rachel Honderich (Toronto, Ontario)

Kristen Tsai (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Josephine Wu (Edmonton, Alberta)

Basketball

Shaina Pellington (Pickering, Ontario)

Kia Nurse (Hamilton, Ontario)

Bridget Carleton (Chatham, Ontario)

Folade Raincock-Ekunwe (Vernon, British Columbia)

Kim Gaucher (Mission, British Columbia)

Miranda Ayim (London, Ontario)

Natalie Achonwa (Hamilton, Ontario)

Shay Colley (Brampton, Ontario)

Kayla Alexander (Milton, Ontario)

Laeticia Amihere (Mississauga, Ontario)

Nirra Fields (Lachine, Quebec)

Aaliyah Edwards (Toronto, Ontario)

Boxing

Wyatt Sanford (Kennetcook, Nova Scotia)

Mandy Bujold (Kitchener, Ontario)

Caroline Veyre (Montreal, Quebec)

Myriam Da Silva (Chambly, Quebec)

Tammara Thibeault (Saint-Georges, Quebec)

Diving

Cédric Fofana (Montreal, Quebec)

Rylan Wiens (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Nathan Zsombor-Murray (Montreal, Quebec)

Vincent Riendeau (Montreal, Quebec)

Jennifer Abel (Montreal, Quebec)

Pamela Ware (Longueuil, Quebec)

Meaghan Benfeito-Correia (Montreal, Quebec)

Celina Toth (Victoria, British Columbia)

Mélissa Citrini-Beaulieu (Saint-Constant, Quebec)

Caeli McKay (Calgary, Alberta)

Equestrian

Chris Von Martels (Wellington, Florida)

Mario Deslausriers (Venise-En-Québec, Quebec)

Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu (New Glasgow, Nova Scotia)

Lindsay Kellock (New York, New York)

Colleen Loach (Sherbrooke, Quebec)

Jessica Phoenix (Uxbridge Township, Ontario)

Field Hockey

Floris Van Son (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Brandon Pereira (Surrey, British Columbia)

Scott Tupper (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Gabriel Ho-Garcia (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Oliver Scholfield (Toronto, Ontario)

Keegan Pereira (Toronto, Ontario)

Brendan Guraliuk (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Gordon Johnston (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Brenden Bissett (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Jamie Wallace (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Mark Pearson (Vancouver, British Columbia)

John Boothroyd (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Matthew Sarmento (Vancouver, British Columbia)

John Smythe (Vancouver, British Columbia)

James Kirkpatrick (Victoria, British Columbia)

Sukhi Panesar (Surrey, British Columbia)

Taylor Curran (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Antoni Kindler (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Soccer

Stephanie Labbé (Edmonton, Alberta)

Allysha Chapman (Oshawa, Ontario)

Kadeisha Buchanan (Brampton, Ontario)

Shelina Zadorsky (London, Ontario)

Deanne Rose (New Tecumseth, Ontario)

Julia Grosso (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Jayde Riviere (Pickering, Ontario)

Adriana Leon (King Township, Ontario)

Ashley Lawrence (Toronto, Ontario)

Desiree Scott (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Christine Sinclair (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Évelyne Viens (L’Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec)

Vanessa Gilles (Châteauguay, Quebec)

Nichelle Prince (Ajax, Ontario)

Janine Beckie (Douglas County, Colorado)

Jessie Fleming (London, Ontario)

Kailen Sheridan (Pickering, Ontario)

Jordyn Huitema (Chilliwack, British Columbia)

Sophie Schmidt (Abbotsford, British Columbia)

Gabrielle Carle (Quebec City, Quebec)

Erin McLeod (Calgary, Alberta)

Golf

Corey Conners (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida)

Mackenzie Hughes (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Brooke Henderson (Smiths Falls, Ontario)

Alena Sharp (Phoenix, Arizona)

Gymnastics

René Cournoyer (Repentigny, Quebec)

Ellie Black (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Brooklyn Moors (Cambridge, Ontario)

Shallon Olsen (Surrey, British Columbia)

Ava Stewart (Bowmanville, Ontario)

Rosie MacLennan (King Township, Ontario)

Samantha Smith (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Judo

Arthur Margelidon (Montreal, Quebec)

Tony Valois-Fortier (Quebec City, Quebec)

Shady El Nahas (Toronto, Ontario)

Ecaterina Guică (La Prairie, Quebec)

Jessica Klimkait (Whitby, Ontario)

Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard (Montreal, Quebec)

Karate

Daniel Gaysinsky (Caledon, Ontario)

Rowing

Trevor Jones (Selwyn Township, Ontario)

Patrick Keane (Victoria, British Columbia)

Maxwell Lattimer (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Kai Langerfeld (North Vancouver, British Columbia)

Conlin McCabe (Brockville, Ontario)

Jakub Buczek (Kitchener, Ontario)

Luke Gadsdon (Hamilton, Ontario)

Gavin Stone (Brampton, Ontario)

Will Crothers (Kingston, Ontario)

Carling Zeeman (Hamilton, Ontario)

Jessica Sevick (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Gabrielle Smith (Markham, Ontario)

Jill Moffatt (Clarington, Ontario)

Jennifer Casson (Kingston, Ontario)

Caileigh Filmer (Saanich, British Columbia)

Hillary Janssens (Victoria, British Columbia)

Stephanie Grauer (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Nicole Hare (Calgary, Alberta)

Jennifer Martins (Toronto, Ontario)

Kristina Walker (Coquitlam, British Columbia)

Susanne Grainger (London, Ontario)

Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski (Montreal, Quebec)

Madison Mailey (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Sydney Paine (Toronto, Ontario)

Andrea Proske (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Lisa Roman (Surrey, British Columbia)

Christine Roper (Victoria, British Columbia)

Avalon Wasteneys (Victoria, British Columbia)

Kristen Kit (St. Catherines, Ontario)

Rugby

Phil Berna (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Connor Braid (Oak Bay, British Columbia)

Andrew Coe (Brampton, Ontario)

Justin Douglas (Matsqui, British Columbia)

Mike Fuailefau (Victoria, British Columbia)

Lucas Hammond (Victoria, British Columbia)

Nathan Hirayama (Richmond, British Columbia)

Harry Jones (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Patrick Kay (Duncan, British Columbia)

Matt Mullins (Belleville, Ontario)

Theo Sauder (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Jake Thiel (Victoria, British Columbia)

Conor Trainor (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Elissa Alaire (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Olivia Apps (Victoria, British Columbia)

Brittany Benn (Napanee, Ontario)

Pam Buisa (Victoria, British Columbia)

Bianca Farella (Westmount, Quebec)

Julia Greenshields (Sarnia, Ontario)

Ghislaine Landry (Toronto, Ontario)

Kaili Lukan (Barrie, Ontario)

Kayla Moleschi (Williams Lake, British Columbia)

Breanne Nicholas (Chatham, Ontario)

Karen Paquin (Quebec City, Quebec)

Keyara Wardley (Calgary, Alberta)

Charity Williams (Toronto, Ontario)

Shooting

Lynda Kiejko (North Dundas, Ontario)

Skateboarding

Andy Anderson (White Rock, British Columbia)

Matt Berger (Kamloops, British Columbia)

Micky Papa (Van Nuys, California)

Annie Guglia (Montreal, Quebec)

Softball

Danielle Lawrie-Locke (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Sara Groenewegen (White Rock, British Columbia)

Jenna Caira (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Lauren Bay-Regula (Trail, British Columbia)

Natalie Wideman (Mississauga, Ontario)

Kaleigh Rafter (Guelph, Ontario)

Kelsey Harshman (Tucson, Arizona)

Jo Lye (Toronto, Ontario)

Jennifer Salling (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Janet Leung (Mississauga, Ontario)

Emma Entzminger (Victoria, British Columbia)

Erika Polidori (Brantford, Ontario)

Victoria Hayward (Winter Park, Florida)

Jenny Gilbert (Denton, Texas)

Larissa Franklin (Maple Ridge, British Columbia)

Tennis

Félix Auger-Aliassime (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Leylah Fernandez (Boynton Beach, Florida)

Gaby Dabrowski (Ottawa, Ontario)

Sharon Fichman (Toronto, Ontario)

Triathlon

Tyler Mislawchuk (Oak Bluff, Manitoba)

Matthew Sharpe (Campbell River, British Columbia)

Alex Lepage (Montreal, Quebec)

Joanna Brown (Ottawa, Ontario)

Amélie Kretz (Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec)

Volleyball

T.J. Sanders (London, Ontario)

John Perrin (Creston, British Columbia)

Steven Marshall (Abbotsford, British Columbia)

Nick Hoag (Sherbrooke, Quebec)

Stephen Maar (Aurora, Ontario)

Jay Blankenau (Edmonton, Alberta)

Ryan Sclater (Port Coquitlam, British Columbia)

Lucas Van Berkel (Edmonton, Alberta)

Sharone Vernon-Evans (Toronto, Ontario)

Graham Vigrass (Calgary, Alberta)

Blair Bann (Edmonton, Alberta)

Arthur Szwarc (Toronto, Ontario)

Heather Bansley (London, Ontario)

Brandie Johnson-Wilkerson (Toronto, Ontario)

Melissa Humaña-Paredes (Toronto, Ontario)

Sarah Pavan (Kitchener, Ontario)

Water Polo

Claire Wright (Lindsay, Ontario)

Clara Vulpisi (Montreal, Quebec)

Kelly McKee (Calgary, Alberta)

Axelle Crevier (Montreal, Quebec)

Emma Wright (Trail, British Columbia)

Monika Eggens (Maple Ridge, British Columbia)

Gurpreet Sohi (Delta, British Columbia)

Joëlle Békhazi (Hamilton, Ontario)

Elyse Lemay-Lavoie (Montreal, Quebec)

Hayley McKelvey (Delta, British Columbia)

Kyra Christmas (High River, Alberta)

Kindred Paul (Spruce Grove, Alberta)

Shae La Roche (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Weightlifting

Boady Santavy (Sarnia, Ontario)

Rachel Leblanc-Bazinet (Saint-Bruno-De-Montarville, Quebec)

Tali Darsigny (Sainte-Hyacinthe, Quebec)

Maude Charron (Sainte-Luce, Quebec)

Kristel Ngarlem (Montreal, Quebec)

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scandalous beauty: brigitte bardot - an analysis

“My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.“ - Brigitte Bardot

When Brigitte Bardot appeared in Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman in 1957, her beauty set the world alight. She helped to popularize French cinema, the bikini, free love and St Tropez. Along with Doris Day, she’s also an astrognossienne star analysis rarity: one of the few old-style movie stars still alive. She was discovered at 14 by director Roger Vadim who dyed her hair blonde and shaped her provocative image, which made her an international sensation. She had a life as epic as her fame and with the drama of her films. She was rumoured to have had more than 100 lovers, including women. She also tried to kill herself at least four times, the same number of husbands she has had. What a classic, glamorous beauty. One of my top 5 faces and figures of all time. In her youth she was the most beautiful woman imaginable, and when I saw her in And God Created Woman, I fell in love with not just how she looked but, more importantly, with her attitude. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE Marilyn Monroe, but Bardot wasn’t a victim like Monroe, as airy and bright as she came across, essentially was. Bardot seemed stronger. She had spirit, a joie de vivre…she was a woman with a sense of adventure and sexual curiosity. She was raw and her appetites were those of a young animal: sex, warmth, light and air. Has a beautiful sensitivity yet is steely, and her animal welfare work shows that she has a beautiful heart as well. But Bardot was more than just a sex symbol with a noble cause: she was a daring actress who worked with some of cinema’s most-revered directors, including Jean-Luc Godard and Louis Malle.

Brigitte Bardot, according to astrotheme, is a Libra sun and Gemini moon. She was born in Paris to a Catholic bourgeois family who lived not too far from the Eiffel Tower. Her father Louis was an engineer, and her mother Anne-Marie was a strict and cultured woman with a particular interest in music and dance. Her younger sister Mijanou was born in 1938. By then the family had moved to the bourgeois heartland of the 16th arrondissement. In their formative years, both girls were sent to a Catholic school. At 7, Brigitte attended ballet classes and at the age of 13 was with a prestigious ballet conservatory, studying ballet for 3 years. At the age of 13, through one of her mother’s contacts, Brigitte was hired to model in a fashion show in 1949 She soon modeled for various French magazines which led to her being picked up by Elle magazine. Incidentally, this was the magazine that rookie director Roger Vadim and was so taken with her that he arranged for her to audition for director Marc Allégret, which didn’t go anywhere. That didn’t stop Vadim’s infatuation with her; against Bardot’s parents’ wishes, they began to see each other, and soon after her fifteenth birthday, Brigitte announced that she and Vadim would be married. Vadim carefully constructed her image, pout, and persona, which all paid off with Brigitte’s appearance at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival. When Bardot showed up in a bathing suit, the photographers, orchestrated by Vadim, immediately focused their attention on her. Still a relative unknown, she had stolen the limelight from some of the biggest film stars in the world. Roger Vadim was still only 26 years old when he wrote the screenplay for the film that would catapult Bardot to international stardom and launch his own directing career.

While filming And God Created Woman, Brigitte had fallen in love with her co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant. Vadim, for his part, took it pragmatically and maturely, and their 1957 separation was a civilized affair. They stayed good friends and he remained an important confidant for her in the years to come. At the end of 1958 she was the numer one star in France. But she wasn’t just popular in her native country; she was beginning to top popularity lists in countries across the world. Such immense fame brought with it the constant attention of the press, who pursued her relentlessly. She often felt trapped and admitted to friends that she felt she was missing out on a normal life. Her relationship with Trintignant had lasted only six months, after which she had even briefer flings with actor Gustavo Rojo and singer Gilbert Becaud. When she met actor Jacques Charrier, they fell in love and she wound up pregnant, which terrified and repulsed her. In her own words, she couldn’t raise a child when she still needed her mother. Nonetheless, she gave birth to a son, Nicholas on January 11, 1960. Bardot would only see Nicholas intermittently through his childhood, and not until she was in her sixties and he was married with two children, would they have a lasting reconciliation. Shortly after, she attempted suicide by slashing her wrists as well as overdosing on barbiturates and was within a hair of actually dying. Within a few weeks after leaving the hospital, she was seen shopping in the village as normal accompanied by Roger Vadim who had helped her through the crisis. Bardot’s divorce from Jacques Charrier was finalized in 1962. In an uncontested plea, Charrier was awarded custody of Nicholas.

She continued to make films, have affairs, and occasionally sing, notably on Serge Gainsbourg’s infamous song “Je t’aime moi non plus” but chickened out on the racy song and made Gainsbourg re-record it with Jane Birkin instead. In 1973, at the age of 39, she decided she had had enough and retired from the entertainment business for good, settling down with her final and current husband and dedicating the rest of her life to animal activism. In 1986, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She raised three million francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewelry and other personal belongings.

So she is quite a woman. Regardless of the criticisms and controversies that have surrounded her, Brigitte Bardot remains a major cultural icon of the twentieth century. But to be fair, let me not wax too poetic about her; she definitely has her faults. Her views on feminism (which I share) and her views on foreigners in France (which I part ways with, for the most part) are a couple of “flaws” that people really like to fuss over and have a problem with, obviously. However, the most glaring flaw she has, to me, was her contempt for her son. The fact that she was never able to connect with her son is interesting (what is it with Libras and parenthood? LOL). If she couldn’t connect with him when she had him because she wasn’t in a mentally sound place to do so, then so be it, but she’s never cared much for him ever, which again, is interesting. In fact, she wrote a rather candid autobiography, and in it, she referred to her unborn son as a “cancerous tumour” and said she would have “preferred to give birth to a little dog”. Understandably, she wasn’t invited to his wedding for those little tidbits of information. However, she was astute enough to realize her shortcomings on that; years later, she confessed:

“I’m not made to be a mother. I’m not adult enough – I know it’s horrible to have to admit that, but I’m not adult enough to take care of a child.”

Kudos to her for admitting that and being honest about this; most women bring kids into the world for their own selfish purposes, or for no rhyme or reason at all, just because that’s what they think they’re “supposed to do”. Well, that wasn’t for her and she was frank about it. I completely understand (and personally share) her views on being a mother. Her execution of those views, however, left a lot to be desired, but I think they’ve made up in recent years (which, I’m sure, was accelerated with the birth of her grandchild). As for her life at 84, she’s a reluctant legend who has been making headlines for her nationalistic views as well as her most recent incendiary views as of late. At any rate, she holds the courage of her convictions, however controversial and outdated by today’s standards, and I respect that even if I don’t necessarily agree with them all. Classy dame. Love her.

Next week, I’ll focus another star who has caused unwitting controversy; an action hero whose luster was tarnished when old words of his were posthumously unearthed: Gemini John Wayne.

Stats

birthdate: September 28, 1934

major planets:

Sun: Libra

Moon: Gemini

Rising: Sagittarius

Mercury: Libra

Venus: Virgo

Mars: Leo

Midheaven: Libra

Jupiter: Libra

Saturn: Aquarius

Uranus: Taurus

Neptune: Virgo

Pluto: Cancer

Overall personality snapshot: She has a youthful, engaging personality and, as is characteristic of youth, she has lots of questions. Direct questions about people and the world are never far from her quick, persuasive lips, but she is never really satisfied with the answers she gets. Of the many questions life poses her, some of the key ones center around her relationships with others. She likes attention and to be accepted and well-thought-of by others, but she also gets bored easily and likes to play devil’s advocate, to have her say and let others think what they will. She could aspire to social elegance and propriety, yet find that she instinctively took a much more ad-lib, happy-go-lucky approach to things. Although deep friendships and one-to-one relationships were central to her life, she could be remarkably carefree, flippant and outrageously flirtatious. She likes to see herself as a thinker who lives a reflective life, and indeed she possesses real intellectual potential. In order to make the most of it, however, she needs to cultivate some perseverance. She glibly agrees with the maxim that the unexamined life is not worth living, yet she easily gets by without examining too deeply. She has definite ideas about most things, which she could put over with great charm and persuasion. What she think, and what other people thought, was all important to her, and she enjoys exchanging gossip, games and good times. Ideally, however, she likes to have a mind so clear that it sees beyond opinions.

Sociability and lively discussion with friends is her lifeblood. She wants to live her life as smoothly and intelligently as she can, and this may lead her to espouse some particular ‘ism’ or collection of dependable mottos which, in general, work most of the time. Although she prefers harmonious intercourse, she has a gift for seeking and arguing both sides of any question. In other words, she cannot help stirring up a bit of healthy controversy. This characteristic is welcome since she worked in the films, but it is not as appreciated in close relationships where you use that cunning wit of yours to wriggle out of tight corners and irksome responsibilities. This she may do when her own feelings or the emotional demands of others seem threatening, for although she’s romantic enough, she does not suffer emotional inquisitions gladly. Naturally articulate, versatile, socially skilled and humane, she can readily slip into other ways of looking at things. This is because she is truly interested in ideas, and she will do almost anything for a laugh. She uses her logical approach to explore and reconcile the irreconcilable; that is, the enigmatic behaviour of people and society in general. She works well with others, and her easy-going, adaptable nature, and her relaxed, jokey, yet courteous approach to human relations, make her a natural diplomat who can be guaranteed to make any collaborative effort run smoothly.

She was a drop-dead gorgeous woman, with perfect features. Her legs were long and gangling. Her most outstanding feature, other than her extraordinary figure, was her wide brilliant smile, shining out of her open face. Although she prefers dressing casually most times, when she does dress up, she was and still is absolutely stunning. Her natural curiosity and sympathetic understanding of a situation allows her to use her good judgement. Because she’s aware of so many options, she could find herself unable to come to a decision. She usually needs someone or something else to provide motivation. However, even though she may be slow in coming to a decision, once she’s made it, she sticks to it if she believes she is in the right. She makes a welcome addition to any social gathering, because she’s so charming in her communication skills. She also has the welcome ability to bring people together. She’s best suited to working in a partnership of some kind, or at least in a joint effort with other people. She’s very aware of how others might have been able to help further her career or social ambitions. Most importantly, she needed pleasant and congenial work conditions and a job which she felt was artistic, or at least creative in some way. She knows how to make people feel at ease and instinctively knows how to resolve conflict. You are easy-going, frank and optimistic. She’s quite sociable and expects other people to behave well at all times. She’s eager for close personal relationships, so she tends to have a wide circle of friends. Self-indulgence can be a problem for her, as could laziness and conceit in relationships. She tends to be impatient with superficial details, preferring large-scale situations, and she dislikes being tied down by obligations over which she has little control.

She was willing to accept responsibility and didn’t want to depend on others for anything. She concentrated on efforts to improve her mind and would take up any intellectual pursuits that gave full rein to her imagination. She has an original mind and used every skill she possessed to gain control of her affairs. She was willing to tolerate austerity for as long as it was justified. She respects institutions for as long as they serve her purpose. She belongs to a determined, practical and stubborn generation that was interested in acquiring out new or unusual possessions. As a member of this generation, she has fairly fixed views on things and finds it difficult to accept change and disruptions in their life, unless she fully understands and agrees with the reasons why. She belonged to a generation with a practical and materialistic frame of mind, and which was critical of standards of religion and government. As a member of this generation, she tries to restore order where chaos and injustice rule, although sometimes her aims and objectives are misunderstood. Changes were also experienced in the relationships between parents and children, with the ties becoming looser. In Bardot’s case, her relationship with her son was at times, strained at best. Was part of a generation known for its devastating social upheavals concerning home and family. The whole general pattern of family life experiences enormous changes and upheavals; as a Cancer Plutonian, this aspect is highlighted by Bardot not having a great relationship with her parents, particularly her mother.

Love/sex life: Her approach to sex comes as close to shy and self-effacing as is possible with this type. She has a way of bringing the high flying egotism of Mars in Leo down to earth and making sex seem less like an art form and more like a very pleasant way to spend a couple of hours. Her taste for the big, dramatic love affair is tempered by her physical needs. For this reason her love life is likely to have two tracks: one for the “big” affairs in which she can fully express her pride and artistry and one for the “little” engagements about which she was not so proud. She would like to maintain the upper-hand in her relationship but her earthy nature often places her at a disadvantage. Unlike other lovers of this type, she can't simply walk away from a relationship that fails to feed her ego. She has to also give practical consideration to the quality of the sex and if the sex is good enough, she might just be willing to put her bossy egotism on hold for a while.

minor asteroids and points:

North Node: Aquarius

Lilith: Leo

Vertex: Cancer

Fortune: Leo

East Point: Capricorn

Her North Node in Aquarius dictated that she needed to try not to let herself fall in the trap of overemphasizing her own importance. She needs to be able to share with others more readily and to be prepared to see issues from their perspective. Her Lilith in Leo dictated that she was the ultimate diva whose creative output, talents, and pure raw chutzpah worked like a magic spell. She was a trail-blazing game changer. She was a true performer; her work was immortal and her one true love was her art. She was magical, outrageously talented, and adored. Her Vertex in Cancer, 8th house meant that she had a dream for an almost womblike environment that shut out all discordant noise or interference from the outside. There are very deep desires regarding the ideal structure or family and home life. When she committed herself in a relationship she was really deeply committed and if she felt that her partner wasn’t similarly serious she struck out at them in defense. Her expectations of others, ultimately, were unrealistic and were based on her own feelings of insecurity, which were profound. An internal yearning for an inseparable union with and total commitment from another, come what may. This need was so intense that she fantasized all manner of unspeakable actions and reactions if the final dream, once attained, was even threatened.

The dark side is that when the reality of her partner didn’t fit this model (and it rarely did totally) she had a difficult time adjusting when faced with a breach of contract of any sort. Once badly hurt there was a tendency to become jaded and guarded in future relationships, thereby passing up the opportunity to explore interactions which might just have fulfilled out her intense needs perfectly. Her Part of Fortune in Leo and Part of Spirit in Aquarius dictated that her destiny would bring money into her life. Her wealth came through her father. Happiness and good fortune lay within her home and family, which provided emotional and financial security. Her soul’s purpose was to create practical and long-lasting achievements. She felt spiritual connections and saw the spark of the divine when she observed her progress through life and saw it take a form and structure that will outlive her. East Point in Capricorn dictated that her identification is more with the conditional love parent (her father). She faced reality young. From an early age, she was constantly fighting against the rules of the game, the ordinary limitations of society. She fought against time; she may have broken the law, and she acted and continues to act against the accepted conventions of our culture and society in a number of ways.

elemental dominance:

air

fire

She was communicative, quick and mentally agile, and she liked to stir things up. She was likely a havoc-seeker on some level. She was oriented more toward thinking than feeling. She carried information and the seeds of ideas. Out of balance, she lived in her head and could be insensitive to the feelings of others. But at her best, she helped others form connections in all spheres of their daily lives. She was dynamic and passionate, with strong leadership ability. She generated enormous warmth and vibrancy. She was exciting to be around, because she was genuinely enthusiastic and usually friendly. However, she could either be harnessed into helpful energy or flame up and cause destruction. Ultimately, she chose the latter. Confident and opinionated, she was fond of declarative statements such as “I will do this” or “It’s this way.” When out of control—usually because she was bored, or hadn’t been acknowledged—she was be bossy, demanding, and even tyrannical. But at her best, her confidence and vision inspired others to conquer new territory in the world, in society, and in themselves.

modality dominance:

cardinal

She was happiest when she was doing anything new, and she loved to begin new ventures. She enjoyed the challenge of claiming territory. She tended to be an initiator—and a bit territorial as well. Also, she had a tendency to start more things than she could possibly finish.

house dominants:

10th

9th

6th

Her ambition in relation to the outside world, the identity she wished to achieve in regard to the community at large, and her career aspirations were all themes that were emphasized throughout her life. All matters outside the home, her public image and reputation were very important to her. Her attitude to people in authority, and how she viewed the outside world, as well as the influence of her mother and her own attitude to her was highlighted. Traveling, whether physically across the globe, on a mental plane or expanding through study was a major theme in her life. She was not only concerned with learning facts, but also wanted to understand the connections formed between them and the philosophies and concepts they stand for. Her conscience, as well as foreign travel, people and places was also of paramount importance in her life, as is evidenced in her massive crossover appeal in America. Her workplace in respect to her colleagues, and the type of work she did as well as her attitude to it was emphasized in her life. Her everyday life and routine and the way she handled it was highlighted. How she went about being of service to others in a practical way, and the way she adjusted to necessities of mundane existence was a them in her life. Also, how she aspired to refine and better herself was of importance as well.

planet dominants:

Jupiter

Moon

Mercury

She had luck, and believed in expansion, integration, and growth. She could also be excessive and lazy. She reached out beyond herself and expanded her consciousness. She loved travel, was fairly religious, and liked to integrate herself into the larger social order—church or religion, community, and corporation. She had intellectual and spiritual interests in the most profound sense. She was defined by her inner world; by her emotional reactions to situations, how emotions flowed through her, motivating and compelling her—or limiting her and holding her back. She held great capacity to become a part of the whole rather than attempting to master the parts. She wanted to become whatever it is that she sought. She was intelligent, mentally quick, and had excellent verbal acuity. She dealt in terms of logic and reasoning. It was likely that she was left-brained. She was restless, craved movement, newness, and the bright hope of undiscovered terrains.

sign dominants:

Libra

Gemini

Sagittarius

She loved beauty in all its guises—art, literature, classical music, opera, mathematics, and the human body. She usually was a team player who enjoyed debate but not argument. She was, at her best, an excellent strategist and a master at the power of suggestion. Even though she was likely a courteous, amiable person, she was definitely not a pushover. She tried to use diplomacy and intelligence to get what she wanted. She ventured out to see what else was there and seized upon new ideas that will expand her community. Her innate curiosity kept her on the move. She used her rational, intellectual mind to explore and understand her personal world. She needed to answer the single burning question in her mind: why? This applied to most facets of her life, from the personal to the impersonal. This need to know sent her off to foreign countries, where her need to explore other cultures and traditions ranked high. She was changeable and often moody. This meant that she was often at odds with herself—the mind demanding one thing, the heart demanding the opposite. To someone else, this internal conflict often manifested as two very different people. She loved her freedom and chafed at any restrictions. She sought the truth, expressed it as she saw it—and didn’t care if anyone else agreed with her. She saw the large picture of any issue and couldn’t be bothered with the mundane details. She was always outspoken and likely couldn’t understand why other people weren’t as candid. After all, what was there to hide?

Read more about her under the cut.

Brigitte Bardot was born on September 28, 1934 in Paris, France. Her father had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance, and she proved to be very adept at it. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was trying a modeling career, and found herself in the French magazine "Elle". Her incredible beauty readily apparent, Brigitte next tried films. In 1952, she appeared on screen for the first time as Javotte Lemoine in Crazy for Love (1952). Two more films followed and it was also the same year she married Roger Vadim. She wanted to marry him when she was 17, but her parents quashed any marriage plans until she turned 18. The union lasted less than four years. Capitalizing on her success in French films, Brigitte made her first American production in Act of Love (1953) with Kirk Douglas, but she continued to make films in France. Brigitte's explosive sexuality took the United States by storm, and the effect she had on millions of American men who had not seen a woman like her in a long, long time--if ever--was electric. Rise to the phrase "sex kitten" and fascination of her in the United States consisted of magazines photographs and dubbed over French films--good, bad or indifferent, her films drew audiences--mainly men--into theaters like lemmings. In 1965, she appeared as herself in the American-made Dear Brigitte (1965) with James Stewart (she only appeared in one scene). Just before she turned 40, Brigitte retired from movies after filming The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot (1973). She prefers life outside of stardom. While it enabled her to become internationally famous, it also carried with it annoyances. It was not anything for her to have "fans" enter her house or wander around the grounds of her home in the hopes of getting a glimpse of her or to take something that belonged to her. Paparazzi constantly hounded her with their cameras. She has been so soft-hearted that some people even have taken advantage of her generosity. After her life in the spotlight, Brigitte went on to become a leading spokesperson for animal rights and started the "Foundation Brigitte Bardot" dedicated solely to that cause. Her work in that realm is, perhaps, far greater than any film she could have made. Brigitte has been married to Bernard d'Ormale since 1992 and they reside in St. Tropez with their nearly 50 pets. (x)

#brigitte bardot #libra #scandalous stars #star analyses #long ass post #mine

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A LISTENER’S JOURNAL, #26: SAMPLING SUGGESTIONS FROM 2019 BEST JAZZ ALBUM LISTS, Part 1

I still rely on critics’ year end lists to discover gems and keep up with developments in the music, even as I listen to jazz more and more. I don’t have my own full lists, instead noting the occasional favorite and trends that aren’t necessarily calendar bound. I also have more catching up to do than mere archival releases capture.

So, here, finally, is a listener’s journal that is an actual journal written in real time.

CHICK COREA/CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE/BRIAN BLADE--TRILOGY 2

I guess I returned to serious jazz listening just after the predecessor album was released. I may have dipped into it a little in preparation for his May 2018 run at Jazz St. Louis, but I didn’t study it. I will—and this one too.That 2018 show was a reminder of just how good—inventive, grounded yet forward thinking—Corea is. In his late 70s now, he is still an imp, alive, alert, and amused. It was there in the club and it’s here on this recording. It’s a strong set of standards, creatively stretched, including some standards composed by the pianist—“La Fiesta” and a nicely refracted “500 Miles High.” They also do “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs.” Two Monk tunes too.McBride evokes Ray Brown in this trio setting and Blade is one of those drummer/magicians that are a constant delight and discovery.

ETHAN IVERSON QUARTET--COMMON PRACTICE

Iverson continues to surprise me. I have more familiarity with The Bad Plus 2.0 with Orrin Evans than his tenure in the band. I saw 1.0 once and he was probably checking out. I think I like Evans more as Iverson was, I thought, too in his head, too ECM.But last year, his album with Mark Turner was a delight (and I also found them in the Billy Hart Quartet). To be fair, all those works and this one are on ECM.Here there are standards, reasonably straight ahead but with some very nice deconstructions (an out of sync left and right hand chorus on “I Get Sentimental Over You” and a stretching of “All the Things You Are.” This is Iverson?

Tom Harrell’s dry, smart, spare trumpet is key too. I don’t know him enough, so I’m glad for this reminder.

FRANK ZAPPA--THE HOT RATS SESSIONS

This isn’t on any lists, but it was important to me at the time and probably did contribute to fusion. So I gave it all a listen. It is fascinating to watch tunes take shape and components layered in production. I am in the Shut Up and Play Your Guitar camp, so the long long jams with violin (maybe Jean Luc-Ponty, otherwise Sugarcane Harris) are a treat. They are not composed, even as a launching pad. They are blues as a way, I imagine, for them to learn to play together. There are some tunes that Zappa-philes will recognize as resurfacing later.

There probably is a 2 CD highlights compilation that could be made as a Spotify playlist. But having all 6 on the record is a good thing.

THE NORTH PLAYS THE MUSIC OF KENNY WHEELER

I don’t know these solid, respectful players (Percy Purslove, David Braid, Johnny Aman, Mike Murley, and Anders Mogensten) and have begun to know Kenny Wheeler just some from covers, including Fred Hersch’s, of “Everyone’s Song But My Own,” Ingrid Jensen’s “Invisible Sounds,” and a smattering of his own albums, especially the remarkable “Angel Eyes” with Lee Konitz.

Wheeler is an impressive composer and “Everyone’s Song” and “Kind Folk” (nicely reprised here) are becoming pleasingly familiar and recognizable.The recording made a Canadian list and the band and Wheeler (Jensen too) are tied to the country. Their national pride is justified and I welcome such reminders to get to know Wheeler better. He is a strong trumpeter/flugelhornist but the tunes are appealing and nicely crafted. The North’s performances are more reverential than swinging. But they can swing.

LEE KONITZ/KENNY WHEELER QUARTET--LIVE AT BIRDLAND NIEBLING

This genius pairing is the basis for Wheeler’s superb “Angel Eyes” and this follow up came out in 2006 with a reissue in 2016 as “Olden Times.” I’m glad there’s more of them, though Bill Frisell and Dave Holland are replaced by strong German players on piano and bass. Again, no drummer which is interesting.

This is Konitz’s date, so he is more in charge of compositions and covers. Like Wheeler, he is someone I am belatedly getting to know. I recently wrote about bebop improvisers (Parker, Powell, Jackson, and Brown) with a fascination with their melodic and real time compositional skills. Konitz fits in there too though he comes from a slightly different place.

This is a great context for Wheeler and shows that he can improvise in a very compositional way. “Kind Folk” and “Onmo” from “Angel Eyes” and The North’s album are welcome contributions to this date.

But Konitz is once again and always so smart and liquid with long lines. He weaves paragraphs.

PAUL BLEY/GARY PEACOCK/PAUL MOTIAN--WHEN WILL THE BLUES LEAVE

Piano trios are my thing, so getting to know this ensemble through this release of a 1999 concert is an opportunity. I know Motian the best through being part of THE trio with Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro and then his 1970s work with Keith Jarrett’s American band. I think of him as a colorist more than a timekeeper. Peacock is the Standards trio with Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette. As with Motian’s commentary, he is here, too, in character as a strong voice of adventure.

Alas, I know Bley even less well—and it’s his date. He has lots of ideas and draws on a refracted long history of the instrument. He etches tight sometimes jagged lines and/or lets chords shimmer almost serenely. The title cut is from Ornette and that says something. The encore is “I Loves You, Porgy” which provides illuminating reference points to the logic of the rest of the program of Bley mostly and Peacock originals.

The critical commentary suggests that this band, had it recorded more, would have deserved to wield significant influence. Had this set been released 20 years ago, they might have. For that, I give them and Bley serious appreciation. But I am more likely to return to the Corea/McBride/Blade project more often which says at least as much about me as about the band.

THE BAD PLUS--ACTIVATE INFINITY

I will see this band for their annual early January residency in St. Louis. I want to live with this album over the next week. Doing so in the context also of the Bley and Corea will be instructive.

First impressions—I have The BP conventions down and there is a comfortable familiarity with the compositional styles of Reid Anderson and Dave King. That is, this sounds completely like The Bad Plus. Orrin Evans was a welcome breath of fresh air for me as a listener coming late to this party. As I said re: his quartet album above, I probably saw a more disengaged Ethan Iverson or I just like Evans more. But, I’m rethinking that in terms of the things I like that Iverson has done since leaving the band.

I’m going to live with this music for a week or so. Besides having The Bad Plus “homework” to do, I have Bley and Corea rabbit holes to pursue. Listening to Iverson’s work in juxtaposition to The BP 2.0 will let me nibble at the original BP question. And more Konitz and Wheeler will be a treat.

So there will be more installments in this series. More keyboards—Iyer/Taborn, Taborn with the BPers King and Anderson, Kris Davis. Trumpeters—Yazz Ahmad, Jamie Branch, Christian Scott a Tunde, and Dave Douglas. Reissues if I can get at them—Bill Evans in England, Charles Lloyd at Montreux in 1967, and Stan Getz. A grab bag of Theon Cross, Mantana Rogers, and Allison Miller’s projects.

#jazz #listener's journal #2019 #2020

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s h i v e r s, 1975 🎬 dir. david cronenberg

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brokehorrorfan · 4 years

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Shivers will be released on Blu-ray on September 15 via Lionsgate as part of the Vestron Video Collector’s Series. Marc Schoenbach designed the new cover art for the 1975 sci-fi/horror film.

Also known as It Came from Within and The Parasite Complex, the Canadian production is written and directed by David Cronenberg (The Fly, Videodrome). Paul Hampton, Lynn Lowry, and Barbara Steele star.

Cronenberg is on board for a new commentary and interview. A full list of special features can be found below.

Special features:

Audio Commentary by writer-director David Cronenberg and co-producer Don Carmody (new)

Interview with writer-director David Cronenberg (new)

Interview with actress Lynn Lowry (new)

Interview with special makeup effects creator Joe Blasco (new)

Interview with Greg Dunning (new)

1998 Interview with writer-director David Cronenberg

Still gallery with optional audio interview with executive producer John Dunning

Theatrical trailers

TV spot

Radio spots

When the residents of a luxury apartment complex outside Montreal are infiltrated by parasites and transformed into violent, sex-crazed maniacs, it’s up to Dr. Roger St. Luc (Paul Hampton) to contain the outbreak from spreading to the city at large.

#shivers #david cronenberg #lynn lowry #barbara steele #body horror #paul hampton #vestron video #lionsgate #dvd #gift #marc schoenbach #horror #70s hororr #1970s horror #it came from within

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did u get a bunch of recs? any good movies u're checkin out? i'm looking as well and if people have good taste can u tell us who were helpful. i need some more blogs to follow.

Absolutely! I wrote all of them down and i’m gonna try and make my way through them. I’m putting it under the cut, so check them out. I bolded the ones that were recommended that i’ve already seen. As far as who you should check out, i’m actually gonna do a ‘follow forever’ in a couple weeks when I reach a follower milestone. But a couple of the people who recommended me movies were @rosemciver and @constancwu (and a few others but I responded privately so I don’t have their messages anymore. sadness!)

- The Edge of Heaven (dir. Fatih Akin)

- Head-On (dir. Fatih Akin)

- In The Fade (dir. Fatih Akin)

- My Cousin Vinny (dir. Jonathan Lynn)

- Something New (dir. Sanaa Hamri)

- Belle (dir. Amma Asante)

- Animal Kingdom (dir. David Michôd)

- The Cell (dir. Tarsem Singh)

- Some Kind of Wonderful (dir. Howard Deutch)

- The Fifth Element (dir. Luc Besson)

- 2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick)

- A United Kingdom (dir. Amma Asante)

- Death Becomes Her (dir. Robert Zemeckis)

- La Dolce Vita (dir. Federico Fellini)

-Erin Brokovich (dir. Steven Soderbergh)

-Save The Last Dance (dir. Thomas Carter)

- St. Trinian’s (dir. Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson

-St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold (dir. Oliver Parker and Barnaby Thompson)

-The Witches of Eastwick (dir. George Miller)

- The Witches (dir. Nicolas Roeg)

-A Simple Favor (dir. Paul Feig)

-Beyond The Lights (dir. Gina Prince-Bythewood)

-Far From The Madding Crowd (dir. Thomas Vinterberg)

-Dancer (dir. Steven Cantor)

-The Dressmaker (dir. Jocelyn Moorhouse)

-Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)

-Morning Glory (dir. Roger Michell)

-Joy (dir. David O. Russell)

-Wimbledon (dir. Richard Loncraine)

-I Love You to Death

-Running on Empty

-My Own Private Idaho

-The Thing Called Love

-The Lake House

-Speed

-Parenthood

-Goodfellas

-The Lost Boys

-Sometimes They Come Back

-Final Destination

-Her

-Dunkirk

-Can’t Buy Me Love

-Nightcrawler!!!

-Prisoners!

-The Shawshank Redemption!

-12 Years a Slave!

-IT (2017)!

-Zodiac!

-Se7en!

-Hot Fuzz!

-World's End!

-Shaun of the Dead!

-Room!

-Black Panther!

-Whiplash!

-Pulp Fiction

-Inglorious Basterds

-Gerald’s Game

-The Descent

-Trick R Treat

-The Prestige,

-Secret Life of Walter Mitty

-Romeo + Juliet

-Bugsy Malone

-Brother Bear

-Whip It,

-But I'm a Cheerleader

-Miss Representation

- Only Lovers Left Alive

- Basic Instinct

- Battle of The Sexes

- Dr. Strangelove

- How I Learned to Stop Worrying

- Love the Bomb

- In Brugess

- Mars Attacks!

- A Most Violent Year

- Grosse Pointe Black

- Volver

- Vicky Cristina Barcelona

- Wild Things

- Y Tu Mama Tambien

- The Skeleton Key

- The Mist

- The Duff

- Taxi Driver

- Frida

- Wild Child

- Labyrinth

- Run Lola Run

- The Counterfeiters

- The Lives of Others

- Battle Royale

- The War of the Roses

- The Motorcycle Diaries

- Gaga: Five Foot Two

- Rear Window

- The Professional

- La Vie en Rose

- In Your Eyes

#answered #movie recs #i really should have wrote down who recommended me things #sorry!#Anonymous

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2017 : Ça que c'tait

Écrire une critique est toujours subjectif. Faire un Top 10, encore plus. Est-il vraiment possible de déclarer : « Voilà, ces 10 films sont officiellement les meilleurs de l’année »? Tout au mieux, on peut affirmer que ce sont les 10 préférés de la personne qui a fait la liste... et encore là, seulement au moment où elle a été publiée. 2017 marque la vingtième année où je publie un Top 10, et il n’y a littéralement aucune de mes listes précédentes que je ne modifierais pas avec le recul — pour changer l’ordre, remplacer quelques titres, voire recommencer à zéro. Cela dit, je prends toujours un grand plaisir à cet exercice. Rien n’est plus personnel pour un critique que de distiller toute une année en une courte liste. Ce qu’on y inclut, tout comme ce qu’on n’y met pas, en dit beaucoup sur notre conception du cinéma, sur ce qui nous touche, ce qui nous fait rire, ce qui nous trouble, ce qui nous excite, ce qui nous fait peur, ce qui nous fait rêver…

Sans plus tarder, voici le Top 10 de mes films préférés de l’année.

1 - Dunkirk (Christopher Nolan)

Le temps peut paraître trop long, comme pour ces jeunes soldats attendant longuement d’être secourus sur les plages de Dunkerque. Ou on peut craindre de manquer de temps, comme ce pilote incarné par Tom Hardy qui voit rapidement arriver la fin de ses réserves d’essence alors qu’il abat une succession d’avions ennemis. Ou bien on se retrouve pris entre deux temps, en mer, entouré de dangers potentiels. Avec une ingéniosité hallucinante, Christopher Nolan et son monteur Lee Smith jongle avec trois récits se déroulant chacun à un rythme distinct, se croisant les uns les autres à divers moments. Brillamment mis en scène, avec une approche visuelle magistrale et une conception sonore complètement immersive, toutes deux particulièrement impressionnantes en IMAX, Dunkirk est rien de moins qu’un chef-d’oeuvre et aisément le meilleur film de l’année.

2 - Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Dix ans après There Will Be Blood, le scénariste-réalisateur Paul Thomas Anderson et l'acteur Daniel Day-Lewis refont équipe pour Phantom Thread, une histoire d'amour sur fond de haute couture se déroulant à Londres dans les années 1950. Un embargo critique m’empêche de vous en dire plus jusqu’au jour de la sortie en salle au Québec. Phantom Thread prendra l’affiche le 12 janvier 2018.

3 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (James Gunn)

Pour être un bon père, pas besoin d'être un dieu. Pas besoin d'être parfait. L'essentiel, c'est d'être là quand c'est important... Et cela, ça va au-delà des liens du sang. Voici la morale de ce brillant film de science-fiction qui est miraculeusement encore meilleur que l'original. Les héros qu’on aimait déjà sont toujours aussi drôles et attachants (Peter, Gamora, Drax, Rocket, Groot), certains personnages secondaires deviennent ici centraux de façons inattendues (Yondu, Nebula), et de nouveaux personnages fascinants (Ego, Mantis) se joignent à la famille. James Gunn réalise ici le film le plus imaginatif, le plus beau, le plus émouvant du Marvel Cinematic Universe à ce jour, avec encore une fois la meilleure trame sonore de l’année.

4 - Mudbound (Dee Rees)

Comme un Grand Roman Américain de John Steinbeck adapté par Terrence Malick, mais surtout un long métrage que seule une femme afro-américaine aurait pu réaliser. À la fois épique et intimiste, ce drame d’époque se déroulant juste avant, durant et après la Seconde Guerre mondiale raconte l’histoire d’une famille blanche et d’une famille noire qui cohabitent de façon tendue sur une terre agricole au Mississippi. Explorant des thèmes tels que le racisme et le syndrome de stress post-traumatique, le film inclut une sublime narration en voix hors champ et de tout aussi sublimes images, même si le récit est souvent incroyablement sombre et douloureux. La scénariste et réalisatrice Dee Rees est une brillante raconteuse et elle met en scène avec brio chaque scène, obtenant notamment le meilleur de son excellente distribution d’ensemble. Si ce n’était pas un film distribué par Netflix, Mudbound mènerait probablement la prochaine course aux Oscars.

5 - Les Affamés (Robin Aubert)

Voici un film à la fois dépouillé et complet, parsemé autant de gags et de gore que de poésie, de surréalisme et d’émotion, le tout étant admirablement mis en scène par Aubert, qui déborde d’idées visuelles et qui les exécute toutes avec brio. Avec une série de personnages mémorables joués par quelques acteurs —Marc-André Grondin, Luc Proulx, Édouard Tremblay-Grenier —, mais d’abord et avant tout une superbe distribution d’actrices de différentes générations, comme dans Mad Max : Fury Road, de la petite Charlotte St-Martin, qui vole pratiquement le film (elle fait parfois un peu penser à Manon dans Les Bons débarras), à l’hilarante Monia Chokri, l’étonnamment badass Brigitte Poupart et les attachantes Marie-Ginette Guay et Micheline Lanctôt. Le meilleur film québécois d’une année où le cinéma de genre — au sens large (voir aussi : La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes, Le problème d’infiltration) — a dominé la production locale.

6 - Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri (Michael McDonagh)

Probablement le scénario le plus ingénieux de l’année. Le récit a quelque chose d’à la fois imprévisible et inévitable. Fatidique. Et la manière dont Martin McDonagh module le ton de chaque séquence, chaque moment, chaque réplique, est magistrale. Scène après scène, on s’amuse énormément à regarder les différents acteurs interagir avec la phénoménale Frances McDormand ou entre eux. En même temps, le tout est parsemé de moments de vérité douloureuse ou d’ironie morbide, alors nos rires restent parfois pris dans notre gorge. C’est sur un fil très mince que se maintient brillamment le film, quelque part entre le plaisir et l’inconfort. Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri dépeint une spirale de violence, où chacun agit selon ses propres intérêts, de façon justifiée ou pas, entraînant directement ou indirectement des conséquences inattendues.

7 - Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson)

Moins direct dans son approche que The Force Awakens, qui nous présentait rapidement et efficacement trois nouveaux protagonistes (Rey, Finn, Poe) particulièrement attachants, en plus d'offrir à Han Solo un formidable dernier tour de piste, The Last Jedi renferme néanmoins certaines des meilleures scènes dramatiques, comiques et d'action de toute la série, ainsi que plus de trouvailles visuelles que jamais. En restant vague pour ceux qui ne se sont pas encore précipités en salle, je pense notamment à Rey et Kylo Ren dans la salle du trône de Snoke, au point culminant d’un montage alterné où la trame sonore devient soudainement silencieuse, et au tour de Force de Luke Skywalker. On sent vraiment qu’on se dirige vers la finale de cette nouvelle trilogie, et on est déjà impatient de découvrir ce qui arrivera à nos héros préférés dans l’épisode IX.

8 - Logan (James Mangold)

Un film au souffle épique, avec des scènes d’action incroyablement brutales et sanglantes. C’est aussi un film étonnamment contemplatif et atmosphérique par moments, nous faisant vraiment ressentir le spleen du vieux Logan, qui commence à en avoir marre de cette interminable existence de violence. À ses côtés, on retrouve un professeur Charles Xavier nonagénaire, pris de démence et ayant perdu le contrôle de ses pouvoirs télépathiques… Ils sont éventuellement rejoints par Laura, une fillette troublée, mais qui s’avère formidablement badass. Si Hugh Jackman tire sa révérence après cette neuvième apparition en Wolverine comme il l’a annoncé, il n’aurait pas pu choisir un meilleur film final. Je l’ai adoré dans ce rôle dès le premier X-Men en 2000, mais jamais auparavant on n’avait pu autant apprécier à la fois toute la rage animale et la fragile humanité du personnage que dans Logan.

9 - Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve)

Comme le classique de Ridley Scott, le film de Denis Villeneuve est un exemple épique de « worldbuilding ». Chaque scène, chaque plan déborde de détails qui suggèrent tout un univers de possibilités. Villeneuve, son directeur artistique Dennis Gassner et son directeur photo Roger Deakins créent une vision du futur fascinante et constamment captivante visuellement. Au-delà de l’orgie d’images saisissantes, on savoure également un brillant essai sur la notion d’humanité et la nature de la mémoire via le prisme de la technologie, thèmes déjà présents dans l'opus de Scott. Le scénario de Hampton Fancher & Michael Green ne manque pas d’idées intrigantes et de rebondissements surprenants, Villeneuve parsème le tout de moments de suspense et d’action hyper efficaces et, on ne peut pas le répéter trop, les images de Deakins sont sublimes.

10 - mother! (Darren Aronofsky)

Alors que les détails étranges s’accumulent et que l’atmosphère devient de plus en plus tendue, menant à certaines des séquences les plus intensément chaotiques de la filmographie du réalisateur de Requiem for a Dream et Black Swan (ce qui n’est pas peu dire!), on réalise qu’il y a manifestement plusieurs niveaux de lecture possibles. Il y a bien sûr beaucoup de symbolisme biblique (la Création, Caïn et Abel, la venue d’un enfant-sauveur, etc.), mais aussi une fascinante allégorie du processus créatif d’un artiste (de l’inspiration à l’éventuelle adulation du public), une métaphore écologique (mère Nature assaillie par la civilisation destructrice), une vision dérangeante du mariage et de la procréation, et bien plus encore. Voici un thriller psychologique méticuleusement conçu et parfaitement exécuté, porté par des performances extraordinaires de tous les acteurs, Jennifer Lawrence en tête.

#dunkirk #guardians of the galaxy vol. 2 #phantom thread #mudbound #les affamés #the last jedi #three billboards outside ebbing missouri #logan #blade runner 2049 #mother!

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Shivers [They Came from Within] *** (1975, Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steele) - Classic Movie Review 9515

Shivers [They Came from Within] *** (1975, Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steele) – Classic Movie Review 9515

The infamous 1975 David Cronenberg Canadian science fiction body horror film shocker Shivers [They Came from Within] is his third movie, following Stereo and Crimes of the Future and preceding Rabid (1977). It stars Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, and Barbara Steele.

Paul Hampton plays resident doctor Roger St Luc, who discovers a dead scientist was doing experiments on the use of…

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Best 80s Tv Shows List

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Original Run: 1987 94 Creator: Gene Roddenberry Stars: Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Marina Sirtis Network: Syndicated The original collection was groundbreaking. Deep Space Nine and Voyager had their occasions. But TNG was head-and-shoulders the Star Trek franchise. Jean Luc Picard. Data. Worf. The holodeck. The Borg. Gene Roddenbury mustn't have had a cynical bone in his human anatomy, and as I watched his characters explore unusual new worlds, look for new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one h-AS gone before, I didn’t either.

The Cosby Show

Original Run: 1984-1992 Creators: Bill Cosby. Weinberger and Michael Leeson Stars: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rash? d Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Sabrina Le Beauf, Geoffrey Owens, Joseph C. Phillips Network: NBC George Jefferson may happen to be moving on up, but The Cosby Present gave the nation a mo-Re relatable glimpse of the expanding middleclass among African-Americans but much mo-Re usually, dealing with all the trials that we all faced. Inspired by Cosby’s own family encounters which had been a staple of his stand-up routine, the show dominated the 2nd half of the ’80s, topping the Neilsen scores from 1985-90 and averaging more than 3-0 million viewers in the ’86-87 period. Cosby’s legacy might currently be in shambles, but the display was bigger compared to the man.

Magnum, P.I.

Original Run: 1980 88 Creator: Donald P. Bellisario, Glen A. Larson Stars: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman. Mosley, Larry Manetti Network: CBS When every other adolescent male of the ’80s and I grew up, we needed the li Fe of Tom Magnum, performed by Tom Selleck and his mustache: dwelling in an opulent Hawaii beachhouse as a guest of a never-current millionaire novelist and driving his Ferrari 308 GTS; wracking up a never-to-be-paid tab a T the country club run by one war-vet buddy and bumming helicopter rides from still another; and periodically solving mysteries using a mixture of smarts, toughness and mostly chutzpah. I never did figure out the way to walk that particular career path, but it was fun to dream.

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At the Movies

Original Run: 1982-2010 Creator: Gene Siskel Stars: Roget Ebert, Gene Siskel Network: Syndicated Two different exhibits, both titled In The The Films from various production companies, the combination of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert completely revolutionized the notion of movie criticism. Greatly admired for his or her ability to succinctly sum up the newest films together with their honesty and integrity in sparring with each other when opinions differed, the pair were also criticized by many for degrading the integrity of film criticism by decreasing it to arbitrary “thumbs up“or “thumbs down“gestures. Such was the legacy of Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert and the duality of the show. They were among the only film critics whose thoughts an “average American“could often be expected to respect and did much for legitimizing the idea of film criticism outside of a class-room environment. Some might nonetheless criticize the idea of a two-outcome rating program, but it was the approachable eloquence of the hosts that created the format work.

Taxi

Original Run: 1978 83 Creators: James L. Ed, Brooks, Stan Daniels, David Davis. Weinberger Stars: Carol Kane, Judd Hirsch, Danny DeVito, Marilu Henner, Tony Danza, Andy Kaufman, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Conway Network: ABC/NBC Let’s just pause for a moment and remember that somebody once confident a community to set Andy Kaufman to the air. I just wish it'd been live TV. Like M*A*S*H, Taxi frequently tackled serious social problems like drug and gambling addiction, but did it with an incredibly unusual cast of characters from the alien-like Latka Graves (Kaufman) to drugged-out hippie Reverend Jim (Christopher Lloyd) to misanthrope Louie De Palma (Danny DeVito).

St. Elsewhere

Original Run: 1982 88 Creator: Joshua Brand, John Falsey Stars: William Daniels, Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd Network: NBC The seminal hospital drama of the 1980s, St. Elsewhere was never resoundingly productive in the ratings, but it racked in Emmys over the years for its practical, frequently-dark tone and occasions of humor. Its big, ensemble forged carried on several long and had a number of cross overs together with the Hill Street Blues that are related - serialized story-lines, type, leading to fantastic character development within the course of the series. Needless to say, it’s today often remembered for a different cause: For having perhaps the single-most WTF finale moment in TV history. At the conclusion of the final St. Else Where episode, the characters are revealed as having all been the creation of the autistic Tommy Westphall, who owns a snow globe wherein the imaginary St. Eligius hospital exists. Moreoever, because so many other exhibits and characters overlapped with St. Elsewhere, some followers posit this signifies that everything from Hill Avenue Blues and Murder: Life on the Road to The X-Files all take invest the “Tommy Westphall Universe“by extension.

Pee-Wee’s Playhouse

Original Run: 198690 Creator: Paul Reubens Stars: Paul Reubens, Laurence Fishburne, Lynne Marie Stewart Network: CBS There are two types of folks within my life: Those who like Pee Wee Herman and enemies. Years ago, I was gifted the total collection of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse DVDs. Over the years, I’d created a point to watch Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure and Big Top Pee-Wee whenever the feeling was correct. As much as I loved this show as a child, I only expected to get a great kick from an episode here and there, but I found myself inhaling these DVDs. Pee-Wee’s Play-House is joyous morning viewing (over a bowl of Mr. T cereal, of course) or a great way to unwind at evening (I’d recommend taking a drink from a good beer whenever somebody says the “secret word“ only if your day was exceptionally hard). To get a display that had a cast of breakfast plates and genies, cowboys, puppet couches, pterodactyls, clocks, I think Playhouse still makes sense in 2014. It’s a fully realized vision of Pee-Wee’s whimsical, wacky world—puppet strings and all—and the collection is just pithy enough to pull in adults that are ready to go on the ride, too. Paul Reubens is a comedy icon and master of timing, and it’s unusual that a well-placed Peewee gurgle or squeal doesn’t get a chuckle out of me. If you can’t find any joy in all of that, we’ve got to re Consider our friendship.

Wonder Years

#s#The Original Run: 1988-93 Creators: Neal Marlens, Carol Black Stars: Fred Savage, Dan Lauria, Alley Mills, Olivia d’Abo, Jason Hervey, Danica McKellar, Josh Saviano Network: ABC The Wonder Years is a family present, and yes, a few of its episodes inch dangerously shut to after school-unique territory, but make no error: revisiting this late-’80s/early-’90s staple as a grown-up is just as—if perhaps not more—enjoyable than observing it the first time around. It’s unabashedly nostalgic, but it chronicles the ups and downs of Kevin Arnold’s, Winnie Cooper’s and Paul Pfeiffer’s adolescence from the backdrop of the Vietnam era and our nation’s changing social landscape with a maturity most exhibits geared towards kiddies absence. The small childhood moments that stay with us are treated with the respect they deserve. We laugh when Kevin’s brother Wayne gets him in a headlock and calls him “scrote“for the umpteenth time (attempt sneaking that by the Nick a T Nite censors today!) or when Kev squares off along with his mortal enemy Becky Slater, and we cry when Kevin’s periodically distant father struggles to relate solely to his teen-age children. And sorry, but if you don’t hold your breath when Kevin puts that letterman jacket over Winnie’s shoulders, you’re lifeless within. Music geeks will enjoy the amazing sound track as well.

Family Ties

Original Run: 1982-89 Creator: Gary David Goldberg Stars: Meredith Baxter-Birney, Michael Gross. Fox, Justine Bateman and Tina Yothers Network: NBC We were given the Keatons by one of the finest family sit-coms of our time; these were were our family. Liberal working parents Steven (Michael Gross) and Elyse (Meredith Baxter) raised their three children—smart and conservative older brother Alex (Michael J. Fox), flighty and trendy middle kid Mallory (Justine Bateman) and sarcastic younger sister Jennifer (Tina Yothers)—with love, compassion and limits. Fox, whose job was introduced with all the collection, made Alex’s Republicanism humorous yet not cliched. The collection is still remembered for the very special episode, “A my name is Alex,“ where Alex struggled to accept the sudden death of his friend. Today family comedies continue to try to capture the magic that was Family Ties

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