Eddie Muller has called Alfred L. Werker’s REPEAT PERFORMANCE (1947, TCM, YouTube) the noir IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946). The main difference is that instead of envisioning a world in which she hadn’t lived, protagonist Joan Leslie relives the last year of her life, which had led to her killing husband Louis Hayward on New Year’s Eve. It’s also not quite as masochistic as the Frank Capra film. Leslie actively attempts to change the future by changing her choices, and no matter how much things go wrong, she keeps trying. Leslie is a sweet, likable actress, though she wasn’t there the day they were handing out star quality, so it’s a little hard to believe her as a Broadway diva whose shows regularly sell out. Still, you can’t help rooting for her. The film starts with Hayward dead, so his first scene is a year earlier and he’s quite appealingly vulnerable. But then he starts drinking and carrying on with playwright Virginia Field, and by the time the picture is half over, you’re rooting for Leslie to plug him again. That’s a very modern reaction. In the 1940s, besides the old “sanctity of marriage” myth promoted under the Production Code, Leslie didn’t have any alternative. Living alone would be out of the question, even though she’s the clear breadwinner. She has to have a man to whom she can belong. And her only fallback guys, producer Tom Conway and poet Richard Basehart (in his film debut), seem to be coded gay characters. Basehart’s character in the original novel by William O’Farrell was a cross-dresser. That wouldn’t fly in Hollywood, though, but even though his character develops a relationship with a wealthy, older woman (Natalie Schaffer, who’s quite delicious as the libidinous society woman on the prowl for her next protégé), he plays up the effete mannerisms and gives his character’s bon mots a distinct lavender tinge. He’s marvelous in the role, and the producers were so impressed they gave him extra scenes. In the restored print shown on TCM, the picture looks terrific, with great camera work by L. William O’Connell. And Leslie is ravishing in a series of Oleg Cassini gowns. Who wouldn’t want to relive a year in which you got to dress that well?
Edward Enninful's British Vogue (December 2017-March 2024)
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That I don't already have as characters (cuz I write for the haracter and the actor)
Nils Kuesel (fem, gn, male)
Jack Harlow (fem, gn)
Dua Lipa (fem, gn, male)
Olivia Rodrigo (fem, gn, male)
Jenna Ortega (fem, gn, male)
Dove Cameron (fem, gn, male)
Benjamin Wadsworth (fem, gn)
Girl Meets World
Farkle Minkus (fem, gn, male)
Riley Matthews (fem, gn, male)
Maya Hart (fem, gn, male)
Lucas Friar (fem, gn)
Isaiah Babineaux (fem, gn)
Isadora Smackle (fem, gn, male)
Auggie Matthews *aged up* (fem, gn)
Josh Matthews (fem, gn)
Boy Meets World
Shawn Hunter (fem, gn)
Eric Matthews (fem, gn, male)
Cory Matthews (fem, gn)
Topanga Lawrance (fem, gn, male)
Jack (fem, gn, male)
The Notebook
The Breakfast Club
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RM filming in a beautiful Japanese garden for GQ Japan.
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So RM was talking to Hiroshi Sugimoto in his spread for GQ and coincidence of coincidence, Sugimoto has a solo exhibition of his photos at the Hayward Gallery on the South Bank starting on 11th October. I might just pop along.
despite his criminal mind, this man is behaving well. his reward is the canoe. this time, he can sit in the canoe for up to an hour.
despite his criminal mind, this man is behaving well. his reward is the canoe. this time, he can sit in the canoe for up to an hour.
despite his criminal mind, this man is behaving well. his reward is the canoe. this time, he can sit in the canoe for up to an hour.
Psa I finished Hannibal and am going to be insufferable about it for a while.
Haiiii :3
I’m Cyeayt or klyde, it/its, eel/eek, xi/xir (pronounced with the zshj sound kinda), zi/xir, and other neos that i dont care to list and arent important, I rb anything and everything i see its crowded in here,
Pfp from this post by @bailey-dreamfoot
Sometimes I tag my ocs as stuff
im a tripple AAA threat, autistic asexual aromantic, but i am also a freak and a stupid little weirdo so yeahhhh,
fandoms: The Magnus Archives, The Silt Verses, Malevolent, Reanimator, Cocaine Bear, Velocipastor, Always Sunny, various others but those are the ones i talk about
blorbos: TIM STOKER, faulkner, hayward, reagan riddley, jr sheimpough, cokey the bear, daveed, father stevens, whole cast of nope, iasip gang
i contain multitudes! i have a terrible memory! here are some things that will come up and you should know!: Exmormon, has disdain for mormonism, dont call it the lds church you can ask me why not but just dont. I cant spell! i am a nerd, i can pull interests out of nowhere, i ice skate and sail sometimes,
Keep an eye out for my opinion on
- Junji Ito's Tale of the Macabre
- Guillermo Del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities
- Netflix's Love Death and Robots
‘Lovely lot of throats, the lot of them. Beautiful throats! Rich and mellow to the razor.’
Directed/ produced by George King
Screenplay by Frederick Hayward, H. F. Maltby
Cast: Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer, Eve Lister, Bruce Seton
Released: March 1936
Please remember this film was made in 1936.
Based on the 1847 play by George Dibdin Pitt, this film is not anything like the Tim…
A playlist for the equivalent of the sequence where Francis thinks Richard and Sibylla have drowned (through to the revelations at Calais if you want) please.
My god you're evil Katherine <3
Nothing but the Cathartic
A band AU playlist for a six hour hungover drive through the night to confirm whether the relatives you keep trying to estrange yourself from, who you actually love beyond words, have drowned*
1) Kate Bush - Watching You Without Me
2) Joan Baez - House Carpenter
3) Jean-Roger Caussimon - La Manche
4) The Watersons - Idumea
5) John Lennon - Mother
6) Lady Maisery - The Changeling's Lullaby
7) Sily Sisters - Burning of Auchindoon
8) Anne Briggs - Lowlands
9) Justin Hayward & John Lodge - My Brother
10) Maddy Prior & Tim Hart - I Live Not Where I Love
11) Joni Mitchell [Morgan James, because Spotify] - The Last Time I Saw Richard
12) Pentangle - Lyke-Wake Dirge
13) Nic Jones - Isle of France
14) Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem - Crossing the Bar
15) Charles Trenet - La Mer
'Then all the more credit to you,' said Erskine, seating himself, 'for entertaining such strong family feelings. We heard of your ride. I trust you are now quite rested after it.'
The young man's mouth opened. 'The ride!' He sat down. 'My dear sir, the ride was nothing but the cathartic. It was the banquet at the Hôtel de Ville that did for me.'
*n.b. for a real hungover night drive you should a) let Archie drive and b) choose louder songs to keep you awake
I know I should be posting the celebrating-Thatcher’s-demise playlist today, but that one isn’t ready, so you get a miserable mourning one instead whoops
1) This is from The Ninth Wave, the B-side of Hounds of Love about a woman lost at sea. It's her pov on her relatives waiting for her to return - so the reverse of Francis imagining Sibylla and Richard are dead, but Sibylla wants to see what he's like imaging Richard's dead, and in terms of the misunderstandings and not-hearing-each-others it seems fitting for the fmaily at this point.
2) A folk song about a woman who had an affair with some devil (also known as The Demon Lover), is later persuaded by him to leave her husband and child and then drowns at sea when he deliberately sinks their ship. Not that I think any of this applies to Sibylla, but atmospherically I think Francis, who is not currently certain of his past, would find it fittingly painful.
3) Don't @ me I couldn't find a transcript of the lyrics and my French isn't good enough to know that it fits exactly, but it sounds good for the kind of crooner FRC was, for the soundtrack to Sibylla's past in France, and obviously La Manche is the French name for the English Channel.
4) A sacred harp song re-introduced to the UK by the Watersons, it's just a great mourning song.
5) If the lyrics to this seem unfair to Francis, Sibylla and FRC, or even overly kind on Gavin, then just think about how much misunderstanding there is between everyone, how much distrust there is and how much isn't being said that needs to be said at this point of the story.
6) Ok, this is one modern folk song I allowed myself because I thought it fitted Francis' fears of what he is to Sibylla so well. Plus imagine the way this could be interpreted from Sibylla's pov, knowing who the words are actually referring to:
'Your father says you're not his own nor any child of man's, / But I think you have your father's smile, your father's gentle hands, / And I pray that you will love me like your father used to do, / So hush awhile, my darling, so I might know it's you.'
7) It's really more of a GoK song, but that's emblemetic enough of the tangled Crawford relationships anyway: 'As I came in by Fiddich side on a May morning / Auchindoon was in a blaze an hour before the dawning / Crawing, crawing, for all your crowse crawing / You've burnt your crops and tint your wings / An hour before the dawning.'
8) Drowned lover appears to woman in a dream. Another great angsty ballad.
9) Perhaps on the surface more of a 'Richard about Francis' song, but given the reference to the hand at the bridle when Francis suddenly realises his brother's not dead, it might also be a bit about Francis' idea of Richard when he was young. Plus 'So far / aross a wild and windy sea / So far / That our voices are / Divided by an ocean / An ocean.'
10) Again, technically written as a song for a lover, but I think it still fits Francis' feelings about home and family and his difficult relationship with Scotland and Midculter.
11) Bit on the nose? Mm.
'Richard got married to a figure skater
And he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator
And he drinks at home now most nights with the TV on
And all the house lights left up bright.
I'm gonna blow this damn candle out
I don't want nobody comin' over to my table
I got nothing to talk to anybody about
All good dreamers pass this way someday
Hidin' behind bottles in dark cafés
Dark cafés, only a dark cocoon
Before I get my gorgeous wings and fly away
Only a phase, these dark café days.'
12) It's another banging mourning song from the canon of twentieth century folk revival!
13) The story is of a convict washing up from a shipwreck and being pardoned - you'd imagine Francis would see himself in it to an extent, while also thinking he deserves neither life nor pardon.
14) Another slight anachronism, because Katherine mentioned another recent version (by False Lights), and this is the arrangement that inspired that one. The song, however, is a Tennyson poem, and it had been set to choral music before, so it would sort of be known to Francis.
15) Again, big French crooner from Sibylla's glamour days, imagine her recuperating with this playing in the background as Francis steps into the room to see she's alive, while thinking Richard isn't...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to one of the most prolific drummers in British music history, Clem Cattini (still pounding the skins at age 85), You might not know the name but you’ve certainly heard his drumming. His career took off with The Tornadoes, the legendary instrumental band that gave us the futuristic “Telstar,” an international #1 hit in 1962. Then he was hired by Johnny Kidd & The Pirates and played on the seminal version of “Shakin’ All Over.” From 1965 on Clem became the “go-to” session man, appearing on recordings by (A-Z): Brian Auger, Bay City Rollers, Jeff Beck, The Bee Gees, Marc Bolan, Joe Cocker, Donovan, Edison Lighthouse, Justin Hayward, Herman’s Hermits, The Hollies, The Kinks (and spin-offs), Tom Jones, Lulu, Paul McCartney, Roy Orbison (also on tour), Gene Pitney, Lou Reed, Cliff Richard & The Shadows (and spin-offs), Chris Spedding, Paul Weller, The Yardbirds, and scores of others that space doesn’t permit to name. All told, his drumming is on 42 Top 10 international hit records. Clem was also short-listed for Led Zeppelin but he was too busy and the chair went to John Bonham (sidebar: both of them double-drummed on Donovan’s “Hurdy Gurdy Man”). In 2019 Clem released his autobiography MY LIFE, THROUGH THE EYE OF A TORNADO. Check out Clem’s stick work on “Angel Face” https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/angel-face ...a track by Tim (Chris) Andrews & Paul Korda (recorded at Abbey Road with The Beatles just down the hall). Meanwhile, thank you Clem for your incredible resume and your years of great drumming on so many songs that give people joy.
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