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blorbo-adoption-poll · 4 months

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Adoption poll preliminary match 4

Sirin (Honkai Impact 3rd) vs

Candace Flynn (Phineas and Ferb) vs

Elphaba Thropp (Wicked) vs

Suletta Mercury (Gundam)

Only two will move on!

Propaganda under the cut (some of them have a lot)

Sirin (Honkai Impact 3rd) Propaganda

She is an orphan, was experimented on, and watched all her friends die due to said experiments.

Candace Flynn (Phineas and Ferb) Propaganda

Her own mother mocks her and thinks she's going insane. Literally the only thing she wants is to be believed, trusted and listened to. Everything goes wrong for her and nobody ever believes her about anything or cares. She asked a random-ass woman to adopt her on New Year's Day when the woman said she'd bust Candace's brothers, and boy did I want to leap into the screen and accept it on her behalf. No, she's not perfect, but she's a good kid who's maybe acting a bit erratically as a result of the insane, stressful situation she's under. As dearly as she loves them, her parents aren't helping her at all and for the most part actively make her obsession with her brothers' antics worse.

Elphaba Thropp (Wicked) Propaganda

Big spoilers

If we’re going for characters with bonkers home lives, Elphie has got to be up there. Depending on who you count as a ‘parent’ Elphaba has like five of them.

Her bio dad is super duper evil and keeps having her friends and family killed (to the point of like, having her dead boyfriend’s widow’s sisters executed, ten years after she’s made any active moves against him). He’s a literal evil dictator, so, bad look all around.

Her parents as far as she knows them are a nutty preacher who sees her being born green as a manifestation of his own sin, calls her a punishment from his god in front of her when she’s like seven, and openly favours her sister to an absurd degree. Her mother sort of just tolerates her, and is usually too high to even do that— also she was so desperate for a boy that Elphaba openly calls her younger brother, who her mother died without meeting, mother’s favourite child.

Nanny comes in to look after Elphaba and is the best parent she has in that she seems to care about her even a little bit, but she also ends up having to favour her sister. Also she is an employee, which narrows things down a little.

Her parents also have a boyfriend who she seems to like a fair bit, but he was human sacrificed when she was very young, so there’s that. Oh, and the goat professor she gets very close to, and then he’s murdered, and she has to break into the crime scene to save his research from being destroyed by her dictator dad. It’s a mess really.

Other important things include; her mother being so determined not to have another child who looked like her she took medicine that caused her younger sister to be born with a disability (and her being constantly blamed for it, in the musical), her parents deciding to raise her in a swamp despite her having a severe water allergy, and therefore presumably causing her constant pain. Her parents dragging her on missions where she apparently saw enough deaths to be able to competently recognise the signs at seventeen.

Oh, also her bio dad had her first boyfriend murdered, which led to her being pregnant in some kind of trauma coma in a convent. So that’s awful too.

Please ignore the propensity for domestic terrorism and the fact her hobby is amateur monkey surgery. We can work on that.

Suletta Mercury (Gundam) Propaganda

She’s my sweet baby tomato girl. She’s adorable and awkward and her mom is so fucked up.

#adoption poll #tournament poll #sirin honkai #honkai impact #candace flynn #phineas and ferb #elphaba thropp #wicked #suletta mercury #gundam #witch from mercury #g witch

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beardedmrbean · 3 months

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She already has a machete — now she’s gotten the ax.

Shellyne Rodriguez, the nutty professor caught on camera holding the blade to a Post reporter’s neck in May has been fired from her latest teaching gig at Cooper Union for anti-Israel screeds, The Post has learned.

“Cooper Union has fired me because of a social media post I made about ‘Zionists,’” Rodriguez, 47, wrote in an email to students a week after the spring semester kicked off.

Her Jan. 23 email was shared the next day on Instagram by the Cooper Union Students for Justice in Palestine.

“This is fascism,” she wrote. “Y’all are learning about it in real time.”

In her own Instagram post, Rodriguez said she was fired over “public comments about ‘Zionists.'”

A spokeswoman for the college said it does not comment on personnel matters but Rodriguez is no longer listed as an adjunct on Cooper Union’s faculty page.

It is not clear which posts or comments got her canned but in January Rodriguez participated in a CUNY for Palestine panel and encouraged protesting landlords and business people with ties to Israel. Critics said she spewed antisemitic tropes.

Controversial art professor Shellyne Rodriguez has been booted from teaching at Cooper Union over a post about Zionism. Robert Miller

The Cooper Union Students for Justice in Palestine shared on Instagram that Shellyne Rodriguez had been fired over a post about “Zionists” and included her email to students.

On Instagram, Rodriguez posted a flyer promoting a pro-Israel event that was edited with cockroaches covering it, according to screenshots obtained by The Post.

Shellyne Rodriguez blasted former Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. as a “roach” and “Zionist lapdog” in one Instagram post.

A spokeswoman for the college said it does not comment on personnel matters but Rodriguez is no longer listed as an adjunct on Cooper Union’s faculty page.

One of the participants in the event was former Bronx Borough President Rubén Díaz Jr. “Look at this dirty f—ing roach former bronx borough president Ruben Diaz Jr. a Zionist lapdog,” she wrote in the caption.

The pro-Palestinian student group slammed her firing as “an intense escalation of repression” that “must be resisted.”

“The Cooper Union wrongfully terminated a valued educator who is indispensable to the community and the academic livelihood of students,” the group wrote in a letter to the administration defending her for speaking out against “genocide and settler-colonial violence.”

Cooper Union’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine shared a post supporting Rodriguez as well as a link to email administration demanding her reinstatement.

“Jewish students at Cooper Union are very relieved that they fired her,” said Jeffrey Lax, a CUNY law professor and co-founder of Students and Faculty for Equality at CUNY, which advocates for Jewish students discriminated against or harassed on campus. “Her comments were really despicable,” he said, referring to the CUNY panel.

“Normally, I would say I commend the university for taking action against this professor but in this case, how can I possibly say that she did something far worse before they hired her? I mean, she held a knife to a reporter’s neck,” Lax said. “They’re not to be commended, they should be ashamed of themselves.”

The firing comes about three months after Jewish students at Cooper Union were forced to barricade themselves inside the elite university’s library, as pro-Palestinian protesters blew past security and aggressively pounded on the building’s doors.

Rodriguez made headlines in May 2023, when she went viral for cursing out a group of pro-life students handing out information about abortion at CUNY’s Hunter College, where she was teaching art at the time.

When The Post visited Rodriguez at her Bronx apartment to seek comment, she flipped.

#nunyas news #this is not a person who will ever accept responsibility for their own actions

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make-a-little-mischief · 6 months

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🎬👨🏻‍🔬 From Script To Screen: Read The Nutty Professor in parts! 🧪🎞

Next installment of the script series - includes the montage of Kelp trying to get stronger (going to the gym, the bowling alley etc.)

#jerry lewis #the nutty professor #1963 #movie script #screenwriting #movie making #the total filmmaker

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allycat319 · 8 months

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Unlikely Affection Chapter 6: Is He...Jealous?

The next day at breakfast, I sat with Edwin as I normally did. He was incredibly relieved when I told him that Snape didn't actually intend to use him as a test dummy. “you're on amicable terms with him now?” Edwin asked, gesturing towards the head table where Snape sat silently eating a bowl of porridge and scowling at anyone who looked in his direction. I nodded, picking up my goblet and taking a sip. “So, no playing hide the wand with him then?” Edwin whispered smirking at me and I choked on the pumpkin juice that I had been drinking, my coughing fit causing everyone in the Great Hall to look in my direction, including the teacher my best friend was referencing. “Are you insane?” I snarled at him and he just giggled childishly, “Do you honestly think that would ever be even a slight possibility?” I asked, my face burning red with embarrassment.

“I think you are incredibly attractive and could have any guy that you choose.” Edwin nudged me gently and I rolled my eyes. “I think you are full of shi-” my insult was interrupted by a black shadow, clearing its throat behind us, we both looked up sheepishly to find the great dungeon bat towing over us, and raising an eyebrow, seemingly daring me to finish my statement. “I would like to think my assistant would never use such language, when she knows it is against school policy and very unbecoming.” He sneered and I gulped “S-sorry Professor, it won't happen again.” I spoke quickly and his eyes narrowed slightly. “I shall hope not, considering Mr. Finley was paying you such a… compliment.” I could hear the disdain in his voice, his gaze shifting between Edwin and I. Before I had the chance to speak again, he turned on his heel and continued his walk out of the Great Hall. My best friend and I let out a joint sigh of relief, continuing our breakfast in silence.

Once breakfast was finished we began making our way to DADA, talking about the Triwizard Tournament and wondering what absolutely nutty class Mad Eye had in store for us today. When Edwin stopped mid sentence and looked at me with wide eyes. “Wait, did you hear the way he spoke about me giving you ‘such a compliment’?” Edwin asked, doing a really poor impression of our potions master as he quoted him. I looked at him and shook my head “What are you on about?” I asked, beginning to walk up the stairs to the DADA tower, stopping quickly when Edwin pulled me by the sleeve of my robe back down the two steps I had just ascended. “Seriously Rora! He sounded jealous… like he didn't like the fact that I was saying you're pretty." I snapped my head towards Edwin who still had a hold on my sleeve. “You are absolutely ridiculous, there is no way he would even be remotely jealous, because that would imply that he had some sort of feeling for me other than professional and that isn't the case.” I explained quickly, jerking my arm away from him. “Now, if we don’t hurry up we will be late for Moody’s class and I really don’t want to find out what kind of punishment he would dole out.”

We ran up the stairs to the DADA classroom and thankfully made it right before the bell rang. Moody’s class was full of warnings about unforgivable curses and even a demonstration which was unsettling to say the least. By the end of it, I was looking forward to Transfiguration and Mcgonagall's lecture about turning a bird into a pocket watch.

Before long, the bell rang and Edwin and I made our way towards the transfiguration classroom, which to our surprise when we arrived was deserted. A note informing us to meet in one of the empty assembly halls down the hall. I looked over at Edwin and he shrugged, beginning the walk to our meeting spot for class today. When we walked into the window lined room we were met with Professor McGonagall standing in the middle of the large space, fiddling with an oversized gramophone. She peaked up from what she was doing long enough to tell us and the large group behind us to take a seat, boys on one side and girls on the other.

Once everyone was on their correct side, Professor McGonagall made her speech about the Yule Ball, a school dance that would unite the three schools competing in the Triwizard Tournament is a night full of dinner and as McGonagall put it “Well mannered frivolity.” The girl's side shook with excitement as she explained, the boys looked tired and a bit annoyed that they would now have to learn how to dance and ask girls to a dance.

The rest of the class was spent twirling around the room with our chosen partner, Edwin and I of course ran to each other and began dancing like we would at one of my grandfather's yearly ministry galas. Since we were children, Edwin was always my ‘date’ so we thankfully knew how to waltz together decently well. Almost everyone else fumbled around the room, trying not to step on their partners toes. At some point McGonagall noticed that we knew what we were doing and instructed us to help the others not look so terrified of each other.

By the time the bell rang to signal lunch my feet had been stomped on so many times, I was sure they would be covered in purple bruises. While everyone cleared out of the classroom, I hobbled over to a chair by the door, removing my shoes and rubbing my throbbing feet. Edwin walked over to me and put his hand on my shoulder. “You alright mate?” He bit back a smile as he asked and I looked up at him and stuck out my tongue. “My feet feel like they've been sat on by a giant.” I grimaced as I slowly slid my shoes back on. “Good thing about dancing with girls, it doesn’t hurt as much when they step on your toes. Come on, I’ll carry you to lunch.” I raised an eyebrow at him “Carry me?” I asked and he laughed “Yea, hop on.” he bent down, inviting me to jump on his back.

When I had finally given in and jumped on his back, Edwin began to carry me to the Great Hall, his arms hooked around my knees, and my arms around his neck. I was thankful I decided to wear tights under my uniform skirt today, otherwise the whole of the castle would have caught a glimpse of my knickers, that would have been mortal embarrassment for the rest of my existence.

Edwin barely broke a sweat as he carried me through the now completely empty halls, when we made it to the last bit of long hallway before the great hall he started to run. My arms gripped his neck tighter and I buried my face in his back, “If you drop me I'm going to turn you into a duck.” I squealed into his robes. Finally the Great Hall came into view, but Edwin didn’t put me down, he carried me all the way to our normal seats, everyone at the Gryffindor table stared at us as we made our way to the middle of the long table, thankfully they returned to their meals when Edwin deposited me onto the bench seat and plopped down beside me. Filling his plate and mine with a handful of crisps and a ham sandwich. As we ate, Edwin and I talked about the dance and how hopeless everyone was at dancing. He laughed at my sore feet and informed me that my Grandfather would be proud that my dancing ability was used to further the house of Godric Gryffindor. Taking a bite of my sandwich, I suddenly felt the odd sensation that I was being watched, I looked around and my eyes landed on Snape, the glare he was giving me was enough to send a sharp chill down my spine and completely evaporate any appetite I had before we galloped into the Great Hall. I looked away quickly, trying to hide from his piercing gaze by using Edwin as a human shield.

Unfortunately for me, my best friend who had been previously stuffing his face with a pie of some sort, noticed that I had stopped talking and looked over at me. “What's wrong with you?” He asked, before taking another giant bite. “Snape is staring at me.” I whispered and out of instinct he looked up at the head table. “Hm.” Edwin grumbled “The old git usually never eats lunch.” I of course knew where he was going with this and jumped in before he could make any kind of accusation about Snape having a thing for me. “I know what you’re going to say, and it is still completely nonsense.” I protested, Edwin just nodded and gave me a rather unconvinced look. “Whatever you say Rora.”

After lunch finished, I made my way towards the dungeons for my free period helping Snape, which of course did not go unmocked by my best friend who made kissy faces at me before he began his trek to divination. When I approached the potions classroom, I noticed the door was closed and a note was posted on it.

Astrill,

We will be gathering ingredients today from the Forbidden Forest. I will be waiting for you at the back entrance to the castle.

Professor Snape

I wasn’t exactly scared to go into the dark, dense, gloomy forest but I definitely was not excited about the possibility of seeing all manner of creepy beasts lurking beyond those trees. Also, I was not planning for a hike with my potions master, as my feet still ached from the dance lessons.

When I finally arrived at the back entrance to the school, Snape was standing with his arms crossed, tapping his foot, looking annoyed that he had to wait for me. “Sorry Professor, I am moving a bit slower than usual.” He glared down at me motioning towards the door with his hand. “We are already running behind, I do not have time for your excuses.” He sneered as I walked past him and out of the large wooden door. He was silent as we walked towards the Forbidden Forest, I stayed a few steps behind him to avoid his temper if I were to slow him down. When the entrance to the dark woods was right ahead, he turned around quickly, I stumbled a bit to avoid running into him and he continued to scowl. “This is a dangerous trip we are about to make, you will stay beside me at all times, do. not. fall behind.” I muttered a quiet “Yes sir.” and he turned around again and resumed his walk.

I winced at the pain in my feet as I tried to keep up with his long strides through the dense trees. “Professor?” I asked, looking at him, he ignored me and kept walking. “Professor?” I said again, a little bit louder and he continued to walk, acting as though I said nothing. I began to get annoyed at his cold demeanor towards me, so without thinking properly, I stopped walking and raised my voice a bit louder but this time, I bellowed “Severus.” He turned around quickly and gave me a look that shook me to the core with fear. He marched over to me, getting a few inches from my face, he was seething with anger “What did you just call me?” His eyes bore into mine as he spoke and I lost all of my nerve immediately, backing away from him as far as I could before I bumped into a tree.

Feeling about the size of a bowtruckle I said “I’m sorry sir, but I was going to ask if we could take a moment's rest. My feet are aching.” He looked at me as if I had four heads. “Why are your feet aching so badly Astrill?” I quickly explained the dance lessons and how all of the Gryffindor boys stomped on my feet. Snape looked visibly annoyed, pulling out his wand and pointing it at my feet. He said nothing as a bolt of light flew from the tip and instantly the throbbing in my feet disappeared.

“Thank you.”

“Don’t thank me. Keep. Up.” He hissed, turning and resuming his walk.

I had to run to catch up to him, but before I knew it we had arrived at his chosen harvesting destination, a little patch of valley amongst the trees. Pulling out his wand once more, he conjured everything we would need to harvest what looked to be hemlock growing in patches all over the ground. Snape pointed to one of the sets of baskets, gloves and gardening shears he had just conjured.

“Take your basket and start harvesting. Do not touch the hemlock with your bare hands.” I grabbed the basket and busied myself cutting the hemlock stems and placing the poisonous plants in my basket. Snape settled on the other side of the little valley, grumpily snipping and placing the stems in his own basket.

It had not escaped my notice that he was in a horribly bad mood for what seemed to be no reason. Which was decently normal for him, however, with me… alone, he was usually different and a bit kinder. I debated what the response would be if I were to ask him what was wrong but I figured he would either yell at me for not minding my business or shut me out completely. I just decided to continue snipping off plant stems, quietly by myself.

Once I had filled my basket, I walked over to my bitter potions master, plopping down on the ground beside him, he glanced at me and resumed cutting. “How did you finish so quickly?” He growled and I bit back a giggle.

“I harvest with Millie all the time at home.”

“Millie?” He asked

“She was our house elf, but my Grandfather freed her when I was little. She still lives with us but more like an au pair than a servant. With my Grandfather being gone most of my childhood, she practically raised me… closest thing to a mother i've ever had.” I explained.

“And she taught you how to harvest hemlock?” he asked and I smiled. “She taught me a lot more than that… but yes, harvesting is something we do together, not just hemlock though.”

“Well, it's good to know you at least know what you’re doing.” He said dryly, standing up and grabbing his basket. I stood with him, grabbing my own as we began the walk back to the castle.

When we had been walking for a few minutes, Snape finally broke the silence. “Would you like to explain your escapades today?” He asked and I looked at him quickly. “What are you referring to, Professor?” I asked, a bit more defensively than I intended. “Your slip of the tongue during breakfast and the galavanting with Mr. Finley at lunch.” He answered, his gaze not shifting from the little dirt path we were following. “That was an almost slip of the tongue.” I began defending my actions, which I really didn't think I needed to but I don’t want Snape thinking that Edwin and I are anything other than great friends. “And Edwin carried me because my feet were really sore… He was being good friend.”

“A good friend.” He huffed. It was the last thing he said before we made our way back to the castle. When we entered the warm stone entranceway he grabbed my basket from me, dismissing me for the day. “I’m supposed to be helping you with the first years.” I tried to argue but he just shook his head. “You have done enough this afternoon, Miss Astrill… Again, you are dismissed for the day.” I muttered a quiet “Yes sir.” before watching him turn and walk towards the dungeons.

I stood in the same spot for a few moments after he left, feeling incredibly confused, was he actually jealous of Edwin or did I manage to piss him off somehow. Shrugging my shoulders, I made my way towards the library to spend my free period studying and wondering what the hell was going on with Snape.

#alan rickman #original character #severus snape #severus snape x oc #severus snape x reader #allycat writes #allycat319 #professor snape

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mariacallous · 1 year

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I can only assume that acting – pretending, convincingly, to be someone you aren’t – is an incredibly boring, unrewarding profession if you are an able-bodied person playing other able-bodied people. That must be the case, considering how many professional actors who happen to fall into that group take on roles they perhaps shouldn’t, and are then celebrated for it by their peers – now including, of course, Brendan Fraser in The Whale.

Fraser’s casting in the film – or whether the film should even exist in 2023 – may be under even more scrutiny now it has Academy Award nominations, including one for best actor, to add to its treasure trove of accolades.

Naturally, the performance was always going to attract lots of press. Fraser dons heavy prosthetics (both physical and CGI) for his performance as a morbidly obese person, and actors wearing prosthetics or makeup for dramatic performances tend to attract plaudits (see Nicole Kidman, Steve Carell, even Al Pacino as “Big Boy” Caprice in Dick Tracy).

Prosthetic-enhanced performances get particular attention from the entertainment industry machine if the additions make the actor look what Hollywood considers to be … worse. Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale is a perfect example of this: therefore, it is considered brave; therefore, it is bait for awards. But should it be?

Based on a play by Samuel D Hunter, the film centres on a “reclusive English teacher who attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter”. A major factor in why Fraser’s Charlie is so reclusive? That 600-pound weight. If you haven’t seen the film yet, the reviews can give you an idea of its treatment of obesity, but also very clear insight into the awkwardness involved in covering such a tale for some reviewers.

There is a nasty voyeuristic delight in the description of the character’s “sloping jowls”, “jelly belly” and “meat slabs” – and a bonus comparison to Jabba the Hutt – in Variety’s write-up. In the Telegraph, there is a snide jibe about “a rounded character in more ways than one” alongside the “radiantly human” compliment about Fraser’s performance. A more personally informed take came from Little White Lies magazine, with the reviewer’s wish that the film “would have done more to dig into the prevalent notion (subconscious or not) that fat people are any less deserving of dignity, respect and love”.

Much gushing has centred on the 50 to 300 extra pounds of fat suit that was put on Fraser for The Whale, and while, yes, this does tie in with Hollywood’s continued fascination with transforming the slender and symmetrical, it feels just plain weird to see a fat suit in a mainstream dramatic film. Typically, fat suits have been mined for comedy – “a one-note joke”, as acknowledged by Fraser himself.

That’s because we are expected, as viewers, to look down on these characters. Audiences have been invited to laugh at actors wearing fat suits over and over again, and it frequently overlaps with ableism, classism and racism – a whole extra side of nastiness: Fat Bastard in the Austin Powers films, Sherman Klump in The Nutty Professor, Rasputia in Norbit, Rosemary in Shallow Hal, Thor in Endgame, numerous characters in the work of David Walliams and Matt Lucas, Fat Monica in Friends, and also, in case you forgot, Joey.

Plenty of people have genuinely thought actors playing fat when they aren’t fat is hilarious. We could go into the academic theories behind this – is the laughter due to feelings of superiority (à la Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes), incongruity (Immanuel Kant and Arthur Schopenhauer), relief (Herbert Spencer and Sigmund Freud) – or is it punitive (Henri Bergson)? Could it be all of those? I wouldn’t know, because I don’t find fat suits inherently funny. Does that mean I think it’s a sign of progress that fat suits are being mined for misery instead, as in The Whale? Actual actors with the body type required – where possible – would certainly be better; so too would stories that don’t call for deep pity or even disgust from their audience.

I thought Fat Monica dancing was cute in the mid-1990s, because it was recognisable to me as a fat teenager. The Klump family interrupting each other over dinner in the first Nutty Professor film (we will studiously ignore the sequel) reminded me of my own family’s mealtimes. But then I started to notice the sneering behind the performances. I was compared to these characters by bullies who didn’t have a lot of creativity when it came to insults, and by the time Fat Thor arrived in 2019 I was tired of seeing Hollywood’s comedy cosplay.

Fraser has spoken with genuine sensitivity and thought about the experiences of people with disabling weight issues on the publicity trail, and his portrayal is far from Fat Bastard. He has said he hopes the film will help to “end the bias against those who live with obesity”. I’m so grateful for that, so desperate am I for fat characters onscreen who aren’t there to be laughed at. But will the fat suit’s move away from funny to sad eventually make its way around to the dignity Fraser wanted to portray? I really hope so.

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bm2ab · 1 year

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Arrivals & Departures . 01 October 1938 – 17 February 2023

Stella Stevens (born Estelle Eggleston) was an American actress and model. She began her acting career in 1959 and starred in popular films such as Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), The Nutty Professor (1963), The Courtship of Eddie's Father (1963), The Silencers (1966), Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968), The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and The Poseidon Adventure (1972).

Stevens also appeared in numerous television series, miniseries, and movies including Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1960, 1988), Bonanza (1960), The Love Boat (1977, 1983), Hart to Hart (1979), Newhart (1983), Murder, She Wrote (1985), Magnum, P.I. (1986), Highlander: The Series (1995), and Twenty Good Years (2006). In 1960, she won a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. Stevens worked as a film producer, director, and writer. She appeared in three Playboy pictorials, and was Playmate of the Month for January 1960.

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jbird5by5 · 1 year

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Saddened to learn of the death of Actress Stella Stevens (1938-2023) Stella Stevens, a prominent leading lady in 1960s and 70s comedies perhaps best known for playing the object of Jerry Lewis’s affection in “The Nutty Professor,” has died.

She was 84.

She died Friday in Los Angeles after a long illness.

Born Estelle Caro Eggleston in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1938, She started acting and modeling during her time at Memphis State University and made her film debut in a minor role in the Bing Crosby musical “Say One for Me” in 1959.

Soon after, she won the New Star Golden Globe, was named Playboy’s Playmate of the Month and got a contract with Paramount Pictures, leading to film work and “Girls! Girls! Girls!” with Elvis Presley.

Next came “The Nutty Professor.”

At Columbia Pictures, she’d appear in “The Secret of My Success,” “The Silencers,” and “Where Angels Go Trouble Follows,”Other notable roles include “Slaughter,” “The Ballad of Cable Hogue” and “The Poseidon Adventure”

Stevens worked steadily in television in the 1970s and 80s, appearing in the pilots for “Wonder Woman,” “Hart to Hart” and “The Love Boat” “Night Court,” “Murder She Wrote” and “Magnum, P.I.”

She also directed several films, the documentary “An American Heroine,” which never got distribution, and “The Ranch.” She retired in 2010.

My Condolences to her Family and Friends

#R.I.P. 😔🙏🥀

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jinxthejubilee · 2 years

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My Final Project! 🍪💝🍪

Here she is! This is Wedding/Bride Cookie. I was inspired by the game Cookie Run, and wanted to try drawing my own cookie in my style.

So! Let's go over each step it took to make her!

(Also, I promise you that I my handwriting is better than in the pictures, it's just hard to write on a phone.

The Sketch ✏️

The assignment was to create a your own character in a dynamic pose so it wouldn't look flat or unrealistic looking.

We had to draw three different characters to start with, then decide which would look the best.

Originally, I had no intention of drawing this character as an actual option.

Fun fact, I drew Bride Cookie as a joke with my friend, but the more I drew her, the more I liked her design.

So I went with it!

Her dress is supposed to be a wedding cake, with fondant flowers and icing drapes.

I don't know where I got the idea to give her buns with veils on it, but I do NOT regret it. I don't know, buns are just really cute.

To amplify the cuteness, I gave her long, curly eyelashes, a bouquet of flowers, and puffy sleeves for her dress.

After I chose her out of my three options, we then began the harder stages.

Coloring Time! 🖍

I took the sketch into Photoshop and started coloring her in.

I wanted to use a variety of pinks for her outfit and flowers.

I thought that plain white for her dress would be too much on the eyes, so I used a very light pink.

I know that in Cookie Run, almost all of the cookies have white lining for their eyes and eyebrows, but it didn't look right on her, so I used the pink that I used for her hair.

I made her eyes a shade of purple to compliment the magenta flowers.

I gave her pink blush on her dimples.

And I made the paper on the bouquet 'Brick Pink.'

My professor told us that in this stage, you're essentially just coloring in a paper doll, so have some fun with it!

Shading and Textures 🖌

A big part of our final was using and making as many textures as possible.

To double down on the dress being a cake, I grabbed a cake texture and used it on all three layers of the dress, including the back of the dress.

I brushed in highlights and shades on the drapes to make them look like frosting.

I shaded the bottom of the dress.

I shaded her head to make it look like her hair was creating shadows on her face.

Her arms, sleeve, and hand got shading on the sides.

I got rid of the extra white shine on the bottom of her eyes and made the shine a magenta-ish color.

As for the buns, I shaded the bottom of each of them to make them look round.

Going back to textures, I added a paper-like texture on the flower wrapping, and a sour and sugar strip of candy on the leaves.

I shaded the leaves and created shadows on the paper.

And finally, I hilighted the top and shaded the bottom of her hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes. It doesn't look like frosting at this stage, it just looks like taffy, but I liked it!

The Homestretch 🌸

Here's where I started working on the flowers.

I'm honestly really proud of how they turned out!

I gave them a chocolate texture, and painted them myself in Photoshop.

Another fun fact: I completely forgot how I made the first flower since I messed up while making it, but then the flower turned out to be so pretty that I decided to recreate them...without success. So I copy and pasted them on by one, rotated them and/or painted them a bit differently, and scaled them one on the dress bigger so they would each look like different flowers.

As the great Bob Ross once said, "There are no mistakes, just happy little accidents."

After finishing up the flower petals, I went back to each flower to give them their yellow centers.

I gave the centers each a nutty chocolate texture, and painted them one by one to go along with the designated flowers' posing.

Going on to shading, the drapes have their own shadows, and I trimmed the drapes a bit to make them look more elegant, instead of them looking like jagged cutouts.

And her arms, sleeves, and back have their own shadows.

The End Result ✨️🎨

As you can see, I did quite a bit of adding in this one.

To bring out the frosting of the dress, I painted the swirls of white with pink lines to make ruffles.

Speaking of which, I added a bit more shading to the sleeves and the veils to add more movement in the pose.

I made the sleeve and arm shadows a harder edge since they looked to far away last time.

I also added more shading to the sides of the dress.

The hair didn't look to much like frosting to me, so I drew in strands and added more shading to make her hair look more wavy.

I didn't bother adding any textures to the veils, they look waaay better without them. I tried using tulle textures, but they messed with the veils color.

And the final touch. I couldn't find a suitable texture for her skin, since every single picture I found was too light, too dark, or just looked awful on her. But I found a way!

To make her look more like a cookie, I found a brush in Photoshop that looks like sparkles or sand (I forgot what it was called), and used lighter and darker shades of brown to paint her skin.

Then I lightly used an eraser on the sparkles to make it look like she was baked that way.

It's a bit hard to see now, but if you look closer, you can see them.

Artist Note: And there you have it! I hope you like her design as much as I loved make her!

This was the first time I EVER made my own character in Photoshop, and it was the first time I made a good looking character digitally.

Anyway, I hope this wasn't boring for you guys, but I really am proud of this project and I just wanted an excuse to post more art stuff on here.

But with that being said, I hope you all enjoyed, and I'll see you later! Byeee! 💗

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vickiabelson · 2 years

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Today, Live! Multiple Emmy Award-Winning Writer/Producer, Jay Kogen, with whom I had a blast pre-pandemic, and learned so much about the business of show. Jay has fabulous stories of getting there, being there, and working to stay there. Great humility, huge talent, terrific suggestions!

Jay has been in show business since he was 5 years old. He’s an actor, director, stand-up, and Groundlings alum, and has written and produced many of the most popular TV comedies over the last 30 years. Jay helped develop and wrote on the first five seasons of The Simpsons, wrote and produced Frasier, Malcolm In The Middle, Everybody Loves Raymond, The George Lopez Show, School of Rock, and Henry Danger to name a few. He’s written, rewritten, and punched up numerous films including Eddie Murphy’s The Nutty Professor, all the Austin Powers comedies, most of the Shrek films, Madagascar, Zombieland 2, and the academy award-nominated Kubo And The Two Strings. He’s won a WGA Award, The Humanitas Award, a People’s Choice Award, and a Golden Rose of Montrose (whatever that is). Jay has been nominated for 14 Emmy awards and won 4 of them. He’s had numerous pilots written and made. He created a show based loosely on his life, Wendell and Vinnie, and he co-wrote and produced the cult comedy, The Wrong Guy, which won the HBO Comedy Festival Award. Jay is currently writing and producing a few pilots and writing a movie he wants to direct and is proudly teaching his future employers at USC.

See what he did right there… plenty more humility and fun where that came from. Can’t wait. I can sure use the eggs.

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Wednesday, 5/11/22, 5 pm PT, 8 pm ET

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Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an actor, comedian, and singer. He rose to fame on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, for which he was a regular cast member (1980 to 1984. He has worked as a stand-up comedian and is ranked #10 on Comedy Central’s list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. He has received a Grammy Award and Emmy Award and was honored with the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2015 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2023.

He has received Golden Globe Award nominations for his performances in 48 Hrs., the Beverly Hills Cop series, Trading Places, The Nutty Professor, and Dolemite Is My Name. He won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of soul singer James “Thunder” Early in Dreamgirls.

His work as a voice actor in films includes Thurgood Stubbs in The PJs, Donkey in DreamWorks Animation’s Shrek series, and the Chinese dragon Mushu in Disney’s Mulan. In some films, he plays multiple roles in addition to his main character, intended as a tribute to one of his idols Peter Sellers, who played multiple roles in Dr. Strangelove and elsewhere. He has played multiple roles in Coming to America, Coming 2 America, Vampire in Brooklyn, the Nutty Professor films, Bowfinger, The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Norbit, and Meet Dave. His films have grossed over $3.8 billion at the US and Canada box office and $6.6 billion worldwide. His films made him the sixth-highest-grossing actor in the US.

He was born in Brooklyn and raised in the Bushwick neighborhood. His mother, Lillian was a telephone operator, and his father, Charles Edward Murphy was a transit police officer and an amateur actor and comedian.

He was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

He married model Nicole Mitchell (1993-2096) and they have five children together. He exchanged vows with film producer Tracey Edmonds (2008). He has nine children. He is the younger brother of the late actor Charlie Murphy. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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cartermagazine · 1 year

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Today In History

Eddie Murphy, is an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, comedian and singer who was born on this date April 3, 1961 in Brooklyn, NY.

He first gained recognition as a stand-up comedian when he was a teenager and as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1980 to 1984.

Murphy's most famous films include 48 Hrs. (1982), Trading Places (1983), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Coming to America (1988), The Distinguished Gentleman (1992), The Nutty Professor (1996), Doctor Doolittle (1998), Daddy Day Care (2003), Tower Heist (2011), Dolemite Is My Name (2019) and Coming 2 America (2021).

Eddie Murphy also voiced Donkey in the Shrek animated film series. In 2007, Murphy won a Golden Globe for best supporting actor in Dreamgirls, and Oscar nomination for the role.

Eddie Murphy is one of the highest grossing film stars, and one of the most celebrated comedians in history.

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blorbo-adoption-poll · 1 month

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Adoption poll round 2 match 14

Elphaba Thropp (Wicked)

Nahida (genshin inpact)

Propaganda under the cut

Elphaba Thropp (Wicked)Propaganda

Big spoilers

If we’re going for characters with bonkers home lives, Elphie has got to be up there. Depending on who you count as a ‘parent’ Elphaba has like five of them.

Oh, also her bio dad had her first boyfriend murdered, which led to her being pregnant in some kind of trauma coma in a convent. So that’s awful too.

Please ignore the propensity for domestic terrorism and the fact her hobby is amateur monkey surgery. We can work on that.

Nahida (genshin Impact) Propaganda

Was born to take the place of her predecessor as the God of Wisdom, except the sages were like “lol nope we hate you and are gonna lock you away forever and keep you from seeing people and keep people from seeing you and clear the Akasha of knowledge of you and bully your genuine worshippers for not abandoning you in favor of our dead oshi who we’ll constantly remind you of and remind you of how you don’t live up to her and give you an inferiority complex and low self-esteem”. There’s a reason the Genshin fandom was memeing about beating the shit out of Azar leading up to the end of the Sumeru chapter! Her birthday was before she released and Hoyoverse released a sad birthday teaser and everyone was so prepared to finally free Nahida in the story and pull her in the gacha after that. She deserves so much!!

#adoption poll #tournament poll #elphaba thropp #wicked #nahida #genshin impact

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