#bill mckinney

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

First Blood (1982) - Brian Dennehy

You can't tell me 80s Brian Dennehy wasn't prime Dennehy. I can see us going at it like two bears in a Cadillac.

The 80s ain't bad for doing Richard Crenna either. Just saying.

#brian dennehy #First Blood #american actor #handsome daddy #husky daddy #daddy #cilf #actor #screenshots #celebrities #movie #casual dress #richard crenna #Bill McKinney

[mariocki]

She Freak (1967)

"There are only two kinds of freaks, ladies and gentlemen: those created by God and those made by men. I guess both of them had a hand in what you see here."

#she freak #american cinema #exploitation film #asylum of the insane #1967 #david f. friedman #byron mabe #donn davison #claire brennen #lee raymond #lynn courtney #bill mckinney #claude earl jones #ben moore #vanteen #madame lee #marsha drake #felix silla #william bagdad #sandra holcomb #william allen castleman #cheap schlock unofficial remake of Tod Browning's Freaks for the gaudy technicolor 60s #it certainly looks quite striking and has a pleasantly vibrant aesthetic to its scenes of carnival hijinks and melodramatic affairs #but the film spends most of its run time on the day to day of carnie life and on star Brennen's journey from diner waitress to femme fatale #and wicked queen of the carnivals misfits (god forbid a woman have ambition 😏) and the actual horror element appears only in the final 5 #mins. theyre 5 good mins! but i wish the film had found a little of that energy earlier in its run bc this is something of a slog tbh #a different director shot inserts and this was rereleased as Asylum of the Insane but those inserts were a special feature on the disc i #watched and somehow they achieve the impossible by being more dull than the og film. #a bit of a meh watch but it does look intermittently groovy

[paul-newmans-sauce]

bronco billy 1980 real and true

#this is for nik #our conception of billy has been so warped but i think its real #clint eastwood #bill mckinney #bronco billy 1980 #certified newmans own

[all-action-all-picture]

"I didn't come here to rescue Rambo from you, I came here to rescue you from him".

Sheriff Teasle vs. Colonel Trautmann. A great scene featuring Brian Dennehy, RIchard Crenna and Bill McKinney from 1982's First Blood.

#rambo #brian dennehy #richard crenna #sylvester stallone #bill mckinney #Youtube #first blood #1982 #classic scene

[erstwhile-punk-guerito]

#the outlaw josey wales #clint eastwood #chief dan george #sondra locke #bill mckinney #john vernon #geraldine keams #1976

[ruleof3bobby]

THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT (1974) Grade: B

This had to feel a little ahead of its time during release right? It's a bromance crime film with Eastwood and Bridges. Jeff Bridges steals the film. Gutsy ending.

#Thunderbolt and Lightfoot #1974 #B #Crime Films #Michael Cimino #Action Films #Bank Robber #Heist #Clint Eastwood #Jeff Bridges #Geoffrey Lewis #George Kennedy #Gary Busey #Catherine Bach #Burton Gilliam #Roy Jenson #Jack Dodson #Bill McKinney #Claudia Lennear #Vic Tayback #Dub Taylor #Bank Vault

[abs0luteb4stard]

W A T C H I N G

#FIRST BLOOD (1982) #Ted Kotcheff #Sylvester Stallone #Richard Crenna #Brian Dennehy #Bill McKinney #Jack Starrett #Michael Talbott #Chris Mulkey #John McLiam #Alf Humphreys #David Caruso #RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD #JOHN RAMBO #WATCHING #action film #Vietnam War #survivalist #THE ORIGINAL FUCK THE POLICE MOVIE #many cops have inferiority complexes and are power obsessed authoritarian mindsets #though it's a movie the general sentiments of the subject matter stand true #Vietnam vets were treated like shit and cops pushed them around too. #the cops would cut their hair with rusty razors and scissors when they were drifters #and cops always have a tendancy to be like this sheriff and cops #authority figures with uniforms tend to be sideways assholes

[cultfaction]

Bill McKinney

Bill McKinney was an American character actor born on August 17th 1931 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was best known for his roles in several iconic films of the 1970s and 1980s, including Deliverance, The Great White Hope, and The Natural. McKinney began his acting career in theater, appearing in several productions in the 1960s. He made his television debut in 1968 on an episode of The…

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#2001 Maniacs #Alias Smith and Jones #Any Which Way You Can #Bill McKinney #Cleopatra Jones #Deliverance #Every Which Way but Loose #Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil #Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid #Pink Cadillac #The Gauntlet #The Great White Hope #The Green Mile #The Monkees #The Natural #The Parallax View #Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

[badgaymovies]

The Gauntlet (1977)

The Gauntlet by #ClintEastwood starring #SondraLocke, "barely more than the sum of its action bits and Eastwood is surprisingly unimpressive",

CLINT EASTWOOD Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB USA, 1977. Warner Bros., The Malpaso Company. Screenplay by Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack. Cinematography by Rexford L. Metz. Produced by Robert Daley. Music by Jerry Fielding. Production Design by Allen E. Smith. Costume Design by Glenn Wright. Film Editing by Joel Cox, Ferris Webster. Director and star Clint Eastwood attempts a character who is the…

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#Al Silvani #Allen E. Smith #Art Rimdzius #Bill McKinney #Carole Cook #Carver Barnes #Clint Eastwood #Dan Vadis #Darwin Lamb #Dennis Shryack #Don Circle #Doug McGrath #Ferris Webster #Fritz Manes #Glenn Wright #James W. Gavin #Jeff Morris #Jerry Fielding #Joel Cox #John Quiroga #Josef Rainer #Mara Corday #Michael Butler #Michael Cavanaugh #Mildred Brion #Pat Hingle #Rexford L. Metz #Robert Barrett #Robert Daley #Roger Lowe

[j4mj4m]

My headcannon they should be brothers

#texas chainsaw massacre #leland mckinney #kirk waisanen #bill vail #william vail

[ofkithandmckinney]

MY FIRST COMEDY OBSESSION

MY CURRENT COMEDY OBSESSION

#age 4 vs age 39 #the goodies #tim brooke taylor #graeme garden #bill oddie #kith #kids in the hall #the kids in the hall #mark mckinney #scott thompson #dave foley #bruce mcculloch #kevin mcdonald #comedy

[charlotterenaissance]

the fact that i have to get up and go to work instead of sitting around thinking about my mermaid show and people i find attractive is actually insulting though

#what do you mean i have to earn a living so i can pay bills? #when did i agree to that? #what? when i was born? #sir you're mistaken minors can't enter legally binding contracts #ergo i should be able to write my gay mermaid fanfics and daydream about mark mckinney #grrrrr

[outsourcingmedicalbills]

Mental Health Medical Billing can be considered a complicated service in technicality and ever-changing regulations, making it challenging to formalize medical billing processes. To bring about some share of uniformity in billing and coding for the hospitals and individual practitioners, the authority for Mental Health in McKinney, Texas (TX) have come up with new billing processes.

#Outsourcing Mental Health Billing Services in McKinney #Mental Health Billing Services provider in McKinney #Mental Health Billing Services in McKinney #McKinney Mental Health Billing Services Outsourcing #Healthcare rcm #Outsourcing Mental Health Billing Services in Texas #Mental Health Billing Services provider in Texas #Mental Health Billing Services in Texas #Mental Health Billing in Texas #Texas Mental Health Billing Services Outsourcing

[screenzealots]

"Bitch Ass"

Has a fun retro horror vibe and tone with a very simple setup and premise. There isn't much to the story, but what elevates the film is its original style. #PanicFest2022

“Bitch Ass” is a simple, brutal horror film from director and co-writer Bill Posley. The title may be silly, but this isn’t a comedy. The film has a fun retro horror vibe and tone with a very simple setup and premise. There isn’t much to the story, but what elevates the film is its original style. Set in 1980, the film tells the story of Cecil (Jarvis Denman Jr.), a young boy who is mercilessly…

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#A-F-R-O #Belle Guillory #Bill Posley #Jarvis Denman Jr. #Jonathan Colomb #Kelsey Caesar #Me&039;lisa Sellers #Panic Fest #Sheaun McKinney #SXSW #Teon Kelley #Tunde Laleye

[hotvintagepoll]

Propaganda

Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday, Auntie Mame, The Women)—Hugely influential in her role as Hildy in His Girl Friday, Russell is perhaps the greatest influence on the character of Lois Lane. Catty, hilarious and charming, Russell is the blueprint for every sharp tongued transatlantic diva. In The Women she wears a series of incredible fits including a wonderful Schiaparelli dress covered in eyes. Later in her career she was the incredible Queer Icon Mame, a model of bohemian life that still resonates today

Nina Mae McKinney (Hallelujah, Pie Pie Blackbird, The Devil’s Daughter)—One of the first black movie stars, Nina worked with Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, King Vidor, and Paul Robeson. She was the first Black Actress to be signed to one of the major studios, MGM, but her career was stalled by a lack of roles.

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Rosalind Russell:

She's funny! She's glamorous! She stood up for herself! She took her own initiative to make sure her role in His Girl Friday was funny enough to stand up to Cary Grant!

Funny, fast talking, witty, triple threat, so charming that her husband of 35 years watched her in a movie and decided he needed to meet her and he was going to marry her, and got Cary Grant to arrange a meeting. Grant was best man at their wedding. Was a big supporter and funder of arthritis research and was honoured by Congress for her work in that field.

She’s just so fucking funny. She gave another woman a permanent scar from biting her leg in a scene and this is a story she herself told in interviews. This maybe true maybe not piece of IMDB trivia is never far from my mind: At the wrap party, Rosalind Russell was dancing with George Cukor, when Ernst Lubitsch passed her and said, "If you want more close-ups in the picture, never mind dancing with your director, you'd better dance with Norma Shearer!" Without missing a beat, Russell took Shearer's hand with a wink and danced her across the floor.

Nina Mae McKinney:

Hollywood's first Black vamp, and have you seen her dance? 👀

She has such delicate features and such a delightfully impish smile

#nina mae mckinney #rosalind russell #hotvintagepoll #ladies 2 #fuck that old woman

[otherkinnews]

Republicans introduce a 7th anti-furry bill and work to undermine student freedoms on a wider scale

(This blog post was written by Orion Scribner and N. Noel Sol, originally posted on February 18, 2024 to the Otherkin News Dreamwidth, at this link.)

Content warnings: Rated G. An urban legend that describes an unsanitary situation. Sexism against transgender people, including attempts to prevent them from participating in sports and using facilities like everyone else, and attempts to stop them from transitioning.

Summary: In 2023, Republicans began to propose laws (bills) in the US that would be against people who identify as animals. They base these on an urban legend that says schools provide litter boxes for students who identify as animals. Republicans made up that legend in parody of transgender students asking to use school restrooms (Scribner and Sol, 2024). The newest of these bills is Missouri House Bill 3678 (MO HB 2678). It’s the third such bill in 2024, bringing the historic total of these bills up to seven. This bill was written as part of a Republican effort to undermine public schools (which can’t ban transgender students from using the right restrooms, and students have First Amendment rights) in favor of religious charter schools (where students aren’t protected in those ways). The following blog post is a seven minute read.

What the Missouri bill says

Missouri House Bill 3678 (MO HB 2678) has the title “Prohibits students from engaging in ‘furry’ behavior while at school.” You can read this bill and see the latest actions on its official site, the Missouri House of Representatives, or on a third-party legislation tracking site, LegiScan. This bill was introduced this week, on February 13th, and read a second time on the 14th. It would add a law into the Revised Statutes of Missouri (RSMo). It would go in the part of the state laws about education, in Chapter 167, titled “Pupils and Special Services.” It would say:

“A student who purports to be an imaginary animal or animal species or who engages in anthropomorphic behavior consistent with the common designation of a ‘furry’ while at school shall not be allowed to participate in school curriculum or activities. The parent or guardian of a student in violation of this section shall remove the student from the school for the remainder of the school day.”

The same as the other bills like it, this bill is based on an urban legend, not on anything that was done in real life by students, furries, and/or people who identify as animals (McKinney, 2022a). This bill's wording looks like it was based on a bill from another state, Oklahoma House Bill 3084 (OK HB 3084), or its predecessor last year, Oklahoma Senate Bill 943 (OK SB 943). It shares their inaccuracies: though there are real people who identify as animals, surveys show that most furries don’t, and the dictionary definition of the word “anthropomorphic” means resembling a human, not resembling an animal (Scribner and Sol, 2024).

Who wrote the bill, and what is its context with that author’s other motivations?

The Missouri bill’s only sponsor (writer) is Cheri Toalson Reisch (she/her). She is a Missouri Republican who has supported anti-transgender bills in the past. One of those is MO SB 39, which would ban transgender students from participating in their gender’s sports division (both in private and public schools, up to and including in colleges and universities). Another one is MO SB 49. It would bar minors from accessing gender transition related surgeries or medications, removes adult coverage of hormone replacement therapy and any gender-affirming or transitioning surgeries from the Missouri Medicaid program, and denies prisoners and inmates access to any surgeries related to gender transitioning. She described both these bills as a “great move in the right direction,” and has been vocally critical that they were not harsher (Central MO Info, 2023).

Reisch is familiar with the urban legend started by conservatives of students using litter boxes in school bathrooms. She has posted about it on Facebook, telling her constituents that it is actively happening in Missouri and accusing the Columbia school district of taking part in it, stating “This is happening in Columbia Public Schools also. Yes, the janitor has to clean the litter box” (McKinney, 2022a). That's never happened. Schools say they have not been providing litter boxes to students in this way, and even deny that they have had any students identifying or behaving as animals, according to reliable fact checking resources (Reuters, 2022; Palma, Snopes, 2023).

Reisch has a history of being especially critical of the Columbia school district, which is one of the largest and most successful school districts in the state (McKinney, 2022b). She’s used this urban legend to attack the district’s legitimacy. This may be because Reisch prioritizes independently-run charter schools over standard public schools. Earlier this year, she sponsored MO HB 1941, which would allow for charter schools to operate within the Columbia school district without the district’s sponsorship.

Why are Republicans criticizing public schools and favoring charter schools?

In the US, the normal types of schools for children up to about age 18 are called public schools. Families don’t have to pay for their children to attend them. They represent the ideal that everyone growing up in the country should have equal access to school, regardless of income, class, race, religion, or ability. Because public schools are government establishments, the US Constitution protects the students’ rights there. The First Amendment of the Constitution protects the freedom of speech and religion of everyone, and that’s for students in public schools, too. In the landmark 1969 case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, students sued because they had gotten suspended for wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War. The Supreme Court decided that it would be as tyrannical to prevent students from expressing political opinions within public schools as it would be in any other government establishments. The Court said students don’t “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” In 1948, McCollum v. Board of Education had decided that public schools can’t give religious instruction during the school day. In 1962, Engel v. Vitale decided they can’t make students pray (Pew Research Center, 2019). Public school dress codes often aren’t as fair as they should be, but for the most part, their students can wear what they want and what their parents allow.

In contrast, what are known as charter schools in the US are privately owned, so they’re allowed to have requirements or education goals which would be considered a violation of the First Amendment. Some of them have religious affiliations and may be owned or operated by religious organizations. This can affect the way the school is run. For example, Oklahoma charter St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School has planned Catholic religious instruction classes, and the school’s active and intentional participation in what it refers to as “the evangelizing mission of the Church” (Fitzpatrick, 2023). Charter school dress codes can be much more strict. They are often segregated by gender stereotypes, forcing girls to wear skirts and boys trousers, no exceptions. This has been challenged in some places against specific schools, such as in North Carolina earlier this year in a lawsuit against the Charter Day School Inc (Chung, 2023). These challenges are the outlier and not the norm, however; gender-segregated dress codes are still a very common practice for charter schools overall. Charter schools also require applications and choose students based on random lottery systems. However, studies find that charter schools are more likely to ignore parents inquiring about the enrollment process if the student has a disability or other special needs (Darville, 2018). Unlike public schools, they don’t welcome everyone.

The freedom of expression in public schools is important for transgender students. In 2020, the case ​​G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board decided in favor of transgender-friendly restroom policies in high schools. This precedent helps protect transgender students’ rights in public schools, but doesn’t apply to charter schools. During the course of the case, the Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund told the Court why to decide against transgender rights. In an effort to invalidate transgender people, the Fund compared transgender people to otherkin. The Fund used the word “otherkin,” and described them at length, mostly accurately but derisively (Brief Amicus Curiae, 2017, G.G. v. Gloucester Cty Sch Bd). This case was part of what inspired the Republicans to later make up the litter box urban legend. We don’t know if that particular brief inspired the legend too.

Republicans may be promoting charter schools because this would give them greater control over impressing their views about gender, religion, and politics on young generations. They may be undermining public schools because the separation of church and state limits their power to do so there. The urban legend and these bills are part of that.

Background about all of the furry bills and the urban legend that inspired them

To learn about this year’s first two anti-furry bills, read our post about them from last week (Scribner and Sol, 2024). That post also summarizes the four anti-furry bills last year, and the litter box urban legend. For further information about those aspects, you can watch our lecture about last year’s bills and what you do about bad bills (Chimeras, Scribner, and Shepard, 2023), and watch Chimeras’s lecture about the litter box urban legend (Chimeras, 2022).

What happens next with Reisch’s anti-furry bill?

The bill is at 25% progression toward becoming a law. The House heard the bill twice, but it hasn’t been voted on. At the time that we write this blog post, they haven’t scheduled the bill’s next hearing.

About the writers of this blog post

We are Orion Scribner (they/them) and N. Noel Sol (she/they), a couple of dragons. We never write articles with the assistance of procedural generation or so-called artificial intelligence (AI), and that type of content isn’t allowed on Otherkin News.

References

“Brief Amicus Curiae of Public Advocate of the United States, U.S. Justice Foundation, and Conservative Legal Defense and Education Fund in Support of Petitioner.” Gloucester County School Bd. v. G. G. ex rel. Grimm, No. 16-273, 2017 WL 192454 (Jan. 10, 2017). http://files.eqcf.org/cases/16-273-amicus-brief-public-advocate-et-al/

Central MO Info (May 19, 2023). “Representative Toalson Reisch Disappointed in Senate’s Version of Trans Bills.” Central MO Info. https://www.centralmoinfo.com/representative-toalson-reisch-disappointed-in-senates-version-of-trans-bills/

Chung, Andrew (June 26, 2024). “US Supreme Court turns away case on charter school's mandatory skirts for girls.” Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-turns-away-case-charter-schools-mandatory-skirts-girls-2023-06-26

Darville, Sarah (Dec. 21, 2018). “Want a charter school application? If your child has a disability, your questions more likely to be ignored, study finds.” Chalkbeat. https://www.chalkbeat.org/2018/12/21/21106398/want-a-charter-school-application-if-your-child-has-a-disability-your-questions-more-likely-to-be-ig/

Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421 (1962). https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/370/421.html

Fitzpatrick, Cara (Sept. 9, 2023). “The Charter-School Movement’s New Divide.” The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/charter-schools-religion-public-secular/675293/

G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board. 972 F.3d 586 (4th Cir. 2020). https://casetext.com/case/grimm-v-gloucester-cnty-sch-bd-8

House of Chimeras (Aug. 12, 2022). "Litter Boxes in School Bathrooms: Dissecting the Alt-Right’s Current Moral Panic." OtherCon. https://youtu.be/WVjXOmN2IlU

House of Chimeras, Orion Scribner, and Page Shepard (2023). “Litter Box Hoax 2: Legislature Boogaloo.” OtherCon 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsXy_ctC4Jc&t=1425s

Legiscan. MO HB 2678. https://legiscan.com/MO/bill/HB2678/2024

Legiscan. MO HB 1941. https://legiscan.com/MO/bill/HB1941/2024

Mccollum v. Board Of Education, 333 U.S. 203 (1948). https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/333/203.html

McKinney, Rodger (Aug. 25, 2022). “State Rep. Cheri Reisch criticized for 'unwarranted' claim that CPS students use litterboxes.” Columbia Daily Tribune. https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/politics/elections/local/2022/08/25/state-rep-cheri-reisch-criticized-for-unwarranted-claim-that-cps-columbia-students-use-litterboxes/7895082001/

McKinney, Rodger (Feb. 6, 2022). “State Rep. Cheri Reisch states 'Columbia sucks' when referring to public schools in education hearing” Columbia Daily Tribune. https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/news/education/2022/02/06/cheri-reisch-states-columbia-sucks-when-referring-to-cps-in-education-hearing-mo-leg-basye/6662719001/

Missouri House of Representatives. MO HB 2678. https://house.mo.gov/Bill.aspx?bill=HB2678&year=2024&code=R

Missouri Senate. MO SB 49. https://www.senate.mo.gov/23info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=44407

Missouri Senate. MO SB 39. https://senate.mo.gov/23info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=44496

Palma, Bethania. (January 30, 2023). “How Furries Got Swept Up in Anti-Trans 'Litter Box' Rumors.” Snopes. https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/01/30/how-furries-got-swept-up-in-anti-trans-litter-box-rumors/ Archived on March 30, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230330232007/https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/01/30/how-furries-got-swept-up-in-anti-trans-litter-box-rumors/

Pew Research Center (Oct. 3, 2019). “Religion in the Public Schools.” https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2019/10/03/religion-in-the-public-schools-2019-update/

Reuters Fact Check (October 18, 2022). “Fact Check-No evidence of schools accommodating ‘furries’ with litter boxes.” https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-furries-rogan-litterbox-idUSL1N31J1KT Archived February 13, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230213110524/https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-furries-rogan-litterbox-idUSL1N31J1KT

Scribner, Orion, and N. Noel Sol (Feb. 9, 2024). “Will Oklahoma Call Animal Control on Students?” Otherkin News. https://otherkinnews.dreamwidth.org/92680.html Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, 393 U.S. 503 (1969). https://openjurist.org/393/us/503

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