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madeline-kahn · 3 years

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jatp characters x my favorite classic literature Alex as Henry Clerval (Frankenstein, Mary Shelley)

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omgreading · 4 years

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2019 in Books

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madeline-kahn · 5 years

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Prior to filming You’ve Got Mail, Meg Ryan was given an Apple laptop and was taught to how to use AOL email by producer Lauren Shuler Donner’s assistant, Kevin Feige.

- I’ll Have What She’s Having: How Nora Ephron’s Three Iconic Films Saved the Romantic Comedy by Erin Carlson

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madeline-kahn · 5 years

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“This looks like a fourth grader made it. And not even the smartest fourth grader in the class. Just, like, a deeply average fourth grader.”

Love, Simon (2018) dir. Greg Berlanti - opened in the US and Canada on March 16, 2018

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madeline-kahn · 5 years

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“Tony [Turano] was at the home of his friend Hermes Pan, the legendary choreographer of Fred Astaire’s Top Hat, Swing Time, and others. Pan had just installed a large-screen TV and asked Tony for help with the cables; while rooting around back there, he discovered a reel of film in a false closet. “I took it out and said, ‘Hermes, what is this?’ He said, ‘Oh, I don’t know, I’ve had it for years. I don’t know what the hell it is.’“ It turned out to be footage from the fairly forgettable 1940 musical comedy Second Chorus, starring Astaire and Paulette Goddard–but not just any footage.

“I brought this reel back to to my house, put it on the screen, and to my amazement, it was the missing Fred Astaire number that everybody’s been looking for for fifty years,” Tony recalls with barely controlled excitement. “It was ‘Me and the Ghost Upstairs,’ the missing number from Second Chorus. Now, in that, Fred dances with a female in a shroud. Well, it’s not a female–it’s supposed to be a female, even wearing high heels–but underneath that shroud is Hermes Pan.” Pan preferred to work off camera. His film appearances were exceedingly rare to begin with, and he’d appeared only once on-screen with his famed partner Astaire, in a number that was subsequently cut from Second Chorus. Tony had the foresight to videotape the missing sequence while the print was playing (he now wishes he made a 16mm dupe of the footage, but such is life). He returned the footage to Pan and it later disappeared, leaving Tony’s grainy video the only surviving copy. Watching it now, the sequence begins in fairly routine fashion with Astaire singing in front of an orchestra, “It’s an ectoplasmic tapping / That disturbs my nightly napping,” like a hepcat 1940s version of the Ghostbusters theme. Then Pan appears, completely hidden in a long gray shroud, towering over Astaire, and what follows is a truly remarkable duet between the two men who essentially redefined the art of dance on film. They are an exquisite pair on-screen, long-limbed and fluid and perfectly matched. While the Ghost played by Pan is technically “female,” it’s now apparent that it’s a man under the gray shroud, and not just any man, but a dancer as brilliant as Astaire: at one point the Ghost picks up Astaire and swings him from side to side, setting Astaire in its lap. It’s over far too soon. The entire duet is barely two and a half minutes long, but it’s the only two and a half minutes we will ever have of these two men dancing together. When Jeff shows Tony that several bootlegs of his video have turned up on Youtube.com, he literally squeals with outrage: “But that’s mine! That’s from my copy!” he protests, then finally simmers down. At least the number exists and hasn’t been lost.

– Dennis Bartok, A Thousand Cuts: The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies

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omgreading · 4 years

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