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bookmaven · 2 months

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CHILDHOOD’S END by Arthur C. Clarke (New York: Ballantine, 1953) Cover by Richard Powers.

(New York: Ballantine, 1953) Cover by Richard Powers. • (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1954) Cover by Deborah Jones

(London: Pan 1956) Cover by Gerard Quinn. 8 • (New York: Ballantine, 1960) Cover by Richard Powers • (London: Great Pan, 1961) Cover by S.R. Boldero.

(New York: Ballantine, 1969) No artist credit. • (London: Pan, 1970) Cover by Cris Foss.

(New York: Ballantine, 1972) Cover by Dean Ellis. • (…1976) Cover by Stanislaw Fernandes.

#book blog #books #books books books #book cover #science fiction #arthur c clarke #childhood’s end #richard powers #deborah jones #chris foss #dean ellis #stanislaw fernandes #s.r. boldero #first contact #alien race #overlords #alien invasion

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petra-creat0r · 10 months

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Anything to do with design changes the characters have took in over a year

Reasons in the real world

Reasons in universe

And reasons for the comic company in universe

That could be an interesting thing to ask

Hmmm... well last night I was thinking about a redesign for Big Mama. Mostly because her previous chef inspired outfit feels somewhat... stereotypical. It does fit her heroing theme a bit, but I can do better. She can look cooler.

In universe, (as in Ish with POW-R Comix), they modern gen team would likely think the same thing.

I imagine in universe in universe, Queen had some influence on it, mostly stating "By God Deborah! You look too much like a civilian in that! How can you stand having a hero costume that's so.... basic?"

Other than that... eh I don't have many other notable redesigns in mind. I haven't thought about this world in a hot sec.

#ask #crossovanon #POW-R #big mama #Deborah Jones #POW-R Queen #POW-R Comix #POW-R meta #super hero

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tedlassogif · 11 months

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TED LASSO — 2x10 // 3x10.

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charles-edgar-cheeserton-iii · 11 months

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Rebecca “Not Much of a Hugger” Welton

#Now with all the gifs #rebecca welton #ted lasso #keeley jones #dottie lasso #deborah welton #sassy collins #leslie higgins #sam obisanya

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ddcastarchive · 8 months

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Krysten Ritter and Deborah Ann Woll at The Defenders premiere (2017)

#daredevil cast #daredevil #daredevil netflix #netflix daredevil #deborah ann woll #karen page #krysten ritter #jessica jones #the defenders #defenders

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rdrshitsthatsomeoneaskedfor · 1 year

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i’m back and worse than ever

#Sadie Adler #Dutch Van Der Linde #Arthur Morgan #Deborah MacGuiness #Susan Grimshaw #Karen Jones #Molly O'shea #rdr2 #rdr #red dead redemption 2 #mypost

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fangomusic · 7 months

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1970s music: The Runaways, Grace Jones, Blondie, and Fleetwood Mac.

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abduloki · 2 years

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Gentle reminder that they are already strong super-women in MCU who’s been through shit before She-Hulk.

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brokehorrorfan · 1 year

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The Slumber Party Massacre and Slumber Party Massacre II will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on February 21 via Scream Factory. The 1982 slasher and its 1987 sequel are both produced by Roger Corman.

The Slumber Party Massacre is directed by Amy Holden Jones (writer of Mystic Pizza and Beethoven) and written by Rita Mae Brown. Michelle Michaels, Robin Stille, and Michael Villella star.

Slumber Party Massacre II is written and directed by Deborah Brock (Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever). Crystal Bernard, Kimberly McArthur, and Atanas Ilitch star.

Both films have been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with 2.0 Mono DTS-HD Master Audio. Special features are listed below.

The Slumber Party Massacre special features:

Audio commentary by director Amy Holden and actors Michel Villella and Debra De Liso

Sleepless Nights: The Making of The Slumber Party Massacre

Interview with actor Riggs Kennedy

Alternate title sequence

Theatrical trailer

Teaser trailer

Still gallery

Trish (Michele Michaels) invites her high school basketball teammates over for a night they'll never forget — or survive — when an unexpected guest crashes the party: an escaped psychopath with a portable power drill.

Slumber Party Massacre II special features:

Audio commentary by writer-director Deborah Brock, producer Don Daniel, and story editor Beverly Gray

Slumber Party Massacre II unrated cut

Sleepless Nights: Revisiting Slumber Party Massacre II

Theatrical trailer

Video trailer

Still gallery

Courtney (Crystal Bernard) is tormented by dreams of the infamous Driller Killer returning to wreak havoc... only to find that (bad) dreams really do come true when the murderous monster is reincarnated as an evil rocker.

Pre-order The Slumber Party Massacre / Slumber Party Massacre II.

#slumber party massacre #the slumber party massacre #slumber party massacre 2 #slumber party massacre ii #horror #80s horror #1980s horror #scream factory #dvd #gift #roger corman #amy holden jones #rita mae brown #brinke stevens #deborah brock

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usaigi · 1 year

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Daredevil News starts at 3:50

TLDR; Krysten Ritter is supposed to come back, don't know if she'll be back in Echo or in Daredevil Born Again

The actress for Vanessa was recasted because the original actress was unavailable. Same character, different actress. No need for conspiracy theories, she just moved on. It was a minor part in a show she thought ended three years ago, her being unavailable doesn't mean anything.

I know Deborah Woll has said that she wants to come back as Karen (this video from three months ago, I don't have the timestamp of this video) so I still think it's save to assume that if Karen and Foggy are going to be in Daredevil Born Again, they will be played by Henson/Woll and not be recasted. As a we all know, Matt said "We" run a practice in Hell's Kitchen in She-Hulk. We is more than Me. They would not include that line if Foggy just didn't exist in this timeline.

Another leaker said that the 18 episode of Daredevil will air in pods/6 episodes chucks. If this is true, I think it's possible that Karen/Foggy won't be in the first sections because Matt will be working with the Punisher/Echo/whoever in not-Hell's Kitchen. Then, Karen/Foggy and Matt will be reunited once Matt finishes whatever he's doing in Hell's Kitchen in the second pod.

#begging yall to calm down #daredevil #daredevil born again #matt murdock #karen page #foggy nelson #charlie cox #deborah ann woll #elden henson #krysten ritter #jessica Jones #Youtube

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grigori77 · 1 year

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Celebrating International Women's Day this year, once again I'm giving a shout-out to some of the amazing ladies, both real and fictional, that I really admire, both new on the scene and since my formative years. They all live rent free in my head and I think they're awesome!

COURTNEY LaPLANTE, the incredible frontwoman from up-and-coming new metalcore band Spiritbox, who are ALL pretty amazing, but she is in a whole different league. The way she can switch from beautifully husky, gently angelic clean vocals to bloody terrifying feral demon dirty vocals AND BACK at the drop of a hat is truly astounding ...

VIOLA DAVIS, one of my favourite actresses working in Hollywood today, an undeniable queen and now a bonafide BADASS too thanks to her recent starring role as Naniska, the General of the Agojie, the legendary Dahomie Amazons, in The Woman King. These days she's PROBABLY best known as THE BADDEST BITCH in all of the DCEU, ARGUS director Amanda Waller, but these are just two of a whole CAREER of incredible performances for which she's rightly become a true A-lister ...

ELLEN RIPLEY, as played by the equally awesome Sigourney Weaver in the Alien movies. Quite simply THE GREATEST cinematic female lead protagonist OF ALL TIME, Ripley is about as definitive as strong female lead protgnonists get, the scourge of terrifying hostile aliens throughout the galaxy ...

POWER, from the acclaimed new anime series Chainsaw Man. I know, I know, she could SO EASILY have just been another classic teenage boy's wet dream anime girl, but half-demon fiend Power, like many of the show's female characters, is definitely a significant step away from the cliched norms, a total, undeniable force of (super)nature, unapologetic deluded self-promoter and thoroughly adorable chaos gremlin, who's quickly becoming one of my very favourite anime characters.

RINKO KIKUCHI, probably my VERY FAVOURITE Japanese actress EVER, thanks in no small part to her DEFINITIVE turn as Jaeger pilot Mako Mori in Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim, although I first discovered her as gloriously idiosyncratic demolitions expert Bang Bang in Rian Johnson's criminally overlooked The Brothers Bloom. Also rightly known for her acclaimed turn in Babel, we most recently saw her in typically fine form in Michael Mann's agreeably edgy new true crime series Tokyo Vice ...

KRISTEN STEWART. Yeah, I know, some folk are STILL likely to be rolling their eyes at this choice, but ever since Panic Room I've ALWAYS thought she was something special, EVEN when she was doing Twilight. Okay, so it's taken her A LONG TIME to shake the godawful spectre of Bella Swan, but she's DEFINITELY pulled it off by now, playing some truly AMAZING characters in a bunch of really great movies, most notably Underwater (see above), the criminally maligned and unjustly ignored Charlie's Angels reboot and her incredible recent turn as the late Diana, Princes of Wales, in Spencer.

DELENN, as played by Mira Furlan (Lost), the ambassador of the alien race, the Minbari, in one of my very favourite TV shows of all time, Babylon 5. From humble (albeit also EXTREMELY mysterious) beginnings, Delenn went on to (rightly) become THE main female lead in the show, carrying the weight of one hell of a sprawling, epic sci-fi saga plot on her more-than-able shoulders.

KATY O'BRIAN. Basicallythe core inspiration (at least in a roundabout way) for the lead character in my ongoing online fantasy novel series Never Split the Party, Kesla Shoon, Katy is 100% what I love in a genuine physically powerful woman - tough as nails, sexy as hell and, paradoxically, an absolute sweetheart. I first stumbled across her as George, the very best character in Syfy's guilty pleasure TV series Z Nation, but she's finally REALLY getting the attention she's long deserved, already earning fast fan-favourite status as Jentorra in Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania.

ZOE SALDANA. Ever since she started to come up in the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, she's been steadily growing herself one hell of a reputation playing a succession of strong, frequently badass women in cinema, most notably in The Losers, James Cameron's Avatar movies and OF COURSE as Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy.

SOFIA BOUTELLA. Ever since I first saw her busting some truly incredible moves in those glorious "Keep Up" Nike ads from the mid 00s, I have always been SUCH a big fan of this incredible dancer-turned-actress. She first REALLY captured our attention in the first Kingsman movie, but she's shone ever brighter since in the likes of Star Trek Beyond, Atomic Blonde, Climax and Hotel Artemis. Personally I CANNOT WAIT to see what she does with THE LEAD ROLE in Zack Snyder's incoming new sci-fi epic Rebel Moon ...

ALISON MOYET. One of my favourite female vocalists when I was growing up, I recently rediscovered her music when I started one of my music fan deep-dives through her entire back catalogue, and I'm absolutely LOVING IT. Starting out in the frustratingly short-lived early 80s electro pop group Yazoo with Erasure's Vince Clarke, she truly came to fame with her dynamite solo debut album Alf, as well as a killer cover of That Ole Devil Called love, but she's been going strong ever since thanks to one of the greatest voices around.

ANNIE LENNOX, formerly of The Tourists and The Eurythmics. Another one of the 80s all-time great frontwomen, Annie is a statuesque Scottish goddess who is rightly best known for her SECOND tour of duty with multi-talented musician Dave Stewart, but went on to have an equally astounding career as a solo singer-songwriter with a string of masterful records from the 90s right up to the present. Add to that her undeniable ICON status in the LGBTQIA+ community and you've got a bonafide androgynous goddess on your hands ...

GRACE JONES. Ever since she played Zula in Conan the Destroyer, Mayday in A View to a Kill and one seriously STRANGE vampire in Vamp, I've been a fan of this Jamaican model/actress/singer and undeniable fashion ICON. She continues to be a wonderfully weird and truly unique individual with her own unapologetically challenging style to this very day, and I love her for it.

DEBORAH CHOW. A fantastic up-and-coming Canadian filmmaker, who made a modest splash with her feature film The High Cost of Living before cutting her teeth on a series of impressive TV directing gigs on the likes of Copper, Reign and Mr Robot before truly coming into her own on The Mandalorian, which directly led to her helming THE ENTIRETY of 2022's rightly acclaimed Obi Wan Kenobi series. I'm really looking forward to whatever she does next.

CHARLIZE THERON. If there's one actress I've become a fan of mainly through her playing GENUINELY UNSTOPPABLE kickass women, it's Ms. Theron. The South African-born actress looks ABSOLUTELY AMAZING when she's stalking down a catwalk in her Dior ads, but as far as I'm concerned she looks HER VERY BEST when she's taking roomfuls of men apart with her bare hands in Atomic Blonde or a big fucking axe in The Old Guard, which will soon get a sequel I for one CANNOT WAIT FOR ...

MARISHA RAY, ASHLEY JOHNSON & LAURA BAILEY, the Ladies of Critical Role. Sure, there have been other women who've come and gone in a variety of excellent guest slot roles through the years the live-play TTRPG webcast series has been going (from Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Ashly Burch, Sumalee Montano, Mica Burton and Aimee Carrero to, of course, the legendary Aabria Iyengar), but these three have always been the core, the heart and the undeniable BACKBONE of this amazing ongoing D&D adventure, and long may they all continue to reign ...

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chvoswxtch · 1 year

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i'm on my second rewatch of daredevil & I just finished season 2 and i have a LOT of thots about elektra so i'm going to rant under the cut so here's your warning or psa if you haven't seen the show or are in the process of watching it i am mentioning spoilers so beware !!!

first things first i feel like i need to preface with the fact that i was OBSESSED with the 2003 daredevil movie like i rented it so many times at the video store the guy working there fucking gave it to me LMAO and i remember thinking jennifer garner in that movie was THE baddest bitch and I wanted to be her so bad

that being said i fucking LOVE elektra natchios and i was so fucking beyond excited the first time i watched the show and she showed up and i especially love elodie yung's version i thought she was absolutely perfect

here's what annoyed the shit out of me though: they set her up for failure; let's get into it

i feel like a lot of people don't like her for whatever reason and i feel like a lot of that has to do with her history with matt so let me just say i think her and matt were super toxic and did not belong together because they were constantly trying to change one another and yes she did a lot of shitty things to him but she was literally "hired" by stick to ruin matt's life so that matt would come back to stick and in the end she left because she realized matt was way too good and didn't belong around her OR more importantly around stick because he would never be like either of them

from the second they introduced her in the show, they are trying to make you not like her by making her seem like this selfish entitled person who goes around ruining lives for fun. i've also seen a lot of people blame her as the reason that matt & karen never worked out but like that is straight up matt's fault in my opinion ok homeboy did that to himself

as far as morality goes, i think a lot of people gloss over the fact that elektra was literally trained to be a killer since she was a child. she was a young girl that was taken from her family, essentially thrown into a cult that brainwashed her and filled her head with horror stories about a war that was coming she needed to be ready to fight at all costs

we all know stick was an emotionally & physically abusive piece of shit (we saw the way he treated them both) but i think everyone forgets he was way worse with elektra and way harder on her and i don't know if what happened with her is what made him approach training matt differently but he was undeniably easier on matt (matt was getting pushed down in a basement, elektra was getting the shit beat out of her by grown ass men)

elektra was trained and taught to be what she was and constantly had people like stick and the hand telling her who and what she was and making her feel like she was some kind of evil monster over something that was totally out of her control

i think the only good thing that came from her and matt's relationship is that he made her believe in herself and that she could be good because he saw it in her and helped her decide who she wanted to be instead of what she was told to be

i truly think more people would like her more if she were a male character because she has a lot of the same characteristics as matt (tragic backstory, sarcastic witty drama queen, charming & overconfident, anger & daddy issues, total badass, hot) and even frank (has no problem killing when they think it's justifiable, will do whatever necessary despite the moral consequences, looks good covered in blood) which is bullshit in my humble opinion

let women go feral!!! let them be messy!! let them deal with things humanly & realistically!!!

i personally love characters like elektra natchios and jessica jones because i can relate to them like i can feel their anger and their internal conflict of being who you want vs who everyone expects you to be and drinking in excess to cope instead of dealing with your problems and having a short fuse (especially with annoying ass men who think they know better than you) and just being tragic fucking human beings trying their goddamn best

this is also why i love karen page so much because she is deeply flawed and has a dark past and acts impulsively (literally taunted fisk about killing wesley because she knew he would emotionally react like what a bad bitch) and refuses to take anyone's shit and calls everyone out when it's needed and tries so hard to do the right thing hoping it'll heal her from her mistakes

like every single one of these characters has been through so much shit and SO MUCH trauma and i just don't think it's fair to praise and accept one group for how they handle it and demonize another for doing the literal exact same thing

there was a very interesting foil in season 2 with frank & elektra that doesn't get talked about enough like frank castle owned what he was and admitted to being a loose cannon that would never stop until he got his revenge and everyone ate that shit up but elektra struggles with what she's being told she is and fights against all odds to control something inside of her that can't really be controlled and people trash her and it annoys the fucking hell out of me because it all goes back to her relationship with matt

women can be their own characters, they don't need to be plot devices used for a man's character development

in conclusion, elektra natchios is that bitch and i adore her and would absolutely love to see her (& elodie <3) come back in a future marvel project but not if they're just going to waste her incredible storyline and potential as being matt's throwaway love interest again because she is so fucking much more than that and deserves so much more than that

if you've made it this far, thanks for coming to my ted talk <3

we stan elektra natchios in this household, and I will hear no slander

these are all my opinions & if you don't like/agree with them, that's totally fine but no need to be a dick about it :)

#i will defend elektra natchios until the day i die #like how can you not love her #she delivered some of the best lines in season 2 #no one can annoy matt like her except jessica and i love them both for it #i think more women should go feral #be unhinged #enter your “villain” era #be the bad bitch i know you are #i support you babygirl #i'm not even tagging matt bc babygirl this isn't about you <3 #elektra natchios #elodie yung #jessica jones #krysten ritter #karen page #deborah ann woll #daredevil season 2

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ewaudreyhorne · 2 years

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I’m not saying this is one of the funniest scenes in Ted Lasso... but it absolutely is.

(will i ever get over the moment she says ‘then i stood up, i flushed the toilet, i pulled up my trousers’ ??? nope)

#tedlassoedit #ted lasso #rebecca welton #deborah welton #tledit #keeley jones #mine*#comedyedit #othercom #honestllyyyyy #queue rang?

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cantsayidont · 1 month

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Haterating and hollerating through the '90s:

POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE (1990): Carrie Fisher scripted this witty adaptation of her novel about coked-up, pill-popping actress Suzanne Yale (Meryl Streep), who overdoses in the bed of a strange man (Dennis Quaid), ends up in rehab, and learns that the only way the production insurance company will let her keep working is if she stays with her mother, an aging singer-actress-diva (Shirley MacLaine) whose love for her daughter is equaled only by her tireless determination to upstage her. (No, it's not autobiographical at all, why do you ask?) Fisher's deftly paced, funny script weaves in various serious mother-daughter moments without ever becoming mawkish, and offers a fabulous part for MacLaine, who has a ball poking fun at herself as well as Debbie Reynolds, Fisher's real-life mother and the obvious basis for the film's lightly fictionalized "Doris Mann." Curiously, the weakest link is Streep, who never quite sheds her customary air of prim affectation and always seems ill at ease with Fisher's layers of self-deprecating, sarcastic humor. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Apparently not, although I had questions about Suzanne's rehab friend Aretha (Robin Barlett). VERDICT: MacLaine's finest hour, but Streep's primness keeps it "good" rather than "great."

TERESA'S TATTOO (1993): Painfully unfunny crime comedy, directed by Melissa Etheridge's then-GF Julie Cypher and costarring Cypher's ex, Lou Diamond Phillips, along with an array of incongruously high-profile actors like Joe Pantoliano, Tippi Hedren, Mare Winningham, Diedrich Bader, k.d. lang (!), Sean Astin, Emilio Estevez, and Kiefer Sutherland, most in bit parts (some of them unbilled). The headache-inducing plot concerns a couple of brain-dead thugs whose elaborate hostage scheme hits a snag when their hostage (Adrienne Shelly) accidentally dies. Their solution is to kidnap lookalike Teresa (also Adrienne Shelly), a brainy Ph.D. candidate, and disguise her to look like the dead girl — including giving her a matching tattoo on her chest — in the hopes that the dead girl's idiot brother (C. Thomas Howell) won't notice the switch until it's too late. This truly bad grade-Z effort, barely released theatrically, feels like either a vanity project or a practical joke that got out of hand, and is interesting mostly as a curiosity for Melissa Etheridge fans: The soundtrack is M.E.-heavy, and Etheridge herself has a brief nonspeaking role. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Technically? (Etheridge has no lines and lang plays a Jesus freak.) VERDICT: May erode your affection for M.E.

BLUE JUICE (1995): Tiresome comedy-drama about an aging surfer (a terribly miscast, painfully uncomfortable-looking Sean Pertwee) who's still determined to continue living like a 20-year-old surf bum with his obnoxious mates, even though his back is giving out and he's perilously close to driving away his girlfriend (a disconcertingly hot 25-year-old Catherine Zeta Jones), who is keen for him to finally cut the shit. Meanwhile, the scummiest of his mates (Ewan McGregor) doses their pal Terry (Peter Gunn) and gets him to chase after an actress from his childhood favorite TV show (Jenny Agutter) in hopes of dissuading from marrying his actual girlfriend (Michelle Chadwick), and their mate Josh (Steven Mackintosh), a successful techno producer, flirts with an attractive DJ (Colette Brown) who's actually furious at him for building a vapid techno hit around a sample of her soul singer dad's biggest hit. The latter storyline probably had the most potential (although a weird scene where Josh is castigated by a group of outraged soul fans seems like a lesser TWILIGHT ZONE plot), but none of the script's various threads ever amounts to much. CONTAINS LESBIANS? It doesn't even pass the Bechdel test. VERDICT: If you happen upon it, you may be tempted just for Zeta Jones (and/or Brown), but the rest wears out its welcome with alacrity.

HIGHER LEARNING (1995): Potent story of simmering racial tensions on the campus of a university that definitely isn't USC (writer-director John Singleton's alma mater, and where most of the film was obviously shot), let down by incredibly heavy-handed execution. (The film's final shot is of the word "UNLEARN" superimposed over a giant American flag!) A capable cast (including Omar Epps, Kristy Swanson, Michael Rapaport, Jennifer Connelly, Ice Cube, Tyra Banks, Cole Hauser, Laurence Fishburne, and Regina King) tries to maintain a sense of emotional reality through Singleton's frequent excursions into overpowering melodrama, but there are so many competing plot threads that few characters have any depth; curiously, the script's most complex characterization is in the scenes between budding white supremacist Remy (Rapaport) and Aryan Brotherhood organizer Scott (Hauser). Singleton made this film when he was 25, and there's no shame in its sense of breathless ambition (even if it inevitably bites off more than it can chew), but the overwrought stridency undercuts its intended impact. For a more effective treatment of similar themes in roughly the same period, try Gilbert Hernandez's graphic novel X, originally serialized in LOVE & ROCKETS #31–39 and first collected in 1993. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Jennifer Connelly gives Kristy Swanson a bisexual awakening. VERDICT: The '90s through a bullhorn.

CRASH (1996): Divisive David Cronenberg adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel, about a movie producer called James Ballard (James Spader) and his desperately horny wife (Deborah Kara Unger), drawn into a loose-knit group of car-crash fetishists organized around a man called Vaughan (Elias Koteas at his creepiest), who stages recreations of famous celebrity crashes like the 1955 accident that killed James Dean. Despite some pretentious dialogue about "the reshaping of the human body by modern technology," the controlling idea might be better summarized as "anything can be a paraphilia if you get weird enough about it." Part of what offends people about the film is that Cronenberg deliberately treats the entire story with the same frosty clinical detachment, rendering the "normal" sex scenes just as remote and perverse as the characters' fixation on the grisly aftermath of car wrecks; the point is that there is no line, just different facets of the same erotic longing, which each of the (admittedly unsympathetic) principal characters embodies in different ways. Spader, Kara Unger, and Koteas are very good, as is Holly Hunter, in perhaps the bravest role of her career, but Rosanna Arquette is underutilized. A worthwhile companion piece would be Steven Soderbergh's 1989 SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE, also with Spader, which is much more highly regarded (though almost as contrived and scarcely less perverse), perhaps because it seeks to titillate where Cronenberg does not. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Briefly. (See previous note in re: underutilization of Rosanna Arquette.) VERDICT: Icy but interesting.

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covergirlnay · 3 months

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Video credit: @thewokemama

If you want to ban uplifting stories with people of color, just say that. Based on this list, my office library is in complete violation. 🤷🏾‍♀️😂 Oh well. All of my students love the books that I share with them. Especially the ones that they do not normally get to see. 🤓📚

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therobertfrasergang · 1 year

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Robert Fraser and Brian Jones in Morocco, 1965

Left to right in this photo: Ahmed (Moroccan guide), Donald Cammell (obscured), Robert Fraser, Deborah Dixon, Linda Lawrence (Brian's girlfriend at the time and mother of Brian’s son Julian), Brian Jones

The top photo is stitched together from two different sources I found online, since neither had the full picture.

(The caption I found online says "Gallery Owner Robert Fraser with his wife Deborah Dixon", which, you know, OK)

The date for these photos is said to be September 1965, at the El Minzah, Tangier, supposedly a birthday party for Fraser (whose birthday was August 13). It's likely from this trip to Morocco; they arrived in August, so the September date makes sense.

In the book Chelsea Hotel Manhattan, author Joe Ambrose features an interview by musician Spencer Kansa with poet Allen Ginsberg:

SK: I show Ginsberg a bunch of photographs including a rare photograph of Brian Jones taken in a restaurant in Morocco given to me by my guide Ahmed in Tangier who’d encountered Jones during his famous visit to Joujouka.

AG: He looks cute. I never met him … Was he making out with Robert Fraser?

SK: I dunno, maybe.

It's not clear who Ginsberg means "looks cute" - it could be Jones or Ahmed.

"The pair [Brian Jones and Linda Lawrence] stayed at the El Minzah in Tangier along with Robert Fraser, who had probably suggested the exotic destination. Brian’s old bête noire Deborah Dixon, the woman he’d thought was a ghoul, was there too, as was Donald Cammell. There were some idyllic trips, and at one old palace Linda and Deborah did a photo shoot; this was where Brian probably first met the artist Brion Gysin, a friend of Bob Fraser’s. The stay was marred by press intrusion and mixed messages, but Brian’s intent was clear, says Linda: ‘He had explained we weren’t going to be together, but he wanted me to meet people who might be able to help me with my career. It was mainly a positive thing. Then he went off again, and Robert Fraser invited me to London.'" - From Brian Jones: The Making of the Rolling Stones, by Paul Trynka

#robert fraser #brian jones #1965 #morocco #deborah dixon #linda lawrence #donald cammell #brion gysin #spencer kansa #allen ginsberg

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