#dr Alfred bellows

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For five season and one reunion movie Hayden Rorke appears as Dr. Alfred Bellows on the popular 1960s sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie”. In the show Bellows was NASA’s resident psychiatrist who tried to discover astronaut Tony Nelson’s secret. But he failed time and again.

But Rorke had a secret of his own that could have ruined his career… he was gay.

Rorke’s life as an actor spanned 42 years, starting with an uncredited role in “This is the Army”, a wartime musical comedy starring Ronald Reagan.

Rorke met his life partner Justus Addiss in 1953 on the set movie “Project Moonbase” where he played a supporting role. Addiss was the assistant to the producer.

Both eventually migrated from B Pictures to work on television. Most of Roake’s 151 credits on IMDb are for guest performances on TV episodes (and 129 episodes of “Jeannie”). Addiss became a director, working on over 40 different series including 3 episodes of the “Twilight Zone”, 10 episodes of “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, 2 episodes of “Lost in Space” and 39 episodes of “Schlitz Playhouse” (including 4 episodes featuring Rorke).

Like many other closeted actors of his era, Rorke kept his sexlife a secret, yet quietly lived with Addiss for 26 years. Roake and Addiss would often host dinner parties for the “I Dream of Jeannie” cast at their home in Studio City. In a later interview Barbara Eden explained that the cast and Rorke’s close friends knew he was “unashamedly gay".

Addis died from lung cancer in 1979. Rorke died 8 years later from a cancer of his plasma cells.

#gay icons #Hayden rorke #I Dream of Jeannie #dr Alfred bellows #Barbara Eden #life partner #justus Addiss #closeted actors #project Moonbase

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Hayden Rourke (Dr. Alfred Bellows) and Emmaline Henry (Amanda Bellows) from I Dream of Jeannie

#i dream of jeannie #hayden rourke #emmaline henry

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Не лечитесь у еврея !!!

Jewish Boycott

Recently, the supreme leader of Iran, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, called on the Muslim world to boycott everything that comes from the Jewish people.

Then , out of the kindness of his heart , pharmacist Meyer M. Treinkman offered to support them in the boycott as follows:

"A Muslim with syphilis should not be treated with salvarsan, which was discovered by the Jew Dr. Erlich. He should not even try to find out if he has syphilis, because the Wasserman test is a Jew's discovery. A Muslim suspects that he has gonorrhea, he cannot be diagnosed because he will use the method of a Jew named Neissner.

"A Muslim suffering from cardiovascular diseases is not allowed to use digitalis - the discovery of the Jew Ludwig Traube.

If he has a toothache, he should not use novocaine — a discovery made by Jews Vidal and Weil.

If a Muslim has diabetes, he cannot use insulin — the result of a study by a Jew Minkowski.  Anyone with a headache should avoid Pyramidon and Antipyrine, developed by the Jews Spiro and Ellege.

Muslims suffering from seizures should put up with this, because it was the Jew Oskar Leibreich who suggested using chloral hydrate.

Arabs also have to come to terms with their psychological suffering, because Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

If a Muslim child falls ill with diphtheria, he must abandon the "Chic" reaction invented by the Jewish Bella Chic.

"Muslims should be prepared to die in large numbers and not allow treatment of damage to the ears and brain," - the work of the Jewish Nobel laureate Robert Baram.

They must continue to die from polio or remain crippled, because the discoverer of the polio vaccine is the Jew Jonas Salk.

"Muslims should abandon the use of streptomycin and continue to die from tuberculosis, because the Jew Zalman Waxman invented a miraculous cure for this deadly disease.

Muslim doctors should reject all the discoveries and improvements made by dermatologist Judah Sen Benedict, lung specialist Frankel and many other world-renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.

"In short, good and loyal Muslims should rightfully continue to suffer from syphilis, gonorrhea, heart disease, headaches, typhoid fever, diabetes, mental illness, seizures from polio and tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott."

Oh, and by the way, don't use a mobile phone to call a doctor, because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.

Meanwhile, I ask: what medical contribution have Muslims made to the world?"

The population of the Islamic world is approximately 1,200,000,000 people, which is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature: 1988 - Najib Mahfouz

World: 1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1990 - Elias James Corey 1994 – Yasser Arafat: 1999 - Ahmed Zevai

Economy:(zero)

Physics:(zero)

Medicine: 1960 - Peter Brian Medawar 1998 - Ferid Murad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Jewish population of the world is approximately 14,000,000 people, which is FOURTEEN MILLION or approximately 0.02% of the world population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature: 1910 - Paul Heise 1927 – Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 — Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 — Saul Bellow 1978 — Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - The World of Nadine Gordimer

The World: 1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 — Tobias Michael Karel Asser 1968 — Rene Cassin 1973 – Henry Kissinger 1978 — Menachem Begin 1986 — Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 — Yitzhak Rabin

Physics: 1905 - Adolf von Bayer 1906 – Henri Moissan 1907 – Albert Abraham Michelson. 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1910 — Otto Wallach 1915 — Richard Willstetter 1918 — Fritz Haber 1921 – Albert Einstein 1922 – Niels Bohr 1925 — James Frank 1925 — Gustav Hertz 1943 — Gustav Stern 1943 — George Charles de Hevesy 1944 — Isidore Issak Rabi 1952 — Felix Bloch 1954 — Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 — Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glazer 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1961 — Melvin Calvin 1962 — Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 — Max Ferdinand Perutz 1965 – Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 — Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 — Dennis Gabor 1972 — William Howard Stein 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Judge 1977 - Ilya Prigozhin 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Pyotr Lvovich Kapitsa 1979 — Steven Weinberg 1979 — Sheldon Glashow 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 — Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Smart 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 — Jerome Karl 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 — Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1989 — Sidney Altman 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Rudolf Marcus 1995 - Martin Pearl 2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics: 1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 — Semyon Kuznets 1972 — Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 — Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 — Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 — Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 — Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Vogel

Medicine: 1908 - Eli Mechnikov 1908 - Paul Ehrlich 1914 — Robert Barani 1922 — Otto Meyerhoff 1930 — Karl Landsteiner 1931 — Otto Warburg 1936 — Otto Levy 1944 — Josef Erlanger 1944 — Herbert Spencer Gasser 1945 — Ernst Boris Chain 1946 — Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 — Thaddeus Reichstein 1952 — Selman Avraham Waxman 1953 — Hans Krebs 1953 — Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 — Joshua Lederberg 1959 — Arthur Kornberg 1964 — Conrad Bloch 1965 — Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lvoff 1967 - George Forest 1968 - Marshall V. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 — Sir Bernard Katz 1972 — Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 — Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Bloomberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruy Benaserraf 1984 - Caesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [and Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 — Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Warmus 1991 — Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sackmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Philip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Edward B. Lewis 1996- Lou Rose Yakovino

TOTAL: 129!

Jews do NOT contribute to brainwashing children in military training camps, where they are taught to blow themselves up and cause the death of Jews and other non-Muslims.

Jews don't hijack planes, kill athletes at the Olympic Games, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.

There is not a single Jew who would destroy the church.

There is not a single Jew who would protest by killing people.  Jews do not engage in the slave trade and do not have leaders calling for jihad and the death of all infidels.

Perhaps Muslims around the world should think about investing more in general education and blaming Jews less for all their problems.

Muslims should ask themselves what they can do for humanity before demanding that humanity respect them.

Regardless of how you feel about the crisis between Israel, the Palestinians and their Arab neighbors, even if you think the blame lies more with Israel, the following two sentences really speak for themselves:

If the Arabs laid down their arms today, there would be no more violence;  If the Jews laid down their arms today, Israel would no longer exist."

Benjamin Netanyahu: General Eisenhower warned us.  The historical fact is that the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, having discovered the victims of the death camps, ordered to take all possible photographs and lead the German population from the surrounding villages through the camps and even bury the dead near them.

He did it because he said: "Take it all now, take the tapes, take the witnesses, because at some point in history some bastard will stand up and say this never happened."

Recently, there was a debate in the UK about whether the Holocaust should be excluded from the school curriculum because it "offends" the Muslim population, who claim that it never happened.

The deletion has not yet occurred.  But this is a frightening sign of the fear that has gripped the world and how easily every country succumbs to it.

More than 65 years have passed since the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Now that Iran, among others, calls the Holocaust a "myth," it is more important than ever to ensure that the world never forgets it.

How many years will it take for the attack on the World Trade Center to be "NEVER DONE" because it offends some Muslims in the United States?

--Еврейский бойкот Недавно верховный лидер Ирана великий аятолла Али Хаменеи призвал мусульманский мир бойкотировать все, что исходит от еврейского народа. Затем по доброте душевной фармацевт Мейер М. Трейнкман предложил поддержать их в бойкоте следующим образом: «Мусульманин, больной сифилисом, не должен лечиться сальварсаном, который был открыт евреем доктором Эрлихом. Ему не следует даже пытаться выяснить, болен ли он сифилисом, потому что тест Вассермана – это открытие еврея. Мусульманин подозревает, что у него гонорея, ему нельзя ставить диагноз, потому что он воспользуется методом еврея по имени Нейсснер. «Мусульманину, страдающему сердечно-сосудистыми заболеваниями, не разрешается употреблять наперстянку — открытие еврея Людвига Траубе. Если у него болит зуб, ему нельзя употреблять новокаин — открытие, сделанное евреями Видалем и Вейлем. Если у мусульманина диабет, ему нельзя использовать инсулин — результат исследования еврея Минковского.  Всем, у кого болит голова, следует избегать Пирамидона и Антипирина, разработанных евреями Спиро и Эллеге. Мусульмане, страдающие судорогами, должны смириться с этим, потому что именно еврей Оскар Лейбрейх предложил использовать хлоралгидрат. Арабам также приходится смириться со своими психологическими страданиями, поскольку Фрейд, отец психоанализа, был евреем. Если ребенок-мусульманин заболеет дифтерией, он должен отказаться от реакции «Шика», изобретенной еврейкой Беллой Шик. «Мусульмане должны быть готовы умирать в больших количествах и не допускать лечения повреждений ушей и головного мозга», — работа еврейского лауреата Нобелевской премии Роберта Барама. Они должны продолжать умирать от полиомиелита или оставаться калеками, потому что первооткрывателем вакцины против полиомиелита является еврей Джонас Солк. «Мусульмане должны отказаться от использования стрептомицина и продолжать умирать от туберкулеза, потому что еврей Залман Ваксман изобрел чудодейственное лекарство от этой смертельной болезни. Мусульманские врачи должны отвергнуть все открытия и усовершенствования, сделанные дерматологом Иудой Сеном Бенедиктом, специалистом по легким Франкелем и многими другими всемирно известными еврейскими учеными и медицинскими экспертами. «Короче, хорошие и лояльные ��усульмане по праву должны продолжать страдать от сифилиса, гонореи, болезней сердца, головных болей, брюшного тифа, диабета, психических заболеваний, судорог от полиомиелита и туберкулеза и гордиться тем, что подчиняются исламскому бойкоту». Да, и кстати, не пользуйтесь мобильным телефоном, чтобы вызвать врача, потому что сотовый телефон был изобретен в Израиле инженером-евреем. Тем временем я спрашиваю: какой медицинский вклад мусульмане внесли в мир?» Население исламского мира составляет примерно 1 200 000 000 человек, что составляет ОДИН МИЛЛИАРД ДВЕСТИ МИЛЛИОНОВ или 20% мирового населения. Они получили следующие Нобелевские премии: Литература: 1988 - Наджиб Махфуз Мир: 1978 - Мохамед Анвар Эль-Садат 1990 - Элиас Джеймс Кори 1994 – Ясер Арафат: 1999 - Ахмед Зеваи Экономика:(ноль) Физика:(ноль) Медицина: 1960 - Питер Брайан Медавар 1998 - Ферид Мурад ВСЕГО: 7 СЕМЬ Еврейское население мира составляет примерно 14 000 000 человек, что составляет ЧЕТЫРНАДЦАТЬ МИЛЛИОНОВ или примерно 0,02% мирового населения. Они получили следующие Нобелевские премии: Литература: 1910 - Поль Хейзе 1927 – Анри Бергсон 1958 - Борис Пастернак 1966 — Шмуэль Йосеф Агнон 1966 - Нелли Сакс 1976 — Сол Беллоу 1978 — Исаак Башевис Зингер 1981 - Элиас Канетти 1987 - Иосиф Бродский 1991 - Мир Надин Гордимер Мир: 1911 - Альфред Фрид 1911 — Тобиас Майкл Карел Ассер 1968 — Рене Кассен 1973 – Генри Киссинджер 1978 — Менахем Бегин 1986 — Эли Визель 1994 - Шимон Перес 1994 — Ицхак Рабин Физика: 1905 - Адольф фон Байер 1906 – Анри Муассан 1907 – Альберт Абрахам Майкельсон. 1908 - Габриэль Липпманн 1910 — Отто Валлах 1915 — Рихард Вильштеттер 1918 — Фриц Габер 1921 – Альберт Эйнштейн 1922 – Нильс Бор 1925 — Джеймс Франк 1925 — Густав Герц 1943 — Густав Штерн 1943 — Джордж Шарль де Хевеши 1944 — Исидор Иссак Раби 1952 — Феликс Блох 1954 — Макс Борн 1958 - Игорь Тамм 1959 — Эмилио Сегре 1960 - Дональд А. Глейзер 1961 - Роберт Хофштадтер 1961 — Мелвин Кэлвин 1962 — Лев Давидович Ландау 1962 — Макс Фердинанд Перуц 1965 – Ричард Филлипс Фейнман 1965 — Джулиан Швингер 1969 - Мюррей Гелл-Манн 1971 — Деннис Габор 1972 — Уильям Говард Стейн 1973 - Брайан Дэвид Джозефсон 1975 - Бенджамин Моттлсон 1976 - Бертон Джадж 1977 - Илья Пригожин 1978 - Арно Аллан Пензиас 1978 - Петр Львович Капица 1979 — Стивен Вайнберг 1979 — Шелдон Глэшоу 1979 - Герберт Чарльз Браун 1980 - Пол Берг 1980 — Уолтер Гилберт 1981 - Роальд Хоффманн 1982 - Аарон Смарт 1985 - Альберт А. Хауптман 1985 — Джером Карл 1986 - Дадли Р. Хершбах 1988 - Роберт Хубер 1988 - Леон Ледерман 1988 — Мелвин Шварц 1988 - Джек Стейнбергер 1989 — Сидни Альтман 1990 - Джером Фридман 1992 - Рудольф Маркус 1995 - Мартин Перл 2000 - Алан Дж. Хигер Экономика: 1970 - Пол Энтони Самуэльсон 1971 — Семен Кузнец 1972 — Кеннет Джозеф Эрроу 1975 - Леонид Канторович 1976 — Милтон Фридман 1978 - Герберт А. Саймон 1980 — Лоуренс Роберт Кляйн 1985 - Франко Модильяни 1987 - Роберт М. Солоу 1990 — Гарри Марковиц 1990 - Мертон Миллер 1992 — Гэри Беккер 1993 - Роберт Фогель Медицина: 1908 - Эли Мечников 1908 - Пауль Эрлих 1914 — Роберт Барани 1922 — Отто Мейергоф 1930 — Карл Ландштейнер 1931 — Отто Варбург 1936 — Отто Леви 1944 — Йозеф Эрлангер 1944 — Герберт Спенсер Гассер 1945 — Эрнст Борис Цепной 1946 — Герман Йозеф Мюллер 1950 — Тадеус Райхштейн 1952 — Сельман Авраам Ваксман 1953 — Ганс Кребс 1953 — Фриц Альберт Липманн 1958 — Джошуа Ледерберг 1959 — Артур Корнберг 1964 — Конрад Блох 1965 — Франсуа Жакоб 1965 - Андре Львофф 1967 - Джордж Форест 1968 - Маршалл В. Ниренберг 1969 - Сальвадор Лурия 1970 - Юлий Аксельрод 1970 — сэр Бернард Кац 1972 — Джеральд Морис Эдельман 1975 — Говард Мартин Темин 1976 - Барух С. Блумберг 1977 - Розелин Сассман Ялоу 1978 - Дэниел Натанс 1980 - Баруй Бенасерраф 1984 - Цезарь Мильштейн 1985 - Майкл Стюарт Браун 1985 - Джозеф Л. Гольдштейн 1986 - Стэнли Коэн [и Рита Леви-Монтальчини] 1988 — Гертруда Элион 1989 - Гарольд Вармус 1991 — Эрвин Неер 1991 - Берт Сакманн 1993 - Ричард Дж. Робертс 1993 - Филип Шарп 1994 - Альфред Гилман 1995 - Эдвард Б. Льюис 1996- Лу Роуз Яковино ВСЕГО: 129! Евреи НЕ способствуют промыванию мозгов детям в военных тренировочных лагерях, где их учат взрывать себя и вызывать смерть евреев и других немусульман. Евреи не угоняют самолеты, не убивают спортсменов на Олимпийских играх и не взрывают себя в немецких ресторанах. НЕТ ни одного еврея, который разрушил бы церковь. НЕТ ни одного еврея, который бы протестовал, убивая людей.  Евреи не занимаются работорговлей и не имеют лидеров, призывающих к джихаду и смерти всех неверных. Возможно, мусульманам всего мира следует подумать о том, чтобы больше инвестировать в общее образование и меньше обвинять евреев во всех своих проблемах. Мусульмане должны спросить себя, что они могут сделать для человечества, прежде чем требовать, чтобы человечество их уважало. Независимо от того, как вы относитесь к кризису между Израилем, палестинцами и их арабскими соседями, даже если вы считаете, что вина больше лежит на Израиле, следующие два предложения действительно говорят сами за себя: Если бы арабы сложили оружие сегодня, насилия больше не было бы;  Если бы евреи сложили оружие сегодня, Израиля больше не было бы». Биньямин Нетаньяху: Генерал Эйзенхауэр нас предупредил.  Исторический факт заключается в том, что Верховный ��лавнокомандующий союзными войсками генерал Дуайт Эйзенхауэр, обнаружив жертв лагерей смерти, приказал сделать все возможные фотографии и провести немецкое население из окрестных деревень через лагеря и даже вблизи них мертвых хоронить. Он сделал это, потому что сказал: «Возьмите все это сейчас, возьмите пленки, возьмите свидетелей, потому что в какой-то момент истории какой-нибудь ублюдок встанет и скажет, что этого никогда не было». Недавно в Великобритании прошли дебаты о том, следует ли исключать Холокост из школьной программы, поскольку он «оскорбляет» мусульманское население, которое утверждает, что его никогда не было. Удаление еще не произошло.  Но это пугающий признак охватившего мир страха и того, как легко ему поддается каждая страна. Прошло более 65 лет со дня окончания Второй мировой войны в Европе. Теперь, когда Иран, среди других, называет Холокост «мифом», как никогда важно обеспечить, чтобы мир никогда его не забывал. Сколько лет понадобится, чтобы нападение на Всемирный торговый центр было «НИКОГДА НЕ СДЕЛАНО», потому что оно оскорбляет некоторых мусульман в Соединенных Штатах?--

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Dr Bellows, walking into Tony's house unexpectedly: I'm both respecting your privacy by knocking but asserting my authority as your superior by coming in anyway!

#show: idoj #dr alfred bellows #source: fairly odd parents #I dream of jeannie #incorrect quotes #incorrect classic tv

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Danny Phantom Xover pt. 2

I have been writing part after part for this thing going “I need to post part three.” But NO I haven’t even posted part 2 for this little wench!!!

I am so upsetti spagetti about it!

anywho- rant over story bellow /

The Bat had been looking into a case for the Justice League about a small town a good plane trip away from Gotham called Amity Park. They where looking into the town because of one Vladamir Masters. Suspecting him of being akin to Lex Luther, Superman brought his worry to the League and they set Batman on his tail.

Bruce had already known that he was new money, but the man had kept personal business to himself, so the main thing that Bruce could look into was another publicly known fact. He’s Mayor of a town called Amity Park.

There was frustrating little on the town on the widespread internet, like someone or thing wanted everyone else outside of the town to think them all crazy, all he found of interest was a pair of scientists the Drs. Fenton and their family. The pair were smart but widely regarded as ghost obsessed quacks. Batman dove further.

He disguised his computer as that of one of a public library from the town to see what the civilians do. He noticed a number of differences, one there seemed to be a frequently visited site called Phantom-Sighting.com that seemed to be a fan site for the local superhero, one that Batman had yet to hear of or register for recognition, and another called Ghost-Spotter’s-Blog.org that seemed to be a site that was much like a news web page and show information about the current and past ‘Ghost” fights going on around town. Batman decided to look into the latter more than the former because a small town really shouldn’t need a real time report blog for superhero fights. As Batman looked into the “about'' page he found that the page was made by three students about two years ago. 

The students in question being Samatha Manson, the daughter of the Manson family who he had only briefly met at her 12th birthday party- it was more like a ball and the little girl seemed to hate it- she was sharp, Tucker Foley, a young man with a promising future if Tim had a say in it, and Daniel Fenton, the youngest child and only boy of the Fenton Family- his grades had seemed to of dropped dramatically about three years ago when he entered high school and it seemed he was going nowhere fast.

These “ghost fights” seemed to always be between Phantom and another of a large catalogue of ghosts. Some of them are listed with the key word “Sighting” which apparently means that the ghost was non violent and just needed protection from the Fenton parents while they were out and about, others where tagged with the key word “scuffle” apparently that means that the ghost particular was one of the more regular ghosts and knows not to involve non-armed civilians, and a very small few where tagged with the key words “Battle ground” or “King fight” they seemed the mean that the arias should be avoided at all costs if you want your life out of it.

The sigh that left the man was loud enough to catch the attention of Damion who was seated with Alfred, the cat, near by. “Father, what is wrong?”

“I’m investigating something for Clark, and it looks like someone has kept a hero in need of help from our view.”

*tch*”The League's view or our’s?”

*sigh*”Both…”

The bats kept tabs on the goings on of Amity Park including the Fenton Tragedy when a pair of social workers got in touch with Bruce, he was apparently loosely related to Jack Fenton, they asked if Bruce was up to taking in another young man, the Fenton Son they later learned, and Bruce had agreed.

“No, I didn’t remember what he looked like when they asked.”

“Well it sure seems like an awful lot of coincidence that he’s got blue eyes and black hair, Bruce!”

Bruce huffed at Tim’s words and walked off to the study, Tim- not letting him get away from this “coincidence” followed him down to the cave where Bruce’s plethora of children could hear Tim tease Bruce.

“Tim calm down,” Dick got in between the two to get what this was about out of Tim, “Bruce could you clarify for us what’s happened?”

“I’m taking in a young man named Daniel Fenton, he just so happens to have blue eyes and black hair.”

There was a silence around the room before everyone burst out into laughter.

“You- hah- mean you didn’t know???”

“No I had forgotten, but I didn’t know I was related to the Fetons.”

“Wait, wasn't that the family from that town you were investigating?”

“Yes- the parents died in an accident. I said I could visit for a week before bringing him back with me to the manor- that could give me a chance to see what regular every day is for them.”

“Ohh, no. you’re not doing this without us!” It was Dick who spoke up and the rest made verbal agreements to what he said.

“No, someone needs to look after Gotham while I’m gone. I already planned to take Tim and Damien-”

“Well Barbra can look after Gotham while we go meet our new brother!”

“No.”

“Ye-”

“Let it go Grayson. Father said no.”

“You’re just saying that because you get to go!”

The boys fell into petty squabbling as Bruce contemplated his options, and, like a smartass, bruce decied- “Dick, you’ll come with me sense you’re so incistet-”

“Yes!”

“But that means that the rest of you have to stay in Gotham and no patrol for Damien.”

(“Awww-” “But father!” “Uhhhh”) Bruce did not address the distress around him as he left telling Dick to pack.

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Bruce and Dick landed and were driven to the hotel where Bruce told Dick to settle in and he headed off to the hospital. The talk with Jazz wasn’t very enlightening but he did tell the information to Dick as forewarning, then the two went to look for a place to eat for dinner.

The’re wasn’t many places around but they did find a quant ghost themed diner, the food was good- it was all around an uneventful day.

The two visited Danny rather uneventfully until Tuesday, two days after they arrived on Sunday.

/oooh clif hanger, I wonder what’ll happen~(no I don’t, I already know) I’ll post next time I find time/

#Danny Phantom #dick grayson #bruce wayne #batman #damian wayne #jazz fenton #danny fenton #aaaaaa #ha ha suckers

[analviel]

TIM DRAKE IS NOT ROBIN

It just so happens when Tim was planning to find Dick, his parents suddenly call him to tell him that there's a party or an event or just something on the other side of the world he can attend with them.

Sometimes they do this and Tim always says yes. It's as rare as leap years. Meaning it has happened only three times in his life before. He agonized over it. But you know, Tim's just a kid and there's no guarantee he can actually do something about Batman and Nightwing. Besides, Batman's been managing -if you can call it that- this long, with Alfred by his side, who's words certainly weights more heavily than the neighbours kid. He can afford a couple of weeks away from Gotham. By that time, Batman probably would've gotten his head straight. He's a hero, he's like, really strong, if anyone can get through this... besides, Tim figures Superman or Wonder Woman will do something before he truly crosses the line, right? Why would a kid know better than real superheroes, right? They must just be waiting until they're really needed. Right? Even though Tim personally thinks they should've at the very least locked Batman up somewhere he can't harm anyone or himself if they can't convince Dick to go back to being Robin. They're heroes.

Tim really wants to spend time with his parents. But before he leaves, he sends letters to every place he thinks Dick may be. The Titans Towers, his apartment in Bludhaven, where he lives with Starfire, Haly's circus, even to houses of his friends heroes. (Tim is twelve/thirteen alright. And one that has maybe below average self-awareness and his letters were very polite even if the act itself might've been vaguely sort of threatening).

So Tim leaves Gotham to spend time with his parents. It's busy, his parents keep him busy, and he doesn't have much time to dedicate to the news from Gotham. And really, if this is how it always is, no wonder his parents don't always have attention to spare on their kid in Gotham. So many things to do, so many things to attend, so many people to meet, and even more sites to visit. And the fighting. Tim hadn't realize it was this bad and suddenly thinks that, you know, it might've been better if he did stay back home. He realizes his parents actually brought him with them because they think a kid will somehow... magically fix them...??? Tim doesn't know, adults can be stupid.

Eventually, they realize the wrong in their ways and sends Tim back when his presence proves ineffective. Tim comes back to the city burning.

Well, not literally, but sort of.

Parts of it are burning. But not the whole thing. That's something.

Batman has been missing. And looking into it, at his last appearance, Tim surmise he retained a heavy wound.

(Or he's dead, not like they'll reveal it to the city just to cause more chaos and panic.) Batman seems to be out of the field and that was what Tim wanted, before he would've crossed the line.

Only, thing is, he'd already revealed too much weakness. The Batsignal had been taken down after one too many close calls on the perps they pick up. And the violence only raised from there.

(The first month when Batman and Robin and Batgirl's absence started to become suspicious. The second month Batman is deep in his spiral of violence. The third month Tim follows him around and then makes plants to pick up Dick that doesn't come to fruition and then sends his letters and then leaves. Six weeks with his parents, a few days from and to Gotham, two weeks to get caught up with what happened in Gotham. Batman is out, recovering, resting, dying, who knows.

Five months was all it took for Gotham to go to hell. And all it took was one dead son.)

Spoiler rises.

Gotham has a new champion.

Tim regrets that he hadn't been able to help. Tim will help.

Tim has a new champion.

Spoiler has a fixation on Cluemaster. It's not that difficult to go from there.

As long as, one, you know who was giving the police the answers to Cluemaster's gimmick. And two, that you know there even is a new vigilante because Spoiler is not like Batman who beats perps and leave them on the sidewalk for the police to pick up.

For wearing an almost eyesearing purple costume, Spoiler prefers to keep in the shadows and if not for the time Tim had trailed after Batman's madness, he wouldn't have learned the streets enough to notice the hints.

Tim purchase a laptop, watch tutorials day in and day out, buys pieces from junkyards to fiddle with wires and boards, and leaves Stephanie Brown a gift on her windowsill with a purple ribbon. Tim greets Spoiler over the comms. He calls himself Asset.

(It is not well-thought out because Stephanie takes to calling the mystery person who snuck into her room and refuses to give anything about themselves out 'Ass'. Tim did not actually sneak into her room but sent a drone to drop off his gift. Steph doesn't budge.)

Tim is not yet good enough to hack into cameras around Gotham. He finds he's good with a computer but not that good, his real talent lies not in the software but in the wires and soldering iron and the tiny bug camera/audio he has Spoiler plant around Gotham. If he can't take other cameras, he'll make them. (Also in case someone more experienced at hacking than he is manages to get in the system, Tim has a self-destruct button just for that. Yes, Dr. Doofenshmirtz is a good role models for mad scientist wannabes.)

A week is all it takes for Spoiler and Asset to get all the necessary evidence against Cluemaster. They celebrate. They are thirteen year olds and they just prevented a bomb from going off and put a bad man behind bars. They are high. They find more cases, for the most part C-rank villains and bellow but they also help with the big names by Spoiler planting more cameras and Tim sending the data and feeds for her to drop off to Jim Gordon. He is the only one who knows of the characters that have risen after Batman's sleep and can guess enough from Spoiler's stiff shoulders to keep that to himself.

Then...

Then it is six months and two weeks.

Tim watch from his now multiple screen behind his walk-in closet as a grave is dug out from the inside. Because S&A have put cameras everywhere just in case. After all, it's places you think are of no interest that criminals will sought to make deals in.

Tim does not send his partner to what may be a zombie but instead tells her to clear the direction Jason is stumbling towards. It takes him minutes to realize that Jason is patrolling his Robin patrol. Jason is sent to the hospital and Tim contacts them to list him under the Drakes, paying for his room and every other necessities. Has him transferred to the hospital that Drake medical industries is personally funding. When asked the name, Tim says Alvin Draper. He gets a cab to the hospital, finds Jason knocked out, peers at Robin's face. It's when they're alone, the previously dead boy's hands wrapped in bandages that Tim confirms in disbelief that as far as he knows, the boy matches Jason Todd. As if him digging his way out of Jason Todd's grave wasn't enough. Granted, Tim doesn't even know the shade of his eyes, so he's not the best judge.... Tim snaps a picture from different angles of the room and takes another cab back to Bristol while thinking up a story.

Tim knocks on the neighbour, tells them he's got something of Jason and if he can see Mr. Wayne. Tim is surprised himself by how relieved he is to see Bruce standing alive and well. Or not standing, leg and arm in a cast, an IV beside him on the couch in the drawing room. Tim weaves his story. Little Tim Drake wandering around Gotham, stumbles on a bunch of medic picking up a boy that Tim recognises as the neighbour's dead kid, pays for his hospital bills, takes a couple of pictures after the first aid or whatever and gives Bruce the pictures. Bruce makes his way to the hospital.....

I've lost steam at this point.

You decide if they arrive to see Jason and Bruce and Alfred is all tearful while Tim awkwardly leaves the room to resume his brainstorming on the S&A latest case, or they find an empty bed and Bruce goes on a frenzy tracking his undead lost son.

Additional idea: So Tim not being there didn't kill Bruce, but Bruce has been crippled and Batman is dead now. So without Robin, Batman did die.

Maybe Dick comes back to become Batman with Jason as his Robin, since that's not a combination often seen (Or the Batman Jason and Robin Tim, that's more common, though I'm loath to give up Spoiler and Asset). Around this time Babs comes back to the scene as Oracle with the birds of prey.

Additional additional idea to how they'll work with everyone back on the scene: since the Bats have the fighters and more equipped to report to time sensitive stuff, maybe S&A focus more on cold cases. Where Spoiler goes sneaking around, poking at old cases with Asset in her ears, figuring out puzzles and old clues, making breakthrough after breakthrough and bringing long overdue justice together.

Either the Drakes dies without Batman there to slap the poison out of Jack's hands because he's too busy searching for his son, or maybe they live with Tim able to direct Batman there immediately. Either way, Drake industry sponsors S&A, so now Spoiler also has toys like the Spoil... er plane??? Spoiler bike??? Eh, the name's work in progress.

#tim drake #dc #robin #batfam #dc comics #red robin #batman #Stephanie brown #spoiler #batgirl #and i write #jason todd #fic idea #red hood #bruce wayne #tim is not robin #asset tim drake

[kwebtv]

I Dream of Jeannie:  Fifteen Years Later  -  NBC  -  October 20, 1985

Comedy / Fantasy

Running Time:  120 minutes

Stars:

Barbara Eden as Jeannie/Jeannie II

Wayne Rogers as Colonel Anthony "Tony" Nelson

Bill Daily as Roger Healy

Hayden Rorke as Dr. Alfred Bellows  (final film role)

Mackenzie Astin as T.J. Nelson

Dody Goodman – Scheherazade

André De Shields as Haji

John Bennett Perry as Wes Morrison

Dori Brenner as Dori Green

Nicole Eggert as Melissa

Michael Fairman as Gen. Hatten

Lee Taylor-Allan as Nelly Hunt

#I Dream of Jeannie: Fifteen Years Later #TV #NBC #1980's #Comedy #Fantasy #Barbara Eden #Wayne Rogers #Bill Daily #Hayden rorke #mackenzie astin #Dody Goodman #Andre De Shields #John Bennett Perry #Dori Brenner

[papermoonloveslucy]

BARBARA EDEN

August 23, 1931

Barbara Eden was born Barbara Jean Morehead in Phoenix Arizona in 1931, although for years her birth year was thought to be 1934. It was fairly common for young actresses to lie about their age in Hollywood. After her parents divorced, her mother married a telephone lineman, the same profession as Lucille Ball’s father. Eden's first public performance was singing in the church choir. As a teenager, she sang in local bands in night clubs. At age 16, she studied singing and acting. She graduated from High School in San Francisco in the Spring Class of 1949. As Barbara Huffman, she was elected Miss San Francisco in 1951 and she also entered the Miss California pageant. Her name was changed to Eden by her first agent.

“If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.” ~ Barbara Eden

Eden began her television career as a semi-regular on “The Johnny Carson Show” (not to be confused with “The Tonight Show”) in 1955.

Contrary to popular belief, "I Love Lucy” was not Eden’s first small screen  appearance. She had been seen in a November 1956 episode of “West Point.” 

She had also made the RKO film Back from Eternity, a remake of a Lucille Ball film called Five Came Back, which would not be released until later in 1957. It was directed by John Farrow (Mia’s father) and co-starred Keith Andes, who would play Lucy Carmichael’s boyfriend on “The Lucy Show” and co-star with Ball in Wildcat on Broadway in 1960. Eden played a college reporter and was uncredited. Coincidentally, the film also featured Tristram Coffin, who played Diana Jordan’s cousin Harry Munson in “Country Club Dance.” 

In “Country Club Dance” (ILL S6;E25), the male population of Westport is all agog when sexy Diana Jordan (Barbara Eden) visits. Lucy, Ethel and Betty Ramsey decide that getting glamorous is the best revenge. The now-classic episode was filmed on March 21, 1957 and first aired on April 22, 1957.  

Needless to say, that night at the Westport Country Club shapely young Diana’s ‘dance card’ is full!  Pat Boone (not in attendance, but mentioned) was Diana’s favorite singer!

William Asher, the director of this episode, would later direct Barbara Eden in the short-lived sitcom "Harper Valley PTA” (1981-82) and "I Dream of Jeannie… Fifteen Years Later,” a reunion special aired in 1985.

After filming was completed, Desilu gave some of its guest stars small gifts. This 10K gold-filled Zippo lighter was a present for Eden. 

That same year, Eden appeared in an episode of the Desilu sitcom “December Bride” starring Harry Morgan. 

In early 1962, Eden was on the Desilu backlot to play “The Manicurist” on “The Andy Griffith Show.”  At the same time, “The Lucy Show” was filming its first season. 

The next time Lucy and Eden appeared on screen together was at the 1968 Primetime Emmy Awards.  Ball was nominated (and won) for Best Actress in a Comedy for “The Lucy Show”.  “Jeannie” and Eden were then in their third season, but failed to break the top 30 and were not nominated, although Eden, as a recognizable TV figure, was present at the awards. Throughout its long run, the popular sitcom only garnered one Emmy nomination, for Sidney Sheldon’s writing. Barbara and Ball were also presenters (not together) at the 1986 Prime Time Emmy Awards. 

In 1982, Lucy and Eden were among the many women (and one man in drag) assembled for “Bob Hope’s Women I Love: Beautiful and Funny.”  Coincidentally, this special also featured Mary Martin, who was Larry Hagman’s (Major Nelson on “I Dream of Jeannie”) real-life mother. Eden was a favorite of Hope’s, appearing on a dozen Bob Hope specials.   

Eden was present (though she did not speak or get credited) at 1984′s “All-Star Party for Lucille Ball.” Two years later they returned for “All-Star Party for Clint Eastwood.” As a former honoree, Lucy hosted, but Eden was still only an attendee. 

In 1987, Lucy and Barbara joined a myriad of luminaries for “Happy 100th Birthday Hollywood” although they performed in different segments. A year later, Lucy, in one of her final TV appearances, was with Eden in “The Princess Grace Foundation’s Special Gala Tribute to Cary Grant.”  Grant never acted opposite either star. 

OUT OF THE BOTTLE!

In 1965, producer Sidney Sheldon signed Eden to star in his upcoming fantasy sitcom “I Dream of Jeannie” that would air on NBC. It was aimed at wooing audiences away from ABC’s fantasy sitcom “Bewitched.” Eden played Jeannie, a beautiful genie from ancient Persia set free from her bottle by astronaut and Air Force Captain (later Major) Anthony "Tony" Nelson, played by Larry Hagman.

Also in the “Jeannie” cast of regulars was Hayden Rorke (as psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Bellows), who first appeared with Lucille Ball on stage in Dream Girl (1947).

Like Eden, Rorke also did a one-off appearance on “I Love Lucy” as new neighbor Mr. O’Brien who Lucy thinks is a spy, but turns out to be just an actor.   

He would later be seen on “Here’s Lucy” as a judge deciding if Lucy Carter has held an illegal raffle or not.  

Lurene Tuttle, who played the President of The Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League in “The Club Election” (ILL S2;E19) in 1953, played Jeannie’s mother in a 1965 episode. 

Phil Ober, Vivian Vance’s ex-husband and the actor who played Dore Schary in “Don Juan is Shelved” (ILL S4;E21) in 1955, played General Stone in two season one episodes of “Jeannie.” 

Vinton Hayworth, who played General Schaeffer on “Jeannie” did two films with Lucille Ball: That Girl From Paris (1936) and That’s Right - You’re Wrong (1939). 

Like Vance, Eden also was married to one of her co-stars and later divorced him. In 1958, Eden married Michael Ansara, who played many roles on “Jeannie” including the Blue Djinn (above).  

On “Jeannie,” Major Nelson was an astronaut. On “The Lucy Show” Lucy Carmichael was an astronaut (for a day) in a season one episode. Like “Jeannie” this episode was written to capitalize on America’s space race. 

In 1971, “Here’s Lucy” also did an astronaut-themed episode. By that time, American astronauts had landed on the moon!  Coincidentally, actor Robert Hogan (center in both photos) also played an astronaut on “Jeannie” in 1970.

“Jeannie” was produced by Sheldon Leonard, who played himself on a 1967 episode of “The Lucy Show”. 

Like “The Lucy Show”, “Jeannie” premiered in black and white before switching to color for the remainder of its run. 

Other actors who appeared on both “Jeannie” and “Lucy”: George DeNormand, Benny Rubin, Jackie Coogan, J. Pat O’Malley, Reta Shaw, Richard Reeves, Romo Vincent, Jonathan Hole, Kathleen Freeman, Bill Quinn, Herbie Faye, Milton Berle, Jack Carter, Jamie Farr, John McGiver, Richard Deacon, Don Ho, Alan Hewitt, Don Rickles, Alan Oppenheimer, Jack Collins, Parley Baer, Herb Vigran, Ruth McDevitt, Sandra Gould, Foster Brooks, James Hong, William Fawcett, Stafford Repp, and Sid Melton.

Eden played this role for five years and 139 episodes. In eight episodes, Eden donned a brunette wig to portray Jeannie's evil sister (also named Jeannie) who lusts after Tony Nelson, and in two episodes played Jeannie's hapless mother.  

AFTER THE BALL & THE BOTTLE....

Barbara Eden later said in interviews that Lucy was a generous performer and caring person, contrasting to another (unnamed) female star she had worked with. Lucille Ball thought that Eden’s costume was not attractive enough, so Lucy and Irma Kusely (Lucy’s hairstylist) spent rehearsal time ‘bedazzling’ the dress. Ball offered to put Eden under contract at her Desilu Workshop, but Eden found out later that day that 20th Century Fox had picked up her option, so Eden graciously declined Lucy’s offer.  

"It was the third job I had in Los Angeles and she was so good to me. I can’t tell you how sweet she was. I had a dress on that she didn’t think was outstanding enough. She asked me to take it off and the next thing I knew, she was sitting there putting sparkling things all over it, just to make it look better.” ~ Barbara Eden, October 2017

In 2005, Barbara Eden traveled to Jamestown to participate in Lucy-Desi Days. 

Eden was married three times and had one child who died in 2001 at the age of 35.  

“I've never stopped working. If you're active, you can appreciate what you did in the past, you don't feel like it's gone.” ~ Barbara Eden

AS OF TODAY!

AUGUST 23, 2020 - As of this writing, Barbara Eden is one of the oldest known surviving ADULT cast members of “I Love Lucy.”  She is not, however, the oldest. Mary Ellen Kaye (Mrs. Taylor in “Lucy Hates To Leave”) is a year older than Eden, and Cher’s mother Georgia Holt (Model in “Lucy Gets A Paris Gown”) is 94.   

There is no birth or death information for: Maggie Magennis (Starlet in “Don Juan and the Starlets”), Helen Silvers (Dancer Rosemary in “Lucy is Jealous of Girl Singer"), Barbara Logan (Stewardess in “The Ricardos Visit Cuba"), Milldred Law (Stewardess in “Return Home from Europe”), and Jody Drew (Miss Ballantine, Mr. Reilly’s Secretary in "Don Juan is Shelved").

#Lucille Ball #Barbara Eden #I Love Lucy #I Dream of Jeannie #Desi Arnaz #Hayden Rorke #Vivian Vance #Astronauts #NASA #Jeannie #Lucy #TV #sitcoms #Sheldon Leonard #The Lucy Show #Here's Lucy #Larry Hagman #Michael Ansara #Phil Ober #Robert Hogan #Dream Girl #Bob Hope #Country Club Dance #Back From Eternity #Johnny Carson #West Point #The Andy Griffith Show #December Bride #Lurene Tuttle #Vinton Hayworth

[dumbkiri]

Buried Secrets Two

Parts: [ 1, Here, 3 ]

Summary: [Name], knowing she and John are in danger, runs to the babysitter’s house to get John back to safety. She also gives the nice babysitter money to go out of the country. Then [Name] is in a stolen car wondering where and who to go for help. She reluctantly goes to the Titans. Although plans don’t go as planned. Dick tells the truth to the Titans and they figure out a plan to stop Deathstroke once and for all. Deathstroke has unfortunate news for [Name]. 

Pairing: Dick Grayson x Female! Reader

Genre: Slight Angst

Word Count: 3k

WARNINGS: Blood

“Wait, Ms. [L.Name], why are you suddenly leaving? Also you’re bleeding,” Samantha, John’s babysitter, had ran behind [Name]. The young teen was not understanding why she was given two grand for only taking care of John for a night. 

[Name] held John closer to her body and noticed that he was going to cry soon. She set John down in a carrier then grabbed Samantha by her shoulders, “Look, sweetie, use the money to finally go to South Korea. Didn’t you say you always wanted to go there?”

“Y-yeah, but I can’t leave without notifying my parents. I’m just a sophomore in high school,” Samantha gave [Name] a weird look. 

[Name] cursed under her breath and grabbed four grand from a duffel bag, “Here use this to bring your parents with you. Just get out of town, no, the country.”

“Why? What’s going on?” Samantha didn’t know when to stop asking questions and it was annoying the older female to no end. [Name] zipped up the duffel bag and grabbed the handle of John’s carrier. She walked over to the front door and zoomed over to her car that she stole. She opened the backseat car door and strapped John into a car seat. 

John began crying now and [Name] closed the door after she stuffed her bags next to John. “Listen carefully, Samantha. Bad people are after me and they might use you to find me which is why you need to leave. Because they’ll only bring harm to you and your family for no reason.”

Samantha’s blue eyes widened, “Bad people like murderers?”

“Worst. Now call your parents and I’ll tell them what to do.”

…… 

[Name] looked at her phone and typed the address to the Titan’s Tower. Her fingers froze and she let her thumb hover over the start button. Deathstroke said that Dick brought the Titans back together. But she couldn’t bring herself to believe him. Deathstroke isn’t known to be a liar, manipulative, yes. If Dick really did bring the Titans back even their old friends, why didn’t he contact her?

“Ma...ma,” John whined in the back seat, his little feet kicking the air, 

[Name] should feel grateful that Dick didn’t call her. It would be awkward to see him. It would be awkward to see them all and John, what would they think? Did Dick tell them about John? Her [e.color] eyes looked at the rearview mirror. She watched as John babbled in his spot. Drool dripping down his chin. 

She worried for her son. [Name] promised herself she wouldn’t go back to being a hero. That was in the past and it was going to stay there because she didn’t want her son getting hurt or worse. He was too young to die. He’s just a baby. 

“Starting route to Titan’s Tower,” 

This was her only chance to keep him safe. They were her family once and John could be a part of it. 

……

“Dick, come on, man, wake up” 

“What happened to the three of them?”

“Do you think they all just passed out here like idiots cause I do.”

“Hank, no.”

Dick groaned and opened his eyes to see Rachel and Gar waking up as well. His brown eyes observing the two teens that laid on each other. 

“Ugh, what happened?” Gar asked rubbing his head with his eyes adjusting to the bright light from Jason’s phone. 

“They seem fine. Maybe they had a sleepover without us” Jason said and Hank chuckled at his remark. Jason turned his phone light off and backed away to give the trio space.

 Rachel removed herself off of Gar’s body with a slight blush apparent. She sat on her knees and rubbed her hands on her thighs. [Name] was on her way. “Did you guys see what I saw?” Rachel asked the two males who were affected by her power. 

Gar nodded his head, “Yeah it was strange. It was like I was next to her when she was fighting Deathstroke and Dr. Light. It was so weird, I couldn’t do anything for her.” 

“Shit,” Dick cursed under his breath and jumped to his feet. He needed to go to the computer. He needed to see how far she was away from the tower. Dick ran out of the kitchen with everyone following him with questioning gazes. 

Donna was the first to reach him, “Whoa, Dick, slow down. Wanna tell us what’s going on?” The Wonder Girl looking at her friends for some help to get Dick to spill. They stayed quiet and watched him type on the keyboard. His fingers going at a crazy rate. 

“Searching for [Name] [L.Name]...” 

Hank stepped up to Dick with his hand placed on his head, “Hold up, why are you looking for [Name]? Is everything okay with her?”

“No,” Rachel spoke up, “My power, it allowed me to see that she was in danger. She was fighting Deathstroke and Dr. Light all by herself.”

“She blew her own home up, it was crazy and she has telekinesis!” Gar exclaimed pulling at his hair. He never saw such a powerful person with a cool ability. Dick tapped his foot impatiently waiting for the computer to give him results and it was painfully slow. His family was in danger. Can he call them his family? He hasn’t seen them in three years. Every time he wanted to contact [Name], he got cold feet. 

“Dick, you got to tell us what is going on,” Dawn set her hand onto his shoulder. He looked behind him and they were all staring at him. Their eyes boring into him to tell them the truth. He took a deep breath in and pushed away from the computer. 

“I haven’t been honest with you guys,” Dick crossed his arms over his chest, “the only ones that know this secret is Bruce and Alfred. Even if I told you a long time ago what had happened between [Name] and I, I don’t think it’s your business in the first place.”

Hank glared at him, “Now it is.”

“Yes,” Dick nodded his head, “Because they’re in danger.”

Dawn tilted her head in confusion and Donna spoke up, “They’re? Someone else is with [Name]?” The two women had no idea what was going on and neither did the rest. Dick was being hesitant and he took a long time to explain what was going on. He bit his lip and chewed on it. Rachel and Gar looked at each other wondering if they should help Dick with telling the truth. 

“It’s not easy to say this,” Dick admitted with his head low in defeat. He had to tell them anyways because [Name] was going to show up to Titan’s Tower eventually. “[Name] and I...we have a son. He’s two years old and-”

“No fucking way,” An unexpected voice cut through and it was Rose Wilson, Deathstroke’s daughter. “You had a secret child and you didn’t bother to tell your teammates. What other secrets are you keeping?”

“None,” Dick said with a sharp tone. 

Dawn removed her hand off of Dick’s shoulder, “Why didn’t you tell us? We’re your friends.”

“It’s because it was none of our business,” Hank bellowed, “obviously we weren't good enough friends for him to confide in us.” Dawn looked over her shoulder at Hank. Their eyes connected. 

Bzzt. Bzzt. Bzzt. 

It was the front entrance. Someone was there and it was definitely [Name]. It had to be. Although when the camera footage popped up on the computer screen, no one was visible. Suddenly, they all heard the elevator dinging. Dick was the first one to investigate. They all waited in the main room to see the elevator doors opening. 

What they saw made their hearts churn especially Dick’s. His eyes couldn’t believe what they were seeing. In the middle of the elevator was a bassinet with a crying baby in it and a woman bloodied and beaten holding tightly onto the bassinet. Dick reacted quicker than the others and immediately ran inside the elevator. His hands flying to the woman’s face. 

Her nose was bleeding and her eyes were barely open. It was like she was trying to stay awake, but her body was forcing herself to sleep. Her breaths were shallow and her hands gripped tightly around the bassinet. She opened her mouth, blood coating her teeth, “Take care of him, okay?” Her head felt lighter in his hands and he understood. 

“[Name],” Dick called softly tears brimming, “you’re not here, are you?” 

She gave him a smile and her body disappeared right in front of him in red waves. The old titans rushed into the elevator and looked down at Dick kneeling in a fetal position. Then he looked up from the spot where [Name] had once laid in. Letting his anger out, Dick punched the elevator wall in front of him, “Goddammit!” 

“W-wait, I don’t understand,“ Gar spoke up trying to see in the elevator, “[Name] was just here. What happened to her body?” The green haired thought of the worst. He thought she had died. Donna looked at the teens and pushed them away from the elevator telling them that the adults would handle this. 

Dawn knelt down beside Dick, “Come on, Dick. We’re going to find her, but right now your son needs you.” Dick wiped his tears away and picked up the bassinet with shaky hands. Hank stopped Dick from exiting the elevator, “I can hold him...if you want.” 

Dick shook his head, “Thank you, but I got him.” For the first time in a long time, Dick was with his son again. Yet he wished the circumstances were better.

……

“Alright an hour later, John is finally sleeping,” Dawn and Donna walked back into the main room where everybody sat in or around the kitchen. Dick gave them a grateful nod and focused his attention back on the wall. 

“So is anyone going to explain what happened to [Name],” Gar asked very curious why the woman disappeared in the elevator. 

Jason tossed a piece of popcorn into his mouth, “It’s because of her ability.” 

The old titans gave him questioning glares. 

“What? Bruce had me study potential allies and [Name] was one of them. According to what she knows, she has the ability to warp reality and teleport. Well that’s not all she can do, but it’s what she used in this situation. My guess is she used teleportation and put little John in the elevator before Deathstroke could get to him.”

“So her body was just her warping reality?” Rachel asked. 

Rose shrugged her shoulders, “If she could teleport, why didn’t she do the same for herself?”

“Because she hasn’t used her powers in a long time ever since John was born. She didn’t want to risk him getting injured.” Dick answered. His brown eyes were directed to the floor in thought. [Name] was in danger and in the hands of Deathstroke. His second worst enemy. 

Rachel slid off the kitchen counter, "Well, aren't we going to save her? Isn't that what the Titans do?" 

Dick looked at Rachel and shook his head. He wasn't going to allow his new recruits, his friends, get involved with Deathstroke. He won't allow another young soul die at his hands. "No, you guys will stay here and keep watch on John." 

"Great," Jason groaned, "you're putting us on babysitting duty while you guys fight a known villain. He's your son, how about you spend time with him for once?"

Dick growled, "Don't go there." 

"Or what?" Jason challenged stepping up to Dick. The teen with black hair was beginning to push Dick's buttons. And they weren't supposed to be bothered with. "I say you sit this one out, Dick. Let us handle the bad guys for once." 

"No," Dick said firmly. He was standing his ground. The presence of the new Robin didn't scare him nor did he tremble. "Deathstroke is mine. Now stand down or I'll put you on probationary timeout." 

Jason scoffed and turned his back on Dick muttering a few curses. The old Titans walked up to Dick and they formed a tiny circle ready to discuss their plans on how to get [Name] back to safety. 

……

“A caring mother, you are,” Deathstroke talked to [Name], sitting directly across from her. Their knees almost touching each other. “I could have promised not to lay a finger on your son, but you made things more difficult for you.” 

[Name] swallowed down the blood from her mouth. The taste of iron bothering her taste buds. “I won’t allow my son to get hurt because you have a personal vendetta for his father.”

“You speak as if Grayson holds no meaning to your heart, is it true you two had a falling out?” Deathstroke asked with a tilt of his head. 

“You can say that,” [Name] responded looking away from him. She wasn’t going to speak about her relationship problems with a psycho like Deathstroke. Her business was her business. This wasn’t a therapy session among a hero and villain. 

“Huh, always thought you two were good for each other.”

“Ah, good one. An attempt of sarcasm by the one and only Deathstroke.” [Name] replied to his remark. Her right eye closed upon feeling the warm liquid that was blood drip down it. She forgot that she was hurting while chained to the chair in special handcuffs. Deathstroke’s presence didn’t allow her to relax. He forced her to be on the edge. 

“Why don’t you use your powers, [Name]?” Deathstroke looked at her crossing his arms over his chest. She got him thinking. She needed him to think of the consequences he’ll reap. 

The blood dripped onto her clothing in a slow rhythm. “I don’t know maybe because you got a hold of Cadmus’ tech. Did you steal them or actually request for them, I’m really curious.” She wiped her chin with her shoulder and sighed. [Name] didn’t like waiting and she hoped the Titans could find her. But it was nearly impossible especially if Deathstroke is good at covering steps and going off grid. It was his specialty. 

“I made a bargain with them,” Deathstroke began ominously, “I give them you in exchange for the Titans.”

[Name] was puzzled. “Cadmus doesn’t have the Titans, you only put yourself in a situation which can’t happen because-”

“I hand you over to them now and they could experiment on you. Then they’ll send out their people and get the Titans for me. It’s an easy trade off.”

“I thought you wanted Dick for yourself. Why not get revenge by you doing what you do best. You’re a killer, Deathstroke. Blinded by your rage toward Dick and vice versa, you two killed an innocent boy. A boy I was beginning to love in my own way. A boy Dick took advantage of. A boy who was your dearest son. Why continue this vengeance and for what reason?”

“You are to blame for my son’s death. You allowed Grayson to let Jericho into the Titan life knowing who his father was. Who I was.” [Name] could feel the anger radiating off of his body with each sentence. “Yet you and the Titans didn’t stop Dick from coercing Jericho. You killed him.”

[Name] shook her head, “No, I left the Titans before Jericho died. I only heard about his passing from Dawn, Dick didn’t tell me the truth until I came back and threatened to search his memories.” She paused and softened her glare, “Slade, I’m really sorry about Jericho. He was a wonderful boy and he could have made a great man.”

Deathstroke uncrossed his arms and leaned closely to [Name]. He placed his right knee in between her legs and let his right hand hold the chair. His left hand wiped the blood away from her eye so she could look up at him with both of her [e.color] eyes. “You will be when I make you feel the pain my wife and I went through.”

[Name] knew exactly what he meant. His words struck her heart and her blood ran cold. "No, please, he's just a baby," Her voice was soft and fragile. Her eyes pooling with unshed tears of sadness. 

Deathstroke gripped her chin tightly with his fingers. 

"I'm begging you, Slade," [Name] was crying now. Her eyes closed as she cried for what Deathstroke was planning. She opened them up and begged again, "Please, don't go after my boy. He's innocent and he would never hurt anyone. Slade, please." 

He removed himself from her and began walking away from her in silence. 

[Name] struggled in her bonds. Her feet pushing against the floor and her chair tilted sideways. The weight of her body made herself and the chair fall on their left side. Her body ached, but that didn't stop her from calling out to him, "Leave him alone! Please!"

Dr. Light popped into the room and watched as the mother cried out to Deathstroke. Feeling a little remorse for her, he questioned the man who wiped his sword with a white rag. "You aren't really going after the baby, are you?" 

"Does it matter to you?" Deathstroke placed his sword back into its sheath. He turned his body to Dr. Light waiting patiently for an answer. 

Dr. Light nodded his head, "You said that she and the baby would only be bait for the Titans. All I want is the Titans, not for us to kill some kid." 

"And all I want is revenge." Deathstroke finished and walked out of the room. 

"Don't do this!" Dr. Light cringed at the hoarse yells coming out of [Name]'s mouth and he turned his attention back on the woman. She was lying helplessly on the floor with tears sliding down her face. 

He wasn't supposed to do this.

“Alright, calm down, will ya?” Dr. Light ran over to [Name] and lifted her chair upright. She sniffled and brought her red eyes onto the villain. “Don’t look at me like that. I cross lines, sure. But killing a kid, that’s not for me...yet.” 

That didn’t make [Name] feel any better. 

“I mean a kid that hasn’t done any wrong to me. Fuck the Titans though, am I right?” Dr. Light chuckled and looked at the special handcuffs on her hands. He didn’t know how to take these off. “This is gonna sound awkward, lady. But I can’t take these handcuffs off you, only that bastard can.” 

“That’s fine,” [Name] finally spoke up and her eyes were a bright red along with her hands, “all I need is you.” 

#nightwing imagine #nightwing x reader #dick grayson #dick grayson x reader #dick grayson imagine #batman imagine #titans imagine #Titans #dc imagine #DC Universe #x reader #reader insert #Buried Secrets

[bernnegi]

long rant bellow... warning this is an anti c*twoman post?? i’m talking about the telltale version tho.. lol 

so i don’t have anyone to talk this to any of my friends si imma put it here lol

first of all i know you’ll gonna think that i don’t like the ship cause i ship superbat but that’s not the reason why i hate it okay lol  

this has been bothering me since i played telltale batman.. the interaction between batman and c*twoman. at first i don’t really care about the ship cause u know everyone ships it so i just whatever. so when i first play the game i always choose nice choices between batman and c*twoman just to make them as friends or some shit but it turns out if ur nice to her that means i wanna bang her or some shit. and this is where the problem starts..  when i play games i don’t usually play the romance aspects (that comes later when i’m actually obsessed with it lol) so when i played the first season ofc i won’t romance c*twoman cause since i don’t ship it i don’t really see it as a shippy moments?? like they literally just met and i feel like bruce really cares about harvey more than c*twoman. so obviously my bruce is more friendlier to harvey since he knows him longer. yet the game really wants me to romance her??? like?? why??? whenever i choose harvey first s*lina just thinks that she’s more important than him?? like who tf is u, ur just some petty thief i met i don’t care about u lol 

it would be different if the game make as if B and C have met and mingle before but in this game they establish that this is their first meet up. so it really bothers me that everytime s*lina got mad at me cause i didn’t choose her first (like letting her get shot to save harvey from getting slam by a lamp) or when all the side characters think that B wants to be with C like hell nah i hate it.  also like she blatantly said that she’s just using harvey and bruce to get to her goals?? and use “ idk i guess i end up wanna be serious with u “ as an excuse to get with bruce? hell nah  i rather got killed by lady arkham back in the train station then lol  there’s also this part where gordon ask batman to catch c*twoman and i let him cause why not lol and she came to his house almost dying with stuff i need.. gawd i loathe that fucking scene.. the whole👏game 👏i’ve 👏been 👏mean 👏to 👏her 👏 the 👏entire 👏game 👏 and she said shit like 

S*lina what game did we even play??? did the game forgot about my season 1 choices?? can’t they just make the convo be “ i know we’ve never been in the same page but i thought ur m.o is to not get people killed “ why this??  and wtf is this 

and when i said the game really wants me to romance s*lina i’ve replayed the game several times to make sure i don’t want to romance s*lina. i always choose the rude/mean choices towards her. reload the game when it seems like i choose nice choices for her and guess what? the only difference is when harvey confronts s*lina in her apartment. usually i always get bruce trying to defend s*lina from harvey but this time i managed to make bruce actually defend harvey from s*lina (i was really happy here cause this means bruce do care towards harvey lol)  like i don’t get why the game still thinks bruce wanna bang s*lina when i’ve been rude and mean towards her?? like do they want these two in somekind of a toxic relationship?? also their version of s*lina is really annoying i just can’t get to like her after all this. also i don’t get why alfred thinks that s*lina is good for bruce??? i don’t get it. like he defends her and let her come into my goddamn house when i never said that she’s welcome.. i don’t care if she’s dying i don’t want her in my house alfred . 

and don’t ask me about season 2.. the game literally forces u to romance her and i hate every minute of it. like at this point i rather romance harley than her.. at least there’s some spark between her and bruce (also the reason why my bruce becomes harley’s bitch boy lmao) AND I WAS SOOOO happy when i can blame c*twoman and get her freeze in that device lmaoo i can’t stop smiling after that scene cause i’m just so fed up of her. 

but ofc since this is a telltale game where ur choice don’t matter.. she still comes back and when john doe becomes villain joker he kidnapped her. and ofc i choose to save myself rather than her lmao idc if she’s getting fried.. ok yeah i know it’s out of character for bruce to do that but if i choose to save her she gonna said shit like “ i know u still like me “ AND I DON’T LIKE IT OKAY so i choose to be selfish lol (but i do play a save where i said that i’m the mole lol) but seriously the game makes me despise catwoman and thus hate the ship. 

i know i shouldn’t hate the character but the writer.. but i like the story i just hate the c*twoman and bats aspects... she acts like a creep when u don’t romance her.. like imagine a boy keep pestering u saying shit that we’re meant to be together and stuff when u keep saying no... it’s like that 

or maybe because it’s a telltale game where ur choice doesn’t matter lmao but since i played this game i just can’t stand her character anymore whether it’s in other games or cartoons... like when i played batman arkham knight i didn’t even finish riddler’s mission to rescue her cause i can’t stand her there too.. i still play as her in arkham city tho since it’s unavoidable.. but i’m still indefferent towards her back then so i still enjoy it lol   TL;DR Telltale makes me hate C*twoman 

#rant #i'm sorry guys #anti selina kyle #anti catwoman #anti batcat #batman telltale

[bluboothalassophile]

Injury

Of the many things Jason Todd was, pussy was not on the list. However, fool wasn’t there either, and he considered it foolish of him to hang around Dr. Emma. Seriously, it was like being stuck on a Grey’s Anatomy drama from Hell! And his fiancée was from Hell, so he’d been there! Done That! Was not keen on going back. Unless it was after Raven.

Grumbling to himself he struggled into a wheelchair; jarring his ribs, shoulder and knee painfully; but the tug on his stitches hurt the most; annoying him the most. But triumphantly in a chair he huffed out a heavy breath as he pulled out the IV and started to the hall. Sneaking around in a wheelchair though he should’ve known would be difficult; all he needed to do was get away from Dr. Legally Blonde and out the door and he’d be home free. From there he could navigate his way to the nearest subway; stairs were going to be a bitch; and get home. Rae would have the keys, he knew today was her day at work, but in this damn chair he was sure they’d get home at the same time.

Everything would be fine!

It wasn’t like he was going to bleed out or something right here.

~~~*~*~*~~~

Stephanie was actually enjoying her time with Raven as they walked to the hospital.

“Jason’s going to be surprised to see us!” Stephanie giggled. Today she was helping her brother’s fiancée spring him from the hospital, and then getting him home where the apartment was all decorated. She had cornered Raven about that the other day and insisted Jason have a huge grand welcome home party. Raven had patiently endured this, Stephanie knew she was treading dangerously on the edges of Raven’s seemingly infinite patience with these last minute preparations for Jason’s home coming.

“I think we’ll be lucky if he’s still in the hospital,” Raven muttered rubbing her temples as they walked into the lobby.

“Well, it’s not our fault that he’s nosocomephobic,” Stephanie pointed out.

“What?”

“You know, fear of hospitals.”

“I think you mean fear of a doctor, one in particular, also his extreme dislike of opioids,” Raven said.

“You know I’m surprised that he didn’t rappel his way out of here,” Stephanie admitted.

“I told him if he did that I’d send Artemis to be his nurse while he recovered.”

“You are terrifying, woman,” Stephanie muttered as they got into the elevator.

“I’ve been dating this man for years, I have learned to have a firm hand and massive black mail on my side to get what I want,” Raven mused.

“See, and here I thought you’d just use your female wiles on him!”

“Bribing him with sex only works for short term,” Raven answered.

“TMI.”

“You thought I used my female wiles on him.”

“Point taken, point taken. But I was thinking more of the empathy route,” Stephanie said.

“What makes you think the sex doesn’t involve the empathy route?” Raven challenged.

“I want to know and I don’t want to know,” she muttered as she eyed the demoness over suspiciously. Raven’s lips curved into a small smile as they rode the elevator up to where Jason was. The doors dinged as they opened, rolling open dramatically to a seen of absolute chaos; of which she did not create!

“Get back here!” Dr. Emma Montique shouted.

“NEVER!” her brother bellowed as he turned a corner, skittering on one wheel. “Hold the elevator!” Jason shouted as he rolled in, slamming into the back wall at full force, Raven caught his chair, Stephanie slammed her finger on the first button she could reach as the doors rolled shut. She heard the doc slam into them as the elevator pulled up.

“Hey little bird, here for a prison break!?” Jason grinned charmingly up at his irate fiancée, and Stephanie bit her lip to keep from laughing as the little muscle by Rae’s nose and cheek started to twitch as her lips stayed in a firm straight line. Jason reached up and pulled Raven down to him as he kissed her hard on the lips before looking over at her.

“Hey Steph,” Jason greeted.

“I think your wife’s about to have an aneurism,” Stephanie whispered, she saw Raven’s second eyes emerge; both her left eyes were twitching as the elevator continued up.

“Love, your eyes.”

Raven’s fingers twitched and she looked on the verge of strangling Jason.

“Dude, I think you broke your wife.” Stephanie whispered as Raven’s emotions rattled the metal box they were in and the lights flickered a bit.

“She’s not my wife,” Jason hissed back.

“Her eyes aren’t receding,” she whispered. Raven’s eyes flickered between bright red and black as she glared at Jason.

“You. Had. One. Job. Jason. ONE!” Raven hissed dangerously low.

“I’m fine!” Jason defended, Stephanie noticed the red blooming on his abdomen then.

“Oh? You’re fine? Then You’re Lucky We’re Near The Morgue! I’m Gonna Kill You!” Raven snarled as she slammed her fist on the button to return to his former floor. She looked human again and Stephanie weakly hung onto the railing in the elevator as Raven’s fury became obvious.

“Fuck!” Jason yelped as Raven’s powers had the elevator dropping out and the doors flying open as she grabbed that wheel chair and dragged him after her.

“You get your injured ass back in that bed Jason Peter Todd Or I will tie you down and keep you there until four doctors approve of you coming home! Raven snapped.

“I’m fine!” he argued.

“You just had major knee surgery! Your ass is not going anywhere but back to your damn room!” Raven snapped.

“RAE!” Jason protested.

“Don’t you little bird me! I will send you to Hell!” Raven snapped.

“Fuck me!”

“I had plans to!” Raven growled.

“TMI!” Stephanie balked.

“Spoiler Alerts! I have sex, lots of sex with my fiancé! Get over it!” Raven growled.

“Dude…” Stephanie glared at Jason who shrugged as Raven dragged him along behind her.

“You can’t behave for five minutes! I should’ve known better!” Raven muttered. “Fucking Batshit Batty Bats!”

“Is this normal?” she whispered.

“It’s a RobRae thing,” Jason shrugged.

“You’re worse! Worse than Dick! And Tim! And Damian COMBINED! I can’t even get you to stay in the damn hospital! As a Civilian! Alfred deserves sainthood for putting up with this batshit nonsense! And I’m a demon saying that!” Raven muttered.

“Rae?”

“WHAT!?” she spun Jason around on her with impressive skills, and Stephanie thought Jason was dead now. Instead Jason caught Raven’s face, dragged her down and kissed her hard as he pulled her onto his lap.

“I’m fine,” he promised.

“Jason Todd,” Dr. Emma Montique appeared, frazzled and with a syringe.

“Gotta go!” Stephanie grabbed the handles of that wheelchair as she ran them down the hall. “Prison Break!”

#bluboothalassophile #fanfic #calm in the storm #one shot #robrae week 2019 #jason todd #raven #stephanie brown #jayrae

[aion-rsa]

Why The Woman in the Window Fails to Channel Alfred Hitchcock

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This article contains The Woman in the Window spoilers.

Joe Wright’s The Woman in the Window is not shy about its Hitchcockian influence. It’s there in both subtle and overt ways from the very first scene. During one of the film’s opening shots, the camera pans around Amy Adams’ ridiculously spacious New York City brownstone and passes a television screen that is inexplicably playing the ending to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) in slow-motion, with Jimmy Stewart wrestling against the grip of an out-of-frame Raymond Burr.

With a very similar premise to Rear Window—a slightly deranged New Yorker pries into the hidden lives of her neighbors—The Woman in the Window freely owns up to its influences and aspirations. Sadly, Rear Window, this is not. Which may explain why 20th Century Studios (back when it was called 20th Century Fox) delayed the movie for reshoots, and then Disney ended up selling this otherwise incredibly polished and stylish thriller to the industry’s algorithm farm upstate: Netflix.

Admittedly, The Woman in the Window is not intended to be a direct remake of Rear Window or any other Hitchcock picture. The talent involved is too smart for that. Rather the film is taking a plethora of inspirations from various Hitch joints, and marrying that Master of Suspense ethos with a modern sensibility created by author A. J. Finn, who wrote the novel the film is based on. I have not read the book, but the bestseller clearly benefited from the boom of “grip lit” novels—thrillers often centered around the unreliable perspective of flawed female protagonists—in the 2010s.

So it is that The Woman in the Window’s Dr. Anna Fox (Adams) is an exceedingly troubled individual, suffering from a trauma we only learn late in the story was caused by the tragic death of her husband and child. Those deaths were in turn precipitated by Anna’s own infidelities, which left her distracted while driving on an icy road. Hence the audience is asked to question everything we see in The Woman in the Window, including whether Anna really met the woman she thinks is Jane Russell (Julianne Moore) and if Jane was then actually murdered across the street.

In essence, it’s the same setup of Rear Window where Anna thinks her neighbor (Gary Oldman in the newer movie’s case) murdered his wife, but the accusation is clouded in doubt for even the audience since Anna is such an unreliable narrator that for two-thirds of her movie, she convinces us that she’s going through a divorce instead of grief.

And yet, none of these added elements distract from the fact that this movie wants to be Hitchcock, or at least the heir to what many consider to be his masterpiece. It’s there every time Anna spies on her neighbors through the long lens of her old school camera, which unsubtly harkens back to Stewart’s Jeff doing the same in Rear Window. And it’s woven into the silver mane of hair on Oldman’s head, which intentionally echoes Burr’s sinister everyman who lives in the apartment across from Jeff’s.

Even the film’s opening shot more covertly recalls another Hitchcock classic starring James Stewart: Vertigo (1958). With its slowly spiraling image of snow drops drifting in a circle through the air—an image we later learn is the last thing Anna saw before her family died—we’re retroactively reminded of the spirals that consumed the mind of Stewart’s Scottie in that film. The zoom-in, pullback dolly shot Hitch also made famous in that movie of nerve-inducing stairwells is likewise visually referenced in The Woman in the Window, with the stairwell in Anna’s home recreating the same high anxiety composition as a set of stairs in one of Hitchcock’s earliest films, the silent British production, Blackmail (1929). I’m also fairly convinced that the shot of Adams opening her eye in the second image of The Woman in the Window is a visual recreation of Janet Leigh’s frozen death stare in Psycho (1960).

Right down to its plot about wives causing a case of mistaken identities, the Hitchcockian overtones are heavy in The Woman in the Window. So why doesn’t it work?

For all of Hitchcock’s innovative understanding of the filmmaking craft, and panache for droll showmanship as the “Master of Suspense,” his own passions and fixations (particularly at their most perverse) colored his work with an eerie madness. Or at least the best ones. Sure, he is one of the first directors to make himself a household name via attention-grabbing cameos and almost car dealership-like theatrics in the rollout of new movies’ marketing. And when Tippi Hedren asked him why her character in The Birds (1963) would open a door if there are menacing noises on the other side, he replied, “Because I said so.”

But then, despite its popularity, The Birds is hardly one of Hitchcock’s best films. And the hypnotic effect he created with the better ones often spoke to something truer, and frankly uglier, than the glossy veneer of his star-studded casts. Ironically, this is probably truest about the two Hitch films Woman in the Window most desperately emulates: Rear Window and Vertigo.

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In both films, one could sense the devious pleasure Hitchcock took in casting Jimmy Stewart—the all-American face of Frank Capra classics like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) and It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)—as his on screen avatar.

In the case of Rear Window, Stewart still plays an ostensibly heroic individual. Jeff is a man’s man and a photojournalist who goes into warzones, vacations on safaris, and breaks his leg while covering a high performance car race from a dangerous vantage point. But there is something more unsettling beneath all that machismo which is what won the attention of a much younger high society girl, Lisa (Grace Kelly).

There’s a gnawing suspicion about the awfulness of his fellow man, and a peculiar desire to revel in it. When Jeff can’t do that from behind enemy lines, he’ll settle for studying it in his own backyard—it’s a view he shares with a slew of neighbors overlooking a lower Manhattan courtyard. He doesn’t start spying on them though because he heard a scream and fears for a woman he just met. He does it out of boredom while his leg is bandaged up. Well that, plus a perverse curiosity, be it in the form of lust for the dancer across the way, Miss Torso, or a voyeuristic fascination with the despair of a woman he nicknames Miss Lonelyhearts. That he discovers a man murdered his wife is entirely happenstance.

Only after he seduces Lisa into sharing his obsessions—to the point where she’ll break into the neighbor’s home—does he realize she’s the perfect girl for him. And after she’s been fully indoctrinated, she shares his “ghoulish” disappointment (her word) when they’re falsely made to believe for a moment that Lars Thorwald’s wife is alive and out of town. That of course turns out to be a misdirection. Lars (Burr) is having an affair and has his mistress pose as his dead wife for a train ride.

Mistaken identity becomes even more pivotal in Vertigo, Hitch’s most revealing cinematic manifesto for how he sees himself. In that film, Stewart appears again but as someone who is hardly depicted as an alpha male. The only hero in this story dies at the beginning when Stewart’s Scottie is so crippled by terror that he cannot save himself as he dangles from a rooftop. The police partner who comes back for him to lift him up ends up taking the literal fall.

Afterward, Scottie (like Anna Fox) is seen as damaged goods by himself and everyone who knows him. Particularly in the 1950s, being diagnosed as suffering from acrophobia or any form of mental illness was treated as an inherent form of weakness and a deficiency of character. An onscreen judge spells this out after Scottie again appears to let his vertigo ruin him, causing him to fail to save the woman he thinks is Madeleine Elster (Kim Novak). He can’t find the wherewithal to follow her up a bellow tower, and is then treated to the horror of seeing a woman fall to her death outside.

Of course the twist of the movie is that Novak is not playing Madeleine; she’s Judy Barton, the woman whom Madeleine’s husband Gavin (Tom Helmore) has hired to impersonate his wife and seduce Scottie before running up a high stairwell. At the top, Gavin waited to throw his actual wife to her doom. Unfortunately for Judy, Scottie’s broken mind wouldn’t stop looking for her until one day he found the woman he thought he loved still walking the streets of San Francisco.

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The Woman in the Window blends these narrative elements. Once again, a protagonist with a phobia (agoraphobia here) mistakes a blonde woman—Julianne Moore’s Katie—for another character’s wife. When Jennifer Jason Leigh barges into Anna’s brownstone, it’s meant to be as bewildering as when Scottie sees Novak still walking around, now as a brunette, in Vertigo. Of course Woman in the Window plays with the convention by making it the biological mother of Oldman and Leigh’s adopted son whom is murdered, as opposed to the actual wife. Indeed, Moore’s Katie just enjoys playing into Anna’s misconception that she’s the wife of Oldman’s Alistair Russell.

But these reliances on miscommunication and unreliable narrators aren’t really in service of anything other than the twist. The thrill, such as it is, amounts to little more than Anna’s epiphany of staring into a photograph and realizing thanks to a reflection that a blonde woman played by Moore really was inside her home. The rug is then even further pulled when it’s revealed that (SURPRISE!) it wasn’t Alistair who murdered Katie, but Katie’s actual biological son, Ethan (Fred Hechinger).

However, the twist is as empty as Anna’s painfully quiet home. It’s intended to be a “gotcha” reveal, but it never really gets under the skin.

By contrast, the idea that Madeleine is really Judy in Vertigo is a gateway to explore Hitchcock’s vices: blondes and the desire to control them. It’s why Stewart’s Scottie becomes as manipulative as an auteur with a fetish, and as possessive of his new paramour as the filmmaker who’s still trying to replace his greatest leading lady collaborator after she’s retired from acting to be the Princess of Monaco. Scottie maniacally remaking Judy into Madeleine, and Jimmy Stewart remaking Kim Novak into Grace Kelly, is some bizarre but intoxicating allegory about Hitchcock and his own self-image of his obsession.

Notably, Vertigo wasn’t a hit in 1958. In fact, it flopped at the box office and was only reevaluated as a masterpiece in the 1980s, after Hitch’s death. It was too weird and, intentionally or not, introspective for the ‘50s. And personally, I still prefer Rear Window for better balancing the director’s eccentricities with his commercial instincts to make a top notch thriller which can be revealing about the darker side of human nature yet still remain addictively entertaining and playful.

Woman in the Window attempts to wear the style of both, but has no controlling idea to add to those affectations other than a subversion of their twists: it’s the son who murders the other woman instead of the husband who kills the wife. The meaninglessness of this mangled reversal is why it feels so cheap when the movie devolves into a slasher flick, with Ethan chasing Anna to the rooftop as if he were attempting to star in “Scream 5” instead of “Rear Window 2.”The Woman in the Window is a loving impersonation of Hitch, but be it a thriller or a comedy, an impersonation is never going to carry a movie.

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[incorrectclassictv]

Doctor Bellows, seeing some weird thing Jeannie blinked up: Major Nelson, I hope you have a good explanation for this.

Tony: I actually have three. Pick your favorite.

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[alfredsnightmare]

@alfredsnightmare’s Top 50 Favorite Horror Films

(as of October 2017)

Been a while since I did one of these, but since it’s Halloween, and a few new watches ended up becoming great favorites of mine, I decided to do it again. Two rules I set out for myself: one film per director (otherwise this list would consist mainly of Argento and Rollin), and one film per franchise.

Full list bellow the cut:

Faust (Germany / F.W. Murnau, 1926)

Vampyr (Germany, France / Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)

Eyes Without a Face (France / Georges Franju, 1959)

Blood & Roses (France / Roger Vadim, 1960)

Brides of Dracula (UK / Terence Fisher, 1960)

Peeping Tom (UK / Michael Powell, 1960)

Psycho (US / Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)

The Haunting (US, UK / Robert Wise, 1963)

Kwaidan (Japan / Masaki Kobayashi, 1964)

Dance of the Vampires (UK / Roman Polanski, 1967)

The House That Screamed (Spain / Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, 1969)

Jonathan (Germany / Hans W. Geissendörfer, 1970)

Valerie and her Week of Wonders (Czechoslovakia / Jaromil Jires, 1970)

Malpertuis (Belgium / Harry Kümel, 1971)

The Other (US / Robert Mulligan, 1972)

Don’t Look Now (UK / Nicolas Roeg, 1973)

The Hourglass Sanatorium (Poland / Wojciech Has, 1973)

Lisa and the Devil (Italy / Mario Bava, 1973)

A Virgin Among the Living Dead (France, Italy / Jess Franco, 1973)

Black Christmas (Canada / Bob Clark, 1974)

Blood for Dracula (US, Italy / Paul Morrissey, 1974)

The Perfume of the Lady in Black (Italy / Francesco Barilli, 1974)

Phantom of the Paradise (US / Brian De Palma, 1974)

Footprints on the Moon (Italy / Luigi Bazzoni, 1975)

Lips of Blood (France / Jean Rollin, 1975)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australia / Peter Weir, 1975)

A Whisper in the Dark (Italy / Marcello Aliprandi, 1976)

Suspiria (Italy / Dario Argento, 1977)

The Virgin and the Monster (Czechoslovakia / Juraj Herz, 1978)

Martin (US / George A. Romero, 1978)

Dracula (US / John Badham, 1979)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (Germany, France / Werner Herzog, 1979)

Schalcken the Painter (UK / Lesley Megahey, 1979)

The Savage Hunt of King Stahk (Soviet Union / Valeri Rubinchik, 1980)

The Shining (US, UK / Stanley Kubrick, 1980)

The Beyond (Italy / Lucio Fulci, 1981)

Dr. Jekyll and his Women (France, Germany / Walerian Borowcyzk, 1981)

The Company of Wolves (UK / Neil Jordan, 1984)

Lair of the White Worm (UK / Ken Russell, 1988)

Paperhouse (UK / Bernard Rose, 1988)

Étoile (Italy / Peter Del Monte, 1989)

Santa Sangre (Mexico / Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989)

The Exorcist III (US / William Peter Blatty, 1990)

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (US / David Lynch, 1992)

Cemetery Man (Italy / Michele Soavi, 1994)

The Devil’s Backbone (Spain / Guillermo Del Toro, 2001)

The Others (Spain, US / Alejandro Amenabar, 2001)

A Tale of Two Sisters (South Korea / Jee Woon Kim, 2003)

Let The Right One In (Sweden / Tomas Alfredson, 2008)

It: Chapter One (US / Andy Muschietti, 2017)

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Saturday, June 8, 1861, Lincoln approves the U.S. Sanitary Commission authorized by Secretary of War. A Soldier’s Friend, Civil War Nurse Cornelia Hancock #nook http://goo.gl/KVmXFx #iBooks http://goo.gl/ZB7bCx #Amazon http://goo.gl/7wOM7Y #Kobo https://goo.gl/MNDpTe #Google http://goo.gl/PSGxe1 #Smashwords https://goo.gl/ZzuqsG

Their first year of operation a Sanitary Commission report rated 200 surgeons as follows: 129 competent, 25 tolerable, 19 negligent or inert. A hospital inspection report that year covered 200 facilities and rated 105 as good, 52 as tolerable, and 26 as bad, stating supplies were poor, the diet limited, and nursing care terrible with no nurses on duty at night. [Alfred Jay Bollet, M.D., Civil War Medicine Challenges and Triumphs, Galen Press, Tucson, 2002 p 226]

Executive Committee of the U.S. Sanitary Commission. Left to right: Dr. William Holme Van Buren, George T. Strong, Rev. Henry Whitney Bellows, Dr. Cornelius R. Agnew and Prof. Wolcott Gibbs (Source: Nevins, A. ed., The Diary of George Templeton Strong, The Civil War, 1860-1865, 1952, p. 208a.)  LC-DIG-cwpb-05736

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“So many people,” she thought as she clinched the silken blinds between her fingers. “How are we supposed to find them amongst these people?”

           Diana could hear ‘Alfred’ laugh softly from atop the carriage, “Oh you’ll know them when you see them…”

His voice trailed off in mid-sentence. A loud uproar surged through the crowd. Diana looks through the crowd to see three men arguing.

“I said watch the painting you damn reaper!” one voice bellows.

“Damn reapers you say you winged footed piece of trash. Why don’t you come over here and say that too my face!” another voice hisses back.

“Why can’t you two just fucking just get a room,” a third voice adds with a jovial laughter.

“Right, fish boy,” the second voice shouts back. “Why you help me carry this thing?”

“That is Prince Fish Man,” the third voice laughs. “And hard labor is below my station…”

“Oh lighten up Hal,” the first voice adds.

“Say the man not helping me carry his own stuff!” the second voice replies.

“…War,” Alfred began with a sigh. “Those fools would be Dr. Wayne’s…”

Diana stares at the men before rubbing her eyes. All the people around them seemed so calm. Did they not see a what she saw? How could they mess the scaled Atlantean, the shrouded god of death or the shrived old immortal amongst them? 

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