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Noticias de series de la semana

Renovaciones

The CW ha renovado Superman & Lois por una segunda temporada

FOX ha renovado The Simpsons por una trigésimo tercera y trigésimo cuarta temporada

ITV ha renovado Finding Alice por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones

La tercera temporada de Pose (FX) será la última

CBC ha cancelado Frankie Drake Mysteries tras su cuarta temporada

Noticias cortas

Chelsea Harris (Sykes) será regular en la tercera temporada de Snowpiercer.

Fichajes

Sissy Spacek (Castle Rock, Carrie) y Ed O'Neill (Modern Family, Married with Children) protagonizarán Lightyears. Serán Irene y Franklin, una profesora de inglés jubilada y un carpintero que llevan décadas ocultando un portal a un extraño planeta desierto en su patio trasero.

Mandy Patinkin (Homeland, The Princess Bride) se une como regular a la quinta temporada de The Good Fight. Será Hal Wackner, alguien que abre un juzgado en la parte de atrás de una copistería sin tener formación jurídica.

Edie Falco (The Sopranos, Nurse Jackie) será Hillary Clinton en Impeachment, la tercera temporada de American Crime Story.

Ray Liotta (Shades of Blue, Goodfellas) será Big Jim, el padre de Jimmy (Taron Egerton), en In With the Devil.

Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther) se une a Obi-Wan Kenobi. Se desconocen detalles.

Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat, Hustlers), Riley Keough (The Girlfriend Experience, The House That Jack Built) y Jeanne Tripplehorn (Big Love, Criminal Minds) serán Katie Buranek, corresponsal de guerra; Lauren Reece, triatleta de élite y esposa de James (Chris Pratt); y Lorraine Hartley, la primera mujer secretaria de Defensa; en The Terminal List.

Dakota Fanning (The Alienist, I Am Sam) será Susan Ford, la hija de Betty Ford (Michelle Pfeiffer), en The First Lady.

Timothy Spall (Harry Potter, Sweeney Todd) protagonizará Magpie Murders junto a Lesley Manville. Será el detective Atticus Pünd.

Devon Sawa (Final Destination, Casper) se une como recurrente a Chucky, en la que Jennifer Tilly volverá a interpretar a Tiffany Valentine. Zackary Arthur (Transparent, Kidding), Teo Briones (Ratched, Pretty Little Liars), Alyvia Ayn Lind (Daybreak, Masters of Sex) y Björgvin Arnarson serán regulares en los papeles de Jake Webber, un adolescente solitario que busca su sitio tras la muerte de su madre; Junior Webber, el primo de Jake y opuesto a él; Lexy Taylor, la princesita del instituto, novia de Junior y principal acosadora de Jake; y Devon Lopez, el típico vecino fan de los true crime.

Geoff Stults (Enlisted, Little Fires Everywhere), Tiya Sircar (The Good Place), Alanna Ubach (Euphoria, Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce), Laurie Davidson (Will, Cats), Andre Hyland y Jules Latimer estarán en Guilty Party junto a Kate Beckinsale. Serán Marco, el marido de Beth (Beckinsale); Fiona, socia de Beth; Tessa, una presentadora de noticias; George, un traficante de armas; y Toni, una joven sentenciada a 92 años de prisión sin libertad condicional por asesinar a su marido.

Alec Mapa (Ugly Betty, Devious Maids) protagonizará junto a Kelsey Grammer y Alec Baldwin la comedia de ABC sobre tres antiguos compañeros de piso que vuelven a reunirse. Será Andre, un hombre gay muy empático que funcionaba como pacificador ante Channing (Baldwin) y London (Grammer) mientras busca el éxito romántico y profesional que hasta ahora no ha conseguido.

Eoin Macken (Merlin, The Night Shift) y Jack Martin protagonizarán La Brea junto a Natalie Zea y Zyra Gorecki sustituyendo a Michael Raymond-James y Caleb Ruminer. Formarán la familia Harris. También se unen a la serie Jon Seda (Chicago PD, Treme) y Veronica St. Clair, que ya participaron en el piloto, y Lily Santiago.

Mary Holland (Homecoming, Veep), Shelley Hennig (Teen Wolf, Dollface), Christina Anthony (Mixed-ish), Samsara Yett (The Flight Attendant), Cameron Britton (The Umbrella Academy, Mindhunter) y Benjamin Levy Aguilar (Filthy Rich) se unen a The Woman in the House. Serán Sloane, dueña de una galería de arte y amiga de Anna (Kristen Bell); Lisa, una chica dulce y sexy que puede esconder algo; la detective Lane; Emma, la adorable hija de nueve años de Neil (Tom Riley); Buell, el manitas de Anna; y Rex, alguien no muy brillante pero irresistible.

Dallas Roberts (Insatiable, The Good Wife), Clea Lewis (The Americans, Ellen) y Nicole Chanel Williams (Boomerang) serán recurrentes en American Rust como Jackson Berg, dueño de una farmacia preocupado por la proliferación de cadenas en tiempos de crisis; Jillian, una mujer baptista preocupada por qué pensará su marido de que ella y sus compañeras de la fábrica se quieran sindicar; y Jojo, una mujer que vive en la carretera y acoge a Isaac (David Alvarez).

Andrea Martin (Difficult People, Great News), Robert Ri'chard (One on One, Cousin Skeeter), Juani Feliz, Kate Rockwell y Sullivan Jones (The Looming Tower) se unen como recurrentes a Harlem.

Michael James Shaw (Blood & Treasure, Limitless) se une como regular a la undécima y última temporada de The Walking Dead. Será Mercer, que en los cómics es un marine que se relaciona románticamente con Juanita (Paola Lázaro).

Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy, Luke Cage) se une como regular a True Story. Será Gene, un fan muy entusiasta de The Kid (Kevin Hart).

Catherine Haena Kim (FBI, Ballers) y Craig Parker (Charmed, Reign) serán recurrentes en la tercera temporada de Good Trouble como Nicolette Baptiste, una abogada de la oficina del fiscal del distrito; y Yuri Elwin, un artista de perfil alto que necesita un becario.

Conrad Khan (The Huntsman: Winter's War, County Lines) se une a la sexta y última temporada de Peaky Blinders. Se desconocen detalles.

Sarah Niles (Catastrophe, I May Destroy You) se une como regular a la segunda temporada de Ted Lasso. Será Sharon, psicóloga deportiva que comienza a trabajar para el AFC Richmond.

Matthew Sato (Chicken Girls, Save Me) y Emma Meisel (American Horror Story) se unen como regulares a Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. Serán Kia y Steph, el hermano y la mejor amiga de Lahela (Peyton Elizabeth Lee). Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show, Crazy Rich Asians) será recurrente como un cirujano cardíaco.

Momo Rodríguez (La Chamba) se une como recurrente a la tercera temporada de Mayans MC. No se conocen más detalles.

Thom Scott II (American Soul) será recurrente en la quinta temporada de Saints & Sinners como el doctor Ross, un médico talentoso especializado en procedimientos experimentales pioneros para asegurar tratamientos exitosos por cualquier medio.

Jess Schine se une a Long Slow Exhale como regular. Será Eddie Hagen, ayudante de la entrenadora (Rose Rollins).

Pósters

Nuevas series

Apple TV+ ha encargado ocho episodios de Roar, antología con historias independientes contadas desde un punto de vista femenino. Protagonizada por Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies, The Hours), Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Genius: Aretha), Merritt Wever (Nurse Jackie, Unbelievable) y Alison Brie (GLOW, Community). Basada en el libro de historias cortas de Cecelia Ahern (2018). Creada, escrita y producida por Liz Flahive (GLOW, Nurse Jackie) y Carly Mensch (GLOW, Weeds). Producen Kidman (Big Little Lies, The Undoing), Bruna Papandrea (Big Little Lies, The Undoing), Steve Hutensky (Queen America, Nine Perfect Strangers) y Allie Goss (The Crown, Daredevil).

Netflix adaptará The Talisman, la novela de Stephen King (1984), en la que un chico de 12 años comienza un viaje de costa a costa para encontrar un cristal que podría salvar a su madre moribunda. Escrita por Curtis Gwinn (Stranger Things, The Walking Dead) y producida por Steven Spielberg (The Goonies, Back to the Future) y los hermanos Duffer (Stranger Things).

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (The Morning Show, Miss Sloane) y David Oyelowo (Selma, Nightingale) protagonizarán The Girl Before en HBO Max y BBC One. Jane (Mbatha-Raw) tiene la oportunidad de vivir en una bonita casa minimalista diseñada por un enigmático arquitecto (Oyelowo) a cambio de seguir unas estrictas normas en toda la calle que no permiten los libros, las fotos o el desorden. Jane cree que la casa la está cambiando y descubre qué le ocurrió a la chica que vivió allí antes que ella. Creada, escrita y producida por J.P. Delaney y basada en su propia novela (2016) y dirigida por Lisa Brühlmann (Killing Eve, Servant). Cuatro episodios.

Netflix encarga diez episodios de una comedia multicámara centrada en Chelsea (Emily Osment; Young & Hungry, Hannah Montana), una altanera e ingeniosa intelectual sin habilidades sociales para vivir en el mundo real que se ve obligada a vivir con su despreocupada y jovial hermana y sus amigos, uno de ellos Grant (Gregg Sulkin; Runaways, Wizards of Waverly Place), un dulce y romántico entrenador personal. Creada, escrita y producida por Jack Dolgen (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Diary of a Future President) y Doug Mand (How I Met Your Mother, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend). Producida por Kourtney Kang (How I Met Your Mother, Fresh Off the Boat) y dirigida por Pamela Fryman (How I Met Your Mother, Frasier).

Shira Haas (Unorthodox, Shtisel) interpretará a Golda Meir, la primera y única primera ministra mujer de Israel, en el drama Lioness. Basada en el libro de Francine Klagsbrun (2017), escrita por Eric Tuchman (The Handmaid's Tale, Kyle XY), dirigida por Mimi Leder (The Morning Show, The Leftovers) y producida por Barbra Streisand (A Star Is Born), Nina Tassler y Denise Di Novi (Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands).

Amazon encarga The Devil's Hour, thriller británico sobre una mujer que se despierta cada día a las 3:33 de la mañana. Su hijo de ocho años es retraído y falto de emociones, su madre habla con sillas vacías y su casa está encantada. Ahora su nombre está inexplicablemente conectado a una serie de brutales asesinatos en la zona. Escrita por Tom Moran (The Feed, White Rabbit), dirigida por Johnny Allan (The Irregulars) y producida por Steven Moffat (Sherlock, Doctor Who).

Disney+ adaptará We Begin at the End, la novela de Chis Whitaker (2020) que sigue la relación entre Vincent King, un convicto que sale de prisión treinta años después de haber matado a una niña de siete años; Duchess Ray Radley, la sobrina de trece años de la víctima; y el jefe de policía de un pequeño pueblo de California cuyo testimonio envió a Vincent a prisión aunque era su mejor amigo. Producida por Thomas Kail (Hamilton) y Jennifer Todd (City on a Hill).

Netflix encarga una serie de animación de Asterix & Obelix basada en el libro 'Le combat des chefs'. Dirigida por Alain Chabat (Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra).

Apple TV+ encarga Dr. Brain, adaptación de acción real de la historieta digital coreana que sigue a un científico (Lee Sun-kyun, Parasite) obsesionado con encontrar nuevas tecnologías para acceder a la consciencia y los recuerdos cuya familia sufre un misterioso accidente. Utilizará sus habilidades para acceder a los recuerdos de su esposa para entender qué ocurrió y por qué. Escrita, dirigida y producida por Kim Jee-woon (Mil-jeong).

David Simon (The Wire, Treme) y George Pelecanos (The Wire, Treme) escribirán y producirán We Own This City, limited series de HBO que cuenta la historia real de la unidad de rastreo de armas de la policía de Baltimore. Basada en el libro del periodista Justin Fenton (2021).

Starz prepara un revival de Party Down con el regreso de actores y productores. Seis episodios.

IMDb TV encarga un spin-off de Bosch en el que Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) se embarca en el siguiente capítulo de su carrera y trabaja junto a su antiguo enemigo Honey "Money" Chandler (Mimi Rogers) para encontrar justicia. Volverá también Madison Lintz en el papel de Maddie Bosch.

ITV ha encargado cuatro episodios de The Thief, His Wife and the Canoe, un drama true crime sobre John Darwin, el funcionario de prisiones que fingió su muerte en un accidente con una canoa en 2002 para estafar a compañías de seguros. Anne, su esposa, denunció su desaparición en la costa de Cleveland, Inglaterra, y mintió incluso a sus hijos. Basado en un manuscrito no publicado del periodista David Leigh, que encontró y entrevistó a Anne en Panamá. Escrita y producida por Chris Lang (Unforgotten, Dark Heart) y dirigida por Richard Laxton (Mrs. Wilson, Him & Her).

ABC Signature ha adquirido Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, las memorias de Rebekah Taussig (2020), para su adaptación televisiva. Trata sobre una chica paralítica que creció en los noventa sin referentes adecuados en la ficción que retratasen su discapacidad como algo complejo y ordinario, incómodo y bello, doloroso y enriquecedor, y que quiere reflejar las complicaciones de la amabilidad y la caridad, vivir de forma dependiente e independiente, experimentar intimidad y cómo la omnipresencia del capacitismo en los medios de comunicación y las redes sociales se traslada directamente a la vida diaria. Escrita y producida por Taussig y dirigida y producida por Randall Einhorn (The Office, Parks and Recreation).

Fechas

Calls se estrena en Apple TV+ el 19 de marzo

La 1ª parte de la sexta y última temporada de Supergirl se estrena en The CW el 30 de marzo

La 4ª temporada de No Activity, que será de animación, se estrena en Paramount+ el 8 de abril

La tercera y última temporada de Pose se estrena en FX el 2 de mayo

La 2ª parte de la primera temporada de Ghostwriter se estrena en Apple TV+ el 2 de mayo

La segunda temporada de Duncanville se estrena en FOX el 23 de mayo

Housebroken se estrena en FOX el 31 de mayo

Tráilers y promos

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tabloidtoc · 4 years

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Star, October 12

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: The Real Reason for Duchess Kate Middleton’s Dramatic Weight Loss -- Prince William convinced Kate has the same problems as Princess Diana

Page 1: Wendy Williams wore a dress for the season premiere of her show that showed off her 25-pound slimdown and a pair of sneakers because she has lymphedema which involves blockage in the lymphatic system that causes a build-up of lymph fluid in the arms and legs

Page 2: Contents, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban

Page 3: Mark Wahlberg is passionate about honoring those on the frontlines of the pandemic and has donated face masks and tablets, Jennifer Lahmers showed some skin during a pit stop at a gas station in Malibu, after relocating from New York City to Los Angeles Kristen Taekman soaking up the rays in Malibu, Viggo Mortensen at the 68th San Sebastian International Film Festival where he received the Donostia Award and premiered his new film Falling

Page 4: Brad Pitt’s Scientology nightmare -- getting screamed at and spending hours in a sweat box had Brad running from the religion

Page 5: Vanessa Bryant and her mom Sofia Laine have very different ideas of how to spend the $500 million fortune left by the late basketball great Kobe Bryant -- Sofia cried poor claiming that her daughter had booted her out of her home and taken back her car while Vanessa accused her mom of freeloading while failing to be present or emotionally supportive in the wake of the helicopter crash that also took the life of Vanessa’s 13-year-old daughter Gianna, no sooner had Ellen DeGeneres completed her monologue on her first day back on TV than the firestorm started as former employees accused her of making light of allegations of a toxic work environment, music lessons are just one of the many amenities at the federal correctional facility Lori Loughlin will head to in November and while she’s paying her dues for dropping a $500,000 bribe to get her daughters into college she can also keep toned with Pilates and yoga and sleep in on Sundays before sitting down to brunch at the Victorville, California prison

Page 6: He’s got an Oscar and an Emmy and a shelf full of other awards and now Rami Malek is looking for some trophy friends -- Rami and girlfriend Lucy Boynton have been trying to break into the A-list socially and it’s not going as planned because they tend to get along great with the behind-the-scenes people in the business like Rami’s high-powered agents but when it comes to striking up friends with other celebrities it’s just not clicking because Rami comes off as curt and better-than-thou plus Rami and Lucy are so into each other and to each other they’re the biggest stars in the world which is a big turnoff to other celebs, Martha Stewart has absolutely zero complaints about quarantine, Star Spots the Stars -- Issa Rae, Kate Hudson, Ellen Pompeo, Brie Larson, Rachel Brosnahan, Sofia Richie, Halsey

Page 8: Star Shots -- Orlando Bloom in his classic 1940′s Ford truck, masked Demi Lovato showed off her engagement ring at the This Is Paris screening, Chrishell Stause leaving Dancing with the Stars rehearsals

Page 11: Jon Stewart returned to Capitol Hill to advocate for a new health bill for veterans, Paris Hilton and Paris Jackson at the screening of This Is Paris, Tiger Woods during a practice run ahead of the U.S. Open

Page 12: Kaley Cuoco pushing her dog Dumpy in a stroller in NYC, Jesse Metcalfe on his beloved motorcycle

Page 13: John Leguizamo paid up during a chess game in Washington Square Park, Yolanda Hadid embraced the offerings from her garden after completing a 30-day cleanse, Reese Witherspoon reading Furia with her dog Lou

Page 14: Hailey Bieber on a pool float, Donatella Versace in Sardinia in Italy, Irina Shayk out in New York City

Page 16: Anne Heche after rehearsal for Dancing with the Stars, Alessandro Nivolo got into character to shoot the Sopranos prequel, Justin Bieber watched as a youth group performed a dance routine to his song Holy

Page 17: David Beckham during a night out with friends in London, Leighton Meester surfing in Malibu

Page 18: Normal or Not? Jude Law doing a sweaty workout in London -- normal, Christina Milian treated herself to a shopping spree in Los Angeles -- normal, Ian Somerhalder got literal at the premiere of Kiss the Ground a documentary about soil regeneration in Los Angeles -- not normal

Page 20: Fashion -- stars charm in drop-sleeve dresses -- Laura Harrier, Taylor Swift, Isla Fisher

Page 21: Margaret Qualley, Lupita Nyong’o, Chloe Bennet

Page 24: Kim Kardashian gearing up for single life -- the reality star posts sexy pics as her divorce from Kanye West looms

Page 25: Jessica Simpson is itching to make a comeback on the small screen and she believes a reality series featuring her family including husband Eric Johnson and their kids Maxwell and Ace and Birdie would reintroduce her to America and a younger audience but her husband has no interest in being her costar because he feels living a private life is what holds their family together, Christina Anstead threw fans for a loop when she announced that she and Ant Anstead were splitting up after less than two years of marriage but the two have been at odds ever since welcoming their son Hudson in 2019 and quarantining made it even worse, Katharine McPhee sparked pregnancy speculation after stepping out in L.A. with what appeared to be a noticeably larger midsection

Page 26: Fears for Duchess Kate -- friends and family are worried as the stressed-out mom of three shrinks to an unhealthy 95-pounds

Page 29: Prince Harry in hot water after urging Americans to vote

Page 30: Angelina Jolie’s lonely life -- single for years Angie has turned away from adult friends and loved ones and now spends almost all her time holed up at home with her children

Page 32: Real Housewives Drama -- a raft of departures are shaking up the Bravo universe; here’s the scoop on what really went down -- Denise Richards, Nene Leakes, Dorinda Medley, Teddi Mellencamp

Page 34: From Homeless to Millionaires -- here are some real rags-to-riches stories of stars who learned the hard way the value of a dollar -- Jennifer Lopez, Daniel Craig, Shania Twain

Page 35: Chris Pratt, Halle Berry, Hilary Swank

Page 36: Style -- shop for a cause -- Elizabeth Hurley

Page 38: Christina Applegate

Page 40: Entertainment

Page 48: Parting Shot -- Miley Cyrus left little to the imagination closing out the second night of the 2020 iHeartRadio Music Festival

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THE CAVALCADE OF AMERICA: “SKYLARK SONG”

June 21, 1948

The Cavalcade of America ran on NBC Radio from 1935 to 1953. It featured events from American history, usually dramatizing the positive aspects of the nation’s past. Additionally, the show attempted to end criticism of its sponsor, the Du Pont Company due to negative publicity from profiting by producing gunpowder during World War I.

Throughout the years, actors and actresses from Broadway and Hollywood were featured. The show was broadcast live from the Longacre Theatre in NYC and repeated later in the day.

In 1952, the series was transferred to NBC television and lasted until 1957, nearly identical to the run of “I Love Lucy” on CBS. For six months the radio and television versions also overlapped. The TV version featured “Lucy” actors Robert Foulk, Dayton Lummis, Byron Foulger, Maurice Marsac, Ross Elliott, Roy Roberts, Hayden Rorke, Pierre Watkin, Will Wright, Nestor Paiva, Joi Lansing, Dorothea Wolbert, Don Rickles, Burt Mustin, Lurene Tuttle, Gladys Hurlbut, Paul Picerni, Richard Reeves, James Flavin, Larry J. Blake, Peter Graves, Rhodes Reason, Irving Bacon, Milton Frome, Eleanor Audley, Joe Mell, Mary Ellen Kay, Mario Siletti, John Banner, Harry Bartell, Robert Carson, William Fawcett, Mabel Paige, June Whitley Taylor, Iron Eyes Cody, Strother Martin, Norma Varden, Madge Blake, Ellen Corby, Dick Elliott, Vivi Janiss, Ida Moore, Elizabeth Patterson, Frank J. Scannell, Herb Vigran, and William Schallert.

Synopsis: "Skylark Song" by Virginia Radcliff is the story of Grace Moore, charting her climb from a small southern church choir to star of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

Grace Moore (December 5, 1898 – January 26, 1947) was an operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film. Born in Slabtown, Tennessee, she was nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience. She was nominated for the Academy Award for for her performance in One Night of Love. In 1947, Moore died in a plane crash at the age of 48. She published her autobiography in 1944 titled You're Only Human Once.

In 1953, a film about her life was released titled So This Is Love starring Kathryn Grayson and Lucy’s friend Merv Griffin. The movie featured “Lucy” players Herb Vigran, Victorio Bonanova, Moroni Olsen, Mario Siletti, Ray Kellogg, Olin Howland, Tristram Coffin, Jack Chefe, and Barbara Pepper as Fat Girl with Sailor in Nightclub!

Lucille Ball (Grace Moore) may be the last person on earth one would consider to play one of the most famous opera singers of all time - but this was radio - and recordings of Grace Moore and studio singers were used to supplement the program. Ball affects a slight southern accent during the broadcast. Operatic trills and other miscellaneous singing by the character was provided by Marjorie Brett and Marjorie Hamilton.

Lucille Ball signed the contract for “Skylark Song” on June 11, 1948 and was paid $3,500 for her work.

The story starts when Moore is 17, convincing her father to allow her to attend music school. She goes to New York City where her father tells her to “only take parts in Shakespeare”. She tells him she will report to theatrical impresario David Belasco to ask him if she can play Juliet.

GRACE: “Hark! What light through yonder window breaks...”

Belasco stops her. Moore is reciting Romeo’s speech because that is the role she played in school. Lucille Ball purposely does a very stilted rendition, with a large country twang.

Lucy Ricardo also did Romeo and Juliet in school, later hoping to repeat her triumph with Orson Welles.

Belasco sends her to see composer and producer George Gershwin, who unfortunately hasn’t got a job for her.

In 1920, Moore finally lands a job in the chorus of a Broadway show called “Hitchy-Koo.” The show was produced by Raymond Hitchcock (hence the unusual name) with music by Jerome Kern (”Showboat”).

GRACE: “Well, Daddy, what do you think of your skylark, now?”

Grace lands an audition at the Metropolitan Opera but is told that her Broadway work has damaged her classically-trained voice and sent away.

GRACE: “I’m either a skylark or a mud hen. There’s nothing in between.”

A fortune teller named Carmen tells her that she should go to Europe and make her name. In a montage sequence, Moore trains in Europe. Now at the peak of her vocal range, Grace finally gets a job at the Metropolitan Opera as Mimi in La Boheme.

Her proud father and mother attend Grace’s triumphant opening night.

Announcer Ted Pearson sums up Grace’s remarkable journey, as well as her tragic death in a plane crash in Denmark.

Pearson reminds us that next week on The Cavalcade of America Basil Rathbone will play Thomas Jefferson in “The Common Glory”...

...and that Lucille Ball will soon be seen in the Paramount Picture Sorrowful Jones, despite the fact that the film will not premiere until a year later, June 1949. Filming began on April 7, 1948.

#Lucille Ball #Grace Moore #Cavalcade of America #NBC #Radio #Metropolitan Opera #Sorrowful Jones #1948 #Basil Rathbone #Longacre Theatre #David Belasco #Broadway #Hitchy-Koo #George Gershwin #Romeo and Juliet #Tennessee #So This Is Love #Kathryn Grayson #DuPont

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Who are your favorite characters from fiction, animated or live action and why?

Don't know if I actually have one in written fiction... maybe Snufkin from the Moomin books, or Reepicheep from The Voyage of The Dawn Treader: they both just represent an appealing heroic archetype of bravery, freedom and individuality. Likewise Tom Saywer and Huckleberry Finn. Oh, and Owen Meany.

In movies and TV shows, I guess there must be lots: Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter, Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Richard E. Grant as Withnail, Morgan Freeman as Somerset, Roberto Benigni in Down By Law, Tyrion Lannister, Tony Soprano, Alan Partridge, Mike Ehrmantraut, Walter White, Towelie in South Park, Dr Sanchez in Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Spike in Buffy, Chris in Northern Exposure, everybody in Arrested Development.

Steve Zissou, Indiana Jones, Jack Sparrow, Norma Desmond, Harry Powell, William of Baskerville, Ellen Ripley, Jules Winnfield, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Peter Venkman, Howard Beale, Frank T.J. Mackey, Frank Drebin, Emmett Brown, Marge Gunderson, Loren Visser, Anton Chigurh...

Like I say, there's lots.

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aion-rsa · 3 years

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Gotti II Production Announced at MobMovieCon

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John Gotti got his nickname, “The Teflon Don,” because it took forever for lawyers to get charges to stick. Armand Assante, the actor who played the iconic New York City outlaw in HBO’s original crime film Gotti: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Mafia Don, is also in for the long haul. Assante will reprise his role in the upcoming Gotti Il: The Final Chapter, Facts Undisputed, it was announced at the event “Gotti: The Reunion,” which kicked off the MobMovieCon and SopranosCon weekend at Harrah’s Resort and Casino in Atlantic City.

“Gotti II, the long-awaited sequel to the 1996 multiple PrimeTime Emmy Award-winning Gotti, will be made and will begin filming immediately,” Michael Mota, CEO of VirtualCons, said in a statement. “Returning in the title role is Armand Assante, the celebrated actor who took home the Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special Emmy for his powerful, moving portrayal of John Gotti. I might add that Armand serves as Chairman of the Board of VirtualCons.”

Gotti II will be produced by Vision Studios’ John Arreola (The Jerry Springer Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show), Arnold Rifkin (Tears of the Sun, 16 Blocks, (Live Free or Die Hard), and presented by 3fams, LLC in association with VirtualCons. The script will be written by Nick Vallelonga, “who co-wrote and produced Green Book, and who received Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture Academy Awards for his contributions to that unforgettable and already iconic film,” enthused Mota, who is Executive Producer of the Gotti sequel.

Mota also announced the production’s key advisor, John A. Gotti. “He is an unrivaled living repository of fact regarding the life and times of his father,” Mota said in a statement, “a surgeon of sorts who cuts away the malignancies of falsehoods, innuendos, and slander to reveal the truth about the man who raised him, the man whose name he carries, the man to whom he is devoted.

“John’s mission is to tell his father’s story factually and comprehensively, which is precisely why he has come to us in our shared capacity as storytellers. He understands that with Gotti II we will deliver the truth via the powerful vehicle of dramatic fiction. He knows that the Gotti fictions written and told as fact by so-called authorities are best described as bogeyman tales – fables cynically designed to keep an under-informed citizenry scared and willing to excuse the many illegal and immoral excesses of their self-proclaimed ‘honorable’ protectors.”

Gotti Jr. comes to the production bearing further gifts. “John has granted the producers and creative corps of Gotti II unfettered access to his family archives, including hundreds of hours of video and audio tapes and thousands of pages of public, private, and even allegedly secret documents,” Mota said. “The only promise we make to John and, by extension, his family is one of honesty throughout the storytelling process. He has willingly accepted our assurance that punches will not be pulled, and he acknowledges that corrective surgery is never bloodless, but, when done with skill and honor, almost always effective.”

The Gotti II creative team also announced the production of a documentary “thoroughly informed by the Gotti archives.” The producers plan to convert the former Ravenite Social Club, the 247 Mulberry Street space that is commonly described as the Manhattan headquarters of the Gambino crime family during the 1970s and 1980s, into a museum. “The space will display items from the aforementioned Gotti archives and interactively tell a true story undiminished by official and cultural disinformation,” Mota said.

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Gotti: The Rise and Fall of a Real Life Mafia Don was directed by Robert Harmon. It was the highest rated original film for HBO when it first aired in 1996, and its success led to the greenlighting of The Sopranos. Tony Sirico, Vincent Pastore, and Dominic Chianese, who portrayed Gambino underboss Joseph “Piney” Armone, were all major players. Gotti also starred William Forsythe as Sammy “the Bull” Gravano, Anthony Quinn as Gotti’s mentor Aniello Dellacroce, and Robert Miranda as consigliere Frank DeCicco.

Assante, Chianese, Forsythe, and Miranda were all on hand for the announcement, which was made during “Gotti: The Reunion”, the opening event at the newly merged MobMovieCon and SopranosCon. Before the Teflon tag stuck, real life John Gotti was known as the Dapper Don. Besides his obvious street cred, he had a reputation as a man who knew how to throw a block party.

The MobMovieCon and SopranosCon weekend at Harrah’s Resort and Casino in Atlantic City recreates the feel, and taste, of city festivals, in an immersive experience for gangster movie fans. The event started as a convention for fans of The Sopranos, and brings a special New Jersey flavor to their celebration of cinematic crime classics. Between screenings and celebrations of films like The Godfather, Scarface, Goodfellas, The Irishman, and Gotti, visitors can nibble sausage and peppers, zeppoli or as much cannoli as it takes to bring home a prize.

The weekend culminates with the very first Mob Movie Awards, which will be hosted by Ice T on Sunday July 25.

MobMovieCon runs in Atlantic City through July 25 at Harrah’s Resort. Tickets start at $50 for general admission and $75 for a two-day pass. VIP tickets cost up to $1,000.

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August 01 in Music History

1685 Birth of composer Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni.

1740 FP of Thomas Arne's masque Alfred.

1749 Birth of Irish tenor John Johnstone in Kilkenny.

1755 Birth of composer Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi.

1766 Birth of composer Ignaz Anton Franz Xavier Ladurner.

1824 Birth of composer Edward Francis Fitzwilliam.

1831 Birth of Italian baritone Antonio Cotogni in Rome.

1840 Birth of composer Aldine Sillman Kieffer.

1847 Birth of Italian violinist Guido Papini in Camagiore.

1848 Birth of Bohemian composer Frantisek Kmoch.

1848 Birth of French bass Pierre Gailhard in Toulouse.

1858 Birth of Austrian composer Hans Rott in Vienna.

1873 Birth of Belgian-American conductor, violinist and composer Henri Verbruggen in Brussels.

1871 Birth of composer Oskar Fried.

1877 Birth of American pianist Angela Diller in Brooklyn.

1888 Birth of composer Vito Frazzi.

1893 Antonin Dvorak finishes his String Quintet in Eb, Op 97 on summer vacation at Czech settlement in Spillville Iowa.

1899 Birth of German-American conductor William Steinberg in Cologne.

1908 Birth of Czech composer Miloslav Kabelac in Prague.

1913 Birth of American composer Jerome Moross in Brooklyn.

1914 Birth of American composer Jack Delano.

1917 Birth of American mezzo-soprano Lili Chookasian, in Chicago.

1921 FP of Paul Hindemith's String Quartet No. 3, Op. 16, by the Amar Quartet, with Hindemith violist, in Donaueschingen, Germany.

1923 Birth of composer Yoshinao Nakada.

1926 Birth of German bass-baritone Theo Adam, in Dresden.

1926 Birth of Austrian-American pianist, composer Karl Kohn.

1930 Birth of English musical composer Lionel Bart in London.

1931 Birth of Irish composer Sean O Raida.

1931 Birth of Portuguese tenor Nico Castel in Lisbon.

1934 Birth of German horn player Herman Baumann.

1942 Birth of Swedish tenor Cleas Hakan Ahnsjo in Stockholm.

1949 Birth of American composer Primous Fountain III in Chicago, IL.

1951 Birth of American composer Robin Julian Heifetz.

1952 Birth of American composer Thomas Massella.

1968 FP of Anton Webern's Rondo for string quartet.

1969 Death of Ukrainian bass Boris Gmyrya.

1973 Birth of Israeli composer Avior Byron in Petach-Tikva.

1973 Death of Italian composer Gian Francesco Malipiero.

1993 FP of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's Concerto for Horn and String Orchestra. David Jolley with the Rochester Philharmonic, Lawrence Leighton Smith conducting at the Bravo! Music Festival in Vail, CO.

1997 Death of Russian pianist Svyatoslav Richter.

2003 FP of Kaija Saariaho's Quatre Instants for chamber orchestra and soprano. Karita Mattila with Finnish Chamber Orch/Saraste.

2004 FP of Benjamin Britten's Voluntary on Tallis's Lamentations by organist Timothy Bond at BBC Proms concert at Royal Albert Hall, London.

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2005/2006 TV Awards

Best Drama Series: Battlestar Galactica Grey's Anatomy Lost The Sopranos 24 HONORABLE MENTION: Big Love, Everwood, House, Law & Order, Medium, Rescue Me, Rome, The Shield, Six Feet Under, Veronica Mars, The West Wing, Without a Trace Best Actor - Drama Series: Matthew Fox, Lost - "Man of Science, Man of Faith" James Gandolfini, The Sopranos - "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request..." Hugh Laurie, House - "No Reason" Denis Leary, Rescue Me - "Justice" Edward James Olmos, Battlestar Galactica - "Resurrection Ship, Parts 1 & 2" Kiefer Sutherland, 24 - "Day 5: 7:00 A.M. - 8:00 A.M." HONORABLE MENTION: Michael Chiklis, The Shield; Vincent D’Onofrio, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Michael C. Hall, Six Feet Under; Peter Krause, Six Feet Under; Anthony LaPaglia, Without a Trace; Kevin McKidd, Rome; Christopher Meloni, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Bill Paxton, Big Love; Gregory Smith, Everwood; Jimmy Smits, The West Wing; James Spader, Boston Legal; Ray Stevenson, Rome; Sam Waterston, Law & Order; Bradley Whitford, The West Wing; Treat Williams, Everwood Best Actress - Drama Series: Patricia Arquette, Medium - "Sweet Child O' Mine" Kristen Bell, Veronica Mars - "Normal Is the Watchword" Frances Conroy, Six Feet Under - "Everyone's Waiting" Edie Falco, The Sopranos - "Join the Club" Mary McDonnell, Battlestar Galactica - "Epiphanies" Polly Walker, Rome - "An Owl in a Thornbush" HONORABLE MENTION: Geena Davis, Commander in Chief; Jennifer Garner, Alias; Ginnifer Goodwin, Big Love; Rachel Griffiths, Six Feet Under; Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Allison Janney, The West Wing; Evangeline Lilly, Lost; Ellen Pompeo, Grey’s Anatomy; Kim Raver, 24; Chloe Sevigny, Big Love; Jeanne Tripplehorn, Big Love Best Supporting Actor - Drama Series: Alan Alda, The West Wing - "Two Weeks Out" Tom Amandes, Everwood - "Pieces of Me" Joseph Gannascoli, The Sopranos - "Johnny Cakes" Gregory Itzin, 24 - "Day 5: 6:00 A.M. - 7:00 A.M." T.R. Knight, Grey's Anatomy - "The Name of the Game" Forest Whitaker, The Shield - "Kavanaugh" HONORABLE MENTION: Adewale Akkinnuoye-Agbaje, Lost; James Callis, Battlestar Galactica; Omar Epps, House; Walton Goggins, The Shield; Ciaran Hinds, Rome; Robert Iler, The Sopranos; Michael Imperioli, The Sopranos; Kenneth Johnson, The Shield; Daniel Dae Kim, Lost; Jack McGee, Rescue Me; Tobias Menzies, Rome; Terry O’Quinn, Lost; Chris Pratt, Everwood; James Purefoy, Rome; Freddy Rodriguez, Six Feet Under; Richard Schiff, The West Wing; Tony Sirico, The Sopranos; Jake Weber, Medium Best Supporting Actress - Drama Series: Lauren Ambrose, Six Feet Under - "Everyone's Waiting" Katherine Heigl, Grey's Anatomy - "Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response"/"Losing My Religion" Tricia Helfer, Battlestar Galactica - "Downloaded" Katee Sackhoff, Battlestar Galactica - "Lay Down Your Burdens, Parts 1 & 2" Jean Smart, 24 - "Day 5: 6:00 A.M. - 7:00 A.M." Chandra Wilson, Grey's Anatomy - "It's the End of the World"/"As We Know It" HONORABLE MENTION: Candice Bergen, Boston Legal; Blythe Danner, Huff; Lindsay Duncan, Rome; Lisa Edelstein, House; Diane Farr, Rescue Me; Merrilyn Gann, Everwood; Sharon Gless, Queer as Folk; Yunjin Kim, Lost; Justina Machado, Six Feet Under; S. Epatha Merkerson, Law & Order; Debra Mooney, Everwood; Diane Neal, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy; Grace Park, Battlestar Galactica; CCH Pounder, The Shield; Mary Lynn Rajskub, 24; Michelle Rodriguez, Lost; Emily Van Camp, Everwood Best Writing - Drama Series: Battlestar Galactica - "Downloaded" - Bradley Thompson & David Weddle Lost - "The Whole Truth" - Christina M. Kim & Elizabeth Sarnoff Rescue Me - "Happy" - Denis Leary, Evan Reilly & Peter Tolan Rome - "Kalends of February" - Bruno Heller Six Feet Under - "Everyone's Waiting" - Alan Ball The Sopranos - "Join the Club" - David Chase HONORABLE MENTION: Battlestar Galactica - “Epiphanies”; Battlestar Galactica - “Lay Down Your Burdens”; Battlestar Galactica - “Scattered”; Big Love - “Affair”; Everwood - “Pieces of Me; Grey’s Anatomy - “Deterioration of the Fight or Flight Response”; Grey’s Anatomy - “Into You Like a Train”; House - “The Mistake”; Law & Order - “Acid”; Law & Order: Criminal Intent - “In the Wee Small Hours”; Lost - “The Other 48 Days”; Medium - “Judge, Jury and Executioner”; Rome - “Triumph”; Rome - “Utica”; The Shield - “Postpartum”; Six Feet Under - “All Alone”; Six Feet Under - “Ecotone”; The Sopranos - “Mayham”; The Sopranos - “Members Only”; 24 - “Day 5: 7:00 A.M. - 8:00 A.M.”; 24 - “Day 5: 6:00 A.M. - 7:00 A.M.”; Veronica Mars - “Donut Run”; Veronica Mars - “Happy Go Lucky”; The West Wing - “Institutional Memory”; Without a Trace - “A Day in the Life” Best Directing - Drama Series: Battlestar Galactica - "Lay Down Your Burdens, Parts 1 & 2" - Michael Rymer Grey's Anatomy - "It's the End of the World"/"As We Know It" - Peter Horton The Shield - "Post Partum" - Stephen Kay The Sopranos - "Members Only" - Tim Van Patten 24 - "Day 5: 6:00 A.M. - 7:00 A.M." - Jon Cassar Veronica Mars - "Donut Run" - Rob Thomas HONORABLE MENTION: Battlestar Galactica - “Downloaded”; Battlestar Galactica - “Epiphanies”; Everwood - “An Ounce of Prevention”; Grey’s Anatomy - “Into You Like a Train”; Grey’s Anatomy - “Losing My Religion”; House - “Euphoria”; Law & Order - “Heart of Darkness”; Law & Order: Criminal Intent - “In the Wee Small Hours”; Lost - “Live Together, Die Alone”; Lost - “The Other 48 Days”; Lost - “The Whole Truth”; Rescue Me - “Happy”; Rome - “Kalends of February”; Rome - “The Spoils”; The Shield - “Extraction”; Six Feet Under - “Ecotone”; Six Feet Under - “Everyone’s Waiting”; The Sopranos - “Join the Club”; The Sopranos - “Mr. and Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request”; 24 - “Day 5: 2:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.”; 24 - “Day 5: 1:00 A.M. - 2:00 A.M.”; Veronica Mars - “Not Pictured”; Without a Trace - “A Day in the Life” Best Guest Actor - Drama Series: Christian Clemenson, Boston Legal - “Ivan the Incorrigible” Matt Craven, Without a Trace - "A Day in the Life" Henry Ian Cusick, Lost - "Live Together, Die Alone, Parts 1 & 2" Michael Emerson, Lost - "One of Them" Hal Holbrook, The Sopranos - "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" Colm Meaney, Law & Order: Criminal Intent - "In the Wee Small Hours, Parts 1 & 2" HONORABLE MENTION: Shelley Berman, Boston Legal; Kyle Chandler, Grey’s Anatomy; Gordon Clapp, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Vincent Curatola, The Sopranos; Thomas Dekker, House; William Devane, 24; Charles S. Dutton, House; Michael J. Fox, Boston Legal; Kelsey Grammer, Medium; Richard Jenkins, Six Feet Under; Justin Kirk, Without a Trace; Ron Livingston, House; Rob Lowe, The West Wing; Matt O’Leary, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Jeff Perry, Grey’s Anatomy; Oliver Platt, The West Wing; Julian Sands, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Tom Selleck, Boston Legal; James Patrick Stuart, Medium; Lee Tergesen, Rescue Me; James Woods, ER Best Guest Actress - Drama Series: Patricia Clarkson, Six Feet Under - "The Rainbow of Her Reasons" Michelle Forbes, Battlestar Galactica - "Resurrection Ship, Parts 1 & 2" Kristen Johnston, ER - "All About Christmas Eve" Lucy Lawless, Battlestar Galactica - "Downloaded" Laurie Metcalf, Without a Trace - "A Day in the Life" Katey Sagal, Lost - "Lockdown" HONORABLE MENTION: Kathy Baker, Nip/Tuck; Kate Burton, Grey’s Anatomy; L. Scott Caldwell, Lost; Jessica Hecht, ER; Christina Hendricks, Without a Trace; Anjelica Huston, Huff; Monica Keena, Grey’s Anatomy; Swoosie Kurtz, Huff; Kathy Lamkin, Nip/Tuck; Mary Stuart Masterson, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; Samantha Mathis, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Laurie Metcalf, Grey’s Anatomy; Cynthia Nixon, House; Lena Olin, Alias; Tatum O’Neal, Rescue Me; Alison Pill, Law & Order: Criminal Intent; Nicole Sullivan, Boston Legal; Sela Ward, House; Betty White, Boston Legal Best Ensemble - Drama Series: Battlestar Galactica Grey's Anatomy Lost Rome Six Feet Under The Sopranos HONORABLE MENTION: Big Love, Boston Legal, ER, Everwood, House, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The O.C., Prison Break, Queer as Folk, Rescue Me, The Shield, 24, Veronica Mars, The West Wing Best New Drama Series: Big Love Close to Home The Inside Prison Break Rome HONORABLE MENTION: The Bedford Diaries, Commander in Chief, What About Brian Best Comedy Series: Arrested Development Everybody Hates Chris Extras The Office Scrubs HONORABLE MENTION: The Comeback, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Desperate Housewives, Entourage, Gilmore Girls, How I Met Your Mother, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, My Name Is Earl Best Actor - Comedy Series: Jason Bateman, Arrested Development - "The Ocean Walker" Zach Braff, Scrubs - "My Five Stages" Steve Carell, The Office - "The Injury" Ricky Gervais, Extras - "Kate Winslet" Jason Lee, My Name Is Earl - "Pilot" Tony Shalhoub, Monk - "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head" HONORABLE MENTION: Kevin Connolly, Entourage; Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm; Bernie Mac, The Bernie Mac Show; Josh Radnor, How I Met Your Mother; Tyler James Williams, Everybody Hates Chris Best Actress - Comedy Series: Tichina Arnold, Everybody Hates Chris - "Everybody Hates Jail" Lauren Graham, Gilmore Girls - "Friday Night's All Right for Fighting" Ashley Jensen, Extras - "Samuel L. Jackson" Jane Kaczmarek, Malcolm in the Middle - "Lois Strikes Back" Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback - "Valerie Relaxes in Palm Springs" Mary-Louise Parker, Weeds - "You Can't Miss the Bear" HONORABLE MENTION: Alexis Bledel, Gilmore Girls; Marcia Cross, Desperate Housewives; Teri Hatcher, Desperate Housewives; Felicity Huffman, Desperate Housewives; Eva Longoria, Desperate Housewives; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, The New Adventures of Old Christine; Debra Messing, Will & Grace Best Supporting Actor - Comedy Series: Will Arnett, Arrested Development - "Making a Stand" Michael Cera, Arrested Development - "S.O.B.s" Terry Crews, Everybody Hates Chris - "Everybody Hates a Part Time Job" Charlie Day, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - "Charlie Wants an Abortion" John Krasinski, The Office - "The Secret" Jeremy Piven, Entourage - "Exodus" HONORABLE MENTION: Bryan Cranston, Malcolm in the Middle; Kevin Dillon, Entourage; Donald Faison, Scrubs; Tony Hale, Arrested Development; Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother; Glenn Howerton, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Justin Kirk, Weeds; Rob McElhenney, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; John C. McGinley, Scrubs; Scott Patterson, Gilmore Girls; Jason Segel, How I Met Your Mother; Rainn Wilson, The Office Best Supporting Actress - Comedy Series: Jenna Fischer, The Office - "Booze Cruise" Kaitlin Olson, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - "Underage Drinking: A National Concern" Elizabeth Perkins, Weeds - "Higher Education" Jaime Pressly, My Name Is Earl - "Joy's Wedding" Judy Reyes, Scrubs - "Her Story II" Jessica Walter, Arrested Development - "Development Arrested" HONORABLE MENTION: Kelly Bishop, Gilmore Girls; Sarah Chalke, Scrubs; Portia de Rossi, Arrested Development; Alyson Hannigan, How I Met Your Mother; Melora Hardin, The Office; Megan Mullally, Will & Grace; Alia Shawkat, Arrested Development; Nicollette Sheridan, Desperate Housewives; Cobie Smulders, How I Met Your Mother Best Writing - Comedy Series: Arrested Development - "Development Arrested" - Richard Day, Mitchell Hurwitz, Chuck Tatham & Jim Vallely Everybody Hates Chris - "Everybody Hates the Pilot" - Ali LeRoi & Chris Rock Extras - "Samuel L. Jackson" - Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant It's Always Sunny in Phildelphia - "Charlie Wants an Abortion" - Charlie Day & Rob McElhenney The Office - "Christmas Party" - Michael Schur The Office - "The Injury" - Mindy Kaling HONORABLE MENTION: Arrested Development - “Forget Me Now”; Arrested Development - “The Ocean Walker”; Arrested Development - “S.O.B.s”; The Comeback - “Valerie Relaxes in Palm Springs”; Entourage - “Exodus”; Everybody Hates Chris - “Everybody Hates a Part Time Job”; Extras - “Kate Winslet”; Extras - “Patrick Stewart”; Gilmore Girls - “Friday Night’s All Right for Fighting”; Gilmore Girls - “We’ve Got Magic to Do”; How I Met Your Mother - “Game Night”; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - “Charlie Got Molested”; My Name Is Earl - “Joy’s Wedding”; My Name Is Earl - “Quit Smoking”; The Office - “Booze Cruise”; The Office - “Casino Night”; The Office - “The Fire”; Scrubs - “My Five Stages”; Scrubs - “My Way Home” Best Directing - Comedy Series: Arrested Development - "Development Arrested" - John Fortenberry Arrested Development - "S.O.B.'s" - Bob Berlinger Curb Your Enthusiasm - "The Ski Lift" - Larry Charles Extras - "Kate Winslet" - Ricky Gervais & Stephen Merchant The Office - "Booze Cruise" - Ken Kwapis The Office - "Christmas Party" - Charles McDougall HONORABLE MENTION: Arrested Development - “Fakin’ It”; Arrested Development - “Mr. F” Arrested Development - “The Ocean Walker”; The Comeback - “Valerie Does Another Classic Leno”; Curb Your Enthusiasm - “The End”; Curb Your Enthusiasm - “The Smoking Jacket”; Entourage - “Exodus”; Everybody Hates Chris - “Everybody Hates the Pilot”; Extras - “Samuel L. Jackson”; Gilmore Girls - “Friday Night’s All Right for Fighting”; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - “Charlie Got Molested”; It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia - “Charlie Wants an Abortion”; My Name Is Earl - “Joy’s Wedding”; The Office - “Casino Night”; The Office - “The Fire”; The Office - “The Injury”; Scrubs - “My Five Stages”; Scrubs - “My Lunch”; Scrubs - “My Way Home” Best Guest Actor - Comedy Series: Scott Baio, Arrested Development - "Forget Me Now" Beau Bridges, My Name Is Earl - "Cost Dad the Election" Malcolm McDowell, Entourage - "Exodus" Sydney Pollack, Will & Grace - "Blanket Apology" Grant Rosenmeyer, Monk - "Mr. Monk and Little Monk" Patrick Stewart, Extras - "Patrick Stewart" HONORABLE MENTION: Jason Alexander, Monk; Anthony Anderson, The Bernie Mac Show; Bobby Cannavale, Will & Grace; Rhys Coiro, Entourage; Bob Einstein, Arrested Development; Dave Foley, Scrubs; Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Weeds; Giovanni Ribisi, My Name Is Earl; Michael Rosenbaum, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; David Sutcliffe, Gilmore Girls; John Turturro, Monk Best Guest Actress - Comedy Series: Justine Bateman, Arrested Development - "Family Ties" Kathryn Joosten, My Name Is Earl - "Quit Smoking" Shirley Knight, Desperate Housewives - "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" Laurie Metcalf, Monk - "Mr. Monk Bumps His Head" Charlize Theron, Arrested Development - "The Ocean Walker" Kate Winslet, Extras - "Kate Winslet" HONORABLE MENTION: Elizabeth Banks, Scrubs; Brett Butler, My Name Is Earl; Blythe Danner, Will & Grace; Loretta Devine, Everybody Hates Chris; Cheryl Hines, Scrubs; Allison Janney, Weeds; Kathryn Joosten, Desperate Housewives; Cloris Leachman, Malcolm in the Middle; Michael Learned, Scrubs; Marion Ross, Out of Practice; Nicole Sullivan, Scrubs; Ashley Williams, How I Met Your Mother; Constance Zimmer, Entourage Best Ensemble - Comedy Series: Arrested Development Desperate Housewives Everybody Hates Chris Gilmore Girls The Office Scrubs HONORABLE MENTION: Curb Your Enthusiasm, Entourage, How I Met Your Mother, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Malcolm in the Middle, Weeds, Will & Grace Best New Comedy Series: The Comeback Everybody Hates Chris Extras How I Met Your Mother It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia My Name Is Earl HONORABLE MENTION: Kitchen Confidential, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Out of Practice, Weeds Best TV Movie/Miniseries: Bleak House Elizabeth I Gideon's Daughter Sleeper Cell Thief HONORABLE MENTION: Flight 93, The Girl in the Cafe, High School Musical, Human Trafficking, Speak, Walkout Best Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries: Andre Braugher, Thief Charles Dance, Bleak House Hugh Dancy, Elizabeth I Michael Ealy, Sleeper Cell Bill Nighy, The Girl in the Cafe HONORABLE MENTION: Zac Efron, High School Musical; Oded Fehr, Sleeper Cell; Bill Nighy, Gideon’s Daughter; Michael Pena, Walkout Best Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries: Gillian Anderson, Bleak House Kelly Macdonald, The Girl in the Cafe Anna Maxwell Martin, Bleak House Helen Mirren, Elizabeth I Kristen Stewart, Speak HONORABLE MENTION: Kathy Bates, Ambulance Girl; Annette Bening, Mrs. Harris; Miranda Richardson, Gideon’s Daughter; Mira Sorvino, Human Trafficking; Alexa Vega, Walkout Best Supporting Actor - TV Movie/Miniseries: Jeremy Irons, Elizabeth I Toby Jones, Elizabeth I Patrick Kennedy, Bleak House Ben Kingsley, Mrs. Harris Denis Lawson, Bleak House HONORABLE MENTION: Clifton Collins Jr., Thief; Phil Davis, Bleak House; Burn Gorman, Bleak House; Tom Hardy, Gideon’s Daughter; Alex Nesic, Sleeper Cell; Jeffrey Nordling, Flight 93; Efren Ramirez, Walkout; Donald Sutherland, Human Trafficking Best Supporting Actress - TV Movie/Miniseries: Emily Blunt, Gideon's Daughter Pauline Collins, Bleak House Laura Harring, Walkout Carey Mulligan, Bleak House Mae Whitman, Thief HONORABLE MENTION: Cloris Leachman, Mrs. Harris; Elizabeth Perkins, Speak; Ashley Tisdale, High School Musical; Sonya Walger, Sleeper Cell Best Variety Series: The Colbert Report The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Late Night with Conan O'Brien Late Show with David Letterman Saturday Night Live HONORABLE MENTION: Real Time with Bill Maher Best Variety Special: Bill Maher: I'm Swiss The 63rd Annual Golden Globe Awards Kathy Griffin: Strong Black Woman South Pacific in Concert From Carnegie Hall (Great Performances) The 59th Annual Tony Awards HONORABLE MENTION: The 78th Annual Academy Awards, AFI’s 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes, Kathy Griffin Is…Not Nicole Kidman, The 2005 MTV Movie Awards Best Male Performer - Variety Series/Special: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report Hugh Jackman, The 59th Annual Tony Awards David Letterman, Late Show with David Letterman Brian Stokes Mitchell, South Pacific in Concert From Carnegie Hall (Great Performances) Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart HONORABLE MENTION: Fred Armisen, Saturday Night Live; Jason Daniely, South Pacific in Concert From Carnegie Hall (Great Performances); Will Forte, Saturday Night Live; Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live; Steve Martin, Saturday Night Live; Conan O’Brien, Late Night with Conan O’Brien; Andy Samberg, Saturday Night Live; Jason Sudeikis, Saturday Night Live Best Female Performer - Variety Series/Special: Rachel Dratch, Saturday Night Live Kathy Griffin, Kathy Griffin: Strong Black Woman Reba McEntire, South Pacific in Concert From Carnegie Hall (Great Performances) Amy Poehler, Saturday Night Live Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live HONORABLE MENTION: Tina Fey, Saturday Night Live; Kathy Griffin, Kathy Griffin Is…Not Nicole Kidman; Scarlett Johansson, Saturday Night Live; Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Saturday Night Live; Sara Ramirez, The 59th Annual Tony Awards; Maya Rudolph, Saturday Night Live; Lillias White, South Pacific in Concert From Carnegie Hall (Great Performances) Best Animated Series: Family Guy King of the Hill South Park HONORABLE MENTION: The Simpsons Best Voice-Over Performer - Animated Series: Alex Borstein, Family Guy - "Breaking Out Is Hard to Do" Dan Castellaneta, The Simpsons - "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife" Mike Judge, King of the Hill - "Hank's on Board" Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy - "Pretarded" Trey Parker, South Park - "Cartoon Wars, Parts 1 & 2" Matt Stone, South Park - "Marjorine" HONORABLE MENTION: Pamela Adlon, King of the Hill; Seth Green, Family Guy; Mike Henry, Family Guy; Julie Kavner, The Simpsons; Kathy Najimy, King of the Hill; Yeardley Smith, The Simpsons Best Reality Series - Competition: The Amazing Race American Idol America's Next Top Model Big Brother Project Runway Survivor HONORABLE MENTION: The Apprentice, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, Beauty and the Geek, Hell’s Kitchen, Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Gauntlet II, Top Chef Best Reality Series - Non-Competition: Hogan Knows Best Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List The Real World 30 Days Wife Swap HONORABLE MENTION: Being Bobby Brown, The Simple Life, The Surreal Life, Three Wishes Breakthrough Male Performance: Charlie Day, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Steven R. McQueen, Everwood Josh Radnor, How I Met Your Mother Andy Samberg, Saturday Night Live Tyler James Williams, Everybody Hates Chris HONORABLE MENTION: Bill Hader, Saturday Night Live; Rob McElhenney, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia; Robert Michael Morris, The Comeback; Hunter Parrish, Weeds; Tequan Richmond, Everybody Hates Chris Breakthrough Female Performance: Malin Akerman, The Comeback Kerry Condon, Rome Kaitlin Olson, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Tessa Thompson, Veronica Mars Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live HONORABLE MENTION: Corri English, The Bedford Diaries; Allie Grant, Weeds; Imani Hakim, Everybody Hates Chris; Autumn Reeser, The O.C.; Nadine Velazquez, My Name Is Earl

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Tachyon tidbits featuring Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Joe R. Lansdale, Nick Mamatas, and Tim Powers

The latest reviews and mentions of Tachyon titles and authors from around the web.

Tachyon tidbits featuring Ann & Jeff VanderMeer, Joe R. Lansdale (photo: Karen Lansdale), Nick Mamatas, and Tim Powers (Matt Gush)

NEUKOM INSTITUTE announces that Ann and Jeff VanderMeer will judge 2019 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards.

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, two influential figures in speculative fiction, have been announced as judges for the 2019 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards, presented annually at Dartmouth College to honor and support the spec fic genre.

“I am very honored to be a judge for this important award,” said Ann VanderMeer. “As an editor, it has been my goal to find and promote the best speculative work out there and present it to the widest audience. The Neukom awards program is an opportunity for me to discover and shine a bright light onto the past year’s best fiction and share those stories and writers with everyone.”

“We’re delighted to help support this exciting award,” Jeff VanderMeer said. “It definitely will make a difference in writers’ careers in the years to come.”

William Boyle at CRIME READS proposes Screwball Noir: A Hypothetical Film Festival.

Matt Zoller Seitz, the critic who is one half of the team (along with Alan Sepinwall) behind The Sopranos Sessions, an episode-by-episode analysis of David Chase’s seminal show, recently curated The Sopranos Film Festival at the IFC Center in New York, highlighting “the series’ influences and legacy on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.” Influenced by such inspired programming, I thought it’d be fun to curate a hypothetical film festival for my new novel, A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself. I’ve picked favorite road trip narratives, great New York City stories, screwball noirs that take place in an off-kilter yet plausible world, explorations of friendship and violence, and films that aren’t afraid to blend reality with myth and legend. I’ve split the films into four themed categories: “Live Dogs and Dead Lions,” “A History of Violence,” “Full of Life,” and “Fear and Desire.”

A short history of films that have shaped my sense of violence and action. Three of these are based on books that I love—Jim Thompson’s The Getaway, Barry Gifford’s Wild at Heart, and Joe R. Lansdale’s COLD IN JULY—and they’re successful adaptations that also work on their own terms, marrying balletic action and brutal violence with weirdness and (at least in the case of the latter two) comic elements.

For TOR.COM in The Lovecraft Reread, Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth discuss Nick Mamatas’s “That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable,” which first appeared in Ellen Datlow’s Lovecraft Unbound.

So this is a very clever story, making clever points about the meaninglessness of existence and of human interaction. It gives the reader—at least, this reader—a sort of Cthulhoid perspective on the protagonists. “Are they worth watching for a few more minutes? Would my existence be made marginally more pleasant if someone ate them five minutes sooner? Should I go back to sleep now?”

Stubby the Rocket, also at TOR.COM, includes Tim Powers’ Anubis Gates in 8 Very Good Time Traveling Doggos.

Tim Powers’ time travel classic features two nods to the canine: one of its villains is Amenophis Fikee, better known as Dog-Face Joe, a body-swapping magician/murderer. So far so good. But he earned his nickname because of a spell gone awry, thick fur to grow on each new body he inhabits. The more dog-like he becomes, them more urgent it is that he murder his host body and move on to the next one.

And of course the Gates themselves—portals to the past that draw on ancient Egyptian magic—are based on the dog-headed god Anubis. He’s the judge of the dead in Egyptian cosmology, and if you think that doesn’t play into the story you need to revisit Chekov’s maxim about Ancient Egyptian Deities appearing in Act One

For more about COLD IN JULY, visit the Tachyon page.

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Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

Ever since Mary Poppins (1964) gave the Walt Disney Studios acclaim from audiences and within Hollywood, the House of Mouse had toyed with the idea of a sequel. The correct circumstances never aligned – partly due to author P.L. Travers’ defensiveness to her Mary Poppins books, partly due to the demands of then-Disney chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg when he approached Travers in the 1980s. Nevertheless, Travers allowed the company to produce a stage musical version of Mary Poppins – with the request that no one (specifically the Sherman Brothers) from the original film version be involved – in the 1990s. Travers did not live to see the stage musical’s successful 2004 debut, but this renewal of trust between Travers (and her estate) and Disney marked a change in the wind after the belatedly famous acrimony between Travers and Walt Disney behind the 1964 film. With the blessing from the Travers estate, Disney secured the rights two a Mary Poppins sequel in September 2015.

Directed by Rob Marshall, Mary Poppins Returns – like many recent Disney live-action films – adheres too closely to the original’s storytelling formula and, specifically in this film’s case, functional musical structure set by its predecessor. The film is nevertheless a fantastic portrayal of Mary Poppins the character. It is blessed with craftsmanship and possesses a score that – although inferior to the original (an almost-impossible bar to clear) – is among the best for an original movie musical in years.

It is 1935 in London and the Great Depression is at its height. Twenty-five years after the events of Mary Poppins, a grown-up Michael Banks (Ben Whishaw) still lives at 17 Cherry Tree Lane. Now, he lives there with his children – Annabel (Pixie Davies), John (Nathanael Saleh), and Georgie (Joel Dawson) – and housekeeper Ellen (Julie Walters). Michael, who works as a teller at his father’s old stomping grounds, the Fidelity Fiduciary Bank, is recently widowed, and his sister Jane (Emily Mortimer) has moved back in to help him with the children. Compounding these troubles is the fact that Michael has taken out a loan from the bank, but cannot pay the money bank. The bank, now led day-to-day by William “Weatherall” Wilkins (Colin Firth), is threatening to repossess the house. On a stormy day in the park across the street, Michael’s children are playing with a kite when Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) appears. Lamplighter Jack (Lin-Manuel Miranda) is there with the children, and introduces Annabel, John, and Georgie to Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins has arrived, in her own words, “to look after the Banks children.”

Also appearing in Mary Poppins Returns are Mary Poppins’ cousin Topsy (Meryl Streep), Admiral Boom (David Warner), and first mate Mr. Binnacle (Jim Norton). Angela Lansbury, Dick Van Dyke, and Karen Dotrice (who played Jane in the original film) all make cameo appearances. Lansbury, at ninety-three years of age when this film was released, is now the oldest credited actor to appear in a Walt Disney Studios movie (Van Dyke is two months younger).

Where the 1964 original eventually revealed itself to be a reminder on how to be a loving parent despite personal flaws and professional pressures, Mary Poppins Returns’ message of loss affects all. That message appears almost the moment we meet Michael Banks. The grown-up Michael Banks is living life paralyzed in grief; his sorrow – even in the least visible moments – is self-evident to the children. For both sets of Banks children (Jane and Michael; Annabel, John, and Georgie) Mary Poppins has arrived to partially fill in what has been lost, as well as allow each set of children to see what the others need. Jane and Michael Banks – tending to the financial matters at 17 Cherry Tree Lane – have been engulfed in finding the money to pay for the loan on the family house. The most disappointing change in Mary Poppins Returns compared to the original is that this film presents an obvious villainous figure in Colin Firth’s character. Firth, in a criminal abuse of his character’s power, destroys the evidence of proof that the Banks family can pay the loan quickly. As a result, Jane and Michael Banks learn little else other than to simply be tenacious and not let their unfortunate circumstances define who they are – worthy messages both, but deeply unsatisfying compared to what could have been without a villain. For Annabel, John, and Georgie, Mary Poppins’ arrival introduces an air of childhood excitement long missing from the household. But in the end, for this new generation of Banks children, they grow to see their father’s situation through his eyes. They learn to take care of him, and let him know that he is not alone in missing a loved one.

Here again is Disney’s adherence to the original, with variations. Mary Poppins Returns will also introduce certain things that retroactively canonize (“retcon”) aspects of the original, including whether Michael and Jane remember fully what happened the first time Mary Poppins arrived (or perhaps they believed they have imagined it). Most of the retconning adds little depth to either the original or this sequel. The introduction of a villain (previously described) and a frantic race-against-time sequence just before the climax are frustrating developments. The decision not to have an antagonist separated Mary Poppins from numerous Disney animated and live-action films; today, a film without any antagonist would feel radical in contemporary mainstream filmmaking. The temptation to include a rush to the climax also befell a similarly-themed movie like Christopher Robin (2018) – a clichéd addition which does nothing except to provide composer Marc Shaiman the opportunity to craft a dexterous, technically complicated cue for the score. More on Shaiman and the music soon.

The child performers and much of the supporting cast do fine in their roles (Meryl Streep’s character should have been taken out of the film entirely). Lin-Manuel Miranda even graces the audiences with a gloriously terrible British accent just like Dick Van Dyke did as Bert in Mary Poppins. The film obviously belongs to Emily Blunt, who decided not to rewatch Julie Andrews’ performance so that she could make this portrayal of the character her own. In Mary Poppins Returns, Blunt does exactly that – embodying her version of Mary with dryness, a more pronounced vanity (never to an infuriating extent), and charm. As a character, Mary Poppins is ultimately unknowable to all. That mystique is complemented here with Blunt’s (an alto to Andrews’ soprano; Andrews is unquestionably the better singer, but it is best to go into Mary Poppins Returns without burdening Andrews-esque expectations on Blunt) excellent performance.

The stunning production design from John Myhre (2002′s Chicago, 2005′s Memoirs of a Geisha) and Gordon Sim (Chicago, 2009′s Nine) replicates Depression-era London with exterior griminess, contrasting that with the visual wonder of Topsy’s residence and the noticeably stagebound set where the grand lamplighter number occurs. Sandy Powell’s costume design, likewise, is gorgeous. But the film’s technical mastery is centered around the hybrid hand-drawn animation and live-action scenes that last around twenty minutes. In pre-production, director Rob Marshall knew that he wanted his film – in honor of the original Mary Poppins and the Disney animators who worked on that film – to employ hand-drawn animation. Yet the priorities of the Walt Disney Studios between 1964 and 2018 are day and night. Disney executives wanted Marshall to have computerized animation, to which Marshall voiced his vehement opposition. Under the now-disgraced John Lasseter and current Disney Chairman/CEO Bob Iger, the Walt Disney Animation Studios quietly and gradually released almost all of its hand-drawn animators in the mid-2010s in favor of those specializing in CGI animation – the part of the Walt Disney Company that is the spiritual center of the modern corporate behemoth no longer has the resources to make anything other than the occasional short film. A good portion of the animators who came to work on Mary Poppins Returns were hired on a temporary basis with Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. But Mary Poppins Returns is now the first theatrical Disney film employing animation that was mostly drawn by outside animation studios. Their combined work is spectacular, but this development signals what has happened, in-house, at Walt Disney Animation Studios.

With Richard M. Sherman serving as musical consultant, it is up to composer Marc Shaiman (1995′s The American President; 1999′s South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) and lyricist Scott Wittman (the original Broadway production of Hairspray – along with Shaiman) to compose material aligned to the Sherman Brothers’ musical identity to the original while serving this sequel for what it is. Beginning with the oxymoronic (not in the movie’s context, but reality) “(Underneath the) Lovely London Sky”, Shaiman and Wittman establish Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Jack as the seemingly omnipresent, on-again/off-again narrator through whom we enter the story. Orchestral quotations of “The Life I Lead” from Mary Poppins signal that this film will make spare, but noticeable references to the Sherman Brothers’ score. “Can You Imagine That?” – during its first appearance and later references in the score – is the effervescent entry inviting the audience (and the younger set of Banks children) to enjoy themselves during this film. “The Royal Doulton Music Hall” and “A Cover is Not the Book” might not be for everyone, but the songs introduce a certain growl and Cockney attitude to Blunt’s performance previously thought unimaginable in the cinematic Mary Poppins character (yet has some precedent in Travers’ books). Miranda also raps in “A Cover is Not the Book” – the idea of rap in a Sherman Bros. or a Shaiman and Wittman score seems antithetical to their respective styles, but Miranda makes it work.

“Trip a Little Light Fantastic” – if the dudes and dudettes reading this review can forgive the anachronistic BMX stunting – makes me believe that Hollywood’s major studios should employ Miranda in more song-and-dance musicals if they are willing to invest in the genre. “Nowhere to Go But Up” closes the film, quotes more Sherman Brothers songs, and should be listened to in context. Streep’s “Turning Turtle” is a musical dud, despite the interesting Eastern European instrumentation. Mary Poppins Returns’ best song – musically and contextually – is “The Place Where Lost Things Go”. Many of the songs in Mary Poppins Returns are analogous to songs from Mary Poppins, and this lullaby sung by Blunt and later reprised is no exception. “The Place Where Lost Things Go” is this film’s “Feed the Birds” (Walt Disney’s song from any of the films he produced). This song has a perfect marriage of melody and lyrics, but ironically (in terms of my earlier request that viewers separate Julie Andrews’ original performance of Mary when watching Mary Poppins Returns) this is the most visible moment in the film where audiences may notice that Emily Blunt does not have the musical acumen to fully carry this moment. Blunt’s performance in “The Place Where Lost Things Go”, however, is good enough to underline the film’s poignancy. Shaiman’s integration of almost all of the musical numbers into the film’s incidental score is breathtaking in orchestration and construction. Used within and outside the film, Shaiman’s score is a career cinematic accomplishment.

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The original Mary Poppins, Julie Andrews, was approached by Marshall to appear in a cameo. She declined, remarking that, “this is Emily’s show,” and that she did not wish to distract from Emily Blunt’s star turn. Coincidentally, a film including Julie Andrews opened against Mary Poppins Returns’ debut in North America. The film was Aquaman (2018), and Andrews voiced the Karathen – a legendary creature of the deep that assists the eponymous superhero.

Mary Poppins Returns does not refute or undermine the legacy of the 1964 original film – lightning in a bottle for Walt Disney Studios upon its release and still the greatest live-action Disney film ever made. The brilliant central performance from Blunt is not hampered by her limited vocal range, and she assisted by incredible technical masters working behind the camera. The storytelling blueprint of the original can be found across the film, however. Though I welcome the artistry Mary Poppins Returns brings, it is yet another example of the current incarnation of Walt Disney Studios cannibalizing its famed catalogue. The studio – which is now a soon-to-be-approved studio acquisition away from being the dominant force in Hollywood – is attempting to redefine cinematic consumption on its own terms. Mary Poppins Returns, for its musical mastery, is a part of those efforts.

My rating: 7/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found here.

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Best Tv Series Of All Time

'South Park' 1997-Present

Matt Stone and Trey Parker touched America somewhere specific and deep, and also you must respect their authori-teh. Year after yr, this cartoon began, Matt Stone informed Rolling Stone, "We would see achievement as lastly getting to the point where we get canceled because no one gets it." So here's to not exactly twenty years of failure – and hopefully 20 more.

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'Monty Python's Flying Circus' 1969 74

And now for some thing completely various. The best comedy cock tail – five British intellectuals along with a token American clod, Terry Gilliam, running amok about the BBC. Monty Python were the Beatles of comedy, each one an indispensable aspect in the chemistry, from John Cleese rage to Eric Idle -stick wordplay. The Pythons were godfathers to all ambitious jokers who adopted – Lorne Michaels and Chevy Chase satisfied in line for an Ultimate Goal screening. But these 45 episodes stay the comedic equivalent of Mount Everest: the mountain with all the biggest tits on earth, forbidding, aloof, terrifying.

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'Game of Thrones' 2011-Present

The night is dark and full of terrors, particularly. With its premise of "The Sopranos in middle earth," it is the HBO fantasy sequence that broke through style boundaries to stake its claim as one of the most compellingly realistic dramas on the air, going beyond George R.R. Martin's publications. It may grab attention with the nudity, the dragons and severed heads, but in your mind it's a thriller. As Martin told Rolling Stone, "History is written in blood, a gold mine – the kings, the princes, the generals along with the whores, and all the betrayals and wars and confidences. It's better than 90 percent of exactly what the fantasists do make up."

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'Cheers' 1982 93

You need a place where everybody knows your title – even supposing it's just a dive-bar in Boston total of regulars with no place else to go. Cheers started with an emphasis on the mis-matched passionate banter between Ted Danson's washed-up Red-Sox pitcher Sam and Shelley Long's up tight bookworm Diane. ("Over my dead body!" "Hey, do not b-ring last night into this.") But it regularly renewed it self by bringing in new blood like Kelsey Grammer, Kirstie Alley and Woody Harrelson. Cheers was like that bar, to the point where you can tune in to see which regulars would hang tonight.

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'The Daily Show' 1996-Present

The fake news show that became more credible in relation to the news. Comedy Central began The Daily Present in 1996, when Jon Stewart took over in 1999, but it hit its stride. The Everyday Present got more abrasive as the the headlines got worse. Stewart had the rage of a man who'd signed on in the end of the Bill Clinton years, only to finish up with an America significantly scarier and uglier for, and also the anger showed. "It really is a comic box lined with sadness," he advised Rolling Stone in 2006. While the franchise struggles on without him, Everyday alumni John Oliver and Samantha Bee keep that hardhitting spirit on their own shows.

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'Twin Peaks' 199091, 2017

"These women are authentically dreamy," Twin Peaks auteur David Lynch told Rolling Stone in 1990. "They are all just chef chicks. And they're just jam-packed with strategies." The little town of Twin Peaks is complete of the women as well as their deadly secrets, from senior high school homecoming queen Laura Palmer that is murdered to alive-and- how seductress Audrey Horne. Several years after Blue Velvet, Lynch's surreal Pacific Northwest secret followed Kyle MacLachlan as FBI agent Dale Cooper, on a search for damn-good espresso along with the the answer.

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'Deadwood' 2004-06

Al Swearengen's moral philosophy: "You can't cut the throat of every cock-sucker whose character it would boost." Spoken like a Founding Father that is true. He is the villain of David Milch's epic Western set in the mud and slime of an 1870s South Dakota gold-mining camp. At the center of it all (i.e., the saloon), Ian McShane's Al glowers, pours drinks, counts money and slices jugulars, in a frontier hellhole total of prospectors, whores, drunks and lost freaks looking for one last deadly fight to get in to (and often finding it at Al's spot). It was like McCabe & Mrs. Miller with mo Re depressing intercourse scenes. The first two seasons are strong gold, the third, flimsier, but Deadwood is about how communities get constructed – and every one of the dirty function that involves.

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'The West Wing' 1999-2006

Aaron Sorkin gave America the the first choice we didn't really deserve in the benevolent President Jed Bartlet of Martin Sheen, a high-toned Catholic professor from New Hampshire. Premiering in late 1999, The West Wing played the same as a Bubba-period fantasy of the way the political potential would appear (like in case the Democrats had a little more bravery, or in the event the Republicans had a theory or two) that soon ended up being utterly out of step with the Bush-Cheney years. But Sorkin's trademark rapid-fire dialogue as well as the Bartlet administration's idealism created this a parallel-universe that was a welcome.

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'Louie' 2010-Present

Louis C.K.'s stubbornly auteurist FX sit-com doesn't look or sense like any such thing else on Television – he writes, directs and stars as himself, a single-dad stand up comic in New York. If Louie wants to display himself in the car air-drumming to "Who Are You?" and mortifying his daughters, he goes for this. If he desires to abandon the half hour comedy format completely for an extended indie-movie vibe with Charles Grodin and Ellen Burstyn, he does that too. Louis C.K. May vanish in to his own head for whole seasons, however totally original emotional peaks are also hit by him just like the one when he inadvertently makes a buddy that is male and travels to Miami. (No, it does not last.)

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'Star Trek' 196669

The Star-Ship Enterprise took off using a five-year mission: "To discover odd new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations," and it succeeded in making the most beloved of sci-fi franchises, maybe not just inspiring countless spin offs but also codifying fan fiction as an art form. Gene Roddenberry's original collection remains the the inspiration, with William Shatner's awesomely pulpy Capt. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy's logical Mr. Spock, Bones, Sulu, Uhura and Scotty. They speak to strange and inexplicable lifeforms – Romulans, Gorns, Joan Collins. During its three years, Star Trek endured low ratings until NBC pulled the plug, but thanks to the most doggedly faithful of TV cults (remember when "Trekkie" was an insult?), Roddenberry's vision lives long and prospers to the day.

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Noticias de series de la semana: Renovaciones que nos hacen felices

Renovaciones

Netflix ha renovado The Crown por una sexta y última temporada

Netflix ha renovado Dead to Me por una tercera y última temporada

Hulu ha renovado Ramy por una tercera temporada

FX ha renovado Better Things por una quinta temporada

The CW ha renovado Stargirl por una segunda temporada

Netflix ha renovado The Last Kingdom por una quinta temporada

FOX ha renovado The Moodys por una segunda temporada

BBC Two ha renovado Vienna Blood por una segunda temporada

Gold ha renovado Sandylands por una segunda temporada

BBC Two ha renovado Guilt por una segunda temporada

Quibi ha renovado Most Dangerous Game por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones

Netflix ha cancelado Chilling Adventures of Sabrina tras su cuarta temporada

HBO ha cancelado Run tras su primera temporada

Noticias cortas

Peter Lenkov, productor y showrunner de MacGyver y Magnum P.I., ha sido despedido tras una investigación por las quejas de que creaba un ambiente tóxico de trabajo.

Fichajes

Javicia Leslie (God Friended Me) sustituye a Ruby Rose como protagonista de Batwoman. Será Ryan Wilder, una joven lesbiana sin referentes que traficó con drogas esquivando a la policía y ahora vive en una furgoneta.

Quvenzhané Wallis (Beasts of the Southern Wild, Annie) protagonizará Swagger junto a O'Shea Jackson Jr. Será Crystal, una joven jugadora de baloncesto.

Pósters

Nuevas series

Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid's Tale, Mad Men) será Candy Montgomery, el ama de casa asesina de Texas, en la limited series Candy, que se venderá a cadenas de cable y plataformas. Escrita y producida por Robien Veith (Mad Men, The Act).

Michelle Williams (Fosse/Verdon, Blue Valentine) y Oscar Isaac (Show Me a Hero, Star Wars) protagonizarán y producirán Scenes From a Marriage, limited series de HBO adaptación de la serie dirigida por Ingmar Bergman (1973) que reexaminará su representación del amor, el odio, el deseo, la monogamia o el divorcio. Escrita, dirigida y producida por Hagai Levi (The Affair, In Treatment).

Damian Lewis (Homeland, Billions) y Dominic West (The Wire, The Affair) están en conversaciones para protagonizar y producir la adaptación de la novela A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, de Ben Macintyre (2014), para Spectrum y BritBox. Es un thriller de espionaje centrado en la amistad entre Kim Philby (West), oficial de inteligencia británica y agente doble de la KGB; y Nicholas Elliott (Lewis), colega del MI6. Escrita por Alexander Cary (Homeland, Taken). Seis episodios.

HBO Max desarrolla Rip Crew, drama criminal sobre un antiguo agente del FBI y actual profesor de criminología que descubre que sus alumnos planean un atraco y decide robarles el plan. Escrito por Mike Weiss (Chicago PD, Stumptown) y producido por Michael Seitzman (Code Black, Quantico).

Christopher Cantwell (Iron Man) desarrolla la adaptación del cómic Paper Girls, sobre cuatro chicas de un pequeño pueblo de Ohio que viajan a distintas líneas temporales y conocen a sus versiones alternativas, para Amazon.

Preparan una serie sobre la turbulenta vida de Sylvia Kristel, sex symbol de los 70 y actriz protagonista de Emmanuelle, basada en su autobiografía. Creada y escrita por Bénédicte Charles y Olivier Pouponneau, se grabará en francés. Seis episodios.

FX desarrolla una nueva serie escrita, dirigida y producida por Matthew Weiner (Mad Men). Se desconocen detalles.

HBO Max encarga doce episodios de Young Love, spin-off del cortometraje Hair Love (2019). Esta primera temporada se centrará en los padres millennials Stephen y Angela, su hija Zuri y su mascota Rocky mientras manejan sus carreras, el matrimonio, la paternidad, temas sociales y dinámicas multiculturales y se esfuerzan en mejorar sus vidas. Escrito por Matthew A. Cherry (Hair Love) y Carl Jones (The Boondocks).

Showtime desarrolla Blackbird: Lena Horne and America, una limited series sobre la actriz, cantante y activista en favor de los derechos civiles Lena Horne. Escrita y producida por Jenny Lumet, nieta de Horne; y Alex Kurtzman, que ya trabajaron juntos en Star Trek: Picard o Star Trek: Discovery y han creado juntos Clarice para CBS.

Amazon desarrolla Tether, drama sobrenatural que sigue el terrorífico viaje del fantasma de Madelyn Woods, que quiere escapar de la casa donde murió y vengarse de quienes secuestraron a su marido y a su hijo y la asesinaron a ella. Escrito y producido por Kevin Hamedani (Junk) y Travis Betz (Lo). Producido por Daniel Dae Kim (The Good Doctor).

Showtime prepara La Bravura, dramedia y thriller psicológico en el que un marido graba un documental sobre el robo de su mujer en el Getty Museum y su matrimonio se ve afectado. Escrito y producido por Tad Quill (Scrubs, The Moodys).

HBO Max y Matt Reeves (Felicity, The Passage) desarrollarán un drama policial ambientado en Gotham City y en el mismo universo que la nueva película The Batman. Escrita por Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos). Aún no tiene título, pero algunos la llaman Gotham Central.

Amazon desarolla The Jungle Prince of Delhi, drama adaptación de un artículo de The New York Times escrita por Ellen Barry que nos contó la historia de la familia real de Oudh, aristócratas destituidos que viven en un palacio ruinoso en la capital de la India y dicen ser los herederos de un reino caído. Dirigida y producida por Mira Nair (A Suitable Boy).

Fechas

La tercera temporada de The Young Offenders se estrena en BBC Three el 19 de julio

A Suitable Boy se estrena en BBC One el 26 de julio

Little Birds se estrena en Sky Atlantic el 4 de agosto

Away llega a Netflix el 4 de septiembre

Woke se estrena en Hulu el 9 de septiembre

La segunda temporada de PEN15 se estrena en Hulu el 18 de septiembre

Tráilers y promos

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Hyperallergic: Art Movements

Michelangelo Buonarroti, “Study of a Mourning Woman” (ca 1500–05), pen and brown ink, heightened with white lead opaque watercolor, 26 × 16.5 cm (courtesy J. Paul Getty Museum)

Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

Suzanne Malyon, the head of the “Stop Anish Kapoor stealing our light and colour!” campaign, accused the artist of being “mean-spirited” following the approval of his studio extension by Southwark Council. Local residents fought against Kapoor’s proposed design, arguing that the architectural extension would block natural light to their properties. “He’s part of the moneyed, connected establishment and we feel like we’re not listened to as we’re less able to afford lawyers,” Malyon told Dezeen.

Phillips withdrew a painting attributed to Mark Grotjahn from auction after the artist suggested in a comment on Instagram that the work wasn’t his. “Yo Phillips. (. Dm. Me. ),” Grotjahn wrote, “I’m not sure I made this. Either way it sucks.”

The Getty Museum will display Michelangelo’s “Study of a Mourning Woman” (ca 1500–05) for a limited time through October 29.

Photographer Çağdaş Erdoğan was arrested in Istanbul after allegedly photographing the MİT building, the headquarters of Turkey’s National Intelligence Centre.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History returned the remains of Igiugig ancestors excavated 87 years ago.

Dozens of neo-Nazi flyers and stickers, bearing slogans such as “Beware the International Jew” and “Imagine a Muslim-Free America,” were displayed at the University of Houston.

The German government launched a new website providing detailed information on the recently enacted Cultural Property Protection Law. Opposed by a number of dealers, the legislation requires an export license from the country of origin for any antiquity offered for sale in the country.

Arturo Di Modica’s “Charging Bull” (1989) sculpture near Wall Street was vandalized with blue paint as part of a climate change campaign dubbed “Draw The Blue Line.”

Gillian Wearing unveiled the design for her Parliament Square monument to suffragist Millicent Fawcett.

New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission decided to consider the former home and studio of Willem de Kooning for designated status.

Sony Pictures released the trailer for Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, a dramatization of the kidnapping of Paul Getty (aka John Paul Getty III) in 1973.

Maurizio Cattelan unveiled his own Instagram account dubbed “The Single Post Instagram.”

Apple announced Animoji, an animated set of emoji available in iOS 11.

Transactions

Banksy, “Civilian Drone Strike” (2017) (courtesy the artist)

Banksy’s “Civilian Drone Strike” (2017) was sold at the Art the Arms Fair for $277,000. The proceeds will be donated to Campaign Against Arms Trade and Reprieve.

Consultancy Samuel Beilin and Partners sold five Liverpool murals created by Banksy to an anonymous Qatari buyer for £3.2 million (~$4.3 million).

The New York Foundation for the Arts will expand its Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program to Detroit, Newark, Oakland, and San Antonio following a two-year grant provided by the Ford Foundation [via email announcement].

H. Keith Melton donated his collection of spy artifacts to the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. The gift includes a “victory” flag carried by CIA-backed Cuban exiles during the Bay of Pigs invasion and a 13-foot World War II submarine known as the “Sleeping Beauty.”

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston announced a 10-year partnership with UNIQLO USA.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts received $331,054 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant will be used to support the museum’s “Connect to Conservation” program.

A George Daniel’s “Space Travelers” (1982) timepiece sold at Sotheby’s for £3,196,250 ($4,324,526), cementing its record as the world’s most expensive English watch. The timepiece charts both mean-solar and sidereal time.

A stash of vintage cinema posters used as carpet underlay was sold at auction for £72,000 (~$98,000). The posters were recovered by two builders during the renovation of a house in Wales in 1985.

Carl Schünemann donated 35 paintings to the Kunsthalle Bremen, including works by Adam van Breen, Hyronimus Sweerts, Hubert van Ravesteyn, and Jacob Ochtervelt.

Hubert van Ravesteyn, “Tabakstilleben” (1670), oil on wood, 67 x 52.5 cm (courtesy Kunsthalle Bremen)

Transitions

The Broad added four new members to its board of directors: Thomas Campbell, Sherry Lansing, Joanne Heyeler, and Deborah Kanter.

Gen. J.R. “Jack” Dailey, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, will retire in January 2018

Leslie Griesbach Schultz will step down as the president of BRIC in June 2018.

Henry Tang Ying-yen was appointed the chair of Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA).

John Abodeely was appointed CEO of the Houston Arts Alliance.

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy was appointed director of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.

Graham C. Boettcher was appointed director of the Birmingham Museum of Art.

Klaudio Rodriguez was appointed deputy director of the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Ellen Harrington was appointed director of the Deutsches Filminstitut and Filmmuseum.

Corey Piper was appointed curator of American art at the Chrysler Museum of Art.

Bradley Bailey was appointed curator of Asian art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Crawford Alexander Mann III was appointed curator of prints and drawings at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Jens Hoffmann was appointed artistic director of the Honolulu Biennial. Nina Tonga and Scott Lawrimore were appointed as the Biennial’s curators.

Florence Derieux was appointed director of exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth, New York.

The Urban Nation museum, the first major institution dedicated to street art and graffiti, opened in Berlin.

The Mining Art Gallery, a museum dedicated to art works created by Durham miners, will open in Bishops Auckland in England next month.

Istanbul’s Yapi Kredi Culture and Art Center reopened following an extensive renovation.

The Sara Kay Gallery, a gallery dedicated to woman artists, will open on the Lower East Side on September 28.

Berlin’s König Galerie plans to open a new space in London named König Archiv & Souvenir.

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa opened in Cape Town.

Exterior of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), Cape Town, South Africa (via Facebook/@ZeitzMOCAA)

Accolades

Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Canada’s national Inuit group, presented the 2017 Cultural Repatriation Award to Chicago’s Field Museum and the Nunatsiavut government in Labrador. The award follows the return of 22 Inuit bodies that were exhumed in 1927 and 1928 by William Strong, an assistant curator at the museum.

Theaster Gates was awarded the 2018 Nasher Prize.

Meredith Monk was awarded the 2017 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.

Jono Vaughan was awarded the 2017 Betty Bowen Award.

Tezuka Architects received the 2017 Moriyama RAIC International Prize.

Obituaries

Pat Albeck (1930–2017), designer.

Axel Kasseböhmer (1952–2017), painter.

Brenda Lewis (1921–2017), soprano.

Joyce Matz (1925–2017), publicist. Represented civic groups seeking to preserve New York City landmarks.

Stanislav Petrov (1939–2017), former Soviet officer. Known as “the man who saved the world” for his role in averting nuclear war on September 26, 1983.

Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017), science fiction novelist and computer guide.

Harry Dean Stanton (1926–2017), actor, musician, and singer.

Hal Tulchin (1926–2017), documented the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival (aka “the Black Woodstock”).

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