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phantomtutor · 1 year

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This is the movie list pick one: 1991 Life on a String Naked Lunch Slacker The Rapture Les Amants du Pont Neuf The Double Life of Veronique Barton Fink Jacquot des Nantes Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America JFK A Brighter Summer Day Days of Being Wild The Suspended Step of the Stork Instructions: Do not include quotes To what degree your writing on film is intelligent, thoughtful, referential, scholarly, creative and/or original is up to you – but your grade will be largely determined by these considerations (as well as by your entries’ punctual posting on Fridays). Certainly, using the ideas we cover in class will be helpful. “Criticism” in these terms does not suggest a mere statement of preference, or a thumbs-up-or-down judgment, but a thorough and insightful dissection of the film in question, taking as many factors into consideration as possible. Read the film – what are its intentions, its metaphoric meanings, its vibe, its texture, its impact, its role as a cultural statement made when and where it was made? Your main concerns are: clarity, articulation of your point of view, and keeping your prose interesting, so at least you, as a reader, would not be bored with it and might want to keep reading to the end. Please keep in mind that your readers may not know your personally, and don’t care how you feel, or how tired you were, or what kind of movies you prefer. Do not write about yourself, and DO NOT use personal pronouns: I, me, my. You should make your position understandable and persuasive and interesting to perfect strangers, all of whom we will presume have graduated high school. My advice generally in writing criticism is to skip the obvious statement; think about what the film’s thrust is (whether or not it seems to be intentional); and keep thinking about films as objects with aesthetic values – that is, texts – not simply as stories and certainly not simply as momentary experiences you’ve had. Of course, reading thoughtful film criticism helps; I would encourage everyone to hunt down work online by J. Hoberman, Chuck Stephens, A.O. Scott, Scott Tobias, Andrew O’Hehir, Andrew Sarris, Geoffrey O’Brien, David Thomson, Violet Lucca, Dennis Lim, Mark Asch, J.R. Jones, Nick Pinkerton, Howard Hampton, Melissa Anderson, Jonathan Rosenbaum (try to overlook his first-person narcissism), and Godfrey Cheshire. The critiques require no sources, quotes or references – they ARE NOT research papers, but critiques. You are the critic, so critique. I don’t want to read about the film’s production history or what Roger Ebert thought of it. For your first four critiques, please only write about movies on the list from 1975 and earlier. In the second half, any item on the whole menu is permissible. ORDER THIS PAPER NOW. 100% CUSTOM PAPER CategoriesEnglish, MLA Leave a Reply Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment * Name * Email * Website Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Post navigation Previous PostPrevious Assignment #4Next PostNext Week 6 Assignment – Job Satisfaction vs. Organizational Commitment

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joshshang · 2 years

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Pastures of Dublin

Scared, a beefy man with a series of lights on his head walks across a high grass/bird pasture.

He wears jeans and heavy boots. The scariest thing about this man is his calm and dapper persistence. He is geoffrey mace, sixtyish, smooth, a whizz to his feet. He owns the land of Pasture Village by the sea. mace’s signature glib smile. geoffrey carries a clipboard. He is also a multi-millionaire. Mace flashes a Cheshire Cat smile to whoever passes him in the pasture. He seems unfazed by his surroundings. He goes through a flock of Crows, picks off the Young birds, and hands them to passengers. Mace is not smiling. He has an absent concern with the location of his flock. At the far end of the pasture he notices them, a light in his eyes. Then, as he walks in the direction of his herd, the sheep dog and the Ferret dog perk up. Mace smiles and shakes his head. He’s not being a nice guy. The flock continues on. Geoffrey leads the flock on a few steps. The Ferret gets up and yaps at Mace. Mace ignores him and moves into the pen. The Ferret lopes ahead of Mace. The dog is marking the flock. All of a sudden the sounds of the bird life shifts and becomes much closer, nothing escapes it’s deafening song. Crows and the Sheep dog run off. Mace stares at the flock, his mouth hanging open. He notices footprints. He runs over to the pen. The a-Teeth which the Ferret seemed to have had a hard time with get away from him. Mace is angry but would never scream at the bird. The birds are all around him, the Crows and the bird are tooting their own warning cries. He can’t get to all of them. He closes his eyes. He is very scared now. He holds his breaths. There is a sudden smacking sound and Geoffrey Mace looks up. The Ferret starts licking his paw and mid way in Mace’s leg. mace’s fists are clenched, the eyes of the ferret locked on him. He tries to look away. a little blood drenches Mace’s hand. The ferret licks again and starts circling him. Mace looks up, furious. The Ferret does not notice. The Ferret is flying, coming in for a landing. Mace lopes off with his grass-cutter in pursuit of him. Divorce Lawyer in delhi All of the birds, at least fifty birds, keep lining up in rows and circles around Mace. He keeps walking, looking behind him, up into the birds and seeing the Ferret pluck a bunch of Mockingbirds. The predators crowd into the pens, the crows get cocky and approach Mace like they own the building. mace looks back and sees them all as the ferrets see him. The flock has been flushed. The Crows carry on their scavenging. Some of the predators head off into the surrounding trees, but a few stay and fight with the animals. mace shies away from the ferrets, taking cover behind a tree. He gets between a few Ferret’s and its tail when the woman farmer comes running up. They fight! The ferret slashes at the a-teeth of the fox to draw its attention. a swipe by the fox catches Mace. Now he knows they will make the attack for sure. But the fox looks in the direction of Geoffrey. Something has happened. The farmer looks back to Mace. But Geoffrey just stands there like a Ninja. Then, to the sound of smashing gorse, the fox charges off again with the farmer, who carries the ferret on his back, up to the edge of a hill. the ferret leaps into the air and leaps down. The farmer, still on the ground, sees the fox charging into the wolves. He looks through the trees, where the ferrets had caused a commotion. The mayhem has disappeared. He turns back to see what has got the fox. He does see a wave of Moles coming out of the woods. The fox dives off again. The Moles run for the woods. The Moles have nearly caught up with the fox. The wolf is wandering into the pretty fields of the adjacent small farm. In a pear orchard there are a lot of ripe pears. DRT Advocate It can’t all be to save its wrinkled, white face. mace sprints after the fox. He grabs on to the top of the hedgerow and dives in. As he does, the ferrets intercept and kibble the farmer on the top of the hill. The farmer tumbles into some fruit. a roll, the fruit flies up. The Lappe family’s pear tree and Moles begin an epic battle. The ferrets growlappe a break with ferocious jaws and faces, they’ve tied them down. Mace reaches the Fox, that is if they’re still chasing the right fox in the moment. The ferrets keep coming back for more. The Fox’s rear legs slip and it falls, the whole two to one clash between the ferrets and the Fox. The fox tries to get up and darts between the ferret’s legs and, being slightly shorter than them, the ferret trips. The Moles lead the Fox into the pear crop. They let out a baying cry. Mace, of course, is there to cut the fruit in half. While he fumbles and slips on the dewy ground, he hears a Whooommph and a disturbance. In that moment, in all its glory, the adult tawny eagle grabs a part of the fruit and almost immediately flies, flapping, in towards Mace. The Moles have stopped their feeding. They gaze at the owl with narrowed eyes and intimidated flock begin to wing up. Mace gives a growl and swoops in the opposite direction. The sound of a human cry is heard. The Moles turn and look at Mace. He just missed him. The owl scurries over a hedge and lands, shaking its head as it flies, upside down in the grass. It doesn’t help that a row of dandelions and grass seeds ruffle it like feathers. The Moles continue to circle around him. He gets into a glade. He sticks a leg out and tries to take a birds eye view of the way the Moles advance. Bail in India He can see one of them clearly have a sign around its neck. [showing the anatomical diagram of the neck]. It’s quite a curious image. Then suddenly he jumps out of the glade and holds up the furled eagle to his face, spreading it and looking in the eagle’s eye-piece. Two, wide open, very solemn looking eyes. "Your father fell in love with me, Simon". Then he looks up, sees that the Moles are still circling him, making him giggle with delight. He picks up the bird and floats him off. He flies away. [of the orchard destroyed by the ferret fight]. the encounter continues as the last pear is thrown. the farmers stands aghast. Mace makes his way towards the heather shelter. But his fur coats and he cannot see Geoffrey at all. He carefully moves in there. Suddenly, the sound of a dog barking. One of the Moles jumps out from behind a bush and scoops Geoffrey up. The dog looks around. Mace looks like a man who has found a dog of his own. He’s not a fox. This Moles, he will be a german shepherd. The farmer rushes out from under his cover and rushes over to the dogs lap. [on the moles]

but then Mace changes, by instinct, like all wild creatures, or instinct. This time it’s at the beauty of the pack of dogs that has come running into the orchard.The Moles just leave the terrified farmers covered. Fouar is watching them go, tongue hanging out. The farmer seems indifferent, says nothing and the dog just runs off. Criminal Lawyer

The calm shepherd. Mace continues taking in the sights. Fouar is looking around searching for the source of the barking. The sound of a car. It comes into the orchard. Then, it turns left and races past the open window, towards the farmhouse, it’s but a meter away. revealing francois driving through the farm and disappearing into the forest. The shepherd. Mace rushes to the window. His pov. The car of the dark hand driven van (shoulder sticker reads "Gustav Anthropological Institute") turning into the forest. a pov. The truck, the grey sky above and the silhouette of the front driver. Mace lifts his head up and looks, sees the highway sign ‘114 grands teenles road’ that says ‘past the fosse "Back on mace"s window. And then pulls the van disappears behind the last pear tree. truck Left, mace right, toward the street, the green forest, the market. But, then. Mace doesn’t see the right street because there, on a nearby road, a cyclist has pulled up to the edge of a dust cloud. The cyclist, a big man in his 50’s, is riding on his bike. He stares off. Toward the street, as if a flood of life could absorb the cyclist’s view. Cries of a cat. Lawyer for High Court The cat is perched on the edge of the dust cloud. And then the cyclist. Spots the big mousie. The shepherd doesn’t get to see the bicycle. He goes along in a side, pan left, away from the road, (toward the back of the square, which is little before) just as the cyclist hits the narrow stone divider, going over the peak, spilling his whole body into it. He takes a moment to prepare himself. And then he steps off the road onto the grass and offers a friendly nod. It is an insane world. Mace sees another shepherd go past his stone fence, a hideous mousie in his 50’s. The big man bends down, grabs a bag of nuts and some bread from a stand, heads to the stream, behind the square and. The big man does not hear. He’s out of view. the young dot, eating nuts, comes to the edge of the forest, coming toward the big trees as sign, "merdeer clearing". He walks to the far side of the clearing into a stand of birch and clambers up the ladder. Pov. the steep slope in the mountain forest, same as mace. The ladder goes up and up until a junction opens onto a sort of alpine meadow. And suddenly the cycle comes around a corner, goes past the bike. The big man moves to the next junction. The cycle. The big man is in the exact same spot in that same frame frame. The big man stops, looks around and suddenly his face as evil is revealed.it is geoffrey. For a few seconds Francois has come upon him. The two, confused. Francois in the trees. realm of an obstacle course. Francois loping up the slope, not noticing that there’s a small gap between the ladder and the slope. Another chance to look.The big man goes for it and vanishes. a wolf-ok to the wolf. realm of the gap. Horse-like on the steep slope, the big man rides into a clearing. On the other side it’s a col. with a lighted torch. The big man slips, skids and falls. The beast is thrown into the woods and in the moment his wild eyes are on Geoffrey. The big man grabs a log and staggers through the woods. The wolf. He’s on the slope. He moves up through branches that reach up to the trees. Lawyer for Cheque Bounce Case The big man falls and rolls. The lighted torch suddenly flickers.On the next clearing he is hidden by a tree.In the next instant, he’s standing at the top of a hill. The big man runs down the slope at speed, faster and faster. the wolf. The big man is in a trance. With the speed of a blur, he moves back up, leaning into another clearing. The last clear area. The big man. In the last second before being backlit by the torch. Mace is up. He looks around. Mace pushes back a stand and reaches down to his "s" length behind it. The big man is out of sight. Nothing and then, the color of the torch is almost gone but another. bounds from the woods. And it’s Maurice. The flame is dim but the distance from the row of cabin is immense. And there, in the next clearing, in his apartment. The old black-and-white dvd of marty, mp4 recorder. (It’s too small for a normal size person to see.) Maurice watches and as he rewinds the tape, the flame comes with a click then flashes. With a it bursts in very real and then fades. Ego, victoria, zsa tschuk, mace

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scenesandscreens · 5 years

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Director - Peter R. Hunt, Cinematography - Michael Reed

"The only thing you need know about me is that I pay my debts.

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twistedtummies2 · 3 years

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UPDATED: Top 20 Cheshire Cats

We’ve now come to my second favorite character from the “Alice” stories, and, in my opinion, possibly one of the hardest to properly nail down.

The Cheshire Cat is one of the most iconic figures in Wonderland. He perfectly embodies the basic principle of the world of the story: he’s crazy, but he’s AWARE that he’s crazy. And despite his self-confessed madness, he’s not entirely inimical to Alice...nor is he entirely altruistic. It’s not really clear why he does anything he does except for perhaps his own pleasure and curiosity, and his backwards way of working can be truly baffling. His mysterious powers - being able to disappear and reappear at will, and seemingly keep parts of his body separate from the rest - are also a part of the character’s ambiguous allure. And because of his personality, he can be more or less friendly - as all Wonderland characters often are - throughout numerous incarnations.

For me, the Cheshire Cat is one of the characters I tend to be the most picky about; that made choosing options for this list a bit tricky, especially in the lower rankings. I think I’ve found the cream of the feline crop, however, and the time has come to put them forward. These are My Top 20 Cheshire Cats!

20. The Version from Fiction Fixers: Adventures in Wonderland.

19. Warrington, from Grin: The Unauthorized Biography of a Cheshire Cat. (No illustration available.)

18. Kyle Knock, from Lost Alice.

17. Che’Nya, from Twisted Wonderland. (Voiced by Kento Hama.)

16. The Version from Heartless. (No illustration available...again.)

15. Max Mittelman, from Alice’s Wonderland Bakery. (I know he’s basically just the Disney version, but for various reasons, I decided to include this one separate.)

14. The Version from 100 Sleeping Princes and the Kingdom of Dreams. (Voiced by Yamashita Daiki.)

13. The Version from The Alice Chronicles. (No illustration available...again-again.)

12. Telly Savalas, from the 1985 CBS Miniseries.

11. Boris Airay, from Alice in the Country of Hearts. (Voiced by Noriaki Sugiyama.)

10. Geoffrey Holder, from the Great Performances Production (1983).

9. Jose Llana, as “El Gato,” from Wonderland.

8. Richard Kuhlman, from Adventures in Wonderland.

7. The Version from the Royal Ballet Production (2011).

6. The Cat, from The Looking-Glass Wars.

5. Keith David, from Once Upon a Time in Wonderland. (I don’t care if he’s only onscreen for about three minutes, I LOVE THIS ONE.)

4. The Version from Pandora Hearts. (Voiced by Kappei Yamaguchi in the anime. A very different kind of kitty, as you can see.)

3. The Disney Version. (Originally voiced by Sterling Holloway.)

2. Stephen Fry, from the Tim Burton Movies.

1. Roger L. Jackson, from the American McGee’s Alice Games.

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flamingredanon · 3 years

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Reginald Copperbottom. When he first became a Toppat, he was seen as weak, small, easy to manipulate and push around, and blah blah blah.

As time went on though, he had proven himself enough that those words were never used towards him, and he was instead said to be intelligent, actually pretty strong (though he didn't really have combat abilities he was still pretty strong) and had a silver tongue that got people do to almost anything for him. Not many people realized they fell into a daze around him until someone pointed it out. They'd laugh it off.

More time would pass and soon people saw Reginald as a guy with lots of power, someone you shouldn't mess with, a bitch, intelligent, handsome (simps), and a bit manipulative. Though he was nice to hang around or that person to vent to, he was understanding and patient. (Simpsss)

As time passed, some Toppats would say he was a bit corrupt, a bitch who craved power, an asshole really, who wouldn't hesitate to take you down if you crossed him. Although most Toppats would say he was actually caring, cute (simppsssss), tough, smart, and blah blah blah.

What no one realized was that, he did crave power, he craved the power to take down the Toppats. Ha, him caring for them? No. He honestly hated them, it was actually all an act he'd been playing for years, ever since they tore his family apart and ruined his family name. It honestly surprised him how easy it was to fake his name and trick them all. He also found it very enjoyable how hurt a lot of them were when he back stabbed them all by getting them caught by the government.

Who he also didn't like very much, but if they could help him take the entire clan down, then he'd go for that opportunity. Great decision really. On his part. Anyway.

"Oh how it must suck to be you" he would taunt, watch as his old right hand just stared down at his feet as he was taken away.

He would listen to the yelling from Carol Cross, Ellie Rose, Sven Svensson, Gene Fredrickson and Geoffrey Plumb. Watch the hurt faces of Thomas Cheshire, Henry Stickmin, Burt Curtis, earings, hat girl, and so many more Toppats that weren't looking angry but more betrayed stay silent as they were taken away.

If they every got out to get revenge on him, he couldn't care less. He had done what he'd vowed to do since the day Terrence Suave, Sir Wilford, Right and some others came and took away the people he loved. He was now satisfied with life and was willing to let go.

Thankfully for Reginald, his father's friend Dmitri took Reginald in after backstabbing the clan, understanding the hell Reginald went through after all those years. Randy was dear to all of them, and Randy's wife was the sweetest person you could ever met.

And then Randy and Reginald found themselves kidnapped and Randy's wife dead. Wilford and his men broke Randy's mind, with Reginald deciding to play along in hopes to get out of this hell hole and save his father.

Randy bankrupted the clan on purpose, choosing to try to take down the Toppats in one way or the other. Reginald still remembers his father's screams as he was thrown into the Airship's fans. And that was the day Reginald slowly plotted his revenge.

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Eventually Reginald found a reason to keep going, a man named Wallace Pemberton who grew genuinely fancy with Reginald. The two hit it off and eventually Reginald moved in with Wallace.

The Toppats were never heard from again and thanks to the Wall, the Government wasn't able to touch Reginald.

Reginald finds himself staring at the night sky, knowing his father and mother were watching over him.

#lizzyask #reginald copperbottom #dmitri johannes petrov #wallace pemberton #murder #betrayal #copperton?#who knows

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jed-thomas · 3 years

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Ministers with and without Portfolios

When you want to demonstrate your sincerity, you write a letter.

The summer is nearing its summit and 1982 is disappearing in a confused fog. Somewhere, Micheal Foot opens up an envelope. An ambitious young candidate, recently selected in some leafy suburb of London, has written to him. You can feel the youth in his writing - and, regrettably, a palpable eagerness to impress. Nevertheless, there are some admirable phrases:

Socialism ultimately must appeal to the better minds of the people. You cannot do that if you are tainted overmuch with a pragmatic period in power.

For men like Foot, members of a modern British tradition, politics and oratory are not separable. Even the timbre of your voice comes into it. On some cold picket-line, at some bored union congress, or against the baying of the other half of the House, you have to fill the air and rouse the spirits. In so many ways, the tradition of British socialism is a poetic tradition.

Maybe, then, he spots it a mile away. A lack of inspiration, the absence of a real perspective. That faint sense of pantomime. Or otherwise, Michael Foot, soon to be an ex-leader of the Labour Party, dimly registers the writer’s display of party-loyalty and just puts the letter aside. This man had crashed the party’s vote-share in Beaconsfield. Tony Blair is saving face.

Last Friday, it was announced that the constituency of Hartlepool would return its first Conservative MP in 62 years. Labour’s vote-share crashed by 16%. Perhaps most astonishingly, the Conservative victory in Hartlepool is only the second time in 40 years that a party in government has taken a seat from their opposition.

In immediate response, Leader of the Opposition Keir Starmer MP moved to reorganise the Labour Party’s campaign office. Importantly, Deputy Leader Angela Rayner MP was removed from her position as Chair of the Labour Party, the position ultimately responsible for election campaigns. As the Deputy Leader is elected separately, Starmer’s decision has been criticised as an attempt to undermine the influence of a senior elected official. However, as the days have passed, Rayner has emerged with a new position - or, more accurately, a few new positions. Angela Rayner MP now shadows Michael Gove MP as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and occupies the newly-created, elegantly-titled office of Shadow Secretary for the Future of Work.

Former MP for Hartlepool and Minister without Portfolio under Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson has been named by sources within the party to Guardian columnist Owen Jones. According to Jones, Mandelson signed off the press strategy for Shadow Cabinet members following the result in his former constituency.

It’s raining in Stockport. The King Street bridge is abandoned. Looking at the slow river, she knows that she is a cliché, a tired punchline. And she knows that she’ll have to leave school. Other girls have done it, so she’ll get through it, too. But it’s an abrupt and unceremonious change to whatever path she was on before. 16 and pregnant. A joke. Then again, wasn’t this always the intended outcome, in one way or another? Cornered. It was going to be a long time before she understood that there was anything that could be done about that.

The wind takes a few of the leaflets out from under his armpit and scatters them all over the carpark of Oxted station. A favour, he thinks. It’s 8 in the morning, they’re all commuters. No-one’s taking them. As if some serious city lawyer is going to read about the future of proletarian resistance, let alone in a pamphlet handed to him by a spotty adolescent. East Surrey Young Socialists. He isn’t blind to the humour of that. Some preachy privately-educated Surrey boy. He had tried to explain that he’d gotten into Reigate fairly and squarely, that it’d only just started asking for fees in the last few years. Much to his chagrin, by the way. People around here don’t listen. If they did, they’d see that there was nothing to be scared of. But they’re closed off, rigid. It’s enough to make you want to pack it all in, honestly.

His father was staring out at the snow falling on the houses of Hampstead Garden in one of his attitudes of preparation. He had an abiding sense of danger, of impending calamity. Peter always attributed that to his religiosity. Eschatology. The End Times. “Have you compiled your application yet?” “Of course, Dad.” Peter knew the counterpoint melody. Your mother and I have worked too hard. He would say it like that because his mother is the real concerned party. Descendants of the Labour Party aristocracy are obsessed with elite education. He is pretty sure that he will get in. He’s clever, goes to a good grammar. And when he gets in, he is going to have fun, the sort of fun you can only have at a place like Oxford. Judgement Day is a long way off.

The Hampstead Garden Suburb was the brain-child of two idealist architects, Raymond Unwin and Barry Parker. The pair were disciples of the Arts and Crafts movement, an aesthetic philosophy with global reach that found particular purchase among British socialists; indeed, Unwin was a life-long and active member of various socialist organisations. Hampstead Garden was to be spacious, communal and open to all social classes. It was built on land purchased from Eton College by a wealthy patron. The Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust Ltd., established in 1906, executed Parker and Unwin’s designs.

Peter Mandelson was born in 1953 to an advertising manager and the daughter of Herbert Morrison, the Leader of the House of Commons under Clement Attlee. He was raised in the Hampstead Garden Suburb, attended a local grammar school and then, studied at Oxford. As a teenager, he was a member of the Young Communist League. At university, he joined the Oxford University Labour Club.

As a veteran in public relations by the time of Tony Blair’s bid for leadership of the Labour Party in 1994, Mandelson, distrusted by trade union representatives within the party, played his part in the successful campaign in near anonymity, being referred to by staff only as “Bobby”. In his acceptance speech, Blair used the moniker when expressing gratitude to his campaign team. After running Blair’s successful general election campaign a few years later, Mandelson was appointed to the office of Minister without Portfolio, allowing him to attend Cabinet meetings without having any formal obligations. Critics have likened it to a sinecure. In 1998, Mandelson resigned from government, having failed to declare dealings with millionaire Cabinet colleague, Geoffrey Robinson. He is now a peer, happy to be part of the club.

Oxted is an incredibly old town. When William the Conqueror ordered a survey in 1086, Oxted had its various assets - hides, churches, ploughs - recorded. It remained a sleepy time-capsule until it was reached by the new railway system in 1884 and run-off trade from London began to bring money into the town. At the beginning of the last decade, it was the twentieth richest town in Britain by income.

Born to a nurse and a toolmaker in 1962, Keir Starmer was named for the first parliamentary leader of what would become the Labour Party, Keir Hardie. He attended a grammar school and was the first in his family to graduate from university, obtaining an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Leeds. As a result, he undertook postgraduate study at Oxford and became a barrister in 1987. During this time, he edited Socialist Alternative, a controversial magazine associated with various factions on the Marxist left.

Starmer is a relatively green politician, having only been selected as a candidate for Holborn and St. Pancras in 2014. The majority of his life has been spent working in the legal system. In 2010, Starmer successfully prosecuted 3 Labour MPs and a Conservative peer on charges of false accounting. In 2011, he encouraged the rapid prosecution of several rioters, sometimes on the testimony of undercover police officers. In 2012, Starmer brought a case against former Energy Secretary Chris Huhne which resulted in the only resignation of a Cabinet Minister over legal proceedings in British parliamentary history. In 2020, as Leader of the Opposition, Starmer ordered Labour MPs to abstain on the third reading of the Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill, which granted undercover police officers full legal immunity for all actions undertaken on duty. Desperate to be heard, Starmer re-tweeted a Guardian column by Angela Rayner MP, adding: ‘We’ll make sure you know Labour is on your side.’

Stockport lies just south-east of the City of Manchester at the point where the Rivers Tame and Goyt become the Mersey. Although bisected by the feudal borders of the counties Cheshire and Lancashire, it belongs to a different epoch. Stockport is a town with almost 300 years of industrial history, home to one of the first mechanised silk factories in the entire British Isles. Surveying all of England for his 1845 history ‘The Condition of the English Working Class’, Friedrich Engels remarked that Stockport was ‘renowned as one of the duskiest, smokiest holes’ to be found in the industrial heartlands.

By the time Angela Rayner was born on a Stockport council estate in 1980, the country seemed eager to be free of this history. This eagerness sometimes manifested as a disdain for trade unionists and benefit claimants. Both of Rayner’s parents were eligible for benefits. And at 31, Angela Rayner was a senior official for the public-sector union Unison.

Having left school at 16 to raise her first son, she got her GCSEs by studying part-time at Stockport College, where she eventually qualified as a social care worker. At work, she clashed with management, discovering a flair for negotiation that would get her elected as a union steward. Finally, after years and years of confusion and uncertainty, someone was being made to answer.

#hartlepool #labour #boris johnson #peter mandelson #tony blair #angela rayner #keir starmer #conservative party #owen jones

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lissy-strata · 5 years

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DO NOT RUN OVER THE DIRECTOR

Picture: A sequence of a car driving up a ramp into an airplane. Then a closeup of a map with little marker pieces on it.

Infotext: Coming up is a very tricky shot. The jag will mount the ramp without slowing down. It will then have to stop within the fuselage of a plane that’s about thirty yards long from nose to tail. There is no stunt driver. It’s Geoffrey Cheshire, who plays Tracy, at the wheel. The trusting Douglas Camfield positioned himself on the very spot where the car had to stop. Cheshire managed it with just 18 inches to spare - and without killing the director!

#Doctor Who #Classic Who #The Invasion #infotext #Dr Queue

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kwebtv · 5 years

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Medics - ITV - November 14, 1990 - November 24, 1995

Medical Drama (40 episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Jimmi Harkishin – Dr. Jay Rahman

Penny Bunton – Dr Jessica Hardman (1990–93)

Francesca Ryan – Claire Armstrong (1990–94)

Emma Cunningham – Dr. Gail Benson (1992–95)

Tom Baker – Dr. Geoffrey Hoyt (1992–95)

James Gaddas – Dr. Robert Nevin (1992–95)

Sue Johnston – Ruth Parry (1992–95)

Teddie Thompson – Dr. Alison Makin (1992–95)

Hugh Quarshie – Dr. Tom Carey (1992–94)

Dinah Stabb – Miss Helen Lomax (1994–95)

Patricia Kerrigan – Dr. Sarah Kemp (1994–95)

Clarence Smith – Billy Cheshire (1994–95)

Nick Dunning – Derek Foster (1994–95)

#Medics #TV #ITV #1990's #Medical Drama

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welcome-to-chao-hub · 5 years

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((....oh hey I’m adding Jules to the blog))

“Chuck, I am extremely grateful for you and letting me work here,” the blue robian said as he and Uncle Chuck walked towards the Chao Garden building. “Though, I am confused as to why or how you have access to this area if you don’t work here either.”

“Eh, I do the maintenance now and then and from what I heard, they could use the help,” the older hedgehog explained. “Considering who’s all on the roster, I don’t blame them for looking for more help.”

“Who should I be expecting then?”

Chuck rubbed the back of his neck. “Well, one’s Geoffrey-”

“That St. John fellow that sided with Naugus and fought with Sonic a few times, right?” Jules asked, tilting his head and emitting a sigh when his brother nodded. “Of course. Trying to brown nose his way back into the King’s good graces, I’m assuming.”

“Actually, that was Elias’ idea, under the condition that he was watched. Though his, ahem, guard is running late,” he noted as he watched a purple hedgehog run out of the building they were about to walk into. “Morning, Elise.”

“Morning, Mr. C!” she greeted, jogging in place as a small rabbit quickly followed her out as well. “Say hi to Shard for me when he shows up! He texted he’s on his way. I gotta get Cream to daycare this morning since her mom’s not feeling well then make a mad dash to my next class!”

“I figured as much. Tell your mom hi for us, Cream, and hope she feels better!”

“I will! Bye Mr. Sonic’s Dad and Mr. Chuck!” Cream said as the girl scooped her up and started booking it.

Jules blinked at the scene before looking at his brother. “....I’m gonna take a guess and say that those were two more people on the roster.”

“Yeah, but Cream’s a volunteer and Elise is a college student,” he shrugged. “While they’re both....capable of taking care of themselves (hell, Cream’s technically a Freedom Fighter if the two teams were to merge again), I am worried about Shard. I’ve been getting calls about how he’s hardly showing up and he knows how important this place is for him. There’s only so much that Elias can do before they straight up kick him off the roster for good and Source knows how many strings I’ll even be able to pull at the next place.”

Jules chuckled lightly at that. “Sounds like to me that he’s more your son than anything. Something you haven’t told me?” he teased, elbowing him a little. While he was being careful, he still couldn’t help it when Chuck gave him a glare and rubbed his arm. “Still don’t know my own strength at times! But still, who’s the lucky lady?”

“Still single.”

“Still?? ......alright, but seriously, I’ve seen you worry over my son the same way sometimes, but I don’t recall it being this bad.”

Chuck rubbed the back of his neck again as he said, “Shard’s a bit of an...exception.”

He was about to ask more when a black blur sped by going, “CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP!” The duo watched as the robotic hedgehog zoomed over to the clock-in station and after some frantic clicking cheered loudly. “HA! Made it! Frick you to all the obstacles in my way!”

Geoff barely glanced up from his magazine. “Cream’s not here, you can technically swear.”

“You’re just jealous that I managed to clock in before it was considered ‘late’.”

“Oh yeah, great accomplishment all right next to the other ones-”

Jules tuned them out as he watched the interaction, though mostly staring at the robian. But...that was.... He glanced over at Chuck and couldn’t read his expression. Funny, he was supposed to be the robot here. Well, if his brother was giving him a chance, hell, even being a father figure from what he could understand, he might as well introduce himself.

He approached the two and ‘cleared’ his throat to get the two to notice him. Geoff actually looked sheepish as he stepped away, muttering something about needing to check on of the rooms. He held out a hand to the Metal Sonic. “I believe we haven’t met before. I’m Jules and I’ll be your coworker. I believe you know my brother and my son.”

Shard hesitantly took the hand and shook it. “R-right, um, about that-”

“Though try not to start any fights with your cousin, next time you and my brother are over, alright?” he added, pretty certain that he would be grinning like a Cheshire Cat with how Shard’s face seemed to freeze at what the robian was implying before grinning widely and started to show him around the area. The set up among the ‘employees’ were strange, but he might actually like working here.

#the first robian; jules #mun's writing; drabbles #he's an uncle; uncle chuck #metallic counterpart; shard #the traitor; geoff #energetic helper;elise #polite rabbit; cream

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wtffundiefamilies · 5 years

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Another case of doing it right. I think the dude is a hack as an artist, but he repeatedly does stuff like this with his money, which makes me glad he’s successful anyway.

"So, I was trying to do this anonymously, but through some circumstances, nothing stays secret these days," Perry said in a video tweeted out from his official account shortly after the TMZ article hit the web. "So, I just want to go ahead and tell you, if you have a layaway at the Walmart at 844 Cleveland Avenue in East Point, Georgia, in Atlanta, or if you have a layaway at the Walmart at 7001 Concourse Parkway in Douglasville, Georgia, if you have a layaway at either place and it was in there as of 9:30 this morning [Dec. 6]... I have paid for all of your layaways for Christmas."

At that point in his video, Perry seemed to stifle a grin which ended up in a short burst of a seemingly joyous laughter before continuing with a Cheshire Cat-sized grin on his face.

"So, Merry Christmas to everybody. You got to go into the Walmart, get your layaway, pay a penny, one penny, and you get your layaway," Perry continued.

Tyler Perry's generosity in legendary in Atlanta. Just a little more than a year ago, he donated a car to a family, whose 2-year-old son was in dire need of a kidney transplant, after he found out the family had no way to get to pre-op appointments. In 2013, he donated $50,000 to a man left paralyzed after saving a 4-year-old girl from a creek in Cobb County. And recently, Perry made national headlines for offering "Cosby Show" star Geoffrey Owens an acting role after several tabloid sites on the internet shamed the actor. But those only scratch the surface of his philanthropy and we may never know its full extent.

#doing it right #tyler perry

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ask-thsc-blog · 2 years

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Being the smallest of the two, Geoffrey could feel how Thomas hugged him in a warm embrace, which he returned

And he smiled, looking at Thomas's satisfied and happy face... his monicals fell off a while ago, so now he could see those cheshire cat eyes more clearly ..

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jerseydeanne · 6 years

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Does anyone know who Prince Edward really is? The Queen's youngest son is not the kind of man to draw attention to himself if he can help it.

So headlines in recent days mocking him as 'Air Miles Eddie' must have caused him considerable discomfort.

Unusually for him, he used a private executive jet as well as a helicopter over two days on public engagements in Dorset and the West Midlands — engagements that he could easily have carried out by road or rail.

The cost to the taxpayer was in the region of £13,000 rather than just a few hundred pounds, giving rise to accusations that he was guilty of 'a blatant abuse of public money'.

What is strange about this is that ever since he was forced to give up a commercial life as a TV producer, he has been extremely careful, as a full-time royal, to do everything by the book — so very different from his demanding brother Prince Andrew. So what has changed?

The theory among courtiers is that the Earl of Wessex fears he and his wife Sophie are in danger of being eclipsed from the excitement of the royal show. He wants to raise their profile.

Tuesday — the opening day of Royal Ascot — was the couple's 19th wedding anniversary.

But it was the glamorous Meghan who inevitably attracted all the attention.

All this came on top of those extraordinary pictures of the newest royal and the Queen in highly animated conversation as they carried out engagements together in Cheshire last week.

Sophie, of course, has been the Queen's favourite family companion for some years.

The theory among courtiers is that the Earl of Wessex fears he and his wife Sophie are in danger of being eclipsed by Meghan (pictured with the Queen). He wants to raise their profile

The former PR girl, now 53, rides out with the Queen at Windsor and also goes carriage driving with her father-in-law Prince Philip, whom she calls 'Papa' (just as Princess Diana did).

'She makes him laugh, which with Philip is half the battle,' says a friend.

On most Sunday afternoons they and their children Louise, 14, and James, ten, have 'five o'clock tea' with the Queen at Windsor Castle, usually in the Oak Room.

These are precious private moments, where the Queen herself pours the tea, and not even the personable Meghan is ever likely to take Sophie's place there.

But, in their official lives, Edward and Sophie, as senior royals, have never enjoyed the same kind of public affection and enthusiasm as the other members of the family.

Indeed, there are several spoof Prince Edward social media accounts which purport to share his homespun royal thoughts, such as: 'Don't you know that feeling in the morning when you are full of energy?! Nah, me neither.'

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However, the real Edward, 54, is keen to be taken more seriously, especially as he is expected to be elevated from an earl to a duke and inherit his father's title, the Duke of Edinburgh.

He has been chairman of the board of trustees of the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award Foundation for the past three years and travels extensively.

But the fallout of his embarrassing commercial history, and, of course, Sophie's, too, still weighs heavily on them.

Edward's dreams of a life away from the royal ribbon-cutting routine finally ended in 2011 when Ardent Productions, the television production company which the prince set up in 1993 with £300,000 of his own money, was dissolved.

The company's most spectacular achievement was the ignominy and very public criticism it faced in 2001 after it had a crew film on the St Andrews university campus while his nephew Prince William, newly arrived as a student, was there.

This move was an apparent contravention of an agreement with the media to leave the young Prince William alone.

The Duchess of Sussex, 36, is pictured on the first day of Royal Ascot in Berkshire this week

For her part, PR Sophie famously fell foul of a Sunday newspaper sting in 2001 in which she talked about the Royal Family and other prominent people to a potential 'client' who was, in fact, an undercover reporter.

She described the Queen as 'the old dear' and Cherie Blair, the then Prime Minister's wife, as 'absolutely horrid, horrid, horrid'.

She also created a memorable 'royals for hire' storm when, just three months after becoming the Countess of Wessex, she posed beside a Rover car at the Frankfurt Motor Show having secured a £250,000 contract to publicise the model.

After this, the couple had to throw in the commercial towel, and no one can say that, in subsequent years, they haven't worked hard to rehabilitate themselves.

For Edward, this would not be difficult, as he was the Queen's last child and Philip's favourite son.

In Sophie, the Queen saw her special qualities as a royal consort — ones that blended perfectly with her own quiet approach to duty.

Pictured: The Earl and Countess of Wessex, Edward and Sophie, are pictured at Ascot

And Sophie is very much a modern royal in the sense that she is surprisingly self-sufficient.

She does her own hair, sometimes drives herself to engagements and prefers to make her own 'briefing' notes without the help of a lady-in-waiting.

The daughter of a tyre company executive from Kent, Sophie seems to have little use for airs and graces.

It is Edward who is increasingly indignant — and has at times been furious — at the 'downgrading' of their royal status.

With Meghan's arrival, that can only be exacerbated.

For her part, Sophie has never been troubled by slipping down the official rankings. The

subsequent arrivals of two new royal duchesses — Camilla in 2005 and Kate in 2011 — meant Sophie, a mere countess, dropped down to fifth.

Princess Anne, Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall, Prince Edward, the Countess of Wessex and the Queen are pictured left to right at Ascot in Berkshire this week

The arrival just last month of another duchess, Meghan, pushed her down to sixth — and in the quaint custom of royal protocol she has to curtsy to the Duchess of Sussex (and to the Duchess of Cambridge), whereas she only has to curtsy to Sophie if Prince Edward is with her.

So in what is the highly competitive world of life inside palace walls, one can perhaps understand Edward's anxieties, especially as 'the firm' moves towards his eldest brother Charles's plans for a slimmed-down monarchy.

Edward was even angrier than Prince Andrew when, together with Princess Anne, they were excluded from the Buckingham Palace balcony for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee flypast in 2012.

And yet, for Sophie, relative anonymity — one might even call it obscurity — has been a blessing.

It has meant she continues to drive the children to school in Ascot and Windsor like other school-run mums, and can have informal lunches with girlfriends, confident in the knowledge that people won't keep pointing her out.

However, friends explaining her appreciation of being able to live life as a normal family conveniently overlook the 57-room Bagshot Park, a rambling Victorian mansion which is their home in Surrey.

Though it should be pointed out that a large part of the place is office space and they occupy only about a quarter of it.

Their support staff are based in offices there, rather than in Buckingham Palace, and they have a relatively small domestic staff of a 'house manager' and an assistant, a chef, two cleaners who live out and a full-time nanny.

Sophie's father Christopher Rhys-Jones, 87, often stays with them.

Since Sophie's mother died in 2005, he has become a regular name on the guest list of the Queen, who likes him very much, and he has been touched by the friendship the royals have shown him.

He was not, however, in the Queen's Royal Ascot party this week, almost certainly because he finds such major occasions a bit stressful at his age.

In this area, at least, Prince Edward finds enormous comfort.

Not for him and Sophie the excruciating spectacle of a father-in-law in cahoots with the paparazzi, for example, or, in a toe-curling television interview, revealing the private thoughts and views of his royal son-in-law.

But then Christopher Rhys-Jones is no Thomas Markle. Like Kate's father, Michael Middleton, he has kept a discreet silence on what he has seen and heard.

So can we expect Prince Edward to become 'Air Miles Andy Mark II'?

Thus far, it must be said, Edward has carefully avoided the royal pitfalls that have characterised his elder brother's life.

Yes, he has made mistakes, but he has never pursued the company of dubious billionaires and never given cause for people to describe him as arrogant.

And unlike Andrew's daughters, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Edward has not saddled his children with the style HRH — Louise is not a princess and James is not a prince.

'They will have to work for a living,' the Countess of Wessex has said.

So does Prince Edward really want to raise his royal profile, or is it merely a knee-jerk reaction to all the excitement and ballyhoo that has surrounded the new arrival in the family?

The one person who is likely to ensure he gets it right is his wife Sophie. He listens to her.

One friend who has known her for a long time says: 'I can almost hear her now, saying to him: 'Be careful what you wish for'.'

WOW , okay it’s Richard Kay and Geoffrey Levy

#is prince edward wife sophie worried meghan markle

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