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btsqualityy · 4 years

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Second Pregnancy Series Q&A #4

Hoseok x Reader

Describe Hendrix, looks and personality wise.

“Hendrix looks more like a mix of Y/N-ah and I, whereas Lennox and Berkeley look more like me and my sister,” Hobi smiled.

“As for his personality, he’s a little more laid back than his brother and sister, but don’t let that fool you,” you laughed. “He can be just as crazy and busy as they can.”

How was your first pregnancy different from your second?

“Well, given the fact that I was only carrying one baby the second time around, it was definitely easier on my body,” you giggled. “The labor and delivery with Hendrix was way worse than my labor and delivery with Berk and Len though, which is ironic.”

Is Hendrix a daddy’s or mama’s boy?

“Neither really,” Hobi shrugged.

What was Hendrix’s first word?

“It was mama,” you smiled.

“Yeah, I’m not upset about that one at all,” Hobi chuckled.

Do they have any fixations or favorite things? Anything that they really hate?

“He loves dogs,” you said, making Hobi nod his head.

“He loves it whenever we go to visit my parents and he gets to see Mickey,” Hobi added. “He’ll just wrap his little arms around him and cuddle him to death.”

“And Mickey always looks like he’s done with life whenever Hendrix starts hanging on him,” you laughed.

What are the major differences between the first kid and the second kid (third in Hoseok’s case)? Any similarities?

“I don’t think that there really are any major differences between Hendrix and the twins,” you said, glancing over at Hobi.

“Yeah, there aren’t any,” Hobi agreed. “He’s a little more laid back but he’s still pretty similar to the twins in terms of personality.”

How long did it take for the kids to adjust to the new changes that came with their sibling?

“It took them a few months because they were so used to being able to have at least one parent that can give them their full attention at all times,” Hobi started. “But once Hendrix was born, we couldn’t really do that anymore so that took some adjusting.”

Do the older kids have anything that they love to do with their siblings?

“They both love stealing Hendrix away from the other one,” you laughed. “For example, if Berk is playing with Hendrix, Lennox will come along and try to get Hendrix’s attention so that he’ll want to play with him instead of Berk.”

Does Hendrix favor Len or Berk more? Is there any particular instance in which he showed who his fave is?

“It honestly depends on what mood Hendrix is in,” Hobi said. “If he wants to run around and play rough, he’ll seek out Lennox. If he just wants to watch T.V or cuddle, he’ll look for Berk.”

How’s your sex life? Is it hard to find time to be intimate with 3 babies?

“It’s damn near impossible,” you huffed. “Our sex life these days is almost non-existent, but that’s mostly because we’ve both been busier than usual with work commitments.”

“We’ve literally been running around from the time that we wake up until the time that we put the kids to bed and by then, we’re so damn exhausted that sex is the absolute last thing on our minds,” Hobi interjected.

“When things are normal though, we have sex maybe two or three times a week,” you added.

What’s one thing about the second baby that’s surprised you most? Example- an experience that’s way different than with the first baby, or a way the two siblings are so similar, etc!

“This is going to sound kind of bad, but I was surprised at how well Hendrix fit into our family,” you admitted. “We had been a family of four for four years so I was kind of worried about how Hendrix coming along may upset the balance that we had developed over time. But once Hendrix was born, it was almost as if nothing had changed. We just had an extra family member now.”

How has your parenting style changed from the first set of kids to the second?

“With the twins, we definitely have to be stricter on the things that we do and do not allow them to do, because those two will take an inch and turn it into a mile,” Hobi stated. “But with Hendrix, we saw that we can be a bit more lax with him in a way that we couldn’t with the twins.”

What’s the most important thing they learned while raising the older kids that they’re putting in place this time?

“I think I can speak for the both of us when I say that we learned to make more time for us,” you mentioned. “Now, granted, we’re not doing such a great job at it as of late since we’ve both been so busy, but we both do recognize the importance of spending time alone, both with each other and individually.”

“Exactly. We realized that we can’t parent to the best of our abilities if we’re both running on E,” Hobi nodded.

Anything you did or would do differently this second time around?

“Nah, I think we’re pretty happy with hoe we’ve done things,” Hobi shrugged.

Do you two want more kids? If so, any specific number?

“Nope,” you replied immediately.

“We’re definitely finished,” Hobi added.

“That’s actually been an ongoing argument though, because since we both agree that we’re done having kids, I feel like Hobi should get a vasectomy and he refuses to do it,” you brought up.

“I don’t want them cutting on my dick Y/N-ah,” Hobi grimaced. “And why do I have to be the one to do it?”

“I mean, besides the fact that it would be invasive surgery for me and only a snip for you?” You wondered aloud. “The fact that I wouldn’t even get pregnant with if weren’t for you and your little swimmers.”

“There’s nothing little about them Y/N, and they resent that,” Hobi gasped and you just rolled your eyes.

“You see? I can’t win,” you scoffed.

Hopes for the future?

“I just want our relationship to continue to be as strong as it can be,” Hobi said and you nodded in agreement.

“Raising three kids that are age five and under can be difficult, but I don’t want mine and Hobi’s relationship to suffer because of it,” you replied.

“And it won’t, as long as I have breath in my body,” Hobi promised you.

“Ditto,” you smiled, giggling when he leaned forward and rubbed his nose against yours.

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aspiringpolymath · 4 years

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March Reading

I managed to read a title a day in March, so I read 65 books. *rimshot* (Yeah, I’m gonna bust through my goodreads reading challenge yearly goal sometime in my April count, I reckon.)

No, but seriously though. March was extra wild for me, because I had major surgery on March 26, but wasn’t sure if it was going to be postponed until the week before. I was also attempting to wrap up things at my previous job. They mostly ended up getting wrapped up without me, but there are still a few loose ends. I think I just read read read to distract from all that and all *waves hand at global pandemic* that.

I’ve decided to do a larger overview of my reading from November 18-May 17, to look at how my six month Kindle Unlimited membership impacted my reading. (I can tell you something even before I’ve crunched the numbers: I read too much, and probably not discriminately enough.) I’m not renewing the subscription, mainly because I have enough to read, thank you very much, and my library system just got Hoopla, so I have access to some more obscure titles now (not much overlap, but access to stuff I didn’t have before.)

I guess I should also mention that these books are displayed in reverse order? I’m just screenshotting them from goodreads, and they show your reading challenge from newest to oldest. Recommendations at the end!

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:

In the Privacy of their Home by R. A. Padmos is my number one pick of the month. Manifold Press has been having an ongoing backlist sale, where many, if not most, of their books are listed for $2.99. This was one of the ones I bought, and it is just so. good. Like if an undiscovered Barbara Pym novel had found it’s way to the light.

Three Months to Forever by Hudson Lin - Quick romp through Hong Kong, where a temporary situation might become more permanent? It’s part romance, part travelogue, all great.

Throwing Hearts by N. R. Walker - A bit of fluffy low-angst goodness that left me feeling warm and fuzzy.

P.S. I Spook You and Principles of Spookology by S. E. Harmon. I very much enjoyed this author’s private detective duology, and these two books are a little more serious, while also moving into the paranormal. They mainly work because of the narrative voice of Rain(storm) and the angsty love between him and Danny.

Eleventh Hour by Elin Gregory is back on the list again, because I only went and bought an e-book copy in the Manifold Press sale, despite having it in paperback. But of course I had to reread it cover to cover to highlight favorite parts. If you read this, let me know, so we can squee about it!

Sheep’s Clothing by Elin Gregory - Super short and very different to the above, but it’s ridiculously good fun.

OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS:

Let the Wrong Light In by Avon Gale - Tough reading at times, about two people blundering through the discovery of sexual kinks in adulthood. But it’s very multifaceted, has a great narrator, made me think, and stayed with me for days afterward. Couldn’t give it five stars, but it’s very good.

Gaudete by Amy Rae Durreson - Short story set at Christmas about old friends reconnecting. Lots of style in this little tale.

Falling for My Roommate by Garrett Leigh - Pretty standard ‘and they were ROOMMATES’ situation. Leigh always elevates standard plots with great characterizations and great sense of place, tho.

Virgin Flyer by Lucy Lennox - Premise is bordering on absurd, but I just really really liked the two MCs.

Building Forever by Kelly Jensen - My favorite book from this series will be featured in next month’s list, but this is a fun book, too. I could see the complicating factor a mile off, but these more mature MCs are written with a lot of humor and heart. Jensen is definitely an author I want to read a lot more of.

Okay, my eyes are crossing and my hands are cramping, so I’m calling it a night. April will be up . . . soon. Ish.

January Reading - February Reading

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markwatkinsconsumerguide · 3 years

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Consumer Guide / No.109 / Music/Religion journalist & reviewer, author & broadcaster, Tony Jasper with Mark Watkins.

MW : When did religion become important to you, and how has this led on to what you do now in your key role with the Jasperian Theatre Company?

TJ : From around 11. In theatre terms, drama school, my fascination with drama, and my own sense of writing for the stage, and it seemed natural to explore religious themes.

MW : When and how did chart music become important to you?

TJ : Again early age; my mother liked the Top 20 and we listened to the radio together.

MW : Why did you decide to chronicle various aspects of music and its social offshoots?

TJ : I desired to preach but then conversely I had this love of popular music. Popular music also had a strong faith strain.

MW : Tell me about your record reviewing for Music Week etc…

TJ : Once you write for a major journal there are lots of people wanting you to hear, see and review artists and records. At one time, I was writing for Record Mirror, Music Week, Manchester Evening News, Liverpool and Birmingham papers.

MW : Tell me about Dave Lee Travis's radio show on the BBC?

TJ : I put forward the idea of chart analysis and it got the attention of the Radio 1 people, including DLT. At the time, I had a radio programme called Celebration Rock going out on commercial radio on Radio Hallam in Sheffield, where I took a theme and played contemporary music tracks on that theme. Somewhat like Bob Dylan would do many years later. I had also been interviewing rock stars for the BBC TV Sunday programme and also had a Gospel music programme.

MW : How did you find radio broadcasting and did you have much of a free hand with programming music for your own shows?

TJ : I programmed all my shows on Radio Hallam and on BFBS Worldwide (incidentally, I was voted Number 3, Top European, DJ). It was just great being in a studio, knowing there's an audience out there into many thousands and I received some great mail from appreciative people. I’ve interviewed so many artists in / for various newspaper, radio & TV outlets. Favourite Joan Baez.

MW : Go into some detail on the research you did for the compiling of your two "chart" books on the FAB Sound Of The 60s and 70s Book Of Records. And generally...

TJ : I assiduously save mags, have hundreds of pop papers and all the Record Mirrors of that time. That’s part of it, research materials and I used Top 20 charts (and news and diary information) for compiling these two books.

However, what you really mean is to do any book…..if it’s authorised (such as with Cliff Richard) then it means hours spent with the artist, plus sifting through endless references and articles with maybe friends of the artist, with those who have actually worked with the artist. Fortunately, I have an extensive library of rare research materials (as previously said) such as music press, hundreds of books and general magazines.

So, with Record Mirror, I reviewed singles and these were sent to me, or sent to the music paper directly and the albums were dispersed around the office to various writers. If we liked someone “major” in the music industry as it were, then it was a case of whose turn. Or records were divided up among reviewers who specialised in particular genres. I was always given folk because at the time I also wrote for folk magazines and was regularly at folk venues.

In my Radio 1 chart-time, it was dictated by the week’s chart and we set up interviews with new chart entrants: in the television series I did for the BBC, I suggested artists with religious connotations, or personal faith, or issues in their personal life.

You find one thing leads to another. I Interview Jimmy Page for my then BFBS Radio show and then a conversation about guitars leads to writing about this for Guitar magazine.

When you interview an artist and you are freelance the way to earn is thinking what other sources might be interested that do not compete with the original commissioning source, So with Annie Lennox (of The Eurythmics) it could it be a Scottish journal, or an educational in view of her background, or if her family have teaching connections then an educational magazine might be interested and so forth.

In respect of TOTP every artist had to be interviewed by me as part of appearing on the TV show.

MW : Did you contemplate producing a Chart book for the 1980s?

TJ : In fact, I have a series: British Record Charts from the late-1970s to late- 1980s. Probably other people had books out on the 1980s, I can’t recall. I wrote features for the Top Of The Pops magazine, and for some years interviewed everyone who was on TOTP, obviously attending each recording.

MW : How did you view The Guinness Book Of British Hit Singles at the time?

TJ: You may mean as rivals? Not really, it was a great idea and well presented and began of course with GRRR - Paul Gambaccini, Mike Read and (brothers) Tim & Jo Rice.

MW : List, in order of preference, your Top 10 hymns,,,saying something on your No.1 choice...

TJ :

Alleluia, Alleluia, Give Thanks To The Risen Lord

Blessed Assurance

O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing

They'll Know We Are Christians By Our Love

Amazing Grace

I Need Thee Every Hour

Christ The Lord Is Risen Today

And Can It Be, That I Should Gain?

My Jesus, My Saviour (Shout To The Lord)

Were You There, When They Crucified My Lord?

In respect of my No.1, I caught the end of the Jesus People US, and living in Berkeley, California this was one of our marching songs along with Number 4. Great racy tune, stirring words.

MW : For you, what prayer reaches parts other prayers can't reach?

TJ : Obviously, ‘THE’ prayer, that of Our Lord.

MW : All being well, what are your plans for the rest of 2021?

TJ : It’s so hard to say for who knows what is possible at present. However, I do have a very large book in preparation covering Christian music, drama, dance, music, etc from late-1930s until now. I am devising a disco-dance with spoken dramatic narrative of the essential elements of the Bible Creation to the Great Gathering in the Book Of Revelation. Other events on hold.

Tony Jasper | Jasperian Theatre Company

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blackkudos · 7 years

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Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Jalacy (Screamin' Jay) Hawkins (July 18, 1929 – February 12, 2000) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You", he sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him an early pioneer of shock rock.

Early life

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Hawkins studied classical piano as a child and learned guitar in his twenties. His initial goal was to become an opera singer (Hawkins cited Paul Robeson as his musical idol in interviews), but when his initial ambitions failed he began his career as a conventional blues singer and pianist.

Hawkins was an avid and formidable boxer. In 1949, he was the middleweight boxing champion of Alaska. In 1951, he joined guitarist Tiny Grimes' band, and was subsequently featured on some of Grimes' recordings. When Hawkins became a solo performer, he often performed in a stylish wardrobe of leopard skins, red leather, and wild hats.

Career

"I Put a Spell on You"

Hawkins' most successful recording, "I Put a Spell on You" (1956), was selected as one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. According to the AllMusic Guide to the Blues, "Hawkins originally envisioned the tune as a refined ballad." The entire band was intoxicated during a recording session where "Hawkins screamed, grunted, and gurgled his way through the tune with utter drunken abandon." The resulting performance was no ballad but instead a "raw, guttural track" that became his greatest commercial success and reportedly surpassed a million copies in sales, although it failed to make the Billboard pop or R&B charts.

The performance was mesmerizing, although Hawkins himself blacked out and was unable to remember the session. Afterward he had to relearn the song from the recorded version. Meanwhile, the record label released a second version of the single, removing most of the grunts that had embellished the original performance; this was in response to complaints about the recording's overt sexuality. Nonetheless it was banned from radio in some areas.

Soon after the release of "I Put a Spell on You", radio disc jockey Alan Freed offered Hawkins $300 to emerge from a coffin onstage. Hawkins accepted and soon created an outlandish stage persona in which performances began with the coffin and included "gold and leopardskin costumes and notable voodoo stage props, such as his smoking skull on a stick – named Henry – and rubber snakes." These props were suggestive of voodoo, but also presented with comic overtones that invited comparison to "a black Vincent Price."

"I Put a Spell On You" became a classic cult song, covered by a variety of artists such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nina Simone, Alan Price, The Animals, the Them with Van Morrison, Arthur Brown, Bryan Ferry, Buddy Guy with Carlos Santana, Tim Curry, Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Nick Cave in a concert only version, Marilyn Manson, Mica Paris with David Gilmore, Jeff Beck and Joss Stone, Diamanda Galas, and Annie Lennox in 2014 for her Grammy nominated album Nostalgia. Hawkins' original "I Put a Spell on You" was featured during the show and over the credits of Episode 303 of The Simpsons.

Later career

Hawkins' later releases included "Constipation Blues" (which included a spoken introduction by Hawkins in which he states he wrote the song because no one had written a blues song before about "real pain"), "Orange Colored Sky", and "Feast of the Mau Mau". Nothing he released, however, had the monumental success of "I Put a Spell on You". In Paris in 1999 and at the Taste of Chicago festival, he actually performed "Constipation Blues" with a toilet onstage.

He continued to tour and record through the 1960s and 1970s, particularly in Europe, where he was very popular. He appeared in performance (as himself) in the Alan Freed bio-pic American Hot Wax in 1978. Subsequently, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch featured "I Put a Spell on You" on the soundtrack – and deep in the plot – of his film Stranger Than Paradise (1983) and then Hawkins himself as a hotel night clerk in his Mystery Train and in roles in Álex de la Iglesia's Perdita Durango and Bill Duke's adaptation of Chester Himes' A Rage in Harlem.

His 1957 single "Frenzy" (found on the early 1980s compilation of the same name) was included in the compilation CD, Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files, in 1996. This song was featured in the show's Season 2 episode "Humbug". It was also covered by the band Batmobile. In 1983, Hawkins relocated to the New York area. In 1984 and 1985, Hawkins collaborated with garage rockers The Fuzztones, resulting in "Screamin' Jay Hawkins and The Fuzztones Live" album recorded at Irving Plaza in December 1984. They perform in the 1986 movie Joey.

In 1990, Hawkins performed the song "Sirens Burnin'," which was featured in the 1990 horror film Night Angel.

In July 1991, Hawkins released his album Black Music for White People. The record features covers of two Tom Waits compositions: "Heart Attack and Vine" (which, later that year, was used in a European Levi's advertisement without Waits' permission, resulting in a lawsuit), and "Ice Cream Man" (which, contrary to popular belief, is a Waits original, and not a cover of the John Brim classic). Hawkins also covered the Waits song "Whistlin' Past the Graveyard", for his album Somethin' Funny Goin' On. In 1993, his version of "Heart Attack and Vine" became his only UK hit, reaching #42 on the UK singles chart.

When Dread Zeppelin recorded their "disco" album, It's Not Unusual in 1992, producer Jah Paul Jo asked Hawkins to guest. He performed the songs "Jungle Boogie" and "Disco Inferno". He also toured with The Clash and Nick Cave during this period, and not only became a fixture of blues festivals, but appeared at many film festivals as well, including the Telluride Film Festival premier of Mystery Train.

In 2001, the Greek director and writer Nicholas Triandafyllidis made the documentary Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell on Me about various stages of his life and career, including a filming of his last ever live performance, in Athens, on December 20, 1999, two months before his death (he played in Salonica too a day earlier). Notable artists such as Jim Jarmusch, Bo Diddley, Eric Burdon, Frank Ash, Arthur Brown and Michael Ochs talked about Screamin' Jay Hawkins' early life, personality, career and his incredible talent.

Personal life

Hawkins had six marriages; his last wife was 31 at his death. Singing partner Shoutin' Pat Newborn stabbed him in jealousy when he married Virginia Sabellona. He had three children with his first wife and claimed variously to have 57 or 75 in total. After his death, his friend and biographer Maral Nigolian set up a website to trace these children, identifying 33, at least 12 of whom met at a 2001 reunion.

Death

Hawkins died after emergency surgery for an aneurysm on February 12, 2000, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, near Paris.

Influence

Although Hawkins was not a major success as a recording artist, his highly theatrical performances from "I Put a Spell on You" onward earned him a steady career as a live performer for decades afterward, and influenced subsequent acts. He opened for Fats Domino, Tiny Grimes and the Rolling Stones. This exposure in turn influenced rock groups such as Alice Cooper, Tom Waits, the Cramps, Screaming Lord Sutch, Black Sabbath, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Arthur Brown, Dread Zeppelin, the Horrors, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie and Glenn Danzig.

In popular culture

In 1995, a portion of his song "Frenzy" was used in the season 2 episode "Humbug" of the Fox TV series The X-Files.

In 2009 "Frenzy" can be heard during the end credits of the season 2 episode, by the same name, of the HBO series True Blood.

In 2009 film, Nowhere Boy, a vinyl of "I Put A Spell On You" is presented to a young John Lennon, who then gives the vinyl to his Mother, Julia, to play on a record player.

In 2016, a portion of his 1957 song "Little Demon" was used as the soundtrack for a Fitbit Blaze commercial.

In 2016, "an inventive retelling of the outrageous life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins" by author Mark Binelli, entitled "Screamin' Jay Hawkins' All-Time Greatest Hits", was released by Metropolitan Books.

Discography

Studio albums

1958 At Home with Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Okeh/Epic) – other editions entitled Screamin' Jay Hawkins and I Put a Spell on You

1965 The Night and Day of Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Planet/52e Rue Est) – also entitled In the Night and Day of Screamin' Jay Hawkins

1969 ...What That Is! (Philips)

1970 Because Is in Your Mind (Armpitrubber) (Philips)

1972 A Portrait of a Man and His Woman (Hotline) – reissued as I Put a Spell on You and Blues Shouter

1977 I Put a Spell on You (Versatile – recordings from 1966–1976)

1979 Screamin' the Blues (Red Lightnin' – recordings from 1953–1970)

1979 Lawdy Miss Clawdy (Koala)

1983 Real Life (Zeta)

1991 Black Music for White People (Bizarre/Straight Records/Planet Records)

1991 I Shake My Stick at You (Aim)

1993 Stone Crazy (Bizarre/Straight/Planet)

1994 Somethin' Funny Goin' On (Bizarre/Straight/Planet)

1998 At Last (Last Call)

Live albums

1984 Screamin' Jay Hawkins and the Fuzztones Live (Midnight Records)

1988 At Home with Jay in the Wee Wee Hours (Midnight Records)

1988 Live & Crazy (Blue Phoenix)

1991 Screamin' Jay Hawkins and the Chikenhawks: Dr. Macabre (Trade Service)

1993 Rated X (Sting S) — recorded in 1970

1999 Live at the Olympia, Paris (Last Call) — live with one new studio recording

Singles

1953 "Not Anymore" / "Baptize Me in Wine" [Timely 1004]

1954 "I Found My Way to Wine" / "Please Try to Understand Me" [Timely 1005]

1955 "Well I Tried" / "You're All of My Life to Me" [Wing 9005]

1955 "This Is All" / "(She Put The) Whammee (On Me)" [Mercury 70549]

1956 "Even Though" / "Talk About Me" [Wing 90055]

1956 "I Put a Spell on You" / "Little Demon" [OKeh 7072]

1957 "You Made Me Love You" / "Darling, Please Forgive Me" [OKeh 7084]

1957 "Frenzy" / "Person to Person" [OKeh 7087]

1958 "Alligator Wine" / "There's Something Wrong with You" [OKeh 7101]

1958 "Armpit #6" / "The Past" [Red Top 126]

1962 "I Hear Voices" / "Just Don't Care" [Enrica 1010]

1962 "Ashes" / "Nitty Gritty" w/ Shoutin' Pat (Newborn) [Chancellor 1117]

1966 "Poor Folks" / "Your Kind of Love" [Providence 411]

1970 "Do You Really Love Me" / "Constipation Blues" [Philips 40645]

1973 "Monkberry Moon Delight" / "Sweet Ginny" [Queen Bee 1313]

1990 The Art of Screamin' Jay Hawkins (Spivey)

1993 "Heart Attack and Vine" / "I Put a Spell on You" / "On the Job" [Columbia 6591092]

Multi-artist samplers and budget compilations

1962 Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Lillian Briggs (Coronet)

1963 A Night at Forbidden City (Sounds of Hawaii)

1988 Screamin' Jay Hawkins- I Put A Spell on You (Elvira Presents: Haunted Hits LP)

1990 Screamin' Jay Hawkins- I Put A Spell On You (Elvira Presents: Haunted Hits CD Re-Release)

1994 Screamin' Jay Hawkins- Little Demon (Elvira Presents: Monster Hits CD)

1996 Screamin' Jay Hawkins – Frenzy (Songs in the Key of X – The X Files)

Filmography

American Hot Wax (as himself, 1978)

Joey (as himself, 1986)

Mystery Train (as Night Clerk, 1989)

A Rage in Harlem (as himself, 1991)

Two Moon Junction (as Blues Club Singer, 1992)

Perdita Durango, (1997)

Peut-être (as club singer, 1999)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins: I Put a Spell On Me (2001)

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anonymous-butnotquite · 5 years

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autumnal asks

I reblogged this last week and I’m finally in the mood to actually do this.

“This” being purge out all the things I’ve never said out loud, feel like I say too much, and just pretty much in between, while listening to listen to Ari Lennox , SiR, and Snoh Aalegra.

lantern - how did you meet your best friend? What were your first impressions of each other? - I met my best friend through a mutual friend in the 8th grade or right after it, I’m not sure. My first impression was “Wow, this girl has a personality. Not in the “Oh! She’s so funny.” No i mean, this girl has opinions, and their different than mine. Man, she has these views and she has them so much conviction." She is intimidating and I’m not sure if I’m ready for this >.>

Turns out I did, we would wax and we would wane, and now my faith in our relationship is as strong as my belief in the moon always making her way back to us.

frost - if you could give some advice to your younger self, what would you say? - don’t wait, just do it. be selfish, it’s okay to want what you want. you’ll always find a way so don’t be scared to leave. be diligent in your relationships, be that family or friends. you don’t know when they’ll need you or you’ll need that person. let people know you love them. don’t be scared, don’t worry, be young, want, love, but continue to trust your gut, it’s always (99.99999%) right.

maple - is there a hobby / skill that you’ve always wanted to try but never did? - man, ha. Uhm, I guess archery. I’ve loved it since i was 8 and i watch inuyasha with my cousin for the first time on vacation in Applevalley, CA.

harvest - what fictional character do you most identify with? Why? - Ooh, that’s tough.. I feel like I find myself in all the heroines I read about. If I had to choose though, I’d certainly say at this time, Emi from the Red Winter Trilogy by Annette Marie.

*oh shit, slide away by miley cyrus just came on. it’s lit.

fireside - if you had your dream wardrobe, what would it look like? - ooooooh, {((>,<))} such a colorful variety, but only like 50% the other 50% needs to be my neutrals (black, grey, white, and more black.) So I’d have jackets and hoodies upon themselves, LOTS of denim, a pair of overalls, tees, sweaters, crop tops, high-waisted errthang. off the shoulders shirts, blouses whatever. belts -i never have any of these and i have no idea why,- but yeah it be easier to just look at my pinterest board lol

cider - a food that you disliked as a child but now enjoy? - mmm, honey mustard. that’s a condiment i know. truly though, it was a breakthrough.

amber - share an unpopular opinion that you may have. - yeeeeeeekkkkk, i think gender roles are okay as like an outline, but then once you have your kid and he/she starts having opinions you can swap out things or trash it who cares for what your child feels comfortable, and your family supportive.

fog - how well do you think you’d do in a zombie apocalypse scenario? - dawg. i feel like given the right resources, i’d do okay. def steal a truck/suv, grab my crew, and drive out to the country and stay on a farm or some shit.

jack-o-lantern - if you could look like any celebrity, who would you choose? wellll, zendaya. I’ve heard i favor her and i don’t all the way see it but if i really could have those brows and face structure, yeesh. imma be stuck up.

spice - have you ever encountered a house that you believed to be haunted? - my elementary school had this story about the basement being haunted from a custodian killing her. and i was dared to use the restroom down there. i def got the bottom step and straight hustled out that mufucka.

orchard - share one thing that you’d like to happen this autumn. -i’d like to feel connected. that blissed out feeling of the breeze coming over your body on that cool day, but with a person.

crow - which school subject do you wish you had an aptitude for? - wish? hmm, language. had i felt more comfortable i may have went into college for some writing/ communications major from the start.

bonfire - describe your dream house. - too long. but here’s go killing time. dark green, black accents covering the exterior. a beautiful front porch, yes with the swing. gorgeous deck for entertaining, back yard with fence but 3 good and full trees to provide more privacy from the neighbors, toward the back so that way on the deck i can see the sky and moon at night. inside.. a mud room from the 2 car garage at the end of the mud room to the side the laundry room complete with shelves for the washing/drying items and hangers for the the gentles. in the opposite direction you walk into a spacious kitchen. complete with a double over, sitting on top of each other, large cabinets that at as the pantry, cabinets on cabinets on cabinet space. a fun but elegant back splash. the island/breakfast bar. deep double sinks, stretching into the living room just this is getting way to detailed and i’ll finish the rest. but bottom line. great vanities in my bathrooms, 2 upstairs, a half bath down stairs. (yes 2 stories and finished basement which also has a half.) 4 bedrooms master connected to bathroom with huge claw bath. another for the kids (2-3) if no 3rd kid forth room is an office/ we use for reading, writing all dat. you know what this is my dream so regardless of children i will have this. filled with lots of laughter, love, smiles, talks, discussions, advice, and understanding.

cinnamon - if you had to live in a time period different than the present, which would you choose and where? - man, i would say something crazy like oh with the samurais and shit and then have to remember women have always had it rough everywhere and we still do! and add that on to the fact that i am color? not really bout it. but it women right’s were the same. i would go back the edo period, or when america bounced back from the depression. oh wait i wanna avoid all the WW’s... yeah every time period had their hangups.

cobweb - (if you’ve graduated) do you miss high school? - nah, i really just miss the responsibilities. they truly weren’t anything.

cranberry - what’s one physical feature that you get complimented on? my hair.

maize - share the weirdest encounter you’ve had with a stranger on the street. - i’m not sure about strange, that gives it a negative feel to me. but on my 25th birthday i was drunk downtown with my friends and while walking back to the car i heard this guy (the stranger) talking about sauske (from naruto, clearly) was the greatest character in the series, and i just yell out “sauske’s a bitch.” dude took it in stride and was saying how come? and i proceed to have this existential conversation on the street at like 3 am about naruto. NARUTO. it was like a dream come true. but definitely the most random.

quilt - how do you take your tea (or coffee)? - coffee, a quarter of it needs to be creamer (flavored preferably) with 2 sugars. tea, i am surprisingly starting to put cream in it, like that only 1-2 sugars. without 2-3 sugars. I like my stuff sweet, sue me?

pumpkin - do you think that humans are inherently good or bad? -this is tough. i guess since we are born “in sin” we are inherently bad? we’re taught in life what our morals are and what things we shouldn’t do.

moonlit - are you a neat or messy person? Is your room / house orderly? - eat, neat, neat. if messy it is a organized chaos. my house is orderly now i just got done cleaning before i took a shower and started this.

flannel - have you ever gone on a bad date? - yesssssssssssssss. yes. yes. he was sooo fine too. like just great looking. still love looking at him on instagram attractive. but he was just so materialistic and judge mental. he still shoots his shot from time to time and i be like... should i? then i’m like nah, he always annoys you when you do.

cocoa - if you could have any type of hair, what colour and cut would you have?- and it be natural? i love to be a natural red hed. i think they are just bombshells. i know they get the fire crotch jokes growing up but i’m skipping that phase. and cut? i think i would keep a medium borderline bob hair cut.

ghost - is there someone that you miss having in your life? - i don’t miss anyone that ... wait i miss my penguin girl. but i was going to say that the person i miss in moments like this is someone i’ve haven’t met yet.

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With Respect: Remembering Aretha Franklin

In 1965, Otis Redding wrote and recorded the song "Respect," which became one of his biggest hits, reaching the Top 5 of the R&B charts and crossing over to the Pop Top 40. Two years later, Aretha Franklin released her version of Redding's song, and after he heard it for the first time, Otis said, "I just lost my song. That girl took it away from me." Redding was hardly alone in that. Aretha Franklin didn't write "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," "Chain of Fools," "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)," "Baby I Love You," or "The Weight," either, but once she recorded them, those songs were hers. It wasn't just that Aretha outsang the folks who originally recorded those tunes, though she could and often did do that -- she also put a part of herself into them that no one could take from her. When Otis Redding sang "Respect," it was the story of a man who wanted his woman to treat him right after a long, hard day. In Aretha's hands, it became something larger, a demand that she be given her due both as a woman and as a person of color. In the year that the Black Panther Party for Self Defense began making headlines and race riots tore through through many major American cities, Franklin's version of "Respect" became a rallying cry, not just another R&B hit but a demand from the larger culture that she and her brothers and sisters were owed much more than they received.

Aretha Franklin, who died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer on Thursday, was one of the true icons of soul music, an artist whose superb command of her instrument and the unforced but passionate impact of her vocals at once defined the genre and transcended it. Franklin grew up in the Baptist church, and gospel music was a cornerstone of her musical approach. Franklin never truly walked away from it, periodically recording spiritual material throughout her career, and the echoes of the hymns she recorded in her teens were clearly audible in her most celebrated work. Franklin's best work was also steeped in the traditions of Southern soul, which was a bit more of a surprise. She grew up in Detroit, and didn't truly embrace that sound until she struck a deal with Atlantic Records in 1967 and went to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, then a major center in R&B recording, to cut her first tracks for the label with producer Jerry Wexler at the controls. While the sessions would prove contentious and she would never record in Muscle Shoals again, with "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man," Franklin cracked the code of a sound that had previously eluded her, finding a musical environment where she truly seemed at home, and from that point on, she was an unstoppable force.

Aretha Franklin was born on March 25, 1942, and like many soul music greats, her musical roots were in gospel, with her connection to the music running deeper than most. Her father was the Reverend C.L. Franklin, pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit and one of the best known African-American evangelists of his day. In addition to preaching at his own church, Rev. Franklin traveled across the country, earning hefty honorariums for speaking on the gospel and recording a successful series of albums that documented his powerful oratory and what was described as his "million dollar voice." Rev. Franklin was very much a celebrity in the African-American community in the 50s, and through him young Aretha met the likes of Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, James Cleveland and Clara Ward. Emboldened by her experiences, Aretha, who was notoriously shy among family and friends, began singing, and her father quickly recognized that she had an exceptional talent. Aretha was only 10 when she began singing solos in her father's church, and at 14 she was performing alongside her dad on the road. That same year, she recorded several sides for a small gospel label, and a successful career as a spiritual artist seemed assured.

However, Aretha had greater ambitions than that. Having known Sam Cooke, she had seen him go from a member of the Soul Stirrers to a secular star who conquered the pop and R&B charts, and she wanted a similar chance to grab the brass ring. At 18, with her father's blessings, she cut a demo tape of pop material, and soon she was fielding offers from RCA (at the behest of Sam Cooke, an RCA artist) and the fledgling Motown label. But John Hammond, the legendary Columbia Records A&R man who had previously discovered Billie Holiday, Count Basie, and Lionel Hampton (and would later sign Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Bruce Springsteen), was knocked out by Aretha's voice and signed her to the label in 1960, declaring she had talent on a par with Holiday. Fans are strongly divided on the merits of Franklin's recordings for Columbia, and while they were of the the most successful and prestigious labels in the world in 1960, they weren't a great fit for Aretha. Notoriously late to the game in signing rock and R&B acts, Columbia sought to groom Aretha into an entertainer who would wow nightclub audiences, rather than young or black listeners. Aretha did cut some fine sides for Columbia, and scored three R&B Top Ten hits between 1960 and 1961 (and even cracked the lower reaches of the Top 40 with "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody"), but when she and Columbia amicably parted ways at the end of 1966, some questioned Atlantic's judgment in signing an act who had seemingly failed to live up to expectations.

By the end of 1967, those thoughts had been brushed aside, as Franklin put five singles in the Top Ten that year, four of which went gold. Franklin was now one of the most successful and talked-about artists in popular music, and as the '60s gave way to the '70s, she proved herself to be a versatile talent, able to bend her glorious voice to anything from soulful interpretations of Beatles tunes ("Eleanor Rigby") to the proto-funk of "Rock Steady." She also scored a critical, commercial, and personal triumph with 1972's Amazing Grace, a live album in which she delivered a program of gospel classics. However, 1973's "Until You Come Back To Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" would prove to be her last Top Ten hit of the decade, and while she remained a potent live draw and one of soul's peerless artists, like many R&B stars of the '60s she seemed to be fading from the spotlight as funk and disco came to dominate African-American music.

Once again, a change in labels helped change that. In 1980, Franklin signed with Arista Records, and the label helped give her music a makeover, still putting her voice front and center but adding a more contemporary spin in the production and arrangements. Aretha also got some unexpected help from John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd; the comedians cast her in their 1980 film The Blues Brothers, playing a no-nonsense waitress married to fry cook and guitarist Matt "Guitar" Murphy. The role wasn't much, but Franklin all but stole the movie with her sassy, brooking-no-jive performance and her energetic delivery of a new version of "Think." Critics cited her performance as one of the highlights of The Blues Brothers, and it's surprising she never landed another acting role. (Perhaps she wasn't interested.)

With the movie putting Franklin back on the pop culture radar, in 1982 she went into the studio with top-selling soul belter Luther Vandross, who co-produced the album Jump To It and helped write four of its songs. The album went gold, and she fared even better with 1985's Who's Zoomin' Who, produced by Narada Michael Walden. Walden give the album a sleek pop sheen and a radio friendly sound, and combined with Franklin's powerhouse vocals, the album went platinum and produced three major hit singles -- "Freeway of Love," "Sisters are Doin' It For Themselves," and the title cut. Arista prexy Clive Davis was a strong believer in using cameo appearances from current pop stars to boost the visibility of veteran acts, and "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" found Aretha trading verses with Annie Lennox of the Eurythmics. This would become a common feature on Franklin's albums of the '80s and '90s, as she found herself paired up with George Michael ("I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)"), Whitney Houston ("It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be"), Elton John ("Through the Storm"), and Lauryn Hill ("A Rose is Still a Rose"), among others. However, Franklin never played second fiddle to her guest stars, singing with her usual authority and confidence, and it often seemed she was doing them the favor, not the other way around. Aretha also used her renewed success to persuade Arista to let her cut another live gospel set, 1987's One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism.

Franklin's tenure with Arista came to an end with 2007's Jewels in the Crown: All Star Duets With the Queen, and while she continued to perform and record in the last decade of her life -- making memorable appearances at Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and a Thanksgiving Day Detroit Lions game in 2016 -- rumors of poor health began to circulate. Franklin and her representatives usually refused to share details about her condition, but she regularly cancelled concert bookings due to medical issues in her last years, and had publicly acknowledged her struggles with alcohol, smoking, and obesity. (She had already stopped performing outside of North America in 1984 after developing a strong fear of flying.) It wasn't until Franklin went into hospice care in mid-August 2018 that it was confirmed she was living with pancreatic cancer, which claimed her on August 16.

While American music has lost one of its greatest stars and most memorable talents with the passing of Aretha Franklin, we've also lost something more than that. Franklin was a singular artist, but she also represented something unique, bringing together several threads of African-American musical tradition into a style that was all her own. And while more than a few singers can mimic the effects of her tremendous vocal range, practically none of them could match the emotional depth of her best work, and her ability to make a song her own regardless of its context. And her contribution as a cultural force and a symbol of strength and independence cannot be underestimated. Aretha Franklin was the Queen of Soul, but more importantly, she was a voice who deserved and demanded respect … and she got it.

Source: https://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/with-respect-remembering-aretha-franklin

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The Latest: Gary Oldman wins best film actor SAG

LOS ANGELES/January 21, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) — The Latest on Sunday’s presentation of the Screen Actors Guild from the Shrine Auditorium (all times local):

6:50 p.m.

Gary Oldman is the winner of the Screen Actors Guild Award for best film actor for his performance in “Darkest Hour.”

Oldman is considered the front-runner for the best actor Academy Award for his portrayal of Winston Churchill during a pivotal moment in World War II when the prime minister was trying to rally Britain to fight the Nazis.

The actor broke down in tears while accepting the award, saying there are “giants of acting” in the SAG Awards showroom.

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6:45 p.m.

Cue the tears — NBC’s “This Is Us” has won the SAG Award for best television drama ensemble.

The NBC series stars Milo Ventimiglia, Mandy Moore and Sterling K. Brown and tells the story of the tight bonds of a family, with flashbacks filling in the backstories of the characters, including the origins of their secrets.

Ventimiglia accepted the award on behalf of the crew, flanked by actors on the show including several of the younger actors play the main characters when they were younger.

The actor thanked fans, telling them the cast loved them for supporting a show that supported positivity and inclusion.

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6:40 p.m.

The SAG Awards are running a bit long and winners are being asked to keep their acceptance speeches short.

The announcement calling for 45-second speeches came before the presentation of the show’s lifetime achievement award to Morgan Freeman.

The show traditionally has a two hour running time.

Best TV drama actor Sterling K. Brown was the first to encounter the time crunch, with music starting to play over his acceptance speech. The show gained some time with the best TV drama actress award. The winner, “The Crown” Claire Foy, did not attend Sunday’s ceremony.

— Sandy Cohen (@SandyCohen75) at the SAG Awards

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6:30 p.m.

“The Crown’s” Claire Foy is the winner of the Screen Actors Guild Award for best television drama actress.

Foy plays Queen Elizabeth II in the Netflix series, which focuses on the early years of the monarch’s reign as she struggled to balance her royal duties with her home life and the needs of post-World War II Britain.

Foy also won the award last year. She did not attend Sunday’s ceremony.

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6:25 p.m.

Sterling K. Brown is the winner of the best television actor Screen Actors Guild Award for his role as Randall Pearson on ‘This is Us’

Brown plays a family man recovering from a nervous breakdown and the ongoing effects of his adoptive father’s death on him and is siblings when they were teenagers.

The actor says it is a blessing to do what you love for a living. He thanked his fellow actors, saying they were his inspiration.

He also specifically thanked the two young actors who play his character as a boy and a teenager on the NBC series.

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6:15 p.m.

Morgan Freeman has accepted the lifetime achievement award at the Screen Actors Guild by pointing out the show’s awards statuette is male.

Freeman says he wasn’t going to point out a flaw in the award before saying, “It works from the back. From the front, it’s gender specific.”

The audience cheered, and Freeman says that maybe he started something. The SAGs statuette is called “The Actor” and depicts a performer holding the drama and comedy masks.

His comments came during a ceremony that put a special emphasis on women, with a roster of nearly all female presenters and its first-ever host in Kristen Bell.

Rita Moreno presented the award to Freeman, who received a standing ovation and kissed the actress gently on the lips when he took the stage.

Freeman wore a black baseball cap during the show, and was chided by Moreno to raise the hat a bit so people could see his face better. He obliged and joked that was what he had to put up with when he and Moreno worked together on the show “Electric Company.”

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5:55 p.m.

Nicole Kidman is the winner of the SAG Award for best actress in a television limited series or movie.

Kidman won for “Big Little Lies” in a category in which two of her co-stars were also nominated.

Kidman plays a housewife who gave up her professional life to care for her sons with an abusive husband, played by Alexander Skarsgard.

She won her first SAG Award Sunday night after being nominated 10 times. She thanked the guild first, saying she has been working since she was 14-years-old and was incredibly grateful for her career.

The 50-year-old actress says she is especially honored for being honored because at another time in Hollywood an actress her age would be considered too old for major roles.

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5:45 p.m.

Alexander Skarsgard’s portrayal of an abusive husband in the HBO series “Big Little Lies” has won him the SAG Award for best actor in a television limited series or movie.

Skarsgard plays the violently domineering husband of a laywer-turned-housewife played by Nicole Kidman.

The actor says he is incredibly embarrassed and “infinitely grateful” for the award.

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5:30 p.m.

Allison Janney is the winner of the Screen Actors Guild Award for best supporting film actress for her role in “I, Tonya.”

Janney won for her role in “I, Tonya .”

It is Janney’s seventh SAG Award. She says she is incredibly lucky and emotional to be nominated in a category alongside Mary J. Blige, Hong Chau, Holly Hunter and Laurie Metcalf. She also called “I, Tonya” star Margot Robbie fearless.

Sam Rockwell won the best supporting actor SAG for his role in “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.” It is Rockwell’s first SAG Awards win and comes for his role as a racist police officer in the film, which stars Frances McDormand.

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5:20 p.m.

“Veep” is the winner of the Screen Actors Guild Award for best television comedy.

The HBO series stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a politician who schemes and abuses her staff to maneuver her way through American political life. It is the first SAG win for the series.

Matt Walsh gave the acceptance speech, riffing on his character’s inability to handle public speaking engagements. He thanked several absent cast members, including Anna Chlumsky and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who won the best television comedy actress SAG award moment earlier.

It is the first SAG ensemble win for the HBO show.

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5:15 p.m.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has won the best television comedy actress Screen Actors Guild Award for her work on the series “Veep.”

It is Louis-Dreyfus’s fifth SAG comedy win and her third for her “Veep,” in which she plays a politician acutely concerned with her place in the American political system.

The actress recently completed treatment for breast cancer and did not attend Sunday’s ceremony.

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5:10 p.m.

“Shameless’s” William H. Macy is the winner of the Screen Actors Guild Award for best television comedy actor.

Is is the third SAG Macy has won for his role as an alcoholic father on Showtime’s “Shameless” and the second year in a row he has taken home the honor.

He also won a SAG Award in 2003 for the television movie “Door to Door.”

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5:05 p.m.

The SAG Awards have opened with Allison Janney, Tracee Ellis Ross, Millie Bobby Brown and Kristen Bell talking about their experiences as actors.

Bell, who is the show’s first-ever host, cracked a joke during her “I Am an Actor” segment, telling the audience, “I am Kristen Bell, and I am a narcissist.”

She also tried to strike a unifying tone, telling the showroom “fear and anger will never win the race.”

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4:50 p.m.

Daniel Kaluuya is happy to oblige a playful suggestion from a fan in the bleachers outside the SAG Awards.

When a woman in the bleachers spotted the “Get Out” star, she yelled “”Get Out,” Daniel, Daniel! Get out! Get out!” Kaluuya pretended to start running and then smiled.

The calls from fans do get noticed by many of the actors walking the red carpet before Sunday’s awards show.

At one point, a fan shouted to John Stamos, “You are one handsome devil.” He appeared to blush and then hammed it up for the camera.

Another fan chatted with “This Is Us” star Sterling K. Brown about their hometown of St. Louis and which high schools they went to. Brown then tells the fan, “It’s always nice to meet someone from home.”

— Amanda Lee Myers (@AmandaLeeAP) in the SAG Awards fan bleachers.

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4:35 p.m.

Cheryl Hines is celebrating the men who are standing up for women and supporting the Time’s Up movement.

As the actress walked the red carpet on her way to into Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony, she said she has to “give a lot of props to the guys who are celebrating with us and saying it’s your time to shine.”

Hines stars in HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” which is nominated for best television comedy ensemble.

She says those who are worried that it’s “a bad time to be a white man” should acknowledge that “it’s been a really good time for a really long time for the guys.”

William H. Macy and “Get Out” star Daniel Kaluuya are among the men who said they supported the work of the Me Too and Time’s Up movements.

— Mike Cidoni Lennox (@CidoniLennox) and Sandy Cohen (@SandyCohen75) on the red carpet.

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4:20 p.m.

“Get Out” star Daniel Kaluuya says every year is the year of the woman.

A double nominee at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Kaluuya says that while “everything men do is for women,” he sees a “conscious shift” in response to the Me Too and Time’s Up movements.

The SAG Awards are putting additional emphasis on female performers on Sunday, featuring a roster of almost all women presenters, its first-time host Kristen Bell, and an opening segment with only actresses describing their craft.

Kaluuya says men are examining their behavior from a viewpoint they hadn’t considered before, and he supports those who are speaking out about unfair treatment.

“It’s not about me,” he says. “It’s giving the floor to these women and men who have gone through this stuff, and I’m here to support them and take a back seat.”

— Mike Cidoni Lennox (@CidoniLennox) and Sandy Cohen (@SandyCohen75) on the red carpet.

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4:10 p.m.

William H. Macy says the Time’s Up and Me Too movements may be “bewildering” for men, but it’s a good thing.

The Screen Actors Guild Award nominee for his work on the comedy series “Shameless” says he skipped Saturday’s women’s march but recently attended a Time’s Up meeting for men. He said he thinks “a lot of men feel under attack.”

He says the discomfort is good and he expects the industry will quickly adapt. He says, “I love our business. It’s self-healing. It’s progressive, and it’ll do the right thing quickly.”

— Mike Cidoni Lennox (@CidoniLennox) and Sandy Cohen (@SandyCohen75) on the red carpet.

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4 p.m.

Allison Janney says not to expect any Oprah-style speeches should she win the Screen Actors Guild Award for her supporting role in “I, Tonya.”

Winfrey’s galvanizing speech at the Golden Globe Awards sets the bar high for awards show acceptance speeches, and Janney says she’s not even trying to reach it.

Janney says, “I don’t know what’s going to come out of my mouth if I get up there, but it’s not going to be Oprah.”

The statuesque star says she “feels like a warrior” in the body-hugging, silver paillette-covered dress she chose for the SAG Awards, and that she’s still feeling an empowering rush from participating in the women’s march in Los Angeles Saturday.

— Mike Cidoni Lennox (@CidoniLennox) and Sandy Cohen (@SandyCohen75) on the red carpet.

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3:40 p.m.

Fans in the bleachers outside the Screen Actors Guild Awards are getting up close, and some cool photos, with some of their favorite stars.

Justin Hartley of “This Is Us” posed for photos in front of bleachers, taking a cell phone from one man and snapping a selfie with him.

Hartley also posed for a photo with Parker Bates, who plays him as a boy on the NBC drama, which is nominated for best drama ensemble.

Sean Astin of “Stranger Things” also stopped to sign an autograph and take a photo using a fan’s camera.

“Stranger Things” is also nominated for best drama ensemble at Sunday’s awards.

— Amanda Lee Myers (@AmandaLeeAP) in the SAG Awards fan bleachers

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3:30 p.m.

Jenifer Lewis says she’s seen the effects firsthand of the Time’s Up and Me Too movements in Hollywood.

The “black-ish” star said as she arrived at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday in Los Angeles that there’s been “a huge change in the business” since the Harvey Weinstein news broke last year.

Lewis says “every show” is having mandatory sexual harassment meetings and that she recently attended one at Disney.

She added that she’s honored to be part of “black-ish,” calling it “the cherry on top of my career.” The ABC series is nominated for outstanding television comedy ensemble at Sunday’s ceremony.

Lewis says the show is “leading the revolution” by dealing with such timely issues as police brutality, women’s rights and depression.

— Mike Cidoni Lennox (@CidoniLennox) and Sandy Cohen (@SandyCohen75) on the red carpet.

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3:20 p.m.

The stunt performers of “Wonder Woman” and the television series “Game of Thrones” are the winners of the first Screen Actors Guild awards handed out Sunday.

The awards were announced during the red carpet show preceding Sunday’s celebration of the best acting in film and television.

“Game of Thrones” is a back-to-back winner. The cast of the HBO fantasy series is also nominated for the best drama ensemble award that will be handed out later Sunday.

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3:05 p.m.

Hundreds of fans armed with cellphones and some in gowns themselves are shouting to stars as they walk the red carpet ahead of the SAG Awards.

One woman yelled to Alison Brie, in a striking red dress: “You’re beautiful.” Brie replied: “So are you!”

One fan shouted to JoBeth Williams of “Poltergeist” fame: “Looking good! Go one with your bad self!” Williams beamed and shouted back: “Thank you!”

Several shouted “Sterling!” when “This Is Us” star and SAG Award nominee Sterling K. Brown walked by looking dapper and “Kevin” when his co-star, Justin Hartley, followed shortly after.

The SAG Awards will be broadcast beginning at 8 p.m. Eastern on TBS and TNT.

— Amanda Lee Myers (@AmandaLeeAP) in the SAG Awards fan bleachers

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7:30 a.m.

The Screen Actors Guild Awards will honor the best performances in film and television from the past year on Sunday night, but not without also tackling the ongoing sexual misconduct scandal in Hollywood and efforts to improve the industry’s treatment of women.

This year’s show will feature a mostly female roster of presenters and its first ever host with Kristen Bell.

“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is the leading film nominee, including for its star Frances McDormand. The top television nominee is “Big Little Lies,” with three of its stars — Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern — all vying for best actress in the same category.

The show being held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles begins at 8 p.m. Eastern and will be broadcast on TNT and TBS.

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After tax cuts derailed the 'California dream,' is the state getting back on track?

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While Prop 13 may have saved the California dream for some, it destroyed it for many others. AP Photo/Lennox McLendon

In 1978, the year I graduated from college with a degree in economics, most voters in my state chose to turn their backs on the “California dream.”

Not unlike the American dream, California’s iteration focused on the limitless possibilities awaiting anyone who moved to the state. It was the state’s basic philosophic footing, a social compact that connected generations, geographies and economic classes in a common destiny.

Proposition 13, which Californians approved in a referendum in June 1978, marked a turning point away from the kind of public investment in education, infrastructure and social services – as well as a shift in an attitude that welcomed all comers – that made the California dream a reality for so many.

The highly controversial measure slashed property taxes, impoverished local governments and made it very hard for the state to raise new revenues. Besides ushering in an era of underinvestment, it spread the fantasy – since gone national – that governments can cut taxes without reducing services.

Almost 40 years later, California is at a crossroads and may finally be ready to begin to reverse Prop 13’s damage. As I explore in a forthcoming book, the state is pushing against the national grain by protecting immigrants, tackling climate change and raising the minimum wage. And most significantly for the legacy of Proposition 13, more residents are coming to see how replenishing the state’s coffers is key to restoring prosperity.

Pulling up the drawbridge

Just days after Proposition 13 passed, I stood in front of my fellow graduates at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to give the student address. I chose to talk about the result of the vote – not because it had anything to do with my chosen field of study but because of the sharp rift with the past it represented.

California had invested in me, like millions of others, by funding quality public schools, a world-class university system and economic growth. Now, a majority of voters were seeking to selfishly pull up the drawbridge on future generations. So I spent my 15 minutes of fame in front of classmates, professors and parents explaining why I thought Prop 13 would shipwreck the state.

I wish I had been wrong – and that I’d spent more of my allotted time thanking my parents, neither of whom had finished high school and were beaming with pride because the California dream had come true for their son. Sadly, Prop 13 meant that dream would be much less likely to come true for others.

At its core, Proposition 13 was written as an amendment to the state’s constitution with three key elements and affected all types of property, from residential to commercial:

It rolled back assessed property values to their estimated market value in 1975 and limited annual increases to no more than 2 percent as long as the property wasn’t sold. With any new sale, the assessed value could climb to the actual sale price, essentially locking in the property tax for long-time homeowners and shifting the burden to newcomers.

It capped the property tax rate at 1 percent of the assessed value for city, county, school and other local governments, down from an average of 2.6 percent before the measure, draining local coffers.

It mandated that any change in state taxes that would increase the tax take would require a two-thirds vote in the legislature (while tax cuts required only a majority vote) and that any increase in designated or special purpose taxes by local governments would require two-thirds voter approval. This effectively staightjacketed the ability of a changing electorate to raise new revenues.

Howard Jarvis, right, joins Gov. Jerry Brown at a news conference after Proposition 13 passed. AP Photo/Robbins

Prop 13 and its racial undertones

On reason for Prop 13’s popularity was that the median value of a house in California rose by over 250 percent from 1970 to 1980, more than twice as fast as median household income in the state. With reassessments triggering property tax hikes that outpaced family finances, the die was cast for a taxpayer rebellion.

But the roots of this suburban-based revolt were far deeper than a fight over taxes. The forces behind it were the same ones that fought against fair housing in the 1960s and busing to promote school integration throughout the 1970s. And they were goaded by a series of court decisions that mandated the equalization of school spending across districts, stirring white resentment that local property tax dollars were not being spent on “our kids.”

Indeed, at the same time that property rates were soaring, the share of youths who were minorities rose from 30 percent in 1970 to 44 percent by 1980 – the largest decadal change in California’s history. And while these racial undertones were, well, undertones, the resentment of the changing demography was clear when Prop 13’s main architect, Orange County businessman Howard Jarvis, wrote after it passed that immigrants “just come over here to get on the taxpayers’ gravy train.”

Protesters demonstrate against California’s Proposition 187 outside the Heritage Foundation in Washington in 1994 as then-Gov. Pete Wilson speaks inside. AP Photo/Joe Marquette

In essence, Proposition 13 became the first shot across the bow in a series of referendums some dubbed “racial propositions” that reached their apogee with Proposition 187, the famous 1994 measure that sought to cut off nearly all public services, including education, to undocumented immigrants.

That was followed by voter-approved measures to ban affirmative action, eliminate bilingual education and expand a prison system marred by racial disproportionality in its sentencing and rates of incarceration.

That Prop 13 itself was a sort of generational warfare with overtones of race was clear in its structure. Since the assessment didn’t increase more than 2 percent unless property changed hands, incumbent homeowners (who were older and whiter) wouldn’t see their tax burden change much as long as they didn’t sell. Meanwhile, new homeowners (more likely to be younger, minority and eventually immigrant) would have to pay higher tax rates and thus bear a disproportionate share of the costs of local services.

And that wasn’t the only bias against the future. The requirement for a supermajority to pass legislation to raise taxes effectively constrained the ability of future state governments to pour in the sort of money that had built the state’s famed transportation, water and university systems.

The consequences

The immediate damage from Prop 13, however, was masked. When local property tax revenues quickly fell by about 60 percent, the state government stepped in to fill the gaps.

But over time, the damaging effects of Proposition 13 in terms of education spending and income inequality became increasingly apparent. In the 1960s, California ranked among the top 10 states in terms of per-pupil spending. By 2014, its ranking had plunged to as low as 46. And while California’s level of income inequality was in the middle of the pack nationally in 1969, it is now the fourth most unequal state in the country.

While Proposition 13 was the not the only culprit behind these trends, it didn’t help. About half of the total residential property tax relief provided by Prop 13 went to homeowners with incomes in excess of US$120,000 a year – or about 15 percent of all households.

And because the property tax was no longer a growing source of revenue for local governments, cities and counties had more reason to chase sales taxes with retail development and less incentive to promote housing, helping to set in motion the severe housing shortage that wracks the state today.

The final irony is that Prop 13 – a measure promoted by those in favor of smaller government – pushed authority and decision-making to the state capitol, which became the main source to bail out local municipalities.

Efforts to change it

So why has Proposition 13 not been overturned?

Its political appeal remains, particularly to older residents who vote and to businesses worried about any increase in taxes. Efforts to keep the protections for residential homeowners but allow commercial and industrial property to be assessed at market rates – a so-called “split roll” – have failed or stalled and currently command the thinnest possible majority in public polling.

So while the split role remains a goal for some reformers, many concerned about the effects of Prop 13 have simply tried to raise taxes elsewhere to offset the lost revenue. California voters approved a temporary “millionaire’s tax” in 2012 and its long-term extension in 2016. And more than two-thirds of voting taxpayers in Los Angeles County approved sales tax hikes in 2008 and 2016 that will generate $160 billion over the next 40 years for transportation investments ranging from rail expansion to highway improvement to new bike paths.

But such tinkering does not solve the fundamental problems with Prop 13 that I’ve noted above. Addressing those will require a new set of conversations about optimal tax policy and how to address legitimate concerns such as how to protect older homeowners with a fixed income from the potential end of Prop 13.

President Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ plans follow a playbook similar to what resulted from Prop 13. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong

California – and the country – at a crossroads

Unfortunately, the same demographic shifts, economic anxieties and political polarization that spurred Prop 13 have since gone national. The president’s plan to “Make America Great Again” similarly involves slashing taxes while underinvesting in education and social services – the kinds of investments that actually made America great in the 20th century.

California has the opportunity to show the nation how to get this right and invest in our future and our collective dreams rather than shortchange them. And a growing number of voices, including local governments, unions and political groups, are calling for reform.

So while the discussion about Prop 13 might seem to be about a few obscure tax rules, it is highly symbolic: At stake is the future of the state and, indeed, the nation. A day of reckoning for a measure that seems increasingly out of date may soon be upon us.

Manuel Pastor receives funding from the Ford Foundation, The California Endowment, the James Irvine Foundation, and the California Wellness Foundation.

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'Three Billboards' sweeps female-focused SAG Awards

LOS ANGELES/January 21, 2018 (AP)(STL.News) — The Western-inspired revenge tale “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” swept the female-focused and led Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday with wins for best ensemble, best actress for Frances McDormand and best supporting actor for Sam Rockwell.

It was almost an exact repeat of the major Golden Globe Awards wins with Gary Oldman also winning best actor for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in “Darkest Hour” and Allison Janney taking supporting actress for playing Tonya Harding’s mother in “I, Tonya.”

As with many of the awards shows this season, it was the treatment of women in Hollywood that stayed at the forefront of the show, which featured a roster of nearly all female presenters and Kristen Bell as its inaugural host.

“We are living in a watershed moment,” Bell said in her opening monologue, which stayed light and mostly clear of politics. “Let’s make sure that we’re leading the charge with empathy and diligence.”

With many prominent men in Hollywood facing accusations of sexual misconduct, virtually every aspect of awards season has been impacted by the scandal — from questions on the red carpet to anxiety over who might win.

Both James Franco and Aziz Ansari two weeks ago won Golden Globe Awards while wearing Time’s Up pins before being accused of sexual misconduct and in Ansari’s case, aggressive sexual behavior by an anonymous accuser. Both were nominated Sunday and lost, Franco to Oldman and Ansari to William H. Macy for “Shameless.”

Rockwell, who beat out his co-star Woody Harrelson for the award, took his moment on stage to give a shout out to McDormand.

“Frances, you’re a powerhouse,” Rockwell said. “I stand shoulder to shoulder with you and all the incredible women in this room who are trying to make things better. It’s long overdue.”

Most of the comments in the evening were forward-looking. SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Carteris said, “This is not a moment in time. This is a movement.”

Big television winners included NBC‘s “This Is Us,” which took the ensemble award for drama and won Sterling K. Brown the outstanding actor award, and HBO’s “Veep,” which got outstanding comedy ensemble and a best actress win for Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

HBO’s “Big Little Lies” picked up best actor in a miniseries wins for both Alexander Skarsgard and Nicole Kidman.

“I’m so grateful today that our careers can go beyond 40 years old,” Kidman said in her acceptance speech. “We are potent and powerful and viable. I just beg that the industry stays behind us because our stories are finally being told.”

“The Crown’s” Claire Foy won best female actor in a drama series for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth II.

Lifetime achievement award recipient Morgan Freeman kept his remarks brief after a moving highlight reel of his expansive career and an introduction by Rita Moreno. The Oscar-winner for “Million Dollar Baby” and four-time nominee has over 80 films to his name.

“I’m gonna tell you what’s wrong with this statue,” he said as he wrapped up. “From the back it works, from the front it’s gender specific. Maybe I started something.”

The day’s first awards went to “Game of Thrones” and “Wonder Woman,” which were honored for best stunt ensemble honors.

Producers say the female-forward approach was inspired by last year’s Women’s March, but the show arrived at a time when some of the industry’s biggest names are leading the Time’s Up and Me Too movements to address gender inequality, sexual misconduct, pay disparities and other issues.

The show comes two weeks after a black-dress protest at the Golden Globe Awards, and several stars including Meryl Streep, Emma Stone and Michelle Williams bringing activists to the show. The SAG red carpet saw the return of colorful frocks and far fewer Time’s Up pins — although some actors, like Kumail Nanjiani and Gina Rodriguez, were still sporting theirs.

E! host Giuliana Rancic asked “GLOW” actress Alison Brie about recent allegations of misconduct against her brother-in-law James Franco (Brie is married to actor Dave Franco.)

“I think that above all what we’ve always said is it remains vital that anyone who remains victimized should have the right to speak out and come forward,” Brie said, adding that in the case of Franco, “Not everything that has come forward is fully accurate.”

Franco has also called some of the accusations inaccurate, but after two days of facing questions about the claims on late-night television, “The Disaster Artist” star has kept a lower profile, although he was in attendance at the SAG Awards. He did not attend last week’s Critics’ Choice Awards.

The Globes were the first major awards show forced to confront the sexual misconduct scandal since it exploded in October with dozens of women accusing Harvey Weinstein of harassment and in some instances, rape. (Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.)

Weinstein accusers Marisa Tomei and Rosanna Arquette used some of their time presenting an award Sunday to name some of the “silence breakers” in the movement including Asia Argento, Annabella Sciorra, Ashley Judd, Daryl Hannah, Mira Sorvino, Anthony Rapp and Olivia Munn.

“So many powerful voices are no longer silenced by the fear of retaliation,” Arquette said. “We can control our own destiny.”

The SAG Awards are a reliable predictor of the winner for the best actor and actress Academy Awards; this year’s show comes two days before Oscar nominations are announced.

While “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” now has the Golden Globe and SAG win to its name, it lost out to Guillermo del Toro’s fantasy romance “The Shape of Water” at the Producers Guild Awards Saturday night, which is often the most accurate gage of what will ultimately win best picture at the Academy Awards on March 4.

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AP Entertainment Reporters Sandy Cohen, Amanda Lee Myers and Mike Cidoni Lennox contributed from Los Angeles.

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer, by Associated Press – published on STL.News by St. Louis Media, LLC (Z.S)

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