#heather marconi

[tv-and-movie-quotes]

Nine Perfect Strangers (2021)

#tv #tv show #tv series #tv quote #tv show quote #nine perfect strangers #heather marconi #asher keddie #tiffany boone #intimate #hands #hand holding

[pinerpride]

The perfect assistant cast

The perfect assistant cast update#

Zoe Terakes as Glory - plays a follower of Masha's and an employee at Tranquillum. The actor appears as Silas Plaskett in The Walking Dead: World Beyond. Hal Cumpston as Zach Marconi - Cumpston plays Heather and Napoleon's deceased son Zach. Despite the dull day job, "she secretly harbors dreams of being a singer-songwriter herself, and moonlights by performing original songs in a Berlin cabaret. In addition to the main cast, other actors appear in supporting roles. It is Thriller, Crime, Mystery, TV Movie. Hyland, in her first television role since the end of Modern Family in 2020, plays Heidi, "Piëter and Bumper's cheery and slightly odd American assistant." Of course, nobody in the Pitch Perfect universe is merely an assistant. Browse details of The Perfect Assistant Movie/ Films, Storyline, Trailer, Star Cast, Crew & Box Office collection. The series will follow Devine, who is reprising his role as Bumper Allen from the first two Pitch Perfect films, when he "moves to Germany to revive his music career when one of his songs becomes big in Berlin."īorg is reprising his role of Piëter Krämer, who appeared in the second film installment. Piëter "signs Bumper as his only client and brings him to Berlin to pursue his dreams." They join previously announced cast members Adam Devineand Flula Borg. On March 4, it was revealed that Sarah Hyland, Jameela Jamil and Lera Abova have rounded out the ensemble cast. The Peacock revival of the three-part film series about the hilarious-and often insane-world of competitive acapella has announced its stars. Josie Davis is a female actor known for her acting was born in Los Angeles - California - USA on. Office assistant Rachel Parsons serves her married boss with dedication and efficiency, and is secretly in love with him. Jamil ( The Good Place ) is going to play Giesla, a bombastic and flashy up-and-coming German pop star who is Piter's ex-girlfriend and Bumper's main rival on the show.

The perfect assistant cast update#

Warm up those pipes, because Pitch Perfect is coming back! Update March 4: Three new cast members have been announced for the Pitch Perfect TV show, per Variety (opens in new tab) Jameela Jamil, Sarah Hyland and Lera Abova.

#The perfect assistant cast

[cptrs]

#nine perfect strangers #nineperfectstrangersedit #nps: 103 #tvedit #nicole kidman #masha dmitrichenko #grace van patten #zoe marconi #asher keddie #heather marconi #michael shannon #napoleon marconi #bobby cannavale #tony hogburn #tiffany boone #delilah

[rubyanjel]

Michael Shannon singing You're The One That I Want (Nine Perfect Strangers)

#this is too good to be a gif #you all need to see michael shannon singing this #nine perfect strangers #michael shannon #asher keddie #grace van patten #zoe terakes #napoleon marconi #zoe marconi #heather marconi #episode: sweet surrender

[tv-moments]

Nine Perfect Strangers

“Brave New World“

Director: Jonathan Levine

DoP: Yves Bélanger

#Nine Perfect Strangers #Brave New World #Nine Perfect Strangers S01E04 #miniseries #Jonathan Levine #Yves Bélanger #Michael Shannon #Napoleon Marconi #Asher Keddie #Heather Marconi #David E. Kelley #John-Henry Butterworth #Hulu #David E. Kelley Productions #Blossom Films #Made Up Stories #Endeavor Content #TV Moments #TV Series #TV Show #television #TV #TV Frames #cinematography #August 25 #2021

[writergirl719]

Okay, before I dig into Masha’s ending and all my feelings about it, I’m gonna go through the montage:

-I really love that Frances is writing

-I really love Tony going to call his daughters. I wonder if they saw what went down on the news and were like, “Is that...where Dad is? WTF?”

-I cannot fucking believe that Delilah took Yao back. GIRL I KNOW HE’S HOT BUT YOU CAN DO BETTER.

-I hate the implication that Lars wrote some glowing profile of Masha and her work. I was counting on you, Lars!

-I really like Carmel’s ending, letting go of the past and helping others to do the same.

-Okay, Ben and Jessica. Uhhh...I don’t think it’s too weird that Ben and Jessica took over Tranquillum but DEAR GOD I hope they’re running it more ethically than Masha did. (Friendly reminder that psychadelics are still illegal in America.)

-THE MARCONIS ARE OKAY AND THEY’RE TOGETHER AND THEY’RE OKAY AND HEATHER AND NAPOLEON ARE STAYING MARRIED AND I LOVE THEM

-Tony and his daughters!

-Tony bought pants!

-Who talked Noted Hot Man Bobby Cannavale into that mustache? I feel like a beard or clean-shaven or just some stubble is the way to go for him, but maybe I’m just biased against mustaches.

-I find the cut back to the dinner very interesting. Like, are we supposed to call into question the reality of everything we just saw, whether that was the real ending for each person, or was it just so we could have a cut from Frances writing to the finished book?

-This is the smallest of my complaints, but we should’ve gotten a wedding. Ben and Jessica were talking about a vow renewal and the book had Tony and Frances’s wedding, but the show wimped out and didn’t give us either.

#nine perfect strangers #nine perfect strangers spoilers #ever after liveblog #otp: frances/tony #Team Fuck You Yao #noted hot man bobby cannavale

[tengomilpalabrasparati]

“Nine Perfect Strangers”

Nine Perfect Strangers estrenará sus primeros episodios el próximo 18 de agosto en Estados Unidos a través de Hulu y el 20 de agosto de manera internacional en Amazon Prime Video. 

La serie está basada en la novela homónima de Liane Moriarty. Otra de las novelas de la autora, “Big Little Lies”, fue llevada a la pantalla por el creador de esta serie, David E. Kelly, y ambas cuentan con Nicole Kidman en el reparto.

En esta ocasión tanto Nicole Kidman como Melinda McCarthy son las productoras.

Reparto:

Nicole Kidman (Masha)

Melissa McCarthy (Francis)

Michael Shannon (Napoleon)

Luke Evans (Lars)

Regina Hall (Carmel)

Bobby Cannavale (Tony)

Samara Weaving (Jessica)

Asher Keddie (Heather)

Manny Jacinto (Yao)

Melvin Gregg (Ben)

Tiffany Boone (Delilah)

Grace Van Patten (Zoe)

Hal Cumpston (Zach Marconi)

Un exclusivo centro de salud y bienestar promete la recuperación y transformación de nueve estresados urbanitas que intentan emprender el camino hacia una forma de vida mejor. La directora del complejo, Masha (Nicole Kidman), los vigila durante los 10 días de retiro con la misión de revitalizar sus mentes y cuerpos agotados. Sin embargo, estos 9 desconocidos no tienen ni idea de lo que les espera.

La psicodélica miniserie de 8 episodios explora los diferentes traumas de un puñado de huéspedes, en su mayoría adinerados, mientras plantea un misterio discreto y realiza una crítica satirizada de la industria del bienestar, aunque más bien está dedicada a las sectas radicales que se encuentran dentro de ella. De esta forma, los distintos demonios interiores, inseguridades superficiales, secretos e intenciones ocultas se van desvelando lentamente a medida que estos personajes se someten a los cada vez más inusuales métodos terapéuticos.

Sin ninguna duda, lo mejor de la serie es el hecho de poder asistir a todas las interacciones entre un lujoso reparto que logra hacer interesantes a unos personajes llenos de clichés.

No obstante, el principal reclamo de la ficción -y cara más importante, claro- es Nicole Kidman, pero también resulta lo más decepcionante. Kidman se envuelve a sí misma en un aura 'rasputiniana' y realiza un trabajo que destaca en lo negativo por su forzadísimo acento ruso, además de por su tendencia a mostrarse excesivamente enigmática hasta el punto de exasperar. Los métodos que utiliza su Masha poco a poco van ganando en cuanto a radicalidad, y su persona es objeto de una subtrama que se denota algo inconexa con respecto a lo que nos plantea la serie en un principio.

Hay mucho humor, drama, misterio y momentos inquietantes

Merece mucho la pena verla 👍

#“Nine Perfect Strangers” #series y pelis #amazon #trailer

[amayaswatchtowers]

The Marconis were already broken when they got to this place and now Masha got Heather wanting to be drugged up half the time just so she can talk to a hallucinated version of her son. who lives in her memories only. 

this shit is SAD. 

#mai watches nine perfect strangers

[lindoig4]

Friday, 23 August

So here we are in St Johns: the oldest settlement in the New World!

A much better day today! We asked at the hotel desk if they knew of a nearby computer repair shop - so they rang the company that maintains their system and the owner offered to come around almost straight away to look at my PC - amazing!  Can you imagine anyone in Australia doing that!

This is the same PC that suffered a somewhat similar episode in Scotland last year and I took it to a shop there where the tech gave it a hearty whack and miraculously fixed it for me.  This time, I had already given the device several savage whacks in my frustration to no effect.  When the guy arrived today, I was just starting to explain the problem when he accidentally dropped the PC!!!  On picking it up, full of apologies, we noticed that it was booting itself without us even turning the ON button on!  Talk about magic.  Problem solved and he refused my offer to pay for his call out!  We rebooted it and shut it down a few times to ensure all was working and I returned to our room and immediately fired off a 54 Gb backup of data and photos - just in case I can’t whack it in the right place next time.  Definitely time for a new travel computer.....

The rest of the day was pretty good too.  We went to a nearby supermarket and browsed the shelves, and finally bought a few goodies to eat.  It is quite fascinating looking at other countries’ groceries - quite different to ours, although they did have some Aussie Vegemite for sale.

Heather spent quite some time trying to get the SIMs that we bought in Australia working.  She eventually got her’s working, but gave up trying to get mine up.  We are heartily fed up with the mob we bought them from and have put them on notice that we will be demanding a full refund when we get home.  They have already agreed to a refund for the US one that caused us so many hours of trouble and midnight phone calls in July!

We then arranged for the hotel to book a couple of tours for us for tomorrow and Sunday and then went for a leisurely stroll down to the harbour and along the esplanade, stopping at a pub for a mandatory cold one, then back along the main street with its quaint shops and brightly coloured houses and eventually home again where I used our good internet access here to post a heap of photos that have been waiting for some bandwidth for weeks.  All the houses here are timber and most are painted in very bright colours.  Maintenance must be a nightmare but it makes for a pleasant, if slightly garish, scene with every building wearing a different set of rich bright colours.

Apropos of nothing, a minor feature of North America that is taking us some time to get used to (apart from everyone driving on the wrong side of the road) is that all their electrical switches are upside down.  Up to torn on and down to turn off - maybe the water swirls the wrong way going down the drain as well.

Today (Saturday), we took a tour to the easternmost point in North America - Cape Spear.

It turned out to be just us and Darren, our enthusiastic native-born driver, who had a patter that almost defied interruption.  He was brimming full of information that just had to be imparted machinegun-like but a lot of it went over our heads because he constantly referred to people and historical events of which we knew nothing (or perhaps less).  

Perhaps I should have written that bit like this:

ItturnedouttobejustusandDarren,ourenthusiasticnative-borndriver,whohadapatter thatalmostdefiedinterruption...........  

But it was interesting. Cape Spear was a key defence post in WWII with 2 of the biggest guns ever made hidden underground with 30 tonne lead counterweights attached to catapult them into their firing position if needed.  Fortunately, they were never used, but there is a lot of history here and extensive interpretative signage at the Cape and elsewhere around town.  We strolled around the Cape and the underground fortifications and examined the flowers and photographed the birds for maybe an hour before resuming our tour.

We went up Signal Hill near our hotel and got some more history there.  It is where Marconi received the first ever radio signal from Europe.  St Johns is also where Marconi’s mate, Thomas Edison, built the world’s first commercial streetlights.  Lots of interesting facts and historical events around this part of the world!

We also called in at a delightful little fishing village, Petite Harbour: a wonderfully picturesque little place that was a key centre for cod fishing.  It is still important, but tiny and quite beautiful.  We both loved it.

We got Darren to drop us off at a place where we could buy some wine (very restricted here) and then strolled the kilometre or two home just in time for a late lunch.

In the afternoon, I climbed back up Signal Hill in search of birds.  It turned out to be a more mammoth climb than I anticipated, but I was rewarded with 5 new species not seen before.  Rain was threatening but never quite arrived, just a fine spray now and then, but it kept me moving faster than was good for me.  Notwithstanding, I made it to the very top, in fact up the very steep narrow winding staircase to the top floor of the tower on top of the Hill where the town and harbour looked quite diminutive through the gloom.  Very moody.  I had made lots of scenic detours on the way up so my climb was slightly less steep, but considerably further to walk, but I took the second shortest way home again, straight down the main road.  The shortest way would have been to leap off the parapet, but I chose a safer descent to earth.

And now it is Sunday and we are almost ready to embark on another half-day tour – this time with driver John – so I will post this and try to get some more photos up this afternoon.

[stmaryslibraryios]

Liane Moriarty Nine Perfect Strangers

Refreshing read the after the last book, the author knows how to draw the reader in and make her characters seem real. Simple theme, 9 people go to a remote, luxury health retreat in Australia for 10 days. All have different reasons for being there, all unaware of each others secrets & past.

The person who runs it, Masha, also has a secret past and unorthodox ways of doing things along with her two helpers Yao & Delilah.

As the story progresses, we learn a little more about the people.

Frances, a romance writer whose career is flagging and drawing scathing reviews, plus, she had just been scammed out of over 20k on a dating site and feeling very stupid.

Tony, overweight ex sports star whose family have left him.

Jessica & Ben, they were down on their luck but then won the lottery which has changed their marriage for the worse. Jessica has had every cosmetic surgery going and is losing her true self.

The Marconi family, Napoleon, Heather & 20yr old Zoe. It’s 3yrs on and they are still coming to terms with the suicide of their son Zac, twin brother of Zoe.

Lars, a handsome family lawyer, he's just a health freak who just likes to detox then binge.

Carmel, mother of 4 young children who’s husband has dumped her for a trophy wife. She is lacking in everything to do with confidence.

Sit back and join them on their journey you will enjoy the ride.

**UPDATE

When I wrote the above review I hadn’t finished the book. Now I have and this is an update to my review: Another book let down by the final chapters. Bizarre final chapters. I ended up speed reading /skimming as I began to wonder how much longer she would eke it out.

The hallucinogenics were a little boring and it all became a little absurd. Tale of two halves…..

.

[cptrs]

#nine perfect strangers #nineperfectstrangersedit #nps: 107 #nicole kidman #masha dmitrichenko #luke evans #lars lee #melissa mccarthy #frances welty #regina hall #carmel schneider #samara weaving #jessica chandler #melvin gregg #ben chandler #michael shannon #napoleon marconi #asher keddie #heather marconi #grace van patten #zoe marconi

[rubyanjel]

"We came here for a retreat. To escape."

"None of you shall retreat. You will not escape."

#nine perfect strangers #heather marconi #masha dmitrichenko #nicole kidman #asher keddie #my gifs

[writergirl719]

I have questions about Zoe's dosage.

So at the end of episode 4, Zoe asks Masha if there's something in her smoothie and Masha says, "Tomorrow is your birthday," indicating that Zoe would have to wait until the next day for her first dose, presumably in her breakfast, at the earliest. And yet, that night, just a few hours later, Zoe is seeing Zach for the first time. presumably the result of drugs that she wasn't supposed to have yet.

So this indicates to me that Masha and co. were drugging Zoe before they were supposed to be, before she was 21. But that also brings up a very interesting question: when did this start? I see two very interesting possibilities:

a.) Zoe's first dose was the day/night before her birthday and she reacted very strongly, very quickly. This could mean that Zoe either already had some latent psychic powers, or this could be a result of her intense connection to Zach himself, like an extension of that famous twin telepathy phenomenon.

b.) Masha and co. have been drugging Zoe all along, but probably at a lower dose than everyone else so the effects weren't so obvious. During the confrontation at the start of episode 4, Masha tells Jessica she hasn't been drugging her or Ben, but says nothing about Zoe. Maybe she didn't think she had to, but when Frances says, "But the rest of us?" Masha still doesn't mention Zoe. (No one does, actually, which is a little strange. I'd think Heather and Napoleon would want some reassurances at this point.) If, as I theorized before, Masha saw the Marconi family as central candidates in this experiment, it makes sense that she wouldn't want to waste time. If this turns out to be the case, I think the reveal of it could be a huge factor in turning the Marconis and possibly the rest of guests against Masha for good.

It's entirely possible that a.) I'm misunderstanding the timeline, or b.) the writers didn't realize what was going on and the implications of all this, so maybe I'm completely overthinking it. But hey, we have to do something between episodes.

#tv #nine perfect strangers #nine perfect strangers spoilers

[bbcbreakingnews]

Coronavirus: 5G networks do NOT raise risks, scientists say

Researchers have swiftly debunked a scientific paper claiming 5G transmissions raise the risk of the novel coronavirus.

Earlier this month, an international team published a report on PubMed, a free life science and biomedical database, claiming the 5G (fifth-generation) mobile network triggered human cells to create the virus.

They claimed that our skin cells act as antennas and absorb the signal, which gets sent to the other cells, and the virus is subsequently produced. 

But members of the scientific community were instantly suspicious. 

The researchers had not performed any experiments and only included weirdly drawn figures and impressive-looking formulas that didn’t equate to anything.

What’s more, in the past, the team has conducted outlandish experiments such as decapitating hundreds of birds to demonstrate they can live without their heads.

On July 24, PubMed, the database on which the report was published, announced it was withdrawing the study. 

A team published a study this month claiming human skin cells absorb 5G network waves and causes development of coronavirus. Pictured: Engineers scale a Swisscom AG telecommunication network mast to install a 5G apparatus in Hindelbank, Switzerland, 2019

This would mean countries with the highest 5G distribution would also have the highest number of coronavirus infections, but the US, which has the most cases, doesn’t have the highest distribution. Pictured: A healthcare worker tends to a patient in the COVID Unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas, July 2

The original paper was written by researchers from Guglielmo Marconi University in Italy, Central Michigan University in the US and First Moscow State Medical University in Russia.

In the first sentence of their abstract, they claim 5G millimeter waves are ‘absorbed by dermatologic cells’ and ‘play the main role in producing coronaviruses’ in cells.

This would mean that countries with the highest 5G distribution would also have the highest number of coronavirus infections.

However, the US – the leader in cases with 4.2 million and counting – does not have the best 5G mmWave coverage.

A report in May found that 5G speeds are faster than local Wi-Fi averages in six countries before the US: Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Switzerland, Kuwait, Australia, Spain and the UK.

The worst outbreaks of the virus have been seen in cities, but this correlates with population density not the presence of 5G apparatuses. 

The researchers also claim 5G frequencies ‘are above 24 GHz (gigahertz), reaching up to 72 GHz, which is above the extremely high frequency band’s lower boundary.’ 

But in the US, the bands that mmWave 5G deployments use range between 27.5 and 28.35 GHz, according to CPET. The highest recorded, in South Korean and Japan, is 29.5 GHz. 

 Dr Elisabeth Bik, a former Stanford University researcher who now identifies errors and manipulation in scientific publications, was one of the first to lambast the paper.

‘This paper made my jaw drop,’ she wrote in a blog post.

She pointed to one diagram the researchers include in which they wrote that 5G technology waves can lead production of COVID-19. 

‘Note that they write that the waves lead to COVID-19 production,’ she wrote in a blog post. ‘They apparently confuse the disease with the virus.’

SARS-COV-2 is the name of the virus whole COVID-19 is the name of the disease caused by the virus, which cells cannot produce 

The researchers had claimed cells can produce COVID-19, but this is the name of the disease caused by the virus not the virus itself (above)

No experiments were performed, only graphs and diagrams were included (above). After a wave of criticism, PubMed announced it was withdrawing the study from its database

‘I invite everyone to rip this piece apart,’ Bik tweeted. ‘And to urge NCBI to ban this journal to the far end of predatory territory.’ 

James Heather, a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, tweeted: ‘You haven’t seen the stupidest published SARS-CoV-2 take yet. I PROMISE you. No matter what’s happened so far, no matter what you’ve seen, where you’ve looked, the best is yet to come.’

The authors of the study have also published questionable papers in the past.

One of them, Alireza Sepehri, has written several preprints and articles, including one in which he decapitated 400 birds to prove they can live without a head.

In another, Sepheri and another author, Massimo Fioranelli, published a paper in which they claim infecting pregnant women with the influenza virus can reveal the sex of the fetus.

In a third paper, the duo suggested cancer in men or women can be treated by using cells of the opposite sex 

Although the paper has been withdrawn, Peter Grad of Medical Xpress said the initial publishing of the study has far-reaching implications. 

He wrote that this leads to people who cannot tell the difference between legitimate news and conspiracy websites.  

‘Such sites cast doubts on legitimate research and established facts, and spread malicious distortions of news events, science and health and create needless fear and doubt,’ Grad wrote.

‘Furthermore, by littering the global consciousness with yet more phony science, it makes it more challenging for the public to distinguish between propaganda and genuine research highlighting potentially risky developments in an era witnessing rapid growth of low-frequency electromagnetic wave transmission.’ 

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[bibliophilebookreviews]

Nine Perfect Strangers

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

Let me start by saying that I’m a huge fan of Liane Moriarty. She’s practically my favorite author right now. So, this book isn’t my favorite one of hers, but she set the bar kind of high with her others.

Here’s the spoiler-free premise: Frances Welty is a romance writer in her early fifties who’s just realized she was the victim of a con artist that she thought was her boyfriend. (Like, she was preparing to move to the other side of the world with him and his son!) Unsurprisingly, she jumps at the opportunity to go to a health and wellness resort, but of course, it’s not a regular health resort as she and the other eight guests will soon discover. Ben and Jessica Chandler, now filthy rich after having won the lottery, are there for marriage counseling: Jessica has gone overboard on plastic surgery, and Ben’s drug-addict sister is a constant source of tension, even when she’s not physically present in their lives. The Marconi Family -- Napoleon, Heather, and Zoe -- are on a strange family relaxation vacation celebrating Zooey’s birthday and acknowledging the death of her twin brother, Zach. Lars Lee is a health resort junkie (poor choice of words, I know) avoiding his partner Ray because he wants a baby but Lars doesn’t. Carmel Schneider is a recently divorced mother of four girls and is obsessed with weight loss. And finally, there’s Tony Hogburn and we discover that he is a former professional athlete who is also there for weight loss. “Tranquillum House” (yep) is a 10-day retreat that caters to everyone but operates rather unconventionally: the guests must surrender their electronics, sweets and alcohol are prohibited, guests get their blood drawn every day to monitor their needs and provide customized smoothies, and there’s a 5-day period of silence! There’s good stuff too, though, like massages and meditation, but things take a drastic turn when the controlling (and slightly deranged) director, Masha, “upgrades” the experience.

As usual, Moriarty writes from the perspective of multiple characters, though some more than others. (Personally, I would have liked to hear from Carmel a little bit more.) And, as usual, things get really outrageous really fast and even though there were lots of surprises throughout and several secrets exposed leading up to the big reveal, it took a bit too long for me so it felt little anticlimactic. Honestly, the best thing about this book is the characters’ backstories, particularly Masha, though I don’t know if that was meant to explain why she basically went nuts. (It’s understandable that she would after everything that happened, but she still went a bit too far.) I was really disappointed with Yao’s blind loyalty to Masha and I don’t see why he was so enamored with her. I liked Delilah, but I feel like she took the easy way out, and I’m surprised she was even at Tranquillum House in the first place given her history. 

I WILL say, though, that I loved the ending. I literally felt like she wrote the last three chapters just for me! If you’ve been reading my reviews, you know that I always want to know how things wrap up and to know what’s next for the characters when the story is over. Moriarty delivers! I was quite pleased with that, especially since the characters are connected beyond just their shared experience at Tranquillum House. 

Overall, Nine Perfect Strangers was just okay for me. I usually rave about Moriarty’s books, and I still praise her work in general, but I wouldn’t suggest you start with this one. Unless you have a lot of patience and are interested in health resorts.

[amayaswatchtowers]

god now Heather is feeling better, Napoleon is going through it. 

I FEEL ALL THE THINGS FOR THE MARCONI FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#I JUST WANT THEM TO BE OKAAYYYY #mai watches nine perfect strangers