#jerome cooper

[charlie-pippin-faraday]

Guys I got an amazing idea for a fic that I could write if I ever got my brain to cooperate — a House of Anubis 10 Things I Hate About You AU

Featuring Patricia as Kat (the angry girl everyone’s scared of), Eddie as Patrick Verona (the exotic bad boy paid to seduce her), Amber as Bianca (the popular daddy’s girl who can’t date until her sister friend does), Alfie as Cameron (the sweet awkward boy in love with Amber/Bianca), Jerome as Michael (Alfie/Cameron’s friend who orchestrates the whole scheme), Mick as Joey (the rich boy duped into being the backer for the scheme thinking he’s gonna be getting the girl), Joy as Mandella (Patricia/Kat’s friend), Mara as Chastity (Amber/Bianca’s friend), and possibly guest featuring Fabian as Bogey Lowenstein, the future MBA kid whose house gets absolutely trashed at a party. Haven’t decided on a role for Nina yet

Of course this also obviously means that Mrs. Andrews is the English teacher who’s #done with her students, Victor is the teacher in detention who gets flashed, and Mr. Sweet is the guidance counselor who writes erotic fiction

#ITS JUST TOO PERFECT #the roles fit too well it’s too good #(except for Nina but I can just throw her in as an addition I guess) #and as much as I hate jerome/joy I would be willing to write it for the sake of fitting with the narrative #I wanna write this so bad we’ll see if my brain cooperates with me enough to actually do it #house of anubis

[theriddlersunderwear]

SINCE I'VE ALREADY GOT SOME INTEREST

My Gotham OC is named Mavis Zane Cooper. He moved to Gotham from the Midwest and started working as Oswald's personal bodyguard. Boy is constantly subjected to gay panic, usually from Oswald, Victor, and Edward. He kinda adopts Jerome???? He meets him and is like "You are my little brother now" and Jerome just rolls with it.

He gets poisoned by Jeremiah while trying to avenge Jerome. Oswald goes on the fucking WARPATH trying to get Hugo Strange to revive him. Literally keeps Mavis's body Snow White style in the Iceberg Lounge

#Gotham #Gotham tv #My oc #Mavis Cooper #gotham oswald cobblepot #edward nygma #victor zsasz #jerome valeska #jeremiah valeska #hugo strange

[futuredays-rpg]

De chasqueador secreto para G. Harrison.

#chasqueador secreto 2023 #navidad 2023 #g. harrison #cecilie khactu #murph cooper #calliope schnee #cora turner #jerome

[genevieveetguy]

. Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Francis Lawrence (2023)

#Francis Lawrence #Michael Lesslie #Michael Arndt #Tom Blyth #Rachel Zegler #Hunter Schafer #Ashley Liao #Joshua Kantara #Aamer Husain #Josh Andrés Rivera #Viola Davis #Peter Dinklage #Jerome Lance #Mackenzie Lansing #Cooper Dillon #Sofia Sanchez #Jo Willems #James Newton Howard #Mark Yoshikawa #2023

[hoffmanstits-enjoyer]

as a valeskacestie, i can never let go of the fact that jerome was supposedly transported right to jeremiah's bunker unconscious in a cage. i'll never shut up about it. the mere idea drives me insane. what do you meAN HE FIT IN THERE?! HOW DID THAT LOOK?! DID JEREMIAH JIZZ HIS PANTS AND TAKE MANY PICTURES?!? I NEED TO KNOW

#gotham #valeskacest #jeremiah valeska #jerome valeska #twinleska #jeromiah #that scene fucks me up #like miah really planned it #made a cell and got a cage #his proxy trained to be his goddamn bodyguard #the absolute batshit preparations #to get utmost control of the situation #poor miah #he just wanted to be the dom for once #but jerome's not cooperating #it's even funnier if the cage was echo's idea #like i can imagine miah's pause at the suggestion #a million thoughts per second #his lil clearing throat thingy #'a good idea yes let's do that'

[letterboxd-loggd]

Dallas (1950) Stuart Heisler

July 30th 2022

#dallas #1950 #stuart heisler #gary cooper #ruth roman #leif erickson #steve cochran #raymond massey #barbara payton #antonio moreno #will wright #jerome cowan #gil donaldson #reed hadley #monte blue

[undeadasshcle]

    in refence to s4e16 - one of my three soups. jerome goes to kill his uncle zach. it doesn’t go well and he gets captured by him and his friend. bruce appears and saves jerome’s life. in doing so, uncle zach and co try to kill bruce. while distracted, jerome kills uncle zach and then turns his attention to bruce and the other guy. 

    jerome is touched that bruce stood up for him. he says it himself, that the beatings never stopped and no one ever helped him. however, he has absolutely no idea how to react to someone doing that for him. the only thing that makes sense to him is that bruce must be crazy too.      him moving to protect bruce and shoot zach’s friend (i can’t find that guys name) was genuine. he wasn’t doing it because he thought it would be funny, that was just a cover. he wanted to help bruce. but bruce being bruce, surprises everyone by yelling for jerome to not shoot. which does nothing other than confuse jerome even more. again, he covers by saying that watching bruce die would be pretty funny.

    it’s an interesting scene. really shows that despite all his jokes and covers and lies, jerome does have some sort of... heart?? maybe not the right word because i do believe he would have happily killed bruce right after saving him. but him not killing zach’s friend for bruce is the most he’s ever done to try please someone. 

#━━ ❛ jerome : headcanon. #tw gun mention #tw child abuse #i am depressed about jerome again #he does a lot for please theo #but it can be argued that it's not super willing #considering theo would have killed them all had they not cooperated #also added a little description bc i know not everyone has watched gotham

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching

MAESTRO Bradley Cooper USA, 2023

#watching #2023 #Carey Mulligan #Bradley Cooper #Matt Bomer #Vincenzo Amato #Michael Urie #Josh Hamilton #Leonard Bernstein #Jerome Robbins #Aaron Copland #Felicia Montealegre

[spacelazarwolf]

in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:

arts, fashion, and lifestyle:

jeans - levi strauss

modern bras - ida rosenthal

sewing machines - isaac merritt singer

modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers

operetta - jacques offenbach

comic books - stan lee

graphic novels - will eisner

teddy bears - morris and rose michtom

influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen

artists - mark rothko

actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand

comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld

authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley

culture:

esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof

feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg

queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler

international women's day - clara zetkin

principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer

"the new colossus" - emma lazarus

universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin

holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel

workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman

public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald

racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner

political theory - hannah arendt

disability rights - judith heumann

black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza

#metoo movement - jodi kantor

institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld

technology:

word processing computers - evelyn berezin

facebook - mark zuckerberg

console video game system - ralph henry baer

cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper

3d - leonard lipton

telephone - philipp reis

fax machines - arthur korn

microphone - emile berliner

gramophone - emile berliner

television - boris rosing

barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver

secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr

three laws of robotics - isaac asimov

cybernetics - norbert wiener

helicopters - emile berliner

BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny

google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page

VCR - jerome lemelson

fax machine - jerome lemelson

telegraph - samuel finley breese morse

morse code - samuel finley breese morse

bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus

electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi

nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover

the internet - paul baran

icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir

color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes

world's first computer - herman goldstine

modern computer architecture - john von neumann

bittorrent - bram cohen

voip internet telephony - alon cohen

data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv

nemeth code - abraham nemeth

holography - dennis gabor

laser - theodor maiman

instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn

first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus

electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg

drip irrigation - simcha blass

ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro

photo booth - anatol marco josepho

medicine:

pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch

defibrillators - bernard lown

anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin

polio vaccine - jonas salk

test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman

test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal

penicillin - ernst boris chain

pregnancy test - barnhard zondek

antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion

discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter

chemotherapy - paul ehrlich

discovery of prions - stanley prusiner

psychoanalysis - sigmund freud

rubber condoms - julius fromm

birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus

asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein

blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner

acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion

vitamins - caismir funk

technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow

antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg

a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov

homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann

aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun

science:

theory of relativity - albert einstein

theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell

quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz

quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein

microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn

neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria

counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter

genetic engineering - paul berg

discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre

discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias

discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter

discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose

discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez

modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann

stainless steel - hans goldschmidt

gas powered vehicles

interferometer - albert abraham michelson

discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe

proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman

biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof

electron-positron collider - bruno touschek

#jewish #jumblr #am yisrael fucking chai

[cinemedios]

Hunter Schafer se une al elenco de ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’

Conoce a todos los actores que junto a Hunter Schafer se sumaron al elenco de ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’.

El elenco de la precuela de Los Juegos del Hambre, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, ha estado dando de que hablar, luego de que hace unas semanas se anunciara que Rachel Zegler y Tom Blyth serían los protagonistas. Interpretan a a Lucy Gray y Corionalus Snow. Hoy se anunció que Hunter Schafer también formará parte de este elenco, interpretará a Tigris Snow, prima y consejera de…

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#Aamer Husain #Ahsley Liao #Francis Lawrence #Hiroki Berrecloth #Hunter Schafer #Jerome Lance #Josh Andrés Rivera #Knox Gibson #Laurel Marsden #Lilly Cooper #Lionsgate #Los Juegos del Hambre #Luna Steeples #Nick Benson #Rachel Zegler #The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes #The Hunger Games #Tom Blyth

[ithebookhoarder]

Blind With Rage

Description: Whilst you've handled witness interviews alone before, as part of your work at Nelson and Murdock, you know that Matt's always close by and all-too ready to step in if you ever need him.

A/N: He protect. He attack. He is a snack 😅...

Warnings: Angst, mentions of violence, mentions of crime, swearing, Matt being a full-on protective baby XD

Masterlist

Being a lawyer, you were used to visiting clients in rough places. Prisons, holding cells in local stations, and even crime scenes - you’d been to them all. 

Even with a vigilante for a boyfriend, and rather unorthodox client base, there wasn’t much that could surprise you. Working at Nelson and Murdock, Attorneys at Law, had pretty much ensured it. 

Still, this morning’s meeting had gone pear shaped and you’d barely seen it coming. 

You’d only been sat with a possible witness for you latest client’s case for about five minutes, before it had happened. Matt had been running late at the time and Foggy was out of the room, talking to officers in the corridor, leaving you alone with the man opposite you - which was totally fine. After all, you'd handled witness statements alone before and it wasn't like there wasn't a dozen officers in the building with you if anything did go wrong. 

Also, you only had a couple questions that needed to be asked before you could go back about your merry way and possibly swipe a quick lunch on your route back to the office. If anything, you were more concerned about your choice of sandwich than the petty thief sat on the other side of the table.

He'd so far been cooperative, corroborating your client’s story that he had been nowhere near the crime scene when the crime had occurred. Picked up by police after a failed pickpocketing, the man opposite had apparently been near the scene of the crime and confirmed your client was nowhere to be seen. In fact, he was pretty quick to tell you who was around when the crime had occurred and just who he thought might have done it.

"Thanks, Mr Jerome," you’d nodded, scribbling the last of your notes on the yellow legal pad in front of you. "You've been incredibly helpful. My client will really appreciate your testimony."

"Anytime, sugar."

Yep. That was it; That was the moment when things took a turn for the worst. 

You could see it now, playing back in your mind in slow motion… the way he’d followed the nickname with a rather crass compliment about how you were looking that day. 

His eyes then dropped, roaming up and down your body in a way that just made you feel dirty without even being touched. 

And when you’d told him to stop? That the meeting was done? He’d lunged. 

Of course, he hadn’t got very far - his handcuffs attached to the table made sure of that. Still, you'd be lying if you said you hadn't jumped at the sudden movement.

You flinched, opening your mouth to say something. However, you never got the chance as the door slammed open behind you with an almighty bang. It was then that you saw who was responsible for the sudden interruption as Matt Murdock came racing into the room so fast it made your head spin.

Wait, when had he got here?

You blinked, staring up at your partner with shock as he reached over and pulled your chair back with a harsh screech, cutting you off from protesting. You could see the fury rolling off of him in waves and for a moment you couldn't be sure it wasn't directed at you.

Thankfully, the source of his rage became clear as he positioned himself in front of you, his focus never leaving the man sat on the other side of the table. He had created a literal human-shield between you, a silent challenge against your would-be assailant.

Without a word, his hand reached backwards, hauling you to your feet and frogmarching you from the room. His grip was ironclad.

"Matt."

"Y/N, don't."

"Wait, Matt," you barked, "Let go of me, I had it under control-"

"-Of course you did, Sweetheart. Wait here," he ordered, his tone lethal as he addressed the police officer waiting for you both in the hall. It was clear you weren't going to be allowed anywhere near that room again and that he was holding this poor officer responsible for ensuring that was the case.

A sudden urge to argue roared up from inside of you, but you bit your tongue as Matt released you. You didn't need to ask if he was ok. It was clear he wasn't from the concerned pull of his brow. If you didn't know any better, you'd have said he was actually worried about you.

"I'll be back in a minute. Mr Jerome and I need to have a quick word - stay here with Foggy."

You weren't entirely sure if talking was actually Matt's plan, given the way his hands were clenched at his side. Still, no one made a move to stop him as he marched back into the room you'd just come from, slamming the door behind him hard enough to make the two-way glass rattle.

He'd always had a flair for the dramatic.

"Wow."

Wow indeed, you thought, staring across the room at Foggy. The fact the other lawyer looked like he was trying not to laugh made it clear what he thought about the entire exchange.

"Whatever sassy joke you're about to make, Nelson, just don't," you grumbled, your cheeks burning in embarrassment.

“I wasn't going to make a joke,” Foggy scoffed, his shit-eating grin only growing as Matt's furious voice echoed from the other side of the wall.

"-You feel like a tough guy, huh? Picking on other people? You utter piece of sh-"

The both of you winced at the sudden flurry of colourful expletives.

“I mean, I’m sure Matt would have thrown himself just as chivalrously in front of me if some sleazy douchebag made a gross comment about me.” 

You eyes were rolling before he even finished the sentence. “Foggy? Shut the hell up.”

#ithebookhoarder #masterlist #thesilentmage #marvel #marvel x reader #matt murdock x reader #matt murdock x y/n #matt murdock x you #daredevil x you #marvel daredevil #daredevil x reader #daredevil #charlie cox #foggy nelson #daredevil netflix

[vixonspixels]

Sanscha Hampton's lookbook

Sanscha's back story

Born and raised in Tartosa alongside her brother Jerome, Sanscha always dreamed of becoming a model and living the lifestyle that the magazines portray. So when she hit 21 years of age and had a small amount of money in her savings she packed up her mini cooper and got the ferry over to San Myshuno. She found a room for rent in the uptown area that was perfect for her, the rent was reasonable and it was a walking distance to all the nearby facilities meaning she could sell her car for a little extra cash. Having found an amazing company to work for, she is now set to be San Myshuno's next top model 🤍

Anyways, I literally deleted every single sim from my save file that I didn't create, there was a good 15-20 sims altogether 😂. So with that it has been the perfect excuse to make new townies for my save file again including this beauty which I needed for season 2 of Mercy In The City anyway. I'll probably upload a couple to my patreon, but other than that the cc is linked below 🤍

Outfit 1 - Hair • Necklace • Shirt* • Trousers* • Shoes

Outfit 2 - Hair • Dress • Shoes

Outfit 3 - Hair • Necklace • Dress • Bag • Shoes

Outfit 4 - Hair • Dress • Tights • Boots

Items marked with a * are in early access

Huge thankyou to the custom content creators for helping make our pixels look even more amazing 🤍 @simstrouble @serenity-cc @astya96cc @rustys-cc @sentate @dissiasims @gegesimmer @belaloallure3 @madlensims

#ts #ts4 #thesims #the sims 4 #ts4 custom content #the sims custom content #my lookbooks #sims4 lookbook

[her-favorite]

hair troubles; j. valeska (drabble)

(S4) jerome valeska x reader

wc: 1040

a/n: i just thought this would be cute, j’s a cutie in this - posting a drabble while i try and decide what fic to work on

summary: jerome has a bad hair day, so you have to help him.

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one thing that you can never do to jerome is mess with his hair.

you’d always wake up every morning without him by your side because he was in the bathroom styling it. jerome never woke up early ever since he left the circus, since he realized that he could take the time to sleep in. he used that to his advantage for a while, up until now.

as you padded across the floor towards your shared bathroom in Falcone’s Mansion (where you both and the Legion of Horribles - Jerome’s words - were staying), your feet lead you directly to your boyfriend. he always left the door open for you, saying that “you were always invited,” as he winked and moved his head in the direction of the shower. laughing silently at the memory, you turn a corner and stand in the doorway, watching him.

his ginger hair threaded through his fingers, the gel making it stick up. for once, he wasn’t wearing gloves, something that you loved. he only ever has them off in the morning and at night. he says that he likes the way your skin feels on his hands. it upset you when he started to wear the gloves regularly and when he found out, he teased you endlessly. he still does.

“what’dya want, doll?” jerome’s wacky accent sounded in your ears as a smile spread across your face. as harsh as it may have sounded to any one else that could’ve heard, you knew better than to take it to heart. jerome loved to tease you, whether it was intimately or in a playful manner.

his right hand moved back down to press into the gel and then brought it back up to smooth out into his hair. it cooperated as it stuck up towards the ceiling, matching with the other strands.

“nothing, just watching.” it was the first thing you said since you woke up, your voice scratchy and tired. a slight smile curled at his lips from the way you sounded, finally looking away from his hair in the mirror and towards your reflection. doing so, his hand slipped and smoothed his hair back, resembling the way he used to style it a few years back.

he groans and throws his hands down, smacking the counter. you’ve grown used to his outbursts, though this one was small. usually, you’d let him go through it and not bother him, but that always meant a bad attitude for the rest of the day. walking over to him, you stand to his side and squeeze his arm, grabbing his attention. he doesn’t look at you, but he acknowledges you’re there.

“c’mon, j. sit down, i can fix it.” you’ve never tried to do his hair before, he always made sure no one else touched it. well, when you both weren’t in bed. but you knew that, if jerome had to choose, he’d pick you to trust for his hair, or anything for that matter.

he rolls his eyes and huffs, but sits down on the lid of the toilet seat, his legs spread apart. you stood in between them as your fingers moved through his soft hair, practically making him purr. his hands slithered around your waist, squeezing your skin and moving you closer to him. a smile spreads across your face at the action, happily smoothing his hair up with your hands.

“what are ya doing, toots?” his big hands pinch at your sides, making you squirm. a laugh bubbles from your throat as your hands play with his hair, spiking it up and down in different positions. he tickles your sides lightly and smiles as you try and get out of his grip. "c'mere! what're ya doin' to me, doll face?" he has a cheshire like grin on his face as he talks, but it shows no hostility unlike usual. you quickly snapped him out of his growing sour mood earlier, something that always seemed to surprise you. it was hard dealing with an impulsive, murderous psychopath as a boyfriend, but you wouldn't have changed it for anything.

"i'll fix it, i promise." you laugh and ruffle his hair again. he groans loudly at your action, digging his nails into your skin. “jerome!” you scold, yet his grip on you doesn’t lighten up.

“ya know I don’t like people messing with my hair, gorgeous.” jerome grumbles, but doesn’t stop you. you nod at his words and mumble things under your breath, but he only laughs at the profanities leaving your mouth. “c’mon, sugar, we don’t have all day.” he teases with a smirk on his face. he knows just the right words to get under your skin, making you pull his hair slightly. he groans at the action, closing his eyes. once he opens them again, his smirk widens. “do it again, doll, that felt good.” his laugh reverberates along the walls of the bathroom when you smack his shoulder playfully.

once you finally take the ends of his hair and lift them up, they stay there with the help of the gel on your fingers. jerome plays around with the hem of your shirt as we waits, starting to grow impatient.

“is it done yet?” he whines, looking up at you. jerome, no matter what age, was never a patient person. though, that was pretty obvious.

“just a sec, j.” it leaves your lips naturally, having said those four words more times than you can count. he huffs and looks back down at your shirt, tugging and stretching it as he waits.

“done!” you try to back away from him, but the hold he had on you prevented that. he looks up at you when you exclaim and a smile spreads across his face. he stands straight up and looks back at the mirror, inspecting the style you did.

“it’s perfect, doll!” he yells, his grin growing bigger. “i should make ya do my hair more often.” he turns back around and steps towards you, grabbing you by your waist roughly and tugging you towards him. he leans down and presses a kiss to your lips before pulling away with a gasp.

“i should do your hair now!”

this is going to be difficult.

#jerome valeska #jerome valeska x reader #cameron monaghan #cameron monaghan x reader #jeremiah valeska #jeremiah valeska x reader #jerome x reader #jerome valeska smut

[lands-of-fantasy]

Pride and Prejudice

Classic and loose adaptions from 1940, 1967, 1980, 1995, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019

The second of Jane Austen’s novels, first published in 1813, is the most often adapted, inspiring various different takes on it. The ones pictures above are detailed below:

Pride and Prejudice (1940 Film)

This black and white film departs from the original novel in some (or should I say many?) points

Written by Aldous Huxley and Jane Murfin, adapted from the stage adaptation by Helen Jerome; directed by Robert Z. Leonard

Starring Greer Garson as Elizabeth Bennet, Laurence Olivier as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Edward Ashley Cooper as George Wickham, Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane Bennet, Bruce Lester as Mr. Charles Bingley, Ann Rutherford as Lydia Bennet, Melville Cooper as Mr. William Collins, among others.

Pride and Prejudice (1967 Miniseries)

6 episodes x 24min. Black and White footage Written by Nemone Lethbridge, directed by Joan Craft

Starring Celia Bannerman as Elizabeth Bennet, Lewis Fiander as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Richard Hampton as George Wickham, Polly Adams as Jane Bennet, David Savile as Mr. Charles Bingley, Lucy Fleming as Lydia Bennet, Julian Curry as Mr. William Collins, among others.

Pride and Prejudice (1980 Miniseries)

5 episodes x 54 min Written by Fay Weldon, directed by Cyril Coke

Starring Elizabeth Garvie as Elizabeth Bennet, David Rintoul as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Peter Settelen as George Wickham, Sabina Franklyn as Jane Bennet, Osmund Bullock as Mr. Charles Bingley, Natalie Ogle as Lydia Bennet, Malcolm Rennie as Mr. William Collins, among others.

Pride and Prejudice (1995 Miniseries)

6 episodes x 54 min Written by Andrew Davies, directed by Simon Langton

Starring Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet, Colin Firth as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Adrian Lukis as George Wickham, Susannah Harker as Jane Bennet, Crispin Bonham-Carter as Mr. Charles Bingley, Julia Sawalha as Lydia Bennet, David Bamber as Mr. William Collins, among others.

Pride and Prejudice (2003 Indie Film)

Loose adaption set in modern Utah, USA Written by Anne Black, Jason Faller, Katherine Swigert; directed by Andrew Black

Starring Kam Heskin as Elizabeth Bennet, Orlando Seale as Will Darcy, Henry Maguire as Jack Wickham, Lucila Sola as Jane Vasquez, Ben Gourley as Charles Bingley, Kelly Stables as Lydia Meryton, Hubbel Palmer as William Collins, among others.

Bride and Prejudice (2004 Film)

Bollywood-style Musical. Loose adaption set in modern India and England. Written by Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha; directed by Gurinder Chadha

Starring Aishwarya Rai as Lalita Bakshi (Elizabeth), Martin Henderson as William "Will" Darcy,  Daniel Gillies as Johnny Wickham, Namrata Shirodkar as Jaya Bakshi (Jane), Naveen Andrews as Mr Balraj Uppal (Bingley), Peeya Rai Chowdhary as Lakhi Bakshi (Lydia), Nitin Ganatra as Kohli Saab (Collins), among others.

Pride and Prejudice (2005 Film)

Written by Deborah Moggach, directed by Joe Wright

Starring Keira Knightley as Elizabeth Bennet, Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rupert Friend as George Wickham, Rosamund Pike as Jane Bennet, Simon Woods as Mr. Charles Bingley, Jena Malone as Lydia Bennet, Claudie Blakley as Charlotte Lucas, Tom Hollander as Mr. Collins, Donald Sutherland as Mr. Bennet, Judi Dench as Lady Catherine de Bourgh, among others.

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012–13 Webseries)

160 episodes x 2-8 min, available on Youtube Loose adaption set in modern US, told in a vlog format

Created by Hank Green and Bernie Su, from Pemberley Digital

Starring Ashley Clements as Elizabeth Bennet, Daniel Vincent Gordh as William Darcy, Wes Aderhold as George Wickham, Laura Spencer as Jane Bennet, Christopher Sean as Bing Lee, Mary Kate Wiles as Lydia Bennet, Julia Cho as Charlotte Lu, Maxwell Glick as Ricky Collins, among others.

Lizzie’s videos amount to 100 episodes + 10 Q&A, but shorter series enrich the story by offering other characters’ perspectives, most notably Lydia’s (and also Georgiana’s). A playlist at Pemberley Digital’s Youtube channel features them all in order.

The series has also been adapted into a book, The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet (2014), and spawned a sequel novel, The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet (2015).

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016 Film)

Loose adaption inspired by the 2009 novel of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith, which adds zombies to Austen’s original story. The movie makes alterations from the zombie book as well.

Written and directed by Burr Steers

Starring Lily James as Elizabeth Bennet, Sam Riley as Colonel Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jack Huston as George Wickham, Bella Heathcote as Jane Bennet, Douglas Booth as Mr. Charles Bingley, Ellie Bamber as Lydia Bennet, Matt Smith as Parson William Collins, among others.

Orgulho e Paixão (Pride and Passion) (2018 Telenovela)

Brazilian telenovela in Brazilian-Portuguese

162 episodes x 30-40min (original version) Loose adaption set in 1910s São Paulo state, Brazil

Created by Marcos Bernstein, directed by Fred Mayrink

Starring Nathalia Dill as Elisabeta Benetido, Thiago Lacerda as Sr. Darcy Williamson, Pâmela Tomé as Jane Benedito, Maurício Destri as Camilo Bittencourt (Bingley), Bruna Giphao as Lídia Benedito, Bruno Gissoni as Diogo Uirapuru (Wickham/Willoughby), among others.

The story takes inspiration from all 6 of Austen’s major novels (plus Lady Susan), but mostly from Pride and Prejudice. Others stars include Chandelly Braz as Mariana Benedito (Marianne Dashwood) and Anajú Dorigon as Cecília Benedito (Catherine Morland).

Features 100 episodes in the International cut. The telenovela has been broadcast in other countries and languages (such as Spanish) but as far as I know, not in English.

Pride and Prejudice: Atlanta (2019 TV Film)

Loose adaption set in modern Atlanta, USA. All-black cast. Written by Tracy McMillan, directed by Rhonda Baraka

Starring Tiffany Hines as Elizabeth Bennet, Juan Antonio as Will Darcy, Raney Branch as Jane Bennet, Brad James as Charles Bingley, Reginae Carter as Lydia Bennet, Carl Anthony Payne as Rev. Collins, among others.

*****

Personal favorites: 2005, then 1995. But also: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Orgulho e Paixão

I also enjoyed Atlanta and, while it’s been a while since I’ve seen Bride and Prejudice, it’s got Indian musical numbers so c’mon, one gotta watch it.

Back to the closer adaptions, despite its age, 1980 is also good! 1940 is...very different, but fun in its own way.

In fact, while I find some of these versions weaker, I could find enjoyment in all of them - but maybe that’s cause I’m a sucker for P&P.

#pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #fitzwilliam darcy #pride and prejudice 2005 #pride and prejudice 95 #orgulho e paixão #period drama #the lizzie bennet diaries #jane austen adaptations #pride and prejudice atlanta #bride and prejudice #pride and prejudice and zombies #jane bennet #charles bingley #lydia bennet #mr darcy #mr bingley #I'll post about the other novels later #pep2005

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Above: Jerome Robbins, John Kriza, Harold Lang, Janet Reed, and Muriel Bentley in the original production of Robbins's Fancy Free. Photo: Maurice Seymour via Newsweek

On April 18, 1944, Jerome Robbins's first ballet, Fancy Free, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House.

From the moment the action begins, with the sound of a juke box wailing behind the curtain, the ballet is strictly young wartime America, 1944. The curtain rises on a street corner with a lamp post, a side street bar, and New York skyscrapers pricked out with the crazy pattern of lights, making a dizzying backdrop. Three sailors explode onto the stage. They are on 24-hour shore leave in the city and on the prowl for girls. The tale of how they meet first one, then a second girl, and how they fight over them, lose them, and in the end take off after still a third, is the story of the ballet.

That synopsis was written by Leonard Bernstein, the composer of the ballet's score. He was 25 at the time (the same age as Robbins) and an assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Just a few months earlier, he had made a splash as a last-minute substitution for Bruno Walter at a Philharmonic concert, jump-starting his career.

Above: photo from Haglund's Heel

The ballet featured John Kriza, Harold Lang and Jerome Robbins himself as the three sailors, Muriel Bentley, Janet Reed, and Shirley Ecki as the girls, and Rex Cooper as the seen-it-all bartender. The great critic Edwin Denby observed that the ballet:

was so big a hit that the young participants all looked a little dazed as they took their bows. But besides being a smash hit, Fancy Free is a very remarkable comedy piece. ... Its pantomime and its dances are witty, exuberant, and at every moment they feel natural.

Above: Jerome Robbins, Michael Kidd, John Kriza, and Shirley Eckl performing the ballet in London Photo: Baron via MPR News

Over the years, Fancy Free has entered the repertory of countless ballet companies in the U.S. and abroad. It was so popular that Robbins and Bernstein were persuaded to turn it into a Broadway musical: On the Town. It debuted on December 28 of the same year, which seems astonishing considering how long it takes to create contemporary musicals. Bernstein wrote the music, Betty Comden and Adolph Green the book and lyrics, and Robbins choreographed it—the first in a long line of musical theater triumphs for him. Confidence in the show was so high that MGM bought the film rights before it opened, a common practice now, but not then. It was the first film set in the city to be actually filmed there (in part) instead of on a Hollywood soundstage.

#vintage New York #1940s #Fancy Free #Jerome Robbins #ballet #Leonard Bernstein #American ballet #John Kriza #Harold Lang #Muriel Bentley #Janet Reed #Shirley Eckl

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Mirror, Mirror

I said before that STAR TREK TOS is explicitly not a post-scarcity socialist utopia, but rather a liberal imperial state preoccupied with resource extraction, which is a central issue throughout much of TOS. One of the clearest statements of the tensions this produces between the Federation's expressed values and its actual strategic priorities is in "Mirror, Mirror," the Mirror Universe episode, written by Jerome Bixby, where a transporter accident sends Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura to a parallel universe where the Federation is a brutal Terran Empire and Starfleet full of ruthless backstabbers who seem to rise through the ranks primarily via assassination. What viewers (and later STAR TREK writers) seem to take from this episode is mostly the way it lets the regular cast ham it up as sluttier, more evil versions of themselves, but it's instructive to also consider what's actually happening in the plot.

At the very beginning of the episode, Kirk is negotiating with the Halkan Council regarding the possibility of the Federation mining dilithium on their world, which the Halkans refuse to permit. Kirk's arguments have hinged on offering historical evidence of the Federation's benevolence and commitment to peace, but the Halkans aren't convinced, making the reasonable argument that even if the Federation is presently benign, it may not remain so, and that they are firmly morally opposed to fueling the Federation's war machine "even to the extent of the taking of one life." Kirk is plainly frustrated by this, and I think we're supposed to sympathize — by the time this episode aired in October 1967, viewers had been conditioned to reflexively impute likely counterarguments (e.g., "Starfleet weapons are defensive!" or "The Enterprise defends innocent Federation colonists from alien aggression and monsters!") — but the Halkans make a compelling point, and there's nothing in TOS to meaningfully contradict it.

When the characters shift to the Mirror Universe, we learn that mirror-Kirk is dealing with substantially the same dilemma: His Enterprise has also been sent to secure access to Halkan dilithium, and the structure of the plot strongly implies that just before the transporter accident, he's had a similar confrontation with the Halkan Council which presumably left him as frustrated as prime-Kirk is. "Mirror, Mirror" repeatedly emphasizes that the Mirror Universe is a close parallel to the Prime Universe in most respects (down to McCoy's realization that his counterpart had spilled a beaker of acid in the same place prime-McCoy had days earlier), and that the Terran Empire is a close counterpart of the Federation, differing primarily in (superficial) ideology and methodology rather than in strategic objectives. The Empire needs dilithium for precisely the same reasons the Federation and Starfleet do: to expand and secure the borders of the imperial state and to maintain its internal order. (That's what the entire franchise is primarily about!)

The plot of "Mirror, Mirror" creates a ticking clock with the revelation that mirror-Kirk has orders to use the Enterprise to bombard the Halkans from orbit if they don't cooperate, committing genocide as an example for other worlds. This raises unsettling questions about what prime-Kirk's orders say, which we're never actually told. Presumably, prime-Starfleet, as the good guys, would never explicitly order a retaliatory genocide to secure a strategic resource … but, we see throughout TOS that Starfleet gives starship captains a great deal of leeway to accomplish their missions, and is willing to accept or overlook a certain amount of shenanigans if the strategic objective is achieved. Indeed, in "The Omega Glory," Ron Tracey, captain of the Exeter, is firmly convinced that the "fountain of youth" he thinks he's discovered will be of such value that his deliberate violation of the Prime Directive (along with the literally hundreds of natives he has killed in that violation) can and will be reconciled. So, even if prime-Starfleet has not told Kirk that genocide is on the table, they have likely told him to get the dilithium however he deems appropriate, leaving the means to Kirk's discretion. It's clear throughout STAR TREK that the Enterprise and ships of its class would be formidable terror-weapons, and in several TOS episodes, Kirk uses explicit threats of planetary bombardment as a negotiating tactic. "Mirror, Mirror" essentially confirms that the Enterprise IS equipped and its crew trained for that purpose, even if prime-Starfleet is more reluctant than its Mirror Universe counterpart to exercise it.

Kirk's eventual argument in this episode for doing things the Federation's way (i.e., peacefully and cooperatively if possible) is not that it's more morally righteous, but that it's more efficient as a means of resource extraction and of securing the survival of the imperial state. As Kirk famously argues to mirror-Spock:

SPOCK: You have two minutes and ten seconds. KIRK: In that time I have something to say. How long before the Halkan prediction of galactic revolt is realized? SPOCK: Approximately two hundred and forty years. KIRK: The inevitable outcome? SPOCK: The Empire shall be overthrown, of course. KIRK: The illogic of waste, Mister Spock. The waste of lives, potential, resources, time. I submit to you that your Empire is illogical because it cannot endure. I submit that you are illogical to be a willing part of it. SPOCK: You have one minute and twenty three seconds. KIRK: If change is inevitable, predictable, beneficial, doesn't logic demand that you be a part of it?

In this ethical schema, not seeking to punish the Prime Universe Halkans for their refusal to cooperate with the Federation is not primarily a moral decision, but a practical one: It's in the Federation's strategic interests to maintain its veneer of benevolence and civility because doing otherwise would eventually trigger costly resistance that the state would not ultimately survive. If the Halkans continue to refuse to cooperate, we can probably reasonably assume that Kirk will argue to Starfleet that allowing the Halkans to say no will have strategic advantage, demonstrating to other worlds the Federation's beneficence, just as annihilating them would demonstrate the Empire's ruthlessness and resolve — a parallel objective rather than an oppositional one.

We aren't told what comes of Kirk's negotiations with the prime-Halkans, but the episode is nonetheless very revealing of what role prime-Starfleet and the Enterprise play in promoting and defending the economic and strategic interests of the imperial state, which is quite explicitly a liberal vision rather than a progressive one — and a fairly ugly one if you look past the speechifying.

#teevee #star trek #star trek tos #mirror mirror #jerome bixby #mirror universe #mirror mirror doesn't use the term “prime universe” #which was coined much later #but it's a useful shorthand for clarity