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mariocki · 8 months

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A young Barbara Murray stars as travelling theatrical artiste Pat Dawn, getting mixed up in murder and intrigue in Mystery Junction (1951)

#fave spotting #barbara murray #the power game #lady pamela wilder #mystery junction #b movie #1951 #british cinema #sydney tafler #michael mccarthy #panels <3 #when network folded i picked up quite a few things I'd been holding out on but i actually already owned and had seen this quota quickie #crime movie; nevertheless‚ fool that i am‚ i found a blu ray copy cheap online and made the upgrade bc... well bc Babs that's why #truthfully her character doesn't have a huge amount to do beyond being Sydney Tafler's love interest (another factor was my love of Syd)#but she does it beautifully. McCarthy doesn't give her a single closeup (fool!!!) but she does get one great scene in which she explains #her knowledge of the villain of the film‚ recounting the harrowing fate of a young friend of hers (it's one of the best scenes in the film)#troublingly tho.... no hats. was this pre hats? did Babs develop a hat fixation only later? or was it bc she was still a young actor at #this point‚ she didn't feel confident in demanding an array of hats be set at her dressing room door every day (as i have chosen to imagine #was the case later in her career). she wasn't quite a newcomer at this point (she'd had a notable role in 1949's Passport to Pimlico) but #safe to say she wasn't quite a Star star yet (she shares top billing with Tafler here but this is in every sense a minor picture on a #shoestring budget; no reflection on McCarthy‚ an imaginative and talented writer director who might have been destined for bigger things #had he not died prematurely at the end of the decade)#anyway she's here and she's lovely and she gives rotten Martin Benson a piece of her mind despite the gun in his hand #good for you Babs! <3

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gatutor · 8 months

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Philip Dale-Patricia Owens "Mystery junction" 1951, de Michael McCarthy.

#Patricia Owens #Philip Dale #Michael McCarthy

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clbphotography3 · 8 days

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Formidable Man and Ngannou

Formidable Man and Ngannou (rail) worked 4F in 47.40.

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#Formidable Man #Michael McCarthy #Ngannou

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campaignoutsider · 2 years

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Boston Herald Gives David Ortiz a Pass on LIV Sellout

Last Thursday Michael McCarthy at Front Office Sports reported that LIV Golf was enlisting] David Ortiz to welcome fans to its tournament in [checks notes] Bolton not Boston. LIV Golf is turning to one of the most popular athletes in New England sports history to promote its Boston tournament: David “Big Papi” Ortiz. The Boston Red Sox legend will appear in a video for the LIV Golf Invitational…

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#Big Papout #David Ortiz #flimsy local tabloid #Front Office Sports #LIV Golf #LIV Golf Invitational Boston #Michael McCarthy #Ortizinal critic #Will Staeger

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disneytva · 2 months

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Here's a goofy anniversary that takes place only on leap years!

24 years ago Disney Television Animation's 'AN EXTREMELY GOOFY MOVIE’ was released ending the "GOOF TROOP" franchise.

Big City Greens alumni Becky Dreistadt attempted to pitch a GOOF TROOP reboot mixing both films and the original show back on 2019 but was passed.

Walt Disney Archives posted some missing promotional artwork on HD.

#An Extremely Goofy Movie #Goof Troop #Douglas McCarthy #Scott Gorden #Robert Taylor #Michael Peraza #Disney Television Animation Films #Disney TVA Films #The Disney Afternoon

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videoandpizza · 2 months

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Mannequin (1987)

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the-hottest-band-tournament · 15 days

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Round one

Men Without Hats

Formed in: 1977

Genres: New wave, synth-pop

Lineup: Ivan Doroschuk - vocals

Stefan Doroschuk - guitars

Colin Doroschuk - keyboards

Allan McCarthy - keyboards

Albums from the 80s:

Folk of the 80's EP (1980)

Rhythm of Youth (1982)

Folk of the 80's (Part III) (1984)

Pop Goes the World (1987)

The Adventures of Women & Men Without Hate in the 21st Century (1989)

Propaganda:

Wham!

Formed in: 1981

Genres: Pop, dance-pop, post-disco

Lineup: George Michael – vocals, arrangements Andrew Ridgeley – guitars, arrangements

Albums from the 80s:

Fantastic (1983)

Make it Big (1984)

Music from the Edge of Heaven (1986)

The Final (1987)

Propaganda: Two words: George Michael

#round 1 #men without hats #wham!#ivan doroschuk #Stephan doroschuk #Colin doroschuk #Allan mccarthy #george michael #andrew ridgeley #the hottest 80s band tourney #The hottest 80s band tournament #tumblr polls #poll

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brokehorrorfan · 4 days

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UHF will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on July 2 via Shout Factory. Celebrating its 35th anniversary, the 1989 comedy stars and is co-written by Weird Al Yankovic.

Frequent Weird Al music video director Jay Levey directs and co-wrote. David Bowe, Fran Drescher, Victoria Jackson, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Richards, Stanley Brock, Gedde Watanabe, Billy Barty, Anthony Geary, Emo Philips and Trinidad Silva round out the cast.

UHF has been newly scanned in 4K from the origianl 35mm camera negative with Dolby Vision. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer Jay Levey and actor/co-writer Weird Al Yankovic

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary by director/co-writer Jay Levey and actor/co-writer Weird Al Yankovic

San Diego Comic-Con 2014 retrospective panel

Deleted scenes

Behind-the-scenes footage

"UHF" music video by Weird Al Yankovic

Production stills

Promotional materials

Easter eggs

A lot of TV stations have forgotten what "quality" means. But not Channel 62. They NEVER knew what it meant. "Weird Al" Yankovic is George Newman, a daydreamer who becomes the manager of a small TV station that's losing money as quickly as it's losing viewers. Before long he's programming shows like "Stanley Spadowski's Clubhouse," "Wheel Of Fish" and "Raul's Wild Kingdom." But can Channel 62's new popularity save it from sinister forces? To find out… don't touch that dial!

Pre-roder UHF.

#uhf #weird al #weird al yankovic #david bowie #fran drescher #victoria jackson #kevin mccarthy #michael richards #dvd #gift #shout factory #comedy #80s comedy #80s movies #1980s movies

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 11 months

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Surveying the reactions of top Republicans after Donald Trump’s indictment on charges of mishandling classified information, you’d think the country was in the midst of a coup.

“It is unconscionable for a President to indict the leading candidate opposing him,” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted. “The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed. “There is no limit to what these people will do to protect their power & destroy those who threaten it, even if it means ripping our country apart,” Sen. Marco Rubio declared.

These are extraordinary claims — and all made on Thursday night before the indictment or the evidence behind it was made public. On Friday morning, we learned thanks to CNN that Trump is literally on tape in 2021 discussing having documents in his possession that he knew were still classified. “As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,” he reportedly said.

The tape may or may not prove dispositive in a court of law; there’s certainly room for good-faith disagreement on the strength of the case against Trump. But the tape is at least very strong evidence that these charges are not some kind of Biden-mandated witch hunt but instead based on very serious allegations of wrongdoing.

Yet top Republicans — including Trump’s leading rival for the 2024 election — have shown no signs of changing their tune, and instead are lining up behind Trump’s conspiracy theory that special counsel Jack Smith is leading Joe Biden’s personal Stasi.

This paranoid reaction to Trump’s indictment is not a surprise. Over the past several years, the political right has been captured by a worldview that sees the entirety of mainstream society arranged against it. According to this thinking, America’s “woke” power elite, including ostensibly neutral institutions of governance like the Justice Department, is determined to stamp out the conservative way of life. You are either with us or against us — and attempting to send Trump to jail, whatever the reason, puts you on the wrong side.

Such once-fringe thinking now dominates the Republican Party at the very highest levels. Whether people like McCarthy and DeSantis actually believe it is immaterial: The fact that they feel the need to say such wild things indicates just how central anti-institutional paranoia has become in Republican politics.

The dangers of this going forward, as Trump faces trial and America faces an election where he is the GOP’s most likely presidential candidate, should not be underestimated. A democracy whose basic institutional functions come under attack is a democracy in mortal peril.

THE PARANOID STYLE IN REPUBLICAN POLITICS

The entire Trump phenomenon was, from the very beginning, about conservative fear of losing America. Study after study after study has found that Trump voters in the GOP primary and electorate are motivated by a concern that the United States is becoming literally unrecognizable: populated by people who look different and think differently than they do.

The fears of the base were reflected in the language of the elite. In 2016, the most famous intellectual case for Trump in 2016 was Michael Anton’s “Flight 93” essay — which argued that these changes were transforming the government in ways that handed more and more control over American government to the left. Anton spoke of a “bipartisan junta” that controlled the centers of power and wielded it against conservative institutions, a kind of soft coup against ordinary Americans backstopped by demographic change.

“Our side has been losing consistently since 1988,” Anton wrote. “The ceaseless importation of Third World foreigners with no tradition of, taste for, or experience in liberty means that the electorate grows more left, more Democratic, less Republican, less republican, and less traditionally American with every cycle.”

Anton’s essay, seen as fringe at the time, captured an essential linkage of the Trump era: between the traditional conservative sense of alienation from mainstream American culture and growing hostility to its governing institutions. The general conservative sense that they were losing America demographically and spiritually could easily be translated into a case that the government itself was hostile to their interests.

So when Trump began facing legal trouble during his presidency, at first over his campaign’s ties to Russia, he ran a version of the Anton playbook (Anton was, at the time, serving in Trump’s White House). He argued, in now-familiar but then-novel terms, that the investigation was a “deep state” plot against Trump — that special counsel Robert Mueller and his investigators were Democrats who sought only to destroy his presidency.

Faced with this challenge, the rest of the Republican Party had a choice: They could defend the underlying integrity of the Justice Department, even while remaining skeptical of the merits of this specific investigation, or fully accede to the Trumpist “witch hunt” narrative. We know which one they chose, and we know why they chose it: Trump had built such a powerful following on the basis of his paranoid critique of America that any Republican who challenged it risked career suicide.

The Russia investigation set a pattern that would endure for the entire Trump presidency. Again and again, when faced with credible allegations of wrongdoing, Republicans indulged Trump’s wildest fantasies out of either fear or genuine belief. The Anton worldview, once the province of cranks, evolved into the official narrative of the Republican Party — an evolution cemented when Trump attempted to overthrow the 2020 election and the party elite permitted him to do so.

In the Biden years, with Republicans out of power, the narrative of an entire government arranged against them only became more credible in the eyes of the base. Surveys consistently showed that a large majority of Republicans believed his claims of voter fraud; political scientists have shown that this belief is likely genuine and that Republican politicians who parrot Trump’s lies improve their standings in the eyes of the base.

The result is a party that has, in the past several years, grown increasingly radicalized against the core institutions of America. They believe that everything in America is turning against them: not just the traditional enemies like the media and Hollywood, but also the military, big business, and even the US Olympic team. If you express agreement with the left on anything from LGBTQ issues to Trump’s fitness for office, you are an enemy of the right.

The dangers of this shift cannot be overestimated. Republicans are already vowing to “bring accountability to the DOJ” (DeSantis) and “hold this brazen weaponization of power accountable” (McCarthy). If Republicans do win the White House in 2024, the chances of an attempt to turn the Justice Department into an actually political institution are very high. If Trump is their candidate, it’s basically a certainty.

And if they lose — well, January 6 showed us what could happen when Republicans believe they’ve lost illegitimately. And we’re already seeing paranoia about this indictment bleed over into paranoia about the upcoming election.

“Biden is attacking his most likely 2024 opponent. He’s using the justice system to preemptively steal the 2024 election. This is what’s happening, plain and simple,” writes Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).

Democracy depends on both sides respecting the rules of the game. But one side has decided, without any real evidence, that the rules are rigged against them — and have demonstrated a willingness to disregard them as a result.

#us politics #news #vox #classified documents #classified documents probe #donald trump #republicans #conservatives #2023 #department of justice #jack smith #ag merrick garland #rep. kevin mccarthy #gov. ron desantis #Sen. Marco Rubio #sen. j.d. vance #Michael Anton #conspiracy theorists

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oldschoolteenflicks · 2 years

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Mannequin (1987) dir. by Michael Gottlieb

#mannequin #mannequin 1987 #andrew mccarthy #kim cattrall #james spader #meshach taylor #michael gottlieb #80s #*#nati

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salt-up-to-your-ankles · 8 months

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MICHAEL YOURE THE BOY WITH ALL THE LEATHER HIPS

STICKY HAIR STICKY HIPS STUBBLE ON MY STICKY LIPS

MICHAEL YOURE THE ONLY ONE ID EVER WANT

ONLY ONE ID EVER WANT ONLY ONE ID EVER WANT

#this song has a chokehold on me #makes me go feral #michael franz ferdinand #franz ferdinand #alex kapranos #bob hardy #audrey tait #nick mccarthy #paul thomson #dino bardot #julian corrie #gay #mlm #gay mlm #gay man #lgbtq #michael

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somethingusefulfromflorida · 9 months

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My entire Spanish novel collection

I'm not a huge fan of George Orwell, but I read both Animal Farm and 1984 in high school so I know they're short and easy to read. They'll be good practice.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is by far my favorite series of all time. None of the four (yes, four. Not five, not six, but four) are favorites by themselves, but taken as a whole I have yet to find anything more entertaining.

Jurassic Park is fun but VERY dry (as is Crichton's style). He has a lot of "look at all the research I did" exposition dumps, which I liked as a teenager but don't much care for now. If nothing else, I'll learn plenty of scientific vocabulary from Parque Jurasico.

The Martian is one of my favorite books of all time, tied for first with two titles below. I've read it a dozen times, I know it forwards and backwards. El Marciano was the first Spanish book I ever bought back in 2021, and I couldn't parse more than one word in ten. My reading comprehension has improved tremendously since then, and now I can read almost the entire thing (if I don't understand a certain passage, I know from memory of the English version which part I'm at in the story and can limp along without getting frustrated or confused)

The Road is one of the few books that has made me cry. Let me leave it at that.

The Time Traveler's Wife is another favorite tied with The Martian. I read all the other books on this list in high school or college, but I didn't pick this one up until relatively recently. I am currently in the process of reading La Mujer del Viajero en el Tiempo for the first time, and like The Martian I am able to use my knowledge of the English version to cross the gaps I don't yet understand.

World War Z is the third of the three way tie for favorite. I wanna say I read it for the first time in 2011 or 2012. It was before the movie came out, and I remember taking it with me to read at church camp one summer (it was a long bus ride to North Carolina, and I had to hide it from the chaperones all week). Every time I reread it, I pick up on some new aspect I missed the first dozen times around, so I'm excited to see if I come to any revelations in Spanish.

Books I want to get

Artemis and Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

Devolution by Max Brooks

Redshirts by John Scalzi

A family friend of mine moved to the United States from Honduras in her late 20s and learned English in part by watching Sesame Street with her kids, so I want to get Spanish versions of the Hunger Games trilogy and the five Percy Jackson and the Olympians books because I figure YA novels might help me learn Spanish easier than adult fiction. Right now I'm looking for simple titles that I'm already familiar with, but eventually I want to start buying Spanish books I've never read in English so I can fly without a net. My background is in Latin American Spanish, specifically Cuban Spanish, but my copy of El Marciano is European, so it shouldn't make too much of a difference which translations I buy (just so long as I keep series grouped together in sets so they're all the same)