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madamevandeleur · 1 year

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Coming back with more Aftg x Trc crossovers-

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viellohi · 20 days

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Gettysburg (1993) as Vines because this fandom has NONE, not anymore now though!!! so enjoy

Most of them have Pickett, Tom, and Longstreet in them?? I wanted to have more characters in there but the majority of Vines I could think of fit those three (Uncle Longstreet trope is strong in this comp). Not enough Buford, Reynolds, Hancock, and Lofield Hanistead in this one imo but I'm bound to make another one at some point so :D

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Horror Movie Review: The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988)

In a time of social and political unrest in Haiti, anthropologist Dennis Alan travels to the torn country to study a Voodoo drug used in religious practices to turn victims into living zombies.

The Serpent and the Rainbow is a 1988 American horror film directed by Wes Craven and starring Bill Pullman. The script by Richard Maxwell and Adam Rodman is loosely based on the non-fiction book of the same name by ethnobotanist Wade Davis. Wherein Davis recounted his experiences in Haiti investigating the story of Clairvius Narcisse. Who was allegedly poisoned, buried alive, and revived with an…

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todaysdocument · 6 months

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Discharge Petition for H.R. 7152, the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: General Records

This item, H.R. 7152, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, faced strong opposition in the House Rules Committee. Howard Smith, Chairman of the committee, refused to schedule hearings for the bill. Emanuel Celler, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, attempted to use this discharge petition to move the bill out of committee without holding hearings. The petition failed to gain the required majority of Congress (218 signatures), but forced Chairman Smith to schedule hearings.

88th CONGRESS. House of Representatives No. 5 Motion to Discharge a Committee from the Consideration of a RESOLUTION (State whether bill, joint resolution, or resolution) December 9, 1963 To the Clerk of the House of Representatives: Pursuant to Clause 4 of Rule XXVII (see rule on page 7), I EMANUEL CELLER (Name of Member), move to discharge to the Commitee on RULES (Committee) from the consideration of the RESOLUTION; H. Res. 574 entitled, a RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL (H. R. 7152) which was referred to said committee November 27, 1963 in support of which motion the undersigned Members of the House of Representatives affix their signatures, to wit: 1. Emanuel Celler 2. John J. Rooney 3. Seymour Halpern 4. James G Fulton 5. Thomas W Pelly 6. Robt N. C. Nix 7. Jeffery Cohelan 8. W A Barrett 9. William S. Mailiard 10. 11. Augustus F. Hawkins 12. Otis G. Pike 13. Benjamin S Rosenthal 14. Spark M Matsunaga 15. Frank M. Clark 16. William L Dawson 17. Melvin Price 18. John C. Kluczynski 19. Barratt O'Hara 20. George E. Shipley 21. Dan Rostenkowski 22. Ralph J. Rivers[page] 2 23. Everett G. Burkhalter 24. Robert L. Leggett 25. William L St Onge 26. Edward P. Boland 27. Winfield K. Denton 28. David J. Flood 29. 30. Lucian N. Nedzi 31. James Roosevelt 32. Henry C Reuss 33. Charles S. Joelson 34. Samuel N. Friedel 35. George M. Rhodes 36. William F. Ryan 37. Clarence D. Long 38. Charles C. Diggs Jr 39. Morris K. Udall 40. Wm J. Randall 41. 42. Donald M. Fraser 43. Joseph G. Minish 44. Edith Green 45. Neil Staebler 46. 47. Ralph R. Harding 48. Frank M. Karsten 49. 50. John H. Dent 51. John Brademas 52. John E. Moss 53. Jacob H. Gilbert 54. Leonor K. Sullivan 55. John F. Shelley 56. 57. Lionel Van Deerlin 58. Carlton R. Sickles 59. 60. Edward R. Finnegan 61. Julia Butler Hansen 62. Richard Bolling 63. Ken Heckler 64. Herman Toll 65. Ray J Madden 66. J Edward Roush 67. James A. Burke 68. Frank C. Osmers Jr 69. Adam Powell 70. 71. Fred Schwengel 72. Philip J. Philiben 73. Byron G. Rogers 74. John F. Baldwin 75. Joseph Karth 76. 77. Roland V. Libonati 78. John V. Lindsay 79. Stanley R. Tupper 80. Joseph M. McDade 81. Wm Broomfield 82. 83. 84. Robert J Corbett 85. 86. Craig Hosmer87. Robert N. Giaimo 88. Claude Pepper 89. William T Murphy 90. George H. Fallon 91. Hugh L. Carey 92. Robert T. Secrest 93. Harley O. Staggers 94. Thor C. Tollefson 95. Edward J. Patten 96. 97. Al Ullman 98. Bernard F. Grabowski 99. John A. Blatnik 100. 101. Florence P. Dwyer 102. Thomas L. ? 103. 104. Peter W. Rodino 105. Milton W. Glenn 106. Harlan Hagen 107. James A. Byrne 108. John M. Murphy 109. Henry B. Gonzalez 110. Arnold Olson 111. Harold D Donahue 112. Kenneth J. Gray 113. James C. Healey 114. Michael A Feighan 115. Thomas R. O'Neill 116. Alphonzo Bell 117. George M. Wallhauser 118. Richard S. Schweiker 119. 120. Albert Thomas 121. 122. Graham Purcell 123. Homer Thornberry 124. 125. Leo W. O'Brien 126. Thomas E. Morgan 127. Joseph M. Montoya 128. Leonard Farbstein 129. John S. Monagan 130. Brad Morse 131. Neil Smith 132. Harry R. Sheppard 133. Don Edwards 134. James G. O'Hara 135. 136. Fred B. Rooney 137. George E. Brown Jr. 138. 139. Edward R. Roybal 140. Harris. B McDowell jr. 141. Torbert H. McDonall 142. Edward A. Garmatz 143. Richard E. Lankford 144. Richard Fulton 145. Elizabeth Kee 146. James J. Delaney 147. Frank Thompson Jr 148. 149. Lester R. Johnson 150. Charles A. Buckley4 151. Richard T. Hanna 152. James Corman 153. Paul A Fino 154. Harold M. Ryan 155. Martha W. Griffiths 156. Adam E. Konski 157. Chas W. Wilson 158. Michael J. Kewan 160. Alex Brooks 161. Clark W. Thompson 162. John D. Gringell [?] 163. Thomas P. Gill 164. Edna F. Kelly 165. Eugene J. Keogh 166 John. B. Duncan 167. Elmer J. Dolland 168. Joe Caul 169. Arnold Olsen 170. Monte B. Fascell [?] 171. [not deciphered] 172. J. Dulek 173. Joe W. [undeciphered] 174. J. J. Pickle [Numbers 175 through 214 are blank]

#archivesgov #December 12 #1963 #civil rights #civil rights act of 1964 #1960s

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weshney · 1 year

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DP Writing Prompt

Someone in the DP universe suddenly starts acting weird.

They seem to have gained additional personalities. Except. The personalities aren't random.

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to write this person using any personas available on the voice actor's roster.

For instance, Dark Dan would be Eric Roberts in the US version.

Some fun characters for Dan that you could play around with include:

Sal Maroni from The Dark Knight

Dante in Dante's Hell Animated

Dr. Lee Parsons in Star Trek: Captain Pike

Detective Jack Boudin in Beverly Hill Bandits

Steven from the Drew Carrey Show

The Master/Bruce from Doctor Who

Raymond "The Madman" Ricci from Falcone

Sam Winfield or Roy Hubert from Law and Order

Mongul from Justice League

Agent Thompson from Heroes

Ken Kramer from CSI: Miami

Andy Armus from Criminal Minds

Reed Perkins from Burn Notice

Senator Starling from High Heels, Low Standards

Richard Sheridan from Hawaii-five-0

Charles Forstman from Suits

Dr. Albert Beck in Stalked by my Doctor and all the sequels lol

I find it so funny to think about Dan just constantly switching between a spy, lawyer, cop or mafia man until he just randomly gets a small bout of "I am now Duffy the talking cat," or "I am suddenly the fundraising coordinator for the Glee club." XD

The cause of this phenomenon could be a parallel universe problem or not. I leave that up to you.

You could also include an Easter egg that Dan is convinced Julia Roberts is his sister. XD

#danny phantom #phandom #dp writing prompt #dark danny #dan phantom #dark dan #eric roberts

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lboogie1906 · 8 days

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Ronald Milner (May 29, 1938 – July 9, 2014) was a playwright. His play Checkmates, starring Paul Winfield and Denzel Washington, ran on Broadway.

He grew up on Hastings Street, known as “Black Bottom”. It had “Muslims on the corner, hustlers and pimps on another, winos on one, and Aretha Franklin singing from her father’s church on the other”, said Geneva Smitherman, author of Black World. He would tell David Richards in a Washington Star interview: “The more I read in high school, the more I realized that some tremendous, phenomenal things were happening around me. What happened in a Faulkner novel happened four times a day on Hastings Street. I thought why should these crazy people Faulkner writes about seem more important than my mother or my father or the dude down the street. Only because they had someone to write about them. So I became a writer.” He attended Northeastern High School. He attended Highland Park Junior College and Detroit Institute of Technology.

He won the John Hay Whitney Foundation fellowship to help aid him to complete a novel, “Life With Father Brown,” which remains unpublished. He went to New York City to join Harvey Swados’s writing workshop at Columbia University. Under the mentorship of Langston Hughes, he was able to get a Rockefeller Foundation grant.

His first break came with Who’s Got His Own. The play begins with the funeral of a harsh father, Tim Bronson, and ends with a tentative rebirth for his long-suffering widow and his embittered son and daughter, Tim, Jr., and Clara. The unsuspected truths that Mrs. Bronson is driven to reveal about their father ultimately enable Tim and Clara to see the real lives of their parents, as painful as it is. The expression that has historically been thwarted, which is primarily at the core of the play, is the question of black manhood. The protagonist is a highly combative and alienated son, torn by despair over ever being able to respect or love a father he has long since written off as a fierce tyrant at home and a coward at work. The show toured colleges in New York before going to the Lafayette Theatre. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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haggishlyhagging · 1 year

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“Early-twentieth-century child-raising experts like Holt drew their prestige from science, but the content of their advice—what they actually had to tell mothers—came much less from the laboratory than the factory. Hall had romanticized youth; he wanted its spontaneity and openness protected from the ugly realities of the adult world. But the vulnerability of the child aroused very different impulses in most child-raising experts of the time. If the child was pliant, then the child could be molded. And if the child could be molded, why not begin shaping it at once to fit the "real" world of modern industry?

The goal was industrial man—disciplined, efficient, precise—whether it was his lot to be an industrial laborer, a corporate leader, or another expert himself. The key to producing such a man was regularity. It was never too early to introduce the child to the rhythms of industrial life, as Dr. Winfeld Hall explained at the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit in 1911:

This period of early childhood is the period during which the child is acquiring habits which may last him through life . . . and many a mother will begin almost with the first day of the life of her infant to guard its habits and to introduce the element of regularity into its life . . .

This federal government’s twenty-five-cent pamphlet Infant Care, which was the best-selling publication of the Government Printing Office during the late teens, counseled similarly:

In order to establish good habits in the baby, the mother must first be aware what they are, and then how to induce them. Perhaps the first and most essential habit is that of regularity. This begins at birth, and applies to all the physical functions of the baby—eating, sleeping and bowel movements.

In the interests of industrial regularity, spontaneity would have to be strangled in the cradle. "The rule that parents should not play with the baby may seem hard," advised the government pamphlet cited above, "but it is no doubt a safe one." Inciting a baby to laugh in "apparent delight" was to impose a dangerous strain on its nervous system. Picking up a baby between scheduled feedings was to invite future mental disease or at least moral laxity. Dr. Winfield Hall painted a lurid picture for the indulgent mother:

Eating a thing because it tastes good, or drinking a thing because it tastes good, is doing a thing that gratifies the sensual! Mothers, if you begin that way with the child on these simple senses of taste and smell, and the flavor of food and drink, what are you going to do fifteen years later when the primordial urge gets into that young person's blood and he looks out at the world and turns to the right and to the left for other forms of sense gratification?

The industrial approach to child raising met with instant approval from domestic science leaders. In one of her rare mentions of children Ellen Richards wrote:

Most powers are the result of habits. Let the furrows be plowed deeply enough while the brain cells are plastic, then human energies will result in efficiency and the line of least resistance will be the right line . . . To the woman, the home worker, we say, "You must have the will power, for the sake of your child, to bring to his service all that has been discovered for the promotion of human efficiency, so that he may have the habit, the technique."

Besides, scientific housekeeping was incompatible with anything but the most obedient, well-programed child.”

-Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English, For Her Own Good: 150 Years of the Experts’ Advice to Women

#barbara ehrenreich #Deirdre English #amerika #child rearing #industrialization #patriarchy

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dailyunsolvedmysteries · 2 years

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The Serpent and the Rainbow Curse

The Serpent and the Rainbow was supposed to film in Haiti for 30 days. By day 11, everyone was secretly slipping onto a plane. Wes Craven later said of this total experience, “I almost died down there [in Haiti], and I experienced a lot of strange things. So, when I came through it all, not only alive, but healthy, I decided to begin taking my life a bit easier.”

On Day 1, co-screenwriter Richard Maxwell pretty much lost his mind. By Day 2, everyone was sick. It was all downhill from there. After meeting with a witch doctor for research purposes and telling him he wanted to be initiated into voodoo, Maxwell returned to his hotel completely disoriented. He was meant to be there finishing the third act of the script and helping out with any re-writes. Instead, he struggled to focus. Pretty soon, he lost the ability to write at all. By the time Craven and one of the producers stormed his hotel room to check on him, they found a half-naked, completely disheveled and disoriented shell of a man where they’re co-worker used to be. They got him on the first flight out of town, and when his wife and children met him at the airport in Miami he didn’t even recognize them. It was days before he finally snapped out of his hysteria, retaining no memory of what had happened to him.Maxwell was far from the only member of the production to suffer hallucinations. Bill Pullman claimed to have seen a green cow with television screens for eyes. A crew member swore he’d interacted with a long dead general who arrived on horseback and asked him to hand over the color blue.

Then, when everyone other than Craven fell ill the “we’re cursed” superstitions set in. The legend is the crew members didn’t take voodoo seriously enough and the locals sought to punish them for that. Cast member Paul Winfield saw a more rational explanation: it was unbelievably hot and they were all living in filth down there. It was only natural for their bodies to turn on them, make some of them see things, give others sudden vomiting fits.

But, all of that pales to what happened when the extras went on strike.

Craven: Things had been pretty tense all along. There were a number of bombings, and we were faced with riots because the thousands of extras we were using kept asking for more money. We were right in the middle of shooting when they went on strike. They surrounded the entire company and began throwing stones. They were ready to do us in. The producers and I had an immediate conference with them and negotiated a higher fee. At that point, we realised how dangerous the country had become for us.

They left Haiti the next day. They filmed a scene at the airport, and then hopped on the prop airplane to get out of Dodge, relocating to the Dominican Republic, where they filmed the rest of the movie incident-free.

#The Serpent and the Rainbow #horror #creepy #cursed #curse

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ttexed · 1 year

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Those sure were fun times at Naomi’s Lounge. I think it was 1993 & 94? It was like the early punkrock days in the late 70s when DJs started booking punk. Finally we had a club, & a scene coalesced. A loosely based cowpunk (or whatever you want to call it) scene thrived for awhile at Naomi's. The Swingin’ Cornflake Killers, Old 97s, Homer Henderson’s One Man Band, & more, adopted a dive bar with cheap beers on the outskirts of Deep Ellum & played for appreciative crowds on a regular basis.

The groundwork had been laid at The Barley House, up on Henderson, in the years before. But the Barley was too nice inside & attracted too many yuppies & SMU types. But Richard Winfield tried his best, booking cool bands & even releasing a ‘Live At The Barley House’ CD.

But at Naomi’s, in a dilapidated building on the edge of Deep Ellum on Canton Street, we found a home. I can still see the proprietor, ‘ol Carroll Collyer, wading through the crowd with his old tip-bucket announcing “Give it up, it’s Robert Tilton time. Y’all gotta come up with some money for these boys entertainin’ ya.”

But Carroll is long gone & so is Tom Battles, the Swingin' Cornflake Killers' guitarist, who put this flyer together. So RIP Carroll, Tom, Homer, & Naomi's Lounge. Thanks to Sean Bailey for sharing this image. This sure brought back great memories.

#t. tex edwards #the swingin' cornflake killers #naomi's lounge #deep ellum #dallas #1994 #homer henderson #old 97s #tom battles #the barley house #cowpunk #sean bailey

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findyourrp · 11 months

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hello! (: 20+ writer (she/they) searching for some new and (hopefully) long term writing partners! ideal matches will also be 20+, willing to write multipara & up, and patient in waiting for replies as i can often be kind of slow! interact with the post and i'll reach out abt moving to discord <33

below are the charas i'm wanting to write most rn! ✨️

all for the game;

―aaron minyard

—abby winfield (shipping w wymack and/or betsy most wanted!)

—neil josten (shipping w andrew most wanted!)

—jean moreau (shipping w jeremy most wanted!)

carry on;

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marvel;

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—peter parker (shipping w harley, harry, or mentor writing w tony most wanted!)

heartstopper;

charlie spring (shipping w nick most wanted!)

lockwood & co.;

- lucy carlyle (shipping w lockwood most wanted!)

percy jackson;

—nico di angelo (shipping w will most wanted!)

the raven cycle;

—blue sargent

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#rp finder #18+ rp #fandom rp #fandom roleplay #all of the game rp #pjo rp #the raven cycle rp #tsa rp #the secret history rp #marvel rp #skam rp #carry on rp #roleplay

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nebris · 1 year

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The Battle of the Wilderness was fought on May 5–7, 1864, during the American Civil War. It was the first battle of Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. The fighting occurred in a wooded area near Locust Grove, Virginia, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Fredericksburg. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, nearly 29,000 in total, a harbinger of a war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia. The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive.

Grant attempted to move quickly through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him. On the morning of May 5, the Union V Corps under Major General Gouverneur K. Warren attacked the Confederate Second Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General Richard S. Ewell, on the Orange Turnpike. That afternoon the Third Corps, commanded by Lieutenant General A. P. Hill, encountered Brigadier General George W. Getty's division (VI Corps) and Major General Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps on the Orange Plank Road. Fighting, which ended for the evening because of darkness, was fierce but inconclusive as both sides attempted to maneuver in the dense woods.

At dawn on May 6, Hancock attacked along the Plank Road, driving Hill's Corps back in confusion, but the First Corps of Lieutenant General James Longstreet arrived in time to prevent the collapse of the Confederate right flank. Longstreet followed up with a surprise flanking attack from an unfinished railroad bed that drove Hancock's men back, but the momentum was lost when Longstreet was wounded by his own men. An evening attack by Brigadier General John B. Gordon against the Union right flank caused consternation at the Union headquarters, but the lines stabilized and fighting ceased. On May 7, Grant disengaged and moved to the southeast, intending to leave the Wilderness to interpose his army between Lee and Richmond, leading to the Battle of Todd's Tavern and Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Wilderness

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brookstonalmanac · 1 year

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Birthdays 5.22

Beer Birthdays

Henry Wagstaff (1836)

Jacob Leinenkugel (1842)

Sam Calagione (1969)

Tim Goeppinger (1975)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Mary Cassatt; artist (1844)

Arthur Conan Doyle; Scottish writer (1859)

M. Scott Peck; psychiatrist, writer (1936)

Sun Ra; jazz keyboardist (1914)

Richard Wagner; composer (1813)

Famous Birthdays

Charles Aznavour; actor (1924)

Richard Benjamin; actor (1938)

Herbert C. Brown; chemist (1912)

Naomi Campbell; model (1970)

Annabel Chong; porn actor (1972)

Michael Constantine; actor (1927)

Gervais-Francois Couperin; composer (1759)

Ann Cusack; actor (1961)

Alison Eastwood; actor (1972)

Willem Einthoven; Dutch physician, inventor (1860)

Thomas Gold; astronomer (1920)

Lucy Gordon; model, actor (1980)

Herge; Belgian cartoonist (1907)

Morrissey; rock singer (1959)

Peter Nero; pianist (1934)

Laurence Olivier; actor (1907)

Johnny Olson; television announcer (1910)

Vance Packard; writer (1914)

Barbara Perkins; actor (1942)

T. Boone Pickens; businessman (1928)

Michael Sarrazin; actor (1940)

Al Simmons; Philadelphia Athletics OF (1902)

Bernie Taupin; lyricist (1950)

Mick Tinglehoff; Minnesota Vikings C (1940)

Jean Tinguely; Swiss artist (1925)

Paul Winfield; actor (1939)

#Birthdays

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claudia1829things · 2 years

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"GODS AND GENERALS" (2003) Review

"GODS AND GENERALS" (2003) Review In 1993, producer Ted Turner and director Ronald Maxwell released "GETTYSBURG", a film adaptation of Michael Shaara's 1974 novel, "The Killer Angels". Shaara's son, Jeffrey, wrote a prequel to his novel called "Gods and Generals" in 1996. Both Turner and Maxwell teamed up again in 2002-2003 to make a film adaptation of the latter novel.

Set between April 1861 and May 1863, "GODS AND GENERALS" related the American Civil War events leading up to the Battle of Gettysburg. Although the movie began with Virginia-born Robert E. Lee's resignation from the U.S. Army, following his home state's secession from the Union; the meat of the film focused on the personal and professional life of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson during those two years. It also touched on how Bowdoin College professor Joshua L. Chamberlain became second-in-command of the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment, his military training and his experiences during the Battle of Fredricksburg. But trust me . . . most of the movie is about Jackson. It covered his departure from the Virginia Military Institute; his experiences with the famous "Stonewall Brigade"; his experiences at the Battle of Bull Run; his relationships with both his wife Mary Anna, his servant Jim Lewis and a five-year-old girl from an old Virginia family; and his experiences at the Battle Chancelorville. "GODS AND GENERALS" had its virtues. One of them turned out to be Michael Z. Hanan's production designs. Hanan and his team did a superb job in re-creating Virginia of the early 1860s. I was especially impressed by their recreation of mid-19th century Fredricksburg during that famous battle in December 1862. I wonder who had the bright idea of using Harper's Ferry, West Virgina for that particular setting. Hanan's work was ably supported by Kees Van Oostrum's photography and Gregory Bolton's art direction. Oostrum's photography and Corky Ehlers' editing was also put to good use during the Fredricksburg battle sequence. And I really enjoyed the costumes designed by Richard La Motte, Maurice Whitlock and Gamila Smith. All three did their homework in re-creating the fashions and uniforms of the period. Unlike "GETTYSBURG", "GODS AND GENERALS" featured major female characters. I suspect this gave the trio the opportunity to indulge their romantic streak with crinolines and hoop skirts galore. There were some admirable performances in "GODS AND GENERALS". Frankie Faison gave a warm performance as Thomas Jackson's freedman cook, Jim Lewis. I was also impressed by Brian Mallon's subtle portrayal of the concerned Major General Winfield Hancock, a role he had first portrayed in the 1993 film. It is a pity that Bruce Boxleitner did not receive more screen time for his role as Lieutenant General James Longstreet. He had taken over the role from Tom Berenger and gave a pretty solid performance. But alas, he did not receive enough time to do anything with the role. Alex Hyde-White gave an interesting portrayal of Major General Ambrose Burnside, whose decisions led the Union Army to disaster at Fredricksburg. Matt Letscher was very memorable as the 20th Maine's founder and first regimental commander, Colonel Adelbert Ames. I could also say the same for Mira Sorvino's portrayal of Frances "Fanny" Chamberlain, Colonel Chamberlain's passionate and pessimistic wife. In fact, I believe she had the good luck to portray the most interesting female character in the movie. So . . . what about the other performances? What about the stars Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels and Robert Duvall? I am not claiming that they gave bad performances. Honestly, they did the best they could. Unfortunately, all three and most of the other cast members had the bad luck to be saddled with very uninteresting characterizations, bad dialogue and self-righteous speeches. In other words, I found them a little BORING!!! I am sorry, but I truly did. First of all, Lang's Thomas Jackson dominated the film just a little too much. Why bother calling this movie "GODS AND GENERALS"? Why not call it "THE LIFE AND TIMES OF STONEWALL JACKSON"? Even worse, Jackson is portrayed in such an unrelenting positive light that by the time the movie came around to his fate after the Battle of Chancelorville, I practically sighed with relief. Jeff Daniels' Joshua Chamberlain did nothing to rouse my interest in his story. In fact, he disappeared for a long period of time before he made his reappearance during the Battle of Fredricksburg sequence. And his appearance in that particular sequence was completely marred by him and other members of the 20th Maine Volunteer Regiment quoting William Shakespeare's "JULIUS CAESAR", while marching toward Marye's Heights. Oh God, I hate that scene so much! As for Robert Duvall's Robert Lee . . . what a waste of his time. Ronald Maxwell's script did not allow the actor any opportunity to explore Lee's character during those two years leading to Gettysburg. I realize this is not Duvall's fault, but I found myself longing for Martin Sheen's portrayal of the Confederate general in "GETTYSBURG". There is so much about this movie that I dislike. One, Maxwell's portrayal of the movie's two main African American characters - Jim Lewis and a Fredricksburg slave named Martha, as portrayed by actress/historian Donzaleigh Abernathy - struck me as completely lightweight. Now, I realized that there were black slaves and paid employees who managed to maintain a friendly or close relationship with their owner or employer. But in "GODS AND GENERALS", Lewis seemed quite friendly with his employer Jackson and Martha seemed obviously close to the family that owned her, the Beales. I could have tolerated if Lewis or Martha had been friendly toward those for whom they worked. But both of them? I get the feeling that Maxwell was determined to avoid any of the racial and class tensions between the slave/owner relationship . . . or in Lewis' case, the employee/employer relationship. How cowardly. In fact, this lack of tension seemed to permeate all of the relationships featured in "GODS AND GENERALS". Aside from one Union commander who berated his men for looting in Fredricksburg, I can barely recall any scenes featuring some form of anger or tension between the major characters. Everyone either seemed to be on his or her best behavior. And could someone please explain why every other sentence that came out of the mouths of most characters seemed to be a damn speech? I realize that Maxwell was trying to re-create the semi-formality of 19th century American dialogue. Well . . . he failed. Miserably. The overindulgence of speeches reminded me of the dialogue from the second NORTH AND SOUTH miniseries, 1986's "NORTH AND SOUTH: BOOK II". But the biggest problem of "GODS AND GENERALS" was that it lacked a central theme. The majority of the movie seemed to be about the Civil War history of Thomas Jackson. But the title and Shaara's novel told a different story. However, I do not believe a detailed adaptation of the novel would have done the trick. Like the movie, it lacked a central theme or topic. Perhaps I am being too arrogant in believing I know what would have made the story worked. After all, it is not my story. Jeff Shaara was entitled to write it the way he wanted. And Ronald Maxwell was entitled to adapt Shaara's story the way he wanted. But I do know that if I had written "GODS AND GENERALS", it would have been about the Battle of Fredricksburg. It turned out to be the only part of the movie that I found interesting.

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Spas run-off changes will make it safer but more challenging | RaceFans Round-up

In the round-up: Kevin Magnussen has a positive impression of the revisions made to Spa-Francorchamps since last year. In brief Magnussen praises Spa-Francorchamps changes Although the circuit revisions to Spa-Francorchamps were not all made with Formula 1 directly in mind, some of the changes have captured the attention and praise of the drivers ahead of their first race at the track since the farcical 2021 Belgian Grand Prix. Haas’s Magnussen, a winner at the track three times in the junior categories, thinks a different challenge will be posed to drivers by the adjustments to the circuit – including newly laid asphalt and new gravel traps – this weekend. “I think it’s good to have gravel instead of Tarmac run-off as I feel it’s safer in some ways and it makes it easier in terms of track limits,” he said. “It makes it simpler and also a little more challenging as pushing the limits will have a bigger risk, which is a good thing I think.” Schumacher’s race-winning Ferrari chassis sells for £5.26 million The Ferrari F300 which Michael Schumacher drove to victory in the Canadian, French, British and Italian grands prix in 1998 was sold by RM Sotheby’s for $6.22 million (£5.26m) at its Monterey auction last weekend. Chassis number 187 is the only one driven by Schumacher that was used for more than three races and won all of them. The new owner of the car not only has a highly elusive vehicle in their possession but will also get an exclusive visit to the ICM Paris Brain Institute and the Richard Mille Swiss watchmaking facilities in Les Breuleux, Switzerland as part of their purchase. Girls on Track Rising Stars finalists named The FIA Women in Motorsport Commission’s Girls on Track Rising Stars programme has completed its summer training camps at Paul Ricard and come to a decision on which eighth drivers will progress to the final at Ferrari’s Maranello headquarters in November. Winfield Racing School ran the training camp, with sessions in Formula 4 cars and karts for the ‘Senior’ and ‘Junior’ drivers respectively. Combined with off-track assessments, the group was whittled down to four finalists in each category. The ‘Senior’ finalists are F4 racers Chloe Grant and Aurelian Nobels, time attack regular Alice Buckley and junior karter Chloe Chong. They are competing for a paid-for seat in the Italian F4 championship next year and the chance to become a Ferrari junior driver. The inaugural winner Maya Weug is currently in her second season racing in F4 with Ferrari’s support. The ‘Junior’ finalists all come from junior karting and are Lisa Billard, Zoe Florescu Potolea, Mathilda Paatz and Sara Mastui. A seat in an international karting championship in 2023, with possible Ferrari funding, is up for grabs for this group. FIA announces new director of communications and public affairs A former political chief of staff will join the FIA this October as its new director of communications and public affairs. Luke Skipper comes into the role having previously been the Scottish National Party’s chief of staff in the UK parliament through its recent national election successes and in the private sector he was director of public affairs for major communications company Weber Shandwick which has motorsport connections via its work with the now defunct A1GP series. His FIA role will include a focus on growing “social media and digital engagement” in motorsport as well as using his political expertise to ‘enhance the FIA’s lobbying capability’. Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Advert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go ad-free Happy birthday! Happy birthday to Andrew White, Hlahalasas, Lord Stig and Mcl88Asap! On this day in motorsport Schumacher led Fisichella home at a soaking Spa today in 1997 via RaceFans - Independent Motorsport Coverage https://www.racefans.net

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FIEND WITHOUT A FACE (1958) – Episode 166 – Decades Of Horror: The Classic Era

“I’m a doctor, colonel, not a detective! There’s nothing like this in the books!” No, this isn’t Star Trek’s Bones talking, but it is from a 50s sci-fi/horror classic. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr along with guest host Dave Dreher – as they try to keep their brains from being sucked out by the Fiend Without A Face (1958).

Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 166 – Fiend Without A Face (1958)

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ANNOUNCEMENT Decades of Horror The Classic Era is partnering with THE CLASSIC SCI-FI MOVIE CHANNEL, THE CLASSIC HORROR MOVIE CHANNEL, and WICKED HORROR TV CHANNEL Which all now include video episodes of The Classic Era! Available on Roku, AppleTV, Amazon FireTV, AndroidTV, Online Website. Across All OTT platforms, as well as mobile, tablet, and desktop. https://classicscifichannel.com/; https://classichorrorchannel.com/; https://wickedhorrortv.com/

A scientist’s thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters – complete with spinal cord tails – terrorize an American military base.

Director: Arthur Crabtree

Writers: Herbert J. Leder (screenplay); Amelia Reynolds Long (original story: “The Thought Monster;” Weird Tales, March 1930)

Executive Producers: Richard Gordon, Charles F. Vetter

Special Effects by:

Peter Neilson (special effects)

Flo Nordhoff (special effects: Ruppel & Nordhoff) (uncredited)

Karl-Ludwig Ruppel (special effects: Ruppel & Nordhoff) (uncredited)

Selected Cast:

Marshall Thompson as Major Cummings

Terry Kilburn as Capt. Chester (as Terence Kilburn)

Michael Balfour as Serg. Kasper

Gil Winfield as Dr. Warren

Shane Cordell as Nurse

Stanley Maxted as Col. Butler

James Dyrenforth as Mayor

Kim Parker as Barbara Griselle

E. Kerrigan Prescott as Atomic Engineer (as Kerrigan Prescott)

Kynaston Reeves as Prof. Walgate

Peter Madden as Dr. Bradley

Meadows White as Ben Adams (as R. Meadows White)

Lala Lloyd as Amelia Adams

Robert MacKenzie as Const. Gibbons

Launce Maraschal as Melville

The Grue Crew welcome Dave Dreher as guest-host to review the sci-fi/horror 50’s monster flick, Fiend Without a Face (1958). The tagline promises “New Horrors! Mad Science Spawns Evil Fiends!” and the stop-motion animation of the fiends – a brain with antennae and a spine – delivers the goods. The script is based on Amelia Reynolds Long’s 1930s short story, “The Thought Monster,” originally published in Weird Tales magazine. A modern remake has been promised in recent times but remains as invisible as the fiends in the first two-thirds of this British B-movie classic.

At the time of this writing, Fiend Without a Face is available for streaming from the Criterion Channel, AMC+, and PPV on Amazon and AppleTV. It is also available on physical media as a DVD from the Criterion Collection.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror: The Classic Era records a new episode every two weeks. Up next in their very flexible schedule, as chosen by Jeff, is The Frozen Dead (1966), written and directed by Herbert J. Leder and starring Dana Andrews and iced Nazis. Yes, it’s back-to-back Leder!

Please let them know how they’re doing! They want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans: leave them a message or leave a comment on the Gruesome Magazine YouTube channel, the site, or email the Decades of Horror: The Classic Era podcast hosts at [email protected]

To each of you from each of them, “Thank you so much for watching and listening!”

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