#simon stephenson

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OSCARS SCANDAL:

Screenwriter Simon Stephenson (‘Luca,’ ‘Paddington 2’) has alleged that David Hemingson's script for Alexander Payne's ‘THE HOLDOVERS’ plagiarizes “line-by-line” from Stephenson's own script, ‘Frisco.’

#the holdover #alexander payne #frisco #david hemingson #Simon stephenson

[saltwaterandstars]

JOMP BPC - 10th March - Character Growth

The protagonist of this lovely novel is Jared, a bot who has been programmed to be a highly efficient dentist. He inexplicably starts to experience emotions and goes on a literal and figurative journey of discovery. I'm surprised this book doesn't get more attention on tumblr, given how much we (rightly!) love Murderbot.

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #books #reading #set my heart to five #simon stephenson

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#set my heart to 5 #Simon Stephenson #sleight of hand #bamboozlement #aziraphale #magic #books #books and reading

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Oh... uhhhhh....

#the holdovers #alexander payne #oscars 2024 #original screenplay #pop culture #simon stephenson

[alexsfictionaddiction]

Review: Sometimes People Die by Simon Stephenson

With a title like this, I think most people would be intrigued. I’ll admit that I didn’t know a lot about the book before going in but I was very much along for the ride.

At the turn of the millennium, a disgraced young doctor takes the only job that will have him, as a senior house officer in a godforsaken East London hospital. Fresh from suspension after being caught stealing opioids, our protagonist realises that a lot of the patients are dying. Too many. Can he get to the bottom of the mystery and can he be believed?

I don’t think I’ve ever read a book centred on medical murders before. The bleakness of the hospital was captured so well in this book and it caused me to see them in a new light. They are places of both great joy and great tragedy but throughout my time with this book, I could only see them as incredibly creepy, hopeless places. I finished it convinced that a lot goes on in hospitals that no one ever discovers, making them very sinister places indeed.

St Luke’s seems to be a place that takes on doctors that struggle to get jobs elsewhere. The narrator tells us that it’s very much a place for medical professionals with blots on their records, which is why he apparently fits right in. The only exception seems to be the perfect Amelia and I was confused as to why she was there. As the story progressed, that became clearer and I loved trying to figure out that mystery.

Our narrator has a slight vibe of ‘the hunted’ about him. Although I never doubted that he was innocent, the investigators didn’t see it that way and he was a suspect for a good chunk of the book. I don’t really know what it was about him that made me confident of his innocence but I trusted his judgement and wanted him to find out what had happened. I was rooting for him but I can’t pinpoint the reason!

George was a character who I absolutely adored. I’d describe him as a puppy personified. My mood instantly lifted when he appeared and I was fearful that something would happen to him. I loved that our narrator seemed to take to him too, despite them seeming to be unlikely friends which was really lovely to watch.

I really loved the author’s snarky brand of wit and I laughed out loud several times. The humour, like the narrative, is dark but it fits the whole atmosphere of the book so well. Without these little sparks of comedy, it would have a very dense, depressing abyss to read my way out of.

I also really loved the chapters that visited true cases of medical murder. I think Harold Shipman was the only one I’d heard of before but they were all fascinating. Murders by caring professionals tend to have an extra chill factor to them and that’s definitely the case of several of the killers mentioned in this book. These stories within stories weren’t necessary to the book but I really appreciated them and it transformed the book into an already unique mystery into a thorough exploration of medical murder.

Sometimes People Die is a thriller that you won’t forget in a hurry. The twists were saved until the end and I really didn’t see either of the big ones coming. It delves into a topic that is rarely explored in fiction but has so much scope for pitch-black crime stories by writers who are well-versed in the medical world.

#sometimes people die #simon stephenson #thriller #mystery #book review #review #books #bookworm

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Wood Engraving Wednesday

SIMON BRETT

This week we bring you three wood engravings with details by the incomparable British wood engraver Simon Brett (b. 1943), illustrating poems by English writer Neville Braybrooke (1923-2001) published as Four Poems for Christmas in 1986 by Brett's own Paulinus Press in Marlborough, Wiltshire, in an edition of 250 copies signed by the poet and engraver. Our copy, another gift from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick, is one of 50 copies that includes a suite of signed engraving proofs.

In the book itself, two wood engravings are printed opposite the respective poems they illustrate and these, together with an additional one, are again printed across the center spread (shown here). Primarily a painter, Brett learned wood engraving from the noted English artist Clifford Webb (1894-1972) (view our posts on the engravings of Clifford Webb) in the early 1960s but did not turn to engraving as his primary medium until the early 1970s. Today Simon Brett is considered one of Britain's premier wood engravers.

This edition of Four Poems for Christmas was printed for the Paulinus Press by Jonathan Stephenson of the The Rocket Press on Zerkall mould-made paper using Baskerville type.

View other posts on wood engravings by Simon Brett.

View other books from the collection of Dennis Bayuzick.

View more posts with wood engravings!

#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #Simon Brett #Neville Braybrooke #Four Poems for Christmas #Paulinus Press #Jonathan Stephenson #The Rocket Press #fine press books #Dennis Bayuzick

[larkral]

Happy Wednesday, friends! Thanks for the tags @blackberrysummerblog @hushed-chorus and @wellbelesbian!

I've been continuing to spend most of my writing time on ADA and editing/contemplating/touching up thereof. Which is not to say that I've been completely ignoring Simon's Mums AU. I am drilling deeper and deeper into that world, and it's a fascinating place to be. Enjoy some more of one of the mums' first glimpses into the WOM:

The magical government of the UK is called The Coven. (Truly, their naming choices are doing half the work of keeping their existence a secret. Anyone I told would laugh me out of town.) And conducts its business out of a comfortable suburban estate.  And it's not even a clever disguise for the home of the houses of parliament—the housekeeper, tells us that the lady of the house, Mrs. Wellbelove, and her daughter Agatha are in the solarium and will be happy to have Simon join them.  Agatha Wellbelove seems identical to every well turned out girl in Simon's class until the moment she sees him and runs over to pull him into whatever youthful misadventure she's pretending amongst the nasturtiums. At which point Nat lets out a scarcely-contained sob and I feel my heart stutter-step out of its typical tense dance.  Not since infancy has anyone ever enthusiastically approached Simon. Children shy away from him on the playground, classmates shove at him in line. Teachers pass him over for instruction, and store clerks pretend not to see him over their counters. Even Simon, usually stoic in new situations, is taken aback by Agatha's enthusiasm. He glances back at Nat, who props an encouraging smile below her teary eyes and waves him onward. 

I also wrote a very self indulgent director's commentary on the first chapter of Good at Something yesterday, so if you're of age, go ahead and read all my thoughts on this piece of smut I wrote. (And if you liked this -- more to come. I liked writing a loose meta on this chapter and will do at least one more, if not one for every chapter. I've been meaning to write a Good at Something meta for ages.)

Tags! My friends, you are nearly halfway through the week! If you have things to share, throw 'em my way. And if not, that's chill, you're still awesome. @stitchyqueer @thewholelemon @confused-bi-queer @raenestee @facewithoutheart @cutestkilla @sillyunicorn @you-remind-me-of-the-babe @basiltonbutliketheherb @ileadacharmedlife @asocialpessimist @bookish-bogwitch @aristocratic-otter @captain-aralias @petedavidsonscock @takitalks @artsyunderstudy @yeonjunenby @carryonvisinata @takenabackbytuesdays @martsonmars @nausikaaa @nightimedreamersghost @chen-chen-chen-again-chen @ionlydrinkhotwater @aroace-genderfluid-sheep​ @shrekgogurt @forabeatofadrum  @palimpsessed @fatalfangirl​ @valeffelees @imagineacoolusername @orange-peony @j-nipper-95 @whogaveyoupermission

#wip wednesday #simon has two mums au #simon snow #carry on #agatha wellbelove #natalie shaw and zadie stephenson (those are the mums)

[moviesandmania]

DOCTOR JEKYLL (2022) Preview of new movie with Eddie Izzard as Nina Jekyll

DOCTOR JEKYLL (2022) Preview of new movie with Eddie Izzard as Nina Jekyll

Doctor Jekyll is a 2022 British horror film and a modern re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic 1886 novella ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. This new adaptation focuses on a reclusive Nina Jekyll (Eddie Izzard) finding friendship with her newly hired help, Rob (Scott Chambers), who must work together to prevent Hyde from destroying her life. Directed and co-produced by Joe…

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#2022 #Doctor Jekyll #Eddie Izzard #horror #Joe Stephenson #Lindsay Duncan #movie film #Scott Chambers #Simon Callow

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Doctor Jekyll

Doctor Jekyll (2023) #JoeStephenson #EddieIzzard #ScottChambers #LindsayDuncan #SimonCallow #JonathanHyde Mehr auf:

Jahr: 2023 (Oktober) Genre: Drama / Horror / Mystery Regie: Joe Stephenson Hauptrollen: Eddie Izzard, Scott Chambers, Lindsay Duncan, Simon Callow, Jonathan Hyde, Morgan Watkins, Robyn Cara … Filmbeschreibung: Eine moderne Neuinterpretation des berüchtigten Dr. Jekyll aus Robert Louis Stevensons 1886 erschienener Novelle Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde…

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#Eddie Izzard #Joe Stephenson #Lindsay Duncan #Scott Chambers #Simon Callow

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DUTCH #2

Written by Joe Casey Drawn by Simon Gane Published by Image Comics PREVIOUSLY: DUTCH #1 I’m just going to get right to it. This issue is just more of the same as the first two issues (I’m including Dutch #0). Dutch fighting a bunch of cyborgs while his internal monologue is being shown to us in captions as he keeps talking about getting old and thinking his days of fighting were behind…

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#0 #1 #2 #Chap Yaep #Dutch #Dutch 2 #Eric Stephenson #image comics #Simon Gane

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This is absolutely insane

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Seeing in Tongues, Edited and Designed by James Knight, Steel Incisors, 2023 (book here) (pdf here)

An anthology of contemporary visual poetry, including work by Muhammed Yusuf Aktekin, Brian Baker, Gary Barwin, Jay Besemer, Richard Biddle, C D Boyland, ReVerse Butcher, Kenneth M Cale, Susie Campbell, Richard Carter, Burak Ş Çelik, Theodoros Chiotis, George Clutterbuck, Madelaine Culver, Amanda Earl, Alexis Fedorjaczenko, Emma Filtness, S J Fowler, Sylee Gore, Arden Hunter, Victoria Kaye, James Kearns, Robert Frede Kenter, Laura Kerr, Michelle Moloney King, James Knight, Ayşe Kongur, Emma Levin, Emma Mitchell, Bob Modem, Sophia Mold, Morphic Rooms, Mette Norrie, Michael L Orr, Michelle Penn, Konstantinos Papacharalampos, Astra Papachristodoulou, Dan Power, Dave Read, Imogen Reid, Rasiqra Revulva, Hakan Şarkdemir, J P Seabright, Rachel Smith, Chris Stephenson, Samuel Strathman, Nic Stringer, Stephen Sunderland, Michael Sutton, Simon Tyrrell, Hayriye Ünal, Nico Vassilakis, Maggs Vibo, Martin Wakefield & Bob Modem, Katy Wimhurst, Paul Woodford, Mark Wynne and Jill Zheng

#graphic design #art #visual poetry #book #cover #book cover #james knight #steel incisors #2020s

[ukrfeminism]

Domestic abuse charities and centres dealing with sexual violence say council budget cuts will have a devastating impact on support for women, warning that entire services will have to close as local authorities strip back to basics.

Charities said that most aspects of the services were non-statutory, meaning councils do not have a legal obligation to keep funding them and are likely to cut them as they try to balance their budgets amid a nationwide funding crisis.

“Violence against women services are really among those most at risk,” said Mary-Ann Stephenson of the Women’s Budget Group. “As local authorities are cutting to the bone, there is basically nothing left to cut, so everything that is non-statutory is going.”

Women’s Aid, a federation of about 180 domestic abuse services across England, said services in areas where local authorities have issued a section 114 notice, effectively declaring bankruptcy, were bracing for the worst.

“We’re hearing from members in those areas that entire services will have to close and many of staff members will have to be made redundant,” said Lucy Hadley, the head of policy at Women’s Aid.

“These things will be the first to go. Coming on top of a decade of funding crisis, many of our members are really concerned this will just have a devastating impact on continuing their services.”

Hadley said the cuts were happening at time when domestic abuse and coercive control was being aggravated by the cost of living crisis. A Women’s Aid survey found that three-quarters of women in a relationship with their abuser, or financially linked to them, were unable to leave because of the rising cost of living.

Some aspects of domestic abuse services, such as refuge and accommodation are statutory, but Hadley said members had raised concerns that funding for them was being diverted elsewhere as a result of councils’ desperate financial situations.

“Sadly, this is not an issue decision-makers prioritise because it’s not something that affects everyone in their community. It’s not the bin services, for example, that they get lots of letters about,” Hadley said. “We absolutely feel this is a priority for government to fund and to ensure that councils are meeting their duties on.”

Andrea Simon, director of the End Violence Against Women (EVAW) coalition, said many services have already had to close their waiting lists because of rising demand and costs.

“Local authority budget cuts not only impact the funding they can provide for vital women’s services, but leaves these services to pick up the pieces when local authorities and other agencies turn them away,” she said.

In Coventry, where the city council has said it is making some “very difficult choices” to balance its books, the Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre (Crasac) is losing £195,000 of council funding and has closed its waiting list as a result.

Its CEO, Natalie Thompson, said she was “gutted” by the council’s decision.

“We know demand is growing year on year, but we’re really struggling to keep up the pace because with inflation, especially in the last few years, everything’s getting more expensive,” she said.

“So we’ve just had to close the waiting list because the knock on effect of this [funding cut], as well as austerity. It’s not safe for clients or our staff any more.”

The council said in a statement that it was not cutting the service, but had decided not to renew its contract with Crasac because it was “not addressing increasing waiting lists”.

“We will work with various partners to address the prevention of sexual assault and rape, and assist partners in the health and care system to commission improved services for this important population,” it said.

Stephenson said pressure was mounting on councils as they move to set their budgets for the next financial year, and that there needed to be increased awareness of how important the services were.

“There are women whose lives are at risk if they can’t safely leave violent partners who need domestic violence services, and there are women who are suffering severe trauma as a result of sexual violence,” she said. “These services should be securely funded and somehow they’re treated as nice to have that you can cut.”

#articles #mvawg #law #Finance

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This day in history

THIS IS THE LAST DAY FOR MY KICKSTARTER for the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation," a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and make a new, good internet to succeed the old, good internet. It's a DRM-free book, which means Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:

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#20yrsago Out of Blue Six: a lost gem https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/out-of-blue-six-a-lost-gem/

#20yrsago Paramilitary wing of the usability movement https://web.archive.org/web/20030823183246/http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2003/08/19#1061283840

#20yrsago Anal Fissures in a nutshell http://www.ambiguous.org/quinn/medical/fissure.html

#20yrsago Beyond Fear: Required reading for Ashcroft’s America https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/beyond-fear-required-reading-for-ashcrofts-america/

#15yrsago UK gov’t loses 4 million citizens’ personal info https://cdn.computerworld.co.nz/article/494185/data_four_million_lost_one_year_uk/

#15yrsago Slim Gaillard’s Vout dictionary: jazz hipster argot from the 30s https://web.archive.org/web/20080913131050/http://www.pocreations.com/vout.html

#15yrsago Are images of the early Mickey Mouse still copyrighted? https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-22-fi-mickey22-story.html

#10yrsago EFF wins big: secret FISA court opinion will be released https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/eff-victory-results-expected-release-secret-court-opinion-finding-nsa-surveillance

#10yrsago UK Serious Crime Agency proposes ban on small cellphones that don’t look like cellphones https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23782136

#10yrsago Swedish seventies neoretrofuturism: the paintings of Simon Stålenhag http://www.simonstalenhag.se/index.html

#10yrsago How British spies exorcise a leak-haunted laptop https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-files-drives-destroyed-london

#10yrsago David Miranda’s lawyers nastygram the UK government https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/aug/20/david-miranda-letter-home-office

#10yrsago EFF and Public Resource fight back against copyrighted, paywalled laws https://www.eff.org/press/releases/publicresourceorg-fights-back-against-copyright-lawsuit

#10yrsago Monster and Chips: fun, gross-out chapter books https://memex.craphound.com/2013/08/21/monster-and-chips-fun-gross-out-chapter-books/

#5yrsago European lawmaker writes post warning about dangers of automatic copyright filters, which is taken down by an automatic copyright filter https://www.techdirt.com/2018/08/21/automated-filter-removed-parliament-members-article-warning-about-censorship-automated-filters/

#5yrsago The peculiar hazards of megaprojects https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2424835

#5yrsago The Clown Egg Register: photos of the painstakingly painted eggs that English clowns stake their faces on https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/8/20/17719884/clown-egg-register-luke-stephenson-helen-champion

#5yrsago How much would universal health care really cost? https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2018/08/calculate-costs-medicareforall-properly.html

#5yrsago 22 states jointly petition the Federal Circuit appeals court to reinstate Net Neutrality https://web.archive.org/web/20181109180138/https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/ag-schneiderman-files-suit-stop-illegal-rollback-net-neutrality

#5yrsago Amazon’s cloud business leads American companies in shifting its electric cost to taxpayers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-20/amazon-isn-t-paying-its-electric-bills-you-might-be

#5yrsago Touring the haunting ruins of abandoned Second Life university campuses https://splinternews.com/we-took-a-tour-of-the-abandoned-college-campuses-of-sec-1793849944

#5yrsago Elizabeth Warren’s anti-corruption bill bans foreign lobbyists, subjects domestic lobbyists to strong oversight https://theintercept.com/2018/08/21/elizabeth-warren-unveils-radical-anti-corruption-platform/

#5yrsago Verizon to fire department: you’re exceeding your bandwidth while you fight wildfires, so we’re throttling you https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttled-fire-departments-unlimited-data-during-calif-wildfire/

#1yrago Workplace surveillance is coming for you: Empricism-washing as a form of wage-theft https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust

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After being forced to push the Season 3 premiere date for its hit comedy Ghosts to February 15, 2024 amidst this summer’s dual strikes, CBS is readying for its return to production, star Danielle Pinnock has revealed.

“We start shooting on Saturday. I fly down to Montreal. We’re going back, baby!” exclaimed Pinnock tonight, in conversation with Deadline at the red carpet premiere for her new Amazon MGM holiday film, Candy Cane Lane. “We did a table read — those scripts are good!”

Pinnock expects the show to shoot “only 10 episodes this season,” rather than the 18+ that have been put out in its first two go-rounds, because of both strike-forced delays and the fact that her co-star Sheila Carrasco is expecting her first child. Still, she teased, “those episodes are fierce and the audiences should prepare themselves.”

Developed for CBS by Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, who serve as showrunners, Ghosts adapts the popular 2019 British comedy series of the same name from BBC Studios. The show follows the story of Samantha (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar), a struggling young couple whose dreams come true when they inherit a beautiful country house, only to find it’s both falling apart and inhabited by many of the deceased previous residents.

In discussing the show’s forthcoming season, Pinnock revealed that fans can expect to see more of her character, the Prohibition-era lounge singer ghost Alberta, as well as Hetty Woodstone (Rebecca Wisocky), one of the original residents of the home Samantha and Jay inhabit. “This season,” she said, “Alberta’s going to be in her shenanigans.”

Ranking as both the #1 comedy series on Paramount+ and CBS’ most-streamed program, per Nielsen and CBS, Ghosts also stars Brandon Scott Jones, Richie Moriarty, Asher Grodman, Román Zaragoza, and Devan Chandler Long. CBS Studios produces in association with Lionsgate Television and BBC Studios’ Los Angeles production arm. In addition to Port and Wiseman, EPs include Mathew Baynton, Jim Howick, Simon Farnaby, Laurence Rickard, Ben Willbond and Martha Howe-Douglas; Alison Carpenter, Debra Hayward and Alison Owen (Monumental Television); and Angie Stephenson (BBC Studios).

#ghosts #ghosts cbs

[mach1art]

hi.

my name is candy aka liam. he/him. 29.

scorpio. infp-t. nd. artist. writer. roleplayer. thomas hagan's finest lawyer.

welcome to my blog. 🤡🔥 pls read before you follow me. thanks.

❗ byf ❗

🚫 no minors, no antis, no hate period or i'll block you if i catch any drama or harassment. i am anti-anti and don't believe in censorship when it comes to fiction.

this is a safe space for multishippers and proshippers. block me if you don't like it idc.

main fandoms:

stranger things

silent hill (mainly the room)

dead by daylight

spree

the quarry

resident evil

misc. horror survival ps2 titles

interests:

🎶music:

machine girl

alex g

the garden

childish gambino

tyler the creator

steve lacey

neon indian

tame impala

toro y moi

capsule

ships i adore: stommy, tomgrove, keg boys, harringrove, teddie, stonathan, munver, harringsmith, henry townshend x walter sullivan, cleve, nick furcillo x jacob custos

characters i love: tommy hagan, billy hargrove, steve harrington, carol perkins, heather holloway, jason carver, kurt kunkle, walter sullivan, henry townshend, heather mason, steve burnside, piers nivans, kevin ryman, leon s. kennedy, quentin smith, nick furcillo, negan smith, daryl dixon, simon (dinner in america), william birkin

cool real people: matt stephenson, fletcher shears, chester rushing, donald glover, joe keery, dacre montgomery, norman reedus, kyle gallner, river phoenix, chaz bear, lil nas x, tyler the creator, steve lacey

video games:

(i will add to this if i think of it or get into anything new.)

other handles:

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discord: dm me (moots only)

#about candy