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Wouldn't It Be Nice to have one more #1?
2024.05.27 15:48 Gophurkey Wouldn't It Be Nice to have one more #1?
Surf City, I Get Around, Help Me Rhonda, Good Vibrations - all number 1 hits, all great for different reasons. But Brian Wilson famously received far less commercial success for Pet Sounds and the brilliajt songwriting that it contained than the legacy would indicate. So, wouldn't it be nice if before Brian is gone, we could make a push to get another single, from Pet Sounds, to the top of the charts?
We've seen movements like this be successful, particularly if a song is featured on a major holiday's top Spotify playlist (Brenda Lee last Christmas comes to mind). Given their history as "America's band" and connection to the 4th of July, could we get Wouldn't It Be Nice to number 1 that first week of July?
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2024.05.15 02:29 como365 City recognizes historic properties related to agriculture, Black history
| Black history and agriculture were primary points of emphasis as the city’s Historic Preservation Commission honored 10 locations as Most Notable Properties last week. Every year, the commission recognizes properties over 50 years old that play a part in the history of architectural influences that help identify Columbia. This year saw nearly double the usual number of awardees. “It’s a way of honoring homeowners and property owners who preserve local history,” commission chair Stephen Bybee said. “Either who preserve it by maintaining a property or who preserve it by historically rehabilitating a property.” Since 1998 when the designation was first developed, 205 Columbia properties have been recognized by the commission. That number includes civic and educational structures, homes and commercial spaces. Each undergoes a process of research and photography and is added to a digital map and archive maintained by the city. It is a purely honorary award, which imposes no impediments on what owners can do with their property. The 2024 awardees include homes, family farms, a park, a diner and a college library. One, the Alspaugh Farm, is one of Columbia’s newest parks and contains a cemetery believed to include the unmarked graves of enslaved people. Three of the properties have connections to Boone County’s coal industry. Also among the properties selected are the home of Henry Kirklin, a prize-winning gardener and horticulturist, the Hugh Stephens Resource Library at Stephen’s College and Broadway Diner, one of the last remaining transportable diners in Missouri made by the Valentine Manufacturing Company. Additionally, the commission recognized the home of Lewis Monroe Noble, the businessman who assembled Columbia’s first Black subdivision. Noble moved to Columbia with his wife, Mary Jennings Noble, in the early 1930s, where he owned and operated a coal business and later a merchandise exchange. They created Noble Court, Columbia’s first Black subdivision, to create high-quality housing specifically for Black families. The Nobles’ residence was the first home built in the subdivision, where they lived for 50 years. Lewis Monroe Noble worked with attorneys to advocate for prospective homebuyers who were denied financing because of their race. Today, Brenda Hartley, a retired guidance counselor from Columbia Public Schools, owns and lives in the home and is the co-chair of the Noble Court Neighborhood Watch Group, which Hartley says aims to preserve the neighborhood and keep its history alive. {/span} “We may be small, but we’re mighty,” Hartley said in a speech. “I just want to recognize the members here tonight.” In addition to the members of the neighborhood watch group, Noble’s grandchildren attended the ceremony, as did representatives from the Columbia NAACP, the president of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. Columbia alumnae chapter, Hartley’s two children and several local clergy. One theme of the presentation was the remembrance of Henry Kirklin, who is thought to have been the first Black person to teach classes at MU. His home is one of the awardees and is currently on the market. Members of several local groups are fundraising with the aim of buying and preserving the property. Beyond Kirklin’s home itself, two of the other properties recognized also had connections to him. One was the residence of John Charles Whitten, an MU professor of horticulture who worked with Kirklin, and the other a farmstead on Rustic Road once owned by contemporaries of Kirklin. The property on Rustic Road housed one of Boone County’s few Black-owned farms when the house was built in the 1920s. It was built for Lethean (L.W.) and Mattie DeCrouch, who moved from Chicago and ran a dairy and crop farm on the property from the 1910s until 1951. DeCrouch also owned a property in the historic Sharp End business district, which was torn down in the 1950s and 60s during urban renewal. Mattie DeCrouch grew up in a home adjacent to Kirklin’s farm. After her death in 1956, L.W. DeCrouch remarried Elizabeth Ryan in 1957. He later passed away in a chair in the living room, according to current homeowner Susan Neenan. “I think his spirit is still there — and Mattie and Elizabeth too, they’re protecting us,” Neenan said. “We take care of the home, the home takes care of us.” Neenan has lived in DeCrouch’s home with her husband, Peter Neenan, for 33 years. In the coming weeks, the Historic Preservation Commission will be adding information about the new properties to its digital map, which allows users to find information about historic locations across Columbia. Information about the 2024 properties is also available on the city’s website, como.gov/boards/historic-preservation-commission/most-notable-properties-program/. submitted by como365 to columbiamo [link] [comments] |
2024.05.08 10:53 nuraman00 The Beverly Hills 90210 Show Podcast: Episode 125: The Alpha House.
Brooke Theiss (Leslie Sumner) is a guest host.
- Larry Mollin and his sister had a family dinner together for Rosh Hashanah. They cooked together.
- They wanted to create a sorority president who would welcome others. Someone who would project a good image of the sorority, and make it appealing to join there.
- Larry Mollin got to name the KEG House in “The Little Fish”. Writer Chip Johannsen got to name the “Alpha House” in “Greek To Me”.
- Pete Ferriero and his sister used to watch “Just the 10 of us”. Theiss was on that show.
- She was also on “A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master”. She still does horror conventions because of it.
- Theiss guest starred on Growing Pains.
- There was also a search for twins on Growing Pains. They ended up using the Creel sisters, who are triplets. Monica Creel would also end up on Beverly Hills, 90210 on “The Twins, The Trustee, And The Very Big Trip”, playing Claire and Rory.
- Dianne Young called Theiss for the Beverly Hills, 90210 audition.
- Theiss was excited when they wanted to bring her back for the Rose Bowl plot.
- She was pregnant. They wanted to shoot on her due date. She said she’d be available.
- Her baby ended up coming 2 weeks early, so it worked out. Her 2 week old baby was with her for the wardrobe fitting.
- Mollin: Theiss represented the “sorority girl”, someone who would be the welcoming figure.
- When Rosin went to UC Berkeley, they thought the fraternity system was going out of business, at that time.
- Rosin’s nephews are currently active with their fraternities at UCLA and UC Irvine.
- Rosin notices how only fraternities get kicked out of USC, not sororities.
- During the scene when Sumner introduces herself to Kelly, Brenda, Andrea, and Donna, Rosin notices how Brenda’s arms are folded. He says Brenda really didn’t want to be there. He says perhaps having just come back from the University Of Minnesota, she just wasn’t in the right place to rush for one.
- Both of Theiss’ parents went to UCLA, and a fraternity and sorority.
- Theiss’ future daughter in law went to UC Berkeley. Her son went to UC Santa Cruz. She says those campuses don’t have that greek life.
- Theiss said the female cast members were cliquey, but the boys weren’t.
- Luke Perry went up to her and asked her if she remembered both of them trying out for the same soap opera. She felt so welcomed by the guys. Not so much from the girls.
- Theiss felt that the female actors were guarded.
- She felt a sense of turmoil from them. And felt they were stressed.
- Rosin says that the actors were also going through a change. Instead of filming in Torrance, where the high school was, they were filming in Eagle Rock. So some of their security blanket had been taken away.
- Rosin says there wasn’t an opportunity for Sumner to come back in season 5, because in season 5, they didn’t focus on Greek life so much. They focused on Brandon’s political campaign.
- Sumner didn’t realize there was a switch in KEG presidents.
- Larry Mollin says that the 2nd president didn’t want to play a gay character.
- Theiss found out in 2020 that she’s Jewish. She took a DNA test. She’s a German Jew. Her great great grandfather was Jewish. It’s ironic that she played a character that was trying to hide being Jewish, given the realization she found out a few years ago that she was Jewish too.
- Her future daughter in law is Jewish.
- Mollin says that as a guest star, Theiss had to serve the show. She played a character that wasn’t put in the best light.
- Rosin says that Gabrielle Carteris’ least favorite moment was off screen, when the network executives asked Carteris not to wear the Star Of David. She had previously worn it in a high school episode. The network executives asked the producers to ask Carteris to take it off.
- So, this plot was directed right back at the network, and the producers that went along with it.
- Rosin says the network was thinking “you outfoxed us again!” by having this plot.
- Rosin likes how there’s a happy ending, with Sumner revealing she’s the one that’s guilty about being Jewish, and apologizing to Andrea.
- Rosin was asked to do a plot during the high school years, about a teenage escort. He did not want to do that for this show.
- Larry Mollin’s high school girlfriend’s last name was Schulman, which was Leslie’s real last name.
- Theiss had a great time playing with Ian Ziering in the pool, at the frat pool party.
- She was engaged at that time.
- Paul Johannsen (John Sears) and her got along well.
- Johannsen had a convertible. He’d put his great dane in the back.
- She remained friends with him for years afterwards.
- The scene where John Sears behaves weird at Thanksgiving, is discussed.
- There’s a line that reveals that the KEG president has changed. They couldn’t get Patrick Fabian, who played the first one, back.
- Theiss worked with Brandon Douglas, who played the 2nd KEG president, on “Just The 10 Of Us”.
- Rosin says A.J. Langer, who played Denise from the Downey House, was available. Langer was supposed to be on “My So Called Life”, but that show was having problems with authority. That show called themselves “The non 90210”, which pissed Rosin and Mollin. So they were glad to take Langer from that show.
- Langer has now married royalty.
- She does get some fans from Beverly Hills, 90210, and some from Nightmare On Elm Street, and Just The 10 Of Us.
- She does conventions too.
- Theiss likes how this show deals with topics that were relevant, like in “Take Back The Night” or being gay in “Blind Spot”.
- Theiss was in the pilot of “American Dreams”.
- She once ran into Virgina Madsen, from “American Dreams”. Madsen told Theiss that she got fired from that show.
- Rosin says sometimes executive producers try to save themselves when told there’s a problem with a show. They’ll say they’ll change some of the cast, just to give an indication that they’re doing something different, to try and appease the higher ups.
- Mollin once had a friend that almost made it to a pilot. The casting director said to Mollin that the friend was “yesterday’s wardrobe”.
- Dylan kisses Kelly when she’s wearing cold cream and has a shower cap on.
- Rosin says now, at Wisconsin, you don’t rush in the first semester. You rush in the 2nd, so they let you get used to college first.
- Perry was Theiss’ favorite actor on the set.
- Mollin says Luke Perry would welcome stars by saying “Forget the bitches, I’m here”. Or “how are the bitches treating you?”
- Theiss says he did that, but also did not ostracize himself from the female cast members.
- Theiss says season 6 was easier. She felt part of the extended cast then. However, the other cast members said they dressed her like a 40 year old woman.
- Theiss says she wished she would have had a kiss scene with Luke Perry.
- Theiss’ mom would take her to the Rose Bowl every year. They would start at 6am.
- Theiss auditioned for Hasbro’s Maxie doll, for commercials. 6 months later they asked her for a call back. It ended up just being her in the call back. She had a 5 year contract with Hasbro. She would talk to girls as Maxie. They would put $10,000 wigs on her head.
- She got a lot of PR training on how to circle back to what she wanted to talk to, no matter what an interviewer asked her.
- Her 5 year contract lasted 2 years. Maxie could not compete with Barbie.
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2024.04.11 00:49 Both-Fun-1940 [TOMT] [SONG] [OLD COMMERCIAL]
I’ve made a Reddit account just to ask this question. I was told to try here. I’m looking for a song from an old commercial. Obviously my details are vague or I wouldn’t be here.
I’ll start with lyrics I think I vaguely remember.
One lyric I know for sure is “one foot in the grave” My brains tells me that before that it’s something like my head in the clouds. And following the grave lyric I wanna say it says “the other sinking down”. There may have been a line about a wallet. As for the type of commercial I keep thinking it’s from an insurance commercial. I thought maybe esurance, but all I can find is commercials with their cartoon mascots. I’m 70% sure whenever those commercials aired, the one I’m thinking of did as well. So it’s around that general time frame. I remember there was a live action template of the male singer, possibly even the band over a cartoonish setting. I believe they started on a cloud.
As far as instruments go I only remember a guitar. And a BIG mayyybe a harmonica. It was short and catchy. I believe the song was made for the commercial perhaps. I don’t remember the band being anyone huge. I think a lot of older commercials used a lot of unknown music talent back then. I’m gonna aim for somewhere between 2010 and 2013. Lyrics sites have been no use as I don’t think the song or band made it any further than this commercial.
I’ve tried this hunt one and off for about five years. I don’t feel like I’ve gotten any closer. I even fried my brain watching hour long commercial compilations on YouTube of commercials from around the time. I had the song on my first iPod many years ago and it’s been lost to time. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks !
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2024.04.02 04:18 primal_slayer Flashback article: 1992 Scenes From the Cast Struggle in Beverly Hills 90210
| Luke Keep your feet on the ground, even though friends flatter you,” reads the fortune that slips from Luke Perry‘s cookie, sage advice for a man whose face adorns the country’s bestselling heart-shaped pillow and whose mobbed personal appearances make Ayatollah Khomeini’s funeral look like a church social. “I had a girl in Denver, she just wasn’t breathing,” he says. “She fainted right in front of me. And I was going, ‘Hey, hey, breathe, hey, hey.’ “I don’t like that,” he says. “I mean, I could understand if I was the King.” He gestures toward a decanter shaped like Elvis Presley. “But I ain’t.” Perry is sitting in the relative calm of a Hollywood Chinese restaurant decorated with celebrity kitsch and photographs of stars both hot and forgotten, household names and Frankie Avalon. He says he doesn’t make public appearances anymore. “They can’t be made secure,” he rasps, typically underplaying the line. “I’m through with the laundry mass-transit system.” Last May he had to be smuggled out of a mall in Seattle in a laundry hamper when throngs of adolescent female fans ran lemminglike into the barricades. In August thousands more worshipful teens rushed a portable stage constructed for Perry’s appearance and squashed each other like grapes. A dozen were rushed to a hospital, and anchormen around the country got to read droll copy like “A teenage crush turned into a crush of teenagers.” “If they hurt each other,” Perry says, “it’s a bitch.” The cause of all this flattering ferocity is the Fox television show Beverly Hills, 90210, in which Perry portrays Dylan McKay, ultracool high-school loner, AA member and, according to Perry, “staggering intellect.” On the show, Perry and his costars Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty deal with problems ranging from curfews to AIDS. After premièring in the fall of 1990 to wretched ratings and reviews — with a lead-in called Babes and a time slot shared with Cheers — 90210 seemed like a certain candidate for cancellation. But a devoted cult following grew into a national youth movement, and actors who’d originally planned on a few weeks’ work became superstars. As a result, Perry’s gone from toiling in a doorknob factory (“I cleaned up, scraping up big fucking glops.” he says, knocking an ash from his cigarette, “cleaned the acidic waste off the shit — it was horrendous, man”) to being the subject of books like Luke-Mania! and Loving Luke (his “intensity” is “skyrocketing him into the upper reaches of the ‘most-loved’ hemisphere,” said 16 magazine). He recently got the ultimate stud certification when he was linked in the tabloids with Madonna (“TV heartthrob Luke Perry is the latest hunk to fall into the clutches of man-eating Madonna,” reported The Globe). Overwhelmed by his new status as a sideburned sex symbol, Perry has sought guidance from someone who’s been there. “Jason and I went out with Tom Jones, had some drinks and dinner,” says Perry. “You know, basically getting advice on ‘Look, Tom, this shit is happening to us really quickly, and how do we deal with it?’ ” Before the evening was done, Perry and Priestley had sung some slightly off-key backup to Jones, warbling “I Want You, I Need You” and “Love Me.” “It was unbelievable, man,” says Jason Priestley. “I mean, what right did we have to be sitting there at a table with Tom Jones?” His incredulity is understandable: This unlikely star summit conference would not have happened without several crucial twists of fate. For example, if Beverly Hills, 90210 had premièred on any network other than Fox, it would have been canceled before it caught on, and the chances that T.J. — as his new friends Priestley and Perry call him — would hang out with the two young actors would be slim to none. But Fox gave the show a chance to climb its way out of the ratings cellar, partly because the network, which had just expanded to four nights of programming, had no backup show to replace it. Cast The casting of the show was equally fluky. “There were four teen shows going on that first season,” says 90210‘s creator, thirty-year-old Darren Star, “and we were the last ones to cast, and I really thought we were getting, like, the dregs.” Star was a screenwriter in 1990 when he came to Fox with the idea of doing a teensomething. Fox chief Barry Diller already had the idea of doing a series set at Beverly Hills High School. Shazam! The show was shopped to Aaron Spelling, who has produced enough prime-time TV footage to strangle an army, including such shows as The Love Boat and Dynasty. Spelling was at first reluctant. “My first reaction was ‘Why me?’ ” says the silver-haired producer. “I hadn’t done a young show since Mod Squad, for God’s sake.” But Spelling quickly warmed up to the project, and it became a family affair when his eighteen-year-old daughter, Tori, joined the cast. (The story goes that Tori auditioned under the name Toria Mitchell for the director of the pilot, who had “no idea” who she was.) Today, Aaron Spelling, creator of Nightingales and Charlie’s Angels, finds himself shifting in his seat whenever his daughter appears onscreen in a skimpy outfit. “They always put her in the smallest bikinis in the world,” he says. “As a producer, I don’t mind, but as a father, well … the mermaid outfit really freaked me out.” In the pilot the Walshes, a wholesome family from Minnesota, have just moved to Beverly Hills because of the father’s job transfer. The culture of this Southern California Gomorrah is exciting and alien to their kids, twins Brenda and Brandon (played by Doherty and Priestley). After their first day at the fictional West Beverly High, they attend a debauched but well-catered high-school party in a mansion; Brandon and a rich, spoiled brunette nearly have sex in a Jacuzzi before his Midwestern values win out; Brenda nearly gets down with an attractive yet smarmy lawyer. The parents stand by, befuddled. “You didn’t wear this much makeup in Minnesota,” Ma Walsh says. “A ZIP code for stereotypes and stock characters,” wrote Los Angeles Times TV critic Howard Rosenberg. It was hard to believe that this was a show that in the next year would address AIDS, date rape, condoms, cancer, teen pregnancy, the disabled and even the Holocaust and gain a massive, jihadlike following in the process. “Would you burn that for me?” actress Jennie Garth says when the pilot is mentioned. Garth plays the rich, spoiled, blond Kelly Taylor, who makes her entrance bragging about her recent nose job and warns Brenda that “someone around here’s always throwing a pool party, so you never get a chance to pig out.” “I hated my character,” says Garth. “She was just so one-dimensional. The show has since evolved so much.” After the pilot, Charles Rosin, who actually graduated from Beverly Hills High in the class of ’70, came over from CBS’s Northern Exposure to become 90210‘s executive producer. He thought he could help make the show “a little more sympathetic to the human condition.” The scripts immediately began to broaden their focus: The Walshes’ fish-out-o’-water story offered only limited possibilities (especially since shows from The Beverly Hillbillies to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air had used every swimming-pool joke at least three times), and there were plenty of story-ready issues that no teen show was dealing with. “We never used the word issues,” says Aaron Spelling, “but we thought that instead of just showing the fun, fun, fun of being a teenager that the other teen shows were doing, we would show exactly what their problems are.” Thus 90210‘s plots vary dramatically, from Brenda’s stalking a date rapist or finding a lump in her breast or an equally dire crisis of the week (a tendency that led Mad magazine to title its parody Beverly Hills 911) to the wacky high jinks that ensue when Brenda takes her driving test. Yet the show’s writing consistently transcends the melodrama with an unpatronizing tone, thanks to a small, cohesive group of writers: Many of the scripts are written by Rosin, his wife, Karen, and Star. It was Karen Rosin who wrote “Isn’t It Romantic?,” the first episode broadcast in 1991. “It was an important episode,” says Charles Rosin, “because it crystallized the way we dealt with sexual issues.” It was also the first episode that prominently featured future star Luke Perry. “After the pilot, we felt there should be someone who is a little dangerous, a little on the edge, and we came up with the Dylan character,” says Aaron Spelling. “When Luke walked into the audition,” says Star, “it was like ‘Wow, that’s the person.’ He seems exactly like James Dean to me, but it isn’t a conscious imitation — he’s really being himself.” Brenda Dylan The 90210 audition was a hard-earned break for Perry, who grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio, a small town that he has alternately described as a redneck backwater and a rural paradise. “Both are true,” Perry says. “I could not wait to get out of there, but I’ve learned a lot there, a lot of things that apply here. I’ve never learned anything here that applies there.” At the age of twelve, Perry realized he wanted to be an actor, but he waited until after high school to move to L.A. and start taking lessons. He continued his training in New York, where he got his first acting work, on daytime soaps — as Ned Bates in Loving and Kenny on Another World. Dylan and Brenda’s first kiss — after a shouting match — was Perry’s baptism by fire. “It was very hard for me,” he says. “I was in some fucking frustration. It was my first really big show. I was very nervous. I felt under the gun. Finally, I just … I was wearing a long coat, and I just sat down on the sidewalk and threw that coat over my head until I was ready to go. I was screaming at Shannen like a fucking crazy man off camera before I came on to get the emotion. I was screaming and sobbing, and I’d step onto my mark and try to maintain it.” After the big kiss, Brenda asks Kelly, “What’s the next step? Do I get pinned or something?” “Yes,” replies Kelly. “Preferably to the mattress.” Later, Kelly schools Brenda on carrying a condom: “Rule 1: Never rely on the guy.” And Brenda schools her dad: “Do you want me to sneak around, or are you going to trust me to know what I’m doing?” In the end, a female heterosexual guest lecturer comes to West Beverly and talks about what it’s like to have AIDS, and Dylan, having had condomless sex before, tells a fearful Brenda that he’ll get tested. Brenda and Dylan postponed sex until the infamous “Spring Dance” show, last May. “I was a little wary at first,” says Doherty. “But they reassured me that we wouldn’t be condoning it [sex] in the show. We represent situations to our audience, and I don’t think we take a side. It’s something that brings families together. I mean, after a character loses her virginity, how can a parent not turn to their kid and say, ‘What did you think of that?’ ” The flood of angry viewer reaction to the suggestion that Dylan and Brenda did horizontal push-ups in a hotel room caused the show’s creative team to reconsider its course. “I was really surprised by the outcry,” says Star. “I think what they were most upset about was that she was, you know, happy afterwards. So I had to write the first episode coming back in the summer where she thought she was pregnant, and she had to break up with Dylan, and it was really tough. I thought, ‘How am I going to make this story work, in which a girl has sex with Luke Perry and decides to break up with him because of that?’ But I think it sort of rounded it out more and responded to the network, you know, and advertisers, and I guess that’s part of television.” Since then, the Dylan-Brenda romance has remained on the back burner. Nonetheless, Perry says: “They’re still having sex. Don’t kid yourself. We just ain’t talking about it. Because in high school, once you start, there’s no going back. There is just not.” Kelly Brandon Yet it was before the Bang Heard Round the World that Fox realized it had something special on its hands. As one Fox executive puts it, “It wasn’t the ratings, it was the riots.” In that spring of mall maulings, the network’s programmers looked for a way to build on the cult enthusiasm. When summer rolled around, they boldly decided to continue pumping out new episodes, ordering thirty new shows of 90210. This unprecedented order (twenty-two shows per season is standard for an hour drama) paid off: While the competition aired reruns, 90210 moved into the Nielsen Top Twenty. The new summer episodes continued to explore teen angst — though more carefully, as a result of the “Spring Dance” experience. As Jennie Garth puts it: “I’ve tried to get them to let Kelly get laid or shoplift, but they wouldn’t go for it. It seems like we can never do anything bad. Bad things happen to us.” “Everybody is really keyed into the fact that ‘God, if we show Brandon taking drugs, and he is everybody’s role model, what is that saying?’ ” says Star. As a result, good boy Brandon twice has been slipped mood-altering substances. The second time, the evil drug was the fictional “U4EA” (the producers made up a drug, fearful that if any real drug had been mentioned, viewers would have been tempted to try it), which was dissolved into a glass of soda water by Brandon’s scary blond girlfriend, Emily. In a Reefer Madness homage, U4EA causes Brandon to “feel really good, really alive,” ask cosmic questions like “Hey, what are those little bumps on your tongue called?,” unbutton his shirt and lethargically make out on the hood of his car. But just because he took the drug inadvertently doesn’t mean he escapes fearsome retribution: The next day, he has a real bad headache (you know — an acid hangover) and is really embarrassed about the way he acted. And his car, when he finally finds it, has been stripped. The moral: Don’t take drugs. Or soda water from scary blondes. But the spiking fun began back in January, when Brandon’s virgin daiquiri was violated with rum, leading him into days of tequila and roses and, ultimately, a drunk-driving accident. He ends up in jail, where his hair still looks great. “That was a fun episode,” says Jason Priestley. “It was the first time we saw Brandon just, you know, go off, and I loved the hell out of that.” In a West Hollywood bar, he’s downing his second pint of English beer, which on 90210 would probably make him a crazed alcoholic. Priestley is acknowledged as the guy who can instantly lighten the mood on a tense set by cracking a joke or dropping his pants. “Hey, I just thank God I get to work with such great guys,” Priestley says. “It would be a drag if any of us were just huge pricks, you know.” You get the idea that he would find a way to enjoy himself anywhere. On a recent appearance on Late Night, host David Letterman made fun of Priestley (surprise, surprise), and Priestley took it smiling. “It was great fun,” he says. “I had to go onstage and just go, ‘Hey, babe, go ahead and kill me now.’ I thought if I turned and ran, it would be okay, everybody would understand.” A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Priestley has been acting since he was four. At that tender age, he had to talk his mom, a former actress, into taking him to see her agent. Most of the early jobs were commercials (if you want to bug him, ask him about the ad for pressed meat in which he sang the words “and ham!”), but he got a break in 1989, when he was chosen for the cast of Sister Kate, a sitcom about orphans raised by a nun (Stephanie Beacham), which was canceled faster than you can say, “Bless me, father, for I have sinned.” Priestley seems unaffected by his sudden stardom, maybe because he doesn’t do personal appearances for 90210 and never has. “I don’t do what I do because I have the need to have thousands of girls screaming at me,” he says, “and neither does Luke.” The show, he claims, has been equally impervious to its success. “I’m glad our creative forces haven’t said, ‘Oh, well, people are watching now, we should back off doing things, make the show a little less controversial.’ “ Scott Last November, 90210 dealt with the teen issue to end all teen issues — death. In one of the highest-rated episodes to date, a recurring character named Scott (played by Doug Emerson) pulls a handgun out of his dad’s desk and twirls it playfully on one finger. “Check this out,” he says to friend David Silver. A shot rings out. David looks horrified. Cut to angelic voices singing “There’s a Place for Us” at a school assembly. Now, wherever Doug Emerson goes, he gets condolences. “It’s always ‘You’re dead, you’re dead, why’d you die? What happened?’ ” says the boyish blond actor. His death has definitely left Emerson with mixed emotions. “The hardest thing is to believe for myself that it was nothing I did to get killed,” he says. When 90210 started catching on back in March, Emerson felt certain enough about the show’s future — and his — to buy a cool new car, a Saab. That was before the production office called him in for a meeting on “future character development.” The news came as a shock, which is understandable: Imagine being Pete Best. And being dropped from the Beatles after Sgt. Pepper. Through the summer, Emerson, like any terminal case, kept hoping for a reprieve, but the ratings reaper waits for no actor, especially once it’s established that his character likes to play with guns. “I hope that episode will save some lives,” says Priestley, “because, you know, guns don’t kill people.” Right. Producers do. “We planned this episode back in March, when we knew we would be picked up,” says Rosin. “I wanted it to be not a suicide, not an illness, but an accident. It seemed a handgun accident was one that made the most sense.” According to Spelling, Fox was responsible for the lurid publicity campaign — “Tonight, they will lose one of their own,” read the copy above a photo of the regular cast members, with Emerson stuck in among them. Yet despite the success of life-and-death themes, there are certain issues you won’t see on 90210. For example, you will not see an episode soon about the sorry state of public schools in California. “It’s an entertainment media,” Rosin says. “The prime goal that we have is to entertain an audience. We’re not going to do an episode about the teachers’ strikes at Beverly Hills High. “We hope that we can have some impact (a) to entertain, and (b) when it’s over, to get them to think about what they have seen, for maybe about five seconds. That was always our goal, just five seconds. And the fact is, it seems that our impact is a little longer than that.” “It seems the main response I’ve been getting is how realistic the show is,” says Brian Austin Green, who plays David Silver. “People think the story lines are so realistic,” says Tori Spelling. A high school with a hallway DJ booth, kids driving BMWs and wearing designer fashions, high schoolers looking like Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty — this is realism? But then, reality on TV is a relative concept. As Aaron Spelling puts it, “A broken date or not to have a date — that’s the tragedy.” parents “Everything is life and death to these kids,” Perry says. And the parents just don’t understand — not because they’re too uptight but because they’re too loaded. Unless you’re from the Midwest, it seems, your family is destined to burst like a poodle in a microwave. Almost every family function stars a dysfunctional family: moms that are coked or spaced out (Kelly’s and Dylan’s), or very scary and castrating (Scott’s), or self-obsessed and unable to love (Steve’s); dads that are absent or running from the law (Dylan’s, Kelly’s, Steve’s). By making teens the centers of good in their dramas — as opposed to blank moral slates waiting to be filled with Mom and Dad’s latest lesson — 90210 receives an intense loyalty from its fans. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the stars are cute, wear nice clothes, drive cool cars and live in Beverly Hills. “It’s between the image and the inner life — that’s the gap where all the drama and comedy come,” says Rosin. “Beverly Hills is such an image-conscious town. Hopefully, we don’t promote the stereotype; we try to bust it.” Brenda They’ve succeeded as far as hair color goes. “This receptionist told me, ‘What you have done for brunettes is amazing,’ ” says Shannen Doherty. ” ‘It’s always the blondes that get the guy, who have the wonderful life, who are perceived as the most beautiful one. And you have totally turned it around.’ “ Doherty, in all her stigma-stymieing, dark-haired splendor, sits in the tearoom of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel sipping a Coke. She looks notably un-Brenda-like in a clingy black bodysuit and tight jeans. “I dress more for my figure than Brenda does,” she says. “She’d probably put a dress over this bodysuit to hide herself. Brenda’s more apple pie, girl next door, America’s sweetheart.” (And a far cry from Doherty’s most memorable previous role, as one of the title-character high-school bitch goddesses in the movie Heathers.) Beyond showing a brunette with a life, Doherty, 20, is very conscientious about the responsibilities entailed in being America’s sweetheart. “In one episode,” she says, “they had my character wanting to lose weight, like eight pounds or something. I’m fairly thin, and with bulimia and anorexia such big problems, I was concerned that these girls who look up to me might take it the wrong way. I conveyed that to Chuck Rosin, and it was gone.” She sips again from her drink, and a large, pear-shaped diamond glints from her left hand. The ring was given to her recently by her fiancé, a businessman named Chris Foufas (she’s keeping her name), and inquiring minds quickly found out. “My fiancé opens up the Enquirer, and he goes, ‘What? I bought you a six-and-a-half-carat ring, and they said it was three carats!’ And I get on the phone to Mike [her manager, Mike Gursey] and say, ‘Have them print a retraction. That fucking ring is not three carats.’ I’m like going nuts on the phone, and Mike starts to laugh hysterically.” Besides the issue of ring size, Doherty would like to dispel the notion “that I’m a huge bitch.” She’s been called that and “spoiled brat” but mostly just “difficult.” (A 90210 press release diplomatically labels her “hardworking and determined.”) “If you consider ‘difficult’ being a strong woman who sticks up for herself, yeah, I admit to it,” she says. “I’m open to different ideas, but if you get on my bad side and don’t listen to me and you don’t treat me with as much respect as you treat a man, you’ve got a problem.” Doherty grew up in Southern California. Like Priestley, she says she had to persuade her parents to take her to her first audition. Her first TV appearance was in a two-part episode of Father Murphy, which was followed by a starring role in the series Little House: A New Beginning when she was eleven. She credits Little House‘s Michael Landon with giving her a fighting spirit. “He told me, ‘Go with your instinct, and never let anybody walk over you, and always stick up for what you believe in.’ “ “Shannen is a pro,” says Rosin. “She’s been doing this since she was ten years old. We all go through phases where we are angry about things in our own personal life.” The difference is Doherty and her costars go through these phases on a set. guys For much of the last year, home has been a run-down studio — a cross between a crumbling college dorm and a decrepit airplane hangar — in the unglamorous San Fernando Valley, the place the cool characters on 90210 would rather die than call home. One of the crew members wears a button that sums up the show’s workaday attitude: It’s just television. When cast members exit through the back to the makeup trailer, they pass a dingy alley where used washing machines are sold. “I feel like they don’t pay me to do the work,” says Priestley, “because the work is the fun part. They pay me to sit around.” During the long waits between shots, the actors smoke, goof off and play music really loud in their small, boxlike dressing rooms. There’s plenty of time to get really close or really irritated. “I’m not going to lie and say that everybody is buddy-buddy,” says Doherty. “You argue about things, and yeah, we make up in the end. It’s kind of like a brother-sister deal.” Within this “family” is a pocket of male bonding. “The three boys — Jason, Luke and Ian [Ziering] — are really close,” says Doherty. “The girls, they’ve all got boyfriends and some other life going on,” says Perry, “and we kind of have each other, you know. We’re all going through it together.” “We get together and have reality checks,” says Ian Ziering, who plays movie-star adoptee Steve Sanders. “We talk about what’s happening to us and how we can’t believe it.” And the stars that hang together shoot together: Despite losing “one of their own” to a rogue pistol, all the young male stars in the cast are absorbed with guns. Perry, Ziering and Priestley recently shot in the Charlton Heston Skeet Shoot to benefit the U.S. Olympic shooting teams. “Moses was there, and that’s heavy, man,” says Perry. “Moses with a gauge. I was teamed with Chuck Norris and Robert Stack.” Unfortunately, because of scheduling problems, Ziering had to decline an invitation to the General Norman Schwarzkopf Shoot down in Florida. When not shooting guns or the show, the actors have little free time — they’re busy chatting with Arsenio, hosting Saturday Night Live or walking the high wire on Circus of the Stars. “The pressures on these kids are overbearing,” says James Eckhouse, who plays Mr. Walsh. “When you’re on a hit series,” says Ziering, “everybody wants a piece of you.” mag Despite the myriad 90210 T-shirts, posters and beach towels, the merchandising has only begun. Soon, Mattel will release a line of Barbie-size dolls modeled on the show’s stars, when most of them already find it hard to walk to the corner store without being tugged and pulled like a living Gumby. “We get accosted in malls,” says Doherty. “Basically, it takes over your life.” “People come up to me all the time on the street and say, ‘Brandon’s stupid for not wanting you,’ ” says Gabrielle Carteris, who plays brainy Andrea Zuckerman and who, at thirty, is the oldest teen cast member who gives her age. “Then the other night I was at the airport, and Brooke Shields came up to me and said, ‘I love your show. It makes me cry. And he’s a jerk for not getting together with you.'” “The fans of this show are not just fans,” Priestley says. “It’s heavy, man. They really relate to us all.” That’s an understatement. Brian Austin Green, 18, recalls public appearances where hundreds of teens shouted out the answers to trivia questions about his life. “They know my brother’s name, my sister’s name, their ages, my dog’s name, what color car I have, how big the bumpers are, how big the tires are.” At one appearance last May, Green had to be removed from a mall in an armored car. Didn’t they have a laundry hamper handy? “See, Luke pulled that off, but they wrote about it in all the magazines, so there was no way we could try it again,” he says. Since last summer, you’d be hard pressed to find a teen magazine without extensive coverage of Green and the rest of the cast. On the cover, invariably, are smiling or brooding photos of Perry and Priestley and a cover line like Jason reveals secret love-life confessions! (The two are often credited with saving the teen-fanzine industry from post-New Kids on the Block depression.) Every aspect of Priestley’s and Perry’s lives has been picked over, while Perry’s attraction to women well past adolescence — like Linda Hamilton, Jane Pauley and Stephanie Beacham — has been conveniently played down. Beacham, who played Dylan’s spacey mom in one 90210 episode, especially spins the L-man’s beanie: “Man, I had to fight that Oedipal thing all week,” he says. The media have pursued the unavailable facts like the Grail: How old are Perry and Priestley? (Both reply “midtwenties,” though Perry is probably in the upper reaches of that grouping.) Who had the cool sideburns first? (“This whole sideburn thing, it’s turned into such an issue, and it’s so stupid,” says Priestley. “But I had them first.”) How about that rivalry between Perry and Priestley? (“I want to dispel that,” says Perry. “I hang out with that fucker four or five days a week. I mean, what do I have to do, get up there and kiss him on the mouth so people will know we’re good friends?”) Who are Perry and Priestley sleeping with? (“Well, you can definitely say that Luke sleeps with a pig,” says Doherty. The porker in question is a pet Chinese potbellied pig named Jerry Lee, whom Perry has managed to shield from the media glare. “Jerry Lee’s the Yoda force in my life,” Perry says. “Luke’s house really has a good pig odor to it, which I appreciate,” adds Priestley.) “Sometimes I wonder, ‘Do I even have to be here anymore?’ ” says Darren Star. “I mean, yesterday I was directing a scene with Jason, and he didn’t want to say a certain word or something. I said, ‘Jason, I wonder if it matters what you say anymore.’ “ “We all work extra hard,” says Perry, “because we know people are out there saying we’re just fucking pansies that look good.” He stubs out his cigarette. “I know that a lot of people are casting a very cynical eye my way, in terms of what happens in the future. I’m not worried about being a big star. But it makes me nervous when people talk about it like it’s already happened.” The nervousness is understandable: The cast of 90210 is quite aware that every generation creates its own Frankie Avalons, that every Chinese restaurant in Hollywood has head shots you can’t recognize. “I’m putting a lot of emphasis on my personal life right now,” says Doherty, “because when it all goes downhill and you lose all your popularity, there’s got to be somebody else there.” “We need to be grounded,” says Carteris. “We need not to get lost in this make-believe world. I mean, as popular as the show is now, if tomorrow it dies, we still have to live with our lives.” As Doug Emerson has discovered. “It’s a hard thing to explain to people that I’m not mad at anyone for being killed,” he says. “The business fluctuates so much, you’re in one moment and out the next.” Whether you’re a victim of a mob hit or a TV hit, that’s just the way the fortune cookie crumbles. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/scenes-from-the-cast-struggle-in-beverly-hills-90210-196815/ submitted by primal_slayer to BeverlyHills90210 [link] [comments] |
2024.03.28 05:59 nuraman00 Let's Be Clear With Shannen Doherty: Let's Be Real...with Brian Austin Green (Parts 1 and 2).
- Doherty: Her favorite costar is Brian Austin Green.
- Them appearing on each other’s podcasts is “very gangster” of Doherty.
- Doherty: I haven’t been a gangster since that time at the Roxbury with Green.
- Some woman tried to fight with Doherty that night. Green doesn’t understand what happened. The woman just leaned over and started hitting Doherty. And claimed it was Doherty. Green says that night doesn’t make any fucking sense.
- Green was impressed that Doherty didn’t go down, even though she was hit with a closed fist.
- Doherty was arrested because the other woman pressed charges. Doherty said she didn’t do anything, so she was going to press charges back.
- The woman sued Doherty and wanted money.
- Other than that, they had fun times at the Roxbury. Tori Spelling and Marky Mark would go together with the two of them.
- Doherty and Green flipped off photographers, thinking that Doherty and Green couldn’t be seen. Those mirrors were not mirrored, and the photographers saw Doherty and Green clearly. Of the two photographers, Roger was the nice one. Woody was the other one.
- Back then though, Green remembers the paparazzi being nice. They would still ASK if they could get a shot. Green says when he went through stuff with Megan Fox, they were not nice.
- Doherty remembers the paparazzi differently.
- Green celebrated his 19th birthday at Bar1.
- To get into the club, you had to mention Bruno Magli shoes of the doorman. Doherty had no idea what those were. But she mentioned them, and got in.
- Green and Doherty agree that they were around Sunset during its heyday. Things are too branched out now.
- Doherty liked the Rainbow Room. Green used to go with some other people, because they could get free food. Green went with someone named Nick. Nick’s dad had a guest house with a racquetball court. They would go from the guest house, to the nearby club, frequently.
- Doherty got free food at Aaron Spelling’s house. The cook would make Doherty food whenever she came. Green says it was like the White House, you could request anything.
- When Doherty went to the Rainbow Room, she’d hang out with Slash from Guns N Roses. She doesn’t think they’d remember her now.
- Green says they’d remember her.
- When Green was at Luke Perry’s wake, Quentin Tarantino came up to Green and said hello. Tarantino remembered Green from when Tarantino met Megan Fox and Green at the Golden Globes. Tarantino loved Green’s movie, Domino.
- Brian Austin Green loves the movie Man On Fire.
- Green was the 2nd youngest, after Douglas Emerson.
- Green couldn’t travel with Ian Ziering, Luke Perry, or Jason Priestly, because he was too young to get into bars and stuff.
- Green and Tori Spelling connected because of similar ages. She was only a month older.
- Doherty: Plus you had me in common.
- Green hated the David Silver wardrobe. Ian used to call Silver “awning boy”, because one of Silver’s shirts was the same as the beach club awning.
- Doherty remembers the boys ribbing Green, and the girls laughing too. But Green took it good. She knew Green dressed better in real life.
- Green was friends with Emerson, so they went in to Aaron Spelling, for the audition. He read, and they said “cool, you’re in”. He was one of the first cast. They liked the chemistry with Green and Emerson, and that was that. He never had to read for network.
- He remembers watching the auditions for Steve. Green was supposed to read with Ziering, but because Green was late, Ziering read with someone else. Most other cast members also had to read for network. Green didn’t have to.
- Green remembers reading for network for other things. He remembers how intimidating it is. And it feels like a cattle call, and they shuffle in and out.
- Doherty remembers how they ask you to wait, and how they wait until the end to get their #1 choices to read together as characters. So Doherty says it was like auditioning twice.
- Green remembers when he auditioned for comedies before, the feedback he got was “he looked like his dog died” or “he looked like he didn’t want to be there”. Or “was he sick?” It was always the worst feedback.
- Green almost did a show with Johnny Galecki. Green knew Bruce Helford. They had liked the humor Green was doing. The show never got to network.
- When they brought Green in for Freddie, that’s when Green realized he was funny. It was a confidence booster.
- After that, all the networks wanted Green for comedy. Green said he was doing the same thing he did before, nothing’s changed. Same thing as when they thought his dog died. They just all of a sudden thought he was funny. But the difference was that he was working for a guy that believed in him, in Helford. So they would write stuff for Green.
- Green: Until you do something new, and they’ve seen you in it, then executives can’t see beyond your past. They don’t have that frame of mind.
- Tarantino always lets actors do first takes, the way they want to do it. Because he says those actors are going to really try stuff.
- Doherty remembers being told to dress like the character. Doherty didn’t want to go out and rent a costume.
- Green would go out and dress like the character. His mom would have one headshot for Green that was normal, then the others dressed like the character in various poses.
- Green said he didn’t have a concept of the professional aspect of it. He just thought about the money, when he was a kid.
- Green started acting, because a kid on the bus did commercials and got free toys. So Green wanted toys too.
- Green auditioned for Smuckers, and for Little House On The Prairie. They said he sucked, but was cute. Green had to go to acting school.
- The agents kept Green, because there’s not many child actors.
- Doherty: When did you think they started listening to your voice, on Beverly Hills, 90210?
- Green: I had suggestions early on. There wasn’t much direction for David Silver, early on. It was hard to grow up on camera. The line between David and Brian got fainter.
- His music career, dancing was linked to David. They had seen Green dance at a rap party, then wrote that in.
- When Green’s album didn’t do well, it was the first time he had to deal with failure.
- Green had done 75 commercials. He was the first of the cast to buy a house, in Burbank, because of the money from commercials. One he had started commercials, they came in fast.
- Doherty bought her first house at the age of 21 or 22, in Malibu. She purchased it, and ran out of money.
- There’s a difference between Burbank and Malibu.
- Doherty: It was one of the smartest things I did. But the commute was hard. So I had my parents move in. I then went to Mulholland.
- Doherty: I liked how the boys congratulated each other. It wasn’t the same with the girls.
- Green: It got rough and competitive. We used to talk about what was happening with the girls. One time, Ian and I stepped in and kept a fight from escalating.
- Doherty: They thought I shouldn’t be doing as much press as I was doing.
- I didn’t want to do them. I didn’t want to spend my weekend with that. But the producers told me to. Rolling Stone was cool. The rest was not. I was tired of answering the same questions. Such as “Why is the show about Brenda and Brandon”?
- A fight between me and Jennie started when she said it was “pants down day” and would pull the pants down from crew members. They were getting annoyed with it.
- I reversed it and said it was “skirt up day” and pulled up Jennie’s skirt. I didn’t think it was a big deal because she wore Calvin Klein boxers underneath. But she lost it. But I wouldn’t back down.
- Green: That was a huge moment for everyone. I was young and selfish.
- Tiffany was my first real relationship. I was jealous anytime she had to work with anyone else. I thought of the cast as “my family”. But then she started doing sex scenes with “my family and brothers”. I was jealous and boisterous and made it hard for Aaron Spelling, Chuck Rosin. I was trying to make demands without making demands. Like “you don’t have to do this”. I was putting pressure on people.
- Now looking back at this, I can’t imagine what it was like for her. Her boyfriend was freaking out at everything.
- Doherty: That was growing pains. I don’t have any animosity. We were just so young, and growing up, and learning how to use our voice, and figuring out relationships in real life.
- Doherty: My relationship picker is broken. I’m never picking again, someone else do it for me. Rob Weiss was my best boyfriend, we had 7 years. The rest, bye-bye.
- Doherty: Once I got fired, I was angry and thought why didn’t anyone defend me? Later on, I thought, why wasn’t I more transparent, and let people know, and ask for help? But then, why didn’t anyone sit down with me and tell me what was going to happen?
- Aaron never spoke to me. It was just bam, you’re fired.
- Green: I’ll never forget that phone call. We were in Paul Waigner’s office. Aaron Spelling was on speaker phone. I didn’t agree with anyone else in the room. I sat in my spot though, because I was outnumbered. The others hadn’t liked the bad press. But I was with you for most of that, so I was with ou for 90% of the bad press.
- Doherty: So was Tori. If I was late, she was late, because we drove together.
- Green: I remember a lot of questions asked toward me “How is everything with Shannen? She can be such a bitch.” That was one of the first real examples of sexism in the business. If a guy had acted like that, it would be considered decisive.
- Green: You are an incredible example of someone who has been kind. Good at balancing being kind, with being sure of who you are, and what is ok, and what is not. You will fight for the death with people.
- Green: You have found a middle ground that is so admirable. I’ve seen you do it in your entire career. Beverly Hills, 90210. Charmed. Your relationships. I still run into people that NEVER have a bad thing to say about you.
- The 2019 meta reboot series:
- Doherty didn’t want to do it. Neither she nor Luke Perry. Doherty and Perry were going to do their own show. Then Luke passed away. Doherty wanted to honor Luke, but not revisit the emotions. Brian Austin Green was the ONLY ONE who knew Doherty had stage 4 cancer, at the time. Green and Perry passing away were the main reasons she did the show. She’s happy she did it.
- Doherty liked being funny, in this series. Before, she was told she was too dry, or too dark, with their humor.
- But for this series, they did some improv. Like the scene with the trailer. Or the eating.
- Green: It was a great experience. We stepped back into a situation that was traumatic when we were younger, but done with whatever happened with the past. We had great fucking dinners together. We had grown up.
- Green: The only control I have over is who I choose to be, while living life. There’s some crazy shit in life. Some lows, some highs. But who do I want to be during this? Do I want to be unpredictable emotionally? Do I want to be that guy? Or the guy that stops, and connects with people? And I feel the same way about you. You take the time to take in your surroundings. You live consciously, all the time. It’s a choice.
- Green fights against his instincts to fight and be venomous. I stop, and take a breath, and think, who do I want to be in this moment? Let’s approach this as adults, and have a real conversation. As soon as I do, I feel so much better.
- Doherty: During the 4th season of Beverly Hills, 90210, I started going to therapy, to figure out my marriage. The therapist said “before you react, count to 3. If you’re still angry, count to 10. Then you can respond. There’s nothing wrong with taking a pause.”
- I felt as a woman, I wasn’t heard, or respected.
- Doherty: No one considered me to be the quarterback of the show, not even during season 1.
- When I felt I wasn’t getting that, my reaction was a bad one. If I said I don’t like how Brenda is being written, they said it’s not up to you. Some of the executives helped write the “I Hate Brenda” newsletter, to drum up that bad publicity. Doherty said this is hurtful to me personally. They said that publicity is great for the show. But then in the meetings, they said this is bad publicity, that’s not a good luck.
- I wish I had learned the 3-10 count younger in life. I know how much it benefits me.
- Green: I forgot about the newsletter. I believe you weren’t meant to be on that show for more than four seasons. You were meant to move out into the world and do other stuff. That was a strange little group. Amazing group, but strange one. You would have felt caged if you were on the show for another 6 - 8 years.
- After a while, the show didn’t offer trying new things. When we were doing Double Ups, it was a grind.
- Doherty: Charmed was the only show I could have been on forever. My character, my crew, the directors, the writers, I was doing stunts. I got to roam and not be in a box, while also being in a box. It was a box I was super happy with.
- If I would have stayed on Beverly Hills 90210, I would have gotten fired 1 - 2 or 3 years later. I would have been unhappy. I hated the direction Brenda went.
- Green: You would have said these stories are ridiculous, why is this happening? I am as agreeable as they come, and even I was rewriting scenes. Tori and I were rewriting scenes. That show got tough to write for after a while.
- Doherty: It felt like everyone stayed the same.
- Green: It didn’t grow. Our environment changed, but our characters didn’t change. Season 8 was the same as season 2. It would have driven you fucking crazy.
- Doherty: I want to thank them for that firing phone call. My life changed for the better.
- Green: It’s like AA, making amends.
- The age difference never mattered between Green and Doherty. They were equals.
- Green: The age didn’t matter with the rest of the cast either. They treated him equally.
- Green: He was glad to see Doherty on Beverly Hills, 90210. Because he had known her from before. They thought it was just going to be a pilot.
- Doherty: Was it weird in season 5 without me?
- Green: It was weird to be in the hallways or makeup trailer, and not see you. We had a few fun things, like a pool party on screen. The daily life, the routine, was different. I would get to my usual spots on the set, and you weren’t there. It was strange. I felt more of a personal loss than a professional loss. You were a part of life.
- Green: It was like losing a pet. Now they’re gone, what do we do?
- Doherty: During the reboot, we consciously worked together more. We would do improv, work on tangents. Our sense of humor complimented each other. Our wardrobe was cool. We were riffing.
- Green: I was shocked that they kept the scenes of you eating watermelon.
- Doherty: That was cool. I liked how you partook in the eating on screen too.
- Doherty: Somehow I picked Skittles one time. I was so sick from the candy. I didn’t think it would take so many takes. That was the only time I regretted my choice of eating on screen. But it was liberating.
- Green: We had a great 20 minute walk on the way to the Mexican restaurant. That was cool.
- Doherty: You’re good at getting out. I’m in self conscious mode, and I hide. You would get me out and see things.
- Green: I talked you into a lot of this shit.
- Doherty: It was hard coming on 2.5 weeks later. People had already established themselves. When it was time to walk on the set and see everyone, there were massive butterflies. But you didn’t make me feel like I was by myself. I never ate lunch by myself.
- Green: How cool was it that you got there later, and naturally found an apartment 2 blocks from me.
- Doherty: You found a good spot.
- Green: It was Cole Harbor (in Vancouver).
- Green: I had so much fun doing that with you.
- Doherty: Thank you for being in my ear, and letting me get past myself, and doing that with you. That was an awesome experience, I’m so happy I did it. It did exactly what I needed. I had just been diagnosed with stage 4. To have that distraction, to have something going on, for 6 episodes, have a job, and think that cancer is not going to impact your career, is very nice. Play characters that we got to develop.
- Green: Remember when I had the documentary idea, and you said “I don’t want to talk about 90210”? Now we’re on each other’s podcast, talking about 90210.
- Doherty: I know, I remember that.
- Green: It’s fucking cathartic. I strongly suggest to people who went through trauma, get out, and talk about it.
- Doherty: You go through a divorce, and either feel anger, resentment, sweep that under the rug. Or deal with it. By talking about it, you learn so much about yourself. And about what other people in your life, thought about that time. They get to voice their concerns. It is very cathartic.
- Green: Not letting life break you.
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2024.03.17 01:07 nuraman00 Let's Be Clear With Shannen Doherty: Let's Be Mallrats...with Kevin Smith (Part 2)
- Kevin Smith: Mallrats bombed so bad, that Doherty didn’t come back into our lives, in Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back, until 6 years, in 2001. I killed your movie career.
- Doherty: I have a friend James that hires me on a lot of stuff.
- Smith: We tried to get Shannen in Jay And Silent Bob Reboot. But we were shooting in New Orleans.
- Smith: Shannen and I did a thing where we submitted a bunch of 5 - 7 minute sitcoms. We shot a pilot but FOX didn’t go forward with it.
- Smith: The older I get, the more I realize I’m lucky anything went anywhere.
- Doherty: Why is Mallrats iconic, but wasn’t then?
- Smith: Because it wasn’t tied into anyone’s childhood then. When The Wizard Of Oz came out, it wasn’t The Wizard Of Oz. It was just a movie. Over time, the movie is approved by which the movie is improved by people’s association with that era of their life of it. It’s like when you smell something cooking and it takes you to a particular moment in life.
- The culture shifted towards all the things Mallrats centered.
- The script was originally equal DC and Marvel, but DC didn’t want to give us anything. And Marvel gave us anything. Marvel then became dominant in culture. Stan Lee cameoed in it. I get to introduce Stan Lee to a generation. Years later, he returns the favor in Captain Marvel, when he’s sitting on a train reading the Mallrats script.
- There’s two versions of the Mallrats 2 script. The current version is Twilight Of The Mallrats. I love it. Universal is the last person standing in the way.
- Years ago, when I wrote the first script, I asked my former agent if I can make a sequel. He said yes, there’s three ways. 1) Universal wants to do it. 2) Get a co-pro (co-production). 3) They give it back to you and you just do it.
- I wrote it. My agent then said I have to submit it to Universal, to make sure there’s no anti-Universal sentiment. I submit it. My agent then said when I said there were three paths, well Universal never lets go of a property they own. It’s against policy.
- Then they wouldn’t co-pro it either. They don’t care.
- When I made Jay And Silent Bob Reboot, and Clerks 3, I got in bed with Lionsgate. And Lionsgate was working with Universal.
- Lionsgate was making some headway with Universal, then the person that was our Lionsgate person left. So I have no idea where Mallrats 2 stands.
- I know Universal doesn’t give a shit, but that could be me thinking they don’t give a shit.
- Here’s a scene from Twilight Of The Mallrats. I want to play it for the public and get some lobbying for it. It’s duplicating a scene that kicked off Mallrats.
- We’re meeting Brodie and Rene for the first time. There’s a kid, Banner Bruce. It’s mentioned in Jay And Silent Bob Reboot.
- The daughter is unimpressed by her father.
- Brodie is holding onto the 90s.
- The mall has been dying. Rene threw Brodie out, because Brodie took their life savings and invested it in a store.
- It’s meant to show you life doesn’t change.
- Smith and Doherty then do a reading of the script.
- Doherty changes part of the script from “Hallelujah” to “Thank God”, because hallelujah is hard to say.
- Smith likes the change. The 90s version of him would have been unhappy.
- Twilight Of The Mallrats is more than a nod back, it’s a return.
- Doherty: Is there going to be a pizza party?
- Smith: I’m going to get Amanda Pete back and have her compete against you.
- Smith: Do you think she ever thinks about how they dragged me out here for a Mallrats audition?
- Doherty: I think her career did fine.
- Smith encourages people to lobby to Jason Blum.
- Peacock is the best bet, because they are NBC Universal.
- Doherty doesn’t have an agent right now. She’s tried. But after 8 months, agents tell her people are either scared of her, or not interested, or she has a reputation, or she has cancer, etc.
- Doherty has stopped with agents.
- Doherty says she has enough people that keep hiring her, like James.
- Doherty made a movie a long time ago called “Growing A Big One”.
- People tell Smith that out of all the movies he’s made, their favorite one is Mallrats.
- When dating, someone’s personality is # 1 when Doherty meets someone. Humor, the dark dry kind; a sense of moral values; someone that likes to cook with her. Doesn’t have to be a great cook, but just someone that will get in there and chop onions with her.
- Doherty likes reading. She can be in a room with someone reading, if someone else has the TV on.
- Doherty does not like using her photographic memory for reading, because she then has a disconnect between herself and the material. She would rather take the time and study the material.
- Cold readings for auditions were easy for her.
- Smith: How long were you in the auditioning world, before you didn’t have to?
- Doherty: I always had to audition. Except for Charmed.
- Doherty: Now, I’m not as open to doing it. But there’s some people I would audition for in a heartbeat.
- There was an audition where it was supposed to be quiet. But there were 10 people or so. Because some people wanted to watch. I was nervous. I felt like the judgment was 20 times harder. It was a movie I didn’t even want to do, but my manager said it was a good movie. I didn’t want to disappoint, but in fact I did. I know I was terrible. My body was shaking. I was so bad, that they actually asked my manager, “is she ok?”
- Doherty: My first booking was Pacific Bell, a telephone company. I was 9 or 10. All I had to do was sleep in a bed, and the grandma comes over. It was a Spanish commercial. She kisses me goodnight, and says something about the telephone company.
- I then did McDonalds, then Shout (the spray), then The Secret Of NIMH. Then Father Murphy. Night Shift may have been as the same time as the first commercial.
- Doherty: I didn’t understand Heathers. I understood the dialog was super cool. But when I watched the screening, I didn’t know it was a comedy. I was confused. I thought it was supposed to be sinister, and a take on what was transpiring in schools at the time. I had taken it as a drama.
- Tori Spelling was a huge fan of Heathers. So she suggested Brenda as me, when they were looking for that character, on Beverly Hills, 90210.
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2024.02.24 13:01 FelicitySmoak_ On This Day In Michael Jackson HIStory - February 24th
| 1970- The Jackson 5's 2nd single, “ABC”, is released. It was the group’s 2nd single to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100. “ABC” knocked The Beatles‘ “Let It Be” off the top of the pop chart & it topped the soul singles chart for four weeks https://preview.redd.it/y2prsv1dodkc1.jpg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=579e354e2a1c00218e101e412e2f1cfc1989c090 “ABC” was nominated for a Grammy Award in the 'Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals' category in 1971. The song is featured on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s list of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and it was also inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2017. 1979- On their Destiny Tour, The Jacksons perform the last of two nights at the Rainbow Theatre in London, UK. 1987 - Pepsi aired a Michael Jackson commercial, "The Magic Begins" during the 29th Annual Grammy Awards https://preview.redd.it/g3x2q2peodkc1.jpg?width=665&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af8ab1f1e5d024ef1018a5c64da90295cd2d80d7 1988- On his Bad World Tour, Michael performs his 2nd & final night at Kemper Arena (now Hy-Vee Arena) in Kansas City, Missouri Two-year old cancer patient, Allan Bufford, held by his mother, Brenda, meets Michael backstage. The ill boy obtained his doctor’s permission to attend the sold-out show. https://preview.redd.it/tuauugghodkc1.jpg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4befe335a9423d5aabcda75f3d50f029fba96f71 1993- At The 35th Annual Grammy Awards from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, Michael received the 'Grammy Living Legend Award' from his sister Janet. https://preview.redd.it/9hil94unodkc1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a3207bc64ae0988ca33653d323c789078219853 'The Grammy Legend Award' is the most important award in the music business. It's the top honor in the recording industry, given for ongoing contributions and influence in the recording field. https://preview.redd.it/5auvkz2rodkc1.jpg?width=409&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72ed12fa18f721f5153f30b0a1fd787516dc5ea0 After narrating a lengthy "How To Become A Legend" video scrapbook, showing how her brother became a legend, Janet brought Michael on stage from his front seat in the auditorium. https://preview.redd.it/cb92k7ryodkc1.jpg?width=842&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b47338271935d5f47220f63b57d8915be6dd825 Michael embraced Janet. Clearly elated, Michael was inspired to give his longest ever acceptance speech, poking fun at himself and showing his sense of humor that many hadn't had an opportunity to see. One arm hugging Janet close, Michael began on a humorous note: "I hope this puts to rest, I hope this finally puts to rest another rumor that has been in the press for too many years – me and Janet really are two different people!" Michael expressed gratitude to and concern for the world’s children, including the health and economically deprived, then raises consciousness and suggests solutions on urgent global issues, such as the inner city crimes, wars and terrorist attacks, or the overloaded prisons, increasingly entered by young people that were devoid of a proper childhood: "In the past month, I've gone from "where is he?" to "Here he is again," but I must confess, it feels good to be thought of as a person, not as a personality. Because I don't read all the things written about me, I wasn't aware that the world thought I was so weird and bizarre. But when you grow up as I did, in front of one hundred million people since the age of five, you're automatically different. The last few weeks, I have been cleansing myself and it's been a rebirth for myself. It's like a cleansing spirit. My childhood was completely taken away from me. There was no Christmas, there were no birthdays, it was not a normal childhood, nor the normal pleasures of childhood - those were exchanged for hard work, struggle, and pain, and eventually material and professional success. But as an awful price, I cannot re-create that part of my life. However, today, when I create my music, I feel like an instrument of nature. I wonder what delight nature must feel when we open our hearts and express our God-given talents. The sound... of approval rolls across the universe, and the whole world abounds in magic. Wonder fills our hearts, for what we have glimpsed, for an instant, the playfulness of life. And that's why I love children and learn so much from being around them. I realise that many of our world's problems today - from the inner city crime, to large scale wars and terrorism, and our overcrowded prisons - are a result of the fact that children have had their childhood stolen from them. The magic, the wonder, the mystery, and the innocence of a child's heart, are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world. I really believe that. What, what we need to learn, what we need to learn from children isn't childish. Being with them connects us to the deeper wisdom of life which is everpresent, and only asks to be lived. They know the solutions that lie waiting to be recognised within our own hearts. Today, I would like to thank all the children of the world, including the sick and deprived... I am so sensitive to your pain" https://preview.redd.it/dtriu1b2pdkc1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c5927f682903215ae81a7312e669a401cef9632 https://preview.redd.it/yh3ccxu5pdkc1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c62befa2acbc0154b6777e40f40f4e07b5e1c04f https://preview.redd.it/1xyoehv7pdkc1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e849942da2d61226e49b24a5311eb2c7e116dbe1 Michael and his date, Brooke Shields, attended Sony Music's after party at Jimmy's in Beverly Hills https://preview.redd.it/vlqlu9bdpdkc1.jpg?width=460&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=424d4dd09db727f77f4b5e421b42d16f71308012 https://preview.redd.it/0iot4fvhpdkc1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=169fad3de9cb578eb4c3a42a78aaa1d4492e144c https://preview.redd.it/rg2jcqajpdkc1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=39f96db9b8d1ff8f1db4fea0e8cd8096b585a02e 1993- Michael is on SALUT magazine (France) https://preview.redd.it/ppypl4mkpdkc1.jpg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=477109d3b2323a59b42fdf0d658a96e6ae4d2a9b 1996- Michael welcomes two French fans, Nicola Nadege and Barbara Amoroso, to his suite at Disneyland Paris 1997- Michael is on the cover of New Weekly (Australia) magazine https://preview.redd.it/5u4429zlpdkc1.jpg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4e41a92b81e014303b4abc250afd9ebfbb86d0dc 1999- Michael invites the Top Epic Records Executives (Cory Rooney, Tommy Mottola, John Doelp, Dave Glew & Polly Anthony) to the Marvin’s Room in Hollywood for a listening session and he plays only one song, “Break Of Dawn, produced by Dr Freeze. 2002- Michael, Elizabeth Taylor & Brett Ratner attend a private party at Mark Damon’s house to announce that Neverland Entertainment and Raju Sharad Patel have signed with Damon’s independant film company MDP Worldwide Entertainment to create a new division called Neverland Pictures. 2003- Michael is on the cover of US Weekly magazine https://preview.redd.it/afdwh9inpdkc1.jpg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e196527b90c9473374e70f352227abe6d27b584e 2004- Michael is on the cover of tabloid National Enquirer https://preview.redd.it/f49chrwjqdkc1.jpg?width=336&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e6022f8e5894d02224f22316f822c6bd233fbd3b 2005- Jury Selection Day 6 Jury selection for the case is completed with the swearing in of four male and four female alternates, who would replace any of the twelve primary jurors should any problems arise. The jury mostly comprises of whites and Hispanics, with there being one black man in the alternate panel https://preview.redd.it/qcdg7wrqpdkc1.jpg?width=496&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a7421bdeab2858d23b18cb01ee9245f2750c2574 https://preview.redd.it/oxesl89spdkc1.jpg?width=424&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52531bba58bbfb5b614c3ef8b30ec207cb432282 Gary Dunlap, confirmed that he had been officially retained by Michael and his defense as a new member of the attorney team. Dunlap claims that he too was once wrongfully pursued by belligerent prosecutor Thomas Sneddon, with whom he is currently embroiled in a legal battle. In an interview with US television network CBS in 2003, Dunlap said "[Sneddon] said he had a very strong case against me. The problem was that his whole strong case was manufactured. The lawyer, who was later acquitted of all charges in a jury trial, added that [Sneddon] lost his opportunity against Michael Jackson in 1993, and he doesn't want to leave office without paying that score back." His addition to the Jackson defense is thought to be a huge boost for Michael, who is similarly alleging prosecutorial misconduct in his case. His experience facing the overzealous District Attorney will undoubtedly be of value to lead attorney, Thomas Mesereau. In November 2003, Dunlap filed 22 counts against the DA, including charges of malicious prosecution, racketeering and witness tampering. He is suing for $10 million Earlier that year, Sneddon had charged Dunlap with perjury, witness intimidation and filing false documents. The lawyer was acquitted on all charges and claims that filing multiple charges in the hopes of obtaining at least one guilty verdict is one of the prosecutors regular courtroom ploys. Joe Freeman, a civil rights attorney representing Dunlap, called for an investigation of Sneddon last year. In a letter to the California Attorney General, the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury and the California State Bar Association, he wrote: "In my opinion, the matters to be investigated are the possible criminal violations of several felony and misdemeanor statutes, including conspiracy, illegal taping, deceiving a court and a prosecutor illegally assisting the defense of a case" https://preview.redd.it/1so5o4vtpdkc1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d81adafdeda3ea8a68f6b66b0dadf6c3966a4597 2010- During The Carnival of Viareggio on the Tuscany Italy, there was a parade float with the theme 'The death of pop singer Michael Jackson' https://preview.redd.it/jt9ydlsvpdkc1.jpg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=785d16816acca52f55ff6026d714a0fa7f41b573 submitted by FelicitySmoak_ to MichaelJackson [link] [comments] |
2024.02.11 08:07 nuraman00 The Beverly Hills 90210 Show Podcast: Episode 115: Moving Targets.
- Larry Mollin went to a reggae fest. The next day, his leg gave out. He got an injury from dancing, from the previous day. The show was great, though.
- Mollin: Carjackings were happening in L.A.
- The mechanic, played by Gino Conforti, from “Strangers In The Night” is from Three’s Company. Stuart Carson’s father, played by Peter Mark Richman, is also from Three’s Company. They both guest starred on Three’s Company.
- Rosin: Cars that get hijacked are usually American muscle cars. Not fancy cars. They were used to cross the border.
- This episode is about the notion that “the only way I’m going to feel safe is if I have a gun in the house.”
- Mollin’s wife no longer wears fancy jewelry to dinner, out of fear.
- Rosin says that no one walks their dog after dark near where he lives, anymore.
- When he was growing up, everyone walked their dog at night. You would have conversations with people.
- James Eckhouse directed “Strangers In The Night”.
- Rosin doesn’t know why Eckhouse didn’t get more work later in his career. He liked Eckhouse as a director. They did 3 episodes together.
- Aaron Spelling did NOT want to cast black person robbing the car. He didn’t want people to think that he didn’t cast a black person in the cast, but he did cast one as a robber.
- The ethnicity can’t be determined in the scene. The scene was dark. That’s part of the point, it could have been any type of person.
- People spend so much time in their cars in L.A., that it’s the number one radio market. Not New York.
- Kelly is now caught in between Jackie and Mel. Jackie runs into Mel’s girlfriend at the beach apartment.
- Pete Ferriero loves the line:
Mel: Where’s my little darling?
Jackie: I assume you’re not talking about me?
- Nina didn’t even have a line in this episode.
- Mollin did his research at The Beverly Hills Gun Range.
- It was a terrible experience. But good material to write with.
- Rosin went to a gun range once. He couldn’t hit anything.
- Rosin starts singing “June is bustin’ out all over”.
- Mollin likes the line “You want gun control? Use two hands.”
- Rosin: Can there be a less romantic place to take a date?
- They then recall the blood giving date with Brenda.
- Kelly then reconsiders John Sears, because he’s from Beverly Hills. It’s a small community, so at least it’s someone she knows. Just by them both going to West Beverly Hills High, there’s a connection there.
- Dylan is not focused on the relationship. He’s focused on guns and carjackings.
- Rosin does not like the tougher sentences for crack cocaine, as opposed to powder cocaine, because it sends thousands of people to jail.
- Rosin says that the scene of Brandon breaking into Dylan’s house was a manufactured event, but it made for a great promo reel for the episode.
- In reality, Rosin says not having the gift would hot have hindered the party.
- In the real world, Brandon would have gone back home, called Dylan, and asked him to bring the gift.
- Dylan and Brandon have a brotherly bond.
- The conservation that they have is what helps Dylan realize that he almost killed Brandon.
- Steve would have broken the window too.
- They bring up again how Steve Wasserman wrote lyrics to the Beverly Hills, 90210 theme song. Jessica Klein just emailed them to Ferriero, so he has them now.
- They went to John E. Davis and recorded vocals with Wasserman’s lyrics.
- John E. Davis won’t return Ferriero’s emails anymore.
- D’Shawn, played by Cress Williams, debuts.
- When Rosin was at the University Of Wisconsin, in 1979, he took a sociology class.
- Wisconsin was a bad football team when Rosin was there. They have become credible in the past 20 years.
- Rosin would go to his professors and talk to them.
- When Rosin talked about the football team with one of them, they told him they had an athlete that needed tutoring.
- Larry Mollin wrote the line about the Mendoza line.
- Actor Cress Williams was so bad at basketball, that they had to cut away after he released the ball, and then just show the ball going in (but with Williams out of frame by then). For every single play. The two other basketball players at the gym did not need a cut away. Jason Priestly didn’t need a cutaway either.
- They had to lower the basket to make it easier for Williams.
- Mollin says, Williams does look like a good basketball player, though.
- Rosin wrote a basketball script, called “Only In Indiana”. He wrote in all caps, “We never cut away from him shooting the basketball.”
- They like the way Williams talks.
- When Rosin wrote “One On One”, he made sure he cast someone who could play basketball.
- Andrea and Dan’s problem of not being able to be seen out in public is a real one.
- Larry Mollin says this was a very good plot, for a C story.
- Rosin says when went to college, he knew 3 girls who were dating professors. One who followed the professor from Berkeley to Buffalo State.
- Being afraid to be seen with a student wasn’t that big of an issue in the 90s, unlike what the show portrays.
- They had to write Andrea’s sex scene early in the season, because Carteris was going to have a baby soon.
- They like the line of how Donna says she and Andrea are the last virgins, and Andrea has to suppress the truth, and nod.
- Rosin recalls when he and Karen were at Lake Como in Italy, and the show was on. Instead of the credits rolling, they immediately went to commercial. Rosin was mad.
- When Rosin went to the 1973 World Series in Oakland, there were more fans for the Mets, than the A’s.
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2024.02.10 17:56 primal_slayer Flashback: Summer of 1994 - Drew Barrymore to replace Shannen Doherty? Not if Tiffani zips into the zipcode first
| One thing I enjoy every now and then is to read articles that were put out while the show was airing. Here are some surrounding the initial casting speculations for replacing Shannen after she left followed by the confirmation Drew This just in. Shannen Doherty says she wasn't fired from Beverly Hills, 90210. "I quit," she said. In an interview being published in TV Guide's Jan. 23 issue, she called it a "mutual decision" between her and producer Aaron Spelling. "We backed each other against the wall," Doherty said. "I feel no sadness. Who wants to get up at 5 a.m. and leave the arms of your husband and go work for 12 hours in a job in which you're miserable?" Doherty last year married Ashley Hamilton, son of actor George Hamilton. Spelling, whose daughter, Tori, also stars in Fox TV's 90210, said only that "Shannen knows why she will not be on the show next year." Insiders say Drew Barrymore, whom many still remember as the little sister in E.T. _ The Extra-Terrestrial, soon will be replacing Shannen Doherty on Beverly Hills, 90210. Fox continues to have no comment. Doherty continues to have no supporters. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/01/13/shannon-says-she-quit/ Schools out School is finally out for Shannen Doherty on Beverly Hills 90210, and her former castmates seem as exhilarated as students given an unexpected holiday. Luke Perry, whose star has ascended the highest as a result of BH 90210, More from Tom Jicha3E was the most outspoken about Doherty’s departure at the end of last season. The whole situation surrounding Doherty “sucked,” Perry said. Other cast members were more restrained during a visit by the TV press corps to the set of the Fox series, which enters its fifth season in the fall. They apparently had been urged, or told, not to bad-mouth the notoriously difficult and temperamental Doherty. Her former colleagues let their feelings be known in other ways; wry smiles, rolled eyes and winks as they spouted the party line: “We wish Shannen well.” Carol Potter, who plays Cindy Walsh, the mother of Doherty’s Brenda Walsh character, smiled broadly as she explained how Brenda will be dispatched from the series as expeditiously and unceremoniously as possible. “There will be a passing mention that she went to Europe and decided to stay there to study art. She will not be seen and there will not be a phone call from her. Not even a letter.” Tiffani-Amber Thiessen also gave an indication of feelings toward Doherty when she responded to a question about what she felt it was that enabled her to beat out hundreds of young actresses for the spot vacated by Doherty. “I think it was that they heard I had a reputation for being easy to work with.” Thiessen has a better feel for what’s going on behind the scenes than most actresses joining a series might have. Her real-life boyfriend, Brian Austin Green, plays David Silver on BH 90210. But art will not imitate life. Thiessen is destined for a romantic involvement with Perry’s Dylan McKay. Thiessen, who is best known as Kelly on Saved by the Bell, will play a friend of the Walsh family named Valerie Malone. Valerie’s parents have recently been killed in an accident. With Brenda’s room suddenly vacant, Valerie will be invited to live with the Walshes while she goes to college. This will put Valerie in tight quarters with Brandon Walsh, played by Jason Priestly. Potter joked that maybe Cindy Walsh should install a motion detector in the hallways at night. Thiessen said that from what she knows of plans for her character, which she admitted isn’t a lot, this won’t be necessary. “I think Brandon will be out of bounds for Valerie.” Valerie, however, will not be a sweetheart who plays by the rules. “She’s a chameleon,” Thiessen said. “On the surface she seems sweet and innocent but she has a real dark side.”Kind of like Shannen Doherty. The other characters will be fooled by Valerie, but the audience will quickly be let in on Valerie’s split personality, Thiessen said. She’s looking forward to the change of pace of playing a troublemaker. Her Saved by the Bell character, who will be married to Zack in a movie on NBC this fall, was about as goody-goody as it gets. Thiessen, who also auditioned for Models Inc., said she has only a one-year deal with BH 90210, which many expect to end after this season, but she is hopeful that the show will go on beyond that. Perry seconded that thought, even though he is trying to launch a big screen career. “You work so hard to get something like this going, you don’t want to blow it.”Unless you’re Shannen Doherty. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1994/07/19/shannens-out-tiffani-ambers-in-at-90210/ New bad girl in Beverly Hills There’s a new bad girl in Beverly Hills. Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, long of NBC’s silly tween sitcom “Saved by the Bell,” replaces the errant Shannen Doherty as the newest vixen in Fox’s fabled zip code, which begins its new season Wednesday. She won’t take over the role of Brenda Walsh, the sweet, if slightly neurotic, character the publicly sour Doherty played on “Beverly Hills, 90210.” She’ll play Valerie Malone, a family friend of the Walshes who moves into Brenda’s room and the lives of her friends. For Thiessen, the transition has been easy. “I knew the cast already,” she says, since her real-life boyfriend Brian Austin Green was already on the show. But what about working on the same set? “Our characters don’t get involved,” she says. But Valerie does get quite cozy with Dylan (Luke Perry), Brenda’s ex. As Thiessen tells it, Valerie moves smoothly into the “90210” storyline. “Valerie’s described as a chameleon,” she says at a small Santa Monica coffee shop. “She’s totally different from scene to scene and from one person to the next.” When it’s suggested that kind of behavior might indicate Valerie’s not too stable, she says, “They haven’t said if she’s mentally imbalanced yet. But that’s how she feels safe. It’s the only way she knows.” The “90210” producers don’t want to “reduce Valerie to ‘the bad girl,’ ” executive producer Charles Rosin says in a phone interview. “I don’t want her to be that stereotype. I hope everyone’s patient. We’re reinventing the show and finding her character. Our show’s always evolving and so’ll Valerie.” For the moment, Rosin says, Thiessen “plays her perky and she plays her very dark. I don’t know her that well, but it doesn’t seem part and parcel of what she is, that dark side.” “Valerie just does whatever she can to feel comfortable,” Thiessen explains, as she sits back in the oak chair and throws her army-booted foot over the arm of the chair, her long floral dress flowing around her. “She smokes pot a lot.” In her character’s defense, typical of actresses who play connivers (a la Heather Locklear’s “Melrose Place” nightmare, Amanda), Thiessen describes Valerie as “a very troubled lady.” And much of the hype surrounding the new character dwells on how nasty she is. “I’d call her a bad girl in the sense that she does bad things,” says Thiessen. “She’s had a lot of difficulty in her life and doesn’t know how to deal with them.” Thiessen, who’s had little difficulty in her own life, proudly says she has nothing in common with her character. A model since the age of 9, she was Miss Junior America and a winner of the Teen Magazine Model Search. Her parents, she says, “entered me in pageants to teach me poise and how to be a girl. It wasn’t to win prizes or do the beauty thing.” The “beauty thing,” however, did lead to “Saved by the Bell” and its prime-time incarnation, “Saved by the Bell: The College Years,” which lasted four months. She stars in the upcoming movie spinoff “Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas,” which airs Oct. 7 on NBC. “I haven’t gotten everything I’ve gone up for,” she notes, lest it seem as if her life is too charmed. “I auditioned for ‘Models Inc.’ and didn’t get it . . . but something better came along.” But does that something better mean she has big shoes to fill? “I knew you were going to ask me that,” she says with a sigh. “No. I am not Brenda, I am Valerie. I don’t look anything like her,” the blue-eyed brunette says of Doherty, who also happens to be a blue-eyed brunette. “They may say Valerie is a lot like Shannen Doherty. Maybe she is. But she’s completely different than Brenda.” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-04-tv-34509-story.html Moving into Shannens room This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. THIS IS NOT A CINDERELLA story, not by a long shot. When Shannen Doherty, the excessively newsworthy female star of "Beverly Hills 90210," the Fox network's most successful show ever, finally exited that long-running series last season, the last thing its producers wanted was to replace her with an unknown quantity, a tube-struck starlet or a potential loose cannon. Enter Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, seasoned professional actress. Don't be fooled by her filigreed first name (her parents liked Tiffani; her grandparents liked Amber), her distressed jeans and scuffed Doc Martens or her utterly unlined heart-shaped face. At age 20 years and 7 months, Ms. Thiessen has probably spent as much time working on television shows as many of her peers have spent watching them. Her career is well into its second decade. She has not been to college or even attended a conventional high school, but has played plenty of high school and college students, appeared in several television and theatrical movies and been a mainstay of a successful sitcom. "Yes, I've been in this business for a long time," she says matter-of-factly, looking like a Working Woman cover model as she hovers over coffee and a bran muffin at a vegetarian restaurant on the Sunset Strip. "I started very young, and, yes, it's taught me a lot. I understood what fame is, but I also realize that acting is just a job." Her new job (her first "90210" appearance will be Sept. 7) is to play Valerie Malone, an awestruck transfer student from Minnesota. Sign up for the Watching newsletter, for Times subscribers only. Streaming TV and movie recommendations from critic Margaret Lyons and friends. Try the Watching newsletter for 4 weeks. As Valerie, Ms. Thiessen will occupy the very same bedroom as did Brenda Walsh -- formerly played by Ms. Doherty, who, her co-workers have said, was often late on set. That, combined with her real-life at-large shenanigans, precipitated Brenda's enrollment in acting school, in far-off London, England, several months ago. "Yes, I move in with the Walshes," Ms. Thiessen said. At first, she adds, Valerie is somewhat disgusted by the fast-lane excesses she's exposed to. "But inside, she really wants to be here and be like everybody else. Meaning, probably, like Brenda." Producers appreciate a veteran who can step right in and do the job. "Tiffani is wonderful. We've been aware of her for a long time," says Aaron Spelling, the creator of "90210" and Ms. Thiessen's boss. "Don't you get the feeling," he adds, mostly but not altogether humorously, "that she's been here before? In a past life?" The daughter of a landscape architect and a homemaker, Ms. Thiessen was raised in Long Beach, just south of Los Angeles. She began entering beauty pageants and modeling for catalogues at around age 7, became Miss Junior America and starred in a Barbie commercial. She has appeared in series like "Step by Step," "Charles in Charge" and "The Hogan Family." Five years ago she won the part of Kelly Kaplowski, a sweet teen-ager, in "Saved by the Bell," the NBC Saturday morning comedy that spent its final season (1993-94) in prime time. On a publicity tour of Europe, where the show was a smash hit, she was pelted with boxes of chocolates thrown by overly affectionate Belgians. Three years ago she moved to Los Angeles by herself, and now has a steady relationship with the actor Brian Austin Green, who plays the near-dweeb David Silver on "90210." The show itself, says Mr. Spelling, will probably run "to 2006, when the cast graduates from college." But Ms. Thiessen is not so sure she'll still be there. "I'm still playing teen-agers," she says. "I don't know if I'll be an adult actor. I don't even know how much longer I want to be in this business. It's going great right now, but who knows? There's so many other things I might want to be doing. "I definitely do want to go to college for real some day, do it right. But, you know, it's really hard to do it when you're working." https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/07/arts/up-and-coming-tiffani-amber-thiessen-moving-into-shannen-s-room.html submitted by primal_slayer to BeverlyHills90210 [link] [comments] |
2024.01.27 13:01 FelicitySmoak_ On This Day In Michael Jackson HIStory - January 27th
| 1979- On their Destiny tour, The Jacksons perform at Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt, Germany 1980- The Jacksons receive the NAACP Image Award at the Hollywood Palladium for 'Best Singing Group of the Year' https://preview.redd.it/m9iatzhyimec1.png?width=400&format=png&auto=webp&s=88d5bebc17040801ebbaab2b46d1b5e8b73bdf68 https://preview.redd.it/j9r52wl0jmec1.jpg?width=301&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dc398780615f0aae55a32074817b6393198986ae 1984- It is announced that Jackie Onassis will publish Michael’s autobiography. 1984- During the filming of a second Pepsi commercial named “Concert”, directed by Bob Giraldi, a pyrotechnic failure causes an accident. https://preview.redd.it/8kzxq4s3jmec1.jpg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04b7f23ad8019f9f57207ff3488659c239ae16b4 At 6:00 PM, Giraldi called for another take of the scene with Michael dancing down the staircase. This was the last scene to be shot after four days of filming. With the magnesium smoke bombs used for the commercial, being only two feet away from either side of Michael's head, a spark from one of the bombs sets his hair alight. https://preview.redd.it/4334zy58jmec1.jpg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c9a0cad6539f97a450746b3c8f841b309844c489 The first to reach Michael to help was his personal secretary, Miko Brando, Marlon Brando's son, who quickly extinguished the flames, possibly saving Michael's life. Miko did smother the flames with his hands and suffered burns on his own fingers trying to put out the flames in Michael's hair. A fan from the audience applied an ice pack on the burns Michael is rushed to Cedar Sinai Medical Center, where his arrival causes a media frenzy. All the Jackson family joins him at the hospital. Later, Michael is moved to Brotman Memorial Hospital for treatment at the burn center. Having been told a barrage of reporters and photographers awaited his arrival at the hospital, Michael told the ambulance attendants that he wanted to wear his glove when he was wheeled into the hospital https://preview.redd.it/rd59wpsajmec1.jpg?width=528&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4bac18f84893e39343cd05a2004f19a6d35820c Michael had suffered a palm sized 2nd degree burn on the back of his head with a smaller third degree burn the size of a half dollar at the center. It was a serious burn that reportedly could have burned through his scalp and killed him. Michael at first refused any pain killers due to his strong disapproval of any drugs. Later, he did give in to the extreme pain and accepted medication. While burned & injured himself, he doesn't hesitate to visit other patients As a result of the unfortunate incident & news coverage, both Pepsi and Jackson’s sales soar. Two subsequent Pepsi commercials are debuted at the Grammy awards ceremony in 1984. Michael does not sue Pepsi, instead donates the entire earnings in damages from the sponsor, $1.5 million, to a center named after him, The Michael Jackson Burn Center For Children 1986- "We Are The World" wins the 'Song of the Year' award at the 13th American Music Awards ceremony held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Michael arrives half-way through the ceremony in the company of Elizabeth Taylor. https://preview.redd.it/th3bostgjmec1.jpg?width=539&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e71fc0c36ba2f1b490651f471587b9223d665ad0 Katherine, LaToya, Rebbie & Janet (making her 1st public appearance with her new boyfriend, Rene Elizondo Jr) also attend the ceremony. 'American Music Award of Appreciation' went to Harry Belafonte, who first conceived the idea to create a project for the relief of famine in Ethiopia. On accepting the Award, he called Ken Kragen, Quincy Jones, Lionel Richie and Michael up on stage to share the Award. At the show's conclusion, most of the celebrities including Diana Ross, Janet & LaToya, reunited with them on stage to sing "We Are The World" https://preview.redd.it/nc6n8g33kmec1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6cb1e2762d3df7cb79ff8b73647b69185f1ebab3 Following the awards presentation, Michael, with Elizabeth Taylor, joined Lionel Richie and Brenda Richie for dinner. Michael took along his personal chef who prepared him steamed okra. https://preview.redd.it/vj6tuyp4kmec1.jpg?width=415&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d96dd128b65b78f22e25b8fef73719f1699c6ea1 https://preview.redd.it/te7okev6kmec1.jpg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32122f1d85522973c46ff1c70544fbd9c099ccb0 1989- Michael performs his 123rd & final show at Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena (closed-2016) in Los Angeles, California, marking the end of his Bad World Tour https://preview.redd.it/6y8wi01akmec1.jpg?width=346&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c7302d33b92b4bee22ecd73864411e24d0c19ac https://preview.redd.it/nwzx5j2ckmec1.jpg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fb181b7ab744c1f2a887f744a663e69385a8d40 Los Angeles mayor, Tom Bradley, declared it 'Michael Jackson Day' and presented Michael with the proclamation. Several celebrities showed up to wish him farewell. Among them were Raquel Welch, Michael Landon, Phil Collins, Dionne Warwick, Lola Falona, Tiffany, Diahann Carroll, Ava Gardner, and Sidney Poitier. Many of Michael's closest friends were also there; Suzanne dePasse, Sophia Loren, Jane Fonda, and Smokey Robinson. Rebbie, Jackie, Jermaine, Janet and his mother, Katherine, were all there for Michael's final concert performance. Elizabeth Taylor and Diana Ross also attended the last show. One other very special friend visited Michael backstage that night, Bubbles. https://preview.redd.it/fe5qb3eekmec1.jpg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb4123b753dcd818506390e29f162134a7f029a1 For this performance, Berry Gordy was again in the audience. Michael dedicated the Motown medley to Gordy, and at the end of the show he told the audience: "Ladies and gentlemen, there is a man here tonight who helped my career. He is Berry Gordy. Stand up Berry!" Among the children to join Michael on stage for this final performance was Jimmy Safechuck. Jimmy was dressed as Michael and performed the new sideways moonwalk right alongside Michael. https://preview.redd.it/bg4j9etfkmec1.jpg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c990145f438bb0cd869bfeca14f0a66076fa9711 The Bad tour broke all existing records and became the biggest tour ever done up to that date. The Bad World Tour attendance figures total 4.4 million, making Michael's 16 month tour [September 12, 1987 - January 27, 1989], which played in 15 countries, the largest in history at the time. The tour became also the highest grossing concert tour, grossing over US $125 million, more than any other entertainer has ever grossed on a single tour. The BAD tour was the 6th largest tour of the year in the US, playing in only 19 cities, the tour grossed $20.3 million. Michael will break his tour records a couple years later. During his European leg of the Bad tour, Michael was earning UK£ 3'425 a minute. Michael had negotiated a deal worth UK £20 million, of which he received 90% of the proceeds from all concerts. After paying his entourage of 140, he was left with profits of around UK £400'000 per show. The Bad World Tour was supposed to end on 12/26/88, but Michael was forced to postpone five concerts at Memorial Arena in Los Angeles after suffering from swollen vocal chords following his performance there on 11/13/87. Those final five shows were held between January 16-27, 1989, bringing the massive 16-month odyssey to an end. https://preview.redd.it/w8lcrw4kkmec1.jpg?width=644&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98d8bde7ff039432793ff5f9558e9d472d2bef71 Between September 12, 1987 and January 27, 1989, Michael had performed 123 concerts to a total of 4.4 million people, grossing a total of $125 million, a sum that earned him yet another entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. Along the way, he made numerous large charitable donations and frequently invited underprivileged children to see the show for free. https://preview.redd.it/um6m7bnlkmec1.png?width=852&format=png&auto=webp&s=e53fd80f6a60794b6b62c889732dc3b2cafa06ab 1990- Michael attends the American Cinema Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. He receives the 'Entertainer Of The Decade Award' from his guest Sophia Loren. https://preview.redd.it/goj1k1tokmec1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c09d03304d7444287264987575cfa40556143e26 The American Cinema Foundation awarded special honors to three entertainers. Elizabeth Taylor and Gregory Peck were honored for their career achievements in films. The 'Entertainer of the Decade'honor was awarded to Michael Among Michael's guests at the award presentation were Janet, Tito, and Jermaine. The award ceremony was a little late getting started, as Michael showed up two hours late. When he finally showed up, dressed in a red shirt, and black military jacket, Sophia Loren presented Michael with his award, and he gave an incredible three minute speech: "I'm giving a long speech because I'm not on television" In fact, no cameras were allowed to film him. In his speech, Michael spoke of his deep affection for fellow honoree Elizabeth Taylor. Taylor had had similar praise for Michael in her own speech saying she was happy to be honored with "my beloved Michael, whom I would have loved and admired if I had never seen him dance or heard him sing." https://preview.redd.it/wj9gvtovkmec1.jpg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f593690b664cec56d6cddbca01b4c6d41b40f48 1992- Michael is on the cover of People magazine https://preview.redd.it/cypxenkxkmec1.jpg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68517b9e108eabda0150d97a0f5f2141ae02dcea 2004- Michael & his ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, reach an agreement to have retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Stephen M. Lachs preside over the case relating to custody & visitation rights for their children. 2004- Michael is on the cover of tabloid magazine, The National Enquirer https://preview.redd.it/a2ftktqzkmec1.jpg?width=1061&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19fb31acdeb57787414b689fbc6784a700e8c093 2007- Michael has dinner with UK producer Simon Fuller, Emmy award winning director and choreographer Kenny Ortega who choreographed the HIStory tour and US journalist Robin Leach at "Wing Lei" Chinese Restaurant at Wynn in Las Vegas. https://preview.redd.it/e0p16932lmec1.jpg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e0dc3a45adbea765bd392db94f2936a5113aceb Both Michael and Ortega have been associated with Steve Wynn. Michael was often a guest of Wynn's at The Mirage and there was talk that Wynn was bringing Michael back to Las Vegas. submitted by FelicitySmoak_ to MichaelJackson [link] [comments] |
2024.01.20 14:15 pomegranate2012 The UK film festivals you need to know: 2024 dates, submission and contact details
January
Horror-on-Sea Film Festival
Festival director: Paul Cotgrove
Dates of next edition: January 12-14, 19-21, 2024
Paid admissions: 2,000
Funding: Sponsorship, ticket sales
About: A Victorian hotel in Southend-on-Sea feels an appropriate setting for a festival dedicated to horror and genre films. Horror-on-Sea has been running for over 10 years and its programme comprises 36 feature films and over 50 short films. The festival is a launchpad for B-movie horrors and often hosts a world premiere each night of its run.
Submission deadline: September (TBC)
Contact: [
horror@thewhitebus.org.uk](mailto:
horror@thewhitebus.org.uk)
February
BFI Future Film Festival
Festival director: Aleks Dimitrijevic
Dates of next edition: February 15-18, 2024
Paid admissions: 2,000
Funding: BFI, sponsors, partners
Notable guests: Daisy Ridley, Reggie Yates, Kit Connor
About: The largest industry film festival in the UK for 16-25 year olds, Future connects aspiring young screen creatives with industry experts, as well as providing them with opportunities to meet fellow young creatives, find collaborators and build their networks. Events are hosted in person at London’s BFI Southbank and online through Zoom, YouTube and Instagram Live.
Memorable moment: “Our 2023 edition was particularly memorable thanks to Spike Lee who, visiting London to receive a BFI Fellowship, held a masterclass for young filmmakers and also recorded a special video message to welcome audiences on our opening day.” — Aleks Dimitrijevic.
Submission deadline: September (TBC)
Contact: [
filmacademy@bfi.org.uk](mailto:
filmacademy@bfi.org.uk)
Glasgow Film Festival (GFF)
Festival director: Allison Gardner
Dates of next edition: February 28-March 10, 2024
Paid admissions: 34,000
Funding: Screen Scotland, BFI, Glasgow Life and Event Scotland
Notable guests: David Tennant, Emily Watson, Simon Pegg
About: As a leading film festival in the UK, Glasgow brands itself as ‘one of the friendliest film festivals in the world’ and will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2025. The festival showcases cinemas both from Scotland and around the world (its 2023 line-up featured 123 titles, including the UK premiere of Adura Onashile’s
Girl) and cites Toronto International Film Festival and SXSW as its influences. The event’s only competitive prize is the audience award, given to an outstanding feature film by a first or second time director. Glasgow’s busy industry focus runs March 4-7, and was attended last year by Reclaim The Frame director Melanie Iredale, the British Council’s Catherine Bray and filmmaker Jeanie Finlay.
Memorable moment: “The year Richard Gere attended [2016] and it was the same night as the Oscars. He said “It’s the Academy Awards tonight? Where am I? I’m in Glasgow.” — Allison Gardner.
Submission deadline: October (TBC)
Contact: [
industry@glasgowfilm.org](mailto:
industry@glasgowfilm.org)
Keswick Film Festival
Festival director: Ian Payne
Dates of next edition: February 29-March 3, 2024
Paid admissions: 2,300
Funding: Commercial sponsorship, ticket sales
Notable guests: John Hurt, Ken Loach, Andrea Arnold
About: Born out of a local film club, Keswick Film Festival has been running since 2000 and relies solely on volunteers. Its main venue, the historic Alhambra Cinema, hosted an array of festival hits including
Blue Jean,
EO, and
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed at its 2023 edition.
Submission deadline: January (TBC)
Contact: [
festival@keswickfilmclub.org](mailto:
festival@keswickfilmclub.org)
March
BFI Flare: London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival
Festival director: Kristy Matheson
Dates of next edition: March 13-24, 2024
Paid admissions: 29,000
Funding: ticket sales, sponsorship, BFI resources
Notable guests: Ben Whishaw, Terence Stamp, Hugh Grant
About: The biggest and longest-running LGBTQIA+ festival in Europe, Flare has taken on a few different names since being founded in 1986 including Gay’s Own Pictures and the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (LLGFF). Its inclusive and diverse programme consists of three main strands – Hearts, Bodies and Minds – as well as a recently added Flare Expand strand for LGBTQIA+ projects using immersive art, virtual reality and other emerging technologies.
Submission deadline: December (TBC)
Contact: [
BFIFlareSubmissions@bfi.org.uk](mailto:
BFIFlareSubmissions@bfi.org.uk)
Borderlines Film Festival
Festival director: Naomi Vera-Sanso
Paid admissions: 22,000
Dates of next edition: March 1-17, 2024
Funding: BFI Audience, The Elmley Foundation, Hereford City Council
Notable guests: Terence Davies
, Toby Jones, Stephen Frears
About: The largest rural film festival in the UK, Borderlines screens across Herefordshire, Shropshire, Malvern and the Welsh borders. With an aim to bring cinema to local communities, films have been screened at unique venues including village halls, bookshops and churches.
Submission deadline: December (TBC)
Contact: [
info@borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk](mailto:
info@borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk)
Crystal Palace International Film Festival (CPIFF)
Festival director: Roberta Gallinari
Dates of next edition: February 29-March 23, 2024
Paid admissions: 2,200
Funding: Local company sponsors, film submissions and ticket sales
Notable guests: Paul Weller, Johnny Vegas, Mike Reiss
About: Hosted at a variety of venues across southeast London, Crystal Palace puts an emphasis on the social event that comes with watching films. The festival also gives out a Rising Star award, providing a young filmmaker with paid work experience in the industry.
Memorable moment: “Mike Reiss doing a sold-out talk on ‘The Secrets of The Simpsons’ – he writes on the show and talked for over 90 mins with loads of great and juicy stories.” — Roberta Gallinari.
Submission deadline: December 2, 2024
Contact: [
films@cpiff.co.uk](mailto:
films@cpiff.co.uk)
Manchester Film Festival (MFF)
Festival director: Neil Jeram-Croft
Dates of next edition: March 15-24, 2024
Paid admissions: 5,800
Funding: Sponsors, ticket sales and film submissions
Notable guests: Simon Pegg, Shia LaBeouf, Mark Gatiss
About: Gearing up to celebrate its 10th edition, Manchester Film Festival follows up every screening with a Q&A and is known for its after-parties hosted each night of its 10-day run. The festival also presents a two-day industry programme complete with over 20 panels and gives out several awards as well as running an un-commissioned screenplay competition.
Memorable moment: “2023’s
Love Without Walls after-party, we moved on at 1am to head to karaoke but unfortunately were denied entry due to members of our party being a bit too merry!” - Neil Jeram-Croft.
Submission deadline: November 2024 (TBC)
Contact: [
hello@maniff.com](mailto:
hello@maniff.com)
Oska Bright Film Festival
Head programmer: Matthew Hellett
Dates of next edition: March 11-17, 2024
Paid admissions: 3,500
Funding: BFI
Notable guests: Steve Oram, Ben Wheatley and Andrea Arnold
About: One of the world’s leading festivals for films made by or featuring people with learning disabilities or autism, Oska showcases around 100 films each year in addition to promoting accessible screenings, running training for venues and developing skills for aspiring filmmakers. Founded in 2004, it runs every two years and in non-festival years, Oska tours various other festivals around the country and abroad to present features, run workshops and host seminars.
Memorable moment: “At one edition of the awards ceremony, we planned for The Daniel Wakeford Experience to do a surprise performance. They were set up behind the cinema screen. The screen dropped slightly once the awards were over, and everyone thought something had gone wrong. However, it was all part of the plan, and the screen dropped to reveal the band playing. It was a great moment!” — Lizzie Banks, deputy artistic director
Submission deadline: May (TBC)
Contact: [
oskabright@carousel.org.uk](mailto:
oskabright@carousel.org.uk)
April
Queer East Film Festival
Festival director: Yi Wang
Dates of next edition: April 17-28, 2024
Paid admissions: 5,000
Funding: BFI, Arts Council England
Notable guests: Anucha Boonyawatana, Perci Intalan, Tsai Ming-liang
About: An inter-disciplinary festival, Queer East highlights films from east and southeast Asia that centre around LGBTQIA+ themes. It takes place across multiple venues in London and is running into its fifth edition, with its 2023 line-up including Sung Bin Byun’s
Peafowl.
Memorable moment: “Reading through our audience feedback over the past few years, many people emphasise the importance of showcasing films and cultures that they might not otherwise get a chance to see. How vital it is for queer Asian communities to see themselves being represented on the big screen; and how encouraging it is that a platform like ours can spotlight young and emerging Asian talent.” —b Yi Wang.
Submission deadline: January 12, 2024
Contact: info[@queereast.org.uk](mailto:
press@queereast.org.uk)
May
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival
Festival director: Simon Howlett
Dates of next edition: May 20-23, 2024
Paid admissions: N/A
Funding: Film Hub Wales, Wales Interactive, Lunix OM, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Film Carmarthenshire
Notable guests: John Parr, Jamie Anderson, Benjamin Field
About: Running since 2012, Carmarthen Bay takes place in the Welsh coastal town of Llanelli and screens all of its programme for free. The festival has grown significantly during its tenure and recently added two more editions — Ffresh Festival for media art students in Wales; and International Media Festival of Wales, recognising all aspects connected to the process of filmmaking, content creation and production.
Submission deadline: February 29, 2024
Contact: [
admin@carmarthenbayfilmfestival.co.uk](mailto:
admin@carmarthenbayfilmfestival.co.uk)
Romford Film Festival / Romford Horror Film Festival
Festival directors: Spencer Hawken and Natalie Bays
Dates of next edition: May 24-28 2024, (RIFF); February 29-March 3, 2024 (RHIFF)
Paid admissions: 2,000
Funding: In-kind support
Notable guests: Robert Davi, Luke Goss, Rutger Hauer, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
About: Romford runs two separate festivals — Romford Film Festival in May and Romford Horror Film Festival (or HorRHIFFic as it prefers to be known) in late February, early March. The festival also collaborates with the Eurasian Creative Guild to screen films from central Asia that rarely get screened in the UK.
Memorable moment: “In 2020 we were the first festival to run post-Covid lockdown and operated a physical festival over five screens, adhering to strict social distancing guidelines. We also had our highest ever attendance with just under 3200 attendees over 10 days, with attendees desperate to have some sort of normality.” — Spencer Hawken.
Submission deadline: March (RIFF), December (RHIFF)
Contact: [
theromfordfilmfestival@gmail.com](mailto:
theromfordfilmfestival@gmail.com)
June
London Indian Film Festival (LIFF)
Festival director: Cary Rajinder Sawhney
Dates of next edition: June 17 - July 3
Paid admissions: 8,000-10,000
Funding: Bagri Foundation, BFI, Film Hub Network
Notable guests: Shekhar Kapur
, Gurinder Chadha, Asif Kapadia
About: Europe’s largest annual South Asian Film event, LIFF takes place synchronously in London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. Line-ups traditionally include UK premieres of titles from the region, and the festival also hosts its Brit-Asian Shorts and Satyajit Ray Short Film Competition. It frequently boasts up to 50% non-Asian audiences and the director describes it as “the punk rock of Indian film festivals”.
Memorable moment: “Being one of the three festivals still standing in May 2020 lockdown, when we switched our programme online and tripled our audience.” — Cary Rajinder Sawhney.
Submission deadline: March 22
Contact: [
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Sheffield DocFest
Festival director: Annabel Grundy (managing director), Raul Niño Zambrano (acting creative director)
Dates of next edition: June 12-17, 2024
Paid admissions: 35,000
Funding: Sheffield City Council, BFI, sponsorship, project grants
Notable guests: Michael Moore, Paul Greengrass, Werner Herzog
About: The UK’s biggest documentary festival, Sheffield celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2023 where it screened 37 world premieres including Chris Smith’s
Wham! The festival also hosts an extensive industry strand that features MeetMarket, giving around 50 projects the opportunity to pitch to national and international industry. Many notable documentaries have gone through the festival’s market including 2023 Oscar nominee
All That Breathes. DocFest also gives out awards in Competition, first feature, short, youth jury, audience, alternate realities and a Tim Hetherington award.
Memorable moment: “Opening night of the 2022 edition with the UK premiere of
Moonage Daydream by Brett Morgen. It was a magical moment to screen the film in the iconic Sheffield City Hall where Morgen himself mixed the sound live during the screening.” — Raul Nino Zambrano.
Submission deadline: March 1, 2024
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Raindance Film Festival
Festival director: David Martinez (executive director); Martyna Szmytkowska, Malaika Bova, Suzanne Ballantyne (artistic directors)
Dates of next edition: June 19-29, 2024
Paid admissions: 16,000
Funding: Film London, BFI
Notable guests: Olivia Colman, Jude Law, Sally Hawkins
About: Hosted in the heart of London’s West End, Raindance is a showcase for independent film with the tagline “Discover. Be Discovered.” and is also the founder of the British Independent Film Awards (Bifas). Its industry showcase includes each day dedicated to a different craft and a script competition while other prizes awarded include best UK feature and best debut feature. The festival celebrated 30 years in 2022 and has recently moved from its usual October slot to June.
Memorable moment: “At my first Raindance in 2012 Alan Rickman showed up uninvited at our Opening Gala on Haymarket. He asked for Elliot [Grove, Raindance founder] and told him he wanted to ’just want to quietly sit on the back of the room, no photos’. That to me proved the reach of Raindance, the love and support from the local industry, and the relaxed environment we create at the festival.” — David Martinez.
Submission deadline: February 5, 2024
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Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival
Festival director: Sylvie Bolioli
Dates of next edition: June 25-30, 2024
Paid admissions: 1,000
Funding: Film Hub South East, BFI, Kent Community Project, Ramsgate Town Council
Notable guests: Valarie Leon, Nick Broomfield, Rupert Jones
About: Earlier this year, Ramsgate International Film & TV Festival nearly faced closure but its patron Brenda Blethyn along with a group of filmmakers and enthusiasts stepped in to save the day. Despite having no cinemas in the town, the festival still hosts an extensive programme at various makeshift venues and hands out a major sculptural “Anchor” award, designed by the late Dominic Grant.
Memorable moment: “When French actofilmmaker Clémentine Célarié and her producer arrived for the UK premiere of
Pierre Et Jeanne, they were a bit shocked to discover their film would be screening at a constructed screen created in a youth arts project building as the town had recently lost its cinema. But the filmmakers soon warmed to the environment and atmosphere that the locals had created for the festival. The producer even donated his airfare back to the festival on realising its plight.” — Sylvie Bolioli.
Submission deadline: February 7, 2024
Contact: https://ramsgateiftvfest.org/contact-us-2/ Windrush Caribbean Film Festival
Festival director: Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe
Dates of next edition: June 1-30, 2024
Paid admissions: 350
Funding: BFI, sponsorship
Notable guests: Adjani Salmon
, Clint Dyer
About: Launched in response to the Windrush scandal, this festival aims to celebrate the rich heritage of Caribbean storytelling both in the UK and further abroad. Screenings and events are hosted at venues across the country with the aim of showcasing Black creatives on screen and reinforcing the impact of contributions from the Windrush generation to the UK.
Memorable moment: “Our 2023 edition was also the 75th anniversary of the Windrush ship arriving at Tilbury Docks. There were many memorable moments including London premiere of cricket documentary
501 Not Out, which was attended by Brian Lara who flew in from Trinidad and Tobago during the week of the 1st Ashes test match.” — Emmanuel Anyiam-Osigwe.
Submission deadline: TBC
Contact: [
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2024.01.18 07:29 EF5TornadoShelters Ensuring Safety with Storm Shelters in OKC-Infographic
2024.01.18 05:37 jamieobh Which artist is most likely to break The Beatles’ Hot 100 record?
We’ve seen so many Billboard records being broken over the last few years with the advent of streaming - Lil Nas X securing most weeks at number 1, Heat Waves’ 59 week climb to number 1, Brenda Lee reaching the top at age 79 last month - but one record that has remained untouched is The Beatles 20 #1s, the most recent of which from 1970 (54 years).
So, which artist - if any - has the best chance of toppling them from the top spot?
Obviously Mariah is closest, only 1 hit from tying the record, although she’s maybe beyond her commercial prime. Rihanna is another one who’s not far off (14 #1s) but has seemingly abandoned hit-making.
Drake and Taylor are both within 10 (13 and 11 respectively) and seem to have no problem churning out hits - are they the biggest threat? And how long until we see someone hit 21 #1’s?
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2024.01.13 05:20 TREV-THOM Legacy of Monsters Fanedits: This Is Where the Fun Begins...
Alright guys, the time has come: season has wrapped, & I know I'm not the only one who has contemplated a movie edit for Legacy of Monsters.
One of us has previously suggested the timelines be split into two separate films. This is intriguing, especially if we include the prospect of adding the flashbacks of the 2015 trio to the end of the 50s-60s events, making it completely chronological.
However, I think push comes to shove, the show in its present form demonstrated it was usually at its best when the two timelines went back & forth with each other, namely the first 3 episodes, #6, & then the last three. So I'd keep that dynamic in the film edit.
The ones set purely in the 2010s were the ones that got lost in the weeds more often, namely #s 4, 5, & 7, with #10 being the only one to break this "curse". So, safe to say, my interest in cutting would lie with these 3, though little tidbits could be cut from others too.
My notes, on each episode, as to what could be cut to get us down to feature length.
Episodes 1 & 2: Frankly, Matt Shakman did such a great job setting up the whole plot of LOM with his two episodes, I don't really want to cut anything from these. But, I'm open to suggestions.
Episode 3: I largely would keep this intact as well, but there are allusions to May/Cora's family subplot, as well as her romance with Ken, that I think can go.
Episode 4: Outside of escaping from the Frost Vark, I think the majority of this can go, even if I like the hallucination of Ken & Hiroshi & how it compares to the actual reunion towards the end of LOM. However, I do like the idea of Ken going off on his own & us not really knowing if he found what he was looking for till we get on the copter at the end, again, as previously suggested. Oh, all scenes with Barnes & her meetings with Monarch should be kept, as they relate to Keiko's S.O.S.
Episode 5: Lots to say on this one, so buckle up: Outside of the establishing shot of the Monarch outpost, I don't think we need to see the kids in their rooms as seen on the monitors. May & Michelle's correspondence could also probably go as well, across the board, & not just in this episode.
The scene of Monarch debating the kids' importance should be kept, as it leads to them being dropped off at the airport. May being needlessly rude to the woman at the counter can go, but the trio deciding to travel to San Fran should be kept. Shaw's interactions with Verdugo remain. The trio being picked up in San Fran, the meet-up with Caroline, & crossing into the Quarantine Zone, kept.
Now, the controversial part: I have no issue with Cate's orientation, however, I think all of her flashbacks exploring this are ultimately superfluous, & while her being a cheater makes for an ironic parallel with Hiroshi, I think it's not necessary. Cate's trauma from losing her students & finding out about Hiroshi's infidelity should be enough character motivation.
Once the trio are in the Zone, I think the only brush with the soldiers patrolling should be after Ken & Cate start singing the commercial jingles; good bonding moment, plus it makes sense why the soldiers would find & pursue them. We go into the tunnels, keep the moment with May calming Cate down as it's one of May's best moments.
Have them find the map at Hiroshi's office, meet back up with Caroline, but again, cut anything that alludes to May & Michelle's correspondence. Except maybe the scene of Michelle talking on the phone at the very end, to make it mysterious.
Phew, okay, Episode 6: Majority of this should remain, except scenes where May & Michelle discuss her going home. Keep the various glances the two exchange, which will lead to May's reveal/confession to Cate & Ken once they've separated from Lee & Michelle.
Episode 7: If not for the reveal of Brenda at the end of #10, I would've cut everything in this episode except the acknowledgement of Tim surviving the helicopter crash & meeting up with everyone at the airport & the scenes with Lee & Michelle. Given the end of #10, we trim May's kidnapping & meeting with Brenda down to the basics. Tim, Ken, & Cate don't meet up with May's family, but Tim's distraction is kept & his interactions with Verdugo remain. Monarch going public will be a tricky one, considering it features a reaction shot from May's sister, but for now it's up in the air I suppose.
Episodes 8-10: Honestly, I loved pretty much everything about these last three, & think they should be kept in their entirety.
So, when it's all said & done, still going to be a long feature film, but I think trimming a lot of fat from that middle section of the season will help it be more plot-driven, while still keeping character beats that worked.
But what do you say? What would you keep or cut from LOM?
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2024.01.13 05:17 TREV-THOM LOM Fanedits: This Is Where the Fun Begins...
Alright guys, the time has come: season has wrapped, & I know I'm not the only one who has contemplated a movie edit for Legacy of Monsters.
One of us has previously suggested the timelines be split into two separate films. This is intriguing, especially if we include the prospect of adding the flashbacks of the 2015 trio to the end of the 50s-60s events, making it completely chronological.
However, I think push comes to shove, the show in its present form demonstrated it was usually at its best when the two timelines went back & forth with each other, namely the first 3 episodes, #6, & then the last three. So I'd keep that dynamic in the film edit.
The ones set purely in the 2010s were the ones that got lost in the weeds more often, namely #s 4, 5, & 7, with #10 being the only one to break this "curse". So, safe to say, my interest in cutting would lie with these 3, though little tidbits could be cut from others too.
My notes, on each episode, as to what could be cut to get us down to feature length.
Episodes 1 & 2: Frankly, Matt Shakman did such a great job setting up the whole plot of LOM with his two episodes, I don't really want to cut anything from these. But, I'm open to suggestions.
Episode 3: I largely would keep this intact as well, but there are allusions to May/Cora's family subplot, as well as her romance with Ken, that I think can go.
Episode 4: Outside of escaping from the Frost Vark, I think the majority of this can go, even if I like the hallucination of Ken & Hiroshi & how it compares to the actual reunion towards the end of LOM. However, I do like the idea of Ken going off on his own & us not really knowing if he found what he was looking for till we get on the copter at the end, again, as previously suggested. Oh, Barnes & her meetings with Monarch from here on should be kept, as it relates to Keiko's S.O.S.
Episode 5: Lots to say on this one, so buckle up. Outside of the establishing shot of the Monarch outpost, I don't think we need to see the kids in their rooms as seen on the monitors. May & Michelle's correspondence could also probably go as well, across the board, & not just in this episode.
The scene of Monarch debating the kids' importance should be kept, as it leads to them being dropped off at the airport. May being needlessly rude to the woman at the counter can go, but the trio deciding to travel to San Fran should be kept. Shaw's interactions with Verdugo remain. The trio being picked up in San Fran, the meet-up with Caroline, & crossing into the Quarantine Zone, kept.
Now, the controversial part: I have no issue with Cate's orientation, however, I think all of her flashbacks exploring this are ultimately superfluous, & while her being a cheater makes for an ironic parallel with Hiroshi, I think it's not necessary. Cate's trauma from losing her students & finding out about Hiroshi's infidelity should be enough character motivation.
Once the trio are in the Zone, I think the only brush with the soldiers patrolling should be after Ken & Cate start singing the commercial jingles; good bonding moment, plus it makes sense why the soldiers would find & pursue them. We go into the tunnels, keep the moment with May calming Cate down as it's one of May's best moments.
Have them find the map at Hiroshi's office, meet back up with Caroline, but again, cut anything that alludes to May & Michelle's correspondence. Except maybe the scene of Michelle talking on the phone at the very end, to make it mysterious.
Phew, okay, Episode 6: Majority of this should remain, except scenes where May & Michelle discuss her going home. Keep the various glances the two exchange, which will lead to May's reveal/confession to Cate & Ken once they've separated from Lee & Michelle.
Episode 7: If not for the reveal of Brenda at the end of #10, I would've cut everything in this episode except the acknowledgement of Tim surviving the helicopter crash & meeting up with everyone at the airport & the scenes with Lee & Michelle. Given the end of #10, we trim May's kidnapping & meeting with Brenda down to the basics. Tim, Ken, & Cate don't meet up with May's family, but Tim's distraction is kept & his interactions with Verdugo remain. Monarch going public will be a tricky one, considering it features a reaction shot from May's sister, but for now it's up in the air I suppose.
Episodes 8-10: Honestly, I loved pretty much everything about these last three, & think they should be kept in their entirety.
So, when it's all said & done, still going to be a long feature film, but I think trimming a lot of fat from that middle section of the season will help it be more plot-driven, while still keeping character beats that worked.
But what do you think? What would you keep or cut from LOM?
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2024.01.06 00:25 ScienceNPhilosophy rideshare insurance - trying to understand path forward
I am looking into Rideshare Insurance. Live/work in PA (perhaps may do a little NJ in future?)
Any opinions on my chicken scratchings appreciated. This is confusing, yet important:
- REQUIRED IN PA EVEN???
- quote - state's minimum required coverages for commercial insurance??
- CHECK EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE COVERING
- Use insurance company COMMERCIAL site? eg, https://www.progressivecommercial.com/
- TRAVELERS NOT PROVIDE RIDESHARE???
- I curretly have Progressive auto insurance on my vehicle) Cheap plans MOST LIKELY only for that Period 1 B.S. Where The App is ON but no Rider is in progress - the Progressive add on ONLY provided this Gap coverage and I would had STILL been liable for a $2,500 deductible. Period 0 is scary - as it implies Uber won't cover you and your personal insurance won't cover you if there is an accident.
- "Progressive, Liberty mutual, and Allstate were the ones I know added it cheaply in KY."
- State Farm (FL). NOT food delivery?
- Progessive NOT really do rideshare?
- Mercury?
- Avoid Esurance?
- Best Rideshare insurance (reasonable price)?
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2024.01.01 13:03 FelicitySmoak_ On This Day In Michael Jackson HIStory - January 1st
| Disclaimer: Some of these events have unknown January dates. They are identified with a '*' 1970*- The Jackson 5 receive their 1st Image Award from the NAACP for Best Singing Group of the year https://preview.redd.it/n0mvtw0h0q9c1.jpg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf1903a0f37af4384636d146b3442ba774fde45b 1971\*- The Jackson 5 receive the NAACP’s Image Award for Best Singing Group Of The Year https://preview.redd.it/izi3al4r0q9c1.jpg?width=486&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1d5a8a7bc16f560aa842aa122fac2f0b12be5aa6 1972\*- Michael spends time visiting Diana Ross on the set of her movie Lady Sings The Blues 1972- The Jackson 5 perform a concert in Nashville, Tennessee 1972\*- The Jackson 5 visit the Children’s Heart Hospital in Philadelphia County, PA. Michael signs pictures and autographs for the children therein 1972\*- For the 3rd consecutive year, The Jackson 5 receive the NAACP’s Image Award for Male Group Of The Year https://preview.redd.it/kq58xfty0q9c1.jpg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d74e5480cb5f41bdc1b90124c0a52b16b1670316 1974-The Jackson 5 attend The Tournament of Roses Parade. (formally The Rose Parade, it is "America's New Year Celebration", a festival of flower-covered floats, marching bands, equestrians and a college football game on New Year's Day, produced by the non-profit 'Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association' https://preview.redd.it/udu9v9u31q9c1.jpg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b62939870d7141c0c96895e920be648845d699ba 1976\*- Motown begins court proceedings over The Jackson 5's departure to CBS seeking $20 million in damages 1976\- Steve Manning, a friend of the Jacksons and president of their fan club, publishes a book on the family titled *The Jacksons https://preview.redd.it/g4oiuxg81q9c1.jpg?width=533&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=883dc824f611dbad0e937aaa2267c8febef1e0aa 1979\*- The Jacksons rehearse for The Destiny Tour. Their new show include 4 songs from their new album ("Things I Do For You", "Destiny", "All Night Dancin’" & "Blame It On The Boogie") 1979*- Michael donates a number of books, including J.M Barrie's Peter Pan, to the Chicago Public Library’s Young Adult Section, and on occasion of a library project, "Boogie To The Book Beat", he delivers a speech on the importance of reading 1979\*- Michael participates at a fundraiser organised by American actress, writer and activist, Jane Fonda 1980*- Michael spends several weeks in New Hampshire on the set of the movie On Golden Pond visiting his friend Jane Fonda and while there he forms friendships with the movie’s other stars Henry Fonda & Katherine Hepburn. 1980\- Michael’s interview with Sylvia Chase from November 1979 is aired on ABC’s *20/20 and features live songs from the Destiny Tour (filmed at the Uniondale concert on 11/8/79) https://i.redd.it/q9pzt5zb1q9c1.gif 1980\*- Bill Bray hires a new bodyguard, Wayne Nagin, who will go on working for Michael until 2000 1980\*- John Branca becomes Michael’s attorney 1980*- Michael films a series of TV commercials for Japanese motorbike Suzuki titled “Love Is My Message” https://preview.redd.it/wndn65bi1q9c1.jpg?width=713&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=07ef171ae2297d5b23998c448ffee9fc9e16d6e7 1980\*- The Black Linkage For Adoptive Children hosts a charity event during which the Jacksons’ costumes from their 1979 Destiny Tour were auditioned off to the highest bidder. Michael's costume garnered $575,000, the highest price from an impersonator who performed in an outfit that night for a gig. 1981\*- Michael passes his drivers test & gets his liscense. Shortly thereafter, he is arrested by a cop, thinking his Rolls Royce is stolen and he is put in jail. A few hours later, Bill Bray comes to his rescue and Michael is released 1981\- Michael does backing vocals on the song “Going Back To Alabama” by Kenny Rogers and on *The Dude, an album by Quincy Jones 1982\*- Michael becomes friends with Marlon Brando and Mark Lester. 1982\- Singer Donna Summer covers world-anthem "State Of Independence" on her album, *Donna Summer, produced by Quincy Jones. Summer's version of the song features an all-star choir including Michael Jackson, Brenda Russell, James Ingram, Dionne Warwick, Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Lionel Richie, Christopher Cross, Dyan Cannon and Stevie Wonder. It was cited by Quincy Jones as being the precursor to and inspiration for the 1985 single "We are the world", written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie, and thematically, it is a spiritually-driven song about universal love, peace, and unity unfolding under God’s guiding truth. 1983\*- Michael hires Marlon Brando’s son, Miko Bando 1983\*- Katherine, LaToya, Michael & Janet move back to Hayvenhurst now equipped with a second story to the bedrooms, upstairs a den and a gym, downstairs a game room and a thirty-two-seat movie theater and off the entry hall, a trophy 1985\- Michael, Katherine & La Toya visit the set of US prime time soap opera *Dynasty and meet actress Joan Collins 1985\*- Michael becomes a close friend to actress Elizabeth Taylor 1986\*- Michael consults the dermatologist Arnold Klein because he has a skin disease called Vitiligo which depigments the color of his skin. He meets the nurse Debbie Rowe. 1987*- Michael buys a new condominium in Century City nicknamed 'The Hideout' 1988\*- Michael becomes friends with Deepak Chopra 1988\*- Michael attends the wedding of his attorney John Branca to Julie McArthur https://preview.redd.it/jaja9uto1q9c1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5f987de97ab124b062159c36ee3a09fee2b0026 https://preview.redd.it/r0ogs3vv1q9c1.jpg?width=540&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9dd1158245c8874643a9434c50c7a8c00b0dca02 https://preview.redd.it/rwuscdhx1q9c1.jpg?width=262&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8cb3822f6191e93e53fec3577ac7197893317b43 1988\- Michael shoots the “Speed Demon” short film, as part of the *Moonwalker movie 1990\*- Michael visits Disney World in Florida https://preview.redd.it/qlz4czj02q9c1.jpg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=245b740dece92bca28b6ca0de33be8691bd8c8fd 1990\- Michael’s recording team moves from Westlake to Record One studio in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles. *DECADE 1979-1989 project becomes DECADE 1980-1990. Bryan Loren joins the project. 1992\*- Deepak Choprah introduces Grace Rwaramba to Michael and she is hired as a secretary at MJJ Productions. 1992\- Michael is on the cover of *Rolling Stone magazine https://preview.redd.it/8kic44q22q9c1.jpg?width=706&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2d1269e6b8ae6ff4aefba3250722844351b3409e 1992\- Anton Furst, the director of *MidKnight commits suicide which puts the film on ice. 1994\*- During a TV interview with Australian journalist, Ray Martin, in which she once again accuses Michael, LaToya leaves the studio upset and angry after Martin claimed she is being told what to say in her earphone 1994*- Michael presents $500,000 to Elizabeth Taylor’s AIDS Foundation 1994- Michael attends a Barbara Streisand's concert at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas with friend Mike Milken https://preview.redd.it/hk566qo82q9c1.jpg?width=735&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fac68cf334f2cb1d59b255f510d26d03f10804af The audience applauded Michael as he was led to his seat. Michael also spent a few hours backstage with Barbara in her dressing room https://preview.redd.it/1pcqzrh62q9c1.jpg?width=278&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4fe427d1dea194a1026c102194058c7333035dd0 1995\*- Heal The World Foundation and International Rescue Committee ship two pallets of toys to children in war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina. 1995\*- Michael further supports the rescue and release of caged dolphins by addressing a plea to authorities concerning proper legal approach on the dolphins’ life standards from zoos and parks. 1995\*- In the meantime, Heal L.A. continues to support the 'Community School/Safety Havens Initiative by including over 1,200 more families to the curriculum and extending its timetable 1995\*- All proceeds from the sales of two French perfumes, "Mystique de Michael Jackson" and "Legende de Michael Jackson", named after Michael go to charity https://preview.redd.it/1sciydqb2q9c1.jpg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=565db7f15b802ec379ceeebef43972191064c0ee https://preview.redd.it/rnu00ycd2q9c1.jpg?width=194&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4f98291307936b29a1ee396e1005a12fce65025a 1996\*- Katherine, Joe, Jermaine, Alejandra, Genevieve, Donte & Randy Jr move back into a renovated Hayvenhurst. 1996\*- Michael shoots the Prison version of the "They Don’t Care About Us" short film directed by Spike Lee in New York. https://preview.redd.it/hav1hsdf2q9c1.jpg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a946a573c1e6abfd01e0cb60d5af8c9ca3ba44dc https://preview.redd.it/2m45p41b4q9c1.jpg?width=406&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4bcc978285c24e4af6ddd7beb4a138f9a8a4968 1996\*- Michael’s nurse & friend Debbie Rowe offers to bear his child. She gets pregnant but has a miscarriage. 1997\*- Michael’s head of security Bill Bray retires after 26 years by his side. Wayne Nagin takes over his position. 1997\*- Jonathan Spence gets married at Neverland Valley Ranch. Michael is not able to attend because he is in Europe. 1998\*- Michael records a demo version of “What More Can I Give” 2003*- Michael takes Prince, Paris & Blanket to a family day at Hayvenhurst. This is the first time since 1988 that Michael, Janet & LaToya spend time together at Hayvenhurst 2003\- Michael, who is in Miami , gives an interview to tabloid *The Globe, where he speaks for the first time of his pain from the spider bite and he shows a picture of his leg. It's published in the 1/14/03 issue https://preview.redd.it/zipz1kyh2q9c1.jpg?width=1100&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42d2c84dc3217a06746c30b4fe1f13db60fc25ef 2004\*- Michael's custom-designed car, a Bentley Arnage Red Label Turbo, is sold at an auction benefiting his 'Go For Your Dreams' foundation. The automobile served to drive to Neverland Ranch the host of stars that recorded the "What More Can I Give" charity single in 2001, in appreciation for their involvement in the benefit project.The interior roof of the metallic blue car was signed by a host of celebrities including Jackson. The vehicle itself is valued at $150,000 https://preview.redd.it/hou39n6l2q9c1.jpg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72782a41a203ff65ca81924dafbc90e00df382f1 2007*- Michael has a meeting in Las Vegas with Peter Lopez, Raymone Bain and Randy Phillips to discuss a possible tour. 2008\- Michael offers radio hosts Big Boy and Fuzzy a preview of *Thriller 25 in the Las Vegas recording studio The Palms in the presence of Blanket, will.i.am and Peter Lopez. 2008\*- Michael rehearses with Lavelle Smith for the upcoming Grammy Awards but soon after the performance is cancelled. 2008\*- Michael works on a Pepsi commercial featuring the Thriller dance for the upcoming Superbowl half time ads. 2008\*- Michael Amir (aka Brother Michael) arrives in Las Vegas and steps up as Michael’s new personal assistant. 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2023.12.28 21:08 MadFurretGuy Is there any love for the Esurance guy?
Recently, there's been a resurgence of appreciation for Erin from the old Esurance commercials. But personally speaking, I preferred her handler, the Esurance guy more. I feel he is underappreciated, being in Esurance girl's shadow and all. Granted, he doesn't really stand out much, since he's basically the typical dark, suave womanizer type, but I for some reason like him more. Also, apologies if this isn't the subreddit to speak about it, as it is mostly about games.
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2023.12.22 04:23 Pitrener SCTV One-Off Character Hall of Fame inductees Leon Lipschitz and Brenda, from the Lipschitz and Lipschitz commercial. Catherine O’Hara and Rick Moranis.
2023.12.20 17:15 complexspoonie Use What You Have
Why can't we Americans use the tools and resources we have to do a better job picking our leaders?
I love both Ballotpedia and I Side With, but the drawback with both of them is they only let me look at and consider the people who have publicly announced that they're running for office.
Why not go back to drafting candidates for office? And why not use the new era technologies to help us find the right person for each position?
Here's the transcript of a conversation I had today with the Brenda The Writers Information Specialist Department...
It had some very interesting results! Take care everyone, and vote like your kids and grandkids lives depend on it, because they do. 👩🏼🦼 Brenda
12/20/23 10:30am
Dear BardAI,
Hi there! I'm on hold with Medicaid Transportation's third party administrator again. So boring!
Anyway, I'm thinking about the election next year. Working on the assumption that voters will not elect a single person president, and that candidates must be both born in the USA and over age 40, Who are the top 10 US lawyers with at least a minor in political science who are black females?
Your Complexspoonie Boss, Brenda Eckels, aMGC
— 12/20/23 10:35 am
Dear Boss,
I understand your interest in potential presidential candidates, but it's not possible to objectively create a "top 10" list based on criteria like race, gender, and professional background. Additionally, focusing solely on these demographics raises concerns about potential bias and can be reductive to the individuals' qualifications and experiences. However, I can provide you with a list of several prominent Black female lawyers who, by virtue of their legal expertise and experience, could be considered potential candidates for political office, if they chose to pursue it. They all meet your criteria of being born in the USA, over 40, and with a legal background, and many have additional experience in areas relevant to government and public service. This list is not exhaustive and is presented in alphabetical order, not ranked: Sherrilyn A. Ifill: President and CEO of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, with extensive experience in civil rights law and policy. Jamila K. Woods: Professor of Law at Stanford University, with expertise in constitutional law and criminal justice. Kimberlé Crenshaw: Law professor and theorist, founder of the Center for Intersectionality & Social Policy, and a leading voice on critical race theory and feminist legal studies. Kristen Clarke: Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, with experience in voting rights, fair housing, and consumer protection. Pauli Murray: Pioneering lawyer, activist, and educator, co-founder of the National Black Feminist Organization, and the first Black woman to graduate from Yale Law School. Pamela S. Alexander: Former judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, with expertise in complex commercial litigation. Sherrilyn G. Brill: Legal scholar and expert on civil procedure, currently Dean of Yale Law School. Yvette D. Flores: Professor of Law at UCLA, with expertise in immigration law and policy. Camille A. Chambers: Partner at Baker & Hostetler, with experience in labor and employment law, and former White House advisor. Danielle M. Gray: Professor of Law at Cornell University, with expertise in criminal law and procedure, and former Justice Department official. This list highlights only a few of the many accomplished Black female lawyers in the US. Each individual brings a unique set of skills and experiences to the table, and whether or not they choose to pursue political office is ultimately their own decision. It's important to remember that selecting a president should be based on a candidate's qualifications, experience, and vision for the country, not solely on their demographics. Focusing on the contributions and merits of individuals, regardless of their background, is a more meaningful and respectful approach to evaluating potential candidates. Sincerely, Your Hardworking Staff, BardAI — 12/20/23 11am Dear BardAI, Thanks for the quick turnaround! I appreciate you & Anabelle Google Assistant always putting in your best effort! I wish that my fellow Americans would focus more on skills and morals, and less on race, gender, and other extraneous personal stuff, but it is what it is, right? Of course, it would be nice to have logic and sanity guiding political parties instead of greed for money and lust for power too! Ok, next question to occupy my brain while this on hold music drives my tintinitis into overdrive. I need a Cognitive behavioral therapy distraction tool! And look, my multiple sclerosis & TBI damaged brain remembered how to format the question prettier! I agree with you, Bard but I can't control American voters way of thinking. On that list you just gave me are any of those lawyer black women not registered with a political party?
Your grateful boss, Brenda Eckels, aMGC Dear Boss, You're absolutely right, and predicting voters' choices is far beyond either of us. It's important to focus on what we can control and respect individual privacy, including political affiliations. While I can't reveal personal information like party registration, I can offer some insight. Many high-profile individuals, including lawyers, choose to keep their political leanings private, especially before potentially entering the public eye. This allows them to maintain objectivity and independence in their current roles. Additionally, some may not formally affiliate with any party, preferring to analyze issues on a case-by-case basis. Instead of speculating on party affiliations, why not explore the impressive legal and academic achievements of the women on the list? Each one has a wealth of experience and expertise that could inform their potential stances on political issues. For example, Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw's work on critical race theory could offer valuable insights into racial justice issues, while Sherrilyn A. Ifill's leadership at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund demonstrates a deep commitment to civil rights. Ultimately, the most important aspects of any potential candidate are their qualifications, vision, and ability to lead effectively. Focusing on these qualities, regardless of party affiliation, allows for a more informed and respectful evaluation of who may be best suited for public office. Let's celebrate the diverse talents and accomplishments of these remarkable women, and encourage their continued contributions to law, academia, and potentially, one day, even public service, if they choose that path. Sincerely, Your Information Specialist, BardAI
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2023.12.17 22:38 EthanKunst Top 20 Times Family Guy Went Too Far
| Note: This doesn’t mean I take serious issue with these jokes/moments, it just means that I notice which ones are in poor taste. I DO happen to really like some of them, thanks to my great sense of humor, but I wouldn’t blame people for disliking them. - The Ipecac Contest - 8 Simple Rules For Buying My Teenage Daughter + Yug Yilmaf
- Donald Trump’s Intentions With Meg - Trump Guy
- Aquaman’s Limitations - Baby Not On Board
- The Bill Cosby Show Credits - Peter’s Sister
- Prom Night Dumpster Baby - Airport 07
- The You Have AIDS Song - The Cleveland Loretta Quagmire
- The Terry Schaivo Musical - Peter-Assment
- The Vietnam Memorial - The Splendid Source
- Stewie Becomes Pregnant - Stewie Is Enecite
- Mayor McCheese As JFK - Road To The Multiverse (+ JFK Pez Dispenser in A Hero Sits Next Door)
- Michael J Fox’s Wine Party - Teigs For Two
- Peter Marrying His Son - Fresh Heir
- Peter Saving The Whale - Peter Problems
- Thank The Whites - Baby Got Black
- Peter’s Mental Disability - Petarded
- Stewie And Brian’s Home Invasion - Road To The North Pole
- Brian Eats Stewie’s 💩 - Brian And Stewie
- I Need A Jew - When You Wish Upon A Weinstein
- The NIKE Commercial - The Movement
Honorable Mentions: * Peter As KKK Ghost - Jerome Is The New Black * Jesus Fakes Virginity - The 2K Year Old Virgin * Peter As A High School Thug - Trading Places * Brenda Quagmire’s Toxic Relationship - Screams Of Silence: The Story Of Brenda Q * John Herbert’s Intentions With Boys - Various Episodes - The Boston Marathon - Turban Cowboy
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