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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … March 3

1873 – Censorship: On this date the U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail. The law was named after its chief proponent, general busy-body prude, anti- obscenity crusader Anthony Comstock. The enforcement of the Act was, in its early days, often conducted by Comstock himself or through his New York Society for the Suppression of Vice.

People literally committed suicide because of this law. Ida Craddock committed suicide on the eve of reporting to Federal prison for distributing via the U.S. Mail various sexually explicit marriage manuals she had authored. Her final work was a lengthy public suicide note specifically condemning Comstock.

This law was used to suppress LGBT literature until the January 13, 1958 Supreme Court ruling in which the Court delivered an astonishing unanimous pro-Gay decision, overturning the rulings of the two lower courts against the magazine One, and limiting the power of the Comstock Act. As a result, Lesbian and Gay publications, like White Crane (at the time, the mere discussion of being Gay was considered "pornography") could be mailed without legal repercussions, though many continued to experience harassment from the Post Office and U.S. Customs.

ONE, Inc., a homophile educational organization, was founded in Los Angeles in 1952 by about a dozen members of the Mattachine Society who wished to publish a monthly magazine. The name "ONE" (also the magazine's name) was chosen from a quote by 19th century British essayist Thomas Carlyle: "A mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men one."

1903 – The American fashion and costume designer Adrian was born on this date (d. 1959). Born as Adrian Adolph Greenberg (sometimes credited as Gilbert Adrian) in Naugatuk, Connecticut, he studied at the School for Fine and Applied Arts in New York and in Paris.

His most famous costumes were for The Wizard of Oz and other Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer films of the 1930s and 1940s. The photo below shows the and the iconic ruby slippers he designed for Dorothy!

During his career, he designed costumes for over 250 films and his screen credits usually read as "Gowns by Adrian". On occasion, he was credited as Gilbert Adrian, a combination of his father's forename and his own. Among the many he dressed were Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, Greta Garbo and Katherine Hepburn.

Though he was openly Gay, he married Janet Gaynor in 1939, possibly in response to the anti-Gay attitudes of the movie studio heads and the sex-negative atmosphere created by the Production Code.

In 1942 Adrian retired from the cinema and opened a shop in Beverly Hills, California. His reasons for leaving Hollywood? They wanted to mess with Garbo. He famously said "It was because of Garbo that I left M-G-M. In her last picture they wanted to make her a sweater girl, a real American type. I said, 'When the glamour ends for Garbo, it also ends for me. She has created a type. If you destroy that illusion, you destroy her.' When Garbo walked out of the studio, glamour went with her, and so did I."

1940 – On this date the American fashion designer Perry Ellis was born (d. 1986) He founded the influential Perry Ellis sportswear house in the mid-1970s. Throughout the 1980s the company continued to expand and include various labels such as Perry Ellis Collection and Perry Ellis Portfolio. By 1982, the company had more than 75 staff. In 1984, Perry Ellis America was created in cooperation with Levi Strauss. In 1985, he revived his lesser-priced Portfolio line. In the early 1980s, wholesale revenues had figured at about $60 million. By 1986 that number had risen to about $250 million.

In his early career in New York, Ellis began to explore the homosexual side of his nature. He had previously dated a few women but had never developed a serious relationship with any of them. He now also started having affairs with men, including one with Robert MacDonald, a young man then working in the film industry. Their romance faded after about six years, but MacDonald would remain one of Ellis's closest and most trusted friends for the rest of his life.

As accolades and award nominations for his designs came Ellis's way, he negotiated a complex deal with Manhattan Industries that gave him his own division within the corporation, Perry Ellis Sportswear, Inc., and also created Ellis's own company, Perry Ellis International. The agreement was signed in August 1978. The arrangement would allow Ellis to branch out, eventually adding lines of men's sportswear, evening clothes, shoes, furs, fragrances, and linens.

Ellis presented his fall collection in April 1978. The show was the first to feature Ellis's men's wear designs. The first model to wear them on the runway was Robert "Beau" Tropper, who had recently become Ellis's lover. Although Ellis was not out publicly as a gay or bisexual man, the nature of his relationship with Tropper, some sixteen years his junior, was an open secret in the fashion world.

A key player in the expansion of Ellis's enterprises—and in his personal life—was Laughlin Barker. The two met in 1980 and immediately fell in love. Shortly thereafter Ellis retained the law firm for which Barker worked as corporate counsel for Perry Ellis International. In June 1982 Barker began working directly for the company as its president and legal counsel, a position created especially for him by Ellis, who held the title of chairman.

Barker proved to be an astute businessman. By the beginning of 1986 sales were up to approximately a quarter of a billion dollars.

Ellis was briefly hospitalized with hepatitis in early 1981 shortly after he and Barker returned from a trip to Africa. Ellis recovered, but following the episode both he and Barker started showing more concern about their health.

Within a few years the two men began to decline visibly, Barker in particular. Although they kept up the demanding task of guiding Ellis's fashion empire, they spent more and more of their time running it from Ellis's luxurious beach house at Water Island, a tiny and isolated community on Fire Island.

Ellis and Barker nevertheless continued to travel frequently. They made several trips to Paris in connection with the development of Ellis's fragrance line, but according to close friends they were also going to the Pasteur Institute, a leader in AIDS research, where patients (including actor Rock Hudson) were able to obtain experimental drug treatments unavailable elsewhere.

Barker was hospitalized in late 1985, but Ellis brought him home at Christmastime. Barker died on January 2, 1986 at the age of thirty-seven. His death was publicly reported as due to lung cancer.

Although Ellis himself was desperately ill, he insisted on attending a benefit for the American Foundation for AIDS Research in late April. A longtime friend later speculated that Ellis may have intended this as a tacit acknowledgment that he had AIDS.

Elis presented his final collection on May 8. Far too weak to close the show with his traditional skip down the runway, he could only walk to the top of it with the support of his two design assistants. The audience rose to give him a standing ovation.

Fashion critics praised the collection, but before the writers had even written their reviews MacDonald was driving Ellis from the showroom to the hospital. He remained there, eventually lapsing into a coma. Ellis died on May 30, 1986.

His demise was attributed to viral encephalitis, a common immediate cause of death in AIDS patients.

Bettel (R) with husband Gauthier Destenay

1973 – Xavier Bettel is a Luxembourgish politician and lawyer, serving as Prime Minister of Luxembourg. He has previously served as Mayor of Luxembourg City, member of the Chamber of Deputies and member of the Luxembourg City communal council. Bettel is a member of the Luxembourg Democratic Party.

Portrait de S.A.R. le Grand-Duc Guillaume de Luxembourg

In 2013, Bettel was elected leader of the Democratic Party, and in the 2013 election, led the party to a third-ranked position in parliamentary seats. On 25 October, Bettel was designated by Grand Duke Henri as the formateur for the next government. He assumed his post as Luxembourg's Prime Minister on 4 December 2013. In the government's coalition of the Democratic Party, Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party and The Greens, he also holds the functions of Minister of State, Minister for Communications and the Media, and Minister of Worship.

His policies were expected to include reforms on same-sex marriage in Luxembourg, replace religious instruction in schools with general ethics classes and cut spending to maintain Luxembourg's AAA credit rating.

His government legalized same sex marriage in 2015, allowing Bettel to marry his male partner.

Bettel is openly gay, and has stated that increasingly in Luxembourg "people do not consider the fact of whether someone is gay or not". Bettel is Luxembourg's first openly gay Prime Minister and, worldwide, the third openly gay head of government following Iceland's Prime Minister Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and Belgium's Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo. As of October 2014, he was the only openly gay world leader.

Bettel has been in a partnership with Gauthier Destenay since March 2010. In August 2014 Destenay proposed to Bettel, who accepted. Bettel and Destenay married on 15 May 2015. (On 1 January 2015, same-sex marriage law reforms that passed in June 2014 had come into effect.)

Interestingly enough, Bettel's deputy prime minister, Etienne Schneider, is also gay.

1973 – Two California police officers have a shootout in a restroom after one attempts to arrest the other for "an act of oral copulation."

2010 – On this date Gay marriage in Washington, D.C. became a reality in the nation's capitol, when Angelisa Young and Sinjoyla Townsend applied for and received a marriage license. The African-American couple had been together for 12 years and were married a week later thanks to years of advocacy on the local level to change the laws and offer marriage to all. Most importantly the election of a Democratic party-controlled Congress and White House assured the law would not be overruled.Gay council-member, and former Republican David Catania had waited to introduce the bill until a friendly Congress was in place that would allow the local decision to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples.

Since the Republicans took the house in the last election they've threatened to put roadblocks on the city's law. That is because Washington, DC is still treated like a colony and doesn't have autonomy in its decisions — although the citizens pay taxes and fight in all the wars.

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a-little-revolution · 2 years

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// rating Little characters in film //

Since I enjoyed rating Little characters in animation so much, I thought I'd rate and discuss some Little characters in live action films! (These are in no particular order, nor does this list begin to be all encompassing) Here are some of my thoughts on various Little characters that come most to mind:

Lemon, Penelope (2006)

10/10

To me Lemon is a great example of naturally including someone with dwarfism in a film - he isn't belittled for his disability, and his roll feels very organic. He may not be the most likeable character, but he's taken seriously and goes through development throughout the film.

Ma Petite, American Horror Story (2011)

-10/10

Purchased for three cases of Dr. Pepper and treated as a doll by all member's of the circus, Ma Petite is an excellent example of dwarfism enslavement without revolt.

It was unsurprising in a season titled "Freak Show", in a genre with a history of horrifying and mystifying people with disabilities, but I really wished for better from a 21st century series - but then again AHS is crawling with problems when it comes to marginalized communities.

Alex Radziwill, Bones (2005-2017)

10/10

Alex is a character I find to often be forgotten, but he's probably one of my favorite characters with dwarfism to date.

The show gets a little iffy when the episode regarding "m*dget wrestling" comes around, but Alex is consistently respected in his field and by the main characters. His roll is minor but I loved seeing him naturally integrated into the world.

Mini Me, Austin Powers (1997-2002)

-100/10

First to be given this low a score, the character Mini Me is one I hate the most, not only for it's heinous representation but for it's staying power within pop culture.

He's an A+ example of pet culture within dwarf history. He is dehumanized and owned as property, abused, and made a mockery of constantly.

Not only that, but being that the Austin Powers series is so popular, the Mini Me character became a point of reference for many abled folk when it came to people with dwarfism.

This character nearly single-handedly influenced the way I was treated by my peers throughout childhood.

Oompa-Loompas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1971, 2005)

-100/10

Like Austin Powers' Mini Me, the oompa-loompas of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory have had a major staying power in the world of dwarf representation. The popularity of these characters have been used as a tool for harassment in the real world - representation matters y'all.

The Oompa-Loompas are one denominational characters, owned and enslaved by Mr. Wonka under the guise of mutual benefit - a phenomenon not dissimilar to the "m*dget villages" and tiny towns of the 60s and 70s.

The Seven Dwarfs, Mirror Mirror (2012)

5/10

I have mixed views of this particular rendition, since despite it's terrible subject material (being the classic group of one dimensional and comical small men) it actually takes a refreshingly positive approach to the Seven Dwarfs.

In this version, members Grimm, Napoleon, Butcher, Wolfie, Chuck, Grubb, and Half Pint are all named after the rolls they filled in their village before being outcast by the queen ("banish the uglies" - she decreed). They are full characters with back stories and personalities, and play a far more crucial roll in this rendition. We even see them achieve their various life goals as the credits roll.

They did, however, require an act of heroism and Snow White's use of privilege to regain their place in society.

Overall it's easily my favorite reenactment, but the bar wasn't exactly high to begin with.

Marty, Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2017)

3/10

The anarchist in me absolutely loved seeing a little person as a member of a rebel pirate crew, but overall I don't have strong feelings any which way about this particular character, which is disappointing.

Aside from being not overly interesting, the most memorable scene from Marty is when he gets knocked back after firing a small canon - which was obviously a joke at his stature

Willow, Willow (1988)

11/10

I've spoken about this film before, but I honestly can't boost it enough. It has a huge Little cast, and was able to truly humanize it's village of little people in such a wholesome and human way which I absolutely loved.

Willow's is that of a hero's journey - he embarks on a grand quest despite the doubts of his peers and succeeds! He has a wife and children and a roll in his community, just overall a wonderfully lovable character.

I hope to do a part two soon since this just scratches the surface of Little rolls, so if you have any characters you'd like me to review please send them my way!!

-Elliot (they/them)

#dwarfism in film #dwarfism in media #dwarfism awareness #disability #disability representation #representation #dwarfism #little people #disability awareness #social justice

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katethevampire · 10 months

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Ace Attorney au where Mia bought a house before her death that's haunted by all the attorneys besides Phoenix. They all died in mysterious ways. Mia bought the house to try and investigate like she did with Redd White.

After her death Phoenix gets the house (technically Maya inherited it but shhhhh he pays for everything) and they realize, uh oh! There's ghost!

Most of the ghosts died within the last 80 or so years (still working on the dates), all of the ghosts haunting died either in or around the house causing it to have a bit or a reputation... One that Phoenix doesn't know about before agreeing to move in.

Each ghost has their own design related to how they died (and I definitely didn't steal any of them from TBHK /s) Most of them I don't have a cause of death for quite yet so if anyone can give me ideas that'd be great! Also as I haven't finished all the games and just going off of characters I've seen people mention. I'm probably forgetting some characters, if there's a prominent attorney character that I left out then let me know! If I don't add them after than I probably have an idea for them/want them to be alive, really don't like the character (unlikely since I'd REALLY have to hate them), or haven't played their game yet or seen enough to know that they're important (e.i. I know Kalvier is important even if I haven't played his game yet). All of the ? Are things that I need ideas for.

Ghost of | death | who they were/what they did | When they died

Edgeworth | strangulation | a bit past his brat era. | Died maybe a year-6 months before Phoenix became an attorney

Mia | blunt object (same as game) | the same as in the game before her death, the only difference is that she was also trying to solve why so many people, specifically attorneys, had died in that house. | 2016

Apollo | Lost blood circulation | Thinking he was fresh out of law school, just absolute terrible luck, fell down the stairs after seeing Kalvier's ghost | died right before his first trial, some time in the early 2000s (all that voice training for nothing....)

Kalvier | ? | Was a rock star (and prosecutor!) In the 70s or 80s. | After coming back from tour Died from a stalker fan breaking into his house (credit to Tumblr user @cursed-edgeworth the idea!)

Blackquill | Electric Chair | Studying under Metis | late 1960s, executed on false murder charges

Franziska Von Karma | blood loss | went looking for Miles after he was reported dead | She fell into the pool after being shot (maybe by the some person who got to her brother? Both times a strange card was found nearby...) A month before Phoenix became a Lawyer. 2016

Godot/Diego | poisoning | The exact same as the game, except instead of going into a coma Diego died. | Defense Attorney | 2013. When Dahlia poisoned him she used a much slower acting poison, over the course of about a week he got progressively more and more sick, his vision became spotty, coughing up blood, etc. By the end of the week he was dead. (Once again credit to Tumblr user @cursed-edgeworth for giving me the idea!)

Athena | ? | Studying law, trying to save Blackquil (like the games, only in the 60s) | Late 1960s- earlier 1970s. Was killed by The Phantom as a final loose end to tie.

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Review: Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi violence, brief sexuality and language

Score: 3 out of 5

Eight Legged Freaks is a self-conscious throwback to '50s monster movies that does the job it sets out to do perhaps a little too well. It's the kind of movie you'd imagine American International Pictures themselves (the Blumhouse of the '50s and '60s) would've made back then if they had a big budget and modern CGI technology to spare, a film that gets right up in your face with all manner of icky arachnid goodness that it takes every opportunity it can to throw at the screen, and even though the effects may be dated now, it still works in the context of the lighthearted B-movie that this movie is trying to be. It's a movie where, as gross as it often is, going for an R rating probably would've hurt the campy tone it was going for. Its throwback to old monster movie tropes is a warts-and-all one, admittedly, especially where its paper-thin characters are concerned, such that it starts to wear out its welcome by the end and could've stood to be a bit shorter. That said, it's never not a fun movie, especially if you're not normally into horror, and it's the kind of film that I can easily throw on in the background to improve my mood.

Set in the struggling mining town of Perfection, Arizona, the film opens with an accident involving a truck carrying toxic waste accidentally dumping a barrel of the stuff into a pond that happens to be located right next to the home of a man named Joshua who runs an exotic spider farm. He starts feeding his spiders insects that he sourced from the pond, and before long the spiders start growing to enormous size, eating Joshua and eventually threatening the town, forcing its residents to start banding together for survival. I could go into more detail on the characters, but most of them fall into stock, one-note archetypes and exist mainly to supply the jokes and the yucks, elevated chiefly by the film's surprisingly solid cast. David Arquette's oddly disaffected performance as Chris, the drifter whose father owned the now-shuttered mines and returns to town in order to reopen them, manages to work with the tone the movie is going for, feeling like he doesn't wanna be in this town to begin with and wondering what the hell he got himself into by returning to the dump he grew up in. Kari Wuhrer makes for a compelling action hero as Sam, the hot sheriff who instructs her teenage daughter Ashley (played by a young Scarlett Johansson) how to deal with pervy boys and looks like a badass slaughtering giant spiders throughout the film. Doug E. Doug got some of the funniest moments in the movie as Harlan, a conspiracy radio host who believes that aliens are invading the town. Every one of the actors here knew that they were in a comedy first and a horror movie second, and so they played it broad and had fun with the roles. There are various subplots concerning things like the town's corrupt mayor and his financial schemes, the mayor's douchebag son Bret, and Sam's nerdy son Mike whose interest in spiders winds up saving the day, and they all go in exactly the directions you think, none of them really having much impact on the story but all of them doing their part to make me laugh.

The movie was perhaps a bit too long for its own good, especially in the third act. Normally, this is the part where a movie like this is supposed to "get good" as we have giant monsters running around terrorizing the town, and to the film's credit, the effects still hold up in their own weird way. You can easily tell what's CGI at a glance, but in a movie where the spiders are played as much for a laugh as anything else, especially with the chattering sound they constantly make that makes it sound like they're constantly giggling, it only added to the "live-action cartoon" feel of the movie. The problem is, there are only so many ways you can show people getting merked by giant spiders before they all start to blend together, and the third act is thoroughly devoted to throwing non-stop monster mayhem at the screen even after it started to run out of ideas on that front. There are admittedly a lot of cool spider scenes in this movie, from giant leaping spiders snatching young punks off of dirt bikes to people getting spun up in webs to a tarantula the size of a truck flipping a trailer to a hilarious, Looney Tunes-style fight between a spider and a cat, and the humans themselves also get some good licks in, but towards the end, the film seemed to settle into a routine of just spiders jumping onto people. It was here where the threadbare characters really started to hurt the film. If I had more investment in the people getting killed and fighting to survive, I might have cared more, but eventually, I was just watching a special effects showcase. The poster prominently advertises that this movie is from Dean Devlin, one of the producers and writers of Independence Day and the 1998 American Godzilla adaptation, and while he otherwise had no creative involvement, I did feel that influence in a way that the marketing team probably didn't intend.

The Bottom Line

Eight Legged Freaks is a great movie with which to introduce somebody young or squeamish to horror, especially monster movies. It's shallow and doesn't have much to offer beyond a good cast, a great sense of humor, and a whole lot of CGI spider mayhem without a lot of graphic violence. Overall, it's a fun throwback to old-school monster movies.

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240: Various Artists // The Golden Turkey Album: The Best Songs from the Worst Movies

The Golden Turkey Album: The Best Songs from the Worst Movies Various Artists 1985, Rhino

Early Rhino Records was a grand old place for musical perverts thanks to its steady stream of novelty compilations like the Dr. Demento albums and Teenage Tragedy, which collected ‘50s and ‘60s songs about kids dying in automobile accidents (there were a lot of those, it turns out). The Golden Turkey Album: The Best Songs from the Worst Movies is from square in the label’s whacko prime and it’s exactly what it says on the label. These 16 tracks culled from trashy exploitation films like Eegah! (1962), Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1964), and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) range from Confederate bluegrass to saloon music performed by a group of little people, though the majority are cornball rock ‘n’ roll numbers. On balance, it’s a highly listenable record, full of amateurish, nakedly trend-chasing but ultimately charming recordings that spark the same bewildered laughter as the films from which they derive.

As we march through the tracklist, remember at all times that I am sitting alone on the couch in my apartment wearing a frayed housecoat. Okay, let’s go.

Side One

Trevor Duncan — “Grip of the Law”

Side one opens, as indeed it must, with the blaring opening title theme from Ed Wood’s deathless groaner Plan Nine From Outer Space (1959). Duncan, an Englishman, was a prolific composer for film and television, but “Grip of the Law” wasn’t written for Wood’s opus, which lacked the budget to commission an original score. Duncan’s piece rather was cribbed for the film by one of Wood’s collaborators—which explains why in contrast to everything else about the film, it’s a perfectly competent piece of bombastic orchestral horror/thriller music

The Five Blobs — “Beware of the Blob”

1958’s Steve McQueen vehicle The Blob tracks the very, very slow slugtrail of destruction wrought by a ball of alien red Jell-O, and it’s probably fair to say it peaks with its opening credits and this incongruous “Tequila”/cocktail music-esque number penned by a young Burt Bacharach and Mack David (the elder brother of Burt's future writing partner Hal David). It doesn’t rise to the level of a good Esquivel! track, let alone Bacharach’s own later work, but it’s very dumb and goes on my Halloween playlist every year.

Arch Hall Jr. — “Valerie”

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The first of three Arch Hall Jr. tracks on the compilation, which tells you the Rhino guys figured they had a little find on their hands. Hall Jr. was a genuinely talented singer and guitarist with an enormous dome who resembled Jesse Plemons (Todd Alquist from Breaking Bad) or perhaps a wax museum James Cagney. His father, filmmaker Arch Hall Sr., clearly hoped to turn the 16-year-old into an Elvis Presley-esque acting and singing double threat, and featured him in a series of screamingly bad early ‘60s B-movies. “Valerie” is a twinkling, whistling ballad drawn from 1962’s Eegah!, a film which sees the 7’2 Richard Kiel (later Jaws in the James Bond series) as a horny caveman who wants to rail a teenage girl named Roxie whom Hall Jr.’s character is dating. As someone who loves sock-hop dream music and throwing metaphors in a blender (“vitamins are good they say / and so’s a calorie / but I feel like a tiger / on one kiss from Valerie”), I think this one’s pretty great!

Carol Kay & the Stone Tones — “Shook Out of Shape”

Coming in hot from The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (1964), billed as “The First Horror Movie Musical,” “Shook Out of Shape” puts me in my mind of a Wanda Jackson or a Patsy Cline in a rock mood. Perfectly acceptable beach party music, though it has less of that wonderful offness about it than most anything else here.

Bobby and Benny Belew — “Lonesome”

This is more like it. 12-year-old Texan twins sing close harmony rockabilly from 1957’s Rock, Baby—Rock It! one of a million chintzy attempts to cash in on the rock ‘n’ roll craze that looks like it was shot for $10 (in today’s money). The performances (which some kind soul has cut free of the film’s narrative) by a string of never-were stars generally rip (check out Johnny Carroll, and also whoever’s playing guitar for Preacher Smith & the Deacons, goddamn!), but the Belew Twins were definitely the right choice for this comp. Kids singing adult music basically always comes with the scent of some sweating, overambitious father clenching his fists in the wings. Delish.

The Pleasant Valley Boys — “Robert E. Lee Broke His Musket on His Knee”

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From the seminal hicksploitation film Two Thousand Maniacs (1964), we have straight up and down rural car chase bluegrass concerning the eventual return of the South; the horrible shrieking of a crazed Robert E. Lee; and the sucking chest wounds of Stonewall Jackson. The slapping sound? Oh, don’t mind me, I’m just tapping away on the big vein in my arm.

Some adults and some kids — “We’re the Lemon Grove Kids”

Described in the liner notes as a “grating jingle,” this minute-or-so number served as the theme song for a series of Bowery Boys knock-off short films directed by Ray Dennis Steckler, who also gave us The Incredibly Strange Creatures and Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (see side 2 of this LP). Both grating and a jingle.

Arch Hall Jr. — “Vickie”

More Hall Jr., hailing like “Valerie” from Eegah!, also like “Valerie” sung to his character’s girlfriend whose name is Roxie. The songs are similar, but this one is dweebier.

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Milton Delugg & the Little Eskimos — “Hooray for Santa Claus”

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This review didn't need to be this long, but with band names like this, and movies like Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) I don’t see how I can stop. A thoroughly unbearable twist-style song sung by a chorus of children who pronounce it out S-A-N-T-A but say it “Santy.”

Arch Hill Jr. — “Yes, I Will”

Yet another one from Arch, this time from 1962’s Wild Guitar. “Yes, I Will” is kind of pubby rock, and it’s perfectly fine, but there are much better numbers from this one—chalk me up as a “Twist Fever” guy personally. Wild Guitar is very in the Elvis teen idol-movie mode—ironically though the best performance of Hall Jr.’s short career would come the following year in Jamis Landis’s brutish The Sadist, in which Hall plays a psychopathic killer based on Charles Starkweather!

Johnnie Fern — “Hey, Look Out! (I Want to Make Love to You)”

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1938’s The Terror of Tiny Town is a Western with a cast entirely composed of little people. It will not shock you to learn the movie did not originate from an urge to improve representation of little people in film, but rather from a joke producer Jed Buell overheard. According to the liners the song is sung by someone named Johnnie Fern, but in the film it’s presented as the voice of Nita Krebs, a dancehall girl doing a kind of Marlene Dietrich femme fatale shtick. It’s a treacly Vaudeville-ish ballad sung in a very, very high pitch, and I love it. Sending this one out to my girlfriend, to whom I am hornily disposed and who also is quite short.

Dr. Frederick Kopp — “The Dance Hall Twist”

Yet another twist number (from 1964’s monster flick The Creeping Terror). Not much to say about it, likely included here because it immediately precedes this unforgettable sequence:

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Dr. Frederick Kopp — “She Left Me Lonely”

A vaguely Latin-flavoured country ballad from the same film featuring the indelible chorus, “she left me lonely / she left me sad / but still I am happy / in fact I am glad,” the liner notes quote the classically trained Dr. "Not a" Kopp as “feeling dirty” to have written the song, which apparently took him 15 minutes or so.

Harold "Duke" Lloyd with Page Cavanaugh and His Trio — “Special Date”

Before kicking off this number from 1958’s Frankenstein’s Daughter, the Duke sends “Special Date” out to anyone in the audience on a special date, which is like dedicating a song called “Having Sex” to anyone currently having sex or “Eating Food” to anyone actively eating food.

Ron Haydock & the Boppers — “Rat Pfink”

Ray Dennis Steckler’s Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1966) is a straight crime movie for the first 40 minutes before abruptly becoming a parody of the Batman television series and ending with a rockabilly barbecue party. Sung by Ron Haydock, who plays the titular Batman knockoff, the Gene Vincent-y “Rat Pfink” is damned solid stuff.

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Ron Haydock & the Boppers — “Big Boss A-Go-Go Party”

Same artist, same movie, same scene, not quite as vigorous as “Rat Pfink” but you gotta think Lux Interior of the Cramps must’ve loved this shit.

That’s it? That’s all the turkey? Thank you Rhino, thank you directors of trash movies and performers of trash music, thank you dear reader for sticking around.

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Hi, I’m Kelley. I’ve been a debt collector for about three and a half years now.

Disclaimer that my experience is limited to credit card debt, and my advice may or may not be relevant to debts of other kinds (medical, etc). My knowledge is also limited to United States based debt collection practices.

But if you’re American and you owe a credit card company money….let’s talk:

- First off. When we talk to you, we have to verify your identity before we can give you any details. We normally ask for the last 4 of your SSN, your date of birth, and your address. Why? Because according to the FDCPA (Fair Debt Collection Practices Act), we cannot reveal the fact that you are in debt to anyone but you (or your spouse, if you have one).

If your mom or dad or boyfriend or girlfriend calls us, we cannot give them any information. If you want us to disclose information about your debt to them, you need to call (or email) us and tell us that.

-We are required to state, verbatim, on every call: “this is an attempt to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose”. Yes, TECHNICALLY, if we don’t say that, you can sue us for up to $1,000. But good luck finding a collector who is that stupid lmao?! In most cases, we’re looking right at a script while we’re on the phone with you…. 🤦‍♀️

-We used to be able to call you 3 times a day. Per new legislation, we can only call one time every 7 days….unless you give us permission to call more often. We will ask for that permission. Do not grant it.

-If you’re being harassed by calls, try saying “I would like to be placed on your do not call list” or “I am asking you to cease and desist.” Note: this will block future calls, but it won’t stop the credit card company from suing you.

-We will ask you where you work. It is in your best interest to (politely) avoid answering this question.

-If someone stole your identity and opened a credit card in your name, file a police report. In many cases, we can’t file a fraud claim without one.

-If you don’t recognize the debt we’re talking about (i.e. “I might have opened that card but it was so long ago I don’t remember”, “I had that card but the balance you said doesn’t sound right”, etc), ask for validation of debt. Basically we would then have to send you all the credit card statements we have on file and prove that the balance is correct. Any reputable collection agency will have these statements available, so this isn’t a get-out-of-jail-free card. But, we can’t make any more attempts to collect on the debt, until we confirm that you got those documents in the mail. So this is a good way to stall/buy time.

-If you’re ready to start making payment arrangements, don’t take the first offer we give you!! For example: someone owes us $1,000. I’m gonna offer them a plan of $83.33 per month for 12 months. Only after they say no, will I tell them that they also have the option to do $41.66 per month for 24 months. Why? Because I’m making commission on this shit lmao

-Ask if you qualify for a settlement. A settlement is, like, a deal, where we offer to let you pay less than you actually owe There’s normally a percentage we can’t go under. At my current job, that’s 60%. So, for example, if you owe us $100, I could offer you a settlement deal of $60, and you wouldn’t have to pay the remaining $40!

Settlements usually have to be paid as a lump sum, but sometimes you can get away with a monthly payment plan. Ask your collector.

-If you receive notification that you have been sued, call us before your hearing date and set up a payment plan voluntarily. If you let this go to court, 99.9% of the time, the judge will side with us, not you.

-Once we have judgment against you in a court of law, we can try and collect the funds involuntarily. In most cases, that means a wage garnishment. (This is why we ask where you work). We go directly to your employer and take 20-25% of your paycheck, depending on what state you live in.

Please note that yelling at your collector will not make the garnishment stop. 😭 We normally don’t file a garnishment unless you’ve been dodging our calls for years.

-Lastly, remember that collectors are people! We’re trying to make a living, just like you.

Debt collection is one of the best jobs an “unskilled” college dropout can get tbh! It pays way better than retail or food service. I get to sit at a desk, instead of standing in front of a cash register all day. And I get dental! Lol.

If you don’t verbally abuse your collector, they will normally try their best to come up with a payment plan that fits your budget. If all else fails, idk, lawyer up. 🤷‍♀️

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Red-supergiant supernova images reveal secrets of an earlier Universe An international research team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has measured the size of a star dating back 2 billion years after the Big Bang, or more than 11 billion years ago. Detailed images show the exploding star cooling and could help scientists learn more about the stars and galaxies present in the early Universe. The paper is published in Nature, the world’s leading peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary science journal. “This is the first detailed look at a supernova at a much earlier epoch of the Universe’s evolution,” said Patrick Kelly, a lead author of the paper and an associate professor in the University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy. “It's very exciting because we can learn in detail about an individual star when the Universe was less than a fifth of its current age, and begin to understand if the stars that existed many billions of years ago are different from the ones nearby.” The red supergiant in question was about 500 times larger than the sun, and it’s located at redshift three, which is about 60 times farther away than any other supernova observed in this detail. Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope with follow-up spectroscopy using the University of Minnesota’s access to the Large Binocular Telescope, the researchers were able to identify multiple detailed images of the red supergiant because of a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where mass, such as that in a galaxy, bends light. This magnifies the light emitted from the star. “The gravitational lens acts as a natural magnifying glass and multiplies Hubble’s power by a factor of eight,” Kelly said. “Here, we see three images. Even though they can be seen at the same time, they show the supernova as it was at different ages separated by several days. We see the supernova rapidly cooling, which allows us to basically reconstruct what happened and study how the supernova cooled in its first few days with just one set of images. It enables us to see a rerun of a supernova.” The researchers combined this discovery with another one of Kelly’s supernova discoveries from 2014 to estimate how many stars were exploding when the Universe was a small fraction of its current age. They found that there were likely many more supernovae than previously thought. “Core-collapse supernovae mark the deaths of massive, short-lived stars. The number of core-collapse supernovae we detect can be used to understand how many massive stars were formed in galaxies when the Universe was much younger,” said Wenlei Chen, first author of the paper and a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Minnesota School of Physics and Astronomy. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation; the Hubble Space Telescope Cycle 27 Archival Research and Frontier Fields program; the World Premier International Research Center Initiative, MEXT, Japan; the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation; the Ministry of Science & Technology, Israel; the Christopher R. Redlich Fund; and the University of California, Berkeley Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science. IMAGE....Panels A-D (clockwise from upper left) show several different stages of the supernova: the location of the host galaxy after the supernova faded, the three images of the host galaxy and the supernova at different phases in its evolution, the three different faces of the evolving supernova, and the different colors of the cooling supernova. Photo credit: Wenlei Chen, NASA

#space #science #Astronomy #physics #news #stellar evolution

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Agriculture Act of 1961 S. 1643 - Public Law 87-128, approved August 9, 1961 This measure, as enacted into law, extends numerous important agricultural programs such as the Great Plains conservation program, the Wool Act, and Public Law 480; it contains wheat and feed grain programs for 1962; consolidated and simplified the agricultural credit laws administered by the Farmers Home Administration; and provided for advisory consultations with farmers in developing future agricultural programs.

The major provisions are:

Title I. Supply Adjustment and Price Stabilization 1. Consultation on agricultural programs. - Authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to consult with farmers, farm or commodity organizations and other interested groups in developing new or revising existing agricultural programs involving supply adjustments or marketing regulations through marketing orders, quotas, or price supports. The advisory recommendations accepted would be incorporated in proposals to be submitted to Congress.

2. 1962 wheat program. - Required, as a condition for price supports, a mandatory 10 percent cut in wheat acreage allotments, with a 45 percent payment in cash or kind for diverting the 10 percent cut to soil conserving uses. Authorized an additional voluntary 30 percent diversion with payments in cash or kind of 60 percent. Any producer can divert up to the larger of (1) 40 percent of his allotment or (2) the smaller of 10 acres or the highest planted acreage of wheat in 1959, 1960, or 1961, whichever is greater. Permits advances of 50 percent to any participating producer.

Increased the farm marketing excess (the amount subject to penalty) and increased the penalty from 45 to 65 percent of parity.

Reduced the 15 acre exemption to 13 ½ acres, or the highest acreage planted for harvest in 1959, 1960, or 1961, whichever is smaller.

Repealed permanently the 200 bushel exemption from marketing quotas.

Authorized the Secretary to increase durum wheat acreage allotments if necessary to meet demand requirements - 3 year program beginning with 1962.

3. Feed grain program. - Required, as a condition of eligibility for price support, that the producer divert 20 percent of his corn, grain sorghum, or barley acreage to conserving uses in return for a 50 percent payment in cash or kind.

Authorized an additional 20 percent reduction in corn, grain sorghum, or barley acreage, with a 60 percent in kind payment.

Authorized the producers to plant castor beans, safflower, sunflower, sesame, or guarbeans on diverted acreage in lieu of payment.

Provided exemption of malting barley from the feed grain diversion program up to 110 percent of their average 1959-60 barley acreage.

Permitted the Secretary to limit participation in the feed grain program for 1962 if he determines such was necessary because of an emergency created by a drought or other disaster or to prevent or alleviate a shortage in the commodity.

4. Marketing orders. - Expands eligibility list for marketing orders to include cherries or cranberries for canning or freezing; lambs, turkeys, peanuts (but no peanut products), apples produced in Michigan, New York, New England, Maryland, New Jersey, Indiana, and California; and all other commodities not now covered except honey, cotton, rice, wheat, corn, grain sorghum, oats, barley, rye, sugarcane, sugar beets, wool, mohair, livestock, soybeans, cottonseed, flaxseed, poultry (other than turkeys), eggs (other than turkey hatching eggs), fruits and vegetables for canning or freezing (other than those specifically covered), and apples (other than those specifically covered).

Prohibits the importation of oranges, onions, walnuts and dates (other than dates for processing) which do not meet the grade, size, quality, or maturity requirements of orders applicable to the domestic commodities. At present, this restriction applies only to tomatoes, avocados, mangoes, limes, grapefruit, green peppers, Irish potatoes, cucumbers and eggplants.

5. Wool Act. - Extended the National Wool Act for 4 years through March 31, 1966.

Title II. Agricultural Trade Development Extended Public Law 480, the Agricultural Trade Development Act, through December 31, 1964 - a 3 year extension.

Provided title I authority of $4.5 billion for 3 years, 1962 through 1964, with a limit of $2.5 billion in any 1 year (overseas surplus commodity sales).

Authorized the use of foreign currencies for dollar sales to American tourists.

Required 5 percent of the proceeds of title I sales in each year to be set aside in amounts and kinds of foreign currencies specified by the Secretary of Agriculture for agricultural market development and required such amount of sale and loan proceeds as the secretary determines necessary, but not less than 2 percent, to be convertible into currencies of other foreign nations for market development activities countries which are or may become dollar markets.

Continued present limitation of million, plus carryovers, in surplus commodities for emergency disaster relief abroad and economic development (title II).

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Today’s compilation:

Never-Before-Released Masters From Motown's Biggest Stars: The 1960's 1986 R&B / Soul / Girl Groups

Here's a neat compilation from the mid-80s that saw Motown reaching deep back into their very own vaults to give some of their unreleased recordings the light of day. On this album you'll find a real who's who of Motown superstardom, from Diana Ross & The Supremes, to The Temptations, to Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, to Stevie Wonder, to The Four Tops. Clearly, the list of acts on this release was its main selling point.

But for the most part, the reasons as to why these songs went unreleased becomes pretty apparent once you hear them. None of these are straight-up bad—was Motown even capable of making a plainly bad song in the 60s?—but the bulk of these lack the punch that so many Motown singles were known for packing back then. Stuff feels either incomplete, too crowded, clunky, or clashy, or the recording quality just isn't very good.

But there's still a trio of songs on this album that are pretty fantastic, and with regard to two of them, the reason why they never went anywhere is most likely because their recording predates the act’s own success. "The Tears" is a raw 1961 soul ballad that, on this album, is credited to Diana Ross & The Supremes, but, in actuality, is led by a different Supreme in Mary Wilson. So, you don't get any of that spry, youthful charm on this one that Diana Ross became known for supplying throughout the mid-to-late 60s. Instead, "The Tears" has a much more mature and soulful vibe to it. And it was made before the group started working with the legendary songwriting and production trio of Holland-Dozier-Holland too, who'd shape and develop the group's sound throughout the decade, leading them to becoming an R&B and pop institution. It's actually Smokey Robinson who takes up production duties on this one, and he helps to cast The Supremes in a bit of a different light than the one that we'd grow to become accustomed to.

The other song on this album that was recorded before the act went on to become a household name is "Mind Over Matter," by The Temptations. This one appears to have actually been officially released in 1962, but not by The Temptations, because, for some reason, for this lone single, they went by The Pirates instead, and recorded this song for Motown sublabel Mel-o-dy. Somewhat perplexing, considering the fact that these same exact guys had already formed The Temptations in 1960 and had released three singles under that name, one of which had managed to reach the top-25 on Billboard's R&B chart. Like, I get the clever ruse of donning a different moniker so you can go record on another label; that was something plenty of musicians did in order to try to not void the terms of their exclusive and overbearing contracts. But Mel-o-dy was a Motown entity, so it's not like The Temptations were secretly recording as some other group here; they weren't trying to get out from under Berry Gordy's control or anything like that. So why they released this song as The Pirates is a bit of a head-scratcher to me.

Anyway, "Mind Over Matter" predates the release of The Temptations' 1964 debut album, and it features some great lead falsetto from the one and only Eddie Kendricks on it too. I'm not saying that it would've necessarily charted had they released it as The Temptations, but if they had been more known by the time they'd released it, I think it definitely had the potential to become their biggest hit to date back then.

And lastly, most people are probably familiar with The Marvelettes because of their #1 1961 debut single, "Please Mr. Postman," which is correctly hailed as an all-time 60s girl group jam. But nearly every other single among the slew that that group put out throughout the 60s managed to chart on Billboard's Hot 100 too, just not nearly as high. And I feel like their 1963 recording of "Knock On My Door" would've definitely made it on there too, had it ever been released in the first place; maybe not top-40, but this is a pretty catchy and infectious, uptempo and dancy R&B song. Why Motown ended up shelving this one is a mystery to me. I mean, I certainly dig it a whole lot.

So, this Motown comp that's packed with a bunch of tunes that the label ultimately decided to never officially release isn’t too great of a listen overall, but it still definitely has a few sweet gems on it.

Highlights:

Diana Ross & The Supremes - "The Tears" The Temptations - "Mind Over Matter" The Marvelettes - "Knock On My Door"

#r&b #r & b #rhythm and blues #rhythm & blues #soul #soul music #girl groups #music #60s #60s music #60's #60's music

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• Her fourteenth role for tv shows was playing Tamika “Mika” Lewis, Jordan Lewis’s little sister on the short-lived Nickelodeon show Just Jordan

• Her sixteenth role for tv shows was playing Kaila Bell, Stringer Bell’s daughter in The Wire

• Her eighteenth role for tv shows was playing Kathryn Carter, a child genius who is also a Wizard like the Russo siblings and Alex’s best friend on Wizards of Waverly Place (In this universe the show focuses on two families instead of one)

• Her ninteenth role for tv shows was playing Lorina Miller on Phineas & Ferb (I know she was young at this time in her life but for the sake of the story it works)

• Her twienth role in tv shows was playing Leia Jackson, True Jackson’s little sister in True Jackson, VP

Her twenty-first role in TV shows was playing Mirella “Rella” Wainwright, Kelly Wainwright’s little sister, on the hit Nickelodeon show Big Time Rush (During the Big Time Girl Group episode, I imagine her as Cymphonique Miller’s character but she still stays until the end of the show and she’s on the song I Know You Know with BTR)

• Her twenty-second and twenty-fourth role in tv shows was playing Ariane Green on Sonny with a Chance & So Random

• Her twenty-third role in tv shows was playing Natalie ‘Nat’ Blue, Rocky & Ty’s little sister on Shake It Up

• Her twenty-fifth role in tv shows was playing Xenia Parks, Chyna and Cameron Park’s sister on ANT Farm

• Her twenty-sixth role in tv shows was playing Brienne Targaryen from the House Targaryen in Game of Thrones and won an Emmy for her role

• Her twenty-seventh role in tv shows was playing Melody Ross, Zuri’s older sister in Jessie

- Her twenty-eighth role in tv shows is playing Kristina “Kristie” Simon, Kacey Simon’s little sister in the short-lived Nickelodeon show How To Rock

• Her twenty-ninth role in tv shows was playing Tiara-Marie Rosa Parks Cooper, who goes by “T.M.”, K.C. & Ernie’s little sister in K.C. Undercover

• Her eleventh role in movies was playing Carla McKenzie in Grown Ups and her thirteenth role was playing the same role in Grown Ups 2

• Her fourteenth role in movies was playing Yessenia Gbadasomi in Inception

• Her fifteenth role in movies was playing Mirella Lewis on the DCOM Lemonade Mouth

• Her sixteenth role in movies is playing Apryl Tyjani in Rise of The Planet of The Apes, and she continues to play this character in Dawn of The Planet of The Apes, War for The Planet of The Apes, and Kingdom of The Planet of The Apes

• Her seventeenth role in movies is playing Emma Matins aka Teri in the Equalizer (I know Dakota’s role was huge in the Equalizer 3 but I’m fleshing her out in the first and second movie and for this story Teri is played by Eusbia in the first movie not Chloë Grace Mortez)

• Her eighteenth role in movies was playing Rue Bennett in the Hunger Games (instead of Amandla, I imagine Eusbia)

• Her ninteenth role in movies was playing Jalisa Andrews, Roxanne Andrew’s little sister, in the DCOM Let It Shine

• Her thirtieth role in TV shows was playing Leigh-Anne Johnson in the hit tv show Black-ish and she has guest starred on Grown-ish a few times

• Her twenieth role for movies was playing Chanelle Jimo in Kong: Skull Island and reprises her role in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong, and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

• Her twenty-first role in movies was playing Amarie Zabu, aka Nine Ball, in Ocean’s 8 and was the youngest cast member (Instead of Rihanna, Eusbia plays Nine Ball and will have a a bigger role)

• Her twenty-second role in movies was playing Kim Jane, the Kim family’s half sister (I have so many ideas for this)

• Her twenty-third role for movies was playing Riley Bina in the Netflix original movie Don’t Look Up in her twenty-second movie role and collabed with Kid Cudi on the song Don’t Look Up

• Her twenty-fourth role for movies was playing Devora “Vora” Haywood, OJ’s and Emerald’s sister in the movie Nope

• Her first ever K-drama role was playing Ji-Woo Balogun in the popular K-Drama My Name as the main character and in her first ever K-Drama role (in this universe, she plays Yoon Ji-Woo’s character), and this helped to skyrocket her popularity in South Korea even more as she did her own stunts and fight scenes for the show

• Her second K-Drama role is playing Mi-Hi Zabu in All of Us Are Dead (In the original webtoon, the author has a character inspired by her)

• Her third K-Drama role is playing Aracelis Obi in Squid Games and is Executive Director of the show

• Her fourth K-Drama role is playing Dong-Eun Umeh in The Glory and is Executive Director (instead of Song Hye-Ko, I imagine her playing the character)

• Her thirty-first role for tv shows is playing Dayana Adesina in Euphoria and is Executive Director with her follow costar Zendaya

• Her thirty-second role for tv shows is playing Devora Bolaji, a Pogue/Kook in Outer Banks who is a Co-Leader with John-B and JJ Maybank’s love interest (instead of Kiara’s character, I imagine Eusbia)

• Her thirty-third role for tv shows is playing Alesia Adeoye, the assistant principal on the TV show Abbott Elementary

• Her thirty-fourth role in tv shows is playing Gabi (), a recovery specialist in the NBC show Shades of Black & Blue: The Found Files, and she is the executive director, creator, and co-writer of the show (I’m combining the two shows Shades of Blue and Found)

• Her twenty-fifth role for movies is playing Chani in Dune: Part One and her thirtieth role for movies is playing the same character in the sequel movie Dune: Part Two

• Her twenty-sixth and thirty-first role in movies is playing Pearl and Maxine in the two movies X and Pearl and her thirty-third role for movies will be reprising her role as Maxine for MaXXXine

Her twenty-seventh role for movies is playing LT Alessandra “Phoenix” Akpabio, a F/A-18F pilot and mission candidate in Top Gun: Maverick (instead of Monica Barbaro, I imagine Eusbia playing the character; she does her stunts like Tom Cruise and sings Hold My Hand instead of Lady Gaga)

• Her twenty-eighth role for movies is playing The Queen, the Prince’s best friend who are both out for revenge in Bullet Train

• Her twenty-ninth movie role is playing Whiskey in Glass Onion (Instead of Madelyn Cline playing the character, I imagine Eusbia and I’m changing her up in this AU)

• Her thirty-first role for movies is playing LT Alessandra “Phoenix” Akpabio, a F/A-18F pilot and mission candidate (instead of Monica Barbaro, I imagine Eusbia playing the character; she does her stunts like Tom Cruise and sings Hold My Hand instead of Lady Gaga)

• Her twenty-ninth role for movies is playing Margot in the movie The Menu

• Her thirty-second role for movies is playing the teenage version of Imperator Furiousa in her twenty-ninth movie role in the 2024 movie Furiousa: A Mad Max Saga (In this AU, instead of Charlize Theron, someone else played Furiousa in the 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road movie, and in my eyes, if the movie sucks, this will change 💀)

• She plays a superhero called Frozenstar in the MCU and has featured in Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers: Endgame, Captain America: Civil War, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far from Home, Spider-Man: No Way Home, Black Panther, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness (In the comics, her character has ties to the Black Panther, X-Men, Avengers & Spider-Man universes but in the X-Men adaptions she’s played by different actresses)

• At twenty to twenty three years old, she was the first young actress to win an Emmy award for lead actress-drama series three times in Emmy history (Game of Thrones once and Euphoria twice)

• She has production credits, composition credits, and writer credits for many NCT U, NCT 127, NCT DREAM, WayV, SUPERM, many artists in the Kpop industry, and including her solo songs

• She has writing, producing & composing credits on Lemonade, Renaissance, and Cowboy Carter (three of Beyoncé’s most recent albums) and all three Harry Styles’s albums

• She was in Beyoncé’s Lemonade film

• SME let her have complete control of her solo music while she was a soloist under the company and now HYBE let’s her do the same

• She sang the songs Kingdom of One, Hollow Crown, and Love can Kill. She was in the songs Power is Power with The Weeknd & Travis Scott and Wolf at Your Door with Chloe & Halle on the soundtrack For the Throne. She was the executive producer on this album.

• She composed, produced, and has a credit for writing on Good Boy Gone Bad, Sugar Rush Ride, and Happy Fools feat. Coi Leray by TXT

• In 2019-2020, she composed, produced, and wrote No Time Left to Die for the 25th James Bond movie No Time Left to Die at 20-21 years old and won awards such as the Grammy award for Best Song Written for Visual Media, the Golden Globe award for Best Original Song, the Critics’ Choice movie award for Best Song, and the Academy Award for Best Original Song

• The song “Fight For You” from Judas and the Black Messiah was co-written with her and Tiara Thomas while co-produced and co-composed with D-Mile which won Best Original Song at the 2021 Oscars

• During the Emmys 2022, Kenan Thompson made a joke about Zendaya being the age Leo is too old to date and Eusbia being the age he dates; she just raised an eyebrow and made a cut it out motion

• She went to NYFW 2022 in support for Jeno but was not in any shows

• She has a Twitter, Instagram, & YouTube stan account

• She went to Beyoncé's belated 41st birthday party & back in August, she had dinner with the Carters and Tomdaya in the Hamptons

• She was the first female kpop soloist to host the MTV VMAs twice (2023 update) and win the Best Kpop award at the 2022 VMAS

• She was the most awarded person at the 2023 VMAS (instead of Taylor Swift, it’s Eusbia in this story)

• She currently has two pet cats named Chanel and Patch (I’m using inspiration from my two cats)

• Despite being one of the youngest billionaires in America and the world, she still has been racially profiled while shopping at high-end stores

• She was in the song Drop with Mark on High School Rapper instead of Seulgi and performed it live with him on the finale

• You know about the fact Yuta was ready to fight people on the High School Rapper set on behalf of Mark? Eusbia was right beside him, prepared to do the same 💀

• She did this “prank” on of her album promotions during her appearance on Jimmy Fallon

• She wrote, produced, composed, and sings Lift Me Up as a tribute to Chadwick Boseman, the song Born Again for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the song No Woman No Cry (In this AU, she is the one who sings the three songs instead of Rihanna and Tems)

• She had a collection called EBY x Tommy Hilfiger for the spring-summer and fall-winter seasons in 2018-2019

• Just Like Seonghwa from Ateez who did a sexy routine to the song Baby Shark, Jongho dared her to do something similar as well and she did this routine at a concert

• Eusbia and Sohee from Alice (formally known as Elris) have been praised for going against the beauty standards and having healthy bodies

• She went viral on Korean and international Twitter for her cover of U-Go-Girl by Lee Hyori feat. Nassun with Jaehyun saying Nassun’s lines at the 2022 KBS Song Festival, and Lee Hyori herself praised her, which caused another viral moment

• She became viral back in 2016 and 2022, respectively, because of her double rhythmic gymnastics performance at ISAC 2016 and on ISAC 2022 because of her dance sports performance

• She comes from both Nigerian, South African, and Korean royalty

• Instead of Alyson Stoner, she was the one who danced in Missy Elliott’s “Work It” music video and was part of the 2019 VMAs performance

• Although she didn’t play Nala in The Lion King (2019 live-action) movie remake, she made an album called The Lion King: The Gift as a love letter to Africa (She told Disney the idea and they said yes)

• She was a first time judge on the 2021 season of the Voice with John Legend, Kelly Clarkson, and Blake Shelton

• She sang, wrote, produced, and composed the song “What Was I Made For?” On the Barbie (2023) movie soundtrack and won Best Song at the 2024 Golden Globes, Song of The Year, Record of The Year (her song Kill Bill was nominated and won that as well) & Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2024 Grammys

• She won CinemaCon Star Of The Year award at the 2023 CinemaCon Awards

• She broke a record for winning twice in the same category at the 2024 Grammys, won Pop Duo/Group Performance with her song “Ghost in the Machine” with TAZ, and won “Best African Music Performance” at the 2024 Grammys for her song “Water”

• She choreographed Don’t Call Me and Hard by SHINee

• She collaborated with David Guetta on Titanium

• She collaborated with Jay-Z on Empire State of Mind and Run This Town (which also features Kanye West)

• She collaborated with B.O.B on the song Airplanes and Airplanes, Pt. II with Eminem

• She collaborated with Cobra Starship on the song You Make Me Feel…

• She was on Hey Mama with David Guetta and Nicki Minaj

• She was on the Flawless remix

• She was on Nick Jonas’s song Numb

• She collaborated with Major Lazer on the songs Lean On with DJ Snake and Powerful with Tarrus Riley

• She collaborated with G-Eazy on his 2015 song Me, Myself & I (the song was initially called Don’t Need Anything and was composed, produced, and written by her) and his 2017 song Him & I

• She collaborated with Daniel Caesar twice on Get You and Best Part

• She collaborated with Kendrick Lamar on Loyalty, All The Stars, Die Hard, We Cry Together, and Purple Hearts

• She collaborated on two songs with Bruno Mars, they are the “Finesse Remix” and her song “Please Me”

• She collaborated on two songs with Khalid, they are “Lovely” and “Love Lies,” and performed together at the 2018 BBMAS, and she was in his “Young Dumb & Broke” music video

• She collaborated with J-Hope from BTS on Chicken Noodle Soup back in 2019, she popped up for the performance on the same song for BTS’s SoWoZoo (both days) in 2021, and his Lollapalooza performance in 2022

• She collaborated with Maroon 5 on the Girls Like You Remix with Cardi B and is the featuring artist on their song Beautiful Mistakes

• She was on Fighting with BSS (BooSeokSoon aka Seungkwan, DK, and Hoshi from SEVENTEEN and I imagine her on the song instead of Lee Youngji)

• She collaborated with Jungkook on “Seven,” and she helped co-produced, co-composed, and wrote her rap verse for the song and was the female lead in his music video (instead of Latto on the rap verse and Han Sohee as the love interest, it’s Eusbia)

• She collaborated with Rema on the Calm Down remix (instead of Selena Gomez), broke so many records, and won Best Afrobeats at the 2023 VMAS

• She was on Smoke with DynamicDuo & Padi and created the dance challenge

• She presented with Jaden Smith for the animated short film category at the 2007 Oscars (it goes viral every once in a while)

• It’s a well-known fact that she doesn’t have a fandom name for her fans and that instead of saying “I love you” to fans, she says “I appreciate you” instead

• She (and the other members of NCT VOXARA) are producers, composers, songwriters, lyricists, choreographers, and creative directors for the group (including all subunits), and own the rights to NCT

• She is one of the first female artists in history to hit these high notes the exact way Christina Aguilera did

• She, Hunter Schafer (her fellow Euphoria costar), and TAZ were arrested at a New York Pro-Palestine protest on February 28th, 2024, during Joe Biden’s appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyer’s

• Jonathan Glazer’s speech and her speech brought up what’s happening in Palestine went viral and got support from fellow Hollywood creatives

• She has perfect pitch and infallible ears (Inspiration from Marvin Hamlisch)

• She plays many instruments

• She is still on The Royal Family dance crew (and comes on every once in a while for some projects)

• She is very close with Jam Republic (she’s under the agency as well) and many dancers in both South Korea and the West

• In June 2021, Ten made a post on his Instagram showing him and Eusbia dancing to Need To Know (instead of Bada, imagine her there for this story)

• The lyrics, “Show me all your tatt's, not just the ones that's on your hands” from her song Naked is all about Jungkook

• She has choreographed dances, written, produced, and composed songs for many Kpop artists in and outside of SM ENTERTAINMENT

• She was a contestant on the earlier seasons of So You Think You Can Dance, America’s Best Dance Crew, and World of Dance while becoming one of the most prominent judges on each show

• She became a judge on American Idol by Season 10 (instead of J. Lo and Katy Perry, I imagine her as a judge)

• Her song Daddy Lessons (including her version with the Chicks) caused her a lot of backlash, and she still performed with the group at the 2016 CMAS with them anyway (In this story, she did Daddy Lessons instead of Beyoncé)

• She dropped a cover of I See Red by Everybody Loves an Outlaw in 2020, and it went viral

• Despite not being a supermodel like her mother, fashion houses invite her to walk in shows whenever her schedule allows it

• She performed Move with Taemin at the 2017 MAMAS as a surprise

• She’s the female voice on Taemin’s song IDEA

• She performed Waterfalls with TLC at the 2024 iHeart Radio Music Awards (2024 update)

• Her, Zendaya, and Storm Reid went viral for dancing to APESHIT during the filming of the first season of Euphoria

• Her mom introduces her in her SNL performance of imperfect for you while Josh Brolin introduces her in her performance of we can’t be friends (wait for your love) (2024 update)

• She rips her shirt off during a solo performance of Fire by BTS on NCT VOXARA’s 2019 tour

• She is one of the youngest EGOT winners

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I will add more facts when inspiration comes to me. I also have an idea to make a Game of Thrones fanfiction, and this brought it back; let me know if you would be interested in reading it if I ever publish it.

2024 update: since her discography involves Ariana Grande, in this universe, someone else will play Cat Valentine in Victorious and Sam & Cat, and I’m only putting her in All That because I watched the reruns back in the day when I had cable and not because of what’s happening. (He should have apologized a long time ago instead of staying silent, and the fact he finally spoke up, said something, and “apologized” is wild).

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