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akwardlyuncool · 3 years

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Beverly Lewis’ The Shunning Series “Overview” Review

The Shunning (2011)

The Confession (2013)

The Reckoning (2015)

The basis of the series is that Katie Lapp, a young Amish woman set to marry one of the town’s Bishops, is having a hard time getting over the loss of her former love, Daniel Fisher who drowned in a river a few years back. She’s also struggling with her urges to play guitar and sing songs not in the official Amish hymn book. There is also an “English” woman snooping around town asking questions, which raises some of Katie’s own. To spoil what we already know from the title, all of this leads to Katie being shunned for her lost ways and thus spiraling the story into a 3 part series.

These films are based on Beverly Lewis’ book series, where there may or may not be more books included, but as far as I know only 3 movies were made.

I had previously watched the first 2 movies a few years back, but never got around to watching the third, so I figured I’d watch the whole series all the way through, you know just a quick binge watch cause I wanted to watch the first one again. I never read the books (Inspirational Romance Fiction isn’t really my thing,) but the first movie had enough intrigue behind it to pique something in me. Hallmark, Lifetime, all of the tv movie channels, know how to talk up a dramatic headline. It’s like clickbait, but with less bait and switch and more predictability.

So overall I felt like this could have all just been made into one extra long movie, or 2 at most, if edited right. It was just so drawn out, that to me the entire second movie could have just been divvied up and split between the first and the third. The Shunning (the 1st movie) was the best out of all 3 films, probably because it felt the most like “theater” movie as opposed to a made for TV one. All of that could have just been the “hype” around it, however I think it was also the only film that looked less like in was made in front of a green screen. The water backgrounds, although pretty, just looked so fake against their bodies. There was a lot of little things that separated the films from one another.

It was probably the casting that failed the second and third movies the most for me though. Between all 3 films there was such inconsistency within the casting and that made some of the continuity suffer. Like come on you can’t give us a brunette in one film and then make him blonde in another, call them the same character and think we won’t be at least a little annoyed. I can kinda forgive switching out Danielle Panabaker for Katie Leclerc as Katie Lapp simply because she was there for two of the three films, but the switch up on the other main characters, among other “important” cast members felt ridiculous to me. Between the second and the third film, the second wins that battle easily. I guess you could say that it had more spice to it and by the final film you knew what was going to happen if you hadn’t already figured it out yet.

Most people don’t expect much from these kinds of movies, so I’m probably judging it by its flaws that are simply common shortcomings from Hallmark in general. I can’t help going in on it a little bit, but you know what, I’m the type to get sucked in, even when these movies aren’t that good and I’m not the only one. I think people love them so much because you truly do get so much binge out of them. That’s why something like 40+ Hallmark Christmas movies were churned out last year. There is an audience for it and it’s not just the Christian Moms looking for wholesome content to cry to, we’re all looking for easy watches these days. Me personally I just like how extra these things are.

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keepingupwiththehoneybadger · 3 years

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guys daniel doesn’t have an apartment in NY, he has one in Beverly Hills. Secondly, that anon “confession” about a night in an f1 driver’s apartment wasn’t about daniel, apparently was about lewis, so stop spreading false info

#daniel ricciardo #f1 #f1 fandom #f1 memes #formula 1

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steamedtangerine · 3 years

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Vintage Gold Dollar flyer from October 2000

The month started off with a tribute to Cobb’s Corner, a famous jazz club whose owner, Henry Normile, was slain (along with Guy Willetts) outside the Soup Kitchen Saloon in Detroit back in 1979. There are a number of local sites discussing the strange circumstances of the murder and the overall attempt to avoid any investigation.

http://www.corridortribe.com/obits/henry_normile.htm

https://groups.google.com/g/corridortribe/c/qIvrmSZ6PUg

http://www.corridortribe.com/discus/messages/19/46.html?1262107475

https://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?15350-Vintage-Bars-Cass-Corridor-Area-and-More&p=360800#post360800

I was put to task on Reddit to explain my posting of it (back when I cultivated a long-withstanding 4-year Reddit account) further on /r/UnresolvedMysteries (some links defunct since I posted them last)-so, not one to let my efforts be lost, here it is:

A lot of it can be revealed by reading "Eighth Times the Charm" by Theodore P. Panaretos, and there are a lot of articles on Newspapers.com I'm not going to pay for-anyone who has access to either can be of big help in this.

The real focus should probably be on the killing of Henry Normile, which folks from the area still ask about.

Normile was a former seminary student, served in the US Air Force, had a masters in Physiology (some say Psychology, as well), and gave up teaching at WCCC and the Carnegie Institute in Troy to acquire Cobb's Corner on Cass Ave. and Willis. No stranger to bars and nightlife, Normile revitalized a troubled area by supporting a great portion of Jazz and other music in the Detroit area. He was described as an extrovert, amiable, unmaterialistic, charismatic with the ladies, intelligent, a gun-owner, and happened to be a small-time drug dealer. Mostly dealing in marijuana, he also dealt cocaine, but said he wanted to get away from the heavy people he was dealing with (shades of what my slain friend, Quincy, was hoping to do, but he would never touch coke by a long-shot.). Many penniless folks were getting drugs from him, which suggested Normile was quite permissive and not making the profit he "should".

Prior to all this, he was a manger at Verne's Bierstube on Forest Ave. for five years, but his boss worried about the dealings he was involved in (in fact, many clientele left that place to hang out at Cobb's). Cobb's was big deal for many folks in that area (the Cass Corridor was a mecca for independent culture for a long time, along with many artist groups and the publication of the Fifth Estate). Normile also was a fund-raiser (scrupulously or successfully remains to be questioned) for the MOT and the Detroit Children's Alternative School. This link gives the best bio http://www.corridortribe.com/obits/henry_normile.htm.

On January 27th 1979, 34 yo. Henry (preparing for a recording session there-this session on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txfKHO0D6dI&index=4&list=LLrOTfbop3iS9vT4raLNa5Fg was recorded the day before his murder and may have him introducing the Lyman Woodard Organization performing) supposedly heard a knock at the door at 8p., and a shotgun blast through the mail chute got him in the throat. Marcie Major who lived nearby, came and found him on the floor with his dog standing over him. Whoever shot him was stealthful and unseen, suggesting something professional.

Two police involved were Sgt. Cameron Knowles (not the NZ footballer)-who claimed there were no leads or motives-and Gilbert Hill who helped in the Atlanta Child killings case. Gilbert was later promoted to Homicide inspector in 1982 and appeared in the movie Beverly Hills Cop as Axel Foley's (Eddie Murphy's) boss. Gilbert has always had some rumors leveled upon him that his reputation was dirty, and recently with the issues with "White Boy" Rick making Detroit news still, Hill's handlings of the supposed frame-up of Charles Lewis and false confession of Eddie Joe Lloyd still brings his integrity into question as this independent article suggests http://voiceofdetroit.net/2016/12/23/dirty-dealings-gil-hills-role-in-white-boy-rick-case-charles-lewis-and-eddie-joe-lloyd-frame-ups/.

These links to a Tribes of the Corridor discussion have people still speculating. http://tribesofdetroit.com/discus/messages/19/337.html and http://www.corridortribe.com/discus/messages/19/46.html?1262107475. The first link has an adamant Kris Peterson (who comments on Youtube about this) claiming she confronted a cop/security guard working at a Bloomfield Hills drugstore about Normile's killing, but odder still, was the cab driver claiming he picked up a drunk cop who talked about Cobb's and how Normile was killed professionally by a joint effort of cops and the underworld.

Normile's brother, Howard, reluctantly took over the bar but it became a shaky establishment and less concerned with music. It eventually became a gallery.

On February 1st 1979 (five days after Normile's death), Grosse Pointe promoter Stanley Guy Willetts was shot in his car outside of the Soup Kitchen Saloon. The book I mentioned above will detail things better, but this is where I get headachey....

The following link to a 3-page PDF is very important as it brings a lot of persons into question. http://www.crimeindetroit.com/documents/041483%20Figure%20in%20'Hit'%20Murder%20Tied%20to%20Death%20of.pdf. According to it, a man named Milton Hunt (convicted along with his brother for a murder of a man in front of the Bon Ton Bar on December 23 1978) claimed that a Harold Jackson Jr. (former owner of Berman's Chop House and a supposed friend and regular cocaine customer of Normile's)-who was responsible for attempting to securing loans (ranging from 38 to 40k each) for both slain Normile and Willetts-and former Willetts employee Charles McLellan (who drove Willetts to the Soup Kitchen that day, and was later questioned by cops after the murder but let go.) had approached Milton on August of 1978 and asked him to perform the murder on both Normie and Willetts. Hunt rejected the offer wanting money in advance. He told all this to officers in exchange for an attempt to clear his brother's name in the 12/23/78 killing, but Gil Hill claimed no such interview took place and that no statements were recorded of such things.

Lonnie Thomas was revealed to be the killer of Willetts by Jackson who testified (as key witness in the Willetts murder trial) that he hired Lonnie to do the job. Jackson's story to police and at the trial was that Willetts' business partners (from a failed venture called OTAC which offered expensive cruises to the Middle East)-supposedly hoping to cash in on an insurance policy put out on him-promised him $100,000 if he would get someone to kill the Grosse Pointe filmmaker and business promoter. He is also a link to Normile but was never questioned by police in the murder of him at the time. Police arrested three of Willetts' OTAC associates but released one without charges. The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office dropped charges against another, Mat Alfei, for lack of evidence, and a Detroit Recorder's Court jury acquitted the third man, John Kiley. Jackson claims Kiley pad him $5000.

From what snippets I see in the book and the Newspaper.com articles there were a few attempts on Willetts' life that involved wine with pills https://books.google.com/books?id=rWMcpjlQu3MC&pg=PA155&lpg=PA155&dq=willetts+pills+wine&source=bl&ots=dvssIADrWc&sig=aHMcMZZze5hnCMg0fG7Uw1PbQgI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjSotvRyOLTAhUK3YMKHbF_DbsQ6AEIIzAA#v=onepage&q=willetts%20pills%20wine&f=false.

Though possibly not connected, Jazz bandleader and vocalist, Eddie Jefferson (seeing as Detroit has a Jefferson Ave.-do not attempt to Google), was shot outside Baker's Keyboard lounge at 1:35a. May 8th that same year Normile and Willetts were shot. A green Lincoln Continental was seen and a disgruntled male dancer was arrested and later acquitted. All three deaths severely hurt the thriving jazz club scene in Detroit.

Seems a lot of persons would profit from these deaths. Those wishing to "clear out" a scene impeding gentrification. Those partners wanting insurance or hampering loans (or taking orders from higher entities and promised not to get charged by the Feds). Those wishing to kill Normile for permissive unprofitable drug-dealing. The police playing along with haphazard investigations.---all speculations.

Maybe those reading the books and articles and with less of a headache to go on, can provide more information or insight.

TO RESUME WITH THIS TUMBLR POST: It’s interesting how Marcus Belgrave is mentioned (someone along with his son who played with a very talented drummer from a band I was in back when we both attended the Institute of Music and Dnace-RIP), as well as John Sinclair (someone I met).

Since this posting, Cobb’s Corner has been reopened (2018) https://www.metrotimes.com/table-and-bar/archives/2018/11/29/cobbs-corner-bar-has-officially-reopened, and someone had a discussion link on DetroitYes on it a year ago: https://www.detroityes.com/mb/showthread.php?24769-Eighth-Time-s-the-Charm

So, anyway, yes, the Gold Dollar Flyer above (this was a post about the Gold Dollar flyer, until vintage Detroit crime took the spotlight)-I’m sure one only has to briefly glance to notice the one renowned band name to jump out at you: THE WHITE STRIPES!....other honorably mentioned acts include Twitch, Bantam Rooster, and glam rock band The Trash Brats.

#Gold Dollar #Detroit #Unexplained #john sinclair #White Stripes #top tier #Obsolete #rest in peace #just another day on reddit

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tabloidtoc · 4 years

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Star, October 26

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Reba McEntire dating CSI: Miami star Rex Linn and finding love again at 65

Page 1: Duchess Kate Middleton stopped by England’s University of Derby to discuss students’ mental health and how the pandemic has affected their education but during her visit those watching couldn’t help but notice Kate looked more youthful than ever because of a new shorter highlighted hairstyle

Page 2: Contents -- Demi Lovato and pal Matthew Scott Montgomery were ready to be spooked at Nights of the Jack

Page 3: Vanessa Paradis and her daughter Lily-Rose Depp at the Chanel show during Paris Fashion Week, Tom Cruise looked a little leery filming a difficult scene on the set of Mission: Impossible 7 in Rome, Cara Santana repped boyfriend Shannon Leto’s band 30 Seconds to Mars in a sweatshirt from the group’s apparel line

Page 5: Chrissy Metz is so smitten with her new boyfriend Bradley Collins that she’s already talking marriage and babies with her Nashville-based beau and that has alarms ringing for some of her friends about why they kept their romance totally hidden until now and since Chrissy is all-or-nothing this is way too intense for some, fans of Law & Order: SVU rejoiced when it was announced that a spinoff was in the works that would star Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler and the new series called Organized Crime would feature Stabler leading a task force fighting NYC’s crime syndicates but the show has been rocked by behind-the-scenes drama as first showrunner Craig Gore was axed in June and now his replacement Matt Olmstead is also out leaving the future of the show in jeopardy, after a contentious season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Denise Richards and Teddi Mellencamp are out and mainstays Lisa Rinna and Kyle Richards have proven they’re the alphas of the long-running Bravo show and now as producers are scrambling to fill out the cast one obvious contender is out of the running as Kathy Hilton has respectfully declined because her daughters Nicky Hilton Rothschild and Paris Hilton didn’t want her to do it because they felt it was a bad look for them and the family

Page 6: Sofia Richie and Scott Disick have split but she seems to still be taking her beauty cues from her time with the Kardashian-adjacent dad of three because she has noticeably fuller lips where she had lip injections to both lips, Mariah Carey had nothing but nice things to say about Derek Jeter in her new memoir calling their relationship sensual and credits him with helping her see the value of her biracial background but Derek isn’t happy about it and he’s fed up and feels Mariah is taking advantage of him to publicize her book and it doesn’t help that Derek’s friends have been teasing him about the sexy details because he hates being made fun of; his ego can’t handle his friends ribbing him, Star Spots the Stars -- Christina Aguilera, Kaitlyn Bristowe, Travis Scott, Teddi Mellencamp, Rev Run and his wife Justine Simmons, Lindsay Arnold

Page 8: Star Shots -- Anne Heche headed for rehearsal on Dancing with the Stars, Christina Milian and her daughter Violet, Gavin Rossdale at the beach in Malibu with his dog and a mystery woman

Page 9: Liev Schreiber plays basketball with his son Sasha in NYC

Page 10: Bachelor alum Catherine Lowe and her son Samuel, Reese Witherspoon jumping rope, Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles’ Tracy Tutor playing Monopoly at home

Page 12: Johnny Weir leaving Dancing with the Stars rehearsals, Brie Larson and boyfriend Elijah Allan-Blitz on a grocery run, Alessandra Ambrosio on her way to dinner in West Hollywood

Page 13: Selena Gomez shows her kidney transplant scar, Julia Garner filming scenes for Inventing Anna in New York City

Page 14: Chrishell Stause heading into rehearsals for Dancing with the Stars, Johnny Depp waved to fans outside the ZFF Masters during the 16th Zurich Film Festival where he promoted Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGown, Patrick Schwarzenegger stepped out with a script in West Hollywood

Page 15: Silver fox Jon Bon Jovi struck a pose while promoting his new album 2020 in NYC, Shia LaBeouf went for a jog in Pasadena on the same day he was charged with misdemeanor battery and petty theft following an incident that happened in June, Maisie Williams at the Chloe fashion show in Paris

Page 16: Gwen Stefani stepped out of the studio in Woodland Hills, Chiwetel Ejiofor referred to his phone while reciting poetry on the set of the upcoming pandemic-themed dramedy Lockdown in London, Sting and his wife Trudie Styler celebrated his 69th birthday at a meal with friends in Rome

Page 17: Sofia Vergara out in L.A., Denise Richards and husband Aaron Phypers looked carefree leaving a restaurant in L.A., Danny Trejo hung out with an adorable pooch during an appearance on Home & Family

Page 18: Normal or Not? Machine Gun Kelly shared a glimpse of his beauty routine en route to his new cafe in Cleveland -- not normal, Eva Longoria wore a Vote t-shirt and a Biden mask during a political rally in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood -- normal

Page 19: Snoop Dogg inhaled and exhaled during his DJ Snoopadelic set at the Concerts in Your Car event at the Ventura County Fairgrounds -- normal, while grabbing a meal in Los Angeles with a bevy of beauties Billie Dee Williams enjoyed a quick grooming session too -- not normal

Page 20: Fashion -- stars get glitzy in gold -- Olivia Wilde, Leona Lewis

Page 21: Karen Gillan, Kate Beckinsale

Page 24: Emilio Vitolo Jr. appears to be every inch the doting boyfriend to Katie Holmes but he’s playing the field behind her back -- Emilio’s a ladies’ guy and he’s been texting a bunch of girls saying things between him and Katie aren’t nearly as serious as they seem while Katie thinks she’s in love and it’s no exaggeration to say she’s obsessed with this guy and she’s adamant they’ll elope and in her mind they’re two kindred souls destined to be together

Page 25: Beyonce and Jay-Z are hoping to add on to their already impressive real estate portfolio as they are quietly checking out homes in Montecito in California for their family of five -- although they already own a $26 million home in New York’s tony Hamptons as well as an $88 million Bel-Air mansion the couple are hoping to put down roots in the American Riviera so their children can attend the area’s prestigious schools and Beyonce especially likes that it’s not far from L.A. and it’s clean and super private, after two years of dating Jake Gyllenhaal and Jeanne Cadieu are at odds about their future and Jake’s frustrated because the relationship is going nowhere and he’s eager to start a family but the 24-year-old model isn’t ready to put her career on hold and take that next step leaving Jake in limbo -- his most successful relationships were with women his own age with the same maturity and ambition like Reese Witherspoon and Kirsten Dunst -- while Jake remains conflicted about whether to stick it out with Jeanne or start over with someone new his friends say it’s time to move on and find someone who’s baby mama material, Jon Hamm has been considering settling down since he began dating Anna Osceolo because something about Anna is making him rethink everything from the guy who never pictured himself walking down the aisle or having children but now he and Anna are talking about marriage and a family

Page 26: Cover Story -- Reba McEntire finding love at last -- after a string of broken hearts the country superstar has finally snagged Mr. Right actor Rex Linn

Page 30: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s courtroom showdown -- four years after their split Brad and Angie are still duking it out over custody and now they’re prepared to bring star power to the battle -- Brad will be using every scrap of ammunition he can to fight for his kids including testimony from fellow stars and Angelina is prepared to do the same

Page 32: Five-time rehab vet Scott Disick is caught partying in front of his kids

Page 34: Stars’ Cheating Confessions -- sometimes all you can do is beg for forgiveness; these celebs have all had to plead their case -- Jude Law and Sienna Miller, Kevin Hart and Eniko Parrish

Page 35: Donny and Debbie Osmond, Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith, David Letterman and Regina Lasko, Dean McDermott and Tori Spelling

Page 38: Beauty -- add a sophisticated scent blend to your fragrance wardrobe for fall -- Kim Kardashian

Page 40: Entertainment

Page 48: Parting Shot -- Chris Hemsworth and wife Elsa Pataky partnered with the Global Wildlife Conservation and Wild Ark to boost the ecosystem of their beloved Australia -- the pair helped Aussie Ark release 11 Tasmanian devils into a wildlife sanctuary at Barrington Tops National Park -- the hush-hush event marked the first time the endangered marsupials whose presence can help repel pests and bush fired were returned to the mainland in 3000 years

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saleintothe90s · 4 years

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406. Stalking

I’m always fascinated about how a stalker works — what drives them to never forget a person. To think about them every day, all day. The money spent on following the person around, the postage spent.

One of the most infamous celebrity stalkers of the 1980s and 1990s was Margaret Ray, who stalked David Letterman. Ray, who was schizophrenic, constantly broke into Letterman’s home in Connecticut, often sleeping on the tennis court. In 1988, she convinced housepainters that she was his housekeeper and she drove off with his Porsche—when she was arrested on the New Jersey side of the Lincoln Tunnel, she told cops she was David Letterman’s wife and her child (who was in the car with her) was the son she had with Letterman.

In October of 1998, Ray committed suicide by kneeling in front of a train. Before her death, she turned her obsessions to astronaut Story Musgrave. 1 Letterman didn’t escape his stalkers however, in 2005 a former painter at his ranch in Montana plotted to take Letterman’s son, Harry for ransom. 2

The young actress Rebecca Schaffer was murdered by a deranged fan while her career was on the rise. Robert Jean Bardo tried to come on the set of her short lived sitcom My Sister Sam several times (including bringing a knife one time), but was turned away each time. Bardo’s decision to kill Schaffer came when he saw her in the movie Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills in which there was a scene in which she was in bed with a character. 3 He accessed Schaffer’s address through a personal detective who attained the address through DMV records. 4. On July 18, 1989 he arrived at her doorstep. He spoke with her briefly, she signed an autograph, and told him to leave. Bardo arrived back at the apartment shortly after. Schaffer opened the door thinking it was the script to Godfather III in which she was going to audition for later that day. Bardo shot her in the chest, killing her almost immediately.

One of the earliest cases of internet stalking came in 1994 when Andrew C. Archambeau wouldn’t stop emailing and leaving voicemails to a woman he met through a video dating service. In one of his emails he said:

"I've been trying to court you, not stalk you," Mr. Archambeau wrote her electronically on April 15. "If you let me, I would be the best man, friend, lover you ever could have."

Unfortunately, he lived in Michigan which was one of the earliest states to extend stalking laws to cyber space. 5 It was hard to find information, but I believe he was charged with a misdemeanor. 6

(source)

Former White House intern Tangela Burkhart stalked George Stephanopoulos (then President Clinton’s communications adviser) while at the White House and in the years following. When he moved to New York City, so did she. 8 In late 1999, Burkhart was spotted three days in a row at a coffeehouse Stephanopoulos frequented. In 1998, she was arrested twice for stalking him. 9 In early 2000, she was ordered to stay away from parts of New York City. 8

After their daughter went missing in 1974, the family of Amy Billig received consent phone calls for nearly 20 years from a man who claimed that he knew where Amy was, or he knew what was being done to Amy:

Throughout the ordeal, the one constant in their lives was the caller -- Mrs. Billig describes his voice as "low, threatening" -- from whom they began hearing within weeks of the disappearance. In one call, according to court documents filed in the case against Mr. Blair, the man told Mrs. Billig that "she would be abducted like her daughter and sold into a slave trade." In another, he told her she only had two weeks to live. 10.

In October of 1995, the police finally caught up with him. By tracing his calls to a cell phone they discovered that the caller was Henry J. Blair, a 47 year old veteran of the United States Customs Service. A married guy with two kids. He was found guilty of misdemeanor stalking in March of 1996. Blair claimed:

In his confession, Blair blamed his calls on obsessive-compulsive behavior arising, he said, from the stress of his job. He claimed he never sought psychiatric counseling because it might have wrecked his career. “Just a bunch of crank calls” is how he described his vicious campaign, insisting that he “would never act out on anything…. The pressures would mount. I would call, and then it would subside.” 11

Finally, this article:

What 9 year old pre-internet says that?! I guess he got it from a song?

1. Bruni, Frank. “Behind the Jokes, a Life Of Pain and Delusion; For Letterman Stalker, Mental Illness Was Family Curse and Scarring Legacy.” The New York Times, November 22, 1998, sec. New York. https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/22/nyregion/behind-jokes-life-pain-delusion-for-letterman-stalker-mental-illness-was-family.html

2. “Letterman Tot Kidnap Plot Foiled.�� Accessed February 13, 2020. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/letterman-tot-kidnap-plot-foiled/.

3. Moffatt, Gregory K. Blind-Sided: Homicide Where It Is Least Expected. Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2000. 94-95.

4. EW.com. “Six Years Ago Rebecca Schaeffer Was Fatally Shot.” Accessed February 13, 2020. https://ew.com/article/1995/07/14/six-years-ago-rebecca-schaeffer-was-fatally-shot/

5. Lewis, Peter H. “Persistent E-Mail: Electronic Stalking or Innocent Courtship?” The New York Times, September 16, 1994, sec. U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/16/us/persistent-e-mail-electronic-stalking-or-innocent-courtship.html.

6. Casey, Eoghan. Digital Evidence and Computer Crime: Forensic Science, Computers and the Internet. 2nd ed. London ; San Diego, Calif: Academic Press, 2004. 160.

7. Stephanopoulos, George. All Too Human: A Political Education. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1999. 298.

8. The Buffalo News. “EX-BUFFALONIAN IS ORDERED TO AVOID STEPHANOPOULOS,” January 13, 2000. https://buffalonews.com/2000/01/13/ex-buffalonian-is-ordered-to-avoid-stephanopoulos/.

9. Barron, James. “Public Lives.” The New York Times, September 21, 1999, sec. New York. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/21/nyregion/public-lives.html.

10. Navarro, Mireya. “The Night Caller: 21 Years of Unspeakable Grief.” The New York Times, December 3, 1995, sec. U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/us/the-night-caller-21-years-of-unspeakable-grief.html.

11. PEOPLE.com. “The Night Caller.” Accessed February 14, 2020. https://people.com/archive/the-night-caller-vol-45-no-8/.

#stalkers #1990s #1980s #rebecca schaeffer #george stephanopoulos #stalking #david letterman

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prudencepaccard · 5 years

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An amazing review of 1992′s Johnny Stecchino

>Roberto Benigni, the writer-director-star of "Johnny Stecchino," (at the Goldwyn Pavilion, Beverly Center Cineplex) shares one major quality with the great silent movie comics, the Chaplins and Keatons. Somehow, he seems not quite of this Earth.

With his elfin, pointy face and tiny, agile frame, he's a moon child, a glorious freak. When Benigni begins his specialty--a rapid, almost brain-dizzying patter, where his maniacal discourse and flailing arms shred all logic to tatters--his voice and persona take on weird, musical tones, like Gabrieli's trumpet with a frog in the bell.

"Johnny Stecchino," a showcase for Benigni, was the biggest box-office hit in the history of the Italian movie industry, bigger than "La Dolce Vita" or "Cinema Paradiso." But it's unlikely to strike that universal a chord here. It's a classic star vehicle: a simple romantic crime comedy about accident-prone bus driver, Dante, who unknowingly assumes the role of his look-alike Sicilian gangster, Johnny. It exists mainly to show Benigni off, let him daffily race through his repertoire.

But, if you don't recognize Benigni--and, though he's a first-magnitude Italian star, most American audiences know him only from his Jim Jarmusch films--if, in a way, you aren't rooting for him, it's not quite as funny.

The movie is a sendup of machismo and the Mafia. In it, Johnny's wife Maria (Nicoletta Braschi, Signora Benigni) and his coke-addled lawyer (Paolo Bonacelli) engineer the switch to provide the gangster's many enemies with a plausible corpse, so the real Johnny, hidden in his villa basement, can flee Palermo for Argentina. But there's another symbolic layer to this story: "Stecchino" means "toothpick" in Italian, and the "Johnny Toothpick" character is, in some sense, the evil fantasy-come-true of hapless Dante.

Like most "double" movies, from "Prince and the Pauper" to "The Prisoner of Zenda," it's a secret wish-fulfillment tale. Dante, a bumbling but benevolent little bus driver, goes woozy whenever he sees a beautiful woman. Johnny is a gravelly voiced lady-killer brute, who kills without qualm and slaps gorgeous Maria if she kisses him during sex.

And though kind little Dante, who serenades his busful of beaming, learning-impaired passengers with a jolly zoo song, shows no apparent desire to be a brutal gangster, it's down there underneath. He'd like the power, the freedom, certainly the sex.

The movie strips his id, lets him play at being bad Al Pacino. But it's a crucial plot twist that Dante never knows he's been substituted for a notorious criminal. Instead, he accepts all the crazy lies and misconceptions Maria and Johnny's shyster attorney keep feeding him: that the gourmet meals sent down to Johnny are being fed to a ravenous pet dog; that the lawyer's cocaine is diabetes medicine, snorted through a lira bill; that, when the town erupts in gunfire or half a Palermo opera audience screams for the impostor's head, it's because he's stolen a banana.

That's how Dante keeps his innocence. His naivete is immense. But no more so, really, than killer Johnny, who falls into a trance whenever he hears the word mother, and keeps complaining that the "wimp" Dante doesn't look anything like him. They're alter egos, like swinger Buddy Love and schlemiel Julius Kelp in Jerry Lewis' "The Nutty Professor," and they even have complementary personal phallic symbols: Dante's bananas and Johnny's toothpicks. When they meet, appropriately, it's in another reprise of the legendary two men and a mirror gag from Max Lindner and the Marx Brothers.

As an actor, Benigni is unique. Like Chaplin, Laurel or Hardy, he's a human mixed metaphor: a devilish cherub, a seraphic imp. (In "Il Piccolo Diavolo," he played a brash little demon who fell in love with the priest who exorcised him.) As a director, his style is big, clean, lucid. All the characters are snazzily exaggerated, and cinematographer Giuseppe Lanci's shots of Palermo have sumptuous size and spaciousness.

As a writer, like many comics, he tends to string together set pieces, sometimes illogically. Dante is boob or would-be sharpster, Maria shifts too swiftly from murderess to heroine. And it's hard to figure why everyone in town mistakes Dante for Johnny, except the police colonel to whom he confesses his "banana robbery."

What buoys "Johnny Stecchino" (MPAA-rated R for language and drug-related humor) is its impudence, its tender-hearted wackiness, its revelry in all the squirrelly quirks of Benigni's beguilingly screw-loose persona. The movie is a nose-tweak of the Mafia, government and organized religion, but there's a wide-eyed style that softens its roughest gags. That tone is wonderful, childlike, unmalicious. If not quite benign, at least it's Benigni.

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No Rest For The Sinners-Nor the saints | A High School Confession

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by Issysolacenovak

"Stephen Strange, please answer the question."

The sweat began make it's way down the neck of the teenager, his hands clenching the hem of his of his mother's red jacket.

His jacket.

"Mr. Strange, did you are did you not have an encounter with Professor Thanos?"

"I did."

"Can you state what this encounter was?"

The boy looked to the rows filled with his friends and family. His father sat with an expression he could not read, his brother full of pity, and Tony looking like he was going to cry.

And the Peter Parker. His face was pleading for Stephen to be honest. "I..."

Words: , Chapters: 1/20, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Avengers

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Underage

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M, Multi, Other

Characters: Stephen Strange, Loki (Marvel), Thor (Marvel), Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, James "Bucky" Barnes, Natasha Romanov (Marvel), Clint Barton, Bruce Banner, Sam Wilson (Marvel), Peter Parker, Shuri (Marvel), T'Challa (Marvel), Wade Wilson, Harry Osborn, Odin (Marvel), Frigga | Freyja (Marvel), Hela (Marvel), Peggy Carter, Pepper Potts, Helen Cho, Jane Foster (Marvel), Darcy Lewis, Maria Hill, Phil Coulson, Christine Palmer, Everett Ross, Jarvis (Iron Man movies), Howard Stark, Eugene Strange, Victor Strange, Thanos (Marvel), Nick Fury, Barney Barton, Beverly Strange, Victor von Doom, Donna Strange, May Parker (Spider-Man), Ben Parker

Relationships: Loki/Stephen Strange, James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers, Jane Foster/Thor, Clint Barton/Natasha Romanov, Steve Rogers/Tony Stark, Pepper Potts/Tony Stark, Harry Osborn/Peter Parker, Peter Parker/Wade Wilson, Christine Palmer/Stephen Strange, Peter Parker/Skip Westcott, Ian Boothby/Darcy Lewis, Gamora/Peter Quill, Peggy Carter/Pepper Potts, Sam Wilson/OFC, Loki & Peter Parker & Shuri, Stephen Strange/Thanos kinda, Mega Spidypool

Additional Tags: Underage Smoking, Drug Addiction, Drug Use, Alternate Universe - High School, Underage Drinking, Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks, Mentions of Cancer, Suicidal Thoughts, Suicide Attempt, Underage Sex, Molestation, Vomiting, Tony Stark Does What He Wants, Tony Stark Has Daddy Issues, Top Loki (Marvel), Angst and Feels, Peter Parker Needs a Hug, Peter Parker & Shuri Friendship, Harry Osborn is an abusive dick, POV First Person, POV Third Person, Kind of based on 13 Reasons Why, but not really, Peter and Shuri and Loki are in a band, Asexual Character, Aromantic Character, Trans Female Character, Thor is such a sweetheart, Odin (Marvel)'s A+ Parenting, Love Confessions, Eating Disorders, Stephen Strange Needs Love, Enemies to Lovers

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Short Synopsis: #TheConfessionMIN THE CONFESSION MUSICAL was adapted for the stage by Emmy-Nominated screenwriter Martha Bolton. The musical follows the story of Katie Lapp, a young Amish girl who discovers that her parents have been keeping a deep secret…that she is adopted. Katie decides to find her birth mother, defying the rules of her Amish village and risking a shunning. Meanwhile, Laura Mayfield, her wealthy birth mother who is battling an illness that might take her life, began searching for her long-lost daughter. Secretly plotting against Laura is her gold-digging husband Dylan (John Schneider). Dylan knows that if Katie is found, he will no longer inherit Laura’s fortune. With the help and prayers of her Christian housekeeper (Chonda Pierce), Laura hopes to foil Dylan’s plan and be reunited with her daughter. Short Synopsis: #TheConfessionMIN THE CONFESSION MUSICAL was adapted for the stage by Emmy-Nominated screenwriter Martha Bolton. The musical follows the story of Katie Lapp, a young Amish girl who discovers that her parents have been keeping a deep secret…that she is adopted. Katie decides to find her birth mother, defying the rules of her Amish village and risking a shunning. Meanwhile, Laura Mayfield, her wealthy birth mother who is battling an illness that might take her life, began searching for her long-lost daughter. Secretly plotting against Laura is her gold-digging husband Dylan (John Schneider). Dylan knows that if Katie is found, he will no longer inherit Laura’s fortune. With the help and prayers of her Christian housekeeper (Chonda Pierce), Laura hopes to foil Dylan’s plan and be reunited with her daughter. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nJb6JHIbpRI&mc_cid=189fe6a97e&mc_eid=cb70e2a596 MY THOUGHTS Hi Friends, I have a real treat for you! Beverly Lewis’ Amish Book, The Confession is coming to a theater near you February 20, 2023. The professionally filmed stage production releases in theaters on February 20th only. Mark your calendars and check back here next week for a review of this movie. With Chonda Pierce and John Schneider in the lineup, you know it’s going to be a fun hilarious time for you and your family. https://www.instagram.com/p/CngBiG-rMok/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Audiobook Online

[Book] The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle Audiobook Online by Avi

Avi's swashbuckling tale of murder and mutiny on the high seas has a fascinating twist: the heroine is a 13-year-old girl. In 1832, Charlotte Doyle boards a ship bound for America and is caught in a battle between a mad captain and his ruthless crew. If you're looking for an action-packed adventure story for girls, you'll find it in The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle.