#Broadway vs. Hollywood

[newyorkthegoldenage]

One day in Hollywood, I read a script in which the character was described as "charming but dull—a typical Ralph Bellamy type." I promptly headed for New York to find a part with guts.

State of the Union, by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, opened on November 14, 1945 at the Hudson Theater. Starring were Kay Johnson, Myron McCormick, and Ralph Bellamy (shown above), Ruth Hussey, and Minor Watson. The play was a hit, running 765 performances and winning the Pulitzer for drama. Bellamy's character, an industrialist who becomes a surprise Republican candidate for president, was said to have been inspired by Wendell Willkie.

Three years later the play was adapted for the screen as a vehicle for Spencer Tracy (in Bellamy's role) and Katharine Hepburn.

Photo: Associated Press

#vintage New York #1940s #Ralph Bellamy #State of the Union #vintage Broadway #Nov. 14 #Lindsay & Crouse #Broadway vs. Hollywood #14 Nov. #1940s theater #theater #drama #Kay Johnson #Myron McCormick

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Veronica Lake: Peter Pan in Peter Pan (1951 National Tour US); Lady Susan Ashlow in The Little Hut (1955 National Tour US); Gale Joy in Best Foot Forward (1963 Off Broadway)

Anna May Wong: Hai-tang in The Chalk Circle (1929 West End); Madame Lan Ying in On the Spot (1931 Broadway); Highlights from Hollywood (1939 Melbourne)

Propaganda under the cut

Veronica Lake:

idk if she counts cause she was mostly in tours and stuff but she’s really hot so here she is

Anna May Wong:

#vintagestagehotties #vintagestagepoll #vintage tournament #vintage poll #veronica lake #anna may wong #ladies round 1 #vintage ladies

[brostateexam]

Writers have always endured indignities in Hollywood. But, as long as there are millions to be grabbed, the trade-off has been bearable—except when it isn’t. The past month has brought the discontent of television writers to a boiling point. In mid-April, the Writers Guild of America (the modern successor to the Screen Writers Guild) voted to authorize a strike, with a decisive 97.85 per cent in favor. The guild’s current contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expires on May 1st; if the negotiations break down, it will be the W.G.A.’s first strike since late 2007 and early 2008. At issue are minimum fees, royalties, staffing requirements, and even the use of artificial intelligence in script production—but the over-all stakes, from the perspective of TV writers, feel seismic. “This is an existential fight for the future of the business of writing,” Laura Jacqmin, whose credits include Epix’s “Get Shorty” and Peacock’s “Joe vs. Carole,” told me; like the other writers I spoke to, she had voted for the strike authorization. “If we do not dig in now, there will be nothing to fight for in three years.” TV writers seem, on the whole, miserable. “The word I would use,” Jacqmin said, “is ‘desperation.’ ”

How did it come to this? About a decade ago, in the era of “Mad Men,” “Breaking Bad,” and “Veep,” TV writing seemed like one of the coolest, best-paying jobs a writer could have. As with the talkie boom of the nineteen-thirties, playwrights and journalists were flocking to Hollywood to partake in the heyday of prestige TV. It was fun. “We were all just trying to figure out, like, where to live. How do we sublet? Do we buy a car? Do we rent a car?” Liz Flahive recalled. In 2008, Flahive had just had a play produced Off Broadway when she got hired to write for “Untitled Edie Falco Project,” which became Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie.” TV, unlike big-budget movies, was a writers’ medium, and it was undergoing a creative explosion. “The old-timey mentality was: you go work in TV, and it breaks your brain, and you learn all these terrible habits,” Flahive said. “But you didn’t. You were writing great scenes, and for really good actors.”

The “Nurse Jackie” writers’ room, Flahive recalled, “was half queer, majority female. It was half people who had done TV for a long time, and half people who had never done TV before.” But it was possible to learn. “I turned in my first script, and the co-E.P.s sat me down and said, ‘This is really great. But this is the most expensive episode of television ever written. It’s a half-hour show, and you have forty-one setups.’ I was, like, ‘What’s a setup?’ And they explained, ‘If you set this scene here, and you write this scene here, this is a whole company move, and this is a whole new set we have to build.’ And then I got to take that script and go sit on set and actually see what it meant when you write ‘EXT. SUBWAY PLATFORM,’ and why that’s complicated.”

Flahive rose through the ranks of “Nurse Jackie” and went on to co-create the Netflix comedy “GLOW” and the Apple TV+ anthology “Roar,” both with the playwright and producer Carly Mensch. But, in the intervening years, the profession has devolved. Streamers are ordering shorter seasons, and the residuals model that used to give network writers a reliable income is out the window. The ladder from junior writer to showrunner has become murkier, with some people repeating steps like repeating grades, and others being flung to the top without the requisite experience, in order to meet demand for new content. Studios are cutting writing budgets to the bone by hiring fewer people for shorter time periods, often without paying for lower-level writers to be on set during production, which makes it all but impossible to learn the skills necessary to run a show. On “Roar,” Flahive said, “we had to fight to budget for writers to prep and produce their episodes,” and some of her writers had never been to the set of shows they’d worked on, “which is astonishing to me.”

#long reads #tl;dr support your local union

[broadwaydivastournament]

Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 1D

Tony-winner Lillias White (1951) made her Broadway debut in Barnun (1981), and has since gone on to do eleven additional shows, including Dreamgirls (1987), How to Succeed... (1995), and The Life (1997). Twice she has played Matron "Mama" Morton in Chicago. She recently finished up an 18-month engagement as Hermes in Hadestown. Lillias has performed her solo cabaret act across the country, and is one of the Muses in Hercules.

Ute Lemper (1963) is a German actress once known as "the new Marlene [Dietrich]." She played Velma Kelly in Chicago on Broadway in 1998 after winning the Olivier in the West End production. For nineteen years, before they replaced it with a twenty-something, her photograph hung above the Ambassador Theatre marquee. She is a world-renown concert and cabaret artist, selling out Carnegie Hall, Cafe Carlyle, and 54 Below (and that's just New York).

PROPAGANDA AND MEDIA UNDER CUT: ALL POLLS HERE

"More Lillias White Propaganda:

"Brotherhood of Man" from the 1995 How To Succeed in Business revival," - Video and propaganda submitted by @puppywritesthings

"She sings, she acts, she paints naked women, she's canonically had sex with other women, she's German. Ute Lemper is a bastion of Old Hollywood glamour who follows directly in the footsteps of the great Marlene Dietrich. In fact, when Ute was very young, she spoke on the phone with Marlene (then very reclusive), for over three hours, and made it her entire life. She has a gorgeous cabaret act called Rendezvous with Marlene where she recounts this life-changing conversation. It's irresistibly sexy."

#broadwaydivastournament #broadway divas #musicals #musical theatre #broadway #lillias white #ute lemper #round 1d

[superfan44]

The 100 Favorite Movies Challege

As a huge movie buff, I thought I'd try something fun on here. I have decided to launch a new internet challenge: "The 100 Favorite Movies Challenge". The rules are pretty simple and straight forward. You create a list of 100 of your personal favorite movies in alphabetical order, post the list on your home page, then nominate other people/users of your choosing to do the challenge.

There is no limit to what movies can be included on your list. Films within any medium (live action or animated), genre, and decade are more than welcome. Whether it's longtime favorites you were introduced to when you were younger, favorites that you've picked up over the years, or recent discoveries or releases that quickly became your favorites, anything and everything is on the table here.

I'll start off by sharing my list. To be clear, I have way more than 100 favorite movies, but to have the number be anything past that may be a bit much for some people. Please don't judge me if it seems like there might be a few noteworthy titles missing on here. I mainly put this list together just for fun. Alright, here we go!

9 (2009)

Airplane! (1980)

American Graffiti (1973)

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)

The Avengers (2012)

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Baby Driver (2017)

Batman Begins (2005)

Beetlejuice (1988)

Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

Big Hero 6 (2014)

Black Dynamite (2009)

The Blues Brothers (1980)

Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

Castle in the Sky (1986)

Chicago (2002)

Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (Knockin' on Heaven's Door) (2001)

Deadpool (2016)

Death Proof (2007)

Desperado (1994)

Die Hard (1988)

Django Unchained (2012)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Dragon Inn (1967)

Fantasia 2000 (2000)

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Flash Gordon (1980)

Ghostbusters (1984)

The Godfather (1972)

Goodfellas (1990)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

History of the World, Part 1 (1980)

Hot Fuzz (2007)

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)

The Incredibles (2004)

Independence Day (1996)

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

The Italian Job (2003)

Jaws (1975)

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

Jurassic Park (1993)

Logan (2017)

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

Lupin the 3rd: The Castle of Cagliostro (1980)

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Meatballs (1979)

Men in Black (1997)

Moana (2016)

Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)

Network (1976)

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

North by Northwest (1959)

Notorious (1946)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Porco Rosso (1992)

Princess Mononoke (1997)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Ready Player One (2018)

Rear Window (1954)

Rio Bravo (1959)

Robin Hood (1973)

The Rocketeer (1991)

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

Scream (1996)

Seven Samurai (1954)

Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

Skyfall (2012)

Smokey and the Bandit (1977)

Spaceballs (1987)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Spirited Away (2001)

Star Wars: A New Hope (1977)

Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983)

The Suicide Squad (2021)

Surf's Up (2007)

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

The Thin Red Line (1998)

Tombstone (1993)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

Treasure Planet (2002)

Tremors (1990)

Tron: Legacy (2010)

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)

The Wind Rises (2013)

Wonder Woman (2017)

Yojimbo (1961)

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Zombieland (2009)

Now, before I wrap things up, I would like to nominate @skygent, @is0gild , @firecraker-j, @mrcowboytoyou, and @piglets-not-so-big-adventure to do this challenge. Hopefully we can get the ball rolling so more and more people can join in. I look forward to seeing what kind of lists you guys will put together. Good luck!

#internet challenge #favorite #movies #100 #list #invite #fun #personal favorites #too many movies to tag #mediums #live action #animation #genres #years and decades of films

[justforbooks]

In the late 1970s, Bo Goldman was researching a script about Melvin Dummar, the unassuming Utah factory worker, gas station owner and former “Milkman of the Month” who was named as a $156m beneficiary in a will supposedly written by Howard Hughes but later successfully contested in court. Slowly, a realisation dawned on the screenwriter: “This man is a failure just like I am.”

It seemed an unusual conclusion to reach. After all, Goldman had written the book and lyrics for a Broadway musical, First Impressions, based on Pride and Prejudice, before he was 30, and won his first best screenplay Oscar (shared with Lawrence Hauben) for adapting One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), Ken Kesey’s novel set in a psychiatric institution, by the time he was 45.

A second Oscar later came his way for Melvin and Howard (1980), his humane and warmly funny script about Dummar, lovingly directed by Jonathan Demme.

But Goldman, who has died aged 90, was haunted at the time by his inability to sell one of his earliest scripts, Shoot the Moon, or to follow up that 1959 Broadway debut, and by the years he spent in poverty and debt, struggling to provide for his wife and their six children. “I can’t tell you what it does to a man,” he said in 1982. “You feel awful. I respected my wife so much, but felt lousy about myself.”

Hollywood was impressed by Shoot the Moon, the story of a brutal marital break-up that he wrote in the early 1970s, but no one wanted to make it. The writing was strong enough to earn him an $8,000 commission from the director Miloš Forman to re-write Hauben’s script for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. One of Goldman’s first suggestions – that the iconoclastic patient McMurphy, played by Jack Nicholson, should kiss his admitting officers at the hospital – helped win him the job.

He also scripted the Bette Midler vehicle The Rose (1979), inspired by the life of Janis Joplin, but turned down offers to write Kramer vs Kramer and Ordinary People, both future best picture Oscar winners, because the terrain felt too similar to his unproduced script, which he still hoped would be filmed eventually.

It finally was. The British filmmaker Alan Parker directed Shoot the Moon in 1982, coaxing powerful work from Albert Finney and Diane Keaton as the warring couple, and touchingly natural performances from the four children cast as their daughters.

The critical response was positive. Even Pauline Kael, no fan of Parker’s, said she was “a little afraid to say how good I think [the film] is” and praised the script’s “theatrical richness.” Goldman was disappointed nevertheless by its box-office failure.

After his third Oscar nomination, for Scent of a Woman (1992), he said: “I’m always surprised when anything good happens to me.” That film starred Al Pacino as a blind, cantankerous ex-army officer who cuts loose when he is assigned a prep-school student (Chris O’Donnell) as his companion for Thanksgiving weekend.

Goldman based Pacino’s character on a combination of his father, one of his brothers and a sergeant under whom he had served. Pacino won an Oscar; on that occasion, the writer did not.

He was born Robert Spencer Goldman in New York City. It was at Princeton that he changed his name to “Bo”; the college newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, misprinted his byline, and it stuck.

His mother was Lillian Levy, a millinery model, his father, Julian Goodman, a sometime Broadway producer and the owner of a chain of more than 70 department stores, which went into receivership during the Depression shortly before Bo was born. That dramatic fall informed and even overshadowed the rest of Bo’s life, with its occasionally incongruous juxtapositions. He grew up, for instance, in a spacious, rent-controlled Park Avenue apartment yet the family was usually penniless. His father would leaf through scrapbooks from his glory days, even making annual visits to the stables in Chantilly where he kept his prize-winning race-horses.

Though this precarious economic situation was known to Bo throughout his youth, it was not until much later that he discovered his father had another estranged family, and that his parents had never married.

He was educated at the Dalton school and Phillips Exeter academy prior to Princeton. There he wrote lyrics for the college’s Triangle Show and developed an enthusiasm for writing for the stage. He was in the US army for several years, then made inroads into the television industry, starting in the CBS postroom before progressing to script editing and producing on shows such as Playhouse 90.

Though First Impressions, which starred Farley Granger, was poorly received, he devoted most of the 1960s to writing a civil war musical, Hurrah Boys, Hurrah, which was never staged. He took odds and ends of TV work, but was plagued by thoughts of his father’s ignominies, and bruised by his own. “The only thing which kept me going was my wife and the kids who never cared about my success or lack of it,” he said. “They only cared because it was causing me pain.”

Around the time Shoot the Moon was released, his wife, Mab (nee Ashforth), whom he had met at Princeton and married in 1954, and who supported the family financially through endeavours such as her fish and bread shop, Loaves and Fishes, reflected on the disparity between the bad times and the good: “People were so contemptuous of us … it’s remarkable how success has transformed us into acceptable people.”

Goldman became a sought-after script doctor, working uncredited on Forman’s Ragtime (1981), Demme’s Swing Shift, the coming-of-age comedy The Flamingo Kid (both 1984), Warren Beatty’s Dick Tracy (1990) and the Arthurian adventure First Knight (1995).

Credited screenplays include Little Nikita (1988), an espionage thriller with River Phoenix and Sidney Poitier, and Meet Joe Black (1998), starring Brad Pitt as the pretty personification of death. Goldman also shared a story credit with Beatty on the period comedy-drama Rules Don’t Apply (2016). This was another Howard Hughes-related project, with Beatty playing the reclusive billionaire.

Though Goldman came close several times, his enduring dream of directing was never realised. “I think of myself as a filmmaker,” he said. “I’m a writer only because that is what they pay me to do.”

Mab died in 2017. He is survived by five of his children, Mia, Amy, Diana, Serena and Justin. A sixth child, Jesse, died in 1981.

🔔 Bo (Robert Spencer) Goldman, screenwriter, born 10 September 1932; died 25 July 2023

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

#JUST FOR BOOKS #Bo Goldman #in memoriam

[festeringfae]

@applebutterbomb I reblogged my initial post with more details, but I feel like that was geared towards people much into musical theater, so let me try to elaborate in a more accessible way:

Because Broadway musicals are extremely expensive to put on/attend, there's a limited number of them that can be created per year-- and an even smaller number that are good, and an even SMALLER number good enough to actually be remembered long-term. Imagine if Hollywood could only make, idk, 20 movies a year, and you had to actually go to Hollywood, California to see any of them (but you COULD buy a copy of their scripts, if you wanted.) This is basically what Broadway musicals are like.

Now: teens! Obviously, teens love movies. They do not all love the same movies, but most love many different genres of movies! There are even movies where it makes more sense than others that teens would like, that one would not necessarily label "teen movies." When you think of "teen movies" or "young adult novels," you think of very specific things,

With this in mind, we return to the previously discussed constraints of Broadway as a medium. It is very expensive to make Broadway musicals, and therefore, very high risk. And like movies, there's always been a dichotomy of enforcing the status quo vs challenging it. People tend to get into musicals one of two ways: there's a big show seen as so groundbreaking that non-Broadway ppl find out about it (think Hamilton mania circa early 2016), or their parents/school play introduced them to an album & they liked it. You can only get that groundbreaking musical impact once every 20 years or so. Tourists need an incentive to spend the money a visit to NYC takes, and an incentive to see a show when they visit, and an incentive to see YOUR show since they can probably only afford to see one. How do you make sure they want to see YOUR show?

Hey, you know who its really easy to market a status-quo enforcing work masquerading as rebellious to? Teens. You know who will get people to pay for an expensive trip to NYC and theater tickets, out of sheer annoying persistence? Teens. You know who is basically a bare-minimum two-for-one ticket sale, because their parents won't let them hangout by themselves on vacation? Teens. You know who has music and drama classes we can arrange whole FIELD TRIPS of ticket sales for?

You get it.

So like. Because of all this. In recent years. There's a trend of projects getting financed that perhaps might not have been if they did not contain elements which some very, very old very, very rich white guys think would Appeal To The Kids. They're not even BAD necessarily (although some are), they just don't have the enough meat on the bone to be instant classics-- and beyond the fact that for the price of tickets, if you aren't seeing an instant classic, you are getting ripped off...with so little QUANTITY, you NEED quality to make up for it, to keep people interested in the medium.

[thrashntreasure]

Ep107 American Horror Spoily w/ Dominic Burgess! (Hollywood!)

Tina! Bring me Agorax! Because we're joined by the Pride of Stoke, Mr. Dominic Burgess! (say what?! *faints*) This week, AW flies solo with this British-expat who delicately takes part in the ultimate music Feud with Incubus' S.C.I.E.N.C.E, against' the romantic chemistry of 'Gigi'.. Plus, we chat American Horror Story, Stoke-on-Trent, Character Actor Vs Actor, fan-favourite Standing Ovations, and which franchise does Dominic have urges to get involved with- amongst heaps more topics in this hilariously foot-in-mouth episode! 

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#Dominic Burgess #American Horror Story #AHS #Delicate #AHS Delicate #American Horror Story Delicate #Ryan Murphy #Tim Minear #Batman Begins #Stoke-on-Trent #Gigi #Incubus #S.C.I.E.N.C.E. #Brandon Boyd #Hollywood #Spice Girls #Music #Comedy #Broadway #Metal #Heavy Metal #Musicals #Critique #Reviews #Musical Theatre #West End #Aussie #Podcast #Kim Kardashian #LGBTQ+

[storyofmychoices]

Hi! Can you please answer for the fanfic asks A, D, H, K, M, V and Y? I hope you're having a lovely day!

yay! thank you for the ask! 🥰🥰🥰

I hope I got them all!

A: Of the fanfic you’ve written, which is your favorite and why?

This question is so hard. 😭 I've written hundreds of fics just for Thomas Hunt alone and then hundreds more between the other characters. I love each one for different reasons. I wouldn't even know how to pick a favorite. But it would probably be something for Thomas Hunt (just because I'm biased like that lol)

Though my Orphanage series for Mal and Daenarya has a really special place in my heart.

D: What’s the most personal fanfic you’ve written?

I feel like there are bits and pieces of me in a lot of my stories or characters. Definitely Alex and Bogart! But as for a singular story, probably Sea Lions, Tiger Sharks, and Penguins, oh, my! In it Bryce, Olivia, and the gang visit the Boston aquarium, where Olivia wants to steal a penguin. When I visited Boston and went to the aquarium, I definitely made a plan to borrow (without asking) one of the little blue fairy penguins. I tried to convince my friends to help, but alas, I still have no penguin pet! But I do have a little blue penguin plush just like Olivia's .... but I had to buy it myself. I didn't have a beautiful Bryce to get me one. That fic is 100% based on real events!

H: How would you describe your writing style?

all the fluff all the time, fluff without plot, and small moment stories (did I mention the fluff yet?) oh and heart warming stories

K:  Do you have a guilty pleasures in fic (reading or writing)?

In writing, I don't think so? I think I'm happy to write everything I write for even if people don't like it or consider it weird. If anything, I guess Justin Mercado would be a guilty pleasure since I enjoyed writing him, even though I got a lot of hate for it.

In reading, I definitely enjoy reading dom/sub, master/slave, and MMF stories 🙈🙈🙈.

M: What’s the weirdest AU scenario you’ve ever come up with?  Did it turn into a story?

I have a Hollywood U/Red Carpet Diaries AU that is inspired by the concept behind the Broadway musical If/Then, where one decision can set you on two very different paths.

It would focus on the choice of whether Thomas and Alex get together (in HWU) or not so it would follow their lives after both versions of that choice until the timeline of the RCD series, however it definitely focused more on them not getting together since I'd consider everything else I write as part of the world where they do get together.

So it isn't my happily ever after Thomas and Alex. It's dark and angsty and doesn't have a happy ending. I'm not sure that qualifies as weird but it's definitely OOC for me. I want to write it because I think it would be an amazing story, but I can't bring myself to break their hearts and mine, and possibly cause them physical harm. It currently has 2 dark endings and one is a major character death. ahhh!! (Though I guess you can consider them getting together and my regular writing as the 3rd ending aka the happy one, but still it's all so painful to think about)

V: Are there certain comments you’ve received on your stories that have stuck with you?

Any comments that mention how my story cheered them up on a bad day, made them cry (in a good / happy way), or ones that quote back my writing, those are the ones that always stick with me and I always go back to reread them.

3 lovely readers who have left comments that have stuck with me over the years are @lilyoffandoms @quixoticdreamer16 and @ariondevereux (BratzLahela😭 Miss you!!!).

Y: What are your thoughts on your personal satisfaction with something you’ve written vs. the popularity of your stories?  Do you tend to be most satisfied with your most popular stories?  

Oo this question! I know I love the serotonin boost I get from popular stories. I know I shouldn't crave that, but I'm flawed and human and I do love to get reblogs and comments. However, some of my favorite stories are for characters that are less popular so they definitely don't get as much attention. I mean poor Thomas Hunt has like 3 fans left. I'd love to get hundreds of notes but I accept that's not in the realm of possibility. Thankfully I love Thomas more than I care about being popular. I would write him even if there were no people reading! lol

On good days, I am happy with what I write and I can hold on to that despite the popularity of it, but sometimes it's easy to think "well this character/story got a lot of attention, I guess I should do more of this." I try not to do that and just focus on what I want to tell, but yeah, it's not always easy.

Woo that was so much fun! Thank you so so much for the ask! I know I'm usually the worst with answering asks so I tried really hard to make sure I did this one in a timely manner. I appreciate your ask and you for being so lovely and supportive always! 💛💛💛

#ask game #fan fic ask #lovealexhunt #august2022 #thomas hunt #bryce lahela #open heart #red carpet diares

[ankhisms]

yet another time where i ramble on and on with thoughts about theater/acting below the cut

i know ive discussed this before so i wont go too much into detail on my thoughts on people worshipping broadway because for one i certainly dont think broadway shows or performers on broadway are somehow bad but it has the same overarching issues that exist in hollywood and the acting/theater/film industry in general which constantly make me so mad but anyway what ive been thinking about today is how strange it is to me to witness the phenomena of other actors in local theater productions worshipping broadway and broadway productions and acting like everything that isnt broadway is automatically bad.

like for one its very weird for people to act like broadway is the best of the best theater and acting in the entire world which i have heard people say which is just??? no its not???? theres so many skilled and amazing performers all around the world and its just so bizarre to say that broadway is the number 1 best its like come on. thats just not true. but the main thing i was thinking about is how these people who worship broadway are constantly like genuinely putting down local theater productions and acting like all local theater is trash and can never be good or impactful.

and i dont mean like playfully trash talking about your own production, its not like how in the theater i grew up acting in we joked about how the theater was literally falling apart (it did eventually collapse) and so was the show its like these people have so much venom and hatred in their words when they talk about small theater productions vs the idolization can do no wrong attitude they have when talking about broadway shows and its just so??? what??? yeah ive had plenty of experiences of being in a show in a small local theater where i will be the first to admit the show wasnt a masterpiece or anything but that doesnt erase the value it had or make all local theater somehow not good??

even just within the past few months ive seen some really moving emotional well done performances in a very small local theater that i still think about regularly. it just does not make sense to me why people within these circles claim to love theater while at the same time disparaging local theaters but then again as i type this i think it comes back to a very prevalant mindset that ive encountered especially among people my age and younger who have somehow failed to recognize the performing arts as yknow. an art form. rather than just ~content~ or a wannabe marvel movie.

anyway i was just reminded of this and was musing about it to myself, i really do value spaces where young people are encouraged to create and to express themselves and i dont know where id be or who id be without the small old theater i had, even if it was a tiny little place that literally was falling apart our performances still had a lot of heart and were well crafted and i think that along with other things really instilled my value of appreciating the substance of a work of art/skill of a performer above how pretty and fancy the theater or effects might look or how attractive the performer is when they have no substance or heart or thought put into their performance. thanks if you read this all mwah

[mugenloopdalove]

If he's in a theatre program it obviously wasn't his first time doing theatre then. He majored in something he'd never done before? Yeah also cap. Also maybe think about other circumstances. How many people auditioned? How many boys? How many boys who were Black? Theatre is often not about talent and more about who fits a role. It's hard for afab people to be cast because there's so many auditionining.

You're missing my point. He's a freshman, at a school with a pretty good theatre program that has produced both major broadway and hollywood stars, that likely has many people of all appearances and genders auditioning. It is very safe to assume that at this school was probably a black man that was a senior that has been in the program since he was a freshman. And yet they picked this freshman.

And also yeah it wasnt his FIRST EVER AUDITION, but it was still his first college one and getting the leading male role as a senior shows hes better than i am after 3 years vs ne doing it for almosy 20. he's been doing it since his second half of high school and even back then. He joined his high schools theatre program and got a good role immediately. Granted that makes a BIT more sense bc his school was relatively small (especially compared to the school I went to) but it was still a major role for a junior who just joined the theatre program when there were again, probably juniors and seniors who have been at it since freshman year, Jr high, hell maybe elementary like I was. And yet he got the role with no experience or history built in the program. I auditioned for all but a total of i think 3 plays (and counting mla bc mla always conflicted with something else) and got like. A pity understudy role, a background role, and one callback in high school.

Like that sounds like he was just good from the very start. Hell the one time his role WAS minor he still managed to steal the show.

[theultimatefan]

Tomei, Tudyk, Trejo, Swallow Among Additions to FAN EXPO Philadelphia In Next Wave of Celebrities

Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny, The Wrestler) and fan favorites Alan Tudyk (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, “Firefly”), Danny Trejo (Machete, The Book of Boba Fett), Emily Swallow (“The Mandalorian,” “Supernatural”) and Jeff Ward (“One Piece,” “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.”) are among the additions to the growing celebrity lineup at FAN EXPO Philadelphia, set for May 3-5 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Joonas Suotamo (Star Wars) and Diana Lee Inosanto (“Ahsoka”) round out the newcomers to the roster.

Marisa Tomei blasted onto the scene with her Academy Award winning performance as “Mona Lisa Vito” opposite Joe Pesci in My Cousin Vinny. After the Best Supporting Actress win, she went on to roles in Chaplin, Untamed Heart and the Paper, later appearing on Broadway before earning two more Oscar nominations, the third for The Wrestler. She also had a recurring role in the hit series “Empire” and appeared as “Aunt May” in three Spider-Man blockbusters.

Alan Tudyk gained fans’ attention when he starred as wise-cracking "Hoban 'Wash' Washburne" in "Firefly" and Serenity, and later grabbed the “Star Wars” fandom with his portrayal of “K-2SO” in Rogue One. He also appeared in Wreck it Ralph and 42 and has lent his voice to characters in hits like “American Dad,” “Harley Quinn,” “Transformers: Earthspeak” and “Star vs. the Forces of Evil.”

Danny Trejo has developed a prolific career in the entertainment industry with a hard-earned and atypical road to success. From years of imprisonment to helping troubled youth battle drug addictions, from acting to producing, and now on to restaurant ventures, Trejo’s name, face, and achievements are well recognized in Hollywood and beyond. He has starred in dozens of films including Desperado, Heat, the From Dusk Till Dawn series, Con Air, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, the Spy Kids movies, Machete and many more.

With her portrayal of “The Armorer” in “The Mandalorian” in the hit Netflix series “The Mandalorian,” Emily Swallow added another role to her growing resume. She also appeared as “Kim Fischer,” a regular on “The Mentalist” and as “Amara / The Darkness” in the 11th season of “Supernatural.” She also voiced the role of “Lisa Tepes” in the animated Netflix fantasy action series “Castlevania.”

Jeff Ward played “Deke Shaw” as a regular on “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” from 2017-2020, and most recently appeared in the first season of the Netflix adventure/comedy “One Piece.” Fans will also recognize him from his work in “Brand New Cherry Flavor” and the TV movie Manson’s Lost Girls, where he gave an appropriately creepy performance as the cult leader.

Joonas Suotamo has assumed the mantle of the iconic role of “Chewbacca” in numerous iterations of the Star Wars saga since first appearing as the Wookiee in Episode VII – The Force Awakens in 2015. The Finnish actor also stepped out of the familiar character to appear in four episodes of the Disney series “Willow.”

Diana Lee Inosanto appears as “Morgan Elsbeth” in the Star Wars “Ahsoka” production on Disney+, opposite Rosario Dawson, David Tennant and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. She originated that role in an episode of “Mandalorian” in 2020 after appearing in dozens of movies and shows as a stunt person and a variety of other entertainment jobs.

They join a lineup that already includes headliners Mario Lopez (“Saved by the Bell,” “Access Hollywood”), Sean Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, “Gilmore Girls”), Felicia Day (“The Guild,” “Dragon Age: Redemption”), Ben McKenzie (“Gotham,” “The O.C.”), Holly Marie Combs (“Charmed,” “Picket Fences”), Adam Savage (“MythBusters,” “Unchained Reaction”), Michelle Hurd (“Star Trek: Picard,” “Law & Order: SVU”), Sofia Boutella (Rebel Moon, The Mummy) and Jason Lee (“My Name is Earl,” The Incredibles).

Single-Day Tickets, Three-Day Passes, Ultimate Fan and VIP Packages for FAN EXPO Philadelphia are available now. Advance pricing is available until April 18. More guest news will be released in the following weeks, including line-up reveals for additional headline celebrities, comic creator guests, voice actors and cosplayers.

Philadelphia is the eighth event on the 2024 FAN EXPO HQ calendar; the full schedule is available at fanexpohq.com/home/events/.

#philadelphia #comic con #fan expo #tudyk #tomei

[vintagestagehotties]

Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 2

Angela Baddeley: Miss Prue in Love for Love (1943 West End); Catherine Winslow in The Winslow Boy (1946 West End); Maria in Twelfth Night (1955 Stratford)

Anna May Wong: Hai-tang in The Chalk Circle (1929 West End); Madame Lan Ying in On the Spot (1931 Broadway); Highlights from Hollywood (1939 Melbourne)

Propaganda under the cut

Angela Baddeley:

Anna May Wong:

#vintagestagehotties #vintagestagepoll #vintage tournament #vintage poll #vintage ladies #angela baddeley #anna may wong #ladies round 2

[hellfire-state-of-mind]

Rules: shuffle your "on repeat" playlist and the first 12 songs are your 2024

i was tagged by @princessanglophile ❤️

January: Nicotine by Panic! at the Disco

I'm going numb, I've been hijacked It's a fucking drag I taste you on my lips and I can't get rid of you So I say damn your kiss and the awful things you do Yeah, you're worse than nicotine

February: Misery Business by Paramore

I never meant to brag But I got him where I want him now It was never my intention to brag To steal it all away from you now But God, does it feel so good 'Cause I got him where I want him now And if you could, then you know you would 'Cause God it just feels so It just feels so good

March: Love From the Other Side by Fall Out Boy

Sending my love from the other side of the apocalypse And I just about snapped Don't look back Every lover's got a little dagger in their hand

April: Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me 'Til then I walk alone

May: LA Devotee by Panic! at the Disco

The black magic of Mulholland Drive Swimming pools under desert skies Drinking white wine in the blushing light Just another LA Devotee Sunsets on the evil eye Invisible to the Hollywood shrine Always on the hunt for a little more time Just another LA Devotee

June: Hits Different by Taylor Swift

"Oh, my, love is a lie," shit my friends say to get me by It hits different, it hits different this time Catastrophic blues, movin' on was always easy for me to do It hits different, it hits different 'cause it's you

July: mirrorball by Taylor Swift

Hush, when no one is around, my dear You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes Spinnin' in my highest heels, love Shinin' just for you Hush, I know they said the end is near But I'm still on my tallest tiptoes Spinnin' in my highest heels, love Shinin' just for you

August: cardigan by Taylor Swift

But I knew you Dancin' in your Levi's Drunk under a streetlight, I I knew you Hand under my sweatshirt Baby, kiss it better, I And when I felt like I was an old cardigan Under someone's bed You put me on and said I was your favorite

September: the last great american dynasty by Taylor Swift

There goes the last great American dynasty Who knows if she never showed up, what could've been There goes the maddest woman this town has ever seen She had a marvelous time ruining everything

October: 20 Dollar Nose Bleed by Fall Out Boy

Call me Mr. Benzadrine But don't let the doctor in I wanna blow off steam Call me Mr. Benzadrine But don't let the doctor, Don't let the doctor in

November: exile (feat. Bon Iver) by Taylor Swift

I think I've seen this film before And I didn't like the ending I'm not your problem anymore So who am I offending now? You were my crown Now I'm in exile, seein' you out I think I've seen this film before So I'm leavin' out the side door

December: Torn Apart (Bastille Vs. GRADES)

And it hurts like hell to be torn apart And it hurts like hell to be thrown around We were born to be together Torn apart, torn apart

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once again i'm never sure who to tag so if you wanna do it then please tag me so i can see too!!

#well this was interesting #not as broad a mix as i expected it to be #but still fun #em talks #tag you’re it

[broadwaydivastournament]

Broadway Divas Tournament: Round 1C

Anika Noni Rose (1972) is a Tony-winning actress known for Caroline, or Change (2004), A Raisin in the Sun (2014), and the 2013 first workshop of Hamilton where she originated Angelica Schuyler. She is also known for being one of the iconic Dreamgirls in the 2006 film, as well as the voice of Tiana in Disney's The Princess and the Frog. In 2011, alongside Lea Salonga, she was named a certified, official, Disney Legend. She will be returning to Broadway this season in Uncle Vanya.

Dee Hoty's (1952) stage career spans over four decades with three Tony nominations for her performances in The Will Rogers Follies (1991), The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (1994), and Footloose (1999). She's one of four Divas in our tournament to play Donna in the Broadway Mamma Mia, and received critical acclaim for her star turn as Phyllis in the 1998 Paper Mill Playhouse production of Follies.

PROPAGANDA AND MEDIA UNDER CUT: ALL POLLS HERE

"My goodness, this woman really is stunning. I don't do disney, so I don't really care about her as Tiana, but I adore Caroline, or Change. I am also rooting for this woman to get a Best Leading Actress in a Play nomination this season because, first of all, incredible performance, but second of all, if she doesn't, it's going to be four white blonde hollywood actresses and I cannot deal with that."

"Once again, I love a Phyllis Rogers Stone. The Paper Mill Playhouse production was a damn good one, and having seen the bootleg, I can safely say Dee was a phenomenal Phyllis. She's one of the few Divas who opted to do "Ah, But Underneath" rather than "The Story of Lucy and Jessie," and while I think the later is the better number, I love "Ah, But Underneath." It's so sharp lyrically, and of course, it's got a middle-aged woman doing a sexy little striptease. So yeah, big fan."

#broadwaydivastournament #broadway divas #broadway #musical theatre #tournament poll #anika noni rose #dee hoty #round 1c

[brookston]

Holidays 1.22

Holidays

Answer Your Cat's Questions Day

Apple Macintosh Day

Black Tables Day (Posaf)

Bóndadagur (Man’s Day; Iceland) [1st of Þorri]

Butcher’s Broom Day (French Republic)

Celebration of Life Day

Come in From the Cold Day

Curious Cat Day

Customs Officers’ Day (Tajikistan)

Dance of the Seven Veils Day

Day of Hungarian Culture

Day of Unity and Liberty (Ukraine)

Dia de la Fundación del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (Multicultural State Day; Bolivia)

Franco-German Day (Germany)

Grandfather’s Day (Dzień Dziadka; Poland)

Hi, How Are You? Day (Texas)

Justin Turner Day (Los Angeles)

Lord Byron Day

National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)

National Law Enforcement Spouse Appreciation Day

National Ty Day

National Vincent Day

National Yorkshire Territory Day

Nuclear Ban Treaty Day

Nude Beach Day

Our Town Day

Polka Dot Day

Public Holiday (Saint Vincent and Grenadines)

Reunion Day (Ukraine)

Roe vs. Wade Day

Talk to Your Cat Day

Trans Prisoner Day of Action & Solidarity

Unity Day (Ukraine)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Curry Day (Japan)

National Blonde Brownie Day

National Hot Sauce Day [also 11.5]

National Southern Food Day

4th Monday in January

Better Business Communication Day [4th Monday]

Blue Monday [Monday of Last Full Week]

Community Manager Appreciation Day [4th Monday]

Independence & Related Days

Plurinational State Foundation Day (Bolivia)

Ukraine (Unification; 1919)

Wellington Province Day (New Zealand)

Festivals Beginning January 22, 2024

Global Organic Produce Expo (Hollywood, Florida) [thru 1.24]

Howard County Restaurant Week (Howard County, Maryland) [thru 2.4]

Indiana Hort Conference & Expo (Danville, Indiana) [thru 1.23]

Triangle Restaurant Week (Raleigh, North Carolina) [thru 1.28]

Washington Oregon Potato Conference (Kennewick, Washington) [thru 1.25]

Feast Days

Abraham (Positivist; Saint)

Anastasius of Persia (Christian; Saint)

Aquarius zodiac sign begins (Astrology; Pagan)

Basil Wolverton (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Erotic Festival Day

Feast of St. Vincent (Old Agricultural Calendar; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Festival of Invoking and Banishing

Festival of the Orgone

Francis Picabia (Artology)

Gaudentius of Novara (Christian; Saint)

Imoinu Iratpa (Celebration of Emoinu, Sanamahism Goddess of Wealth, Prosperity and Vital Resources; India)

Joseph Wolf (Artology)

László Batthyány-Strattmann (Christian; Saint)

Laugh at Life Day (Pastafarian)

Laura Vicuna (Christian; Saint)

Moise Kisling (Artology)

Nicolas Lancret (Artology)

Quantum Cheese Day (Pastafarian)

Vincent Pallotti (Christian; Saint)

Vincent of Saragossa (Christian; Saint)

Vincent, Orontius, and Victor (Christian; Saints)

William Joseph Chaminade (Christian; Blessed)

Xomfey and Melg (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Taian (大安 Japan) [Lucky all day.]

Premieres

All’s Well That Ends Well, by William Shakespeare (Play; 1742)

Bad Luck Blackie (MGM Cartoon; 1949)

Broad City (TV Series; 2014)

Caprica (TV Series; 2010)

Chappelle’s Show (TV Series; 2003)

The Crucible, by Arthur Miller (Play; 1953)

D.E.B.S. (Film; 2004)

Dirty Grandpa (Film; 2016)

Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player, by Elton John (Album; 1973)

Extraordinary Measures (Film; 2010)

Five Corners (Film; 1988)

French Freud (The Inspector Cartoon; 1969)

Get Low (Film; 2010)

The Happy Highwayman, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1939) [Saint #22]

Hello, Ma Booby or Pleased to Beat Ya (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 197; 1963)

Innertube Antics, featuring Ol’ Doc Donkey (MGM Cartoon; 1944)

A Knock for the Rock or The Lamp is Low (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 92; 1961)

Knock on Wood or Bullwinkle Takes the Rap (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 91; 1961)

Lady Soul, by Aretha Franklin (Album; 1968)

Legion (Film; 2010)

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (Film; 1964)

Neil Young, by Neil Young (Album; 1969)

On Broadway, recorded by The Drifters (Song; 1963)

Ophelia (Film; 2018)

The Paneless Window Washer (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1937)

Peggy Sue Got Married, recorded by Buddy Holly (Song; 1959)

Please Don't Eat the Daisies, by Jean Kerr (Essays; 1957)

Robin Hood (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1933)

Safety Not Guaranteed (Film; 2012)

Scrap For Victory, featuring Gandy Goose & Sourpuss (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1943)

Shoot the Moon (Film; 1982)

The Soul Cages, by Sting (Album; 1991)

Spinach Fer Britain (Fleischer//Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1943)

Sugar Blues, by Clyde McCoy and His Orchestra (Song; 1931)

The Tin Can Tourist, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1937)

Tooth Fairy (Film; 2010)

Under Bullwinkle’s Bowler or The Wide, Open Spaces (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 198; 1963)

The Virgin Queen (TV Mini-Series; 2006)

The Vitamin G-Man (Phantasies Cartoon; 1943)

We Are Family, by Sister Sledge (Album; 1979)

Wouldn’t It Be Nice, recorded by The Beach Boys (Song; 1966)

Today’s Name Days

Vinzenz (Austria)

Anastazije, Irena, Vice, Vinko (Croatia)

Slavomír (Czech Republic)

Vincentius (Denmark)

Luule, Luuli (Estonia)

Visa (Finland)

Vincent (France)

Dietlinde, Jana, Vinzenz (Germany)

Anastasios, Timotheos (Greece)

Artúr, Vince (Hungary)

Domenico, Esmeralda, Linda, Smeralda, Teodolinda, Vincenzo, Vinzenz (Italy)

Austris, Meinhards, Vincents (Latvia)

Anastazas, Aušrius, Skaistė, Vincentas (Lithuania)

Ivan, Vanja (Norway)

Anastazy, Dobromysł, Gaudencjusz, Gaudenty, Marta, Wincenty (Poland)

Anastasie, Timotei (Romania)

Zora (Slovakia)

Vicente (Spain)

Viktor, Vincent (Sweden)

Tin, Timothy (Ukraine)

Enoch, Piper, Vicenta, Vicente, Vince, Vincent, Vincentia, Vincenzo, Vinnie (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 22 of 2024; 344 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 4 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 2 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Yi-Chou), Day 12 (Yi-You)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 12 Shevat 5784

Islamic: 11 Rajab 1445

J Cal: 22 White; Oneday [22 of 30]

Julian: 9 January 2024

Moon: 91%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 22 Moses (1st Month) [Abraham]

Runic Half Month: Peorth (Womb, Dice Cup) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 33 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 1 of 28)

Calendar Changes

Aquarius (The Water Bearer) begins [Zodiac Sign 11; thru 2.18]

#calendar #Holidays