#Naked in New York 1993

[sleeplessgreaser]

NAKED IN NEW YORK

(dir. Daniel Algrant, 1993)

Audio transcript below the cut:

Jake: "Hey." Chris: "Ah, man, we are rolling, now. We are rolling, Jake, I can feel it. Can you feel it?" Jake: "I feel it. Alright, you know what, I think I'm about ready to get out of here." Chris: "What? What? What are you upset about? What do you want to get out of? Dana Cole is in your play, I mean this- this is it, Jake! This is- this is everything we've been waiting for!" Jake: "Look, don't- just don't get ahead of yourself, alright?" Chris: "No, no, please, I'm not getting ahead of anything. You see, you lived here, you lived in New York, you already knew about this, but not me." Chris: "It was Carl. Guys like that, they never like me. But- but, here- wait, listen- here, it's like, 'Hey kid, you're not gonna get the lead or anything' I mean," Laughing, "I love that! I love the way he- the way he says that. Don't you love that? ... You're upset." Jake: "No, I'm not upset, I'm-" Chris: "Yes, you're upset, I know you, you're upset. Don't deny it." Jake: Laughs Chris: "What are you upset about? We're going to make it now, Jake, and that's- that's great! ... And we'll always be together, Jake, no matter what. Down the line... we'll always be together, I'll always be there for you." Jake: "... Come on, Chris, that's-..." [Music playing in the background at the party.]

Chris: Laughing, "I just did that." Jake: "Hmm, uh- ... Jeez. You- you- you pull some of the weirdest stuff on me, Chris. ... I mean, why do you pull this stuff at these times?" Chris: "You're right, that was- was pretty weird." Jake: Laughs "... Are you okay?" Chris: "Uh, yeah, I'm fine." Jake: "Alright, I gotta get out of here."

#warning this will probably make you cringe #it is PAINFUL to watch but also its so good #Naked in New York 1993 #sleep's favorite scenes #Ralph Macchio #Eric Stoltz #Daniel Algrant #The Outsiders 1983 #Johnny Cade #The Karate Kid #Cobra Kai #Daniel Larusso #movie clips #1993 #90s films #90s movies #queer history #gay

[danielslaw]

RALPH MACCHIO SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY EVOLUTION.

the karate kid (1984) distant thunder (1988) my cousin vinny (1992) naked in new york (1993) ugly betty (2009) a little game (2014) cobra kai (2018-)

#ralph macchio #cobra kai #daniel larusso #the karate kid #naked in new york #ralphmacchioedit #fandom : the macchiography #caligifs #caliedits #(someone mentioned the other day in my then and now gifset they were curious about the evolution of ralphie) #(so here is my selected choice) #(he didn't do much from 1993 to the 2000s sadly)

[nuwandassaxophone]

LAWRUSSO(zacchio) IN THE 90s

SHOOTFIGHTER: FIGHT TO THE DEATH (1993) dir. Patrick Alan

NAKED IN NEW YORK (1993) dir. Daniel Algrant

#lawrusso #the karate kid #johnny lawrence #daniel larusso #tkk #tkk3 #ralph macchio #william zabka #cobra kai #zacchio #naked in new york #shootfighter #90s movies #90s #niny

[artfilmaesthetics]

𝙛𝙞𝙡𝙢𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤…

elliot smith

✧ ‘Good Will Hunting’ (1997) dir. Gus Van Sant

✧ ‘Short Term 12’ (2013) dir. Destin Daniel Cretton

✧ ‘Synecdoche, New York’ (2008) dir. Charlie Kaufman

✧ ‘Paranoid Park’ (2007) dir. Gus Van Sant

✧ ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ (2006) dir. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris

✧ ‘Naked’ (1993) dir. Mike Leigh

#films to watch if you listen to… #elliot smith #films #cinema #movies #film #film frames #cinematography #film stills #cinephile #screencaps #film tag #film is not dead

[1997thebracket]

Round 3

Austin Powers: Let’s keep this bracket groovy, baby! Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery is a spy spoof film released in 1997, written by and starring Mike Myers and featuring Elizabeth Hurley, as well as known names in the spy movie business Michael York and Robert Wagner. It was the first introduction of the titular icon-to-be Austin Powers, a free-loving secret agent who was cryogenically frozen in the 1960s, returned to us in all his velvet-suited snaggle-toothed glory in the ‘90s to face his nemesis once more. Parodying James Bond and copycat spy films as well as '60s pop culture, the movie would spawn two sequels and novelizations all sharing a similar sense for fashion, gags, and Austin’s recognizable catchphrases. As completely goofy as the film and its legacy is, critics were mostly favorable, with the New York Times writing "The film's greatest asset is its gentle tone: rejecting the smug cynicism of Naked Gun-style parodies, it never loses the earnest naiveté of the psychedelic era." (This is presumably an embarrassing typo: it’s shagadelic, Yorkie baby!)

Radiohead's OK Computer: I go forwards, you go backwards, and somewhere we will meet. By the middle of the decade, Radiohead was weary of the ubiquity of their 1993 hit Creep; although the record that followed it (The Bends) was a lusher, more evolved album than their first, it had failed to produce a distinctive enough sound and image for the band to undo what Creep had done. The song threatened to define the band entirely to those outside their devoted following. In 1997 the band swung for the fences with the haunting, abstract OK Computer. It was a move their label cast immense doubt on at the time, and its success then and now would cement Thom Yorke and his bandmates as soothsayers of a sort, draped not in bohemian silk robes but in white hospital sheets. It's an album that speaks to the future with dread more than wonder, that critics described as "nervous almost to the point of neurosis," but marries the uneasy experimental soundscapes with poetic, surrealist, and increasingly prophetic songwriting regarding the parallel lives we lead with technology. Featuring the singles Karma Police, Paranoid Android and No Surprises, OK Computer is hailed by many as the band's masterpiece, and is often cited by music publications as one of the greatest albums of the decade: it's certified double Platinum in the US and five-times Platinum in the UK, and in 2014 it was included in the United States National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."

#austin powers #radiohead #ok computer #1997

[miyagi-hokarate]

top five ralphie roles

AH TWO FROM RUSSOLAW (Hiiii hehe)

I've literally only seen him in five separate roles (if I conflate KK/CK as one) so OH BOY LOL

1. Daniel LaRusso in The Karate Kid (1985–1989) and Cobra Kai (2018–). King for this. He MADE Daniel LaRusso. I have a preference for Macchio in the original trilogy, but nevertheless HE WILL ALWAYS BE MY KARATE KID

2. Jeremy Andretti in Eight is Enough (1980–1981). He's such a little shit baby boy in this one hehehekajdjskfk STOP SASSING, YOUNG MAN.

3. Chris in Naked in New York (1993). By virtue of the fact he's only a side character in this, we don't see a lot of him. However, he's a fucking DOLL in this movie. The star of the fucking show (haha)

4. Frankie in Happily Divorced (2012). He's just a nice guy! :-)

5. Dan Payello in "My Blue Heaven" of Twice in a Lifetime (2000). He's a cop

Thanks for the ask!!

#Ralph Macchio #Ask On Ask Off #Russolaw

[legallybrunettedotcom]

hi!! I was wondering if you could help me with some movie recs? I was craving some movies that have a sort of gloomy urban atmosphere, but more on the melancholy side than scary, and none of the ones I've seen really hit that vibe. the kind of movie that might make you feel a bit sad and lonely but in a good way, if that makes sense? you have such great taste in movies, so I thought I'd ask!

mhmmmm let’s see. i think wong kar-wai is good at urban loneliness so something like fallen angels, chungking express and happy together. kind of in the same vein made in hong kong, rebels of the neon god, terrorizers, taipei story, aloners. jim jarmusch also pretty good at that so maybe night on earth and mystery train. inside llewyn davis, oslo august 31st, synechdoche new york, sidewalls, her, midnight cowboy, naked 1993, taxi driver too lmao but i guess that one won’t make anyone feel good. maybe frances ha, columbus, girlfriends, on the beach at night alone. i don’t know if any one these will be up your alley, but these came to mind first. also i’ll link one of my favourite letterboxd lists called ‘befriending the lyrical loneliness’ so maybe you find something there. if anyone else has any recs feel free to share ! :)

#plan on making a shoegaze-y edit based on that list hehe

[coochiequeens]

TRAs are upset with JK Rowling for calling  a man who raped and murdered a 13 year old girl in a racist gang attack ….a man.

Trans users on Twitter are attacking JK Rowling after the Harry Potter author “misgendered” an account belonging to a trans-identified male convicted of murdering a 13-year-old child in a racist gang attack.

On November 29, JK Rowling called attention to a social media account under the handle @gameonterfs, posting two screenshots — one of a tweet from the account celebrating the fantasy of her death, and another of the profile photo that account was using.

While it is currently unknown if Rowling is aware, the account she brought attention to is one of several belonging to convicted child murderer Luis Morales, better known as Synthia China Blast.

On October 24, Reduxx reported that Blast had been discharged from his parole with the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision on July 30, quietly marking the end of his sentence and release conditions. Blast had been serving a 25-to-life sentence after being convicted in 1996 for the murder of 13-year-old Ebony Williams.

Blast, along with his boyfriend Carlos Franco, members of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation gang, had targeted the young girl in 1993 as she made her way to her older sister’s house. Williams was taken to an apartment in Hunts Point where she was held captive. It is believed the murder had racist motivations due to Blast and Franco’s gang affiliation.

According to case investigators at the time, Blast and Franco tortured the young girl before stabbing her repeatedly. 

Realizing she was still alive after having been slashed by Blast, Franco then stomped on the child’s neck until it was broken. Prior to being killed, Blast had reportedly sexually assaulted the girl. New York Police Department examiners determined that the child’s corpse, despite being badly burned, showed signs of the assault.

 Following her death, Blast and Franco packed the girl’s naked body into a box and dumped it near the Sheridan Expressway. Finally, they doused the box in gasoline, and set it ablaze. A passenger on a nearby train saw the flames and called 911.During the trial, Bronx Prosecutor William Hrabsky said of the crime: “The suffering that this poor child went through is beyond belief and puts this crime in the category of monstrous and barbarous.” Despite pleading innocence in court and to media in later interviews, Blast had reportedly “bragged” about committing the crime to friends, some of whom would later testify against Blast and Franco on that basis. Williams’ mother, Yvonne Hill, had also asserted that Blast and Franco had appeared to be entertained by the trial proceedings, and showed no signs of remorse. “Ever since the trial was going on, all I see is Luis Morales grinning and Carlos Franco, too,” Hill said during a victim impact statement, referring to Blast by the name he had used at the time. “You ain’t smiling today. I hope you both rot in hell.”On November 7, Reduxx received an e-mail response about the article, with an anonymous messenger complaining that the piece had noted allegations that Blast had sexually assaulted Williams before her murder. The e-mail address, beginning with the numbers 4300, falsely asserted that Blast had been exonerated of the crime and that his conviction had been overturned.The sender had also vaguely threatened a lawsuit or some sort of legal action against Reduxx for the piece.

The same day, a Twitter account surfaced with the handle @Code4300, impersonating Reduxx Editor-in-Chief Anna Slatz, using her photo and Reduxx branding without authorization. 

While posing as Slatz, @Code4300 claimed to be in a relationship with a trans-identified male and called for a boycott against, and the banning of, Reduxx. The owner of the account also made several references to Blast and asserted his innocence, using both the female pseudonym and his birth name, Luis Morales, as well as made wild claims that Blast had died in July of 2022.

Reduxx contributor Jennifer Gingrich was similarly targeted by the account’s disturbing posts, which also began to use her profile photo and post sexualized comments about her. 

Shortly after, the e-mail address associated with the sender of the November 7 complaint as well as the @Code4300 account were linked to an Instagram belonging to Synthia China Blast.

Though @Code4300 was ultimately suspended by Twitter, Blast continued to make accounts which engaged in similar conduct. Among them, Blast established multiple profiles railing against ‘TERFs’ — a derogatory term for women who assert their right to single-sex spaces.

“For the record, my name is Synthia China Blast and I was wrongfully convicted of murder,” Blast tweeted on November 10 from one of his alternate Twitter profiles which had briefly used the handle “TERFHunter.” The tweet has since been deleted.

Other handles on Twitter known to belong to Blast include @Lords_ofKaos, @FXTravaganza, and @gameonterfs, the account which Rowling called attention to on November 29. All three accounts carry on a similar posting style to Blast’s original @Code4300, and have parallel usernames and monikers associated with Blast’s multiple Instagram accounts and real-world identities.

Blast is utilizing a heavily doctored photo of himself as the profile picture on @FXTravaganza, while @gameonterfs uses a stolen photo belonging to individuals who are not related to him or his crimes in any way. On @Lords_ofKaos, Blast is using the profile photo from @gameonterfs as an account header.

All of the accounts repeat Blast’s earlier incoherent claims which simultaneously assert that his conviction was overturned, and that he died in June or July of 2022. As evidence of the second claim, Blast uploaded a poorly doctored Death Transcript to his @FXtravaganza account

Despite his claims to the contrary, Blast’s conviction was never overturned.

Blast completed his sentence in July of 2022 when the Parole Board of the state of New York discharged him fully, marking the end of the conditions he had been subjected to since 2018 when he was initially released. 

Kristina Lennon, a Correctional Sentencing Review Specialist with the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision confirmed Blast’s discharge to Reduxx via e-mail on November 18.

Blast’s accounts have also continued their habitual harassment of Reduxx Editor-in-Chief Anna Slatz and Reduxx contributor Jennifer Gingrich. Yet Gingrich received a 24-hour suspension after she responded to Blast and correctly identified him as the murderer of Ebony Nicole Williams.

Rowling’s tweet calling attention to Blast’s alternate account has attracted the usual attention of trans activists and those critical of women’s right to single-sex spaces, with many rushing to defend the account from Rowling’s platform, likely ignorant as to who was behind it.

Some took issue with Rowling “misgendering” the account owner by using the term “bro,” while others claimed Rowling was engaging in “kink shaming” or expressing homophobia.

Many incorrectly claimed @gameonterfs was Rowling’s own creation, or had been made by a radical feminist posing as a trans-identified individual. They pointed to the fact the accounts largely followed gender critical women as “proof,” unaware that Blast typically follows those associated with his targets in an effort to get their attention.

Following his incarceration, Blast became a noted advocate for incarcerated trans people’s rights, successfully demanding the state of New York provide him with feminizing hormones in 1999, and suing the state in 2003 after having been refused sex reassignment surgery.

Blast repeatedly became a media sensation for his sexual exploits while in custody, beginning a romantic relationship with Heriberto “Eddie” Seda, a convicted serial killer who had sought to murder one person of each zodiac sign as an homage to San Francisco’s infamous Zodiac Killer. Blast and Seda’s relationship was dotingly covered by New York Magazine in 2004, who even commissioned a portrait photograph of the couple.

Blast and Seda were ultimately separated from each other by the Department of Corrections.

Blast was regularly profiled in media throughout his incarceration, and became a subject championed by prison abolitionists who decried his extended stay in solitary confinement. During his incarceration, Blast became a regular contributor to The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP), an organization which provides assistance to inmates on how to legally change their identification documents.

In 2014, Orange is the New Black actor and SRLP representative Laverne Cox read a letter in support of Blast. But Cox quickly retracted the gushing words after learning more about the crime Blast was convicted of.

Following his initial parole in 2018, Blast was an intern and Prisoner Advisory Committee member for the Sylvia Rivera Law Project.

If trans people are so oppressed aren’t there other trans people out there deserving of the support the alphabet people are giving this guy? More people are seeing the support for a child killer and it’s making more people back away from the cause.

#@gameonterfs #Synthia China Blast is a man named Luis Morales #Rest In Peace Ebony Williams #Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation gang #Carlos Franco #New York #Transcult and DARVO #The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) #JK Rowling is just telling the truth

[cobrakatharsis]

terry/ruben/chris !😌

:D okay so this one was written around the time i THINK i made some posts about the idea of the three together? it’s really just the outline of an especially self-indulgent crackship fest starring terry mccain (tig’s character from excessive force), ruben patterson (billy’s character from shootfighter), and chris no last name (ralph’s character from naked in new york)

(all released in 1993 btw. fantastic time)

so, ruben moves to new york to chase the underground shootfighting ring there - he’s already in deep and feels like he can’t get out, isn’t sure he wants to, but either way he still needs the money. while he’s masquerading as a normal person during the day, frequenting cafes and libraries and anything to make him feel half human, he meets chris, and they hit it off surprisingly well.

chris is taken by ruben’s handsome face and strange demeanour - he seems ~mysterious~ - and ruben is dazzled by how earnest and hardworking chris is, how eager he is to just spill his guts. the first few times they see each other, it’s chris just doing all the talking - endlessly, about his latest auditions and his writing process and the movie he watched last night and this poem he’s had stuck in his head and how the coffee doesn’t seem at good today, but ruben doesn’t mind one bit. he…likes chris, likes listening to him talk, and the less ruben talks, the less chris knows. he doesn’t really want chris knowing anything, even as they slowly start to dip into “dating” territory, but it’s hard for chris not to know.

he knows something is wrong. as they steadily get closer, he begins more and more to suspect that ruben is involved with something bad - petty crime? the mob? - but ruben won’t tell him anything, as desperate as chris is to try and protect him. ruben knows he stands a much better chance of protecting chris than the other way around, and he wants to protect chris from everything he’s involved with. chris just has to try his best to wiggle in close enough to pick up some of the pieces of ruben when he has to, a task that’s even worse when he doesn’t know how ruben keeps getting broken in the first place.

meanwhile, terry enters the stage. he’s on a mission to infiltrate and dismantle the shootfighting ring, particularly one of the main men running it, and in doing so meets ruben and starts building a bond with him for solely mission reasons. until, of course, he gets involved - he likes the kid, and he wants to protect ruben, especially from all the fallout that’s going to occur when he breaks the ring up, but somehow that blends into him seeing ruben more, spending time with ruben and his boyfriend, and he knows he’s in over his head but can’t find it in himself to stop. he likes ruben a lot - likes chris a lot too, even though chris clearly doesn’t trust terry one bit.

chris doesn’t have any context, but can’t help feeling that terry’s involved with whatever ruben’s involved with. he feels dangerous, and it makes chris antsy. he’s terrified that terry poses some sort of threat to ruben, and even more concerned that terry is just another tie on ruben, something else keeping him at least half-submerged in the darkness that’s clearly trying to take him away from chris. chris and terry’s relationship is, thus, tense, but they’re respectful with ruben between them - they both love him, and it’s clear that he loves both of them.

my idea was the whole thing coming to a head — chris startles awake to a phone call in the dead of night, and terry’s on the other end sounding more torn up than chris thought him capable of. terry says that ruben’s hurt, and though chris is used to ruben being hurt - constantly covered in cuts and bruises, wraps and bandages he won’t take off - this is apparently bad. ruben came way too close to a loss and got punished for it too, and suddenly chris is yanking shoes and a jacket on top of his pyjamas and running to some shady place he’s never even heard of before, a guy he’s sure he hates’ voice echoing in his head as he chases something he had no idea about.

they can’t go to the hospital, terry made that clear, so it’s just chris and terry together - and all their love for ruben - to try and sort it out. patch ruben up, rationalise why he’s done all this, and - most importantly - get that ring dismantled.

#does this make sense? probably not #in which case it makes about as much sense as the draft in the wip itself #elijah writes #elijah answers #chris x ruben #terry x ruben #terry x ruben x chris

[dbstaches]

MATERIAL WORLD: THE GRID Grid your loins, it's Dave Ball (left) and Richard Norris Picture: Roger Sargent

NME magazine, 30 October 1993 — full article text bellow

WHERE ARE YOU NOW AND HOW DO YOU FEEL? RICHARD: In the Village Inn as usual, unshaven, post-remixing lag DAVE: The Village Inn, tired and emotional

FIRST RECORD YOU EVER BOUGHT? R: ‘Blockbuster’, The Sweet D: ‘Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes’, Edison Lighthouse

WHO WOULD DIRECT THE ‘TEXAS COWBOYS’ MOVIE? R: Andy Warhol, if he was alive, Lonesome Cowboys 2 D: Sam Peckinpah – lots of fake blood

WHICH CHARACTER WOULD YOU HAVE PLAYED IN THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY? R: Clint – for the stubble and cheroots D: Lee Van Cleef. He wears black clothes, smokes cigars – my kind of guy

WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SAW MARC ALMOND AND WHAT WAS HE DOING? D: On TV, doing a costume-change at Royal Albert Hall

DESCRIBE EACH OTHER IN THREE WORDS? R: Jolly Uncle Jack D: Griff Rhys Jones

WAS VIC REEVES AS SURREAL IN REAL LIFE? R: Haddock

FONDEST MEMORY OF YOUR NME DAYS? R: Jack Barron ranting, Fred Dellar (gawd bless ’im) and two weeks in Ibiza on expenses

MOST EMBARRASSING RECORD IN YOUR COLLECTION? R: A double LP of Barbara Woodhouse teaching dogs to sit. Walkies! D: ‘In The Night’ by Tony Blackburn

HOW DO YOU SEE THE FUTURE OF SPAGHETTI DISCO? R: Take That doing ‘Rawhide’

BEST THING ABOUT PERFORMING LIVE? R: Watching the wide-eyed and legless

WHAT INSPIRES YOU? R: Punk rock, disco D: Everything

WORST FLYING EXPERIENCE? R: Being in economy class D: Flying from LA to London on acid; flying from London to the South of France with Depeche Mode, dropping 1,000 feet when we hit an air pocket

WHO WOULD BE YOUR DREAM COLLABORATION? R: Iggy Pop D: A film score with John Barry/Angelo Badalamenti

IF YOU HAD A LABEL WHICH TWO ROCK ACTS WOULD YOU SIGN? R: AC/DC, Nine Inch Nails D: Zodiac Mindwarp, The Ramones

WHAT DID YOU THINK WHEN THEY DESCRIBED YOUR MUSIC AS “JUNGLE” ON CORONATION STREET? R: Smashing, chuck D: I liked it so much I sampled it

FIRST BANDS? R: The Innocent Vicars, The Fruitbats, The Wild Kitchen, East Of Eden D: Soft Cell

HOW MANY TELEVISIONS DO YOU OWN R: About 20. I got a fine for not having a license

DESCRIBE YOUR TOTP EXPERIENCE? D: Tedium-tastic

THREE GREAT THINGS ABOUT THAILAND AT CHRISTMAS? R: The sky at night, bats, blue-capped evenings with neon fish

HOW WOULD YOU SPEND AN IDEAL SUNDAY AFTERNOON? R: Horizontally, after a bad game of golf D: Lunch with friends and good wine

WHAT'S THE WEIRDEST SITUATION YOU'VE EVER BEEN IN? R: Being surrounded by Hackney constabulary with Genesis and Paula P Orridge at 5am after imitating a Sunday People reporter D: Running naked down a Madrid hotel corridor with Stevo, wielding two replica Flintlock pistols, chasing two Spanish girls

FAVOURITE PEOPLE? D: Richard & Judy, Paul Merton, Dennis The Barman

CAN YOU RETIRE ON THE MONEY ‘TAINTED LOVE’ MADE IN AMERICA? D: No, but I'm, sure our American lawyers and A&R men could!

WHAT DID MADONNA DO WHEN YOU UPSTAGED HER IN NEW YORK? D: She forgave me the next morning

CHOOSE A RECORD TO WAKE UP TO/SLEEP TO/HAVE SEX TO R: Wake up: ‘Cobalt Blue’, Michael Brook. Sleep: ‘Music For Airports’, Brian Eno. Sex: ‘There's A Riot Goin' On’, Sly And The Family Stone D: Wake up: ‘Rise And Shine’, The Flintstones. Sleep: ‘Very/Relentless’, Pet Shop Boys. Sex: ‘Neroli’, Brian Eno

WHAT ELSE CAN YOU DO? R: Write a mean paragraph. I could be an A&R man if I was really desperate D: Top oarsman and not a bad cook

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO? R: Like Aldous Huxley

#The Grid #Dave Ball #David Ball #Richard Norris #Roger Sargent #electronic music #progressive house #1990s #1993 #NME #NME magazine #Texas Cowboys #interview #magazine #text #photo #image #nostache #the hotel thing ... god ...

[100gayicons]

GAY ICONS JAMES OSELAND

You can’t judge a book by its cover.

Elsewhere on tumblr I mentioned I’m a fan of “Top Chef”. I discovered older seasons on Tubi and rewatched a few. James Oseland was a judge of the show. He’s a writer who focuses on food. I’ve never thought about his sexuality, one way or another.

Until one episode of Top Chef where he sat with other judges sat at a poolside table. Gorgeous men and women in swimsuits clustered near by. It was clear Oseland was charmed by one young man and somehow, by the end of the segment, the two were competing over push-ups.

When I looked up Oseland on the web, I was surprise to discover the conservative looking Oseland was a rebellious youth. He came out to his mother at 14 and the next year he began spending time in San Francisco, getting involved with both the gay scene and the punk rock movement. He later wrote a memoir of those years, using his then pseudonym as its title, “Jimmy Neurosis”. Oseland described himself as skinny, pale, and normal. But he was also taunted by others, who called him:

“faggot," "sissy," "femme," "girl," "woman," "gay," or "queer"

One day he picked up a razor and ran it over his eyebrows:

“Above my eyes was now naked, puffy skin, slightly scratched and bloody. I liked it.”

By age 16 he had an artist boyfriend who was 20 years older, and moved with him to New York. But he soon returned to California.

In the 1980s Oseland studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and made eight experimental films. After moving to Los Angeles, he got involved with its experimental theater scene (1987 to 1993) and even appeared in a few films.

He began his career in journalism by working as a proofreader at the LA Weekly in 1990. This lead to work write for various publications, and even becoming a theater critic for Time Out New York. All of this led Oseland to write a book series called “World Food” and other books about international cuisine… and of course, becoming a judge on “Top Chef Masters”.

Oseland married his partner Carlos Daniel Dos Santo in 2011. Today the couple live in Mexico City.

#gay icons #james oseland #top chef masters #Johnny neurosis #rebellious youth #Carlos Daniel Dos Santo #punk rock scene #you can’t judge a book by its cover #coming out #faggot and queer

[sleeplessgreaser]

NAKED IN NEW YORK (dir. Daniel Algrant, 1993)

Chris: "I shot the play, Jake! I shot the play! You think you would even have this gig at all if it wasn't for me?!" Jake: "... No." Chris: "No, you are god damn right, you wouldn't! What- Jake, tell me, just give me the truth, what is- who is this? Carl? Is that what it is? Or is it- or is this Dana? Is that what who it is?" Jake: "No, look, it doesn't matter who it was, Chris, that's not what this is about." Chris: "What is this, me? Is it- this must be me. This must be because I'm gay, but I don't- I'm not gay, Jake! I don't know what the fuck I am!" Jake: "No, of course it's not about that, Chris. It- look, I- I fought them-" Chris: "No, you're a bastard for this... Yeah, you. You- you're a- you're a fucking bastard."

#listen this movie is a fucking fever dream but ralph is so so good in it #i might also post The Kiss Scene too because i didnt even know it existed until i looked up this movie and i think you need to see it too #Naked in New York 1993 #sleep's favorite scenes #Ralph Macchio #Eric Stoltz #Daniel Algrant #The Outsiders 1983 #Johnny Cade #The Karate Kid #Cobra Kai #Daniel Larusso #movie clips #1993 #90s films #90s movies #queer history #gay

[turtlethon]

Turtlethon Extra Slices: "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III"

US Release Date: March 19, 1993 UK Release Date: August 6, 1993 

Following a two-year break, the Turtles returned to cinemas for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, the concluding chapter of their original live action movie run. With Turtlemania entering its downswing at the commencement of this project, producers Golden Harvest approached it as one last play to win over what they expected to be a declining audience and budgeted accordingly. Stuart Gillard was the director of this sequel.

Japan, 1603: A man is pursued on horseback by a group of armoured warriors. We’ll get back to him. In 1990s New York, the Turtles cavort during a training exercise to the mid-eighties ZZ Top track “Can’t Stop Rockin’”. If the second film’s saving grace was the continued advancement of the animatronics used to bring the team to life, it immediately becomes clear that all of that has gone out the window now: Jim Henson’s Creature Shop has been replaced for this outing by the All Effects Company, the life-like Turtles we once knew exchanged with bug-eyed, rubbery, downright unpleasant looking substitutes. Their synchronised dance antics go on for a painful amount of time until Raphael, frustrated by engaging in what he views as pointless training exercises while the team remain holed up in their subway hideout, hurls a sai at a hi-fi speaker. April – played here by Paige Turco, returning from The Secret of the Ooze – arrives bearing gifts, providing the Turtles with an opportunity to clown around some more. One of the items she’s brought is an antique Japanese sceptre, intended for Splinter. 

We return to the captured individual from the opening, Kenshin (Eidan Hanzei), who’s reunited with his father, the villainous Lord Norinaga (Sab Shimono). The young man is reminded that he’s forbidden to leave their castle, but protests his dad’s ongoing civil war against a group of neighbouring villagers. Their argument is interrupted by the arrival of Walker (Stuart Wilson), an Englishman flanked by a crew of rogues who forge an arrangement to provide Norinaga with ammunition, initially in exchange for rice, though it’s the Lord’s gold and silver that’s truly sought after. 

Following Walker’s departure, Kenshin is seen driving a group of priests out of a temple. He examines a scroll on which four kappa are illustrated – resembling the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – as well as a sceptre, the same one recovered by April in the future. In a flash of light, April and Kenshin are switched into each other’s places, even swapping clothes. As the Turtles struggle to make sense of what has just happened, April is approached by the hostile guards in the palace, who assume her to be a witch who has captured Kenshin, a situation exacerbated by her personal stereo accidentally playing the sound of “Conga” by the Barrio Boyzz to the bafflement of everyone looking on. She decides to play into this, telling Walker that she could “melt him into a puddle of puke” if she wanted to. This psych game turns out to be unsuccessful, and April is taken prisoner to be interrogated about Kenshin’s whereabouts. 

The Turtles hatch a plan to use the sceptre to head into the past and bring back April, but determine that in doing so it’ll require a temporal exchange with four people in ancient Japan of equivalent mass to themselves. To keep an eye on things while they’re away they bring in Casey Jones (Elias Koteas), returning from the 1990 film after sitting out TMNT II for being too darn violent. Michaelangelo adopts a pair of pyjama bottoms so that his counterpart won’t be naked after the exchange is made.

Arriving in ancient Japan, the Turtles find themselves in the place of a group of Honor Guards on horseback in the middle of a battle, struggling to find their bearings and ultimately landing in a ditch. Along the way Michaelangelo, wielding the scepter, is separated from the group. Mistaken first for being one of Norinaga’s men and then for a kappa, Mikey is knocked out and recovered by Princess Mitsu, who's leading the fight against Norinaga and Walker. She orders that Michaelangelo be carted off to recover in the village. 

Norinaga boasts to Walker about the superiority of his Honor Guard to any weapon and becomes enraged upon learning that they’ve vanished, alongside the sceptre. Meanwhile Leo, Donnie and Raph infiltrate the palace. After freeing April from her cage, the reunited group escape via a chute that ejects them out the side of the castle into another ditch outside. 

As the children of the village spot Michaelangelo without his helmet and are horrified by the sight of what they assume to be a kappa, the other Turtles and April adjust to their new surroundings, with Raphael noting how idyllic feudal Japan is versus the chaos and pollution of 1990s New York. The group are attacked by villagers assuming them to be aligned with Norinaga, and stop the fight by removing their masks to reveal their true identities. Mitsu puts two and two together and assumes they must be allies of Michaelangelo. 

The Turtles are celebrated as heroes by the villagers, and are asked by Mitsu to stay and help them fight back against the daimyo (a term for feudal lords of the period, referring here to Norinaga). Our heroes stress that they need to reclaim the sceptre before their opportunity to return to their own time is gone, but until then they agree to assist. 

Norinaga reveals the contents of his scroll to Walker, asking about the resemblance of the visitors to the four kappa depicted on it. The daimyo recalls how old priests told him his ancestors were defeated by these demons, who he believes have returned to confront him: to stop them, he agrees to Walker’s earlier offer, now willing to provide him with silver and silk in exchange for guns. Walker has upped his price due to the severity of the situation, now insistent on being provided with gold for his goods, angering the feudal lord. 

The Turtles scour the area on horseback in search of the sceptre, but without success. Later, they inform a mortified April of their new plan, which involves building an entirely new sceptre. This task won’t be handled by Donatello, but instead by a local blacksmith. In the downtime that follows, the Turtles grow closer to the villagers, with Michaelangelo working alongside a cook in an unsuccessful attempt to invent pizza while also developing an attraction to Mitsu. Meanwhile, Raphael forms a friendship with Yoshi, discouraging him from fighting other kids and teaching him the importance of controlling his temper. 

Checking in with events in New York, we see Casey and Splinter attempt to calm an increasingly on-edge Kenshin, who demands to be given the sceptre so he can be reunited with Mitsu. Casey cooks up a distraction by switching on a nearby TV, the assembled time-travellers mesmerised by the sight of an ice hockey game being broadcast. 

At Kumano Castle, Norinaga agrees to Walker’s terms, with the Englishman declaring that as the dungeon is becoming crowded his men will instead kill their enemies. Back in the village, the Turtles assemble around the new makeshift sceptre, but while arguing amongst themselves manage to drop the fragile item, causing it to shatter. Now left with no time to construct another before their window to return to the future closes, the Turtles are informed by Mitsu that Norinaga’s men will arrive in the morning, now heavily armed. 

Raphael checks in with Yoshi, offering him a gift of a yo-yo. The youngster is burdened by the knowledge that tomorrow the Turtles could die in battle but is assured that everything will be alright. To prevent Raph from being lost in the oncoming clash, Yoshi offers his friend an item he recovered in the forest: the original scepter. It dawns on the Turtles that Mitsu ordered it to be stashed under their home to deter them from leaving, placing them in a position where they’d have to stay and help defend the village. Yoshi’s grandfather reveals he was the one who stashed the sceptre, not Mitsu. Before they can patch things up, the Princess is captured by an ex-member of Walker’s crew named Whit (played by Elias Koteas in a dual role in addition to Casey), who challenges the Turtles to bring Kenshin to the castle in exchange for her return. 

Mitsu is offered up to Norinaga and accused of stealing the daimyo’s son. She counters by declaring Kenshin is “on a magic journey” and can only be brought back using the sceptre, which she announces is in Walker’s possession. The Englishman denies this is the case, and is allowed to leave. Later, he meets up with Whit, who accuses him of having kept the knowledge of the contents of the scroll a secret. 

The Turtles infiltrate the castle for a second time and free Mitsu, before leaving again intent on meeting up with April. Along the way, the team discover the scroll prior to being confronted by Norinaga. The feudal lord is about to finish off the Turtles himself until Mitsu intervenes, with Michaelangelo making the save to stop her being hurt. Mikey is cut in the fight, a sign that Norinaga takes as confirmation the Turtles aren’t demons after all, but rather mere mortals. 

Our heroes take on Norinaga’s men, ultimately emerging victorious. The green teens watch as the damiyo makes a bungled attempt to escape on horseback. He soon finds himself face to face with Leonardo and asks to be finished off. Rather than killing his enemy, Leo cuts off a portion of his hair before trapping him under an enormous bell. Still more challenges emerge for the Turtles as Walker has captured April. She reunites with the team as they face the prospect of being assassinated by a crew of heavily armed Englishmen, to Whit’s horror. 

Walker is psyched out by the Turtles, who goad him into shooting them himself, insistent that he won’t do it as he’s afraid of being haunted by demons down the line should he be the one pulling the trigger. Enraged, the villain fires a cannonball which Leonardo dodges by retracting his head. The sight of this shocks Walker and his men, providing the Turtles with an opportunity to disarm their enemies. 

The Turtles split up to corner Walker, surrounding him on the roof of the castle. He tosses the sceptre, using the distraction as an opportunity to mount an escape while Michaelangelo narrowly manages to catch it, but a fireball launched via catapult by Whit destroys his rope, sending him plunging into the sea to his certain demise. 

As Casey tries to round up the Honor Guards ahead of the time exchange – who have now ventured outside to enjoy the sights and sounds of New York, such as uh... the 1985 Italo-disco hit “Tarzan Boy” by Baltimora? - the Turtles begin to have disagreements about whether they even want to return to their own time at all, with Donatello and April missing their modern conveniences, while Raphael and Michaelangelo feel strongly about remaining in 1603. The situation becomes urgent as Kenshin’s patience runs out and he activates the sceptre ahead of the Honor Guards returning. Finally, the Turtles agree to go back, but Mikey is separated from the group in the moments before the teleport begins. 

Arriving back in their home, the Turtles and Splinter are shocked to discover Michaelangelo didn’t return, the remaining member of the Honor Guard panicking and attempting to escape with the sceptre. Moments later he vanishes as well, Michaelangelo emerging to reunite with his brothers. Back in ancient Japan, Kenshin is reunited with Mitsu, the two embracing as mood lighting kicks in. 

Michaelangelo is saddened by having had to make the difficult decision to leave Mitsu in the past, but is cheered up by Splinter placing a lampshade on his head and talking about the Elvis Presley movie “Blue Hawaii”, something Mikey himself did at the beginning of the movie. We end the same way we kicked things off as the Turtles perform another synchronised dance, this time to Technotronic and Ya Kid K’s “Rockin’ Over the Beat”. 

While the first TMNT movie is widely celebrated and the perception of the second could be considered mixed, there’s no getting around the fact that the third is generally viewed as a stinker, one of several Turtles project from this period that nearly everyone now agrees to be a mistake alongside “We Wish You a Turtle Christmas”, “Turtle Tunes” and everything connected to the “Coming Out of Their Shells” tour. The simple fact of the matter is that a movie in which the Turtles interact with a bunch of new characters in ancient Japan wasn’t what the remaining kids who made up the bulk of TMNT’s fanbase wanted in 1993. It’s tempting to imagine a third Turtles film which throws everything and the kitchen sink in as a course correction after The Secret of the Ooze went out of its way to avoid introducing Rocksteady and Bebop: maybe this time we could have both mutants make their belated debut alongside Krang, the Technodrome, and a bunch of other recognisable elements drawn from the cartoon, the comics and even the toy line to win an increasingly jaded audience back. Such a film would have been an ambitious project that would have required an adequate budget and the craftsmanship of the Creature Shop, but what we got instead was an adventure with a relatively modest scope, created with the expectation that it would generate minimal returns, and it shows. It’s a bitter pill to swallow. 

Okay, okay, but... hear me out. Yes, TMNT III is a disappointment, but I don’t think it’s entirely irredeemable. Like season seven of the cartoon, which aired later in the same year, this outing benefits from the fact that by 1993 the moral panic surrounding the Turtles had largely died down, parental groups and the press moving on to condemn Night Trap and Mortal Kombat instead. With no-one paying attention, this time around we get a film where the Turtles fight a lot, even if the use of their trademark weapons remains only nominal. I assume the production got away with this, in part, due to the action scenes representing historical violence. As a result at least we get to see the Turtles cut loose in a way that we maybe wouldn’t have had the film instead involved them fighting in their home turf of New York. (As with the first two outings, scenes involving the use of Michaelangelo’s nunchucks were cut for the initial UK release, and just like those earlier films the excised content was restored beginning with the DVD release in the early 2000s.) 

There are other elements to appreciate about TMNT III beyond the emphasis on action. While the Turtles fire off one-liners and pop culture references here to the point where it can become grating, they’re also afforded moments to reflect and consider the differences of the era they’ve found themselves in to their own. Michaelangelo and Raphael’s arcs, in which they form connections with Mitsu and Yoshi respectively, allow both to demonstrate their ongoing personal growth; there’s a sense that both return to New York with a newfound maturity they didn’t have when they left. 

In the Turtlethon entries for the first and second movies I neglected to mention that both received comic adaptations, published by Archie. The same is true again here, the comic version of TMNT III belatedly published in November 1993, closer to the film’s arrival on home video than it was to its cinematic run. Dean Clarrain and Chris Allan from the then-ongoing TMNT Adventures series adapted the story for print and did an incredible job: in fact, unless you’re particularly hung up on experiencing Turtles III as a movie, I’d go so far as to say you should just read the Archie version instead. The shoddy Turtle designs that encumber the story on celluloid here are transformed into wonderful, engaging characters, and their quips are by necessity pared down to fit into sixty pages. Writing this entry would have been a far greater chore for me if the Archie adaptation didn’t exist to provide me with a different perspective on it. 

Well readers, it’s come to this. Together, over the last two years, we’ve meticulously dissected three films and a staggering 184 animated episodes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, reflecting on the highs, the lows, and the many moments that were downright inexplicable. Now, a mere eight episodes remain. We’ll start checking them off next time, as season ten commences with “The Return of Dregg”. 

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I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I AM

NAKED IN NEW YORK (1993) dir. Daniel Algrant

#ralph macchio #the karate kid #karate kid #tkk #tkk3 #tkk2 #daniel larusso #cobra kai #lawrusso #90s movies #90s #90s aesthetic #naked in new york

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NAKED IN NEW YORK (1993)

My my my, what an odd little movie! I had a lot of fun watching this one actually. I think I’m just so starved for low-stakes, low-budget, no franchise, no IP involved movies, even the shittiest of them can manage to win me over. The very aimlessness of Naked in New York captivated me.

That said, damn. One of the worst main characters of all time huh? Sorry Eric Stoltz, you were fantastic in Mask. And you directed a couple of my fave episodes of Glee. But the whole runtime, I wanted to punch your face so bad.

Seven Miyagi Nods out of ten, because I genuinely was engaged with the story. Even if it wasn’t good. IDK. At least we’ll always have Ralph Macchio’s beautiful glossy hair.

(Next on the list- for real this time - Excessive Force. I am not prepared.)

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NEW YORK — A gynecologist accused of molesting hundreds of patients during a decadeslong career was convicted of federal sex crime charges Tuesday in a victory for accusers who were outraged when an initial state prosecution resulted in no jail time.

Robert Hadden, 64, of Englewood, New Jersey, was convicted after less than a day of deliberations at a two-week trial in which nine former patients described how he abused them sexually during examinations, when they were most vulnerable.

Outside the courthouse after the verdict, women who were among Hadden’s victims expressed relief at his conviction and said they were eager to see him start serving time.

“This is such a victory for all of us,” said Evelyn Yang, whose husband, Andrew Yang, ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for president in 2020 and for New York City mayor in 2022. She said Hadden sexually assaulted her years ago when she was seven months pregnant.

“It’s also validating. The jury came back with their verdict so quickly. And he was found guilty on all counts. That just, I think, leaves no doubt in anyone’s mind that he was a serial predator who deserves to be imprisoned,” she said.

Hadden, who is subject to electronic monitoring and was free on $1 million bail, declined to comment as he left the courthouse.

He may not be free for long. Judge Richard M. Berman declined a request by a prosecutor and 10 victims that Hadden be immediately jailed, but set a hearing next week to further consider the matter. Sentencing was set for April 25.

His conviction in federal court on four counts of enticing victims to cross state lines so he could sexually abuse them carries a potential penalty of decades in prison.

That’s a much tougher potential punishment than Hadden received when he initially pleaded guilty in state court in 2016 to allegations involving a smaller number of women. His plea deal with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office required him to surrender his medical license but didn’t require any jail time.

“People are mystified,” Berman said in court, citing the success Hadden has had at avoiding prison. “There is a feeling that somehow or another he skirts the process.”

Hadden worked at two prestigious Manhattan hospitals — Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital — until complaints about his attacks shut down his career a decade ago.

The institutions have already agreed to pay more than $236 million to settle civil claims by more than 200 former patients.

At trial, Hadden’s lawyers did not contest that he molested patients. They said his state court plea covered those crimes and that federal charges alleging patients from New Jersey and Nevada crossed state lines to be sexually abused were inappropriate since he didn’t know where they came from.

After the verdict, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jane Kim argued that Hadden should be immediately jailed as a risk to flee and a danger to the community.

To support the prosecution’s argument for immediate detention, eight former patients spoke of the lasting harm the doctor caused them and Kim read statements from two more victims.

One woman said she became a Hadden patient because she was friends with his niece. She said he would talk about his niece even while he molested her.

“This conviction helps a lot,” said another woman who first became a patient in 1993 and went to Hadden for nearly 20 years.

Another woman said she went to see him when she was 21 years old. She said he groomed her for abuse by telling her he would provide free birth control and would serve as her dermatologist, insisting that she be completely naked for full-body checks at every appointment.

One woman who spoke at the hearing said it was the first time she’d spoken publicly of her abuse. She said Hadden put his fist inside her for no medical purpose two days before she delivered a child.

“The pain that happened that day was more painful than childbirth,” she said. She called him a “sociopath who needs to be behind bars as soon as possible.”

“Get rid of him now!” demanded another former patient.

The last woman to speak said she was a 20-year-old virgin and of an orthodox religious faith when she first went to Hadden. She said Hadden was so invasive at her first appointment when she was seeking birth control that she bled.

“I didn’t bleed on my wedding night,” she said.

As the women spoke, Hadden — wearing a mask to protect against the coronavirus — sat next to his wife and occasionally rubbed her arm. At other times, he fidgeted with his hands.

Hadden’s lawyer, Deirdre Von Dornum, said he wouldn’t flee and had a perfect record while on bail. She said he was not a danger to the community either.

The Associated Press generally withholds the names of sexual abuse victims from stories unless they have decided to tell their stories publicly, which Yang and others have done.

After the verdict, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams issued a statement calling Hadden “a predator in a white coat.”

“For years, he cruelly lured women who sought professional medical care to his offices in order to gratify himself. Hadden’s victims trusted him as a physician, only to instead become victims of his heinous predilection,” he said

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