#alex gottlieb

[mariocki]

Horror Island (1941)

"Don't be frightened, folks, it's just Morgan's ghost. He resents our coming here."

"Not any more than I do."

#horror island #1941 #american cinema #horror film #george waggner #maurice tombragel #victor mcleod #alex gottlieb #dick foran #leo carrillo #peggy moran #fuzzy knight #john eldredge #lewis howard #hobart cavanaugh #walter catlett #ralf harolde #iris adrian #foy van dolsen #emmett vogan #fairly charming‚ fairly silly‚ very minor effort from Universal's comic horror era (see also 1940's The Invisible Woman). truthfully this #would have benefited from a bigger name from the studio's roster getting involved; no Lugosi‚ no Karloff‚ not even an Atwill or a Chaney #don't get me wrong‚ i enjoyed Leo Carrillo's large performance as a salty old sea dog and in particular loved Lewis Howard‚ whose every #scene (all too few of them it must be said) is an unexpectedly camp delight. but it could really have done with an iconic presence in a #leading role. the rest of the film... well a little slow to get going‚ and kind of silly obvs‚ but once we actually get to the island and a #mysterious phantom starts picking off the characters‚ it all livens up quite considerably #and settles into a fairly familiar Old Dark House shape (well‚ if it works it works‚ who's to blame them) #a fun but forgettable time; of interest to ye olde horror freaks but with little to recommend it to the casual viewer

[oldshowbiz]

1962.

Comedy writer Alex Gottlieb corresponds with Groucho Marx.

#comedy writers #groucho #groucho marx #alex gottlieb

[peterstrahmspen]

“AN INSUFFERABLE KNOW-IT-ALL.”

#{ROTTING FOX} #riddler #pauldanoriddler #theriddler #batman2022 #lawrence gordon #saw #saw 1 #saw 3d #hermann gottlieb #Pacific rim #will graham #hannibal #Alex kralie #marble hornets #herbert west #reanimator #spock #s’chn t’gai spock #star trek #star trek the original series #kin list #it’s too late at night #too late at night #finals are coming up #a burnt out autistic’s kinlist #i forgot Spock

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

Characters We’d Like to see in the Showdown

This is a list of characters we feel qualify but are not yet submitted, so are unlikely to get into the showdown if not submitted. If you want to come up with more ideas our other showdown @disabled-characters-showdown has a lot of characters. Check out here for characters in the showdown. Characters under the cut.

Characters We’d Like More Propaganda For

These are characters that the propaganda submitted is minimal, so if you want to add to it that would be great.

Showdown:

Dezi- The Sunbearer Trials

Nova Huang- Mooncakes

Jack Wolcott- Wayward Children

Jack Zimmerman- Check Please!

Charlie Spring- Heartstopper

Lucius Spriggs- Our Flag Means Death

Prince Wilhelm- Young Royals

Ambrosius Goldenloin- Nimona

Kate- Cosmoknights

Professor X- X-Men

Gobber- How To Train Your Dragon

Hermann Gottlieb- Pacific Rim

Marcy Wu- Amphibia

Andrew Minyard- All for the Game

Propaganda:

Luke Skywalker- Star Wars

Alex Manes- Roswell, New Mexico (We could write more propaganda, we just don’t want to)

Tori Spring- Heartstopper

Nico di Angelo- Percy Jackson

Shiro- Voltron: Legendary Defender

Zuko- Avatar: The Last Airbender

Crona- Soul Eater

#lgbtq disabled characters showdown #disabled characters #lgbtq characters #fandom polls #polls #poll #disability #vld shiro #alex manes #our flag means death #check please #heartstopper #young royals #nimona #atla #httyd #pacific rim #hermann gottlieb #all for the game #percy jackson

[alexander-wyld]

just a dumb little sketch page from class for now, but i’m working on a digital newt piece atm as well

i hope any other newmann enjoyers eat well tonight

#newt geiszler #hermann gottlieb #pacific rim #newmann #newton geiszler #charlie day #alex ander art

[kaijuposting]

The Newmann Timeline

So I've made an attempt at assembling a timeline for Newt and Hermann's lives. The information is sourced from: The Pacific Rim novelization by Alex Irvine Pacific Rim: Man, Machine, & Monsters by David S. Cohen The Pacific Rim two-disc special edition DVD feature Drift Space

Wherever information was contradictory, I leaned toward info that was corroborated in multiple sources, or made more sense contextually. I had to make a couple of guesses (I note them in the timeline), but I feel pretty confident that they aren't too far off what Guillermo del Toro and Travis Beacham imagined for these characters.

Hopefully I'll be able to find more information in the future, but here's the Newmann timeline I've assembled for now:

June 9, 1989: Hermann Gottlieb born in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.

January 19, 1990: Newt Geiszler born in Berlin, Brandenberg, Germany.

2000-2003~: Newt performs in his band, Black Velvet Rabbits. (Date's a bit of a guess, but he was in BVR before moving to America.)

2003~: Newt moves from Berlin to Boston, enters MIT. (Date is an estimation based on statement that Newt was MIT's "second-youngest student.")

2008~: Hermann enters TU Berlin to study engineering and applied sciences. (I estimate 2008~ given that there is no indication that Hermann began his higher education particularly early.)

2010: Newt begins teaching at MIT.

2013: Newt and Hermann begin writing letters to each other.

August 11, 2013: Trespasser attacks San Francisco.

2015: Newt receives his sixth PhD. Hermann joins the PPDC and writes code for the first generation of jaegers. (Note: If my earlier estimations are correct, this gives Hermann time for approximately 7~ years of university study - though there are ways to get a PhD without constant university study.)

2016: Newt joins the PPDC.

2017: Newt and Hermann meet in person, instantly dislike each other.

2020: Newt and Hermann are assigned to the Hong Kong shatterdome. (Note: This is also the year that Lady Danger went down and the jaeger program began to fail.)

January 2025: Operation Pitfall takes place; Newt and Hermann drift.

#pacific rim #newt geiszler #hermann gottlieb #newmann #the newmann timeline #newton geiszler

[hooked-on-elvis]

If there's one thing Elvis lacked working on in the entertainment business was a Broadway musical, but in "Frankie and Johnny" (1966 movie) we can have a little idea of how that would look like in scenes such as this one.

"Frankie and Johnny" was released on March 31, 1966. Directed by Frederick de Cordova. Screenplay by Alex Gottlieb. Story by Nat Perrin. Produced by Edward Small. Elvis Presley as Johnny Donna Douglas as Frankie Sue Ane Langdon as Mitzi Nancy Kovack as Nellie Bly

Elvis filmed “Frankie and Johnny” in the spring of 1965 (May 11 to June 24) and he recorded the soundtrack in May 1965.

'Frankie and Johnny' (1966) Elvis and Donna Douglas.

#elvis movies #Frankie and Johnny #1966 #elvis presley #elvis #donna douglas #sue ane langdon #nancy kovack #elvis the king #elvis fans #elvis fandom #elvis history #60s elvis #Youtube

[monsterblogging]

Finding more interesting things while going through Alex Irvine's novelization of Pacific Rim: Uprising.

We learn about the Severnaya manufacturing facility, which had produced power cores for Mark-1 and Mark-2 Jaegers. Page 95 informs us that it was constructed in 2019 and decommissioned in 2022. Page 95 also claims that it was shut down because:

Remoteness of location offered protection from Kaiju attacks but caused difficulties in shipping. Personnel suffered from low morale and resultant low productivity as a result of isolation. Shipments were vulnerable to theft due to multiple transfer points en route to Shatterdome locations. Errors in siting survey resulted in nearby glaciers causing shifts in subterranean areas of the manufacturing floor.

But page 96 informs us:

The PPDC had built a number of factories in places like this, far from the Pacific Ocean and therefore less likely to be lost in Kaiju attacks. But this one had been mothballed during the war, according to the records Gottlieb had retrieved. Newer power core technologies pioneered in China and Washington state had relocated much of the manufacturing to those places, and the Severnaya facility had been completely abandoned for more than a decade.

Now, if we know anything from the original Pacific Rim novelization, it's that Legendary provided Alex Irvine with no small amount of outdated or incorrect information. So to see a discrepancy like this in Uprising's novelization isn't really surprising.

Now, if you know your Pacific Rim chronology, you might recall that the last nuclear generation of Jaegers deployed in 2017, two years before this facility was supposedly even built. This makes the 2019-2022 dates quite strange.

However - Guillermo del Toro stated that Pacific Rim 2 was initially meant to be set "a few years" after the first movie. (Source.) So if we ballpark a date of 2028 and subtract approximately ten years, that gives us a decommissioning date somewhere closer to 2018 - in other words, exactly when we would expect a facility like this to be shut down.

Was this, perhaps, part of the story before SDK took over?

#pacific rim #pacific rim 2 #pacific rim uprising

[spaziocomesichiama]

30 dicembre 2022

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La mostra, inaugurata il 13 dicembre 2022, rimarrà aperta fino al 23 dicembre 2023, per tanti giorni quante sono le pecorelle esposte!

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[project1939]

Day 25- Film: Macao 

Release date: April 30th 

Studio: RKO 

Genre: Adventure Noir 

Director: Josef von Sternberg, Nicholas Ray 

Producer: Howard Hughes, Samuel Bischoff, Alex Gottlieb 

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Gloria Grahame 

Plot Summary: Three American strangers with mysterious pasts end up on the island of Macao, just off the coast from Hong Kong. An American criminal who runs a casino there keeps his eyes on all three of them. Is one of them the Law coming after him? 

My Rating (out of 5 stars): *** 

When this film began, I thought, “The style really reminds me of Shanghai Express.” Then I saw von Sternberg’s name come on the screen and it made total sense! Unfortunately, this film does not live up to that earlier masterpiece. It’s another film in this project where a lot of elements are there to create something great, but it is ultimately just missing something. It was still generally an enjoyable movie, though, even if it was not great. 

The Good: 

Some of the Shanghai Express style. Von Sternberg can create a palpable mood/backdrop of exoticism in his films, and this has some of that. It’s also in an exotic locale where there are many different cultures coexisting together: Chinese, Portuguese, American, Japanese, etc. 

The way the mystery about who these people are unravels slowly as we learn more about their pasts. And the fact that the mystery is never totally solved.  

Jane Russell. She was subjected to constant catcalls and objectification by men, so I want to be very aware of that. Suffice it to say, she is stunning. She may not be the world’s greatest actor or singer, but you still want to drink in every opportunity to look at her. 

The plot was efficient and well-paced. At under 90 minutes, there was no time for it to get bloated and mind-numbing. 

The Bad: 

The characters weren’t developed much beyond the surface. 

Everybody looked so heavy-lidded, like they were so relaxed (jaded?) they could barely keep their eyes open. Russell, Mitchum, Grahame, and Dexter... they all had this. Was this a specific direction from von Sternberg? There is the famous story of him telling the cast of Shanghai Express to speak in monotone to mimic the train. Was this a similar kind of case? I can’t say I disliked it, exactly, but it could be distracting. 

It was hard not to compare it to von Sternberg’s more famous films with Marlene Dietrich. She is a seductive sex symbol like Russell, but Dietrich has a lot more charisma and skill as an actress. She knows how to walk into a room and make a bomb go off. It’s more than just her looks that achieve this. You always get this sparkle and sense of a full and complex person under the surface. Russell just doesn’t have this quality. Dietrich is never heavy-lidded! 

#project1952 #1952 #project1952 day 25 #100 films of 1952

[innonurse]

AI drug discovery company Xaira emerges with $1 billion in funding

- By InnoNurse Staff -

Industry heavyweights including ex-FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Nobel Prize winner Carolyn Bertozzi, Ph.D., and former Johnson & Johnson CEO Alex Gorsky, are among the prominent figures on the board of Xaira Therapeutics.

Read more at Fierce Biotech

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Other recent news and insights

New initiative launched to support health-tech innovators in Africa (Disrupt Africa)

Artificial intelligence capable of assessing cardiovascular risk during CT scans (Cedars Sinai)

#ai #drug discovery #xaira therapeutics #medtech #biotech #health tech #startups #africa #innovation #ct scan #radiology #cardiology #diagnostics #imaging

[ephyz-universe]

Shirley Movie 2024

About Shirley Movie 2024 Bold. Resilient. Pioneer. In the riveting biographical drama "Shirley," witness the remarkable journey of Shirley Chisholm as she fearlessly challenges the status quo by vying for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972, marking a historic milestone as the first Black woman elected to Congress.

Type: Movie Release Date: March 21, 2024 Country: United States of America Language: English Genre: Drama, History Cast: - Regina King as Shirley Chisholm - Lance Reddick as Wesley McDonald 'Mac' Holder - Lucas Hedges as Robert Gottlieb - André Holland as Walter Fauntroy - Terrence Howard as Arthur Hardwick Jr. - Cherrie W. Earl Brown as George Wallace - Christina Jackson as Barbara Lee - Dorian Missick as Ron Dellums - Amirah Vann - Ethan Jones Romero as Carlos Loren Escandon - Mellanie Hubert as Margot - Mike Seely as Sweeny - Carly Tamborski as Club Goer - Alex Barone as Keith - Micaela Wittman as Maggie - Aqeel Ash-Shakoor as James Farmer - Joseph Moreland as Actor

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[tetcny]

Just saw "The Shark Is Broken " on Broadway. It is 90 minutes of feeling you are there during the filming of the classic film .Shaw's son ,also the play's author ,eerily embodies his father,but Alex Brightman & Colin Donnell are also superb in their roles as Dreyfuss & Schneider . I wonder if Spielberg, Milius ,Gottlieb & Dreyfuss have seen it? The audience was very into the show,w/ superb lighting/ projection effects & the ship set itself. #TheSharkIsBroken

https://youtu.be/ckGimOc6JVc

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 7.17

Beer Birthdays

James Pawley Dawes (1843)

Anthony Straub (1882)

Joshua Bernstein (1978)

Five Favorite Birthdays

James Cagney; actor (1899)

Erle Stanley Gardner; writer (1889)

Vince Guaraldi; jazz pianist (1928)

Peter Schickele; music comedian, composer (1935)

Donald Sutherland; actor (1934)

Famous Birthdays

Berenice Abbott; photographer (1898)

Shmuel Yosef Agnon; Ukrainian-Israeli writer (1888)

Ron Asheton; guitarist and songwriter (1948)

John Jacob Astor; zillionaire (1763)

Lou Barlow; guitarist and songwriter (1966)

George Barnes; guitarist and songwriter (1921)

Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten; German philosopher (1714)

Luc Bondy; Swiss film director (1948)

Tim Brooke-Taylor; English comedian (1940)

Mark Burnett; television producer (1960)

Geezer Butler; English bass player (1949)

Diahann Carroll; actor (1935)

Niccolò Castiglioni; Italian composer (1932)

Elizabeth Cook; singer and guitarist (1972)

John Cooper; English car designer (1923)

Chris Crutcher; writer (1946)

Spencer Davis; rock musician (1942)

Paul Delaroche; French painter (1797)

Phyllis Diller; comedian (1917)

Cory Doctorow, Canadian author (1971)

Lyonel Feininger;, German-American painter (1871)

Lionel Ferbos; trumpeter (1911)

Wolfgang Flür; German musician (1947)

Wendy Freedman; Canadian-American cosmologist and astronomer (1957)

Elbridge Gerry; politician (1744)

Sergei K. Godunov; Russian mathematician (1929)

Gordon Gould; laser inventor (1920)

David Hasselhoff; actor (1952)

Hermann Huppen; Belgian author and illustrator (1938)

Bruno Jasieński; Polish poet and author (1901)

Scott Johnson; cartoonist (1969)

Darryl Lamonica; Oakland Raiders QB (1941)

Nicolette Larson; singer-songwriter (1952)

Thé Lau; Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (1952)

Georges Lemaître; Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist (1894)

Art Linkletter; humorist (1912)

Pierre Louis Maupertuis; French mathematician and philosopher (1698)

Robert R. McCammon; author (1952)

Angela Merkel; German chemist and politician (1954)

Craig Morgan; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1965)

Luis Munoz-Rivera; Puerto Rican patriot, poet (1859)

Frank Olson; chemist and microbiologist (1910)

Barbara O'Neil; actor (1910)

Mary Osborne; guitarist (1921)

Quino Spanish-Argentinian cartoonist (1932)

Christiane Rochefort; French author (1917)

Jason Rullo; rock drummer (1972)

Jimmy Scott; jazz singer (1925)

Ephraim Shay, American engineer (1839)

Phoebe Snow; singer (1952)

P.J. Soles; actor (1950)

Red Sovine; country singer (1917)

Christina Stead; Australian author (1902)

J. Michael Straczynski; writer (1954)

Mick Tucker; English rock drummer (1947)

Isaac Watts; English hymnwriter (1674)

Alex Winter; actor (1965)

#Birthdays

[kaijuposting]

I forgot just how deeply cursed Alex Irvine's novelization of Pacific Rim is until I went skimming through the book looking for material that might have been sourced from Newt and Hermann's original character bios.

Among many, many other cursed things, the book makes Newt a big fan of laissez-faire capitalism, and he likes it when it gets involved with public programs: Newt was almost as surprised. The entire Pan-Pacific Defense initiative was funded by a black marketeer who recouped his investment by selling parts of the kaiju whose killing he had financed. And some of the parts were purchased by Kaiju Science! Newt probably had tissue and organs on his lab tables that came from this Hannibal Chau person.

Now that was a public-private partnership, Newt thought admiringly. Oh, and remember in the movie, where Newt shoves Hercules Hansen aside and yells, "Move, you fascist!"? Yeah. Not here. Nope. Alex Irvine makes Newt a good little respecter of military guys:

Newt and Gottlieb stormed into the LOCCENT disheveled, out of breath, and stinking like kaiju guts.

“It’s not going to work! It’s not going to work!” Newt shouted.

Herc held up both hands and the two scientists skidded to a halt in front of him.

Oh, and Raleigh Becket really likes it when strict roles and separation of classes: Herc and Chuck Hansen sat together at the edge of the maintenance bay overseeing the work but staying out of the way of their crews. Raleigh knew Herc a bit from his first tour, but had only seen Chuck on TV. They were cool and professional. Techs did the maintenance. Pilots did the piloting. Didn’t do anyone any good to get those roles confused.

The whole book is just... like this; it exudes a constant low-grade miasma of super fucked up shit.

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A Pfizer board member who used to head the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lobbied Twitter to take action against a post accurately pointing out that natural immunity is superior to COVID-19 vaccination, according to an email released on Jan. 9. Dr. Scott Gottlieb wrote on Aug. 27, 2021, to Twitter executive Todd O’Boyle to request Twitter take action against a post from Dr. Brett Giroir, another former FDA commissioner. “This is the kind of stuff that’s corrosive. Here he draws a sweeping conclusion off a single retrospective study in Israel that hasn’t been peer reviewed. But this tweet will end up going viral and driving news coverage,” Gottlieb wrote. Giroir had written that it was clear natural immunity, or post-infection immunity, “is superior to vaccine immunity, by ALOT.” He said there was no scientific justification to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination if a person had natural immunity. “If no previous infection? Get vaccinated!” he also wrote. Giroir pointed to what was at the time a preprint study from Israeli researchers that found, after analyzing health records, that natural immunity provided better protection than vaccination. The study was later published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases following peer review. Researchers said the data “demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.” BNT162b2 is the trade name for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, which is the main shot used in Israel. Gottlieb’s email triggered messages on Jira, Twitter’s internal messaging system, according to journalist Alex Berenson, who was granted access to Twitter’s internal files by CEO Elon Musk. “Please see this report from the former FDA commissioner,” O’Boyle wrote. A Twitter analyst who reviewed the post determined it did not violate any misinformation rules but Twitter still put a tag on it, claiming to all users who viewed it that it was “misleading” and directing them to a link that would show “why health officials recommend a vaccine for most people.” The tag prevented people from replying to, sharing, or liking Giroir’s post. Gottlieb later defended his actions, saying he targeted posts that he thought included “false and inflammatory” information. Giroir said “my tweet was accurate then, and it remains so now” and that Twitter never responded to him. Gottlieb later messaged O’Boyle again, flagging a post from Justin Hart, a critic of lockdowns and a skeptic of COVID-19 vaccines, Berenson reported. Gottlieb took issue with Hart writing that “sticks and stones may break my bones but a viral pathogen with a child mortality rate of 0% has cost our children nearly three years of schooling.” COVID-19 poses little mortality risk to young, healthy people, studies and data show. Gottlieb did not detail why he wanted to censor Hart, but the objection came shortly before the U.S. government authorized and recommended Pfizer’s vaccine for children aged 5 to 11. O’Boyle sent the request to Twitter analysts, failing for a second time to disclose Gottlieb’s ties to Pfizer. The complaint did not trigger any action. “Our team of ragtag analysts, activists, moms and dads have been going after Scott since April 2020 when he repeatedly advocated for school closures and lockdowns. He doesn’t like people pushing back on the narrative,” Hart told The Epoch Times in a Twitter message. Twitter did not respond to requests for comment. Gottlieb also tried to get Berenson, a former New York Times reporter who now authors a Substack, banned from Twitter, a message released in 2022 showed. The message showed that Gottlieb forwarded a blog post from Berenson to a Twitter worker, writing that Berenson calling Dr. Anthony Fauci arrogant was an exa

mple of why Fauci, at the time the head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, needed a security detail. Four days later, and a day after Gottlieb met with Twitter workers, Twitter banned Berenson for allegedly violating its rules on COVID-19 misinformation. Gottlieb defended his actions. “I’ve raised concerns around social media broadly,” Gottlieb said during an appearance on CNBC. “And I’ve done it around the threats that are being made on these platforms, and the inability of these platforms to police direct threats, physical threats about people, that’s my concerns around social media, and what’s going on in that ecosystem.” “I am very concerned with physical threats being made against people’s safety and the people who gin up those threats against individuals,” he also said. Berenson responded that he’d never threatened Fauci or Gottlieb and referred to Gottlieb’s comments. In the post that triggered Gottlieb’s email, Berenson criticized Fauci for saying that “attacks on me are attacks on science” and how he handled the U.S. pandemic response. Berenson was reinstated to Twitter in 2022 as part of a settlement of a lawsuit he brought against the company. Berenson obtained Gottlieb’s email about Fauci’s post during discovery. Before the settlement agreement, a judge had concluded that Berenson plausibly alleged Twitter failed to abide by a policy of five strikes before banning the journalist. Share this with everyone! source