Hey so I just had a random thought about something,so basically I remembered watching this movie called baby boom and it was about a business woman inheriting a baby from her dead cousin and her trying to take care of the baby. And I just realized that the movie came out in 1987 and the lost boys came out in 1987, so here is the dumb thought,so what if max inherited a baby from his family and after the boys caused trouble at his store he decided to give the baby to them to make the baby their responsibility in order for them to learn to be more “responsible.”
I don’t know 🤷🏾♀️ what you guys think? Do you think this is a good idea?
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on tonight’s episode of Into The Haroldverse
Crossing the Bogartverse! Starring:
Rick Blaine (Cafe Owner) marries Egon Spengler (Ghostbuster)
Ricks Twin Brother Leland (Captain) Blaine Married Egons Twin Brother Elon (Ecoterrorist) Spengler
Ricks Cousin Steven Jordan married Egons hippie cousin Russell Ziskey who recently got up to some shenanigans in Czechoslovakia
Ricks other Cousin Sam Spade (Detective) married incredibly creepy other cousin of Egons Officer Friendly, who just sits in a corner staring at everyone all at once. also a narc
Ricks Lawyer Cousin Andrew Morton married Moe Green, who isn’t actually related but always turns up regardless and no one ever has the heart to make him leave
Ricks Uncle Charlie allnut married Egons Uncle Harris, the only normal person in the room, and his son Child Seth Rogen, who is touching everything, playing pranks on all the adults and driving Elon up a wall
Ricks Grandpa Eddie Willis Married Egons Grandpa Adam, distributor of the weed Eddie Serenaded Adam with a Rose he Received in a Boxing match
Ricks Criminal Cousin Duke Mantee Married Egons Yuppie Cousin Steven who was metrosexual decades before it became cool and never shuts up about the stock market & Being Part of His Husbands team
Ricks Other Cousin Frank Taylor Married Egons Cousin Mort, who has a dental practice, though no one is 100% sure if he ever actually graduated from dental school
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duke is in love
alan: your in love duke arnt you
Duke mantee: yeah
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Life’s Rediscoveries
Summary: Set years after the movie. Steven finds himself wondering if life would have been different if he’d stayed and raised Elizabeth with J.C. Having discovered through the grapevine of her passing, he reaches out to her daughter and is met with a shocking response.
Steven’s leg bounced as he waited inside the small yet quaint cafe in the small town where J.C. and Elizabeth moved into in Vermont. He’d kept tabs on J.C. after he left, always having been mad at himself for not being as strong as she had been. Strong enough to give having a child time, to be her partner and instead of being so narrow minded, take an introspective look at life and ask if the route he was going was the one he wanted. He should have been strong enough to be the partner she deserved.
It’s been 20 years, 2 failed marriages, one successful career, and countless hours in therapy. And still he wondered what had been of the one he let get away. He’d heard of the company she built and couldn’t have been more proud of her. She did that on her own, a mother...proves she was stronger than him in many ways. And just as he’d heard the good news, the bad reached him too. The deaths of one Dr. Jeff and J.C Cooper had hit him a little harder than he thought it would. He hadn’t been surprised she’d moved on, she above all else deserved to find someone worthy of her. What shocked him was that they pair had left behind Elizabeth, now 23 years old, on her own. He'd reached out a few weeks back offering his condolences for her parents’ passing, feeling very much the asshole remembering how it was J.C. came into custody of Elizabeth. This made three parents that young woman has lost. So to say he was surprised when she reached out to him in return, inviting him to coffee if he was available. Lucky for them both, he’d been doing some post-retirement traveling. Affording him a pitstop between his current and next destinations.
The thought of leaving crossed his mind when he heard...
“Hey Lizzie! Your usual ok?” The barista asked kindly.
“Yes, please Jimmy,” the young woman answered with a small smile, turning to the seating area eyes searching.
Steven held his newspaper up hoping not be found. Apart from him and a couple of elderly women, there wasn’t anyone in the cafe, so his chances of being “missed” were slim to none. He heard her approach and took one last deep breath and lowered the paper. He was met with a pair of sparkling blue eyes and a kind grin.
“Mr. Buchner?” She inquired, approaching the small table he was sitting in.
Steven stood and almost grinned at how small she still was compared to his tall stature.
“Yes,” he replied kindly, “Elizabeth?”
“Lizzie please,” she said offering her hand to shake.
He took it and shook it, and motioned for the available seat.
“I wasn’t sure if you were going to show up to be honest,” said a nervous Elizabeth.
“Oh?”
“I know you and mom broke up on good terms,” Elizabeth stated evenly, “But still, to meet up with your former partner’s daughter?”
Steven sighed quietly, he’d expected that.
“The thing with J.C. was that you didn’t just not do something,” he said, uncertainty clear in his voice.
Elizabeth laughed at that and said, “I know what you mean. I still remember the one time she thought it was a good idea to fix the sink without dad being home. She said she’d seen him do it before so how hard could it be?”
He grinned sadly at this.
“That had been all well and good except she didn’t expect for the pipe to burst at her barely even touching it!” Elizabeth laughed, “Dad came home to a mess of water, mom drenched from head to toe, and me splish-splashing like this was the best waterpark in town.”
The pair remained quiet for a bit just taking in the other’s presence, one taking finally coming to accept that this life maybe would have been a good thing and the other wondering how her life would have been different if Steven had stayed. She wouldn’t trade her daddy for the world, but she did wonder about the man in her mother’s previous life that had read her the paper when she was little.
“Mom wrote you a letter,” she said, taking an envelope out of her bag.
He looked at her questioningly.
“I found it in her stuff,” Elizabeth stated, “The date is just before my fourth birthday, before mom and dad married. She never mentioned it, but I think this was her way of saying goodbye. I haven’t read it but I thought it fair you have it.”
He took the letter tenderly for her hands, speechless. He’d read it later, but was stunned that this young woman took time from her life to hand this to him personally instead of mailing it, his address was the same, so it made him wonder.
“Why?”
“Why call you all the way out to the sticks for a letter?” She asked with a gentle grin, “You were important to my mom. Even after she married my dad, she missed her friend I think. Dad was a lot of things but big city smarts was never his thing. And I was curious...”
He gave her an inquisitive look.
Elizabeth got this far away look in her eye, “I guess I wanted to meet the man behind the purchase of specific bonds.”
“I..I, uh–”
“Mom didn't know,” she stated, “I only found out when mom’s business partner and I took a look as we went over the business. I’m still in school and nowhere near ready to pick up the reins, but I’m as involved as I can be for the time being.”
Steven had to grin at that, this was J.C.’s way of thinking.
“And I guess I wanted the really meet the man that read me the funnies of the paper,” she finally revealed.
“You remember that?” He asked incredulously.
She nodded with a grin.
“Not bad for a man with zero child experience,” she commended.
Steven blushed at this, he’d not been prepared to be remembered.
“No, you didn’t want to deal with a kid,” she stated, “I can understand that, I'm in business school, I get it.”
This did not give him the relief he didn’t know he was looking for.
“It doesn’t mean I couldn’t have tried,” he replied honestly, “I should have given myself a chance to–”
“Don’t do that,” she halted gently, “You can really work yourself up over nothing thinking about what ifs.”
“It wasn’t nothing!” He anxiously stated, “I’d had a good life with your mother. And got complacent...comfortable.”
“You had your goals and wants,” Elizabeth stated calmly, way too calmly in his opinion for a 23 year old, “It wasn’t your fault mom left the city, it wasn’t your fault that dick did what he wanted with her job.”
“But as her partner, I should have done more,” he stated defeatedly.
Elizabeth reached for his hand and gave it a squeeze.
“You shouldn’t be this calm for a kid,” he said after a moment was spent in silence.
She breathed a chuckle and said, “I lived with mom. I’d go to work with her some days and would spend time at the clinic with my dad. I’ve seen stuff no kid should see but it gave me perspective.”
The pair spent more time talking, coffee and food was eaten as the slate from both ends was cleaned and hope for the future was seen.
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Anything for Shout It Out Loud
I think it is well known that Dressed to Kill was written and recorded in no time at all. That this is true for better part of the first six studio albums is not hard to imagine, but it is especially true for Dressed to Kill, and you can hear it. And yet there are still good songs and ideas on it, which have remained a landmark for the band's classic Kiss sound for decades. Crazy Nights, Carnival of Souls or Sonic Boom spontaneously come to mind as albums worth mentioning, just to spread it out colorfully over the decades. And somehow also Destroyer.
Well, sort of.
And since Sweet Pain and Love Her All I Can are a completely different story, let's just talk about Shout It Out Loud and Anything For My Baby today. And that concerns the first verse line of both songs, sung by Paul. The one of Shout It Out Loud is, of course, not at all dissimilar by chance, right up to the point where it takes the first exit and moves into direction super anthem. This is clearly less of a rip-off and more of something that is due to the over-accelerated songwriting and the resulting immaturity of the songs on Dressed to Kill.
Whether this one line must have been particularly close to his heart and he felt obliged to himself to make more of it, or whether it simply flowed out of his mouth spontaneously while composing with Gene and Bob Ezrin at the piano without much thought, is a matter of pure speculation. One thing, however, is quite certain, namely that they impressively managed to make a lot more out of it.
The magic of the early phase. You just have to love it.
Simply click on the highlighted links and dive in:
Anything For My Baby (1975)
Shout It Out Loud (1976)
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Steven Buchner (from 1987's Baby Boom) GIFs again (I know they were previously used in my Janegon vignette). The character does have a dead-on resemblance to Egon, tho.
Just look at him stretch and yawn. LOOK AT HIM!!
I hear a The Weekend song playing in my head (guess which one and I'll mark you as correct in the the form of a reblog or reply in the comments😅)
@bixiebeet @spengnitzed @ariel-seagull-wings @janegon-forever @kawaiisakura143 @soulfulbelieves @lulusplaycorner @remerg @spook-central @spenglerssweetheart
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If the "infertility epidemic" was the first round of fire in the pronatal campaign of the '80s, then the "birth dearth" was the second. At least the leaders of this campaign were more honest: they denounced liberated women for choosing to have fewer of no children. They didn't pretend that they were just neutrally reporting statistics; they proudly admitted that they were seeking to manipulate female behavior. "Most of this small book is a speculation and provocation," Ben Wattenberg freely concedes in his 1987 work, The Birth Dearth. "Will public attitudes change soon, thereby changing fertility behavior?" he asks. "I hope so. It is the root reason for writing this book."
Instead of hounding women into the maternity ward with now-or-never threats, the birth dearth theorists tried appealing to society's baser instincts—xenophobia, militarism, and bigotry, to name a few. If white educated middle-class women don't start reproducing, the birth-dearth men warned, paupers, fools, and foreigners would—and America would soon be out of business. Harvard psychologist Richard Herrnstein predicted that the genius pool would shrink by nearly 60 percent and the population with IQs under seventy would swell by a comparable amount, because the "brighter" women were neglecting their reproductive duties to chase after college degrees and careers—and insisting on using birth control. "Sex comes first, the pains and costs of pregnancy and motherhood later," he harumphed. If present trends continue, he grimly advised, "it could swamp the effects of anything else we may do about our economic standing in the world." The documentation he offered for this trend? Casual comments from some young students at Harvard who seemed "anxious" about having children, grumblings from some friends who wanted more grandchildren, and dialogue from movies like Baby Boom and Three Men and a Baby.
The birth dearth's creator and chief cheerleader was Ben Wattenberg, a syndicated columnist and senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, who first introduced the birth dearth threat in 1986 in the conservative journal Public Opinion—and tirelessly promoted it in an endless round of speeches, radio talks, television appearances, and his own newspaper column.
His inflammatory tactics constituted a notable departure from the levelheaded approach he had advocated a decade earlier in his book The Real America, in which he chided population-boom theorists for spreading "souped-up scare rhetoric" and "alarmist fiction." The fertility rate, he said, was actually in slow decline, which he saw then as a "quite salutary" trend, promising more jobs and a higher living standard. The birth dearth, he enthused then, "may well prove to be the single most important agent of a massive expansion and a massive economic upgrading" for the middle class.
Just ten years later, the fifty-three-year-old father of four was sounding all the alarms about this "scary" trend. "Will the world backslide?" he gasped in The Birth Dearth. "Could the Third World culture become dominant?" According to Wattenberg's treatise—subtitled "What Happens When People in Free Countries Don't Have Enough Babies"—the United States would lose its world power status, millions would be put out of work, multiplying minorities would create "ugly turbulence," smaller tax bases would diminish the military's nuclear weapons stockpiles, and a shrinking army would not be able “to deter potential Soviet expansionism.”
When Wattenberg got around to assigning blame, the women's movement served as the prime scapegoat. For generating what he now characterized as a steep drop in the birthrate to "below replacement level," he faulted women's interest in postponing marriage and motherhood, women's desire for advancing their education and careers, women's insistence on the legalization of abortion, and "women's liberation" in general. To solve the problem, he lectures, women should be urged to put their careers off until after they have babies. Nevertheles, he actually maintains, "I believe that The Birth Dearth sets out a substantially pro-feminist view."
Wattenberg's birth dearth slogan was quickly adopted by New Right leaders, conservative social theorists, and presidential candidates, who began alluding in ominous—and racist—tones to "cultural suicide" and "genetic suicide." This threat became the subject of a plank in the political platforms of both Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson, who were also quick to link the fall of the birthrate with the rise in women's rights. Allan Carlson, president of the conservative Rockford Institute, proposed that the best way to cure birth dearth was to get rid of the Equal Pay Act and federal laws banning sex discrimination in employment. At a 1985 American Enterprise Institute conference, Edward Luttwack went even further: he proposed that American policy makers might consider reactivating the pronatal initiatives of Vichy France; that Nazi-collaborationist government's attack on abortion and promotion of total motherhood might have valuable application on today's recalcitrant women. And at a seminar sponsored by Stanford University's Hoover Institution, panelists deplored "the independence of women" for lowering the birthrate and charged that women who refused to have many children lacked "values."
These men were as anxious to stop single black women from procreating as they were for married white women to start. The rate of illegitimate births to black women, especially black teenage girls, was reaching "epidemic" proportions, conservative social scientists intoned repeatedly in speeches and press interviews. The pronatalists' use of the disease metaphor is unintentionally revealing: they considered it an "epidemic" when white women didn't reproduce or when black women did. In the case of black women, their claims were simply wrong. Illegitimate births to both black women and black teenagers were actually declining in the '80s; the only increase in out-of-wedlock births was among white women.
-Susan Faludi, Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women
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2023 League of Musicals Alphabetized List of Musicals
Below is the full list of musicals in the League of Musicals sorted by Division.
Division A
Alice By Heart
Annie
Assassins
Avenue Q
The Band's Visit
The Book of Mormon
Cabaret
Cats
Chess
Chicago
A Chorus Line
Come From Away
Company
Falsettos
Fiddler on the Roof
Firebringer
Fun Home
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Ghost Quartet
Guys and Dolls
Hadestown
Hair
Hairspray
Hamilton
Hello, Dolly!
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
In The Heights
Into the Woods
Jekyll and Hyde
The King and I
Kinky Boots
Legally Blonde
Les Misérables
The Lion King
Little Shop of Horrors
Matilda
Moulin Rouge
Mozart, l'opéra rock
The Music Man
My Fair Lady
Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Newsies
Next to Normal
Octet
Once
Once on this Island
The Phantom of the Opera
Pippin
The Producers
Ragtime
Rent
Ride the Cyclone
The Rocky Horror Show
Something Rotten
The Sound of Music
Spies Are Forever
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical
Spring Awakening
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Twisted: The Untold Story of A Royal Vizier
Waitress
West Side Story
Wicked
The Wiz
Division B
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
42nd Street
1776
Adamandi
American Idiot
American Psycho
Anastasia
Applause
Bare: A Pop Opera
Beetlejuice
Be More Chill
Billy Elliot the Musical
Bonnie and Clyde
Bye Bye Birdie
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Cinderella (Rodgers and Hammerstein)
City of Angels
Damn Yankees
Dear Evan Hansen
Death Note: The Musical
Evita
Fosse
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Grease
The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals
Hallelujah, Baby!
Heathers
Holy Musical B@man!
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Jersey Boys
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Kiss Me, Kate
Kiss of the Spider Woman
La Cage aux Folles
The Lightning Thief
A Little Night Music
Man of La Mancha
Memphis
Monty Python's Spamalot
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
A New Brain
Nine
The Pajama Game
Passion
The Prom
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Singin' in the Rain
Six
South Pacific
Starship
A Strange Loop
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunset Boulevard
Tanz der Vampire / Dance of the Vampires
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Tick Tick Boom
Titanic
The Trail to Oregon!
Tuck Everlasting
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Urinetown
The Will Rogers Follies
The Wizard of Oz (1987)
Division C
& Juliet
21 Chump Street
35MM: A Musical Exhibition
1789: Les Amants de la Bastille
Aida
Allegiance
Amélie
Annie Get Your Gun
Anything Goes
The Art of Pleasing Princes
Bandstand
Beauty and the Beast
Big Fish
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Carousel
Carrie
The Color Purple
Contact
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dogfight
Dracula, the Musical
Dreamgirls
Elisabeth
Evil Dead: The Musical
Finding Neverland
Frankenstein: A New Musical
The Frogs
Funny Girl
Godspell
Groundhog Day
Gypsy
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jane Eyre
The Last Five Years
Lizzie
The Lord of the Rings
Love in Hate Nation
Love Never Dies
The Mad Ones
The Magic Show
Mary Poppins
Mean Girls
Merrily We Roll Along
Miss Saigon
Mozart!
Oklahoma!
Oliver
On the Town
Ordinary Days
Parade
The Pirate Queen
Preludes
Pretty Woman
The Prince of Egypt
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Rebecca
Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour
The Secret Garden
Seussical
She Loves Me
Shrek the Musical
Starry
Wonderland
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
Division D
13: The Musical
Ablaze
The Act
Ain't Misbehavin
An American in Paris
Anne & Gilbert
Anyone Can Whistle
Av. Larco
Back to the Future the Musical
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Big River
Bran Nue Dae
Bright Star
Bring It On
Calvin Berger
Caroline, or Change
Clown Bible
Crazy for You
De 3 Biggetjes
The Dolls of New Albion
Dorian Gray
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Fantasticks
Fiorello!
Fly by Night
Follies
Frankenstein (Wang Yeon Beom + Brandon Lee)
Hans Christian Andersen
Hoy no me puedo levantar
In Transit
Jagged Little Pill
Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Kimberly Akimbo
King's Table
Kismet
Lady Bess
La Légende du roi Arthur
Le Passe-Muraille / Amour
Le Roi Soleil
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
The Light in the Piazza
Made in Dagenham
Magic Tree House: The Musical
Mentiras el musical
Notre-Dame de Paris
Once Upon A Mattress
On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan
Phantom (Yeston & Kopit)
Raisin
Redhead
Sarafina!
School of Rock
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1964)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Show Boat
Sidd
Siete veces adios
Soldaat van Oranje
The Spitfire Grill
Starlight Express
Starmania / Tycoon
Tarrytown
The Threepenny Opera / Die Dreigroschenoper
Timéo
Wiedzmin
The Wild Party (Lippa)
The Woman in White
Wonderful Town
[title of show]
Émilie Jolie
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Look at this MAN...
Baby Boom (1987)
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Ramgart photo I made
I know it’s fake but I pair these two
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Ghostbusters Fanfiction Masterlist
*** REQUESTS ARE TEMPORARILY CLOSED***
Note: All fics are rated Explicit (as per Ao3s rating system) unless otherwise noted
Egon Spengler
Not Jealous (one-shot)
Burning Fascination (complete, 11/11)
Masters of Sex (The Mood Slime Experiments) (complete, 5/5)
Untitled Older Egon (coming soon)
Ray Stantz
Somewhere to Belong (complete, 12/12)
Some Call It Love, I Call It Magic (Older Ray, complete, 12/12)
Love, Unleashed (Older Ray/Spirits Unleashed, complete, 2/2)
These Golden Years (Frozen Empire Fic, one-shot)
It Was Always You (Ray at Columbia/coming soon)
Real Love (RGB Ray, in progress)
Peter Venkman
He's Yours (Peter x Dana Barrett one-shot)
Various
Ghostbusters One-Shots and Drabbles (updated April 15)
Dan Aykroyd Characters
Elwood Blues/The Blues Brothers
That Special Somebody... (complete, 2/2)
Squeeze and Please (one-shot)
I Need You (Blues Brothers AU, complete, 13/13)
Anything For You (one-shot)
Untilted Jake Blues One-shot (in the works)
Misc.
Dan Aykroyd Characters One-Shot Collection (updated May 9)
We Keep Watch For Each Other (Ellis Fielding/Loose Cannons, complete)
When I Start Lovin' I Just Can't Stop (Mike Weber/Soul Man, in progress)
The Way You Love Is Good As Money (Roman Craig/The Great Outdoors, in progress)
Let It Only Ever Be Me (Fred Garvin/SNL, one-shot)
Some Things Are Meant To Be (Roy/Love At First Sight (1977) coming soon)
Loving the Alien (Beldar Conehead, in the works)
Untilted Vic fanfic (Neighbors, in the works)
Untitled Darren "Mother" Roskow fic (Sneakers, in the works)
Untitled Joe Friday fic (Dragnet 1987, in the works)
Harold Ramis Characters
Someday Soon I'm Gonna Make Him Mine (Russell Ziskey, in progress)
Untitled Moe Green One-shot (in the works)
Untitled Steven Buchner One-shot (Baby Boom, in the works)
Will update these as I go along! Anything that's underlined is a link!
KEY:
In progress = currently posting chapters
Coming soon = enough is written for me to nearly be ready to start posting
In the works = not enough written to start posting, but it is actively being worked on
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Top 80's-70's Rom-Com reccs??
If you have letterboxd, I have a whole list of 80s movies I've watched and rated if you want to sort through that for movie recs (It's linked in my pinned post), but here's a couple right here and now if you don't. I mainly watch 80s movies so sorry if there's only like one 70s movie on here:
Harold and Maude (1971)
Once Bitten (1985)
Modern Girls (1986)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Something Wild (1986)
Fatso (1980)
The Heavenly Kid (1985)
Baby Boom (1987)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Earth Girls Are Easy (1988)
I tried to exclude the common recs you hear about everywhere (Pretty in Pink, Sixteen candles, etc). Hope you enjoy some of these and that they're what you're looking for! Some might be more romantic or comedic than others; or have other genres thrown in, so don't say I didn't warn you I guess lol.
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