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popentertainment-moviereviews · 2 years

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AMSTERDAM (2022)

Starring Christian Bale, John David Washington, Margot Robbie, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldaña, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Andrea Riseborough, Taylor Swift, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alessandro Nivola, Rami Malek, Robert De Niro, Ed Begley Jr., Leland Orser, Tom Irwin, Beth Grant, Bonnie Hellman, Max Perlich and Colleen Camp.

Screenplay by David O. Russell.

Directed by David O. Russell.

Distributed by 20th Century Studios. 134 minutes. Rated R.

I always want to really like David O. Russell’s films, and I always tend to walk out feeling just a bit unsatisfied. This goes back to early films like Spanking the Monkey and Flirting With Disaster, he always makes highly eccentric, interesting movies, but they never quite work. And yes, I am including his critical darlings like Three Kings, Silver Linings Playbook and The Fighter.

Now, add Amsterdam to that list.

Amsterdam is loosely (very loosely) based on real events in history in the leadup to World War II. It has enough story for any 10 films, a packed cast of stars and superstars, a sadly very topical storyline and a weird, surrealistic point-of-view – and yet the longer I sat through it, the more antsy I felt. This was exacerbated by a horribly heavy-handed, preachy ending – and this is coming from someone who agreed with many of the socio-political points being made.

It's rare that so much talent is used for so little reward.

The true story which this film is based (again, very loosely) upon took place in 1933, when a group of very rich industrialists decided they wanted to replace Franklin Roosevelt – the sitting President – with a famous and respected General. The General was not willing to play along with their plot and thus it was foiled, however the billionaires and schemers behind the plot did not ever pay any price for their part in the attempted coup.

Sound at all familiar?

So, you can see why the subject matter appealed to Russell. However, he decided to focus on the outskirts of the conspiracy, looking at two former wounded veterans (of WWI) who are put in the position of having to try to unravel the plot or being arrested for a murder which they did not commit.

Christian Bale plays Burt Berendsen, a former soldier who was badly injured in battle – losing his eye and forcing him to wear a brace just to walk and function. (And yes, the oddball name pretty much warns you about his offbeat character.) A doctor by trade, he has lost his license because he has started a clinic for fellow disabled veterans in which he uses experimental drugs – many of which he makes and uses himself as a guinea pig to see if they will help or simply make people fall to the ground.

Bale’s character is almost willfully over the top. He reminds me of nothing so much as Tom Hanks’ cartoonish performance in the Coen Brothers’ remake of the British classic comedy The Ladykillers. I assume, like Hanks, that Bale was instructed to play the role so broadly, but that doesn’t stop it from being distractingly clownish.

His best friend is Harold Woodman (John David Washington), a fellow soldier from the war who was also badly injured at the same time and place with Berendsen. While also rather eccentric, Harold is much more normal and has returned to New York to become a lawyer. Their little gang also has Valerie Voze (Margot Robbie) – a nurse who helped to save their lives in the war and who eventually turns out to have her share of eccentricities herself, and who has fallen for Harold.

When their former commander dies suddenly and mysteriously, his daughter (Taylor Swift) asks Burt to do an autopsy to find his cause of death, which thrusts the three into the middle of the whole scheme. Burt and Harold are framed for murder, and they have to prove their innocence and save the country.

Like I said, it’s a very complex story. And that’s just the start of it, there is a whole huge group of supporting characters and subplots which I haven’t even touched upon. Unfortunately, it’s not all that engaging. Basically, Amsterdam is a comedy that is not overly funny, a thriller that is not very thrilling, and a mystery that is not very mysterious.

Then the speechifying starts. Any patience you may have had for Amsterdam fades away like a bad dream.

Jay S. Jacobs

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#Amsterdam #2022 #Movie Review #Christian Bale #Jay S. Jacobs

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pierppasolini · 4 years

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) // dir. Joseph Zito

#Bonnie Hellman #Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter #Joseph Zito #my caps #my edits #The Tommy Jarvis Trilogy #*ft13

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter - Joseph Zito 1984

#Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter #Joseph Zito #Bonnie Hellman #Tom Savini

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greensparty · 3 years

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RIP Jim Steinman and Monte Hellman

Not one but two entertainers passed away today. Here is my combined remembrance.

Jim Steinman 1947-2021

Songwriter, producer, composer Jim Steinman has died at 73. Whether it was his own music, music he wrote for other musicians or his soundtrack work, his music was grandiose and very theatrical. He worked with musicians as diverse as Billy Squier (the album with the critically reviled “Rock Me Tonite”), Bonnie Tyler (her song “Holding Out for a Hero” is among the stand outs of the Footloose soundtrack), The Sisters of Mercy, Celine Dion, Hulk Hogan’s theme song, and the Shrek 2 soundtrack.

Steinman and Loaf circa 1977

But it was his collaborations with Meat Loaf that I really remember. Loaf’s 1977 album Bat Out of Hell is a classic! I picked it up as a teen and listened to it quite a bit. So many awesome songs like the title track, “Paradise by the Dashboard Light”, and “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad”. Steinman wrote every song on that album! E Street Band’s Max Weinberg and Roy Bittan (who were frequent Steinman collaborators) appeared on that album too. 1993′s Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell was another album I listened to as a teen. It was over-the-top and grandiose, while not as good as the first album, still had some hits, including “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)”, Loaf’s only #1 song. Steinman wrote and produced that entire album too. Steinman even wrote some of the songs on 2016′s Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster is Loose.

The link above is the obit from Variety.

Monte Hellman 1929-2021

Film director Monte Hellman has died at 91. He was among the first to direct for Roger Corman and then break out from the Corman school. Among his highlights were the cult films Two-Lane Blacktop and the Francis Ford Coppola documentary Inside the Coppola Personality. He had an interesting filmography, including Second Unit Director on RoboCop (who knew?).

Hellman receiving the Golden Lion at 2010 Venice Film Festival from Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino sung his praises many times and Hellman was a producer on QT’s debut Reservoir Dogs.

The link above is the obit from Variety.

#jim steinman #monte hellman #rip #billie squier #bonnie tyler #footloose #the sisters of mercy #celine dion #hulk hogan #shrek 2 #two-lane blacktop #inside the coppola personality #francis ford coppola #robocop #Quentin Tarantino #Reservoir dogs #film geek #music nerd

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thebabysittersguidetoexorcisms · 7 years

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#Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter #Friday the 13th #Joseph Zito #Bonnie Hellman

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Friday the 13th Part IV: The Final Chapter ( 1984)

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The strange dance which Jimbo performs at the party was contributed by actor Crispin Glover and was based on the eccentric way he actually danced in clubs. On the set he was dancing to "Back in Black" by AC/DC as the scene was filmed. In the film however an edited version of "Love Is a Lie" by Lion was dubbed into the scene.

Last film in the series to pick up immediately where the previous film left off. At 58 years old at the time Ted White is the oldest stuntman/actor to portray Jason Voorhees. On a budget of $1,800,000 the film made $32,600,000 at the box office.

At the time, this installment of the series contained the most nudity and gore. The film was released on Friday the 13th: April 13, 1984.

In Turkey, this film, and the next sequel, Friday the 13th V: A New Beginning (1985), were released at the same time. People could watch both films back to back. Even the posters for both movies were displayed next to each other.

(at around 1h 2 mins) In one scene, Rob talks to Trish about his sister, Sandra. Sandra was one of Jason's victims in Friday the 13th - Part II (1981).

(at around 10 mins) The workout video Axel watches is Aerobicise (1982). It stars Darcy DeMoss who went on to have a role in Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986).

This is the only film in the series to shoot new footage using sets and locations from a previous film. The beginning takes place on the set of Friday the 13th - Part III (1982), before moving to a new location.

Director Joseph Zito was opposed to using clips from previous installments at the beginning of the film.

(at around 9 mins) The nurse's name tag reads "R. Morgan, RN," an homage to actress Robbi Morgan, who played Annie in Friday the 13th (1980).

During filming Kimberly Beck, who plays Trish, experienced strange occurrences including a man watching her while she ran in the park and strange phone calls at all hours. This stopped when production was over.

Though he disliked being involved with the film, Ted White is considered by many fans to be one of the best Jasons.

(at around 9 mins) The moment where Jason's hand moves in the morgue was done by Ted White after Joseph Zito had called cut on the scene. However, the camera was still rolling, and caught this movement, and it was included in the film.

Writer Barney Cohen originally wrote a scene involving Jason fondling Trish's breasts but the producers vetoed it. Director Joseph Zito also disliked the scene because it made Jason seem too human and less menacing. The scene was excised.

Joseph Zito had previously directed The Prowler (1981), but they wanted him to both direct AND write Friday the 13th Part 4. He said, "But I'm not a writer," to which they said, "Here's a contract paying you double to write and direct," and then he responded, "Yeah, I'm totally a writer." Zito used the extra salary to hire Barney Cohen to somewhat secretly write the script. Their process entailed Zito taking nightly one-hour phone calls with Phil Scuderi to discuss the story and script for Final Chapter. The next day Zito would meet Cohen in an apartment in New York to relay what notes and ideas Scuderi had offered, which they would then turn into new script pages to be sent later that day to Scuderi in Boston to be discussed again over the phone that night.

Camilla More actually read for the role of Samantha, but when the producers discovered she had a twin, they offered both sisters the roles of Tina and Terri.

It is played for humor throughout Final Chapter that young Tommy Jarvis (Feldman) is suddenly surrounded by horny teenagers renting a cabin he can see into from his own house. However, the reality of the situation is that those actresses were indeed very or partially naked, and Corey Feldman was still young enough that Erich Anderson and Kimberly Beck took him trick-or-treating the first day of filming since it happened to be October 31, 1983. So, they shielded 12-year-old Feldman from most of the bad stuff, using tricky editing when necessary. What they could not control was the power of a low-cut top sans bra underneath. According to Feldman, in the scene in which Jodie Aronson's character bends over to greet Tommy's dog unbeknownst to anyone but Feldman he could see down her low-cut top.

It has been suggested that the only reasons Tom Savini worked as make-up artist on this film was in order that he could accurately age and properly kill the character he created from the first film.

Barbara Howard used a body double for her shower sex scene.

After Jason actor Ted White finished his scenes for this film, he immediately started work on Starman (1984). While on set for the night's filming, a group of reporters were waiting to interview Jeff Bridges, but he was unavailable. Therefore, director, John Carpenter, told the reporters to talk to White about the film he had recently finished. After telling the reporters he had just finished playing Jason in the latest Friday the 13th film, the next day's article was entirely about him, and that night, numerous "Friday" fans arrived at the set solely in order to see White.

Jason actor Ted White and special effects artist Tom Savini at first were confrontational with one another. But once White found out Savini had experience with stunts, the two became friends.

Rob was originally supposed to have high-tech equipment which he had used to track Jason, but the props for this looked cheap, and the idea was scrapped.

The film takes place on Sunday the 15th and beyond which makes it the second "Friday" film not to actually take place on a Friday at all. While the beginning with the coroners takes place during the night of Sunday the 15th, the rest of the film takes place on Monday the 16th, with Tuesday the 17th being the climactic night.

Even though he plays her son, Ted White (Jason Voorhees) is actually 11 months older than Betsy Palmer (Pamela Voorhees).

Rather than making masks, Tommy was originally going to have been an inventor. One of his projects was a device made from a microwave oven, which would have been what he used to kill Jason. Some of this is seen in the final product in a scene where he helps repair a car.

Amy Steel talked Peter Barton into doing the film. By the time the Final Chapter offer came around Matthew Star was off the air, and Barton wanted no part of horror films, having hated working on Hell Night in 1981. Amy Steel somehow talked him into it, selling him on the notoriety of starring in the final Friday the 13th film.

Director Joseph Zito wanted Jason's hockey mask to explode apart in the opening credits, but there was not enough time in post-production to pull off this gag.

Paramount was originally going to release the film in October, 1984. After filming wrapped in January Paramount studio head Frank Mancuso Sr. screened footage of the film to much enthusiasm. After a window opened up the release date was changed to April upon confirmation from Joseph Zito that he could complete the film faster than planned. This led to Zito, producer Frank Mancuso Jr., and a crew of editors essentially remaining locked in a house in Malibu editing around the clock in order to finish the film on time. This marked one of the only times that Paramount actively helped in the production of a Friday the 13th film, as they were generally produced independently, with the studio only handling marketing and distribution.

The house used for the Jarvis home was later used as the Anderson home in the film Ed Gein (2000) where serial killer Ed Gein is apprehended.

Bonnie Hellman's agents told her about a possible role in this film - the hitchhiker - but then told her that she would not want to do it, as there were no lines. However, she ended up taking the role anyway.

Kimberly Beck stated in the Crystal Lake Memories book that she does not like the horror genre. In addition to this, she also said that she feels this film was not even a B-movie, but rather a C-movie.

Distinguished film critic Roger Ebert called this film "an immoral and reprehensible piece of trash."

The Jarvis family's dog, Gordon, was named after a recently deceased dog which a friend of director Joseph Zito owned.

Peter Barton was talked into taking a role in this film by his The Powers of Matthew Star (1982) co-star Amy Steel who played Ginny in Friday the 13th - Part II (1981).

The female hitchhiker was called "Fat Girl" in the original draft of the script.

The poster shows the hockey mask with a knife on its left eyesocket. Jason is defeated with a machete going through his left eye.

Kimberly Beck is the only Friday the 13th actress that appeared in an Alfred Hitchcock film. She worked on Marnie (1964), exactly 20 years prior to this. She plays the little girl that Marnie's mother babysits.

The film was shot entirely in California.

Carey More's audition was to simply read one line.

Lisa Freeman, who played Nurse Morgan, and Crispin Glover, who played Jimmy Mortimer, both would go on to be in the Back To The Future movies. Crispin Glover played George McFly in Back to the Future (1985) and Lisa Freeman played Babs in Back to the Future (1985) and Back to Future, part II (1989).

(at around 20 mins) The Jarvis family sandwich hug was based on a group hug that screenwriter Barney Cohen's family did.

Jason's death won the Golden Chainsaw Award in Dead Meat's "Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter" kill count.

This is considered by many fans, to be the best and most popular Friday the 13th film.

The Jarvis family car is a 1970 Dodge Polara.

Rob's rifle is a Winchester Model 70.

Rob looks to be the main male hero of the film to work alongside Final Girl Trish. Instead he dies almost immediately after encountering Jason, with the real Final Guy of the film being Tommy

The ambulance driver played by Antony Ponzini & Axel and the coroner played by Bruce Mahler both appeared on the sitcom Seinfled. Ponzini as Jerry's barber Enzo and Mahler as the Rabbi in Elaine's building.

Was released in theaters, directly a week before Crispin Glover's (Jimmy) 20th birthday.

Tracy Jarvis' fate and death would have been more further explained in a deleted scene that had been cut from the film. An alternate ending to the film, included in the 2009 Deluxe Edition DVD, shows a dream sequence where Trish and Tommy wake up the next morning after killing Jason to the sound of police sirens. Trish sends Tommy to summon the police who have arrived next door. At that point she notices water dripping from the ceiling and goes to investigate. She enters the upstairs bathroom, and finds the body of her mother floating in a tub full of bloody water. Trish lifts her mother out of the tub, prompting Tracy's eyes to open, revealing them to be solid white and devoid of irises. Jason suddenly appears from behind the bathroom door and prepares to attack Trish. Trish then suddenly wakes up in the hospital in a scene reminiscent of the ending of the first movie.

Ted White was uncredited as Jason Voorhees by his own request.

The twins are played by real life sisters Camilla and Carey More, who both also appeared on the daytime soap opera Days of our Lives as Gillian and Grace Forrester. More stars from the soap DAYS also appear in further Friday The 13th sequels like Renee Jones in Part 6, and Kevin Spirtas and Staci Greason in Part 7. Other soap stars that appeared in Friday The 13th films include Kevin Bacon, Russell Todd, Lauren Marie Taylor, Dana Kimmell, Kimberly Beck, Peter Barton, Jennifer Cooke, Michael Swan, and Scott Reeves.

Paul's car is a 1973 Chevrolet Caprice Estate station wagon.

According to Ted White, he and director Joseph Zito did not get along very well during filming.

The actress playing Trish's mother was only 14 years and 1 day older than her.

Both Corey Feldman and Crispin Glover later appeared in different films with actor Kiefer Sutherland in the same year: Feldman in Stand by Me (1986) and Glover in At Close Range (1986).

Pamela Voorhees' first name appears on a tombstone.

#friday the 13th the final chapter #jason voorhees #pamela voorhees

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A new recurring feature in which the Kevrock audience (both of you, don’t be shy!) is invited to weigh in on the best female actor of a particular decade. Today the ‘70s, when men were men and women played prostitutes (Seriously. So many prostitutes) Your candidates:

Faye Dunaway. Coming off ‘60s triumphs Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), she appeared in Arthur Penn’s Little Big Man (1970) playing a randy frontier missionary who becomes a prostitute. She then played the evil (and sexy) Milady de Winter in Richard Lester’s tongue-in-cheek version of The Three Musketeers. In 1974 she was in two movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar. In Roman Polanski’s Chinatown, one of the decades best, she played the daughter of a loathsome tycoon with a big secret (“She’s my sister, She’s my daughter…”) and was rewarded with her own Oscar nomination. And in also-nominated (Really) The Towering Inferno she looked pretty in an evening gown. She was superfluous in Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor (1975) but won an Oscar the next year in Sidney Lumet’s Network as a programming executive who merges a network’s news and entertainment departments and has a new anchor killed for low ratings. She closed out the decade with a stylish thriller, The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Jane Fonda. Fonda won an Oscar for Klute, where she played a prostitute. She followed up this triumph by being photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun, which got her black-balled in Hollywood for five years. When things cooled off she made three films and got three Oscar nominations in a row. She was a fine, brittle Lillian Hellman in Fred Zinneman’s Julia (1977). She won for the aftermath-of-Vietnam drama Coming Home (1978) and got another nomination as a TV reporter who becomes woke about the danger of nuclear power in The China Syndrome (1979). She also did two comedies: Neil Simon’s 1978 California Suite and 1979’s The Electric Horseman, where she costarred with Robert Redford.

Goldie Hawn. She started the decade by winning a Supporting Oscar for Gene Saks’ 1969 Cactus Flower, did the well-received comedies There’s a Girl in my Soup, Butterflies are Free, and $, (where she played a prostitute because of course she did.) She broke through with Steven Spielberg’s The Sugarland Express (1974) and co-starred with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in Hal Ashby’s underrated Shampoo (1975). She played another prostie in the comedy, western The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox (1976) and co-starred with then-hot Chevy Chase in the comedy suspense film Foul Play (1978). Not one of these films lost money.

Diane Keaton. Keaton’s rep in the ‘70s rests on both the movies she did with Woody Allen and her role of Kaye Adams in The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). Her work as Kaye is underrated (even by the Keaton herself) but crucial to depicting the isolation of the Corleone’s world and the expected subservience of a Mafia wife. The way she almost whimpers “They’re my children too” is one of the most heartbreaking moments in both films. She was a true partner to Allen in Play It Again Sam (1972), Sleeper(1973), and Love and Death (1975). She won an Oscar for playing Annie Hall (1977) and making audiences love her (“La-di-dah”) and deserved one for making them hate her in 1979’s Manhattan (if only for the way she pronounced “Van Gogh”). And while her character in 1977’s Looking for Mr. Goodbar had anonymous sex in singles bars, Keaton did make it through the decade without playing a prostitute.

Barbra Streisand. Streisand, who only made two films in the 60s, started the 70s with the Vincent Minelli reincarnation musical, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) and the comedy The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) where she played a prostitute, just to get it out of the way. She did Irvin Kershner’s mad housewife comedy Up the Sandbox (1972), Peter Bogdanovich’s manic screwball tribute, What’s Up Doc? (1972), and Peter Yates’ slapstick For Pete’s Sake (1974), where she plays a housewife who almost becomes a prostitute, but it doesn’t take. She had her biggest hit of the decade with Sydney Pollack’s blockbuster weeper The Way We Were (1974). She reprised her Oscar-winning Funny Girl role with Funny Lady (1975), starred in the worst A Star Is Born remake (1977), and reteamed with her What’s Up Doc? costar Ryan O’Neal for the romantic comedy The Main Event (1979).

So, what’s your choice for Queen of the 70s? Vote in the comments section. Write-in votes accepted. No profanity unless it’s funny. Results in two weeks. Ish.

#faye dunaway #jane fonda #goldie hawn #diane keaton #barbra streisand #kevrock

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insanityclause · 4 years

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Bonnie Pointer, a member of Grammy-winning vocal group The Pointer Sisters, died Monday. She was 69. No cause of death was given.

“It is with great sadness that I have to announce to the fans of The Pointer Sisters that my sister, Bonnie died this morning, her sister and fellow singer Anita Pointer said in a statement to the PA news agency. “Our family is devastated, on behalf of my siblings and I and the entire Pointer family, we ask for your prayers at this time.”

Bonnie Pointer and her younger sister June co-founded duo The Pointers in 1969. When their sister Anita joined them later that year, they changed their name to The Pointer Sisters. Their oldest sister Ruth joined in 1972, and a year after that, they released their self-titled debut album, which included the hit “Yes We Can Can.”

Bonnie and Anita co-wrote the group’s crossover country hit, “Fairytale”, in 1974, which also became a Top 20 pop hit and won the group their first Grammy for Best Vocal by a Duo or Group, Country. It also received a Grammy nom for Best Country Song. Bonnie left the group in 1977 for a solo career, signing with Motown in 1978. She went on to release “Heaven Must Have Sent You,” which reached No. 11 on Billboard Hot 100 chart, along with three solo albums, including two before retiring from the studio.

Bonnie appeared on Soul Train in 1985, and reunited with her sisters occasionally in the 1990s, such as when the group received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. She continued to perform into the 2000s.

She also appeared as herself in the 2010 Monte Hellman-directed film The Road To Nowhere.

#Bonnie Pointer #The Pointer Sisters

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duranduratulsa · 2 years

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Up next on my Spooktober Filmfest...Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) on glorious vintage VHS 📼! #movie #movies #horror #fridaythe13th #fridaythe13ththefinalchapter #fridaythe13thpart4 #seanscunningham #josephzito #jasonvoorhees #jason #coreyfeldman #tedwhite #riptedwhite #crispinglover #KimberlyBeck #JudieAronson #erichanderson #CamillaMore #careymore #peterbarton #barbarahoward #JoanFreeman #brucemahler #bonniehellman #LisaFreeman #LawrenceMonoson #clydehayes #80s #vintage #vhs #spooktober #halloween #october

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The Assignment by Jean Holbrook Mathews

Bitterer Schleier [A Bitter Veil] by Libby Fischer Hellman (German version)

Daughter of Scarlet by Bonnie Winters

Fatwa by Jacky Trevane (Dutch version)

Isabeau by N. Gemini Sasson

Never Far From Danger by Alan Guzzetti

The Painted Veil by Susan Carroll

Pearl in the Sand by Tessa Afshar

Run to Me by Diane Hester

Tomorrow’s Paper by Richard Wunderlich

#book #book cover #cover clones

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Reseña y resumen de la película del acto de apertura (2020)

Byrne llenó el elenco de comediantes y escritores destacados: Bill Burr, Ken Jeong, Tom Segura, Neal Brennan, Alex Moffat, Bonnie Hellman, Russell Peters, todos los cuales interpretan cameos. Se puede decir que “The Opening Act” fue escrito por alguien que conoce el campo íntimamente, y gran parte parece semi-autobiográfico. Cuando los cómicos se sientan y “hablan”, no se deleitan con sus…

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TV Guide Reviews Sunset Beach

Michael Logan - July 1998

SON OF A BEACH

If we had reviewed NBC's Sunset Beach upon its debut, it would have been lacerated for its stunning incompetence and thorough pointlessness. But the show currently airing isn't the show that premiered 19 months ago. Yes, this Aaron Spelling production is still lavishly mounted, majestically hyped and studded with superhuman specimens seemingly sculpted by da Vinci. But it did not do what it was supposed to do, namely, lure gazillions of young, previously untapped advertiser-desirable viewers to daytime TV and, in the process, reenergize the soap opera genre. In fact, SB has wound up the lowest rated of all 11 daytime soaps and, according to NBC, is a possible candidate for cancellation. But something quite marvelous has happened as a result: This show is now behaving like an unwanted, illegitimate child. It is incorrigible. It is pulling itself up by its own bootstraps and surviving on raw nerve and gut instinct. It is demanding to be noticed. And we must confess, this is working like a charm.

You have to love a show that will try anything to get our attention (high-speed freeway chases; a July 17 earthquake that was a scary, technological marvel; and, coming August 3, a rip-off of "The Poseidon Adventure"), but what really endears us to SB is its willingness to own up to its mistakes. The majority of its original cast members, many of whom were ghastly, have either been fired or whipped into shape, some miraculously so. Susan Ward, initially unwatchable as Meg, is now a real contender; Clive Robertson, who started out being merely OK as Ben, now has superstar written all over him. At first, SB tried to get away without core families (mandatory for any successful sudser), and that has been duly remedied. The writing is vastly improved, sometimes quite moving and often wickedly inventive. The writers even managed to breathe new life into the done-to-death evil-twin plot.

With Dominique Jennings (Virginia), Jason George (Michael), Russell Curry (Tyus) and the very dishy Sherri Saum (Vanessa), SB boasts a vital, intriguing African-American contingent, something most other soaps can't claim. Other thrilling talents include Eddie Cibrian (Cole), Randy Spelling (Sean), Nick Kiriazis (Antonio) and Elizabeth Alley (the Linda Tripp-inspired Melinda). Even bit players soar, most notably Margarita Cordova as Mama Torres, Mariann Aalda as the hideously deformed Mrs. Hart and Bonnie Hellman as snarky Nurse Stacey, who intrudes at all the wrong moments. Where SB still falls short is with its leads: Sam Behrens as creep lawyer Gregory Richards and Lesley-Anne Down as his boozy ex-wife, Olivia. The former lacks fire and surprise (odd, considering he was so dynamic on General Hospital); the latter gets by on big hair and the kind of spacey, melodramatic performance that used to pass for acting on Dynasty. We encourage SB executive producer Gary Tomlin to continue kicking butt. Your show is on a roll, and you can't stop now.

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Leonard Bernstein’s Radical-Chic, New York

Leonard Bernstein’s Radical-Chic, New York Penthouse, NY Building, American Architecture Photos

Leonard Bernstein’s Radical-Chic in New York

Nov 12, 2020

Leonard Bernstein’s Radical-Chic

Radical-Chic is now for sale on TopTenRealEstateDeals.com, $29.5 million

Location: 895 Park Avenue, Apt PHA, New York, NY, USA

Fifty years ago Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre, were the owners of one of Park Avenue’s very best apartments. Their home was also the site of one of the famous and controversial social-political happenings of the 1970s.

When some of New York’s wealthiest citizens met with top leaders of the anti-police Black Panther Party. Or as Tom Wolfe described it in his January 1970 New York magazine article, “Radical-Chic: That Party at Lenny’s.” Big names from the entertainment world including Jason Robards, Jerome Robbins, Otto Preminger, Barbara Walters and Mike Nichols were there. So were Harold Taylor, Lillian Hellman, Cynthia Phipps and several dozen other members of New York City’s cultural and intellectual elite.

Wolfe described it as a “a penthouse duplex full of stars, a Manhattan tower full of stars, with marvelous people drifting through the heavens.” Although Bernstein is long gone, the Park Avenue home is still one of New York’s heavenly apartments and is for sale at $29.5 million.

The 14-room penthouse sits atop one of the most elegant prewar Art Deco full-service cooperative buildings on the Upper East Side, built in1930. Spread across two floors of the 21-story building, the duplex measures approximately 6,300 square feet with an additional 700 square feet of outdoor space between two private landings. A private elevator landing opens to a 34-foot grand gallery that continues to the formal living room, dining room and library. There are six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, multiple wood-burning fireplaces, wood plank floors and a sunny enclosed solarium.

There are good views across Midtown Manhattan and the cityscape surrounding Central Park. The building amenities include doormen, health club, squash court, basketball court and even an elevator attendant.

The former Park Avenue penthouse of famed composer and cultural icon Leonard Bernstein, where he hosted some of the world’s most illustrious celebrities and politicians of the 1970s, is now on the market. Priced at $29.5 million, it is listed with Bonnie Chajet, Allison Chiaramonte and Tania Isacoff Friedland of Warburg Realty, Manhattan.

Photo credit: Warburg Realty

Source: TopTenRealEstateDeals.com

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Location: 895 Park Avenue, Apt PHA, New York City, USA

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