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starlightbrethren · 2 years
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Look so it's Tom Davis Tuesday and I know no one cares or reads these posts ok? And I'm really sad because he deserved adoration and admiration and frankly credit for a lot of comedy.
But I'm especially sad because the sketch I would like to share is not available anywhere to share here. It's only available to stream through watching the full episode which you can do on either Peacock or possibly still Hulu.
It's from season five. Last episode actually. May 24th, 1980. Buck Henry is the host of course.
The sketch I'm referring to is Mommy Beer. It's a musical sketch about a beer brand with a nipple attached.
The nice thing about the sketch is it's got Tom Davis, Al Franken, Jim Downey, Buck Henry, Bill Murray, Brian Doyle Murray, and the ever amazing Peter Aykroyd (yes that's right Danny's little brother).
If anyone is reading this and you can go watch it, I highly recommend it. But I warn you non existent reader that there is an Uncle Roy sketch and if you don't know what those are you can guess by the name what it's about I'm sure since I'm warning you.
If anyone is reading this and they can't stream the episode, onesnladay.com has a write up about it and many pictures to boot.
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This picture credit to onesnladay.com please visit the site they're pretty nifty. If you read all the way to here I love you and thank you. I don't care about getting popular I just think the unknowns in this photo deserve to be remembered.
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aygmam · 1 year
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intro: talks about "I did it their way"
"all great comedy has managed to circumnavigate executive meddling."
james downey
jim downey on clapter "it congratulates itself on its edginess, but it's just the ass-kissiest kind of comedy going, reassuring his status-anxious audience that there are some people they're smarter than"
"my own politics are sort of all over the place in terms of issues, but as far as the writing goes, the only important thing its that it's funny, and that it's an original comment. that the audience agrees with me isn't necessary and probably isn't even a good thing. it's so easy to coast by, just hitting the same familiar notes you know are popular and have been pretested for effectiveness. the audience will always at least applaud, so you never have to risk silence."
he goes on to then talk shit about monica lewinsky, which is not the vibe
shouldn't there be some connection with the audience? can you be a complete anarchist when it comes to humor? "yeah well that's norm macdonald. he does things for the experience of doing it, and he doesn't fear silence at all"
it's funny that he says his status anxious audience wants to be assured that they're smarter than someone but this guy does seem to sort of think he's smarter than a lot of people
talking about not being able to title a sketch pussywhipped "'cmon it doesnt mean vagina. it means female-dominated. but that's where the nbc standards lady says, 'well as a woman...' which was her way of reminding me that her sense of humor had been removed at birth."
"one of the points i pride myself on is that i avoid anything i feel is a cheap laugh based on shock or just being dirty. you can always get a laugh, but you don't want it to come at the price of your dignity"
talking about the chippendales sketch he's like it wasn't making fun of him for being fat, because it's crucial that farley wasn't embarrassed and that the judges react the way that they do
~but bro, all of the laughs are predicated on the idea that it's ridiculous that anyone could find chris farley or his body attractive. like there's not really any laughs that aren't about just like making fun of chris's body. they're literally like we thought you were a great dancer, just a fat fat fatty and we hate that about you. like there's actually no way that this joke could be played out in any other way. like the jokes they're going for are literally just look at this fat fat fatty and how fat he is lol isn't it dumb that he thought he could be sexy
"writers tend to write ordinary people in weird situations. performers tend to write weird people in ordinary situations."
"i honestly never want a political agenda to be the leading edge of the piece. i want the piece to be funny, but only because it's based on an observation that i think if fair to make and that no one else is making."
he wants them to be true more than he wants the implications to line up with what he believes
talks about this interesting exercise when he was reading submissions he would ask for three pieces and one of them had to be something that only you think is funny as the writer
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twiststreet · 15 days
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Jim Downey, the most important SNL writer, arguably, and Al Franken was an actual US senator. But Al Franken wasn’t in There Will Be Blood, so fuck’im.
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fortheloveofhoneys · 2 years
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Time stamp 0:02:26: Spade talking about the Norm Memorial, including being sequestered and seeing the material Joyce wrote about
Time stamp 0:44:42: Jim Downey talking Norm, a particularly infamous bit, and the firing.
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neblisi · 2 years
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Round one
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Thin Lizzy
Formed in: 1969
Genres: Hard rock, heavy metal
Lineup: Phil Lynott- bass, vocals
Scott Gorham- guitar
Snowy White- guitar
Darren Wharton- keyboards, organ
Brian Downey- drums, percussion
Albums from the 80s:
Chinatown (1980)
Renegade (1981)
Thunder and Lightning (1983)
Propaganda: 
The Human League 
Formed in: 1977
Genres: synth pop, new wave, electronic, new pop 
Lineup: Ian Burden- keyboards, bass
Philip Oakley- vocals, keyboards
Susan Ann Sulley- vocals
Joanne Catherall- vocals
Jo Callis- guitar, keyboards, vocals
Jim Russell- drums & programming, guitar
Philip Adrian Wright- keyboards, and visuals
Albums from the 80s: 
Travelogue (1980)
Dare (1981)
Hysteria (1984)
Crash (1986)
Propaganda:
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Can you name any celebs that you just can't include in the tops?
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It's not because I don't like them. It's just something between top 20 and outtops, so it's just impossible to include them anywhere. But I still luv them :)
+ David Tennant
This dude won me over when he was the host of the NMTB Doctor Who Special. He was very funny, plus handsome. He didn't become my favourite, but I still respect him :)
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+ Bobcat Goldthwait
American comedian, very interesting person. I've never knew him. But when I watched some videos with Noel's conversation with him, I found him so hillarious. They could be wonderful tandem with Noel together. I would be happy :)
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+ Robert Downey JR
Great actor and so lovely person. He playing serious brutal characters that very different from him in real life. In real life he's so smiling and adorable that's why I like him :)
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+Joan Jett
Thank Noel for letting me find out about this woman :D He's actually remind her in youth. I like her as character. But the music - not quite my style :)
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+ Roger Taylor (Queen)
Many people love Freddy Mercury. So, I'm one of the bastards who never liked him :D But Roger is wonderful. Look at this blonde. How not to love him :)
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+David Bowie
Very insperetional person. Sadly that he passed away. He was one of the style icons
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+ Jim Morrison
The Doors! One of my favourites! That means Jim is favourite singer! Classic never dies!
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+ Jared Leto
Stunning actor and singer! 30 Seconds To Mars is amazing band! :)
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+ John Cooper Clarke
I've never knew him before Never Mind The Buzzcocks! He's just genius guy! He's humour is better than of any typical stand up comic. True punk poetry! It's great respect :)
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+ Joe Lynn Turner
Great singer! I like Rainbow! Eternal classic!
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+ Yungblud
Young rock singer. I like him as a person. He strongly reminds Noel, I wasn't surprised at all that they become good friends :)
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+Ben Kowalewicz
It's a frontman of Billy Talent. He's a Polish born in Canada. I can't say that I'm big fan of this band, but still find this guys interesting and hilarious :)
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+ James Gunn
Maybe, not the best actor, but the great director :)
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+ Brandon Flowers
Beautiful singer from The Killers. I think, many people will agree with me that this band is cool :)
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+ Amanda Somerville
It's a symphonoc metal singer. I love her voice! Just awesome! :)
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+ Sergio Pizzorno
Kasabian and Loose Tapesties singer and just a good mate :)
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Thanks for asking :)
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denimbex1986 · 9 months
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'In case you didn't hear, Oppenheimer has a stacked cast — stacked to a degree that we haven't seen since Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet back in 1996. It's one thing to have a top-level cast of main actors like Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, and Florence Pugh; it's another to have characters that appear on-screen for all of a few minutes be filled with actors like Rami Malek, Casey Affleck, Gary Oldman, and the '90s king himself Josh Hartnett. Whether you knew ahead of time any of these actors would be in this film or not, it provides a small surge of surprise at the moment and makes the audience perk up and pay more attention to what a seemingly small character is doing if it's somebody with a proven screen presence and a history with the audience.
How Does Christopher Nolan Use Casting To Flesh Out Smaller Roles?
Christopher Nolan seems to cast smaller roles in his films with actors who have generally played clear types of characters before. The audience's familiarity with the kinds of characters these actors have generally played in the past fill in the smaller roles in Nolan's films, thereby making it easier for the audience to get a handle on who these people are without fully introducing them through the writing itself. Early on in Oppenheimer, we're introduced to Niels Bohr, a famous scientist who Oppenheimer admired, and he's played by Kenneth Branagh, who imbues him with that feeling of commanding leadership and portentous charisma he brought to his previous roles in Dunkirk and Tenet. This ensures that we know why Oppenheimer looked up to him and was influential in setting him on his path of scientific pursuit.
Or take Gary Oldman, who has arguably the shortest role of all the major actors, since he's in one scene for about three minutes as President Harry Truman, meeting with Oppenheimer after dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. This time, the use of Oldman comes as a misdirection, as his history with Nolan recalls being the honest and good-hearted Jim Gordon in The Dark Knight trilogy, while his heavily prosthetic-laden appearance recalls his Oscar-winning role as historical antifascist hero Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour. Except in this film, Truman turns out to be neither; he's a crass and vainglorious bully who hates that Oppenheimer feels guilty for creating the bomb, calls him a "crybaby" and demands he gets out of his office. It's devastating and almost a betrayal to Oppenheimer's character, and the betrayal is magnified by our mixed history of Oldman as both upstanding figures and dastardly villains in mainstream films.
Christopher Nolan Uses Typecasting to His Advantage
Beyond Oppenheimer's cameos, some characters do have larger roles in the movie's plot but are largely defined by their function in service to the plot rather than by their personality. Those roles, then, seem to have been filled with actors who have a consistent reputation for certain characters. Take Dane DeHaan, who plays a military authority figure who works for Matt Damon's character and spends most of his screen time glowering and staring at others with condescension. This comes off as more believable coming from DeHaan since we know him primarily for a history of playing unstable or angry men in projects like Chronicle, Lawless, The Amazing Spider-Man 2. My favorite instance of this practice is David Dastmalchian, an associate of Oppenheimer's rival, Lewis Strauss (Downey, Jr.), who is always defined as being shifty, untrustworthy, and a human rat. Dastmalchian is delightful in this role not simply because he has the perfect big eyes and tight sickly demeanor, but we project his more notable roles as crazed suspicious men like Bob Taylor in Prisoners or the cop that the Joker recruited in The Dark Knight onto this walking red flag of a whistleblower.
If it isn't related to past history, sometimes it's just how an actor looks that perfectly enhances the character. The strangest example of this is Rami Malek's presence. Malek plays a scientist of relative unimportance, who is in two separate scenes where he says nothing and just looks awkward and terrified at making a wrong move. He's such a shivering puppy that you barely register him as even there. So when Strauss is made aware that a surprise witness could blow up his chance at being added to President Eisenhower's cabinet, and he openly wonders who it is, and Rami Malek shows up with his gargantuan moon eyes laser focused with secrets to spill, it's an awesome "oh THAT GUY" moment.
'Oppenheimer' Continues a Great Cameo-Casting Tradition
While this film may have gotten a lot of press for having so many big names in small roles, this isn't really all that new an occurrence for a major film to do. If you look back throughout mainstream film history, there are some great instances of already reputable actors having small roles that drastically enhanced that role's quality. Holly Hunter was already an established Oscar-nominated actress when she showed up for around six minutes in The Firm as Gary Busey's Southern belle secretary who existed mostly for exposition purposes, and her sass and sex appeal exploded off the screen and got another Oscar nomination (the same year she won for The Piano, no less).
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet got Charlton Heston to perform a monologue that's irrelevant to the plot and got Richard Attenborough for just one scene to deliver the iconic statement that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. In Network, Ned Beatty is in about one and a half scenes where he mostly screams and disciplines Peter Finch about how he was threatening their media relations with his ranting, and it was so memorable that...twist, he got an Oscar nomination. Absolutely none of these roles were at all primed for those levels of success and recognition, but they were elevated to that status by having great actors in the right parts. Similar to Oppenheimer with Christopher Nolan, you get multiple actors to show up for small roles by being a hugely trusted director like Sidney Lumet or Sydney Pollack who are gifted with directing actors.
Christopher Nolan's Clout Attracts A-List Actors
Christopher Nolan has come a long way since Memento. He's now a five-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker (he's bound to add more to that resume, come award season) and one of the few truly auteur-branded directors in the business. At a time when Quentin Tarantino may be making one more film before retiring and most big-name directors get sucked into franchises before they have a chance to form their own identity, Nolan has expertly maneuvered his way through an evolving industry, attaching himself to a franchise he actually believed in and shepherded in order to boost his platform, then delivered on big original projects enough times that he can get a blank check for whatever he wants. With this power comes one of the most potent things a filmmaker can have: clout.
Christopher Nolan's clout attracts A-list actors and actresses out of respect and allure. Plus, his films have a guaranteed audience. On top of that, Nolan is often cited as a dream director to work with, an amazing collaborator who knows how to nudge actors in the direction he needs them to go without being fully dictatorial. If you're a high-profile actor, and you're given a good role by a great director, with a good salary and not much time taken out of your life, what's the downside? Just hope that your director has some good stuff for you to do.'
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hjbirthdaywishes · 11 months
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May 30, 2023
Happy 59 Birthday to Mark Sheppard. 
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the-animator24 · 1 year
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I forgot used this “ what inspired you OC” template for just to get what my character will be like.
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nicomundthered · 1 year
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RDJ was Jim Hopper for Halloween and AHHAHAHA
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kingoftieland · 1 year
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Why didn’t Tony Stark pass Iron Man on to Rhodey? 🤷‍♂️
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reality-detective · 4 months
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Here are just a few of the visitors to Jeffrey Epstein's island who were confirmed: 👇
▪️Adam Perry Lang
▪️Akon
▪️Al Gore
▪️Alan Dershowitz
▪️Albert Pinto
▪️Alee Baldwin
▪️Allison Mack
▪️Alyssa Rogers
▪️Anderson Cooper
▪️Andrea Mitrovich
▪️Andres Pastrana
▪️Angelina Jolie
▪️Anthony Kiedis
▪️Anthony Weiner
▪️Barack Obama
▪️Ben Affleck
▪️Bernie Sanders
▪️Beyonce
▪️Bill Clinton
▪️Bill Gates
▪️Bob Saget (deceased)
▪️Bruce Willis
▪️Casey Wasserman
▪️Callum Hudson-Odoi
▪️Celine Dion
▪️Charles Barkley
▪️Charlie Sheen
▪️Charlize Theron
▪️Chelsea Handler
▪️Cher
▪️Chris Tucker
▪️Chris Wagner
▪️Chrissy Teigen
▪️Cyndi Lauper
▪️Claire Hazel
▪️Courteney Cox
▪️Courtney Love
▪️Demi Moore
▪️Dan Schneider
▪️David Koch
▪️David Spade
▪️David Yarovesky
▪️Dolores Zorreguieta
▪️Donovan Mitchell
▪️Doug Band
▪️Drew Barrymore
▪️Ed Buck
▪️Ed Tuttle
▪️Ehud Barak
▪️Ellen DeGeneres
▪️Ellen Spencer
▪️Eminem
▪️Emmy Tayler
▪️Fleur Perry Lang
▪️Francis X. Suarez
▪️Freya Wissing
▪️Gary Roxburgh (pilot)
▪️George Clooney
▪️Ghislaine Maxwell
▪️Glenn Dubin
▪️Greg Holbert (deceased)
▪️Gwen Stefani
▪️Gwendolyn Beck
▪️Hank Coller (pilot)
▪️Heather Mann
▪️Heidi Klum
▪️Henry Rosovsky
▪️Hillary Clinton
▪️James Franco
▪️James Gunn
▪️Jay-Z
▪️Jean-Luc Brunel (deceased)
▪️Jean-Michel Gathy
▪️Jeffrey Jones (deceased)
▪️Jim Carrey
▪️Jimmy Kimmel
▪️Joe Biden
▪️Joe Pagano
▪️John Cusack
▪️John Legend
▪️John Podesta
▪️John Travolta
▪️Joy Behar
▪️Juan Pablo Molyneux
▪️Juliette Bryant
▪️Justin Roiland
▪️Justin Trudeau
▪️Kathy Griffin
▪️Katy Perry
▪️Kelly Spam
▪️Kevin Spacey
▪️Kirsten Gillibrand
▪️Kristy Rogers (deceased)
▪️Lady Gaga
▪️Larry Summers
▪️Larry Visoski (pilot)
▪️Laura Z. Wasserman
▪️Lawrence M. Krauss
▪️Linda Pinto
▪️Lisa Summers
▪️Lynn Forester de Rothchild
▪️Madonna
▪️Mandy Ellison (assistant)
▪️Mare Collins-Rector
▪️Marina Abramovic
▪️Mark Epstein
▪️Mark Lloyd
▪️Melinda Luntz
▪️Meryl Streep
▪️Michelle Obama
▪️Michelle Wolf
▪️Mikel Arteta
▪️Miley Cyrus
▪️Nadine Dorries
▪️Naomi Campbell
▪️Naomi Watts
▪️Natalie Blachon de Perrier
▪️Nicole Junkermann
▪️Olga Kurylenko
▪️Oliver Sacks
▪️Oprah
▪️Orlando Bloom
▪️Paris Hilton
▪️Patton Oswatt
▪️Paul Mellon
▪️Paula Epstein (deceased)
▪️Paula Hala
▪️Peter P. Marino
▪️Pharrell Williams
▪️Prince Andrew
▪️Prince Charles
▪️Quentin Tarantino
▪️Rachel Maddow
▪️Rainn Wilson
▪️Ralph Ellison
▪️Ray Barzana (pilot)
▪️Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis
▪️Rihanna
▪️Rita Wilson
▪️Rob Reiner
▪️Robert DeNiro
▪️Robert Downey Jr.
▪️Rodney E. Slater
▪️Ronald Burkle
▪️Rudy Gobert
▪️Sander Burger
▪️Sarah Kellen (assistant)
▪️Sarah Silverman
▪️Seth Green
▪️Shelley Harrison
▪️Shelley Lewis
▪️Sophie Biddle-Hakim
▪️Sophie Trudeau
▪️Stephen Collins
▪️Stephen Colbert
▪️Steven Spielberg
▪️Steven Tyler
▪️Svetlana Glazunova
▪️Teala Davies
▪️Tiffany Gramza
▪️Tom Hanks
▪️Tom Pritzker
▪️Tyler Grasham (deceased)
▪️Victor Salva
▪️Wanda Sykes
▪️Whoopi Goldberg
Of course we knew some of these already. 🤔
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cupidlovesastro · 6 months
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𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 !!
these are just random placements, in no particular order!
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capricorn risings- Megan Fox, Kylie Jenner, Ariana Grande, Queen Elizabeth the 2nd, Christiani Ronaldo
scorpio moons- Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, the Weeknd
gemini mars- Martin Luther King, Uma Thurman, Al Pacino, Demi Lovato, Natalie Portman
aquarius juno- Elvis Presley ,John F. Kennedy, Bjork, Robert Downey jr, Zac Efron
leo pluto- Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Shannon Tate, Vladimir Putin, Freddy Mercury
virgo mercury- Keanu Reeves , Amy Winehouse , Madonna , Whitney Houston, Jennifer Lawrence
aries venus- Marilyn Monroe, Shakira, George Clooney, Rihanna, Jennifer Aniston
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pisces jupiter- Taylor Swift , Billie Eilish, Kurt Cobain, Heath Ledger, Emma Watson
libra sun- Bella Hadid, Avril Lavigne , Jimin , Snoop Dogg, Kim Kardashian
sagittarius lilith- Michelle Obama, Nicki Minaj, Britney Spears, Bill Clinton, Courtney Love
Sun in 7th house- Princess Diana, Kendall Jenner, Cardi B, Zendaya, Adriana Lima
Venus in 5th house- Barack Obama, Melanie Martinez, Khloe Kardashian, Naomi Campbell, Lionel Messi
Mars in 8th house- Lana Del Rey, Marilyn Monroe, Lindsay Lohan, Elon Musk, Bridgette Bardot
Moon in 1st house- Michael Jackson, Leonardo Dicaprio, Walt Disney, Audrey Hepburn, SZA
Mercury in 3rd house- Justin Bieber, Emma Stone, Nikola Tesla, Jim Carrey, Robert De Niro
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crishayle · 7 months
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Placements indicating acting abilities
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Here I have collected my personal notes and the placements of the natal charts of famous actors and actresses.
🎬Libra in the Big 3(Will Smith, Leonardo DiCaprio, Denzel Washington, Nicolas Cage, Zoe Kravitz, Mel Gibson, Emma Stone, Sylvester Stallone, Monica Bellucci, Jennifer Aniston)
🎬The Moon in Scorpio(Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Scarlett Johansson, Orlando Bloom, Eddie Murphy)
🎬The Moon in Aquarius(Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Woody Allen, Uma Thurman)
🎬Mercury/Venus-Pluto aspect(Tom Hanks,Morgan Freeman,Denzel Washington,Bruce Willis,Woody Allen,Zoe Kravitz,Timothy Chalamet,Sylvester Stallone, Margot Robbie,Ryan Gosling, Jennifer Lawrence,Jennifer Aniston)
🎬Moon-Neptune aspect(Will Smith, Johnny Depp,Brad Pitt,Bruce Willis,Zoe Kravitz,Timothy Chalamet,Emma Stone, Arnold Schwarzenegger,Robert Downey Jr.,Angelina Jolie)
🎬Leo in the Big 6(Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Marilyn Monroe,Meryl Streep, Arnold Schwarzenegger,Sylvester Stallone, Robert Downey Jr., Monica Bellucci)
🎬Sun-ascendant aspect(most often a square)(Will Smith, Tom Hanks, Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis, Woody Allen,Timothy Chalamet,Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Gosling)
🎬Moon-ascendant aspect(Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis,Nicolas Cage, Woody Allen,Sylvester Stallone, Robert Downey Jr., Ryan Gosling, Jennifer Aniston)
🎬Moon-Pluto aspect(Will Smith, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio, Zoe Kravitz, Timothy Chalamet, Jim Carrey, Robert Downey Jr.,Ryan Gosling, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston)
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