I wanna take the time and introduce you guys to one of my OCs!
Julia Randall was born on April 29, 1924 in her home during a storm in Dodge City, Kansas. She was the 3rd child of Arthur Randall and Constance (neé Bennett). She was the younger sister of Edward and Wallace and the older sister of Margaret. Julia grew up in Dodge City on a farm with her family while her father was a part of the military and fought in war. The farm they grew up in had crop fields and raised cows, horses, chickens, pigs and a rooster. Her mother was a teacher at a nearby school for all white primary school aged students and they had people take care of the farm while the family worked and did school. Julia would always help around the house by cleaning, taking care of the farm animals, help her mother cook and bake, gardening and other chores.
During The Great Depression, the farm went through a crisis with a lack of crops. They also struggled during the dust bowl storms and other issues. Julia started taking interest in music and singing at a young age between 6 and 7 years old and her mother took her to lessons like playing the piano for instance. She did very well in her school years and was an intelligent student. She took her studies seriously. At some point during her educational years, she took interest in drama and choreography and also took lessons.
At the age of 17 in the year 1941, her father passed away during WWII from being severely injured and wounded. After graduation, Randall went to California to study drama and did a modeling job.
A Hollywood director named Frank Haynes saw her modeling work and took interest in her and asked if she would be a part of a movie which would be her first film. Julia agreed and starred in her first film: “The Lady in the Lingerie”, a 1946 film. During the making of the film, she was forced to sleep with Haynes because he thought she was super attractive and was madly in love and obsessed with her. He also made her wear a push-up bra to expose her cleavage more to make her even more seductive. He gave her nicknames on the set such as “Babydoll”, “Tootsie” and “Sweet Thing”. Julia later revealed the truth in an interview and said she was “traumatized and manipulated” by him. She never liked him. Frank was 28 years older than her.
She did several other films including her most famous “Hephaestus” (1953) and “Miss Montgomery” (1957). Julia also had albums for her songs. Her most top hit was “Red Lips, Curvy Hips” which released in 1956. She also started appearing in television shows during the 1960s-90s. Julia also got married to an actor named Harold Donahue in 1948 and had 4 children named Cheryl (1951), Linda (1953), Carl (1956) and Deborah (1959) who were all born during the 50s.
When Julia decided to quit acting at some point during the early 90s, she took a job for teaching drama and choreography classes and taught for only 9 years. During that time, she would get calls for coming to late night shows and daytime shows for interviews and did that until the early 2000s. In 2004 (4 years before her death), she wrote a book about her life “My Life as Julia Randall and an American Actress” and sold over a million copies. She was 80 years old then.
Julia ended up developing breast cancer in 2007 and became very ill in late 2008. On the morning of December 13, 2008 in San Diego, California, Julia passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her loving family at the age of 84. Her funeral was held in January of 2009 and was buried in a cemetery in the same city she passed away in. Julia was known to be one of the greatest American actresses, singers and dancers during the 20th century and was also known to be a “sex symbol” and was known as “Tall, Wise and Seductive”. She worked with several other famous celebrities during her career.
That’s all I’m gonna put for now. I’ll do facts about her another time and will be posting more of her. Hope you guys like her! 🩷🥰 Julia belongs to me!
Model/Talent Precious Lee, Creative Director Luciano Schmitz, Photographer Zee Nunes, Fashion Director Lucas Boccalão, Fashion Editor/Stylist Juliana Gimenez, Beauty/Makeup Artist Rai, Nail Designer Dawn Sterling, Photo Assistant Fernando Freire & Christopher Randall, Fashion production- Maju, Stylist assistant Julia Brando & Glauro Simões, Beauty assistant Eunice, Executive Production Izabela Ribeiro & Daniela Paula S., Executive Production Assistant Amanda Bomfim, Retouch Studio Bruno Rezende.
Larry Crowne is one of those great rom-cons where the romance is almost entirely incidental. Mostly it’s a story about change and economics.
Written by Tom Hanks and Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) The ensemble cast is full of multi-dimensional characters of balanced gender/race/ethnicity and works well for a modern six degrees of separation.
🌈 Good afternoon, my bookish bats! Struggling to keep up with all the amazing queer books coming out this month? Here are a FEW of the stunning, diverse queer books you can add to your TBR before the year is over. Remember to #readqueerallyear! Happy reading!
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❤️ Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions - Penny Guisinger
🧡 Tempting Olivia - Clare Ashton
💛 Monilinia - Free Mints
💚 Guillaume - Aurora Dimitre
💙 The Marble Queen - Anna Kopp & Gabrielle Kari
💜 The Baker & the Bard - Fern Haught
❤️ Rainbow! - Sunny & Gloom
🧡 The Safe Zone - Amy Marsden
💛 The Weavers of Alamaxa - Hadeer Elsbai
💙 The No-Girlfriend Rule - Christen Randall
💜 A Different Kind of Brave by Lee Wind
🌈 Cirque du Slay - Rob Osler
❤️ Wizard’s Debt - Niranjan
🧡 One Last Breath - Ginny Myers Sain
💛 Nothing Special - Katie Cook
💚 I Feel Awful, Thanks - Lara Pickle
💙 The Tower - Flora Carr
💜 Be the Sea - Clara Ward
❤️ What Grows in the Dark - Jaq Evans
🧡 Heirs of Bone and Sea - Kay Adams
💛 The Haunting of Velkwood - Gwendolyn Kiste
💙 Thunder Song - Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
💜 Mona of the Manor - Armistead Maupin
🌈 Like Happiness - Ursula Villarreal-Moura
❤️ Ellipses - Vanessa Lawrence
🧡 Saint, Sorrow, Sinner - Freydís Moon
💛 Blood & Brujas - Mikayla D. Hornedo
💚 Infinity Kings - Adam Silvera
💙 Really Cute People - Markus Harwood-Jones
💜 How You Were Born - Kate Cayley
❤️ These Bodies Between Us - Sarah Van Name
🧡 Icarus - K. Ancrum
💛 The Emperor and the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang
💙 How Not to Date an Angel - Lana Kole
💜 Enemy Colours - R.M. Olson
🌈 Broken Parts Included - Alyson Root
❤️ Who's Afraid of Gender? - Judith Butler
🧡 The Duke’s Cowboy - Andrew Grey
💛 The Secret Something - Emily Wright
💚 Colstead & Andie - Olivia Janae
💙 Play It Again, Ma’am - Sienna Waters
💜 Love Is…? - K.J. Wrights
❤️ Welcome to Forever - Nathan Tavares
🧡 Just Another Epic Love Poem - Parisa Akhbari
💛 The Phoenix Bride - Natasha Siegel
💙 These Letters End in Tears - Musih Tedji Xaviere
💜 Truly Home - J.J. Hale
🌈 Monster Mixer - Robin Jo Margaret
❤️ The House of Hidden Meanings - RuPaul
🧡 Promised to the Queen - Barbara Winkes
💛 A Conclave of Crimson - Nicole Eigener & Beverley Lee
💚 A Hunt of Blood and Iron - Cara Nox
💙 The Fealty of Monsters - Ladz
💜 Ariel Crashes a Train - Olivia A. Cole
❤️ Those Beyond the Wall - Micaiah Johnson
🧡 Dancing Toward Stardust - Julia Underwood
💛 Heir to Dreams & Darkness - Ben Alderson
💙 Comet Cruise - Niska Morrow
💜 Dead Girls Walking - Sami Ellis
🌈 Blackout - Carlos E. Rivera
❤️ Monster Crush - Erin Ellie Franey
🧡 Blessed Water - Margot Douaihy
💛 These Fragile Graces, This Fugitive Heart - Izzy Wasserstein
💚 Kiss of Seduction - Rawnie Sabor
💙 Sunbringer - Hannah Kaner
💜 Evacuation to Love - C.A. Popovich
❤️ Sin - Brooke Matthews
🧡 Falls from Grace - Ruby Landers
💛 Lean in to Love - Catherine Lane
💙 A Small Apocalypse - Laura Chow Reeve
💜 Cascade Failure - L.M. Sagas
🌈 The Mars House - Natasha Pulley
❤️ All This Time - Sage Donnell
🧡 The Romance Lovers Book Club - MA Binfield
💛 View from the Top - Morgan Adams
💚 Number Call - Nagisa Furuya
💙 Crossing Bridges - Chelsey Lynford
💜 The Boyfriend Subscription - Steven Salvatore
❤️ Love the World or Get Killed Trying - Alvina Chamberland
🧡 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton
💛 The Prince & His Stolen Groom - J.E. Ridge
💙 Chrysalis and Requiem - Quinton Li
💜 Where Sleeping Girls Lie - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
🌈 A Botanical Daughter - Noah Medlock
❤️ Wednesday Nights - by Donna Jay
🧡 The Woods All Black - Lee Mandelo
💛 Song of the Huntress - Lucy Holland
💚 Rainbow Black - Maggie Thrash
💙 Spirits & Sunflowers - A.D. Armistead & Austin Daniel
💜 Floating Hotel - Grace Curtis
❤️ Far From Camelot - Rylee Hale
🧡 This Way to Change - Jezz Chung
💛 Mexican Bird - Luis Lopez-Maldonado
💙 Android Affection: Unveiling - Beau Van Dalen
💜 Welcome to the Damned - Astraea Long
🌈 She Came for Blood - Darva Green
❤️ Cover Story - Rachel Lacey
🧡 The Poisons We Drink - Bethany Baptiste
💛 The Perfect Guy Doesn't Exist - Sophie Gonzales
💚 In Walked Trouble - Dana Hawkins
💙 Never Leave, Never Lie - Thea Verdone
💜 Guardian: Zhen Hun - Priest
❤️ All the World Beside - Garrard Conley
🧡 Rainbows, Unicorns, and Triangles - Jessica Kingsley Publishers
💛 The Feast Makers - H.A. Clarke
💙 Synthetic Sea - Franklyn S. Newton
💜 All the Painted Stars - Emma Denny
🌈 A Hard Sell - Jennifer Moffatt
It's time for a particularly anticipated moment: the Sam Heughan panel
How did he feel when he learned that he was going to film the Battle of Culloden which is at the heart of Scottish history? He indicates that it is a real turning point in the history of Scotland with the departure many Scots to new territories. It was quite an emotional moment to film this battle.
Sam Heughan indicates that filming for season 8 started 3 weeks ago. He says that during the reading of an episode of season 8, in a castle, with the rest of the cast, someone was playing the credits on bagpipes. It was at that moment that he realized that the adventure was almost over and he burst into tears.
A prequel in the works for Outlander
If Outlander ends soon, the American channel Starz does not wish to abandon this universe and has ordered a prequel centered on the parents of Jamie and Claire. Sam Heughan took advantage of his panel to say that he would be the first fan of this series called Outlander: Blood of My Blood.
Developed by Matthew B. Roberts, the show will explore the lives of Jamie's parents in the Scottish Highlands of the early 18th century and that of Claire's parents in World War I England.
Around ten actors are already attached to this project including Jamie Roy, Harriet Slater, Hermione Corfield and Jeremy Irvine who will respectively play Brian Fraser, Ellen MacKenzie, Julia Moriston and Henry Beauchamp.
Sam Heughan returns to the battle scenes and the importance of the weapons which played a large role in the victory of the Americans against the English during the revolution. He wonders why Brianna and Roger didn't bring guns to help Jamie win instead of books and matches.
Richard Rankin is his turn on stage
Richard Rankin would love to have the opportunity to film with Emma Stone. He really likes her performance in Poor Creatures.
Richard says that Sam, Sophie, Caitriona and himself spent a lot of time, off-camera, with the twins who played Jeremiah, in a nursery on set. The goal was to succeed in creating a bond of trust with them and for them to feel safe when playing.
What is his favorite quote about Roger? He indicates that it is during season 2 when Roger is looking for Geillis and he says “Smells like a fuckin’ barbecue”.
Like last year, Richard Rankin talks about the Rebus series in which he will star during his panel. He says the casting is incredible.
If he hadn't played Roger, Richard Rankin would have liked to play Black Jack Randall or Stephen Bonnet.
Joey Phillips begins his panel at Land Con 6
Joey would have liked Denzell to have a scene with Tom Christie. He indicates that in season 6, Tom Christie is not really a character that we can appreciate but he adds that in season 7, what he did for Claire broke his heart. He adds that he really likes Caitriona Balfe and Mark Lewis Jones and therefore, quite selfishly, he would like his character to have a scene with them.
What is the most difficult scene for Joey to film in Outlander? Unfortunately, he can't tell which one it is, because it's an upcoming scene. He says it's a scene where a lot is going to happen for Denzell and he adds that we'll quickly see what scene it is when it airs.