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April 14th, 1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg at 11:40 p.m. while crossing the North Atlantic Ocean.
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I too would kill for Gina Gershon. This gave me such I Know What You Did Last Summer vibes. When hot old Patrick Dempsey said "dinnah" I laughed. A lot of the heavy accents made me laugh, really. I was surprised there was no casual use of the R-word, that really would've sent it over the top Masshole-wise. Some of the editing felt sloppy at first, but for the most part it was well paced and kept me in the story. The sound editing really shined for me in places, like when a scream turned into car tires screeching. Also I must must say that I thought Nell Verlaque was excellent. Bring her into the Scream franchise please. Speaking of which, was the cat, Dewey, a shout-out? I feel like this is how you balance anti-consumerist messaging into a slasher, and can we just point out how the men in this movie exhibit a lot of healthy conversation skills? These were good characters! For what it is, I really enjoyed it, even though I did convince myself that Milo Manheim was a son of Ray Romano. Makes me wish Barbarian (2022) was written by Jeff Rendell.
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Top 5 books? 👀📚
Oh, this is not an easy one at all. Oh no. Oh no. Thank you but oh no.
Okay, the first one is my favorite book of all time but otherwise these are not in any particular order! And I'm sure I'm not mentioning a ton of really important ones. Also these are like. Emotional favorites and not necessarily the best books I have ever read.
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson.
2. Piranesi, Susanne Clarke.
3. The Hobbit, Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien.
4. Kraken, China Mieville.
5. Wolf's Complete Book of Terror, edited by Leonard Wolf. (This is an obscure horror anthology that permanently altered my brain chemistry when I was ten)
6. HONORABLE MENTION AUTHORS: JG Ballard Denis Cooper Bjørn Rasmussen Ruth Rendell Anne Rice Stephen Graham Jones John Langan Madeleine L'Engle Margo Lanagan Carmen Maria Machado Nathan Ballingrud Peter Straub.
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Valentine Merlet, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen, and Jean-Pierre Cassel in La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995)
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jacqueline Bisset, Virginie Ledoyen, Valentine Merlet, Julien Rochefort, Dominique Frot, Jean-François Perrier. Screenplay: Claude Chabrol, Caroline Eliacheff, based on a novel by Ruth Rendell. Cinematography: Bernard Zitzerman. Production design: Daniel Mercier. Film editing: Monique Fardoulis. Music: Matthieu Chabrol.
Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie begins with a long tracking shot through the window of a café, picking up Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) as she walks toward her appointment with Catherine Lelièvre (Jacqueline Bisset). Catherine is as chic as Sophie, boyishly dressed with her hair cut in too-short bangs, is drab. The Lelièvres need a housekeeper, Catherine tells her, and Sophie presents the letter of reference from her most recent employer. The interview is slightly awkward, partly because Sophie is oddly oblique in her answers. But Catherine has a large house in a remote location and she needs a housekeeper right away. When Catherine drives Sophie to the house, a young woman named Jeanne appears and hitches a ride to the village near the Lelièvres house; Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), who is as brashly forward as Sophie is reserved, works in the village post office. At the house, Sophie meets Catherine's husband, Georges (Jean-Pierre Cassel), a rather blustery businessman; her son from a previous marriage, the teenage Gilles (Valentine Merlet); and her stepdaughter, a university student named Melinda (Virginie Ledoyen). Sophie proves to be an excellent cook and a reliable maid-of-all-work, but we soon discover that she has a secret or two. One is that she's illiterate, the result of a profound dyslexia. She doesn't drive, being unable to pass a driving test, and pretends that she needs glasses. When Georges insists on taking her to an optometrist, she ducks out of the appointment and buys a cheap pair of drugstore glasses -- though even then she is unable to give the sales clerk the exact change. Waiting for Georges, she meets Jeanne again, and the two women strike up a friendship. Jeanne, it turns out, knows another secret of Sophie's, which is that she was accused of setting fire to her house, killing her disabled father. Jeanne herself was accused of abusing her daughter, born out of wedlock, and causing her death, but both women were acquitted for lack of evidence. And so the stage is set for a story of folie à deux that Chabrol and Caroline Eliacheff adapted from a novel, A Judgment in Stone, by Ruth Rendell. Bonnaire and Huppert are extraordinary in their contrasting styles: Bonnaire passive, almost autistic in manner, Huppert bold and outgoing. The climax, in which a frenzied Jeanne releases Sophie's pent-up hostility, is shattering.
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THANKSGIVING - Review
DISTRIBUTOR: TriStar Pictures
SYNOPSIS: After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the holiday. The killer dons a pilgrim outfit and a John Carver mask as he begins picking off residents one by one. What begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan. Will the police or a local high school group of friends uncover the identity of the killer or become guests at his twisted holiday dinner table?
REVIEW: What started as one of the fake trailers created for Quintin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse Double Feature in 2007 comes to realization this 2023 holiday season. From the genre aficionado Eli Roth, THANKSGIVING embraces the vast history of slasher films to deliver a near perfect take on a killer infused holiday tradition.
The narrative never takes itself too seriously as it pulls out all the stops when it comes to slasher films. There are some corny, but not cliched, one liners that are served up as the relationship between the high school friends and the adults feels like a “Scream” film. The film is all about the ride, so you never fully empathize with the characters but there is enough there to hook the viewer. Roth and Rendell weave a fair number of misdirections and red-herrings to keep the viewer guessing, and their reveal features a montage to help the viewer connect their dots. I will say that I thought that there might have been two killers and looking back on the timing after the reveal seems a bit problematic. However, that is probably more a result of the editing than the narrative. The plot is filled with references to many classic slasher films and is sure to have fans comparing notes afterwards.
I enjoyed the film’s production values. Roth is a master of the genre and knows how to craft an energetic film and craft killer effect sequences. He excels at misdirection and plays on the viewer’s expectations like a skilled poker player. Given Roth’s past films, the deaths feel more like gags. There are WTF moments and somewhat gory scenes, but the filmmaker seems to have toned down the blood without compromising on the gore. In contrast to the film’s opening sequence at the “Right Mart,” the parade scene looks a little thin and not as tightly shot, but it is a small town and what floats there are in the sequence look great. I enjoyed Brandon Roberts’s score. There are movements that sound like homages to other films, but plenty of original material to set a unique tone for the film. The production designs are costumes that create cinematic magic to fully immerse the viewer for the entire ride.
I like the cast. Clearly everyone is in for the ride as well and balances the dark comedy and horror with exceptional results. Veteran actors Dempsey, Gershon and Hoffman are excellent and their younger cast members are splendid. It’s a great ensemble cast.
If you’re a fan of slasher films, THANKSGIVING is sure to leave you satisfied. There are some gags that should transcend your expectations, and several surprises along the way. Some are simple, others complex and gorey, and there will be blood but, again, not as much as you might expect from a Eli Roth genre film. Many of the deaths are served up with satire, but I wouldn’t expect less from a killer dressed up like a pilgrim.
THANKSGIVING is well with the wait of these past 16 years since the grindhouse trailer. Roth embraces the current state of the genre as the film focuses on the story and satire without any of the teen sex scenes in some of the classic slasher films. Teen relationships figure in, as does an excellent rave scene. It’s a wickedly delightful film that is sure to be a crowd pleaser and seems destined for a sequel that could only be “Black Friday,” with maybe a third film, “Cyber Monday.” Eli, let's talk!
CAST: Patrick Dempsey, Addison Rae, Milo Manheim, Jalen Thomas Brooks, Nell Verlaque, Rick Hoffman and Gina Gershon.
CREW: Director/Screenplay/Producer - Eli Roth; Screenplay/Producer - Jeff Rendell; Producer - Roger Birnbaum; Cinematographer - Milan Chadima; Score - Brandon Roberts; Editors - Michel Aller & Michele Conroy; Production Designer - Peter Mihaichuk; Costume Designer - Leslie Kavanagh; Special Makeup Effects Artists - Joe Badiali, Jason Detheridge & Adrian Stansfield; Prosthetics Designers - Adrien Morot & Steve Newburn; Special Effects Supervisor - Andrew Verhoeven; Visual Effects Supervisor - Berj Bannayan;
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TRAILER: https://youtu.be/KbU50SdL8zA?si=-vMIK75E0pFP4at-
RELEASE DATE: In Theaters Nov 17th, 2023
**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike)
Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri
#film review#movie review#thanksgiving#ThanksgivingMovie#thejohncarver#TriStar Pictures#eli roth#Jeff Rendell#patrick dempsey#addison rae#rick hoffman#gina gershon#horror#slasher#holiday#joseph b mauceri#joseph mauceri
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Book 193
Ladies of the Gothics: Tales of Romance and Terror by the Gentle Sex
Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis, eds.
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. 1975
There are several of these anthologies edited by Seon Manley and her sister, Gogo Lewis, with covers by Gorey, but this is the only one I have. One of these days, I’ll probably run into some of the others. This one features Celia Fremlin, Ruth Rendell, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Emily Brontë, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Isak Dinesen.
#bookshelf#illustrated book#library#collection#personal library#personal collection#books#book lover#bibliophile#booklr#ladies of the gothics#Seon Manley#Gogo Lewis#edward gorey#lothrop lee & shepard#literature#fiction
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First Pint with Bridget O'Malley #605
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Editor's Note: The paper summarized here is part of the spring 2023 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the leading conference series and journal in economics for timely, cutting-edge research about real-world policy issues. Research findings are presented in a clear and accessible style to maximize their impact on economic understanding and policymaking. The editors are Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow and Northwestern University Professor of Economics Janice Eberly and Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow and Harvard University Professor of Economics James Stock.
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Long COVID, fear of catching COVID, and Americans’ shifting priorities for the balance between work and personal activities may explain more than half of the drop in U.S. labor force participation over the past three years, suggests a paper discussed at the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) conference on March 30, 2023.
According to the paper—Where Are the Missing Workers?—labor force participation (the percentage of people working or looking for work) plummeted by more than 3 percentage points during the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic from 63.3% in January 2020, representing a decline of more than 8.2 million people. About half of the drop was quickly regained and participation recovered further in the second half of 2021.
But, since then, “participation again appears to have stagnated … at a percentage point below its February 2020 level,” write the authors—Katharine G. Abraham and Lea Rendell of the University of Maryland.
About 40% (nearly 1 million workers) of the persistent decline can be attributed to the continuation of pre-pandemic demographic trends, according to the authors. As the Baby Boomers reach retirement age, they are leaving the labor force. However, the population is becoming more educated, and at every age, more educated people are more likely to be working.
The authors discuss four possible explanations for the remaining 60% of the decline (about 1.4 million workers): cash payments to households in 2020 and 2021 that made it easier for some people to postpone looking for a new job; fear of catching COVID; long-COVID symptoms that make it difficult to work; and changing work-life balance preferences.
The cash payments—generous unemployment benefits, economic impact payments, and an expanded child tax credit—cannot account for much of the participation decline, the authors conclude. All of these payments had ended by the start of 2022, and although they contributed to somewhat healthier household balance sheets, they did not add sufficiently to household wealth to have any significant lasting effect on the share of people choosing to work.
Fear of catching COVID partially explains the participation decline, but surveys suggest fear of COVID has fallen significantly. Moreover, average weekly hours of still-employed people have not fully recovered to pre-pandemic levels. (The three-month moving average, according to a Labor Department survey, was 36.9 hours in November 2022, down from 37.5 hours in January 2020.)
“People working fewer hours can’t be explained by fear of COVID. You just wouldn’t be going to work at all if it was fear of COVID,” Abraham said in an interview with The Brookings Institution.
Long COVID (symptoms such as extreme fatigue, shortness of breath, muscle weakness, and brain fog that persist for months after the initial infection) could explain about half of the 1.4 million worker shortfall in participation at the end of 2022 and about 10% of the hours decline, the authors say.
“A reevaluation of the balance between work and other activities also may be part of the explanation,” the authors write.
That last possible explanation is supported by demographic differences in participation, they suggest. Participation has fallen substantially more among older adults, many of whom are homeowners who benefited from rising house prices. It has also fallen more for white non-Hispanics, who, on average, have higher incomes than other workers.
“If you have the financial resources, you have more freedom to re-evaluate your priorities,” Abraham said. “If you have less money, then you have less freedom.”
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April 15th, 1912 - RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. In total, 1,496 people are believed to have perished in the sinking while 712 survived, rescued by the RMS Carpathia of the Cunard Line.
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Colin Firth in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries | Episode 1
#Colin Firth#The Ruth Rendell Mysteries#He is literally so adorable in this wtffffff#and hE GETS WET AGAIN#is it in his contract or something that every piece of work he's in he has to get wet????#def not complaining tho#ALSO#if I had a nickel for every time Colin played a married character who was unable to fuck his wife for some reason#I would have two nickels#which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice#my stuff#my gifs#my edit#btw I had a lot of fun making that 4th gif#very nice to watch on a loop forever#okay I'm gonna shut up now
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Ronald Colman and Constance Talmadge in Her Night of Romance (Sidney Franklin, 1924)
Cast: Constance Talmadge, Ronald Colman, Jean Hersholt, Albert Gran, Robert Rendel, Sidney Bracey, Joseph J. Dowling, Templar Saxe. Screenplay: Hanns Kräly. Cinematography: Ray Binger, Victor Milner. Art direction: William Cameron Menzies. Film editing: Hal C. Kern.
They had faces then, as the saying goes. And they needed them because they didn't have voices. Constance Talmadge was not beautiful -- her heart-shaped face was too long, and the profile shots in Her Night of Romance reveal the beginnings of a double chin. It's suggestive that when we first see her in the movie, she is pretending to be ugly -- and succeeding in a hilarious way: When ordered by newspaper photographers to smile and show her teeth, she comes up with a grimace that looks like she's just bitten into a lemon. But she had huge eyes and knew how to act with them, showing what she was thinking -- and often what she was saying. The ugly duckling masquerade is prescribed by the plot, in which she is an American heiress arriving in England and trying to duck fortune-hunters. Naturally the first person who sees through her disguise is an impoverished lord (Ronald Colman), who has just put his mansion up for sale, so the plot (by Hanns Kräly) becomes a series of complications after her father (Albert Gran) buys the mansion. The rest is a series of mistaken identities and misunderstood motives common to romantic comedy. Colman was nearing the peak of the first phase of his career as a movie star, relying on his suave handsomeness and good comic timing. It was a career that lasted 40 years because, unlike many silent stars, he had a speaking voice that was as handsome as his face. Talmadge and her sister Norma, who was also a major silent star, were not so lucky: Neither had received vocal training that would have helped them lose their Brooklyn accents, so they left movies when sound arrived.
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