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idasessions · 7 months

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The Shining (1980), dir. Stanley Kubrick

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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990), dir. Brian De Palma

#probs just coincidence but it's hard to tell with bdp sometimes lol #The Shining #Stanley Kubrick #the bonfire of the vanities #brian de palma #shelley duvall #danny lloyd #jack nicholson #kim cattrall #kirsten dunst #tom hanks

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josefksays · 4 months

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#The Bonfire of the Vanities #Melanie Griffith #Maria Ruskin #quotes #funny

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directorsnarrative · 1 year

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The Bonfire of the Vanities • Director Brian De Palma

#megans watching #the bonfire of the vanities #brian de palma

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cinemajunkie70 · 2 years

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The happiest of birthdays to my hero, Brian De Palma!!

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cinemaquiles · 1 year

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FILMES DISPONÍVEIS DE GRAÇA NO YOUTUBE DE DIVERSOS GÊNEROS PARA VOCÊ CONFERIR ESSA SEMANA!

#youtube movies #free movies #free movies on youtube #the bonfire of the vanities #bruce willis #vanishing point #viggo mortensen #straw dogs #dustin hoffman #john cusack #the raven #Edgar Allan Poe #before and after #meryl streep #liam neeson #edward furlong

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power-chords · 2 years

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I knew what I had to [re-]read next. I’ve spent so much time in Los Angeles, my soul yearns for coastal equilibrium.

#tom wolfe #the bonfire of the vanities #published in 1987!

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greensparty · 1 year

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Remembering Richard Belzer 1944-2023

What a weekend following the passing of Stella Stevens, Gerald Fried, and Oliver Wood, now comes the news of the passing of comedian / actor Richard Belzer at age 78.

Belzer got his start in the 70s NYC comedy scene. He was a part of the National Lampoon Comedy Hour and appeared in the doc Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead about it. He was a part of the classic 70s sketch comedy film The Groove Tube. He was the warm-up comedian for the early years of SNL. He even occasionally appeared in a few episodes in those first 5 years.

Belzer circa 1980s

He also appeared in some episodes of Sesame Street, Ron Howard’s best movie IMHO Night Shift, Brian De Palma’s Scarface and The Bonfire of the Vanities, Spike Lee’s Girl 6 and Get on the Bus, Milos Forman’s Man on the Moon, and a few episodes of 30 Rock. There was of course his character Detective Munch who appeared on several crime shows, but I always dug his stand-up. Fun fact: he was Henry Winkler’s cousin!

The link above is the obit from CNN.

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pablolf · 1 year

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Film Journal

"The Bonfire of the Vanities" by Brian De Palma

#the bonfire of the vanities #film journal

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dwagom · 2 years

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The Bonfire of the Vanities 2: Anna Sorokin

#the bonfire of the vanities #brian de palma #tom wolfe

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isabelleneville · 2 months

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THE BORGIAS (2011 - 2013) | Season Two Group Promotional Pictures

#the borgias #theborgiasedit #perioddramaedit #david oakes #francois arnaud #holliday grainger #lotte verbeek #jeremy irons #joanne whalley #my edits #juan borgia #cesare borgia #lucrezia borgia #giulia farnese #rodrigo borgia #vanozza dei cattanei #i love the full pic of the last one #i wish they continued the bonfire of the vanities imagery in all the promos

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admiral-arelami · 3 months

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The Bonfire of the Thrawnities

When Thrawn critics go all medieval on your ass.

#thrawn #thrawn critical #thrawn police #an historical example of what happens when people police what others read or how they should interpret literature or what they should like #morality police #remind you something?#religious fanatics #fundamentalism #dare I say *fascism*??#Bonfire of the Vanities #15th-century Florence #Girolamo Savonarola #bad Dominican friars #I wouldn't call Savonarola's Florence a *fascist* city-state or anything #we have all studied more recent and more horrifying examples of fascist states or fundamentalist theocracies burning books #so when people--however well meaning--tell you how you should interpret literature #you may remind them that this kind policing can have devastating consequences when taken to the extreme #and is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes #and religious extremists #sorry not sorry for my horrendous photoshopping skills

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josefksays · 2 years

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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)

#The Bonfire of the Vanities #the art of cinematography #Vilmos Zsigmond #comparison #night and day #city #New York #places #my edits

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hartnellwho · 1 year

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There are a couple of posts recently about companions who are only in one story and whether they count.

https://penny-anna.tumblr.com/post/709511371006541824/ and https://penny-anna.tumblr.com/post/709513022569431040/

It’s hard to judge who counts and who doesn’t and everyone is gonna have their own opinions about each.

But the one I instantly think about who only got a single story but would’ve obviously had more off screen is Allie Kay. Who is, sadly, pretty obscure. I even realised I hadn’t mentioned him on this blog yet which is remiss of me.

Under the cut will be spoilers and discussion of Big Finish’s Companion Chronicles range. Specifically First Doctor’s second and third boxset, both of which I strongly recommend.

Big Finish in their Companion Chronicles boxsets set up a canonical explanation for Polly and Ben having more adventures with the First Doctor in between The Smugglers and The Tenth Planet.

There’d been books and comics with that team before but the ending of The Smugglers, their first trip in the TARDIS was very strongly implied to lead directly into The Tenth Planet.

Big Finish decided in the trailer for the second volume to have off screen Dalek interference during the Time War cause the team to land somewhere else instead of “the coldest place in the world!” in the audio The Bonfires of the Vanities, setting up a new era for the team. The very next story in that boxset; The Plague of Dreams, ended with the situation resolved and the Doctor and company sent on to Antarctica as they had meant to be. But the implication and intention was obviously for more stories to be set in between.

This was followed up in the very next set in a single story: The Crumbling Magician. In it the team were trapped in a nightmarish hospital and one of their fellow prisoners/patients was an eight year old boy who had been aged by a temporal accident into an elderly body. At the end of the story the TARDIS team took him with them to look after him.

This was obviously intended to lead to more stories and I was hugely looking forward to them at the time.

Problem was first the actor playing the recast version of Ben quit. Then the Companion Chronicles range got cancelled. Then the actor who played Allie sadly died. Now it seems we’ll never hear any more about the character and his travels.

I suppose they could do it in that new Audio Novels range and just have it read by Anneke or Stephen Noonan, but I doubt they’d devote a whole novel to following up a loose thread from nearly five years ago.

#Allie Kay #Big Finish #First Doctor #Classic Who #Ben Jackson #Polly Wright #The Bonfires of the Vanities #The Crumbling Magician #The Plague of Dreams #Doctor Who

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stjohncapistrano67 · 1 year

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A modern Traditional Catholic religious art image of Friar Girolamo Savonarola. Artist unknown. Dominican Friar in 1490's Florence Italy.

#traditional catholicism #traditional catholic images #renaissance catholism #traditional catholic history #friar girolamo savonarola #dominican friars #the dominican order #bonfire of the vanities

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fideidefenswhore · 2 years

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the subtlety...unmatched.

#i actually watched another (trash) show that premiered on the same date #lifetime if you must know.#& it also featured a very weird bonfire of the vanities #altho in the case of the trash show one of the characters was actually like you could've given that furniture to people that needed it ..#but ok then #anyway this being a promo image...lel

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navree · 2 years

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protestants try to defend the bonfire of the vanities challenge

#personal #'oh but savonarola wasn't-' this man was the literal prototype for protestantism #he was just more self righteous martin luther if that's even possible #and god the bonfire of the vanities makes me upset #savonarola was such a fucking menace i hate him

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