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Twins Alice and Ellen Kessler / Bluebell Girls dancers at Le Lido cabaret on the Champs-Élysées, Paris / photo for Life magazine by Loomis Dean, 1958.
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With twins returning to Eurovision this year via Azerbaijan, we need some twin participant facts: how many, the first (Germany 1959, both still alive), the sad story of Sophie and Magaly, the fact that Netherlands 2021 had twins, etc.
Eurovision Fact #337:
Germany's 1959 representatives, Alice and Ellen Kessler, were the first twins to ever perform in the Eurovision Song Contest. The duo is most famous for their dancing abilities, and have appeared in many films in the 50s and 60s. Their song 'Heut' Woll'n Wir Tanzen Geh'n' placed 8th overall.
The Kesslers started their careers in 1942 and are still active actors today.
The twins' were very popular in the United States in the late 50s and 60s, but remain heavily popular in their native Germany and Italy.
In fact, when they agreed to be on the cover of the Italian edition of Playboy at the age of 40, that edition of the magazine sold more copies than any other edition in history, and the record still stands.
[Sources]
Participants of Cannes 1959: Alice and Ellen Kessler, Eurovision.tv.
Kessler Twins, Wikipedia.org.
Alice Kessler, IMDb.com.
Ellen Kessler, IMDb.com.
'Perché le gambe delle gemelle Kessler erano il sogno di tutte? La vera storia delle dive della tv italiana,' elle.com.
#Thanks so much for the request!#There's a lot of great info in your ask so I hope you don't mind me breaking it down into a few facts!#esc#eurovision facts oc#esc facts oc#eurovision song contest#eurovision#esc 1959#kessler twins#alice kessler#ellen kessler
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Die Tote von Beverly Hills (1964), dir. Michael Pfleghar
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my favorite fun fact about An American Werewolf in London is that, even though the main character spends most of the film naked, they went to great lengths to avoid actually showing any full-frontal nudity because David Kessler is Jewish, but the actor playing him was not, and the director feared that the sight of his uncircumcised penis might detract from the realism of his werewolf movie.
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🇱🇺 Papa Pingouin - Sophie & Magaly
#Papa Pingouin#Sophie & Magaly#esc luxembourg#luxembourg esc#eurovision luxembourg#luxembourg eurovision#esc 1980#eurovision 1980#esc#eurovision#The second twins at eurovision after alice and ellen kessler (germany 1959) i think#neither of them is among us anymore... :(#at least we have this classic song to remember them#also can we talk about the costumes this year? we've JUST entered the 80s and everyone is going crazy on those 80s colours
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Industrial Wage Earners and the Domestic Ideology
- Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work: A History of Wage-Earning Women in the United States
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Lillian Hellman: Change
“People change and forget to tell each other.”
—Lillian Hellman, playwright (1905-1984).
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Batch Ratings for 2019: Paranormal/Creepy Edition
This is a list of dark books that I read in 2019 that I didn’t really write full reviews for but I still wanted to share my ratings for them! My full reading list can be found on my [Goodreads] so you can look further into them!
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3.7/5 stars
“Wow. Predictable but intriguing nonetheless.”
2/5 stars
“This was so good, predictable at almost every turn but…
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#ania ahlborn#claire legrand#court of shadows#haunt me#house of furies#kate alice marshall#kelley armstrong#kiersten white#kill creek#liz kessler#madeleine roux#rules for vanishing#sawkill girls#tara goedjen#the breathless#the dark descent of elizabeth frankestein#the unquiet past#within these walls
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Grimm Ultimate Fighter Poll: Round 1 Results
Results are in! The final results of each poll are listed below.
Poll 1: Sean Renard won with 92.6% of 54 votes total. He blew the competition away!
Poll 2: Nick Burkhardt won with 44.3% of 61 votes total. Some of you questioned how likely he was to win in a fight with Kelly in the notes, rightfully so!
Poll 3: Diana Schade Renard won with 60% of 50 votes. And that's fair! I certainly wouldn't fight her.
Poll 4: Juliette Silverton a.k.a. Eve won with 71.2% of 52 votes. As she should!
Poll 5: Monroe won with 43.1% of 58 votes. But a lot of you were betting he would lose a fight to his wife (and I kinda agree tbh).
Poll 6: Martin Miesner won with 46.2% of 52 votes. We miss you king!
Poll 7: Catherine Schade won with 42.1% of 38 votes. Good thing she wasn't up against Kelly!
Poll 8: Alexander, our favorite ambassador from the Wesen Council, won with 51.5% of 33 votes. Which is fair, considering the competition!
Poll 9: Monroe's mom Alice won with 38.1% of 42 votes. Makes sense to me!
Source: Grimm Wiki
Poll 10: Walter Kessler (Marie and Kelly's dad, Nick's grandfather) won with 39.5% of 38 votes. Good on him!
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And that's a wrap for round 1! News on round 2 is coming later tonight.
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Dancing in the Moonlight (1/?)
Comp Mints: The In-betweens
Note: this was meant to be a one-shot and it grew and grew and... it's now a multi-part epic. Sigh. But as usual, loving writing it! Oh, and if you're wondering where Skinner is... he'll be along shortly.
Teaser: In classic X-Files fashion, Mulder presents Scully with a puzzling case: a series of brutal animal attacks in the luxurious resort town of Aspen. The local authorities blame mountain lions, but the details don't fit. Mulder suspects something more... supernatural. Scully, ever the skeptic, remains unconvinced, even as Mulder pulls out historical accounts of werewolves and mythical beasts. With a free trip to a luxurious spa on the line (courtesy of Mulder's questionable expense tactics), Scully reluctantly agrees to accompany him. Will they uncover a real werewolf lurking among the rich and famous, or is there another explanation for the Aspen attacks?
Dancing in the Moonlight (1/?)
By PR Chung
The report. The Deaths.
It was the usual passionate Mulder build up, replete with a projected slide show.
“These come to from the Pitkin County Colorado’s Sheriff's Department,” Mulder explained as he showed the first slide in his presentation for Scully. “Aspen to be exact. The rocky top playground of the rich and famous.”
The image of a young man appeared on the screen, his throat torn open from ear to ear, blood pooled around his neck and head on the ground were his body lay. He was naked from the waist up, superficial scratches on his chest and face.
“Shannon Mitchell,” Mulder continued, “the first of three victims, all exhibiting the same attack marks.”
“Attacks?” Scully questioned.
Mulder nodded. “Ruled as mountain lion attacks by the Sheriff’s department, based on the medical examiner’s reports.” He handed her the report folder to review and clicked for the next slide that showed a woman, her throat torn out. “Alice Steinman.” And then the next slide, another young man. “And the most recent, Jeffrey Raven.”
“Three deaths in the past six weeks, all attributed to a mountain lion. Game wardens tracked and killed two lions in the area, both times pronouncing that they had killed the killer cat. That was until Jeffrey Raven turned up dead in the woods two days ago, a victim of another attack.”
“The first two reports state the cause of death as accidental animal attack, but don’t specify an animal.” Scully noted, sounding confused. “Where are the DNA results?”
“Local law enforcement didn’t request DNA because this was a cut and dry mountain lion attack, and the ME dropped the mention of a mountain lion when game wardens and a tracker— an internationally renowned tracker, who is one of the only people to inspect a documented mountain lion attack— both refuting that these deaths are the result of a mountain lion attack.”
Scully stood and stepped closer. “These could be dog attacks.”
“Yes, but Mitchel and Raven were both between five-foot nine and six-feet tall. Alice Steinman was five-nine. All attacked while standing.” Mulder clicked to images of the victims’ extremities. “None of them exhibit what is known as ‘take down’ marks on their arms or legs.”
He looked at her. “The game warden, Edward Kessler, who contacted me about this states that these attacks were either by an incredibly large dog.”
“Wait,” Scully said, the realization of where he was going dawning on her. “You’re not suggesting—
No. I’m not going on a werewolf hunt.”
“Lycanthrope hunt.” He corrected her, flipping on the lights as he went to the desk. There he picked up a trifold flyer unfolded in his hands, ready to cajole her. “Look at this place,” he declared holding up the brochure in Scully face. “This place is a rustic haven for the rich and famous— we’d be rubbing elbows with the Gates, Warren Buffet, Brittany Spears—”
She scoffed. “What, you’re suggesting that there’s a— a werewolf luxuriating among the rich and famous in Aspen?”
“No,” he replied, “I’m saying that a werewolf is one of the rich and famous in Aspen.”
“There are no such things as werewolves, Mulder.” He opened his mouth to speak, and she interrupted, “or Skinwalkers for that matter. We’ve been through this before.”
“Even the local native population, the Utes, they trace their origin to a god who is half man, half wolf.”
“Not to be disparaging, but that’s legend.”
“There’s numerous recounting, historically documented incidents throughout the world,” Mulder continued as he went across the room and began rifling through a stack of papers and books. “Going back as far as the Greeks and the Sumerians, stories of curses turning men into shape-shifting evil creatures.”
“Those are myths, Mulder.” Scully countered, tossing the travel brochure onto the desk. “These stories, these legends are born from the misunderstanding of illnesses in humans, be it hypertrichosis causing excessive hair growth, or clinical lycanthropy— zoanthropy, the delusion of turning into an animal, all symptoms of other psychological disorders.”
“Myths, legends, stories,” Mulder repeated, “but inspired by something.”
“Yes, the human imagination.”
“Paleolithic cave painting found in France,” he declared, coming back the desk with ancient looking tome of a book. He put it down on the desk with a thud; the heavy book bound in leather, its pages yellowed and frayed. “Le Bête, the Beast of Gevaudan. P’an Hu, the man-dog that married a Chinese Emperor’s daughter…”
“Man-dog?” Scully repeated, watching him page through the book, stopping to point at drawing after drawing of the creatures.
He flipped back a few pages, stopping and pointing at the drawing of a creature. “For three years, between 1764 and 1767, an unidentified man-eating beast terrorized the southern countryside of France.”
“All right, but how does this relate to Aspen,” Scully picked up the report again, “none of these deaths correspond to a full moon.”
“The effects of the full moon are a fictional popularization of 1940 horror movies.”
She looked at him, stunned. “But all of the rest of this,” she waved her hand over the book, “is not fictional interpretation?”
He tilted his head, a thin grin on his lips as he held the brochure up into view.
Scully snapped the brochure from his hand and held it up to inspect. Slowly, her skeptical perspective dissolved to intrigued approval. “A fifteen-thousand square-foot spa?”
“Two stories,” he promoted.
She nodded thoughtfully. “And private deck patios…”
“That overlook a forest primeval—”
“With a hot tub?”
“You’re getting it.”
“We can’t expense this—”
“When was that ever a problem?”
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Continued in part 2 (and Skinner will be in this... I promise)
#Dancing in the Moonlight#complimentary mints#walter skinner#the x files#the xfiles#xfiles#skinner#scully#skinner scully fanfic#xfiles fanfic#mulder#Comp Mints: The In-betweens#dana scully#fan fiction
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1980s Horror Film Character Names
I totally forgot I’d started making this last year! I think I never posted it because I wanted to find more names, but there’s already a decent amount and I don’t feel like being that tedious about names right now lol.
It’s first & last names (separated for mix & match potential) of characters from iconic late 1970s & 1980s horror movies. I think I started looking for cheesier B-movies to pull from, but yeah it’s been a whole year so I forget.
First Names
Alice
Allen
Allison
Ally
Amy
Angela
Annie
Arnie
Artie
Axel
Barry
Bill
Billy
Bobby
Brady
Brenda
Brent
Brett
Brooke
Buddy
Burt
Buzz
Carol Anne
Carter
Casey
Charley
Charlie
Chili
Christine
Chuck
Cindy
Courtney
Craig
Cynthia
Dana
Darcy
Debbie
Demi
Dennis
Diane
Donna
Doug
Doyle
Duane
Elaine
Ellie
Emma
Ernie
Ferdy
Foster
Gary
Gene
George
Gerald
Ginny
Glen
Hal
Hank
Helen
Jack
Jackie
Jake
Jason
Jeff
Jennifer
Jerry
Jesse
Jimmy
Joanne
Jodi
Joe
Joey
John
Johnny
Judd
Judy
Kate
Katherine
Kathy
Katie
Kelly
Ken
Kenny
Kim
Kimberly
Kristen
Larry
Laurie
Lea
Leigh
Lenny
Leroy
Linda
Lisa
Liz
Lynn
Marci
Marcia
Marcie
Mark
Mary Lou
Masen
Max
Meg
Megan
Mel
Melissa
Mike
Molly
Monica
Nancy
Ned
Neil
Nick
Nicki
Nikki
Patti
Patty
Paul
Paula
Peter
Phoebe
Polly
Rachel
Ralph
Reilly
Rennie
Richie
Rick
Ricky
Rob
Rod
Roland
Ronnie
Roy
Ruby
Rudolf
Rudy
Russ
Sally
Sandy
Sara
Sarah
Shane
Sharon
Sheila
Shelly
Sissy
Steve
Steven
Susie
Suzie
Tad
Taryn
Teddy
Terri
Tina
Toby
Tom Jesse
Tommy
Tracy
Trish
Valerie
Vic
Vickie
Vicky
Warren
Wendy
Wes
Will
Last Names
Andrews
Angelo
Badger
Baker
Barnes
Barrington
Bates
Baxter
Beringer
Brand
Brewster
Bringsley
Brown
Burke
Burns
Cabot
Camber
Carrington
Cassidy
Caulfield
Challis
Clarke
Cole
Cologne
Corben
Corvino
Costic
Crusel
Cunningham
Daigler
Dandrige
Daniels
Darnell
Darrinco
Deagle
Dier
Doyle
Duke
Dumpkin
Duncan
Essmont
Evans
Field
Franklin
Freeling
Frye
Futterman
Garris
Garth
Geiger
Graham
Gray
Grimbridge
Guilder
Halavex
Hammond
Hanniger
Hardy
Harper
Hawes
Holland
Hopkins
Jachson
Jarvis
Jessup
Junkins
Kemp
Kessler
Kincaid
Kopecky
Kupfer
Lane
Lantz
LeBay
Lynch
Lynn
Macauley
Maloney
McBride
McFadden
McGregor
McNichol
Meeker
Meisel
Mercer
Morgan
Mott
Nagle
Nessler
Newby
Palmer
Parker
Parks
Parsley
Pataki
Peltzer
Penmark
Perry
Pervier
Powers
Priswell
Repperton
Richards
Shote
Spool
Stanton
Stark
Statler
Stavinski
Steele
Stevens
Strauber
Strode
Sykes
Taylor
Thomas
Thompson
Thorn
Toomey
Trenton
Vanders
Venable
Walsh
Warner
Weatherall
Webber
White
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Movies movies movies:
THE WITCH WHO CAME FROM THE SEA (1976): Disquieting, bloody psychological drama, directed by Matt Cimber (later the founder of G.L.O.W., and the basis for the "Sam Sylvia" character played by Marc Maron on the 2017–2019 G.L.O.W. TV series), about a disturbed young woman named Molly (Millie Perkins, wife of screenwriter Robert Thorn), whose horrifying history of childhood abuse causes her to sublimate sexual attraction into dissociative homicidal fits, when she isn't doting on her two young nephews or drinking herself into a haze. Vibes like an exploitation movie, but too arty and surreal to really qualify as one, and it doesn't ever feel quite like a horror movie despite the lurid subject matter; probably the closest comparison is Abel Ferrara's MS.45, with which it would make an apt double bill. Demands strong CWs for CSA and suicide, both of which are pretty rough, but it definitely makes an impression, perhaps most strikingly in the later scenes where Molly's seedy boss (Lonny Chapman) and bitchy coworker (Peggy Feury) begin to grasp how unhinged Molly has really become, leading to a disturbing finale. Too unsettling to easily recommend, hard to forget.
ALICE GOODBODY (1974): Lightweight, smutty exploitation movie, written, produced, and directed by Tom Scheuer, starring Sharon Kelly as a starstruck Hollywood waitress who loves old movies and movie stars (most of whom the people she meets in the industry have barely even heard of) and who is determined to get a small part in a new musical about Julius Caesar, even though it means sleeping with almost everyone in town. A kind of cheerful low-stakes sex comedy they don't make anymore: The situation is obviously sleazy, but not in any way that ever puts Alice in any particular jeopardy (she's in far more danger on set, where she keeps suffering different workplace accidents). The movie's central running joke is that the men whose favor she's supposed to be cultivating are at least as fixated on their own weird obsessions and neuroses as on sex, something Alice just has to sort of work around as best she can, which ends up making her sympathetic and even relatable. More likable than you'd think.
SPICE WORLD (1997): Delightfully dopey Girl Power homage to Richard Lester's A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, starring the Spice Girls, Richard E. Grant at his Richard E. Grantiest, and a cast of thousands. (Just picking out all the cameos and guest stars is half the fun.) This is what I think the Greta Gerwig BARBIE movie was going for: obviously a commercial product, and making no apologies for its mercantile ambitions, but self-aware enough and full of enough sly piss-taking to be thoroughly enjoyable even if you aren't in (or never had) a Spice Girls phase. Goes on a bit too long, but Grant's outfits alone are worth sticking it out for, and the bridge-jumping climax is very funny.
KALIFORNIA (1993): Mordant thriller starring a disconcertingly young-looking David Duchovny as Brian Kessler, a young writer who blows his advance for a new book about serial killers on an old convertible for him and his horny art photographer girlfriend Carrie Laughlin (Michelle Forbes, with disconcerting bangs) to drive across the country, photographing famous murder sites. Along the way, they pick up a couple of hitchhiking hicks, Early Grayce (Brad Pitt) and Adele Comers (Juliette Lewis), to help pay for gas, not realizing that Early is a paroled convict who's just murdered someone and has no qualms about dropping more bodies along the way. Tim Metcalfe's script (with obligatory '90s voiceover narration) scores some points early on in its depiction of Brian and Carrie's obvious classism and brittle middle-class hipster intellectualism, but the story ends up validating their prejudices rather than questioning them, which keeps the film from being entirely satisfying despite its effectiveness as a thriller. The cast is very good, with Pitt and Forbes the real standouts — Pitt plays Early as a man who draws no line between aw-shucks Southern congeniality and murderous rage, while Forbes makes Carrie's mix of ambition, appetite, and roiling intensity so vivid that you come away wondering what she's doing with Brian, who Duchovny plays as a somewhat gormless jackass. As for Lewis, suffice to say this would make an interesting double bill with NATURAL BORN KILLERS, released about a year later, where she plays a variation on the same damaged theme.
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Eurovision Fact #342:
In total, there have been 11 sets of twins at Eurovision.
The first pair to appear was the Kessler twins, who represented Germany in 1959. The Kesslers finished 8th overall.
Next, Luxembourg was represented by Sophie and Magaly Gilles in 1980. The sisters finished 9th overall.
In 2004, the Turkish entry, Athena, was comprised of twin brothers Hakan and Gökhan Özoğuz. The pair finished 4th in the Grand Final, the best result by any set of twins at Eurovision.
North Macedonia's 2009 entry, rock band Next Time, also consisted of twin brothers. Martin and Stefan Filipovski unfortunately did not make it to the Grand Final, placing 10th in the First Semi-Final.
The following year, the Belarusian group 3+2 brought twin sisters Alena and Ninel Karpovich, the "2" in 3+2, to the Eurovision stage. The group finished 24th in the Grand Final.
2011 saw two sets of twins: John and Edward Grimes representing Ireland as Jedward, and sisters Daniela and Veronika represtned Slovakia as TWiiNS. Jedward finished 8th in the Grand Final, but TWiiNS only placed 13th in the Second Semi-Final.
The following year, Jedward returned to represent Ireland, but only managed to place 19th in the Grand Final.
In 2014 there was once again two sets of twins: France was represented by the group TWIN TWIN, which consisted of Eurovision's first fraternal twins, Lorent and François Ardouvin, and their friend Patrick. The group finished last, 26th, at the Grand Final. On the other hand, Russia was represented by the Tolmachevy Sisters, Anastasia and Maria. The duo also won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. At Copenhagen, they managed to place 7th in the Grand Final.
In 2017, the group OG3NE, representing the Netherlands, consisted of three sisters, two of which were fraternal twins: Amy and Shelley. The two are a year younger than their sister Lisa. The group placed 11th at the Grand Final.
Finally, for this year's contest (2023), Azerbaijan will be represented by TuralTuranX.
[Sources]
Eurovision Twins, MyHeritage.com.
Eurovision Fact #337.
Eurovision Fact #341.
Sets of Twins Who Have Competed At The Eurovision Song Contest, YouTube.com.
Participants of Cannes 1959: Alice and Ellen Kessler, Eurovision.tv.
Participants of The Hague 1980: Sophie and Magaly, Eurovision.tv.
Participants of Istanbul 2004: Athena, Eurovision.tv.
Athena (band), Wikipedia.org.
Participants of Moscow 2009: Next Time, Eurovision.tv.
Participants of Oslo 2010: 3+2, Eurovision.tv.
Participants of Düsseldorf 2011: Jedward, Eurovision.tv.
Participants of Düsseldorf 2011: TWiiNS, Eurovision.tv.
Participants of Baku 2012: Jedward, Eurovision.tv.
'Twin Twin Interview: François, Lorent and Patrick are single!,' Wiwibloggs.com.
Participants of Copenhagen 2014: TWIN TWIN, Eurovision.tv.
Copenhagen 2014 Grand Final Scoreboard, Eurovision.tv.
Participants of Copenhagen 2014: Tolmachey Sisters, Eurovision.tv.
Participants of Kyiv 2017: OG3NE, Eurovision.tv.
Participants of Liverpool 2023: TuralTuranX, Eurovision.tv.
#esc facts oc#eurovision#eurovision song contest#esc#eurovision facts oc#kessler twins#ellen kessler#alice kessler#esc 1959#Sophie Gilles#Magaly Gilles#esc 1980#Hakan Özoğuz#Gökhan Özoğuz#esc 2004#athena#Stefan Filipovski#Martin Filipovski#Next Time#esc 2009#esc 2010#3+2#Ninel Karpovich#Alena Karpovich#Edward Grimes#John Grimes#jedward#TWiiNS#esc 2012#esc 2014
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Die Tote von Beverly Hills (1964), dir. Michael Pfleghar
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