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Antenne Vorarlberg Chillout Lounge (August 04, 2023)

23:57 The Ocean Piano - Piano Mi Camino (Blue Wave Mix) 23:52 Mirage Of Deep - Cloudless Sky 23:48 Klangperlenspiel & Puzzls - Kyoto (Wish You'd Move On) 23:42 Christopher Von Deylen - Euphoria 23:37 Rodg - Life Is Life (Chill Mix) 23:33 Glockenbach Ft. Clockclock - Brooklyn 23:29 Blank & Jones - Twilight Moon 23:23 Massive Attack - Spying Glass 23:20 Majestic & Boney M. - Rasputin 23:18 Nightcall X Henri Purnell Feat. Eke - When The Morning Breaks 23:10 Boris Pillmann - Love You 23:03 Edx - Conundrum 22:56 Dale Anderson Feat. Anil Chawla - Pimento Grove 22:52 Jens Buchert - 1000 Miles 22:46 Sirius & Nyla - Infinity (Remastered Remix) 22:41 Nora En Pure - Tears In Your Eyes (Extended Mix) 22:38 Dj Antoine & Flip Capella Feat. Evelyn - Dark Love 22:35 Dimitri Vegas - Pull Me Closer 22:31 Lenny Ibizarre - Pretty As You Feel 22:29 Dj Antoine Feat. Ablai - My Corazon (Dj Antoine Vs Mad Mark 2k21 Mix) 22:24 Passenger 10 - The Lonely Boy Who Wanted To Make Friends 22:19 Tukka & Rauhfuss - Flamingo Road (Sans Souci Remix) 22:15 Daniel Portman - Vulnerable 22:08 Bay Area - Dolphin Rider (Pianodreamsession) 22:02 Boris Dlugosch Feat. Risn Murphy - Look Around You (Original) 21:55 Röyksopp & Jamie Irrepressible - The Next Day (Mind Against Remix) 21:52 Robin Schulz & Alle Farben & Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow / What A Wonderful World 21:46 Zelensky - Sunset (Andy Lime Remix) 21:43 Robin Schulz & David Guetta - On Repeat 21:40 Lost Frequencies Feat. James Blunt - Melody 21:37 Armin Van Buuren Feat. Jake Reese - Need You Now 21:34 Wave Wave Feat. Evie - Real 21:29 White Elephant - Sir John 21:27 James Carter & Ofenbach Feat. James Blunt - Can't Forget You 21:23 Ck West & Sassi K - C Song 21:20 Rag'n'bone Man - Human 21:16 Nora En Pure - Tantrum 21:10 New Age Kings - Illusion (Instrumental Remix) 21:05 Alle Farben - Sonoro (2018 Rework) 21:02 Kamrad - I Believe 20:57 Worakls - Caprice 20:52 Teri Richardson - Shadows Of My Love 20:49 Viva La Panda & Finding Molly - Bring It On (La La La) 20:46 Deep Chills Feat Emma Carn - Blinded 20:42 Emily Burns - Im So Happy 20:38 Blank & Jones Feat. Zoe Durrant - Adios Ayer 20:34 Frank & Friedrich Feat. Duncan Woods - Coming Home 20:31 Colorblast - Message In A Bottle (Colorblast Version) 20:29 Buchs Feat. Nokyo - Cheverolet 20:26 Wankelmut & Emma Louise - My Head Is A Jungle 20:23 Zaz - Demain C'est Toi 20:20 Alle Farben & Fools Garden - Lemon Tree 20:15 Chromatics - Lady 20:09 Tinlicker Feat. Roos Jonker - Come Back Home 20:06 Lstn - Sïstër 20:01 Moby - The Sky Is Broken 19:55 Mahmut Orhan - Way To Life (Boral Kibil Remix) 19:51 Lost Frequencies Feat. Flynn - Recognise 19:48 Junge, Junge Feat. Jamie Hartma - Wicked Hearts 19:44 Schiller Feat. Jael - Tired (Live) 19:42 Troels Hammer - Azur 19:39 Vievie - Sea Roses 19:36 Kygo, Paul Mccartney & Michael Jackson - Say Say Say 19:32 Guardner - All Right 19:26 Hakan Kayis, Furkan Sarikas, Cinar Gedizlioglu - A Night In Alacati (Original Mix) 19:21 Rìfìs Du Sol - Alive (Anyma Remix) 19:17 Jazzamor - Song For Maggie 19:12 Pete Tong & Tale Of Us Feat. Jules Buckley - Time 19:09 Sum Wave - Milkyway 19:03 Bent - I Love My Man 19:00 Laniia - Fireflies 18:55 Boozoo Bajou - Lava 18:53 Gil Glaze Feat. Dante Thomas - West La 18:50 Tiësto & Karol G - Don't Be Shy 18:46 Alejandro De Pinedo - Raindrops 18:43 Together Alone - Ain't Nobody 18:40 Audax Feat. Ron Caroll - Falling For You 18:36 Consoul Trainin - Take Me To Infinity 18:34 Minelli, Filatov & Karas Remi - Rampampam 18:26 Atb - No Fate 18:22 The Alan Parsons Project - Lucifer 18:19 Karsten Kiessling Feat. Helin - Fight Like A Lion 18:15 Sofi Tukker & John Summit - Sun Came Up (Radio) 18:10 Kate The Cat - I Was Made For Lovin You 18:06 Scotty & Wilcox - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (Wilcox Extended) 18:02 Gitano & Deep Josh Feat. Koo - Residence Lounge 17:57 Thomas Lemmer & Andreas Bach - Embracing Love 17:54 Eelke Kleijn Feat. Josha Daniel - Oscillations 17:48 Morcheeba - Trigger Hippie 17:41 Boral Kibil & Gulec - Lost Language 17:38 Mousse T. - Boyfriend (Alle Farben Remix) 17:33 Mari Boine - Gula Gula (Chilluminati Mix) 17:30 Nora Van Elken - Sumatra (Lstn Remix) 17:25 Dreamerproject - Horizons (Glenn Main Remix) 17:22 Sans Souci Feat. Pearl Andersson - Sweet Harmony 17:18 Blank & Jones - High Fly 17:14 Dvine - Ever After 17:10 Ypey - Life Time 17:07 Nora En Pure - Stop Wasting Time 17:05 El Profesor - Busy Bye Bye 17:00 Schiller - White Nights (Don't Let Me Go) 16:58 Ofenbach & Ella Henderson - Hurricane 16:55 Mike Perry Feat. Shy Martin - The Ocean 16:43 Monkey Safari - Hi Life (Cheeky Bold Cover) 16:40 Melokind - Tiefgang 16:34 Mads Arp Featuring Julie Harrington - Alive 16:31 Dj Antoine Feat. Craig Smart - Good Vibes (Good Feeling) (Dj Antoine Vs Mad Mark 2k19 Mix) 16:25 Monolink & Zigan Aldi - Fidale (I Feel) Vocal Version 16:19 Themba & Nico De Andrea Feat. Tasan - Disappear 16:13 Deep Dive Corp. & Setsuna - Transatlantic 16:08 Schiller X Tricia Mcteague - Miracle 16:02 Schiller Feat. Eva Mali - Ein Schöner Tag (Live) 15:59 Nora En Pure - Enchantment 15:54 Derrick - Love Away 15:48 Banderas - This Is Your Life (Easy Life Mix) 15:46 Gamper & Dadoni - My Lovin' 15:42 Blank & Jones - Grown Minds 15:39 Dj Antoine & Dead-line - Shout 15:37 Lost Frequencies & Elley Duhé - Back To You 15:32 Atb With Enigma - Enigmatic Encounter 15:25 Beyhude - Akasha 15:16 Christopher Von Deylen - Heaven Can Wait 15:12 Depeche Mode - Goodnight Lovers 15:07 Anrey - We Are The Mirrors (Extended Mix) 15:04 George Geccoo Feat. Maik Pinto - Dolce Vita 15:00 Schiller & Schwarz - Avalanche 14:56 Elderbrook & Bob Moses - Inner Light 14:50 Schwarz & Funk - Savannah Sunset 14:46 Sum Wave - Malin's Song 14:42 Tom Novy & Dan Le Blonde - Let's Dance (Tom Novy Remix) 14:38 Lexy & K-paul Feat. Enda Gallery - Peilschnarte 14:35 Brando - Don't Call Me (Galantis Remix) 14:28 Le Roy - See The Light Ahead (Extended Mix) 14:23 Massive Attack - Sly 14:20 Alan Walker X Hans Zimmer - Time (Alan Walker Remix) 14:18 Kamrad - Feel Alive 14:13 Morcheeba - Slow Down 14:10 Above & Beyond - Is It Love? (1001) (Original Mix) 14:06 Jelly & Fish - Appreciation 14:02 Alan Walker & Gavin James - Tired (Kygo Remix) 13:59 Lucy Neville - Ransom 13:54 Aakarshan - Tantra Café 13:51 Mike Candys, Sb Mont & Salvo - Turned To Dust 13:48 Sons Of Maria - Always 13:45 Clangusar - I Promised Myself 13:41 Eelke Kleijn Feat. Diana Miro - You (Frankey & Sandrino Remix) 13:38 Alle Farben & Flynn - I Need To Know 13:33 Maestro & Cabal - Clifton Bay 13:29 Jan Blomqvist & Bloom Twins - High On Beat (Sofi Tukker Remix) 13:24 Enui - Adieu (Arielle Lb Remix) 13:21 Klingande, Stevie Appleton - Sinner 13:18 Blank & Jones - Swept Away 13:15 Schiller - Once Upon A Time (Cahill Remix) 13:10 Croquet Club - Awake 13:07 Blank & Jones Feat. Mick Roach - Magnolia 13:03 Kygo Feat. Ella Henderson - Here For You 13:00 Twopilots - Take My Breath Away 12:58 Nora Van Elken - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) 12:51 George Holliday - Never Gonna Grow 12:46 Rìfìs Du Sol - Next To Me 12:43 Lucas Estrada & Henri Purnell & Neimy - In My Fantasy 12:37 Cinemascope - The 7th Dream 12:33 Sum Wave - Beach Memories 12:30 Dizkodude & Dj Antoine - Your Eyes (Dj Antoine Vs Mad Mark 2k21 Summer Mix) 12:24 Noraj Cue - Story At The Campfire 12:21 L'imperatrice - Peur Des Filles (Montmartre Remix) 12:15 Blank & Jones - Coh 12:09 Steen Thottrup - El Alba 12:06 Möwe - Bad Intentions 12:01 Laila (Feat. Tiefblau) - Yin And Yang 11:57 Eli & Fur - Come Back Around 11:53 Bolier & Arman Cekin - Fade Away (Feat. Rhi'n'b) 11:47 Depeche Mode - When The Body Speaks 11:45 Nora Van Elken - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 11:42 Nora En Pure & Lika Morgan - In The Air Tonight (Sons Of Maria Remix) 11:35 Wd2n - Sultans Of Swing (Original Mix) 11:32 Filous - Let It Snow (Original Mix) 11:29 Dennis Kruissen Feat. Liza Flume - Another Soul 11:25 Paul Kalkbrenner - Part Eight 11:21 Sons Of Maria - Elevate 11:18 Topic Feat. Nico Santos) - Home (Alle Farben Remix) 11:12 Schiller Feat. Sarah Brightman - The Smile 11:09 Bolier - Another Blue 11:04 Lux - Secret Fish 11:01 Shapov & Avian Grays Feat. Kifi - Light Up The World 10:57 Undressd - Forever Young 10:51 Afterlife - Makes Me Feel 10:47 Armin Van Buuren Feat. Angel Taylor - Make It Right (Trinix Remix) 10:40 Avira & Diana Miro - The Worship (Mark Knight Extended) 10:36 Nebu Mitte Feat. Jaselle - With You (Oriano Remix) 10:33 Mike Candys & Séb Mont - What's On Your Mind 10:27 Beyhude - Terso 10:23 Aromabar - Winter Pageant 10:20 Fedde Le Grand Feat. Vince Freeman - Devils 10:16 Lstn - Thoughts 10:11 Schiller - Mittelerde 10:04 Doyeq & Jay Medvedeva - Break Into My Walls (Armen Miran & Hraach Remix) 10:00 Fritz Kalkbrenner - Void 09:56 Kidsø - Fir 09:51 Kygo & Sasha Sloan - I'll Wait 09:49 Zonderling Feat. Josh Cumbee & Damon Sharpe - Lifetime 09:46 Alok & James Arthur - Work With My Love 09:43 Kygo With Avicii & Sandro Cavazza - Forever Yours (Tribute) 09:40 Syn Cole Feat. Caroline Pennell - Californication 09:31 Dino Lenny Feat. Artbat - Sand In Your Shoes 09:27 The Alan Parsons Project - Old And Wise 09:23 Lemongrass - Comme Toujours 09:20 R3hab, Timmy Trumpet, W&w - Distant Memory 09:17 Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano - Let It Lie 09:14 Gabriel & Castellon - Es Vedra (Touch & Go Radio Mix) 09:07 Beyhude - Alabora 09:00 Tosca - Dave Dudley 08:57 Tomas Skyldeberg - Chillin With You 08:52 Mandala Dreams - Mirror Lake 08:47 Ingo Herrmann - Sundown 08:44 Mike Candys - Sky (Club Mix) 08:34 Moby - Too Much Change 08:31 Milky Chance - Stolen Dance 08:28 Lost Frequencies, Zonderling & Kelvin Jones - Love To Go 08:25 Chicane - Capricorn (Back Pedal Brakes Remix) 08:22 Spike - The Golden Eye (Original Mix) 08:18 Maxim Lany Feat. Freya Alley - Anymore 08:15 Robin Schulz - Above The Clouds 08:07 Gerrit Van Der Meer - Solaris 08:02 Mr.da-nos - San Francisco 2k20 07:59 Bedouin Soundclash - Brutal Hearts (Flicflac ) 07:54 Faithless Feat. Nathan Ball & Caleb Femi - I Need Someone 07:50 Gibbs & Code X - Close To Your Heart 07:47 Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain't Me 07:39 Boral Kibil - Never Again (Bobby Deep Mix) 07:37 Lunax & Zana - Gone Tomorrow 07:33 Kygo Feat. Sandro Cavazza - Happy Now 07:30 Sanah - Invisible Dress (Maro Music X Skytech Remix) 07:22 Maxim Lany - Riding The Wave (Extended Mix) 07:19 Lydmor - Money Towers 07:16 Zoe - C'est La Vie 07:14 Rita Ora - You Only Love Me 07:10 I Will, I Swear - Long Days 07:08 Above & Beyond - Quieter Is Louder (Original Mix) 07:05 Robin Schulz - Sugar (Feat. Francesco Yates) 07:02 Feder & Ofenbach Feat. Dawty Music - Call Me Papi 06:57 Schiller - Free The Dragon 06:53 Kygo Feat. Valerie Broussard - Think About You 06:50 Kai Schwarz, Cayus & Yass - My Love Is Your Love 06:47 Munich Monstrs - Shine 06:41 Nova June - More 06:37 Above & Beyond Feat. Zoe Johnston - We're All We Need 06:33 Swedish House Mafia & The Weeknd - Moth To A Flame 06:25 Justin Martin - The Sad Piano 06:19 Good Guy Mikesh Feat. Filburt - Place Of Love (Mp Edit) 06:17 Wave Wave Feat. Lena Sue - Repeating 06:11 Airstream One - Southern Light 06:04 Hraach Feat. Iveta Mukuchyan - Sarer Jan 06:00 Ashcome - Vitamin Sky (Original Mix) 05:58 Dize Feat. Aurii - Wenn Ich Nicht Mehr Weiss 05:51 Goldfish - Love Everlasting (Extended Mix) 05:46 Schiller - Tiefblau 05:43 Elderbrook - I Need You 05:39 Above & Beyond - Out Of Time (Original Mix) 05:33 Fous De La Mer - Ocean 22°e 05:30 Pirra Feat. Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix - Limousine Lies 05:25 Cecilia Krull - Agnus Dei (Benny Benassi & Bb Team Remix) 05:22 Jelly & Fish Feat. Amiaz & Tina Welzel - Appreciation (Radio Mix) 05:19 Pulsedriver & Tiscore Feat. Anna Grey - We Are 05:16 Parov Stelar - Fire 05:12 Agron - Love My Soul 05:07 Lamb - Wonder 05:03 Justin Robertson Presents Revtone - Love Movement 05:00 Alok & Timmy Trumpet - Underwater Love (La Vision Remix) 04:56 Brendon Moeller - Emerging 04:53 Mark Brown - The Journey Continues (Acoustic Version) 04:49 Lost Frequencies & Mathieu Koss - Don't Leave Me 04:46 Neptune & Moonnight - I Need A New Love (Original Mix) 04:42 Nightmares On Wax - Les Nuits 04:39 Edx & Amba Shepherd - Off The Grid 04:36 Nora En Pure - Wetlands 04:33 R Plus - Summer Dress 04:31 R3hab X Lukas Graham - Most People 04:20 Cell - Above The Clouds (Live Version) 04:17 Sixth Finger - If I Can't Have You 04:12 Blank & Jones - Sunshines Better (Feat. Mick Roach) 04:06 Depeche Mode - Home 04:00 Shkoon Feat. Fruiterama - Napauken 03:54 Christopher Von Deylen - Free 03:50 Eelke Kleijn - Mistakes I've Made 03:48 Felix Jaehn & The Stickmen Project Feat. Calum Scott - Rain In Ibiza 03:44 Clément Leroux - Memories 03:39 Phil Mison - Just Landed 03:32 Miyagi, Sascha Braemer, Dan Caster, Jan Blomqvist - Woodpeckers Love Affair 03:27 Two Lanes - Pièces Froides: Ii. Danses De Travers 03:24 M22 - Good To Be Loved 03:21 Loud Luxury Feat. Morgan St. Jean - Aftertaste 03:17 Audien - Blue 03:10 Enfant De Luxe - La Tete Dans Les Nuages 03:05 Anrey - The Forgotten (Extended Mix) 02:58 Richard Grey - Need Your Lovin (Murjd Remix) 02:54 Panama, Satin Jackets - The Future 02:48 Kid Massive, Yuji Ono, Dtale - Pray (Wolf Krew Remix) 02:42 Max Manie - Laura 02:40 Sons Of Maria - A Kiss Like This 02:35 Monolink - Harlem River 02:32 Robert Manos - With No End 02:29 John Summit & Hayla - Where You Are 02:25 Milkwish - From The Earth To The Moon 02:19 Jody Wisternoff Feat. Sian Evans - The Bridge (Chicane Rework) 02:15 Portishead - Revenge Of The Number 02:13 Sam Feldt & Sam Fischer - Pick Me Up (Vavo Remix) 02:08 Ohm-g - Hulectric Soul 02:05 Nora Van Elken - Honshu 02:01 Rank 1 - T.t.c. 01:58 Winona Oak & Robin Schulz - Oxygen 01:49 Armen Miran Feat. Jivan Gasp - Lost Memories 01:45 Jasmon - Sanpo Suru 01:38 Armen Miran & Hraach - Gravitation 01:35 Alex Breitling - Faith 01:30 Jaques Raupe, Stereoact, Peter Schilling Feat. Peter Schilling - Terra Titanic 01:23 Monolink - Don't Hold Back 01:20 Tinlicker & Helsloot - Because You Move Me 01:16 Klingande Feat. Daylight - Losing U 01:13 Moby - My Only Love 01:10 Klingande & Bright Sparks - Messiah 01:06 Emmit Fenn - Lost In Space 01:04 Amely & Lvndscape - Losing My Mind 01:01 The Alan Parsons Projekt - Eye In The Sky 00:59 Srtw & Mave Feat. Sønlille - Last Train Home 00:54 Arden - Open 00:51 Regard - Ride It 00:48 Blank & Jones Feat. Kyle Pearce - All Of Me 00:41 Hraach - After Dark 00:35 Schiller - Das Glockenspiel (Live Aus Der O2 World Berlin) 00:32 Backstreet Boys - Chances (Instrumental) 00:29 Hypnosis - Pulstar 00:22 Nora En Pure - Birthright (Club Mix) 00:15 Armen Miran - Nani Jan 00:12 Sans Souci - Condor 00:05 Alex Cortiz - Enter The Matrix 00:00 Röyksopp Feat. Susanne Sundfør - If You Want Me

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fanfic-she-wrote · 3 years

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Oh vay, he's gay!

Fran has her eye set on Christopher Lee who is a single rich business man and also gay.

No warnings

Requested by @christopherleefan I hope you like it! 😄

"Good morning everyone!" Fran exclaimed happily as usual as she entered the dining room where her boss, Maxwell Sheffield and his children were already eating breakfast.

"Mhm, looks good, Niles." She complimented the butler as he handed her a plate of food.

"Well, you seem happy this morning." Maxwell pointed out, sounding slightly grumpy.

"I am. Why not? It's a lovely day today." She stated, digging into her breakfast which consisted of eggs and bacon, with a side of toast.

"No, it's not." Maxwell snipped as he took a sip of his tea.

"What's the matter with you?"

"Mr. Sheffield has a possible investor visiting today." Niles explained while refilling his tea cup.

"Yes, and I heard he's one of the richest men in England. So make sure you have everything ready Niles. I'm not taking any chances." Maxwell ordered.

"You can count on me, sir." Niles assured him with a fake smile, mumbling to himself as he walked away clearly unhappy about having to cook so many horderves again.

"Ooh! Rich business man? Is he single?" Fran asked excitedly, suddenly becoming interested.

"Yes, but I hardly think he'll be interested in you." Maxwell remarked.

"We'll see about that." She muttered to herself as she had already begun planning what she was going to wear.

Later that day after the kids went off to school, she came down the staircase wearing a tight fitting, low cut, red and black dress with her hair teased at its highest with many layers of hairspray. Perfect. She thought, pleased with herself as she gave herself a once over in the mirror. Wait! Quickly she picked at her teeth making sure there wasn't any leftover food from breakfast. Now, she was perfect.

She glanced around the room noticing that she was the only one in there. The horderves were set out and Maxwell was in his office, which meant she would have the rich business man all to herself when he arrived.

A few minutes later, just as she was about to steal one of the delicious looking horderves for herself the doorbell rang. Fran scampered towards the door her high heels tapping on the marble floor beneath her feet as she went.

She opened the door and on the other side stood a tall gentleman with dark hair carefully slicked back, and intense brown eyes. He was truly the definition of tall, dark, and handsome. Just her type.

He smiled charmingly down at her and said, "Hello, I'm Richard Carter. Im here to see Maxwell Sheffield. Is he in?" What a hunk of man! She thought to herself as she grabbed his arm, and pulled him inside.

"You just missed him, but he'll be back soon." Fran lied as she guided him into the living room.

"I could come back later." He said not wanting to bother her, but she wouldn't let him slip away that easy.

"Nah! Why go through all that trouble? First you gotta call a cab, then there's traffic and it's Friday which means everybody is getting take out." She explained, hoping it would be enough to convince him to stay.

"In that case, I'll wait." He told her, sitting down on the sofa. She sat on the coffee table across from him, giving him her best "come hither" look.

"I didn't catch your name." He asked awkwardly, adjusting his tie.

"Oh, I'm Fran Fine, Maxwell's nanny." She answered.

"I didn't know he had children. " He admitted, if anything he thought she was anything but his nanny with the way she was dressed.

"Yes, they lost their mother. It's all very tragic. Poor kids." She replied shaking her head, taking a bite out of one of the finger sandwiches.

"I can imagine." He agreed sadly, grabbing a sandwich for himself.

"Yeah, being a single father can be difficult these days so he hired me." She added.

"He's not dating anyone?" He asked, quirking an eyebrow finally becoming interested in the conversation.

"Nope. Believe me I've tried." She said rolling her eyes in disgust. Boy, did she try. She thought. Every single day.

"I'm not dating anyone either." She told him, hoping he would get the hint. When he didn't she resorted to more drastic measures. "But that can change."

She got up from the table and sat beside him on the sofa, scooting close to him. Instead, he leaned away from her pressing his back against the arm of the sofa.

"Miss Fine! What are you doing?!" Maxwell yelled upon entering the room, making her jump in surprise. Carter however let out a sigh in relief.

"Just trying to make our guest feel welcome." She answered feeling disappointed that she hadn't gotten very far.

Maxwell sighed, "I'm sorry, Mr. Carter."

"It's quite alright. It was nice meeting you Miss Fine." Carter said as he followed Maxwell out of the room.

Fran snapped her fingers. "Damn!" She mumbled. If only she had a few more minutes...

The meeting was brief, not taking long for Carter to decide to invest. In fact he and Maxwell were to discuss terms over dinner that evening.

"I look forward to tonight, Mr. Carter!" Maxwell cheerily exclaimed as he escorted him to the door.

"Me too. Pick you up at 7?" Carter asked as he pulled on his coat.

"It's a date!"

"Bye, Mr. Carter!" Fran called out from the sofa, shooting him a wink. He gave her a quick smile before turning to leave.

As Maxwell went back to his office, Fran followed him. "Where are you going? I heard there's this nice Chinese joint that just opened-" She began, but he cut her off.

"Miss Fine, it's purely a business dinner. Believe me, you would not find it the least bit interesting." He told her, knowing that she was hinting at going with them.

Maybe so, but she wasn't about to let that stop her. Later that night, after Carter and Maxwell left she snuck out and followed them to the restaurant hoping to make it look as though she accidentally ran into them.

As she entered the restaurant she noticed how low the lights were giving it an almost romantic atmosphere. What a strange place to discuss a business deal. She thought as she scanned the room for them. Finally she found them sitting in a far corner, sitting perhaps a little too close. She titled her head and squinted her eyes, assessing the situation carefully. Something felt off about this, although she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Luckily, she found a table near them giving her ample opportunity to spy on them.

As they all ate their dinner she noticed how Carter looked at Maxwell and gently touched his shoulder every now and then. He almost looked as though he was flirting. Oh no! He was gay! She realized suddenly feeling embarrassed. No wonder he didn't respond to her advances. She just thought he was being oblivious like Maxwell was being right now. She raised an eyebrow. At least she hoped so.

Quickly, she stuffed down the rest of her dinner and left, not wanting to interrupt after all.

As she pushed through the door she found Niles sitting on the sofa quietly reading. "Niles!" She shouted, stuffing her coat in the closet. He jumped up and turned to face her.

"What's wrong?" He asked, putting his magazine down.

"I was just at the restaurant Mr. Sheffield went to...and why didn't you tell me he was gay?!" She exclaimed, smacking his shoulder.

"Who, Mr. Sheffield?" He asked looking confused.

"No, Mr. Carter! Although I wonder..." She trailed off.

Suddenly, they heard voices outside the front door. It was Maxwell and Carter! She gave Niles a push not wanting to be seen, and together they hid around the corner, quietly watching them as they went inside.

"I had a lovely time tonight, Maxwell." Carter admitted, leaning against the doorframe.

"Me too. Thank you for deciding to invest. You won't regret it." Maxwell assured him holding his hand out to shake, which he happily accepted.

"Maxwell, I..." He started, unable to find the right words as he held his hand in his. Unexpectedly, Carter pulled him close and pressed a kiss against his lips.

Fran and Niles' jaw dropped at the scene unfolding before them. When he pulled away he let out a satisfied sigh, grinning at Maxwell.

"I'll bring by the check in the morning. Goodnight!" He told him leaving Maxwell standing there, stunned with a visible blush forming on his face. After a moment or two, he retired to his room for the remainder of the night unaware that Fran and Niles had been watching.

Fran bit her lip feeling a little jealous, but mostly disappointed. If Mr. Sheffield was gay, then any hope for a relationship was gone.

"Are you okay, Miss Fine?" Niles asked her, giving her a pitiful look.

"No. How did my boss snag a rich, sexy business man before me?!" She cried. "What is this world coming to?!"

The next morning, she went down for breakfast as usual only this time she didn't feel like her usual happy self.

Quietly she entered the room, giving everyone a faint smile as she grabbed a plate of food. Everyone looked at her feeling worried. This wasn't like her at all. She wasn't even wearing her bathrobe, instead wearing a turtle neck sweater and tight jeans. She was depressed, but was still determined to look good regardless. Although perhaps not as much now that she didn't have Maxwell to impress.

"Everything alright Miss Fine? Did you miss a sale at Loehmenn's?" Maxwell asked softly, leaning towards her knowing how much missing a good sale upset her.

She shook her head and answered, "No, I'm all right Mr. Sheffield." She lied, trying to sound perkier than she felt.

"Oh, ok then." He said taking a sip of his tea. He couldn't help but feel that she was hiding something from him. Had he done something wrong? Did he forget her birthday?

"Niles, I'll be in my office. Mr. Carter should be stopping by to sign the check any time now." He told the butler as he finished his breakfast.

"That's not the only thing he'll be doing." Fran mumbled under her breath.

"What was that?" Maxwell asked, stopping and turning to look at her.

"Oh, nothing. Have fun!" Fran said, waving at him. "I'm sure you will." She added once he left the room.

Later that morning, before Carter showed up Fran and Maxwell bumped into each other in the foyer as she sent the kids off to school.

"Miss. Fine? I can't help but notice that something is troubling you." He asked her again. For a moment she wondered if she should tell him not wanting to embarrass him, but before she could the doorbell rang.

"Ah, that will be Richard." Maxwell exclaimed, adjusting his tie as he went to answer the door.

"Good morning, Maxwell!" Carter beamed, stepping inside.

"Morning, Miss Fine!" He greeted her with a pleasant smile as Maxwell took his coat and hung it up in the closet. She sighed. Why did they have to be gay? They were so handsome! She thought despairingly to herself.

"Good morning." She said, giving him a little wave.

As he and Maxwell retreated to his office, Maxwell paused for a moment. "We'll talk later." He told Fran, giving her shoulder a reassuring squeeze before following Carter out of the room.

Almost immediately after they closed the door, she saw Niles pretend to sweep in front of it trying to listen in. She shook her head and walked towards him.

"Niles!" She shouted making him jump, but he quickly shushed her.

"Listen!" He urged.

"We should really give them some privacy." Fran insisted, but then two seconds later she found herself with her ear pressed against the door unable to refrain her curiousity.

"Richard, I wish I didn't have to tell you this. You're a really nice guy and everything, but I'm not gay." He admitted.

Carter stared at him for a moment, confused. "But, I thought when you said...last night at the restaurant...I--" He stuttered awkwardly.

"I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression." He apologized, biting his lip.

"But you produce Broadway musicals?"

Niles snorted from outside.

"Oh dear, I seem to have made quite a fool of myself haven't I?" Carter sighed, blushing, looking down at his feet.

"No, I don't think so. You're only human. It happens." Maxwell assured him. Fran rolled her eyes, agreeing.

"If it makes you feel any better, I think you're a pretty good kisser. Any man would be lucky to have you." Maxwell added trying to cheer him up.

"Thanks. I think I'll sign that check now and get going." Carter said procuring a pen from his pocket.

"You still want to invest?" Maxwell asked, sounding surprised.

"Of course. I'm not just going to back out because of a mistake on my part. That's not how I do business." He replied as he scrawled his signature across the paper, handing it to Maxwell. "It's been a pleasure doing business with you Mr. Sheffield." He told him, shaking his hand.

Outside, Fran and Niles scattered as they heard his footsteps approach the door.

"By the way, I think Miss Fine is a lovely woman. She would make a wonderful wife don't you think?" He pointed out, remembering what Fran had told him earlier.

As Carter left, Maxwell stood there going over what he said in his mind. He was right, she would be. She was beautiful, unique, witty, kind. He found he could go on and on about all the things that made her perfect, that made him love her. His eyes suddenly became distant at the thought of Fran being his wife. How pretty she would look in a white gown...Then he remembered he wanted to talk to her and quickly left his office to find her.

"Miss Fine!" He called out as he went into the living room.

"Yes, Mr. Sheffield?" She asked as she came down the stairs this time in a different outfit. One that felt more like her style now that Maxwell was straight again.

"Ah, I see you're feeling better." He said, noticing her change of clothes.

"Yep! Better than ever!" She chimed.

"What was bothering you?" He asked curiously.

"Oh it was nothing." She answered, waving it off. "But tell me, what is it like kissing a hot rich businessman?" She remarked, preparing to run.

"Miss Fine!!!"

#fran x maxwell #the nanny #christopher lee #fanfic

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marloncarter · 3 years

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[ MARLON CARTER. 29. MALE. HE/HIM ] is here! They’ve lived in Silver Lake for [ 5 MONTHS ] and are originally from [ CRENSHAW, LOS ANGELES ]. They are a [ DRUMMER ] and in their downtime love [ READING DOG-EARED TOMES OF BUKOWSKI, TELLING PEOPLE THEY’RE WRONG ] and [ JUST VIBING ]. They look a lot like [ LAKEITH STANFIELD ] and live [ ON SILVERWOOD TERRACE ].

Full Name: Marlon Cassius Carter

Nicknames: Marl, Scuba

Crenshaw born and raised, lived there for 26 years and then Downtown L.A. for another 3.

Growing up in South L.A. in the 90′s, he’s seen a lot of shit. Particularly as his family was lower income.

His dad went MIA when he was around 6, and his mom worked weekdays & weekends

He and his sister were latchkey kids who practically raised themselves, but their mom instilled a hard studying ethic despite whatever was going on in their lives, and both excelled in school.

Has a younger sister, Bianca, 26. She got a full ride to UCLA and is now a cellist of some renown, also lives in Los Angeles.

He got into several colleges on partial scholarships, but decided to pursue music full-time instead.

Personality/important headcanons

chill most of the time, unless you give him a reason not to be.

an aries (taurus cusp) - but thinks horoscopes are big bs.

big into reading, bukowski, burroughs, kerouac, the lot.

a hip hop purist who does not care for the new trap-rap etc tendencies. talk to him about lil pump and watch him get riled up quickly.

guilty pleasure genres: female fronted pop and eastern european folk-pop

hooked up with charli xcx once, but doesn’t brag about it.

films: big fan of scorsese, tarantino, jordan peele. not a fan of wes anderson, aronofsky, or christopher nolan.

cereal connoisseur. shelled out big bucks for a 1982 vintage box of Count Chocula.

keeps his circle small, loyal to them.

an irreparable night own who goes on maybe 3-4 hrs of sleep? what is even sleep

currently staying at: Dom’s crib.

Friends

Part of the squad that includes: @tysondabs , Dom, Mikey, and Joe (currently all npcs but if you want to bring one of them in, IM me, we could work something out)

If ur bros with Tyson u can assume bros with Marlon too!

He’s lived in Los Angeles all his life and has been all around, so a past connection w/anyone who wants it is def possible too.

Has been hanging around Silverlake for the past 5/6 months (since last September) — maybe your chara has run into him somewhere! Feel free to assume that, etc.

Work

He’s a professional drummer, but plays other instruments as well.

Not currently affiliated with any one band or artist, but has stepped into the recording studio when anyone requires a drummer, gone on tour with bands, etc.

Currently helping Dom with his debut record and laying tracks with him.

Skilled in Logic, Ableton, etc. so dabbles with mixing and mastering/producing when he wants.

Just signed a freelance deal with Fuse Records so you’ll see him in and out of there a lot! If anyone with connects to Fuse wants to do something, hmu.

#slintro

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go-redgirl · 5 years

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Ep. 1050 Trump’s Bold Move. The Dan Bongino Show 8/22/2019.

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William Walden William Walden 1 day ago The US Marshals should have taken over the FBI until its integrity could be located.

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REPLY View 86 replies Willy G Willy G 1 day ago Fire Wray, now. Today. Before 5pm

REPLY View reply Marta LeFave Marta LeFave 1 day ago Dan, do not forget that the Left will not hold Biden to account on his lies. To them, the end justifies the means. Remember Obama??

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REPLY View 20 replies Glenn Holcomb Glenn Holcomb 23 hours ago Wray needs to be replaced. He's holding back items that Judicial Watch has asked for, that will make a difference in the voter's decisions in the election next year for seats in the House.

REPLY View 2 replies Kathy B Kathy B 23 hours ago who was the FISA judge, obviously either incompetent or in on it.

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REPLY View 9 replies Percy's Percy's 1 day ago Trump should fire Wray!

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REPLY View 4 replies Gary Gary 23 hours ago FBI's Wray is DIRTY AS HELL Dan, say it!!!

REPLY Bill Simpson Bill Simpson 1 day ago (edited) This is getting SO OLD. The media’s lameass attempts to frame our President as a racist are the last acts of a desperate deep state. 😮 yawning Leader Technologies wrote the code and had it stolen by a Clinton operative in a theft of patent. African American lawyer Screwed the guy from Leader Technologies. Can’t remember the guys name! And that’s AWESOME Dan to provide hopeful reinforcement to those of us struggling with addiction issues. God Bless you brother!! 👍🏻❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸 Read more

REPLY View reply litigator2015 litigator2015 1 day ago (edited) Wray is Deep State for sure. Everytime I see him he has that same smirk on hus face. FIRE Wray

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REPLY View 11 replies Roberta Grepaly Roberta Grepaly 1 day ago The FBI is just another corrupt organization.

REPLY Marta LeFave Marta LeFave 1 day ago Brennan is at the nucleus of this whole thing. He is the head bad guy at the CIA. He and Clinton got the FBI involved, and then they all acted in unison.

REPLY View 5 replies Robert Duley Robert Duley 23 hours ago Only answer is military trails DOJ and FIB and CIA all in cahoots SEDITION AND TREASON

REPLY View reply Mitch Schneider Mitch Schneider 1 day ago Why doesn't Trump order the FBI to release the info NOW?

REPLY View reply A C Rider A C Rider 23 hours ago Hello, Mr, Wray? This is Attorney General Barr, DOJ. You are aware I am your boss? Yes sir. There has been stalling by the FBI in turning over Muller Dossier documents for at least two years. Is that correct? Yes sir. This is a direct order. I want every document requested or subpoenaed on my desk in two hours! Sir, I can... You are fired! Vacate the building immediately. Marshal's are waiting outside your door. Read more

REPLY View 2 replies Peaches Mcbee Peaches Mcbee 1 day ago Shouldn't barr being kicking wrays butt telling him to give up the goods !!!!!???

REPLY View 8 replies Robert Miller Robert Miller 1 day ago (edited) What about the assassination attempt text between Page and her lover boy Peter

REPLY Jason Lee Jason Lee 1 day ago They call us conspiracy theorists for asking question but they literally come up with a new conspiracy every week.

REPLY View 4 replies TWOHAWK 1 TWOHAWK 1 1 day ago Donald J. Trump should fire Wray Yesterday.

REPLY View 2 replies Charles Daniel Charles Daniel 1 day ago Can Trump and Barr go over to the FBI and tell Wray to handem over ?

REPLY View 2 replies Glenn Ryan Glenn Ryan 23 hours ago The FBI has managed to destroy people’s trust. Wray is only making things worse.

REPLY Proud Patriot Proud Patriot 1 day ago Look into Stephan Halpers father-in-law’s CIA position

REPLY 022141able 022141able 23 hours ago Can't President Trump dismiss Christopher Wray as head of the FBI for not handing over critical information and for protecting those who are responsible for the ongoing coup against the President?

REPLY View 4 replies Shanett Shanett 1 day ago NEVER expect a demorat to be honest. IMAGINE FOX giving Donna Brasille a job since she was probably the least criminal of the bunch!

REPLY View 2 replies Texas Viewpoint Texas Viewpoint 1 day ago (edited) It bothers me that swamp man Chris Ray ever became FBI director in the first place.

REPLY View 3 replies Randy Brisendine Randy Brisendine 1 day ago "When the expectations are so low, you can't be disappointed" Joe Biden: Hold my beer...

REPLY View 2 replies Under Dog Under Dog 1 day ago The New York times and Dems need to face TREASON charges.

REPLY The Kraken The Kraken 1 day ago (edited) Why are all nationalists... white? I know Americans of all races...that want to circle the wagons....and clean house..

REPLY View 3 replies Michael Merlino Michael Merlino 23 hours ago Wasn’t Biden a keynote speaker at Robert Byrd’s funeral?The same KKK recruiter Robert Byrd.

REPLY John Tatum John Tatum 1 day ago (edited) Dems lie because it is the only thing they are good at...they have no honest candidates except maybe Yang. I say sue Biden for slander. Everyone knows that Christopher Wray is just as bad as Comey was.

REPLY View reply Art Jones Art Jones 1 day ago Occam’s Razor: Chris is a member of the Cabal!

REPLY Dwayne Campbell Dwayne Campbell 23 hours ago Bill “Alvin” DeBlasio ... the most famous Chipmunk Actor of all time.

REPLY joshua beatty joshua beatty 23 hours ago Those Jobless Claims Dropped Again The Economy is way to Strong

REPLY K W K W 1 day ago Richard Spencer has worked w Obama in the past!

REPLY Robert Here Robert Here 23 hours ago Joe Biden lied? Again? Who does he think he is....Hillary?

REPLY Eddie Monger Eddie Monger 1 day ago The media Trump haters do not call out any of the lies from any of these candidates.

REPLY View 2 replies kcabyats * kcabyats * 1 day ago Why don't any of the people against joe biden ever bring up that he groped children on tape? Shouldn't that be the first thing people bring up?

REPLY View 5 replies USMCArchAngel03 USMCArchAngel03 1 day ago But we still don't have probable cause to start arresting people at this point????

REPLY Proud Patriot Proud Patriot 1 day ago Dan - Sen Gorka, Sara Carter, and John Solomon had a great discussion on America First today.

REPLY View 2 replies AtomicDog AtomicDog 21 hours ago How quickly we forget the FBI said the text messages were lost and could not be recovered until the inspector general magically found them. The FBI once again proves it is an agency that cannot be trusted from the ground up.

REPLY Duke Milano Duke Milano 22 hours ago Wray is an empty suit. Should be fired.

REPLY rightonQ rightonQ 22 hours ago I ♥️ President Trump ⭐️

Thank You @Dan Bongino 🙏🏻

REPLY William Schutter William Schutter 1 day ago Fair enough. You are bringing me some comfort about "the two-way street."

REPLY Jo Ann Levy Jo Ann Levy 1 day ago Fantastic show Team Bongino!! Dan, Joe, and Paula are the best. Love John Solomon's piece and glad I heard it here first. I hope you all have a great day. Looking forward to seeing you on Hannity. Please I hope, that you don't have to put up with that Chris Hahn jerk. Thanks for keeping it straight for us.

REPLY Coma5 Coma5 22 hours ago I hope Barr has an honest, and eventually transparent, reason for allowing Wray to protect the criminals.

REPLY Maryann Weldin Maryann Weldin 23 hours ago Our bloated government can’t manage their way out of a paper bag.

REPLY Marta LeFave Marta LeFave 1 day ago Wray is as corrupt as Comey, Brennan, Clinton and Obama. he covered up all the lies he were taking place, and he would love to see this drag on forever so they could destroy Trump if he is reelected.

REPLY View reply Greg White Greg White 23 hours ago I hope Honorable AG Barr exposes this to the public before the election.

REPLY Yardvarks Lawn Care Yardvarks Lawn Care 22 hours ago Im 2 years sober! Thank you for the very kind words Dan! Love you

REPLY y2rock y2rock 23 hours ago 11:30 Wray must be fired YESTERDAY!

Where is AG Barr???

REPLY Ginger OConnell Ginger OConnell 1 day ago Should be find the info or go to jail...bet they would suddenly turn up.

REPLY Prentiss Campbell Prentiss Campbell 1 day ago The liberal ship is in flames however the democrat scumbags bucket brigade keep it from going under........eventually it will go under.

REPLY Big Colt Big Colt 23 hours ago What is Joe doing out on the street if it's common knowledge he robbed a bank?

REPLY Chuck Rogers Chuck Rogers 1 day ago Grab your popcorn, He's Back!👍 D-DAY💪 Dan Bonginos EXPLOSION💥 NEWS👏👏👏👏👏👏

REPLY Mary Ellen Ledesma Mary Ellen Ledesma 1 day ago Dan....Joe Biden has never had one time where he has had an actual thought on his own and has always mimicked the words and thoughts of others. His team actually thinks it’s the only way he can win. Joe beware of the Trump curse.

REPLY View reply Jeff Curtis Jeff Curtis 1 day ago I think President Trump was responsible for Terisa May's resignation recently and partly responsible for Boris Johnson's election to Prime Minister. Why do I say that? It leads the way open to both Steele and Dearlove being eventually extradited to the US to face charges relating to the Fake Steele Dossier and the unlawful spying related to it.

REPLY Sandra Stob Sandra Stob 23 hours ago You're forgetting one fact. The 14th Amendment was written to provide citizenship for the freed slaves.

REPLY View reply MeeMee48 LaRue MeeMee48 LaRue 1 day ago Another great job on the crap that is going on in the deep state. I miss these shows on the weekends. The Dan team is one of the best!! MAGA KAG 2020 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

REPLY Patrick McCarthy Patrick McCarthy 22 hours ago They,re all corrupt crooks in the Cabal, But I'll bet none of them will be brought to Justice. They act like they're above the Law because they know they are..

REPLY Cig Guard Cig Guard 20 hours ago (edited) SO! WHY NOT MORE TALK ABOUT: BIDENS MONETARY CONNECTIONS TO; CHINA, CRIMIA, RUSSIA, ETC.... COMPLETE EXPOSURE!

REPLY DM Decor DM Decor 1 day ago Dan, What does Wray have to do with all of this? Why is he covering up anything? Where do you think he fits in?

REPLY Russ Turner Russ Turner 23 hours ago Dan there's been no doubt about what happened in the intelligence agencies to try and overthrow president Trump's election, I can't see how anybody, left or right dosent find this unacceptable.

REPLY View reply Robbo Robertson Robbo Robertson 23 hours ago I think AG Barr should remove the FBI from any part of the investigations and place it in the hands of Military intelligence agencies until the FBI is fully exonerated, all this withholding info by the FBI is doing to much damage to what was once the greatest law enforcement agency in the world

REPLY View reply Michele Prince Michele Prince 21 hours ago Prayers for Eric Littlejohn, God Bless you Eric and speed your recovery.

REPLY Notime ForFakeNews Notime ForFakeNews 23 hours ago (edited) "Change those batteries Joe" A triple Muttley. 😄

We knew 2 yrs ago Trump was set-up. Now we are 100% convinced President Trump was slandered & spied on by his/our own government. 🇺🇸

REPLY View reply Dan Erickson Dan Erickson 23 hours ago Trump 2020 make liberals cry again!!!!

REPLY Deeges909 Deeges909 17 hours ago Dan is sincerely the Man. I’ve never heard a talk show host take time and speak to those suffering from addiction and actually feel like he 1000% means it. 👍🏼

REPLY Sandy Hardin Sandy Hardin 1 day ago Thank God President Trump understand the Constitution, on baby from illegal immigrants should be an American citizen!👍🎈🇺🇸😉

REPLY Rocky roads Rocky roads 18 hours ago We used to make fun of the inquire magazine. Now almost all the news outlets are dramatic joke

REPLY chocolate* chocolate* 23 hours ago It's not a political democrat party anymore, they are now just a three ring circus. The left speaks so much nonsense they don't know which way is up

REPLY View reply James Kennedy James Kennedy 1 day ago Go ahead ask me about government? We are losing our representation. Dangling by a thread our representation. Yep we voted them in? And then they lay waste my vote. After elected they make every address to special interest. I did not vote for socialism. I did not vote for communist. The four & More have corrupted my good vote!!!

REPLY Charles Marais Charles Marais 23 hours ago Wow, this is an intricate web of deceit, this Russian hoax. It sounds like a Len Deighton spy novel.

REPLY snuka_ 420 snuka_ 420 23 hours ago Dan.... Check out that's the point!!! With Brandon .. he has some troubling videos on ANTIFA in Portland... He's a true Patriot and needs our support

REPLY Jimmy Diamond Jimmy Diamond 21 hours ago Why isn't Trump making the FBI comply with giving over the EMails

REPLY CoryKickzAss CoryKickzAss 23 hours ago Idk about "Uncle Joe".. I never had an uncle like that (who gropes kids and women openly on camera)

REPLY View 2 replies Gina warrior princess Gina warrior princess 22 hours ago Lol Joe ,you supported the biggest Hoax candidate in American history and escorted the Trojan horse! We do not give you a pass or forget! #notplayingwithafulldeck.

REPLY Stjepan Blagaj Stjepan Blagaj 23 hours ago well they will try anything that can make headlines Dems a scums period

REPLY Mark DeMedeiros Mark DeMedeiros 23 hours ago I've got to get more pens to scratch my head with. :((( #64 in Cali

REPLY Daniel Gorbea Daniel Gorbea 21 hours ago Wait! Isn't it the 4 R's of radical leftism? Russia, Racism, Reparations, and now Recession!

REPLY Ed Felty Ed Felty 1 day ago Now it's "Trump is the anti-Christ" according to CNN. 🤣 🇺🇸

REPLY View 3 replies Bunk Stagner Bunk Stagner 23 hours ago Daffy Duck is the Mayor of new York?

REPLY View reply Bobby H Bobby H 23 hours ago Yet another superb and insightful show, Dan - God bless

REPLY Tim Grun Tim Grun 23 hours ago Biden sounds like an old drunk that can't dictate his words correctly.

REPLY View reply Matthew Chenevert Matthew Chenevert 22 hours ago Bucket list for me is fight Deniro in a PPV event for charity. UFC style.

REPLY beeveedee beeveedee 22 hours ago The "under jurisdiction" clause would be problematic for Kamala Harris, and would disqualify her presidential candidacy!

REPLY DEWY FROM KNOXVILLE. DEWY FROM KNOXVILLE. 22 hours ago Dan, thank GOD, We have patriots like You, AND the People You surround yourself with!!!! Keep the Truth coming!!! ............ Peace!!!

REPLY skynebula11 skynebula11 23 hours ago De blasio....did someone pump helium in the room?

REPLY View reply Yves Jasmin Yves Jasmin 23 hours ago Chris Wray is part of the deep state

REPLY roninreturns roninreturns 21 hours ago Bill DeBlasio gets Munchkin tough: "We'd like to welcome you to Lollipop Land, Lollipop Land..."

REPLY Dr S&W Dr S&W 23 hours ago You have to admit its fun watching sleepy Joe nap at the podium.

REPLY Charlie S Charlie S 19 hours ago Why isn't Barr charging Wray with obstruction of justice???

REPLY Jason Hay Jason Hay 1 day ago Poor Joe, robbed lots of banks. Better watch in case the FBI may do some work! Unbelievable! Keep it up Dan, Paula and Joe! Love from the UK!

REPLY Leslie Powell Leslie Powell 21 hours ago Yeah. Joe is a good ol KKK Democrat. His friend and mentor was like, a wizard or a grand dragon. Thanks.

REPLY Ken Walter Ken Walter 1 day ago (edited) Unfortunately by now those emails between Strozk and Page have probably joined HRC's emails in disappearing.

REPLY View 4 replies Arthur Fricchione Arthur Fricchione 23 hours ago Another good episode Dan. Keep them coming. Nice to hear the truth and I know you are telling us the truth. ❤️

REPLY Eli G Eli G 23 hours ago Calling the media conspiracy theorists is far to kind

They have an agenda and are on a side, the left , the dems , the media , Hollywood , social media platforms they are all controlled by the same entity and whoever and whatever it is wants to destroy America and Americans and lots of us are working for and voting for our own destruction

REPLY tomk1tl tomk1tl 23 hours ago DeBlasio must have found the "helium tank" apparently......

REPLY Jen Blossom Jen Blossom 21 hours ago (edited) That was truly God showing his good humor during Bill DeBlasio’s video.

REPLY Jim's Inkspot Jim's Inkspot 10 hours ago Dan you need to pay Joe more so he doesn't have to keep robbing Banks : ) That's gonna come back to bite him!

REPLY Canis Lupus Canis Lupus 23 hours ago Over at JW watching the LIVE premiere video of the Arwan brothers and DNC Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the stealing of Congressional info...... be back in a hour to finish this video 😁

REPLY Daniel Kahawaii Daniel Kahawaii 22 hours ago Thank You. Prayers to the suffering. Love to those praying.

REPLY Philip Schroeder Philip Schroeder 22 hours ago The far left are full of bologna. Along with the fake news. Great show Mr. Dan and Mr. Joe and Mrs. Bongino.

REPLY Michael Smith Michael Smith 22 hours ago Thanks Dan I really appreciate you saying that at the end of the podcast

REPLY Smitty Smitty Smitty Smitty 23 hours ago Joe Biden that's a Muggsy moment in itself that deserves a quintuple mutsy laugh

REPLY BethAnn Torres BethAnn Torres 23 hours ago What in they hell is wrong with lunch bucket Joe?! 😳.... well🙄😂

REPLY My Peace Of Heaven My Peace Of Heaven 22 hours ago Thank you Dan! Always the most Informative and entertaining video of my day !

REPLY Eric Trau Eric Trau 22 hours ago Thanks Dan Paula and Joe, can't let a weekday go by without my daily dose of Bongino!

REPLY Reggie Abernethy Reggie Abernethy 20 hours ago And so? Where’s AG Barr? Apparently he’s stalling,too. Losing confidence in the AG.

REPLY dacosta0656 dacosta0656 22 hours ago (edited) Xerox worked with arpa and darpa, international business machines did too

REPLY Sonia Szenay Sonia Szenay 21 hours ago God works in mysterious ways Bellagio God did that change his voice

REPLY Mark Jubinville Mark Jubinville 1 day ago collect your thoughts and spit the idea out. convolution is your enemy in delivering the message.

REPLY Peter Bergeris Peter Bergeris 1 day ago Dan I listened to your report regarding Steele n fbi. #BCP told the same info which I didn't catch till evening when he released it, but he's in calif n I'm in pa.

REPLY View reply Lisa Hause Lisa Hause 23 hours ago “LYING JOE BIDEN” . . . CREEPY - SLEEPY - LYING - OLD BIDEN!!! Thanks, DAN, Paula & Joe...🥰 🇺🇸👍🏻

REPLY Shawn C Shawn C 1 day ago Man you have finally convinced me, Joe's a bank robber.

REPLY View 2 replies sunboyfun sunboyfun 22 hours ago Sounded like you said in the last piece, a "farce fire", with respect to liberals. Great pun if intended or not!

REPLY JRodInc3 JRodInc3 20 hours ago Election meddling, just look to our FBI. Seems there were many government agencies, politicians and big tech were meddling in our elections, just not Trump.

REPLY IMA WAKE 2 IMA WAKE 2 1 day ago "Most hard core liberals have psychologically deprived backgrounds which causes them to invoke defense mechanisms which causes them to seek power over others and develop a “wounded” world view which causes them to express the depths of their psychologically damaged personality."

"Liberals are exercising power over others that have achieved legitimate success and they are trying to get the achievers of society to pay for these often phony liberal causes. This gives the liberal a sense of entitlement to act out against the successful among us and take what is not theirs. This helps to restore feelings of power to the liberal that they lacked in their deprived childhoods which are typically characterized by neglect."

"In the deprived psychological environment that characterizes so many liberals, they are typically angry at the world. And they often seek to inflict pain on the successful because they are angry. This defense mechanism is called displacement. They just don’t want to dominate the political narrative, they seek to inflict pain on a personal level to those who have experienced success. This is what fundamentally causes liberals to lack respect for the rule of law and just old-fashioned human decency. They seek to hurt successful people and to tear down the pillars of society."

"The left uses their self-contrived and often invented self-indignation as the excuse to justify inflicting pain on others. Rationalization is defined as making excuses to justify one’s actions. This is also the well-spring of almost all genocide, both past and present in a “they deserved it mentality."

"There is a final defense mechanism that liberals often employ. Because of their psychologically deprived background, we frequently see use of the defense mechanism called overcompensation. This is where an individual will perceive some personal deficiency (eg lack of academic success) and then seek to excel in another area (eg athletic prowess). In the case of a mentally ill liberal, their lack of personal success and acceptance from their peers, in their collective childhoods, leads them to excel in other areas, namely, liberal causes which frequently inflicts pain on successful people."

"Liberals are largely representative of people who have been psychologically wounded by life and they spend their adult life getting back at the very power structure that they blame for their psychological pain as a result of their own personal shortcomings.

Why do liberals not respect the sanctity of life (eg late-term abortions)? Their psychological pain keeps them from feeling empathy by the youngest members of our society as they are torn apart limb by limb for their body parts. Do I need to point out the reaction formation of liberal females who are overcompensating for their perceived personal rejection. Beautiful women come in all shapes and sizes and I don’t typically promote stereotypes, but ask a non-liberal male about the appearance of many liberal females. Many times, it borders on bizarre. The same can be said for the emasculated males who grew up expecting trophies for participation, instead of achievement. And when achievement does not come, liberal causes designed to illegitimately redistribute wealth becomes a frequent mantra from the left.

On the surface, liberal causes makes no sense. Their behavior makes no sense until one realizes that we are dealing with damaged individuals whose internal anger causes them to seek to bring harm others under the guise of performing some twisted form of justice (ie social justice).

At the end of the day, these psychologically impaired people make good warriors for the global elite. They are actively working to tear down the family, destroying Christianity and taking down America on behalf of the elite who want one-world government that the elite controls. In short, at the end of the day, liberals again find themselves being abused as they are relegated to the role of useful idiots for the express purposes of the Satanic mentality that underlies those who would subjugate all of us on a global scale."

"These useful idiots (liberals) would do well to examine the fate of people like the Brown-shirts of Nazi Germany. Their fate is the fate of useful idiots. If and when the global elite ever seizes total control over the planet, they will have no use for liberals. Being a liberal will have a very short shelf-life under the New World Order’s authority where a rebellious and psychologically damaged mind will not be tolerated by a totalitarian regime." Read more

REPLY View 3 replies Robert Boyle Robert Boyle 22 hours ago Joe biden makes me sick..his lying will catch up with him someday...

REPLY scratchnsniff 64 scratchnsniff 64 20 hours ago Joe diGenova has told that Christopher Wray is in a partnered law firm with Sally Yates.

REPLY king mopar king mopar 20 hours ago It’s time for either peaceful separation meaning G we split the country..or it’s time for the civil war..this can not continue

REPLY Tim Grun Tim Grun 23 hours ago Dan, Joe, and Paula = The "Chosen Ones" to bring me the news!

REPLY Kris Nordberg Kris Nordberg 22 hours ago The past few times I've tried to watch Hannity, his full length show is :02 seconds. Come on YouTube, tell me you're not biased. Is he getting to close to the truth?

REPLY Yama Kazoo Yama Kazoo 4 hours ago Dan!! The word is EPOCH not "Epic". EEEEEE POCH. The EEEE POK Times.

REPLY MrOramato MrOramato 22 hours ago (edited) Don’t forget the Rape accusations that mysteriously went away after the election. So it is four or five Rs. And on their side it is Resistance. So the Left is stuck ON “R.”

REPLY April Davis April Davis 22 hours ago Dan you are always right up front on my daily feed!

REPLY RV RV 18 hours ago All the Russia setup was to send Trump and his family members to prison. Unfortunate for the left, he won the election... and all is being exposed of the crime they have committed.

REPLY randy ropac 23 hours ago Just started listening. Great show. The LEGAL Canadian. Randy Ropac

REPLY y2rock 23 hours ago 9:45 Trump should bring a big lawsuit on Biden

REPLY Steph 23 hours ago I want to believe you, Dan, but I just don't see those texts ever coming out from the FBI.

REPLY steven donnelly 20 hours ago That means Kamal Harris is not a citizen, period.

REPLY Mark Gatz 22 hours ago Thanks, Dan always very informative and eye opening. I just wish there was a way to take a cattle prod to the FBI Director (figuratively speaking of course) to release the information before 2020 election.

REPLY Randell Stevens 1 hour ago Dan you forget the part of the 14th amendment that expressly DENIED citizenship to Native Americans. If I recall correctly it stated that they were under the jurisdiction of their tribe & not under the juridstiction of the USA.

REPLY L Russell 1 day ago It is funny to think of big burly dude in the aflcio --funny

REPLY Raylene Strand 21 hours ago Did anybody notice that nobody applauded when Bill the Blasio was announced

REPLY Truth Shrugs 19 hours ago Dan, 1) Why don't you hear anyone talking about Assange lately? 2) Why don't you hear a word about Admiral Rogers (former head of NSA under Obama/Trump) regarding all of the RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA narrative? 3) Why is Wray slow-playing/stalling the release of requested info?

I'll tell you why.. 1) Because Assange is key to this whole Russia story and US Atty. Durham is retrieving all kinds of fascinating info from Assange (think Seth Rich... "hacked" DNC emails (blame RUSSIA)...). 2) Admiral Rogers is a true patriot and saw what was occurring against (future) President Trump and logged everything (perhaps "mislabeled" to avoid cleanup by the corrupt Intelligence Community under Obama?). You can bet he's chatting with Durham too. 3) Because of Durham's ongoing investigation and they don't want to announce that publicly because that then confirms there is even an investigation into certain people to begin with. Keep it all under wraps until Durham is ready to start handing down indictments.

They have nowhere to go. The walls are closing in and the American people are going to see a miraculous show this fall and through the next year. Justice is coming. Read more

REPLY MissChievousRN 15 hours ago (edited) Thank heavens he didn't laugh... PeeWee DeBlasio!!😂

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Age Of HeroesWith Age Of Heroes, Tom Breihan picks the most important superhero movie of every year, starting with the genre’s early big-budget moments and moving onto the multiplex-crushing monsters of today.

“The Marvel Universe has gone nuts; we’re going to have a fricking Captain America movie if we’re not careful.” This was Zack Snyder speaking to Entertainment Weekly in 2008. Every once in a while, that quote finds itself recirculated online, evidence of Snyder’s philistine ideas about superhero movies and what a misguided idea it was for DC to recruit him to attempt to replicate the Marvel Universe’s success. (Another Snyder line from that same breath: “And Iron Man—$300 million domestic box office on a second-tier superhero!”)

It’s unfair to Snyder to use that quote out of context. If you read the whole interview, Snyder is, if anything, excited about Marvel’s success, if only because it proves that “pop culture is just, like, so ready for Watchmen,” the movie that he was promoting in that interview. (Note: Pop culture was not.) Snyder was simply showing his own surprise about how quickly and completely superhero movies had taken over, something that would only snowball in the years after that. Also, that Captain America movie was already in development when Snyder said what he said, and Snyder probably already knew that. (The whole Snyder interview is, however, a deeply entertaining and insane historical document. Dismissing the idea that Batman Begins is a dark movie, Snyder notes that Batman “doesn’t, like, get raped in prison. That could happen in my movie. If you want to talk about dark, that’s how that would go.” Eight years later, Snyder would make a Batman movie that did not feature Batman getting raped in prison.)

Here’s the thing: Even if Snyder had been dismissing the idea of a Captain America movie, he would’ve been totally right. Before there was a Captain America movie, there was no evidence that a Captain America movie would ever work, on any level. The entire idea of Captain America—a square-jawed avatar of everything great about the US of A, a guy who intentionally makes himself look like a big flag—seemed almost hopelessly hokey and anachronistic in 2008, when Snyder said what he said. There was nothing dark or gritty or sexy or intense about Captain America. He was a symbol of a time that never existed—an advocate for the greatness of a country that, at least on a geopolitical scale, has long been a globally dominant hegemon rather than a scrappy and idealistic underdog. Even Captain America, the comic book hero, wasn’t so sure about Captain America, the symbol of American pride. In a ’70s comic book storyline, Steve Rogers, disgusted after learning of governmental evil, had briefly forsaken his own identity, instead becoming a costumed adventurer named Nomad. If Captain America himself wasn’t so sure about Captain America, how could Hollywood be?

The 1990 Captain America movie had been such an outright catastrophic failure that it just barely got released. In the years after that, internal debates about America’s role in the world had only heated up. A Captain America movie could’ve gone wrong in so many different ways. It could’ve gotten caught up in post-9/11 Toby Keith jingoism. It could’ve played out as a goofy parody, a broad satire of Dudley Do-Right postwar heroism. It could’ve been another crappy, interchangeable Fantastic Four-level superhero movie, just with more shots of billowing flags. Instead, Captain America: The First Avenger turned out to be the movie that, at least from where I’m sitting, ultimately made the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe experiment work. It took some unbelievably skillful needle-threading to make it happen, but the people at Marvel managed to turn Cap, the personification of corniness, into something like a beloved cinematic icon, the soul upon which all of the MCU rests.

There was groundwork. A new Captain America movie had been in the planning stages since 1997; lawsuits and financial issues had stalled it. When the project finally got going, Marvel had done a few interesting things with the character. Ed Brubaker had built a complex and masterful noirish espionage saga around Cap in his Winter Soldier storyline, while Mark Millar’s blockbuster Civil War event had delighted in its depiction of Steve Rogers as an inspiring and charismatic leader and as someone who would defy his own government if he thought it were straying from the country’s true ideals. (In both Millar’s book and in the Civil War movie that eventually came out of it, Cap is wrongheaded and shortsighted, but that’s an argument for another day.) Captain America: The First Avenger only alludes to those comic book visions of the character, which later movies would explore more thoroughly. But if you were actually reading comics at the time, it was clear that Captain America, in the right hands, could be a layered and fascinating character.

Ultimately, the movie works because Marvel hired the right people. Director Joe Johnston was a longtime journeyman with an inconsistent record and at least a few genuinely bad movies on his résumé. (Shout-out to 2010’s The Wolfman.) But he was also a veteran special-effects guy who’d worked on Star Wars and Raiders Of The Lost Ark, which means he was comfortable with the levels of visual trickery needed to make a story like that work. And with his own 1991 movie The Rocketeer, he’d nailed exactly the kind of old-timey adventure-serial energy that a Captain America movie would need. (He even had powered-up Nazi villains.) It’s hard to imagine anyone more qualified for the job.

It’s also hard to imagine a better Captain America than Chris Evans. Evans had already been around the superhero-movie block before taking the role. He’d done what he could as a devil-may-care playboy version of the Human Torch in two near-unbearable Fantastic Four movies. He’d been a superpowered test-subject mutant at war with shadowy governmental agencies in 2009’s misbegotten Push. He’d lampooned his own absurd handsomeness in the superhero-adjacent Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. He’d never really had much chance to be anything other than a life-size Ken doll. But he had a depth to him, and with Captain America, he finally got the chance to show it.

Evans had to be convinced to take the Captain America role, and he’s always hinted at a little discomfort with it. But he’s perfect. He’s warm and friendly and inspiring—all the things that Captain America is supposed to be. He spends so much of The First Avenger as a scrawny weakling—a special effect much more convincing than it probably should’ve been—that he has to find non-physical ways to project his own idealistic determination. And he does it. The sight of digitally shrunk Chris Evans refusing to back down after a beating from a movie-theater heckler—fists clenched, jaw bloodied, “I could do this all day”—remains one of the most indelible images that the MCU has given us. When he finally does balloon out to superhuman proportions, we’re already on his side. Throughout the movie, he struggles against his own propaganda utility, fervently and innocently trying to get out into the field and help his comrades.

Like Christopher Reeve’s Superman, Evans radiates genuine Boy Scout virtue, and he comes off as an anachronism even in the ’40s. The movie doesn’t joke about him or make him an object of fun. Instead, the movie is just as gee-whiz idealistic about Captain America as Captain America is about America. Even a hint of acid, sarcastic self-consciousness could’ve sunk the movie. In Evans, it has none.

Johnston and the producers built an impressive cast around Evans. As Agent Peggy Carter, Hayley Atwell brings a clipped Katharine Hepburn precision that’s enormously appealing. (The short-lived Agent Carter ABC spinoff, which kept that First Avenger tone intact, remains Marvel’s greatest TV project.) The grumpy authority figure is just Tommy Lee Jones playing Tommy Lee Jones. As Cap’s buddy Bucky, Sebastian Stan is a pleasant slab of beef, which is all he needs to be. Stanley Tucci has fun as the good-guy version of a mad-scientist character.

The only real weak point in the movie’s cast is Hugo Weaving, whose Red Skull has less fleshed-out humanity than Agent Smith, the computer program that Weaving played in the Matrix movies. Even Red Skull’s motivations are muddy. He tells Cap, his fellow super-serum test subject, that he’s “too afraid to admit that we have left humanity behind,” like a K-Mart-brand Magneto. Also: “I have seen the future, Captain! There are no flags!” I don’t know, that sounds pretty good, though it would presumably sound better if a muscle-faced fascist sorcerer wasn’t the one invoking it. (The Red Skull doesn’t even get a satisfying end. When he showed up in a quick surprise cameo in Avengers: Infinity War, I’d completely forgotten that he’d been sucked into a wormhole or whatever. It happens so quickly that you barely process it.)

The movie’s version of ’40s America is a blast. Many of the characters are just as gung-ho as Cap himself. When a HYDRA agent tries to slow Cap down by throwing a little kid into the Hudson, the kid squawks, “Go get ’im! I can swim!” Natalie Dormer, a year away from becoming Margaery Tyrell on Game Of Thrones, gives Cap a big situation-complicating smooch because she likes that he saved a bunch of guys (and also, presumably, because he looks like Chris Evans). In a quick montage after Cap’s apparent death, we see all of America uniting behind him as a martyr and a legend. It’s a comforting vision of a better, simpler version of America.

It’s probably too comforting. The movie only barely alludes to racial inequality in America. When Cap puts together his crack team of commandos, they’re a rainbow coalition, and nobody acts like that’s weird. I wasn’t around in the ’40s, but given what I know, that seems unlikely. I think the movie might’ve been more effective if Cap had seen and wrestled with America’s failures. The same is true of the ravages of warfare. None of the soldiers ever seem freaked out or traumatized. Instead, they just charge into battle, oblivious to their friends disintegrating all around them. (If the Red Skull’s magical weapons didn’t allow for bloodless, PG-13 death, some of those skirmishes would’ve looked like the beginning of Saving Private Ryan.)

In the movie’s second half, when it turns toward action, The First Avenger becomes a pretty generic (though well-done) superhero punch-up. A lot of the storytelling is clumsy and inelegant. At one point, Cap is suddenly in a motorcycle chase with Nazis, with no real setup and little indication of why he’s there. Most of the fight scenes are too CGI-heavy to be truly great, and a few of the effects scenes, like Bucky’s fall from the train, just look like ass. The big finale, when Cap wakes up in a decades-later New York City, is clearly just setup for the next movie, which means The First Avenger can never really stand as its own cohesive story. It’s not a perfect movie. There are real flaws.

But it’s also an elegant piece of myth-building, and small connections to the rest of Marvel enrich the whole world we’re seeing take shape. We meet Tony Stark’s father, a tycoon adventurer who connects the dots between Howard Hughes (who Johnston had depicted in The Rocketeer) and Stark himself. HYDRA science worm Arnim Zola first shows up as a face on a screen, a role he’ll grow into. Before getting his iconic shield, which honestly looks pretty great, Cap fashions one for himself out of a trash-can lid and a ripped-off car door. Marvel wouldn’t bring all its characters together for another year, but little touches like this make it a fuller experience.

Captain America: The First Avenger was a hit, but it wasn’t a huge one. It wasn’t one of the top 10 grossers of 2011; the same year’s decidedly shittier MCU entry, Thor, made more money. And yet it’s a crucial movie for the MCU, since it showed just how much fun this whole Marvel superhero business could be. After the initial miracle of 2008’s Iron Man, Marvel had made three straight movies that were not special at all. There are things worth appreciating in The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, and Thor, but none of them really demonstrates why this whole world matters to people. Captain America: The First Avenger made that case. And if it had failed in any of the myriad ways that it could’ve failed, the present-day movie landscape would presumably look very, very different.

Other notable 2011 superhero movies: Kenneth Branagh’s aforementioned Thor got one thing exactly right: Chris Hemsworth, who looks like a Michelangelo sculpture of a lion-man and who brings a crazy level of life to what was then an underwritten role. But the movie itself is a bore, full of turgid fantasy gobbledygook and thin CGI and sub-Crocodile Dundee fish-out-of-water jokes. The central love story is so across-the-board half-assed that it practically insults both Hemsworth and the paychecking-hard Natalie Portman, and even Tom Hiddleston’s slithery Loki is really only a rough draft for what would come.

The First Avenger wasn’t the only Marvel adaptation to go period-piece. Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class tried to make a swingin’ ’60s espionage thriller out of a prequel, which works pretty well. The cast—James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence—is almost hilariously overqualified, and while the period details never reach the full Mad Men-style immersion they were clearly shooting for, they’re fun enough. The CGI remains terrible, which for whatever reason is true of almost every X-Men movie. Whenever (speaking of Mad Men) January Jones’ Emma Frost turns into her diamond form, she looks like a Virtua Fighter character. This was a series bounce-back after the putrid X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but it was also a clear sign that the non-MCU Marvel movies would never be the main event.

2011’s notorious boondoggle was, of course, Green Lantern, a movie that managed to be a self-aware punchline in two different 2018 superhero movies, Deadpool 2 and Teen Titans Go! To The Movies. (As I’m typing this, I haven’t seen Aquaman or Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse yet, so it’s entirely possible that even more 2018 superhero movies will make fun of Green Lantern.) It is a 10 ten-car pileup of a movie. A post-Deadpool and pre-Deadpool Ryan Reynolds attempts to smirk his way through everything, Van Wilder-style, while the writers build a whole interstellar cosmology that somehow comes off both thin and over-developed. Various respected character actors submit themselves to the indignity of bad alien makeup. (In particular, Peter Sarsgaard, a very handsome man, falls victim to makeup-artist ambitions.) You can almost see Tim Robbins and pre-Black Panther’s mom Angela Bassett thinking, mid-scene, about how they’re going to spend the money that this bullshit is getting them. Also, Future Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi is in there in the nerdy tech-head comic-relief sidekick role? Altogether, Green Lantern makes for a great lesson of what can happen when you try to combine intelligence-insulting children’s entertainment with detail-heavy fan service without filling it all out with any kind of resonant storytelling. Also, Reynolds’ CGI super-suit might be the single ugliest costume in superhero-movie history.

And in other chartreuse-misfire news, Seth Rogen’s long-in-development The Green Hornet finally came out and made no impression. There’s certainly plenty of talent involved in the movie. For a while, slapstick visionary Stephen Chow was attached to both direct and to star as Kato, which would’ve been fascinating. Instead, the directing job ends up with Michel Gondry, the sometimes-great homespun music-video fantasist and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind auteur. Rogen and his Superbad partner Evan Goldberg get the writing credits. Christoph Waltz played a villain, which is something that Christoph Waltz knows how to do. Cameron Diaz is in there, too, as Rogen’s implausible love interest. You would think that these people could do something great together, but instead it’s just a rote nothing of a movie, one that never quite gets around to demonstrating why it deserves to exist.

Also, it’s not really a superhero movie, but I remember thinking that Steven Spielberg’s feature-length CGI cartoon The Adventures Of Tintin was a lot more fun than its reputation would suggest. I have not revisited it.

Next time: In January, this column will tackle The Avengers, the long-planned corporate-crossover blockbuster, which kicked the MCU into high gear and proved just how entertaining this kind of movie, when executed just right, can be.

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Transatlantic tango: Trump and May take their turn at the special relationship

Theresa Mays audience with Trump at the White House continues an age-old dance between prime minister and president, which has seen its ups and downs

Sir Kim Darroch, British ambassador to the US, rarely misses an opportunity to point out that Donald Trump regards the meeting of minds between Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher as a model for the presidents own relationship with Theresa May.

Continuing an age-old dance between prime minister and president, May will on Friday become the first foreign leader to visit Trump at the White House. While the president has declared his intent to put America first in all things, London scents an opening with a man whose mother was British and who restored a bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office within hours of moving in.

It was Churchill, born to an American, who coined the phrase special relationship (as well as iron curtain) during a lecture tour of the US after the second world war. The affinity has been publicly reaffirmed by both sides ever since but proved notoriously lopsided as America surged to superpower status and Britain faded into the second rank. While most US presidents are instantly recognisable to the British, few prime ministers have left their mark across the pond.

There is something faintly demeaning about these prime ministerial jaunts to Washington, journalist Andrew Marr wrote in the Independent in 1994. No Briton with a residual flicker of patriotism can be entirely happy at our doglike desperation to be noticed, to receive a few kind words, have a stick thrown, be reassured by the Nice Man in the Big House that we are still more valuable than the other mutts in town.

Personalities, and personal chemistry, have been part of the narrative, at least symbolically. Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) were wartime allies against Hitler. On one occasion at the White House, a naked Churchill opened his door to Roosevelt and said, You see, Mr President, I have nothing to hide from you. Both men laughed.

Relations turned sour in the 1950s when Anthony Eden authorised military action in Egypt to regain control of the Suez canal, taking Dwight Eisenhower by surprise. Trump adviser Thomas Stewart, a former US naval officer, said: Eden kept Eisenhower in the dark. That damaged relations and affected communications between the UK and US for quite a while. Eden and the Americans were wounded by the lack of trust.

Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill at the Teheran conference during the second world war. Churchill once opened his door naked to Roosevelt, saying: You see, Mr President, I have nothing to hide. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images

The surprising friendship between Conservative Harold Macmillan and the much younger Democrat John F Kennedy is the subject of a book, Harold and Jack, by Christopher Sandford. The two leaders had exchanged not only formal messages but also a steady flow of handwritten notes, Christmas and birthday cards, congratulations, and, on occasion, condolences, the author records.

Macmillan also had an American mother and his wife was the aunt of Lord Hartington, killed in action in 1944 shortly after he married JFKs sister Kathleen. It was Macmillan who said of the British and Americans: We are the Greeks to their Romans.

From 1966 to 1969, the torch passed to Harold Wilson and Lyndon Johnson. The British prime minister resisted pressure to send troops to Vietnam, unlike Tony Blair in Iraq a generation later. After one call, he said: Lyndon Johnson is begging me even to send a bagpipe band to Vietnam.

The 1970s brought Heath/ Nixon and Callaghan/ Carter, but it was the years 1981-89 that delivered the ideological soulmates Thatcher, a Conservative, and Reagan, a Republican, both for the free market, against big government and devoutly anti-communist. They rode horses and golf buggies together.

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan dance in the foyer of the White House during a state dinner in Thatchers honor in 1988. Photograph: Larry Rubenstein/Reuters

Thatcher once declared: Your problems, will be as our problems, and when you look for friends we shall be there. She was, however, critical of Reagan over the US invasion of Grenada.

Stewart recalled how Thatcher visited towards the end of Reagans presidency, when he was under pressure over the Iran-Contra affair, and gave an interview that strongly praised him. As she was leaving, at the airport, Reagan gave her a call and said, Margaret, thank you. All the cabinet members gave her applause of appreciation.

Stewart, who met Thatcher, added: She was a rock solid individual. She understood it was a force multiplier having the UK and US together and it really was a special relationship. We were able to face down the Soviet empire to the extent that they changed who they were.

The inversion of Thatcher/ Reagan came in the 1990s with Tony Blair of Labour and Bill Clinton of the Democrats, both of whom grew up in the post-war era and studied at Oxford University. Clintons New Democrats were hugely influential on Tony Blairs New Labour with youth, a shiny rebranding and a shift to the political centre ground.

Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior adviser to Clinton, introduced him to Blair before he became prime minister. It was probably the closest relationship of an American president and a British prime minister devoted to a common purpose, even more so than FDR and Churchill, he said. They of course were partners in the defeat of Nazi Germany but FDR was not devoted to the future of the British empire. He came to distrust Churchill as a military strategist and overrode him.

When Bill Clinton emerged he was the sole political leader of his kind in the west and when Blair became prime minister, there was a kind of movement. They had to establish liberal and progressive politics as best they could while having to contend with Reaganism and Thatcherism. What happened has been overshadowed and discoloured by Blair and Bush.

Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. It was probably the closest relationship of an American president and a British prime minister devoted to a common purpose. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

This was an unlikelier coupling. Not long after his inauguration in 2001, George W Bush invited the prime minister to a retreat at Camp David. At a press conference, the two leaders were asked if they had found any common ground. Well, we both use Colgate toothpaste, Bush joked. Blair shot back: They are going to wonder how you know that George.

Blair was criticised as Bushs poodle after throwing in his lot with the disastrous US military invasion of Iraq. When Bush presented Blair with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in January 2009, one headline dubbed it a medal of dishonour.

Then came Gordon Brown and Barack Obama. Once again, the unrequited neediness of Britain was on display. In 2009, Brown tried five times to arrange a meeting with Obama on the fringes of the UN general assembly in September 2009, only to be granted a snatched conversation in a New York kitchen.

The removal of Jacob Epsteins bust of Churchill was seen by some as evidence of Obamas antipathy towards the UK, although British officials said it had simply been on loan as a personal gift from Blair to Bush for the duration of his presidency and was always expected to then be returned.

Obama had a stronger relationship with Germanys Angela Merkel than with his British counterparts. She received his final phone call to a foreign leader from the White House, a telling contrast from May being the first to meet Trump. The pendulum swings again.

Luke Coffey, director of the Foreign Policy Center at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation think tank which contains a Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom said: Im optimistic about this relationship. Youve got someone whos not going to be down on the prime minister over the Brexit issue and who wants to do a trade deal.

Angela Merkel talks to Barack Obama during a G7 meeting at Elmau Castle in Elmau, Germany. Photograph: MICHAEL KAPPELER / POOL/EPA

Coffey, former special adviser to Britains former defence secretary Liam Fox, added: The important point about the special relationship is it shouldnt matter whos in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or Number 10 Downing Street. It has to rise above the personalities and the political parties.

A lot have a very romantic idea of the special relationship, especially from a UK perspective. Its first and foremost about military and intelligence cooperation. When you add on other conditions then perhaps its not seen as special as people would like.