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theoscarsproject · 7 months

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White Nights (1985). A Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR?

This movie is ?? Insane ?? Yet it kinda works! I think a huge part of that goes towards its terrific cast and some really affecting sequences that merge the Cold War thriller elements with the post-Vietnam War trauma and, well, the power of dance. If that sounds wild, that's because overall it is, and its a testament to Taylor Hackford's skill as a director. Just a surprise from start to finish (complimentary). 7/10.

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power-chords · 1 year

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Greatest film of all time.

#I'm not joking #slap shot (1977)#nancy dowd

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80smovies · 12 days

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#Ordinary People 1980 #Ordinary People #Mary Tyler Moore #Timothy Hutton #Donald Sutherland #Robert Redford #Judith Guest #Alvin Sargent #Nancy Dowd #VHS #80s

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thebestestwinner · 1 year

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Top two vote-getters will move on to the next round. See pinned post for all groups!

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iamtheweirdomister · 1 year

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Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains: teenage Diane Lane and Laura Dern rock punk

This long-buried gem from 1982 about a teen-girl punk band subverts the great rock’n’roll swindle of the Sex Pistols

Jenny Valentish Mon 18 Jan 2021 11.30 EST

When Johnny Rotten crouched on the edge of the stage in San Francisco in 1978, at the demise of the Sex Pistols’ US tour, and asked, “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” it would inspire a key moment in a film four years later.

In Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains, Billy (Ray Winstone) fronts the Looters – a London punk band, all “poxy” this and “bollocks” that – rounded out by real-life Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Steve Jones, as well as Paul Simonon from the Clash. Billy addresses the fanatical teenage girl audience awaiting the set of headline act the Fabulous Stains, and snarls: “You’ve been ripped off.”

Rotten’s comment had been in reference to manager Malcolm McLaren booking the disastrous tour in cities unlikely to embrace the Pistols, whereas Billy’s broadside is motivated by resentment that his booking agent has turned what had been the Looters’ support band, the Fabulous Stains, into a cynical marketing concept.

(Stains trailer here: https://youtu.be/06kCwPpyjCk)

“You’re adverts. You’re a commercial,” he spits at the audience of “skunks”, named after the two-tone hair of the Fabulous Stains. This sea of teenage girls is dressed in the official Stains merch of transparent red blouses, completed by red winged eye makeup, and underwear and fishnets with no skirts.

It’s not the only parallel to the Pistols in this long-lost cult film, now available to rent or buy on YouTube. Jones and Cook, who wrote many songs on the soundtrack, formed the Professionals after the Pistols broke up. One of that band’s singles, Join the Professionals, winds up being the Fabulous Stains’ break-out MTV hit.

Trailer for Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains.

The Fabulous Stains themselves, made up of nihilistic firecracker Corinne Burns (a 15-year-old Diane Lane); Jessica McNeil (13-year-old Laura Dern) and Tracy Burns (Marianne Kanter) are pitched somewhere between the Go-Gos and the Runaways, and frontwoman Corinne is frequently invited on to TV shows, thanks to her bleak one-liners that are guaranteed to shock suburbia. One moralistic TV news anchor is clearly modelled on Bill Grundy, whose 1976 interview with the Pistols descended into mayhem when he contemptuously goaded them into swearing.

The plot follows a tour of the US, initially headlined by rock dinosaurs the Metal Corpses (a washed-up version of KISS), followed on the bill by the Looters and the Fabulous Stains.

The Fabulous Stains are just as disparaging of Metal Corpses (“He was an old man in a young girl’s world,” they tell reporters when the guitarist overdoses backstage), but also of the Looters, who are themselves has-beens by 1982. They’re repulsed by the way their tourmates assume all women are groupies, giving rise to the slogan, “We’re the Stains and we don’t put out”. Their star soon eclipses that of the other bands, and Corinne becomes some kind of monster herself.

In fact, one wonders what the famously prickly Dowd made of the end result of Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains. She and director/record executive Lou Adler apparently couldn’t agree on the ending, and she walked off set after being groped by a crew member. Her feminist script rubbed up awkwardly against the lingering shots of pubescent breasts bouncing behind transparent blouses.

Paramount buried the film, perhaps because of a poorly received test screening, and it languished in the vaults for decades, only being screened at the odd film festival. Those fleeting outings were enough to fire the imaginations of Courtney Love and riot grrrl bands such as Bikini Kill, but the film didn’t reach a wider audience until it was released on DVD in 2008 with a cast commentary.

There are some great visual moments, such as the audience of teenage Stains clones flipping off the Looters en masse, and the dilapidated tour bus rumbling through shit towns (driven by real-life reggae artist Barry Ford as the tour manager) painted red, gold and green, with “The Looters” spray-painted over “The Metal Corpses”. And the smart-mouthed script isn’t as contrived as you might anticipate, despite having to jump a number of sharks in order to catapult the Stains to MTV stardom.

The ultimate burn comes from Corinne Burns, of course.

“You are so jealous of me,” she tells Billy, who’s kicked down her dressing room door to tell her she knows nothing about the industry. “I’m everything you ever wanted to be.”

“A cunt,” he spits.

“Exactly.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains is available to stream on YouTube

#ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains #diane lane #corinne burns #nancy dowd #the professionals #steve jones #paul cook #paul simonon #fee waybill

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ad-j · 2 years

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WATCHLIST 2022: Slap Shot

#movie watchlist #slap shot #paul newman #nancy dowd #george roy hill #david hanson #steve carlson #jeff carlson #melinda dillon #jennifer warren #strother martin #michael ontkean

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ambriel-angstwitch · 23 days

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Bernard: Can I buy you breakfast?

Tim: I was going to play hard to get, but screw it. Yes.

Bernard: I'll come get you in ten?

Tim: Uh, more like 40 dude.

Bernard: 38. Final offer.

Tim: Sold 😘

#timbern #dc tim drake #tim drake #bernard dowd #source: Nancy drew and the palace of wisdom #incorrect dc quotes #dc incorrect quotes #red robin #tim drake x bernard dowd #bernard dowd x tim drake

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dhaaruni · 1 year

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“I was a woman of great power, and now I’ll be a woman of great influence."

#it's amazing how Maureen Dowd respects Nancy Pelosi in a way she'll NEVER respect the Clintons or Obama #links #politics

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madamspeaker · 1 year

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#nancy pelosi #madam speaker #paul pelosi #i can dislike dowd intensely for her attitude to hillary but still appreciate that she posted this #and acknowledge that she does do good interviews with nancy

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lyrasky · 2 years

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Fishborne【Party At Ground Zero】和訳グランドゼロで言いたいこと Before U know It U Got A Song

Fishborne【Party At Ground Zero】和訳グランドゼロで言いたいこと Before U know It U Got A Song Lyraのブログへ #fishbone #partyatgroundzero #フィッシュボーン #CampNowhere #TheTripper #pinkviporstew #AngeloMoore #WalterAKibby2 #KendallJones #ChrisDowd #JohnNorwoodFisher #JohnnyGotHisGun #TheNightmareBeforeChristmas #nuclear

梅雨明けするんじゃん？なんてジョーク飛ばしていたら、本当に6月中に梅雨明けしちゃった〜。もうスカやレゲエの季節よぉぉぉぉん。っと言っても、大体いつもはロックよりのカラダなので(笑)、今日はゴリゴリのSkaではなく(ゴリゴリって言う？)、ロック魂あるライブを繰り広げ、ベースには、これまた愛するファンクやJazzの血がしっかり流れているFishbone の1番好きな曲を和訳解説しちゃいます。このバンドを知らなくてもRed Hot Chili Peppersらのカリフォルニア・ロック・バンドが好きな人ならば、名前を聞いた事があるだろうし、仲良しバンドだから相互で相手のバンドのコーラスやバックバンドで参加している音に触れているはず。そう言う��け合いの精神やノリの良さもFishbone…

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orfeolookback · 5 months

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i feel like posts like these are based off of a sense of well-meaning anger but miss the point in a particularly radical feminist way and make people up just to be mad at them. Anyone [in a honest discussion setting, a non-tumblr discussion, academic settings primarily!] saying men are lonely is personally diagnosing a problem with patriarchy, not saying women don't experience it too. it's just pointing out the way that patriarchy has inner workings that differentiate, reward and punish even within the privileged class of men. Male privilege is intersectional and thus very circumstancial. I'm not saying OP is wrong, but there's a wayyy more nuanced take to be had if we understand that 1) the fact that we have so much reading on masculinities that Highlights the need for a new approach to masculinity that doesn't both drive men to and excuse men's violence, and 2) male privilege is tied to 'doing' gender correctly as well as the legal, optical, social, medical, etc, status of manhood (thank you Butler) so it's not like being cis magically makes anyone violent, smth smth Bourdieu's habitus theory applied to a masculine habitus that includes violence

some reading that i find interesting bc i've been on a bunch of feminist theory and praxis workshop groups about feminity and masculinity (as a transmasc, non-passing, effeminate non binary). the following are recommended citations!

Nancy E. Dowd, Masculinities and Feminist Legal Theory, 23 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc'y 201 (2008), available at http://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/415

Cramer, K.M., Neyedley, K.A. Sex Differences in Loneliness: The Role of Masculinity and Femininity. Sex Roles 38, 645–653 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018850711372

Pitt, S. L., & Fox, C. A. (2012). "Performative Masculinity: A New Theory on Masculinity". In Masculinity/Femininity: Re-Framing a Fragmented Debate. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848880948_006

Nikki Wedgwood (2009)Connell's theory of masculinity – its origins and influences on the study of gender1 ,Journal of Gender Studies,18:4,329-339,DOI: 10.1080/09589230903260001

Will H Courtenay, Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being: a theory of gender and health, Social Science & Medicine, Volume 50, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1385-1401, ISSN 0277-9536, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0277-9536(99)00390-1. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953699003901)

Carrigan, T., Connell, B., & Lee, J. (1985). Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity. Theory and Society, 14(5), 551–604. http://www.jstor.org/stable/657315

and finally!

#sorry as a queer researcher i love to challenge ideas that come from radical feminism #they don't help the feminist cause at all #i know anger is satisfying but this isn't productive in my scholarly opinion #and adding the word cis only shifts the essentialism to the cisgender locus of malehood #its still radical feminism

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power-chords · 2 years

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Adam: [last night, during the first half hour of Slap Shot] I cannot believe a woman wrote this movie.

Me: By the end of it, you will be like, "Only a woman could have written this movie."

[90 minutes later, credits roll]

Adam: Yeah, you were right.

#pandemic film school: bux curriculum edition #slap shot #slap shot (1977)#nancy dowd

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the-grendel-khan · 1 year

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Murder, Abuse, and Citogenesis

I’ve seen this going around on Facebook. It dates back to at least 2014. Let’s dig in and see where the idea came from.

The immediate citation goes to this “Purple Berets Fact Sheet”, which in turn cites "(National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 1989)" for the first claim, and nothing at all for the second. (The FBI's UCR doesn't distinguish between "an argument" and "self-defense" as motives, anyway; these aren't mutually exclusive categories.)

The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence's current fact sheet has no such claims in it, and I haven't been able to find a former one which did (though The Guardian dates it to 1989). The claim shows up in plenty of books, though, dating back through the nineties. I'm curious if VAWA changed anything, or indeed, if anything in the intervening thirty-four years did.

First, I did find a BJS report, "Spouse Murder Defendants in Large Urban Counties", covering similar but not identical subjects (spouses, not partners, and in cities, not everywhere) at a similar time (data from 1988) to the original claim. It found that wives who killed their husbands, on average, were less likely to be charged, far more likely to be acquitted, and received sentences averaging ten years shorter than husbands who killed their wives. And indeed, self-defense ("provocation", as they put it) is noted as a likely explanation:

In certain circumstances, extreme victim provocation may justify taking a life in self-defense. Provocation was more often present in wife defendant cases, and wife defendants were less likely than husband defendants to be convicted, suggesting that the relatively high rate of victim provocation characteristic of wife defendant cases was one of the reasons wife defendants had a lower conviction rate than husband defendants. Consistent with that, of the provoked wife defendants, 56% were convicted, significantly lower than either the 86% conviction rate for unprovoked wife defendants or the 88% conviction rate for unprovoked husbands.

Furthermore, this still didn't explain the shorter sentences.

Wives received shorter prison sentences than husbands (a 10-year difference, on average) even when the comparison is restricted to defendants who were alike in terms of whether or not they were provoked: The average prison sentence for unprovoked wife defendants was 7 years, or 10 years shorter than the average 17 years for unprovoked husband defendants.

So, where did the opposite idea come from? This 1993 TIME article by Nancy Gibbs (who started her career as a fact checker, ironically) cites "Michael Dowd, director of the Pace University Battered Women's Justice Center".

At this point, it looks like this was straightforward citogenesis; a claim is made unreliably, then laundered into a reliable source and becomes accepted as fact.

I directly contacted the current director of the Pace University Battered Women's Justice Center (now the Pace Women's Justice Center) as well as Michael Dowd's law firm (I don't know if he's still practicing), and sent a follow-up to both over a period of two weeks. I received no reply in either case.

I've done my diligence on this one. I believe that the frequently-cited statistic that men who murder their wives are sentenced more leniently than women who murder their husbands was wrong when it was first published over three decades ago, and there's no particular reason to believe it's not still wrong now.

#corrections #statistics #disagreement

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reddancer1 · 3 months

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https://archive.ph/OztAg#selection-369.0-379.12

OPINION

MAUREEN DOWD

The Ogre Gorging on America

Jan. 27, 2024

If you can imagine the lobby bar of the Manchester Marriott as an Anglo-Saxon mead hall, I can explain how it felt to cover the New Hampshire primary.

I will need the help of the late Seamus Heaney, who described what it was like to be quaffing in Heorot Hall while Grendel lurked and swooped through the frost-stiffened north.

In his lyrical translation of “Beowulf,” Heaney described Grendel as “the terror-monger,” the “captain of evil” and “the dread of the land.”

He wrote that the fiend “ruled in defiance of right” and was “malignant by nature, he never showed remorse.”

The “powerful demon, a prowler through the dark, nursed a hard grievance,” he said, adding: “Grendel waged his lonely war, inflicting constant cruelties on the people, atrocious hurt,” pursuing “vicious raids and ravages.”

The New Hampshire primary felt like a chapter of that Old English saga: Donald Trump, the ogre who keeps coming back to terrorize us, was stomping around that lovely little snow-covered state, devouring his foes.

Unfortunately, Nikki Haley was no Beowulf. She was not mighty and canny enough to rescue us from the brute. Not a single mead bench was broken in the battle. Her blade made slight cuts, but she was tentative, hoping not to drive away Trump supporters. She was on defense, not offense. She needed more of that adamantine quality that Nancy Pelosi showed against Trump.

Haley did not say what needed to be said: Donald Trump should not be president because he tried to overthrow the government. We can’t have someone guiding our democracy who is undemocratic, claiming that every contest he loses is rigged. We can’t have a president who encourages violence, vomits misinformation, campaigns by humiliation and smears and, lately, portrays himself as divine.

Engorged by his victories over Haley and Ron DeSanctimonious, the Mar-a-Lago Monster grew stronger.

Haley was able to get under his skin by taking a page out of his book on election night. She took her second-place finish and boasted that it really counted as a win of sorts. And that sent Trump into a scary “Caine Mutiny” monologue.

All he had to do Tuesday night in Nashua was be gracious in victory and say he was going to focus on the general election.

But he is so frightened of being cast as a loser that he was totally thrown for a loop by Haley bragging about taking the silver medal. He thinks he’s the only one who’s allowed to spin election results.

“I said, ‘Wow, she’s doing, like, a speech, like she won,’” Trump said. “She didn’t win. She lost.” How removed is he from his own reality that he can say that with a straight face? That he doesn’t know he’s talking about himself?

He was befuddled by the effrontery of Haley continuing her challenge to him. He couldn’t stop his Captain Queeg rant.

Ah, but the strawberries.

“We’ve won almost every single poll in the last three months against Crooked Joe Biden, almost every poll. And she doesn’t win those polls. And she doesn’t win those. This is not your typical victory speech, but let’s not have somebody take a victory when she had a very bad night. She had a very bad night.” (Needless to say, Haley does win some polls.)

Ah, but the strawberries.

“I said I can go up and I can say to everybody, ‘Oh, thank you for the victory. It’s wonderful.’ Or I can go up and say, ‘Who the hell was the impostor that went up on the stage before and, like, claimed a victory?’ She did very poorly, actually.” He added: “I don’t get too angry. I get even.”

Ah, but the strawberries.

“But I felt I should do this because I find in life you can’t let people get away with bullshit. You can’t. You just can’t do that. And when I watched her in the fancy dress that probably wasn’t so fancy, come up, I said, ‘What’s she doing? We won.’”

What does that bitchy line about Haley’s pretty blue flowered dress even mean? It’s as if he can’t even summon a sexist insult that makes sense. No wonder Haley called him “totally unhinged” on Friday.

He kept going with his demented rant on Truth Social two days later: “I heard BIRDBRAIN totally ‘bombed’ last night in South Carolina. Why the surprise, she just bombed in Iowa and New Hampshire in a very big way, and lost both States.”

He has really lost the thread of how a democracy works. This was evident again in his outrageous endorsement of a plan to short-circuit the primaries and have himself crowned the presumptive nominee by the Republican National Committee. After a backlash, he backed off and disavowed his own desire.

Trump was still acting erratically in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Friday, stalking in and out. After the jury returned a verdict ordering him to pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll for defaming her, he blasted out a screwy screed on Truth Social, ending with, “THIS IS NOT AMERICA!”

Fortunately, it is. But it won’t be if Grendel terrorizes his way back into the Oval Office.

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5brightplanets · 6 months

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Whereas John Forbes Nash, Jr. samplified Governing Dynamics (GD) in terms of touch football, hungry birds, and muggings in process, Reggie elegantly lays GD on center ice as a sort of goaly go-to-itness. Typically, it reduces to a simple fraction where the Info Overload Quotient (IOQ) divided by the Info Underload Quotient (IUQ) rapidly approaches one. Articulated (apart from one topical letter trade) by Reggie Dunlop (played by Paul Newman) in conversation with Ned Braden (played by Michael Ontkean) in the movie Slap Shot; Written by Nancy Dowd; Inspired by historic Johnstown Jets Players 20, 18, 17, and 16; and Directed by George Roy Hill. The viewable and listenable link is posted and performed by Dario Ronchi; https://youtu.be/bCxLAr_bwpA?si=d-GaftBeP7SHv_rY is a seemingly one-time use, hypochangeable link to Scott Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag. YouTube featured artist Scott Joplin. Grateful awareness of the many artists, musicians, and technicians who present these sights and sounds. Music composed by Scott Joplin. -Jivananda (Jim)

#Youtube

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tctmp · 1 year

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Drama Mystery Thriller

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