I'd add No Country for Old Men to this list. He did a great job of playing a guy who is deeply emotional, but struggling with expressing it. Frankly, while he's not one of the leads, this role was pivotal to bringing the movie home.
He was excellent as a PTSD suffering Vietnam veteran in Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth. He managed to be terrifying while being emotionally abusive to his wife, yet he also portrayed the character's deep pain. When his ex-wife stops being angry at him and finally forgives him is when his character commits suicide, because that's what he can't cope with.
If I worked in Royal PR, I would not want any senior royals near Invictus even if their relationship with Harry was hunky dory. The org lost its CEO and several board members abruptly, under uncertain/shady circumstances. There are reports it's been hemorrhaging funds. Angela Levin claimed around 2,000 military members/athletes have left since the most recent Games. Its primary sponsor is Boeing, who has its branding all over it, and Boeing happens to be one of the most poisonous corporate brands in the world at the moment. The potential for a scandalous blowback would just be too great, even minus the Harry factor.
People were really awful to her on her Instagram when this happened, making comments about how her parents' deaths were her fault and she should have done something. She had to explain that she'd tried over and over but her parents refused to let her or anyone in their home, including repairmen she'd sent to fix their house (because neighbors complained). IIRC they were hoarders.
One of the people he shot survived the attack, but her unborn child didnât. She and her boyfriend split up as a result. She wrote an essay about her experience, pondering how very different her life would have turned out if sheâd taken an alternate route that day.
There was a great anecdote by the onset doctor who was called to a hotel room one day because Tom Sizemore was out of control. Juliette Lewis was in the room hanging out with Sizemore (not fucking, just partying) and were apparently on some substances. Juliette started jumping on the bed and was like, "I want some cornflakes!" so had room service bring some up. Sizemore had forgotten she'd ordered it, saw the cereal when it arrived and screamed, "I HATE CORNFLAKES!" and tried to throw a chair out of the window (I say try because IIRC it was a shatterproof window and just bounced back on him).
The amount of middle class college guys I see throwing THOUSANDS of dollars at sports gambling is crazy. They're maximizing their loans and blowing it all on sports betting within the first month of school. It's a frantic, consuming addiction that I've never seen outside of substances. They go fucking insane.
It seemed like Ed was the only one who looked at new stuff to me. Also, Marcus calling her Patty rather than Patsy just screamed âugh we need to fulfill a contract.â
Did they just re-use the audio from the original episode? I know a fair bit about this case, so was never able to tolerate the original ep as, within the first few minutes, they got at least two easy facts wrong: Marcus referring to her as Patty and not Patsy, her name, and Marcus also stating that Melinda Ramsey, the adult daughter who died in a car crash, was Patsy and John's daughter.
While I disagree with the sentiment on what he replied with, I do think the larger focus on race and gender/sexuality over socioeconomics that the left has gotten more attached to in the last decade does a lot to alienate your average member of the working class. As a young white guy who grew up in poverty, I have met SOME leftists(and to a degree liberals) who have told me directly that the way things are is on me because of the color of my skin, my gender and sexuality. That I am inherently bad because of immutable characteristics. I have resisted being pushed to the right because I disagree strongly with some of their moral philosophy, but can see how it has that effect on some people.
Look, I get it, but youâre doing the thing being discussed. Youâre being condescending and patronizing and arenât listening to people explaining a situation to you.
There's been a ton of research that's debunked the "it's about economic anxiety" theory and the idea that big bad liberals actually hurting MAGA feelings is why people like Trump. They like Trump because he's a racist. That's it.
Seeing comments about how KP should fire their PR team on TT. No, sweetie, there's no amount of PR tact that could've predicted the unwashed, inflamed hemorrhoid that is the internet, taking a public statement giving us plenty of information and blowing it out of proportion. The lack of accountability that some people will go through to absolve themselves of the guilt of participating in global bullying is wild. Accept that the internet was collectively shitty and leave her alone
They are obsessed with the idea Catherine has no agency. That's what lies behind all the "he's cheating on her but she puts up with it" or "he'll kick her to the curb and she can't do anything about it" BS takes.
I've seen countless comments on Fauxmoi about how, "William is even worse because he threw his wife with cancer under the bus about the photo!" It literally does not occur to them that Catherine posted a note admitting to the edits because....she made the edits. They cannot even wrap their heads around a possibly reality where William took the photo and it had flaws, so Catherine did two quick edits (backed up the metadata), thought it looked decent enough for Instagram, did not anticipate the AP acting so bizarre, but wanted to own up to her "mistake."
Why didn't they have any presenter for this category? I can understand going with the theme but just hanging a piece of cloth after the nominees are announced??? That's just absurd.
A good bit of what Chris Kyle wrote in his book would be generously described as braggadocious fiction, but more realistically as racist homicidal fantasies. On the lighter side, he had a chapter where he claimed he punched out Jesse Ventura for saying that the SEALs deserved to "lose a few." Ventura successfully sued Kyle/his estate for defamation because, not only did Ventura never say that, the incident purely never happened. Kyle also had claimed in his book that, during Hurricane Katrina, he claimed he drove out to the superdome where picked off thirty "looters" (read: Black New Orleans residents) with his rifle, yet thankfully there's no evidence of this ever happening. He also claimed to have killed two men who tried to rob him at a gas station, but again there's not even a police report of two men being found shot dead at a gas station to corroborate that story. He gleefully described his time in Iraq as well, calling all Iraqis "savages," but he said that killing was fun and also bragged about looting through Iraqi familes' homes (he had said he was disappointed that he couldn't find any guns, cash, or explosives but took a handheld Tiger Woods game as a consolation). Most of his kill count and even his medal count was inflated within the book, with Kyle dismissing the inconsistencies as military bureaucracy. Marcus Luttrell pulled a similar stunt for his book and movie, Lone Survivor.
And to close the circle, Jesse Ventura himself also used to lie about being a Vietnam War combat veteran. In reality, he was stationed in Korea and the Philippines. Ventura got a Vietnam service medal for doing a three month float with an Amphibious Readiness Group with a UDT section attached that went into the area of the ocean designated as part of the Vietnam theater. He never saw combat or stepped foot in Vietnam.
Poor guy also lost his wife of 35 years to cancer several years ago. However, he seems to have happily found a new partner (and she's his age to boot).
You realize that the family is not seeing the crowd sourced money in a day either? I understand there's a cultural factor in Brazil about the person needing to be buried within 24 hours, but a legit crowd funding site will not release the money that quickly.
There was a whole thing about that. Itâs incredibly pretentious, but Scorsese allegedly said that âYoung actors today donât really understand what the mob was like and how to behave because they didnât grow up around it, etc.â that was supposedly why he didnât cast a younger actor and went with DeNiro and made him look like a 50 year old pretending to be a kid like some bad comedy movie. I find it to be ridiculous because. Well⌠they are FUCKING ACTORS! Thatâs literally their job. Does that mean you can only hire 120 year olds for a period piece about the early 1900âs? Guess you canât make a movie about Lincoln, the actors today would never understand what it was like to live in the post civil war reconstruction era⌠let alone know what it takes to be presidentâŚ
"Why would you propose to your girlfriend on a group trip?" I am begging these people to go touch grass and have a real relationship ever. Maybe then they'd know that proposals are common on both trips and in front of one's friends.
Sainted Diana, the noblewoman who grew up on a Royal estate, the one who allegedly joked when Andrew got engaged, "At least he didn't choose a Catholic or a Black, then it'd be all over for me," referring to herself being usurped for attention.
It was good for him for a while. He was having a lot of issues in NYC when COVId started and it seemed like Henry almost made him come out there. He would be posting all the COVId stuff online and Henry would post that they were talking to him and making sure heâs ok
Yeah, I think moving to LA was a last resort type of thing. I always thought Henry felt that if Ben moved out there he would be in a better environment and get a new lease on life
"It's good to be here in Paris, France. As we all know, Paris is only famous as the city where the mother of my children died in a drunk crash with her boytoy. Keep on, Paris, maybe you'll one day have enough history to be known for something else, either than the city my ex-wife died in."
I was just puzzled why she thought it would be such a difficult journey to fly from California to Miami? Regular folks do it all the time! They would totally have been there if invited. I guess they just couldnât line up Air Force One again đ.
British people really donât understand the size of the United States. They donât realize that the flight from California to Florida is a big, stupid slog.
Meghan flew across the ocean for her OWN baby shower! Instead of holding it in London (where she and her husband lived at the time), Los Angeles (her home town) or Vancouver (the city which was her base for most of her adult life) she chose to fly to hold it in NYC.
I suppose Kaiser would also have to deal with the questions as to why Meghan can fly private to be guest of honor at an Indianapolis Marriott but can't fly with her husband to support him at such vital events in his home country, or attend the life events of their supposed friends. Kaiser and her minions want us to believe that Meghan and Harry can easily hop across country to collect a nothing award no one's ever heard in NYC or collect a meaningless polo cup, while at the same time they're declining invites to the Oscars, A-list sporting events and the baby showers of their supposed friends (Serena Williams). It cannot ever be that Meghan and Harry burned all their bridges and are not invited to such things.
That was before my time (I'm 42) but I feel old that this was so far down, because growing up it was the penultimate example of an actor being killed off for leaving a show.
I'd add No Country for Old Men to this list. He did a great job of playing a guy who is deeply emotional, but struggling with expressing it. Frankly, while he's not one of the leads, this role was pivotal to bringing the movie home.
He was excellent as a PTSD suffering Vietnam veteran in Oliver Stone's Heaven & Earth. He managed to be terrifying while being emotionally abusive to his wife, yet he also portrayed the character's deep pain. When his ex-wife stops being angry at him and finally forgives him is when his character commits suicide, because that's what he can't cope with.
Why Wonât the Royals Support Prince Harryâs Invictus Games? (archived)
If I worked in Royal PR, I would not want any senior royals near Invictus even if their relationship with Harry was hunky dory. The org lost its CEO and several board members abruptly, under uncertain/shady circumstances. There are reports it's been hemorrhaging funds. Angela Levin claimed around 2,000 military members/athletes have left since the most recent Games. Its primary sponsor is Boeing, who has its branding all over it, and Boeing happens to be one of the most poisonous corporate brands in the world at the moment. The potential for a scandalous blowback would just be too great, even minus the Harry factor.
People were really awful to her on her Instagram when this happened, making comments about how her parents' deaths were her fault and she should have done something. She had to explain that she'd tried over and over but her parents refused to let her or anyone in their home, including repairmen she'd sent to fix their house (because neighbors complained). IIRC they were hoarders.
One of the people he shot survived the attack, but her unborn child didnât. She and her boyfriend split up as a result. She wrote an essay about her experience, pondering how very different her life would have turned out if sheâd taken an alternate route that day.
Claire Wilson. This profile of her in Texas Monthly may be the best longform article I've read ever:
Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers
There was a great anecdote by the onset doctor who was called to a hotel room one day because Tom Sizemore was out of control. Juliette Lewis was in the room hanging out with Sizemore (not fucking, just partying) and were apparently on some substances. Juliette started jumping on the bed and was like, "I want some cornflakes!" so had room service bring some up. Sizemore had forgotten she'd ordered it, saw the cereal when it arrived and screamed, "I HATE CORNFLAKES!" and tried to throw a chair out of the window (I say try because IIRC it was a shatterproof window and just bounced back on him).
The amount of middle class college guys I see throwing THOUSANDS of dollars at sports gambling is crazy. They're maximizing their loans and blowing it all on sports betting within the first month of school. It's a frantic, consuming addiction that I've never seen outside of substances. They go fucking insane.
ESPN might as well be The Gambling Network now.
It seemed like Ed was the only one who looked at new stuff to me. Also, Marcus calling her Patty rather than Patsy just screamed âugh we need to fulfill a contract.â
Did they just re-use the audio from the original episode? I know a fair bit about this case, so was never able to tolerate the original ep as, within the first few minutes, they got at least two easy facts wrong: Marcus referring to her as Patty and not Patsy, her name, and Marcus also stating that Melinda Ramsey, the adult daughter who died in a car crash, was Patsy and John's daughter.
This reminds me of the story about
That was my question. 300 word essays it said
While I disagree with the sentiment on what he replied with, I do think the larger focus on race and gender/sexuality over socioeconomics that the left has gotten more attached to in the last decade does a lot to alienate your average member of the working class. As a young white guy who grew up in poverty, I have met SOME leftists(and to a degree liberals) who have told me directly that the way things are is on me because of the color of my skin, my gender and sexuality. That I am inherently bad because of immutable characteristics. I have resisted being pushed to the right because I disagree strongly with some of their moral philosophy, but can see how it has that effect on some people.
Look, I get it, but youâre doing the thing being discussed. Youâre being condescending and patronizing and arenât listening to people explaining a situation to you.
There's been a ton of research that's debunked the "it's about economic anxiety" theory and the idea that big bad liberals actually hurting MAGA feelings is why people like Trump. They like Trump because he's a racist. That's it.
Seeing comments about how KP should fire their PR team on TT. No, sweetie, there's no amount of PR tact that could've predicted the unwashed, inflamed hemorrhoid that is the internet, taking a public statement giving us plenty of information and blowing it out of proportion. The lack of accountability that some people will go through to absolve themselves of the guilt of participating in global bullying is wild. Accept that the internet was collectively shitty and leave her alone
It was maddening to see so many comments on
I'm flattered by the title honor! :) I'm such a rare poster here, thank you so much!
"It's about ethics in royal publicity!"
They are obsessed with the idea Catherine has no agency. That's what lies behind all the "he's cheating on her but she puts up with it" or "he'll kick her to the curb and she can't do anything about it" BS takes.
I've seen countless comments on Fauxmoi about how, "William is even worse because he threw his wife with cancer under the bus about the photo!" It literally does not occur to them that Catherine posted a note admitting to the edits because....she made the edits. They cannot even wrap their heads around a possibly reality where William took the photo and it had flaws, so Catherine did two quick edits (backed up the metadata), thought it looked decent enough for Instagram, did not anticipate the AP acting so bizarre, but wanted to own up to her "mistake."
Why didn't they have any presenter for this category? I can understand going with the theme but just hanging a piece of cloth after the nominees are announced??? That's just absurd.
At one of the early 2000s awards, they animated the costumer designer's sketches and showed them as they were announced. That was my favorite.
Dustin Hoffman's speech in 1979 for best actor:
This one is even more wrong once you hear the rumors Harvey Weinstein basically bought the award.
Actually, DreamWorks spent twice as much money on the Oscar campaign for Saving Private Ryan than Miramax did for Shakespeare in Love.
A good bit of what Chris Kyle wrote in his book would be generously described as braggadocious fiction, but more realistically as racist homicidal fantasies. On the lighter side, he had a chapter where he claimed he punched out Jesse Ventura for saying that the SEALs deserved to "lose a few." Ventura successfully sued Kyle/his estate for defamation because, not only did Ventura never say that, the incident purely never happened. Kyle also had claimed in his book that, during Hurricane Katrina, he claimed he drove out to the superdome where picked off thirty "looters" (read: Black New Orleans residents) with his rifle, yet thankfully there's no evidence of this ever happening. He also claimed to have killed two men who tried to rob him at a gas station, but again there's not even a police report of two men being found shot dead at a gas station to corroborate that story. He gleefully described his time in Iraq as well, calling all Iraqis "savages," but he said that killing was fun and also bragged about looting through Iraqi familes' homes (he had said he was disappointed that he couldn't find any guns, cash, or explosives but took a handheld Tiger Woods game as a consolation). Most of his kill count and even his medal count was inflated within the book, with Kyle dismissing the inconsistencies as military bureaucracy. Marcus Luttrell pulled a similar stunt for his book and movie, Lone Survivor.
And to close the circle, Jesse Ventura himself also used to lie about being a Vietnam War combat veteran. In reality, he was stationed in Korea and the Philippines. Ventura got a Vietnam service medal for doing a three month float with an Amphibious Readiness Group with a UDT section attached that went into the area of the ocean designated as part of the Vietnam theater. He never saw combat or stepped foot in Vietnam.
Also, poor Patrick Duffy. Thatâs very sad.
Poor guy also lost his wife of 35 years to cancer several years ago. However, he seems to have happily found a new partner (and she's his age to boot).
Yeah, and in those two days the fans have done more than the billionaire. Your point is???
You realize that the family is not seeing the crowd sourced money in a day either? I understand there's a cultural factor in Brazil about the person needing to be buried within 24 hours, but a legit crowd funding site will not release the money that quickly.
There was a whole thing about that. Itâs incredibly pretentious, but Scorsese allegedly said that âYoung actors today donât really understand what the mob was like and how to behave because they didnât grow up around it, etc.â that was supposedly why he didnât cast a younger actor and went with DeNiro and made him look like a 50 year old pretending to be a kid like some bad comedy movie. I find it to be ridiculous because. Well⌠they are FUCKING ACTORS! Thatâs literally their job. Does that mean you can only hire 120 year olds for a period piece about the early 1900âs? Guess you canât make a movie about Lincoln, the actors today would never understand what it was like to live in the post civil war reconstruction era⌠let alone know what it takes to be presidentâŚ
Ah yes, because Robert DeNiro, the son of two famous painters, was really thugging it up in the halls of MoMA and the Actors Studio.
"Why would you propose to your girlfriend on a group trip?" I am begging these people to go touch grass and have a real relationship ever. Maybe then they'd know that proposals are common on both trips and in front of one's friends.
Sainted Diana, the noblewoman who grew up on a Royal estate, the one who allegedly joked when Andrew got engaged, "At least he didn't choose a Catholic or a Black, then it'd be all over for me," referring to herself being usurped for attention.
It was good for him for a while. He was having a lot of issues in NYC when COVId started and it seemed like Henry almost made him come out there. He would be posting all the COVId stuff online and Henry would post that they were talking to him and making sure heâs ok
Yeah, I think moving to LA was a last resort type of thing. I always thought Henry felt that if Ben moved out there he would be in a better environment and get a new lease on life
I am gobsmacked that she would expect Charles to mention Diana? I mean, WTF?
"It's good to be here in Paris, France. As we all know, Paris is only famous as the city where the mother of my children died in a drunk crash with her boytoy. Keep on, Paris, maybe you'll one day have enough history to be known for something else, either than the city my ex-wife died in."
I was just puzzled why she thought it would be such a difficult journey to fly from California to Miami? Regular folks do it all the time! They would totally have been there if invited. I guess they just couldnât line up Air Force One again đ.
British people really donât understand the size of the United States. They donât realize that the flight from California to Florida is a big, stupid slog.
Meghan flew across the ocean for her OWN baby shower! Instead of holding it in London (where she and her husband lived at the time), Los Angeles (her home town) or Vancouver (the city which was her base for most of her adult life) she chose to fly to hold it in NYC.
I suppose Kaiser would also have to deal with the questions as to why Meghan can fly private to be guest of honor at an Indianapolis Marriott but can't fly with her husband to support him at such vital events in his home country, or attend the life events of their supposed friends. Kaiser and her minions want us to believe that Meghan and Harry can easily hop across country to collect a nothing award no one's ever heard in NYC or collect a meaningless polo cup, while at the same time they're declining invites to the Oscars, A-list sporting events and the baby showers of their supposed friends (Serena Williams). It cannot ever be that Meghan and Harry burned all their bridges and are not invited to such things.
That was McLean Stevenson who played Colonel Henry Blake.
That was before my time (I'm 42) but I feel old that this was so far down, because growing up it was the penultimate example of an actor being killed off for leaving a show.