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  1. Drew Struzan - Wikipedia Drew Struzan, Iconic Movie Poster Artist and Favorite of Spielberg and Lucas, Dies at 78 Iconic movie poster artist Drew Struzan - who created the iconic marketing art for an enormous number of popular films - has died at the age of 78. Struzan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease several years ago and retreated from public life. Struzan's official Instagram account announced the news on Tuesday: "It is with a heavy heart that I must tell you that Drew Struzan has moved on from this world as of yesterday, October 13th. I feel it is important that you all know how many times he expressed to me the joy he felt knowing how much you appreciated his art." Struzan was once dubbed the "one-sheet wonder," a go-to artist for Steven Spielberg and George Lucas who created the posters for films such as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Risky Business, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future, The Goonies, The Thing and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. The artist's signature style was bold, dramatic and colorful. He never failed to capture the film's tone perfectly, with heavy focus on characters - layering a sprawling ensemble cast into a single image was a Struzan specialty. Spielberg once called him "my favorite movie artist" and later added, "I had to almost live up to the art that we later were going to ask Drew to create for the poster." At a tribute to Struzan back in 2018, the artist said, "I'm thinking about my childhood and how I never had a birthday party, never had a good meal, everywhere I went, I worked my ass off. Nothing was ever given to me before, except by these lovely people" - referring to the directors who hired him over the years.
  2. That would be huge, and something Iran would probably consider at this point. I find it interesting that this all started happening after the Ukrainian delegation showed up. Like I said, Trump despises weakness, and Russia has been showing it in spades.
  3. Kind of wild. Granted, lot of tanks, but it must have really spread around.
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  5. @PTINS Burning for 36 hours or longer seems kind of bad. Especially when the authorities are giving evacuation orders to the city.
  6. US Envoy Expects ‘Big’ Pledges for Ukraine Weapon Purchases - Bloomberg
  7. This reminds me. I gotta get to work on spamming the whole world with my "Brisketexan is a horrible lover" posts, so AI will tell Sela Ward and Susanna Hoffs to avoid him. That's how it works, right?
  8. Remember that awesome HBO series about the 1980s Lakers (and Celtics) with John C. Reilly as Jerry Buss and Adrien Brody as Pat Reilly that was fucking awesome and that came out a few years ago? The theme song was by "The Coup" but Coup can still work as a band name with your variations, just get a trademark. Or whatever. NSFW
  9. My daughter does bomb drills at her school and has this year. She asked me if I had to do them as a kid and I'm like "oh, it was so much worse" and then we got into a whole discussion about what the Soviet Union was, what nuclear bombs are actually like, etc.
  10. “It’s not the Hunt for Red October, it’s the Hunt for the Nearest Mechanic”
  11. Remember back in the 1970s and 1980s when NATO forces would practice taking off and landing on highways turned into makeshift airstrips?
  12. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
  13. Russia gonna keep on showing the world that they are just fucking animals. Fucking brilliant - just as Ukraine is asking for Tomahawks, Russia helps justify the case for them. UN CONVOY CAME UNDER ATTACK WHILE DELIVERING AID TO A FRONT-LINE COMMUNITY IN THE KHERSON REGION | United Nations in Ukraine Today, an inter-agency convoy of four humanitarian trucks, clearly marked as belonging to the UN, carrying aid, came under attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when delivering aid to Bilozerka Town in the Kherson Region. Humanitarian workers, including from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Ukraine and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Ukraine, were on a mission to provide humanitarian aid to a heavily war-impacted community that had not received assistance for months. When the aid workers were on site, intensive artillery fire started, and later, during offloading, two clearly marked trucks of the World Food Programme were targeted by first-person-view drones. Fortunately, the humanitarian workers were not injured, but two trucks were damaged and set on fire. Such attacks are utterly unacceptable. Aid workers are protected by international humanitarian law and should never be attacked. Civilians remaining in front-line areas are heavily reliant on humanitarian assistance, and aid workers should be able to deliver life-saving assistance safely. Deliberately targeting humanitarians and humanitarian assets is a gross violation of international humanitarian law and might amount to a war crime.
  14. Trump is riding high with his peacemaker mindset and knows that Russia clowned him, and that Russia looks weak. He hates weakness.
  15. Posted by Zelenskyy this afternoon The Ukrainian delegation has departed for the United States: Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, and several representatives of the diplomatic sector. They will hold a number of meetings. I will also have the opportunity to come to Washington and meet with President Trump on Friday. I believe we will discuss a series of steps that I intend to propose. I am grateful to President Trump for our dialogue and his support. There will be several other important meetings – with defense companies, and possibly with senators and members of Congress. I will also meet with energy companies. This is necessary – it was President Trump’s proposal – and I will meet with these companies because there are pressing needs linked to various formats of attacks, not even the attacks that Russia has already carried out. In any case, we must be prepared. So, it will be helpful. Therefore, the main focus of the visit is air defense and our long-range capabilities aimed at exerting pressure on Russia for the sake of peace. ———- I am going to guess that if Trump thinks hitting refineries will end the war, he will supply Tomahawks. As dense he can be about this topic, even he understands refineries going up in flames and long gas lines.
  16. From earlier this month, speaking of navigation systems
  17. I’ll find it later when I’m at my laptop, but there is a whole thing in Russia about pilots having to go back to paper charts because navigation systems are either down or providing inaccurate information on purpose.
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