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  1. Episode 5 Drinking GIF by The Bachelor
     

    https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/

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    Legendary B-movie king Roger Corman, who directed and produced hundreds of low-budget films and discovered such future industry stars as Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, has died. He was 98.

    Corman died May 9 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., surrounded by family members, the family confirmed to Variety. 

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    “His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that,'” the family said in a statement. 

    Corman’s empire, which existed in several incarnations, including New World Pictures, and Concorde/New Horizons, was as active as any major studio and, he boasted, always profitable. He specialized in fast-paced, low-budget genre movies — horror, action, science fiction, even some family fare — and his company became a work-in-training ground for a wide variety of major talents, from actors like Nicholson (“Little Shop of Horrors”) and De Niro (“Boxcar Bertha”) to directors like Francis Ford Coppola (“Dementia 13”) and Scorsese (“Boxcar Bertha”).

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    Service in WWII and his education (he also attended Oxford for a term, studying English literature) slowed him down. After Stanford he worked for four days at U.S. Electric Motors and then tried to break into the business by working as a messenger at 20th Century Fox. When he returned from Oxford (and a short stay in Paris) he became, in his own words, “a bum.” From 1951-53 he did odd jobs and collected unemployment. He briefly worked as a script reader; convinced he could do better, he wrote “Highway Dragnet” and sold it to Allied Artists for $4,00

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    Critically, it wasn’t until “Machine Gun Kelly” in 1958 that Corman was noticed. That pic was followed by a studio film, “I Mobster,” for Fox. After “Little Shop of Horrors” in 1960, Corman convinced Arkoff to bankroll some more ambitious projects, in particular, a series of films based on the works of one of Corman’s favorite authors, Edgar Allan Poe. The horror series, which starting with “The Fall of the House of Usher” in 1960, spawned eight low-budget hits including “The Tomb of Ligeia” and “The Masque of Red Death.” They revived the careers of Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre and became classics of a kind.

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    During the same period he was giving unknown actors like Ellen Burstyn, Nicholson and De Niro, screenwriters like Robert Towne and directors like Scorsese, Demme, Joe Dante and Peter Bogdanovich their starts.

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    Corman had produced a movie called “The Fast and the Furious” in 1955, and when producer Neal Moritz discovered the film back when he was launching a car-fueled franchise of his own starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, Moritz decided that he had to have that title for the movie. The two men came to an agreement under which Moritz swapped stock footage for name rights to the 2001 film and its successors.

     

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  2. 14 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Yep, and they wanted to use Hostomel to airlift in heavy equipment and troops to lead the pressure on Kyiv. The plan was to capture the city and likely decapitate leadership and then watch Ukrainian forces fall apart.  Unlike what we did in Iraq, they did not precede any of this with extensive air strikes, because they wanted some element of surprise for the ground invasion. 

    And it’s May of 2024 and Russia is still trying large-scale assaults against well-trained and equipped forces with an extensive aerial campaign (at least one that didn’t involve hitting civilian apartment buildings and schools). 

  3. 50 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Russia is not on the brink of collapse internally, they can take a lot more pain and they will. But they also have a cap on what they can accomplish. Ukraine needs to hold on through 2024 and surrender only small chunks and regenerate forces but all of that falls apart without Western arms. The issue is that Ukraine actually had Russia on its heels and could have made bigger gains but we chose not to move quick enough due partly to a fear they can’t digest aid, and party to a fear that a collapse of Russian lines in Ukraine would lead to escalation. 

    We are reaching a point in Ukraine’s domestic production of drones and missiles, where Ukraine will remove Crimea from the Russian equation on some level in terms of preventing Russian ships from docking there, as well as making it difficult to reinforce or supply their ground forces there (when they finally take the Kerch bridge down and pressure the rail system more).  They are playing with the Russian economic export structure (oil and gas), but it’s safe to say they can start putting the hurt on anything within Crime.

    Hell, they’ve been softening up air defenses in Crimea, and the attacks within Russia proper are forcing Russia to move their air defense assets around (and even out of Ukraine), so what happens when they get F-16s and more missiles into play?

    What then?  Is it worth all of the sanctions for a massive piece of land that has lost its naval and forward air support value, and only has symbolic value and that Ukraine will continue to chip away at?

    And what if Ukraine takes out the Kerch bridge soon, and takes out more landing craft-style ships, does Russia give up on Kharkiv to try and rush down there?  If the Kerch bridge went down, that would freak a lot of Russian leaders the fuck out.

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  4. 39 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    We assessed that Putin believed and planned that he would capture and cut off Kyiv in a few days, not that we believed it would happen. Based on what the Russians actually did with their invasion force (which was too small and did not bring strategic aviation to bear right away), it’s a safe bet we were right on Putin’s planning and belief.  
    If Hostomel airport goes a different way, then the war maybe also goes a different way. 

    They also didn’t have enough supplies to sustain themselves, hence the infamous convoy that bogged down.  They thought they’d be making a thunder run to Kyiv.

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  5. 1 hour ago, Pimphand said:

    Precious metals absolutely matter because they are the best counterparty free risk asset.  An asset is only as good as the counterparty whose liability it is can make good on it.  The world is about to stop buying US debt and dedollarize which will trigger the worlds greatest game of musical chairs/hot potato and both you, me, and most the people we know will draw shortest straw and have nothing.  Boston Fed literally wrote a comic about it... https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/economic-education/road-to-roota.aspx

    So we should spend a shitload of money on precious metals, so that when everything collapses, I can somehow barter with it, which coincidentally advertises to the people I come into contact with that I am a dumbass with precious metals that should be robbed. That’s assuming they actually care about such things as precious metals in the apocalypse, because we all somehow will have the ability (small furnace and molds) to take those gold coins and gold bars and melt them down into smaller denominations and there will be some kind of centralized system that communicates with everybody how much gold or silver it takes to buy a bushel of corn.

    At least you’re not one of those dumbasses trying to push crypto on everybody.

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  6. 44 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:

    In 2001, Mack Brown and Greg Davis didnt play one of the greatest Texas running backs Cedric Benson because he was a freshman and maybe didnt know the pass protections. Texas scored 3 points, probably due to a Derrick Johnson forced fumble. This is the equivalent football blunder as Musk running off communities from twitter.

    Especially communities that have deep ties to, and integration with, Twitch/YouTube/Instagram, etc. like the gaming community does.

  7. 10 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Shame? You see shame?

    She tucked her tail between her legs and ran back to South Dakota because of a potential “weather event” that everybody knew was a lie.  She was snubbed by Trump at an even tailored for Trump’s VP candidates.  She was defeated by the lamestream media. Multiple shows on Fox News either tore her a new one or mocked the hell out of her when she canceled.  Newsmax said she was once at the top of Trump’s VP list, but now is not even on the list.  Ducking Newsmax, just one step above OAN.

    When she refused to answer questions about Ole Cricket or Lil Kim, you could see on her face that she was both angry and confused that she didn’t control the narrative, and she didn’t understand why so many conservatives turned on her.  Like I said, Trump plows through his lies and gives no fucks whether you know he’s lying or not, but she tries to dodge the lies because she knows they are lies, so there is a little shame mixed in with the anger and confusion.

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  8. 5 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    I’ll augment my position a bit and say that I just can’t comprehend an educated adult seemingly using the toddler level thinking of “the person bringing her back must be the person that took her in the first place,” nor how this got any further than her getting out of the car and saying that’s my Uber, dad.  

    No kidding.  It’s like he doesn’t know shit about kidnapping - any competent kidnapper is going to follow the rule of The Golden Hour of Kidnapping, aka the first 60 minutes after you kidnap somebody is spent on the road and exiting the victim’s home area as fast as possible, even if that’s only 40-50 miles down the road depending on traffic.  Putting aside the fact that the person was dropping off his daughter, that area that they live in probably has quite a few door bell cameras and even a license plate scanner or two on cop cars, so it’s not likely to be a big kidnapping threat anyways. 

  9. 5 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    Trump is such a fucking moron. He used to boast about Operation Warp Speed and how he was responsible for bringing out Covid vaccines in record time.

    I still bring it up to MAGA relatives and that I appreciate and applaud the fact that Trump worked so hard to get COVID vaccines out to everybody.  

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  10. 24 minutes ago, UpperWestside said:

    I hope not, but I am hopeful that by the time any of this happens that I will have long since left the US. Crazy people are everywhere, but man ours really go over the top with it to hurt others.

    It’s weird how so many people in this country want to see their fellow Americans suffer,  I wonder if there’s something in the genes of those whose ancestors came out of Europe.  Obviously many of our ancestors bailed on Europe for reasons other than finding their fortunes, like maybe they weren’t getting along with the people around them.

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