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The Rolling Stones – Some Girls – Classic Music Review
When I first started blogging, I filled the empty spaces between compelling new releases with historical reviews primarily covering Oasis and the four bands I heard most while growing up: The Beatles, The Kinks, Jethro Tull and The Rolling Stones. With the first four names on that list, I just randomly picked an album based on mood or time of the month, but for reasons I don't remember, I decided to do The Stones' albums in chronological order. Because I was primarily interested in exploring the work of the Jagger-Richards songwriting team, I skipped the first two albums and began with Out of Our Heads. I liked learning how The Stones developed as the years progressed, following straight lines and detours along the way. I remember feeling pretty good after reviewing Sticky Fingers, one of their best, and I looked forward to Exile on Main Street, an album that was unfamiliar to me because it was curiously missing from my father's collection.
I hated it. Still do. I think it's a fucking mess of an album, a background-music-party-disc created in a heroin-induced haze.
"Why didn't you warn me, you bastard?" I screamed at my father.
"I thought you'd figure it out when you didn't see it in my stacks. What the hell did I send you to college for, anyway?"
Exile on Main Street turned me off to the Stones for a long, long time, and I had no intention of ever reviewing another Stones record as long as I could still sashay over our lumpy planet.
Then my gorgeous, voluptuous, damn-I'd-like-to-fuck-her-right-now partner put Some Girls on her list of Desert Island Disks. It reminded me how much I hated ending The Stones' series on a down note, so I decided to see if I could pick up where I left off. I listened to Goat's Head Soup, and came away with feeling that "Angie" is the second-most overrated song in history, right after "Stairway to Heaven." I took one look at the cover of It's Only Rock 'n' Roll and said "Fuck that." Black and Blue didn't grab me either.
I should have trusted my partner's instincts. Some Girls turned out to be WAY better than I expected, though my initial reaction was utter confusion.
The confusion arose from the consensus opinion that Some Girls is The Stones' "punk album." I listened to it and sure as hell didn't hear anything that sounded like The Ramones, The Clash or The Sex Pistols. Not one song clocks in at under three minutes, not one song is played at hyper-speed, and if we're talking punk in 1978, where the hell is the anarchist rage? Punk is also characterized by intense, hyper-active drumming, and one look at Charlie Watts would tell you he'd be the last drummer on earth to go manic on the kit.
If punk did have an influence on Some Girls, it encouraged The Stones to get back to the basics. Some Girls is successful because The Stones rediscovered their sweet spot: cheeky R&B-influenced rock 'n' roll marked by a healthy dose of humor, with a touch of country thrown into the mix. The songs on Some Girls could have appeared on any of their albums released during their peak period, from Aftermath to Sticky Fingers (except for the psychedelic detour in Their Satanic Majesties Request). The Stones somehow managed to go backward while moving forward at the same time, for unlike a trip down Nostalgia Lane, Some Girls feels fresh, alive and immediate. Part of the reinvigorated sound came from Ronnie Wood's ascension to full-member status, but most of the credit for the album's compelling combination of looseness and sass goes to Mick Jagger, who rediscovered his writing and singing chops just in time to save The Stones from bargain bin irrelevance.
Jagger clearly has his mojo working on "Miss You," a song that should have been subtitled, "Goin' Home Revisited." While that lengthy tune from Aftermath about unfulfilled libido seems disconnected from both time and space, "Miss You" features an insistent, libido-tickling rhythm that I could grind to all fucking night. Trapped in the context of the times, many listeners described this as a disco song, ignoring the simple fact that if disco had never been invented, The Stones still would have come up with a song like this sooner or later due to their passion for American soul and R&B. Instead of the over-the-top orchestration we hear in too many disco numbers, the layers in "Miss You" are a combination of blues harp (courtesy of Sugar Blue) and cool sax (by way of Mel Collins). Collins' solo helps urbanize the piece, reinforcing the New York feel of the album. Meanwhile, Sugar Blue spends most of the song repeating the melodic refrain until the very end, when he finally steps into the spotlight and delivers a deep-soul solo that expresses the theme of emotional longing more effectively than words ever could. With Jagger on fire and Bill Wyman delivering one of his most active bass parts, "Miss You" sends a clear message that The Stones are in the groove and feeling it.
The title "When The Whip Comes Down" initially excited this kinky girl, but alas, the song has nothing to do with the more refined erotic arts. What it does have to do with is being gay, and while you might think my bisexuality might give me some magical insight into the psyche of the gay male narrator, the life experience of a bisexual woman is as far apart from the experience of a gay male as I am from celibacy. While pure lesbians tend to view bisexual girls with feelings ranging from distrust to hostility, most heterosexual men I've met are okay with bisexual women because they think they're going to get a threesome in the bargain (NOT!). Gay males, on the other hand, are much more likely to get the shit beaten out of them by the same guys who want to get into the sack with my partner and me. Since I grew up a few blocks from The Castro, gay men are a part of my definition of "normal," which has sometimes blinded me to the shit they have to deal with—it's unthinkable to me, so it takes a while to register.
Here Jagger conjures up a gay dude who abandons L. A. for the Big Apple to become a "garbage collector," a euphemism, not an occupation. While the move raised his status from "faggot" to "gay," the attitudes of the populace are anything but an upgrade ("Wherever I go they treat me just the same"). While we all have to sacrifice something in order to make a living, our hero faces more workplace hazards than the average moke:
Yeah I'm going down Fifty-Third street
And they spit in my face
I'm learning the ropes
Yeah I'm learning a trade
The East River truckers
Are churning with trash
I've got so much money
That I spend so fast
Having been spat on by homophobes a couple of times while out with my girl, I'm befuddled by the hero's willingness to turn the other cheek and write it off as part of the deal . . . but this was 1978, less than ten years after The Stonewall Riots and only five years removed from the change in the DSM that ended the status of homosexuality as a mental disorder. To make a living in such an environment, he is forced to work the streets, where the men who are "churning with trash" seek someone to relieve their secret burden:
Yeah, some called me garbage
When I was sweeping on the street
I never roll
Oh I never cheat
And I'm filling a need, yeah
I'm plugging a hole
My mama's so glad
I ain't on the dole
Both buyer and seller are part of the garbage cycle, and like the movement's adoption of the formerly pejorative word "queer," our hero wears his "garbage man" status like a badge. Economics student Mick Jagger even assigns him a sense of legitimacy by giving him credit for his sensitivity to the laws of supply and demand with the fabulous pun, "I'm plugging a hole." But even with his stellar work ethic and commitment to quality customer service, he's still a homosexual in a heterosexually-biased culture and the whip is always going to come down . . . again, again and again. A damned courageous song for its time, "When the Whip Comes Down" features a non-stop relentless attack with dual guitars and as much energy as Charlie Watts can muster. It's still not punk, but hey, it's The Stones rocking out, so who the fuck cares?
Next up is the cover of The Temptations' classic, "Just My Imagination." I approached this song with great trepidation, fearing another lame copycat attempt at the Motown sound as in "My Girl." My trepidation vanished about four lines into the song when it hit me that the arrangement was pure garage, just a bunch of guys in the studio playing around with a song that caught their fancy. Stripping the song down to its essentials and playing it at a faster tempo actually allows the listener to better appreciate the melody and chord progression of the song, and while The Temptations version will always remain the gold standard, I have to give The Stones credit for revealing the fundamental structure that made "Just My Imagination" a great song in the first place.
Some Girls wouldn't be a great Stones album unless they pissed somebody off, and with the title track they wound up pissing off both the usual suspects (feminists and Christians) as well as the Reverend Jesse Jackson in his dual roles of civil rights activist and shepherd to the flock. Before we get into all that hoo-hah, I want to say I love the feel of this song. Most of it is a two-chord pattern with plenty of drone, a mesmerizing combination that allows the three guitarists (Jagger included) and Sugar Blue a lot of latitude with fills and responses. The original cut ran twenty-three minutes, largely because of its vast improvisational potential. That potential is what put The Stones in hot water with the Purity Police, as Jagger improvised the most offensive lines in the song.
We all know that Jagger and Richard were big league Johnny Appleseeds, offhandedly shooting their wads in various locales making up a large part of the planetary landmass. We also know that many women were desperate to fuck rock stars, and while some really thought they were in love with their idols, we can assume that the majority of the women plunked by The Stones were probably motivated by pecuniary considerations. Fucking groupies is often a mutual exploitation arrangement where both parties use the other to get what they want: sex, money, property, notoriety, whatever. The evidence from various interviews indicates that members of The Rolling Stones had indeed been engaged in sexual escapades with groupies, that they fucked available women wherever they could find them on multiple world tours, and had no discriminatory restrictions related to race or color. They were equal opportunity fuckers, and for all I know and with the flurry of scientific advances in the study of erectile performance, they may still be.
What The Stones do in "Some Girls" is simplify their experience by using stereotypes, always a dangerous practice, but not all that much different from what The Beach Boys did in "California Girls." The first set of stereotypes in "Some Girls" are a catalog of the different manifestations of female greed in various cultures (French girls want Cartier, Italian girls want cars, American girls want everything in the world). These are pretty tame accusations; the first two are backhanded compliments (French and Italian girls are style-conscious, well, duh) and the third is a teeny dig at American materialism. We then learn that English girls are prissy (another stereotype that has the positive connotation of "selective") and that white girls are funny and sometimes annoying (as are all girls). I can't see any of these targeted groups calling for a Stones boycott based on such lightweight jabs.
Then they clearly cross a big red line:
Black girls just wanna get fucked all night
I just don't have that much jam
Chinese girls are so gentle
They're really such a tease
You never know quite what they're cookin'
Inside those silky sleeves
Whoa, dude! I'm hearing that you think black girls are primitive animals who still hear the jungle cry and can't control their instincts . . . and that you've been watching too many movies depicting Asian women as "devious Orientals." What? Say that again! "It never occurred to us that our parody of certain stereotypical attitudes would be taken seriously by anyone who heard the entire lyric of the song in question. No insult was intended, and if any was taken, we sincerely apologize." Hold that thought . . . let me scan the lyrics for supporting evidence . . . no, I'm not seeing anything there. Sorry . . . I missed that, Mick—could you repeat that please? "If you can't take a joke, it's too fucking bad." Getting a little touchy there, are we? Okay, let's accept your argument that you were just trying to have fun and you didn't think people would be stupid enough to believe you meant what you said. Then why did you later change the lyrics in live performances to eliminate those lines? And while I have you here, why did you change the lyrics to "Let's Spend Some Time Together" for Ed Sullivan? You're just going to stare at me, Mick? Why can't you just admit that you blew it by not providing a stronger context and move on? Hey, I defended you over "Under My Thumb," I stood up for you after "Stupid Girl" and I even went to bat for you on "Brown Sugar." But Mick, this time . . . if satire was your intent, you really should have done a better job of establishing the narrator as a blind, insensitive jerk right from the start. Maybe if you'd moved that verse with the lines "Some girls give me children/I only made love to her once" we would have understood we were dealing with an irresponsible asshole and heard the lines through that perspective . . . if that's really what you intended.
Intent is pretty clear in "Lies," a dual-guitar ass-kicking ripper of a song where The Stones rock for no other purpose except to rock. Flipping over to Side Two, we get a nice change of pace with the hilarious, "Far Away Eyes," a pure country number marked by Ronnie Wood's outstanding pedal steel guitar and Mick Jagger's approximation of a hicksville accent. Speaking of stereotypes, naïve people the world over believe that California is a place of sand, sun and liberal mores, but there's a good-sized chunk of California where it feels like more like Oklahoma than Malibu. "Far Away Eyes" satirizes hick culture and its strange mixture of fervent Christianity and loose sexual morals, presented here as relatively harmless, but this was long before anyone realized that a group of stupid, superstitious people could coalesce to elect an equally stupid blatant racist to the most powerful job in the world:
I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And I was so pleased to be informed of this
That I ran twenty red lights in his honor
I had an arrangement to meet a girl, and I was kind of late
And I thought by the time I got there she'd be off
She'd be off with the nearest truck driver she could find . . .
Of course such a loser wants a girl with "far away eyes," because stupid is as stupid gets.
It's back to kick-ass mode with "Respectable," a song Jagger described as a "Punk meets Chuck Berry number." We'll ignore the attempt at relevance-oriented marketing and simply congratulate The Stones for giving us another number that hauls serious ass. It's followed by the Keith Richards confessional, "Before They Make Me Run," which deals with his legal and personal struggles with heroin addiction. Keith can't sing worth shit, but the song has a certain vulnerability to it that makes it charming, and Ronnie Wood's steel pedal guitar sounds even better in a rock context.
Some Girls features one of the strongest finishes of any Stones album, beginning with the semi-slow number, "Beast of Burden." Keith Richards came to the studio with a shell of a song and relied on the rest of The Stones to flesh it out. The prerequisite for such an approach is the musicians have to be able to easily slip into the groove, and this is where the remarkable chemistry between Richards and Ronnie Wood pays off huge dividends. There is an instrumental-only take on YouTube that I absolutely adore and highly recommend. You'll hear Keith on the right channel and Ronnie on the left, but what you may not notice (because the guitar work will immediately draw you in) is Charlie Watts playing the base rhythm with the clear punctuation the guitarists need as a foundation for their explorations. The musical dialogue between the two guitarists as they trade off lead and rhythm roles and integrate harmonic solos into the mix is a fascinating journey—you can hear them sensing each other out, one offering a possible direction and the other responding almost immediately to the new musical idea. In many ways, I prefer the instrumental version to the original, but I do think Jagger does a damn good job with the emotional content as he sings at the higher end of his range. The lyrics that pop out at me are those that define the "real man" paradigm—men are expected to be hard enough, rough enough and rich enough, and anything less than enough simply won't do. Putting aside the double entendre of "hard enough" for a moment, I'll point out that the paradigm is the source of all toxic masculinity. The men who commit acts of domestic violence don't act out of a position of power but from feelings of inadequacy about those three qualities, and lacking any kind of self-awareness, blame the broad for all their troubles. In this song, the narrator is a gentler sort of fellow unlikely to resort to violence, but it's still tragic that he has to live with perceived inadequacy because of a dated philosophy of what it means to be a man. I also hope that those who whine about The Stones' allegedly unrelenting sexism will take note that Jagger placed the gent in the position of supplicant, begging for attention from a woman who holds all the cards. Power in relationships is not always dictated by gender or worn-out rules of behavior.
We end with my favorite song on Some Girls, the marvelously manic "Shattered." We'll get to the New York-in-the-70's aspect of the song in a sec, but there's one tiny passage I can't restrain myself from singing at the top of my lungs whenever I hear it, because it is the relentless message of my inner consciousness bursting through the layers of bullshit I wear as I go about the world trying to make a living:
Work and work for love and sex
Ain't you hungry for success, success, success, success
Does it matter?
Yes, I work and work for love and sex and THAT matters. I have no hunger for success and that DOESN'T MATTER AT ALL. Work leaves me in tatters! Shattered! Let me the fuck out!
Back to the real story . . . Jagger says he wrote the lyrics in a New York taxi, and there's no reason to doubt his word. The Stones had been spending more time in New York City during the 70's, and the Big Apple of the 70's was nothing like the sanitized and safe version of New York that exists today. The city was in deep financial doo-doo, the infrastructure was falling apart, crime was commonplace and tensions between the various ethnic groups and political factions were at their peak. I recommend the book Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bronx is Burning by Jonathan Mailer if you want to learn more. Note that Mailer's story of New York's decline is integrated with the ascension of the Yankees under Steinbrenner, Martin and Reggie Jackson, so if you're not into baseball, forget about it, and by the way, I don't want to know you.
Jagger's sprechgesang commentary on the state of Gotham is expressed with sincerely-felt disbelief at the craziness of it all: how can a place with so much wealth and power seemingly self-destruct before one's eyes?
Pride and joy and greed and sex
That's what makes our town the best
Pride and joy and dirty dreams and still surviving on the street
And look at me, I'm in tatters, yeah
I've been battered, what does it matter . . .
. . . Don't you know the crime rate is going up, up, up, up, up
To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!
You got rats on the West Side, bedbugs uptown
What a mess—this town's in tatters, I've been shattered
It should be noted that The Stones didn't flee New York in response to the decaying environment. Even in its worst times, there is no place on earth as endlessly compelling as New York, whether you like it or not.
What makes the song so compelling is the combination of Jagger's maniacal vocal, the simple but remarkably effective two-chord riff, and the haunting, almost random appearance of low-voice vocals in the background (shattered, shay-oobehy). The feeling of a song unstuck in time and space is intensified when Charlie Watts does a virtual disappearing act and limits his activities to the high-hat—when that happens, I feel like the lights have suddenly gone out and I've lost all connection to reality. Brilliantly arranged and expertly performed, "Shattered" is a remarkable expression of the modern just-beneath-the-surface madness we all feel as we make our way through the inexplicable worlds we have created.
While I've think they've taken the farewell tour thing way too far for way too long, Some Girls is a piece of The Stones at their best—rocking, rolling and riffing with tongues firmly planted in cheeks. It ain't punk in terms of genre, but as my father will righteously claim with all his heart and soul, The Stones were the original punks, with a stellar record of defying the stricter social norms of the time.
And though Mick Jagger is now Sir Michael, had nice things to say about Maggie Thatcher and still supports the Tories, he still had his moments—and Some Girls contains some of his best.
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The Backward Class Returns to Toronto
(January 26, 2015 – Toronto, ON) The 2014 Hot Docs Audience Award winner The Backward Class returns to Toronto and opens at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema on Friday, February 6. Directed by Vancouver-based Madeleine Grant, The Backward Class is her first feature-length documentary. Her previous work has played at numerous international film festivals, including the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Montreal World Film Festival.
Set against the back drop of rigid age-old traditions and a uniquely progressive school, The Backward Class is a hopeful story that closely accompanies twelfth grade "untouchable" caste students through the turbulence of final exams, graduation & general coming-of-age.
In the depths of rural southern India, in a small school devoted to backward caste students, aspiring graduates Vijay, Anith and Mala are studying. At seventeen years old, they are the inaugural graduating class and are preparing for final exams no class of their background has ever had the opportunity to write, the Indian School Certificate high school graduation exams.
For thirteen years Shanti Bhavan School has educated them with the highest of academic standards. The idea behind the school is simple: given equal opportunities, anyone can succeed. These exams will put this concept to the test. The students are gearing up to prove their potential to the world and there will be no second chances.
Guinea-pigs of an idealistic vision, if the students succeed they will be the first in their families to go on to college. It could also mean success for many others like them – on a local, national and even international scale. Their failure can only lead them back to squalor. With their families living in destitution and their school reeling from the recent economic crisis, it is of the utmost importance that they do well, and no one is letting them forget that.
The five year passion project that became The Backward Class started when director Madeleine Grant first came across the students while travelling and volunteering in India in 2008. Their story fascinated her. At the time, the inaugural students were in grade ten, having started at the school in preschool. Grant became acutely aware how high the stakes actually were for these children during their grade ten exams, the first time anyone in the school had been graded on a national level.
"It was lunchtime when they finished their first exam, and I was standing at the entrance to the dining hall when they started coming in all at once," said Grant. "I'm not sure who spotted them first, but the reaction was instantaneous. As one, the entire school rose from their meals, bursting into a spontaneous standing ovation that included everyone from the pre-schoolers through to the kitchen staff." Grant realized that this story needed to be told, and after getting things in order and assembling her team, she headed back to India in 2009 to live and film among the now twelfth grade students, leading up to and following their final graduating exams.
Madeleine Grant will be in attendance for Q&As for all opening weekend screenings at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto. Click here for more information and tickets.
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Javier: This really neccessary?
Clementine: I don't know you, I don't trust you, and I'm not taking any chances. So it's safer for both of us if you're tied up.
Javier: Hey, that's fine with me. I don't trust you either.
Clementine: Glad we understand each other.
— "The Ties That Bind"
Be warned: with all episodes of A New Frontier now released, this article will have spoilers, and some may be unmarked. Proceed at your own discretion.
This video game contains the following tropes:
Absurdly Sharp Blade: Javi's axe in Episode 5. If he chooses to, Javi can chop off Rufus' arm with one swing.
Action Girl: Clementine's no longer Little Miss Badass but a fully capable gunslinger; she's gone from needing multiple tries to hit a bottle less than ten feet away (Season One), to being able to headshot a guy who's shooting back at her from over fifty, with a pistol no less. In The Stinger after Episode 5, she knifes three walkers on a bridge, then shoots eight to ten on the road immediately after, without breaking her stride.
And Then John Was a Zombie: If Javi and Clementine decide to chase after David and Gabe at the end of Episode 5, this is what ultimately happens to Kate after she helps to defend Richmond on her own. If Javi helps Kate, this happens to David instead.
And This Is for...: Javier has the choice to say that it's for Marianna before he has the choice to kill Badger
Anguished Declaration of Love: If Javi has flirted with Kate, she can give one to him toward the end of Episode 4, with Javi having the option either to progress the relationship or call it off.
Anyone Can Die: Par for the course with this series.
Episode 1: If you chose to stay with someone in the Season 2 finale (Kenny, Jane, or Edith), they die in a flashback. Jane hangs herself after discovering she's pregnant with Luke's child, Kenny is thrown through the windshield of a car and devoured, and Edith is shot by bandits. Toward the end of the episode, Mariana is abruptly shot in the head by the New Frontier.
Episode 2: Francine is gunned down by the New Frontier regardless of your actions. Conrad can potentially be killed if you choose to shoot him in the head when he's holding Gabe at gunpoint.
Episode 3: Conrad can again be potentially devoured by walkers if you choose not to give him a gun during the mission to the warehouse. One of the antagonists, Badger, is either stabbed by Tripp, shot by Conrad, left bleeding to death to turn, or his skull bashed into a bloody pulp with a baseball bat. Javier (or David) can also optionally kill Max or spare him to use as evidence against Joan. It is also suggested Lonnie was shot by David if Max is killed.
Episode 4: Earlier in the episode, Dr. Lingard asks Javi and Clem to assist him in suicide in return for information; Javi can choose to accept or refuse the deal. Joan forces Javier to make a Sadistic Choice between sparing either Ava or Tripp from execution. In a nasty twist, Joan orders the one you chose to spare to be executed instead, to teach Javier a lesson about betrayal, so either Ava or Tripp will die in this episode, and it will be the person you tried to save. Joan can also potentially die if you choose to shoot Joan instead of taking a deal to leave Richmond safely. If you accept the deal, David would hold Clint hostage and kill him instead. Finally, if Conrad is still alive and you don't successfully take a button prompt to have Javier jump out of the way of a truck, Conrad will push Javier out of the way only to get run over and killed himself. Various denizens of Richmond are overcome by a walker herd in the closing moments.
Episode 5: If Ava was spared by Joan, she will slip and fall to her death after being attacked from behind by a walker while shimmying across a narrow ledge on the highway; if Tripp was spared, he will throw the walker off of him but ultimately will fall to his death after being pushed over the edge of the highway after Javi and the others manage to swing to the other side of the gap. Javi can also lose up to two family members depending on your relationship with Clementine: If Javi and Clem side with Kate, then both David and Gabe will die as a result. If Clem chases after Gabe while Javi stays with Kate, only David will die. If both Javi and Clem follow Gabe, Kate will die. If Clem stays with Kate while Javi follows Gabe, both David and Kate will die.
Art Evolution: Once again the graphical style has recieved improvements since last season. While everything is still cel-shaded, more realistic textures and lighting are laid onto the comic-book style colouring, adding an overall lushness and sense of realism to the proceedings, particularly for details like character skin and eyes. While two-dimensional trickery is still employed heavily for distant scenery and walker herds to ease the visual burden on portable devices, said textures and models are a lot more detailed, animated and generally harder to notice than before.
Babies Make Everything Better: If Javi and Kate have committed to a relationship, at the end of Episode 5 she tells him that she wants to start a family.
Batter Up!: Javier uses a baseball bat as his weapon from Episode 3 onwards. It helps that he was formerly a professional baseball player.
Being Evil Sucks: Dr. Lingard is so tired of serving the New Frontier that he asks Javi's assistance in killing himself.
Beware the Nice Ones: Forget the Zombies. Clementine is officially the most dangerous thing out there now. If she's on your side, keep her there!
Big Bad: Javier's presumed dead brother David is one of four leaders of the New Frontier, whose members killed Mariana, destroyed Prescott, and shot Kate. To be fair, he is enraged when he learns of this, immediately accepting what Javi tells him as the truth, and it's soon revealed that it was another boss, Joan, who organized the raid on Prescott behind David's back. David can still be considered this for the season, especially on a personal level to Javier.
Big Damn Heroes: Jesus and several other members of Alexandria's cavalry show up after the wall breach in Episode 5 to assist in clearing out the herd.
Bittersweet Ending: By the end of the season, Richmond has been restored to its former glory after the herd has been dealt with, Javi can choose to become the new leader, and Clementine sets off to find AJ... however, depending on your choices in the finale a number of people in Javi's family can die. If he and Clementine both go after Gabe and David, then Kate dies. If Clem stays with Kate while Javi goes after the boys, Kate goes missing and David dies. If Clem goes after the boys while Javi stays with Kate, then David dies. And finally, if both Javi and Clem stay with Kate, then both Gabe and David die.
Black Dude Dies First: Subverted. While he doesn't die (and shows back up in Episode 3), the first live human you attack is a black gunman with a group of looters
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Boom, Headshot!:
One of Conrad's optional deaths.
Marianna gets shot dead by Badger.
Ava or Tripp will be killed this way by the New Frontier.
Clint or Joan will be killed this way by David or Javi, respectively.
Brick Joke: Javi's water bottle.
Broken Pedestal: Gabe with David. At first he's ecstatic to have his dad back, but as the game progresses, he gets increasingly disillusioned by seeing the man his father has become. By Episode 5, Gabe is close to giving up on him completely.
But Now I Must Go:
Jesus departs the group to return to his people in Episode 3. However, he returns in Episode 5 to help defend Richmond from the herd of walkers.
Clementine leaves in Episode 2, but comes back soon. She leaves again at the end of Episode 5, so that she can find AJ.
Assuming that Conrad is still alive at this point, he will leave midway through Episode 4, only to return towards the end of the same episode.
Call-Back:
When escorting Javier back to the junkyard, Clementine employs the close range technique Jane had taught her in Season Two to take down a zombie. She later teaches it to Gabe in Episode 5.
Once again, Clementine is asked, this time by Javi, what happened to the people who were supposed to take care of her. And once again, her answer is "The same thing that happens to everyone."
While in the car to on their way to Richmond, Gabriel makes a comment about how "parents always think the kids can't hear them" and Clementine makes an offhand comment about not knowing about that, due to her parents dying in during the events of Season One.
When Clementine offers to stitch Javi's knife wound, she shows him the scar on her left forearm that she stitched herself in the first episode of season 2.
In an attempt to slip by a large herd of walkers, Clementine tells Javi to cover himself in walker guts so that he can slip by undetected.
At the end of Episode 5, Clem asks Javi to cut her hair, just like Lee did back in Season One. Unfortunately, Javi isn't very good at it, and ends up giving Clem a lopsided type of bob. He advises her to put her hat back on.
Clothing Damage: A non-fanservice variant. During Clementine's flashback, the sleeves of the blue jacket she received from Bonnie had been ripped off.
Cutting Off the Branches: Most of the choices made at the end of Season 2 (stay in Wellington, stay with Jane, stay with Kenny) result in the death of Clem's caretaker. Stay with Kenny: Kenny dies after being involved in a car crash, causing his legs to break, before being consumed by walkers. Stay with Jane: Jane hangs herself after discovering that she's pregnant with Luke's child. Stay in Wellington: Edith and the other residents die when they're attacked by a group of scavengers. In all three of these cases, Clem and A.J. are the only survivors. The only case where this doesn't occur is if Clem chose to leave Kenny or Jane and go off on her own, since obviously she has no idea what happened to them afterwards.
Death Equals Redemption:
In Episode 5, if Javi goes after David and Gabe on his own, he will reach them in time to save them from the herd, only to disover that David was bitten by one of them during the struggle. David realizes what will come, and takes the opportunity to make his peace with Javi.
Could also count for Gabe, if Javi and Clem helped Kate defend Richmond. By the time Javi and Clem search for him, he is dying from a walker bite while David is already dead. Gabe will tearfully apologize to Javi for being The Load and will give Clem his deck of cards before dying.
Death Wail: In episode 5, If both Clementine and Javi chased after David and Gabe, leaving Kate behind to help protect Richmond...Javi will let one out after seeing Kate as a walker among the remaining herd within the settlement upon his return and deciding to shoot her.
Demoted to Extra: Downplayed. Clementine has a lot less playability in this game compared to her role as central protagonist in Season Two. The Episode 5 stinger shows her alone, and Season Four shifts back to her as the main character.
Driven to Suicide:
If the player chose to stay with Jane at the end of Season 2, a flashback will show them having a conversation about giving A.J. a middle name, with Jane suggesting "Jamie" after her sister and noting that it's a gender-neutral name. She talks about once thinking that one day she'd have a child of her own to name, but gets oddly emotional about it before telling Clem she's not feeling well and is going to lie down while sending Clem to patrol the perimeter. When Clem makes it back, she finds that Jane hung herself because she discovered that she was pregnant with Luke's baby.
Averted with David in Episode 5. After David storms out of the hideout after a violent confrontation with Fern, Javi heads to the roof and sees him standing on the edge. Javi tells him not to jump, however David simply indicates that he is looking out over the settlement.
Dr. Lingard, barely conscious due to an overdose, will ask the player to assist him in killing himself since he's had it working under the oppressive New Frontier. However, if you don't kill him, in Episode 5, he will come back, fully recovered, and will eventually give you the location of where they have put AJ.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Unless Clem went off alone at the end of Season 2, her and A.J.'s caretaker dies during a Flashback. If the player chose to stay with Kenny, he is seen teaching Clem to drive a vehicle, but her inexperience causes a car crash and he orders her to leave him behind while she saves herself and A.J. If the player chose to stay with Jane, she kills herself after discovering that she's pregnant with Luke's child. If Clem chose to stay in Wellington, Edith (the door guard) and all of the residents perish due to an attack by a group of scavengers, forcing Clem to take A.J. and flee the area.
Expy:
Tripp bears a striking resemblance to Sgt. Abraham Ford, and has some of his personality too.
The New Frontier shares a lot of similarities to the Saviors from the comic. Both groups are comprised of an army of scavengers with multiple shades of villainy, they're heavily armed, based in a hidden area, and follow mysterious leaders that they all fear and obey. Later on it's revealed that the New Frontier has four leaders and the settlement raids are actually just Max's group, commanded by someone (Joan) who is far more level-headed and restrained than Negan, though she's still an asshole.
Face–Heel Turn: Clementine mentions that the New Frontier used to be decent people until an event involved "trusting the wrong people" changed them. This event likely takes place before Clem joined the group and Clem stealing medicine from them further made them more distrustful towards people. It wasn't until they settled at Richmond for over a year and facing a bad winter that they become bandits under Joan's leadership.
Fingore:
Depending on what choice was made at the end of Season Two, Clem can lose one of her fingers. If the player had Clem go alone with AJ at the end of the previous season, the flashback in Episode 1 reveals that she lost part of her left ring finger when a car door was slammed on it, while she fends off a group of walkers attempting to break into said vehicle in order to attack A.J.
Francine ends up getting her finger cut off by one of the goons from The New Frontier in retaliation before getting killed while trying to run away.
For the Evulz: The scavengers who attacked Wellington out of desperation proceeds to massacre everyone inside, even shooting at Edith, AJ and Clementine who are already trying to escape the town.
Flashback: All of Clementine's playable sections are flashbacks on how she came to where she is in the game.
Flirting Under Fire: This is how Javi and Kate's possible romance began, albeit in a drawn out way (it's only during the game, four years after the walkers emerged, that they begin to openly show their feelings). In Episode 4, Clem manages to do this with Gabe and rein in his impulsive nature a few times, though it's implied she doesn't really know she's doing it.
Foreshadowing: Francine's hand in the poker game at Prescott is Aces and Eights, aka The Dead Man's Hand (the hand "Wild Bill" Hickock was supposedly holding when he was killed). She dies in the next episode.
Guide Dang It!: In Episode 5, Javi has to choose between going after David and Gabe or saving Richmond with Kate. Beforehand Clementine will make her own plan, depending on the choices she made in her flashbacks.
If she accepted Ava's offer and injected AJ, Clem will follow Javi's lead.
If she did not inject AJ and said goodbye to him, Clem will go after David and Gabe.
If she accepted Ava's offer and did not inject AJ or vice versa and spat in David's face, Clem will help Kate.
If she rejected Ava's offer and either injected AJ and said goodbye to him or did not inject him and spat in David's face, Clem will split up from Javi.
It's also possible for Clem and Gabe to share a passionate kiss, but only if Clem stayed with Jane at the end of Season 2 and both she and Javi stayed to help Kate (causing Gabe's death).
Happily Married: Averted like hell in a flashback to before the beginning of the game, where the cracks were already beginning to show in David and Kate's marriage. His behavior wasn't quite emotionally abusive, but it's clear that Kate wasn't happy with how he acted toward her, and one conversation option has Javi warn David that he might lose Kate if he keeps treating her that way.
Hope Spot:
During the Flashback in Episode 1, and if Kenny is alive and the player chose to stay with him at the end of Season 1, he's seen teaching her how to drive. After a subverted moment of Interface Spoiler where Clem tells him how happy she is to be learning a new skill, she loses control of the vehicle and crashes. Kenny's legs are broken, and he forces her and A.J. to leave him behind and make a run for it while he's consumed by walkers.
Another one happens at the end of the episode, Javi makes it back to the junkyard, accompained by Clem and either Eleanor or Tripp and find that Walkers have invaded. They clear out a few of them and find that Javi's family is still alive and unbitten. Everything seems like it'll be alright...and then a bullet goes through Mariana's head. The scavengers have been laying in wait for Javi's return to take revenge for stealing their supplies. Kate is wounded by a bullet and, if you decide to try to take her back to Prescott, she falls unconcious during the ride back.
Ice Queen:
After showing hints of it in the previous game, Clementine is veering toward this hard after the events which followed Season 2, and her time among the New Frontier. Depending on which ending you chose for that game, it's obvious from the flashbacks that either Jane or Kenny's deaths (along with A.J. being taken) seriously affected her outlook. Depending on how you treat her, she can return to acting much more like her Season 2 characterization by the end of the game.
In the New Frontier, Joan definitely fills this role.
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: Clem confronts a trader after he sells her bullets that don't fire properly. Clem proves that the bullets don't work by attempting to shoot him in the head. However, when the trader attacks Clem and Javi and Javi disarms him, Clem pulls the trigger again and this time the bullet works and hits the trader in the face. A bit of Artistic Licence – Gun Safety here, as it was clearly showed that the faulty bullets didn't cause the slide to work, so unless Clem cleared the action herself offscreen, the first round still should have just been sitting there in the chamber, thus preventing another round from cycling through and not letting anything happen when she pulled the trigger.
Important Haircut: By the time Jesus reunites with Javi, Javi comments that he almost didn't recognise him with shorter hair. Also, regardless of which ending you receive, Clementine will ask Javi to cut her hair even shorter.
Infant Immortality: Played straight so far with A.J. as of the flashbacks, which show him alive and seemingly healthy, and in Episode 4 you learn that he's living on a farm outside Richmond. Averted in a sense with Jane's unborn child, which died when she did.
Averted in Episode 1 with Mariana being killed by the New Frontier.
Again averted in Episode 3 when Javi and Kate find one of Gabe's friends as a walker while they are out scavenging for gas.
Also averted in Episode 5, if Javi and Clementine stayed with Kate, the two will eventually discover that Gabe has been bitten by a walker and is moments away from death. The player is then given a choice to either shoot Gabe, or give Gabe the gun to shoot himself. Earlier in the same episode, Fern laments that her daughter was lost to the walkers during the chaos.
Informed Attribute: Jane's pregnancy, which until her death scene is only hinted at by her character model's face being a lot fuller than at the end of Season 2. In real life, most women don't start to gain weight in their face until after they're showing (usually in their second trimester), and given A.J.'s appearance in that scene it's only a month or so after the end of Season 2, which in itself couldn't have been more than a month after she and Luke had sex.
Insane Troll Logic: The New Frontier didn't want to give A.J. the last of their store of antibiotics, because he was just a baby and the drug could be used to help someone that contributed. Clem injects him anyway, at which point they kick her out and force her to leave without A.J., because he would only slow her down. You know, the baby they think is dying.
Jerkass Has a Point: David about Gabe in Episode 5.
David: What he needs is to learn to keep his opinions to himself, until he understands what the hell he's talking about.
Kleptomaniac Hero Found Underwear: Clementine had to do this at some point since the end of Season Two. She's obviously started developing, and a grey sports bra is visible under her shirt.
Laser-Guided Karma: Badger, a ruthless and violent New Frontier member secretly serving under Joan, kills Mariana and destroys an entire town. In Episode 3, Javi may optionally beat Badger into a bloody pulp with a bat, mirroring his violent acts.
Leaning on the Fourth Wall: During Episode 4, Joan says that David put her in a "no-win situation." This is a clear representation of the episode as a whole. Regardless of what you do and whether or not you killed Conrad, Dr. Lingard, Badger, or even Joan, the episode still ends with Eleanor ratting you out to Joan, Joan trying to execute David, Tripp or Ava dying, and the wall being destroyed shortly after a shootout starts.
The Load: Oddly, of the two kids it ends up being not Mariana (the younger sibling), but Gabe. He constantly makes bad decisions in an effort to prove himself, and gets various members of the group into trouble on several occasions because he can't keep his mouth shut. He himself realizes this and seeks to become a real man like his father, even actively helping the group from Episode 4 until his death.
Among the supplies that the New Frontier stole, Jesus noticed one from the Kingdom.
The New Frontier took a page of the Governor's book when they attack Prescott, using truck filled with walkers (dubbed Walker bomb) to crash into the town and release the walkers onto the inhabitants like when Woodbury attack Rick Grimes group the first time in the TV series.
If Javi decides to kill Badger, he will pulverize his head with his baseball bat in the same vein as Negan and Lucille. However, Javi can stop at any time and simply leave Badger to bleed to death, or allow Tripp or Conrad (if he is still alive) to finish him off.
The New Frontier tries to have David hung for failing them as a leader just like how Gregory was executed by the Hilltop Colony.
New Old West: Being set several years After the End, this has started to crop up. The town of Prescott, in particular, has a "frontier town" vibe straight out of a spaghetti western despite being built on an old airstrip.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Sending Eleanor to Richmond (and later taking Kate there) leads them to be in the hands of the New Frontier.
Non-Standard Game Over: Doubles as a Downer Ending, if Javi and Clem chase after David and Gabe, and Javi ends up failing the final quick-time event, sees Javi being bitten by a walker. Gabe emerges from the car and kills the walker, however with his dying breath, Javi implores Gabe to return to Richmond and help her restore the town. Javi tries to ask Gabe one final request, however he dies before he can finish his sentence, leaving his nephew behind as more walkers are closing in. As Javi's final words were for Gabe to 'Tell Kate...' one can only assume this may have been a Dying Declaration of Love.
No Periods, Period: Menstruation is mentioned, albeit off-handedly, for the first time in the series during Episode 1, when Javi and Kate compare boys starting puberty (getting erections at random and inconvenient times) to girls starting puberty (irregular cycling resulting in stained or ruined underwear). It's then mentioned not so off-handedly in Episode 4 when it's revealed that Clem has just gotten her first period; while she knows what is going on (in that she understands it happens to all women), she doesn't really know what is going on (apparently no one ever gave her "the talk"). A totally out of his element Javi tries to stammer his way through a poor explaination, but he quickly gives up and tells Clem that Kate can answer all her questions about it later. Additionally, Clem's reaction right beforehand makes it clear that she's experiencing menstrual cramps, and when Javi rummages through the hospital's supplies, he can find a box of sanitary pads to give her.
One Steve Limit: Averted. There are two different characters named Paul; Paul "Jesus" Monroe and Dr. Paul Lingard, though their first names are rarely mentioned.
Pinball Protagonist: Clementine's role in this season is quite minor when compared to the previous. Since the story focuses more on Javi, Clementine's presence never really add any importance other than passing what she learned from the previous seasons to him. In fact, she sometimes will break off from the group for an extensive period only to return in the middle. Despite this, her actions in the flashbacks will determine the fate of the Garcia family at the end of the season.
Reality Ensues:
In Episode 4, Javi and Gabe decide to break into an armory by banging a fire extinguisher against a metal door. And then they walk into the room full of weapons and leave the door open. Ava catches them a couple minutes later.
If you choose to chop off Rufus' arm in Episode 5, he'll immediately die of shock, since his arm wasn't treated properly.
As Clementine is now a teenager and thus, entering puberty, she is bound to have her first period at this point.
Sadistic Choice: As per Telltale tradition.
Episode 1: Get Kate medical treatment or help Clementine assault the New Frontier.
Episode 2: Kill Conrad or allow him to capture Clementine and hand her over to the New Frontier.
Episode 3: Kill Badger or let him turn, kill Max or let him live, and trust David or abandon him with Kate.
Episode 4: Assist Dr. Lingard in committing suicide in return for him telling you for AJ's location, choose to save Tripp or Ava (only for the Sadistic Bitch Joan to kill the person you asked her to spare), and finally either swallow your anger against Joan and accept Clint's deal to leave Richmond with the rest of your group or shoot her and risk an open revolt.
Episode 5: Help Kate try to save the people of Richmond or chase after David and Gabe when they leave. At least one of the three will die.
Schrödinger's Gun: Conrad will have either a winning poker hand or a bad one depending on whether Francine goes in or folds, respectively. Also, if Clementine went off alone, either Kenny or Jane's fate is left uncertain.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: Sums up David toward the end of Episode 5, especially if Javi and Kate are in a romance.
Sequel Hook: The game ends with Clementine leaving Richmond to find AJ, with a caption telling the player that "Clementine's story will continue..."
She's All Grown Up: Clementine, now around 13 to 14, returns more mature, more pragmatic, and grown up than when we last saw her.
She's Back: After a brief departure from the mainstream game story, Clementine returns once more as a main character.
The Starscream:
Joan backstabs the council of the New Frontier and has been calling the shots the whole time.
Eleanor optionally throws Javier under the bus when the New Frontier tries him and his brother after she finds out that Javi killed Conrad in Episode 2.
Steel Eardrums: Averted. Firing a shot too close to his head causes Javi to become disoriented and temporarily deaf.
The Stinger: After Episode 5's credits, the player is treated to a scene of Clementine effortlessly fighting through a herd of walkers on her way to find AJ.
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Whomever the player went with in Season 2 (Kenny, Jane, Edith and all of Wellington) is immediately killed off in the first episode of this season.
The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People: Invoked by David in which he states that it took the end of the world to make Javi a responsible brother than he previously knew.
Time Skip: Telltale states that this season took place during the comic at the time of its release (i.e. during the Whisperers conflict, though how Jesus can be in two places at once is anyone's guess).
Wham Shot:
In the Jane flashback, Clementine walking in on Jane's reanimated body hanging above the desk. And when Clem walks up to her, she steps on something on the floor, and picks it up to see that it's a home pregnancy test stick, positive results.
In the Kenny flashback, Kenny has been thrown out of the car.
At the end of Episode 2, the man seemingly in charge of the New Frontier is David, who was thought to have died offscreen in the prologue for Episode 1.
What Happened to the Mouse?: The fate of Alvin Jr. is explored in Clementine's flashbacks. In episode 3, it's shown that The New Frontier forced her to leave him behind when they kicked her out after she stole drugs to treat his illness. Clem assumes that AJ died, but David reveals that he survived, and you can learn Alvin Jr.'s location in episode 4 if you agree to kill Dr. Lingard on his request, as he'll tell you that Alvin Jr. is at a nearby ranch. If you don't kill him in episode 4, then at the end of episode 5, Dr. Lingard will still tell you the information because by then he'll finally be in a stable state of mind.
If spared in episode 4, Joan will not appear at all in episode 5, leaving her ultimate fate ambiguous.
What the Hell, Hero?: Javi receives this even more than Lee and Clementine did in previous seasons. Notable examples include from his family for missing the death of his father, either way from Gabe after he either kills Conrad (which will also anger Tripp when Gabe rats Javi out for it in Episode 4) or allows him to capture Clementine, and from everyone except David if he kills Joan and starts a firefight.
Wild Card: David being an ally to the player or still looking out for himself is left deliberately ambiguous in almost every conversation you have with him. David and Javi's relationship becomes increasingly complicated throughout the season and differing conversation options can either lead to David fighting or making peace with Javi before he either dies or walks away.
Would Hurt a Child: One of the members of The New Frontier shoots ten-year old Mariana in the head.
David, in Episode 5, ends up accidentally hurting Gabe when he tries to break up a fight between him and Fern, causing David to immediately stop and apologise for his actions. However, later in the same episode when David is trying to kill Javi, David again ends up hitting Gabe when he tries to stop him, only this time he hits him with a wrench, square in the forehead, and doesn't even flinch.
The New Frontier has no problem shooting at Clementine and Gabriel and if the player fail to click the correct button in time, they will be killed.
If Clementine stays in Wellington in the previous season, a group of bandits will attack the town in between seasons and target at her and AJ even while they are trying to escape.
Your Head Asplode: See Mythology Gag.
The Walking Dead Season Two
VideoGame/The Walking Dead
The Walking Dead Season Four


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'Crazy Rich Asians' Spinoff in Works
admin - May 9, 2022 Alerts , Crazy Rich Asians
Emmy nominated Barry producer and scribe Jason Kim is set to pen a spinoff of Crazy Rich Asians which will center around the Gemma Chan character of Astrid Young Teo and her romance with Charlie Wu, played by Harry Shum Jr. in the original movie.
I hear that Kim came in with a dynamite pitch for the lovebirds' story, and Warner Bros. swooned for it. The project is in early development.
Note, the Crazy Rich Asians sequel remains in development, and it's being penned by Amy Wang. Both the spin-off and Crazy Rich Asians sequel will be tied to Kevin Kwan's second book in the trilogy, China Rich Girlfriend. That book, in addition to covering Astrid and Charlie's relationship, follows the Constance Wu and Henry Golding characters, Rachel and Nick, on a trip to Shanghai to find the former's birth father.
Astrid is the newly single cousin of Nick Young (Henry Golding's character), and in the Kwan books, Charlie Wu is her first love. They were previously engaged, but Astrid's parents broke them up as they didn't see Charlie as a suitable husband. Astrid is known for great beauty and impeccable fashion sense.
In the Jon M. Chu directed movie, Astrid learns that her husband Michael (Pierre Png) has been seeing a mistress. She reconnects with Charlie after they run into each other at Nick and Rachel's engagement party.
Crazy Rich Asians repped the first Hollywood studio movie since 1993's The Joy Luck Club to star an all-Westernized Asian ensemble. The movie made waves at the box office, debuting to $35.2M over 5-days and minting $174.5M domestic, $238.5M WW. The movie received a feature cast ensemble nomination from SAG, won Best Comedy at the Critics Choice Awards, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Comedy/Musical as well as a nod for Comedy or Musical Actress Constance Wu.
Don't Worry Darling – Official Trailer
admin - May 9, 2022 Don't Worry Darling , Multimedia
Gemma Chan, Nina Yang Bongiovi Developing Anna May Wong Biopic With Working Title Films
admin - Mar 30, 2022 Alerts , News , Projects
Tony winner David Henry Hwang is writing the screenplay, adapted from Graham Russell Gao Hodges' biography of the cinematic pioneer.
Hollywood's first Chinese American movie star is finally getting the spotlight, a century after her heyday.
Gemma Chan and producer Nina Yang Bongiovi are teaming with Working Title Films to develop a biopic of Anna May Wong, the golden age icon whose career brought her international recognition even as she continued to face opportunity limitations in the industry and other forms of prejudice and discrimination.
The Eternals and Crazy Rich Asians star (whose 2021 Met Gala look, seen above, was an homage to Wong) will portray the legend and also executive produce. Yang Bongiovi, whose Significant Productions was most recently behind Passing, will produce alongside Working Title co-chairs Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Working Title's recent releases include Joe Wright's period romance Cyrano starring Peter Dinklage and Channel 4 and Peacock's Muslim punk-rock series We Are Lady Parts.
"Anna May Wong was a trailblazer, an icon and a woman ahead of her time," said Chan in a statement. "Her talent and her exploration of her art both in and outside of the U.S. was groundbreaking — and the challenges and prejudice she faced in the early 20th century as an actress speak directly to the conversations and the world we are navigating today."
David Henry Hwang, the first Asian American playwright to win a Tony (in 1988 for M. Butterfly), is penning the screenplay, adapted from Graham Russell Gao Hodges' 2012 biography, Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend. Wong's niece Anna Wong is serving as a consultant on the film.
Gemma Chan Chose Her "Grungy" Louis Vuitton Show Look Because It Makes Her Feel Powerful
admin - Mar 22, 2022 News
Gemma Chan is in Paris for a whirlwind trip to see the Louis Vuitton autumn/winter 2022 presentation. The landscape looks a little different and the mood a touch more sombre than usual given the current climate. "It feels surreal to be at a fashion show," says the British-Asian actor, who is unfailingly polite despite the fact she is extremely jet-lagged. Having wrapped on a two-month job in Thailand, she jetted home to London for one night for her nephew's birthday. Now she finds herself in France and, like everyone else, is finding the unfolding situation in Ukraine increasingly desperate. "The world is in chaos," she shares. "It's hard to find the words, but it's all anyone's talking about."
To enter the fashion fray for a day, Chan and her stylist Rebecca Corbin-Murray chose a Louis Vuitton look that would make her feel powerful. "It's a sort of cape situation," she says of her all-black leather, lace and velvet ensemble (look 27 from spring/summer 2022). "It's grungy with a hint of punk, and the LV Moonlight boots are very comfortable."
The Eternals star's make-up artist Hiromi Ueda, who Gemma met on her British Vogue cover shoot, decided on "a bit of an eye", while hairstylist David Delicourt did an undone ponytail for a "classic French look with easy texture". "There was a lot going on with the outfit, so we decided to keep the beauty quite simple," says Chan, a consummate professional who looked undeniably polished, not so much as a hint of the last 48 hours on her flawless skin.
Nicolas Ghesquière's latest collection, shown against the majesty of the statues inside the Musée d'Orsay, gave Chan and her front row friends, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas, a glimmer of joy during what can feel like a hopeless time. "Everything Nicolas does feels so fresh," asserts Gemma. "Some of the looks feel so bold that you think they will be tricky to wear, but actually they make you feel so strong. I love what he does." [Source]
Gemma Chan at the Paris Fashion Week
admin - Mar 10, 2022 Photos
Gemma Chan attends the Louis Vuitton Womenswear Fall/Winter 2022/2023 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on March 07, 2022 in Paris. You can go to the gallery to take a look to the photos and enjoy!
2022 Public Appearances > Louis Vuitton : Photocall – Paris Fashion Week – Womenswear F/W 2022-2023
2022 Public Appearances > Louis Vuitton : Front Row – Paris Fashion Week – Womenswear F/W 2022-2023
2022 Public Appearances > Louis Vuitton : Arrivals – Paris Fashion Week – Womenswear F/W 2022-2023
Gemma Chan covers W Magazine
admin - Feb 16, 2022 Magazines , Photos , Photoshoots
Gemma Chan covers W Magazine, Best Performances issue. I have added the scans and photoshoot to the gallery so, you can go there to take a look and enjoy!
2022 Photoshoots & Portraits > Photoshoot #001
2022 Magazines Scans > W Magazine Best Performances (January 2022)
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2021 • Sersi
The saga of the Eternals, a race of immortal beings who lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilizations.
News • Photos • IMDb
2022 • Natasha Alper
An unanticipated stories of how the upcoming changes to our planet will affect love, faith, work and family on a personal and human scale.
2022 • Shelley
A 1950's housewife living with her husband in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.
2023 • Unknown
Plot details are under wraps.
THE ACTOR
202? • Edna
When New York actor Paul Cole is beaten and left for dead in 1950s Ohio, he loses his memory and finds himself stranded in a mysterious small town where he struggles to get back home and reclaim what he's lost.
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module.exports = lockTree
function lockTree (pkg, pkgLock, opts) {
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module.exports.node = makeNode
function makeNode (name, address, opts) {
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function addChild (dep, tree, allDeps, pkgLock) {
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module.exports._reqAddr = reqAddr
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}

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All tracks written by Bradley Voorhees All tracks recorded, mixed, and mastered, by Bradley Voorhees at Ed Harbst Studios unless noted otherwise below.
"Feel it Too (Part 2)" Music written by Bradley Voorhees. �Powerful� ending inspired by JPK. Lyrics written by Bradley Voorhees & Joshua P. Kennedy.
Entire Song Recorded, Mixed, and Mastered at Ed Harbst Studios. Except JPK Vocals, Recorded by JPK at Sharken Studios, and Mixed and Mastered by BV at Ed Harbst Studios.


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Teachers in limbo: 'No teaching degree no classroom'
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Professor Paul Mavhima
Prof Paul Mavhima
Oswell Moyo Chronicle Reporter
MORE than 13,000 teachers who are holders of non-teaching degrees and diplomas face an uncertain future after the government resolved to gradually not renew their contracts citing that they are not qualified for the classroom.The development comes at a time when schools are expected to open next week on Tuesday.
The Deputy Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Professor Paul Mavhima said the government was committed to employing competent personnel to maintain high standards of education.
He said non-teaching degreed teachers lucky to be employed would be engaged on a termly basis until a qualified teacher was found.
The deputy minister said those who deserted the profession during the hyper-inflation period in 2008 would be given one year contracts only, until they proved that they were committed to their work.
"Non-teaching degree holders should not complain over this matter because we want trained teachers. Our first preference will be graduates from teachers' colleges over university graduates. If there are any positions left that is when we can consider them," said Prof Mavhima.
"Those with non-teaching degrees if lucky to be employed will be engaged on termly basis. Those who had deserted the profession during 2008 era will be given one-year contracts until we are satisfied that there are committed.
"Last year we engaged over 13,000 teachers with non-teaching diplomas and degrees. This year we are not going to engage them before taking newly qualified from teachers' colleges. We do have a shortage of Science and Maths teachers but we will consider qualified teachers. Currently, I don't have figures of exact teachers that we need."
Bulawayo Provincial Education Director Dan Moyo told the Chronicle yesterday they will not recruit holders of non-teaching degrees and diplomas this term.
"We are not recruiting personnel with non-teaching degrees and diplomas. Those with degrees should do Post Graduate Certificate in Education in order to be considered as teachers. We will only consider them after recruiting qualified teachers," said Moyo.
He said graduates who were not qualified to teach lacked necessary skills of teaching children despite having broad subject content.
"Graduates may have subject content but they can't put it across to children. They do not know the methodology of teaching because there are not teachers. Therefore, there is a need for graduates to consider doing Graduate Certificate in Education to secure employment."
The majority of teachers with non-graduate teaching degrees and diplomas had started applying for their contracts to be renewed. Some applied last term but had not yet received a response from the Civil Service Commission.
Matabeleland North Provincial Education Director Boithatelo Mnguni said teachers with non- teaching degrees compromised the quality of education.
"People with degrees are no longer hot cakes as it used to be. We are taking graduates from teachers' colleges. Graduates may have content but they must be trained in education. Not everyone can be a teacher. I once witnessed a case where a boilermaker was teaching Grade 5 students. He was frustrated and failing to teach. Would you want your child to be taught by a boiler maker? "
Teachers unions are not happy with the government's decision.
Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe President Dr Takavafira Zhou appealed to government to take holders of non- teaching degrees and diplomas for teachers training during holidays rather than to terminate their contracts.
A teacher at Masotsha High School who requested anonymity said this system was not favourable as most of the graduates had better qualifications than teachers.
"There is nothing wrong with an accountant teaching accounts at school because he is qualified to do that. Teaching is the mother of all professions. What they are doing is not fair to graduates considering that there is high unemployment rate," he said.


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The Vietnam War was already lost by the time the 1970s began, both on the actual battlefield and on the homefront, but acceptance of the fact was slow in coming from the American administration under President Richard Nixon. Desperate to have "peace with honor," Nixon pursued the option of Vietnamization in which American troop withdrawals were balanced with increased aid to the South Vietnamese army to replace Americans in the field. Bombing of North Vietnamese sanctuaries in Cambodia and Laos accompanied this, as did increased bombing of Hanoi itself. But it was all to no avail and Nixon was forced to accept a settlement in January 1973 that would allow all American forces to be pulled out of the country along with the return of American prisoners of war. The war itself did not effectively end until two years later when the North Vietnamese finally overran the South.
In the intervening year, the finest documentary yet to have been made about the war was released — Hearts and Minds, directed by Peter Davis. It would win the 1974 Academy award for Best Documentary. Criterion has now released the film on DVD using a new high definition digital transfer.
Hearts and Minds documents the Vietnam War in a generally non-linear fashion using a blend of North and South Vietnamese and domestic footage from before and during the war; past and present interviews with politicians, advisors, military commanders, soldiers, and non-combatants; Hollywood film clips; and popular music. Some 200 hours of footage have been edited down to the less than two hours that make up the completed film.
It's particularly appropriate to be revisiting Hearts and Minds at a time when the United States is engaged in a different sort of war with the shadow of a potential Iraq conflict on the horizon. The original rationales for U.S. involvement in Vietnam were to protect commercial interests and stem the spread of international communism, but as that war lingered on, it slowly became clear that the U.S. presence was more and more about trying to avoid the stigma of possibly losing to a perceived third-rate nation rather than any altruistic concern about the South Vietnamese people or any potential threat of a Communist takeover. Successive U.S presidents lied to their people about many aspects of the war and one begins to wonder if history will eventually say the same about the war on terrorism. For the moment, the American people continue to support their president, but there is a much greater inherent suspicion of political decisions these days as a result of the Vietnam fallout and the actions of subsequent administrations at home and abroad. Will a unilateral attack on Iraq be eventually viewed as the first step into a Vietnam-like quagmire that will eventually evoke the same sort of internal protests and strife that characterized America in the late '60s and '70s? Much will depend on how close to home any future response (à la 9/11) might hit. For now, we can only ponder the lessons of Vietnam and remember the old refrain that those who ignore the lessons of history are bound to repeat them.
Hearts and Minds is a personal statement of its director, Peter Davis. Davis's view of the war is very clear despite his efforts to provide a balanced view of its causes and effects, its pros and cons. For once, we get an idea of what the ordinary Vietnamese experienced and what they thought about American support, rather than just a parroted response from the propped-up South Vietnamese regime. Most telling is the feeling of betrayal expressed in their view that they are fighting a war of independence only to be prevented from doing so by the intervention of the United States, a country which had struggled for its own independence less than two centuries previously. Hearing that alone raises a distinct question about the merits of American involvement, but it's further reinforced by the comments of many American Vietnam vets who afterwards at least questioned if not regretted much of what they did there. Of course, not all felt that way and that is graphically illustrated by returned American prisoner of war George Coker, who speaks about his continued belief in the rightness of American involvement to groups of all sorts in his hometown. Many of the military and political officials and advisors who had key roles such as General William Westmoreland, Clark Clifford, Walt Rostow, and Dan Ellsberg make comments, some coming across still as stonewalling members of the establishment while others forthrightly acknowledge the wrongness of their original views.
The success of Hearts and Minds is very much due to its then rather unique documentary approach, a outgrowth of the cinema verité school of a decade earlier — the lack of narration and the interesting juxtaposition of images of people, places and events that are allowed to speak for themselves. Davis draws striking comparisons between the ugly realities of war versus the romantic, Hollywood view of being in the army; winning on the battlefield and "killing" one's opponents on the football field; and the patriotic fervour of comfortable, untouched, small-town America versus the homeless, hopeless feelings of Vietnamese villagers burnt out by the war. Perhaps the saddest issue pursued is the then prevailing American view that the Vietnamese people were somehow lesser human beings. Westmoreland's statement that "the Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does the Westerner" is one of the most ignorant statements to have been publicly made by someone in a position of power, but the sentiment is echoed by soldiers who talk of going out and killing some gooks and the returned prisoner of war who describes Vietnam as being very pretty if it weren't for the people.
The reminder of the war almost 30 years after its end that Hearts and Minds provides is still astonishingly vital and moving. It is so fresh that one can almost believe that the events it depicts all just ended. In a sense, they may as well have, because too many of us have allowed ourselves to ignore subsequent developments in that area of the world perhaps as a way to forget the devastation of the countryside and a way of life that America's involvement was a party to. That's why such films are so important. They prevent time from obliterating the worst of the past and provide signposts that can guide us away from making the same mistakes again. Hearts and Minds ought to be required viewing for President Bush and his cohorts; and in viewing, one could only hope then that they understand the relevance of what they are seeing to the current approach to terrorism.
Criterion presents Hearts and Minds on DVD in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1 anamorphically enhanced using a new high definition digital transfer from a restored 35mm interpositive. Director Peter Davis and cinematographer Richard Pearce supervised the transfer, and the MTI Digital Restoration System was used to remove numerous instances of dirt, debris, and scratches. The result is a very fine looking transfer throughout. Some of the archival footages used still look a little rough, reflecting their questionable origins, but for the most part, the image is crisp and clear with only occasional instances of minor grain. The colour looks very natural.
The Dolby Digital monaural sound track has also been restored to reduce clicks, pops, hiss, and crackle. The results are fine indeed. Dialogue is clear and distortion-free, no matter what the actual source of the various components of the film. English subtitles are available, but can only be activated by the DVD player remote.
The disc has two supplements. The first is an audio commentary by Peter Davis and it is extremely informative. He talks throughout, with comments directed more to discussion of various aspects of the war prompted by the particular images on the screen rather than the techniques involved in shooting them. The other supplement is a 32-page booklet containing five essays relating to the war and the film. The authors are film critic Judith Crist, historians Robert Brigham and George Herring, Asian Studies expert Ngo Vinh Long, and director Peter Davis. All their words are well worth reading.
Hearts and Minds is an essential film about the Vietnam conflict that has been given a typically fine presentation on DVD by Criterion. What else do you need to know? Highly recommended.
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A Harley Gallery and Ruthin Craft Centre originated touring exhibition funded by Arts Council England. Brought to Dovecot Gallery with support from The Dovecot Foundation and Creative Scotland.
Jeweller, designer-maker, interdisciplinary problem solver and 3D technologist: these are just some of the ways David Poston has variously been described during an imaginative and wide ranging career. This exhibition documents David Poston's extensive exploration into materials, ideas and collaboration.
This is Poston's second exchange with Dovecot, as in 2008 together with Dovecot Tapestry Studio's Master Weaver Jonathan Cleaver, Poston developed a series of woven viscose, wire and stainless steel wire arm-wear pieces which were then exhibited at Dovecot in Sitting and Looking in 2010. One of these pieces is now in the collection of the National Museum of Scotland and other objects produced during this collaboration feature in the exhibition set within the wider context of Poston's work and life.


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A: Look at Books Online for the BCP command; this stored procedure is an attempt to rapidly load data from a flat file.  I should note that this proc it relies on the XP_CmdShell procedure, which can be exploited as a vulnerability.  Use with caution.

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