[2880×1800] Split river mountains (illustration)

Tapper presses Nikki Haley on ‘racist country’ comment

Jenna Ortega

Copyright Remains A Complete Mess: A Tale In Two Stories

Here are two separate stories regarding the mess that is modern copyright law, that is now mostly “mediated” by companies that half-ass randomly deal with things and sometimes do not. While this is…

Theseus under construction in LEO, six weeks prior to launch. by Peter Watts

“Gold Diggers of 1937” Review

Gold Diggers of 1937: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Victor Moore. When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can’t fund an elderly stage producer’s production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer’s life.

The “Gold Diggers” franchise reminds me greatly of “The Producers” in which insurance payouts are the panacea for all the problems that some rather disreputable people are having. This is the third move of the franchise about women looking for love (and a paycheck) and the odd adventures and escapades they fall into. I’m obviously here for Glenda Farrell and she’s at the height of her fantastic skills, this movie was released the same year as one of her great Torchy Blane films (Smart Blonde) and she’s here as one of the main gold diggers, one given the task of seducing the elderly show producer, but turns out to be a gem of a woman and helps him figure out the entire enterprise against him. The final 20 minutes of the film is a stage musical with the movie and has some really cool sets and visual tricks that are 100% just creative photography. One of the larger set pieces is a WW1 trench warfare scene in which men are shooting glittery guns at women in an opposing trench (set to a song “All’s Fair In Love And War”) which strikes me as odd. 1937 is only about 20 years after the end of The Great War to End All Wars, so there were surely vets in the theatrical audiences. I wonder how they responded to it?

The DVD had a few interesting extras:
“The Romance of Louisiana” – an 18 minute stage play movie about the Louisiana Purchase from the French, I had no idea it was so dramatic. There’s a scene in which some of the American Pols are arguing and I swear to god it sounded like a modern argument, just 100+ years out of order.

“Plenty of Money and You” – animated WB short about a chicken that hatches an ostrich, set to one of the songs from the film. It’s cute and adorable and is high quality.

“speaking of the Weather” – I’m pretty sure this was supposed to be another WB short, but other than a racism warning, I couldn’t figure out how to watch it. Maybe it was this one? The warning would certainly stand:

“Gold Diggers of Broadway excerpts”, which are a couple reels from the original 1925 film which hasn’t been found in it’s entirety, so it’s considered a “lost” film. They’re from the final moments of the film during a stage musical within the film, similar to how GD37 ended, and the pageantry and acrobatic talent of the performers is insane to see and sad to know that the rest of their performance is likely lost to time.

Theatrical Trailer, which explains how the movie came to be, then features the kiss that ends the movie, a fine tradition of spoiling the final moments of a movie that we still have!

This was a great film, even if I don’t throw my feelings in for Glenda Farrell, but with her it was damn near perfect.

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Selena Gomez

Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.

Olivia De Havilland (1940s)

Christina Ricci

Are you ok Marge?

Chloe Bennet

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Jessica Chastain

Elizabeth Montgomery-early 1970s

French actress Anaïde Rozam

Anyone else has this problem also?

Neon Shibuya

Alexandra Daddario

Dafne Keen with fan transparent shirt

Uzungöl, Trabzon, Turkey

Stars over Jupiter [3300×5100]

Ironman wall

Story of my life

“Is your body coming between you and the opposite sex?”, produced by the Health Education Council, London, England, c. 1977

‘Bringing in tomorrow at LAX’—Shusei Nagoaka designed cover art for West Magazine, August 1970

Arctic sunset, Kola Peninsula [OC][1440×1800]

Alexandra Daddario candid

Jordana Brewster

Shirley Jones-1960s

Michelle Trachtenberg

lili reinhart & camila mendes

South Korean Marines prepare to launch a RQ-102K division-level UAV on 18 January 2024 [3584 x 2390]

Brighton Beach, 1980’s (Photo by Chris Allen)

Panama Canal by Gavin Manners

Jennifer Aniston

Kaley Cuoco

She must be in a good mood today

Taylor Swift

LEGO Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus Ambush (76958) Amazon Sale – January 2024

Amazon currently has the LEGO Jurassic Park Dilophosaurus Ambush (76958) on sale for 20% off.

Dr. Putin loves his robots.

‘Echo’ Star Vincent D’Onofrio Talks Kingpin’s Next Move and ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Reboot

The actor says he thanked Marvel boss Kevin Feige for sticking by him and co-star Charlie Cox amid getting a new creative team to overcome some speed bumps on the ‘Daredevil’ show.

Robot Rebellion by Alexey Lipatov

Exterior of a ‘double cylinder settlement’ in space, illustrated by Rick Guidice for NASA, 1975

Scorpio

On a distant Earth colony, an orphaned survivor of an alien invasion discovers that the greatest world-ending dangers aren’t behind her. It’s been eight years s

Set in the same universe as the “Frontlines” series, Kloos has wisely wrapped up the storylines from that first set of books and continued on with a new character that’s a survivor of the Lanky invasion and is holed up in an underground bunker on a far away planet with little to no hope for rescue or help from Earth. As like Kloos’s other books, this is so exceptionally good that I managed to read it all in just a single sitting, then went back through and reread a few parts to relish in the deliciousness of the story and setting. It felt like an eternity ago that I preordered this back in 2023, so I had completely forgotten about it until it popped up on my kindle on January 1st, 2024. I was in the middle of two other books at the time, so it had to wait a bit, but it was well worth both of the waits!

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Ann-Margret on location shooting the “Train Robbers”-1973

Isabella Rossellini (1980s/1990s)

Mesotopus by Bogdan Tufecciu

Level 249: Lifeformed, Janice Kwan (Tunic)

I loved talking with Terence and Janice so much about their wonderful music for such a fabulous game. The music for Tunic is a glorious blend of synths and acoustic piano, with waves of (often) consonant sound. Plus, you get to play as an adorable fox!

Terence and Janice live in Taiwan so I got to learn a bit about that tropical island too, and got to meet some cats which always brings a smile! You get to see them in the YouTube video…

PLAYLIST by Lifeformed and Janice Kwan for Tunic unless noted otherwise

00:00 Memories of Memories 07:19 Sunset Breakfast 14:32 Ghost Field 15:36 The Librarian – piano sketch 15:56 The Librarian 18:07 The Captain – piano sketch 18:24 The Captain 19:10 The Knight 20:52 Remember to Remember 22:21 Carbon Harvest 23:32 What They Kept From Us 25:02 Ghost Field 26:43 Ghost Field 28:19 Ocean Glaze 31:20 Ocean Glaze 32:01 To Far Shores 35:56 To Far Shores 45:51 Sageless 49:39 Flux is On 53:30 River, River (not for Tunic) 58:03 pull me in by Janice Kwan 1:01:16 The Cats Are Hungry 1:04:10 Hex Sequence 1:04:51 Other Sprouts by Sam Keenan

Level 249: Lifeformed, Janice Kwan (Tunic) originally appeared on Level With Emily Reese on January 19, 2024.

1950s, Sophia Loren.