Witches look like .. Jewish women. And vampires/nosferatus look like … Jewish men. I wonder why.

Incidentally, the three actresses why played witches in Hocus Pocus (1993) were Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy. The first two are Jewish and the last is Lebanese.

Something about the Semitic countenance inspires instinctual distrust, fear and horror (to a European audience, at least). (Esp., the droopy-eyed, fat-lipped, hook-nose variant that just screams … Svengali.*) Why is that?

Perhaps our ancestors had frequent negative encounters with them and we’ve thus evolved an atavistic instinct to associate their faces with danger.

* Here’s an apt portrait of the personality. Ever known a Jew like this? It’s a common variant:

* (Svengali) would either fawn or bully, and could be grossly impertinent. He had one kind of cynical humour, which was more offensive than amusing, and always laughed at the wrong thing, at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and his laughter was always derisive, and full of malice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svengali

It resembles descriptions of Harvey Weinstein, actually – from those who worked closely with him and best knew him.

Jews are not smart. They’re just sneaky, cynical and ruthless. As with pessimism, cynicism is often mistaken for intelligence.

Jews are cynical misanthropes who exploit the trust and good-faith cooperation of their hosts to get ahead.

They play by different rules than the rest of us (as do, e.g., Gypsies). Settled peoples had to learn to get along with their neighbors long-term, and enter into long-lasting mutualistic relationships. Parasites, on the other hand, can jump from host to host: con one group of people and then flee town before facing consequences; move on to another victim. Rinse and repeat.

It isn’t rocket science.

Read the whole thing there.

Why? Why would I care about this latest excrescence of our vile, sh**ty popular culture?

……………..and the tall, Jewish, pretty actress Idina Menzel as green Elphaba.

Pretty? Just how many glasses of wine have you had tonight, Steve? She is not “pretty”. Although admittedly, she is better looking than that weird-looking orc with the nose-ring who is in the movie.

Okay, they wanted to make the witch black. There are plenty of good-looking black women. Couldn’t they have chosen one of them?

I’ve already wasted more words than this topic deserves. Wicked? Some kind of fan-fiction bastardization of The Wizard of Oz? This is gay-to-the-gay. It’s gay-plex.

A black in green-face. One day the martians will have this movie banned.

Mrs. Prude got the book “Wicked� from the library. I sampled it and found it potty-mouthed po-mo garbage. The Missus gave the first chapter a try but was confused by the creature with three penises.

Is that in the movie, Steve? If, so, another reason not to watch.

Race os only skin deep.

Can we please have normal looking movie stars again?

The essence of evil is treason to your own people. This follows from the fact that we are a social species. Any white person who is anti-white is evil. Any white person who yawns over the genocide of their people is evil.

Anyone who claims to uphold “principles” in the sky over their own people, is evil.

” . . . Cynthia Erivo, an aging plain-Jane Nigerian-Briton with a face made for viewing from the cheap seats”

Well that’s quite the understatement. Erivo has a face made for radio and not even the cheap seats. How, at 37(!) she got thrusted into this role in beyond me. (The spirit of St. George Floyd must be very powerful!!!) Yeah, I get the whole DIE concept, but of all the African-American/African actresses out there, there was no one better??? Heck, even an aging Halle Berry would have been a better selection on the eyes. After all, since in today’s world age and sex are apparently just mere constructs, why not go with the better name and brand?

“The entertainment industry used to employ a lot of little people”

Speaking of which, a cult classic where dwarfs feature quite prominently is Tod Browning’s 1932 Freaks. It definitely packs a punch and the Criterion Collection has promoted it quite well. The Ramones used one of the film’s famous lines in their song Pinhead — “Gabba Gabba hey”

Regarding the plot of Freaks, per Google:

“When trapeze artist Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova) learns that circus midget Hans (Harry Earles) has an inheritance, she marries the lovesick, diminutive performer, all the while planning to steal his fortune and run off with her lover, strong man Hercules (Henry Victor). When Hans’ friends and fellow performers discover what is going on, they band together and carry out a brutal revenge that leaves Hercules and Cleopatra knowing what it truly means to be a freak.”

Guess even adult Little People do have a heart as big as a house and can get it broken,…just like their taller counterparts.

Now if THAT doesn’t sound like quite a mature themed film, no matter the year or the decade…and the little people are out on full display in Freaks. Definitely packs a punch, even to this day.

For actually utilizing adult themes, it would appear that Wicked has a long way to go in that department, especially when compared to Freaks (don’t suppose Broadway will be adapting Freaks into a musical any time soon).

I … found it potty-mouthed po-mo garbage.

From Steve’s review:

Wicked, derived from gay Catholic children’s author Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel about the origin of evil

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!

I don’t know whose idea it was to make a gay Catholic into a “children’s author”, but perhaps they would be interested in the sheeptending services of my velociraptor.

An even bigger question is who are the parents who think it’s a good idea to imbue their children with this influence? Well, someone’s patronizing all those Drag Queen Story Hours, Gender Transition Clinics, and Child Drag Show tryouts, I guess. Presumably none of these people are descended from shepherd stock, with their instinctual wisdom about predators and prey.

the creature with three penises.

Remarkable advances in today’s children’s literature. Laura Ingalls Wilder, take note!

I too have some notions about “the origin of evil”, but something tells me that children’s publishers won’t be as eager to put my views in front of their audience as they were with Gregory Maguire’s views. Why is that?

It’s almost like children’s publishing is now an industrial-scale grooming project…

even an aging Halle Berry would have been a better selection on the eyes.

Maybe she can’t sing? Good singers are pretty rare.

OTOH, given the massive special effects budgets of modern cinema, they should be able to dub any singer’s voice onto any actor.

Indeed, soon they should be able to dub anyone’s face and body onto anyone else playing any role. “Actors” will just by gig-workers in motion-capture suits. And soon thereafter that, they won’t even need those anymore. Just AI the script into production.

Actually, if you grow up around a lot of black people, and see them every day, you get pretty good at determining their age.

Laura Engles Wilder was cancelled during the Great Awokening. Her books were banned over depictions of Feather Indians.

Ariana Grande may have been a victim of musical affirmative action this year. In addition to acting in the Wicked movie, she also put out a critically well received album this year that sold a lot of copies. Her fans were outraged when the album did not receive a best album Grammy nomination and she only got four nominations total. Meanwhile Beyonce, whose album sold a lot fewer copies, did get a best album Grammy nomination.

Beyonce got a total of eleven Grammy nominations this year, more than anyone else. Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter all put out albums that sold more this year, but Beyonce got more Grammy nominations than any of them.

Even though Wicked has been a money machine for 21 years, I didn’t recognize any of the melodies.

I’m pretty sure there haven’t been any worthwhile Broadway melodies since about … Caberet? So, 1966? And even that’s kind of pushing it. Maybe Fiddler on the Roof from 1964 is the last time a musical had original catchy tunes that people would remember and spontaneously sing.

the last song I can recall making it past rock radio’s anti-Broadway barrier was Stephen Sondheim’s “Send In the Clowns� a half century ago.

“One Night in Bangkok”? Admittedly not a singable as “Send In the Clownsâ€�, but I remember it getting a lot of airplay in the ’80s. Looking in Wiki, it appears it had some kind of pre-Chess existence, so maybe it’s disqualified?

It’s a trifle disappointing to see a Steve film review of a major tent-pole release, one anticipating a massive blowout box office, and have the column, apart from a few snarky asides, amount merely to “btw there’s this movie out called Wicked, here’s what’s in it, whaddaya whaddaya.” No “criticism” at all from the critic.

A major, seal-of-approval deconstruction of “The Wizard of Oz,” in itself a foundational text of modern 19th/20th-cent American identity, is in effect, whatever else it might be, a deconstruction of (and therefore an assault upon) said American identity itself. As that detestable old hack Arthur Miller once scribbled, “Attention must be paid.”

Imagine you lost the genetic lottery. You are born ugly and obnoxious. Then, would you not see differently? The beautiful seem oppressing. The fit seem to grate on you. Sublime beauty and healthy bodies are the opposite of you and yours. The frat boys are bullying you. The frat girls pay you no mind. These piss poor movies are the revenge of the deviants. Where the ugly are different but pretty on the inside. Where the obnoxious are cool and daring. Where pretty girls are stupid and great looking guys are all bullies. Hollyweird is the Capitol of the deviants and freaks. There, the fit are ridiculed. The sublime is oppressing. And, the pure and moral are laughed at. With a nervous laughter. This lousy casting is indicative of neuroses. An example of insecurity and malicious envy. The smug superiority complex is a mask that hides the inferiority complex inherent in these people. Movies, art and culture are all derided and turned ugly by cretins who are themselves ugly. You can judge a book by the cover. Unfit creatures have genetic flaws. And, dark complexions are a sign of aggressive behavior. Believe the opposite of what they say and the truth will be revealed.

“…one of us… one of us…�

“Gay Catholic children’s author” huh?

This whole notion of prequelling classics and vandalizing them with phony diversity is akin to spray painting a black drug-dealer serving fentanyl on the canvas of the Mona Lisa and claiming that’s why she was really smiling.

Her estate can make a comeback with Little House by the Three Penises.

No off-Narrative Indian depictions!

“The amount of high-priced effort put into entertaining you in person is probably greater on Broadway than anywhere else in the world other than, say, the Salzburg opera festival.”

We went to see Aida in the Verona Roman amphitheatre a few years ago. There must have been 200+ people on stage, the sets were vast, and it’s a wonderful place on a warm summers evening with a full moon.

https://www.arena.it/arena-opera-festival/

My good lady’s no opera fan, but she just loved the whole thing – how could you not? And it wasn’t outrageously priced at all, not Covent Garden prices – although you can pay a lot for a seat right in front of the stage.

Beyond the nose, the essence of witchiness is a face that looks attractive when young but isn’t likely to age well: Think of Sarah Jessica Parker in 1991’s L.A. Story or Madonna in 1985’s Desperately Seeking Susan. Madonna looked plenty sexy then, but you also couldn’t help noticing that without pervasive plastic surgery there would come a time when the only role she’d be suitable for is fattening up Hansel for dinner.

I believe Madonna was 28 when she played a pregnant teen in “Papa Don’t Preach” in 1986. By the way, that song is an interesting glimpse into a very different era. Lots of things that were true back then are no longer true.

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Erivo, in contrast, has that black-don’t-crack look where it’s hard to tell whether she is 30 or 60. (I was pleased to see that black jazz genius Miles Davis vindicated my observation in his autobiography that it’s hard to tell how old black people are.)

Yeah, I noticed that too. Blacks get really old-looking when they’re young, then stay at that age for a long time. Whites are just the opposite. Very baby-faced in their youth, but then they begin to age quickly in their mid 20s and end up looking quite different by middle age.

By the way, has anyone noticed that people looked older in the past?

Paul Skallas, also known as the “Lindy Man,” speculated it’s because people drink more water now.

https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/hydration-revolution

My theory on why people looked older in the past isn't because of smoking (not all these HS students smoked) or hair styles

It's hydration. When people started drinking 10 bottles of water a day in the 2000s as a normal thing. Before, you had one cup of water from the sink or… pic.twitter.com/412iLxoh7b

— LindyMan (@PaulSkallas) March 24, 2023

gay Catholic

No such thing. There are Catholics and there are Satanic infiltrators who pretend to be Catholic in order to subvert the church. Maguire is the latter.

“It’s almost like children’s publishing is now an industrial-scale grooming project…”

“For her work, Wilson has won many awards including the Smarties Prize and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, a book award judged by a panel of British children’s writers.[21] The Illustrated Mum (1999) won the annual Guardian Prize and the annual British Book Award for Children’s Book of the Year; it also made the 1999 Whitbread Awards shortlist. The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People’s Choice Award, and Girls in Tears was the Children’s Book of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards. Two of her books were “Highly Commended” runners-up for the annual Carnegie Medal: The Story of Tracy Beaker (1991) and Double Act (1995).

In April 2020, Wilson announced she was in a same-sex relationship with bookshop owner Trish, to whom she dedicated a book.”

Book from Gregory Maguire

Wicked series
The Wicked Years:
Wicked (1995)
Son of a Witch (2005)
A Lion Among Men (2008)
Out of Oz (2011)

Another Day (Wicked sequel trilogy)
The Brides of Maracoor (2021)
The Oracle of Maracoor (2022)
The Witch of Maracoor (2023)

Elphie (Wicked prequel)
Elphie: A Wicked Childhood (2024)

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (1999)
Lost (2001)
Mirror, Mirror (2003)
The Next Queen of Heaven (2010)
Tales Told in Oz (2012)
After Alice (2015)
Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker (2017)
A Wild Winter Swan (2020)

Being deliberately obtuse isn’t a good look.

“The basic idea of Wicked, derived from gay Catholic children’s author ”

This pretty much tell the reader everything they need to know about the intentions of the story, and our host’s position on the matter.

I read the book back when it came out and I thought it was an enjoyable “alternative take� on the story back when that wasn’t being overdone, but it did leave a lingering tickle of unease in my mind. I was a less suspicious and discerning reader back then. I don’t know how much the play and film are different from the book, but the book ends depressingly and tragically. Then I read his subsequent book Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister and everything became clear. Maguire’s MO is to uglify. To remove the beauty and magic from classic tales and leave you feeling grubby.

I won’t touch a thing he writes now.

Beyond the nose, the essence of witchiness is a face that looks attractive when young but isn’t likely to age well: Think of Sarah Jessica Parker in 1991’s L.A. Story

Just compelled to say it, Sarah Jessica Parker has the face of a horse. (I would not be so rude about a normie gal, but Miss Parker chose to thrust herself onto our screens.)

There is nothing wrong with being average looking. Most people, by definition, look kind of average. I’m sure Sarah is a wonderful wife to–looked it up–Matthew Broderick, and wonderful loving mom to their children. I wish their family well.

But simply can’t not understand why this woman was all over movies and TV, when there are millions of actually attractive American gals out there who would love to be in movies and probably 1% or so can do a reasonable job acting. Much less cast in anything to do with romance or with “sex” in the title. “Sex” is not what comes to mind seeing her. More like “anyone have an apple”.

“Good singers are pretty rare.”

I don’t agree. Nearly every American high school choir or chorus has a handful of singers who are outstanding.

But perhaps you meant to say famous good singers are pretty rare. 🙂

How about the Target ad for this movie that comes on the TV every other commercial. It features strong, powerful, independent women of color doing the right thing… and of course one weak and effeminate White guy making a clown of himself, only to be corrected by the bald black-green goblin thing with a nose ring. It’s almost as ridiculous as that woman in space the other day having an orgasm on camera and getting upset about it afterwards.

-Rooster

There is a muchkin in the movie with five penises. His pants fit like a glove! Ba-da-bump!

And reading the wiki of Gregory Maguire is quite revealing, in its often unintentional way.

This guy is most certainly a pederast*, yet he and his spouse (sic) Andy Newman (lol) were granted access to not 1, not 2, but count ’em 3 children.

But remember, what’s important for Steve to convey to the reader is that he’s a capitol C Catholic.

One should look up the bio of the author. His mother died in child birth and he lived in an orphanage for 18 months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Maguire

Also, Wicked should be referred to as young adult literature and not children’s literature. Young adult literature can be reduced to three plots: problems with their friends, problems with their boyfriend(s), or the problem is their boyfriend is a vampire.

Is this version of manufactured entertainment “green with envy�?

Envy driven deception appears to be the premise behind this DEI version of “where the dogs of society howl.�

There is a massive difference between good, very good, and great. The vast majority of high school musical stars fall into the good range.

There’s a YT channel in which a musician analyzes “live� concert performances of many of the current crop of major stars. It turns out that they are all lip-synching their concert performances to pitch-corrected tracks. Taylor Swift, the Eagles, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion; everybody.

There’s a little radio station in Ireland that plays mostly country and traditional music. There is a pair of DJs that read out listener-generated texts between songs. They tried playing Beyonces “country� song earlier in the year and were promptly treated to a barrage of complaints and threats to never listen again. I think she managed to get the word “bitch� into the first verse.

A picture of his family.

https://imgprx.livejournal.net/b232205daef5ac10c4142fd575efca219ba7ae84/CiTlnkEai002_qHOXZm3gCZ3hi85-n8CB7rXqh_9TrPAqFQABje_XvCIDspCEkNK8jck-WbpVMUMvmQ06zK4ay8CVfuAbg-XOskXuKLIlKI

OT — A Tunisian Muslim who does not belong in Europe has stabbed to death an Egyptian Muslim who does not belong in Europe. NOW MILAN MUST PAY.
https://archive.is/01MMi

“[Actors who are also] good singers are pretty rare.â€�

Better?

Capital with a lower-case a.

It’s almost like children’s publishing is now an industrial-scale grooming project…

Well put!

I am not an avid theatre-goer but did see Wicked back in the day with the wife and a lesbian couple. I was bored out of my mind and struck by how un-catchy the songs were, so left baffled as to its popularity. My companions liked it better but seemed to be trying to talk themselves into it a bit because you were supposed to.

As to the casting, I personally find both women unattractive and contra Steve, the Nigerian lady looks solidly in her late 30s to me even with the makeup on, whereas Ariana Grande could still pass for early 20s. X has had a series of clips of their interviews together and they are insane – largely the Nigerian ruminating on her insecurities and Grande saying non-sensical new agey supportive stuff.

Which brings me to how much I loathe most actors. Constantly seeking attention, always poor-me, but utterly convinced that they are imbued with incredible insights that everyone else ought to hear again and again. I really appreciate the greats, but there are a lot of mediocrities even in big productions these days.

I’m not even remotely close to the target demo of this film, so my opinion is of modicum value at best, however-
1) Among the myriad things that I could care less to see, a “back story” for the The Wizard of Oz, has to be high on that list. This movie was old, the day I was born, and while I recognize it’s role in the history of cinema… geez, who gives a shit!? (probably just gay men, and really old women? Younger women? The movie came out in 1939!)
2) Even if I cared one wit about this story, the movie, or anything about it, there is one thing that turned me off, right out of the gate- That God awful, ugly excuse for a face, worn by hideous looking Cynthia Erivo!! Sweet Christ she is UGLY! And painting that butt ugly mug green!? And this isn’t entertaining level “ugly”, it’s sickening to my stomach fugly! i.e. painful to look at! She has a face that should never be seen again, neither in film or photo.
3) I’m tired of seeing Classic Movies, re-done, re-interpreted, or IP mined for modern, garbage content. Of course they’d make the whole thing a faggot fest! Because the original had absolutely nothing to do with being a queer, or a green faced ugly black bitch, so naturally, that is what this is all about.
4) lastly, fuck the wicked witch of the west! She was a villain, an old hag, that got destroyed, let’s just leave it at that! I don’t need her back story! If you wanted to explore back stories, do the Scarecrow, the Wizard, the Lion, the Tinman? Nah, let’s get the ugliest black bitch on the planet, paint her green, and tell her story…

Hollywood is garbage!

Menzel and son. Like Sarah Jessica Parker, all the appeal is below the neck.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14068887/idina-menzel-taye-diggs-son-wicked-premiere.html

Steve seems pretty fey in this post. Too much time in the closet.

This guy is most certainly a pederast*, yet he and his spouse (sic) Andy Newman (lol) were granted access to not 1, not 2, but count ’em 3 children.

… from Cambodia and Guatemala.

One of the peculiarities of international “adoption” [child trafficking] is that it can be easier than domestic adoption, where you need to persuade whatever government agency or charity has custody of the kid that you are a better parent candidate than every other applicant. International adoption is a comparative ‘Wild West’ where so long as your lawyer fills out the papers correctly, and you pay the right people, you can take your pick.

One of the things I admire Putin for (besides that everyone who hates me hates him) is that he put through a law preventing Russian children from being adopted into countries that do pedo adoptions.

Ironically, in the US and presumably other W.E.I.R.D. countries, it might be easier to adopt domestically as a gay couple than as a straight couple, since social workers (99% lefties) want to virtue signal about being queer-positive or whatever, so they”ll overlook red flags (like parasexuality) so they can punch their Love Is Love card … with someone else’s life (aka standard leftist praxis).

The simple answer is because “back in the day” despite her rather plain face (when she was young, and it wasn’t so horsey) she had an incredible body!

Kinda like Salma Hayek. Never blessed with a super model’s face, but before her face aged, and all of her features became more pronounced and unsightly, it was passable… but her body was banging!

Let’s face it, many an actress has “made it” with mediocre looks (in the face), decent acting skills, but a body that was made for viewing.

It’s almost as ridiculous as that woman in space the other day having an orgasm on camera and getting upset about it afterwards.

This sounds like some funny backstory, but all I can gather from the internet is that a Blue Origin astro-girl (Emily Calandrelli?) got trolled online so Everything Must Be Deleted.

Maybe I could have gotten more specifics, but I didn’t want “astronaut orgasm” in my search history.

Margaret Hamilton was Jewish?

Who knew?

Or to the actual point, did she look Jewish?

Guess which lady below is Margaret Hamilton:

In every pic of Hamilton at any age, she looks rather exotic: Ellis Island rather than Plymouth Rock. Steve, you’ve become somewhat of a ‘joker’ as you get on in years. 🙂

Much less cast in anything to do with romance or with “sex� in the title. “Sex� is not what comes to mind seeing her. More like “anyone have an apple�.

Market research: What’s the target audience for SATC? AnotherDad types? Or instead a large cohort of “mid� or lesser-looking women wanting to imagine themselves in a fantasy life? If it’s the latter, it worked.

“Big-budget cultural products used to work to keep both sexes entertained. But now we tend to see more specialization, such as the current Wicked vs. Gladiator II or last year’s Barbie vs. Oppenheimer.”

Oppenheimer is talky-talky jewish revenge porn: nasty, stoopid, mean old Dolfy expelled all the genius jew physicists from Germania so the genius jews got together and built an impossibly (literally) powerful bomb to exact their revenge……. on Japan. Cue “The Price Is Right” failure fanfare. Three hours of jewy yackety yack, with no action outside the fictional bomb detonation. Boring beyond belief.

Barbie is absolute trash – I had to watch it over three days just to wade thru the putridness.

Apparently Gladiator II is chockablock with sodomy. Next!

Thanks for the review, Sailer.

Yup.

Indeed, soon they should be able to dub anyone’s face and body onto anyone else playing any role. “Actors� will just by gig-workers in motion-capture suits.

IIRC, Bruce Willis has already sold his likeness for use in the future. Writers and actors are in big trouble.

OT, but very iSteve related:

Yesterday the NYT had an article about how maybe the “Transgender…Movement’s Confrontational Approach� (which Steve has noticed is driven by high-IQ autogynephiliacs with extremely nasty personalities) is not actually working out so well.

NYT: Transgender Activists Question the Movement’s Confrontational Approach
Facing diminishing public support, some activists say all-or-nothing tactics are not working. “We have to make it OK for someone to change their minds.�

https://archive.is/PIlTT

To get on the wrong side of transgender activists is often to endure their unsparing criticism.
After a Democratic congressman defended parents who expressed concern about transgender athletes competing against their young daughters, a local party official and ally compared him to a Nazi “cooperator� and a group called “Neighbors Against Hate� organized a protest outside his office.
When J.K. Rowling said that denying any relationship between sex and biology was “deeply misogynistic and regressive,� a prominent L.G.B.T.Q. group accused her of betraying “real feminism.� A few angry critics posted videos of themselves burning her books.
When the Biden administration convened a call with L.G.B.T.Q. allies last year to discuss new limits on the participation of transgender student athletes, one activist fumed on the call that the administration would be complicit in “genocide� of transgender youth, according to two people with knowledge of the incident.
Now, some activists say it is time to rethink and recalibrate their confrontational ways, and are pushing back against the more all-or-nothing voices in their coalition.
“We have to make it OK for someone to change their minds,� said Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, executive director of Advocates for Transgender Equality. “We cannot vilify them for not being on our side. No one wants to join that team.�
They cite tactics, especially on social media, that became routine for devoted backers of the movement: Attempts to police language, such as excising the words “male� and “female� from discussions of pregnancy and abortion; decrying the misidentification of a transgender person as violence; insisting that everyone declare whether they prefer to be referred to as he, she or other pronouns.

Yep, you nailed it!

I’ve had a very similar theory for years.

They all look the same upside down.

OTOH, given the massive special effects budgets of modern cinema, they should be able to dub any singer’s voice onto any actor.

They used to dub other peoples’ singing voices onto actors all the time in old musicals. Even if the actor did their own singing, the audio was probably dubbed. You can’t, or at least you used to not be able to, pick up high-quality audio on a movie set, so they would sing it again in a studio and over-dub the film.

Did the creature with three penises have anything to do with the persecution of the talking goat? Asking for a friend.

Well, other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the show?

How about the Target ad for this movie that comes on the TV every other commercial. It features strong, powerful, independent women of color doing the right thing…

It isn’t just Target either. There are a raft of ads (maybe even a credit card ad) that are tied-in to this movie. These kinds of cross-promotion tie-ins are now quite common. They build TV ad-campaigns for various companies around movies – this one, Barbie, whatever. “The Message” must be spread.

Joker, or Two-Face?

It’s almost like children’s publishing is now an industrial-scale grooming project…

I was taken aback a few years ago walking through a Barnes & Noble when I saw not just a “Children’s” section but a “Children’s Paranormal” section, filled with books about witches, vampires, etc.

Wow, this guy’s entire professional life, he had exactly one idea.

Speaking of Sarah Jessica Parker, since she is Jewish, I am surprised that Parker would have allowed an egregious case of antisemitism to occur in a story line of the show “Sex in the City,” a show that Parker starred in.

This viciously antisemitic story line, as brought to my attention by Mark Mazari in Counter-Currents Publishing, goes something like this:

A Jewish lady dates and then marries a handsome Jewish MD. Unfortunately, the handsome Jewish MD turns out to be impotent, which (along with infertility issues) leads to the couple getting divorced. The Jewish lady then shacks up with her homely WASP divorce attorney. And this homely WASP attorney turns out to be such a great lover that the Jewish lady decides to become a Christian so that she can marry her homely WASP divorce attorney.

Clearly, this over the top story line, which was most certainly written by WASPs, is designed to insult Jews, and, as such, is an egregious case of antisemitism.

Oops. I just reread Mazari’s article. It turns out that in my rendition of the story line above, I somehow confused the WASPs in the story line with the Jews in the story line and vice versa. So, in fact, in the actual “Sex in the City” story line, it’s a WASP lady who divorces her handsome, impotent, WASP MD husband, then this WASP lady converts to Judaism in order to marry her homely, super lover, Jewish divorce attorney.

Therefore, this story line, which was in actuality most certainly written by Jews, is not antisemitic. So, nothing to see here. My bad.

Can we please have normal looking movie stars again?

Grande is fairly normal looking – a tiny sexpot who could have starred opposite Elvis in the 1960s in a film about an unsanctioned road race to a clambake in Las Vegas.

I’m pretty sure there haven’t been any worthwhile Broadway melodies since about … Caberet? So, 1966? And even that’s kind of pushing it. Maybe Fiddler on the Roof from 1964 is the last time a musical had original catchy tunes that people would remember and spontaneously sing.

Well you’ve already mentioned “Chess”. There’s also “Jesus Christ Superstar” from 1971 – I think “I don’t know how to love him” is pretty memorable and singable, don’t you? And of course there’s Les Miserables…

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And vampires/nosferatus look like … Jewish men.

Let me remind you that Vlad the Impaler, Count Dracula, the prototype and template for all “vampires,” was, and still is, a Transylvanian folk hero.

Nevermind what Brad Stoker put in your head (and in mine during my honors English class in high school.) The whole vampire thing has nothing at all to do with the Jew Issue.

Vlad impaled people as a warning to Muslim invaders. (Or “Ottoman,” or whatever they were. I am not a good student of history, and I have little interest. The fact is that Vlad’s bloody reputation is actually a result of what had to be done to fight.)

Okay, so, you know what? It’s Thanksgiving, right? Well, you know, those Pilgrims had to murder an Amerindian chief and put his severed head on a stake outside their encampment — just to ward off and scare and threaten the “noble savages” who were poised to murder them.

The same is basically true of “Dracula.”

Sorry; I am as skeptical of Jews (specifically Israeli operatives and their influence on my government’s policies) as you are — but this is not a Jew thing.

If anything, it is an Eastern European thing, and the Jews we all know and love are just a breed of Eastern Europeans — Like My Transylvanian Wife!

Yeah, it’s a shame that Trash + didn’t get credit for being slightly better than Trash Regular. Fascinating stuff Mark.

Well, I won’t be watching it.

The article below, though part of the publicity campaign, is very interesting after the opening two puff-piece paragraphs about Wicked, when it switches to Wizard of Oz. You, Steve, likely know much of it already, I didn’t, but I think it has points that would be new to you, too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14128769/Wicked-scandals-Wizard-Oz-Judy-Garland-drugged.html
The whole homosexual rainbow expropriation is not new, but in its early years, it really was a hostile takeover. It was more an ecology and environmentalist symbol for many years.

Greenpeace had a small ship, the Rainbow Warrior, blown up by the French, other anti-nuclear and environmental protestors used the rainbow as a symbol. Then the hostile takeover by homosexuals started, it was a contested symbol for a while, now long under monopoly control.

With adolescents, I think it’s much more likely that the causes of neoteny in today’s teens compared with previous generations are endocrine disruptors, obesity (related), consumption of soft processed foods (little chewing so they don’t develop defined facial structures around the jaw), spending little time outside, and not being gainfully employed beginning at the age of 14 or so.

As a Gen-Xer, substantially all of my male peers had after school and summer jobs which are now commonly referred to as “jobs Americans won’t do” and relegated to Amerindians – including jobs in landscaping, construction, warehouse work, busboy/dishwashing, etc. Many were impressed into working in family businesses during breaks in school. And if you weren’t working, it would be considered odd for a boy beginning at a fairly young age to just be hanging around the house. People in previous generations probably just physically moved a lot more than today’s teens, and the human body is probably meant to be doing physical tasks a lot more than teens do now as a part of the process of physical maturation.

My mother has observed as well that people don’t “have noses” anymore as part of a conversation that evolved into a discussion about the mixing of white ethnicities. When my boomer mother was in her Catholic Girl’s High School in urban Philadelphia, the ethnicities by parish were still fairly distinct and discrete. Some intermarried outside of their Italian or Irish or Polish neighborhoods and parishes, but adding a generation or two of additional re-circulation (aided by the increasing attendance at colleges) really mixed things up. So you get people who are less distinctly ethnic looking – at least, the more distinct features get smoothed out by the mixture, and ethnicly distinct features (i.e., prominent nose and hirsuteness on an Italian) tend to look more mature and less neotenous. I imagine that there are more skincare powders and potions, and of course more readily available cosmetic surgery now.

I’m pretty sure there haven’t been any worthwhile Broadway melodies since about … Caberet? So, 1966?

Excellent Broadway songs since 1966, or so: A lot of the music from Annie and Phantom of the Opera. “Memory� from Cats is a great song, as is “One� from A Chorus Line. Chicago has some really good songs.

Why are midgets called “little people” now? How is ‘midget’ a slur? Were there mean White Southerners cracking whips at the circus forcing them to pick cotton candy whole calling them ‘midgets’? I actually knew a couple midgets and a dwarf years ago. Turns out, back then, midgets and dwarves were sworn enemies. The midgets never complained about the na.e ‘midget’ either. In fact it was one of them who explained the difference between a midget and a dwarf to me. Using those terms.

Let’s talk about Grande’s whiteface. Granted she’s of European descent, but (1) she isn’t exactly channeling “Italian” here and (2) she’s been larping as a Latina her whole career.

Disgusting old weirdo shit. Nothing ever changes.

My guess is that the size of those buccinator muscles allows her to pull about a 0.01mbar vacuum, so she could suck the apple through a straw.

All that music sucks. Bigtime. That’s why it gets nominated. They are trying to rot our ears.

The Weimar Nosferatu was deeply informed by the Austro-Germanic post WW1 atmosphere of theosophical mysticism and anti-Semitism. The nightmare physiognomy with its long crooked nose, bulbous eyes, and pointed ears complemented with claws for hands ready to snatch a non-Aryan child for its cooking pot. German cinema at that time was filled with shadows portending an apocalypse.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, Grande is only 5’1″ tall. She also is quite thin, she claims to weigh 110 pounds but there seems to be a common belief that she’s more like 100.

Nope. It’s mental. People think childish, they look childish.

“To remove the beauty and magic from classic tales …”

Tinsel Town’s modus operandi as dictated by the three asset management firms who bankrolled the cultural revolution.

Settled peoples had to learn to get along with their neighbors long-term, and enter into long-lasting mutualistic relationships.

Who are these notional “settled peoples’ you write about?

Nearly all northern Europeans (“White people!”) came from the middle Asian steppes and invaded the people who, sparsely, lived in northern Europe. Invaded,and killed those who resisted.

All the way to Ireland.

Then we had, to name a few, Romans (Italians. Greeks, Spanish), Franks (Germans, northern French/Gauls), Vikings (Normans) and later subgroups of different speaking Europeans (by then) who didn’t necessarily get along Happily Ever After with their neighbors. Also, you had Goths, Visa and Ostra, Huns & Co. and various Turks.

Sure, smaller groups like Gypsies and Jews had to move to survive, as they were not of the dominant culture or religion and were usually blamed for things, in general.

World Wars I and II were fought by these settled peoples as were numerous prior wars. Often over disputed boundaries or outright conquest.

One might even note the current Russo-Uke war, among people practically the same and only a few decades ago were “united” in one mongrel “nation”, the USSR.

Gypsies were less successful than the Jews but always much smaller in numbers. Being even more insular than Jews, had to move along though often did provide needed services (“tinkering” repairs, etc.)

Odd how reality stubbornly resists simplistic explanations for the past events.

Non-machine future historians will remark on the damage wreaked upon Western Civ. by its most privileged demographic: white women.

Wicked? Some kind of fan-fiction bastardization of The Wizard of Oz? This is gay-to-the-gay. It’s gay-plex.

Well, it is a musical film based on the very successful Broadway musical of the same name and pretty much, plot.

Sure, that is gay oriented but even that venue needs others to buy expensive tickets. It has a lot of appeal to parents of “theater kids” or those how identify with the original 30s film, which for some reason became a gay cultural thing. Ah, the innocent past of the closet…

The film had a strong weekend open but there are only so many theater kids who want to sit through two hours of song and dance by colorful witches. And parents buying tickets, Not many straight men, I suspect.

Let the marketplace decide. Attendance is voluntary.

They haven’t run out of Comic Book films to make yet for everyone else.

Isn’t the usual take on SATC (Sex and the City) that it was about three gay men in Manhattan?

Couldn’t get it on air in the 90s like that, so leads were female.

Evidently (since I never watched it) those stories made a lot more sense if you understood that.

At least one of the women (Nixon) is a lesbian.

By the way, has anyone noticed that people looked older in the past?

Increased prevalence of smoking and universal exposure to second-hand smoke combined with lower levels of body fat.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, Grande is only 5’1″ tall. She also is quite thin, she claims to weigh 110 pounds but there seems to be a common belief that she’s more like 100.

I would bet my left one that she’s under 5’0″ tall and under 100 lbs.

“It’s almost like children’s publishing is now an industrial-scale grooming project…�

NOW? Ever heard of Horatio Alger? What about PL Travers, or Maurice Sendak? And let’s not forget Hans Christian Anderson. As for Lewis Carroll, let’s just say that some of his photography hasn’t aged well. And then there’s Batman and Robin. I could go on:

Yesterday, the LA Times ran an article on the struggles of a Canadian law enforcement agency in chasing down pedophiles based on the clues in various child porn photos… There was a strange claim in the article, however: “On one wall [of the law enforcement offices] is a ‘Star Trek’ poster with investigators’ faces substituted for the Starship Enterprise crew. But even that alludes to a dark fact of their work: All but one of the offenders they have arrested in the last four years was a hard-core Trekkie.”

I always wondered what the British saw in Felicity Kendal. Though in her case, the put-off was less in the features than in the expression.

No comment on Bibi’s war criminal status Steve? , It seems that Bibi has kind of lost the plot in recent years. As a long time respecter/admirer of Bibi, I wonder if your thoughts have changed or?

There are also a lot of happenings on the nuclear escalation ladder and it’s kind of unlike you to not weigh in, at least if you have something True, Interesting, New or Funny to say on the topic. I think that is what the N stands for.

You have to admit, Margaret Hamilton did have a prominent nose and dark hair and eyebrows. Her performance as the Wicked Witch is what really made The Wizard of Oz so good when one was a child. You had to really root for Dorothy, Toto, and her new strange otherworldly friends to make it to the Wizard because you couldn’t bear to think of that terrifying green-skinned witch getting a hold of her. That was fantastic acting, make-up, set design, lighting, and direction. That movie, when I seen it at 5 years old on our 25-inch Sylvania Superset in it’s carved wooden cabinet on the carpeted floor in April of 1976 (The Wizard of Oz was televised yearly in April on one of the local stations….The CBS affiliate if I remember correctly), was one of the most satisfying cinematic experiences of my life. Mom and dad watched it while eating TV dinners on those fold-up TV-dinner tray-tables on the couch. I ran and hid behind that couch when the witch made her appearance while my dad laughed.

The movie was effectively a white-European fable, about a new land over the rainbow (America), wrote by an American. Now a queer Catholic children’s author, which doesn’t mean he has been sexually abused and thus prone to be a pedo, but does statistically make it more likely, wants to make the witch a black person, because whites can’t have fables, because they are not and never were a people, even when Japeth walked off that ark. Nope, I won’t be seeing it.

Is Wicked post-woke? The fact that Donald Trump and all he stands for actually garnered a majority of votes cast is a tough one for Democrats to get past. Perhaps Dems are asking themselves if it’s really true that a majority of adults think that the woke Dems are the crazy ones.

I think the movie is for 20-somethings who are too old to play in a Quidditch league and white women who are at a loss for something to virtue-signal about. The idea that this is an essential element in programming the children exposed to it is important, though.

Don’t take the children or grandchildren anywhere near this thing.

If Wikipedia is to be believed, Grande is only 5’1″ tall. She also is quite thin, she claims to weigh 110 pounds but there seems to be a common belief that she’s more like 100.

There are several options smaller than Grande:

If you watched the vid it becomes apparent within seconds, it sounds like she’s having an orgasm. Of course the media deleted the tape so you can’t watch yourself, then gaslights readers into thinking she’s getting trolled because she cried when she saw earth… In reality she made the orgasm noises because she’s a glorified YouTuber and knew it would attract more clicks. Also, just because you rode as a passenger into space it doesn’t make you an astronaut.

-Rooster

You can say you “reviewed� the movie, but it’s more of your preferred social critique of it rather than truly evaluating the performances, direction, etc.

“Interestingly, Wicked is representative of a trend toward mass-market Broadway shows aiming for distinctive demographic niches: in this case, girls and gays.�

It could be. Or perhaps not.

“Big-budget cultural products used to work to keep both sexes entertained.�

They still do.

“But now we tend to see more specialization, such as the current Wicked vs. Gladiator II or last year’s Barbie vs. Oppenheimer.�

According to Who/Whom?

“The essence of evil is treason to your own people. …”

People group themselves differently than you would like.

As for Lewis Carroll…

Charles Dodgson made The Book of Lists under notable men who died virgins. The authors, Wallace, Wallace, and Wallechinsky (the last a favorite of Steve’s) were neither prudish nor paricularly credulous. Like his fellow mathematicians Isaac Newton and Paul ErdÅ‘s, he was impotent, “asexual”, or at simply uninterested. Fellow storyteller H C Andersen was the same.

…let’s just say that some of his photography hasn’t aged well.

That says more about us than about his contemporaries. General Victorian prudery allowed them to enjoy the innocence symbolized by childhood nudity in art. Just like grown men can hold their friends’ hands in public in may Asian countries without being taken for poofters.

Prudery has its benefits.

I must admit I am completely uninterested in fantasy/vampire/supernatural in your face/… series. I just don’t care. I don’t mind the fantasy element, but only a touch of it & if it is “acceptable” by Society for Psychical research standards.

That said, in the past 20-30 years I found the following shows:

Northern Exposure-great
Homicide: Life on the Street: great
The Sopranos: very good
Breaking bad: very good
Deadwood: great
Friends: a few episodes watchable, otherwise not interesting
Sex and the City: a few episodes watchable, then not interesting
Mad men: good to very good
Game of Thrones: superficial & not interesting
The Wire: a few good episodes, but too many blacks made it unwatchable
CSI: shallow & artificial
The Big Bang Theory: shallow & unwatchable
Vikings: good few episodes, but essentially not interesting
The Handmaid’s Tale: unwatchable
…………………….

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Vlad built his border wall on the cheap. Trump built an ineffective steel monstrosity, didn’t even sharpen the steel poles. And Stoker’s Count Dracula was obviously baptized as Christian. Tremendous, tremendous, respect for crucifixes and the Eucharist. Jewish vampires would behave a bit differently. E.g garlic vs. bacon

“Charles Dodgson made The Book of Lists under notable men who died virgins.”

The state of virginity can be attained (or maintained) regardless of what it is that a person is (or isn’t) attracted to. One attains it merely by not acting on that attraction.

Someone like Margot Robbie would have been far better. When Grande was a young star I thought she was the least talented of the young actors in the Disney stable. I can only suppose she was the most ambitious but maybe it’s just me. My daughter in-law found the movie very enjoyable.

Joker, or Two-Face?

Boom! That’s gonna leave a dent. (Sorry, couldn’t resist.)

They haven’t run out of Comic Book films to make yet for everyone else.

Sadly. I remember when Hollywood used to make films for grown-ups. No longer their target demographic.

SCOTUS as they have denied the petition in Oakland Tactical v. Howell Township. The challenged ruling, from the 6th Circuit, now remains the law of the case and it is possible that you will see heightened efforts in other jurisdictions to disarm its citizens through zoning ordinaces.

Huge news on the Snope case from Maryland, as it now appears to be scheduled for conference on December 13th

An Ohio federal judge rejected the argument that illegal aliens have 2A rights.

Politics will never come to the rescue.

Culture is upstream of politics. Technology is upstream of culture.

Focus upstream and the rest gets a lot easier. https://t.co/u1t9Y7YkQQ

— Open Source Defense (@opensrcdefense) November 23, 2024

Instead of advocating for her citizens to have the right to bear arms and fight back against the cartel control of their neighborhoods, the leader of Mexico simply blames America for their murder problem.

Typical second world nonsense. https://t.co/OA1dY3EFjb

— Fenið�•� Ammunition (@FenixAmmunition) November 27, 2024

“All that music sucks.”

You sound like my uncle 55 years ago offering me his opinion of British Invasion bands like the Beatles or the Stones as compared to the Benny Goodman records he listened to as a teenager. He did not use the word “sucks” but the sentiment was the same.

Every generation has its own music, which it prefers. I tend to be the same, thinking popular music peaked in 1965 when I first really started listening to it. Where I differ from many other people, though, is I played in a band in college. Most people never get so much into music they seriously start studying it and think of it as a potential career. Even now as an old guy, I will hear a new pop song and then, just out of curiosity, go looking for a YouTube video where someone demonstrates how to play it.

An amusing story from the New York Post:
https://nypost.com/2024/11/26/us-news/wicked-sparks-debate-is-singing-at-movies-defying-gravity-or-defying-common-courtesy/

Wannabe Ariana Grandes are singing along during movie screenings of “Wicked� — sparking outrage from filmgoers who say they should hit the Yellow Brick Road.

“And vampires/nosferatus look like … Jewish men.”

And who knew Bela Lugosi was Jewish, too! And Christopher Lee, and Frank Langella, and Gary Oldman . . . wait, has a Jewish actor ever played Dracula?

Or maybe, since Margaret Hamilton wasn’t Jewish, you should own the fact that you don’t know WTF you’re talking about.

Oh for goodness sake’s Steve.

But are they really?

“vindicated my observation in his autobiography that it’s hard to tell how old black people are.”

One time, when I was on a Paiute Indian reservation, a couple of the locals decided to fuck with the newcomer’s head: three identical-looking local Indian men, Bud tallboys firmly in hand at 11 am, were standing together shoulder to shoulder, leaning against a pickup truck. They all looked the same, about 45 or 50. The one in the middle said to me, “One of these guys is my father, and one of them is my grandfather. Can you tell who is who?” I admitted that I couldn’t.

Later on I asked Former Teenage-Nazi Rez Nurse, “were they fucking with me? Or are those guys really brothers instead?” She said, No, they were telling the truth. But they were *also* fucking with you.

Among the myriad things that I could care less to see, a “back story� for the The Wizard of Oz, has to be high on that list. This movie was old, the day I was born, and while I recognize it’s role in the history of cinema… geez, who gives a shit!?

Hear, hear!

My mother loved The Wizard of Oz and we had to watch it when it came on once a year. We only had 1 TV in those days. I thought it blew dead dogs even as a yute. Judy Garland was way too old for the part, and the whole thing was stupid even to me as a kid.

2) And I never got the appeal of Sarah Jessica Parker. She had a horse face even when younger.

In fact it was one of them who explained the difference between a midget and a dwarf to me.

Pray tell, just what is the difference?

Unforeseen conclusion: whatever losers pick the Grammies read iSteve.

Yes. That’s her in the middle. Perhaps I missed the joke, but then I adore Mindi Mink because of her face.

SJP was my go-to example of Hollywood Jew tribalism until I had some work experience and then read that she really, really wanted to act, and would do anything to act, and was an ideal hire who would actually show up on time (this is apparently some sort of huge issue in show business), and be nice to the craft service people, and do everything she was asked to do. She’s not an honorary Aryan like Larry David or Gershon the Pedo-hunter, but she’s not a bad person.

Pray tell, just what is the difference?

MIdgets are short, but more or less normally proportioned. Dwarfs are not only short, but also malformed.
So now you know.

“Now a queer Catholic children’s author, which doesn’t mean he has been sexually abused and thus prone to be a pedo, but does statistically make it more likely, wants to make the witch a black person�.

But isn’t that what black people…witches?

“Nope, I won’t be seeing it.�

Mr. Sailer did. My vague impression is that he was entertained by it. But not for the reasons you think or what he wants us to believe.

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— Garbage Human (@GarbageHuman24) November 28, 2024

Don’t say you weren’t warned.

While we’re on famous Margarets of the era… wouldn’t The Wizard of Oz have been a trip if the Wicked Witch had been played by… Margaret Dumont, instead? In character, as the “Mrs. Stuffy Clueless Millionaire Dowager” character. Great comedic moment: she has no idea why people keep calling her the “wicked” witch.

“No comment on Bibi’s war criminal status Steve?�

Come on, that would require him to go out a limb, and my vague impression is that he’s not going to do that. Just like how Trump promised to give even more weapons to Israelis to slaughter Gazans, which is a continuance of Deep State policies, and not a peep from the one who NOTICES.

People group themselves differently than you would like.

It is an issue of great importance. Basically, there are two approaches: the biological or the cultural.

Some like the idea of basing a people around a religion, an ideology, or a language. Since culture stems from biology this is a silly idea. The French are fierce nationalists when it comes to keeping English words out! But they surrender their country to Africans and other 3rd worlders as long as they speak French. How is that working out?

The idea that citizenship could be based on loyalty to a political program is totalitarian and silly at the same time. If a baby fails to adopt socialism/libertarianism/fascism must it be expelled from a country at age 18?

Trying to base a country solely around some cultural element is necessarily cultish. Children must be indoctrinated from birth to believe in the One True Faith or Ideology. Whereas, if it is based on blood, we are free to allow people to let their minds work.

“Witches look like .. Jewish women.”

Where does Suzanne Pleshette fit on the Jewish women look like witches scale?

https://images.app.goo.gl/yXnFhEMoJ9YMaS8u5

People group themselves differently than you would like.

People can group themselves in more than one way. Look at the Thirty Years War– everyone was blood kin. Hell, since it’s Thanksgiving, just look at the Pilgrims. They left their own kind, then sided with some Indian tribes who fought other tribes who sided with the French or Dutch.

Homogeneous societies are often rife with class war. It would be interesting to compare income tax rates with ethnic diversity across various nations countries. I’m sure someone already has. Countries with 103% brackets are probably quite monoethnic. They’d have to be.

There’s nothing two-faced about Steve not hating Jews. He’s never been into that sort of thing or pretended to be. If you need to read someone who hates Jews, try exploring the rest of Unz’s site.

You incredibly ignorant boob. No. What YOU say is what grandpa says. EVERYBODY says what you say. That’s how I know it’s wrong. Your opinion is the dumbass barroom conventional wisdom I hear absolutely anywhere so often it’s like an unstoppable dripping faucet of inanity.

No. Only people with A. a musical education, and/or B. taste, agree with me, you philistine ignoramus bumpkin.

Or maybe, since Margaret Hamilton wasn’t Jewish, you should own the fact that you don’t know WTF you’re talking about.

For what it’s worth, I never implied nor claimed that Ms. Hamilton was a Jewess. However, she certainly looks ‘witchy’, even without cosmetic augmentation, which likely influenced her casting (no pun intended). Whether witches (in the European-descent conception) are likely to be imagined/portrayed with Jewish physiognomy is something you may want to debate with the original commenter.

Oh my… is that post an example of what a wag once astutely described as “point and sputter�? LOL. Steve, despite your slower pace of uploads here on Unz, you continue to entertain, and for that I am grateful. Happy Thanksgiving!

Also, this:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-review-of-wicked/#comment-6880618

In fact it was one of them who explained the difference between a midget and a dwarf to me.

Pray tell, just what is the difference?

Don’t forget pygmies:

https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-is-violent-crime-down-according-to-the-ncvs/#comment-5645609 (#37)

If Steve had his druthers I’m pretty sure his blog would be 10% sports, 25% black crime, and 90% pygmies. He has a pygmy sketch book. Unz has seen it. Unz says once you’ve seen Steve’s pygmy sketchbook there’s no unseeing it.

From what I can tell, Arianna Grande I the worst kind of Hollywood person. She is the spiteful “donut licker” from a few years back where she is caught on cctv licking the donuts of future bakery customers and remarking how much she hates Americans.

She also made a mini- musical with known psychopath James Corden to brainwash people into getting the heart-deadly Covid vax.

In her defense, she was probably molested during her time at Nickelodeon. There are youtube compilations of the weird subtly kinky b.s. Dan Schneider and pals had her do on camera for whatever show she was on, e.g. jerkin off a potato. Then again, why hasn’t she come out in support of the Nickelodeon whistleblowers or joined the effort to get those creeps put in jail?

All in all a third rate “triple threat” and a cluster B personality. Pass.

You didn’t say anything in your review

– Cynthia Erovo is too old
– Her nose is distracting because it’s black and not witchy
– The music is Bland and non-musical
– The little people are annoying

Subtext

Basically you didn’t like it but at the end you were like ‘A Participation Award’

That was the lamest most worthless review I’ve ever read

Just say the obvious out loud, just say it!

I hate to say it but ever since you became mainstreamed/published, you’re just lame

Maybe substack is better but I’m cheap

Those before-and-after photos are examples of the Ilizarov Technique, a surgical method for creating bone-lengthening in the limbs of dwarves.

It was pioneered in Russia, and first brought to America by Dr. Victor Frankel, my old boss at Joint Diseases. The method was controversial in USA at the time because it was considered cruel from a cost/benefit POV: the surgeries were long and painful, as was the wearing of the necessary apparatus, and the patient endured all this for the benefit of only perhaps 2 inches of height gain. As Dr. F’s assistant/secretary, I recall having to type out pages and pages of pleading testimonials from dwarfish would-be patients, tearfully explaining how much even such a minor gain would mean to them, in order to persuade regulators to allow it here.

I guess with practice over time, the yield is much improved, which is a fine thing to behold. That’s the thing about new technologies: they look minimal at first, but if you keep chugging onwards you often get real results.

UP NEXT: Behind the scenes at Andy Warhol’s autopsy!

“It was more an ecology and environmentalist symbol for many years.”

The rainbow sweater was favoured by hippy girls in the 1970s. Definitely environmental rather than gay. In them days the lambda purple triangle was the gay symbol and pretty rare.

I’m pretty sure there haven’t been any worthwhile Broadway melodies since about … Caberet? So, 1966?

Rent (1994?) had some good ones (Idina Menzel starred in it, btw). Here’s One Song Glory, from the movie version filed about 14 years later with the original Broadway cast.

Aida (2000) had some bangers too–surely you didn’t think Elton John was incapable of writing melodies? Adam Pascal, Roger from Rent above, starred as Radames in the original Broadway cast. This recording is low quality, from an old school video camera, but seeing this live with this cast was great. When Sherrie Rene-Scott steps out of that statue case and starts belting out the opening number, pretty impressive.

Here’s “Another Pyramid” from a fancy high school production in 2019.

A bit of Tim Rice’s witty lyrics to that one:

According to the hawk god, Horus
Our most regal invalid
Is not that much longer for us
Build another pyramid!

There are many who’ll be tearful
As our leader fades away
But our architects are cheerful
And each dog must have its day

“Who are these notional “settled peoples’ you write about?”

Doesn’t take long for people to settle, as witness the (doubtless amplified) complaints about “gentrification” in the UK and US – Brixton and Compton being two examples.

The (formerly) industrial Welsh Valleys are almost a cliche of one type of Welshness – Chapel, Choir and Rugby. Yet they were sparsely populated farming communities before the nineteenth century, and the miners came from all over the UK.

The fields changed their colours with the seasons; the threshing-floors filled and emptied, and filled again and again; and again and again, when winter came, the langurs frisked among the branches feathered with light snow, till the mother-monkeys brought their sad-eyed little babies up from the warmer valleys with the spring. There were few changes in the village. The priest was older, and many of the little children who used to come with the begging-dish sent their own children now; and when you asked of the villagers how long their holy man had lived in Kali’s Shrine at the head of the pass, they answered, “Always.”

https://www.hermitary.com/literature/kipling.html

Huh, I didn’t see earlier my posts disappear, probably due to technical bungling.
For the first commenter, who seems to have Jews living rent-free in his head: Don’t worry, we have ways to find them.

https://truthpodium.org/embed/CVg3P3fgAEJpGKR

I first rate Opera can really be a thrill. I saw Tosca in Stuttgart, and the end of the first scene, with the Scarpa gloating madly with the Te Duem high mass going on behind him was absolutely unforgettable. And unlike Broadway, it was perfectly acceptable, at the close of the scene, for the audience to jump to their feet and start shouting “Bravo! Bravo!”

Now THAT’S Entertainment!

As far as Netanyahu’s status as a war criminal goes, I am not so sure.Putin is a war criminal without a trace of doubt; so are Bush jr. and Obama. Gallant is not a war criminal & Netanyahu could be treated as a war criminal if there is enough evidence that he has been using the starvation method as a means of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
As far as military operations in Gaza go- this is not a war crime. In the war against urban guerillas, the ratio of accepted casualties of civilians vs combatants is 5-10 vs 1; in the Gaza war, it is perhaps 2 vs 1.

So it depends on the starvation method proof.

Enjoy the clowns:

Her performance as the Wicked Witch is what really made The Wizard of Oz so good when one was a child. You had to really root for Dorothy, Toto, and her new strange otherworldly friends to make it to the Wizard because you couldn’t bear to think of that terrifying green-skinned witch getting a hold of her.

Roger Ebert would agree – – he often noted the crucial importance of being made to care strongly what happens to the principal actors. I remember Ebert’s describing a phenomenon in which you don’t care what happens to a main character, and so you look around for a secondary character you can invest your caring in. Does Wicked suffer from this vice? I don’t know, as I haven’t seen either version.

Huh. So “M” fits in that category? (Peter Lorre, of course, was Jewish.)

“Tinsel Town’s modus operandi as dictated by the three asset management firms who bankrolled the cultural revolution.”

BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard? Or are they the wrong generation? I’m new to this.

“just because you rode as a passenger into space it doesn’t make you an astronaut”

I’m sure Al Shepherd would disagree.

Most authors do. The one’s turning out mysteries once a year are basically writing the same story over and over. It is the same with many authors.

Whoa there chief! Who said anything about hating jews? We were talking about being deliberately obtuse, which sort of tiptoes around that grey area known as dishonesty.

Interesting. I have always wondered if this was a factor in hiring actors and actresses.

We as viewers see actors and actresses probably from completely different perspective from professionals in the business.

We don’t know if they are good at memorizing their lines and shooting scenes without multiple retakes, but this must be a huge element for deciding who gets the large parts in TV serials, especially in comedy.

That’s part of the reason why I never have any opinion on who should win the Oscars. I am not a movie business insider, so how should I know? All I can say is whether I liked a movie and usually the answer is no or not much.

Currently Sir Mark Rylance is starring as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall, to tremendous acclaim from the critics. Personally I think his performance sucks. But it is just an opinion.

The Queen of the Vocal Overdub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marni_Nixon

Thank you sir, for this perfect example of how Hollywood works. It’s almost as if it goes out of its way to not cast certain people in (certain types of) villainous/morally compromised roles.

That might be too… as they say, on the nose.

It’s kinda why you get a goys like Leonardo DiCaprio playing Jordan Belfort, or John Turturro playing the snivelly weirdo from The Quiz Show, or even Cillian Murphy playing Oppenheimer, just off the top of my head.

No, it wasn’t.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Bushnell

“Bushnell began writing for The New York Observer in 1993. She created a humorous column for the paper (1994–1996) called “Sex and the City”. The column was based on her own personal dating experiences and those of her friends.”–Wiki

Given her age, Bushnell must have been at Rice when Steve was there.

I play a game called Solitaire Grand Harvest on my cell phone.

SGH is a “TriPeaks” game. There are dozens if not hundreds of such programs available on the App Store. Each one employs a different motif for the background graphics – a tropical island, a golf course, etc.

This one uses a farm motif.

And which Hollywood actress did they hire to be seen cavorting with the farm animals?

None other than – you guessed it – Sarah Jessica Parker.

She was every dad’s lust object in the 70s sitcom The Good Life. I think “gamine” is the word.

“We as viewers see actors and actresses probably from completely different perspective from professionals in the business.”

One time many years ago I spent a long evening getting quite drunk with a famous movie director, a guy who had made several huge blockbusters. He was a walking encyclopedia of film past and present, even when drunk, and had a lot to say about everybody he’d worked with, and also everybody he hadn’t.

One thing he said that struck me was, he thought that a primary necessary characteristic for the leading players was, great facial bone structure — a striking, expressive, very photographable face. He thought that this was way more important than acting ability — he said, “If somebody has great bones but they can’t act, I can always find a way to shoot around that. But if you have a great, expressive face, it just does most of the acting work *for* you. All I have to do is be sure to light it properly.”

I always saw the flying monkeys as representing “thugs� and the Hamilton character as a Jewess. This children’s classic is racist and anti Semitic. Leprechauns will replace the monkeys �, and the Hamilton character will be a blonde and blue eyed German lass. Was Hamilton not Jewish? If not she sure looked Jewish. Of course the Good Witch will be an overweight Black lady or Barbara Streisand if Babs can still make it.

Cue: Witchy Woman by Eagles

Nope, not Jewish, Margaret Hamilton was born ugly yet made a career out of it. And she still managed to get married and have children. A brave man, her husband.

Dracula 🧛 and Frankenstein have been described as antisemitic books 📖. LMAO. 😂

Yes, that is the Official Story and probably is partly correct.

But Bushnell’s friends in Manhattan at the time were also (some) likely gay men as well as women.

The analysis that SATC was really about gay men is one that is widely referenced. Not having watched the show, I can’t say.

The “sex obsession” of the plotlines does seem to fit males rather than single females.

I don’t care for contemporary music (or music in general), but I heard a few tunes by Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande. Nothing spectacular, but nice to the ear channels.

Everything is tolerable & good except rap crap.

OT — Happy Thanksgiving.
https://fortune.com/2024/11/28/alaska-turkey-bomb-pilot-frozen-birds-rural-residents-grocery-store-thanksgiving/

It was a perfect trap, because women want to believe that they’re just like men, especially sexually, so it was one of those obvious things which nobody called because they all wanted to believe it.

It would be anti-semitic. Duh.

Note to casting directors of “Wicked.”

It’s the character that’s supposed to be ugly, angry, repulsive, petty and foreboding… not the actress you’re casting.

Example: If the character of a screenplay is a rapist, you hire an actor to portray the rapist.

You don’t look to cast an actual rapist for the role.

Hope this helps.

Basically, there are two approaches: the biological or the cultural.

Which are, of course, mutually exclusive. If you choose one, you cannot use any of the criteria from the other. You have just demonstrated that you are not of Anglo-Saxon descent!

So you admit the English and the Irish are separate races? To say the least of the Frogs… that favored term suggests a separate species.

If a baby fails to adopt socialism/libertarianism/fascism must it be expelled from a country at age 18?

While that is nuts, at least it is possible. Your way is not. If that same mixed-race baby– never mind the Rufos and Derbyshires; I mean the Samuel Huntingtons— fails to expunge its alien DNA, it must be expelled from the country at age 18? Or, younger, as humans are biologically fertile long before that?

And you wonder why people are slow to embrace your program?

For what it’s worth, I never implied nor claimed that Ms. Hamilton was a Jewess. However, she certainly looks ‘witchy’, even without cosmetic augmentation, which likely influenced her casting (no pun intended).

She doesn’t really look “witchy”, she just looks kind of dowdy, shrewish maybe. She looked witchy in The Wizard of Oz because they put a long pointed prosthetic nose on her, painted her skin green, and because she acted witchy.

Speaking of Sarah Jessica Parker, I always thought she was rather pretty. And she’s aged rather well too. Hopefully she’ll avoid the bad plastic surgery so many actresses resort to in a desperate attempt to look young, but which only leaves them looking like a mummy. SJP has a somewhat longish face, but I wouldn’t call it a “horse face”. “Horse faced” to me always implied a mouth too big for one’s face – outsized Mr. Ed like choppers. Like Julia Roberts. Roberts was pretty when she was young, but hasn’t aged all that well.

The state of virginity can be attained (or maintained) regardless of what it is that a person is (or isn’t) attracted to. One attains it merely by not acting on that attraction.

That point may pertain to John Ruskin, who had a strong sex drive but couldn’t get over his disgust at menstruation, pubic hair, or whatever his problem was. Dodgson was more likely undersexed, or “asexual”. Like ErdÅ‘s, Andersen, or Edward Gorey. His attraction to little Alice may have been platonic or romantic. Or exaggerated– there is a hell of a lot of projection in modern, anachronistic (psycho)analysis.

By the way, he insisted his fictional Alice was not based on Miss Liddell. That’s reminiscent of Lennon’s half of A Day in the Life. The Lord who “blew his mind out in a car” has little in common with his friend Tara Browne, even though reading of Browne’s death in the paper is what set off his train of thought.

Sometimes Puff really is a dragon.

Yep. All three appear to have similar agendas.

Those are two remarkable sets of labia lips. Please tell me they don’t meet in the course of the story. Lez-Frenching has been a common trope or “meme” in Hollywood the last few decades, often between major stars.

Evidently Wicked is not that wicked:

Stop Trying to Make ‘Wicked’ A Sapphic Romance. It’s Even Better Than That.

From the same source, more or less: Australia Passes World-First Law Banning Children Under 16 From Social Media

And PETA goes racial for the holiday:

OT – Remember when liberals used to say “Why can’t America be more like Sweden?”.

Well………………………………..

Despair in Sweden as gangs recruit kids as contract killers

https://www.yahoo.com/news/despair-sweden-gangs-recruit-kids-065839289.html

Of course the article does not mention the words ‘immigrant’, ‘foreigner’, or ‘muslim’ even once. And the one gang-banger they quote is a Swede. And yet, something tells me that almost none of these killer-children are named Sven or Nils or the like.

Roger came every year for a week at my college campus in Boulder. We had the World Affairs Conference. Experts and leaders from many fields around the world would stay the week, and any one of us, including students between classes, could sit in on the conferences. It was excellent.

Roger had been coming from Chicago since before he was famous. He was even a friend of a movie reviewer I knew. He would bring one film on reels and show it and spend the week commenting and discussing it, back-and-forth, with us. He would stop and start the projector all week for this! It was grand.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today’s menu…

Apéritif: Cleveland Underground Bourbon Whiskey finished with apple and sugar maple woods. Batch #1, Bottle #81, sold locally by my neighbor’s company.

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Appetizer: shrimp cocktail.

Borgo Molino Motivo Asolo Prosecco, imported by my neighbor.

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Baked turkey breast (DD Dolly Parton, if you know what I mean.)

Atlantic lobster tails.

Baked Brussels sprouts (My request, honored by my wife. Hers are the best.)

Stuffing made with Hungarian sausage and a bunch of other stuff my wife picked.

Homemade cranberry sauce made with orange slices and bourbon.

2024 Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau, from my neighbor’s store again.

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Dessert: Romanian rum cake pastries, soaking in rum, topped with whipped cream and berry jam.

More ice-cold, Motivo Prosecco…

Fire in the fireplace.

This is all kind of funny to me.

I have a weird fetish for Eastern European women with big noses and dark hair, so no one can accuse me of being “raciss.” The whole Jew thing is phony. Jews are phony. Their literature, like the Christian and Muslim counterparts, is phony.

Yet whole histories and wars have been perpetrated and worried over and orgasmed over by various nerds even here! All nothing…

Witch? Oh, yes, how sexy is a witch? Very. Wicca even more so, when brought to a young, horny bachelor by a young, Celtic wannabee… Oh yes indeed, as the tongue slithers from experience…

Jewess or not, who the fuck cares?

We don’t know if they are good at memorizing their lines and shooting scenes without multiple retakes, but this must be a huge element for deciding who gets the large parts in TV serials, especially in comedy.

A photographic memory is a big plus when casting the lead for a sitcom and especially a full hour show. The former has line changes all day on the day of the shoot, and during the filming, and the latter can be worse, including brand new monologues. Imagine being handed a passionate monologue you only have a short time to memorize, zero time to rehearse, and deliver it without sucking. Under those circumstances, adequate is fine.

Screwing up a take for a movie isn’t that big of a thing, but if you’re stuck on a series for 5 or more years, and you have a “great actor” who reliably fucks up takes because of memorization issues, that shit gets really old, really fast, for the entire cast and crew being held hostage because a “great actor” can’t learn his lines fast enough. It creates a lot of “I hate my privileged life” tension on the set. For everybody.

Harry Morgan, the opposite of a dynamic actor, worked steadily all his life because he essentially had a photographic memory. He could read over a page once or twice and recite his dialog perfectly. This was extremely important, and the major reason he was hired for “Dragnet,” as Jack Webb, who also enjoyed a phenomenal memory, was changing his fast-paced dialogue up to the moment of shooting. The style of the show demanded lines be delivered rapid-fire, and an unusual memory capacity was required.

Bill Bixby and Michael Landon were always working as the star of their silly one hour drama’s because they too had amazing memories. They could look at their script a time or two, and read everyone’s lines back verbatim. Basically explains their careers.

When you see mediocre lead or supporting actors constantly being cast for seemingly no reason that relates to their acting abilities, chances are they can memorize a script extremely quickly. It helps to be good looking, and if you have some acting chops, all the better.

A long time musician and producer, Rick Beato, has done numerous YouTube videos on music. As an amateur musician, I find his in depth discussions of the musical aspects of pop music interesting and usually agree with what he says. Like me, Beato is a big Beatles fan and thinks the older music we both grew up with is better than current music. He also explains why it was better.

He does like some current pop music. He sometimes goes through the Spotify top ten. He liked an Ariana Grande song, we can’t be friends, that got snubbed for a best song nomination by the Grammy voters. Over the last year he has also liked recent songs by Fifty Fifty, Miley Cyrus, Hozier, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Tate McRae, Zach Bryan, Mitski, SZA and Bruno Mars.

Rick has been unimpressed with the recent new music by the biggest current pop star, Taylor Swift. He thinks her music is highly professional but lacking in originality and she should try new things musically. Among current musical artists, Rick seems to have the highest opinion of Billie Eilish as someone who is “awesome”.

Years after the Wizard of Oz, Margaret Hamilton played a witch again in the very funny Abbott and Costello movie Coming Round The Mountain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWmiPPLxF_c&pp=ygUrTWFyZ2FyZXQgaGFtaWx0b24gY29taW5nIHJvdW5kIHRoZSBtb3VudGFpbg%3D%3D

The state of virginity can be attained (or maintained)…

That point may pertain to John Ruskin,…

I beg to differ. ANYONE who has managed to abstain from sexual activity is ipso facto a virgin, regardless of who or how much or little (or how much we now want to argue that they were) attracted to those they did not have sex with. The gender or age of those they did not have sex with likewise has no bearing on whether or they were virgins.

Just passing by, but…

Have any of you guys ever, actually fucked a woman?

Because you sure as hell read like you haven’t.

Geeze.

Which are, of course, mutually exclusive.

Nah. Only in the sense that they cannot both be fundamentally true. Biology is more fundamental than culture.

Anglo-Saxons, Swedes and Germans are not “different races” and nobody thinks they are. Although it is amazing how dunderheads have made such a big deal out of ethnicity in the past. It’s fine to treat such differences in an appropriate manner.

Superstar was a minor hit.

Age of Aquarius/Let the Sunshine was the first, second or third most popular song of 1969 by various objective rankings (Joel Whitburn, Billboard Hot 100, Cashbox). Good Morning Starshine peaked at 3 and was 43 overall in 1969. The cover of Hair by Zen charted in Holland and is good. The Hair cast recording was the last time one charted at 1 as of 2016.

“It is an issue of great importance. Basically, there are two approaches: the biological or the cultural.”

Going with biological there is still the issue of how big a group constitutes “your people”. You want all white people to stick together but that is too big and varied a group to be very cohesive. People feel more loyalty to smaller groups. As in the Bedouin saying via Wikipedia:

“A widely quoted Bedouin apothegm is “I am against my brother, my brother and I are against my cousin, my cousin and I are against the stranger” …”

Plaques for blaques?

The decline of Kylian Mbappe by age 25 to fairly average footballer at Real Madrid suggests that blacks are at their best in the sport in their teens and drop off quickly by 22 and everyone wonders why they are not much use as their white counterparts really start to dominate things later on in their 20s.

Rick Beato?!

Cheesiz K. Rist. You can just go back and re-read everything I said.

Is there anybody’s YouTube feed anywhere that doesn’t generate millions and millions of different Rick Beato video suggestions like peaches breed fruit flies?

Does it hurt to be so agonizingly normal?

Sarah Jessica Parker, like Julia Roberts, has the look that makes women say “she is so pretty” while they know she is not actually pretty and thus not threatening to them. Women are comfortable seeing these actresses in, say, a romantic comedy at the movie theater with their husbands or boyfriends. As opposed to someone like Salma Hayek, Sharon Stone, Cameron Diaz, or Salma Hayek, or many other actresses, who were so hot that the women in the audience knew what their men was focusing on.

Rick has been unimpressed with the recent new music by the biggest current pop star, Taylor Swift. He thinks her music is highly professional but lacking in originality and she should try new things musically. Among current musical artists, Rick seems to have the highest opinion of Billie Eilish as someone who is “awesome�.

Heh, Rick is entitled to his opinions. I’m familiar with his channel too but I often disagree with him, especially when it comes to Billie Eilish whom I dislike intensely. By most metrics you’d think she’s exactly someone that I should like… yet I just don’t. One reason might be that her vocal manner annoys me… those breathy mumbles of hers just drive me nuts. Sometimes I just want to scream, open your goddamn mouth! Take this clip I posted of Lea Salonga – every word, crystal clear. Billie Eilish is the opposite of that.

Rick does have some good takes on why modern music objectively sucks, though.

Good looking black women who can sing, dance, and carry the lead role in a movie? It’s possible there are zero black women in the world who fit this description. Hell, I can’t think of a whole lot of present-day white women who could do this. Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Menzel could when they were young, but they’ve aged.

There is no black Julie Andrews, or Shirley Jones, or Doris Day, or Judy Garland, or ….

All I got to say to those killjoys who say stuffing a turkey feels wrong:
Love is love.

This a pretty fascinating thread.

Marriage increased… pic.twitter.com/iW6bEqaQdZ

— True Discipline (@TruueDiscipline) October 29, 2021

Putnams story seems to fit together a little too nicely, but I think he brings up a lot of interesting data. Many people think that American history is a constant trend towards secularism and liberalism, but from roughly 1900 to 1950 America became more “traditional” in many ways

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 28, 2024

How ecstatic are you to be celebrating Thanksgiving just a few weeks away from the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as our 47th President!!!

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) November 28, 2024

🇺🇸Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!🇺🇸 https://t.co/CQMGaAODKq

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 29, 2024

Dodgson was more likely undersexed, or “asexual�

I saw a TV program which claimed to have found photographic plates he had made of Alice’s big sister topless. The family distanced themselves from him after that.

And Jews shouldn’t. Isn’t Dracula connected to the Catholic, Vlad Tepes?

I don’t believe Max Schreck (Count Orlok, Nosferatu) was Jewish, either.

Even though Wicked has been a money machine for 21 years, I didn’t recognize any of the melodies. Back in Broadway’s 1950s golden age, hit musicals’ catchiest numbers were quickly hustled onto the radio, so that by the time a typical audience member got around to seeing the show a year into its run, he’d been hearing songs from it for months; hence, he was inclined to leave the theater humming some of the better-known tunes. But the last song I can recall making it past rock radio’s anti-Broadway barrier was Stephen Sondheim’s “Send In the Clowns� a half century ago. So now it’s quite feasible for somebody like me who doesn’t go out of my way to sample new show tunes to be utterly oblivious to the Wicked soundtrack even after two decades.

Whilst living in what Taki likes to call The Big Bagel, the only notice I took of the Tony Awards (TM) was once a year when big posters appeared in the subway stations flogging the nominees. I recall that I never heard of the “big” “blockbuster” nominees, nor ever heard any music from them.

It seems day to day (night to night?) Broadway is some kind of niche hobby, which occasionally births a Wicked or Cats or whatever that then has to run for decades to keep the rest of NY theater afloat.

Back in the day, you used to get exposed to such stuff on the Ed Sullivan Show and other venues, and big tunes would be on the radio. “If I Were a Rich Man,” “They Call the Wind Maria,” etc. Even in college perfectly normal guys would play the Cabaret soundtrack before or after the Doobie Brothers or Pink Floyd.

As a side note, I also noted that the nominees all seemed to open around the same time, right before the awards, as if some Commission had looked them over in tryouts, decided who the winners would be, and so the whole things was, well, “staged.”

I wondered the same question. Did she got threatened by Dan Schneider if she’ll spin the beans or could be possible then Ariana Grande might have her own hidden skeletons in her closet? That episode of Victorious where she was soak and wet was worth for some memes like this one. https://imgflip.com/i/35mvi1

And there’s this old article from the Daily Mail published in August 2022 about Ariana Grande
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11113297/Disturbing-video-shows-Ariana-Grande-sexualized-teen-Nickelodeons-Victorious.html

I once had a temp job in NYC where my supervisor was a gay guy whose “husband” had some role in the touring company of Wicked. He once made an offhand comment to the effect that the audience for this crap was just a bunch of stupid hicks. I thought (to myself) that this seemed a bit ungrateful to people whose money was supporting musical theatre, but it does give some anecdotal evidence that the people involved know it’s junk, and are self-aware con men rather than “artistes”.

Not one of those people is worth a warm pitcher of spit (as someone once described the office of Vice President). Pop music is as dead as Broadway.

White people are actually pretty good at distinguishing themselves from other groups.

And yes, there is a some difference between Continental European whites and the English and American whites, etc. So separate countries make sense. But it’s not some insoluble problem.

I haven’t listened to a tremendous amount of Taylor Swift but I have listened to some of her songs.

It seems to me like she is really overrated. Often the musical arrangements are weak and within an album they can be quite inconsistent.

Her voice is pleasant but average.

Her skill as a lyricist is nothing special. There is nothing profound about her lyrics, and she certainly doesn’t qualify as a poet.

For example in her song The Lakes, which is nominally about the English lake district and the poets (such as Wordsworth , Coleridge and Southey) associated with that region, her lyrics are basically gibberish and nonsensical.

She is also getting past the age where she can attract attention by wearing hotpants for her stage performances.

There is a mental development problem with black athletes in their early 20s. Especially in sports that combine speed, discipline and a mature understanding of tactics and strategy. They are fantastic 18-22 attacking players but are never value for money later on in life when brain power is needed. Mbappe, who probably could have done any sport he liked is crashing and burning at Real Madrid. He won the World Cup almost single handedly in 2018. His professional career is dire.

If this means that Hollywood directors wouldn’t cast actors of Jewish ethnicity because of Jews-as-villains is forbidden, all I can say is- this is the weirdest theory involving Jews I’ve heard (as yet). It surpasses ancient Romans’ claims that Jews venerate in their temples donkey’s head.

Simply- there are not enough Jewish stars. Many are rather good, but hardly anyone is a star. As for villains, Woody had Martin Landau playing a murderer in one movie, I forgot its title. The villain is Jew & is played by a Jew.

I must correct myself at this point. I have frequently accused many Jewish people of being paranoid, but if I experienced such an attitude frequently- I would be hyper-paranoid.

Even if the actor did their own singing, the audio was probably dubbed. You can’t, or at least you used to not be able to, pick up high-quality audio on a movie set, so they would sing it again in a studio and over-dub the film.

Ackhually, I think what they did was to record the soundtrack first, then do the acting in front of it, as it were. Get the singing right and then it’s easier to make sure your movements line up. Just like a pop artist “lip-syncing”.

Peter Bogdanovich had a huge flop with At Long Last Love, despite great Cole Porter music. Apart from casting Cybill Shepard (for obvious reasons) and … Burt Reynolds (!?), he had the genius idea of recording all their “singing” live. I think it was Rex Reed who said this was “something no one had done since the days of Nebuchadnezzar.”

Shades of Chesterton’s Fence!

Segio Leone did something similar in Once Upon a Time in the West, where he had the actors perform while Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack (instrumental, of course) was played. Of course, then I suppose the dialogue had to be dubbed in post.

That broad, Samantha, was imaginatively constructed along the behavior of gays. The other three- not. They mostly seek “the true and only one, soulmate”.

Dessert: Romanian rum cake pastries, soaking in rum, topped with whipped cream and berry jam.

Savarina! Yum. My mom used to make it for the Jewish holidays back in the day.

Whether Vlad was a vampire is irrelevant.

HOW VAMPIRES BECAME JEWISH

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266729285_How_Vampires_Became_Jewish

Peter Dan

Abstract: The connection between antisemitic stereotype and the image of the vampire is examined taking into account the psychological and historical factors involved The symbolic link between Jews and blood through a history of blood libel and the depiction of Jews as alien and parasitic are seen the main themes that allowed the merging of the two images. The evolution of modern antisemitic stereotypes is examined.

One can draw many parallels between the antisemitic stereotype[sic!] of the Jew and the image of the vampire: both are parasitic and drain the life force out of the host –in the case of the vampire the victim and in the case of the Jews an unwitting nation. Both have a symbolic connection to blood, and contact with either of them taints the blood. The eternal Jew (Der Ewige Jude of Nazi propaganda) and the vampire represent different forms of immortality: the Jews are virtually unchanged since the beginning of time and vampires cannot die on their own. They have certain physical characteristics in common: pallor and a generally unhealthy aspect, they wear black clothes and loathe the cross, holy water and other symbols of Christianity. We will try to show that far from being coincidental, these similarities are the result of a convergence that took place at the end of the nineteenth century between the antisemitic stereotype of the Jew and the image of the vampire. This did not lead to a complete overlap, but rather to a host shared identity clues, and it worked indirectly, through hints and allusions, allowing the transfer of negative feelings between the two images.

Screwing up a take for a movie isn’t that big of a thing, but if you’re stuck on a series for 5 or more years, and you have a “great actor� who reliably fucks up takes because of memorization issues, that shit gets really old, really fast, for the entire cast and crew being held hostage because a “great actor� can’t learn his lines fast enough.

Are teleprompters impractical for film? Does the camera angle needed for shooting face preclude their use?

Re sports…. Blacks age like milk. Whites age like wine.

Weimar Jews dindu nuffin! It’s all theosophy and anti-Semitic tropes!

That’s why everything has to be censored and approved by Jews themselves; otherwise, there’ll be annudah shoah!

In her defense, she was probably molested during her time at Nickelodeon. There are youtube compilations of the weird subtly kinky b.s. Dan Schneider and pals had her do on camera for whatever show she was on, e.g. jerkin off a potato. Then again, why hasn’t she come out in support of the Nickelodeon whistleblowers or joined the effort to get those creeps put in jail?

I recently read I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. You should.

There is no black Julie Andrews, or Shirley Jones, or Doris Day, or Judy Garland, or ….

Well if you substitute ‘and’ for ‘or’, there is always Lizzo.

He suggested injuries seemed to take more of a toll on white ballplayers (e.g., Mickey Mantle vs. Willie Mays.)

It’s also a good idea to avoid stepping on open sewer grates.

Witches look like .. Jewish women. And vampires/nosferatus look like … Jewish men. I wonder why.

They were trying to warn us.

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I am certain you don’t know much about theosophy (H.P. Blavatsky, C.W. Leadbeater, ..) nor its transformed offshoots in Austria (Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy), nor its American branch termed Rosicrucianism & headed by Danish-German Max Heindel (The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception).

Theosophists were writing about “root races”, imaginary “races” that have nothing to do with human races. As far as I know, the only occult author who speculated, invariably clumsily, about Jews was Italian Julius Evola of the perennialist school. The only link with theosophy and Jews I know of was Israel Regardie, Crowley’s disciple, who interpreted Hermetic Kabbalah in theosophist key.

Various types of “Teutonic race mysticism” have nothing to do with any variant of theosophy.

Margaret Hamilton had a guest appearance on Sesame Street which scared so many children it was never aired again.

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Speaking of Tosca, this coming Wednesday 12/4 the Met will be showing in a theater near you a recording of last Saturday’s presentation of Tosca.

It’s generally $20 with subtitles and closeups of the singers. Not the same as sitting in the front row, but pretty good.

I saw it last year when Robert Alagna and his wife Aleksandra Kurzak were the two title characters, and I am going to see it live in January when the legendary Bryn Terfel plays Scarpia.

https://www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/2024-25-season/tosca/

And the following Saturday 12/7, they will show The Magic Flute which even kids will enjoy.

https://www.metopera.org/season/in-cinemas/the-magic-flute

Obtuse to the idea that witches and vampires look like Jews as an expression of a natural revulsion Europeans have towards them? Probably Steve thinks that it’s an obviously stupid idea and has better things to do than explain why. For one, witches and vampires just aren’t particularly Jewish-looking. Google “witch� or look at historical representations. Even the pointy-nosed variant doesn’t have the “Jewish 6�. Vampires are supposedly tall, finely featured, blue-blooded nobles and as others have pointed out are generally played by Gentiles as well.

For two, what evidence is there that White Gentiles are innately repulsed by Jewish physiognomy? None. Historical European attitudes towards Jews have fluctuated over time and place in a way that is obviously cultural/circumstantial rather than genetic. Germans didn’t get new Jew-liking genes after they lost WWII; instead, they got a new culture. In modern America, White kids growing up in areas with a fair number of non-Orthodox Jews (like my East Coast town) just view them as another kind of white people, like Poles or Italians (all of whom are mixed up at this point anyway.)

In most of the operas I have seen, the conductor will pause after a long aria or duet to let the audience clap. Some people shout “brava!” and cheer.

I’ve only ever seen one encore of an aria and that was Javier Camarena singing Ah! Mes Amis in The Daughter of the Regiment where he hits 7 high C notes. The audience went nuts.

For example in her song The Lakes, which is nominally about the English lake district and the poets (such as Wordsworth , Coleridge and Southey) associated with that region, her lyrics are basically gibberish and nonsensical.

I was in the lake district in September and the guy at the train station said there has been a notable increase in 20 something American girls visiting since Swift’s some came out.

The tour bus driver said it only rains twice a week in Windermere – once for three days, and then again for four days.

She doesn’t really look “witchy�, she just looks kind of dowdy, shrewish maybe.

Hmmm, I wonder how many accused witches executed in real life were “kind of dowdy, shrewish maybe�. Believe it or not, casting directors often were known, in their professional capacity, to cast people who looked the part. Shocking! And if the actor/actress could act, all the better.

This is all kind of funny to me.

You do not seem to be laughing. �

Witch? Oh, yes, how sexy is a witch? Very. Wicca even more so

You will love the video in the followng link: Various ‘witches’ of Eastern European origin, plus comely twin Jewesses whose mother was a real-life ‘witch’ (specifically, a tasseomancer according to wiki).

https://www.unz.com/isteve/feminism-superstition/#comment-3260086 (#21)

Jewess or not, who the fuck cares?

Take your pick, pal:

Jewess or not, who the fuck cares?

Hey, I didn’t bring it up. Sailer took anon’s bait, then I took the Sailer bait, and then he took the JIE bait, then …

Buzz, I’d say “Go away—baiting!� but you already chose to join the conga line.

Jewess or not, who the fuck cares?

You may not be interested in Jewess, but Jewess is interested in you.

"Jews will not replace us" from Charlottesville was condemned as a vicious anti-Semitic "conspiracy theory." Here's Michelle Goldberg in the NYT gloating that "we can replace them" (i.e., white people). pic.twitter.com/C7cwwXs1TH

— Nathan Cofnas (@nathancofnas) November 5, 2018

Jewess or not, who the fuck cares?

On an alleged HumanBioDiversity blog?

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Then the hostile takeover by homosexuals started,

In a major city near me the Gay chorus or some such homosexual singing group is making this year’s subject matter a tribute to Dolly Parton. I think they are claiming she’s a gay icon now, whatever that means. She’s been married since the ‘60s to a man and conservative Christians claim her as well (which makes more sense). This is a girl who gained popularity singing country songs about the heartsickness girls feel when boys treated them badly. And when I checked out a Shakespeare book at the library years ago the fey fellow at the counter asked me if I realized Shakespeare was gay. This stuff’s getting old.

Parker is a horseface. In comparison with her, even homely Bette Davis was a knockout.

I think you can file that analysis under, ‘conjuring anti-semitism were there was none’. The myth of the blood sucking parasitic entity predates the blood libel charge, and of all the varied interpretations of Stoker’s Dracula, Dracula as anti-Semitic caricature is the least convincing. Dracula as the parasitic, landed nobility, who produce nothing of value compared to bourgeois strivers, what with him and his minions dragging around crates of mother dirt, that’s more plausible.

“John Turturro is great at playing a snivelly weirdo, and was cast twice as Jews by the Coen Brothers: as the bad guy in Miller’s Crossing and as the annoying lead in Barton Fink.”

Spoken like an author who’s enjoyed the rare luxury of scribbling only about subjects that interest him the past 20 years. Speaking as a scribbler assigned less-than-scintillating projects, Turturro’s portrayal is symphathic and endearing. And relatable, even to non-scribblers, because most everyone wrote an essay or two in school about a lame subject.

Anyone who likes Oppenheimer has awful taste in cinema – poseurs pretend to like it because they want to impress others. Aks yoself a queshion, smartboy: will you EVER watch it again on purpose? Its fundamental message is We genius Juden could eradicate the goyim anytime we want and don’t you forget it. Ok, Shlomo, I heard you the first three hours, I don’t need yet another three-hour reminder.

Cf: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a three hour movie so chockablock with jokes that it doth profit thou a second or third viewing.

“White people are actually pretty good at distinguishing themselves from other groups.�

Yes, chattel slavery and imperialism come to mind.

“And yes, there is a some difference between Continental European whites and the English and American whites�

What differences are you referring to?

“Since culture stems from biology this is a silly idea�

That’s one way of looking at it. But it’s not the only way or the correct way.

“The idea that citizenship could be based on loyalty to a political program is totalitarian�

Citations required.

“If a baby fails to adopt socialism/libertarianism/fascism must it be expelled from a country at age 18?�

How about if a white person fails to adopt to your strict racial litmus test, must they be expelled?

“The essence of evil is treason to your own people.�

My own people are my fellow Americans regardless of race, ethnicity, or religion. You have an extremely narrow version of “your own people�.

This follows from the fact that we are a social species.

“Any white person who is anti-white is evil.�

First, you have yet to clearly define and offer specific examples as to what is “anti-white�. Second, you are impugning anyone and everyone who makes their own decisions about race and culture ss “evil�, which in its face is irrational.

“Anyone who claims to uphold “principles� in the sky over their own people, is evil�.

You act as if you are a God, as if your religion must be embraced by all white people, lest they incur your wrath.
It’s diabolically comical and frightfully ignorant on your part.

Thankfully, there are few people like yourself who feel this weird way in the world, and you all lack the guts and guile to do anything substantial to put an end to this supposed “genocide� of whites.

Good observations.

Her original audience was late teen girls who were/are insecure about their sexuality or appeal.

This is a pretty large demographic for music or concerts (w/ friends, mostly).

She is a better businesswoman than musician.

Her cult is focused on “me, me, me” in which others, mainly males, are mere props for her emotions/behavior (mostly critical or negative). She also has a large gay following for some reason.

She evidently spends a lot of money for online promotion. social media, groups of fans who are made part of the Swifty Club. Music has steadily declined. “Superfans” are cultivated.

Other than aging cat ladies (hello Taylor!) not much interest from younger females or young marrieds. She has lasted longer than most pop singers, but you age out of that by 30 or so.

The enforced secrecy about and around her alleged relationships is telling. Radio Silence from “former boyfriends” etc. which seem to be enforced by non-disclosure agreements. Bought and paid for silence. Why have none of her former boyfriends gone viral with “inside info”?

The rumor mill hints at bisexuality, which would explain a lot: very feminine former “longtime boyfriend” or now, Trophy Football Guy who seems to spend not much private time with her. Again, not fiancé material.

All of the TS stuff at checkout stands is from the Swifty Marketing Machine.

Her content and vocal ability is fading in relevance. Hence the finale “Eras” tour. After raking in hundreds of millions, she can retire or whatever. She wants to “direct” we hear… ugh.

Adele can sing. TS, not so much. But she is the best businesswoman of the bunch, no doubt.

🙂

The whole homosexual rainbow expropriation is not new, but in its early years, it really was a hostile takeover. It was more an ecology and environmentalist symbol for many years.

No, there was a step in-between. Jesse Jackson used it to bring together racial groups. Of course, his spectrum consisted entirely of earth tones.

No, that is not dumb. It’s fine for you to have opinions about classical music, but it is apparent from everything you write about it that most of it goes over your head. So you shouldn’t act as if you know better than anybody else.

Peter Bogdanovich had a huge flop with At Long Last Love, despite great Cole Porter music. Apart from casting Cybill Shepard (for obvious reasons)

Bogdanovich was one of those guys who elicited a “Huh? You mean he’s straight?”

Thank you for the video.

Okay, I know you and others care very much about Jews. Steve obviously does too. My point is actually to diminish Jews by stating what I really believe:

The whole Jew thing is phony. Jews are phony. Their literature, like the Christian and Muslim counterparts, is phony.

Stop giving them power over you. They are not real…

… and if a particular, lovely brunette wants you to fuck her, by all means do:

Jewess or not, who the fuck cares?

Anglo-Saxons, Swedes and Germans are not “different races� and nobody thinks they are.

I’ve known a lot of Danes, and they see themselves as quite separate from the Germans and the Swedes. Now you’re denying race!

Yes! That’s it.

“Just passing by, but…Have any of you guys ever, actually f^cked a woman?”

You don’t know if I’m male or female, straight or gay, but even so, you still come in here thinking I want a slice of what you’ve got, which is being the male equivalent of a washed-up has-been childless cat lady. Get over yourself. What’s that old joke about how even if she’s a trophy wife, it doesn’t mean it was for first place?

The next time you come here “just passing by” (i.e. making it through more than hundred comments in a post about a musical) and want to take a late-night drunken potshot at someone, try and make sure you don’t wind up just shooting yourself in the foot, and revealing far more about yourself than about anyone else.

You’re childless right? So maybe you’re the one who is “doing it wrong�: all that sex and zero to show for it.

Hockey is arguably only slightly less physical than football, Gordie Howe played in the NHL & WHA from 1946-1980. That is 5 different decades, incredible. Roberto Duran boxed in 5 different decades from 1968-2001. Both guys lasted until they were 52 and 50 respectively. And Duran fought larger, younger men mano a mano the bulk of his career from 1979-2001. Of course you have George Blanda in the NFL but he wasn’t a full time player for a large portion of his career. And baseball’s Nolan Ryan pales in comparison to Howe and Duran. And Duran was always having to deal with ballooning up 30-40lbs between fights which had to become more difficult to lose the weight the older he became, Archie Moore belongs right alongside Howe and Duran as well.

The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.

Apéritif: Cleveland Underground Bourbon Whiskey…Appetizer: shrimp cocktail…Borgo Molino Motivo Asolo Prosecco, imported by my neighbor…Baked turkey breast…Atlantic lobster tails…Baked Brussels sprouts…Stuffing made with Hungarian sausage…Homemade cranberry sauce…2024 Georges Duboeuf Beaujolais Nouveau…Dessert: Romanian rum cake pastries, soaking in rum, topped with whipped cream and berry jam…More ice-cold, Motivo Prosecco.

It all sounds delicious, enjoy.

Yesterday I didn’t know it was Thanksgiving Day until late in the afternoon when I heard an American Karen-type in Lisbon talking loudly about it on her phone to, I imagine, a friend or family member back in The States.

For my 2024 Thanksgiving dinner, at a nearby Bar & Grill while waiting to pick up my wife at the Lisbon airport, I had a bowl of thick bean soup, two hot BBQ meat sandwiches (one beef the other pork) a plate of homemade French fries, and a can of Pepsi. I was satisfied. It held me until I was able to get my wife and drive the 200 kilometers back to the house to raid the fridge that’s always packed with the good Portuguese food that my wife or Lucila, my mother-in-law’s Galician cook, has made.

Speaking of Thanksgiving and Hungarian stuffing, I was in Budapest on Thanksgiving Day, 1985. This was before the fall of the Berlin Wall, back when Hungary was still Communist and under total Soviet control. Though I looked – although not that hard – for turkey to eat for my Thanksgiving dinner, the closest I could get at a restaurant was Chicken Kiev; it was the first time I had ever eaten it, it tasted great, and was a more memorable meal than many of the Thanksgiving turkey dinners I’ve eaten since then.

You didn’t put the sarcasm tag, so I’m assuming you’re seriously drawing a comparison between the YouTube cam-whore orgasming in space for clicks and Al Shepard… that’s a new low. Are you next going to tell me how Rosa Parks was on par with Henry Ford?

-Rooster

The looks of Sharon Stone and Cameron Diaz never did all that much for me; Salma Hayek, with her exquisite knockers, was pretty hot. Far more sexually attractive than Stone, Diaz, and Hayek is the truly beautiful Monica Bertolucci, a woman who is flat-out gorgeous:

Adele can sing. TS, not so much. But she is the best businesswoman of the bunch, no doubt.

True but on several occasions I was surprised to find how good TS actually is, once you strip all that studio production BS.. there is some good stuff buried deep underneath. Take this one: she actually has really good voice, not of Adele’s flashy belting kind, but very good control nevertheless.

Mbappe was a tremendous young soccer player with great footspeed and cool finishing, but you have to wonder what several years of living as a multi-millionaire celebrity does to any player, regardless of race.

Now of course he is a little bit slower than he used to be, and he is a marked man, literally.

In the game against Liverpool last week (which his team lost) he had no impact, and in fact his marker was able to leave aside defensive duties and participate in some attacks later in the game. Mbappe also missed a penalty kick, which could be an indication of lowered confidence.

It is quite common for many top soccer players to be flat track bullies against inferior opposition, but to be less successful against top opponents. Mbappe has done okay this season in the Spanish league, but has not had much impact in international club matches.

Spam in a can, LOL

Not that I care (or know)- probably L. But, this is actually good news. She won’t be lonely in the near future & will find happiness with another woman.

Given her age, Bushnell must have been at Rice when Steve was there.

1) She attended but never graduated, moving to NYC at age 19, as per the same Wikipedia article.
2) Even if she was there for a year, the social dynamic must have been Steve being fully aware of her, but her not knowing Steve existed.

Christina Applegate, while not the hugest of stars, could do all three very well.

Except that baseball isn’t a good measure of overall athletic durability. (Mantle blew his knee out stepping in a sprinkler hole or DiMaggio calling him off a fly ball at the last minute or something; not exactly a fair example) Navy Seal training is however, and from what I remember reading, one of the the things that kept negroes out of those ranks (aside from the fact that they aren’t smart, can’t swim, and can’t shoot) is the fact that they sustain lower body injuries at a higher rate than their white comrades.

Spain has rattled him.

They pass the ball much better in Spain and it must be annoying Bellingham to watch Mbappe fuck up basic team play and shots.

Should have been Bellingham’s penalty.

There’s only one Julie Andrews.

The casting of Jordan Belfort was hilarious. Scorsese does need to cast big names to make cash but he does appear to have completely covered up Belfort’s swarthy Jewishness. It’s not an accident.

This could be true for the contemporary Anglosphere. Young adult means, I suppose, 11 to 17 years old. Putting aside serious stuff I’d been reading at that age period, I enjoyed Zane Gray, Karl May, Max Brand, Jules Verne, some sci fi, Jack London, biographies authored by Irving Stone, the Fantomas series, Rafael Sabatini, …

Looks I’m not into fantasy & coming of age stuff.

the fey fellow at the counter asked me if I realized Shakespeare was gay. This stuff’s getting old.

It was Auden who started that rumor. In reality, Shakespeare is everyone and everything.

Speaking of directors- I don’t think many of them will retain “canonical status” in the Bloomian sense. Most American directors of Italian and Jewish descent will not be regarded highly as they are now (for instance, all famous Coppola’s movies, though good, are overrated). I would say the same about Italians & French in their golden eras; they’re what I call deep shallowness. No Bergman or Kieslowski among them.

“One time many years ago I spent a long evening getting quite drunk with a famous movie director, a guy who had made several huge blockbusters.�

More than probable you’re making this up. So name him. No big deal since we are all essentially anonys here.

See, you pulled this stunt before when you claimed to have been this victim of police state action, but then didn’t pursue it legally.

I’ve known a lot of Danes, and they see themselves as quite separate from the Germans and the Swedes.

Their capital is Cope-n-Hagen.

Are teleprompters impractical for film? Does the camera angle needed for shooting face preclude their use?

They are impractical in that you would always have to add that as a complication when you’re setting up your shot sheet, as well as blocking out camera and actor moves. Also, it’s one more thing for an already memory impaired actor to deal with when you’re blocking out the shot. He’s gotta remember his blocking, when to pick up that coffee cup on a specific line, at a specific place. It’s required that an actor can do this, so he matches his position when you cut to a different angle during the scene.

Another actors secret: it’s a very bad idea to piss off the editor. You can do that by not matching your shots by not saying the same thing, in the same way, in the same position.

The first thing an editor will do is bitch to the director. If the director says, “I’ve TOLD the actor, but he just can’t remember. He can barely remember his fucking lines. I’m using a fucking teleprompter, but I can’t put the blocking, which he forgets, in the teleprompter,” the editor is going to grow to HATE that actor, because he’s making the editor look bad because the shots don’t match, that editor may take his revenge by choosing the least flattering take, as much as he can get away with.

Sometimes an actor’s career can get derailed because his “technical support” has either abandoned him, or worse, act to undermine him. If your film crew hates you, loses all respect for you, look out below.

See: Megan Fox.

That reminds me again about Bill Bixby and Michael Landon specifically. I recall a conversation I had with a retired film editor with mostly tv credits, and he went on about those two ALWAYS matching their shots perfectly, making his job a dream. They were loved by all television editors and directors because they could memorize their lines ridiculously fast, and their shots always matched perfectly.

That’s highly unusual, and that’s why they worked non-stop as leads in series their entire careers. All the technical people absolutely loved them–even though nobody would ever accuse them of being amazing actors. They were not dynamic. They were mediocre, but technically amazing.

Film acting is a kind of dance choreography as well as acting. Ideally, you have to do both gracefully at once. Many actors can’t. Not on the first take, anyway. When they can’t, that’s when the budget starts heading upwards.

“People feel more loyalty to smaller groups.”

The Founders were aware of this. Because of that, they designed a political system where most decisions were to be made at the local or state level. The purpose of the Constitution was to limit what the federal government could do. Some people of that era thought the Constitution was not sufficient for that purpose so the Bill of Rights was added.

Some people now say this country will not break up because of how powerful the federal government has become. That centralization of power, though, makes it more likely for the country to eventually break up. The American Revolution likely happened because the British government made decisions which went against what people in the individual colonies wanted. Over centralization has helped lead to the breakup of many empires in the past.

No government can exist unless it has at least the tacit consent of the population. This is more likely to happen in a country with more local decision making and an ability to vote with your feet if you do not like what those decisions are. If this country does stay together, it will be because people who want decisions made more locally win out in the political struggle against those who want an all powerful central government.

This is one of the uses of AI… Actors won’t be needed. AI can make a virtual replacement. A lot of legacy Hollywood won’t be needed. The whole business model is at risk. All that will be needed is an imagination and a powerful computer. The software and AI can produce and develop the whole movie. No distribution either.

When Trump takes over the US Department of Justice, his DOJ would have the authority to investigate further the shooting of Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner discusses whether reopening the investigation makes sense.

Facebook/Meta has done it again—this time indefinitely suspending Smith & Wesson’s account.
S&W: “In an era where free speech and the right to bear arms are under constant attack, we want to thank @elonmusk and @X for supporting free speech and our constitutional rights guaranteed by the 1st and 2nd Amendments.”

What a ridiculous piece of shit. Imagine having to watch crap like this for your job

Speaking of noses, the filmmakers didn’t dare mess with Erivo’s standard short, wide Nigerian nose, so she doesn’t look at all like a European conception of a pointy-nosed witch.

I wonder which totally-powerless in Hollywood tribe ordered that change?

Some people now say this country will not break up because of how powerful the federal government has become. That centralization of power, though, makes it more likely for the country to eventually break up.

This is a very good point.

Unless he’s queer or in religious life, a man who is at the top of his field– as were those in the Wallaces’ list– should have no problem attracting a mate. That these men never bothered to strongly suggests they were undersexed. Or had some other social issue.

I’ve known a lot of Danes, and they see themselves as quite separate from the Germans and the Swedes. Now you’re denying race!

They don’t see each other as separate races. You know that.

There are at least two major ways to push the anti-white agenda. One is to deny the existence of race outright. The other is try to divide whites into a thousand separate groups and claim they have nothing in common.

Steve’s blog is littered with highly motivated anti-whites who have spent a literal generation posting every day in an attempt to undermine white racial solidarity.

You are making up problems that don’t exist. You are playing games in the sky when in reality, White people have no problem seeing each other as members of the same race, while also knowing they want and need separate countries.

Something got lost in translation. The thing that Romanians call a savarina is really a baba au rhum. A savarin is similar but is properly made in a large ring shaped mold while a baba (which means grandmother – same as babka) au rhum/savarina is usually baked in an an individual sized mold, either cylindrical or fluted but NOT ring shaped.

In any case they are delicious no matter what you call them and in what shape. My favorites are the baba ricotta, filled with a sweetened ricotta mixture (same as for cannoli) rather than pastry cream or whipped cream.

Baked turkey breast

Aka sawdust. Turkey breast is much improved by smoking rather than baking. In the weeks before Thanksgiving (which is done at my brother in law’s so I don’t cook) I did a couple of turkeys at home. One outdoors in the smoker and by the time I did the 2nd one the weather had turned and I did it indoors in the oven and there was no comparison.

But an even bigger improvement is to just eat the dark meat. Unfortunately, modern turkeys are bred to be heavy on the white meat.

I think this is part of the whole fat free craze which has paradoxically made people fat. Eating a little bit of fat makes you feel full in a way that no amount of lean protein will.

Silly rabbit – Trix are for Kids!

Same deal with Taylor Swift – she is not meant for you. Originally she was for teenaged girls but her audience has aged along with her.

Pop music lyrics are always inane. The Beatles rocketed to fame on these lyrics:

Oh, yeah, I’ll tell you somethin’
I think you’ll understand
When I say that somethin’
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand

Not exactly John Milton, eh?

Time has the strange capacity to turn inane things to classics!

I’m right-wing and walked in expecting to hate it but there was really nothing bad about it. It all came together into a good movie. Casting a black girl as the green girl was fine: no racial politics were pushed. Ariana was good. The songs were unknown to me but they worked. There’s no real reason to hate this movie. The message could be compared to that of The Fountainhead or The Painted Bird. Or try to look at it as a story about unlikely friendships, and how life can take us on different paths.

wants to make the witch a black person

I don’t think the character was black in the book. It wasn’t in the original Broadway version. Only this movie.

I think you should give it a chance. I expected to not like it but was very entertained.

The American Revolution likely happened because the British government made decisions which went against what people in the individual colonies wanted.

The event was triggered by the judiciary and it was Somerset’s case which threatened slavery. The Revolution came about for the purpose of preserving slavery, exactly as Simon Schama argues.

Even in college perfectly normal guys would play the Cabaret soundtrack

Might it not be the subject matter of the plays and the fact that many became movies? After all, an Italian guy getting the hots for a Puerto Rican girl who looks like Natalie Wood makes a lot more sense as entertainment than does a witch or a bunch of cats. Same goes for the other soundtracks my parents had on vinyl: Man of La Mancha, South Pacific, King and I, etc.

Most people, by definition, look kind of average

I know what you mean but I can’t resist mentioning that a face made up of an average-sized mouth, nose and eyes, with an average distance between the eyes, and everything perfectly symmetric comes across as strikingly beautiful.

@The Germ Theory of Disease

More than probable you’re making this up.

No, I believe him.

You, on the other hand, I think every single thing you’ve ever written here is a f**king lie, you despicable piece of garbage.

@HA

Just passing by, but…

Have any of you guys ever, actually fucked a woman?

Sure, HA has, but it turned out to be a lady-boy.

“the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail”

They’ve done a fantastically successful job in the UK.

The Commons voted yesterday to make “assisted suicide” legal.

They’ve already assisted the suicide of British industry over the last 50 years, and since Blair and Boris they’ve “assisted suicided” the British people.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14137409/Keir-Starmer-immigration-net-peak-record-Labour.html

The ONS revised long-term immigration up by 82,000 in the year to June 2023, while emigration was shifted down by 84,000 – giving an overall net increase to the headline figure of 166,000. In that period 1.3million arrived and 414,000 left.

The net migration total for 2023 as a whole was increased by 181,000.

The ONS said it now thought 43,000 more Ukrainians had come to the UK in the year to June 2023, and 30,000 more in the year to December.

The body is also estimating that fewer EU nationals departed the country, and more students from outside the EU stay after finishing courses.

The ONS said that while remaining high by ‘historic standards’, net migration is now ‘beginning to fall’.

Director Mary Gregory said: ‘Since 2021, long-term international migration to the UK has been at unprecedented levels’.

They’re all coming here to work in our vibrant kebab shop and Kurdish barber sectors.

In other news

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12803975/pro-albania-supporters-independence-day-rally-police-clash-central-london.html

The streets around Westminster were blocked by raucous crowds waving Albanian flags and setting off fireworks last night, with Audis, Mercedes and convertible sports cars seen driving on the pavement and honking their horns.

Some people were seen waving flags while standing through the sunroofs of moving vehicles, while regular traffic trying to get through the capital was brought to a halt after the rally caused roads to be closed.

Cops from the Metropolitan Police were filmed desperately trying to hold back the mob in roads to allow cars to slowly inch their way forward through the capital’s clogged streets.

Another clip from the mayhem appears to show a group of outnumbered officers being forced back by the crowd of Albanians as some of those rallying goad cops, chanting and hurling drink at them.

I was in the lake district in September and the guy at the train station said there has been a notable increase in 20 something American girls visiting since Swift’s some came out.

Your fantasies?

Virtually all lyrics are semi-retarded. What singles out the Beatles from others are their tunes.They withstood the test of time.

Zane Gray would not have been considered young adult at the time of publication. Neither would Jules Verne. Young Adult means that the protagonist is a teenager or college student.

See https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/young-adult-hardcover/

https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/young-adult-paperback-monthly/

Reg was reacting to the idea that English and American “races” differ from that of the Continentals. In reality, if there is something like a typical American white “race”, this is it- and you won’t find such squareheads in England.

Thanks. Can you explain what is meant by “blocking” and “matching their shots”?

Starving By Inches

Steve Sailer keeps trying to whittle
the Unz crowd down, callously. It’ll
seem cruel and sadistic
and opportunistic;
he’ll starve us out, little by little.

Two sizes too small like the Grinch’s,
Steve’s heart doesn’t beat, it just flinches.
Undoubted, he gets
rid of unwanted pets
underfeeding them, starving by inches.

Actually, the movie was financially successful, at the end. Scorsese was, of course, right in casting DiCaprio in this epic sensational splash on amoral excess- DiCaprio is simply good to look at & we enjoy this whirlwind of decadent extravaganza on steroids.
Real Belfort would not be fun to watch.

Howe and Duran, two guys that my teenage boys know about and respect. Be like them in your everyday endeavors, kids.

On an alleged HumanBioDiversity blog?

So the Left is correct and HBD is really a code word for antisemitic?

Read Goldberg’s actual column and not the headline. Her punchline is that white nationalists will be replaced by blacks in high office. Blacks like Kamala Harris and Stacey Abrams (this column ran on 10/29/18 – days before an election. Liberals get all excited and full of false hope just before elections so you have to forgive her).

The Jews did not bring blacks to America. Y’all did that to yourselves.

A swarthy Jew with blue eyes? I think that DiCaprio was well cast for Belfort. Jews and Italians have common genes and rate about the same on the “whiteness” scale, except maybe to virulent antisemites like certain Men of Unz.

Similar to why Wicked is going to be a major disappointment at the box office: the director casted a “black-don’t-crack look� actress as a primary lead. The public just despises it when darkies are put in roles that ought to be exclusively Caucasian. But at least Grande the dainty white woman was paid more for her role, right?

Keto friendly!

“The Jews did not bring blacks to America. Y’all did that to yourselves.�

Y’all did, just not in the numbers or in the frequency as white Europeans.

“except maybe to virulent antisemites like certain Men of Unz�

I wouldn’t talk. You have your own cross to bear when it comes to Negroes and Gazans. Funny how you conveniently downplay your own hatred toward them.

What about the Wizard of Oz (upon which Wicked is based)? Witches are perfectly suitable subject matter for plays and movies, starting with Macbeth if not earlier.

It’s notable that most of the plays/movies that you mention had a racial element to them – all except Man of La Mancha. People of different races rubbing up against each other creates both conflict and romance, which are great subjects for drama.

If you remove all Italian and Jewish -American directors from your list, there is hardly anyone left.

I think you are wrong. The Godfather, for example, is a seminal film that opened a new era in film making and will still be talked about a century from now if civilization still exists.

Hollywood movies are always shallow because you have to compress a 600 page novel onto 2 hours of film and make something that appeals to a wide audience. They are a form of popular entertainment. They are not making something to be placed on a shelf as part of a canon for the ages – they are trying to get butts in the seats on the weekend that it is released. If it turns out to be canon worthy, that is just a fringe benefit.

Wicked has had the same as Gladiator II.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1199474177/?ref_=bo_di_table_3

Novellas make better movie material since they are shorter and the plotting is usually tighter. However, almost no one reads novellas anymore.

The alternative is to make two or three movies out of one book and hope that the first movies does not flop.

More than probable you’re making this up. So name him. No big deal since we are all essentially anonys here.

“No big deal� but you made a comment anyway.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/jordan-belfort-bitcoin-scam-cryptocurrency-market-wolf-of-wall-street-us-a8112161.html

He’s a swarthy olive skinned fellow white man. Of course Scorsese didn’t address the Jewishness of the fraudster.

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/rob_eshman/125682/

In Taxi Driver, Scorsese whitewashed the ludicrous black acting pimp character into the minstrel like Harvey Keitel. It’s basically how the films exist to normalise Jewish or black predators.

There’s certainly no point in moaning about blacks getting casting perks in Shakespeare or what have you if Jewish criminals are always turned into fair Goys like DiCaprio.

Btw one of the biggest box office hits was Goebbels’s Jud Suss. White audiences would rather enjoy seeing that, if they were ever allowed to see it.

Where does Suzanne Pleshette fit on the Jewish women look like witches scale?

Elizabeth Montgomery, oy vey

And while not a witch, don’t even get me started on Barbara Eden:

Good observation. I don’t automatically think of the Wizard of Oz as a musical whereas I reimagine the associated movie whenever I listen to all those old soundtracks. I’ve got a lot of musicals that were turned into movies of the 40s-60s on vinyl that I got from my parents or bought at used record stores in the 80s, Camelot, Flower Drum song, Gigi, etc. They are really good as music and I’ve often wondered why the market for movie musicals dried up. After Grease, Paint Your Wagon, Sgt Peppers (the musical) and Zanadu (which I didn’t see) they seem to have faded away. There was at least one I never saw, Car Wash?, but after ‘70s not much than I can remember except Les Miserables.

OT – remember the New Zealand ship with the lesbian captain that piled up on a reef and sank?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/29/new-zealand-warship-left-on-autopilot-hmnzs-manawanui/

A New Zealand naval ship that sank after smashing into a coral reef in the South Pacific was left on autopilot, an inquiry has found.

An interim report into the incident said human error was to blame for the sinking of HMNZS Manawanui, the first ship that New Zealand has lost since the Second World War.

Yvonne Gray, the vessel’s British-born captain, is originally from Harrogate, Yorkshire, and previously served in the Royal Navy before moving to New Zealand with her wife.

She became the target of online trolling in the wake of the £48-million ship’s sinking on Oct 5, prompting New Zealand’s defence minister to criticise “armchair admirals� and stress that Commander Gray’s gender was not to blame.

However, the report has revealed that the crew failed to realise the vessel was on autopilot. They wrongly believed that its failure to respond to direction changes was because the thruster control had failed.

“Unless he’s queer…”

And there we have it. No one is claiming they weren’t queer.