The full article lists who plays Jim, but he's not included in the photo. Based on the director's comment about "You can take race out of it and put whatever you want in those two characters," I'm assuming it's a white guy.
A theatre in Maine in 2001 did Big River? Kind of curious if they had a Black actor playing Jim.
I once saw that sort of clothing detail for the guests at a bris. (Or "brith," as the American Israelite spelled it.)
I once found an article from about 1927 in Nashua, NH, about a summer program at a local park, that listed which kids did which arts and crafts activity and who played each sport offered.
My great-aunt did this -- her kids' birthday parties got reported in the local paper, with the guest lists and the refreshments (cake and juice) and the games played.
There was that hockey player a few months ago who gave an interview where he said that hockey players aren't allowed to show personality in interviews, and then his team made him apologize, because apparently he showed too much personality by saying that.
I saw an interview that said that Jacob Tierney told the actor playing Carter to play the scene at the coffee shop in Russia with "big 'I have a lesbian sister' energy."
I've seen some on Facebook, but most of that seems more clueless -- like, people who have very little experience with the queer community asking questions based on assumptions they don't realize are offensive. The Twitter stuff is people who know exactly what they're doing.
And Harrison Browne posted screenshots of a bunch of transphobic comments that he's gotten, which he says are mostly coming from gay men. It seems like Twitter and Threads are the worst for this stuff -- I've seen very little of it here.
It used to be a legal thing, that the writers couldn’t see it to avoid the possibility of being sued for plagiarism, plus fanfic itself was on shaky legal ground anyway, so everyone had plausible deniability.
Same for us. We had a thread specifically for talking about fanfic, and a firm rule that fanfic was NOT to be discussed in the main show thread, because we knew that people associated with the show weren't supposed to ever see fic or acknowledge that it even existed.
He's a writer/producer on a show now that has a very active fandom, and he has almost no social media presence now other than Facebook, which he uses pretty sparingly.
Yeah -- I was a regular on a TV show message board in the early 2000s where one of the writers would occasionally drop in, and it was always a big deal and we policed each other to not say the wrong thing in front of him.
I miss when there was more separation between fandom spaces and spaces to interact with creators.
There are definitely ways to have him be in a couple scenes at the Kingfisher, but not really much more than that. (And if they use nothing else from Common Goal, I really hope they include the "virgin Scott Hunter" bit, because that was hilarious.)
Heated Rivalry discourse on Threads is a mess. Every time I see screenshots of that stuff, it's either Threads or Twitter. (And Instagram seems to be where people go to yell at the actors and creators to tell them that they should be fixing the problems in those other places.)
I saw a video of a PWHL fight, and a bunch of men in the comments were like, "This is almost real hockey -- if they want to get viewers, they'll let them take off those cages." Like, the reason they're tuning in is to see people's bloody faces.
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The show uses “I’ll Believe in Anything” in a pivotal scene. (You actually hear a few bits of it before that, but then the pieces all come together here. Major spoilers for the show in this clip.) youtu.be/yHUVCDqhE4Q?...
Yep -- those photos were from Lewis Hine, who was basically trying to document child labor in order to shock the nation into passing laws against it. He did take some photos of non-white kids, but not many, and that was probably strategic -- they wouldn't have the same shock value to white Americans
Anyone playing at Ironic-But-Not-Ironic Literary Snobbery in a world of book bans and right-wing censorship of history is a dabbler at best, and at worst destined to become part of the problem. They’ve already got one foot in the misogyny bucket, and will surely trip on it.
Oh, do romance readers read too much? Of the wrong kind of books, you say? In the wrong kind of language, you say? Are they too easy, too sexy, too fun, too silly? And we’re pretending this is not The argument that people have made against romance since (checks library) 1785?
no matter how hard smart romance people try to steer an interview, most WILL inevitably end up dead-ending behind a grimy bar with, "who can say why they choose to be so frivolous"
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During the one of the Olympic hockey games, one of the announcers said, "Team USA is keeping their foot on the gas pedal. For Team Finland, it has been uphill sledding all day." That metaphor needed a bit more work.
Just saw a facebook post that Stefan Noesen brought his daughter to the Sirens game. He wasn’t wearing any Devils gear or anything, and I think he’s recovering from an injury, so I’m guessing that it was an actual family activity and not publicity.
Yeah, I usually check the restaurant website to see what they say to do. A bunch of restaurants that used to have their own delivery a few years ago now link to Doordash.
Lewis Hine photo of two girls working in a field. "Camille Carmo, age 7, and Justine, age 9. The older girl picks about 4 pails a day. Rochester, Mass."
Lewis Hine photo of three boys working in a field. "Three boys, one of 13 yrs., two of 14 yrs., picking shade-grown tobacco on Hackett Farm. The "first picking" necessitates a sitting posture. Buckland, Connecticut."
Lewis Hine photo of a very small boy working in a field. "Six-year-old Warren Frakes. Mother said he picked 41 pounds yesterday "An I don't make him pick; he picked some last year." Has about 20 pounds in his bag. Comanche County, Oklahoma."
Lewis Hine photo of a boy working in a field. "Twelve-year-old Lahnert boy topping beets. The father, mother, and two boys (9 and 12 yrs.) expect to make $700 in about 2 months time in the beet work. "The boys can keep up with me all right, and all day long," the father said. Begin at 6 a.m. and work until 6 p.m. with hour off at noon. Fort Collins, Colorado."
Lots of kids working in those fields. Many of them never went to school or learned to read, and lots of them died very young. There was a whole lot of malnutrition in those generations, too.
And a huge amount was done by child labor, too. Lots of those kids never went to school or learned to read, and a lot of them died very young.
Hilary Knight and Brittany Bowe were interviewed at an Unrivaled game last week, and Brittany said something like, "I'm really impressed with the refs, and the consistency of the calls. That's something your league doesn't really have, right, Hilary?" and Hilary was just like, "No comment."
