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Post by Cher on Jan 2, 2023 8:33:46 GMT -6
Is this the January blinds thread? I can never remember. No I’ll start a new one for Jan.
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Post by Pizzaslut on Jan 2, 2023 8:45:20 GMT -6
August 8, 2022 If you are a fan of 80's teen movies, than you have definitely seen this one (MM) that stars an actress that died very prematurely (AA). There were several other actresses who co-starred with the lead actress, but one (BB) had a very prominent scene which is very memorable. Now, let us fast forward a few years after that movie to another movie (NN) which BB was not involved in, but her actor significant other (CC) was. What is remarkable about BB and CC is they share a similar literary feature about their names. CC was not a huge part of NN. The main lead in the movie is an actor who was A list then and is now A+/A list (DD). In addition, there was a director (EE) who also shares the same literary feature as BB and CC. On the set, BB would often visit and DD was a big fan of her work and wasn't shy about stating it. It got to the point that when CC was filming a scene, more often than not, DD and BB would be hooking up. That went on for the entirety of the filming. It was not long after the filming wrapped that BB gave birth to a child who CC was convinced was the offspring of DD and left BB. A couple of decades later BB remarried, but she has never denied the child belongs to DD and CC has hated everything to do with DD to this day. MM: "Can't Buy Me Love" AA: Amanda Peterson BB: Darcy DeMoss NN: "A River Runs Through It" CC: Stephen Shellen DD: Brad Pitt EE: Robert Redford I could've written this in 3 sentences.
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Post by Pizzaslut on Jan 2, 2023 9:03:46 GMT -6
December 2, 2022 #1 - This A- list actress has spent so much time overseas and playing foreign based roles, you would think she is foreign born. She isn't. She starred on one of the most iconic shows of all time that was also a movie. There is also a lot of fan fic written about her. She has a scholarship fund that pays for private school for about 100 kids a year at this point, and it just grows every year. #2 - This A- list actor/game took a bunch of money he thought he would never get back and pays for rec centers to stay open and have staff and provide food, so kids have a place to go after school. #3 - This A+ list actress gives away 85% of the profits that she makes from all of her non acting endeavors to charity. The other 15% she gives to the employees. She makes tens of millions of dollars a year outside of acting. #1 - Gillian Anderson #2 - Kevin Bacon #3 - Reese Witherspoon Love this. Although #3 surprised me.
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Post by cakewench on Jan 2, 2023 9:05:41 GMT -6
September 20, 2022 Before the events of earlier this month, all the claims to the throne by this particular family, could be treated like background noise. No one was going to do anything as long as the present person was in power. That all changed with the events of this month. Everyone knows who the real heir is. Everyone knows there is actual written proof that would have made it physically and biologically impossible for the current line to exist without some behind the scenes manipulation. Imagine the shakeup and the news if the rightful heir stepped up this month and presented their claim. The only real proof is a written document that had been stored in one of the more famous churches in the world. It has resided there for nearly 600 years, until the day BEFORE the public announcement of a death. When the public announcement of the death was made, there was a plan to release the document to the public to at least throw the succession plan in doubt and to give the world a much better, less costly line of succession. The document was gone. Someday, it will probably make its way back into the records, but for now, it is gone. Apparently the church, and its leaders like things the way they are. Royal Family/Queen Elizabeth II/Death of Queen Elizabeth II/Prince Charles/King Charles III/Simon Abney-Hastings/15th Earl Of Loudon This has to do with debate on whether King Edward IV was illegitimate or not. Dude was born in 1442. Can they test anything from back then to now? I mean with how many generations have happened since then, I don't get it. I bet Pierce blames Meghan for this... Anyone up for a War of the Roses rabbit hole?
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Post by brux on Jan 2, 2023 9:11:07 GMT -6
Reese seems like the kind of person who would make it known that she gives away 100% of the profits of her businesses.
So that one surprises me too.
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Post by armpants on Jan 2, 2023 9:47:35 GMT -6
Reese seems like the kind of person who would make it known that she gives away 100% of the profits of her businesses. So that one surprises me too. Reese is one of those people that I always assume the worst of her (for no known rational reason), so I'm also surprised at this.
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Post by Cher on Jan 2, 2023 9:52:37 GMT -6
Reese seems like the kind of person who would make it known that she gives away 100% of the profits of her businesses. So that one surprises me too. Reese is one of those people that I always assume the worst of her (for no known rational reason), so I'm also surprised at this. She was a huge dick when she was arrested so I think there’s rational reasons.
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Post by Pizzaslut on Jan 2, 2023 9:54:51 GMT -6
Is there a new January thread? I just read that Jeremy Renner is in critical but stable condition after a snow plow incident.
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Post by leatherpants on Jan 2, 2023 10:02:14 GMT -6
It is not safe to be a teenager in Hollywood
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Post by Jesslfar on Jan 2, 2023 10:32:01 GMT -6
Is there a new January thread? I just read that Jeremy Renner is in critical but stable condition after a snow plow incident. Oh Jeez. Snow plow incident?
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Post by leatherpants on Jan 2, 2023 10:40:15 GMT -6
October 3, 2022 This foreign born actress got her start in a circus. She then moved to yachting to finance her trip to the US. In the US, she landed with a studio and got herself a husband. The husband poisoned her when she got pregnant during a threesome with another actress and an actor who played Robin Hood. Renée Adorée/Tom Moore/Lupe Velez/Douglas Fairbanks I read this the first time and was like, oh Hollywood. What a life. But I had skipped over the poisoning part. That’s something
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Post by Cher on Jan 2, 2023 10:56:16 GMT -6
Is there a new January thread? I just read that Jeremy Renner is in critical but stable condition after a snow plow incident. Making it now.
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Post by miawallace on Jan 2, 2023 11:00:41 GMT -6
It is not safe to be a teenager in Hollywood my tiktok fyp started showing me Shirley temple stuff a few weeks ago and my gosh Hollywood is trash.
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Post by Hotcoconuts82 on Jan 2, 2023 11:34:13 GMT -6
It is not safe to be a teenager in Hollywood my tiktok fyp started showing me Shirley temple stuff a few weeks ago and my gosh Hollywood is trash. I went on a margaret O'Brian(my favorite old hollywood child actor) spiral recently. She says she has nothing but good memories from her times on the lots. Apparently her mom took no crap from Louis b Meyer.
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Post by Cher on Jan 2, 2023 11:37:38 GMT -6
Jan thread is up.
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Post by pitchslap on Jan 2, 2023 13:09:42 GMT -6
This has to do with debate on whether King Edward IV was illegitimate or not. Dude was born in 1442. Can they test anything from back then to now? I mean with how many generations have happened since then, I don't get it. I bet Pierce blames Meghan for this... Anyone up for a War of the Roses rabbit hole? Yes please!
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Post by MelanieCarmichael on Jan 2, 2023 16:44:39 GMT -6
While I would love nothing more than for the BRF to implode and the monarchy be abolished, if not during Chuck's reign, than that of Wills, Edward IV's legitimacy IMO has no bearing on the current BRF's claim to the throne.
Legitimate or not, Yorkist Edward IV won the throne by right of conquest, in defeating the forces of Lancastrian Henry VI. Following Edward IV's death, youngest brother, Richard (III) took control of the throne and declared the children of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville to be illegitimate. This included eldest daughter Elizabeth of York, who, had she been born male, would have had the strongest claim to the throne. It was why Henry VII (Henry Tudor) wanted to marry her - to bolster his own claim, a weaker one through his mother, Margaret Beaufort, a direct descendent of Edward III, as well as to bring the War of the Roses to an end by uniting the houses of York and Lancaster. Henry VII won the throne from Richard III by right of conquest at the Battle of Bosworth and it is through his daughter, Margaret Tudor, that the BRF is directly descended via Margaret's great-grandson James Stuart (VI of Scotland and I of England).
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Post by cakewench on Jan 2, 2023 16:54:32 GMT -6
Anyone up for a War of the Roses rabbit hole? Yes please! Standard disclaimer that I am by no means a historian or scholar, I just like learning about this era of history. The whole theory is that Cecily was unfaithful and Edward IV was illegitimate, and the real heir to the throne is a descendant of George, Duke of Clarence (the older of Edward’s two brothers). George had two children with his wife Isabelle - Margaret (future Countess of Salisbury) and Edward (the STARZ series nicknamed him Teddy, which I will use here even if it’s not real because there’s too many Edwards 😂). Teddy was about eight when Edward IV died, so a lord protector would have been appointed until he came of age. Since at this point George had been executed for treason, and Isabelle’s father (the Earl of Warwick) was killed in battle, this likely would have been George/Edward’s youngest brother Richard, then Duke of Gloucester. This Richard is the same one who was (in reality) appointed lord protector of the 12 year old Edward V (Edward IV’s oldest son), and who may or may not have been involved in Edward V and his brother’s subsequent disappearance (the Princes in the Tower), making him King Richard III. Now, would Richard have done to his nephew by George what he (allegedly) did to his nephews by Edward? Maybe, maybe not. After all, George’s wife Isabelle was sister to Richard’s wife Anne. But even if Teddy lived to become king under Richard’s protection, history would likely have been altered anyway - Teddy probably would have married and had children, putting the current claimant farther down the succession. (In reality, Teddy was executed for treason during the reign of Henry VII. The claimant is a descendant of his sister Margaret.) Obviously all of that presupposes that Edward IV was illegitimate which is almost impossible to concretely prove at this point. How a document from that era could be verified as not slander created to discredit Edward IV (likely out of anger for marrying a commoner) is beyond me. Id also like to point out that regardless of who became king after Edward IV’s death, Henry Tudor would still probably have waltzed in and taken the crown by force, like he did in 1485 (roughly two years after Edward IV died). Eta - also what MelanieCarmichael said 😂
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Post by pitchslap on Jan 2, 2023 17:02:53 GMT -6
I find this all just so fascinating! Thank you MelanieCarmichael and cakewench! One of my favorite things to do when we went on the castle tours in Scotland was imagine what kind of fight or treason could have been going on in whatever room I was in during its heyday. Like Victoria's favorite vacation castle, what if she found out some scandalous stuff *right* where I was standing. I loved it
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Post by MelanieCarmichael on Jan 2, 2023 17:15:21 GMT -6
Fun fact - MH can trace one of his lines back to Margaret Pole aka Margaret Plantagenet, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence, through Margaret’s daughter, Ursula. So maybe he and I should be sitting on the throne right now. 🤣
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Post by armpants on Jan 2, 2023 17:17:50 GMT -6
Fun fact - MH can trace one of his lines back to Margaret Pole aka Margaret Plantagenet, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence. So maybe he and I should be sitting on the throne right now. 🤣 I vote in favor of I can try on tiaras!
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Post by lizblue on Jan 2, 2023 17:59:04 GMT -6
Lol @ Kevin Bacon being described as an actor/game. 🤣
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Post by RajahMD on Jan 2, 2023 18:15:54 GMT -6
Standard disclaimer that I am by no means a historian or scholar, I just like learning about this era of history. The whole theory is that Cecily was unfaithful and Edward IV was illegitimate, and the real heir to the throne is a descendant of George, Duke of Clarence (the older of Edward’s two brothers). George had two children with his wife Isabelle - Margaret (future Countess of Salisbury) and Edward (the STARZ series nicknamed him Teddy, which I will use here even if it’s not real because there’s too many Edwards 😂). Teddy was about eight when Edward IV died, so a lord protector would have been appointed until he came of age. Since at this point George had been executed for treason, and Isabelle’s father (the Earl of Warwick) was killed in battle, this likely would have been George/Edward’s youngest brother Richard, then Duke of Gloucester. This Richard is the same one who was (in reality) appointed lord protector of the 12 year old Edward V (Edward IV’s oldest son), and who may or may not have been involved in Edward V and his brother’s subsequent disappearance (the Princes in the Tower), making him King Richard III. Now, would Richard have done to his nephew by George what he (allegedly) did to his nephews by Edward? Maybe, maybe not. After all, George’s wife Isabelle was sister to Richard’s wife Anne. But even if Teddy lived to become king under Richard’s protection, history would likely have been altered anyway - Teddy probably would have married and had children, putting the current claimant farther down the succession. (In reality, Teddy was executed for treason during the reign of Henry VII. The claimant is a descendant of his sister Margaret.) Obviously all of that presupposes that Edward IV was illegitimate which is almost impossible to concretely prove at this point. How a document from that era could be verified as not slander created to discredit Edward IV (likely out of anger for marrying a commoner) is beyond me. Id also like to point out that regardless of who became king after Edward IV’s death, Henry Tudor would still probably have waltzed in and taken the crown by force, like he did in 1485 (roughly two years after Edward IV died). Eta - also what MelanieCarmichael said 😂 I love this. I never get tired of the random rabbit holes the Blinds Thread takes us down.
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Post by beesquared on Jan 2, 2023 18:16:18 GMT -6
let’s do it! I got a water flosser for Xmas because I think it’ll help me get over my aversion to flossing. Which is part of the whole dental fears I have. So today, I commit to setting up the flosser and trying it out. I’m going to then commit to making and showing up to a dentist appt by 4/30. I feel stupid avoiding it but I just keep avoiding it. Do you want to make any plans with me? I will commit with you to make and show up to a dentist appt by 4/30. I feel silly avoiding it too but maybe it will spur me on if I have an accountability buddy! I also will commit to making and showing up to a mammogram appointment ASAP, but no later than 4/30. I’m embarrassed that I still haven’t had my first one 😬 Please, please have your mammogram. My breast cancer was found on my first mammogram and because it was found so early, my surgery/treatments/outcome has been significantly easier than if it was found later. Don’t be embarrassed, healthcare can be overwhelming!
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Post by jorkzy on Jan 2, 2023 18:56:20 GMT -6
I will commit with you to make and show up to a dentist appt by 4/30. I feel silly avoiding it too but maybe it will spur me on if I have an accountability buddy! I also will commit to making and showing up to a mammogram appointment ASAP, but no later than 4/30. I’m embarrassed that I still haven’t had my first one 😬 Please, please have your mammogram. My breast cancer was found on my first mammogram and because it was found so early, my surgery/treatments/outcome has been significantly easier than if it was found later. Don’t be embarrassed, healthcare can be overwhelming! +1000000 Get it done, ladies!
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Post by KMW08 on Jan 2, 2023 19:09:13 GMT -6
flojo and brux don’t be ashamed, embarrassed, or fear going to the dentist! I’m telling you they have seen worse! If you’re uncomfortable where you end up, try somewhere else. My teeth were a wreck when I finally went (my first pregnancy ruined my teeth), several were broken when I went in. They never judged me and I always felt comfortable with them. So now I’m only missing 6 teeth and have a healthier mouth. Going to urgent care is a whole other thing though, I forget I’m missing so many teeth (none are front teeth) and think they probably categorize me as a drug user LOL.
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Post by armpants on Jan 2, 2023 19:33:07 GMT -6
I'm also in the club of having dentist anxiety. It's been 6 years I think. Adding that to my goals for the year.
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Post by lizblue on Jan 2, 2023 20:06:39 GMT -6
I went an embarrassingly long time before going back to the dentist. Ask for recommendations and once you have a good one, I promise you it’s not that bad! They have seen it all and they will help you make a plan. I feel so much healthier and more confident. They had me come every three to four months for awhile and now I’m down to every six months. The cleanings are a breeze now. You can do it! You will feel so good.
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Post by ldubhawksfan on Jan 2, 2023 20:09:19 GMT -6
August 12, 2022 In preparation for a run, the sex tape of a wannabe A++ lister is in high demand. The thing vexing all buyers is the holder of the tape doesn't need any money because he is richer than anyone offering to buy it. What everyone should do is go ask the former daytime talk show host for a sex tape he has. He would be willing to sell. It is not of the same person, but would cause much more of a scandal. Gavin Newsom/Balthazar Getty/Montel Williams Is this one saying Montel has a sex tape of Gavin with someone else, or a tape of someone who would blow up his bid by proxy?
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Post by jaygee on Jan 2, 2023 22:26:14 GMT -6
August 12, 2022 In preparation for a run, the sex tape of a wannabe A++ lister is in high demand. The thing vexing all buyers is the holder of the tape doesn't need any money because he is richer than anyone offering to buy it. What everyone should do is go ask the former daytime talk show host for a sex tape he has. He would be willing to sell. It is not of the same person, but would cause much more of a scandal. Gavin Newsom/Balthazar Getty/Montel Williams Is this one saying Montel has a sex tape of Gavin with someone else, or a tape of someone who would blow up his bid by proxy? I’m trying to figure this out as well. I don’t know what would cause more drama than his own sex tape. Like would people care if his wife had a sex tape?
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