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Beautiful Ballet Portrait Of Performers Claiming The Streets Of NYC

Ballet is an intimately physical art that has been merged with the beauty of music, photography and dance, captured by Puerto Rico born, NYC-based photographer Omar Robles’ camera on the streets of New York city.

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why not both?

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September 1st | Back to Hogwarts

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Without fail, I become a Harry Potter blog again every September 1st.

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Just had a thought for an action hero thing: 30-something woman hero is doing her ass-kicking thing. One day, her boss shows up at her door, and tells her she has to stand down, or there will be consequences. “Honey, it’s not that you’re too old. It’s just the public don’t like to see a woman of your age saving the day. It feels emasculating”.

So woman is stripped of her support team, fellow agents, and is pretty much put on the shelf. She tries to do heroing, but keeps getting cockblocked by younger women or superhero men she used to work alongside.

Just when she’s hitting rock bottom (and sitting in her house wearing pyjamas and eating ice cream), there’s a knock at the door. Judi Dench is standing there, and our heroine assumes it’s a charity collection.

“Oh no, dear,” Dench says, smiling. “We’ve come to recruit you.”

“Recruit me? For what?”

“To do what we do best: save the bloody world.”

And all at once she’s part of a covert ops team made of all the older women who have been retired and who currently are holding the reins of managing the world.

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At work, I realised this is the female version of the Expendables. Cast-wise, I see it like this:

Maggie Smith - former intelligence handler and coordinator. Currently task manager

Judi Dench - ex-spy and covert ops manager within the new foundation. Also, recruiter.

Salma Hayek - the South American operative, specialising in undercover work, and being effortless at it. Also one of the smartest of the bunch.

Jennifer Ehle - communications. She set up the communication system for the old unit, and now has hacked it so they can keep their ears to the ground. Also a mother of four, and manages to coordinate her life neatly around the job

Helen Mirren - former double agent, specialised in the Cold War detail.

Gina Torres - Extractions. Also happily married to an agent who has no idea she was once six grades above him.

Lucy Liu - Q-ish-equivalent now, formerly a expert undercover field operative. Used to work alongside…

Lucy Lawless - the legendary field operative, the Bond of her class. Everyone knew her name, but she still got the job done. Also is happily settled down with Liu’s character, with a Bond-villain style cat called James, because they’re both snarky assholes. (The cat is also neutered. They make many jokes. Bad ones)

And for the villains, we have the women who went the opposite direction.

Jane Seymour as the former femme fatale spy, who got so sick of being used for honey trap stings that she went Terminal on them. (it’s funny because she was a Bond girl)

Gillian Anderson as the brains of the operation.

Catherine Zeta Jones - weapons specialist. Once in the same team as Torres and Liu, but blamed for a weapons problem that wasn’t her fault and forced out. Went a bit… angry about it. Still occasionally meets up with Liu and Lawless for drinks.

Celia Imrie - one of Smith and Dench’s first allies, but got frustrated with how they were running things and set up her own operation. Because face it, she would be a marvellous villain.

And our new girl is Mila Kunis, who is being honourably retired from the main unit.

I love this idea, because I love the thought of them having a epic chase with the male lackeys, and Maggie and Judie casually tripping them up, old lady style “oh, I’m sorry dear, I didn’t see you there. Now, don’t run off, you have a mess on your suit…”

If this could happen, I would watch it every day for a week in the cinema…

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So how about we also add Stana Katic and Nicole Beharie into this cocktail? Because seriously, ladies, we need you.

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We need to add Michelle Pfeiffer to the mix as the agent with a cat like ability to sneak in and out of every building :D

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Wait:

We need roles for

Calista Flockhart Viola Davis Alfre Woodard Mary McDonnell Katie Sackhoff Famke Jannsen Michelle Yeoh Nicola Walker And Jennie Agutter too

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I’m sad we’re cramming all these amazing ladies into one movie because, even in a fantasy, we can’t believe there would be a sequel/another mainly-female-cast movie.

That said, how can no one have said Sigourney Weaver yet? Maybe she’s the US President.

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Loki’s been rocking on since 2011

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If you’re healthy you probably don’t realize how demoralizing it is to spend all day in a hospital gown

But now a new collaboration is designing fashionable hospital gowns to encourage sick teens that they’re not “just a hospital patient.” See how they react when they try their new robes on.

Gifs: Starlight Canada

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You’ve got to watch this bad ass musical trailer for the paralympics showing the true meaning of “differently abled”

“This campaign is the most important we have ever undertaken, and isn’t just about Rio,” Channel 4 CMO Dan Brooke told Adweek. “It’s about revolutionizing public attitudes to disability forever."

Gifs: Channel 4 (UK Paralympic Broadcaster)

WATCH THE VIDEO

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Sesame just had the best response to “controversy” about the Refugee Olympic team

Amid recent anti-refugee sentiments, it’s inspiring to see a team representing the 60 million displaced people throughout the world. See Grover’s full loving speech.

Gifs: Sesame Street

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I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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Perfect Handwriting Examples That’ll Give You An Eyegasm

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Ugh, I wish that my print handwriting was neat.

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Awww….look at these cute bastards.

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Did they run out of red dye?? She looks brunette, good God…😖

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FFS I’m trying to withhold judgement and have no opinion about Bree until I actually see her in the show but that hair is NOT AT ALL THE RIGHT COLOR AND WHY AM I FINDING MYSELF ALL RAGEY ABOUT IT?

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Deep breaths, snurk. Deep breaths. Pet your puppies and take a drink. And breathe…

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Trying to see what some are seeing and nope. Maybe seeing them in the episode actually talking and relating will help?! Please!!!!

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At a guess there is a filter on the image, muting the tones, and the shot is indoors. Her hair may be much brighter in direct sunlight and without the filter

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Happy 100th Birthday, Olivia de Havilland!! (July 1, 1916)

Olivia on being asked if she missed acting:

“Not at all. Life is too full of events of great importance. That is more absorbing and enriching than a fantasy life. I don’t need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.” [x]