#night bus

[weepingwidar]

Mark Krzepis (Canadian, 2001) - Ex-Voto: The Night Bus (2026)

[cosmonautroger]

Night Bus, Japan

[filmtrospective]

Bette Brought A Bitter Backlash

The 1934 Best Actress race became one of the Academy's earliest and most controversial scandals. Amid growing resentment over the Academy's perceived alignment with producers during labor disputes, both the Screen Actors Guild and Screen Writers Guild encouraged members to boycott the organization, dramatically reducing participation in the nominations. As a result, only a small pool of actors selected the nominees, leading to several high-profile omissions, most notably Bette Davis for her acclaimed performance in Of Human Bondage.

Davis had already angered Warner Bros. by insisting on being loaned to RKO for the role, and the studio reportedly refused to campaign on her behalf after blocking her from It Happened One Night. The omission sparked widespread outrage throughout Hollywood, with trade papers, actors such as Joan Blondell and Dick Powell, and even fellow nominee Norma Shearer publicly questioning the Academy's decision.

The backlash forced the Academy into damage control. Just days after the nominations, newly elected president Howard Estabrook introduced unrestricted write-in voting for all categories, a reform supported by Frank Capra, Robert Riskin, Norma Shearer, William Powell, and Norman Krasna in the hope of ensuring more credible winners. Although Davis received a substantial write-in vote, it was not enough to overcome the official nominees, and Claudette Colbert ultimately won for It Happened One Night.

Davis later received an Oscar for Dangerous, a performance she herself regarded as inferior, while the controversy prompted lasting institutional reforms, including the appointment of Price Waterhouse to oversee Oscar vote counting from the following year onward. The episode also underscored the Academy's increasingly strained relationship with Hollywood's emerging labor guilds, whose boycott even kept Oscar-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin away from the ceremony.

[saint-vhs]

VHS LOGOS - NIGHT BUS

[alexkorneliuk]

The bus had barely left the city when the man beside me cleared his throat.

Which was strange.

Because five minutes earlier there had been no man beside me.

He was sitting there as if he had always been there.

Brown coat.

Paper cup of coffee.

A leather satchel on his knees.

The kind of man who looked like either a retired teacher or someone carrying several disappointing secrets.

“You picked a bad night for Nowhere,” he said.

The city was gone now.

Only darkness remained, broken by the occasional wet flash of a roadside sign.

The man said his name was Phil.

Then he pulled a ticket from his satchel.

Same cheap paper.

Same black print.

Same torn edge.

But the ticket had his name on it.

Not his destination.

His name.

Under destination, in capital letters, it said:

TARTARUS.

“What happens in Tartarus?” he asked.

Phil looked out the window.

For the first time, his face lost its calm.

“Usually?” he said.

“Recognition.”

Full chapter on Substack: https://substack.com/@alexkorneliuk

[meladora]

if you like my content please consider buying me a coffee «3 https://ko-fi.com/meladora do not claim as yours, please credit !

[miaautomata]

01

NYC, 08/05/24 on a night tour bus

[knightofleo]

Burial | Night Bus