#what a dump

[ephemeralscan]

what a dump!

[notumbusbumbus]

Tumblr Sucks Like All the Others

The random feed is so filled with idiots and fools, pure crap for the most part. I am spending way too much time just blocking people who make me nauseous. Without a way to tell the AI that I want art, good writing, interesting adult humans who possess critical thinking skills, I can't see this being better than any other SM freak show out there. Ello was pretty great for a while, but then they sold it to some dead monkeys who didn't give a rat's ass about the users and essentially walked away from the table. It appears that the early promise of SM has already turned to dust, and what's left is the radioactive fallout.

Shit.

[flange5]

Oh my god real estate tv is a hilarious way to hate people. 

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Bette Davis, David Brian, and Joseph Cotten in the Warner Bros./King Vidor dramatic potboiler Beyond the Forest, 1949. Her career in decline at this point and eager for a good picture, Bette was cast as trampy, restless housewife Rosa Moline in this film. Davis initially rejected the script, finding it appalling and decidedly beneath her as a two-time Best Actress Academy Award winner. Fully aware that it was budgeted as a B-movie even though she'd recently signed a four picture deal with the studio which elevated her pay scale to $10,285 per week (making her the top-earning actress in Hollywood), she suggested that Jack Warner give the part to Joan Blondell, Ida Lupino, or Gloria Grahame instead. After almost two decades of battling with Davis about the films he assigned her and realizing that she needed the paycheck and was in no position to barter, Warner somewhat perversely insisted that Bette play the part. Backed into a corner and with a family to support, Bette acquiesced---but not without plotting her revenge and holding a card up her sleeve. When it came time to shoot the film's ending where a peritonitis stricken Rosa crawls towards the train-tracks in a fever-induced haze and dies, Bette staged a walk-out, refusing to complete the movie unless Warner let her out of any future contractual obligations she owed the studio. Knowing the movie couldn't be released without an ending, Warner capitulated and angrily tore up her contract. Bette returned to the lot, dragged herself across the ground towards the train-tracks (which she later described as "the longest death scene ever seen on the screen"), and happily flounced out the studio gates after the director yelled "cut!". Much to Bette's occasional annoyance, one of her lines in Beyond the Forest ("What a dump!") later became one of the most imitated and iconic pieces of dialogue she ever uttered on celluloid. A perennial favorite of vocal mimics and drag queens who impersonated Davis, the line was also replicated to great effect by Elizabeth Taylor in her Academy Award winning performance as frumpy housewife Martha (a role Bette aggressively lobbied to play) in the Warner Bros./Mike Nichols dramatic comedy Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1966.

[absolute000]

“it’s you! it’s you, it’s you, it’s always been you. it’s always going to be you, why can’t you see that.” jimin let’s out a breath and his eyes are glassy, breathing uneven. taehyung doesn’t realize how beaten jimin looks until now. his clothes dishevelled, and lips cracked, it brings him back to all those years ago – to school lunches and rides in his civic.

“ever since high school, ever since that dumb goddamn class.” jimins eyes dash around and he pulls at his fingers, he’s nervous and unsure, body language taehyung already knows by heart.

“when i walked you to see that teacher after school?”

“ever since forever, tae.”

taehyung cracks a smile and closes the space between them in two long strides, the miscommunication and uncertainty wash away with the rain as well as all their fatigue. jimin’s glad the rain masks the tears rolling down his cheeks but he knows his telltale red eyes probably give it away anyways.

tae brushes jimins bangs back and rests his chin on top of the wet hair, lightly shielding him from the rain. “do you remember that night when you got filthy drunk and tried to make out with jungkook? i didn’t talk to him for a month after that.” he hears jimin chuckling and continues, “god he was so mad and it made me so mad because i didn’t know why i was furious but i was and, for the love of god, i couldn’t figure out why.”

jimin detaches from taehyung and just stares, “you are an idiot kim taehyung.” taehyung only laughs and nods.

“i sure am, waiting this long to make a move on the love of my life.” he leans in. and its perfect.

[sinenema-blog]

[bettedavises]

“What a dump!”

Feud: Bette and Joan (2017) // Beyond the Forest (1949)

[sparklejamesysparkle]

Elizabeth Taylor in her Academy Award winning performance as frumpy housewife Martha in the Warner Bros./Mike Nichols dramatic comedy Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 1966. Referencing the 1949 Bette Davis drama Beyond the Forest, Elizabeth effectively impersonated Bette in the opening scenes, uttering the iconic Davis line “What a dump!” four times while trying to get Richard Burton (as her hen-pecked husband George) to come up with the name of the movie. It’s of interest to note that Bette aggressively lobbied director Mike Nichols for the role of Martha, believing only she could adequately portray the character in the screen adaptation of the hit 1962 Edward Albee Broadway play. Pushing 60 at the time, Nichols felt Bette was too old for the part. Elizabeth was only 34 when she was cast in the film but she gained weight, wore a greying wig, and used makeup to create the look of a character who was supposed to be a dozen years her senior.