Lift Your Spirits

Need A Lift?!

It's another one of those days they refer to with disdain as: Monday, yeah it's here again on time and always a drag.

Thus here is something to lift your spirits, or at least lift Donna Summer's spirits. "Yes" Donna's spirits are being lifted by the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger! Talk about a totally different kind of high!

I stumbled across this photo on the WWW and it was something that I had never seen before nor would have thought existed. So it can also lift your spirits as a piece of newly discovered pop culture.

Here is this point in time we are all engaging in together and aren't you happy? You should be it's fun to be part of a collective vibe...

Now tell me why you don't like Mondays again???

Arnold on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/schwarzenegger/?hl=en

Donna on the WWW -

https://donnasummer.com/

Brunch

Rock Hudson & Elizabeth Taylor

Tis Sunday and that means a lot of you are "doing" brunch today. Well here is a behind the scenes shot from George Stevens Giant. 

"Yes" it's Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson falling in line with what looks like quite a few extras to grab some grub.

As you have just beared witness brunch is a time honored tradition. 

I tend to like Brakfast Tacos and a Margaritz for brunch, what's on your plate?!?!

Brunch on Wikipedia -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunch   

"Broken Oath"

Eureka Entertainment announces the Oct 22 release of Broken Oath, an action-packed

tale of righteous vengeance starring Angela Mao (Enter the Dragon), presented in its worldwide debut on Blu-ray from a brand new 2K restoration. The Limited Edition release of 2000 copies (per territory) will exclusively feature an O-card slipcase, and a collector’s booklet. 

A Hong Kong take on Japan’s Lady Snowblood, Broken Oath is an action-packed tale of righteous vengeance directed by Jeong Chang-hwa (King Boxer) and starring the first lady of kung fu cinema: the inimitable Angela Mao! 

Orphaned and angry, Lotus (Mao) is raised by Buddhist nuns before she is exiled for her violent ways – and skipping classes to improve her martial arts skills. Finding herself alone in the world, she quickly comes to discover the truth of her past: that her father was once a respected member of the Imperial Court who was murdered in cold blood, and that her mother gave birth to her in a jail cell after being unjustly imprisoned for killing one of the culprits. With revenge on her mind and a newfound accomplice in tow (Bruce Leung, Magnificent Bodyguards), she sets out to track down the men responsible for tearing her family apart – armed with both her considerable martial arts prowess and a nest of scorpions with which to poison her enemies. 

Made at the height of her fame following roles in Hapkido, Lady Whirlwind, Enter the Dragon and When Taekwondo Strikes, Broken Oath is one of Angela Mao’s very best films – and boasts action choreography orchestrated by Hsia Hsu (Drunken Master) and Yuen Woo-ping, one of the most respected stunt coordinators in both Hong Kong (The Magnificent Butcher) and Hollywood (The Matrix). Eureka Classics is proud to present the film on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world from a brand new 2K restoration.  

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES*: 

• Limited edition O-card slipcase featuring new artwork by Grégory Sacré (Gokaiju) 

• 1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray of the uncut theatrical version from a brand new 2K
restoration 

• Original Mandarin audio and optional English dub tracks (original mono presentations) 

• Optional English subtitles, newly translated for this release 

• Brand new audio commentary by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) 

• Brand new audio commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 

• Brand new interview with actor Bruce Leung (The Dragon Lives Again) 

• Patrick Macias on Lady Snowblood – new appreciation by film writer Patrick Macias 

• Trailer 

• PLUS: A collector's booklet featuring new writing on Broken Oath by East Asian cinema expert Gina Marchetti and Kung Fu Cult Masters author Leon Hunt 

* All extras subject to change  

   

TRAILER 

https://youtu.be/ziFQ1sFxUis  

Buy Here -

https://customers.mvdb2b.com/s/BrokenOathSpecialEdition/EKV70548

Current Mood

Lana Del Rey

Kiss me hard before you go
Summertime sadness
I just wanted you to know
That, baby, you're the best

I got that summertime, summertime sadness
S-s-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

Summertime Sadness, Lana Del Rey

Lana on IG -

https://www.instagram.com/honeymoon/?hl=en

Michael's Musings

Ooops, I Didn't Know I Couldn't Talk About Sex
Michael Shinafelt

Let's talk about sex baby! Ha! Now that I have your attention let's have a Kiki!

It's the year 2024 and people are still having sex. Guess what?! People are still acting like Puritans and judging others on the things they don't do.

My advice? Tell them to get their own life and fall in line because as the old addage goes: What other people think about me is none of my business...

I like women into sex! You go grrrrl!!!

A black woman of the streets walked by me the other day in Hollywood screaming at the top of yourl lungs: I would love to work with Dakota Fanning

About 8 inches makes June the wettest in History

Remember pants on the ground?! Well now you have been reminded

Sweetheart, you can’t go listening to every f**king little voice that runs through your head. You’ll go nuts.

Don't let someone who never went anywhere take you there with them, that's all

VP Tim Walz!

The Republican ticket is basically the people you avoid at Family Reunions

Woman Crush of the Week - Simone Biles winning three gold and one silver at the Olympics!

My golden rule: Mind your own damned business!!!

It's the end of an era my favorite brunch lunch spot around the corner from me on Fountain Ave, Square One Diner is closed after 16 years in biz 😢

OK, I'm going to say it: Sharks aren't eating enough people

No I'm not sorry and I have no regrets

Time to celebrate life, Happy Thursday

Join me here -

https://www.instagram.com/michaelshinafelt/?hl=en

https://x.com/MShinafelt  

Hump Day & Chill

Virginia Madsen
&
Friends

It doesn't get anymore "Chill" than Virginia Madsen during the filming of the original Candyman. I mean they used 200,000 honey bees that were very real in those bee scenes, that were all over here like honey in a hive.

They had various ways of wrangling them depending on what they needed the bees to do. Madsen's co-star Tony Todd aka Candyman went through the same regime.

So you think you are "Chill" imagine getting the shot required of you, acting and doing it with a hive load of bees all over you?!

Yeah, I figured Virginia beat most of you on this "Chill" challenge..

Hit the full article on how those bees were wrangled after the jump! Now have yourself a fantastic Hump Day and may your "Chill" be bee free!!! 

https://filmschoolrejects.com/candyman-bees/   

Wiggle, Wiggle,Wiggle!

Ryan Gosling

So apparently today is National Wiggle Your Toes Day, interesting day to have, no? 

Here is a photo of Ryan Gosling barefoot and most likely at some poing giving his toes some wiggle action in the course of his barefoot walk.

Honestly when I saw this I just had to draw attention to it as I am sure that many of you weren't aware such a day existed. I know I wasn't.

Never say that I am not a giver, because I am! 

Rock out with your toes out and let them feel the grass beneath them, or not today!!! 

National Wiggle Your Toes Day on the WWW -

https://www.nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day/national-wiggle-your-toes-day-august-6