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Diving into the life and greatness of Michael Jordan from the books, Michael Jordan: A Life and Playing For Keeps -----“You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared.”- Michael Jordan3:00 - The root of his competitive fire5:35 - The cut“Whenever I was working out and got tired and figured I ought to stop, I'd close my eyes and see that list in the locker room without my name on it, and that usually got me going again.”9:45 - The MJ trio13:00- Why he trash talked Jordan started talking more and more trash and explaining what he was going to do, not to instill fear into his opponents, but force himself to work harder and deliver on his promises. 16:10 - Michael's greatest skill“My greatest skill was being teachable. I was like a sponge. Even if I thought my coaches were wrong, I tried to listen and learn something.”20:40 - Divine discontent 24:10 - Nike26:00 - Are you joyous about the work?27:35 - How to approach your craft“He came to practice like it was Game 7 of the NBA finals. He would destroy you in practice. That's what set the tone for our team.”32:45 - You need some luck34:00 - Pistons + reinvention 39:30 - How Michael kept himself motivated“If you look at why Amazon is so different from almost any other company that started early on the internet, it's because Jeff approached it from the very beginning with that long-term vision. It was a multi decade project. The notion that he can accomplish a huge amount with a larger time frame, if he is steady about it, is fundamentally his philosophy.”42:15- Winners vs losers45:15 - Ambition and work46:40 - Lessons/takeaways-----You can check out my book, website, and apparel below: WebsiteBook: Chasing Greatness: Timeless Stories on the Pursuit of Excellence  ApparelInstagramX

Chapter 1:Summary of Finite and Infinite Games"Finite and Infinite Games" by James P. Carse is a philosophical exploration of two types of games that can be applied to life and human interaction. Carse categorizes games into two types: finite games and infinite games.1. Finite Games: These are played for the purpose of winning. The rules are fixed, players compete against each other, and there is a clear endpoint. Examples include sports, competitions, and any situation where participants strive for specific goals or victories. Finite games focus on achieving a particular outcome, often leading to defined winners and losers.2. Infinite Games: In contrast, infinite games are played for the purpose of continuing the play. The rules can change, the objective is not necessarily to win but rather to ensure that the game can continue and evolve. This perspective emphasizes growth, collaboration, and the nurturing of relationships. Infinite games focus on the journey rather than the endpoint, promoting a sense of community and ongoing engagement.Carse elaborates on the implications of these two forms of play in various aspects of life, such as business, relationships, education, and personal growth. He encourages readers to consider which type of game they are playing in different areas of their lives and promotes the idea that adopting an infinite mindset can lead to richer, more fulfilling experiences.The book ultimately prompts a reevaluation of how individuals approach their interactions and endeavors, advocating for a shift from a solely competitive mindset to one that values connection, creativity, and the ongoing nature of existence.Chapter 2:The Theme of Finite and Infinite Games"Finite and Infinite Games" by James P. Carse is a philosophical exploration rather than a traditional narrative with characters and plot points. It presents a framework for understanding human interactions, choices, and the nature of life itself through the lens of two types of "games": finite and infinite. Below are key themes and ideas, as well as concepts relevant to character development in the broader sense of personal growth and understanding. Key Plot Points and Concepts1. Definition of Games:- Finite games are those with fixed rules, clear winners and losers, and a defined beginning and end, such as sports or board games.- Infinite games are played for the purpose of continuing the play, with the aim of keeping the game going and involving as many people as possible, such as love, art, and education.2. Motivation and Purpose:- Players in finite games are often motivated by achievement, competition, and clear outcomes. Infinity players engage in pursuits that foster connection, growth, and ongoing experience.3. Evolving Perspectives:- Throughout the text, Carse encourages readers to shift their perspective from finite to infinite games—viewing life as a continuing journey rather than a competition with set endpoints. This shift is integral to personal development and understanding.4. Play and Participation:- The concept of "play" is central; it's not merely associated with children but is vital for creativity, experimentation, and joy in both finite and infinite contexts.5. Accepting Uncertainty:- Carse posits that infinite players embrace uncertainty and change rather than seeking rigid control or definitive outcomes. This acceptance leads to richer experiences and deeper connections. Character Development (as a metaphor for personal growth)1. From Competitor to Collaborator:- The book challenges individuals to consider how they approach their roles in life—transitioning from a mindset focused solely on winning to one of collaboration and mutual support.2. Maturity in Perspective:- The readers are invited to consider their...

Today, I explore the critical question every property investor faces at some point: Should you hold onto properties through market cycles or aim to capitalize on timing the peaks?  Achieving potentially higher returns sounds enticing, but the complexity of market timing as well as buying, and selling across different regions raises serious challenges. We'll take a close look at the financial impact, risks, and rewards of both strategies. I'll guide you through key assumptions, including tax implications and property growth cycles, while dissecting the true cost of transacting versus holding. Are the potential gains from timing markets worth the added complexity, or does a steady, long-term approach deliver better outcomes in the end? If you're curious about how to navigate these tough decisions and optimize your investment strategy, you won't want to miss this episode. Let's go inside.       Resource Links: Get your Strategic Portfolio Plan and our help with Buying Your Next Perth Property  (https://www.investorsedge.com.au/invest-in-perth-property/) Join the Perth Property Investment Facebook Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/perthpropertyinvestors) Join Jarrad Mahon's Property Investor Update (https://www.investorsedge.com.au/join) For more info on our award-winning and highly rated Property Management services that give you guaranteed peace of mind (https://www.investorsedge.com.au/perth-property-management-specialists/) For more info on how our Property Sales services can ensure you get the best selling price while handling all the stress for you (https://www.investorsedge.com.au/selling-your-perth-property/)       Episode Highlights: Intro [00:00] Break-Even Point for Property Investment [00:22] Assumptions and Tax Implications [06:27] Findings and Break-Even Analysis [06:42] Challenges and Realities of Selling and Buying [07:01] Final Thoughts and Practical Considerations [09:40]   Thank you for tuning in! If you liked this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, tune in, and share this podcast.       Connect with Perth Property Insider: Subscribe on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/@InvestorsedgeAu Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/investorsedge See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 17 features Mike Leone, the Director of Analytics at Establish the Run and one of the most trusted data analysts in fantasy sports, full stop. Leone is also a high volume DFS player, and his Best Ball Manifesto is the first stop for anyone who wants to get serious about best ball.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 16 features Michael Laake, a poker pro, DFS shark, and draft games expert whose wins include a $100K NASCAR win on DraftKings, a $20K NHL win on Underdog, a $10K college football win on FanDuel, and many more.

Tune in to hear us chat with author Becka Mack. In this episode, we take a dive into Becka's hockey romance series, Playing For Keeps, as well as discussing the ins and outs of what inspires her to write her books.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 15 features Nez, an O.G. Underdog drafter who landed a ticket to the inaugural very exclusive Dawg Bowl in Miami. Nez also shares sharp takes on a range of sports and contests nearly every day on the Badge Bros Youtube channel.

Top FORE of the week: 1. Club Twirls Girls win the 2nd Annual Babes GDGT and we give a full recap of the weekend2. LPGA updates - Lexi Thompson announces she will retire after this season, Lilia Vu beat Lexi Thompson in the Meijer LPGA Classic in a playoff Sunday after taking time off for a back injury3. PGA updates - Bryson DeChambeau wins the US Open, Rory McIlroy calls off his divorce4. 2024 Paris Olympic Golf teams are starting to be announced Tune in to hear our Club Twirls 'Crushin' it' moment of the week brought to you by Sunday Session. This week the girls had a collective crushing it moment - winning the 2024 Babes GDGT! Club Twirls with the Girls is hosted by Blakely (@blakelygolfs) and Sonja (@sonjadanger) Follow us on instagram @clubtwirlswiththegirls, tag us in your twirls and sound off in the comments about, well, anything! Be sure to follow us on Instagram! http://www.instagram.com/clubtwirlswiththegirlsHosts: Sonja and Blakely Muse:Adam Scott

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 14 features Jon Jackson, aka JonBoyBeats, who won the Slow Puppy best ball contest on Underdog in 2023 for $75,000. Jon regularly shares great data on Twitter and recently launched the Show Me The Data newsletter.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 13 features DK DFS, a successful Single Entry DFS player who also crushes prop betting. When he loses, he tilts about it on Twitter. When he wins, he's quiet. Probably eating Chipotle.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 12 features Daniel Hutchings, aka nerdytenor, who recently teamed up with other DFS greats to launch the Endgame Syndicate, aimed at teaching DFSers to play like pros.

As Christians, we have an enemy - his name is Satan. And he is dead serious about the battle we are in against him for souls, lives, hopes, dreams, and futures. It's time for the Church to rise up to the battle we are called to. We're not charging hell with a squirt gun - we're charging it with the full power and might of Heaven. God calls us and equips us for battle and there is no neutral ground.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 11 features Parker Cologna, who at 21 years old is already one of the best DFS players on the planet, ranked 5th on the Rotogrinders NBA leaderboard and 19th overall.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 10 features Fantasy Guru Drew, a DFS great with several six-figure wins across multiple sports, and Justin Steele, an All-Star pitcher for the Chicago Cubs who is also a fantasy sports and betting enthusiast.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 9 features Ben Cary, a DFS player and sports bettor who founded CapWize, a simulation tool to help sports bettors make smarter bets.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 8 features Nelson Adcock, a PGA DFS shark who also runs the Cut Sweats website.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 7 features JmB, a DFS pro with several six-figure wins and five-figure wins in just about any sport you can think of, at just 24 years old.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 6 features Jeremy Q King, a Live Final specialist with several six figure wins, including 7th place at the recent DraftKings Fantasy Basketball World Championship for $100K. Jeremy is also a PGA content contributor for Establish the Run and former co-host of the Tilt Report with James McCool.

Here at Playing 4 Keeps, we talk to relationship experts and everyday people about dating and doing relationships in Atlanta. Today we have Ashley who came on the show to speak about situationships but we ended up veering off to a whole other issue within dating which is cheating and her lack of trust in men due to things she has seen in her past relationships and other people relationships. Check the episode out to hear her dating story and how things were uprooted about herself that could help in the goal of obtaining a healthy relationship.Download our dating app Playing For Keeps: https://qrco.de/bdcUS0Website: https://p4kdatingapp.com/Support the show

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Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 5 features Brian Hooper, aka Bric75, who is one of the winningest DFS players of all time and co-host of the Lolz DFS(ish) podcast.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 4 features Keith, aka Shaidy Advice, who is one of the top DFS players in the world, ranked 7th in the Rotogrinders rankings. Shaidy also dipped his toes in best ball and took third place in Best Ball Mania 4 on Underdog for $300,000.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 3 features Pete Overzet, who brings humor, authenticity, and sharp insights to several different podcasts, streams, and newsletters about NFL DFS and best ball.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 2 features Adam "ShipMyMoney" Scherer, a professional DFS player and content creator (Neil's former coworker) whose analysis is so sharp that other pro players seek it out.

Playing For Keeps is a fantasy sports and betting show with Neil Orfield and notable people within the space. Episode 1 features Sackreligious, a self-described "advantage player" who seeks out edges in the DFS and best ball streets--and crushes. Sack also does extremely sharp content for Legendary Upside.

Pastor David (Kids & Family Pastor) continues the Family Matters series with a message outlining the six essentials that every kids needs on a consistent basis in their lives.

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In divorce, there are no winners. And yet statistically half of Christian marriages end up in divorce courts. In this message, Pastor Lutzer shares five practical principles for a marriage glorifying to God. Let's be honest before the Lord about the state of our hearts and our marriages. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29

In divorce, there are no winners. And yet statistically half of Christian marriages end up in divorce courts. In this message, Pastor Lutzer shares five practical principles for a marriage glorifying to God. Let's be honest before the Lord about the state of our hearts and our marriages. This month's special offer is available for a donation of any amount. Get yours at rtwoffer.com or call us at 1-888-218-9337. 

The family is the bedrock of society, and stable marriages are the bedrock of the family. Holiness and fidelity should be at the forefront of our marriages. In this message from Ephesians 5, Pastor Lutzer provides three characteristics of committed love in marriage. Could living out our marriages biblically change our families and even society? To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/172/29

The family is the bedrock of society, and stable marriages are the bedrock of the family. Holiness and fidelity should be at the forefront of our marriages. In this message from Ephesians 5, Pastor Lutzer provides three characteristics of committed love in marriage. Could living out our marriages biblically change our families and even society? This month's special offer is available for a donation of any amount. Get yours at rtwoffer.com or call us at 1-888-218-9337. 

Welcome to Wampa Radio episode twenty one! Hosts Matt 'Flake' Di Marco (@WatchFlake), and Darick 'Charm3r' Oswalt (@ThatCharm3r) review the latest card reveals and spoilers. Plus, this week the boys discuss the massive Organized Play system announcement, and what that means for SWU's competitive scene. Plus a brand new Cave Poll, and a Bad Feeling Mailbag! Twitter.com/WampaRadio

Ever wondered why mastering sales and providing top-notch electrical services is crucial to your success as an electrician? Join us as we delve into these topics in our latest episode of Electricpreneurs Secrets. We discuss the importance of fine-tuning your strategies and being part of a team that is committed to reaching the pinnacle of success. We also reveal our much-coveted 'hiring secrets' guide, a tool designed to turn your hiring process into a power tool that boosts your business.The conversation doesn't end there - we also explore the critical aspect of employee retention and the perils of rushing the recruitment process. We share insights on how to train your team members adequately and avoid the pitfall of micromanagement. We deeply believe in taking personal responsibility for our decisions and actions, and we want to empower you to do the same. We're not just about growing your business; we're about refining your focus and serving at a higher level.Lastly, we unpack how to build a scalable and sustainable business with a strong focus on the psychology of your employees. We draw parallels with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and how understanding this can lead to better employee satisfaction and retention. We also stress on the importance of fostering a work environment where your employees can thrive and grow. So, take a seat and buckle up for an enlightening journey that promises to change the way you do business.Join us LIVE 5 days a week on the Facebook Community page:https://www.facebook.com/groups/electricpreneursecretsAnd see us and our stories and wins at:https://www.serviceloopelectrical.com

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Steve Deace Goes to the Mattresses. WAKE UP: The SWAMP Is Playing for KEEPS. Guest- Daniel Horowitz. Steve Deace Show WAKE UP: The SWAMP Is Playing for KEEPS | Guest: Daniel Horowitz  Aug 02 2023   Steve spends the majority of the show laying out where the American Right is in the wake of the latest Trump indictment and what the strategy must be moving forward. Daniel Horowitz joins the show to give his 10,000-foot view of where we are as a people. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    The Steve Deace Show on Rumble-  https://rumble.com/c/SteveDeaceShow The Steve Deace Show serves up principled conservatism with a snarky twist every weekday from 12-2 PM ET on BlazeTV. ► Click HERE to subscribe to BlazeTV on Youtube! https://bit.ly/2KJHuwu ►Click HERE to join BlazeTV! https://get.blazetv.com/ ► JOIN our NEWSLETTER - https://theblaze.com/newsletters Connect with Steve on Social Media: http://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow http://facebook.com/SteveDeace The Steve Deace Show is highly recommended by ACU. Subscribe today!   About the book: Rise of the Fourth Reich: Confronting COVID Fascism with a New Nuremberg Trial, So This Never Happens Again by Steve Deace. February 21, 2023   COVID-19 fascism was the worst tyranny in American history, and those responsible must be held accountable so nothing like it ever happens again. COVID-19 was used to launch the worst tyranny in American history, which we're still facing even now. It was also the worst oppression in global history since the Third Reich. Just as that evil required a reckoning at Nuremberg, this one does as well. In this Nuremberg 2.0, we call witnesses that our elected representatives and law enforcement agents need to hear from in order to know the full extent of the evil, and who is responsible for it—so that this never happens again.   Steve reads the opening argument of his new book, "Rise of the Fourth Reich." In Hour Two, Julie Kelly from American Greatness joins the program to discuss how the Mar-a-Lago raid fits in with other recent Department of Justice screw-ups. trialsandexecution.com    https://link.theblaze.com/join/deace-horowitz-book

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On this episode, we are continuing our miniseries on the movies released by Miramax Films in the 1980s, specifically looking at the films they released between 1984 and 1986. ----more---- TRANSCRIPT   From Los Angeles, California. The Entertainment Capital of the World. It's the 80s Movie Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today.   On this episode, we are continuing our miniseries on the movies released by Miramax Films in the 1980s.   And, in case you did not listen to Part 1 yet, let me reiterate that the focus here will be on the films and the creatives, not the Weinsteins. The Weinsteins did not have a hand in the production of any of the movies Miramax released in the 1980s, and that Miramax logo and the names associated with it should not stop anyone from enjoying some very well made movies because they now have an unfortunate association with two spineless chucklenuts who proclivities would not be known by the outside world for decades to come.   Well, there is one movie this episode where we must talk about the Weinsteins as the creatives, but when talking about that film, “creatives” is a derisive pejorative.    We ended our previous episode at the end of 1983. Miramax had one minor hit film in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball, thanks in large part to the film's association with members of the still beloved Monty Python comedy troupe, who hadn't released any material since The Life of Brian in 1979.   1984 would be the start of year five of the company, and they were still in need of something to make their name. Being a truly independent film company in 1984 was not easy. There were fewer than 20,000 movie screens in the entire country back then, compared to nearly 40,000 today. National video store chains like Blockbuster did not exist, and the few cable channels that did exist played mostly Hollywood films. There was no social media for images and clips to go viral.   For comparison's sake, in A24's first five years, from its founding in August 2012 to July 2017, the company would have a number of hit films, including The Bling Ring, The Lobster, Spring Breakers, and The Witch, release movies from some of indie cinema's most respected names, including Andrea Arnold, Robert Eggers, Atom Egoyan, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, Lynn Shelton, Trey Edward Shults, Gus Van Sant, and Denis Villeneuve, and released several Academy Award winning movies, including the Amy Winehouse documentary Amy, Alex Garland's Ex Machina, Lenny Abrahamson's Room and Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, which would upset front runner La La Land for the Best Picture of 2016.   But instead of leaning into the American independent cinema world the way Cinecom and Island were doing with the likes of Jonathan Demme and John Sayles, Miramax would dip their toes further into the world of international cinema.   Their first release for 1984 would be Ruy Guerra's Eréndira. The screenplay by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez was based on his 1972 novella The Incredible and Sad Tale of Innocent Eréndira and Her Heartless Grandmother, which itself was based off a screenplay Márquez had written in the early 1960s, which, when he couldn't get it made at the time, he reduced down to a page and a half for a sequence in his 1967 magnum opus One Hundred Years of Solitude. Between the early 1960s and the early 1980s, Márquez would lose the original draft of Eréndira, and would write a new script based off what he remembered writing twenty years earlier.    In the story, a young woman named Eréndira lives in a near mansion situation in an otherwise empty desert with her grandmother, who had collected a number of paper flowers and assorted tchotchkes over the years. One night, Eréndira forgets to put out some candles used to illuminate the house, and the house and all of its contents burn to the ground. With everything lost, Eréndira's grandmother forces her into a life of prostitution. The young woman quickly becomes the courtesan of choice in the region. With every new journey, an ever growing caravan starts to follow them, until it becomes for all intents and purposes a carnival, with food vendors, snake charmers, musicians and games of chance.   Márquez's writing style, known as “magic realism,” was very cinematic on the page, and it's little wonder that many of his stories have been made into movies and television miniseries around the globe for more than a half century. Yet no movie came as close to capturing that Marquezian prose quite the way Guerra did with Eréndira. Featuring Greek goddess Irene Papas as the Grandmother, Brazilian actress Cláudia Ohana, who happened to be married to Guerra at the time, as the titular character, and former Bond villain Michael Lonsdale in a small but important role as a Senator who tries to help Eréndira get out of her life as a slave, the movie would be Mexico's entry into the 1983 Academy Award race for Best Foreign Language Film.   After acquiring the film for American distribution, Miramax would score a coup by getting the film accepted to that year's New York Film Festival, alongside such films as Robert Altman's Streamers, Jean Lucy Godard's Passion, Lawrence Kasdan's The Big Chill, Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish, and Andrzej Wajda's Danton.   But despite some stellar reviews from many of the New York City film critics, Eréndira would not get nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, and Miramax would wait until April 27th, 1984, to open the film at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, one of the most important theatres in New York City at the time to launch a foreign film. A quarter page ad in the New York Times included quotes from the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Vincent Canby of the Times and Roger Ebert, the movie would gross an impressive $25,500 in its first three days. Word of mouth in the city would be strong, with its second weekend gross actually increasing nearly 20% to $30,500. Its third weekend would fall slightly, but with $27k in the till would still be better than its first weekend.   It wouldn't be until Week 5 that Eréndira would expand into Los Angeles and Chicago, where it would continue to gross nearly $20k per screen for several more weeks. The film would continue to play across the nation for more than half a year, and despite never making more than four prints of the film, Eréndira would gross more than $600k in America, one of the best non-English language releases for all of 1984.   In their quickest turnaround from one film to another to date, Miramax would release Claude Lelouch's Edith and Marcel not five weeks after Eréndira.   If you're not familiar with the name Claude Chabrol, I would highly suggest becoming so. Chabrol was a part of the French New Wave filmmakers alongside Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Éric Rohmer, and François Truffaut who came up as film critics for the influential French magazine Cahiers [ka-yay] du Cinéma in the 1950s, who would go on to change the direction of French Cinema and how film fans appreciated films and filmmakers through the concept of The Auteur Theory, although the theory itself would be given a name by American film critic Andrew Sarris in 1962.   Of these five critics turned filmmakers, Chabrol would be considered the most prolific and commercial. Chabrol would be the first of them to make a film, Le Beau Serge, and between 1957 and his death in 2010, he would make 58 movies. That's more than one new movie every year on average, not counting shorts and television projects he also made on the side.   American audiences knew him best for his 1966 global hit A Man and a Woman, which would sell more than $14m in tickets in the US and would be one of the few foreign language films to earn Academy Award nominations outside of the Best Foreign Language Film race. Lead actress Anouk Aimee would get a nod, and Chabrol would earn two on the film, for Best Director, which he would lose to Fred Zimmerman and A Man for All Seasons, and Best Original Screenplay, which he would win alongside his co-writer Pierre Uytterhoeven.   Edith and Marcel would tell the story of the love affair between the iconic French singer Edith Piaf and Marcel Cerdan, the French boxer who was the Middleweight Champion of the World during their affair in 1948 and 1949. Both were famous in their own right, but together, they were the Brangelina of post-World War II France. Despite the fact that Cerdan was married with three kids, their affair helped lift the spirits of the French people, until his death in October 1949, while he was flying from Paris to New York to see Piaf.   Fans of Raging Bull are somewhat familiar with Marcel Cerdan already, as Cerdan's last fight before his death would find Cerdan losing his middleweight title to Jake LaMotta.   In a weird twist of fate, Patrick Dewaere, the actor Chabrol cast as Cerdan, committed suicide just after the start of production, and while Chabrol considered shutting down the film in respect, it would be none other than Marcel Cerdan, Jr. who would step in to the role of his own father, despite never having acted before, and being six years older than his father was when he died.   When it was released in France in April 1983, it was an immediate hit, become the second highest French film of the year, and the sixth highest grosser of all films released in the country that year. However, it would not be the film France submitted to that year's Academy Award race. That would be Diane Kurys' Entre Nous, which wasn't as big a hit in France but was considered a stronger contender for the nomination, in part because of Isabelle Hupert's amazing performance but also because Entre Nous, as 110 minutes, was 50 minutes shorter than Edith and Marcel.   Harvey Weinstein would cut twenty minutes out of the film without Chabrol's consent or assistance, and when the film was released at the 57th Street Playhouse in New York City on Sunday, June 3rd, the gushing reviews in the New York Times ad would actually be for Chabrol's original cut, and they would help the film gross $15,300 in its first five days. But once the other New York critics who didn't get to see the original cut of the film saw this new cut, the critical consensus started to fall. Things felt off to them, and they would be, as a number of short trims made by Weinstein would remove important context for the film for the sake of streamlining the film. Audiences would pick up on the changes, and in its first full weekend of release, the film would only gross $12k. After two more weeks of grosses of under $4k each week, the film would close in New York City. Edith and Marcel would never play in another theatre in the United States.   And then there would be another year plus long gap before their next release, but we'll get into the reason why in a few moments.   Many people today know Rubén Blades as Daniel Salazar in Fear the Walking Dead, or from his appearances in The Milagro Beanfield War, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, or Predator 2, amongst his 40 plus acting appearances over the years, but in the early 1980s, he was a salsa and Latin Jazz musician and singer who had yet to break out of the New Yorican market. With an idea for a movie about a singer and musician not unlike himself trying to attempt a crossover success into mainstream music, he would approach his friend, director Leon Icasho, about teaming up to get the idea fleshed out into a real movie. Although Blades was at best a cult music star, and Icasho had only made one movie before, they were able to raise $6m from a series of local investors including Jack Rollins, who produced every Woody Allen movie from 1969's Take the Money and Run to 2015's Irrational Man, to make their movie, which they would start shooting in the Spanish Harlem section of New York City in December 1982.   Despite the luxury of a large budget for an independent Latino production, the shooting schedule was very tight, less than five weeks. There would be a number of large musical segments to show Blades' character Rudy's talents as a musician and singer, with hundreds of extras on hand in each scene. Icasho would stick to his 28 day schedule, and the film would wrap up shortly after the New Year.   Even though the director would have his final cut of the movie ready by the start of summer 1983, it would take nearly a year and a half for any distributor to nibble. It wasn't that the film was tedious. Quite the opposite. Many distributors enjoyed the film, but worried about, ironically, the ability of the film to crossover out of the Latino market into the mainstream. So when Miramax came along with a lower than hoped for offer to release the film, the filmmakers took the deal, because they just wanted the film out there.   Things would start to pick up for the film when Miramax submitted the film to be entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, and it would be submitted to run in the prestigious Directors Fortnight program, alongside Mike Newell's breakthrough film, Dance with a Stranger, Victor Nunez's breakthrough film, A Flash of Green, and Wayne Wang's breakthrough film Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart. While they were waiting for Cannes to get back to them, they would also learn the film had been selected to be a part of The Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films program, where the film would earn raves from local critics and audiences, especially for Blades, who many felt was a screen natural. After more praise from critics and audiences on the French Riviera, Miramax would open Crossover Dreams at the Cinema Studio theatre in midtown Manhattan on August 23rd, 1985. Originally booked into the smaller 180 seat auditorium, since John Huston's Prizzi's Honor was still doing good business in the 300 seat house in its fourth week, the theatre would swap houses for the films when it became clear early on Crossover Dreams' first day that it would be the more popular title that weekend. And it would. While Prizzi would gross a still solid $10k that weekend, Crossover Dreams would gross $35k. In its second weekend, the film would again gross $35k. And in its third weekend, another $35k. They were basically selling out every seat at every show those first three weeks. Clearly, the film was indeed doing some crossover business.   But, strangely, Miramax would wait seven weeks after opening the film in New York to open it in Los Angeles. With a new ad campaign that de-emphasized Blades and played up the dreamer dreaming big aspect of the film, Miramax would open the movie at two of the more upscale theatres in the area, the Cineplex Beverly Center on the outskirts of Beverly Hills, and the Cineplex Brentwood Twin, on the west side where many of Hollywood's tastemakers called home. Even with a plethora of good reviews from the local press, and playing at two theatres with a capacity of more than double the one theatre playing the film in New York, Crossover Dreams could only manage a neat $13k opening weekend.   Slowly but surely, Miramax would add a few more prints in additional major markets, but never really gave the film the chance to score with Latino audiences who may have been craving a salsa-infused musical/drama, even if it was entirely in English. Looking back, thirty-eight years later, that seems to have been a mistake, but it seems that the film's final gross of just $250k after just ten weeks of release was leaving a lot of money on the table. At awards time, Blades would be nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor, but otherwise, the film would be shut out of any further consideration.   But for all intents and purposes, the film did kinda complete its mission of turning Blades into a star. He continues to be one of the busiest Latino actors in Hollywood over the last forty years, and it would help get one of his co-stars, Elizabeth Peña, a major job in a major Hollywood film the following year, as the live-in maid at Richard Dreyfuss and Bette Midler's house in Paul Mazursky's Down and Out in Beverly Hills, which would give her a steady career until her passing in 2014. And Icasho himself would have a successful directing career both on movie screens and on television, working on such projects as Miami Vice, Crime Story, The Equalizer, Criminal Minds, and Queen of the South, until his passing this past May.   I'm going to briefly mention a Canadian drama called The Dog Who Stopped the War that Miramax released on three screens in their home town of Buffalo on October 25th, 1985. A children's film about two groups of children in a small town in Quebec during their winter break who get involved in an ever-escalating snowball fight. It would be the highest grossing local film in Canada in 1984, and would become the first in a series of 25 family films under a Tales For All banner made by a company called Party Productions, which will be releasing their newest film in the series later this year. The film may have huge in Canada, but in Buffalo in the late fall, the film would only gross $15k in its first, and only, week in theatres. The film would eventually develop a cult following thanks to repeated cable screenings during the holidays every year.   We'll also give a brief mention to an Australian action movie called Cool Change, directed by George Miller. No, not the George Miller who created the Mad Max series, but the other Australian director named George Miller, who had to start going by George T. Miller to differentiate himself from the other George Miller, even though this George Miller was directing before the other George Miller, and even had a bigger local and global hit in 1982 with The Man From Snowy River than the other George Miller had with Mad Max II, aka The Road Warrior. It would also be the second movie released by Miramax in a year starring a young Australian ingenue named Deborra-Lee Furness, who was also featured in Crossover Dreams. Today, most people know her as Mrs. Hugh Jackman.   The internet and several book sources say the movie opened in America on March 14th, 1986, but damn if I can find any playdate anywhere in the country, period. Not even in the Weinsteins' home territory of Buffalo. A critic from the Sydney Morning Herald would call the film, which opened in Australia four weeks after it allegedly opened in America, a spectacularly simplistic propaganda piece for the cattle farmers of the Victorian high plains,” and in its home country, it would barely gross 2% of its $3.5m budget.   And sticking with brief mentions of Australian movies Miramax allegedly released in American in the spring of 1986, we move over to one of three movies directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith that would be released during that year. In Australia, it was titled Frog Dreaming, but for America, the title was changed to The Quest. The film stars Henry Thomas from E.T. as an American boy who has moved to Australia to be with his guardian after his parents die, who finds himself caught up in the magic of a local Aboriginal myth that might be more real than anyone realizes.   And like Cool Change, I cannot find any American playdates for the film anywhere near its alleged May 1st, 1986 release date. I even contacted Mr. Trenchard-Smith asking him if he remembers anything about the American release of his film, knowing full well it's 37 years later, but while being very polite in his response, he was unable to help.       Finally, we get back to the movies we actually can talk about with some certainty. I know our next movie was actually released in American theatres, because I saw it in America at a cinema.   Twist and Shout tells the story of two best friends, Bjørn and Erik, growing up in suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark in 1963. The music of The Beatles, who are just exploding in Europe, help provide a welcome respite from the harsh realities of their lives.   Directed by Billie August, Twist and Shout would become the first of several August films to be released by Miramax over the next decade, including his follow-up, which would end up become Miramax's first Oscar-winning release, but we'll be talking about that movie on our next episode.   August was often seen as a spiritual successor to Ingmar Bergman within Scandinavian cinema, so much so that Bergman would handpick August to direct a semi-autobiographical screenplay of his, The Best Intentions, in the early 1990s, when it became clear to Bergman that he would not be able to make it himself. Bergman's only stipulation was that August would need to cast one of his actresses from Fanny and Alexander, Pernilla Wallgren, as his stand-in character's mother. August and Wallgren had never met until they started filming. By the end of shooting, Pernilla Wallgren would be Pernilla August, but that's another story for another time.   In a rare twist, Twist and Shout would open in Los Angeles before New York City, at the Cineplex Beverly Center August 22nd, 1986, more than two years after it opened across Denmark. Loaded with accolades including a Best Picture Award from the European Film Festival and positive reviews from the likes of Gene Siskel and Michael Wilmington, the movie would gross, according to Variety, a “crisp” $14k in its first three days. In its second weekend, the Beverly Center would add a second screen for the film, and the gross would increase to $17k. And by week four, one of those prints at the Beverly Center would move to the Laemmle Monica 4, so those on the West Side who didn't want to go east of the 405 could watch it. But the combined $13k gross would not be as good as the previous week's $14k from the two screens at the Beverly Center.   It wouldn't be until Twist and Shout's sixth week of release they would finally add a screen in New York City, the 68th Street Playhouse, where it would gross $25k in its first weekend there. But after nine weeks, never playing in more than five theatres in any given weekend, Twist and Shout was down and out, with only $204k in ticket sales. But it was good enough for Miramax to acquire August's next movie, and actually get it into American theatres within a year of its release in Denmark and Sweden. Join us next episode for that story.   Earlier, I teased about why Miramax took more than a year off from releasing movies in 1984 and 1985. And we've reached that point in the timeline to tell that story.   After writing and producing The Burning in 1981, Bob and Harvey had decided what they really wanted to do was direct. But it would take years for them to come up with an idea and flesh that story out to a full length screenplay. They'd return to their roots as rock show promoters, borrowing heavily from one of Harvey's first forays into that field, when he and a partner, Corky Burger, purchased an aging movie theatre in Buffalo in 1974 and turned it into a rock and roll hall for a few years, until they gutted and demolished the theatre, so they could sell the land, with Harvey's half of the proceeds becoming much of the seed money to start Miramax up.   After graduating high school, three best friends from New York get the opportunity of a lifetime when they inherit an old run down hotel upstate, with dreams of turning it into a rock and roll hotel. But when they get to the hotel, they realize the place is going to need a lot more work than they initially realized, and they realize they are not going to get any help from any of the locals, who don't want them or their silly rock and roll hotel in their quaint and quiet town.   With a budget of only $5m, and a story that would need to be filmed entirely on location, the cast would not include very many well known actors.   For the lead role of Danny, the young man who inherits the hotel, they would cast Daniel Jordano, whose previous acting work had been nameless characters in movies like Death Wish 3 and Streetwalkin'. This would be his first leading role.   Danny's two best friends, Silk and Spikes, would be played by Leon W. Grant and Matthew Penn, respectively. Like Jordano, both Grant and Penn had also worked in small supporting roles, although Grant would actually play characters with actual names like Boo Boo and Chollie. Penn, the son of Bonnie and Clyde director Arthur Penn, would ironically have his first acting role in a 1983 musical called Rock and Roll Hotel, about a young trio of musicians who enter a Battle of the Bands at an old hotel called The Rock and Roll Hotel. This would also be their first leading roles.   Today, there are two reasons to watch Playing For Keeps.   One of them is to see just how truly awful Bob and Harvey Weinstein were as directors. 80% of the movie is master shots without any kind of coverage, 15% is wannabe MTV music video if those videos were directed by space aliens handed video cameras and not told what to do with them, and 5% Jordano mimicking Kevin Bacon in Footloose but with the heaviest New Yawk accent this side of Bensonhurst.   The other reason is to watch a young actress in her first major screen role, who is still mesmerizing and hypnotic despite the crapfest she is surrounded by. Nineteen year old Marisa Tomei wouldn't become a star because of this movie, but it was clear very early on she was going to become one, someday.   Mostly shot in and around the grounds of the Bethany Colony Resort in Bethany PA, the film would spend six weeks in production during June and July of 1984, and they would spend more than a year and a half putting the film together. As music men, they knew a movie about a rock and roll hotel for younger people who need to have a lot of hip, cool, teen-friendly music on the soundtrack. So, naturally, the Weinsteins would recruit such hip, cool, teen-friendly musicians like Pete Townshend of The Who, Phil Collins, Peter Frampton, Sister Sledge, already defunct Duran Duran side project Arcadia, and Hinton Battle, who had originated the role of The Scarecrow in the Broadway production of The Wiz. They would spend nearly $500k to acquire B-sides and tossed away songs that weren't good enough to appear on the artists' regular albums.   Once again light on money, Miramax would sent the completed film out to the major studios to see if they'd be willing to release the movie. A sale would bring some much needed capital back into the company immediately, and creating a working relationship with a major studio could be advantageous in the long run. Universal Pictures would buy the movie from Miramax for an undisclosed sum, and set an October 3rd release.   Playing For Keeps would open on 1148 screens that day, including 56 screens in the greater Los Angeles region and 80 in the New York City metropolitan area. But it wasn't the best week to open this film. Crocodile Dundee had opened the week before and was a surprise hit, spending a second week firmly atop the box office charts with $8.2m in ticket sales. Its nearest competitor, the Burt Lancaster/Kirk Douglas comedy Tough Guys, would be the week's highest grossing new film, with $4.6m. Number three was Top Gun, earning $2.405m in its 21st week in theatres, and Stand By Me was in fourth in its ninth week with $2.396m. In fifth place, playing in only 215 theatres, would be another new opener, Children of a Lesser God, with $1.9m. And all the way down in sixth place, with only $1.4m in ticket sales, was Playing for Keeps.   The reviews were fairly brutal, and by that, I mean they were fair in their brutality, although you'll have to do some work to find those reviews. No one has ever bothered to link their reviews for Playing For Keeps at Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic. After a second weekend, where the film would lose a quarter of its screens and 61% of its opening weekend business, Universal would cut its losses and dump the film into dollar houses. The final reported box office gross on the film would be $2.67m.   Bob Weinstein would never write or direct another film, and Harvey Weinstein would only have one other directing credit to his name, an animated movie called The Gnomes' Great Adventure, which wasn't really a directing effort so much as buying the American rights to a 1985 Spanish animated series called The World of David the Gnome, creating new English language dubs with actors like Tom Bosley, Frank Gorshin, Christopher Plummer, and Tony Randall, and selling the new versions to Nickelodeon.   Sadly, we would learn in October 2017 that one of the earliest known episodes of sexual harassment by Harvey Weinstein happened during the pre-production of Playing for Keeps.   In 1984, a twenty year old college junior Tomi-Ann Roberts was waiting tables in New York City, hoping to start an acting career. Weinstein, who one of her customers at this restaurant, urged Ms. Roberts to audition for a movie that he and his brother were planning to direct. He sent her the script and asked her to meet him where he was staying so they could discuss the film. When she arrived at his hotel room, the door was left slightly ajar, and he called on her to come in and close the door behind her.  She would find Weinstein nude in the bathtub,  where he told her she would give a much better audition if she were comfortable getting naked in front of him too, because the character she might play would have a topless scene. If she could not bare her breasts in private, she would not be able to do it on film. She was horrified and rushed out of the room, after telling Weinstein that she was too prudish to go along. She felt he had manipulated her by feigning professional interest in her, and doubted she had ever been under serious consideration. That incident would send her life in a different direction. In 2017, Roberts was a psychology professor at Colorado College, researching sexual objectification, an interest she traces back in part to that long-ago encounter.   And on that sad note, we're going to take our leave.   Thank you for joining us. We'll talk again next week, when we continue with story of Miramax Films, from 1987.   Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode.   The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment.   Thank you again.   Good night.

June 14th, 2023 - We welcome Joey Meugniot to break down the immigration crisis in the EU. Then we're joined by John Yep of Catholics for Catholics to discuss the upcoming prayerful procession at Dodgers Stadium. TheStationOfTheCross.com/ACT  

Hey book besties! HOLY MOLY we have quite the episode for you!! Becka Mack, author of one of our absolute favorite series, is on the podcast with us today. We talk about two of our favorite book boyfriends, Carter and Garrett, hear about how Becka's granny loves smut, and discuss some of her future book ideas! It is honestly the most fun. Listen and then come chat with us about it on Instagram! Podcast Instagram: @smutshowpodcast Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/6818519228162526/ Connect with Becka: Instagram: @beckamack.author TikTok: @becka.mack Becka's books! www.beckamack.com Becka's Book Babes Facebook Group Connect with Neely: Instagram: @neelykins TikTok: @booksandbarre Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/122825135 Connect with Rachel: Instagram: @rachel_mlewis TikTok: @rachel_mlewis Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/8632745 To see the books we talked about, visit our Amazon Store Front! https://www.amazon.com/shop/rachel_mlewis

KB & DJ are BACK and kick things off recapping Week 21 in the NLL and the current landscape of the postseason picture. Then they dive into the final week of the regular season, give their Picks of the Week for Week 22, and realize that their regular season picks COULD end in a tie for the title! Then they get into John Ranagan's retirement, DJ's College Rundown, and wrap with Carc's Big Boards 1.0! Follow Us! Twitter:@UndergroundPHI@OTBLaxPodKyle: @KBizzl311DJ: @SCs_nextgreat Instagram:@undergroundphi@otblaxpod@kicksbycarly Merch & Apparel: phiapparel.co/shop and use code "UNDERGROUND" for 10% off! Send your mailbag questions: otbunderground@gmail.com SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@UndergroundSportsPhiladelphia Website: undergroundsportsphiladelphia.com Twitch: twitch.tv/undergroundsportsPHI Manscaped Promo Code: "USP" for 20% off AND free shippingBiñho Board: binhoboard.com/?ref=UndergroundTrophy Smack: trophysmack.com/UndergroundTomahawk Shades Promo Code: "USP" to save 25% off at checkout Intro Music: Arkells "American Screams"Outro Music: Arkells "American Screams" --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/otblaxpod/message

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Why does it seem like so many prayers go unanswered? Does God really hear our requests and what should we do when heaven seems silent? We hear so many questions like this from Christians today, and we've probably asked them ourselves. What should our approach be when we pray and how do we align our motivations toward the will of the Father? Join us this week as we review scriptures from the book of James and discuss what's really at stake.

Tyrus and Kat revisit their producer's maid-of-honor roast at her sister's wedding. Kat busts a myth about the effects of over-the-counter medicine on beach birds. Tyrus recalls a story from "bad kid" summer camp. Talk It Out: Kat and Tyrus get an update from their special guest from the previous week. Follow Tyrus on Twitter: @PlanetTyrus Follow Kat Timpf on Twitter: @KatTimpf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Doc Washburn Show, January 30th, 2023 - Episode 334 They Are Playing For Keeps. Are YOU? Part 2 On this Special Edition of the Doc Washburn Show!

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Every conservative will feign outrage today over the FBI's raid of Trump's home. But they have been asleep for the first two and a half years of the Fourth Reich. I explain where this is coming from, where it's headed, and what we need to do. Holding hearings is not enough. States must criminalize the FBI's behavior, and Republicans must block the budget bill to force a national resolution of the issues of our time. Later on, we are joined by Dr. James Thorpe, a 42-year veteran of obstetrics and maternal-fetal medicine who sees thousands of patients a year. He warns that he is seeing terrible outcomes with pregnancies, cardiac disorders in newborn babies, and fetal malformations. He presents the latest data and shows that government and Pfizer are committing genocide against a generation of civilization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices