Tonight on the PBS NewsHour there was a segment on Twyla Tharp ...
an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City. In 1966 she formed Twyla Tharp Dance. Her work often uses classical music, jazz, and contemporary pop music.
When I was in college I was really interested in exercise: weight training, jogging, yoga, ballet, tai chi ...
I had my exercise heroes, like Tharp. And, of course, I also liked a dancer Tharp did choreography work for: Mikhail Baryshnikov. He was in a lot of movies back then, like White Nights with dancer Gregory Hines, in which they show their warm-up routines ...
Boo hoo - I miss being healthy and fit! ;)
But anyway, here is the PBS NewsHour segment on Tharp ...
George Takei of Star Trek (Sulu) has written a graphic novel about his family's time in the Japanese internment camps of WWII. Interesting to me, as my Japanese ex-in-laws were children in those same camps.
I haven't watched the whole thing yet but did see many bits of it. Pundits have been saying that the debates don't actually make a difference in voters' decisions of who to choose, but this one did help me decide who I would and wouldn't vote for.
Up to this point, I've been trying to decide between Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg - now I'm sure I do *not* want to vote for Mayor Pete. During the debate he attacked Beto on gun policy and Warren on everything from her health plan to her donors. I didn't like that.
I will almost certainly vote for Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie would be my second choice.
Avengers: Endgame is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics .... It is the sequel to 2012's The Avengers, 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron, and 2018's Avengers: Infinity War .... and features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Benedict Wong, Jon Favreau, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Josh Brolin. In the film, the surviving members of the Avengers and their allies attempt to reverse the damage caused by Thanos in Infinity War.
I'm a big fan of the Marvel movies, having read all the comics on which they are based when I was a kid. This latest film is the culmination of all the films ... those about Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and the Avengers, as well as those more peripheral like Black Panther, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, Doctor Strange, Captain Marvel, and Guardians of the Galaxy.. If it all seems confusing, you could always start at the beginning and go through the list of films in order.
But if you are up to speed and have seen Avengers: Infinity War, then you know that when last we left our heroes, they had been defeated by the evil one, Thanos, who had used the infinity stones to kill half of all living things in the universe.
This film picks up just after that happens, shows how the characters deal with that defeat, and how, five years later, they are given new hope when they realize they can use time travel to undo what Thanos has done. Maybe. I don't want to reveal all that happens along the way, or the ending, but here are a few bits that were notable ...
Thor, whose brother and best friend had both been killed by Thanos, didn't deal well with the Avengers defeat - he spent those following five years eating, drinking, and watching cable tv ...
Tony/Iron Man got married and had a daughter...
And we learned that Captain America is worthy to wield Thor's hammer. Here we see Thanos beating up on Steve and on Thor. When it looks very bad for Thor, Steve Rogers does something surprising ...
Anyway, i's an epic movie and I certainly recommend it! Here's a trailer ...
My favorite tv series is Once Upon A Time, which I watch regularly. Right now I'm in season 5, and Captain Hook is dead and in the Underworld.
In the storyline, people who die are sent to the Underwirld where they dwell until they have cleared up any unfinished business they might have. Once they've done that, they either go on to a "better place" or to a place much much worse.
In this scene, King Arthur has just been killed by Hades (the ruler of the Underworld) who is roaming in the world above, threatening the inhabitants of Storybrooke.
It takes Arthur a bit of time to realize what's just happened to him and where he now is. Captain Hook tries to enlist him in a quest to find Hades' weakness so that Hook's still-alive true love, Emma in Storybrooke, can defeat him ...
