(Harry Melling played Dudley Dursley. He’s lost a lot of weight.)
Not only that, but even though they haven’t had the kind of career he’s had (with the possible exception of Harry Melling) every kid cast in the first movie remained sane, stable, and healthy despite crazy fame and money from the first movie through the last.
Yes.... he's really been remarkably successful at recreating himself as a serious and respected actor, partially, I would think, by taking on projects that have absolutely nothing in common with Harry Potter, both in tone and commercial appeal.
I believe Daniel Radcliffe in "Every Brilliant Thing" on B'way is just as great as this review says he is, but I'm just mentioning: if you'd like to enjoy this marvelous play (w/o Radcliffe, w/ its co-creator and original star) its on HBOMax.
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Yes... I know lots and lots of people who regularly partake with no apparent ill effect. I also have two friends whose sons were institutionalized briefly for cannabis related psychosis, before quitting a very destructive habit.
Based on purely anecdotal evidence, legal weed is a mixed bag. On the one hand, it seems to have really reduced drinking and alcohol abuse. On the other, there have been some awful stories of abuse and harm, especially among adolescents.
"Yes, but won't they dull my creative genius?" said the Artist, on his sixth glass of bourbon and fourth wife.
The development of SSRIs (anti-depressants like Prozac) and related medications came in the middle of my adult life, so I've lived in the Before and After times, and I can assure you this is true.
Two EV family here. One of the things I learned while reviewing this book is that electric cars go back as far as the auto industry, b/c back then, as now, most people drive <100 miles a day. They were killed off by oil interests, including gas car makers.
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But: that “resentment” was felt by millions of people (like my father, born and raised in Brooklyn, now 89) enraged by the cynical profiteering of yet another plutocrat. Have a little respect for the OG haters.
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Not to mention Chandler, Huntington, Otis, Van Nuys… SOBs all!
Wow! Thank you.
Ah, thank you! Sadly, the archives don't go back 35 years...
BTW: I learned all this writing a long article about the Aqueduct in 1991, for Westways, the magazine of the Southern California AAA and at the time the largest circulation magazine in Calirfornia... because everybody was an AAA member. It's long defunct, it seems.
[A mistake made from misreading the original post I quoted: it was a hundred years ago today the dam went into operation. It collapsed two years later.]
I'm engineering illiterate, but my understanding is that it was complete failure on Mulholland's part to understand the surrounding geology. He didn't realize the water in the reservoir would seep into the embankments and weaken them.
So cool! I didn't know. Thank you.
I knew the first book, but not the second. Thank you!
It was the 3rd most deadly disaster in California history and almost no one remembers it. You can still go to the dam site, and find old blocks of concrete in the dry wash, with bits of rebar sticking out. The history of LA, the "Water wars," Mulholland and Eaton are fascinating and worth learning.
He pronounced the dam safe, and was driven home. Hours later, the dam gave way, releasing a flood that killed more than 431 people. Mulholland's career and reputation were finished, and it broke him. The city held an inquest, and Mulholland testified saying, "The only people I envy are the dead."
Instead, Mulholland decided to build the reservoir at the south end of the system, in San Fransquito Canyon. Eaton, the owner of now worthless scrubland, died in obscurity. Then, on this night, 100 years ago, Mulholland was called to inspect the dam. Water was seeping out of the dirt embankments.
He broke with his partner in the Aqueduct project, former LA Mayor Fred Eaton, who came up with the whole plan and stood to profit from it -- but Mulholland wouldn't go along with Eaton's plan for LA to buy the land he had snapped up in the Owens Valley to build a reservoir.
The water was, essentially, stolen -- a story used as the plot for "Chinatown" -- but it allowed LA to literally bloom into a global metropolis. Mulholland became both a hero and, as Chief Engineer of the LA Dept of Water and Power, the most powerful man in the city.
This is an astonishing story, or, really, the end of one that began with the building of the LA Aqueduct.
The LA Aqueduct was a engineering miracle, a gravity fed system that brought water 100s of miles to LA from the Owens Valley, designed by a self-taught engineer named William Mulholland.
To be fair, it is not as explicit about the desire to leave New Jersey as "Rosalita:"
Okay, I checked. And while I can't find that quote, it's true there was a failed movement to make Born to Run the state song but to this day, NJ does not have an official State Song.
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I should probably check that quote from almost 50 years ago but I refuse.
