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Thanks for updating my thinking on what's being taught in Chinese schools...good to know someone whose aware of the facts. I read in the South China Post that Mao's poems are required reading...his poetry must be less ideological?

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In all my pessimism about the world's indifference to Chinese expansion there is this tiny reed of hope. China has told the US, the UK and Australia to abandon their “cold war” mentality or risk harming their own interests after the three countries unveiled a new defence cooperation pact. The trilateral security partnership, named Aukus, was announced on Thursday by the three nations’ leaders via video link, and will include an 18-month plan to provide Australia with nuclear-powered submarines. It drew strong political reaction domestically in Australia and the UK, and from France, whose existing $90bn (£65bn) submarine contract with Australia has now come to an abrupt end. While none of the three western leaders involved mentioned China, the arrangement is widely understood to be in response to Beijing’s expansionism and aggression in the South China Sea and towards Taiwan. The US president, Joe Biden, spoke of the need to maintain a “free and open Indo-Pacific” and to address the region’s “current strategic environment”. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/16/cold-war-mentality-china-criticises-aukus-us-uk-australia-submarine-pact

I didn't know it was based in China so that is encouraging, thanks. I read in the Guardian that Chairman Xi's writings are being emphasized and taught in all schools. Is this replacing the Little Red Book?

I'm afraid Xi wants to be the new Mao and will use gay people among others to achieve his goal...let's hope I'm wrong.

Thanks reader...I'll be there on bended knees.

Thanks reader! The manager says they are Covid free...good enough for me. By the way....Do you happen to know if the guy getting a leg massage would like his middle leg rubbed?

Lil Nas X and Elton John try on each other’s clothes in hilarious video Elton John and Lil Nas X tried on each other's looks for a new Uber Eats campaign. (Uber Eats/YouTube) Lil Nas X and Elton John tried on each other’s iconic looks in a new advert. The two singers have joined forces for the new Uber Eats campaign, which sees them ordering elaborate meals and heaping praise on each other. In the first of three adverts, Lil Nas X wears a replica of Elton John’s famous featured glam look, which the legendary singer first debuted on The Muppet Show in the 1970s. “Tonight, I will be eating lobster ravioli with shaved truffle,” Lil Nas X says while sporting the iconic look. The camera then pans over to Elton John, who is wearing a pink cowboy outfit inspired by the “Old Town Road” rapper’s 2020 Grammys look. “You look amazing,” Elton John says. Nas returns the compliment, and the advert ends with the pair repeatedly thanking the other. A second advert shows both singers riding children’s coin-operated toys as John asks Nas for money, claiming he doesn’t have enough to pay for his food order. A third sees Elton John putting on his best high-society British accent as he and Nas argue about whether or not chips should be eaten with mayonnaise. Elton John and Lil Nas X had a ‘blast’ working together on the Uber Eats advert The pair seem to have had the time of their lives on set recording the adverts. Lil Nas X shared some behind the scenes photos of himself wearing his Elton John-inspired outfit on social media. He also shared a hilarious outtake where John tells him: “B***h stole my look!” before both men descend into laughter. “Baby Montero will be so lucky to have @EltonOfficial as their godfather,” Nas tweeted. Elton John heaped praise on Nas in a statement released through Uber Eats. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/09/10/lil-nas-x-elton-john-uber-eats/

Anything that rankles Red China...I'm all for.

"I'd love to kiss you, but I just washed my hair"

I didn't either vinapu ...but just in case it doesn't I'll be sticking to dry land.

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Thanks for sharing JKane...I'm looking forward to this... I'll have to get a new copy of Dune to follow along because mine is falling apart. 😀

More History of Dune Looking Back at All the Utterly Disastrous Attempts to Adapt Dune By The Editors Dune(s). The recent news that Denis Villeneuve, the Oscar-nominated director of Arrival, will helm a big-screen adaptation of Dune is a good-news-bad-news proposition. The good news: Villeneuve has an excellent track record. The bad news: Dune, the 1965 science-fiction novel by Frank Herbert, has long intrigued talented directors, only to leave their dreams in tatters. In the past 50 years, no less than Ridley Scott, David Lynch, and Alejandro Jodorowsky have taken runs at the sprawling novel, with disappointing, and occasionally catastrophic, results. Here, we present a time line of the pitfalls, near bankruptcies, and premature deaths that have greeted those foolhardy enough to tackle it. 1965: Frank Herbert writes Dune, an award-winning epic about interstellar factions feuding over a precious “spice.” 1971: Film producer Arthur P. Jacobs, responsible for the Planet of the Apes film series, acquires the film rights to Dune. 1973: Jacobs dies at age 51. Illustration: Chris Foss 1973: The Dune film rights are acquired by a group of French film producers on behalf of Alejandro Jodorowsky, the director of cult hit El Topo. Jodorowsky tries to enlist, among others, Pink Floyd, Orson Welles, and Salvador Dalí as collaborators, but his ambitious project fails. 1976: Producer Dino De Laurentiis, who produced Fellini’s La Strada and Barbarella, acquires Dune’s film rights. 1977: Star Wars becomes a national phenomenon, stoking a market for space epics. 1979: De Laurentiis hires Ridley Scott, fresh from the success of Alien, as his director. “Dune would be a step very, very strongly in the direction of Star Wars,” Scott says. But when his brother Frank dies unexpectedly, Scott drops out. He goes on to direct Blade Runner instead. Sting in David Lynch’s Dune. Photo: Universal Pictures/Photofest 1981: De Laurentiis approaches David Lynch, director of The Elephant Man, to adapt Dune. Lynch accepts, turning down a concurrent offer to direct The Return of the Jedi. 1983: Principal photography on Dune begins in Mexico. The film features then-unknown Kyle MacLachlan and Sting. The soundtrack is by the ’80s band Toto, known for the hit song “Africa.” 1984: Lynch’s Dune is released and is a theatrical disaster. Costing $45 million, it grosses $31 million and is savaged by critics; Roger Ebert calls it the worst movie of the year. Writer Harlan Ellison later says, “It was a book that shouldn’t have been shot. It was a script that couldn’t have been written. It was a directorial job that was beyond anyone’s doing … and yet the film was made.” 1986: Dune author Frank Herbert dies. 1986: Stung by his experience, Lynch retreats to small-scale filmmaking, reuniting Dune stars Kyle MacLachlan and Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet, which turns out to be a career-making masterpiece. 1988: As was common with movies at the time, an even longer, three-hour version of Lynch’s Dune is recut for TV. A clumsy prologue is added that uses concept art from the film. Lynch disavows this version, forcing producers to attach the pseudonymous “Alan Smithee” as the director’s credit. Lynch also removes his name from the writing credit, replacing it with “Judas Booth.” 1996: The film rights are acquired by Richard P. Rubinstein, who produced Dawn of the Dead and Pet Sematary. 2000: A Rubinstein-produced TV-mini-series version of Dune airs on the Sci-Fi Channel to generally good reviews. It wins two Emmys. 2007: A group of Spanish students releases a four-minute trailer for a fan-made version of Dune that was seven years in the making. The trailer is removed from YouTube at the request of the Herbert estate, and the film is never released. 2008: Paramount attempts to set up a new adaptation of the novel. Peter Berg and Pierre Morel (Taken) are attached as directors, but after four years the project is abandoned. 2013: Jodorowsky’s Dune, a documentary about that filmmaker’s early attempt to make Dune, premieres at the Cannes Film Festival to excellent reviews. Ironically, Jodorowsky’s Dune is, to date, the most critically successful film associated with Dune. 2016: Legendary Films acquires the film and TV rights to Dune. 2016: Denis Villeneuve releases Arrival, which earns an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. In interviews, he says, “Dune is my world.” 2017: Villeneuve is hired to direct a new adaptation of Dune. *This article appears in the March 6, 2017, issue of New York Magazine.

I'm anxious to see the original again now released in 4k with lots of interviews and features before seeing the new one. Entertainment » Movies Review: David Lynch's Unfairly Maligned 'Dune' Arrives in Show-Stopping 4K from Arrow Films by Sam Cohen EDGE Media Network Contributor Tuesday Sep 7, 2021 Of all the intellectual properties that Hollywood has gone to for financial wealth, Frank Herbert's "Dune" might be the among the most impossible to successfully adapt. Across all the miniseries and film adaptations of the popular science-fiction tome, David Lynch's 1984 attempt stands out as the most successful, albeit still hobbled by the vastness of Herbert's prose, among other things. Even with that said, it's a sprawling technological feat for its time, and is more distinct than most of the blockbuster slop we get served up. The film is even able to match the spirituality of the novel, as Lynch was, and still is, adept at charting the interior life of characters as it corresponds with their consciousness. Arrow Films brings David Lynch's "Dune" to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with a limited-edition release that pulls out all the stops for the unfairly maligned epic. "Dune" arrives here in 4K with Dolby Vision HDR, source from a 4K restoration of the film from the original camera negative. The result is incredible, with a beautiful presentation offering a very film-like appearance, with nice notes of naturals film grain. One might think the upgraded resolution would show the seams of the special effects — many of which have naturally dated — but the deeper contrast and detail only accentuates the film's great artistry. "Dune" follows the journey of Paul Atreides (Kyle MacLachlan), the son of a powerful noble at war over the desert planet Arrakis. Arrakis is the source of spice, a drug-like substance that heightens enlightenment and allows for faster, deeper space travel. "Dune" has an all-star cast, including a handful of frequent Lynch collaborators, famous international performers, and even a music superstar, Sting! If we are to take Lynch's filmography as a series of dreams being realized through filmmaking, then "Dune" may be the only work that escapes Lynch's grasp. Although the film is clearly hobbled by lack of depth on the universe as a whole, frequently needing to summarize in voiceover things there simply wasn't enough time or money to include otherwise, the story fails to grasp the ecological and sociological threads that the novel so richly depicts. Actress Virginia Madsen has even noted that she was signed on for multiple films, but that was dependent on the financial success of the first entry. Unfortunately, the box office numbers didn't support an argument for continuing the franchise. As for special features, Arrow has attached a generous list of archival and newly-produced features that you could spend hours watching. The interviews with make-up effects artist Giannette de Rossi and production coordinator Golda Offenheim specifically round out this stellar release with insightful anecdotes about the massive, and sometimes unwieldy, production. Lynch himself has told people he doesn't want to talk about the film anymore, as it recalls a dream not fully realized for him. No matter what you think about David Lynch's attempt at adapting Frank Herbert's sprawling saga of novels, Arrow Films has produced an incredible home entertainment release that rewards those who look back upon the maligned 1984 sci-fi epic. Other special features include: • 60-page perfect-bound book featuring new writing on the film by Andrew Nette, Christian McCrea, and Charlie Brigden • Large fold-out double-sided poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dániel Taylor • Six double-sided, postcard-sized lobby card reproductions • Limited edition packaging with reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dániel Taylor • Brand new audio commentary by film historian Paul M. Sammon • Brand new audio commentary by Mike White of The Projection Booth podcast • "Impressions of Dune" — a 2003 documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with star Kyle MacLachlan, producer Raffaella de Laurentiis, cinematographer Freddie Francis, editor Antony Gibbs and many others • "Designing Dune" — a 2005 featurette looking back at the work of production designer Anthony Masters • "Dune FX" — a 2005 featurette exploring the special effects in the film • "Dune Models & Miniatures" — a 2005 featurette focusing on the model effects in the film • "Dune Costumes" — a 2005 featurette looking at the elaborate costume designs seen in the film • Eleven deleted scenes from the film, with a 2005 introduction by Raffaella de Laurentiis • "Destination Dune" — a 1983 featurette originally produced to promote the film at conventions and publicity events • Theatrical trailers and TV spots • Extensive image galleries, including hundreds of still photos • "The Sleeper Must Awaken: Making Dune" — a brand new feature-length documentary by Ballyhoo Motion Pictures exploring the making of the film, featuring dozens of new and archive interviews with cast and crew • "Beyond Imagination: Merchandising Dune" — a brand new featurette exploring the merchandise created to promote the film, featuring toy collector/producer Brian Sillman ("The Toys That Made Us") • "Prophecy Fulfilled: Scoring Dune" — a brand new featurette on the film's music score, featuring interviews with Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, Toto keyboardist Steve Porcaro, and film music historian Tim Greiving • Archival interview with star Paul Smith, filmed in 2008 • Archival interview with make-up effects artist Christopher Tucker "Dune" is now available on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray from Arrow Films.

Boosie Badass Ain't Pleased . According to him, he has previously contracted an adult sex worker to perform oral sex on his pre-teen relatives. Boosie Badazz Thinks About Lil Nas X and Gay Sex at 6AM The 38-year-old rapper tweeted a day after Lil Nas X posted photos with a pregnancy bump. Boosie Badazz seems to have Lil Nas X on his mind at 6 a.m. The rapper who’s made homophobic comments about Lil Nas X several times in the last couple of months posted a tweet after Lil Nas X released images of himself “pregnant” with his upcoming album MONTERO. “Nas X WTF U just don’t stop,” Boosie Badazz wrote in all caps. “I think he’s going to turn around n suck one of his back ground dancers dick on national TV.” He then wrote “#protectyours” and “godturninoverinhisgrave.” The internet immediately took to mocking Boosie Badazz and his continued fixation on Lil Nas X. In July, Boosie Badazz, 38, threatened that if he ever saw Lil Nas X, 22, naked at an award show he’d “drag his a** offstage and beat his a**.” Then in August, Boosie Badazz doubled down on what he said when he appeared on the radio show The Breakfast Club. Badazz said that he didn’t think he’d gone too far, adding that it was straight people who were the ones being marginalized. “I gotta speak up because as far as straight people in the world, you don’t have any opinion no more on sexuality. Everything is harm,” he said. “If you say anything — ‘I’m straight, I like women’ — it's vulgar to, you know.” The hosts of the show said that wasn’t accurate, but Badazz responded, “You can’t brag on really smashing or your sexuality no more,” he said. “It’s ran by LGBTQ [people].” He then went off about Lil Nas X’s influence on younger people. “I was like, d***, all these straight people in the world, all these millions of kids gonna watch this, and ain’t no straight rapper gonna say, ‘Nah, n****, we don't want you on that TV,’” he said. “If you were trying to raise them, would you be cool with sitting there and trying to watch Nas X go up there and take his clothes off? If you do, Charlamagne [one of the radio hosts], you're part of the problem.” Lil Nas X recently revealed he's hired security due to concerns over safety, including comments made by other rappers. He delivers his album on Sept. 17. In the past, Badazz also spoke publicly about he has influence the sexuality of young boys. According to him, he has previously contracted an adult sex worker to perform oral sex on his pre-teen relatives. “I’m training these boys right,” he said in an Instagram Live video in 2020. “Ask any of my nephews, ask any of them, ask my son. Yeah, when they was 12, 13, they got head. Yeah, that’s how it’s supposed to be. Hell yeah, I got my fucking son d**k sucked.” It is unclear where this took place but in the United States, most age of consent laws set the age of consent between 16 and 18.

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Sounds a little complex for my pea brain but I'll give it a go when available. Reviews ‘Karmalink’: Venice Review By Wendy Ide2 September 2021 Jake Wachtel makes his feature debut with this imaginative Buddist sci-fi set in Cambodia’s Pnom Penh Source: XYZ Films Karmalink Dir. Jake Wachtel. Cambodia, US. 2021. 101 mins An inventive if conceptually cluttered Cambodian Buddhist sci-fi, Karmalink starts out as a lively kids’ adventure set against a vividly realised near-future Phnom Penh and ends up wrestling with techno-philosophical conundrums and the realm of the infinite. While the first two acts are more engaging and accessible than the third – the picture does get a little bogged down in its effects and ideas – there’s no question that this is an imaginative and original debut from director Jake Wachtel. As a piece of atmospheric world building, it’s impressive Developed by Wachtel while he was teaching a year-long course in filmmaking within an underprivileged community in the Cambodian capital, the film deftly balances an authentic depiction of the day-to-day grind of Phnom Penh’s struggling poor with futuristic sci-fi elements. The result is a picture which, while more modestly indie in scope than District 9, shares some of that picture’s eye-catching freshness and intriguing blend of sci fi with social commentary. Following on from its premiere in the opening film slot of Venice Critics’ Week, the picture should enjoy further festival interest and could find a home with an independent streaming platform or specialist distributor. Solid US indie credentials within the crew – the score is by Ariel Marx who most recently worked on Shiva Baby; the lithe cinematography is by Rob Leitzell, who shot Black Bear – might help raise the film’s profile with arthouse audiences. The neighbourhood in which Leng Heng (Leng Heng Prak) and his multi-generational family live is threatened by developers: a bullet train service to China is being proposed and its route will slice through friendships and families, annihilating homes and shuttering businesses. Leng Heng believes that he holds the key to changing his family’s fortunes. Each night, in vivid dreams, he revisits past lives. And in each subconscious glimpse, there’s a solid gold Buddha statuette which was filched from a temple by one of his past incarnations. Leng Heng is convinced that his dreams are a treasure trail, leading to the hiding place of the statuette; he recruits enterprising orphan street kid Srey Leak (Srey Leak Chhin) to help with the search after she proves her detective mettle by locating his missing flip flop. The quest is hindered by the fact that, unlike many of the city’s wealthier inhabitants, Leng Heng and Srey Leak are not “augmented” - connected through nano bugs in the bloodstream and a glowing button in the centre of the forehead to a multidimensional virtual world and a seemingly inexhaustible search engine. Fortunately, Srey Leak has light fingers and connections in the underworld. As a piece of atmospheric world building, it’s impressive. The rundown neighbourhood alleys are dwarfed by the monster towers of a nascent hi tech Asian supercity; the colour palette pulses with neons. But the film’s main assets are the two central performances – Prak and Chhin are non-professional actors recruited from one of Wachtel’s filmmaking classes. Both are engaging enough that we invest in the friendship between the two characters, even if the film’s climactic attempts to hack the wheel of karma don’t quite hold together.

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Review: Dune’s Day: New $165 Mil Take on Sci-Fi Classic with Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac is Stunning, Granular, Moody, Artful ■Movies by Roger Friedman - September 3, 2021 12:45 pm 0 1789 Ah, “Dune.” It seems like yesterday that David Lynch gave us the hoary epic adaptation of Frank Herbert’s landmark sci-fi novel. Kyle MacLachlan headed up a very eclectic and weird cast, even for 1984, that featured a legend (Jose Ferrer), a rock star (Sting), and a sitcom actor from “Rhoda” (Kenneth McMillan). Here’s the thing about the old “Dune” from 1984. When you watch it now, you see it had a lot of heart but looks really dated. It’s like watching a rerun of “Lost in Space.” Made eight years after “Star Wars,” the OG “Dune” looks like it came from the 60s now, before special effects were perfected. So let’s remake it, someone said. With a new cast, lots of Big Deal actors, starring teen sensation Timothee Chalamet, famous for his love of peaches in “Call Me By Your Name.” His Paul is much younger looking that MacLachlan’s and degrees more androgynous. But he captures the screen like James Dean or a young Leo DiCaprio with his tousled hair and aquiline nose. He is the Conflicted Young Man of the 2020s. As for Sting, his one of a kind 1984 “Dune” character, Feyd, was not recast for the update (I’m actually surprised they didn’t go for Adam Levine). And a main male character, Dr. Kynes, played by Max von Sydow the first time around, is now a Black woman in the the form of the excellent Sharon Duncan Brewster. The rest of the cast is formidable: Oscar Isaac, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin. I clapped when Stephen McKinley Henderson came on screen, and we get really nice work from Javier Bardem, Charlotte Rampling, and especially Stellan Skarsgard. Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista are there as signposts for fans of certain kinds of blockbusters. Denis Villeneuve is our director this time. He made “Arrival” and tends to create cold atmospheres. His “Dune” is the opposite of Lynch’s, methodical and cerebral, set against pastels and smoke and long stretches of moodiness. It’s a two and a half hour movie so for an hour or so, that’s all fine and beautiful and you’re really invested in the idea that this time, something might happen while the main cast, living in space way in the future, can find “spice” — a rare commodity — on the desert planet. But you know, there was a book, and we’re still following it. (Although in today’s press conference Josh Brolin admitted he never read it, and I doubt much of the cast did, either.) So whatever the “spice” is, it doesn’t actually add spice to an often bland meal. Chalamet’s Paul is trained by his father to take over the quest to colonize the dreary sandworm plagued planet of Arrakis, get past the shifting sands of its deserts, and spice things up. Like Hamlet and Luke Skywalker before him, Paul wrestles with this idea, but once his dad — Oscar Isaac is indelible as Leto, the movie hinges on his performance — is out of the picture, Paul sticks close to his mom (Ferguson) and remains ambivalent to say the least. Now wait: the first “Dune” movie was two hours long, and didn’t require a sequel. This one is labeled”Part One” up front, and comes in at 2:35. Plus, MacLachlan had a romantic thing going with Sean Young as Chani. (She was hot stuff in 1984.) Chani now is played by Zendaya, who doesn’t speak much until the end of the movie. (At today’s press conference she conceded not having met most of the cast after doing just a couple of days’ work.) What jumps out in Villeneuve’s saga is the production. Every bit of it is Oscar worthy, from set design to costumes to lighting, make up, etc. Cinematographer Grieg Fraser has outdone himself from frame to frame, set piece to set piece, creating jaw dropping pieces of art that are impressionistic, sensational, and other worldly. Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049” brought an Oscar to Roger Deakins, and this may be the case here as well. This year has been big on production excellence– look at “Cruella,” for example. We’ve got crafts people at the top of their respective games. Fraser isn’t alone on “Dune.” Hans Zimmer’s music just pounds away, creating lots of tension with melody. My only grievance is that hardly anyone in this film ever smiles. While the first half feels like “Star Wars” in sand, you remember all the fun of the George Lucas movie, the minor characters, the interplay. Everyone in “Dune” is grimly serious. You kind of wish someone would shake Paul’s hand with a joy buzzer, pull a snake out of a can, sit down on a whoopie cushion. I mean, they are looking for spice, aren’t they? They need a hot chili pepper in their recipe. Still, new “Dune” should be a smash hit. It’s a big old epic, the kind we need right now, to sweep us away from viruses, hurricanes, and wars in real life. Put on a mask, get a tub of popcorn, and kick back. We need a break. This is it.

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