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What is their relation to other major awards shows?
How can I become a SAG Award winner?
You might be surprised to learn that the SAGs are actually relatively new. The first celebration only took place in 1995, with trophies going to Tom Hanks for “Forrest Gump” and Jodie Foster for “Nell,” among others.
Why, the actors, of course! These festivities are all about the performers, hence winners usually thanking their peers in speeches. It’s self-explanatory, yes, but all SAG-AFTRA members who have paid all their dues are allowed to cast their ballots. Nominations are decided upon by special SAG Awards committees.
While everyone (who has paid up) can vote for the winners, the nominating process is a little more exclusive. To choose who will be up for the prizes, nominating committees in film and television are randomly selected from SAG-AFTRA members. The same people can’t choose the nominees every year; those who sit on a committee must wait eight years before being on the same one again.
The 25th annual SAG Awards will be held Jan. 27, 2019 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The event will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS and hosted by Megan Mullally.
To be considered part of the ensemble of a TV series, a contender must appear in more than half of the episodes within the nominating time frame and be a either series regular or guest star. Certificates are doled out to those who have appeared in at least three episodes in the calendar year.
This is also one of the few awards bodies that pays attention to stunt performers. Also each year, SAG names a recipient of the Life Achievement Award; past winners include Morgan Freeman, Lily Tomlin, Carol Burnett, Debbie Reynolds, and Rita Moreno (this year’s honoree is Alan Alda).
Getting your SAG card is a right of passage for any actor, so knowing how to join the union is crucial. The first step: Getting hired. Then you can supply your paycheck stubs or the “original activity print-out or report from the payroll company that states your name, social security number, the name of the production company, the title of the production, the salary paid in dollar amount, and the specific date(s) worked” to SAG-AFTRA. You can also apply for membership in SAG-AFTRA if you’ve been a member for a year in another affiliated organization. Those include Actor’s Equity and the Canadian ACTRA, among others. For more practical tips, click here!
People looking to dominate their Oscar pools tend to watch the SAGs pretty closely because their nominees and winners often align. That’s because—as scholars of this type of thing like to repeat—actors make up the largest branch of the Academy. Thus, people voting for SAG also have a say in who becomes the season’s ultimate victors. Eleven out of 23 of the last winning films for the outstanding ensemble performance Actor statue ended up with the Oscar for Best Picture.
Master the audition process, and get cast. Then keep applying to every role that fits your type!
Follow those steps and do your best, and you may just find yourself thanking your peers with an Actor statue in hand. You may even go so far as to join the exclusive club of performers we’ve dubbed “ESOT.” Break a leg!
This article was originally published on Jan. 4, 2018. It has since been updated.
American Medical Response Paramedic Paul Maxwell: "Once you’ve seen one mangled person, you kind of detach."
“Walkup...Walkup...Walkup," I said over and over again.
“What are you saying?” he asked.
“So I’ll never forget how wonderful you are.... Walkup...Walk-up...Walkup."
I was 19, and after the “Jaws of Life” extracted me from my father's totaled BMW, paramedic John Walkup became my best friend for the minutes that felt like hours it took to get from Poway to Palomar Hospital. (Pomerado didn't have the trauma facilities to deal with my extensive injuries) Walkup let me make his nametag my mantra and gave me the reassurance that everything would be okay. He was right — I’m happy and healthy now, six years later.
Thanks, Walkup. I still haven’t forgotten how wonderful you are.
Paramedic work is not always so gratifying. It can be messy, it can be dangerous, it can be depressing, it can be heart-wrenching. John Walkup no longer works in San Diego County, but I did spend a day with American Medical Response paramedic Paul Maxwell, a straight-speaking man who bears some resemblance to Dennis Quaid, and he told me some stories. One involved those first two possibilities, messy and dangerous.
“We were transporting an AIDS patient. His complaint was, I think, general malaise. He just didn’t want to get up off the couch. His caretakers called 911 practically every week. The home-care nurse is pretty well set up with what to do in case of emergency, so most handle it through appropriate channels, but they called once a week. Some dementia was setting in, and if you kind of left him alone, he was fine, and he’d just stay there. Suddenly, he started projectile vomiting. I gave him a big tub to vomit in, and the second he would fill up the tub, he would sling it across the ambulance. I’m back here, and I’m trapped. If we anticipate, we take precautions, but he didn’t present it that way initially. The walls and me and everything was covered with his vomitus, and that was an extremely uncomfortable situation."
Paul has been doing this sort of work for 12 years, including 3 as an Emergency Medical Technician. I meet him at his office, located in the San Miguel Fire Station in Spring Valley. Together with his partner Mitch, younger and with a looser air about him, he covers the 44 square miles of the San Miguel Fire District, “Spring Valley, the unincorporated areas of El Cajon, and the unincorporated areas of La Mesa.” The back of their ambulance, where I am riding, has the clinical fed of an emergency room. The interior is mostly gray plastic and stainless steel.
The call comes from a mobile-home senior park. The wife of a 75-year-old man reports that he has been having small seizures, four since 5:30 (it is now around 8:30). When we arrive, she recites his symptoms without passion, reporting that he had a grand mal seizure in 1994, naming his medication, and assuring Paul that he has been taking it. She is not hysterical, just concerned enough to get him to a hospital, something he doesn’t like.
Because we were on top of the call when it came in, we beat the firefighters by a few minutes. This is a rarity, usually they arrive first. Because of improved building codes and increased fire safety, firemen don’t have many fires to put out anymore. “Seventy to 90 percent of their call volume is medical aids,” says Paul. “They’re trained as first responders, as Emergency Medical Technicians. They have defibrillators semiautomatic ones. They do the things that are most needed — take care of the airway, set up the IV, get the gurney — while we’re doing paramedic things."
“Paramedic things” means Mitch is questioning the man and taking his vitals, while Paul talks to the wife and calls ahead to-the hospital with Mitch’s findings. It can also involve giving “first line” medications and intubating. The firemen bring the gurney and help the man, clad only in his underwear, onto it. They wrap an orange blanket around him and load the gurney into the ambulance. The man says little, from under his strong eyebrows comes a look of resignation and indifference. This is happening; there’s nothing to be done about it except ride it out Paul drives; Mitch sits in back and makes small talk with the man, now and then checking the heart monitor.
Another call comes in, this one for a child whose finger was caught in a door. This time, we arrive after the firemen. The police are there as well, making sure it wasn’t an abuse case. The boy, three years old, is not seriously injured, but the mother didn’t have a car and called for an ambulance. Paul tells me this is a code 50— private transportation would have been appropriate. Code 40 is an EMT level call, 30 gets an IV, “just in case,” 20 means some medication has been given, and 10 means lights and siren, even going to the hospital, “usually a trauma patient.” After bringing the boy into Grossmont, a long drive during which Paul hooks him and his brother up to the heart monitor and gives them printouts along with stuffed animals, we head back to the fire station. Two calls in the first few hours. They normally get six or seven in a 24-hour shift (the station is equipped with bunk rooms for sleeping between calls). Each call takes an hour and a half to two hours. As soon as they report themselves arrived at the hospital, they are eligible to receive another call.
“As I get older,” confesses Paul, 35, “getting up after midnight in two-hour intervals gets harder and harder." The difficulty is offset somewhat by the six days off he gets once a month— the rest of the month is four days on, four days off.
A couple of phone calls later, we head to Gloria’s Tropical Fun Food in Spring Valley for a late breakfast/early lunch with four other paramedics. I’ve got as much morbid curiosity as anyone, so, needless of the impending meal, I ask about the worst thing they’ve each dealt with.
“Most people want to hear the juicy stuff,” begins Barry, a paramedic Paul accuses of having a round face, “but usually, that stuff doesn’t faze us anymore. Once you’ve seen one mangled person, you kind of detach. The worst call I had, probably, I was working as an EMT, and it was an elderly female. She was awake and she was dying, and she knew she was dying, and her biggest fear was that she was going to die alone. She had no more family left. We were going to the hospital, we had our lights on and stuff. She was near the end, and she was just squeezing my hand because I was her last attachment at that point I had become her last person, and she died in my ambulance on the way to the hospital. That was kind of disturbing, because her biggest fear was to die alone. I had the chance to be there with her, but it was still… That was a call where I sat down afterwards. Just kind of sat on the curb and said, ‘Wow.’"
A bespectacled, mustached paramedic to my right speaks up. “Sometimes it’s the smell. I remember walking into one room, and there were bugs all over the floor. You took a step, and it was like the whole floor was moving. The patient had been in bed for days, urinating and all this, maggots crawling all over him."
“If they’re alive, you have to stick around and deal with it,” says another.
“Maggots and all,” finishes Paul.
But amid the gruesome details, there is still humor. I ask if they remove the maggots.
As the stories are told, our ranks are decimated by a chorus of sounding beepers. Barry’s breakfast arrives just as he’s finishing his story and just as his beeper goes off. Ditto his partner. Two others leave soon after. Their breakfasts are boxed and kept waiting for their return. Mitch, Paul, and I are left alone at one end of the long table. The traumas they describe, full of the twin grinders of emotional wear and stomach-turning conditions, make me wonder about burnout. But while burnout does happen, it’s not always for the reasons I imagine, as Paul explains.
"It’s usually related to the nature of the calls the paramedic goes on.” One example he gives is of paramedics who work areas that get the same calls over and over, such as violent neighborhoods. Paramedics who do the same thing all the time don’t get to use other skills and may get frustrated. But also, “There’s blatant system abuse out there. Medi-Cal abusers, stuff like that. So if if s one after another after another, people just using you, it can wear on a person. There was a 17-year-old girl that was T-boned, critically injured. We were on 'mouth pain’—a guy had dental surgery in Tijuana, and it hurt now, so he called 911. Simultaneously, there was this other event that we were closest to, and they had to send a distant ambulance to that call. Stuff like that can wear on a paramedic."
He goes on to tell about people in fender-benders who suddenly feel neck pain and call for paramedics for a ride to the hospital, “dollar signs in their eyes all the way there," adds Mitch. “You’re thinking. ‘Wait a minute,’ ” says Paul, “I just rode the Indiana Jones ride, and I know it was worse than this, and I didn’t go to the hospital.’ To be part of someone’s scam is disheartening."
A call comes in. A woman in her 90s has been found on her bedroom floor. “Not responsive,” says the call “If s difficult to respond when you’re dead!” observes Paul. Mitch tells me a lot of people also say, “I think he’s asleep” about people who are, as Paul puts it, “most sincerely dead.” As it turns out, “not responsive” referred to the fact that she wasn’t answering her doorbell when her neighbor rang it. The woman herself is alive and conscious, if not very well. Her flesh is shrunken around the bones of her face and arms. She looks dried. She can’t remember how she ended up on the floor or how long she’s been there. (A neighbor noticed that she failed to open her blinds that morning.) The skin on her elbow, translucent and paper-thin, has torn. She is picked up with a scoop, a metal stretcher with a bottom that slips under the patient from both sides, and placed on the gurney, which is placed in the ambulance. On the ride to the hospital, Paul asks her where she’s from, how long she’s lived here, what she did for a living.
It'll be a while until we see any footage from To All the Boys I've Loved Before 2, but it's never too early to start speculating.
Production on the anticipated follow-up to Netflix's summer teen hit has already begun in Vancouver, with breakout stars Lana Condor and Noah Centineo reprising their roles as Lara Jean Song Covey and Peter Kavinsky, and Jordan Fisher joining the ensemble as the beloved character John Ambrose McClaren.
"It was a lot of pressure," To All the Boys producer Matt Kaplan told ET of the casting process to find the perfect John Ambrose. "We auditioned thousands and thousands of people, and when Jordan came on screen, I think, unanimously, Ace [Entertainment] and Netflix felt like this was John Ambrose. We were fortunate to have someone who has so much pure likability in him, and I think audiences are going to freak out when they see what he's been able to bring to the screen."
Fisher joining the sequel is a recasting of sorts. Eagle-eyed viewers will recall Canadian actor Jordan Burtchett playing the character in the first film; he appeared in a mid-credits scene for a brief cameo. Since Fisher's casting was announced, there have been some question about how the upcoming film will address the new John Ambrose.
When asked how they plan on moving forward with that change on the creative end and if it'll be mentioned in a piece of dialogue, Kaplan stayed mum.
"Yeah, I think it'll be a conversation we have when the movie is released, but ultimately, we're just happy to have Jordan and feel very fortunate that he's our John Ambrose," he said, emphasizing that those conversations have not yet taken place. "The real answer is unclear."
The Netflix sequel, which also returns with John Corbett, Janel Parrish and Anna Cathcart, will likely follow the events of Jenny Han's second book, P.S. I Still Love You, and possibly borrow elements from the third, Always and Forever, Lara Jean. Sofia Alvarez, who wrote the first movie, also penned the sequel script, while the director of photography on the 2018 hit, Michael Fimognari, takes over as director for Susan Johnson, who will remain an executive producer.
New additions to the cast include Fisher, 13 Reasons Why's Ross Butler as Peter's best friend Trevor Pike, Holland Taylor as John Ambrose's grandmother Stormy and Sarayu Blue as Trina Rothschild, one of the Coveys' neighbors.
With the massive success of the first film, every morsel of information regarding the sequel has been dissected by fans with a fine-toothed comb.
"That's the fun part," Kaplan said. "There is an amazing team of filmmakers who are working on it, from Michael Fimognari, who's directing the second film, and you have such chemistry between Lana and Noah. I think we want to make this movie for the younger demographic, but hopefully, it stretches past [that]. We're working as hard as we can to make sure we serve the material properly."
"Jenny Han has been a great partner to us in making sure that she leans into the things that she knows her book fans care about, and we've taken some creative liberties to hopefully heighten it so the film is as strong as possible," he hinted.
In January, Condor revealed to ET one specific scene from the second book she hopes makes it into the movie -- and it's all about Lara Jean and John Ambrose's love story.
“I love when Lara Jean and John Ambrose go to the [nursing] home," she said at the time. "I love the snow... that moment when John Ambrose and her are in the snow playing. When I read that, it was romantic to me. Every little girl thinks about a kiss in the snow with someone that they might like. For me, I would love [it] more than anything ‘cause it’s romantic and cute!"
In the second book, the pivotal moment comes on the heels of Lara Jean and Peter's breakup. An unexpected snowstorm strands Lara Jean and John Ambrose overnight at the nursing home, where Lara Jean volunteers and John Ambrose's grandmother, Stormy, resides. The teens sneak out onto the front lawn to play in the snow, and it's there John Ambrose confesses he would like to kiss her.
A vitrine containing sketchbooks and drawings of valeri Larko’s work.
Two new exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts shed light on borough-based artists and their way of portraying the community.
“Bronx Focus: Paintings by Valeri Larko” and “Spotlight: John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres” will be on display until June 26 and July 4, respectively.
“We thought we’d reach out to some local artists to see what kind of shows we could focus on that were Bronx-based, really just to give a shout out to the borough that we’re in,” Exhibitions and Collection Manager Heather Reyes explained.
Mr. Ahearn and Mr. Torres started working on their sculptures of local community members together in the early 1980s when Mr. Ahearn came to the South Bronx. They collaborate on the entire process, from the casting to the painting.
The participants were volunteers who were willing to sit with a full cast over their face. At the end ,they got to bring one copy of the bust home, while the artist kept the second sculpture.
Selina, a woman who had had her sculpture done at that time, reached out to Mr. Ahearn years later to ask if he would consider taking the piece back as people were bumping into it at her home and she was unable to take good care of it, according to Ms. Reyes. Mr. Ahearn suggested she give it to the Bronx Museum, where it is now part of the exhibition.
In the next room, paintings of disaffected Bronx factories, plants and other industrial buildings by Ms. Larko are hanged all around the space.
She is a New Rochelle-based artist who started doing on-site, outdoors painting in the Bronx in 2005. Many of the places she has been painting are gradually disappearing and her work often constitutes one of the last images the community has of these landmarks.
“Her paintings are in many ways kind of a memorial, an homage to the graffiti art that is part of the Bronx’s landscape,” Ms. Reyes said.
One of Ms. Larko’s iconic paintings, “Ferris Stahl Meyer Diptych,” represents a former meatpacking plant that was torn down in 2014. When she first started painting on-site, the CEO “actually invited local graffiti artists to come and use the exterior walls of the packing plant to display the graffiti,” Ms. Reyes said.
It can take Ms. Larko up to two years to complete a single painting. She starts out by scouting the neighborhood and working on drawings and sketches of the location she picked out from her car during the cold weather.
When spring comes, Ms. Larko visits the site everyday and starts painting. After two years at the plant, Ms. Larko had finished about 21 paintings. The largest was flanked with other views of the former factory at the Bronx Museum.
The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Drive will be Tuesday, September 4, 2018 from 3:00-7:00 p.m. at the Firemen Legion Hall at Alhambra Township Park. Donors will be given a voucher for a team spirit T-Shirt. Alhambra-Leef Home Extension will provide refreshments.
There will be a free Dental Clinic on the campus of SIU Dental School in Alton for children ages 3-13. The clinic will be on Monday, October 8, 2018 (Columbus Day) Registration for the event will be on Oct. 8, 2018 from 7:30a.m.-12:00 p.m. in the Campus Gym.
Register now for the Free Flu shots for Alhambra and Alhambra Township residents. Call Freddie Riepshoff 618-488-7603 to register. Shots will be given on October 8 from 2:30-6:30 p.m. at the Firemens Hall at the Park.
Shots are compliments of the Alhambra Township Board.
This annual event will be held on Sunday, September 9, 2018. Sunday School classes will meet at 9:00 a.m. At the Township Park. Worship service will follow at the park at 10:00 a.m. This will e followed with a potluck meal. Meat and drinks are provided by Men’s Fellowship. Games may be played following the meal. Parishioners are asked to bring a side dish and a lawn chair.
Volunteers have packed up their last lunch until next summer when they will again try to help our young boys and girls to get a nutritious lunch each day.
Through out this summer of 49 days of meals, volunteers served an average of 106 children. The number changed each day with some days at one stop they may have handed out 6 lunches and the next place may have handed out 60 lunches. It was a worthy endeavor for all who volunteered and for everyone that donated to help purchase the food, bread, lunch meat, peanut butter, fruit,chips, drink and a small dessert.
As the numbers show, there is a definite need for the program. In 2017 a total of 3,905 lunches were distributed. This year a total of 5,212 were handed out.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — It's been a wild ride for this local store owner.
“Everything has been one amazing merry go round except it’s like a merry go round that goes up and up as you ride it,” said Owner of Generation Cool Robert Hall AKA Slobby Robby.
The essence of what we do is nostalgia, those pop culture images and pop culture ideas, whether it is Michael Jordan, polo, He-Man, Mr. t. these are all things that can resonate with somebody.
The retro 80s/90s store features blasts from the not so distant past including Ninja Turtles, Hulk Hogan and Britney Spears. Their show Slobby's World recently started airing on Netflix and is a big hit.
He's gotten a lot of new customers who are also big fans.
“I was watching it last night, binge watching it,” said customer Nick Hernandez.
Slobby Robby says the new fame is great, but he won't ever forget his roots.
“4th avenue and downtown has a funky kind of thing going, there is a lot of eclectic people so I think I have always fit in well down here. I went to Tucson High two blocks away so this is my part of town, these are my people. So we are going to stay connected to our people.
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Jeremy Corbyn asks David Cameron questions submitted by the public as he takes part in Prime Minister's Questions for the first time as Labour leader.
Before his PMQs appearance, Labour said Mr Corbyn will sing the national anthem at future events, after he was criticised for not singing the anthem at a Battle of Britain commemoration on Tuesday.
It hasn't started well for Jeremy Corbyn, writes Carl Dinnen - but he has the advantage of expectations starting off extremely low.
Newly-elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has finalised his shadow cabinet - so who has made the cut?
Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna has left the Shadow Cabinet by mutual agreement, the MP has confirmed.
I loved Injustice: Gods Among Us. The game was the next logical step after Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe managed to do so well back in 2008, and gave NetherRealm Studios a new lease on life to make the ninth Mortal Kombat game awesome. People wanted to see the DC characters fight more and they got their wish in 2013 with an awesome fighting game and a unique story to the DC landscape that Warner Bros. actually approved. Four years later (because NRS was working on other stuff like Mortal Kombat X), we finally received a proper sequel with Injustice 2.
Before we go on, things are going to get somewhat spoiler-filled, so if you don’t want to know until you’ve played, turn around now! You’ve been warned!
The game takes place back on what is the video game’s version of Earth 2. (Or at least we’re calling it that since there’s very little talk about multiple universes in the game.) Superman’s Regime has fallen, some are imprisoned like Robin and Cyborg, others have escaped like Wonder Woman and Black Adam. The rest are trying to fix the world and repair the damage done, lead by Batman, some experienced hands like Green Arrow and Black Canary, and a group younger heroes. While trying to take down Gorilla Grodd’s newly formed Society, we discover his mysterious benefactor is Brainiac, who has come to destroy Superman and Supergirl and complete his collection of Krypton while adding Earth to it. Now it’s up to old foes to make new alliances to help bring him down.
The game picks up the familiar MK format that the NRS games have been following for the past few years. You join a character in a chapter, fight four battles to advance the story, then move onto the next character’s chapter. Each fight becomes increasingly difficult until you battle Brainiac at the end. An added twist they threw into this version is that in some chapters you can choose who you fight as—an example being in Chapter 3 you can choose between Green Arrow and Black Canary for each fight while the other just kinda of does their own thing to the side. It’s a nice addition, but it doesn’t really change the outcome of the plot in any way until you get to the end, so it’s also a bit of a letdown. The ending lets you choose one of two paths for the final chapter that help determine the final cutscene you get and how Earth 2 is shaped.
Meanwhile, the super moves come off as if they’ve been neutered. In the first game, pulling off a super move on your opponent wasn’t the end of the match, but it certainly was the second to last nail in the coffin for a match. In Injustice 2, you’re lucky if you manage to get a third of their lifebar down after working so hard to get that maneuver. You’re better off learning the combo system and saving it up as a last-ditch effort if you’re losing, but no longer are they devastating moves that can cause the match to shift tides. Funny enough, a well-timed combo package will do just as much, if not more damage than your super.
Storyline wise, I enjoyed revisiting this world, even though things are bleak and it’s everyone’s worst fears come to life. But I do have issues with the random appearances, unexplained usage and failed efforts with some characters. For random appearances: at one point as you play as Flash, you’re suddenly greeted by Reverse Flash who appears once and never again. You’re shortly then joined by Green Lantern, who kind of explains why he’s back but it doesn’t show the hell he went through to come back. Also, Green Arrow (who is dead on this Earth) has come to help from a different Earth. However, none of that is explained in the game and is just left up to the player to seek out the answer through comics and other online resources. For those not interested in seeking that info out, they’re left in the dark. That all feels like lazy storytelling.
Another aspect of the game is armor. Deepening on how you feel about gear mechanics, it could be the best or worst part of the game. As you fight in the game through one of the many modes it has (which a lot of the multi-character ones are awesome to try out) you will gain experience and level up your character. You’ll also earn credits (Source Crystals) and loot boxes (Mother Boxes) that will award you upgrades in armor and the ability to purchase other like you would in a game like Overwatch. The difference in Injustice 2 is that the armor actually goes towards your stats, giving you the ability to block faster, grapple better and attack harder. You’re probably thinking “doesn’t that put other players at a disadvantage online?” Damn skippy it does, and there’s not a thing you can do about it, because the only way to get better at the game in versus mode is to level up and get better armor to wear, killing the usual even playing field you would normally have against anyone in a random Flash outfit.
The armor is a pain to upgrade as well, as it gets damaged and can be transformed into other bits of armor to improve your character later. The design of this is all impressive, but it leaves out the simple fact that you could be awesome at the game with Superman and get handed a loss by a moderate player with Captain Cold who has much better armor and boosted stats. Some would argue it adds unpredictability and makes things fair for weaker players, but that’s just an excuse for a gear system that’s overly complicated and has no real business being in this game.