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"fleck" Definitions
  1. fleck (of something) a very small area of a particular colour
  2. fleck (of something) a very small piece of something

392 Sentences With "fleck"

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In the recording, Mr. Strathearn is heard asking Mr. Fleck if he can come over to pick up some meatballs, and Mr. Fleck tells him to come by.
He looks unwashed, untouched — Fleck is destined for destruction.
Western Michigan's P.J. Fleck retweeted 22 recruits immediately after midnight.
"Captain Marvel" is directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
Phoenix, though, isn't entirely convinced that Fleck has the disorder.
Minnesota: Fleck has engineered a dramatic turnaround in three seasons.
Marvel Studios has already lined up Anna Fleck to co-direct Captain Marvel (with Ryan Fleck), and just last week Sony set Gina Prince-Bythewood to helm its Spider-Man not-quite-spinoff Silver & Black.
"He can't argue back when you give him direction," adds Fleck.
"The president can use this for his political advantage," Fleck said.
And, Fleck explains, the state does have a plan for this.
By the film's end, we see Fleck inside a mental hospital.
Boden and Fleck were, and they do a perfectly adequate job.
But the white Fleck is given access, and bloodshed soon follows.
I deployed an index finger to dab up every woodland fleck.
"When you are undefeated ... you are everybody's Ohio State," Fleck said.
Another success was "Half-Nelson" (2006), the story of a crack-addicted history teacher in Brooklyn, directed by Ryan Fleck, written by Mr. Fleck and Anna Boden, and starring a young Ryan Gosling as the teacher.
Here we're exploring the life of Arthur Fleck (played by Joaquin Phoenix).
He was replaced three days later by Western Michigan's P. J. Fleck.
The movie is written and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
For WMCP and SUPPRB: Jeffrey Kuchel and Mark Stermitz of Crowley Fleck.
So it's a bit of a shame, then, that in Captain Marvel — directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck with a screenplay by Boden, Fleck, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet — Carol (Brie Larson) spends so much time being bossed around.
Joker does feature a fantasy romantic relationship between Fleck and a female neighbor.
As Arthur Fleck, and eventually the Joker, he is all of the above.
"I used to think my life was a tragedy," Phoenix-as-Fleck says.
In one shot, we see Fleck running down a hallway with a folder.
Fleck holds a mirror up to society, suggesting that anyone can become him.
Phillips consistently places Fleck in an oppositional or antagonistic position to these women.
According to Indie Wire, the idea of Fleck having PBA came from Phillips.
Fleck is a clown-by-hire and aspiring comedian living with his mother.
The controversy surrounding this show resulted in the dismissal of then-director Robert Fleck.
In his real life, though, Fleck fails spectacularly at connecting with anyone at all.
Fleck talked with her family, touched up her résumé and sent in her application.
Dr. Fleck warned that the videos shouldn't be a substitute for real-world interactions.
A New Look at Opposites By Susan Hood Illustrated by Jay Fleck 26 pp.
"You have to give Eastern Michigan a ton of credit," Broncos coach P.J. Fleck said.
"The tobacco market last year did pretty well," said Adam Fleck, an analyst at Morningstar.
He wonders when it was that a "tiny fleck of darkness" crept into his soul.
One of the detectives who is questioning Fleck throughout the film is named Detective Burke.
Fleck tells Murray this:Fleck: When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker?
This time out, he's in the big chair, feeding the celebrity obsessions of Arthur Fleck.
"He's an unbelievable person, and he's been through an awful lot," Fleck told Big Ten.
Synopsis: In Gotham City, mentally troubled comedian Arthur Fleck is disregarded and mistreated by society.
Clinical psychologist Caroline Fleck says she sees many patients who are dealing with fertility issues.
Fleck falls into madness as he slowly transforms into the criminal mastermind known as Joker.
In the most generous possible reading, I guess it conveys how isolated and detached Fleck is?
Today, Variety reports that it finally made its decision: co-directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
"The principal issue here is they are sort of facing competition from all sides," said Fleck.
Director Ryan Fleck, the MCU's 15th male director, chats with Larson on the Captain Marvel set.
Fleck also posted a cryptic Instagram photo captioned, "We got next…" indicating shooting had finally completed.
"Viel zu lange war die Kolonialzeit ein blinder Fleck in unserer Erinnerungskultur", erklärte Kulturstaatsministerin Monika Grütters.
There was a fleck of white, which he picked out with the tip of his knife.
Its three main partners include former Brazilian central bank president Gustavo Franco, Paulo Bylik and Mario Fleck.
"This is a key thing — women have shorter careers that start earlier," Fleck told the Washington Post.
"Instead of being the sidekick to Batman, you're actually Robin and you save Batman's life," Fleck said.
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Half Nelson) are directing Captain Marvel for release on March 8, 2019.
"Joker" tells the story of Arthur Fleck, who turns to violence after feeling unfairly outcast by society.
The trailer showed Phoenix' Arthur Fleck living as a struggling comedian in Gotham City in the 1980s.
Béla Fleck, who has toured with Thile, told me the mandolinist frequently tries to educate the audience.
It took Green's friend Chris Fleck about 22015 hours to finish the mural, 2500 devoted to Mahomes.
"Exterior, night," John Fleck says in a film-noir voice, narrating the screenplay he's enacting before us.
Early in Joker, we're given a near-skeletal glimpse of Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, before he transforms.
At orbital speeds, even a small fleck of paint colliding with a satellite can cause critical damage.
"They are a phenomenal football team and they are a ranked opponent," Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck said.
And there is a good chance that in the next year or two, it will lose Fleck.
We're told Arthur Fleck is taking seven pills a day, but not what they're for; mental illness feels to me like a hand-waving prop for a story about a violent self-actualization, and a winking theme: It's not Fleck who's "mad," it's the world that's gone insane.
Like Rupert Pupkin, Fleck spends hours in his home imagining being on Franklin's show; when he finally gets his wish, he's humiliated by Franklin, who shows video from Fleck's disastrous stand-up routine on national TV. And like Travis Bickle, when pushed toward his edge, Fleck turns violent.
A fleck weighing just 160 micrograms was taken from part of a white-painted building on the canvas.
"The quality of the company is certainly not in question," said Fleck in an interview with CNBC recently.
The Man in Black wonders when it was that a "tiny fleck of darkness" crept into his soul.
Coach P.J. Fleck took over a 4-8 team and promptly went 1-11 in his first year.
The deal changes little within the U.S market, according to Adam Fleck, equity analyst with Morningstar in Chicago.
"I feel like I'm constantly dusting off cobwebs and I feel consciously incompetent in many areas," Fleck says.
"It can be overwhelming with the number of issues, the number of emails across my screen," Fleck says.
He guzzles wine, jabs his knife to gesticulate, then, exactingly, flicks a fleck of food off the tablecloth.
"It was just sad," said John Fleck, who directs the water program at the University of New Mexico.
If Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle called himself "God's lonely man" then Arthur Fleck is certainly Gotham's lonely man.
The film, released this weekend, centers on Arthur Fleck, a semi-employed clown who lives with his mother.
In space, a fleck of paint can bring about more damage than can a speeding bullet on Earth.
A fleck of dried meat sticks to a fork that billionaire and politician Clive Palmer used in 2014.
For the first time in the entire series, I start to see a fleck of uncertainty in Escobar's eyes.
After 22 years away from 9-to-5 work, Jennifer Fleck returned to her first career as an engineer.
While Pupkin's performance is a huge success, it looks like Fleck gets humiliated in front of the whole world.
Joaquin Phoenix plays a disturbed and mentally ill man named Arthur Fleck who isn't just having a bad day.
Then a last voice sang out—Shaw's quiet mezzo, wafting up like a fleck of ash above a flame.
"I think it comes down to just complete lack of experience," Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck said of Croft's performance.
The Wildcats lost their season opener last year 22-21 to Western Michigan, where Fleck coached from 2013-16.
The yellowish fleck he had found poking from the dirt was only the tip of a much larger prize.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck ("Half Nelson"), "Captain Marvel" touches down in theaters on March 8, 2019.
Mr. Fleck is the most renowned banjoist in modern music, with debts to a variety of American musical traditions.
In all those years, Mr. Fleck says, he's never performed a solo show in New York City, his hometown.
Fleck is plagued with a condition that causes him to break into shrill laughter at the most inopportune moments.
A black man acting as strangely as Fleck does would not have been allowed to go on the air.
Fleck, under the Joker persona, goes on to become one of the most ruthless, violent villains in Batman lore.
"We thought it was a possibility, so it's not too surprising," Morningstar analyst Adam Fleck said in an email.
Fleck said he met with about 25 players earlier in the day and more via a live Facebook chat.
It is a "defensive" move by Dr Pepper Snapple to keep a strategic relationship with Bai, said Morningstar's Fleck.
The concern that Joker will idealize Fleck for viewers who see themselves in him isn't new for the character.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Captain Marvel's story takes place independent of the events in Infinity War.
That image shows Earth as a tiny fleck on a beam of sunlight from more than 4 billion miles away.
Fleck works as a clown for hire while fantasizing about romancing the lovely single mother who lives down the hall.
Unlike Bickle and Pupkin, when Fleck finally finds himself through violence, it reads unequivocally as a moment of self-actualization.
Two 8-5 seasons later, and with his first recruits now seniors, Fleck has transformed WMU into a MAC powerhouse.
In the first part of her career, Fleck says she really struggled to be taken seriously as a female engineer.
It stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a lonely-turned-nihilistic outcast who sees the world as cruel and unjust.
WR Rashad Still was not in uniform as coach P.J. Fleck made changes to his receiving corps before the game.
Several defendants have pleaded guilty in the Allentown and Reading schemes, including Fleck, a former campaign manager for both mayors.
Mr. Fleck, who pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and tax evasion in 2016, helped the government build its case.
I kept wanting it to say something, anything, about how or why society punishes the weakest (Fleck) and most vulnerable.
Phoenix seems to have chosen to make Arthur Fleck untethered to underline his mental illness and his disconnection from society.
Eventually, Fleck has a breakdown that leads to violence, and his actions start a dangerous movement within his home city.
OK Yandy, we're gonna try this again: The only thing your website doesn't offer is a Sexy Arthur Fleck costume.
Imagine Fleck as Trump, shrugging off impeachment, rebounding with his roaring red-hatted supporters, winning reelection against every prediction and probability.
He's in the Jerry Lewis role as Murray Franklin, a late-night host whom future Joker Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) idolizes.
In another study, Clemson economists Robert Fleck and Andrew Hanssen analyzed IMDb data on domestically produced films from 264 to 218.
Instead, Fleck says his uncontrollable and unnerving laughter are caused by a neurological condition that makes him laugh at inappropriate times.
Though we're made to feel bad for Fleck at the film's start, by its end, you know he's an unstable sociopath.
"I think we got behind the score very quickly and that forced us to do some other things (offensively)," Fleck said.
Fleck (played by Joaquin Phoenix) begins as a little bit odd but ostensibly harmless — he just wants to make people laugh.
I felt like a 19th-century miner emerging from a cave with a fleck of gold in my dirt-caked hand.
I watch an Elk stumbling toward an expanding horizon, slowly becoming a blade of grass, and then a fleck of pollen.
If 2019's "Joker" was shown through the dismal negative aura of Arthur Fleck, "Birds of Prey" is the complete opposite.
"You think the University of Minnesota and our state of Minnesota, you think Casey O'Brien," Fleck told the Big Ten Network.
Every effort that the Joker -- or Arthur Fleck, to use his "real" name -- makes to assimilate is shunned or outright ridiculed.
As Phoenix might point out, the stigma Fleck faces turns out to be the most dangerous guiding force throughout the film.
"We used to be a blue blood back in the 30's, 40's, 19613's and 60's," Fleck added.
Plants thrust through wasted architecture, bullet holes fleck concrete, peeling wallpaper (mint green, with flowers) and cracked paint rise above geometric tiles.
Rio Bravo director Fleck said the deal also offers an opportunity to give its Brazilian clients a greater spectrum of financial products.
His blue eyes, and a fuchsia glitter fleck stuck to one cheek, flashed as technicians illuminated the modulating colors of the theater.
Captain Marvel will be the first female-led superhero film in the franchise, and it's directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
She'll be the second female director behind a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie – joining Anna Boden, who's directing Captain Marvel with Ryan Fleck.
Fleck says the 12-week program at GM taught her to see her time away from her career in a different light.
In Todd Phillips' origin story for the notorious DC villain, Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, a clown, comedian, and, eventually – a Joker.
By placing Joker in a world more like our own for Fleck to terrorize, Phillips has changed the stakes of this villain.
And with no Batman in sight, it looks like there's little in the way of Fleck exacting revenge on all his critics.
In one, Mr. Strathearn and Mr. Fleck discuss a contract that Mr. Strathearn testified to having steered to benefit a campaign donor.
Though Fleck/Joker commits despicable crimes, showing what the character is undergoing psychologically could allow audiences to sympathize with him, Phoenix said.
Several times Friday, Fleck referred to his slogan, "Row the Boat," a hook for getting players to work toward a common goal.
The story follows the life of Arthur Fleck, a failed comedian who faces violence while roaming Gotham City dressed as a clown.
Add the coconut mixture and blend on high until all combined and uniformly green (the spinach will fleck a bit at first).
Alan Blinder: Before I even got off the phone with Fleck, I had a hunch I might have the lead of my article.
"This is not a superhero who's perfect or otherworldly or has some godlike connection," Boden, who's directing alongside Ryan Fleck, told Entertainment Weekly.
Marvel's first female-led film will hit theaters next year: Captain Marvel, starring Brie Larson and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
Mr. Fleck and Ms. Boden, specialists in social dramas, are an appropriate choice for an episode that's more about psychology than conspicuous consumption.
"Rock and Roll Part 2" is mostly instrumental and is used as Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck dances down some stairs after his transformation.
Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, whose troubled existence in the world leads him to a life of crime and to become the Joker.
If you're a big DC fan, that should undoubtedly excite you as you're left pondering over several different possible origin stories for Fleck.
"Making mistakes provides the unique opportunity for you to model how to make an appropriate apology," said Caroline Fleck, a psychologist in California.
Mr. Pawlowski's defense has argued that it was the mayor's advisers and others, including Mr. Fleck, who behaved improperly, not the mayor himself.
"We knew this would be difficult for our young men, but we found a way," Gophers coach P.J. Fleck told Fox Sports 21.
In fact, he was spotted chasing a fleck of light in his new bathtub, which is a vital part of the acclimation process.
Fleck is bullied by thieving poor kids and drunken rich guys, goaded to the point of murder by the meanness of the world.
Critic Score: 69% This gritty take on Batman's arch-nemesis stars Joaquin Phoenix in his best leading actor-nominated role as Arthur Fleck.
It's written and performed by the vocalist-pianist Chris Walters and the saxophonist Jeff Coffin (an affiliate of Bela Fleck and Dave Matthews).
Shooting is already underway on that film for a March 2019 release date, with Brie Larson starring and Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck directing.
But when I considered what Fleck had told me about his day — a marathon of meetings with coaches — "glad-handed" was the easy choice.
Joker mirrors this scene with its own Langford surrogate, but Arthur Fleck (the Joker) just wants the guy to be his supportive father figure.
James Hickey, a business consultant, was named in both indictments, while Michael Fleck, who previously pleaded guilty, served as campaign manager for both mayors.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Captain Marvel sidesteps the traditional origin-story template, and when it begins, Carol already has her powers.
Fleck led Western Michigan to an undefeated regular season and a berth in the Cotton Bowl last year, before accepting the job at Minnesota.
Comedian Gary Gulman appears in "Joker" for a scene when Joaquin Phoenix's character, Arthur Fleck, is seated in the audience at a comedy club.
For a quick fix, grab a piece of tape and use it like you would a blotting paper to pick up every last fleck.
Video of the moment shows O'Brien, 20, immediately turning to his coach, P.J. Fleck, to share a long and emotional embrace after the kick.
The task awaiting Fleck is a little easier because Minnesota plays in the Big Ten's West Division, which was formed before the 2014 season.
"I used to think that my life was a tragedy," says Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) in the teaser for "Joker," the forthcoming supervillain movie.
"At each step, the states built this connective tissue, the institutional plumbing that allowed everyone to find ways of moving forward," Fleck told me.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Captain Marvel is a MCU prequel set in the 1990s, and it's out in theaters March 8, 2019.
"Joker" never diagnoses Fleck or clarifies what "condition" he has, but it does have him explicitly reference his experiences with mental illness on numerous occasions.
Instead, he was the unwitting victim of an overzealous FBI and a scheme concocted by two mayoral consultants, Mike Fleck and his assistant Sam Ruchlewicz.
Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck—the Joker before he was the Joker—a mentally ill and broke man with a warped relationship with his mother.
That's remarkable, since the banjo has roots as a solo instrument — and as an unimpeachable virtuoso, Mr. Fleck seems like a natural for the format.
Members began to narrow the criteria for what objects qualify as planets, and the truth became exceedingly clear -- they would exclude everyone's favorite freezing fleck.
The film takes place in 1981 and tells the backstory of Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who turns to murder in Gotham City.
As Arthur Fleck, Joaquin Phoenix's quiet strangeness belies an inner rage at a world that he sees owing him more than what it's dealt out.
A black man in Gotham City (really, New York) in 1981 suffering from the same mysterious mental illnesses as Fleck would be homeless and invisible.
"Depending on how another offer from BATS could be structured, there's a bit of a circular argument here for the value of RAI," Fleck said.
" Asked what conclusions he and Boden had reached by reflecting on their own body of work, Fleck replied, "We haven't arrived at the insights yet.
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the indie husband-and-wife directing team who made films like Half Nelson and Mississippi Grind, are at the helm.
Directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden weave the futuristic elements of Carol's story into the retro time period through everything from clothes to cars to music.
Captain Marvel will be the first female Marvel superhero to get her own movie, starring Brie Larson and c0-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
RB: I would have liked to see a little more classic Joker in the late-movie version of Fleck, who never really came together for me.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the movie follows Carol Danvers who has intergalactic superpowers and finds herself back on Earth with a new mission.
"It's almost like a rite of passage when you're discussing beers you know what the latest, newest beer that you've tried," said Morningstar analyst Adam Fleck.
"Rock and Roll Part 2" is shown during a pivotal scene in the movie where Arthur Fleck makes his transformation into the Clown Prince of Crime.
The Oscar-nominated actor, 44, stars as Arthur Fleck in the upcoming Joker, a man destined to become the movie's titled villain and Batman's greatest foe.
Joaquin Phoenix gives a mesmerizing performance as Arthur Fleck, an aspiring (and terrible) stand-up comedian and clown-for-hire whose life is anything but amusing.
"Coach Fleck says all the time, that this program is going up, and as you see today it's definitely going in the right direction," Johnson said.
In the film "Joker," the actor tells the story of how Arthur Fleck — abused and mentally ill — becomes a villain through a sinewy, supple, dancing body.
" Added Fleck, sounding like a man who saw himself staying put for a while: "This isn't the end of Power 5 expansion, I promise you that.
In each machine a microscopic fleck of molten tin is dropped in front of a laser beam powerful enough to cut metal 50m times a second.
Ryan Boden and Anna Fleck with Captain Marvel, or Taika Waititi with Thor, or Rian Johnson with Star Wars, or Alex Ross Perry doing Christopher Robin.
C0-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (who also co-wrote the screenplay with Geneva Robertson-Dworet), the film offers a refreshing take on tired tropes.
I would gaze into his blue-grey fleck-filled eyes for a full 24 hours, but he does not have permission to punch me in the face.
It takes place in 1981 and tells the backstory of Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who finds salvation by turning to murder in Gotham City.
Sadly for Fleck and his eventual Joker evolution, the resulting character is just a pathetic victim, and we know what we're supposed to feel for him: pity.
But as John Fleck, a terrific writer on water issues who has been covering the Colorado River for many years, explained in 211.5, there was a catch.
"A lot of it was working with [Ryan] Fleck and [Anna] Boden as they were developing [Captain Marvel]," Joe told Mashable of creating Captain Marvel for Endgame.
To freeze at higher temperatures, water needs a fleck of dust, soot, or sea salt — something to serve as a center that water molecules can latch onto.
"I think you'd have to watch 'Modern Times' because we believe there is some Chaplin in Arthur [Fleck] that I think is really important," Phillips told IGN.
"Joker" ends with the main character, Arthur Fleck, being locked up in a mental institution after executing a man on live TV and inciting violence throughout Gotham.
You can't completely banish your true self when you dance; Arthur Fleck is still somewhere inside of Mr. Phoenix, even after Arthur transforms himself into the Joker.
Reading this movie as a leftist treatise would seem a lot more plausible if we got the sense that anybody else was suffering like Arthur Fleck is.
Troubled guy Arthur Fleck just wants to make people laugh; people don't understand him; one final straw turns him into the ghoulish villain known as the Joker.
"Over his [Kent's] tenure you've seen a real secular shift away from carbonated soft drinks, and that's had a huge impact on Coke," said Morningstar analyst Adam Fleck.
Next month's Wonder Woman, which is helmed by Patty Jenkins, and Marvel's upcoming Captain Marvel, which will be steered by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, are rare exceptions.
These babies manage to impart a silky finish without so much as one shimmery fleck, thanks to jet-milled powders that are baked on terra-cotta clay tiles.
But by the end, too much about the movie didn't work for me: the Fleck / Thomas Wayne backstory, the love interest, the entire approach toward comedy and fame.
Phoenix's Fleck is a distended, rail-thin, crumpling sheet of a man who demands the attention of Joker's viewers that he does not get within the film itself.
"We've seen historically that these companies are typically able to eventually pass on those tax increases in the form of price increases to the customer," said Morningstar's Fleck.
The sugar tax in Britain's budget could have a playlist all of its own; we limited ourselves to offerings by John Lee Hooker, Def Leppard and Bela Fleck.
But something as small as a paint fleck can still do serious damage if it hits a working satellite at a speed of several thousand kilometres an hour.
Schiano also likely would earn an unprecedented salary for Rutgers, equal at least with the seven-year, $33.25 million contract given this week to Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck.
In this reading of the movie, Arthur Fleck is an example of what happens when the social safety net is so nonexistent that he has nowhere to turn.
And though Fleck says he often feels invisible, had he been black, he truly would have been — except, of course, when he came into contact with the police.
Joker is an impressive cinematic achievement, featuring an extraordinary (albeit a tad exhibitionist) performance by Joaquin Phoenix as Fleck, and it's a poisonous story for a fraught time.
Fans of the movie got a first look at Phoenix as both Fleck and the Joker about a year ago, and in both instances ... he looks pretty creepy.
A tiny, rugged fleck of land, roughly half a square mile, Kayangel has perhaps 60 year-round residents; there is no airstrip, and power and cell service are erratic.
Mashable has confirmed that the studio has hired the duo of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck to helm Captain Marvel, the first solo female superhero movie from the series.
Most of the time, it seems like Fleck (and possibly his mom) are suffering from legitimate paranoid delusions, but Joker also suggests that perhaps this paranoia is fully justified.
This year the organization welcomed back 10 alumni artists to display their artwork, including Leonardo Bacan, Glenn Espinosa, Marlena Fleck, Nicole Mouriño, Delali Ayivor, and Luz Orozco, among others.
One bad day after another slowly drives Arthur Fleck to madness and by the film's end, he's transformed into the Joker -- and ultimately, an unintentional symbol of the downtrodden.
"Having heard this news early this morning, I took action to immediately suspend both freshman players indefinitely," WMU head coach PJ Fleck said in a statement released to WWMT.
Several fans have documented their experience at the Joker Stairs — which even have their own location on Instagram — on social media, mimicking the moves of Fleck in the film.
As the story unfolds, he is beaten, bullied, and humiliated by his personal failings, culminating in Fleck — now fully inhabiting his Joker persona — going on a violent killing spree.
THR notes that Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who directed the first film, won't return for the sequel, so Marvel is looking for a new director for the project.
Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, a man struggling with a variety of mental illnesses that keeps him from finding acceptance in a city that is slowly slipping into chaos itself.
The new film, from director Todd Phillips and producer Bradley Cooper, tells the story of Phoenix's Arthur Fleck, a Gotham City clown-for-hire with a very sad life.
Phoenix's performance as Arthur Fleck/Joker in this year's "Joker" film didn't go unrecognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association — he's nominated for best actor at the Golden Globes. 
John M. Dunn, who is in his 10th and final year as Western Michigan's president, said he hoped to initiate a change in the MAC's reputation by keeping Fleck.
It's "Captain Marvel," full stop, in the first Marvel title directed by a woman — Anna Boden, who co-directed and co-wrote the film with her regular collaborator Ryan Fleck.
That's a lot to put on the shoulders of directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the indie filmmakers behind Half Nelson, It's Kind of a Funny Story, and Mississippi Grind.
Boden and Fleck have noteworthy experience working on television, directing episodes of the series Billions and The Affair, and helming critically acclaimed films like Sugar, Half Nelson, and Mississippi Grind.
But even Captain Marvel (co-written by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who wrote Dark Phoenix with Geneva Robertson-Dworet), featured some heavy-handed THIS IS A WOMAN MOVIE moments.
"The computer and Skype and the conference calls and the video systems — I was worried every time I flubbed something up they'd say 'Oh, you can't do this,'" Fleck says.
The set of stairs in the New York City borough used to shoot the scene where Arthur Fleck dresses as a clown and dances wildly has become a tourist destination.
The $50,000 award is presented annually by a board that includes Mr. Martin as well as other banjo stars like Bela Fleck, Tony Trischka, Pete Wernick and J. D. Crowe.
"The worst part about having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you DONT," Fleck writes in his journal, replacing the "O" with a smiley face.
Everything ends on a happy note for Travis Bickle and Arthur Fleck, at least in their minds, but it's up to the viewer to decide what's real and what's not.
But for professors like Zoltan Fleck, who heads a law department at Hungary's oldest college, Eotvos Lorand University, the real aim was to curb the academic autonomy of each department.
In court, Ms. Morgan sought to portray Mr. Strathearn as a man who simply liked a good meatball, and asked if Mr. Strathearn had ever eaten the Fleck family meatballs.
Periodically, Mr. Combs's bodyguard (personal security for even relative nonentities being the new status symbol) reaches forward from his second row seat to fleck a snowflake from his charge's head.
Phoenix is Arthur Fleck, a clown for hire and standup comedian who gradually becomes the character we're all too familiar with amid a backdrop of social unrest and income inequality.
Arthur Fleck is a maelstrom of tragedy and stifled masculinity, and because society never showed him any form of affection, he was forced to burn it down to find warmth.
Rio Bravo's three main partners, former Brazilian central bank president Gustavo Franco, Paulo Bylik and Mario Fleck, would keep running the Rio de Janeiro-based firm, according to the blog.
While the movie never names what specific illnesses Fleck has been diagnosed with, these fits of controllable laughter are based on an actual disorder called the Pseudobulbar Affect, or PBA.
"Joker" tells the story of a mentally-ill comedian and clown named Arthur Fleck, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who goes on a murderous rampage and inadvertently incites city-wide riots.
In 1990, there was another attack on the boundary-crossing work of the artists Karen Finley, Tim Miller, John Fleck and Holly Hughes, who became known as the N.E.A. Four.
So, instead of wading through all of that and arbitrating every single fleck of data, let's sneak up sideways with a frank and honest talk about the plane's... performance issues.
Fleck, who is now Director of the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico, has long been one of my go-to reads for understanding water in the West.
Instead, it stops moving all together and you have to take a minute to knock the crumb (or sand or one fleck of dirt) out or reach for the canned air.
With Anna Boden-Ryan Fleck at the helm as director and A-List movie stars like Samuel L. Jackson and Jude Law in the cast, she'll certainly be in good company.
It's hard to really do with Fleck what The King of Comedy did with Pupkin when the Joker's biggest fans veer awfully close to a Pupkin type with Bickle-like aspirations.
Captain Marvel will be directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck based on a screenplay from the duo alongside Meg LeFauve, Nicole Perlman , Geneva Robertson-Dworet , Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch.
Posto da Torre, a gritty pit stop in the heart of Brazil's antiseptic capital, is indistinguishable from the countless other 24-hour gas stations that fleck the nation's cities and highways.
Every speck of colorful 3D abstraction was once a fleck of paint, from buttery ribbons spooling across the space's quartet of giant screens to confetti-like particles dancing through digital space.
The trailer also gives us some deeper glimpses at the movie's plot, including that at one point, Joker's mother, Penny Fleck, will end up in the hospital for reasons still unknown.
Fans now have a new look at the dark and ominous movie, simply titled "Joker," which tells the story of a struggling comedian named Arthur Fleck living in Gotham in 1981.
Meyer, a bassist, and Fleck, a banjoist, have both worked extensively in bluegrass; Hussain, a tabla player, first rose to fame performing Hindustani classical music but often collaborates with jazz musicians.
Purdue has its most promising coach in a decade, Jeff Brohm, and Minnesota and Maryland recently hired two of the most coveted young coaches, P. J. Fleck and D. J. Durkin.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, "Captain Marvel" is the first Marvel film to be directed by a woman and the first to feature a female superhero in the lead.
Phoenix's Arthur Fleck lives in an impeccably designed Gotham City, which evokes the anarchic grime of early '80s New York City, in a rathole apartment with his housebound mother (Frances Conroy).
Cast your mind back to a time when a young Jose Mourinho, only the odd fleck of grey in his jet-black hair, was enjoying a stellar start to life at Chelsea.
" Fleck, who recently gave Altria a hold rating, believes the stock is overvalued and said he sees its worth at about $59 per share — but that "their pricing value is still fantastic.
The MCU is currently hard at work prepping its first female-led movie, 2019's Captain Marvel, with Brie Larson set to star and Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck confirmed to direct.
The film deviates from the comics by focusing on Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who is driven insane and, thus, turns to a life of crime in 1981 Gotham City.
"It is in some ways the antithesis of what it set out to be," Ann Fleck-Henderson, who wrote "Transition House 1976-2017," a book to mark the shelter's fortieth anniversary, says.
This tree includes a pack of 135 blue Christmas ornaments and decorative items for a color-blocked look, but you can also fleck it with your own ornaments for a personal touch.
Though Fleck is pursued and investigated by Gotham's finest, his whiteness acts as a force field, protecting him as he engages in the violent acts of the latter half of the film.
"I'm going to promise you a lot, because that's the way I live my life," said Fleck, who, at 36, became the youngest head coach in a so-called Power 5 conference.
You can watch that entire Mallrats scene below: The Captain Marvel scene was originally written by directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck as just another fun, funny appearance by the comics legend.
After her second audition with another mock script, Chan finally got a chance to Skype with the film's directors, Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck — but even then, she was kept in the dark.
Brands in the A&S portfolio include Coney Island Brewing, Angel City Brewery, Concrete Beach Brewery and Traveler Beer Co. "Some of those newer flavors, newer styles, they've had some success," said Fleck.
The superhero film, directed by husband-wife team Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, reached $413.6 million domestically over the weekend, surpassing the previous record-holder, 2017's "Wonder Woman," directed by Patty Jenkins.
AFSCME may affect the way courts analyze constitutional challenges to compulsory bar association membership, but North Dakota lawyer Arnold Fleck had failed to properly flesh out his free speech claims in district court.
MacFarquhar drew from Ann Fleck-Henderson's book "Transition House 1976-2017: The Movement and the Mainstream" (for which MacFarquhar was interviewed, as was I) but offers less clarity about the shelter's recent years.
Fleck kills white men because he cannot access their status and is ostracized by them, but his black female victims are so invisible that the film does not bother to show their deaths.
One of these illnesses causes Fleck to uncontrollably laugh at inappropriate times, leading him to carry an informational card that explains the condition to people who may be near him during an episode.
Joker seems likely to be subject to the same connections: that enjoying Arthur Fleck as a character and his film as a whole is analogous to promoting incels or hateful online forum users.
Hauntingly scored with Jimmy Durante's version of "Smile," the trailer shows Fleck dancing with his mother (Frances Conroy), dressing as a clown and getting brutalized by thugs, and being hit by a cab.
A month ago, I was chatting with journalist John Fleck about his (terrific) new book on water policy in the American West, and he mentioned something that seemed deeply relevant to climate policy.
Items that are smaller than a marble are not yet tracked but NASA reckons there are millions; and at velocities of more than 233,22024km per hour, even a fleck of paint can cause damage.
In a separate post, Fleck pointed to an eye-opening presentation by the Central Arizona Project that asks what would happen if water levels at Lake Mead keep dropping — down to 1,000 feet, say.
Boden and Fleck, who met at NYU and have been paired ever since, built their careers on smaller-scale and mid-range dramas like Sugar, It's Kind of a Funny Story, and Mississippi Grind.
"My mother always tells me to smile and put on a happy face," Phoenix as Joker alter-ego Arthur Fleck says as he slumps around Gotham looking like a sad, grown-up Lord Farquaad.
And what we see Fleck watching there isn't his actual debut on Murray's show; it's a video of him performing stand-up at a comedy club, which we also saw in the first trailer.
Jessica Chastain recently took to social media to tout Phoenix's work as Arthur Fleck, a downtrodden stand-up comedian who finds his purpose in life after committing acts of violence and becoming the Joker.
Michelle Morgan, a federal prosecutor, played a recording of one of the phone calls between Mr. Strathearn and Mr. Fleck — an exchange posted online and transcribed in part by The Morning Call, of Allentown.
In the early nineties, research on C. elegans , a tiny nematode worm that resembles a fleck of lint, showed that a single gene mutation extended its life, and that another mutation blocked that extension.
Fleck elevated unheralded Western Michigan from a 280-22015 record in 22014, his first season as a head coach, to 21941-21960 this season, losing only to Wisconsin, 19613-21961, in the Cotton Bowl.
Clean, sand, vacuum and wipe the surface with a damp cloth before you prime and paint — a coat of paint will magnify any remaining fleck of dust or dirt, so do this step well.
Your eyes sometimes glaze over, and you occasionally have to wipe a fleck of whitish spit off your face, but once you give yourself over to his story, you find there are plenty of rewards.
I enjoyed a lot of this movie, but holy schnikes, the writers were so busy catering to The Rock and Vin Diesel's contractual demands, they forgot to give the female characters a fleck of personality.
During a recent five-day journey through Hui communities that fleck the arid foothills of the Tibetan plateau, several imams said proselytizing to non-Muslims was forbidden, as was contact with Islamic organizations outside China.
Minnesota started the season with three straight wins under new coach P.J. Fleck, but it has since dropped five of six, with only a home win versus West division cellar-dweller Illinois over that stretch.
While Reacher is occupied with his research, another drama is unfolding at the isolated motel where a young Canadian couple, Shorty Fleck and Patty Sundstrom, are stranded when their clunker of a car breaks down.
In describing a mass demonstration on the eve of the Wall's fall, he concedes that his underground participants amounted to "an inconspicuous fleck" in the multitude of 500,000 people who had gathered in the Alexanderplatz.
And there are two eggs, cold and whole with a fleck of wood shaving stuck to one, as though a child had just begun to decorate it, maybe making a horse with a tiny fetlock.
In the middle of this world lives Arthur Fleck (Phoenix), who works as a clown and suffers from a neurological condition that makes him laugh uncontrollably when he doesn't want to be laughing at all.
In a thoroughly immersed performance that's being seen as a guaranteed awards-season attention magnet, Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, a part-time rent-a-clown working for a seedy talent agency full of exaggerated grotesques.
Golden Gophers coach P.J. Fleck said the school believes Winfield meets the waiver requirement for a sixth year of eligibility, and the school will file that waiver with the NCAA at the end of the season.
One of the more baffling moments in "Joker" finds Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck coping with his violent descent into the eponymous villain by clearing out the contents of his refrigerator so he can fit inside it.
The Gophers' offense is balanced, averaging 180.8 rushing yards and 21 passing yards, with quarterback Conor Rhoda (229 passing yards, three TDs) at the controls after coach P.J. Fleck juggled signal callers earlier in the season.
Fans of the blockbuster were quick to recognize the real-life stairs from a climactic scene in Todd Phillip's film, where Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck makes his pivotal entrance as the titular villainous alter-ego.
So when Fleck eventually goes off in Taxi Driver fashion after a group of young men physically assault him in public, audiences are expected to believe that he had his reasons, however bad they may be.
But toward the end, when put-upon protagonist Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) starts celebrating his own break with sanity by dancing like no one's watching and reigning over public mayhem, the film has a real emotional power.
An audience member with an off-beat sense of timing to their reaction to Gulman's comedy set was to blame, and that someone, as it turns out, was none other than Arthur Fleck himself, actor Joaquin Phoenix.
Incestuous siblings, their Bible-quoting father, a stranded motorist and a menagerie of animals figure in "Blacktop Highway," a delightfully deranged one-man gothic horror spoof by John Fleck (1:30, closing on Saturday at Dixon Place).
"I used to think my life was a tragedy," says Arthur Fleck, the man who will become the legendary Batman villain known as the Joker, and who's played in this spin on the character by Joaquin Phoenix.
According to the article, Phoenix embodying his role was apparently just as miserable as its subject matter: Arthur Fleck, a depressed clown-for-hire in Gotham City who turns to crime after being beaten down by society.
Phillips' vision of the film, bathed in the aforementioned works of cinema from the '70s and '80s, shows a complete command of style, tone, and mood — one that emboldens the character of Arthur Fleck and Gotham City.
What critics like Jeffery seem to fear is that Arthur Fleck, in addition to being a sad sack, is also the kind of person we imagine would be very excited about the Joker movie in real life.
Aided by a bit of puppetry (designed by Christine Papalexis) and extensive video (designed by Heather Fipps), both prerecorded and live, the charismatic Mr. Fleck plays each character as well as the narrator, and does sound effects.
Directed and co-written by Phillips, Joker puts a new, R-rated spin on the classic Batman villain and stars Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill failed stand-up comedian who unleashes havoc on Gotham City.
"Joker" earned a whopping four nominations: best motion picture drama, best director of a motion picture, best original score, and best performance by an actor in a motion picture — drama for Joaquin Phoenix's role as Arthur Fleck.
A doctor attempting to subdue the suspect was shot in the neck, but is expected to recover, Justin Fleck, assistant special agent in charge at the Miami FBI Office, said at a news conference, according to NBC News.
But succeed, however, and the needle gently penetrates his iris, producing a gentle splatter of eye fluid, extends into the back of his brain, and pops back out again, a tiny fleck of blood appearing around the organ.
"While SAM's long-term growth rate will inevitably decline, the company should grow its top line faster than the typical beverage company and also has quite a bit of room to increase its profitability over time," Fleck said.
How inspiring that the directors of "Captain Marvel," Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, felt free to lavish so much of their budget, estimated at a hundred and fifty million dollars, on a bulk purchase of fancy contact lenses.
Feige revealed only a very little bit about the upcoming Captain Marvel film, which hasn't even started shooting yet and only recently acquired its directors (Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the indie auteurs behind movies like Half Nelson).
While Joker presents this violence and the toxic ideology that fuels it, the window it creates into the mind of Arthur Fleck makes it hard for the audience not to feel some kind of complicated sympathy for him.
"While SAM's long-term growth rate will inevitably decline, the company should grow its top line faster than the typical beverage company and also has quite a bit of room to increase its profitability over time," Fleck said.
As longtime water reporter John Fleck argues in his thought-provoking new book, Water Is for Fighting Over, the constant doom and gloom about water in the West misses something extremely important that's been going on in recent years.
"We don't even talk about signing day anymore, we're so December-driven," Fleck, already focused on who might play in Minneapolis in 2021 and beyond, said as he glad-handed his way through 223 Texas high schools last Tuesday.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, the film is set in the 1990s, and its second trailer opens by adding more background to a scene from the first trailer: Captain Marvel punching an old lady in the face.
Co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, Captain Marvel will be the first of the Marvel franchise to feature a female lead as a superhero, and the first to hire a female composer, Pinar Toprak, for the score.
This isn't the first time a Marvel film has been directed by a woman, but it will be the first time a woman has been the sole director (Captain Marvel was co-directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck).
Croft rushed for 96 yards on just seven carries in the first two games of the season, coming in for Rhoda, who Fleck prefers to keep in the pocket as much as possible in order to keep him healthy.
Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a struggling and depressed stand-up comedian and amateur clown living in Gotham City, the film promises to be a gritty origin story of one of the most iconic DC Comics villains ever.
And though some of that may come down to the nature of Joker as an origin story (we're seeing Arthur Fleck become Joker, rather than the solidified villain of Gotham Harley Quinn meets later), that's not the only explanation.
We're done reading headlines about how this fleck of spittle clinging between the pages of history was considered so publicly vile and obnoxious that the Federal District Court in Brooklyn had difficulty finding unbiased jurors to preside over his conviction.
In his new book, Water is For Fighting Over, and Other Myths About Water in the West, John Fleck chronicles the mellowing of some of the west's biggest water warriors, and explains why that is good for the region's future.
While Phoenix went bold with his portrayal of Arthur Fleck in "Joker" — complete with several impassioned outbursts, and some seriously weird dancing — Driver's performance as a man in the midst of a dissolving marriage was subtler, sadder, and infinitely more memorable.
Some viewers have speculated that most of Joker's events are just Arthur's hallucinatory delusions after a mental health crisis, and that's an understandable reaction because the film is set in a dream-logic universe that basically exists to torment Fleck.
In this new "Intergalactic War" featurette from Marvel, we get a walkthrough of what the Skrulls are all about from Captain Marvel principals Brie Larsen, Gemma Chan, Jude Law, Ben Mendelsohn, producer Jonathan Schwartz, and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.
"We knew that we'd have to be able to play close to perfect to beat them, and at least take care of the execution of the opportunities that we had, and we didn't do that," Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck said.
Metacritic Score: 59/100Joaquin Phoenix stars as Arther Fleck, a clown and aspiring stand-up comedian who has taken one too many punches from society, resulting in his gradual deterioration into one of the greatest villains in DC comic book lore.
The sounds of the three men singing, intercut with the train, the impact of punches and, later, gunshots, all created one of the most key moments of the film where you were fully immersed in the plight of Arthur Fleck.
"This kind of role-play is used to create an understanding of what is normative, and teenagers seek it out in an authentic way," said Caroline Fleck, a clinical psychologist and an adjunct instructor at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
" Echoing her concern, Dr. Fleck said that "the subliminal message in these videos is that the viewer needs someone to take care of them in order to fall asleep, and that's a notion we try to fight against in mental health.
I wish the movie explored this more — the idea of scorn, of why Arthur Fleck is so reviled but also sympathetic, or perhaps even what makes Joker such an impossibly magnetic supervillain if Batman is one of our most beloved heroes.
The actor, known for playing brooding or emotionally troubled characters, dropped more than 50 pounds (22 kg) to play Arthur Fleck, an emaciated mentally ill clown who finds fame through a random act of violence in 1980s era New York City.
The actor, known for playing brooding or emotionally troubled characters, dropped more than 50 pounds (22 kg) to play Arthur Fleck, an emaciated mentally ill clown who finds fame through a random act of violence in 1980s era New York City.
The hotel's walls have a palette of cream, camel and "Shinola blue," a shade of navy blue that was derived from a fleck of paint found in a former Singer sewing machine factory, one of the five downtown buildings Shinola occupies.
Fleck, one of the country's most desirable coaches this off-season, arrived at Minnesota three days after Athletic Director Mark Coyle fired Tracy Claeys after a 9-210 season marred by a sexual assault investigation and a brief player boycott.
Either way, the decision to pass on "Joker" comes as family members of the Aurora shooting victims are expressing concerns about Phoenix's portrayal of Arthur Fleck, who becomes the Joker, and the violence that laces the film ...  asking Warner Bros.
As parts of Atlanta change almost beyond recognition, and as glass and steel fleck the city like a flesh-eating pox, and as more scrappy and beloved institutions are being priced out, places like Elliott Street have become even more of a rarity.
Among action films driven by women, the Anna Boden/Ryan Fleck-directed Captain Marvel's domestic gross ranks seventh, behind such films as The Force Awakens ($936.7 million), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($424.7 million), and DC's Wonder Woman ($412.6 million), among others.
Hoai-Tran Bui, Slashfilm However, the biggest failing of this film comes from a common Marvel hiring practice: Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, who made the jump from directing indie darlings to helming Captain Marvel, have never directed a large-scale action scene.
The magic of lenses is how they erase the perception of the selfie as an act of narcissism — an insipid criticism that comes from a certain clump of people who feel the need to bash people for showing a fleck of confidence.
Unlike " Empire of the Sun " (1987) or " Catch Me If You Can " (2002), which left us with a tussle of competing feelings, Spielberg's latest work exults without a fleck of irony in its moral obligation—to lend dramatic form to the First Amendment.
In 2008, Mr. Jago, Mr. Espey and Peter Fleck, another Gilbeys colleague, formed the Last Drop Distillers, which discovers casks of fine spirits left over in Scotland, France, Portugal and the United States and then packages and sells the product to connoisseurs.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from a script they wrote with Geneva Robertson-Dworet, "Captain Marvel" is an origin story, which is to say a résumé check for the newest member of popular culture's biggest, most heavily capitalized corporate team.
The contents of Warehouse P represent a collaboration between Buffalo Trace and Last Drop, a rare-spirits company started in 2008 by James Espey and Tom Jago, veterans of the Scotch whisky industry, and Peter Fleck, another spirits professional with a long résumé.
Joker accurately depicts the scenarios that create violent criminals (poverty, ostracization of the mentally 'unfortunates' of society, lack of healthcare, etc.), and also successfully illustrates how people like Arthur Fleck are, despite their sympathetic traits, still violent people who do terrible things.
The best way to see one of the hundreds of community gardens in New York City is by accident: Nothing quite matches the delight of stumbling unawares onto a peaceful fleck of green tucked away in a maze of stone and concrete.
The last act tries to bring together commentary and character study: after descending into desperate violence, Fleck appears on TV and delivers a manifesto about class and society writ large, then he suddenly finds he's the inspirational hero of a clown-based violent protest movement.
As Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who lives with his mother, Joaquin Phoenix more or less slaps clown makeup on Travis Bickle from "Taxi Driver," though the director Todd Phillips lays some of the blame for Fleck's psychosis on a broken social system.
When we learn that his relationship with the neighbor (played with artful restraint by Zazie Beetz) was merely a figment of his troubled imagination, the way he leaves the apartment implies that this realization has led Fleck to kill her and perhaps her child.
The scene captures the moment that the loner Arthur Fleck, played by Joaquin Phoenix, transforms into the Joker as he dances down the steps to Gary Glitter's anthem "Rock & Roll Part 2," his hair dyed a menacing green and his face painted like a clown.
"We challenged everyone of our players, you want to be a blue blood you've got to beat the blue bloods," Fleck said Wednesday after No. 16 Minnesota beat No. 9 Auburn 31-24 in a game that wasn't as close as the final score.
MINNEAPOLIS — The digital thermometer on the TCF Bank Stadium scoreboard read 5 degrees when P. J. Fleck, hours into his tenure as head football coach at the University of Minnesota, stood behind a lectern to address a room full of reporters, university officials and boosters.
At the end of the movie, a triumphant Fleck -- seemingly dead, but magically revived by the cheers of a throng of clown-masked rioters -- does a grotesque soft-shoe on top of a shattered cop car, literally dancing on the destroyed remains of the rule of law.
Minnesota tops Buffalo in Fleck's first game Tyler Johnson caught a long touchdown pass, and Minnesota survived a stern test from underdog Buffalo in a 216-2623 season-opening win Thursday in the Gophers' first game under new coach P.J. Fleck at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
There's pleasurable tension in topping raw scallop with a tiny fleck of yuzu-ponzu jelly and commas of shaved lemon peel, or brushing sea bream with a tart, spicy sauce of yuzu and aji amarillo, then dotting it with a tiny bit of salted plum paste.
In it, we see Fleck begin to pursue a goal of trying to make the world laugh, and then, through a series of traumatic events — beatings, ridicule, loss, and some creepy dancing with his mother — we see the sadistic turn he takes toward to becoming the Joker.
With jitters and with prayers, with countdown clocks in their heads and their immigration lawyers on speed-dial, hundreds of thousands of young immigrants have spent all fall and winter watching President Trump and congressional leaders negotiate their fate, every fleck of news a tantalizing omen.
While many reviewers have focused on Fleck as an "incel" hero -- his status as a sexless loner who turns to violence -- the true nature of the movie's appeal is actually broader: It's an insidious validation of the white-male resentment that helped bring President Donald Trump to power.
" (Which, according to them, is the No. 7 most-cited piece of climate skeptic mythology.) Finally, there's a piece in the journal of the American Meteorological Society by scientists Thomas Peterson and William Connolley, along with journalist John Fleck: "The Myth of the 1970s Global Cooling Scientific Consensus.
Characters like Black Widow, The Wasp, Scarlet Witch, Gamora, Nebula, and Mantis have been relegated to third-tier hero status at best, and 2019's Captain Marvel marks the first MCU film fronted by a female character, or with a female director — Anna Boden, who co-directed with Ryan K. Fleck.
Fleck dresses up like a clown a few times throughout the two-and-a-half-minute trailer, wearing a bozo wig and red nose at one point, but it isn't until the end that we get to see him in his full, unhinged Joker getup—thankfully, without any emo face tattoos.
I have so many people to thank for helping me on this journey but first and foremost, my incredible agents Laura Engel and Richard Kraft for believing in me from day one and Dave Jordan and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck for giving me this opportunity of a lifetime.
In the early going, that translated only to tiny, hairline fissures in the characters' facades, but in season five, with the weight of all those years and so much death hanging over them, Philip, Elizabeth, and everybody else have seen their shells start to fleck apart, revealing their truest selves.
He positively forces himself to stand out, either with a fleck of candy-colored dye in his locks, or one of his many long overcoats to further emphasise his height and throwback to a Dickensian life growing up in homeless shelters, scraping together the days, and teaching himself to play guitar.
Anchored by Joaquin Phoenix's performance as Arthur Fleck, a part-time clown and full-time mope who lives with his ailing mother in Gotham City, the film grafts the urban alienation of Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" and "The King of Comedy" onto the origin story of DC's most famous villain.
Because the action takes place in 1995, directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (who also share script credit with Geneva Robertson-Dworet) have considerable fun stepping into the way-back machine -- having Danvers crash-land into a Blockbuster Video store, while dealing with the indignity of clunky box-shaped computers.
Eagerly anticipated by action-adventure devotees who like their movies grim and gritty, this R-rated addition to the DC Comics cinematic oeuvre stars Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck, a soft-spoken wannabe comedian and clown-for-hire who endures a miserable life of poverty and abuse in a decaying Gotham City neighborhood.
Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, and co-starring Larson, Jude Law, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ben Mendelsohn, Captain Marvel is a 1990s-set MCU prequel that follows powerful part-human, part-alien Carol Danvers, who finds herself smack bang in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.
An inspiration to banjoists who followed in his wake, especially those of a progressive bent like Tony Trischka and Béla Fleck, Mr. Weissberg contributed to a trio of influential early banjo albums: "American Banjo Scruggs Style" (Folkways, 1957), "Folk Banjo Styles" (Elektra, 1961) and "New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass" (Elektra, 1963).
The question turned on whether Mr. Strathearn and Mike Fleck, a political consultant for Mr. Pawlowski, were really discussing meatballs — seared, simmered and sauced — in a series of phone calls, or whether they had taken a cue from shady deals of yore and were using "meatballs" as a code word for a payoff.
With his fellow performance artists Karen Finley, Tim Miller and Holly Hughes, Mr. Fleck is best known as one of the N.E.A. Four, who in the 1990s found themselves at the center of a cultural debate about art and obscenity after they were denied grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Filmmakers like Boden and Fleck, Ryan Coogler and Taika Waititi can put their own spin on a given story or hero, but at some point bolts or waves of orange or blue light will come shooting out of someone's hands and someone else will be thrown backward and bounce off a wall.
As the 1990s unfolded, Franklin Furnace became embroiled in the so-called NEA Four case, in which performance artists whose works it had sponsored — Karen Finley, John Fleck, Holly Hughes, and Tim Miller — saw their proposed grants from the NEA vetoed by the agency's director, John Frohnmayer, an appointee of President George H. W. Bush.
Enter, then, Ursa, a California three-piece whose Abyss Between the Stars LP is a damn fine slab of epic doom metal that offers no philosophical musings, no lyrics carved out in razor marks and no grand insight into what it means to be a tiny fleck of humanity hurtling towards the unknowable void.
But to viewers who feel as abused and overlooked as Arthur Fleck, or even who harbor smaller, more rational resentments about society, Joker is a deliberate and fine-tuned provocation and promise: you aren't alone, the people you hate really are awful, and it would be okay to act against them in any way you want.
Those interpretive dances you mentioned are a flourish that I think Phillips believes are more meaningful than they actually seem to be in the film, but they serve a magnetic purpose: Arthur Fleck is a man with some visceral animating presence within him, and he expels it through swaying his hips, moving his arms slowly through the air.
From the look of it, Fleck is a loner living on the fringes who, after getting mugged by some dudes in an alleyway and then beat up by some bros on the subway, decides to dress up like a clown and exact a little revenge, like some kind of Charles Bronson with a penchant for facepaint.
It also doesn't quite seem accidental that all the incidental characters Fleck encounters are black: the social worker who tunes him out during counseling sessions, the woman on the bus who fearfully shoos him away from her toddler, the admin who tries to prevent him from getting his mother's hospital records, and the object of his desire, played by Zazie Beets.
It's worth noting that Marvel's next directors and superheroes also look less like Marvel directors, less like the stereotype of Marvel heroes: Ryan Coogler's "Black Panther" arrives in February, and Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (the writer-director duo behind the 2006 Ryan-Gosling-on-cocaine drama "Half Nelson") are in preproduction for a movie featuring the superheroine Captain Marvel for 2019.
The Big Ears lineup this year encompassed rock (Spiritualized, Mercury Rev), jazz (the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bill Frisell, Mary Halvorson, Tim Berne), contemporary classical music (Bryce Dessner, Anna Thorvaldsdottir), string-band music (Punch Brothers, Bela Fleck), free improvisation (Evan Parker, Susie Ibarra), a folk opera (Rachel Grimes's "The Way Forth"), a ballet ("Lucy Negro Redux"), silent films with live scores and a midnight-to-noon drone marathon that changed performers every half-hour.
But a more sympathetic reading might say that the character of Arthur Fleck, the Joker-to-be in the movie, is a kind of Dorian Gray's picture for the entire comic-book universe: A damaged man-child with pre-sexual romantic attachments and fantasies of secret lineages and untapped greatness, whose destructive arc is far closer to what perpetual adolescence really looks like than the sexless godhood of the Marvel heroes or the eternal school days of Hogwarts.
If you're immediately thinking that this strain of science sounds like bullshit, then let me share with you this video I found in a late night peanut butter wormhole, featuring elderly man Dr. Robert Morse, a revered natural doctor and iridologist, pointing at a little fleck on a picture of a woman's eye with a laser pen and talking about what it says about her uterus, suggesting she "get in there" and strengthen the vaginal wall. Yeah.
While there were multiple performers cosplaying as Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck from the heavily nominated Joker, the opening number also included people dressed like Eddie Murphy's character in Dolemite Is My Name (no nods this year, despite Murphy earning a Golden Globe nomination for his performance); the red jumpsuit-wearing doppelgangers in Us, which was completely iced out of the award show this year despite a stellar performance by Nyong'o; and Florence Pugh's character Dani in Midsommar.
There's Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, about a Western star past his prime (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his gruff stuntman sidekick (Brad Pitt); The Irishman, Martin Scorsese's gangster elegy starring big guns Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, and Joe Pesci; Ad Astra, James Gray's space epic about sad astronaut Roy McBride's (also Pitt) search for his father; Joker, Todd Phillips' origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix as failed wannabe comedian Arthur Fleck; James Mangold's Ford vs.

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