That's nice of you, you got Sissy perfumes for Valentine's Day?" she asks, to which Saint sweetly replies, "Yeah, Sissy!
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Fun fact ... his cousin is iconic actress Sissy Spacek.
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Parents were more bothered by "sissy" sons than "tomboy" daughters.
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High sister, Chrissy captioned the video of her sissy cooking.
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Sissy comes from her violin practice to watch the end.
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Yes, it is a charming relic of my sissy heritage.
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Where Sissy was tiny, Catherine was almost six feet tall.
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Where Sissy laughed so long and loud that people would stare, Sissy cried a lot—talking about her childhood, about a job she didn't get, about a play she had seen (she loved the theater).
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In addition Skarsgard appearing in the teaser, Sissy Spacek also appears.
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There's something about Sissy which feels so quintessentially American to me.
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No one has come close to what Sissy Spacek does here.
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No, dear, I don't mean sissy, though I daresay you might.
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Yet on Sissy Night, the word takes on a different meaning.
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In general, this tends to be the case at Sissy Night.
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The scene spills onto the street, as the sissy migration begins.
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Mommy and sissy will continue to wait patiently for your arrival.
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Bruce told me that "Sissy" was the comeback that never happened.
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"I aspire to be more like 'Sissy' than anything," Bruce said.
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These were, after all, sissy liberals engaged in stultifying cultural squabbles.
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She can't wait for her sissy to be out and okay.
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But to Sissy Lappin, founder of ListingDoor , it came as no surprise.
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She's exactly what you would imagine Sissy Spacek to be, and more.
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I might be the biggest sissy you've ever had on the show.
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I was called gay, sissy, and other slurs too horrible for print.
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Don't then come like a sissy saying that you're a political prisoner.
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One example cited by the prosecution: "Sissy" was a favorite Rooseveltian insult.
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People who do this have a sissy fetish—[they're] not actual people.
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And now I've branched out into a queer music festival called Yo Sissy!
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And this one ain't begging no record executive sissy for nothin', ya heard?
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Terrific actors dot the credits: Andre Holland, Sissy Spacek, Scott Glenn, Terry O'Quinn.
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Everybody who beat me up, beat me up for being a black sissy.
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Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek, Norbert Leo Butz and Linda Cardellini are finely cast.
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I was teased for being a sissy, or assumed to be a flaming fairy.
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Sissy, fairy and cuck demean feminine traits as lesser, weak and undesirable in men.
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I want the world to see that the great Lee Miglin is a sissy.
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FAGLIANO: Yeah, and there's a third name to the right of it, Sissy SPACEK.
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The film received two Oscar nominations, including for Sissy Spacek in the title role.
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His father called him "Sissy," though Gable preferred his middle name, William, or Billy.
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How did casting fall into place with Sissy Spacek and Tom Waits and so on?
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When it comes to Stephen King adaptations, Sissy Spacek has been there from the beginning.
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While Nyong'o chose Eartha Kitt and Katherine Hepburn, Ronan selected Sissy Spacek and Nina Simone.
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Most individuals think of the term "sissy" as a macho epithet utilized by schoolyard bullies.
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Dee is a Sissy Night regular, and a personal friend of Alice In Bondage Land.
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Out of the hundreds of fetishes to choose from, why specifically host a sissy night?
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"You can't have a sissy up there; you've got to have a man," he said.
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Hope I'm officially the best big sissy ever now.. she was LIVING her best life!!
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" As they clanked and whacked, he said, the coaches yelled: "Don't be a sissy, hit him!
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Others hypothesized that The Kid was Ruth (Sissy Spacek) and Matthew Deaver's (Adam Rothenberg) dead child.
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That she quit to come home to take care of her mother, Ellen Bergman (Sissy Spacek).
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Harley says she also helps men who want to be feminized, she calls them sissy boys.
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He is credited for introducing his cousin Sissy Spacek to the entertainment industry, according to THR.
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It is Ken's first time at Sissy Night, but he is instantly embraced by the attendees.
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His success eventually inspired a younger cousin to take up acting, too — Oscar winner Sissy Spacek.
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So far, we know that Missy Elliott and Sissy Spacek are part of the newest campaign.
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The Academy dug Sissy Spacek's take on Loretta Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter" for best actress.
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Jacob Tobia is a writer, performer, producer, LGBTQ advocate, and author of the forthcoming memoir, Sissy.
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The cast also includes veterans of previous King adaptations, including Sissy Spacek (Carrie) and Bill Skarsgård (It).
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In 2022, Heidi lives with her mother (Sissy Spacek) and is a server at a seaside diner.
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"Happiest Birthday to my first friend, my darling sissy who taught me how to love," Jenna said.
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But I did get ready for Sissy Night at work, and blew the security guard a kiss.
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I understood from a young age that I was a femme, a sissy, something that desired softness.
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"Sissy is a strong woman who will be cherished by this caring and wonderful man," she said.
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If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, "Sissy" succeeds.
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The fear that you will feminize your child or make him a sissy is ignorant or obscene.
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Sissy Spacek co-stars as his love interest, with Casey Affleck as a cop on his trail.
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I was publicly humiliated for being a 'sissy,' because black men were not supposed to be that.
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"There's this documentary that Sissy loves that I'd never seen called Confessions of a Dutiful Daughter," Shaw recalls.
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The country music singer Loretta Lynn is portrayed by Sissy Spacek, who won an Oscar for her performance.
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"So much fun shooting with my little twin sissy!" she wrote on her app of the photoshoot Tuesday.
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In Badlands, Sissy Spacek spins dry, folksy ruminations in a Southern lilt over horrific and quotidian events alike.
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Also, pink is often found in girls' bedrooms, and because of that some consider it a sissy color.
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When James was five, other kids started calling him a sissy, and he retreated into comics and books.
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She's played by Sissy Spacek, who got very bloody as the title character of "Carrie" 42 years ago.
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"I was nervous when I saw Sissy sitting at a table because she looked so elegant," he said.
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Casey Affleck plays a lawman on his trail; Sissy Spacek offers him a chance at late-life romance.
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Meanwhile, their mother, Sally (Sissy Spacek), has proved she'll stop at nothing to protect her brood — not ever.
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This Southern film noir is finely cast with Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek, Norbert Leo Butz and Linda Cardellini.
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"I want the world to know you're a sissy," he hisses at one married man he sells sex to.
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The series, which also stars Sissy Spacek, Andre Holland, and Melanie Lynskey, will arrive on Hulu on July 25.
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Sissy. But it also stayed true to its beloved traditions, such never-stopping, free-to-enter Sleepless Floor stage.
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In 1947, Mr. Arnhold met and married Clarisse Engel de Janosi, known to her friends and family as Sissy.
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But late in the primary, Mr. Wallace denounced Mr. Brewer as a "sissy britches" politician who had ridden Mrs.
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Just ask Barbra Streisand (Fanny Brice), Sissy Spacek (Loretta Lynn), Jamie Foxx (Ray Charles) and Rami Malek (Freddie Mercury).
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Sissy Spacek took home an Oscar for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn in the 1980 film "Coal Miner's Daughter."
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Sissy Spacek plays Carrie White, an introverted teenager whose fanatically religious mother (Piper Laurie) keeps her stifled at home.
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"He loves his sissy," Kardashian West wrote in the caption of one video as Saint leaned in to kiss Chicago.
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"Here I am with my beautiful sissy and my little thumping daughter still cooking," she wrote in the photo's caption.
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No little pug could ever replace Cuppy, but Sissy, Tilly, and the newest Pugdashian addition, Natty, make a great team.
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Melanie Lynskey, Scott Glenn, Jane Levy, Sissy Spacek (who doesn't seem to be playing Carrie) are also among the cast.
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"How magical is the universe in giving me this pure-hearted, brilliant, hilarious, and strong sissy?!?" she captioned the shot.
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The last time a Bonnie and Clyde story looked this good, it was starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek (Badlands).
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"Very honored to be your March cover girl @britishvogue @edward_enninful with my sissy @bellahadid on a second cover," Gigi wrote.
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Tobia recently published Sissy, their memoir, which delves further into gender identity and non-conformity from a deeply personal place.
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The woman is Jewel (Sissy Spacek), a widow, and she's the only treasure that Bob makes no attempt to pocket.
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How a school custodian helped save lives "He shot at their house," Gage's maternal grandmother, Alma "Sissy" Feitelberg, told CNN.
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In this future, Heidi is living with her mother (Sissy Spacek) and waiting tables at a dump of a restaurant.
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He's made Martin such a prissy, sissy macho that you don't know whether to call the Academy or Vince McMahon.
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" Al added, "He looked like a sissy tappin' out like that, so, he's got to come back and get a win.
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"I regret being such a sissy — so nervous, so bloody shy," Martin says in the inspirational video produced for 5 Gum.
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Despite her extreme attire, Alice's demeanor is overwhelmingly kind, a sort of BDSM momma bear looking out for her sissy cubs.
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The kids pelted him with the typical insensitive slurs—sissy, fairy, faggot—and, like most schoolyard bullies, assumed he was weak.
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He spends much of those exciting final two episodes sitting around with his grandma, played by the utterly wasted Sissy Spacek.
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Last week's unveiled ads feature Missy Elliott, Sissy Spacek, John Tuite, and Carlos Santolalla, as well as a model group shot.
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"There was no evacuation order," Sissy Katsouda, 51, a municipal adviser in the town of Pikermi said in a telephone interview.
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Castle Rock Sissy Spacek was in her 20s when her title role in "Carrie" brought her stardom and an Oscar nomination.
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"Sissy also works too much, but she knows how to relax and see things like a little girl," Dr. Koehne said.
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For too long "green" was viewed as a synonym for a project that was boutique, uneconomical, liberal, sissy and vaguely French.
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"At the time, there was an attitude that the only people who smoked filters were women and sissy men," Jackler said.
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Elisabeth Moss, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck and Danny Glover are also featured in the film, which is set for a Sept.
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In Bastrop County, just outside of Austin, about 100 homes were damaged and evacuated overnight, said Sissy Jones, a sheriff's office spokeswoman.
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She'd made plans to give away her beloved tabby cat, Sissy, because without medication, she wouldn't be able to care for her.
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And Sally (Sissy Spacek), the matriarch of this dysfunctional clan, is just beginning to fathom what lurks beneath its picture-postcard veneer.
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Was I really going to depend on some sissy museum to have the necessary equipment on hand for their participatory art installation?
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Sissy crew are beaming straight into the heart of Hackney for a night of debauchery down at legendary alternative nightspot the Glory.
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Boys consistently tell us that being called a girl, a pussy, or a sissy is one of the strongest insults there is.
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It is in Tobia's often self-deprecating humor that "Sissy" is most transformative, and where it most departs from other trans memoirs.
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" He continued, "I was sent to a psychologist at five years old because I was a sissy and my family was afraid.
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"Very honored to be your March cover girl @britishvogue @edward_enninful with my sissy @bellahadid on a second cover," Gigi wrote of the shoot.
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The accolade will be presented by actress Sissy Spacek, who won an Oscar for portraying Lynn in the 1980 film Coal Miner's Daughter.
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He tells Molly (Melanie Lynskey) that in another parallel universe, Ruth Deaver (Sissy Spacek) never lost her child with Matthew Deaver (Adam Rothberg).
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Sissy Spacek, who won an Oscar for playing Lynn in "Coal Miner's Daughter," stood in for the ailing singer at that Nashville event.
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"Tom and Shep can't wait for 'Sissy,' " the actor captioned a snap of his sons, embracing each other and sporting huge excited smiles.
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Norman Bates's domineering mother is the inspiration for his crimes in "Psycho" (1960); Sissy Spacek's "Carrie" (1976) is tormented by her fanatical parent.
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Travolta, who starred in the film as high school bully Billy Nolan, posed in the picture alongside Sissy Spacek, who portrayed Carrie White.
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You know how, in the early 272s, the sissy boys used to wear their coats off their shoulders to make them look feminine?
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Sissy Night is qualified as a "munch," which is a BDSM term for a meet-up in a public place that serves food.
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"Sissy and I are thrilled to include Jason and Amanda's gorgeous, 'The Color of a Cloudy Day,' on Not Dark Yet" Lynne says.
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It's a dutiful but delightfully odd coming-of-age novel, tracking the exploits of a sissy twelve-year-old Indian kid in Ohio.
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In season four, "Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story" writer Jacob Tobia will play a non-binary shape-shifting mercenary named Double Trouble.
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"Pansy, sissy, wimp, girly boy, pussy, bitch, homo, fruit, poof, queer," reads a partial, and printable, scourge of epithets he endures at school.
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Similce stars as Sissy, younger sister of Harry Potter actor Luke Youngblood's character Frostee, a 13-year-old tech genius in the series.
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The supporting cast includes other big names like Bobby Cannavale and Sissy Spacek, to say nothing of the up-and-comer Stephan James.
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The supporting performances, particularly Sissy Spacek as Forrest's girlfriend, and Casey Affleck as the burned-out detective who puts the clues together — are outstanding.
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The ten-episode season, produced by Sony Pictures Television, will bring back co-stars Sissy Spacek, Ben Mendelsohn, Linda Cardellini and Norbert Leo Butz.
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News.Photographer Michelangelo di Battista captured the siblings' subtle chic individually and together in a desert-inspired Palm Springs photo shoot, styled by Sissy Vian.
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Then there's Sally (Sissy Spacek), the matriarch of this dysfunctional clan, who is just beginning to fathom what lurks beneath its picture-postcard veneer.
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The Old Man & the Gun, which also stars Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, and Tom Waits, hits theaters on Sept. 28.
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Their mother, Sally (Sissy Spacek), is in full-on Mama Bear mode as she proves that she'll stop at nothing to protect her brood.
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I thought SPACE was cool, but aside from SISSY SPACEK nothing seemed to work, so I settled on the theme entries you see today.
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Even as a grown man, that choreography and sound gave me access to parts of myself both private and dear — Southern, black, sissy, somebody's child.
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Speaking with EW, Redford reflected on The Old Man & the Gun, which also stars Casey Affleck, Sissy Spacek, Danny Glover, Tika Sumpter, and Tom Waits.
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Sissy Night is a safe space where these men can embrace their authentic nature in public—a luxury most don't have in their daily lives.
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Lowery took on writing and directing The Old Man & the Gun, which co-stars Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck and comes out on September 28.
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Nonfiction SISSY A Coming-of-Gender Story By Jacob Tobia REAL QUEER AMERICA LGBT Stories From Red States By Samantha Allen L.G.B.T.Q. people are everywhere.
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One night she asked, "Why I have to go to bed before sissy?" and started refusing to go to sleep earlier than her older sister.
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Called "sissy boy" as a child, he started drawing at a young age and channeled many of his internal (and outside) demons into his artwork.
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After he was bullied for being, he said, "a sissy," she moved them to Santa Monica — a more accepting, "Birkenstock-wearing, fruit-juicing" hippie enclave.
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Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie received Best Actress and Supporting Actress nominations for Carrie (1976), but the film ultimately won neither and received no other nominations.
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Alan is forced to dig up a dead dog to prove to Ruth (Sissy Spacek), who is suffering from dementia, that the animal is definitely dead.
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The 25-year-old singer shared a series of photos featuring the "Brudder & sissy" pair sitting on steps as they dug into a box of popcorn.
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The batteries would be too heavy and expensive, and, it was believed, very few hard-core truck enthusiasts would be seen in a quiet, sissy electric.
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"I like 'forced fem,'" Ken explains to me in the backroom of Wicked Grounds, a famed Bay Area "kink cafe" and the location of Sissy Night.
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back: Sissy vs Justice Kevin Smith's wacky navel-gazing 2001 comedy might be the most combat-heavy stoner flick ever made.
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"Sissy hadn't heard from Guenther and was anxious to call him, but many of her female friends warned against it," said Cindi Perantoni, a business partner.
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Don't say — and don't let your son say — that someone throws or runs like a girl, or use "sissy" or any of its more offensive synonyms.
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"Firebird" explores his mother's alcoholism, the challenges involved in being a "chubby smart bookish sissy with glasses and a Southern accent," and how art saved him.
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"There's no room any more for a sissy and, like I said, don't forget that I've got grandsons who I've trained with long-distance rifles," Fonda repeated.
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Though every sissy/femdom relationship is wildly different, the common denominator is usually the forced cross-dressing of the male submissive—anything from lingerie to evening gowns.
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At the end of "Sissy," they fire out a spoken-word rap about a catcaller heckling them while they're walking home from a bar in a dress.
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"Faggot, fag, fairy, cocksucker, punk, pansy, sissy, wimp, girly boy, pussy, bitch, homo, fruit, poof, queer, or homosexual, gayboy" are the insults his classmates brandish against him.
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Catch up on this Southern film noir, finely cast with Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek, Norbert Leo Butz and Linda Cardellini, before Season 2 arrives on May 27.
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Sissy bash in London, Le Tigre's JD Samson has turned in one of the sweatiest hours of house and disco we've heard in a long, long time.
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They also see other relatives including two more half siblings, Sissy Bonham, 223, and Michael Clavette, 260, as well as their biological mother's sister, Nancy Kalman Bell.
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The Castle Rock Call: • Scott Glenn and Sissy Spacek finally get a lot more to do this week, and the episode is all the better for it.
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Diesel's real-life eldest daughter, Similce Diesel, stars as Sissy, the younger sister of Harry Potter actor Luke Youngblood's character Frostee, a 13-year-old tech genius.
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Mr. Skarsgard, best known for playing Pennywise the Dancing Clown in last year's "It," is joined in the cast by the original King star, Sissy Spacek ("Carrie").
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"Sissy represented the things you desired at that point in your life," says Karla Ivankovich, a therapist and an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois, Springfield.
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"He loves his sissy," Kardashian West captioned one video of Saint leaning in to kiss Chicago, whom he adorably called "Jack-Jack," the baby from the Incredibles franchise.
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But on Friday, the reality star traded in her birthday celebrations for wedding celebrations — partying the night away in Vegas at her "brother" Kim and "sissy" Kendra's nuptials.
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"For Sissy," says the adorable little boy — who's sporting a pair of Vans Kids' Sk8-Hi Zip-K shoes in Black/True White — after a bit more coaxing.
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In a post-credits scene, government officials head to the lab where they explain they'll need to borrow "Sissy," the machine Ryan has developed for his thesis project.
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Cher first made her Broadway debut in 1982 for the play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, where she played the waitress Sissy.
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Missy and Marc's relationship goes pretty deep: The rapper starred in Jacobs' fall 2016 ad campaign (along with the likes of Courtney Love, Sissy Spacek, and Marilyn Manson).
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"He loves his sissy," Kardashian West captioned one video of Saint leaning in to kiss Chicago, whom he adorably called "Jack-Jack," the baby from the Incredibles franchise.
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At best, they're confined to places like dog parks and hiking trails, where their foreignness brings out the screaming sissy or stone-faced stoic in all of us.
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He gets the crash course in everything from tucking, beating his face for the gods (doing the perfect face of makeup), and how to sissy up his walk.
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In the terrifying adaptation of Stephen King's first novel, Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a shy teen who realizes her supernatural gifts after suffering through a brutal school prank.
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In the terrifying adaptation of Stephen King's first novel, Carrie White (Sissy Spacek) is a shy teen who realizes her supernatural gifts after suffering through a brutal school prank.
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Paco and I called up Jacob Tobia, an LGBTQ-rights activist, feminist writer, and author of the forthcoming memoir Sissy: A Coming-Of-Gender Story, to get their perspective.
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Despite an ensemble of actors I love — Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek, Ben Mendelsohn and Kyle Chandler — something about its languid pacing required more patience than I had to give.
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Unlike most dramas, there's an intriguing senior skew to the cast, which includes the aforementioned O'Quinn, Sissy Spacek (as Deaver's adoptive mother) and Scott Glenn, playing the retired sheriff.
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He started it 287.50 years ago after helping a neighbor, Jack Fisk, the production designer on the film "The Thin Red Line" (and husband of the actress Sissy Spacek).
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On his way out of town, being chased by the cops, he stops to help a woman (Sissy Spacek) whose car broke down by the side of the road.
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"He loves his sissy," Kardashian West wrote in the caption of one video as Saint leaned in to kiss Chicago in a sweet video she shared on her Instagram Story.
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It was a world that — like its heroine, teen gymnast Sissy — frowned at the idea of too much feminine strength and power on display: "Hey, hey, hey!" chortled the announcer.
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He earned a fourth Oscar nomination for "The River" (1984), a drama about the travails of a farm family, directed by Mark Rydell and starring Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek.
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The 41-year-old actress told Fox News her latest show, which also stars Andre Holland, Jane Levy, Bill Skarsgard and Sissy Spacek, felt like a natural move for her.
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That was the only place that we could find a place, because if you [were a] sissy or a joto or whatever, they wouldn't rent to you outside the Tenderloin.
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Chris Christie as well as Jeb Bush and others have gone after Marco Rubio incessantly on this point, implying that the junior senator from Florida is some kind of sissy.
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Though written in the novel as a "chunky girl" and a "frog among swans," the screen Carrie was Sissy Spacek, who had starred in Terrence Malick's first film, "Badlands" (1973).
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The state news agency Xinhua denounces what it calls "niangpao," or "sissy pants," culture as "pathological" and said in an editorial last September that its popularity is eroding social order.
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One year, a farmer's burly son, who had protested that he didn't want to be in "any sissy school play," was browbeaten by his girlfriend into accepting a small part.
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But in Sissy Spacek's narration of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (HarperAudio; 12 hours, 17 minutes), it's Harper Lee's narrator, Scout, who becomes the listener's moral guiding light and closest confidante.
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You even characterize it as a biography filtered through the lens of you as "a 15-year-old sissy" observing the power that marginalized communities can exert on the mainstream.
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Introduced pulling off one of these small-scale capers in 1981, Forest pauses during his getaway to help a stalled motorist (Sissy Spacek), and strikes up a relationship with her.
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Along with Holland, Glenn, and Skarsgård, Castle Rock is set to star Melanie Lynskey and Sissy Spacek, who's back playing a Stephen King character after starring in Carrie back in 1976.
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After the Olympics, the 29-year-old won Season 26 of Dancing with the Stars (dancing to Rupaul's "Sissy that Walk" during the show's premiere), and is now a YouTube personality.
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I think coming together under a kind of scary term like 'sissy' is very triggering for some people, but also liberating in the same way that 'queer' is a triggering word.
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"Castle Rock" (July 25, Hulu) From Stephen King and J.J. Abrams, this 10-episode horror anthology series has an all-star cast that include Terry O'Quinn, André Holland and Sissy Spacek.
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At the time, many gay people decided that for our liberation movement to work, we don't want the sissy boys; we don't want the trans people; we don't want the lesbians.
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Anchored by powerhouse performances from Sissy Spacek and André Holland, among others, it's likely to inspire just as many tears — in sorrow and in joy — as it is gasps of fright.
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And, in what seems like the ultimate gamble, it's presented through the eyes of Ruth Deaver (Sissy Spacek), whose struggle with dementia sends the story flitting between the past and the present.
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Cy and I went up and scratched Michael Angello [sic] and that silly sissy Fra Angellico [sic] off the list and I'm sick to my stomach of Martyres [sic], Saints and Christ.
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The nods to King lore even extend beyond the fourth wall: Sissy Spacek, the star of Carrie, holds a key role; so does Bill Skarsgård, the Pennywise of 2017's It adaptation.
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Beneath the pleasantries, it was clear that Mike thought I was putting my son at risk of turning into what used to be called a sissy — a concept whose demise he regrets.
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"The studio didn't even want me to test Sissy," Mr. De Palma said of Ms. Spacek, who had come to audition with Vaseline smeared in her hair to look greasy and unglamorous.
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Last year, for example, she chose a silver raindrop design by Sissy & Marley to create an accent wall that was "fun without being over the top," for a child's bedroom in Westport.
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Even though I'm the person dishing out the degradation, it still gives me pause when I'm calling a client a tiny-dicked sissy, or calling a penis a clit as an insult.
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Instead of watching this show you could catch up on Bloodline, which stars Emmy-winning Star Wars guy Ben Mendelsohn, Norbert Leo Butz from Broadway, Jessica Lange's ex, Coach Taylor (!), and Sissy Spacek.
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In your documentary, Sissy Spacek talks about how you were an inspiration for feminists, because you were out there fighting for the working women and the moms—people that didn't have a voice.
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The streaming service will premiere the first episode, and afterward, creators and executive producers Sam Shaw and Dustin Thomason, and stars Sissy Spacek, Bill Skarsgård, Melanie Lynskey, and Jane Levy will discuss it.
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Her most recent, "Hollywouldn't" is visually a one-woman "Sissy That Walk" but I'm absolutely fine with that to be honest; it's so perfectly choreographed she even blinks in time with the beat.
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"I challenge Ronald Reagan to a duel to the death because Reagan is a punk, a sissy and a coward," Cleaver said during a Stanford University speech in a clip from the film.
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" She had been rubbing her caviar cream on Barron's cheeks — he was about 6 then — and Donald ignored her question and said, "Keep doing that and you'll turn that kid into a sissy.
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Queer women like Honey Dijon, The Black Madonna, Lauren Flax, and JD Samson are being invited to perform and DJ at places like Red Rocks in Denver, Movement festival in Detroit, Yo Sissy!
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Vows Sissy DeMaria remembers seeing a handsome well-dressed man staring at her in the customs line after flying with her daughter to Shanghai in September 2015 from Miami for a business convention.
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A few years later, our two new Chihuahua puppies, Sissy and Skeeter, quickly figured out how to pull the underside burlap from the wooden frame and create a little cave to hide in.
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Seated in the Houston crowd for Mr. O'Rourke was Sissy Farenthold, now 91, who ran twice for governor in the 1970s and was once the only woman in the Texas House of Representatives.
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There is a long history in popular culture of characters unraveling with gusto: Sissy Spacek in "Carrie"; John Wick, to some degree; Daenerys's razing the entirety of Kings Landing, just because she could.
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This Southern film noir is finely cast with Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek, Norbert Leo Butz and Linda Cardellini; it earned Emmy nominations for Mr. Chandler and Mr. Mendelsohn, who won in Season 2.
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J. Edgar Hoover is doing the same thing at the federal level, and while we never see Hoover's face we do hear him called a "high-flying sissy" by one of our heroes.
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But, Al says that's bad for Conor ... 'cause he doesn't think McGregor will get a rematch, saying The Notorious looked like too much of a "sissy" in the first fight to earn a runback.
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"My extended family @angiepontani, mother of my godchild Sissy and wife of @briannewmanny my buddy I've played jazz with in NY for over ten years told us she had a dream," the singer wrote.
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"All my love to you sweet, sweet @edward_enninful and all at @britishvogue for having my beautiful sissy @gigihadid and I share the March cover showing how similar we really are," Bella captioned her cover.
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Most time I just yelled at Sissy while Mykki reminded the sound guy this is what he does for a living every night and Claire did her best to make sure no one died.
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Last week, however, I made a long-awaited pilgrimage to the German city for Yo Sissy, a queer music festival in its second year that took place in two nightclubs from July 29-30.
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But the best fight of all is the one that goes down between reformed diamond robber Justice (Shannon Elizabeth) and her former girl gang sister Sissy (Buffy alumna and future Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku).
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By self-definition an AMAB ("assigned male at birth") transfeminine nonbinary person, Mx. Tobia's chatty and propulsive memoir of gender emergence, "Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story," is set to be published next spring.
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" Heizer, who is given to playful lamentation, complains about what New York is turning him into: "A decaffeinated, used-up, once-was quick-draw cowboy, a sissy boy who eats at Balthazar for lunch.
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Sissy and her fellow teammates, the Butterflies, resent the Rascals' reliance on flashy, crowd-pleasing tricks, but they console themselves with the reminder that after all, the Rascals aren't actually more talented than they are.
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Reeves first approached Hollinger in 2115 with the request to modify his Harley with a "sissy bar"—the backrest you can attach on the rear seat of a motorcycle so your passenger can lean back.
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Much of this involves the not-quite-legal enterprises of Reginald "Pop" Merrill (Tim Robbins, taking over the "Castle Rock actor who appeared in a famous King film adaptation" slot from Sissy Spacek in season 1).
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One is a love story for older people with Jane Fonda, his co-star in the 1967 romantic comedy "Barefoot in the Park," and the other is a lighter movie with Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek.
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In Sissy Spacek's breakout role, she plays Carrie White, the quiet, nervous high school teen dealing with a scarily pious mother back home and a gang of mean girls who make fun of her at school.
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With a cast that includes Sissy Spacek and Melanie Lynskey, and enough Kingly material to satisfy even Annie Wilkes, Castle Rock has much to recommend it—even if Hulu's previous King adaptation wasn't a Shining example.
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Deaver's only remaining connection to the place is his mother (Sissy Spacek), who now suffers from dementia (she fails to recognize Henry at first, assuring him "I'm not like the others, I adopted a black son").
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Actors: Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy IrvingDirector: Brian De Palma At the finale of a movie where audiences are sure that a quiet girl with telekinetic powers perished in a tragedy, audiences aren't awaiting a comeback.
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Along the way, Tucker connects with old compatriots, played by Danny Glover and Tom Waits, meets a love interest, played by Sissy Spacek, and evades the cops, led by the dogged detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck).
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Fair warning, you will definitely get quite a few people telling you to jump off your nearest bridge or that you're a sissy baby who can't accept that Dear Leader Trump will lead this country to prosperity.
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Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson earned Oscar nominations as a New England couple who deal with the murder of their college-age son (Nick Stahl) in an unexpected way in this best-picture contender from Todd Field.
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It has sold four million copies in the United States, was translated into 27 languages and was adapted twice for film — in 1981 and in a 2002 Disney production with Sissy Spacek, William Hurt and Alexis Bledel.
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In "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980), Sissy Spacek acted out the hard-won success of the country singer Loretta Lynn, whose journey from an impoverished childhood in a Kentucky mining town to country music stardom is American legend.
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In 1979, Apted, having directed a few successful films, moved to Hollywood to make "Coal Miner's Daughter," a Loretta Lynn biopic that earned seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and a Best Actress win for Sissy Spacek.
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Carrie herself, Sissy Spacek, and Togetherness' Melanie Lynskey, as a very special person from Henry's past with her own very special history, also turn in great performances, but the problem with Castle Rock is that it lacks stakes.
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Not only does it feature actors from previous King adaptations, like Skarsgård (Pennywise in the new It movies) and Sissy Spacek (Carrie in Carrie), it's also brimming with Easter eggs for fans of his other books and films.
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Lovely, too, is Forrest's budding relationship with widow Jewel (Sissy Spacek); the way they look at each other merits the warmth of director David Lowery's visual touch, as well as the sweet, jazzy flourishes of Daniel Hart's score.
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Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck co-star with Redford in the latest film from David Lowery (A Ghost Story, Ain't Them Bodies Saints), which is set in 1981 and styled to look like a film from that era.
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They'd always accepted me when I was a total sissy, so I knew they were allies of the LGBTQ community—but, for many, changing your sex is much more taboo than wearing a feather boa to middle school.
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She takes a blank-faced rube of a colleague, played by Sissy Spacek, under her wing, and an enigmatic artist (Janice Rule) becomes the third note in the chord, offering a vision of womanhood as generative, even motherly.
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In the director Brian De Palma's gore-soaked adaptation of Stephen King's debut novel, "Carrie," Sissy Spacek plays a misfit telekinetic teen who gets bullied by her classmates at school and abused by her Bible-thumping mother at home.
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Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck co-star with Redford in a fitting farewell to an onscreen legend as well as an archetype — the celebrity bank robber — that dominated the American consciousness for so long but is starting to fade.
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Castle Rock In a "Castle Rock" cast that includes the charismatic old pros Scott Glenn and Sissy Spacek and the quirky scene-stealer Melanie Lynskey, it's easy to overlook how quietly excellent André Holland has been as Henry Deaver.
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Driven by righteous anger and inspired by a spearheading real-life lawsuit, the movie rises above its fight-the-power formula with a fabulous cast — including Sissy Spacek, Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson — and a potent sense of place.
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Driven by righteous anger and inspired by a spearheading real-life lawsuit, the movie rises above its fight-the-power formula with a fabulous cast — including Sissy Spacek, Frances McDormand and Woody Harrelson — and a potent sense of place.
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Not with his pin-encrusted cap, his purple-dyed beard, his earrings, his cutoff T-shirts, his tagline — "No sissy sippin'" — and his cell phone with the number he'd give out to regular fans to text him for beers on demand.
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Here was a moody crime drama set amid the lush visuals of the Florida Keys, starring Sissy Spacek, Friday Night Lights' Kyle Chandler, Broadway legends Sam Shepard and Norbert Leo Butz, and '90s cult icons Linda Cardellini and Chloë Sevigny.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, creator Sam Levinson intended the scene to be an homage to the locker room scene in Carrie, in which dozens of naked teens sham Carrie (Sissy Spacek) after she gets her period for the first time.
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Goldie, Bette, and Diane, of course; Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Viola Davis, Sally Field, Maggie Smith, Susan Sarandon, Cherry Jones, Vanessa Redgrave, Penelope Wilton, Angela Bassett, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sissy Spacek, Barbra Streisand, Patricia Clarkson, Oprah Winfrey, Charlotte Rampling, Juliette Binoche.
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Scott Sickles is a two-time Writers Guild of America Award winner, a three-time Emmy nominee, an accomplished playwright and theater producer, and, despite achieving a black belt in tae kwon do in his early adolescence, basically a big sissy.
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Jacobs' reasons for casting Sissy Spacek date back even further, all the way back to when the designer was 13 years old and saw Carrie for the very first time, as he details in the Insta reveal of the campaign shot.
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He has two equally creaky confederates, played by Tom Waits and Danny Glover, and strikes up a romance with Jewel (Sissy Spacek), who proves susceptible to his charms even as she expresses some gentle skepticism about who he pretends to be.
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Sissy Spacek is Jewel, the widow who captures Tucker's fancy while not quite buying his tall tale, and Casey Affleck is John Hunt, the Texas detective determined to bring Tucker and his grizzled cohorts (Danny Glover and Tom Waits) to justice.
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In Jacob Tobia's "Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story," and Samantha Allen's "Real Queer America: LGBT Stories From Red States," these two young authors bust through the dominant L.G.B.T.Q. narratives with poise and pride to further reveal the community's wide diversity.
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SYDNEY, Australia — They were there for the Sissy Ball, a vogue-style dance-off that was last weekend's contribution to the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, a two-week gay pride festival that will culminate in a parade this Saturday.
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"Another trip around the sun with my sissy!!!" the Today show co-host wrote about her Sisters First co-author in an Instagram post along with three pictures of them together: one as girls, laughing and playing, and two as adults.
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As Deaver's adoptive mother Ruth (Sissy Spacek) struggles with her memory and fails to recognize who he is, she attempts to put him at ease by telling him that she's not like the others in town, that she even adopted a black son.
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Caro made her breakthrough critical hit Whale Rider in 2002, following it up with the star-studded North Country (Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sissy Spacek) in 2005, but — as is typical for female directors in Hollywood — her career largely idled after that.
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Among the prime artifacts: Lynn's original handwritten lyrics to "Coal Miner's Daughter," her hand-sewn dress later worn by Sissy Spacek in the Oscar-winning Lynn biopic of the same name, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom Lynn was awarded in 2013.
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About show-biz shamelessness (or not being ashamed, as I was ashamed of my sissy ways), about the great power that came with throwing, so to speak, your dick on the table and daring the Other to make a move, grab it.
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"As a lifelong sissy myself, I have never felt at ease amongst macho men," he announced at the start of the series, before putting himself in the midst of various stereotypical male social tribes, like cage fighters, prisoners, gang members and bankers.
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In the span of a single issue you'll be able to read an anarcho-punk primer, get to grips with the current scene in Snowdonia, read an in-depth interview with Gaika, and find out what the latest Sissy Spacek record sounds like.
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And he had written the screenplays for a number of films set in Texas, among them "Raggedy Man" (21980), in which Sissy Spacek played a character based on his mother, who raised her two sons as a small-town telephone switchboard operator.
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Even with adaptation-only easter eggs like Sissy Spacek (from 13's Carrie) and Bill Skarsgård (from 2017's It) starring in the series, Season 1's extended mystery, ambiguous ending, and mounting tension expertly evoked the feeling of reading one of King's novels.
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Palin contrasts Mr. Trump with Mr. Obama, has everything she relishes: Mockery of Mr. Obama's early years working in Chicago neighborhoods, right-wing accusations that the president has apologized for America, and a crude reference to him as a submissive sissy on foreign policy.
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But after identifying as trans, those "sissy" qualities were socially celebrated among friends, and if anything I've been pressured to abide by the binary — to be this hyper-femme, sexy, girly-girl, even though the gender role I cultivated for myself has never been heteronormative.
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Actress and close friend Sissy Spacek accepted the honor on Lynn's behalf at the event that also honored fellow Artist of the Year winners Carrie Underwood, Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert, Maren Morris, Little Big Town's Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman and Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott.
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"I've got two acting projects in the works: Our Souls at Night, with Jane Fonda, a love story for older people who get a second chance in life, and Old Man with a Gun, a lighter piece with Casey Affleck and Sissy Spacek," he said.
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" These red plastic lenses on a hinged frame promised to "make a 'sissy' of your toughest bird," providing "a rose colored world for straight ahead viewing" while swinging upwards when a bird bowed its head to allow "the chicken to see its food & water normally.
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The actress Sissy Spacek attempted to buy the film rights to "A Mind of My Own," but 20th Century Fox, the studio that produced "The Three Faces of Eve," stood in the way, claiming it owned the rights to her life story in perpetuity. Mrs.
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The retrospective, which runs through July 7, also includes Sam Peckinpah's hallucinatory, ultraviolent 1974 masterwork, "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia"; Terrence Malick's "Badlands," in which Oates played Sissy Spacek's father; Thomas McGuane's surreal seriocomedy "92 in the Shade," set in Key West, Fla.
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"The ridiculous condemnation of 'sissy pants' men shows the gender ideology of a patriarchal society that equates toughness with men and fragility with women," a journalist who goes by the name Wusi wrote in an online essay in September, voicing a widely shared opinion.
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Though boys too resist typical masculine norms, researchers discovered a greater willingness among girls to challenge gender stereotypes, Moreover, "tomboy" behavior in girls enjoyed more peer and parental acceptance than their male "sissy" counterparts, who faced significantly more stigma and rejection, the study said.
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We go to a lesbian-only community where women are living in cabins at a hidden, undisclosed location; we explore the sissy bounce scene in New Orleans and how it helps certain members of the community stay away from violence and channel their energy into dance instead.
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An incredible cast led by Sissy Spacek, Andre Hollande, and everyone's favorite scary boy Bill Skarsgård paid homage to the tone of King's work while weaving an...okay, a pretty confusing but also very cool story that left its audience with a delicious amount of unanswered questions.
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Castle Rock will feature themes and characters from across King's work, as well as a few new characters created just for the TV series and several actors from previous iterations of King adaptations, like Sissy Spacek (Carrie) and Bill Skarsgård (2017's It), playing new roles.
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Co-directed and co-written by Nancy Savoca, who won the Grand Jury Prize Award at Sundance for her debut feature True Love, the movie starred Moore herself, Sissy Spacek, Anne Heche, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Cher—with Cher making her directorial debut next to Savoca.
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Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek play an upper-middle-class New England couple whose lives are upended when their 21-year-old son (Nick Stahl) becomes involved with an older woman (Marisa Tomei) whose abusive, soon-to-be ex-husband isn't ready to let her go.
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This year drew the largest crowd of more than 40,000 guests over the weekend, and over 200 vendor booths selling a plethora of gay and drag-related products lined the hall in rows, with clever names referencing catchphrases from the show (Dropdead Gorgeous Ave, Realness Rd, Sissy That Walkway).
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Their songs deride misogynists ("I Hate Your New Boyfriend"), tackle male violence ("Sissy Fists") and, as a band fronted by a trans woman being loud and taking up space, act as a welcome antidote to the transmisogyny that seems to have infected so much of British public life lately.
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During the Cuban missile crisis, when Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze disparaged some of President John F. Kennedy's more cautious decisions by calling him a "pantywaist," he made it clear that anyone who let himself be governed by fear of setting off a nuclear war was a sissy.
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Here's how to get ready: Depending on your location, the kind of home you're looking for and details of your financial situation, you may be eligible for homebuyer assistance from the government, a lender or a nonprofit, said certified financial planner Sissy Osteen, an associate professor at Oklahoma State University.
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In their 1976 book, "The Forty-Nine Percent Majority: The Male Sex Role," the social scientists Deborah S. David and Robert Brannon laid out the cornerstones of "our culture's blueprint for manhood:" Be a Big Wheel; Be a Sturdy Oak; Give 'Em Hell; and No "Sissy Stuff" (quotation marks theirs).
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"In a way, the mission became telling a love story for Sissy and Scott," Shaw says, adding that that approach also opened up the story to further explore the bond between Ruth and Henry, not just in terms of the mother-son dynamic, but in terms of Ruth's old doubts and regrets.
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She attempts to call and tell the quantum physics scientists to send her back to her old dimension via their "Sissy" invention, but can't get through to them — so, she drives her car directly into the electrical circuit of her university, killing herself and effectively shutting down the change in time loop.
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" Skarsgard isn't the only King alum in the series — his co-stars include Carrie icon Sissy Spacek and Red Rose's Melanie Lynskey — and Spacek admits, "I was afraid that I would never have the opportunity to do something this twisted again … it's an homage to Stephen King and I certainly owe Stephen King a lot.
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I originally called it Hair, then renamed it Sissy, and by December the party had morphed into its current iteration as Cissy—an evolution that directly mirrored my own transition from a bearded faggot with serious femme leanings, to a non-binary queer, and now, a transwoman who regularly pumps herself full of estrogen.
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One of Ms. Beat's guest bedrooms, where Ms. Vine was staying during her "Golden Girlz" run, is a homage to the 1976 Brian De Palma horror film, "Carrie," with nearly 100 framed pieces of memorabilia, and a bedspread that supersizes a photo of the movie's stars, Piper Laurie and Sissy Spacek, in a familial embrace.
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Like previous campaigns from the designer, the images call upon some of his favorite fashion muses, like Cara Delevigne, mixed together with completely off-the-wall choices like Missy Elliott (wearing the reimagined Canada Goose Manitoba parka from his FW16 show) and Sissy Spacek, and taking a page out of Saint Laurent's book with Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson.
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The lineup also honors several musical films, including "The Last Waltz," Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary about a mammoth farewell concert for the Band; "Coal Miner's Daughter," the 1980 Michael Apted feature that won Sissy Spacek an Oscar for her portrayal of Loretta Lynn; and "Purple Rain," the 1984 rock music drama starring Prince and directed by Albert Magnoli.
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The ad presents some of the worst of male behavior -- a boy bullied and called a "sissy," audiences laughing along as a man on a sitcom grabs at a woman's behind, a businessman in a corporate boardroom condescending to a female employee -- while a voice over notes that men keep on "making the same old excuses": Boys will be boys.
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From Kyle Chandler in the lead role of John Rayburn, the tortured good son of the Rayburn clan who slowly found himself slipping into the moral muck, to Sissy Spacek as his mom, who basically got nothing to do in the first two seasons but has some very good scenes in season three, every single actor in the series was perfectly cast.
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The series is produced by JJ Abrams and will star a handful of actors from previous King-inspired works, like Carrie's Sissy Spacek and Bill Skarsgård, who recently pissed off real-life clowns and Russia's Burger King with his portrayal of Pennywise in IT. Hulu has yet to announce a release date for the show, but it is expected to premiere sometime in 2018.
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After being seemingly surrounded by lust-worthy Korean fashion in 2019 — including Bloomingdale's "Window Into Seoul" pop-up hosted by former R29er Alyssa Coscarelli and the likes of Sissy Saint Marie and Reese Blutstein sporting the nation's fashion exports in double-tap worthy Instagram posts — we approached the fashion-forward one-stop-shop for some insight on the best Korean designers to look out for.
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Just in time for Women's History Month, American Masters – Loretta Lynn: Still a Mountain Girl premieres on PBS on Friday, March 4 at 9pm, and offers a wealth of both new and old delights, from rare archival footage of Loretta way back when to studio footage, home movies, and a brand-new interviews and insights from Willie Nelson, Garth Brooks, Sissy Spacek, Reba McEntire, Miranda Lambert, Jack White, and more.
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If you're not interested in Margaret Atwood's dystopian Republic of Gilead, you can also check out these other popular Hulu original series: Castle Rock starring Sissy Spacek, Andre Holland, and Bill Skarsgard about a death row attorney; The Path with Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul that follows a fictional cult; The Looming Tower with Jeff Daniels about the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks; and Sarah Silverman's political talk show I Love You America.
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As we learned in a previous trailer, one of the prison's inmates, played by It's Bill Skarsgard, seems to have been caught up in a mystery that's subsuming the entire town, and which is accompanied by a host of tropes that will be familiar to King fans — everything from bloodthirsty dogs (Cujo) to creepy groups of children (Children of the Corn), ominous mist (The Mist), and a wide-eyed Sissy Spacek (Carrie).
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Bored with the farm and Depression-era small-town life, teased for being a "sissy" and confused and ashamed about his sexual identity, the young Ashbery found escape routes wherever he could: reading voraciously, going to the movies, inventing magical kingdoms with a small group of kids he called the "Knight Club," and poring over a Life magazine feature on Dada and Surrealism he fell in love with as a 9-year-old.
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" (Cindy Williams, Amy Irving, Sissy Spacek and Jodie Foster were among those who also read for the part.) Many of Ms. Fisher's line readings from that film have since become part of the cinematic canon: her repeated, almost hypnotic exhortation, "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope"; her wryly unimpressed reaction when Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) arrives in disguise to rescue her from a detention cell: "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?
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Richard looked me up and down (I was wearing a cute denim dress with some skinny jeans underneath, a femme Canadian tuxedo stunt) with a look that approved what he and his friends' living had cleared space for, lives spent acting up and showing out, moving America's needle across the record to a song fit for me to sissy myself into the glass majesty of the Poetry Foundation, and truly into the world of letters themselves, and not foreign, odd or alternative.
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" You may recognize these other mellifluous voices: • "Anna Karenina" read by Maggie Gyllenhaal • "Being There" read by Dustin Hoffman • "By Nightfall" read by Hugh Dancy • "The Dangerous Days of Daniel X" read by Milo Ventimiglia • "The End of the Affair" read by Colin Firth • "Gossip Girl" read by Christina Ricci • "The Handmaid's Tale" read by Claire Danes • "The Human Comedy" read by Meg Ryan • "To Kill a Mockingbird" read by Sissy Spacek • "The Member of the Wedding" read by Susan Sarandon • "Mrs.
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Mx. Hopkins and Mx. Bruce each get a song on the album reclaiming terms used against them ("Silly" and "Sissy"), and the first single, "Big Beautiful Day," opens with Mx. Hopkins on the offensive: There are men in every town who live to bring you downMake themselves feel bigger making you feel smallMy advice is to look incredibleAs you make their lives regrettable by being your damn self Like many of their punk predecessors, PWR BTTM has a fervor onstage that's hard to fully capture on record, and the band has spent the last year touring widely and at a furious clip (it played 186 shows last year).
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