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Gloria Jean Watkins (born September 25, 1952), better known by her pen name bell hooks (intentionally uncapitalized), is an American author, feminist, and social activist. She took her nom de plume from her maternal great-grandmother Bell Blair Hooks.
Her writing has focused on the interconnectivity of race, capitalism, and gender and what she describes as their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and class domination. She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. Primarily through a postmodern perspective, hooks has addressed race, class, and gender in education, art, history, sexuality, mass media and feminism.
Gloria Jean Watkins was born on September 25, 1952 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. She grew up in a working class family with five sisters and one brother. Her father, Veodis Watkins, was a custodian and her mother, Rosa Bell Watkins, was a homemaker. Throughout her childhood, she was an avid reader.
Ellen Philpotts-Page (born February 21, 1987), known professionally as Ellen Page, is a Canadian actress. Page received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Best Actress for her role as the title character in the film Juno. She won back-to-back Austin Film Critics Association Awards for Best Actress for her roles in Juno and Hard Candy.
She is also known for her starring roles in Inception, Super, Smart People, Whip It, and as Katherine "Kitty" Pryde in X-Men: The Last Stand. In addition, Page received attention in Canada for award-winning roles in Pit Pony and Marion Bridge, as well as television shows Trailer Park Boys and ReGenesis.
In 2008, Page was nominated for Time's 100 Most Influential People list and placed #86 on FHM's Sexiest Women in the World list, and moved up to #70 for 2010. In June 2008, Page was named on Entertainment Weekly's future A-List stars list.
Page was born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, the daughter of Martha Philpotts, a teacher, and Dennis Page, a graphic designer. She attended the Halifax Grammar School until grade 10, spent some time at Queen Elizabeth High School, and graduated from the Shambhala School in 2005. She also spent two years in Toronto, Ontario studying in the Interact Program at Vaughan Road Academy, along with close friend and fellow Canadian actor Mark Rendall. Growing up, Page enjoyed playing with action figures and climbing trees.
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"Elsa and Fred" is the story of two people who at the end of the road, discover that it's never too late to love and make dreams come true. Elsa has lived for the past 60 years dreaming of a moment that Fellini had already envisaged: the scene in 'La Dolce Vita' at the Fontana di Trevi. The same scene without Anita Ekberg in it, but with Elsa instead. Without Marcello Mastroiani but with that love that took so long to arrive. Fred has always been a good man who did everything he was supposed to do. After losing his wife, he feels disturbed and confused and his daughter decides that it would be best if he moves into a smaller apartment where he ends meeting Elsa. From that moment on, everything changes. Elsa bursts into his life like a whirlwind, determined to teach him that the time he has left to live -- be it more or less -- is precious and that he should enjoy it as he pleases. Fred surrenders to Elsa's frenzy, to her youth, to her boldness, to her beautiful madness. And this is how Fred learns how to live. When he learns about Elsa's terminal illness, he decides to make her dream come true and takes Elsa to Rome to reenact with her the famous scene at the Fontana di Trevi.
Keywords: 82-year-old, ampersand-in-title, character-name-in-title
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A young couple is arrested for a crime they didn't commit. They must endure abusive and inept police officers, crazy cell mates and a police station being turned upside down by a group of bank robbers trying to distract the cops. In trying to get out and prove their innocence they learn a bit about who they are, what they are supposed to do with their lives and the true meaning of success and happiness.
Sometimes you don't know who you could be
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Moronic American student Rusty arranges a student exchange program for his closest friends and him to study in Romania for six months and meet his Internet girlfriend Draguta. He travels with potheads Pete and Wang, Pete's girlfriend Lia and her twin sister Danni, the naive and romantic Newmar and his dippy girlfriend Lynne, the nerd Brady and his sexually confused roommate Mike, and crook Cliff. His friends actually intend to party. While traveling by train to Razvan they learn that five hundred years ago the vampire Radu lost his beloved Stephania, whose spirit was trapped in a music box. Ever since, Radu has kept Stephania's body while seeking the music box to bring her back. One of Radu's minions has recently retrieved the music box but, mortally wounded by the vampire slayer Teodora Van Sloan, drops the object in a gypsy's basket. Newmar unwittingly buys the music box and gives it to Lynne, who opens it and is possessed by Stephania. When all arrive at the university, they are welcomed by Dean Floca, who is a dwarf. Rusty meets Draguta and finds that she has a horrible hunchback. Not only is Dean Floca her father, he's a psychopath who keeps a torture chamber in the dungeon of his house for his daughter's jilting boyfriends. With Radu on his way - who is identical to Rusty - the brainless American students find themselves in a very messy and convoluted situation.
Keywords: ak-47, bare-breasts, blood-bank, blue-jeans, bodily-possession, castle, college-student, cosmetic-surgery, crossbow, curse
Euro-trashed! Euro-smashed! Euro-slashed!
College kids. The other white meat.
Rusty: Here, look. Got something for ya. The Codex Eroticon. A classic. Written like 1000 years ago. Makes the Kama Sutra look like Martha Stewart's prison notes. Ooh! You know what else I got? It's erotic comic books that I've been working on in conjunction with my memoirs.::Newmar: [reading the cover] "Uncensored and raw?"::Rusty: [reconsidering] You know what? The book'll do ya.::Newmar: I don't know about this.::Rusty: TAKE the Codex Eroticon, please! There's a legend that surrounds this hallowed tome, Newmar. They say that the moves contained within are so powerful that you can literally blow a chick's mind, turning her into some kind of raging nympho.::Newmar: Is that true?::Rusty: Well, that's what Tony told me at the Twat-A-Rama, and he would never lie to me.
Cliff: [shot with an arrow] Hey, call me a nurse while you're at it.::Teodora Van Sloan: Okay. You're a nurse.
If you lost it all, where would you end up?
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Mob boss Primo Sparazza has taken out a hefty contract on Buddy "Aces" Israel, a sleazy magician who has agreed to turn state's evidence against the Vegas mob. The FBI, sensing a chance to use this small-time con to bring down big-target Sparazza, places Aces into protective custody-under the supervision of two agents dispatched to Aces' Lake Tahoe hideout. When the word of the price on Aces' head spreads into the community of ex-cons and cons-to-be, it entices bounty hunters, thugs-for-hire, deadly vixens and double-crossing mobsters to join in the hunt. With all eyes on Tahoe, this rogues' gallery collides in a comic race to hit the jackpot and rub out Aces.
Keywords: 1950s, bail-bondsman, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, bathtub, betrayal, black-and-white-scene, black-comedy, black-humor
May the best hitman win.
The hit goes down 2007.
Nobody gets away clean.
The Only Way To Even The Score... Is To Take Buddy Israel Out Of The Game
When you're worth $1 million dead, you don't have long to live.
Let There Be Blood
He just met ten hitmen after his own heart.
The hit goes down January 26.
Warren: I feel like you're eyeballin' me, dawg! I don't like punk bitches eyeballin' me! You got beef? You got beef? You want some of this?
Bernard "Beanie" Alfonso: Damnit! I didn't realize how fucked up I was till I just saw your ass, girl. You went from Beyonce to Bigfoot in less than 6 fucking hours!::Hooker: Fuck you, pussy!::Bernard "Beanie" Alfonso: Hey! We did that dance, bitch!
Rip Reed: ...I bet you guys got a lot of stories, right? I don't. I grew up soft with the private schools and the little blazers, you know, and everyone "talked things out," you know? No one ever threw any blows - still to this day, never punched in the face, imagine that. I'm pretty much a pantywaist. I don't say this to be self-deprecating, I just, you know, don't have much of an opinion of myself. I'd much rather be like you guys, you know, bar fighters and big, swinging dicks, takin' care of shit. You know, sadly this is it, you know, it's disgusting - "Thanks, God! Dog-pile of piss-poor physique on top of a small cock and hereditary alcoholism, 'preciate it!" I'm babbling, I do that drunk, please forgive.
Hollis Elmore: You shot me, and you murdered my friends... and you dumped us in the lake.::Darwin Tremor: Pretty much.
Darwin Tremor: [manipulating Dupree's mouth so Jack seems to be speaking to him] Oh hell yeah, we was just at the wrong place at the wrong time, so don't feel so bad, chief.
[Messner has learned the truth about Sparazza and is upset about losing his partner for nothing]::Richard Messner: You tell me something. Is he the Rosetta Stone? He's gonna blow the lid off the last sixty years?
Buddy 'Aces' Israel: You with me, baby?
Buddy 'Aces' Israel: No, I tell you something. You know what? Listen to me. Listen. The deal is off in five minutes unless they give us something.::Morris Mecklen: I don't know what to say to you. It is what it is.::Buddy 'Aces' Israel: Bullshit! It isn't! I am not... I don't know how to say it any fucking louder. I am not giving up my boys. All right. End of fucking song.::Morris Mecklen: And they are bricking us on that particular issue, pally. I've been cohabitating with these people for the last thirty hours. These are the premier prick cocksuckers of all time. I feel beaten by them; I feel bloodied. You're just gonna have to play ball.::Buddy 'Aces' Israel: No. I don't have to do shit, which includes cooperating with these fuckers, until I get what I want! Listen to men. If we have to give them someone, give them Hugo, all right? I can take that, because he needs that regimented prison shit that they'll give him.::Buddy 'Aces' Israel: It's bigger than that. They want everybody. Ivy, Beanie, Hugo, the works.::Buddy 'Aces' Israel: This is not a fucking swap meet, all right Morrie? I'm not giving up my boys and you fucking know that. I gave you Sparazza. I'm gonna give them Sparazza and the west-coast syndicate gift-wrapped. Get it fucking done!::Morris Mecklen: Listen to me, kid. Let's not antagonize this any more, okay? If we push this, they are gonna revoke your protective status and that nullifies any agreement we got. And that is mate. Checkmate, kiddo.::[Israel drops his cell phone in despair and rests his head on the piano keys behind him]
Stanley Locke: Sparazza introduced Israel into the life. Gave him his first big break onstage, brought him up through the ranks. And Israel played the situation very shrewdly, slowly amassing the loyalties of Sparazza's top men, with the idea of toppling the throne.::Donald Carruthers: You know, I've seen some stupid moves, but...::Stanley Locke: Well, you spend your life pulling rabbits out of hats and sawing people in half, anything seems possible. Israel wanted to touch something real, something dangerous. But what he wound up doing was splitting up the family into dual factions. Sparazza on one side, Israel on the other. The infighting that followed drew the attention of every investigatory body operating under the canopy of the federal government. Presently, we have...::FBI Aid: Sixteen state and federally-funded agencies running concurrent criminal probes on select members of La Cosa Nostra.::Stanley Locke: With Israel being the target of virtually every one. His testimony has the potential of blowing the lid off of what's left of La Cosa Nostra in this country. That alone warrants total immunity from prosecution and a vanishing act with the Witness Protection Program.
Stanley Locke: Pasquale Acosta. Blood-money mercenary. His countrymen have dubbed him the more dubious "El Estrago" - "The Plague". American educated. Fluent in over a dozen languages. Freelanced for the CIA. Noted for his legendary torture techniques. When he was caught by the SAS in Northern Ireland, in prison he chewed off his fingertips to the bones, so he couldn't be printed or ID'd by Interpol.
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A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym "Olympic", where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universum championships a month ahead. The rich sunny-boy Craig Blake is brought in by the syndicate as a dummy to buy the gym. But then he starts to like the people and falls in love with Joe's friend Marie-Tate.
Keywords: actor-breaking-typecast, actress-breaking-typecast, bare-butt, bare-midriff, based-on-novel, birmingham-alabama, black-panties, body-building, bound-and-gagged, bra-less
If you've got an appetite for life:
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Clint falls in love with a woman who has arrived to the apartment. The combination of love and spring, makes Clint forget about his duties, leading one of the flats to become floodded. The woman turns out to be a dangerous thief who is hidding her partner in a suitcase. Without wanting it, Clint spoils their plan and gets them caught by the police.
Keywords: 1950s, apartment, apartment-building, clint-clobber, criminal, crook, deceit, deception, dope, duplicity
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All the hot gamblers are in town, and they're all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week's incarnation of "The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York"; the only problem is, he needs $1000 to get the place. Throw in Sarah Brown, who's short on sinners at the mission she runs; Sky Masterson, who accepts Nathan's $1000 bet that he can't get Sarah Brown to go with him to Havana; Miss Adelaide, who wants Nathan to marry her; Police Lieutenant Brannigan, who always seems to appear at the wrong time; and the music/lyrics of Frank Loesser, and you've got quite a musical. Includes the songs: Fugue for Tinhorns, "Luck Be a Lady", "Sit Down, You're Rocking the Boat".
Keywords: 1920s, alcohol, band, barber-shop, based-on-short-story, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-short-story, bet, bible, book
Nathan Detroit: I have been running the crap game since I was a juvenile delinquent.::Miss Adelaide: Speaking of chronic conditions, happy anniversary.
Lieutenant Brannigan: [to Big Jule at Mindy's] Where are you from, sir?::Big Jule: East Cicero, Illinois!::Lieutenant Brannigan: And what is your occupation?::Big Jule: I'm a scoutmaster!::Lieutenant Brannigan: Don't ever help my mother across the street!
Nathan Detroit: Everybody in the whole world who hates me is now here.
Sky Masterson: One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to show you a brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken. Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider.
Harry the Horse: I just acquired five thousand fish.::Nicely Nicely Johnson: Five thousand? If it can be told, where did you take on this fine bundle of lettuce?::Harry the Horse: I have nothing to hide. I collected the reward on my father.::Benny Southstreet: It is an advantage to have a successful father. Nobody ever wanted my old man for as much as five hundred.
Sky Masterson: For two weeks I gambled in green pastures. The dice were my cousins and the dolls were agreeable with nice teeth and no last names.
Sky Masterson: The companionship of a doll is a pleasant thing even for a period of time running into months. But for a close relationship that can last us through all the years of our life, no doll can take the place of aces back to back.
Sky Masterson: I am not putting the knock on dolls. It's just that they are something to have around only when they come in handy... like cough drops.
Sky Masterson: Figuring weight for age, all dolls are the same.
Sky Masterson: We have time to catch the last plane back to New York.::Sergeant Sarah Brown: People miss planes. It happens.::Sky Masterson: Yeah? It also happens that people win with loaded dice.::Sergeant Sarah Brown: I know what I'm doing.::Sky Masterson: Do you, kid?::[kisses her nose]::Sky Masterson: I don't.
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Petty Officer Tom Garrison ('Tom Seidel' (qv))of the Merchant Marines returns on shore leave to his cattle ranch, and brings with him shipmates "Stubby" ('Eddie Quillan' (qv)),"Slugger" ('Murray Alper' (qv)),"Punchy" ('Shemp Howard' (qv)), and "Lucky" ('Tom Kennedy (I)' (qv)). At the ranch, Tom finds that because of WWII manpower shortage, women have taken over operating the ranch. Heading the cowgirls are 'Patty Andrews' (qv), 'Maxene Andrews' (qv), 'Laverne Andrews' (qv), Lou Ferguson ('Elyse Knox' (qv)) and Abigail ('Minerva Urecal' (qv)). Lou tells Tom that a large number of cattle have been mysteriously disappearing, and they decide to hire neighboring rancher Pasqualito ('Leo Carrillo' (qv)), who makes claims to being a great detective, and his assistant, Ogala ('Frank Lackteen' (qv)), an Indian. Tom's cattle show up on Pasqualito's ranchero, but he has an excuse.
Keywords: actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-name-with-character, actress-shares-last-name-with-character, b-movie, b-western, barbecue, california
THE GALS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE OLD WEST WITH RHYTHM!
It's Rootin', Tootin' Swing and Sway!
A Rodeo Round-up of Rhythm and Saddle Sweeties! (original ad)
A rhythm-rockin' round-up of hard ridin'. hard-lovin' hombres! (original ad)
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Two bumbling service station attendants are left as the sole beneficiaries in a gangster's will. Their trip to claim their fortune is sidetracked when they are stranded in a haunted house along with several other strangers.
Keywords: abbott-and-costello, animated-title-sequence, bag-of-money, bus, candle, chase, deception, dice-game, doctor, fired-from-the-job
9 ALL-TIME SONG HITS (re-release print ad - all caps)
THOSE SLAP-HAPPY SCREAMSTERS GO A'HAUNTING! (original print ad - all caps)
Here's That ALL-AMERICAN LAUGH TEAM! (original ad)
YOUR FAVORITE FUNSTERS give you more merriment than in 'BUCK PRIVATES" or 'IN THE NAVY"...with their merriest cast! (original ad)
A-HAUNTING WE WILL GO! Your blues won't stand a ghost of a chance...as they top "Buck Privates" and "In the Navy."! (original poster)
THOSE FUNATICS ARE HERE AGAIN! Forget the News! Shake the Blues! (original poster)
THOSE FUNATICS ARE HERE AGAIN! Your blues won't stand a ghost of a chance! (original ad)
Ferdie: He's all tied up and he's got a something in his mouth.::Chuck: He had a gag in his mouth.::Ferdie: If he did he never got a chance to tell it.
Camille: What's on him, a cobweb?::Ferdie: It ain't a wedding veil.
Ferdie: I called 42 Oh, Chucks and you didn't come in.::Chuck: I came in as soon as you hollered "Oh, Chuck!"::Ferdie: From now on, don't wait for me to say "Oh, Chuck!" Get in here on the "Oh!"
Camille: You boys ready to leave?::Ferdie: I was ready to leave when he put the key in the front door to come in!
Ferdie: Look, from now on, keep one eye on that candle, another eye on that one, and with the other eye watch me!
Ferdie: [to Camille] With one eye, watch that candle, with the other eye watch the other candle, and with the other eye, watch me.
Ferdie: [to Chuck] I was playing choo-choo train! Aww you never let me have any fun.
Camille: Are you a married man?::Ferdie: No.::Camille: Neither am I. [to Chuck] He's old enough, isn't he?::Ferdie: Oh sure I'm old enough, I play games, I play post office.::Camille: Post office? That's a kids' game.::Ferdie: Not the way I play.
Ferdie: [looking at an old house with no paint] What did I tell you, Chuck? Anyplace painted dark brown, I never liked it.
Ferdie: Somebody blew out my candle!::Chuck: That was the wind.::Ferdie: Since when does the wind eat garlic?
Why aren't we making the love we're in?
It could be the last time
You never want to throw that away
Why aren't we making the love we're in?
Less heart to heart, and more brain to brain
If you're feeling tender, I'm Novacain
Lets crash the party, I'll crash the plane
Why aren't we making the love we're in?
It could be the last time
You never want to throw that away
Why aren't we making the love we're in?
Even a beggar must have to choose.
They say you shouldn't wager more than you can lose
Make mine a double, just hold the booze
Why aren't we making the love we're in?
It could be the last time
You never want to throw that away
Why aren't we making the love we're in?
In, in
Anyone can make it but we're
In, in
Some will even fake it but we're
In, in
Why don't we just make the love we're in?
Why don't we just make the love we're in?
Love rain down on me,on me,down on me [4x]
Met him on a thursday,sunny afternoon
Cumulus clouds, 84 degrees
He was brown,deep
Said he wanted to talk about my mission
Listen to my past lives (Word?)
Took me on long walks to places where butterflies rest easy
Talked about Moses and Mumia
Reparations,blue colors,memories of shell topped adidas
He was fresh,like summer peaches
Sweet on my mind like block parties and penny candy
Us was nice and warm,no jacket,no umbrella,just warm
At night we would watch the stars
And he would pyhsically give me each and every one
I felt like cayenne pepper,red,hot,spicy
I felt Dizzy, Sonya, heaven, and Miles between my thighs
Better than love,we made delicious
He me had,had me he
He had me tongue tied
I could hear his rhythm in my thoughts
I was his sharp, his horn section
His boom and his bip
And he was my love
Love rain down on me,on me,down on me
The rain was fallin and,and slowly and sweetly and stinging my eyes
And I could not see that he became my voodoo priest
And I was his faithful concubine
Wide open,wide,loose like bowels after collard greens
The mistake was made
Love slipped from my lips
Dripped down my chin and landed in his lap
And us became new
Now me non-clairvoyant and in love
Made the coochie easy and the obvious invisible
The rain was falling
And I couldn't see the season changing
And the vibe slipping off it's axis
Our beautiful melody became wildly staccato
The rain was falling and I could not see
That I was to be plowed and sowed and fertilized
And left to drown in his sunny afternoon
Cumulus clouds,84 degrees,melody
Love rain down on me,on me,down on me [2x]
[Mos Def]
I stretched my arms towards the sky like blades of tall grass
The sun beat in between my shoulders like carnival drums
I sat still in hopes that it would help my wings grow
So then I would really be fly
And then she arrived
Like day break inside a railway tunnel
Like the new moon,like a diamond in the mines
Like high noon to a drunkard,sudden
She made my heart beat in a now-now time signature
Her skinny canvas for ultarviolet brushstrokes
She was the sun's painting
She was a deep cognac color
Her eyes sparkled like lights along the new city
She lips pursed as if her breath was too sweet
And full for her mouth to hold
I said,"You are beautiful,distress of mathematics."
I said,"For you, I would peel open the clouds like new fruit."
And give you lightning and thunder as dowry
I would make the sky shed all of its stars like rain
I would clasp the constellations around your waist
And I would make the heavens your cape
And they would be please to cover you
They would be pleased to cover you
I got away from coming to where I was coming from.
I got away. We're just thinking of our selves.
We're just taking side. We're just just selfish.
I got away. You leave.
Everyone seems to just be a product of their enviroment or their surroundings.
I know that's a well-known fact,
But it's sick that so many kids will go through the motions.
I mean, what are you trying to and what are you trying to prove?
Without question, if you're not really concerned, then okay,
But it seems to me we are just wasting our time,
Sometimes it's good to think
That I am at least a little bit different from most of my generation.
Nah, u ain the ordinary dime piece
Look, this is more than just a line see
Be comfortable, walk into it blindly
You the piece of the puzzle that blinds me
Got me twisted, doin all the right things
Captivated by yours eyes and ye light skin
Beautiful in the sun and when the lights dim
Searchin for the right girl, this is where the flight rims
Had a rough past. I'll repair the damages
Let me heal them, not with flimsy bandages
We could handle dem, the good and the challenges
With the negatives and positives, itll balance
Love... to get to you I need a spaceship
Cause the place you take me got me feelin weightless
We could touch dogs[? ] name yo consolations
Initiate the move with an invitation
[Chorus:]
Do you wanna da-a-ance
Take it real slo-o-ow
Find me on the safe side,
Honey you should know
Somebody told me it was love rain
Somebody told me it was love rain
[x2]
Nah, I ain lookin fo the flawless
Buh I want someone to walk with
The only time widout trippin what the clock says
And my body language speaks that I'm harmless
And I know that it's obvious I'm after ye
If I'm noticin yo hair and yo maniqures
Yup, and the other guys were amateurs
Test me on my physical and my mental stamina
Love, the way you look is jus a part of it
Love, the way you are is the heart of it
Can we build and fortified polish it
So we could love and minimize the audience[? ]
Let the situation blindless,
Leave the drama and the tears fall behind this
Sorta easy cause the way ye smile is timeless
People look for gold but I found me a diamond
[Chorus:]
Do you wanna da-a-ance
Take it real slo-o-ow
Find me on the safe side,
Honey you should know
Somebody told me it was love rain
Somebody told me it was love rain