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Just to prove that it isn't always sunny in Malta this shot of Paramount Coaches Plaxton Excalibur bodied Dennis Javelin LCY 860 was taken last Sunday 16th October when its Cruise party passengers had just a very wet St.Michaels Fort.
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The Mutara Nebula battle is perhaps the greatest space battle in all of cinema.
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Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Ricardo Montalban, Walter Koenig, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley, and Ike Eisenmann. Directed by Nicholas Meyer.
The year is 1982. It has been thirteen years since the original Star Trek has gone off the air. Three years ago, Star Trek: The Motion Picture hit and while it was a financial success, it was grossly over-budgeted ($46 million) and criticized for being too long, too boring, and too god damn weird.
So they slashed the budget down to a quarter of the previous film and removed Gene Roddenberry from the lead creative role. Instead, they made Harve Bennett, a new Paramount producer who had never seen an episode of the original series, the figurehead in getting a second Star Trek movie off of the ground. What we have here is a perfect storm of things that should create a terrible movie.
So it’s no small miracle that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is not only good, but is easily the best Trek movie that’s ever graced the screen. Bennett threw out a lot of the esoteric trappings of the first film and the team brought on board, including director Nicholas Meyer, were also unfamiliar with the Trek universe. Gone were the kitschy 60s/70s outfits (many of the costumes from The Motion Picture were altered and dyed to make the new uniforms). Also gone were the abstract threats. Pulling out a villain from seemingly random in the original run of the show, Wrath of Khan was going to be as direct and reductionist a sequel to the show as was possible.
This new look of the concept of Star Trek recast the Federation as a much more military organization. The uniforms were more naval. The ships more complex and more delicate. The Enterprise became cramped and bustling, crawling with incidental crewman running a myriad of tasks. What Wrath of Khan did was turn Star Trek into a naval warfare movie in space.
I imagine most people are already familiar with the basic plot of Wrath of Khan. Khan Noonian Singh (a chesty, magnificently hammy Ricardo Montalban), a genetically altered egomaniacal superman from Earth’s distant past, has been marooned on a planet for 15 years after a run in with Kirk and company during the original run of the show. The USS Reliant, looking for a barren planet to test a new terraforming device (sprearheaded by an old flame of Kirk’s and his heretofore unknown son), encounter Khan and his crew of survivors who quickly proceed to capture the Reliant and use it to exact revenge on Kirk.
What happens next is a series of intricate cat and mouse submarine battles cast in a sci-fi setting, great Shakespearean scenery chewing by one of film’s greatest sci-fi villains, and a great personal sacrifice by one of the most enduring pop culture characters. It’s great stuff, full of high drama and brilliant character beats, serious but not ponderous, clever by not showy, the textbook case of less is more.
What other movie has the gall to cast its two opposing leads in a situation that never brings them face to face? Kirk and Khan taunt and challenge and curse each other from across the reaches of space but never share a single scene. What other movie has the restraint to limit itself to the quiet predatory climax in an obscuring nebula? Both ships blindly gliding by each other in silence, one mistake away from annihilation? Wrath of Khanis as tense as any thriller, cast in a familiar franchise turned into something vital and exciting by fresh talent and fresh ideas.
But you know all this, so let’s start at the beginning, where the truly special ideas in Wrath of Khan lie. From the start we’re introduced to a younger group of Starfleet cadets, competent and ready, in a training simulation of the infamous no-win Kobayashi Maru scenario. Saavik (Kirstie Alley before she became a lazy tabloid joke) is being groomed as Spock’s protegee, commanding the Enterprise in this simulation, causing everyone aboard to die by her actions.
James Kirk, now an admiral and instructor, chides Saavik about her approach to the scenario. Kirk is, to date, the only cadet who ever defeated the test, meant to train cadets the reality of sacrifice when command leads you to no sure victory. Kirk’s legacy is already well established as the man who has cheated death countless times, a man who doesn’t believe in no-win scenarios.
Yet we open on a Kirk in darkness. He’s bored and aging at the academy. He accepts gifts from his closest friends begrudgingly on his 50th birthday. To Kirk, all this is a defeat, a quiet retreat from the adventure he always considered his right. Which is why when the Enterprise receives a distress call while on a training mission, Kirk takes control of the ship and steers her towards the science outpost where Khan lays in wait.
What the film so carefully does is lay open the truth that Kirk isn’t quite the man he used to be. He’s not as fast, but he’s not as rash. Confronted with a son he didn’t know he had, he’s left to wonder just how many opportunities his lifestyle has made him forsake. As much as command is about making the decisions day to day, it is about the decisions left at the wayside.
It is when all hope is lost that Kirk reveals to Saavik how he beat the Kobayashi Maru–he reprogrammed the scenario to allow him to win. Saavik protests that it was cheating, Kirk retorts with the fact that he got a commendation for creative thinking. And in the depths of the battle between Kirk and Khan, spanning across space between two men wrapped up in their own legacy, Kirk cheats his way to victory again.
But this time he doesn’t escape cleanly, as the victory costs him the life of Spock. For Kirk, who had the galaxy as his plaything for decades, the realities of the choices, the realities of life looming behind all the adventures, come crashing down around him. When asked after Spock’s burial among the stars how he feels Kirk replies “I feel … young.” It is the risk and the finality that provides the spark of life, not the adventure itself.
What Wrath of Khan manages to do is to humanize what was quickly becoming remote and abstract. Star Trek was never about the aliens or the adventure so much as it was about what it means to be human. At the best of times it remembers its better self, and brings that to the forefront, and becomes something more than the fandom or the slightly silly space western it was originally conceived as. That is what makes Wrath of Khan so singular, and so special.
G547LWU ex Wallace Arnold fame snapped a few months ago, rare sight getting the Paramount rear without any mods
I've often wondered why EFE didn't make a Paramount in this livery. It goes really well with OOC's Premiere. I made two and ended up selling both. Wish I had kept one now. Suppose I could always do another!!!.
'85 62cm, Columbus tubing, Campy dropouts
built for 700C
CyclArt paint job with the name Vernon W. Tynes on the NDS chainstay (tried locating the fellow, to no avail).
From the serial and info on their site (waterfordbikes.com/now/home.php?newstype=paramountdating), it was #43 made in October '85 ("85J43"), its a Paramount ("K"), made in Waterford ("W") and has and a large fork ("E")
Drivetrain specs:
Campagnolo Super Record black label rear derailuer
Campagnolo Nuovo Record front derailuer
Campagnolo Super Record titanium spindle bottom bracket
Campagnolo Nuovo Record cranks with 170mm crankarms
Simplex SLJ retrofriction down tube shifters
Brakes:
Campagnolo Super Record brake levers, with clean gum hoods
Campagnolo Mirage brakes
Wheels:
Campagnolo hubs laced to Ambrosio 19 elite rims
Panaracer Pasela 700C x 25mm gumwall tires
Other bits:
Campagnolo pedals (with dust caps), MKS cages, and white leather straps
Campagnolo aero seatpost
Stronglight Galli headset
Cardiff white leather saddle with copper rivets (similar to Brooks B-17 Special)
Velo Orange "Retro" waterbottle cages (x2)
Cockpit:
Nitto lugged quill stem from Rivendell
Nitto heat treated dirt drop bars wrapped with white NOS Benotto bar tape
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Oakland's Paramount Theatre is one of the finest remaining examples of Art Deco design in the United States. Designed by renowned San Francisco architect Timothy L. Pflueger and completed in late 1931, it was one of the first Depression-era buildings to incorporate and integrate the work of numerous creative artists into its architecture and is particularly noteworthy for its successful orchestration of the various artistic disciplines into an original and harmonious whole.
Walking into the main lobby, with its gold ornamentation along the walls, curving staircase, and glowing light fixtures, is like taking a trip back through Old Hollywood.
A 58-foot (18 m) high grand lobby, with side walls made of alternating vertical bands of warm green artificial light panels and muted red piers, and with both ends and ceiling decorated with an almost luminescent grillwork, forms a regal introduction. Rare and costly materials are everywhere: hand-adzed quartered oak, Hungarian ash crotch, bird's-eye maple, Balinese rosewood, Malaysian teak, and Italian marble. The auditorium is unmatched for its refulgent splendor, with gilded galaxies of whorls and gold walls with sculpted motifs from the Bible and mythology.
From multimedia to video, security or office settings, Paramount workstations fit seamlessly into your environment. Increase your operator’s workspace and maximize their performance.
Laminate with Safeguard Top Panel
Paramount credenzas come standard with our durable
laminated Safeguard Edge top panel. Our proprietary
Endurance Plus and Comfort Edge top panels are also
available as an option.
Base Racks
Welded EIA standard 19” wide base units offer 24-1/2” (14U)
of rack space with front and rear tapped rack rails. The base
racks come in one, two and three bay standard configurations
and can be combined to create larger solutions.
Vented Bottom Base Panel
The vented base provides ample air flow for proper cooling
of the electronics. The base also allows for optional 3” casters
and 120mm fans to be integrated into the credenza.
Front & Rear Tapped Rack Rails
Paramount is equipped with front and rear 12-gauge tapped
rack rails for equipment installation. Rails are stamped with
numbered rack increments for easy equipment installation.
"Kung Fu Panda 2" (2011) [trailer].
NOTE: Rights now owned by DreamWorks Animation with Universal Pictures currently handling distribution.
"Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" (2013) [trailer].
NOTE: Happy 100th birthday, Paramount Pictures!
"Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" (2013) [trailer]. The first Paramount film to be exclusively distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
NOTE: I hate "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters".
"A Thousand Words" (2012) [trailer]. The last DreamWorks film to be distributed by Paramount Pictures.
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Built in 1928, Seattle’s iconic Paramount Theater was a product of the “Roaring 20s” and the growth in demand for movie theaters. It was designed by Coliseum Theatre architect B. Marcus Priteca, and it represents Movie Palace architecture at its very best with crystal chandeliers, marble stonework and luxurious velvet draperies.
Unlike many similar grand movie theaters of that era, the Paramount has remained open throughought the years, kept its original design thanks to a recent refurbishment, and continues to successfully play host to movies (and many silent movie retrospectives even in this day and age), concerts, musicals and even rock concerts. Its distinctive phallic-like neon sign and billboard are rightly protected under the national register - and this one features a superb concert I went to recently by local Tacoma-raised artist Neko Case, the former New Pornographers chanteuse.
Leica M7 & 35mm Summicron
Kodak Portra 160NC
I bought this near-mint 1974 Schwinn Paramount P-15 at a yard sale last Memorial Day for $20. It was in remarkably original condition, obviously having been put away in the back of someone's garage after having been ridden only a few miles. Gorgeous Reynolds 531 frame with excellent chromed lugs and fork ends, this is a testament to good old-fashioned American worksmanship. Completely Campagnolo equipped except for the Weinmann center-pull brakes and original "Schwinn-Approved" Shimano rear derailleur, this is a touring model that features the rare Campy triple crankset and Weinmann 27X1-1/4 alloy rims with Schwinn high-pressure tires. Brooks Professional saddle, still rock-hard, and Cinelli bars and stem round out this once-in-a-lifetime find. This bike is as it left the store in 1974, complete with the Schwinn stem-mounted levers and auxiliary brake levers. There was even a Pletscher rack.
Williams of Camborne Plaxton Paramount 4000 MJI 6251 was seen coming through Dover Docks in June, 2002. It had been new to National Travel East as C351 DWR.
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Abbeyway Plaxton Paramount 3500 Mercedes Seen at The Mercedes garage at Outlane Huddersfield in a sleet in March 1994. Smart looking coach nice livery.
A real early Paramount on a Ford R1114 chassis, most sat on R1115's. This motor new to Gray of Hoyland Common was UWB434Y & apart from the moss still fires up, another for the rescuers?
652 Columbia St., New Westminster, BC.
Description of Historic Place:
The Paramount Theatre is a modest motion picture theatre building with prominent marquee and neon Paramount signage. Built on the steep slope of the south side of Columbia Street, the main commercial street in New Westminster's historic downtown core, it has a two storey form on the front facade, with three storeys at the rear.
Heritage Value:
The Paramount Theatre is historically important as one of the oldest surviving motion picture theatre buildings in B.C. Established in 1903 by Frank Kerr, the Edison Theatre moved into the western half of the 1899 Dupont Block in 1910. It was common at this time to convert existing spaces into theatres rather than construct new buildings specifically for that use, as there was concern that the movies would prove to be a passing fad. In 1948 the theatre was leased to Paramount-Famous Players, who completed interior and exterior renovations, including a new neon sign with the name Paramount Theatre. The front facade recalls a period when New Westminster's downtown was still a regional commercial, retail and entertainment centre, prior to the arrival of the automobile-oriented suburban shopping malls. Downtown areas such as Columbia Street contained all essential services for the expanding population, with movie houses being an essential cultural element. The Paramount Theatre was highly significant to the community, as television was not yet widely available and movies were the main form of public entertainment. Despite its closure as a movie theatre, the Paramount continues to be used for entertainment purposes.
Furthermore, the Paramount Theatre is significant for its contribution to the consistent and distinctive built form of Columbia and Front Streets, which dates from the time when New Westminster was the major centre of commerce and industry for the booming Fraser Valley area.
Source: Heritage Planning Files, City of New Westminster
Character-Defining Elements:
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Paramount Theatre include its:
- location with frontages on both Columbia and Front Streets, part of a grouping of late Victorian and Edwardian era commercial buildings in historic downtown New Westminster
- siting on the property lines, with no setbacks
- boxy form, two-storey plus lower level height, flat roof and cubic massing
- exterior theatre elements on the front facade such as its large sheet metal marquee, 1948 neon Paramount Theatre sign, central entry with mahogany doors and chromed hardware, and ticket booth with aluminum sash and black tile
- exterior elements of the rear facade, including original 1899 elements such as the stucco-covered brick walls and segmental arched window openings, and later alterations such as the stage-level doors and the brick clad fly space over the stage
- interior features from the 1948 renovations, such as stepped balconies and the proscenium arch
位於上海市中心靜安寺旁的百樂門大舞廳，是個賦有歷史價值的標地，來過上海懷舊的人一定會來的地方，聽說在民國初年當時 就是達官貴人們常來的去處。而且也是日日歌舞昇平。
The Paramount is a historical ballroom situated in the heart of Shanghai. It was the "it" destination of Shanghai high society during the decadent times before the communist took over the country. After the cultural revolution, it sat defunct until it was refurbished and reopened by Taiwanese investors in the 90s.
1970s juke box, '60s 45PRM sleeve, long warehoused, passing through Big M Auto Salvage, summer 2011.
The Paramount Theatre in downtown Denver was built in 1930 as a movie theater. Today it is a concert venue and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
French postcard by P-C, Paris, no. 1. Photo: Paramount. Henri Garat sang the song En parlant un peu de Paris in Il est charmant/He Is Charming (Louis Mercanton, 1932). Text by Albert Willemetz and music by Raoul Moretti. Copyright: Editions Salabert, Paris, 1932.
‘Beau garcon’ Henri Garat (1902-1959) was a popular singer and leading man in light romances during the 1930s.
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