Case Study No. 0291: Omer

(2008) Antarctica
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Clip Promocional de "Antarctica" (2008)

"Blog de Tematica Gay": http://cinedetematicagay. blogspot.com

ESCENA
Omer y Danny salen en una cita que finaliza en un parque donde se besan por primera vez desde que se conocieran en su primera cita a ciegas.

SINOPSIS
Omer es un joven a punto de cumplir los treinta anos, y se encuentra en una encrucijada intentando encontrarse a si mismo. A pesar de eso termina enterrandose entre los libros de la biblioteca en la que trabaja, acudiendo ocasionalmente a alguna cita ciega. En una de esas citas conoce a Danny, un joven de veinte anos que suena con convertirse en un bailarin. Por otro lado, la hermana de Omer, Shirley, es una de sus constantes molestias que mantiene una relacion con la duena del cafe donde trabaja.
Cuando parece que Omer ha perdido la ilusion por encontrar a nadie, aparece en escena Ronen, un guapo periodista, que la hace sentir esperanza de nuevo, pero que es el antiguo amante de Danny. Boaz, antiguo bailarin harto de sus conquistas de una noche intenta por su parte ganarse el afecto de Danny, una de sus aventuras que desprecio en su momento. Todos los personajes desean que aparezca la luz que haga que sus congelados corazones vuelvan a ser capaces de sentir.
Tags: 2008 Antarctica cine tematica gay
Added: 10 months ago
From: bragadod
Views: 3,670

[Omer and Danny are walking down the street, out on their first date, when Danny notices a playground with a swingset]
DANNY: You want?
OMER: What?
DANNY: Come come, it'll be fun.
[Danny jumps the fence and gets on one of the swings, and Omer (after some initial reluctance) soon joins him and starts to enjoy himself]
OMER: [laughing]
[Danny gets off and begins pushing Omer]
OMER: Whoo!
[Danny suddenly stops him and kisses him]
DANNY: Sorry.
OMER: I should be saying sorry ...
[he kisses him back]

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From imdb.com:

"Antarctica" (2008)

In two days, Omer will hit a milestone; his 30th birthday. Like many his age, he hasn't found himself. But then Omer is hardly looking. Instead he chooses to loose himself among the stacks of books at the local library, where he works. It is a respite from real life. From time to time he goes on blind dates. He meets Danny on one of his dates. 20 years old and full of enthusiasm, Danny dreams of becoming a dancer. Shirley, Omer's little sister, has her own problems. Aside from being Omer's greatest annoyance, she is in an unconventional relationship with, Michal, owner of the city's hippest coffeehouse and her boss. Just when it seems that Omer has completely lost his spark and all seems lost, Enter Ronen, the handsome journalist who ignites the flame Omer has been seeking. Everyone is hoping for a change. They are waiting for the light. The light that will thaw their frozen hearts. But only one person has the answer, Matilda Rose, the alien loving best-selling novelist can solve the issue; Is love dead or are we just looking in all the wrong places?

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From blogspot.com:

In Hebrew with subtitles, the new Israeli movie Antarctica follows the physical, spiritual and emotional journeys of a group of gays and lesbians in the non-stop city of Tel Aviv. Reminiscent of the work of genius Robert Altman (Nashville, Short Cuts) and his protege Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia, Boogie Nights) as well as Michael Winterbottom (the auteur admits to being 'heavily inspired by Wonderland'), director Yair Hochner poetically investigates coincidental convergences and adds a cosmic twist!

The movie opens with an unrelentingly graphic (and hot!) multi-screen visceral and visual assault as it depicts a week or month in the nocturnal life of Boaz (hunky Ofer Regirer), clean-cut businessman by day, one night stand sex-maniac by night, who prides himself on the line: "You know how many guys I bring back here?" One hook-up, in particular, jars him. Danny (Yiftach Mizrahi), a sweet, troubled teen, stops Boaz mid-petting and asks if they should talk first, or have coffee. A while later, Danny shows up at Boaz' place and asks if he can stay for a while.

The screen reads "3 Years Later," and the mosaic-like plot kicks into high gear as we meet the wonderful cast of characters. They include: Omer (Tomer Ilan), a shy librarian about to celebrate his thirtieth birthday; Omer's harried lesbian sister Shirley (Lucy Dubinchik) and her on-again/off again girlfriend (Liat Ekta) who owns the local bar; Omer's slutty friend Miki (Yuval Raz); who cyber-connects with smoldering journalist Ronen (Guy Zo-Aretz) and best-selling author and past-alien-abductee Matilda Rose (Rivka Neuman), just to name a few! Via a blind date, Omer meets Danny, who is living with Ronen who is carrying on with Miki. Boaz reenters the picture and wants to reconnect with Danny. And it seems Omer and Ronen may have a connection of their own ...

All the characters are hoping for a change, waiting for the light - the light that will thaw their frozen hearts.

Case Study No. 0290: Unnamed Male Librarian (Armando Vicuna)

librarian
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librarian armando vicuna vicuna
Tags: librarian
Added: 3 years ago
From: vikuna1
Views: 40

[a male librarian is sitting down at a table]
MALE LIBRARIAN: Hi, I'm the librarian. They say I'm smart and remember everything I read, so I have devoted myself to books.
[cut to the librarian reading a book about Charles Darwin]
MALE LIBRARIAN: I get really excited when I run into fresh and new ideas ...
[the librarian suddenly looks very sad and sighs]
MALE LIBRARIAN: Meh. Wanna hear a secret? I wish I was a monkey ... Fighting. Mating. Eating. Now that's happiness. But I'm just a librarian.

Hancock College Graphics Production
Presented by Armando Vicuna

Case Study No. 0289: "Marlon Brando"

The Library
3:54
Demo for game, The Library.


www.levimacdougall.com
Tags: library nintendo levi macdougall david dineen porter marlon brando game demo electricity books 1987
Added: 4 years ago
From: levimacdougall
Views: 1,124

Capcom Ltd. Promotional
Internal Use Only

"The Library"
System: NES
Game Demo
1987 Fall C.E.S.

[the game opens with the player (a nerdy looking male character) entering the library while grating chiptune music plays, then he stops as a digitized photograph of John McCain appears in a chair]
LIBRARIAN: Hello. I am Marlon Brando. Welcome to my library. Can you grasp the scope of the books at your disposal? If you can grasp the scope of the books, tap the "A" button quickly. Keep tapping to increasingly grasp the scope of the tomes in my vast and hand-written collection.
["500" appears over Brando]
LIBRARIAN: Yes. That is it. The emotions swell within me as I visualize books.
[the player turns and starts to leave]
LIBRARIAN: Hello.
[he quickly returns]
LIBRARIAN: As Marlon Brando once told me ... I am Marlon Brando. To imagine how powerful I am, tap the "A" button quickly.
["500" appears over Brando]
LIBRARIAN: Keep tapping the A button to imagine how powerful I am.
["500" appears several more times]
LIBRARIAN: You have imagined only "some" power. To imagine more power, tap the "B" button, followed by the "A" button, with this pattern ... "A A A B B A B B A BBB B B BBABBAA"--
[he talks faster and faster, until "Level 2" appears on screen]
LIBRARIAN: Level two! In the distance, a bird chirps, signalling the dawn of a new day, a new era in the life of Marlon Brando.
["-500" appears several times over the player]
[the screen goes blank, as "Time passes ... " appears on screen, then cut back to Marlon Brando sitting by himself as "Level 15" appears on screen]
LIBRARIAN: Level fifteen!
[the player returns and stands in front of Brando]
LIBRARIAN: Greetings, and welcome back to my library.
[a digitized image of a club sandwich suddenly appears and floats from the player to Brando]
LIBRARIAN: Well done.
["500" appears over Brando]
LIBRARIAN: Ew. Gross. Mustard.
["-500" appears over the player]
LIBRARIAN: Never mind, I'll pretend it's just yellow ketchup.
["500" appears over Brando]
LIBRARIAN: Game time. If you are inside the library, press the screen with the meaty part of your cheek.
[he pauses]
LIBRARIAN: Why do you hesitate? Do you fear me?
[the screen goes blank, as "Time passes ... " appears on screen, then cut back to Marlon Brando still talking as the player is lying on the floor]
LIBRARIAN: No no no. I'm not Al Pacino's real father. That was just for a movie I was in ... That's okay. It's a simple mistake to make. Pacino is a good guy. And even though my sperm fertilized his mother's egg, I am not his father. Imagine that he was not Al Pacino, but El Pachinos. Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
["500" appears several times over Brando]
["Level 28" appears on screen]
LIBRARIAN: Level twenty eight!
[he pauses]
LIBRARIAN: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
["500" appears several times over Brando]
["Level 4 again" appears on screen]
LIBRARIAN: Level four again!
["The End" appears on screen]
LIBRARIAN: The end!
[the player gets up]
LIBRARIAN: You win. I will sell the library.
[the player turns and starts to leave]
LIBRARIAN: But don't leave just yet.
[the player quickly returns]
LIBRARIAN: Do you know what I mean though? Seriously. You and I are really close friends now. We've bonded over this whole Al Pacino thing. Don't ever turn off this video game. I want to become part of your life. I want to become part of your body. If you spill the blood of something innocent, I will become a real Marlon Brando and we can shop together. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please. Please.
["Level 29: Brando becomes real" appears on screen]
LIBRARIAN: Level twenty nine! Brando becomes real!
[he pauses]
LIBRARIAN: Put your hand inside the Nintendo. Do you feel me licking your hand? Do not be afraid. My tongue is soft, is it not? Many of your predecessors were scared of this, but I think this can be our little secret. Don't tell anyone. Please. Please. Please.

Authored and Created by
David Dineen-Porter and Levi MacDougall

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From gc.ca:

THE LIBRARY
Levi MacDougall, David Dineen-Porter | Canada, 2007 | 4 minutes
A videogame that takes you into the library of Marlon Brando. Can you win? Can you survive? Can you be Brando's friend? Find out in this surrealistic journey through an 8-bit library of laughs.

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From wordpress.com:

The Library – Dir. Levi Macdougall & David Dineen Porter

I'm not even sure where to start with this one. It's just way, way out there and I thought it was freaking hilarious. It's supposed to be a trailer for a Nintendo game called The Library which never came out. Obviously it's a joke but I can't help but wish that this game had come out just so I could have played it! It's a great throwback to the days of Nintendo and may be the best use of Marlon Brando that I can think of. If you're up for something that makes no sense at all but will still make you laugh then check it out.

Case Study No. 0288: Staff of Draper Library

The Wizard of Oz - a Tale of Library Circulation
2:09
Originally presented at the 2007 ALA Conference in Washington DC. A simple tale about library circulation. Presented by Salt Lake County Library. Created for Salt Lake County Library. Executive Producer - Jim Cooper; Producer / Writer- Greg Near; Director - Ernest Q. Bourne; Camera - Adam Hill; Key Grip - Brent Roberts; Dorothy - Telesa Rountree; Librarian - Beverly Dusserre; Witch - Darlene Dineen; Scarecrow / Tinman - Karl Gilchrist; Lion - Alexis Alires; Extras - Jamie Jensen, Rosemary Healy, Angie Rawlings.
Tags: salt lake county library wizard of oz circulation ALA conference
Added: 4 years ago
From: slcountylibrary
Views: 48,513

[scene opens with black and white footage of a young female patron entering the Draper Library, where she walks up to the older female librarian sitting at the front desk]
LIBRARIAN: May I help you?
DOROTHY: I hope so, I'm looking for the Wizard of Oz.
LIBRARIAN: You've come to the right place ...
[the scene changes to color, as the librarian stands up]
LIBRARIAN: We have many formats for the Wizard of Oz. Music, movies, and books!
DOROTHY: Music, movies, and books? Oh my!
[a man dressed as the Scarecrow pops into the scene and hands the librarian a book]
LIBRARIAN: Thank you.
[Dorothy takes another look, and this time it's just a normal-looking male librarian standing at the desk, who smiles and then walks away]
LIBRARIAN: Why, here's just one version of the Wizard of Oz. You'll be able to find many more.
[she picks up a plastic shopping basket and hands it to Dorothy]
LIBRARIAN: And follow me, and I'll show you what we have in the audio-visual section. I'm sure we'll be able to help you find what you need.
[Dorothy looks down at the floor, which suddenly changes to the yellow brick road]
DOROTHY: Whoa!
[cut to someone dressed as the Wicked Witch appear in a cloud of smoke from behind the stacks, then cut to Dorothy and the Librarian in the audio-visual section as someone dressed as the Cowardly Lion hands her a set of CDs]
LIBRARIAN: And here are some CD soundtracks you might enjoy.
[cut to another shot of the Wicked Witch skulking around, then back to the librarian and Dorothy]
LIBRARIAN: We also have audio books that you can listen to while you travel.
[Dorothy (who is now wearing pigtails) does a double take at the Cowardly Lion, but he turns into another ordinary male librarian]
LIBRARIAN: And you can also download e-audio books for your MP3 player.
[she hands Dorothy an MP3 player, who puts it in her basket]
DOROTHY: My goodness!
LIBRARIAN: We also have DVDS ...
[cut to the Wicked Witch peeking over from the top of the bookshelf, then to the librarian and Dorothy (who's now in full costume including a wooden picnic basket) walking up to someone dressed as the Tin Man]
LIBRARIAN: And here are the DVDs.
[the Tin Man hands her a bunch of DVDs]
DOROTHY: Y'know, it's funny, but I feel like I've known about this all the time.
[cut to the Wicked Witch, crawling on the floor towards Dorothy's ruby red slippers]
LIBRARIAN: I hope we've helped you find what you need today.
DOROTHY: There's no place like the library!
LIBRARIAN: You can say that again!
[Dorothy turns and addresses the camera directly]
DOROTHY: There's no place like the library!
[the Wicked Witch reaches out, but Dorothy steps on her hand with her other shoe]
WICKED WITCH: Aaahh!
[cut to Dorothy with her three companions (Scarecrow, Cowardly Lion, Tin Man) skipping away]

The End
Salt Lake County Library Services

Case Study No. 0287: Unnamed Female Librarian (S**t Librarians Say)

S**t Librarians Say
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S**t Librarians Say.....
Tags: S**t Librarians Say Library Funny Comedy Poop Humour Youtube Sketch Hilarious
Added: 1 month ago
From: istupidification
Views: 247

[scene opens on a "female" librarian (wearing a blonde wig, yellow-framed glasses, and a blue sweater) typing at the computer, when she turns to the camera and sneers]
LIBRARIAN: Wanna get that stamped?
[cut to another shot of the librarian slowly typing at the computer with her two index fingers]
LIBRARIAN: Poop.
[cut to another shot of the librarian reading a Jonas Brothers biography, when someone coughs off camera]
LIBRARIAN: [loudly] Shh!
[cut to another shot of the librarian speaking into a phone]
LIBRARIAN: Can I get that removed?
[cut to another shot of the librarian speaking into a phone]
LIBRARIAN: [loudly] No! No! No! No! Shh! No! No! No!
[cut to another shot of the librarian typing at the computer, when she turns to the camera]
LIBRARIAN: Hmm!
[cut to another shot of the librarian singing while stamping a book]
LIBRARIAN: Working at the library! Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa! At the librar, ho! Oooh yeah!
[cut to another shot of the librarian opening a copy of "A Child Is Born", when she suddenly begins sniffing the pages ... and then she farts]
LIBRARIAN: Oh! Oh, whoopsie!
[cut to another shot of the librarian staring at someone off camera]
LIBRARIAN: Hey there, handsome man ... No, don't walk out those doors! No! Don't leave me like this!
[cut to a shot of the empty counter, when someone coughs off camera, and the librarian pokes her head out to shush him]
LIBRARIAN: Shh!
[cut to someone handing the librarian a copy of "Wizardology"]
PATRON: [from off camera] Um, where do you want this?
LIBRARIAN: Where do you want me?
[she begins laughing and snorting, as the patron backs away slowly]
[cut to another shot of the librarian typing at the computer, when she burps loudly]

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From knowyourmeme.com:

Shit Girls Say is a single topic blog and a web series showcasing various cliches and verbal mannerisms that are commonly associated with teenage girls and young women. Since its YouTube debut in December 2011, the series has inspired dozens of parodies exploring social gender stereotypes using the phrasal template "Shit X says."

The Twitter account @ShitGirlsSay was launched by Toronto-based comics Graydon Sheppard and Kyle Humphrey on April 7th, 2011. In similar vein to its unaffiliated predecessors @ShitMyDadSays and @ShitThatSiriSays, the microblog quickly became notable for its caricaturization of an average, airheaded girl vaguely familiar to many others. According to the analytics data provided by Twitaholics, @ShitGirlsSay gained over 6,879 followers with its prolific output of 339 tweets in the first three months of launch.

The series was eventually introduced to a broader group of audience in December 2011, when Sheppard and Humphrey adapted the joke into a web video series via YouTube channel ShitGirlsSay. The pilot episode starring Sheppard as "the girl" and a cameo appearance by actress Juliette Lewis was posted on December 12th, 2011. Some of the most notable lines in the video included: "Listen to this e-mail," "Could you do me a huge favor?" and "I'm not even joking right now."

Upon release, the video clip was simultaneously picked up through social networking sites Twitter and Facebook as well as internet humor communities Reddit and 9gag, racking in over 4 million views in the first week of upload. The viral status of the first episode was soon covered by an array of influential blogs including Wired, The Onion and Huffington Post. In less than three weeks since its launch, YouTube channel ShitGirlsSay gained nearly 60,000 subscribers and over 11 million total upload views.

Notable Derivatives

Numerous parodies and spin-off versions of the original series quickly emerged within days of the pilot episode, many of them starring actors and actresses dressed as opposite genders they're portraying. The scope of the parodies also expanded across LGBT, ethnic and cultural stereotypes.

Case Study No. 0286: "Roller Derby + Librarians = Derbrarians!"

Roller Derby + Librarians = Derbrarians!
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http://fmwannabe.blogspot.com/ 2009/09/ derbrarians.html

Stereotype-smashin' derby librarian, "MegaBeth," a reference librarian in Akron Ohio, is 53 year old player for the Rubber City Roller Girls.

This article is bringing up an age-old battle for us librarians... Having to prove that librarians are actually cool. Well guess what folks. We are!

MegaBeth isn't the only librarian rolling around and taking names, let's see more of these brawlin' biblio babes!

Judy Gloom plays for the LA Derby Dolls (derbydolls.com/la/index.html)
Take a look at her blog, Hollywood Librarian. (judygloom.blogspot.com)

Kiwi Derby Librarian, Bonne Fire from the Pirate City Rollers of Aukland, New Zealand! (rollerderby librarian. blogspot.com)

Dame Deviant, a Young Adult librarian, plays for the Bend, Oregon Lava City Roller Dolls and likes to do library-supportive booty blocking! (lavacityrollerdolls.com)
See her wonderful video on the reference interview here at her blog, Derby Librarian.
Tags: roller derby librarians
Added: 1 year ago
From: ComixLibrary
Views: 139

MEGABETH
youtube.com/watch?v=SNT9QM8YUOM
The Rubber City Rollergirls from Akron, Ohio

DAISY THE DERBRARIAN
youtube.com/watch?v=RvCruMgnjTQ
Santa Cruz Derby Girls 2009

THE LIBRARIAN
youtube.com/watch?v=Us8aKNzmKDk
CINCINNATI ROLLERGIRLS COMMERCIAL 3: "THE MOVIE THEATER"

JUDY GLOOM
youtube.com/watch?v=f-rKnw2ebyI
LADD's Judy Gloom

CATAZON
youtube.com/watch?v=wp-pFirEyjo
Houston Roller Derby DeMentia jams against Catazon

DAME DEVIANT
youtube.com/watch?v=DsiXUMG7aUU
Ignite Bend 3 - Roller Derby Librarian, April Witteveen

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From cnn.com:

She's petite, she's middle-aged, she's bookish, and if she gets a chance, she'll knock you on your keister.

By day, she's Beth Hollis, a 53-year-old reference librarian in Akron, Ohio. By night, she's MegaBeth, an ageless dynamo on the roller derby rink.

"All my life, when I tell people I'm a librarian, they say, 'You don't look like a librarian,' " Hollis said. "And now that I'm a roller derby girl, they say, 'You don't look like a roller derby girl, either.' So I don't know where I fit in."

Hollis has been fitting in at the Akron-Summit County Library for 27 years.

"She's my hero," said Diane Barton, 48, who has worked with Hollis at the library for 18 years. "I just think it's so cool she's doing something so different and so active and so aggressive. You know how we are. We're librarians, so we tend to have that meek and mild stereotype."

Before discovering roller derby, Hollis had been casting about for a hobby.

"I tried knitting and literally got kicked out of the knitting class for just not being able to get the hang of it," she chortled. "I guess it was just too soon for me to try knitting. I needed something that maybe was a little bit more physical for a hobby."

Boy howdy.

She visited a Rubber City Rollergirls practice last winter after telling her husband, Warren, a retired high school math teacher, that she was going to an audition.

"At that point, I just said, 'I don't care that I have an AARP card in my wallet; I'm going to go for this,' " she said.

Roller derby is a real sport, having ditched the campy, WWE-like spectacle seen on TV in the early 1970s. The Rubber City squad practices six hours a week and competes against teams in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Kentucky.

A roller derby match, called a bout, consists of two 30-minute halves. Each team has four blockers and one player called a jammer, whose job is to get past the other team's blockers on a 235-foot oval flat track and lap them to score points. Both teams are on offense and defense simultaneously, and the action is fast and rough.

"I think she's awesome," coach Brian "Coachise" Phillips said. "She is 53, so she is our oldest girl on the team, but she works every bit as hard as every other girl on the team, and she is in as good a shape if not better than every other girl on the team."

And she's an inspiration to the other players.

"It makes me actually excited to think that I could play ... for another 30 years, and that's awesome for me, because this is like my favorite thing to do," said Barb "Barbonic Plague" Brown, who at 21 is the youngest player on the team.

Hollis has earned the respect of her team captain, too.

"She's so tiny -- she's probably like 5 feet 4 and maybe 110 pounds or so -- but when she's out there, she's MegaBeth," said Tracy "Eighty-SixHer" Soulsby, 40. "I wouldn't say she's a very hard hitter, but she's a good blocker. Her strength is getting in people's way and then keeping them behind her, not letting them get around her."

The MegaBeth legend grew during a June bout with the Glass City Roller Girls, a team from Toledo, Ohio. Hollis found herself contending with a 6-foot-1, 220-pound foe who goes by the name Pamazon.

"Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her just take out this one girl, and I remember, the crowd just went wild. It was fantastic!" Brown recalled.

"I think that might be the highlight of her season," Phillips said.

For her part, Pamazon -- aka Pamela Keppler -- said she's never been knocked down in a bout.

"To be completely honest, I don't remember MegaBeth that well from the bout," she said. "I do remember talking with her at the after-party. We were all pretty surprised by her age, and I remember her saying that I knocked the snot out of her."

The team draws capacity crowds of 500 to 600 at its bouts, where admission costs $8.50 to $12.50 and concessions are sold.

"It really makes it exciting when you've got all those people cheering," Hollis said. "And as we progress through the season, it's obvious that we've gotten better ... and the fan support has just gotten louder."

But the glory comes at a cost. Two Rubber City Rollergirls have suffered broken legs -- in practice! -- and one is about to return after breaking her shoulder and nose in a bout.

"It's inevitable that you're going to get scrapes; you get rink rash and bruises," said Hollis, who wears number 796.21 -- the Dewey Decimal library index number for skating.

"I took a pretty tough fall to my hip that had me a little concerned. As I said to my teammates, at my age when you break a hip, it's the beginning of the end."

Asked whether she has hurt anyone else, the mother of two college graduates replied furtively: "I hope so."

Librarian Hollis isn't the only player smashing stereotypes. Among her teammates are teachers, a Starbucks manager, an accountant, a nurse practitioner, a barmaid and a couple of waitresses, most of whom are on the small side, Soulsby said.

"It's not just rough-and-tough, big, burly gals out on parole," Hollis said.

Perhaps just to keep it real, the team does include one former repo driver (Valcano) and a heavy-equipment operator (BulldozeHer Bo).

Barton, her fellow librarian, says there's something different about Hollis since she laced up her skates.

"It may just be my imagination, but she seems more confident in a way," Barton said. "It has to empower you somehow."

Hollis says it's good for people to test themselves with change.

"I encourage people to pursue things -- something like this -- that they think might be fun, and not to let stereotypes get in the way of whether or not they think they're going to fit in," she said. "Because you never know."

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From blogspot.com:

SCDG FM Profile Preview of Fresh Meat Daisy

Tagline:
My Other Set of Wheels is a Book Cart

Why derby?
They wouldn't let me knock people down in salsa dancing.

Theme song:
I Was Born Making Noise- Suzi Quatro

Support your local libraries, folks, and the women who help them rock!!

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From blogspot.com:

Name: The Librarian
Number: 739.27 T213E
Hometown: 5th generation Houstonian. TX born and bred!
Position: PBJ
Hobby: Derby, dancing, making clothes
Favorite Drink: Coffee, Diet Coke, Ginger Ale, repeat
Tagline: Don't judge a book by its cover.
Rival: Censorship and biblioclasm

1. Your rollergirl name, what was the inspiration?
The Librarian: Back in March 2006, I took the Roller Derby leap of faith and attended my first recruitment meeting at Kaldi's Cafe on Main treet in OTR... it took all the guts I could muster to just walk through the door. I scanned the crowded room looking for an empty seat to park my heiney and wound up sitting next to your quintessential roller derby pin-up girl: Jet black hair, baby doll bangs, two full sleves and chest tats to boot! She took one look at me in my glasses, khaki pants and sweater set...then she literally took out her two front teeth and said, "Whaddya doin' playin' rollerderby? You look like a lil' librarian."

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From blogspot.com:

The Hollywood Librarian

The (mis)adventures of Judy Gloom: librarian, skater for the L.A. Derby Dolls, cyclist, experimental chef, Beer Committee Beerbrarian, retired professional gambler, Girl Friday for hire, occasional mock jury member, obsessive documenter of daily life...possibly in the interest of proving that she actually exists.

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From catazonia.com:

Catazonia is the home of Catazon, the cataloging Amazon. Catazon enjoys her family, being a librarian by degree only, and reliving the good old days of women's pro football and flat-track roller derby. Catazonia will serve as practice for Catazon's web development skills as well as a forum to share the adventures that develop daily in Catazon's life.

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From libraryjournal.com:

Dewey Derby

Library advocacy gets a bump from roller derby competitor April Witteveen, teen services librarian at the Bend Public Library, OR, which is part of the Deschutes Public Library. Her partly obscured number, 796.21, represents skate sports in the Dewey Decimal System. Witteveen skates under the derby name "Dame Deviant."

Case Study No. 0285: Estelle Benbow

Jean Simmons in "Mr. Sycamore" (1974)
5:12
This has to be one of the strangest movies Jean ever appeared in. She plays a librarian who becomes a secret confidante of a mailman (Jason Robards) who ultimately decides to plant himself (literally) in his own back yard, so that he can grow roots and become a sycamore tree.
Tags: Jean Simmons Mr. Mister Sycamore Jason Robards Sandy Dennis
Added: 1 year ago
From: JeanSimmonsFan
Views: 631

[John the mailman - dressed as if he's going out on a fox hunt - and Estelle the librarian are walking along a stream]
JOHN GWILT: Do you come here often?
ESTELLE BENBOW: Yes, we love it here.
JOHN GWILT: Yeah, I bet Longfellow enjoys it.
ESTELLE BENBOW: Oh, I never bring him, he always gets full of burs!
[cut to the two sitting down in the middle of a field, as John is rubbing his foot]
JOHN GWILT: Oooh ...
ESTELLE BENBOW: Why don't you take your boots off?
JOHN GWILT: I'd never get 'em back on again!
[they both laugh]
JOHN GWILT: Phew!
[he takes his riding crop and starts rubbing her shoulder with it]
JOHN GWILT: Do you realize that I don't know anything about you ...
ESTELLE BENBOW: [laughs] Now you know I'm ticklish!
JOHN GWILT: Oh! Hm, I don't even know where you live ...
ESTELLE BENBOW: We have an apartment across town, near the college. Nice terrace, brand new kitchen. Although I don't cook very much.
JOHN GWILT: You live with your mother.
ESTELLE BENBOW: No, no I don't.
JOHN GWILT: You don't?
ESTELLE BENBOW: I live with a man.
JOHN GWILT: Oh ... Not your husband?
ESTELLE BENBOW: Truman's a professor. He's nice. A little trying, sometimes.
JOHN GWILT: Yeah, I, uh ... probably get on Jane's nerves too, now and then.
ESTELLE BENBOW: You've been married a long time.
JOHN GWILT: I've always been true to her ... Were you, uh, in love with someone before you met Truman?
ESTELLE BENBOW: I loved parties, theater, and dancing.
[she chuckles]
ESTELLE BENBOW: I wanted to be a dancer!
JOHN GWILT: That's wonderful ...
[she laughs]
JOHN GWILT: Can you dance?
ESTELLE BENBOW: I'm a bit out of practice ...
[she kicks off her shoes and starts twirling around, as John smiles and begins clapping ... then suddenly the scene changes to John's dream sequence, where Estelle is wearing a flowing gown and riding a horse]

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From byui.edu:

MR. SYCAMORE (1974). Jason Robards plays a mailman who has a crush on librarian Jean Simmons, as well as a strange desire to become a tree.

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From imdb.com:

An unusual but affectionate story of a man's longing for his ideal of peace and serenity. A postman and part-time poet is inspired by the Greek legend of the two elderly guards at Jupiter's temple who are transformed into beautiful trees. His wife has him committed when he stands in his backyard awaiting the same metamorphosis to take place. With the help of a friendly librarian, he escapes in a milk truck during a violent storm.