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1/1 + 1 going out to Larry June 🍊

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In Scarface, the Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa was based on a real life Bolivian cocaine baron named Roberto Suárez Gómez - the so called “King of Cocaine” - and he was one of the most powerful crime figures in Latin American history. Like Sosa, Suárez came from one of Bolivia’s most wealthy families. He was well educated and projected an image of a respectable family man - all the while running a cocaine empire that reportedly made over $400 million a year. His family’s wealth began during the rubber boom of the late 19th century. They built a powerful commercial empire through rubber extraction by brutally exploiting the local Indigenous population. After the rubber industry collapsed in the early 1900s, cattle ranching became their main source of income. Roberto inherited a business that had large swaths of land well suited for coca production, as well as a fleet of aircraft perfect for drug trafficking. When the cocaine boom took off in the mid-1970s, he repurposed those assets and quickly became the world's largest producer and supplier of coca paste - the base material used to make cocaine. And much like Sosa, he had deep connections with Bolivia’s military, the CIA, and controlled his own private hit squad he used to take out his rivals. (1/5)

The Babylon Club in Scarface was based on the famous Miami hotspot the Mutiny, but was reimagined by legendary Italian production designer Ferdinando Scarfiotti as a neon-lit palace of mirrors, its walls lined with over 50 mirrored panels, each roughly eight inches by six feet, with multiple mirrors built into every booth. This proved a major challenge for cinematographer John A. Alonzo, since every mirror risked catching the camera, the crew, or the lighting rigs. But Scarfiotti had already built the solution into the set itself: each mirror panel was mounted on a gimbal, allowing it to be tilted independently so reflections could be redirected away from the camera’s line of sight. This gave Alonzo enough control to shoot inside a room full of mirrors, while also giving him the freedom to multiply his subjects across the frame. The result is a glamorous yet disorienting visual effect, with Tony constantly surrounded by fractured versions of himself. However, the mirrors became an even bigger challenge during the shootout scenes. The actors had to be fitted with squib rigs, a process that could take up to three or four hours per setup, while the mirrors themselves were designed to be shattered on camera, using foam backing and acrylic fronts instead of real glass for safety. In order to save time, Alonzo shot these scenes with multiple cameras at once, to capture as many angles as he could in a single take. Even after all of that, in none of the many shots used in the Babylon Club, will you ever see a single crew member or camera operator reflected in any of the many, many mirrors used - except for one time. At the 45 second mark in the clip below, if you look closely, you can briefly spot director Brian De Palma, staring intently from behind the camera as he shoots the scene.

Action Bronson has officially announced his new album titled 'Planet Frog' 💿 "I was able to wrangle my mind together to produce this piece of musical work that will go down as some of my finest yet," Bronson said. It will be his first album in nearly two years.

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Ari Fletcher couldn't contain herself when G Herbo started performing at a wedding 👀🔥