Sage (comics) The Hellfire Club What was the Hellfire Club? Instead of being chosen for the first X-Men class, she is instead sent to spy on the Hellfire Club as Tessa, Why was she sent to spy on them? Years later, Sage meets up again with Xavier, who at the time is recruiting the original X-Men. Instead of being chosen for the first X-Men class, Why was he recruiting  them? I don't know. Was he successful? While she is able to successfully warn Psylocke away from the Hellfire Club, Tessa is later remorseful Why was she remorseful? she is unable to similarly prevent the corruption of Phoenix into the Black Queen. This transformation is a key factor in the creation of Dark Phoenix. So she created Dark Phoenix? unable to similarly prevent the corruption
What did she do after that?
What did Sage (Tessa) do after being unable to prevent the corruption of Phoenix into the Black Queen?
Years later, Sage meets up again with Xavier, who at the time is recruiting the original X-Men. Instead of being chosen for the first X-Men class, she is instead sent to spy on the Hellfire Club as Tessa, and to keep watch on Sebastian Shaw, something which returns to haunt her in the following years.  While working at the Hellfire Club she encounters Psylocke, Jean Grey, and Emma Frost, who at this point is the White Queen. While she is able to successfully warn Psylocke away from the Hellfire Club, Tessa is later remorseful that she is unable to similarly prevent the corruption of Phoenix into the Black Queen. This transformation is a key factor in the creation of Dark Phoenix.  Sometime during Tessa's time with the Hellfire Club, Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost dare the man known as Elias Bogan to wager in a game of poker. Though he holds no official rank in the Inner Circle, the telepathic Bogan is one of the Club's most important and powerful members; his patronage guarantees success in the organization. By the terms of the wager, if Shaw lost, Frost would "belong" to Bogan, but if Bogan's agent lost, then his fortune would be turned over to Shaw. Thanks to Tessa's advice and analytical skills, Bogan loses the game and is forced to honor the wager. Having never lost before, Bogan harbors a grudge against Tessa.  During the X-Men's initial conflicts with the Hellfire Club, Tessa primarily maintains a background role and is seen as only Shaw's unusually intelligent assistant. Hints of her more complex role are indicated when she and Xavier are kidnapped by Donald Pierce, a renegade member of the club, with grudges against both organizations. Based on the interactions between Xavier and Tessa, it is unclear whether he is helping to maintain her cover or whether he feels as if he has lost his agent, since the interaction between the two is kept impersonal. The two are rescued by the nascent team of New Mutants, and Tessa takes Pierce into custody on behalf of the Hellfire Club.  Tessa's next notable interaction with Xavier's students happens months later when the X-Men and Hellfire Club are hunting down Rachel Summers after her attempted murder of Selene, the newly installed Black Queen. In the middle of their fight, both teams are taken by surprise by Nimrod, a mutant-hunting robot from the future. Recognizing the more immediate threat, the two groups join forces and are able to severely damage Nimrod. The X-Men and Hellfire Club each sustain heavy losses and are forced to flee the scene quickly. Tessa offers Storm and the X-Men temporary sanctuary with the Club, which later results in Magneto and Storm jointly accepting the role of White King in the Inner Circle. CANNOTANSWER
Sometime during Tessa's time with the Hellfire Club, Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost dare the man known as Elias Bogan to wager in a game of poker.
Dead Funny is a 1994 independent drama film directed by John Feldman. It stars Elizabeth Peña as Vivian Saunders, a woman who comes home from work and finds her boyfriend Reggie Barker (Andrew McCarthy) pinned to her kitchen table with a long knife.

Plot
Vivian Saunders (Elizabeth Peña) comes home one day to an unusual surprise: her boyfriend Reggie Barker (Andrew McCarthy) is lying on the kitchen table with a large sword sticking out of his body. At first Vivian thinks this must be some sort of joke, but she discovers that Reggie is indeed dead, and as she calls her best friend Louise (Paige Turco) to figure out what might have happened and what to do, it occurs to her that she blacked out after too much wine the night before and isn't sure what she did before she passed out. After a few phone calls, Vivian's women's support group arrives, and what to do about Reggie soon takes second place to what Vivian should do for herself.

Cast
Elizabeth Peña as Vivian Saunders
Andrew McCarthy as Reggie Barker
Paige Turco as Louise
Blanche Baker as Barbara
Allison Janney as Jennifer
Adelle Lutz as Mari
Novella Nelson as Frances
Lisa Jane Persky as Sarah
Michael Mantell as Harold
Ken Kensei as Yoshi
Bai Ling as Norriko

Release
This film has only been released on VHS and LaserDisc format.

Reception
David Nusair of DVD Talk negatively reviewed the film, saying "By the time we find out what really happened to McCarthy's character, it's impossible to care."  Time Out also negatively reviewed the film, writing "How did it happen? Who did it? Who cares? Probably not Feldman who seems more interested in shooting his actresses' naked thighs." The New York Times stated that Dead Funny "tries so hard to be ingeniously tricky and ambiguous that it ends up outsmarting itself".

Variety positively reviewed the film, praising Peña's performance.

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1994 films
American drama films
American independent films
American films
1994 drama films
English-language films "What Did I Do to You?" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 1989 album, Affection. It was written by Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, and produced by Devaney and Morris. The song was released as the fourth European single on 30 April 1990. It included three previously unreleased songs written by Stansfield, Devaney and Morris: "My Apple Heart," "Lay Me Down" and "Something's Happenin'." "What Did I Do to You?" was remixed by Mark Saunders and by the Grammy Award-winning American house music DJ and producer, David Morales. The single became a top forty hit in the European countries reaching number eighteen in Finland, number twenty in Ireland and number twenty-five in the United Kingdom. "What Did I Do to You?" was also released in Japan.

In 2014, the remixes of "What Did I Do to You?" were included on the deluxe 2CD + DVD re-release of Affection and on People Hold On ... The Remix Anthology. They were also featured on The Collection 1989–2003 box set (2014), including previously unreleased Red Zone Mix by David Morales.

Critical reception
The song received positive reviews from music critics. Matthew Hocter from Albumism viewed it as a "upbeat offering". David Giles from Music Week said it is "beautifully performed" by Stansfield. A reviewer from Reading Eagle wrote that "What Did I Do to You?" "would be right at home on the "Saturday Night Fever" soundtrack."

Music video
A music video was produced to promote the single, directed by Philip Richardson, who had previously directed the videos for "All Around the World" and "Live Together". It features Stansfield with her kiss curls, dressed in a white outfit and performing with her band on a stage in front of a jumping audience. The video was later published on Stansfield's official YouTube channel in November 2009. It has amassed more than 1,6 million views as of October 2021.

Track listings

 European/UK 7" single
"What Did I Do to You?" (Mark Saunders Remix Edit) – 4:20
"Something's Happenin'" – 3:59

 European/UK/Japanese CD single
"What Did I Do to You?" (Mark Saunders Remix Edit) – 4:20
"My Apple Heart" – 5:19
"Lay Me Down" – 4:17
"Something's Happenin'" – 3:59

 UK 10" single
"What Did I Do to You?" (Mark Saunders Remix) – 5:52
"My Apple Heart" – 5:19
"Lay Me Down" – 4:17
"Something's Happenin'" – 3:59

 European/UK 12" single
"What Did I Do to You?" (Morales Mix) – 7:59
"My Apple Heart" – 4:22
"Lay Me Down" – 3:19
"Something's Happenin'" – 3:15

 UK 12" promotional single
"What Did I Do to You?" (Morales Mix) – 7:59
"What Did I Do to You?" (Anti Poll Tax Dub) – 6:31

 Other remixes
"What Did I Do to You?" (Red Zone Mix) – 7:45

Charts

References

Lisa Stansfield songs
1990 singles
Songs written by Lisa Stansfield
1989 songs
Arista Records singles
Songs written by Ian Devaney
Songs written by Andy Morris (musician) There's a Girl in My Hammerlock is a 1991 young adult novel by Jerry Spinelli.

Plot
Maisie Potter tries out for the wrestling team in her junior high to get close to a boy she likes, but she soon finds out that what she really loves is the sport of wrestling.

Maisie initially wants to be on the cheerleading squad, but she did not make the cut during tryouts. She is infatuated with a boy at her school, Eric Delong, and will do anything to be near him. Because he tries out for the wrestling team, Maisie decides to try out too. She makes the team but discovers that wrestling is a lot harder than she initially thought. She wins some of her matches but most of her opponents forfeit because they don't think it's right for a girl to wrestle a boy. She has to decide if she should do things that other people want her to do or things that she truly wants to do and is good at.

External links
Author Jerry Spinelli's homepage

1991 American novels
Novels by Jerry Spinelli
American sports novels
American young adult novels