Bram stoker's dracula 19925/12/2023 ![]() ![]() In this post I want to examine the influence of certain nineteenth century and Pre-War artworks on the production design. As a result the scenery, costumes, and mis-en-scène are full of interesting references. Obviously Coppola, together with art director Thomas Sanders and costume designer Eiko Ishioka, gave a lot of thought to what was happening in the arts both in England and Mitteleuropa at the fin-de-siècle when the film takes place. ![]() Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula was the subject of a recent post. ![]()
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Animorphs the capture5/12/2023 ![]() Melanie Nicholls-King as Aisha, Cassie's mother (Michelle in the books)Įpisodes Series overview. ![]() Karen Waddell as Nikki, Jake's mother (Jean in the books).Jonathan Whittaker as Greg, Jake's father (Steve in the books).Cassandra Van Wyck as Sara Berenson, Rachel's younger sister.Frank Pelligrino as Jeremy, Marco's father (Peter in the books).Diego Matamoros as Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul.Terra Vanessa Kowalyk as Melissa Chapman. ![]() Eugene Lipinski as Visser Three/Victor Trent.Paulo Costanzo as Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill.The series was broadcast from Septemto Octoin the United States and Canada. It was made for YTV for Season 1 and Global for Season 2 in Canada and Nickelodeon for the United States. ![]() Animorphs (also known under the promotional title AniTV) is a television adaptation made by Protocol Entertainment based on the Scholastic book series of the same name by K. ![]() Get Happy by Mary Amato5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It took many years and lots of rejections before I became published as an adult, but that first poem published in the “Highland Fling” gave me the hope I needed to keep trying. It can give a kid a taste of what might become steady nutrition. I believe that an experience like the one I had can make a lasting impression. ![]() I wish more schools had literary magazines, even if they were only published once a year. Seriously, though, what I experienced then and what I still experience today is the joy of sharing. Mary Hair stylist e distribuidora vloss, Cachoeira do Sul. At any rate, seeing my poem made public gave me the first taste of a writer’s life. In fact, the versatility of hair gloss is why people get confused. That’s how I remember it, and I really hope I didn’t fictionalize that memory. One of my poems appeared not just in the magazine, but on the front cover. Still, it was duplicated and distributed to the entire eighth grade. The eighth grade in my school had a literary “magazine.” I have that in quotes because it really was just a stapled collection of papers. ![]() The necessary hunger by nina revoyr5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Jackie, a Japanese-American lesbian, investigates four unsolved murders that took place at her grandfather’s store during the Watts riots. Southland (2003), like The Necessary Hunger and The Age of Dreaming, is set in Los Angeles. Despite this drama, the author avoids a soap-opera feel Revoyr ably switches between fast-paced basketball action and gritty urban scenes, and Raina and Nancy are believable, appealing characters. Japanese-American Nancy has a crush on African-American Raina, who’s dating another girl to complicate matters, Raina’s mother falls in love with Nancy’s father, and the two families meld to share a household. Revoyr’s other novels are more appropriate for review here: The Necessary Hunger (1997 reviewed in the Spring 1998 GLBTRT Newsletter) follows Nancy and Raina, teen lesbian basketball players going through the college recruitment process together. ![]() ![]() Advise your Revoyr-loving patrons that this is a good one, but not a gay one. ![]() The book is beautifully written, unfolding quietly at first and slowly building tension, and is recommended for all fiction collections however, the only gay action involves one minor character and is all off-screen. Readers looking for LGBT content won’t find it in Revoyr’s latest, which tells the life story of a fictional Japanese-American silent film star, and focuses on the circumstances regarding his early retirement. ![]() Commanded by Nicholas Bella5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Given all that, Relaxin' with Nick throws new color on the casual trio setting, and what else would you expect from a fleet, forward thinker like Payton?Īs he's also proven with his game defining recordings such as 2017's Afro-Caribbean Mixtape (Paytone Records), Dear Louis ( Verve/Universal, 2001) and Gumbo Nouveau (Verve/Polygram, 1995), Payton can invoke jazz's then and now on command and not sound moored or owing to either. ![]() In this setting Payton is a quartet unto himself, sailing with his trumpet while playing elegant piano/Fender Rhodes, electronics, and the occasional rap/vocal that we needn't discuss pro or con. This percolating trio date of brothers from different riff mothersbassist Peter Washington, drummer Kenny Washington and Nicholas Paytonis a bit misleading. ![]() Poison by jade west5/11/2023 ![]() ![]()
Black is a rainbow color angela joy5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() But in my box of crayons, Black is a rainbow, too.” Includes an author’s note a playlist of 11 songs two pages with further information on some of the allusions in the main text 3 poems a timeline of black ethnonyms (words that have been used to refer to Black people) over the course of American history and a bibliography. “So you see, there is no black in rainbows. Finally, she moves on to the history, family, memory, and love that are all part of her and her community. From there, she moves to the black in Black culture: Thurgood Marshall’s robe, birds in cages that sing, raisins and dreams left out in the sun to die. But her color is black, and she looks at what else is black: a feather in the snow, her best friend’s hair, her bicycle tires. Summary: A girl looks at the colors in her crayon box and in a rainbow, and realizes there’s no black in rainbows. ![]() Pryor convictions book5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The book reads as a kind of therapy, set down and published during the 1990s as he struggled with the increasingly unpredictable effects of the MS he was diagnosed with in 1986. The tension between these elements drives both the comedy and the tragedy or Pryor’s work and his life: no matter how many times he tries to come back to the idea that we’re all just human, just the same, he’s pulled back into the realities of inequality and racism that continue to dog society. There’s a lot in Pryor Convictions, and Other Life Sentences that’s universal too - and even more that’s uncomfortable reading but still holds true. Elements, like the Chinese waiter with the stammer, might not have aged well but a lot still stands either because it’s universal or because, more depressingly, it’s still accurate. ![]() ![]() It’s a pretty damn perfect introduction to the variety and humanity found in his performances - though of course, do remember it was the ’70s. My main experience of Richard Pryor before reading this autobiography was ‘Live in Concert’, filmed in 1978. ![]() Strange Doorways by Paul Beardsley5/11/2023 ![]() At the time of his birth, Beardsley's family, which included his sister Mabel who was one year older, were living in Ellen's familial home at 12 Buckingham Road. Soon after their wedding, Vincent was obliged to sell some of his property in order to settle a claim for his "breach of promise" from another woman who claimed that he had promised to marry her. ![]() The Pitts were a well-established and respected family in Brighton, and Beardsley's mother married a man of lesser social status than might have been expected. ![]() Vincent's wife, Ellen Agnus Pitt (1846–1932), was the daughter of Surgeon-Major William Pitt of the Indian Army. His father, Vincent Paul Beardsley (1839–1909), was the son of a tradesman Vincent had no trade himself, and relied on a private income from an inheritance that he received from his maternal grandfather when he was 21. ![]() Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant, despite the brevity of his career before his early death from tuberculosis.īeardsley was born in Brighton, England, on 21 August 1872, and christened on 24 October 1872. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. ![]() His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. ![]() ![]() ![]() By contrast, Maude is so intent on establishing control after seven years of subjugation to a quarrelsome, philandering husband eleven years her junior, that she is overly rigid and punitive, making enemies of people whose support she desperately needs. Penman portrays Stephen as an essentially kind man whose eagerness to please makes him a weak king, hesitant and vacillating, unable to make the difficult choices necessary to maintain his rule and establish peace. Thus began a long and bitter war that devastated England, most of whose people did not care which claimant sat on the throne, if only they could have peace. ![]() ![]() Many of the barons were reluctant to accept Maude not only because of her sex, but also because of her husband, the hot-tempered Geoffrey of Anjou, so they supported Stephen. Stephen broke his oath to defend her, claiming the crown for himself. When he died in 1135, Maude's cousin Stephen reached London at white-hot speed before she could arrive from the Continent. William the Conqueror's son Henry I named his daughter Maude as his heir. "And they said openly that Christ and his saints slept," says the twelfth century Peterborough Chronicle about the eighteen years of warfare between Stephen and Maude, known as "the Anarchy." When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman ![]() |