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Finally!
Time for another cover reveal... this is the second book in the 'Duskwalker' series by Jay Posey, and sequel to 'Three', which I also shot/designed the cover for earlier this year.
Massive thanks goes to all who were involved and helped in making this happen: Tom So (model/actor) for being fantastic to work with on getting this shot! If you think he looks familiar... Tom So is a professional extras actor and has appeared in James Bonds' 'Casino Royale' amongst a whole raft of accolades!
Stewart Larking for art direction and typography, as well as Sabel Studio-Blanco for the fantastic new studio this was shot in and assisting on the day.
For more info, head on over to the cover reveal page on Angry Robot's website:
angryrobotbooks.com/2013/12/cover-reveal-morningside-fall/ — at Studio Blanco.
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Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent; July 18, 1967) is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He became known in the early 2000s, appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including The Fast and the Furious and xXx. He founded the production companies One Race Films, Tigon Studios and Racetrack Records.
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Actor Mark Wahlberg signs a autograph for a sailor at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, Dec. 19. Wahlberg shook hands and took pictures with service members while thanking them for their service. More than 100 anxious fans waited in line to meet Wahlberg.
Susan Lucky as Zaneeta and Timmy Everett as Tommy Djilas.
From the Imdb boards: "When you watch Timmy Everett in the 1962 film "The Music Man", you think "GOD what a BRILLIANT actor/dancer". He just had it all. He even won an Emmy award in the 1950's for his role in a tv telecast. It's more sad then, when you look at his tragic personal life. Through several books and internet sites, I was able to learn that while Everett was a seasoned professional on the broadway stage, and in film, he was a distructive and a very troubled man. He had affairs with Jane Fonda and Anthony Perkins in the late 1950's.He could be happy one minute and very destructive the next. He died in 1977 of a heart attack... Susan Lucky, who played his love interest in the film, doesn't even mention him [in the interviews on the DVD] which is a slight on her part. It has taken me over two years to amass most of this data. I hope that this listing will help others who are MUSIC MAN freaks like I am, or seeking information about the boy, who lit up broadway and films briefly with his genius. Check out the book "The Fondas" and a 1995 (I think that was the year) bio of Anthony Perkins called "Split Image". Both these books reveal much about Everett's battle with mania.
"Like James Dean, your bright candle died too soon, Timmy. God bless you and goodnight,sweet prince."
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check out some sketches and actual star: joshuawysocki.blogspot.com/2011/06/kiss-watercolor-stars-...
Watercolor Stars is a project I started where I'll try to draw and paint postcards of all the stars on the 'walk of fame', and send them to friends around the world!
‘Beloved Husband, Father and Grandfather’. I would add ‘accomplished actor’, too – for that is what he also was.
I remember as a boy first seeing Willoughby Goddard as Landburger Gessler, the beastly Regional Governor in ATV’s William Tell in the late 1950s – unmissable Saturday evening children’s fare starring Conrad Phillips. He went on to make a string of films, including The Charge of the Light Brigade, A Man for All Seasons and Porterhouse Blue. His stage work comprised roles ranging from his acclaimed Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night to Mr Bumble in the Broadway production of Oliver!
Once described as ‘a most gentlemanly actor’, Willoughby Goddard died at the age of 81 and is laid to rest in Teddington cemetery, west London.
German postcard Verlag Hermann Leiser, Berlin-Wilm. no. 6904. Photo: Becker & Maass.
Albanian-Austrian Alexander Moissi (1879-1935), born as Aleksandër Moisiu, was one of the great European stage actors of the early-20th century. The attractive and charismatic women's idol also appeared in several silent and early sound films.
Alexander Moissi was born as Aleksander Moisiu in Trieste, Austria-Hungary (now Italy) in 1879. He was the fifth and last child of Konstantin Moisiu, a rich Albanian merchant in oil and wheat, and the half Albanian, half Italian Amalia di Rada, the daughter of a Florentine writer and doctor. After an international childhood in Trieste, Durrës, and Graz, 20-year-old Alexander finally settled with his mother and two sisters in Vienna. There he was spotted by Paul Schlenther, the director of the famous Burgtheater, and by the legendary actor Josef Kainz, who gave him acting lessons. In 1901 Moissi moved to Prague where he worked for the Neue Deutsche Theater, and in 1904 to Berlin, where he became a protégé of the influential director Max Reinhardt at the Deutsche Theater. Here he had his breakthrough as Oswald in the Henrik Ibsen play Ghosts. He would continue to play the part for more than two decades. Under Reinhardt he played parts in many William Shakespeare plays including the jester in King Lear, Romeo in Romeo and Juliet (1907), and Hamlet (1909). In 1911, Moissi followed the Reinhardt Ensemble to Russia and was acclaimed in St. Petersburg by critic and dramatist Anatoliy Lunacharsky for his interpretation of Oedipus. Travelling all over Europe and the Americas, he became a globally known star. His repertoire of leading roles encompassed the whole spectrum of European drama, from Greek tragedy to twentieth-century modernism. He was the first in Europe to interpret characters from Strindberg, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pirandello, and Hofmannsthal. His interpretations of Hamlet, Oedipus, Faust, Dubedat in George Bernard Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma, and many others, were celebrated at the time, as were his voice and emotional range. His most famous role was Fedya in Tolstoy's Buried Alive (or The Living Corpse). He performed this role 1500 times between 1913 and 1935 and more than one-and-a-half million people saw him playing the part.
Though primarily a stage actor, Alexander Moissi appeared in 17 films productions between 1913 and 1935. In 1913 he appeared in Germany in four silent films for the Deutsche Bioscop GmbH: the experimental pantomime Das schwarze Los/The black lot (Emil Albes, John Gottowt, 1913), Meier Helmbrechts Flucht und Ende/Meier Helmbrecht’s Flight and End (Leo Greiner, 1913), Die Augen des Ole Brandis/The Eyes of Ole Brandis (Stellan Rye, 1913), and he had a supporting role in the classic fantasy film Der Student von Prag/The Student of Prague (Stellan Rye, Paul Wegener, 1913) starring Paul Wegener. Two years later he starred in the films Kulissenzauber/Background magic (Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers, Leo Peukert, 1915) and Sein einziger Sohn/His Only Son (Adolf Gartner, 1915). It was World War I and in 1915 Moissi was mobilized by the Austrian army. As an airman, he was taken prisoner in France, but he got free five months later through a prisoner exchange. Till 1917 he worked as a stage actor in Switzerland. In 1918 he starred as Stanislaus in Pique Dame (Arthur Wellin, 1918), a film adaptation of Alexander Pushkin’s short story The Queen of Spades. That same year he appeared opposite Ria Jende in Der Ring der drei Wünsche/The Ring of the Three Wishes (Arthur Wellin, 1918). The following years he played in such silent films as Erborgtes Glück/Borrowed Happiness (Arthur Wellin, 1919) with Käthe Dorsch, Zwischen Tod und Leben/Between Life and Death (Arthur Wellin, 1919) with Bernhard Goetzke, Figaros Hochzeit/Figaro’s Wedding (Max Mack, 1920) based on the play by Beaumarchais, and Die Nacht der Königin Isabeau/The Night of Queen Isabeau (Robert Wiene, 1920) starring Fern Andra.
Alexander Moissi’s last silent film was Kean (Rudolf Biebrach, 1921) based on the play by Alexandre Dumas père. Edmund Kean, born in 1787, was the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day. Remarkable is that Moissi’s first sound film, the Hollywood production Die Königsloge/The Royal Box (Bryan Foy, 1929) also told the story of Edmund Kean. The German-language production by Warner Brothers was not a success. In the 1920s Moissi had more success in Russia, France, Austria, and Italy than in Germany. After the rise of the Nazis in Germany, Moissi reportedly became an Albanian citizen in 1934 (some sources say that he got an Italian passport). After a successful stage tour through Italy in 1934, Mossi starred in the Italian film production Lorenzino de' Medici/The Magnificent Rogue (Guido Brignone, 1935) with Maria Denis. It would be his final film. A year later, Alexander Moissi died of pneumonia in Vienna, (some sources say Lugano, Switzerland), and lies buried at the Morcote cemetery overlooking Lake Lugano. He was married twice. With his first wife, the Viennese actress Maria Moissi he had a daughter, Bettina, who also would become an actress. In 1919 he married actress Johanna Terwin. He is the over-grandfather of German actor Gedeon Burkhard. In his honor, the High College of Drama in Tirana, and the Professional Theatre of Durrës, Albania, are named ‘Aleksander Moisiu.’ The 60th anniversary of his death was remembered in Albania in 1995 with an Artistic Year dedicated to him; it was sponsored by the Aleksander Moisiu Foundation in Durrës.
Sources: Stephanie D’heil (Steffi-line) (German), Thomas Staedeli (Cyranos), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
For more postcards, a bio and clips check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Actor Will Smith lights up the stage as he hosted the 2011 Walmart Shareholders Meeting at the Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas. To watch the replay of the event, view videos, and join the conversation, visit www.walmartstores.com/shareholdersmeeting
Unfortunately I could only stay until half time but the all legend, star studded game was great, although I will never sit in the kids section again to get photos!
Ross Kemp (born 21 July 1964) is a BAFTA award-winning British actor, author and journalist, who rose to prominence in the role of Grant Mitchell in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders. Since 2006, Kemp has received international recognition as an investigative journalist for his critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary series Ross Kemp on Gangs
American actor, famous for his role as convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke, Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s, and as Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films.
Nominations for the 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were announced earlier today by Olivia Munn and Niecy Nash from the Pacific Design Center in Hollywood. You may have caught the live stream on TNT, TBS, and truTV aired the announcement, we’re posting a video below in case you want to see it on-demand.
Find out more: www.redcarpetreporttv.com/2017/12/13/sag-award-nomination...
It's that time of year when the Screen Actors Guild Awards® opens their Holiday Auction which will benefit the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Children’s Literacy and Actors’ Assistance programs. Find out more at sagawards.org/auction.
The annual Holiday Auction features the ultimate SAG Awards® VIP Package, with two tickets to the 24th Annual SAG Awards Ceremony and Gala on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, a backstage tour, two United Airline tickets and a three-night stay at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
But that's not all...
Other highlights include autographed film and television collectibles from Trevor Noah, Mary J. Blige, William Shatner, Sara Michelle Gellar, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Margaret Atwood, and the casts of “This Is Us,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “GLOW” and more. Also up for bid are unique gifts, such as tickets to a taping of “Will & Grace” plus a set tour and meet-and-greet with the cast, VIP tickets to a live taping of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” and several SAG Awards Red Carpet Bleacher Seats packages.
Bidding concludes on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, at 6 p.m. (PT) at sagawards.org/auction
Proceeds from the SAG Awards Holiday Auction support the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children's literacy program Storyline Online, the interactive children’s literacy website that attracts more than 12 million global views each month. The auction also supports the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Catastrophic Health Fund, Emergency Assistance and Scholarship Program for SAG-AFTRA artists and their families.
Here's the list of items up for bid at the SAG Awards Holiday Auction
Experiences, Tapings, and Packages
SAG Awards VIP package – 2 tickets to the 24th Annual SAG Awards Ceremony and Gala, a Backstage Tour, 2 United Airline tickets and 3-night stay at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA
SAG Awards Backstage Tour and 2 Front Row Red Carpet Bleacher Seats
4 Front Row Red Carpet Bleacher Seats to the 24th Annual SAG Awards Arrivals
2 tickets to a taping of “Will & Grace” plus a set tour and meet-and-greet with cast
4 VIP tickets to a live taping of "Conan"
2 VIP tickets to a live taping of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”
2 VIP tickets to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”
2 tickets to a taping of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen”
SAG Awards Red Carpet Bleacher Seat packages
Autographed Collectibles and Memorabilia
“This is Us” pilot script signed by the cast
“The Handmaid’s Tale” poster signed by cast members and producers
“The Handmaid’s Tale” paperback book signed by author Margaret Atwood plus gift basket
“Glow” poster signed by cast
“I, Tonya” poster signed by cast and creators
“Will & Grace” poster signed by Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally, Debra Messing and Eric McCormack
“Mudbound” poster signed by Mary J. Blige and Dee Rees
“Breathe” poster signed by Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy and Andy Serkis
“Brockmire” baseball signed by Hank Azaria
“The Walking Dead” Negan POP! doll signed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan
“Mr. Robot” limited edition backpack
“The Walking Dead” gift package including poster collection, special edition board game & baseball cap
“The Walking Dead” journal signed by cast members plus a Rick Grimes limited edition bobblehead
“The Walking Dead Vol.1,” “Outcast Vol.1” and “Invincible Vol.1” graphic novels signed creator Robert Kirkman
“Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” hardcover book signed by author Trevor Noah
“Zero-G” hardcover book signed by author William Shatner
“Stirring Up Fun with Food” hardcover book signed by creator Sarah Michelle Gellar
“Unqualified” hardcover signed by author Anna Faris
“We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere” paperback book signed by author Gillian Anderson
“Ballerina Body” paperback book signed by creator Misty Copeland
Premium Items
Champagne Taittinger Bottle 6L signed by 23rd Annual SAG Awards Attendees
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About the SAG-AFTRA Foundation
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation is a philanthropic 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides vital assistance and educational programming to SAG-AFTRA professionals while serving the public at large through its signature children’s literacy program. For more than 32 years, the Foundation has granted more than $19 million in financial and medical assistance, including $8 million in scholarships to SAG-AFTRA members and their dependents. In addition, the nonprofit has offered 7,600 free educational workshops, panels and classes SAG-AFTRA artists nationwide. In addition, its award-winning children’s literacy program Storyline Online has brought the love of reading to more than 300 million children worldwide. The SAG-AFTRA Foundation relies entirely on grants, sponsorships and individual contributions to maintain its free programs and resources, and is the benefiting charity of the annual SAG Awards. For more information, visit sagaftra.foundation.
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About the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®
The 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented by SAG-AFTRA with Screen Actors Guild Awards, LLC and hosted by Kristen Bell, will be produced by Avalon Harbor Entertainment. Inc. and will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018 at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT). TBS and TNT subscribers can also watch the SAG Awards live through the networks' websites and mobile apps. In addition, TNT will present a special encore of the ceremony at 11 p.m. (ET) / 8 p.m. (PT).
Tragic Actor
Ivory, AD 1-200
This intricate statuette represents an actor in the middle of a tragic performance. His pose and gestures are strongly expressive. Behind the mask, with its elaborate hairstyle and deep frown, the eyes and mouth are visible. The tunic is carefully rendered and he wears raised platform shoes called cothurni. Nero focused on performing demanding tragic roles, and wore similar outfits during his performances.
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Nero: the Man Behind the Myth
(May - Oct 2021)
Nero is known as one of Rome's most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty, debauchery and madness.
The last male descendant of the emperor Augustus, Nero succeeded to the throne in AD 54 aged just 16 and died a violent death at 30. His turbulent rule saw momentous events including the Great Fire of Rome, Boudicca's rebellion in Britain, the execution of his own mother and first wife, grand projects and extravagant excesses.
Drawing on the latest research, this major exhibition questions the traditional narrative of the ruthless tyrant and eccentric performer, revealing a different Nero, a populist leader at a time of great change in Roman society.
Through some 200 spectacular objects, from the imperial palace in Rome to the streets of Pompeii, follow the young emperor’s rise and fall and make up your own mind about Nero. Was he a young, inexperienced ruler trying his best in a divided society, or the merciless, matricidal megalomaniac history has painted him to be?
Nero was the 5th emperor of Rome and the last of Rome’s first dynasty, the Julio-Claudians, founded by Augustus (the adopted son of Julius Caesar). Nero is known as one of Rome’s most infamous rulers, notorious for his cruelty and debauchery. He ascended to power in AD 54 aged just 16 and died at 30. He ruled at a time of great social and political change, overseeing momentous events such as the Great Fire of Rome and Boudica’s rebellion in Britain. He allegedly killed his mother and two of his wives, only cared about his art and had very little interest in ruling the empire.
Most of what we know about Nero comes from the surviving works of three historians – Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. All written decades after Nero’s death, their accounts have long shaped our understanding of this emperor’s rule. However, far from being impartial narrators presenting objective accounts of past events, these authors and their sources wrote with a very clear agenda in mind. Nero’s demise brought forward a period of chaos and civil war – one that ended only when a new dynasty seized power, the Flavians. Authors writing under the Flavians all had an interest in legitimising the new ruling family by portraying the last of the Julio-Claudians in the worst possible light, turning history into propaganda. These accounts became the ‘historical’ sources used by later historians, therefore perpetuating a fabricated image of Nero, which has survived all the way to the present.
Nero was born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus on 15 December AD 37.
He was the son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the Younger. Both Gnaeus and Agrippina were the grandchildren of Augustus, making Nero Augustus’ great, great grandson with a strong claim to power.
Nero was only two years old when his mother was exiled and three when his father died. His inheritance was taken from him and he was sent to live with his aunt. However, Nero’s fate changed again when Claudius became emperor, restoring the boy’s property and recalling his mother Agrippina from exile.
In AD 49 the emperor Claudius married Agrippina, and adopted Nero the following year. It is at this point that Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus changed his name to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus. In Roman times it was normal to change your name when adopted, abandoning your family name in favour of your adoptive father’s. Nero was a common name among members of the Claudian family, especially in Claudius’ branch.
Nero and Agrippina offered Claudius a politically useful link back to Augustus, strengthening his position.
Claudius appeared to favour Nero over his natural son, Britannicus, marking Nero as the designated heir.
When Claudius died in AD 54, Nero became emperor just two months before turning 17.
As he was supported by both the army and the senate, his rise to power was smooth. His mother Agrippina exerted a significant influence, especially at the beginning of his rule.
The Roman historians Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all claim that Nero, fed up with Agrippina’s interference, decided to kill her.
Given the lack of eyewitnesses, there is no way of knowing if or how this happened. However, this did not stop historians from fabricating dramatic stories of Agrippina’s murder, asserting that Nero tried (and failed) to kill her with a boat engineered to sink, before sending his men to do the job.
Agrippina allegedly told them to stab her in the womb that bore Nero, her last words clearly borrowed from stage plays.
It is entirely possible, as claimed by Nero himself, that Agrippina chose (or was more likely forced) to take her own life after her plot against her son was discovered.
Early in his rule, Nero had to contend with a rebellion in the newly conquered province of Britain.
In AD 60–61, Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe led a revolt against the Romans, attacking and laying waste to important Roman settlements. The possible causes of the rebellion were numerous – the greed of the Romans exploiting the newly conquered territories, the recalling of loans made to local leaders, ongoing conflict in Wales and, above all, violence against the family of Prasutagus, Boudica’s husband and king of the Iceni.
Boudica and the rebels destroyed Colchester, London and St Albans before being heavily defeated by Roman troops. After the uprising, the governor of Britain Suetonius Paulinus introduced harsher laws against the Britons, until Nero replaced him with the more conciliatory governor Publius Petronius Turpilianus.
The marriage between Nero and Octavia, aged 15 and 13/14 at the time, was arranged by their parents in order to further legitimise Nero’s claim to the throne. Octavia was the daughter of the emperor Claudius from a previous marriage, so when Claudius married Agrippina and adopted her son Nero, Nero and Octavia became brother and sister. In order to arrange their marriage, Octavia had to be adopted into another family.
Their marriage was not a happy one. According to ancient writers, Nero had various affairs until his lover Poppaea Sabina convinced him to divorce his wife. Octavia was first exiled then executed in AD 62 on adultery charges. According to ancient writers, her banishment and death caused great unrest among the public, who sympathised with the dutiful Octavia.
No further motives were offered for Octavia’s death other than Nero’s passion for Poppaea, and we will probably never know what transpired at court. The fact that Octavia couldn’t produce an heir while Poppaea was pregnant with Nero’s daughter likely played an important role in deciding Octavia’s fate.
On 19 July AD 64, a fire started close to the Circus Maximus. The flames soon encompassed the entire city of Rome and the fire raged for nine days. Only four of the 14 districts of the capital were spared, while three were completely destroyed.
Rome had already been razed by flames – and would be again in its long history – but this event was so severe it came to be known as the Great Fire of Rome.
Later historians blamed Nero for the event, claiming that he set the capital ablaze in order to clear land for the construction of a vast new palace. According to Suetonius and Cassius Dio, Nero took in the view of the burning city from the imperial residence while playing the lyre and singing about the fall of Troy. This story, however, is fictional.
Tacitus, the only historian who was actually alive at the time of the Great Fire of Rome (although only 8 years old), wrote that Nero was not even in Rome when the fire started, but returned to the capital and led the relief efforts.
Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio all describe Nero as being blinded by passion for his wife Poppaea, yet they accuse him of killing her, allegedly by kicking her in an outburst of rage while she was pregnant.
Interestingly, pregnant women being kicked to death by enraged husbands is a recurring theme in ancient literature, used to explore the (self) destructive tendencies of autocrats. The Greek writer Herodotus tells the story of how the Persian king Cambyses kicked his pregnant wife in the stomach, causing her death. A similar episode is told of Periander, tyrant of Corinth. Nero is just one of many allegedly ‘mad’ tyrants for which this literary convention was used.
Poppaea probably died from complications connected with her pregnancy and not at Nero’s hands. She was given a lavish funeral and was deified.
Centred on greater Iran, the Parthian empire was a major political and cultural power and a long-standing enemy of Rome. The two powers had long been contending for control over the buffer state of Armenia and open conflict sparked again during Nero’s rule. The Parthian War started in AD 58 and, after initial victories and following set-backs, ended in AD 63 when a diplomatic solution was reached between Nero and the Parthian king Vologases I.
According to this settlement Tiridates, brother of the Parthian king, would rule over Armenia, but only after having travelled all the way to Rome to be crowned by Nero.
The journey lasted 9 months, Tiridates’ retinue included 3,000 Parthian horsemen and many Roman soldiers. The coronation ceremony took place in the summer of AD 66 and the day was celebrated with much pomp: all the people of Rome saw the new king of Armenia kneeling in front of Nero. This was the Golden Day of Nero’s rule
In AD 68, Vindex, the governor of Gaul (France), rebelled against Nero and declared his support for Galba, the governor of Spain. Vindex was defeated in battle by troops loyal to Nero, yet Galba started gaining more military support.
It was at this point that Nero lost the support of Rome’s people due to a grain shortage, caused by a rebellious commander who cut the crucial food supply from Egypt to the capital. Abandoned by the people and declared an enemy of the state by the senate, Nero tried to flee Rome and eventually committed suicide.
Following his death, Nero’s memory was condemned (a practice called damnatio memoriae) and the images of the emperor were destroyed, removed or reworked. However, Nero was still given an expensive funeral and for a long time people decorated his tomb with flowers, some even believing he was still alive.
After Nero’s death, civil war ensued. At the end of the so-called ‘Year of the Four Emperors’ (AD 69), Vespasian became emperor and started a new dynasty: the Flavians.
[Francesca Bologna, curator, for British Museum]
Taken in the British Museum
Tony Award-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford joined fellow Broadway Coloradans Beth Malone ("Fun Home") and Mara Davi ("Dames at Sea" for "United in Love," a special concert event benefiting the Denver Actors Fund on April 30 at the Lone Tree Arts Center. The three were "back to give back," joined by powerhouse singer, actor and First Lady of Denver Mary Louise; Broadway’s Jodie Langel ("Les Misérables"); composer Denise Gentilini ("I Am Alive") and Denver performers Jimmy Bruenger, Eugene Ebner, Becca Fletcher, Clarissa Fugazzotto, Robert Johnson, Daniel Langhoff, Susannah McLeod, Chloe McLeod, Sarah Rex, Jeremy Rill, Kristen Samu, Willow Samu, Thaddeus Valdez, and the casts of both "The Jerseys" (Klint Rudolph, Brian Smith, Paul Dwyer and Randy St. Pierre), and the all-student cast of the upcoming "13 the Musical" (Rylee Vogel, Josh Cellar, Hannah Meg Weinraub, Hannah Katz, Lorenzo Giovannetti, Maddie Kee, Kaden Hinkle, Darrow Klein, Evan Gibley, Conrad Eck and Macy Friday). The purpose of the evening was to spread a message of love and hope while raising funds for the Denver Actors Fund, which has made $90,000 available to local theatre artists facing situational medical need. The concert was presented by presented by Ebner-Page Productions. Photos by RDG Photography, Gary Duff and DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore, also the founder of the Denver Actors Fund. For more information, go to www.denveractorsfund.org
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt relaxes between takes during the filming of Premium Rush, an action thriller to be released in the summer of 2011 and directed by David Koepp. Among other locations in New York, the action of the movie also takes place in Morningside Heights, on the Columbia University campus.
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John Lowin (baptized 9 December 1576 – buried 16th/18 March 1659) was an English actor born in the St Giles-without-Cripplegate, London, the son of a tanner. Like Robert Armin, he was apprenticed to a goldsmith. While he is not recorded as a free citizen of this company, he did perform as a goldsmith, Leofstane, in a 1611 city pageant written by Anthony Munday. This pageant was commissioned by the Goldsmiths' Company in honor of the election of one of their company as mayor; in the document employing him, Lowin is described as a "brother" of the company, suggesting some form of ongoing relationship with that community. He lived in Southwark, where parish registers record two marriages involving a man of his name (in 1607 and 1620); the latter definitely involved the actor.
Lowin was definitely associated with the theatrical world by 1602. His name frequently occurs in the account books of Philip Henslowe in 1602, when he was playing with Worcester's Men at Rose Theatre in Bankside; a note in Henslowe's book places him in a travelling company in the same year. By late 1603, he had joined the new King's Men, apparently as a hired man rather than a sharer, as his name is not mentioned in the original royal patent. He probably became a sharer in 1604, when the total number of sharers was likely increased to twelve.
That he became important to the company fairly quickly is suggested by his appearance as himself (alongside Richard Burbage and Henry Condell) in the induction to John Marston's The Malcontent. He is mentioned in the surviving cast lists of the company's productions of Ben Jonson's Sejanus (1603), Volpone (1605), The Alchemist (1610), and Catiline (1611), John Fletcher's Bonduca and Valentinian (both ca. 1613), and John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi (ca. 1621).
Lowin's prowess as an actor is displayed by a remarkable fact about the plays in which he acted. In the hundreds of plays, and the thousands of roles in them, that date to the 1580–1610 era, there are only about twenty roles of 800 lines or longer. Only three plays have two roles of this scale: Shakespeare's Othello and Jonson's Volpone and The Alchemist. Burbage played the starring role in the King's Men's productions of these plays—and Lowin apparently was the man who seconded him (just as Lowin is known to have played Bosola to Burbage's Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi). In all likelihood it was Lowin who played Iago to Burbage's Othello, Mosca to his Volpone, and Subtle to his Face.[1]
Edward Alleyn's diary speaks of his dining with Lowin in 1620. When John Heminges died in 1630, Lowin purchased an eighth of the total shares in the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres. With the death of Heminges, the old guard left over from the Lord Chamberlain's Men had finally passed. From that year until the theaters closed in 1642, Lowin (together with Joseph Taylor) assumed the roles previously fulfilled by Heminges, serving as treasurers and as contacts with the court and with the Master of the Revels. In 1633, he was scolded by Sir Henry Herbert for staging Fletcher's The Woman's Prize without censorship. After the theaters closed in 1642, Lowin may have kept an inn (called the Three Pigeons) at Brentford, where he died in 1659, at the age of eighty-two.
Lowin was one of the ten King's Men who signed the dedication in the 1647 Beaumont and Fletcher First Folio; also, he signed the 1652 edition of Fletcher's The Wild Goose Chase with Joseph Taylor. In the 25 cast lists added to plays in the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1679, Lowin's name is mentioned in the lists for 21 dramas, more than any other single actor.
Emma watson at the world premiere screening of 'harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban' held at radio city music hall. New york city. 23 may 2004. Pictures dennis van tine/Lfi
Nominations for the 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were announced earlier today by Olivia Munn and Niecy Nash from the Pacific Design Center in Hollywood. You may have caught the live stream on TNT, TBS, and truTV aired the announcement, we’re posting a video below in case you want to see it on-demand.
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It's that time of year when the Screen Actors Guild Awards® opens their Holiday Auction which will benefit the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Children’s Literacy and Actors’ Assistance programs. Find out more at sagawards.org/auction.
The annual Holiday Auction features the ultimate SAG Awards® VIP Package, with two tickets to the 24th Annual SAG Awards Ceremony and Gala on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, a backstage tour, two United Airline tickets and a three-night stay at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
But that's not all...
Other highlights include autographed film and television collectibles from Trevor Noah, Mary J. Blige, William Shatner, Sara Michelle Gellar, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Margaret Atwood, and the casts of “This Is Us,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “GLOW” and more. Also up for bid are unique gifts, such as tickets to a taping of “Will & Grace” plus a set tour and meet-and-greet with the cast, VIP tickets to a live taping of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” and several SAG Awards Red Carpet Bleacher Seats packages.
Bidding concludes on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, at 6 p.m. (PT) at sagawards.org/auction
Proceeds from the SAG Awards Holiday Auction support the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children's literacy program Storyline Online, the interactive children’s literacy website that attracts more than 12 million global views each month. The auction also supports the SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Catastrophic Health Fund, Emergency Assistance and Scholarship Program for SAG-AFTRA artists and their families.
Here's the list of items up for bid at the SAG Awards Holiday Auction
Experiences, Tapings, and Packages
SAG Awards VIP package – 2 tickets to the 24th Annual SAG Awards Ceremony and Gala, a Backstage Tour, 2 United Airline tickets and 3-night stay at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA
SAG Awards Backstage Tour and 2 Front Row Red Carpet Bleacher Seats
4 Front Row Red Carpet Bleacher Seats to the 24th Annual SAG Awards Arrivals
2 tickets to a taping of “Will & Grace” plus a set tour and meet-and-greet with cast
4 VIP tickets to a live taping of "Conan"
2 VIP tickets to a live taping of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”
2 VIP tickets to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”
2 tickets to a taping of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen”
SAG Awards Red Carpet Bleacher Seat packages
Autographed Collectibles and Memorabilia
“This is Us” pilot script signed by the cast
“The Handmaid’s Tale” poster signed by cast members and producers
“The Handmaid’s Tale” paperback book signed by author Margaret Atwood plus gift basket
“Glow” poster signed by cast
“I, Tonya” poster signed by cast and creators
“Will & Grace” poster signed by Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally, Debra Messing and Eric McCormack
“Mudbound” poster signed by Mary J. Blige and Dee Rees
“Breathe” poster signed by Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy and Andy Serkis
“Brockmire” baseball signed by Hank Azaria
“The Walking Dead” Negan POP! doll signed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan
“Mr. Robot” limited edition backpack
“The Walking Dead” gift package including poster collection, special edition board game & baseball cap
“The Walking Dead” journal signed by cast members plus a Rick Grimes limited edition bobblehead
“The Walking Dead Vol.1,” “Outcast Vol.1” and “Invincible Vol.1” graphic novels signed creator Robert Kirkman
“Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” hardcover book signed by author Trevor Noah
“Zero-G” hardcover book signed by author William Shatner
“Stirring Up Fun with Food” hardcover book signed by creator Sarah Michelle Gellar
“Unqualified” hardcover signed by author Anna Faris
“We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere” paperback book signed by author Gillian Anderson
“Ballerina Body” paperback book signed by creator Misty Copeland
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Champagne Taittinger Bottle 6L signed by 23rd Annual SAG Awards Attendees
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About the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®
The 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented by SAG-AFTRA with Screen Actors Guild Awards, LLC and hosted by Kristen Bell, will be produced by Avalon Harbor Entertainment. Inc. and will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018 at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT). TBS and TNT subscribers can also watch the SAG Awards live through the networks' websites and mobile apps. In addition, TNT will present a special encore of the ceremony at 11 p.m. (ET) / 8 p.m. (PT).
Had a meeting with this gentleman yesterday and decided to try out my new Fuji X-Pro1 using 35mm f1.4
meta_creation lab: inter-actors, attractors and the aesthetics of complexity
marlon barrios solano
www.dance-tech.net/page/meta-creation
A collaborative workshop interfacing movement art practices, digital creativity, portable computation and networked systems.
This workshop is a collaborative lab to creatively explore the contemporary approaches, practices and aesthetics of self organization and of complex systems within the dynamic couplings of mind, body and information/data flows.
This workshop is an open space for experimentation and inquiry within a well defined theoretical/aesthetic frame and open space format: the participants self-organize in different node projects (collaborative and flexible groups) in order to investigate and deploy bottom-up architectures as compositional prototyping strategies and processes. It explores interactivity plus generativity.
An embodied/distributed cognition approach is used to generate physical activities and games, guided discussions/conversations about relevant artists works and concepts exploring the aesthetic of complex systems and emergence.
Open source technologies and methodologies will be explored in combination with composition in real-time.
Inter and trans-disciplinary explorations are encouraged and diversity is the main asset.
Several nodes of research projects are suggested:
Sampling, recombinations and mashups
New Internet technologies (web 2.0) and collaborative creation
Post-pc technologies apps, tablets and mobile technologies
Life logging and creative process
Media Capturing and Real time processing
Bottom-up architectures of generative systems
Hybrid realities and alternative sites
Portable cameras and video production
Online video and video straming
Cloud/social computing
Locative media/Mobile
Performance, rule systems and algorithms.
Computer aided choreography
Portable hardware as interfaces/interactive media control
Social media for distributed creativity and knowledge production
Networked documentaries/storytelling.
Photos from workshops in Beirut, Lebanon.
October 2011