The man in this photo changed my life. And I had never met him.

He did it by penning this line in his 1971 bestselling book, The Paper Chase: “You come in here with a skull full of mush, and you leave thinking like a lawyer.” I loved the idea of rewiring my brain to think with speed and precision – and I loved the idea of attending Harvard Law School (HLS).

I was up in Maine at a Navy squadron at the time and hopped in my car and drove to Harvard to walk the grounds and visit the Law School. As a state college graduate, getting into HLS would be no easy feat but I bought the LSAT prep books and committed myself to trying. Long story short, I ended up applying to HBS instead. Turned out it was a good decision for me, but I would never have even considered applying if it hadn’t had been for the inspiration of The Paper Chase. And it did “rewire” my brain (mostly for the better).

Many years later (and over a decade ago), I would tell the story of that book and the role of serendipity in our lives at new hire orientation at my first start-up (Military.com). And one day, a new hire named Sam raised his hand and said that he had something to say. It was kind of unusual for people to have questions during my “Paper Chase” story. Anyway, Sam said, “My father wrote that book!” I couldn’t believe it. Such a coincidence. But it gets better.

A few months later, I’m out in SF and am introduced to a young lady named Meredith. For some reason, I relate this story to her and she says, “Sam is my brother!” Two Osborn’s in the same year. It turns out that their father lives and teaches in San Francisco, and I got the chance to spend time with him. He’s an incredibly gracious, brilliant and funny man.

Well, it had been many years since I had last seen John. But that changed today over a wonderful catch-up lunch at The Cavalier. He’s as wonderful and interesting as ever – and is about to publish a great new book.

Well, you might wonder, why we decided to meet again after so many years? I was just in Santa Fe taking a photographic workshop and one of the women in class asked if “Sam Osborn” had worked at my company. Yes, the Osborn’s strike again!

Did you ever feel like the universe was trying to tell you something?

If you haven’t read or seen The Paper Chase, you should. It might just change your life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx22TyCge7w

East-German collectors card in the 'Neu im Kino' series by VEB Progress Film-Vertrieb, Berlin, no. 500/6/68. Photo: G.B. Poletto and Peter Basch. Senta Berger in Operazione San Gennaro/The Treasure of San Gennaro (Dino Risi, 1966).

Beautiful Austrian actress Senta Berger (1941) received many awards for her work in theatre, film, and television, including a Golden Globe Award and a Goldene Kamera. She played in many European co-productions as well as a sex bomb in some Hollywood movies of the 1960s. Berger works now also as a producer of internationally acclaimed films and as a bestselling author.

Senta Berger was born in Vienna, Austria in 1941 as the daughter of Therese Jany, a teacher, and Josef Berger, a musician. She first appeared on stage at the age of four, where her father accompanied his daughter's singing on the piano. At the age of five, she started ballet lessons, but Senta was asked to leave at 14 because she had ‘developed’ too much. She then took private acting lessons and appeared as an extra in the comedy Du bist die Richtige/You Are The Right One (Erich Engel, Josef von Báky, 1955) starring Curd Jürgens. In 1957, she won her first small role in Die unentschuldigte Stunde/The Unexcused Hour (1957), one of the last films directed by legendary actor-director Willi Forst. She applied for the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a famous acting school in Vienna, but she was expelled shortly afterward after accepting a small role in the film The Journey/Die Reise (Anatole Litvak, 1959) without permission. Only 17, she became the youngest member of the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna in 1958 and played a role in Luigi Pirandello’s Enrico IV. Film producer Arthur Brauner offered her a role opposite German superstar Heinz Rühmann in the deft satire Der brave Soldat Schweijk/The Good Soldier Schweijk (Axel von Ambesser, 1960). Brauner signed her a contract for several films and cast her in Schlagerfilms like O sole mio (Paul Martin, 1960) and Adieu, Lebewohl, Goodbye (1961). She soon got tired of them, but Maria Brauner, the producer’s wife, helped her to get a part next to O.W. Fischer and Eva Bartok in the thrillers Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein/Operation Caviar (Geza von Radvanyi, 1961) and Diesmal muß es Kaviar sein/This time it has to be caviar (Geza von Radvanyi, 1961). These spy thrillers, based on the novels by Johannes Mario Simmel, meant her breakthrough. Berger became a staple in European co-productions like Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes/Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (Terence Fisher, Frank Winterstein, 1962) starring Christopher Lee, and Kali-Yug, la Dea della Vendetta/Vengeance of Kali (Mario Camerini, 1963) with Lex Barker. On the invitation of Richard Widmark, with whom she had appeared in the cold war adventure film The Secret Ways (Phil Karlson, 1961), she went to Hollywood. There she appeared in the anti-war drama The Victors (Carl Foreman, 1963) and in The Waltz King (Steve Previn, 1963), a two-parter in the TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. Though an actress of more than average talent, Berger was regarded as just another European sex bomb by most Hollywood publicity flacks. She was offered a five-year-contract by a major Hollywood studio, but she decided to return to Germany.

During the shooting of the comedy Jacky und Jenny/Jacky and Jenny (Victor Vicas, 1964), Senta Berger met Michael Verhoeven, son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (not the Dutch Paul Verhoeven). They started their own film production company Sentana-Filmproduktion in 1965 and married the following year. Berger continued to develop her international career and played with such stars as Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, and Yul Brynner. She appeared in numerous Euro-spy films such as the Italian crime comedy Operazione San Gennaro/Operation San Gennaro (Dino Risi, 1966), the British comedy Our Man in Marrakech (Don Sharp, 1966) with Tony Randall, and the French thriller Peau d’Espion/To Commit a Murder (Edouard Molinaro, 1967) with Louis Jourdan. One of her best known Hollywood movies is the Western Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah, 1965) with Charlton Heston. At the Celluloid Heroes blog, Paul McElligott writes: “Major Dundee is one of Sam Peckinpah’s early works, a highly stylized Western that fits perfectly the outsized performances of its stars, Charlton Heston and Richard Harris. Neither the story, the dialogue or the acting can be called realistic, but it is what it claims to be, a rousing entertainment.” In Cast a Giant Shadow (Melville Shavelson, 1966) with Kirk Douglas, she played the role of Magda, a soldier in the Israeli army during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948. That same year she was also a German schoolteacher involved in neo-Nazi activity opposite Max von Sydow and George Segal in the spy film The Quiller Memorandum (Michael Anderson, 1966). A curio is the short film Vienna (1967) directed by Orson Welles. In the film Welles is wandering through Vienna, remembering The Third Man and then, aided by Berger and Mickey Rooney, he suddenly stumbles into a spy satire which is, according to the IMDb reviewer, “simply hilariously funny”. In 1967, Berger acted also in the pilot for the American television TV series It Takes a Thief (1968) starring Robert Wagner. She reprised her role in the series in 1969, in an episode in which her character was killed off.

In 1970 Senta Berger appeared in the Italian caveman spoof Quando le Donne Avevano la Coda/When Women Had Tails (Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1970), which was a surprise box-office hit in Italy. Her participation in this banal sex-comedy leads Hal Erickson at AllMovie to the conclusion that “by 1970, Senta Berger evidently gave up any hopes of being taken seriously.” That year though, she also starred for the first time in a film produced by her own company and directed by her husband, Wer im Glashaus liebt/He Who Loves in a Glass House (Michael Verhoeven, 1970). Two years later she featured in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass/Morals of Ruth Halbfass (Volker Schlöndorff, 1972) followed by the leading role in Der scharlachrote Buchstabe/The Scarlet Letter (Wim Wenders, 1973). And in Italy, she appeared in several films for high-quality directors such as Roma Bene (Carlo Lizzani, 1971), L'Amante dell'orsa maggiore/The Smugglers (Valentino Orsini, 1972), Bisturi: La Mafia Bianca/Hospitals: The White Mafia (Luigi Zampa, 1973) and the Giallo L'Uomo Senza Memoria/Puzzle (Duccio Tessari, 1974) opposite Luc Merenda. Following the birth of her two sons, Simon (1972) and Luca (1979), Berger returned to theatre work. She played at the famous Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg and at the Schillertheater in Berlin. Between 1974 and 1982, she played the Buhlschaft in the play Jedermann (Everyman) at the Salzburg Festival with Curd Jürgens and later Maximilian Schell in the title role. She also co-starred with Schell and James Coburn in the war film Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977).

In 1985, Senta Berger started a comeback in front of German-speaking TV audiences in the popular, ironic mini-series Kir Royal (Helmut Dietl,1985-1986), about a Munich gossip reporter and the city’s legendary high society circles. Further serial hits followed, like Die schnelle Gerdi/The Fast Gerti (Michael Verhoeven, 1989), where she played a Munich cab driver. In the same year, she also started a career as a singer of Chansons. Berger continued to work in Italy and appeared opposite Marcello Mastroianni in Le Due Vite di Mattia Pascal/The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal (Mario Monicelli, 1985), based on a Luigi Pirandello story. Berger and Verhoeven produced acclaimed and internationally successful films including Die weiße Rose/The White Rose (Michael Verhoeven, 1982) and Das schreckliche Mädchen/The Terrible Girl (Michael Verhoeven, 1990), both starring Lena Stolze. During the 1990s Berger was mostly seen as smart, sexy and honest women on TV. In 1991 she played an acclaimed role in the marriage drama Sie und Er/She and He (Frank Beyer, 1991). Series followed like Lilli Lottofee (Michael Verhoeven, 1992) and Ärzte/Doctors (1994-1996). Then she played parts in Sandra Nettelbeck‘s film debut Mammamia (1998), Bin ich schön?/Am I Beautiful (Doris Dörrie, 1998) and the TV film Trennungsfieber/Divorce Fever (Manfred Stelzer, 2000). Since February 2003, Berger has been president of the German Film Academy, which seeks to advance the new generation of actors and actresses in Germany and Europe. The Academy will decide the assignment of the German Film Awards in the future. 2005 saw her in the cinemas in Einmal so wie ich will/For Once As I Want It (Vivian Naefe, 2005) opposite Götz George, as a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage. She finds love on holiday but turns her back on the relationship. In the spring of 2006, Berger's autobiography was published in Germany: Ich habe ja gewußt, daß ich fliegen kann (I Knew That I Could Fly). It became a bestseller. Among her memories of Hollywood are a less-than-subtle attempt by Darryl Zanuck to get her on his casting couch, and being called ‘You German pig’ on her first day on the set of Major Dundee by a gaffer whose wife had lost her family in Auschwitz. Senta Berger is still married to Michael Verhoeven and their sons Simon and Luca Verhoeven are both actors now. She lives in Grünwald near Munich, Germany. Recently she worked for the screen in the TV mini-series Four Seasons (Giles Foster, 2008) with Tom Conti and Michael York, the film Ruhm/Fame (Isabel Kleefeld, 2011) and the comedy Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren/Old glow - Speeddating for Seniors (Jan Georg Schütte, 2014) with Mario Adorf.

Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Paul McElligott (Celluloid Heroes), Lenin Imports, The Wild Eye, Wikipedia, and IMDb.

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Two red bestselling hatches from the early nineties.

You can tell the AX is a van as the passenger compartment will usually be separated by acrylic glass, metal grate or in this case metal bars.

35mm is FPP's bestselling film format thanks to its ease and wide range of available films. Whether it’s a day at the beach, a photo walk around your neighborhood or photographing a holiday event, 35mm film is the perfect format. Which is why we’re excited about bringing you the Negative Supply Basic 35mm DSLR Film Scanner Kit! It allows you to easily scan and share your photographs with friends and loved ones. The FPP is an official seller of the Negative Supply 35mm Basic DSLR Film Scanner Kit.

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It was all getting a bit gothic at Rosslyn Chapel last week as I walked around the exterior.

Rosslyn Chapel featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.

A Lexus ES XV60 Hybrid facelift photographed at a Lexus dealership in Beijing, Beijing municipality, China.

The Lexus ES is only sold in China with 4 cyl. gas engines 2.0 (167hp), 2.5 (181hp) and the hybrid version.

Lexus is probably the bestselling hybrid cars in China but doesn't produce any cars here.

ES 5th and 6th gen are quite common on Chinese roads.

But I also spotted some 2nd, 3rd and 4th gen ES.

Dr. Abraham Verghese is a physician, writer, and professor whose work bridges the worlds of medicine and literature with a rare depth of insight. A practicing doctor and bestselling author, he has long championed the importance of human connection in healthcare, weaving narrative and empathy into both his clinical work and his writing.

I photographed Verghese at his home in Palo Alto on August 18, 2023. His Spanish-style home is unique in many ways, but perhaps the most striking feature is how he has transformed the living room into his writing space. A large bay window floods the room with light, illuminating a vast desk that faces outward—overflowing with books, artifacts, and two wooden jointed mannequins. Behind him, a whiteboard filled with story ideas stands as a testament to the constant interplay between his work as a physician and his craft as a storyteller.

Our conversation meandered between the disciplines that define him—medicine, literature, and the delicate balance between science and the human spirit. His ability to hold both worlds together, to see the body not just as a collection of biological systems but as a repository of stories, has made him a deeply influential figure in modern medicine. His books, including Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, are as much about the practice of healing as they are about the intricate narratives of the people who inhabit his pages.

Verghese’s presence is both warm and deeply thoughtful, embodying the philosophy that medicine is more than diagnosis and treatment—it is an act of witness, of listening, of understanding. Whether at the bedside or at his desk, his commitment remains the same: to bring humanity to medicine and meaning to storytelling. His life’s work is a reminder that, at its best, science does not stand apart from art, but is inextricably intertwined with it.

Anatomy of a Murder ~ Autopsie d'un meurtre ~ Paris ~ MjYj

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Spanish postcard by Falgra, Barcelona, no. 1136. Photo: United Artists. Publicity still for Summer Storm (Douglas Sirk, 1944).

American film actress Linda Darnell (1923-1965) progressed from modeling as a child to acting in theatre and film as an adolescent. The ravishing beauty appeared in supporting roles in big-budget films for 20th Century Fox throughout the 1940s, and rose to fame with co-starring roles opposite Tyrone Power in adventure films. She established a main character career after her role in Forever Amber (1947), and won critical acclaim for her work in Unfaithfully Yours (1948) and A Letter to Three Wives (1949).

Monetta Eloyse Darnell was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1923, as one of four children to postal clerk Calvin Roy Darnell and the former Pearl Brown. She was the younger sister of Undeen and the older sister of Monte Maloya and Calvin Roy, Jr. Her parents were not happily married, and she grew up as a shy and reserved girl in a house of domestic turmoil. Starting at an early age, her mother Pearl had big plans for Darnell in the entertainment industry. She believed that Linda was her only child with potential as an actress and ignored the rearing of her other children. Darnell was a model by the age of 11 and was acting on the stage by the age of 13. She initially started modeling to earn money for the household, and performed mostly in beauty contests. Darnell was a student at Sunset High School, when in November 1937, a talent scout for 20th Century Fox arrived in Dallas, looking for new faces. Encouraged by her mother, Darnell met him, and after a few months, he invited her for a screen test in Hollywood. In California, Darnell was initially rejected by film studios and was sent home because she was declared "too young". Darnell was featured in a ‘Gateway to Hollywood’ talent-search and landed a contract at RKO Pictures. There was no certainty, though, and she soon returned to Dallas. When 20th Century Fox offered her a part, Darnell wanted to accept, but RKO was unwilling to release her. Nevertheless, by age 15, she was signed to a contract at 20th Century Fox and moved to a small apartment in Hollywood all alone in 1939.Her first film was Hotel for Women (Gregory Ratoff, 1939), which had newspapers immediately hailing her as the newest star of Hollywood. Loretta Young was originally assigned to play the role, but demanded a salary which the studio would not give her. Darryl F. Zanuck instead cast Darnell, advertise her beauty and suggested a Latin quality. Although only 15 at the time, Darnell posed as a 17-year-old and was listed as 19 years old by the studio. Her true age came out later in 1939, and she became one of the few actresses under the age of 16 to serve as leading ladies in films.

Linda Darnell was assigned to the female lead opposite Tyrone Power in the light romantic comedy Day-Time Wife (Gregory Ratoff, 1939). Although the film received only slightly favourable reviews, Darnell's performance was received positively for her breath-taking looks and splendid acting. Life magazine stated that Darnell was "the most physically perfect girl in Hollywood". Following the film's release, she was cast in the drama comedy Star Dust (Walter Lang, 1940) with John Payne. The film was hailed as one of the "most original entertainment idea in years" and boosted Darnell's popularity, being nicknamed 'Hollywood's loveliest and most exciting star'. After appearing in several small films, Darnell was cast in her first big-budget film opposite Tyrone Power in Brigham Young (Henry Hathaway, 1940), regarded as the most expensive film 20th Century Fox had yet produced. Darnell and Power were cast together for the second time due to the box office success of Day-Time Wife, and they became a highly publicized onscreen couple, which prompted Darryl F. Zanuck to add 18 more romantic scenes to Brigham Young. Darnell began working on the big-budget adventure The Mark of Zorro (Rouben Mamoulian, 1940), in which she again co-starred as Power's sweetheart. Critics raved over the film. The Mark of Zorro was a box office sensation and did much to enhance Darnell's star status. Afterwards, she was paired with Henry Fonda for the first time in the western Chad Hanna (Henry King, 1940), her first Technicolor film. The film received only little attention, unlike Darnell's next film Blood and Sand (Rouben Mamoulian, 1941), in which she was reteamed with Power. It was the first film for which she was widely critically acclaimed. Thereafter the studio was unable to find her suitable roles. Darnell was disappointed and felt rejected. Months passed by without any work, and in August 1941, she was cast in a supporting role in the musical Rise and Shine (Allan Dwan, 1941). The film was a setback in her career, and she was rejected for a later role because she refused to respond to Darryl F. Zanuck's advances. Instead, she contributed to the war effort, working for the Red Cross, selling war bonds, and she was a regular at the Hollywood Canteen.

Linda Darnell and Twentieth Century-Fox weren't on the best of terms, and as a punishment, she was loaned out to Columbia for a supporting role in a B movie called City Without Men (Sidney Salkow, 1942). In 1943, she was put on suspension. Darnell had married, which caused the fury of Zanuck. Darnell was reduced to second leads and was overlooked for big-budget productions. Matters changed in 1944 when Look Magazine named her one of the four most beautiful women in Hollywood, along with Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman, and Gene Tierney. The studio allowed her to be loaned out for the lead in Summer Storm (Douglas Sirk, 1944), opposite George Sanders. She played a type of role she had never before: a seductive peasant girl who takes three men to their ruin before she herself is murdered. The film provided her a new screen image as a pin-up girl. Shortly after, Darnell was again loaned out to portray a showgirl in The Great John L. (Frank Tuttle, 1945), the first film to feature her bare legs. Darnell complained that the studio lacked recognition of her, which prodded Zanuck to cast her in the Film Noir Hangover Square (John Brahm, 1945), playing a role she personally had chosen. The film became a great success, and she was added to the cast of another Film Noir, Fallen Angel (Otto Preminger, 1945), which also included Dana Andrews and Alice Faye. Despite suffering from the "terrifying" Preminger, Darnell was praised by reviewers so widely that there was even talk of an Oscar nomination. In 1946, Darnell filmed two pictures simultaneously, the expensively budgeted Anna and the King of Siam (John Cromwell, 1946) with Irene Dunne, and Centennial Summer (Otto Preminger, 1946) with the legendary Lillian Gish. Then she went on location in Monument Valley for the classic Western My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) with Henry Fonda end Victor Mature. It was another hit and garnered Linda some of the best reviews of her career.

In 1946, Linda Darnell won the starring role in the highly anticipated romantic drama Forever Amber (Otto Preminger, 1947), based on a bestselling historical novel that was denounced as being immoral at that time. Although she had to work with Preminger, she was delighted to play the title role. However, Forever Amber did not live up to its hype, and although it became a success at the box office, most reviewers agreed that the film was a disappointment. The following year, Darnell portrayed Daphne de Carter in the comedy Unfaithfully Yours (Preston Sturges, 1948), also starring Rex Harrison, and was then one of the three wives in the comedy/drama A Letter to Three Wives (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1949). Darnell's hard-edged performance in the latter won her unanimous acclaim and the best reviews of her career. Darnell became one of the most-demanded actresses in Hollywood, and she now had the freedom to select her own roles. She was cast opposite Richard Widmark and Veronica Lake in Slattery's Hurricane (Andre DeToth, 1949), which she perceived as a step down from the level she had reached with A Letter to Three Wives, though it did well at the box office. She then co-starred opposite Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier in the groundbreaking No Way Out (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950). But her later films were rarely noteworthy, and her appearances were increasingly sporadic. Further hampering Darnell's career was the actress's alcoholism and weight gain. Her next films included the Western, Two Flags West (Robert Wise, 1950), The 13th Letter (Otto Preminger, 1951) and The Guy Who Came Back (Joseph M. Newman, 1951).

In 1951, Darnell signed a new contract with 20th Century Fox that allowed her to become a freelance actress. Her first film outside 20th Century Fox was for Universal Pictures, The Lady Pays Off (Douglas Sirk, 1951). She was responsible for putting the film behind schedule, because on the fifth day of shooting, she learned that Ivan Kahn, the man responsible for her breakthrough, had died. Darnell then headed the cast of the British romantic war film Saturday Island (Stuart Heisler, 1952), which co-starred Tab Hunter and was filmed on location in Jamaica. There, Darnell fell ill and had to be quarantined for several weeks. Because her contract required her to make one film a year for the studio, she reported to the lot of 20th Century Fox for the Film Noir Night Without Sleep (Roy Ward Baker, 1952) with Gary Merrill and Hildegarde Knef. It was the only time that she had to live up to this part of her contract, since she was released from it in September 1952. The competition of television forced studios all over Hollywood to drop actors. This news initially excited Darnell, because it permitted her to focus on her film career in Europe, but the ease and protection enjoyed under contract was gone. Before traveling to Italy for a two-picture deal with Giuseppe Amato, Darnell was rushed into the production of Blackbeard the Pirate (Raoul Walsh, 1952). In Italy she made Donne proibite/Angels of Darkness (Giuseppe Amato, 1954) with Valentina Cortese and Giulietta Masina. The second collaboration, the French-Italian comedy Gli ultimi cinque minuti/The Last Five Minutes (Giuseppe Amato, 1955) with Vittorio De Sica and Peppino De Filippo proved disastrous, and was never released in the United States. Back in Hollywood, she accepted an offer from Howard Hughes to star in RKO's 3-D film Second Chance (Rudolph Maté, 1953) with Robert Mitchum, filmed in Mexico. Because of her then-husband, Philip Liebmann, Darnell put her career on a hiatus. In 1955, she returned to 20th Century Fox, by which time the studio had entered the television field. She guest-starred in series like Cimarron City and Wagon Train, and also returned to the stage.

Linda Darnell’s last work as an actress was in a stage production in Atlanta in early 1965. At the time of her death a few months later, she was preparing to perform in another play. She died in 1965, from burns she received in a house fire in Glenview, a suburb of Chicago. The house of her former secretary and agent caught on fire in the early morning and Darnell died that afternoon in Cook County Hospital. Linda Darnell was only 41. She had been married three times. In 1943, at age 19, she eloped with 42-year-old cameraman Peverell Marley in Las Vegas. Marley was a heavy drinker and introduced Darnell to alcohol, which eventually led to an addiction and weight problems. In 1946, during production of Centennial Summer, she fell in love with womanizing millionaire Howard Hughes. She separated from Marley but when Hughes announced that he had no desire to marry her, Darnell returned to her husband. Because Darnell and Marley were unable to have children, they adopted a daughter, Charlotte Mildred "Lola" Marley (1948), the actress's only child. In mid-1948, she became romantically involved with director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and filed for divorce. Mankiewicz, however, did not want to leave his wife for Darnell, and though the affair continued for six years, she again returned to her husband. In 1949, Darnell went into psychotherapy for hostile emotions that she had been building since childhood. Darnell and Marley finally divorced in 1951. In 1954, she married brewery heir Philip Liebmann but the marriage ended in 1955 on grounds of incompatibility. From 1957 to 1963, Linda Darnell was married to pilot Merle Roy Robertson. Darnell's final screen appearance was opposite Rory Calhoun in the low-budget Western Black Spurs (R.G. Springsteen, 1965).

Sources: Denny Jackson (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.

Strawberry Hill Hotel & Restaurant, Irish Town, Jamaica

Strawberry Hill Hotel, Spa & Gardens, a 26-acre mountain top resort, is located in the heart of one of the world's most famous coffee-producing mountain ranges, Jamaica's Blue Mountains. Listed in the New York Times #1 bestselling book, 1,000 Places To See Before You Die, Strawberry Hill is 3100 feet above sea level and features one of the most awe-inspiring views of the Blue Mountains in one direction as well as the city of Kingston in the other. On a clear day, one can see up to 100 miles from the property's infinity-edge pool, and at night the city far below becomes a twinkling mirror of the night sky. The property's 12 Georgian-style cottages, spa, exotic gardens and restaurant offerings underwent an extensive refurbishment in October 2011.

my stuff for collabor88 :) i also updated some of my store's inventory to include latest and bestselling items.

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A 1978 Chevrolet Malibu Classic sedan parked in Osdorp. This car has been imported in the Netherlands in the year 2009 and is part of the fourth generation of the Chevrolet Malibu (1978-1983).

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Chevrolet Malibu

The Chevrolet Malibu is a mid-size car manufactured and marketed by Chevrolet from 1964 to 1983 and again since 1997. The Malibu began as a trim-level of the Chevrolet Chevelle, becoming its own model line in 1978. Originally a rear-wheel-drive intermediate, GM revived the Malibu nameplate as a front-wheel-drive car in February 1997.

Named after the coastal community of Malibu, California, the Malibu was marketed primarily in North America, with the eighth generation introduced globally. With the discontinuation of the compact Cruze in March 2019, the full-size Impala in March 2020 and the subcompact Sonic in October 2020, the Malibu is currently the only sedan offered by Chevrolet in the U.S. It will be discontinued at the end of the 2025 model year.

For the 1978 model year, the Malibu name, which had been the bestselling badge in the lineup, replaced the Chevelle name. This was Chevrolet's second downsized nameplate, following the lead of the 1977 Chevrolet Caprice and Impala. The new, more efficient platform was over a foot shorter and had shed 230 to 450 kg compared to previous versions, yet offered increased trunk space, leg room, and head room. Only two trim levels were offered - Malibu and Malibu Classic. Three bodystyles were produced (station wagon, sedan, and coupe), and the design was also used as the basis for the El Camino pickup truck with its own chassis. The sedan initially had a conservative six-window notchback roofline. This was in contrast to the unusual fastback rooflines adopted by Oldsmobile and Buick divisions which would later revert a more formal pillar style. To increase rear seat hip room (and encourage more orders for the high-profit air conditioner), the windows in the rear doors of four-door sedans were fixed, while the wagons had small moveable vents. With the rear window regulators no longer required, Chevrolet was able to recess the door arm rests into the door cavity, resulting in a few extra inches of rear seat room.

FACTS & FIGURES

Production: 1978–1983 (4th generation)

Assembly:

Arlington, Texas, U.S.

Doraville, Georgia, U.S.

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Ramos Arizpe, Mexico

Valencia, Venezuela

Body style: 2-door coupe, 4-door sedan, 5-door station wagon

Related: Buick Century, Buick Regal, Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Oldsmobile Cutlass, Pontiac LeMans, Pontiac Bonneville

Length: 4,895 mm

Width: 1,816 mm

[ Wikipedia - Chevrolet Malibu ]

Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin.

Beautiful Austrian actress Senta Berger (1941) received many awards for her work in theatre, film and television, including a Golden Globe Award and a Goldene Kamera. She played in many European co-productions as well as a sex bomb in some Hollywood movies of the 1960s. Berger works now also as a producer of internationally acclaimed films and as a bestselling author.

Senta Berger was born in Vienna, Austria in 1941 as the daughter of Therese Jany, a teacher, and Josef Berger, a musician. She first appeared on stage at the age of four, where her father accompanied his daughter's singing on the piano. At the age of five she started ballet lessons , but Senta was asked to leave at 14 because she had ‘developed’ too much. She then took private acting lessons and appeared as an extra in the comedy Du bist die Richtige/You Are The Right One (1955, Erich Engel, Josef von Báky) starring Curd Jürgens. In 1957, she won her first small role in Die unentschuldigte Stunde/The Unexcused Hour (1957), one of the last films directed by Willi Forst. She applied for the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a famous acting school in Vienna, but she was expelled shortly afterwards after accepting a small role in the film The Journey/Die Reise (1959, Anatole Litvak) without permission. Only 17, she became the youngest member of the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna in 1958, and played a role in Luigi Pirandello’s Enrico IV. Film producer Arthur Brauner offered her a role opposite German star Heinz Rühmann in the deft satire Der brave Soldat Schweijk/The Good Soldier Schweijk (1960, Axel von Ambesser). Brauner then signed her a contract for several films, and cast her in Schlagerfilms like O sole mio (1960, Paul Martin) and Adieu, Lebewohl, Goodbye (1961). She soon got tired of them, but Maria Brauner, the producer’s wife, helped her to get a part next to O.W. Fischer and Eva Bartok in the thrillers Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein/Operation Caviar (1961, Geza von Radvanyi) and Diesmal muß es Kaviar sein/This time it has to be caviar (1961, Geza von Radvanyi). These spy thrillers, based on the novels by Johannes Mario Simmel, meant her breakthrough. Berger became a staple in European co-productions like Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes/Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962, Terence Fisher, Frank Winterstein) starring Christopher Lee, and Kali-Yug, la Dea della Vendetta/Vengeance of Kali (1963, Mario Camerini) with Lex Barker. On invitation of Richard Widmark, with whom she had appeared in the cold war adventure film The Secret Ways (1961, Phil Karlson), she went to Hollywood. There she appeared in the anti-war drama The Victors (1963, Carl Foreman) and in The Waltz King (1963, Steve Previn), a two-parter in the TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. Though an actress of more than average talent, Berger was regarded as just another European sex bomb by most Hollywood publicity flacks. She was offered a five-year-contract by a major Hollywood studio, but she decided to return to Germany.

During the shooting of the comedy Jacky und Jenny/Jacky and Jenny (1964, Victor Vicas), Senta Berger met Michael Verhoeven, son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (not the Dutch Paul Verhoeven). They started their own film production company Sentana-Filmproduktion in 1965 and married the following year. Berger continued to develop her international career and played with such stars as Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, and Yul Brynner. She appeared in numerous Eurospy films such as the Italian crime comedy Operazione San Gennaro/Operation San Gennaro (1966, Dino Risi), the British comedy Our Man in Marrakech (1966, Don Sharp) with Tony Randall, and the French thriller Peau d’Espion/To Commit a Murder (1967, Edouard Molinaro) with Louis Jourdan. One of her best known Hollywood movies is the western Major Dundee (1965, Sam Peckinpah) with Charlton Heston. At the Celluloid Heroes blog Paul McElligott writes: “Major Dundee is one of Sam Peckinpah’s early works, a highly stylized Western that fits perfectly the outsized performances of its stars, Charlton Heston and Richard Harris. Neither the story, the dialogue or the acting can be called realistic, but it is what it claims to be, a rousing entertainment.” In Cast a Giant Shadow (1966, Melville Shavelson) with Kirk Douglas, she played the role of Magda, a soldier in the Israeli army during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948. That same year she was also a German schoolteacher involved in neo-Nazi activity opposite Max von Sydow and George Segal in the spy film The Quiller Memorandum (1966, Michael Anderson). A curio is the short film Vienna (1967, Orson Welles) in which Welles is wandering through Vienna, remembering The Third Man and then, aided by Berger and Mickey Rooney, he suddenly stumbles into a spy satire which is, according to the IMDb reviewer, “simply hilariously funny”. In 1967, Berger acted also in the pilot for the American television TV series It Takes a Thief (1968) starring Robert Wagner. She reprised her role in the series in 1969, in an episode in which her character was killed off.

In 1970 Senta Berger appeared in the Italian caveman spoof Quando le Donne Avevano la Coda/When Women Had Tails (1970, Pasquale Festa Campanile), which was a surprising box-office hit in Italy. Her participation in this banal sex-comedy lead Hal Erickson at AllMovie to the conclusion that “by 1970, Senta Berger evidently gave up any hopes of being taken seriously.” That year though, she also starred for the first time in a film produced by her own company and directed by her husband, Wer im Glashaus liebt/He Who Loves in a Glass House (1970, Michael Verhoeven). Two years later she featured in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass/Morals of Ruth Halbfass (1972, Volker Schlöndorff) followed by the leading role in Der scharlachrote Buchstabe/The Scarlet Letter (1973, Wim Wenders). And in Italy she appeared in several films for high quality directors such as Roma Bene (1971, Carlo Lizzani), L'Amante dell'orsa maggiore/The Smugglers (1972,Valentino Orsini), Bisturi: La Mafia Bianca/Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973, Luigi Zampa) and L'Uomo Senza Memoria/ Man Without a Memory (1974, Duccio Tessari) opposite Luc Merenda. Following the birth of her two sons, Simon (1972) and Luca (1979), Berger returned to theatre work. She played at the Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg and at the Schillertheater in Berlin. Between 1974 and 1982, she played the Buhlschaft in the play Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival with Curd Jürgens and later Maximilian Schell in the title role. She also co-starred with Schell and James Coburn in the war film Cross of Iron (1977, Sam Peckinpah).

In 1985, Senta Berger started a comeback in front of German-speaking TV audiences in the popular, ironic mini-series Kir Royal (1985-1986, Helmut Dietl), about a Munich gossip reporter and the city’s legendary high society circles. Further serial hits followed, like Die schnelle Gerdi /The Fast Gerti (1989, Michael Verhoeven), where she played a Munich cab driver. In the same year, she also started a career as a singer of Chansons. She continued to work in Italy and appeared opposite Marcello Mastroianni in Le Due Vite di Mattia Pascal/The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal (1985, Mario Monicelli), based on a Luigi Pirandello story. Berger and Verhoeven produced acclaimed and internationally successful films including Die weiße Rose/The White Rose (1982, Michael Verhoeven) and Das schreckliche Mädchen/The Terrible Girl (1990, Michael Verhoeven), both starring Lena Stolze. During the 1990’s she was mostly seen as smart, sexy and honest women on TV. In 1991 she played an acclaimed role in the marriage drama Sie und Er/She and He (1991, Frank Beyer). Series followed like Lilli Lottofee (1992, Michael Verhoeven) and the series Ärzte/Doctors (1994-1996). Then she played parts in Sandra Nettelbeck‘s film debut Mammamia (1998), Bin ich schön?/Am I Beautiful (1998, Doris Dörrie) and the TV film Trennungsfieber/Divorce Fever (2000, Manfred Stelzer). Since February 2003, Berger has been president of the German Film Academy, which seeks to advance the new generation of actors and actresses in Germany and Europe. The Academy will decide the assignment of the German Film Awards in the future. 2005 saw her in the cinemas in Einmal so wie ich will/For Once As I Want It (2005, Vivian Naefe) opposite Götz George, as a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage. She finds love on holiday, but turns her back on the relationship. In the spring of 2006, Berger's autobiography was published in Germany: Ich habe ja gewußt, daß ich fliegen kann (I Knew That I Could Fly). It became a bestseller. Among her memories of Hollywood are a less-than-subtle attempt by Darryl Zanuck to get her on his casting couch, and being called ‘You German pig’ on her first day on the set of Major Dundee by a gaffer whose wife had lost her family in Auschwitz. Senta Berger is still married to director and producer Michael Verhoeven and they are the parents of actors Simon and Luca Verhoeven. She lives in Grünwald near Munich, Germany. Recently she worked for TV in the mini-series Four Seasons (2008, Giles Foster) with Tom Conti and Michael York. In 2011 she can be seen in the film Ruhm/Fame (2011, Isabel Kleefeld) and for 2012, a reunion is planned with her Kir Royal director Helmut Dietl with the comedy Berlin-Mitte (2012, Helmut Dietl).

Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Paul McElligott (Celluloid Heroes), Senta Berger Fanwebsite, Lenin Imports, The Wild Eye, Wikipedia and IMDb.

Michael Pollan is a writer, journalist, and thought leader whose work examines the intersections of food, nature, culture, and consciousness. Through bestselling books such as The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, and How to Change Your Mind, he has challenged conventional wisdom about what we eat and how we think.

I photographed Pollan in 2022 and again in 2025 at his home and lush Berkeley garden for his forthcoming book on the science and philosophy of consciousness. The setting was ideal. His deep connection to the natural world was clear in the vibrant surroundings, a living reflection of his philosophy on food and the environment. Dressed in his signature blue denim, he carried himself with a relaxed presence that matched the easy cadence of our conversation.

We spoke about the state of modern food systems and how they have shaped human health, culture, and the environment. Pollan has long argued for a return to traditional foodways, advocating for diets centered on whole, minimally processed ingredients. His insights into industrial agriculture, the politics of food, and the consequences of factory farming have made his work essential for anyone who wants to understand how food shapes our world. He remains a vocal advocate for sustainable farming, biodiversity, and the importance of reconnecting with the sources of our nourishment.

In recent years, Pollan has also turned his attention to the science and history of psychedelics. How to Change Your Mind explores how substances like psilocybin and LSD have influenced human consciousness and how they might be used therapeutically in modern medicine. The book has helped renew public interest and scientific research into the mental health potential of psychedelics, particularly in treating depression, anxiety, and PTSD. His skill in distilling complex research into compelling, human stories has expanded the conversation around neuroscience and mental health.

Whether guiding readers through the industrial food system or examining the frontiers of consciousness, Pollan invites us to think more deeply about our choices. Thoughtful, engaging, and clear-eyed, he continues to shape public discourse with a voice grounded in science, philosophy, and lived experience.

Not my picture, of course. (Wish it was!) When visiting the Museum of the City of New York, I was taken by this picture by an unknown photographer, and so I "captured" it. It was shot in East Harlem. Seated on our left is John Lindsay, the charismatic mayor of New York City at that time. To his left is Bel Kaufman, the author of the bestselling book about a high school teacher upon which the film was based. And standing between them is Sandy Dennis, the star of the movie.

Michael Pollan is a writer, journalist, and thought leader whose work explores the intersections of food, nature, culture, and consciousness. Through his bestselling books, including The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, and How to Change Your Mind, he has challenged conventional wisdom about what we eat and how we think.

I photographed Pollan on April 20, 2022, at his home and in his lush Berkeley garden. The setting was perfect—his deep connection to the natural world was evident in the verdant surroundings, a living testament to his philosophy on food and the environment. Dressed entirely in blue denim, he carried himself with a relaxed presence that mirrored the easygoing nature of our conversation.

We spoke at length about the state of modern food systems and how they have shaped human health, culture, and the environment. Pollan has long argued for a return to more traditional foodways, encouraging a diet centered around whole, minimally processed foods. His insights into the industrial food system, the politics of agriculture, and the consequences of factory farming have made his work essential reading for anyone interested in how food shapes our world. He remains a vocal advocate for sustainable farming, biodiversity, and the importance of reconnecting with the sources of our nourishment.

Beyond food, Pollan has turned his attention to the science and history of psychedelics. His work in How to Change Your Mind explores how substances like psilocybin and LSD have played a role in shaping human consciousness and how they might be used therapeutically in modern medicine. The book has helped reignite public interest and scientific research into the benefits of psychedelics for mental health treatment, particularly in addressing depression, anxiety, and PTSD. His ability to distill complex topics into compelling narratives has brought these discussions to a wider audience, fostering new conversations about mental health and neuroscience.

Pollan’s ability to synthesize complex ideas into accessible narratives has made him one of the most influential writers of our time. Whether guiding readers through the industrial food system or the science of consciousness, he challenges us to think more deeply about our choices. Thoughtful, funny, and always engaging, Pollan continues to shape public discourse with his insightful storytelling and clear, humane voice. His work stands at the crossroads of science, philosophy, and everyday life, urging readers to reconsider their relationship with food, nature, and their own minds.

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Executive Director, Events and Global Programming, Milken Institute

Arthur C. Brooks

William Henry Bloomberg Professor of the Practice of Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School; Bestselling Author; Columnist, The Atlantic

„Leïla Slimani gilt als eine der wichtigsten literarischen Stimmen Frankreichs. 1981 in Rabat geboren, wuchs sie in Marokko auf und studierte an der Pariser Eliteuniversität Sciences Po. Ihre Bücher sind internationale Bestseller. Für den Roman ‚Dann schlaf auch du‘ wurde ihr der renommierte Prix Goncourt zuerkannt. Im Kaufleuten präsentiert die französisch-marokkanische Autorin ihren preisgekrönten Debüt-Roman ‚All das zu verlieren‘: Das Buch handelt von der Zerrissenheit einer Frau, die alles aufs Spiel setzt. Ausserdem wird Leïla Slimani auch aus ihrem neuen gefeierten Roman und Nr.1-Bestseller "Das Land der Anderen" lesen.

«Niemand schreibt interessanter über die Abgründe unserer Zeit als die Goncourt-Preisträgerin Leila Slimani. In ihrem Roman All das zu verlieren revolutioniert sie das weibliche Schreiben über Sexualität.» (Die Welt).

Moderation: Gesa Schneider (Leiterin Literaturhaus Zürich)

Deutsche Stimme: Thomas Sarbacher“

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Hunter Noack, In A Landscape performance at the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge State Park

An incredible music filled evening at the Sumpter Dredge State Park with Hunter Noack and special guest May Arden for this Labor Day weekend performance of In A Landscape.

Hunter, Noack created “In a Landscape,” as a new approach to presenting classical music. "This is the spirit of Oregon, the Wild West, where nothing is impossible, where the wagons circle round and everyone gives what they can to build something greater than any one person," claims Noack. Noack came up with the novel idea of passing out wireless Sennheiser headphones to attendees who want to use them, beaming the music he’s playing to them via radio frequencies, even enhancing the sound a bit with digital magic to make it sound even more like a concert hall.

The Sumpter Dredge State Park in Sumpter Oregon. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge is the last of three built on the Powder River. Built in 1935, it ran until 1954. It dug up more than four million dollars worth of gold. The Dredge is located just a block off of the main street of the small historic mining town of Sumpter along the Elkhorn Scenic Byway

The tour of the dredge is a great way to explore the gold mining heritage of Eastern Oregon and the Sumpter Valley. The Dredge is currently undergoing restoration however park rangers will continue to host tours throughout the restoration process.

Visitors to the park can also try their luck at gold panning and explore the vast system of nature and interpretive trails that meander through the tailings left by the dredge as it worked its way up the river bed more than a half century ago.

The Sumpter Dredge is also the setting for bestselling author Patrick Carman’s, Skeleton Creek book series www.patrickcarman.com/enter/skeleton-creek

For more information about the Sumpter Dredge State Heritage Area visit www.oregonstateparks.org/park_239.php

For more information about other Baker County historic sites, attractions, events, and activities visit Baker County Tourism’s website www.travelbakercounty.com

'Grunge the Lumberjack, in non-traditional orange + violet, by Su_G', a variation on my bestselling Lumberjack design, after grunge; channeling the grimy flannel, 'smelly-caveman', 'ratty rec-room', 'Seattle chic' grunge look.

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A Ford Escort CN photographed in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China.

Launched in late 2014, the China-made Escort is now the bestselling Ford vehicles in China with more 900.000 sales since its launch.

Ford is currently in bad way in China with sales falling by 43% in 8 months 2018.

it makes me almost as thirsty as when I see the OTTAKRINGER truck :)

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Bestselling Scottish writer Denise Mina on stage at the Paisley Book Festival

Nun liegt dieses einzigartige 106 Seiten starke Fotobuch schon etliche Stunden vor mir,bin immer noch sprachlos und überglücklich über diesen Bestseller.

Danke an alle, die mit zahlreichen Bilder dazu beigetragen haben .

Mein ganz besonderer Dank geht nach Niedersachsen zu Holger,der dieses "Kunstwerk" für mich mit Bildern und Texten zusammen gestellt hat.

Den 19 Oktober werde ich so schnell nicht vergessen...ihr seid alle so gut zu mir.Danke

Freue mich das ich euch kennengelernt habe....

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Photograph shows Aileen Stanley (aka Maude Elsie Aileen Muggeridge) (1893-1982), who was a singer, active in vaudeville and a recording artist on bestselling Victrola recordings. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018)

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German postcard by Krüger/Ufa, nr. 902/128. Photo: Terb Agency/Ufa.

Beautiful Austrian actress Senta Berger (1941) received many awards for her work in theatre, film and television, including a Golden Globe Award and a Goldene Kamera. She played in many European co-productions as well as a sex bomb in some Hollywood movies of the 1960’s. Berger works now also as a producer of internationally acclaimed films and as a bestselling author.

Bestselling author Ian Rankin signing copies of The Dark Remains in the Edinburgh Bookshop on publication day, when the book came out from Edinburgh-based Canongate Books.

Not one of Ian's Inspector Rebus, this is Ian completing - with the blessing of the family - an unfinished novel by the late, great William McIlvanney. McIlvanney was a standout in modern Scottish literature, and in many ways his books paved the way for the current boom of "Tartan Noir", the Scottish cousin to the "Scandi Noir" crime fiction from Scandinavian countries, both proving hugely popular around the world.

I have a copy on my huge to-be-read (TBR) pile, colleague has already been through it and said it is excellent, Ian has crafted it to be as close to William's work as he can rather than his own, and she said it was very successful.

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Snotgirl # 10

From bestselling BRYAN LEE O’MALLEY (Scott Pilgrim) and superstar LESLIE HUNG, it’s SNOTGIRL! Lottie Person is an infamous influencer who just wants to be left alone to live her life. Instead she’s grossly engrossed in a massive mystery while secretly suffering from awful allergies! THIS MONTH: Everything’s even more messed up than usual! How will Lottie get out of the hell she has made for herself? Find out in “WEEKEND, PART TWO!”

Betty & Veronica Vixens # 5

The Vixens encounter a familiar face that knows about their secret and wants in -- but are they ready to bring on new members? Plus, someone from Toni's past re-emerges and needs the Vixens' help.

Tinseltown # 1 (Of 5)

​In 1915, Abigail Moore became one of the first female police officers in Hollywood. But beneath the glamorous surface of Tinseltown beats a rotten heart full of corruption, greed, and lies, and Abigail's about to dive head-first into all of it.

Batman: White Knight (2017-) # 7

This issue, it’s Jack versus the Joker! Napier’s identity crisis spins out of control and compromises his grand plans for Gotham City—but not before he strikes a fateful bargain with Neo Joker. A browbeaten Batman accepts a peace offering from Batgirl, and some unexpected advice from Alfred sets the tone for the GTO’s new mission to redeem the city.

Venom (2016-) # 164

EDDIE BROCK, together with his symbiote partner, is VENOM! But just when things seemed like they were going back to normal, Eddie learns a terrible truth: the symbiote has been keeping a secret from him. And after years together, this is the one secret that their relationship might not bounce back from…The march to Venom's 30th Anniversary starts HERE!

Venomized (2018) # 1

The story that began in VENOMVERSE reaches its epic conclusion with VENOMIZED! The POISONS, a species that hungers for super-powered symbiotes and their hosts, have picked their next target...THE MARVEL UNIVERSE ITSELF! Their first objective? Put every superhuman in a Klyntar symbiote – and CONSUME THEM! But with VENOM and the X-MEN still missing after the events of "Poison-X," the planet and its heroes are defenseless!

Sonic The Hedgehog (2018-) # 1

SONIC'S RACING INTO A NEW ADVENTURE! After defeating the evil Dr. Eggman's latest plot, Sonic is racing around the world to shut down the robotic Badnik forces that are still attacking villages. But it's a big job for one hedgehog—even Sonic! Fortunately, he'll have some help from his best friend: Tails!

Deathstroke (2016-) # 30

“DEATHSTROKE VS. BATMAN” part one! Beginning this month, a six-issue series-within-a-series featuring the ultimate showdown between DC’s fiercest rivals! When Batman discovers a mysterious package containing DNA test results proving that he is not Damian Wayne’s biological father, the Dark Knight sets his sights on his son’s true father—Deathstroke! But Damian Wayne can’t really be Slade Wilson’s son—can he? And who sent the package—and why? The ultimate custody battle ensues as the World’s Greatest Detective and the World’s Deadliest Assassin clash in this instant classic!

Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin. Collection: Alina Deaconu. Senta Berger, Martin Held and Walter Wilz in Lange Beine - lange Finger/Long Legs, Long Fingers (Alfred Vohrer, 1966).

Beautiful Austrian actress Senta Berger (1941) received many awards for her work in theatre, film, and television, including a Golden Globe Award and a Goldene Kamera. She played in many European co-productions as well as a sex bomb in some Hollywood movies of the 1960s. Berger works now also as a producer of internationally acclaimed films and as a bestselling author.

Senta Berger was born in Vienna, Austria in 1941 as the daughter of Therese Jany, a teacher, and Josef Berger, a musician. She first appeared on stage at the age of four, where her father accompanied his daughter's singing on the piano. At the age of five, she started ballet lessons, but Senta was asked to leave at 14 because she had ‘developed’ too much. She then took private acting lessons and appeared as an extra in the comedy Du bist die Richtige/You Are The Right One (Erich Engel, Josef von Báky, 1955) starring Curd Jürgens. In 1957, she won her first small role in Die unentschuldigte Stunde/The Unexcused Hour (1957), one of the last films directed by legendary actor-director Willi Forst. She applied for the Max Reinhardt Seminar, a famous acting school in Vienna, but she was expelled shortly afterwards after accepting a small role in the film The Journey/Die Reise (Anatole Litvak, 1959) without permission. Only 17, she became the youngest member of the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna in 1958 and played a role in Luigi Pirandello’s Enrico IV. Film producer Arthur Brauner offered her a role opposite German superstar Heinz Rühmann in the deft satire Der brave Soldat Schweijk/The Good Soldier Schweijk (Axel von Ambesser, 1960). Brauner signed her a contract for several films and cast her in Schlagerfilms like O sole mio (Paul Martin, 1960) and Adieu, Lebewohl, Goodbye (1961). She soon got tired of them, but Maria Brauner, the producer’s wife, helped her to get a part next to O.W. Fischer and Eva Bartok in the thrillers Es muß nicht immer Kaviar sein/Operation Caviar (Geza von Radvanyi, 1961) and Diesmal muß es Kaviar sein/This time it has to be caviar (Geza von Radvanyi, 1961). These spy thrillers, based on the novels by Johannes Mario Simmel, meant her breakthrough. Berger became a staple in European co-productions like Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes/Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (Terence Fisher, Frank Winterstein, 1962) starring Christopher Lee, and Kali-Yug, la Dea della Vendetta/Vengeance of Kali (Mario Camerini, 1963) with Lex Barker. On the invitation of Richard Widmark, with whom she had appeared in the cold war adventure film The Secret Ways (Phil Karlson, 1961), she went to Hollywood. There she appeared in the anti-war drama The Victors (Carl Foreman, 1963) and in The Waltz King (Steve Previn, 1963), a two-parter in the TV series Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. Though an actress of more than average talent, Berger was regarded as just another European sex bomb by most Hollywood publicity flacks. She was offered a five-year contract by a major Hollywood studio, but she decided to return to Germany.

During the shooting of the comedy Jacky und Jenny/Jacky and Jenny (Victor Vicas, 1964), Senta Berger met Michael Verhoeven, son of the German film director Paul Verhoeven (not the Dutch Paul Verhoeven). They started their own film production company Sentana-Filmproduktion in 1965 and married the following year. Berger continued to develop her international career and played with such stars as Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, and Yul Brynner. She appeared in numerous Euro-spy films such as the Italian crime comedy Operazione San Gennaro/Operation San Gennaro (Dino Risi, 1966), the British comedy Our Man in Marrakech (Don Sharp, 1966) with Tony Randall, and the French thriller Peau d’Espion/To Commit a Murder (Edouard Molinaro, 1967) with Louis Jourdan. One of her best-known Hollywood movies is the Western Major Dundee (Sam Peckinpah, 1965) with Charlton Heston. On the Celluloid Heroes blog, Paul McElligott writes: “Major Dundee is one of Sam Peckinpah’s early works, a highly stylized Western that fits perfectly the outsized performances of its stars, Charlton Heston and Richard Harris. Neither the story, the dialogue or the acting can be called realistic, but it is what it claims to be, a rousing entertainment.” In Cast a Giant Shadow (Melville Shavelson, 1966) with Kirk Douglas, she played the role of Magda, a soldier in the Israeli army during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948. That same year she was also a German schoolteacher involved in neo-Nazi activity opposite Max von Sydow and George Segal in the spy film The Quiller Memorandum (Michael Anderson, 1966). A curio is the short film Vienna (1967) directed by Orson Welles. In the film Welles is wandering through Vienna, remembering The Third Man and then, aided by Berger and Mickey Rooney, he suddenly stumbles into a spy satire which is, according to the IMDb reviewer, “simply hilariously funny”. In 1967, Berger acted also in the pilot for the American television TV series It Takes a Thief (1968) starring Robert Wagner. She reprised her role in the series in 1969, in an episode in which her character was killed off.

In 1970 Senta Berger appeared in the Italian caveman spoof Quando le Donne Avevano la Coda/When Women Had Tails (Pasquale Festa Campanile, 1970), which was a surprise box-office hit in Italy. Her participation in this banal sex-comedy leads Hal Erickson at AllMovie to the conclusion that “by 1970, Senta Berger evidently gave up any hopes of being taken seriously.” That year though, she also starred for the first time in a film produced by her own company and directed by her husband, Wer im Glashaus liebt/He Who Loves in a Glass House (Michael Verhoeven, 1970). Two years later she featured in Volker Schlöndorff’s Die Moral der Ruth Halbfass/Morals of Ruth Halbfass (Volker Schlöndorff, 1972) followed by the leading role in Der scharlachrote Buchstabe/The Scarlet Letter (Wim Wenders, 1973). And in Italy, she appeared in several films for high-quality directors such as Roma Bene (Carlo Lizzani, 1971), L'Amante dell'orsa maggiore/The Smugglers (Valentino Orsini, 1972), Bisturi: La Mafia Bianca/Hospitals: The White Mafia (Luigi Zampa, 1973) and the Giallo L'Uomo Senza Memoria/Puzzle (Duccio Tessari, 1974) opposite Luc Merenda. Following the birth of her two sons, Simon (1972) and Luca (1979), Berger returned to theatre work. She played at the famous Burgtheater in Vienna, at the Thaliatheater in Hamburg and at the Schillertheater in Berlin. Between 1974 and 1982, she played the Buhlschaft in the play Jedermann (Everyman) at the Salzburg Festival with Curd Jürgens and later Maximilian Schell in the title role. She also co-starred with Schell and James Coburn in the war film Cross of Iron (Sam Peckinpah, 1977).

In 1985, Senta Berger started a comeback in front of German-speaking TV audiences in the popular, ironic mini-series Kir Royal (Helmut Dietl,1985-1986), about a Munich gossip reporter and the city’s legendary high society circles. Further serial hits followed, like Die schnelle Gerdi/The Fast Gerti (Michael Verhoeven, 1989), where she played a Munich cab driver. In the same year, she also started a career as a singer of Chansons. Berger continued to work in Italy and appeared opposite Marcello Mastroianni in Le Due Vite di Mattia Pascal/The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal (Mario Monicelli, 1985), based on a Luigi Pirandello story. Berger and Verhoeven produced acclaimed and internationally successful films including Die weiße Rose/The White Rose (Michael Verhoeven, 1982) and Das schreckliche Mädchen/The Terrible Girl (Michael Verhoeven, 1990), both starring Lena Stolze. During the 1990s Berger was mostly seen as a smart, sexy and honest woman on TV. In 1991 she played an acclaimed role in the marriage drama Sie und Er/She and He (Frank Beyer, 1991). Series followed like Lilli Lottofee (Michael Verhoeven, 1992) and Ärzte/Doctors (1994-1996). Then she played parts in Sandra Nettelbeck‘s film debut Mammamia (1998), Bin ich schön?/Am I Beautiful (Doris Dörrie, 1998) and the TV film Trennungsfieber/Divorce Fever (Manfred Stelzer, 2000). Since February 2003, Berger has been president of the German Film Academy, which seeks to advance the new generation of actors and actresses in Germany and Europe. The Academy will decide the assignment of the German Film Awards in the future. 2005 saw her in the cinemas in Einmal so wie ich will/For Once As I Want It (Vivian Naefe, 2005) opposite Götz George, as a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage. She finds love on holiday but turns her back on the relationship. In the spring of 2006, Berger's autobiography was published in Germany: Ich habe ja gewußt, daß ich fliegen kann (I Knew That I Could Fly). It became a bestseller. Among her memories of Hollywood are a less-than-subtle attempt by Darryl Zanuck to get her on his casting couch, and being called ‘You German pig’ on her first day on the set of Major Dundee by a gaffer whose wife had lost her family in Auschwitz. Senta Berger is still married to Michael Verhoeven and their sons Simon and Luca Verhoeven are both actors now. She lives in Grünwald near Munich, Germany. Recently she worked for the screen in the TV mini-series Four Seasons (Giles Foster, 2008) with Tom Conti and Michael York, the film Ruhm/Fame (Isabel Kleefeld, 2011) and the comedy Altersglühen - Speed Dating für Senioren/Old glow - Speeddating for Seniors (Jan Georg Schütte, 2014) with Mario Adorf.

Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Paul McElligott (Celluloid Heroes), Lenin Imports, The Wild Eye, Wikipedia, and IMDb.

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Bestselling Scottish writer Denise Mina on stage at the Paisley Book Festival

Since the late 1980s, the chapel has also featured in speculative theories concerning a connection of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar and the Holy Grail. It was prominently featured in the 2003 bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code and its 2006 film adaptation.

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Continuing in my series of Cigar Humidor designs.

As author of the bestselling book "Six Crises", Nixon recounted his most colorful and active era prior to his presidency.

This design proposes a replica of his leather briefcase from this era modified to become a personal kit through turbulent times.

The briefcase cannot be opened. It has instead two sliding compartments which open in the manner of a James Bond-styled attaché. On top is an office tray configuration containing a bottle of 1960's vintage single malt scotch, two crystal cut whiskey glasses and a private humidor tray of six large pyramides cigars with wide bottoms and narrow heads, handmade for diplomats and statesmen. The bottom portion of the case releases a drawer compartment (with a flick of the second lock next to the carry handle) containing a large tape recorder & radio with a matching leather strap. This machine is used to record in documentary style the personal stories of war victims in Vietnam. This design a step forward on a journey of reconciliation. In the manner of Western religious depictions, the symbol of the tape recorder is both the instrument of Nixon's downfall as well as his salvation in the afterlife. In the fantasy setting, he would write with eloquence and intelligence documentaries of war victims. The scotch is a remembrance to Nixon's sometimes spartan drinking of scotch on board Air Force One, and the cigars are a symbol of both spiritual relaxation and meditation.

For the record, I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. Of Nixon's books, I think Six Crises and Leaders are well written record of this President.

Design, text and drawing are copyright 2013 by David Lo.

Mercedes-Benz Citaro, Designer-Bus von James Irvine, Expo-Bus, ÜSTRA, Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG, 1999

Mercedes-Benz Citaro, designer bus by James Irvine, Expo bus, ÜSTRA, Hannoversche Verkehrsbetriebe AG, 1999

Hello People! I’ll be touring for my bestselling book “When I was a kid” and showing off my artworks soon at the venues below, do come by and show some love. AND leave with a cool drawing.

LOS ANGELES, July 20th 2013, 2 - 4pm @Giant Robot, 2062 Sawtelle Blvd, L.A, CA 90025

SAN DIEGO, July 21th 2013, 1 - 2.30pm @San Diego Comicon, booth #1616

SAN FRANCISCO, July 26th 2013, 6pm @Mission Comics, 3520 20th st. #B, S.F, CA 94110

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Bestselling local author Ian Rankin kindly taking some time to sign a pile of his new Inspector Rebus novel for readers in the Edinburgh Bookshop (some people will be lucky enough to get a signed and dedicated copy for their Christmas!).

“The bestselling novel that inspired the heartwarming TV series The Waltons.”

The novel was first published in 1961 by the Dial Press and was the basis for the 1963 Warner Bros. film “Spencer’s Mountain” starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O’Hara and James MacArthur. The TV series “The Waltons” aired on CBS from 1972 to 1981 and was inspired by both the book and the film.

The Naming Of Names

The Naming of Names introduces the brilliant, passionate men of genius who dedicated centuries worth of exploration, study and thought to the search for order in the world of plants.

In this stunning work of historical detection, Anna Pavord, bestselling author of The Tulip, takes us on a thrilling adventure to unravel the story of the naming of plants: from Athens in the third century BC, to the eruption of Vesuvius in AD79; from Arab scholars in ninth century Baghdad to the Renaissance universities of Padua and Pisa; and from the Isle of Sheppey in 1629, to modern-day Kazakhstan and the Amerindian rainforest.

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The left hand capture is from the manuscript oftenest known as the ‘Vienna Dioscorides’ This ‘is an illuminated Byzantine manuscript produced about AD 512 for Anicia Juliana, [Pavord calls the manuscript Juliana’s Book’] the daughter of Flavius Anicius Olybrius, who had been emperor of the western empire in AD 472.

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Here's Costa Del Stig from my bestselling book Wheres Stig? for the BBC TV show Top Gear.

Available at Amazon

www.amazon.co.uk/Wheres-Stig-Top-Gear/dp/1846078083

The mysterious Stig, Top Gear's resident racing driver and one of the most popular members of the TG team, has finally got a book of his own. But you'll have to work hard to find him, as he's been cleverly concealed in a series of brilliantly drawn scenes. You might spot him getting down with the kids at a rock festival; or overseeing his workforce in his secret underground lair. He could be one of the spectators lining the route of Bonneville Salt Flats Speed Week; or soaking up the sun on the Costa del Stig. Filled with visual jokes and references to the TV series, and with extra credits for spotting his colleagues at Top Gear and a few other hidden gems, Where's Stig? will give Top Gear fans hours of fun.

Where's Stig? published by BBC Books

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“Here is history’s biggest news scoop! Those intrepid reporters Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, whose bestselling exposes of life’s seamy side from New York to Medicine Hat have made them famous, here strip away the veil of millions of miles to bring you the lowdown on our sister planet. It is an amazing account of vice and violence, of virtues and victims, told in vivid, jet-speed style.

“Here you’ll learn why Mars is called the Red Planet, the part the Mafia plays in her undoing, the rape and rapine that has made this heavenly body the cesspool of the Universe. In other words, this is Mars – Confidential!” [Prologue]