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{ خ ـل " الـفـرح ـہ / و \ الـسـعـآدهـ " لـگ دآيـم عـنـوآن ..
أفـتـح صـفـح ـة جـدِيـدهـ , وانـسـى' گـل اللـِي گـآآآن }
Goes 2 ➜ [ عـز نـفـسـگ فـِي زمـآنـگ / لـآتـقـول ؛ الـح ـظ --> خ ـآيـب ]
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( صـآح ـبــِي ) لـگ فـ خ ـفـوقـِي ؛ قـدر(ن) عـمـييييييييييييييييـق ~
{ مـآيـُوصـلـہ فـ الـگـون * غـِيـرگ أَ ح ـَد ...
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Les animaux sauvages n’ont pas fini de nous surprendre 😉
Et ce ne sont pas les finalistes du concours photo "Comedy Wildlife 2021" qui vont dire le contraire !
Organisé chaque année depuis 2015, cet événement récompense les photos animalières les plus amusantes …
Vous avez donc compris que tous ces merveilleux clichés ont été "tirés" par les artistes inscrits à ce concours !
Seul, ce collage/montage a été effectué par mes soins sur LR/PS !
COMMENTS WITH AWARDS WILL BE REMOVED !
‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here …’
This is the entry to Alfredo Jaar's The Divine Comedy looking at Dante's great work. It is described as, "Mona’s answer to the afterlife: a journey through hell, purgatory and paradise (via Dante, of course)."
Given the constraints of time on this short visit, I was not able to experience what was behind that door at the top of the stairs. So I am unable to verify whether or not people ever return from visiting here. But the entrance does look suspiciously like a Mark Rothko painting.
Return to The Silly Series with another visual take on an english idiom . Hope you like it and thanks for any smiles ,giggles, laughs, grins, faves and comments : )
Satisfaisant un large éventail de personnes qui aiment leurs animaux de compagnie et aiment rire de bon cœur, ces chats sont une source de joie constante et prolifique !
Les finalistes du concours 2024 ont été dévoilés, mettant en vedette des chiens athlétiques, des chats gênants et toutes sortes d'autres animaux de compagnie hilarants …
Satisfying the large cross-section of people who love their pets and enjoy a hearty laugh, the Cats is a consistent and prolific source of joy !
The finalists for the 2024 competition have been unveiled, starring athletic dogs, troublesome cats, and all manner of other hilarious pets …
Source : Comedy Pet Photo Awards
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visual ID: circle PARADISO (young directors, new peformances) / 5th Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival in Krakow / 2012
Aquest és un exemplar molt especial del First Folio es.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Folio, de Shakespeare. Quan es va editar,la Bodleian Library , la extraordinària biblioteca de la Universitat d'Oxford, el va adquirir, cap allà al 1623, però al cap d'uns anys es va perdre i ningú va saber de què se n'havia fet. A l'any 1905 va aparèixer un estudiant amb aquest llibre sota el braç el qual es va poder comprovar que era l'exemplar que havia sortit de la biblioteca perquè algú li havia arrencat el segell que se'ls posava en aquella època a la coberta. Es ben visible el lloc on havia estat enganxat aquest segell. La biblioteca va fer una colecta entre els ciutadans d'Oxford per poder comprar el llibre , ja que un comprador americà n'oferia 3.000 lliures de l'any 1905. Ben aviat van aconseguir els diners i ara el llibre és un dels molts tresors de la Bodleian.
Va ser molt emocionant per a nosaltres, està a llocs on la història i la cultura s'escriuen en majúscules !
Miniature faces of Thalia and Melpomene (approx. 1cm high) cast their shadows - or do they?
Day 12 of Pentax Forum's Daily in November 2017 Challenge (MoNovember).
Thank you very much everyone for your visits, comments and faves. Much appreciated.
Bikes can be seen everywhere across Copenhagen. Like Amsterdam, the city has developed a solid biking infrastructure for citizens and tourists alike.
Harry. Mike and Terry always have a great time when they get makeovers then go for a walk through town.
Early evening settles over the Curran Theatre, where the Theater District briefly exhales and lets the architecture take the lead. The sky is pale and unresolved, flattening the roofline into a quiet backdrop while the lower façade deepens into cool blue-gray shadow. Three arched bays hold steady at street level, their lamps glowing just enough to suggest activity behind closed doors.
The building’s Beaux-Arts discipline reads clearly here: cream-colored stone framing warm brick, ornament deployed with restraint rather than excess. Medallions, carved faces, and evenly spaced windows reward close looking without demanding it. Above the canopy, repetition takes over—cornice, oculus, brick, stone—an architectural rhythm meant to reassure. Below it, the street stays deferential, allowing the theater to stand uninterrupted, composed, and complete.
The words “Comedy” and “Tragedy” inscribed into the canopy feel less theatrical than observational. In downtown San Francisco, those ideas have always lived side by side, sometimes within the same block, sometimes within the same evening. The Curran has hosted spectacle and intimacy in equal measure, but this photograph avoids performance. No crowds, no marquee glare—just the building at rest, between acts.
Scenes like this reveal a different San Francisco noir: not shadowy figures or flashing lights, but permanence holding its ground. The Curran waits patiently, confident in its proportions and its past, ready for the city to catch up when it’s ready to take a seat again.
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 23JAN15 - Sarah Jones , Playwright, Actress and Poet, USA captured during the session Comedy and Empathy in the congress centre at the Annual Meeting 2015 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, January 23, 2015.
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM/Benedikt von Loebell
Exposición "Comedy Wildlife. Premios de Fotografía". Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid.
Entrada en mi blog: fotografia-hobby-lgs.blogspot.com/2025/08/comedy-wildlife...
A pair of ancient Greek theatre masks reflect the ups & downs (joys & sorrows) of our human lives . Also called the Sock & Buskin as an actor in a tragic role wore a type of boot (buskin) to elevate him above the other actors who only wore socks on their feet. Grapes on the comedy mask suggest the joyful influence of wine & the horns for devilish fun !!
Be a bit of a devil & look at my masks album .
"TIME named the National Comedy Center one of its 'World’s Greatest Places,' — one of only '100 new and newly noteworthy destinations to experience right now' and one of only nine attractions to visit in the United States." It opened in 2018.
Jamestown, New York
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With Irene, and friends Rachelle and Buzz
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".
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British postcard by Athena International, no. 0334340, BAT, no. 10. Photo: TM / DC Comics Inc. Photo: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman (Tim Burton, 1989).
Jack Nicholson (1937) is an American actor and filmmaker who has performed for over sixty years. His rise in Hollywood was far from meteoric, and for years, he sustained his career with guest spots in television series and a number of Roger Corman films. He is now known for playing a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including satirical comedy, romance, and dark portrayals of anti-heroes and villainous characters. In many of his films, he has played someone who rebels against the social structure. Nicholson's 12 Oscar nominations make him the most nominated male actor ever. He won the Oscars for Best Actor twice – for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), and As Good as It Gets (1997), and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Terms of Endearment (1983).
Jack Nicholson was born in 1937 as John Joseph Nicholson in Neptune City, New Jersey. He was the son of a showgirl, June Frances Nicholson (stage name June Nilson). She married Italian-American showman Donald Furcillo (stage name Donald Rose) in 1936, before realising that he was already married. Biographer Patrick McGilligan stated in his book Jack's Life that Latvian-born Eddie King, June's manager, may have been Nicholson's biological father, rather than Furcillo. Other sources suggest June Nicholson was unsure of who the father was. As June was only seventeen years old and unmarried, her parents agreed to raise Nicholson as their own child without revealing his true parentage, and June would act as his sister. In 1974, Time magazine researchers learned, and informed Nicholson, that his 'sister', June, was actually his mother, and his other 'sister', Lorraine, was really his aunt. By this time, both his mother and grandmother had died (in 1963 and 1970, respectively). On finding out, Nicholson said it was "a pretty dramatic event, but it wasn't what I'd call traumatizing ... I was pretty well psychologically formed". Before starting high school, his family moved to an apartment in Spring Lake, New Jersey. When Jack was ready for high school, the family moved once more, to old-money Spring Lake, New Jersey's so-called Irish Riviera, where Ethel May set up her beauty parlor. 'Nick', as he was known to his high school friends, attended nearby Manasquan High School, where he was voted 'Class Clown' by the Class of 1954. In 1957, Nicholson joined the California Air National Guard. After completing the Air Force's basic training, Nicholson performed weekend drills and two-week annual training as a fire fighter. Nicholson first came to Hollywood in 1954, when he was seventeen, to visit his sister. He took a job as an office worker for animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera at the MGM cartoon studio. He trained to be an actor with a group called the Players Ring Theater, after which time he found small parts performing on the stage and in TV soap operas. He made his film debut in a low-budget teen drama The Cry Baby Killer (Justus Addiss, 1958), playing the title role. For the following decade, Nicholson was a frequent collaborator with the film's producer, Roger Corman. Corman directed Nicholson on several occasions, most notably in The Little Shop of Horrors (Roger Corman, 1960), as masochistic dental patient and undertaker Wilbur Force, and also in The Raven (Roger Corman, 1963), The Terror (Roger Corman, 1963) as a French officer seduced by an evil ghost, and The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Roger Corman, 1967). Nicholson also frequently worked with director Monte Hellman on low-budget Westerns, including the cult successes Ride in the Whirlwind (Monte Hellman, 1966) with Cameron Mitchell, and The Shooting (Monte Hellman, 1966) opposite Millie Perkins. Nicholson also appeared in episodes of TV series like Dr. Kildare (1966) and The Andy Griffith Show (1966-1967). However, Nicholson seemed resigned to a career behind the camera as a writer/director. His first real taste of writing success was the screenplay for the counterculture film The Trip (Roger Corman, 1967), which starred Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper. Nicholson also co-wrote, with Bob Rafelson, Head (Bob Rafelson, 1968), which starred The Monkees. He also arranged the film's soundtrack. Nicholson's first turn in the director's chair was for Drive, He Said (1971).
Jack Nicholson had his acting break when a spot opened up in Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969). Nicholson played liquor-soaked lawyer George Hanson, for which he received his first Oscar nomination. The film cost only $400,000 to make, and became a blockbuster, grossing $40 million. Overnight, Nicholson became a hero of the counter-culture movement. Nicholson was cast by Stanley Kubrick, who was impressed with his role in Easy Rider, in the part of Napoleon in a film about his life, and although production on the film commenced, the project fizzled out, partly due to a change in ownership at MGM. Nicholson starred in Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson, 1970) alongside Karen Black. Bobby Dupea, an oil rig worker, became his persona-defining role. Nicholson and Black were nominated for Academy Awards for their performances. Critics began speculating whether he might become another Marlon Brando or James Dean. His career and income skyrocketed. Nicholson starred in Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols, 1971), which co-starred Art Garfunkel, Ann-Margret, and Candice Bergen. Other roles included Billy "Bad Ass" Buddusky in The Last Detail (Hal Ashby, 1973). For his role, Nicholson won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, and he was nominated for his third Oscar and a Golden Globe. In 1974, Nicholson starred in Roman Polanski's majestic Film Noir Chinatown, opposite Faye Dunaway. For his role as private detective Jake Gittes, he was again nominated for Academy Award for Best Actor. The role was a major transition from the exploitation films of the previous decade. One of Nicholson's greatest successes came with his role as Randle P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Miloš Forman, 1975). It was an adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel and co-produced by Michael Douglas. Nicholson plays an anti-authoritarian patient at a mental hospital where he becomes an inspiring leader for the other patients. The film swept the Academy Awards with nine nominations, and won the top five, including Nicholson's first for Best Actor. Also that year, Nicholson starred in Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger (1975), which co-starred Maria Schneider. The film received good reviews and revived Antonioni's reputation as one of the cinema's great directors. He took a small role in The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan, 1976), opposite Robert De Niro. He took a less sympathetic role in Arthur Penn's Western The Missouri Breaks (1976), specifically to work with Marlon Brando.
Although Jack Nicholson did not win an Oscar for Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining (1980), it remains one of his more significant roles. Nicholson improvised his now-famous "Here's Johnny!" line, along with the scene in which he's sitting at the typewriter and unleashes his anger upon his wife after she discovers he has gone insane when she looks at his writing ("all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" typed endlessly). In 1982, he starred as an immigration enforcement agent in The Border (Tony Richardson, 1982, co-starring Warren Oates. Nicholson won his second Oscar, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his role of retired astronaut Garrett Breedlove in Terms of Endearment (James L. Brooks, 1983), starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. He and MacLaine played many of their scenes in different ways, constantly testing and making adjustments. Nicholson continued to work prolifically in the 1980s, starring in such films as The Postman Always Rings Twice (Bob Rafelson, 1981), Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981), where Nicholson portrays the writer Eugene O'Neill with a quiet intensity, Prizzi's Honor (John Huston, 1985), The Witches of Eastwick (George Miller, 1987), Broadcast News (James L. Brooks, 1987), and Ironweed (Hector Babenco, 1987) with Meryl Streep. Three Oscar nominations also followed, for Reds, Prizzi's Honor, and Ironweed. In Batman (Tim Burton, 1989), Nicholson played the psychotic murderer and villain, the Joker. Batman creator Bob Kane personally recommended him for the role. The film was an international smash hit, and a lucrative percentage deal earned him a percentage of the box office gross estimated at $60 million to $90 million. For his role as hot-headed Col. Nathan R. Jessup in A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner, 1992), a film about a murder in a U.S. Marine Corps unit, Nicholson received yet another Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 1996, Nicholson collaborated once more with Batman director Tim Burton on Mars Attacks!, pulling double duty as two contrasting characters, President James Dale and Las Vegas property developer Art Land. At first, studio executives at Warner Bros. disliked the idea of killing off Nicholson's character, so Burton created two characters and killed them both off. Not all of Nicholson's performances have been well received. He was nominated for Razzie Awards as worst actor for Man Trouble (Bob Rafelson, 1992) and Hoffa (Danny DeVito, 1992). However, Nicholson's performance in Hoffa also earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Nicholson went on to win his next Academy Award for Best Actor in the romantic comedy, As Good as It Gets (1997), his third film directed by James L. Brooks. He played Melvin Udall, a "wickedly funny", mean-spirited, obsessive-compulsive novelist. His Oscar was matched with the Academy Award for Best Actress for Helen Hunt, who played a Manhattan wisecracking, single-mother waitress drawn into a love/hate friendship with Udall, a frequent diner in the restaurant. The film was a tremendous box office success, grossing $314 million, which made it Nicholson's second-best-grossing film of his career, after Batman.
In About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002), Nicholson portrayed a retired Omaha, Nebraska, actuary who questions his own life following his wife's death. His quietly restrained performance earned him another Oscar Nomination. In Anger Management (Peter Segal, 2003), he played an aggressive therapist assigned to help an over pacifist man (Adam Sandler). In 2003, Nicholson also starred in Something's Gotta Give (Nancy Meyers, 2003), as an aging playboy who falls for the mother (Diane Keaton) of his young girlfriend. In late 2006, Nicholson marked his return to the dark side as Frank Costello, a nefarious Boston Irish Mob boss, based on Whitey Bulger who was still on the run at that time, presiding over Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's Oscar-winning film The Departed, a remake of Andrew Lau's Infernal Affairs. The role earned Nicholson worldwide critical praise, along with various award wins and nominations, including a Golden Globe nomination. In 2007, Nicholson co-starred with Morgan Freeman in The Bucket List (Rob Reiner, 2007) Nicholson and Freeman portrayed dying men who fulfill their list of goals. Nicholson reunited with James L. Brooks, director of Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, and As Good as It Gets, for a supporting role as Paul Rudd's character's father in How Do You Know (2012). It had been widely reported in subsequent years that Nicholson had retired from acting because of memory loss, but in a September 2013 Vanity Fair article, Nicholson clarified that he did not consider himself retired, merely that he was now less driven to "be out there any more". In 2015, Nicholson made a special appearance as a presenter on SNL 40, the 40th anniversary special of Saturday Night Live. After the death of boxer Muhammad Ali in 2016, Nicholson appeared on HBO's The Fight Game with Jim Lampley for an exclusive interview about his friendship with Ali. In 2017, it was reported that Nicholson would be starring in an English-language remake of Toni Erdmann opposite Kristen Wiig, but Nicholson dropped out of the project. does not consider himself to be retired. He has also directed three films, including The Two Jakes (1990), the sequel to Chinatown. Nicholson is one of three male actors to win three Academy Awards. He also has won six Golden Globe Awards. He has had a number of high-profile relationships and was married to Sandra Knight from 1962 until their divorce in 1968. Nicholson has five children. His eldest daughter is Jennifer Nicholson (1963), from his marriage to actress Sandra Knight. He has a son, Caleb James Goddard (1970) with Susan Anspach, and a daughter, Honey Hollman (1981) with Danish supermodel, Winnie Hollman. With Rebecca Broussard, he has two children, Lorraine Nicholson (1990) and Ray Nicholson (1992). Nicholson's longest relationship was the 17 years he spent with actress Anjelica Huston; this ended when Broussard become pregnant with his child. Jack Nicholson is the only actor to ever play the Devil, the Joker, and a werewolf.
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The Masonic Initiation Well at Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra. The well contains nine platforms, which are said to be reminiscent of the Divine Comedy by Dante and the nine circles of Hell, the nine sections of Purgatory and the nine skies which constitute Paradise.
A fascinating place and very photogenic although quite difficult to shoot due to the contrasting light. Best suited to high ISOs and an overcast day!