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British postcard. Image: Touchstone Home Video. Uma Thurman on the British poster for the video release of Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994). Caption: Own it now on video!

Blonde and blue-eyed American actress Uma Thurman (1970) is best known for her roles in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) and was hailed as Tarantino's muse. Furthermore, she starred in a wide variety of films, from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films.

Uma Karuna Thurman was born in 1970 in Boston, Massachusetts, into a highly unorthodox and internationally-minded family. She is the daughter of Nena Thurman (née Birgitte Caroline von Schlebrügge), a fashion model and socialite who now runs a mountain retreat, and of Robert Thurman (Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman), a professor and academic who is one of the nation's foremost Buddhist scholars. Uma grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts, where her father worked at Amherst College. Thurman's household was one in which The Dalai Lama was an occasional guest; she and her siblings all have names deriving from Buddhist mythology; and Middle American behaviour was little understood, much less pursued. And so it was that the young Thurman confronted childhood with an odd name and eccentric home life - and nature seemingly conspired against her as well. She is six feet tall, and from an early age Uma towered over everyone else in her class. The family constantly relocated, making the gangly, socially inept Thurman perpetually the new kid in class. The result was an exceptionally awkward, self-conscious, lonely, and alienated childhood. Unsurprisingly, the young Thurman enjoyed making believe she was someone other than herself, and so thrived at acting in school plays. This interest, and her lanky frame, perfect for modeling, led the 15-year-old Thurman to New York City for high school and modeling work (including a layout in Glamour Magazine) as she sought acting roles. The roles soon came. She made her film debut in the teen thriller Kiss Daddy Goodnight (Peter Ily Huemer, 1987). It was followed by Terry Gilliam's interesting box office bomb, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), starring John Neville. She made a brief appearance as the goddess Venus, and during her entrance, she briefly appears nude, in an homage to Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus'. Then followed her breakthrough in Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears, 1988) from a screenplay by Christopher Hampton, which was based on the 1782 French novel 'Les liaisons dangereuses' by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. The period romantic drama, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer, brought much attention to her unorthodox sensuality. Her performance intriguingly combined innocence and worldliness. The weird, gangly girl became a sex symbol virtually overnight.

Uma Thurman continued to be offered good roles in Hollywood pictures into the early 1990s, the least commercially successful but probably best-known of which was her smoldering, astonishingly-adult performance as June, Henry Miller's wife, in Henry & June (Philip Kaufman, 1990), the first film to actually receive the dreaded NC-17 rating in the USA. After a celebrated start, Thurman's career stalled in the early 1990s with films such as the mediocre Mad Dog and Glory (John McNaughton, 1993) with Robert De Niro. Worse, her first starring role was in Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Gus Van Sant, 1993), which had endured a tortured journey from cult-favorite book to big-budget film and was a critical and financial debacle. Uma bounced back with a brilliant performance as Mia Wallace, that most unorthodox of all gangster's molls, in Tarantino's lauded, hugely successful Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994). For her role, Thurman was nominated for the Academy Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. She took little advantage of her new-found fame by choosing not to do any big-budget films for the next three years. She starred in the independent period drama A Month by the Lake (John Irvin, 1995) opposite Vanessa Redgrave and Edward Fox, and supporting roles in which she has lent some glamorous presence to a mixed batch of films, such as Beautiful Girls (Ted Demme, 1996) with Matt Dillon, and The Truth About Cats & Dogs (Michael Lehmann, 1996). She played supervillain Poison Ivy in the reviled Batman & Robin (Joel Schumacher, 1997) with George Clooney, and Emma Peel opposite Ralph Fiennes as John Steed in a remake of The Avengers (Jeremiah Chechik, 1998). She worked with Woody Allen and Sean Penn on Sweet and Lowdown (1999), and starred in Richard Linklater's drama Tape (2001) opposite husband Ethan Hawke. Thurman also won a Golden Globe award for her turn in the made-for-television film Hysterical Blindness (2002), directed by Mira Nair.

A return to the mainstream spotlight came when Uma Thurman re-teamed with Quentin Tarantino for Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). The two had dreamed up this two-part revenge action film on the set of Pulp Fiction (1994). Thurman starred as the Bride, who swears revenge on a team of assassins (Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, and Vivica A. Fox) and their leader, Bill (David Carradine), after they try to kill her and her unborn child. She then turned up in the John Woo cautioner Paycheck (2003) that same year. The renewed attention was not altogether welcome because Thurman was dealing with the break-up of her marriage with Hawke at about this time. Thurman handled the situation with grace, however, and took her surging popularity in stride. She garnered critical acclaim for her work in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (Quentin Tarantino, 2004) and was hailed as Tarantino's muse. The two Kill Bill films brought her two additional Golden Globe Award nominations. Thurman reunited with Pulp Fiction dance partner John Travolta for the Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1995) sequel Be Cool (F. Gary Gray, 2005). Despite a lukewarm critical reception, the film grossed US$95 million. She played Ulla in the remake of The Producers (Susan Stroman, 2005). In 2006, she was made a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier De l'Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres) by France. For her five-episode role in the musical TV series Smash (2012), Thurman received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. Her later films include Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac (2013) and The House That Jack Built (2018). She made her Broadway debut in Beau Willimon's political drama 'The Parisian Woman' (2017-2018) at Hudson Theatre. For her role, she won the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Leading Actress in a Play. In 2018, in a New York Times interview, Thurman revealed that Harvey Weinstein had sexually assaulted her in 1994. Uma Thurman was briefly married to Gary Oldman, from 1990 to 1992. In 1998, she married Ethan Hawke, her co-star in the offbeat futuristic thriller Gattaca (Andrew Niccol, 1997). The couple has two children, Levon and Maya. Hawke and Thurman filed for divorce in 2004.

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The Fiction Factory by David Laurie

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On a Scottish hillside near Glenfinnan

Urban Fiction... by Sabbir Hasan

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The Gate Way by rebecca267x

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Fiction & Reality... by Space Jungle

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...some times it is hard to tell the difference.

2011

from Book 2, The Name of the Father. by rrooyyccee

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A duel between a freedomrider and Predator drone. Both sides have limited psy capability.

Fiction by Jonathen Adkins

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TORTURE GARDEN by Martin Prine

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the pleasure ©Scott BeLew/Scotty B® by ©Scott BeLew (A.S.)

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is all mine!

Sour times ~ www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuUYZJuzie0

Nikon Coolpix 4600

Bloody Fiction by 237project

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Uma Thurman in Pulp fiction. Stencil on canvas. 60 x 30 cm.

Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929 Japan) --- Accumulation of Nets (No.7) 1962 by Caffe_Paradiso

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(Collage of gelatin silver prints) --- --- --- Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生, Kusama Yayoi, born 22 March 1929) is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, and she is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her work is based in conceptual art and shows some attributes of feminism, minimalism, surrealism, art brut, pop art, and abstract expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. She has been acknowledged as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, the world's top-selling female artist, and the world's most successful living artist.[3] Her work influenced that of her contemporaries, including Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg.

Kusama was raised in Matsumoto, and trained at the Kyoto City University of Arts for a year in a traditional Japanese painting style called nihonga.[4] She was inspired by American Abstract impressionism. She moved to New York City in 1958 and was a part of the New York avant-garde scene throughout the 1960s, especially in the pop-art movement. Embracing the rise of the hippie counterculture of the late 1960s, she came to public attention when she organized a series of happenings in which naked participants were painted with brightly coloured polka dots. She experienced a period in the 70s during which her work was largely forgotten, but a revival of interest in the 1980s brought her art back into public view. Kusama has continued to create art in various museums around the world, from the 1950s through the 2020s.

Kusama has been open about her mental health and has resided since the 1970s in a mental health facility which she leaves daily to walk to her nearby studio to work. She says that art has become her way to express her mental problems. "I fight pain, anxiety, and fear every day, and the only method I have found that relieved my illness is to keep creating art", she told an interviewer in 2012. "I followed the thread of art and somehow discovered a path that would allow me to live."

(Wikipedia)

CAMPUS TOWN by Martin Prine

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Merit Books 615 - Jerry M. Goff, Jr. - Thrill Crazy by Steve

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Jerry M. Goff, Jr. - Thrill Crazy

Merit Books 615, 1962

Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils

"A wild nympho stopped at nothing to get her kicks!!!"

LauRa - PooL FicTiOn by PíCaRo . PhOtO

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Pulpo Fiction. Final. by Joseph Wu

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Playtime Books 636-S - Bob Maxwell - The Jaded Sex by Steve

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Bob Maxwell - The Jaded Sex

Playtime Books 636-S, 1963

Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils

"Her vague sexual invitation was accepted and her jaded appetite appeased."

Copyright attributes authorship to Fletcher Bennett

MC Hammer by little fears

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“She taught me so much about love, life and sports,” continued the suspect.

“So what went wrong?” asked Lily.

“It started the day she showed me her MC Hammer memorabilia collection,” sighed the suspect.

“Oh, aye?” asked Lily. “What happened?”

“She wouldn’t let me touch anything,” sighed the suspect.

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TellyTube Edition: youtu.be/9OwU2aGcnyc

Picdub - FictIon 001 by Elisa Espace Moodography

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Moodography : By Elisa

Models : Thomas & Camille

Make up : Camille

Mate : Aurelie

Paris

June 2009

Science fiction. by Dyxie

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I couldn't resist.

I did say "brief" sabbatical. Which apparently means 2 days. Good to know.

Fiction shelfie by IngeHG

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2021 Weekly Alphabet Challenge, Week 38, L for Librarian

Library: Part of our( well, mostly mine) fiction collection, covering one wall of the study. There are other sections (travel, SE Asia, sports, study) on two other walls.

Playtime Books 649-S - Wade Hunter - Man on the Make by Steve

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Wade Hunter - Man on the Make

Playtime Books 649-S, 1963

Cover Artist: Robert Bonfils

"Seducing the boss's wife was just one way to get control of the operation... he'd do anything to be top man."

Fiction........ by zeljka basic

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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkbiB0QfU3s&list=FLJH3vIKots5...

Robert Maguire - Lesbian Pulp Fiction Mosaic by Steve

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The motif of the dominant, short-haired, brunette and the submissive blonde was common in 50s/60s lesbian pulp fiction. Here's a selection of details of four Maguire covers.

Clockwise from the left:

Kimberly Kemp - Perfume and Pain, Midwood (1962)

Edwin West - Young and Innocent, Monarch (1964)

Gale Wilhelm - The Strange Path, Berkley (1958)

Della Martin - Twilight Girl, Beacon (1961)

Berkley Books G-184 - Uberto Quintavalle - The Shameless Ones by Steve

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Uberto Quintavalle - The Shameless Ones

Berkley Books G-184, 1958

Cover Artist: Charles Copeland

"A striking novel of moral corruption in today's Rome."

Livre de Poche 649 - Pierre Louÿs - Aphrodite by Steve