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George was (and still is) a beautiful cat. And he is very smart. I wanted to keep him, but since he was one of the first ferals ready to go, I had to give him away when I found a good home for one. George's owners are currently on holidays and I am looking after him for them (not at my home!).
George is related somehow to most of the other feral cats I've rescued. He is likely a litter mate to CC, and maybe to MC and Lucy too. If not litter mate, he is a cousin. He is probably a cousin to Smokey, as Smokey was a few weeks younger than the main group I rescued that year.
French postcard. Les Vedettes de Cinéma. A.N., Paris, No. 92. 1920s. Photo by G.L. Manuel Frères.
Georges Vaultier (1885–1926) was a French film actor, known for such films as Koenigsmark (1923), L'enfant roi (1923), Auf Befehl der Pompadour (1924), and Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (1925).
Georges Vaultier, born 26 December 1885 in Paris as Georges Félix Ferdinand Jules Wessbecher, had a short career in French (and partly German) silent cinema in the 1920s. He started out as singer in Parisian vaudeville. He was destined for the Opéra-Comique had he First World War not started. After the First World War, when he worked first with the genie, then in aviation, he had to give up singing due to a throat problem, and moved to stage acting. Between 1920 and 1922 he went on international stage tours to Egypt and Canada, as well as acting at the French casino theatres in the sumertime. In 1922 he was spotted by director Léonce Perret, who gave him a part in his lavish fresco Koenigsmark (released 1923), starring Huguette Duflos. As the Grand Duke Frederick of Lautenburg he had a remarkable part in this prestigious, lengthy adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel and embarked on a short but intense film career. In 1923 he was also engaged for six months acting as Count Fersen in Jean Kemm's 8 episodes historical serial L'enfant roi. The serial evolved during the French Revolution and focused on the son of Louis XVI, but protagonist of the story was Vaultier, defending the royal family, while Joë Hamman played the evil antagonist, Mallory. Vaultier became a popular star.
In 1924 Vaultier acted opposite male lead Ivan Mozzhukhin in the Albastros production Les ombres qui passent (Alexandre Volkoff, 1924), in which a young milionaire (Mozzhukhin) is stalked by a gang of swindlers, led by femme fatale Nathalie Lissenko. He was destined in 1924 to star in the title role of Henri Fescourt's Don Quichotte, but Fescourt abandoned the project to make Mandrin. Vaultier was also supposed to play the evil Ogareff in the Albatros production Michel Strogoff, but that part went to the Armenian actor Acho Chakatouny. In the same year 1924 Vaultier went to Germany to play king Louis XV in the Lya Mara vehicle Auf Befehl der Pompadour/ By Order of Pompadour (Fredric Zelnik, 1924). The next year, Vaultier played the ghost in Reneé Clair's Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (1925), co-starring Sandra Milovanoff. Vaultier plays Julien, a wealthy businessman who secretly loves Yvonne, a French heiress (Milovanoff), but the president of a yellow newspaper, avid to marry Yvonne himself, blackmails her father (Maurice Schutz), a retired Minister of State. Dumped and depressed, Julien tries to forget his pain at the Moulin Rouge, where he meets a doctor who, experimenting, will split his spirit from his body. The ghost discovers the blackmail... In 1926 Vaultier played his last film part, the male lead in Âme de femme (Gennaro Dini, 1926), also starring Nina Orlova (Dini's wife) and Francine Mussey. The same year, on 26 May 1926, Georges Vaultier died of a painful illness, at the young age of 41 years.
Sources: IMDB, en.notrecinema.com/communaute/stars/stars.php3?staridx=25..., Gallica, in particular gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6152118g/f16.image.r=georg....
George Green was played by Glen Murphy From Series 1 to 14.
George joined Blue Watch at the start of series 1. He was the longest-serving character on the show, appearing right up to the end of the final series. George was an unsubtle former boxer, sometimes with a short temper, and had old-fashioned views of women's roles in life. He dated Julia after convincing her that he was a talented poet and singer, with help from Malcolm and Sicknote, but she dumped him because he never trusted her. In series 3 he met Kelly at a ballroom dancing class. They married and had two children, although he frequently bickered with her mother and brothers. George became infatuated with a Ballet Dancer from Russia but the affair never got past kissing. He was shown to suffer from aerophobia when Blue Watch trained on the Brigade Helicopter in Series 8, but he managed to overcome his fear. He received his twenty-year service medal in Series 12. He and Kelly divorced when she had an affair with Temporary Station Officer Chris Hammond in Series 12, and he married Andie in series 14. George was the only character remaining from episode 1 of series 1 as he did not appear in the pilot movie.
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This is where it all started.
Photos from George Floyd Square, an area in Minneapolis that has been set off as both a memorial to George Floyd and to bring attention to police violence against people of color, especially African Americans. It is an autonomous zone that at least for now does not allow any police into the several block area. For those outside the US, George Floyd was shopping at Cup Food and accused of passing a counterfeit bill and the police were called. The police wrestled him to the ground and one, Derek Chauvin, kneeled on his back for almost 8 minutes despite him crying out "I can't breathe", aided by two other officers at the scene and videotaped in film that that was seen around the world.
This touched off what started as peaceful protests in the US that became violent and spread across the county and a movement that is still growing strong. Looking back, much of the violence, at least in Minneapolis, was started not by the Black Lives Protesters, but by the same element that started the Capitol Insurrection in Washington DC and was their attempt to sow discord and discredit the BLM movement. The police over-reacted viewing the protests not as protest against injustice but against them personally and against civil order.
Minneapolis is still physically scarred by the violence, much of it in impoverishes neighborhoods that have not rebuilt and boards still up on stores in my neighborhood at the edge of the violence. The city is now bracing for the trial of Derek Chauvin that begins this week in hopes of getting some justice for George Floyd, but pessimism given the results in other trials where society attempted to hold police responsible for similar acts.
George Street, looking north from Martin Place, Sydney
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April 22, 2013
Day 112/365
I've been wanting to do a moving subway shot for a while and finally got around to it. I stayed on the train longer than I needed to so I could try different shutter speeds and other setting in different stations. I like this one best -- and it is the most colourful of the stations I went through. I was in the last car of the train, so this is pulling out of St. George subway station.
Taken on Saturday 23rd April 2022 of the Chester St George’s Day celebrations. This year the parade included children from local schools, Lord Mayor of Chester, knights and jesters, a sword fight, an archery competition and a joust which included Sir George!
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George Washington stops at the light, signaling for a right turn.
Mount Vernon neighborhood, Baltimore City.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, 1788-92, marble, 6′ 2″ high (State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia)
George Centre, Grantham at night. The grade 2* listed George Hotel (dating from 1780) was transformed into a shopping mall, which despite its attractiveness has failed to attact business and has recently been sold.
Grantham, Lincolnshire, High Street, George Centre
May 2017
"Ciao papà, sai mi ricordo una vita fa quando ero poco più alto di un metro, pesavo al massimo 30 chili, ma ero ancora tuo figlio. Quei sabato mattina che andavo a lavorare col mio papà e salivo su quel grande camion verde, mi sembrava che quello fosse il camion più grande dell'universo papà... mi ricordo quanto era importante il lavoro che facevamo e che se non era per noi la gente sarebbe morta di freddo... per me tu eri l'uomo più forte del mondo papà. Ti ricordi quei filmini quando mamma si vestiva come Gloria e Diane e i gelati, le partite di football, Quain, Toon... il giorno che partii per la california per poi tornare a casa con l'FBI che mi dava la caccia e quell'agente dell'FBI che dovette mettersi in ginocchio per mettermi le scarpe e tu che dicesti: quello è il tuo posto figlio di puttana ad allacciare le scarpe a George... quello si che fu bello, fu veramente speciale... ricordi papà? E quella volta che mi dicesti che i soldi non sono la realtà? Beh vecchio mio, oggi ho 42 anni e alla fine l'ho capito quello che tentavi di dirmi tanti anni fa... Ora finalmente l'ho capito. Sei il migliore papà! Avrei soltanto voluto fare di più per te... avrei voluto avere più tempo... comunque... Che tu possa avere il vento in poppa, che il sole ti risplenda in viso e che il vento del destino ti porti in alto a danzare con le stelle."
"Hello Dad. You know I remember a lifetime ago, when I was about 3 1/2 feet tall, weighing all of 60 pounds, but every inch your son. I remember those Saturday mornings going to work with my dad, we'd climb into that big green truck. I thought that truck... was the biggest truck in the universe pop. I remember how important the job we did was, how if it wasn't for us, people would freeze to death. I thought you were the strongest man in the world. And remember those home videos when mom would dress up like Loretta Young, barbeques and football games, ice cream, playing with the Tuna. And when I left for California only to come home with the FBI chasing me, and that FBI agent Trout had to kneel down to put my boots on and you said, "That's where you belong you son of a bitch, puttin on Georgie's boots." That was a good one pop, you remember that. And remember that time when you told me that money wasn't real. Well old man, I'm 42 years old, and I finally realize what you were trying to tell me, so many years ago. I finally understand. Your the best, pop, just wish I could have done more for you, wish we had more time. Anyway, may the wind always be at your back, and the sun always upon your face, and may the wings of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars. I love you Dad. Love George."
French postcard by Cinémagazine-Edition, Paris, no. 598. Photo: Paramount.
Burly, beefy and tall George Bancroft (1882-1956) was an American film and stage actor who played many ill-tempered tough guys. He received an Oscar nomination for his part as Thunderbolt Jim Lang in Josef von Sternberg's gangster film Thunderbolt (1929). Bancroft is also well remembered as Marshal Curly Wilcox in John Ford's Western Stagecoach (1939).
George Bancroft was born in 1882 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended high school at Tomes Institute in Port Deposit, Maryland. After working on merchant marine vessels at age 14, Bancroft was an apprentice on the USS Constellation and later served on the USS Essex and the West Indies. Additionally, during the Battle of Manila Bay (1898), he was a gunner on the USS Baltimore. During his days in the Navy, he staged plays aboard ship. In 1900, he swam underneath the hull of the battleship USS Oregon to check the extent of the damage after it struck a rock off the coast of China. For this, he won an impressive appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He graduated as a commissioned officer, and served in the Navy for the prescribed period of required service but no more. He decided to turn to show business, first as a theatre manager. In 1901, Bancroft began acting in earnest, as he toured in plays and had juvenile leads in musical comedies. In vaudeville, he did blackface routines and impersonated celebrities. By 1923, he was good enough for Broadway and spent about a year there doing two plays, the musical comedies Cinders (1923) and The Rise of Rosie O'Reilly (1923). Two years earlier, he had already made his first appearance in the silent film The Journey's End (1921). Being a big man with dark features, he was a natural for heavies. And it seemed that early Westerns were an easy fit as well after his first four films. Through 1924 and into 1925, he did four, culminating with pay dirt in his appealing performance as rogue Jack Slade in the silent Western The Pony Express (James Cruze, 1925). With him was another up-and-coming character actor, Wallace Beery. Bancroft's acting made Paramount Pictures take a look at him as star material. He played an important supporting role in a cast including Wallace Beery and Charles Farrell in the period naval widescreen epic Old Ironsides (James Cruze, 1926). His roles as tough guy took on more flesh in his association with director Josef von Sternberg and his well-honed gangster films. The first of these was Underworld (Josef von Sternberg, 1927) with Clive Brook and Evelyn Brent. Journalist and screenwriter Ben Hecht won an Academy Award for Best Original Story. He next appeared in von Sternberg's The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928) with Betty Compson and Olga Baclanova, and their work culminated with Thunderbolt (Josef von Sternberg, 1929) for which Bancroft received an Oscar nomination. He was tops at the box office.
George Bancroft played the title role in The Wolf of Wall Street (Rowland V. Lee, 1929), released just prior to the Wall Street Crash. It was Bancroft's first talkie. He appeared in Paramount's all-star revue Paramount on Parade (Elsie Hanis, a.o., 1930) and the crime film Blood Money (Rowland Brown, 1933) with Frances Dee and Judith Anderson. His various on-screen personas as bigger-than-life strong man was not far from his off-screen character as Hollywood notability got to him. It was recalled that he became more difficult to deal with as his ego grew. William McPeak at IMDb: "At one point, he refused to obey a director's order that he fall down after being shot by the villain. Bancroft declared, 'One bullet can't kill Bancroft!'" He stayed busy through the 1930s as older and stouter featured characters. Bancroft was getting competition from younger character actors. In the early 1930s, his roles continued to typecast him as lead heavies, but increasingly, he was cast as second tier in later roles. He was paper editor MacWade in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (Frank Capra, 1936), starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur, a doctor in A Doctor's Diary (Charles Vidor, 1937), a contracter in Angels with Dirty Faces (Michael Curtiz, 1938) with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, and a warden in Each Dawn I Die (William Keighley, 1939) with Cagney and George Raft. Most memorably is his Marshal Curly Wilcox in the classic Western Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939), opposite John Wayne. Here he is particularly engaging as a tough lawman with a big heart. Into the 1940s, he only did a handful of films. But he again had a rogue's spotlight with another name director, Cecil B. DeMille, in one of his epics. He played a Texas Ranger chasing a murderer over the Canadian border in North West Mounted Police (Cecil B. DeMille, 1940) with a stellar cast including Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, and Paulette Goddard as fleeing criminal, Jacques Corbeau's (Bancroft) daughter. By 1942, Bancroft had decided to move on, retiring with the intention of becoming a Southern California rancher. He quietly assumed this new role for a long run of 14 years before his passing. George Bancroft passed away in 1956 in Santa Monica, California. He was married twice, first to Edna Brothers, and after their divorce to silent film actress Octavia Broske. They had a daughter Georgette.
Sources: William McPeak (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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George Clooney, Tilda Swinton among the honorees at the 38th Telluride Film Festival from September 2-5 in Telluride, Colorado.
French postcard by Editions P.I., Paris, nr. 112. Photo: Roger Carlet.
Handsome and athletic Georges Marchal (1920-1997) was one of the main lead actors in the French cinema of the 1950’s, together with Jean Marais. He starred in several costume dramas and swashbuckling films and later appeared in films of Luis Buñuel.
Georges Marchal was born as Georges Louis Lucot in Nancy, France, in 1920. In Paris, he followed secondary school, and then took classes in ballet and acrobatics. Many odd jobs followed, like courier, docker at the Les Halles market, assistant at the Medrano circus. He enrolled in the course of Ms. Calvi, and was hired at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal for the play Permission de détente (Permission to relax) by Yves Mirande. At 20, he joined the Comédie-Française to play in Iphigénie et Psyché (Iphigenia and Psyche). He soon also played in boulevard comedies. His film career started with the comedy Fausse alerte/The French Way (1940, Jacques de Baroncelli, Bernard Dalban) starring Josephine Baker, which was only released in 1945. During the Occupation days he was noted in Lumière d'été/Summer Light (1943, Jean Grémillon) opposite Madeleine Renaud, Vautrin/Vautrin The Thief (1943, Pierre Billon) with Michel Simon, and after the war in Au grand balcon/The Grand Terrace (1949, Henri Decoin) with Pierre Fresnay, about the heroic pilots who struggled,suffered and often died to carry the mail. He became the typical Jeune Premier of the French post-war cinema and posed as a rival of Jean Marais although he didn’t reach the same level. In 1951, he assumed the title role in Il naufrago del Pacifico/Robinson Crusoe (1951, Jeff Musso), and for Sacha Guitry, he played the young Louis XIV in the star-studded Si Versailles m'était conté/Affairs of Versailles (1953, Sacha Guitry). In 1951, he married actress Dany Robin. They were both young, beautiful, adored, and preserved their privacy in a house of Montfort l'Amaury. They made six films together, including La Voyageuse Inattendue/The Unexpected Voyager (1949, Jean Stelli), based on an old script by Billy Wilder, and the comedy Jupiter (1952, Gilles Grangier). Georges’ talent as a stuntman did wonders for his parts in costume films and swashbucklers such as Messalina (1952, Carmine Gallone) with Maria Félix, Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio/Theodora, Slave Empress (1954, Riccardo Freda) with Gianna Maria Cannale, and Les trois mousquetaires/The Three Musketeers (1953, André Hunebelle) in which he featured as D'Artagnan.
The arrival of the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) sounded like the death knell for Georges Marchal. He moved to Italy to continue his career. With his muscular body, he was an ideal hero for the Peplum films (the Italian sword and sandal epics). He appeared in a dozen of them, including Nel Segno Di Roma/Sheba and the Gladiator (1958, Guido Brignone - and uncredited Riccardo Freda and Michelangelo Antonioni) with Anita Ekberg, Le Legioni di Cleopatra/Legions of the Nile (1959, Vittorio Cottafavi) with Linda Cristal, and Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort, Il colosso di Rodi/The Colossus of Rhodes (1961, Sergio Leone) with Rory Calhoun. Marchal was a close friend of Luis Buñuel and also one of his preferred actors. Marchal starred in four of his films: Cela s'appelle l'aurore/That is the Dawn (1955) with Lucia Bosé, La mort en ce jardin/Death in the Garden (1956) with Simone Signoret, Belle de jour/Beauty of the Day (1967) with Catherine Deneuve, and La voie lactee/The Milky Way (1969) with Laurent Terzieff. Other interesting films he appeared in were the anthology film Guerre secrète/The Dirty Game (1965, Terence Young, Christian Jaque, Carlo Lizzani, Werner Klinger) with Robert Ryan, the Romanian historical epic Dacii/The Dacians (1967, Sergiu Nicolaescu) with Pierre Brice, Faustine et le bel été/Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (1972, Nina Companeez) and Les Enfants du placard/The Closet Children (1977, Benoît Jacquot) with Lou Castel. During the 1970’s he focussed on television and appeared in Quentin Durward (1971, Gilles Grangier), as Philip IV the Fair in Les Rois maudits/The Accursed Kings (1972, Claude Barma), Gaston Phébus (1977, Bernard Borderie) and Les grandes familles/The Great Families (1988, Edouard Molinaro) with Michel Piccoli. He played a seductive older man in three TV-films based on the legendary Claudine novels by Colette, Claudine à Paris/Claudine in Paris (1978), Claudine en ménage/Pauline Engaged (1978) and Claudine s'en va/Claudine Goes (1978), all starring Marie-Hélène Breillat and directed by Edouard Molinaro. He also played Claude Jade's father in the fine mini-series L'Île aux trente cercueils/The Island of Thirty Coffins (1979, Marcel Cravenne). He retired in 1989. His last film appearance had been as General Keller in L'Honneur d'un capitaine/A Captain’s Honour (1982, Pierre Schoendoerffer) about the French army's behavior in Algeria. Georges Marchal died in 1997, Maurens, France, following a long illness. He was married with Dany Robin from 1951 till their much publicised divorce in 1969. He remarried in 1983 with Michele Heyberger.
Sources: Hal Erickson (All Movie Guide), Pablo Montoya (IMDb), Ciné-Ressources, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, no. 760. Photo: Studio Harcourt.
Singer-songwriter and poet Georges Brassens (1921-1981) is an iconic figure in France. He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems, as well as texts from many others such as Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, or Louis Aragon. Between 1952 and 1976, he recorded fourteen albums that include several popular French Chansons. Most of his texts are black humour-tinged and often anarchist-minded. His most famous film is Porte des Lilas/Gates of Paris (René Clair, 1957).
Georges Charles Brassens was born in 1921 in the town of Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier. Brassens grew up in the family home in Sète with his mother, Elvira Dagrosa, father, Jean-Louis, half-sister, Simone, and paternal grandfather, Jules. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic, while his father was an easy-going, generous, openminded, anticlerical man. Brassens grew up between these two starkly contrasting personalities, who nonetheless shared a love for music. His mother, Simone and Jules, were always singing. This environment imparted to Brassens a passion for singing that would come to define his life. A poor student, Brassens performed badly in school. Alphonse Bonnafé, his literature teacher strongly encouraged the 15-years-old Braassens’s apparent gift for poetry and creativity. Bonnafé would later write the first Brassens biography in 1963. Georges listened constantly to his early idols: Charles Trenet, Tino Rossi, and Ray Ventura. At age seventeen, Georges and his gang started to steal from their families and others. Georges stole a ring and a bracelet from his sister. The police found and caught him, which caused a scandal. The young men were publicly characterized as ‘voyous’ (high school scum). Brassens was expelled from school. Following a short trial as an apprentice mason in his father's business, he moved to Paris in 1940 to live with his aunt and work at the Renault car factory. In the meantime, he learned piano and wrote some of his first original compositions. He stayed there after World War II had broken out while he felt that this was where his future lay and wrote his first collection of poems. Brassens published two short poetry collections in 1942, thanks to the money of his family and friends. In 1943, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany. Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Onténiente, whom he called Gibraltar because he was "steady as a rock." Onténiente later became his right-hand man and his private secretary. After being given ten days' leave in France, he took refuge in a small cul-de-sac called "Impasse Florimont," in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Without much else to occupy him, Brassens spent his days composing songs and writing music, eventually teaching himself the guitar based on his prior experience with the mandolin. There he lived for several years with its owner, Jeanne Planche and her husband Marcel in relative poverty: without gas, running water, or electricity. Brassens remained hidden there until the end of the war five months later, but ended up staying for 22 years. Planche was the inspiration for Brassens's song Jeanne.
In 1946, after the war had ended, Georges Brassens published the first of a series of virulent, black humour-tinged articles in the anarchist journal Le Libertaire. The following year, he also published his first novel, La Lune Écoute Aux Portes, and met Joha Heiman, the woman he would love -- and write about -- for the remainder of his life. His friends who heard and liked his songs urged him to go and try them out in a cabaret, café or concert hall. He was shy and had difficulty performing in front of people. At first, he wanted to sell his songs to well-known singers such as "les frères Jacques". In 1952 he met the singer Patachou, owner of a very well known cafe, Les Trois Baudets. Though Brassens had never considered himself a singer, Patachou convinced him to try his hand at performing himself. A bass player present at the audition, Pierre Nicolas, quickly joined Brassens in support, and would serve in that capacity for the remainder of the singer's career. Jacques Brel and Léo Ferré came also into the music industry with the help of Patachou. With her help, Brassens met Polydor exec Jacques Canetti, and landed a record deal. His first single, Le Gorille, was released later in 1952, and stirred up controversy with its strong anti-death penalty stance; in fact, it was banned from French radio until 1955. In these years, Brassens achieved fame with his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics. He won the prestigious Grand Prix du Disque de l'Academie Charles Cros in 1954 for his EP Le Parapluie, and spent much of the year touring Europe and northern Africa. In 1957, he made his film debut in Porte des Lilas/Gates of Paris (René Clair, 1957). An old bum (Pierre Brassens) becomes infatuated with a pretty young girl (Dany Carrel) who gets entangled with a young gangster (Henri Vidal). Brassens played an important part as an the bum’s friend, L'Artiste, a taciturn, solitary bard, whose character seems to have been based on Brassens himself. Peter Beagle at IMDb: “The film turned out to be a delightful, warmhearted work, holding up remarkably well on repeated viewings, and Brassens makes an excellent deadpan foil for the great Pierre Brasseur. And the songs he wrote for the film remain among the best of his classic repertoire.” Brassens performed his songs in several other films, but his main focus was live performing. He later on made several appearances at the Paris Olympia and at the Bobino music hall theater. He toured with Pierre Louki, who wrote a book of recollections entitled Avec Brassens. During these performances he accompanied himself on acoustic guitar. Most of the time the only other accompaniment came from his friend Pierre Nicolas with a double bass, and sometimes a second guitar (Barthélémy Rosso, Joël Favreau). He released several more LPs over the remainder of the 1950s, during which time chronic kidney ailments began to affect his health, resulting in periodic hospitalizations. In the following decades he continued to tour. His songs often decry hypocrisy and self-righteousness in the conservative French society of the time, especially among the religious, the well-to-do, and those in law enforcement. The criticism is often indirect, focusing on the good deeds or innocence of others in contrast. His elegant use of florid language and dark humor, along with bouncy rhythms, often give a rather jocular feel to even the grimmest lyrics. Brassens’s lyrics are difficult to translate, though his work is translated in more than 20 languages. Georges Brassens died of cancer in 1981, in Saint-Gély-du-Fesc, having suffered health problems for many years. He was 60. Brassens rests at the Cimetière le Py in Sète.Steve Huey at AllMusic: “Along with Jacques Brel, he became one of the most unique voices on the French cabaret circuit, and exerted a tremendous influence on many other singers and songwriters of the postwar era. His poetry and lyrics are still studied as part of France's standard educational curriculum.”
Sources: Peter Beagle (IMDb), Steve Huey (AllMusic), Wikipedia and IMDb.
Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, 1788-92, marble, 6′ 2″ high (State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia)
The George Washington Bridge (known informally as the GWB) is a
suspension bridge over the Hudson River, connecting the Washington
Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City to
Fort Lee in New Jersey. The bridge carries Interstate 95, U.S. Route
1, U.S. Route 9, and U.S. Route 46 over it. It is considered one of
the world's busiest bridge in terms of vehicle traffic; In 2004, the
bridge carried 108,404,000 vehicles, with current AADT estimates of
nearly 300,000 vehicles daily. It is currently the fourth largest
suspension bridge in the U.S.
from wikipedia
St George Wharf, Lambeth, long exposure at dusk
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From: Crown Studios' New South Wales officers and men of the Australian Imperial Force (A.I.F.) and the Australian Naval Forces : portrait collection, 1919
Date of Birth: 5.1.[no year]
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Born in or near what Town: Wallarabba NSW
Address prior to Enlistment: Wallarabba NSW
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Name & Address of Next of Kin: Mr J. Killner Wallarabba NSW
Name and last address of Father: John Killner
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