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Sean Pinchin seems to have 20 fingers when he actually plays. He is busy man, a musician in demand for the last 20 years. I have seen him few times with vocalist Dione Taylor, but he is a fine singer in his own right. At 'Blues for Red Door' he played solo, on his slide guitar, but had to rush to another gig later. He received few Juno nominations and is member of several bands (mostly blues). I caught him tuning and snacking, before it was his turn to go on stage.
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Listen As I Lay Me Down - Sophie B. Hawkins
Sophie Ballantine Hawkins (born November 1, 1967, in Manhattan, New York City, U.S.) is an American singer, songwriter, musician and painter. Her biggest hits are "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover," "Right Beside You," and "As I Lay Me Down." Her debut album, Tongues and Tails, was released in 1992. It achieved both worldwide commercial success and critical acclaim, earning her a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 1993. The single "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" went to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles' chart in the USA. Whaler, her second album, was released in 1994. It also contained a Top 10 hit, the song "As I Lay Me Down." A 1998 documentary by Gigi Gaston, entitled The Cream Will Rise, follows her during one of her tours and captures her struggle to deal with past trouble with her family, including her mother and brother. Music and riffs by Hawkins are included throughout the film. Timbre was re-released in 2001 on her own label, Trumpet Swan Productions. It was bundled with a bonus disc containing new songs, demos, remixes, and videos. Her first independently recorded and released album, Wilderness, was released in 2004. In August 2007, Hawkins headlined the first Los Angeles Women's Music Festival in support of the festival's dual agenda of supporting animal rescue groups and promoting and supporting female musicians. Hawkins is a vegan and a long-time supporter of animal rights. In February 2008, Hawkins re-recorded her hit "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" as Damn We Wish You Were President in support of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Hawkins wrote, "Hillary Clinton's achievements come from her heart. She has initiated so much positive change for families, children, victims of crime and the environment in her struggle for the forward movement of America and the working people of this nation"
La Costa Brava, el agreste litoral de la provincia de Girona, cuenta con una villa medieval a pocos kilómetros de su perfil marítimo. Su centro histórico se levanta sobre una colina rodeada de llanuras, que en su origen fue zona pantanosa. Hay que remontarse al siglo IX para encontrar los primeros documentos escritos que hablan de esta población, época a la que pertenece su castillo. Continuos enfrentamientos bélicos hicieron que durante siglos sólo se conservase la Torre del Homenaje de esta construcción defensiva. Se trata de una torre románica de planta circular levantada entre los siglos XI y XIII. Sus 15 metros de altura se asientan sobre una plataforma de roca natural, en la que también se encuentran numerosas tumbas visigóticas. Durante el siglo XV fue empleada como campanario, por lo que se la conoce como la Torre de las Horas. En la actualidad, el solar del castillo lo ocupa la casa de la familia Pi i Figueras, promotor de la restauración del Recinto Gótico de Pals. De factura moderna, esta casa mantiene los mismos rasgos arquitectónicos que el resto de la urbe. Calles empedradas interrumpidas por arcos de medio punto, fachadas con ventanas ojivales y balcones de piedra son los signos distintivos de Pals. La muralla es otro de los lugares que transportan al viajero a la Edad Media. Cuatro torres de planta cuadrada se mantienen aún en pie, a pesar de que datan del siglo XII. Torres con nombre propio como Ramonet, Rom, Xinel·lo y Hospital. Otros puntos de interés son el mirador Josep Pla, la Plaza Mayor, las sepulturas de la calle Mayor y la iglesia de Sant Pere. El escritor palafrugellense da nombre a una de las atalayas naturales, desde donde se divisan los campos del Ampurdán y las islas Medes. Arcos góticos y sepulturas medievales son los otros hitos que encontramos en el camino. Parte de los sillares de piedra del castillo fueron empleados en el siglo X para edificar la iglesia de Sant Pere. En su estructura final se distinguen la base románica, el ábside y nave gótica, y el pórtico y campanario barrocos. La mejor manera de recorrer Pals es perderse por su calles medievales, pero antes de esto merece la pena acercarse a una casa fortificada del siglo XV, sede del Museo de Arqueología Submarina. Entre otras curiosidades, podemos conocer la historia de los vinos y cavas de Cataluña, gracias la exposición permanente que exhibe. A las afueras de la villa se extiende otra parte del municipio de Pals, los Masos de Pals, antiguo conjunto de masías (casas de campo catalanas) que actualmente acogen a un nutrido núcleo urbano. Y en la costa, la playa de Pals. Más de cuatro kilómetros de aguas transparentes donde el viajero podrá disfrutar del benigno clima mediterráneo y de todas las oportunidades de ocio que la Costa Brava ofrece. Campos de golf, deportes náuticos y visitas al Parque Natural Illes Medes son sólo algunas de ellas. Pals también se convierte en una excelente oportunidad para acercarnos a la gastronomía del Baix Ampordà, que aúna productos del mar y la tierra. Las habas y los guisantes de la huerta aparecen junto a esqueixadas (ensalada de bacalao), escalivadas (asado de berenjena, cebolla y pimientos) o guisos de pollo o conejo con marisco. Por su parte, gambas, lubinas y doradas se preparan de multitud de maneras. Entre los postres, las frutas tienen una gran importancia (fresas, melocotones, melones, sandías, naranjas...), y se convierten en verano en helados y sorbetes.
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'light for the bight', a community event to support world heritage protection for the nullarbor and the great australian bight
the mirning traditional owners created this beautiful twilight lantern parade telling the creation story of jeedera, the white whale
saturday, october 14th, 2023 - otherwise a day of shame for australia
2018 SAFAS AWARDS - Final Voting
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My nomination for the quintessential Chessie freight car is not a coal car or auto parts box, but the ACF 2700 cuft, or class HC-44 covered hopper. A total of 1300 of these were built in two orders between 1976 and 1979, making them the largest class of covered hoppers on the entire Chessie roster. Interestingly enough, only one other railroad purchased the ACF 2700; the Detroit & Toledo Shore Line RR making these cars an anomaly, at least on the national scale. But if you were on the Chessie, you saw them...usually in numbers! This car was photographed at Willard Ohio on November 24th 1979. It's worth noting that this car is actually a repaint, not wearing it's as delivered ACF paint job. If you look carefully, you can see an October 1979 shop date. There are a few dead giveaways that this is not the original scheme, but a great effort was made by the shop! It beats later repaints in which the bottom sill was painted yellow instead of blue! No photographer listed, JL Sessa collection.
An Oscar nomination animated short film titled paperman really struck me. I have been in kind of a rut, and have been struggling to produce ideas; not much inspiration. I came across this film a couple days ago and it instantly made me press replay. From the subtle realistic gestures, to the score by Christophe Beck, it really took me back in my chair with my hands on my head. Inspiration was instantly conveyed to the right side of my brain and will reside. Thank you Disney.
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Ice bucket challenge nominated by cold frog and Lisa Outsider.
My next nomination is Chaos. Lucifer and Miles Cantelou
Yes, I was going to be taking a little break from flickr but I've had a couple of pieces of lovely news over the last half a week. As you can probably guess from the above, I've been nominated for an award on the Hipstography website, for a portfolio of mine they published earlier last year. Some of you may remember that. Really chuffed to be included, especially amongst some really wonderful fellow photographers. Well, apparently once the nominations were chosen it is then a public vote. So, y'all should duck over there, take a gander at the fantastic nominations and vote for your faves! You can find the right page here .
Also, although many of you will have noticed, I was super pleased to get an honourable mention in the Mobile Photography Awards street category that was announced late last week, for this photo . Anyhoo, big thanks to all of you for your continued encouragement and company, I've learnt so much from keeping company with you all on this place. Appreciate it everyone!
NB: Although I did not win this category, the same shot of bathers at Bondi won the Hipstography monochrome photo of the year. Yay.
Pompeo congratulates Nechirvan Barzani on KRG presidential nomination
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo congratulated Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani on his nomination for the KRG presidency, according to a State Department readout published Wednesday night.
During a surprise visit to Erbil on Wednesday evening, Pompeo congratulated PM Barzani on his nomination for the presidency – a post which has been frozen since Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) president Masoud Barzani resigned in 2017 following the Kurdistan independence referendum.
According to a readout from the US State Department, Pompeo also emphasized “strong US support for continued dialogue between the KRG and the central government in Baghdad.”
Following an unscheduled stop in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday morning, Pompeo travelled on to Erbil, where he also met with Masoud Barzani and Kurdistan Region Security Council Chancellor Masrour Barzani – who has been nominated for the office of prime minister.
If approved, the two Barzani cousins will hold both the top seats of government. They will only be successful if the KDP gets its way in government formation talks with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the Change Movement (Gorran) – their nearest rivals.
PM Barzani described his meeting with Pompeo as “productive”.
They “discussed the recent territorial defeat of ISIS in Syria” while underscoring “the value of our strategic relationship with Iraq and our longstanding friendship with the IKR [Iraqi Kurdistan Region], which is vital for ensuring mutual security and regional stability.”
Pompeo is touring several Middle Eastern states to drum up support for America’s anti-Iran campaign and to reassure allies in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s bombshell decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria
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Delicate American actress Winona Ryder (1971) is known for her dark hair, brown eyes and pale skin. She starred in films such as Beetlejuice Heathers, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Edward Scissorhands, and the television series Stranger Things. In 1994, she won a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in the film The Age of Innocence (1993), and Ryder was nominated twice for an Oscar.
Winona Ryder was born Winona Laura Horowitz in Winona (Olmsted County), Minnesota, in 1971. Yes, her name is very much the same as her birthplace. Her parents, Cindy Horowitz (Istas), an author and video producer, and Michael Horowitz, a publisher and bookseller, were part of the hippie movement. She has a brother named Uri Horowitz (1976), who got his first name after Yuri Gagarin, a half-sister named Sunyata Palmer (1968), and a half-brother named Jubal Palmer (1970) from her mother Cindy's first marriage. From 1978, Winona grew up in a commune near Mendocino in California, which had no electricity. When Winona was seven, her mother began to manage an old cinema in a nearby barn and would screen films all day. She allowed Winona to miss school to watch movies with her. In 1981, the family moved to Petaluma, California. Since Winona was considered an outsider in public school, she was sent to a public school and later to the American Conservatory Theater acting school. She was discovered at the age of thirteen by a talent scout at a theatre performance at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. In 1985, she applied for a role in the film Desert Bloom (David Seltzer, 1986) with a video in which she performed a monologue from the book 'Franny and Zooey' by J. D. Salinger. Although the casting choice was fellow actress Annabeth Gish, director and writer David Seltzer recognised her talent and cast her as Rina in his film Lucas (David Seltzer, 1986) about a teenager (Corey Haim) and his life in high school. When telephoned to ask what name she wanted to be called in the credits, she chose Ryder as her stage name because her father's Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels album was playing in the background. Her real hair colour is blonde but when she made Lucas (1986), her hair color was dyed black. She was told to keep it that colour and with the exception of Edward Scissorhands (1990), it has stayed that color since. Her next film was Square Dance (Daniel Petrie, 1987), in which the protagonist she portrays lives a life between two worlds: on a traditional farm and in a big city. Ryder's performance received good reviews, although neither film was a commercial success. Her acting in Lucas led director Tim Burton to cast her in his film Beetlejuice (Tim Burton, 1988). In this comedy, she played Lydia Deetz, who moves with her family into a house inhabited by ghosts (played by Geena Davis, Alec Baldwin, and Michael Keaton). Ryder, as well as the film, received positive reviews, and Beetlejuice was also successful at the box office. In 1989, she starred as Veronica Sawyer in the independent film Heathers (Michael Lehmann, 1989) about a couple (Ryder and Christian Slater) who kill popular schoolgirls. Ryder's agent had previously advised her against the role. The film was a financial failure, but Ryder received positive reviews. The Jerry Lee Lewis biopic Great Balls of Fire! (Jim McBride, 1989) was also a flop. That same year, Ryder appeared in Mojo Nixon's music video 'Debbie Gibson Is Pregnant with My Two-Headed Love Child'. At the premiere of Great Balls of Fire (1989), Ryder met fellow actor and later film partner Johnny Depp. The couple became engaged a few months later, but their relationship ended in 1993. He had a tattoo of her name and after they broke up, he had this reduced to "Wino forever".
In 1990, Winona Ryder had her breakthrough performance alongside her boyfriend Johnny Depp in Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990). The fantasy film was an international box-office success. Ryder was selected for the role of Mary Corleone in The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola, 1990) but had to drop out of the role after catching the flu from the strain of doing the films Welcome Home Roxy (Jim Abrahams, 1990) and Mermaids (Richard Benjamin, 1990) back-to-back. Ryder's performance alongside Cher and Christina Ricci in the family comedy Mermaids (1990) was praised by critics and she was nominated for a Golden Globe in the Best Supporting Actress category. Ryder also appeared with Cher and Ricci in the music video for 'The Shoop Shoop Song', the film's theme song. Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch wrote a role specifically for her in Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch, 1991), as a tattooed, chain-smoking cabdriver who dreams of becoming a mechanic. Ryder was cast in a dual role as Mina Murray and Elisabeta in Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, 1992). In 1993, she starred as Blanca in the drama The House of the Spirits (Bille August, 1993) alongside Antonio Banderas, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close. It is the film adaptation of Isabel Allende's bestseller of the same name. Together with Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis, she starred in Age of Innocence (Martin Scorsese, 1993), the film adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel. She was Martin Scorsese's first and only choice for the role of May Welland. For years, she kept the message he left on her voicemail, informing her she got the role. Her part earned her a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and an Oscar nomination. She also earned positive reviews for her role in the comedy Reality Bites (Ben Stiller, 1994). She received critical acclaim and another Oscar nomination the same year as Jo in the drama Little Women (Gillian Armstrong, 1994). In 1996, she starred alongside Daniel Day-Lewis and Joan Allen in The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner, 1996), an adaptation of Arthur Miller's stage play about the Puritan witch hunt in Salem. The film was not a success; however, Ryder's performance was favourably reviewed. A year later she portrayed an android in the successful horror film Alien: Resurrection (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997) alongside Sigourney Weaver's Ripley. In 1998 she starred in Woody Allen's Celebrity (1998). after Drew Barrymore turned down the role. In 1999 she starred as a psychiatric patient with borderline syndrome in the drama Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold, 1999), based on Susanna Kaysen's autobiographical novel. Girl, Interrupted, the first film on which she served as executive producer, was supposed to be Ryder's comeback in Hollywood after the flops of the past years. However, the film became the breakthrough for her colleague Angelina Jolie, who won an Oscar for her role. In this decade, she was involved with Dave Pirner, the lead singer of the group Soul Asylum, from 1993 to 1996 and with Matt Damon from December 1997 to April 2000.
Winona Ryder appeared alongside Richard Gere in Autumn in New York (Joan Chen, 2000), a romance about an older man's love for a younger woman. She also made a cameo appearance in the comedy Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2000). The comedy Mr. Deeds (Steven Brill, 2002) with Adam Sandler became her biggest financial success to date. The film failed with critics and Ryder was nominated for the Golden Raspberry award. Also in 2002, she was sentenced to three years probation and 480 hours of work for repeatedly shoplifting $5,000 worth of clothes. The incident caused a career setback. She withdrew from the public eye in the following years and did not appear in front of the camera again until 2006. In that year, she appeared in the novel adaptation A Scanner Darkly (Richard Linklater, 2006) alongside Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., and Woody Harrelson. In 2009, she made an appearance in Star Trek: The Future Begins (J. J. Abrams, 2009) as Spock (Zachary Quinto)'s mother Amanda Grayson. The prequel became a huge success at the box office and Ryder earned a Scream Award for Best Guest Appearance. She also appeared alongside Robin Wright and Julianne Moore in Rebecca Miller's Pippa Lee (2009), and alongside Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010). Ryder starred in the television film When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story (John Kent Harrison, 2010), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She starred in the comedy The Dilemma (Ron Howard, 2011), and the thrillers The Iceman (Ariel Vromen, 2012), and The Letter (Jay Anania, 2012) opposite James Franco. In Tim Burton's Frankenweenie (2012) she lent her voice to the character Elsa Van Helsing. Since 2016, she has embodied the main character, Joyce Byers, in the Netflix series Stranger Things (2016-2022), for which she received positive responses. Her role in the series has been described by many as a comeback. Since 2011 Winona Ryder is in a relationship with Scott MacKinlay Hahn.
Sources: Pedro Borges (IMDb), Wikipedia (Dutch and German), and IMDb.
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French postcard by Studio Erving, Paris, no. 696. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Star Wars - Episode IV - A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977).
American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.
Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).
Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.
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French postcard by Editions F. Nugeron, no. 6. Photo: Collection de l'École de Cinéma Camiris, Lyon. Isabelle Adjani in Ishtar (Elaine May, 1987).
Isabelle Adjani (1955) is a dark-haired beauty with porcelain skin and expressive blue eyes, who has appeared in 30 films since 1970. The French film actress holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession (1981), L'Été Meurtrier/One Deadly Summer (1983), Camille Claudel (1988), La Reine Margot/Queen Margot (1994) and La journée de la jupe/Skirt Day (2009). She also received two Oscar nominations for Best Actress.
Isabelle Yasmine Adjani was born in the immigrant neighbourhood Gennevilliers in Hauts-de-Seine, a suburb of Paris, in 1955. Her father, Mohammed Cherif Adjani was Algerian. He was a soldier in the French Army in World War II. Her mother Augusta, called 'Gusti', was German. Isabelle grew up bi-lingual, speaking German and French fluently. After winning a school recitation contest, she began acting in amateur theatre by the age of twelve. At the age of 14, she starred in her first motion picture Le Petit bougnat/Little Bougnat (Bernard Michel, 1970), while on summer vacation. She made her second film, the coming-of-age drama Faustine et le bel été/Faustine and the Beautiful Summer (Nina Companeez, 1971), also while she was still at school. In 1972, the 17-year-old joined the prestigious Comédie française as the youngest company member ever. There she gained fame as a classical actress for her interpretation of Agnès, the main female role in Molière's L'École des femmes (The School For Wives). After only two years she left the Comédie française, to pursue a film career. She played minor roles in several films and enjoyed modest success as the spoiled teenage daughter of Lino Ventura in La Gifle/The Slap (Claude Pinoteau, 1974). She won the prestigious Prix Suzanne Bianchetti for Most Promising Actress. The following year, she landed her first major role as the mentally unbalanced daughter of author Victor Hugo in L Histoire d Adele H./The Story of Adèle H. (François Truffaut, 1975). Critics were enthused over her performance as the intense, unstable, love-obsessed Adèle Hugo. She was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar and received offers for roles in international films. For André Téchiné, she co-starred with Gerard Depardieu in Barocco (1976), as the instigator of a plot to blackmail a politician, and in Les Soeurs Bronte/The Bronte Sisters (1978), as Emily Bronte. In Roman Polanski's psychological thriller Le Locataire/The Tenant (1976), Adjani was the suicidal former occupant of the apartment rented by a confused man (Polanski himself). In Hollywood, she played a gambler opposite Ryan O’Neal in the crime thriller The Driver (Walter Hill, 1978). She then portrayed Lucy in the horror film Nosferatu/Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979), a retelling of the Dracula legend featuring Klaus Kinski. In 1980 she had a son, Barnabé Nuytten with Flemish cinematographer Bruno Nuytten.
In 1981, Isabelle Adjani received a double Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her part as the impoverished mistress of Alan Bates in Merchant-Ivory's Quartet (James Ivory, 1981), and for her role as the unfaithful wife of Sam Neill struggling with demons in the horror film Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981). Yuri German at AllMovie: “Filmed amidst the oppressive backdrop of the Berlin Wall by the expatriate Polish director Andrzej Zulawski (who was unable to work in his homeland after too many clashes with the authorities), the picture is so relentlessly intense and so deliberately esoteric, that most viewers would find it too hard to connect with. Still, its symbolism, its unbridled and flashy directorial style, and the tour de force performance by Isabelle Adjani earned this unique tale a cult following in Europe.” The following year, she received her first César Award for Possession. In 1983, she won the César again, now for her depiction of a vengeful woman in the blockbuster L'Été Meurtrier/One Deadly Summer (Jean Becker, 1983). That same year, she released the French pop album Pull Marine written and produced by Serge Gainsbourg. She starred in a music video for the hit title song Pull Marine, which was directed by Luc Besson. For the then 26-year-old Besson, she also starred in the successful comedy thriller Subway (Luc Besson, 1985) opposite Christophe Lambert. From 1986 to 1987, Adjani was romantically linked to actor Warren Beatty with whom she co-starred in the commercial failure Ishtar (Elaine May, 1987). In 1988, she co-produced and starred in a biopic of the sculptor Camille Claudel (Bruno Nuytten, 1988), the mistress of August Rodin (Gerard Depardieu). As she had done in her portrait of Adele Hugo, Adjani fully conveyed the passion and spirit of a strong-willed woman who descends into madness. She received her third César, a second Oscar nomination and a Berlin Film Festival Best Actress Award for this role. Following this publicity, she was chosen by People magazine as one of the '50 Most Beautiful People' in the world.
Isabelle Adjani won her fourth César for the ensemble epic La Reine Margot/Queen Margot (Patrice Chéreau, 1994), based on Victor Hugo's novel. The film provided her with another portrayal in her galaxy of fragile women surrounded by violence. She had a relationship with Daniel Day-Lewis from 1989 to 1995. He left her during her pregnancy with their son, Gabriel-Kane Day-Lewis, who was born in 1995. The following year, she was teamed with Sharon Stone for Diabolique (Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1996), a remake of the classic psychological thriller Les Diaboliques by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Adjani again seemed out of her element as the meek, sickly wife of a belligerent school headmaster (Chazz Palminteri). Sandra Brennan at AllMovie: “She also continued to be highly visible on the political scene, staunchly supporting Algerian rebel activities and actively fighting racism against North African immigrants (such as her father) in France. She was particularly outspoken concerning the activities of the French National Front. In 1986, the anti-immigration group organized a smear campaign against her, starting rumours that she was dying of AIDS. This actually resulted in newspaper reports of Adjani's death, which caused her to go on national television to prove that she was, in fact, still alive.” In 2000, she made a rare stage acting appearance in the title role of a Parisian production of La Dame aux Camelias (Camille). After a five-year hiatus, Adjani returned to the screen starring in La Repentie/The Repentent (Laetitia Masson, 2002) with Sami Frey. The following year she appeared in the drama Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran/Monsieur Ibrahim (François Dupeyron, 2003) featuring Omar Sharif, and assumed a role originally meant for Sophie Marceau in the black comedy Bon Voyage (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 2003). Adjani was engaged to composer Jean Michel Jarre, but they broke up in 2004. She won her fifth César for her role as a troubled and emotionally fragile woman at the centre of a firestorm in the psychological drama La journée de la jupe/Skirt Day (Jean-Paul Lilienfeld, 2008). In 2009, she denounced statements by Pope Benedict XVI claiming that condoms are not an effective method of AIDS prevention. Adjani was made a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur in 2010. Her later films include the road movie Mammuth (Benoit Delépine, Gustave de Kervern, 2010) starring Gérard Depardieu and the action film De force (Frank Henry, 2011) with former soccer player Eric Cantona.
Sources: Yuri German (AllMovie), Sandra Brennan (AllMovie), Yasmine (IMDb), Yahoo! Movies, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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De Hallen Amsterdam, McDonalds (Rotterdam), Tennisclub IJburg, Small church Klein Wetsinge (Winsum), Swimming pool Het Noorderparkbad (Amsterdam), Plus Ultra (Wageningen Campus), het KWR Watercycle Research Institute (Nieuwegein) and the underground parking garage Katwijk aan Zee are nominated for the best Dutch building of 2016.
The nominated Bryce Canyon National Park Scenic Trails District consists of five structures including the Navajo Loop Trail, the Queen's Garden Trail, the Peekaboo Loop Trail, the Fairyland Trail, and the Rim Trail. All of these structures are located within the scenic heartland of the park-between Fairyland Point to the north and Bryce Point to the south. Although the trails have individual names, they do intersect with one another, forming a contiguous series of paths that provide visual and physical access to the erosional features that characterize Bryce Canyon National Park (BRCA).
The Queen's Garden Trail (an unpaved graded trail between three and five feet in width) accesses the area below the plateau rim between Sunrise and Sunset points. The length of the Queen's Garden Trail is listed in various documents as .8 or 1.8 miles in length, depending upon whether or not one includes both the canyon bottom and switchback segments under the designation. This trail provides access to the rock formation known as Queen Victoria. The upper portion of the trail is cut through bare sandstone with little or no vegetation. However, vegetation increases as one descends into the bottom of Bryce Canyon. Scattered stands of ponderosa pine, bristlecone pine, and brushy understory vegetation occur adjacent to the trail. Notable features of the trail include two tunnels cut through a sandstone ridge.
A comparison of historic and modern maps indicates that the current alignment of the Queen's Garden Trail follows closely the trail as it was constructed in 1929. Modifications have been made due to erosion, rock fall, etc., however these are to be expected given the character of the natural environment within BRCA. This trail continues to provide access to the formation known as "Queen Victoria" and provides hikers with vistas that are little changed since the historical period. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/95000422.pdf
Nomination for Drisyam 2008 exhibition, Ernakulam Town Hall (26th - 30th December) Taken on Alleppey beach.
English postcard, no. MM377.
American actor River Phoenix (1970-1993) was noted for the depth, sensitivity, and intelligence that he brought to his roles during his teens. He began his acting career at age 10 in television commercials and had his first notable role in the coming-of-age film Stand by Me (1986). Phoenix made a transition into more adult-oriented roles with Running on Empty (1988), which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor, and My Own Private Idaho (1991), for which he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival. He was on the cusp of becoming a major star when he overdosed on drugs and died on Halloween night, 1993. At the time of his death, he was filming Dark Blood, which was released incomplete 19 years later, in 2012.
River Phoenix was born River Jude Bottom in 1970, in a log cabin on a mint farm in Madras, Oregan. He was the first child of Arlyn Dunetz and John Bottom. His parents named him after the "river of life" that flowed through Hermann Hesse's novel 'Siddhartha' and for the Beatles' song 'Hey Jude'. From the time Phoenix was born, his parents lived the hippie life, moving to several communes until they joined the controversial Children of God cult. They became missionaries for their new church and spent a couple of years wandering Latin America before landing in Venezuela. Phoenix never attended formal school. Along the way, three more children were born: Rain, Joaquin Rafael (who grew up to be actor Joaquin Phoenix), and Libertad Mariposa. Though John Bottom had been designated the "Archbishop of Venezuela and the Caribbean," he and his family received no missionary funds from their church and lived in poverty. Phoenix and his siblings often sang and performed on street corners for food. His family hit their lowest point when Phoenix was seven and the penniless brood was forced to move into a beach hut until a local priest showed mercy and arranged for them to be stowed away on a Florida-bound freighter. The crew discovered the family during the voyage but treated them kindly. Shortly after their arrival in Florida in 1978, the family legally changed its name to Phoenix, after the mythical bird that rises from its own ashes, symbolising a new beginning. While the family was in Florida, another child, Summer Joy Phoenix, was born. River Phoenix had originally wanted to be a musician and did not become interested in acting until 1979 when he and Rain were spotted in a talent show and invited to audition at Hollywood's Paramount Studios. Believing that the opportunity was worth more than the possible risks involved, the Phoenix family headed West in a battered station wagon. Their arrival in Burbank was disappointing, as the Paramount people reneged on what the family had believed to be an offer to audition the children. Once again the family was destitute and the children returned to busking for change. Matters improved when agent Iris Burton spotted the four children singing for spare change in Westwood, Los Angeles, and was so charmed by the family that she soon represented the four siblings. She started finding work for Phoenix in television commercials and in series such as Real Kids (1980), for which he and Rain worked as a warm-up act. Phoenix's first real break came when he won a leading role in the TV series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1982) with Richard Dean Anderson. From there, he made guest appearances on such television series as Family Ties and in such TV movies as Robert Kennedy: The Man and His Times (Marvin J. Chomsky, 1985) in which he played Robert Kennedy Jr., and Brad Davis his father.
River Phoenix made his feature-film debut as geeky boy-scientist Wolfgang Müller in the Science-Fiction Fantasy Explorers (Joe Dante, 1985). The film, which also starred a debuting Ethan Hawke, was not a tremendous box-office success, but Phoenix received favourable notices. He earned even more acclaim in the bittersweet coming-of-age story Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986), based on the novella 'The Body' by Stephen King. The same year, he played opposite Harrison Ford in The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986). By the late 1980s, Phoenix found himself a top-ranked teen idol, having added films like Running on Empty (Sidney Lumet, 1988), Little Nikita (Richard Benhamin, 1988) with Sidney Poitier, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989) to his resumé. Harrison Ford personally recommended him for the part of the young Indy in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) after working with him on The Mosquito Coast (1986). For his part in Running on Empty, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe and received the Best Supporting Actor honor from the National Board of Review. Phoenix met Keanu Reeves while Reeves was filming Parenthood (Ron Howard, 1989) with Phoenix's brother, Joaquin. Phoenix had reportedly auditioned for Bill in Reeves' Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989) before the role was taken by Alex Winter. The two starred together for the first time in I Love You to Death (Lawrence Kasdan, 1990). His breakthrough as an adult actor came when he was cast as a narcoleptic street hustler opposite Reeves in My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991). In his review for Newsweek, David Ansen praised Phoenix's performance: "The campfire scene in which Mike awkwardly declares his unrequited love for Scott is a marvel of delicacy. In this, and every scene, Phoenix immerses himself so deeply inside his character you almost forget you've seen him before: it's a stunningly sensitive performance, poignant and comic at once". For his role, Phoenix won Best Actor honors at the Venice Film Festival, the National Society of Film Critics and the Independent Spirit Awards. The film and its success solidified Phoenix's image as an actor with edgy, leading man potential. Allegedly, it was during the production of that film that Phoenix started taking drugs. Before his death, he won further acclaim for roles in the romantic coming-of-age drama Dogfight (Nancy Savoca, 1991) and the espionage thriller Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson, 1992) with Robert Redford and again with Sidney Poitier.
River Phoenix was a dedicated animal-rights activist and environmentalist, and a strict vegetarian, and a member of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). He was also a talented musician. He had played guitar, sang, and wrote songs for his band, Aleka's Attic, which also included his sister Rain Phoenix, while living in Gainsville, Florida. He sang and played guitar in the country music-themed film The Thing Called Love (Peter Bogdanovich, 1993), the last completed picture before his death. On the set, Phoenix began a relationship with co-star Samantha Mathis. In late October 1993, Phoenix returned to Los Angeles, only there for 1 day, after flying back from 1 week in New Mexico and before that 6 to 7 weeks in Utah to complete the three weeks of interior shots left on his last project, the American-Dutch thriller Dark Blood (George Sluizer, 1993-2012), with Judy Davis and Jonathan Pryce. On the evening of 30 October 1993, Phoenix was to perform with the band P; which featured his good friends Johnny Depp, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers along with Al Jourgensen of Ministry at The Viper Room, a Hollywood nightclub partly owned at the time by Depp. Later that night Phoenix died of drug-induced heart failure on the boardwalk outside of the Viper Room in the company of Mathis, his sister, Rain, and his brother Joaquin. He was only 23. Joaquin Phoenix and his partner Rooney Mara later named their son, River, after him. After 19 years, River's last film, Dark Blood, was finally completed in 2012. For the 2012 release, roughly four to six missing scenes were replaced with director George Sluizer providing narration. It was revealed in October 2011 that Sluizer had held onto the footage, fearing it would be destroyed, and that he had re-edited the material and believed that with some adjustments a completed film could be released. In 1999 the insurance company that owned the negatives wanted to stop paying storage costs, so they considered having the film destroyed. Sluizer entered the storage area that held the negative and removed it. Geoffrey Macnab from The Guardian: "Dark Blood is fragmentary, uneven and downright odd in parts but it also has huge curiosity value. The director's solution for bridging the considerable gaps is to read out descriptions of what is missing. It's a simple but surprisingly effective tactic. His narration ensures that the film is just about coherent. (...) Phoenix brings a wild physical energy to his role – in truth, his character verges on the preposterous but Phoenix tackles it with such commitment that he just about keeps absurdity at bay."
Sources: Sandra Brennan (AllMovie), Geoffrey Macnab (The Guardian), Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Italian postcard by EdiBas S.r.l., Torino, no. Pc 1.338. Photo: Grazia Neri. Brad Pitt in Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004).
Attractive American actor and producer Brad Pitt (1963) has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt wildly varies his film choices, appearing in everything from high-concept popcorn flicks such as Troy (2004) to adventurous critic-bait like Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Tree of Life (2011). He has received two Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011).
William Bradley ‘Brad’ Pitt was born in 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. His parents were William Alvin Pitt, who ran a trucking company, and Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counsellor. He has a younger brother, Douglas (Doug) Pitt, and a younger sister, Julie Neal Pitt. Following his graduation from high school, Brad enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, where he took acting lessons and worked odd jobs. Pitt's acting career began with uncredited parts in such films as Less Than Zero (Marek Kanievska, 1987). His television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the soap opera Another World. In November of the same year Pitt had a guest appearance on the sitcom Growing Pains. He appeared in four episodes of the legendary prime time soap opera Dallas (1987-1988). In 1989 he made his film debut with a featured role in the slasher Cutting Class (Rospo Pallenberg, 1989) with Donovan Leitch. He first gained recognition as a sexy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991), who romances and cons Thelma (Geena Davis). Biograpy.com: “Pitt's combination of charming bad boy charisma and sensual playfulness—particularly in a fiery love scene with Geena Davis—made him a genuine sex symbol (and wore out the rewind button on many a VCR).“ His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It (Robert Redford, 1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994), for which Pitt received his first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the Best Actor category. He starred opposite Tom Cruise and Antonio Banderas as the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the romantic horror film Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan, 1994), based on the novel by Anne Rice. Pitt also garnered attention for a brief appearance in the cult hit True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993) as a stoner named Floyd, providing comic relief to the action film written by Quentin Tarantino. Pitt gave critically acclaimed performances as an emotionally tortured detective in the gory horror-thriller Se7en (David Fincher, 1995) and as frenetic oddball Jeffrey Goines in the psychological Science Fiction film 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995), the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Seven earned $327 million at the international box office. Pitt also starred in the legal drama Sleepers (Barry Levinson, 1996), and in an unglamorous, disturbing role in the cult film Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) about a bloody diversion for young professional males.
Brad Pitt was cast as an Irish Gypsy boxer with a barely intelligible accent in the British gangster film Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000). He then played Rusty Ryan in the heist film Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) with George Clooney. Well received by critics, Ocean's Eleven was highly successful at the box office, earning $450 million worldwide. It had two sequels, Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, 2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh, 2007). Ocean's Twelve earned $362 million worldwide, and the third sequel earned $311 million at the international box office. Pitt and Clooney's dynamic was described by CNN's Paul Clinton as "the best male chemistry since Paul Newman and Robert Redford." Another commercial success was Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004), based on the Iliad. For his part as Achilles, he spent six months sword training and it helped establish his appeal as action star. Troy was the first film produced by Plan B Entertainment, a film production company he had founded two years earlier with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount Pictures. He then had a hit with the stylish action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman, 2005), opposite Angela Jolie. Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned $478 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005. Pitt starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Alejandro González Iñárritu's multi-narrative drama Babel (2006). Pitt's performance was critically well-received. Babel received seven Academy and Golden Globe award nominations, winning the Best Drama Golden Globe, and earned Pitt a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe. Pitt's then appeared in the black comedy Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2008), his first collaboration with the Coen brothers. The film received a positive reception from critics, with The Guardian calling it "a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy", noting that Pitt's performance was one of the funniest. Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008) and Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011). In Benjamin Button Pitt played the title character, who is born as a 70-year-old man and ages in reverse. The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations in total, and grossed $329 million at the box office worldwide. Pitt's next leading role came in the war film Inglourious Basterds, (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Pitt played Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American resistance fighter battling Nazis in German-occupied France. The film was a box office hit, taking $311 million worldwide, and garnered generally favourable reviews.
Brad Pitt had another commercial success with World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013), a thriller about a zombie apocalypse. Pitt produced the film which grossed $540 million against a production budget of $190 million. He also produced The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) and 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013), both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and also the experimental drama The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2009), a historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup. His productions Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011) and the comedy-drama The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015), garnered Best Picture nominations too. Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations including Best Actor for Pitt. Not only his work, his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pitt was involved in successive relationships with several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens, Jill Schoelen and Juliette Lewis. In addition, Pitt had a much-publicized romance and engagement to his Seven co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from 1994 to 1997. From 2000 till 2005, he was married to actress Jennifer Aniston. During their divorce, he fell in love with actress Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina" and they married in 2014. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In 2015, Pitt starred opposite Jolie, in her third directorial effort, By the Sea, a romantic drama about a marriage in crisis, based on her screenplay. In September 2016, Jolie filed in real life for divorce from Pitt. Brad Pitt’s most recent film is the World War II romantic thriller Allied (Robert Zemeckis, 2016) in which he and Marion Cotillard play an intelligence officer and resistance fighter, respectively, who fall in love during a mission to kill a German official.
Sources: Biography.com, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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Jon "Canis Arms Corporation" Walden and I got nominated (and ultimately lost) Best Mecha for this year. (Again)
Three of my pictures (two in Portrait Section and one in People Section) got the Nomination at the 6th B&W Spider Awards.
Tre miei scatti (due nella categoria "Ritratto" ed uno nella categoria "Gente") hanno ricevuto la Nomination nella sesta edizione del B&W Spider Awards
www.thespiderawards.com/gala/nominations.php?x=a&cid=99
www.thespiderawards.com/gala/nominations.php?x=a&cid=94
B&W Spider Awards are judged by
(La giuria dei B&W Spider Awards è composta da ) :
Michael Shulman - MAGNUM, New York
David Heffel - HEFFEL FINE ART AUCTION HOUSE, Toronto
Filippo Tattoni-Marcozzi - FTM ART ADVISORY, London
Lou Proud - PHILLIPS DE PURY & COMPANY, London
Denis Curti - CONTRASTO, Milan
Dr. Matthias Harder - HELMUT NEWTON FOUNDATION, Berlin
Roger Szmulewicz - FIFTY ONE GALLERY, Belgium
Deborah Harris - THE ARMORY SHOW MODERN, New York
Jocelyn Phillips - BONHAMS, London
David Clarke - TATE GALLERY, London
Martin Rogge - FLATLAND GALLERY, Utrecht
Baudoin Lebon - GALERIE BAUDOIN LEBON, Paris
Alessandro Botteri Balli - ARTE F, Zurich
Andrea de Polo - FRATELLI ALINARI, Florence
Prof. Vaughan Judge - MSU School of Art
Steffi Schulze - CAMERA WORK, Berlin
Sandra Byron - SANDRA BYRON GALLERY, Sydney
Roger Sonnewald - J.J. HECKENHAUER GALERIE, Berlin
Jurriaan Van Kranendonk - VAN KRANENDONK GALLERY, The Hague
Nadav Baker - OBSCURA GALLERY, Melbourne
Sylvain Di Maria - L'ILE AUX IMAGES, Paris
Jully Fernandes - GALERIA DE BABEL, Sao Paulo
Andrea Hinteregger - ARTREPCO, Zurich
Philip Glaser - BILLIRUBIN GALLERY, Berlin
Kate Stevens - HACKELBURY FINE ART, London
Conrad Hechter - STUDIO MAGAZINES - Munich
Andreas Schroyen - EPSON KUNSTBETRIEB , Dusseldorf
Michael Fulks - APOGEE PHOTO MAGAZINE
Fabien Fryns - F2 GALLERY, Beijing
The reviewed pictures on B&WSA, 2010 edition, was coming from 145 Countries
(Le foto esaminate nella edizione 2010 degli Awards provenivano da 145 nazioni diverse)
Below the selected pictures
Di seguito le tre foto prescelte
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Title: Sagamore Hill, notification of nomination of second term
Alternative Title: [President Theodore Roosevelt and members of the Republican National Nominating Committee at Sagamore, Hill.]
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Date: August 4, 1904
Part of: Doris A. and Lawrence H. Budner Theodore Roosevelt Photograph Collection
Place: Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York
Description: On August 4, 1904, the Republican Nomination Committee notified Theodore Roosevelt of his nomination for a second Presidential term at his home in New York, Sagamore Hill. Theodore Roosevelt is pictured in the center of the photograph, with Benjamin O'Dell, the 34th Governor of New York, on his left. Chauncey M. Depew, U.S. Senator and Delegate at Large, is pictured to Roosevelt's right. In the second row, George Pardee, Governor of California, is pictured standing directly behind Roosevelt, while Joseph G. Cannon, Delegate at Large and Permanent Chairman of the Republican National Convention of 1904 is standing directly behind Depew. Source: William Gardner Osgoodby, The Republican national convention, 1904: with portraits of many of the distinguished members of the party, a concise history of the Republican party from its birth, extracts from its first and last platforms, convention speeches and other historical and political information, New York : Illustrated Pub. Co. of America, 1904, books.google.com/books?id=1S82AQAAMAAJ
Physical Description: 1 photographic print: gelatin silver; 25.5 x 19.5 cm
File: ag1984_0324_12_6r_sagamore_opt.jpg
Rights: Please cite the Doris A. and Lawrence H. Budner Theodore Roosevelt Collection, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University when using this file. A high-resolution version of this file may be obtained for a fee. For details see the sites.smu.edu/cul/degolyer/research/permissions/ web page. For other information, contact degolyer@smu.edu.
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What I Saw and Heard
The photo above is of live video on the NBC television network, of Sen. John McCain's acceptance speech for the Grand Old Party or Republican Party's nomination for President of the United States, September 4, 2008. The video was pooled and common to all networks in the United States and internationally. Cameras showing the speech were not controlled by any one network.
The protester shown above was from Iraq Veterans Against The War. He was shown four times in the video feed. Later he shouted and could be heard over McCain's speech, twice.
This is the first Google result for the phrase "McCain Votes Against Vets" and it is from the organization called Veterans For Common Sense.
This was one of two pro-peace or anti-war protests inside the convention hall during McCain's acceptance speech.
Later during the same speech, multiple women protesters from Code Pink Women For Peace twice interrupted McCain. Code Pink protesters were shown five times on the pooled, live video of the speech, before they were forcibly removed from the hall. Their forcible removal was also shown.
Why does it matter?
The Iraq War is a critical factor in a presidential election between one Senator who did not support the war -- Barack Obama -- and one Senator who did support the war -- John McCain. Obama still opposes the war and has promised to end it, while McCain still supports the war and has promised to keep U.S. troops in Iraq.
In January 2008, McCain was asked about his promise to keep U.S. troops in Iraq:
Questioner: President Bush has talked about our staying in Iraq for fifty years…
McCain: Maybe a hundred. Make it one hundred.
The Iraq War is the most controversial expense of American money and loss of American lives in recent history. More Americans have died in the Iraq War than who died in the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001, which precipitated the war, despite that it has since been proven Iraq had no connection to the 9/11 attacks.
Other threshold numbers: more than 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in the war and some United Nations estimates are over 1 million Iraqis, more than $1 trillion American dollars have been spent in Iraq, and still now, more than $10 billion American dollars are spent every month in Iraq. It could be said on these numbers that there is no more consequential issue in this presidential election.
There were protests during McCain's speech because McCain is a U.S. Senator who voted in favor of starting the war. McCain still supports the war and supports his original decision to start the war. The protests during this speech are similar to protests which occur during many McCain speeches -- they are an attempt to hold him personally responsible for his decision to start, support, and continue the war.
Sen. Obama made speeches publicly stating his opposition to the war before it was started, at a time when his position was not popular in the United States. Obama has since stated his opposition to continuing the war, and he has promised to end the war if elected President.
Today, most Americans want to end the Iraq War. Contrary to public opinion before the war, most Americans agree Obama was correct to oppose the war from the beginning.
For more on why this matters, see the description and comments below.
NBC Hides Protests Inside McCain Acceptance Speech
NBC's early written accounts of the speech did not mention the protests -- to a non-viewing reader, it would be as if the protests did not occur.
NBC later mentioned there were protests but did not say why, that is, they did not say the protests were anti-war or pro-peace. NBC still now does not name the protesting organizations: Iraq Veterans Against The War, Veterans For Common Sense, or Code Pink Women For Peace.
When NBC first updated their text to mention protests, they misrepresented the plain facts by stating that there was a single protester. In fact there were several protesters from more than one organization, in more than one protest.
The NBC account, after the speech and in both the 8:20 EST and 8:58 EST versions on September 4, 2008, read:
"In an address at the party’s national convention in St. Paul, Minn. — briefly interrupted when a protester was hustled out of the hall as delegates chanted “U.S.A., U.S.A.” — McCain promised to “reach out my hand to anyone to help me.”
“Americans want us to stop yelling at each other,” McCain ad-libbed as he called for delegates to ignore the disruption. "
-- Alex Johnson, Reporter with MSNBC, at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26543568/
UPDATE, 9:01 EST September 4, 2008:
NBC edited their text for the fifth time (that I noted, there may have been more updates). During previous edits, the above text was unchanged. At 9:01 EST, the text changed to read:
"briefly interrupted when three yelling anti-war protesters were hustled out of the hall."
The facts still remain otherwise and more: there were more than three protesters, from more than one organization and in more than one protest. There were more than a half dozen appearances in the live video feed. NBC still refuses to name the organizations.
The final update of NBC's article, at 12:01 AM EST 9/5/2008 did not address the above concerns. In addition to Alex Johnson with MSNBC, NBC News’ Mike Memoli in Virginia Beach, Va., Amna Nawaz in Washington and Aram Roston in Anchorage, Alaska; Tom Curry of msnbc.com; and John Croman of NBC affiliate KARE in Minneapolis contributed to this report.
CNN Refuses To Report That Protests Were Anti-War
CNN's Candy Crowley, CNN's Dana Bash, and CNN's Ed Henry did not report the protests in a full article, rather they reported the protests in a post on a political blog, "CNN Political Ticker." In their reporting, CNN added to the story that Republicans knew in advance there might be a protest during the speech. Republicans planned in advance to respond by chanting "U.S.A." to overwhelm a protest if it occurred.
Although CNN reported that there were protests, CNN did not report why the protests occurred, nor did they interview the protestors, nor did they mention the organizations behind the protests. CNN reported:
On at least three occasions during the early part of his speech, members of the audience began chanting "U.S.A." in response to protesters, who were then escorted out of the hall.
In one such case, McCain weighed in telling the crowd not to be distracted “by the static…Americans want us to stop yelling at each other.”
The reporters, CNN's Candy Crowley, CNN's Dana Bash, and CNN's Ed Henry, have been contacted since. They have refused to update their post to report that the protests were anti-war or pro-peace, and they refuse to name the organizations behind the protests.
The CNN Political Ticker blog post has been open to comments from readers. CNN readers have shown more light on the full truth.
See the blog post itself for more comments, but I would like to quote the first comment:
September 4th, 2008 10:57 pm ET
Wonder what they would've chanted when the protesters were throwing tea into Boston Harbor.
Sometimes, protest is the most precious act of patriotism.
That was from a reader only named "David." Thank you, David.
CNN's blog post is entitled "'U.S.A.' chant is code to drown out protesters" and it's at:
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/04/usa-chant-is-cod...
Nominations for the 24th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations were announced earlier today by Olivia Munn and Niecy Nash from the Pacific Design Center in Hollywood. You may have caught the live stream on TNT, TBS, and truTV aired the announcement, we’re posting a video below in case you want to see it on-demand.
Find out more: www.redcarpetreporttv.com/2017/12/13/sag-award-nomination...
It's that time of year when the Screen Actors Guild Awards® opens their Holiday Auction which will benefit the SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Children’s Literacy and Actors’ Assistance programs. Find out more at sagawards.org/auction.
The annual Holiday Auction features the ultimate SAG Awards® VIP Package, with two tickets to the 24th Annual SAG Awards Ceremony and Gala on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, a backstage tour, two United Airline tickets and a three-night stay at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
But that's not all...
Other highlights include autographed film and television collectibles from Trevor Noah, Mary J. Blige, William Shatner, Sara Michelle Gellar, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Margaret Atwood, and the casts of “This Is Us,” “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “GLOW” and more. Also up for bid are unique gifts, such as tickets to a taping of “Will & Grace” plus a set tour and meet-and-greet with the cast, VIP tickets to a live taping of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee,” and several SAG Awards Red Carpet Bleacher Seats packages.
Bidding concludes on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, at 6 p.m. (PT) at sagawards.org/auction
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Here's the list of items up for bid at the SAG Awards Holiday Auction
Experiences, Tapings, and Packages
SAG Awards VIP package – 2 tickets to the 24th Annual SAG Awards Ceremony and Gala, a Backstage Tour, 2 United Airline tickets and 3-night stay at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA
SAG Awards Backstage Tour and 2 Front Row Red Carpet Bleacher Seats
4 Front Row Red Carpet Bleacher Seats to the 24th Annual SAG Awards Arrivals
2 tickets to a taping of “Will & Grace” plus a set tour and meet-and-greet with cast
4 VIP tickets to a live taping of "Conan"
2 VIP tickets to a live taping of “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee”
2 VIP tickets to “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”
2 tickets to a taping of “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen”
SAG Awards Red Carpet Bleacher Seat packages
Autographed Collectibles and Memorabilia
“This is Us” pilot script signed by the cast
“The Handmaid’s Tale” poster signed by cast members and producers
“The Handmaid’s Tale” paperback book signed by author Margaret Atwood plus gift basket
“Glow” poster signed by cast
“I, Tonya” poster signed by cast and creators
“Will & Grace” poster signed by Sean Hayes, Megan Mullally, Debra Messing and Eric McCormack
“Mudbound” poster signed by Mary J. Blige and Dee Rees
“Breathe” poster signed by Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy and Andy Serkis
“Brockmire” baseball signed by Hank Azaria
“The Walking Dead” Negan POP! doll signed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan
“Mr. Robot” limited edition backpack
“The Walking Dead” gift package including poster collection, special edition board game & baseball cap
“The Walking Dead” journal signed by cast members plus a Rick Grimes limited edition bobblehead
“The Walking Dead Vol.1,” “Outcast Vol.1” and “Invincible Vol.1” graphic novels signed creator Robert Kirkman
“Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood” hardcover book signed by author Trevor Noah
“Zero-G” hardcover book signed by author William Shatner
“Stirring Up Fun with Food” hardcover book signed by creator Sarah Michelle Gellar
“Unqualified” hardcover signed by author Anna Faris
“We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere” paperback book signed by author Gillian Anderson
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Champagne Taittinger Bottle 6L signed by 23rd Annual SAG Awards Attendees
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The 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® presented by SAG-AFTRA with Screen Actors Guild Awards, LLC and hosted by Kristen Bell, will be produced by Avalon Harbor Entertainment. Inc. and will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS on Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018 at 8 p.m. (ET) / 5 p.m. (PT). TBS and TNT subscribers can also watch the SAG Awards live through the networks' websites and mobile apps. In addition, TNT will present a special encore of the ceremony at 11 p.m. (ET) / 8 p.m. (PT).
One of the last remnants of a large hamburger "chain" that started in Flint, Michigan under the name of Kewpee Hotel Hamburgs. This Moderne hamburger building opened in 1928.
This Kewpee restaurant was added to the National Register in 1982 (#82005081), but due to owner objection it was never certified [read this nomination form, it's very interesting and is a good display of how many building owners hate to have their buildings listed on the National Register]
Title: Nomination of Frances Perkins as Secretary of Labor, 03/04/1933
From: Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate, 1789-2006
Series: Anson McCook Collection of Presidential Signatures, compiled 1789 - 1975
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Global Voices was nominated by the Tech Museum in San Jose, California for an award called the "Tech Awards". We didn't win the $50,000 prize, but did receive an award/paperweight made of an ingot of silicon with a little glass globe. We're still very proud! Congrats to the winners.
French postcard by Sonis, no. C. 563. Photo: Hachette Premiere / Hans Silvester -Rapho / Le Moult. Juliette Binoche and Olivier Martinez in Le hussard sur le toit/The Horseman on the Roof (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1995).
French actress Juliette Binoche (1964) has appeared in more than 60 international films. She won numerous international awards and has appeared on stage across the world. André Téchiné made her a star in France with the leading role in his drama Rendez-vous (1985). Her sensual performance in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, 1988) launched her international career. Other career highlights are her roles in Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993), The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996), for which she won an Oscar, and Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005).
Juliette Binoche was born in Paris, in 1964. She was the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Yvette Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress. She is the sister of actress/photographer Marion Stalens. Her parents divorced when she was four, so she grew up living between each parent and a Catholic boarding school. In her teenage years, Juliette began acting at school in stage productions. At 17 she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play, Exit the King. She studied acting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD) but quit after a short time as she disliked the curriculum. In the early 1980s, she found an agent through a friend and joined a theatre troupe, touring France, Belgium, and Switzerland under the pseudonym Juliette Adrienne. After performing in several stage productions and a few TV productions, Binoche secured her first feature-film appearance with a minor role in the drama Liberty Belle (Pascal Kané, 1983). Her role required just two days on–set but was enough to inspire Binoche to pursue a career in film. In 1983, she auditioned for the female lead in Jean-Luc Godard's controversial Je vous salue, Marie/Hail Mary (1985), a modern retelling of the Virgin birth. She spent six months on the set of the film in Geneva, although her role in the final cut only contained a few scenes. She gained more significant exposure in Jacques Doillon's critically acclaimed La Vie de Famille/Family Life (1985), cast as the volatile teenage step-daughter of Sami Frey's central character. Director André Téchiné made her a star in France with the leading role in his provocative erotic drama Rendez-vous (1985). The film, co-starring Lambert Wilson and Jean-Louis Trintignant, premiered at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, winning Best Director. Rendez-vous was a sensation and Binoche became the darling of the festival. In 1986, Binoche was nominated for her first César for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance. She starred opposite Michel Piccoli in the avant-garde thriller Mauvais Sang/Bad Blood (Leos Carax, 1986). Binoche plays Anna the vastly younger lover of Marc (Piccoli) who falls in love with Alex (Denis Lavant), a young thief. Mauvais Sang was a critical and commercial success, leading to Binoche's second César nomination. She gave a sensual performance opposite Daniel Day-Lewis in The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Philip Kaufman, 1988), the adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel. It was Binoche's first English language role and was a worldwide success with critics and audiences alike. In the summer of 1988, Binoche returned to the stage in an acclaimed production of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky at Théâtre De L'odéon in Paris. Later that year she began work on Léos Carax's Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. The film was beset by problems and took three years to complete, requiring investment from three producers and funds from the French government. When finally released in 1991, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf was a critical success. Binoche won a European Film Award and her third César nomination for her performance.
Juliette Binoche chose to pursue an international career outside France. Binoche relocated to London for the Emily Bronte adaptation of Wuthering Heights (Peter Kosminsky, 1992) with Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff, and Damage (Louis Malle, 1992) with Jeremy Irons, both enhanced her international reputation. For her performance in Damage, Binoche received her fourth César nomination. She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her roles in three films: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), Jurassic Park (1993), and Schindler's List (1993), for which she declined. Instead, she chose for Trois couleurs : Bleu/Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993), for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César. The first film in a trilogy inspired by the ideals of the French republic and the colors of its flag, Three Colors: Blue is the story of a young woman who loses her composer husband and daughter in a car accident. Though devastated she learns to cope by rejecting her previous life by rejecting all people, belongings, and emotions. Binoche made cameo appearances in the other two films in Kieślowski's trilogy, Trois couleurs : Blanc/Three Colors: White (1994) and Three Colors: Red/ Trois couleurs : Rouge (1994). Binoche took a short sabbatical during which she gave birth to her son Raphaël in September 1993. In 1995, she returned to the screen in a big-budget adaptation of Jean Giono's Le hussard sur le toit/The Horseman on the Roof (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, 1995) with Olivier Martinez. At the time, it was the most expensive film in the history of French cinema. The film was a box-office success around the world and Binoche was again nominated for a César for Best Actress. She gained further acclaim in The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, 1996), for which she was awarded an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in addition to the Best Actress Award at the 1997 Berlin International Film Festival. Juliette Binoche was reunited with director André Téchiné for Alice et Martin (1998), the story of a relationship between an emotionally damaged Parisian musician and her younger lover who hides a dark family secret. Binoche appeared on stage in a 1998 London production of Luigi Pirandello's Clothe the Naked retitled Naked and in a 2000 production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on Broadway for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Between 1995 and 2000, she was also the advertising face of the Lancôme perfume Poème.
Juliette Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance opposite Johnny Depp in the romantic comedy Chocolat (Lasse Hallström, 2000). Another hit was the period drama La Veuve de Saint-Pierre (Patrice Leconte, 2000), for which she was nominated for a César for Best Actress. Opposite Daniel Auteuil, she played the role of a woman who attempts to save a condemned man from the guillotine. The film won favourable reviews and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film. Next, she appeared in Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000), a film that was made following Binoche's approach to the Austrian director. Her critically acclaimed role was a welcome change from playing the romantic heroine in a series of costume dramas. During the following decade, she maintained a successful career, alternating between French and English language roles in both mainstream and art-house productions. "La Binoche" appeared in such films as Jet Lag (Daniele Thompson, 2002) opposite Jean Reno, Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005), Breaking and Entering (Anthony Minghella, 2006) with Jude Law, and Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007). Paying homage to Albert Lamorisse's 1957 short The Red Balloon, Hou's film tells the story of a woman's efforts to juggle her responsibilities as a single mother with her commitment to her career as a voice artist. Shot on location in Paris, the film was entirely improvised by the cast. In 2008 Binoche began a world tour with a modern dance production titled in-i, co-created in collaboration with Akram Khan. In 2010, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy making her the first actress to win the European ‘Best Actress Triple Crown’ for winning best actress award at the Berlin, Cannes, and Venice film festivals. Later films include Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg, 2011) with Robert Pattinson, Camille Claudel 1915 (Bruno Dumont, 2013), and Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2014). In 2015, Binoche starred on stage in a new English language translation of 'Antigone', directed by Ivo van Hove. Binoche has two children: a son Raphaël (1993), whose father is André Halle, a professional scuba diver, and a daughter Hana (1999), whose father is actor Benoît Magimel, with whom Binoche starred in Les Enfants du Siècle/Children of the Century (Diane Kurys, 1999).
Sources: Wikipedia, and IMDb.
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