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"Putain, je l'ai foutu où mon stylet?"
Lya : "Quand Lulu il est concentré, on l'entend pas, ça fait du bien!"
Moi : "HEEEEEEEIN?!"
Emeline : "Ah il se réveille!"
Thanks Lya.Seerose for nomination!
Et je nomine loutediesel et VeraCruza
wow thank you so much ..faints and shocked . xx I can't thank you enough for this nomination . I will cherish this forever . I looked at the other nominations and they are truly amazing . Thank you for even considering me Dreamart fashion xxx
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And when a known logger takes over the forests
They start planning
A branch can cut deeply
A trunk is nature’s largest limb
You can run but you’ll feel and hear a barking
If a tree falls in the middle of the forest,
Friendly leaves will cushion the fall
Grasses caress
Fungi springs and gives rebirth
There’s no such thing as
“If you scream in the middle of the forest and there’s no one there to hear it…”
You never did give them enough credit, did you?
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TV Week Logie Nominations In Sydney, Australia; News And Lists
Tonight in Sydney, Australia it's the TV Week Logies Nominations.
Karl Stefanovic is battling to snatch back-to-back Gold Logies after nominations for the TV Week industry awards were announced today.
After surprising many media and entertainment commentators including this agency by snatching the major prize last year, the Channel 9 Today co-host got both a Silver and Gold for most popular presenter on Australian TV.
Karl will fight the ABC's Adam Hills, Offspring star Asher Keddie, The Project co-host Carrie Bickmore, ex Home & Away siren Esther Anderson and Nine comedian presenter Hamish Blake for the top honours when the TV Week Logies are awarded on April 15.
Channel 7 leads the network pack, with 32 nominations across 22 categories, followed by Ten (26 nominations), the ABC (22 nominations), Nine (21 nominations), pay TV operator Foxtel (eight nominations) and SBS (seven nominations).
While Packed To The Rafters favourite Rebecca Gibney was overlooked for a Gold Logie nod this year, she is squared off against her TV daughter Jessica Marais for Silver as most popular actress.
Also in the running for Silver was Asher Keddie, acknowledged for her double effort - playing Nina Proudman on Ten's romantic comedy, Offspring, and publishing maverick Ita Buttrose in the ABC1 docu-drama, Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo.
Making their Silver Logie nomination debut are Danielle Cormack (Kate Leigh in Nine's Underbelly Razor) and Esther Anderson (Charlie Buckton on Seven's soap Home & Away).
In the TV fight for the boys, the Silver Logie for most popular actor will be fought between Daniel MacPherson (Wild Boys, Channel 7), Eddie Perfect (Offspring, Ten), Erik Thomson (Packed To The Rafters, Channel 7), Hugh Sheridan (Packed To The Rafters, Channel 7) and Ray Meagher (Home & Away, Channel 7).
Despite turning her back on a TV career for a spot on Melbourne breakfast radio this year, Chrissie Swan secured a nomination as most popular presenter for her role on Ten's morning chat show, The Circle.
The nominations were held at Sydney's Park Hyatt, hosted by Nine's Natalie Gruzlewski and Ten's Bondi Vet, Chris Brown.
FULL LIST OF 2012 LOGIE NOMINATIONS:
TV WEEK GOLD LOGIE AWARD Most Popular TV personality
Adam Hills (Spicks And Specks, ABC1/Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight, ABC1)
Asher Keddie (Nina Proudman,Offspring, Network Ten /Ita Buttrose, Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo, ABC1)
Carrie Bickmore (The Project, Network Ten)
Esther Anderson (Charlie Buckton, Home And Away, Channel Seven)
Hamish Blake (Hamish & Andy's Gap Year, Nine Network)
Karl Stefanovic (Today, Nine Network)
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE Most Popular Actor
Daniel MacPherson (Jack Keenan, Wild Boys, Channel Seven)
Eddie Perfect (Mick Holland, Offspring, Network Ten)
Erik Thomson (Dave Rafter, Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven)
Hugh Sheridan (Ben Rafter, Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven)
Ray Meagher (Alf Stewart, Home And Away, Channel Seven)
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE Most Popular Actress
Asher Keddie (Nina Proudman, Offspring, Network Ten /Ita Buttrose, Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo, ABC1)
Danielle Cormack (Kate Leigh, Underbelly: Razor, Nine Network /Angela Travis, East West 101, SBS)
Esther Anderson (Charlie Buckton, Home And Away, Channel Seven)
Jessica Marais (Rachel Rafter, Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven)
Rebecca Gibney (Julie Rafter, Packed To The Rafters, Channel Seven)
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE Most Popular Presenter
Adam Hills (Spicks And Specks,ABC1/Adam Hills In Gordon St Tonight, ABC1)
Carrie Bickmore (The Project, Network Ten)
Chrissie Swan (The Circle, Network Ten)
Hamish Blake (Hamish & Andy's Gap Year, Nine Network)
Karl Stefanovic (Today, Nine Network)
MOST POPULAR NEW MALE TALENT
Dan Ewing (Heath Braxton, Home And Away, Channel Seven)
James Mason (Chris Pappas, Neighbours, Network Ten)
Peter Kuruvita (Host, My Sri Lanka With Peter Kuruvita, SBS)
Steve Peacocke (Darryl "Brax" Braxton, Home And Away, Channel Seven)
Tom Wren (Dr Doug Graham, Winners & Losers, Channel Seven)
MOST POPULAR NEW FEMALE TALENT
Anna McGahan (Nellie Cameron, Underbelly: Razor, Nine Network)
Chelsie Preston Crayford (Tilly Devine, Underbelly: Razor, Nine Network)
Demi Harman (Sasha Bezmel, Home And Away, Channel Seven)
Melissa Bergland (Jenny Gross, Winners & Losers Channel Seven)
Tiffiny Hall (Trainer, The Biggest Loser Australia, Network Ten)
MOST POPULAR DRAMA SERIES
Home And Away (Channel Seven)
Offspring (Network Ten)
Packed To The Rafters (Channel Seven)
Underbelly: Razor (Nine Network)
Winners And Losers (Channel Seven)
MOST POPULAR LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM
Australia's Got Talent (Channel Seven)
Hamish & Andy's Gap Year (Nine Network)
Spicks And Specks (ABC1)
Sunrise (Channel Seven)
The Project (Network Ten)
MOST POPULAR LIFESTYLE PROGRAM
Better Homes And Gardens (Channel Seven)
Getaway (Nine Network)
iFISH (Network Ten)
Ready Steady Cook (Network Ten)
Selling Houses Australia Extreme (LifeStyle Channel, FOXTEL
MOST POPULAR SPORTS PROGRAM
2011 AFL Grand Final (Network Ten)
Before The Game (Network Ten)
The AFL Footy Show (Nine Network)
The NRL Footy Show (Nine Network)
Wide World Of Sports (Nine Network)
MOST POPULAR REALITY PROGRAM
Beauty And The Geek Australia (Channel Seven)
MasterChef Australia (Network Ten)
My Kitchen Rules (Channel Seven)
The Block (Nine Network)
The X Factor Australia (Channel Seven)
MOST POPULAR FACTUAL PROGRAM
Bondi Rescue (Network Ten)
Bondi Vet (Network Ten)
Border Security: Australia's Front Line (Channel Seven)
RPA (Nine Network)
World's Strictest Parents (Channel Seven)
MOST OUTSTANDING NOMINEES (peer voted by industry)
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE Most Outstanding Drama Series, Miniseries or Telemovie
Cloudstreet (Showcase, FOXTEL)
Offspring (Network Ten)
Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo (ABC1)
The Slap (ABC1)
Underbelly: Razor (Nine Network)
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE Most Outstanding Actor
Alex Dimitriades (The Slap, ABC1)
David Wenham (Killing Time, TV1, FOXTEL)
Don Hany (East West 101, SBS)
Geoff Morrell (Cloudstreet, Showcase, FOXTEL)
Rob Carlton (Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo, ABC1)
TV WEEK SILVER LOGIE Most Outstanding Actress
Asher Keddie (Paper Giants: The Birth Of Cleo, ABC1)
Diana Glenn (Killing Time, TV1, FOXTEL)
Essie Davis (The Slap, ABC1)
Kat Stewart (Offspring, Network Ten)
Melissa George (The Slap, ABC1)
GRAHAM KENNEDY AWARD FOR MOST OUTSTANDING NEW TALENT
Anna McGahan (Underbelly: Razor, Nine Network)
Chelsie Preston Crayford (Underbelly: Razor, Nine Network)
Hamish Macdonald (Senior Foreign Correspondent, Network Ten)
Hamish Michael (Crownies, ABC1)
Melissa Bergland (Winners & Losers, Channel Seven)
MOST OUTSTANDING NEWS COVERAGE
Lockyer Valley Flood (Brisbane News, Channel Seven)
Qantas Grounded (Sky News National, Sky News Australia, FOXTEL)
Skype Scandal (Ten News At Five, Network Ten)
The Queensland Flood (Nine News, Nine Network)
Unfinished Business (SBS World News Australia, SBS)
MOST OUTSTANDING PUBLIC AFFAIRS REPORT
A Bloody Business (Four Corners/Sarah Ferguson, ABC1)
After The Deluge: The Valley (Paul Lockyer, ABC1)
Rescue 500 (Sunday Night, Channel Seven)
Salma In The Square (Foreign Correspondent/Mark Corcoran, ABC1)
Tour Of Duty: Australia's Secret War (Network Ten)
MOST OUTSTANDING LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM
Australia's Got Talent (Channel Seven)
Gruen Planet (ABC1)
Spicks And Specks (ABC1)
Talkin Bout Your Generation (Network Ten)
The Project (Network Ten)
MOST OUTSTANDING SPORTS COVERAGE
2011 Australian Open Tennis (Channel Seven)
2011 Bathurst 1000 (Channel Seven)
2011 Melbourne Cup Carnival (Channel Seven)
State Of Origin III (Nine Network)
Tour de France 2011 (SBS)
MOST OUTSTANDING CHILDRENS PROGRAM
Camp Orange: Wrong Town, (Nickelodeon, FOXTEL)
Lockie Leonard (Nine Network)
My Place (ABC3)
Saturday Disney (Channel Seven)
Scope (Network Ten)
MOST OUTSTANDING FACTUAL PROGRAM
Go Back To Where You Came From (SBS)
Leaky Boat (ABC1)
Mrs Carey's Concert (ABC1)
Outback Fight Club (SBS)
Tony Robinson Explores Australia (The History Channel, (FOXTEL)
The TV Week Logie Awards ceremony will take place at Crown Melbourne on Sunday 15th April.
Good luck to all.
Websites
TV Week Logies
www.tvweek.ninemsn.com.au/logies
TV Week
Park Hyatt, Sydney
Crown Melbourne
Eva Rinaldi Photography Flickr
www.flickr.com/evarinaldiphotography
Eva Rinaldi Photography
The Lantern Group
Music News Australia
OUTSIDE - Champs Elysees - NIGHT
FADE IN
The overall plan of boulevard Champs Elysees. Far away, in the out of focus, the Arc de Triomphe is visible. Float lights of passing cars. CUT TO the taxi, which travels toward Roosevelt Square. The overhead light in the cab is on, and we see driver silhouette and dimly lit woman face at the backseat.
INT. - TAXI - NIGHT
CLOSE-UP
From the passenger view, we see the color tabloid at the back seat. On its cover - picture a laughing woman. Easy readable headline, "Debut of the Year." The camera turns on MARIE-HELENE. We recognize her as cover-girl.
MARIE-HELENE with a slight smile looking at the city through lights, floating in the reflection of the half-closed window. Wind waving her bushy hair. Before us is a beautiful young woman in evening makeup. This is her first part in a big movie, with the exception of wandering in the low-budget films and tv shows. She hopes that through this film, she would finally be able to sign a contract for a film from the big studios, as laurel wreaths wins (or simply nominations) at film festivals can not pay many bills.
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Nikon D4, Nikkor 28 f1.8G. Lighting: SB-800 into Lumiquest LTp soft box model right, mimicing overhead car light.
Lemo ist ein Toraja-Dorf im Distrikt (Kecamatan) Makale Utara im Bezirk (Kabupaten) Toraja Utara, Provinz Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesien, ca. elf Kilometer südlich von Rantepao und sieben Kilometer nördlich von Makale. Der Name Lemo bedeutet Zitrone wegen der Form der Hügel nahe dem Dorf.
Das Dorf mit vier Reisspeichern und einem Tongkonan ist wegen der nahen Felsgräber mit Galerien von Tau-Tau-Ahnenfiguren eine der Haupttouristenattraktionen in Toraja. Anders als im nahen Londa gibt es hier keine Gräber am Fuße des Felsen für die einfachen Leute. Lemo ist eine der zehn vom indonesischen Kulturministerium auf die "Tentative List" für Nominierungen der UNESCO gesetzten traditionellen Toraja-Siedlungen.
Lemo is a Toraja village in the district (Kecamatan) Makale Utara in the district (Kabupaten) Toraja Utara, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia, about eleven kilometers south of Rantepao and seven kilometers north of Makale. The name Lemo means lemon because of the shape of the hills near the village.
The village with four rice stores and one Tongkonan is one of the main tourist attractions in Toraja because of the nearby rock tombs with galleries of dew-dew ancestral figures. Unlike nearby Londa, there are no tombs at the foot of the cliff for ordinary people. Lemo is one of the ten traditional Toraja settlements set by the Indonesian Ministry of Culture on the "tentative list" for UNESCO nominations.
2018 SAFAS AWARDS - Final Voting
The SL Academy of Fashion Arts and Sciences [SAFAS]©®
A Second Life professional honorary organization with open membership. Organization and staff positions are extended by our Board of Governors to distinguished contributors to the arts and sciences of SL fashion. A yearly awards program recognizes those who have advanced the fashion world of SL through their contributions.
After receiving thousands of individual nominations that span hundreds of categories, we have created this final form for you to vote for your favorites in the respective categories. The form below is provided for you to vote for who you feel has contributed to the world of SL and who should be recognized.
The final results of our winners will be announced LIVE at the 2018 SAFAS Awards in Second Life on Saturday, June 30, 2018.
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Please help us by voting for your favorites in each category. Voting from the TOP nominations will end on June 29, 2018 and the final results of our winners will be announced LIVE at the 2018 SAFAS Awards in Second Life on Saturday, June 30, 2018.
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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.
A couple more circa 1870 houses on 3rd Street in Newburgh, New York. The unpainted brick building was described as in good condition in 1980.
When Jane Foster first debuted as Thor, I was one of THOSE comic book fans.
I complained about how Marvel was disrespecting the essence of Thor's character. I rambled about how this was the work of SJWs and that gender politics should have no place in comic books. I used it as additional justification that DC was better than Marvel (even though this is still an objective fact hehe). More than anything, I thought that those who were looking for representation could do so in dozens of other characters - just not my favorite legacy one.
Fast forward about 4.5 years later, and now my stance on representation has changed into something a lot more nuanced and unsure. Not only did I just grow up, but I've also had a lot of conversations and experiences that have made me reconsider why exactly representation is important, if at all.
One of my mom's college friends is a very outspoken advocate for the greater Asian-American immigrant community. When Crazy Rich Asians came out, he questioned whether the Asian-American representation that Hollywood had so greatly lacked before had really come to fruition. The vast majority of the Asian community has no opulent wealth, no generational political power, and certainly does not celebrate weddings by shooting rocket launchers off a private cruise ship. In and outside the United States, people of Asian descent work long and hard to make ends meet and regularly face institutionalized discrimination. Did Crazy Rich Asians, a film that depicts such an alien distortion of the real life ethnic experience, truly give a voice to the experience of Asians around the world?
I think similarly about Black Panther, which is arguably antithetical to the actual diaspora experience of Africans around the world. Yes, Killmonger's aspirations do address the whole concept of why ethnic retribution would be wrong, but the whole concept of Wakanda is so ludicrous that I still think that the film misses the mark with representation. It is not grounded in any useful reality. It's currently up for seven Academy Award nominations, very few of which I believe that the film deserves on merit alone.
In regard to Black Panther, Jamil Smith for Time Magazine even wrote that the film would "prove to Hollywood that African-American narratives have the power to generate profits from all audiences."
Why are we, as a society, trying to generate profits from ethnic narratives in the first place? Do the Hollywood executives that greenlit the film really care about issues that exist in the African and African-American communities?
If the whole point of representation is to serve as a hallmark of social change, why has there been so little actual social change?
And if the counterargument is that "it's just a comic book/movie/book/media product, stop taking it so seriously," then why make a stink about representation in the first place?
I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below! :)
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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
NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM
Received: September 12, 1977
Entered: January 31, 1978.
The general plan for this building was described at the organizing conference of the Building Committee in June 1899, as follows:
The Chapel is designed to seat one hundred and thirty people and is 30 x 50 feet Inside, and of a composite gothic style of architecture. The foundation, walls and buttress are of stone masonry, above which walls are of open timber frame work to a height of 9 feet, lulled with stone, allowing the timbers to show on the wall. Above the roof, the walls will be finished with stained shingles. A small belfry will be mounted on the roof.
Windows and door of stained glass will add attractiveness to the interior which will be finished in oiled spruce with open roof trusses also oiled. The interior finish of the roof will also be ceiling spruce in panels, oiled in the same manner.
This is how it was envisioned, that is how it was built, and that is what it looks like to this day. There are some additional details, not mentioned above, such as the entry porch, but these are mere details, and were integrated into a design fully envisioned by the architect from the Instructions communicated to him in person by Peter Trimble Rowe, The Bishop of Alaska.
While the structure is in the Gothic style, it has little of Gothic structural elements, but embodies effectively the centre pointed design throughout its major interior and exterior elements in the major design finish and fenestration of the lights in the entrance (south) and altar (north) walls, in the parallel rows of stained glass small windows along the side (east and west) walls of the chapel.
A soft north light illuminates the altar through a large nine panel centre pointed window, while the view from the front steps is of the harbor and the sea, literally at the doorstep of this church, set here for the beauty of the site, which this building has enhanced since 1899.
This country church is deceptively simple in appearance. Its design at first glance appears similar to many other small country churches, and to a few others in Alaska. Upon further examination, it appears that the design has been executed with a unity of purpose, in complement to the site, that results in a building whose form is expressive of its function in every dimension.
At a later date an adjoining building lot, adjoining the church lot on the north, was acquired, and the See House was built to a design complementing the church building. The remains of the first Episcopal Bishop of Alaska, Peter Trimble Row, and those of his first wife and one of their sons, are buried on the front lawn of the Church, marked by unobtrusive ground level grave stones.
This country church is significant for its architectural design. It embodies design elements, and a unity of conception related to its distinctive site location, that give it high artistic value and represent the work of master builders of that time and place.
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
Tradition relates that Episcopal lay services were held in Sitka, Alaska, between 1867 and 1885, first by an anonymous Army colonel and subsequently by a Mr. Austin. After 1885 there were no Episcopal services in Sitka until the arrival of the First Episcopal Bishop of Alaska, Peter Trimble Rowe, in 1896.
Bishop Rowe arrived in Sitka in April 1896, following his November 30, 1895, consecration in the Cathedral of St. John the Devine, New York City. The newly Installed Bishop immediately obtained quarters for his family, and departed for the Yukon River, via the Chilkoot Trail, to observe first-hand the nature of the responsibility which he had accepted. Upon returning to Sitka In November, Bishop Rowe conducted services on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 1896 — a year following, and a world distant, from the scene of his consecration. From then onward Bishop Rowe conducted services regularly when he was in Sitka. He Immediately saw the need for a church for his new Bishopric one that would be somewhat more imposing than the cabin-chapels he then had available, but not so expensive as to be unreachable.
An affluent couple from Utica, New York, who visited Sitka the summer of 1897, contacted Bishop Rowe upon returning to their home, and offered $2,000 toward the building of a church in Sitka. It was remarked, in later years, that the Bishop was "... such a darned human, lovable cuss, somehow, that wherever he goes he starts a stampede for heaven." This offer was the first move in what became a stampede to build this church.
A committee formed to locate and purchase a suitable site. The committee included the U.S. Attorney for Alaska, Burton E. Bennett, William Millmore, and Edward de Groff. A committee of women raised money for the purchase. These women included Mrs. Bennett and Mrs. DeGroff. A lot [fronting on] the crescent of the harbor was chosen and purchased for $800 (some accounts say $750) from Peter Panamarkoff.
The road along the crescent then called Beach Road, is now called Lincoln Street. While the largest individual contributors included Bennet, Millmore, deGroff, James Shoup, and W. P. Mills, the full list of donors was a long one, including such names as C. L. Andrews, later notable for his writings on Alaskan and Sitka history, and C. C. Georgeson, an official of the Department of Agriculture and pioneer experimenter in Arctic farming techniques.
Bishop Rowe prepared specifications of his conception of what the church should look like and how it should be designed, and what the Rectory (the "See House") should look like and contain. A meeting of a committee of the town's leading citizens convened early in September 1898 at the Bishop's house to discuss these ideas and their execution. Present were Messrs. deGroff, Bennett, and W. L. Distin; John W. Dudley, and G.D. Clayett. Following discussion, a motion carried unanimously that the Bishop's conceptions for the church and house be conveyed by the Bishop to an architect to translate into working drawings and specifications,
during the Bishop's forthcoming trip to the East Coast. The meeting also elected a building committee for the project, with deGroff as Chairman, Dudley as Secretary, and C. S. Johnson, Col. W. L. Distin, and W. P. McBride, completing the membership.
Soon after the meeting in Sitka, Bishop Rowe traveled to the East Coast on the business of his See. A Philadelphia philanthropist, George C. Thomas, engaged Philadelphia architect, H. L. Duhring, Jr., to prepare plans and specifications for the church and the See House. George C. Thomas, many times a benefactor of missionary work in Alaska, was Treasurer of the Board of Missions of the Episcopal Church. In his professional life he was Manager of the banking firm of Drexel, Morgan and Company, a major affiliate in Philadelphia of J.P. Morgan and Company. Mr. Thomas' interest in Alaska might have been related also to the investment activities in Seattle and in southeast Alaska of J.P. Morgan's little known, but most important, son-in-law, William Hamilton.
The cornerstone laying was scheduled for Thursday, June 29 -- St. Peter's Day, and the church would be called "St. Peter's-By-The-Sea". John W. Dudley, Recorder in Sitka for the General Land Office (now the Bureau of Land Management) had undertaken to supervise construction according to the architect's plans. Only the church was to be built at that time, the See House deferred to a later date.
Mr. Dudley had completed the foundation work by June 29, and had erected a temporary shelter over the foundation, large enough to accommodate the town's clergy and the congregation. This was fortunate, because rain fell, in typical Sitka fashion, all day, without intermission, and continued through the 4:00 p.m. hour set for the cornerstone ceremony. Consequently, in typical Sitka fashion, the turnout for the impressive and solemn service was relatively large and enthusiastic:
Forming with Bishop Rowe for the ceremony were Father Anthony and Father Kaiakokonok of the Russian Orthodox Church, and Rev. M. D. McClelland of the Presbyterian Church. Following the Order of Service — Psalm, Versicles, Special Prayers, Scripture Lesson, and Psalm 136 — Bishop Rowe introduced Lt. George T. Emmons, USN, who delivered a paper on the History of Sitka — written for deposit in the cornerstone.
Bishop Rowe then read a list of the materials to be deposited in the cornerstone of the church:
>The Alaskan issue of June 24, 1899.
>The Church Standard, June 3, 1899, published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
>A list of Bishops of the American and Anglican branches of the Catholic Church from the Apostles to the present day.
>The historical sketch of Sitka, prepared and read that day by Lt. George T. Emmons, USN.
>A list of the clergy of Alaska.
>Names of the church building committee, contractor, etc.
>Coins of the National currency, a Queen's Jubilee crown, a Columbian half-crown, a cent of 1803, a half-cent of 1804 and other coins presented by Mr. F. Woodcock, a Russian coin presented by Father Anthony; an English penny, half-penny, and a Canadian five cent piece, presented by Miss M. G. Hindshaw.
>A shell from the Sea of Galilee.
>Two small size American flags.
Rev. W. M. Partridge next delivered a short address relative to cornerstones and the historical significance of laying cornerstones. The choir and congregation sang, "All Hail the Power of Jesus Name," and the service closed, with the Benediction, pronounced by the Bishop.
In September 1899, as the church construction near completion, an offer was accepted from a Mr. and Mrs. Bauer to furnish three stained glass windows, and from Miss Mary Rhinelander, of New York City, to provide a communion service. Miss Rhinelander, like Mr. Thomas, shared family and business interests with J. P. Morgan and Company, and was a benefactor of many good causes.
As construction progressed. Bishop Rowe, in his characteristic way, did much of the stone work himself, and the front wall of the church he built entirely with his own hands. The Bishop's biographer, Thomas Jenkins, wrote that one day while Bishop Rowe worked at the wall a man came sauntering along. "Well, Bishop," he remarked, "you are working to beat the devil." Replied the Bishop, "Yes, he's the very one I'm trying to beat I"
The new church witnessed its initial service on November 26, 1899, a Thanksgiving Service in which Bishop Rowe shared the rostrum with Father Anthony of the Greek Cathedral, and at least 10 different denominations of Christians were in attendance.
A formal service of consecration for the building was held on Easter Sunday, April 15, 1900. As the home church of the Bishop, this was the most important Episcopal Church in Alaska. This picturesque building lost its importance with the decline of Sitka, when the capital was removed and all the courts and officials of the District were removed to Juneau, where the District would become a Territory. Due to other factors than merely the decline of Sitka with the removal of the capital to Juneau, Bishop Rowe moved his See to Seattle, and continued his yearly crusades from there, both to the farthest reaches of Alaska, and to the far reaches of the Eastern United States, from whence had to come his moral and legal support and the wherewithal for him to serve his flock throughout Alaska.
This lovely little church, conceived in the fertile brain of one of the most indescribably [ ] of men who ever served humanity in Alaska, Peter Trimble Rowe, continues its serene way, serving the Episcopal congregation now as in 1899, while continuing to draw attention to itself as an architectural jewel in the diadem of Sitka's Crescent Harbor shore.
One visitor, Ella Higginson, poetized her impressions of St. Peter's-By-The-Sea, and sent it to Bishop Rowe. It reads, in part;
The little Church at Sitka—
It is so dim and still!
The doors stand open to the sea.
The wind goes through at will
And bears the scent of brine and blue
To the far distant hill.
French postcard, no. C 186.
American actress Julia Roberts (1967) won more than 30 other acting awards including an Academy Award for her leading role in Erin Brockovich (2000) plus Oscar nominations for Steel Magnolias (1989), Pretty Woman (1990) and August: Osage County (2013). Her films have grossed more than $3.9 billion globally, making her one of the most bankable film stars of all time.
Julia Fiona Roberts was born in Smyrna, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, in 1967. Julia is the youngest of three children of Walter Grady Roberts and Betty Lou Bredemus, one-time actors and playwrights. Her parents were close friends with Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King. Walter and Betty Lou Roberts ran the Actors and Writers Workshop, then the only integrated drama school in Atlanta, which the Kings' eldest daughter Yolanda King attended. The Kings paid the hospital bill for Julia's birth. When Roberts was four years old., her parents divorced. Her brother Eric stayed with his father and Julia and her sister Lisa continued to live with their mother in Atlanta. When Roberts was nine, her father died of cancer. As a child, due to her love of animals, Julia originally wanted to be a veterinarian, but later studied journalism. Her parents were in the drama club, so acting was soon in the cards. Her brother Eric was originally seen as the great acting promise of the family but ended up producing more quantity than quality in the eyes of critics. Sister Lisa is not actually a professional actress but has since appeared in twenty-four films in small supporting roles, mostly in titles by her younger sister. While at school, Roberts worked as a waitress in a pizzeria and spent some time behind the cash register in a supermarket. When Eric achieved some success in Hollywood, Julia decided to try acting. She started taking acting classes and went to live with her sister in New York where she signed with the Click Modeling Agency. She took speech lessons to get rid of her southern accent. She made her film debut with a bit role in Blood Red (Peter Masterson, 1989), starring her brother Eric Roberts, which was completed in 1986 but wouldn't be released until 1989. She appeared in several television features and series, including Miami Vice (1988). Her first break came in 1988 when she appeared in two youth-oriented films Mystic Pizza (Donald Petrie, 1988) and Satisfaction (Joan Freeman, 1988). It helped her earn the credentials she needed to land the part of Shelby, an ill-fated would-be mother in the comedy-drama Steel Magnolias (Herbert Ross, 1989). The tearjerker found her acting alongside Sally Field and Shirley MacLaine which culminated in an Oscar nomination for Roberts. Then followed the supernatural thriller Flatliners (Joel Schumacher, 1990) with her flame Kiefer Sutherland.
Julia Robert's biggest success was in the romantic comedy Pretty Woman (Garry Marshall, 1990) with Richard Gere. Originally intended to be a dark cautionary tale about class and prostitution in Los Angeles, the film was re-conceived as a romantic comedy with a large budget. Critic Roger Ebert: "Roberts does an interesting thing; she gives her character an irrepressibly bouncy sense of humor and then lets her spend the movie trying to repress it. Actresses who can do that and look great can have whatever they want in Hollywood." Julia got an Oscar nomination and also won the People's Choice award for Favorite Actress. It was widely successful at the box office and was the third-highest-grossing film of 1990. Julia's part as a good-hearted Hollywood prostitute who falls in love with a millionaire client was her definitive breakthrough role. Her role opposite Denzel Washington in the John Grisham adaptation The Pelican Brief (Alan J. Pakula, 1993), reaffirmed her status as a dramatic actress. Even though Julia would spend the next few years either starring in serious films or playing fantasy roles like Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's Hook (1991), filmgoers would always love Julia best in romantic comedies such as Notting Hill (Richard Curtis, 1999) with Hugh Grant, and Runaway Bride (Garry Marshall, 1999) with Richard Gere. In My Best Friend's Wedding (P.J. Hogan, 1997), she starred opposite Dermot Mulroney, Cameron Diaz and Rupert Everett, as a food critic who realizes she's in love with her best friend and tries to win him back after he decides to marry someone else. The cult comedy gave the genre some fresh life that had been lacking in Hollywood for some time. Roger Ebert: "One of the pleasures of Ronald Bass' screenplay is the way it subverts the usual comic formulas that would fuel a plot like this. It makes the Julia Roberts character sympathetic at first, but eventually her behavior shades into cruel meddling. Stories like this are tricky for the actors. They have to be light enough for the comedy, and then subtle in revealing the deeper tones. Roberts, Diaz and Mulroney are in good synch, and Roberts does a skillful job of negotiating the plot's twists: We have to care for her even after we stop sharing her goals. "
Julia Roberts' had her biggest success when she delivered an Oscar-winning performance playing the title role in Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000). The film, based on the true story of Erin Brockovich, a single mother who, against all odds, won a heated battle against corporate environmental offenders, earned Roberts a staggering 20-million-dollar salary. The next year, Roberts starred in the crime caper Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001), in which she acted with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and George Clooney. A success with critics and at the box office alike, Ocean's Eleven became the fifth highest-grossing film of the year with a total of $450 million worldwide. In 2004, Roberts signed on for the sequel, the aptly titled Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, 2004). In 2006, she made her Broadway debut alongside Paul Rudd and Bradley Cooper in the revival of Richard Greenberg's play 'Three Days of Rain', but the production was not a success. Roberts teamed with Tom Hanks for Charlie Wilson's War (Mike Nichols, 2007), and then again for Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks, 2011). In between, she gave a critically acclaimed performance in Eat, Pray, Love (Ryan Murphy, 2010), in which she portrayed a divorcee on a journey of self-discovery. In 2012, she played Snow White's evil stepmother in Mirror, Mirror (Tarsem Singh, 2012). Roberts starred alongside Meryl Streep and Ewan McGregor in the black comedy drama August: Osage County (John Wells, 2013) about a dysfunctional family that reunites in the familial house when their patriarch suddenly disappears. Her performance earned her her fourth Academy Award nomination. Julia Roberts was in a relationship with actor Kiefer Sutherland for a while. In 1991, their relationship ended five days before they got married. She married country singer Lyle Lovett in 1993 but divorced him in 1995. She met her second husband, cameraman Danny Moder while shooting the film the road gangster comedy The Mexican (Gore Verbinski, 2000) with Brad Pitt. Roberts and Moder married in 2002 in Taos, New Mexico. Together they had twins in 2004, a daughter, Hazel Patricia, and a son, Phinnaeus 'Finn' Walter. In 2007, Roberts gave birth to their third child, Henry Daniel. All the children were given their father's surname. Julia Roberts also became involved with UNICEF charities and has made visits to many different countries, including Haiti and India, in order to promote goodwill. On-screen, she appeared in Jodie Foster's thriller Money Monster (2016), the coming-of-age drama Wonder (Steven Chbosky, 2017), and the romantic comedy Ticket to Paradise (Ol Parker, 2022) with George Clooney. She received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for the television adaptation of Larry Kramer's AIDS-era play The Normal Heart (Larry Murphy, 2014), had her first regular television role in the first season of the psychological thriller series Homecoming (2018), and portrayed Martha Mitchell opposite Sean in the political thriller series Gaslit (2022) about the Watergate Scandal.
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Don't know why, but among all the flowers I always find taking photos of the orchids a challenge, and I have never done it well. This is probably one of the better ones that I'm happy with.
Taken at the 2015 Orchids Show 知蘭而行
Ben Carson is an American author, politician and retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon. In 2015 he was running for the Republican nomination in the 2016 presidential election. [Source: Wikipedia]
American postcard, no. MPC 903-50. Photo: Robert Redford in The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973).
With his all-American good looks, Robert Redford (1936) was one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the 1970s. In classics as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973) and All the President's Men (1976), he was the intelligent, reliable, sometimes sardonic good guy. He received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002. In 2010, the actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in France.
Charles Robert Redford Jr. was born in Santa Monica, California in 1936. His parents were Martha W. (Hart) and Charles Robert Redford, Sr., a milkman-turned-accountant. Redford's family moved to Van Nuys, California, while his father worked in El Segundo. He attended Van Nuys High School and was interested in art and sports. After high school, he attended the University of Colorado for a year and a half. He travelled in Europe but decided on a career as a theatrical designer in New York. Enrolling at the American Academy of Dramatic Art he turned to acting. In 1959, Redford's acting career began on stage, making his Broadway debut with a small role in Tall Story. It was followed by parts in The Highest Tree (1959) and Sunday in New York (1961). On TV, he appeared as a guest star on numerous programs, including Maverick (1960), Perry Mason (1960), The Twilight Zone (1962), and The Untouchables (1963). Redford earned an Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Voice of Charlie Pont (1962). Redford made his screen debut in War Hunt (Denis Sanders, 1962), set during the last days of the Korean War. This film also marked the acting debut of director Sydney Pollack, with whom Redford would collaborate on seven films. His biggest Broadway success was as the stuffy newlywed husband of Elizabeth Ashley in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park (1963). After this smash hit, he was cast in larger film roles. In the war comedy Situation Hopeless ... But Not Serious (Gottfried Reinhardt, 1965) with Alec Guinness, he played a soldier who has to spend years of his life hiding behind enemy lines. In Inside Daisy Clover (Robert Mulligan, 1965), he played a bisexual movie star who marries starlet Natalie Wood. It won him a Golden Globe for the best new star. A success was This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack, 1966), again with Nathalie Wood. The same year saw he co-starred with Jane Fonda in The Chase (Arthur Penn, 1966), also with Marlon Brando. Fonda and Redford were paired again in the film version of Barefoot in the Park (Gene Saks, 1967) and were again co-stars much later in The Electric Horseman (Sydney Pollack, 1979).
After this initial success, Robert Redford became concerned about his stereotype image of the blond 'All American'. At the age of 32, he found the property he was looking for in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969), scripted by William Goldman. For the first time, he was teamed with Paul Newman and it was a huge success. The film made him a major bankable star. Other critical and box office hits were Jeremiah Johnson (Sydney Pollack, 1972), the hugely popular period drama The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack, 1973) with Barbra Streisand, and the blockbuster crime caper The Sting (George Roy Hill, 1973), the biggest hit of his career, for which he was also nominated for an Oscar. Between 1974 and 1976, exhibitors voted Redford as Hollywood's top box-office name with such hits as The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton, 1974) and Three Days of the Condor (Sydney Pollack, 1975) with Faye Dunaway. The popular and acclaimed All the President's Men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976), directed by and scripted once again by Goldman, was a landmark film for Redford. Not only was he the executive producer and co-star, but the film's serious subject matter—the Watergate scandal—and its attempt to create a realistic portrayal of journalism, also reflected the actor's offscreen concerns for political causes. He also appeared in the war film A Bridge Too Far (Richard Attenborough, 1977) before starring in the prison drama Brubaker (Stuart Rosenberg, 1980), playing a prison warden attempting to reform the system, and the baseball drama The Natural (Barry Levinson, 1984). With his enormous salaries, he acquired Utah property, which he transformed into a ranch and the Sundance ski resort. In 1980, he established the Sundance Institute for aspiring filmmakers. Its annual film festival has now become one of the world's most influential.
Robert Redford continued his involvement in mainstream Hollywood movies, though with a newfound focus on directing. The first film he directed, Ordinary People (1980), which followed the disintegration of an upper-class American family after the death of a son, was one of the most critically and publicly acclaimed films of the decade, winning a number of Oscars, including the Academy Award for Best Director for Redford himself, and Best Picture. His follow-up directorial project, The Milagro Beanfield War (1987), failed to generate the same level of attention. Out of Africa (Sydney Pollack, 1985), with Redford and Meryl Streep, became an enormous critical and box office success and won seven Oscars including Best Picture. It was Redford's biggest success of the decade and Redford and Pollack's most successful film together. Redford continued as a major star throughout the 1990s and 2000s. His third film as a director, A River Runs Through It (1992) with the young Brad Pitt was a mainstream success. Then, he starred in Indecent Proposal (Adrian Lyne, 1993) as a millionaire businessman who tests a couple's (Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson) morals. It became one of the year's biggest hits. His film Quiz Show (Robert Redford, 1994), starring Ralph Fiennes and Rob Morrow, earned him yet another Best Director nomination. He co-starred with Michelle Pfeiffer in the newsroom romance Up Close & Personal (Jon Avnet, 1996), and with Kristin Scott Thomas in The Horse Whisperer (1998), which he also directed. Redford also continued work in films with political contexts, such as Havana (Sydney Pollack, 1990), playing Jack Weil, a professional gambler in 1959 Cuba during the Revolution, as well as the caper Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson, 1992), with River Phoenix. He reteamed with Brad Pitt for Spy Game (Tony Scott, 2001). Redford stepped back into producing with The Motorcycle Diaries (Walter Salles, 2004), a coming-of-age road film about a young medical student, Ernesto 'Che' Guevera, and his friend Alberto Granado. He reteamed with Meryl Streep 22 years after they starred in Out of Africa, for his personal project Lions for Lambs (Robert Redford, 2007), which also starred Tom Cruise. The film disappointed at the box office. Recently, he starred in All Is Lost (J.C. Chandor, 2013) about a man lost at sea. He received very high acclaim for his performance in the film, in which he is its only cast member and has almost no dialogue. Next, he appeared in the Marvel Studios superhero film Captain America: The Winter Soldier playing Alexander Pierce (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, 2014). More recently, he appeared in such films as A Walk in the Woods (Ken Kwapis, 2015) with Nick Nolte and Emma Thompson, Truth (James Vanderbilt, 2015) with Cate Blanchett, The Discovery (Charlie McDowell, 2017) with Mary Steenburgen, and Avengers: Endgame (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo, 2019) with Robert Downey Jr. Between 1958 and 1985, Robert Redford was married to Lola Van Wagenen. The couple had four children: Scott Anthony (1959 - he died of sudden infant death syndrome, aged 2½ months), painter Shauna Jean Redford (1960), writer and producer David 'Jamie' James (1962), and director, and producer Amy Hart Redford (1970). Redford has seven grandchildren. In 2009, Redford married his long-time partner, German painter Sibylle Szaggars. In 2011, Alfred A. Knopf published 'Robert Redford: The Biography' by Michael Feeney Callan, written over fifteen years with Redford's input, and drawn from his personal papers and diaries.
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According to the hotel's website this building was built in 1744, but the nomination form for the Princess Anne Historic District says "...the present frame 2 1/2-story structure with double chimneys at one gable dates from the second quarter of the nineteenth century, it may engulf an earlier building."
Italian postcard by W. Di Giovanni. Photo: Augusto Di Giovanni. Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953).
American actor Gregory Peck (1916-2003) was one of the most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s. Peck received five nominations for Academy Award for Best Actor and won once – for his performance as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). He almost always played courageous, nobly heroic good guys who saw injustice and fought it. Among his best known films are Spellbound (1945), The Yearling (1946), Gentleman's Agreement (1947), Roman Holiday (1953), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and Cape Fear (1962).
Eldred Gregory Peck was born in 1916 in La Jolla, California (now in San Diego). His parents were Bernice Mary (Ayres) and Gregory Pearl Peck, a chemist, and druggist in San Diego. His parents divorced when he was five years old. An only child, he was sent to live with his grandmother. He never felt he had a stable childhood. His fondest memories are of his grandmother taking him to the cinema every week and of his dog, which followed him everywhere. Peck's father encouraged him to take up medicine. He studied pre-med at UC-Berkeley and, while there, got bitten by the acting bug and decided to change the focus of his studies. He enrolled in the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York and debuted on Broadway after graduation. His debut was in Emlyn Williams' play 'The Morning Star' (1942). By 1943, he was in Hollywood, where he debuted in the RKO film Days of Glory (Jacques Tourneur, 1944). Stardom came with his next film, The Keys of the Kingdom (John M. Stahl, 1944), for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Tony Fontana at IMDb: "Peck's screen presence displayed the qualities for which he became well known. He was tall, rugged and heroic, with a basic decency that transcended his roles." He appeared opposite Ingrid Bergman in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) as an amnesia victim accused of murder. In The Yearling (Clarence Brown, 1946), he was again nominated for an Oscar and won the Golden Globe. He was especially effective in Westerns and appeared in such varied fare as David O. Selznick's critically blasted Duel in the Sun (King Vidor, 1946), the somewhat better received Yellow Sky (William A. Wellman, 1948), and the acclaimed The Gunfighter (Henry King, 1950). He was nominated again for the Academy Award for his roles in Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan, 1947), which dealt with anti-Semitism, and Twelve O'Clock High (Henry King, 1949), a story of high-level stress in an Air Force bomber unit in World War II. In 1947, Peck, along with Dorothy McGuire, David O'Selznick, and Mel Ferrer, founded the La Jolla Playhouse, located in his hometown, and produced many of the classics there. Due to film commitments, he could not return to Broadway but whet his appetite for live theatre on occasion at the Playhouse, keeping it firmly established with a strong, reputable name over the years.
With a string of hits to his credit, Gregory Peck made the decision to only work in films that interested him. He continued to appear as the heroic, larger-than-life figures in such films as Captain Horatio Hornblower (Raoul Walsh, 1951) with Virginia Mayo, and Moby Dick (John Huston, 1956) with Richard Basehart. He worked with Audrey Hepburn in her debut film, Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953). While filming The Bravados (Henry King, 1958), he decided to become a cowboy in real life, so he purchased a vast working ranch near Santa Barbara, California - already stocked with 600 head of prize cattle. In the early 1960s, he gave a powerful performance as Captain Keith Mallory in The Guns of Navarone (J. Lee Thompson, 1961) opposite David Niven and Anthony Quinn. The film was one of the biggest box-office hits of that year. Peck finally won the Oscar, after four nominations, for his performance as lawyer Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962). He also appeared in two darker films than he usually made, Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962) opposite Robert Mitchum, and Captain Newman, M.D. (David Miller, 1963) with Tony Curtis, which dealt with the way people live. The financial failure of Cape Fear (1962) ended his company, Melville Productions. After making Arabesque (Stanley Donen, 1966) with Sophia Loren, Peck withdrew from acting for three years in order to concentrate on various humanitarian causes, including the American Cancer Society. In the early 1970s, he produced two films, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Gordon Davidson, 1972) and The Dove (Charles Jarrott, 1974), when his film career stalled. He made a comeback playing, somewhat woodenly, Ambassador Robert Thorn in the horror film The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976) with Lee Remick. After that, he returned to the bigger-than-life roles he was best known for, such as MacArthur (Joseph Sargent, 1977) and the infamous Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele in the huge hit The Boys from Brazil (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1978) with Laurence Olivier and James Mason. In the 1980s, he moved into television with the miniseries The Blue and the Gray (Andrew V. McLaglen, 1982) in which he played Abraham Lincoln, and The Scarlet and the Black (Jerry London, 1983) with Christopher Plummer and John Gielgud. In 1991, he appeared in the remake of his 1962 film, playing a different role, in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991). He was also cast as the progressive-thinking owner of a wire and cable business in Other People's Money (Norman Jewison, 1991), starring Danny DeVito. In 1967, Peck received the Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He was also been awarded the US Presidential Medal of Freedom. Always politically progressive, he was active in such causes as anti-war protests, workers' rights, and civil rights. In 2003, Peck's portrayal of Atticus Finch was named the greatest film hero of the past 100 years by the American Film Institute, only two weeks before his death. Atticus beat out Indiana Jones, who was placed second, and James Bond who came third. Gregory Peck died in 2003 in Los Angeles, California. He was 87. Peck was married twice. From 1942 till 1955, he was married to Greta Kukkonen. They had three children: Jonathan Peck (1944-1975), Stephen Peck (1946), and Carey Paul Peck (1949). His second wife was Veronique Passani, whom he met at the set of Roman Holliday. They married in 1955 and had two children: Tony Peck (1956) and Cecilia Peck (1958). The couple remained together till his death.
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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.
Nomination for Drisyam 2008 exhibition, Ernakulam Town Hall (26th - 30th December) Taken on Alleppey beach.
Spanish postcard by Oscarcolor S.L., no. 23. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.
English actress Janet Munro (1934-1972) won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) and received a BAFTA Film Award nomination for her performance in Life for Ruth (1962). Munro starred in three Disney films: Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959), Third Man on the Mountain (1959) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960). Other film credits were roles in The Trollenberg Terror (1958) and The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961).
Janet Munroe was born Janet Neilson Horsburgh in Blackpool, Lancashire, in 1934. She was the daughter of Scottish comedian Alex Munro (real name Alexander Neilson Horsburgh) and his wife, Phyllis Robertshaw. She used her father's stage name professionally. Munro grew up on the road with her father, often appearing with him on stage. Her mother died when Janet was seven and she was brought up by her father at first. She moved to the town of Embsay at age ten to live with her aunt and uncle for a time. When her father remarried she was brought up by him and her stepmother. After leaving school she worked in a shoe shop but her goal was to become an actress. Munro's father wanted her to join him on her act but she desired to become a legitimate actress. She got a job at a repertory company as a student messenger. She had a small part in the Gordon Harker comedy Small Hotel (David MacDonald, 1957) and started appearing regularly on British TV shows such as ITV Television Playhouse and Armchair Theatre. Munro could be seen in ingenue parts in the horror film The Trollenberg Terror (Quentin Lawrence, 1958) starring Forrest Tucker, and the melodrama The Young and the Guilty (Peter Cotes, 1958) with Phyllis Calvert. She appeared on stage in 'Daughters of Desire' and was chosen "Miss English Television of 1958".
Janet Munro's big break came in 1958 when she was cast as the female lead in Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Robert Stevenson, 1959) with Albert Sharpe and Sean Connery. Although the film was shot in Hollywood it was cast out of London. Disney saw her in the ITV Television Playhouse episode 'Pick Up Girl' and she was screen-tested over a two-day period. Disney liked her so much he signed her to a five-year contract. Disney immediately used her again as the female lead in Third Man on the Mountain (Ken Annakin, 1959) opposite Michael Rennie and James MacArthur. Contemporary reports compared her with June Allyson. Munro made her US television debut when she played the romantic lead in a TV adaptation of Berkeley Square (George Schaefer, 1959) opposite John Kerr and Edna Best. Munro returned to England to play Tommy Steele's love interest in Tommy the Toreador (John Paddy Carstairs, 1959), then made a third film for Disney, Swiss Family Robinson (John McKimson, Ken Annakin, 1960), again romancing MacArthur. It was shot in the West Indies over five months. Munro appeared with Annette Funicello and Tommy Kirk in The Horsemasters (William Fairchild, 1961) for Disney, shot in England for American television, and released theatrically in some markets. Munro returned to US television with Time Remembered (George Schaefer, 1961) starring Christopher Plummer. That year, Munro was also the female lead in the Science Fiction film The Day the Earth Caught Fire (Val Guest, 1961). It is one of her best-remembered parts. The following year, she had the female lead role in Life for Ruth (Basil Dearden, 1962), which earned her a BAFTA nomination for Best Female Actor. On TV, she appeared in Afternoon of a Nymph () with Ian Hendry whom she was to marry. She was top-billed in a film for the first time with the drama Bitter Harvest (Peter Graham Scott, 1963), but it was not a success. Munro was the female lead in the thriller Hide and Seek (Cy Endfield, 1964) with Ian Carmichael and A Jolly Bad Fellow (Don Chaffey, 1964) with Leo McKern, one of her alumni from The Day the Earth Caught Fire. She had a cameo in Daylight Robbery (Michael Truman, 1964).
Janet Munro did not act for a few years while she concentrated on raising a family but she returned to acting after her second marriage to Ian Hendry ended in 1968. She appeared in episodes of Vendetta, and Thirty-Minute Theatre and had a supporting part in the spy film Sebastian (David Greene, 1968), starring Dirk Bogarde. Munro travelled to New York to star in a TV adaptation of The Admirable Crichton (George Schaefer, 1968), featuring Bill Travers. She also had a cameo in the family film Cry Wolf (John Davis, 1969). She had the lead in the series, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Peter Sasdy, 1969) with Corin Redgrave. The Guardian called her "a revelation. She is no longer the B picture girl next door. She is a woman and her acting has power and experience of life." Her last roles were in Play for Today and in several episodes of the TV series Adam Smith (1972). In July 1971 she appeared on stage in 'Look – No Hands'. Janet Munro was married to Tony Wright from 1956 until 1959. She married the actor Ian Hendry in 1963, and they had two children, Sally and Corrie. They lived in a house on Pharaoh's Island. Val Guest, who directed Munro in The Day the Earth Caught Fire later said "Janet's life was a disaster... [she] didn't become an alcoholic until she met Ian. She tried too hard to keep up with him." In March 1966 she had a miscarriage. Munro and Hendry were divorced in December 1971. Hendry offered no contest to the charge that the marriage had broken down due to Hendry's "unreasonable behaviour". In 1972, Janet Munro died aged 38 on her way to the hospital after collapsing at her home in Tufnell Park. Her death was ruled due to a heart attack caused by chronic ischaemic heart disease. She was cremated and interred at the Golders Green Crematorium.
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Belgian postcard.
American actor Sal Mineo (1939-1976) was a teen idol during the late 1950s. He shot to fame as Plato in the classic Rebel Without a Cause (1955) featuring James Dean. Diminutive and sad-eyed, his performance struck a chord with audiences as well as critics, earning him an Oscar nomination. He co-starred again with Dean in Giant (1956) and with Paul Newman in Somebody up There Likes Me (1956), and Exodus (1960).
Salvatore Mineo Jr. was born in 1939 in The Bronx, New York City. His parents were Josephine and Sal Sr. Mineo, a casket maker. They had emigrated to the U.S. from Sicily. His siblings were Michael, Victor, and Sarina Mineo, who would also work as actors. Sal was thrown out of parochial school and, by age eight, was a member of a street gang in a tough Bronx neighbourhood. His mother enrolled him in dancing school and, after being arrested for robbery at age ten, he was given a choice of juvenile confinement or professional acting school. He soon appeared in the theatrical production 'The Rose Tattoo' with Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach and as the young prince in 'The King and I' with Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner. At age 16 he played a much younger boy in Six Bridges to Cross (Joseph Pevney, 1955) with Tony Curtis. Later that same year, he played Plato, a sensitive teenager smitten with the main character, Jim Stark (James Dean), in Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955). He was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. Mineo received thousands of letters from young female fans and was mobbed by them at public appearances. He co-starred again with Dean in Giant (George Stevens, 1956) and with Paul Newman in Somebody up There Likes Me (Robert Wise, 1956). Many of his other roles were variations of his role in Rebel Without a Cause, and he was typecast as a troubled teen. In 1957, he tried to start a career as a rock-and-roll singer. He released two singles. The first was 'Start Movin' (In My Direction)', which stayed in the US top 40 for 13 weeks and reached the #9 position. The second was 'Lasting Love', which stayed on the charts for three weeks and reached #27. The singles were followed up by an album on the Epic label.
In 1959, Sal Mineo starred as the titular jazz drummer in The Gene Krupa Story (Don Weis, 1959), and a year later earned a Golden Globe and his second Oscar nomination for his role as Dov Landau, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, in Exodus (Otto Prerminger, 1960). Another box office hit was the war epic The Longest Day (Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki, 1962) in which he was one of the 42 stars. He played a paratrooper killed by a German after the landing in Sainte-Mère-Église. By then, Mineo was becoming too old to play the type of role that had made him famous, and his rumoured homosexuality led to his being considered inappropriate for leading roles. He had a long, on-and-off relationship with his young Exodus co-star Jill Haworth. She was 15 and he was 21 at the time. In 1972, he came out as bisexual in an interview. In 1969, expanding his repertoire, Mineo returned to the theatre to direct and star in the gay-themed prison drama 'Fortune and Men's Eyes' with successful runs in both New York and Los Angeles. He played Rocky, a prison bully who rapes the naive, blond prisoner Smitty, played by the young Don Johnson, pre-Miami Vice. On-screen he had roles as Red Shirt in the epic Western Cheyenne Autumn (John Ford, 1964) starring Richard Widmark, as Uriah in The Greatest Story Ever Told (George Stevens, 1965), and in his last film role as monkey Dr. Milo in Escape From the Planet of the Apes (Don Taylor, 1971). On television, he appeared with Henry Fonda in the Western Stranger on the Run (Don Siegel, 1967). In 1975 he returned to the stage in the San Francisco hit production of 'P.S. Your Cat Is Dead'. Preparing to open the play in Los Angeles with Keir Dullea, he returned home from rehearsal the evening of 12 February 1976 when he was attacked and stabbed to death by a stranger on the streets of West Hollywood. A drug-addled 17-year-old drifter named Lionel Ray Williams was arrested for the crime. He had no idea who Mineo was and was only interested in the money he had on him. After a trial in 1979, Williams was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for killing Mineo and for committing 10 robberies in the same area. He was paroled in 1990. Easygoing, extroverted Sal Mineo was only 37 years old when his life came to this tragic end. He was laid to rest near his brother Michael Mineo at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. At the time of his death, he was in a six-year relationship with male actor Courtney Burr III.
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British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 809. Photo: Fox.
American actress Claire Trevor (1910-2000) appeared in 68 feature films from 1933 to 1982. She often played the hard-boiled blonde or another type of shady lady. She won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in Dead End (1937) and The High and the Mighty (1954). But she is now best known for the classic Western Stagecoach (1939) with John Wayne.
Claire Trevor was born Claire Wemlinger in 1910 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. She was the only child of Noel Wemlinger, a Fifth Avenue merchant tailor, and his wife, Benjamina ("Betty"). Claire was raised in New York City and, from 1923, in Larchmont, New York. For many years, her year of birth was misreported as 1909, a rare instance of an actress actually being younger than her given age, which is why her age at the time of her death was initially given as 91, not 90. After completing high school, Trevor began her career with six months of art classes at Columbia University and six months at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She made her stage debut in the summer of 1929 with a repertory company in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1930, aged 20, she signed with Warner Bros. Not far from her home in Brooklyn was Vitagraph Studios, the last and best of the early sound process studios, which had been acquired by Warner Bros. and had become Vitaphone in 1925. Trevor appeared in several of the nearly 2000 shorts cranked out by the studio between 1926 and 1930. She also performed in summer stock theatre. In 1932, she starred on Broadway as the female lead in 'Whistling in the Dark'. The next year, she made her film debut with a leading role in the Western Life in the Raw (Louis King, 1933) opposite George O'Brien. From 1933 to 1938, Trevor starred in 29 films, often having either the lead role or the role of heroine. In 1937, she was the second lead actress after top-billed Sylvia Sidney in the crime drama Dead End (William Wyler, 1937), with Humphrey Bogart. Her role as a slum girl forced by poverty into prostitution led to her nomination for Best Supporting Actress. She was well established as a solid leading lady now. Her most memorable performance during this period was the Western Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) with John Wayne in his breakthrough role. William McPeak at IMDb: " All her abilities to bring complexity to a character showed in her kicked-around dance hall girl "Dallas", one of the great early female roles. She and Wayne were electric, and they were paired in three more films during their careers." From 1937 to 1940, she appeared with Edward G. Robinson in the popular radio series 'Big Town' while continuing to make films.
In the early 1940s, Claire Trevor was a regular on 'The Old Gold Don Ameche Show' on the NBC Red Radio Network, starring with Ameche in presentations of plays by Mark Hellinger. Two of Trevor's most memorable roles were in the Film Noirs Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, 1944) opposite Dick Powell, and Born to Kill (Robert Wise, 1947) with Lawrence Tierney. In Key Largo (John Huston, 1948), Trevor played Gaye Dawn, the washed-up nightclub singer and gangster's moll. For that role, she won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Her third and final Oscar nomination was for her performance in the disaster film The High and the Mighty (William A. Wellman, 1954) with John Wayne. In 1957, she won an Emmy for her role as the flighty wife of Fredric March in the Producers' Showcase episode entitled Dodsworth (Alex Segal, 1956). As she aged she easily transitioned into 'distinguished matron' and mother roles, one of her most unusual ones being the murderous Ma Barker in The Untouchables: Ma Barker and Her Boys (1959), a notoriously gun-blasting episode of the notorious gun-blasting series. Her appearances became very rare after the mid-1960s. She played Charlotte, the mother of Kay (Sally Field) in her final film, the romantic comedy Kiss Me Goodbye (Robert Mulligan, 1982). Her final screen role was for the TV film, Norman Rockwell's Breaking Home Ties (1987). Trevor made a guest appearance at the 70th Academy Awards in 1998. Trevor married Clark Andrews, director of her radio show, in 1938, but they divorced four years later. Her second marriage in 1943 to Navy lieutenant Cylos William Dunsmore produced her only child, son Charles. The marriage ended in divorce in 1947. The next year, Trevor married Milton Bren, a film producer with two sons from a previous marriage, and moved to Newport Beach, California. In 1978, Trevor's son Charles died in the crash of PSA Flight 182, followed by the death of her husband Milton from a brain tumor in 1979. Devastated by these losses, she returned to Manhattan for some years, living in a Fifth Avenue apartment and taking a few acting roles amid a busy social life. She eventually returned to California, where she remained for the rest of her life, becoming a generous supporter of the arts. Claire Trevor died of respiratory failure in Newport Beach, California, in 2000, at the age of 90. She was survived by her two stepsons and extended family. For her contribution to the film industry, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard.
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British postcard. Photo: Warner Bros. Diane Kruger as Helen of Troy in Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004).
Troy (2004) is an American film about the Trojan War, based on Homer's 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'. The film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved. The Trojan War took place around 1200 BC on the west coast of present-day Turkey. Troy was directed by Wolfgang Petersen and produced by Warner Bros. The film received a nomination for best costumes at the Academy Awards.
The script for Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004) was written by David Benioff. It is loosely based on Homer's 'Iliad' in its narration of the entire story of the decade-long Trojan War—condensed into little more than a couple of weeks. In the year 1193 BC, Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, dominates most of the Greek world. Then, during a peace mission, the Trojan prince Paris (Orlando Bloom) lures Helena (Diane Kruger), the most beautiful woman in Greece, away from her husband, King Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson) of Sparta. Menelaus is compromised in his honour and convinces his brother Agamemnon (Brian Cox) to take part in an attack on Troy. Agamemnon sees in the attack his chance to expand his power even further. Backed by thousands of Greek kings and warriors, they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. The warriors include Ajax (Tyler Mane), Odysseus (Sean Bean) and Achilles (Brad Pitt) with his Myrmidons. For a long time, the battle between the Greeks and Trojans dragged on, with many deaths on both sides. It is only with the construction of the Trojan Horse that an end is forced to the bloody war. The film's total production costs came to $175,000,000, making Troy one of the most expensive films ever if not adjusted for inflation. Worldwide, the film brought in a total of $497,409,852. Troy was received with mixed reactions by viewers and critics. Roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars, expressing disappointment in the film since it deviates so much from the original mythology.
The large sets for Troy were built at Fort Ricasoli in Malta. Shooting took place here from April to June 2003. Other major filming locations were Mellieħa and Comino. Scenes at the outer walls of Troy were shot in Cabo San Lucas. To keep the story of Troy from becoming too complex, the film narrative deviates from Homer's works on the Trojan War in certain ways. First, in the film, the Trojan War lasts much shorter than Homer's: a few weeks instead of ten years. In addition, some important characters, including Diomedes, Calchas, Laocoön, Palamedes and Cassandra, are missing from the film. Furthermore, certain characters meet their end differently in the film than in Homer's stories. The role of the gods is also greatly reduced in the film. In Homer's works, especially Zeus, Hera, Pallas Athene, Ares and Apollo take an active part in the war, unlike in the film. In the film, Agamemnon is the commander of all the Greek armies and was convinced by his brother to go to war. In Homer's works, almost all the kings of Greece were suitors of Helen of Sparta. When she chose her husband, Odysseus made all these men take an oath to protect her chosen marriage. When Helena was taken away from Menelaus, he made all the former suitors honour their oaths by travelling with him to Troy. Since Agamemnon had the largest army, he was the commander-in-chief. In the film, the duel between Paris and Menelaus is not decisive, or in other words, the outcome of the battle did not mean the decision of the war. In the Iliad, the duel takes place in the tenth year of the war, when everyone is longing for the end. The duel was to bring the decision. Paris lost the duel to Menelaus, but was saved just in time by the goddess Aphrodite and thus managed to escape death. Apollo, however, had a Trojan throw a spear at the Greeks, breaking the treaty and allowing the war to resume in full force. In the film, Menelaus also wins the duel, but Hektor intervenes to protect his brother, killing Menelaus in the process.
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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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