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Naturally they are singers for us. In Lohachaud part of Corbett is paradise for birds. Liked it for the background.
Strassenfest Midsummer am 22.06.2024, veranstaltet von das Kleine Notting Hill von Hamburg in dem Dreieck Eppendorfer Landstraße, Lehmweg und Löwenstraße.
This lovely sewing machine was a present from my grandmother. It's motorized as the treadle and tabletop were missing when my granddad found it left in an attic. It's fully operational now and I just made my first pillow case!
Singer sewing treadle machine, Model 15? - year 1927
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Vintage card.
From 1961 until 1963 Helen Shapiro (1946) was England's teenage pop music queen, at one point selling 40,000 copies daily of her biggest single, 'Walkin' Back to Happiness', during a 19-week chart run. The singer and actress was only 14 when she was discovered. Shapiro had a rich, expressive voice properly sounding like the property of someone twice as old, and she matured into a seasoned professional very quickly.
Helen Kate Shapiro was born in Bethnal Green, London in 1946. She is the granddaughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, and her parents, who were piece-workers in the garment industry, attended Lea Bridge Road Synagogue. They were too poor to own a record player but encouraged music in their home. At age 9, Helen performed with a ukulele in the school group Susie & the Hula Hoops, whose members included also a young Mark Feld aka Marc Bolan). Reportedly, they performed their own versions of Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly songs. She subsequently sang with her brother Ron Shapiro's trad jazz turned skiffle outfit at local clubs before enrolling in classes at Maurice Burman's music school in London. Shapiro had a deep timbre to her voice, unusual in a girl not yet in her teens. School friends gave her the nickname ‘Foghorn’. Maurice Burman was so enamoured of Helen’s talent that he waived the fees to keep her as a student. He wrote to several record labels to promote interest in his students. EMI Records sent producer John Schroeder, who heard her at one of the classes and was impressed enough to record her and play it back for top EMI producer Norrie Paramor , who had signed Cliff Richard & the Shadows. Helen Shapiro's voice on the rape was so mature that Paramor refused to believe that it belonged to a 14-year-old girl. So, Helen came to his office in her school uniform and sang St. Louis Blues. Only a few weeks later, she cut her first single, Please Don't Treat Me Like a Child, composed by John Schroeder and Mike Hawker. It made number three in the UK charts in May 1961, and the record company’s publicity department made great play on the novelty value of her age. Shapiro’s second release, the ballad You don’t know, was issued three months later. In August 1961, it made 14-year-old Helen the youngest female artist to reach number one. The song stayed at the top of the charts for two weeks and eventually sold over a million copies. In September that year she turned 15 and left school to pursue her career in earnest. Live appearances showcased Helen’s assuredness as a performer. She even headlined at the legendary London Palladium, virtually unheard of for such a young, inexperienced entertainer.
Helen Shapiro had her second number one hit in the UK with Walkin' Back to Happiness. It is now her signature song. Her mature voice made her an overnight sensation. The song also became a hit in the rest of Europe and inspired an attempt to crack the American market. However, despite an appearance on the legendary Ed Sullivan Show, the record only reached # 100 in the US charts. In 1962 she made her debut feature film, It's Trad, Dad!/Ring-A-Ding Rhythm (1962, Richard Lester). This musical comedy was one of the first films put out by predominantly horror company Amicus Productions, and director Richard Lester's feature debut. Shapiro and singer Craig Douglas play two teenagers who, along with their friends enjoy the latest trend of traditional jazz. However, the mayor as well as a group of adults dislike the trend and move to have a coffee shop jukebox taken away. Helen and Craig decide to organize a music festival in their small town, and the film comprises musical numbers by Chubby Checker, Del Shannon, and Gene Vincent. Jeff Stafford at TCM: "Any Richard Lester fan can look at It's Trad, Dad and see the fresh and distinctive techniques that would fully emerge in Lester's A Hard Day's Night. For one thing, Lester's playful editing style keeps the viewer constantly engaged while also paying tribute to the musicians on display. (...) Douglas is a pleasant but unremarkable light pop vocalist but Shapiro is a little dynamo with a powerful voice comparable to Brenda Lee." Shapiro then starred in another teenage musical, Play It Cool (1962, Michael Winner) featuring Billy Fury and the Satellites and Bobby Vee. Before she was sixteen years old, Shapiro had been voted Britain's 'Top Female Singer', and when The Beatles had their first national tour (The Helen Shapiro Tour) in 1963, it was as her supporting act. During the tour The Beatles hit big and replaced Helen as top of the bill. Helen later found out that it was around this time that Lennon and McCartney penned Misery for her, but Paramor declined the offer without informing her. He preferred to release Queen for tonight, a firm fan favourite and a much-requested song, but slightly out of step with current trends. It reached a disappointing 33 in the UK charts. In early 1964, her cover of Fever proved her last top 40 hit.
By the time Helen Shapiro was in her late teens, her career as a pop singer was on the wane. Undaunted, she branched out as a performer in stage musicals, a jazz singer (jazz being her first love musically), and more recently a gospel singer. She also began to concentrate more on stage work. In the early 1980’s she played the role of Nancy in Lionel Bart's musical, Oliver! in London's West End. Various other musicals, pantomimes and revival concerts followed. She also continued to tour, especially in mainland Europe and the Far East, where she remained in demand. Throughout the 1980’s she made guest appearances on many TV variety shows, either singing her old songs or promoting the odd new release. Shapiro also appeared in British television soap operas; in particular Albion Market (1985) where she played one of the main characters up to the time it was taken off-air in August 1986. In August 1987 Shapiro became a committed Christian (Messianic believer). She has issued four Messianic albums since then, as well as appearing in a number of special Gospel Outreach evenings, singing and telling of how she found Jesus (Yeshua) as her Messiah. Shapiro retired from showbusiness at the end of 2002 to concentrate on her Gospel Outreach evenings. In 1993, she published her autobiography, Walking Back to Happiness. She was married three times: Duncan C. Weldon (1967-1971), Morris Gundlash (1972-1977) and John Judd (1988-), an actor with numerous roles in British television and cinema. The couple lives in Kent.
Sources: Jeff Stafford (TCM), Graham Welch (Ready Steady Girls), Bruce Eder (AllMusic), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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The singer sings well and makes a lot of atmosphere at the Oktoberfest. She's also pretty and cute although personally I'm a bit disappointed that she isn't wearing a Dirndl dress like I am; she would look super gorgeous in it.
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Looking south from the ocean side of Singer Island.
Nikon D810
Nikon AF 35-70mm 2.8D
35mm
1/60
f/5.6
ISO 64
Postprocessed in Lightroom and Photoshop.
British postcard by Memory Card, no. 665. Photo: Hugh Jackman as Logan "Wolverine" in X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000).
Hugh Jackman (1968) is a ruggedly handsome Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and producer. Jackman is best known as Wolverine in the X-Men film series. His other films include The Prestige (2006), the epic historical romantic drama Australia (2008), and the film version of Les Misérables (2012), which earned him his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor and a Golden Globe. On Broadway, Jackman won a Tony Award for his role in 'The Boy from Oz'.
Hugh Michael Jackman was born in 1968 in Sydney, New South Wales, to Grace McNeil (Greenwood) and Christopher John Jackman, an accountant. He is the youngest of five children. His parents separated when he was eight. His mother then moved back to England. His father brought up five children, by himself. Jackman has a communications degree with a journalism major from the University of Technology Sydney. After graduating, he pursued drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Straight out of drama school, he was offered a starring role in the TV prison drama series Correlli (1995), opposite his future wife Deborra-Lee Furness. Several TV guest roles followed, as an actor and variety compere. An accomplished singer, Jackman has starred as Gaston in the Australian production of 'Beauty and the Beast'. He appeared as Joe Gillis in the Australian production of 'Sunset Boulevard'. In 1998, he was cast as Curly in Trevor Nunn's 'Oklahoma'. Jackman made two feature films in Australia. His second film, Erskineville Kings (Alan White, 1999), garnered him an Australian Film Institute nomination for Best Actor in 1999. Then he won the breakthrough role of Logan/Wolverine in X-Men (Bryan Singer, 2000), a superhero film based on the Marvel Comics team of the same name. He was a last-minute addition to the X-Men cast. Dougray Scott was originally cast as Wolverine, but was injured in a motorbike accident and wouldn't have recovered in time for filming. X-Men was very successful at the box-office, earning US$296 million.
Hugh Jackman starred as Leopold opposite Meg Ryan in the romantic comedy Kate & Leopold (James Mangold, 2001), a role for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. Then he took stunt-driving classes to prepare for his role in Swordfish (Dominic Sena, 2001) with John Travolta and Halle Berry. Jackman reprised his role as Wolverine in X2 (Bryan Singer, 2003), X-Men: The Last Stand (Brett Rattner, 2006), and the prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009). He also cameoed as Wolverine in X-Men: First Class (2011). He returned for the role of Wolverine again in The Wolverine (2013), a stand-alone sequel taking place after the events of X-Men: The Last Stand, and reprised the character in the sequel X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) and briefly in the follow-up X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) Jackman announced that Logan (2017), the sequel to The Wolverine was the final time that he would play the role. In 2004, Jackman won a Tony Award for his Broadway portrayal of Australian songwriter and performer Peter Allen in the hit musical 'The Boy from Oz' (2003–2004), which he also performed in Australia in 2006. Jackman played the title role of monster killer Gabriel Van Helsing in the horror-action film Van Helsing (Stephen Sommers, 2004) with Kate Beckinsale. The film is a homage and tribute to the Universal Horror Monster films from the 1930s and 1940s which were based on novels by Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film 3 stars out of 4 stating that "At the outset, we may fear Sommers is simply going for f/x overkill, but by the end, he has somehow succeeded in assembling all his monsters and plot threads into a high-voltage climax. Van Helsing is silly, spectacular, and fun." The film grossed over $300 million worldwide. In 2005, Jackman joined with longtime assistant John Palermo to form a production company, Seed Productions, whose first project was Viva Laughlin (2007). Jackman's wife Deborra-Lee Furness is also involved in the company, and Palermo had three rings made with a "unity" inscription for himself, Furness, and Jackman.
Hugh Jackman starred alongside Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and Scarlett Johansson in the mystery thriller The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006). Jackman portrayed Robert Angier, an aristocratic magician who builds up a rivalry with contemporary Alfred Borden (Bale) in an attempt to one-up each other in the art of deception. The Prestige was acclaimed and a box-office hit. Jackman portrayed three different characters in the Science-Fiction film The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, 2006). He also starred in Woody Allen's Scoop (2006) opposite Scarlett Johansson. He rounded out the year with two animated films: Happy Feet (George Miller, 2006) in which he voiced emperor penguin Memphis, and Flushed Away (2006), where Jackman supplied the voice of the rat Roddy who ends up being flushed down a family's toilet into the London sewer system. Baz Luhrmann cast Jackman to replace Russell Crowe opposite Nicole Kidman in his much-publicised epic, Australia (2008). That year, People Magazine named Jackman its 2008 "Sexiest Man Alive". Jackman co-starred with Daniel Craig on Broadway in the play 'A Steady Rain'(2009). In 2011, Jackman had a one-man show at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco, backed by a 17-piece orchestra. He performed numbers from shows including 'Oklahoma' and 'The Boy from Oz'. He later returned to Broadway in a new show, 'Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway' (2011-2012). Jackman starred as Jean Valjean in the film Les Misérables (2012), an adaptation of the musical. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for this performance and received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Jackman appeared alongside Kate Winslet in Movie 43 (Peter Farrelly, a.o., 2013). Jackman returned to Broadway in the new play, 'The River' (2014-2015). He portrayed the villain Blackbeard in the film Pan, which revolved around the backstories of J.M. Barrie's characters Peter Pan and Captain Hook. The film received generally negative reviews and failed at the box office. In 2016, Jackman played fictional ski coach, Bronson Peary, in Eddie the Eagle, which portrayed how Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards became the first competitor to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski jumping in 1988. In 2017, he reprised the character for the final time in the third Wolverine film, Logan. Jackman's performance and the film were critically acclaimed and it is regarded as one of the greatest superhero films of all-time. That year, he also starred as P. T. Barnum in the musical The Greatest Showman (2017) for which he received his third Golden Globe nomination. Next, he starred as American senator Gary Hart in the political drama film The Front Runner (Jason Reitman's, 2018), which chronicled the rise of Hart as a Democratic presidential candidate in 1988, and his subsequent fall from grace when media reports surfaced of his extramarital affair. In 2019, Jackman went on his first world tour called 'The Man. The Music. The Show' to perform songs from The Greatest Showman. In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Jackman was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia. Hugh Jackman and his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, suffered through two miscarriages, which they point to as the most difficult point in their lives. Both of their two children, Oscar and Ava, are adopted.
Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.
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attached to a VO rack... The elastic loops onto the vertical rear support of the rack then travels underneath the mid cross member of a rack to keep the front of the bag from bouncing. This works surprisingly well.