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British postcard by Pyramid, Leicester, no. PC 2111.
Scottish actor Ewan McGregor (1971) first received worldwide acclaim with his role as heroin addict Mark Renton in Trainspotting (1996). Later, he played the young Obi-Wan in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and poet Christian in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001).
Ewan Gordan McGregor was born in 1971 in Crieff, Scotland, just a few miles north of Edinburgh. His parents were the schoolteachers James Charles Stuart McGregor and Carole Diane Lawson. His uncle is actor Denis Lawson. He also has a brother Colin, who became a RAF pilot. As a child, Ewan did little acting, but enjoyed singing, and became a soloist for his school's orchestra and choir. At age 16, he left Morrison Academy in Crieff to join the Perth Repertory Theatre. His parents encouraged him to leave school and pursue his acting goals rather than be unhappy. Ewan worked as a stagehand and had small roles in the productions of the Perth Repertory Theatre. Then, he studied three years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Six months prior to his graduation from Guildhall, he landed a major role as Private Mick Hopper in the excellent TV series Lipstick on Your Collar (Renny Rye, 1993), written by Dennis Potter. McGregor then starred in the miniseries The Scarlet & The Black (Ben Bolt, 1993), an adaptation of Henri Beyle Stendhal's 1830 novel. In that same year, McGregor made his film debut with a bit part in the American drama Being Human (Bill Forsyth, 1993), which starred Robin Williams. The film undeservedly flopped and closed almost as soon as it opened, which limited McGregor's exposure. He continued to make television appearances in the United States and Britain, including Family Style (Justin Chadwick, 1993), Doggin' Around (Desmond Davis, 1994) and an episode of the crime series Kavanagh QC (Colin Gregg, 1995). He got his first major film role in the Noir Shallow Grave (Danny Boyle, 1994), which was received well by the critics. Samuli Launonen at IMDb: “A great modern thriller containing all the necessary ingredients of a decent suspense story: constantly growing tension, sly humor, and genuinely surprising plot twists. (…) The three leads are all great, but there's no question about who the movie belongs to: Ewan McGregor is energetic, powerful and photogenic in his portrayal of a young journalist.” In 1995, McGregor married, French production designer Eve Mavrakis. He continued to work in British films as the surfing parable Blue Juice (Carl Prechezer, 1995) with Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book (1996). Then he had his big break with Trainspotting (1996), his second film with director Danny Boyle. McGregor shaved his head and lost 30 lbs to play the main character and heroin addict Mark Renton. The film, an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's novel, and McGregor's role received worldwide critical acclaim. Following this success, he took a completely different role as Frank Churchill in the Jane Austen adaptation Emma (Douglas McGrath, 1996), starring Gwyneth Palthrow. His next films included Brassed Off (Mark Herman, 1996), The Serpent's Kiss (Philippe Rousselot, 1997), A Life Less Ordinary (Danny Boyle, 1997), and Nightwatch (Ole Bornedal, 1998). He also acted opposite Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Christian Bale in Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1999), as a 1970s-era glam rocker in the mode of Iggy Pop. Ewan McGregor landed the largest role of his career when he signed on in 1998 as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. McGregor already had a connection with the iconic movie series as his uncle, Denis Lawson, appeared as Wedge Antilles in the original three films. He studied Alec Guinness' films in preparation for his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi to ensure accuracy in everything from his accent to the pacing of his words. Star Wars: Episode I–The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, 1999) was a box-office blockbuster, which launched the then 28-year-old actor into megastardom. The next two instalments of the trilogy would follow years later.
In the early 21st century, Ewan McGregor started his own production company called Natural Nylon. He founded it with fellow actors Jude Law, Sadie Frost, Jonny Lee Miller and Sean Pertwee. The group's first film was the biopic Nora (Pat Murphy, 2000), which dramatized the real-life relationship between Irish author James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. McGregor starred as Joyce opposite Susan Lynch as Barnacle. McGregor took on another challenging role in the musical Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2000), set in Paris in 1899. McGregor starred as the young poet Christian, who falls in love with the terminally-ill courtesan Satine, played by Nicole Kidman. Perry Seibert at AllMovie: “A bold artistic statement, Moulin Rouge is Baz Luhrmann's first masterpiece. Frantically edited, paced, and photographed, the film is not an easy undertaking; it forces the viewer to accept it on its terms. The sets, costumes, and sound are stylish in the extreme. The greatest risk the film takes is having the characters speak predominantly in song lyrics. The young writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) and the doomed performer Satine (Nicole Kidman) argue about whether they will fall in love while telling each other, "Love lifts us up where we belong" and "I will always love you." When they aren't speaking in song lyrics, they sing to each other, with McGregor doing a better than credible job with Elton John's "Your Song".” McGregor was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his part and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast. Later that same year, the war film Black Hawk Down (Ridley Scott, 2001) was released with McGregor among an ensemble cast. He continued his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi in the second film of the trilogy, Star Wars: Episode II–Attack of the Clone (George Lucas, 2002), which was another commercial success. McGregor was able to parlay his popularity into many more films. When Tim Burton was looking for someone in McGregor's age range to play Albert Finney as a young man in the fantasy film Big Fish (2003), he was given the part. The film was a critical and commercial success as well. McGregor also starred in the drama Young Adam, (David Mackenzie, 2003). He played Joe Taylor, one of two barge workers who pull up the corpse of a young woman from a river. Also that year, McGregor and Renée Zellweger starred in Down With Love (Peyton Reed, 2003), a homage to 1960s romantic comedies. During 2004, McGregor and his best friend Charley Boorman created a documentary about riding their motorcycles from London to New York. The pair travelled east through Europe and Asia, and then flew to Alaska to finish the journey to New York. The entire journey, entitled Long Way Round, covered over 19,000 miles and 12 countries. The project was conceived partly to raise awareness of the worldwide efforts of UNICEF. McGregor reprised his role as Obi-Wan Kenobi for the final time for Star Wars: Episode III–Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas, 2005). He also lent his voice to the animated family film Robots (Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha, 2005), starred with Scarlett Johansson in the big-budget Sci-Fi actioner The Island (Michael Bay, 2005), and filmed the psychological thriller Stay (Marc Forster, 2005).
After multiple commercial and critical successes, Ewan McGregor tried his hand at two arthouse films in 2006. His first was Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Ed Blum's directorial debut about a day in the life of seven British couples. The second was Miss Potter (Chris Noonan, 2007), a biopic on the life of popular author Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger). McGregor portrays Norman, her editor and paramour. He also tried his hand at stage acting. From 2005 till 2007 he played Sky Masterson in the revival of Guys & Dolls at London's Piccadilly Theatre, and for this part, he was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical in 2007. He also appeared on stage as Iago in Othello (2007–2008). In between, McGregor and Boorman created a follow-up documentary to their 2004 trip. For Long Way Down (2007), they rode their motorcycles from John o' Groats in northern Scotland to Cape Town, South Africa. Next he appeared in the films Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen, 2007) with Colin Farrell, Incendiary (Sharon Maguire, 2008) and Deception (Marcel Langenegger, 2008) with Hugh Jackman. McGregor starred with Jim Carrey as a gay couple in I Love You Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, 2009), and appeared in the blockbuster Angels & Demons (Ron Howard, 2009), the sequel to the popular Dan Brown novel and film, The DaVinci Code. For the title role in Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer (2010), he won the Best Actor award at the 23rd European Film Awards. Bruce Eder at AllMovie: “McGregor is amazingly good in a role that gives him relatively little to work with -- his is a character that not only has no name, but no past to speak of and no family entanglements, so his experience shouldn't resonate much with the audience. But what should become a cipher that few can penetrate instead becomes a kind of big-screen everyman for audience members to relate to -- up to a point. This is a very cold movie at its center, very distant, despite McGregor's success at fleshing out a character that is hardly more than a skeleton, in terms of what he brings to us. He's just vulnerable enough, and surprised and skeptical enough -- about what he's been asked to do, and the world of politics to which he's been asked to enter -- to give us something to grab on to.” His later films include Beginners (Mike Mills, 2010), Perfect Sense (David Mackenzie, 2011) opposite Eva Green, the British romantic comedy-drama Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Lasse Hallström, 2011), Lo imposible (J.A. Bayona, 2012), and August: Osage County (John Wells, 2013). He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to drama and charity. Ewan McGregor and his wife have three daughters: Clara Mathilde (1996), Esther Rose (2001), and 4-year-old Jamiyan adopted from Mongolia in 2006. His recent films include the Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead (Don Cheadle, 2015) and the British thriller Our Kind of Traitor (Susanna White, 2016). For 2017 is scheduled T2: Trainspotting, in which he will return as Mark Renton, again under the direction of Danny Boyle. On TV he will star in the third season of the hit series Fargo, now set in 2010.
Sources: Samuli Launonen (IMDb), Perry Seibert (AllMovie), Bruce Eder (AllMovie), Biography.com, AllMovie, Wikipedia and IMDb.
MID FALL (perkins memorial tower loop revisited) - Composition Tuesday
© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Actividad de Campo.11 y 12 Octubre de 2008
Escuela de Fotografia Wilson Prada.
Cumboto / Ocumare de la Costa. Edo. Aragua.
Venezuela.
"Peter got down very quietly off the wheel-barrow, and started running as fast as he could go, along a straight walk behind some black-currant bushes.
Mr. McGregor caught sight of him at the corner but Peter did not care. He slipped underneath the gate, and was safe at last in the wood outside the garden."
~ Beatrix Potter, 1866-1943 ~
2006 pic moved forward.
Last October (2020) I was headed for this overlook, and my car which had some transmission issues I knew about, started shaking and bucking on every hill North of Manchester Iowa.
I sadly turned around North of Manchester, and headed home without even getting half way to McGregor. The service advisors said the transmission was toast. Fast forward a few more months, and I had an electrical short that caused fuses to keep blowing. After knowing the inevitable was coming, and 8 months of praying the old car would last just the daily 4 miles to/from work, the new train chaser (see below) was procured. Hope to get up to McGregor this Fall
38 megapixal UBER pan from 10 portrait oriented photos stitched together of what I think is the best overlook on the Upper Mississippi River valley ( www.iowadnr.gov/parks/state_park_list/pikes_peak.html ) Taken in Aug 2006
Prarie du Chein is the town across the river in the distance. The US18 bridge is seen also
FULL RES: farm5.staticflickr.com/4057/4418819169_f9132e9ed3_o.jpg
Actor Ewan McGregor took this shot of Osage Hills State Park in November 2012 while he was in Oklahoma to film August: Osage County. When he posted it to his Instagram account, he called Osage Hills State Park his "favorite place in Oklahoma."
NYC honors George Floyd as LinkNYC kiosks displayed the names of black people killed by police with the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday. "Blackout Tuesday" began as a music industry protest to George Floyd's death in police custody, which has led to protests worldwide. But the initiative has spread well beyond record labels and musicians, with actors and sports teams are joining in. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Senate Minority Leader and New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer’s Washington, DC office was rendered inoperable on August 3, 2017 morning when nearly two dozen people blockaded the office doors, delivering a letter backed by 15,000 supporters demanding that the Senator oppose Trump’s nominations to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017 (S 1460). Seven individuals held up a banner and were arrested for refusing to move. (Photo by Erik McGregor)
Wayne McGregor, Edward Watson, Matthew Ball and Calvin Richardson in rehearsal for Wayne McGregor's Obsidian Tear, The Royal Ballet Season 2015/16
Find out more information: <a href="http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/obsidian-tear-by-wayne-mcgregor
Reverend Billy preaches from his new book backed by the FIERY EAGLES OF JUSTICE and THE STOP SHOPPING CHOIR. This is The New York launch of the City LIghts Publication. "
© Erik McGregor - erikrivas@hotmail.com - 917-225-8963
Wayne McGregor in rehearsal for his production of Raven Girl, The Royal Ballet 2013 www.roh.org.uk/productions/raven-girl-by-wayne-mcgregor
LEAGUE
28th December 2022
3-0 Rangers
Rangers Goalscorers, Alfredo Morelos (13), Connor Goldson (39),
Malik Tillman (63)
Attendance 49,605
The Rangers Team
Allan McGregor, James Tavernier, John Lundstram, Connor Goldson, Ryan Jack, Ryan Kent, Alfredo Morelos, Ben Davies,
Borna Barisic, Alex Lowry, Malik Tillman
Substitutes Used, Adam Devine, James Sands, Glen Kamara, Fashion Sakala, Rabbi Matondo
Played at Ibrox Stadium
Rangers Fixtures 2022/23
League
(A) Livingston 30.7.2022 2-1 Att 9,674
(H) Kilmarnock 6.8.2022 2-0 Att 49,600
(H) St Johnstone 13.8.2022 4-0 Att 48,665
(A) Hibernian 20.8.2022 2-2 Att 18,245
(H) Ross County 27.8.2022 4-0 Att 48,899
(A) Celtic 3.9.2022 0-4 Att 58,636
(H) Dundee United 17.9.2022 2-1 Att 49,334
(A) Hearts 1.10.2022 4-0 Att 18,433
(H) St Mirren 8.10.2022 4-0 Att 49,274
(A) Motherwell 16.10.2022 2-1 Att 8,498
(H) Livingston 22.10.2022 1-1 Att 48,855
(H) Aberdeen 29.10.2022 4-1 Att 49,365
(A) St Johnstone 6.11.2022 1-2 Att 7,487
(H) Hearts 9.11.2022 1-0 Att 48,376
(A) St Mirren 12.11.2022 1-1 Att 6,358
(H) Hibernian 15.12.2022 3-2 Att 48,671
(A) Aberdeen 20.12.2022 3-2 18,025
(A) Ross County 23.12.2022 1-0 Att 6,051
(H) Motherwell 28.12.2022 3-0 Att 49,605
(H) Celtic 2.1.2023 2-2 Att 50,066
(A) Dundee United 8.1.2023 2-0 Att 12,599
(A) Kilmarnock 18.1.2023 3-2 Att 8,461
(H) St Johnstone 28.1.2023 2-0 Att 49,672
(A) Hearts 1.2.2023 3-0 Att 18,330
(H) Ross County 4.2.2023 2-1 Att 49,115
(A) Livingston 18.2.2023 3-0 Att 8,752
(H) Kilmarnock 4.3.2023 3-1 Att 49,545
(A) Hibernian 8.3.2023 4-1 Att 19,341
(A) Motherwell 18.3.2023 4-2 Att 8,610
(H) Dundee United 1.4.2023 2-0 Att 49,969
(A) Celtic 8.4.2023 2-3 Att 59,646
(H) St Mirren 15.4.2023 5-2 Att 48,703
(A) Aberdeen 23.4.2023 0-2 Att 18,666
(H) Aberdeen 7.5.2023 1-0 Att 46,961
(H) Celtic 13.5.2023 3-0 Att 50,104
(A) Hibernian 21.5.2023 3-1 Att 18,172
(H) Hearts 24.5.2023 2-2 Att 48,428
(A) St Mirren 27.5.2023 3-0 Att 7,490
Scottish Cup
(A) St Johnstone 21.1.2023 4th Rd 1-0 Att 7,855
(H) Partick Thistle 12.2.2023 5th Rd 3-2 Att 44,636
(H) Raith Rovers 12.3.2023 Qtr Final 3-0 Att 41,168
(N) Celtic 30.4.2023 Semi Final 0-1 Att 48,629
League Cup
(H) Queen of the South 30.8.2022 2nd Rd 3-1 Att 30,569
(H) Dundee 19.10.2022 Qtr Final 1-0 Att 37,107
(N) Aberdeen 15.1.2023 Semi Final 2-1 Att 47,562
(N) Celtic 26.2.2023 Final 1-2 Att 49,529
Champions League
(A) Union Saint-Gilloise 2.8.2022 3rd Ql Rd 1st Leg 0-2 Att 1,100
(H) Union Saint-Gilloise 9.8.2022 3rd Ql Rd 2nd Leg 3-0 Att 48,454
(H) PSV Eindhoven 16.8.2022 Play Off 1st Leg 2-2 Att 49,097
(A) PSV Eindhoven 24.8.2022 Play Off 2nd Leg 1-0 Att 34,893
(A) Ajax 7.9.2022 Group A Game 1 0-4 Att 52,862
(H) Napoli 14.9.2022 Group A Game 2 0-3 Att 50,121
(A) Liverpool 4.10.2022 Group A Game 3 0-2 Att 49,512
(H) Liverpool 12.10.2022 Group A Game 4 1-7 Att 48,820
(A) Napoli 26.10.2022 Group A Game 5 0-3 Att 39,835
(H) Ajax 1.11.2022 Group A Game 6 1-3 Att 48,817
Friendly
(A) Sunderland 9.7.2022 0-1 Played in Albufeira Portugal Att 1,500 Match Abandoned
(A) Blackpool 16.7.2022 2-1 Att 11,519
(H) West Ham United 19.7.2022 3-1 Att 33,846
(H) Tottenham Hotspur 23.7.2022 1-2 Att 43,036
(H) Bayer 04 Leverkusen 10.12.2022 3-0 Att 26,192
The SPFL Trust Trophy
Rangers B Team Competed
Home Games Played at Dumbarton
(A) Spartans 10.8.2022 1st Rd 1-0 Att 331
(H) Dumbarton 23.8.2022 2nd Rd 7-0 Att 654
(H) Hamilton Academical 8.11.2022 3rd Rd 0-3 Att
DUNCAN AND MARGARET MCGREGOR ESTATE, “GLEN-LYON”
4250 Marine Drive
Overlooking Burnaby’s Big Bend district and the Fraser River floodplain, ‘Glen-Lyon’ is valued as an excellent example of an Edwardian era country estate built at the turn of the nineteenth century. The property retains significant heritage features including the Edwardian era mansion with rustic Arts and Crafts features built by Duncan McGregor, a Burnaby Councillor from 1909 to 1912, who was elected Reeve in 1913. The site also includes significant features from its development in 1939 as the Borstal School, including the large gambrel- roofed New Haven Barn designed by Chief Provincial Architect Henry Whittaker of the Department of Public Works, that is the only remaining structure of its kind in Burnaby.
In 2004 Council adopted a City initiated rezoning of the former provincially-owned New Haven Correctional Centre property to the CD Comprehensive Development District based on the New Haven Land Use Framework Plan. The plan was informed by an extensive public consultation process which reaffirmed the public’s desire and interest in ensuring the conservation of the site’s significant heritage resources. The rezoning plan adopted in 2006 includes the adaptive re-use of the protected heritage buildings includes conversion of the New Haven Barn structure for two residential units, and incorporation of four residential units, common amenity and meeting space, within the D.C. McGregor House. Public access, interpretation and enjoyment of the Heritage Precinct have been provided for through the provision of an east-west urban trail through the Heritage Precinct with integrated interpretative signs and plaques for the protected heritage buildings and landscapes.
[from the Burnaby Community Heritage Commission Annual Report 2006]
The undoubted star of a great weekend at the Skegness Rock and Blues Festival. Chantel is a fabulously talented young blues/rock singer guitarist
This picture was taken almost two years ago (Nov 2003), when they were filmming some scenes from "Stay" in my neighborhood. I stopped by the set on my way home from work and snapped a picture with the very friendly Mr. McGregor, who held the door for residents of the building, chatted with fans, signed a 20-Euro note, and held someone's baby between shots.
I love the cool movie set lighting.
In 1877 Samuel G. Wilder organized the Wilder Steamship Company and initiated passenger and freight service between the Hawaiian Islands with a fleet of steamers. At that time, there were few navigational aids maintained by the Hawaiian Government, so the steamship company was forced to erect lighted beacons for the safety of its own vessels. One of these private aids was placed at Ma’alaea Bay in the 1880s and was an ordinary lantern, fitted with red glass and displayed from a post. When the Lighthouse Board assumed responsibility for navigational aids of the Territory of Hawai’i in 1904, it replaced the lantern with a lens lantern suspended from a twelve-foot post.
In 1903 an acre and a third of land was acquired by presidential proclamation on McGregor Point, just over a mile southwest of Ma’alaea Bay, and in 1906 a light was established on the point to replace the one at Ma’alaea Bay. This new light consisted of a lens lantern mounted atop a thirty-two-foot mast, with a small storage shed at its base. A one-story dwelling was constructed just northwest of the light for the keeper.
In the 1870s Daniel McGregor captained vessels involved in the Ko’olau trade. Ko’olau means windward side of an island, and the Ko’olau trade involved the delivery of supplies between windward landings by interisland vessels. On one stormy night, Captain McGregor was bound for the landing at Ma’alaea Bay but knew the turbulent seas would prevent his anchoring there. Determined to find an alternate landing for the night, Captain McGregor sent three men forward with lead lines to sound the water while he probed the rugged shoreline in the pouring rain for an adequate anchorage. Between two and three o-clock in the morning, when the winds suddenly diminished and the water became significantly shallower, the captain ordered the anchor dropped for the night. The next morning McGregor awoke to find that he had discovered an excellent cove, which, along with the protecting point, still bear his name.
The 1906 light at McGregor Point was replaced by a twenty-foot reinforced concrete pyramidal tower by 1915. The focal plane of this tower, which today shows a flashing green light, is seventy-two feet above sea level.
In 1877 Samuel G. Wilder organized the Wilder Steamship Company and initiated passenger and freight service between the Hawaiian Islands with a fleet of steamers. At that time, there were few navigational aids maintained by the Hawaiian Government, so the steamship company was forced to erect lighted beacons for the safety of its own vessels. One of these private aids was placed at Ma’alaea Bay in the 1880s and was an ordinary lantern, fitted with red glass and displayed from a post. When the Lighthouse Board assumed responsibility for navigational aids of the Territory of Hawai’i in 1904, it replaced the lantern with a lens lantern suspended from a twelve-foot post.
In 1903 an acre and a third of land was acquired by presidential proclamation on McGregor Point, just over a mile southwest of Ma’alaea Bay, and in 1906 a light was established on the point to replace the one at Ma’alaea Bay. This new light consisted of a lens lantern mounted atop a thirty-two-foot mast, with a small storage shed at its base. A one-story dwelling was constructed just northwest of the light for the keeper.
In the 1870s Daniel McGregor captained vessels involved in the Ko’olau trade. Ko’olau means windward side of an island, and the Ko’olau trade involved the delivery of supplies between windward landings by interisland vessels. On one stormy night, Captain McGregor was bound for the landing at Ma’alaea Bay but knew the turbulent seas would prevent his anchoring there. Determined to find an alternate landing for the night, Captain McGregor sent three men forward with lead lines to sound the water while he probed the rugged shoreline in the pouring rain for an adequate anchorage. Between two and three o-clock in the morning, when the winds suddenly diminished and the water became significantly shallower, the captain ordered the anchor dropped for the night. The next morning McGregor awoke to find that he had discovered an excellent cove, which, along with the protecting point, still bear his name.
The 1906 light at McGregor Point was replaced by a twenty-foot reinforced concrete pyramidal tower by 1915. The focal plane of this tower, which today shows a flashing green light, is seventy-two feet above sea level.
Mara Galeazzi and Artists of The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works, The Royal Ballet 2016/17 Season.
www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/woolf-works-by-wayne-mc...
The McGregor Memorial Conference Center is considered one of Minoru Yamasaki's masterpieces. Here the late evening sun lights the building. The structure was recently added to the National Register of Historic Places.
The Conference Center memorializes two Detroit philanthropists: Tracy W. and Katherine Whitney McGregor.