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Marc Sleen (1922-2016)
Marc Sleen, pseudoniem van Marcel Honoré Nestor ridder Neels (Gentbrugge, 30 december 1922 – Hoeilaart, 6 november 2016) was een Vlaamse stripauteur die vooral bekend is voor zijn stripreeks De avonturen van Nero & Co.
Marc Sleen werd geboren als Marcel Neels in Gentbrugge en verhuisde drie maanden later naar Sint-Niklaas. Zijn ouders Alois, Edmond Neels (1885-1939) en Maria, Augusta, Ghislena Baeckelandt (1882-1965) waren filiaalhouders in een soort café met vergaderzaal en centrum van de SMOB (Samenwerkende Maatschappij Openbaar Bestuur). Zijn vader herstelde als hobby horloges. Sleen groeide op in een welgesteld gezin en had drie oudere broers Nestor, Adolf en Roger. Zijn vader was humoristisch en verzon bizarre verhaaltjes voor het slapengaan. Marc Sleen zou later zeggen dat hij veel van hem leerde. Zijn moeder was katholiek. Toen Marc vijf was werd hij naar een pensionaat van zusters gestuurd. Hij was er zo ongelukkig dat hij er op zijn zeven van ellende geelzucht kreeg, waarop zijn ouders hem er weghaalden. Als jongen las hij veel: Jules Verne, Karl May, Sherlock Holmes, Dik Trom, Pietje Bell en strips als The Katzenjammer Kids, Zig et Puce, Popeye en Mickey Mouse.
Marc Sleen hield van jongs af van dieren. Hij had huisdieren, tekende beesten, verzamelde prentjes en kon urenlang in de zoo naar ze kijken. Net als Hergé en Willy Vandersteen kwam Marc Sleen bij de scouts terecht, waar hij verantwoordelijkheid en andere zaken, die hem tijdens zijn safari's van pas zouden komen, leerde. Marc Sleen was al van jongs af aan een tekenaar en krabbelde alles vol; tot zelfs de muren en zijn vaders bolhoed toe. Toen Marc Neels veertien was, volgde hij zondagse tekenlessen aan de Academie van Sint-Niklaas. Kunstenaars die hij daar levenslang leerde bewonderen waren Pieter Breughel de Oude, Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Giotto, Gustave De Smet, Rik Wouters, James Ensor, Henri Evenepoel, Karel van de Woestijne, Henri Matisse, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Cézanne en Jules De Bruycker.
Marc Sleens vader overleed in 1939 en het gezin verhuist noodgedwongen terug naar Gentbrugge. Zonder vader Neels belandde het gezin in bittere armoede. Zijn moeder werkte zondags en Marc Neels' tekenstudie werd moeilijker om financieel te onderhouden. De Tweede Wereldoorlog maakte de zaken er niet makkelijker op.
Toen de Duitsers België binnenvielen, vluchtte Marc Neels als een van de zogenaamde CRAB's samen met de scoutsgroep waar hij lid van was naar Limoges, waar hij in een klooster terechtkwam. Hij vond later werk op een boerderij in het naburige Panazol.
In 1943 diende hij uit geldgebrek te kiezen: studeren of in Duitsland werken. Via zijn broer kwam hij in het Arbeidsambt terecht, waar hij administratief werk uitvoerde. Hij tekende er de muren vol, deed boodschappen en bezorgde brieven. Hij keilde die brieven echter de Leie in. Gelukkig voor hem zorgde zijn broer dat deze job hem na de oorlog niet werd aangewreven. Een van Marc Sleens broers zat in het actieve verzet tegen de bezetters en zat ondergedoken in een kasteel in Ertvelde.
In 1944 viel de Sicherheitspolizei binnen op zoek naar zijn broer. Omdat ze niemand vonden, werden de 22-jarige Marc en zijn broer Nestor als gijzelaars gearresteerd. Sleen werd naar het Miljoenenkwartier gebracht waar tijdens zijn ondervraging zijn tanden er werden uitgeslagen. Omdat ze niets loslieten werden de broers naar "De Nieuwe Gevangenis" in Gent gebracht, waar dagelijks tien tot twintig gevangenen werden geëxecuteerd. Op zeker ogenblik zat Marc Sleen alleen in de cel, maar hij werd samen met zijn broer Nestor uit de gevangenis gehaald en per vrachtwagen naar Leopoldsburg gebracht. Daar sloegen de Vlaamse SS'ers op de vlucht omdat de Britten en Canadezen kwamen. Marc Sleen werd bij een bakker in het dorp opgenomen. Omdat de Duitsers nog trachtten terrein terug te winnen, duurde het even voor hij naar huis kon. Jaren later had Marc Sleen nog nachtmerries over deze periode.
Datzelfde jaar, in 1944, begon Marc Sleen als cartoonist bij de katholieke krant De Standaard te werken waar mensen als Gaston Durnez en Marnix Gijsen actief waren. Deze krant werd na de oorlog De Nieuwe Standaard en in 1946 De Nieuwe Gids. Behalve cartoons maakte Sleen illustraties bij artikels, landkaarten en procestekeningen. Hij tekende toen in Ons Volk de stripreeks: De Avonturen van Neus. In 1945 volgden De Avonturen van Piet Fluwijn en Bolleke en een jaar daarna Stropke en Flopke, Tom en Tony en Pollopof.
Marc Sleen ging vooral strips maken vanwege het succes van Willy Vandersteens stripreeks in De Nieuwe Standaard, Suske en Wiske. Alle kranten boden Vandersteen geld om bij hen te komen werken en Sleen zag in dat strips maken beter zou verdienen dan karikaturen tekenen. Als pseudoniem draaide hij zijn achternaam, Neels, om.
In 1945 huwde hij met zijn eerste jeugdliefde, Magdalena Paelinck (1920-2008). Het echtpaar bleef kinderloos. De arts die de geboorte van hun eerste kind in 1952 regelde, voerde een mislukte keizersnede uit en hun kind stierf. Later werd die arts door de Orde der Geneesheren geschrapt wegens andere mislukkingen. Marc Sleen zou altijd over deze gebeurtenis spreken als "de zwaarste slag in zijn leven, veel zwaarder dan gevangenzitten in de oorlog of wat dan ook".
Op 2 oktober 1947 verscheen de dagelijkse vervolgstrip De avonturen van Detectief van Zwam in De Nieuwe Standaard dat inmiddels zijn naam had veranderd in De Nieuwe Gids. Het eerste verhaal heette Het geheim van Matsuoka. De hoofdfiguur was dan detective Van Zwam, maar in hetzelfde verhaal dook Nero op. Zijn naam was "M. Schoonpaard", een man die zich door het drinken van het Matsuokabier de Romeinse keizer Nero waande. In de herdruk van 1961 werd zijn naam veranderd naar "Jan Heiremans" (Heiremans was de naam van een van Marc Sleens collega's bij de krant). De figuur nam na drie avonturen Van Zwams hoofdrol over en werd de centrale figuur van de reeks. De naam "Van Zwam" werd bedacht door Gaston Durnez. Sleen verzon het verhaal zelf. De strip sloeg aan en concurreerde spoedig met Suske en Wiske.
Toen De Nieuwe Gids in 1948 haar populaire editie 't Vrije Volksblad overliet aan een ander katholiek dagblad, Het Nieuws van den Dag, verscheen de strip in beide kranten. Twee jaar later verscheen De Nieuwe Gids als zelfstandige krant en maakte een overeenkomst met het Gents christendemocratisch dagblad Het Volk. Zo verscheen Nero enkel nog in Het Volk en De Nieuwe Gids. Er ontstonden twisten over het auteursrecht nu Het Nieuws van den Dag haar successtrip kwijt was, maar het kwam niet tot een rechtszaak.
Nero werd een groot succes in Vlaanderen. De figuren waren antihelden met zeer herkenbare menselijke gebreken en de situaties waren vaak erg absurd en kolderiek. Marc Sleen verwees ook veel naar de actualiteit en gebruikte zelfs gebeurtenissen die op dat moment in het nieuws waren in zijn scenario's. Zo zijn in het album De IJzeren Kolonel (1956) bijvoorbeeld twee actuele gebeurtenissen verwerkt: de Suezcrisis en Hongaarse Opstand. Zijn strips werden gretig gekocht, ook al omdat ze veel goedkoper waren dan Suske en Wiske. Ze werden in zwart-wit op zeer goedkoop papier gedrukt en roken dikwijls nog naar verse drukinkt. Het is mede door die speciale geur dat veel mensen nostalgisch zijn naar de oude albums en ze veel beter vinden dan de latere kleurenalbums die deze geurkenmerken niet hebben.
In 1965 stapte Marc Sleen over naar De Standaard, de krant waarin ook Suske en Wiske liep. Marc Sleen mocht echter wel drie maanden lang na zijn laatste Neroverhaal in Het Volk geen nieuwe strip publiceren. De nieuwe directie kwam daarom met De geschiedenis van Nero en Co op de proppen, een uit knipsels uit oude Nerostrips bestaand stripverhaal, getekend door mensen bij Studio Vandersteen. Na een drietal dagen werden de figuren in het verhaal echter grondig hertekend om minder op Nero's personages te lijken en kreeg Nero een zwarte kap over zijn hoofd. Zijn naam werd bovendien vervangen door drie puntjes. Het Volk was immers naar de rechter gestapt en had de gerechtelijke politie op de strip afgestuurd wegens inbreuk op het auteursrecht. Af en toe was Nero's naam daarna weer zichtbaar, al bleef zijn hoofd nog vaak verborgen achter allerlei vlaggen en meeuwen. Ten slotte verscheen Nero terug in zijn oorspronkelijke gestalte en werd de naam van de strip veranderd in De Geschiedenis van Sleenovia. Het Volk beweerde het eigendomsrecht te bezitten over alle figuren die Marc Sleen in hun krant had getekend en werd door de rechtbank in het gelijk gesteld. Toch hadden enkele katholieke figuren ervoor gezorgd dat de zaak in de minne werd geregeld. Marc Sleen bleef in het bezit van zijn figuren, maar diende "'t Kapoentje" aan Het Volk over te laten.
Vanaf 1965 tekende Marc Sleen opnieuw zelf Nero. Hij liet al zijn overige reeksen vallen en concentreerde zich enkel nog op deze strip die vanaf dat ogenblik ook in kleurenalbums verscheen.
In 1962 vertrok Marc Sleen op de eerste van vele safari's in Afrika. Tussen 1962 en 1978 verbleef Marc Sleen nagenoeg elk jaar tijdens de maanden januari en februari in de Oost-Afrikaanse brousse (bushbush, wildernis). In de jaren 70 zou hij er dierenreportages maken voor de BRT, waaronder 21 films van Allemaal beestjes. Zelfs in zijn strips bezochten zijn figuren meer en meer het continent en het werd een running gag in "Nero" dat wanneer zijn figuren Sleen belden of thuis kwamen opzoeken hij altijd "op safari" bleek te zijn. Ook Merho maakte in zijn strip De Kiekeboes in het album Album 26 hier een grap over door Kiekeboe en hemzelf naar een stripinstituut te laten gaan, waarvan de directeur, "meneer Neels", op safari blijkt te zijn.
Zijn reizen naar Afrika inspireerden Marc Sleen tot het tekenen van onder andere: De negen peperbollen, De kille man Djaro, Het Bobo-beeldje, Aboe-Markoeb en De Lolifanten. Marc Sleen noemde Oost-Afrika steevast de 'grootste zoo ter wereld'.
Marc Sleens liefde voor dieren zorgde er ook voor dat hij in Nero reclame maakte voor het Wereldnatuurfonds en de dierenwereld in het algemeen. Hij is sinds 1984 ook benoemd tot beheerder van deze organisatie, afdeling België. Ontelbare albums hebben dieren als onderwerp. Het is dan ook niet verwonderlijk dat zijn wapenschild drie olifanten in het embleem bezit.
In 1979 bracht Marc Sleen het boek Safari uit. Het werd uitgegeven door de Antwerpse uitgeverij Scriptoria. Het boek bundelt de Afrika ervaringen van Marc Sleen tussen 1962 en 1978.
In 1977 werd Marc Sleen voorzitter van het comité dat de Bronzen Adhemar uitreikt, vernoemd naar de geniale zoon van Nero, Adhemar. Deze prijs wordt tweejaarlijks uitgereikt aan beloftevol jong Vlaams striptalent. In 1991 kreeg Adhemar een levensgroot standbeeld in Turnhout, de stad waar de prijzen steevast worden uitgedeeld. Sleen zelf werd in 1993 bekroond met een Gouden Adhemar voor zijn ganse carrière.
Omdat een Masaidokter Marc Sleen tijdens een van zijn safari's voorspeld had dat hij in 1991 in Afrika door een kudde olifanten vertrappeld zou worden ging Marc Sleen dat jaar niet op safari.
In 1992, na gedurende 45 jaar Nero helemaal alleen te hebben gemaakt (waarvoor hij een vermelding kreeg in het Guinness Wereldrecordboek), nam hij tekenaar Dirk Stallaert in dienst die vanaf het album Barbarijse vijgen de verhalen die Marc Sleen bedacht, zou tekenen. Sleens productiviteit van 1944 tot 2002 is zelfs nog opmerkelijker als men in overweging neemt dat hij van 1944 tot 1965 ook nog tientallen andere reeksen had lopen zonder hulp van andere tekenaars of scenaristen in te roepen. Later zou hij de wallen onder zijn ogen aanduiden als bewijs van hoe hard hij wel niet aan zijn strips gewerkt heeft overheen de jaren.
In 2002, besloot Marc Sleen, nu hij 80 was een punt te zetten achter de reeks. Het laatste album was Zilveren tranen. Marc Sleen wenste niet dat iemand anders de reeks zou verderzetten.
Op 13 juli 2008 overleed Marc Sleens echtgenote Magdalena Paelinck op de leeftijd van 87 jaar.
Op 6 november 2016 overleed Marc Sleen op 93-jarige leeftijd.
Marc Sleens strips zijn door generaties Vlaamse kinderen en volwassenen gelezen. In vergelijking met veel andere strips die in dit taalgebied zijn uitgegeven had zijn werk altijd iets kolderachtigs, ironisch en anarchistisch. Zijn manier van strips tekenen was tot de komst van Stallaert zeer uniek: amper close-ups of blow-ups, geen overschrijding van de kaders, geen gebruik van vogel- of een ander perspectief ... Dit had vooral met de snelheid te maken waarmee Marc Sleen zijn strips diende te tekenen, wat weinig tijd liet voor zulke zaken. Om die reden zitten zijn verhalen ook vol met continuïteitsfouten. (auto's met plotseling drie in plaats van vier wielen, mensen die plots anders gekleed gaan, ...). In tegenstelling tot andere strips wordt dit bij Marc Sleen echter geduld.
Nero is ook een van de weinige Vlaamse strips die vanwege onder meer de politieke knipoogjes ook door volwassenen gesmaakt worden. Men kan in zijn werk een hele evolutie en geschiedenis nagaan van naoorlogs Vlaanderen over een periode van 60 jaar. In de beginjaren werd zijn politieke visie nog sterk ingegeven door de katholieke inslag van de kranten waarvoor hij werkte. Communisten en socialisten werden toen meestal als slechteriken of duivels voorgesteld. In De Hoed van Geeraard De Duivel (1950) scheert de Duivel bijvoorbeeld zijn sik af en lijkt hij sterk op de socialistische politicus Camille Huysmans. Een dikke handlanger is een karikatuur van socialistisch politicus Paul-Henri Spaak.
Marc Sleen zou later een meer neutrale politieke houding aannemen en spijt krijgen van zijn vaak fanatieke katholieke houding in die jaren. Het gebruik van actuele gebeurtenissen in zijn strips was iets dat Vandersteen in zijn beginjaren ook met Suske en Wiske deed. Anders dan Marc Sleen zag Vandersteen na een tijd in dat dit gegeven wel goed werkte in de krant, maar niet wanneer de verhalen uiteindelijk in albumvorm verschenen. Hierom hield hij er na een tijd stilaan mee op. Sleen kon het knipogen naar de actualiteit en het laten opdraven van karikaturen echter nooit laten. In die zin is Nero nog steeds uniek in de annalen van de Vlaamse strip. Geen enkele andere stripfiguur bezocht bijvoorbeeld Jozef Stalin zoals Nero in Het Vredesoffensief deed. In de reeks doken de afgelopen decennia politieke figuren op als Jozef Stalin, Idi Amin Dada, Khomeini, Bill Clinton, Boris Jeltsin, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Willy De Clercq, Helmut Kohl, Koning Boudewijn, Margaret Thatcher, Mobutu, Saddam Hoessein, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Hirohito, Jean Gol, Guy Verhofstadt, Elizabeth II en Harry Truman op, maar ook karikaturen van bekende mediafiguren als The Beatles, Pablo Escobar, Urbanus, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Paul Newman, Frank Zappa en ook Sleen zelf.
In vergelijking met andere tekenaars heeft Marc Sleen zijn strips nooit laten gebruiken voor merchandising of andere commercialiseringen. Dat leidde er ook toe dat zijn werk nooit een internationale carrière heeft gekend.
Nero is in zekere zin zelfs nog Vlaamser, volkser en gezelliger dan Suske en Wiske. Samen met deze laatstgenoemde strip behoort Nero tot het Vlaamse culturele erfgoed.
Zijn soepele tekenstijl en kolderieke inhoud beïnvloedden Kamagurka, Herr Seele, Jean-Pol, Willy Linthout en Urbanus, Windig en De Jong, Luc Cromheecke, Johan De Moor, Merho, Martin Lodewijk, Hector Leemans, Jan Bosschaert, Dirk Stallaert, Marc Legendre en Erik Meynen.
Marc Sleen, pseudonym of Marcel Honoré Nestor knight Neels (Gentbrugge, December 30, 1922 - Hoeilaart, November 6, 2016) was a Flemish comic author who is best known for his comic series The Adventures of Nero & Co.
Marc Sleen was born as Marcel Neels in Gentbrugge and moved to Sint-Niklaas three months later. His parents Alois, Edmond Neels (1885-1939) and Maria, Augusta, Ghislena Baeckelandt (1882-1965) were branch managers in a kind of café with meeting room and center of the SMOB (Samenwerkende Maatschappij Openbaar Bestuur). His father recovered as hobby watches. Sleen grew up in a well-to-do family and had three older brothers Nestor, Adolf and Roger. His father was humorous and made up bizarre bedtime stories. Marc Sleen would later say that he learned a lot from him. His mother was a Catholic. When Marc was five, he was sent to a boarding school for sisters. He was so unhappy there that at the age of seven he got jaundice with misery, after which his parents took him away. As a boy he read a lot: Jules Verne, Karl May, Sherlock Holmes, Dik Trom, Pietje Bell and comics such as The Katzenjammer Kids, Zig et Puce, Popeye and Mickey Mouse.
Marc Sleen loved animals from an early age. He had pets, drew animals, collected pictures, and could look at them for hours in the zoo. Just like Hergé and Willy Vandersteen, Marc Sleen ended up at the scouts, where he learned responsibility and other things that would come in handy during his safaris. Marc Sleen was a draftsman from an early age and scrambled everything; even to the walls and his father's hat. When Marc Neels was fourteen, he took drawing lessons on Sunday at the Academy of Sint-Niklaas. Artists he learned to admire for life were Pieter Breughel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Giotto, Gustave De Smet, Rik Wouters, James Ensor, Henri Evenepoel, Charles of the Desert, Henri Matisse, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Cézanne and Jules De Bruycker.
Marc Sleen's father died in 1939 and the family is forced to return to Gentbrugge. Without father Neels, the family ended up in bitter poverty. His mother worked on Sundays and Marc Neels' drawing study became more difficult to maintain financially. The Second World War did not make matters any easier.
When the Germans invaded Belgium, Marc Neels fled as one of the so-called CRABs together with the scouts group he was a member of to Limoges, where he ended up in a monastery. He later found work on a farm in neighboring Panazol.
In 1943 he had to choose from lack of money: studying or working in Germany. Via his brother he ended up in the Employment Office, where he did administrative work. He filled the walls, did groceries and delivered letters. However, he threw those letters into the Leie. Fortunately for him, his brother ensured that this job was not attributed to him after the war. One of Marc Sleen's brothers was in active resistance against the occupiers and was hiding in a castle in Ertvelde.
In 1944 the Sicherheitspolizei invaded in search of his brother. Because they found no one, 22-year-old Marc and his brother Nestor were arrested as hostages. Sleen was brought to the Miljoenenkwartier where his teeth were beaten during his interrogation. Because they did not let go, the brothers were taken to "The New Prison" in Ghent, where ten to twenty prisoners were executed every day. At one point, Marc Sleen was alone in jail, but he was taken from prison with his brother Nestor and taken to Leopoldsburg by truck. There the Flemish SS men fled because the British and Canadians came. Marc Sleen was admitted to a bakery in the village. Because the Germans were still trying to regain ground, it took a while before he could go home. Years later, Marc Sleen still had nightmares about this period.
That same year, in 1944, Marc Sleen started working as a cartoonist at the Catholic newspaper De Standaard where people like Gaston Durnez and Marnix Gijsen were active. This newspaper became De Nieuwe Standaard after the war and in 1946 De Nieuwe Gids. In addition to cartoons, Sleen made illustrations for articles, maps and process drawings. He then drew a comic series in Ons Volk: De Avonturen van Neus. Piet Fluwijn and Bolleke followed De Avonturen in 1945 and a year later Stropke and Flopke, Tom and Tony and Pollopof.
Marc Sleen mainly started making comics because of the success of Willy Vanderstein's comic series in De Nieuwe Standaard, Suske and Wiske. All newspapers offered Vandersteen money to work with them and Sleen realized that making comics would earn better than drawing caricatures. As a pseudonym, he reversed his surname, Neels.
In 1945 he married his first childhood sweetheart, Magdalena Paelinck (1920-2008). The couple remained childless. The doctor who arranged the birth of their first child in 1952 performed a cesarean section and their child died. Later that doctor was canceled by the Order of Physicians because of other failures. Marc Sleen would always refer to this event as "the most serious blow in his life, far more serious than being imprisoned in the war or whatever."
On October 2, 1947, the daily follow-up comic The Adventures of Detective van Zwam was published in De Nieuwe Standaard, which had meanwhile changed its name to De Nieuwe Gids. The first story was called The Secret of Matsuoka. The main character was then detective Van Zwam, but Nero showed up in the same story. His name was "M. Schoonpaard", a man who, by drinking the Matsuoka beer, imagined the Roman emperor Nero. In the reprint of 1961 his name was changed to "Jan Heiremans" (Heiremans was the name of one of Marc Sleens colleagues at the newspaper). After three adventures, the figure took over Van Zwam's leading role and became the central figure in the series. The name "Van Zwam" was invented by Gaston Durnez. Sleen made up the story himself. The comic caught on and soon competed with Suske and Wiske.
When De Nieuwe Gids left its popular edition 't Vrije Volksblad in 1948 to another Catholic daily newspaper, Het Nieuws van den Dag, the comic appeared in both newspapers. Two years later De Nieuwe Gids appeared as an independent newspaper and made an agreement with the Ghent Christian-Democratic daily Het Volk. For example, Nero only appeared in Het Volk and De Nieuwe Gids. Copyright disputes arose now that The News of the Day had lost its success strip, but it did not lead to a lawsuit.
Nero became a big success in Flanders. The figures were anti-heroes with very recognizable human flaws and the situations were often very absurd and crazy. Marc Sleen also referred a lot to current events and even used events that were currently in the news in his scenarios. For example, the album The Iron Colonel (1956) incorporates two current events: the Suez crisis and the Hungarian Uprising. His comics were eagerly bought, also because they were much cheaper than Suske and Wiske. They were printed in black and white on very cheap paper and often still smelled of fresh printing ink. It is partly because of that special scent that many people are nostalgic about the old albums and find them much better than the later color albums that do not have these scent characteristics.
In 1965 Marc Sleen switched to De Standaard, the newspaper in which Suske and Wiske also ran. However, Marc Sleen was not allowed to publish a new comic in Het Volk for three months after his last Nero story. The new management therefore came up with The History of Nero and Co, a comic strip consisting of clippings from old Nerostrips, drawn by people at Studio Vandersteen. After three days, however, the figures in the story were thoroughly redesigned to look less like Nero's characters and Nero was given a black hood over his head. His name was also replaced by three dots. After all, the People had gone to court and had sent the judicial police to the strip for copyright infringement. From time to time Nero's name was visible again, although his head was often hidden behind all kinds of flags and seagulls. Finally Nero returned to its original shape and the name of the comic was changed to The History of Sleenovia. The People claimed to have ownership of all the figures that Marc Sleen had signed in their newspaper and was upheld by the court. Nevertheless, some Catholic figures had arranged for the matter to be settled amicably. Marc Sleen remained in possession of his figures, but had to leave "'t Kapoentje" to Het Volk.
From 1965 Marc Sleen once again drew Nero himself. He dropped all his other series and only focused on this comic that from that moment also appeared in color albums.
In 1962 Marc Sleen left on the first of many safaris in Africa. Between 1962 and 1978, Marc Sleen spent almost every year during January and February in the East African bush (bushbush, wilderness). In the 70s he would make animal reports for the BRT, including 21 films by Allemaal beasts. Even in his comics, his figures visited the continent more and more and it became a running gag in "Nero" that when his figures called Sleen or came to visit him, he always turned out to be "on safari". Merho also made a joke about this in his comic De Kiekeboes in the album Album 26 by having Kiekeboe and himself go to a comic institute, whose director, "Mr. Neels", turns out to be on safari.
His travels to Africa inspired Marc Sleen to draw, among other things: The nine peppercorns, De kille man Djaro, Het Bobo-statuette, Abu-Markoeb and De Lolifanten. Marc Sleen invariably called East Africa the "largest zoo in the world."
Marc Sleen's love for animals also made sure that he advertised the World Wildlife Fund and the animal world in general in Nero. He has also been appointed as manager of this organization, Belgium Department since 1984. Countless albums have animals as their subject. It is therefore not surprising that his coat of arms has three elephants in the emblem.
Marc Sleen published the book Safari in 1979. It was published by the Antwerp publisher Scriptoria. The book bundles the Africa experiences of Marc Sleen between 1962 and 1978.
In 1977, Marc Sleen became chairman of the committee that awards the Bronze Adhemar, named after Nero's brilliant son, Adhemar. This prize is awarded every two years to promising young Flemish cartoon talent. In 1991 Adhemar received a life-size statue in Turnhout, the city where the prizes are always awarded. Sleen himself was awarded a Golden Adhemar in 1993 for his entire career.
Because a Masai doctor Marc Sleen predicted during one of his safaris that he would be trampled in Africa in 1991 by a herd of elephants, Marc Sleen did not go on safari that year.
In 1992, after 45 years of making Nero all by himself (for which he was mentioned in the Guinness World Record Book), he hired draftsman Dirk Stallaert who would draw the stories that Marc Sleen devised from the Barbary figs album. Sleens productivity from 1944 to 2002 is even more remarkable when one considers that he also ran dozens of other series from 1944 to 1965 without calling in the help of other draftsmen or scriptwriters. He would later refer to the bags under his eyes as proof of how hard he worked on his comics over the years.
In 2002, Marc Sleen, now 80, decided to put an end to the series. The last album was Zilveren tears. Marc Sleen did not want anyone else to continue the series.
On July 13, 2008, Marc Sleens wife Magdalena Paelinck died at the age of 87.
On November 6, 2016, Marc Sleen died at the age of 93.
Marc Sleen's comics have been read by generations of Flemish children and adults. Compared to many other comics published in this language area, his work always had something colossal, ironic and anarchic. His way of drawing comics was very unique until the arrival of Stallaert: hardly any close-ups or blow-ups, no crossing of the frames, no use of bird or other perspective ... This was mainly due to the speed with which Marc Sleen had to draw his comics, leaving little time for such things. For that reason his stories are also full of continuity errors. (cars with suddenly three instead of four wheels, people who suddenly change clothes, ...). However, unlike other comics, this is tolerated by Marc Sleen.
Nero is also one of the few Flemish comics that adults also appreciate because of the political winks. In his work one can trace an entire evolution and history of post-war Flanders over a period of 60 years. In the early years his political vision was strongly inspired by the Catholic impact of the newspapers for which he worked. Communists and socialists were then usually presented as bad guys or devils. In De Hoed by Geeraard De Duivel (1950), for example, the Devil shaves his goatee and looks a lot like the socialist politician Camille Huysmans. A fat henchman is a caricature of socialist politician Paul-Henri Spaak.
Marc Sleen would later adopt a more neutral political attitude and regret his often fanatic Catholic attitude in those years. The use of current events in his comics was something that Vandersteen also did with Suske and Wiske in his early years. Unlike Marc Sleen, after a while Vandersteen realized that this fact worked well in the newspaper, but not when the stories finally appeared in album form. For this reason he gradually stopped. Sleen could never stop winking at current events and having caricatures turned up. In that sense, Nero is still unique in the annals of the Flemish comic. No other cartoon character, for example, visited Jozef Stalin as Nero did in the Peace Offensive. In the series, political figures such as Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin Dada, Khomeini, Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Willy De Clercq, Helmut Kohl, King Baudouin, Margaret Thatcher, Mobutu, Saddam Hussein, Jean- Luc Dehaene, Hirohito, Jean Gol, Guy Verhofstadt, Elizabeth II and Harry Truman, but also caricatures of well-known media figures such as The Beatles, Pablo Escobar, Urbanus, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, Paul Newman, Frank Zappa and also Sleen himself.
Compared to other artists, Marc Sleen has never allowed his comics to be used for merchandising or other commercializations. This also meant that his work never had an international career.
In a sense, Nero is even more Flemish, more folk and cozier than Suske and Wiske. Together with this latter comic, Nero belongs to the Flemish cultural heritage.
His flexible drawing style and colonial content influenced Kamagurka, Herr Seele, Jean-Pol, Willy Linthout and Urbanus, Windig and De Jong, Luc Cromheecke, Johan De Moor, Merho, Martin Lodewijk, Hector Leemans, Jan Bosschaert, Dirk Stallaert, Marc Legendre and Erik Meynen.
The new prisoner was trundled in and his manacles were locked to a heavy, weighted iron chair. Then the guards left. The Major affected not to notice for at least ten minutes. Then he hit record on his pad, set it upon his desk and rocked back in his chair. “Who are you?” Major Nakba asked the blind man.
“I am Ch’Byartha, Major. I work in the mess tent.”
“Yes, I know. You showed up on our doorstep about two weeks ago looking for work. Before that you were a scullion in the House Al-Ghafil near the citadel. Before that you were a vagrant beggar, suspected pickpocket and confidence man, and a street performer on the wharves. You bought passage here on a skiff owned by the Lightfoot Street Mercantile Collaborative in East Avalon, where you were also a vagrant beggar, suspected pickpocket and confidence man, and a street performer on the docks. It is who you were before you washed up among the flotsam and jetsam that collects in such places I am most curious about.”
“No one of consequence, I can assure you.”
“And the prisoner we have in the Mausoleum. Is she no one of consequence?”
“To some I suppose.”
“To you?”
“Hardly even that.” The cook’s voice was even and smooth, he didn’t miss a beat. If he was lying, he was skilled. Exactly as one might suspect an actor or confidence man might be.
“She seems to think you are someone. What was it she was apologizing for when you brought her meal yesterday?”
“Damned if I know,” he shrugged. “Sounded as if she was dealing with some guilt issues. A heavy conscience is difficult to bear. Perhaps she sees what she wants to see, someone to confess to and unload her burden.”
“A very pat and probable theory.”
“A simple one, major. The simplest answer has the best chance of being the correct one, I find.”
“Do you?” The Major sat silent for a bit to see what the blind man would do. Silences, long, awkward and the more uncomfortable the better, were some of his favorite interrogation tools. The human imagination, especially a guilty one, was his greatest ally. They could concoct greater horrors than he could if he just gave them time. Anticipated pain hurt more than the real thing. And apparently, guilty consciences felt a need to unload their burdens. This one however sat and smiled like a saint with a golden ticket to Elysium and the utmost confidence in the train schedule.
Which meant he was guilty as sin. Even the innocent sweated in interrogation. Take the right tone with a dog and it still tucked its tail and bowed its head as if it has peed on the rug. This one was wagging his like he was deaf as well as blind.
“I’ve heard,” said the Major, breaking the silence first, as abruptly as he could to see if the man would jump. He did not. “that those who survive Fever, sometimes go blind as a result.”
“I’ve heard that too.”
“Did you?”
“Go blind?”
“Contract Fever,” the Major answered.
“Not that I recall.”
“Have you sailed the Sea before, Mr. Ch’Byartha?”
“A time or two.”
“Have you ever been to the Last Caravanserai?”
“I don’t know, what does it sound like?”
“Do you know any royalty?”
“I know some who act like they are.”
“Did you sail on the catamaran sloop Advisor with the Viceroy’s daughter in the spring of last year?”
“If she’s pregnant, then the answer is, ‘no.’”
“Are you the Merchant Prince Kurga Din Allorowro Vela D’Pomani D’Moro?”
“Lord, I hope not! I should never learn to write down a name that long.”
“A pity, his family is looking for him.”
“If I see him, I’ll be sure to tell him.”
“You are a witty fellow.” The Major stood up, walked around the desk and sat on the arm of the interrogation chair. His bulk loomed over the prisoner. His face now only inches away. “A sense of humor can be of great use during torture. At least in the early stages. You will tell me what I want to know. Eventually. We can force you to admit the truth. Lies can be peeled off as easily as skin.” He ran one finger along the manacled arm. “Boiled away. Cut from a guilty conscience slice by slice.”
“Oh I don’t doubt that. What I do doubt is your great concern over the identity of a vagrant beggar, suspected pickpocket and confidence man, and street performer who now moonlights as a scullion.”
“I tire of your games Mr. Din Allorowro.”
“Then perhaps you should ask me something you actually wish to know.”
“Who is she?”
“Oh dear.” The blind man looked genuinely disappointed. “Yesterday I would have told you that with relish.”
“And today?”
“I’m afraid you’ve caught me at a bad time.”
“I will have the answer. How devoted to her are you, merchant?”
At last, the blind man betrayed a hint of fear. The patient hunter was the most successful. “I would guess we are both about to find out.”
[you know what? i have the most fun writing conversations. i think i secretly want to be a scriptwriter or screenwriter. i like writing plays. Which is weird, cuz i almost never attend one.]
JACK KIRBY
Tales Of Suspense 97
Birth nameJacob Kurtzberg
BornAugust 28, 1917
New York City. New York
Died February 6, 1994 (aged 76)
Thousand Oaks, California
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Penciller, Inker, Writer, Editor
Pseudonym(s)The King
Notable worksMarvel Comics
AwardsAlley Award
*Best Pencil Artist (1967), plus many awards for individual stories
Shazam Award
*Special Achievement by an Individual (1971)
Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of medium. He was also a comic book writer and editor. His most common nickname is The King.
He was inducted into comic books' Shazam Awards Hall of Fame in 1975.
The Jack Kirby Award for achievement in comic books was named in his honor.
Early life
Born Jacob Kurtzberg to Jewish Austrian parents in New York City, he grew up on Suffolk Street in New York's Lower East Side Delancey Street area, attending elementary school at P.S. 20. His father, Benjamin, a garment-factory worker, was a Conservative Jew, and Jacob attended Hebrew school. Jacob's one sibling, a brother five years younger, predeceased him. After a rough-and-tumble childhood with much fighting among the kind of kid gangs he would render more heroically in his future comics (Fantastic Four's Jewish Ben Grimm was raised on rough-and-tumble "Yancy Street", and was predeceased by his older brother; in addition to sharing Kirby's father's first name, his middle name is Jacob, Kirby's first name at birth), Kirby enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, at what he said was age 14, leaving after a week. "I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done".[1]
Essentially self-taught, Kirby cited among his influences the comic strip artists Alex Raymond and Milton Caniff.
The Golden Age of Comics
Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), art by Jack Kirby (penciler) and Joe Simon (inker).
Per his own sometimes-unreliable memory, Kirby joined the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate in 1936, working there on newspaper comic strips and on single-panel advice cartoons such as Your Health Comes First (under the pseudonym "Jack Curtiss"). He remained until late 1939, then worked for the movie animation company Fleischer Studios as an "in-betweener" (an artist who fills in the action between major-movement frames,) on Popeye cartoons. "I went from Lincoln to Fleischer," he recalled. "From Fleischer I had to get out in a hurry because I couldn't take that kind of thing," describing it as "a factory in a sense, like my father's factory. They were manufacturing pictures."
Around this time, "I began to see the first comic books appear". The first American comic books were reprints of newspaper comic strips; soon, these tabloid-size, 10-inch by 15-inch "Comic books" began to include original material in comic-strip form. Kirby began writing and drawing such material for the comic book packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of firms creating comics on demand for publishers. Through that company, Kirby did what he remembers as his first comic book work, for Wild Boy Magazine. This included such strips as the science fiction adventure The Diary of Dr. Hayward (under the pseudonym "Curt Davis"), the Western crimefighter strip Wilton of the West (as "Fred Sande"), the swashbuckler strip "The Count of Monte Cristo" (again as "Jack Curtiss"), and the humor strips Abdul Jones (as "Ted Grey)" and Socko the Seadog (as "Teddy"), all variously for Jumbo Comics and other Eisner-Iger clients. Kirby was also helpful beyond his artwork when he once frightened off a mobster who was strongarming Eisner for their building's towel service.
Kirby moved on to comic-book publisher and newspaper syndicator Fox Feature Syndicate, earning a then-reasonable $15 a week salary. He began exploring superhero narrative with the comic strip The Blue Beetle (January–March 1940), starring a character created by the pseudonymous Charles Nicholas, a house name that Kirby retained for the three-month-long strip.
Simon & Kirby
During this time, Kirby met and began collaborating with cartoonist and Fox editor Joe Simon, who in addition to his staff work continued to freelance. Speaking at a 1998 Comic-Con International panel in San Diego, California, Simon recounted the meeting:
“
I had a suit and Jack thought that was really nice. He'd never seen a comic book artist with a suit before. The reason I had a suit was that my father was a tailor. Jack's father was a tailor too, but he made pants! Anyway, I was doing freelance work and I had a little office in New York about ten blocks from DC's and Fox [Feature Syndicate]'s offices, and I was working on Blue Bolt for Funnies, Inc. So, of course, I loved Jack's work and the first time I saw it I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He asked if we could do some freelance work together. I was delighted and I took him over to my little office. We worked from the second issue of Blue Bolt...
and remained a team across the next two decades. In the early 2000s, original art for an unpublished, five-page Simon & Kirby collaboration titled "Daring Disc", which may predate the duo's Blue Bolt, surfaced. Simon published the story in the 2003 updated edition of his autobiography, The Comic Book Makers.
After leaving Fox and landing at pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman's Timely Comics (the future Marvel Comics), the new Simon & Kirby team created the seminal patriotic hero Captain America in late 1940. Their dynamic perspectives, groundbreaking use of centerspreads, cinematic techniques and exaggerated sense of action made the title an immediate hit and rewrote the rules for comic book art. Simon and Kirby also produced the first complete comic book starring Captain Marvel for Fawcett Comics.
Captain America became the first and largest of many hit characters the duo would produce. The Simon & Kirby name soon became synonymous with exciting superhero comics, and the two became industry stars whose readers followed them from title to title. A financial dispute with Goodman led to their decamping to National Comics, one of the precursors of DC Comics, after ten issues of Captain America. Given a lucrative contract at their new home, Simon & Kirby took over the Sandman in Adventure Comics, and scored their next hits with the "kid gang" teams the Boy Commandos and the Newsboy Legion, and the superhero Manhunter.
Kirby married Rosalind "Roz" Goldstein (September 25, 1922–December 22, 1998) on May 23, 1942. The couple would have four children: Susan, Neal, Barbara and Lisa. The same year that he married, he changed his name legally from Jacob Kurtzberg to Jack Kirby. The couple was living in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, when Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army in the late autumn of 1943. Serving with the Third Army combat infantry, he landed in Normandy, on Omaha Beach, 10 days after D-Day.
As superhero comics waned in popularity after the end of World War II, Kirby and his partner began producing a variety of other genre stories. They are credited with the creation of the first romance title, Young Romance Comics at Crestwood Publications, also known as Prize Comics. In addition, Kirby and Simon produced crime, horror, western and humor comics.
After Simon
Sky Masters comic strip by Kirby & Wally Wood.
The Kirby & Simon partnership ended amicably in 1955 with the failure of their own Mainline Publications. Kirby continued to freelance. He was instrumental in the creation of Archie Comics' The Fly and Harvey Comics' Double Life of Private Strong reuniting briefly with Joe Simon. He also drew some issues of Classics Illustrated.
For DC Comics, then known as National Comics, Kirby co-created with writers Dick & Dave Wood the non-superpowered adventuring quartet the Challengers of the Unknown in Showcase #6 (Feb. 1957), while also contributing to such anthologies as House of Mystery. In 30 months at DC, Kirby drew lightly over 600 pages, which included 11 Green Arrow stories in World's Finest Comics and Adventure Comics that, in a rarity, Kirby inked himself. He also began drawing a newspaper comic strip, Sky Masters of the Space Force, written by the Wood brothers and initially inked by the unrelated Wally Wood.
Kirby left National Comics after a contractual dispute in which editor Jack Schiff, who had been involved in getting Kirby and the Wood brothers the Sky Masters contract, claimed he was due royalties from Kirby's share of the strip's profits. Schiff sued Kirby and was successful at trial.
Stan Lee and Marvel Comics
Kirby also worked for Marvel, on the cusp of the company's evolution from its 1950s incarnation as Atlas Comics, beginning with the cover and the seven-page story "I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers" in Strange Worlds #1 (Dec. 1958).[9] Kirby would draw across all genres, from romance to Western (the feature "Black Rider") to espionage (Yellow Claw), but made his mark primarily with a series of monster, horror and science fiction stories for the company's many anthology series, such as Amazing Adventures, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense. His bizarre designs of powerful, unearthly creatures proved a hit with readers. Then, with Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, Kirby began working on superhero comics again, beginning with The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961). The landmark series became a hit that revolutionized the industry with its true-to-life naturalism and, eventually, a cosmic purview informed by Kirby's seemingly boundless imagination — one coincidentally well-matched with the consciousness-expanding youth culture of the 1960s.
For almost a decade, Kirby provided Marvel's house style, co-creating/designing many of the Marvel characters and providing layouts for new artists to draw over. Highlights besides the Fantastic Four include Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, the original X-Men, the Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, Galactus, The Watcher, Magneto, Ego the Living Planet, the Inhumans and their hidden city of Attilan, and the Black Panther — comics' first known Black superhero — and his African nation of Wakanda. Simon & Kirby's Captain America was also incorporated into Marvel's continuity.
In 1968 and 1969, Joe Simon was involved in litigation with Marvel Comics over the ownership of Captain America, initiated by Marvel after Simon registered the copyright renewal for Captain America in his own name. According to Simon, Kirby agreed to support the company in the litigation and, as part of a deal Kirby made with publisher Martin Goodman, signed over to Marvel any rights he might have had to the character.
Kirby continued to expand the medium's boundaries, devising photo-collage covers and interiors, developing new drawing techniques such as the method for depicting energy fields now known as 'Kirby Dots', and other experiments. Yet he grew increasingly dissatisfied with working at Marvel. There have been a number of reasons given for this dissatisfaction, including resentment over Stan Lee's increasing media prominence, a lack of full creative control, anger over breaches of perceived promises by publisher Martin Goodman, and frustration over Marvel's failure to credit him specifically for his story plotting and for his character creations and co-creations. He began to both script and draw some secondary features for Marvel, such as "The Inhumans" in Amazing Adventures and horror stories for the anthology title Chamber of Darkness, and received full credit for doing so; but he eventually left the company in 1970 for rival DC Comics, under editorial director Carmine Infantino.
Kirby returned to DC in the early 1970s, under an arrangement that gave him full creative control as editor, writer and artist. He produced a cycle of inter-linked titles under the blanket sobriquet The Fourth World including a trilogy of new titles, New Gods, Mister Miracle, and The Forever People, as well as the Superman title, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen which he worked on at the publisher's request. Kirby claims to have picked this Superman family book because the series was between artists and he did not want to cost anyone a job. The central villain of the Fourth World series, Darkseid, and some of the Fourth World concepts appeared in Jimmy Olsen before the launch of the other Fourth World books, giving the new titles greater exposure to potential buyers.
Kirby later produced other DC titles such as OMAC, Kamandi, The Demon, and (together with former partner Joe Simon for one last time) a new incarnation of the Sandman. Several characters from this period have since become fixtures in the DC universe, including the demon Etrigan and his human counterpart Jason Blood; Scott Free (Mister Miracle), and the cosmic villain Darkseid.
Kirby then returned to Marvel Comics where he both wrote and drew Captain America and created the series The Eternals, which featured a race of inscrutable alien giants, the Celestials, whose behind-the-scenes intervention influenced the evolution of life on Earth. Kirby's other Marvel creations in this period include Devil Dinosaur, Machine Man, and an adaptation and expansion of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. He also wrote and drew The Black Panther and did numerous covers across the line.
Although often artistically successful, the books did not connect with an audience to the same extent as his earlier work for Marvel in the 1960s. Many of the themes of his 1970s work - aging and immortality, helplessness in the face of unknowable and inconceivable powers beyond one's control - were those of a man in late middle age and were not likely to connect with younger readers.
Still dissatisfied with Marvel's treatment of him, and their refusal to provide health and other employment benefits, Kirby left Marvel to work in animation, where he did designs for Turbo Teen, Thundarr the Barbarian and other animated television series. He also worked on The Fantastic Four cartoon show, reuniting him with scriptwriter Stan Lee. He illustrated an adaptation of the Walt Disney movie The Black Hole for Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales syndicated comic strip in 1979-80.
In the early 1980s, Pacific Comics, a new, non-newsstand comic book publisher, made a then-groundbreaking deal with Kirby to publish his series Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers: Kirby would retain copyright over his creation and receive royalties on it. This, together with similar actions by other "independents" such as Eclipse Comics, helped establish a precedent for other professionals and end the monopoly of the "work for hire" system, wherein comics creators, even freelancers, had owned no rights to characters they created. Kirby also retained ownership of characters used by Topps Comics beginning in 1993, for a set of series in what the company dubbed "The Kirbyverse".
In 1985, screenwriter and comic-book historian Mark Evanier revealed that thousands of pages of Kirby's artwork had been lost by Marvel Comics. These pages became the subject of a dispute between Kirby and that company. In 1987, in exchange for his giving up any claim to copyright, Kirby received from Marvel the 2,100 pages of his original art that remained in its possession. The disposition of Kirby's art for DC, Fawcett, and numerous other companies has remained uncertain.
Kirby's daughter, Lisa Kirby, announced in early 2006 that she and co-writer Steve Robertson, with artist Mike Thibodeaux, plan to published a six-issue miniseries, Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters, featuring characters and concepts created by her father.
Awards and honors
Jack Kirby received a great deal of recognition over the course of his career, including the 1967 Alley Award for Best Pencil Artist. The following year he was runner-up behind Jim Steranko. His other Alley Awards were:
*1963: Favorite Short Story - "The Human Torch Meets Captain America,", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Strange Tales #114
*1964: Best Novel - "Captain America Joins the Avengers", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, from The Avengers #4
*1964: Best New Strip or Book - "Captain America", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in Tales of Suspense
*1965: Best Short Story - "The Origin of the Red Skull", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Tales of Suspense #66
*1966: Best Professional Work, Regular Short Feature - "Tales of Asgard" by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in The Mighty Thor
*1967: Best Professional Work, Regular Short Feature - (tie) "Tales of Asgard" and "Tales of the Inhumans", both by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in The Mighty Thor
*1968: Best Professional Work, Best Regular Short Feature - "Tales of the Inhumans", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in The Mighty Thor
*1968: Best Professional Work, Hall of Fame - Fantastic Four, by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby; Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., by Jim Steranko[10]
Kirby won a Shazam Award for Special Achievement by an Individual in 1971 for his "Fourth World" series in Forever People, New Gods, Mister Miracle, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen. He was inducted into the Shazam Awards Hall of Fame in 1975.
His work was honored posthumously with the 1998 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project, for Jack Kirby's New Gods by Jack Kirby, edited by Bob Kahan.
The Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor.
In 2006, he was voted the #1 artist on Comic Book Resources ' All Time Top 100 Writers and Artists. With Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter and Chris Ware, Kirby was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from Sept. 16, 2006 to Jan. 28, 2007.
Legacy
Kirby is popularly acknowledged by comics creators and fans as one of the greatest and most influential artists in the history of comics. His output was legendary, with one count estimating that he produced over 25,000 pages during his lifetime, as well as hundreds of comic strips and sketches. He also produced paintings, and worked on concept illustrations for a number of Hollywood films.
The most imitated aspect of Kirby's work has been his exaggerated perspectives and dynamic energy. Less easy to imitate have been the expressive body language of his characters, who embrace each other and charge into everything from battle to pancakes with unselfconscious exuberance; and such constantly forward-looking innovations as the then cutting-edge photomontages he often used. He (along with fellow Marvel creator Steve Ditko) pioneered the use of visible minority characters in comic books, and Kirby co-created the first black superhero at Marvel (the African prince the Black Panther) and created DC's first two black superheroes: Vykin the Black in The Forever People #1 (March 1971) and the Black Racer in The New Gods #3 (July 1971).
Kirby: King of Comics (Hardcover)
by Mark Evanier (Author), Neil Gaiman (Introduction)
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
As a teenager, future television and comics writer Evanier became an assistant to Jack Kirby, one of the foremost artists in the history of American comics. Kirby played a major role in shaping the superhero genre, not only through his innovative, dynamic artwork but through collaborating with Stan Lee to create classic Marvel characters like the Fantastic Four, the Hulk and the X-Men. Evanier has now written this magnificently illustrated biography of his mentor. Rather than employing the academic prose that one might expect from an art book, Evanier, a talented raconteur, tells Kirby's life story in an informal, entertaining manner. Although Evanier does not delve into psychological analysis, he brings Kirby's personality vividly alive: a child of the Great Depression, a creative visionary who struggled most of his life to support his family. The book recounts how Kirby was insufficiently appreciated by clueless corporate executives and close-minded comics professionals. But the stunning artwork in this book, taken from private collections, makes the case for Kirby's genius. A landmark work, this is essential reading for comics fans and those who want to better understand the history of the comics medium—or those who just want to enjoy Kirby's incredible artwork. (Mar.)
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Product Description
Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books’ most popular characters including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were comics before Kirby, but for the most part their page layout, graphics, and visual dynamic aped what was being done in syndicated newspaper strips. Almost everything that was different about comic books began in the forties on the drawing table of Jack Kirby. This is his story by one who knew him well—the authorized celebration of the one and only “King of Comics” and his groundbreaking work.
“I don’t think it’s any accident that . . . the entire Marvel universe and the entire DC universe are all pinned or rooted on Kirby’s concepts.” —Michael Chabon
About the Author
Mark Evanier met Jack Kirby in 1969, worked as his assistant, and later became his official biographer. A writer and historian, Evanier has written more than 500 comics for Gold Key, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, several hundred hours of television (including Garfield) and is the author of several books including Mad Art (2002). He has three Emmy Award nominations, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for animation from the Writers Guild of America.
Mark Evanier
Kirby, Jack: Jack Kirby (American, 1917-1994) : Jack Kirby has received world-wide recognition for his long comic book career and accomplishments. He is regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic-book medium, thus earning the nick-name "King." Among Kirby's many co-creations are Captain America, the Newsboy Legion, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, the Avengers, the X-Men, Silver Surfer, the New Gods, and countless other memorable heroes and villains.
Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
" OFF LIMITS " By HANS HABE = János Békessy
used also the pseudonyms Antonio Corte, Frank Richard, Frederick Gert, John Richler, Hans Wolfgang, and Robert Pilchowski.
Vienna: Eduard Kaiser Verlag: 1955 "Off Limits: Roman der Besatzung Deutschlands"
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Pseudonym for János Békessy; pseudonym adopted, 1930, legalized, 1955.
Nationality: Hungarian. Born: Budapest, 12 February 1911.
Military Service: French Army, 1939-40; United States Army, 1942-46: major; Bronze Star. Education: University of Heidelberg; University of Vienna, 1929-30.
Family: Married 1) Margit Bloch in 1931; 2) Erika Lewy in 1934; 3) Eleanor Close in 1942, one son; 4) Ali Ghito in 1947; 5) Eloise Hardt in 1948, one daughter (deceased); 6) Licci Balla in 1958.
Career:
Editor, Wiener Sonn and Montagszeitung, Vienna, 1929-33; editor-in-chief, Der Morgen, Vienna, 1934-36; League of Nations correspondent, Geneva, Switzerland, Prager Tageblatt, Prague; writer and lecturer, United States, 1941-42; editor-in-chief of 18 U.S.-edited German language newspapers, occupied Germany, 1945-46; founder and editor-in-chief, Müencher Illustrierte and Echo der Woche, Munich, Germany, 1949-51;
writer, 1952-77.
Also contributor to anthologies, author of syndicated column, "Outside USA," and weekly columnist, Kölnische Rundschau (Cologne, Germany), and Welt am Sonntag (Hamburg, Germany).
Member of board of governors, Haifa University, 1971.
Awards: Croix de Guerre de Luxembourg; named Great Knight of Mark Twain, Mark Twain Journal; Jerusalem Medal, city of Jerusalem;
Boston University fellow, 1966;
Herzl Prize of Israel, 1972; Grand Cross of Merit from West Germany; Konrad Adenauer prize for literature, 1977. Member: Authors Council of West Germany; Journalist Association of Israel.
Died: 29 September 1977, age 66.
Hans Habe was the pseudonym of János Békessy, who was born on 12 February 1911 in Budapest.
He was the son of the scandalous journalist and newspaper publisher Imre Békessy.
Hans lived in Vienna until 1926, when Karl Kraus initiated an extortion scandal against his father.
The son studied German language and literature at Heidelberg and found his first position as a reporter for newspapers in Vienna.
He edited army newspapers and sympathized temporarily with the Austrian fascists.
His early career was quite successful, and he was the first to discover Adolf Hitler's origins and real name, Schicklgruber.
Beginning in 1934, Habe was the League of Nations correspondent for the Neue Wiener Journal and the Prager Tageblatt. In 1936 he published Drei über die Grenze (Three over the Frontier ), described as an "exile novel of a nonexile."
Expatriated from Austria, Habe served as a volunteer in the French army in 1939-40, became a German POW, and in 1940 escaped to the United States.
His successful war novel A Thousand Shall Fall (Ob Tausend fallen ) was published in the United States in 1941.
After being trained as a defense officer in the U.S. Army, Habe was promoted to major and was assigned to serve as a member of the American committee to establish a democratic press in defeated Germany. His most important achievement was the founding of the Munich newspaper Die Neue Zeitung.
In his not entirely reliable report Im Jahre Null: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der deutschen Presse (1966), on the history of the German press, he characterized the attitude of the American occupying forces as "anti-German" and "pro-Russian" and claimed to have repeatedly warned the United States of the communist danger.
Habe published successfully as a novelist in the United States, with his works reflecting his personal experiences. The novel Aftermath (1948) portrays the end of the war and postwar period and criticizes the emancipated American woman.
Off Limits (1954) relates stories surrounding the American occupation of Germany. Black Earth (1952) depicts the fight of farmers in Hungary against the Soviet influence on domestic agricultural policies.
In 1946 Habe moved to Hollywood and then, in 1951, to Ascona, Switzerland.
His attempt to publish the magazines Neue Münchner Illustrierte and Echo der Woche in Munich failed, and Habe's journalistic career ended in 1954.
With more than 40 publications to his credit, however, Habe established a reputation as a best-selling novelist.
From the 1960s on, calling himself an "extremist of the center," he openly opposed left-wing and liberal authors such as Max Frisch and Rolf Hochhuth in Welt am Sonntag.
In the same vein he argued against the antireader and antimoral avant-garde, the nouveau roman, and the so-called nonrepresentational novel.
Throughout his career he remained a pugnacious defender of his own interests and opinions. He sued the magazine Stern in 1952 for the publication of details of his private life, and he brought politically motivated suits against others, for example, in the charges made against Friedrich Dürrenmatt in 1972.
Habe died on 29 September 1977 in Locarno, Switzerland.
— © Walter Schmitz
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János Bekessy alias Hans Habe
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BIOGRAPHY, 1954:
"Fehlgeburt eines Charakters" - Hans Habe
DER SPIEGEL 44/1954
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" A Thousand Shall Fall " by János Békessy
(alias Hans Habe or Jean Békessy), 1941.
(WW2 - the author served in the 21eme Regiment de Marche des Volontaires Etrangers during French campaign 1940)
Books: STUDY IN DISINTEGRATION
Monday, Sep. 15, 1941 time.com
REVIEW: "A THOUSAND SHALL FALL"—Hans Habe —Harcourt Brace ($3)
" As human and real as a nightmare is this first-hand account of the Fall of France by a soldier of the French Army. That enormous and intricate catastrophe might have cramped the hand of a Tolstoi. Hans Habe, previously a minor novelist, has turned it into the most vivid book World War II has yet produced. He tells nothing he did not see with his own eyes. But he saw the disintegration of a great people...
...It was bad from the very beginning. The men of Habe's regiment were soft after months of misdirected idleness. Their gas masks were inadequately sealed over the eyes; they had misfit helmets, tattered shoes, antediluvian weapons (Habe used an 1891, 20-lb. Remington)....
...their officers dinned into them, "the enemy is stronger." The mottoes of "the Greatest Army in Europe" became planquez-vous (hide) and sauve qui peut.
In a fatal confusion of discipline with punishment, the officers tried to toughen them while they marched: 35, 40, 45 kilometers a night.
The older men fell out.
The stronger, to ease their regulation load of 70 pounds, tossed their equipment in the ditches.
Trucks were nowhere to be seen.
They marched against an enemy hardened by years of expert training, better handled, who had much better pay, besides daily mail from home.
Later, Habe saw German work-battalions dressed in cool, spotless white.
Trucks carried their coats, to say nothing of their equipment.
The French marched to battle in retreat-like confusion.
"A horse collapsed and could not rise again; a tank passed over him.
The heavy caterpillar treads cut into his living flesh.
Stray cows . . . bellowing with pain .. . ran amidst the tanks, trucks, and cannon. Everybody was looking for everybody else. . . . And no one knew where he was going."
...In Belleville, first night under shell fire, not an officer was to be found. "At that moment . . .we lost our confidence in our leaders, the confidence that is the most elementary requirement for any army that wants to win." They never had reason to regain it...
...Habe experienced for the first time (it was to become daily breath) some of the strange poetry of war: "I was suddenly close to the smallest and lowest creatures, the insects and worms, everything that crawled and writhed humbly and flatly on the ground." The worms went on about their business while the shells exploded (they are, as Darwin learned, quite deaf), the bees hummed, and now and then, between explosions, a bird sang. "It sometimes seemed that we were already in our graves, half alive and half dead: and most curiously, the whistling shells meant life and the buzzing bees and singing birds meant death."...
...Hans Habe is the nom de plume of tall, bleached-blond, 30-year-old Jean Bekessy (bekeshay). Before the war he wrote three anti-fascist novels (Three Over the Frontiers and Sixteen Days have been published in the U.S.) of which the Nazis burned one. In 1932 Nazis attempted to assassinate him in Vienna. Thenceforth, until the war, he worked as a journalist in Geneva...
...After his imprisonment and escape (described with many sharp sidelights on Nazi methods of occupation) Habe reached the U.S., where his wife and parents have joined him.
He is at work on a new novel. Subject: the war between generations (he favors the elder).
He lives in Manhattan's Alden Hotel, does his work out of town, at West Point.
He has applied for U.S. citizenship; has a draft number.
In his pocket he carries a crystal rosary, wrapped in a lace handkerchief.
It was given to him by the proprietress of a Nancy brothel who hid him from the Germans for three days."
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Marina Elizabeth Habe
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Marina Habe was the 17-year-old daughter of writer Hans Habe and actress Eloise Hardt. In December 1968, she was home on Christmas vacation from the University of Hawaii.
On Sunday afternoon (December 29, 1968), Marina left home to visit her boyfriend at his parent's house. At about 8:30 p.m., they met two other couples at a cafe on Santa Monica Boulevard.
They returned to his house at about 11:30 p.m.
At around 3:15 a.m., Marina departed for the twenty minute drive home.
At 3:30 a.m. Monday morning, Marina's mother was awakened by a loud car.
She looked out and saw a man standing beside her daughter's car.
A car then backed out of the driveway and the man ran over and got into the passenger side. Miss Hardt thought she heard someone shout "Let's go!"
She could not see her daughter.
On Wednesday, January 1, 1969, a driver spotted Marina's purse on Mulholland Drive.
A search by the sheriff's department discovered her body off the side of Mullholland about 100 yards west of Bowmont Drive.
She had been stabbed to death.
Many people believe Marina was a victim of the Manson Family.
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" Wenn man lange genug gelebt hat, erkennt man, daß es am Ende doch nicht auf den Himmel, sondern auf die Menschen ankommt. "
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Finding Aid for the
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE
PAPERS, 1938-1973
(GER-077)
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The collection also includes a small assortment of material related to the career of
Hans Habe (also known as Janos Békessy), a journalist and publisher.
Habe was born in 1911.
Like Remarque, Habe was persecuted by the Nazi government and his books were banned.
He went into exile in France and eventually emigrated to the United States, where he became a citizen.
Following the war Habe returned to Germany and founded a chain of newspapers.
In 1953, Habe moved to Ascona, Switzerland, where he was a neighbor of Erich Maria Remarque. He died in 1977.
Series 3:
...Box 2 / Folder10
---.Hans Habe Papers, 1948-1957 (13 items) .05 cubic ft.
This series contains articles and clippings regarding Hans Habe,
a contemporary and neighbor of Erich Maria Remarque.
It consists primarily of reviews of Habe's various publications.
The majority of these are in German.
This series contains a single folder organized chronologically.
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Hans Habe as a columnist for the newspaper of the Axel Springer Verlag
Thesis : Mayr, Hermione Adelheid (2009) University of Vienna. Faculty of Social Sciences
The first part gives information about Hans Habe's biography, his parents, his six wives, and murdered his daughter and about his friendship with Hilde game.
The second part shows Habes career as a journalist for several European and North American newspapers.
The third part tells about the life of newspaper publisher Axel Springer and about the history of his company.
The fourth part deals with Habes work as a columnist for the Axel Springer newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
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END OF AN ERA
BY Stephan Lebert DIE ZEIT, 21.08.2008 Nr. 35
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Pressegeschichte So bunt wie Welt und Leben
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Das Ende von Bauers Magazin »Revue« erinnert uns an die große Zeit der Illustrierten
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The end of Bauer's magazine "Revue" reminds us of the heyday of magazines
Leafing through old issues of the journal Revue, Archives of the Hamburg-Bauer Verlag in brown leather volumes stored in, makes a good mood quickly.
For example, the Year 1955: A Biography of Konrad Adenauer appears in the preprint.
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"Einer der umstrittensten und brillantesten Autoren der Zeit, Hans Habe mit Namen, veröffentlicht in unzähligen Folgen seinen neuen Roman über die Besatzungszeit."
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The comedian Oliver Hassencamp calls in his editorial optimism for that later became so famous Stefan Moses stands as a solid photographer in the imprint, the journalist Will Tremper writes the crime report , it was New Year's Eve.
Great Life Stories of Grace Kelly or Albert Schweitzer framed by ads - lipstick, detergents Rei (in the tube!).
And somewhere in between a tender letter from Venezuela. A Arturo Mateus writes that he very much wants a "German girl get to know" whether the review could not there to help...
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"...Hans Habe spezialisierte sich darauf, bei seinen Fortsetzungsromanen von Folge zu Folge mehr Geld zu verlangen. Die Redaktionen akzeptierten, sie wussten, dass er viel davon brauchte. Habe war schließlich bei der fünften oder sechsten Ehefrau angelangt und beim 250."
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" Hans Habe specialized forward to ask for its continuation novels by episode to episode more money. The editors accepted, they knew that he needed much of it. I was finally arrived at the fifth or sixth wife and the 250th Cashmere sweaters."
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Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
JACK KIRBY
Double Life Of Private Strong 1
Birth nameJacob Kurtzberg
BornAugust 28, 1917
New York City. New York
Died February 6, 1994 (aged 76)
Thousand Oaks, California
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Penciller, Inker, Writer, Editor
Pseudonym(s)The King
Notable worksMarvel Comics
AwardsAlley Award
*Best Pencil Artist (1967), plus many awards for individual stories
Shazam Award
*Special Achievement by an Individual (1971)
Jack Kirby (August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was one of the most influential, recognizable, and prolific artists in American comic books, and the co-creator of such enduring characters and popular culture icons as the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, the Hulk, Captain America and hundreds of others stretching back to the earliest days of medium. He was also a comic book writer and editor. His most common nickname is The King.
He was inducted into comic books' Shazam Awards Hall of Fame in 1975.
The Jack Kirby Award for achievement in comic books was named in his honor.
Early life
Born Jacob Kurtzberg to Jewish Austrian parents in New York City, he grew up on Suffolk Street in New York's Lower East Side Delancey Street area, attending elementary school at P.S. 20. His father, Benjamin, a garment-factory worker, was a Conservative Jew, and Jacob attended Hebrew school. Jacob's one sibling, a brother five years younger, predeceased him. After a rough-and-tumble childhood with much fighting among the kind of kid gangs he would render more heroically in his future comics (Fantastic Four's Jewish Ben Grimm was raised on rough-and-tumble "Yancy Street", and was predeceased by his older brother; in addition to sharing Kirby's father's first name, his middle name is Jacob, Kirby's first name at birth), Kirby enrolled at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, at what he said was age 14, leaving after a week. "I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done".[1]
Essentially self-taught, Kirby cited among his influences the comic strip artists Alex Raymond and Milton Caniff.
The Golden Age of Comics
Captain America Comics #1 (March 1941), art by Jack Kirby (penciler) and Joe Simon (inker).
Per his own sometimes-unreliable memory, Kirby joined the Lincoln Newspaper Syndicate in 1936, working there on newspaper comic strips and on single-panel advice cartoons such as Your Health Comes First (under the pseudonym "Jack Curtiss"). He remained until late 1939, then worked for the movie animation company Fleischer Studios as an "in-betweener" (an artist who fills in the action between major-movement frames,) on Popeye cartoons. "I went from Lincoln to Fleischer," he recalled. "From Fleischer I had to get out in a hurry because I couldn't take that kind of thing," describing it as "a factory in a sense, like my father's factory. They were manufacturing pictures."
Around this time, "I began to see the first comic books appear". The first American comic books were reprints of newspaper comic strips; soon, these tabloid-size, 10-inch by 15-inch "Comic books" began to include original material in comic-strip form. Kirby began writing and drawing such material for the comic book packager Eisner & Iger, one of a handful of firms creating comics on demand for publishers. Through that company, Kirby did what he remembers as his first comic book work, for Wild Boy Magazine. This included such strips as the science fiction adventure The Diary of Dr. Hayward (under the pseudonym "Curt Davis"), the Western crimefighter strip Wilton of the West (as "Fred Sande"), the swashbuckler strip "The Count of Monte Cristo" (again as "Jack Curtiss"), and the humor strips Abdul Jones (as "Ted Grey)" and Socko the Seadog (as "Teddy"), all variously for Jumbo Comics and other Eisner-Iger clients. Kirby was also helpful beyond his artwork when he once frightened off a mobster who was strongarming Eisner for their building's towel service.
Kirby moved on to comic-book publisher and newspaper syndicator Fox Feature Syndicate, earning a then-reasonable $15 a week salary. He began exploring superhero narrative with the comic strip The Blue Beetle (January–March 1940), starring a character created by the pseudonymous Charles Nicholas, a house name that Kirby retained for the three-month-long strip.
Simon & Kirby
During this time, Kirby met and began collaborating with cartoonist and Fox editor Joe Simon, who in addition to his staff work continued to freelance. Speaking at a 1998 Comic-Con International panel in San Diego, California, Simon recounted the meeting:
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I had a suit and Jack thought that was really nice. He'd never seen a comic book artist with a suit before. The reason I had a suit was that my father was a tailor. Jack's father was a tailor too, but he made pants! Anyway, I was doing freelance work and I had a little office in New York about ten blocks from DC's and Fox [Feature Syndicate]'s offices, and I was working on Blue Bolt for Funnies, Inc. So, of course, I loved Jack's work and the first time I saw it I couldn't believe what I was seeing. He asked if we could do some freelance work together. I was delighted and I took him over to my little office. We worked from the second issue of Blue Bolt...
and remained a team across the next two decades. In the early 2000s, original art for an unpublished, five-page Simon & Kirby collaboration titled "Daring Disc", which may predate the duo's Blue Bolt, surfaced. Simon published the story in the 2003 updated edition of his autobiography, The Comic Book Makers.
After leaving Fox and landing at pulp magazine publisher Martin Goodman's Timely Comics (the future Marvel Comics), the new Simon & Kirby team created the seminal patriotic hero Captain America in late 1940. Their dynamic perspectives, groundbreaking use of centerspreads, cinematic techniques and exaggerated sense of action made the title an immediate hit and rewrote the rules for comic book art. Simon and Kirby also produced the first complete comic book starring Captain Marvel for Fawcett Comics.
Captain America became the first and largest of many hit characters the duo would produce. The Simon & Kirby name soon became synonymous with exciting superhero comics, and the two became industry stars whose readers followed them from title to title. A financial dispute with Goodman led to their decamping to National Comics, one of the precursors of DC Comics, after ten issues of Captain America. Given a lucrative contract at their new home, Simon & Kirby took over the Sandman in Adventure Comics, and scored their next hits with the "kid gang" teams the Boy Commandos and the Newsboy Legion, and the superhero Manhunter.
Kirby married Rosalind "Roz" Goldstein (September 25, 1922–December 22, 1998) on May 23, 1942. The couple would have four children: Susan, Neal, Barbara and Lisa. The same year that he married, he changed his name legally from Jacob Kurtzberg to Jack Kirby. The couple was living in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, when Kirby was drafted into the U.S. Army in the late autumn of 1943. Serving with the Third Army combat infantry, he landed in Normandy, on Omaha Beach, 10 days after D-Day.
As superhero comics waned in popularity after the end of World War II, Kirby and his partner began producing a variety of other genre stories. They are credited with the creation of the first romance title, Young Romance Comics at Crestwood Publications, also known as Prize Comics. In addition, Kirby and Simon produced crime, horror, western and humor comics.
After Simon
Sky Masters comic strip by Kirby & Wally Wood.
The Kirby & Simon partnership ended amicably in 1955 with the failure of their own Mainline Publications. Kirby continued to freelance. He was instrumental in the creation of Archie Comics' The Fly and Harvey Comics' Double Life of Private Strong reuniting briefly with Joe Simon. He also drew some issues of Classics Illustrated.
For DC Comics, then known as National Comics, Kirby co-created with writers Dick & Dave Wood the non-superpowered adventuring quartet the Challengers of the Unknown in Showcase #6 (Feb. 1957), while also contributing to such anthologies as House of Mystery. In 30 months at DC, Kirby drew lightly over 600 pages, which included 11 Green Arrow stories in World's Finest Comics and Adventure Comics that, in a rarity, Kirby inked himself. He also began drawing a newspaper comic strip, Sky Masters of the Space Force, written by the Wood brothers and initially inked by the unrelated Wally Wood.
Kirby left National Comics after a contractual dispute in which editor Jack Schiff, who had been involved in getting Kirby and the Wood brothers the Sky Masters contract, claimed he was due royalties from Kirby's share of the strip's profits. Schiff sued Kirby and was successful at trial.
Stan Lee and Marvel Comics
Kirby also worked for Marvel, on the cusp of the company's evolution from its 1950s incarnation as Atlas Comics, beginning with the cover and the seven-page story "I Discovered the Secret of the Flying Saucers" in Strange Worlds #1 (Dec. 1958).[9] Kirby would draw across all genres, from romance to Western (the feature "Black Rider") to espionage (Yellow Claw), but made his mark primarily with a series of monster, horror and science fiction stories for the company's many anthology series, such as Amazing Adventures, Strange Tales, Tales to Astonish and Tales of Suspense. His bizarre designs of powerful, unearthly creatures proved a hit with readers. Then, with Marvel editor-in-chief Stan Lee, Kirby began working on superhero comics again, beginning with The Fantastic Four #1 (Nov. 1961). The landmark series became a hit that revolutionized the industry with its true-to-life naturalism and, eventually, a cosmic purview informed by Kirby's seemingly boundless imagination — one coincidentally well-matched with the consciousness-expanding youth culture of the 1960s.
For almost a decade, Kirby provided Marvel's house style, co-creating/designing many of the Marvel characters and providing layouts for new artists to draw over. Highlights besides the Fantastic Four include Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, the original X-Men, the Silver Surfer, Doctor Doom, Galactus, The Watcher, Magneto, Ego the Living Planet, the Inhumans and their hidden city of Attilan, and the Black Panther — comics' first known Black superhero — and his African nation of Wakanda. Simon & Kirby's Captain America was also incorporated into Marvel's continuity.
In 1968 and 1969, Joe Simon was involved in litigation with Marvel Comics over the ownership of Captain America, initiated by Marvel after Simon registered the copyright renewal for Captain America in his own name. According to Simon, Kirby agreed to support the company in the litigation and, as part of a deal Kirby made with publisher Martin Goodman, signed over to Marvel any rights he might have had to the character.
Kirby continued to expand the medium's boundaries, devising photo-collage covers and interiors, developing new drawing techniques such as the method for depicting energy fields now known as 'Kirby Dots', and other experiments. Yet he grew increasingly dissatisfied with working at Marvel. There have been a number of reasons given for this dissatisfaction, including resentment over Stan Lee's increasing media prominence, a lack of full creative control, anger over breaches of perceived promises by publisher Martin Goodman, and frustration over Marvel's failure to credit him specifically for his story plotting and for his character creations and co-creations. He began to both script and draw some secondary features for Marvel, such as "The Inhumans" in Amazing Adventures and horror stories for the anthology title Chamber of Darkness, and received full credit for doing so; but he eventually left the company in 1970 for rival DC Comics, under editorial director Carmine Infantino.
Kirby returned to DC in the early 1970s, under an arrangement that gave him full creative control as editor, writer and artist. He produced a cycle of inter-linked titles under the blanket sobriquet The Fourth World including a trilogy of new titles, New Gods, Mister Miracle, and The Forever People, as well as the Superman title, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen which he worked on at the publisher's request. Kirby claims to have picked this Superman family book because the series was between artists and he did not want to cost anyone a job. The central villain of the Fourth World series, Darkseid, and some of the Fourth World concepts appeared in Jimmy Olsen before the launch of the other Fourth World books, giving the new titles greater exposure to potential buyers.
Kirby later produced other DC titles such as OMAC, Kamandi, The Demon, and (together with former partner Joe Simon for one last time) a new incarnation of the Sandman. Several characters from this period have since become fixtures in the DC universe, including the demon Etrigan and his human counterpart Jason Blood; Scott Free (Mister Miracle), and the cosmic villain Darkseid.
Kirby then returned to Marvel Comics where he both wrote and drew Captain America and created the series The Eternals, which featured a race of inscrutable alien giants, the Celestials, whose behind-the-scenes intervention influenced the evolution of life on Earth. Kirby's other Marvel creations in this period include Devil Dinosaur, Machine Man, and an adaptation and expansion of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. He also wrote and drew The Black Panther and did numerous covers across the line.
Although often artistically successful, the books did not connect with an audience to the same extent as his earlier work for Marvel in the 1960s. Many of the themes of his 1970s work - aging and immortality, helplessness in the face of unknowable and inconceivable powers beyond one's control - were those of a man in late middle age and were not likely to connect with younger readers.
Still dissatisfied with Marvel's treatment of him, and their refusal to provide health and other employment benefits, Kirby left Marvel to work in animation, where he did designs for Turbo Teen, Thundarr the Barbarian and other animated television series. He also worked on The Fantastic Four cartoon show, reuniting him with scriptwriter Stan Lee. He illustrated an adaptation of the Walt Disney movie The Black Hole for Walt Disney's Treasury of Classic Tales syndicated comic strip in 1979-80.
In the early 1980s, Pacific Comics, a new, non-newsstand comic book publisher, made a then-groundbreaking deal with Kirby to publish his series Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers: Kirby would retain copyright over his creation and receive royalties on it. This, together with similar actions by other "independents" such as Eclipse Comics, helped establish a precedent for other professionals and end the monopoly of the "work for hire" system, wherein comics creators, even freelancers, had owned no rights to characters they created. Kirby also retained ownership of characters used by Topps Comics beginning in 1993, for a set of series in what the company dubbed "The Kirbyverse".
In 1985, screenwriter and comic-book historian Mark Evanier revealed that thousands of pages of Kirby's artwork had been lost by Marvel Comics. These pages became the subject of a dispute between Kirby and that company. In 1987, in exchange for his giving up any claim to copyright, Kirby received from Marvel the 2,100 pages of his original art that remained in its possession. The disposition of Kirby's art for DC, Fawcett, and numerous other companies has remained uncertain.
Kirby's daughter, Lisa Kirby, announced in early 2006 that she and co-writer Steve Robertson, with artist Mike Thibodeaux, plan to published a six-issue miniseries, Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters, featuring characters and concepts created by her father.
Awards and honors
Jack Kirby received a great deal of recognition over the course of his career, including the 1967 Alley Award for Best Pencil Artist. The following year he was runner-up behind Jim Steranko. His other Alley Awards were:
*1963: Favorite Short Story - "The Human Torch Meets Captain America,", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Strange Tales #114
*1964: Best Novel - "Captain America Joins the Avengers", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, from The Avengers #4
*1964: Best New Strip or Book - "Captain America", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in Tales of Suspense
*1965: Best Short Story - "The Origin of the Red Skull", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, Tales of Suspense #66
*1966: Best Professional Work, Regular Short Feature - "Tales of Asgard" by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in The Mighty Thor
*1967: Best Professional Work, Regular Short Feature - (tie) "Tales of Asgard" and "Tales of the Inhumans", both by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in The Mighty Thor
*1968: Best Professional Work, Best Regular Short Feature - "Tales of the Inhumans", by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, in The Mighty Thor
*1968: Best Professional Work, Hall of Fame - Fantastic Four, by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby; Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., by Jim Steranko[10]
Kirby won a Shazam Award for Special Achievement by an Individual in 1971 for his "Fourth World" series in Forever People, New Gods, Mister Miracle, and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen. He was inducted into the Shazam Awards Hall of Fame in 1975.
His work was honored posthumously with the 1998 Harvey Award for Best Domestic Reprint Project, for Jack Kirby's New Gods by Jack Kirby, edited by Bob Kahan.
The Jack Kirby Awards and Jack Kirby Hall of Fame were named in his honor.
In 2006, he was voted the #1 artist on Comic Book Resources ' All Time Top 100 Writers and Artists. With Will Eisner, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter and Chris Ware, Kirby was among the artists honored in the exhibition "Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from Sept. 16, 2006 to Jan. 28, 2007.
Legacy
Kirby is popularly acknowledged by comics creators and fans as one of the greatest and most influential artists in the history of comics. His output was legendary, with one count estimating that he produced over 25,000 pages during his lifetime, as well as hundreds of comic strips and sketches. He also produced paintings, and worked on concept illustrations for a number of Hollywood films.
The most imitated aspect of Kirby's work has been his exaggerated perspectives and dynamic energy. Less easy to imitate have been the expressive body language of his characters, who embrace each other and charge into everything from battle to pancakes with unselfconscious exuberance; and such constantly forward-looking innovations as the then cutting-edge photomontages he often used. He (along with fellow Marvel creator Steve Ditko) pioneered the use of visible minority characters in comic books, and Kirby co-created the first black superhero at Marvel (the African prince the Black Panther) and created DC's first two black superheroes: Vykin the Black in The Forever People #1 (March 1971) and the Black Racer in The New Gods #3 (July 1971).
Kirby: King of Comics (Hardcover)
by Mark Evanier (Author), Neil Gaiman (Introduction)
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
As a teenager, future television and comics writer Evanier became an assistant to Jack Kirby, one of the foremost artists in the history of American comics. Kirby played a major role in shaping the superhero genre, not only through his innovative, dynamic artwork but through collaborating with Stan Lee to create classic Marvel characters like the Fantastic Four, the Hulk and the X-Men. Evanier has now written this magnificently illustrated biography of his mentor. Rather than employing the academic prose that one might expect from an art book, Evanier, a talented raconteur, tells Kirby's life story in an informal, entertaining manner. Although Evanier does not delve into psychological analysis, he brings Kirby's personality vividly alive: a child of the Great Depression, a creative visionary who struggled most of his life to support his family. The book recounts how Kirby was insufficiently appreciated by clueless corporate executives and close-minded comics professionals. But the stunning artwork in this book, taken from private collections, makes the case for Kirby's genius. A landmark work, this is essential reading for comics fans and those who want to better understand the history of the comics medium—or those who just want to enjoy Kirby's incredible artwork. (Mar.)
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Product Description
Jack Kirby created or co-created some of comic books’ most popular characters including Captain America, The X-Men, The Hulk, The Fantastic Four, The Mighty Thor, Darkseid, and The New Gods. More significantly, he created much of the visual language for fantasy and adventure comics. There were comics before Kirby, but for the most part their page layout, graphics, and visual dynamic aped what was being done in syndicated newspaper strips. Almost everything that was different about comic books began in the forties on the drawing table of Jack Kirby. This is his story by one who knew him well—the authorized celebration of the one and only “King of Comics” and his groundbreaking work.
“I don’t think it’s any accident that . . . the entire Marvel universe and the entire DC universe are all pinned or rooted on Kirby’s concepts.” —Michael Chabon
About the Author
Mark Evanier met Jack Kirby in 1969, worked as his assistant, and later became his official biographer. A writer and historian, Evanier has written more than 500 comics for Gold Key, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics, several hundred hours of television (including Garfield) and is the author of several books including Mad Art (2002). He has three Emmy Award nominations, and received the Lifetime Achievement Award for animation from the Writers Guild of America.
Mark Evanier
Kirby, Jack: Jack Kirby (American, 1917-1994) : Jack Kirby has received world-wide recognition for his long comic book career and accomplishments. He is regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic-book medium, thus earning the nick-name "King." Among Kirby's many co-creations are Captain America, the Newsboy Legion, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, the Avengers, the X-Men, Silver Surfer, the New Gods, and countless other memorable heroes and villains.
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Coronation Street (informally known as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
The programme centres on Coronation Street in Weatherfield, a fictional town based on inner city Salford, its terraced houses, café, corner shop, newsagents, building yard, taxicab office, salon, restaurant, textile factory and the Rovers Return pub. In the show's fictional history, the street was built in the early 1900s and named in honour of the coronation of King Edward VII.
The show typically airs five times a week; Monday and Friday 7.30–8 pm & 8.30–9 pm and Wednesday 7.30–8 pm, however this occasionally varies due to sport or around Christmas and New Year. From late 2017 the show will air six times a week.
The programme was conceived in 1960 by scriptwriter Tony Warren at Granada Televisionin Manchester.
Warren's initial kitchen sink drama proposal was rejected by the station's founder Sidney Bernstein, but he was persuaded by producer Harry Elton to produce the programme for 13 pilot episodes. Within six months of the show's first broadcast, it had become the most-watched programme on British television, and is now a significant part of British culture.
The show has been one of the most lucrative programmes on British commercial television, underpinning the success of Granada Television and ITV.
Coronation Street is made by Granada Television at MediaCity Manchester and shown in all ITV regions, as well as internationally. On 17 September 2010, it became the world's longest-running TV soap opera in production.
On 23 September 2015, Coronation Street was broadcast live to mark ITV's 60th anniversary.
Coronation Street is noted for its depiction of a down-to-earth working class community combined with light-hearted humour, and strong characters.
French postcard by Ed. Chantal, Rueil, no. 101. Photo: Carlet.
Raymond Souplex (1901–1972) was a French character actor, scriptwriter and singer. With Jane Sourza he formed a popular comedy duo, although they had their biggest successes on the radio. Souplex became a TV star as a police commissioner in the long running police series Les Cinq Dernières Minutes.
Raymond Souplex was born as Raymond Guillermain in 1901 in Paris. He was the son of a public servant and the youngest of four children. In 1920, he tried to enter the Conservatoire but failed. But while he studied law and his first job as a clerk, he composed songs and wrote skits. He became a singer and performed in the cabarets and dinner theatres in Paris. In this period he met Jane Sourza who became his accomplice for many years and not his girlfriend as was long believed. From 1935, he participated in radio broadcasts of Radio Cité with Noël-Noël, Saint-Granier and Jane Sourza. With the latter, he played a pair of philosophically minded tramps on a park bench in the comedy show Sur le banc (The bench). In 1954, Robert Vernay made the film Sur le banc, based on this radio show. Souplex played again the lead role of the tramp opposite Jane Sourza and Julien Carette. James Travers at Films de France: “Unlike the radio show that inspired it, the film version of Sur le banc was never going to end up a classic, but the combined talents of Souplex and Sourza, pepped up with a generous dash of Julien Carette, make it a pleasing enough timewaster on a dull afternoon.” Souplex’ film career had started in 1939 with the film Sur le plancher des vaches/On dry land (Pierre-Jean Ducis, 1939) with Noël-Noël. At the time, Raymond Souplex had already become quite popular. During the Second World War, Souplex continued to perform on stage, on the radio and in films. In Les Surprises de la radio/The Surprises of the radio (Marcel Aboulker, 1940), he played himself in the middle of other big French stars of the era. He also participated with artists like Fréhel and Lys Gauty, in a tour along the factories of the Third Reich where many French people had to labour forced by the Service du travail obligatoire (Compulsory Work Service; STO). He got a reprimand for this tour after the Liberation.
After the war, Raymond Souplex resumed his show Sur le banc (The bench), now for Radio Luxembourg, from 1949 till 1963. He returned to the screen in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Manon (1948) alongside Cécile Aubry, Serge Reggiani and Michel Bouquet. Actor/journalist/screenwriter Henri Jeanson chose him to play an aging crooner in Lady Paname (Henri Jeanson, 1950) alongside Louis Jouvet and Suzy Delair. In 1957, Claude Loursais gave him the lead role in the French television series Les Cinq Dernières Minutes/The Five Last Minutes, in which he played the police inspector (from 1965 on Commissioner) Antoine Bourrel. This Columbo-like role was inspired by the thriller Identité judiciaire/Paris Vice Squad (Hervé Bromberger, 1951) in which he played an identical character. The collaboration with Claude Loursais lasted 56 episodes from 1958 to 1972. In the series Bourrel is assisted by inspector Dupuy, played by Jean Daurand. The two actors became so popular that they also appeared together as a police tandem in two films: L'assassin viendra ce soir/The assassin will come tonight (Jean Maley, 1964) and La Malédiction de Belphégor/The Curse of Belphegor (Georges Combret, Jean Maley, 1967) with Dominique Boschero. In 1972, Raymond Souplex died in Paris of lung cancer at the age of 71. The filming of the fifty-sixth episode of Les Cinq Dernières Minutes was not finished yet. This episode would never be completed. A square in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, where he has long lived on the corner of Montcalm and Marcadet street now bears his name. His wife died in 1993 and their daughter Perrette Souplex ia also an actress.
Sources: James Travers (Films de France), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia (French and English) and IMDb.
Born as Catharina Hagen to Hans Hagen (also known as Hans Oliva), a scriptwriter, and Eva-Maria Hagen, an actress and singer, her paternal Jewish grandparents died in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and growing up she saw her father infrequently. At age four, she began to study ballet, and was considered an opera prodigy by the time she was nine.
When Hagen was 11, her mother married Wolf Biermann, an anti-establishment singer-songwriter. Biermann's political views influenced young Hagen: she was "dishonourably discharged" from the Free German Youth group at age twelve, and became active in political protests against the East German government.
Hagen left school at age sixteen, and joined the cover band Fritzens Dampferband (Fritzen's Steamboat Band, together with Achim Mentzel and others). She added songs by Janis Joplin and Tina Turner to the "allowable" set lists during shows.
From 1972-73, Hagen enrolled in the crash-course performance program at The Central Studio for Light Music in East Berlin. Upon graduation, formed the band Automobil.
In East Germany, she performed with the band Automobil, becoming one of the country's best-known young stars. Her most famous song from the early part of her career was "Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen" ("You forgot the colour film") in 1974. However, her musical career in East Germany was cut short when she and her mother left the country in 1976, following the expulsion of her stepfather.
The circumstances surrounding the family's emigration were exceptional: Biermann was granted permission to perform a televised concert in Cologne, but denied permission to re-cross the border to his home country. During a period when bureaucracy was the norm, and families divided by the Berlin Wall had not seen one another in decades, Hagen submitted an application to leave the country. In it, she claimed to be Biermann's biological daughter, and threatened to become the next Wolf Biermann if not allowed to rejoin her father. Just four days later her request was granted[citation needed], and she settled in Hamburg, where she was signed to a CBS-affiliated record label. Her label advised her to acclimate herself to Western culture through travel, and she arrived in London during the height of the punk rock movement. Hagen was quickly taken up by a circle that included The Slits and the Sex Pistols; Johnny Rotten was a particular admirer[citation needed].
Back in Germany by mid-1977, Hagen formed the Nina Hagen Band in West Berlin's Kreuzberg district. In 1978 they released their self-titled debut album, which included the single "TV-Glotzer" (a cover of "White Punks on Dope" by The Tubes, though with entirely different German lyrics), and Auf'm Bahnhof Zoo, about West Berlin's then-notorious Berlin Zoologischer Garten station. The album also included a version of "Rangehn" (approximately, "Go On"), a song she had previously recorded in East Germany, but with different music.
According to reviewer Fritz Rumler:
… she thrusts herself into the music, aggressively, directly, furiously, roars in the most beautiful opera alto, then, through shrieks and squeals, precipitates into luminous soprano heights, she parodies, satirises, and howls on stage like a dervish.
The album gained significant attention throughout Germany and abroad, both for its hard rock sound and for Hagen's theatrical vocals, far different from the straightforward singing of her East German recordings. However, relations between Hagen and the other band members deteriorated over the course of the subsequent European tour, and Hagen decided to leave the band in 1979, though she was still under contract to produce a second album. This LP, Unbehagen (which in German also means discomfort or unease), was eventually produced with the band recording their tracks in Berlin and Hagen recording the vocals in Los Angeles, California. It included the single "African Reggae" and a cover of Lene Lovich's "Lucky Number". The other band members sans Hagen, soon developed a successful independent musical career as Spliff.
Meanwhile, Hagen's public persona was steadily creating media uproar. She became infamous for an appearance on an Austrian evening talk show called Club 2, on 9th August 1979, on the topic of youth culture, when she demonstrated (while clothed, but explicitly) various female masturbation positions and became embroiled in a heated argument with another panelist. The talk show host had to step down following this controversy.
She also acted with Dutch rocker Herman Brood and singer Lene Lovich in the 1979 film Cha Cha.
Spanish minicard (collector's card). Series Intimidades cinematograficas, series I, card 8 of 20. The preparation of a film (scene). Director Reginald Barker explains his film to his actors of the Metro production Pleasure Mad (1923), based on a novel by Blanche Upright. Left to right, the actors Winifred Bryson, Huntley Gordon, Mary Alden and Norma Shearer. Behind them the cinematographers Alvin Wyckoff and Norbert Brodin. Next to Barker, the scriptwriter Andrew Percival Younger.
Dutch collectors card by Monty, no. 101, 1970. Photo: Gerard Soeteman. Cor Witschge in the TV series Floris (Paul Verhoeven, 1969).
The Dutch TV series Floris (1969) was the start of the successful careers of director Paul Verhoeven, scriptwriter Gerard Soeteman and of course actor Rutger Hauer. Hauer played the exiled knight Floris. With his Indian friend Sindala (Jos Bergman), he tries to get his birth right papers back from Maarten van Rossem (Hans Culeman), an evil lord. During their quest they get help from Wolter van Oldenstein (Ton Vos), a noble man who offers them a place in his castle. They also meet the pirate Lange Pier (Hans Boskamp).
Source: IMDb.
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Austrian postcard, Iris Verlag 5311. Aafa Film. Lux-Film-Verleih.
Livio Pavanelli (1881-1958) was an Italian actor of the Italian and in particular German silent cinema. He also worked in Italian sound cinema as actor and as production manager. He directed four Italian films, both in the silent and the sound era.
Livio Pavanelli was born September 7th, 1881, in Copparo and was member of a big family of farmers and merchants from the Ferrara area – his father Andrea being also a notable patriot in the Italian Risorgimento – but as a consequence of financial disasters in the family he moved with his parents to Bologna where he visited the technical school. During his adolescence he wandered around Italy, eager for excitement. When in Venice in 1898, he fell in love with the stage while assisting a show of wandering artists, and started a theatrical career, performing with various companies like that of Antono Gandusio, and in 1902 the Venetican company of Emilio Zago. He then shifted to the company of Gustavo Salvini and Ermete Zacconi, before reaching Eleonora Duse’s company with whom he stayed for 9 years, accompanying her in her foreign tours as well.
In the 1910s Pavanelli’s film career started, performing leads in various films, firstly in a series of films with Pina Fabbri like Il delitto della via di Nizza (Henri Etievant 1913) and Il romanzo di due vite (Attilio Fabbri 1913), from 1914 on in a series of films with Hesperia like L’ereditiera (1914) and L’agguato (1915); with Mercedes Brignone like Il re dell’Atlantico (1914) and Mezzanotte (1915); and with Gianna Terribili-Gonzales; mostly directed by Baldassare Negroni, or by others like Zorzi or Genina. In 1916-1917 Pavanelli didn’t appear in films, but in 1918 he was back in film, opposite Francesca Bertini in various parts of the series I sette peccati capitali (1918, directed by various filmmakers), La piovra (Edoardo Bencivenga 1919) and Anima allegra (Roberto Roberti 1919); and opposite Lyda Borelli in Carnevalesca (Amleto Palermi 1918) and Una notte a Calcutta (Mario Caserini 1918). In 1918 he also played Saint Sebastian in Enrico Guazzoni’s epic Fabiola, opposite Elena Sangro in the title role, and he had a part in the propagandistic fake biopic of and with Francesca Bertini: Mariute. In those years, Thea Pavanelli, aka as simply Thea, played with Pavanelli in La reginetta Isotta (1918), based on Balzac. She might have been his wife, but no additional information is available about this.
In the late 1910s and early 1920s, Pavanelli really was a star of Italian silent cinema, not only in epic films like Il sacco di Roma (Enrico Guazzoni/Giulio Aristide Sartorio 1920), but also in long list of diva films with Pina Menichelli such as La storia di una donna (Eugenio Perego 1920), La verità nuda (Telemaco Ruggeri 1921), L’età critica (Palermi 1921), La seconda moglie (Palermi 1922), and La biondina (Palermi 1923). Other actresses opposite whom Pavanelli acted in the early 1920s years were Tilde Kassay, Diomira Jacobini, and Cecil Tryan. In Saitra la ribelle (Palermi 1924), Coiffeur pour dames (Palermi 1924) and Vedi Napoli, poi muori (Perego 1924), Pavanelli played opposite Leda Gys, and he played the lead of Turiddu opposite Tina Xeo as Santuzza in the adaptation of Verga’s story and Mascagni’s opera Cavalleria rusticana (Mario Gargiulo 1924).
Because of the crisis in Italian cinema, Pavanelli moved first to Austria and then to Germany in 1924, where he proceeded his succesful career, performing opposite the female stars of Weimar cinema, such as Lee Parry (Die schönste Frau der Welt, 1924), Fern Andra (Die Liebe is der Frauen Macht, 1924), Liane Haid (Ich liebe dich!, 1924; Im weissen Rössl, 1926; Als ich wieder kam, 1926), Ossi Oswalda (Niniche, 1924), Ida Wüst (Kammermusik, 1925), Maria Corda (Der Tänzer meiner Frau, 1925), Elga Brink (Der Ritt in die Sonne, 1926; Das Gasthaus zur Ehe, 1926), Marcella Albani, Lya De Putti, and male stars like Hans Albers (Mein Freund der Chauffeur, 1926). In 1926 Pavanelli played in various boulevard comedies: he had the male lead as the industrial Franz Kaltenbach in Familie Schimeck/Wiener Herzen (Alfred Halm, Rudolf Dworsky), opposite Olga Tschechowa as his wife Olga, and also the male lead in der lachende Ehemann (Rudolf Walther-Fein, Rudolf Dworsky), opposite Elisabeth Pinajeff as his wife, but he also played with Dolly Davis, André Roanne and Agnes Esterhazy in Fräulein Josette, meine Frau (Gaston Ravel), with Mady Christians and Roanne in Die Königin der Moulin Rouge (Robert Wiene), with Xenia Desni in Küssen ist keine Sund (Walther-Fein/Dworsky) and Schützenliesel (same directors), with Mary Nolan in Die Königin des Weltbades (Viktor Janson), and with Jenny Jugo in Die ledige Töchter (Carl Boese). It is clear that 1926 was Pavanelli’s most prolific year.
More films with Mary Nolan, Mady Christians and in particular Xenia Desni followed in 1927, but also parts in the Henny Porten drama Die grosse Pause (Carl Froehlich). In 1927 Pavanelli was temporarily back in Italy to play Florette in the adaptation of the popular boulevard comedy Florette et Patapon (Palermi 1927), with French actor Marcel Levesque as Patapon, and German actress Ossi Oswalda as Riquette Florette. In 1928 followed parts in the Lyda de Putti comedy Charlott is etwas verrückt (Adolf E. Licho), the Cilly Feindt vehicle Gefährdete Mädchen (Hans Otto), the Arlette Marchal drama Die Frau von gestern und morgen (Heinz Paul), the Spanish-German production Herzen ohne Ziel/Corazones sin rumbo (Benito Perojo/Gustav Ucicky), the Italo-German coproduction Scampolo (Genina), and the Ossi Oswalda vehicle Das Haus ohne Männer (Rolf Randolf). In 1929 Pavanelli played the lead in Liebfraumilch (Carl Froehlich) and Sir Henry Baskerville in Der Hund von Baskerville (Richard Oswald, next to smaller parts in other films like the Maria Paudler drama Liebe im Schnee (Max Obal/Walther-Fein) and Hotelgeheimnisse (Friedrich Feher). Even in 1930 Pavanelli continued to play in German films, such as Freiheit in Fesseln (Carl Heinz Wolff), starring Fritz Kampers and Vivian Gibson, and Ehestreik (Carl Boese), with Georg Alexander and Maria Paudler.
When sound cinema set in, Pavanelli first played opposite former silent star Maria Jacobini in the film Perché no?, an Italian version of The Lady Lies, shot in the Paramount studios in Paris and directed by Palermi. Pavanelli next had one part in the German sound film Liebeskommando (Geza von Bolvary 1931), and then returned to Italy, where his star as actor declined while still acting in films like Pergolesi (Guido Brignone 1932), with Elio Steiner in the title role, and L’ultimo dei Bergerac (Gennaro Righelli 1933). Pavanelli had one last film performance in Germany in the film Frühlingsmärchen (Carl Froehlich 1934), in which he appropriately played a singing master from Milan. According to Wikipedia Pavanelli played both in the Italian and the German version of Max Neufeld’s La canzone del sole/Das Lied der Sonne (1934), starring Vittorio De Sica. He also performed in Gustav Machaty’s Italian production Ballerine (1936). In the 1930s Pavanelli also became producer, scriptwriter and director. Wikipedia claims one of his productions was opera singer Tito Schipa’s success film Vivere of 1937, while IMDB lists Pavanelli not as producer but as production manager or unit manager for 10 different films between 1939 and 1954, often for Guido Brignone such as La mia canzone al vento (Brignone 1939) and Romanzo di un giovane povero (Brignone 1942), but also the postwar epic Messalina (Carmine Gallone (1951). In 1939 Pavanelli was also scriptwriter for La mia canzone al vento. In 1941-42 he directed his sole sound feature Solitudine, starring Carola Höhn (Pavanelli had already directed three films in the silent era: Silvio Pellico, 1915; La complice muta, 1920; Madonnina, 1921). Livio Pavanelli’s last film as actor was L’altra (1947) by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, in which he played a French impresario. After that he only continued as production or unit manager. His last job was production management of the epic Cortigiana di Babilonia (Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia 1954), starring Rhonda Fleming. Livio Pavanelli died at the hospital San Giovanni in Rome on 29 April 1958.
Sources: Italian Wikipedia, IMDB, filmportal.de.
Shanghai Ballet: Echoes of Eternity
Shanghai Ballet presents 'Echoes of Eternity ' at the London Coliseum, choreographed by Patrick de Bana and inspired by the ancient Chinese poem ‘Song of Everlasting Sorrow. 7-21 August 2016.
Choreographer: Patrick de Bana
Set designer: Jaya Ibrahim
Costume designer: Agnes Letestu
Light designer: James Angot
Scriptwriter: Jean Francois Vazelle
Literature Consultant: Sifu TANG
Dancers:
Emperor: WU Husheng
Lady Yang: QI Bingxue
Moon Fairy: ZHAO Hanbing
Gao Lishi: ZHANG Yao
Chen Xuanli: WU Bin
An Lushan: ZHANG Wenjun
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Alla Nazimova (Russian: Алла Назимова), born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon (Мириам Эдес Аделаида Левентон; May 22, 1879 – July 13, 1945) was a Russian/American theater and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer. She is often known as just Nazimova, and was also known as Alia Nasimoff.
Nazimova was one of three children of Yakov Leventon and Sonya Horowitz. The family was Jewish and lived in Yalta, Crimea, then part of the Russian Empire (part of Ukraine since 1954). She grew up in a dysfunctional family and, after her parents' separation, was shuffled between boarding schools, foster homes, and relatives. Her emotional distress caused her to rebel against authority as a way of gaining attention. A precocious child, she played the violin by age seven. As a teenager she began to pursue an interest in the theatre and took acting lessons at the Moscow-based Academy of Acting before joining Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theater as ;Alla Nazimova; and later just ;Nazimova; Her stage name was taken from her middle name Adelaida, combined with the surname of Nadezhda Nazimova (the heroine of the Russian novel Children of the Streets), whom she admired. She married Sergei Golovin, a fellow actor, in 1899; the marriage was ;in name only; and the two never legally divorced.
Nazimova in the 1911 Broadway play The MarionettesNazimova's theater career blossomed early, and by 1903 she was a major star in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. She toured Europe, including London and Berlin, with her boyfriend Pavel Orlenev,[2] a flamboyant actor and producer. In 1905, they moved to New York City and founded a Russian language theater on the Lower East Side. The venture was unsuccessful and Orlenev returned to Russia while Nazimova stayed in New York.
She was signed up by the American producer Henry Miller and made her Broadway debut in 1906 to critical and popular success. She quickly became extremely popular (a theater was named after her) and remained a major Broadway star for years, often acting in the plays of Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov.
Nazimova made her silent film debut in 1916, due to her notoriety in a 35-minute 1915 play entitled War Brides. This brought her to the attention of Lewis J. Selznick. Over the next few years, she made a number of highly successful films that earned her a considerable amount of money. By 1917, she was earning as much as $30,000 per film, with a $1,000 per day bonus for every day of filming. She was also given a $13,000 per week contract. At the time, actress Mary Pickford was on a $3,000 per week contract.[2]
In 1918, at age 39, Nazimova felt confident enough in her abilities that she began producing and writing films in which she also starred. In her film adaptations of works by such notable writers as Oscar Wilde and Ibsen, she developed her own film making techniques, which were considered daring at the time. Her projects, including A Doll's House (1922) based on Ibsen, and Salomé (1923) based on Wilde, met with little popular success and lost a great deal of money.
By 1925, she could no longer afford to invest in more films and financial backers withdrew their support. Left with few options, she gave up on the film industry, returning to perform on Broadway until the early 1940s when she appeared in a few more films, presumably in need of money. Two of her best known roles today is that of Robert Taylor's mother in Escape (1940) and as Tyrone Power's mother in the film Blood and Sand (1941).
Her private lifestyle gave rise to widespread rumors of outlandish and allegedly debauched parties at her mansion on Sunset Boulevard known as The Garden of Alla, built in 1919, which in 1927 became the Garden of Allah apartment-hotel complex. In later years, she continued to live in one of the villas there.[1] She lived in a lavender marriage with Charles Bryant (1879-1948),[3] a New York actor, from 1912 to 1925.
This 1921 Vanity Fair caricature by Ralph Barton shows the famous people who, he imagined, left work each day in Hollywood; use cursor to identify individual figures.Between the years of 1917 and 1922, Nazimova wielded considerable influence and power in Hollywood.[2] By all accounts she was extremely generous to young actresses in whom she saw talent, and became involved with at least some of them romantically. A noteworthy example was Anna May Wong, whose first film role was in The Red Lantern as an extra at age fourteen. She helped start the careers of both of Rudolph Valentino's wives, Jean Acker and Natacha Rambova. Nazimova was involved in an affair with Acker,[5] but it is debated as to whether her connection with Rambova ever developed into a sexual affair. There were rumors that Nazimova and Rambova were involved in a lesbian affair -- they are discussed at length in Dark Lover, Emily Leider's biography of Rudolph Valentino -- but those rumors have never been definitely confirmed. She was very impressed by Rambova's skills as an art director, and Rambova designed the innovative sets for Nazimova's productions of Camille and Salomé. Of those Nazimova is confirmed to have been involved with romantically, the list includes actress Eva Le Gallienne, director Dorothy Arzner, writer Mercedes de Acosta, and Oscar Wilde's niece, Dolly Wilde.[6]
After meeting a young Patsy Ruth Miller at a Hollywood party, Nazimova assisted in getting Miller's career launched. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1927. Nazimova lived with Glesca Marshall from 1929 until her death in 1945. A friend of actress Edith Luckett and her husband, Dr. Loyal Davis, Nazimova was made godmother to future first lady Nancy Davis Reagan, Luckett's daughter from a previous marriage, in 1921.[7] She was the aunt of American film producer Val Lewton.[4]
A breast cancer survivor,[citation needed] Nazimova died of a coronary thrombosis at the age of 66 on July 13, 1945,[8] in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, California,[4] and was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.[9]
Her contributions to the film industry have been recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
[edit] Legacy
Nazimova has been portrayed in film three times. The first two were biographical films about Rudolph Valentino, 1975's The Legend of Valentino, in which she was portrayed by Alicia Bond, and 1977's Valentino, in which she was portrayed by Leslie Caron. The most recent was 2004's Return to Babylon, a film about Hollywood's silent movie era, in which she was portrayed by Laura Harring.
The character of Nazimova appears in Dominic Argento's opera Dream of Valentino in which she also plays the violin.
Nazimova was also featured in make-up artist Kevyn Aucoin's 2004 book Face Forward, in which he made up Isabella Rossellini to resemble her, particularly as posed in a certain photograph.
Victoria Wood first thought ten years ago of telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise before they were famous.
And, she says, playing Eric’s mum in a TV Christmas special has only confirmed what a great story it is.
‘No one has even been told about when the two of them met and how they developed into a double-act. They weren’t born middle-aged.
‘Like so many people, I was always a big fan, but I’m also intrigued by that period in the theatre during and after the war when Ernie was already a child star. Indeed, he could lay some claim to being Britain’s Mickey Rooney.’
Eric was different, she says, a boy with enormous natural talent and an ambitious mother.
‘I felt it was very much a man’s story, one of friendship between boys and then men. So it seemed better in the hands of a male writer. When I started discussing it with that writer, Peter Bowker, I imagined it would concentrate heavily on the two boys.’
But Bowker came up with the idea of involving Eric’s parents, Sadie and George, played by Victoria and Vic Reeves.
Despite being an executive producer of the production, Eric And Ernie, only rarely during filming did she stray into any discipline other than that of actress. She made just one change to the script — ‘Couldn’t we?’ became ‘Could we not?’ because she felt that’s how the characters would have spoken.
She also occasionally piped up when it came to Eric and Ernie performing comedy routines on stage. But then this is a woman who has twice sold out 15 consecutive nights at the Royal Albert Hall with her one-woman show.
I’d tell the director that a comedian wouldn’t do that or that’s not how something would work,’ she says.
Being an integral part of the production, but not the scriptwriter, did she find it hard to form an objective view of the film? In short, can she tell if it’s any good?
‘Yes, it is. I’ve got complete trust in Jonny Campbell, the director, and in the writer,’ says Victoria immediately.
‘There’s been a good feeling on the set throughout.’
The film will go out on BBC2 on New Year’s Day. The day we meet on set Victoria is professional to a fault, but chewing the inside of her cheek over a newspaper interview the previous day which may have left the impression that she’s at daggers drawn with the BBC top brass over the project.
As an executive producer, Victoria has been working closely with BBC North and BBC Wales.
‘And I’d like to place on the record,’ she says, ‘that they’ve given me fantastic support. We’ve been treated really well.’
Her quarrel, she explains, had been with the way her Mid Life Christmas special bobbed about the schedules last year before coming to rest the night before the big day. That and the fact that no one had the manners to keep her in the picture.
But, now, she couldn’t be happier. She also, however, seems self-contained, sometimes serious, sometimes gently humorous, and you get the impression she wouldn’t suffer fools.
In answer to a question about what makes her grumpy, for instance, she says: ‘People not doing what they say they’re going to do.’
But Eric’s widow, Joan Morecambe, consulted by Victoria before filming began, probably summed her up best: ‘Victoria’s a very quiet soul in lots of ways,’ she told me. ‘But she’s a lady who knows what she wants.’
Victoria visited Joan and her son, Gary, as well as Ernie’s widow, Doreen Wise, and they were invited to the set.
‘Both women were incredibly helpful because they knew Sadie well,’ she says.
‘And Doreen has a fantastic archive of photographs from when Ernie was a little boy appearing in shows in Leeds and Bradford aged about six.’
Victoria met each of the two men once. ‘I accepted a comedy award from Ernie for Best Stand-Up, way back when. And I stood in the same lift as Eric when I was working at Granada.
‘I said, “Oh, it’s Eric Morecambe”, in a really moronic way. And he said, “Oh, you’re that girl from Morecambe”. So that was quite flattering.’
She grew up in rural Lancashire in a ramshackle house and had two older, thinner, outgoing sisters and a brother.
Her low self-esteem as a teenager was fed by her size, so what does she think that self-conscious 16-year-old would think of Victoria today?
‘I think she’d be relieved to know that the things she hoped to do had come to pass.’
She studied drama at Birmingham University, met longtime collaborator Julie Walters and won ITV’s New Faces talent show in 1974.
‘It seems very tame compared with The X Factor,’ she says.
Her victory initially led to very little, but her career — and life — changed for the better when she met comedian and conjuror Geoffrey Durham, and they married in 1980.
Their daughter, Grace, 22, is now a choral scholar at Cambridge and, in September, her 18-year-old son Henry began studying music technology at Leeds.
Ask her to name the time in her life when she was happiest and she says: ‘When I had little children.’
Durham walked out of their north London home in 2002, and Victoria is on record as saying the disparity in their professional success was less to do with the end of the marriage than her pursuit of perfection as wife, mother and acclaimed performer.
To whom would you most like to say sorry, I ask, and she’s quiet for a long time. ‘I’d rather not answer that question,’ she says.
She’s 57 now but didn’t in the least mind her 50th birthday, she says. ‘No, the one that upset me for some reason was turning 26. It just felt like I was suddenly very old.’
She’s now in the grip of Empty Nest Syndrome. ‘I like living with people — and now I live with no one. It’s why I’ll be doing more work. I cut back on it enormously for the children, but very happily, not in any sacrificial way.’
Victoria was intimately involved in the casting of the Eric and Ernie film. They saw ten actors before Vic Reeves.
‘I found him the most interesting, the most believable,’ she says.
Father figure: Vic Reeves plays Eric Morecambe's father in the new film
Reeves adds: ‘I like George. He’s very dry. He lives his life under Sadie’s metaphorical rolling pin. She’s the boss although they love each other.’
And Reeves was a big fan of Morecambe and Wise.
‘They were fantastic, one of the best double-acts ever. And they’re still funny, if you look at old recordings.’
So he’ll be watching the show at New Year? ‘Of course. I think I’ll get all the neighbours round in the same way people did when Eric and Ernie did one of their Christmas specials.’
So, too, will Joan Morecambe.
‘I’ll be watching with great interest,’ she says.
‘The project would have gone ahead anyway. But Victoria was very sensitive about not upsetting the family. She was keen, I think, to make it as accurate as possible.
‘Having said that, it’s a drama. It’s not trying to show Eric and Ernie exactly as they were. That would be impossible. But she wanted to capture the flavour of those days and their relationship.’
Joan remembers her mother-in-law well. ‘Sadie was a strong personality. She was determined that Eric should have some sort of a life. She wasn’t pushy exactly, but then she didn’t need to be.
‘Eric had a great ability from a very young age. From about three, he liked being the centre of attention. I think Sadie saw that here was a gift that ought to be nurtured.’
Joan and Gary visited the set and saw Sadie and George’s kitchen when Eric was young
‘I found it very strange — rather emotional — watching someone portraying Eric as a young lad,’ she says.
‘It was also a bit weird meeting the actress who played the young version of me. I must say, they had the look just right.’
The young Joan is played by Emer Kenny, who was Zsa Zsa in EastEnders.
‘I was very nervous about meeting Joan,’ she says.
‘But she was lovely and, because she’d been a model and dancer, she understood the whole business of performing and how to carry herself.’
Emer was thrilled to be working with Victoria.
‘She’s a total professional but, at the same time, really warm. I felt so comfortable working with her. And I learnt a lot.’
For Daniel Rigby and Bryan Dick, Eric and Ernie respectively, this film is a big break.
‘I watched a lot of footage of shows they did for ATV in the early Sixties,’ says Daniel. ‘But I was at pains not to attempt an impersonation.
‘The way I describe it is that I’ve tried to convey a raspberry ripple of Eric Morecambe.
‘My realisation is that he was a very loveable man. Part of their success, I’m sure, was down to how very nice they both were.’
Bryan Dick was only cast as Ernie three weeks before filming began.
‘I trained as a dancer before I became an actor. Ernie was a highly proficient tap dancer and I can do that, too,’ he says.
‘But I was keen to bring across the sense of the guy as opposed to a pitch perfect impersonation. Even so, they were big shoes to fill.’
Daniel and Bryan play Eric and Ernie in their twenties. There are two other sets of Eric and Ernie when they’re boys and later in their teens, but they could only run to one Sadie.
‘I have to go from mid-30s to mid-50s through the course of the story,’ says Victoria.
‘In other words, I’m too old to play her most of the time! I tried to show the passing of the years by smiling a lot when Sadie was young and then wearing a different coat when she became middle-aged.’
Victoria is happiest when she’s working, she says.
‘I do create projects, yes, but I’m lucky that I can get them on television.’
But she adds: ‘While it’s never a given, I do have a track record, which helps.
‘We used to have to declare on our passports one word that described our occupation. I think mine would be entertainer because it covers everything I’m trying to do. But, as the years have gone by, I’ve become less interested in performing. I’m much more interested these days in writing and producing.’
No more sell-outs at the Albert Hall, then? A half-smile: ‘Oh, I don’t know. I wouldn’t want to rule it out.’
So how does she relax? ‘I watch the telly. Mad Men is a favourite. And I like reading.’
And were she to throw a fantasy dinner party, who would be the two famous people she’d like to have sitting next to her?
‘I’ll have to choose three. Morecambe and Wise, of course, and Charlie Chaplin. I’d love to have met him. I realise my choices are all funny people but I’m interested in funny people and they’re anyway more fun to be with.’
For someone who has had a difficult relationship with food down the years, Victoria now looks to have found her optimum weight, and she exercises regularly. ‘I do 20 press-ups every morning,’ she says, ‘no matter where I am.’
So does she like her life now or would she prefer her youth back?
‘Oh, I like my life now. I feel like I’m in my full stride.’
Then she skids to a sudden halt. ‘But I can still be very silly. I get the giggles all the time.
‘I just love that feeling. It’s the nicest thing about being alive.’
Eric and Ernie will be shown on BBC2 on New Year’s Day. Victoria Wood’s Mid Life Christmas is now available on DVD at £19.99
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French postcard by J.R.P.R., Paris, no. 47. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn [misspelled].
Charles Ray (1891-1943) was an American actor, scriptwriter, and director of the silent screen, who knew a parabole from rags to riches and back again. He worked for Paramount, his own company, United Artists and MGM. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, he was a very popular actor and one of Hollywood's best-paid stars.
Italian postcard. ASER (A. Scarmiglia Ed., Roma). Card probably for the film I 3 aquilotti (Mario Mattoli, 1942).
Carlo Minello (1918–1947) was an Italian film actor, who had a short career during the Second World War. After studying architecture in Florence he debuted as stage actor at the theatre company of the GUF. After various plays he entered the company of the Teatro Eliseo in Rome, It was there that film director Ferdinando Maria Poggioli discovered him and gave him his first film part in Addio, giovinezza! (Ferdinando Maria Poggioli, 1940), followed by more supporting parts, and never discontinuing his stage career, Minello had his first lead opposite German star Camilla Horn in Paura d'amare (Gaetano Amata, 1942), scripted by Umberto Barbaro. A second major part Minello had opposite Leonardo Cortese and a young Alberto Sordi in the aviation drama I 3 aquilotti (Mario Mattoli, 1942), about three young pilots in training, who risk being sent to war. In La zia di Carlo (Alfredo Guarini, 1943), adaptation of the classic play Charley's Aunt, Minello played Charlie/Carlo, opposite Erminio Macario as the "aunt". In 1944 Minello married singer and actress Maria Pia Arcangeli.
Minello's last film was again an aviation drama: Aeroporto (Piero Costa, 1944). It was the only overtly fascist film produced in Italy during the Republic of Salò. That may well explain why Minello didn't have any film career after the war, even if his co-actor Elio Steiner did have one. Carlo Minello, died young, in 1947 (age 29); one year after the birth of his son, the later actor, scriptwriter and songwriter Cristiano Minellono, famous for his songs for Adriano Celentano, Ricchi e Poveri (e.g. M'innamoro di te), Al Bano and Romina Power (Felicità), and Toto Cutugno (L'italiano).
Source: IMDB, Italian Wikipedia.
Dutch postcard. Photo: Loet C. Barnstijn Film. Johan Kaart and Riek Berkhout in Malle gevallen/Silly Situations (Jaap Speyer, 1934).
Johan Kaart and Louis de Bree starred in the Dutch romantic comedy Malle gevallen/Silly situations (Jaap Speyer, 1934), produced by the Dutch mogul Loet C. Barnstijn.
Malle gevallen/Silly situations (1934) was one of the dozens of Dutch sound films, made after the success of the musical De Jantjes/The Tars (Jaap Speyer, 1933). The producer of De Jantjes, film distributor and former cinema operator Loet C. Barnstijn, engaged director Jaap Speyer, who had worked for years in the silent film industry in Berlin and who had directed De Jantjes. In 1929, Barnstijn had Philips develop the ‘Loetafoon’, his own projection system for sound films. In the few years that followed, he imported sound-film cameras, and was the first person in the Netherlands to produce a short sound film. Malle gevallen is a romantic comedy written by Hans Martin and Simon Koster based on Martin's 1913 novel. The plot is about three students (Roland Varno, Louis Borel and Johan Kaart Jr.) who are in love with three girls (Enny Meunier, Annie van Duyn and Jopie Koopman). At the time, Roland Varno (1908-1996) was already known for his role as one of the gymnasiasts in Josef von Sternberg's Der blaue Engel/The Blue Angel (1930). He later worked in Hollywood as a character actor, mainly in B-pictures. Louis Borel (1905-1973) appeared in films in the Netherlands, in Great Britain and in Hollywood. He also adapted, translated, directed and starred in many stage plays. At the end of his career he became a popular TV star. Johan Kaart Jr. (1897-1976) starred in seven Dutch films between 1934 and 1937. After the war he played in several other Dutch films. He also worked often for radio and TV, but his main stage was the theatre.
Malle gevallen/Silly situations (1934) was intended as a light romantic comedy, but it was made into a musical with songs by orchestra leader Max Tak. Although scriptwriters Martin and Koster wanted to make something sophisticated, the final result was a farce. The famous film critic L.J. Jordaan complained about the "coarseness and bad taste" in the film. Nevertheless, the film was a commercial success. The film was regularly shown in the Dutch cinemas until it was banned in 1942 by the Nazis. Why the Nazis forbade the film is still unknown. In 1935, Loet C. Barnstijn released De familie van mijn vrouw/The family of my wife (Jaap Speyer, 1935) with Sylvain Poons. That same year he bought the Oosterbeek Estate near Wassenaar and built two film studios. He called this Filmstad (Film City). It consisted of an office, a storage film, a recording studio and a technical workshop. This studio produced the successful film Merijntje Gijzen's jeugd/Merijntje Gijzen's youth, based on the novels by A.M. de Jong. When World War II broke out, Barnstijn stayed in the United States because of his Jewish background. The film studios of Oosterbeek were confiscated by the German film company Ufa and were later destroyed during an air raid. Barnstijn died in the USA in 1953. In 2007, the Dutch Filmmuseum presented a DVD of Malle gevallen.
Sources: Eye (Dutch), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was published by Arthur Constantine, Dip. I. P. B., of Leigh Bank Studio, Haslingden, Lancs. Tel. Rossendale 757.
Arthur notes on the divided back of the card that extra copies may be obtained.
There are no indications as to the identity of the couple, nor the date of the photograph.
If anyone recognises the soldier's lapel badges, please leave a note.
Haslingden
Haslingden is a town in Rossendale, Lancashire. It is 16 miles (26 km) north of Manchester. The name means 'Valley of the Hazels'. At the time of the 2011 census the town had a population of 15,969. The town is surrounded by high moorland: 370 m (1215 ft) to the north; 396 m (1300 ft) to the east, and 418 m (1372 ft) Bull Hill to the south.
Haslingden is the birthplace of the industrialist John Cockerill (1790–1840) and the composer Alan Rawsthorne (1905–1971), and was the home for many years of the Irish Republican leader, Michael Davitt (1846–1906). Haslingden Cricket Club is a member of the Lancashire League.
History of Haslingden
There is some evidence of Bronze Age human presence in the area of Haslingden. Thirteen Stones Hill is 2 km (1.2 mi) west of the town, and probably dates from about 3,000 BC. There is now just one stone visible. (....What happened to the other twelve????)
Part of what is now Haslingden was part of the Forest of Rossendale. The Forest was a hunting park during the late 13th. and 14th. centuries; 'Forest' referred to it being parkland rather than being heavily wooded, as the forest declined much earlier, during the Neolithic period.
The Forest of Rossendale contained eleven vaccaries (cow-pastures) and was poorly populated, with Haslingden being the only town of significance.
Haslingden appears to have held markets during the sixteenth century, with the first reference in a Court Roll of 1555 where it records a John Radcliffe being fined for being a 'forestaller of the lords market of Haslyngden'.
There are later references to markets and fairs in The Shuttleworth Accounts (1582-1621), and the map-maker Richard Blome writing in 1673 describes Haslingden as originally having 'A small Market on Wednesdays'.
Later, at the time of Charles 1st., the market was moved to Saturday. The market continued to grow, and Haslingden was designated a Market Town in 1676.
It became a coaching station and a significant industrial borough during the Industrial Revolution. Haslingden benefited in particular with the mechanisation of the wool, cotton spinning and weaving industries from the 18th. to the 19th. centuries, and from the development of watermills and later steam power.
By the final half of the nineteenth century, the diversity and wealth of industry earned the area the name 'The Golden Valley'.
In the 20th. century the population declined from 19,000 in the 1911 census to 17,000 in 2001.
Haslingden Flag
Haslingden is notable for its stone quarrying, and Haslingden Flag (a quartz-based sandstone) was distributed throughout the country in the 19th. century with the opening up of the rail network.
This stone was used in the paving of London, including Trafalgar Square. Flagstone is a type of sedimentary rock, relatively easy to split or quarry in slabs, and hence ideal for paving. Locally it is also used for making fences and roofing.
It has a hardness and silica content not unlike granite, and its presence was the main reason for the growth of quarrying in Rossendale. Haslingden Flag is unique - it is only found near Haslingden.
Textiles
Like much of East Lancashire, Haslingden has a long association with the textile industry. From the 16th. century, after the old Forest of Rossendale was opened up to settlement, farmers raised sheep on the moorlands and made woollen cloth.
Initially this was small-scale and local, but towards the end of the 18th. century, cloth workers came together to work in small groups of houses. At the same time advances in technology meant that the first mills were appearing in the area. Most of these were small, water-powered buildings; and Haslingden, with its elevated situation, was not a natural place for the development of these early mills. Locally they were situated lower down in the river valleys, such as at nearby Helmshore.
The long association with wool meant that Haslingden and the other Rossendale towns had expertise with the processes of cloth production, and so were able to switch easily to cotton weaving.
Cotton was better suited than wool to industrialised spinning, as its fibres were less likely to break than wool. Cotton cloth manufacture quickly became a highly successful industry, and its development was closely associated with its role in the expansion of the slave trade. African slaves were bartered for cotton goods, and cotton was picked by slaves in the Deep South of the U.S.
The growth of mills also had an enormous impact on the landscape, and on the lives of its work force. Cotton weaving in the new factories was largely unregulated, and the workforce was kept almost at starvation levels.
Hunger drove men and women to fight back, and mobs attacked the power-looms that were seen to be the cause of the decline in status of the workforce. In 1826 almost 3,000 people were reported to be 'attacking machinery' in Haslingden.
A troop of cavalry was stationed in the vicinity, and the ring-leaders were arrested. It was reported from Haslingden in the same year that:
"A great majority of the unemployed
must literally perish from extreme want".
By the 1850's, steam power began to supersede water power, and mills grew in size. Grudgingly a minimum wage was introduced, and through the efforts of reformers, the churches and a few enlightened mill-owners, conditions for factory workers slowly improved.
Conditions were however still harsh, despite the whole Rossendale area being known as the 'Golden Valley'. No longer dependent on the rivers as a source of energy, the mill owners were freed to build elsewhere, and Haslingden began to find that successful mills, such as Hargreaves Street Mill, could be built on its higher land.
The long decline of the cotton industry began in the early years of the 20th. century. During the Great War, India and Japan were able to develop their own industries, and after the Second World War, immigration - mainly from Pakistan - was encouraged to help bolster a failing industry.
However by the 1950's, mills were closing at an ever-faster rate. The old buildings often re-occupied by small businesses specialising in other occupations.
The Cockerill Family
William Cockerill (1759-1832) and his son John Cockerill (1790-1840), along with other family members, both sons and daughters, feature in the industrial history of Haslingden. Both men were born in Haslingden, and as a young man William showed great skill as an inventor of machinery.
The Slubbing Billy, which twists and draws out yarn, is named after him. Slubbing Billy is also the name of a North West Morris Team. Father and son eventually left Haslingden and settled in Belgium, where they built up one of the largest industrial and machinery complexes in mainland Europe. It is said that they initiated the spread of the Industrial Revolution in continental Europe.
William's beginnings are obscure, although it is likely that he worked as a blacksmith in Haslingden before travelling to St. Petersburg, Sweden, and finally to Verviers, near Liège in Belgium. Here he set up spinning and carding machines with his sons Willam, Charles James, and John.
John had also been born in Haslingden but moved to Vervier at the age of 12. He was eventually offered a Château in Seraing which then became the heart of Belgium's iron, steel and machine-building industries. He is considered to be the founder of Belgian manufacturing, and was known as a humanitarian employer.
Immigration and Community
In the 19th. century when the cotton industry was thriving, Haslingden became a magnet for immigrants to Great Britain. In particular the port of Liverpool was a gateway for waves of immigrants, and many of these were attracted by work in the mills.
From the late 1840's a large influx of Irish immigrants forced out of Ireland by the Great Famine of 1846–1852, came to Lancashire, and some ended up in Haslingden.
At almost the same time, as a result of the political instability in Italy, Italians came to Liverpool and Manchester, and some families moved on to Haslingden. Similarly, in the 1930's, various eastern European refugees fleeing Nazi persecution settled in the area. Immediately after World War II, young women from Germany were brought over to work in the mills, and some came to Haslingden and stayed.
From 1950 onwards, migrants were encouraged to travel from Commonwealth countries to work in the post-war textile industry. Initially this tended to mean young men who travelled from Pakistan, and later Bangladesh, fully expecting to return home after building up their savings.
However by the 1970's, many were joined by wives and families and settled permanently in Haslingden. As a result, the town is now home to a substantial and vibrant community of people with a South Asian heritage, mainly Bangladeshi and Pakistani.
Many of the families come from just a few villages: from the Attock and Mirpur areas of north-west Pakistan, and from Patli Union in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh.
The town now houses two mosques and a considerable number of Asian grocers and other shops. There is also Apna (Rossendale) that provides classes, workshops and a meeting place mainly for South Asian women. It is based at the Dave Pearson Studio, and has a focus on Islamic arts, well-being, health and general education.
St James's Church and the 'Top of the Town'
Haslingden's Anglican parish church, dedicated to St James the Great, was rebuilt in 1780 on a site occupied by a church building since at least 1284. Murray's Guide states:
"It stands well and is plain Georgian,
dully Gothicised inside".
By the west side of the church entrance is a large Plague Stone, with two carved holes. There is some uncertainty about its exact purpose, but most opinion is that such stones were used in times of plague to enable food (or other alms) to be offered to plague victims while avoiding direct contact.
A Saxon Cross is mentioned in the Clitheroe court rolls of 1547, and the stone may have been at the base of the cross, which means that the stone probably dates from the 16th. century or earlier.
St James's Church sits well to the north of the town centre, but until the 1930's it was adjacent to the 'Top of the Town' - i.e. the area between Town Gate and Church Street, and the old centre of Haslingden.
This was an area containing several public houses the original market, the town stocks, and Marsden Square, where travelling shows pitched their tents. Clearance began in 1932, and the area is now largely housing.
St. Stephen's
St. Stephen's, Grane, has a particularly interesting history. The construction of the Ogden Reservoir (which opened in 1912) led to almost total depopulation of the community of Grane. St. Stephen's remained in use, with most of the villagers having moved to Haslingden town.
In 1925 they decided to move the church stone by stone to a new site, two miles away at Three Lanes End, near Holden Cemetery. The church is now an antiques centre and cafe.
The Public Hall
The Public Hall was built by a private company formed by 'Gentlemen representing the working classes and temperance movement'.
It opened in 1868, and was bought by the town council in 1898.
The hall was once a venue of Winston Churchill during his early political career. Emmeline Pankhurst once addressed the people of Haslingden from the stage and, after the Battle of the Somme in 1916, it was a temporary hospital for the survivors of the Accrington Pals who were sent home for treatment.
However by the 1990's it was largely unused except for occasional entertainments. The hall had been used for 50 or more years by Rossendale Amateur Operatic Society and other local community groups, but it was finally closed by Rossendale Council in 2005.
The hall has since been sold by the council to a group representing the Asian heritage community, and is currently (2021) in the process of being turned into a mosque.
A Standardised Intelligence Test
The Wesleyan School, formerly on the site of the current health centre, was the site of the first experimental test in the world at a standardised intelligence test.
It followed from a suggestion by the industrialist and Liberal politician Sir William Mather in 1900, given after a prize-giving to students to members of the Haslingden Technical Instruction Committee.
The test was set by Henry Holman, a schools inspector and educationalist, in 1903. It included questions like:
"Is there a good reason for making
a pie crust ornamental instead of plain?"
Mather introduced apprentice schemes at his factories that used testing as part of the selection method. He also introduced a 48-hour working week for employees.
The Library
Originally Haslingden Mechanics' Institute and opened in 1860, it became the public library in 1905. A blue plaque commemorates Michael Davitt. The young Davitt migrated to Haslingden with his family in 1840 as a result of the family being evicted from their tenant farm by a British Landlord.
Michael began working in a cotton mill, but at the age of 11 his right arm was entangled in a cogwheel and mangled so badly that it had to be amputated. When he recovered from his operation, a local benefactor, John Dean, helped to give him an education.
Michael also started night classes at the Mechanics' Institute and used its library. Michael Davitt's family home from 1867 to 1870 on Wilkinson Street is now marked by a memorial plaque.
Amongst the library's collection is an early photograph (c. 1892) of Thomas Frederick Worrall labelled Tom Worrall, artist, whose watercolours included a depiction of the Old White Horse Inn (long demolished).
The Railway
Haslingden was once connected to Accrington and Bury by railway. The East Lancashire Railway built a station here, which remained open to passengers under British Railways until the 7th. November 1960. The withdrawal of the passenger service was therefore not a victim of Dr. Beeching.
Much of the trackbed of the railway is no longer visible, with the A56 by-pass built over it between Grane Road and Blackburn Road. However, the line can still be traced through Helmshore towards Stubbins, where several magnificent viaducts still remain.
Other Notable Haslingden Places
The town centre is home to the famous Big Lamp which was originally erected in 1841 and from where all distances in Haslingden are measured. The original lamp has been replaced by a replica, the 1841 lamp being lost after being taken to America.
Cissy Green's Bakery can be found on Deardengate. People visit from across Lancashire to sample the handmade pies which are still made to the original 1920's recipe.
To the north of the town is the Holland's Pies factory, and Winfield's, a large warehouse-style retail development selling footwear and clothing, and promoting itself as a family day out.
Haslingden's War Memorial is unusual in that it has no names recorded on it.
To the northeast there is a 2 kW digital television transmitter serving a wide area.
Notable Residents
Notable residents associated with Haslingden include:
-- Armour Ashe, professional footballer who played for Accrington Stanley and Southport.
-- Chris Aspin, journalist, historian and author. Author of several books on the textile industry, and local history.
-- Sir Rhodes Boyson, former Conservative Minister in Mrs. Thatcher's government, former Councillor on Haslingden Borough Council, and former Head Teacher of Lea Bank County Secondary Modern School, Rawtenstall.
-- Eugenie Cheesmond, psychiatrist and founder of Lifeline charity for drug addiction.
-- John Cockerill, industrialist.
-- Michael Davitt – Irish Republican. In 2006 a revamped memorial to Davitt was unveiled by the Irish President Mary McAleese in Wilkinson Street as part of the Davitt centenary celebrations.
-- Beryl Ingham, wife and manager of George Formby.
-- Clive Lloyd, West Indies and Lancashire C.C.C. cricketer, who also played for Haslingden in the early days of his career.
-- Vinoo Mankad, Indian cricketer, who played for the town's Lancashire League cricket team.
-- Dave Pearson, painter.
-- Alan Rawsthorne, composer.
-- William Roache, actor best known as Ken Barlow on Coronation Street.
-- Robert Scott, recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second Boer War.
-- Choppy Warburton (1845–1897) born in Coal Hey, just off Lower Deardengate, was a record-breaking runner and a cycling coach. There are frequent claims that he drugged riders to make them ride faster. He was painted by Toulouse-Lautrec.
George Formby and his Wife Beryl
George Formby OBE was born on the 26th. May 1904. He was an English actor, singer-songwriter and comedian who frequently played the ukulele when on the stage or in films.
He became known to a worldwide audience through his films of the 1930's and 1940's.
On stage, screen and record he sang light, comic songs, usually playing the ukulele or banjolele, and became the UK's highest-paid entertainer.
Born in Wigan, Lancashire, he was the son of George Formby Senior. After an early career as a stable boy and jockey, Formby took to the music hall stage after the early death of his father in 1921.
His early performances were taken exclusively from his father's act, including the same songs, jokes and characters. In 1923 he made two career-changing decisions – he purchased a ukulele, and married Beryl Ingham, a fellow performer who became his manager and who transformed his act.
Beryl insisted that he appear on stage formally dressed, and introduced the ukulele to his performance.
He started his recording career in 1926 and, from 1934, he increasingly worked in film to develop into a major star by the late 1930's and 1940's, and became the UK's most popular entertainer during those decades.
Media historian Brian McFarlane writes that on film, Formby portrayed gormless Lancastrian innocents who would win through against some form of villainy, gaining the affection of an attractive middle-class girl in the process.
During the Second World War Formby worked extensively for the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), and entertained civilians and troops. By 1946 it was estimated that George had performed in front of three million service personnel.
After the war his career declined, although he toured the Commonwealth, and continued to appear in variety and pantomime.
George's last television appearance was in December 1960, two weeks before the death of Beryl.
He surprised people by announcing his engagement to a school teacher, Pat Howson, seven weeks after Beryl's funeral, but died in Preston three weeks later, at the age of 56; he was buried in Warrington, alongside his father.
Formby's biographer, Jeffrey Richards, considers that:
"The actor had been able to embody
simultaneously Lancashire, the working
classes, the people, and the nation".
Formby was considered Britain's first properly home-grown screen comedian. He was an influence on future comedians—particularly Charlie Drake and Norman Wisdom—and, culturally, on entertainers such as the Beatles, who referred to him in their music.
Since his death, Formby has been the subject of five biographies, two television specials and two works of public sculpture.
George Formby - The Early Years 1904 - 1921
George Formby was born in Wigan, Lancashire, on the 26th. May 1904. He was the eldest of seven surviving children born to James Lawler Booth and his wife Eliza, née Hoy. The marriage was in fact bigamous because Booth was still married to his first wife, Martha Maria Salter, a twenty-year-old music hall performer.
Booth was a successful music hall comedian and singer who performed under the name George Formby (he is now known as George Formby Senior).
Formby Senior suffered from a chest ailment, identified variously as bronchitis, asthma or tuberculosis, and would use the cough as part of the humour in his act, saying to the audience:
"Bronchitis, I'm a bit tight tonight."
Alternatively:
"Coughing better tonight."
One of his main characters was that of John Willie, an "archetypal Lancashire lad". In 1906 Formby Sr was earning £35 a week in the music halls, which rose to £325 a week by 1920. This meant that George Formby grew up in an affluent home.
Formby Senior was so popular that Marie Lloyd, the influential music hall singer and actress, would only watch two acts: his and that of Dan Leno.
George Formby was born blind owing to an obstructive caul, although his sight was restored during a violent coughing fit or sneeze when he was a few months old.
After briefly attending school—at which he did not prosper, and did not learn to read or write—Formby was removed from formal education at the age of seven and sent to become a stable boy, briefly in Wiltshire and then in Middleham, Yorkshire.
Formby Senior sent his son away to work as he was worried that he would watch him on stage; he was against Formby following in his footsteps, saying:
"One fool in the family is enough."
After a year working at Middleham, young George was apprenticed to Thomas Scholfield in Epsom, where he ran his first professional races at the age of 10, when he weighed less than 56 lb (25 kg).
In 1915 Formby Senior allowed his son to appear on screen, taking the lead in By the Shortest of Heads, a thriller directed by Bert Haldane in which Formby played a stable boy who outwits a gang of villains and wins a £10,000 prize when he comes first in a horse race.
The film is now considered lost, with the last-known copy having been destroyed in 1940.
Later in 1915, and with the closure of the English racing season because of the Great War, Formby moved to Ireland where he continued as a jockey until November 1918.
Later that month he returned to England and raced for Lord Derby at his Newmarket stables. Formby continued as a jockey until 1921, although he never won a race.
-- Beginning a Stage Career: 1921–1934
On the 8th. February 1921, Formby Senior succumbed to his bronchial condition and died at the young age of 45; he was laid to rest in the Catholic section of Warrington Cemetery.
After his father's funeral Eliza took the young Formby to London to help him cope with his grief. While there, they visited the Victoria Palace Theatre—where Formby Senior had previously been so successful—and saw a performance by the Tyneside comedian Tommy Dixon.
Dixon was performing a copy of Formby Senior's act, using the same songs, jokes, costumes and mannerisms, and billed himself as "The New George Formby", a name which angered Eliza and Formby even more.
The performance prompted Formby to follow in his father's profession, a decision which was supported by Eliza. As he had never seen his father perform live, Formby found the imitation difficult, and he had to learn his father's songs from records, and the rest of his act and jokes from his mother.
On the 21st. March 1921 Formby gave his first professional appearance in a two-week run at the Hippodrome in Earlestown, Lancashire, where he received a fee of £5 a week.
In the show he was billed as George Hoy, using his mother's maiden name—he explained later that he did not want the Formby name to appear in small print. His father's name was used in the posters and advertising, George Hoy being described as:
"Comedian (Son of George Formby)."
While still appearing in Earlestown, Formby was hired to appear at the Moss Empire chain of theatres for £17 10s a week. His first night was unsuccessful, and he later said of it:
"I was the first turn, three minutes,
and died the death of a dog."
George toured venues in Northern England, although he was not well received, and was booed and hissed while performing in Blyth, Northumberland. As a result he experienced frequent periods of unemployment—up to three months at one point.
Formby spent two years as a support act touring round the northern halls, and although he was poorly paid, his mother supported him financially.
In 1923 Formby started to play the ukulele, although the exact circumstances of how he came to play the instrument are unknown. He introduced it into his act during a run at the Alhambra Theatre in Barnsley.
When the songs—still his father's material—were well received, he changed his stage name to George Formby, and stopped using the John Willie character.
Another significant event was his appearance in Castleford, West Yorkshire, where appearing on the same bill was Beryl Ingham, an Accrington-born champion clogdancer and actress who had won the All England Step Dancing title at the age of 11.
Beryl, who had formed a dancing act with her sister, May, called "The Two Violets", had a low opinion of Formby's act. She later said that:
"If I'd had a bag of rotten tomatoes
with me I'd have thrown them at him".
Nevertheless Formby and Beryl entered into a relationship and married two years later, on the 13th. September 1924, at a register office in Wigan, with Formby's aunt and uncle as witnesses.
Upon hearing the news, George's mother Eliza insisted on the couple having a church wedding, which followed two months later.
Beryl took over as George's manager, and changed aspects of his act, including the songs and jokes. She instructed him on how to use his hands, and how to work his audience.
She also persuaded him to change his stage dress to black tie—although he appeared in a range of other costumes too—and to take lessons in how to play the ukulele properly.
By June 1926 George was proficient enough to earn a one-off record deal—negotiated by Beryl—to sing six of his father's songs for the Edison Bell/Winner label.
Formby spent the next few years touring, largely in the north, but also appearing at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, his official London debut.
George had a further recording session in October 1929, performing two songs for Dominion Records. However according to David Bret, Formby's biographer:
"Beryl's avaricious demands would
prevent any serious contract from
coming George's way."
That changed in 1932, when Formby signed a three-year deal with Decca Records. One of the songs he recorded in July 1932 was "Chinese Laundry Blues", telling the story of Mr Wu, which became one of his standard songs, and part of a long-running series of songs about the character.
Over the course of his career Formby went on to record over 200 songs, around 90 of which were written by Fred Cliffe and Harry Gifford.
In the 1932 winter season Formby appeared in his first pantomime, Babes in the Wood, in Bolton, after which he toured with the George Formby Road Show around the north of England, with Beryl acting as the commère; the show also toured in 1934.
-- George Formby's Burgeoning Film Career: 1934–1940
With Formby's growing success on stage, Beryl decided that it was time for him to move into films. In 1934 she approached the producer Basil Dean, the head of Associated Talking Pictures (ATP). Although he expressed an interest in Formby, he did not like the associated demands from Beryl.
She also met the representative of Warner Brothers in the UK, Irving Asher, who was dismissive, saying that Formby was:
"Too stupid to play the bad guy
and too ugly to play the hero."
Three weeks later Formby was approached by John E. Blakeley of Blakeley's Productions, who offered him a one-film deal.
The film, Boots! Boots!, was shot on a budget of £3,000 in a one-room studio in Albany Street, London. Formby played the John Willie character, while Beryl also appeared, and the couple were paid £100 for the two weeks' work, plus 10 per cent of the profits.
The film followed a revue format, and Jo Botting, writing for the British Film Institute, described it as having:
"A wafer-thin plot that
is "almost incidental."
Botting also considered the film to have:
"Poor sound quality, static
scene set-ups and a lack
of sets."
However while it did not impress the critics, audience figures were high.
Formby followed this up with Off the Dole in 1935, again for Blakeley, who had re-named his company Mancunian Films. The film cost £3,000 to make, and earned £80,000 at the box office.
As with Boots! Boots!, the film was in a revue format, and Formby again played John Willie, with Beryl as his co-star. According to Formby's biographer, Jeffrey Richards:
"The two films for Blakeley are
an invaluable record of the
pre-cinematic Formby at work".
The success of the pictures led Basil Dean to offer Formby a seven-year contract with ATP, which resulted in the production of 11 films, although Dean's fellow producer, Michael Balcon, considered Formby to be:
"... an odd and not particularly
loveable character".
The first film from the deal was released in 1935. No Limit features Formby as an entrant in the Isle of Man annual Tourist Trophy (TT) motorcycle race. Monty Banks directed, and Florence Desmond took the female lead.
According to Richards, Dean did not try to play down Formby's Lancashire character in the film, and in fact employed Walter Greenwood, the Salford-born author of the 1933 novel Love on the Dole, as the scriptwriter.
Filming was troubled, with Beryl being difficult to everyone present. The writer Matthew Sweet described the set as "a battleground" because of her actions, and Monty Banks unsuccessfully requested that Dean bar Beryl from the studio.
The Observer thought that:
"Parts of No Limit are pretty dull
stuff, but the race footage was
shot and cut to a maximum of
excitement."
Regarding the star of the film, the reviewer thought that:
"Our Lancashire George is a grand
lad; he can gag and clown, play the
banjo and sing with authority ...
Still and all, he doesn't do too bad."
The film was so popular that it was reissued in 1938, 1946 and 1957.
The formula used for No Limit was repeated in George's following works: Formby played the 'urban little man' -- defeated, but refusing to admit it.
George portrayed a good-natured, but accident-prone and incompetent Lancastrian, who was often in a skilled trade, or the services.
The plots were geared to Formby trying to achieve success in a field unfamiliar to him (in horse racing, the TT Races, as a spy or a policeman), and by winning the affections of a middle-class girl in the process.
Interspersed throughout each film is a series of songs by Formby, in which he plays the banjo, banjolele or ukulele. The films are, in the words of the academic Brian McFarlane:
"... unpretentiously skilful in their
balance between broad comedy
and action, laced with Formby's
shy ordinariness".
No Limit was followed by Keep Your Seats, Please in 1936, which was again directed by Banks with Desmond returning as the co-star.
Tensions arose in pre-production with Banks and some of the cast requesting to Dean that Beryl be banned from the set. Tempers had also become strained between Formby and Florence Desmond, who were not on speaking terms except to film scenes.
The situation became so bad that Dean avoided visiting his studios for the month of filming. The film contained the song "The Window Cleaner" (popularly known as "When I'm Cleaning Windows"), which was soon banned by the BBC.
The corporation's director John Reith stated that:
"If the public wants to listen to Formby
singing his disgusting little ditty, they'll
have to be content to hear it in the
cinemas, not over the nation's airwaves."
Reith particularly objected to two of the verses:
"To overcrowded flats I've been,
Sixteen in one bed I've seen,
With the lodger tucked up in between,
When I'm cleaning windows!
Now lots of girls I've had to jilt,
For they admire the way I'm built,
It's a good job I don't wear a kilt,
When I'm cleaning windows!"
31 years later, in 1967, the BBC banned the Beatles' 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' because of the song's alleged references to drugs. However writer of the song John Lennon claimed in a 1971 interview that Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds has no connection to LSD. He explained that he was inspired to write the song after his son brought him a drawing that he made in nursery school:
“It never was about LSD, and nobody
believes me. This is the truth: My son
came home with a drawing and showed
me this strange-looking woman flying
around. I said, ‘What is it?’ and he said,
‘It’s Lucy in the sky with diamonds,’ and
I thought, ‘That’s beautiful.’
I immediately wrote a song about it.
The song had gone out, the whole
album had been published and
somebody noticed that the letters
spelled out LSD, and I had no idea
about it. … It wasn’t about LSD at all.”
Formby and Beryl were furious that their song was blocked. In May 1941 Beryl informed the BBC that the song was a favourite of the royal family, particularly Queen Mary, while a statement by Formby pointed out that:
"I sang it before the King and
Queen at the Royal Variety
Performance."
The BBC relented and started to broadcast the song.
When production finished on Keep Your Seats, Please, Beryl insisted that for the next film there should be:
"No Eye-Ties and stuck-up
little trollops involved."
Beryl was referring to Banks and Desmond, respectively.
By then Dean had tired of the on-set squabbles, and for the third ATP film, Feather Your Nest, he appointed William Beaudine as the director, and Polly Ward, the niece of the music hall star Marie Lloyd, as the female lead.
Bret noted:
"The songs in the film are comparatively
bland, with the exception of the one
which would become immortal: 'Leaning
on a Lamp-post'."
By the time of the next production, Keep Fit in 1937, Dean had begun to assemble a special team at Ealing Studios to help develop and produce the Formby films; key among the members were the director Anthony Kimmins, who went on to direct five of Formby's films.
Kay Walsh was cast as the leading lady and, in the absence of Beryl from the set, Formby and Walsh had an affair, after she fell for his flirtatious behaviour off-camera.
Although Beryl was furious with Walsh, and tried to have her removed from the film, a showdown with Dean proved fruitless. Dean informed her that Walsh was to remain the lead in both Keep Fit, and in Formby's next film (I See Ice, 1938). In order to mollify Beryl, Dean raised Formby's fee for the latter film to £25,000.
When filming concluded on I See Ice, Formby spent the 1937 summer season performing in the revue King Cheer at the Opera House Theatre, Blackpool, before appearing in a 12-minute slot at the Royal Variety Performance in November.
The popularity of George's performances meant that in 1937 he was the top British male star in box office takings, a position he held every subsequent year until 1943.
Additionally, between 1938 and 1942 he was also the highest-paid entertainer in Great Britain, and by the end of the 1930's was earning £100,000 a year.
In early 1938 Dean informed the Formbys that in the next film, It's in the Air, Banks would return to direct and Walsh would again be the leading lady. Beryl objected strongly, and Kimmins continued his directorial duties, while Ward was brought in for the female lead.
Beryl, as she did with all Formby's female co-stars, read the 'keep-your-hands-off-my-husband' riot act to the actress.
In May 1938, while filming It's in the Air, Formby purchased a Rolls-Royce, with the personalised number plate GF 1. Every year afterwards he would purchase either a new Rolls-Royce or Bentley, buying 26 over the course of his life.
In the autumn of 1938 Formby began work on Trouble Brewing, released the following year with 19-year-old Googie Withers as the female lead; Kimmins again directed.
Withers later recounted that Formby did not speak to her until, during a break in filming when Beryl was not present, he whispered out of the corner of his mouth:
"I'm sorry, love, but you know,
I'm not allowed to speak to you."
Googie thought that this was "very sweet."
George's second release of 1939—shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War—was Come On George!, which cast Pat Kirkwood in the female lead.
Formby and Kirkwood disliked each other intensely, and neither of the Formbys liked several of the other senior cast members. Come On George! was screened for troops serving in France before being released in Great Britain.
-- George Formby and the Second World War
At the outbreak of the Second World War Dean left ATP and became the head of the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), the organisation that provided entertainment to the British Armed Forces.
Over the course of five months Formby requested to sign up for ENSA, but was denied; Dean however relented in February 1940, and Formby was signed on a fixed salary of £10 per week, although he still remained under contract to ATP.
George undertook his first tour in France in March, where he performed for members of the British Expeditionary Force.
Basil Dean commented on Formby's work for the organisation:
"Standing with his back to a tree or a wall
of sandbags, with men squatting on the
ground in front of him, he sang song after
song, screwing up his face into comical
expressions of fright whenever shells
exploded in the near distance, and
making little cracks when the firing
drowned the point lines in his songs".
The social research organisation Mass-Observation recorded that Formby's first film of 1940, Let George Do It!, gave a particularly strong boost to early-war British civilian morale.
In a dream sequence after being drugged, Formby's character punches Hitler during a Nuremberg Rally. According to Richards:
"The scene provides the visual
encapsulation of the people's
war, with the English Everyman
flooring the Nazi Superman."
The scene was so striking that the film became Formby's first international release, in the US, under the title To Hell With Hitler.
Let George Do It! was also shown in Moscow, where it was released in 1943 under the title Dinky Doo. The film attracted packed houses, and received record box-office takings for over ten months.
The critics also praised the film, and the Kinematograph Weekly called it Formby's "best performance to date", and the film, "a box office certainty".
Formby's ENSA commitments were heavy, touring factories, theatres and concert halls around Great Britain. He also gave free concerts for charities and worthy causes, and raised £10,000 for the Fleetwood Fund on behalf of the families of missing trawlermen.
George and Beryl also set up their own charities, such as the OK Club for Kids, whose aim was to provide cigarettes for Yorkshire soldiers, and the Jump Fund, to provide home-knitted balaclavas, scarves and socks to servicemen.
Formby also joined the Home Guard as a dispatch rider, where he took his duties seriously, and fitted them around his other work whenever he could.
Formby continued filming with ATP, and his second film of 1940, Spare a Copper, was again focused on an aspect of the war, this time combating fifth columnists and saboteurs in a Merseyside dockyard.
However cinema-goers had begun to tire of war films, and so his next venture, Turned Out Nice Again returned to less contentious issues, with Formby's character caught in a domestic battle between his new wife and mother.
Early in the filming schedule, he took time to perform in an ENSA show that was broadcast on the BBC from Aldwych tube station as Let the People Sing. George sang four songs, and told the audience:
"Don't forget, it's wonderful
to be British!"
Towards the end of 1940 Formby tried to enlist for active military service, despite Beryl informing him that by being a member of ENSA he was already signed up. However the examining board rejected him as being unfit, because he had sinusitis and arthritic toes.
George spent the winter season in pantomime at the Opera House Theatre, Blackpool, portraying Idle Jack in Dick Whittington. When the season came to an end, the Formbys moved to London and, in May 1941, performed for the royal family at Windsor Castle.
George had commissioned a new set of inoffensive lyrics for "When I'm Cleaning Windows", but was informed that he should sing the original, uncensored version, which was enjoyed by the royal party, particularly Queen Mary, who asked for a repeat of the song.
King George VI presented Formby with a set of gold cuff links, and advised him to "wear them, not put them away".
With the ATP contract at an end, Formby decided not to renew or push for an extension. Robert Murphy, in his study of wartime British cinema, points out that:
"Balcon, Formby's producer at the
time, seems to have made little
effort to persuade him not to transfer
his allegiance."
This was despite the box office success enjoyed by Let George Do It! and Spare a Copper. Numerous offers came in, and Formby selected the American company Columbia Pictures, in a deal worth in excess of £500,000. The contract was to make a minimum of six films—seven were eventually made.
Formby set up his own company, Hillcrest Productions, to distribute the films, and had the final decision on the choice of director, scriptwriter and theme, while Columbia would have the choice of leading lady.
Part of Formby's reasoning behind the decision was a desire for parts with more character, something that would not have happened at ATP.
At the end of August 1941 production began on Formby's first film for Columbia, South American George, which took six weeks to complete.
Formby's move to an American company was controversial, and although his popular appeal seemed unaffected, John Mundy noted in 2007 that:
"His films were treated with
increasing critical hostility."
The reviewer for The Times wrote that the story was "confused," and considered that "there is not sufficient comic invention in the telling" of it.
Murphy commented that:
"The criticism had more to do with
the inadequate vehicles which he
subsequently appeared in than in
any diminution of his personal
popularity."
In early 1942 Formby undertook a three-week, 72-show tour of Northern Ireland, largely playing to troops, but also undertaking fund-raising shows for charity—one at the Belfast Hippodrome raised £500.
He described his time in Ulster as:
"The pleasantest tour
I've ever undertaken".
George returned to the mainland by way of the Isle of Man, where he entertained the troops guarding the internment camps. After further charity shows—raising £8,000 for a tank fund—Formby was the associate producer for the Vera Lynn film We'll Meet Again (1943).
In March he also filmed Much Too Shy which was released in October that year. Although the film was poorly received by the critics, the public still attended in large numbers, and the film was profitable.
In the summer of 1942 Formby was involved in a controversy with the Lord's Day Observance Society, who had filed law suits against the BBC for playing secular music on Sunday.
The society began a campaign against the entertainment industry, claiming that all theatrical activity on a Sunday was unethical, and cited a 1667 law which made it illegal.
With 60 leading entertainers already avoiding Sunday working, Dean informed Formby that his stance would be crucial in avoiding a spread of the problem. Formby issued a statement:
"I'll hang up my uke on Sundays only
when our lads stop fighting and getting
killed on Sundays ... as far as the Lord's
Day Observance Society are concerned,
they can mind their own bloody business.
And in any case, what have they done for
the war effort except get on everyone's
nerves?"
The following day it was announced that the pressure from the society was to be lifted.
At the end of 1942 Formby started filming Get Cracking, a story about the Home Guard, which was completed in under a month, the tight schedule brought about by an impending ENSA tour of the Mediterranean.
Between the end of filming Get Cracking and the release of the film in May 1943, Formby undertook a tour of Northern Scotland and the Orkney Islands, and had nearly completed shooting on his next film, Bell-Bottom George.
The reviewer for The Times opined that:
"Get Cracking, although a distinct
improvement on other films in which
Mr. Formby has appeared, is cut too
closely to fit the demands of an
individual technique to achieve any
real life of its own."
Bell-Bottom George was described 60 years later by the academic Baz Kershaw as being:
"Unashamedly gay and peppered
with homoerotic scenes."
Bret concurs, and notes that:
"The majority of the cast and almost
every one of the male extras was
unashamedly gay."
The film was a hit with what Bret describes as Formby's "surprisingly large, closeted gay following".
The reviewer for The Manchester Guardian was impressed with the film, and wrote that:
"There is a new neatness of execution
and lightness of touch about this
production ... while George himself
can no longer be accused of trailing
clouds of vaudevillian glory."
The reviewer also considered Formby:
"... our first authentic and strictly
indigenous film comedian."
After completing filming, the Formbys undertook a further ENSA tour. Although Dean personally disliked the Formbys, he greatly admired the tireless work they did for the organisation.
In August 1943 Formby undertook a 53-day tour of a significant portion of the Mediterranean, including Italy, Sicily, Malta, Gibraltar, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine.
He entertained 750,000 troops in thirteen countries, touring 25,000 miles (40,000 km) in the process and returning to England in October.
The couple travelled around the countryside in a Ford Mercury that Formby had purchased from the racing driver Sir Malcolm Campbell, which had been converted to sleep two in the back.
In January 1944 Formby described his experiences touring for ENSA in Europe and the Middle East in a BBC radio broadcast. He said that:
"The troops are worrying quite a lot
about you folks at home, but we soon
put them right about that.
We told them that after four and a half
years, Britain was still the best country
to live in."
Shortly after he began filming He Snoops to Conquer—his fifth picture for Columbia—he was visited on set by the Dance Music Policy Committee (DMPC).
The DMPC was responsible for vetting music for broadcast, and for checking if music was sympathetic towards the enemy during the war.
The DMPC interviewed Formby about three songs that had been included in Bell-Bottom George: "Swim Little Fish", "If I Had a Girl Like You" and "Bell-Bottom George".
Formby was summoned to the BBC's offices to perform his three songs in front of the committee, with his song checked against the available sheet music. A week later, on the 1st. February, the committee met and decided that the songs were innocuous, although Formby was told that he would have to get further clearance if the lyrics were changed.
Bret concluded that George had been the victim of a plot by a member of the Variety Artists' Federation, following Formby's scathing comments on entertainers who were too scared to leave London to entertain the troops.
The comments, which appeared in the forces magazine Union Jack, were then widely reported in the press in Britain. The Variety Artists' Federation demanded that Formby release names, and threatened him with action if he did not do so, but he refused to give in to their pressure.
Formby went to Normandy in July 1944 in the vanguard of a wave of ENSA performers. He and Beryl travelled over on a rough crossing to Arromanches giving a series of impromptu concerts to troops in improvised conditions, including on the backs of farm carts and army lorries, or in bomb-cratered fields.
In one location the German front line was too close for him to perform, so he crawled into the trenches and told jokes with the troops there. He then boarded HMS Ambitious for his first scheduled concert before returning to France to continue his tour.
During dinner with General Bernard Montgomery, whom he had met in North Africa, Formby was invited to visit the glider crews of 6th. Airborne Division, who had been holding a series of bridges without relief for 56 days.
He did so on the 17th. August in a one-day visit to the front line bridges, where he gave nine shows, all standing beside a sandbag wall, ready to jump into a slit trench in case of problems; much of the time his audience were in foxholes.
After the four-week tour of France, Formby returned home to start work on I Didn't Do It (released in 1945), although he continued to work on ENSA concerts and tours in Britain.
Between January and March 1945, shortly after the release of He Snoops to Conquer, he left on an ENSA tour that took in Burma, India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).
The concerts in the Far East were his last for ENSA, and by the end of the war it was estimated that he had performed in front of three million service personnel.
-- George Formby's Post-War Career: 1946–1952
In 1946 the song "With My Little Stick of Blackpool Rock", which Formby had recorded in 1937, began to cause problems at the BBC for broadcasts of Formby or his music.
The producer of one of Formby's live television programmes received a letter from a BBC manager that stated:
"We have no record that "With My Little
Stick of Blackpool Rock" is banned. We
do however know, and so does Formby,
that certain lines in the lyric must not be
broadcast."
Between July and October 1946, Formby filmed George in Civvy Street, which would be his final film. The story concerns the rivalry between two pubs: the Unicorn, bequeathed to Formby's character, and the Lion, owned by his childhood sweetheart—played by Rosalyn Boulter—but run by an unscrupulous manager.
Richards wrote:
"The film has symbolic significance;
at the end, with the marriage between
the two pub owners, Formby bowed
out of films, unifying the nation mythically,
communally, and matrimonially".
The film was less successful at the box office than George's previous works, as audience tastes had changed in the post-war world. Fisher opines that because of his tireless war work, Formby had become too synonymous with the war, causing the public to turn away from him, much as they had from the wartime British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
Bret believes that post-war audiences wanted intrigue, suspense and romance, through the films of James Mason, Stewart Granger, David Niven and Laurence Olivier.
Bret also indicates that Formby's cinematic decline was shared by similar performers, including Gracie Fields, Tommy Trinder and Will Hay.
Formby's biographers, Alan Randall and Ray Seaton, write that in his late 40s, Formby "was greying and thickening out", and was too old to play the innocent young Lancashire lad.
The slump in his screen popularity hit Formby hard, and he became depressed. In early 1946 Beryl checked him into a psychiatric hospital under her maiden name, Ingham. He came out after five weeks, in time for a tour of Scandinavia in May.
On his return from Scandinavia, Formby went into pantomime in Blackpool; while there, he learned of his appointment as Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1946 King's Birthday Honours. Although delighted, he was upset that Beryl went without official recognition, and said:
"If somethin' was comin' our way,
ah'd like it to be somethin' Beryl
could have shared."
Later that year the Formbys toured South Africa shortly before formal racial apartheid was introduced. While there they refused to play racially-segregated venues. When Formby was cheered by a black audience after embracing a small black girl who had presented his wife with a box of chocolates, National Party leader Daniel François Malan (who later introduced apartheid) telephoned to complain; Beryl replied:
"Why don't you piss off,
you horrible little man?"
Formby returned to Great Britain at Christmas and appeared in Dick Whittington at the Grand Theatre, Leeds for nine weeks, and then, in February 1947, he appeared in variety for two weeks at the London Palladium. Reviewing the show, The Times thought:
"Formby was more than ever the
mechanized perfection of naive
jollity. His smile, though fixed, is
winning, and his songs are catchy."
In September 1947 he went on a 12-week tour of Australia and New Zealand. On his return he was offered more film roles, but turned them down, saying:
"When I look back on some of the films
I've done in the past it makes me want
to cringe. I'm afraid the days of being a
clown are gone. From now on I'm only
going to do variety."
George began suffering increasing health problems, including a gastric ulcer, and was treated for breathing problems resulting from his heavy smoking. He finished the year in pantomime, appearing as Buttons in Cinderella at the Liverpool Empire Theatre, with Beryl playing Dandini.
In September 1949 Formby went on a 19 city coast-to-coast Canadian tour, from which he returned unwell. While subsequently appearing in Cinderella in Leeds, he collapsed in his dressing room. The attending doctor administered morphine, to which Formby briefly became addicted.
Further poor health plagued George into 1950, with a bout of dysentery, followed by appendicitis, after which he recuperated in Norfolk, before giving another royal command performance that April.
He undertook two further international tours that year: one to Scandinavia, and a second to Canada. His earnings of Ca$200,000 were heavily taxed: Canadian taxes took up $68,000, and UK taxes took 90% of the balance.
Formby complained to reporters about the level of taxation, saying:
"That's it. So long as the government
keeps bleeding me dry, I shan't be in
much of a hurry to work again!"
He and Beryl spent the rest of the year resting in Norfolk, in temporary retirement.
Formby was tempted back to work by the theatrical impresario Emile Littler, who offered him the lead role of Percy Piggott in Zip Goes a Million, a play based on the 1902 novel Brewster's Millions by G. B. McCutcheon; Formby was offered £1,500, plus a share of the box-office takings.
The show premiered at the Coventry Hippodrome in September 1951 before opening at the Palace Theatre, London on the 20th. October. The Times commented unfavourably, saying that:
"Although the audience were appreciative
of the play, they could not conceivably
have detected a spark of wit in either the
lyrics or the dialogue."
The paper was equally dismissive of Formby, writing that:
"He has a deft way with a song or
a banjo, but little or no finesse in
his handling of a comic situation".
A month after the play opened in London, Formby was the guest star on Desert Island Discs, where one of his choices was his father's "Standing on the Corner of the Street".
In early 1952 Formby's health began to decline and, on the 28th. April, he decided to withdraw from Zip Goes a Million. On the way to the theatre to inform Littler, Formby suffered a heart attack, although it took the doctors five days to diagnose the coronary and admit him to hospital.
George was treated for both the attack, and his morphine addiction. He stayed in hospital for nine weeks before returning home to Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, where he announced his retirement.
-- George Formby's Health Problems and Intermittent Work: 1952–1960
During his recuperation, Formby contracted gastroenteritis and had a suspected blood clot on his lung, after which he underwent an operation to clear a fishbone that was stuck in his throat.
He had recovered sufficiently by April 1953 to undertake a 17-show tour of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), before a special appearance at the Southport Garrick Theatre. That September he turned on the Blackpool Illuminations.
From October to December 1953 Formby appeared at the London Palladium in 138 performances of the revue Fun and the Fair, with Terry-Thomas and the Billy Cotton band; Formby appeared in the penultimate act of the evening, with Terry-Thomas closing the show.
Although Formby's act was well-received, the show was not as successful as had been hoped, and Terry-Thomas later wrote that:
"Formby put the audience in a certain
mood which made them non-receptive
to whoever followed. Even though my
act was the star spot, I felt on this
occasion that my being there was an
anti-climax."
He requested that the order be changed to have Formby close the show, but this was turned down.
Formby suffered from stage fright during the show's run—the first time he had suffered from the condition since his earliest days on stage—and his bouts of depression returned, along with stomach problems.
Formby took a break from work until mid-1954, when he starred in the revue Turned Out Nice Again, in Blackpool. Although the show was initially scheduled to run for 13 weeks, it was cut short after six when Formby suffered again from dysentery and depression.
George again announced his retirement, but continued to work. After some television appearances on Ask Pickles and Top of the Town, in late 1954 and early 1955 respectively,
Formby then travelled to South Africa for a tour, where Beryl negotiated an agreement with the South African premier Johannes Strijdom to play in venues of Formby's choice.
They then sailed to Canada for a ten-day series of performances. On the return voyage George contracted bronchial pneumonia, but still joined the cast of the non-musical play Too Young to Marry on his arrival in Britain.
In August 1955 Beryl felt unwell and went for tests: she was diagnosed with cancer of the uterus and was given two years to live.
The couple reacted to the news in different ways, and while Beryl began to drink heavily—up to a bottle of whisky a day to dull the pain—George began to work harder, and began a close friendship with a school teacher, Pat Howson.
Too Young to Marry toured between September 1955 and November 1956, but still allowed Formby time to appear in the Christmas pantomime Babes in the Wood at the Liverpool Empire Theatre.
The touring production was well received everywhere except in Scotland, where Formby's attempted Scottish accent is thought to have put people off.
For Christmas 1956 George appeared in his first London pantomime, playing Idle Jack in Dick Whittington and His Cat at the Palace Theatre, although he withdrew from the run in early February after suffering from laryngitis.
According to Bret, Formby spent the remainder of 1957 "doing virtually nothing", although he appeared in two television programmes, Val Parnell's Saturday Spectacular in July and Top of the Bill in October.
From March 1958 Formby appeared in the musical comedy Beside the Seaside, a Holiday Romp in Hull, Blackpool, Birmingham and Brighton. However by the time it reached Brighton the play was playing to increasingly smaller audiences, and the run was cut short as a result.
The play may not have been to southern audiences' tastes—the plot centres on a northern family's holiday in Blackpool—but those in the north, particularly Blackpool, thought highly of it and the show was a nightly sell-out. When the show closed Formby was disappointed, and vowed never to appear in another stage musical.
The year 1958 was professionally quiet for George; in addition to Beside the Seaside, he also worked in one-off appearances in three television shows.
He began 1959 by appearing in Val Parnell's Spectacular: The Atlantic Showboat in January, and in April hosted his own show, Steppin' Out With Formby.
During the summer season he appeared at the Windmill Theatre, Great Yarmouth, although he missed two weeks of performances when he was involved in a car crash on the August Bank Holiday.
When doctors examined him, they were concerned with his overall health, partly as a result of his forty cigarettes-a-day smoking habit. He also had high blood pressure, was overweight and had heart problems.
Formby's final year of work was 1960. That May he recorded his last session of songs, "Happy Go Lucky Me" and "Banjo Boy", the former of which peaked at number 40 in the UK Singles Chart.
He then spent the summer season at the Queen's Theatre in Blackpool in The Time of Your Life—a performance which was also broadcast by the BBC. One of the acts in the show was the singer Yana, with whom Formby had an affair, made easier because of Beryl's absence from the theatre through illness.
George's final televised performance, a 35-minute BBC programme, The Friday Show: George Formby, was aired on the 16th. December. Bret considered the programme to be:
"Formby's greatest performance—
it was certainly his most sincere."
However reviewing for The Guardian, Mary Crozier thought it "too slow". She went on to say:
"George Formby is really a music-hall
star, and it needs the warmth and
sociability of the theatre to bring out
his full appeal."
Beryl's illness was worsening. Worn down by the strain, and feeling the need to escape, Formby took the part of Mr Wu in Aladdin in Bristol, having turned down a more lucrative part in Blackpool.
-- George Formby's Final Months: a New Romance, Death, and a Family Dispute
Two hours before the premiere of Aladdin—on Christmas Eve 1960—Formby received a phone call from Beryl's doctor, saying that she was in a coma and was not expected to survive the night.
Formby went through with the performance, and was told early the next morning that Beryl had died. Her cremation took place on the 27th. December, and an hour after the service Formby returned to Bristol to appear in that day's matinee performance of Aladdin.
He continued in the show until the 14th. January when a cold forced him to rest, on doctors' advice. He returned to Lytham St. Annes and communicated with Pat Howson; she contacted his doctor and Formby was instructed to go to hospital, where he remained for the next two weeks.
On Valentine's Day 1961, seven weeks after Beryl's death, Formby and Howson announced their engagement. Eight days later he suffered a heart attack which was so severe that he was given the last rites of the Catholic Church on his arrival at hospital in Preston.
He was revived and, from his hospital bed, he and Howson planned their wedding, which was due to take place in May. He was still there when, on the 6th. March, he had a further heart attack and died at the age of 56.
The obituarist for The Times wrote that:
"He was the amateur of the old smoking
concert platform turned into a music-hall
professional of genius."
Donald Zec, writing in the Daily Mirror, called him:
"As great an entertainer as any
of the giants of the music-hall".
The Guardian considered that:
"With his ukulele, his songs, and his
grinning patter, the sum was greater
than any of those parts: a Lancashire
character."
In the eyes of the public, Formby's passing was genuinely and widely mourned.
Formby was laid to rest alongside his father in Warrington Cemetery with over 150,000 mourners lining the route. The undertaker was Bruce Williams who, as Eddie Latta, had written songs for Formby.
An hour after the ceremony the family read the will, which had been drawn up two weeks previously. Harry Scott—Formby's valet and factotum—was to receive £5,000, while the rest was to go to Howson; at probate Formby's estate was valued at £135,000.
Formby's mother and siblings were angered by the will, and contested it. In the words of Bret:
"Mourning Formby was marred by
a greedy family squabbling over
his not inconsiderable fortune."
Because the will was contested, Formby's solicitor insisted that a 3-day public auction was held for the contents of Formby's house, which took place in June.
Spanish collectors card by Reclam Films, Mallorca, no. 5 of 6. Photo: Pasquali Film. Suzanne De Labroy and Mario Guaita-Ausonia in Salambò (Domenico Gaido, 1914), very freely adapted from Gustave Flaubert's classic novel. The picture shows Matho and Salambò in his tent.
Suzanne De Labroy plays the title role of the Carthaginian princess, keeper of the sacred veil of the goddess Tanit and daughter of general Amilcar. When Matho (Mario Guaita/ Ausonia), head of the mercenaries, steals the veil, Salambò is ordered to get it back but by doing so she falls in love and loses her dignity. Prince Narr Havas helps Amilcar conquer Matho's army and the latter is caught and destined to die. While in the book he is killed by Salambò after which she commits suicide, in the film there is a happy end, when Matho's aid Spendius pretends to be the Voice of Tanit, ordering marriage between Matho and Salambò.
Athletic muscleman Mario Guaita aka Ausonia (1881-1956) was an Italian actor, director, producer and scriptwriter in the silent era. He had his international breakthrough with Spartaco (Enrico Vidali 1913) and became a major actor in the Italian forzuto genre. In the early 1920s, he moved to Marseille, made a few films there and ran a cinema.
Despite my involvement, this movie is a tender, comic gem. An amazing cast to work alongside in Martin Landau, Bill Murray, et al., but, of course, with Tim, there exists an almost brotherly sensibility, which made the whole experience a joy. Ultimately, I feel, with the artistic freedom we had, TB produced an American classic. A love letter to a filmmaker that didn't receive many.-- Johnny Depp
After his death in 1978, Ed Wood became best known as the world's worst film director and a cult following was born. Among his biggest fans were Tim Burton and Johnny Depp.
"This is Edward D. Wood, Jr."
Ed Wood's most famous features are the autobiographical Glen or Glenda, which explores a transvestite's struggle for a normal life, and Plan 9 from Outer Space, a science fiction/horror movie that was funded by local Baptist churches and completed in 5 days. Unlike your typical director, who may take all day to shoot one scene and finish a film in months, Ed Wood might have shot 30 scenes in a single day. Usually without permits, he had to steal shots whenever and as quickly as possible. His films weren't your typical Hollywood blockbusters; they were Ed Wood opuses. As scriptwriter Larry Karaszewski explained, "There's a personality to Ed Wood films that you don't necessarily get in a lot of other people's films. A lot of bad films are simply bad movies or incompetently put together. With Ed, you get a real sense of the filmmaker behind the camera. You see an Ed Wood movie, and you know it's an Ed Wood movie because of the obsessions and the fetishes. The stuff he's throwing up on the screen is clearly his way of working something out inside of him."
In Ed Wood's eyes, every film he made would be the one to make it big. Scriptwriter Scott Alexander noted, "Where Ed's movies are distinctive is that there's such passion there. The passion is oftentimes misguided, but it's there." That's where Tim Burton's film takes flight.
Ed Wood focuses on the director's friendship with aging Bela Lugosi, who had fallen from stardom after portraying Dracula during the Silent Era and was now battling drug addiction and poverty. After a chance meeting, Ed wanted to help Bela--one of his childhood heroes--by giving him parts in his films. The friendship lasted until Bela's death 5 years later.
"Let's Shoot This F#*%@r!"
When Tim Burton received this bio-pic's script, co-written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, he dropped his other projects and got to work, hardly changing anything on the page. He remembered, "It's probably the first time ever that I got a script and said, 'Yeah, let's shoot this.'"
Studying Ed Wood's original letters, Tim and Johnny got a sense of an unwavering upbeat optimism about his work. Because of that, Johnny's performance is hilariously over-enthusiastic and joyful. His other ingredients for the character of Ed Wood included the heart of The Wizard of Oz's Tin Man, the blind optimism of Ronald Reagan, and the distinctive voice of Casey Kasem. Working with Tim again on a project that became a labor of love for all involved was just what Johnny needed to break out of the, let's say, dark place he was stuck in while filming What's Eating Gilbert Grape? "Ed was the rocket ship that took me away from that horrible, black, bleak time," he said. "This guy needed to be the ultimate optimist, dreamer, idealist. It was like being in a completely different suit or skin. It felt very good." His friend, Director Jim Jarmusch can attest: "I was staying at his house for a while when he was shooting Ed Wood, and sometimes I would pick him up from the set and we'd get dinner. It would take him three hours to stop being Ed Wood. I just wanted to slap him to get that stupid smile off his face. We'd be in this Thai restaurant and Johnny is going, 'Hey, this Pad Thai is fabulous!'"
Johnny's performance fits perfectly into Tim Burton's version of an Ed Wood film--beautifully stylized in black-and-white with all the perceived normalcy of the 1950s. "You're mixing different elements," Tim explained. "You want to get the flavor of an Ed Wood movie without being an Ed Wood exactly."
"This is perfect!"
Tim Burton's Ed Wood is one of his best. It's one of Johnny's best. It's one of the world's best! They made a movie that struck a bittersweet balance between Ed Wood's rosy vision and reality. It is at once hilarious, heartwarming, heartbreaking, and joyful.
This movie is about the love of filmmaking. In his review, Roger Ebert proclaimed that every film school in the country should show this film to their students to instill the devotion to and joy of the work. No matter what happens, everything is perfect in Ed's eyes. His love of producing and directing--getting the film in the can--was all that mattered.
The writers noted that there were several more scenes reflecting Ed's insecurities and self-doubt, but they didn't make it into the film. Larry Karaszewski explained, "Johnny and Tim grew to love Ed so much that it made them uncomfortable to give Ed those moments."
At the heart of this movie is friendship and acceptance. No one in Ed Wood's circle is "normal," yet by the end of the film you are cheering for all of them. Aside from Bela Lugosi and himself, Ed Wood's cast often included Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson (George "The Animal" Steele), ghoulish TV hostess Vampira (Lisa Marie), self-proclaimed psychic Criswell (Jeffrey Jones), and drag queen Bunny Breckenridge (Bill Murray). The "bad guys" in this movie were those embarrassed by Ed's love for cross-dressing or confused by his films' lack of continuity or retakes. But this troupe of misfits stuck together like family. And that was no clearer than in the relationship between Ed Wood and Bela Lugosi.
Brilliantly played by Martin Landau, becoming Bela Lugosi was a challenge: "What you've got here is a 74-year-old Hungarian morphine addict/alcoholic who has mood swings," Martin explained. "That would be hard enough, but it had to be Bela Lugosi, who everyone knows!" Paying homage to the actor, Martin considered this film a male love story, one between two guys who really needed and depended on each other. "You could tell that between Martin and Johnny there was a real respect and a kind of bonding that went on with them because they were both good at a certain level," Tim said. "It was exciting to see that."
"We have to go see Ed Wood!"
I had no idea who Ed Wood was at the time I saw this movie, and I don't remember how or where my family and I went to see the film. But I do remember two things: 1) There was no question that we were going to see it this time--no convincing, plotting, or pleading necessary, and 2) While watching the movie for the first time, I was worried about what my parents thought while Johnny strutted around in drag doing a strip tease among his friends in a meat packing plant. On the other hand, I was thrilled by Johnny's fearlessness to do whatever--and for Johnny, "whatever" usually guarantees the unexpected. It's a trait that remains in full force today, and one of the reasons I will always see his movies. Tim agrees, as he discussed being able to work with Johnny again on this project: "Edward Scissorhands was a character who didn't speak, and now we're dealing with a character that won't shut up. It's great to see an actor go from one thing to something completely different. There's a great energy to seeing something like that. He's just so willing to do anything that way. In fact, he usually wants to go farther than you want him to go. It's nice for other actors to see." The reviews everywhere for Tim Burton's little film were positive, even those from my own family.
Ed Wood was nominated for too many awards to list here. Among them were Johnny's third Golden Globe nomination and his win for Actor of the Year from the London Film Critics. Ed Wood earned two Oscars--one for Martin Landau's amazing performance and one for the makeup team who transformed him into Bela Lugosi.
Because of this movie, I sought out Ed Wood's own films, which I so much wanted to love as much as Tim, Johnny, and company did. But I just couldn't do it. They actually made me sad. I felt better once I found out that the writers are aware of this phenomenon: "What's interesting is that when you watch our movie, and then watch Ed Wood's films, our movie affects the Ed Wood films themselves," writer Larry Karaszewski said. "It's much harder to laugh at Ed Wood films, particularly Glen or Glenda. It feels like a piece of personal filmmaking where you feel like this guy is putting his soul onto film." It's true: Watching the real Ed Wood movies, I was excited to see all the real people who were portrayed in Tim's Ed Wood, and I was still rooting for them to do well. I probably always will.
Check it out: Once you see Ed Wood--and you should all see it--it'll happen to you too. This labor of love is contagious.
The Kitties will do anything to get this one made!
The Kitties were all for the Ed Wood homage in black and white. We had to choose a filming scene because that's what Ed loved best. Here is one of his great moments: He's dragged the crew (including Norman, Simon, and Comet) out at 3 a.m. to steal an octopus prop from a nearby studio. Now, he's plopping Bela (B.J.) in the middle of it all to stage a big fight. This will match up perfectly with the big underwater finish Ed has planned for his latest movie. Who cares that they forgot to get the octopus motor, or that Bela isn't quite underwater? This is perfect! (And only 25 more scenes to go tonight....)
What's next?
Johnny trades in his angora sweater for a mask. Next month, we'll meet the world's greatest lover, Don Juan DeMarco.
For more images from Ed Wood and Johnny Kitties, visit Melissa's Kitties' blog: melissaconnolly.blogspot.com.
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
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Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
German postcard in the Film-Sterne series by Rotophot, no. 563/4. Photo: Messter-Film, Berlin. Viggo Larsen in Die blaue Mauritius (Viggo Larsen, 1918).
Viggo Larsen (1880-1957) was a Danish actor, director, scriptwriter and producer. He was one of the pioneers in film history. With Wanda Treumann he directed and produced many German films of the 1910s.
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
French postcard by Coquemer Gravures, Paris. Photo: Gerschel / Gaumont. Marcel Levesque in the role of Coquentin La nouvelle mission de Judex (Louis Feuillade, 1917-1918).
Marcel Lévesque (1877-1962) was a French actor and scriptwriter who excelled in French silent and sound comedies but also played memorable parts in the crime serials by Feuillade and in Renoir’s Le crime de M. Lange.
Joseph Marcel Lévesque was born December 6, 1877, in the Montmartre district of Paris. He entered the Paris Conservatory but left quickly enough to make his stage debut in 1896. In 1900, he joined the cast of the Théâtre de l’Athénée, where for five years he forged a reputation as an actor who easily changed from comedy to drama. Afterwards he also played at the Odeon and the Palais Royal. Like so many other stage performers, the film world discovered his talent, as of 1909. Lévesque started to appear in various shorts, but little is known about this. He did act with Jean Dax and Nelly Cormon in the short historical film L’arrestation de la Duchesse de Berry (The arrest of the Duchess of Berry, 1910) directed by André Calmettes for Films d'Art (Pathé). In 1913, he joined Gaumont where he met Léonce Perret for whom he wrote La belle-mère (The Stepmother, 1913) with Suzanne Le Bret, followed by Léonce et Poupette (1913), which he scripted as well and in which he played Léonce’s man servant. He followed with the lead in L’illustre Mâchefer (The Illustrious Clinker 1913), directed by Louis Feuillade, who would become his regular director between 1913 and 1918 and which whom he acted almost 30 films plus some serials. Feuillade would have him play countless witty characters in the comedy series La vie drôle (Funny Life). Meanwhile, Marcel Lévesque had tried his luck at film direction at Gaumont with La pintade et le dindon (Guinea pig and fowl, 1915) with Madeleine Guitty as his partner. Feuillade also used him in more mature roles for his crime serials Les Vampires (1915-1916) with the dangerous Musidora – Lévesque played Oscar Mazamette - and Judex (1916-1917) - where he played the unpredictable Cocantin, a role he resumed in Feuillade’s sequel La nouvelle mission de Judex (1917-1918), again with René Cresté protagonist. Lévesque also played in a parody of the crime serials, Le pied qui étreint (1916) by Jacques Feyder, with again Musidora, René Poyen (Bout de Zan) and André Roanne.
Although Marcel Lévesque did not always have the lead in his films, his extraordinary, subtle and discreet performance made him steal the scenes in whichever film he acted in. In 1918, producer Louis Nalpas engaged him for some years to be Serpentin in a burlesque series draped around his character and directed by Jean Durand, occasionally also by Alfred Machin. Gaston Modot was often his co-actor here. In 1919 Lévesque also played in the prestigious, two-part exotic drama La sultane de l’amour (René Le Somptier/Charles Burguet 1919), starring France Dhélia. In 1920 Marcel Lévesque went back to the theatre to act in Je t’aime (I love you), a new play by Sacha Guitry. In the early 1920s Lévesque went to Italy to be the comical antagonist in Pina Menichelli’s comedies La dame de chez Maxim’s (Amleto Palermi 1923) and Occupe-toi d’Amélie (Telemaco Ruggeri 1924), her last films before she married and retired from the screen. He also played with Mario Bonnard in Il tacchino (1924) and Théodore et Cie (1925) and with Palermi again in Florette e Patapon (1927) with Ossi Oswalda.
Unlike many other actors from silent cinema, with the advent of the talkies Marcel Lévesque’s career took a new turn. He became one of the most important supporting actors in early French sound cinema. Lévesque played a pharmacist in love with Josseline Gaël in Jacques Tourneur’s drama Tout ça ne vaut pas l’amour (All this is not worth the love, 1931) starring Jean Gabin, and he played a collector of garters in Jean Gourguet’s L’affaire Coquelet (The Cockelet Case, 1934), but most of all he was the unforgettable, authority respecting concierge in Jean Renoirs’s Le crime de Monsieur Lange (The Crime of M. Lange 1935-1936), starring Florelle, René Lefèvre and Jules Berry. In 1936 Lévesque found Sacha Guitry again for Faisons un rêve (Let’s Have a Dream), an adaptation of a play by le Maître written in 1916, and starring Jacqueline Delubac and Raimu. During the war years Lévesque acted in a handful of films such as Marcel L’Herbier’s La nuit fantastique (1941) with Micheline Presle, Jean Grémilllon’s Lumière d’été (1942) with Madeleine Renaud, and Sacha Guitry’s La Malibran (1943) with Suzy Prim. Marcel Lévesque played his last film part in 1956 in Sacha Guitry’s Assassins et Voleurs (Thieves and Assassins), starring Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault. In their biography of Lévesque Christophe Lawniczak and Philippe Pelletier mention that in many film encyclopedias, the name of Marcel Lévesque is mentioned only for the distribution but not in the credits (he replaced Charles Bayard). At the age of 70, Marcel Lévesque stopped film acting and moved to Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, where he ran a retirement home for old actors. He died there on February 16, 1962.
Sources: IMDB, French Wikipedia, Christophe Lawniczak and Philippe Pelletier on www.cineartistes.com/fiche-Marcel+L%E9vesque.html.
German postcard by NPG, no. 776/3. Photo: Anny Eberth.
Hermengild "Gilda" Langer (* 16 May 1896 in Priwoz; † 31 January 1920 in Charlottenburg) was a Austrian-German silent film and theatre actress.
Gilda Langer came to acting in 1915 through her acquaintance with the Austrian scriptwriter Carl Mayer, who took her with him from Vienna to Berlin. Mayer became a dramaturge at the Berlin Residenztheater and Langer got an engagement there as an actress. In 1918 she debuted on screen alongside Conrad Veidt and Harry Liedtke in Das Rätsel von Bangalor (Alexander von Antalffy, Paul Leni). She next had the lead in Eugen Illés'film Ringende Seelen (PAGU 1918) and in Victor Janson's Das Mädchen mit dem Goldhelm (PAGU 1919). In 1919 Langer got a contract with the film production company Decla Film, where she did one film with Otto Rippert (Die Frau mit den Orchideen, 1919), after which two films by Fritz Lang followed: Der Herr der Liebe (1919) and the two-part film Die Spinnen (1919-1920). German Wikipedia and IMDb also mention Halbblut (1919) by Lang, but this is not confirmed by Filmportal.
Carl Mayer and Hans Janowitz wrote the script for Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari and saw Langer in the female lead. Decla bought the script and the film was to be made in 1920. Langer was meanwhile engaged to director Paul Czinner and fell ill with Spanish flu at the end of January 1920, which developed into a lung infection. The actress died in Berlin on 31 January 1920 at the age of 23. The female lead in Dr. Caligari was given to Lil Dagover.
Source: German Wikipedia, Filmportal, IMDb.
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
It all started in 1994. TV scriptwriter Stefan Struik had an interview with a meditating hermit in Baarn (NL) who was complaining about gnomes who disturbed the power network in his house. A month later he ran into trolls in a Norwegian clothing store in the Dutch-Frisian village Dokkum. A year before he got surprised by the amount of one meter high garden gnomes just across the border between Germany and Poland. It all seemed to point into a new direction he would hit a few months later. In December 1994 he opened with his sister a small game and bookstore in Delft (NL), named Elf Fantasy Shop. The games were a golden opportunity. Three years later the duo could open an second store in The Hague.
In 1995 Stefan also started a new adventure with a free magazine called Elf Fantasy Magazine. In 2001 the magazine became professionalized and despite it never realised any profits it existed until 2009.
Stefan and his sister already organised lectures in the Elf Fantasy Shops about druidism, Tolkien and other fantasy related subjects. In 2001 Stefan decided to combine a few things into a totally new and unique festival concept that later would be copied many times: the Elf Fantasy fair. Starting in the historical theme parc Archeon (NL) it moved the year after to the largest castle in the Netherlands: castle de Haar. With the exception of 2004 (castle Keukenhof, Lisse) it remained in castle de Haar, Haarzuilens since then. In 2009 a second version of the Elf Fantasy Fair started 400 meters from the border with Germany in the small village Arcen in Northern Limburg. In January 2013 the name Elf Fantasy Fair™ was replaced by the name Elfia™. The spring edition of Elfia is also called the 'Light Edition', while the autumn edition is characterized as the 'dark edition'.
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Former Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Croatian) postcard. Ed. Josep Caklovic. Mosinger-Film, Zagreb. Nicolas Koline in Le prince charmant/Prince Charming (Viktor Tourjansky, 1925), starring Jaque Catelain.
Nicolas Koline aka Nikolai Kolin (1878-1966) was a Russian actor who emigrated to Western Europe after the revolution and performed in French and German silent films and afterwards in German films from the sound era.
Nicolas Koline was born Nikolaj Kolin in Russia in 1878. He was one of the Russian actors fleeing from the country after the revolution and during the Civil War. Together with his compatriots he moved to France. There he played in several films directed by Russian emigré directors. The first was L'angoissante aventure/Agonizing Adventure (Yakov Protazanov, 1920), a film with several fled Russian actors: Ivan Mozzhukhin (the lead and the scriptwriter of the film, together with Alexander Volkov), Nathalie Lissenko, Dimitri Buchowetzki, Vera Orlova and Nicolas Panoff. The film was started during the trip of the emigrés from Yalta to Paris and finished in the Montreuil studio in Paris. It was the second film of the Ermolieff company, which a few years after turned into Albatros Films. The newly formed company Ermolieff Films (1920) gathered the Russian emigrés; this also included Russian cameramen such as Fédote Bourgassoff and Nicolas Toporkoff.
After this first film Nicolas Koline appeared in La tourmente/The Storm (Serge Nadejdine, 1921), Justice d'abord/Justice at First (Yakov Protazanov, 1921), Les Contes de mille et une nuits/The Tales of a Thousand and One Nights (Viatcheslav/Victor/Viktor Tourjansky, 1921), the serial La maison du mystère (Alexander Volkov, 1922) which was also released as a feature, Nuit de carnaval (Viktor Tourjansky, 1922), and Calvaire d'amour/Ordeal of Love (Viktor Tourjansky, 1923). Koline had leading parts in Le brasier ardent/The Burning Brazier (Ivan Mozzhukin, Alexander Volkov, 1923), Le Chant de l'amour triomphant/The Triumphant Love Song (Viktor Tourjansky, 1923), and Kean/Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers (Alexander Volkov, 1923). He was even the main star of Le Chiffonnier de Paris/The Ragman of Paris (Serge Nadejdine, 1924), after the famous drama by Félix Pyat. In the same year he played leading roles opposite Nathalie Kovanko and Nicolas Rimsky in La Dame masquée/The Masked Lady (Viktor Tourjansky, 1924) and opposite Andrée Brabant and again Rimsky in La Cible/The Target (Serge Nadejdine, 1924).
In the late 1920s, Nicolas Koline started to play in German films by the Ufa. First he appeared in the Franco-German coproduction Die geheimnisse des Orients/The Secrets of the Orient (Alexander Volkov, 1928), a film with an internatinal cast including Hungarian Ivan Petrovich, Italian Marcella Albani and French Gaston Modot. It was followed by Hurrah! Ich lebe!/Hurray! I Live! (Wilhelm Thiele, 1928) where Koline played opposite his compatriot Natalia Lissenko, and Gaukler/Les saltimbanques (1929/1930), a multilingual directed by Robert Land in the German version and by Jacquelux in the French version.
From 1934 on, Nicolas Koline played minor parts in German films such as the coproduction Variétés/Vaudevilles (Nicolas Farkas, 1935) with Annabella, Menschen ohne Vaterland/People Without Fatherland (Herbert Maisch, 1936) with Willy Fritsch, Patrioten/Patriots (Karl Ritter, 1937) with Lida Baarova, Ab Mitternacht/From Midnight (Carl Hoffmann, 1938) with Gina Falckenberg, and several films directed by Victor Tourjansky: Geheimzeichen LB17/Secret Sign LB17 (1938), Der Gouverneur/The Governor (1939), Feinde/Enemies (1940), and in particular Illusion (1941) with Johannes Heesters and Brigitte Horney, and Tonelli (1943) with Ferdinand Marian and Winnie Markus. Koline had one major part in those years, in Johann (1943, Robert A. Stemmle). He also played several small roles until the end of the decade. He appeared in films by a.o. G.W. Pabst and Hans Steinhoff such as Komödianten/The Comedians (1941) and Rembrandt (1942).
After the war, Nicolas Koline remained in Germany and played small parts in films from 1947 on again, but in 1948 he also had a major lead again in Tragödie einer Leidenschaft/Tragedy of a Passion by Kurt Meisel, an adaptation of the Nikolai Leskov novel. Koline continued to play in German films until his death in 1954. He usually played small parts but occasionally a bigger one as in Cuba Cabana (Fritz Peter Buch, 1952), starring Zarah Leander. Some of Koline's parts were again in films by Tourjansky, such as Dreimal Komödie/Three Times Comedy (1949), Der blaue Strohhut/The Blue Straw Hat (1949) and Salto mortale (1953). Nicolas Koline died in 1954.
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
TITLE: The Raven
YEAR RELEASED: 1963
DIRECTOR: Roger Corman
CAST: Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court and Peter Lorre.
MINI-REVIEW BY STEPHEN JACOBS: “Roger Corman’s comedy is great fun. Vincent Price plays Dr. Erasmus Craven, a magician who discovers his wife [Hazel Court] is not dead but resides with rival sorcerer Dr. Scarabus [Boris Karloff]. Peter Lorre, however, steals the picture as Dr. Bedlo, a grouchy wizard who had been transformed into a raven by Scarabus. Also noteworthy as featuring a young Jack Nicholson as Lorre’s son, Rexford.”
MAIN REVIEW BY ADAM SCOVELL
With its rather ominous opening, the viewer would perhaps be forgiven for thinking that Roger Corman’s adaptation of Poe’s The Raven would be in similar ilk to his other dark Poe films. What at first seems like yet another gothic retelling of a Poe classic turns out to be a swiftly delivered curve ball that has, at its core, a desire for fun and mischief rather than for scares and dark forebodings.
Vincent Price plays Dr Erasmus Craven, one of many sorcerers to appear in the film. He may be on the side of good but this implies that the villains are genuinely bad. Boris Karloff plays the closest to what the film has to a villain in the form of Dr Scarabus but this is a film about having a laugh at the absurdity of the fantasy genre rather than genuine battles of good vs. evil. To add to an already impressive cast is Peter Lorre as the hilarious Dr. Bedlo who appears first in the form of a raven and then proceeds to be one of the most hilariously inept sorcerers in fantasy.
Bedlo was turned into a raven by Scarabus but the action taken by the sorcerers seems more in line with playground antics than fantasy action. Jack Nicholson also makes an early film appearance as the dashing hero of the piece though is sidelined in the film in place wizardry and joyfully silly battles. Though very clearly aiming at a younger market, Corman still manages to add a few spine tingling elements to the film. These are mainly to be found in the film’s opening twenty minutes and revolve around Craven trying to find the rather gruesome ingredients to cure Bedlo from of his raven form. It must be stated that though the connection to the original adaptation of The Raven (1935) through Boris Karloff is its only link. The original was a tense, gothic tale of murder far more in line with Poe’s original prose. This is the polar opposite in almost every conceivable way.
Corman’s Raven is far more laxed about its source material to the point where it’s all but abandoned after the film’s introduction. Though this may perhaps not do it any favours among the horror purists, criticisms of the film based around its lack of seriousness misses the point entirely. Perhaps also with Corman’s excellent track record for Poe adaptations, it comes as a shock to find him playing so freely with the material but it’s something he would come back to again and again (also remembering his previous horror comedy Little Shop of Horrors (1960)).
Though more in line with the TV series Bewitched than with the likes of Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Raven is a perfect film for the winter. Its silly nature gives it the feel of a Christmas film, however, boasting an extremely strong cast of horror royalty and providing some genuine laughs along with its witty wizardry, The Raven is a film that can be forgiven for straying array from the purely horrific and should instead be enjoyed for what it is; fun.
synopsis
Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales, it appears that the director chose this opportunity to let loose with outright parody; the result is a wonderfully entertaining romp with tongue planted firmly in cheek. The first screen teaming of legendary horror stars Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, and Peter Lorre -- later billed as "The Triumvirate of Terror" -- this so-called "adaptation" uses Poe's most famous poem as a springboard for Grand Guignol comedy from scriptwriter Richard Matheson. Melancholy magician Erasmus Craven (Price), having recently relinquished his membership in the Brotherhood of Sorcerers after the apparent death of his wife Lenore (Hazel Court), is paid a visit by a foul-mouthed talking raven, claiming to be small-time wizard Adolphus Bedlo (Lorre). After some persuasion, Craven returns Bedlo to human form, reversing a spell placed by the evil Dr. Scarabus (Karloff), Craven's chief rival. After learning that a woman bearing a strong likeness to Lenore was seen in the Doctor's company, Craven accompanies Bedlo to Scarabus' castle, where the resulting battle of wills escalates into all-out magical warfare between the two embittered sorcerers. Corman and company relished the opportunity to poke fun at the staid Poe series, and the distinguished leads contribute to the spirit of fun by lampooning their own cinematic reputations. Fans of Jack Nicholson (who cut his acting teeth on this and other AIP productions) should enjoy his melodramatic performance here as Bedlo's straight-arrow son; Nicholson would later co-star with Karloff in Corman's The Terror, which was shot in two days using the same sets!
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Dutch collectors card by Monty, no. 95, 1970. Photo: Gerard Soeteman. Cor Witschge in the TV series Floris (Paul Verhoeven, 1969).
The Dutch TV series Floris (1969) was the start of the successful careers of director Paul Verhoeven, scriptwriter Gerard Soeteman and of course actor Rutger Hauer. Hauer played the exiled knight Floris. With his Indian friend Sindala (Jos Bergman), he tries to get his birth right papers back from Maarten van Rossem (Hans Culeman), an evil lord. During their quest they get help from Wolter van Oldenstein (Ton Vos), a noble man who offers them a place in his castle. They also meet the pirate Lange Pier (Hans Boskamp).
Source: IMDb.
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Spanish collectors card in the Collecciones Amatller Series, Serie X, Artista no. 28, no. 63, by Chocolate Amatller. Photo: United Artists. Charles Ray and Lon Poff in The Old Swimmin' Hole (Joe de Grasse, 1921).
Charles Ray (1891-1943) was an American actor, scriptwriter, and director of the silent screen, who knew a parabole from rags to riches and back again. He worked for Paramount, his own company, United Artists and MGM. In the late 1910s and early 1920s, he was a very popular actor and one of Hollywood's best-paid stars.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Morecambe and Wise
Bring You Sunshine
Starline SRS 5066
1971
Today, in the popular imagination, they are inextricably linked with their block-busting 1970s show which broke records and entertained (nearly almost) an entire nation, but Morecambe and Wise had to work long and hard before they became successful and ubiquitous household names. From their first meeting in a touring troupe way back in 1940, the duo served their apprenticeship in a succession of venues all around the UK, touring, struggling and grafting, all the time striving to perfect their act and develop their unique sense of timing and delivery.
Ernie Wise though was an ambitious man, with an eye always firmly set on achieving enduring greatness and he had long coveted a television career. The nascent medium during their early years had appealed to his style of intimate joke telling, a style too subtle to be truly effective on variety stages.
As long ago as 1948 he had been writing increasingly insistent letters to the BBC begging for a chance to make a TV show.
After a disastrous, critically-panned television debut back in 1954 with the BBC series Running Wild, a sorry chapter that saw them pleading for the show to be taken off air, the duo had been brave enough to return to television a second time and try to establish themselves all over again.
Over the years they made numerous supporting appearances on the likes of The Winifred Atwell Show and the popular variety-fest that was Sunday Night at the London Palladium, diligently working away to establishing their reputation anew.
Finally in 1961, the hard work of Morecambe and Wise was rewarded by omnipotent showbiz mogul Bernard Delfont, who granted them their own ATV series, The Morecambe and Wise Show.
It was a brave decision, but I think it is fair to say that Delfont’s impetuous showbiz gamble was vindicated many, many times over.
For the next two decades Morecambe and Wise dominated television like few acts before or since, achieving huge viewing figures never likely to be surpassed, and forging the template for a comedy double act, a template that has been copied many times but never bettered.
The material on the album Bring You Sunshine is made up of songs and sketches penned by Morecambe and Wise’s regular scriptwriters Dick Hills and Sid Green.
Over six series of The Morecambe and Wise Show, Hills and Green did much to establish the personas and characters of Morecambe and Wise that would last the rest of their career.
Ernie Wise, a sensible sort with his ‘short fat hairy legs’ was the butt of many jokes and Eric Morecambe was a wisecracking interfering jester full of witty retorts and mischief.
The efforts of Morecambe and Wise and their writers paid off and they duly became bona fide TV stars.
By 1968 though their contract with ATV was due for renewal.
It was during negotiations over this contract that the particular die was cast which was to change British comedy forever.
In an office with Bernard Delfont’s brother Lew Grade, thick with the heady fog of his gargantuan cigars, Eric and Ernie picked a fight with one of the most powerful and obstinate figures in showbiz.
And won.
Eric and Ernie insisted that more money should be spent on their show and demanded that all their new shows be shown in colour.
This outraged the pug-faced cheroot-chomping mogul. It was rare that Lew Grade made mistakes in business but by refusing to accommodate the artistic and professional ambitions of Morecambe and Wise he effectively released them into the clutches of Bill Cotton over at the BBC.
Cotton realised immediately the gift he had received and saw to it that Morecambe and Wise would become the huge stars that they always believed they could be.
But there was yet more drama in the offing before they could go on to become true legends of the small screen.
In November 1968, just after their first BBC series had aired, Eric Morecambe suffered a major heart attack.
On doctor’s order he was forced to ease back on performing and the second BBC series was postponed indefinitely.
It was six months before Morecambe and Wise would appear in public together again, and before their TV series could return they were stunned by the defection of their tried and trusted writers, the reliable and dependable Green and Hill who had done so much to make them stars.
Unsettled by the long period of inactivity and fearful for their own future, Dick Hills and Sid Green were lured away from writing solely for Morecambe and Wise by their arch-nemesis Lew Grade who offered the writers a generous contract to sign exclusively for ATV.
They left without informing their former employers in a move which could have easily meant the premature end of Morecambe and Wise as a going concern.
Luckily for them though, a former Scouse market trader turned gag-writer named Eddie Braben was free after being ditched by Ken Dodd.
By building on the foundations that Green and Hill had established, the surreal wordplay and comic fantasies of Eddie Braben would make Morecambe and Wise undoubtedly the biggest, most popular comedy stars in the UK.
Bring You Sunshine captures the essence of Morecambe and Wise at this pivotal point in their long comedy career.
It was released in 1971 on EMI’s Starline label and gathered together a selection of much-loved comic routines created by Dick Hills and Sid Green for the 1960s TV series.
The sketches are, with a few exceptions, fairly insubstantial.
Ton Up Boy seems an obvious inspiration for Dick Emery and Tape Recorder is an enchanting piece of domestic comic whimsy.
The remaining sketches such as Indians and Get It Right Corporal are so brief as to almost be one line gags. Harmless filler really but not the meaty chunks that Morecambe and Wise fans were after.
The meaty comedy chunks in thick marrowbone stand-up jelly were delivered by the comic songs.
As with the sketches, the songs are also written by Dick Hills and Sid Green, with Walter Ridley taking charge of musical duties.
They are without exception an absolute joy, full of charm and gentle subtle wit, much like Morecambe and Wise’s TV act.
They do not try to force themselves on the audience, instead relying on clever, well rehearsed repartee. Singing the Blues is a faithfully rendered pastiche of white man blues and there is also an early prototype version of Eric’s brilliant mangling of Grieg’s piano concerto to enjoy, a routine which was later resurrected for none other than the great Andre Preview.
I’d love to put the entire album up for you to listen, but for the sake of brevity and bandwidth, I have selected just one track.
Bring Me Sunshine was perhaps the obvious choice, played as the end credits rolled on their TV shows and very much the signature theme of Morecambe and Wise.
As ever though, I prefer to spin the more obscure and unappreciated tracks.
So to play us out, here is Song of Youth, a wonderful comic song full of domestic violence, hard drinking, promiscuity and lunacy.
Somewhere in here lurk the spirits of John Osborne and Les Dawson, with perhaps just a dash of Violet Carson. Bring us sunshine lads:
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Written by Administrator
Wednesday, 13 December 2006
On 14 May 1926, John Eric Bartholomew was born to parents George and Sadie.
He was later to become known as Eric Morecambe, and to bring joy to the lives of millions as half of Britain's best loved comedy act.
His mother, Sadie, was determined to see her only child make a success of his life, and took work as a waitress to raise funds for his dancing lessons. Eric, however, did not enjoy these lessons ... although they were to be of great importance once Eric and Ernie had teamed up.
Eric Bartholomew (the John had been dropped more or less from the outset) entered and won a series of talent contests. One of the most important of these was a contest in Hoylake in 1939. The prize for this win was an audition with Jack Hylton. Along with Hylton, a young man named Ernest Wiseman was also present at the audition. This was the first meeting with his future partner, but it was to be some time before the two of them got together.
Three months after the audition, a telegram arrived from Hylton inviting Eric to join a revue called "Youth Takes A Bow" at the Nottingham Empire. Two months into the run, Eric became aware of a rumour that Ernie Wise was to be joining the show. Ernie was already a familiar voice from Arthur Askey's "Bandwagon" show on the radio.
Eric and Ernie were soon good friends, and started to develop a double act. One Friday night in Liverpool, the two were allowed to perform their double act for the first time (in addition to their solo spots
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Morecambe and Wise
Bring You Sunshine
Starline SRS 5066
1971
Today, in the popular imagination, they are inextricably linked with their block-busting 1970s show which broke records and entertained (nearly almost) an entire nation, but Morecambe and Wise had to work long and hard before they became successful and ubiquitous household names. From their first meeting in a touring troupe way back in 1940, the duo served their apprenticeship in a succession of venues all around the UK, touring, struggling and grafting, all the time striving to perfect their act and develop their unique sense of timing and delivery.
Ernie Wise though was an ambitious man, with an eye always firmly set on achieving enduring greatness and he had long coveted a television career. The nascent medium during their early years had appealed to his style of intimate joke telling, a style too subtle to be truly effective on variety stages.
As long ago as 1948 he had been writing increasingly insistent letters to the BBC begging for a chance to make a TV show.
After a disastrous, critically-panned television debut back in 1954 with the BBC series Running Wild, a sorry chapter that saw them pleading for the show to be taken off air, the duo had been brave enough to return to television a second time and try to establish themselves all over again.
Over the years they made numerous supporting appearances on the likes of The Winifred Atwell Show and the popular variety-fest that was Sunday Night at the London Palladium, diligently working away to establishing their reputation anew.
Finally in 1961, the hard work of Morecambe and Wise was rewarded by omnipotent showbiz mogul Bernard Delfont, who granted them their own ATV series, The Morecambe and Wise Show.
It was a brave decision, but I think it is fair to say that Delfont’s impetuous showbiz gamble was vindicated many, many times over.
For the next two decades Morecambe and Wise dominated television like few acts before or since, achieving huge viewing figures never likely to be surpassed, and forging the template for a comedy double act, a template that has been copied many times but never bettered.
The material on the album Bring You Sunshine is made up of songs and sketches penned by Morecambe and Wise’s regular scriptwriters Dick Hills and Sid Green.
Over six series of The Morecambe and Wise Show, Hills and Green did much to establish the personas and characters of Morecambe and Wise that would last the rest of their career.
Ernie Wise, a sensible sort with his ‘short fat hairy legs’ was the butt of many jokes and Eric Morecambe was a wisecracking interfering jester full of witty retorts and mischief.
The efforts of Morecambe and Wise and their writers paid off and they duly became bona fide TV stars.
By 1968 though their contract with ATV was due for renewal.
It was during negotiations over this contract that the particular die was cast which was to change British comedy forever.
In an office with Bernard Delfont’s brother Lew Grade, thick with the heady fog of his gargantuan cigars, Eric and Ernie picked a fight with one of the most powerful and obstinate figures in showbiz.
And won.
Eric and Ernie insisted that more money should be spent on their show and demanded that all their new shows be shown in colour.
This outraged the pug-faced cheroot-chomping mogul. It was rare that Lew Grade made mistakes in business but by refusing to accommodate the artistic and professional ambitions of Morecambe and Wise he effectively released them into the clutches of Bill Cotton over at the BBC.
Cotton realised immediately the gift he had received and saw to it that Morecambe and Wise would become the huge stars that they always believed they could be.
But there was yet more drama in the offing before they could go on to become true legends of the small screen.
In November 1968, just after their first BBC series had aired, Eric Morecambe suffered a major heart attack.
On doctor’s order he was forced to ease back on performing and the second BBC series was postponed indefinitely.
It was six months before Morecambe and Wise would appear in public together again, and before their TV series could return they were stunned by the defection of their tried and trusted writers, the reliable and dependable Green and Hill who had done so much to make them stars.
Unsettled by the long period of inactivity and fearful for their own future, Dick Hills and Sid Green were lured away from writing solely for Morecambe and Wise by their arch-nemesis Lew Grade who offered the writers a generous contract to sign exclusively for ATV.
They left without informing their former employers in a move which could have easily meant the premature end of Morecambe and Wise as a going concern.
Luckily for them though, a former Scouse market trader turned gag-writer named Eddie Braben was free after being ditched by Ken Dodd.
By building on the foundations that Green and Hill had established, the surreal wordplay and comic fantasies of Eddie Braben would make Morecambe and Wise undoubtedly the biggest, most popular comedy stars in the UK.
Bring You Sunshine captures the essence of Morecambe and Wise at this pivotal point in their long comedy career.
It was released in 1971 on EMI’s Starline label and gathered together a selection of much-loved comic routines created by Dick Hills and Sid Green for the 1960s TV series.
The sketches are, with a few exceptions, fairly insubstantial.
Ton Up Boy seems an obvious inspiration for Dick Emery and Tape Recorder is an enchanting piece of domestic comic whimsy.
The remaining sketches such as Indians and Get It Right Corporal are so brief as to almost be one line gags. Harmless filler really but not the meaty chunks that Morecambe and Wise fans were after.
The meaty comedy chunks in thick marrowbone stand-up jelly were delivered by the comic songs.
As with the sketches, the songs are also written by Dick Hills and Sid Green, with Walter Ridley taking charge of musical duties.
They are without exception an absolute joy, full of charm and gentle subtle wit, much like Morecambe and Wise’s TV act.
They do not try to force themselves on the audience, instead relying on clever, well rehearsed repartee. Singing the Blues is a faithfully rendered pastiche of white man blues and there is also an early prototype version of Eric’s brilliant mangling of Grieg’s piano concerto to enjoy, a routine which was later resurrected for none other than the great Andre Preview.
I’d love to put the entire album up for you to listen, but for the sake of brevity and bandwidth, I have selected just one track.
Bring Me Sunshine was perhaps the obvious choice, played as the end credits rolled on their TV shows and very much the signature theme of Morecambe and Wise.
As ever though, I prefer to spin the more obscure and unappreciated tracks.
So to play us out, here is Song of Youth, a wonderful comic song full of domestic violence, hard drinking, promiscuity and lunacy.
Somewhere in here lurk the spirits of John Osborne and Les Dawson, with perhaps just a dash of Violet Carson. Bring us sunshine lads:
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Wednesday, 13 December 2006
On 14 May 1926, John Eric Bartholomew was born to parents George and Sadie.
He was later to become known as Eric Morecambe, and to bring joy to the lives of millions as half of Britain's best loved comedy act.
His mother, Sadie, was determined to see her only child make a success of his life, and took work as a waitress to raise funds for his dancing lessons. Eric, however, did not enjoy these lessons ... although they were to be of great importance once Eric and Ernie had teamed up.
Eric Bartholomew (the John had been dropped more or less from the outset) entered and won a series of talent contests. One of the most important of these was a contest in Hoylake in 1939. The prize for this win was an audition with Jack Hylton. Along with Hylton, a young man named Ernest Wiseman was also present at the audition. This was the first meeting with his future partner, but it was to be some time before the two of them got together.
Three months after the audition, a telegram arrived from Hylton inviting Eric to join a revue called "Youth Takes A Bow" at the Nottingham Empire. Two months into the run, Eric became aware of a rumour that Ernie Wise was to be joining the show. Ernie was already a familiar voice from Arthur Askey's "Bandwagon" show on the radio.
Eric and Ernie were soon good friends, and started to develop a double act. One Friday night in Liverpool, the two were allowed to perform their double act for the first time (in addition to their solo spots
Dutch collectors card by Monty, no. 1, 1970. Photo: Gerard Soeteman. Rutger Hauer in the TV series Floris (Paul Verhoeven, 1969).
The Dutch TV series Floris (1969) was the start of the successful careers of director Paul Verhoeven, scriptwriter Gerard Soeteman and of course actor Rutger Hauer. Hauer played the exiled knight Floris. With his Indian friend Sindala (Jos Bergman), he tries to get his birthright papers back from Maarten van Rossem (Hans Culeman), an evil lord. During their quest, they get help from Wolter van Oldenstein (Ton Vos), a nobleman who offers them a place in his castle. They also meet the pirate Lange Pier (Hans Boskamp).
Source: IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore
Vintage Swedish postcard. Förlag Nordisk Konst, 1689
Helen/ Helene Gammeltoft (1895-?) was an Danish-American actress and scriptwriter.
Born 26/3 1895 in Syracuse, America, as Inger Madden or Madsen, she made her debut in film in Britain according to IDMb, in the 1913 film The Eleventh Commandment, and under the name of Helena Callen. The film was also the debut of the popular British stage star Gladys Cooper. The next year, she moved to Denmark, where she debuted at Nordisk Film in August Blom's comedy Bytte Roller/ The Girl of his Heart (1914), starring opposite Nicolai Johannsen as millionnaire Thomas Grey and Frederik Buch as his cook.
In 1915, Gammeltoft had leads or important supporting parts in five films at Nordisk: Hans Kusine/ His Cousin (Lau Lauritzen sr.) with Peter Jørgensen, En Død i Skønhed/ Beatrix (Robert Dinesen) with Rita Sacchetto, Olaf Fönss and Nicolai Johannsen, Susanne i Badet (Lau Lauritzen) with Oscar Stribolt, Kærlighed og Mobilisering/ Put me amongst the Girls (Lauritzen) with Frederik Buch, and Den lille Chauffør (August Blom) with Nicolai Johannsen. In 1916 Gammeltoft acted in four films at Nordisk, while in 1917 she acted in six and in 1918 in five films - mostly in the role of 'the pretty girl'. Yet, from 1916 Gammeltoft developed as screenwriter too, writing comedies for Buch, Stribolt, Rasmus Christiansen and others, starting with Den ædle Skrædder (Lauritzen, 1916) and En landlig Uskyldighed (Lauritzen, 1916) - she had the lead in the latter comedy.
In 1917-1918 Gammeltoft was most prolific as both actress and screenwriter, mostly in short comedies. She appeared in a small number of 'serious' feature films (e.g. En Lykkeper, Gunnar Sommerfeldt 1918, starring Carlo Wieth) and made just a few films outside Nordisk's direction, Hjerteknuseren (Carl Barcklind, 1919) for Skandinavisk Filmcentral, and Dommens Dag (Fritz Magnussen, 1918) for Olaf Fønss' company Dansk Film Co. After 1918, Gammeltoft's peak as actress and scriptwriter was over, while she did two films in 1919, and the three last films in 1920. In 1920 Lauritzen, who had worked at Nordisk for years, started his own firm Palladium, with which he launched in 1921 the popular comic duo of Long and Short/ Pat & Patachon/ Fy och By, with tall Carl Schenström and short Harald Madsen. Incidentally, Schenström had already played in the comedies by Lauritzen and Gammeltoft at Nordisk.
Sources: IMDb, www.dfi.dk/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/person/helen-gamme..., Danish Wikipedia.
Sydney Fashion Week Kick Off Grand opening show all designers
Photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
1. Show 1: Opening Show: Friday 17 August 2012 - all designers plus Guerilla Burlesque
Director: Ananya Mai
Host: Nala Kurka
Script Writer: Chamonix Boudreaux
DJ: Justice Topaz www.triplejunearthed.com/Artists/PlayedOnTripleJ.aspx
Show photographer: Anabella Ravinelli
NOTE: SCRIPTWRITER - Please tell the audience to take a seat in the boats provided :D
Designers:
1 C'est-la-vie- Larcoco Mathy
2 [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
3 Legal insanity DATRIP Blackbart
4 House of {TORN} Torn Difference
5 TreiZe Elyna Carver
6 + ezura + Ezura Xue
7 AD Creations Aliza Karu
8 Boudoir Vitabela Dubrovna and Precious Restless
9 Deese's skins NatalieWells
10 [AMARELO MANGA] Luana Barzane
11 VERO MODELO Bouquet Babii
12 Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler
13 *SoliDea FoLiEs* Mila Tatham
14 Countdown AntoniaXp
15 -Desir- Vivien Emerald
Sponsors:
Sponsors:
M s B l a c k (blackliquid.tokyoska) - Makeup
Nakia Decosta - .:RUSSH LUSSH:. - Makeup
Kunglers Barbra Kungler and AvaGardner Kungler Jewelry and shoes for selected shows
Deese's skins NatalieWells
κεɴɖરλ (kendra.zaurak) Fanatik for selected show
Aymec Millet ==========BUILD BOX STORE========== Cruise Ship
[[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] Vikeejeah Xevion
Mo Miasma Morantique Lush
1. Intro -
2. 8.15am - 8.30 (pending lag) Guerilla Burlesque dancers
Then runway starts!
Models:
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. 兔 Sera (gig1)
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirnah
9 Ashia Denimore
First name (blue) second name (pink)
Walk 1. House of {TORN} pics to come
(if dont get outfits soon please wear {TD}Maxine dress B yellow , ash red)
Ashia Denimore Tokyoska {TD}Exclusive Leah its a leotard with leopard print bottoms high neck
blackLiquid Tokyoska Exclusive {TD}Trinity halter dress mini with a long coat trimmed in an x stitiching
Walk 2: ..::LeGaL InSaNiTy::..
Cade Nansen LI - Jimi shirt tuxedo1
..:: Legal Insanity ::.. shorts black jeans
Steele Sirnah LI - Lenny Tank - White melange
LI - urban cowboy pants - grey
Walk 3: ::C'est la vie !::
Cornelia Dyrssen Green and white spots
Gig1. Resident "Sera" same dress but with mustard spots
Walk 4: [[LD Major - Loovus Dzevavor]] exclusive
KATHERINE COMET Style Info:
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Jumpsuit: Rippa Romper Print 6
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Tangerine
Shoes: Pantone Pumps in Honey
NatalieWells Resident
Hair: Snooze-a-Roo
Dress: Shiela Maxi Dress Print 1
Bag: Irwin Pantone Satchel in Chartreuse
*NOTE* No shoes are needed for this look. The alpha covers the feet.
Walk 5: Deeses skins
Ashia Denimore
Kate: Flat White - natural }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - eyeshadow 3 }{ Deesses
Kate: Flat White - lipstick 5 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
blackLiquid Tokyoska
Kate: Caramel Mocha - no eyebrows }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - eyeshadow 7 }{ Deesses
Kate: Caramel Mocha - lipstick 10 }{ Deesses
alpha teeth }{ Deesses
Please purchase marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Simply-Aussie-Pride-Bikini-A... I will reimburse
Walk 6: [AMARELO MANGA]
Ananya Mai [AM] - Bikini Itamaraca - (Orange 2), Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Bronze
KATHERINE COMET [AM] - Swimsuit Suape - Green 01 Summer Hat Green 01 [Amarelo Manga] - Sunglasses Rhmanona [Metals] Green
walk 7: VERO MODELO
Cade Nansen
[VM] VERO MODERO / Mehmet Mesh Jacket 1
VERO MODERO / Linen Pant Khaki
Blackliquid
[VM] VERO MODERO / SummerDance top and [VM] VERO MODERO / Mesh_Harem Pants
Walk 8: Kunglers
Gig1. Resident "Sera" (Kunglers) Gisele dress - Teal (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Teal
Cornelia Dyrssen (Kunglers) Marina dress - Mint (Kunglers) Morgana pumps - Phyton skin - Black
Walk 9: blackLiquid
Ananya Mai
ISON - leather leggings (black)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lash alpha
blackLiquid MAKEUP - Ziggy
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital tangerine(both)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital tangerine
blackLiquid HAIR - Quiff blonde & white (tinted)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - lashy
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (left)
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital tangerine (right)
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Tangerine Tango
ISON - geometric corset
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a shaved hairbase to this look)
Ashia Denimore
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple(both)
blackLiquid BANGLE - orbital imperial purple (r)
blackLiquid COLLAR - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid HAIR - ESHI (midnight)
blackLiquid MAKEUP - life lash summer
blackLiquid NAILS - orbital imperial purple
blackLiquid PIERCING - Winehouse
blackLiquid SHOE - Ultra Platform Imperial Purple
ISON - geometric corset -XXS- (black)
blackLiquid SKIN - YOKO PAPER
(please do not add any jewelry but add a black hairbase to this look)
Black Dahlia Upper Sleeve R & Black Dahlia Upper Leg L & R & Black Dahlia Pants (only)
ESHI OTAWARA BLACK DAHLIA SUBSCIBO GIFT
Walk 10 - TreiZe
NatalieWells TreiZe - Flow pink
blackLiquid
Walk 11: Countdown
KATHERINE COMET - Love on Top
Steele Sirna Gabriel
Walk 12: - Desir-
Cornelia Dyrssen (comes with dot face tattoo and flower eyelashes)
Gig1. Resident "Sera"
Walk 13: + ezura + Exclusive pictures to come
Ananya Mai + ezura + MAI Be Goth (includes hat and cuffs)
blackLiquid Tokyoska + ezura + Peu Loli
Walk 14: Boudoir
Ashia Denimore Vita's Boudoir gown for miss Australia
Gig1. Resident "Sera" ***Fairy Butterfly Dress***
Walk 15: AD Creations
KATHERINE COMET [AD] Aries mesh dress EXCLUSIVE FOR SYDNEY Fashion Week
NatalieWells Resident [Aliza Karu] Rock wedding spring
Walk 16: *SoliDea FoLiEs*
Ananya Mai *SoliDea FoliEs* Sidney - Exclusive for Sydney Fashion week
blackLiquid Tokyoska *SoliDea FoliEs* Justice
1. Ananya Mai
2. blackLiquid Tokyoska
3. Cade Nansen
4. Cornelia Dyrssen
5. Gig1. Resident "Sera"
6. KATHERINE COMET
7. NatalieWells Resident
8. Steele Sirna
9 Ashia Denimore