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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 11: Eric Dinallo and Emily Blunt attend the 2022 Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Gala at Guastavino's on July 11, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for American Institute for Stuttering)
In the course of some recent home renovations these coins turned up behind the wall panelling. Although not very old, they are of interest because they are no longer part of our monetary system and are not often seen, except in collections. Some Australians, born after 1966, may have had very little exposure to the old "pounds, shillings and pence". I must admit that I remember them very clearly.
1961; The Case of the Stuttering Bishop by Erle Stanley Gardner. unknown Artist. Australian edition but printed and made in Utrecht The Netherlands !
Imagen y titulo que refleja el estado animico y laboral por el que estoy pasando....homenaje a mi mismo!!!
BANDA SONORA PARA LEVANTARME EL ANIMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Elastica: Stutter
viewing 1080p video on flickr is like looking at it through beer goggles covered in vomit while having an uncontrollable fit of the stutters :) you can at least wipe some of the vomit off with your sleeve by checking out the "HD" version on vimeo. let's just say it looks a wee bit better in true 1080p. if you log in to vimeo you can download it and see for yourself. just make sure your computer is fast enough. it stutters on my MacBook Pro that is only a couple years old (not mentioning the fact that it doesn't fit on the 15" screen).
i find it really, really annoying that you can't control the aperture manually when shooting video. i forgot my little filters for the 50mm to trick it into shooting wide open. yes, i understand that there is a hard limit on the shutter speed to maintain 30fps, but why not just blink at me like it usually does when the exposure isn't right?
The main reason for purchasing the full Termi system with race chip was to get rid of that annoying stutter when the butterfly valve opens or is opening/closing when you are trying to maintain a particular speed, typically where it's somewhere the police are a concern and you want to maintain speeds within the posted limit. Not sure if stutter is the right technical term to use but it's not a surge, it's a drop off in power before it comes back on. Very annoying when you are riding pillion and helmet smack together! The full Termi system with race chip resolves that problem and the bike is now such a pleasure to ride, with smooth power delivery from low RPM all the way up. And that's with the decibel reducer installed. I tried it removed and it was way too loud, definitely would have drawn unwanted attention and the bike runs great with it installed so it doesn't concern me that I might not be getting maximum power. The engine does have some mild popping sounds on deceleration that was not there before. I brought the bike to an authorized Ducati technician and he said that was normal and not to worry about it. Another bonus you get from switching to the full Termi system is losing that huge catalyser. I should have weighed both sets of components but I know I shed a significant amount of weight by losing that big hunk of metal. Installation was not difficult and all parts fit together pefectly, with no cobbing required as I've seen with other aftermarket systems and bikes over the years. Overall I am very happy with the system and find that it was well worth the US $2300 I paid.
I met Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, my ultimate dream girl. She was entirely sweet and I could barely utter a word without stuttering.
*Sigh*
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 12: <> attends the American Institute For Stuttering 17th Annual Gala hosted by Emily Blunt on June 12, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Craig Barritt/Getty Images for American Institute For Stuttering )
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells;
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,—
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) - Killed in action on 4 November 1918 (age 25) during the crossing of the Sambre–Oise Canal, exactly one week (almost to the hour) before the signing of the Armistice.
Ya gotta love Light Trails. I wonder what people think when your pointing a camera at them in there cars.... mmmm..
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop, by Erle Stanley Gardner
Pocket Book 6007, 1960
Cover art uncredited
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JULY 11: Dr. Heather Grossman speaks onstage at the 2022 Freeing Voices, Changing Lives Gala at Guastavino's on July 11, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for American Institute for Stuttering)
A team desperate to erase painful recent memories immediately settled in at their new, adopted venue, with a four-wicket win against a struggling Australian side in Dubai. The devastation caused by Shahid Afridi's career-best 6 for 38 had all but shut Australia out of the match before the halfway stage of their innings. A late recovery pushed them to 168 but it wasn't enough to seriously challenge an unpredictable Pakistan outfit. Pakistan stuttered, rebuilt, stumbled again and a late push by Afridi, contributing an adrenalin-filled yet brief 24, pushed them towards a win.
The ultimate difference between the two sides was spin. While Pakistan's pair of Afridi and Ajmal shared eight wickets, Australia's Nathan Hauritz bowled four overs and failed to pick up a wicket. It wouldn't be fair to blame Australia's lone specialist spinner for the defeat. It was a collective failure of their middle order to read the spinners who mercilessly ran through the batting and effected a top and middle-order crumbling to the tune of 8 for 27.
Australia's rapid demise was a reflection of their ordinary recent one-day form. A collapse of this magnitude exposed a weakness against spin which was also on show in South Africa, even with a number of familiar returning faces in the ranks. With the ball gripping and turning, Afridi's mixture of googlies and topspinners caused most of the problems, but the relatively inexperienced Ajmal offered little respite with his doosras.
At 95 for 1 in the 19th over, Younis Khan's pre-match prediction of chasing a target of 260-270 seemed a reality. That was until Afridi got the ball and the crowd to dance to his tunes. He began by getting rid of the most well-set batsman, Brad Haddin, for a brisk 40, tamely chipping a flighted delivery to short cover. Michael Clarke's struggles against the spin trio of Paul Harris, Roelof van der Merwe and Johan Botha in South Africa were well documented and the nightmare didn't end with the move to another country. He was flummoxed by an Ajmal doosra and edged behind before Afridi worked his magic.
A rusty Andrew Symonds nicked one to a refreshingly sharp Kamran Akmal, before Shane Watson, who had played neatly on his return to the side after injury by adding 54 with Haddin, was beaten by one which turned through the gate. Safe catching helped Pakistan and Misbah-ul-Haq showed his sharp reflexes to cling onto Callum Ferguson's edge to remove one of Australia's few in-form batsmen. Hauritz completely misjudged Ajmal's line, shouldered arms and lost his stumps.
The score suddenly read a shocking 110 for 7 and it brought back bad memories of their collapse at Centurion very recently. It wasn't the kind you would expect of the second best team in the world even in the worst of days. The spinners sensed a weak link and exploited it with clinical efficiency. Afridi's googlies proved too much for the tailenders Stuart Clark and Nathan Bracken as he collected his best ODI figures and Pakistan's best figures against Australia.
James Hopes enjoyed a free swing of the arms in the third Powerplay with an unbeaten 48 to push the score to 168, a big improvement from a hopeless 122 for 9, but the momentum was still with Pakistan.
The Australian seamers failed to get enough early breakthroughs to cause a serious flutter in the Pakistan camp. The dangerous Salman Butt was trapped lbw for 5 in the seven-over period before the dinner break before a fidgety Younis Khan holed out to midwicket.
Spin was introduced in the 13th over but Hauritz couldn't extract the same turn and bite that Afridi and Ajmal managed against his batsmen. He overpitched too often and that allowed Akmal to get forward and drive through the line. He used his feet well and chipped down the track to bisect the gaps in the infield.
Shoaib Malik contributed only 12 in a stand of 48 with Akmal, content to let his partner hog the strike. However, as Akmal motored along, a flashy drive outside off cost him his wicket and Clark had his revenge after being slashed for a four past slip two balls earlier. A loose dab by Malik brought Afridi to the crease, who began by clipping his first ball - a low full toss - past square leg and then pulling the next past midwicket.
He took Pakistan within 31 of the target before mishitting one to mid-on. The chase thereafter was scratchy, with Misbah holding fort as Pakistan got home with 35 balls to spare. It wasn't the most convincing of chases but good enough to prove a point. Moreover, they played with a hunger to win against a team dogged by injuries and knackered after a back-breaking summer.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a sub-editor at Cricinfo
Ex Hong Kong Leyland / Dennis Condor at Market and Stutter in San Francisco working for Big Bus Tours.
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Xi to meet Putin in first trip outside China since COVID began
LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) -Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years for a trip this week to Central Asia where he will meet Russia's Vladimir Putin, just a month before he is set to cement his place as the most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong.
The trip, Xi's first abroad since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, shows just how confident he is about his grip on power in China and just how perilous the global situation has become.
Against a backdrop of Russia's confrontation with the West over Ukraine, the crisis over Taiwan and a stuttering global economy, Xi is due on a state visit to Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
China's president will then meet Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's summit in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and the Kremlin said.
Putin's foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters last week that the Russian president was expected to meet Xi at the summit. The Kremlin declined to give details on their talks. China has yet to confirm Xi’s travel plans.
The meeting will give Xi an opportunity to underscore his clout while Putin can demonstrate Russia's tilt towards Asia; both leaders can show their opposition to the United States just as the West seeks to punish Russia for the Ukraine war.
"It is all about Xi in my view: he wants to show just how confident he is domestically and to be seen as the international leader of nations opposed to Western hegemony," said George Magnus, author of "Red Flags", a book about Xi's challenges.
"Privately I imagine Xi will be most anxious about how Putin’s war is going and indeed if Putin or Russia are in play at some point in the near future because China still needs an anti-western leadership in Moscow."
Russia suffered its worst defeat of the war last week, abandoning its main bastion in northeastern Ukraine.
The deepening "no limits" partnership between the rising superpower of China and the natural resources titan of Russia is one of the most intriguing geopolitical developments of recent years - and one the West is watching with anxiety.
Once the senior partner in the global Communist hierarchy, Russia after the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union is now considered a junior partner of a resurgent Communist China which is forecast to overtake the United States as the world's biggest economy in the next decade.
Though historical contradictions abound in the partnership, there is no sign that Xi is ready to drop his support for Putin in Russia's most serious confrontation with the West since the height of the Cold War.
Instead, the two 69-year-old leaders are deepening ties. Trade soared by nearly a third between Russia and China in the first 7 months of 2022.
The visit "shows that China is willing to not only continue 'business as usual' with Russia but even show explicit support and accelerate the formation of a stronger China-Russia alignment," said Alexander Korolev, senior lecturer in politics and international relations at UNSW Sydney.
"Beijing is reluctant to distance itself from Moscow even when facing serious reputational costs and the risks of becoming a target of secondary economic sanctions."
XI SUPREME
Xi is widely expected to break with precedent at a Communist Party congress that starts on Oct. 16 and secure a third five-year leadership term.
While Xi has met Putin in person 38 times since becoming China's president in 2013, he has yet to meet Joe Biden in person since the latter became U.S. President in 2021.
Xi last met Putin in February just weeks before the Russian president ordered the invasion of Ukraine which has left tens of thousands of people dead and sown chaos through the global economy.
At that meeting at the opening of the Winter Olympics, Xi and Putin declared a "no limits" partnership, backing each other over standoffs on Ukraine and Taiwan with a promise to collaborate more against the West.
China has refrained from condemning Russia's operation against Ukraine or calling it an "invasion" in line with the Kremlin which casts the war as "a special military operation".
"The bigger message really isn't that Xi is supporting Putin, because it's been pretty clear that Xi supports Putin," said Professor Steve Tsang, director of the China Institute at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
"The bigger signal is that he, Xi Jinping, is going out of China for the first time since the pandemic in the run-up to the party congress. If there were going to be plottings against him this is when the plottings would happen. And he's clearly confident that the plottings are not going to take place because he is out of the country."
Xi, the son of a communist revolutionary, is poised to secure a historical third leadership term at the 20th Communist Party Congress beginning on Oct. 16. He last left China in January 2020, before the world went into COVID lockdown.
KREMLIN CHIEF
After the West imposed on Moscow the most severe sanctions in modern history due to the war in Ukraine, Putin says Russia is turning towards Asia after centuries of looking to the West as the crucible of economic growth, technology and war.
Casting the West as a declining, U.S.-dominated coalition which aims to shackle - or even destroy - Russia, Putin's worldview chimes with that of Xi, who presents China as an alternative to the U.S.-led, post-World War Two order.
Putin aide Ushakov said the Xi-Putin meeting would be "very important". He did not give further details.
As Europe seeks to turn away from Russian energy imports, Putin will seek to boost energy exports to China and Asia.
Putin said last week that a major gas export route to China via Mongolia had been agreed. Gazprom has for years been studying the possibility for a major new gas pipeline - the Power of Siberia 2 - to travel through Mongolia taking Russian gas to China.
It will carry 50 billion cubic metres of gas per year, around a third of what Russia usually sells Europe – or equivalent to the Nord Stream 1 annual volumes.
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Russia, China, India, Pakistan and four Central Asian states, is due to admit Iran, one of Moscow's key allies in the Middle East.
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Top Chinese legislator pays official goodwill visit to Russia
Li Zhanshu, chairman of China's National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, paid an official goodwill visit to Russia from Wednesday to Saturday, at the invitation of Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin.
During his visit, Li met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the country's far eastern city of Vladivostok, held talks with Volodin and Russian Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko respectively in Moscow, and also met with leaders of the five State Duma factions.
When meeting with the Russian president, Li conveyed cordial greetings and best wishes from Chinese President Xi Jinping to Putin. He said that under the strategic guidance and personal efforts of President Xi and President Putin, the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era has maintained a strong momentum of development.
Political mutual trust, strategic coordination and pragmatic cooperation between the two countries have reached an unprecedented level, setting a good example of good-neighborly friendship and win-win cooperation between major countries and neighboring countries, Li said.
Both China and Russia are at a critical historical stage of development and revitalization, enjoying great potential and broad prospects for cooperation, Li said.
China is willing to continue to work with Russia to firmly support each other on issues concerning each other's core interests and major concerns, implement the Global Development Initiative and Global Security Initiative put forward by President Xi, and turn high-level political mutual trust into more pragmatic cooperation results, Li said.
The top Chinese legislator said he firmly believes that under the leadership of President Xi and President Putin, the two sides will raise the bilateral ties to a new level and will follow the development path in line with their national conditions and achieve the great goals of their respective development and national rejuvenation.
Li also congratulated Russia on successfully hosting the 7th Eastern Economic Forum and briefed on the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Putin asked Li to convey his best wishes to President Xi. He said that the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era is special and important, and that the Russian side is satisfied with bilateral relations and cooperation with China in various fields.
Russia-China trade, especially against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, has shown a sound momentum of growth, Putin said, expressing his belief that the two sides will achieve greater goals of cooperation in this area.
More exchanges between the Russian and Chinese legislatures will play a positive role in promoting the development of bilateral relations, Putin said. He also wished the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China a success.
During his talks with Volodin and Matviyenko, Li said that the important task of cooperation between the legislative bodies of China and Russia is to promote the implementation of the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and provide legal protection for the healthy and stable development of bilateral relations.
The NPC will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation with the Russian State Duma and Federation Council, tap the potential of the mechanism for regular exchanges, maintain a good momentum of high-level exchanges, and promote exchanges among friendship groups and special committees, Li said.
Li said that the NPC is ready to work with the two institutions to create a favorable environment for practical cooperation through legislation as well as examination and approval of treaties and agreements.
He added that the two sides should strengthen exchanges of experience on national governance and legislation regarding fighting against external interference, sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction, among others.
Li thanked the Russian side for firmly supporting China on the Taiwan question.
Both Volodin and Matviyenko once again condemned Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi's visit to China's Taiwan region, saying that Russia firmly adheres to the one-China policy and is willing to deepen cooperation with China on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit.
Volodin said that the legislative bodies of Russia and China should further upgrade their cooperation, expand cooperation models, enrich cooperation content, so as to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and contribute to the development of bilateral relations.
Matviyenko extended congratulations on the great achievements made by the Chinese people under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. She said that the in-depth development of Russia-China relations has given the legislative bodies a new task of cooperation, and that both sides should actively promote cooperation in such fields as politics, economy, trade, finance and youth, as well as enhance sub-national, people-to-people exchanges and cultural cooperation.
When meeting with leaders of the five State Duma factions, Li said that all the groups have demonstrated their support to enhancing friendly cooperation with China, showing that it is the broad consensus of all parties and people from all walks of life in Russia to develop the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era.
China is ready to maintain close contact and exchanges with all parties in Russia to consolidate the foundation of the friendship and practical cooperation between the two countries, he said.
Leaders of the five State Duma factions expressed their willingness to play an active role in intensifying inter-party exchanges between Russia and China, and make unremitting efforts to deepen the development of Russia-China relations, so as to benefit the two countries and their people.
During his stay in Moscow, Li laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and visited Vladimir Lenin's former residence.
Strobist: AlienBee 800 with diffused HOBD-W camera left. Gold reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
"Stuttering" Craig Skistimas, retro gamer and founder/owner of ScrewAttack.
*Sleeves are modified MMCB
*Logo is sticker
This picture of my niece was taken at 5.40 in the evening in the living room.The sunlight was directly on her face from the window and got the grill shadow as well.The pic was clicked on stutter priority.
A gagueira envolve alterações anatômicas e funcionais em regiões do cérebro responsáveis pelo sequenciamento da fala. Link para artigo completo.
A photo from last summer. Now I'm starting to hear sprinklers again, stuttering water across lawns everywhere.
Fucksake.
The autofocus kept stuttering, so I brought it in for repairs. Luckily, I have a professional Canon workshop a 15 minute bike ride away. But yet again, Canon has stopped making the parts necessary for repairs (a recurring theme). I might be shooting people on manual focus for a bit if I can, but since it's the aperture that makes the AF to keep hunting, I expect the whole lens to die soon.
Well, I've had a good run with it.
I still have an old 70-300mm lens, but its image quality is much lower. Also, the 1.4x extender doesn't fit on it, so it's rather a downgrade from 560 to 300mm, even if you disregard the smaller aperture, lens quality and IS.
A young Southern Barred Frog (Mixophyes australis) [Myobatrachidae; Mixophyinae], from Killabakh Nature Reserve, New South Wales, Australia.
Listed as a threatened species, as it has disppeared from about half its former distribution, fortunately it is actually one of the more common rainforest frogs of mountainous areas of Northern NSW. It is easy to encounter many of these frogs on a wet night in spring or summer in suitable habitat.
It is also not uncommon to encounter individuals long distances from breeding sites, particularly adult females and juveniles (like the individual pictured here). Males are however more often located closer to rocky, flowing streams where breeding occurs, with their characteristic 'stuttering' call reverberating along narrow gullies.
[NB: this species was described as distinct from M. balbus in 2023, the above comment was written when only a single species was recognised]
Erle Stanley Gardner: De stotterende bisschop.
N.V. Boek en Wereld z.j.
Oorspronkelijke titel: The case of the stuttering bishop.
Cover art by Smid.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and actress Emily Blunt present Eric Dinallo with an award during the American Institute for Stuttering Award Dinner at Guastavino's in Manhattan on Monday, June 25, 2017. Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office
Grave of the War Poet Wilfred Owen in Ors Communal Cemetery, Belgium
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
From Anthem for Doomed Youth
Requested for an article about stuttering. Apparently Bruce Willis had a stutter when he was younger!
This picture is available to use for free, under the creative commons licence. All I ask is that I'm given a photo credit & a courtesy email to let me know how it's being used.
Pasadena, February 2011
Me: "I'm not gonna buy ice cream but can I take a picture of you?"
Paletero: "Whatever" (Goes back to talking to his buddy)
Me: CLICK!
Stuttering Barred Frog (Mixophyes balbus) [Myobatrachidae; Mixophyinae], from the Timbarra Plateau, east of Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia.
This threatened frog species is comprised of two divergent lineages, one in southern New South Wales and one in northern parts of the state. While the southern lineage has experienced substantial declines, the northern one remains common, even at high altitudes. The Timbarra Plateau is near the northern limit for this species, further north it is replaced by the related Fleay's Barred Frog (Mixophyes fleayi).
I found this Gondola Quattrosentesca in a shipyard on Giudecca in Venice. Covered gondolas are unusual, and this one is a relic, in dire need of restoration. Bare wood, broken window, ripped curtain, weeds inside. End of the fairytale, perhaps.
I shot this with a Norita 66; its a nice 120 manual camera, with a lovely bright 88mm f2 lens. But it needs a service, the cloth shutter is known to occasionally bounce open - it happened here- that's the dark bar on the left cutting into the frame. Its not consistent; one shutter bounce out of 4 rolls. Its an interesting artifact. Nevertheless, I wish it hadn't happened.
If you start to hear voices you should ask them to sing
And you could start dancing when they get into full swing
Now some people might look and some might stutter
When dancing you appear to be using a feather duster
Now not all voices are real so if you have your doubts
Ask them to speak up or even give out a shout
But be careful not all voices are here to help you
So no running with scissors or making home brew
And never let the voices tell you what to do
There`s enough people to take exception to
If the voices aren`t real why do they have good ideas
Or maybe you only hear them if you`re one of the messiahs
Some voices you hear might try to provoke
While others give good ideas and signs of hope
So when voices speak listen to what they say
But the decision is yours at the end of the day
Don`t listen to voices that might cause some harm
Yet you might learn something from the ones who charm
The rules for the voices require some tact
They consider it rude if you answer back
................. Copyright (c) Rodney Harrison 2014
French postcard by Editions du Globe, Paris, nr. 700. Photo: Studio Harcourt.
French comic actor and musician Darry Cowl (1925-2006) appeared in more than 150 films, often as a clown with a chronic stutter. Many of his comedies were not worth his talents, but at the end of his life, he made a glorious come-back and won the César twice.
Darry Cowl was born as André Darricau in Vittel, France, in 1925. His father was doctor. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris. After he had finished his studies successfully, he did not chose to work for an orchestra, but became a musical clown in the nightclubs and cabarets of Paris. He made his film debut in Quatre jours à Paris/Four Days in Paris (1955, André Berthomieu) with Luis Mariano and soon appeared insmall roles in films like Bonjour sourire/Good Morning Smile (1955, Claude Sautet), and En effeuillant la marguerite/Mademoiselle Striptease (1956, Marc Allégret) with Brigitte Bardot. Director Sacha Guitry cast him twice in Assassins et voleurs/Assassins and Robbers (1957) and Les Trois font la paire/Three Make a Pair (1957). Cowl decided to focus on film acting He gained celebrity status with his role as Antoine Péralou in Le Triporteur/The Tricycle (1957, Jacques Pinoteau). The stuttering Antoine is a football fanatic, who follows his favorite team from one game to the next madly peddling his tricycle to his various destinations. Between 1955 and 1965 he played in more than 60 films made by directors like André Berthomieu, Jean Girault and Jacques Pinoteau. Cowl often played the silly ass who stumbles on his lines on purpose.
Darry Cowl was a game addict, and he often acted only for the money in films that did not stretch his acting ability. An exception was Archimède, le clochard/The Magnificent Tramp (1959, Gilles Grangier) in which he apperaed opposite the great Jean Gabin. In 1964, Cowl directed a feature film himself, Jaloux comme un tigre/Jealous as a Tiger (1964, Darry Cowl). He also appeared in this comedy, wrote the scenario and composed the score. Sadly it was not a success. He continued to appear in dozens of comedies, including Les tribulations d'un chinois en Chine/Up to His Ears (1965, Philippe de Broca) and an episode of Les bons vivants/High Lifers (1965, Gilles Grangier, Georges Lautner). In 1974 he played Major Archibald in Touche pas à la femme blanche/Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974, Marco Ferreri) with Catherine Deneuve, the only film he pretended to be proud about. The next decades most of his films were not very interesting. He wrote three memoirs, Le flambeur (1986) about his passion for the game, Le triporteur se livre (1994) and Mémoires d'un canaillou (2005). During the 1990’s, he appeared in better films like Ville à vendre/City for Sale (1992, Jean-Pierre Mocky) starring Michel Serrault, and Les misérables (1995, Claude Lelouch) starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. In 1999, he even made a magnificent comeback as the only Caucasian employee of a Chinatown shop in Augustin, roi du Kung-fu/ Augustin, King of Kung-Fu (1999, Anne Fontaine). Twice he was a awarded a César, the French equivalent of an Oscar. In 2001 he received a César d'honneur for his career, and in 2004 he won another César for for his supporting role as a concierge in Pas sur la bouche/Not on the lips (2004, Alain Resnais). He also won a Molière for Best Supporting Role on the French stage, in 1995. He had hoped to return to theatre acting in Hold Up, a play by Jean Barbier, in September 2005, but ill-health prevented this. His last film was L'homme qui rêvait d'un enfant/The man Who Dreamed About a Child (2006, Delphine Gleize). He would never see the finished film. In 2006, Darry Cowl died in Neuilly-sur-Seine from complications of lung cancer, aged 80. He was married twice, first to Nelly Marco, and the second time to actress Rolande Kalis.
Sources: Hal Erickson (All Movie Guide), Wikipedia, and IMDb.