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"A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog."
© Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Hound of the Baskervilles"
Beware of the Black Dog! As for crime stories, I'm more of a fan of Dame Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, but "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is my favorite story about him, and one of my favourite detective stories. It wasn't just a mystery of "whodunnit?", no! It was a mystery of supernatural creature, family curse and foggy moorland...
The legend of the hound that haunted the House of Baskervilles is quite horrible, not because of the demonic dog (it was actually kind of an avenger, it killed the bad guy and probably dragged him to hell), but because Hugo Baskerville and his friends kidnapped a young maiden. The dog was not a villain in the story, the only evil was the man. There are a lot of different folk stories about ghostly black dogs in the UK, and the one that inspired Conan Doyle is about evil squire, who enjoyed hunting and, according to rumors, murdered his wife, and after his death the villagers claimed to see his ghost leading the pack of phantom hounds across the moor.
But I've searched on Wikipedia and I found another tale linked to Black Shuck (the dog from East Anglia folklore, not the dogs from Devon, which is South West), in which a huge black dog rescued local girl from a lustful friar, killed him, but died in the struggle too. The locals buried the dog with honour, and it haunted the area. It's a different story from a different part of the country, but it has something in common with the legend in the book. So there are also stories about good black dogs, and being black with glowing muzzle doesn't make someone bad. :)
Thank you to Mulewings~ who gave an advice on how to make a fog. Mine doesn't look so good because I had to place it between the dog and the hills to avoid getting my stickers wet. I hope it does look like Dartmoor in the night, I've searched a lot of pictures, it looks beautiful. :)
3@3 - 3 photos in 3 minutes @ 3pm on a Thursday challenge
26/12/13 - Boxing Day family fun
A visit to Al's sister and family near Sheffield today. Lovely foggy views along the Snake Pass and minus 1 degrees.
Spent a happy hour playing Good King Wenseslas on the Garage Band piano on iPads with one of the nieces - we were rubbish. Al's sister did a magic show with Marvin the rabbit - she was rubbish... and we all played Cluedo. I was clueless - years since I'd played but gave me a prop for my T3.
Mrs Peacock did it in the Library with the candlestick if you're wondering!
A piece of art on display next to the cafeteria in the Blue Fin Building. Unfortunately, it was not accompanied by any information on whodunnit ...
"What's your favorite scary movie?"
Next to the original Halloween, Scream is probably my favorite slasher movie while Scream 2 and 4 aren't too bad either as sequels go. I love the self-aware whodunnit.
I've wanted a figure like this in 1/6 for ages but the costume rights are tangled mess of red tape that would rival the Blade Runner liscense. This one is a custom I haven't shown off on Flickr yet. The mask is sculpted/painted by me and the robe outfit is done by Deniz at D-Art Studios. Truly awesome craftsmanship I might add.
talk with Dexter bull calf....WhoDunnit.
Part of the story I am creating for the 7th in a series with Morris's Toys.
A new adventure. Photographing living animals reactions to stuffed animals is always hilarious.
It’s time to put your sleuthing skills to the test! Join us for the 3rd Crimson Clues Hunt Crawl on Sunday, June 8th from 11AM to 1PM SLT. The crawl activity is: Whodunnit?
Make sure to grab your Crawl Exclusive Collectible Pin. Only available during the crawl!
🚕 Taxi: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/MadPea%20Adventures/128/10...
Loving the sun on my balcony. I'm only a quarter of the way into the Connecticut Yankee but it's great fun, with over 200 illustratons by Dan Beard and copious notes that include Twain's comments on some of the drawings, details of the models and inspiration behind them. Very pleased with this edition which I found in the Lausanne free book box.
Selma Lagerlöf's Childhood Journal (she was actually 14 when she wrote it) is very interesting; I have restuck the cover onto the spine so will pass it on even though it's quite fragile.
I don't usually read English books in translation but the Durrell was interesting and amusing as always, set in S.America.
The Song and the Silence is the story of a Cree/Stoney chief Sitting Wind, very moving.
Gyles Brandreth: I found this book and since I read it, another two in the same series, witty and enjoyable.
The Summer Book, tales of Tove Jansson's childhood, highly recommended.
Pierre Lemaître: aftermath of WWII, mostly in Paris, surprising, sad, very French "débrouillard".
Company of Liars: medieval England, a sort of whodunnit dabbling in sorcery, runes, herbal lore, wolves... exciting and a fast read.
Never before had so many artworks been stolen in broad daylight. Around the globe authorities had no idea who could be behind these despicable deeds. And so it was, Cyberduck, the most famous Belgium duck detective was assigned to the case. Cyber was undercover at the New York Met. A master of disguise, he was almost invisible to the untrained eye. It was the during the fourth month of the stakeout that Cyber sensed something was about to happen.........
Note :Please comment with your ideas of what the next frame in the series should be...hopefully I can turn one of those ideas into an image and we will go on from there...thanks krap
When I think of a murder mystery, I always picture a revolver, along with a dagger, a candlestick, and a rope. Even though pistols have replaced revolvers in media, and actual use, the revolver will always have an old-fashioned aura that newer guns just can't match.
For these two shots I used a single light source, taken at night, in the living room so there would be no other ambient light. I like this type of lighting for a darker mood. At first I tried using the 70-200 lens but the lighting was just too low. I wanted to stay with an ISO at 200 or below, to keep the detail, but the tricky part was the balance between shutter speed and depth of field. Given that the camera and lens (24-105) were so close to the subject, I wanted to use a wide DoF, so that more of the gun would be in focus, but that made the shutter speeds so slow that even on the tripod, it was tough to keep it from blurring with the 2 second-plus shutter speeds.
Much better when viewed large.
Arm of Human
(Serves 5)
Ingredients:
Human arm joint, hand removed and quartered
Rosemary
Salt and Pepper for seasoning
Method:
Heat oil in a wok or frying pan. Season arm cuts well with salt and pepper. When oil is hot, add in rosemary then the arm. Cook on medium heat for five minutes.
Best served rare.
This caterpillar had had half its body fluid sucked out from it, leaving it to hand like so much damp washing on the line! Not sure who the culprit was. A spider? A bird? A grizzly murder scene in need of investigation! [Blue Mountains, NSW]
Blown inks, and fineliner pens on shiny card.
One of my DDDD's, that is 'Denouement Deficiency Disorder Doodles'
This winter I made 5 mohair jumpers, one for me, one for my grandaughter, two for a friend and one which now it is finished I don't really want, although it was to be for me.
So now it is back to doodling to keep me awake till the end of the murder mystery so I can find out whodunnit!
See a postworked version, which I prefer here www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2520358
Mrs Rachel and myself went to see 'The Mousetrap' on Saturday. She'd solved it by the end of the First Act.
Commentary.
These two cottages have become iconic, National Treasures, almost legendary.
The one on the left was “Tom’s Cottage” in the superb
film, “Goodnight, Mr.Tom,” that chronicles the experiences
of a young boy, William Beech, when he is evacuated from London to Weirwold, in the country, and billeted to stay with
the apparently irascible widower, Tom Oakley during World War Two.
Both have had difficulties in their lives and the story explores very honestly and graphically the struggles they must bear to adapt to yet another immense challenge.
Several Junior classes, I taught over the years, studied this story as part of their History and English curriculum.
They then watched the film version starring John Thaw as Tom and Nick Robinson as William.
They were set the task to do a Critic’s comparison of the two.
The overwhelming consensus was that they preferred the book because it inevitably painted a fuller, more detailed picture.
However, they were totally absorbed by some of the emotional drama in the film version.
Quite a number of the pupils enjoyed buying their own version of book and film, by choice.
The cottage on the right was the Vicarage of Dibley’s new female Vicar, Geraldine Granger, played by Dawn French in the hilarious hit B.B.C. Sitcom. “Vicar of Dibley.”
The crazy idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of the characters making up the Parish Council of this English village is little short of a masterpiece.
On the chalky Chiltern Hill above and to the north of the village stands Cobstone Windmill.
This featured in the film “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang” starring Dick Van Dyke.
Turville was also the setting for another World War Two film, “Went the Day Well.”
Television Crime “Whodunnit” dramas like “Midsomer Murders,” “Jonathan Creek” and “Marple” have also used Turville as the archetypal English village.
And that is it, that is why it has been used as a setting for so many filmed stories.
It has the essential qualities and features set in a gorgeous, lush green Chalk valley.
Hills, fields, windmill, old half-timbered rose-covered cottages,
the classic towered Parish church and graveyard, the ubiquitous village pub, “The Bull and Butcher,” the Village Hall, school, Post Office and grocer’s and Village Square or to be more exact, Circle.
If a first-time visitor to the U.K. said to me:-
“Show me a typical, classic English village.”
Turville would be high, if not first, on my list!
Holmes was wrong. John Clay was a patsy. The entire tunnel affair was a ruse to preserve the secrecy of the occult rites of the August League of Red Haired Keepers of the Sacred Shrine of Tinbuckle.
The Rogue Players: Sherlock Holmes
Flickr Group Roulette: Sherlock Holmes
Strobist: AB800 with HOBD-W camera left. Gold reflector camera right. Triggered by Cybersync.
© 2014 Lyn Randle.
Please DO NOT USE, copy, sell, share or download this image. It is illegal to use someone else's images without their permission. My work is NOT for free.
Should you encounter three wise men going under the names of Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar, do not approach them, they are armed and dangerous!
1-Sep-10 Silesian Station by David Downing
Utterly breathtaking. Russel is finally forced to choose a side in the coming war. And he finds reserves of courage in himself he never expected. Can't wait to read the sequel.
3-Sep-10 The Secret of Platform 13 by Eva Ibbotson (borrowed from www.librarywala.com)
Kiddie ghost stories are more addictive than I had realized.
5-Sep-10 The Guy Not Taken by Jennifer Weiner (borrowed from www.librarywala.com)
Nice collection of mostly women centric short stories.
8-Sep-10 Just Take My Heart by Mary Higgins Clark (borrowed from www.librarywala.com)
I really really expected bigger things from a woman with such a long name. The tale starts with a bang, plods along for a bit and then draws to a fizzle of a conclusion. Absolutely no surprises anywhere, the plot is wafer-thin and the only saving grace is Clark's surprisingly credible rendition of the varied characters that populate an otherwise damp squib of a book.
12-Sep-10 The Host by Stephenie Meyer (nook)
There were good bits, there were tedious bits, but I liked this one overall. One gets attached to all the characters. And its not as Young Adult-ish as the first few Twilights.
14-Sep-10 The Shop on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber (nook)
Very very similar to The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs. Nice likeable characters, predictable plot, absolutely no humour whatsoever. The story revolves around four women - a middle aged woman with a failing marriage who hates her daughter in law, a woman in her late thirties who is trying and failing to have a baby, a woman in her early thirties who has had cancer twice, and a woman in her twenties who has a major chip on her shoulder, a rebel without a cause. These unlikely characters come together in a knitting class and become friends. Of course their problems work out in due course, and there's a good dose of happy endings.
21-Sep-10 House Rules by Jodi Picoult (nook)
Enthralling. I couldn't help worrying about the characters, worrying about my son. A boy who looks healthy, but has Asperger's. A murder in the neighbourhood. The protagonist is suspected, since he had fiddled around with the evidence. But this is not a whodunnit. Its an insightful investigation of what makes a family, what keeps it together and how much a mother can endure!
23-Sep-10 Little Earthquakes by Jennifer Weiner (borrowed from www.librarywala.com)
Beautiful! The characters are so real. Mom lit with no holds barred.
26-Sep-10 Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (nook)
As my bookworm friend puts it - the worst book Kinsella has every written. But I guess all shopaholicists will end up reading it sooner or later.
30-Sep-10 The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer(ebook)
Reading Heyer is like going home for the weekend. The plot is the same, the locale is the same, the characters are also more or less the same. Real peace and comfort!
What has been eating the plums in the garden? Various traps used in a fruitless attempt to find the answer.
Sadly there's no back cover (or inner cover for that matter) plot summary on this book, so this is from the Amazon website:
In the sticky summer of 1943, and with her husband out of town on war work, a secluded cottage in the Berkshires sounds just the ticket to the newly married Clara Gamadge. The resident ghost, a slender woman in a sunbonnet, merely adds to the local color, even with the news that the bonneted woman died just one year ago, in the cottage that Clara is now renting. It's all nothing more than a deliciously spooky game, until the woman's sister is strangled while Clara dozes in a chair by her bed. The only clue: Clara's panicked memory of a woman in a sunbonnet standing at the door. Happily, Henry Gamadge - that supremely civilized gentleman-sleuth - arrives in time to calm his wife and solve the mystery (though not without some stellar help from Clara!).
Bantam Books, 1945
Illustration of Hercule Poirot for Agatha Christie's novel 'The ABC Murders', currently being serialised in the newspaper 'Asahi Weekly,' Japan. Poirot is depicted in a checkered blue suit, holding a cigarette while standing against a striped background. His expression seems contemplative and there's a distinct shadow behind him.
British postcard in the Picturegoer Series, London, no. 756. Photo: London Films.
Balding and highly distinguished Roland Young (1887-1953) was an American film and theatre actor of British origin. He was best known for the role of Cosmo Topper in the three Topper film comedies.
Roland Young was born in 1887 in London, England. He was the son of an architect. Young enjoyed his school education at Sherborne College and later at London University. He decided to become an actor. Young acquired the necessary skills at the renowned Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). In 1908, at the age of 21, Young appeared on stage in London for the first time in 'Find the Woman'. Four years later, he made his Broadway debut in 'Hindle Wakes' (1912). Until the mid-1910s, Young was still taking on engagements in England, which meant that he alternated between New York and London. Young became an American citizen in 1918 and then served briefly on the American side as a soldier in the First World War. In 1921, he married his first wife, Marjorie Kummer, to whom he remained married until 1940. Young made his debut as a film actor as Doctor Watson in Sherlock Holmes (Albert Parker, 1922), alongside John Barrymore as Holmes and Gustav von Seyffertitz as Moriarty. On Broadway, Young performed equally well in droll farces and classic drama. His standout credits included productions of 'Hedda Gabler' (1923) and 'The Last of Mrs. Cheyney' (1927). He signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and made his talkie debut in the murder mystery The Unholy Night (Lionel Barrymore, 1929) with Ernest Torrence and Boris Karloff. He was loaned to Warner Bros. to appear in the drama Her Private Life (Alexander Korda, 1929), with Billie Dove and to Fox, winning critical approval for his comedic performance as Jeanette MacDonald's husband in Don't Bet on Women (William K. Howard, 1931). He was again paired with MacDonald in the romantic comedy Annabelle's Affairs (Alfred L. Werker, 1931). He appeared in Cecil B. de Mille's Western The Squaw Man (1931), and played opposite Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in The Guardsman (Sidney Franklin, 1931). His final film under his MGM contract was Lovers Courageous (Robert Z. Leonard, 1932), opposite Robert Montgomery. He had a starring role in a risqué comedy for Fox entitled Pleasure Cruise (Frank Tuttle, 1933) alongside Genevieve Tobin.
Roland Young's roles were mostly limited to British characters, in which he embodied the stereotypical image of the aristocratic Englishman. He appeared with Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin and Maurice Chevalier in One Hour With You (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932). Alexander Korda invited him to return to Britain to make his British film debut in Wedding Rehearsal (1932). His best-known film was the screwball classic Topper (Norman Z. McLeod, 1937). Young played the bourgeois bank manager Cosmo Topper, whose orderly life is shaken up by the ghosts of his clients, Cary Grant and Constance Bennett. It was one of the most successful films of the year, and Young received an Oscar nomination for his role in the Best Supporting Actor category in 1938. He also starred in the sequels, Topper Takes a Trip (Norman Z. McLeod, 1938) and Topper Returns (Roy Del Ruth, 1941). Young is also known for his role as the villain Uriah Heep in the Charles Dickens adaptation David Copperfield (George Cukor, 1935) and for the British fantasy film The Man Who Would Change the World (Lothar Mendes, 1936) based on a short story by H.G. Wells. He often played eccentric characters, such as the inebriated Earl of Burnstead, who loses his valet Charles Laughton in a poker game, in Ruggles of Red Gap (Leo McCarey, 1935) or the rich uncle of Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940). He continued working steadily through the 1940s, playing small roles opposite some of Hollywood's leading actresses, such as Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Paulette Goddard and Greta Garbo in her final film, Two-Faced Woman (George Cukor, 1941). In 1945, he began his radio show and appeared in the film adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic whodunnit And Then There Were None (René Clair, 1945). By the end of the decade, his film career had declined, and his final films, including The Great Lover (Alexander Hall, 1949), in which he played a murderer opposite Bob Hope, and Fred Astaire's Let's Dance (Norman Z. MacLeod, 1950), were not successful. Roland Young found his second wife, Dorothy Patience May DuCroz, in 1948, with whom he spent the last years of his life. Roland Young had no children. In 1953, he died in New York of natural causes at the age of 65. He was honoured with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his film and television work.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia (English and German) and IMDb.
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The Postcard
A postally unused postcard that was printed by the Larkfield Printing Co. Ltd. of Brighouse, West Yorkshire.
Peter Davison
Peter Malcolm Gordon Moffett was born on the 13th. April 1951.
Peter, who is known professionally as Peter Davison, is an English actor with many credits in television dramas and sitcoms.
He made his television acting debut in 1975, and became famous in 1978 as Tristan Farnon in the BBC's television adaptation of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small stories.
Davison's subsequent starring roles included the sitcoms Holding the Fort (1980–1982) and Sink or Swim (1980–1982), the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (1981–1984), Dr. Stephen Daker in A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–1988), and Albert Campion in Campion (1989–1990).
He also played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites (2000–2003), "Dangerous" Davies in The Last Detective (2003–2007), and Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK (2011–2014).
-- Peter Davison - The Early Years
Peter was born to Claude and Sheila Moffett in Streatham, London. Claude was originally from British Guiana (now Guyana), and worked as a radio engineer before opening a grocer's shop, whilst Sheila worked in intelligence during World War II before becoming a housewife.
Davison had three sisters: Shirley, Pamela and Barbara. Whilst in Streatham, he attended Granton Primary School. The family then moved to Knaphill in Surrey. During this time, Davison was a member of an amateur theatre company called the Byfleet Players.
Before becoming an actor, he gained one O-level in English Language at Winston Churchill School, St John's, Woking, Surrey, and then had several odd jobs, including a stint as a mortuary attendant and a Hoffman Press operator.
Early aspirations to attend a teacher-training college or his father's plan for Peter to work at a building society came to nothing. Instead Peter studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
His first job was as an actor and assistant stage manager at the Nottingham Playhouse. He chose the stage name Peter Davison to avoid confusion with the actor and director Peter Moffatt, with whom Davison later worked. He only uses the name Davison professionally.
-- Peter Davison's Career
Peter's first television work was a 1975 episode of the children's science fiction television programme The Tomorrow People, alongside American actress Sandra Dickinson, whom he married on the 26th. December 1978. Davison portrayed an alien named Elmer, who arrives on Earth along with his sister (played by Dickinson) and his mother, known as "the Mama" (played by Margaret Burton).
In the mid-1970's, during a lull in his acting career, Davison spent 18 months working in a tax office in Twickenham.
In 1976, he was offered a prominent role in the 13-part TV series Love for Lydia opposite Jeremy Irons; the series was broadcast on ITV the following year.
In 1978, Davison's performance as the youthfully mischievous Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small made him a household name:
"I don't know how much it changed my life. It creeps
up on you really. You become used to it quickly, I think.
I wasn't aware of it suddenly changing my life, although
I had a bit more money to spend on rubbish.
I bought a house, but the money was rubbish because
I was a BBC newcomer, though nobody's money was
very good, except probably Robert Hardy's.
I remember after the third series I bought a car, which
was a Renault 18. I thought it was pretty flash, and I
went to this garage to fill up with petrol, and the guy
said, 'Aren't you that bloke off the vet series?'
I said yes I was, and he said, 'Why are you driving that
piece of shit?'"
Davison married for a second time in December 1978. He noted:
"By March, I was back in the Dales,
freezing to death and chasing sheep
across the snowy hilltops."
Davison was absent for 24 episodes in the second run of the series, including the majority of series 5 and 6, due to other acting commitments.
Alison Lewis, who played Rosie Herriot in the final series, revealed:
"I never met Peter Davison because
I didn't have any scenes with him."
Peter explained in 2016:
"I didn't ever want to leave the series, it's just that
other programmes came up, and I wanted to do
them. I missed the second half of series 5 because
of A Very Peculiar Practice, and I missed series 6
because I was doing Campion. I was incredibly
lucky to move onto the things I did. There was no
plan to it; it's just good fortune, being in the right
place at the right time. But in the end, when I'd
finished Campion and A Very Peculiar Practice,
All Creatures was still going, and I never had any
problem coming back."
Peter remembered:
"Only days after finishing A Very Peculiar Practice,
I was back in Yorkshire to film a second All Creatures
Christmas Special. I can't remember when the idea of
making another series of the show came up, but it was
probably long before anyone mentioned it to the actors.
Not that we raised too many eyebrows; I felt I had done
enough other work to prove to myself that Tristan hadn't
hindered my prospects. Quite the reverse, as Doctor
Who had proved: Tristan was a stepping stone to other
parts. By the end of 1986, it was agreed that the original
cast, minus Carol Drinkwater, would re-assemble to film
another series. The date was set for the spring of the
following year, dangerously close to the date set for a
second series of A Very Peculiar Practice."
-- Doctor Who (1981–1984 and Later Revivals)
In 1980, Davison signed a contract to play the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who for three years, succeeding Tom Baker (the Fourth Doctor). At the age of 29, Peter was the youngest actor to have played the lead role, a record he retained for nearly thirty years until Matt Smith (the Eleventh Doctor) took the role in 2009 at the age of 26.
Attracting such a high-profile actor as Davison was as much of a coup for the programme as getting the role was for him, but he did not renew his contract, because he feared being typecast.
Patrick Troughton (who had played the Second Doctor and whom Davison had watched on the programme as a teenager) recommended to Davison that he leave the role after three years, and Davison followed his advice.
The Fifth Doctor encountered many of the Doctor's best-known adversaries, including the Cybermen in Earthshock (1982) and the Daleks and Davros in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984).
In the 1983 serial Arc of Infinity, in addition to portraying the Fifth Doctor, Davison portrayed the human form of Omega, sharing the role with Ian Collier.
Since leaving Doctor Who, Davison has returned to the franchise several times. He presented the special videotape documentary Daleks – The Early Years (1993), showcasing selected episodes of missing Dalek stories from both the First and Second Doctor's eras.
Davison did, in fact, return to play the Fifth Doctor in the 1993 multi-doctor charity special Dimensions in Time, and in the 1997 video game Destiny of the Doctors.
Since 1999, Peter has reprised his role as the Fifth Doctor in numerous Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions; he also reprised the role of Omega in an audio drama of the same name, again sharing the role with Collier.
He returned to the TV series in "Time Crash", a special episode written by Steven Moffat for Children in Need; in the episode, which aired on the 16th. November 2007, the Fifth Doctor met the Tenth Doctor, played by Davison's future son-in-law David Tennant.
Tennant later presented a documentary, Come in Number Five, which examined Davison's tenure in some detail, and which was included as a special feature on the 2011 DVD re-release of Resurrection of the Daleks.
It is one of many DVD releases of his serials in which Davison has appeared as an in-vision interviewee or in DVD commentary recordings.
In 2022, Peter returned to portray the Doctor on television again in "The Power of the Doctor". With this appearance, he holds the record, along with Troughton, for the most returns to the role.
In 2012, Davison expressed further interest in returning to the role of the Doctor for the series' 50th. anniversary special, but he did not appear. He did, however, write and direct The Five(ish) Doctors Reboot, an affectionate and comedic account of Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and himself attempting to get parts in the Anniversary Special, featuring cameos from numerous Doctor Who cast, crew, and famous fans.
In July 2018, Davison reprised the role of the Doctor at the live show "The Muppets Take the O2" during the Pigs in Space sketch Mirthshock.
Davison has been critical of some aspects of Doctor Who's original run, and has expressed great admiration for the 21st. century revival. In 2008, he spoke unfavourably of some of the writing for the series during his tenure:
"There were some very suspect scripts we did,
knocked off by TV writers who'd turn their hand
to anything. Fair enough, but they weren't science
fiction fans. You do get the impression, both with
the television series now and Big Finish, that they
are fans of science fiction, and that's why they are
doing those stories."
In 2013, Peter also praised the frisson between the Doctor and companions in the revived series:
"They were struggling for many years to make
the companions more rounded characters and
they never once thought it was a good idea to
put any frisson or sexual tension – even in its
most innocent form – between the Doctor and
companion. I think it would make it easier to
write a better character. All I know is they've
struggled for many years to write a good
companion's part. I don't think they've ever
really managed it till Rose, when the series
came back."
Interviewed in 2013, Davison stated that The Caves of Androzani, The Visitation and Earthshock were his favourite serials from his time on the series, and that Time-Flight was the biggest disappointment because of a lack of budget.
In 2013, Davison was asked in an interview about the possibility of a female Doctor, to which he replied:
"I have a slight problem with that because it’s
not as if genders are interchangeable on Gallifrey...
I don’t like the idea of the Doctor having a sex
change - it’s not as if you would have a female
James Bond."
In July 2017, Davison reacted positively to the casting of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, but expressed the belief that:
"It is the loss of a role model for boys who
I think Doctor Who is vitally important for.
I feel a bit sad about that, but I understand
the argument that you need to open it up."
Davison closed his Twitter account following the backlash to his comments, saying the "toxicity" from the series’ viewers on both sides of the dispute had been "sobering".
-- 1984–present
After Davison left Doctor Who in 1984, he immediately landed a role in Anna of the Five Towns, a period drama. In 1985, he appeared in an All Creatures Great and Small Christmas special, and a feature-length episode of the American show Magnum, P.I. ("Deja Vu"), set in the UK.
Davison played Dr Stephen Daker, the central character in A Very Peculiar Practice (1986–88). Written by Andrew Davies, it concerns a university's health centre; Daker is the centre's only effective physician. The black comedy-drama ran for two series and had a sequel with A Very Polish Practice in 1992, a television film mainly set in a post-communist Polish hospital. In 1986 he appeared as Lance Fortescue in an episode of the BBC's Miss Marple ("A Pocketful of Rye").
Davison reprised his role as Tristan Farnon in four more series of All Creatures Great and Small between 1988 and 1990, although he was absent from 24 episodes of the final three to play the lead in Campion, a series based on the period whodunnits of Margery Allingham.
He appeared in the sitcoms Fiddlers Three for ITV in 1991, and Ain't Misbehavin' in 1993 and 1995. He played Jim Huxtable in the 1993 TV movie Harnessing Peacocks, based on the novel by Mary Wesley.
In 1994, he provided the voice of Mole in The Wind in the Willows animated special Mole's Christmas. He also appeared as a doctor in the Heartbeat episode "A Bird in the Hand", and played Squire Gordon in the 1994 film of Black Beauty.
Davison presented Heavenly Bodies, a six-part series about astronomy broadcast on BBC1 in 1995. This led to him being featured on the cover of Practical Astronomy magazine.
He guest starred in the sixth episode of the crime drama Jonathan Creek in 1998 as the son-in-law of a horror writer who was shot dead on Halloween. The following year he played the outgoing head teacher in the television series Hope and Glory, and appeared in Parting Shots, the last film to be directed by Michael Winner.
In 2000 Davison returned in another major role, that of David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites. During convention appearances in 2013, Davison cited this as his favourite among the roles he has played.
Also in 2000, he appeared in the recurring role of Inspector Christmas in several episodes of Diana Rigg's Mrs Bradley Mysteries. The first episode, Death at the Opera, saw Davison appear with his future son-in-law (and future Doctor Who actor), David Tennant.
He starred as Dangerous Davies in the television series The Last Detective (2003–2007) and as Dr Bill Shore in Distant Shores (2005–2008), both for ITV.
In 2006, he appeared as Professor George Huntley in The Complete Guide to Parenting, and appeared as himself in the TV series Hardware.
Davison starred as Martin Chadwick, one half of an overworked couple coping with two irresponsible daughters and his senile mother at home, in the BBC Two comedy Fear, Stress and Anger in early 2007. The show also starred his daughter Georgia Tennant.
Later in 2007, he played Hubert Curtain in an episode of ITV's Agatha Christie's Marple ("At Bertram's Hotel").
In January 2009, Peter appeared in Unforgiven, an ITV1 drama starring Suranne Jones. Davison played John Ingrams, a lawyer who helps Jones' character, Ruth Slater, find her sister after her release from prison.
In July 2009, he appeared in an episode of Midsomer Murders, and made a guest appearance as a teacher in Miranda Hart's sitcom, Miranda, in autumn 2009.
In October 2009, Davison was seen in a small but memorable role as a bank manager in Micro Men, a drama about the rise of the British home computer market in the late 1970's and early 1980's, and in December 2009, he played Denis Thatcher in The Queen, a docudrama on Channel 4.
In November 2010, it was announced that Davison would be joining the regular cast of the UK version of Law and Order as Henry Sharpe, the Director of the London Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Davison appeared from the beginning of the series' fifth season, alongside fellow Doctor Who actress Freema Agyeman.
He appeared in an episode of the police comedy-drama New Tricks in 2011, and in 2013 he played divorcee Michael in the comedy series Pat and Cabbage, as well as appearing in an episode of the ITV detective series Lewis.
Davison had been lined up to appear in writer/director Daisy Aitkens' first feature-length film You, Me and Him (previously titled Fish Without Bicycles) in late 2016. However, due to a scheduling clash, Davison was forced to pull out of the film. The film stars his son-in-law David Tennant, and is co-produced by Davison's daughter, Georgia.
In 2017, Davison appeared in an episode of the third series of Grantchester, playing a cricket-loving solicitor.
In 2018, Peter appeared with Christopher Timothy in the three-part series Great British Car Journeys (known internationally as Vintage Roads Great & Small). In the first series the pair travelled in a Morgan 4/4 on trips from London to Land's End, from Loch Ness to The Isle of Skye, and from Cardiff to Snowdonia.
On each trip, which was themed around the 'Golden Age of Motoring', the pair would meet people involved with the vintage car scene and take rides in a number of vintage cars. The series was recommissioned by Channel 4 for a second series, with the four-part series starting off with a trip through Yorkshire on the 12th. October 2019.
In April 2020, Davison was asked to narrate the tenth season of Channel 5's documentary series, The Yorkshire Vet, which follows a number of veterinarians working in Weatherby, Kirkbymoorside and Huddersfield. Christopher Timothy had been the programme's narrator since the start of the series, but he was self-isolating due to the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.
Davison's home was equipped with a recording studio, making the role practical for him. For the next series, Timothy was back as the narrator, though Davison would appear again in the 2021 Christmas Special, The Yorkshire Vet at Christmas: It's a Wonderful Life, appearing on-screen with Kirkbymoorside-based vet Peter Wright in a number of short dramatic scenes which linked the stories from each of the three vet practices featured.
-- Peter Davison's Radio Work
Davison has appeared in several radio series, including the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series King Street Junior in 1985. Davison played teacher Eric Brown, however, he left after two series, and was replaced by Karl Howman.
In 1995, he appeared in Change at Oglethorpe, and the following year he played Richard Stubbs in a six-part comedy called Minor Adjustment.
Peter played Dr. Anthony Webster in the comedy series Rigor Mortis on Radio 4 in 2003 and 2006, and made a guest appearance in the first episode of the second series of the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy series Nebulous, broadcast in April 2006,
In 2008, he voiced Simon Draycott in the radio adaptation of The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, and between 2012 and 2013 he played Richard Lyons in the BBC Radio 2 comedy Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully.
-- Peter Davison's Theatre Roles
Davison has also worked on the stage. In 1984, he appeared in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park at the Apollo Theatre alongside his then-wife, Sandra Dickinson.
In 1991, he appeared in Arsenic and Old Lace at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Further theatre appearances during the 1990's include: The Last Yankee, by Arthur Miller at the Young Vic Theatre and later the Duke of York's Theatre, London in 1993, and Vatelin in An Absolute Turkey, by Georges Feydeau, at the Gielgud Theatre in 1994.
In 1996 he played the role of Tony Wendice in the theatrical production of Dial M for Murder, and in 1997 he played Buttons in the pantomime Cinderella in the Arts Theatre in Cambridge.
He appeared as Amos Hart in Chicago at the Adelphi Theatre in 1999, and played Dr Jean-Pierre Moulineaux, in Under the Doctor at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley and later at the Comedy Theatre, London in 2001.
Between July 2007 and March 2008, Davison performed as King Arthur in the London production of Spamalot.
Throughout 2010 and 2011, he appeared as Professor Callahan in the West End production of Legally Blonde, which opened at the Savoy Theatre.
Davison played the part of Oliver Lucas in David Hare's play The Vertical Hour at the Park Theatre, London between September and October 2014.
In 2015, Peter joined the cast of Gypsy in its West End transfer to the Savoy Theatre in London, playing the role of Herbie, alongside Imelda Staunton as Rose. The role was originally played by Kevin Whately during its run in Chichester in 2014.
-- Peter Davison's Other Work
Davison and his wife composed and performed the theme tunes to Button Moon, a children's programme broadcast in the 1980's, and Mixed Blessings, a sitcom broadcast on ITV in 1978.
Davison subsequently appeared alongside Dickinson as the Dish of the Day in the television version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in 1981. The producers considered it humorous for an actor known for playing a veterinary surgeon to appear as a cow.
Davison has also appeared in several British sitcoms, including Holding the Fort (1980–82) and Sink or Swim (1980–82), as well as appearing in dramatic roles.
Peter was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1982 when he was surprised by Eamonn Andrews while filming a promotional piece for Doctor Who in Trafalgar Square in London.
Davison lent his name to be used to endorse two science-fiction anthology books published by Hutchinson: Peter Davison's Book of Alien Monsters released in 1982, and Peter Davison's Book of Alien Planets released in 1983.
-- Peter Davison's Personal Life
Davison has been married three times. His 1973 marriage to Diane J. Russell ended with divorce in 1975.
In 1978, he married American-British actress Sandra Dickinson. The couple divorced in 1994. Davison's daughter from his second marriage is actress Georgia Tennant (née Moffett) (1984). In December 2011, Georgia married actor David Tennant, who played the Tenth Doctor.
Davison married his third wife, actress and writer Elizabeth Morton, in 2003. The couple live in Twickenham, and have two sons, Louis (born 1999) and Joel (born 2001). They both appeared in The Five(ish) Doctors playing themselves.
Louis Moffett made his professional acting debut aged 14, playing Prince Edward in the 2014 Trafalgar Studios stage production of Richard III, credited as Louis Davison, having adopted his father's stage name as his own.
His brother Joel also made his theatrical debut aged 13 in the summer of 2014, playing Jack in The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.
Louis Davison plays the part of Victor in Tim Burton's film, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children released in 2016, and Joel Davison played Lord Heybrook in French Without Tears at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. Louis has appeared as Parker Whitfield in BBC One's Holby City, and as King Edmund Ironside in Netflix's Vikings: Valhalla.
Davison's autobiography, titled Is There Life Outside the Box?: An Actor Despairs, was published on the 6th. October 2016.
-- Politics
In April 2010, Davison declared his support for the Labour Party at the general election of that year. He was also one of 48 celebrities who signed a letter warning voters against Conservative Party policy towards the BBC.
Davison publicly supported the UK's membership of the European Union in the 2016 EU referendum, describing Brexit supporters as:
"Mad old farts who want to return the
country to an age that never existed".
BePuzzled Classics 33118
A Mystery Jigsaw Puzzle
cardboard
1,000 pieces, used and complete
29 x 23 in
74 x 58.5 cm
2022 piece count: 28,644
puzzle: 31
TED: "Dad luvs them Sherlock 'Omes books so 'e new whodunnit, an' 'e wispered in me ear when I wuz doin' this pussle that it wuz the ----- ! Sorry, I ain't gonna tell yew! Akchully it wuz a dead easy pussel to make an' it diddunt take long to do."
this is inside a shed on the harbour at whitehaven lol.....
not sure if its supposed to be art or a warning not to stay out late at night......
really i mean a shed just stuck on the harbour.......
it has bars over the door so it was tricky to get this shot with out them.........
sorry but i made a note of the artist who installed this when i took the shot but lost it lol...
ill credit them when i find out....
Manuel Francisco dos Santos (October 28, 1933 – January 20, 1983), known by the nickname "Garrincha" ("little bird"), was a Brazilian football right winger and forward who helped the Brazil national team win the World Cups of 1958 and 1962, and played the majority of his professional career for Brazilian club Botafogo. FIFA considers him the best Brazilian player ever after Pelé,[4] and in 1999, many eminent football historians in Brazil have also referred to him being at least the equal of Pelé. Widely regarded as the best dribbler in football history, he was also an excellent crosser and free-kick taker.
The word garrincha itself means wren. Garrincha was also known as Mané (short for Manuel) by his friends, a name which in Brazil also means "fool" or "half wit".[6] It was possibly used in that sense at some point – or even as a double entendre due to Garrincha's child-like personality. The combined "Mané Garrincha" is common among fans in Brazil. Due to his immense popularity in Brazil, he was also called Alegria do Povo (Joy of the People) and Anjo de Pernas Tortas (Angel with Bent Legs)
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American pianist, composer and jazz icon.
His career started with Art Blakey, Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s he has enjoyed a great deal of success in both classical music and jazz, as a group leader and a solo performer. His improvisation technique combines not only jazz, but also other forms of music, especially classical, gospel, blues and ethnic folk music. One of Jarrett's trademarks is his frequent, highly audible vocalization (grunting, groaning, and tuneless singing), similar to that of Glenn Gould, Thelonious Monk, Erroll Garner, and Oscar Peterson. Jarrett is also physically active while playing, writhing, gyrating, and almost dancing on the piano bench. Jarrett is notoriously intolerant of audience noise, including coughing and other involuntary sounds, especially during solo improvised performances. He feels that extraneous noise affects his musical inspiration. As a result, cough drops are routinely supplied to Jarrett's audiences in cold weather, and he has even been known to stop playing and lead the crowd in a "group cough."
Nastassja Kinski (born Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski, January 24, 1961) is a German actress, who appeared in more than 60 international movies. Her starring roles include her Golden Globe Award-winning portrayal of 'Tess Durbeyfield' in Roman Polanski's film Tess, her roles in two erotic films (Stay As You Are and Cat People), and her parts in Wim Wenders' films The Wrong Move, Paris, Texas, and Faraway, So Close!. During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Kinski was widely regarded as an international sex symbol.
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, comedian, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have made him one of the most respected living American directors. He is also distinguished by his rapid rate of production and his very large body of work. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, European cinema, and New York City, where he was born and has lived his entire life.
Allen is also a jazz clarinetist. What began as a teenage avocation has led to regular public performances at various small venues in his Manhattan hometown, with occasional appearances at various jazz festivals.
Major Anya Amasova (aka Agent XXX) is a fictional character in the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, portrayed by Barbara Bach. In the film Amasova is an agent of the KGB. Barbara Bach (born August 27, 1947) is an American actress and model, best-known as the Bond girl from the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She is married to musician Ringo Starr, former drummer of The Beatles.
Max Zorin is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the James Bond film A View to a Kill. He was portrayed by Christopher Walken, (born March 31, 1943) is an American film and theatre actor.
Walken is a prolific actor who has spent more than 50 years on stage and screen. He has appeared in over 100 movie and television roles, including The Deer Hunter, The Dead Zone, A View to a Kill, At Close Range, King of New York, Batman Returns, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, The Funeral, and Catch Me If You Can, and in TV's Kojak and The Naked City. Walken gained a cult following in the 1990s[citation needed] as the Archangel Gabriel in the first three The Prophecy movies, as well as his frequent guest-host appearances on Saturday Night Live. In the United States, films featuring Walken have grossed over $1.8 billion. He has also played the main role in the Shakespeare plays Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and Coriolanus. His most famous film roles were Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich in The Deer Hunter and in Pulp Fiction, as Captain Koons, a Vietnam War veteran, which has since become a pop culture icon, despite his appearance being less than ten minutes at length.
John Steinbeck III (February 27, 1902—December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath, published in 1939 and the novella Of Mice and Men, published in 1937. In all, he wrote twenty-five books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and several collections of short stories. In 1962 Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature. Seventeen of his works, including The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Cannery Row (1945), The Pearl (1947), and East of Eden (1952), went on to become Hollywood films (some appeared multiple times, i.e., as remakes), and Steinbeck also achieved success as a Hollywood writer, receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Story in 1944 for Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was a novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, and one of the veterans of World War I later known as "the Lost Generation." He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, and had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoical men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered classics of American literature.The influence of Hemingway's writings on American literature was considerable and continues today. James Joyce called "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" "one of the best stories ever written". (The same story also influenced several of Edward Hopper's best known paintings, most notably "Nighthawks."[41] ) Pulp fiction and "hard boiled" crime fiction (which flourished from the 1920s to the 1950s) often owed a strong debt to Hemingway.
During World War II, J. D. Salinger met and corresponded with Hemingway, whom he acknowledged as an influence.[42] In one letter to Hemingway, Salinger wrote that their talks "had given him his only hopeful minutes of the entire war," and jokingly "named himself national chairman of the Hemingway Fan Clubs."[43]
Hunter S. Thompson often compared himself to Hemingway, and terse Hemingway-esque sentences can be found in his early novel, The Rum Diary. Thompson's later suicide by gunshot to the head mirrored Hemingway's.
Hemingway's terse prose style is known to have inspired Charles Bukowski, Chuck Palahniuk, Douglas Coupland and many Generation X writers. Hemingway's style also influenced Jack Kerouac and other Beat Generation writers. Hemingway also provided a role model to fellow author and hunter Robert Ruark, who is frequently referred to as "the poor man's Ernest Hemingway".
Popular novelist Elmore Leonard, who has authored scores of western- and crime-genre novels, cites Hemingway as his preeminent influence, and this is evident in his tightly written prose. Though Leonard has never claimed to write serious literature, he has said: "I learned by imitating Hemingway.... until I realized that I didn't share his attitude about life. I didn't take myself or anything as seriously as he did."
Salma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican and American actress, director, television and film producer. Hayek has appeared in more than thirty films and performed as an actress outside of Hollywood in Mexico and Spain.
Hayek is the first Mexican national to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. She is one of the most prominent Mexican figures in Hollywood, since the legendary Dolores del Rio. She is also, after Fernanda Montenegro, the second of four Latin American actresses to achieve a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino (May 18, 1895 – February 21, 1934) was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and leader of a rebellion against the U.S. military presence in Nicaragua between 1927 and 1933. He was labeled as a bandit by the U.S. government, and his exploits made him a hero throughout much of Latin America, where he became a symbol of resistance to U.S. domination. Drawing the United States Marines into an undeclared guerrilla war, his guerrilla organization suffered many defeats, but he successfully evaded capture. US troops withdrew from the country after overseeing the inauguration of President Juan Bautista Sacasa. Sandino was assassinated by General Anastasio Somoza García, who went on to seize power in a coup d'état two years later, establishing a family dynasty that would rule Nicaragua for over forty years. Sandino's legacy was claimed by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), which overthrew the Somoza government in 1979.
Roberto Boninsegna (born November 13, 1943 in Mantua) is an Italian former football player. He started his career in Serie B (Italian 2nd division) with Prato in 1963-64 season. He transferred to FC Potenza, who was Serie B team in 1964-65 season. He also played for Varese in 1965-66 and Cagliari between 1966-1969. Boninsegna gained a status as an efficient striker with Internazionale and Italy in the 1970s. In Series A he totaled 171 goals in 281 games, and was top goalscorer in Italy in 1971 and 1972. He transferred to Juventus F.C. in 1976 and played 3 seasons for them. He finished his career at Verona end of 1979-80 season.
Boninsegna scored Italy's only goal (though at the time it was an important equaliser) in the 1970 FIFA World Cup final against Brazil, which Italy ultimately lost 4–1.
Leighton Koizumi was and is the lead singer of Gravedigger V and the Morlocks, two seminal garage punk band of the 80's. After the third album in the 1991, Leighotn Koizumi haddisappeared; someone guessed the aids killed him in 1990 but two years later some rumours from San Diego gave him out clean and ready to start again, then nothing else… Till the beginning of 1998 when they spread the groundless piece of news that he left us forever…but finally in the 1999 Koizumi had reformed the Morlocks.
Alberto Juantorena Danger (born 3 December 1950) is a former Cuban track athlete. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, White Lightning became the first and so far only athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m Olympic titles.
Born in Santiago de Cuba, Juantorena first played basketball, until he was discovered by a Polish track coach, Zygmunt Zabierzowski, who convinced him to start running. Only a year later, Juantorena was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 400 m event at the Munich Olympics (1972).
Juantorena became better known in the next years, winning a gold medal at the World University Games (1973) and a silver at the 1975 Pan American Games, both in the 400 m. He only seriously took up running the 800 m in 1976, so few thought he was a serious candidate for the Olympic gold that year. However, Juantorena made it to the Olympic final, and led the field for most of the race, eventually winning in a world record time of 1:43.50. Three days later, he also won the 400 m final, setting a low-altitude world record of 44.26.
Juantorena, now known at home as El Caballo (the horse), continued his career, although he would never reach the same level as in Montreal. He just missed out on a medal in the 400 m at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, placing fourth. At the 1983 World Championships, his last international appearance in a major event, he broke his foot when he stepped on the inside of the track after qualifying in the first round of the 800m. Juantorena later served as the Vice Minister of Sports for Cuba.
Chris Cornell (born Christopher John Boyle on July 20, 1964) is an American rock musician best known as the lead singer and songwriter for rock bands Soundgarden (1984–1997) and Audioslave (2001–2007). He was the founder and frontman for Temple of the Dog.
Philippe Leroy , of his true name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu , is a Acteur French, born on October 15th 1930 in Paris. It is revealed by the Film the Hole (1960) of Jacques Becker. It is directed quickly towards the Italy, where he becomes a much in demand actor. It obtains a great success by holding the main role of the whodunnit Seven men out of gold (1965) of Mario Vicario, where it interprets the organizer of a daring holdup. It shares then its career between the France and Italy, with a very clear preference for Italy, where it resides.
Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character and the antagonist from the James Bond film and novel From Russia with Love. She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version. Her name punningly derives from the popular Soviet phrase for women's rights, khleb i rozy, which in turn was a direct Russian translation of the internationally used Labor slogan bread and roses. Lenya was born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer (October 18, 1898 – November 27, 1981) to working class Roman Catholic parents in Vienna, Austria. She moved to study in Zürich, Switzerland in 1914, taking up her first job at the Schauspielhaus using the stage name Lotte Lenja.
Vladimir Pyotrovich Tkachenko (September 20, 1957 in Golovinka, USSR) is a retired Ukrainian basketball player. The 7'3" (2.21m), 243 lbs, (110 kg) center won two Olympic medals and three FIBA World Championship medals in a career that lasted 16 years. He was named Mr Europa player of the year in 1979.
A great defensive player, Tkachenko could block out 2-3 opponents to give teammates a chance to grab a rebound. His offensive ability was however important too: His post up moves were basic but effective and his shooting was good for a player his size, with a range of approximately 17 feet.
Tkachenko began playing for Stroitel Kiev in 1973-74, when he was 16 years old. He continued to play for them through the 1980-81 season. In 1983 he began playing for CSKA Moscow and he stayed there until his retirement after the 1988-89 season.
From 1976 to 1987 Tkachenko played on the Soviet national team, participating in many European and World competitions. Highlights would include the two bronze medals at the Olympics (1976 and 1980), the gold medal at the 1982 FIBA World Championship (also silver medals in 1978 and 1986) and three gold medals in the European Championship in 1979, 1981 and 1985 (and silvers in 1977 and 1987).
Emilio Largo is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond novel Thunderball. In the novel he is depicted according to the British stereotypes about Italians as a large, olive-skinned, powerful man exuding animal charm, with a profile of a Roman emperor and hairy hands which are likened to crawling tarantulas. He also appears in the 1965 film adaptation, with Italian actor Adolfo Celi filling the role. Born in Messina in the 1922, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 movies, specializing in international villains. He also appeared as a protagonist in some Italian comedies like Amici Miei and Brancaleone alle Crociate. Another well-known role of his was as camp commandant Battaglia opposite Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard's Allied POWs in the 1965 World War II escape drama Von Ryan's Express.
Celi was fluent in several languages, but his thick Sicilian accent meant that he was usually dubbed when appearing in an English language film.
During his early career, Celi was also successful as a stage actor in Argentina and Brazil, where he owned an actors' company along with the Brazilian stage greats Paulo Autran and Tonia Carrero. He directed three films in South America in the 1950s, including the Brazilian hit Tico-Tico no Fubá in 1952.
Fabrizio De André (Genova, February 18, 1940 - Milano, January 11, 1999) was an Italian singer-songwriter and poet. In his works he often told stories of prostitutes, marginalized and rebellious people. In Italy he is considered as a poet because of the quality of his lyrics.
Alessandro (Sandro) Pertini (September 25, 1896 - February 24, 1990) was an Italian socialist, probably the most popular President of the Italian Republic.Born in Stella (Province of Savona) as the son of a well to do landowner, Alberto, he studied at a Salesian college in Varazze, and completed his schooling at the "Chiabrera" lyceum (high school) in Savona. His philosophy teacher was Adelchi Baratono, a reformist socialist who contributed to his approach to Socialism and probably introduced him to the inner circles of the Ligurian labour movements. Pertini obtained a Law degree from the University of Genoa. Sandro Pertini was against Italy's participation in World War I, but served as a lieutenant and was awarded several medals as for bravery. In 1918 he joined the United Socialist Party, PSU, then he settled in Florence where he also graduated in political science with a thesis entitled La Cooperazione ("Cooperation"; 1924). While in the city, Pertini also came into contact with people such as Gaetano Salvemini, the brothers Carlo and Nello Rosselli, and Ernesto Rossi. Pertini was physically beaten by Fascist squads on several occasions, but never lost faith in his ideals. In 1935 he was interned on Santo Stefano Island, Ventotene (LT), Pontine Islands, an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, where he remained through Italy's entry into World War II and until 1943. There he saved the famous diaries of Antonio Gramsci. Although he had begun suffering from severe illness, Pertini never demanded pardon. He was released a month after Benito Mussolini's arrest, and joined the Italian resistance movement against the Nazi German occupiers and Mussolini's new regime - the Italian Social Republic. Arrested by the Germans, he was sentenced to death but freed by a partisan raid. After April 25, 1945 (the end of the war in Italy) he was elected to the first Parliament of the Italian Republic (the parliament which created the modern Italian Constitution, and thus was called La Costituente). In the postwar era he was a prominent member of the directive board of the Italian Socialist Party. He was appointed president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1968, and in 1978 President of the Italian Republic, the highest office in the Republic. As President he succeeded in regaining the public's trust in the State and institutions. During the Brigate Rosse terrorism period of the Anni di piombo, Pertini was a defender of the institutions he represented. His death in Rome was viewed by many as a national tragedy, and he is arguably one of modern Italy's most accomplished politicians.
A travelling troupe sets up a show for its patron and a groups of guests...but could something unfortunate happen?
Sam Spade investigating....and if you want to know who murdered Anthony Greenbanks.....you'll have to come to Avilion and find the Chronicle of January 30th in the library :-)
Still having fun with the film noir look... I think I might be compiling a list of 'Whodunnit' suspects. Stay tuned... :)
Playing with lights today. Reminds me of an old gangster mob movie with the face shadowed so that you can't see who dunnit