The final piece by maggi myers5/11/2023 She set off to pursue Hollywood opportunities, quickly landing the role of Laura Cameron on the short-lived ABC series, Pan Am (2011). From 2008-2010, Robbie played the character of Donna Freedman in the long-running Australian soap opera, Neighbours (1985), for which she was nominated for two Logie Awards. In her late teens, she moved to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to pursue an acting career. She graduated from Somerset College in Mudgeeraba, Queensland, Australia, a suburb in the Gold Coast hinterland of South East Queensland, where she and her siblings were raised by their mother and spent much of her time at the farm belonging to her grandparents. She comes from a family of four children, having two brothers and one sister. Her mother, Sarie Kessler, is a physiotherapist, and her father, is Doug Robbie. Margot Elise Robbie was born on Jin Dalby, Queensland, Australia to Scottish parents.
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Alison bechdel fun home musical5/11/2023 Kron has been a ground-breaking artist from her early days as one of the Five Lesbian Brothers through her autobiographical plays, 2.5 Minute Ride and Well. WomenArts is especially proud of Lisa Kron, who participated in the League of Professional Theatre Women’s SWAN Day 2009 panel discussion at Lincoln Center Library with WomenArts Executive Director Martha Richards. The show also won for Best Book of a Musical (Lisa Kron), Best Direction of a Musical (Sam Gold), and Best Lead Actor in a Musical (Michael Cerveris). Lisa Kron (book and lyrics) and Jeanine Tesori (music) made history by becoming the first female team to win a Tony Award for Best Original Score of a Broadway musical for their work on Fun Home. The play’s success last night is a triumph both for women artists and for gay rights. Based on Alison Bechdel’s best-selling graphic novel of the same name, the musical version Fun Home is the first full-scale Broadway production of a lesbian coming-of-age story. Jeanine Tesori (music) and Lisa Kron (book & lyrics) won Tony Awards for “Fun Home” (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)Ĭongratulations to everyone involved with the Broadway musical, Fun Home, which won five Tony Awards last night including the award for Best Musical. Teatro grottesco5/11/2023 His other books include Grimscribe, My Work Is Not Yet Done, The Nightmare Factory, Nocturary, and The Shadow at the Bottom of the World. HellnotesĪbout the Author Thomas Ligotti has won the Bram Stoker award and World Fantasy Award four times respectively for his unique horror fiction. These are selected examples of the forbidding array of persons and places that compose the mesmerizing fiction of Thomas Ligotti.Ī generous serving of Edgar Allan Poe, a dash of Franz Kafka, a smidgen of Robert Aickman: These comprise the components in the cauldron of creativity of Thomas Ligotti. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this collection, for instance, introduces readers to a freakish community of artists who encounter demonic perils that ultimately engulf their lives. Other articles where Teatro Grottesco is discussed: Western theatre: Italy: Another movement was the Teatro Grottesco, which explored the contradictions. Book Synopsis This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The toll neal shusterman5/11/2023 Some previously central characters, particularly Rowan, take on smaller roles, while others, including Greyson and a hypercompetent, genderfluid sea captain named Jerico Soberanis, are given space to charm. Meanwhile, Greyson Tolliver, the only human to whom the nearly omnipotent AI known as the Thunderhead will talk, has become the Toll, spiritual leader to the oppressed Tonist religion, as the Thunderhead secretly works to build something game-changing on the remote Marshall Atolls. Citra must convince the world of Goddard's villainy, while Rowan, universally despised as the destroyer of Endura, must simply survive. When Citra and Rowan are discovered preserved in the wreckage of Endura, three years after the events of Thunderhead, they awaken to find that megalomaniacal Scythe Goddard is now Overblade of all North Merica and is consolidating power worldwide. The idiot dostojevski5/11/2023 The DVD I am watching, from the Russian company CP Digital, has reasonably good-quality images, but terrible subtitles. Eye contact, pauses, changes-or lack thereof-in tone of voice, all make such a big difference. Perhaps the translation I read was not too great, but I think the biggest difference is the wonderful acting and directing in this mini-series. I've read the book (in English) a couple of times, but this movie brings the characters to life for me in a way the book never did. The acting is incredible, the cinematography imaginative, the pacing very good, and the dialog, since it is pure Dostoyevsky, is, of course, stellar. Well, I've seen the first three episodes and can't wait to watch the rest. I had heard it was well done, so I thought I ought to force myself to watch at least some of it. Breathe by Sophia Soames5/11/2023 Well, all except Bridget, who stormed out and barged past me without saying hello. The gym was busy as always, a few people huddled over by the water dispenser, and there was muffled giggling coming through from the weights room, where I could see all the girls in our class bent over staring at the phone in Danielle’s hand. She had us in her corner now, and we would bloody protect her to the end of the earth. In any circumstance, it would never happen. I was sweating just imagining the horror my little sister would go through. Family could be an unwelcome obligation, but if there was one thing I would fight for to the death, it was that Olive would never be sent to some goddamn boarding school and would never, fucking ever be looked after by our parents again. All except for my maternal grandfather had long departed, and I wasn’t even sure he still lived in the country. Not that I had any contact with any of my grandparents. I liked the idea of giving something back. My headphones blasted music as I walked down the college corridors towards the on-site gym, where our first session today would cover gentle workouts for the older generation, a topic I found intriguing. In Praise of Slowness by Carl Honoré5/10/2023 His mission to help the others – and himself – live slowly started here. When we came back, Carl brought a definite conclusion – are we who define our pace and maybe we’re not there yet. Then I realized it was insane, that I was running through my life instead of living it”.Īt that time, the restlessness caused by an addiction to an increased pace – his and everyone’s – took him on an investigation field trip around the world. I remember having heard about a book called “One-Minute Bedtime Stories” and thinking it was a great idea. “I used to read “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in a hurry: instead of being seven dwarfs, there were only three. And it was only when he started to read bedtime stories to his kid in a rush – without really being there – that the true need for slowing down popped up. This hurried daily routine made him question his life’s pace. Besides traveling the world when working, every time he comes back home, he returns to a city that doesn’t stop. We can say that his life has – or had – everything but calmness. In Praise of Slow is one of his biggest works, a book that introduces us to his area of expertise – the Slow Movement. He is a journalist, an author and has already written several bestsellers which gave him his worldwide recognition. Carl Honoré is Canadian, but was born in green Scotland and lives in the frenetic pace of London. Winchester writes with verve and conviction when relating the class and cultural wars that enveloped Smith soon after the publication of his map. But intellectual discovery is only half this story. With descriptive contemporary visitations to places significant to the story and well-chosen historical detail, he makes immediate not only the magnitude and elegance of Smith's accomplishment, but also the thrill of each of the moments of genius necessary to reach his ultimate conclusion. Winchester's strength is his ability to meld into compelling narrative a host of literary conventions, such as foreshadowing and fictionalized, internal dialogue. Winchester, whose previous effort was the bestseller The Professor and the Madman, tells the remarkable story of William Smith, whose geologically correct map of England and Wales, dated 1815, became the bedrock for the modern science of geology. Whale talk by chris crutcher5/10/2023 often finds Barbour harassing Chris Coughlin, an intellectually disabled student who must unfairly live in the wake of a widely admired older brother who died in a freak accident. His non-involvement irritates much of the faculty, who pride themselves on the physical achievements of their students, displaying favoritism toward their star athletes, such as Mike Barbour, a vicious bully. is a physically impressive senior who has refused to join any sports teams as a form of anger management, due to his anger issues since early childhood. J.'s adoptive mother, Abby, is a child-abuse lawyer, and his adoptive father, John Paul, is a community volunteer and guardian ad litem, who is still haunted by his youth, when he accidentally killed a child after a one-night stand with the child's mother.Īt Cutter High School, T. J.-lives with his loving, adoptive white family in the nearly all-white town of Cutter, Washington. The biological son of a white mother and a half-black, half-Japanese father, The Tao Jones-known as T. jumbles together a shabby swim team of student underdogs in order to aggravate and shame his high school's elitist athletics program. It is narrated in the first person by the quick-witted, sarcastic, and athletic "T.J." Jones, an adopted Asian-African-European-American teenager living in Cutter, Washington, a fictional location in the Pacific Northwest's Inland Empire, set about 50 miles outside of Spokane. Whale Talk is a 2001 novel by young adult writer Chris Crutcher. Jordan b peterson 12 rules for life5/10/2023 Much of the ancient wisdom seems to come from religious scripture, while the scientific research serves as a way to backup the beliefs the author already holds near and dear to his heart. It’s also worth noting that this is an aggressive, in-your-face kind of Self-Help book - one which he packages and presents as the intersection of ancient wisdom and scientific research. He believes that suffering is an inevitable aspect of life, that we can usher in heaven or hell on earth, and that people have it within themselves to create order out of chaos. He believes strongly in truth telling, human hierarchy, and gender roles. Originally conceived of with 40 rules, Peterson has condensed them into a well thought out, manageable list of 12 total rules that he shares in this book. Peterson has developed what he believes to be a definitive set of rules for leading a successful and fulfilling life. Over the years, (former) Harvard and (current) University of Toronto professor and clinical psychologist Dr. |