The Most Under-appreciated Film In History Has to Be The Prince Of Egypt. I Mean, I Don’t Care If

The Scarlet Flower illustrated by Nadezhda Komarova

Some Hollywood hotties – past and present – reading books.

1) Marlon Brando.

2) Benedict Cumberbatch reading Love’s Labour’s Lost.

3) Tony Perkins reading Look Homeward Angel.

4) Charlie Hunnam reading… anything.

5) Joseph Gordan-Levitt reading Kenneth Anger’s Hollywood Babylon.

6) Paul Newman reading The Garrick Year, by Margaret Drabble.

7) Gregory Peck, not surprisingly, posed with To Kill a Mockingbird.

8) Farley Granger reading The Edge of Doom, by Leo Grady. (Farley starred in the 1950 film.)

9) River Phoenix reading War and Peace.

10) James Dean reading poetry by James Whitcomb Riley.

What are your favourite pieces of classical music?

 I don’t have the slightest musical education so my apologies for the possible abuse of the term “classical” but lately I’ve grown a special affection for the following pieces:

Bach-Capriccio on the departure of a beloved brother- (the way it starts as a grave farewell and then becomes light reminds me of Catullus 65) Cello Suite No.1 and Concertos for Oboe

Corelli- La Follia (or Vivaldi’s version, if I’m feeling extra extra)

Monteverdi- Zefiro Torna, Lamento della Ninfa and many of his madrigals

Jean Baptiste Lully- Armide

Franz Schubert- Serenade, Fantasy in F Minor

Frédéric Chopin- Nocturne, Funeral March, La Polonaise (reminds me of dziady!)

 Felix Mendelssohn- Midsummer Night’s Dream

 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky- Rococo Variation, Pas de deux from the Nutcracker

I’m in love with the Impressionists: Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin was the first work to make me interested in classical music, and I also love Jeux d’eau, Daphnis et Chloe, Introduction and Allegro, String Quartet- Assez Vif

Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

Erik Satie:  Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes (for cloudy Sunday mornings)

Illustrations by John R. Neill for DOROTHY AND THE WIZARD IN OZ (1908).

“I can fix her” but this is her:

female character deaths in shakespeare

If You Are Interested in GLOW

I highly, highly recommend checking out the documentary GLOW: The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. I stumbled across it a few years ago and really enjoyed it.

It’s currently on Netflix, so if you’ve finished binging the new series inspired by the ladies of 80s wrestling, give the documentary a look and hear from the real women who hopped into the ring… including some of the in-ring personas that were clearly the source material for the characters that made it onscreen like Mountain Fiji (“Machu Picchu”), Colonel Ninotchka (“Zoya the Destroya”),  Americana (“Liberty Belle”), The Housewives (“The Beatdown Biddies”) and more.

Four sides of witchcraft. Countdown to Halloween.

Famous artwork appears in the palace in “Barbie as Rapunzel”

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