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The Teleprompter Interview: Katy Wix ‘My First Screen Crush was King Kong’

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“Anchors, rigging, shackles,” lists Katy Wix down the phone, “poop deck, wheelhouse, three sheets to the wind…” The comedian and writer has had a productive year. Filming wrapped on Ghosts series two just as UK lockdown began. Since then, she’s finished one book – Delicacy: A Memoir – due out next April, is pitching another, writing a TV show, and thanks to a new-found obsession with Netflix yacht-based reality show Below Deck, has also managed to acquire an enviable grasp of nautical terminology.��

Wix is an established UK comic actor, with credits across the board, starting with cult hit Time Trumpet and going mainstream as witless, lovable Daisy in BBC mega-sitcom Not Going Out. She’s currently part of Channel 4’s Stath Lets Flats, the hottest comedy around, fresh from multiple Bafta wins. She plays Fergie in royal satire The Windsors, and was among the comedian-contestants in series nine of Taskmaster. In BBC One sitcom Ghosts, Wix plays Mary, a 17th century yokel burned as a witch and now part of the motley group haunting a modern-day stately home. Mary’s distinctive west country accent “just came out”, says Wix. “It’s an insult really, because I can’t claim to do that accent well. It’s sort of a stock noise. The more I do it, the more I think it sounds like Nanny from Count Duckula. Ducky!”

Ghosts series two, which lands as a boxset on BBC iPlayer on Monday September 21st , will give fans more about Mary’s background, says Wix. “I think people will really love it, and then there’ll be another series next year, depending on the big C. Not cancer. The other big C.”

From superyachts to Alan Partridge, The Day Today to Ghostwatch, Anna from This Life to formative sexual fantasies about prehistoric apes… here’s the Katy Wix Teleprompter interview.

Your parents were quite arty, working in dance companies and the theatre. Did your childhood allow for much TV watching?

Oh my god, yes! My routine was: come home from school, watch the tail-end of Fifteen to One, and when I was really young, repeats of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Then it would be The Broom Cupboard, something like Round the Twist, then the sound of the Six O’Clock News and turning over to The Simpsons. I still do it now, if I’m at home and it’s five to six, I’m going to watch The Simpsons, it’s a tradition.

Welsh telly was slightly different to the rest of the country. We have S4C rather than Channel 4. I remember going through the TV listings and seeing what was on normal Channel 4, like The Word, then I’d look at Welsh Channel 4 and it would just be something boring in Welsh at the same time.

Was there a TV show that inspired you to start acting and comedy?

The one I remember the most is Abigail’s Party. Seeing Alison Steadman’s performance made me want to do character acting. It was just a phenomenal, convincing, detailed performance. Years later, I wrote a radio sitcom that she was in. It was one of those absurd moments where you just have to leave your body and look down on yourself to be able to handle it.

That must happen a lot, you’ve been part of a lot of great comedy casts…

What got me into comedy was Brass Eye and The Day Today. When I was about 15, that’s what changed my brain. It was the first time I’d seen adults being silly and coming up with absurd situations that were my sense of humour. Before that, comedy on TV would always feel like just something your parents would watch but this really felt like it was for us, for me and my friends. It was the same with The Office.

And then you were in This Time with Alan Partridge with Steve Coogan last year.

I was in sixth form when Knowing Me, Knowing You came out and I had it on VHS. Watching people like Rebecca Front and Doon Mackichan… anytime Alan had a guest on the sofa, the level of detail and all the reactions and the tiny little social awkward moments, that made me think I want to do that type of performing. So then, when I got to be in the last Partridge, it was mad. It was phenomenal to be that near to the character and all his tiny micro-expressions. Even the colour of his socks – this weird salmon pink – that was so perfect. Tim [Key] was there as well and we’re old pals, so that made it feel more like, well if Tim can deal with it. But I think even Tim now says he still has times where he has to go into the loo and give himself a moment.

Who or what was your first TV love?

This will sound like a joke, but I swear to God it’s true. It was a running joke in our family that my first crush when I was about four, was King Kong [laughs]. My mum used to tease me about it all the time. It was the combination of brute strength and these massive, soulful, pained eyes – which I still look for in men – that absolutely got me. It was an erotic connection for me. When I look back on it in a Freudian way, it feels like a really obvious, very heterosexual image for a little girl to have, because I wanted to be that woman in the nightie in his massive hairy hand.

Unusual, yes, but then a lot of people our age cite the fox in the Robin Hood Disney film as their first screen crush.

I do get that. I do get that. What was it about that fox?

He’s rakish. And politically, he was sound too – rob from the rich, give to the poor.

You’re right. And he was really confident too.

Growing up, which TV character did you idolise?

There are two, a younger one and a slightly later one. When I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a fashion designer. I would draw outfits all the time in my school books and I had the Usborne Book of Fashion Design and spend hours on it. So I wanted to be Hilary Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel Air because she just had incredible fashion. She always got boys and she was really cool and confident and wore amazing clothes. She was everything I wanted to be.

Then a little bit later, maybe sixth form or in my early 20s. I wanted to be Anna from This Life, so much and I kind of still do. Because she was tall and really cool and had dark hair and a lot of attitude and wore black a lot and smoked a lot and didn’t give a shit. That was my vibe at university.

Is there a TV character you’d like to be now?

Probably still Anna?

Which TV show gave you nightmares?

The massive one for me, when I was about 11 or 12: Ghostwatch. I went to a friend’s house to watch it and I remember being a bit like ‘yeah right’ watching it, and then when I got home that night, I just cried. I was in the bath, hysterical and my mum had to come in and calm me down. It was horrendous.

Everyone totally swallowed it at the time, because we were less TV-savvy in 1992. I remember they had a phone-in and someone called in to say ‘There’s a shape in the curtains’, which really fucked me up. The whole Pipes thing. I remember being in my bedroom and seeing a shape of an old man in the curtain all the time. I’ve got really vague memories of Craig Charles being in a park, saying that someone had killed a Labrador. I was thinking about watching it again. I actually don’t know if I dare.

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When did you last cry watching television?

Last night. Have you ever seen the show Below Deck? I’m obsessed with it. I’m not massively into reality TV but it’s an American reality show all filmed on superyachts that rich people charter. It’s almost like a perfect sitcom family – you have a different captain every time and the deckhands and then the interior, who do the hotel stuff, and then you have the chef, who’s always a temperamental big personality and then each episode has a different group of insanely rich, usually quite horrible, sexist people with loads of money who get really drunk, that’s the premise. It’s non-stop drama. You’re just watching people fall off boats and have arguments.

How did it make you cry?

In this episode, there was a girl who’d been really quiet and grumpy and everyone was slagging her off, and then she revealed that she’d got a text that morning saying her estranged father had died, so that’s what set me off. It’s got me through lockdown, it’s so addictive.

When did you last laugh out loud watching television?

Below Deck, same episode!

All human life is there!

I think it was someone’s malapropism, that’s my favourite thing about reality TV, the way people talk in a kind of Stath-like way and get it wrong.

What was the last TV show you recommended to a friend?

Below Deck! [Laughs] I’ve just got Lolly [Adefope] onto it, and Adam Drake – he’s a comedian in a sketch show called Goose and does Capital, a podcast with Liam Williams – he’s now devoted. One of my best mates was bemoaning that her boyfriend’s not into reality TV, but boys can watch Below Deck too. It’s got loads of boat stuff in it. Chains and anchors. I’m learning all these terms, like shackles, poop deck, wheelhouse, three sheets to the wind… That’s where the expression ‘in my wheelhouse’ comes from. Three sheets to the wind means you’re sailing off course.

Which TV show would you bring back from the dead?

Changing Rooms.

Good call.

I also loved The Late Review. I really loved that.

What’s a TV show you wish more people would watch?

Do you know Iyanla Vanzant? She started off on The Oprah Winfrey Show – I love Oprah so much – and she’s a TV therapist/healer/spiritual. She’s got a show you can only get on American TV called Iyanla: Fix My Life. She just speaks so much wisdom. She spends a week with people who are really traumatised and it’s their healing journey. It’s so moving, it’s so profound. She’s doing incredible work for the human race.

She did an amazing show called, I think, ‘The Myth of the Angry Black Woman’ with a house full of women of colour who all got to talk about this trope that they were angry and how they felt unable to speak without being silenced. She did a show that was rehabilitating people that had come out of prison and women that had been sex workers all their loves, just amazing.

Which current TV show do you never miss an episode of?

In lockdown, what kept me going was I May Destroy you, obviously, Below Deck, obviously. I also became obsessed with the Japanese Big Brother Terrace House, but it just got pulled because there was a suicide. It was so, so awful. I read an article saying the producers didn’t behave well, so I feel like I can’t like it any more. I love Succession too. I started watching this show on Netflix called Intervention and got totally obsessed with it. Again, it’s maybe ethically a bit dubious. It’s American, obviously, and they’ll film an addict who’s in a really desperate state and then the family kind of trick them, or persuade them to go into a room and then the intervention therapist is there and they’re like ‘Guess what, you’re going to rehab now!’ Anything that’s got human suffering, and then a redemption story in it, I’ll watch.

Given the power, which TV show would you commission?

I think about this a lot – what if I had a channel? I’d commission the sketch group Sheeps to make tons of series. That’s Liam Williams, Al Roberts and Daran Johnson, and so far they’ve only done live shows, but I would commission them for hours of TV. Colin Hoult doing his character Anna Mann, I’d commission hours of that. Everyone involved in Stath Lets Flats, I’d just say ‘Turn up, pitch and we’ll make it’. There’s a documentary from the 70s that I adore, that I would like to show again, which is John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. It’s one of the most beautiful, gentle documentaries. I feel like that should be on TV. And just whatever Gemma Collins is doing, commission that.

Also, you know in the 90s, late at night you’d get some weird, bizarre performance art happening on BBC Two? I miss that. The sort of stuff that was on after The Word. And then finally, maybe just all of Peep Show again?

What’s the most fun you’ve had making television?

Ghosts is where I probably laugh the most because of Lolly [Adefope]. We make each other laugh all the time. When me and Anna [Crilly] did our sketch show on Channel 4, it was incredible. It was stressful but exciting. It was such a nice atmosphere to be with all these gorgeous people that you find funny.

Stath Lets Flats is like that, because we’re all genuine mates. When people take comedy so seriously I really love it. I love that attention to detail. Jamie [Demetriou] and everyone involved really cares. There’s no ‘that’ll do’ attitude, everyone wants it to be the best it can be. Why not treat comedy as a science that you have to absolutely get right?

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Ghosts series two starts on Monday the 21st of September on BBC One at 8.30pm. All six episodes will be available to stream on BBC iPlayer from then.

Delicacy: A Memoir by Katy Wix, published by Headline, is available to pre-order now.

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aash6508 · 2 years ago

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Daniel Craig gets knighthood from Princess Anne

Just like his character James Bond, actor Daniel Craig also received a knighthood from Princess Anne on October 18.

The actor, 54 was awarded a Companion of The Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) from Princess Anne at an investiture ceremony held at Windsor Castle for his service to film and theatre.

The announcement had a nice touch to it as it was made via The Royal Family’s official Twitter handle with the statement “We’ve been expecting you…” which was a tribute to his James Bond character.

Craig received the award for his services to film and theatre as part of Queen Elizabeth’s annual New Year’s honors list. Craig first played James Bond in 2006’s Casino Royale and his last Bond appearance was in No Time To Die in September 2021. He has played James Bond five times.

He started acting in 1992 and has appeared in films such as Lara Croft:Tomb Raider, Dream House, Enduring Love. Knives Out, Layer Cake and others.

The investiture ceremony was the first since Queen Elizabeth’s death on Sept 8. The tradition dates back centuries to when members of the royal family would present medals to those who have been awarded honors.

The CMG order was first established in 1818 by King George IV when he was still Prince Regent. It is the sixth-most senior award in the British honors system.

It is presented to men and women who occupy high positions or provide extraordinary or significant non-military service to the United Kingdom in a foreign country.

Last week, the Prince of Wales, Prince William hosted his first investiture ceremony where he presented Vanessa Redgrave with a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, which is the female equivalent of a knighthood.

The Prince also made Emma Probert who is Kate Middleton’s special protection officer a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.

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brookstonalmanac · 4 years ago

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Events 2.15

399 – After found guilty of corrupting the minds of the youth is the Greek philosopher Socrates sentenced to death: the drinking of a mixture containing poison hemlock 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberios III publicly executed in the Hippodrome of Constantinople. 1002 – At an assembly at Pavia of Lombard nobles, Arduin of Ivrea is restored to his domains and crowned King of Italy. 1113 – Pope Paschal II issues Pie Postulatio Voluntatis, recognizing the Order of Hospitallers. 1214 – During the Anglo-French War (1213–1214), an English invasion force led by John, King of England, lands at La Rochelle in France. 1493 – While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World. 1637 – Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor. 1690 – Constantin Cantemir, Prince of Moldavia, and the Holy Roman Empire sign a secret treaty in Sibiu, stipulating that Moldavia would support the actions led by the House of Habsburg against the Ottoman Empire. 1764 – The city of St. Louis is established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA). 1798 – The Roman Republic is proclaimed after Louis-Alexandre Berthier, a general of Napoleon, had invaded the city of Rome five days earlier. 1835 – Serbia's Sretenje Constitution briefly comes into effect. 1862 – American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Floyd surrenders the following day. 1870 – Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering. 1879 – Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. 1891 – Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded. 1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain. 1901 – The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza. 1909 – The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250. 1921 – Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki. 1923 – Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar. 1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska. 1933 – In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933. 1942 – World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history. 1944 – World War II: The assault on Monte Cassino, Italy begins. 1944 – World War II: The Narva Offensive begins. 1945 – World War II: Third day of bombing in Dresden. 1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. 1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls. 1952 – King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. 1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska. 1961 – Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team along with several of their coaches and family members. 1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner. 1971 – The decimalisation of British coinage is completed on Decimal Day. 1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. 1972 – José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time. 1982 – The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 workers. 1989 – Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan. 1991 – The Visegrád Agreement, establishing cooperation to move toward free-market systems, is signed by the leaders of Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. 1992 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison. 1992 – Air Transport International Flight 805 crashes near Toledo Express Airport in Ohio, killing all four people on board. 1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people. 1996 – Embassy of the United States, Athens is attacked by an antitank rocket, by Revolutionary Organization 17 November, whose first victim was Richard Welch in 1975, leading to the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. 2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature. 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history. 2010 – Two trains collide in the Halle train collision in Halle, Belgium, killing 19 and injuring 171 people. 2012 – Three hundred and sixty people die in a fire at a Honduran prison in the city of Comayagua. 2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.

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steenpaal · 5 years ago

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Somerset de Chair - Wikipedia

Somerset de Chair

Member of Parliament for South West NorfolkIn office 1935–1945Member of Parliament for Paddington SouthIn office 1950–1951 Personal detailsBorn

Somerset Struben de Chair

(1911-08-22)22 August 1911 Windsor, England, United KingdomDied5 January 1995 (aged 83) Antigua, Leeward Islands, Lesser Antilles, West IndiesNationalityBritishPolitical partyConservativeSpouse(s)(1st) Thelma Grace Arbuthnot, (2nd) Carmen Appleton, (3rd) Margaret Patricia Manlove (née Field-Hart), (4th) Lady Juliet Wentworth-FitzwilliamRelationsAdmiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair KCB KCMG MVO (father)Children4 sons, 2 daughtersAlma materBalliol College, OxfordProfessionAuthor/PoliticianMilitary serviceAllegiance

United KingdomBranch/service

British ArmyRankCaptainUnitRoyal Horse GuardsBattles/warsAnglo-Iraqi War (1941), Battle of Palmyra, Syria (1941)

Somerset Struben de Chair (22 August 1911 – 5 January 1995) was an English author, politician and poet. He edited several volumes of the memoirs of Napoleon.

Early and personal life

De Chair was the younger son of Admiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair, KCB, KCMG, MVO. He first was married on 8 October 1932 to Thelma Grace Arbuthnot (1911–1974), with whom he had two sons: Rodney Somerset and Peter Dudley.

His second wife, Carmen Appleton, gave birth to sons Rory and Somerset Carlo. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1958, allowing Somerset to marry his third wife, Margaret Patricia Manlove (née Field-Hart); they had a daughter, Teresa Loraine Aphrodite (who married Sir Toby Clarke, 6th Baronet).

The third marriage ended in divorce in 1974, and in the same year and at the age of sixty-three, he married his fourth wife, then 39 years old, Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, only child of Peter Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 8th Earl FitzWilliam, who had divorced Victor Hervey, 6th Marquess of Bristol in 1972. Somerset and Lady Juliet had a daughter, Helena, who married Jacob Rees-Mogg.

The hurdler Lawrence Somerset Clarke is his grandson.

Somerset de Chair was educated at The King's School, Parramatta in New South Wales between 1923 and 1930 before attending Balliol College, Oxford.

He was Conservative MP for South West Norfolk between 1935 and 1945, losing his seat by 53 votes. He was one of the Conservatives who voted against the government in the crucial Norway Debate in May 1940 that brought Winston Churchill into office. He then served as a Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1942–44. De Chair returned to Parliament as MP for Paddington South from 1950 to 1951.

Since he had been a cadet in the Officers' Training Corps at Oxford, De Chair qualified for a commission as a Reserve Second Lieutenant of the Life Guards in 1938. He was mobilised on 24 August 1939, a few days before the United Kingdom's entry into World War II. He served as an intelligence officer with the 4th Cavalry Brigade during the Anglo-Iraqi War and the Syrian Campaign where he was wounded on 21 June 1941. Later service was with the General Staff with the rank of Acting Captain.[1]

Writings

De Chair wrote historical non-fiction, a number of now largely neglected novels, one play, three collections of poetry, and several works of autobiography. He also edited several volumes of the memoirs of Napoleon in English.[2]

Houses and art

De Chair was known for his extravagant taste and lived in a series of large country houses. He lived between 1944 and 1949 at Chilham Castle and leased Blickling Hall from the Marquess of Lothian.[3][4] He owned St Osyth's Priory in Essex from 1954 until his death in 1995, and also bought Bourne Park in Kent with his last wife, Lady Juliet Wentworth-Fitzwilliam.

Bibliography

Fiction

Enter Napoleon (1934)

Red Tie in the Morning (1936)

The Teetotalitarian State (1947)

The Dome of the Rock (1948)

The Story of a Lifetime (1954)

Bring Back the Gods (1962)

Friends, Romans, Concubines (1973)

The Star of the Wind (1974)

Legend of the Yellow River (1979)

Non-fiction

The Impending Storm (1930)

Divided Europe (1931)

The Golden Carpet (1943)

The Silver Crescent (1943)

Mind on the March (1945)

Edited and translated

The First Crusade (1945)

Napoleon's Memoirs (1945)

Napoleon's Supper at Beaucaire (1945)

Julius Caesar's Commentaries (1951)

Napoleon on Napoleon (1991)

Edited

The Sea is Strong (1961)

Getty on Getty (1989)

Autobiographies

Buried Pleasure (1985)

Morning Glory (1988)

Die? I Thought I'd Laugh (1993)

Drama

Poetry collections

The Millennium (1949)

Collected Verse (1970)

Sounds of Summer (1992)

References

External links

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charlesccastill · 7 years ago

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Waterton Acquires 404-Unit Apartment Community in Arlington, Va.

CHICAGO—Waterton, a U.S. real estate investor and operator, announced the acquisition of a 404-unit rental community in Arlington, Va., approximately 3 miles southwest of the Pentagon.

Built in 1992 and formerly known as Windsor at Shirlington Village, the property at 3000 S. Randolph St. is being rebranded as The Citizen at Shirlington Village following Waterton’s acquisition.

Offering a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom floor plans – 132 units in an eight-story tower and 272 in a low-rise component – the community is located within The Village at Shirlington, a small transit-oriented neighborhood with a host of shopping, dining and entertainment options.

“The Citizen offers the walkable, urban-inspired lifestyle many renters seek in an accessible location close to the Pentagon and jobs throughout the D.C. metro,” said Matthew Masinter, senior vice president of acquisitions at Waterton. “Because the property was developed 25 years ago, it also presented us with an opportunity to add value through strategic improvements that will enhance the marketability of the community.”

On-site amenities at The Citizen include an outdoor pool, grilling stations and five courtyard areas, as well as a resident clubhouse, reservable community room, 7,000-square-foot fitness center and racquetball court.

As part of a capital improvement program, Waterton plans to upgrade the unit interiors, including installing a smart-home system in a portion of the community’s units. In addition, Waterton plans to renovate the fitness center and community room and enhance the outdoor amenity space. Waterton will also introduce an electronic package concierge system that will notify residents when deliveries arrive and facilitate 24-hour pickup in a secure, video‐monitored location.

“When Waterton renovates a property, we strongly consider convenience and strive to go above and beyond cosmetic improvements,” said Masinter. “Today’s renters want homes that are seamlessly integrated with their lives. Technology is one way to achieve that, starting with the moment they open their front door.”

In addition to offering proximity to Interstate 395 and other nearby expressways, The Citizen is adjacent to Shirlington Station, a transfer point for Metrobus and ART bus service. Routes include weekday express service to the Pentagon Metro station, which connects to the Yellow and Blue rail lines.

Also nearby is a dog park and children’s playground, as well as Four Mile Run, a 9.4-mile stream bordered by parklands and a pair of recreational trails: the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Trail and the Four Mile Run Trail.

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bharatiyamedia-blog · 5 years ago

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Non-public Christening Ceremony Of Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's Son Will Be At Windsor Citadel: Report

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The Complicated Truth About the Royal Family's Reaction to Princess Diana's Death

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The Complicated Truth About the Royal Family's Reaction to Princess Diana's Death

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Buckingham Palace is 325 years old and has its share of ghosts. But the even older Kensington Palace remains imbued with the still palpable spirit of one of the most famous figures of the 20th century—and that essence will linger so long as the sons of the late Princess of Wales continue to make their mother’s former home their own. Or for so long as there are people around to remember her, to contribute pieces to the not altogether solved puzzle that is her story.

It’s been 21 years since Princess Dianawas killed in a car crash at only 36 years old, leaving behind a complex legacy that represents different things to different members of a family that had no choice but to carry on and put up a strong front in her wake.

To many, any reservation of feeling was seen as disrespectful, an affront to Diana, who in life was dubbed “the People’s Princess” because of the effortless way she connected with a country that often found the royals lacking in substance and relatability, even as she struggled to find solid footing in the family she had married into and then, in their eyes, crossed in myriad ways.

At the time, the queen’s unemotional—or at least inadequately emotional—behavior in the days immediately following Diana’s death was one of the rare charges against the monarch that actually stuck in the court of public opinion. There has always been a faction that’s fed up with the royals, and the family will forever have its critics, but that time in 1997 remains one of Queen Elizabeth II’s few serious fumbles in the 66 years she’s been on the throne.

“SHOW US YOU CARE,” screamed one of the tabloid headlines.

But while domestic morale is her stock in trade, the queen did have more important things to think about right away when her private secretary called her at Balmoral Castle in Scotland in the middle of the night to inform her about the crash in Paris. The queen was in such disbelief that she mused out loud, “‘Someone must have greased the brakes,'” royal biographer Ingrid Seward reported in her 2015 book The Queen’s Speech: An Intimate Portrait of the Queen in Her Own Words.

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Diana was pronounced dead at 3 a.m., British Standard Time, on Aug. 31, 1997. Prince Charles, also at Balmoral with sons Prince William and Prince Harry, was first in the household to hear, from the British Ambassador, that his ex-wife had died.

“He was absolutely distraught. He fell apart,” Tina Brown, author of The Diana Chronicles, said in the 2017 TV documentary Diana: 7 Days That Shook the Windsors. “He knew, instantly, that this was going to be a terrible thing, that…he will be blamed, that they will be blamed, for the death of Diana.”

“They,” meaning the royal family.

The National Grid reported a record power surge, caused by the turning-on of televisions and, simultaneously, electric kettles, to make consolatory cups of tea. Broadcasters played the British national anthem every hour. And almost immediately, the waiting began for the royal family to release a statement—as well as their surely imminent return to Buckingham Palace.

But Scotland was where the queen remained, with Diana’s sons, while London erupted in grief.

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British Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed reporters that morning from his home constituency in County Durham, saying he was “utterly devastated,” like the rest of the country. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Princess Diana’s family, in particular her two sons, the two boys,” he said, clasping and unclasping his hands together in front of him. “Our hearts go out to them. We are today a nation, in Britain, in a state of shock, in mourning, in grief that is so deeply painful for us.” Blair paused. “She was a wonderful, and a warm, human being. Though her own life was often sadly touched by tragedy, she touched the lives of so many others, in Britain, throughout the world, with joy and with comfort. How many times should we remember her, in how many different ways? With the sick, the dying, with the children, with the needy—when with just a look, or a gesture that spoke so much more than words, she would reveal to all of us the depth of her compassion and her humanity.

“You know how difficult things were for her from time to time, I’m sure we could only guess at, but the people everywhere—not just here in Britain, everywhere—they kept faith with Princess Diana. They liked her, they loved her, they regarded her as one of the people. She was the ‘People’s Princess.’ And that’s how she will stay, how she will remain, in our hearts and in our memories, forever.”

In hindsight, it was a surprisingly emotional and personal public display from the leader of a nation that, as astutely or comically pointed out by many Brits themselves, isn’t known for its outward warmth. Blair had only been prime minister for four months, and all eyes were on how he would handle his first major crisis.

Behind the walls at Balmoral, meanwhile, Charles and the queen chose not to break the news to William and Harry until they woke up in the morning.

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Charles, who was almost 13 years Diana’s senior and who had only been alone with her a handful of times when they married on July 29, 1981, was caught in a precarious predicament when it came to mourning the death of his ex-wife. They had been officially separated since 1992 (the queen’s “annus horribilis”) and their divorce had just been finalized in 1996. In the process, Diana remained the Princess of Wales, but was no longer Her Royal Highness; she maintained her residence at Kensington Palace and access to the royal airplane and rooms at St. James’s Palace for entertaining, while Charles resided primarily at Highgrove, his Gloucester estate. They agreed on equal access to the children.

Meanwhile, Charles immediately wanted to take the royal aircraft to Paris to claim Diana’s body. The queen initially said no, according to Diana: 7 Days That Shook the Windsors; Charles convinced her it was the right thing to do. Harry wanted to go with him, but his father didn’t think the 12-year-old should have to bear the ordeal.

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“One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is tell your children that your other parent has died. How you deal with that, I don’t know,” Prince Harry reflected in the 2017 BBC documentary Diana, 7 Days, another of the numerous specials and retrospectives that marked the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death last year, but one of few made with the cooperation of her immediate family. “But he was there for us. He was the one out of two left. And he tried to do his best and to make sure that we were protected and looked after. But he was going through the same grieving process as well.”

Harry and William accompanied the queen to church that Sunday morning, as routine dictated, and under the royal family’s direction there was no mention of Diana during the service.

Charles went to Paris with Diana’s sisters, Lady Sarah McCorquodale and Baroness Jane Fellowes. On their way back to the airport, following the hearse carrying Diana’s casket, Charles reportedly said in the car to the British ambassador, “It all seems unreal.”

Charles’ instincts of how Diana should be treated in death were spot-on, but it wasn’t long before the royals’ stock took a dive in the devastated public’s eye, as it became clear that the queen wasn’t rushing back to London. Instead, she and Prince Philip was trying to keep William and Harry occupied, with the help of visitors Mabel Anderson, Charles’ long-retired nanny; the boys’ former nanny Tiggy Legge-Bourke; and her other young grandchildren Peter and Zara Phillips, Princess Anne‘s son and daughter.

“At the time, you know, my grandmother wanted to protect her two grandsons, and my father as well,” Prince William, who proposed to Kate Middleton with his mother’s sapphire and diamond engagement ring, also remembered in the BBC film. “Our grandmother deliberately removed the newspapers, and things like that, so there was nothing in the house at all. So we didn’t know what was going on.”

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Not long before she died, William had argued with Diana after paparazzi photos were published of her and Dodi Fayed frolicking on the Al Fayed family’s yacht. The 15-year-old, who had vacationed with his mother and brother at Dodi’s St. Tropez home, wasn’t a fan. He reportedly hadn’t been interested in getting to know his father’s longtime paramour, Camilla Parker Bowles, at the time, either.

In retrospect William was thankful to have had “the privacy to mourn, to collect our thoughts, and to just have that space away from everybody.” When they eventually went back to England, father and sons made the unprecedented move of flying together, usually a no-no for two future kings, but the queen approved the unorthodox travel arrangements. Regarding the queen, William said, “She felt very torn between being the grandmother to William and Harry, and her queen role. And I think she— everyone—was surprised and taken aback by the scale of what happened and the nature of how quickly it all happened.”

But the fissures that had been forming since even before Charles and Diana’s separation were about to bust wide open.

“This is not the time for recriminations, but for sadness,” Diana’s brother, Earl Charles Spencer, said in a televised statement from his home in South Africa—where Diana had even briefly contemplated moving to follow through with her plan (revealed to a Daily Mail reporter in a phone conversation hours before her death) to retreat from public life. “However,” Spencer continued, “I would say I always believed the press would kill her in the end.” No less than every editor or publisher who’d profited from ill-gotten photos of Diana “has blood on his hands today.”

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“She had a very tetchy relationship with the media,” her onetime press secretary Jane Atkinson told Vanity Fair in 2013. “There was a lot of mistrust about the information they received from her, and a lot of rivalry for stories.” Diana had mainly been trying to keep them off the scent, ultimately to no avail, of her romance with heart surgeon Hasnat Khan, whom she started dating in September 1995 and was said to still be in love with when she also seemed to be on the verge of getting engaged to Dodi Fayed—when really they’d only been dating for six weeks and she wasn’t serious about the flashy billionaire’s son. Before they fatefully ended up at the Ritz in Paris on Aug. 30, he took her to another of his family’s properties—the Bois de Boulogne, a former home of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Diana was in no mood to commune with the spirit of the twice-divorced Wallis Simpson that night.

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“I think one of the hardest things to come to terms with is the fact that the people that chased her, into the tunnel, were the same people that were taking photographs of her while she was still dying in the backseat of the car,” Prince Harry also grimly observed in Diana, 7 Days. He was 12 when his mother died, and in recent years he has opened up to an unprecedented extent about the anger issues he suffered as a result of the trauma (he rather understandably scuffled with the paparazzi when he was 20 on one of the many occasions they swarmed him outside a nightclub), and how they went unaddressed for over a decade until William encouraged him to seek counseling.

After she died, any animosity that the press (or the people, once they found out that Charles wasn’t the only one who had strayed in the marriage) had started to feel toward Diana in the last couple years of her life went out the window, instantly replaced by antagonism toward the royal family over their chilly response to the tragedy.

With bouquets and makeshift tributes carpeting the grass outside Kensington Palace and people visibly weeping in the streets—while the Royal Standard flag at Buckingham Palace remained stubbornly absent (it’s not usually raised to any height, including half-mast, when the queen isn’t there)—there was no love lost for the royals.

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The backlash was felt in Balmoral, so on Thursday, Sept. 4, the queen dispatched her press officer to publicly defend the family in a televised statement, to let the people know that they were “hurt” by suggestions that they were “indifferent” to the nation’s sorrow. The priority was caring for William and Harry, the statement insisted.

At the same time, the queen relented with regard to the flag, allowing the Union Jack to fly, not just at half-mast, but at Buckingham Palace for the first time ever. Charles’ younger brothers, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, were asked to go to Buckingham Palace and visibly walk past the expectant, increasingly impatient crowd milling outside.

That evening, William and Harry, with their father and grandparents, ventured outside the Balmoral gates for the first time all week to see the pile of flowers and messages left outside.

The family finally returned to London on Friday, Sept. 5, the day before the funeral and a day earlier than planned—and the monarch proceeded to level with her subjects as best as she could in her first live broadcast in 50 years.

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“Since last Sunday’s dreadful news, we have seen throughout Britain and around the world an overwhelming expression of sadness at Diana’s death,” Queen Elizabeth II, dressed in black, said in a national address from Buckingham Palace. “We have all been trying in our different ways to cope. It is not easy to express a sense of loss, since the initial shock is often succeeded by a mixture of other feelings—disbelief, incomprehension, anger and concern for those who remain. We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.”

The royal continued, “First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her—for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys. This week at Balmoral, we have all been trying to help William and Harry come to terms with the devastating loss that they and the rest of us have suffered.

“No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.”

Her demeanor could best be described as “composed”—not stiff, not too formal, just…composed.

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The queen also expressed appreciation on behalf of their entire family for the outpouring of support, and said she hoped the following day would be one of togetherness as the nation united in spirit to pay its respects to the people’s beloved princess.

Neither brother initially wanted to walk behind the casket in the funeral procession to Westminster Abbey, but their grandfather Prince Philip—who, like his wife, also had a complicated relationship with Diana when she was alive—encouraged it.

“If you don’t walk, you may regret it later,” he told William, according to Sally Bedell Smith’s 2017 biography Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life. “I think you should do it. If I walk, will you walk with me?”

William and Harry solemnly joined the procession as it passed St. James’ Palace, making for one of the most memorable news images of all time.

“I don’t think any child should be asked to do that under any circumstances. I don’t think it would happen today,” Prince Harry told Newsweek last year. But he also said in Diana, 7 Days that he was “glad” to have done it, whether it was right or wrong.

“But I have to say,” William added, “when it becomes that personal as walking behind your mother’s funeral cortege, it goes to another level of duty.”

Just last year, Charles Spencer told BBC Radio 4 that he had objected strongly to the idea of his nephews taking that long, public walk, calling it a “very bizarre and cruel” thing to be asked to do. “Eventually I was lied to and told they wanted to do it, which of course they didn’t but I didn’t realize that,” he said.

“It was truly horrifying, actually,” he further recalled. “We would walk a hundred yards and hear people sobbing and then walk round a corner and somebody wailing and shouting out messages of love to Diana or William and Harry, and it was a very, very tricky time.”

Also on that day, Spencer memorably seized the opportunity to unload in no uncertain terms on the forces that, from his perspective, had unofficially collaborated to wring the life out of his sister.

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In the eulogy he delivered at Westminster Abbey, Spencer said, “It is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength that despite the most bizarre life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself…I don’t think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling.

“My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest was this: a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age. She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys, William and Harry, from a similar fate and I do this here, Diana, on your behalf. We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair.”

The Spencers would respect royal tradition, he continued, but Diana’s “blood family” would “do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men, so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition, but can sing openly as you planned.”

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Spencer told BBC Radio 4 last year that somebody he knew very well asked the queen what she thought of his speech and she had replied, “‘He had every right to say whatever he felt. It was his sister’s funeral.’ So that’s all.” (Tina Brown speculated in The Diana Chronicles that Spencer was trying to exorcise his own guilt, knowing Diana had been mad at him when she died for not giving her a cottage at Althorp—the Spencer family homestead where she was eventually buried—during her most embattled times.)

The queen’s public words about Diana were sincere, as a private letter to her aide Lady Henriette Abel Smith—made public in 2017—that she wrote after the funeral seems to confirm. “It was indeed dreadfully sad, and she is a huge loss to the country,” the queen wrote. “But the public reaction to her death, and the service in the Abbey, seem to have united people round the world in a rather inspiring way. William and Harry have been so brave and I am very proud of them.” She was replying to a message from Smith, adding, “I think your letter was one of the first I opened—emotions are still so mixed up but we have all been through a very bad experience!”

After the funeral, which was reportedly watched by an estimated 2 billion people around the globe, Charles and his boys sought privacy at Highgrove House, and the Prince of Wales made no appearances for two weeks.

In the meantime, the natural progression of Charles and Camilla’s relationship, which was only recently out in the open despite being no secret beforehand, was delayed for months by Diana’s death. Charles admitted a year later, according to Bedell Smith, that, while deeply upset himself, he was startled by the people’s public outpouring of grief, saying, “I felt an alien in my own country.”

That was one of those famous stiff upper royal lips talking. But Charles has always been known as a more demonstrably sensitive sort than either of his parents, and when he returned to the public eye two weeks after the funeral, his response to a well-wisher who told him to “keep [his] chin up” was to say, “That’s very kind of you, but I feel like crying.” As images of him as a doting single father began to emerge in the ensuing months, the public’s impression of Charles—always the villain when it came to his dysfunctional relationship with Diana—steadily became more favorable.

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At the same time, a schism formed between Charles’ camp and the rest of his family, according to Bedell Smith, in that the Prince of Wales’ deputy private secretary at the time, Mark Bolland, was quietly making sure that reporters heard that the queen hadn’t want to send the royal plane for Diana’s remains, or give her a public funeral.

The queen’s press office issued a rebuttal statement denying she had ever opposed her son on those plans. A Palace source told the Daily Telegraph, “This is not a game where one member of the royal family gets more credit than the other.” Mother and son’s relationship wouldn’t thaw out for awhile, due to her tacit disapproval of Camilla—communicated in instances such as the queen and Philip skipping the 50th birthday party Camilla threw for Charles at Highgrove in November 1998.

But on a more expansive front, the world seemed to be warming to Charles. As part of his overall mission to mend fences with his public, Charles and the other Charles, Diana’s brother, also seemingly buried the hatchet during a trip the Prince of Wales took to South Africa with Harry in November 2017, when Spencer stood up and applauded his ex-brother-in-law’s remarks during a state banquet hosted by Nelson Mandela.

Queen Elizabeth II, now 92 and the longest-reigning British monarch ever, remains the most popular member of the royal family—but there was a lot to unpack after the days when she seemingly took Princess Diana’s death in stride.

Helen Mirren won an Oscar for her portrayal as the conflicted royal in Peter Morgan‘s 2006 film The Queen, and then added a Tony to her trove for playing QE2 again on Broadway in The Audience, about the queen’s interactions with a dozen British prime ministers over the years.

Heaven knows what the queen really thinks.

“I’ve met the queen on a couple of occasions—usually, quite public occasions with a lot of other people there—and she has always been incredibly gracious, but she never mentions my playing her,” Mirren told Playbill in 2015. “I think that’s absolutely appropriate.

“The royal family—and the queen, in particular — have always very liberal because we come from a country that has free speech. There have been films mocking them and suggesting they were Nazis and abusing them in all kinds of different ways, and, through it all, they have never said a word. They just let that happen. They don’t defend themselves. They don’t say anything. In a sense, it’s not their role to critique that particular world. Likewise, it applies to a film that I know was appreciated by the people around the queen—but the queen herself would never say anything.”

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In The Queen, Prime Mister Tony Blair (played by Michael Sheen) calls the queen at Balmoral and asks her if she doesn’t think that an immediate return to London would be in the people’s best interest.

“I doubt there is anyone who knows the British people more than I do, Mr. Blair, nor who has greater faith in their wisdom and judgement,” Mirren’s queen replies. “And it is my belief that they will any moment reject this… this ‘mood,’ which is being stirred up by the press, in favor of a period of restrained grief, and sober, private mourning. That’s the way we do things in this country, quietly, with dignity. That’s what the rest of the world has always admired us for.”

Count just how wrong the queen was on that occasion as another way in which Diana forever changed what it meant to be a royal.

Source: https://www.eonline.com/news/963436/the-complicated-truth-about-the-royal-family-s-reaction-to-princess-diana-s-death

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The Menier Chocolate Factory today announces the full company for Florian Zeller’s The Lie in a translation by Christopher Hampton – Lindsay Posner directs Samantha Bond, James Dreyfus, Tony Gardner and Alexandra Gilbreath. The production sees the return of Zeller, Hampton and Posner to the Menier following the huge success of The Truth in 2016, which later transferred to the West End and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Comedy.

Alice spots her friend’s husband with another woman. Should she tell her friend the truth…or lie? Her husband Paul is convinced that it is better to lie. But in doing so, who is being protected and who suffers? Both find out that in matters of the heart, the line between the truth and a lie can be a dangerous one to cross.

Samantha Bond plays Alice. Her theatre credits include Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Savoy Theatre), Passion Play, Arcadia (Duke of York’s Theatre), Amy’s View (National Theatre, Aldwych Theatre and Broadway – Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Play), Three Tall Women (Wyndham’s Theatre), What the Butler Saw, An Ideal Husband (Vaudeville Theatre), The Cid – Olivier Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Play and The Ends Of The Earth (National Theatre). For television, her credits include Outnumbered, Downton Abbey, The Queen – 1974, Larkrise To Candleford, Mansfield Park; and for film, her credits include Die Another Day, The World Is Not Enough, What Rats Won’t Do, Tomorrow Never Dies, Golden Eye and Eric The Viking.

James Dreyfus returns to the Menier, where he previously appeared in Candide and The Common Pursuit. His other theatre work includes The Master Builder (The Old Vic), Harvey (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Donkey’s Years (Harold Pinter Theatre), Cabaret (Lyric Theatre), The Producers (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), The Lady in the Dark (National Theatre – Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical). For television, his work includes Mount Pleasant, Gimme Gimme Gimme and The Thin Blue Line; and for film, Notting Hill.

Tony Gardner’s theatre credits include Around the World in 80 Days (St James Theatre), The Rivals (Theatre Royal Haymarket), and Bedroom Farce (Duke of York’s Theatre). For television, his work includes Last Tango in Halifax, Bluestone 42, and Fresh Meat.

Alexandra Gilbreath’s theatre work includes Dessert (Southwark Playhouse), The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre, Kingston); for the RSC where she is an Associate Artist, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night (Olivier nomination for Best Actress in a Play), Merry Wives: The Musical, The Taming of the Shrew/The Tamer Tamed, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, Cyrano de Bergerac and Ghosts. For television, her work includes Absolute Power and Monarch of the Glen.

Florian Zeller is a French novelist and playwright. His work has been translated into several languages. Zeller wrote his first novel, Neiges artificielles (Artificial Snow), when he was twenty-two years old. His second novel, Les Amants du n’importe quoi (Lovers or Something Like It), was well received but it was his third novel, La Fascination du pire (Fascination of Evil), which won the 2004 Prix Interallié, and which made him a household name in France. The book was selected for the Prix Goncourt. In addition to The Truth (Olivier nomination for Best New Comedy), The Father (which won the 2014 Molière Award for Best Play), The Mother (winner of the 2011 Molière for Best Comedy) – all adapted into English by Christopher Hampton – Zeller’s other theatre credits include L’Autre, Le Manège, Si tu mourais (Prix Jeune Théâtre of the Académie Française), Elle t’attend, Une Heure de tranquillité and Le Mensonge. His other novels include Les Amants du n’importe quoi (Lovers or Something Like It); La Fascination du pire (The Fascination of Evil); Julien Parme and La Jouissance.

Christopher Hampton has translated plays by Ibsen, Molière, Chekhov, Yasmina Reza (including Art and Life x 3) and Florian Zeller’s The Father, The Mother and The Truth. He won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the adaptation of his own play, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (released as Dangerous Liaisons). He was nominated again in 2007 for adapting Ian McEwan’s novel Atonement. His television work includes adaptations of The History Man and Hotel du Lac.

Lindsay Posner returns to the Menier Chocolate Factory having previously directed The Truth, Dinner with Saddam, Communicating Doors and Abigail’s Party (also Theatre Royal Bath, Wyndham’s and UK tour). His recent productions include The End of Longing (Playhouse and New York), Hay Fever (Duke of York’s), Harvey (Theatre Royal Haymarket), Speed the Plow (Playhouse), Relatively Speaking (Wyndham’s), A Little Hotel on the Side (Theatre Royal Bath), Other Desert Cities, The Winslow Boy and Noises Off (The Old Vic), The Turn of the Screw (Almeida Theatre) and Uncle Vanya (Vaudeville Theatre). He was Associate Director of the Royal Court from 1987-1992 where his productions included Death and the Maiden (which transferred to the Duke of York’s Theatre and won two Olivier Awards), Colquhoun and McBryde and The Treatment.

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190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position. 537 – Siege of Rome: The Byzantine general Belisarius receives his promised reinforcements, 1,600 cavalry, mostly of Hunnic or Slavic origin and expert bowmen. He starts, despite shortages, raids against the Gothic camps and Vitiges is forced into a stalemate. 1241 – Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies. 1288 – Mongol invasions of Vietnam: Yuan forces are defeated by Trần forces in the Battle of Bach Dang in present-day northern Vietnam. 1388 – Despite being outnumbered 16 to 1, forces of the Old Swiss Confederacy are victorious over the Archduchy of Austria in the Battle of Näfels. 1413 – Henry V is crowned King of England. 1440 – Christopher of Bavaria is appointed King of Denmark. 1454 – The Treaty of Lodi is signed, establishing a balance of power among northern Italian city-states for almost 50 years. 1511 – St John's College, Cambridge, England, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, receives its charter. 1585 – The expedition organised by Sir Walter Raleigh departs England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the Roanoke Colony. 1609 – Eighty Years' War: Spain and the Dutch Republic sign the Treaty of Antwerp to initiate twelve years of truce. 1609 – Philip III of Spain issues the decree of the "Expulsion of the Moriscos". 1682 – Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana. 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of the Saintes begins. 1784 – The Treaty of Paris, ratified by the United States Congress on January 14, 1784, is ratified by King George III of the Kingdom of Great Britain, ending the American Revolutionary War. Copies of the ratified documents are exchanged on May 12, 1784. 1860 – On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice. 1865 – American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war. 1909 – The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act. 1914 – Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico. 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle. 1917 – World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge. 1918 – World War I: The Battle of the Lys: The Portuguese Expeditionary Corps is crushed by the German forces during what is called the Spring Offensive on the Belgian region of Flanders. 1937 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe. 1939 – African-American singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution. 1940 – World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway. 1940 – Vidkun Quisling seizes power in Norway. 1942 – World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes and the Australian destroyer HMAS Vampire. 1945 – Execution of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, anti-Nazi dissident and spy, by the Nazi regime. 1945 – World War II: The German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer is sunk by the Royal Air Force. 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends. 1945 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission is formed. 1947 – The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. 1947 – The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel. 1947 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 22 relating to Corfu Channel incident is adopted. 1948 – Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia. 1948 – Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100. 1952 – Hugo Ballivián's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines 1957 – The Suez Canal in Egypt is cleared and opens to shipping following the Suez Crisis. 1959 – Project Mercury: NASA announces the selection of the United States' first seven astronauts, whom the news media quickly dub the "Mercury Seven". 1960 – Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, Prime Minister of South Africa and architect of apartheid, narrowly survives an assassination attempt by a white farmer, David Pratt in Johannesburg. 1961 – The Pacific Electric Railway in Los Angeles, once the largest electric railway in the world, ends operations. 1965 – Astrodome opens. First indoor baseball game is played. 1967 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight. 1969 – The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford. 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world. 1976 – The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak. 1980 – The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture. 1981 – The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it. 1989 – Tbilisi massacre: an anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries. 1990 – An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR. 1990 – Thirteen thousand members of the Dene and Métis tribes sign a land claim agreement for 180,000 square kilometres (69,000 sq mi) in the Mackenzie Valley of the western Arctic. 1991 – Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union. 1992 – A U.S. Federal Court finds former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of drug and racketeering charges. He is sentenced to 30 years in prison. 1999 – Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins. 2003 – Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces. 2005 – Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor's Guildhall. 2009 – In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili. 2013 – A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people. 2013 – At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča. 2014 – A student stabs 20 people at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania. 2017 – Palm Sunday church bombings at Coptic Churches in Tanta and Alexandria, Egypt, take place. 2017 – After refusing to give up his seat on an overbooked United Airlines flight, Dr. David Dao Duy Anh is forcibly dragged off the flight by aviation security officers, leading to major criticism of United Airlines.

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MEGADETH KICKS OFF NORTH AMERICAN TOUR ON JUNE 23, 2017!! Special Guests Include Meshuggah, TesseracT and Lillake!!

GENERAL ON-SALE STARTS APRIL 21, MEGADETH CYBER ARMY FAN-CLUB PRE-SALE APRIL 19

GRAMMY® Award winning Thrash Metal pioneers MEGADETH have announced the details for the 2017 leg of their North American Tour, which kicks off on June 23 in Big Flats, NY. This headlining tour will take them across the U.S as well as Canada.

Tickets for the North American Tour go on sale beginning April 21–check www.megadeth.com for specific market info, local on-sale times and dates, and information on special VIP packages. There will also be an exclusive pre-sale for MEGADETH fan club members beginning April 19 at 10:00am EST, with details available at www.megadeth.com/cyberarmy.

MEGADETH will be on tour in support of their new album Dystopia featuring the 2017 GRAMMY® Award winning tittle track “Dystopia.”Dystopia reached No. 3 on The Billboard Top 200 and No. 1 on the Hard Music/Top Rock charts.

Along with band visionary Dave Mustaine at the helm, MEGADETH’s current lineup includes Kiko Loureiro on guitar, David Ellefson on bass and Dirk Verbeuren on drums.

Joining MEGADETH on their North American Tour will be special guests Meshuggah, TesseracT and Lillake.

North American Tour Dates are as follows:

Jun 23 Big Flats, NY Budweiser Summerstage

Jun 24 Montebello, QC Amnesia Rockfest*

Jun 25 Boston, MA House of Blues

Jun 27 Philadelphia, PA Fillmore

Jun 28 Portsmouth, VA Portsmouth Pavilion

Jun 29 Silver Springs, MD The Fillmore

Jun 30 Columbus, OH Express Live

Jul 5 Windsor, ON Caesars**

Jul 7 St. Charles, MO Family Arena

Jul 8 Oklahoma City, OK Zoo Amphitheatre

Jul 9 Houston, TX Revention Music Center

Jul 11 Pittsburgh, PA Stage AE

Jul 13 Oshkosh, WI Rock USA*

Jul 14 Chicago, IL Chicago Open Air*

Jul 15 Cadott, WI Rock Fest*

More dates to be announced shortly!

*Festival Dates

**MEGADETH and Meshuggah only

MEGADETH will then join Scorpions, one of the most iconic and influential hard rock bands of all time, as special guests on their Crazy World tour. The tour kicks off on September 14 with a month-long run of dates including stops in New York, Dallas, Toronto, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, amongst others, with more dates coming.

Scorpions’ Crazy World North American tour with special guests MEGADETH

Sept 14 Reading, PA Santander Arena

Sept 16 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

Sept 22 Toronto, ONT Budweiser Stage

Sept 25 Denver, CO 1st Bank Center

Sept 26 Salt Lake City, UT Venue TBA

Sept 29 Spokane, WA Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena

Sept 30 Seattle, WA Tacoma Dome 

Oct 3 Reno, NV Grand Sierra Resort 

Oct 4 Oakland, CA Oracle Arena 

Oct 7 Los Angeles, CA The Forum 

Oct 8 Phoenix, AZ Talking Stick Arena 

Oct 11 San Antonio, TX Freeman Coliseum

Oct 12 Dallas, TX Pavilion at the Music Factory

Oct 14 Ft. Lauderdale, FL BB&T Center 

Oct 15 Tampa, FL Amalie Arena

More dates to be announced shortly!

MEGADETH burst onto the scene thirty years ago, virtually inventing a genre with their debut album Killing Is My Business… And Business Is Good!(recently recognized by VH1 as the Greatest Thrash Metal Debut Album of All Time) sold more than 38 million albums worldwide, earning numerous accolades including a 2017 GRAMMY® Award for “Best Metal Performance,”11 additional GRAMMY® nominations, a SILVER CLIO for theirDystopia campaign and scored five consecutive platinum albums—including 1992’s two-million-selling Countdown to Extinction.

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#Megadeth #Dystopia #Meshuggah #TesseracT #Scorpions #Lillake

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charlesccastill · 7 years ago

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Waterton Acquires 404-Unit Apartment Community in Arlington, Va.

CHICAGO—Waterton, a U.S. real estate investor and operator, announced the acquisition of a 404-unit rental community in Arlington, Va., approximately 3 miles southwest of the Pentagon.

Built in 1992 and formerly known as Windsor at Shirlington Village, the property at 3000 S. Randolph St. is being rebranded as The Citizen at Shirlington Village following Waterton’s acquisition.

from Boston Real Estate http://bostonrealestatetimes.com/waterton-acquires-404-unit-apartment-community-in-arlington-va/

#boston #condos #boston condos #boston luxury condo #boston condominium #boston rentals #boston condo

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caveartfair · 8 years ago

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The New York Dealer Who Devoted His Life to Dog Art

Pamela Dennis Hall, Breezy and Rupert, 2010. Courtesy of William Secord Gallery.

William Secord has been in the business of dog art for more than 25 years. At his eponymous Manhattan gallery, the only one of its kind in the United States, he sells paintings of canines from the 19th century through the present. Before he was a dealer, Secord served as the first director of the Dog Museum of America in New York. He’s even authored four hefty tomes cementing the dog’s place in art history.

Despite what you might expect, Secord wasn’t always a dog person. “But I became one,” he said with a laugh, strolling through his gallery a few days ahead of this year’s Westminster Dog Show. The walls were bedecked with new acquisitions, from collies to foxhounds to bulldogs, primed for collectors to arrive.

Churchill Ettinger, A Good Point. Courtesy of William Secord Gallery.

Edwin Megargee, Bess and Her Puppies. Courtesy of William Secord Gallery.

Secord’s expertise in dog art traces back to the ’80s, while working at the American Museum of Folk Art. His boss, Robert Bishop, was a great lover of dogs. He had a particular fondness for Manchester terriers and Doberman pinschers and had even published a book in 1978 titled The All-American Dog: Man’s Best Friend in Folk Art. So when the American Kennel Club (AKC) decided it was going to open a museum in New York, Bishop was a natural choice for director.

Rather than accept, Bishop recommended Secord for the position, and after six long months of interviews, he landed the job. But as Secord took the reins, he realized something about the AKC: “They didn’t know anything about the history of dog paintings,” he said. Though they were deeply passionate about their breeds, they had very little knowledge of the artists who had depicted them for centuries.

Secord himself was already well-versed in art history: He held a bachelor’s degree in the subject, worked two years in a contemporary gallery in Toronto, and earned a master’s in arts administration from NYU. He was primed to dive headfirst into the little-known world of dog painting, a process he described as “trial by fire.”

Pamela Dennis Hall, Recumbent Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, 2009. Courtesy of William Secord Gallery.

S. A. Cole, In the Studio, 1887. Courtesy of William Secord Gallery.

As Secord and his staff renovated the Dog Museum of America space and built up its collection, they managed to have some fun as well. Their 1984 show “Pampered Pets” featured powder-pink galleries and a lavender accent wall. “It was all very frou frou,” Secord recalled. “We had two fashion shows for dogs with runways that were painted pink. Every newspaper in the city covered it because it was so kooky.”

And then, in 1986, the American Kennel Club announced that the museum would be moving to St. Louis. After hearing this news Secord decided to stay in New York, but to stick with dog painting—this time as a gallerist.

“At that point, I’d gotten interested in it. And I saw an audience. These people were passionate about their breeds,” Secord said. He recalled one woman who donated her 300-piece Old English mastiff collection to the museum. “And some collectors were actually interested in the history and development of their breed through works of art.”

Dog paintings first gained popularity in 19th-century England, during the reign of Queen Victoria, who was besotted with canine companions. She kept some 75 dogs in her Windsor kennels at all times, employing painters like Edwin Landseer to memorialize them in oil. Today, Landseer—along with his contemporaries Maud Earl and John Emms—are considered the giants of pet portraiture, with work that sells for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

British School, Maltese on a Table. Courtesy of William Secord Gallery.

Thomas Blinks, Pointers in a Landscape. Courtesy of William Secord Gallery.

Beyond these pet portraits, Secord said, the genre can be divided into two other major categories: purebred dog portraits, which depict the animal in a standard show pose, and sporting dog portraits, which focus on performance rather than looks.

Secord published much of this history in 1992 in his first book, Dog Painting, 1840-1940: A Social History of the Dog in Art. Although his gallery had been open for two years by this point, the dealer said it was the book that truly put him on the map. It opened with a glowing forward from New York socialite Brooke Astor, whose dog painting-studded staircase has been credited with re-popularizing the genre for interior decorating.

Canine-centric collectors, who had once perused antique stores for paintings, began to turn to Secord as their one-stop shop. Slowly, he worked to elevate the genre beyond its “tchotchke” status. “My whole thing was to treat paintings of dogs as works of art. Not just as decoration,” Secord said.

“Just as there are good, bad, and indifferent portraits by Gainsborough or Reynolds,” he explained, “there are good, bad, and indifferent dog paintings. I wanted to have dog paintings taken seriously as Victorian works of art.”

Christine Merrill, Rocky, 2008. Courtesy of William Secord Gallery.

Today, many are. Secord recently sold a John Sargent Noble painting of otterhounds to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, a work which now resides in the institution’s 19th-century collection.

In the process of redefining dog painting’s place in the art-historical hierarchy, Secord estimates that he’s become the world’s leading expert in the field. “I’m not bragging, that’s just the way it is, because nobody else wants to be,” he said. “I never set out to write the history of dog paintings. It was serendipitous, really.”

He never set out to collect dog paintings, either—“I can’t afford it,” he explained—but he has managed to acquire a handful of works over the years. One is a portrait of his last dog, a Dandie Dinmont terrier named Rocky, painted by contemporary dog artist Christine Merrill. Another is of an anonymous English mastiff, which he purchased at age 16 from an antique store in his native Canada. “It wasn’t because I was interested in dogs, I just bought it because it was nice,” Secord recalled. But, somehow, that teenaged whim managed to predict the rest of his career.

Serendipitous, indeed.

—Abigail Cain

from Artsy News

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