#1997 avon

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Avon Naturals Tea Tree Body Wash and Healthy Looking Hair and Scalp Shampoo

1997

Found on Ebay, user  sycamore1959

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From The Library of Anne Rice (Part 1)

A list of books owned by Anne Rice including annotation information taken from auction listings at Bonham's, October 2024. Will continue in Part 2.

Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged edition).New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1963. She writes on the flyleaf in June of 2012: "When I bought this book I don't know. I know I read it or a copy of it in the 1980s when writing The Vampire Lestat. It is essential to me." On the jacket spine she has added "Sacred!"

Frazer, James G. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. 1981. Marked on the cover, "Gift to Stan from Anne 1985 / Save Always, AR," and internally reads in Stan's handwriting: "A gift to me from Anne because I've never read it."

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Tales of Mystery & the Macabre. Wordsworth edition, 2007. bears Rice's ownership signature to title page ("Anne Rice / May 29, 2012 / The Desert") and is tabbed and annotated throughout. 

Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South. Penguin Books, 2000. bears her ownership signature on the title page.

Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1940. Original beige cloth stamped cover and spine, in facsimile dust jacket. First edition with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page. With Post-it note to front pastedown indicating that the book was a gift "From Becket and Christina / Christmas / 2012."

King, B. B. & David Ritz. Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King. New York: Avon Books, 1996. First edition, inscribed to "To Anne / All the best to you / B.B. King / 10-18-96." 

Montgomery, L.M. Anne of Green Gables. Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books, 1976. Anne Rice ownership signature dated February 7, 2015, Palm Desert. Annotated on front pastedown; "It's immediately a pleasure, and making me want to write."

 Montgomery, L.M. Emily's Quest. Oxford City Press, 2009. Anne Rice ownership signature dated February 21, 2015; annotated and tabbed.

Montgomery, L.M. Emily Climbs. Sourcebooks, 2014. Anne Rice ownership signature dated February 12, 2015.

Montgomery, L.M. Emily of New Moon. Ameron House, c.2015. Anne Rice ownership signature dated February 6, 2015, inscribed: "Reading the paperback and loving it so much I had to have a hardcover." 

Montgomery, L.M. The Blue Castle. Sourcebooks, 2011. Anne Rice ownership signature dated May 12, 2015 to title page.

Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. New York: Putnam, 1969. Book club edition. On May 26 and 27, 2013, she writes, "Badly need this, Studying in detail" and on page 74 she writes, "Note how easily it flows." She has great praise for the nimbleness of the novel's p.o.v. and is often asking herself "how can I learn from this?" On p 225 she writes, "This is a most impressive piece of work and is masterly. Again I marvel at vocabulary, tone, and placement—organization of the book. I fight OCD as I write, I've come to see that, and this helps me to see what this novel accomplishes. Presenting the Don as a 'great' man, a 'genius,' without apology is a conscious approach that is so powerful."

Puzo, Mario. The Godfather. Another copy, later edition, lacking jacket. With Anne Rice's ownership signature.

Puzo, Mario. The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions. London; William Heinneman, 1972.

Puzo, Mario. The Fortunate Pilgrim. New York: Random House, 1997. Anne Rice ownership signature. 

Wallace, Lew. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Anne Rice re-read this copy of Ben-Hur in 2006, a used copy she picked up somewhere, leaving detailed marginalia throughout and summing up her thoughts on the first flyleaf: "12-12-06: This is an amazing achievement: a Judeo-Christian novel. Jewish history and honor are here! And a woman tells this history to her son! How did we get away from this to The Robe ... 12-15-06: I've spent over two days reading & studying this wonderful book. It does seem unique—and it covers an amazing amt of material including a physical description of Our Lord, the crucifixion, etc. It is not anti-semitic. It presents Jews as exotic, 'oriental.' It has a primitive quality ... why is the prose so difficult? so 'dated'? Compare to Dickens." Rice's notes in the margin often compare the novel to (presumably the 1959 version of) the film, finding the novel superior in every way, and commenting more than once on its structural similarities to Dickens: "the whole spectacle and the co-incidence" (p 166).

Cleland, John. 1709-1789. Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. New York: Penguin Books, 1985. Annotated and with ownership signature to the title page: "Anne Rice / January 2014 / Palm Desert." Rice underscores Cleland's descriptions of bodies and physical acts, and in particular, wonders about the novel's p.o.v.: on p 108 she writes in the margin, "Is this a man's view? A gay man? An author who is male and female?"

Clinton, Bill. Born 1946. My Life. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2004. Jacket spine with label "From the library of Anne Rice" laid down to tail. First edition, inscribed on the title page, "To Anne—After doing this book, I admire you even more—Bill Clinton." with: a note on the Office of William J. Clinton letterhead: "2/17 —Huma—For author ANNE RICE.—Thanks, Sally." When Clinton published his memoir in 2024, Rice was one of the VIPs to receive a presentation copy, in which he expresses his admiration for her work after having written a book of his own.

Bellman, Henry. 1882-1945. Kings Row. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. Annotated and with ownership signature to front free endpaper: "Anne Rice / June 27, 2013 / Palm Desert." Rice has carefully read and annotated this copy, complementing the writing (particularly when Bellamann writes about Father Donovan) and adds a long note on the rear pastedown: "Pages & pages of this book are about the mind—about how the mind learns, expands, grows, experiences." Sometimes her comments are in conversation with the text, as when, on p 153, she underlines the town of Auvergne and writes "Auvergne, what a coincidence! As I plan a trip there and write about Lestat!"

Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield.  New York: Penguin Classics, 2014. With ownership signature of Anne Rice dated June 11, 2018, tabbed and annotated throughout. On the preliminary leaf of Copperfield, Rice writes, "Again with my beloved David, and my beloved Dickens. I have just read Claire Tomalink 'The Invisible Woman' and her later bio of Dickens. I'm writing my new novel in my head."

Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: Penguin Classics, 2008. Signed and dated June 15, 2018, tabbed and annotated throughout.

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnen. South Moon Under. New York, London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933 (undated later facsimile edition).

Mitchell, Margaret, Gone With the Wind. New York: [Simon and Schuster], 2011. Rice reread this copy in March of 2015, tabbing dozens of pages and commenting in the margins.

Tolstoy, Leo. War and Peace. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2007. The first date on this copy of War and Peace is June 30, 2010, and Rice writes: "The Desert / Being reborn in Tolstoy, studying at his feet—Searching for the Christ who is bigger than religion." In a different ink, Rice adds at the top of the same page, "Revisiting 7-16-17—Having seen much of the new BBC series with Lily James as Natasha." Rice has tabbed the pages throughout this volume and made extensive notes on character development and theme. On the rear flyleaf, she adds, "'Life is everything...' p 10064— use for L" as well as "The guiltlessness of suffering (do we make ourselves suffer to be guiltless)?"

Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karinina. Translated by Rosamund Bartlett. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Signed and annotated February 19, 2015. Heavily tabbed, especially in the center part of the novel, and noted on the front flyleaf: "Reading chunks of the story of Levin & Kitty / So beautiful and smooth—"

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Jumy-M Benesse House Museum #2

1.Richard Long - River Avon Mud Circles by the Inland Sea , 1997 / リチャード・ロング「瀬戸内海のエイヴォン川の泥の環」 2.John Chamberlain - Chromo Domo , 2006 / ジョン･チェンバレン「クロモ・ドーモ」 3.Joel Shapiro - Untitled , 2013 / ジョエル・シャピロ「無題」 4.Architecture: Tadao Ando / 安藤忠雄

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Barbie Spring tea party Avon exclusive 1997

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Two little mermaid holiday dolls from 10 years apart

so fun fact sense the little mermaid released in 1989 Ariel as had six holiday dolls

one by tyco in 1991

Four by Mattel in the years 1997

(<-this one was an Avon exclusive for the holiday stockings dolls )

2000 2013 & 2023

And one by the Disney store in 2020 (which I am excited to say I recently got my hands on )

They also had a Valentines Ariel doll in the year 1997, but she’s not considered a holiday doll because those usually refer to the ones released for Christmas 

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Here we've got a sweet pink dinosaur with long lashes, shiny spikes, and the cutest little bows

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Voilà une semaine que le monde agricole exprime sa colère au grand jour et en acte : celui d'un métier devenu quasiment impraticable, croulant sous la brutalité des dérèglements écologiques qui s'annoncent et sous des contraintes économiques, normatives, administratives et technologiques asphyxiantes. 

Alors que les blocages se poursuivent un peu partout, nous soumettons quelques mises au point sur la situation depuis le mouvement des Soulèvements de la terre.

Nous sommes un mouvement, d'habitant·es des villes et des campagnes, d'écologistes et de paysan·nes, installé·es ou en installation. Nous refusons la polarisation que certains essaient de susciter entre ces mondes. Nous avons fait de la défense de la terre et de l'eau notre point d'entrée et d'ancrage. Ce sont les outils de travail des paysans et des milieux nourriciers. Nous nous mobilisons depuis des années contre les grands projets d'artificialisation qui les ravagent, les complexes industriels qui les empoisonnent et les accaparent. Soyons clair·es, le mouvement actuel dans son hétérogénéité même, a été cette fois initié et largement porté par d'autres forces que les notres. Avec des objectifs affichés parfois différents, et d'autres dans lesquels nous nous retrouvons absolument. Quoi qu'il en soit, lorsque que les premiers blocages ont commencé, nous avons, depuis différents comités locaux, rejoint certains barrages et certaines actions. Nous sommes allé·es à la rencontre de paysan.nes et d'agriculteurs.rices mobilisé·es. Nous avons échangé avec nos camarades de différentes organisations paysannes pour comprendre leurs analyses de la situation. Nous nous sommes retrouvé·es nous-mêmes dans la digne colère de celles et ceux qui refusent de se résigner à leur extinction.

    Nous ne pouvons que nous réjouir que la majorité des agriculteurs.rices bloquent le pays aujourd'hui. Qu'ils et elles soient représenté·es par la FNSEA et des patrons de l'agrobusiness dans les instances de négociation avec le gouvernement est consternant, à l'heure où les cadres du syndicat majoritaire sont copieusement sifflé·es sur certains blocages et où ce dernier ne peut plus retenir ses bases. De nombreuses personnes sur les barrages ne sont pas syndiquées et ne se sentent pas représentées par la FNSEA. 

"Les deux tiers des entreprises agricoles n'ont pas, en termes économiques, de raison d'être. Nous sommes d'accord pour réduire le nombre d'agriculteurs" - Michel Debatisse, secrétaire général de la FNSEA, 1968

    Fondé après guerre, ce syndicat hégémonique a accompagné le développement du système agro-industriel depuis des décennies, en co-gestion avec l'État. C'est ce système qui met la corde au cou des paysan·nes, qui les exploitent pour nourrir ses profits et qui finalement les poussent à s'endetter pour s'agrandir afin de rester compétitif·ves ou disparaître. En 1968, Michel Debatisse, alors secrétaire général de la FNSEA avant d'en devenir le président, déclarait [1] : "Les deux tiers des entreprises agricoles n'ont pas, en termes économiques, de raison d'être. Nous sommes d'accord pour réduire le nombre d'agriculteurs". Mission plus que réussie : le nombre de paysan.nes et de salarié.es agricoles est passé de 6,3 millions en 1946, à 750 000 au dernier recensement de 2020. Tandis que le nombre de tracteurs dans nos campagnes augmentait d'environ 1000%, le nombre de fermes chutait lui de 70% et celui des actifs agricoles de 82% : autrement dit, ce sont plus de 4 actifs sur 5 qui ont quitté le travail agricole en seulement quatre décennies, entre 1954 et 1997. Et la lente hémorragie se poursuit aujourd'hui...

    Alors que la taille moyenne d'une exploitation en France en 2020 est de 69 hectares, celle d'Arnaud Rousseau, actuel dirigeant de la FNSEA, ancien courtier et négociant tout droit sorti d'une business school, s'élève à 700 hectares et il est à la tête d'une quinzaine d’entreprises, de holdings et de fermes, président du conseil d'administration du groupe industriel et financier Avril (Isio4, Lesieur, Matines, Puget, etc.), directeur général de Biogaz du Multien, une entreprise de méthanisation, administrateur de Saipol, leader français de la transformation de graines en huile, président du conseil d'administration de Sofiprotéol... 

    Les cadres de la FNSEA tout comme les dirigeants des plus grosses coopératives agricoles - abondamment représentés par la "Fédé" et ses satellites - se gavent [1] : le revenu moyen mensuel des dix personnes les mieux payées en 2020 au sein de la coopérative Eureden est de 11 500 €. 

       Les revenus moyens des agriculteurs brandis sur les plateaux et le mythe de l'unité organique du monde agricole masquent une disparité de revenus effarante et de violentes inégalités socio-économiques qui ne passent plus : les marges des petits producteurs ne cessent de s'éroder tandis que les bénéfices du complexe agro-industriel explosent. 

    Dans le monde, le pourcentage du prix de vente qui revient aux agriculteurs est passé de 40 % en 1910 à 7 % en 1997, selon l’Organisation des Nations unies pour l’agriculture et l’alimentation (FAO). De 2001 à 2022, les distributeurs et les entreprises agroalimentaires de la filière lait ont vu leur marge brute s'envoler de respectivement 188% et 64%, alors même que celle des producteurs stagne quand elle n'est pas simplement négative. 

    Une des raisons qui poussent le monde agricole à bloquer les autoroutes, à ouvrir des bouteilles de lait à Carrefour (Epinal-Jeuxey) ou à bloquer les usines Lactalis (Domfront, Saint-Florent-le-Vieil, etc.), à labourer un parking (Clermont-l'Hérault), à bloquer le port de la Rochelle, à vider des camions venus de l'étranger, à asperger de lisier une préfecture (Agen), à retourner un Macdo (Agens), à osrtir c'est que les industriels  intermédiaires de l'amont (fournisseurs, vendeurs d'agroéquipements, semenciers industriels, vendeurs d'intrants et d'aliments) et de l'aval des filières (les coopératives de collecte-distribution comme Lactalis, les industriels de la grande distribution et de l'agroalimentaire comme Leclerc) qui structurent le complexe agroindustriel les dépossèdent des produits de leur travail.

    C'est ce pillage de la valeur ajoutée organisé par les filières qui explique, aujourd'hui, que sans les subventions qui jouent un rôle pervers de béquilles du système (en plus de profiter essentiellement aux plus gros) 50% des exploitant·es auraient un résultat courant avant impôts négatif : en bovins lait, la marge hors subvention qui était de 396€/ha en moyenne entre 1993 et 1997 est devenue négative à la fin des années 2010 (-16€/ha en moyenne), tandis que le nombre de paysans pris en compte par le Réseau d'information comptable agricole dans cette filière passe sur cette période de 134 000 �� 74 000 [2]...  

    Les accords de libre échange internationaux (que dénoncent et la Confédération paysanne, et la Coordination rurale) mettent en concurrence les paysanneries du monde entier et ont accéléré ces déprédations économiques. Nous savons bien que, aujourd'hui, lorsque l'on parle de "libéralisation", de "gains de compétivité", de "modernisation" des structures, c'est que des fermes vont disparaître, que la polyculture élevage va régresser (elle ne représente plus que 11% des exploitations actuellement), ne laissant plus qu'un désert vert de monocultures industrielles menées par des exploitant-es à la tête de structures toujours plus endettées de moins en moins maîtres d'un outil de travail et d'un compte en banque qui finit par n'appartenir plus qu'à ses créanciers.

    Le constat est sans appel : moins il y a de paysan·nes, moins ils et elles peuvent gagner leur vie, sauf à agrandir toujours et encore leur surface d'exploitation, en dévorant au passage les voisin·es. Dans ces conditions, 'devenir chef d'entreprise' comme le promet la FNSEA, c'est en réalité se trouver dans la même situation qu'un chauffeur Uber qui s'est endetté jusqu'au cou pour acheter son véhicule alors qu'il dépend d'un donneur d'ordres unique pour réaliser son activité... Ajoutons à cela la brutalité du changement climatique (évènements climatiques extrêmes, sécheresses, incendies, inondations...) et les dérèglements écologiques entraînant dans leur sillage la multiplication de maladies émergentes et autres épizooties, et le métier devient presque impossible, invivable, tant l'instabilité est grande.

    Si nous nous soulevons, c'est en grande partie contre les ravages de ce complexe agro-industriel, avec le vif souvenir des fermes de nos familles que nous avons vu disparaître et la conscience aiguë des abîmes de difficultés que nous rencontrons dans nos propres parcours d'installation. Ce sont ces industries et les méga-sociétés cumulardes qui les accompagnent, avalant les terres et les fermes autour d'elles, accélérant le devenir firme de la production agricole, et qui ainsi tuent à bas bruit le monde paysan. Ce sont ces industries que nous ciblons dans nos actions depuis le début de notre mouvement - et non la classe paysanne. 

    Si nous clamons que la liquidation sociale et économique de la paysannerie et la destruction des milieux de vie sont étroitement corrélées - les fermes disparaissant au même rythme que les oiseaux des champs et le complexe agro-industriel resserrant son emprise tandis que le réchauffement climatique s'accélère - nous ne sommes pas dupes des effet délétères d'une certaine écologie industrielle, gestionnaire et technocratique. La gestion par les normes environnementales-sanitaires de l'agriculture est à ce titre absolument ambigüe. À défaut de réellement protéger la santé des populations et des milieux de vie, elle a, derrière de belles intentions, surtout constitué un nouveau vecteur d'industrialisation des exploitations. Les investissements colossaux exigés par les mises aux normes depuis des années ont accéléré, partout, la concentration des structures, leur bureaucratisation sous contrôles permanents et la perte du sens du métier.

    Nous refusons de séparer la question écologique de la question sociale, ou d'en faire une affaire de consom'acteurs citoyens responsables, de changement de pratiques individuelles ou de "transitions personnelles" : il est impossible de réclamer d'un éleveur piégé dans une filière hyperintégré qu'il bifurque et sorte d'un mode de production industriel, comme il est honteux d'exiger que des millions de personnes qui dépendent structurellement de l'aide alimentaire se mettent à "consommer bio et local". Pas plus que nous ne voulons réduire la nécessaire écologisation du travail de la terre à une question de "réglementations" ou de "jeu de normes" : le salut ne viendra pas en renforçant l'emprise des bureaucraties sur les pratiques paysannes. Aucun changement structurel n'adviendra tant que nous ne déserrerons pas l'étau des contraintes économiques et technocratiques qui pèsent sur nos vies : et nous ne pourrons nous en libérer que par la lutte. 

    Si nous n'avons pas de leçons à donner aux agriculteur·rices ni de fausses promesses à leur adresser, l'expérience de nos combats aux côtés des paysan·nes - que ce soit contre des grands projets inutiles et imposés, contre les méga-bassines, ou pour se réapproprier les fruits de l'accaparement des terres - nous a offert quelques certitudes, qui guident nos paris stratégiques. 

    L'écologie sera paysanne et populaire ou ne sera pas. La paysannerie disparaîtra en même temps que la sécurité alimentaire des populations et nos dernières marges d'autonomie face aux complexes industriels si ne se lève pas un vaste mouvement social de reprise des terres face à leur accaparement et leur destruction. Si nous ne faisons pas sauter les verrous (traités de libre-échange, dérégulation des prix, emprise monopolistique de l'agro-alimentaire et des hypermarchés sur la consommation des ménages) qui scellent l'emprise du marché sur nos vies et l'agriculture. Si n'est pas bloquée la fuite en avant techno-solutionniste (le tryptique biotechnologies génétiques - robotisation - numérisation). Si ne sont pas neutralisés les méga-projets clés de la restructuration du modèle agro-industriel. Si nous ne trouvons pas les leviers adéquats de socialisation de l'alimentation qui permettent de sécuriser les revenus des producteurs et de garantir le droit universel à l'alimentation.

    Nous croyons aussi à la fécondité et à la puissance des alliances impromptues. A l'heure où la FNSEA cherche à reprendre la main sur le mouvement - notamment en chassant de certains des points de blocage qu'elle contrôle tout ce qui ne ressemble pas à un agriculteur "syndiqué fédé" - nous croyons que le basculement peut venir de la rencontre entre les agriculteur·ices mobilisé·es et les autres franges du mouvement social et écologique qui se sont élevées ces dernières années contre les politiques économiques prédatrices du gouvernement. Le "corporatisme" a toujours fait le lit de l'impuissance paysanne. Comme la séparation d'avec les moyens de subsistance agricoles a souvent scellé la défaite des travailleur-ses.

Peut-être est-il temps de faire céder quelques murs. En continuant à renforcer certains points de blocage. En allant à la rencontre du mouvement pour celles et ceux qui n'y ont pas encore mis les pieds. En poursuivant ces prochains mois les combats communs entre habitant·es des territoires et travailleur·euses de la terre.

Les Soulèvements de la Terre  - le 30 janvier 2024  source

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Journal du mercredi 8 février 2023.

Vents d’Est : avril 1993-Avril 1999.

   Les minorités dans l’ex-monde communiste d’Europe de l’est  après la chute de l’empire soviétique.

Les kalmouks. Ce peuple a fait partie des minorités punies par Staline. Accusés de collaboration avec les allemands, tous les habitants de Kalmoukie furent déportés en Sibérie le 28 décembre 1943.En trois jours Staline organise la déportation de toute la population. « Nous avons eu trente minutes pour faire nos bagages. Personne n’est resté », raconte un habitant dans un article du monde de juillet 1997. Des milliers de personnes meurent durant le voyage ou dans les premiers mois d’installation.

  Quatre ans après la mort de Staline, en 1957, Khrouchtchev signe le décret qui autorise le peuple kalmouk à rentrer sur ses terres. Lorsqu’ils arrivent chez eux, leurs maisons ont été occupées par des russes. « Nous étions tellement contents de revenir que nous n’avons pas voulu faire de scandales. Nous sommes un peuple paisible. »

Photo du journal d’aujourd’hui : Notre chauffeur, de retour de Out-Sala après la visite d’ un ancien kolkhoze devenu un centre d’état d’élevage de chevaux, 23 avril 1997.

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Avon Naturals Jasmine and Orange Flower Foam Bath and Ripe Raspberry Foam Bath

Left: 1994

Right: 1997

Found on Ebay, user cubbies1

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The Kills, jeu dévoué

La série de photographies intitulée Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert, réalisée entre 1996 et 1998 par l'artiste américain John Divola, capture l'instant pendant lequel des chiens poursuivent sa voiture lancée à pleine vitesse sur une route désertique de la Californie du Sud. Toute la puissance existentielle de cette série tient précisément dans la fugacité du moment saisi, celui où le chien atteint la fenêtre du conducteur pour capter son regard, dans l'espoir vain de rattraper la voiture. À propos de ces photographies, John Divola déclare : « Contempler un chien poursuivant une voiture invite à de nombreuses métaphores et juxtapositions : la culture et la nature, le domestique et le sauvage, l'amour et la haine, la joie et la peur, l'héroïsme et l'idiotie. Ici, nous avons deux vecteurs et deux vitesses, celle d'un chien et celle d'une voiture et, étant donné qu'un appareil photo ne capturera jamais la réalité et qu'un chien n'attrapera jamais une voiture, c'est la preuve d'une dévotion à une entreprise sans espoir. »

John Divola, D05F23 de la série Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert, 1996-1998.

John Divola, D10F15 de la série Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert, 1996-1998.

The Kills ont toujours fonctionné en double et en antagonisme. Alison Mosshart et Jamie Hince sont les deux faces d'une même pièce. C'est la tension entre l'isolement et le désir qui est leur moteur de création. La juxtaposition des opposés – domestique et sauvage, héroïsme et idiotie, joie et peur – est manifeste jusque sur la pochette de God Games, où matador et taureau s'affrontent.

À l'écoute de ce disque, le temps passe à une vitesse folle. C'est le temps d'un regard à 130 km/h derrière soi pour y apercevoir un animal à bout de souffle. Non pas parce que ses chansons sont courtes, mais parce qu'il n'y a rien d'aussi immédiatement obsédant que dans Keep On Your Mean Side, No Wow, Midnight Boom, ou même Blood Pressures et Ash & Ice (qui s'essoufflait déjà parfois). Bien sûr, les premiers morceaux des Kills visaient plus juste par leur proximité avec l'ethos DIY, un beat rustique sur une boîte à rythmes bâtarde, un riff à la manière d'un bluesman aveugle, des paroles crachées avec droiture et l'urgence punk dans la voix. Écouter Keep On Your Mean Side, c'est comme lire un fanzine trouvé à prix libre dans une cave où joue un concert de garage rock en 1997 : Xerox ou 4-pistes, même combat.

L'album God Games, lui, fait plutôt l'effet de séquences de films contemplatifs, se voulant artistiques et en marge des tendances, mais avec un très bon budget alloué au montage. Ce qu'il y gagne en production, il le perd en expressivité personnelle et en saleté sincère. Dans un paradoxe un peu fâcheux, les premiers singles révélés cet été, New York, LA Hex et 103, distillaient jusqu'au gimmick toute la substance de leur univers garage et indie rock, sans produire cet effet accrocheur des anciens tubes. Il y a ici de bonnes idées et quelques fulgurances mais, à rebours du récit promotionnel vendu par le label et le groupe lui-même dans les nombreuses interviews récemment données à la presse, qui promet un changement de son, une liberté absolue et une approche expérimentale de la composition, il est intéressant de constater que les meilleurs morceaux de l'album – j'entends par là, les plus réussis soniquement, ceux dans lesquels on entend l'aisance technique, la facilité de l'habitude – sont ceux qui sonnent comme leurs précédents morceaux.

En cela, la deuxième partie de l'album, de Wasterpiece à Better Days, se réécoute avec plaisir, rappelant les beaux jours de Ash & Ice. Et les chœurs gospel de LA Hex sont une réminiscence des chœurs de Satellite. Mais les synthés, les orgues et le mellotron, ce clavier polyphonique vintage, étaient aussi déjà en usage dans Blood Pressures. Quant aux paroles d'amour-haine, poèmes haletants où tendresse et violence se confondent, histoires d'amours et d'errances qui puent l'essence, elles ont toujours été la pulsation de leur son. Difficile de comprendre en toute bonne foi où se situe le potentiel infini de possibilités musicales dans le processus d'écriture de ce nouvel album, dont le duo parlent pourtant régulièrement. Et la ligne entre référence et paresse de se troubler progressivement. L'adage des Kills, incandescents, qui est de ne jamais regarder en arrière, sonne faux.

Il est des groupes qui mettent des années à trouver leur son, ou bien des artistes dont la signature est justement l'identité caméléon, toujours en mouvement. The Kills, quant à eux, ont trouvé leur signature sonore dès leur rencontre en 2001, scellée par le pacte de ne plus jamais se quitter et de se consumer ensemble par la musique.

Je n'ose pas parler de confort, pourtant il y a toujours eu un peu de cela dans leur musique. C'est d'ailleurs bien ce qui a contribué à créer la formule magique du duo : le confort musical de ce « vieux couple marié » (ce sont les mots de Jamie Hince), c'est la complicité évidente, totale et fusionnelle dès les débuts, alors qu'Alison et Jamie se connaissaient à peine.

Alors, maintenant, quoi ?

Dans la langue anglaise, le proverbe 'to be like a dog that caught the car' désigne quelqu'un ayant atteint son but et ne sachant pas quoi faire de cette victoire. C'est une course vide de sens : le chien n'est pas censé rattraper la voiture. Cette « dévotion à une entreprise sans espoir » dont parle John Divola, c'est peut-être ce qui constitue le moteur créatif des musicien.ne.s, ce point de fuite imaginaire destiné à aider un groupe à construire son œuvre en perspective. Pour mieux s'en affranchir ensuite.

Il me semble que la musique des Kills en 2003 contenait infiniment plus de matière expérimentale et de liberté de création que celle de 2023 engluée dans sa narration de fausse naïveté magique. Comme s'il n'y avait plus rien à raconter au monde. Que faire quand on a déjà atteint la voiture vingt ans plus tôt ? Admettre de ne pas avoir su se renouveler n'est pas gage d'agonie, ce n'est même pas une faute. The Kills peuvent bien poursuivre leurs aventures de rock crade-classe, d'élégance musclée et arty bien à eux (d'aucuns parlent de posture, je ne suis pas de ceux-là, je crois leurs origines punk sincères), leur avenir y est faste. Il n'est pas besoin de maquiller ses intentions, ses faiblesses ou sa constance derrière une légende marketée quand la musique leur colle autant à l'âme.

Originally written for Dans Ta Face B, November 2023.

[scotianostra]

Birthday Scottish actress Siobhan Redmond, born in Glasgow on August 27th 1959.

Please note wiki give her d.o.b as July 27th, but two other sources say August.

Redmond was educated at Park School for Girls in Glasgow’s West End. She then studied English at St Andrews University, it is here she started acting in student productions and is said to have been discovered by oor Makar Liz Lochhead. She went on to complete a one-year postgraduate year at the Bristol Old Vic.

Siobhan might not be a household name, but she has some pretty impressive credentials to her portfolio, her first roles were in comedy shows, the most famous being Alfresco in 1983/84 alongside an impressive line up that included, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Ben Elton, as seen in the first photo.

She went on to become a regular character in the 80’s series Bulman, as Lucy McGinty. Perhaps her biggest TV role was in the 90’s cop show Between the Lines as Det. Sgt. Maureen Connell, after this she appeared with Alan Cummings in the underrated sitcom The High Life, a link to another post today, in 1997 we saw her onscreen with Billy Connolly in an adaptation of Deacon Brodie!

Redmond took on a role in the Hospital-soap type series Holby City as consultant paediatrician and clinical lead of Otter Ward, Janice Taylor. Since then Siobhan seems to have reverted to playing the role of a cop again, in The Bill, crime scene examiner Lorna Hart in 14 episodes in 2007 and in Taggart in 2010 she was Chief Supt Karen Campbell in 6 episodes. Redmond has also provided the voice of Ollie in the popular bairns animated show Nina and the Neurons. More up to date shows include, Queens of Mystery, Amazon Prime series Dark Sense and the Excellent mini series Unforgotten. We last saw Siobhan last year in The Nest and Grantchester, while she returned to Queens of Mystery this year, which also starred the excellent Julie Graham. Prior to that, there was a BBC Scotland comedy pilot, Beep, which aired earlier this year, and the opening episode of the latest series of Midsomer Murders, one of the first shows to return to filming last summer.

Siobhan Redmond has also been very busy treading the boards, as a regular member of the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, playing among others Beatrice in “Much Ado About Nothing"a nd in a play called ‘The Trick is to Keep Breathing’ which debuted at The Tron Theatre Glasgow, before touring all over the country and in Canada. She also starred in "Look Back in Anger” that followed a world tour in 1990 with Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson.

Siobhan recently appeared in the omedy-drama series Rain Dogs , she also turnedup in the sitcom Two Doors Down, whicha new series is in production just now.

[flokkyn-s-cellar]

06/03/2024

Après rendez-vous avec ma tutrice il y a de cela 6 jours, nous avons conclu que le plus important à l'heure actuelle était de construire l'univers et pour cela je dois me documenter sur divers dystopies pour créer la mienne. Je vais faire les compte rendu de ce que je lis/vois.

Je commence avec le compte-rendu que je me suis fait du libre "Le Procès" par Franz Kafka. J'ai noté certains passages du livre, je vais les retranscrire et dire ce que j'en pense et/ou comment ça va m'aider pour mon propre projet.

"Le Procès", Franz Kafka, édition Le Livre de Poche

1 ) p59 ligne 11 à 19

" Comment puis-je aller à la banque si je suis en état d'arrestation? - Ah! fit l'inspecteur qui se trouvait déjà près de la porte, vous m'avez mal compris ; vous êtes en état d'arrestation, certes, mais cela ne doit pas vous empêcher d'exercer votre profession. Vous ne devez pas non plus être gêné dans vos habitudes. - Alors ce n'est pas bien méchant, d'être en état d'arrestation, fit K. en s'approchant de l'inspecteur. "

Pour moi c'était le début de l'absurde. Le moment semble drôle parce qu'on dirait que rien ne va vraiment changer dans l'immédiat mais je l'ai aussi trouvé angoissant par la naissance d'une épée de Damoclès au-dessus de la tête de K. Tout doit se faire comme avant, notamment travailler et servir mais n'oublie pas tu es en procès.

2 ) p64 ligne 27 à 34

" Certes vous êtes en état d'arrestation mais pas comme on arrête un voleur. Quand on est arrêté comme un voleur, alors c'est grave, mais cette arrestation… Ça me donne l'impression de quelque chose de savant, pardonnez-moi si je dis des bêtises, ça me donne l'impression de quelque chose de savant, que je ne comprends pas, c'est vrai, mais qu'on n'est pas non plus forcé de comprendre. "

La suite de l'absurde de la situation dans laquelle on n'arrive pas à nommer la situation. C'est comme un voleur mais non. Cela m'a rappelé un sketch du JDG sur les dresseurs pokémon je dois dire. Mais le danger vient de ce gris: la situation est grise donc elle ne peut pas être résolue, donc elle est sujette à des interprétations arbitraires. Dans un sens cela peut faire penser aux zones grises dans les textes de loi, qui deviennent des conflits judiciaires assez souvent. En tout cas, la question de la "zone grise" me semble bien comme base de dystopie parce que cela laisse les personnes qui jouent/lient/regardent dans une forme incapacitante à émettre un jugement et résoudre le conflit.

3 ) p84 ligne 1 à 5

" Donc, fit le juge d'instruction, tout en feuilletant son cahier et en se tournant vers K. d'un ton péremptoire, vous êtes artisan-peintre ? - Non, fit K., je suis administrateur en chef dans une grande banque. "

Ce passage humiliant pour le protagoniste a mis en avant pour moi sa descente de la classe sociale. D'abord à haute responsabilité dans la banque, à un "simple artisan" avant de devenir complètement criminel. Le changement de statut social n'est pas forcément ce qu'il "faut" pour faire une dystopie, néanmoins c'est un procédé qui permet de précipiter les protagonistes dedans. Cela peut uassi être la récompense recherchée (New-York 1997).

4 ) p89-90 ligne 28 à 12

" il ne fait aucun doute que derrière tous les agissements de ce tribunal, donc dans mon cas précis, derrière l'arrestation et la présente instruction, une vaste organisation se dissimule. Une organisation qui non seulement emploie des gardes corrompus, des inspecteurs stupides et des juges d'instruction modestes dans le meilleur des cas, mais qui entretient de surcroît une haute magistrature et une magistrature suprême, avec son incontournable cortège d'huissiers, de greffiers, de gendarmes et autres auxiliaires, peut-être même ses bourreaux, le mot ne me fait pas peur. Et quel est le sens de cette vaste organisation, messieurs? Il consiste à faire arrêter des personnes innocentes et à intenter contre elles des procédures folles et, le plus souvent, comme dans mon cas, sans résultat. Comment, vu l'absurdité de tout cela, éviter les formes les plus graves de corruption des fonctionnaires? C'est impossible, même pour lui-même, le plus haut magistrat n'y parviendrait pas. Voilà pourquoi les gardes cherchent à dépouiller le prévenu de ses vêtements, voilà pourquoi les inspecteurs entrent par effraction dans la demeure d'autrui, voilà pourquoi, au lieu de leur faire subir un interrogatoire, on humilie des innocents devant des assemblées toutes entières. "

Ce passage m'a semblé intéressant parce que c'est le moment où le protagoniste semble être en pleine conscience de tout ce qui se passe. Mais cela a lieu assez tôt dans le livre, de ce fait, même conscient, le personnage est pris dans une spirale dont il ne pourra pas ressortir. Cela peut être aussi un mécanisme de jeu avec les joueureuses. Qu'iels se rendent vite compte du problème mais est ce que je leur laisse la possibilité d'en sortir directement via culture participative ou doivent iels d'abord finir un événement dont iels ne sont pasl es maître.sses?

5 ) p157 ligne 24 à 30

"L'avocat cherchait-il à le réconforter, ou à lui ôter tout espoir? K. l'ignorait, mais il tint bientôt pour acquis que sa défense n'était pas en de bonnes mains. Tout ce que l'avocat racontait pourvait être vrai, même s'il cherchait manifestement par tous les moyens à se mettre en avant "

Je pense que cela n'est pas le cas mais j'interprète ce passage comme K. qui dissocie de ce que lui raconte l'avocat. Il parle mais n'apporte rien et il s'en rend compte sans quitter la scène. J'ai eu l'impression de voir la scène comme au dessus des personnages. Ce que je trouve assez intéressant comme manière d'intégrer le joueur à l'intrigue comme le 3ème oeil, qui est en incapacité.

6 ) p182-183 ligne 35 à ligne 1

" Ces fillettes aussi appartiennent au tribunal. - Comment? demanda K. en écartant la tête pour regarder le peintre. Mais celui-ci se rassit sur son siège et dit, moitié pour plaisanter, moitié en guise d'explication : Tout appartient au tribunal."

Est-ce qu'elles représentent le tribunal comme opinion publique. Est-ce qu'elles représentent le tribunal par extension du fait qu'elles vivent dans un état maintenu par la force policière et qu'alors tous ces membres forment le tribunal? Ce sont mes deux théories et peut-être que les deux sont valides ou aucune des deux. Mais je pense que les deux se nourrissent l'un et l'autre. Dans une dystopie il faut déterminer qui fait la loi?

7 ) p185 ligne ligne 31 à 35

" Vous avez dit aussi tout à l'heure que l'on peut influencer personnellement les juges, mais vous contestez à présent qu'on puisse jamais obtenir le véritable acquittement, comme vous le désignez, en usant d'une influence personnelle"

Pourrait-il être intéressant de laisser les joueureuses sur une fin douce amère? Ou sur une résolution qui ne l'est pas vraiment. Ou pas pour lae protagoniste.

8 ) p191 ligne 8 à 12

" Un jour - sans que personne s'y attende -, un juge quelconque prend en main le dossier pour y regarder de plus près, découvre que dans ce cas précis l'accusation est toujours en vigueur et ordonne l'arrestation immédiate. "

Je me suis dis que cela pouvait être un mécanisme exploitable que le malheur, l'intrigue du de lae protagoniste sorte au milieu de nul part. Un événement en plein milieu de la partie qui chamboule tout?

9 ) p203 ligne 15

" (je suis le négociant en grains) "

Ok j'ai juste bien rigolé en lisant ce titre. Je pense que cela n'était absolument pas son objectif mais cela me fait penser que donner des rôles qui peuvent sembler absurdes aux joueureuses de pratiquer pourrait aussi faire partie de la dystopie? Pourquoi ce rôle, que faire avec, quel est mon but?

10 ) p215 ligne 21 à 28

" Les accusés sont les plus beaux. Ce ne peut être la faute qui les rend beaux, car en réalité - en tant qu'avocat, je dois du moins tenir ce discours - tous ne sont pas coupables ; ce ne peut pas être non plus le châtiment à venir qui les rend déjà beaux, car ils ne sont pas tous châtiés ; cela ne peut donc pas tenir qu'à la procédure entamée contre eux, et qui d'une certaine façon leur colle à la peau. "

L'aventure de l'accusé doit se montrer suffisamment moralement grise point de vue de lae spectateurice car il faut pouvoir avoir une bataille d'opinion à son encontre? (Dans la réalité ce n'est pas toujours le cas, des gens 100% criminels sont quand même appréciés mais point de vue joueureuse je suppose qu'il faudrait que les personnages qu'iels jouent soient très gris).

11 ) p224 ligne 32 à 35

" le client finissait par oublier le reste du monde, dans le seul espoir de se traîner jusqu'au terme du procès en suivant cette voie sans issue. Ce n'était plus un client, c'était le chien de l'avocat. "

Je ne sais pas si je réutiliserais cette idée via mon projet mais il me semble juste de voir une fin qui finit mal pour lae protagoniste comme la seule chose qui lui reste et qui définit son identité à l'instant T (déshumanisant). Néanmoins ce n'est pas une obligation (surtout en fin).

12 ) p225 ligne 23 à 28

" Les documents que tu lui as prêtés doivent être difficiles à comprendre. - Oui, dit l'avocat, il est vrai qu'ils le sont. Je ne crois pas non plus qu'il y comprenne grand-chose. Il sont juste censés lui donner une idée de la difficulté du combat que je mène en sa défense. "

Nouveau procédé humiliant utilisé pour parler des victimes du système dans lequel les personnages se trouvent. Même dans leur ultime et personnel défense elles ne peuvent rien faire, tout revient au tribunal de nouveau.

13 ) p241 ligne 11 à 13

" Le verdict ne vient pas en une fois, la procédure se transforme peu à peu en verdict. "

Cela m'a semblé être une remarque très juste et encore plus dans l'idée d'une construction du récit. Il faut que les rôles que les gens s'attribuent au cours du jeu évoluent et deviennent des portraits plus précis qui se sont construits au cours de la partie. Le rôle du ou de la criminel.le et sa gravité prennent sens avec les autres joueureuses.

14 ) p242 ligne 21 à 22

" non comment influencer sur le procès, mais comment en sortie, le contourner, vivre en dehors du procès. "

Dans la continuité du point 12, faire miroiter une porte de sortie ou en r��ver. Définir son identité autrement que par l'accusation.

15 ) p256-257 dernière ligne à 2

" K. savait fort bien, à présent, que son devoir eût été de s'emparer du couteau qui passait de main en main au-dessus de lui, et de se transpercer. "

Moment où le protagoniste hésité de manière ultime à s'ôter lui-même la vie pour être le dernier à être le maître de son sort. Cela tient de conserver son humanité. je ne sais pas si cela pourrait être un dilemme intéressant pour la personne accusée au sein du jeu?

16 ) p257 ligne 18 à 21

" La logique a beau être inébranlable, elle ne résiste pas à quelqu'un qui veut vivre. Où était le juge qu'il n'avait jamais vu? Où était le haut tribunal auquel il n'avait jamais accédé? "

C'est la fin du livre avant que K. ne soit exécuté et Kafka met en avant toutes ces questions qui n'ont pas été résolues durant l'intrigue (faisant parti intégrante de la dystopie). Il me semble bien lors d'une dystopie de ne pas répondre à toutes ces questions et de laisser pleins de problèmes non-résolues: néanmoins il faut réussir à mettre en avant el dilemme du problème principal.

[fuckyeah-jessicabiel]

Deep dive #2: Jessica Biel’s relationships timeline and all the interconnections

| Adam LaVorgna | Chris Evans | Justin Timberlake |

Disclaimer: This is done for fun. No hate, no drama, just some Hollyweirdness. It’s not a detailed timeline but more like key moments with some fun or surprising connections and anecdotes (to me at least). It’s just not possible to do one boyfriend timeline without mentionning another one. No famous people won’t be mentionned, neither most tabloids speculations. People already twist things, so it can’t be worse (right?). And please don’t judge my english.

Spring 1997: During the interview with All-Stars Magazine, 15 years old JessicaBiel shared that she only had two "sort of" boyfriends, both of whom were 17.

All-stars: In real life, do you ever date older guys? Jessica: I don’t really date very many people. I’ve had two boyfriends kind of! Both of them have been 17, so they’re usually older.

Spring 1998: 16 years old Jessica Biel is filming her second movie “I’ll be Home for Christmas” with Jonathan Taylor Thomas in Alberta and Vancouver, Canada. She met Adam LaVorgna who play the bad boy Eddie, they start dating while filming the movie. Even thought Adam is not very well known, he has been acting since he is 10. Nsync’s christmas song was used during the end credit of the movie. FYI The movie is available on Disney+.

"I knew when I first met [Jessica] there was something there. We did a movie together called I'll Be Home for Christmas. As soon as I saw her, I thought I'm definitely going to date this girl. There's no way she's getting away from me. It'll be three years in April." - Teen Magazine, March 2001

April 1, 1999: On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jessica said that Adam Lavorgna was her first real boyfriend. She said he is very smart and go to Avon Old Farms high school in Connecticut.

“First guy named Adam, oh oh trouble trouble” - Jay Leno

August 12, 1999: Jessica Biel and Adam Lavorgna did their first red carpet together at Barry Watson’s movie premiere "Teaching Mrs.Tingle". From what I have seen, it was Adam’s first red carpet of his career.

Fall 1999: 7th Heaven producers were looking for an actor to play Jessica’s character Mary Camden boyfriend and asked her if she had any suggestion. She suggested her then boyfriend Adam. His first appearance as Robbie Palmer in 7th Heaven was in season 4, Episode 10 aired on November 29, 1999. When the producers first called his team, they refused it without talking to Adam. He had to call them to tell them to accept it. He didn’t care for the show but just wanted to be with Jessica and make easy money. Adam shared that story on the Worst Ever Podcast in 2019.

January 2000: Lance Bass from Nsync guest-starred in 7th Heaven as Rick Palmer (Adam LaVorgna character’s brother). He appeared in season 4 episode 13 that aired on January 30, 2000.

I have a friend who worked for a publicist for some of the actors on The WB, such as [”7th Heaven” star] Beverley Mitchell and the people from ”Popular.” So I was having dinner with her and Beverley, and Beverley was talking about how she wanted a boyfriend this season, and I said, ”I’ll do it!” and she was like, ”Okay!” Source: Entertainment Weekly, January 2000

So of course while filming that episode Jessica was asked by Enews about Nsync. She said she knew about them but don’t own any of their CDs and they shared their differents experiences.

“Hum but I mean cool, I guess” - Jessica Biel about NSYNC

And also Justin Timberlakeand the Nsync guys watching that 7th Heaven episode during a MTV interview.

March 2000: Jessica did the scandalous Gear Magazine photoshoot. (She quickly regretted doing that photoshoot and shared how horrible the experience was). Adam was not happy about it. There were some tensions between them while she was spending time with the interviewer.

During the time I spent with her, the Boyfriend (whom she asks not to name) is constant presence, though he’s more than 3,000 miles away in Boston. What he thinks  and how he’ll react take up a large portion of Jesse’s thoughts. He’s nervous at her being perceived as sex idol, and having a writer from men’s magazine spend several days with her is not helping. Over the course of those days, the phone keeps ringing - the Boyfriend - and it’s stressing her. [...] Jesse and I are supposed to hook up the first night I'm in L.A., and I wait for the phone to ring at my hotel room. It never does. [...] The next morning, we talk on the phone. It turns out Jesse had a big fight with the Boyfriend on the phone, and, no longer able to deal, she went to her friend's house and spent the night. And her cell batteries died because she'd been talking to him so long, and I'd given her my wrong cell number and…" Really, I wasn't trying to blow you off. Everything went wrong last night. Please don't think that I'm just some Hollywood jerk," she pleads. [...] She fields another call from her beau. It's an agitated conversation, and when she hangs up the air is very still. Jesse has a tendency to become quite serious - she says she thinks way too much and it's suddenly uncomfortable between us. He told her he's unhappy with the situation and doesn't want to talk to her until the writer is gone.The phone rings again. It's the Boyfriend - he's being a jerk, he tells her. Go ahead and have a great interview.Jesse smiles and the tension is gone. "That's so fucking cool of him." Gear Magazine, March 2000

Summer 2000: When it was time for Jessica to leave the show to attend college on the East Coast with Adam (Jessica at Tufts University and Adam at Boston College), the producers of 7th Heaven contacted Adam and offered him a regular role for Season 5. Adam agreed, dropped out of college to be in Los Angeles for filming, while Jessica, who needed a break, still went to college in Massachusetts.

With hindsight, Adam regretted accepting the offer because now he feels like the producers asked him to comeback for season 5 to hit back at Jessica for leaving the show. Jessica was still working on the show during her school break, only appeared in few episodes and her scenes were very brief. Contrary to what was said in the medias, Jessica was never fired from the show. Aaron Spelling made it clear she still had 2 years left in her contract. They destroyed her character thought.

(Read the deep dive about the photoshoot and Jessica Biel leaving the show here)

2000(?): Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna, Chris Evans and a group of friends attend a party all together!!

April 2001: Jessica Biel and Adam LaVorgna did a photoshoot together for Movieline Magazine. They denied dating. Adam revealed in the Worst Ever podcast in 2019 that their PR told them to deny they were dating. (off topic: When I was a kid I had the green dress picture as poster from one of my teen mag)

August 12, 2001: Jessica Biel and Adam LaVorgna did their last red carpet together at The Teen Choice Awards. 7th Heaven won best drama award that day. Adam missed the moment they went on stage, and Barry asked where is he?

August 22, 2001: Adam attended Jessica’s movie premiere “Summer Catch” but they didn’t take pictures together.

October 5, 2001: The Enquirer is reporting that Adam LaVorgna went to Promises rehab in Malibu for cocaine and Vicodin addiction.

The Enquirer is reporting that Jessica Biel's boyfriend and 7th Heaven co-star [Adam LaVorgna] checked himself into Promises rehab in Malibu after Jessica and the show's producers both gave the cocaine and Vicodin addict  an ultimatum. An insider told the taboid, "The cocaine and pills drastically  changed his demeanor." After the two talked him into rehab, he appears greatful as the friend added, "Right now he's thanking God for Jessica and the show's  producers. They saved his livelihood - and his life." Source: Jessica Biel Fansite

Adam revealed in the Worst Ever Podcast in 2019, he started drinking at 10/11yo and had Opioid addiction (and then maybe doing heroin, I didn’t understand exactly what he said). He went to rehab multiple times and the first two times were paid by 7th Heaven producer, Aaron Spelling.

In the interviews with Elle Magazine and Cosmopolitan in 2005, Jessica mentioned, without explicitly stating his name, that the relationship was not healthy. Also mentionned in the London (2005) movie behind the scene.

Everybody’s gone throught a relationship that’s not healthy for you. When I was 16, I cried my eyes out to Elvis’ “Cant’ Help Falling in Love” because I felt so in love that my heart was breaking apart.  Elle Magazine, 2005

He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating—but then I realized he was the one cheating. He was putting it on me and making me feel like shit... But then three years later, I was still with him. And then it finally just smacked me in the face and I was like I’m done. I’m over it. Cosmopolitan, 2005

October 10, 2001: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans did their first red carpet appearance at the wrap party of her movie “The Rules of Attraction”. Unless I'm wrong, Chris’ first red carpet of his career were also with Jessica. There is no information about how they met. In the interview with Animal Fair on January 2003, it is mentionned they were friends before dating. In Chris' workout video for Not Another Teen Movie, you can see Jessica in January 2002 commenting on the evolution of his body after filming the movie. They were not dating yet when he did the movie.

Jessica was back full time to L.A after one year at Tufts University. She did another semester later in 2002.

Jessica is still under her 7th Heaven contract and is working daily with Adam LaVorgna on season 6. 7th Heaven showrunner who was still holding grudge against her, made Mary desperate to win Robbie back while he keep rejecting her.

Before writing this post, I didn’t realize that it seems like Jessica and Adam never lived in the same state until they broke up.

Somehow Adam and Chris built a strong friendship for over 20 years. Adam was Chris plus-one at the 2016 Golden Globes. 💁‍♀️

November 11, 2002: The last 7th Heaven episode starring Adam aired, season 7 episode 8. There were no official explanation of why Adam left, neither off screen nor on screen at that time. Adam later revealed in a interview with belief.net that the Hollywood life (easy money, barely working, drugs, partying) is not for him, he is unable to control him and left California for the East Coast. Neither Jessica, nor the cast ever mentionned his addiction.

Jessica’s initial contract being over after season 6, only apperared in 5 out of 22 episodes of season 7. They had only 2 episodes in common.

2002: Jessica and Chris shared the way they feel about their relationship

How is it dealing with a long-distance relationship? Well it’s not easy but I think we both feel really secure in our relationship and we’re making it happen. But it’s always tough. Source: Atnzone, 2002

His favorite way to relax: Hanging out with my girlfriend as much as possible. She's an amazing person. Source: Unknow interview, 2002

January 31, 2003: Jessica Biel attended Justin Timberlake 22nd birthday party with Beverley Mitchell, her future husband Michael and a friend. Justin’s exes Br*tn*y Sp*ars and Alyssa Milano were also there. (Random fact: Adam and Alyssa families are very close, Adam call her “his cousin”)

Beverley Mitchell used to hang out a lot with the Nsync guys in the early 2000s. She participated at many of their Challenge For The Children charity events in Miami from 2000 to 2005. David Gallagher also took part of it. Beverley became pretty close to the guys. Joey Fatone also attended her wedding in Italy in 2008, and she was often seen with Lance Bass. Beverley shared during a recent podcast  with Lance Bass (@ 56min)  that she asked Jessica multiple times to come to thoses events and that she is unlike them actually good at basketball but she always refused.

During a podcast with Tia Mowry, Beverley revealed that Jessica used to tease her for hanging out with Nsync. Tia also shared a story about a Teen People party she was with Jessica where Nsync were performing. Beverley also mentionned that strange moment Justin’s mom asked her about Jessica at the 2007 Golden Globes.

October 2003: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans filmed the movie “Cellular” in Santa Monica, Callifornia. The director of the movie, David R. Ellis, asked Chris to ask Jessica to play the small girlfriend role. He also revealed they had broken up after filming the movie but were back together during the press tour for the movie.

Interviewer: They are still dating? Ellis: They were dating when we made the film and then they took a little break and now they're [back]. She's here. She was just here for lunch with Chris. Now they're back together. They just took a little hiatus.

Interviewer: At the time, was it just a coincidence that she was cast? Ellis: No. What happened was I knew Chris was going out with her, and I said, "Why don't you show this to Jess and see what she thinks. If she'd like to come do it, you guys could do something together, it'd be cute." Unknow interview, 2004

November 2003 to February 2004: Jessica Biel is training and then filming the caothic Blade: Trinity in Vancouver, Canada with Ryan Reynolds and kind of with Wesley Snipes.

From Febuary to June 2004: Jessica Biel is filming Stealth with Jamie Foxx and Josh Lucas in Australia and Thailand.

January 27, 2004: At the Perfect Score movie premiere, Chris Evans confirmed their break up (unknow source)

June 30, 2004: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans confirmed back together. They were pictured together in Santa Monica.

September 2004: During press tour of Cellular, Chris shared that they decided to be more low key and how hurtful it could be to read about heartache in magazines.

Evans says he and Biel, whom he describes as "such a sweet girl," have agreed to keep their dating private. "Relationships are difficult," he says. "All that emotion and pain. I can't imagine opening a magazine and reading about my heartache at the newsstand. I said, 'Let's not be seen at clubs being loud and obnoxious. Let's not go to premieres or parties. Let's not get our picture taken.' She's all for it." New York Daily News

(Jessica is a teen star and yet has never been seen being loud and obnoxious at club in the last 25 years)

January 2005: Even thought Chris Evans said it’s a bad idea to work with your girlfriend, Jessica and Chris worked again together in the movie “London”.

“Just don’t do it” - Chris Evans about on set love after filming Cellular

During the interview with Allure in 2009, she is asked to comment about a picture from "London" with Chris.

JB: "That was the beginning of the sex scene in the movie." ALLURE: "Old boyfriend?" JB: "Yes." [rolls her eyes] "You know how it is...."

July 2005: In the July issue of Cosmopolitan, Jessica Biel denied rumors that she and Chris Evans were engaged but they do talk about it.

Interviewer: Do the two of you ever talk about getting married? JB: We always talk about it. We both want to be married, and we both want to have children. But we’re not engaged, so the rumors are false…so far.

On July 6, Jessica attended Chris’ Fantastic Four movie premiere in NYC

March 2006: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans are pictured together for the last time as a couple while walking Jessica’s newley adopted pitbull Tina.

June 30 2006: Wenn.com reports that Jessica Biel and Chris Evans broke up.

Jessica Biel and Chris Evans have called it quits after dating for more than two years, according to media reports in the US... Evans, who starred in Fantastic Four, is currently filming The Nanny Diaries with Scarlett Johansson. A source tells the US edition of OK! magazine that Evans has recently been spotted out in New York City with brunette public relations executive. Meanwhile 24-year-old Biel has been in Los Angeles filming Next with Nicolas Cage.            

October 2006 : Life & Style Weekly reports that Jessica is seeing Adam Levine. They have never been seen together or ever talked about each other. Zero detail about how or where they met. Sound 100% bullshit.

November 6, 2006: TMZ spotted Jessica walking her dog with Zach Braff. Yep that was before she eat him (it’s a Bojack Horseman reference). They never talked about each other and have never been spotted together after that.

November 28, 2006: People reports that Jessica and Derek Jeter are cozying up all over Las Vegas. They also have been spotted together at Social Hollywood on Nov. 15.

December 7, 2006: According US weekly and In Touch, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake were at Social Hollywood. It is kind of confirmed by Justin on his book.

When I met Jess, it was undeniable how beautiful she is. We were at a surprise party in Hollywood at a speakeasy kind of a bar, a private club, and we were standing around in a group of people. I made some sort of sarcastic comment, really dry. Nobody got it except her. She laughed, and I noticed, all of a sudden, and in the way where you wonder if a person’s like you, if they have a very dry, dark sense of humor, too. We talked that night. The DJ played “Lucky Star,” and we danced. And then she was gone. I didn’t ask for her number. It wasn’t the time. From Justin Timberlake book, Hindsight

End of December 2006/Begining of January 2007: Scarlett Johansson is filming the music video What Goes Around with Justin Timberlake.

From January 1 to January 5, 2007: Jessica is pictured with Derek Jeter in Puerto Rico for the first and the last time. They have not been spotted together after that.

January 5, 2007: Gossip site reports that Scarlett Johansson and Justin Timberlake were seen chatting away at his movie "Alpha Dog" party.

January 8, 2007: Perez Hilton reports on his blog that Jessica Biel was at Justin Timberlake first show of his Futusex/Lovesound tour. Confirmed again on his book released in 2018.

My first show for the FutureSex/LoveSounds tour was in San Diego. A friend who also knew Jess was going to come to the show, and she asked me, “What if I was to bring a certain somebody?” I said, “I could be into that.” Patience may not be my strong suit but, apparently, playing coy is. My friend brought her to the show. They were with a whole crew of girls, and they all came into the dressing room and hung out. After the show, they were going to go back to LA, and I was going on to Anaheim. I asked them if they wanted to come with me. “I’ll give you a ride, you can come on my bus. If you want …” And they did. Jess and I talked the whole way up, joking around. Before she got off the tour bus, I said, “Can I have your number?” That was when we started talking on the phone. We didn’t date at first. For about two weeks, we talked on the phone, because I was on tour.

Then the Golden Globes came up, and that’s when we planned on seeing each other. From that moment on, we started dating. We were both still seeing other people, keeping « ourselves safe from getting hurt, from really putting ourselves out there. It took a bit for both of us to admit to ourselves that we were really, really that into each other.

From Justin Timberlake book, Hindsight

January 11, 2007: Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz confirmed tabloids speculations and released a break up statement via People. There were already rumors of Justin and Cameron break up. Pagesix reported that Justin spent the new year at Kate Hudson party and Cameron with her family in Vail, Colorado.

January 15, 2007: Golden Globes Night! Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, both presenters that night, see each other for the first time since his San Diego show as planned and got flirty. They were just not expecting 35yo Cameron Diaz public tantrum!

Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz, who announced last week that they’d split up, got into a heated argument at Prince’s Golden Globes afterparty early Tuesday morning. The exes, who’d chatted politely during the awards ceremony and even shared laughs at InStyle’s annual afterparty, hit the rough patch in their officially amicable breakup at a wee-hours bash hosted by the singer at the Beverly Wilshire hotel. According to witnesses, Timberlake was chatting with actress Jessica Biel when Diaz approached. Biel stepped away, and the former couple had a serious exchange. Diaz walked away, Timberlake followed, and the two were soon spotted engaged in an intense 40-minute face-off in a side room. Diaz reemerged looking composed, but not before Timberlake held his head in his hands and, says a witness, “slammed his fist (down) into a cabinet.” Source: People.com

The pair was continuing the touchy-feely flirtation begun earlier that night at the Creative Artists Agency-sponsored bash at Sunset Towers. And his ex-girlfriend Cameron Diaz couldn’t help but stare. “Cameron was across the room giving them the evil eye,” says a party source. “It was like high school.”  “All of a sudden she just lost it,” says one of the many witnesses to the tantrum of Diaz. “She came up and started yelling at Jessica.” According to a witness, Biel, 24, stepped away, leaving Diaz, 34, to unleash her fury on Timberlake, 25, who moved with her into a hallway. Says a guest, “First she started saying all these nasty things to him about Jessica like, ‘What is she? Your new f—king girlfriend? Look at her!’ And then she insinuated things about other guys that Jessica has been with.” The tirade went on for 45 minutes, until Barrymore finally intervened. Source: US weekly

No pictures of them together were published at that time. Years later, this picture will be shared

January 18, 2007: TMZ reports that Cameron Diaz is in Hawai with Kelly Slater. US Weekly mentionned that she flew there the next day of Golden Globes.

January 25, 2007: Jessica is spotted at the Sundance Film Festival.

People.comJustin Timberlake and Jessica Biel have been spotted chilling, flirting and snowboarding lately – but don’t peg them as a new couple just yet, sources say in the new issue of PEOPLE. Earlier this month, Timberlake invited Biel and a few friends to hang backstage at his concert in San Diego, and the pair were spotted snowboarding together with a group of buddies at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, on Jan. 25. - People.com

Still no pictures of them together.

February 2, 2007: Ryan Reynolds and Alanis Morissette reps confirmed they ended their engagement to People.com

February 5, 2007: During the superbowl week, People.com reports that Justin, Scarlett and Joey Fatone arrived together at a party in Miami. They didn’t appear romantic according the source.

February 11, 2007: Justin attended the Grammy Awards as a performer and Scarlett as a presenter. On the red carpet, she adressed the rumors “We have a lot of friends in common, and it’s always good to see him”. Source: People

February 26, 2007: After GQ magazine Oscar party, Jessica Biel and Blade Trinity co-star Ryan Reynolds have a dinner with a group of people at Astro Burger in West Hollywood, including their PR, Meredith.

March 5, 2007: During the fashion week, Jessica Biel and Scarlett Johansson are seen shopping together in Paris, France. Jessica and Scarlett have known each other since they are teens. They did a photoshoot together for Teen People Magazine in 1998.

Jessica and Scarlett have always been friendly with each other over the years (Hitchcock movie premiere 2012, Oscars 2017 with JT)

March 9, 2007:  MTV reports that Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds were seen having a dinner at Santa Monica’s Balabu that week. The pictures seems to have disappear from internet.

April 9, 2007: People reports that Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds spend the week end together

April 2007: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake decide to be exclusive. Justin’s 1st US leg tour ended on March 29, 2007. They spend a month together and they decide to be exclusive before touring Europe from April 24 to July 10. His world tour ended in December 2007.

« When I came back from tour, we spent a month together. After that, I said, “I really want to be exclusive.” And, somehow, she said, “So do I.” It was crazy, because I was about to leave for Europe for three months. Two weeks later, I came back to LA to see her. Then she flew back to Europe with me, and we spent two weeks on the road together. We were going to different cities, having a ball, with room service and pay-per-view and great dinners. And Scrabble. We’ve had a lot of unforgettable times. From Justin Timberlake book, Hindsight

"At one point, we decided we were going to be exclusive. It was that moment; we had that conversation, and literally the next day he was like, 'OK, I'm going to Europe for six months. And I was thinking to myself, What are you doing? You're going to get your heart broken. This guy is the biggest ... whatever he is, and-are you nuts? You're so crazy. But he's just not that person."  Jessica Biel on Marie Claire, 2017

May 2007: In the may issue of Seventeen, Scarlett Johansson while doing promo for her movie The Nanny Diaries (also starring Chris) talked about the rumors linked to her and Jessica.

“We live in a world today where if two people are single – and one’s a guy and one’s a girl and they’re both famous – you’re going to be linked with somebody; If it’s somebody one week, it’s going to be somebody else the next week. It’s either me or Jessica Biel.” Source: People

Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz attend the premiere of the movie Shrek 3 and are doing promo for it.

May 13, 2007: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake officially confirmed, they are pictured together for the first time in Manchester, UK. Jessica joined him during his tour.

July 7, 2007: Jessica Biel and Chris Evans who broke up a year before attended the wedding of a friend in Santa Barbara, California. It doesn’t seem to be someone from the industry, there were no other celebrity. Jessica explained on the Late show of Jay Leno that paparazzi followed her from her Brentwood house and she had to negociate with them. She posed for them in exchange of them leaving and stop bothering the wedding.

June 2008:  Intouch reports that Jessica Biel is moving with Justin Timberlake in his Hollywood Hills house but she will still keep her Brentwood house. She was rarely seen around Brentwood after this.

July 11, 2008: Eonline reports that Jessica, Justin and Chris were all at the opening of the nightclub Kress in Los Angeles but didn’t interact.

Justin Timberlake and girlfriend Jessica Biel made a rare public outing, complete with public displays of affection Friday night in Hollywood at the official opening of Kress, which was crawling with celebs. Timberlake and Biel arrived around 11:30 p.m. at the four-floor club on Hollywood Blvd., where a reserved cabana on the roof deck awaited them. "They're very happy, and very much together," an onlooker told E! We're sure that was evident to Chris Evans, Biel's ex-boyfriend (they dated from 2001-2005). The Fantastic Four's Johnny Storm circled the roof all night, avoiding his ex. "They didn't interact. Chris just wandered around by himself, looking for a table to sit at," the source adds.

September 2008: People reports that Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds wed in Canada

October 12, 2008: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake did their first official  public appearance at Barack Obama rally in Las Vegas, Nevada.

December 10, 2008: Justin and Jessica did their first event together at the Make The Difference Network’s holiday party to benefit Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Make The Difference Network (MTDN) is a social networking website founded by Jessica’s family in 2005 focused on connecting nonprofit organizations (kind of like Gofundme for nonprofit organizations before Gofundme existed but without fees).

January 12, 2009: Justin and Jessica were having dinner at Yatai Asian Tapas Bar when Br*tn*y Sp*ars came in with her mother. They didn’t interact, she left 30 minutes later. Jessica and Justin left shortly after.

May 2009: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake did their first red carpet as a couple at the Met Gala. It was pretty unexpected because Justin never did red carpet with Cameron during their 4 years relationship. Anna Wintour co-chaired that year Met Gala with Justin.

Febuary 2010: On the february issue of Vogue Magazine, Jessica shares how she feels about all the tabloids speculations.

It’s definitely been weird and sort of bizarre to deal with. But you have to have a sense of humor about the whole thing. Honestly, I look at a magazine and they know more than I do. I don’t want to talk about it. I don’t feel the need to clear anything up. It’s the most precious thing that I have in my life, and I care about it so much that I don’t care about what anyone says or thinks. I have just not addressed it in any real way, and I’m not going to. It’s mine. And I really like that about it.

March 2010: Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz are filming the movie Bad Teacher...

February 28, 2011, Jessica and Justin are spotted at Bowling in Studio City with his mother, Lynn.

March 10, 2011: After many years of never ending rumors, Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake reps confirms to People.com that they have broken up.

Reps for the couple released a statement Thursday, confirming the split: “Addressing the media speculation regarding Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake’s relationship, we are confirming that they mutually have decided to part ways. The two remain friends and continue to hold the highest level of love and respect for each other.”

Again after the break up, Jessica is pretty busy.

April and May 2011: Jessica is filming Playing for Keeps with Gerard Butler in Louisiana 

June to September 2011: Jessica is filming Total Recall with Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale in Toronto, Canada.

June 2011: In the June issue of Vanity Fair , Justin talks about Jessica.

"She is the single-handedly most significant person in my life. In my 30 years, she is the most special person, OK?

So I protect it, and until somebody shows me what would be more fulfilling at this point, that's what I have to do. I would rather not talk about her, because it's hurtful for me. It's unfortunate that even though you make the effort to say something, which I tried on for size, people do what they want to do.

I don't want to say much more, because I have to protect things that are dear to me—for instance, her."

June 2, 2011: Jessica is seen on Motorcycle Ride with Gerard Butler. Their reps tell People they are just friends.

Meanwhile Justin is spotted hanging out with Ashley Olsen. Justin reps denies the rumors of dating to People, he is hanging out with “a group of friends”. Estee Stanley, Jessica and Ashley’s stylist and close friend, was with them. (On this one you will have to believe me i saw all of them in one video with other people leaving a restaurant and hotel, I can’t post the source).

In May 2012, Jessica shared on social media the RAW backpack that Ashley Olsen gifted to her.

June 03, 2011: Enews reports that Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake reunited at his best friend Trace Ayala girlfriend pregancy party but were just friendly.

Bumping into an ex at a mutual friend's party can be awkward for most of us. But not for Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, who attended the same party on Thursday afternoon in Brentwood. According to a source, the former couple was more than civil at the celebration..."There was no PDA, but they were talking to each other for awhile," a source tells us. "They ate and sat next to each other." But did it look like the onetime twosome were rekindling their relationship? Not exactly. The exes arrived and left the soiree, which was a celebration for J.T.'s friend and business partner's Trace Ayala's expectant girlfriend, separately.

They did kiss before departing, but it wasn't the romantic type of smooch.

July 3, 2011: US Weekly reports that Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel were spotted at the Black Hoof restaurant in Toronto where Jessica is filming Total Recall

August 2011: Multiple twitter sightings of them in NYC

August 28, 2011: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake confirmed back together, they are pictured riding bike in Toronto where Jessica is still filming Total Recall.

October 30, 2011: A unknow actor posted on twitter a halloween picture of him with Jessica Biel and Chris Evans. Jessica is dressed as a Kardashian and Chris as ...a thug...

December 23, 2011: A twitter user reports that Justin Timberlake proposed to Jessica Biel at the top of a mountain in Montana. He got the information from their ski instructor friend (not posting his tweet because he is not a public person). Justin and Jessica are known to do heli-snowboarding which would explain why they had an instructor with them. They didn’t confirmed or denied at the moment.

March 8, 2012: Jessica Biel is seen wearing her engagement ring for the first time.

May 7, 2012: Jessica Biel joins Twitter and Instagram

May 24, 2012: Chris Evans joins Twitter

August 2012: Jessica’s Brentwood house is sold.

October 19, 2012: Jessica and Justin tied the knot at the Borgo Egnazia resort in the south of Italy. Jessica was wearing a custom petal pink Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown.

October 21, 2012: Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake flown to Tanzania for a honeymoon amongst the wildlife.

May 2013: Chris bought an house in the same street as Justin and Jessica.

In his interview with Hollywood Reporter in 2019, Chris mentionned that “he thinks” Justin Timberlake lives around here. The little shady interviewer doesn’t believe that he doesn’t know that Jessica also live there.

He keeps it closer to the vest about other people. He mentions in passing that Justin Timberlake lives around here — “I think” — without mentioning that Timberlake lives around here with his wife, Jessica Biel, who was once Evans’ girlfriend.

March 2, 2014: Jessica Biel took a picture with Chris Evans’ brother, Scott Evans, at the 2014 Oscar party.

September 27, 2014: Jessica Biel who is very well known for being fit is seen with a little belly at the beach in Hawaii.

October 14, 2014: For the first time, Justin shared a picture of them on social media during the New Zealand stop of his 20/20 Experience world tour.

April 8, 2015: They welcome their first son Silas Randall Timberlake. 12 days later Justin shared his first picture on Instagram. After few months, they stopped sharing his face.

July 2020: They welcome their second son Phineas Timberlake. They were able to “hide” her pregnancy because of covid lockdown. They never shared pictures showing his face.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.

The story of Globe Theatre started with William Shakespeare's acting company, Lord Chamberlain's Men.

William Shakespeare (baptized 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was a part-owner or sharer in the company, as well as an actor and resident playwright.

From its inception in 1594 AD, Lord Chamberlain's Men performed at Theatre, a playhouse located in Shoreditch.

However, by 1598, their patrons, including Earl of Southampton, had fallen out of favour with the Queen.

Theatre's landlord, Giles Alleyn, had intentions to cancel the company's lease and tear the building down.

While Alleyn did own the land, he did not own the materials with which the theatre had been built.

So, on 28 December 1598, after leasing a new site in Southwark, Cuthbert and Richard Burbage led the rest of the company of actors, sharers, and volunteers in taking the building down, timber by timber, loading it on to barges, and making their way across Thames.

Working together, the actors built the new theatre as quickly as they could.

The ground on the new site was marshy and prone to flooding, but foundations were built by digging trenches, filling them with limestone, constructing brick walls above stone, and then raising wooden beams on top of that.

A funnel caught rainwater and drained it into ditch surrounding the theatre and down into Thames.

The theatre was 30m in diameter and had 20 sides, giving it its perceived circular shape. 

Structure was similar to that of their old theatre, as well as that of the neighbouring bear garden.

The rectangular stage, at 5ft high, projected halfway into the yard and circular galleries.

Pillars were painted to look like Italian marble, sky painted midnight blue, and images of gods overlooked balcony. It could hold up to 3,000 people.

By May 1599, the new theatre was ready to be opened.

Burbage named it Globe after the figure of Hercules carrying the globe on his back — for in like manner, the actors carried Globe's framework on their backs across Thames.

A flag of Hercules with globe was raised above theatre with Latin motto: 'totus mundus agit histrionem' ('all the world's a playhouse'). 

Shakespeare's plays that were performed there early on included: 

Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.

Here, the Lord Chamberlain's Men enjoyed much success and gained the patronage of King James I in 1603, subsequently becoming The King's Men.

During a fateful performance of Henry VIII on 29 June 1613, a cannon announcing the unexpected arrival of the king at the end of Act 1 set fire to the thatched roof, and within an hour, the Globe burned to ground.

Everyone escaped safely, save for one man whose breeches reportedly caught fire. Two different songs had been written about it by the next day.

Globe was rebuilt by February 1614. The company could then afford to decorate it extravagantly, and it had a tiled roof instead of thatched.

However, by this point, Shakespeare's influence had lessened. He was spending more and more time back in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Disaster struck again in 1642 when the Parliament ordered the closure of London theatres.

In 1644-45, Globe was destroyed and the land sold for building.

In 1970, American actor and director, Samuel Wanamaker CBE (born Wattenmacker; 14 June 1919 – 18 December 1993), set up the Shakespeare's Globe Trust to pursue his dream of reconstructing the original Globe Theatre.

For what would be almost the next 30 years, he and his team worked and fought to obtain the permissions, funds, and research necessary for a project of this scope. 

Historians, scholars and architects all worked together in their efforts to build the Globe in the same way Lord Chamberlain's Men did, down to the green oak pillars and thatched roof.

Their work and dreams were fulfilled when the new Globe Theatre opened in 1997, one street away from where original stood.

Globe stands today as a living monument to Shakespeare, greatest English playwright, home to productions of his plays and many other new ones every season.

[dollsonmain]

Well that's no good.

I finally had the "That one!!!" moment and it's $30 at least.

Boo.

It's a $4 house. (So far I haven't had to buy anything for it using only things I already had, though I will probably have to buy some craft foam.)

[cressida-jayoungr]

Coeli's Picks: Men, part 1

(Multiple movies listed left to right)

One Dress a Day Challenge

Tale of Tales (2015) / John C. Reilly as the King of Longtrellis

Blake's 7 (s4 e1, "Rescue") / Paul Darrow as Kerr Avon

The Sting (1973) / Robert Redford as Johnny Hooker

Coming 2 America (2021) / Eddie Murphy as Prince Akeem Joffer

"I haven't seen the movie but the costumes are terrific. The lead costumer, Ruth E. Carter, did this movie after her amazing work on Black Panther and has talked about how she went about creating a different fictional African country's style in a tone more appropriate to a comedy."

The Fifth Element (1997) / Gary Oldman as Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg

Doctor Strange (2016) / Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mordo

Fellini's Casanova (1976) / Donald Sutherland as Casanova

Babylon 5 (s2 e1, "Comes the Inquisitor") / Andreas Katsulas as Ambassador G'Kar

"I picked this screenshot because I could pin it to an episode, but my main thought was to represent the character, and really the series, in general. Londo and the other Centauri also have great costumes, for example. Most of the humans aren't all that exciting, though I like the station uniforms post-independence from Earth."

Flash Gordon (1980) / Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless

"Of course, any of the many outfits worn by Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon could/should be highlighted this month!"