#Christopher P. Andersen

[omg-hellgirl]

"Anita was an exotic, ambitious, sexy, decadent, dangerous woman," observed Mankowitz. "In a word, she was trouble."

Christopher P. Andersen, Jagger Unauthorized.

[omg-hellgirl]

Poor Brian honestly, I feel a little sorry for him. Also, this photo is incredible. ALSO, I hope you bought this. 5,49!!! This would be so ridiculously cheap in my currency if there was no currency conversion 😭

Philip Norman also wrote a biography of Mick Jagger which is on my to-buy-to-read list 😩 — even if I'm reading a few books at the same time.

went to the bookstore today to find some stuff to read for a project, and decided to drop by the music section.

I don’t think I could’ve created a more apt metaphor for Brian’s place in the history of The Rolling Stones even if I was paid too.

[mappingthemoon]

Movies/TV Watched 2023

The Postman Always Rings Twice / Bob Rafelson (1981)

Secretary* / Steven Shainberg (2002)

Spirited Away* / Hayao Miyazaki (2001)

Watcher / Chloe Okuno (2022)

The Talented Mr. Ripley / Anthony Minghella (1999)

Pride & Prejudice / Joe Wright (2005)

Moonage Daydream / Brett Morgan (2022)

Volver / Pedro Almodóvar (2006)

Belfast / Kenneth Branagh (2021)

The Last Picture Show / Peter Bogdanovich (1971)

I, Tonya / Craig Gillespie (2017)

The Postman Always Rings Twice / Tay Garnett (1946)

Rocketman / Dexter Fletcher (2019)

The Unholy / Evan Spiliotopoulos (2021)

Mara / Clive Tonge (2018)

Frogs / George McCowan (1972)

Prometheus / Ridley Scott (2012)

Men / Alex Garland (2022)

All the Right Moves / Michael Chapman (1983)

Poseidon / Wolfgang Petersen (2006)

Saint Maud / Rose Glass (2019)

Monstrous / Chris Sivertson (2022)

Wander Darkly / Tara Miele (2020)

Howl’s Moving Castle / Hayao Miyazaki (2004)

Iris / Albert Maysles (2014)

Lamb / Valdimar Jóhannsson (2021)

In Fabric / Peter Strickland (2018)

The Elephant 6 Recording Co. / C.B. Stockfleth (2022)

The Visitor / Justin P. Lange (2022)

Smile / Parker Finn (2022)

Yellowjackets [szn 1-2] (2021-2022)

It Comes at Night / Trey Edward Shults (2017)

Everything Everywhere All at Once / Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert (2022)

Black Bear / Lawrence Michael Levine (2020)

mother! / Darren Aronofsky (2017)

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story / Eric Appel (2022)

X / Ti West (2022)

I Heart Huckabees* / David O. Russell (2004)

The Right Stuff / Philip Kaufman (1983)

Goliath Awaits / Kevin Connor (1981)

Poltergeist* / Tobe Hooper (1982)

Doctor Who [TV Movie]* / Geoffrey Sax (1996)

Earthstorm / Terry Cunningham (2006)

Lake Eerie / Chris Majors (2016)

Fantastic Planet* / René Laloux (1973)

Synecdoche, New York* / Charlie Kaufman (2008)

Flight of the Navigator* / Randal Kleiser (1986)

NOPE / Jordan Peele (2022)

Women Talking / Sarah Polley (2022)

Striking Distance / Rowdy Herrington (1993)

Vivarium / Lorcan Finnegan (2019)

Saw* / James Wan (2004)

A Peculiar Noise / Jorge Torres-Torres (2016)

In the Earth / Ben Wheatley (2021)

Cats 2 / Jake Jones (2023)

Bringing Out the Dead* / Martin Scorsese (1999)

The Last Blockbuster / Taylor Morden (2020)

The Dance of Reality / Alejandro Jodorowsky (2013)

In the Mouth of Madness / John Carpenter (1994)

The Chamber / Ben Parker (2016)

Tenet / Christopher Nolan (2020)

Synchronic / Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead (2019)

Paprika / Satoshi Kon (2006)

The Menu / Mark Mylod (2022)

Sunshine / Danny Boyle (2007)

Devil’s Island / Sean King, Taylor King (2021)

Benedetta / Paul Verhoeven (2021)

Scotland, PA* / Billy Morrissette (2001)

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover / Peter Greenaway (1989)

The Color of Pomegranates* / Sergei Parajanov (1969)

Face/Off* / John Woo (1997)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial / Steven Spielberg (1982)

The Gilded Age (PBS American Experience) / Sarah Colt (2018)

Aniara / Pella Kågerman, Hugo Lilja (2018)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas* / Chuck Jones, Ben Washam (1966)

The Quake / John Andreas Andersen (2018)

The Guilty / Gustav Möller (2018)

The Muppet Christmas Carol* [VHS] / Brian Henson (1992)

M3GAN / Gerard Johnstone (2022)

Caught / Jamie Patterson (2017)

Shot / Jeremy Kagan (2017)

A Charlie Brown Christmas* / Bill Melendez (1965)

Body at Brighton Rock / Roxanne Benjamin (2019)

Trancers / Charles Band (1984)

Higher Power / Matthew Charles Santoro (2018)

*Asterisk = rewatch

Favorites first watched in 2023: Men, In Fabric, Yellowjackets, Everything Everywhere All at Once, mother!, NOPE, The Dance of Reality. (ETA: Vivarium and Aniara, which I wouldn't necessarily call "favorites" but they've stuck with me.)

Favorite rewatches: Secretary, I Heart Huckabees, Poltergeist, Bringing Out the Dead

[ranochjart]

disclaimer: de nombreux avatars datent de 2018-2019, je les poste si jamais ils peuvent toujours intéresser

A

aaron taylor johnson

alexander o'connor

alex hogh andersen

alycia debnam carey

ana de armas

ariana grande

aron piper

ashton sanders

B

billie eilish

brie larson

C

calvin harris

camille rowe

carlson young

chord overstreet

christopher briney

cole sprouse

D

dakota fanning

domhnall gleeson

dominic harrison

E

F

G

george mckay

H

halston sage

hande erçel

harry styles

hunter schafer

I

J

jack falahee

jackson wang

james lafferty

jennifer lawrence

jessica alba

julian morris

K

kiera knightley

kim jennie

kim taehyung

L

laetitia casta

lana del rey

lee taemin

lily james

lim bora

M

madison beer

magdalena zalejska

maia mitchell

matthew daddario

miles teller

N

nadia tereszkiewicz

nicolas peltz

O

P

philip froissant

phoebe tonkin

plan rathavit

Q

R

rafael lazzini

rain spencer

S

salem mitchell

saoirse ronan

T

tia jonsson

tom hardy

tom holland

U

ursula corbero

V

victoria lee

vinnie woolston

W

X

Y

Z

zayn malik

[giftideasfromaycaramba]

A biography of the most powerful female performing artist of the eighties uncovers the unpredictable personal life of the world's favorite platinum-coiffed "Material Girl"

[history-from-a-fan-girl]

My Favorite Historical Characters (Part 1)

Please like only. Don't reblog!

Charles Lee

King Arthur

King Charles II

Vlad Drăculea (Dracula) Țepeș III

Vlad Dracul II

King Matthias Corvinus

Janos Hunyadi

Stefan cel Mare

Mehmed the Conqueror

William Shakespeare

Alexander the Great

Julius Caesar

Dick Turpin

King George I,II,III,IV

Maximilien Robespierre

Elizabeth Báthory

William Wallace

William the Conqueror

Guy Fawkes

Queen Victoria

"Mad Jack" John Churchill

Stephen V Báthory

Ilona/Justina Szilágyi

Charles Dickens

Alexandre Dumas

Howard Pyle

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robin Hood

William Tell

Nikola Tesla

Hans Christian Andersen

Anne Rice

Victor Hugo

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Sir James Mathew Barrie

Bram Stoker

Jack Rackham

Edgar Allan Poe

J R R Tolkien

C S Lewis

H G Wells

Mary Shelley

Roald Dahl

Walt Disney

Arthur Conan Doyle

Jules Verne

H P Lovecraft

Dr Seus

William Wordsworth

E B White

Charles Darwin

Issacs Newton

Louisa May Alcott

D H Lawrence

Ching Shih

Fredrick the Great

Suleyman The Magnificent

Constantine the Great

Winston Churchill

Theodore Roosevelt

Albert Einstein

Thomas Edison

Francis Drake

Bob Ross

Vincent van Gogh

Mary Read

Anne Bonny

Bartholomew Roberts

Sir Christopher Lee

Ernest Hemingway

Bernie Sanders

John Brown

Michelangelo

Steven Irwin

Jane Goodall

Martin Luther King Jr

Abraham Lincoln

John F Kennedy

Charlemagne

Skanderbeg

Stephen Hawking

Queen Elizabeth II

Tecumseh

Che Guevara

Alexander Hamilton

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leonardo Da Vinci

Boudica

[mrepstein]

Brian Epstein’s Address & Telephone Book

A small leather bound pocket address and telephone book that was owned and used by Brian Epstein. The book dates to 1967 and it consists of pages of addresses and telephone numbers some of which are typed, some of which are in Epstein’s hand and some which have been added by hand on his behalf. // (click HERE to view more pages from the book)

The book contains a total of 404 entries - a selection of them are listed below:

A

ATV Ltd 

ABC Television Ltd 

AIR London Ltd. 

Tom Arnold Ltd 

Neil Aspinall 

Artistes Car Hire 

Annabels [nightclub] 

Alexander’s Restaurant 

Ashley Steiner Famous [talent agency] 

Al Aronowitz 

Atlantic Records 

Eric Andersen 

Bob Anthony 

B

Bryce Hanmer & Co [accounting firm] 

Bedford, Okrent & Co 

BBC Television Centre 

BBC Broadcasting House 

Al Brodax 

Cilla Black 

Mr. & Mrs. Tony Barrow 

Mr. & Mrs Don Black 

Bryan Barrett 

Jack Barclay Ltd  [Bentley dealership] 

Peter Brown 

Mr. & Mrs. B. Bullough 

Mr. & Mrs J. Bullough 

Miss J. Balmer 

Mr. &. Mrs. Ivan Bennett 

Eric Burdon 

Francisco Bermudez 

Lionel Bart 

David Bailey 

Bag O’Nails 

Tony Barlow 

Ray Bartell 

Rodney Barnes 

Bruno One Restaurant 

Sid Bernstein 

Kenn Brodziak 

Leonard Bernstein 

Al Bennett 

Beverly Hills Hotel 

Brian Bedford 

Scotty Bower 

David Ballman 

Bob Bonis 

Bill Buist 

Arthur Buist 

C

Dr. Norman Cowan 

Curzon House Club 

Crockfords Club 

Clermont Club 

Cromwellian Club 

Paddy Chambers 

Radio Caroline 

Michael Codron 

Cap-Estel Le 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Cassen 

Columbia Pictures Ltd 

Eric Clapton 

Capitol Records Mexico 

Michael Cooper 

Roger Curtis 

Neil Christian 

Maureen Cleave 

Thomas Clyde 

Cash Box 

CBS Records Ltd 

Denny Cordell 

William Cavendish 

Caprice Restuarant 

David Charkham 

Capitol Records 

Columbia Broadcasting System 

Bob Crewe 

May Cunnell 

Car Hire Co. for Lincoln 

Dr. Kenneth Chesky 

Capitol Records (Voyle Gilmore) 

Irving E. Chezar 

Danny Cleary 

Bobby Colomby 

Bob Casper 

Andre Cadet 

D

Daily Express 

Disc & Music Echo 

Decca Records 

Bernard Delfont Ltd 

Bernard Delfont 

Noel Dixon 

Jimmy Douglas 

Chris Denning 

Simon Dee 

Rik Dane 

Dolly’s [nightclub] 

Hunter Davies 

Terry Doran 

Pat Doncaster 

Norrie Drummond 

Alan David 

John Dunbar 

Peter Dalton 

Kappy Ditson 

Robert Dunlap 

Robert L. David 

Diana Dors 

Ivor Davis 

Tom Dawes 

Brandon de Wilde 

Don Danneman 

E

Malcolm Evans 

Clive J. Epstein 

Mr. & Mrs. H. Epstein 

EMI Records Ltd 

EMI Studios 

Geoffrey Ellis 

Etoile Restaurant 

Tim Ellis 

Terry Eaton 

Kenny Everett 

John East 

Bob Eubanks 

Esther Edwards 

Ahmet Ertegun 

F

Alan Freeman 

David Frost 

Georgie Fame 

Robert Fraser 

Andre Fattacini 

Dan Farson 

Billy Fury 

Barry Finch 

Marianne Faithfull 

Robert Fitzpatrick 

Warren Frederikson 

John Fisher 

Danny Fields 

Francis Fiorino 

G

Dr. Geoffrey Gray 

Hamish Grimes 

Derek Grainger 

Rik Gunnell 

Rik Gunnell Agency Ltd 

Derrick Goodman & Co. 

Peter Goldman 

Christopher Gibbs 

David Garrick 

Geoffrey Grant 

Mick Green 

John P. Greenside 

Michael Gillet 

General Artists Corp. 

John Gillespie 

Voyle Gilmore 

George Greif 

Ren Grevatt 

Milton Goldman 

M. Goldstein 

Gary Grove 

Henry Grossman 

H

Mr. & Mrs. Berrell Hyman 

Doreen Hyman 

Mr. & Mrs. Basil J. Hyman 

Mrs. A. Hyman 

Steve Hardy 

H. Huntsman & Son Ltd 

Simon Hayes 

Frankie Howerd 

Henry Higgins 

Chris Hutchins 

Tony Howard 

Wendy Hanson 

Marty Himmel 

Casper Halpern

John Heska

Ricky Heiman

Joe Hunter

Ty Hargrove

Hullabaloo.

Walter Hofer

J

M.A. Jacobs & Son 

David Jacobs [lawyer] 

Dick James Music Ltd 

Mr. & Mrs. D. James 

Mick Jagger 

Brian Jones 

Michael Jeffries 

Drummond Jackson 

David Jacobs [d.j.] 

Brian Joyce 

Gerry Justice 

K

Gibson Kemp 

Johnathan King 

Mr. & Mrs Maurice Kinn 

Kingsway Recording Studios 

Ashley Kozac 

Kafetz Camera Ltd. 

Reg King 

Andrew Koritsas 

Ed Kenmore 

Walker Kundzicz 

John Kurland 

Murray Kauffman

L

Larry Lamb 

Martin Landau 

Kit Lambert 

Dick Lester 

Mr. & Mrs. Vic Lewis 

Tony Lynch 

Radio London 

Mike Leander 

John Lyndon 

Bernard Lee 

Kenny Lynch 

Denny Laine 

Lomax Alliance 

Ed Leffler 

David G. Lowe 

Richard W. Lean 

Goddard Lieberson 

Laurie Records 

Liberty Records 

London Records 

Alan Livingston

M

Melody Maker 

Peter Murray 

Keith Moon 

Mr. & Mrs. G. Martin 

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Matthew 

Midland Bank Limited 

Vyvienne Moynihan 

Gerry Marsden 

Ian Moody 

Michael McGrath 

Cathy McGowan 

Mr. & Mrs. J. McCartney 

Albert Marrion 

Robin Maughan 

Peter Maddok 

Gordon Mills 

Brian McEwan 

John Mendell Jnr. 

Marshall Migatz 

Fred Morrow 

Chruch McLaine 

Vincent Morrone 

Jeffrey Martin Co. 

Gavin Murrell 

Dean Martin 

Gordon B. McLendon 

Sal Mineo 

Scott Manley 

Bernard Mavnitte 

Verne Miller 

N

John Neville 

Joanne Newfield 

Tommy Nutter 

Francisco Neuner 

Tatsuji Nagasima 

New Musical Express 

NEMS Enterprises Ltd 

Graham Nash 

Nemperor Artists Ltd 

Louis Nizer 

Bob Nauss 

Gene Narmore 

O

George H. Ornstein 

Olympic Sound Studios 

A. L. Oldham 

Myles Osternak 

Roy Onsborg 

P

Col. Tom Parker 

Jerry Pam 

Plaza Hotel 

PAN AM. rep 

Bob Perlman 

Allen Pohju 

Robert H. Prech 

John Pritchard 

Prince Of Wales Theatre 

Don Paul 

Sean Phillips 

Jon Pertwee 

Ricki Pipe 

Dr. D. A. Pond 

David Puttnam 

David Puttnam Associates 

Tom Parr 

Harry Pinsker 

Kenneth Partridge 

Larry Parnes 

Priory Nursing Home 

Viv Prince 

Steve Paul 

R

Radnor Arms [pub] 

Leo Rost 

Keith Richard 

Record Mirror 

Dolly Robertson-Ward 

Charles Ross 

Rules Restuarant 

Marian Rainford 

Bobby Roberts 

Bill Rosado 

S

Vic Singh 

Speakeasy [club] 

Simon and Marijke 

Simon Shops 

Judith Symons 

Keith Skeel 

Tony Sharman 

Simon Scott 

Barrie Summers 

John Singleton 

Squarciafichi 

Don Short 

Dr. Walter Strach 

Walter Shenson 

John Sandoe Ltd 

Bobby Shafto 

Harry South 

Brian Sommerville 

Robert Stigwood

David Shaw 

Chris Stamp 

Aaron Schroeder 

Stephen, Jacques & Stephen [law firm] 

Leo Sullivan 

Gene Schwann 

Herb Schlosser 

Gary Smith 

Jim Stewart [co-founder, Stax Records] 

John Simon 

Jerry N. Schatzberg 

Lex Taylor 

Robert Shoot 

Lauren Stanton 

St. Regis Hotel 

Eric Spiros 

Howard Soloman 

T

Taft Limousine Corp 

[Sidney] Traxler (lawyer) 

T.W.A. Ken S. Fletcher [director, public relations, TWA] 

Derek & Joan Taylor 

T.W.A. (Victor Page) 

Martin Tempest 

Evelyn Taylor 

Twickenham Studios 

Kenneth Tynan 

Alistair Taylor 

F. T. Turner & Son Ltd. 

R. S. Taylor 

Michael Taylor 

George Tempest 

Norm Talbott 

U

United Artists Corp Ltd 

U.P.I. 

V

Klaus & Christine Voormann 

V.I.P. Travel Ltd 

W

Mark Warman 

Gary Walker 

Robert Whitaker 

Peter Watkins 

Peter Weldon 

Mrs. Freda Weldon 

Alan Warren 

Orson Welles 

Sir David Webster 

Alan Williams 

Dennis Wiley 

Terry Wilson 

Nathan Weiss 

Norman Weiss 

Gerry Wexler 

Y

Murial Young 

Bernice Young 

Z

Peter Zorcon 

[balkinbuddies]

We’re celebrating July 4th with  the ALAN Review article entitled “Where Are They Now? Remembering Our Most Popular Young Adult Authors.”

     An article written by Don Gallo appeared recently in the Summer 2019 issue of The ALAN Review entitled “Where Are They Now? Remembering Our Most Popular Young Adult Authors.” Among those remembered were four authors with whom I worked very closely during my years at HarperCollins and, with Don Gallo's and the ALAN Review's permission, I'm including those remembrances on the Balkin Buddies blog:

     Here they are in  the order they appeared in the article:

Paul Zindel [Tied for first place with S.E. Hinton in 1988]*

    Paul Zindel's death in March 2003 ended the brilliant career of a unique individual. Not only did he win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama and an Obie Award for Best American Play in 1970 for The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1965), but he was also one of the earliest writers in the field of contemporary literature for young adults. The Pigman, published in 1968, is still one of the most well-known and widely taught novels in the genre. He followed The Pigman with My Darling, My Hamburger (1969); Pardon Me, You're Stepping on My Eyeball (1976), The Undertaker's Gone Bananas (1978); Harry and Hortense at Hormone High (1984); and other novels with attention-getting titles. His writing revealed how well he understood teenagers, believing that “adolescence is a time for problem-solving – for dealing with the awesome questions of self-identity, responsibility,  authority, sex, love, God, and death” (Gallo, 1990, p. 228).

     In addition to Gamma Rays, this versatile author wrote a number of other plays, including And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (1971) and Ladies at the Alamo (1975), as well as a number of movies and television scripts that include Up the Sandbox (1972), starring Barbara Streisand; Mame (1974), starring Lucille Ball; Runaway Train (1985), starring Jon Voigt; Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass (1985), with a cast of 50 stars that included Red Buttons, Ringo Starr, Scott Baio, and Shelley Winters; Babes in Toyland (1986), starring Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves; and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989), starring Keshia Knight Pullman. During those years working in Hollywood, Zindel associated with numerous movie and television actors and became good friends with Walter Matthau who lived in the house next door.

     In his later years, Zindel, always knowing what would appeal to teen readers, turned from realistic fiction to monster/horror books, such as The Doom Stone (1996), Rats (1999), and Night of the Bat (2001) – all of them filled with suspense and action and all selected as Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers.

     Zindel reveals a lot about himself in his 1987 autobiographical novel, The Amazing and Death-Defying Diary of Eugene Dingman, except that the fictional Eugene grows up in Bayone, New Jersey, while Paul grew up on Staten Island, New York. Of his teen years, Paul says bluntly: “I was an awkward freak.” More about Zindel's early life, family, and adventures can be found in his autobiography, The Pigman and Me (1992), which was named one of the 100 Best of the Best Books published for teenagers during the last part of the twentieth century.  In 2002, the American Library Association bestowed upon Paul Zindel the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement, and later that same year, he was presented with the ALAN Award for his contributions to young adult literature.

M. E. Kerr [Tied for fourth place with Robert Cormier and Katherine Paterson in 1988]*

     Writing under the pseudonym of M. E. Kerr, Marijane Meaker was one of the earliest authors to gain notoriety in the YA publishing world with Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack!, published in 1972. Among her 20 popular novels are Is That You, Miss Blue? (1975), I'll Love You When You're More Like Me (1977), Gentlehands (1978), Him She Loves? (1984), Night Kites (1986), the Fell series (1987, 1989, 1991), and Deliver Us from Evie (1990). Kerr has always chosen to write about differences in people, “understanding them....trying to make sense of it all, never losing sight of the power love lends.”

     In an interview published in Teenreads, she explains her motives: “I was very much formed by books when I was young....I was a bookworm and a poetry lover. When I think of myself and what I would have liked to have found in books those many years ago, I remember being depressed by all the neatly tied-up, happy-ending stories, the abundance of winners, the themes of winning, solving,  finding – when around me it didn't seem that easy. So I write with a different feeling when I write for young adults. I guess I write for myself at that age” (“M. E. Kerr).

     Marijane Meaker began her career in publishing after she was unable to sell any of her stories to magazines. She presented herself as Ms. Meaker, a literary agent with six clients, and sent out her own work under various pseudonyms, male as well as female. One was a middle-aged female teacher writing true confessions (at $300 a story); another was a young college woman selling to magazines, such as Redbook and Ladies Home Journal; a third “author” told a story, titled “I Lost My Baby at a Pot Party,” about her child wandering from a house where a saleslady was pitching Teflon pots. Along the way, a Gold Medal Books editor convinced her to write a novel about sorority life, for which she earned $4,000 a book at a penny a word. This very resourceful writer also published two or three adult mysteries a year under the name of Vin Packer, and other novels were penned as Ann Aldrich and Laura Winston. Her books for children are published under the name Mary James. “A lot of my stories,” she says, “sold well enough for me to enjoy trips to Europe, an apartment off  Fifth Avenue in New York City in the 90s, and a Fiat convertible.”

     M.E. Kerr's novels for teens have won multiple awards, including a Christopher Award in 1978, a Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in 1981, a California Young Readers Medal in 1992, the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1993 for her lifetime contribution to young adult literature, the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile and Young Adult Literature in 1991, the ALAN Award in 2000, and the Golden Crown Literary Society Award for her groundbreaking works in the field of lesbian literature in 2013. In 1996, Long Island University awarded her an honorary doctorate.

     A collection of her short stories for teens – dealing with dating, love, race, bigotry, homosexuality, self-love, and  acceptance – titled Edge,  was published in 2015. And Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s, a memoir recounting Meaker's relationship with famous mystery writer Patricia Highsmith, was published in 2003. Still writing at the age of 91, Meaker recently completed a novel about gay life in New York City during the 1940s and how she became a literary agent for her own work. It's titled Remind Me, based on the lyrics of an old song from that time written by Jerome  Kern and Dorothy Fields (1940): “Remind me / Not to find you so attractive / Remind me that the world is full of men.

Katherine Paterson [Tied for fourth place with Robert Cormier and M. E. Kerr in 1988]*

     Born in Qing Jiang, China, in 1932, the middle daughter of missionary parents, Katherine Paterson has lived in a variety of places, from Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland, and New York City to China and Japan, where she was a Presbyterian missionary. She now lives in Montpelier, Vermont.

     Her highly regarded novels include The Sign of the Chrysanthemum (1973), Of Nightingales That Weep (1974), Master Puppeteer (1975), and Rebels of the Heavenly Kingdom (1983), but she is known best for Bridge to Terabithia (1977), which won the Newbery Medal in 1978; The Great Gilly Hopkins (1978), which won the National Book Award in 1979; Jacob Have I Loved (1980), which won the Newbery Medal in 1981; and Park's Quest (1988), which made The Horn Book Fanfare Honor List in 1988. Published in 1996, Jip, His Story won the Parents' Choice Story Book Award and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 1997. In 2006, Bread and Roses, Too won the Christopher Award and was a Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year, a Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, a Parents' Choice Gold Medal historical fiction book, and one of Voice of Youth Advocate's Top Fiction for Middle School Readers.

     Paterson has also authored several autobiographical books about her writing, including Stories of My Life (2014), and is a coauthor of Consider the Lilies (Paterson & Paterson, 1986), a nonfiction book about various plants of the Bible that she wrote with her husband, John.

     Over her long writing career, Paterson has also received a long list of awards for her body of work. Among them are the Kerlan Award from the University of Minnesota (1983), the ALAN Award (1987), the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for Writing (1998), the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2006), the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award (2013), and the Massachusetts Reading Association Lifetime Award, along with writing awards from Germany, France, and Sweden. In 2000, she was declared A Living Legend by the Library of Congress, and for 2010-2011, Paterson was the US Ambassador for Young People's Literature. She is also the recipient of more than a dozen honorary degrees, including ones from Vermont College of Fine Arts, the University of Maryland, Hope College, and Washington and Lee University.

     Paterson's latest novel is My Brigadista Year (2017), set in Cuba in 1961 during the literacy campaign that made Cuba a fully literate nation in  one year.

Robert Lipsyte

     The author of The Contender (1967) turned 80 years old this spring, as his ground-breaking novel passed the 50-year mark in print. Lipsyte is also the author of One Fat Summer (1977), Summer Rules (1981), The Brave (1991), The Chemo Kid (1992), The Chief (1993), and Raiders Night (2006) for teens, and for young readers, The Twinning Project (2012). Lipsyte's list of publications for teenagers isn't especially lengthy when compared to those of some authors who have been writing for the same length of time, but that's because writing books for and about teenagers is only one kind of work he has done especially well. He has also published a number of short stories, essays about sports issues, and biographies of several sports celebrities, such as Muhammad Ali, Jim Thorpe, and Michael Jordan, as well as several nonfiction books for adults, including Nigger, with Dick Gregory (1964), the African American satirist; Sportsworld (1975/2018); and Idols of the Game (1995). As the author of The Contender, one of the very first realistic novels about contemporary teenagers, Robert Lipsyte was honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award by the American Library Association in 2001.

     And that's not all. Among other things, Robert Lipsyte has been a highly respected columnist and prize-winning sports reporter for The New York Times, a correspondent for the CBS television program Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt; the host of his own award-winning television interview program, The Eleventh Hour, on New York City's public television station, WNET Channel 13; author of a television documentary series about sports; and the Life (Part 2) series for PBS-TV on subjects of interest to older people. He is also the author of an entertaining memoir, titled Accidental Sportswriter (2011).

     In addition to speaking at a lot of high schools, Lipsyte recently has been flying to North Carolina for a week at a time to teach at Wake Forest University, which he says he enjoys very much. He continues to write a monthly column, mostly on local politics, for his hometown weekly, The Shelter Island Reporter, which he says “gives me as much pleasure as the old Times' column.” He also occasionally writes about sports and politics for a site called Tomdispatch, which distributes to a batch of leftish publications like The Nation and The Guardian. If that's not enough, after his cameo on the O.J.: Made in America documentary film (Edelman, 2016) that won an Oscar, he gets called often to pontificate on various TV documentaries, most recently on one about Sonny Liston, three on  Muhammad Ali (including one by Ken Burns), and another on that “hard year” 1968.

     Meanwhile, this very busy author has been promoting the film, Measure of a Man (Scearce, 2018), starring Donald Sutherland, based on One Fat Summer, Lipsyte's 1977 novel about a bullied teen. View the trailer at https://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/measure-of-a-man/. “I have toyed with a new YA novel,” he claims, but where will he find the time?

     *Based on the list of 169 authors' names Mr. Gallo sent to 41 present and past officers of ALAN in 1988, asking them “to identify the most important and popular YA fiction writers of the time and to add other names of writers they felt were as important.” Due to space limitations, he “limited this investigation to the top 30 authors included on that 1988 list.”

     The ALAN Review   Summer 2019

     Reprinted with permission from the ALAN Review and Don Gallo.

     I hope you enjoyed this excerpt and get to read the entire article. Personally, I feel honored to have worked with such incredibly talented authors as well as with all the amazing people at ALAN.

     For information on Balkin Buddies, be sure to visit our website or blog.

Catherine Balkin, Balkin Buddies

[dweemeister]

2018 Movie Odyssey for-fun awards

With the 2018 Movie Odyssey in the books, but the 2018 Movie Odyssey Awards themselves delayed until next week (Sunday, January 6), here is the penultimate tradition for the year. This is a collection of for-fun honors and dishonors for the 250+ films that I saw in their entirety this calendar year.

Actor I wanted to smack most in the face: Sydney Greenstreet, The Woman in White (1948)

Because when I read the book earlier last year, there was nothing I wanted to do more than smack Count fucking Fosco in the face. Almost all of the dudes in Braveheart (1995) were the runners-up.

Best experience in a packed theater: A Quiet Place (2018)

Because everybody went along with the film - nobody dared make a noise. :P

Best fight scene AND sing-off: “Marching Through Georgia” v. “Dixie”, which precipitates into the saloon brawl, Dodge City (1939)

That post-War tension between Union and Confederate veterans, though...

Best film title: A River Runs Through It (1992)

It only really makes sense by the film’s closing scene.

Best individual cue from an original score: “Battle on the Ice” by Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky (1938, Soviet Union)

Best last line, that, well, isn’t quite a last line: “Bolt the door, Maria,” from The Heiress (1949)

Best lyrics passage from an original song: “Charade”, music by Henry Mancini, lyrics by Johnny Mercer, Charade (1963)

Fate seemed to pull the strings; I turned and you were gone. While from the darkened wings, The music box played on.

Best moment: The ending to The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Best movie dad: Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade (2018)

“...why would you think you make me sad?... Being your dad makes me so happy, Kayla. You don’t know. You don’t know how happy you make me. It’s beyond anything. I can’t describe it to you... It’s so easy to love you. It’s so easy to be proud of you. I really mean that.”

Best movie family member, non-parent: Bette Davis, All This, and Heaven Too (1940)

Best movie mom: Anne Revere as Mrs. Araminty Brown, National Velvet (1944)

“There’s a time for everything. There’s a time for having a horse and the Grand National; for being in love; having children, yes, even for dying. All in proper order at the proper time.”

Best one-line kill: This moment from The World Is Not Enough (1999)

Best on-screen friendship: Pete and Elliott, Pete’s Dragon(1977)

Best use of dog poop as a plot device: Roma (2018, Mexico)

And I think it should win Best Picture!

Best use of non-original music: this Cantonese cover of “Material Girl” from Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

Best use of testicles as a plot device: Pom Poko (1994, Japan)

It was that kind of year, kiddos!

Best vocal performance: Judy Garland singing “But Not For Me” from Girl Crazy (1943)

Biggest disappointment: Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)

Fans of the Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan didn’t tell me about the blackface and the exoticism of tropical Africa! C’mon, guys!

Biggest surprise: Charade (1963)

Was not expecting this movie to be as good as it was! Certainly, as many people write, it is the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made.

Biggest (unpleasant) surprise: That ending to Hereditary (2018)

One particular shot gave me the worst feeling ever - a sinking one - in a theater.

Eye-gouging un-achievement in animation: The Wacky World of Mother Goose (1967)

Forgot what happened an hour after I left the theater: Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Greatest discovery (actor): Ganjirô Nakamura, Floating Weeds (1959, Japan)

Greatest discovery (actress): Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade (2018)

Greatest discovery (director): Lee Chang-dong, Burning (2018, South Korea)

I had never seen any of his films before!

I seem to be the only Asian-American who despised this: Bao (2018 short)

I thought it let the mother - who was showing signs of emotionally abusive and possessive behavior - off very lightly, with nothing for her to learn.

Instant, shameless tearjerker: The ending to Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)

Shadow? SHADOOOOWWWWW.....

Kick-ass moment: Mission: Impossible -- Fallout (2018)

The whole darn movie. Seriously.

Most awkward title drop: A View to a Kill (1985)

Just click the darn link! It’s the cherry on top to maybe one of the worst 007 villain performances ever, all thanks to Christopher Walken.

Most narrative (and literal) twists and turns: In Search of the Castaways (1962)

What the actual...?

Most stressful significant other: Alex Honnold, Free Solo (2018)

Not-so-prophetic film title: The NeverEnding Story (1984)

That movie flew by so quickly, I barely noticed there was any movie in it!

Presidential election of 2016 flashbacks warning: The One and Only, Genuine Original Family Band (1968)

As much as I adore Walter Brennan impugning “Reeeee-publicans”, anyone who loses the Electoral College despite winning the popular vote has got my sympathy.

Spends half the movie referring to themselves as their own name: The title song to Hans Christian Andersen (1952)

I get it already... your name is Hans Christian Andersen!

Tears. Ugly tears: Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (2018)

Do I have to explain any more? I was one of Mister Rogers’ neighbors!

Worst parent (I’m retiring this category after this year, because there’s no topping this): Thanos, Avengers: Infinity War

Worst use of non-original music: “California Girls” from A View to a Kill

Oh good god no.

The 2018 Movie Odyssey Awards will be up -- hopefully by the end of the night!

[omg-hellgirl]

Pallenberg and Richards had rejected Kenneth Anger's suggestion that they be married in a Satanic wedding ceremony, but she still draped garlands begged of garlic around the house on Cheyne Walk to ward off vampires and conjured spells of her own.

Christopher P. Andersen, Jagger Unauthorized.

[reptilemanaustralia]

Taxonomic vandals and name thieves - the fake scientists in herpetology.

Taxonomic Vandals / Fake Scientists / Scientific Fraud (incomplete list) (last updated 15 May 2020) Bold and underlined (in original document only) are sole or senior authors and rest are secondary listed authors (so called “et al.”). See notes at bottom. Natalia B. Ananjeva Michael J. Andersen Christopher Austin Khalid Javed Baig Axel Barlow Cesar Barron Michael F. Bates Aaron M. Bauer Charles Bell Stephen Blair Hedges Wolfgang Böhme William Branch (AKA Bill Branch) Donald G. Broadley Rafe M. Brown Frank Burbrink Laurent Chirio Zoë Davids Veerappan Deepak Wolfgang Denzer Jessica Marie da Silva Stephen Charles Donnellan Paul Doughty Shelley Edwards Ryan J. Ellis Jesse Erens Damien Esquerré Alex Figuero Arthur Georges Claire Goiran Felipe Grazziotin Eli Greenbaum Larry Lee Grismer Xianguang Guo Cara Hall Paul Horner Mathew Hourston Mark Hutchinson Çetin Ilgaz Ivan Ineich Kate Jackson Aditi Jayarajan Christine M. Kaiser Hinrich Kaiser Shanker Kartik Luke Kealley Rod Kennett Yusuf Kumlutaş Panagiotis Kornilios Fred Kraus Keliopas Krey Chifundera Kusamba Simon Lailvaux  Kelly M. Lipp Petros Lymberakis Simon Maddock Angela B. Marion Julie Marin Brad Maryan Alex McKelvy Caleb D. McMahan John McVay Jane Melville Craig Moritz Robert G. Moyle Christopher M. Murray Zoltán T. Nagy James H. Nankivell Matthew Niemiller Huw Ogilvie Paul M. Oliver Karen V. Olson Mark O'Shea Saunak Pal Mitzy Pepper Alexander Pyron Arnie Rasmussen Liam J. Revell Graham Reynolds Stephen Richards Eric Rittmeyer Sara Ruane Peter Russo Ross Sadlier Kate Sanders Natali Santos J. Scott Keogh Wulf Schleip Richard Shine (AKA Rick Shine) Cameron D. Siler Ana Silva Lawrence A. Smith (AKA Laurie Smith) Robert Sprackland Richard Storey Yong-Chao Su Travis Thomas Scott Thomson Vicki Thomson Krystal Tolley Jean-François Trape Scott L. Travers Burhan Tjaturadi Nicolas Vidal S. P. Vijayakumar Philipp Wagner Van Wallach Perry L. Wood Jr Catharine E. Wüster Wolfgang Wüster Hussam Zaher Alexander Zorrilla Notes: 1/ All the above persons are listed as authors of papers that have engaged in the nefarious practice of taxonomic vandalism. 2/ Taxonomic vandalism is the illegal renaming of species, genera or family already named by other scientists and then, knowing these taxa have been properly named prior, promoting the illegal new names instead of the correct older names, along with simultaneously improperly trying to suppress or hide the correct legal names from others. 4/ Taxonomic vandalism is in breach of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, highly dishonest and antiscience. 5/ These acts of Taxonomic Vandalism have been mainly done at the instigation of serial law-breaker and certified animal abuser, Wolfgang Wüster of Wales. They are typically justified by the fake scientists/name thieves on the basis of a blog document called “Kaiser et al.” in fact written by Wüster himself. 6/ Taxonomic vandalism wastes time and money of legitimate scientists who have to fix the mess and deliberate confusion caused by the taxonomic vandals. 7/ Taxonomic vandals use fake online accounts and hijack databases and the like to infect them with their illegal names and to delete the correct scientific names to confuse scientists and the general public. Their actions and the damage they cause can be compared to the effects of a severe Coronavirus pandemic. 8/ Taxonomic vandalism is fake science and anti-science. Taxonomic Vandalism can only exist in the complete absence of peer review. 9/ Taxonomic vandalism has in the past caused species to be become extinct and is an evil law-breaking practice that needs to be stamped and the perpetrators exposed 10/ Many of the taxonomic vandals listed above are ostensibly government-funded scientists and are scamming research grants to conduct original research, when all they are doing is stealing work from other scientists and fraudulently rebadging it as original research. 11/ Research grants awarded to these fake scientists are illegally obtained and the fake scientists if caught would be liable to be charged for fraud, theft and potentially jailed. 12/ Taxonomic vandals like Wolfgang Wüster typically “author shop”, with the added names being listed on the paper as authors “to add credibility” to the document (Wüster’s exact words). Not all above listed co-authors would even be aware that their names have been associated with fake science, but in those  cases they are reckless in not reading or checking properly the so-called “paper” they have put their name to. Learn more at: http://www.smuggled.com/Snake-man-wins-ICZN-Case-3601.htm

[psycheblog-uk]

Comparing the Rates of Early Childhood Victimization across Sexual Orientations: Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Mostly Heterosexual

Comparing the Rates of Early Childhood Victimization across Sexual Orientations: Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Mostly Heterosexual

Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Christopher Zou , Judith P. Andersen Published: October 7, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0139198 Few studies have examined the rates of childhood victimization among individuals who identify as “mostly heterosexual” (MH) in comparison to other sexual orientation groups. For the present study, we utilized a more comprehensive assessment of…

[rogergreenawalt]

In ancient Assyria, the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover. Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods, storms, shipwrecks, and drownings. In other folk traditions (or sometimes within the same tradition), they can be benevolent or beneficent, bestowing boons or falling in love with humans. The male equivalent of the mermaid is the merman, also a familiar figure in folklore and heraldry. Although traditions about and sightings of mermen are less common than those of mermaids, they are generally assumed to co-exist with their female counterparts. The male and the female collectively are sometimes referred to as merfolk or merpeople. The conception of mermaids in the West may have been influenced by the Sirens of Greek mythology, which were originally half-birdlike, but came to be pictured as half-fishlike in the Christian era. Historical accounts of mermaids, such as those reported by Christopher Columbus during his exploration of the Caribbean, may have been sightings of manatees or similar aquatic mammals. While there is no evidence that mermaids exist outside folklore, reports of mermaid sightings continue to the present day. Mermaids have been a popular subject of art and literature in recent centuries, such as in Hans Christian Andersen's literary fairy tale "The Little Mermaid" (1836). They have subsequently been depicted in operas, paintings, books, comics, animation, and live action films (at Coney Island USA) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBYwBbChM_G/?igshid=19nsbskaplkzp

[nowheremag]

Congratulations to @black_c_mafia ! Christopher’s nonfiction piece, “Stoian,” will appear in the digital pages of Nowhere very soon.⁣ ⁣ Please join us in also congratulating our finalists! While we typically limit that pool to ten, we couldn’t say no to an eleventh this time around:⁣ ⁣ + Robert Andersen (essay)⁣ + Maeve Bruce (nonfiction)⁣ + Tim Hannigan (nonfiction)⁣ + Bob Kunzinger (nonfiction)⁣ + Linda Parsons (poetry)⁣ + Pamela Manché Pearce (nonfiction)⁣ + Don Schofield (poetry)⁣ + Diane Simmons (nonfiction)⁣ + Alan Sincic (fiction) ⁣ + Natalie Wang (fiction)⁣ + Sharon White (essay)⁣ ⁣ Their work will be featured on the site in the coming weeks and months as well.⁣ ⁣ Our Spring Travel Writing Prize is accepting entries through July 15. Toss your story into the mix via the link in our bio or directly at nowheremag.com/contests .⁣ ⁣ #endupnowhere #exploremore #travelstories #travel #traveling #travellit #travelliterature #travelfiction #fiction #poetry #travelpoetry #essay #travelessay #nonfiction #travelnonfiction #writingcontest #entertowin https://www.instagram.com/p/CAI4EseD7cR/?igshid=1rz57ichnqclk

[moondogball]

Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles (Atlantic, Atlantic - 7567-81956-2, 7567-81956-2 YS) CD, Album 1989

Sello: Atlantic ‎– 7567-81956-2, Atlantic ‎– 7567-81956-2 YS Formato: CD, Album País: Europe Fecha: 1989 Género: Rock, Pop Estilo: Hard Rock, Pop Rock

Still Got This Thing (C. Ward) 4:37

Love Is (C. Ward / D. Tyson) 3:40

Black Velvet (C. Ward / D. Tyson) 4:49

Rock This Joint (C. Ward) 4:02

Lover Of Mine ( A. Myles / C. Ward / D. Tyson / K, Johnson) 4:42

Kick Start My Heart (C. Waters / C. Ward / M. Stone / S. Elkhard) 3:42

If You Want To ( C. Ward / D. Tyson) 4:12

Just One Kiss (C. Ward / D. Tyson) 3:35

Who Loves You (C. Ward / D. Tyson) 3:37

Hurry Make Love (N. Simmonds) 2:16

Record Company – Warner Communications Inc. Phonographic Copyright (p) – Atlantic Recording Corporation Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc. Copyright (c) – WEA International Inc. Pressed By – Record Service (2) Published By – Bluebear Waltzes Published By – SBK Blackwood Music Canada Published By – David Tyson Music Published By – Cheshire Records Published By – Canvee Music Published By – Lynne J. Publishing Published By – Cross Keys Publishing Published By – Tree Music Published By – Soap Opry Music Recorded At – McLear Place Recorded At – Eastern Sound Recorded At – Soundtown Recorded At – Sounds Interchange Mixed At – Atlantic Studios Mastered At – Sterling Sound Créditos Acoustic Guitar – David Wipper Backing Vocals – Christopher Ward, Dean McTaggart, Jackie Richardson, Lisa Dalbello*, Peter Fredette Bass – David Tyson, Steve Webster Drums – Jørn Andersen Engineer – Kevin Doyle, Mike Jones (3), Peter Willis Executive-Producer – Christopher Ward Guitar – Bob Bartolucci, Kurt Schefter Keyboards – David Tyson Mandolin – David Wipper Mastered By – George Marino Mixed By – Kevin Doyle (tracks: 2, 3, 6), Paul Lani (tracks: 1, 4, 5, 7 to 10) Percussion – Michael Sloski Producer – David Tyson Programmed By [Keyboards] – Scott Humphrey Saxophone – John Johnson (5) Trumpet – Rick Waychesko Notas [On tray:] ℗ © 1989 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States. Made in Germany

Cat# on the CD, spine & booklet 7567-81956-2 Cat# on the tray back cover 7567-81956-2 YS

Differences to similar relases: Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles (2961274) has a different Distribution Code 'FRANCE CA 851' printed at the tray inlay. Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles (7402719) has a different Distribution Code 'WE 833' printed at the tray inlay and additional numbers in the Mould area.

1, Published by Bluebear Waltzes, CAPAC. 2, Published by Bluebear Waltzes, CAPAC / SBK Blackwood Music Canada / David Tyson Music, P.R.O. 3, Published by Bluebear Waltzes, CAPAC / SBK Blackwood Music Canada / David Tyson Music, P.R.O. 4, Published by Bluebear Waltzes, CAPAC. 5, Published by Cheshire Records / Bluebear Waltzes, CAPAC / SBK Blackwood Music Canada / David Tyson Music, P.R.O. 6, Published by Canvee Music / Lynne J. Publishing / Bluebear Waltzes, CAPAC / Cross Keys Publishing / Tree Music, ASCAP. 7, Published by Bluebear Waltzes, CAPAC / SBK Blackwood Music Canada / David Tyson Music, P.R.O. 8, Published by Bluebear Waltzes, CAPAC / SBK Blackwood Music Canada / David Tyson Music, P.R.O. 9, Published by Bluebear Waltzes, CAPAC / SBK Blackwood Music Canada / David Tyson Music, P.R.O. 10, Published by Soap Opry Music / Chappell Music of Canada, CPAC. Código de Barras y Otros Identificadores Barcode (Scanned, UPC-A): 075678195624 Barcode (Text): 0 7567-81956-2 4 Label Code: LC 0121 Rights Society: GEMA BIEM Matrix / Runout: 756781956-2 RSA Matrix / Runout (Embossed, Mould Area): [Warner 'W' Logo] Other (Distribution code): CA 835

[edwincourtenay]

Here is a list of LGBTQ+ people from history - some you will know - some you won’t! Many who have been white washed from history ... I’ll just leave this here ... Alexander the Great - Macedonian Ruler, 300 B.C. Socrates - Greek Philosopher, 400 B.C. Sappho - Greek Woman Poet, 600 B.C. Hadrian - Roman Emperor, 1st-2nd c. Richard the Lionhearted - English King, 12th c. Francis Bacon - English statesman, author Lord Byron - English poet, 18th c. Walt Whitman - U.S. poet, author, 19th c. Oscar Wilde - Irish author, 19th c. Gertrude Stein - U.S. poet, author, 20th c. Cole Porter - U.S. composer, 20th c. Virginia Woolf - English author, 20th c. Leonard Bernstein - U.S. composer, 20th c. Pope Julius III - 1550-1555 Tennessee Williams - U.S. Playwright Andy Warhol - U.S. artist, 20th c. Michelangelo - Italian artist, 15th c. Leonardo Da Vinci - Ital. Artist, scientist, 15th c. Christopher Marlowe - Eng. Playwright, 16th c. Tchaikovsky - Russian composer, 19th c. E.M. Forster - English author, 20th c. Bessie Smith - U.S. singer, 20th c. Noel Coward - English playwright, 20th c. Christopher Isherwood - English author, 20th c. Eleanor Roosevelt - U.S. stateswoman, 20th c. Julius Caesar - Roman Emperor, 100-44 B.C. Augustus Caesar - Roman Emperor James I - English King, 16th-17th c. Queen Anne - English Queen, 18th c. Marie Antoinette - French Empress Pope Benedict IX - 1032-1044 Montezuma II - Aztec ruler, 16th c. Peter the Great - Russian Czar, 17th-18th c. Hans Christian Andersen - Danish author, 19th c. J. Edgar Hoover - U.S. director of the FBI., 20th c. Frida Kahlo - Mexican artist, 20th c. Aristotle - Greek philosopher, 384-322 B.C. *Akhenaton – Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty had a homoerotic relationship with his son-in-law and later named him him co regent a title usually reserved for the Queen! #edwincourtenay #thecunningman #wisewordsfromthecunningman #spiritlightgallery #ipssissimus #pagan #wicca #witch #spiritual #spiritualpagan #ascension #psychic #seer #channel #spellsinger #walkadour #warlock #collegeofpsychicstudies #healer #magick               https://www.instagram.com/p/ByTdbJ5nXmv/?igshid=vw62le3zywul