#Hattie Winston

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[stephensmithuk]

The Noble Bachelor

Watson's bullet remains in his shoulder and an attempt at removal with the surgical tech of the day was probably not a good idea.

A tide-waiter is a customs inspector at a port.

Yes, there were books dedicated to listing the aristocracy. Still are.

The "charming invaders" would become known as "dollar princesses" - under the nationality laws of the time, a wife took her husband's nationality and lost her own. By the end of the 19th century, a quarter of the Lords would have some American connection.

The most notable "dollar princess" for history would be Jennie Jerome, the mother of Winston Churchill. She was also one of the *many* mistresses of the then Prince of Wales, later Edward VII.

You could get across the Atlantic by steamship in under a week by this time, but only the richest or government officials would do this regularly.

"The season" was the social calendar of London - based on the residence of the royals in London and the Lords attending Parliament. It started at Easter and went up to the start of the grouse shooting season in August. This included the whole debutante business.

Flora is a former ballet dancer. Those and actresses have frequently ended up as mistresses to the upper classes, who could not marry someone that below their ranks. Their wives frequently just had to put up with it - or had their own affairs.

8 shilings or 40p in modern money would be 40 quid in today's prices. Cheap hotel today!

Hatty has probably not committed bigamy - Frank was probably declared legally dead and the marriage would be deemed to have ended. The five year rule (under California law) does not apply in cases like shipwrecks, where no body is likely to be found.

The marriage to Lord St. Simon can be annuled, as no consumation has taken place - and she can legally remarry in a church.

[movies-to-add-to-your-tbw]

Title: Snow White and the Huntsman

Rating: PG-13

Director: Rupert Sanders

Cast: Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Sam Claflin, Ian McShane, Ray Winstone, Nick Frost, Noah Huntley, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan, Lily Cole, Rachael Stirling, Hattie Gotobed, Bob Hoskins, Sam Spruell, Johnny Harris, Brian Gleeson, Vincent Regan

Release year: 2012

Genres: drama, adventure, fantasy

Blurb: After the Evil Queen marries the king, she performs a violent coup in which the king is murdered and his daughter is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the queen. In order to obtain immortality, the Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the queen sends the huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.

[lboogie1906]

The Negro Ensemble Company was founded in New York City, under the direction of actor Robert Hooks, actor, playwright, and director Douglas Turner Ward, and producer, and director Gerald Krone. NEC was criticized for its integrated administration (Krone was white), its grant from the Ford Foundation, its location in Greenwich Village, and its first season’s bill.

The genesis of the NEC can be traced to 1965 with the production of two one-act plays by Douglas Turner Ward, Happy Ending and Day of Absence, both satires.

The success of the plays prompted the New York Times to ask Ward to write an article on the Afro-Americans in the theatre titled “American Theatre: For Whites Only?” In the article published on August 14, 1966, Ward stressed the need for an established Black theatre by African American playwrights with an unfettered, imaginative Negro angle of vision. He targeted Blacks as the primary audience, but he wanted to attract an informed white audience that shared common experiences to readily understand, and debate the playwrights’ explorations. Ward’s Times article attracted the attention of W. McNeil Lowrey at the Ford Foundation which asked him to apply for a grant for such a theatre. The Ford Foundation awarded Ward a $434,000 grant to establish the NEC. Teaming with Robert Hooks, who brought to the NEC his three-year-old Group Theater Workshop, they made the St. Marks’ Playhouse, the permanent home of NEC since it had been the site of Ward’s successful playwriting debut. A defined policy established the company as a Black-oriented, Black-controlled theatre of high professional standards with an extensive training program in all facets of theatre, from acting to backstage crafts.

The NEC launched or boosted the careers of numerous African American actors including Moses Gunn, Francis Foster, Adolph Caesar, Denise Nicholas, Roxie Roker, Esther Rolle, Rosalind Cash, David Downing, Judyann Elder, Arthur French, Hattie Winston, Clarice Taylor, Allie Woods, and Ron O’Neal. Others who performed with NEC included Stephanie Mills, Cleavon Little, Richard Roundtree, Lauren Jones, and Roscoe Lee Browne. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 3.3

Beer Birthdays

Jay R. Brooks (1959)

James Ottolini (1969)

Jeff Cioletti (1972)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Julie Bowen; actor (1970)

James Doohan; actor (1920)

Jean Harlow; actor (1911)

Miranda Richardson; actor (1958)

Ronald Searle; illustrator (1920)

Famous Birthdays

Diana Barrymore; actress (1921)

Alexander Graham Bell; inventor (1847)

Edna Best; British stage and film actress (1900)

Jessica Biel; actor (1982)

William James Blacklock; English-Scottish painter (1816)

Margaret Bonds; pianist and composer (1913)

Larry Burkett; author and radio host (1939)

Cyril Burt; English psychologist and geneticist (1883)

Georg Cantor; Russian-German mathematician and philosopher (1845)

Emile-Auguste Chartier; French writer and philosopher (1868)

Paul Clayton; folk singer (1931)

Brian Cox; English keyboard player and physicist (1968)

Ruby Dandridge; African-American film and radio actress (1902)

Gustave de Molinari; Dutch-Belgian economist and theorist (1819)

Bonnie J. Dunbar; engineer and astronaut (1949)

Perry Ellis; fashion designer (1940)

David Faustino; actor (1974)

Tyler Florence; chef and author (1971)

Ragnar Frisch; Norwegian economist (1895)

Ira Glass; radio host (1959)

William Godwin; English writer (1756)

Laura Harring; Mexican-American model and actress (1964)

Robyn Hitchcock; pop singer (1953)

Thom Hoffman; Dutch actor and photographer (1957)

Asger Jorn; Danish painter and sculptor (1914)

Jackie Joyner-Kersee; track athlete (1962)

Tim Kazurinsky; actor, comedian (1950)

Ronan Keating; Irish singer-songwriter and actor (1977)

Arthur Kornberg; biochemist (1918)

Artur Lundkvist; Swedish poet (1906)

James Merrill; poet and playwright (1926)

George Miller; Australian film director (1945)

Sameera Moussa; Egyptian physicist (1917)

John Murray; Canadian scientist (1841)

Thomas Otway; English writer (1652)

Mike Pender; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1941)

Charles Ponzi; Italian criminal, "Ponzi scheme" (1882)

George Pullman; train car inventor (1831)

Anri Sakaguchi; Japanese actress (1991)

Clifton Snider; author and poet (1947)

Harold J. Stone; actor (1913)

Tone-Loc; rapper (1966)

Buddy Valastro; chef and tv host (1977)

Herschel Walker; football RB (1962)

Edmund Waller; English poet, writer (1606)

Michael Walzer; philosopher (1935)

Jennifer Warnes; singer-songwriter (1947)

Doc Watson; bluegrass singer-songwriter and musician (1923)

Snowy White; English guitarist (1948)

Darnell Williams; English-American actor (1955)

Hattie Winston; actress (1945)

Beatrice Wood; illustrator and potter (1893)

Victoria Zdrok; model (1973)

Ona Zee; porn actor (1954)

[columbianewsupdates]

Tax Prep Advocates Expands Presence with a New Agency in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Under the Leadership of CRO Hatti Taylor

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Tax Prep Advocates Expands Presence with a New Agency in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Under the Leadership of CRO Hattie Taylor

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Tax Prep Advocates Expands Presence with a New Agency in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Under the Leadership of CRO Hattie Taylor

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[annarellix]

The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp by Leonie Swann (Agnes Sharp Mysteries #1)

One murder to solve and another to cover up. It’ll be tricky, but the OAP residents of Sunset Hall are going to give it their best shot.

Sunset Hall is a house-share for the old and unruly, led by Agnes Sharp. It’s an eventful day when this group of idiosyncratic geriatrics gets a visit from the police to inform them of some shocking news: a body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face, but they are secretly relieved that the body in question is not the one they’re currently hiding in the shed (sorry about that, Lillith). Now the answer to their little problem with Lillith may have fallen into their laps. All they have to do is find out who murdered their neighbour, so they can pin Lillith’s death on them, thus killing two old birds with one stone. To investigate, the group (not forgetting Hettie the tortoise) will venture into the not-so-idyllic village of Duck End and tangle with sinister bakers, broken stair lifts, inept criminals and their own dark secrets.

Book page: https://www.allisonandbusby.com/book/the-sunset-years-of-agnes-sharp/

My Review: They say German humour is not the best in the world, but I can say that they can be funny and there’s a lot of humour. I do remember Porno al Forno (porno cooked in the oven) and Guildo Horn & Die Orthopädischen Strümpfe (Guildo Horn and the Support Stockings) just to name a couple of examples. That said I love Agnes and loved the groups of senior. I found them lovely, mad as a hatter and realistic. They’re not a fit group of people: Agnes has a hip issue; Winston is wheelchair bound and Bernadette is blind. There’s also Edwina who is a yoga fanatic and Charlie who’s healthy. Hattie the Turtle was my love: wise, relatable, and curious. The most normal character living at Sunset Hall. Two bodies and they must find a way to justify the first one as Lilith was killed and she’s now in your shed. Agnes and her friends will start an investigation and it will not be easy as they have to go well beyond their comfort zone and visit the village and the different place which are not the loveliest places. This is a not a classic cozy mystery: there’s a solid mystery and I couldn’t guess the culprit, there’s a village but not the “quaint village” you usually find in cozy mysteries. There’s a great cast of characters that can make you laugh but also make you think that this is a realistic representation of being old. There’s some very funny scene as the Q&A can be a bit weird and the answer a sort of non sequitur. It’s the perfect book if you love black humour and want to read an original and compelling mystery I discovered there’s already a second book, Miss Sharp macht Urlaub (Miss Sharpt Goes on Holiday), and I can’t wait to read it Highly recommended. Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

The Author: Leonie Swann was born near Munich in 1975. She studied philosophy, psychology and English literature in Munich and Berlin. With her first two novels, “Glennkill” and “Garou,” she achieved immediate sensational success: both books were at the top of the bestseller lists for months and have so far been translated into 25 languages. Leonie Swann now lives in England surrounded by ivy and wisteria.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_leonieswann/ GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/204497.Leonie_Swann

[pacinos]

Robert De Niro & Hattie Winston in Jackie Brown (1997)

[musicalsorwhatever]

“Night Letter” is the nineteenth song in the 1971 Broadway musical Two Gentlemen of Verona. With music by Galt MacDermot (Hair) and lyrics by John Guare, the book by Guare and Mel Shapiro was based on the Shakespeare play The Two Gentlemen of Verona. The show was nominated for nine Tony Awards and won two, including Best Musical. This song is performed by Samuel E. Wright (The Lion King) as Valentine and Hattie Winston (The Me Nobody Knows) as Silvia.

[claudia1829things]

"HOMEFRONT" RETROSPECT: (1.01) "S.N.A.F.U."

"HOMEFRONT" RETROSPECT: (1.01) "S.N.A.F.U." There are only a handful of television shows that I am very emotional about. There are only a handful that I consider to be among the best I have ever seen on the small screen. One of them happened to be the 1991-1993 ABC series, "HOMEFRONT". Not only do I view it as one of the few television series that turned out to be consistently first-rate from beginning to end, it also has one of the best pilot episodes I have ever seen.

"HOMEFRONT" followed the lives and experiences of a handful of citizens in the fictional town in Ohio, right after the end of World War II. In fact, its pilot episode, (1.01) "S.N.A.F.U." picks up not long after the war finally ended with Japan's surrender. Army war veterans Hank Metcalf and Charles "Charlie" Hailey are in New York City, awaiting a train to take them home to River Run, Ohio. Hank is unaware that his longtime girlfriend, Sarah Brewer, has been dating his younger brother Jeff, while he was overseas. And Charlie has an unpleasant surprise for his longtime girlfriend and fiancée, Ginger Szabo - he has married a British woman named Caroline. Other surprises loomed for some of the citizens of River Run. Hank's sister, Linda, had been dating his and Charlie's friend, Mike Sloan, before war. Yet, unbeknownst to her, he has married an Italian woman named Gina, who is also a survivor of the Holocaust. Both Linda and her mother, Anne Metcalf, employees at Sloan Industries during the war, were unceremoniously fired with other women employees to make room for returning male veterans. And the Sloans' chauffeur and housekeeper, Abe and Gloria Davis, receive a surprise in the return of their son Robert from the war. They are even further surprised by his embittered attitude toward the racism he had encountered in the Army and that a job as janitor awaits him at the Sloans' factory. I really do not know what to say about "S.N.A.F.U.". I had never paid much attention to it, when I last saw "HOMEFRONT" on TVLAND, during the summer of 2000. After my recent viewing of the episode, I cannot understand how I could have ever ignored it in the first place. Not only is "S.N.A.F.U." an outstanding episode, I now realize it is one of the best in the series. Is it the best? I have no idea. I would have to become reacquainted with the other forty-one episodes. I will say this for "S.N.A.F.U." - the screenplay written by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick could easily compete with the 1946 movie, "THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES" in regard to a narrative about World War II U.S. servicemen returning home. Not surprising, Latham and Lechowick's transcript won the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Long Form in Television. In a way, I can see why this episode strongly reminded me of "THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES". For an episode that mainly focused on the return of River Run's U.S. servicemen, it seemed filled with a good deal of bitterness, despair and a surprising tragedy. Discrimination seemed prevalent in this episode. The Metcalf women - Anne and her daughter Linda - lost their wartime jobs at the Sloan Industries because owner Michael Sloan decided women were no longer needed as employees, due to the war's end. On the other hand, the episode revealed Robert Davis' bitterness over the racism he encountered in the U.S. Army. This bitterness carried over when he discovered that the promised job at Sloan Industries turned out to be a janitor. "S.N.A.F.U." featured one interesting scene regarding both the racism and sexism faced by some of the characters. In one scene, while office manager Sam Schenkkan fires Linda, he hires Robert for the janitor job. The emotional response expressed by both Robert and Linda proved to be very interesting. Bigotry against foreigners and anti-Semitism reared its ugly head in a story line that featured the Sloans' discovery that their only son, Michael Sloan Jr., had married an Italian-Jewish woman and Holocaust survivor named Gina. Most of the episode featured the couple trying to find a way to annul their son's marriage before his return. Romance certainly proved to be a problem in "S.N.A.F.U.". Both Linda and her best friend, Ginger Szabo, expected to resume their romances with respective boyfriends upon their return from the war. Linda, who was in love with Mike Jr., learned about his marriage to Gina, upon the latter's arrival to Ohio. And Ginger, who had been engaged to her longtime boyfriend Charlie Hailey, discovered he had married a young British woman named Caroline, while stationed overseas. And Caroline, as this episode later revealed, will prove to be a handful throughout the series' run. Thwarted romance also struck another member of the Metcalf family. While Anne Metcalf's oldest offspring, Hank, was fighting in Europe during the war; his younger brother Jeff got caught up in an unexpected romance with Hank's girlfriend and fiancée, Sarah Brewer. Both Jeff and Sarah had decided she would break her engagement with Hank, so that both could declare their love for one another. However, Jeff found himself at the losing end of the lollipop when Sarah decided to remain with Hank. I have seen my share of movies about war veterans returning home. But I have never come across so much aborted romances and betrayal in one production in my life. And yet . . . Latham and Lechowick, along with the actors and actresses who portrayed these characters, made all of this romantic entanglements and betrayals seem emotionally true, instead of the usual second-rate melodrama. If I must be honest, I believe "S.N.A.F.U." is a prime example of what made "HOMEFRONT" one of the best television shows I have ever seen. Like the other 41 episodes that followed, "S.N.A.F.U." explored the post-World War II world with a skillful mixture of drama, melodrama, romance, history, comedy and some action. To be honest, no action was featured in "S.N.A.F.U.". But it did manifest in a few episodes during the series' two-year run. I also have to comment on Latham and Lechowick's exploration of racism, sexism, class and other issues in such a seamless, yet believable manner. I can only think of one or two other television shows that managed to achieve this . . . even to this day. And the more I realize this, I cannot help but wonder if most of today's television producers are incapable of dealing with more than one or two particular issues. If this is true, then "HOMEFRONT" managed to achieve something rare that may never happen again. The excellent writing featured in "S.N.A.F.U." could have come to nothing without the first-rate cast for this show. I tried to think of a performance that seemed out of place or just plain ineffective. But I could not. Everyone gave it their all, including the likes of Kyle Chandler, Tammy Lauren, Dick Anthony Williams, David Newsome, Ken Jenkins, Harry O'Reilly and Hattie Winston. But there were a handful of performances that especially impressed me. I once read that when A.B.C. eventually cancelled "HOMEFRONT" after two seasons, Mimi Kennedy had broke into tears in the privacy of her dressing room. If this is true, I can understand why. I think that the role of Ruth Sloan, the haughty and blunt-speaking wife of industrialist Michael Sloan Sr. may have been the best in her career. I have always been amazed at how she conveyed both the unpleasant and sympathetic aspects of Ruth. I also enjoyed Sterling Macer's performance as the embittered Robert Davis - especially in this episode. There is one scene in which the returning veteran is being welcomed home by his happy mother, grandmother and their friends, while he sits at the kitchen table trying . . . and failing to share their happiness. With very few words and his eyes, Macer skillfully conveyed Robert's unhappy memories of the Army and his eventual inability to share his family's happiness over his return. Another performance that caught my attention came from Jessica Steen, who portrayed Linda Metcalf - middle child and only daughter of Anne Metcalf. Looking back on it, I believe Steen had a difficult job in this episode. Her emotions seemed to be all over the place, due to what she had experienced in "S.N.A.F.U." - brother Hank's return, anticipating Mike Sloan Jr.'s return, discovering Mike's marriage to an Italian war refugee, dealing with best friend Ginger Szabo's anger over Charlie Bailey and losing her job. And yet . . . she kept it all together with some first-rate acting skills. I was impressed by one last performance and it came from Sammi Davis (1987's "HOPE AND GLORY") as Charlie Bailey's war bride, Caroline Bailey. Caroline has never been a popular character with the show's fans. Many found her selfish and manipulative. I had also felt the same. But . . . I also recalled that Caroline was such an interesting character, thanks to Davis' excellent performance. And at times, I also found her likable. I certainly found her very likable in "S.N.A.F.U.". The scheming manipulator revealed her claws in her effort to regain the down payment Charlie had given to a landlord, who welshed on them and I cheered. I also understood her anger and confusion from Ginger's hostile attitude toward her, especially since she obviously had no idea why Ginger was being rude. What else can I say about "S.N.A.F.U."? That it was a superb premiere for a first-rate series like "HOMEFRONT"? I have noticed that most television shows with excellent pilot episodes tend to go downhill by the end of the first season or the beginning of the second. Fortunately, this never happened with "HOMEFRONT". Like "S.N.A.F.U.", it remained an excellent piece of television entertainment throughout its two-year run. And it is a damn pity that the entire series has not been released on DVD.

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[donnahinkleystaceytroy]

Jack Rickard The Electric Company Joke Book Complete Story Original Art Group of 13 (Golden Press/Western, 1973) Rickard takes a break from his customary MAD Magazine gagman duties to deliver an entertaining and educational book of wordplay and wit for Sesame Street's Electric Company spinoff franchise. The mixed-media package contains painted basic art and cel-like inked overlays. Ink and watercolor over graphite on Bristol board and translucent layers. Accompanied by a copy of the published book. Image area, 17" x 9.5". General light toning and scattered adhesive staining, marginal. Very Good condition.

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[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 3.3

Beer Birthdays

Geörg Ziegelmaier (1852)

Jay R. Brooks (1959)

James Ottolini (1969)

Jeff Cioletti (1972)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Julie Bowen; actor (1970)

James Doohan; actor (1920)

Jean Harlow; actor (1911)

Miranda Richardson; actor (1958)

Ronald Searle; illustrator (1920)

Famous Birthdays

Diana Barrymore; actress (1921)

Alexander Graham Bell; inventor (1847)

Edna Best; British stage and film actress (1900)

Jessica Biel; actor (1982)

William James Blacklock; English-Scottish painter (1816)

Margaret Bonds; pianist and composer (1913)

Larry Burkett; author and radio host (1939)

Cyril Burt; English psychologist and geneticist (1883)

Georg Cantor; Russian-German mathematician and philosopher (1845)

Emile-Auguste Chartier; French writer and philosopher (1868)

Paul Clayton; folk singer (1931)

Brian Cox; English keyboard player and physicist (1968)

Ruby Dandridge; African-American film and radio actress (1902)

Gustave de Molinari; Dutch-Belgian economist and theorist (1819)

Bonnie J. Dunbar; engineer and astronaut (1949)

Perry Ellis; fashion designer (1940)

David Faustino; actor (1974)

Tyler Florence; chef and author (1971)

Ragnar Frisch; Norwegian economist (1895)

Ira Glass; radio host (1959)

William Godwin; English writer (1756)

Laura Harring; Mexican-American model and actress (1964)

Robyn Hitchcock; pop singer (1953)

Thom Hoffman; Dutch actor and photographer (1957)

Asger Jorn; Danish painter and sculptor (1914)

Jackie Joyner-Kersee; track athlete (1962)

Tim Kazurinsky; actor, comedian (1950)

Ronan Keating; Irish singer-songwriter and actor (1977)

Arthur Kornberg; biochemist (1918)

Artur Lundkvist; Swedish poet (1906)

James Merrill; poet and playwright (1926)

George Miller; Australian film director (1945)

Sameera Moussa; Egyptian physicist (1917)

John Murray; Canadian scientist (1841)

Thomas Otway; English writer (1652)

Mike Pender; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1941)

Charles Ponzi; Italian criminal, "Ponzi scheme" (1882)

George Pullman; train car inventor (1831)

Anri Sakaguchi; Japanese actress (1991)

Clifton Snider; author and poet (1947)

Harold J. Stone; actor (1913)

Tone-Loc; rapper (1966)

Buddy Valastro; chef and tv host (1977)

Herschel Walker; football RB (1962)

Edmund Waller; English poet, writer (1606)

Michael Walzer; philosopher (1935)

Jennifer Warnes; singer-songwriter (1947)

Doc Watson; bluegrass singer-songwriter and musician (1923)

Snowy White; English guitarist (1948)

Darnell Williams; English-American actor (1955)

Hattie Winston; actress (1945)

Beatrice Wood; illustrator and potter (1893)

Victoria Zdrok; model (1973)

Ona Zee; porn actor (1954)