#Ivor Roberts

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Madame Bovary  -  BBC Two  -  September 22, 1975 -  October 12, 1975

Drama / Miniseries (4 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes/episode

Stars:

Francesca Annis as Emma Bovary

Tom Conti as Charles Bovary

Gabrielle Lloyd as Felicite

Ray Smith as Homais

Brian Stirner as Leon Dupuis

David Waller as Father Bournisien

John Cater as Lheureux

Kathleen Helme as Madame Bovary, Charles' mother

Ivor Roberts as Guillaumin

Stephen Bent as Justin

Denis Lill as Rodolphe Boulanger

Michael Poole as Dr. Canivet

Bernard Taylor as Girard

John Tordoff as Hippolyte

Richard Beale as M. Rouault

James Bree as Beadle

Antony Carrick as Clerk

Ysanne Churchman as Heloise

Nicholas Hawtrey as Vicomte

[madnessofmen]

me and the mutuals

[mariocki]

The Saint: The Desperate Diplomat (6.4, ITC, 1968)

"What happened to him?"

"Well, it's nothing to do with us, old boy. He was unconscious when we got here. He's lost a lot of blood. Got two bad wounds, making off with the money."

"He ought to have medical treatment."

"He'll come round. Then he'll tell us where the money is. After that, I don't much care if he lives or dies."

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30 marzo … ricordiamo …

30 marzo … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Johan Leysen, attore belga. Tra cinema e televisione, apparve in circa 160 differenti produzioni, a partire dalla seconda metà degli anni settanta. Dopo essersi trasferito ad Amsterdam nel 1973, fece il proprio debutto cinematografico nel 1977. È celebre per aver partecipato a The American (2010), La vita nascosta – Hidden Life (2019) e Il patto dei lupi (2001). È stata sposato con la…

[theodoreangelos]

A cast of the statue of the British statesman Winston Churchill by Ivor Roberts-Jones, the original of which is in Parliament Square, London – náměstí Winstona Churchilla, 130 00 Praha 3 – Žižkov Odlitek sochy britského státníka Winstona Churchilla od Ivora Robertse-Jonese, jejíž originál se nachází na Parliament Square v Londýně – náměstí Winstona Churchilla, 130 00 Praha 3 – Žižkov Ein Abguss der Statue des britischen Staatsmannes Winston Churchill von Ivor Roberts-Jones, deren Original sich auf dem Parliament Square in London befindet – náměstí Winstona Churchilla, 130 00 Prag 3 – Žižkov Слепок со статуи британского государственного деятеля Уинстона Черчилля работы Айвора Робертс-Джонса, оригинал которой находится на Парламентской площади, Лондон – náměstí Winstona Churchilla, 130 00 Прага 3 – Žižkov Moulage de la statue de l'homme d'État britannique Winston Churchill par Ivor Roberts-Jones, dont l'original se trouve sur la place du Parlement à Londres – náměstí Winstona Churchilla, 130 00 Prague 3 – Žižkov

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Oh gods, the jubilee merch.

[froggychair05]

Hello, my friends!!! @jelo-boi and I have been cooking the past few days working on our MCSM Enchanted AU (AKA Minecraft: Enchanted Mode), a re-telling of the 2007 Disney movie Enchanted but with the funny blocks.

Putting a cut here because this is a bit long 🫶

Characters:

Jesse as Giselle

Lukas as Robert

Petra as Edward

F!Jesse (Jessica) as Nancy

Ivor as Nathaniel

Reuben as Pip

Romeo as Narissa (the disguise he uses is Vos)

Nell as Morgan

Olivia as Sam (the secretary)

Axel as Arty (the construction worker)

Isa as Robert’s boss

Milo as the other divorce lawyer

Jack as the guy singing in the park

Nurm as Clara (the old woman on the bus)

Cassie Rose as the bus driver

Ellegaard and Magnus as Phoebe and Ethan (the couple getting a divorce)

Summary:

Things start out in the fairytale land of Beaconlasia, where Jesse lives in a house in the woods until she’s saved from the Prismarine Colossus by Princess Petra and the two are to be married.

However, Petra’s stepfather King Romeo doesn’t want to give up the crown (he’s been trying to keep Petra from meeting a boy) and he disguises himself as an old man, tricking Jesse and pushing him down a well.

At this point, Jesse ends up in the middle of Manhattan. He wanders around the city, lost, until he quite literally falls into the arms of a divorce lawyer named Lukas and his younger sister Nell, and he goes to stay with them.

Meanwhile, Petra and Jesse’s pig friend Reuben venture to the real world to find her, and shortly after, Petra’s valet and Romeo’s servant, Ivor, goes through to try and stop her from finding him.

Lukas is engaged to a woman named Jessica, but shenanigans happen and he winds up falling in love with Jesse, and Jesse winds up falling in love with him as well. Ivor tries to poison Jesse a few times, and then eventually Petra finds him.

Except Jesse doesn’t want to go back because he loves Lukas and he likes being around Nell, but he agrees to return to Beaconlasia after going on a date with Petra.

They wind up going to a ball and Jesse dances with Lukas while Petra dances with Jessica, and then when it’s over, Petra and Jesse go to leave, but Romeo shows up disguised as the old man again and poisons Jesse with an apple. Petra finds out and tries to give him true love’s kiss, but it doesn’t work, so he has Lukas kiss him and he wakes up. Then Romeo turns into a dragon and captures Lukas, but Jesse saves him and Romeo falls off of the building and dies.

Jesse and Lukas have their happy ending while Jessica goes back to Beaconlasia with Petra and they get married, and Ivor writes a book and Reuben also writes a book and they all live happily ever after.

Important Details:

—> In the animated bits in Beaconlasia, they are Minecraft blocks.

—> Nell is Lukas’ younger sister, not his daughter. She’s still six, but with some of the mannerisms and attitude that Nell has.

—> Jesse cuts Lukas’ curtains to make his clothes—the suspenders are the patterned bits.

—> Instead of the running gag of Giselle’s wedding dress getting stuck in everything, it’s that Jesse’s suspenders keep getting caught on stuff.

—> Aiden is Lukas’ ex who left, causing him to have a sort of sour view on love (Aiden is also Malvina from Disenchanted. More on this later.)

—> Jesse and Jessica are long-lost siblings. Back when they were still babies, Jesse was more of a stubborn, adventurous type prone to wandering, while Jessica was a bit less stubborn and more reserved. Their mother was strolling them through Times Square on the same day maintenance work was also being done on the sewer, particularly the manhole that leads to Beaconlasia. When the stroller was just in place while their mother wasn't paying attention, Jesse crawled out while people were crossing the road. He got lost in the crowd, and eventually crawled all his way to the manhole and ended up stranded in Beaconlasia. Baby Jesse first wound up in the entrance to the wishing well inside the castle walls, but some parts of the walls had cracks that were big enough for him to crawl through. Eventually, he kept going on and kept roaming until he reached the forest, and there, the animals found him and took him in as their own. Ever since that day, Jessica grieved the loss of her brother, and as years went by, she wound up hiding those feelings inside her. Then, when she meets Jesse for the first time with Lukas at his apartment, she's initially jealous-angry at Lukas, but when she rides the taxi, she realizes how Jesse looks eerily similar to her, and she's like, “It can't be him, can it? It was so long ago. That's impossible.” After that, Jessica is less bothered by the notion of Lukas cheating on her and moreso by the notion that the person Lukas was with may be her long-lost twin. When she calls Lukas after receiving the flowers post-That’s How You Know, Jessica also asks for Jesse to come along with him to her workplace. Right after the scene where Jessica is awed by the flowers and thanks Lukas for the ball invitation in person, she calls for Jesse to have a talk with her. They have a heart-to-heart talk about how Jesse may have been separated from them since they were babies, and both confirm that he really is Jessica’s sister. Then they hug and they both cry and comfort each other as they realize they’re both family.

—> Dewey was one of Jesse’s friends back in Beaconlasia and he comes to the real world with Petra and Reuben, finds them while they’re at the park, and then stays with them when Reuben goes back to Beaconlasia

Relationships:

Green Suspenders Jesse and Lukas

They meet when Jesse falls off of a billboard and Lukas brings him back to his and Nell’s apartment to stay the night. After some initial misunderstandings with Lukas’ fiancée and coworkers, he begins to truly care about Jesse, and Jesse grows reluctant to return to his own world after realizing his feelings for Lukas.

Female Jesse and Petra

Jessica falls for Petra while they’re at the ball. Taken by surprise by Petra’s completely straightforward and earnest nature, she’s swept off her feet after Lukas falls for Jesse. The two return to Beaconlasia together and get married.

Ivor and Romeo

Ivor is entirely devoted to serving Romeo, but Romeo couldn’t care less about him. Once Ivor realizes this, he turns on him and helps Petra and Jesse defeat him.

Magnus and Ellegaard

A couple who were going to get divorced before Jesse stumbled into things and re-ignited their spark.

If you’ve never seen this movie, PLEASE check it (and the sequel) out! They’re both so good!!

EDIT!! Check the reblogs for Jelo’s half of the post :D

[kulturegroupie]

May 12, 1977: Peter Grant, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant attend the Ivor Novello Awards at London’s Grosvenor Hotel, where Led Zeppelin receives an award for “Outstanding Contribution to British Music”.

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My former life...

Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales (flickr)

The Two Kings by Ivor Roberts-Jones

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Girl with Skeletons, c.1959. Oil on board, 47 x 20 in. Carel Weight (1908-1997)

La imagen fue ambientada en el estudio del artista en Cromwell Road y la modelo era la hija del escultor galés Ivor Robert-Jones.

[justforbooks]

If anybody deserved the title of “Renaissance man” it would be Carl Davis, who has died aged 86 following a brain haemorrhage. A formidably gifted composer and conductor, in a career spanning seven decades he wrote scores for a string of successful films and a long list of some of the best remembered programmes on British television, including the 1995 BBC production of Pride and Prejudice.

Davis won a Bafta and an Ivor Novello award for his score for Karel Reisz’s The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981), scripted by Harold Pinter and starring the Oscar-nominated Meryl Streep, and worked on many other prominent films, including Scandal (1989), starring Ian McKellen and Joanne Whalley, Ken Russell’s The Rainbow (1989) and The Great Gatsby (2000). His theme music for the 1984 horse-racing drama Champions, starring John Hurt as the Grand National winner Bob Champion, was subsequently used by the BBC for its Grand National coverage.

A fascination for the era of silent movies prompted Davis to create new scores to accompany numerous classics from cinema’s early years, including his composition for Abel Gance’s sprawling 1927 epic, Napoleon. His work helped trigger an international revival of presentations of silent films with a live orchestra.

He achieved another career highlight when he collaborated with Sir Paul McCartney on his Liverpool Oratorio, an eight-movement piece based on McCartney’s experiences of growing up in Liverpool. The piece was recorded in Liverpool Cathedral in 1991, featuring the classical soloists Kiri Te Kanawa and Willard White.

Despite his relentless schedule and prolific output, Davis enjoyed a reputation as an expansive and witty conversationalist who could always make time for friends or interviewers. When conducting at occasions such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s Summer Pops concerts or the BBC’s Proms in the Park, he would gently subvert notions of classical seriousness by conducting in a union jack outfit or a gold lamé coat.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Carl was the son of Sara (nee Perlmutter), a teacher, and Isadore Davis, a post office worker. His Jewish family had ancestry in Poland and Russia. Encouraged by his mother, he displayed precocious musical ability. He started playing piano at the age of two, and soon became an adept sight-reader. He recalled how from an early age he would listen to the Metropolitan Opera’s live radio broadcasts on Saturday afternoons, and he would obsessively study musical scores of operas and orchestral pieces obtained from Brooklyn’s public libraries.

He took lessons with the composers Hugo Kauder and Paul Nordoff (later the co-founder of the Nordoff-Robbins music therapy programme), then with the Danish modernist composer Per Nørgård in Copenhagen. He studied at Queens College, New York, and the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, and as an 18-year-old served as an accompanist to the Robert Shaw Chorale. He then attended Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson in upstate New York, which has had a remarkable roll-call of actors, writers, film-makers and musicians pass through its portals. He graduated from Bard as a composer, having already begun to compose music for theatrical productions.

In 1958 he became an assistant conductor at the New York City Opera, and then won an off-Broadway Emmy award as co-composer of the 1959 revue Diversions. This was staged at the Edinburgh festival in 1961 and subsequently transferred to the Arts theatre in London, retitled Twists. It caught the eye of Ned Sherrin, then working in production at the BBC. He commissioned Davis, who had moved to London and was living in decrepit lodgings in Notting Hill, to write music for the satirical TV show That Was the Week That Was.

It was the start of his prolific and varied career in the UK. The Davis touch added lustre to the television movies The Snow Goose (BBC, 1971) and The Naked Civil Servant (Thames Television, 1975); the adaptation of the Anita Brookner novel Hotel Du Lac (BBC, 1986); and the miniseries A Year in Provence (BBC, 1993) and A Dance to the Music of Time (Channel 4, 1997) among many others.

A notable milestone was his ominous and unsettling score for Thames’s The World at War (1973), which was produced by Jeremy Isaacs. It was through Isaacs that Davis became involved in the Thames TV series Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, based on the book The Parade’s Gone By … by the film historian Kevin Brownlow.

Davis was tasked with tracking down musicians who had worked on films during the silent era, and the series set him off on a decades-long crusade to revive silent films with newly created scores. He enjoyed the challenge of conducting the music live as the film played. “You have to keep going,” he told the Arts Desk’s Graham Rickson in 2021. “Some conductors use click tracks and headphones. I’m old-fashioned and don’t like being tied to machinery – I try to conduct these things with as little apparatus as possible.”

The most dramatic expression of this was his work on Napoleon, and in 1980 Davis conducted a performance of it with an orchestra and audience at the Empire, Leicester Square. “That first screening wasn’t flawless, but it was electrifying,” he recalled. He subsequently conducted performances around the world, and the score let to him being appointed chevalier of France’s Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1983.

He went on to compose music for more than 50 silent films featuring stars such as Greta Garbo and Rudolph Valentino, for comedies by Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton, and for classics such as Ben-Hur (1925), the Douglas Fairbanks swashbuckler The Thief of Bagdad (1924) and DW Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).

Another genre which Davis excelled at composing for was dance. “The relationship between film and ballet is striking, and I find myself composing more and more ballet scores now, something which the film work has made me much better at,” he told Rickson. For Northern Ballet theatre, he worked with the choreographer Gillian Lynne on A Simple Man (1987) and Lipizzaner (1989). For Scottish Ballet, he collaborated with Robert Cohan, a fellow New Yorker, on A Christmas Carol (1992) and Aladdin (2000). And for English National Ballet’s Alice in Wonderland (1995), Davis (commissioned by ENB’s artistic director Derek Deane) drew on themes by Tchaikovsky.

It was also through Deane’s influence that Davis was commissioned by the National Ballet of Croatia to write Lady of the Camellias (2008), which gave him the opportunity to revisit Alexandre Dumas’s original novel and Verdi’s operatic version of it, La Traviata. The opera had been a favourite of Davis’s since his childhood days of listening to Met broadcasts, and he had also worked on a production of it for New York City Opera. The resulting piece gave the story a contemporary twist, so “the action could flow without pause and indeed the production did effectively utilise projections and film”, as Davis wrote in the recording’s sleeve notes.

He received a Bafta special lifetime achievement award in 2003, and in 2005 he was made CBE.

In 1970 he married the actor Jean Boht, who starred in Carla Lane’s sitcom Bread. She survives him, along with their daughters, Hannah and Jessie.

🔔 Carl Davis, composer and conductor, born 28 October 1936; died 3 August 2023

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D.U.D.E Bios: Roderick Rhydderch

The Mountain Prince of C.R.C Roderick Rhydderch (2020)

Kirby's cousin, Hywel's nephew, and Delwyn's son, Roderick. An Irish-Catholic living in Wales, and a geeky though tough father. He collects and makes items from world mythologies.

"Llin, I'm fairly certain the phrase is 'Don't bring a knife to a gun fight'."

Name

Full Legal Name: Roderick Ceallach Mabon Flaithrí Rhydderch

First Name: Roderick

Meaning: Means 'Famous ruler' from the Old German elements 'Hroud' 'Fame' and 'Rih' 'Ruler, King'.

Pronunciation: RAHD-rik

Origin: English, Scottish, Welsh

Middle Name(s): Ceallach, Mabon, Flathrí

Meaning(s): Ceallach: From Old Irish 'Cellach', of uncertain origin, traditionally said to mean 'Bright-Headed'. Mabon: Later Welsh form of 'Maponos', which means 'Great son', from the Celtic root 'Makwos' meaning 'Son' (Gaulish and Brythonic 'Mapos') combined with the divine or augmentive suffix 'On'. Flathrí: Means 'King of princes', from Old Irish 'Flaith' 'Ruler, Sovereign, Prince' and 'Ri' 'King'.

Pronunciation(s): KYA-lakh. MA-bon. FLAIT-hri

Origin(s): Irish. Welsh Mythology. Old Irish

Surname: Rhydderch

Meaning: From the given name 'Rhydderch' from the Old Welsh name 'Riderch', derived from 'Ri' 'King' and 'Derch' 'Exalted'

Pronunciation: HRUDH-ehrkh

Origin: Welsh

Alias: Mountain Prince, Roderick Rhydderch

Reason: This is Roderick's ring name

Nicknames: Rod, Roddy

Titles: Mr

Characteristics

Age: 32

Gender: Male. He/Him Pronouns

Race: Human

Nationality: Welsh. Irish Welsh Mix. Dual Citizenship ROI-UK

Ethnicity: White

Birth Date: June 16th 1988

Symbols: Mountains, Boulders, Snow, Crowns

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Religion: Irish-Catholic

Native Language: Welsh

Spoken Languages: Welsh, Irish, Scottish (Scots Gaelic), English

Relationship Status: Married

Astrological Sign: Gemini

Theme Song: 'All in the Family (feat. Fred Durst)' - Korn, Fred Durst (2006-)

Voice Actor: Robert Sheehan

Geographical Characteristics

Birthplace: Tullahought, Kilkenny, Ireland

Current Location: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Hometown: Llanfaethlu, Anglesey, Wales

Appearance

Height: 6'0" / 182 cm

Weight: 190 lbs / 86 kg

Eye Colour: Blue

Hair Colour: Blonde

Hair Dye: Completely Black

Body Hair: Hairy

Facial Hair: Full Beard, also dyed Black

Tattoos: (As of Jan 2020) 20

Piercings: Ear Lobe (Double, Both), Helix (Triple, Both)

Scars: Lots of small scars on his back and chest

Health and Fitness

Allergies: None

Alcoholic, Smoker, Drug User: Smoker, Social Drinker

Illnesses/Disorders: None Diagnosed

Medications: None

Any Specific Diet: None

Relationships

Allies: (As of Jan 2020) The Rhydderch Clan

Enemies: (As of Jan 2020) None

Friends: Jarlath Rhydderch, Patrick Rhydderch, Lochlainn Rhydderch, Fionn Rhydderch, Uilliam Rhydderch, Ivor Rhydderch, Sean Rhydderch, Wyn Rhydderch, Vaughan Rhydderch, Neifion Rhydderch, Mostyn Rhydderch, Darach Rhydderch, Fergus Rhydderch, Flann Rhydderch, Tristan Lum, Xavia Ibarra, Nathan Winter, Patrick Turner

Colleagues: The C.R.C Locker Rooms / Too Many To List

Rivals: None

Closest Confidant: Gethsemane Rhydderch

Mentor: Delwyn Rhydderch

Significant Other: Gethsemane Rhydderch (33, Wife, Née Guillaume)

Previous Partners: None of Note

Parents: Delwyn Rhydderch (65, Father), Rhosyn Rhydderch (66, Mother, Née Dougherty)

Parents-In-Law: Alwyn Guillaume (63, Father-In-Law), Glenys Guillaume (64, Mother-In-Law, Née MacEanruig)

Siblings: Llinos McConnell (35, Sister, Née Rhydderch)

Siblings-In-Law: Faust McConnell (36, Llinos' Husband), Kirk Guillaume (42, Gethsemane's Brother), Malati Guillaume (43, Kirk's Wife, Née Ruotsalainen), Kamakshi Karjalainen (39, Gethsemane's Sister, Née Guillaume), Lanford Karjalainen (40, Kamakshi's Husband), Kip Guillaume (36, Gethsemane's Brother), Kovita Guillaume (37, Kip's Wife, Née Laaksonen), Kipling Guillaume (30, Gethsemane's Brother), Lalita Guillaume (31, Kipling's Wife, Née Laukkanen), Kamini Martikainen (27, Gethsemane's Sister, Née Guillaume), Lefty Martikainen (28, Kamini's Husband), Knox Guillaume (24, Gethsemane's Brother), Maya Guillaume (25, Knox's Wife, Née Aaltonen), Kanchana Heinonen (21, Gethsemane's Sister, Née Guillaume), Linwood Heinonen (22, Kanchana's Husband)

Nieces & Nephews: Too Many To List

Children: Kellen Rhydderch (12, Son), Jaslene Rhydderch (9, Daughter), Igraine Rhydderch (6, Daughter), Hallam Rhydderch (3, Son)

Children-In-Law: None

Grandkids: None

Great Grandkids: None

Wrestling

Billed From: Kilkenny, Ireland

Trainer: The C.R.C Wrestling School, Delwyn Rhydderch

Managers: Gethsemane Rhydderch

Wrestlers Managed: Gethsemane Rhydderch

Debut: 2006

Debut Match: Roderick Rhydderch VS Delwyn Rhydderch. Roderick won via pinfall

Retired: N/A

Retirement Match: N/A

Wrestling Style: Powerhouse

Stables: The Rhydderch Clan (2006-)

Teams: No Team Names

Regular Moves: Throat Thrust, Two-Handed Chokelift, Running Low-Angle Dropkick To A Seated Opponent, Sidewalk Slam, Tilt-A-Whirl Mat Slam, Scoop Powerslam, Running Powerslam, Leg-Feed Enzuigiri, Pendulum Backbreaker, Diving Clothesline, Corner Clothesline, Big Boot, Spinebuster, Running Neckbreaker, Jumping Knee Drop, High Knee Strike, Figure-Four Leglock, Facebreaker Knee Smash, Chop Block

Finishers: Jacknife Powerbomb, DDT, Falling Powerbomb, Chokeslam, Tombstone Piledriver, Double Underhook Facebuster

Refers To Fans As: The Fans, The Family

Extras

Backstory: Roderick Rhydderch of the C.R.C (Welsh Wrestling League / Cynghrair Reslo Cymru) Owning Rhydderch Family. When Delwyn dies Roderick will have a 1/16th ownership of the promotion. Jarlath is a 'Mountain Style’ (Powerhouse) trainer. He’s Half-Welsh and Half-Irish

Trivia: Nothing of Note

[anotherdayinbliss]

Robert Plant attends the 22nd Ivor Novello Awards at Grosvenor House Hotel in London, where Led Zeppelin receives an award for "Outstanding Contribution to British Music," May 12, 1977. Photos by Ron Burton.

[kpwx]

«Robert Louis Stevenson», de G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton pone bastante énfasis en que su biografía de Stevenson está centrada en sus obras y no en su vida, y por esto mismo quien no haya leído sus obras (al menos la mayoría de ellas) se perderá de mucho. Este ha sido mi caso: todavía hay muchas de sus novelas que no he leído (entre ellas hay algunas de las que se consideran más importantes), lo que me ha llevado a no comprender del todo muchas de las reflexiones que el autor realiza. A esto hay que agregar que no estoy demasiado puesto en la crítica literaria inglesa del siglo XIX, así que desconozco casi en su totalidad qué es a lo que estaba respondiendo exactamente Chesterton cuando lo defiende de sus críticos. Aun con todo, este libro contiene no pocas reflexiones interesantes sobre el querido Tusitala que valen la pena: saber lo que Chesterton pensaba sobre tal o cual novela o cuento en particular que te gusta, aunque le dedique un pequeño párrafo, es ciertamente valioso. Mientras más se conozca la obra de Stevenson antes de leer este libro, más se puede aprender de él.

Y ya que estoy, aprovecharé esta publicación para comentar muy rápidamente las adaptaciones de El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll y el señor Hyde que he estado viendo estos días. La más antigua que vi fue la de 1931 (dirigida por Rouben Mamoulia y protagonizada por Fredric March), y es por muchísimo la mejor de todas: innovadora en lo que respecta a efectos especiales desde el primer minuto, protagonizada por unos actores buenísimos, cargada de una atmósfera oscura muy propia del libro y un buen argumento (además de un toque ligeramente erótico que le viene bastante bien a una película de este tipo), es tan completa que no sería exagerado decir que es una pequeña obra maestra de su época. El Jekyll atractivo y carismático (por lo mismo me recordó a Ivor Novello) interpretado por March es la mejor actuación que he visto en ambos personajes (o personalidades); tan bueno es que, por ser la primera que vi, no pude dejar de sentir que las otras interpretaciones eran malas copias. Y si esa es sin duda la mejor, también es claro que la peor fue la de 1960 (dirigida por Terence Fisher y protagonizada por Paul Massie), que es tan mala que casi llega al ridículo. Por mucho que la haya producido la mítica Hammer, tanto las actuaciones como el argumento son lamentables. Respecto al argumento, el problema no es que no siga al pie de la letra a la novela, pues la adaptación anterior tampoco lo hace (ni esa ni ninguna de las que vi, por cierto), sino que los cambios que le hicieron fueron pésimos. Ver, por ejemplo, a un Hyde guapo y delicado flirteando después de ver al Hyde violento y abusivo (que es lo que corresponde a su desinhibida perversidad) coaccionar a Ivy en la otra película resulta hasta cómico. Lo único que podría rescatar es que aparece el grandísimo Christopher Lee, que siempre es un gusto ver. Para terminar, en medio de los dos extremos están la de 1951 (dirigida y protagonizada por Mario Soffici) y la de 1990 (dirigida por David Wickes y protagonizada por Michael Caine). La mejor de ambas es la primera, que es una versión argentina. Es, aun siguiendo más bien poco la obra original, la más fiel de las cuatro, lo que definitivamente le hace ganar unos puntos. Además de esto, lo que más destacaría de ella es la atmósfera oscura que se le dio: el Hyde siempre ensombrecido le da un genial toque tenebroso, lo que pega bastante bien con su caracterización física. La última, que es la más policíaca de todas, no destaca por ser particularmente mala ni buena; es una peliculita televisiva más o menos entretenida, pero sin más. Además de ser la que tiene los mejores actores y el mejor argumento, la adaptación de 1931 también es, a pesar de tratarse de la más antigua, la que tiene los mejores efectos especiales de todas. Si se quiere ver una, definitivamente tiene que ser esa.

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La playlist de l'émission de ce jeudi matin sur Radio Campus Bruxelles entre 6h30 et 9h : Harry Partch "U.S. Highball - A Musical Account of a Transcontinental Hobo Trip" (A Portrait/New World Records/1955-2015) Buddy Collette Septet & Robert Sorrels "Polynesian Suite" (Polynesia/Trunk Records/1962-2019) Peter Ivers' Band (with Yolande Bavan) "Gentle Jesus" (Knight of the Blue Communion/Epic Records/1969) Dominik Steiger "Gold Vom Süden" (Ad Hoc Musi 1980-84/Tochnit Aleph/2013) Reverend Gary Davis "I Am the Light of This World" (When I Die I'll Live Again/Fantasy/1972) Ivor Cutler "One at A Time" (A Flat Man/Hoorgi House Records/1998-2008) Le Diable Dégoûtant "Complainte de la Bête" (Fleur de Chagrin/Aguirre Records/2023) Persona "Água" (Som/Black Sweat Records/1975-2021) Jacques Charlier "L’Amour dans les chansons" (Art in Another Way/Musique Plastique/198?-2022) David Chesworth "Once Upon A Time" (Industry & Leisure/B.E.F.S Records/1983) Vincent & Moi "Lonely Hearts" (1998-2002/Auto production/2002) Colin Newman "Can I Explain the Delay" (Commercial Suicide/Crammed Discs/1986) Dominique Walter "Les petits boudins" (7"/Disc'Az/1967) Gillian Hills "Tu peux" (Rock Français/Wagram Music/1961-2021) Herman's Rocket "Space Woman" (7"/Vogue/1977) Sandra Plays Electronics "Her Needs" (7"/Minimal Wave/1988-2013) Aroma di Amore "Het Gesticht" (Koude Oorlog/Onderstroom Records/1984-2022) Savages "I Am Here" (Silence Yourself/Matador Records/2013) R.E.M. "These Days" (Lifes Rich Pageant/I.R.S. Records/1986) Panda Bear & Sonic Boom "Edge of the Edge" (Reset/Domino Recording Company/2022) Ming "Chanson de la plus haute tour" (Intérieur / Extérieur/Doxa Records/2001) François de Roubaix "Dernier domicile connu" (10 ans de musique de film/Odeon Soundtracks/1970-1998) Jean Luc le Ténia "Tu es un amour" (Le meilleur chanteur français du monde/Ignatub/2002) Fela Ransome-Kuti and The Africa '70 "Fogo Fogo" (Afro Baby - The Evolution Of The Afro-Sound In Nigeria 1970-79/Soundway Records/1973-2004) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2P6BuN004/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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THE 56 MOST MIGHTY & POPULAR ACTORS OF WORLD CINEMA !

(OFFICIAL LIST, BASED ON INDIES SUBCONSCIOUS ASSESSMENT OF THE MOST CONSISTENTLY HIGHLY POPULAR ACTORS & HIGHEST EARNING FILMS OF WORLD CINEMA, INCL DATA FROM VARIOUS INDIES FILM LISTS & ALL OTHER SOURCES!)

- PART 1

Note: The point system used, to give audiences an idea of the magnitude of comparative popularities of listed actors, includes 2 factors:

A calculated AVERAGE of no. of tkts sold PER FILM in lead (80% weightage) &

No. of films released in lead (20% weightage) (This weightage rule has been introduced to neutralize the effect of eg Indian actors, who at one point, in its glory phase, released an avg of 10 films each/yr). (Pls understand, that discrepancies in placements of the few actors listed in American Popularity charts & World Popularity charts, arise due to them serving 2 or more cinemas – US & British or French, thus changing their stats accordingly)

AND HERE ARE THE 56 MIGHTY MOST POPULAR ACTORS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, SINCE THE BEGINNING OF CINEMA!

.Rajesh Khanna – 600 pts

.Gerard Depardieu – 464 pts

.Alain Delon – 462 pts

.Ray Milland – 459 pts

.Michel Piccoli – 458 pts

.Christopher Plummer – 452 pts

.Daniel Day Lewis – 443 pts

.Christian Clavier – 436 pts

.Dany Boon – 434 pts

.Ivor Novello – 432 pts

.Peter Sellers – 425 pts

.Alec Guinness – 418 pts

.Laurence Olivier – 415 pts

.Harrison Ford – 413 pts

.Jean Marais – 411 pts

.Yves Montand – 406 pts

.Michael J. Fox – 403 pts

.Charles Chaplin – 401 pts

.Albert Finney – 389 pts

.Bruce Lee – 383 pts

.Hugh Grant – 382 pts

.Cary Grant – 354 pts

.Ronald Colman – 351 pts

.John Cleese – 348 pts

.Clint Eastwood – 346 pts

.Michael Lonsdale – 345 pts

.Gerard Jugnot – 344 pts

.Francois Cluzet – 343 pts

.Sacha Baron Cohen – 342 pts

.Sean Connery – 341 pts

.Daniel Radcliffe – 37 pts

.Jackie Chan -334 pts

.Hugh Laurie – 332 pts

.Michael Caine – 329 pts

.Griff Rhys Jones -326 pts

.Gary Cooper – 313 pts

.Alain Chabat – 304 pts

.Macaulay Culkin – 292 pts

.Yuri Nikulin – 287 pts

.Colin Firth – 280 pts

.Wu Jing – 279 pts

.James Stewart – 277 pts

.Vincent Lindon – 273 pts

.Pierre Richard – 270 pts

.Gerard Philipe – 258 pts

.Clark Gable – 254 pts

.Ralph Fiennes – 249 pts

.Charles Dance – 246 pts

.Guillaume Canet – 232 pts

.Marlon Brando – 223 pts

.Robert Carlyle – 214 pts

.Humphrey Bogart – 204 pts

.Peter O’ Toole – 201 pts

.Jeremy Irons – 197 pts

.Dudley Moore – 193 pts

.Romain Duris – 184 pts

(And btw, just for some fun- What if that severely restrictive ban on including total no. of tks sold, is removed?

Know where Rajesh Khanna's points tally reaches vis a vis No.2 ??

At Close to 3 times Ahead! 1300 over 464!😀

Sorry Gerard. Sorry World!

BUT THIS IS A NO CONTEST!)

PS.

Did You Know-

Rajesh Khanna could've retired from cinema altogether after the film 'Mehbooba' in 1976 ie. after 10 yrs of work, & still be remembered today, ahead of Gerard Depardieu, as officially, 'The Most Famous Actor In the Entire History of World Cinema' !

He would work at exactly the same pace 12 more yrs!