#John Hallam

[closetofcuriosities]

The Wicker Man - 1973 - Dir. Robin Hardy

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Antony and Cleopatra 1972

[dalesramblingsblog]

All I'm saying is that I don't know whether the John Hallam credited on Lemon Jelly's Page One is the same John Hallam who was a distinguished character actor and who cropped up in Ghost Light, and I can't verify or deny by watching Ghost Light because he's obv putting on a voice in that one. Very sad day for America.

[ofmiceandpeace]

John Knowles books web!!!

For clarity: some of these apply to the respective protagonists on screen (like "not a big athlete" between Gene and Lou from The Paragon) but others refer to the books in general (like "War" and "leg injuries" (between Gene and Pete from Peace Breaks Out---Finny was the one to break his leg but Pete injured his as well).

If you have questions or need clarifications then ask! I'll probably be able to answer them

[spilladabalia]

Red Guitars - Good Technology 2023 (Extended Mix by John Rowley)

[allthingseurope]

Worms Head, Wales (by John Hallam)

[thevoyagein]

Sue Lyon became famously reticent about speaking to the press after she stopped acting, giving a rare statement in 1996 that lambasted the effect Lolita had had in her life. "My destruction as a person dates from that movie," she said. "I defy any pretty girl who is rocketed to stardom at 14 in a sex-nymphet role to stay on a level path thereafter." While there have been appraisals of Nabokov's novel and Kubrick's film, Lyon has been markedly absent from the cultural conversation. James Fenwick, senior lecturer in the Department of Media Arts and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, says that "what is missing from these studies is the voice of Lyon and of the way in which she experienced the production of Lolita. She is absent, silent, and silenced". Obvious parallels to the source novel arise here: in an essay titled The Art of Persuasion in Nabokov's Lolita, Nomi Tamir-Ghez writes that "not only is Lolita's voice silenced, her point of view, the way she sees the situation and feels about it, is rarely mentioned."

But I think being young in Hollywood – we've seen it 1,000 times with young actresses – they'll pull you to the top, let you do whatever you want, until you do one thing that's too much, and then they'll just destroy you."

Today, the iconography associated with Lolita (1962) has been adopted in varying degrees of earnest by wider pop culture. Those heart-shaped sunglasses, symbolic of knowingly babyish kitsch, have become a stand in for "sex-kitten" tendencies – wilfully ignoring the dark elements of the story it cribs from.

By making his version of Dolores a wordly participant, Kubrick's adaptation set off a domino effect that continues to poison pop culture to this day. She appears in the lyrics of the song Don't Stand So Close to Me by The Police, that details a teacher's sexual attraction to one of his students, in which one lyric reads: "He sees her / He starts to shake and cough / Just like the old man in / That book by Nabokov". Or she rears her head as the sordid moniker used to describe disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's private jet: the "Lolita Express". In 1992, Ellen Von Unwerth shot Kate Moss for Glamour Italia, in a cover and spread titled "Charming Lolita". In the photos, 18-year-old Moss is styled with a red lollipop, a doll, ringlet curls – years earlier, John Galliano had selected the 15-year-old to open his show as his "Lolita", launching her career as a forever-young waif. This alone reflects how the word has become a stand-in for a young girl who is a willing participant in her own premature sexualisation.

The troubling legacy of the Lolita story, 60 years on

[byneddiedingo]

Young Soul Rebels (Isaac Julien, 1991)

Cast: Valentine Nonyela, Mo Sesay, Dorian Healy, Frances Barber, Sophie Okonedo, Jason Durr, GaryMcDonald, Debra Gillett, Eamonn Walker, James Bowers, Billy Braham, Wayne Norman, Danielle Scillitoe. Screenplay: Paul Hallam, Derrick Saldaan McClintock. Cinematography: Nina Kellgren. Production design: Derek Brown. Film editing: John Wilson. Music: Simon Boswell. 

[queeringclassiclit]

Masterlist of Previous Polls

And Then There Were None - Philip Lombard

Anne of Green Gables series Anne Shirley Anne & Diana

Arthurian Legend Lancelot du Lac Arthur & Lancelot Morgan le Fay Guinevere & Morgan Gawain The Green Knight

As You Like It - Rosalind & Celia

Beowulf - Beowulf

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Holly Golightly

Brideshead Revisited - Charles & Sebastian

Carmilla - Carmilla & Laura

The Catcher in the Rye - Holden Caulfield

The Chronicles of Narnia - Edmund Pevensie

The Count of Monte Cristo - Eugenie & Louise

Crime and Punishment - Raskolnikov & Razumikhin

Dracula Count Dracula Jonathan Harker Mina & Lucy

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Jekyll/Hyde

The Divine Comedy - Dante & Virgil

Emma Emma Woodhouse Emma & Harriet

The Enchanted Island of Yew - Prince Marvel

The Epic of Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh & Enkidu

Eugene Onegin - Onegin & Lensky

Fahrenheit 451 - Guy Montag

The Famous Five series - George Kirrin

The Fate of the Crown - Valcour & Francisco de Paola

Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein Victor & Henry Captain Walton

The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway Nick & Gatsby Jordan Baker Daisy & Jordan

Hamlet Hamlet & Horatio Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

The Haunting of Hill House - Eleanor & Theodora

Herbert West–Reanimator - Herbert West

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Huckleberry Finn

The Idiot Myshkin Rogozhin

The Iliad - Achilles & Patroclus

The Invisible Man - Jack Griffin

In Memoriam A. H. H. - Alfred Tennyson & Arthur Hallam

Jane Eyre - Jane Eyre

Jasper Jones - Charlie & Jasper

Jeeves and Wooster series - Jeeves & Wooster

Jude the Obscure - Sue Bridehead

Julius Caesar - Brutus & Cassius

Les Misérables Enjolras Enjolras & Grantaire Javert

Little Women Jo March Laurie Lawrence

Lord of the Flies - Piggy

The Lord of the Rings series Frodo & Sam Galadriel Boromir Fingon & Maedhros (The Silmarillion)

Macbeth - Lady Macbeth

Mansfield Park - Fanny & Mary

The Merchant of Venice - Antonio

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Puck

Moby Dick - Ishmael

The Most Dangerous Game - General Zaroff

Mrs Dalloway - Clarissa

Much Ado About Nothing Benedict Beatrice

Oliver Twist - Oliver Twist

Orlando - Orlando

Othello - Iago

The Outsiders Ponyboy Curtis Johnny & Dally

Peter Pan - Peter Pan

The Picture of Dorian Gray Dorian Gray Dorian & Basil Henry Wotton

Pride and Prejudice - Charlotte Lucas

Richard II - Richard II

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Rosencrantz & Guildenstern

Romeo and Juliet - Mercutio

The Secret History - Richard Papen

A Separate Peace - Gene & Finneas

Sherlock Holmes Series Sherlock Holmes Sherlock & John James Moriarty which adaptation is the most queer?

The Talented Mr Ripley Tom Ripley Tom & Dickie

The Tempest - Ariel

To Kill a Mockingbird - Scout Finch

Twelfth Night Viola Corsino Olivia

Ulster Cycle (Celtic Mythology) - Cú Chulainn

Waiting for Godot - Vladimir & Estragon

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - Dorothy Gale

[lovepollution]

lovepollution's fanworks masterlist

ℂ𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕒𝕝 [John x Lise]

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𝔻𝕣. 𝔻𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙 [Nate Gamelli / Nate x OFC]

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕄𝕒𝕣��𝕖𝕝𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕄𝕣𝕤. 𝕄𝕒𝕚𝕤𝕖𝕝 [Midge x Lenny]

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𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝕄𝕒𝕩𝕨𝕖𝕝𝕝 [Molly x Ben]

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𝕄𝕪 𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕆𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕊𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣𝕤 [Rose x Ron]

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𝕊𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕝 [Olivia x Fitz]

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕊𝕡𝕝𝕚𝕥 [Hannah x Christie]

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𝕌𝕡𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕣𝕤, 𝔻𝕠𝕨𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕣𝕤 [Hallam x Persie]

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[inspofromancientworld]

Œnone and its Ancient Origins

By Enrique Matías Sánchez (Quique) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7431312

Œnone, or Oenone, is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson written in 1829 and was inspired by a trip to Spain and viewing the Pyenees Mountains along the border between France and Spain. He went to Spain to help a group rebels in Spain with Arthur Hallam, another English poet who would later become engaged to Tennyson's sister, but would sadly die in 1933 before they could get married.

By Jastrow (2006), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1347393

Œnone is structured as a dramatic monologue and considered the simplest of his dramatic monologues.It begins with a description of 'a vale in Ida [possibly Mount Ida in Turkey], lovelier/Than all the valleys of Ionian hills.' Œnone is portrayed as a lamenting how outside elements are causing '[h]er cheek [to lose] the rose' and she calls on '[d]ear mother Ida, harken ere I die.' Œnone is in love with Paris, the prince who was her consort until he was asked by Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite which was the most attractive of them as the result the goddess of discord Eris not being invited to a wedding banquet. Eris threw a golden apple, known as the apple of discord or the Hesperian apple, with 'For the Most beautiful' into the banquet. The goddesses turned to Paris and he chose Athena after the goddesses sweetened the pot by choosing to take Helen, who was the 'most beautiful woman in the world', who happened to be married to Menelaus of Sparta at the time. The rest of the story is covered in the Iliad. Œnone feels like the world is against her and her 'eyes are full of tears, [her] heart of love,/ [Her] heart is breaking and [her] eyes are dim'.

By William Edward Frank Britten (1848–1916)Adam Cuerden (restoration) - The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Edited with a Critical Introduction, Commentaries and Notes, together with the Various Readings, a Transcript of the Poems Temporarily and Finally Suppressed and a Bibliography by John Churton Collins. With ten illustrations in Photogravure by W. E. F. Britten. Methuen & Co. 36 Essex Street W. C. London, 1901, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22781450

Paris came to her and '[d]isclosed a fruit of pure Hesperian gold/That smelt ambrosially'. Paris tells her of the challenge and says '"For the most fair," would seem to award it thine,' before the goddesses come to him to sweeten the pot. Œnone encourages Paris to accept Athena's gifts with a passionate appeal that includes 'Fairest--why fairest wife? am I not fair?/My love hath told me a thousand times.' But when Paris doesn't heed her advice and instead chooses Helen, she decides 'I will rise and go/Down into Troy, and ere the stars come forth/Talk with the wild Cassandra, for she says/A fire dances before her…wheresoe'er I am by night and day,/All earth and air seems only burning fire.' Both Paris and Œnone were dominated by their emotions, leading to them to take actions that cause them harm. This also echos Tennyson's feelings for Hallam, fearing a woman would take Hallam's friendship from him.

You can read the poem here.

[closetofcuriosities]

The Wicker Man - 1973 - Dir. Robin Hardy

[supercantaloupe]

don giovanni at wolf trap opera! this is long <3

right to the top of my list of don giovanni productions! while it does not take the place of my absolute favorite this was a REALLY solid production that i THOROUGHLY enjoyed; it might just be my new second place! desperately wish it was recorded for streaming or at the very least not a one-night-only performance but alas, at least i get to feel special about having been able to see it at all. director john de los santos you will always be famous to ME

the orchestra was definitely lacking some of the Oomph i really love in a good live performance but i think this is purely do to the acoustics of the theater being open air rather than the fault of like. the orchestra themselves. i thought they did a good job other than a couple of points when they were a little bit out of sync with the singers. great mandolin solo in deh vieni!

vocally speaking i thought ottavio (lunga eric hallam) and anna (renee richardson) were the standouts but everyone in the cast was very well suited to their roles. don giovanni (cory mcgee) was great but i am just personally not as into deh vieni being sung with That Much vibrato and grandeur behind it (i prefer it to sound more intimate) but that's me picking nits here

okay leporello is always gay in my heart but this is easily the most OVERTLY gay i've seen him yet. dramatic af. limp wristing everywhere. you can absolutely see why he follows the don around despite the Everything Else; he's obviously in love. it was pretty neat to see that played as obviously as it was for once!

definitely these are not MY versions of the characters exactly; leporello is a bit too "willing/enjoying the don's shenanigans", elvira a bit too bitchy, etc for my own personal interpretations of them. HOWEVER the production really COMMITTED to its characterization and i respect that. even if my own interpretations are a bit different, it was easy to follow along and still like the characters as they were presented. so kudos for that!

they made the don so. flamboyant is not exactly the right term for it because he wears mostly black with a bit of gold/dark purple accents throughout the show. but. there was a very strong Energy to him. the slightly silly mustache. the eyeshadow. the dangly earrings and sparkly necklace. the see-thru lacy black shirt. the way he moves like a dancer. being SHIRTLESS in the lass scene, possibly with glitter on his bare chest. Mother Fucker. absolutely captivating to watch. i hate him and i'm obsessed

this also has to be the FUNNIEST production i've yet to see; possibly this is due to it being the first production i've seen live in the theater surrounded by an audience, which i think always heightens the energy as compared to watching a video at home or even in a cinema, but regardless this was a really funny production of don giovanni. i'm a big fan; don giovanni IS a dramma giocoso, and i think a LOT of productions these days tend to forget that it's supposed to be at least kind of funny here and there. it should still be dramatic and emotional at times, yes, but you can (and should) strike a balance. and while this production was perhaps slightly less emotional than others, it was really funny in a way i haven't seen before in don giovanni, which thrilled me.

a lot of it came down to little acting choices (blocking, gestures, tone of voice, etc; elvira threw a lot of shit across the stage in anger in this. good for her), some of it on creative liberty with the translation (eg. elvira calling the don a straight up jackass and bastard at Multiple Points lol), and a couple of tiny additions that amused me. there were SO many little moments that amused me.

i'd say the biggest thing that disappointed me with this production was the number of cuts they made. it seems like they were working with a very strict deadline of "final curtain at 11pm sharp" (to their credit, the show ended At 11pm Sharp) and decided to trim some bits deemed the most inessential for that reason. with that in mind i think the choices they made make Sense, but it's still kind of disappointing when you're expecting a particular aria and it never shows up, or if you're a weirdo like me who basically has the score memorized at this point and you're like "wait a minute there's supposed to be more recit here". the show started at 8pm but it was originally scheduled for a downbeat at 7:30; i'm not sure what the reason for the change is, but i can't help but wonder if those cuts wouldn't have been made if they'd had those thirty extra minutes to work with.

at any rate, if this production ever got revived (either here or somewhere else, ideally without cuts), i would be THRILLED to see it again, and heartily recommend it to anyone else who's even remotely interested. cuts aside (and really that's my only big criticism of the entire production) it was a FANTASTIC experience and i LOVED going to see it so so much <3

also final note on the venue. glad i brought my little handheld fan because an open air theater in virginia in august is STIFLING lol. that heat and humidity really lingers after sundown! but the seats were SURPRISINGLY comfortable for the three hours, moreso than a lot of, like, proper theaters i've been to lmao.

[fideidefenswhore]

The main bodies of men marched on York and took control of the city for almost a month, until the principal captain, Robert Aske, was granted safe conduct to present grievances personally to King Henry. It proved to be no more than a midwinter respite, however, as after Pentecost two rival captains, Sir Francis Bigod and John Hallam, again raised the rebel standards with the aim of not only retaking York, but there proclaiming the princess Mary as England's queen.

Clark, J. G. (2021). The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History. United Kingdom: Yale University Press.

[weirdgirlfriend]

phineas this, phineas that. when are we going to talk about the best john knowles character, joan mitchell hallam from peace breaks out.

[dog-house-riley]

Hallam Tower Hotel, Sheffield Painting by John Worsley for Trust House Forte, 1964