#Pasquale Mari

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Mary Medina by Pasquale Qualano

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you know that episode really fucked me up this morning

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2024 - Promotional Pictures of Steve Pasquale & Company, from the new production of Nine at The Kennedy Center

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December 17.1908 at The Metropolitan Opera a wonderful cast for Pietro Mascagni „Cavalleria Rusticana”

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DC VS VAMPIRES ALL-OUT WAR no.1 (of 6) • cover art • Kael Ngu [July 2022]

One of the last secret, underground human cities is facing total annihilation and its leader—John Constantine—must plan a suicide mission to assassinate a key lieutenant in the vampire empire! Against unreal odds and with an unlikely team including Booster Gold, Deathstroke, and Mary Marvel, does the Hellblazer have one more trick up his sleeve? A gritty, violent, monochromatic companion series to DC vs. Vampires, this series will feature a brutal story with a cadre of talented creators delivering 32 pages of original content!

(W) Matthew Rosenberg, Alex Paknadel (A) Pasquale Qualano (CA) Kael Ngu

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13 aprile … ricordiamo …

13 aprile … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Mary Quant, Barbara Mary Quant, stilista britannica. (n. 1930) 2022: Wang Yumei, attrice cinese. In occasione del centenario della nascita dell’industria cinematografica in Cina nel 2005, la China Film Performance Art Academy l’ha inserita nella lista dei “100 migliori attori in 100 anni di cinema cinese”. È celebre per aver partecipato a Tan Si Tong (1984), Gao shan xia de hua huan (1984)…

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On Anne-Marie Robinot, Saint-Just's mother

What follows is a personal translation I did of an excerpt taken from the historian Stefania Di Pasquale's book Storie di Madri (A History of mothers) which includes a chapter on Louis-Antoine's mother. The notes at the end are included in the original work.

Marie-Anne Robinot was born in Décize on the 16th of January 1734, the daughter of Jeanne Philiberte Houdry (1712-1745) and Léonard Robinot (1701-1776), king’s counsel, royal notary and procurator in the bourg of Décize.

There are no contemporary pictures of this woman, but that doesn’t mean she was less important than others; the lack of any representation is probably due to the centuries that have passed since her death and to the destruction of personal belongings which occurred right after Robespierre’s fall and also, in particular, during the Restoration of the old European monarchies starting with the Congress of Vienna of 1815.

We don’t know much about her early years, except that she grew up among the Décize haute bourgeoisie of the 18th century and that she received a good education.

The French historian Ernest Hamel, who had met Saint-Just’s nephews for his grandfather was an intimate of the latter, wrote the following in his biography Histoire de Saint-Just:  «Madame de Saint-Just was a charming and charitable woman, who outlived her son by a few years, she was sad by nature; she had loved with excessive love this predestined son, who until the last day returned her motherly tenderness with filial adoration. » (1)

Marie-Anne was a very religious woman, attached to her family, but compared to her contemporaries, who submitted to paternal will on certain matters such as those concerning arranged marriages, and, although she loved and respected her father, she believed it was unfair that parents could decide the future of their children, especially when they were already sentimentally attached to another person. This is what eventually happened to Marie-Anne.

Mademoiselle Robinot fell in love with Monsieur Louis-Jean Saint-Just de Richebourg, knight of the royal and military order of Saint-Louis, marshal of the gendarme company under the title of Berry, son of Marie-Françoise Adam and Charles de Saint-Just.

The age gap between the two was of twenty years: he, a mature man, and she, a young thirty years old woman still unmarried.

Marie-Anne had already the occasion to show her obstinacy just a couple of months after meeting captain Saint-Just.

Unfortunately their union would have been opposed by her father, who didn’t approve their relationship since he considered Louis-Jean as a simple peasant son of humble origins. Monsieur Robinot didn’t consider his future brother-in-law equal to his rank. But perhaps was it just an excuse? At the time the Robinot family was composed of men only and a female figure, who knew how to handle domestic servants, was much needed. The young woman wasn’t evidently of the same opinion and, on the suggestion of some notary friends of her, she resorted to the only means available at the time to counter paternal authority: les sommations respectueuses.

During the Ancien Régime the law required the father’s consent to celebrate a marriage, but in case it was denied, people over 25 could counter the refusal through a process called sommations respectueuses. To accomplish that, one had to rely on a notary and ask the family members three times for the written consent. After that, if the request kept being denied, the person could still proceed with the marriage.

Determined to fulfill her dream, Marie-Anne took courage against her paternal authority and on 21 March 1766 she appeared before her father together with notary Grenot and two other witnesses both belonging to the nobility.

Outraged by such audacity, Léonard Robinot pretended to be absent. The same occurred on 22 March. The following day, the 23, the day of the last visit, Robinot left the house defeated, without uttering a single word. Happy and contented, the next day Marie-Anne signed the marriage contract and the ceremony was set for 30 May 1766.

The two married in Verneuil with a quick ritual, celebrated by the uncle of the spouse, Antoine Robinot, and among the wedding witnesses there were a carpenter, a merchant and a cabaret comedian (two of them couldn’t either read or write).

In a rage, the rest of the Robinot Family didn’t even want to go out of their house to see the spouses, especially the disobedient daughter. Surely the intimacy of the ceremony was thought necessary to avoid their reprimand.

Marie-Anne got pregnant a few months after the marriage and on the 25th of August 1767 a child was born, who one day would have made history, who would have fought and died for the freedom of his country.

The chosen name was that of Louis-Antoine, Louis like his father and Antoine like his uncle and godfather, the abbot Antoine Robinot.

The little Saint-Just was baptized the same day he was born in the church of Saint-Aré (Décize) and, according to the customs of the time, he was placed in the care of a wet nurse in Verneuil who lived in a house next to his uncle's. A few years later his sisters were born as well: Loise-Marie-Antoine in 1768 and Marie-Françoise-Victoire in 1769.

In 1771, however, Antoine Robinot died, the Saint-Just family was forced to take their son back and move to Nampcel, to the house which once belonged to Charles de Saint-Just (1676-1766), Anoine’s paternal grandfather. Marie Madeleine, sister of Louis-Jean, was there to welcome them.

They lived together peacefully for some time, then the family moved again to Marie-Anne’s paternal household in Décize.

According to the French historian Bernard Vinot, Léonard Robinot was a good grandfather, who doted on little Louis-Antoine. However the joy of that peaceful life was short-lived.

In 1776 Robinot died and the Saint-Just family moved one last time to the rural village of Blérancourt. It was a graceful and tranquil place. There, thanks to his military merits, Louis-Jean obtained consideration and privileges, usually reserved to the lower nobility.

Léonhard’s inheritance was split among his children and on 18 July 1776 the heirs sold the house in Décize to Claude Leblanc: that was the last time one could find the Saint-Just spouses’ signature in the town of Décize.

And so Louis-Antoine left in July 1776 the place where he had spent the first four years of his life forever, but he would have never forgotten the mountains and the river Loire, from where the fairies and myths of his work Organt would have come out. (2)

[...] Unfortunately a large part of the familial correspondence [between Saint-Just and his family] was destroyed both during the persecutions the family endured after the death by decapitation of Louis-Antoine and after the dreadful Restauration which started with the Congress of Vienna of 1815.

[...] Other than the pain caused by the death of her beloved son, Madame Saint-Just had to endure the humiliations of the Directory political police.

A mother who until the very end kept like relics those few belongings of her son, saving them from the thermidorian fury; today one can see those mementos in a display case placed in Saint-Just’s house, now a museum, in Blérancourt. In these cases it’s possible to admire a book of the young revolutionary man still with the violet he had put inside as a bookmark; a bronze plaque with an angel on it (once it used to be in Louis-Antoine’s bedroom) and a quill. That was all the poor mother could save, since even the young man’s clothes had been sold to the authorities.

Marie-Anne didn’t even have a grave to mourn her son, buried without clothes to prevent someone from reclaiming those tortured bodies. For Louis-Antoine’s remains were thrown into a mass grave in the Parisian Errancis cemetery, close to Parc Monceau.

Today this cemetery doesn’t exist anymore and the 119 human remains were moved to the catacombs in Paris.

From a missive by Madame Saint-Just sent to the prefecture of the Aisne Department, we know that the authorities still refused to give her back some of the belongings, despite the fact that fifteen years had passed since her son’s death:

To the Prefect of the Department of Aisne, member of the Legion of Honour. Marie-Anne Robinot, widow of the defunct Monsieur Louis de Saint-Just, former cavalry captain in Blérancourt and currently residing there, has the honour to notify you that, following the event of 9 Thermidor Year II, a commission named through a decree of the District of Chauny came to my house to seize all property titles belonging to me and my children, because of the sentence pronounced against Louis de Saint-Just, my son, representative in the National Convention; and that, as a consequence of that event another decree was released that allowed the return of the belongings to the parents of the convicts; I am in need of the titles of which I am concerned and which are currently deposited in the Archives of the prefecture of Aisne, I want to have the honour to ask the Prefect to be so kind to order the collection and delivery of my belongings through you; by doing so you shall have my most sincere gratitude and respect, Monsieur le Préfet, your humble and obedient servant. Widow Saint-Just. Presented on 18 February 1809.

[...] After the death of her son and with age advancing, on 5 June 1807, Marie-Anne decided to make a will, leaving everything to her two daughters:

To Louise, I leave a house, with a kitchen with a small cellar, an attic, a tool shed, gardens for 21 hectares with fruit trees, everything located in Blérancourt in Rue de la Chouette. To Victoire, a house with two rooms, a cellar, a hallway, an attic and office rooms, everything in Blérancourt in Rue de la Chouette. (3)

Madame Saint-Just died of a cholera epidemic four years after writing this small testament on 11 February 1811 in her house in Blérancourt, leaving the void and mourning of her daughters and nephews.

(1) Ernest Hamel, Histoire de Saint-Just, Paris, Poulet-Mallasis et de Braise, 1859, p. 26.

(2) In May 1789 in Paris L’Organt was published, it’s a poem divided into twenty chants in which Saint-Just criticized the absolute monarchy and clerical hierarchies.

(3) Claire Cioti, Saint-Just, cit.

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Updated 100 Memorable Skating Programs

Back in 2018, I created the original version of this list. (You can find the master post here.) Since 2024 marks my 30th year as an official fan of figure skating and there have been some more great programs created since the last time, I thought it was about time to update the list in honor of World Ice Skating Day. Same rules apply as last time:

Only senior competitive programs starting from the 1993-1994 season are eligible, since that's the first season I really started watching figure skating.

Each skater may only be listed once, unless a partner/discipline switch is involved.

Choice of music may also not be repeated. (Yes, there are two James Bond programs on the list, but Yuna and Wakaba use different music for the most part, so I'm letting it slide.)

I debated long and hard about whether or not I should still include programs from skaters who have proven themselves to be not so great people. I'm someone who has little difficulty separating the art from the artist, so in the end, I decided to keep them listed (although most of them got knocked down a few pegs). This list is more about the choreography than the skater anyway, although there are certainly some problematic choreographers out there, too. (Looking at you especially, Morozov!) So, just because a skater is listed doesn't mean that I'm a fan of them or that I condone their actions! I just think certain programs are still great regardless of the skaters' terrible behavior off the ice.

Choreographers are noted if known. If you know who choreographed the programs without a choreographer named, please let me know!

I've also created a handy playlist on YouTube if you don't want to click on all these links.

Ashley Wagner - Moulin Rouge (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2016 Worlds

Jason Brown - Melancholy (Rohene Ward) 2023 Nationals

Patrick Chan - Phantom of the Opera (Lori Nichol) 2011 Canadian Nationals

Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje -Je suis malade (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2012 Worlds

Meryl Davis/Charlie White - Kajra Re/Silsila Ye Chahat Ka/Dola Re Dola (Marina Zueva, Igor Shpilband, and Anuja Rajendra) 2010 Olympics

Mao Asada - Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tatiana Tarasova) 2014 Olympics

Sui/Han - Rain, In Your Black Eyes (Lori Nichol) 2019 Worlds

Marina Anissina/Gwendal Peizerat - Romeo & Juliet 1998 Olympics

Cain/LeDuc - W.E. (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2022 US Nationals

Daisuke Takahashi - Blues for Klook (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2012 Worlds

Kurt Browning - Casablanca (Sandra Bezic) 1994 Olympics

Michelle Kwan - Salome (Lori Nichol) 1996 Worlds

Alexei Yagudin - Winter (Tatiana Tarasova and Nikolai Morosov) 2002 Olympics

Jamie Sale/David Pelletier - Love Story (Lori Nichol) 2002 Olympics

Jeremy Abbott - Exogenesis (Jeremy Abbott and Yuka Sato) Nationals 2012

Oksana Grishuk/Evgeni Platov - The Feeling Begins 1997 Worlds

Yuzuru Hanyu - Seimei (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2015 Grand Prix Final

Chock/Bates - Egyptian Snake Dance (Marie-France Dubreuil, Ginette Cournoyer, and Sam Chouinard) 2019 Grand Prix Final

Javier Fernandez - Guys and Dolls (David Wilson) 2016 Worlds

Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres - Sound of Silence (John Kerr and Silvia Fontana) 2017 Euros

Evgenia Medvedeva - Anna Karenina (Daniil Gleichengauz) 2018 Olympics

Nathan Chen - Philip Glass medley (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2021 Worlds

Gabriella Papadakis/Guilliame Cizeron - Elegie (Saxon Fraser and Marie-France Dubreuil) 2022 Olympics

Aljona Savchenko/Bruno Massot - La terre vue du ciel (Christopher Dean) 2018 Olympics

Kevin Aymoz - Bolero (Brice Mousset and Kevin Aymoz) 2023 Skate America

Julia Lipnitskaya - Schindler’s List (Ilia Averbukh) 2014 Olympics

Elena Berezhnaya/Anton Sikharulidze - Lady Caliph 2002 Olympics

Yu-na Kim - James Bond medley (David Wilson) 2010 Olympics

Shoma Uno - Buenos Aires Hora Cero (Mihoko Higuchi) 2016 Grand Prix Final

Michal Brezina - The Way You Look Tonight (Jeffrey Buttle) 2016 Skate Canada

Shae-Lynn Bourne/Victor Kraatz - Riverdance 1998 Olympics

Adam Rippon - O/Fly On (Benji Schwimmer) 2016 Trophee de France

Jeffrey Buttle - Bells of Moscow (David Wilson) 2005 Worlds

Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier - Vincent (Carol Lane and Juris Razgulajevs) 2019 Canadian Nationals

Rudy Galindo - Swan Lake (Sharlene Franke) 1996 US Nationals

Sasha Cohen - Malaguena (Tatiana Tarasova) 2004 Worlds

Aljona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy - Pina (Ingo Steur) 2011 Grand Prix Final

Samantha Cesario - Carmen (Inese Budevica) 2013 Trophee Eric Bompard

Tatsuki Machida - East of Eden (Phillip Mills) 2014 Worlds

Xue Shen/Hongbo Zhao - Turandot (Lea Ann Miller, Renee Roca, and Gorsha Sur) 2003 Worlds

Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker - Liebestraume (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2018 Nationals

Olga Mikutina - My Nocturnal Serenade (Rostislav Sinicyn) 2023 Europeans

Lu Chen - The Last Emperor (Toller Cranston) 1995 Worlds

Giada Russo - Red Violin (Edoardo de Bernardis) 2016 Europeans

Junhwan Cha - Fate of the Clockmaker/Cloak and Dagger (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2022 Olympics

Han Yan - La La Land (Yuka Sato and Kurt Browning) 2019 Chinese Interclub League

Wakaba Higuchi - Skyfall (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2018 Worlds

Kazuki Tomono - Die Fledermaus (Misha Ge) 2022 Japanese Nationals

Yuma Kagiyama - Believer (Shae-Lynn Bourne) 2024 Worlds

Karen Chen - On Golden Pond (Karen Chen) 2017 Nationals

Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani - Coppelia (Marina Zueva and Cheryl Yeager) 2016 Nationals

Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirov - Manfred Symphony (Peter Tchernyshev) 2014 Skate America

Philippe Candeloro - The Three Musketeers (Natacha Dabadie) 1998 Olympics

Alexander Abt - Songs from the Victorious City 1998 Nations Cup

Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir - Prince medley 2017 Worlds

Ekaterina Gordeeva/Sergei Grinkov - Moonlight Sonata (Marina Zueva) 1994 Olympics

Satoko Miyahara - Madama Butterfly (Tom Dickson) 2017 Japanese Nationals

Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha - The White Crow (Romain Haguenauer and Ginette Cournoyer) 2023 Four Continents

Anjelika Krylova/Oleg Ovsiannikov - Masquerade Waltz 1997 Worlds

Alena Kostornaia - The Departure, November (Daniil Gleikhengauz) 2019 Grand Prix Final

Nelli Zhiganshina/Alexander Gazsi - Two from the Grave (Ilia Averbukh) 2013 Worlds

Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov - The Man and The Shadow (Nikolai Morozov) 2015 Grand Prix Final

Stephanie Rosenthal - Rockit (Stewart and Christi Sturgeon) 2006 Nationals

Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue - Across the Sky, Caught Out In The Rain (Marie-France Dubreuil) 2018 Nationals

Mikhail Kolyada - The Nutcracker (Ilia Averbukh) 2021 Gran Premio d'Italia

Sinead Kerr/John Kerr - The Landing/Turn Around/Gravity of Love (Evgeni Platov) 2008 Worlds

Kaetlyn Osmond - Sous le ciel de Paris, Milord (Lance Vipond) 2016 Grand Prix Final

Carolina Kostner - Ave Maria (Lori Nichol) 2014 Olympics

Karina Manta/Joe Johnson - Sweet Dreams (Christopher Dean) 2019 Nationals

Gracie Gold - Firebird (Lori Nichol) 2016 Nationals

Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri - Atonement/Song For A Little Sparrow (Barbara Fusar-Poli and Corrado Giordani) 2022 Europeans

Keegan Messing - Singing in the Rain (Lance Vipond) 2018 Worlds

Elizabeth Punsalan/Jerod Swallow - Astor Piazolla medley (Igor Shpilband) 1998 Olympics

Rika Kihira - A Beautiful Storm (Tom Dickson) 2018 NHK Trophy

Mariah Bell - Chicago (Rohene Ward) 2016 Skate America

Brian Joubert - Rise (Evgeni Platov) 2009 Europeans

Stephane Lambiel - Poeta (Antonio Najarro) 2007 Worlds

Kaori Sakamoto - The Matrix (Benoit Richaud) 2020 NHK Trophy

Akiko Suzuki - O (Pasquale Camerlengo) 2012 NHK Trophy

Qing Pang/Jian Tong - The Impossible Dream (Shae-Lynn Bourne and David Wilson) 2010 Olympics

Takahito Kozuka - Io ci saro (Lori Nichol) 2014 Japanese National

Smart/Diaz - Mask of Zorro 2022 Europeans

Matt Savoie - Ennio Morricone medley (Tom Dickson) 2006 Nationals

Deniss Vasiljevs - Puttin’ On The Ritz (Benoit Richaud) 2016 Worlds

Caroline Green/Michael Parsons - Violin Concerto No.1 Eso Concerto, Clouds, The Mind on the Wind (Elena Novak and Alexei Kiliakov) 2022 Four Continents

Tara Lipinski - The Rainbow (Sandra Bezic) 1998 Olympics

Denis Ten - SOS d'un terrien en détresse (David Wilson) 2017 Shanghai Trophy

Valentina Marchei/Ondrej Hotarek - Tu Vuo Fa L'Americano (Massimo Scali) 2018 Europeans

Krisztina Czako - The Addams Family (Igor Bobrin) 1997 Europeans

Cheng Peng/Yang Jin - My Drag (Lori Nichol) 2016 GPF

Bradie Tennell - Mechanisms, Chronos (Benoit Richaud) 2020 4CC

Evgeny Plushenko - Tribute to Nijinsky 2004 Russian Nationals

Vanessa Gusmeroli - Rats D'Hotel 1999 Worlds

Julianne Seguin/Charlie Bilodeau - Monde Inverse (Shae-Lynn Bourne and Shae Zukiwsky) 2015 Skate America

Isabeau Levito - Dulcea Și Tandra Mea Fiară (Yulia Kuznetsova) 2022 MK John Wilson Trophy

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva - Batwannis Beek/Sandstorm (Tatiana Prokofieva) 2015 Europeans

Kana Muramoto/Daisuke Takahashi - Soran Bushi (Marina Zoueva, Ilia Tkachenko, and Koyo Yanai) 2021 NHK Trophy

Amber Glenn - This Time (Kaitlyn Weaver and Randi Strong) 2024 Lombardia Trophy

Ivan Righini - You Raise Me Up (Ivan Righini) 2016 Europeans

Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte - Life is Beautiful (Liudmila Vlasova) 2017 NHK Trophy

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Opera Streams: Mid-Late November 2024

15th: Rameau's Platée from Garsington Opera. Featuring Samuel Boden, Robert Murray, and Henry Waddington. Free!

15th: Rossini's Il Turco in Italia from Teatro Galli Rimini. Featuring Nahuel di Pierro, Elena Galitskaya, and Francisco Brito. Free!

17th: Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco from Malmö Opera. Featuring Ania Jeruc, Bror Magnus Tødenes, and Fredrik Zetterström. Rental.

17th: Handel's Theodora from Teatro Real. Featuring Julia Bullock, Joyce DiDonato, and Iestyn Davies. Subscription.

19th: Bizet's Carmen from San Francisco Opera. Featuring Eve-Maud Hubeaux, Jonathan Tetelman, Christian Van Horn, and Louise Alder. Rental (according to their website that is, but last time they just... didn't charge me).

22nd: Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress from Den Norske Opera & Ballett. Featuring Thomas Atkins, Mari Eriksmoen, and Aleksander Nohr. Free!

30th: Verdi's La Forza del Destino from Gran Teatre del Liceu. Featuring Anna Pirozzi, Brian Jagde, Artur Rucinski, and John Relyea. Free!

UPDATE: The Donizetti Festival is streaming all of this year's opera productions via subscription and/or rental on their platform for an indefinite period.

22nd: Don Pasquale

23rd: Roberto Devereux

29th: Zoraida di Granata

Plus: all of the Met's Puccini recordings, video and audio, are FREE through the end of the month!

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A Broadway Star Gets Married on Her Day Off

Lindsay Mendez, nominated for a Tony in “Merrily We Roll Along,” married actor J. Alex Brinson in a Monday ceremony officiated by castmate Jonathan Groff. Daniel Radcliffe was their ring bearer.

On Broadway, with most shows shuttered, Monday is typically the day actors and crews rest and recharge.

Or, if you’re Lindsay Michelle Mendez and John Alex Brinson, it’s the day you get married.

Ms. Mendez currently stars as Mary Flynn in the musical “Merrily We Roll Along,” so the wedding was planned not just around her schedule, but that of the officiant and ring bearer’s, too — Ms. Mendez’s castmates Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe.

Ms. Mendez said her castmates Mr. Groff, who was previously ordained by the Universal Life Church, and Mr. Radcliffe had played an important role in her relationship journey with Mr. Brinson. “They’ve become our really, really close friends in real life,” she said. “It just felt appropriate for Jon to marry us and for Dan to be our ring bearer.”

Several Times a Minister Mr. Groff has officiated other weddings, including the nuptials of his former “Hamilton” castmate Phillipa Soo and the actor Steven Pasquale.

Mr. Groff, ordained by the Universal Life Church, is a seasoned officiant who has presided over several other weddings. Credit: Heather Gershonowitz

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To put an end to the cliché of Simone Evrard’s jealousy towards Charlotte Corday (and at the same time the demonization of women concerning the assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday):

In a horrible movie whose name I won’t mention (it's taboo, it never existed for me, ideally to preserve my mental health), Marat’s companion, Simone Evrard, is portrayed as a jealous woman, and, if possible, ugly, dressed in shabby clothing compared to the "magnificent Charlotte Corday." There’s no need to explain which side the film takes, not to mention that Marat torments Simone Evrard in the film (how horrible, considering that he was one of those revolutionaries fighting against domestic violence—he would have been furious at this depiction). Simone Evrard, a highly intelligent political figure, without whom Marat would have been far less effective, was considered a worthy figure by many revolutionaries. In short, the film is full of sexism and classism (because, of course, women who dress modestly must be depicted as evil compared to women who dress elegantly, even though Simone Evrard always dressed elegantly, according to Stefania Di Pasquale).

Anyway, here’s an excerpt from “La violence évitée : citoyens ordinaires face à l’assassinat de Marat” by Guillaume Mazeau. What made Simone Evrard (or her sister Catherine Evrard) suspicious of Charlotte Corday from the start wasn’t jealousy (and jealousy of what, anyway?) but her suspicious behavior: “The women around Marat scrutinized the intruder. Despite the neighborhood’s relative social mix, a woman of standing like Corday was certainly not part of the regular crowd and quickly drew attention. Her attire clashed with the modest clothing of the neighbors. Her demeanor gave her away: climbing and descending the stairs ‘too’ quickly, Corday disrupted the household’s usual pace. She immediately aroused suspicion. From sociability to politics, it’s just a small step: as a stranger, Corday was quickly viewed as suspicious.” So, as you can see, it wasn’t jealousy at all that made her suspicious. Marat should have listened to the women around him; he might never have been assassinated (yes, he would probably have died months later from illness, but honestly, he would have been more valuable alive than as a martyr).

By the way, even Marat’s enemies could visit him without any problem, so the idea that visitors were carefully selected to flatter him can be dismissed.

In fact, when Charlotte Corday killed Marat, it was a man, Laurent Le Bas, a commissioner who was helping with packaging, who first struck out at her. He grabbed a chair, hit Charlotte Corday, and continued beating her. Simone Evrard then joined him, as did Catherine Evrard. (Of course, I condemn all forms of lynching on principle, even against the most despicable people, but without excusing Simone Evrard, I think most of us would have done the same if one of our loved ones had just been murdered by this person). The insults thrown at Corday weren’t aimed at someone perceived as counter-revolutionary, but at someone seen as a murderer like Charlotte Corday.

Yet, it was a woman, Marie Barbe Aublain, the doorkeeper and a close person of Marat, who put an end to the violence against Charlotte Corday. She helped subdue Charlotte Corday and, without a word, acted as a mediator to ensure that Corday was handed over to the authorities.

So, there was no jealousy or pettiness from Marat’s female companions towards Charlotte Corday. In fact, it was a woman who saved Corday from being lynched, far from the image of bloodthirsty revolutionary women.

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A List of Works Influencing and Referenced by IWTV Season 1

Works Directly Referenced

Marriage in a Free Society by Edward Carpenter

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cheri by Collete

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

La Nausee by Jean-Paul Sartre (credit to @demonicdomarmand )

Complete Poetry of Emily Dickinson edited by Thomas H. Johnson*

Blue Book by Tom Anderson

The Book of Abramelin the Mage

The Savage Garden by Mark Mills credit to @speckled-jim

Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff credit to @spreckled-jim

America and Dissent: Why America Suffers When Economics and Politics Collide by Alan S. Blinder credit to @speckled-jim

Dairy Queen Days by Robert Inman credit to @speckled-jim

Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble by Lester R. Brown credit to @speckled-jim

Attila: the Judgement by William Napier credit to @speckled-jim

In A Heartbeat by Rosalind Noonan credit to @spreckled-jim

The Lost Recipe for Happiness by Barbara O'Neal credit to @speckled-jim

Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism" by Jacques Dupuis credit to @speckled-jim

Strawberry Hill: Horace Walpole's Gothic Castle by Anna Chalcraft & Judith Viscardi credit to @speckled-jim

Sailing to Byzantium by Yeats

The Circus Animal's Desertion by Yeats

The Second Coming by Yeats

Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti with libretto by Giovanni Ruffini

Iolanta by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky

Pelleas et Melisande by Claude Debussy

Epigraphes Antiques by Claude Debussy

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Nosferatu (1922)

The Graduate (1967)

Marie Antoinette (1938)

On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis by Michael Ranft (1728)

Emily Post’s Etiquette

Bach’s Minuet in G Major (arranged as vampire minuet in G major)

Artworks referenced (much credit in this section to @iwtvfanevents and to @nicodelenfent )

Fall of The Rebel Angels by Peter Bruegel The Elder (1562)

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt (1633)

Three Peaches on a Stone Plinth by Adriaen Coorte (1705)

Strawberries and Cream Raphaelle Peale, (1816) credit to @diasdelfeugo

Red Mullet and Eel by Edouard Manet (1864)

Starry Night by Edvard Munch (1893)

Self Portrait by Edvard Munch (1881)

Captain Percy Williams on a Favorite Irish Hunter by Samuel Sidney (1881)

Autumn at Arkville by Alexander H. Wyant 

Cumulus Clouds, East River by Robert Henri 

Mildred-O Hat by Robert Henri (Undated)

Ship in the Night James Gale Tyler (1870)

Bouquet in a Theater Box by Renoir (1871)

Berthe Morisot with a Fan by Édouard Manet (1872)

La Vierge D’aurore by Odilon Redon (1890) credit to @vampirepoem on twt

Still Life with Blue Vase and Mushrooms by Otto Sholderer (1891)

After the Bath: Woman Drying her Hair by Edgar Degas (1898)

Bust of a Woman with Her Left Hand on Her

Chin by Edgar Degas (1898) credit to @terrifique

Backstage at the Opera by Jean Beraud (1889)

Roman Bacchanal by Vasily Alexandrovich Kotarbiński (1898)

Dancers by Edgar Degas (1899)

Calling the Hounds Out of Cover by Haywood Hardy (1906)

Dolls by Witold Wojtkiewicz (1906) credit to @gyzeppelis on twt

Forty-two Kids by George Bellows (1907)

The Artist's Sister Melanie by Egon Schiele (1908)

Paddy Flannigan by George Bellows (1908)

Stag at Sharkey’s by George Bellows (1909)

The Lone Tenement by George Bellows (1909)

Ode to Flower After Anacreon by Auguste Renoir (1909) credit to @iwtvasart on twt

New York by George Bellows (1911)

Young Man kneeling before God the Father

Egon Schiele (1909)

Kneeling Girl with Spanish Skirt by Egon Schiele (1911)

Portrait of Erich Lederer by Egon Schiele (1912)

Krumau on the Molde by Egon Schiele (1912)

Weeping Nude by Edvard Munch (1913)

The Cliff Dwellers by George Bellows (1913)

Church in Stein on the Danube by Egon Schiele (1913)

Self Portrait in a Jerkin by Egon Schiele (1914)

The Kitten's Art Lesson by Henriette Ronner Knip credit to @terrifique

Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion by Francis Bacon (1944)

New York by Vivian Maier (1953)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (Undated)

Self Portrait by Vivian Maier (1954)

Slave Auction by Jean-Michelle Basquiat (1982)

(Untitled) photo of St. Paul Loading Docks by Bradley Olson (2015)

Transformation by Ron Bechet (2021)

(Untitled) sculpture in the shape of vines by Sadie Sheldon

(Untitled) Ceramic Totems by Julie Silvers (Undated)

Mother Daughter by Rahmon Oluganna

Twins I by Raymon Oluganna

@iwtvfanevents made a post of unidentified works here.

Works Cited by the Writer’s Room as Influences

Bourbon Street: A History by Richard Campanella (as it hardly mentions Storyville I think interested parties would be better served by additional titles if they want a complete history of New Orleans)

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (This was also adapted into an award winning opera)

poetry by Charles Simic (possibly A Wedding in Hell?)

poetry by Mark Strand (possibly Dark Harbour?)

Works IWTV may be in conversation with (This is the most open to criticism and additions)

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, uncensored (There are two very different versions of this which exist today, as Harvard Press republished the unedited original with permission from the Wilde family.)

Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner

Warsan Shire for Beyoncé’s Lemonade

Faust: A Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

La Morte Amoreuse by Theophile Gautier

Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu

Maurice by E.M. Forster

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (credit to @johnlockdynamic )

1984 by George Orwell (credit to @savage-garden-nights for picking this up)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Gone With the Wind film (1939)

Hannibal (2013)

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle Suzanne de Villenueve

Music used in Season 1 collected by @greedandenby here

*if collected or in translation most of the best editions today would not have been available to the characters pre-1940. It’s possible Louis is meant to have read them in their original French in some cases, but it would provide for a different experience. Lydia Davis’ Madame Bovary, for example, attempts to replicate this.

** I've tagged and linked relevant excerpts under quote series as I've been working my way through the list.

Season 2 here

Season 3 here

[lilacerull0]

assembling my character pinterest boards 🧡

Amy Pond, Doctor Who

Lila Cerullo, L'amica geniale

Elena Greco, L'amica geniale

Gregory House, House M.D.

Rory Gilmore, Gilmore Girls

Martha Jones, Doctor Who

Jo March, Little Women

12th Doctor, Doctor Who

Johanna Morrigan, How to Build a Girl

Riley Matthews, Girl Meets World

Franco Mari, L'amica geniale

Pasquale Peluso, L'amica geniale

[libriaco]

La festa dell'uovo

Anche la Pasqua, come il Natale, era inizialmente una festa soprattutto religiosa, divenuta col tempo un’importante festa dedicata ai bambini. Come mostrano il suo nome in molte lingue e i riti a essa connessi, la Pasqua possiede profondi significati simbolici in relazione alla nascita, alla rinascita e alla fertilità. I termini tedesco e inglese derivano dal nome della divinità germanica Ostara, dea della primavera e della fecondità. Suo contrassegno era l’uovo e suo messaggero la lepre; fu questa l’origine dell’uovo di Pasqua e della Lepre di Pasqua. L’uovo occupa un posto di rilievo nei miti della creazione di tutto il mondo a significare la nascita e già a partire dal IV secolo ne è attestato il collegamento con le cerimonie pasquali. Nel XII secolo la chiesa cattolica diede la sua legittimazione a tale collegamento introducendo la Benedictio Ovarum (*), la benedizione delle uova, e autorizzandone un uso particolare nelle festività pasquali. Da allora l’uovo ha sempre occupato un posto centrale nella celebrazione della Pasqua, dalla tradizionale corsa delle uova, alla caccia alle uova da parte dei bambini, all’uso di regalare uova riccamente decorate. La lepre, come poi il coniglio, si prestava naturalmente a simboleggiare la fertilità, per la sua nota prolificità. Il primo riferimento in lingua tedesca alla lepre in rapporto all’uovo pasquale risale al 1572, quando peraltro l’usanza era da lungo tempo affermata.

(*) Libriaco: Propenderei per una Benedictio *Ovorum*!

B. Bettelheim, [A good enough parent, 1987] Un genitore quasi perfetto, Milano, Feltrinelli 2014 [Trad. A. Bottini]

Immagine: Petrit Halilaj e Álvaro Urbano, Ensemble lunare per mari in rivolta - Particolare. Dalla mostra Thus waves come in Pairs, Ocean Space. Venezia, Chiesa di san Lorenzo, 2023. Foto: per gentile concessione di Robyn Yeary.

[helmetkeeper]

hello! :3 may we request a playlist for enid sinclair and wednesday from the wednesday netflix series? we’re trying to make a joint playlist and it’s been difficult :’>

uhh, we like chappell roan! i really like her songs and wenny tolerates them- we’ve dubbed ‘our song’ as red wine supernova :)) also taste, by sabrina carpenter. we both like those. wednesday likes a bit of mother mother and the amazing devil, i also like those two bands. maybe bloody mary by lady gaga? oh and wednesday likes classical music, esp cello, but i don’t know if that would really fit.

hopefully that’s enough info ^^’ thank you so much! /gen,nf

hello!! i feel like i fell off somewhere near the middle XD, but i hope y'all like some of these regardless!

order: song ; artist (extra artists) [notes]

dividers by @/saradika and @/paradoxproductions

Talk Too Much ; Reneé Rapp

Born Again Teen ; Lucius

Suburban Blues ; The Aces

Touching Yourself ; The Japanese House [this one's a bit raunchy just from the title being a main lyric lmao]

Addictions ; Lucy Dacus

Honey ; Samia

boys, bugs and men ; Paris Paloma

Pink Light ; MUNA

Burn Alive ; The Last Dinner Party

Bloodline / Difficult Things ; Orla Gartland

Crush ; Ethel Cain

Drain Me! ; Towa Bird

Dream Girl Evil ; Florence + The Machine

girlfriend ; hemlocke springs [one of my favs <3]

heavun ; hemlocke springs

Strohmann ; Riki

Never Ending Song ; Conan Gray

16 ; Caroline Kingsbury

Hounds Of Love ; Kate Bush

GO! ; Santigold (Karen O)

Champagne Coast ; Blood Orange

Opening ; Dora Jar

Gender Is Boring ; She/Her/Hers

Milk Crates ; Pigeon Pit

I Listened ; Apes of the State

Nonbinary Fantasy Trash Babe ; Qfolk

I Forgot ; The Moldy Peaches

Armchair Anarchism ; Not Half Bad

Gender School Dropout ; Ankle Grease

Not at All ; Chad Hates George

Turpan Tango ; Zhen Chen (Jiaju Shen) (Feifei Yang)

Quadro per un giglio ; Aiezza Pasquale [title translates to "Framework for a lily" for me]

Down The Rabbit Hole ; Anna Phoebe (Nicholas Holland)

Stranded ; Antoinette Costa (Kevin Olusola) (Tara Kamangar)

Peculiar ; Chance's End

Give Me Everything - Stripped Down ; Archer Marsh

Espresso ; Vitamin String Quartet

Good Luck, Babe! ; Vitamin String Quartet

Die With A Smile ; Amber Tide

Come Inside Of My Heart ; IV Of Spades

She Knows My Name ; The Family Crest

Looking Out for You ; Joy Again

Dark Red ; Steve Lacy

COUNT THOSE FREAKS ; Whitey [this one's a nice surprise, IMO]

Insomniac ; Memo Boy (Chakra Efendi)

I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend ; Eyedress

Romantic Lover ; Eyedress

Like or Like Like ; Miniature Tigers

Hunnybee ; Unknown Mortal Orchestra

White Winter Hymnal ; Fleet Foxes

High School Poem ; The Knife

Don't Delete The Kisses ; Wolf Alice

Glory Box ; Portishead

Lullaby ; The Cure

Far From Any Road ; The Handsome Family

Eyes on Fire ; Blue Foundation

Into Dust ; Mazzy Star

Sleeping Sun ; Nightwish

Harsh Realm ; Widowspeak

NUMB ; SPIDER GANG [i've been listening to this for the past hour heeeeelp]

[opera-ghosts]

From The New York Times; Dec. 30, 1920

SELMA KURZ HERE FOR AMERICAN TOUR; Famous Polish Prima Donna Has Mastered Her Fear of an Atlantic Crossing. NOTABLE CAREER ABROAD Long Favorite of the Vienna Opera Going Public, She Owes Her Success to a Chance Discovery of Her Voice.

Selma Kurz; known throughout Europe ‘as a leading coloratura soprano and famous particularly for her echievements at the Vienna Opera House, of. which she has been the pride for many years, has arrived in this city, almost unannounced, to make a tour of the United States.’ Her first appearance will be on Sunday, Jan. 9, at the Hippodrome with the National Symphony Orchestra, of which Artur Bodansky is conductor. In an interview with a Times reporter in her suite at the St.Regia; Mme.Kurz yesterday expressed keen delight over her forthcoming opportunity to sing before the American public, which she has been informed is most cordial. She is under the management of Otokar Bartik. Mme. Kyrz’s rise in the operatic.world is the.story of a girl in: humble surroundings, whose gift of song, discovered. by accident, was. developed by wealthy benefactors, who had the satisfaction in return of seeing their protége sought by the leading operatic managers of Europe. At Covent Garden, London, she won the admiration of British audiences and her success was no less when she sang in Paris. In thé days of the Czar she was literally showered with gold’ and gems when she sang .in Moscow and Petrograd.

Yet Mme.. Kurz somewhat wistfully admitted yesterday, as she reclined on a couch recuperating from her voyage and from her first strenuous. sight-seeingi n New-York, that hey destiny in her A hood days seemed” to lead to no more hopeful. than the life of a seamstress. , ‘““My parents were poor,”’ said Mme. Kurz, “‘and my needlework was necessary to help keep our family of eleven children together. My father was an umbrella mender in the little town of Bieliza, Poland. As I was skillful with the needle, I devoted most of my time to needlework, Perhaps it was that which made me want to sing to break the tedium of the work. ‘‘‘‘ In the factory where I used to work t| 1: often burst into song almost unconsciously. Sometimes I did not realize what was doing until the forewoman would touch me on the shoulder and give me this gentle reprimand: * You. should not sing so tempo—so slowly—because the other girls are. listening,- and it makes them work slowly, too. You should sing a lively melody, stitch . they will stitch with more spee While singing ‘as shé went about hérduties at home one day the giris voice attracted the attention of two boy playmates of her brother Mano, now a resident of San Francisco. They told the cantor of the synagogue in Bieliza about the wonderful voice they had heard, and on seeking. her out and hearing her sing he wee equally impréssed. He . inte ed in her behalf with -a wealthy Polish family, who agreed to provide for her musical education, When she appeared in. Vienna in the ttile réle of Thomas's "Mignon ’’ her success was immediate.

Mme. Kurz has a voice of great compass, her range being from low. A. to High F. Tp. describing it. Mr. Bartik a that Kienzl, composer of the ras ‘ The Evangelist ’ and “ Ran des Vaohes,' has. confirmed several times, with the watch in hand, that her trill has lasted forty seconds.’’ — her principarts are Gilda, Rigoletto; Luela the Queen, in — Meyerbeer's “ Huguenots * ; the title réles. in ‘‘ Traviata,”’ Lakmé,’’ and ‘ Dinorah ’’; Rosina, in ‘ The Barber of Seville ’’; Adina, in “ Elisir ’' Amina in La sonnambula; Norina, Don Pasquale ”’ Marie, in “La Fille du régiment‘; Queen of the Night, in Mozart's and Martha’; Elvira, in “‘ Ernani,”’ Other than coloratura parts include Madame Butterfly.”Mignon'', Eva in Meistersinger,’’ and Marguerite, in ‘' Faust. In deference to the American public a number of selections in English during her present tour. Among. these are ‘Il Penseroso,’’ by Handel, to Milton’s ‘words, and a number of familiar lyrics. She sings in French, Italian and Polish. In addition and: Polish, in addition English Mme. has been occasioned largely by the attractive compensation given ‘to prominent artists'here. It is necessary for her: to reco re her finances because, as she explain ever since the beginning of the war she has devoted her services to. the Vienna Opera’ House without charge, as did moſt of the other stars, who Were willing ~ ——— financial remuneration rather than see opera come to a standstill She planned to come to America ‘when Heinrich: Conried was head of the Metropolitan Opera company. She then contracted ninety performances, tly the agreement was not eesh ould "te said . that “her trip” to s time was marked by. no tuntoward — although she admitted that she was quite seasick the first day.