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PLAYBOY magazine, January 1966

- Interview with Princess Grace

Photos by Larry Fried (Taken in 1963 in Philadelphia.)

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PLAYBOY interview: Princess Grace - A Candid Conversation with the Regal Consort of Monaco’s Prince Rainier

Ten years ago, in an MGM picture called “The Swan,” Alec Guinness played the courtly prince of a fairy-tale kingdom who marries a beautiful commoner. Five days after its premiere, the movie's improbable cliché of the storyline was re-enacted in real life: Guinness costar, a cool, blue-eyed blonde named Grace Kelly, gave up her flourishing film career to become the consort of the absolute monarch of the principality of Monaco, a Graustarkian 390-acre realm half the size of New York's Central Park. Perched scenically on the Côte d'Azur between Nice and the Italian Riviera, bypassed by the tide of world events during most of its eight-century history, tiny Monaco - with its opulent Casino, emerald harbor and white beaches - had become in recent decades an elegantly antiquated playground for the diminishing ranks of international café society. But when Prince Rainier III announced his storybook betrothal to a regnant queen of Hollywood, the diminutive dominion found itself basking suddenly in the unfamiliar glare of worldwide publicity. Its huge palace, once described by Alfred Hitchcock as “a run-down post office,” was redecorated for the royal wedding; the pitted streets of Monte Carlo were patched and festooned with bunting; and hundreds of newsmen, photographers, TV camera crews and rubbernecking tourists descended on Monaco to watch, along with the principality's 27,000 inhabitants, as the sole surviving scion of the ancient House of Grimaldi, a holder of 139 titles, bestowed a new one on his 26-year-old bride from Philadelphia: Her Most Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco.

It was to be her most demanding role but one for which she might almost be said to have been typecast, by nature as well as by MGM. Though not a blueblood - her Irish father, despite a self-made $18,000,000 fortune, had begun his contracting career as a lowly bricklayer - she was born with a patrician profile and a demure demeanor that gentle rearing and genteel schooling refined into a well-bred bearing as finely honed as any Main Line debutante's. Refusing to content herself, like so many of her finishing-school mates, with the postgraduate role of social butterfly, she set out for New York at 17 - determined to “find herself” - and signed up for a two-year curriculum at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts, earning her tuition money with part-time photographic modeling for fashion and cosmetic ads.

Before long she was appearing regularly, if only in walk-ons and bit parts, in live TV dramas - making little money and less impact on the reviewers, but gaining invaluable experience for the bigger and better roles she coveted. They were soon to come. Longing to taste the special excitement of performing before a live audience - but mostly to remain solvent during the rerun season - she deserted the tube and the Great White Way for a cross-country stint on the summer-stock circuit. Graduating to supporting parts, Grace Kelly began to be mentioned, and sometimes even applauded, by the critics. Then, just before she turned 20, came an early birthday present: a featured role on Broadway opposite Raymond Massey in Strindberg's “The Father.” Heartbreakingly, for her, the play folded after only two months; but Grace didn't have long to grieve, for her performance had been seen and appreciated by a man who, though he didn't know it then, was about to rechart the entire course of her life in ways that a Hollywood hack would have dismissed as too wildly improbable a plotline even for a children's fairy tale. The man was an executive for 20th Century-Fox with a firm, if less than thrilling, offer of a very minor speaking part in a B suspense picture called “Fourteen Hours.” Though she wasn't enchanted by the thought of abandoning the intellectual ferment of theatrical Manhattan for the so-called creative Sahara of Southern California, she decided to accept the role; she could always act and run, she reasoned. She went to Hollywood and made the movie in 1951, but, like so many other screen-o-phobic New York stage-folk lured west for a single film, she found herself staying on, and on - at first just for one more picture, a meatier part, this one as the long-suffering Quaker wife of Gary Cooper in “High Noon.” When this classic Western turned out to be not only a box-office smash but also a resounding critical success, Grace was transfigured almost overnight into a burgeoning movie star, and before you could say “hot property,” the 22-year-old Irish bricklayer's daughter was signed to a fat seven year contract with MGM.

After one last futile fling at the Broadway stage - in a turkey ironically entitled “To Be Continued,” which wasn't - she returned to Hollywood determined to establish her credentials as a screen actress. She did so in her next film, winning an Oscar nomination in 1953 for her subtly modulated performance in “Mogambo” as the provocative hypotenuse of a triangle between a predatory white hunter (Clark Gable) and her ineffectual husband on an African safari. Next came a pair of Alfred Hitchcock thrillers, both in 1954: “Dial M for Murder,” in which she played the intended victim of a homicidal husband (Ray Milland); and “Rear Window,” in which she flirted with death yet again, this time at the hands of a psychotic wife-dismemberer, as James Stewart's intrepid girlfriend and partner in crime detection. “The charismatic combination of freshness, ladylike virtue and underlying sex appeal which she exudes with such style and self-assurance,” as one critic described it, had already become her trademark for millions of movie fans.

In her very next film, however, as if to confound their expectations - and those of reviewers who had become fond of saying about her things like, “Though Miss Kelly has little to do but look lovely, she does it with aristocratic aplomb,” - she played the dowdy, downbeat title role in “The Country Girl.” Her depressingly believable performance won her an Academy Award as the best actress of 1954. Not content to rest on her well-earned laurels and wait for a good script, she made a fourth picture that year: “Green Fire,” a steamy jungle potboiler that added little luster to her stardom. In it, reverting to stereotype as a coolly beautiful but headstrong Brazilian coffee plantation owner, she fought to transcend the banality of the scenario no less valiantly than to tame the wilderness - unfortunately with less success. In “The Bridges at Toko-Ri,” she fared only slightly better as the demure, dutiful, quietly courageous wife of a Korea jet pilot (William Holden) who was shot down over enemy lines. “High Society," her first and only musical comedy, found her cast as a two-dimensional socialite type opposite Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. Though her best lines were in her profile, she displayed an engaging comic flair that spurred producers to begin offering her light-comedy roles as well as straight dramatic parts.

But she never got the chance to consider either, for later that same year, on a trip to Europe, stopping off in Monaco on a picture-taking publicity session for Paris Match, she was taken to the palace and introduced, as a diplomatic courtesy, to Prince Rainier. Despite gushing fan-magazine reports to the contrary, no romantic sparks flew at this first brief meeting, though they liked each other - well enough to date two or three times before her return to Hollywood. On a state visit to the U. S. a few months later, however, the Prince was a house guest at the Kelly home in Philadelphia, and a few weeks after that their engagement was announced. Then came “The Swan,” her swan song for the screen, and finally the klieg-lit carnival of the rογal wedding.

In the decade since that historic day, both Hollywood and Philadelphia have been left far behind. She took naturally and happily to the role of wife and mother - bearing her husband three children, including an all-important heir, seven-year-old Prince Albert. But her adjustment has been slow and difficult to the elaborate protocol and politesse of princesshood, to the myriad diplomatic burdens and social constraints of her official role as consort, to the parochial atmosphere and attitudes of an old-fashioned European town after a lifetime in the cosmopolitan U.S., and to the impossibility of living like an ordinary citizen, or even like an ordinary ex-movie star. But after ten years in the role - almost interrupted in 1962 by a brief flirtation with the idea of returning to films for a one-shot as the star of Hitchcock's “Marnie,” a scheme vetoed at the last minute by her husband - friends say she seems, at 36, to have come to terms with her past and present, to have accepted finally the burdens and sacrifices of her new life, to have acquired a new poise, a quiet self-assurance which enables her not only to meet but to relish her royal responsibilities.

Among them is the task of winnowing through the hundreds of interview requests with which she's inundated from all over the world. Her crowded schedule of state duties and Monegasque charity work permits her to accept only a handful of them in the course of a year. PLAYBOY's is one of the few to which she has consented in recent months. Through her appointments secretary, we were advised that Princess Grace would expect us to call on her at the palace in the late afternoon on a date about one month hence - her earliest uncommitted time - when she would be able to spare us the hours between tea and cocktails. Arriving at the appointed time, we were ushered into a lavish, high-ceilinged drawing room where we found the Princess - behind horn-rimmed glasses - poring over her correspondence at an antique escritoire. Looking up as we entered, she removed her horn rims, smiled impersonally, rose from her chair, greeted us and invited us to take a seat. After a few minutes of polite amenities, her veneer of diplomatic reserve began to dissolve when we discovered that we shared mutual friends in the New York theater. Ice duly broken, we turned on the tape machine and began the interview.

PLAYBOY: What are your duties and obligations as Monaco's Princess?

PRINCESS GRACE: My first duty is as wife and mother to my children. I also have many official duties: I'm president of the Monegasque Red Cross, and the principality is so small that I am really involved in most of the social and charitable work here as far as children and old people are concerned. I'm also honorary president of the girl scouts, and I'm building a new nursery for children. I'm also interested in promoting handwork by artisans, particularly local crafts such as ceramics, pottery and hand weaving. Recently I opened a foundation which will try to promote handicraft. I want to give our artisans the opportunity to show their work.

PLAYBOY: Would you describe a day at the palace?

PRINCESS GRACE: Every day is so different. I rise fairly early. Often I'll spend the whole day in the office, see my mail, entertain visitors in the afternoon. Monday mornings I'm concerned with problems of the household, with what receptions are being held that week. We have lunch with our children as often as possible. Three afternoons a week I receive people who have requested audiences for one reason or another. I'm also busy with plans for the celebration of this year's centenary of Monte Carlo, which was created by Prince Charles, my husband's great-great-grandfather.

PLAYBOY: What is the origin of Prince Rainier's family tree?

PRINCESS GRACE: The House of Monaco is that of the Grimaldi family, whose history is linked with the principality. It came into being in Genoa, where the first member of historical note, Otto Canella, was born around the 11th Century. The descendants of Otto took as their family name the first name of Otto's youngest son, Grimaldo, who distinguished himself as ambassador to Frederick Barbarossa and Manuel Comnenus, emperor of Byzantium. At the end of the 13th Century, the struggles between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines, political factions in Genoa, forced the Grimaldis into exile, and they took refuge in Provence. François Grimaldi, disguised in a monk's robe, succeeded in infiltrating a group of his partisans into the fortress of Monaco, which they took by surprise. Thus did the Grimaldi family retake possession of the place in which they were to found a dynasty. The coat of arms of this line of princes - two monks brandishing swords - perpetuates the memory of this event. During the last hundred years, the rulers have been Prince Charles III, Albert I and Louis II. The destiny of the principality has been in the hands of Prince Rainier III, my husband, since 1949.

PLAYBOY: Who introduced you to your husband? Was there a matchmaker of any sort?

PRINCESS GRACE: Pierre Galante of the French magazine Paris Match was the one who introduced me to the Prince.

PLAYBOY: Do you believe in the institution of matchmaking?

PRINCESS GRACE: It depends on the individual. I believe in the timing of people meeting; if I had met the Prince ten years before I met him, it would not have had the same effect. When we met we were both ready to get married. It just happened that way.

PLAYBOY: Your marriage has been described as a “fairy-tale romance.” Has it ever seemed that way to you?

PRINCESS GRACE: I've never seen anything fairytale-ish about it, no.

PLAYBOY: What was the most unusual gift you received for your wedding?

PRINCESS GRACE: We received everything from a hundred chickens to a lion and a bear. The chickens are gone, but the lion and the bear are still here in the Prince's zoo.

PLAYBOY: Did you feel any animosity toward those royal families who didn't attend the wedding?

PRINCESS GRACE: It made no difference to me. I didn't know them before.

PLAYBOY: With which of the European royal families are you friendly?

PRINCESS GRACE: We're very friendly with the queen of Spain, who is the godmother of our little boy. We're also friendly with the Greek and Rumanian royal families.

PLAYBOY: How long did it take you to get used to royal life in Monaco?

PRINCESS GRACE: Well, it was quite a change; I had always lived in big cities. I had also spent nearly ten years acting; it was quite a change from an actor's life to civilian life, so to speak. But the biggest change was being married. This was the biggest adjustment. There were so many changes to be made all at once.

PLAYBOY: Do you miss the United States?

PRINCESS GRACE: I miss a lot about the United States. Most of all, I miss my family.

PLAYBOY: Has your relationship with your family changed since you became a princess?

PRINCESS GRACE: They probably tease me a little bit more than they used to. But other than that, nothing has changed. We're always teasing one another, mostly my sisters and brother. But I don't get to see them often enough. I also miss lots of my friends back in the U. S. And I miss a certain American attitude toward things. I enjoy my life here very much, but there is quite a different outlook and a different approach to life in Europe. At times I get homesick for the American approach, which is more direct, a little easier, perhaps.

PLAYBOY: Since you aren't a native-born Monegasque, are you regarded by any of your subjects as a foreigner or an outsider?

PRINCESS GRACE: Oh yes, certainly, very much so. People were terribly sweet and wonderful to me when I arrived and greeted me most warmly and affectionately, but there are certain people who still consider me a foreigner. When I go to New York, headwaiters will speak French to me, and when I'm in Europe, they will speak English.

PLAYBOY: Are you fluent in French?

PRINCESS GRACE: I'm still working at it.

PLAYBOY: As a girl born in Philadelphia who has lived in New York and Hollywood, don't you find Monaco at times a bit too small and parochial?

PRINCESS GRACE: It does seem small, yes. It is a very small town and, like all small towns, there is often a small-town attitude; one is not as free as in a big town. In my position here, everyone knows what I do at every moment.

PLAYBOY: Does this make you uncomfortable?

PRINCESS GRACE: It's been a little difficult for me to get used to. But I can come and go about Monaco more or less as I like, without inconvenience - except in the summertime, when a great many tourists and visitors come here. If I take a walk, I'll have 50 or 100 of them trailing me, taking pictures and asking for autographs.

PLAYBOY: Have you ever wished you could be just plain Grace Kelly again?

PRINCESS GRACE: I have no interest in going back. My life now is too full. I was very “plain” back in Philadelphia; I don't think I'd like to go back to that again. Before my marriage, I was very much a 20th Century modern young woman. I was very independent, which I enjoyed very much. But too much independence for a woman I don't think brings so much happiness.

PLAYBOY: If your daughter wanted to be a movie star, would you object?

PRINCESS GRACE: I think so, yes - although her father would object to it before I could. It isn't the life one would choose for one's daughter. I know my mother didn't choose it for me. When I was in the theater, I longed only to be on the stage. I got into films afterward.

PLAYBOY: Do you ever regret giving up your film career?

PRINCESS GRACE: No, I was only sorry to stop just when I was beginning to learn what it was all about. But acting is a wonderful career and I do miss it at times. But my life now is much fuller in every sense.

PLAYBOY: Do you miss Hollywood?

PRINCESS GRACE: No, I don't. I'd like to see some of my friends there, but as a city, I don't miss it at all.

PLAYBOY: Do you still receive fan mail from the U.S.?

PRINCESS GRACE: Yes, I get quite a bit. I get many requests for pictures, autographs, and so forth and I fulfill them as best I can.

PLAYBOY: Do you still get movie offers?

PRINCESS GRACE: Yes.

PLAYBOY: Are you ever tempted to accept any of them?

PRINCESS GRACE: Well, I love acting, and certainly I would love to continue. But one has to choose in life. When I was acting, I wasn't a very happy person. It isn't much fun to have success and no one to share it with. Right now I have a very full and happy life. Much too full and much too busy. I don't have time for all the things I would like to do.

PLAYBOY: Would your husband oppose you resuming an acting career?

PRINCESS GRACE: Yes, because, first of all, it would be very difficult. I wouldn't have the time. I have three children. I have the Red Cross and many other activities. I just would never be able to get three months together to be able to do a picture.

PLAYBOY: Even if it were shot in Monaco?

PRINCESS GRACE: How can I be Princess in the palace and run down to the set and make a film in Monaco? It's not possible.

PLAYBOY: Do your children know that their mother was a famous movie star?

PRINCESS GRACE: They've seen some of my pictures. They were very pleased and excited about it. They saw High Noon and To Catch a Thief.

PLAYBOY: Do you plan to have any more children?

PRINCESS GRACE: I don't know. I have three now, which is quite a nice number. It would be nice to have more, but I don't know.

PLAYBOY: How do you feel about birth control?

PRINCESS GRACE: As a Catholic, I have mixed viewpoints about it. Certainly something will have to be done about it. It's a problem that needs studying, and is being studied by the Catholic Church, very wisely. But I don't think it's something one can say arbitrarily should or shouldn't be practiced; it should be left to people to decide for themselves. As adult human beings, we should be able to decide such a personal thing for ourselves.

PLAYBOY: Do you think that birth control information should be made available to the general public?

PRINCESS GRACE: Definitely.

PLAYBOY: Do you favor the use of birth control pills?

PRINCESS GRACE: Well, the pill does not exist in France, because it is a Catholic country; these problems are hardly even discussed. But I know from English people and my American friends that the pill is being used increasingly by people who can afford to have children. The big problem is for the ignorant masses of people who can't afford to. This is the problem.

PLAYBOY: Do you foresee a change in Vatican policy toward birth control?

PRINCESS GRACE: I don't know, but I hope something will be done for the benefit of the many who really need it.

PLAYBOY: Have you met Pope Paul?

PRINCESS GRACE: No, but I met Pope John. He was a charming man, a wonderful, warm human being, full of goodness.

PLAYBOY: Do you think that Pope Paul continues the spirit of liberal reform and brotherhood enunciated by John in his Pacem in Terris?

PRINCESS GRACE: Yes, I do. I thought the Pope's visit to New York a thrilling and wonderful gesture; I hope and pray that mankind can heed his demand for peace. And I certainly feel that he champions both freedom of religion and tolerance of other faiths.

PLAYBOY: Do you know General de Gaulle?

PRINCESS GRACE: I've met the general on several occasions. He is a great man. I admire him very much.

PLAYBOY: How do you feel about De Gaulle's hostility toward the United States?

PRINCESS GRACE: I am naturally saddened by General de Gaulle's attitude toward the U.S. and the strong feeling of anti-Americanism that exists in France.

PLAYBOY: How do you account for it?

PRINCESS GRACE: These misunderstandings happen because of so many little things, sometimes insignificant ones. For the most part, Frenchmen who have been to the U.S. like Americans; but these are few, alas. Most Frenchmen know Americans only from those they see in Europe; and many people, when they travel, behave differently than they do when they're at home. But this pertains to everyone, not only to Americans. As a matter of fact, I find the behavior of other nationalities far more tiresome abroad than that of American tourists. I think Americans are misunderstood. For example, in America one tries to save time. You cut your telephone conversations short because time is short and you think you're doing someone a favor if you save him time. The French don't understand this. The more time you can give them, the more you can talk to them, the more flattering it is. Americans are perhaps a little more direct and abrupt, and the French mistake this for rudeness.

PLAYBOY: Apart from his attitude toward America, do you think De Gaulle has been a good president?

PRINCESS GRACE: Yes, I think De Gaulle has done a great deal for France and for the Frenchman, and I do not think there can be a more difficult people to govern. Everyone in France is deeply concerned as to what will happen after De Gaulle. It is a tremendous problem. For one thing, Europeans are reluctant to give responsibility to young men; and for another, the Communists in France are much too well organized to suit me.

PLAYBOY: Do you know President Johnson?

PRINCESS GRACE: I've met him briefly.

PLAYBOY: What do you think of him?

PRINCESS GRACE: He's a very warm person with a very outgoing personality, and I think he's a very capable executive. But I don't always agree with American foreign policy, so it's difficult for me to comment too much.

PLAYBOY: What, in particular, don't you agree with?

PRINCESS GRACE: Vietnam. The U.S. has made some bad errors there, to my way of thinking. I think the Americans were very fooled by Madame Nhu. The newspapers made her out to be a wicked “Dragon Lady,” which maybe she was. But was she any worse than those who have followed? And the fact that the Buddhists were infiltrated with Communists did not seem to have an effect on the American attitude toward them. And the American role in the coup d'état there was shocking. So many mistakes have been committed. How does one go back and undo them?

PLAYBOY: If you were in the United States today, would you have joined the students, professors and others who are advocating that the U. S. pull out of Vietnam?

PRINCESS GRACE: I would have to know more about their motives. What can the Americans actually do in Vietnam? At this point, they can't just pull out and go away.

PLAYBOY: Then you think that the U.S. has a right to be there?

PRINCESS GRACE: Well, someone has to be there.

PLAYBOY: Do you feel that the American policy of escalation in Vietnam is justified? Will it help bring the Vietcong to the conference table?

PRINCESS GRACE: I don't know. Things are in such a bad way now that I don't know how a satisfactory solution can be found. I leave that to bigger brains than mine.

PLAYBOY: Your neighbor, France, favors the admission of Red China to the UN. Do you?

PRINCESS GRACE: I feel it is difficult to ignore a nation of 700,000,000 people, yet one cannot admit them on their terms. I am only bewildered as to why Red China would like to be accepted into an organization dedicated to peace when they want war so badly.

PLAYBOY: Are you in favor of Western trade relations with Red China - or with any other Communist countries?

PRINCESS GRACE: No.

PLAYBOY: The U.S. has been criticized at various times for its support of dictatorial regimes - such as that of Franco Spain - simply because they are anti-Communist. What are your feelings?

PRINCESS GRACE: Some countries at certain times need dictatorships. As for Franco, I feel he has done a lot for Spain and its people.

PLAYBOY: Are you deeply and personally interested in international politics?

PRINCESS GRACE: Yes and no. I sort of get disgusted. I can go along only so far. People do such foolish things and then I lose interest.

PLAYBOY: Then let's turn to Monegasque affairs. What are the facts behind your husband's much-publicized conflict with Aristotle Onassis?

PRINCESS GRACE: My husband thinks that Onassis does not do enough for the development of Monte Carlo.

PLAYBOY: You mean that he doesn't invest enough in Monaco?

PRINCESS GRACE: That's right. I don't think that Mr. Onassis' investment in the Société des Bains de Mer of Monte Carlo is of very great importance to his overall empire. He has so many more and bigger investments than Monte Carlo. I feel that his ownership of the majority of shares, and therefore a controlling interest, in the Casino of Monte Carlo has been more for his own amusement than a serious business affair. It's hard for someone to remain deeply concerned with something that was once fun but now gives him problems.

PLAYBOY: We understand Onassis also opposes Prince Rainier's plan to “popularize” Monte Carlo to attract the tourist trade. What do these plans involve?

PRINCESS GRACE: There are interesting plans to modernize certain parts of the principality, but Monte Carlo should never and could never be another St. Tropez; the two places are too different and each one has its particular charm. Monte Carlo must remain elegant and a little old-fashioned. Everyone is not of my opinion, unfortunately. We often have to fight to try to keep many people who are eager for a fast dollar from cheapening the tone of Monte Carlo. It is a hard fight.

PLAYBOY: Are you on speaking terms with Onassis?

PRINCESS GRACE: Yes. I haven't seen him in several months, though.

PLAYBOY: Is it mostly a business feud, then?

PRINCESS GRACE: Yes.

PLAYBOY: Maria Callas is a mutual friend of yours and Onassis'. What do you think of her as a singer and a person?

PRINCESS GRACE: I think she is a very great artist, and as a person I find her to be a nice, warm, and very honest, forthright person. She says what she thinks and what she feels, which is a quality I admire very much.

PLAYBOY: Do you do the same?

PRINCESS GRACE: Not quite as openly, perhaps.

PLAYBOY: You mean for diplomatic reasons?

PRINCESS GRACE: No, it's a question of temperament, I think.

PLAYBOY: Don't you ever get your "Irish” up?

PRINCESS GRACE: Oh, yes, that comes out by itself.

PLAYBOY: You said some time ago, “We have lost the joy of creation, and people have no challenges.” What did you mean by that?

PRINCESS GRACE: I said that as far as modern-day life is concerned. For a woman today, there aren't as many challenges to one's creative instincts as before. I mean, everything is made too easy. It has to be because [the] modern woman has so much to do; she has to be not only a wife, mother, cook and housekeeper but many things. And I think that the American woman does it better than most anyone else, though it's happening all over the world now - all over Europe, too. But we live at such a rapid pace that there isn't enough time to enjoy the everyday pleasures.

PLAYBOY: You have described yourself as a pessimist. Are you really?

PRINCESS GRACE: Yes, I guess it's kind of an inverted optimism. Because I am pessimistic, I always expect the worst. When it doesn't happen, I have a nice surprise.

PLAYBOY: Are you happy, then?

PRINCESS GRACE: Well, I don't expect to be; I don't look for happiness. So perhaps I am very content in life, in a way.

PLAYBOY: How would you define happiness?

PRINCESS GRACE: I suppose being at peace with yourself, not anxiously seeking for something, not being frantic about not having something.

PLAYBOY: Are you at peace with yourself?

PRINCESS GRACE: Well, I understand myself. But I argue with myself all the time, so I guess I'm not really at peace.

PLAYBOY: Have you ever felt the need of a psychiatrist?

PRINCESS GRACE: Well, for the moment I seem to be getting along all right. So far, so good.

PLAYBOY: Since you haven't found peace of mind, what do you think will help you achieve it?

PRINCESS GRACE: Well, I have many unfulfilled ambitions in life. If, God willing, I can keep my health and strength and manage to pull myself out of bed in the morning, some of them may be realized.

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He said he “can’t wait to get cracking” and resuming his work as an MP, adding: “I just count my lucky stars really. I’ve lost a kidney but I’ve also got rid of the cancer.

“No chemotherapy, no radiotherapy. I’m just really lucky.

“So, I’m back, back in action here in Ilford North working for my constituents and back in action in Labour’s shadow cabinet too.”

Mr Streeting said he and his family received an “overwhelming” response from well-wishers after his diagnosis went public.

“The first thing I want to say, from the bottom of my heart, is a massive thankyou to everyone who got in touch – friends, family, colleagues but also loads of people I’ve never even met who were generous enough to share their stories about battling cancer generally and kidney cancer specifically, and gave me all sorts of words of encouragement at a time when they really mattered most,” he said.

“Of course, I also want to say, probably the biggest thanks of all to Ravi Barod, David Cullen and all of the NHS staff at the Royal Free Hospital, who supported me throughout my treatment. And also closer to home the NHS staff at King George and Queens Hospitals because they caught the cancer really early and without that early action the conversation would be having might be a very different one.”

Mr Streeting, a former president of the National Union of Students, is regarded as a staunch ally of Sir Keir.

He was an outspoken critic of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn over his failure to tackle antisemitism in the party.

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Obscure JTTW (p.7)

Today we talk about another one of my personal favorite obscure adaptations: the Shaw Bro. Journey to the West musical cinematic universe! It’s a series of 4 musical martial arts films.

In order, they are:

西遊記 | JTTW/Monkey Goes West (1966)

鐵扇公主 | Princess Iron Fan (1966)

盤絲洞 | Cave of the Silken Web (1967)

女兒國 | Womanland/Land of Many Perfumes (1968)

The first film, Monkey Goes West (1966) can be seen here (part 2) and here (part 2). The sequel, Princess Iron Fan (1966) is here. Third film, Cave of the Silken Web (1967) is in HD here (also on youtube with terrible eng. subs). And lastly, Land of Many Perfumes (1968) on youtube with terrible eng. subs.

EDIT: Links to Monkey Goes West are broken. Unfortunately, no other full film links are online, but you can see Wukong and Sanzang’s first meeting here. You can see Bailong’s amazing true form in this recap video here.

Notes: If you pay attention, Wukong’s actor changes a bunch of times through the series and even in the same movie one time. Singing was heaviest in the first film, almost nonexistent in the second, and by the 3rd/4th films, the pilgrims pretty much stopped getting numbers altogether, and only the female cast (+ or - Bajie) get to sing.

Pros:

Bailong is a dinosaur

Musical!

Surprisingly fluid special effects

Wukong and Sanzang sing a number about how they’re meant for each other and will never be apart; they get into a spat 5 seconds later and say they never want to see each other again

The first villain in the film was the White Dragon Prince. We get to see him talk and fight before he’s forced to join the gang. Also, his real form is a dinosaur, I kid you not, and it is amazing:

Bajie’s the second villain and we see some expansion on the Lady Gao subplot. In this version, she was actually in love with her scholar cousin, but Bajie impressed her father with how rich he was and she was forced to marry him. So Bajie’s been actively keeping her and her beloved apart. After Wukong and Sanzang defeat/induct him, Lady Gao marries her true love.

In general, here are some things I liked from each film. In the first movie, Wukong offers to take Sanzang to India on his cloud, and for the first time ever, Sanzang says yes. It only didn’t work out because his mortal bones were too dense for the cloud.

Another highlight, which might also be a con depending on your pov, is that, Sanzang, for some reason, doesn’t have the headband mantra memorized. Instead, Guanyin gave him a piece of jade with the mantra carved on it, and he keeps it with his luggage. So what I’m saying is yes, anyone can read it if they want to, and if you find that concept horrifying, it only gets worse (or better because things go from 1 to 100 in the next hour). A female demon notices and seduces Bajie, who betrays elder brother in a heartbeat and steals the jade piece to impress her.

So the next time the pilgrims are ganged up by demons, they read the mantra, and Wukong goes down. The head of their pack basically goes, “he’s in pain! GET HIM!” and they spend like, 5 min. wailing on Wukong (technically stabbing, it makes sense in context). And Sanzang steps up- “it’s me you want! Stop hurting my disciple!” Which I found sweet, because we don’t get to see Sanzang defend Wukong very often in canon. Then they abduct Sanzang, and Wukong immediately follows with Bajie to rescue him- luckily for them, the big bad here is Sha Wujing, and it ends with Wujing getting direction from Guanyin and joining the gang.

A reminder: This is all Bajie’s fault. He stood there and watched them beat up Wukong and steal Sanzang. And even by the end, nobody found out this was all Bajie’s fault. And that had me laughing for a really long time.

I don’t have much to say about Princess Iron Fan, but it had a few moments too. There’s a part where Wukong disguises himself as the Bull King, and ends up feeling bad for Iron Fan when she confronts him with their marital issues. He’s super awkward about it and just wanted to get out of there, especially when she gets intimate. Then of course, the transformation breaks and it all goes to hell lol. But our monkey tried his best. Also, Bull King’s costume is literally just a hat with horns (so it looks like he’s wearing a stuffed bull toy, and it’s adorable).

Cave of the Silken Web is my second favorite out of the four films, and some iconic moments. At one point, Wukong fakes his death while Sanzang and Bajie are captured (only Wujing makes it out, and he goes around trying to save his crew). So when one of the spiders is about to boil Sanzang in front of her sisters, Wukong turns himself invisible and gets between them. Since Sanzang’s not budging, the spiders think their sister is the one who’s unwilling to kill him. In fact, she’s so unwilling that she must be Wujing in disguise! Then they turn on her, and Sanzang/Bajie do not help because they’re also convinced she’s Wujing.

Sanzang: “Wujing, you’re so filial. You would sacrifice your life for me?” Spider: “I’m not Wujing asdlfasdf DIE DIE DIE”

So the spiders kill her, thinking it’s Wujing. And one by one, they start turning against each other because everyone wants to eat Sanzang and doesn’t want to share. Another great moment is when Bajie turns himself into Sanzang and tells Master to run. It’s played off as some great sacrifice until it’s revealed one of the spiders has the hots for Sanzang, and Bajie just wanted to get laid in his place.

I have reason to believe the writers of TVB JTTW took some influence from Land of Many Perfumes. We do get a few similar jokes, like the women crowding in on the pilgrims like they’re a boy band, etc. But then the plot gets super convoluted. This group of demons disguise themselves as the pilgrims and “seduce” the Queen and her posse. So when the real pilgrims arrive, they’re accused of being heartbreaking playboys. Meanwhile, those demons then disguise themselves as the Queen and co. to seize power and re-seduce the pilgrims so they can eat Sanzang. Again ends with all the bad guys turning on each other because they can’t share/ are tricked by Wukong.

Surprisingly and refreshingly, nothing happens between Sanzang and the Queen of Liang. He just wanted to get out of there, and the only one with any inclination to stay was Bajie.

Cons:

Wukong’s design and movements aren’t very good. It’s clear the actors know how to fight, but not how to be monkeys.

Not enough singing in later installments

Almost never any consequences for Bajie’s poor choices, and this becomes a source of unintentional comedy

Overall, it’s a dated, but enjoyable film series. Sanzang is surprisingly likable in it, and as much of a dick as Bajie is in this, it’s hard not to be entertained by him. Not as flowery as SB musicals usually are, but still nice for what it is.

#journey to the west #obscure jttw #I like calling jttw things 'cinematic universes' lol #long post

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Nine New Disney Legends to be Honored During the 2017 D23 Expo in Anaheim on July 14

Oprah Winfrey, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Stan Lee, Julie Taymor, and other remarkable contributors to the Disney legacy will be honored as official Disney Legends during D23 Expo 2017. Hosted by Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger, the Disney Legends Award ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 14, in Hall D23 of the Anaheim Convention Center.

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Disney Legends Awards. The first Disney Legend was Fred MacMurray (The Shaggy Dog, The Absent-Minded Professor, The Happiest Millionaire), who was honored in 1987.

“The Disney Legends Award is the highest honor our company can bestow on an individual, reserved for those few who have truly made an indelible mark on the history of The Walt Disney Company,” said Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger. “It’s a celebration of talent, a recognition of achievement, and an expression of gratitude to the men and women whose work has significantly contributed to Disney’s enduring reputation for creative excellence.”

The awards ceremony is just one of the dozens of spectacular events that Disney fans can enjoy during the three-day D23 Expo.

The 2017 Disney Legends Award honorees (listed alphabetically) are:

CARRIE FISHER became an overnight sensation in 1977 with her iconic performance as Princess Leia in Star Wars. But throughout her career, Carrie took on many roles—as an actress, author, playwright, screenwriter, and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness. For Disney, Carrie appeared in Scream 3 (2000) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) for Dimension Films, and, in 2015, she returned to the role that made her famous, starring as General Leia Organa in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. She reprised the role for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which will be released in December.

CLYDE “GERRY” GERONIMI joined the Disney Studio in 1931. His first assignments as an animator were for several memorable Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphony, and Pluto cartoons, and he eventually contributed to more than 50 of the Studio’s shorts. Gerry made the leap to sequence director with 1943’s Victory Through Air Power, and he subsequently contributed to The Three Caballeros, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Peter Pan, and One Hundred and One Dalmatians. He also directed segments for television’s Mickey Mouse Club and contributed to episodes of Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color. The apex of his Disney career came when he served as supervising director for the 1959 masterpiece Sleeping Beauty.

MANUEL GONZALES was one of 33 artists selected from thousands of applicants to join Disney in 1936. In 1938, he took over penciling duties on the Sunday Mickey Mouse comic strip from Disney Legend Floyd Gottfredson. He brought Mickey Mouse to newspapers nationwide for nearly 40 years. At its peak, his Mickey-starring comic strip appeared in 120 newspapers around the world with a collective circulation of more than 20 million readers each week. Manuel was presented a “Mousecar” award by Walt Disney in 1966.

MARK HAMILL began his career in 1970, appearing in numerous television series guest-roles and several TV movies, including a recurring role on ABC’s General Hospital and starring in MTM’s acclaimed The Texas Wheelers. He achieved worldwide attention as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, which included The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He returned as Luke in The Force Awakens and will appear in the upcoming The Last Jedi. His stage career includes Broadway shows and the first national tour of Amadeus directed by Sir Peter Hall. A prolific voice-over actor, he has performed in countless animated television shows, feature films, documentaries, and video games. He appears on Disney’s Miles from Tomorrowland and Milo Murphy’s Law, and has also provided the voice of The Joker in the Batman animated series, a role that recently earned him a BAFTA Award.

WAYNE JACKSON began his career as a Walt Disney Imagineer in October 1965, and in the decades that followed he would put his technical skills and know-how to great use in the development and installation of Disney attractions around the world. Originally trained in aircraft tooling, he began as a technician and machinist assigned to rebuild the shows from the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair that were slated for installation at Disneyland. Instrumental in the early development of Audio-Animatronics® technology, Wayne would go on to help bring Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion to Disneyland. He went on to work on the construction and installation of attractions and show systems at Walt Disney World Resort, Tokyo Disney Resort, and Disneyland Paris.

STAN LEE got a job as an office assistant at a comic publisher in 1939 called Timely Comics—forerunner of the powerhouse we all know as Marvel. Stan made his debut with a Captain America story in 1941, and by the next year, at the age of just 18, he was promoted to editor. In 1961, Stan teamed up with Jack “King” Kirby to create the Fantastic Four and ushered in a spectacular new age of comics. Stan co-created an enormous roster of Marvel characters, including Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, the X-Men, Daredevil, and Falcon. He became Marvel’s editorial director and publisher in 1972, and eventually was named chairman emeritus. His well-known cameos in Marvel films began with 1989’s telefilm The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, and since the release of X-Men in 2000 he has appeared in nearly every Marvel film project. Outside the super-hero realm, he has even popped up as a wedding guest in Disney’s The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

GARRY MARSHALL began his career in Los Angeles writing for a number of hit shows, including The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Lucy Show. But his big break came in 1970, when he produced The Odd Couple for ABC, the first of many big hits he created for the network. Beginning with Happy Days in 1974, he developed a shared universe of spinoffs including Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy, and Joanie Loves Chachi. His other ABC sitcoms during these years included Angie, The New Odd Couple, and Blansky’s Beauties. Garry was also a successful movie director, with 18 films to his credit. At Disney, he made stars of two young actresses: Julia Roberts, in Pretty Woman, and Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaries. He directed Bette Midler in Beaches, as well as in The Lottery, a short film that for years was a fixture of the Backstage Tour at the Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park. Garry was known for his acting, as well, and he appeared in Disney’s Race to Witch Mountain, Chicken Little, and as the Devil in Hocus Pocus.

JULIE TAYMOR is a Tony®-, Emmy®-, and Grammy®-winning and Oscar®-nominated filmmaker who has changed the face of Broadway with her innovative direction. Her adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997, becoming the most successful stage musical of all time; 24 global productions have been seen by more than 90 million people. The show has played in more than 100 cities in 19 countries. It received 11 Tony Award nominations, earning Julie Best Director, Costume Designer, and Best Musical for the show. Her production of The Magic Flute is currently in repertory at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Her films include A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Titus, The Tempest, the Golden Globe-nominated Across the Universe, and the Oscar-winning Frida. Taymor is a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and an inductee into the Theater Hall of Fame for Lifetime Achievement. She is currently directing M. Butterfly on Broadway, opening Fall 2017.

OPRAH WINFREY is a renowned award-winning producer, actress, talk show host, and philanthropist. For 25 years she was the host of the award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which ran for 25 seasons on hundreds of stations domestically and in more than 100 countries around the world. Oprah is also an Academy Award®-nominated actress for her role in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 hit The Color Purple. In 1998, she starred in Beloved for Disney’s Touchstone Pictures, a film that she also produced. Oprah also produced and starred in ABC’s 1989 limited series The Women of Brewster Place, and would go on to produce many films for ABC, including Tuesdays with Morrie, Before Women Had Wings, and Their Eyes Were Watching God under the “Oprah Winfrey Presents” banner. She performed as Eudora in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog in 2009 and will co-star as Mrs. Which in Disney’s 2018 film A Wrinkle in Time.

Honorees receive a two-foot-tall bronze Disney Legends sculpture that signifies the imagination, creativity, and magic they have brought to the Company. Disney Legends Award recipients will also participate in a handprint ceremony at the end of the event, and their bronzed prints will be displayed in the Disney Legends Plaza at the Company’s Burbank headquarters.

Admission to the ceremony will be on a first-come, first-served basis and is included in the price of a ticket to D23 Expo 2017.

Including this year’s honorees, a total of 276 Disney Legends have been named. Past Disney Legends include Tim Allen, Julie Andrews, Beatrice Arthur, Howard Ashman, Regis Philbin, Annette Funicello, Peter Jennings, Johnny Depp, Estelle Getty, George Lucas, Angela Lansbury, Steve Martin, Rue McClanahan, Alan Menken, Hayley Mills, Fess Parker, Sir Tim Rice, Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Walters, Betty White, and Robin Williams. Beginning with the inaugural D23 Expo in 2009, thousands of Disney fans have been able to enjoy the Legends Awards ceremony live.

Tickets for D23 Expo 2017 are available for $81 for one-day adult admission and $59 for children 3–9. Members of D23: The Official Disney Fan Club can purchase tickets for $72 for a one-day adult admission and $53 for children 3–9. Multi-day tickets are also available. For more information on tickets and D23 Expo 2017, visit D23Expo.com.

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Shore Leave

Air Date: December 29, 1966

Writer: Theodore Sturgeon

Director: Robert Sparr

Shore Leave is an interesting episode, an entertaining episode, but is it a good episode? I don’t know. There’s a long sequence of fisticuffs between Captain Kirk and the facsimile of an Academy bully, a knight is shot with a six-shooter, a tiger and a samurai - plenty of action, not much brains.

We open with an unexplored planet - and for once it’s not a desert! Well, okay, it’s southern California desert to be fair.

Then again, there is a distinct difference between the original and remastered versions...

So we meet Yeoman Rand’s replacement, Yeoman Barrows, in the opener. Kirk is short with her (as usual), she starts massaging his back and he changes his tune...until he realizes it isn’t Spock doing it.

No wonder people got gay vibes from them...

Spock says that after what the ship and its crew has been through in the last three months, they need some relaxation (not Spock though - wasting energy is highly illogical.)

So this episode takes place in February of 2267. Looking at my source, some of the episodes that took place in the three months prior to this one include Court Martial, The Menagerie, Dagger of the Mind, and The Conscience of the King, with nothing notable occuring in December but Charlie X having taken place in November and The Naked Time having occurred in October; though Balance of Terror was the previous episode, it actually took place in December of 2265.

These people need a break.

(When this season is done I intend to compile a chronological order of episodes.)

Sulu and Bones check out the planet, and Bones runs into a man in a rabbit costume, followed shortly after by Alice.

His reaction is about the same as mine would be - “did I just see that? Does this planet have vaporized LDS in the atmosphere?”

Never take too much LDS

Kirk thinks Bones is joking about the rabbit - wait a minute, Spock is there, and his mom used to read him Alice in Wonderland...

Shhh! Soft reboot!

Spock confronts Kirk about him needing a vacation by reversing the psychology - Kirk demands this crewman who is under all sorts of pressure and overwork get down to the planet and enjoy himself right this minute now that’s an ORDER! Spock gives him the name of the crewman...well played, Spock. Well played.

So then there’s a menacing shot of a gun under a hinged rock. I’m sure that’ll never show up again.

It does. In fact, Kirk later uses it to blow away a knight that kills Bones.

So why isn’t it called Sulu’s Gun?

"If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there."— Trope Namer Anton Chekhov (From S. Shchukin, Memoirs. 1911.)

Ironic that the first actual gun that counts as a Chekhov’s Gun in Star Trek appears 14 episodes before a character named Chekhov does.

We’re given a few shots of a couple of crewmen throughout the episode, token lower deck redshirt-tier characters who are named but barely characterized and only shown because we know they aren’t going to kill Kirk, Sulu, Bones, or Barrows. Hell, they didn’t even Yar Yeoman Rand, she just stopped appearing after Balance of Terror.

If you’re a sharp-eyed viewer like me, you’ll recognize Angela here on the right as the bride-to-be from Balance of Terror. It may strike you as odd how she’s apparently moved on again so quickly, but again, this episode takes place about 14 months later so the grieving process is likely finished. Mildly (at best) interestingly, she also appears in the final televised episode of Star Trek, Turnabout Intruder as a communications officer. Sometimes when canon isn’t as solid as you’re used to, you dig up every connection you can.

Mama Kirk has to make sure his people on the surface are safe, so he leaves Spock the keys and beams down to the planet.

(WHERE THE HELL IS MY SHUTTLECRAFT?)

Now we get the first of several long running scenes. Seriously, there’s more running in this episode than a Tom Cruise movie, they made the cast work on this one.

Finding the source of the gunshots, it’s Sulu with the old fashioned gun. He’s talking about it very lovingly, he even implies that he collects old weapons. Bones rolls his eyes (Bones is one of those alcoholics that thinks he’s collecting) and Kirk takes the weapon.

I wonder why...

Then Kirk begins talking about this upperclassman at the Academy who was always pulling old-school ‘oatmeal bucket over the door’ pranks on him, some asshole named Finnegan. Bones laughs at Kirk for being a grim cadet, which fits in Gary Mitchell’s description of Lt. Kirk as a stack of books with legs; Kirk was a serious student at the Academy, and the maverick hotshot of the Kelvin films didn’t come into being until the TOS films got rolling. (I mean yeah, he did the Kobayashi Maru but it’s a streak of mischief, not a natural inclination towards it.)

Enter: Finnegan

Finnegan goads Kirk into a chase, and with information presented at the end I came to the conclusion that Kirk wants nothing more than to slingshot around the sun, go back in time, and beat the fucking shit out of Finnegan.

He’s asking for it!

Someone who ISN’T asking for it is Yeoman Barrows, whose screams and torn uniform imply that the Don Juan she conjured up tried to rape her. I guess Sulu fought him off, but then Sulu takes off after him? I really, really try to keep Takei and Sulu separate (I am not going to talk about recent allegations regarding George Takei), but between this and his interactions with Riley in The Naked Time...I’m reading Sulu as gay. I’m not really sorry, and he is with a man in Beyond, so...

Moving on.

Kirk goes off in hot pursuit, but then he’s stopped by a flower...and Ruth!

Is this the legendary blonde scientist who Kirk almost married in his Academy days? Kirk says he hasn’t seen her in 15 years, and if he’s 2 years into his 5-year mission on the Enterprise and served in Starfleet since he was 20 or so...

Nah, I still prefer to think the unnamed woman Gary Mitchell aimed at Kirk was Carol Marcus. As I said, you dig for any threads of continuity you can.

So Kirk totally forgets Sulu, he’s almost drunk with seeing Ruth, and Spock reports he’s found evidence of stuff that’s only there to keep the plot moving. Barrows makes a big deal about how enchanting the planet is (which I find funny because I lived in SoCal and while it’s great, I wouldn’t exactly call it enchanting) down to conjuring up a laughably costume-ish medieval princess costume.

It becomes clear Bones is going to bone Barrows.

This man may belong on Pimp Space 9...

There’s a tiger, and a samurai, and a knight, and an old fashioned fighter jet! This episode partly runs like it was written on the fly and guess what? It was! Gene kept re-writing it on set as it was being filmed.

So the knight kills Bones, and Kirk kills the knight. Barrows goes into hysterics because she conjured the knight and Mama Kirk tells her to buck up and do her duty. He’s not gentle, but this isn’t a gentle situation. Angela dies too because of the airplane.

We then enter a long sequence of Kirk chasing and fighting Finnegan. I got the feeling it was long because it was padding out the episode, but it is a pretty satisfying fight. Kirk keeps demanding answers, but Finnegan refuses to give them to him. Finally, Kirk puts Finnegan down.

Spock asks if he enjoyed it. Kirk did, Spock is not convinced; Kirk kills, Spock judges.

Another running scene where basically everything comes after them, they meet at the glade. Apparently Barrows conjured up a repaired shirt, but Kirk can’t be bothered. Some asshole alien shows up and explains everything, then tells them they aren’t ready to understand his race yet; Spock agrees (of course he does.)

Sure, you can use my planetary holodeck for all your sex and violence desires

My favorite scene is at the end, when Bones shows up alive and well with two bunnies on his arms and a story about their wondrous facilities underground. Barrows is not impressed, but given the choice between the cabaret girls and Barrows, I’d probably choose Barrows as well.

Now I understand why they call him ‘Bones’

Kirk almost declines shore leave when Ruth reappears. When Barclay did it, it was creepy; you just don’t go LARPing your work-life fan fiction at your job after all, that’s some Dwight Schrute-level weirdness right there. But on a planet in deep space, run by some aliens who let you play with their crayons but otherwise don’t think you’re ready to hang out with them after school, well...you can do that sort of thing. Let’s hope Ruth never finds out - although I like to imagine Finnegan never moved past lieutenant and Kirk pulled strings to have him working desk duty on a Neutral Zone outpost.

Wait...

In the end, the crew returns to the bridge after an unknown number of days on the planet to Spock’s eternal judgement. Worth it.

Rating: 3/5; Don’t Rewatch

While Shore Leave proves to be an entertaining episode, it’s a fairly shallow episode that has nothing under the surface (excellent facilities notwithstanding.)

#star trek #Star Trek: The Original Series #kirk #spock #bones #leonard mccoy #yeoman barrows #shore leave #shore leave planet #finnegan #TOS

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Having properly chastised Pigsy for being fooled by an illusionary mansion in the middle of nowhere, our heroes continue their trek westward.

The group consists of:

Monkey King, aka Sun Wukong (Chou Lung-cheung). Journey to the West is ostensibly Tang Monk’s story, but Monkey King is the most popular character. The first seven chapters of the story tell of Monkey King’s origins, how he gained his great power, and what he did to warrant punishment by Buddha and begin the opportunity to redeem himself by serving Tang Monk. He possesses a multitude of magical powers, and uses the magical staff Ruyijingu Bang as his primary weapon.

The Cave of Silken Web is actor Chou Lung-cheung’s first outing as Monkey King. The role was played by actor Yueh Ha in the first two films of the series, The Monkey Goes West and Princess Iron Fan (both released in 1966). Chou would play Monkey King again in 1968′s The Land of Many Perfumes, the last of this series from Shaw Brothers.

Tang Monk, aka Tang Sanzang or Tripitaka (Ho Fan). He is the fictionalized version of a real monk, Xunazang, who lived in the 7th century and travelled to central Asia and the Indian sub-continent to obtain Buddhist scriptures to bring back to China. While a very learned and holy man, he is utterly defenseless against the many demons and monsters that want to devour his flesh to become immortal. In addition, many female demons and monsters find him very attractive and want to marry him. Then eat him. That’s why Monkey King and the others are tasked to assist and protect him during the long, perilous journey.

Actor Ho Fan played Tang Monk in all four films in the series. Shortly after he left acting to become a successful film director. Several of his films were classified as Category lll (the equivalent to films rated “X” in the US, or at least a very hard “R”) in Hong Kong.

Pigsy, aka Zhu Bajie (Pang Pang). Tang Monk’s second disciple, the second most powerful of the group, and arguably the second most popular character from Journey to the West. Pigsy is the comedy relief. He is lazy, gluttonous, greedy, and constantly lusting after women. These traits tend to lead him into trouble, which his companions usually end up getting caught up in as well. He also ends up bickering with Monkey King a lot. Pigsy has magical powers, although not as many or as powerful as Monkey King. Pigsy’s weapon of choice is the nine-tooth iron rake.

Comedian Pang Pang played Pigsy in all four films. One look at him demonstrates why he was cast in the role, and why he needs minimal make-up appliances to sell his performance.

Sandy, aka Sha Wujing or Friar Sand (Tien Shun). Sandy was a river monster who attacked Tang Monk’s party as they tried to cross his river. Monkey King and Pigsy battled Sandy and finally subdued him, at which point he joined the party as Tang Monk’s third disciple. Sandy is not as powerful as the other disciples, and he is not as colorful a character. He is polite, obedient, takes good care of Tang Monk, and acts as the peacekeeper when Monkey King and Pigsy start arguing. Sandy is also the disciple that Tang Monk depends on to help him make difficult decisions. He is the least developed character of the group (outside of the dragon prince, Yulong, who transforms into the horse that Tang Monk rides), probably because the author enjoyed writing about Monkey King’s and Pigsy’s antics. Sandy’s weapon is a magical wooden staff, although in most appearances it is depicted as the martial arts weapon known as a monk’s spade.

Actor/director Tien Shun starred as Sandy in all four films. Just like in the book, Sandy doesn’t get as much screen time as Monkey King or Pigsy, but he is shown to be loyal, dependable, and fiercely protective of Tang Monk.

#The Cave of Silken Web #Journey to the West #Monkey King #Sun Wukong #Tang Monk #Pigsy #Zhu Bajie #Sandy #Sha Wujing #Shaw Brothers

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This & That: June 9, 2017

Books

—Fully Connected: Surving and Thriving in an Age of Overload by Julia Hobsbawm

Released earlier this week, Julia Hobsbawm’s new book dives deep into the meaning of social well-being as it is a component of one’s overall good health. As the internet has become more and more a part of our lives with each passing of the past 25 years, not only in our personal lives but in our professional lives there is an unspoken assumption that we must always be connected. But what does that do to our quality of life? Hobsbawm shares research and solutions to enable readers to balance one’s involvement in the social media world as well as step away as necessary in order to be productive and boost one’s overall well-being.

—Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris

David Sedaris (perhaps you’ve read a piece or two of his in The New Yorker, or maybe know of Santaland Diaries???) is one of the funniest individuals I have had the pleasure to read and listen to in person. His latest book is the first of two personal writings that share his uncanny, insightful, humorous observations about the world and everyday events.

Cookbook

—La Varenne Pratique by Anne Willian

I happened to be reading The Wall Street Journal’s “Off Duty” section this past weekend in which designer and now cookbook author Zac Posen was interviewed. Sharing a few cookbooks that were the foundation of his love for stepping into the kitchen, Anne Willian’s La Varenne Pratique originally published in 1989 caught my eye. Composed by the founder and director of Paris’s prestigious La Varenne cooking school, the cookbook is a manual as well revealing fundamental cooking techniques, necessary equipment and ingredients to help and improve both new and expert home cooks.

Film

—The Beguiled

Director Sofia Coppola’s new film, which debuted last month at the Cannes Film Festival, earned her a place in history as she was named Best Director, only the second woman to win this award in the film festival’s 70 year history. The film is The Beguiled based on Thomas P. Cullinan’s 1966 book originally titled A Painted Devil, and stars Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning. Set during the Civil War at a girls’ school in Virginia, a wounded Union soldier arrives (Farrell). Having been sheltered from the outside world, tensions, rivalries are heightened amongst the girls and a tragic event unfolds. Take a look at the trailer below and look for it in theaters June 23rd.

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—Wonder Woman

Patty Jenkins (director of Oscar winning Monster starring Charlize Theron) is now the first female director of a major motion action film, and made a successful debut by Hollywood’s definition when her film earned $100.5 million in its opening weekend surpassed Captain America: The Winter Soldier, The Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men: Days of Future Past and nearly surpassed Iron Man‘s debut in 2008 which reached $102 million. Couple the results with critics positive reviews and not only is the audience intriguing females, but 48% of the audience is male.

The leading role, played by Gal Gidot, an Israeli-born actress, has as well been praised for her depiction of the comic book heroine. Did you know? During filming, Gidot, who served for two years in the Israeli Defense Forces as a combat instructor, was five-months pregnant with her second child. Robin Wright, of House of Cards fame, also stars in the film which follows Diana, princess of the Amazons (Wonder Woman) as she decides to stop a massive threat that has the potential to destroy the world. Leaving her home for the first time, fighting alongside the men in the ultimate war, she unearths her true powers, potential and discovers her true destiny. In theaters now, have a look at the trailer below.

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Francophile Find

—Duck Season: Eating, Drinking and other Misadventures in Gascony — France’s Last Best Place by David McAninch

Take an excursion to Gascony, France, for eight months with David McAninch in his memoir released this past March. Located in southwest France and largely overlooked by Americans, dine, explore and fall in love with a region you may just want to visit.

Shopping

—UGG Elena sandals

A simple nude sandal with a little bit of a heel, available at an affordable price and made by a reputable company, UGG’s Elena’s sandals will take you from June to September in style and comfort.

~recipe for Baguette with Avocado, Gorgonzola and Figs~

June has arrived, and with it a handful of beautiful sun-filled days as well as some soothing rainy day moments which I crave. And now the weekend. Perhaps some shopping for tomato plants now that the last frost is behind us, maybe gazing at the full moon if the clouds temporarily part, don’t forget watching the French Open Finals and who knows what else.

The past week on the blog included two extra posts: one, a recipe for a delicious spring fruit tart; and the other, a sharing of an experience I have been giddy to try and finally had the opportunity to last weekend here in Bend. As well, don’t forget to send me your questions for the June 26th episode of the podcast “Ask Shannon” (email me here – [email protected]) by June 21st and your question could be answered on the air.

And now to relaxing, exploring, laughing and savoring the next few days. Below are a few articles you might enjoy, and until Monday bonne journée.

~Cyndi Lauper returns to Broadway, writing the music for ‘Working Girl’ which will be on stage soon

~Ah to live or at least visit France . . . Take this quiz to discover which region is perfect for your tastes and predilections

~Now that you know where to go . . . check out a few first-hand recommendations on vacation rentals to reserve

~The 20 year anniversary of Sex and the City‘s premiere occurred this week, and Man Repeller wrote a worthwhile post to check out: If SATC were written today, Miranda Hobbes would be the Protagonist

~After watching Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary on Masculinity in America The Mask You Live In, this article certainly caught my attention: How to Raise a Feminist Son

~Struggling with the French language or just want to improve? How to Get Your Brain to Think in French

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For the past 30 years Disney Legends awards have recognized the remarkable contributions that individuals have made to the Disney Legacy, and this year’s ceremony hosted by Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger at 10 am on Friday, July 14, in Hall D23 of the Anaheim Convention Center during the D23 Expo 2017 is shaping up to be extraordinary!

The 2017 Disney Legends Award honorees (listed alphabetically) are:

MARK HAMILL began his career in 1970, appearing in numerous television series guest-roles and several TV movies, including a recurring role on ABC’s General Hospital and starring in MTM's acclaimed The Texas Wheelers. He achieved worldwide attention as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy, which included The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. He returned as Luke in The Force Awakens and will appear in the upcoming The Last Jedi. His stage career includes Broadway shows and the first national tour of Amadeus directed by Sir Peter Hall. A prolific voice-over actor, he has performed in countless animated television shows, feature films, documentaries, and video games. He appears on Disney’s Miles from Tomorrowland and Milo Murphy’s Law, and has also provided the voice of The Joker in the Batman animated series, a role that recently earned him a BAFTA Award.

WAYNE JACKSON began his career as a Walt Disney Imagineer in October 1965, and in the decades that followed he would put his technical skills and know-how to great use in the development and installation of Disney attractions around the world. Originally trained in aircraft tooling, he began as a technician and machinist assigned to rebuild the shows from the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair that were slated for installation at Disneyland. Instrumental in the early development of Audio-Animatronics technology, Wayne would go on to help bring Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion to Disneyland. He went on to work on the construction and installation of attractions and show systems at Walt Disney World Resort, Tokyo Disney Resort, and Disneyland Paris.

STAN LEE got a job as an office assistant at a comic publisher in 1939 called Timely Comics—forerunner of the powerhouse we all know as Marvel. Stan made his debut with a Captain America story in 1941, and by the next year, at the age of just 18, he was promoted to editor. In 1961, Stan teamed up with Jack “King” Kirby to create the Fantastic Four and ushered in a spectacular new age of comics. Stan co-created an enormous roster of Marvel characters, including Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, the X-Men, Daredevil, and Falcon. He became Marvel’s editorial director and publisher in 1972, and eventually was named chairman emeritus. His well- known cameos in Marvel films began with 1989’s telefilm The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, and since the release of X-Men in 2000 he has appeared in nearly every Marvel film project. Outside the super-hero realm, he has even popped up as a wedding guest in Disney’s The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement.

JULIE TAYMOR is a Tony, Emmy, and Grammy winning and Oscar nominated filmmaker who has changed the face of Broadway with her innovative direction. Her adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997, becoming the most successful stage musical of all time; 24 global productions have been seen by more than 90 million people. The show has played in more than 100 cities in 19 countries. It received 11 Tony Award nominations, earning Julie Best Director, Costume Designer, and Best Musical for the show. Her production of The Magic Flute is currently in repertory at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. Her films include A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Titus, The Tempest, the Golden Globe-nominated Across the Universe, and the Oscar-winning Frida. Taymor is a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and an inductee into the Theater Hall of Fame for Lifetime Achievement. She is currently directing M. Butterfly on Broadway, opening Fall 2017.

OPRAH WINFREY is a renowned award-winning producer, actress, talk show host, and philanthropist. For 25 years she was the host of the award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which ran for 25 seasons on hundreds of stations domestically and in more than 100 countries around the world. Oprah is also an Academy Award nominated actress for her role in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 hit The Color Purple. In 1998, she starred in Beloved for Disney’s Touchstone Pictures, a film that she also produced. Oprah also produced and starred in ABC’s 1989 limited series The Women of Brewster Place, and would go on to produce many films for ABC, including Tuesdays with Morrie, Before Women Had Wings, and Their Eyes Were Watching God under the “Oprah Winfrey Presents” banner. She performed as Eudora in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog in 2009 and will co-star as Mrs. Which in Disney’s 2018 film A Wrinkle in Time.

Disney Legend Honorees receive a two-foot- tall bronze Disney Legends sculpture that signifies the imagination, creativity, and magic they have brought to the Company. Disney Legends Award recipients will also participate in a handprint ceremony at the end of the event, and their bronzed prints will be displayed in the Disney Legends Plaza at the Company’s Burbank headquarters.

Admission to the Disney Legends ceremony will be on a first-come, first-served basis and is included in the price of a ticket to D23 Expo 2017.

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