#Reginald Michael French

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hiya! 🧡 could i please get some help in finding some fc's of color who have resources playing a vampire? (who aren't from interview with the vampire, bc its gonna be an iwtc-centered oc) if not, just fc's you think would be great vampires! a woc is who i'm leaning towards, but im down for anyone of any age! thank you so much 🫶🏼

Angela Bassett (Vampire in Brooklyn) African-American.

Jacob Batalon (Reginald the Vampire) Filipino.

Kim Ji Woong (The Blood) Korean.

Michael Malarkey (The Vampire Diaries) part Palestinian.

Sisi Stringer (Vampire Academy) African Australian.

Rutina Wesley (True Blood) African-American.

Ami Tomite (Tokyo Vampire Hotel) Japanese.

Natasha Liu Bordizzo (Day Shift) Chinese / White.

and then:

Shohreh Aghdashloo (1952) Iranian.

D. B. Woodside (1969) African-American.

Gina Torres (1969) Afro-Cuban.

Hu Bing (1971) Korean.

Mahershala Ali (1974) African-American.

Daniel Wu (1974) Hongkonger.

Florence Kasumba (1976) Ugandan.

Omar Sy (1978) Mauritanian / Fula Senegalese.

Nonso Anozie (1979) Nigeiran - isn't a vampire in this but has the vibe in Dracula.

Maggie Q (1979) Vietnamese / White.

T'Nia Miller (1980) Afro Jamaican - is a lesbian.

Angelica Ross (1980) African-American - is trans.

Rami Malek (1981) Egyptian 12.5% Greek.

Fawad Khan (1981) Pashtun and Punjabi Pakistani.

Miyavi (1981) Japanese / Korean.

Riz Ahmed (1982) Pakistani.

Mahesh Jadu (1982) Bihari, Gorakhpuri and Kashmiri Indo-Mauritian.

Dichen Lachman (1982) Tibetan / German.

Kim Jae Wook (1983) Korean.

Cara Gee (1983) Ojibwe.

Florence Faivre (1983) Thai / French.

Nathalie Kelley (1985) Argentinian, Peruvian [Quechua, possibly other].

Amar Chadha-Patel (1986) Punjabi and Gujarati Indian.

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (1986) African-American.

Jodie Turner-Smith (1986) Afro Jamaican.

Michaela Coel (1987) Ghanaian - is aromantic.

Lewis Tan (1987) Singaporean Chinese / White.

Desmond Chiam (1987) Chinese Singaporean.

Jim Sarbh (1987) Parsi Indian.

Anna Diop (1988) Senegalese.

Aiysha Hart (1988) Saudi Arabian / White.

Gregg Chillin (1988) Armenian and White.

Christina Chong (1989) Hongkonger / White.

Katy M. O'Brian (1989) African-American and White - is a lesbian.

Hannah John-Kamen (1989) Nigerian / Norwegian.

Steve Noh (1990) Korean.

Kim Yong Ji (1991) Korean.

Jennifer Cheon Garcia (1992) Korean / Mexican.

Jenny Zeng (1993) Chinese.

Song Kang (1994) Korean.

Jaz Sinclair (1994) African-American / White.

Ryan Destiny (1995) African-American.

Yumi Nu (1996) Japanese / White.

Wang Zi Yi (1996) Chinese.

Havana Rose Liu (1997) Chinese / White - is pansexual.

Lauren Tsai (1998) Taiwanese / White.

Here you go! Please let me know if you want something more specific.

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David Niven and Marius Goring in A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1946)

Cast: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron, Richard Attenborough, Bonar Colleano, Joan Maude, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey. Screenplay: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. Cinematography: Jack Cardiff. Production design: Alfred Junge. Film editing: Reginald Mills. Music: Allan Gray. 

Fantasy, especially in British hands, can easily go twee, and though Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger had surer hands than most, A Matter of Life and Death (released in the United States as Stairway to Heaven, long before Led Zeppelin) still manages occasionally to tip over toward whimsy. There is, for example, the symbolism-freighted naked boy playing a flute while herding goats, the doctor's rooftop camera obscura from which he spies on the villagers, and the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream being rehearsed by recovering British airmen. And there's Marius Goring's simpering Frenchman, carrying on as no French aristocrat, even one guillotined during the Reign of Terror, ever did. Many find this hodgepodge delicious, and A Matter of Life and Death is still one of the most beloved of British movies, at least in Britain. I happen to be among those who find it a bit too much, but I can readily appreciate many things about it, including Jack Cardiff's Technicolor cinematography (Earth is color, Heaven black and white, a clever switch on the Kansas/Oz twist in the 1939 The Wizard of Oz) and Alfred Junge's production design. On the whole, it seems to me too heavily freighted with message -- Love Conquers Even Death -- to be successful, but it must have been a soothing message to a world recovering from a war.  

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Transcriptions ③ /// Nikolai Berdyaev on the Bourgeois

"The bourgeois lives in the finite, he is afraid of the expanse of the infinite." (Nikolai Berdyaev)

The next entry in our series of transcriptions is excerpted from Nikolai Berdyaev’s Slavery and Freedom, translated from the Russian by Reginald Michael (R. M.) French. Berdyaev’s philosophical work, largely descended from the Christian existentialism of Kierkegaard and Dostoevsky, is relatively unappreciated today but was influential on many of his contemporaries within and beyond his native…

[teaspoonnebula]

Letters from Watson is not the first internet Sherlock Holmes book club, by fair!

By digging through the mists of ancient internet (and using the Wayback Machine) here are some notes from Stanford University's online readthrough from 2002 -

...and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs. (1) Holmes's eccentric domestic arrangements have been imitated in faithful reproductions of the Baker Street rooms (e.g., the Sherlock Holmes Museum in Meiringen, Switzerland, and the Baker Street Museum in London), and in the name of at least one Sherlockian society: the Persian Slipper Club of San Francisco.

...with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges.... (1) The name "Boxer" seems to apply to rifle, rather than pistol, cartridges. Conan Doyle is generally very lax with his designations for guns. Many commentators have disputed the ability of even a crack shot to place bullets in a perfect "V.R." without blowing all the plaster off the wall.

...with a patriotic V. R. done in bulletpocks.... (1) With his marksmanship, Holmes is paying tribute to Queen Victoria: "Victoria Regina."

"Here's the record of the Tarleton murders, and the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of the aluminium crutch, as well as a full account of Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife." (1) These cases all have tantalizing names, but none has been written. Crutches in Conan Doyle's day would have been wooden, rather than aluminum ("aluminium" in British English).

"And here—ah, now! this really is something a little recherché." (1) "Recherché " is French for "far-fetched," or "out of the ordinary."

"You may remember how the affair of the Gloria Scott, and my conversation with the unhappy man whose fate I told you of, first turned my attention in the direction of the profession which has become my life's work." (2) "The Adventure of the Gloria Scott" was published in The Strand three months before "The Musgrave Ritual." It was a reminiscence of Holmes's first case, conducted while he was still at university.

"...at the time of the affair which you have commemorated in 'A Study in Scarlet'...." (2) A Study in Scarlet, Conan Doyle's first Holmes and Watson novella, appeared in Beaton's Christmas Annual of 1887. Holmes did not catch the public imagination until his appearance in The Strand Magazine in 1891.

The British Museum and Montague Place can be seen at lower right. Montague Street is on the other side of the museum, off the right edge of the map.

"When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum...." (2) Michael Harrison, in The London of Sherlock Holmes (Drake Publishers: New York, 1972), decides that Holmes lodged at 26 Montague Street, because his researches turned up an intriguing fact: in 1875, a certain Mrs. Holmes (Sherlock's mother?) leased the house next door at 24 Montague Street. Founded in 1753, The British Museum is a vast storehouse of arts, culture, natural history, and science. Located in the area of London known as Bloomsbury, the British Museum welcomes over 5 million visitors a year from all over the world. Admission is free. See http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ for more information about collections, history, and events.

"Reginald Musgrave had been in the same college as myself...." (3) Whether Holmes attended Oxford or Cambridge—the two great British universities—has excited much disagreement among Sherlockians. Conan Doyle probably hoped to avoid controversy by never specifying one or the other.

"...which had separated from the Northern Musgraves some time in the sixteenth century, and had established itself in Western Sussex, where the manor house of Hurlstone is perhaps the oldest inhabited building in the county." (3) Several models for Hurlstone have been suggested among the many ancient homes in West Sussex. Ads for St. Mary's House in Bramber, built in 1470 as an inn for Canterbury pilgrims, claim that its cellar inspired the story, but Conan Doyle seems to have had something grander in mind when he describes Hurlstone's "grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep" (3). Two possible old West Sussex homes, culled from many, are Petworth House and Wiston Park. No mansion seems to have just the right combination of features to be a good match for Hurlstone: a ruined medieval castle attached to a more modern building in the shape of an "L."

"...grey archways and mullioned windows and all the venerable wreckage of a feudal keep." (3) Mullioned windows have a solid divider through the center of the window. A feudal keep is a medieval castle.

"'...and as I am member for my district as well....'" (3) In other words, Musgrave is a Member of Parliament, representing West Sussex.

"'I preserve, too, and in the pheasant months I usually have a house party....'" (4) Musgrave maintains a game reserve on his estate grounds so that he and his invited friends can hunt the animals in season. For pheasant, the season lasts from October through January.

"'But this paragon has one fault. He is a bit of a Don Juan....'" (4) A paragon is an example of perfection, while Don Juan is a legendary ladies' man.

"'...a cup of strong café noir ....'" (4) French for "black coffee."

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LGBT literature of the 1860s–1910s. Part 1

Although homosexual love became more prominent in literature in the 1920s, there were dozens of different novels, poems and essays about homosexual men and women before that decade, and many of them were officially published! Here are ten such works, written between the 1860s and 1910s.

1. Une Femme M’Apparut (A Woman Appeared to Me), by Renée Vivien (1904). A beautiful autobiographical novel about Vivien’s relationship with Natalie Barney and also about her relationship with Catholicism.

[Read online in French or in English (also on Web Archive)]

2. The Green Carnation, by Robert Smythe Hichens (1894). A scandalous novel with characters based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie). Bold and delicious, according to The Observer. Esmé Amarinth and Lord Reginald Hastings are followers of “the higher philosophy” and navigate their lives in the Victorian society that doesn’t favour men like them.

[Read online]

3. A Marriage Below Zero, by Alan Dale (1889). This American novel is considered the first English-language novel that portrays a romantic relationship between men. Elsie Bouverie, falls in love with Arthur Ravener and later marries him. However, soon she realises that Arthur is more than fond of Captain Dillington. Indeed, the two are in love and some time later go to live in Paris together.

[Read online]

4. Mikaël, by Herman Bang (1904). A semi-autobiographical story of an artist’s unrequited love for his bisexual student. This novel was later adapted into a silent film Michael by Carl Theodor Dreyer in 1924 which is available with English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Bulgarian subtitles here.

[Read online in Danish]

5. Wings, by Mikhail Kuzmin (1906). A tale of Vanya Smurov who is attached to his mentor Larion Stroop. An aesthete, Larion introduces him to the world of Classical and Renaissance art, and they go to Italy together. This novel offers an interesting insight into gay community in Russia.

[Read online in Russian or buy in English]

6. Poems by Digby Dolben (1860s). Dolben’s poems are plainly homoerotic, even though they don’t specify gender of the author’s love interest. My personal favourites are Homo Factus Est and A Song.

[Read online]

7. An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future, by Gregory Casparian (1906). Get this: an Edwardian science fiction novel set in 1960 about lesbian romantic relationship, although one of them is actually a transmasc character. And they live happily. Be warned, though, that this is still an Edwardian novel, i.e. it’s rather problematic.

[Read online]

8. The Sins of the Cities of the Plain, or, The Recollections of a Mary-Ann, with Short Essays on Sodomy and Tribadism (1881). This book is based on the life of Jack Saul, an Irish male prostitute, or rentboy, and it is one of the first homosexual erotic works. Also includes a look into the Victorian transvestite/drag community.

[Read online]

9. Fridolins heimliche Ehe (Fridolin's Mystical Marriage), by Adolf Wilbrandt (1875). First work in German that presents homosexuality in a positive light. What’s more, the main character claims his soul is both male and female, and he is attracted to both men and women. Another novel with a happy couple!

[Read online in German or in English]

10. The Intermediate Sex by Edward Carpenter (1908). Carpenter, a socialist and gay rights activist, was a significant figure for gay writers of the early 20th century. In this work, he writes about homosexuality, sexual libertaion and gender fluidity.

[Read online]

P.S. One should remember that these books are very much products of their time and, once again, they can seem problematic to a modern reader, often in more ways than one. Nonetheless, they are an important part of gay and lesbian history and would be of interest to anyone who is interested in this subject.

Stay tuned, more books to come!

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Seventeen and strung out on confusion; chapter 1/4

Summary: Just some snippets of backstory for the one and only Alex Mercer; aka my comfort character. Each moment will have a date attached so you can understand the timeline. Angst with fluffy found family moments :)

Warnings: Homophobia, swearing

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As I’m sure you could guess, there are numerous problems that come with being the only out gay kid at your school in 1994. It’s not so bad if you keep your head down and persuade your friends not to get into a fight with everyone who throws a slur your way, but regardless. That pink hoodie that you’ve been wearing since you were 14 and is honestly too small at this point but your parents refuse to buy you another one? Well it’s a target on your back and apparently everyone at the school is now a professional archer. Or at least, they’re all very proficient in the art of unoriginal insults that cut deeper than they should. All of this is to say, don’t come out to your religious parents in 1994. Ever.

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Alex Mercer was born into a perfect nuclear family, in a two story house with a white picket fence, brick columns, and a clean cut yard that was unsettlingly green. His parents were as religious as anyone could get; straight-laced, good Catholic parents who kept their hands tight around Alex’s shoulders. He went to church every Sunday and tried to ignore the way his neck itched from the too-tight collar and his mother swatting at his hands until he had to sit on them to refrain from drumming on the nearest surface. He was good at hiding the way he payed undivided attention to his little sister’s ballet classes, good at pretending to stare at the girls in the hallways that all his friends drooled after, and especially good at convincing everyone that he drummed and sang to… impress said girls. Right. But unfortunately, Alex was even better at accidentally outing himself a day into the New Year, consequentially losing all of his parents’ affection.

He didn’t even exist to them anymore. Maybe it would’ve been better if they’d given him a million restrictions and curfews and basically chained his hands together, because this was unsettling. And lonely. Family dinners were a thing of the past, and he’d really begun to sympathize with Reggie and his microwaved, half-cold meals every morning and night. But it could always be worse. They hadn’t kicked him out… yet.

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January 25, 1994

“Alex, dude!”

Alex flinched upon realizing Reggie’s hand waving in front of his face. He looked up and smiled guiltily, realizing the way he’d frozen, spaced out staring at the wall and absentmindedly hitting his sticks against his legs with a beat that didn’t at all match the song they were supposed to be rehearsing.

Luke sighed, wiping the pout off his face. “Alex, come on man! We aren’t gonna get any gigs if you keep…” He waved his hands vaguely and slapped Alex’s shoulder. “Just, pay attention dude.”

“Right,” Alex replied, his voice strained. He was staring down at his shoes and he could feel his bandmates having a silent conversation above his head which he could only deduce Luke was not happy with, probably meaning they were stopping rehearsal. He didn’t want them to stop for him; it made him feel like a burden, and Luke was right, if they were gonna make it anywhere, they had to be all in.

“Alex, you okay?” Reggie asked, his eyebrows knit together in concern.

Alex nodded briefly and kept his gaze trained on his feet. His sneakers were too small and he had to curl his toes in for them to fit but he was afraid of the reaction he’d get from telling his parents he needed something.

“It’s not one of those homophobic jackasses again, right?” Bobby asked, moving closer, his eyes narrowing. “I swear, this time I will cave Josh’s fucking face in-”

“It’s not!” Alex clarified, finally lifting his head. “It isn’t…” he sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. “Look it’s just my parents alright? They…”

Reggie’s eyes widened and he began fiddling with his flannel sleeves. “They didn’t… they didn’t hurt you did they?” He asked, his voice small.

“No, no they didn’t hurt me… not physically at least.” He laughed ruefully. “They’re just being stupid, alright? Ignoring me like they have for the past 3 weeks.” Alex stood up, well aware that at this point band practice was a thing of the past. He walked to the couch, the other three boys in tow.

“Hey!” Luke elbowed Alex’s side before throwing an arm over his shoulders. “That new Green Day album is coming out in like, a week.” He grinned, eyes lighting up. “I’ve been saving up to buy it, and we can use that new cassette player I got for Christmas to listen to it.”

Alex nodded, smiling softly and letting his head relax on the back of the couch. “Yea that sounds great. Promise you won’t listen to it without us?”

“Of course ‘Lex; we all gotta be there to find which songs we’re gonna cover.”

Reggie wrinkled his nose in confusion. “I thought you said we’d moved past being a cover band?”

“It’s Luke, he’ll make an exception for anything if it involves Green Day,” Bobby chuckled.

Several beats of silence passed in which the sun seemed to get increasingly lower in the sky, before Bobby sighed in resignation. “You’re all staying here tonight, aren’t you?”

Luke beamed, clapping Bobby’s shoulders. “You know us so well.”

“Sleepover!” Reggie laughed, pumping a fist in the air. “Does it count as a sleepover if we all basically live here at this point?”

“Shhh ‘Lex, don’t ruin our fun,” Luke responded.

Alex smiled hesitantly. Yea, he was okay.

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May, 1994

Michael Williams had dark hair brushing the tips of his shoulders, eyes that were almost golden in certain lights and a smile that gave Alex butterflies. Not to mention he was in theater and had a reputation for flipping off the homophobic jocks that were constantly on Alex’s tail. Not that he did it specifically for Alex, but still. The only problem was that talking to cute boys that he hadn’t known since 3rd grade was far from Alex’s strong point.

“Come on Alex!” Luke groaned, sliding into the last open seat at their lunch table. “Just talk to him before I literally combust.” He punctuated his sentence by waving at Alex with a cold french fry.

Alex grumbled something, his face in his arms in a futile attempt to hide the red dusting his cheeks.

“Hey Luke, if you explode because Alex refuses to talk to his crush, can I have your CD’s?” Reggie quipped, a lopsided grin on his face.

Luke gasped in mock offense. “Reginald-!”

“Still not my name.”

“I will be buried with my music,” Luke said. “Both of my guitars too-”

“Even your amp?” Bobby questioned.

“Yes.”

“Seems like a waste of space. Can you even fit all that in a coffin?”

Luke shrugged. “You guys can figure it out. Don’t betray my dying wish.”

Something that would’ve been silence had Luke ever been taught how to chew like a normal person passed over the table, in which Alex’s attention drifted lazily back to Michael Williams, who was chatting enthusiastically with one of the girls in his theater class. Alex didn’t know her name but they had biology together and she never gave him dirty looks, so he liked her.

“10 bucks if you go talk to him,” Bobby said, nudging Alex and waggling his eyebrows.

“No. No,” Alex said. “Not happening.”

“15.”

“Where is this money coming from?” Alex squeaked, although the prospect of $15 was all too tempting. He could get some decent shoes for that.

“20,” Bobby continued, grinning maniacally.

“Dude!” Luke laughed. “How are your parents gonna like you asking for money to fulfill a bet?”

Bobby slapped a hand over Luke’s mouth.

“I’m gonna regret this,” Alex sighed, already moving to stand up.

Reggie giggled like a child and offered a shit-eating grin to Alex, who promptly flipped him off before heading across the cafeteria.

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December 17, 1994

Alex was screwed. No. Alex was completely fucked. Alex Mercer was likely seconds away from living in a ditch. Because of course it had to be his sister who caught him making out with a guy after school. And of course she was too young to understand why she couldn’t tell Mom and Dad. Because she would’ve done the same if he’d been kissing a girl because kissing is gross and it’s funny to tell your parents that your big brother was kissing someone.

“Hey Mom, guess what Alex did today?” Angie asked, giggling. She was perched on the counter, licking frosting from her fingers while their mother brushed cookie crumbs from her dress. And Alex was frozen at the top of the stairs, crouched down, his heart pounding so loud he was sure it could be heard downstairs. He dug his nails into his palms and prayed that his mother would pretend he didn’t exist when he wanted her to. It was one thing, them knowing. But this? This was something else. Alex’s parents lived on the philosophy that homosexual thoughts got you an eternity in hell, but homosexual actions got you shunned and thrown out. So yea, he was screwed.

“What did Alex do today?” His mother asked, plastering a false smile onto her face, her voice sounding like she was already packing his bags. Alex wanted to get up and run. He wanted to go to his room and jump out the window and fly away. But it was like the sweat on his palms was superglue keeping him stuck to the carpet, and his brain had short-circuited.

Angie laughed again, trying to get it out through her snickering. “Alex was kissing someone today.” She sang, her small feet swinging back and forth, the noise of her heels against the counter like knives in Alex’s ears. “That boy Michael that used to go to our church.” The innocence in her voice made Alex ache.

“Angie.” His mother’s voice was cold now. “Leave please.”

Angie’s brow furrowed in confusion, but she scurried up the stairs anyway, giving Alex a tearful hug on the way because even at ten, she knew that that voice meant trouble. “Sorry ‘Lex. I shouldn’t ‘a told your secret,” She whispered, before sprinting to her room and leaving Alex wondering if he’d get to see her after tonight.

“Alex Mercer, please come downstairs.” Her voice chilled him to the bone, like shards of ice penetrating his skin and seeping into his blood. But he walked down anyway.

Alex tightened the muscles in his hands and feet, willing himself to stay still and planted to the wooden floor, facing his mother head-on, as if the look in her eyes wasn’t terrifying him to the point of tears. But he wouldn’t let her see that she was getting to him, he wouldn’t. So he bit his tongue and counted down from ten inwardly.

“What is this nonsense?” She hissed, reaching out and gripping his forearm, her nails a millimeter away from digging into his skin.

Alex swallowed roughly. “I- I don’t know. Angie’s just… she’s-”

“Don’t lie to me!” His mother snapped. She brought her hand back, curling her fingers in with a look of disgust, as if she’d been touching fire. And then she was speaking again, but Alex couldn’t hear her over the pounding in his ears. He tightened his jaw and shut his eyes momentarily. Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry.

“Get out.”

His eyes snapped open. Alex stood still in front of her, searching her eyes for the slightest bit of remorse. But there was nothing but ice. So he left. He left with tears running down his face and he couldn’t even bring himself to say goodbye to Angie. It wasn’t until he was halfway down the block when he realized that he had nothing but the clothes on his back and a backpack full of everything he could fit, and no where to go. He collapsed on the ground, the cold night air finally hitting him, seeping into his bones. He looked up and wiped his eyes, sniffling. It was odd, the way that the Christmas lights were able to look so beautiful when he felt so broken inside. It felt almost unfair that everything outside of him was moving at a normal pace like nothing had changed. But Alex knew better than that. Everything had changed.

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These are the people who expressed interest in reading this when I posted about it a few days ago :)

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The Dance Awards, Orlando Florida 2021 Results

Best Dancer:

Mini Female

Top 20:

Kaylee Schwamb

Maya Steinfield

Georgia Beth Peters

Esme Chou

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Ariana Kovalevsky

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Regan Gerena

Top 12:

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Emely Carrillo

Braylynn Grizzaffi

Isabella Kouznetsova

Elizabeth Scott Lanier

Ellie Melchoir

Roxie Onellion

Ellary Day Szyndlar

Top 3:

2nd runner-up: Carrigan Paylor

1st runner-up: Skylar Wong

Winner:

Kya Massimino

Mini Male

Top 9:

Dylan Custodio

Philip Trescases

Ian Castenada

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Top 3:

2nd runner-up: Blake Metcalf

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Winner:

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Junior Female

Top 21:

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3rd runner-up: Angelina Elliott

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1st runner-up: Gracyn French

Winner:

Cameron Voorhees

Junior Male

Top 9:

Amir Shah

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Top 3:

2nd runner-up: Nicholas Moreno

1st runner-up: Zachary Roy

Winner:

Ian Stegeman

Teen Female

Top 20:

Zoe Ridge

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Arianna Quant

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2nd runner-up: Hailey Bills

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Winner:

Dyllan Blackburn

Teen Male

Top 21:

Logan Speer

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Joshuah Rivera

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2nd runner-up: Xander Perone

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Brady Farrar

Senior Female

Top 23:

Shane Higa

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Kiara Fina

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Ruby Castro

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2nd runner-up: Savannah Quiner

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Winner:

Kayla Mak

Senior Male

Top 24:

Jaylin Sanders

Parker Brudzinski

Dominic Keider

Zakk Fowler

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Christian Bottger

Brian Class

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Cameron Stedman

Evan Hamilton

Ta’Nario Riggins

Kahly McCurdy

Caden Thephavong

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Reginald Turner Jr

Caden Hunter

Franco LaGrega

Wesley Cloud

Jordan Apodaca

Artem Tikhonenko

John Chappell

Jackson Roloff-Hafenbreadl

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2nd runner-up: Carter Williams

1st runner-up: Thiago Pacheco

Winner:

Jaxon Willard

Finals

High Scores by Age:

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3rd: $50

PeeWee Solo

1st: Lainey Hess-’Amayzing Mayzie’

1st: Amanda Carpenter-’Hey Daddy’

1st: Sophia Novo-’Red Hope’

1st: Ella Venerio-’Signals’

2nd: Stella Brinkerhoff-’Fly’

3rd: Ava Piedrahita-’I Am Free’

3rd: Penelope LeMieux-’I’d Rather Go Blind’

4th: Amaya Rodriguez-’Fly’

5th: Ava Wilkins-’Always Love You’

5th: Reese Braga-’Fallen Memory’

6th: AnnaCameron McGlohorn-’Dance Like Yo Daddy’

6th: Mikaela Florez-’Stop Go’

7th: Audrey Mikkelson-’Shake the Room’

7th: Navie Mees-’Sweet Child’

8th: Khylie Wilkerson-’Proud Mary’

9th: Addie Goodwin-’Cause I’m A Blonde’

9th: Charlotte Brayman-’Wonderful World’

10th: Brinley Evans-’Beauty and the Beast’

Mini Solo

1st: Kensington Dressing-’A Distant World’

1st: Kya Massimino-’System Activated’

2nd: Michael Cash Savio-’Interpretation of Mike’

3rd: Carrigan Paylor-’Orange Colored Sky’

4th: Lexus Natalie-’Alternate World’

4th: Regan Gerena-’My Boyfriend’s Back’

4th: Camila Giraldo-’Welcome to Miami’

5th: Isabella Kouznetsova-’Almost There’

5th: Ella Dobler-’Enter Now’

6th: Winter Eberts-’Hit the Road Jack’

6th: Ellerie Cox-’New Miss Rhythm’

6th: Mya Lanigan-’Roxy’

6th: Denise Torres-’Swan’

6th: Sophia Gil-’Sway’

6th: Jazmin Covos-’The Air’

7th: Dylan Custudio-’Discerning’

7th: Bella Rey D’Armas-’Extraction’

7th: Alyson Merino-’Internal’

7th: Emily Core-’Without Limits’

8th: Savy Luetchtefeld-’Beautiful Thing’

8th: Ashley Otano-’Dark Matter’

8th: Raegan Hess-’Intertwined’

9th: Camryn Studebaker-’Everything Fades’

9th: Diana Kouznetsova-’Rainbow’

9th: Jasmine Pando-’Strains’

10th: Santiago Sosa-’Becoming’

10th: Baker Barboza-’Boots’

10th: Milly Berry-’My Big French Boyfriend’

10th: Melody Cocina-’On The Hour’

10th: Ruby Arnold-’Ruby Blue’

10th: Lily Hackney-’Static’

Junior Solo

1st: Gracyn French-’A Character of Quiet’

1st: Cameron Voorhees-’Unplug’

2nd: Kylee Casares-’Lonely’

2nd: Laci Stoico-’Mein Herr’

3rd: Giselle Gandarilla-’All Human Beings’

3rd: Aaliyah Dixon-’That’s Life’

4th: Maddie Ortega-’Summetime’

5th: Zachary Roy-’Higher Ground’

6th: Hayley Marshall-’Ink’

7th: Alexandra Perez-’Valentine’

8th: Caitie Polis-’Fallen Angel’

8th: Daniela SanGiacomo-’Restless’

8th: Shayla Blair-’The Thing’

9th: Angelina Elliott-’Out’

10th: Kamri Peterson-’Broken Mirrors’

10th: Lena Garcia-’Falling Away From the Surface’

Teen Solo

1st: Brady Farrar-’The Apology’

2nd: Sam Fine-’Obsession’

3rd: Georgia Greene-’Alpha and Omega’

3rd: Dyllan Blackburn-’Indian Summer’

4th: Avery Lau-’From the Ashes’

5th: Isabella Tagle-’100 Times’

5th: Destanye Diaz-’My Own’

6th: Xander Perone-’Elijah’

6th: Garris Munoz-’Enlightenment’

6th: Rachel Leon-’Just the Two of Us’

6th: Kaitlyn Esquivel-’The Curse’

6th: Isabella Weidmann-’Where They Lay’

7th: Iliana Victor-’Drawn to You’

7th: Jordan Lassiter-’Hometown Glory’

7th: Antonia Gonzalez-’Like the Wind’

7th: Sophie Gracie-’Lost’

7th: Ava Miller-’Tarnished’

8th: Kaitlyn Ortega-’Ain’t No Sunshine’

8th: Ava Carroll-’Are You Sure’

8th: Harlow Ganz-’Breaking the Surface’

9th: Edon Hartzy-’Claire De Lune’

9th: Sam Hardin-’Crunk Driving’

9th: Sarah Georgiana-’Heartstrings’

10th: Angel DiMartino Palladino-’Disable Blocker’

10th: Ellen Grace Olansen-’Ghost’

10th: Hadley Snell-’Like This’

10th: Isabella Warfield-’To Be Continued’

10th: Samuel Ek-’Uncovered’

Senior Solo

1st: Jaxon Willard-’Female Energy’

2nd: Caden Hunter-’I Am Not the One’

2nd: Kayla Mak-’Tuesday’

2nd: Gionna D’Alessandro-’Wish You Were Here’

3rd: Thiago Pacheco-’Strange’

4th: Carter Williams-’Change is Everything’

5th: Selena Hamilton-’Black Car’

5th: Wesley Cloud-’Black Lake’

5th: Jackson Roloff-Hafenbreadl-’Darkness’

5th: Sophie Tosh-’Lumina’

6th: Melina Dalton-’Errors’

7th: Jaylin Sander-’Extraterrestrial Movement’

8th: Caitlyn Knowles-’Exhibition’

9th: John Chappell-’Through the Fog’

10th: Gabriella Garavelo Bortoleto-’Kitri’

10th: Javon Hunter-’OMG’

10th: Emma Cook-’Out of Line’

10th: Elle Tosh-’Safe’

PeeWee Duo/Trio

1st: Dance Town-’3 Blessings’

2nd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Fly Me to the Moon’

3rd: New Level Dance Company-’I’ll Be There’

4th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Beats’

5th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No More I Love Yous’

Mini Duo/Trio

1st: Woodbury Dance Center-’Yesterday’

2nd: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Something’s Gotta Change’

3rd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Gallows’

4th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Lumineuse’

5th: Dance Town-’Cola’

5th: Project 21-’I Am the Cute One’

Junior Duo/Trio

1st: Evolve Dance Complex-’Exiles’

2nd: Dance Town-’The Boy and the Snake’

3rd: Project 21-’A Match Made In Heaven’

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’C’mon Talk’

4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Size’

5th: Center Stage Dance Studio-’Arms Around You’

Teen Duo/Trio

1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Wake Me’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Home With You’

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Not That News’

3rd: Dance Town-’No Weapon Formed Against Me Will Prosper’

4th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Still Life’

5th: Artistic Edge Dance Center-’Cello Sonata’

Senior Duo/Trio

1st: Dance Town-’This Time is Real’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’To The Moon’

3rd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Le Plat Pays’

4th: South Tulsa Dance Co-’I’m Coming Home’

5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Be Still My Heart’

PeeWee Group

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Bird’

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Ooh La La’

2nd: New Level Dance Company-’I Need A Hero’

3rd: Dance Unlimited-’Fabulous’

4th: Dance Spectrum-’Mr. Sandman’

5th: Dance Spectrum-’Shake Your Groove Thing’

Mini Group

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Impending Loss’

1st: Dance Town-’Together in Separation’

2nd: Evolve Dance Complex-’The Awakening’

2nd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Undertow’

3rd: True Dance and Company-’Doors are Closing’

4th: Project 21-’Fan Tan Fannie’

4th: True Dance and Company-’Fly’

4th: West Florida Dance Company-’Spice Girls’

5th: Dance Town-’Good Question’

Junior Group

1st: Project 21-’Stuff Like That There’

2nd: True Dance and Company-’Another Time’

3rd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Cello Suite’

3rd: True Dance and Company-’Solitude’

4th: Project 21-’No Fear But Anticipation’

4th: Dance Town-’No Journey’s End’

5th: True Dance and Company-’Eyes Closed and Moving Forward’

5th: Evolve Dance Complex-’New World’

Teen Group

1st: Project 21-’GirlsGirlsGirls’

2nd: South Tulsa Dance Co-’I Love Movies’

2nd: True Dance and Company-’In Memoriam’

2nd: Westchester Dance Academy-’Now You’re Out of Sight’

2nd: Dance Spectrum-’Seven’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Softly, Heavy’

2nd: Westchester Dance Academy-’The Mist’

3rd: companyONE-’Her Blues’

3rd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Lost’

4th: Dance Town-’My Hypergraphia is Exploitable’

5th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Anything I Do’

5th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Debut’

5th: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Endless Falls’

Senior Group

1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Fade’

1st: Vlad’s Dance Company-’Your Weight Is Not Mine to Carry’

2nd: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’I Feel Pretty Perplexed’

3rd: Dance Town-’Kiss’

4th: Westchester Dance Academy-’Against the Dying of the Light’

4th: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’React’

5th: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’WAIT’

PeeWee Line

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Dump Him’

2nd: Center Stage Performing  Arts Studio-’Let’s Get Loud’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Mr Piano Man’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Reflections’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Rainbow Brite’

3rd: Center Stage Performing  Arts Studio-’The Rose’

4th: The Southern Strutt-’ABC’

5th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Scooby Doo’

Mini Line

1st: Project 21-’Dive In the Pool’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Scrapers’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Fergalicious’

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I Work 2020′

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Uptown Girls’

4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’The Moon’

5th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’I Don’t Speak French’

Junior Line

1st: Dance Town-’Create’

2nd: Dance Town-’Black Bird’

3rd: True Dance and Company-’Final Moments’

4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Girls’

5th: Stars Dance Studio-’For All We Know’

Teen Line

1st: Project 21-’Post That’

1st: companyONE-’The Whole Truth’

2nd: companyONE-’City Limits’

2nd: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Get Up’

3rd: The Artist Project-’Wanted: Dead or Alive’

4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Through Our Strength’

5th: Dance Town-’305′

5th: Dance Town-’Lord Have Mercy’

5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Mack the Knife’

Senior Line

1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’After Dark’

2nd: Dance Town-’Now What’

3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Deep Fried Flavor’

4th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Maybe It’s Just Me’

5th: Stars Dance Studio-’Minus 61′

PeeWee Extended Line

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Flying Solo’

Mini Extended Line

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Wonderland’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Drumming’

3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’Dawn of Love’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Flykicks’

4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Time’

5th: Dance Town-’Disco’

5th: The Southern Strutt-’Yacht Club Cuties’

Junior Extended Line

1st: Sheffield School of the Dance-’New York City’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’The Gospel Truth’

3rd: Dance Town-’Cats’

3rd: Sheffield School of the Dance-’The Beat Drop’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Foot On the Gas’

5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’My Dearest Friend’

Teen Extended Line

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Aquatic’

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’You’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Could Look Away’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Weightless’

3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Earthquake’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’The Wave’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’XR2′

4th: The Southern Strutt-’Pound Sterling’

5th: The Southern Strutt-’Beetlejuice’

5th: Dance Town-’Grown Woman’

Senior Extended Line

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Here Comes the Boom’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Kick It’

4th: Sheffield School of the Dance-’FUNK2K’

5th: Sheffield School of the Dance-’Symphony’

PeeWee Production

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Chewy Chewy’

Mini Production

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Swagger Jagger’

Junior Production

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Snitches and Rats’

Teen Production

1st: Dance Town-’Salsa’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Diamonds’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sexy Back’

3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’Papa Was A Rolling Stone’

4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’For Dodo’

5th: The Southern Strutt-’Book of Love’

5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Money’

Senior Production

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No Bystanders’

1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Catwalk’

2nd: Sheffield School of the Dance-’The Hollywood Wiz’

High Scores by Performance Division:

Cash Prizes:

1st: $200

2nd: $100

3rd: $50

PeeWee Jazz

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Ooh La La’

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Chewy Chewy’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Dump Him’

3rd: Dance Unlimited-’Fabulous’

4th: The Southern Strutt-’Rainbow Brite’

5th: Dance Spectrum-’Shake Your Groove Thing’

PeeWee Hip-Hop

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Scooby Doo’

2nd: Dance Spectrum-’Juice Break’

PeeWee Tap

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Mr Piano Man’

2nd: Dance Spectrum-’Mr. Sandman’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’ABC’

PeeWee Contemporary

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Flying Solo’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Bird’

PeeWee Lyrical

1st: New Level Dance Company-’I Need A Hero’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Reflections’

3rd: Center Stage Performing  Arts Studio-’The Rose’

4th: Studio Powers-’Big Love, Small Moments’

PeeWee Musical Theatre

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’New Girls In Town’

PeeWee Specialty

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Lets Get Loud’

PeeWee Acro

1st: Dance Spectrum-’Hot Hot Hot’

Mini Jazz

1st: Project 21-’Dive In the Pool’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’I Work 2020′

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Fergalicious’

3rd: Studio 61 Dance Company-’I Don’t Speak French’

4th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Kiss, Kiss’

4th: The Southern Strutt-’Ponytail’

5th: True Dance and Company-’Business of Love’

Mini Ballet

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Concerto in E Major’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Spanish Flair’

Mini Hip-Hop

1st: Rhythm Dance Center-’Flykicks’

1st: West Florida Dance Company-’Spice Girls’

2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Back at It’

3rd: Studio 61 Dance Company-’C-Breezy’

4th: True Dance and Company-’Mint Chocolate Chip’

5th: Dance Spectrum-’Jump’

Mini Tap

1st: West Florida Dance Company-’Do Your Thing’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Splash N Go’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’As Good As It Gets’

3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Jitterbug’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Love Shack’

5th: Dance Spectrum-’A Train’

5th: Xplosive Dance Academy-’This Will Be’

Mini Contemporary

1st: Dance Town-’Together in Separation’

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Impending Loss’

2nd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Undertow’

3rd: True Dance and Company-’Doors are Closing’

4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Dawn of Love’

5th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Time’

Mini Lyrical

1st: Evolve Dance Complex-’The Awakening’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Drumming’

3rd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’The Moon’

4th: True Dance and Company-’Fly’

5th: West Florida Dance Company-’I Believe’

5th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Fly Me to the Moon’

5th: Westchester Dance Academy-’Fade to Silence’

Mini Musical Theatre

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Wonderland’

2nd: Project 21-’Fan Tan Fannie’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Yacht Club Cuties’

4th: Carolina Collective Dance-’Legally Blonde’

4th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Don’t Rain on My Parade’

5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Forget About the Boy’

Mini Ballroom

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Swagger Jagger’

2nd: Dance Town-’Cafe Latino’

3rd: Dance Town-’Ballroom Babies’

4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Let’s Do It!’

Mini Specialty

1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Scrapers’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Uptown Girls’

Mini Acro

1st: Evolution Dance Company-’Dream On’

2nd: Dance Spectrum-’Hoedown Throwdown’

Junior Jazz

1st: Project 21-’Stuff Like That There’

2nd: Dance Town-’Black Bird’

3rd: Sheffield School of the Dance-’New York City’

4th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Replicas’

4th: The Southern Strutt-’This Place About to Blow’

5th: Project 21-’Proud Mary’

Junior Ballet

1st: Dance Town-’Waltz’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Waltz of the Hour’

3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Violin Fantastique’

4th: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Going to School’

5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Springtime Waltz’

Junior Hip-Hop

1st: Sheffield School of the Dance-’The Beat Drop’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Snitches and Rats’

2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Foot On the Gas’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Dirty South’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Walk it Out’

5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Mr. Brown’

Junior Tap

1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’My Dearest Friend’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Birds’

3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Sussudio’

3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Here Comes the Sun’

4th: True Dance and Company-’Art Official’

5th: Dance Spectrum-’Crazy in Love’

Junior Contemporary

1st: Dance Town-’Create’

2nd: True Dance and Company-’Final Moments’

2nd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Cello Suite’

3rd: Project 21-’No Fear But Anticipation’

3rd: Dance Town-’No Journey’s End’

4th: Evolve Dance Complex-’New World’

4th: True Dance and Company-’Eyes Closed and Moving Forward’

5th: Evolve Dance Complex-’Better Days Ahead’

Junior Lyrical

1st: True Dance and Company-’Another Time’

2nd: True Dance and Company-’Solitude’

3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’For All We Know’

4th: The Southern Strutt-’I Will Leave the Light On’

5th: True Dance and Company-’Almost Heaven’

Junior Musical Theatre

1st: The Southern Strutt-’The Gospel Truth’

2nd: Dance Town-’Cats’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’First Day Frug’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Zero to Hero’

5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Fish are Friends Not Food’

Junior Ballroom

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Girls’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Salome’

Junior Specialty

1st: Dance Town-’Life is a Tango’

2nd: West Florida Dance Company-’Rama’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Spa’

3rd: West Florida Dance Company-’Bamboo Banga’

Junior Acro

1st: Xplosive Dance Academy-’Nocturnus’

Junior Improv

1st: Summit Dance Shoppe-’Grey Achea (Shen)’

Teen Groups:

Teen Jazz

1st: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Anything I Do’

1st: Evolve Dance Complex-’Debut’

2nd: West Florida Dance Company-’Glass’

3rd: Middletown Dance Academy-’Make Your Body’

4th: Orlando International School of Dance-’Focus’

5th: Dance Spectrum-’Delivered’

Teen Ballet

1st: Westchester Dance Academy-’The Mist’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Lost Light’

Teen Tap

1st: Dance Spectrum-’Seven’

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Softly, Heavy’

2nd: companyONE-’Her Blues’

3rd: Legacy Center for the Arts-’Ain’t No Mountain’

4th: West Florida Dance Company-’Sir Duke’

4th: Dance Spectrum-’Don’t Worry’

5th: True Dance and Company-’Requiem’

Teen Contemporary

1st: Project 21-’GirlsGirlsGirls’

2nd: South Tulsa Dance Co-’I Love Movies’

3rd: Evolve Dance Complex-’Lost’

4th: Dance Town-’My Hypergraphia is Exploitable’

5th: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Endless Falls’

Teen Lyrical

1st: True Dance and Company-’In Memoriam’

1st: Westchester Dance Academy-’Now You’re Out of Sight’

2nd: Thomas Dance Studio-’It’s Been A Year’

3rd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Then You Look At Me’

3rd: Orlando International School of Dance-’Grey’

4th: Patti Eisenhauer Dance Center-’The Face’

5th: Middletown Dance Academy-’Love Wins’

Teen Specialty

1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Carbon Cycle’

2nd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Highest Flood’

3rd: Orlando International School of Dance-’I Won’t Complain’

Teen Acro

1st: The WHEREHOUSE-’Lime in the Coconut’

Teen Line, Extended Line, Production:

Teen Jazz

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sexy Back’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’XR2′

2nd: Project 21-’Post That’

3rd: companyONE-’City Limits’

4th: Dance Town-’305′

5th: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Santa Maria’

5th: Stars Dance Studio-’One More Night’

Teen Ballet

1st: Dance Town-’Swan Lake’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sometimes When It Rains’

3rd: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Apres Minuit’

3rd: Dance Town-’Snowflakes’

4th: Sheffield School of the Dance-’Faust’

5th: Dance Spectrum-’Bataille’

Teen Hip-Hop

1st: The Southern Strutt-’The Wave’

1st: Rhythm Dance Center-’Earthquake’

2nd: Studio 61 Dance Company-’Get Up’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’For Dodo’

3rd: The Artist Project-’Wanted: Dead or Alive’

4th: Dance Town-’Grown Woman’

5th: Dance Town-’Lord Have Mercy’

Teen Tap

1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’House of Frug’

1st: Rhythm Dance Center-’Rock Your Body’

2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Hook’

3rd: Dance Spectrum-’Shining Star’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Gold Watch’

Teen Contemporary

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’You’

1st: Stars Dance Studio-’Papa Was A Rolling Stone’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Could Look Away’

2nd: Stars Dance Studio-’Weightless’

3rd: companyONE-’The Whole Truth’

4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Through Our Strength’

5th: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Still’

Teen Lyrical

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Aquatic’

2nd: The Southern Strutt-’Pound Sterling’

3rd: Westchester Dance Academy-’Things Left Behind’

4th: True Dance and Company-’Et Moi’

5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Young & Beautiful’

5th: Dance Spectrum-’We Choose’

Teen Musical Theatre

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Beetlejuice’

2nd: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Mack the Knife’

3rd: companyONE-’Hot Honey Rag’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Groundhog Day’

5th: West Florida Dance Company-’Time Warp’

5th: Studio 61 Dance Company-’One’

Teen Ballroom

1st: Dance Town-’Salsa’

2nd: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Diamonds’

3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’After Hour’

Teen Specialty

1st: West Florida Dance Company-’Money’

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Book of Love’

2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Into the FUNknown’

3rd: Dance Town-’Paradise’

4th: Westchester Dance Academy-’DarkRoad’

5th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Born to be Alive’

Teen Acro

1st: Dance Spectrum-’I Just Wanna’

2nd: Studio Powers-’Area 51′

Senior Jazz

1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Fade’

2nd: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’Maybe It’s Just Me’

3rd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Fade’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Kick It’

4th: Westchester Dance Academy-’Just What I Need’

5th: Dance Town-’I’ve Got You’

Senior Ballet

1st: Dance Town-’Stars and Stripes’

2nd: Sheffield School of the Dance-’Carmen’

3rd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Recomposed’

Senior Hip-Hop

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’No Bystanders’

2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’Deep Fried Flavor’

3rd: The Southern Strutt-’Here Comes the Boom’

4th: The Artist Project-’Taking Over’

5th: Sheffield School of the Dance-’FUNK2K’

Senior Tap

1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’I Feel Pretty Perplexed’

2nd: Rhythm Dance Center-’What A Girl Wants’

3rd: West Florida Dance Company-’Come Together’

4th: Rhythm Dance Center-’Layla’

Senior Contemporary

1st: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’After Dark’

2nd: Dance Town-’Now What’

3rd: Vlad’s Dance Company-’Your Weight Is Not Mine to Carry’

4th: Stars Dance Studio-’Catwalk’

5th: Artistic Fusion Dance Academy-’React’

Senior Lyrical

1st: Westchester Dance Academy-’Against the Dying of the Light’

2nd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’How Do I Live’

3rd: Stars Dance Studio-’First Encounter’

4th: West Florida Dance Company-’Sweet Dreams’

5th: Dance Spectrum-’Station’

Senior Musical Theatre

1st: Sheffield School of the Dance-’The Hollywood Wiz’

1st: The Southern Strutt-’Too Darn Hot’

Senior Ballroom

1st: Dance Town-’KISS’

Senior Specialty

1st: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’

2nd: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Moonlight Presto’

3rd: Dance Town-’RUN’

4th: The Dancer’s EDGE-’Think About You’

4th: The Artist Project-’Curious Creatures’

5th: Westchester Dance Academy-’Ne Me Quitte Pas’

Best Performance by Age:

PeeWee

Winner:

The Southern Strutt-’Flying Solo’

Mini

Winner: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Swagger Jagger’

1st runner-up: The Southern Strutt-’Impending Loss’

2nd runner-up: Project 21-’Dive In the Pool’

3rd runner-up: Dance Town-’Together in Separation’

4th runner-up: Stars Dance Studio-’Scrapers’

Junior

Winner: Dance Town-’Create’

1st runner-up: Project 21-’Stuff Like That There’

2nd runner-up: Artistic Edge Dance Centre-’Cello Suite’

3rd runner-up: The Southern Strutt-’The Gospel Truth’

4th runner-up: True Dance and Company-’Another Time’

5th runner-up: Sheffield School of the Dance-’New York City’

Teen

Groups:

Winner: Project 21-’GirlsGirlsGirls’

1st runner-up: Westchester Dance Academy-’The Mist’

2nd runner-up: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Softly, Heavy’

3rd runner-up: True Dance and Company-’In Memoriam’

4th runner-up: South Tulsa Dance Co-’I Love Movies’

5th runner-up: Dance Spectrum-’Seven’

Line, Extended Line, Production:

Winner: Dance Town-’Salsa’

1st runner-up: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Diamonds’

2nd runner-up: Stars Dance Studio-’Papa Was A Rolling Stone’

3rd runner-up: companyONE-’The Whole Truth’

4th runner-up: Project 21-’Post That’

5th runner-up: Rhythm Dance Center-’Earthquake’

6th runner-up: The Southern Strutt-’XR2′

Senior

Winner: Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’After Dark’

1st runner-up: Dance Town-’Now What’

2nd runner-up: Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’

3rd runner-up: Vlad’s Dance Company-’Your Weight Is Not Mine to Carry’

4th runner-up: Stars Dance Studio-’Catwalk’

Best Performance by Style/Division:

Best Hip-Hop

Rhythm Dance Centre-’Earthquake’

The Southern Strutt-’The Wave’

Best Tap

Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’I Feel Pretty Perplexed’

Best Contemporary

Denise Wall’s Dance Energy-’After Dark’

Best Jazz

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Sexy Back’

Best Ballroom

Dance Town-’Salsa’

Best Musical Theatre

The Southern Strutt-’Beetlejuice’

Best Ballet

Westchester Dance Academy-’The Mist’

Best Lyrical

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Aquatic’

Best Specialty

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio-’Goliath’

Best Acro

Dance Spectrum-’I Just Wanna’

Special Awards:

Professionalism

Westchester Dance Academy

Best Production

Dance Town-’Salsa’

Outstanding Achievement:

Mini/Junior Choreography

Project 21-’Stuff Like That There’ (Molly Long’

Teen/Senior Choreography

Dance Town-’Salsa’ (Manny and Lory Castro)

Costume Design

Rhythm Dance Center-’Recomposed’

Mini Technical

The Southern Strutt-’Impending Loss’

Junior Technical

Dance Town-’Create’

Teen Technical

Stars Dance Studio-’Papa Was A Rolling Stone’

Senior Technical

Westchester Dance Academy-’Against the Dying of the Light’

Best in Studio ($3000 per style):

Best Hip-Hop

Rhythm Dance Center

Best Tap,

Denise Wall’s Dance Energy

Best Contemporary

Dance Town

Best Jazz

Project 21

Best Ballroom

Center Stage Performing Arts Studio

Best Musical Theatre

The Southern Strutt

Best Lyrical

Westchester Dance Academy

People’s Choice ($250)

Rhythm Dance Center-’Earthquake’

[lost-in-dark-academia]

Inside Broadmoore - Jonathan Levi, Emma French

Unsolved Murders: True Crime Cases Unsolved - Amber Hunt, Emily G. Thompson

How To Be Champion - Sarah Millican

Our Story: Reg And Ron Kray - Reginald Kray, Ronald Kray, Fred Dinenage

Profession Of Violence - John Pearson

Terry Deary's Terribly True Ghost Stories

Night Of The Haunted Trousers - Susan Gates

 Coraline - Neil Gaiman

House Of Secrets - Chris Columbas, Ned Vizzini

Romeo And Juliet - William Shakespeare

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Alice In Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula - Bram Stoker

The Call Of Cthulhu - HP Lovecraft

Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving

The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe

The Tell Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe

Curious, If True: Strange Tales - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The Thing On The Doorstep - HP Lovecraft

The Haunter Of The Dark - HP Lovecraft

The Empty House And Other Ghost Stories - Algerhorn Blackwood

Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque - Edgar Allan Poe

Shadow - Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall Of The House Of Usher - Edgar Allan Poe

The White People - Arthur Macben

The Demon Spell - Hume Nisbet

The Horror At Martins Beach - HP Lovecraft

The Private Memoirs Of A Justified Sinner - James Hogg

The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath - HP Lovecraft

Tales Of Old Japan - Lord Redesdale

The Man In The Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas

Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

The Haunted House - Charles Dickens

The Sorrows Of Satan - Marie Corelli

The Moonchild - Aliester Crowley

The Phantom Rickshaw And Other Ghost Stories - Rudyard Kipling

Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary - Montague Rhodes James

The Story Of The Inexperienced Ghost - HG Wells

Animal Ghosts - Elliott O'Donnell

A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

The Night Land - William Hape Hodgson

Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie

Japanese Fairy Tale - Yei Theodora Ozaki

Stranger Things Happen - Kelly Link

The Victorian Book Of The Dead - Chris Woodyard

The Last Sister - Kendra Elliot

The Silent Daughter - Claire Amarti

Demonology - King James VI

Granny - Anthony Horowitz

The Switch - Anthony Horowitz

The Book Of Household Management - Mary Beeton

Im A Therapist And My Patient Is Going To Be The Next School Shooter - Dr Harper

Im A Therapist And My Patient Is In Love With A Pedophile - Dr Harper

Im A Therapist, And My Patient Is A Vegan Terrorist - Dr Harper

Billy Connolly: Tall Tales And Wee Stories - Billy Connolly

FNAF: The Silver Eyes - Scott Cawthon

FNAF: The Twisted Ones - Scott Cawthon

FNAF: Fourth Closet - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: Into The Pit - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: Fetch - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: 1:35am - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: Step Closer - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: Bunny Call - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: Black Bird - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: The Cliffs - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: Gumdrop Angel - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: The Puppet Carver - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights: Friendly Face - Scott Cawthon

Fazbear Frights - Scott Cawthon

Anatomy Of Witchcraft - Peter Haining

All Things Cease To Appear - Elizabeth Brundage

Shadow And Bone - Leigh Bardugo

The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman

The Satanic Bible (50th Anniversary Revision) - Michael Aquino

The Book Of Forbidden Knowledge - Johnson Smith

The Satanic Narratives: A Modern Satanic Narrative: A Modern Satanic Bible - Damian Ba'al

The 3 Magical Books Of Solomon - Aliester Crowley, Fredrick Cornwallis Conybeare, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers

Heaven And Its Wonders: The World Of Spirits And Hell - Emanuel Swedenborg

Witchcraft: A Beginners Guide To Witchcraft - Sophie Cornish

Moonspells: Unlocking The Hidden Power Of The 8 Lunar Phases, Wiccan Magic And Witchcraft - Mari Silva

The Witches Journal - Selene Silverwind

Sweeny Todd: The Real Story Of The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street - Peter Haining

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History Of Celebrity From Bronze Age To Silver Screen - Greg Jenner

It - Stephen King

The Tommyknockers - Stephen King

The Stand - Stephen King

The Shining - Stephen King

Misery - Stephen King

Salems Lot - Stephen King

11/22/63 - Stephen King

The Dead Zone - Stephen King

The Institute - Stephen King

Carrie- Stephen King

The Long Walk - Stephen King

Different Seasons - Stephen King

The Green Mile - Stephen King

If It Bleeds - Stephen King

Doctor Sleep - Stephen King

Pet Semetary - Stephen King

Under The Dome - Stephen King

Joyland - Stephen King

Insomnia - Stephen King

From A buck 8 - Stephen King

Nightmares And Dreamscapes - Stephen King

Revival - Stephen King

Finders Keepers- Stephen King

Night Shift - Stephen King

The Talisman - Stephen King

Dreamcatcher - Stephen King

Lisey's Story - Stephen King

End Of Watch - Stephen King

Mr Mercedes - Stephen King

Cujo - Stephen King

Needful Things - Stephen King

Bag Of Bones - Stephen King

The Eyes Of The Dragon - Stephen King

Billy Summers - Stephen King

Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - Stephen King

Rose Madder - Stephen King

Firestarter - Stephen King

Duma Key - Stephen King

Desperation - Stephen King

The Dark Half - Stephen King

Christine - Stephen King

Geralds Game - Stephen King

Cell - Stephen King

Dolores - Stephen King

Later - Stephen King

On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft - Stephen King

One Upon A Dream - Liz Braswell

The Misadventures Of Max Crumbly: Locker Hero - Rachel Renee Russell

The Misadventures Of Max Crumbly: Middle School Mayhem - Rachel Renee Russell

The Misadventures Of Max Crumbly: Masters Of Mischief - Rachel Renee Russell

Idols Of Kpop - Malcolm Mackenzie

BTS Icons Of Kpop - Adrian Besley

BTS: The Ultimate Fan Book

Point Horror: Blind Date - RL Stine

Point Horror: Twisted - RL Stine

Point Horror: the Nightmare Man - Tessa Krailing

Point Horror:  The Lifeguard - Richie Tankersley Cusick

Point Horror: Party Line - A.Bates

Point Horror: Prom Dress - Lael Littke

Point Horror: The Babysitter - RL Stine

Point Horror: Trick Or Treat - Richie Tankersley Cusick

Point Horror: My Secret Admirer - Carol Ellis

Point Horror: April Fools - Richie Tankersley Cusick

Point Horror: Final Exam - A.Bates

Point Horror: Funhouse - Diane Hoh

Point Horror: Beach Party - RL Stine

Point Horror: The Boyfriend - RL Stine

Point Horror: The Foggiest - David Belbi

Point Horror: Teachers Pet - Morris Gleitzman, Richie Tankersley Cusick

Point Horror: The Snowman - RL Stine

Point Horror: The Accident - Diane Hoh

Point Horror: The Babysitter II - RL Stine

Point Horror: Mothers Helper - A.Bates

Point Horror: Sister Dearest - D.E Athkins

Point Horror: The Girlfriend - RL Stine

Point Horror: The Cheerleader - Caroline B. Cooney

Point Horror: Fatal Secrets - Richie Tankersley Cusick

Point Horror: The Window - Carol Ellis, Charbonneau Denise

Point Horror: Evil Returns - Caroline B. Cooney

Point Horror: The Invitation - Diane Hoh

Point Horror: Mirror Mirror - D.E Athkins

Point Horror: The Fever - Diane Hoh

Point Horror: Hit And Run - RL Stine

Point Horror: The Waitress - Sinclair Smith

Point Horror: Beach House - RL Stine

Point Horror: The Train - Diane Hoh

Point Horror: The Ripper - D.E. Athkins

Point Horror: The Mall - Patricia Macdonald, Richie Tankersley Cusick

Point Horror: Freeze Tag - Caroline B. Cooney

Point Horror: The Hitchhiker - RL Stine

Point Horror: Fatal Bargain - Caroline B. Cooney

Point Horror: Dream Date - Sinclair Smith

Point Horror: The Dead Game - A. Bates

Point Horror: The Babysitter III - RL Stine

Point Horror: Camp Fear - Carol Ellis

Point Horror: The Perfume - Caroline B. Cooney

Point Horror: The Dead Girlfriend - RL Stine

Point Horror: Halloween Night - RL Stine

Point Horror: Help Wanted -Richie Tankersley Cusick

Point Horror: The Phantom - Barbara Steiner

Point Horror: The Stranger - Caroline B. Cooney

[ ]  Point Horror: Call Waiting - RL Stine

[ ]  Point Horror: Silent Witness - Carol Ellis

[ ]  Goosebumps:  Welcome To Dead House

[ ]  Goosebumps:  One Day At Horrorland

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Scarecrow - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Monster Blood - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Say Cheese And Die - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Stay Out Of The Basement - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Lets Get Invisible - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Night Of The Living Dummy - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Girl Who Cried Monster - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Welcome To Camp Nightmare - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Piano Lessons Can Be Murder - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Attack Of The Mutant - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Monster Blood II- RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Cuckoo Clock Of Doom - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Monster Blood III - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: It Came From Beneath The Sink - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Barking Ghost - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Horror At Camp Jellyjam - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: You Cant Scare Me - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Why Im Afraid Of The Dark - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: A Night In Terror Tower - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Curse Of The Coffin - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Under The Magicians Spell - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Knight In Screaming Armour - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Diary Of A Mad Mummy - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Deep In The Jungle Of Doom - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Welcome To The Wicked Wax Museum - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Scream Of The Evil Genie - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Creepy Creations Of Professor Shock - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Secret Agent Grandma - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Little Comic Shop Of Horrors - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Escape From Camp Run-For-Your-Life - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Toy Terror: Batteries Included- RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: The Twisted Tale Of Tiki Island - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Return Of The Carnival Of Horrors - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Zapped In Space - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Lost In Skinkeye Swamp - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Headless Halloween- RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Shop Til You Drop...Dead - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Alone In Snakebite Canyon- RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Invasion Of The Body Squeezers - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Checkout Time At The Deadend Hotel - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Night Of A Thousand Claws - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Revenge R Us - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Invaders From The Big Screen - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Fright Camp - RL Stine

[ ]  Goosebumps: Are You Terrified - RL Stine

[ ]  If We Were Villains - M.I. Rio

[ ]  The Secret History - Donna Tartt

[ ]  A Quaint And Curious Volume - Sarah Perry

[ ]  The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

[ ]  Tales Of Mystery And Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe

[ ]  Maurice - EM Foster

[ ]  The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

[ ]  A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara

[ ]  Ninth House - Leigh Bardugo

[ ]  Love Is A Dog From Hell - Charles Bukowski

[ ]  To The Lighthouse - Virginia Wolfe

[ ]  The Prince - N. Machiavelli

[ ]  We The Drowned - Carsten Jensen

[ ]  Dead Poets Society - N.H. Kleinbaum

[ ]  Jonathan Strange And Mr Norell - Susanna Clarke

[ ]  The Little Friend - Donna Tartt

[ ]  The Rules Of Attraction - B.E. Ellis

[ ]  Walden - H.D. Thoreau

[ ]  Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

[ ]  The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

[ ]  Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

[ ]  The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

[ ]  The Lying Game - Ruth Ware

[ ]  Black Chalk - Christopher J. Yates

[ ]  Murder On The Orient Express - Agatha Christie

[ ]  To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

[ ]  Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austin

[ ]  The Night Circus - Erin Margenstern

[ ]  The Secret History Of The World - Jonathan Black

[ ]  The Old Straight Track - Alfred Watkins

[ ]  The Art Of The Occult - S. Elizabeth

[ ]  The English Heretic Collection: Ritual Histories, Magical Geography - Andy Sharp

[ ]  The Prophecies - Nostradamus

[ ]  Haunted Norwitch - David Chisnell

[ ]  The Weiser Book Of Horror And The Occult: Hidden Magic, Occult Truths And The Stories The Started It All - on Milo DuQuette

[ ]  The Uncanny - Nicholas Royle

[ ]  Witchcraft - Anastasia Greywolf

[ ]  The Complete Prophecies Of Nostradamus - Nostradamus

[ ]  Condensed Chaos - Phile Hine

[ ]  The Oxford Illustrated History Of Witchcraft And Magic - Owen Davies

[ ]  Witchwood - John Buchan

[ ]  The Lovecraft Code - Peter Levenda

[ ]  The Occult Philosophy In The Elizabethan Age - Frances Yates

[ ]  Death Row : The Final Minutes - Michelle Lyons

[x]  Killing For Company: The Case Of Dennis Nilson - Brain Masters

[ ]  Chaos: Charles Manson, The CIA, The Secret History Of The 60s - Tom O'Neill

[ ]  The Big Book Of Serial Killers: An Encyclopaedia Of Serial Killers - Jack Rosewood

[ ]  Helter Skelter: The True Story Of The Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry

[ ]  The Ultimate Evil: An Investigation Into Americas Most Dangerous Satanic Cult - Maury Terry

[ ]  John Wayne Gacy: Defending A Monster - Judge Sam L. Amirante, Danny Broderick

[ ]  Girl In The Cellar - Allan Hall, Michael Leidig

[ ]  Kill Or Be Killed - Robert Scott

[ ]  The Mad Chopper - Kent Allard

[ ]  The Cases That Haunt Us - John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker

[ ]  Buried Secrets: A True Story Of Serial Murder - Edward Humes

[ ]  The Black Dahlia - James Ellroy

[ ]  In Cold Blood  -Truman Capote

[ ]  Portrait Of A Killer: Jack The Ripper Case Closed - Patricia Cornwell

[ ]  Perverse Crimes In History - Julian Press

[x]  The Witches Book Of Self Care - Arin Murphy Hiscock

[ ]  Fear Street: The New Girl - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Surprise Party - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Over Night - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Missing - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Wrong Number - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Sleepwalker - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Haunted - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Stepsister - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Ski Weekend - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Fire Game - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Lights Out - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Secret Bedroom - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Knife - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Prom Queen - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: First Date - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Best Friend - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Cheater - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Sunburn - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The New Boy - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Dare - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Bad Dreams - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Double Date - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Thrill Club - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: One Evil Summer - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Mind Reader - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Wrong Number 2 - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Truth Or Dare - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Dead End - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Final Grade - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Switched - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: College Weekend - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: What Holly Heard - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Face - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Dont Stay Up Late - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Perfect Date - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Confession - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Boy Next Door - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Night Games - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Runaway - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Killers Kiss- RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: All Night Party- RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Lost Girl - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Cat- RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: The Conclusion - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Who Killed The Homecoming Queen - RL Stine

[ ]  Fear Street: Into The Dark - RL Stine

[ ]  Horrible Histories: All At Sea - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Angry Aztecs - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Blitzed Britz - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Awful Egyptians - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Barmy British Empire - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Crackin Castles - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Cut Throat Celts - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Frightful First World War - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Gorgeous Georgians - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Gruesome Great Houses - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Gruesome Guide To Dublin - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Gruesome Guide To York - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Horrible History Of The World - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Horribly Hilarious Joke Book- Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Incredible Incas- Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Measly Middle Ages - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Pirates - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Savage Stone Age - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Slimy Stuarts - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Smashing Saxons- Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Stormin Normans - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: the Secret Diary Of Henry VIII- Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Top 50 Kings And Queens - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Up In The Air - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Vicious Vikings - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Vile Victorians - Terry Deary

[ ]  Horrible Histories: Woeful Second World War - Terry Deary

[ ]  The Story Of Scotland: Inspired By The Great Tapestry Of Scotland - Allan Burnett

[ ]  The Celts And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  Robert The Bruce And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  William Wallace And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  The Vikings And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  Mary Queen Of Scots And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  Robert Burns And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  Columba And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  Macbeth And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  Rob Roy And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  Bonnie Prince Charlie And All That - Allan Burnett

[ ]  World War I: Scottish Tales Of Adventure - Allan Burnett

[ ]  World War II: Scottish Tales Of Adventure - Allan Burnett

[ ]  Invented In Scotland: Scottish Ingenuity And Invention Throughout The Ages - Allan Burnett

[ ]  Discovery At Roswell - Terry Deary

[ ]  Terry Deary's Terribly True Crime Stories - Terry Deary

[ ]  Encounter On The Moon: Fact Or Fiction - Robin Moore

[ ]  Black Dahlia, Red Rose: The Crime, Corruption And Cover Up Of Americas Greatest Unsolved Murder - Piu Eatwell

[ ]  Peggy And Me - Miranda Hart

[ ]  Parsnips, Buttered: How To Baffle, Bamboozle And Boycott Your Way Through Modern Life - Joe Lycett

[ ]  The Stephen King Universe: A Guide To The Worlds Of The King Of Horror - Stanley Wiater, Christopher Golden, Hank Wagner

[ ]  Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends: Vol 1 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends: Vol 2 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Toshiden: Exploring Japanese Urban Legends: Vol 3 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kowabana: "True" Japanese Scary Stories From Around The Internet: Vol 1 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kowabana: "True" Japanese Scary Stories From Around The Internet: Vol 2 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kowabana: "True" Japanese Scary Stories From Around The Internet: Vol 3 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kowabana: "True" Japanese Scary Stories From Around The Internet: Origins - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kowabana: "True" Japanese Scary Stories From Around The Internet: Vol 5 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kowabana: "True" Japanese Scary Stories From Around The Internet: Vol 6 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kowabana: "True" Japanese Scary Stories From Around The Internet: Vol 7 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kowabana: "True" Japanese Scary Stories From Around The Internet: Vol 8 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kowabana: "True" Japanese Scary Stories From Around The Internet: Vol 9 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Kaihan: Bizarre Crimes That Shook Japan Vol 1 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Reikan: The Most Haunted Locations In Japan Vol 1 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Reikan: The Most Haunted Locations In Japan Vol 2 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Banka: Baffling Japanese Internet Mysteries Vol 1 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  Banka: Baffling Japanese Internet Mysteries Vol 2 - Tara A. Devlin

[ ]  The Invisible Man - HG Wells

[ ]  The Ghost Map: The Story Of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic And How It Changed Science, Cities And The Modern World - Steven JohnsonThe Man Who Died Twice - Richard Osman

The Satanic Rituals - Anton Szandor LaVay

The Happy Satanist: Finding Self Empowerment - Lilith Starr

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

The Omen - David Seltzer

The Amityville Horror - Jay Anson

The Silence Of The Lambs - Thomas Harris

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark - Alvin Schwartz

More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark - Alvin Schwartz

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark 3 - Alvin Schwartz

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Trailblazing Hollywood Architect Paul R. Williams, Part One

“I wanted to prove that I, as an individual, deserved a place in the world.” – Paul R. Williams

Architect Paul R. Williams is usually noted as “Architect to the Stars” because of the many Hollywood Stars on his roster of clients. To remember Paul R, Williams solely as the builder of elegant mansions would do his legacy a great disservice. Williams was the first successful African-American architect in Los Angeles, and first African-American member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) (1), and “the first African-American of its gold medal”(2). He faced the same prejudice that talented, ambitious members of his race faced in the United States early part of the Twentieth Century. Despite this he was responsible for some of the most recognized and important buildings and homes in Los Angeles. Williams’ legacy is endangered, as many of his buildings have been demolished, his working papers tragically destroyed, and the architect himself, unfortunately, is now mostly forgotten.

Charles Alston, Paul R. Williams Illustration (1943). National Archives. Image source.

The Early Life of Paul Revere Williams

Paul Revere Williams was born in 1894 in Los Angeles to Chester and Lila Williams. The Williams moved to Los Angeles the previous year with their young son, Chester, as Mr. and Mrs. Williams suffered from tuberculosis and were searching for a cure (3). Chester senior’s efforts running a fruit stand were unsuccessful; he died of his tuberculosis in 1896. Lila succumbed to the same disease two years later when Paul was only four years old. Now orphaned, Paul and his brother were sent to live in separate foster homes (1,4). Although separated, Chester and Paul remained close until Chester also died of tuberculosis in his early twenties (3).

Paul was later adopted by “C.D. and Emily Clarkson, who were highly supportive, educationally and, later, artistically, of him”(4). Young Paul helped his adopted family financially by working as a newsboy selling papers in downtown Los Angeles.3

Young Williams’s Education and Early Challenges

Paul attended the highly selective Polytechnic High School” (3) where “a teacher advised him against pursuing a career in architecture because white clients would not want a Black architect” (6), and he would not be able to find “enough Black clients” (4) in Los Angeles to provide him with a decent living (2,4). Paul believed in himself and his talents, securing internships and jobs at prominent, local architecture firms immediately after high school in 1912, despite prevailing racial prejudice (1).

Williams first studied at the Los Angeles Beaux-Arts School and then went on the University of Southern California’s School of Engineering to study architecture (4). In 1919 he became the first African-American graduate of that institution (1).

During this time, Williams met Della May Givens through a church youth group. Della had previously dated William’s older brother. In 1917, Paul and Della married and eventually had two daughters. Della took full responsibility for running all aspects of the household and for raising the girls, allowing Williams to focus all of his energy on his career (3).

Paul R. Williams Begins His Career

Williams gained recognition for his work by entering several architectural competitions, winning The White Pine Architectural Competition in 1918, and The Los Angeles Brick Company Competition the following year (1). The competitions gave Williams the opportunity to promote his work without a link to his identity as a Black man (3). Williams worked for architects “Wilbur Cook, Reginald Johnson, Arthur Rolland Kelly, and John C. Austin” (1). Austin was influential not only creatively, but also socially, Austin’s powerful contacts in Los Angeles society of the time allowed his young protégé networking opportunities (3).

Paul R. Williams, Design for a White Pine House (1918). Unbuilt. Image source.

William’s first influential position came in 1920, “struggling to gain attention, he served  on the first Los Angeles City Planning Commission (6). The following year he was licensed as an architect in California (5), and in 1922 Williams opened his firm, ten years after his high school teacher tried to discourage him to become an architect (3). He “became the first Black member of the national [American Institute of Architects]  AIA in 1923” (5).

During the 1920s, the local economy was booming due to the film industry in Hollywood. Many of the stars and movie executives had come from other locations to working Los Angeles, and some, like Williams, had belonged to ethnic groups that been looked down upon by white Anglo-Saxon America. They were willing to give the brilliant architect the opportunity to design their dream homes. The iconic silent film star Lon Cheney was one or Williams’s first Hollywood celebrity clients. Sadly, Cheney died of pneumonia before he could move into the home. One of William’s most notable homes designed in this period was the Jack Atkins House. Since the house was heavily influenced by English manor houses, it was rented out often for use in films. The home appeared in the film Topper (1937). Tragically, the house was destroyed in 2005 in a fire that occurred during renovations (3).

Paul R. Williams, Jack Atkins House (1930), Pasadena, CA. Image source.

Williams Becomes the Master of Many Styles

Williams’ often received criticism for not embracing the architectural styles of the day, much like another California architect Julia Morgan.  The main reason was that he felt fortunate to have his clients and wanted to build homes for them directed by their needs and tastes. Also during that era, it was very unlikely that his white clients would tolerate being dictated to by a black architect. Williams, therefore, became adept at many styles and mastered them all, much like Julia Morgan had done (3).  

Paul R. Williams, Clark H. Edwards Duplex (1925), Los Angeles. Photo credit: Michael Locke. Image source.

“Modern interpretations of Tudor-revival, French Chateau, Regency, French Country, and Mediterranean architecture were all within his vernacular” (6). The 1922 George Holmes Kinsey house was built in the Spanish Mission style, as was the 1923 John B. Browne House and the 1924 Frank Putnam Flint House. Williams’ Jay Paley House (1935) was influenced by English Georgian architecture. The Douglas Mitchell House (1924) is a fine example of Williams’ mastery of American Colonial architecture. Williams built several homes in 1926 that exhibit English Tudor influences: The Howard T. Wayne House, The Crowell and Katherine Havens Beech House, the Philip Rothman House, and the John L. and Janette Adams Garner House (4).

Paul R. Williams, Jay Paley House (1935), Los Angeles, CA. Image source.

Although Williams’s homes reflect many styles, there are features that are unique to his homes. Many homes feature elegant grand staircases (for stars who wish to make a dramatic entrance). Circle and curve motifs appear in most homes, and can be seen in the use of curving staircases and circular windows. Williams liked to employ tall narrow windows in many homes in order to bring more of the southern California light into the interiors (3).

Read about Paul R. Williams’s community activity and commercial work in the 1950s and 1960s in part two.

References

LA Conservancy, (2020). Paul Revere Williams,  FAIA (1894-1980), https://www.laconservancy.org/architects/paul-r-williams

Budds, D., (13 December, 2016). The Overlooked Legacy Of Pioneering African-American Architect Paul Revere Williams, Fast Company (online), https://www.fastcompany.com/3066503/the-overlooked-legacy-of-pioneering-african-american-architect-paul-revere-williams

Public Broadcasting System, (6 February, 2020). Hollywood’s Architect [Documentary Film]. https://www.pbs.org/video/hollywoods-architect-3prwsa/

Brane, K.D, (15 January, 2020). Paul R. Williams, Black Listed Culture, Issue 2. https://blacklistedculture.com/paul-r-williams/

US Modernist, (n.d.).  Paul Revere Williams,  FAIA (1894-1980), https://usmodernist.org/pwilliams.htm

Wikipedia.com, (10 December, 2020). Paul R. Williams, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Williams

For Further Reading

Hudson, Karen E. (1993). Paul R. Williams, Architect: A Legacy of Style. New York: Rizzoli. p. 240. ISBN 0-8478-1763-6. LCC NA737.W527 H84 1993

Hudson, Karen E. (1994). The Will and the Way: Paul R. Williams, Architect. New York: Rizzoli. pp. 64. ISBN 0-8478-1780-6. LCC NA737.W527 H85 1994

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I’m Looking For Descendants Of  John Anderson of Stroquhan (1795-1845)

John Anderson,Acting Resident Councillor of Penang,Malaysia from(1829-1830).He was born 1795 in Stroquhan,Scotland.Son of Robert Anderson.He married to Mary Alison Carnegy.He died 1845 in Euston,England. His issue:- i)Mary Alison Anderson(1819-1903)married Robert Stirling Graham. ii)James Carnegy Anderson. iii)John Reid Armstrong Anderson(1823-1866) married to Martha Tatham Hitchins.Their issue:- ai)Mary Martha Anderson(1857-1955)married Robert George Iremonger. aii)John Hitchins Anderson(1859-1896) married Kate Symes. aiii)Mabel Ida Anderson(1861-1957) married Talbot Monckton Milnes Griffiths.Their issue:- bi)Theodore Ralph Houghton Griffiths(1886-1964)married 1stly Elsie Christabel Burridge and 2ndly Vera Ellen Charlotte Justice.His issue:- ci)Robert Francis Houghton Griffiths(1914-1938)married Florence Mary Theodora Bosanquet. cii)John Stuart Griffiths(1916-1945). ciii)Mary Emilia Griffiths(1934-1986). bii)Vera Gwendolen Leila Griffiths(1889-1975) married John Limner. biii)Beryl Frances Griffiths(1890-1976)married Lewis Davies.Their issue:- ci)Eric Davies(?-1941). biv)Rupert Hildebrand Griffiths(1891-1981)married Evelina E Maddison.His issue:- ci) Charles M Griffiths. cii) George E T Griffiths. ciii)Celia Noreen Griffiths(1919-1994) married George M Blake. bv)Eric John Mortlock Griffiths(1892-1975)married Joan Heron.His issue:- ci)Joan Margery Griffiths(1921-1988). cii) Ethel Marion Griffiths. bvi)Charles Groyn Griffiths(1894-1895). bvii)Noel Stewart Griffiths(1896-1982)married Mary Blackburn.His issue:- ci)Patricia M Griffiths married Roland M Robitaillie.Their issue:- di)Carolyn V Robitaillie married Jean-Louis Ramon. dii)Elizabeth Robitaillie. diii)Sophie Amanda Robitaillie born in 1965.She married Fernagu. aiv)Albert Robert Anderson(1864-?) married 1stly,Caroline Alice Wollaston & 2ndly,Viola Ellen Haughton. His issue:- bi) Viola Helen Anderson iv)Jane Anderson(1824). v)Robert Patrick Anderson(1824-1898)married Henrietta Hildebrand.His issue:- ai)Robert Hildebrand Anderson(1854-1936)married Louisa Jane Laing.His issue:- bi)Robert Charles Hildebrand Anderson(1881-1884). aii)Hilda Mary Anderson(1857). vi)Margaret Lilias Anderson(1827-1909)married John Gray MacCowan Glen.Their issue:- bi)Robert Nelson John Glen(1871-1898). vii)William Henry Anderson(1829-1849). ix)Helena Adelaide Anderson(1830-1905) married Major General Horatio Nelson Davies.Their issue:- ai)Eveline Honoria Nelson Davies(1851-1934) married John Evelyn Barlas. Their issue:- bi)Evelyn Adelaide Isabella Barlas(1882-1885). bii) Ernest Douglas Montague Barlas(1885-1952) married Elena Georgina Matilda Kenyon-Slaney. His issue:- ci) Richard Douglas Barlas(1916-1982) married Ann Porter. 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Their issue:- di) Robin Frederick Perhat(1953-1971). dii) Eileen Jennifer Perhat diii) Celia Geraldine Perhat married Barrington Lloyd cii)Derek Guy Carter(?-1942). ciii) Peter Carter. biii)Capt.Eric Nelson Carter(1888-1958)married Kathleen Norah Liardet. biv)Adelaide Muriel Dorothea Carter married Capt.Roland Peto Johnstone Mitchell. bv)Mildred Lilian Carter(1891-1970). bv) Eyleen Graydon Carter(?-1949) married Reginald Magnus Trail.Their issue:- ci)Mildred Eyleen Trail(1924-1932). aiii)Thomas Arthur Harkness Davies(1857-1942). aiv)Helena Amy Davies(1859-1887). av)Helen Maud Davies(1860-1926) married Major Francis Ventris.Their issue - b) Charles Peyton Ventris(1887-1965) married 1stly,Madeline Harrison & 2ndly,Beatrice S M Nother. His issue:- ci) Anthony Peyton Ventris (Strachan) (1918-1942) cii) Ian T Peyton Ventris(1919-?) ciii) Jack Peyton Ventris(1922-1999) civ) Doris R Ventris married Raymond T Garnham. 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Charles Laughton.

Filmografía

Películas

- Bluebottles, The Tonic, Daydreams (1928) Dir.: Ivor Montagu

- Piccadilly (1929) Dir.: Ewald Andrea Dupont.

- Wolves (1930).

- Down River (1931) Dir. Peter Godfrey

-El caserón de las sombras (The Old Dark - House, 1932) Dir. James Whale

- Entre la espada y la pared (The Devil and the Deep, 1932) Dir. Marion Gering

- Justicia divina/El asesino de Mr. Medland (Payment Deferred, 1932) Dir. Lothar Mendes

- El signo de la cruz (The Sign of the Cross, 1932) Dir. Cecil B. De Mille

- Si yo tuviera un millón (If I Had a Million, 1932) Dirs. Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Stephen Roberts, Norman McLeod, James Cruse, William A. - Seiter y H. Bruce Humberstone

- La isla de las almas perdidas (Island of Lost Souls, 1932) Dir. Erle C. Kenton

- La vida privada de Enrique VIII (The Private Life of Henry VIII, 1933) Dir. Alexander Korda

- White Woman (1933) Dir. Stuart Walker

- The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934) Dir. Sidney Franklin

- Nobleza obliga (Ruggles of Red Gap, 1935) Dir. Leo McCarey

- Los miserables (Les Misérables, 1935) Dir. Richard Boleslawsky

- Rebelión a bordo (Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935) Dir. Frank Lloyd

- Rembrandt (Rembrandt, 1936) Dir. Alexander Korda

- Yo, Claudio (I, Claudius, 1937) Dir. Joseph von Sternberg.

- Bandera amarilla (Vessel of Wrath, 1938) Dir. Eric Pommer (Laughton es actor y coproductor de esta película).

- Las calles de Londres (St. Martin's Lane, 1938) Dir. Tim Whelan (Laughton es actor y coproductor de esta película).

- La posada de Jamaica (Jamaica Inn, 1939) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock (Laughton es actor y coproductor de esta película).

- Esmeralda, la zíngara (The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1939) Dir. William Dieterle

- Laughton en la película Ellos sabían lo que querían (1940), con Carole Lombard y Frank Fay.

- They Knew What They Wanted (1940) Dir. Garson Kanin

- Casi un ángel (It Started with Eve, 1941) Dir. Henry Koster

- Se acabó la gasolina (The Tuttles of Tahiti, 1942) Dir. Charles Vidor

- Seis destinos (Tales of Manhattan, 1942) Dir. Julien Duvivier

- Stand by for Action (1943) Dir. Robert Z. Leonard

- Forever and a Day (1943) Dirs. René Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville.

-Esta tierra es mía (This Land Is Mine, 1943) Dir. Jean Renoir

- The Man from Down Under (1943) Dir. Robert Z. Leonard

- The Canterville Ghost (1944) Dir. Jules Dassin

- El sospechoso (The Suspect, 1944) Dir. Robert Siodmak

- El capitán Kidd (Captain Kidd, 1945) Dir. Rowland V. Lee

- Su primera noche (Because of Him, 1946) Dir. Richard Wallace

- Arco de triunfo (Arch of Triumph, 1947) Dir. Lewis Milestone

- El reloj asesino (The Big Clock, 1947) Dir. John Farrow

- El proceso Paradine (The Paradine Case, 1948) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock

- On our Merry way/A Miracle can Happen (1948) Dirs. King Vidor, Leslie Fenton, John Huston, George Stevens.

- The Girl from Manhattan (1948) Alfred E. Green

- Soborno (The Bribe, 1949) Dir. Robert Z. Leonard

- El hombre de la torre Eiffel (The Man on the Eiffel Tower, 1949) Dir. Burgess Meredith (codirectores no acreditados: Charles Laughton y Franchot Tone).

- No estoy sola (The Blue Veil, 1951) Dir. Curtis Bernhardt

- The Strange Door (1951) Dir. Joseph Pevney

- Cuatro páginas de la vida (O. Henry's Full House, 1952) Dir. Henry Koster

- Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952) Dir. Charles Lamont

- Salomé (Salome, 1953) Dir. William Dieterle

- La reina virgen (Young Bess, 1953) Dir. George Sidney

- El déspota (Hobson's Choice, 1954) Dir. David Lean

- La noche del cazador (The Night of the Hunter, 1954) Dir. Charles Laughton (no aparece como actor en la película).

T- estigo de cargo (Witness for the Prosecution, 1957) Dir. Billy Wilder

- Bajo diez banderas (Sotto dieci bandiere, 1960) Dir. Diulio Colletti

Espartaco (Spartacus, 1960) Dir, Stanley Kubrick

- Tempestad sobre Washington (Advise and Consent, 1962) Dir. Otto Preminger.

Documentales

- The Epic That Never Was (1965). Dirigido por Bill Duncalf y presentado por Dirk Bogarde. Documental de la BBC sobre el rodaje de I, Claudius con diversas escenas acabadas. (VHS, DVD).

- Callow's Laughton (1987). Documental de la Yorkshire TV-ITV dirigido por Nick Gray y presentado por Simon Callow sobre Charles Laughton.

- Charles Laughton Directs The Night of the Hunter (2002). Documental dirigido por Robert Gitt a partir de tomas descartadas de la Película.

Teatro

Debut teatral (1913). Stonyhurst College, Reino Unido

- The Private Secretary per Charles Hawtrey

Teatro amateur (hasta 1925). Scarborough, Reino Unido

- The Dear Departed por Stanley Houghton

- Trelawney of The Wells por Arthur Wing Pinero

- Hobson's Choice por Harold Brighouse

1926

- The Government Inspector. por Nicolai Gogol. Dir. Theodore Komisarjevsky

- Los puntales de la sociedad por Henrik Ibsen. Dir. Sybil Arundale

- El jardín de los cerezos por Antón Chéjov. Dir. Theodore Komisarjevsky

- Las tres hermanas por Antón Chéjov. Dir. Theodore Komisarjevsky

- Liliom por Ferencz Molnar. Dir. Theodore Komisarjevsky

1927

- The Greater Love por James B. Fagan. Dir. James B. Fagan y Lewis Casson

- Angela por Lady Bell. Dir. Lewis Casson

Vestire gli ignudi por Luigi Pirandello. Dir. Theodore Komisarjevsky

- Medea por Eurípides. Dir. Lewis Casson

- The Happy Husband por Harrison Owen. Dir. Basil Dean

- Paul Y por Dimitri Merejovski. Dir. Theodore Komisarjevsky

- Mr. Prohack por Arnold Bennet y Edward Knoblock. Dir. Theodore Komisarjevsky

1928

- A Man with Red Hair por Benn W. Levy, a partir de la novela de Hugh Walpole. Dir. Theodore Komisarjevsky

- The Making of an Immortal por George Moore. Dir. Robert Atkins

- Riverside Nights por Nigel Playfair y A.P. Herbert. Dir. Nigel Playfair

- Alibi per Michael Morton, a partir de la novela de Agatha Christie. Dir. Gerald duMaurier

- Mr. Pickwick por Cosmo Hamilton y Frank C. Reilly, a partir de la novela de Charles Dickens. Dir. Basil Dean

1929

- Beauty por Jacques Deval (adapt. inglesa: Michael Morton). Dir. Felix Edwardes

- The Silver Tassie por Sean O'Casey. Dir. Raymond Massey

1930

- French Leave por Reginald Berkeley. Dir. Eille Norwood

- On the Spot por Edgar Wallace. Dir. Edgar Wallace

1930

- Payment Deferred por Jeffrey Dell, a partir de la novela de C.S. Forrester. Dir. H.K. Ailiff

1931

-Gira americana (Chicago y Nueva York) de Payment Deferred y Alibi (esta última retítulada The Fatal Alibi y dirigida por Jed Harris).

Old Vic: temporada 1933-34. Londres. Reino Unido. Todas las obras dirigidas por Tyrone Guthrie.

El jardín de los cerezos por Antón Chéjov. Dir. Charles Laughton

1951-52 Estados Unidos y Reino Unido (Gira).

Don Juan in Hell de Man and Superman por George Bernard Shaw. Dir. Charles Laughton.

1953 Estados Unidos (Gira).

John Brown's Body por Stephen Vincent Benet. Dir. y Adaptación: Charles Laughton (no apareció como actor).

1954 Estados Unidos (Gira).

The Caine Mutiny Court Martial por Herman Wouk, a partir de su novela. Dir. Charles Laughton (no apareció como actor).

1956 Nueva York, Estados Unidos.

Major Barbara por George Bernard Shaw. Dir. Charles Laughton

1956 Londres, Reino Unido

The Party por Jane Arden. Dir. Charles Laughton

1959 Stratford-upon-Avon, Reino Unido

El sueño de una noche de verano por William Shakespeare. Dir. Peter Hall

El rey Lear por William Shakespeare. Dir. Glen Byam Shaw.

Créditos: Tomado de Wikipedia

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The Tales of Hoffmann (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1951)

Cast: Robert Rounseville, Moira Shearer, Ludmila Tchérina, Ann Ayers, Pamela Brown, Léonide Massine, Robert Helpmann, Frederick Ashton, Mogens Wieth, Lionel Harris, Philip Leaver, Meinhart Maur, Edmond Audran. Screenplay: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Dennis Arundell, based on a libretto by Jules Barbier for an opera by Jacques Offenbach based on stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann. Cinematography: Christopher Challis. Production design: Hein Heckroth. Costume design: Ivy Baker, Hein Heckroth. Film editing: Reginald Mill.

Opera and film are two well-nigh incompatible media, with different ways of creating characters, evoking mood, and telling stories. The handful of good opera films are those that find ways of replicating the operatic experience within a cinematic framework, the way Ingmar Bergman does in his film of Mozart's The Magic Flute (1975), which takes liberties with the original libretto and casts the action in a theatrical setting. For their film of the Offenbach opera The Tales of Hoffmann, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger also tinker with the libretto, and with perhaps somewhat more justification: Offenbach didn't live to see his opera performed, and it exists in several variants. Opera companies rearrange and cut its various parts, and even interpolate music from other works by Offenbach. Like The Magic Flute, Hoffmann has fantasy elements that lend themselves to the special-effects treatment available to the movies, and Powell and Pressburger took full advantage. It is usually thought of as a companion piece to their film The Red Shoes (1948), in large part because it used many of the stars of that earlier film, including Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine, and Ludmilla Tchérina, as well as production designer Hein Heckroth. The film version is as much ballet as opera, choreographed by Frederick Ashton, with many of the characters played by dancers whose voices are supplied by singers. The only singers who actually appear on screen are Robert Rounseville as Hoffmann and Ann Ayars as Antonia. Unfortunately, some of the singers whose voices are used aren't quite up to the task: Dorothy Bond sings both Olympia and Giulietta, and the difficult coloratura of the former role exposes a somewhat acidulous part of her voice. Bruce Dargavel takes on all four of the bass-baritone villains played on-screen by Helpmann, but his big aria, known as "Scintille, diamant" in the French version, lies uncomfortably beyond both ends of his range. Rounseville, an American tenor, comes off best: He has excellent diction, perhaps because he spent much of his career in musical theater rather than opera -- though he originated the part of Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress in 1951. He is also well-known for his performance in the title role of Leonard Bernstein's Candide in the original Broadway production in 1956. The film is overlong and maybe over-designed, and it sort of goes downhill after the Olympia section, in which Heckroth's imagination runs wild.

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The Science of Demons: Early Modern Authors Facing Witchcraft and the Devil (Routledge Studies in the History of Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic), edited by Jan Machielsen, Routledge, 2020. Info: routledge.com.

Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, and theologians at different times and places answered these questions differently and disagreed bitterly. The demonic took many forms in medieval and early modern Europe. By examining individual authors from across the continent, this book reveals the many purposes to which the devil could be put, both during the late medieval fight against heresy and during the age of Reformations. It explores what it was like to live with demons, and how careers and identities were constructed out of battles against them — or against those who granted them too much power. Together, contributors chart the history of the devil from his emergence during the 1300s as a threatening figure — who made pacts with human allies and appeared bodily — through to the comprehensive but controversial demonologies of the turn of the seventeenth century, when European witch-hunting entered its deadliest phase. This book is essential reading for all students and researchers of the history of the supernatural in medieval and early modern Europe.

Contents: List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Editor’s nore Introduction: The Science of Demons – Jan Machielsen     Part 1: Beginnings 1. The Inquisitor’s Demons: Nicolau Eymeric’s Directorium Inquisitorum – Pau Castell Granados 2. Promoter of the Sabbat and Diabolical Realism: Nicolas Jacquier’s Flagellum hereticorum fascinariorum – Martine Ostorero     Part 2: The First Wave of Printed Witchcraft Texts 3. The Bestselling Demonologist: Heinrich Institoris’s Malleus maleficarum – Tamar Herzig 4. Lawyers versus Inquisitors: Ponzinibio’s De lamiis and Spina’s De strigibus – Matteo Duni 5. The Witch-Hunting Humanist: Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola’s Strix – Walter Stephens     Part 3: The Sixteenth-Century Debate 6. ‘Against the Devil, the Subtle and Cunning Enemy’: Johann Wier’s De praestigiis daemonum – Michaela Valente 7. The Will to Know and the Unknowable: Jean Bodin’s De La Démonomanie – Virginia Krause 8. Doubt and Demonology: Reginald Scot’s The Discoverie of Witchcraft – Philip C. Almond 9. Demonology and Anti-Demonology: Binsfeld’s De confessionibus and Loos’s De vera et falsa magia – Rita Voltmer 10. A Royal Witch Theorist: James VI’s Daemonologie – P. G. Maxwell-Stuart 11. Demonology as Textual Scholarship: Martin Delrio’s Disquisitiones magicae – Jan Machielsen     Part 4: Demonology and Theology 12. ‘Of Ghostes and Spirites Walking by Nyght’: Ludwig Lavater’s Von Gespänsten – Pierre Kapitaniak 13. A Spanish Demonologist During the French Wars of Religion: Juan de Maldonado’s Traicté des anges et demons – Fabián Alejandro Campagne 14. Scourging Demons with Exorcism: Girolamo Menghi’s Flagellum daemonum – Guido Dall’Olio 15. The Ambivalent Demonologist: William Perkins’s Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft – Leif Dixon 16. Piety and Purification: The Anonymous Czarownica powołana – Michael Ostling     Part 5: Demonology and Law 17. An Untrustworthy Reporter: Nicolas Remy’s Daemonolatreiae libri tres – Robin Briggs 18. The Mythmaker of the Sabbat: Pierre de Lancre’s Tableau de l’inconstance des mauvais anges et démons – Thibaut Maus de Rolley and Jan Machielsen 19. An Expert Lawyer and Reluctant Demonologist: Alonso de Salazar Frías, Spanish Inquisitor – Lu Ann Homza Critical editions and English translations of demonological texts Index

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The Good Place s03e01 ‘Everything is Bonzer!’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test?

Yes, three times.

How many female characters (with names and lines) are there?

Eight (34.78% of cast).

How many male characters (with names and lines) are there?

Fifteen.

Positive Content Rating:

Three.

General Episode Quality:

Not great.

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

Passing the Bechdel:

Eleanor meets Simone. Tahani meets Eleanor. Eleanor offers Tahani her pull-out couch.

Female characters:

Janet.

Tahani Al-Jamil.

K. Ramirez.

Eleanor Shellstrop.

Simone Garnett.

Kamilah Al-Jamil.

Lil’ Peanut.

Gen.

Male characters:

Michael.

Jeff.

Chidi Anagonye.

Pillboi.

Jason Mendoza.

Uzo.

Henry.

Shawn.

Glenn.

Todd.

Steve.

Reginald.

Colby.

Donkey Doug.

Trevor.

OTHER NOTES:

Jeff the doorman is a frog guy and that’s how you know he’s very sensible.

I...kinda hate them for handwaving Chidi’s accent with ‘I went to American schools’. Really? Chidi ‘born in Nigeria and raised in Senegal speaking French as my mother tongue’ Anagonye, also happened to spend so much time in American schools that he speaks English with a flawless American accent? Really? I mean, they already seem to have failed to allow his cultural origins to have any presence whatsoever in his personality/preferences/whatever, him saying that he’s from Senegal is just words, really, and the one way it SHOULD be in evidence in the real world is that he should be restored to his fucking accent. They made that decision for his lack of accent in the afterlife to be a translation thing for Eleanor’s ears, they declared it as such in the first episode of the show. They obviously had not planned to put themselves in this position and they’re too chicken to get an accent going now. I hate it. Other cultures are not just exotic labels, show.

Eleanor says ‘jif’, and that’s why she belongs in the Bad Place.

speaking of accents, Simone’s so-called ‘Australian’ accent makes me want to grater my brain. 

Michael’s Australian accent is also atrocious, in a uniquely awful way that I’ve never heard a bad Aussie accent be before, but at least that seems to be deliberate, so it’s less insulting. 

The joy of the doorman when he receives his frog thermos is everything.

Ok, so, I raved about accents a bit there, but that’s a piece of a larger problem I have with the beginning of this season, which is the fact that it feels completely fake. Nothing in it makes sense, there’s no logic, stuff just happens in a weird bubble and for some reason they’re pretending it’s Australia even though the setting is bizarrely un-Australian. As an Australian, I’m telling you. Nothing about this is right. First time around, I spent these early episodes uneasily waiting for the twist where this was just a simulation anyway and the characters had not actually been restored to the real world, but it never came. We’re supposed to take this seriously, and I just can’t. I hate this ‘real world’ thing, it’s terrible and unconvincing and I don’t feel it serves the purpose it is intended to serve. But, I’m getting ahead of myself. They put this together badly.

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Las películas más esperadas en la cuarentena

Algunos de los estrenos que más ansiamos en este año cargado de  conflictos en el mundo audiovisual.

Rodajes pospuestos, otros cancelados; estrenos que debieron hacer malabares con sus fechas u optar por otra modalidad,  volcándose directamente a los servicios de streaming sin hacerlo antes por las salas.

Pero más allá de las dificultades y cambios radicales en el mundo cinematográfico, los espectadores atraviesan la cuarentena en distintos lugares del mundo esperando con ansias una gran cantidad de películas prometedoras. 

Mientras nos adaptamos a la “nueva normalidad” podemos acercarnos a los trailers de algunos de los filmes más esperados del año. Lo cierto es, que por más que tarde en llegar, e incluso con aquella incertidumbre respecto a las fechas, el hype será el mismo (o aún más!). 

1. TENET 

Christopher Nolan vuelve a la pantalla grande luego de Dunkirk, la gran película bélica llena de características propias del director de la trilogía de Batman, o de los clásicos instantáneos como Interstellar e Inception. La trama de TENET (2020) está más cargada de incógnitas que de respuestas; en palabras de la sinopsis oficial, el film es “Una acción épica que gira en torno al espionaje internacional, los viajes en el tiempo y la evolución, en la que un agente secreto debe prevenir la Tercera Guerra Mundial”. 

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO ARGENTINA | 13 de Agosto

Género: Thriller | Acción 

Reparto:  John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki

País: 🇬🇧

Director: Christopher Nolan

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2. THE FRENCH DISPATCH (La Crónica Francesa)

Wes Anderson, el director que abraza la simpleza dentro de la ambición escénica, regresa con una película que tiene de protagonistas a un grupo de escritores y periodistas franceses, encargados de producir un nuevo número de la revista “The French Dispatch”. La lista de las figuras importantes que forman parte del elenco, es prácticamente interminable. Dentro de sus protagonistas pueden encontrarse los ganadores del oscar Frances McDormand (Fargo, Three Billboards), Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton), Benicio Del Toro (Traffic), Christoph Waltz (Django, Inglourious Basterds), y otras estrellas como Timothée Chalamet, Léa Seydoux y  Saoirse Ronan.

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 15 de Octubre  

Género: Comedia | Drama | Romance

Reparto:  Benicio del Toro, Frances McDormand, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, Léa Seydoux, Owen Wilson, Mathieu Amalric, Lyna Khoudri, Steve Park, Bill Murray, Saoirse Ronan, Willem Dafoe, Kate Winslet, Alex Lawther, Cécile De France, Henry Winkler, Elisabeth Moss, Christoph Waltz, Rupert Friend, Jason Schwartzman, Fisher Stevens, Sam Haygarth

País: 🇺🇸

Director: Wes Anderson

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3. TOP GUN: MAVERICK 

Uno de los grandes clásicos de los ‘80, vuelve con su protagonista Maverick (Tom Cruise). 

Uno de los mejores aviadores de la Armada estadounidense, cumple ya 30 años de servicio y conoce a un grupo de nuevos compañeros que comienzan su desarrollo dentro de la profesión. Dentro del elenco que interpreta a los novatos aviadores que ingresarán al universo de Top Gun, se encuentra el protagonista de Whiplash (2014), Miles Teller.

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 7 de Enero (2021)    

Género: Acción 

Reparto:  Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell, Jon Hamm, Ed Harris, Lewis Pullman, Jay Ellis, Monica Barbaro, Bashir Salahuddin, Charles Parnell, Danny Ramirez [...]

País: 🇺🇸

Director: Joseph Kosinski

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4. NO TIME TO DIE (007: Sin Tiempo Para Morir)

Luego de los éxitos de Skyfall y Spectre dirigidos por Mendes, el agente británico más famoso del cine, vuelve bajo la dirección de Cary Joji Fukunaga.

James Bond (Daniel Craig) se encuentra disfrutando unas vacaciones en Jamaica, cuando debe interrumpirlas para poder acudir a una nueva misión. El agente 007 es el encargado de enfrentarse una vez más a la acción, y rescatar a un importante científico que fue secuestrado.

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 26 de Noviembre   

Género: Thriller | James Bond | Espionaje | Acción

Reparto: Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Ralph Fiennes, Naomie Harris, Ben Whishaw, Jeffrey Wright, Léa Seydoux, Ana de Armas, Rory Kinnear, Dali Benssalah, Billy Magnussen, David Dencik, Lashana Lynch, Christoph Waltz, Julian Ferro, Toby Sauerback, Ty Hurley, Paul O'Kelly, Lampros Kalfuntzos

País: 🇬🇧

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga

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5. BLACK WIDOW

Una nueva película del universo cinematográfico de Marvel, tiene como protagonista a la integrante de los Avengers. 

“Natasha Romanoff, alias Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), se enfrenta a las partes más oscuras de su bagaje cuando surge una peligrosa conspiración con vínculos a su pasado. Perseguida por una fuerza que no se detendrá ante nada para derribarla, Natasha debe enfrentarse a su historia como espía y a las relaciones rotas que dejó a su paso mucho antes de convertirse en Vengadora”.

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 29 de Septiembre

Género: Acción | Comic | Aventuras

Reparto: Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, David Harbour, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, O.T. Fagbenle, Michelle Lee, Olivier Richters, Nanna Blondell, Joakim Skarli, Obie Matthew, Paul O'Kelly [...]

País: 🇺🇸

Director: Cate Shortland

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6. A QUIET PLACE PART II (Un Lugar en Silencio: Parte 2)

Luego del éxito de la película protagonizada por el matrimonio John Krasinski y Emily Blunt, la historia con un gran guion original vuelve en forma de secuela a la pantalla grande. 

La familia Abbot atravesó duros momentos, pero a pesar de todo continúa avanzando en silencio. Entre sus hazañas por sobrevivir y encontrar un lugar para poder refugiarse, los protagonistas descubrirán que no sólo deberán enfrentarse a los monstruos que tanto dolor les causaron.

○ ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 3 de Septiembre

Género: Terror | Ciencia Ficción | Thriller

Reparto:  Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou, Wayne Duvall, John Krasinski, Lauren-Ashley Cristiano, Okieriete Onaodowan, Blake DeLong, Silas Pereira-Olson, Liz Cameron [...]

País: 🇺🇸

Director: John Krasinski

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7. WONDER WOMAN 1984

La secuela de Wonder Woman, nos trae otra vez a Diana Prince (Gal Gadot). 

Esta vez el tiempo rodea a la heroína de DC, serán los ´80, cargados de música, luces y detalles característicos de esta época tan querida y buscada por el cine en la actualidad. En el film, la protagonista actúa como una espía durante la Guerra Fría y dentro de lo que se sabe, podremos ver a la heroína enfrentarse a la villana Cheetah, interpretada por Kristin Wiig.

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 1 de Octubre   

Género: Acción | Comic 

Reparto: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen, Gabriella Wilde, Natasha Rothwell, Ravi Patel, Penelope Kapudija, Kelvin Yu, Bern Collaco, Shane Attwooll, Lyon Beckwith, Kosha Engler [...]

País: 🇺🇸

Director: Patty Jenkins

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8. DUNE 

Ya pasó un tiempo desde que el director de Arrival (2016) hizo oficial su nuevo proyecto, pero la realidad es que la ansiedad de los espectadores sigue siendo aún la misma. Denis Villeneuve (Prisioners, Sicario), llevará una vez más a la pantalla, la adaptación de la novela distópica de Frank Herbert. Esta vez, sus protagonistas serán Timothée Chalamet, quien interpretará a Paul Atreides y será acompañado por Zendaya en el rol de Chani.

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 17 de Diciembre  

Género: Ciencia Ficción

Reparto: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Javier Bardem, Zendaya, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, David Dastmalchian, Stephen Henderson, Paul Bullion, Chang Chen [...]

País: 🇺🇸

Director: Denis Villeneuve

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9. WEST SIDE STORY 

La ganadora del Oscar a mejor película de 1962, volverá a través de una remake dirigida por el gran Steven Spielberg.

La adaptación musical neoyorquina de Romeo y Julieta, nos trae a Tony (Ansel Egort) y Maria (Rachel Zegler); dos jóvenes enamorados pertenecientes a distintas pandillas de Nueva York con una gran historia de enfrentamientos. El amor prohibido es una vez más representado en la pantalla y acompañado con la excelente banda sonora compuesta por Leonard Bernstein. 

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 17 de Diciembre  

Género: Musical | Romance | Drama

Reparto: Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, David Alvarez, Ariana DeBose, Rita Moreno, Josh Andrés Rivera, Corey Stoll, Brian d'Arcy James, Maddie Ziegler, Ana Isabelle, Mike Faist, Reginald L. Barnes, Jamila Velazquez, Talia Ryder, Kevin Csolak, Paloma Garcia Lee, Mike Massimino, Jess LeProtto, Annelise Cepero, Arianna Rosario, Sean Harrison Jones, Sebastian Serra, Garett Hawe, Julian Elia [...]

País: 🇺🇸

Director: Steven Spielberg

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10. CANDYMAN 

En los últimos años, las películas de terror fueron unas de las más elegidas al momento de ser reversionadas, o llevadas a una amplia cantidad de secuelas. El caso de CANDYMAN (2020) no es la excepción. Nia DaCosta dirige el nuevo film que tiene como protagonista a Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen) y su novia  Brianna Cartwright (Teyonah Parris). El artista y su pareja se mudan a Cabrini Green, el barrio con un oscuro pasado, que será develado poco a poco mientras los protagonistas vayan descubriendo cada vez más sobre el asesino serial que alguna vez fue invocado en aquellas calles de Chicago.

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 24 de Septiembre

Género: Terror | Remake

Reparto:  Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Kyle Kaminsky, Vanessa Williams, Rebecca Spence, Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Brian King, Miriam Moss, Cassie Kramer, Mark Montgomery, Genesis Denise Hale, Rodney L Jones III [...]

País: 🇺🇸

Director: Nia DaCosta

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11. MULAN

Disney continúa con la larga lista de clásicos animados trasladados a live action. En 1998, conocimos por primera vez a la heroína inspirada en Hua Mulan, la protagonista de leyendas ancestrales chinas. 

La princesa de Disney, esta vez interpretada por Liu Yifei es una mujer fuerte, que decide romper con todas las delimitaciones preestablecidas y bajo una identidad falsa, reemplazar a su débil padre y salvarlo de su obligación por ir a la guerra. 

○  ESTRENO PREVISTO EN ARGENTINA | 23 de Julio   

Género: Aventuras | Acción | Remake

Reparto: Liu Yifei, Donnie Yen, Gong Li, Jet Li, Jason Scott Lee, Rosalind Chao, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Tzi Ma, Yoson An, Doua Moua, Jimmy Wong, Ron Yuan, Chen Tang, Roger Yuan, Cheng Pei-Pei, Susana Tang, Nelson Lee, Jen Sung [...]

País: 🇺🇸

Director: Niki Caro

                                                                    Por Delfina Quiquisola

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RULES: answer 20 questions, then tag bloggers you want to get to know better.

I was tagged by the lovely @tabbytabbytabby and the awesome @mcdannoangelwolf Thanks, guys!😊

NAME: I go by Dee online (I prefer not to post my full first name here, but, yes, it begins with D).

NICKNAMES: Oh, I have had so many over the years that I don’t know where to start! Some, like Dee, are derived from my first name and make sense relating to that name, but some just come from the most random things and you’d never guess my real name from them! Some are used primarily by family and others are used by friends from different periods of my life. For example, friends from my teenage years call me something different to most of my friends from the present day while my family might call me something different from both of them. But online I go by Dee (or Nove, as I was recently christened by @all-or-nothing-baby !)

ZODIAC SIGN: Scorpio

HEIGHT: 5'10

LANGUAGES YOU KNOW: English. A little basic French. I tried learning German at school, but I just couldn’t get my head around it!

NATIONALITY: Born and bred in Northern Ireland.

FAVOURITE SEASON: I was always an autumn girl growing up and well into adulthood, but these days I lean more towards spring.

FAVOURITE FLOWER: Bluebells, dahlias. But I love most flowers.

FAVOURITE SCENT: Violets, petrol, paint, that special scent newborn babies have!

FAVOURITE COLOUR: Red.

FAVOURITE ANIMAL: Probably cats, although now my family have a dog I can say I’ve started to get why people love them so much.

FAVOURITE FICTIONAL CHARACTER: You expect me to pick just one?? Off the top of my head, Elinor Dashwood, Anne Elliot, Captain Frederick Wentworth, Colonel Brandon, Harvey Specter, Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Scooby-Doo (okay, I was scared of dogs as a child, but I loved Scoob, okay!), Amy Santiago, Rosa Diaz, Captain Raymond Holt, Leslie Knope, Ron Swanson, George Michael Bluth, Gob Bluth, Bucky Barnes, Steve Rogers, the entire Agents of SHIELD team, the entire main ensemble cast of 9-1-1, Martin Q. Blank, James Hathaway, Endeavour Morse, Fred Thursday, Reginald Bright, Captain James T. Kirk, Dr. Leonard ‘Bones’ McCoy, Captain Kathryn Janeway, and oh so many more!!

COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Tea. (I actually really hate coffee.)

AVERAGE SLEEP HOURS: It can be anywhere from 0-10. It’s usually either feast or famine with me. Rarely do I sleep completely through the night without waking a few times, though.

DOG OR CAT PERSON: I’ve always leaned more towards cats (I was actually terrified of dogs as a child), but I’ve softened towards dogs over the years, mainly thanks to some absolute sweethearts I’ve come into contact with the past couple of years, plus the one my family now owns and who I adore.

NUMBER OF BLANKETS YOU SLEEP WITH: One duvet, usually.

DREAM TRIP: British Columbia in Canada. Alaska. Iceland. Argentina, especially the Iguazu Falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil. Denmark, New Zealand, Hawaii. I have a lot of places I wanna visit!

BLOG ESTABLISHED: 29th February 2016. So it’s almost my anniversary!

FOLLOWERS: 871

RANDOM FACT: My grandmother chose my name.

I tag @kiti-the-warrior-poet @fictionallovesarebetter @xpaperheartso @hcnkycat and anyone else who wants to play. No pressure on anyone who doesn’t!😘