#Shirley Anthony

[manikas-whims]

Longing Gazes, featuring:

Anne and Gilbert // Anne with an E

Kate and Anthony // Bridgerton

Kaz and Inej // Six of Crows

Druig and Makkari // Eternals

Lockwood and Lucy // Lockwood and Co

» If you like any of these ships, you're obligated to watch Lockwood and Co on Netflix. You'll definitely love the tension between Lockwood and Lucy «

[renegadesstuff]

-Goodbye goodbye goodbye you were bigger than the whole sky you were more than just a short time.- ❤️‍🩹

[portrait-paintings]

Sir Robert Shirley (1581-1628)

Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck (Flemish, 1599-London)

Date: 1622

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Trust Collections, United Kingdom

Description

This fascinating portrait, dressed in Persian clothes, was painted in Rome in 1622. Robert Shirley was an adventurer, who from 1608 served as ambassador to the Persian shah Abbas the Great (1571–1629) and adopted Persian customs. Teresia Shirley was Circassian (people from the north-east shore of the Black Sea in Russia) and is shown seated demurely against a view of Rome. The painter, Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), may have been attracted to painting these sitters partly as a result of the stunning visual effect of their lavish clothes.

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2024 Book Recommendations

I have an embarrassment of riches this year -- I had the chance to read a lot, and I kept finding so many good books. So many that instead of my normal ten recs, you're getting fifteen.

As always, these recommendations are not complete endorsements. Especially with the older books, there are definitely elements present that are questionable and even offensive.

Dragons – Pamela Wharton Blanpied (fantasy written as nonfiction, the first section recounts what happens when dragons invade Earth, the second section is a treatise on the habits and biology of dragons, and the third is a fascinating series of field notes from those who dare to befriend the monsters)

The Chatham School Affair – Thomas H Cook (mystery, a rural school, a beautiful lonely teacher, a lake, luscious language, loaded with atmosphere, you keep making and remaking your theories as you guess what happened)

Plain Bad Heroines – Emily M Danforth (mystery, braided narrative between the early twentieth century and present day, copious narrator commentary, cheeky footnotes, extremely funny but also extremely dark, gothic tropes, mostly female cast)

Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr (sci-fi, braided narrative spanning centuries, the story of one ancient text's journey through history, ancient Greece, medieval Constantinople, the present day in a small-town library, space travel and ai, it all comes together across the endless reach of time and you feel a lot)

Fanny Herself – Edna Ferber (pre-WW1 coming of age women's story, old-fashioned Anne of Green Gables thoughtfulness and sweetness in some places, rousingly modern in other places, strong focus on the heroine's Jewish identity, extremely funny narrative voice, the love of nature versus the industrial verve of Chicago, will our heroine keep her soul?)

The Vows of the Peacock – Alice Walworth Graham (Middle Ages, poetic fantastical language, Isabella the She-Wolf of France, messy politics, a darkly sexy historical villain, a complex but at times quite moving arranged marriage, an absorbing female protagonist)

A Thousand Ships – Natalie Haynes (Homer's women retell Homer's stories, angrily, tragically, bitchily, including many women you might not have thought of [and it isn't just the women Homer mentioned – we get into the weeds], the story is cut into bite-sized pieces that still offer filling food for thought)

The Masqueraders – Georgette Heyer (Georgian-era glitz and witty repartee, the heroine lives as a man, her brother lives as a woman, their father is full of wild schemes that might very well get them all executed for treason, the romance is a slow burn, and we get highwaymen)

Venetia – Georgette Heyer (a Regency-era GH romance, if you know GH then you know she's the author every other Regency romance writer is trying to be, it's funny, it's daring, it's tender, GH's romances are solid, but this one especially stands out for its strong-willed and capable heroine)

The Haunting of Hill House – Shirley Jackson (the house is a character, and not a nice one, psychological instability, unreliable narrator, creeping inchoate horror, whose hand am I holding, let's dwell on the unhappiness of being a smart woman in the 1950s)

Thornhedge – T Kingfisher (Sleeping Beauty but WHAT IF, I love the heroine, her name is Toadling, it's funny, it's romantic, it's thoughtful, it's even folkloric, there's a lot about ugly lady lake trolls, the prose reads beautifully, and it's compact, it doesn't waste your time and is short enough to knock out in a day or two)

The Silver Metal Lover – Tanith Lee (sci-fi, awkward dystopian-glam girl falls in love with a robot, whom she does not own, the sci-fi is as soft as pudding but it's more about the vibes anyway, inimitably stylish Tanith Lee weirdness, the robot is an absolute doll along with being a robot)

Pony Confidential – Christina Lynch (a pony is on a revenge mission against his former Horse Girl, but what if it was both funny and serious, but what if there was also a murder mystery, but what if we dwelt on human-animal negligence a la Black Beauty, but what if we also brought in Homer's Odyssey, it gets emotional)

The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich – Deya Muniz (fantasy, graphic novel, nonbinary protagonist lives as a man and is appalled to suddenly fall in love with the local heroic princess, gorgeous gorgeous shoujo-ish art, also very funny, it will make you crave cheese)

The Alice Network – Kate Quinn (WW1 and WW2, braided narrative, women acting as spies in occupied France, little-known historical events unfold on the page, so much Baudelaire, an old heroine and a young heroine and both are smart and bitter and compelling, but there's still room for some sweet romance and sharp humor)

[banilikesfictionalpeople]

Girls don’t want boyfriends. Girls want Season-2 of Lockwood & Co and Season-4 of Anne with an E.

I am girls.

( @netflix please)

[gatutor]

Anthony Quinn-Shirley MacLaine "Hot spell" 1958, de Daniel Mann.

[citizenscreen]

Shirley Booth and Anthony Perkins for Joseph Anthony’s THE MATCHMAKER (1958)

[ulrichgebert]

Die immer wieder ganz besonders niedliche Eheanbahnungskomödie The Matchmaker können wir diesmal als außerordentlich verspäteten Gedenkfilm für Robert Morse (hier angekündigt) und als Auftakt der Feirlichkeiten zum 90. Geburtstag von Shirley McLaine (am 24. April) verwenden, sowie als Vorbereitung fürs Musiktheater.

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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) Shane Meadows

June 27th 2023

[gameofthunder66]

'Noelle' (2019) film

-watched 12/14/2023- 2 [1/2] stars- on Disney+

[wenellyb]

Category is: Me spending hours making gifsets only to get 20 notes because I always pick the ships with the smallest fandoms😂

[frogeye-pierce]

Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine in CAREER (1959) dir. Joseph Anthony

[manikas-whims]

shirbert x locklyle: boy like you ♡

a quick edit of two ships i adore..

[ennaih]

Every Film I Watch In 2023:

140. The Matchmaker (1958)

[beautyarchive]

Shirley Henderson in The Way We Live Now (2001).

This is a really underappreciated mini-series. Well made with great characters and good performances. Matthew Macfadyen is hilarious.

Half-mexican Paloma Baeza is stunning and excellent as Hetta Carbury. I focused on taking screenshots of Shirley Henderson though because I'm a little obsessed with her at the moment.

Follow this link to a collection of screenshots that I contributed to IMDB of Shirley Henderson in various roles across her 37 year career.

[the-90s-music-colosseum]

Welcome to Round 2, Group A!

Match 1 - Thom Yorke vs Shakira Match 2 - Sinead O'Connor vs Blixa Bargeld Match 3 - Alanis Morisette vs Shirley Manson Match 4 - KD Lang vs Jarvis Cocker Match 5 - Donita Sparks vs Mike Dirnt Match 6 - Selena vs Melissa auf der Maur Match 7 - Miki Berenyi vs Graham Coxon Match 8 - Q-Tip vs Anthony Kiedis