#Sir Henry Thompson

[insidecroydon]

From a GP's on the High Street to hosting dinner for the King

SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: An eminent and pioneering surgeon of the Victorian age, who performed operations on European monarchs and could command fees equivalent to £10m in modern-day values, began his medical career as a GP in Croydon. DAVID MORGAN traces the remarkable career of polymath Sir Henry Thompson Portrait of a polymath: Sir Henry Thompson, as painted by Milais in 1881 Discovering that…

[therogerclarkfanclub]

ROGER CLARK as King Henry VIII in:

A Man For All Seasons • By Robert Bolt • Directed by Paul Mullins

Also starring:

James McMenamin as Thomas Cromwell (bottom left)

Thomas Michael Hammond as Sir Thomas More and Mary Stewart as Alice More (bottom center)

Raphael Nash Thompson as Cardinal Woolsey (bottom right)

A Man For All Seasons was performed at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey from October 18th to November 5th, 2023.

[thatscarletflycatcher]

Inspired by @kajaono's post the other day about Victoria Hamilton, JLM and Austen adaptations, have a list of the actors that have been in at least 2 Austen adaptations:

Hat trickers:

Victoria Hamilton played Henrietta Musgrove in Persuasion (1995), Julia Bertram in Mansfield Park (1999), and Mrs. Foster in Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Johnny Lee Miller played one of Fanny's brothers in Mansfield Park (1983), Edmund Bertram in Mansfield Park (1999), and Mr. Knightley in Emma (2009).

Doubles:

Joanna David played Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility 1972; she also played Mrs. Gardiner in Pride and Prejudice (1995)

Samantha Bond played Maria Bertram in Mansfield Park (1983); she later on played Mrs. Weston in Emma (ITV, 1996)

Bernard Hepton played Sir Thomas Bertram in Mansfield Park (1983); he later on played Mr. Woodhouse in Emma (ITV, 1996)

Sylvestra Latouzel played Fanny Price in Mansfield Park (1983); she later on played Mrs. Allen in Northanger Abbey (2007)

Nicholas Farrell played Edmund Bertram in Mansfield Park (1983); he later on played Mr. Musgrove in Persuasion (2007)

Irene Richard played Charlotte Lucas in Pride and Prejudice (1980); she then played Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1981)

Robert Hardy played General Tilney in Northanger Abbey (1987); he later on played Sir John Middleton in Sense and Sensibility (1995)

Sophie Thompson played Mary Musgrove in Persuasion (1995), and then the following year she played Miss Bates in Emma (Miramax, 1996)

Kate Beckinsale played Emma Woodhouse in Emma (1996); later on she played Lady Susan in Love and Friendship (2016)

Blake Ritson played Edmund Bertram in Mansfield Park (2007) and later on Mr. Elton in Emma (2009)

Jemma Redgrave played Lady Bertram in Mansfield Park (2007); she later on played Mrs. DeCourcy in Love and Friendship (2016)

Lucy Robinson played Mrs. Hurst in Pride and Prejudice (1995); the following year she played Mrs. Elton in Emma (ITV, 1996)

Carey Mulligan played Kitty Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005) and then Isabella Thorpe in Northanger Abbey (2007)

Lucy Briers played Mary Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (1995); she also played a minor role as Mrs. Reynolds in Emma (2020)

If we include Austen-adjacent pieces:

Hat tricks:

Hugh Bonneville played Mr. Rushworth in Mansfield Park (1999) and later on played Rev. Brook Bridges in Miss Austen Regrets (2007) and then Mr. Bennet in Lost in Austen (2008)

Doubles:

Olivia Williams played Jane Fairfax in Emma (ITV, 1996); she later on played Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)

Also, Greta Scacchi played Mrs. Weston in Emma (Miramax, 1996) and went on to play Cassandra Austen in Miss Austen Regrets (2007)

Guy Henry played John Knightley in Emma (ITV, 1996), and later on played Mr. Collins in Lost in Austen (2008)

Christina Cole played Caroline Bingley in Lost in Austen (2008) and then Mrs. Elton in Emma (2009)

Anna Maxwell Martin played Cassandra Austen in Becoming Jane (2009), and then went on to play Elizabeth Bennet in Death Comes to Pemberley (2014)

JJ Feild played Mr. Tilney in Northanger Abbey (2007) and later on played Mr. Nobley in Austenland (2014)

If we include radiodramas/radioplays:

Hat tricks:

Blake Ritson gets it as he played Colonel Brandon in the 2010 S&S radio drama

Doubles:

Amanda Root played Anne Elliot in Persuasion (1995); she also played Fanny Price in the 1997 radio drama for Mansfield Park

Felicity Jones also played Fanny in the 2003 radio drama for Mansfield Park, and later on played Catherine Morland in Northanger Abbey (2007)

Robert Glenister played Captain Harville in Persuasion (1995); he also played Edmund Bertram in the 1997 radio drama for Mansfield Park

Amanda Hale played Mary Musgrove in Persuasion (2007) and later on Elinor Dashwood in the 2010 radio drama for Sense and Sensibility.

David Bamber played Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice (1995); he later on played Mr. Elton in the 2000 radio drama for Emma

Robert Bathurst played Mr. Knightley in the same adaptation of Emma; later on he played Mr. Weston in Emma (2009)

Also in that adaptation, Tom Hollander played Frank Churchill; he later on played Mr. Collins in Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Juliet Stevenson played Anne Elliot in the 1986 radio drama for Persuasion; later on she played Mrs. Elton in Emma (Miramax, 1996)

And I'm very likely still forgetting someone.

[fictionadventurer]

Austen asks! 4-24

I don't know if you intended this to be inclusive, but I'll answer them all anyway (skipping over the ones that have already been answered).

6. Favorite movie adaptation

The 1995 Sense and Sensibility. To me, it strikes a good balance between being a good adaptation and making the story accessible to audiences that haven't read the book, and it's one of the few that seems to understand Austen's humor and romance.

7. Favorite Austen couple

Anne and Wentworth. Their personalities balance each other perfectly.

8. Least favorite couple

Colonel Brandon and Marianne are so frustrating to me, mostly because of how Austen writes them. They fall victim to the Marian Halcombe Problem--if you spend the whole book showing a man and woman having tons of conversations and developing a good dynamic as equals, I'm not going to believe that he's in love with her sister.

9. Most hated foe of a heroine

Isabella Thorpe is a terrible person, and I can't think of any redeeming qualities or circumstances.

11. Least favorite book

I gained a better appreciation for Sense and Sensibility on my last reread, but it's still definitely Austen's weakest novel.

12. Least favorite Austen heroine

Marianne Dashwood is a realistic teenager, but not someone that I can admire or sympathize with too much.

14. Favorite love confession from the books

Can any Austen fan say anything other than The Letter in Persuasion?

16. Least favorite film adaptation

I hold a grudge against the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, because it did nothing to make me understand the appeal of Austen, and it's a horrible adaptation, but it has such a huge influence on fandom's interpretation of the novel.

Also, every once in a while, I remember the scene in the 2008 Sense and Sensibility where Brandon gives Willoughby a "stay away from my daughter" speech, and I shudder over how creepy it is.

17. Moment that made you sad/cry while reading

Basically any scene of Fanny Price's childhood.

18. Moment that made you smile/happy while reading

Henry Tilney's introduction scene in Northanger Abbey is just pure distilled joy.

19. Moment that made you laugh while reading

I'll never forget the time I laughed out loud in class while reading one of Miss Bates' speeches in Emma.

20. Moment that made you mad while reading

I don't know if I've ever been so mad for a heroine as I was during the scene where the neglected poor, orphaned, outsider Fanny watches everyone fawn over poor, orphaned outsider Mary Crawford.

22. Favorite Austen female casting decision

I love Tamsin Greig as Miss Bates in the 2009 Emma, because I did not imagine her talkativeness as stemming from anxiety, but it was fun to see her played that way and to experience a different interpretation that still felt valid.

I'm also going to take this opportunity to mention that I love Mrs. Jennings and Sir John Middleton in 1995's Sense and Sensibility. I just grin through every scene they're in, and I especially respect them after learning that they were the only cast members that Emma Thompson didn't have to write random extra dialogue for in crowd scenes, because they just naturally knew how to talk like Regency characters.

23. Favorite Austen male casting decision

I love Johnny Lee Miller as Mr. Knightley in 2009 Emma. I don't know if he matches the character in the novel, but I love how he portrayed the dynamic with Emma.

Also, Hugh Laurie as Mr. Palmer in 1995's Sense and Sensibility is perfection. And Greg Wise as Willoughby is beautiful and charming enough to do his job of fooling you into thinking he could be the romantic lead before he proves to be an utter cad.

24. Favorite supporting character

Mrs. Jennings. Hands-down. So vulgar, nosey, and over-the-top, but beneath it all, so kind and friendly and helpful. I love her so much.

[loki-son-of-odin]

Right so I finished Secret History, great book. I just wanna do a bit of a fan cast.

Henry: Young Stephen Fry

What more do you want? He’s massive, he actually knows Greek, true academia at its finest.

Charles: Timothee Chalamet.

I DO NOT LIKE HIM, or rate him as an actor in any way, I think he just looks Charles-esque. Dark, frail, piece of shit. Thanks.

Camilla: young Emma Thompson

Yeah it’s weird with the dynamic of Henry because Fry and Thompson were actually close friends. However, I think she’s got this look about her that reveals a lot of depth and character. However her personality is very different from how Camilla is portrayed, as I think Camilla is very sheepish and mild mannered whereas Thompson is very eccentric and loud and performative. But I believe in her skills.

Francis: My Boyfriend.

I don’t know why but his description physically is a lot like my partner and his attitudes are like my partner enough. I really couldn’t imaging anything else… pic obviously is not my boyfriend but it’s close enough.

Richard: Any brown haired, boring looking white man.

I know, I know. This has gotten very vague but I think Richard is just the epitome of mediocrity and is not deserving of any special casting. Maybe just someone who doesn’t have a grating voice.

Bunny: That kid from Polar Express.

Need I say more?

Julien: Sir Ian McKellen

Gandalf, wise. But also just really proper, very charming. Barely would have to act.

That’s all I could really imagine. Thank you, love you.

[whitehartlane]

“On the 5th of September, 1882, the subscriptions to the club were commenced to be received, and the same, augmented by a small sum from the Cricket Club, were expended in purchasing wood for goal and flag posts, material for flags, tape (there were no cross-bars then), stationery and stamps, and later, a ball. The goal posts, one of which is still in existence, were of amateur make and made by Mr. Casey, the father of two of the members, and painted blue and white; the first ball was given by the big brother of the same two members, and he had some time back suggested the name of 'Hotspur' when the Cricket Club started.

The actual founders of the Football Club were: J. Anderson, T. Anderson, E. Beavan, R. Buckle, H.D. (Sam or Ham) Casey, L.R. Casey, F. Dexter, S. Leaman, J.H. Thompson, Jnr., P. Thompson, and E. Wall. R. Buckle was captain, H.D. Casey the vice-captain, J.H. Thompson, Jnr. the secretary, and L.R. Casey the treasurer.”

— A Romance of Football: The History of the Tottenham Hotspur F.C. (1921), reprinted from the Tottenham and Edmonton Weekly Herald

Club lore dictates that the schoolboys gathered one night under a lamppost along Tottenham High Road, some metres from where White Hart Lane used to reside and the South Stand now exists, and agreed to form a football club, mainly to play sports during the winter. By the end of the year, the club had eighteen members. The name ‘Hotspur’ was chosen in honour of Sir Henry Percy, better known as Harry Hotspur, whose nickname was in turn given to him by the Scots due to his speed and his readiness to attack. It is romantic to believe that this very founding is where Spurs’ ethos of attacking football and the motto ‘to dare is to do’ stems from.

[grandmaster-anne]

Coronation Music at Westminster Abbey

The Royal Family | Published 18 February 2023

Twelve newly commissioned pieces of music will be performed at The Coronation of Their Majesties The King and The Queen Consort at Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6 May 2023, showcasing musical talent from across the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

A range of musical styles and performers blend tradition, heritage and ceremony with new musical voices of today, reflecting The King’s life-long love and support of music and the arts.

His Majesty The King has personally commissioned the new music and shaped and selected the musical programme for the Service.

Andrew Nethsingha, Organist and Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey, will be overseeing all musical arrangements and directing the music during the Service.

Sir Antonio Pappano, Music Director for the Royal Opera House, will be conducting the Coronation Orchestra which comprises a bespoke collection of musicians drawn from orchestras of The former Prince of Wales’ Patronages including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Six orchestral commissions, five choral commissions and one organ commission, have been specially composed for the occasion by world-renowned British composers whose work includes Classical, Sacred, Film, Television and Musical Theatre. Commissioned works include a new Coronation Anthem by Andrew Lloyd Webber, a Coronation March by Patrick Doyle, a new commission for solo organ embracing musical themes from countries across the Commonwealth by Iain Farrington plus new works by Sarah Class, Nigel Hess, Paul Mealor, Tarik O'Regan, Roxanna Panufnik, Shirley J. Thompson, Judith Weir, Roderick Williams, and Debbie Wiseman.

Soloists will include bass-baritone, Sir Bryn Terfel; soprano, Pretty Yende and baritone, Roderick Williams. The organ will be played by Sub-Organist, Westminster Abbey, Peter Holder, and Assistant Organist, Westminster Abbey, Matthew Jorysz.

The official Royal Harpist Alis Huws will perform as part of the Coronation Orchestra in recognition of The King’s long-standing and deeply held relationship and affiliation with Wales. One of the liturgical sections of the ceremony will also be performed in Welsh.

At the request of His Majesty, in tribute to his late father His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Greek Orthodox music will also feature in the Service performed by the Byzantine Chant Ensemble.

The Service will be sung by The Choir of Westminster Abbey and The Choir of His Majesty’s Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace, together with girl choristers from the Chapel Choir of Methodist College, Belfast and from Truro Cathedral Choir. The Ascension Choir, a handpicked gospel choir will also perform as part of the Service and The King’s Scholars of Westminster School will proclaim the traditional ‘Vivat’ acclamations.

Fanfares will be played by The State Trumpeters of the Household Cavalry and The Fanfare Trumpeters of the Royal Air Force.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner will conduct The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque soloists in a pre-Service programme of choral music. A small group of singers from The Monteverdi Choir will also join the main choral forces for the Service.

Music by the likes of William Byrd (1543–1623), George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934), Sir Henry Walford Davies (1869–1941), Sir William Walton (1902–1983), Sir Hubert Parry (1848–1918) and Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) has historically featured in the Service over the past four centuries and will be included in the programme along with the music of one of Britain’s most loved and celebrated living composers, Sir Karl Jenkins.

[purgatory-hotel]

PH characters and their causes of death but it's slightly vague rather than the exact action that killed them

Angelo "Angel Dust" D'amico

Cause of death: Phencyclidine overdose

Alastor Mondesir

Cause of death: gunshot wound to the head

Baxter Fisher

Cause of death: drowning

Henry "Husk" Sinclair

Cause of death: broken neck resulting in spinal cord injury

Violet "Vaga" De La Cruz

Cause of death: asphyxiation

Nyoko "Niffty" Moore

Cause of death: burned to death

Kostini "Sir Pentious" Thompson

Cause of death: anaphylaxis from adder venom

[portrait-paintings]

Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton, in a White Turban

Artist: George Romney (British, 1734-1802)

Date: c. 1791

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, United States

Emma Hart, later Lady Hamilton (British, 1765 - 1815)

Amy (or Emy) Lyon was born on April 26, 1765 at Denhall, Chester, the only child of the blacksmith Henry Lyon, who died in her infancy, and a woman who later called herself Mrs. Cadogan. In her early teens she worked as a domestic servant at Hawarden (Wales) and London, and reportedly posed as a living illustration of ideal health and beauty for Dr. James Graham's lectures at Schomberg House, Pall Mall.

In 1780 she began a liaison with Sir Harry Fetherstonehaugh (1754-1846) of Uppark, Sussex, who abandoned her when she became pregnant in 1781. Soon after, the Hon. Charles Francis Greville (1749-1809) installed her in his house near Paddington Green, London, where she lived under the name Mrs. Emma Hart. Numerous portraits resulted from her frequent visits to the studio of George Romney, to whom Greville introduced her in April 1782. In March 1786 Greville sent her (along with her mother) to Italy to live with his uncle Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), British envoy at Naples. She gained renown for her striking beauty, wide-ranging interests, and the "Attitudes" she performed in imitation of the poses of classical painting and statuary. In May 1791 Emma Hart visited London with Hamilton and immediately recommended her regular appointments with Romney until September 6, the day she and Hamilton were wed. Two days later they returned to Naples, where she became the trusted confidante of Queen Maria Carolina.

From 1793 the British naval hero Horatio Nelson became an intimate friend of the Hamiltons and following his victorious battle of the Nile in August 1798, he and Lady Hamilton began an affair. Their daughter, Horatia Nelson Thompson, was born on January 30, 1801. They accompanied Hamilton to England when he was recalled in 1800, and following his death in 1803 they lived together at Merton, Surrey. Nelson died in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar. Emma's long standing habits of gambling and luxury soon exhausted the bequests of both men, and she was imprisoned for debt from 1813-14. On her release, she settled in Calais, France, where she died on January 15, 1815.

[sarcasticsciencefictionwriter]

I was tagged by @lanistas thank you so much! 🤍🥰

Last Song: Dollhouse by Melanie Martinez

Favorite Color: red!

Last Show/Movie: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (watched a rerun last night before bed)

Sweet/savory/spicy: sweet!

Relationship Status: single! :)

Last thing I googled: Sir Henry Thompson, 1st Baronet. (I was trying to find a Henry that James might name Henry after for a Sanctuary fic I'm writing.)

Current Obsession: Sanctuary (my hyperfixation for several years now)

Looking Forward to: I don't know. Not a lot to look forward to. 😞Let's go with seeing what people write for the Sanctuary prompt list I made.

No pressure tagging: @galactic-pirates , @chartreuseian , @truedairship , @crazymcwritesalot , @enigmatic-mystery-777 , @tina-mairin-goldstein

[goddamnmuses]

Potential Muses

This is a list of muses I’ve thought about roleplaying or have roleplayed but due to lack of interest from other people, just sort of stopped.  Feel free to request them.  If I have enough things going with them or I just love rping them so much, they will be upgraded to the main muses page.

Ben 10 - Benjamin Tennyson  - Kevin Levin 

Chainsaw Man - Denji

DC - Garfield Logan, Beast Boy - fc: Ryan Potter - John Constantine - fc: Matt Ryan - The Joker - fc: Jake Gyllenhaal - Nanaue, King Shark  - Ted Kord, Blue Beetle - fc: Jason Sudeikis - Tim Drake, Robin - fc: Timothee Chalamet

Disney - Maximilian Goof

Doctor Who - The Blacksmith (Timelord OC) - fc’s: various Fallout - Cooper Howard, The Ghoul - fc: Walton Goggins

Game of Thrones - Rodrik Forrester - fc: Eoin Macken - Sandor Clegane - fc: Rory McCann - Tyrion Lannister - fc: Peter Dinklage

God of War - Thor - fc: Ryan Hurst Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy - Nergal Jr - Billy

Hazbin Hotel - Sir Pentious

Hunter x Hunter - Killua Zoldyck

It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia - Charlie Kelly - fc: Charlie Day iZombie - Ravi Chakrabarti - fc: Rahul Kohli

Mario - Luigi - Bowser

Marvel - Ben Grimm, The Thing - fc: Ebon Moss-Bachrach - Benjy Parker (OC Son of Peter) - fc: Jordan Fisher - Brian Braddock, Captain Britain - fc: Charlie Hunnam - Cloak of Levitation (Personified) - fc: Rami Malek - Franklin Richards - fc: Thomas Brodie-Sangster - Hank McCoy, Beast - James ‘Logan’ Howlett, Wolverine - fc: Hugh Jackman  - Scott Summers, Cyclops - fc: James Marsden - Skaar - fc: Noah Centineo

Metaphor: Refantazio - Heismay - Strohl

My Hero Academia - Denki Kaminari, Chargebolt - Izuku Midoriya, Deku - Katsuki Bakugo, Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight - Shoto Todoroki - Taishiro Toyomitsu, Fat Gum

One Piece (Netflix as I’ve only seen up to the start of Skypiaa arc) - Monkey D. Luffy - Roronoa Zoro One Punch Man - Saitama, Caped Baldy

Persona 5 - Ren Amamiya, Joker - fc: Kento Yamazaki

Shangri-La Frontier -  Rakuro Hizutome, Sunraku Sly Cooper - Sly Cooper Solo Leveling - Sung Jinwoo - Sung Suho Spy x Family - Loid Forger 

Star Wars - B1 Battle Droid OC (B1-NG aka Bing) - Cal Kestis - fc: Cameron Monaghan - Chopper aka C1-10P - Clone OC (CT-7473 aka Bunker) - Darth Maul  - Savage Opress - fc: Jason Momoa

Supernatural - Grey (OC) - fc: Matthew McNulty)

The Boys - William ‘Billy’ Butcher - fc: Karl Urban

The Last of Us - Ryan Thompson (OC) - fc: Matt Barr

The Witcher    - Geralt of Rivia - fc: Henry Cavill Transformers  - Hot Rod

Misc (Their own thing) - Death - Pan 

[cfc8955]

First Photographs of Aotearoa 

In many of the early photographs of Aotearoa, documentation was prevalent. The people, the wildlife, the landscapes, the plants, all feature in the photography produced from that time. An example of plant documentation is seen in Herbert B. Dobbie’s work, where different specimens of New Zealand’s ferns are documented through the process of cyanotype. There are also many photographs that document the scale of the wonders that Aotearoa has to offer. Te Hauturu –o-Toi (Little Barrier Island kauri) depicts two figures standing at the base of a kauri tree that looms above them - one figure is holding an axe up to the base of the trunk. This image could be interpreted in a couple of ways. One perspective would be that this is simply a documentation of New Zealand’s wildlife. Another could be looking through “Western eyes” at these materials as a potential to make money.  

Portraits were another aspect of this documentation. However, many of the portrait images we see today have had aspects modified. For example, in John Kinder’s image of Wiremu Tamihana te Waharoa, Chief of Ngati Haua, the background was painted over. Behind the figure originally stood the side of the Elms Library, which was replaced with a white background in the developing process to give the impression that the sky was behind the figure.  Another example is Daniel Mundy’s image of Sir George Grey, where thefigure is sitting in front of a white backdrop. Used as a reference image, the figure of Grey was then painted onto paper with a backdrop of lush bush and tall grey mountains. To me, these moments remove the image’s authenticity – how are we able to trust these images to show us what was/wasn’t there? This also emphasizes the idea that these images were used to market Aotearoa to the Western world. Showing imagery of the landscapes that New Zealand has to offer would be more appealing to that audience than showing just the figure itself. 

Herbert B. Dobbie, New Zealand ferns, 1880, cyanotype (278 x 340 mm). 

Henry Wright, Te Hauturu –o-Toi / Little Barrier Island kauri, Friday, 30th September 1892, whole-plate gelatin silver glass negative (215 x 165 mm) 

George Henry Swan, Parts three to five of a nine-part panorama of Wellington’s waterfront including Lambton Quay, 1862, albumen silver prints mounted on card (144 x 197 mm, each print, slightly irregular) 

John Kinder, Wiremu Tamihana te Waharoa, Chief of Ngati Haua, 1863, albumen silver print mounted on album page (107 x 78 mm). 

John Kinder, Wiremu Tamihana, William Thompson the kingmaker. New Zealand, 1863, albumen silver print mounted on album page (107 x 78mm). 

[therogerclarkfanclub]

(Above: Roger during the rehearsals for A Man For All Seasons)

It's been a long time since Roger has done any theater work. If memory serves me right, the last play he did was A Midsummer Night's Dream (you can watch that on Tubi for free), which was back in 2014.

And for the first time since then, Roger will once again lend his amazing talents for the theatrical production of A Man For All Seasons, where he will take the role of King Henry VIII.

A Man For All Seasons will consist of the talents of:

Roger Clark* as King Henry VIII Edward Furs* as Sigñor Chapuys Thomas Michael Hammond* as Sir Thomas More Kevin Isola* as The Common Man Ty Lane* as William Roper Sean Mahan* as Cranmer Anthony Marble* as Duke of Norfolk Brianna Martinez as Margaret More Aaron McDaniel* as Richard Rich James McMenamin* as Thomas Cromwell Henry David Silberstein as Attendant to Chapuys Mary Stillwaggon Stewart* as Alice More Raphael Nash Thompson* as Cardinal Woolsey *Members of Actors' Equity association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

A Man For All Seasons will run from October 18 - November 5, 2023 at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

So if you are in, or plan to visit New Jersey or the surrounding area, don't forget to check our Roger's latest work!

Purchase your tickets in the link above.

[leanstooneside]

Double lifting DDT (GJALLER)

◊ clarke

◊ emily

◊ bobby cortland

◊ bret thompson

◊ anabel figurine

◊ mrs. rachael adams

◊ len indict

◊ dee

◊ sullivan

◊ morgan capacity

◊ ira

◊ cynthia

◊ catalina diffuse

◊ clay

◊ henri chenille

◊ joan bialystok

◊ rachael

◊ alberto jack

◊ don wade

◊ mark twain

◊ ester

◊ kenneth

◊ prof. salvatore sacchi

◊ dana

◊ coleman

◊ ilona conjunct

◊ woodrow chianti

◊ lester

◊ sir: brbr

◊ jennifer

◊ bradford delilah

◊ eloise colloquy

◊ johnson

◊ madeline

◊ latoya

◊ bess

[rachaelreadsposts]

2024 Reading Goals & 24 Books I Want to Read in 2024

Happy New Year Everyone!! 🥳

Welcome to another year of my book blog! I'm so happy to be back for another one! Let's make some goals for the year together!

Goals:

Read 30 books in 2024

Read at 50% of my physical TBR books

Finish a series

Only buy one-two books a month

Monthly post on Tumblr and TikTok (@rachaelreadsposts)

Read a nonfiction book

Try a genre that I normally wouldn't read

Start Harry Potter??

Buy a new bookshelf (mine is overflowing)

24 Books I Want to Read in 2024

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Daydream by Hannah Grace

The Soulmate by Sally Hepworth

Better than the Movies by Lynn Painter

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

The Beast by Katee Robert

With Love, from Cold World by Alicia Thompson

Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza

Killy Joy by Holly Jackson

Don't Let Me Fall by Kelsie Rae

The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Things We Left Behind by Lucy Score

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

Circe by Madeline Miller

The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith

To Sir Phillip, With Love by Julia Quinn

A Touch of Chaos by Scarlett St. Clair

A Game of Retribution by Scarlett St. Clair

A Game of Gods by Scarlett St. Clair

If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

Happy Place by Emily Henry

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

I also want to ask if there's anything you guys would like to see? I love doing the book hauls, book reviews, and updates so I'll continue those but would we like to see anything else? For example, I can try and do a bookshelf tour? Would you like to see how I annotate books?

[grantgoddard]

Gonna make you a star/czar : 2001 : James Murdoch, Star TV

“I am sorry, sir, but you are not allowed in the tea room,” the head chai-wallah said to me politely but firmly. “It is OUR job to bring you cups of tea when you request them.”

I was learning that, in India, self-service was a social crime and servitude was still alive and well. I had wandered into this tiny room from my desk a few steps away in my quest for an alternative to the thick, sugary tea I had been served, reminiscent of the disgusting, syrupy ‘Camp Coffee’ my mother always drank in the 1960’s. In the ‘tea room’ was only one big aluminium machine on which there was a single large red button. Press it holding your cup underneath and it delivered ready-sugared, ready-milked tea. No options. Henry Ford would have been proud. Admonished, I skulked back to my desk, visions dancing in my head of unavailable herbal teas and a former existence in which I was allowed to make my own beverages.

My desk was on the edge of an open-plan space occupied by ‘Channel [V]’, a music video station whose ratings were failing to compete with ‘MTV Asia’. It was not hard to see why. Peeking over my desk divider I would observe the young, educated, urban team’s enthusiasm for American and European rock music which, for India’s largely rural audience, probably sounded as if it came from another solar system. At one nearby desk, a hip young man spent most of his day quietly strumming an acoustic guitar as if he were Dylan (the rabbit). This wing of the top floor of ‘Star TV’s building in Mumbai was as laid back as I imagined the Hunter Thompson-period ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine office to have been.

Why was I there? The team creating India’s first commercial FM radio network was so nascent that we had no office space of our own as yet and had to be squeezed into other channels’ unused corners. On the opposite side of my work station usually sat my young colleague, Sandeep Kapur. He was absent today sorting out paperwork that would prove he was not dead. This required him to purchase classified advertisements in several newspapers stating that he was, in fact, very much alive. After the stated period during which he hoped no objections would be lodged, he could then apply to the government for a ‘Life Certificate’, necessary for transactions such as a mortgage. In India it was insufficient to BE alive; you required a piece of paper to prove it.

At the end of every morning, the tiffin-wallahs arrived to deliver hot homemade lunches in circular metal lunchboxes to male workers at their desks. Each box was colour-coded, numbered and inscribed with symbols to designate a particular desk on a specific floor of our office building in the Andheri district. All had been collected from homes and conveyed long distances by bicycle, train and car within the previous few hours. Those of us unlucky enough not to have wives at home, or to be one of the organisation’s few female staff, could buy subsidised cooked lunches in the building’s ground floor canteen, at its busiest on Friday when the weekly Chinese fare was sufficiently admired to persuade men to forgo their wives’ home cooking.

Today had been designated a special day because the several hundred staff working in the building were to be addressed by the Great Leader via a live television satellite link. At the appointed time, I pulled up a chair alongside the hip Channel [V] dudes in a semi-circle around one of the many television sets affixed high on the corridor walls of every floor. There was an air of anticipation because we had been promised/warned that a major corporate announcement was about to be made. Reorganisation? Closures? Would a pink-slipped Dylan have to find another gig where he could continue killing his workmates softly with his songs?

The satellite connection flickered and we could see a fixed camera focused on a young man sat behind an ordinary office desk in Hong Kong. It was the very moment he started talking inanimately to the camera that the event started to become somewhat surreal. This man was chairman and chief executive of a huge media conglomerate broadcasting multiple television channels by satellite across most of Asia. He apparently had important developments to share with his workforce of thousands. So why did he have the air of a wayward son forced by his father to smile for the annual family group Christmas photo? Why was he oozing the reluctance of a boy ordered to attend his stepmother’s birthday bash and to bring a suitably expensive present that had not been manufactured in China?

I could not supress a snigger. My young Indian colleagues turned and stared at me as if it were heretical not to show the utmost respect to our ultimate boss. I realised then that they probably knew next to nothing about the twenty-eight-year-old James Murdoch who was addressing us or how he had been appointed to this job. His track record hinted at his posting to the furthest reaches of the Murdoch galaxy. Aged fifteen, daddy Rupert had given him an internship on his Sydney newspaper, only to find him photographed by a competitor asleep on a sofa at a press conference. Later on, how disappointing it must have been to buy your son’s education at Harvard to study film and history, only for him to drop out in order to launch a rap music company … which later you have to bail out.

Murdoch’s Star TV operation based in Hong Kong had been losing US$200m a year by 2000 so, naturally, it was decided to send a boy to do a man-sized turnaround job. What was the son’s new strategy to stem these losses? We learned from the television address that Murdoch Junior had come up with the amazing idea of changing the business’ name from ‘Star TV’ to … ‘Star’. I kid you not. This was apparently necessary because ‘TV’ was an outdated, fuddy duddy business while the ‘internet’ was the medium of the future, despite it having already existed for almost two decades. So it required us all to wave goodbye to the ‘TV’ brand and say hello to ‘….’.

This sounded remarkably like a rehash of Murdoch Junior’s lobbying of Pops three years earlier with his strategy that the internet was where it was at, resulting in News Corporation having submitted a $450m bid for online startup ‘Pointcast’. I had been an enthusiastic early adopter in 1996 of its application which downloaded news stories using ‘push technology’ onto a computer about topics and from leading global newspapers personalised by each user. Working months on end in Russian isolation, I would spend evenings redialling hundreds of times until my laptop’s modem connected to a landline good enough to receive the latest news stories to devour. The phrase ‘never look a Murdoch horse in the mouth’ must have eluded the Pointcast board who stupidly rejected Junior’s vastly inflated offer. Two years later, it sold the business for a meagre $7m to a different company that shut the news service after one further year of operation. Pops had been miraculously saved from a half-billion sinkhole dug by Junior on that occasion.

Quite why Junior’s ongoing affair with the internet demanded us to interrupt our work schedule for half-an-hour I had no idea, but we watched until the screens went blank again and then walked away … totally underwhelmed. I returned to my desk and found that fairies had magic-ed a hardback notebook with the new ‘Star’ logo onto every desk in the building. The change made absolutely no difference to my work. We were planning to launch our radio network with the brand ‘Star FM’ (though this plan failed once we found a competitor had already bagged the name). When I left the building that evening, I had to avoid a crew with a crane who were busy swapping the huge illuminated logo over the front door to one with the new name. Apart from losing the ‘TV’, the logo still looked much the same to me.

Less than three years after having banished Junior to Hong Kong, Pops called him back to manage a different part of his empire in Britain, claiming that his son had executed a hugely successful turnaround strategy during his posting to Asia. One Australian newspaper ran this story in 2003 under the headline ‘James Murdoch didn't shine at Star’.