#Sylvia Coolidge

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:

Lale Andersen

Marian Anderson

Signe Toly Anderson

Julie Andrews

LaVerne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Ann-Margret

Joan Armatrading

Dorothy Ashby

Joan Baez

Pearl Bailey

Belle Baker

Josephine Baker

LaVern Baker

Florence Ballard

Brigitte Bardot

Eileen Barton

Fontella Bass

Shirley Bassey

Maggie Bell

Lola Beltran

Ivy Benson

Gladys Bentley

Jane Birkin

Cilla Black

Ronee Blakley

Teresa Brewer

Anne Briggs

Ruth Brown

Joyce Bryant

Vashti Bunyan

Kate Bush

Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

Blanche Calloway

Wendy Carlos

Cathy Carr

Raffaella Carra

Diahann Carroll

Karen Carpenter

June Carter Cash

Charo

Cher

Meg Christian

Gigliola Cinquetti

Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Rosemary Clooney

Natalie Cole

Judy Collins

Alice Coltrane

Betty Comden

Barbara Cook

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Ida Cox

Karen Dalton

Marie-Louise Damien

Betty Davis

Jinx Dawson

Doris Day

Blossom Dearie

Kiki Dee

Lucienne Delyle

Sandy Denny

Jackie DeShannon

Gwen Dickey

Marlene Dietrich

Marie-France Dufour

Julie Driscoll

Yvonne Elliman

Cass Elliot

Maureen Evans

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Max Feldman

Gracie Fields

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Lita Ford

Connie Francis

Aretha Franklin

France Gall

Judy Garland

Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Astrud Gilberto

Donna Jean Godchaux

Lesley Gore

Eydie Gorme

Margo Guryan

Sheila Guyse

Nina Hagen

Francoise Hardy

Emmylou Harris

Debbie Harry

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Mary Hopkin

Lena Horne

Helen Humes

Betty Hutton

Janis Ian

Mahalia Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Joan Jett

Bessie Jones

Etta Jones

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Shirley Jones

Tamiko Jones

Janis Joplin

Barbara Keith

Carole King

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

Hildegard Knef

Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

Cleo Laine

Nicolette Larson

Daliah Lavi

Vicky Leandros

Peggy Lee

Rita Lee

Alis Lesley

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Melba Liston

Julie London

Darlene Love

Lulu

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Barbara Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Vera Lynn

Siw Malmkvist

Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Kate McGarrigle

Christie McVie

Bette Midler

Jean Millington

June Millington

Liza Minnelli

Carmen Miranda

Joni Mitchell

Liz Mitchell

Marion Montgomery

Lee Morse

Nana Mouskouri

Anne Murray

Wenche Myhre

Holly Near

Olivia Newton-John

Stevie Nicks

Nico

Laura Nyro

Virginia O’Brien

Odetta

Yoko Ono

Shirley Owens

Patti Page

Dolly Parton

Freda Payne

Michelle Phillips

Edith Piaf

Ruth Pointer

Leontyne Price

Suzi Quatro

Gertrude Rainey

Bonnie Raitt

Carline Ray

Helen Reddy

Della Reese

Martha Reeves

June Richmond

Jeannie C. Riley

Minnie Riperton

Jean Ritchie

Chita Rivera

Clara Rockmore

Linda Ronstadt

Marianne Rosenberg

Diana Ross

Anna Russell

Melanie Safka

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Samantha Sang

Pattie Santos

Hazel Scott

Doreen Shaffer

Jackie Shane

Marlena Shaw

Sandie Shaw

Dinah Shore

Judee Sill

Carly Simon

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Siouxsie Sioux

Grace Slick

Bessie Smith

Mamie Smith

Patti Smith

Ethel Smyth

Mercedes Sosa

Ronnie Spector

Dusty Springfield

Mavis Staples

Candi Staton

Barbra Streisand

Poly Styrene

Maxine Sullivan

Donna Summer

Pat Suzuki

Norma Tanega

Tammi Terrell

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

Mary Travers

Moe Tucker

Tina Turner

Twiggy

Bonnie Tyler

Sylvia Tyson

Sarah Vaughan

Sylvie Vartan

Mariska Veres

Akiko Wada

Claire Waldoff

Jennifer Warnes

Dee Dee Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Dinah Washington

Ethel Waters

Elisabeth Welch

Kitty Wells

Mary Wells

Juliane Werding

Tina Weymouth

Cris Williamson

Ann Wilson

Mary Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Anna Mae Winburn

Syreeta Wright

Tammy Wynette

Nan Wynn

Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!

If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.

[myrecordcollections]

Booker T. Jones exited Stax Records before it came to a complete crash and married singer Priscilla Coolidge, Rita's sister, and the two hooked-up musically as well. Great things were expected from this project. Jones led his namesake, Booker T. & the MG's, to some success at Stax. The four-pieces also served as the label's most prominent house band, and, in addition, Jones shared co-writer credit on some great songs. Coolidge, like her sister, sang with an abundance of soul. Rita recorded for A&M, and the label had issued a solo album on Priscilla, which originally came out on Sussex Records. Few people will tell you this is a bad album, cause it's not, it's just not what was expected. The lovebirds are all over the place theme-wise -- love, social problems, ethnic issues, and other twists and spins on a multitude of subjects. This is a long, two-disc album: 19 tracks, 83 minutes of music.

[latemorninglullaby]

[harvard-art-museums-sculpture]

Seated Bodhisattva Târâ in her “Green Manifestation”, 15th century, Yongle period, HAM: Sculpture

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Hester C. Clapp and Susan C. Wolkoff in memory of their parents, Usher P. and Sylvia S. Coolidge Size: H. 17.7 x W. 11.0 x D. 9.0 cm (6 15/16 x 4 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.) Medium: Tibeto-Chinese Style; gilt bronze with an inscription reading "Da Ming Yonglenian shi"

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/200407

[heroes-trash]

powers found in multiple people (Reborn in cursive)

[including synthed abilities, but not abilities taken by those who can (for simplicity’s sake)]

self-affecting:

regeneration: Claire Bennet, Adam Monroe

flight: Nathan Petrelli, West Rosen, Fiona, Kim Pyon

super-strength: Niki Sanders, Mohinder Suresh, Scott, Mac, Oscar Gutierrez, James Dearing

time-travel: Hiro Nakamura, Arnold, Cassandra Hays, Dahlia Hays

teleportation: Hiro Nakamura, Rachel Mills, Arnold

photographic memory: Charlie Andrews, Matt Neuenberg

super-speed: Daphne Millbrook, Edgar

invisibility: Claude Rains, Rebecca Taylor, Farah Nazan

intangibility/phasing: D.L. Hawkins, Jose Gutierrez, Marylou Winawer

self-multiplication: Julien Dumont, Eli, Harris

mind-affecting:

telepathy: Matt Parkman, Maury Parkman, Charles Devaux

precognitive painting: Isaac Mendez, Usutu, Matt Parkman

ability to predict actions/outcomes in real time: Kaito Nakamura, Sam Conlon

dream 'connection': Sanjog Iyer, Charles Devaux (?), Usutu (?)

persuasion: Eden McCain, Damen Peak

emotion manipulation: Joseph Sullivan, Syn Anders

memory manipulation: René, Damian, Caspar Abraham

assuming control of others' bodies: Eric Doyle, Harold Esposito

affecting other abilities:

ability-taking (ignoring the method): Peter Petrelli, Arthur Petrelli, Sylar, Samson Gray, Nathan Bennet

power-dampening: René, Phoebe Frady

ability-boosting: Paulette Hawkins, Ando Masahashi

affecting surroundings:

telekinesis: Brian Davis, Francis Culp, Dahlia Hays, Cassandra Hays

healing: Daniel Linderman, Ishi Nakamura, Jeremy Greer, Malina Bennet

pyrokinesis: Meredith Gordon, Flint Gordon, the Bowman family

freezing / affecting lower temperatures: James Walker, Tracy Strauss, Andrew Meek

water manipulation and mimicry: Tracy Strauss, Elisa

terrakinesis: Samuel Sullivan, Sparrow Redhouse

sound manipulation: Jesse Murphy, Echo DeMille

enhanced synaesthesia: Emma Coolidge, Chris Coolidge

plant manipulation: Brendan Lewis, Ian Michaels, Malina Bennet

alchemy: Bob Bishop, Sylvia

melting: Zane Taylor, Dorian Avey

microwave emission: Luke Campbell, Mr. Shelby

energy redistribution: Cindy Sprague, Luke Collins

[blogtintonghop24h]

Chuyện ít biết về những “đệ nhất thú cưng” của các tổng thống Mỹ

Donald Trump là tổng thống Mỹ đầu tiên trong hơn một trăm năm qua không nuôi thú cưng tại Nhà Trắng. Trước ông, chỉ có 2 tổng thống khác không nuôi thú cưng là James K Polk (1845-1849) và Andrew Johnson (1865-1869). Trong bức ảnh này (tháng 4/1927), Đệ nhất phu nhân Grace Coolidge đang ôm thú cưng gấu trúc Mỹ có tên gọi Rebecca.

Đệ nhất thú cưng thời Tổng thống Franklin D. Roosevelt là chú chó có tên Fala (1943)

Từ trái sang phải là ba chú chó Wolf (trái), Shannon và Clipper của gia đình Tổng thống John F. Kennedy (1963)

Tổng thống Lyndon B. Johnson chơi đùa cùng chú chó Yuki tại phòng Bầu dục năm 1968

Ba chú chó Pasha, Vicki và King Timahoe của gia đình Tổng thống Richard Nixon (1970)

Tổng thống Gerald Ford và chú chó Liberty trong phòng Bầu dục tháng 11/1947

Gia đình Tổng thống George H.W. Bush nuôi vài chú chó trong Nhà Trắng. Trong ảnh, đệ nhất phu nhân Barbara và cô cháu gái đang ôm chú chó Millie ở bậc thềm Nhà Trắng

Tổng thống đắc cử Bill Clinton bắt tay Tổng thống George Bush khi ông cùng phu nhân Hillary tới Nhà Trắng ngày 20/1/1993. Bên trái là Đệ nhất phu nhân Barbara Bush và chú chó Millie ở phía sau

Spot, chú chó cưng của gia đình Tổng thống George W. Bush và Đệ nhất phu nhân Laura, đang nằm ngủ trên sàn phòng Bầu dục, ngày 20/12/2001

Tổng thống George W. Bush bế 2 chú chó Barney và Miss Beazley, bước xuống từ chuyên cơ Không Lực Một ngày 13/8/2006

Chú mèo Socks tha thẩn đi sau Tổng thống Bill Clinton, Thư ký báo chí Nhà Trắng Mike McCurry và Phó Chánh văn phòng Sylvia Matthews ở bãi cỏ Nhà Trắng ngày 6/3/1997

Ngoài chú mèo Socks, Tổng thống Bill Clinton còn nuôi một chú chó tha mồi Labrador tên Buddy trong Nhà Trắng

Thú cưng của Tổng thống Obama, Bo (trong ảnh), là một chú chó Bồ Đào Nha. Đây là món quà từ Thượng nghị sỹ Ted Kennedy. Năm 2013, Tổng thống Obama nuôi thêm chú chó giống Bồ Đào Nha khác có tên là Sunny

Sau 4 năm vắng bóng, Nhà Trắng sẽ lại đón "đệ nhất thú cưng" khi tân Tổng thống Joe Biden đưa 2 chú chó Major (trong ảnh) và Champ tới đây./.

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[peabodyinstitutearchives]

A portion of a map of Peabody created in 1931. The map was created by Osborn Palmer, Engineer who was charged with doing a survey of Peabody.

The map was gridded, to allow the engineer to create further maps of each gridded area.

Civil Engineer, Osborne Palmer, lived at 171 Lowell Street and had his own firm, which was located at 15 Wallis Street in Peabody.

Streets include:

Coolidge Avenue Matrinack Avenue Woodland Avenue Emerson Avenue Rockdale Avenue Lynn Street Bay State Street Beacon Boulevard Columbia Boulevard Aberdeen Avenue

Property & Landmarks: None

Gentlemen Driveing Club Charles Brett William Balkus Michael J. Martin William LaBell Robert H. Higgins Amanda Vallencourt Frederick Savage Katherine Menici Mary A. Steward Roy C. Bagley James M. Sparks Rhoda H. Durgin George Bazley Louis G. Bunker Gardner McNair James J. Wood Jesse M. Porter Stella Mooka Louis G. Banker Forest C. Small William A. Welch Mike Mooka Altie M. Edmanson Joseph Corriveau Ezilda M. Jacques Mary J. Sweeney Edward Reed Louis G. Banker Marjorie L. Quinlan Francis Coakley Jane Boylan Gertrude A. Brown Mary E. Knight, et. als. Peter H. Feighery John F. Court Walter T. Jackson Amelia Patterson Robert T. Patterson David P. Dowdell John H. Welch Florence Richards August Martinack Louis H. Banker Robert B. Chalmers Samuel Marron Edward J. Preston Euphenie Langlais Louis F. Stanley Leslie W. Evans Helen L. Timson Adelaide Mansell William C. Whittridge Uriah W. Moulton Fred & Cora Leavitt Saint Anne's Church Mary E. O'Connell W. Louis Birmingham Rufus Condon Ernest Condon John L. Southwick Mertina Guertin Emma Alm William Buckman James T.B. Duffy Doris Knowlton Herbert Higgins Ada Vallier William H. Jacques Mabel G. Thibedeau Sylvia Labrie Louise L. Eichel John L. Southwick Mary G. Richards Marjorie P. Small Addie M. Furness Edmund Warren, et. als. Trust Louise L. Eichel Judith Smith Louis Germain John E. Pepper Annie G. Rich Raply B. Goodwin George E. Webster Bella E. Fairbanks Francis Meagher Mary Pyne Josephine Barron Selma Lagerstrom Eva G. Nash Emma C. nach Paul M. Cuenin Anthony Sacovitch Emma D. Perkins George Coleman Jennie Pyburn George F. Stoddard John F. Fitzgibbons Frank E. Wilson Peabody Co-Op Bank Homer M. Cochaine Thomas P. Towey Annie M. Wade Annie Clark Edmund Warren, et. als. Trs. Wildred Pepper Margaret F. Harrigan Rhoda H. Durgin Herbert Skerry Margaret G. McKeough Maude L. Towey Lohta Brown Edgar H. Fogg Herbert C. Cole Herbert Power George H. Dawe Mary E. Larrabee

[themomsandthecity]

Every Baby Name We Could Possibly Think Of

Naming your baby is a big decision, and with endless options, it can also be a difficult one. Whether you're going the traditional route or want something more unique (if so, read this first!) it's helpful to have a little, or a lot, of inspiration. Ahead, you'll find nearly every baby name we could think of (close to 1,000!). These aren't just random names we found in a book or concocted ourselves - they're almost all monikers we've heard being used, or we actually know someone who goes by the name. If we missed any, tell us in the comments! A Aaliyah Aaron Abbie Abel Abigail Abraham Adalyn Adam Addilyn Addison Adelaide Adeline Adley Adora Agatha Aiden Alan Albert Aleph Alexander Alexis Ali Alma Alton Ama Amanda Amaryllis Amber Ameila Amélie Amy Anders Anderson Andrea Andrew Angie Angela Angelica Anika Anna Annalise Anne Annie Ansel Apple April Arata Archie Aria Ariane Ariel Arlee Arlo Arman Arthur Arun Arwen Arya Asha Asher Aspen Atticus Aton Aubrey Audrey August Augustus Aurora Ava Avery Axel Aziz B Bailey Barack Barbara Barney Barry Beatrice Beau Beckett Beckham Becky Ben Benedict Benjamin Bennett Bentley Bernadette Beth Bette Betty Beverly Bexley Bianca Bill Billie Bingham Bishop Bitsie Blake Blue Bobby Bodhi Bonnie Bowie Brady Braelynn Brandon Brayden Brecken Bree Brent Brenton Brett Brian Briana Briar Bridgette Brienne Brig Brigham Brinley Brio Britta Brock Brody Bronwyn Brooklyn Bruno Bryan Byron C Caden Caitlin Caity Cale Caleb Calla Calvin Camari Cameron Camilla Carena Carina Carl Carmel Carol Carrey Carter Cary Casey Caspian Cat Catherine Celine Chandler Chanel Channing Charise Charlene Charles Charlotte Chase Cher Cheri Cheriann Cheryl Chevy Chip Chloe Chris Chrissy Christian Christopher Claire Clara Clark Clary Claudia Clementine Clifford Clint Clinton Clyde Colin Collins Condoleezza Connor Conrad Constance Coolidge Cooper Cora Corban Courtney Cruz Related: 100 of the Most Beautiful Baby Names D Daisy Dale Dallas Damon Dane Danica Daniel Danielle Daphne Darby Darlene Darrel Daryl Dashiell Dave David Davina Davis Davon Dawn Dean Deanna Declan Dekel Delaney Delilah Delta Dennis Denzel Desmond Dev Devon Dexter Diane Dinah Dixie Dixon Dolores Dominique Donald Doris Dorothea Dorothy Dot Duke Duncan Dwight Dylan E Easton Ed Eden Edith Edmund Edward Effie Eleanor Elena Eli Eliana Elijah Elise Elizabeth Ella Elle Ellen Ellerie Ellie Elliott Ellis Elodie Eloise Elora Elroy Elsa Elsie Embry Emerson Emily Emma Emmett Eric Erica Esme Esmeralda Esther Ethan Ethel Eugene Evan Eve Evelyn Everett Evie Ewan Ezra F Farah Fay Felix Ferris Finn Fiona Fisher Fitz Fleur Flint Florence Floyd Flynn Ford Forrest Foster Fox Frances Frank Franklin Frederick G Gabe Gabriel Gaige Gail Gant Garrett Garth Gavin Gem Gemma Gene Genesis Gertrude George Gianna Gibson Gigi Gina Ginger Gladys Glenn Gloria Gordon Grace Grady Graham Grant Grayson Greer Gregory Griffin Grover Gus Gwen Gwyneth H Hadlee Hailey Hal Halle Hank Hannah Harding Harlow Harlyn Harold Harper Harriet Harrison Harry Hart Hartley Harvey Haven Hawk Hawthorne Hayden Hayes Hays Hazel Hector Heath Heather Helen Henley Henry Hillary Honor Holden Holly Holt Hope Hubert Hudson Hugo Humphrey Hunter Hurley Hutton Related: Based Off Last Year's Trends, These 30 Names Will Be Among the Most Popular of 2017 I Ian Ida Idris Ike Imanuel Imogen India Indy Ingrid Inizio Ireland Iris Irvin Isa Isaac Isabella Isabelle Isaiah Isla Israel Ivana Ivory J Jack Jackie Jackson Jacob Jacqueline Jaden Jaelyn Jagger Jake James Jameson Jamie Jane January Jason Jasper Jaun Jax Jaxon Jayce Jayden Jeannette Jed Jeff Jefferson Jenna Jess Jessica Jessie Jill Jillian Joan Joanna Joaquin Joe John Jones Jordan Joseph Josephine Josh Joshua Joslyn Joss Joy Joyce Judith Judy Jules Julia Julian Julie Juliet Julius June Juno Justin K Kai Kaia Kale Kalinda Kane Karah Katharine Kathryn Kate Kay Kaya Kaylee Keanu Keegan Keira Keith Kellan Kelly Kelsey Kendall Kennedy Kevin Khloe Kiah Kiele Kiera Kim Kima Kimberly Kingston Kinsley Kirk Kit Kitty Knox Krista Kristen Kurtis Kyle Kylie L Laith Lake Lana Landon Lane Larissa Larkin Laszlo Laura Lauren Lawrence Layla Leah Lee Leia Leighton Leilani Lena Lennon Leo Leonard Leslie Levi Lewis Leyona Lia Liam Liana Lida Lilith Lillian Lily Lincoln Lindsay Lionel Lisa Lisette Liz Logan Lois Lola London Loretta Lorraine Louella Louise Lucas Lucian Lucille Lucy Luke Luna Lux Lyle Lyndon Lynne Related: 100 Unusual Boy Names M Mabel Mabrey Mac Macallan Mackenzie Macy Madeleine Madelyn Madison Mae Maeby Maggie Mahershala Maia Makena Malcolm Maleeya Malia Mamie Mandy Marabelle Marcus Maren Margaret Margot Mari Maria Mariah Mariam Marilyn Marin Marion Marisole Marisse Marjorie Mark Marlene Marlon Marlowe Martha Martin Mary Mason Matilda Matthew Maui Mavis Maximus Maxson May Maya McKinley Megan Melissa Meredith Merritt Meryl Meyer Mia Michael Michelle Mika Mike Mila Mildred Miles Millie Milo Moana Molly Monica Monroe Montgomery Morgan Moses Muhammad Murray Myles N Nahall Nahla Nancy Nanette Naomie Nasima Natalie Nate Nathan Naveen Naya Neil Neisa Neo Neoma Newt Newton Niall Nicholas Nick Nico Nicole Nicolette Nigel Nile Nimah Nixon Noah Noel Nolan Nora Norma Norman North Nova O Obama Octavia Olly Olive Oliver Olivia Omar Opal Ophelia Ordell Oriana Orion Orlando Orson Orville Oscar Otis Otto Owen P Paige Paislee Paloma Pandora Paris Parker Patrick Patsy Paul Payton Pearl Peggy Penelope Penn Penny Perry Pete Peyton Phillip Phoebe Phoenix Phyllis Pierce Piper Polly Poppy Porter Posey Preston Primrose Priya Prudence Priscilla Q Quaid Quincy Quentin Quinn Quinten R Rachel Radley Rae Ralph Ramsey Rayna Rayne Reagan Rebecca Reese Reeve Reid Reign Remi Renly Rex Rhea Rhett Rhys Richard Rick Riley Ripley River Rivers Rob Robert Robin Rome Romy Ronald Ronin Rooney Roosevelt Rory Rosalind Rosalynn Rosamund Rose Rosemary Ross Rowan Roy Royce Ruby Rue Ruth Rutherford Ryan Ryder Related: 100 Unique Yet Beautiful Girls' Names S Sacha Sage Sahara Saint Sam Samuel Sandra Sandy Sansa Sarah Saul Savannah Sawyer Scarlett Schuyler Scout Sean Sebastian Selena Sena Seymour Shane Shannon Shea Shelly Sherlock Sherry Shiloh Shirley Sia Sidney Sienna Simon Skyler Sloan Sofia Solo Sonia Sophia Sophie Spencer Stacy Stanley Stella Stephanie Sterling Stetson Stuart Sue Sullivan Summer Suri Susan Sylvia T Tabitha Tad Tamera Tamsyn Tanner Tara Tate Taylor Teagan Teddy Terrance Thea Thelma Theordore Theresa Thomas Tim Tina Tinley Toby Todd Tom Tony Travis Travon Trent Trey Tricia Trinity Tripp Tristan Troy Truman Turner Tyler Tyson V Valentina Valentine Vance Vaughan Vaughn Vera Vern Victor Victoria Viggo Vince Vincent Viola Violet Virgil Vivian W Waldo Walker Wallis Walter Warren Watson Waverly Wells Wes Wesley Westley Whitney Will Willa William Willow Wilson Winter Wolfe Wren Wyatt X Xander Xavier Xeno Y Yanet Yani Yigal York Yuma Yvette Z Zachary Zahir Zander Zane Zaylee Zayn Zion Zoe Zola Zooey Zora Zuma Zuri Related: These Are the Most Popular Baby Names of 2016 http://bit.ly/2kR9iwY

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New Post has been published on Cinephiled

New Post has been published on https://www.cinephiled.com/interview-the-creators-of-skin-the-history-of-nudity-in-the-movies-bare-all-in-new-documentary/

Interview: The Creators of ‘Skin: The History of Nudity in the Movies’ Bare All in New Documentary

From the moment the first motion picture camera was invented, there has been nudity in the movies. Even in the earliest days of this new art form, filmmakers delighted in exploring the human body and audiences were riveted by scenes of nudity on the screen. This comprehensive and fascinating new documentary begins with the silent era and continues through the present day, looking at changes in morality and sensibilities while examining the political, sociological, and artistic changes that shaped this rich history. 

Skin: The History of Nudity in the Movies also delves into the gender bias surrounding nudity in motion pictures. It looks at the surprisingly relaxed attitude towards nudity in pre-code Hollywood, the period of censorship that was designed to “clean up” the industry, and how the powerful MPAA ratings system was formed to help the industry police itself (and avoid outside intervention). The documentary also addresses the impact of the more recent #metoo movement on nude scenes in movies today. I spoke with Danny Wolf, the director of this fascinating doc, and Jim McBride, the co-executive producer who, as “Mr. Skin,” has run a website for the past 21 years that documents nudity in the movies.

Danny Miller: As far as I’m concerned, this is the perfect film for the pandemic — who wouldn’t be interested in this topic? Being a classic movie lover, I really enjoyed the material about the early days of the movies before censorship really took hold. I think this film might cause a wild increase in sales for Cecil B. DeMille’s The Sign of the Cross from 1932 starring Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, and Fredric March. Wow, who knew? I never dreamed there would be that much nudity in a DeMille film from a major studio! 

Danny Wolf (with Eric Roberts)

Danny Wolf: That was the best part about making this film — researching those movies from the twenties and thirties. I hadn’t seen most of them so I had a lot of catching up to do, from the earliest ones up through the infamous Caligula and beyond. I learned so much. I especially hadn’t realized the extent of nudity in the movies in those early days. I love all those pre-Code movies. I still haven’t been able to find the complete version of The Sign of the Cross but that’s on my list!

Jim, I know you’ve been following this topic for many years on your website. Did you have a big hand in the organization of the film into distinct eras? 

Jim McBride

Jim McBride: Yes, in my role as one of the executive producers, I definitely had some input. My website just had its 21stanniversary, I can’t believe I’ve been working in this field for that long, so I do have a pretty good background on the subject. Of course, what I do on my site and what this film is about are really two completely different things. The hardest thing was to narrow it down to a two-hour documentary. We had to decide on the pivotal moments in the history of nudity in the movies. It took a team approach, with me, our other Executive Producer, Paul Fishbein, and our director, Danny. We’re all film buffs and I hope that will come across to everyone who watches this documentary — we really love movies. 

Mariel Hemingway

I think the film is very well organized and the mix of interview subjects is just fantastic. I loved seeing the range of people you talked to, from some who were mostly known for appearing nude in the movies to directors like Peter Bogdanovich, Amy Heckerling, Kevin Smith, and Martha Coolidge and stars like Malcolm McDowell, Pam Grier, Eric Roberts, and Sean Young, among others. To be honest, I was surprised to see some of them, like Mariel Hemingway, who’s such a delight in the film. I didn’t think she’d be that open to talking about this topic. 

Danny Wolf: We were so happy to have her because she was in two important films that are discussed: Personal Best and Star 80, and of course, she had quite a different look in both films. She even talked about the whole issue that was so big at the time about whether she got breast augmentations just to play Dorothy Stratten in Star 80. Mariel and Eric Roberts both talk about that.

Another surprise was hearing from Ken Davitian about his experience in Borat.

We were very happy to have him discussing his crazy scene from that film. Nudity in movies was never limited to just women or to people with a certain body type. 

Malcom McDowell must have been a blast to talk to. I could listen to his stories about moviemaking all day long. 

That was the most fun interview you can ever do. He’s such a great storyteller and you just hang onto every word he says. I interviewed him about Clockwork Orange for another documentary I did but hearing his firsthand stories about Caligula was just great. There could be a whole documentary just on that one film, that’s how much lore there is about it!

Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren in Caligula

Honestly, there should be. I remember seeing that movie as a teenager and it was such a huge deal. Truly awful but you felt that underneath all of that gratuitous sex and nudity lurked a really good movie, especially with that cast. McDowell’s stories about John Gielgud on that set were hilarious but it also had Peter O’Toole and Helen Mirren — just crazy! It was interesting to learn in your film how Bob Guccione was responsible for turning that film into the sex-fest that it became. 

Jim McBride: Yes, and there’s talk that Tinto Brass is helping with a re-edit that will show more of what the film was originally intended to be! I’m sure they’ll be getting rid of many of the lurid scenes that Guccione shot at two and three in the morning!

Mamie Van Doren

It was moving to see the late Sylvia Miles in her last on-camera interview, and I loved hearing from Mamie Van Doren. I always thought she was so comfortable with her sex kitten image, I was surprised to hear her talk about how reluctant she was to do nude scenes in movies. 

Danny Wolf: Yeah, there were obviously certain people we had to cover in the film, and that included the trio of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, and Mamie Van Doren who, in some respects, went on to carry both Marilyn and Jayne’s torches. Marilyn had done a nude scene in Something’s Gotta Give in 1963, the movie that was never completed before her death, and Jayne had appeared nude in Promises! Promises! that same year which was a huge deal. The first mainstream star to appear in the nude in an American film! And then Mamie comes out in Three Nuts in a Search of a Bolt. Those movies just changed everything in terms of having stars willing to appear nude. 

Jim McBride: We talk about the infamous Hays Code that was in full force by the mid-1930s. Before that, there were all these crazy movies with all sorts of nudity but that came crashing to and end when the Hays Code went into effect. That lasted for decades. But these movies with Monroe, Mansfield, and Van Doren finally killed that level of censorship in the 1960s once and for all. And kicked off the modern era of celebrity nudity. 

Linda Blair

It’s also interesting to watch this film through the lens of the #metoo movement and our changing sensibilities. It’s hard not to cringe when hearing from some of the actresses who worked in the 70s and 80s who felt so pressured to do nude scenes even if they weren’t comfortable doing them and hadn’t agreed to. It was poignant hearing from Linda Blair in the documentary and how she was kind of ambushed into doing nudity in her career. 

Danny Wolf: Yes, she definitely felt pressured to do things that she didn’t sign up for. And she was basically told she’d destroy the film if she didn’t do what they asked. There was a lot of stuff like that in the 70s and 80s. We talked to actresses who signed on for scripts in which there was no nudity and then suddenly word would come down on the set that they had to add a certain number of nude scenes. They almost always felt that they had to do it whether they liked it or not. If they refused, they were told that they were holding up production and hurting the distribution of the film. And many felt that if they didn’t agree, that would be the end of their career. 

Awful. Thank God things have changed to a large extent, and probably a big part of that is having more women directors and women in other positions of power. 

Absolutely. 

And, speaking of “celebrity nudity,” now it seems so normal to see nudity on the biggest, most popular TV shows. 

Jim McBride: Yes. Back when I launched my website in 1999, I think there were something like 25 TV shows that had any nudity at all. You know, a few scenes in Sex and the City and other shows of that type. When we looked at that last year, we found 144 television shows across many different platforms including Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. I truly believe we’re in the golden age of nudity! It’s no longer a big deal when you’re watching a show or a movie on these networks. And that includes male nudity, too, which was certainly not the case in the 60s and 70s. I think we’re finally getting rid of that double standard.

Right. I remember the days when you could show women completely naked and still get an R rating but if anyone flashed a penis, God forbid, it was an automatic X rating. 

That’s right. And that again goes back to the fact that in those days, most directors, producers, writers were men. And that has changed as well, thank goodness. Look at a show like Game of Thrones. Lots of female nudity, yes, but a huge amount of male nudity, too.

Well, there’s so much in this film that is food for thought about our changing world. And more people you talk to that we haven’t even discussed like Pam Grier — I would have been happy with two hours of just her talking about her memories of making movies!

Danny Wolf: Me, too, she is fantastic!

Skin: The History of Nudity in the Movies is currently available on demand.

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Up the Down Staircase (1967) Official Trailer - Patrick Bedford, Sandy Dennis Movie HD

“Sandy Dennis plays Sylvia Barrett, a new graduate who’s just been hired to teach English at the fictional Calvin Coolidge High School in New York City, where many of the students are disruptive and troubled. (A junior high school in East Harlem provided the exteriors.) It’s an early twist on the common cinematic “magical teacher” trope that likely still rings true with the hordes of new graduates who arrive to teach in New York City’s schools today.”

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It’s no secret to cinephiles that women’s stories have long been relegated to second-class status in Hollywood — either they’re considered “niche,” or they’re simply not told at all. To be sure, throughout the history of the movies, certain films from women’s perspectives have become hits and even classics. But the numbers don’t lie: The history of movies has largely been the history of men’s stories.

Fortunately, there are changes afoot. Though there’s still plenty of work to be done, the #TimesUp campaign, new women-led production companies, and other women-focused initiatives are encouraging equality all across the film industry.

And the way the film world is thinking about its history is changing, too. In New York City alone, the thriving repertory film scene has no fewer than four programs dedicated to films made by and about women, including one that centers on the work of female cinematographers, most of whom have gone largely unrecognized in the field. (Last year, Rachel Morrison became the first woman ever to be nominated for the Oscar in cinematography for Mudbound. She did not win.)

One program, held at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan’s East Village, is brimming with films focused on one topic: the “New York woman.”

“For this series, we exclusively selected films told from a female point of view; these are not movies where women are mere sidekicks or love interests, but the architects of their own narratives,” said the theater’s director of programming, C. Mason Wells. “One film that might spring to mind as a quintessential New York woman’s story is Annie Hall — until you remember that the entire movie is told from Alvy Singer’s eyes. We really tried to narrow the focus to films where the women are more than a plot device for the male protagonist.”

New York has been the setting for some of the most iconic and memorable women’s stories on both the small and big screen, from Sex and the City to Working Girl. But what connects them isn’t the genre so much as the variety of possible genres in which women’s New York stories can be told. “Living in NYC can be a tortured melodrama, a grand romance, a horror movie, a screwball comedy — sometimes all in the same day,” said Wells. “So it’s only natural to see the female experience in here fit comfortably into every one of these genres.”

What theme unites them all? “Resilience,” Wells notes. “Onscreen, the New York woman is a fighter — she can make it here, and she can make it anywhere.”

Not everyone can make it to New York to see the Quad’s series, which includes dozens of films and ends on July 19. But a number of the movies are available to stream at home for those who want to partake in the history of women’s cinema through the lens of the Big Apple.

Here are nine of the many worth checking out. (You can find the rest of the Quad’s list here.)

Catherine Keener and Anne Heche in Walking and Talking. Miramax

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This cult classic stars Catherine Keener and Anne Heche as Amelia and Laura, childhood best friends who now have high-powered careers in New York. Their relationship starts to morph once Laura becomes engaged and Amelia gets jealous. Directed by Nicole Holofcener — who would go on to make movies like Lovely and Amazing and Enough Said — Walking and Talking is peak 1990s, too, with a soundtrack that includes Billy Bragg, Yo La Tengo, and Liz Phair.

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Lauren Velez stars as Lisette, a young mother in a troubled marriage, who lands a job as the personal assistant to a major record label producer after her husband ends up in jail. The film shows her marriage struggles alongside charged workplace relationships. Set in the South Bronx, director Darnell Martin’s I Like It Like That was the first major studio film helmed by an African-American woman, and it premiered in the prestigious Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.

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Chantel Mitchell (Ariyan A. Johnson) is a troubled black teenager living in Brooklyn with her poor family. She cares for her two younger brothers and works part-time. She also is whip-smart with good grades, and wants to go to college — and then she becomes pregnant. Leslie Harris wrote and directed the low-budget film over just 17 days, and became the first African-American woman to negotiate a deal with a major motion picture company for its release.

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The third film in director Whit Stillman’s “doomed-bourgeois-in-love” trilogy (along with Metropolitan and Barcelona), Last Days of Disco stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny as recent college graduates working at a New York publishing firm by day and falling in and out of love in the early 1980s disco scene. It’s somehow charming and elegiac all at once, expertly catching both the freshness of youth and the feeling of a time period passing that you can never recapture once it’s gone.

A scene from Frederick Wiseman’s Model. Zipporah Films

Available to stream for free via Kanopy to cardholders in thousands of public library systems

Given how many young women (and men) arrive in New York with dreams of strutting down the catwalk, Frederick Wiseman’s documentary Model is essential viewing. Wiseman quietly observes the comings and goings of the people who work for Zoli Management Inc., an exclusive modeling agency in Manhattan. The models — and would-be models — interact with the business side of the agency, and the camera follows them into magazine shoots, fashion shows, advertising shoots, and much more.

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John Cassavetes trained his camera on frequent collaborator Gena Rowlands for Gloria, in which Rowlands plays a mobster’s girlfriend who must go on the run with her neighbor’s young son to keep him safe from a hit squad. The role netted critical acclaim for Rowlands, including nominations for both an Oscar and a Golden Globe,

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Barbara Stanwyck is luminous as Lily Powers in this film made before Hollywood’s Motion Picture Production Code became widely observed, effectively outlawing the representation of many “vices” in American cinema from the 1930s to the late 1960s. Powers works for her father in a speakeasy during Prohibition and sleeps with many of his customers at his behest.

The movie’s original 1933 release was a censored version of the film, but a restored version premiered in 2004, and in 2005 it was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress National Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

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Sandy Dennis plays Sylvia Barrett, a new graduate who’s just been hired to teach English at the fictional Calvin Coolidge High School in New York City, where many of the students are disruptive and troubled. (A junior high school in East Harlem provided the exteriors.) It’s an early twist on the common cinematic “magical teacher” trope that likely still rings true with the hordes of new graduates who arrive to teach in New York City’s schools today.

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Perhaps the most iconic of all New York women is Holly Golightly, the naive, eccentric sometimes call girl portrayed by Audrey Hepburn. Loosely based on the novella by Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s features the indelible scene in which Holly eats her morning bun and drinks her coffee while peering into the windows at Tiffany’s — the same windows you can peek into today, if you walk by them. It’s hard to imagine any film that captures the breathless melancholy of New York any better than this one.

Original Source -> 9 great movies that explain cinema’s fascination with New York women

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This is a CLASSIC early '70s (with a '60s sensibility) "period piece": The ever-soulful Mr. Booker T. Jones and his new bride, clearly deeply in love, and expressing it in very personal and yet very accessible music. A must for lovers of the late '60s, lovers of the early '70s, and lovers in general. A GREAT Valentine's Day gift from a guy to his lady.

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Hyperallergic: Weekend Words: Dawn

Solomon Delane, “A View near Tivoli at Dawn” (1777), oil on canvas, 71 x 91 cm, private collection (image via Web Gallery of Art)

Before dawn on July 26th, armed FBI agents staged a raid on the home of Paul Manafort, the former campaign director for Donald J. Trump.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

—Seneca the Elder

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

—Oscar Wilde

When the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn, appeared, we admired the island and wandered all over it, while the nymphs Jove’s daughters roused the wild goats that we might get some meat for our dinner.

—Homer, The Odyssey

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

—Isaac Newton

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

—Thornton Wilder

Unreal City Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, A crowd flowed over London Bridge, I hand not thought death had undone so many.

—T. S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”

People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled — secure from violent passions or temptations to evil — those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

—Eva Le Gallienne

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!

—William Wordsworth, “The French Revolution, as It Appeared to Enthusiasts”

It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

—Hubert H. Humphrey

All these crushing questions; but whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday.

—George Eliot, Middlemarch

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter: Sharp love has swollen me up with heady langours. O let my keel split! O let me sink to the bottom!

—Arthur Rimbaud, “The Drunken Boat”

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

—Victor Hugo

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night’s gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf; Each sleep-imprisoned creature breaks Its dreamy fetters, one by one, And love awakes, and labor wakes,— The morning comes before the sun.

—Susan Coolidge, “The Morning Comes Before The Sun”

I can taste the tin of the sky — the real tin thing. Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves. All night I have dreamed of destruction, annihilations.

—Sylvia Path, “Waking in Winter”

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle — absolute busyness — then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy — and without consciousness.

—Gunther Grass

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.

—H. G. Wells

Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you — you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

—Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

The song dream happened and the cloven hoofed piper Played in that holy ground where they felt the awe and wonder And they all were unafraid of the great god Pan

And the wind in the willows and the piper at the gates of dawn.

—Van Morrison, “Piper at the Gates of Dawn”

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

—Jim Morrison, “The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)”

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

—Emily Dickinson

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Seated Bodhisattva Târâ in her “Green Manifestation”, 15th century, Yongle period, HAM: Sculpture

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Hester C. Clapp and Susan C. Wolkoff in memory of their parents, Usher P. and Sylvia S. Coolidge Size: H. 17.7 x W. 11.0 x D. 9.0 cm (6 15/16 x 4 5/16 x 3 9/16 in.) Medium: Tibeto-Chinese Style; gilt bronze with an inscription reading "Da Ming Yonglenian shi"

https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/200407

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Movie Review - Up the Down Staircase

Up the Down Staircase Directed by Robert Mulligan 1967 available on Amazon Prime The story unfolds over the first three months of the school year at New York inner-city Calvin Coolidge High School. This is Sylvia Barrett’s (Sandy Dennis) first job. Barrett has problems balancing obedience of the adminstration’s bureaucracy and responsibility of teaching the not-so-dedicated students. It’s like a…