#Vera Atkins

[darkhorse-javert]

The Search

@flashfictionfridayofficial

Almost IRL writing as well as Foyle's War fanfic, because Vera Atkins (the inspiration for Hilda Pierce) did indeed go searching and tracing her missing agents across Europe.

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Winter 1945

They in London called it a Fools' Quest, in quite as many words.

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“Hilda, you haven't a chance, you've heard what the returnees have said, Nacht and Nebel, that's Gestapo work, to snatch and vanish people right out of existence.”

“Even the Gestapo keep records Ian, it had beena slip to use his first name, evening the level between them. “It's in the German psyche to keep things recorded and organised. - even if only to gloat over.”

“Records they'd been burning since they started to lose the war!” he'd all but shouted. “All the more in the last few months, and that's besides what our bombing hadn't already helped them with.”

She'd heard, and ignored him, unpinning a map from the wall and folding it up as she carried it to the bag she'd placed on her desk, only then turned herself to face him “I'm going, Mr Woodhead, never mind what you say. I'm going to find them. The people in Germany haven't got time with their other duties? I – I have time,”

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Or at least, what happened to them - she thinks, looking down at the grey Channel waves – It's likely many are dead, some have been missing from trace for so long, and from what we hear of the camps, surviving would be a wonder. But they might be.

If the records are gone, well there are people who will remember. Fellow prisoners, the guards, the officials, people will know. Must remember... I'll look and question as long as I have to.

[kopfkino-o]

"Elain is too soft and weak to ever be a spy--"

I feel like it's very fair for me to say that when myself, and many other Elriels, say "Spy Elain" we do not mean Elain turning into 007 so she can run around Prythian in the dark like a stabby stabby girl boss

We mean spies like the women spies from WWII.

Spies like Vera Atkins, Noor Inayat Khan, and the infamous Nancy Wake who was described as "the most feminine woman I knew--until the fighting started".

Women who leaned into stereotypes of the time to position themselves close to the enemy without being detected. Women who helped the resistance by gathering intel from bars and bakeries and city squares where Axis forces were known to gather. Women who collected intel and carried messages to and from the front lines all while wearing dresses, their intel concealed in shopping baskets or on their own persons. Women who were viewed as weak or passive, women who were never believed to be a threat because of their feminity and outward appearances.

Women who were underestimated just like Elain.

[renyfisher]

who are ur favorite actors

Firstly thank you dear for your question. Secondly, OH MY GOODNESS, I have MANY!!, I need to think 🤣 I think I need to make two groups to make my brain function 🤣🤣 sooo…

American: Patti (obviously 🥰) Carrie Fisher🤍, Jean Smart, Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Kate Mulgrew, Rebecca Wisocky, Debbie Reynolds🤍, Betty White🤍, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jamie Lee Curtis, Diane Keaton, Shirley MacLaine, Leslie Easterbrook, Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Audra McDonald, Sigourney Weaver, Mary Steenburgen, Candice Bergen, Jessica Lange, Frances Conroy, Glenn Close, Bette Midler, Kathy Bates, Jodie Foster, Holland Taylor, Angela Bassett, Frances McDormand, Annette Bening, Eve Best, Julianne Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laura Dern, Cate Blanchett, Vera Farmiga, Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathaway, Viola Davis, Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Queen Latifah, Sarah Paulson, Wendie Malick, Kirstie Alley🤍, Georgia Engel🤍, Debra Jo Rupp, Bea Arthur🤍, Rue McClanahan🤍, Estelle Getty🤍, Lauren Lane, Fran Drescher, Lainie Kazan, Cassandra Peterson, Andrea Martin, Della Reese🤍, Roma Downey.

English: Julie Andrews, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith🤍, Imelda Staunton, Penelope Wilton, Phyllis Logan(I know she is Scottish😆), Celia Imrie, Alex Kingston, Catherine Tate, Elisabeth Sladen🤍, Olivia Colman, Helena Bonham Carter, Helen McCrory🤍, Julie Walters, Lesley Manville, Miranda Richardson, Emma Thompson, Angela Lansbury🤍, Helen Mirren, Raquel Cassidy, Eileen Atkins, Vanessa Redgrave, Joanna Lumley, Zoë Wanamaker, Miriam Margolyes, Joan Plowright, Samantha Bond, Geraldine James, Adjoa Andoh, Ruth Gemmell, Polly Walker, Golda Rosheuvel, Nicola Coughlan(she is Irish I know😌), Gillian Anderson, Anna Chancellor, Jenny Agutter, Georgie Glen, Linda Bassett, Harriet Walter, Miranda Hart, Joan Collins, Lindsay Duncan, Suranne Jones, Eva Green, Julie Graham, Catherine Rabett, Susie Brann.

I think that’s it but I’m not sure 😅 my brain just broke 🫠

I’m soo wired 🤣

[dannyreviews]

Veteran British born/based film/TV actors born before and including 1937 still alive:

With the recent death of Dame Maggie Smith, I thought I'd detail the legendary actors of UK cinema and television that are still living.

Beulah Garrick (b. 1921)

Elizabeth Kelly (b. 1921)

Elisabeth Kirkby (b. 1921)

Annabel Maule (b. 1922)

Paul Harding (b. 1923)

Vincent Ball (b. 1923)

David Lawton (b. 1923)

Anne Vernon (b. 1924)

Laurie Webb (b. 1924)

Thelma Ruby (b. 1925)

Pete Murray (b. 1925)

Michael Beint (b. 1925)

Shelia Mitchell (b. 1925)

Kerima (b. 1925)

David Attenborough (b. 1926)

Elizabeth Benson (b. 1926)

Margaret Barton (b. 1926)

Terry Kilburn (b. 1926)

Stanley Baxter (b. 1926)

David Frankham (b. 1926)

William Glover (b. 1926)

Josephine Stuart (b. 1926)

Patricia Davidson (b. 1926)

Glen Michael (b. 1926)

Araby Lockhart (b. 1926)

Eileen Page (b. 1926)

Rosemary Harris (b. 1927)

Cleo Laine (b. 1927)

Lee Montague (b. 1927)

Genevieve Page (b. 1927)

Neville Phillips (b. 1927)

Jean Lodge (b. 1927)

Barbara Ashcroft (b. 1927)

Jill Freud (b. 1927)

Jean Southern (b. 1927)

Antonia Pemberton (b. 1927)

Peter Cellier (b. 1928)

Jeanette Landis (b. 1928)

Sheila Ballantine (b. 1928)

Dorothea Phillips (b. 1928)

Jeannie Carson (b. 1928)

Hazel Ascot (b. 1928)

Brenda Hogan (b. 1928)

Raymond Llewelyn (b. 1928)

Pauline Brailsford (b. 1928)

Leonard Weir (b. 1928)

Kevin Scott (b. 1928)

Patricia Routledge (b. 1929)

Colin Jeavons (b. 1929)

Michael Craig (b. 1929)

Thelma Barlow (b. 1929)

Peter Myers (b. 1929)

Paul Williamson (b. 1929)

John Gale (b. 1929)

Phillip Ross (b. 1929)

Jimmy Fagg (b. 1929)

Hazel Phillips (b. 1929)

Mignon Elkins (b. 1929)

Margaret Stallard (b. 1929)

Maya Koumani (b. 1929)

Clive Revill (b. 1930)

Roy Evans (b. 1930)

Una McLean (b. 1930)

Roddy Maude-Roxby (b. 1930)

Ruth Trouncer (b. 1930)

Cyril Appleton (b. 1930)

Vera Frances (b. 1930)

Gary Watson (b. 1930)

Keith Alexander (b. 1930)

Libby Morris (b. 1930)

Pauline Jefferson (b. 1930)

Claire Bloom (b. 1931)

Leslie Caron (b. 1931)

Carroll Baker (b. 1931)

Virginia McKenna (b. 1931)

Vivian Pickles (b. 1931)

Stanley Meadows (b. 1931)

Gerald Harper (b. 1931)

Patricia Greene (b. 1931)

Ellen McIntosh (b. 1931)

Elvi Hale (b. 1931)

Maureen Connell (b. 1931)

June Laverick (b. 1931)

Denyse Alexander (b. 1931)

Arthur Nightingale (b. 1931)

Eileen Derbyshire (b. 1931)

Carl Held (b. 1931)

Shelia Bernette (b. 1931)

George Eugeniou (b. 1931)

Corinne Skinner-Carter (b. 1931)

Tusse Silberg (b. 1931)

Petula Clark (b. 1932)

Prunella Scales (b. 1932)

Phyllida Law (b. 1932)

Ray Cooney (b. 1932)

Edward De Souza (b. 1932)

Alan Dobie (b. 1932)

John Turner (b. 1932)

Roland Curram (b. 1932)

Gabriel Woolf (b. 1932)

Johnnie Wade (b. 1932)

Eileen Moore (b. 1932)

Laurie Leigh (b. 1932)

William Roache (b. 1932)

Athol Fugard (b. 1932)

Carmen Munroe (b. 1932)

Norman Bowler (b. 1932)

Marcia Ashton (b. 1932)

Thelma Holt (b. 1932)

Sally Bazely (b. 1932)

Ronald France (b. 1932)

Edwina Carroll (b. 1932)

Michael Caine (b. 1933)

Joan Collins (b. 1933)

Sian Phillips (b. 1933)

Sheila Hancock (b. 1933)

Elizabeth Seal (b. 1933)

Shani Willis (b. 1933)

Patrick Godfrey (b. 1933)

Caroline Blakiston (b. 1933)

Donald Douglas (b. 1933)

Ann Firbank (b. 1933)

Vera Day (b. 1933)

Tsai Chin (b. 1933)

Geoffrey Frederick (b. 1933)

Marla Landi (b. 1933)

Monte Landis (b. 1933)

Mary Germaine (b. 1933)

Ruth Posner (b. 1933)

Barbara Archer (b. 1933)

W.B. Brydon (b. 1933)

Robert Gillespie (b. 1933)

Brian Patton (b. 1933)

Arthur White (b. 1933)

Barbara Archer (b. 1933)

Sally Bazley (b. 1933)

Madhur Jaffrey (b. 1933)

Jeanette Sterke (b. 1933)

Ann Rogers (b. 1933)

Barbara Knox (b. 1933)

John Boorman (b. 1933)

Derek Martin (b. 1933)

Michael Aspel (b. 1933)

Bill Edwards (b. 1933)

Ninette Finch (b. 1933)

Una Kay (b. 1933)

Pat Galloway (b. 1933)

Judi Dench (b. 1934)

Eileen Atkins (b. 1934)

Tom Baker (b. 1934)

Alan Bennett (b. 1934)

Jean Marsh (b. 1934)

Annette Crosbie (b. 1934)

Wendy Craig (b. 1934)

Richard Chamberlain (b. 1934)

Millicent Martin (b. 1934)

John Standing (b. 1934)

Vernon Dobtcheff (b. 1934)

Nanette Newman (b. 1934)

David Burke (b. 1934)

Geraldine Newman (b. 1934)

Renny Lister (b. 1934)

Priscilla Morgan (b. 1934)

Audrey Dalton (b. 1934)

Leila Hoffman (b. 1934)

Simone Lovell (b. 1934)

Magda Miller (b. 1934)

Robert Aldous (b. 1934)

Ram John Holder (b. 1934)

Jamila Massey (b. 1934)

Margaretta D’Arcy (b. 1934)

Leslie Saeward (b. 1934)

Maurice Podbrey (b. 1934)

Steve Emerson (b. 1934)

Peter Bland (b. 1934)

Michael Darlow (b. 1934)

Barbara Archer (b. 1934)

Joy Webster (b. 1934)

Jacqueline Ellis (b. 1934)

Jacqueline Jones (b. 1934)

Diana Payan (b. 1934)

Gillian Eddison (b. 1934)

Suzanne Lloyd (b. 1934)

Julie Andrews (b. 1935)

Julian Glover (b. 1935)

Jim Dale (b. 1935)

Anne Reid (b. 1935)

James Bolam (b. 1935)

Christina Pickles (b. 1935) 

Judy Parfitt (b. 1935)

Wanda Ventham (b. 1935)

Amanda Barrie (b. 1935)

Derren Nesbitt (b. 1935)

Nadim Swalha (b. 1935)

Gary Raymond (b. 1935)

Janet Henfrey (b. 1935)

Melvyn Hayes (b. 1935)

Susan Engel (b. 1935)

Amanda Walker (b. 1935)

Delena Kidd (b. 1935)

Derek Partridge (b. 1935)

Allister Bain (b. 1935)

Derry Power (b. 1935)

Phyllis MacMahon (b. 1935)

Rowena Cooper (b. 1935)

Lisa Gastoni (b. 1935)

Derek Partridge (b. 1935)

Jill Dixon (b. 1935)

Des Keough (b. 1935)

Barbara Angell (b. 1935)

Lucille Soong (b. 1935)

Anita West (b. 1935)

June Watson (b. 1935)

David Daker (b. 1935)

Shirley Cain (b. 1935)

Bobby Pattinson (b. 1935)

George Roubicek (b. 1935)

Glenn Beck (b. 1935)

Shirley Greenwood (b. 1935)

Isabella Rye (b. 1935)

Anna Barry (b. 1935)

David Andrews (b. 1935)

Michael Danvers-Walker (b. 1935)

Brian Blessed (b. 1936)

Richard Wilson (b. 1936)

Tommy Steele (b. 1936)

Edward Petherbridge (b. 1936) 

Ursula Andress (b. 1936)

John Leyton (b. 1936)

Jess Conrad (b. 1936)

Elizabeth Shepherd (b. 1936)

Sandra Voe (b. 1936)

Doug Sheldon (b. 1936)

John Golightly (b. 1936)

Peter Ellis (b. 1936)

Andria Lawrence (b. 1936)

Jon Laurimore (b. 1936)

Tony Scoggo (b. 1936)

Barry MacGregor (b. 1936)

Frank Barrie (b. 1936)

Kenneth Farrington (b. 1936)

Eileen McCallum (b. 1936)

Frederick Pyne (b. 1936)

Philip Lowrie (b. 1936)

Marian Diamond (b. 1936)

Anthony Higginson (b. 1936)

Elsie Kelly (b. 1936)

Ann Taylor (b. 1936)

Heidi Erich (b. 1936)

Keith Faulkner (b. 1936)

Ruth Meyers (b. 1936)

Julia Blake (b. 1936)

Heather Downham (b. 1936)

Robin Gammell (b. 1936)

Auriol Smith (b. 1936)

Frances White (b. 1936)

Anthony Hopkins (b. 1937)

Edward Fox (b. 1937)

Vanessa Redgrave (b. 1937)

Tom Courtenay (b. 1937)

Steven Berkoff (b. 1937)

Susan Hampshire (b. 1937)

Barbara Steele (b. 1937)

Shirley Eaton (b. 1937)

Kenneth Colley (b. 1937)

Ian Hogg (b. 1937)

Sheila Reid (b. 1937)

Valerie Singleton (b. 1937)

Suzy Kendall (b. 1937)

Gawn Grainger (b. 1937)

Tom Georgeson (b. 1937)

Alan Rothwell (b. 1937)

Michael Knowles (b. 1937)

Jocelyn Lane (b. 1937)

Michael Kilgarriff (b. 1937)

Clifton Jones (b. 1937)

Paul Collins (b. 1937)

Anna Dawson (b. 1937)

Marlene Sidaway (b. 1937)

Jeremy Spenser (b. 1937)

Freddie Davies (b. 1937)

Justine Lord (b. 1937)

Davyd Harries (b. 1937)

Hugh Futcher (b. 1937)

Anne Cunningham (b. 1937)

Anne Aubrey (b. 1937)

Vic Taliban (b. 1937)

Dorothy Paul (b. 1937)

Denis Tuohy (b. 1937)

Claire Neilson (b. 1937)

Patricia Collins (b. 1937)

Jan Waters (b. 1937)

Dorothy Paul (b. 1937)

Brian Grellis (b. 1937)

Kenneth Alan Taylor (b. 1937)

Yvonne Buckingham (b. 1937)

Eileen Helsby (b. 1937)

Ray Donn (b. 1937)

Terrence Scammell (b. 1937)

Pauline Devaney (b. 1937)

Rosie Bannister (b. 1937)

Jeanne Roland (b. 1937)

William Gaunt (b. 1937)

Rosaleen Linehan (b. 1937)

Norman Coburn (b. 1937)

Rosie Bannister (b. 1937)

Luciana Paluzzi (b. 1937)

[fashionbooksmilano]

Flowers & Mushrooms

Essays by M. Harder, M. Moschik, T. Teufel, P. Weiermair, V. Ziegelmaier et al.

Hirmer Verlag, München 2013, 256 pages, 24x28,5cm, ISBN 9783777421605

euro 40,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Flowers and Mushrooms takes readers inside the rich and diverse symbolism of its eponymous subjects. Flowers have at times stood for freshness and fertility, transience and death. In addition to its ubiquitous and much-maligned image as a hallucinogen, the mushroom has throughout history signified health and life and served as an important symbol within religious ritual. In recent years though, flowers and mushrooms have become a focus in contemporary art, with artists manipulating the many clichés that surround them and adapting their representation to produce new and unexpected layers of meaning, from social criticism to feminism and the conceptual framework of the erotic. Among the leading plant portraitists are the Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss, whose series of forty photographs epitomize the potential to shed new light on familiar objects by presenting them in unusual context.

The exhibition at MdM Museum der Moderne - Salzburg presents works from Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna Atkins, Eliška Bartek, Christopher Beane, Karl Blossfeldt, Lou Bonin-Tchimoukoff, Balthasar Burkhard, Giovanni Gastel, Georgia Creimer, Imogen Cunningham, Nathalie Djurberg, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Seiichi Furuya, Ernst Haas, Carsten Höller, Judith Huemer, Dieter Huber, Rolf Koppel, August Kotzsch, David LaChapelle, Edwin Hale Lincoln, Chen Lingyang, Vera Lutter, Katharina Malli, Robert Mapplethorpe, Elfriede Mejchar, Moritz Meurer, Paloma Navares, Nam June Paik, Marc Quinn, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Zeger Reyers, Pipilotti Rist, August Sander, Gitte Schäfer, Shirana Shahbazi, Luzia Simons, Thomas Stimm, Robert von Stockert, William Henry Fox Talbot, Diana Thater, Stefan Waibel, Xiao Hui Wang, Andy Warhol, Alois Auer von Welsbach, Michael Wesely, Manfred Willmann, Andrew Zuckerman.

07/03/24

[gwyns]

“I feel like it's very fair for me to say that when myself, and many other Elriels, say "Spy Elain" we do not mean Elain turning into 007 so she can run around Prythian in the dark like a stabby stabby girl boss. We mean spies like the women spies from WWII. Spies like Vera Atkins, Noor Inayat Khan, and the infamous Nancy Wake who was described as "the most feminine woman I knew--until the fighting started. Women who leaned into stereotypes of the time to position themselves close to the enemy without being detected. Women who helped the resistance by gathering intel from bars and bakeries and city squares where Axis forces were known to gather. Women who collected intel and carried messages to and from the front lines all while wearing dresses, their intel concealed in shopping baskets or on their own persons. Women who were viewed as weak or passive, women who were never believed to be a threat because of their feminity and outward appearances. Women who were underestimated just like Elain.”

“Women who were underestimated just like Elain” and you know who does underestimate Elain? Azriel. Amren actually called him out on this in ACOSF. And I’ve seen E/riel’s say that they want Elain to stay soft and feminine, but they keep having her wear leathers or come up with theories of her and Gwydion. But Elain being a spy (one like Sorscha/not wielding a weapon) still doesn’t make sense given her characterization. Elain wants to be seen.

uh yeah? pretty much everyone knows that spying doesn't equal being a warrior, like hello?? they can overlap, yes, but clearly that's not the standard. that's why cassian had such an issue with it, he's a warrior through and through... and this e/riel thought they ate? we're not stupid. they're the ones going around screaming about spy elain while also tacking warrior traits onto that and making content of her with swords, in leathers, with blood dripping down her face. like that is not elain, honey! don't try to condescend to me when i know what the majority of your fandom does

this doesn't change the fact that elain has not once in canon showed us she gives a shit about spying. azriel has also not shown any indication that he's giving her "secret lessons"... funny how that only came up after THE CANON moment of him giving gwyn private lessons was mentioned, but no it has zero correlation with that, i'm sure! elain has always been a secret spy, warrior, princess of the court of nightmares, ruler of the dusk court, wielder of gwyndion and mother incarnate

[celestedoesarttm]

*runs in panting*

ASK GAME TIMe

*throws a piece of soggy paper that says 🍄🤡 at you*

ACK—

🍄Describe your WIP/one of your WIPs as “ ___+___=___”

right now I’m working on a fairytale/myth sort of story for Red Sun in order to dip my toes into the whole “writing mythos” thing. It’s basically

Pretty, archaic writing + “I f*cked a mermaid” love story = Sweet Matthieu

🤡How many WIPs are you actively working on

Ooh! This one’s a killer for a multimedia artist. Let’s see…

1 new piece of music (Sparky’s Theme [liable to change]), technically 2 if we count all of the The Tent Looks Bigger at Night remixes I’ve been messing around with??

3 animations/animatics (It’s Only Chemistry by Nicole Atkins/Anhilde divorce 💔, Boys Will Be Bugs a by Cavetown/Rory’s World, and a stupid joke animatic of Ivain and Eilos trying to fight that has South Park audio)

5 WIP fics that I’m currently actively working on (Sweet Matthieu, Gunhilde teaching Annie how to shoot, a Vera/Cyrus piece that doubles as lore exposition, a little YMB fluffy thing, and a [relatively] longer fic about Ash going to Mass with Kat and being tormented by his demon. We love a feel good piece to top it all off 🥰)

Thanks for playing!!

[incohorace]

tell me ab something you’re writing rn!!!!

so i just started working on a wip that has been discarded for a while and i'm very excited so i'll show you the characters <3

elias digby, an aspiring engineer (it's complicated)

andrew spencer, an airship pilot (he just got fired because he found out something he shouldn't)

nora atkins, an heiress and skilled mathematician, and andrew's best friend

adrien bennet, the owner of merlin motors, a car company

other than them, there's sir hugh fitzgerald, a powerful airship magnate, isambard bannister, a cult leader and vera bell, a fortune teller.

the story is set in an alternate 1920s london, where there are a lot more airships mostly because of how powerful fitzgerald air is, and as a result the airplane has made less progress.

against this backdrop fitzgerald (who is secretly obsessed with immortality) and isambard's ancient cult compete to awake the primordial beings lying dormant beneath a mysterious monolith in the centre of westminster (where big ben is in our world). elias, andrew, nora and adrien try to stop them and also end up inventing the modern airplane. good for them <3

^ here's the opening!! i love love love that first paragraph especially

[bloodyfairy83]

Maniac Cop - Poliziotto sadico (William Lustig, 1988)

Un misterioso poliziotto terrorizza gli abitanti di New York compiendo efferati crimini. I sospetti cadono sull'agente Jack Forrest, ma il tenente McCrae che si occupa del caso è convinto che il responsabile dei delitti sia qualcun altro.

Diretto da William Lustig ( noto per il suo rude slasher "Maniac") e scritto da Larry Cohen, "Maniac Cop - Poliziotto sadico" è sicuramente un buon b-movie che non brilla per originalità ma è considerato un piccolo cult amato dagli appassionati dell'horror nonostante il cattivo in questione non sia diventato una vera e propria icona horror. Maniac Cop mischia l'azione e il poliziesco allo slasher, creando un clima di tensione grazie anche all'ambientazione cupa e inquietante.

La scelta del villain in divisa da poliziotto inoltre funziona alla grande, difatti la paura e la diffidenza verso chi dovrebbe proteggere i cittadini fa nascere una vera e propria psicosi collettiva. Degna di nota anche la scelta degli attori principali: Jack Forrest il poliziotto sospettato per i crimini interpretato dal mitico Bruce Campbell affiancato da Tom Atkins, nel ruolo del detective Frank McCrae e Laurene Landon che interpreta Theresa Mallory la coraggiosa collega e amante di Jack Forrest.

Avrei sicuramente preferito qualche sequenza più cruenta e sanguinosa e un po' meno action ma tralasciando questo il film riesce comunque ad intrattenere e divertire lo spettatore senza annoiare.

Qualche anno dopo Lustig girerà i sequel: "Maniac Cop 2 - Il poliziotto maniaco" nel 1990 e nel 1992 l'ultimo della trilogia "Maniac Cop 3 - Il distintivo del silenzio".

Qualche anno fa invece si vociferava di una serie tv per la HBO diretta e prodotta da Nicolas Winding Refn basata sulla trilogia... staremo a vedere.

[carmenvicinanza]

Sarah Vaughan

https://www.unadonnalgiorno.it/sarah-vaughan/

Sarah Vaughan è stata una vera leggenda del jazz, cantante e pianista, ha inciso oltre cinquanta dischi.

Quattro volte vincitrice dei Grammy Award, incluso un Lifetime Achievement Award, nel 1989 il National Endowment for the Arts, le ha conferito il NEA Jazz Masters Award, la più alta onorificenza statunitense del genere jazz.

Nacque a Newark il 27 marzo 1924 in una famiglia di umili origini che amava la musica, sua madre cantava nel coro della chiesa e suo padre suonava la chitarra e il pianoforte che lei iniziò a studiare a soli tre anni. Da bambina si esibiva come organista e solista del coro di una chiesa battista. A quindici anni lasciò la scuola per dedicarsi completamente alla musica.

A diciotto anni vinse un concorso canoro al mitico Apollo Theater di Harlem che le consentì di aprire il concerto di Ella Fitzgerald dove fu notata dal cantante Billy Eckstine che la fece entrare nell’orchestra diretta da Earl Hines.

La sua carriera da solista è iniziata nel 1945.

Ha inciso dischi con i più grandi musicisti e compositori di tutti i tempi come Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis e sfornato un successo dopo l’altro. Molte sono le sue canzoni rimaste nella storia della musica di tutti i tempi.

Aveva una profonda carica interpretativa e la capacità di controllare ogni dettaglio, dall’intensità del vibrato e del volume, all’articolazione delle sillabe. Una parte della critica la giudicava troppo manierata, accusandola di crogiolarsi troppo nei virtuosismi, ma lei riusciva sempre a stupire il suo pubblico, trasmettendo il suo enorme potenziale attraverso ogni tipo di repertorio.

In bilico tra la passione e le esigenze del mercato, Sarah Vaughan ostentava una forte personalità ma in realtà era fragile, insicura e dipendente da fumo e droghe. Sboccata e impertinente i colleghi le avevano appioppato vari soprannomi come Sailor e Sassy, il pubblico, invece, la chiamava La Divina.

Una profonda amicizia l’ha legata al suo mentore Billy Eckstine, con il quale ha realizzato storici duetti e che chiamava padre e anche my blood (il mio sangue). Erano talmente uniti che, alla notizia della sua morte, l’uomo subì un colpo apoplettico.

Nella sua travagliata e sofferta vita sentimentale si è sposata per ben quattro volte. Il primo è stato il trombettista George Treadwell che divenne anche il suo manager e ne decise il look, capelli, abiti e addirittura le fece cambiare la dentatura. Il secondo è stato il giocatore di football Clyde Atkins con cui, nel 1961 adottò una bambina, Debra Lois, attrice cinematografica nota col nome d’arte Paris Vaughan. Il loro matrimonio fu breve perché lui era un violento. Ha sposato poi Marshall Fisher, ristoratore di Las Vegas e ancora il trombettista Waymon Reed.

Sarah Vaughan è morta a Hidden Hills, il 3 aprile 1990, aveva sessantasei anni.

L’anno successivo la musicista Carmen McRae l’ha omaggiata col disco Dedicated to Sarah, in cui ha interpretato i suoi maggiori successi. Sempre nel 1991 si è tenuto un tributo alla Carnegie Hall che ha visto l’esibizione di importanti musicisti e musiciste.

Dal 1998 è presente nella Hall of Fame con due dischi, l’album Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown del 1954 e il singolo If You Could See Me Now del 1946.

Nel 2003 Berkeley e San Francisco hanno proclamato il 27 marzo, sua data di nascita, il Sarah Lois Vaughan Day.

Nel 2016 le è stata dedicata la versione 4.7 della piattaforma WordPress.

[multifandotakugirl]

The Prankster

Alice Jane "AJ" Wilson Amber Corbin Anastasia "Ana" Lewis Andrews "Andre" Adair Anna Branson April Holt Astrid "Sassa" Isbert Blair Parker Bree Winters Carson Elliot Cherry McLaine Constance "Connie" Willis Cory Pierson Devonne "Devon" Flynn Ethan Morton Evangeline "Eva" Flynn Gabriella "Ella" Finn Dahlia Hills Isadora "Izzy" Night Jasmine "Jaz" Asher Kalista "Kallie" Ryans Katyona "Katya" Egorovna Kaycee "KC" Bethel Lyssa Dexter Mackenzie "Kenzie" Lewis Mallory "Mal" Hale Marina "Mara" Morozova Mercedes "Mercy" Orlando Mia Hills Michaela "Mickie" Griffin Nadine "Nadia" C. Mitchell Paris Stein Parker Howell Quintana "Quinn" Jones Reid Swayde Rowan Esteriac Sadie Lightborn Vega McLaren Vera Moen Emily Hiller Rickie Howell Damon Howell Ezra Howell Salvador Martell Medus Martell Harper Gardner Gabriel "Gabe" Flynn

The Victim of the Prank

Alessia Emerson Alexandra "Xandra" Dexter Allyson "Ally" Conrad Alyona "Aly" Levina Anastasia "Asia" Atkins Andrea "Drea" Adair Athena "Nina" Ivanova Audrey Laurent Bastet "Bast" Blackwell Bella Sawyer Briar Gillan Callum "Cal" K. Mitchell Cecilia "Cee" Bryson Clarabelle "CB" Jean Claudia "Clo" Marisol Cleo Walter Cyan Lightborn Daphne Elliot Faith Mitski "Amber Rothman" Gabrielle "Rielle" Finn Grace Kensington Hailee Flynn Ingrid Flores Irene Willis Juno Amsel Kalina Rachkova Laura Orlando Leona DeMarco Logan Parker Maeve Pierson Micah Steinhelm Morgan "Morri" Thorne Phaedra Martell Psyche Lyria Raina Grey Rebecca "Becca" Lewis Reigna Lightborn Riley Swayde Roxana "Roxy" Twain Sasha Nikorova Sielle Duvall Silvia "Silvy" Kingston Simon Esteriac Sonia Branson Tamsin "Amsi" Dallas-Henderson Teagan Night Wren Valentino "Lucille 'Lucy' Rose" Yuliya "Yulia" Agapova Yvette "Ivy" Hollis Zoe Holloway Christy Howell Helena Howell Maximus "Max" Flynn

Is your OC be more likely to be the prankster, or the victim of the prank?

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[missr3n3]

I've invented names for Joe's family based on what you've revealed about them, but without making it seem the parents were intending to insult their kids by what they chose to name them. (For context, I was bedridden for the past two days because of measles and stuff like this was the only thing my fever would let me concentrate on)

2nd youngest sis - Cherish Mara Atkin [Meaning: care for but bitter] (Cherish = caring, care for ; Mara = bitter/bitterness)

Eldest brother - Uther Atkin [Meaning: Terrible] (Uther = Terrible)

Eldest sister - Amalee Aarya Atkin [Meaning: Expected respect] (Amalee = Expected, strived for ; Aarya = Noble, respect)

2nd eldest bro - Ethan Brutus Atkin [Meaning: Strong but dull] (Ethan = Strong, firm ; Brutus = Dull, heavy)

Grandma - Sagira Ophelie Atkin [Meaning: Little help] (Sagira = Little one ; Ophelie = Help, benefit)

Grandpa - Lorcan Esra Atkin [Meaning: Little help] (Lorcan = Little fierce one ; Esra = Help, God is my helper)

2nd youngest bro - Ero Atkin [Meaning: Desire] (Eros / Ero = Desire, love)

Youngest sis - Everlyn Vera Atkin [Meaning: Desire but faithful or Desired faith] (Everlyn = Desire, desired one ; Vera = Faith, truth)

Youngest brother(?) - Cassidy Atkin [Meaning: Clever] (Cassidy = Clever, curly-haired) Hope these didn't sound ugly lol

these are some vry cool names!

however now that i'm thinking abt it, i actually think the atkin siblings would have that thing where all their names start with the same first letter, and joe continued that trend by suggesting the name joshua for his kid lol

[valkyries-things]

VERA ATKINS // SOE AGENT

“She was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer who worked in the France section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during WWII. After the war, she was awarded a CBE. Her primary role in SOE was the recruitment and deployment of British agents in occupied France. Although not popular with many of her colleagues, Atkins was trusted by Buckmaster for her integrity, exceptional memory and good organisational skills. After the liberation of France and allied victory in Europe, she went to both France and German to uncover the fates of the fifty-one still unaccounted for F Section agents of the 118 who had disappeared in enemy territory.”

[susanredfearn]

I loved this episode but I did not like Castle's 1940s P.I.'s voice.

"Castle: It happened backstage, right upstairs. They were stealing a moment together which was dangerous because she was Dempsey’s girl. As they stared into each other’s eyes, Kate’s heart quickened... Beckett: Did you just say "Kate"? Are you picturing the PI as you and me as a gangster’s moll? Castle: What?! No! And I didn't say "Kate", I said "fate". Fate’s heart quickened. I was being poetic. God. Anyway, as I was saying, they were just about to kiss when..."

There are a couple more episodes in Seasons 7 and 8 that Richard Castle uses the 1940s P.I. voice, too, but I don't remember which ones they were.

Kate Beckett (Stana Katic) is perfect at playing the moll in this version of a Noir-type episode. I wished that she played similar characters much like Vera/Viola Maddox. If you liked this sub-character of Kate, you should check out Stana's movie called 'Liberté: A Call to Spy' where she plays Vera May Atkins (née Vera Maria Rosenberg) who was a Romanian-born British Intelligence officer who worked in the France Section of the Special Operations Executive (1941-1945) during WWII. Stana Katic was made to play these strong women who impacted females who came after them.

4x14 - The Blue Butterfly

[brn1029]

Time for your Rock Report

Roger Waters is set to drop The Lockdown Sessions, an album of material recorded during the pandemic, on CD and vinyl on June 2. The Lockdown Sessions was produced by Waters and Gus Seyffert and feature five seminal tracks from Waters' time with Pink Floyd and his solo career. The tracks on the album include "Mother" and "Vera" from The Wall; "Two Suns In The Sunset" and "The Gunner's Dream" from Waters final Pink Floyd album, The Final Cut; and "The Bravery of Being Out Of Range" from his highly acclaimed solo album, Amused To Death. Additionally, Waters' new version of the classic Pink Floyd song "Comfortably Numb" features as the final track on the project.

Rock legends the Rolling Stones recently shared a newly restored music video for "Child of the Moon." "Child of the Moon," which was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, was released as the B-side track to the band's superhit song "Jumpin' Jack Flash." The video, which was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, was originally shot in 1968. It features all five original members of the band, along with actress Dame Eileen June Atkins. The video is now being released in both a standard color and a 4K resolution black and white version. The band has previously shared restored videos for "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "We Love You," "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" and "2000 Light Years From Home," with more expected to drop this year.