#Vincent Barbier

[dijonbeaune]

Jean-François Curie, nouveau Grand Maître des Chevaliers du Tastevin

[alessandro55]

Non Solo Erté Not Only Erté

Angelo Luerti

Saggio introduttivo di Vittoria Crespi Morbio

Costume Desogn for the Paris Music Hall 198-1940

Guido Tamoni Editore, Schio (Vi) 2006, 288 pagine, 24,5x34,5, ril. in cofanetto

euro 95,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

Il volume intende illustrare l'attività di quei numerosi disegnatori per le riviste dei grandi music-hall di Parigi che, per snobismo artistico ed intellettuale, sono stati a lungo negletti a causa dell'impiego secondario cui erano destinati i loro modelli. Tra questi, Gesmar, un formidabile genio della grafica che impresse all'arte del costume un impulso pari a quello prodotto da Bakst pochi anni prima per i Balletti Russi; Ranson e Zinoview, due grandi eredi di quella tradizione, Czettel, allievo unico di Bakst divenuto più tardi capo disegnatore all'Opera di Vienna; Zig, degno successore di Gesmar anche nell'arte del manifesto; l'ungherese Gyarmathy, autore d'invenzioni sceniche adottate da molti teatri; l'olandese Wittop divenuto in seguito il primo disegnatore di Broadway; Halouze creatore dello "Stile 1925", l'inglese Dolly Tree, uno dei grandi talenti dell'epoca d'oro della creatività, Dessés divenuto più tardi un noto stilista e maestro di Guy Laroche e di Valentino, il milanese Montedoro subentrato in seguito a Vincente Minnelli come capo disegnatore del Radio City Music Hall, per citare solo alcuni. Lo stesso Erté fu vittima per 30 anni di questa tendenza all'emarginazione. Riscoperto nel 1965 in occasione del più generale recupero dell'Art Déco, ora è universalmente apprezzato per la qualità dei suoi disegni, nel frattempo assurti, per il loro valore storico, artistico ed estetico, al rango di vere opere d'arte. L'opera si propone di rendere omaggio ai suoi non meno creativi e qualificati contemporanei, che per obiettive carenze informative sul loro percorso e contributo artistico (ora in gran parte colmate), non furono pur meritandolo oggetto di analoghi studi e altrettanti onori. Va detto che nessuno di costoro visse a lungo quanto Erté, morto nel 1990 all'età di 98 anni: quando giunse il gran momento, il suo archivio era l'unico ricco di disegni originali e documenti a disposizione dei critici teatrali e degli storici. Degli altri grandi artisti, selezionati tra i migliori disegnatori europei, si era persa quasi ogni traccia essendo scomparsi quasi tutti prima della fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale; di alcuni era noto solo l'acronimo, di altri s'ignorava persino la nazionalità e assai poco si sapeva sui teatri e sulle riviste cui avevano collaborato. A poco valse lo sforzo dei "volontari" ingaggiati da Charles Spencer, nota autorità in materia, e di altri, per saperne di più su questi fantasiosi creatori di scene e costumi. Pur prive di un adeguato supporto informativo molte delle opere dei citati artisti affiancano quelle di Erté nei principali musei, Metropolitan, Victoria & Albert Museum, Arsenal, nelle università di tutto il mondo e nelle collezioni di molti appassionati. Nuove e approfondite ricerche condotte per oltre sei anni hanno permesso di raccogliere un gran volume di dati sul percorso e sul contributo artistico di molti di questi artisti sino a ieri per nulla, o quasi, conosciuti. Il tutto è corredato da un ricco repertorio di opere (oltre 400 immagini a colori), così da permettere a storici e critici una più ampia valutazione dell'arte per il teatro del Novecento e del Déco in generale, periodo in cui si colloca la più parte dei disegni. Il volume comprende inoltre una ampia panoramica sulla storia del music-hall, dalle origini al suo declino, sui principali teatri e riviste in scena negli anni tra le due guerre e sui suoi protagonisti.

Tra gli illustratori, oltre naturalmente a Erté, Georges Barbier, Dany Barry, Umberto Brunelleschi, Fabio Lorenzi, Endré, Eduard Halouze, Dolly Tree, Jose De Zamora, Zig ...

07/09/24

[randomfoggytiger]

Mashing up a few tags in one because.

Thank you @cecilysass, @xxsksxxx, and @sagan-starstuff!

Coffee or tea | early bird or night owl | chocolate or vanilla | spring or fall | silver or gold | pop or alternative | freckles or dimples | snakes or sharks | mountains or fields | thunder or lightning | egyptian mythology or greek mythology | ivory or scarlet | flute or lyre | opal or diamond | butterflies or honeybees | macarons or eclairs | typewritten or handwritten | secret garden or secret library | rooftop or balcony | spicy or mild | opera or ballet | london or paris | vincent van gogh or claude monet | denim or leather | potions or spells | ocean or desert | mermaids or sirens | masquerade ball or cocktail party

The aim is to put your music on shuffle and list the first 10 songs + tag 10 people.

Used this generator to roll the dice on classical music. Livin' large.

The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Gioachino Rossini

Gayane, Aram Khachaturian

Carmen, Georges Bizet

Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109, Ludwig van Beethoven

Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 96, Anton Rubinstein

Symphony No. 3 (The Song of the Night), Op. 27, Karol Szymanowski

Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate, HWV 278-279, George Frideric Handel

Tosca, Giacomo Puccini

Rusalka, Op. 114, Antonín Dvořák

Music for a Scene from Shelley, Op. 7, Samuel Barber

Tagging: Whoever missed this on the first go-around. You're tagged!

[starmaniamania]

Jean-Baptiste Cortot /  Romain Joutard: Drums

Olivier Brossard / Aurélien Clavel: Base guitar

Paul Cépède /  Gabriel Gosse /  Edouard Algayon /  Vincent Fabret: Guitars

Romain Thérèt /  Ann-Shirley Ngouassa /  Paul-Marie Barbier: Pianos, keyboards & synths

(Source)

[fred-the-curator]

Quand la réalisation d'un film tourne mal : Fiasco la comédie qui vous fera rire de façon incontrôlable

Quand la réalisation d'un film tourne mal : Fiasco, la comédie qui vous fera rire de façon incontrôlable   Bienvenue dans l'envers du décor Je viens tout juste de finir de binge watcher en une soirée la nouvelle série française Fiasco, disponible sur Netflix. Co-écrite et interprétée par Pierre Niney, cette comédie en 7 épisodes nous plonge avec jubilation dans le tournage chaotique d'un film, à travers le regard d'une équipe de documentaire.  Réalisée par Igor Gotesman (Five), la série bénéficie d'un casting quatre étoiles avec Géraldine Nakache, François Civil, Djimo, Leslie Medina, Juliette Gasquet, Louise Coldefy ou encore Pascal Demolon, excellent en producteur à côté de la plaque. Fiasco s'inspire de making-of devenus cultes comme Lost in La Mancha sur le Don Quichotte avorté de Terry Gilliam ou celui sur la déroute de Babylon AD de Mathieu Kassovitz. Une intrigue jubilatoire sur un tournage qui part en vrille Sans trop en dévoiler, Fiasco nous embarque dans la fabrication mouvementée du premier long-métrage d'un réalisateur, pour rendre hommage à la vie héroïque de sa grand-mère résistante, avec son lot de problèmes : réalisateur dépassé, caprices d'acteur, producteurs paniqués et surtout un mystérieux corbeau qui sabote le tournage.  Le scénario, coécrit par Pierre Niney et Igor Gotesman (retrouvailles après leur association sur le film Five), multiplie avec malice les rebondissements et les situations absurdes, sans jamais tomber dans la caricature. On rit beaucoup devant ce "film maudit" qui accumule les catastrophes. Les dialogues ciselés et les références cinéphiles ajoutent au plaisir. Un casting impeccable pour des personnages savoureux Pierre Niney crève l'écran en Raphaël Valande, réalisateur idéaliste et dépassé par les événements. Il forme un duo savoureux avec François Civil (leur réelle amitié se ressent à l'écran), parfait en meilleur ami maladroit. Géraldine Nakache apporte une touche d'humanité en scripte dévouée.Mention spéciale à Pascal Demolon, hilarant en producteur caractériel et Vincent Cassel, qui s'amuse de son image de star capricieuse. Tout le casting, jusqu'aux seconds rôles (la maquilleuse, interprété par Louise Coldefy, à l'haleine fétide!), compose une galerie de personnages mémorables.   Une réalisation inventive au service de l'humour Filmée comme un "mockumentaire" (faux documentaire), Fiasco nous immerge avec un réalisme jubilatoire dans les coulisses d'un tournage. La réalisation d'Igor Gotesman, nerveuse et inventive, multiplie les trouvailles pour dynamiser le récit : interviews face caméra, séquences volées, etc. Cette mise en abyme malicieuse permet de jouer sur plusieurs niveaux de lecture et de créer une connivence avec le spectateur. On pense parfois à des comédies cultes comme The Office ou Curb Your Enthusiasm. Une musique qui souligne l'absurdité des situations La musique originale de Fiasco, composée par Julien Grunberg et Paul-Marie Barbier, accompagne avec malice le récit. Mélange de sonorités électroniques et de nappes de synthés, elle souligne l'absurdité croissante des situations.Les morceaux s'emballent à mesure que le tournage part en vrille, renforçant le côté "film catastrophe" de l'intrigue. Un travail subtil qui participe à l'efficacité comique de l'ensemble. Une comédie réjouissante à ne pas manquer Avec Fiasco, Pierre Niney et Igor Gotesman signent une comédie jubilatoire qui joue sur la malaisance et la gêne. Portée par un casting en or et une réalisation inventive, un mockumentaire réjouissant, à la croisée de The Office et de C'est arrivé près de chez vous, qui ravira tous les amoureux de comédie et de cinéma. Fiasco est l'une des bonnes surprises françaises de ce début d'année sur Netflix. Foncez la découvrir, vous ne serez pas déçus du voyage! Je lui donne un solide 8/10.    via Blogger https://ift.tt/aN94JTG May 04, 2024 at 01:50PM

[artmialma]

Georges Léonnec (1881 – 1940) French "La Nymphe Innocente, ou..." 1919 Oh! mon chéri, joue-moi, he t'en prie, un air de tango! Illustration La Vie Parisienne "In a land where women and love were worshiped as almost never before, La Vie bred and developed a group of very gifted artists - Léonnec, Barbier, Hérouard, René Vincent, Kuhn-Regnier, Maurice Milliére, Vallée, Brunner, Pavis, Vald'Es - whose understanding of the very essence of femininity, whether mental or physical was unsurpassed. They produced work whose excellence in terms of draftsmanship, observation, imagination, and understanding made La Vie Parisienne of the period unequaled of its kind, and possibly never to be repeated.

[phantomnations]

Penguin Classics Tag Game

thank you for tagging me, @hekteros and @olimpias! sorry this took so long to do. i decided to make the hypothetical covers for my innsling series using paintings.

the paintings i used for the covers are:

the park monceau by claude monet (the grand tour)

portrait of a violinist by anne vallayer-coster (ghost notes)

eventails by george barbier (iron and gold)

irises by vincent van gogh (flower blues)

tagging: @shaded-radon, @isherwoodj, @vaaieroog, @godswar, @thanatostouch, @ziyin, and anyone else who wants to try!

[gnossienne]

hello! what are some of your favourite painters?

So very many! A non-exhaustive list of the masters of crunchy colour and detail*:

georges barbier, jean beraud, franklin booth, hieronymus bosch, william-adolphe bouguereau, alexandre cabanel, canaletto, caravaggio, vittore carpaccio, thomas cole, salvador dalí, eugène delacroix, paul delaroche, otto dix, gustave doré, edmund dulac, erté, william etty, henri fantin-latour, roberto ferri, frans francken the younger, caspar david friedrich, artemisia gentileschi, charles dana gibson, vincent van gogh, natalia goncharova, john atkinson grimshaw, francesco guardi, remi van haanen, carl georg hasenpflug, edward hopper, pieter huys, angelica kauffmann, émile levy, philipjames de loutherbourg, michele marieschi, john martin, norval morrisseau, kay nielsen, ernst ferdinand oehme, arthur rackham, bill reid, david roberts, nicola samori, john singer sargent, egon schiele, gennady spirin, james tissot, henri toulouse-lautrec, suzanne valadon, da vinci, andrew wyeth....

*also including illustrators in this list

[ilyadesbateauxdefumee]

Les films que vous devriez voir pendant ce mois si... halloweenien / Movies you should see during this month so... spooky

Bonjour tout le monde / Hello everyone ! 

Voici une liste de 31 films à voir pendant ce mois si spécial. Ils contiennent tous cette énergie si particulière, si spooky, si gothique, si dark (et parfois si glauque). J’espère que vous apprécierez de les revoir ou de les découvrir ! 

Here is a list of 31 films to see during this special month. They all contain this energy so particular, so spooky, so gothic, so dark (and sometimes so creepy). I hope you enjoy seeing them again or discovering them !

1) Sweeney Todd : Le Diabolique Barbier de Fleet Street / Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Tim Burton - 2007

2) Dracula / Bram’s Stoker Dracula - Francis Ford Coppola - 1992

3) Nosferatu, le Vampire / Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens - Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau - 1922

4) Dracula Untold / Dracula inédit - Gary Shore - 2014

5) Sleepy Hollow : La légende du cavalier sans tête / Sleepy Hollow - Tim Burton - 1999

6) Coraline / Coraline - Henry Selick - 2009

7) Edward aux mains d’argent / Edward Scissorhands - Tim Burton - 1990

8) Les Noces Funèbres / Corpse Bride - Tim Burton - 2005

9) L’étrange Noël de Monsieur Jack / The Nightmare Before Christmas - Henry Selick - 1993

10) Black Swan / Le Cygne Noir - Darren Aronofsky - 2010/2011

11) Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d’Azkaban / Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Alfonso Cuarón - 2004

12) Merlin / Merlin (téléfilm) - Steve Barron - 1998

13) Hansel et Gretel : Witch Hunters / Hansel et Gretel : Chasseurs de sorcières - Tommy Wirkola - 2013

14) La Cabane dans les Bois / Cabin in the Woods - Drew Goddard - 2012

15) Princesse Mononoké /もののけ姫, Mononoke hime  - Hayao Miyazaki - 1997

16) James et la Pêche Géante / James and the Giant Peach - Henry Selick - 1996

17) Dark Shadows / Ombres et Ténèbres - Tim Burton - 2012

18) Le Voyage de Chihiro /  千と千尋の神隠し, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi - Hayao Miyazaki - 2001

19) Mama / Mama - Andres Muschietti - 2013

20) Underworld / Monde Infernal - Len Wiseman - 2003

21) Entretien avec un vampire / Interview with a vampire - Neil Jordan - 1994

22) La Dame en Noir / The Woman in Black - James Watkins - 2012

23) The Witch / The VVitch / La Sorcière - Robert Eggers - 2015

24) La Malédiction de la Dame Blanche / The Curse of la Llorona - Michael Caves - 2019

25) Conjuring : Les Dossiers Warren / The Conjuring - James Wan - 2013

26) Conjuring 2 : Le Cas Endfield / The Conjuring 2 - James Wan - 2016

27) La Nonne 1 & 2 / The Nun 1 & 2 - Corin Hardy / Michael Caves - 2018

28) Gothika / Gothika - Mathieu Kassovitz - 2003

29) Le Labyrinthe de Pan / El laberinto de fauno - Guillermo Del Toro - 2006

30) Le Village / The Village - M. Night Shyamalan - 2004

31) Chambre 1408 / 1408 -  Mikael Håfström - 2007

Les petits plus : 

Vincent / Vincent. C’est un court-métrage de Tim Burton (le premier !) paru en 1982. Il raconte l'histoire de Vincent, un enfant passionné par Vincent Price. Tout est glauque, et parfait. / It’s a short film by Tim Burton (the first !) produced in 1982. It tells the story of Vincent, a child passionate about Vincent Price. Everything is dark, and perfect.

Les Contes de la Crypte / Tales from the Crypt. C'est une série télévisée américaine très connue de 93 épisodes (et ce n'est pas assez, croyez-moi). Humour noir, violence et macabre sont au rendez-vous. Tout ce qu'on aime. / It's a very well-known American TV series of 93 episodes (and that's not enough, believe me). Dark humor, violence and macabre. Everything we love.

Trois animes de qualité bien sombres / Three dark and wonderful animes :

-Elfen Lied / エルフェンリート, Erufen rīto - 2004

-Erased /  僕だけがいない街, Boku dake ga inai machi - 2016

-Another / アナザー, Anazā - 2013

Séries de qualité bien sombres aussi / Dark and wonderful series : 

Stranger Things / Stranger Things (particulièrement la saison 1 & 2 / especially season one and two). Ces deux premières saisons sont blindées d'ambiance noirs, glauques, voir carrément macabres. Les lumières et les couleurs choisies vont parfaitement dans ce délire, et la deuxième saison se passe... pendant Halloween. Parfait non ? / These first two seasons are armored with dark, gloomy, even downright macabre atmospheres. The lights and colors chosen go perfectly with this madness, and the second season takes place... during Halloween. Perfect right ?

Archive 81. Glauque, morts, mystères, différentes dimensions, amour tragique, drama, esprit, rituel. Que dire de plus ? / Creepy, deaths, mysteries, different dimensions, tragic love, drama, spirit, ritual. What more can I say ? 

Happy Halloween everyone !

[dijonbeaune]

Henri Gouges, Bernard Barbier, Jules Verne, le dragon de Saint-Georges : les mythes et actes fondateurs de Nuits-Saint-Georges

À la marge de sa 60e vente des vins, DijonBeaune.fr passe en revue l’appellation Nuits-Saint-Georges à travers plusieurs mots ou chiffres clés. Épisode 3 : les grands personnages, dates et lieux symboliques de Nuits. > Épisode 1 : Nuits, sa ville et son appellation> Épisode 2 : Nuits, ses pierres et ses climats 1905 Le 13 avril, le syndicat agricole et viticole de Nuits-Saint-Georges voit le…

[vikkicomics]

Vincent and Siegfried 1916, Colour piece, with sketch and art by George Barbier I used for inspiration. 

[hhytheking]

Leaders’modern name

This is part of my CIV6 modern AU which shows the modern name of the leaders who after their reincarnation.(original name—morden name)

Original members:

Catherine De Medici—Catherine Parminal

Cleopatra—Kamilah Hisham

Frederick Barbarossa—Frederick Coll

Gandhi—Mohandas Shukla

Gilgamesh—Gilbert Galván

Gorgo—Grace Dimitrakopoulou

Harald Hardrada—Harald Sigurðsson

Hojo Tokimune—Hojo Yoshiyuki

Mvemba a Nzinga—Mablevi Alfonso Lombisi

Pedro II—Pedro Belschansky

Pericles—Demetri Setletis

Peter—Peter Danilyuk

Philip II—Philip Leandro Vega

Qin Shi Huang—Ying Junchao

Saladin—Hassen Gharam

Teddy Roosevelt—Theodore Tatum

Tomyris—Tammy Berezova

Trajan—Marcus Ceconi

Victoria—Alexandrina Montgomery-Owen

DLC members:

Alexander—Alexander Papadopoulos

Amanitore—Amanda Elsalam

Cyrus—Cyrus Risbaf

Gitarja—Ayu Febriani

Jadwiga—Juliet Magdalena Jakubowska

Jayavarman VII—Chey Saron

John Curtin—Jonathan Burke

Montezuma—Morty Rosenthal De La Itzcoatl

Rise&Fall members:

Chandragupta—Candro Vaidya

Genghis Khan—Batbayar

Lautaro—Lucas Nahuelhual

Poundmaker—Sehkosowayanew Bearchild

Robert the Bruce—Robert Brussen Payne

Seondeok—Kim Seung won

Shaka—Funani Mthethwa

Tamar—Tatyana Makharadze

Wilhelmina—Eveline Snoeijers

Gathering Storm members:

Dido—Elissa Fainer

Eleanor of Aquitaine—Eleanor Barbier

Kristina—Kristina Emilia Augustus

Kupe—Kauri Napi Maipi

Mansa Musa—Ibrahima Mostafa III

Matthias Corvinus—Gabor Matthias Cassius

Pachacuti—Waman Cortez

Suleiman—Zane Ertuğrul Vatansever

Wilfred Laurier—Wilfred Cadieux

New Frontier Pass Members:

Ambiorix—Vincent Cornelis Boissaud

Bà Triệu—Triệu Le Giang

Basil II—Basil Petpidis

Hammurabi—Hayastan Daoud Robles

João III—João Leandro Novo

Kublai Khan—Erden Tumurbaatar

Lady Six Sky—Skylar Waktina Batzek Mendoza

Menelik II—Dawit Eshetu

Simón Bolívar—Simón Onofre Tomás Raschery

(Note:Almost every name is based on leaders’name＋their voice actor’s surname or the citizen of their nation’s name.And yes, I am suck at creating name.)

[newagesispage]

                                                              FEBRUARY             2021

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 The contents of someone’s bookcase are part of their history, like an ancestral portrait. –Umberto Eco

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The world is about to change with Biden and Harris in office. It is great to have Harris in there. More women in power is so important. Women don’t think with their dicks. I mean, a pussy likes to fuck just as much but we can also get some work done. Men are rarely as good at multitasking.  The inauguration went off with high security after the Trump insurrection. 5 were killed as the traitors stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 but Biden still became the President on the 20th. Hooray for Pastor Raphael Warnock and Jon Osoff in Georgia for taking the Senate. We are off to an interesting start with Merrick Garland nominated for AG.** Janet Yellen is the 78th US Treasury secretary and the first woman!**John Kerry is the envoy for climate and Pete Buttigieg is up for secretary of transportation. ** Biden reversed the ban on transgender troops, stopped the Muslim ban and signed many other executive orders.

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Kudos to Bill Maher for giving out  his Baldy award and talking about Henry Waxman. And I was glad to see Waxman mention it and the many others who do the hard work, the real work of running this country.

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Elon Musk is now the world’s richest person.

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Did ya see the Wendy Williams night on Lifetime?  I have known friends and family with her behavior, this complete lack of self- confidence and yet completely self -absorbed. Yes, she was married to a jack ass and she can be entertaining but whew.. high drama.  I learned one thing.. Her Father and brother are HOT!!

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Neil Young sold stake in 50% of his song catalogue to Hipgnosis songs fund in Britain.

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John Mulaney is in rehab.

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The Little things with Jared Leto, Denzel and Rami Malek was tops at the Box Office.

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Olivia Wilde and Harry Styles?? Ooh la la!! What a beautiful couple!!

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Thank you Cleveland Browns for all the hope!!** And..C’mon Packers.. U should have won that!!** Seahawk Chad Wheeler was arrested for domestic abuse.

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Think before you speak, read before you think. –Fran Leibowitz

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The Zodiac killer cipher was solved by amateur codebreakers David Orandak in Virginia, Jarl Van Eycke in Belgium and Sam Blake in Australia more than 50 years later.

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Rebel with Katey Sagal looks pretty good.

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Richard Lewis will not be in season 11 of Curb due to his many surgeries. Miss ya Richard!!

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Elliot Page has filed for divorce from Emma Portner.

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In the ‘some things never go away’ category, there are new shows coming of V.C. Andrews and the Great Gatsby.

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Dylan McDermott is joining Christopher Meloni in Law and Order: Organized Crime.

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Cigarette sales are up.

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Crayola is recycling old markers at colorcycle. Never throw away markers again! Less Waste!

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Days alert: The big reveal FINALLY came on Days about Gwen from Peoria. She thinks she is Jack’s daughter! It looks like the DNA will prove it. The plot will thicken as Laura returns with a secret and bad things happen to her. Susan Banks is also back and gets in the middle of a couple of stories. I am always glad to see Ivan but unfortunately Vivian is close behind. The twins story should come to a head. Please don’t push Rafe and Nicole together!! Word is that Patch and Kayla will remarry on their old anniversary of Valentine’s Day!! Best of all, Ciara is back and has thoughts of Romeo and Juliet. Find her Ben, before you get close to Claire.

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Tom Brokaw has retired from NBC after 55 years. I remember when he retired from the news desk way back when.

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Ex- Chester county Sheriff Carolyn Welsh has been charged with stealing from a K-9 unit charity.

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Succession has added Sanaa Latham, Jihae and Linda Edmond.

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People are filling in for Robert Costa on Washington Week while he is off with Bob Woodward writing their book.  Yamiche Alcindor was a great host!!!!

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Some last headlines and thoughts and facts about the end of the worst Presidency in our history. Let’s hope this is the last of the news about the Traitor in chief except for paying for his crimes. Unity does not mean there are no consequences for criminals. Make no mistake Trump and some of his followers are criminals. **Here are a few things I ran across: Vanilla Ice played Mar A Lago for NY Eve.** After the riot many rats started to jump ship like Elaine Chao, Hope Hicks and Betsy Devos. The American Federation of Teachers reaction to Betsy Devos resignation: “Good Riddance.”** Mo Brooks had told the crowd, “Take names and kick ass.” Plans for a Sen. Hawley book were scrapped.** Adam Kinzinger of Illinois was one of the first to call for the 25th amendment that never happened.** People are trying to get to the bottom of the Riot with questions like, “Who paid for the buses?” ** These types of people are the reason we can’t have nice things. **  Scary Clown is off Twitter for good. Funny how it took Senators, companies and voters so long, 2 weeks before he leaves office to make him a pariah. Trump was too dangerous for twitter but not for the nuclear codes?? ** To anyone complaining about a private media co. kicking Trump off their platform: Think of twitter as a Christian bakery and Trump as a wedding cake. _William Cusack**The riot proved that blue lives really don’t matter to them.** U.S. rep for Colorado Lauren Boebert was given $70,500 by Ted Cruz just as he asked for a probe into Netflix. Her husband, Jayson was arrested for exposing himself to a minor and for domestic abuse.** Trump was impeached again.** “Republican colleagues broke down in tears saying that Republicans are afraid for their lives if they vote for this impeachment.- Congressman Jason Crow.** Mike Pompeo cancelled his European trip after Luxemburg’s foreign minister and top European union officials declined to meet him.**232 was the number of votes to impeach him and the number of electoral vote in his loss to Biden.**Trump’s interior secretary had his own flag** Trumps EPA guy made super- secret phone calls in his own phone booth and had 24 hour security.** Toby Keith and Ricky Scaggs received the National medal of arts. ** The Supreme Court tossed out a lawsuit claiming that Trump violated the emoluments clause. ** Dominion voting systems sued Rudy.** Trumps impeachment lawyers, Butch Bowers and Deb Barbier quit. Word is that they refused to say the election was stolen. The new team seems to include Bruce Castor who would not prosecute Bill Cosby and Epstein’s would be lawyer David Schoen. That sounds about right.

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Hey Manson didn’t stab anyone. Incitement is a real crime. –Michael Mckean.

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ABC News President James Goldston has resigned.

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Everyone is talking about the SNL Krasinski/Davidson kiss.

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The NRA is bankrupt.

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Lenny Kravitz paid tribute to his Godmother, Cicely Tyson.

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Colbert could take a tip from Larry King. Ask simple direct questions and let the interviewee talk. We are watching to hear what they have to say. The beginning of the show is the host’s moment so shut up later!!

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R.I.P. Dan Dettman, Floyd Little, Pierre Cardin, Phyllis Mcguire, George Gerdes, Joan Micklin Silver, Carl Panzram, Gerry Marsden, Tanya Roberts, Kerry Vincent, KT Oslin, Tommy Lasorda, Michael Apted, Dave Creek, Jamie O’Hara, Dr. H. Jack Geiger, William Link, Neil Shehan, Joanne Rogers, Duke Bootee, Phil Spector, Don Sutton, Siegfried, Sheldon Adelson, Larry King, Ved Mehta, Bruce Kirby, Cicely Tyson and Cloris Leachman.

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Quarantine Diaries

Hôtel Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Situated in one of the Paris' most coveted positions, Hotel Saint Germain des Prés provides a cool haven with a feel of a chic Paris pied a terre.

Built in the 18th century as a gracious townhouse, the hotel retains many period details and original architectural features.

No. 36 of the rue Bonaparte: Home of French philosopher and sociologist Auguste Comte, between 1817 and 1822, during which time he published his first essays. 36, rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, France

The Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, a distinction it retained until 1929 when the Chrysler Building in New York City was topped out.

The Quai Voltaire no. 3 and no. 5: Hôtel Le Barbier, Hôtel Perrault, and Hôtel de La Briffe were all one unit until 1733. They were connected by a tunnel with the other side of the Rue de Bourbon. Author Maurice Joly lived there in a small apartment until his death in 1878.

The Sennelier @sennelier1887 shop was opened on the site in 1887. It became famous for supplying art supplies to artists such as Cézanne, Degas, Gauguin, Pissarro, Soutine, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Bonnard, and Picasso.

After President Jacques Chirac left office in 2007, he moved his family into the Hôtel de Bouillon.

Pont Royal

In 1632, the entrepreneur Pierre Pidou directed the construction of a wooden toll-bridge which would be called Pont Sainte-Anne (in deference to Anne of Austria) or Pont Rouge (due to its color). It was designed to replace the Tuileries ferry upon which the rue du Bac (bac meaning ferry in French) owes its name. The ferry had been offering crossings since 1550. Fragile, this bridge of fifteen arches would be repaired for the first time in 1649, completely redone two years later, burnt in 1654, flooded in 1656, completely rebuilt in 1660, propped up in 1673 and finally carried away by a flood in February 1684. Madame de Sévigné reported that this last incident caused the loss of eight of the bridge's arches.

It was finally reconstructed between October 25, 1685, and June 13, 1689, this time with stone, receiving complete financing from the king Louis XIV; it was the king who gave it the name Pont Royal. .

Notre Dame

The exteriors of cathedrals and other Gothic churches were also decorated with sculptures of a variety of fabulous and frightening grotesques or monsters.

The gargoyles, which were added in about 1240, had a more practical purpose. They were the rain spouts of the cathedral, designed to divide the torrent of water which poured from the roof after rain, and to project it outwards as far as possible from the buttresses and the walls and windows where it might erode the mortar binding the stone. To produce many thin streams rather than a torrent of water, a large number of gargoyles were used, so they were also designed to be a decorative element of the architecture. The rainwater ran from the roof into lead gutters, then down channels on the flying buttresses, then along a channel cut in the back of the gargoyle and out of the mouth away from the cathedral. . . Viollet-le-Duc, Eugéne, Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'architecture Française du XIe au XVI siecle, Volume 6.

Saint-Germain-des-Prés  is a parish church located in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter of Paris. Founded by Childebert I in the 540s as the Abbaye Sainte-Croix-Saint-Vincent, by the middle of the 8th century it had taken on the name of Saint Germanus (French: Germain), the man appointed bishop of Paris by Childebert and later canonized.

Originally located beyond the outskirts of early medieval Paris, it became a rich and important abbey complex and was the burial place of Germanus and of Childebert and other Merovingian kings of Neustria.

At that time, the Left Bank was prone to flooding from the Seine, so much of the land could not be built upon and the Abbey stood in the middle of meadows, or prés in French, thereby explaining its appellation, which also serves to distinguish it from the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois near the Louvre.

The oldest part of the current church is the prominent western tower (partly restored and modified), which was built by Abbot Morard around the year 1000.

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Storia Di Musica #90 - Queen, A Night At The Opera, 1975

C’è voluto il successo mondiale del loro film biografico per far ritornare alla ribalta uno dei gruppi più amati e di successo della musica rock negli ultimi 30 anni. Proprio per via di quel successo, la storia dei Queen è ormai di patrimonio comune. La band si formò nel 1971 quando Brian May e Roger Meadows-Taylor, che avevano suonato negli Smile, si uniscono a Freddy Mercury (vero nome Farrokh Bulsara) e John Deacon. Il nome altisonante, Queen, fu scelto da Mercury proprio per sottolineare l’idea enfatica e pomposa della loro musica, in equilibrio tra l’hard rock dei conterranei Led Zeppelin e il glam rock di personaggi come Bowie o i T-Rex di Marc Bolan. All’inizio tuttavia l’attività concertistica è “timida” poichè i quattro proseguirono con ottimi risultati negli studi, diventando una band di 4 laureati: May in astrofisica, Taylor in biologia, Deacon in elettronica, Mercury in design.Nel 1973 il primo disco, Queen, si fa conoscere per la loro rilettura sarcastica e vivace del canone di cui sopra, un mix hard-rock glam che di lì a poco verrà sviluppato con i fiocchi, unita ad una innata capacità di creare singoli killer che diventeranno l’arma vincente dei quattro. Il primo di una lunghissima serie è Seven Seas Of Rhye, da Queen II a cui segue il primo grande successo commerciale: Killer Queen, da Sheer Art Attack (1974) va in cima alle classifiche, aiutato anche dalle pirotecniche esibizioni della band, soprattutto dal look provocatorio e ambiguo di Mercury. A questo punto la band decide il salto di qualità, alla ricerca di un suono elaborato e potente, anche tramite intricate armonie vocali, e in questo caso saranno decisivi le sovraincisioni della voce potente e favolosa di Mercury. A Night At The Opera, registrato tra il 1974 e il 1975 in 6 studi di registrazione diversi, è subito considerato un disco da ricordare, e rimarrà l’apice della loro trentennale carriera. L’album di apre con Death On Two Legs (Dedicated to...) uno dei loro brani più famosi, brano dedicato al loro ex manager Norman Sheffield, che in modo fraudolento fece firmare alla band un contratto a cui riconosceva solo una minima parte dei ricavati delle royalties sulle canzoni. Mercury in tutti i live successivi era solito introdurre il brano con un eloquente ”un vero gentleman figlio di puttana che conoscevo un tempo”; poi Lazy Afternoon è uno swing divertente dedicato ad un dandy “wildiano” e il primo successo firmato Roger Taylor, I’m In Love With My Car. You’re My Best Friend è invece un singolo a penna Deacon, che arrivò nella top 10 inglese, e che sfuma nella prima grande canzone della storia Queen: ‘39 è una stupenda ballata scritta e cantata da Brian May che immagina un gruppo di esploratori spaziali che partono per un viaggio spaziale: durato per loro un anno quando invece sono trascorsi un centinaio d'anni dalla loro partenza, a causa dell'effetto della dilatazione temporale ipotizzata nella teoria della relatività di Einstein (e qui affiorano tutti gli studi di May in materia), realizzano che tutti i loro cari sono ormai morti. L’album non ha riempitivi: Sweet Lady, Seaside Reandevouz, Love Of My Life, la mini suite The Prophet’s Song, scritta da May, che vuole descrivere la via Queen al progressive (sebbene il genere in quegli anni fosse in fase calante). Ma gli ultimi due colpi sono alla fine: Bohemian Rhapsody è un’idea di Mercury che scrisse in pratica tutte le parti musicali, oltre il testo, tranne l’assolo di chitarra di May, e chiese ai suoi di registrare separatamente le singole parti, lasciando il dubbio agli artefici delle idee del cantante. Tra una folta schiera di personaggi storici (Scaramouche, Galileo Galilei, Figaro, il protagonista de Il barbiere di Siviglia e delle Nozze di Figaro, Belzebù), con una ormai leggendaria sezione orchestrale e un assolo di May da antologia, il brano diviene l’essenza del suono Queen, che non potevano chiudere un disco così celebrativo della loro idea musicale con una versione irriverente e rock di God Save The Queen, che diventerà la chiusura di tutti i loro concerti. La copertina fu opera di Freddy Mercuri che ispirandosi allo stemma della Casa Reale Britannica mise attorno ad una Q due leoni (segno zodiacale di Taylor e Deacon), due Vergini (il suo segno) e un cancro (quello di May). Venderà milioni di copie e sarà l’apripista di una serie di dischi che, nonostante non avessero la forza e la coesione ideale di questo, produrranno almeno una hit nei successivi anni, fino alla tragica morte di Mercury per AIDS nel 1991. Un band che era spesso criticata dalla stampa specializzata ma che ha saputo creare un vincolo emozionale unico e duraturo.

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Note: My apologies for the delay in updating, but I needed a bit of a break to sort through a number of things. Back to regular scheduling from today.

After this speech, the speaker was asked to leave his manuscript; he refused, citing the numerous erasures with which this writing was charged. Then the deputation of the Agréés having withdrawn, some members of the class of Academicians asked to immediately deliberate on the complaints which had just been made. But by a majority of 32 votes to 10, with only the class of Academicians consulted, since it was frivolously among its members that the question had been raised, decided that it would be ignored and that the commissioners would immediately be nominated in accordance with Vien's proposal.

The two classes of the Académie having proceeded to the elections, Pajou, the Duke de Chabot, Bachelier, Berruer, Vincent and Cochin were chosen by the Officers, and Le Barbier, Miger, Houdon, Jollain, David and Barthélemy, were designated by the Academicians.

At the end of the session, the Academicians, who had asked for the presence of the commissioners of the Agréés working on the reform of the statutes, met at David's house and drew up the following protest:

We, the undersigned, members of the Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, Academicians and Agréés, summoned extraordinarily by M. David, President, elected by us from our particular assembly, considering the intention with which the Académie seems to intend to reform its statutes, it must not do anything in this respect contrary to the principles of the French Constitution, sanctioned by the protector King of the said Académie;

That nothing that goes against the principles of equality and freedom can be legal;

That any organisation, which does not call to work towards its reform all the members who have an interest in it, violates natural law;

That the class of  Agréés, being de facto and de jure an integral part of the said Académie, as it is recognized by itself, must therefore be called for the reform of its regime;

That the Académie, notwithstanding our "serious complaints” on this subject, nevertheless persists in the current desire to appoint commissioners in two classes only and excluding that of the Agréés, publicly recognised, and admitted by that of the Academicians as a class of the Académie of which it is a part,

We have resolved, not to participate in a vicious operation which hurts the constitutional principles, and which by its illegality, would entail annulling all that could follow; we have resolved, we say, to object and protest against the appointment which parts of the two classes of the said Académie have instituted by appointing commissioners in only two classes; we even protest against all that the said commissioners could do in reforming said statutes without the participation of all the members of the said Académie to which we belong, and we reserve to assert the following protest as and when it will be needed.

Composed in Paris, 6 March, 1790

Signed: David, president, Restout, vice-president, Henriquez, Beauvailet , Robin, Pasquier, Giroust, Bouillard, Echard, de Marne, de Bucourt, Julien.