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Harrison Fisher, "The Web of the Golden Spider" (1909)

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Illustration by Harrison Fisher, a popular artist in the early 20th century

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‘The Motor Girl’ postcard by Harrison Fisher by totallymystified

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Whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I.

Born to a turbulent family on a Mississippi farm, James Earl Jones passed away today. He was ninety-three years old. Abandoned by his parents as a child and raised by a racist grandmother (although he later reconciled with his actor father and performed alongside him as an adult), the trauma of his childhood developed into a stutter that followed him through his primary school years – sometimes, his stutter was so debilitating, he could not speak at all. In high school, Jones found in an English teacher someone who found in him a talent for written expression, and encouraged him to write and recite poetry in class. He overcame his stutter by graduation, although the effects of it carried over for the remainder of his life.

Jones' most accomplished roles may have been on the Broadway stage, where he won three Tonys (twice winning Best Actor in a Play for originating the lead roles in 1969's The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler and 1987's Fences by August Wilson) and was considered one of the best Shakespearean actors of his time.

But his contributions to cinema left an impact on audiences, too. Jones received an Honorary Academy Award alongside makeup artist Dick Smith (1972's The Godfather, 1984's Amadeus) in 2011. From the end of Hollywood's Golden Age to the dawn of the summer Hollywood blockbuster in the 1970s to the present, Jones' presence – and his basso profundo voice – could scarcely be ignored. Though he could not sing like Paul Robeson nor had the looks of Sidney Poitier, his presence and command put him in league of both of his acting predecessors.

Ten of the films James Earl Jones appeared in, whether in-person or voice acting, follow (left-right, descending):

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) – directed by Stanley Kubrick; also starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, and Slim Pickens

The Great White Hope (1970) – directed by Martin Ritt; also starring Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook Beah Richards, and Moses Gunn

Star Wars saga (1977-2019; A New Hope pictured) – multiple directors, as the voice of Darth Vader, also starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Frank Oz

Claudine (1974) – directed by John Berry; also starring Diahann Carroll, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, and Tamu Blackwell

Conan the Barbarian (1982) – directed by John Milius; also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sandahl Bergman, Ben Davidson, Cassandra Gaviola, Gerry Lopez, Mako, Valerie Quennessen, William Smith, and Max von Sydow

Coming to America series (1988 and 2021; original pictured) – multiple directors; also starring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, John Amos, Madge Sinclair, Shari Headley, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, and KiKi Layne

The Hunt for Red October (1990) – directed by John McTiernan; also starring Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, and Sam Neill

The Sandlot (1993) – directed by David Mickey Evans; also staring Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Patrick Renna, Chauncey Leopardi, Marty York, Brandon Adams, Grant Gelt, Shane Obedzinski, Victor DiMattia, Denis Leary, and Karen Allen

The Lion King (1994) – directed by Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff, as the voice of Mufasa; also starring Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, Moira Kelly, Niketa Calame, Ernie Sabella, Nathan Lane, and Robert Guillaume, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cheech Marin, Jim Cummings, and Madge Sinclair

Field of Dreams (1989) – directed by Phil Alden Robinson; also starring Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Ray Liotta, and Burt Lancaster

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CARRIE FISHER

CARRIE FISHER

21 October 1956 – 27 December 2016

            Carrie Fisher was an American actress and writer. She is best known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars series. She also appeared in The Blues Brothers (1980), The Burbs’ (1989), Scream 3 (2000), Frankenstein (1984), Roseanne (1997), and Sex and the City (2000).

            Fisher was born in Burbank, California, to Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Her grandparents were Russian Jewish immigrants, and she also was of Scottish and English descent. Fisher loved reading books growing up and was known to the family as ‘the bookworm’. She attended Beverly Hills High School until she was 15.

            Fisher was in a relationship with music artist Paul Simon from 1977 until 1983. She was briefly engaged to actor Dan Aykroyd during the filming of The Blues Brothers but got back together with Paul Simon and who she married from 1983 to 1984. She had a child with her agent Bryan Lourd, but he was a homosexual, so it didn’t last. During the filming of Star Wars (1976) she had a three-month affair with Harrison Ford and continued to have a soft spot for him after it was over.

            In 2005, R. Gregory ‘Greg’ Stevens, a friend of hers died in her mansion, from drug use and heart disease. Fisher claimed he haunted her mansion which unsettled her. Fisher suffered from bipolar disorder and had been addicted to cocaine and prescription medication. Fisher did a lot of work for different charity organizations and owned a fur son, a French bulldog, Gary.

            Fisher was on a European book tour before she died and appeared on the Graham Norton Show. On 23 December 2016 she was flying from London to Los Angeles when she stopped breathing 15 minutes before the plane landed. A passenger performed CPR on her until the paramedics arrived at the scene. She was taken by ambulance to the medical centre and was placed on a ventilator. She was in intensive care for four days before she died on 27 December, aged 60. She died from cardiac arrest, fatty tissue on her arteries, and had cocaine in her system with traces of heroin, opiates and MDMA. Her mother Debbie was with her family planning Carrie’s burial arrangements when she had a stroke, before she died she said “I want to be with Carrie’ before she died that afternoon from a stroke. Carrie and Debbie were a Hollywood mother-daughter duo with mutual love and support, and the two were buried together. Carrie’s dog Gary was put in the care of her daughter.

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Always happy to provide new ask games haha! I'm going to ask you the same question you asked me -- your top 5 sitcoms/tv series!

If you're in the mood for more, I'd also love to know your top 5 artistic influences and/or your top 5 singers/bands :)

hey!! thank you for the questions ☺️ (this got a bit long, oops 😭)

I think the only sitcoms I’ve actually watched all the way through and enjoyed are/were tgg and modern family, so I can’t make a list there - but I can make a list of my favourite TV series in general :)

1) would have to be The Crown - but we all know about my special interest at this point so I’m sure it comes as a shock to no one 😂

2) the golden girls, obviously. They really fought for that top spot but, you know. me when I me I guess lol

3) bojack horseman - I could write an essay on this one, but I’ll spare everyone

4) the middle

5) modern family

I don’t watch much, but my mum watched a handful of series while I was growing up so they were kind of just always on in the background - that’s how I fell in love with tgg actually!

I really love that second question, here’re my top 5 artists :) (artists that have heavily inspired my style, I feel like my style is a mashup of all of these honestly 😭)

1) really most fashion magazines from the 1900s - late 1920s, there would be too many artists to name here 😅 (la vie Parisienne has been the most consistent inspiration though)

2) the Polonaise collection

3) vogue patterns (from between the 40s & 50s mostly)

4) Harrison Fisher

5) Nell Brinkley

​as for music… oh boy. I’d have a hard time choosing just five because I love SO many artists & bands - let me see

Currently (because it changes a lot) it’d have to be:

1) Jonathan Bree

2) Bauhaus

3) Garbage

4) Radiohead

5) & not an artist, but the song Born Too Late - if you’ve ever needed the perfect song to freak out over your favourite middle aged actresses &/or characters to, this is the one! (looking at Bea Arthur so hard rn) (<- im half joking) (It’s also just a lovely song, I’ve had it on repeat for a while)

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Dress for the Afternoon in 1910 -

1910 Annina Morosini by Lino Salvatico (Villa Foscari - Venizia, Veneto, Italy). From lamalcontenta.com/index.php/it/vita-in-villa/in-villa-1924-1965/annina-morosini; filled in shadows and increased exposure 591X1137.

Left 1910 (December) Afternoon dress by Maison Agnès, Les Modes - photo by Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/23; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 756X1920.

Right 1910 (December) Afternoon dress by Rivain & Cie., Les Modes - photo by Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/14; fixed spots w Pshop 714X1920.

Left 1910 (July issue) Afternoon dresses by Martial & Armand, photo Félix, Les Modes. From tumblr.com/catherinedefrance.

Right 1910 (July) Les Modes Afternoon dress by Drecoll. From les-modes.tumblr.com/search/1910s/page/12.png; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 1000X1556.

Left 1910 (May) Afternoon dress by Drecoll, Les Modes - photo by Chéri-Rousseay & Glauth. From les-modes.tumblr.com/page/27; fixed spots & flaws w Pshop 944X1920.

Right 1910 (May) Les Modes Afternoon dress by Beer photo by Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/search/1910s/page/12; fixed spots w Pshop 1280X1781.

Left 1910 (May) Les Modes Afternoon dress by Bernard, photo Félix. From les-modes.tumblr.com/search/1910s; fixed spots w Pshop 782X1920.

Right 1910 (winter) Afternoon dress by Lanvin (Tessdier Sarou - 21Nov22 auction Lot 21). From tumblr.com/fripperiesandfobs/701955600969596928/afternoon-dress-by-lanvin-winter-1910-from tumblr.com/beautifulcentury 1280X1920.

Left 1910 Madame Lacroix by Giovanni Boldini (?). From artrenewal.org/artists/giovanni-boldini/332; fixed spots w Pshop 2580X2600.

Right 1910 The American Girl in France by Harrison Fisher (location ?). From Claudia's photostream on flickr via pinterest.com/veroniquelovescats/peintres-1900/harrison-fisher 1446X2047.

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Tolerance Project extra a long time ago in a Galaxy far far away

The final cut

Part 1 The Farmboy The Princess and the Smuggler The Making of Star Wars and an out of this world Toyline

Introduction

Hello there and in honour of Star Wars Day may I present a new and revised edtion of a blog that looks at the Star Wars franchise well the first 6 episodes anyway so nothing on the sequel trilogy or the clone wars animated series.

For ease of reading the blog has been split into 4 chapters each with new material

This first chapter will cover the making of Star Wars and the amazing Toyline that followed it. Chapter 2 will cover the Empire Strikes Back including new material on the lost sequel Splinter of a Minds eye from 1978 Chapter 3 now covers Return of the jedi

The final Chapter will cover the Prequel trilogy and the links with the Tolerance Project

Overview

Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope)* is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by 20th Century-Fox. It was the first film released in the Star Wars film series and fourth chronological chapter of the "Skywalker Saga". Set "a long time ago" in a fictional universe where the galaxy is ruled by the tyrannical Galactic Empire, the story focuses on a group of freedom fighters known as the Rebel Alliance, who aim to destroy the Empire's newest weapon, the Death Star. When Rebel leader Princess Leia is apprehended by the Empire, Luke Skywalker acquires stolen architectural plans of the Death Star and sets out to rescue her, while learning the ways of a metaphysical power known as "the Force" from Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. The cast includes Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew.

Lucas had the idea for a science-fiction film in the vein of Flash Gordon around the time he completed his first film, THX 1138 (1971) and began working on a treatment after the release of American Graffiti (1973).

To read about George Lucas’s orignal Star Wars plans as a 12 part film arc click here https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-12-movie-plan/

After numerous rewrites, filming took place throughout 1975 and 1976 in locations including Tunisia and Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England.

While Star Wars was still filming Star Wars The novelisation of the film hit the book shelves in 1976

Star Wars From The Adventures Of Luke Skywalker Alan Dean Foster

Though initially credited to George Lucas, this Star Wars novelization was actually ghostwritten by sci-fi icon Alan Dean Foster, who wrote it based off the film’s shooting script and Xerox copies of artist Ralph McQuarrie’s pre-production paintings. Foster also spent a day in an Industrial Light And Magic screening room with Lucas and graphic designer Saul Bass, watching unedited, soundless footage of Tie Fighters zooming around and getting blown up.

From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker was published six months before the movie came out in May 1977, and it was panned by critics—but audiences loved it, and the book sold through its initial 500,000-print run by February, still three months before the film’s premiere. By the time the movie came out, another 3.5 million copies had been sold, making it one of the most successful novelizations of all time. (Foster was paid $7500 for the work—worth about $40,000 today

The novelization hits all the movie’s high points, but there are some fascinating differences (a lightsaber is described as a “gizmo” with “a number of jewel-like components built into both the handle and the disk,” for example) that give it a different type of feel from the film. It all adds more to the Star Wars universe, and some of details about certain planets, languages, history, and technology have since become canon for fans.

The film suffered production difficulties; cast and crew involved believed the film would be a failure. Lucas formed the visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic to help create the film's special effects. It also went $3 million over budget due to delays.

To read about a lost version of the Star Wars film click here :https://movieweb.com/star-wars-original-version-lost/

Star Wars was released in a limited number of theatres in the United States on May 25, 1977  It was released in the UK on the 27 December 1977 6 months after US a bit strange as a large chunk of the film was made here it quickly became a huge hit   

leading to it being expanded to a much wider release. The film opened to critical acclaim for its acting, direction, story, musical score, action sequences, sound, editing, screenplay, costume design, and production values, but particularly for its ground-breaking visual effects. It grossed $410 million worldwide during its initial run, surpassing Jaws (1975) to become the highest-grossing film until the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982); subsequent releases brought its total gross to $775 million. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the second-highest-grossing film in North America (behind Gone with the Wind) and the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time. It received numerous awards at the Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, and Saturn Awards, among others.

Star Wars Gets its first TV airing in the UK

I remember watching on its first British TV premeire when the ITV network showed on the 24th of October 1982 as a a 5 year old it left a rather big impression on me . with its massive space battles light saber fights and the souring music by John Williams  here is a trailer for that very event.

Screenrant published an article on their website called 10 moves that redifined their Genres Star wars A New Hope was number 1 in their list so what made Star Wars so groundbreaking ?

Hollywood likely did not expect a new sci-fi movie with a space setting to change the genre yet again less than a decade after 2001: A Space Odyssey came out. Yet Star Wars became the biggest franchise of all time, with Star Wars: A New Hope being the second highest-grossing movie of all time when adjusted for inflation (via boxofficemojo.com). All blockbuster movies are held up to Star Wars as a comparison.

  George Lucas' team notably used miniature models of futuristic ships to capture sequences of them flying through space while further developing the computer-generated effects of the time. Luke's storyline also helped popularize the "Hero's Journey" in cinema, which appears in The Matrix and Lord of the Rings (via IMDB). This demonstrates how genre-defining movies' influence may prove essential to yet another significant moment in cinematic history.

The Music of Star Wars Episode IV The New Hope

For me one of the strongest parts of Star Wars is the music by John Williams. Indeed Speaking as a personal fan of John Williams, I was first introduced to his work when I bought a double CD version of his music for the first star wars film for my birthday. I loved it but it took me a while to get the other soundtracks in the series. I didn’t get round to buying Empire and Return of the Jedi till the special edition Soundtrack releases in 1997.

I loved those as well and I have since bought all of the Star Wars Soundtracks that John Williams worked on.

Williams like John Barry before him had a magical talent for making the music come alive in my head to create scenes and adventures that I never saw on the cinema screen.

It was on the recommendation Spielberg, Lucas hired John Williams, who had worked with Spielberg on the film Jaws, for which he won an Academy Award. Lucas originally hired Williams to consult on music editing choices and to compose the source music for the music, telling Williams that he intended to use extant music.[133][134] Lucas believed that the film would portray visually foreign worlds, but that a grand musical score would give the audience an emotional familiarity. Therefore, Lucas assembled his favourite orchestral pieces for the soundtrack, until Williams convinced him that an original score would be unique and more unified, having viewed Lucas's music choices as a temp track. However, a few of Williams's eventual pieces were influenced by the temp track: the "Main Title Theme" was inspired by the theme from the 1942 film Kings Row, scored by Erich Wolfgang Korngold;[135] and the track "Dune Sea of Tatooine" drew from the soundtrack of Bicycle Thieves, scored by Alessandro Cicognini.

Williams' score for Star Wars was recorded over eight sessions at Anvil Studios in Denham, England on March 5, 8–12, 15 and 16, 1977. The score was orchestrated by Williams, Herbert W. Spencer, Alexander Courage, Angela Morley, Arthur Morton and Albert Woodbury. Spencer orchestrated the scores for The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The score was recorded by engineer Eric Tomlinson and edited by Kenneth Wannberg, and the scoring sessions were produced by Star Wars director George Lucas and supervised by Lionel Newman, head of 20th Century Fox's music department.

The soundtrack album was released by 20th Century Records as a double-LP record in the United States in June 1977. The album's main title peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100, with a disco version of the film's theme by Meco becoming a number one single hit in the United States in October 1977. You can learn more about the Meco version of the song by clicking here :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAjuvI6sX2U&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=264&t=135s 

The soundtrack album itself became the best-selling symphonic album of all time;[1]

To take a look at the original music manuscript for the Star Wars theme click here https://gizmodo.com/john-williams-star-wars-sheet-music-auction-darth-vader-1851265635 

The Beginning Of the out of This World Toyline

The toys were made by Kenner in the US and released by Palitoy in the UK which imported the figures and packaged them in the UK on Palitoy branded cardbacks.

 Between 1978 and 1985, Kenner produced and sold action figures based on the Star Wars franchise. From a line of over 100 unique toys, a total of more than 300 million units were sold during their original run.

 The license for Star Wars action figures was offered in 1976 to the Mego Corporation, which was the leading company in action figures in the 1970s. Mego refused the offer and the license was subsequently picked up by Kenner.

Star Wars was the first film to successfully market toys based on the movie. In fact, they were so successful that George Lucas independently used the funds to finance the next two movie chapters, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983).[2]

Although the original Star Wars film had been released in May 1977, Kenner was unprepared for the unprecedented response to the film and the high demand for toys, mainly due to George Lucas's unwillingness to provide character/vehicle designs for fear his creations would be plagiarized by movie/TV competitors. Unable to build sufficient stock in time for the lucrative Christmas market, they instead sold an "Early Bird Certificate Package" which included a certificate which could be mailed to Kenner and redeemed for four Star Wars action figures.[3][4] The first four figures to be distributed were Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Chewbacca and R2-D2.[5] The box also contains a diorama display stand, some stickers, and a Star Wars fan club membership card.[6][7][8]

By the time the action figures were offered for direct sale in shops, the range had been augmented with a further eight figures—C-3PO, Darth Vader, Stormtrooper, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, Jawa, Sand People, and Death Squad Commander—bringing the total number of figures in the initial release to twelve. These were supplemented later in 1978 with a number of vehicle and playset accessories, as well as the J.C. Penney exclusive Sonic controlled landspeeder and the Sears exclusive Cantina adventure playset which introduced four new figures.[9][10]

The Original Star Wars Trilogy and Me

Toys

Like most children growing up in the 1980s Star wars was part of the landscape growing up Me and Matthew bought most of the toys and played Star wars at home..

 I used to be Han Solo and Matthew my Brother would be Luke Skywalker my bed would be the Millennium Falcon and my Teddy Edward would be Chewbacca. To watch a documentary on the Star Wars toy range click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaJy4GMQrJE&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV3Y85xphI3YrPVq3Q5wI_7&index=34&t=15s

The very first Star wars figure me and Matthew got as presents were a Darth Vader figure for me and Luke Skywalker Jedi knight for Matthew from our Nan from then on we would get figures as treats save up our pocket money or a get the figures or a spaceship/Vehicle for Christmas or a birthday present.

The first big Spaceship I remember getting as a birthday present was the Snow Speeder that Luke Skywalker flew during the Battle of Hoth in Empire a great flyer but very heavy to lift when your little the guns on the speeder would light up when you pressed a button.

Toy advert for the Snow Speeder click here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_LPd9xlsks

 Matthew got Luke’s X wing fighter the wings unfolded when you pressed a button on R2D2s head Toy Advert for the X wing and Tie fighter click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llNRFjvJXus

The best Christmas present I ever got was the Millennium Falcon playset  and Matthew was rather pleased when on the same day he got the Ework Village . Toy adverts for the Millennium Falcon playset  click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYoaTe8mUho advert for Ework village click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdZ2XsgRohc

Pictures

Star Wars Poster from 1977

Star Wars from the Adventures of Luke Skywalker book cover from 1976

Early Bird toy promontion

Star Wars Soundtrack album

Notes

Thank you to wikipedia for the background information on the making of Star Wars and its Toyline Thank you to Youtube for the Vairous adverts for the Star war toys also thank you to the vairous websites for their Star Wars articles featured in this first chapter including Movieweb, Screenrant, Gizmondo

Next Week Tolerance Project extra a long time ago in a galaxy far far away part 2 a lost sequel an ice planet and a forest moon

Further Watching

Star Wars The Epic continues a lost toyline from 1985

2 Video shorts on how the toy companies tried to keep the Star Wars Toy Franchise going after Return of the Jedi click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQwsuR96pRk and here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UeWGX6It4c&list=PL17vqAEJv6CV1syq4_fFKgBwSqGdJzH9z&index=333

 Further reading

The Movieweb website included Darth Vader at Number 3 in their article 10 Best Movie Character Introductions, Ranked you can read the full list by clicking here https://movieweb.com/movie-character-introductions/#james-bond-mdash-dr-no

This article list 20 of John Williams best film scores with both the scores for Star Wars and its sequel the Empire Strikes back both in the top 10 for the full list click here John Williams' best film scores of all time, ranked (avclub.com)

Another list of John Williams Iconic scores this time from the Collider.com website this time the soundtrack to Empire Strikes back gets a good mention but the soundtrack to Star Wars is not included for the full list click here :John Williams' Most Iconic Movie Soundtracks, Ranked (collider.com)

The Mary Sue film website also published a list of his 12 best film Scores you can read that by clicking here https://www.themarysue.com/best-john-williams-scores-ranked/

Collider.com reporting an AFI list (American film institute) of the top ten best Film soundtracks of all time Star Wars was number 1 in this list you can see the full list by clicking on this link 10 Best Movie Scores, According to the AFI (collider.com)

The 10 best movie trilogies of all time from the giant freaking Robot website the original Star Wars trilogy was number 2 in their list to read the article click here Best Movie Trilogies Of All-Time (giantfreakinrobot.com)

Screenrant published an article called Star Wars: The Best Track From Each John Williams Score Ranked you can read it by clicking here Star Wars: The Best Track From Each John Williams Score, Ranked (screenrant.com)

The Movieweb website published a list called the 18 greatest Scifi film Franchises of all time Star Wars was number 2 on their list you can read the full list by clicking here https://movieweb.com/best-sci-fi-film-franchises/#bill-and-ted 

This article from the Screenrant websitle lists the 15 hidden details that can befound in the orignal Star Wars Trilogy https://screenrant.com/star-wars-original-trilogy-hidden-details/

Not everything is perfect in the Star Wars film series as this article from Screenrant points out click here to read https://screenrant.com/star-wars-empire-make-no-sense-problems/

Another interesting Star Wars article from Screenrant this article covers the 10 best Star wars mistakes that were left in the final cut this peice talks about the Star Wars universe as a whole so it covers all the films and the live action Tv series you can read it by clicking here https://screenrant.com/star-wars-10-best-mistakes-movies-live-action-tv-shows/#the-book-of-boba-fett-39-s-wooden-set-is-revealed

To learn more about Star Wars concept art read this article from the Screen Rant website about 15 star Wars concept drawings that reveal an alternate version of the films

The Star Wars Franchise topped Moviewebs list of 10 franchises with 4 or more films you can read the full article by clicking here https://movieweb.com/movie-franchises-with-four-sequels/#james-bond-1962-present 

This article from the Screenrant website lists the 10 best moments from the original star Wars trilogy click here The 10 Best Scenes In The Star Wars Original Trilogy (screenrant.com)

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Who, in your opinion, are ✨Legendary, Talented Actors and Actresses✨ (deceased, alive and "legend in the making")?

Nice question!!!!  Like the word “versatile”, I feel that when referring to an actor or actress, “legendary” is thrown around too often without actually understanding what that word means and how it correlates to an actor or actress. That being said, I hope I do this right...

Alive: - Daniel Craig - Winona Ryder - Christian Bale - Julianne Moore - Jim Carrey - Meryl Streep - James McAvoy - Julia Roberts - Willem Dafoe - Susan Sarandon - Ewan McGregor - Charlize Theron - Johnny Depp (like him or not) - Nicole Kidman - Tom Hanks - Kate Winslet - Edward Norton - Morgan Freeman - Robert Downey Jr. - Leonardo DiCaprio - Allison Janney - Christopher Walken - Will Smith - Michael Caine - Brad Pitt - Dakota Fanning - Denzel Washington - Viola Davis - Gary Oldman - Bryce Dallas Howard - Idris Elba - Helena Bonham Carter - Tom Cruise (like him or not, and I, personally, absolutely despise him) - Jessica Chastain - Al Pacino - Cate Blanchett - Steve Carell (his career took off after he landed his iconic role as Michael Scott in The Office, but since his last episode in 2011, he's come a long way and has even branched out into a variety of genres as well as role types) - Angelina Jolie - Michael Keaton - Michelle Pfeiffer - Daniel Day-Lewis - Sandra Bullock - Robert De Niro - Renée Zellweger - Colin Farrell - Patricia Arquette - Colin Firth - Joaquin Phoenix - Keanu Reeves - Matthew McConaughey - Brendan Fraser - Harrison Ford - Jack Nicholson - Stanley Tucci

**There are tons of actors and actresses from the 30s-60s that were in-demand and could definitely be considered a legend, but I chose to leave them off because I didn’t want this list to be long and I wanted to focus on only the ones I grew up with as well as heard of**

Gone, but NEVER Forgotten - Heath Ledger - Carrie Fisher - Robin Williams - Brittany Murphy - River Phoenix - Chadwick Boseman - Chris Farley - Patrick Swayze

Legend in the Making: - Anya Taylor-Joy - Robert Pattinson - Margot Robbie - Julia Garner (I can just feel it...!) - Finn Wolfhard - Melissa McCarthy - Andrew Garfield - Sadie Sink (I can just feel it...!) - Cillian Murphy - Kate McKinnon - Saoirse Ronan - Anne Hathaway - Amy Adams - Lin-Manuel Miranda - Kristen Stewart (like her or not)

Honorable Mentions: Emma Thompson, Natalie Portman, Elle Fanning, Halle Berry, Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Zoë Saldaña, Emma Stone, Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler

Unsure:

Hugh Jackman - click here

Matthew Modine - A true artist at heart who was quite versatile with his roles and genres in the 80s (and so fine 😍), but he isn't super well-known nor popular like, for example, Tom Hanks; however, the role of 'Papa' on Stranger Things won him tons of new fans as well as awoke his fans that grew up with him

Jason Bateman - He's been around since the 80s, but aside from Ozark, he only really stars in crude R-rated films, so I'm on the fence about whether he'd be considered one or not

Amy Poehler

Adam Driver

Tina Fey

Jake Gyllenhaal

Chris Rock

Florence Pugh

Bill Skarsgård

Tom Holland

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There are definitely tons--I mean tons of more actors and actresses I could write out for each category, but I'll end the lists here. Thank for the ask, this was fun to think about! If any of you have suggestions, then send me an ask.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Nell Brinkley, Queen of Early American Comics

Note: This is an encore post from 2013. When Americans think of classic illustrators from the early 20th century, names such as Charles Dana Gibson, Harrison Fisher, Haskell Coffin, James Montgomery Flagg, and John Held Jr. spring to mind. Forgotten by almost everyone, but in every way these men’s equal, is the great female artist Nell Brinkley. Her image of American womanhood supplanted that of…

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William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was a keyboardist, singer, and songwriter whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. He was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, during which he backed artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, the Everly Brothers, Reverend James Cleveland, the Beatles, and the Rolling Stones. He gained attention as a solo artist with hit singles such as “That’s the Way God Planned It”, the Grammy-winning “Outa-Space”, “Will It Go Round in Circles”, “Space Race”, “Nothing from Nothing”, and “With You I’m Born Again”. He co-wrote “You Are So Beautiful”, which became a #5 hit for Joe Cocker.

He is one of only two non-Beatle musicians to be given a credit on a Beatles recording at the band’s request; the group’s 1969 single “Get Back” was credited as “The Beatles with Billy Preston”. He continued to record and perform with George Harrison after the Beatles’ breakup, along with other artists such as Eric Clapton and the Rolling Stones on many of the group’s albums and tours. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the Musical Excellence Award category. “Nothing from Nothing” was written by Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher and recorded by Billy Preston for his album The Kids & Me. The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week, becoming his second solo chart-topper in the US.

He was born in Houston and moved to Los Angeles as a child with his mother Robbie Lee Williams. He was self-taught and never had a music lesson. By the age of ten, he was playing organ onstage backing several gospel singers such as Mahalia Jackson. He appeared on an episode of Nat King Cole’s TV show singing the Fats Domino hit “Blueberry Hill” with Cole. He appeared in St. Louis Blues. He played the organ on Sam Cooke’s Night Beat album and released his debut album, 16 Yr. Old Soul. He released the album The Most Exciting Organ Ever and performed on the rock and roll show Shindig! He had a session with Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix, yielding the soul classic dirge “I Don’t Know What You’ve Got”. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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~ Harrison Fisher, "In Teacup Times" (1908)

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‘Common Sense’ postcard by Harrison Fisher by totallymystified

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Birthdays 7.3

Beer Birthdays

Tom Kehoe (1964)

Christian Ettinger (1973)

Max Finance (1985)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Dave Barry; writer, humorist (1947)

M.F.K. Fisher; writer (1908)

Mississippi John Hurt; blues singer (1893)

Franz Kafka; Czech writer (1883)

Tom Stoppard; playwright (1937)

Famous Birthdays

Robert Adam; Scottish architect (1728)

Amalia Aguilar; Cuban-Mexican film actress and dancer (1924)

Rae Allen; actress, singer, and director (1926)

Evelyn Anthony; English author (1928)

Paul Barrere; rock guitarist (1948)

Sándor Bortnyik; Hungarian painter (1893)

Laura Branigan; rock singer (1957)

Betty Buckley; actor (1947)

Vince Clarke; English singer-songwriter, keyboard player (1960)

George M. Cohan; actor, singer, songwriter (1878)

Michael Cole; actor (1945)

Johnny Coles, American trumpeter (1926)

John Singleton Copley; artist (1738)

Richard Cramer; actor (1889)

Tom Cruise; actor (1962)

William Henry Davies; Welsh poet and writer (1871)

Lisa De Leeuw; adult actress (1958)

Jesse Douglas; mathematician (1897)

Pete Fountain; clarinetist (1930)

Andy Fraser; English singer-songwriter and bass player (1952)

Thomas Gibson; actor (1962)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman; sociologist, writer, feminist (1860)

Ramón Gómez de la Serna; Spanish author and playwright (1888)

Albert Gottschalk; Danish painter (1866)

Larry "Bozo the Clown" Harmon; clown (1925)

Charlie Higson; English actor, singer (1958)

Philip Jamison; artist (1925)

Leos Janacek; Czech composer (1854)

Elle King; singer, songwriter, and actress (1989)

Alfred Korzybski; Polish-American mathematician (1879)

Johnny Lee; singer and guitarist (1946)

Doris Lloyd; English actress (1896)

Nicholas Maxwell; English philosopher (1937)

Didier Mouron; Swiss-Canadian painter (1958)

Olivia Munn; actor, comedian (1980)

Connie Nielsen; Danish-American actor (1965)

Tim O'Connor; actor (1927)

Carla Olson; singer-songwriter (1952)

Baard Owe; Norwegian-Danish actor (1936)

Eddy Paape, Belgian illustrator (1920)

Susan Penhaligon; English actress (1949)

Stephen Pearcy; singer-songwriter, and guitarist (1959)

Ralph Barton Perry; philosopher (1876)

Susan Peters; actress (1921)

Jethro Pugh; Dallas Cowboys DT (1944)

François Reichenbach; French film director (1921)

Ken Russell; English film director (1927)

George Sanders; Russian-born British actor (1906)

Richard Mellon Scaife; businessman (1932)

Harrison Schmitt; geologist, astronaut (1935)

Ruth Crawford Seeger; composer (1901)

Michael Shea; author (1946)

Kurtwood Smith; actor (1943)

Yeardley Smith; actor (1964)

Jan Smithers; actor (1949)

Poly Styrene; British musician (1957)

Kenzie Taylor; adult actress (1990)

Tommy Tedesco; guitarist (1930)

Norman E. Thagard; astronaut (1943)

Aaron Tippin; singer-songwriter, guitarist (1958)

Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo; Belgian artist (1922)

John Verity,; English guitarist (1949)

Johnnie Wilder, Jr.; R&B/funk singer (1949)

Montel Williams; television host (1956)

Patrick Wilson; actor (1973)

Edward Young; English poet, dramatist (1683)

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Centre for Poetry and Poetics Presents a reading with Allen Fisher and Kelvin Corcoran

Poet, painter, and art historian Allen Fisher has over 160 single-author publications, with his two most recent artist’s books Black Pond (2020) and proceeds in the garden, after Dante’s Paradiso. Fisher worked in the City Lead Works from 1962 until the ’70s, performed with Fluxus in Britain in the ’70s, and studied physics, human physiology, drawing and color, and art history at Goldsmiths and Essex. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art at Manchester Metropolitan University and editor of the journal Spanner and Spanner Editions and co-publisher of Aloes Books, New London Pride, and Edible Magazine.

Kelvin Corcoran grew up in the English Midlands the son of an alcoholic Irish father and loving mother. As a child he benefited from free school milk and the family allowance, which was essential. By virtue of a good teacher, he went to university and read poetry. His first book was published in 1985. He was a teacher for 33 years and then for a while a voluntary worker in the NHS. After the discovery of poetry, the second great change in his life was meeting his wife, Melanie. His work belongs to no school and has been consistently praised for its lyricism and intelligence, commended by the Poetry Society and the Forward Prize committee and commissioned by the Arts Council and Medicine Unboxed. He lives in Brussels, Greece and Penwith in Cornwall.

Kelvin will be reading from Collected Poems (Shearsman, 2023). Kelvin writes in his afterword to the Collected:

'The poems collected here were written and published between 1985 through to 2023. Almost all of this poetry was written in sequences or entire books rather than as separate poems. I’ve aimed to keep that feature with some trimming. I’ve excluded some early work in order to avoid repetition, and omitted the books written with the late Alan Halsey, precisely because they are collaborations and not my work alone. One day I would like to collect all those books in one volume in order to restate the lasting pleasure of having worked with Alan. In compiling these poems I’ve kept in mind Jane Harrison’s remarks in Epilegomena To The Study Of Greek Religion, that all poetry is about praise or blame, celebration or satire. I don’t exclude myself from this second category and I can be fairly selective about what fits in the first. I hope there is plenty of both qualities here.'

https://www.shearsman.com/.../Kelvin-Corcoran-Collected...

(Collected Poems, back cover headlines):

“Corcoran has as wide a range and as rich a vocabulary as any poet now writing. He possesses a flawless ear, a fresh eye for image and detail, penetrating analysis and a storyteller’s gift. He can shift registers suddenly, from lyric to formal mode to common speech, and even a snatch of song. . . Kelvin Corcoran is one of the rare true poets. Reading him is a privilege and a pleasure, a new awareness.” David Wevill.

“Corcoran is a superbly skilled lyricist.” Frances Leviston, The Guardian.

“Kelvin Corcoran has allied a strikingly individual intelligence to a genuinely musical sensibility.” Don Paterson, The Observer.

“The ‘straight music’ of the English lyrical tradition drives these poems that are honed, hard, elegant and economic. Then, suddenly, brilliance flashes out against the grain, in the flaws. It is ‘the ripped voice makes us free’.” Rosmarie Waldrop.

“Corcoran is at the front of contemporary poetry: the lyric grace of his language is threaded with an historical perspective that raises the poetry far beyond the world of a localised present.” Ian Brinton, Tears in the Fence.

“Kelvin Corcoran’s recent work inhabits the imagination as a distinct sphere of abundance, drawn from reality as a celebration of the true scope of the mind. And the instrument of this is a written eloquence which takes in the past of poetry and of the spirit as a freshly lived condition.” Peter Riley, PN Review.

“Kelvin Corcoran is a writer for whom politics and poetics are inseparable; his work demonstrates an exhilarating truth, that wit and irony need not exclude passion and trust in the pursuit of poetry.” Ken Edwards, The New British Poetry.

9TH OF NOVEMBER – 6.30pm: Diamond, LT2

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