#frances gifford

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Buster Keaton, James Craig, and Frances Gifford She Went to the Races (1945)

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This day in Buster... November 4, 1945, "She Went to the Races" starring James Craig, Frances Gifford, Ava Gardner and Sig Ruman is released by MGM. Buster Keaton was a gag consultant, but one of the gags was really only suited for one man. Buster’s moment as a distracted bellboy was brief, but memorable!

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Frances Gifford feeds a forkful of pie a la mode to Pat O'Brien while on tour with the Hollywood Victory Caravan in 1942.

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22 gennaio … ricordiamo …

22 gennaio … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Roberto Brivio, Roberto Antonio Brivio, attore, cantante e cabarettista italiano, membro del gruppo I Gufi. Nel 1959 si diplomò all’Accademia dei Filodrammatici e cinque anni dopo, insieme a Nanni Svampa, Lino Patruno e Gianni Magni (l’ultimo ad entrare nel gruppo), diede vita al gruppo I Gufi, che in quegli anni contribuì a creare il cabaret musicale in Italia, utilizzando il dialetto…

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“Marks Her Car Like Bus,” Windsor Star. November 26, 1942. Page 7. ---- PRETTY FRANCES GIFFORD. Hollywood actress, simplified the "Share Your Car" program with the aid of this 'destination sticker" on her windshield. Thus she runs no risk of taking someone to the wrong place. (Acme Photograph.)

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TRANSCENDING, AUGMENTING : DOPAGE, SUFFERING, GOD AND CYCLING

Pope Warns Athletes on Doping, Huffington Post, 2010 / A blood bag confiscated as part of an antidoping raid, Operation Puerto blood bags must be released to authorities, judge orders, The Guardian, 2016 / A Belgian relic of Christ's blood, Jezus Christus, de bekendste relikwieën, Recordatio, 2019 / The Transcendent Pain, Bill Gifford, Bicycling, 2012 / Unknown cyclist peels skin off palm, CYCLING ART BLOG (Blogspot), n.d. / Jesus Protruding from the Sepulchre, Antonio Vivarini, 15th c. / Why we like suffering, Frank Strack, Cyclist, 2016 / Primož Roglič celebrates winning the 17th stage of the Tour de France, Getty Images, 2017 / Primož Roglič suffers as he crosses the line following a crash at La Vuelta de España, Getty Images, 2022 / The Cyclist and His Shadow, François Thomazeau, 2022 / Saint John the Baptist looking up to the right, holding a bowl, Guercino, n.d. / Tadej Pogačar cracks during the Tour de France, Vincent Kalut, 2023 / The Cyclist and His Shadow, François Thomazeau, 2022 / Lance Armstrong winning the 17th stage of the Tour de France, Associated Press, 2004 / Padre Pio shows his self-inflicted stigmata, n.d. / Marco Pantani wins at Montecampione during the Giro d'Italia, Bettini Photo, 1998 / The Cyclist and His Shadow, François Thomazeau, 2022

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The "Ascended" Spidersonas

For the third volume of Spider-Verse comics that came out in 2019, the concept of the "Spidersona" that was popularized by the release of the animated film Into the Spider-Verse was acknowledged by way of integrating three different Spidersonas each issue into the comic multiverse through short character profiles at the end of each issue. The former half of these 18 characters would even show up in the final issue of the run in person, with Sun-Spider getting some particularly special treatment afterwards.

Spidersona hero names are bolded and real names (if avaliable) are in parentheses.

Issue 1

Spider-Requiem (Polymnia Swan) of Earth-98117: Created by Cotton Valent from Thailand, Ms. Swan, named after the Greek Muse of Dance, hides her scarred face with her mask and uses her webs to control handmade puppets in combat.

Spinster of Earth-93191: Made by Antonio Demico of France with a design inspired by both the French Revolution and the original Madame Web, the Spinster can generate webs from her prehensile hair which she can then use to spy on conversation like a

V of Earth-43890: As written by V-0-3 from Poland, V is a robotic Spider who lives in Kyoto in the year 2177 who fights crime both physically and digitally, being able to connect herself to the internet to stop cybercrimes.

Issue 2

Spidair of Earth-91202: As written by Dice Shimi of France, Spidair was bitten by a spider from a space laborabtory and possesses thick skin that protects him from extreme temperature immunity as well as the ability to glow brightly to blind enemies.

Sea-Spider of Earth-19192: Being able to breathe underwater and wielding a hook and grappling pistols, the sona provided by the UK's James Gifford is a Spanish nobleman who sails the seas aboard his ship the Aracne.

Spider-Sting of Earth-38418: As explained by Tori Apiradee, Spider-Sting's powers are more acidic in nature, with webs that can erode concrete and bricks.

Issue 3

Sun-Spider (Charlotte "Charlie" Webber) of Earth-20023: Considered the breakout hit of these sonas, Dayna Broder's Sun-Spider has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which makes her hyper-flexible at the cost of needing to use crutches and a wheelchair for stability. She has received her own dedicated story in Edge of the Spider-Verse as well as a vocal cameo in Across the Spider-Verse.

Garden-Spider (Petunia Parker) of Earth-71925: After being shrunken down in size, Petunia tends to her garden, swinging from the flowers like they were skyscrapers to fight against villainous insects like the Aphid. Her creator is Alyssa Ragni of the US.

White Widow (Venice Doadi) of Earth-23233: Carly Henson describes this sona as coming from a future timeline, possessing the ability to secrete toxins from her bare skin, which she coats both her webs and clawed fingers with.

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#MovieMonday  Buster Keaton takes a spectacular fall in this cameo appearance in “She Went to the Races,” 1945 - he might not do much else in the picture but it sure is memorable!

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Disney EMEA Animation Gets "Work In Progress" Panel For Serialized Animated Comedy "THE DOOMIES" At Annecy Festival

For this year’s ever-inspiring Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation, Disney Junior Educational Resource Group, Disney EMEA Animation, 20th Television Animation will unveil a handpicked selection of new releases that promise to bring fresh, captivating adventures to all the family.

Creators of The Doomies, an original spooky serialized comedy produced in France for Disney Branded Television by Xilam Animation Studio and Disney EMEA Animation, will give an exclusive first look at the series during a Work In Progress session.

THE DOOMIES (WORK IN PROGRESS)

Wednesday, June 12

Introduced by Orion Ross, Vice President, International Animation, Disney Branded Television, and Marc du Pontavice, series producer and CEO, Xilam, the panel will feature series director and co-creator Andrès Fernandez, writer and co-creator Henry Gifford, animation director Lucie Arnissole, Xilam CCO Caterina Gonnelli-Linden and executive producer for The Walt Disney Company EMEA, Calvin Dyson.

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Internet: there’s a new biography of Buckingham coming out in October 24

Me: sounds interesting - can’t be worst than The Kings Assassin, blimey that was terrible.

Internet: it’s by Lucy Hughes Hallett - she wrote that book about that fascist dude and on Cleopatra throughout history

Me: sounds interesting, I did like that Cleopatra book

Internet: it’s titled The Scapegoat

Me: so, maybe not a hatchet job? Feeling cautious excitement

Internet: here’s the blurb -

From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a stunning biography of one of the most flamboyant and enigmatic seventeenth-century Englishmen at the heart of political and royal life.

George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham (1592-1628), was loved by three monarchs. King James I of England, whose bed-fellow he was, called him Steenie, after St Stephen whose face 'was as the face of an angel'. James's son, later King Charles I, equally enthralled by Buckingham's glamour, made him his best friend and mentor. Anne of Austria, the Queen of France, confessed that 'if an honest woman might love someone other than her husband' then Buckingham would have been her choice. Many believed that he was her lover. Buckingham was a dazzling figure. On horse-back, or cutting capers, he displayed a figure whose grace not even his worst enemies could refuse to acknowledge. He was also a skilful player of the political game, who rapidly transformed the influence his beauty gave him into immense wealth and power. When he travelled to Paris to fetch home Charles's bride, Queen Henrietta Maria, he wore a pearl-encrusted suit worth enough to pay and equip a sizable army. By the time he was thirty-three he had been first minister to two successive kings.

He lived in dangerous and complicated times, an era where witch hunts coexisted with Descartian rationality. Buckingham stood at its centre both culturally and politically. To the House of Commons Buckingham was 'the chief cause' of all the 'evils and mischiefs with which the country is afflicted'. When he was assassinated in 1628, at the age of thirty-six, King Charles said that he himself, and the monarchy he represented, had been 'wounded through the Duke's sides'.

All of Lucy Hughes-Hallett's books have explored the interface between actual events in the world of politics, war and international relations, and the operations of imagination and desire. Buckingham will, first and foremost, be a compelling story, but it is also story rich in significance, with deep resonance for today.

Me: aww crap 💩

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Jane Powell, George Brent and and Frances Gifford in “Luxury Liner” (1948)

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Frances Gifford in “Tarzan Triumphs” (1943)