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A reading list from The Sims (2000) game guide

Here are some titles that might enhance your understanding of some of the background and social issues entertained in The Sims.

Warning: all are filled with provocative ideas; Maxis disavows any responsibility for encouraging deep thought.

1. Home: A Short History of an Idea by Witold Rybczynski (July 1987), Penguin USA; ISBN: 0140102310

2. Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher W. Alexander (June 1970), Harvard University Press; ISBN: 0674627512

3. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein (1977), Oxford University Press (Trade); ISBN: 0195019199

4. Architecture: Form, Space, & Order by Frank D. K. Ching, Francis D. Ching (February 1996), John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471286168

5. Housing by Lifestyle: The Component Method of Residential Design by James W. Wentling (November 1994), McGraw-Hill; ISBN: 0070692939

6. Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time by John P. Robinson, Geoffrey Godbey (Contributor), Robert Putnam (June 1997), Pennsylvania State University Press (Trade); ISBN: 0271016523

7. Maps of the Mind by C. Hampden-Turner (March 1982), MacMillan Publishing Company; ISBN: 0025477404

8. Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life by David D. Friedman (September 1997), HarperCollins; ISBN: 0887308856

9. Making the Most of Your Llama by Linda C. Beattie (Editor), Araneen Witmer (Illustrator), Kathyrn Doll (Editor), Dr. Linda Beattie (September 1998), Kopacetic Ink; ISBN: 0961963417

10. Finding Your Perfect Love by Arthur Clark, Cassandra Skouras (January 1998), Rosebud Press; ISBN: 0965276902

11. The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size by Tor Norretranders, Jonathan Sydenham (Translator) (April 1998), Viking Press; ISBN: 0670875791

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Birthdays 7.6

Beer Birthdays

Michael Thomas Bass Jr. (1799)

William W. Sloan (1831)

Colin Presby (1984)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Dave Allen; Irish comedian (1936)

Louie Bellson; jazz drummer, bandleader (1924)

Frida Kahlo; Mexican artist (1907)

Geoffrey Rush; actor (1951)

Burt Ward; actor (1945)

Famous Birthdays

Vladimir Ashkenazy; classical pianist (1937)

Candy Barr; stripper, burlesque dancer (1935)

Allyce Beasley; actor (1954)

Ned Beatty; actor (1937)

George W. Bush; unelected 43rd U.S. President (1946)

John Byrne; comic book artist (1950)

Sebastian Cabot; actor (1918)

50 Cent; rapper (1975)

Fred Dryer; actor, Los Angeles Rams DE (1946)

Rik Elswit; rock guitarist (1945)

Merv Griffin; television host (1925)

Nanci Griffith; jazz singer (1954)

David Guaspari; mathematician, writer (1948)

Shelley Hack; actor (1947)

Bill Haley; rock singer (1925)

William Jackson Hooker; English botanist (1785)

John Paul Jones; naval officer (1747)

Janet Leigh; actor (1927)

Heather Nova; pop singer (1967)

Pat Paulsen; comedian, presidential candidate (1927)

Della Reese; singer (1931)

Glenn Scarpelli; actor (1968)

Sylvester Stallone; actor (1946)

Alexander Wilson; Scottish naturalist (1766)

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Keir Dullea in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968)

Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter, Margaret Tyzack, Robert Beatty, Sean Sullivan, Douglas Rain (voice). Screenplay: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, based on a story by Clarke. Cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth. Production design: Ernest Archer, Harry Lange, Anthony Masters. Film editing: Ray Lovejoy.

I know that I first saw 2001 on April 13, 1968, because (as a little Googling tells me) that was the date of the lunar eclipse I witnessed on leaving the theater, an appropriately cosmic climax to the cinematic experience I had just had. Kubrick's film was an experience to be savored by those of us who were already hip to the revolution in American filmmaking underway after the sensation of Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) and The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967). I doubt that anyone who wasn't of an age to experience it realizes quite how revolutionary those movies seemed to us. Though it's conventional to say that our experiences were produced in part by controlled substances, anyone who really knows me knows that I wasn't under the influence of any substance stronger than beer. Today, 2001 doesn't seem much like a revolutionary film: We have lived through the actual 2001, which had its own epoch-making event in the September of that year, but in which no one was making trips to the moon on Pan Am. That airline went out of business in 1991, and the last real moon expedition, Apollo 17, took place in December 1972. But the future is never quite what it's cracked up to be. What was revolutionary about 2001 the movie is that it taught us how a movie can make us think without spelling out its ideas for us. Kubrick wisely whittled down the narrative given him by Arthur C. Clarke to a series of images, and ditched the score written by Alex North for an evocative set of snippets from classical works, letting us assemble any meaning to be derived from the film for ourselves. Of course, in 1968 we went back to our homes and dorm rooms and did just that. Seeing it today, I am most struck by how skillful Kubrick was in creating the persona of HAL, the sentient computer. Much credit goes, of course, to the voiceover work of Douglas Rain, but also to Kubrick's choice to make the dialogue of the humans in the movie as banal and jargon-filled as possible. HAL's final pleading and breakdown as Dave pulls his memory chips is haunting. Yes, the movie has its longueurs: Kubrick is deservedly proud of its landmark special effects and spends more time than is necessary showing them off. They won him the film's only Oscar, without honoring the work of Douglas Trumbull and others who executed them. He was also nominated as director and as co-screenwriter with Clarke, and the art direction team received a nod, but the film was passed over for the significant work of cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, who was assisted by John Alcott, and for the sound crew headed by Winston Ryder. And it failed to receive a best picture nomination in the year when that award went to Oliver! (Carol Reed, 1968). I happen to like Oliver! and don't think it's necessarily one of the Academy's more shameful choices, but it's certainly not an epochal movie.

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names, mostly surnames (1)

let me apologise for this partial list of names in the library,  titles available on request...

, Adorno, horkheimer, anderson, aristotle, greta adorno, marcuse, agamben, acampora and acampora, althussar, lajac kovacic, eric alliez, marc auge,  attali, francis bacon (16th c), aries, aries and bejin, alain badiou, beckett, hallward, barnes, bachelard, bahktin, volshinov, baudrillard, barthes, john beattie, medvedev, henri bergson, Jacques Bidet, berkman, zybmunt bauman, burgin, baugh, sam  butler, ulrich beck, andrew benjamin and peter osbourne, walter benjamin, ernest bloch, blanchot,  bruzins,  bonnet,  karin bojs,  bourdieu,  j.d. bernal, goldsmith,  benveniste, braidotti,  brecht,  burch, victor serge, andre breton, judith butler, malcolm bull, stanley cohen, john berger, etienne balibar, david bohm, gans blumenberg, martin buber, christopher caudwell, micel callon, albert camus, agnes callard,  castoridis, claudio celis bueno, carchedi and roberts, Marisol de la cadena,  mario blaser, nancy cartwright, manual castells, mark  currie, collingwood, canguilhem, mario corti, stuart hall, andrew lowe, paul willis, coyne, stefan collini, varbara cassin, helene cixous, coward and ellis, clastres, carr, cioren,  irving copi, cassirer, carter and willians, margeret cohen,  Francoise dastur, guy debord, agnes martin,  michele bernstein, alice, lorraine dastun, debaise, Gilles Deleuze, deleuze and gattari, guattari, parnet, iain mackenzie, bignall, stivale, holland, smith, james williams, zourabichvili, paul patton, kerslake,  schuster, bogue, bryant,  anne sauvagnargues, hanjo berresen, frida beckman, johnson, gulliarme and hughes, valentine moulard-leonard, desai,  dosse, duttman, d’amico,  benoit peters, derrida, hinca zarifopol-johnston, sean gaston,  discourse, mark poster, foucault,  steve fuller, markus gabrial, rosenbergm  milchamn, colin jones,  van fraasen,  fekete,  vilem flusser, flahault, heri focillon, rudi visker, ernst fischer,  fink, faye, fuller, fiho, marco bollo, hans magnus enxensberger, leen de bolle, canetti, ilya enrenberg,  thuan, sebastion peake, mervyn peake, robert henderson, reimann, roth,  bae suah,  yabouza, marco bellatin, cartarescu, nick harkaway, chris norris, deLanda, regis debray, pattern and doniger,  soame jynens, bernard williams, descartes, anne dufourmanteille, michelle le doeuff, de certaeu , deligny, Georges Dumezil, dumenil and levy,  bernard edelman, victorverlich, berio, arendt, amy allen, de beauvior,hiroka azumi,  bedau and humphreys,  beuad,  georges bataille, caspar  henderson,  chris innes,  yevgeny zamyatin,  louis aragon, italo calvino, pierre guirard,  trustan garcia, rene girard, paul gilroy, michal gardner,  andre gorz, jurgan gabermas, martin gagglund, beatrice hannssen, jean hyppolyte, axel honneth, zizek and crickett, stephen heath,  calentin groebner, j.b.s. haldane,  ian hacking,  david hakken,  hallward and oekken,  haug, harman, latour, arnold hauser, hegel, pippin, pinksrd, michel henry, louis hjelmslev,  gilbert hardin, alice jardine, karl jaspers, suzzane kirkbright, david hume,  thomas hobbes, barry hindus, paul hirst, hindess and hirst, wrrner hamacher,  bertrand gille,  julien huxley, halavais, irigaray, ted honderich, julia kristeva, leibnitz, d lecourt,  lazzaroto, kluge and negt, alexander kluge, sarah kofman, alexandre kojeve,  kolozoya, keynes,  richard kangston, ben lehman, kant,  francous jullien, fred hameson, sntonio rabucchi, jaeggi, steve lanierjones, tim jackson,  jakobson,   joeseph needham, arne de boever,  marx and engels, karl marx, frederick engels, heinrich,  McLellen , maturana and varuna,  lem, lordon, jean jacques-lecercle,  malabou,  marazzi,  heiner muller,  mary midgley, armand matterlart, ariel dorfman, matakovsky, nacneice, lucid,  victor margolis, narco lippi,  glen mazis, nair,  william morris,  nabis,  jean luc nancy,  geoffrey nash,  antonio negri,  negri and hardt, hardt, keith ansell pearson, pettman, william ruddiman, rheinberger, andre orlean, v.i. vernadsky,  rodchenko,  john willet, tarkovsky, william empson,  michel serres,  virillio, semiotexte, helmut heiseenbuttel,  plessner, pechaux, raunig, retort,  saito,  serres, dolphin, maria assad, spinoza,  bernard sharratt, isabelle stengers,  viktor shklovsky,  t. todorov,  enzo traverso, mario tronti,  todes, ivan pavlov,  whitehead, frank trentmann, trubetzkoy, rodowink, widderman, karl wittfogel, peter handke, olivier rolin, pavese,  robert walser, petr kral, von arnim,  sir john mennis,  ladies cabinet,  samuel johnson, edmund spenser,  efy poppy, yoko ogawa, machado,  kaurence durrell,  brigid brophy,  a. betram chandler, maria gabriella llansol, fowler,  ransmayr,  novick, llewellyn,  brennan, sean carroll,  julien rios, pintor, wraxall,  jaccottet, tabucchi,  iain banks, glasstone,  clarice lispector,  murakami, ludmilla petrushevskaya,  motoya, bachmann, lindqvist,  uwe johnson, einear macbride,  szentkuthy,  vladislavic, nanguel,  mathias enard,  chris tomas, jonathan meades,  armo schmidt, charles yu, micheal sorkin, vilas- matas, varesi, peter weiss,  stephenson, paul legrande,  virginie despentes, pessoa,  brin,  furst, gunter trass, umberto eco, reid, paul,klee, mario levero, hearn, judith schalansky, moorhead,  margert walters, rodchenko and popova, david king, alisdair gray, burroughs, ben fine, paul hirst, hindess,  kapuscinski, tchaikovsky,  brooke-rose, david hoon kim, helms,  mahfouz, ardret,  felipe fernandez-armesto,  young and tagomon,  aronson,  bonneuil and  fressoz, h.s. bennett, amy allen, bruckner brown, honegger, bernhard,  warren miller, albert thelen,  margoy bennett, rose macauley,  nenjamin peret, sax rohmer, angeliki, bostrom, phillip ball, the invisible commitee, bataille and leiris,  gregory bateson, michelle barrett and mary mcintosh, bardini, bugin, mcdonald, kaplan, buck-moores,  chesterman and lipman,  berman,  cicero, chanan,  chatelet,  helene cixous, iain cha,bers,  smirgel, norman clark, caird, camus,  clayre, chomsky, critchley,  curry,  swingewood,  luigi luca cavelli-sforza,  clark, esposito, doerner,  de duve, alexander dovzhenko, donzelot,  dennet, doyle, burkheim, de camp,  darwin,  dawkins,  didi-huberman, dundar, george dyson, berard deleuze, evo, barbara ehrenrich,  edwards,  e isenstein, ebeking, economy and society, esposito,  frederick gross,  david edgeerton,  douglas,  paul,feyerband,  jerry fodor,  gorrdiener,  tom forester, korsgaard,  fink,  floridi, elizabeth groscz, pierre francastel,  jane jacobs,  francois laplantinee,  gould,  galloway, goux,  godel, grouys, genette,  gil, kahloo, giddens,  martin gardner,  gilbert and dubar, hobbes,  herve, golinski, grotowski, glieck,  hayles, heidegger, huxley, eric hobsbawn, jean-louis hippolyte,  phillip hoare, tim jordan,  david harvey, hawking, hoggart,  rosemary jackson,  myerson,  mary jacobus, fox keller, illich,  sarah fofman, sylvia harvey, john holloway, han,  jaspers, yuk hui,  pierre hadot, carl gardner,  william james, bell hooks,  edmond jabes,  kierkegaard, alexander keen, kropotkin, tracy kidder,  mithen, kothari and mehta, lind,  c. joad,  bart kosko, kathy myers,  kaplan,  luce irigaraay, patrick ke iller, kittler,  catherine belsey,  kmar,  klossowski, holmes, kant, stanton,  ernesto laclau, jenkins, la mouffe,  walter john williams, adam greenfield, susan greenfield, paul auster, viet nguyen, jeremy nicholson,  andy weir, fred jameson,  lacoue-labarthe,  bede,  jane gallop, lacan,  wilden,  willy ley,  henri lefebvre, rob sheilds,  sandra laugier, micheal lowy, barry levinson, sylvain lazurus, lousardo, leopardo, jean-francois lyotard, jones,  lewontin,  steve levy,  alice in genderland,  laing, lanier, lakatos, laurelle, luxemburg,  lukacs, jarsh,  james lovelock, ideologu and consciousness, economy and society, screen, deleuze studies, deleuze and guattari studies,  bruno latour, david lapoujade,  stephen law, primo levi,  levi-strauss,  emmanuel levinas,  viktor schonberger, pierre levy, gustav landaur,  robin le poidevin,  les levidow, lautman, david cooper,  serge leclaire, catherine malabou, karl kautsky, alice meynall,  j.s. mill, montainge,  elaine miller, rosa levine-meyer, jean luc marion, henri lefebrve,  lipovetsky, terry lovell,  niklas luhmann,  richard may, machiavelli, richard mabey, john mullzrkey,  meyerhold, edward braun,  magri,  murray, nathanial lichfield, noelle mcafee,  hans meyer,  ouspensky, lucretius, asa briggs, william morris, christian metz, laura mulvey, len masterman,  karl mannheim, louis marin, alaister reynolds,  antonio  munoz molina,  FRAZER,  arno schmidt,  dinae waldman,  mark rothko, cornwall, micheal snow, sophie henaff, scarlett thomas,  matuszewski, lillya brik,  rosamond lehman , morris and o’conner,  nina bawden, cora sandel, delafield, storm jameson,  lovi , rachel ferguson,  stevie smith, pat barker, miles franklin, fay weldon,  crista wolff, grace paley, v. woolf, naomi mitchinson, sheila rowbotham,  e, somerville and v ross, sander marai,  jose  saramago,  strugatsky, jean echenoz, mark robso,  vladimir Vernadsky,  chris marker, Kim Stanley Robinson,  mario leverdo,  r.a. lafferty, martin bax, mcaulay, tatyana tolstaya,  colinn kapp,  jonathan meades,  franco fortini,  sam delany, philip e high, h.g. adler, feng menglong,  adam thorpe,  peeter nadas,  sam butler, narnold silver,  deren,  joanna moorhead, leonara carrington,  de waal,  hartt, botticelli,  charbonneau, casco pratolini,  murakami, aldiss,  guidomorselli, ludmilla petrushevskaya, ,schulz,  de andrade, yasushi. inoue, renoir,  amelie  nothomb,  ken liu,  prynne,  ANTIONE VOLODINE, luc brasso,  angela greene,  dorothea tanning,  eric chevillard,  margot bennett w.e. johns, conan doyle,  samuel johnson,  herge,  coutine-denamy, sterling, roubaud,  sloan, meiville,  delarivier manley, andre norton, perec, edward upward, tom mcCarthy,  magrinya,  stross,  eco, godden,  malcolm lowry,  derekmiller,  ismail kadare,  scott lynch, chris fowler, perter newman,  suzzana clarke,  paretky, juliscz balicki,  stanislaw maykowski, rajaniemi, william morris, c.k. crow,  ueys,  oldenburg,  mssrc chwmot,  will pryce,  munroe,  brnabas and kindersley, tromans,   lem, zelazny,  mitchinson, harry Harrison,  konstantin tsiolkovsky,  flammerion,  harrison, arthur c clarke, carpenter, john brunner,  anhony powell,  ted white, sheckley,  kristof, kempowski, shingo,  angelica groodischer,  rolin,  galeanom  dobin,  richard holloway,  pohl and kornbulth,  e.r. eddison,  ken macleodm  aldiss,  dave hutchinson,  alfred bester, budrys,  pynchon,  kurkov,  wisniewski_snerg, , kenji miyazawa,  dante,  laidlaw,  paek nam_nyong, maspero, colohouquon, hernandez,      christina hesselholdt, claude simon, bulgaakov,  simak,  verissimo,  sorokin,  sarraute,  prevert,  celan, bachmann,  mervin peake,  olaf stapledon,  sa rohmer,  robert musil,  le clezio,  jeremy cooper,  zambra,  giorgio de chirico,  mjax frisch,  gawron,  daumal,  tomzza,  canetti,  framcois maspero,  de quincy, defoe, green,, greene, marani,  bellatin,  khury, tapinar,, richmal crompton,  durrenmat,  fritz,  quintane,  volponi,  nanni balestrini,  herrera,  robert walser,  duras,  peter stamm,  m foster,  lan wright,  their theotokism  agustn de rojas, paul eluard,  sturgeon,  hiromi kawakomi,  sayaka murata,  wolfgang hilbig,  hmilton,  z  zivkovic,  gersson,  mallo,  bird,  chaudrey, Toussaint, Can Xue, Lewis Mumford, neitzsche, popper, zizek, scott westerfield, rousseau, lewis munford, tod may,  penelope maddy, elaine marks,  isabelle courtivron, leroi, massumi,  david sterritt, godard, millican and clark, macabe, negri,  mauss, maiimon, patrica maccormack, moretti, courtney humphries,  monad, moyn, malina, picasso, goldman, dambisa moyo,  merleau-ponty, Nicholson, knobe and nichols, poinciore, morris, ovid, ming, nail, thomas more, richard mabey,  macfarlane,  piscator,  louis-stempal,  negrastini, moore,  jacquline rose,  rose and rose, ryle, roszick, rosenburg, ravisson, paul ricoer,  rossler,  chantl mouffe,  david reiff, plato, slater, rowlands, rosa, john roberts,  rhan, dubios and rousseau, ronell,  jacques ranciere, mallarme,  quinodoz, peterpelbert, mary poovey, mackenzie, andrew price, opopper,  roger penrose, lu cino parisi,  gavin rae, parker and pollack,  mirowoski, perniola, postman, panofsky, propp, paschke and rodel, andre pickering, massabuau, lars svenddsen,  rosenberg and whyte, t.l.s. sprigger,  nancy armstrong,  sallis,  dale spender,  stanislavski,  vanessa schwartz,  shapin and shaeffer, sally sedgewick,  signs,  gabriel tarde,  charles singer, adam smith,  simondon,  pascal chablt,  combes, jon roffee, edward said,  sen,  nik farrell fox, sartre,  fred emery,  scholes, herbert spencer, ruth saw, spinoza,  raphael sassower, henry sidgewick, peter singer,  katarznya de lazari-radek,  piaget,  podach,  van der post, on fire, one press,  melossi and  pavarini,  pearl and mackenzie,  theirry paquot, tanizaki, RHS,  stone,  richard sennett,  graham priest,  osborn and pagnell, substance, pedrag cicovacki, schilthuizen,  susan sontag, gillian rose,  nikolas rose,  g rattery taylor, rose,  rajan,  stuart sim,  max raphael,  media culture and society,  heller- roazen,  rid, root, rossi, gramsci, showstack sasson, david roden,  adrew ross, rosenvallion, pauliina remes, pkato, peter sloterdijk, tamsin shaw, george simmel, bullock and trombley, mark francis,  alain supiot, suvin, mullen and suvin, stroma,  maimonides,  van vogt,  the clouds on unknowing, enclotic, thesis 11,  spivack,  kate raworth,  h.w. richardson,  hillial schwartz, stern, rebecca solnit, rowland parker,  pickering,  lukacs,  epicriud, epicetus, lucrtious,  aurelies,  w.j.oates,  thor Hanson,  thompson, mabey,  sheldrake,  eatherley,  plato, jeffries,  dorothy richardson,  arno schmidt,   earl derr biggersm  mary borden, birrel, arno schmidt,  o.a. henty,  berhard steigler,  victor serge,  smith,  joyce salisbury, pauer-studer,  timpanaro,  s helling, schlor, norman and welchman,  searle, emanuele severarimo,  tomasello, sklar, judith singer, walmisley,  thomas malthus,  quentin meilassoux,  alberto meelucchi,  mingione, rurnbull,  said, spufford and  uglow,  zone,  j.j.c. smartt, sandel, skater, songe-moller,  strawson,  strawson, strawson, raymond tallis,  toscano,  turkle,  tiqquin, diggins,  j.s. ogilivy, w.w. hutchings,  rackgam,  deiter roth,  dowell,  red notes,  campbell and pryce,osip brik, lilya brik, mayakovsky, zone, alvin toffker, st exupery, freya stark, warson, walsh, wooley, tiles and oberdick, timofeeva, richardson, marcuse,  marder,  wright,  ushenko, tolson, albebers and moholy- nagy, alyce mahon, gablik, burnett, barry, hill, fontaine, sanuel johnson,justin, block, taylor, peter handke, jacques rivette,  william sansom, bunuel and dali, tom bullough, aldius huxley, philip robinson, spendor, tzara,  wajcman, peter wohlleben,  prigogini,  paolo virno,  jeremy tunstall, theweliet,  taussig,  tricker,  vince,  thomss, williams,  vogl, new german critique,  e.p. 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[ljones41]

Favorite DISNEY STUDIOS Live Action Movies

Below is a list of my favorite live-action movies from the Walt Disney Studios.  This list is in chronological order:

FAVORITE DISNEY STUDIOS LIVE ACTION MOVIES

“Treasure Island (1950) - This adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 adventure novel starred Robert Newton and Bobby Driscoll.  Byron Haskin directed.

“Davy Crockett and the River Pirates” (1956) - Fess Parker and Buddy Ebsen starred in this prequel to the 1955 movie, “Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier”.  Norman Foster directed.

“The Parent Trap (1961) - Hayley Mills starred in this first version of Disney’s film about long-lost twins who scheme to reconcile their divorced parents.  Co-starring Maureen O’Hara and Brian Keith, the movie was written and directed by David Swift.

“Mary Poppins” (1964) - Oscar winner Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke starred in this award-winning musical adaptation of P.L. Travers series of novellas about a magical British nanny.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“That Darn Cat” (1965) - Hayley Mills and Dean Jones starred in this comedic adaptation of Gordon and Mildred Gordon’s 1963 novel, “Undercover Cat”.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin” (1967) - Roddy McDowall, Suzanne Pleshette and Bryan Russell starred in this adaptation of Lowell S. Hawley‘s 1963 novel, “By the Great Horn Spoon!“.  James Neilson directed.

“Blackbeard’s Ghost” (1968) - Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette starred in this comedy adaptation of Ben Stahl’s 1965 novel.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“The Love Bug” (1968-69) - Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson and Buddy Hackett starred in an adaptation of “Car, Boy, Girl", Gordon Buford’s story about a magical Volkswagen.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“Bedknobs and Broomsticks” (1971) - Angela Landsbury and David Tomlinson starred in this musical adaptation of Mary Norton’s children books, 1944′s “The Magic Bedknob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons” and 1947′s “Bonfires and Broomsticks”.  Robert Stevenson directed.

“The Million Dollar Dixie Deliverance” (1978) - Brock Peters starred in this Civil War adventure about a black Union soldier and escaped prisoner of war, who helps five wealthy Northern children being held hostage from Confederate soldiers escape from their captors.  Russ Mayberry directed.

“Dick Tracy” (1990) - Warren Beatty directed and starred in this adaptation of the 1930s comic strip created by Chester Gould.  Oscar nominee Al Pacino, Glenne Headly and Madonna co-starred.

“The Rocketeer” (1991) - Bill Campbell starred in this adaptation of the superhero comic book series created by Dave Stevens.  Directed by Joe Johnston, the movie co-starred Jennifer Connelly, Timothy Dalton and Alan Arkin.

“The Adventures of Huck Finn” (1993) - Elijah Wood and Courtney B. Vance starred in this adaptation of Mark Twain’s 1884 novel, “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.  The movie was written and directed by Stephen Sommers.

“The Three Musketeers” (1993) - Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O’Donnell, Charlie Sheen and Oliver Platt starred in this loose adaptation of Alexandre Dumas père‘s 1844 novel.  Stephen Herek directed.

“Pirates of the Caribbean:  The Curse of the Black Pearl” (2003) - Johnny Depp starred in the first film of the supernatural swashbuckler film series that was based on a Disney Park attraction.  Directed by Gore Verbinski, the movie co-starred Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Geoffrey Rush.

“National Treasure” (2004) - Nicholas Cage starred in the first adventure movie in this film series about a historian and treasure hunter.  Directed by Jon Turtelbaub, the movie co-starred Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean and Jon Voight.

“Pirates of the Caribbean:  Dead Man’s Chest” (2006) - Johnny Depp starred in the second movie of the supernatural swashbuckler film series that was based on the Disney Park attraction.  Directed by Gore Verbinski, the movie co-starred Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley and Bill Nighy.

“National Treasure 2:  Book of Secrets” (2007) - Nicholas Cage starred in the second adventure movie in this film series about a historian and treasure hunter.  Directed by Jon Turtelbaub, the movie co-starred Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger, Jon Voight, Ed Harris and Helen Mirren.

“Prince of Persia:  The Sands of Time” (2010) - Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton and Ben Kingsley starred in this action-adventure adaptation of Jordan Mechner’s video game series.  Mike Newell directed.

“Saving Mr. Banks” (2013) - Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks starred in this biopic about conflict between author P.L. Travers and filmmaker Walt Disney over the development of the 1964 movie, “Mary Poppins”.  John Lee Hancock directed.

“Tomorrowland” (2015) - George Clooney, Britt Robertson and Hugh Laurie starred in science-fiction adventure about a disillusioned scientist and a teenage science enthusiast embarking on a trip to a futuristic alternate dimension.  Brad Bird directed and co-wrote with Damon Lindelof.

“Cruella” (2021) - Emma Stone starred as the titular character in this crime comedy about the villainess from Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians”.  Directed by Craig Gillespie, the movie co-starred Emma Thompson, Joel Fry and Paul Walter Hauser.

Do you have any favorite Disney live-action movies?  What are they?

[indiejones]

INDIES TOP 75 AMERICAN ACTORS OF ALL TIME !

As most of y'all enjoying Indies produce all these years, would've sensed for long, we at Indies are a bit classical at heart ! And in keeping with those richly steeped tastes, bring to you our latest (as also I'm sure hugely interesting & awaited) all-time historic list! The Indies Top 75 American Actors Of All Time ! (And only reason Indies don't extend this list any further, is for the sheer impossibility of it!..the gulf btwn below esteemed list & most other actors through the century of American cinema, assessed, being just too wide, upto 150+ spots atleast, to carry on further.) Enjoy ! & A Very Happy & Prosperous New Year To Everyone !

1.       Gary Cooper

2.       James Stewart

3.       Daniel Day Lewis

4.       Charles Boyer

5.       Spencer Tracy

6.       Joe Pesci

7.       Gerard Depardieu

8.       Walter Pidgeon

9.       Fredric March

10.   Henry Fonda

11.   Charles Laughton

12.   Charlie Chaplin

13.   James Cagney

14.   Jon Voight

15.   Jack Nicholson

16.   Al Pacino

17.   Peter Ustinov

18.   Albert Finney

19.   Michael Douglas

20.   Kirk Douglas

21.   Christopher Plummer

22.   Harrison Ford

23.   George Kennedy

24.   Mickey Rooney

25.   Montgomery Clift

26.   Cary Grant

27.   George C. Scott

28.   Clint Eastwood

29.   Gary Oldman

30.   Walter Huston

31.   Laurence Olivier

32.   Marlon Brando

33.   Gene Hackman

34.   John Gielgud

35.   Douglas Fairbanks

36.   Paul Muni

37.   Paul Newman

38.   James Mason

39.   James Caan

40.   Alec Guinness

41.   Dustin Hoffman

42.   Peter O’ Toole

43.   Tom Hanks

44.   Humphrey Bogart

45.   John Wayne

46.   Ronald Coleman

47.   Gregory Peck

48.   Rex Harrison

49.   Richard Dix

50.   Claude Rains

51.   Anthony Hopkins

52.   Franchot Tone

53.   James Dean

54.   Robert Duvall

55.   William Powell

56.   Arthur Kennedy

57.   Geoffrey Rush

58.   Steve McQueen

59.   Johnny Depp

60.   Richard Burton

61.   Clark Gable

62.   Michael Caine

63.   Laurence Harvey

64.   Conrad Veral

65.   Sean Penn

66.   Ralph Richardson

67.   Warren Beatty

68.   Rock Hudson

69.   William Holden

70.   Robert Redford

71.   Nick Nolte

72.   Walter Brennan

73.   Leslie Howard

74.   Michael Shannon

75.   Sean Connery

76.   Robert de Niro

[agendaculturaldelima]

#ProyeccionDeVida

📣 Kino Cat / Cine Tulipán, presenta:

🎬 “2001 UNA ODISEA DEL ESPACIO” [2001 A Space Odyssey]

🔎 Género: Ciencia Ficción / Aventura Espacial / Internet / Informática / Película de Culto

⌛️ Duración: 139 minutos

✍️ Guion: Stanley Kubrick y Arthur C. Clarke

📕 Libro: Arthur C. Clarke

🎼 Música: Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss, György Ligeti y Aram Khachaturyan

📷 Fotografía: Geoffrey Unsworth

🗯 Argumento: Diversos periodos de la historia de la humanidad, no sólo del pasado, sino también del futuro. Hace millones de años, antes de la aparición del "homo sapiens", unos primates descubren un monolito que los conduce a un estadio de inteligencia superior. Millones de años después, otro monolito, enterrado en una luna, despierta el interés de los científicos. Por último, durante una misión de la Nasa, Hal 9000, una máquina dotada de inteligencia artificial, se encarga de controlar todos los sistemas de una nave espacial tripulada.

👥 Reparto: Keir Dullea (David Bowman), Gary Lockwood (Frank Poole), William Sylvester (Heywood R. Floyd), Daniel Richter (Moon-Watcher), Douglas Rain (Hal 9000), Margaret Tyzack (Elena), Leonard Rossiter (Dr. Andrei Smyslov), Robert Beatty (Dr. Ralph Halvorsen), Bill Weston (Astronaut #1), Ann Gillis (Madre de Poole) y Edwina Carroll (Aries-1B Stewardess).

📢 Dirección: Stanley Kubrick

© Productoras: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) & Stanley Kubrick Production

🌎 Países: Reino Unido-Estados Unidos

�� Año: 1968

📽 Proyección:

📆 Martes 02 de Julio

🕘 9:15pm. 

🐈‍ El Gato Tulipán (Bajada de Baños 350 – Barranco)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre

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CINÉ SÉRIE D'UN BONHEUR CONTAGIEUX PIRATES DES CARAÏBES La Malédiction du Black Pearl SYNOPSIS Dans la mer des Caraïbes, au XVIIe siècle, Jack Sparrow, flibustier gentleman, voit sa vie idyllique basculer le jour où son ennemi, le perfide capitaine Barbossa, lui vole son bateau, le Black Pearl, puis attaque la ville de Port Royal, enlevant au passage la très belle fille du gouverneur, Elizabeth Swann. L'ami d'enfance de celle-ci, Will Turner, se joint à Jack pour se lancer aux trousses du capitaine. Mais Will ignore qu'une malédiction frappe Barbossa et ses pirates. Lorsque la lune brille, ils se transforment en morts-vivants. Leur terrible sort ne prendra fin que le jour où le fabuleux trésor qu'ils ont amassé sera restitué... BANDE ANNONCE https://youtu.be/Ds5iN5rA9Xk DÉTAILS 13 août 2003 en salle / 2h 23min / Action, Fantastique De Gore Verbinski Par Jay Wolpert, Stuart Beattie Avec Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Keira Knightley Titre original Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl CRITIQUE Trois raisons de revoir “Pirates des Caraïbes : la malédiction du Black Pearl” Quand Johnny Depp revêt les oripeaux de Jack Sparrow, il porte le film (presque) à lui tout seul. Ce dimanche soir, “Pirates des Caraïbes : la malédiction du Black Pearl” repasse à la télé. Profitez-en pour embarquer et régalez-vous ! Vous reprendrez bien encore un peu de rhum arrangé, vieilli dans les cales humides et mystérieuses d'un grand vaisseau ensorcelé, aux voiles et pavillon noirs ? Sortie en 2003, La Malédiction du Black Pearl, de Gore Verbinski, est la toute première cuvée de la saga Pirates des Caraïbes : quatorze ans plus tard, elle est toujours aussi savoureuse, mélange pétillant de fantastique, de romance et d'aventures iodées, avec une bonne dose d'humour et un soupçon de macabre pour relever le tout. On a recensé (au moins) trois bonnes raisons de reprendre la mer (du Sud) avec le capitaine Jack Sparrow et ses compagnons. Quiconque a un jour visité avant 2003 l'un des parcs Disney (land ou world, selon votre région du monde) a navigué sans le savoir dans la « matrice » de la saga Pirates des Caraïbes. Attraction très populaire, cette espèce de son et lumière (à l'é https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp2NPGzMwo7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mariocki]

Portrait Of Alison (Postmark For Danger, 1955)

"Alright, so it's not much of an alibi - but do I need one, are you seriously suggesting that I killed that girl?"

"I haven't suggested anything, Mr. Forrester. But let's face it, she was found on your bed, in your flat."

[vintage1981]

Little Shoppe of Horrors #38 - The Epic Untold Saga Behind Frankenstein: The True Story by Sam Irvin | Vintage1981 Rewind

Extra Special Issue Devoted to the Making of "Frankenstein: The True Story” (Universal/NBC-TV, 1973).

First published on the eve of 2018, the 45th Anniversary of the movie and the 200th Anniversary of the novel by Mary Shelley

Expanded to 120 pages!

16 pages in full color!

First-ever 3-panel triptych wraparound/foldout cover by Mark Maddox!

2-panel diptych foldout inside cover by Bruce Timm!

Inside back cover by Paul Watts!

2 full-page, full-color interior illustrations by Neil D. Vokes!

Full-color interior illustrations by Adrian Salmon!

Article headers by Denis Meikle including one full-pager in full-color!

Over 400 photographs, most never-before-published!

Featuring:

BEAUTIFUL CREATURE:  The Epic Untold Saga Behind Frankenstein: The True Story - by Sam Irvin (over 50,000 words!)

Foreword by Anne Rice (Interview with a Vampire)

Essay by Mark Gatiss (Sherlock)

Never-before-published essay by Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy (co-screenwriters of FTTS)

Exclusive interviews with over 20 cast and crew members, including standalone sidebar interviews with:

Leonard Whiting (Dr. Frankenstein)

Jane Seymour (Agatha / Prima)

David McCallum (Dr. Clerval)

Nicola Pagett (Elizabeth Frankenstein)

Don Bachardy (co-writer)

Ian Lewis (associate producer)

John Stoneman (first assistant director)

Plus exclusive comments from many associates of the production, including:

Sid Sheinberg (former president of Universal)

Angela Lansbury

Richard Chamberlain

Jon Voight

Geoffrey Holder

Jack Larson (Jimmy Olsen in The Adventures of Superman)

Essay by Alec Smight, son of the late director Jack Smight

Essay by James Duke Mason, grandson of the late James Mason (Dr. Polidori)

Tributes to the late Michael Sarrazin (The Creature) by his brother Pierre Sarrazin and others

Essay on screenwriters Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy, by Katherine Bucknell

Essay on composer Gil Mellé, by James Anthony Phillips

Profile of producer Hunt Stromberg Jr., by Sam Irvin

Sidebars on missing scenes, missing passages from the published script, various cuts, the model kit, etc.

This issue is jam-packed with surprises beyond your wildest imagination! The staggering, never-before-reported journey to bring Frankenstein: The True Story to the screen reads like a Who’s Who, directly involving such luminaries as Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock, Steven Spielberg, Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Francis Ford Coppola, John Boorman, John Schlesinger, Jon Voight, Roman Polanski, Warren Beatty, Elsa Lanchester, Franco Zeffirelli, and more!

Whether you are a fan or not, the adventure behind the creation of Frankenstain: The True Story is so astounding, it is an epic unto itself. Prepare to catch your jaw before it drops to the floor.

Special promo for LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS #38 - Buy this issue and one or more of any of our previous 37 issues, and get a free copy of "Little Shoppe of Horrors #28", the in-depth coverage of Hammer Film's classic Gothic Ghost story - THE WOMAN IN BLACK. Check this website for a full list of issues and contents.

http://www.littleshoppeofhorrors.com/

[justforbooks]

The New Yorker is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Started as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is now published 47 times annually, with five of these issues covering two-week spans. Although its reviews and events listings often focus on the cultural life of New York City, The New Yorker has a wide audience outside New York and is read internationally. It is well known for its illustrated and often topical covers, its commentaries on popular culture and eccentric Americana, its attention to modern fiction by the inclusion of short stories and literary reviews, its rigorous fact checking and copy editing, its journalism on politics and social issues, and its single-panel cartoons sprinkled throughout each issue.

The New Yorker was founded by Harold Ross and his wife Jane Grant, a New York Times reporter, and debuted on February 21, 1925. Ross wanted to create a sophisticated humor magazine that would be different from perceivably "corny" humor publications such as Judge, where he had worked, or the old Life. Ross partnered with entrepreneur Raoul H. Fleischmann (who founded the General Baking Company) to establish the F-R Publishing Company. The magazine's first offices were at 25 West 45th Street in Manhattan. Ross edited the magazine until his death in 1951. During the early, occasionally precarious years of its existence, the magazine prided itself on its cosmopolitan sophistication. Ross famously declared in a 1925 prospectus for the magazine: "It has announced that it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque."

Although the magazine never lost its touches of humor, it soon established itself as a pre-eminent forum for serious fiction, essays and journalism. Shortly after the end of World War II, John Hersey's essay Hiroshima filled an entire issue. In subsequent decades the magazine published short stories by many of the most respected writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including Ann Beattie, Sally Benson, Truman Capote, John Cheever, Roald Dahl, Mavis Gallant, Geoffrey Hellman, Ruth McKenney, John McNulty, Joseph Mitchell, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, John O'Hara, Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, Philip Roth, George Saunders, J. D. Salinger, Irwin Shaw, James Thurber, John Updike, Eudora Welty, Stephen King, and E. B. White. Publication of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" drew more mail than any other story in the magazine's history.

The New Yorker's signature display typeface, used for its nameplate and headlines and the masthead above The Talk of the Town section, is Irvin, named after its creator, the designer-illustrator Rea Irvin. The body text of all articles in The New Yorker is set in Adobe Caslon.

One uncommonly formal feature of the magazine's in-house style is the placement of diaeresis marks in words with repeating vowels—such as reëlected, preëminent, and coöperate—in which the two vowel letters indicate separate vowel sounds. The magazine also continues to use a few spellings that are otherwise little used in American English, such as fuelled, focussed, venders, teen-ager, traveller, marvellous, carrousel, and cannister.

The magazine also spells out the names of numerical amounts, such as "two million three hundred thousand dollars" instead of "$2.3 million", even for very large figures.

Despite its title, The New Yorker is read nationwide, with 53 percent of its circulation in the top 10 U.S. metropolitan areas. According to Mediamark Research Inc., the average age of The New Yorker reader in 2009 was 47 (compared to 43 in 1980 and 46 in 1990). The average household income of The New Yorker readers in 2009 was $109,877 (the average income in 1980 was $62,788 and the average income in 1990 was $70,233).

According to Pew Research, 77 percent of The New Yorker's audience hold left-of-center political values, while 52 percent of those readers hold "consistently liberal" political values.

The magazine's first cover illustration, a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, was drawn by Rea Irvin, the magazine's first art editor, based on an 1834 caricature of the then Count d'Orsay which appeared as an illustration in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The gentleman on the original cover, now referred to as "Eustace Tilley", is a character created by Corey Ford (1902–1969) for The New Yorker. The hero of a series entitled "The Making of a Magazine", which began on the inside front cover of the August 8 issue that first summer, Tilley was a younger man than the figure on the original cover. His top hat was of a newer style, without the curved brim. He wore a morning coat and striped formal trousers. Ford borrowed Eustace Tilley's last name from an aunt—he had always found it vaguely humorous. "Eustace" was selected by Ford for euphony.

The character has become a kind of mascot for The New Yorker, frequently appearing in its pages and on promotional materials. Traditionally, Rea Irvin's original Tilley cover illustration is used every year on the issue closest to the anniversary date of February 21, though on several occasions a newly drawn variation has been substituted.

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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

With all of the sequels released, people forget the entertainment value of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. This is swashbuckling at its best with romance, action, fantasy, horror, and humor weaved together with plenty of memorable moments to keep you coming back for more.

Blacksmith Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) calls upon pirate Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) to rescue his beloved Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley). The cursed crew of the Black Pearl, whose black sails leave death in their wake, has abducted the governor’s daughter.

At 142 minutes, PotC is lengthy, but what would you cut? It hooks you in with the love triangle and the splendid sets/costumes. Will beautiful Elizabeth choose her childhood friend Turner, or the rich and noble Commodore James Norrington (Jack Davenport)? Before you can figure it out, here comes Johnny Depp in an unforgettable performance, leading us into swordfights, naval battles, shootouts, chases and one grandiose sequence after another. Instantly, you know he’s something special. Not only because he’s got one of the greatest introductions ever put on film, but also because of his dialogue, his look and, most importantly, his mannerisms. Others have tried, but there’s nothing else like it out there. Once you see his Oscar-nominated performance, you'll never forget it.

To peel your eyes away from Captain Jack would be unthinkable... until we meet getting better and better once we meet the chief villain: Geoffrey Rush as Captain Barbosa. In the hands of anyone else, the captain of the Black Pearl would’ve been one-dimensional. Here? He’s charismatic despite being dirty and grimy. He’s intelligent, tragic, and ruthless. He makes you smile that crooked smile you get when a diabolical idea crosses your mind. Then, he brings you chills.

Everyone on-screen is well defined and richly textured. You’ll find yourself looking forward to “that pirate who loves throwing bombs” or the comedy duo with that one pirate who has a wooden eye. You sense that this is just a glimpse at the world, just the biggest and grandest of countless adventures. You’re having fun, but the film doesn’t turn pirates into cuddly little animals. There’s bloodshed, tension and legitimately frightening scenes found throughout. The cursed buccaneers aboard the Black Pearl are lusty throat cutters who pillage, raid and plunder with glee. When our heroes draw their swords, you get excited. The stakes are real.

The screenplay by Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and the direction by Gore Verbinski work in perfect unison. With the abundant humor (there are many, many great lines found throughout) and that core of romance and nobility, you’ll want to watch it over and over.  I can't do Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl justice simply by describing it. When you watch it, stay until the end of the credits for a bonus scene. (On Blu-ray, May 14, 2017)

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Birthdays 7.6

Beer Birthdays

Michael Thomas Bass Jr. (1799)

William W. Sloan (1831)

Colin Presby (1984)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Dave Allen; Irish comedian (1936)

Louie Bellson; jazz drummer, bandleader (1924)

Frida Kahlo; Mexican artist (1907)

Geoffrey Rush; actor (1951)

Burt Ward; actor (1945)

Famous Birthdays

Vladimir Ashkenazy; classical pianist (1937)

Candy Barr; stripper, burlesque dancer (1935)

Allyce Beasley; actor (1954)

Ned Beatty; actor (1937)

George W. Bush; unelected 43rd U.S. President (1946)

John Byrne; comic book artist (1950)

Sebastian Cabot; actor (1918)

50 Cent; rapper (1975)

Fred Dryer; actor, Los Angeles Rams DE (1946)

Rik Elswit; rock guitarist (1945)

Merv Griffin; television host (1925)

Nanci Griffith; jazz singer (1954)

David Guaspari; mathematician, writer (1948)

Shelley Hack; actor (1947)

Bill Haley; rock singer (1925)

William Jackson Hooker; English botanist (1785)

John Paul Jones; naval officer (1747)

Janet Leigh; actor (1927)

Heather Nova; pop singer (1967)

Pat Paulsen; comedian, presidential candidate (1927)

Della Reese; singer (1931)

Glenn Scarpelli; actor (1968)

Sylvester Stallone; actor (1946)

Alexander Wilson; Scottish naturalist (1766)

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Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) Movie Clip – Guillotine Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Movie Clip - Guillotine, starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem. Jack (Johnny Depp) chooses to be killed by guillotine.

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Bill Clinton

Simple stress-timed beats, on the other hand, would be a good deal simpler to fake than iconic gestures. Indeed, there appears to be good (and well-viewed) documentary evidence for this. When Bill Clinton was interviewed by the American Senate back in 1998 and accused of having ‘sexual relations’ with Monica Lewinsky, his protests of innocence contained quite a number of beats:

Bill Clinton: I did [not have sexual relations] with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

Beat: Index finger of right hand pointing away from body, other fingers curled up. Hand makes four sharp, rapid downwards movements. Each downward movement begins at the start of each of the four words accompanied by the gesture.

Bill Clinton: The allegations (audible swallow) are false (audible swallow)

Beat: Fingers on the right hand are straight and apart; hand is positioned vertically to the body. Hand moves downwards twice – first time on the word ‘allegations’ and second time on the words ‘are false’.

 However, there is an important point to make here. President Clinton was determined to use a very precise form of words in defending himself during these accusations of sexual misconduct. At the Senate Hearings, President Clinton was asked a series of quite specific questions about his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The written statement he had provided was that ‘These meetings did not consist of sexual intercourse.’ He was then asked a series of highly embarrassing, more detailed questions including: ‘If Miss Lewinsky says that while you were in the OvalOffice area you touched her genitalia would she be lying? That calls for a “yes”, “no”, or “revert to your former statement”.’ President Clinton replied: ‘I will revert to my statement on that.’ He was quite determined to stick to a certain form of words.

During his verbal answers there were quite a few beats actually displayed. So does this mean that he was lying or telling the truth? What he actually said in the Senate Hearings, and in a number of interviews at the time, is very important here because the words he used repeatedly were ‘sexual relations’ or ‘sexual intercourse’. It has since been pointed out to me that there is a saying in the Southern States of the USA that ‘eatin’ ain’t cheatin’’. In other words, oral sex does not constitute ‘sexual relations’. If President Clinton had managed to persuade himself of the truth of this proposition, then it would allow for the presence of the beats in his speech as an index of truth because he only engaged in oral sex with Miss Lewinsky (as a recipient not as a giver – this is critical; see the above question put to him) and not actual sexual intercourse. He might have been using beats in his speech because strictly speaking, in his mind at least, he was actually telling the truth. Alternatively, of course, it could be that President Clinton was a well-rehearsed liar who had become an expert in the control of most aspects of his body language, except the odd micro-expression and swallow that did occasionally slip out rather noticeably. He included the easy to fake beats rather than the more difficult to fake iconic gestures in his speech for effect. Research into the ability of people to fake iconic gestures and beats while they lie is still very much in its infancy, but my bet is that a careful study of these behaviours will always reveal a great deal more than mere attention to speech itself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBe_guezGGc

—Geoffrey Beattie

From “Rethinking body language: how hand movements reveal hidden thoughts” de Geoffrey Beattie, pp 215-216.

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Personal Movie Recommendations: Swashbucklers

The Mask of Zorro starring Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Stuart Wilson, and Matt Letscher (I love this movie to pieces, 10/10 always reccomend)

Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl starring Orlando Bloom, Kiera Knightley, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Davenport, and Jonathan Pryce (none of the sequels will ever compare to the accidental masterpiece this movie actually was)

The Princess Bride starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, André the Giant, and Wallace Shawn (obviously)

The Count of Monte Cristo starring Jim Caviezel, Dagmara Domińczyk, Guy Pearce, Luis Guzmán, and Richard Harris (a watered-down version of the story, sure, but I still really enjoy this movie)

Stardust starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mark Strong, and Robert De Niro (my favorite movie of all time)

Rango starring Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Ned Beatty, and Bill Nighy (this movie is funny, weird, ridiculous, and brilliant)

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time starring Jake Gyllenhall, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Richard Coyle, and Toby Kebbell (not popular with everyone, but I always enjoy myself watching this one)

Puss in Boots starring Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Amy Sedaris

As always, feel free to add any more!