#maurice berty

[lepetitdragonvert]

Charles Perrault

Contes du temps passé

Librairie Delagrave

1925

Artist : Maurice Berty

[oscarwetnwilde]

James Wilby & Sporting, Part Two: 1. Victoria (2016): shooting 2. Maurice (1987): cricket 3. Poirot (2008): snooker 4. An Ideal Husband (1999): golf 5. Shadows In The Sun (2009): biking 6. Bertie And Elizabeth (2002): shooting 7. Bertie And Elizabeth (2002): tennis 8. You, Me, And It (1993): rugby 9. Lady Godiva (2008): sword fighting 10. A Summer Story (1988): biking

[perfettamentechic]

29 ottobre … ricordiamo …

29 ottobre … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2021: Rossano Rubicondi, personaggio televisivo, conduttore televisivo e attore italiano, noto per essere stato il quarto marito della miliardaria Ivana Trump nel 2008 e divorziando nel 2009. Inizia a fare lo spogliarellista e il fotomodello in coppia con il fratello maggiore. Trasferitosi a Londra all’età di 22 anni, continua a lavorare come modello e in seguito come attore, ricoprendo piccoli…

[cosmogyros]

Normally I don't plan my reading in advance, because I simply follow whenever my fancy leads me, but this challenge seems fun! 25 books I want to read in 2025 - let's go.

(I've been missing the classics recently, so this list is a bit classic-heavy. Also I ended up being unable to keep it to 25. Oops.)

Color coding: pink = fiction green = nonfiction

An asterisk means it's a book I already own in physical form. As I read books on this list, I will italicize them.

1. Willa Cather - My Ántonia

2. Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

3. Timothy Snyder - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

4. Han Kang - Human Acts

5. Geraldine Brooks - Horse

6. Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone - This Is How You Lose the Time War

7. Ruth Kinna - The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism

8. John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath

9. Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own

10. Leslie Feinberg - Stone Butch Blues

11. Mary Doria Russell - The Sparrow

12. Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen

13. Howard Zinn - A People's History of the United States

14. Betty Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

15. Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground

16. Upton Sinclair - The Jungle

17. Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths*

18. Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

19. Akwaeke Emezi - Little Rot

20. Naomi Klein - No Logo

21. Hengameh Yaghoobifarah - Ministerium der Träume

22. Kim de l'Horizon - Blutbuch

23. Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing*

24. Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

25. E. M. Forster - Maurice

26. Richard Adams - Watership Down

27. Ursula K. Le Guin - The Left Hand of Darkness

28. Henry James - The Portrait of a Lady

29. Mikhail Bulgakov - The Master and Margarita

30. Frank Herbert - Dune

Additionally, I'm going to tag on a second goal list. My "currently reading" pile has become way too huge, because I have a fickle heart and tend to hop around from book to book (or, as Bertie Wooster would say, I "flit and sip" like a butterfly). So I'm aiming to finish at least five books that I already started in 2024:

1. Albert Einstein - Essays in Humanism

2. Daniela Dröscher - Lügen über meine Mutter

3. Priscilla Murolo & A. B. Chitty - From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

4. Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Masks*

5. Simon Blackburn - Think: A Compelling Intro to Philosophy*

[cinemaocd]

Good god, I'm watching David Lean films on my laptop and using my good headphones and they are so very much about sound, especially after Lawrence, but before on BOTRK, where the noise of the jungle was allowed to breath around the edges of the proceedings. As a designer he would never let atmosphere hamper dialog. Fond of echo effects, which he uses playfully in Lawrence of Arabia, Lean uses them to amplify the sound of a crying infant in a cave, and the rushing echo of a heart attack as heard in a dying woman's ear, to a far more mystical, almost supernatural effect.

I can't help but think David Lynch was paying close attention to David Lean.

For a man whose name is also an adjective for absence of fat, Lean's movies are ironically larded with rich sequences of landscapes, filmed in wide screen with the best technicolor. While the text of Lawrence of Arabia uses "fat" derisively to describe an imagined decadent England. (I always picture Bertie Wooster when Lawrence gets going on England being a fat country full of fat people. Not necessarily physically, but perhaps a mental blubber. ) It is a byword for decadence. The joy of course, is realizing the decadence of the experience of watching a three hour film, that takes time out to show you a troop of monkeys, a bicycle ride through tall grass, a woman passing an umbrella down a cliff as the wind absolutely booms in your ears. Lean transports you to impossible places. It is always spectacular.

I've often lamented the decade of bloated, over-long, over-budget films that followed in the wake of Lawrence of Arabia, which changed the landscape for a decade or more for better and worse. It seemed after Lawrence films got bigger but not necessarily better. Watching a master like J. Lee Thompson go from the glorious The Guns of Navarone to the excreble McKenna's Gold could inspire a strong case study against the Lawrence Effect.

Yet, it's Lean himself who makes best use of the space he made in the industry for a bigger, longer, artier film to be made in Hollywood. A Passage to India is a gorgeous film with a haunting theme. It's beautifully acted for the most part (Alec Guinness cringe aside) and manages both drawing room period drama pacing balanced against the coiled tension of Indian history. The film suffered from timing as it was released the year after Richard Attenborough's Gandhi. Two big name British filmmakers, doing period dramas set in India within a twelvemonth is a news story onto itself. Gandhi came out first: big, loud, simple-minded, ham-fisted, utterly gorgeous prestige drama that swept all the awards. The next year Lean puts out what amounts to an art house period dramedy with some interesting overtones of Forster's sexuality. That the film seems dated with its brown face and with its pussy footing around with the gay theme, when the year before Maurice was far more frank.

[ao3feed-jeevesandwooster]

Valentine's Day Double Date

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/VizSloD " by i_was_you Two men having candlelit dinner at Chez Maurice on Valentine's day is suspicious. Four men, however, is just business as usual. Takes place after https://ift.tt/rtMaS3n so perhaps consider reading it first. Words: 1077, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Poirot - Agatha Christie, Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV), Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves & Wooster (TV 1990) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings (Poirot), Reginald Jeeves, Bertram "Bertie" Wooster Relationships: Arthur Hastings/Hercule Poirot, Reginald Jeeves/Bertram "Bertie" Wooster Additional Tags: Valentine's Day Fluff, Established Relationship " read it on AO3 at https://archiveofourown.org/works/61041289

[scotianostra]

Happy 87th Birthday Ronald Grant Browne born 20th August 1937 in Edinburgh, Ronnie is a founder member of The Corries.

Born to John Albert 'Bertie' Browne, a truck driver, and Anne 'Nancy' Browne. He was raised in Edinburgh. Aside from singing, Browne's other abilities are painting, sketching and rugby, having once played as a winger for his secondary school Boroughmuir. He met Roy Williamson on the rugby field, as Williamson had played as a winger also for Boroughmuir's rivals Edinburgh Wanderers.

This led to meeting multi-instrumentalist Bill Smith at Edinburgh College of Art in 1955 and the formation of the Corrie Folk Trio in 1962. The group was expanded the following year with the addition of female singer Paddie Bell. Shortly after releasing three albums in 1965, Bell left to begin a solo career. With the departure of Smith, the following year, Browne and Williamson continued to perform as a duo now known as The Corries.

Browne and Williamson were regular performers on Scottish television shows and movies and in 1983 received an International Film and Television Festival gold award for their Scottish Television series, "The Corries & Other Folk". The 1996 film The Bruce features Browne's rendition of the Williamson-penned Flower of Scotland at the end. Browne appeared in the film playing the role of Maxwell The Minstrel.

Since Williamson's death in 1990, Browne continued to perform and record in the spirit of the Corries. He regularly led the singing of Flower of Scotland, de facto national anthem of Scotland, for the Scotland national rugby and football teams. During his performances, he was known to yell "COME ON!" to the audience during the opening line of the song he was singing and this has often been parodied by the BBC Hogmanay sketch show Only an Excuse?. As of 27 April 2015, Browne announced that due to emotional breakdowns during performances, he has put an end to singing in public.

Browne is now an accomplished portrait artist.

Browne met and fell in love with Patricia Elliott during secondary school, and the two married on 30 June 1959. Together they had two biological children: Gavin John and Lauren Anne Violet and one adopted son: Maurice Walter.

Gavin Browne is the eldest of the three, and has run The Corries Official Website since 1997.

Ronnie and Pat were married for 53 years until Pat died due to cancer in 2012.

Scotland the Brave Corries humourous version

Land o' the purple heather Land o' the dirty weather Land where the midges gather, Scotland The Brave Land o' the Pakistanis Andy Capp and Saturday sannies Land where they sell their grannies, Scotland The Brave Used to say in faither’s day You could hear the bagpipes play But now you hear the regal tones o' Elton John and The Rolling Stones Land that is full o' stinkers Wee fat Jews and VP drinkers Whisky put a lot o' stinkers into Scottish graves

Land that is full o' skivers Comic singers, deep sea divers Turbans on our bus condrivers, Scotland The Brave Land o' the brutal Bobbies Councilors wi' part-time jobbies Architects with paying hobbies, Scotland The Brave The tourists come here every year To see all our historic gear But all they see is loads o' navvies, high rise flats wi' concrete lavvies Land o' the artic' lorries Andy Stewart and the Corries Land where everybody borries, Scotland The Brave

Land o' the kilt and sporan Underneath there's nothin' worn!How I wish the wind was warm! Scotland The Brave I must admit it's pretty gruesome Walking about wi' your frozen twosome! It's all we've got - we mustn't lose 'em - Scotland The Brave Conservatives try to assure us Labour's hard-put to endure us The Kirk puts curbs on our enjoyment, government makes unemployment Never mind the day is near When independence will be here! We’ll drink a toast in younger’s beer to Scotland The Brave!

[peach-pot]

Kenneth

Damian / Damien

Morgan

Felix

Ernest (Ernie for short) (also my cats name lmao)

Bertrand (Bertie)

Maurice (Morris / Maurie)

Lawrence (Laurie)

Lucas

Orion

Kevin

I don't know if these are quite what you had in mind. If you're interested, I still have a list of masc-leaning gender neutral names from when I named myself

oh I love the vibe of many of these, gonna steal a few for my list >:) many thanks!!!!

[learabeau]

Liste culturelle 2023

JANVIER

LIVRES

Le mur invisible de Marlen Haushofer

Histoire du Protestantisme de Jean Baudérot

FILMS

Godland de Hlynur Palmason

Dune de Denis Villeneuve

FEVRIER

SERIES

Tuca and Bertie de Lisa Hanawalt

Demon Slayer de Koyoharu Gotoge

FILMS

Le Retour des hirondelles de Li Ruijun

Wasabi de Gérald Krawczyk

All of Them Witches de Mona Panchal

LIVRES

Chaque geste compte. Manifeste contre l'impuissance publique de Dominique Bourg et Johann Chapoutot

La cabane magique. Panique à Pompéi de Mary Pope Osborne

Assassination classroom de Yusei Matsui

MARS

SERIES

Hollywood de Ryan Murphy

Supernatural de Eric Kripke

LIVRE

L’existentialisme est un humanisme de Jean-Paul Sartre

FILM

Fight Club de David Fincher

AVRIL

LIVRES

Peter Pan de Barrie

Informal beauty. The photograhs of Paul Nash de Simon Grant

Perceptions de Nathalie Man

La société des personnes vulnérables. Leçons féministes d’une crise. de Najat Vallaud-Belkacem et Sandra Laugier

Les hommes sont absents de Nathalie Man

FILMS

Bullet Train de David Leitch

Atonement de Joe Wright

Porco Rosso de Hayao Miyazaki

BlacKKKlansman de Spike Lee

Hokusai de Hajime Hashimoto

MAI

FILMS

It follows de David Robert Mitchell

Midsommar de Ari Aster

Little women de Greta Gerwig

Guardians of the Galaxy. Vol.3 de James Gunn

LIVRES

Le chat noir et autres histoires de Edgar Allan Poe

Déclaration des droits de la femme et du citoyen de Olympe de Gouges

JUIN

LIVRES

Émotions, souffrance, délivrance de Doctor Tuan Anh Tran

Capital: Vientiane de Guez, Pichelin and Troub's

Something to hide. Exploration des messages cachés du rock de Diego Gil et Johann Guyot

FILMS

Air de Ben Affleck

Eating our way to extinction de Kate Winslet

Susan, jour après jour de Stéphane Manchematin et Serge Steyer

Palm Springs de Marx Barbakow

Mike and Dave need wedding dates de Jake Szymanski

Clueless de Amy Heckerling

Spider-Man : Across the Spider-Verse de Joaquim dos Santos, Kemp Powers et Justin K.Thompson

JUILLET

LIVRES

Bathory. La comtesse maudite d'Anne-Perrine Couet

Une rainette en automne (et plus…) de Linnea Sterte

FILMS

Prisoners de Denis Villeneuve

Tarzan de Kevin Lima et Chris Buck

Turning Red de Domee Shi

AOUT

FILMS

Mercenaire de Sacha Wolff

Behind every good man de Nikolai Ursin

The Fast and the Furious de Rob Cohen

Born behind stones de Carina Freire

Lands that Rises and Descends de Moona Pennanen

LIVRE

Des âmes et des saisons : Psycho-écologie de Boris Cyrulnik

SEPTEMBRE

FILMS

Body Samples de Astrid de la Chapelle

Galb'Echaouf d'Abdessamad El Montassir

La ciudad de los fotógrafos de Sebastian Moreno

Happiest Season de Clea DuVall

En communauté de Camille Octobre Laperche

Barbie de Greta Gerwig

Encanto de Byron Howard et Jared Bush

Mon amour, mon ami d'Adriano Valerio

Bottoms d'Emma Seligman

LIVRES

Lettres à un jeune poète de Rainer Maria Rilke

Ich de Martina Weinhart

Poèmes à la nuit de Rainer Maria Rilke

SERIE

Downtown Abbey d'après l'oeuvre de Julian Fellowes

OCTOBRE

FILMS

Downtown Abbey de Michael Engler

Downtown Abbey : Une nouvelle ère de Simon Curtis

Sur le rocher de Sandrine Rouxel

Dangereuse Alliance d'Andrew Fleming

Folie douce, folie dure de Marine Laclotte

The Craft : Les Nouvelles sorcières de Zoe Lister-Jones

Trois mille ans à t'attendre de George Miller

The Crow d'Alex Proyas

Le jardin des planches de Monique Barrière

On vous parle du Chili : Ce que disait Allende de Chris Marker et Miguel Littin

LIVRES

L’œil et l'Esprit de Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Vivian Maier en toute discrétion de Françoise Perron

Des histoires vraies de Sophie Calle

Henri Cartier-Bresson des collections Photo Poche et introduction écrite par Jean Clair

Palm Springs 1960 - Robert Doisneau par Jean-Paul Dubois

Vivian Maier Self-Portraits de John Maloof et Elizabeth Avedon

NOVEMBRE

FILMS

Crimson Peak de Guillermo del Toro

Astérix et Obélix. Mission Cléopâtre d'Alain Chabat

Le Garçon et le Héron d'Hayao Miyazaki

Hamama & Caluna d'Andreas Muggli

Journal de Sébastien Laudenbach

In Paris Parks de Shirley Clarke

LIVRES

Ces hommes qui m'expliquent la vie de Rebecca Solnit

Pulp Poiesis : Écriture(s) en suspens(ion) d'Alizée Pichot

Enfant de la nuit polaire de Julia Nikitina

DECEMBRE

LIVRES

Nouveaux poèmes suivi de Requiem par Rainer Maria Rilke

Pampilles de Florentine Rey

Notes sur la mélodie des choses et autres textes de Rainer Maria Rilke

FILMS

Willy's Wonderland de Kevin Lewis

Family Switch de Joseph McGinty Nichol

Skyscraper de Shirley Clarke

Le monde après nous de Sam Esmail

Sensitive Content de Narges Kalhor

Snow Job : the Media Hyteria of Aids de Barbara Hammer

They Are Lost to Vision Altogether de Tom Kalin

Autour d'eux, la nuit de Vassili Schémann

Blight de John Smith

Tér d'Istvan Szabo

Chicken Run : La Menace nuggets de Sam Fell

SERIE

Lupin de George Kay et François Uzan

[wikiuntamed]

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[quillandrapier]

Gonna put my thought process here

I thought without reading up it was a Teddy boy thing but that's a 1950s cultural movement so not that. However they apparently were named Teddy Boys due to taking from Edwardian dandy fashion so Teddy - Eddy - Edwardian?

If it was about cute names then Albert would suffice naming him after Queen Victoria's first born son Albert, who would later become Edward Vii. So his nickname could be Bertie or naming him Alfred, Alfie.

If it's about a war-related name, why not Wilfred, or Owen or anything like that? Or even Tommy, the nickname for a Solider. This has been discussed a lot though too in reference to the comedy of Thomas and Cap having the same name.

Gay names could have also been Oscar, Dorian or Maurice? Or joke names like Richard and William? (Dick and Fanny aww) Really surprised Dick as his name didn't get big.

It could be a reference to the 1972 paperback cover of Maurice which has a photo named Teddie by Baron Aldolph de Meyer.

Tumblr user @buttonhouseparty pointed out in tags that

#in ww2 ​tedder was the raf’s equivalent to field marshal monty

I thought, what is the first fanfic where he is called Teddy, and asked myself Is there a way to search a03 to find the first instance of the, so I did this

and I found this fic from October 2019, which lists the author and a friend discussed in a ghosts discord. I'm going to send an ask to the author and update once I find out.

Or it could just be a Yonderland reference to Ted Higgins from 73.

But it seems in 2020 Teddy was around but wasn't collectively agreed upon a name yet from my searching of the Ghosts discord I'm in. So somewhere over those four years, Teddy gets more popular.

Okay but how did we come to the (general) conclusion that the Captain’s name is Theodore? Did someone make a post and we all kinda agreed with it? Is it a case of mass hysteria? A hive mind? Did the Captain come to all of us in a dream and say “heyyyy my name’s Theodore btw lmao” and then leave????

[lepetitdragonvert]

Flore et Blanchefleur by Gassies des Brulies

Librairie Delagrave, Paris.

1930

Artist : Maurice Berty

[ladyannelister]

Hey, all my E. M. Forster/Maurice peeps -- Look what I just discovered on Audible!  It appears to have been released last year (Aug 1, 2019). *hyperventilates* *happy gay dance*

E. M. Forster: A BBC Radio Collection

Novels: A Passage to India, Where Angels Fear to Tread, A Room with a View, Howards End, and Maurice (Ah!! The one with Alex Wyndham as Maurice and Bertie Carvel as Clive from a few years ago!)

Short Stories: ‘The Story of the Siren’, ‘The Road from Colonus’, ‘The Obelisk’, and ‘Ansell’.

Bonus: *Stephen Wakelam’s radio play A Dose of Fame  *Zareer Masani’s documentary feature Forster in India: Sex, Books and Empire

@speareshakes​, @hawleywilby​, @maurice-and-music​, @unholyfruitt​, @expo63​, @salutationsrisley​, @fermencja​, @manufacturedheaven​, @allez-argeiphontes​, @undinecissy​, @mauricescudder​, @hayaomiyazaki​, @callmedavidglen​, @rupertograves​, and all my other Forster-loving mutuals whose names escape me at the moment. 

[ninetimesbluedemo]

I was watching Jeeves and Wooster when I found this tiny Clive Durham-looking chap

[patricianandclerk]

Look, I am going to throw ALL the gays together. Bertie and Miles and Maurice... all guests at Downton. Jeeves/Bertie/Miles/Maurice/Thomas ALL without a non-gay alibi when MURDER OCCURS. Poirot's got to show up and iron this all out. Also Aziraphale and Crowley are probably there in some capacity. Probably hosting the top secret gay party with all the dancing-with-gentlemen and boy-kissing, and they KNOW who the murderer is via powers but you can't just SAY that, so they've got to sit around...

(2/2 murder) anxiously awaiting Poirot getting the answer right and not outing anybody. Which he won't, because gay. But still, a nerve-wracking weekend, and it was supposed to be such a nice getaway. (you know what I only mentioned Jeeves and Bertie and Maurice and Miles but let us say Rocky and Ginger are there as well, let's put as many gays in the room as will fit and then add a couple for a nice tight squeeze)

bertie and maurice sneaking down the stairs to raid the larder in the middle of the night, tripping over the corpse on the stairs, both screaming and yelling, meaning they interrupt miles with thomas (who is rapidly brushing the lipstick stains off his mouth)

and miles absolutely screams, faints, has to be like, picked UP by like, lord grantham who fell asleep downstairs in the library and the servants were told not to disturb him

as everyone else rushes down the stairs, and bertie and maurice are like, ineffectually trying to fix each other’s fuckin bruises until jeeves grabs them both by the collar and sits them down to fix up

just the gayest murder mystery imaginable

[asluttybasilofbakerstreet]

I’ve been reading The Wind in the Willows. It’s the coziest book ever & the prose is some of the most beautiful prose I’ve ever heard and...the story is still relevant with current economics--I mean, Toad as an example of the undeserving rich & an heir to a fortune and spending it on himself and wrecking cars & not sharing with anyone, and the weasels being the 99% or rather the most downtrodden classes of society and squatting on his estate when he was in jail (which has been “gaol” all along and I only just learned that that’s the British “jail” lsdkfjsd) & so now he has to fight to keep his estate and his extravagant lifestyle, with the help of Badger, who is the Mycroft and the uncle figure who knows how everything in government works.

Then there’s Rat and Mole, and aside from their meet-cute they’re pretty much how I imagine Maurice Hall and Alec Scudder roaming the greenwood and living together after Maurice ended. It’s a male homoerotic story and the main characters are furries