#tony armstrong-jones

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Life of a Princess.

Beau Gadsdon, Vanessa Kirby, Helena Bonham Carter & Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret in The Crown.

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The Crown - season 2 (ep 4 & ep 7)

2×04: Beryl and 2×07: Matrimonium

Matthew Goode and Vanessa Kirby as Tony Armstrong-Jones and Princess Margaret.

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Krull (1983)

Director - Peter Yates, Cinematography - Peter Suschitzky

"We all risk our lives on this journey. My risk is no greater than yours."

[wambsroy]

Margaret: are you kidding me? tony and i do not have pet names for each other

Elizabeth: oh really? do you know what bees make, margo?

Margaret: honey?

Tony, from across de room: yes, darling?

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Death Defying Acts (2007)

My rating: 3/10

More proof that, for whatever reason, it is impossible to make a good movie about stage magic and related art forms.

[mthguy]

On the Town is a musical with music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, based on Jerome Robbins' idea for his 1944 ballet Fancy Free, which he had set to Bernstein's music. The musical introduced several popular and classic songs, among them "New York, New York", "Lonely Town", "I Can Cook, Too" (for which Bernstein also wrote the lyric), and "Some Other Time". The story concerns three American sailors on a 24-hour shore leave in New York City during World War II, 1944. Each of the three sailors meets and quickly connects with a woman.

On the Town was first produced on Broadway in 1944 and was made into a film in 1949, although the film replaced all but four of the original Broadway numbers with Hollywood-written substitutes. The show has enjoyed several major revivals on Broadway in 1971, 1998, and 2014.

Here, Tony Yazbeck, Clyde Alves, and Jay Armstrong Jones, from the 2014 Broadway revival, perform “New York, New York.”

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Requested by @rosalyn51 

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relationships part one

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Gilles Petard Quincy Jones 1962

"I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one." Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones, Q - 1933-2024 - Ave atque Vale

[thecrownnetflixuk]

Rewatching Favourite Scenes:-

The Crown 2x04 – Margaret Shoots Down Her Fiancé

Princess Margaret and socialite Billy Wallace were once unofficially engaged for a few months, as was confirmed during an interview with Australian Women��s Weekly.

The real Margaret did indeed dump Billy – hopefully with a speech as scathing as the one in The Crown – after he confessed to his ‘meaningless fling’ with another woman.

The Crown’s version of events may give the Princess even more justice. In the show, Billy ends up shot in the leg after a drunken duel with Margaret’s friend Colin Tennant. Arrogant Billy then continues to boast about his conquests, and being a catch for “every good-looking girl on Earth” due to his royal connections.

There's no proof of a duel in real life, although it fires up the drama. However, the real Margaret was said to be furious with Billy, finding other ways to get revenge. Reportedly, she cut her ex-fiancé out of her royal circle and didn't speak to him for at least three years.

In time, the Princess went so far as to use Billy’s London home to hide her clandestine (and passionate) encounters with new love, Tony Armstrong-Jones, whom she later married. Well aimed, Margaret!

*THE CROWN S6 PT I premieres on Netflix: Thurs 16th Nov 2023

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My Top Five Favorite Ben Daniels Characters (Significant Others): 2. Lord Snowdon & Princess Margaret - The Crown (2019).

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The Crown: Season 2

Matthew Goode as Tony Armstrong-Jones and Vanessa Kirby as Princess Margaret.

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tony armstrong jones in vogue 100: a century of style - robin muir (2016)

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Today, on 13th January, 2017

Lord Snowdon, former husband to Princess Margaret and photographer,died at the age of 86

Brian May remembers

Sad to hear of the passing of Lord Snowdon. I can’t say I was his friend, though perhaps I would like to have been. We did spend a couple of days together as Queen (the rock group) and portrait photographer, and it was very memorable. I knew of Lord Snowdon from when I was quite small. As Anthony Armstrong Jones he had married the very glamorous Princess Margaret, in Westminster Abbey, in top level splendour, televised in colour (!) and celebrated throughout the land. Somehow it caught my imagination, gave me a thrill, to the point where I pasted a picture of the handsome couple in my personal photo album. It was a fairy-tale. Shy handsome commoner weds beautiful royal princess. Much later I realised that Tony Armstrong Jones, now Lord Snowdon, was a dedicated artist, a gentleman photographer in true Victorian style, and that his world had stayed quite separate from the Royal Family he had married into. I believe he had a Victorian sensibility in more than one way. A Gentleman, certainly, and a man of independent means, he did not need to take photographs to earn a living. It was his art. And in the details of his practice, too, he adhered to early traditions of photography. He believed that the essence of a sitter for a portrait was to be revealed only in natural light.

Well, this is what he told us, when the four of us found ourselves at his house, our mission being to find the elusive ‘Group Shot’ - a four-fold portrait of a Rock Band, for the cover of an album. Now this was around 1981, about 35 years ago. So the portrait of this session in my mind is a little faded. But Snowdon was a delightful, thoughtful, modest and gentle man, given to pausing to ponder, in his walking around the room, with a slight limp, a relic from a childhood illness, as he looked at us, planning his shoot.

I’m sure Roger has better recollections than I, but I seem to remember us sitting around a little awkwardly, sipping coffee, discussing what we were trying to achieve. I don’t believe we had any preconceptions at all … the four of us hadn’t had the chance to confer beforehand, and I think on this occasion we didn’t have a plan. We assumed that this accomplished photographer would bring a fresh approach. We’d done a lot of this kind of session, of course, over the years, notably with George Hurrell, iconic Hollywood portraitist, and Mick Rock, who had pulled off a very memorable diamond format four-shot on a black background, which not only graced the cover of our early album Queen II, but, brought to life, became the shot that everyone remembers from the Bohemian Rhapsody video some years later.

Snowdon told us that he didn’t want an overriding theme - he didn’t think we need to ‘try so hard’. He said he wanted us naturally filling the space, and he was absolutely insistent that the lighting would be natural too … only the daylight which pervaded his studio, again, Victorian style - more or less a glass-house. He would not use any artificial light. Now I may be wrong about this, but I seem to remember we talked so much and drank so much coffee, that time passed and the light started to fade. Anthony took some test shots on his large-format camera (no 35mm for him) and wasn’t happy. So he said something like … "I know what to do now, but we missed our slot. I’m not going to use studio lights - I want the quality of daylight in this shot. Can you come back tomorrow?” Strangely enough we could. And then it was all very quick. He took a few solo shots of us singly (I wonder where they are ?) And then went for the cover shot of the four of us. I think he only took a couple of dozen shots, very much like we’d seen Hurrell do. He knew exactly what he wanted, and he knew when it was in the bag - even though he couldn't verify that on the spot. The developing of the negative had to be done, and prints made, before anyone could see the result.

So we said our goodbyes and left - and … that was it. The picture we wanted arrived a couple of days later, and it was perfect for what we needed - nicely balanced in composition, with all of us looking quite decent; understated, a little formal, yet not stiff, and beautifully lit by Nature herself, with a little help from Lord Snowdon.

The album ? It was to become the biggest selling British album in History - Queen’s Greatest Hits.

We decided to mount the picture in an unusual way. Inspired by the first Superman Film, we skewed the photograph as if it were mounted flat on a piece of glass spinning through space. So our faces are distorted by perspective. Years later, for the re-issue for Universal Records, we decided to ‘undo’ that distortion, and on this cover you see Snowdon’s picture exactly as it was taken. Pure ! I like that version best. As Snowdon himself might have said … it wasn’t trying too hard.

You won’t find this stuff on Wikipedia, of course. In the anarchy of the Internet based information, anybody can contribute stuff as long as they are citing someone who said it previously ! So the entry as I just looked at it is a ripe mixture of fact and inaccuracies - they don’t even mention who took the cover photograph. Who will write history ? Well, certainly not me … with my memory weaving its own spells at this distance. But History was certainly made in those fleeting moments when we were privileged to enjoy the company of that fine gentleman, Snowdon

RIP

Bri - january 13, 2017

(source: brianmay.com)

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Remembering Quincy Jones 1933-2024

Entertainment icon Quincy Jones has died at 91. I refer to him as an entertainment icon because calling him just a musician would be too reductive. He was a musician, composer, conductor, music producer, music industry executive, film and TV producer and more. It's no wonder he was an elite EGOT, winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony! This would be way too long of an obit for me to deep dive into all of his achievements, but I'll namecheck my personal favorites.

He did a ton of film scores including The Anderson Tapes, Roots, The Wiz, and The Color Purple (which he also produced). He did a lot of solo music as well, my personal favorite is his 1962 earworm "Soul Bossa Nova", which was featured in a ton of films over the years notably the opening sequences to all three Austin Powers movies.

"Soul Bossa Nova"

As a producer and collaborator he worked with Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Dizzy Gillespie, Lesley Gore, Frank Sinatra, and Donna Summer just to name a few. But possibly his biggest collaboration was with Michael Jackson, producing his best solo albums Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad. Thriller is one of the early albums I got as a kid and listened to countless times over the years. Now my son has learned about this amazing album and I listen with him. They also collaborated on USA for Africa's all-star "We are the World" single. Jones' music transcends any one genre as you can hear so many sounds coming through his productions.

In 1990 he was host and music guest on SNL. Remember that funny French talk show where Dana Carvey and Jon Lovitz were fawning over him? I do! He was also the subject of several docs including the 2018 doc Quincy co-directed by his daughter Rashida. He also appeared in several docs including Sidney (read my review here).

The link above is the obit from AP.

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I love how the Wales fandom proves their stupidity by defending Kate being awarded a Royal Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour.

"But why is it an insult? It's an honour that fits her studies and her royal duties - she studied art history, she champions the arts, she's a photographer, she works with the national gallery."

Yeah, it's such an honor to receive as a royal that Charles's uncle Tony never got it, even though he got along well with QEII.

To which most of the Wales fandom is like, who?

Antony Armstrong-Jones, Princess Margaret's husband.

He was a well-known photographer during his career and certainly a more respected photographer than Kate ever has been or ever will be.

Tony earned his reputation back when the only thing available was film, instead of digital photographs plus photoshop. See, Tony actually had to take the right shot at the right time with the right angle and aspects, etc. He didn't have to take 50 photos and then blend the best parts with photoshop. He captured things in one shot, and then had to develop the film separately.

285 of Tony's portraits are in the National Portrait Gallery!

Somehow, Tony, who was the father of QEII's beloved niece Sarah, never became a Companion of Honour. (Sarah always had a direct line to QEII. She could call Aunty Elizabeth without needing to go through other channels. All the time!) Not when he was a working royal. Not in the time after he divorced Margaret. Not in the time after the Queen Mum and Princess Margaret had passed. NEVER!

Because he already had an honor that outranked the Companions of Honour, his GCVO, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order. Queen Elizabeth II would never have insulted her former brother-in-law and the father of her niece and nephew by awarding him a lower order after she previously gave him a high honor, the Royal Victorian Order. She never would have done that. And if Tony was still alive right now, I highly doubt King Charles would have given it to him either.

Every tradition began as a revolution.

Kate's recent honour isn't part of any revolution. It's an acknowledgement of her recent behavior and her acting below her station, aka acting like a stunt queen. And if Charles could have given William the same honor, he would have. He just can't because William's the heir.

No, the real "revolution" is the biggest announcement in about 107 years.

Prepare to get wrecked, CHUMPS.