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THE 56 MOST BELOVED & POPULAR ACTRESSES OF WORLD CINEMA !  (OFFICIAL LIST-BASED ON INDIES SUBCONSCIOUS ASSESSMENT OF MOST CONSISTENTLY HIGHLY POPULAR ACTRESSES & BLOCKBUSTER FILMS OF WORLD CINEMA, INCL DATA FROM VARIOUS INDIES FILM LISTS & ALL OTHERS!)

Note: The point system used, to give audiences an idea of the magnitude of comparative popularities of listed actors, includes 2 factors:

1. A calculated AVERAGE of no. of tkts sold PER FILM in lead (80% weightage) & 2. No. of films released in lead (20% weightage)

(Also, the discrepancies in placements of the few actresses listed in American Popularity charts & World Popularity charts, arise due to the strict average rule adopted in this list, vis a vis the American or Bollywood Popularity ratings where different weightages were given for every 100 films in lead or so. This to minimize the bias from cultural cinema viewing preferences in different countries).

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls520802584/

1. .Elizabeth Taylor 2. .Ingrid Bergman 3. .Barbra Streisand 4. .Juliette Binoche 5. .Francoise Arnoul 6. .Se-bin Son 7. .Yi-yeong Shim 8. .Da-in Yoo 9. .Eun-Sook Sunwoo 10. .Norma Shearer 11. .Song Wok-Suk 12. Ji-young Seo 13. .Natalie Portman 14. .Sol-mi Park 15. .Soo Ae 16. .Audrey Tautou 17. .Seo Hee-young 18. .Colette Marchand 19. .Vera Clouzot 20. .Valentine Tessier 21. .Simone Renant 22. .Greta Scacchi 23. .Camille Cottin 24. .Park Soo-Jin 25. .Sophia Loren 26. .Woo-seon Seon 27. .Gabriella Giorgelli 28. .Francine Mussey 29. .Lola Creton 30. .Dolly Scal 31. .Michele Moretti 32. .Greer Garson 33. .Mylene Demongeot 34. .Franca Pasut 35. .Laurence de Monaghan 36. .Catherine Serre 37. .Sarah Douglas 38. .Pauline Polaire 39. .Marion Cotillard 40. .Marie-France Pisier 41. Jane Loury 42. .Melanie Thierry 43. .Suzy Pierson 44. .Anna Galiena 45. .Alice Isaaz 46. .Pamela Franklin 47. .Da-kyung Yoon 48. .Giorgio Moll 49. .Beatrice Romand 50. .Renee Heribel 51. .Da-Hyun Kang 52. .Caroline Cellier 53. .Catherine Deneuve 54. .Martine Carol 55. .Graziella Galvani 56. .Isa Miranda

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2024 in the Shelves

I set out this year to read 50 books, not knowing how much time I would actually have to read. I live a fairly busy life with traveling, work, family, friends, studying to uplevel my second job in desperate hopes to make it my primary job and then there was also Tyler.

I had spent the year prior reading The Bible in hopes to learn more about a faith I so desperately wanted to believe in. It took me the entire 2023 to read. I annotated, highlighted and illustrated major key points I had learned. My dictation of this was that God is Real and that was all I took away from it. There were so many things in this book I wanted to dive deeper into, didn't believe in and wanted to be angry about, but that's a conversation for another day.

With that being said, I was drained. I had to restart mentally with reading this year. After knowing I didn't like soft romance from years past, I was having a hard time knowing where to start. I had read all of Stephen King and Grady Hendrix's novels knowing I indefinitely loved the Horror genre but missed having the aspect of love.

December 2023, I was given a copy of A Touch of Darkness from my mom. She raved about how great of a book it was. I finished it in 2 days and was then gifted 7 more books that Christmas that I later learned where a darker side of romance. I flew through Haunting Adeline, Hunting Adeline and Does it Hurt by H.D. Carlton, Phantom by Greer Rivers, The Ritual by Shantel Tessier, Hooked by Emily McIntire, Nobody's Darlin by Sarah Blue within the month of January.

The reading slump was over. My mother read The Ritual, and I had forced Tyler to read Phantom with me, then later found him reading Hooked on his own. He asked me from there on out 'which boner book was next' after I had completed a novel and he, of course, hearing all about it. Talk about a turn of events! I read fantasy romance throughout the year along with the regular dark romance and very much my favorite, Horror, but when I stumbled upon Caution Tape by Molly Doyle and JD Midnight, I found a genre I loved much more than any other: Erotic Horror. Worlds colliding if you want to call it. I loved how sinister and yet so sexy this genre was. I knew I had stumbled onto something after I finished Caution Tape when I asked my man to chase me around the house with a butcher knife and in a mask after I had gotten out of the shower one night, hold it to my throat and give me a mind-blowing orgasm. I was never reading anything else.

After getting the best Valentine's Day present and making sure it was fully charged..... a kindle that is. (thanks T!) I found that I could read anything, at any point in time, anywhere I wanted. While having said, it's the end of 2024 and I have read almost 150 books. I have never in my life read this much or enjoyed reading this much for that matter. I have found a new love. It has helped me escape some dark times and enhanced the great.

So, for anyone that has fantasized about fucking your man on top of the corpse of your sworn enemy or maybe just your annoying neighbor, welcome. Erotic Horror is waiting for you. Just like you've been deep down waiting for it.

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Janvier MMXXIV

Films

Bridget Jones Baby (Bridget Jones's Baby) (2016) de Sharon Maguire avec Renée Zellweger, Patrick Dempsey, Shirley Henderson, Gemma Jones et Jim Broadbent

Arnaque à Hollywood (The Comeback Trail) (2020) de George Gallo avec Robert De Niro, Tommy Lee Jones, Morgan Freeman, Zach Braff, Eddie Griffin, Emile Hirsch et Kate Katzman

Copie conforme (1947) de Jean Dréville avec Louis Jouvet, Suzy Delair, Annette Poivre, Madeleine Suffel, Jane Marken, Danièle Franconville, Jean-Jacques Delbo et Léo Lapara

L'Inconnu du Nord-Express (Strangers on a Train) (1951) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne, Jonathan Hale et Laura Elliott

Une affaire d'honneur (2023) de et avec Vincent Perez et aussi Roschdy Zem, Doria Tillier, Damien Bonnard, Guillaume Gallienne, Nicolas Gaspar, Pepe Lorente

Hôtel fantôme (Das letzte Problem) (2019) de et avec Karl Markovics et aussi Stefan Pohl, Maria Fliri, Julia Koch, Max Moor, Sunnyi Melles Laura Bilgeri

Aviator (The Aviator) (2004) de Martin Scorsese avec Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale, Adam Scott, Kelli Garner, Alec Baldwin, Ian Holm, Jude Law et Danny Huston

Palais royal ! (2005) de et avec Valérie Lemerciere et aussi Lambert Wilson, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Aumont, Mathilde Seigner, Denis Podalydès, Michel Vuillermoz, Gisèle Casadesus, Gilbert Melki, Maurane

Du plomb pour l'inspecteur (Pushover) (1954) de Richard Quine avec Fred MacMurray, Philip Carey, Kim Novak, Dorothy Malonne, E.G. Marshall, Allen Nourse, James Anderson et Joe Bailey

Les Douze Salopards (The Dirty Dozen) (1967) de Robert Aldrich avec Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Richard Jaeckel, George Kennedy, Trini Lopez et Telly Savalas

Le silence des ânes (Das Schweigen der Esel) (2022) de et avec Karl Markovics et aussi Julia Koch, Caroline Frank, Gerhard Liebmann, Valentin Sottopietra, Klaus Windisch, Tobias Fend, Julian Sark, Stefan Pohl

Elmer Gantry le charlatan (Elmer Gantry) (1960) de Richard Brooks avec Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page et Edward Andrews

Tendre Poulet (1978) de Philippe de Broca avec Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost, Roger Dumas, Raymond Gérôme, Guy Marchand, Simone Renant et Georges Wilson

Judy (2019) de Rupert Goold avec Renée Zellweger, Darci Shaw, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Finn Wittrock, Richard Cordery, Jessie Buckley et Bella Ramsey

Cinquième Colonne (Saboteur) (1942) d'Alfred Hitchcock avec Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd, Alma Kruger et Vaughan Glaser

Robin des Bois, prince des voleurs (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) (1991) de Kevin Reynolds avec Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Alan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Nick Brimble et Michael McShane

La Fine Fleur (2020) de Pierre Pinaud avec Catherine Frot, Melan Omerta, Fatsah Bouyahmed, Olivia Côte, Marie Petiot, Vincent Dedienne et Serpentine Teyssier

Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (1959) de Jean Delannoy avec Jean Gabin, Michel Auclair, Valentine Tessier, Robert Hirsch, Paul Frankeur, Michel Vitold, Camille Guérini, Serge Rousseau et Micheline Luccioni

On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter (1980) de Philippe de Broca avec Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Francis Perrin, Catherine Alric, Marc Dudicourt, Paulette Dubost et Roger Carel

Gosford Park (2001) de Robert Altman avec Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Camilla Rutherford, Charles Dance, Geraldine Somerville, Tom Hollander, Stephen Fry, Helen Mirren et Emily Watson

Meurtre à Hollywood (Sunset) (1988) de Blake Edwards avec Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Jennifer Edwards, Victoria Alperin et Patricia Hodge

Iron Claw (The Iron Claw) (2023) de Sean Durkin avec Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Holt McCallany, Lily James, Maura Tierney et Stanley Simons

Séries

La croisière s'amuse Saison 1

Une traversée de chien - L'Amour fou - Ami ou Ennemi - Farces et Attrapes - Une célébrité encombrante - Le Grand Air - Le docteur voit double - Le Grand Amour - Le Père du commandant - Monnaie de singe - La vie est belle au large - Tel est pris qui croyait prendre - Jeux de mains - Les Grandes Retrouvailles : première partie - Les Grandes Retrouvailles : deuxième partie - La Victoire en dansant - Le Gros Lot - Coupable, mais de quoi ? - Souvenirs Souvenirs - Il y a des jours comme ça - Qui comprend quelque chose à l'amour ? - Le commandant connaît la musique - Coup de folie - Ne comptez pas sur moi pour tomber amoureuse

Coffre à Catch

#148 : Bonne année 2024 à tout l'univers d'Agius ! - #149 : Zack Ryder : Woo Woo Woo, tu le sais ! - #150 : L'exceptionnel retour de Colby ! - #151 : Les adieux au catch de Tommy Dreamer ? - #152 : Tommy Dreamer enfin champion de la ECW !

Les Simpson Saison 1

Noël mortel - Bart le génie - L'Odyssée d'Homer - Simpsonothérapie - Terreur à la récré - Ste Lisa Blues - L'Abominable Homme des bois - Bart a perdu la tête - Marge perd la boule - L'Odyssée d'Homer - L'Espion qui venait de chez moi - Un clown à l'ombre - Une soirée d'enfer

Downton Abbey Saison 5

Tradition et Rébellion - Un vent de liberté - Le Bonheur d'être aimé - Révolution à Downton - Tout ce qui compte… - Étape par étape - Désillusions - Menaces et Préjugés - La Réconciliation

Castle Saison 4

Renaissance - Lame solitaire - Casse-tête - L'Empreinte d'une arme - L'Art de voler - Démons - Otages - Dans l'antre du jeu - Course contre la mort - Détache-moi

Kaamelott Livre IV

Tous les matins du monde première partie - Tous les matins du monde deuxième partie - Raison et Sentiments - Les Tartes aux fraises - Le Dédale - Les Pisteurs - Le Traître - La Faute première partie - La Faute deuxième partie - L’Ascension du Lion - Une vie simple - Le Privilégié - Le Bouleversé - Les Liaisons dangereuses - Les Exploités II - Dagonet et le Cadastre - Duel première partie - Duel deuxième partie - La Foi bretonne - Au service secret de Sa Majesté - La Parade - Seigneur Caius - L’Échange première partie - L’Échange deuxième partie - L’Échelle de Perceval - La Chambre de la reine - Les Émancipés - La Révoquée - La Baliste II - Les Bonnes - La Révolte III - Le Rapport - L’Art de la table - Les Novices - Les Refoulés - Les Tuteurs II - Le Tourment IV - Le Rassemblement du corbeau II - Le Grand Départ - L’Auberge rouge - Les Curieux : première partie - Les Curieux : deuxième partie - La Clandestine - Les Envahisseurs - La vie est belle - La Relève - Les Tacticiens : première partie - Les Tacticiens : deuxième partie - Drakkars ! - La Réponse - Unagi IV - La Permission - Anges et Démons - La Rémanence - Le Refuge - Le Dragon gris - La Potion de vivacité II - Vox populi III - La Sonde - La Réaffectation - La Poétique II : première partie - La Poétique II : deuxième partie

Affaires sensibles

Henri Martin, debout contre la guerre d’Indochine - 1923 : Germaine Berton : l’anarchiste qui tua pour venger Jaurès - Prince de Conty : où sont passés les lingots de l'épave? - De Paris à Dakar, le rallye du désert - Cannes 1987, Pialat et sa palme - Affaire Mis et Thiennot, la fin de l'énigme judiciaire ? - Agnès Le Roux, la disparition d’une héritière - Les mystères de Chevaline

The Crown Saison 6

Un engouement fanatique - Hors du temps

Le Voyageur Saison 2

La Forêt perchée - La tentation du mal

Alfred Hitchcock présente Saison 5, 6, 3, 7

Arthur - La Vengeance - Chantage - Pan! vous êtes mort

Spectacles

Concert du Nouvel An en direct du Musikverein, à Vienne (2024)

Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2011)

Sexe et jalousie (1993) de Marc Camoletti et Georges Folgoas avec Jean-Luc Moreau, Marie-Pierre Casey, Patrick Guillemin, Marie Lenoir et Bunny Godillot

Billy Cobham's Glass Menagerie (1981) live at Riazzino, Switzerland

Agents Are Forever : Danish National Symphony Orchestra (2020) avec Caroline Henderson

Bonté divine (2010) de Frédéric Lenoir et Louis-Michel Colla avec Jean-Loup Horwitz, Benoit Nguyen-Tat, Saïd Amadis et Roland Giraud

Livres

Kid Paddle, Tome 1 : Jeux de vilains de Midam

Détective Conan, Tome 20 de Gôshô Aoyama

Castle, Tome 1 : La dernière aube de Brian Michael Bendis, Kelly Sue DeConnick et Tom Raney

James Bond : Le guide officiel de 007 de Lee Pfeiffer et Dave Worrall

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DIE NA-OORLOGSTEATER IN PARYS¹

In die naoorlogse teaterbeweging in Frankryk sal ek probeer om 'n beweging te identifiseer wat beide dié van die teater en dié van die Franse gees is.

Hiervoor sou dit nie genoeg wees om al die vertonings by te woon wat van 1920 tot 1936 hul stempel op Parys afgedruk het nie, maar ek kan wel sê, ek het deelgeneem aan die intieme lewe van die teater, in sy lyding, in sy terugslae, sy hoop, sy probleme en soms selfs sy triomfe.

Ek het as akteur of regisseur in nie minder nie as tien teaters gewerk: l'Œuvre, l'Atelier, Vieux-Colombier, Comédie des Champs-Élysées, Studio des Champs-Élysées, Théâtre de Grenelle, Théâtre Pigalle, die Théâtre de l 'Laan, die Théâtre des Folies-Wagram.

Ek het al die belangrike persoonlikhede van die teater persoonlik en intiem geken en saam met hulle gewerk: Lugné-Poe, Silvain, Charles Dullin, Jacques Copeau, Louis Jouvet, Georges en Ludmilla Pitoëff, Suzanne Desprès, Gaston Baty, Valentine Tessier, Génica Athanasiou, Roger Karl, Falconetti.

Ek het die tydperk van volwassenheid van die Théatre de l'Œuvre, voor Lugné-Poe vertrek, en dag gesien

dag na dag het ek die eerste avonture beleef van die ontluikende Atelier, wat vir drie jaar voortdurend die

ramp, tot die dag toe hy uiteindelik homself kon afdwing.

Ek wil nie hier 'n eenvoudige lys van akteurs gee nie, 'n inerte palmarès, maar die lewe en asemhaling van die teater

in Frankryk wat net 'n paar maande gelede 'n geheimsinnige verskynsel veroorsaak het. In Parys, in 1920, terwyl die Vieux-Colombier sy deure heropen het, het 'n paar groot akteurs oor die

toneel van die Comédie-Française: Silvain, De Max, Paul Mounet, ens. In die avant-garde teaters het mense lekker gelag deur die tics van die groot akteurs na te boots: deur Paul Mounet, die sonore

keelstem, daardie groot, swaar Cerberus- en aardbewingstem, en sy passiewe, meganiese styl. Die uitdrukking op die mond en ander eienaardighede van De Max was vervals, soos daardie spesifieke manier wat hy gehad het om homself op 'n bestudeerde manier te draai en reg te maak; en hy het homself bevestig: «Hier is presies wat nie gedoen moet word nie

Doen".

Maar na my mening, ten spyte van hul swakhede, was hierdie akteurs die laaste wat die heldhaftige tradisie van die teater gehad het. En toe hulle dood is, kan gesê word dat geen tragedie weer in Parys opgevoer is nie. Silvain het 'n vreemde manier gehad om sy arms oor mekaar te kruis, op die vlak van die solar plexus; hy het ook die gewoonte gehad om sekere lettergrepe met 'n hou op die bors te aksentueer.

De Max, sonder om die betekenis van sy gebaar te ken, het sy sonoog met die punt van sy wysvinger terg, met sy wysvinger probeer om die oorlewing van die derde oog te herontdek en die plek van wat, in Indiese metafisika, is noem die pineaalklier. In al hierdie oordrewe gebare van die akteurs is daar die instinktiewe oorlewing van 'n magie wie se

diegene wat oefen weet nie meer wat dit beteken nie, en diegene wat daarvoor lag, lag sonder om te weet hoekom. En ek sou ook sê

dat, as hulle op daardie oomblik kon weet wat in hulle lag, hulle bang sou wees vir hulself.

Dit is daar waar 'n mens die rede kan vind vir die beweging van godsdienstige terreur wat die skare by die Paryse Koloniale Uitstalling in 19312 aangegryp het, toe hulle die akteur van die Balinese Teater na hulle kon sien opruk en,

nadat jy drie of vier treë geneem het en 'n nuuskierige opwaartse beweging van die heupe gemaak het, raak die derde oog op die kop aan.

Toe De Max aan sy kop raak, was dit nodig om te vertaal:

Ek dink dit met my donker kop. Ek soek in my gekwelde kop na die verlore plek van gedagte.

Maar wanneer die akteur van die Balinese Teater aan sy kop raak, is dit nodig om te vertaal:

Ek is bewus van 'n verlore oog; Ek wys na die verlore plek van 'n oog in die kop van kriminele mensdom. Ek doen 'n beroep op daardie wetenskap wat mans verloor het aan die begin van die Swart Era. Dit wil sê sestig eeue gelede. Want, soos ons weet, het die Black Age, vir die Hindoes, 3120 jaar voor Christus begin.

Hier, wanneer ons in hom deurdring, wat ware teater vir ons kan voorstel.

In Duitsland word ’n artistieke opvoering uitgevind; in Rusland, die opvoering van die massas; maar in Frankryk, een van die seldsame lande in die wêreld waar dit selfs uit niks moontlik is om met iets vorendag te kom, in Frankryk was dit moontlik, amper sonder middele, om die geheime lewe van die teater te herontdek, net soos Arthur Rimbaud was in staat om die geheime lewe van die poësie te herontdek ...

Maar ek keer terug na die alchemie van die teater in Frankryk, na sy nuwe na-oorlogse debute, daardie oomblik toe, in Parys, die lewe ontwaak het.

Dit was Lugné-Poe wat Jarry, Strindberg en Ibsen aan die Franse onthul het, wat die Krediteure, Hedda Gabler, Spectres, A Doll's House ens. na die verhoog gebring het, in die klein privaat kamer van die Cité Moncey, by 55 rue de Clichy , in Parys.

Die Œuvre is 'n "geslote" teater. Slegs intekenare het toegang daartoe. Ek gaan soontoe om een ​​by te woon

verteenwoordiging, sonder dat ek eers ingeteken het, ontmoet ek Lugné-Poe wat my nooi om

kom in sonder om te betaal en hy bied my aan om in sy teater te werk. Dieselfde jaar het ek my debuut gemaak as

administrateur, nutsman, prompt, akteur en ekstra.

Ek het Jean Sarment se waarnemende debuut in Specters from the wings gekyk. Hedda Gabler, 'n Poppekas, ens., en, op dieselfde toneel, die volgende jaar, tot Lugné-Poe se verstommende skepping in Crommelynck se Manjifieke Cuckold.

Lugné-Poe het in hierdie rol 'n onvergeetlike tipe intellektuele boef geskep, wat 'n Bruegeliaanse komposisie op die Franse verhoog bekend stel, met 'n soort knorstem asof in 'n fantoom, en kaskenades van lag, gevolg deur kaskenades van uitdrukkings wat van kop tot tone gerol het. voete.

As akteur was Lugné-Poe dikwels ongelyk, dramatiese vertolking het hom verveel. Hy tree met minagting vir die gehoor op. Maar as hy sy deel betree, lag die hele vertrek tot hees. Hy is 'n volledige akteur, van kop tot tone. Sy verrassende veranderinge in stem, sy vingers wat na punte draai, sy ontstoke blikke laat ’n mens vir oomblikke dink aan ’n nou verlore teatertradisie. Dit blyk dat ons in die teenwoordigheid van 'n akteur uit die Franse Middeleeuse Mysteries is.

Tog is dit aan ’n heel ander kant van die teater, sonder gebare, met net haar stem, ’n silwerige snikkende stem wat Suzanne Desprès in d'Annunzio se roerende werk huil oor haar afgekapte hande³.

Omstreeks dieselfde 1920 het Durec, wat 'n tyd later gesterf het, in 'n Yslandse toneelstuk vertolk: Die begeerte van Sigurjónsson, die rol van 'n towenaar gevangene van sy towerspreuke, terwyl hy glo dat hy die geheim besit. Ek kan nie onthou dat ek so 'n besetene stem in enige teater gehoor het nie, totdat ek die dag, in die Dibbuk, Marguerite Jamois letterlik hoor huil het, haar siel agternajaag.

1920 is die jaar waarin Jacques Copeau, by die Vieux-Colombier, die eenparige skool na die toneel bring, wat ook 'n skool van naturalisme en eenvoud is. Eensgesindheid is 'n populisme avant la lettre, maar a

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My wrap of 2022 book challenge. I was really into dark, and taboo romances this year and I devoured them. This was probably the fastest that I completed by book challenge and for 2023 my goal is 100 books!

Books by African American Authors I read in 2022:

The Healer Warrior, by Renee Lewin

Bargain with the Beast, by Naima Simone

Dark, by Thayer King

Chaldor, by Thayer King

Whimsy, by Thayer King

Bittersweet Love, by Q.B. Tyler

Forget me Not, by Q.B. Tyler

Today, Tomorrow, Always, by Raven St. Pierre

Gravity, by Raven St. Pierre

Within the Shadows, by Brandon Massey

Single Black Female, by Tracy Brown

The Marriage Pass, by Briana Cole

Love and War, by Shirra Lynn

His Fantasy, by Thayer King

No Strings, by Eve Vaughn

His for Keeps, by Theodora Taylor

All Her Little Secrets, by Wanda M. Morris

His Forbidden Bride, by Theodora Taylor

His to Own, Theodora Taylor

Nordic Lightening, by Camilla Stevens

Where the Pieces Fall, by Blue Saffire

Always Been You, Q.B. Tyler

Jesse's Girl, by Naima Simone

Fire, by Shae Evans

Risks, by Symone West

Hoops Shorts, Kennedy Ryan

First, by Symone West

A Love So Wrong, by Katerina Winters

Wrongful Desires, by Katerina Winters

Lost and Found, by Katerina Winters

Bound Through Time, Twyla Turner

A Million to Blow, Blue Saffire

Other awesome authors that I read for this year

F*ck Perfect, by Danyell A. Wallace

Deadly Vows, by Haley Stuart

Viking Unbound, by Kate Pearce

The Lord of Lost Causes, by Kate Pearce

Viking Claimed, by Kate Pearce

Valentine's Vow, by Adele Clee

At Last the Rouge Returns, by Adele Clee

Descent, by Sam Mariano

Untouchable, by Sam Mariano

The Haunting, by Hope Carr

Bentley, Hattie Jude

Quinn, by Hattie Jude

The Boy of the Bridge, by Sam Mariano

Make You Beg, by Shantel Tessier

You Promised Me Forever, by Monica Murphy

Bound to Please, Hope. C. Tarr

The American Heiress, by Daisy Goodwin

Daughters of Rome, by Kate Quinn

The Worst Best Man, Mia Sosa

The Forest of Vanishing Stars, by Kristin Harmel

Victoria, by Daisy Goodwin

Entropy, by Jennifer Hartmann

Midnight Hunter, Brianna Hale

Star Father, Charlie N. Holmberg

The Forgotten Sister, Nicola Cornick

Love Beyond Time, by Bethany Claire

Regarding the Duke, by Grace Callaway

The Stationmaster's College, by Phillipa Nefri Clark

A Million Kisses in Your Lifetime, by Monica Murphy

Twisted Hate, by Ana Huang

Trick Me Twice, by Becca Steele

Taunt Her, by Caitlyn Dare

Eyes on Me, by Sara Cate

The Unknown Beloved, by Amy Harmon

June First, by Jennifer Hartman

The Patron, by Vivian Wood

Boyfriend's Glasses, by Livia Harper

The Arms of the Enemy, by Lisbeth Eng

Love Wrecked, by Karina Halle

From Sand and Ash, by Amy Harmon

Highlander's Captive, Mariah Stone

Blake, by Victoria H. Smith

Drowning Erin, by Elizabeth O'Roark

Forbidden Love Still Blooms, by Nora Flite

Captured by the Beast, by Jenna Kerna

Men of the North, The Protector, by Elin Peer

Men of the North, The Ruler, by Elin Peer

Reading Challenge Goal for 2022 was 85; so if you're keeping count I have six more to go until I meet my challenge. Which challenges were your favorite in 2020? Let’s discuss in the comments!

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Madame Bovary   1934

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maigret et l’affaire saint-fiacre (1958)

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Valentine Tessier & Louis Jouvet dans la pièce Domino de Marcel Achard, à la Comédie des Champs-Élysées en 1932, dans une mise en scène de Louis Jouvet.

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  Gabin returns as Maigret, this time in a nostalgic vein. The countess of St. Fiacre (Valentine Tessier) has received a death threats stating she will die on Ash Wednesday. She calls upon Maigret to return to the village where he grew up and help her with the case. Maigret had a crush on the Countess as a young boy, and the Countess, a warm-hearted woman, enjoyed being the object of it. Maigret ´s father had once managed the Chateau where he will now be a guest and indeed he´s got the Countess to thank for his education. There´s a real fondness and complicity on the ride from the train station to the Chateau between the characters and indeed the actors playing them. It´s lovely.

The gathering of the suspects à la Poirot

The Countess dies as advertised, in Church, and during Mass no less. But who did it and how? There are lots of suspects: Lucien Sabatier ( Robert Hirsch), a young secretary and confidante gave her an injection the night previous and he´s been trying to buy a flat in order to get married and needs money, the young Count (Michel Auclair) has been buying yachts and horses in Paris with money he doesn´t have and he´s being chased for writing false checks; the village Doctor (Paul Frankeur) hasn´t been taking very good care of her. Many people have their reasons. At the end Maigret does a Poirot, gathers all the suspects for dinner at the Chateau, and reveals who the culprit is.

A slight but very satisfying film, well if unexcitingly directed by Delannoy. Much of the beginning is infused with nostalgia. We get a lovely feel for village life and how it´s changed. Structurally this is developed through a homology between the altar boy and Maigret who used to fulfil the same function in the same place when young. This is also developed by Maigret recognising all the villagers he once new and who tend to recognise him only once they clock his blue eyes. The screenplay is very tightly structured so for example his visit to the Caretaker who has replaced his father in post takes place almost exactly half-way through the film. He also learns that the education of this caretaker´s son has been provided by the Countess, just as she had done for Maigret himself when he was young, and this other homology rhymes and differs with that of the altarboy. We will see that this young bank clerk is no angel. This is a tightly and well-structured film.

It is also a gently paced one, but the pace well seasoned by a sprinkling of suspicion of practically everyone. Everything is seen through corners (see above), passageways, doors, through the corner of one´s eye. Thus the film shows clues as partial whilst making everything suspiciously interesting, particularly when the corpse is still upstairs, and parts of it remain visible in the corner of the shot during questioning.

Maigret´s eye of course is observant. And Gabin´s eyes are not only blue, but completely transparent. A look, a shrug, a curt coded phrase. He doesn´t say much but he communicates everything. Perhaps Gabin is at his very greatest in these slight genre pieces where it´s his presence alone that warrants reasons for viewing.

Delannoy doesn´t dazzle visually. He tend towards triangular compositions and, with a few exceptions, one of which you can see below, keeps the symbolism largely at bay.

As you can see from the clip below, Delannoy does know how to film dynamically to keep the image interesting. Here Maigret moves through the newspaper printing presses though to the offices. It´s quite a lot of time to devote to the scene in terms of its import to the film as a whole. And it´s clear that Delannoy is merely taking pleasure in showing us the workings of the newspaper. And I´m reproducing it here because it induced nostalgia in me. This is how many people even a village paper employed. Look at all the jobs in soldering, laying out the print, typesetting, printing and distribution. Not so long ago all papers functioned this way, and the larger ones were an industrial marvel to behold.  Ahhh. It´s a minor, well-made film that incites all kinds of nostalgia. Gabin is perfect

  I have written on two other Maigret/ Gabin films here:

-the previous one with Delannoy:

Maigret tend un piège/ Inspector Maigret (Jean Delannoy, France/Italy 1958)

And a later one directed by Gilles Grangier:

Maigret voit rouge (Gilles Grangier, France/Italy, 1963)

José Arroyo

Maigret et l’affaire St. Fiacre (Jean Delannoy, France, 1959) Gabin returns as Maigret, this time in a nostalgic vein. The countess of St. Fiacre (Valentine Tessier) has received a death threats stating she will die on Ash Wednesday.

[letslazilymaximumcollectorblog]

Valentine Tessier Valentine Tessier (1892aEU"1981) was a French actress who appeared in around thirty films during her career. She played..

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Valentine Tessier, Max Beckmann, 1929–30, Saint Louis Art Museum: Modern and Contemporary Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/13431/

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Valentine Tessier, Max Beckmann, 1929–30, Saint Louis Art Museum: Modern and Contemporary Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/13431/

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These are the 50 books I read in the month of April 2020!

How I read this much?  I know how much pages I can read during a day.  I have the chance to live alone with my mom so I have a lot of time for myself.  I can read a book a day and during the weekend, I can even read 2 books a day since I don't work on Saturday and Sunday.  Sometimes I get Lucky and I read 3 books a day during the weekend but it dépends of a lot of things.

On April I had two weeks of day off which means a lot of time for reading books.

I gave 3 stars to those books:

- “Dark Lover” by J.R. Ward - “Halfway To The Grave” by Jeaniene Frost - “Breaker” by Harloe Rae - “Fake It ‘Til You Break It” by Meagan Brandy - “Pucked” by Helena Hunting - “El Diablo” by M. Robinson - “One-Eighty” by Marie James - “Wicked Dreams” by S. Massery - “Wicked Games” by S. Massery - “Mystérieux” by Amandine Ré - “Always And Forever, Lara Jean” by Jenny Han - “Bully Me: Class Of 2020″ by Shantel Tessier among others

My 4 stars books:

- “This Is Love” by Kennedy Fox - “Danger Zone” by Ella Frank and Brooke Blaine - “Need For Speed” by Ella Frank and Brooke Blaine - “Résister” by Battista Tarantini - “Timid” by Devney Perry - “The Widow Of Pale Harbor” by Hester Fox - “To All The Boys I’ve Love” by Jenny Han - “He Will Be My Ruin” by K.A. Tucker - “Bed Of Flowers” by Erin Satie - “Dirty Letters” by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward - “Yours In Scandal” by Lauren Layne - “When Sinners Kneel” by R. Scarlett - “Dear Enemy” by Kristen Callihan - “Without You” by Marley Valentine - “Just Love” by Prescott Lane - “The Lies We Tell” by Becca Steele - “P.S. I Still Love You” by Jenny Han - “Bound By Love” by Cora Reilly - “Gilded Agony” by K.A. Merikan - “For Pleasure” by Amélie C. Astier - “For Christmas” by Amélie C. Astier - “Arranged” by Vanessa Waltz - “Manik” by Amo Jones - “A Love Letter To Whiskey” by Kandi Steiner

My pearls of the month … my 4,5 and my two 5 stars:

- “The Score” by Elle Kennedy - “All The Lies” by Rina Kent - “All The Truths” by Rina Kent - “Bad Habit” by Charleigh Rose - “Bad Apple” by Elle Kennedy - “Dark Prince” by Michelle Hercules - “Addiction” by Blandine P. Martin - “Châtiment” by Manon Donaldson - “The Rebel Of Raleigh High” by Callie Hart - “ Hide & Dick” by F.V. Estyer - “With This Ring” by Georgia Le Carre

- “Leo” by Mia Sheridan - “Révélation” by Blandine P. Martin

[junkielee]

[Last Film I Saw] French Cancan (1954)

#CinemaOmnivore #FrenchCancan (1954) [7/10] #JeanRenoir #JeanGabin #FrancoiseArnoul #MariaFelix

Title: French Cancan Year: 1954 Country: France, Italy Language: French Genre: Comedy, Musical Director: Jean Renoir Writers: Jean Renoir André-Paul Antoine Music: Georges Van Parys Cinematography: Michel Kelber Cast: Jean Gabin Françoise Arnoul María Félix Giani Esposito Franco Pastorino Jean-Roger Caussimon Anna Amendola Dora Doll Gaston Gabaroche Jacques Jouanneau Jean Parédès Michel Piccoli…