Who took a picture of my house and put it on the internet?
(Source: myinnerlandscape, via quite-impossible-to-describe)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) will be on TCM Thursday at 6:30 AM. To my knowledge, this is not on DVD, and it’s not often on TV, so set your DVRs.
Kindle Fire Department: kindle book of the day
Sunday, June 3, 2012
The Typewriter Girl: Kindle Book of the Day 6/3
A beautiful romance from author J.L. Jarvis, The Typewriter Girl tells the story of a young woman who is ghostwriting the adventures of Benjamin Stark, and the two of them are drawn together. But before their emotions carry them away, secrets they have threaten to tear them apart. Full of clever twists that’ll make you gasp, the tension and the feeling in this book are like buried gold. Pick this one up!
Garcia sees universal message in 'Glory'.
AP: This drama takes place in the 1920s but its theme of freedom remains current and is universal. What do you expect the audience to take away from the movie?
Garcia: Well, I think that the overall essence is that freedom is a precious thing. People are fighting for freedom on a daily basis all around the world in contemporary society, and dying for it. This struggle has not gone away.
I just discovered there’s an Episode 2!
Jimmy Fallon - Downton Sixbey: Episode II: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (by latenight)
COME WITH ME ALICE. YOU’RE TOO WILD, TOO BEAUTIFUL, TO LIVE IN CHAINS. YOU BELONG OUT HERE. A ROSE IN A VASE IS NOT A ROSE IN THE FIELD. IT WITHERS.
WHERE WOULD WE GO, LUKE? WHAT WOULD WE EAT?
ANYWHERE WE WANT, MY LOVE, AND ANYTHING WE CAN CATCH OR FIND IN DUMPSTERS. YOU THINK YOU HAVE SECURITY BUT YOU HAVE SHACKLES. YOU THINK YOU ARE LOVED BUT YOU ARE A TOY FOR OTHERS’ AMUSEMENT. I WILL SHOW YOU FREEDOM. TOGETHER WE WILL BE UNSTOPPABLE. WE WILL SET THE WORLD AFLAME.
I DON’T KNOW, LUKE. YOU’RE JUST TOO DAMNED HANDSOME TO TRUST.
I CAN’T HELP THAT, ALICE. I WAS BORN THIS WAY. THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW IS OPEN. DON’T PACK A BAG.
I appreciate a slow-burn romance. In most movies, everyone is just tearing their clothes off in the first scene.— Emily Blunt, via BrainyQuote
I’m so happy for Justin!
There was a time, long ago, in a world not unlike our own, where a writer would produce a manuscript after many laborious hours spent hunched over a typewriter of such heft and weight it could easily be used to bludgeon a burglar to death. Writers would not bash ne’er-do-wells’ heads in, of course, for multiple reasons, chief among them being that writers have nothing of value to burgle so the situation rarely arose…
Highland soldier Callum MacDonell battled lowland Covenanters at the service of the King. Now charged with hunting an assassin, his journey would lead not to justice, but to a murderer’s passionate Covenanter sister, Mari McEwan.
Betrayed and abandoned by the man she loved, Mari faced judgment by a tribunal of her people demanding she name the father of her unborn child, or be exiled from everything she knows.
Only an enemy soldier could save her life—and her heart.
Highland Soldiers
Book 1: The Enemy
June 30, 2012
War, passion mark 'Hemingway & Gellhorn' - Boston.com
In between, the pair dodge bombs and bullets that at times serve as a dangerous backdrop for their sexual encounters (played with gusto, and a fair amount of nudity, by the film’s stars).
“It’s about storytelling, what was necessary to show the heat that existed between them and especially in the heat of war,” said Kaufman.
<J.L. raises an eyebrow.> When blowing stuff up isn’t hot enough, sometimes you need nude Clive Owen to get the job done.
Owen, who packed on weight to play Hemingway, was Kaufman’s pick for the hypermasculine writer both because of the actor’s talent and “his testosterone count. He definitely had it,” Kaufman said.
<J.L. raises her other eyebrow.> While I haven’t seen the actual lab reports, I believe I can safely concur.
Well, I think the main point here is that you don’t need a fancy gym membership.
And if you can get Arrow dude to shoot your Hostess Sno Balls before they get to your mouth, you’ve got yourself a diet plan.
Queen Victoria's Journals
Now online!
A message from HM Queen Elizabeth II
In this the year of my Diamond Jubilee, I am delighted to be able to present, for the first time, the complete on-line collection of Queen Victoria’s journals from the Royal Archives.
These diaries cover the period from Queen Victoria’s childhood days to her Accession to the Throne, marriage to Prince Albert, and later, her Golden and Diamond Jubilees.
Thirteen volumes in Victoria’s own hand survive, and the majority of the remaining volumes were transcribed after Queen Victoria’s death by her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, on her mother’s instructions.
It seems fitting that the subject of the first major public release of material from the Royal Archives is Queen Victoria, who was the first Monarch to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee.
It is hoped that this historic collection will make a valuable addition to the unique material already held by the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University, and will be used to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the past.
Juliette Gordon Low (1860-1927) was the first leader and founder of Girl Scouts. Juliette was also a very talented artist, and created many paintings and sculptures throughout her life. She founded the Girl Scouts of the USA in 1912.
“On returning to America in 1912, Juliette placed her historic telephone call to her cousin, Nina Anderson Pape: ‘Come right over! I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we’re going to start it tonight!’” - Wikipedia
“Let me tell you something about writers. The best ones are all liars.”
Hemingway & Gellhorn Trailer (by HBO)
From The Bride of Lammermoor, a fictionalized version of an actual incident in the history of the Dalrymple family that took place in the Lammermuir Hills in 1669.
