![]() ![]() Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra) and stark shadow lighting (i.e. As the series progressed, the uses of multiple exposures (a great example being Symphony of Swing with Artie Shaw), optical effects, mirrors (i.e. Early films often used a gimmick to frame the musical performances such as the roller skates used in Eddie Duchin & His Orchestra. added more storyline material and visual experimentation. While rival studios like Universal Pictures focused mostly on the performance itself in their own “Name Band Musicals” shorts, Warner Bros. Each ran from 9 to 11 minutes in length and was produced in black and white. The Melody Masters were a series of first-rate big band musical film shorts produced by Warner Brothers, under the supervision of Samuel Sax at their Vitaphone studio in New York between 19, and in Burbank, California with producer Gordon Hollingshead in charge between 19.Īmong the most popular short subjects of their kind (making the Motion Picture Herald top money-making shorts lists in 1939 ) these were an offshoot of the Vitaphone Varieties. Series of first-rate big band musical film shorts produced by Warner Brother ![]()
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There were dozens of meetings behind closed doors, romantic letters exchanged, phone calls had, all to knowledge of the tortured Lady Diana who had no other option but to sit idly by and allow this to go on. ![]() I felt the sadness, frustration, anger, resentment, and all other feelings that Diana felt as she watched her husband carry on an affair with Parker-Bowles during their marriage. I always thought Parker-Bowles was introduced into the love triangle much later. I was horrified to hear just how involved Camilla Parker-Bowles was from the very beginning. ![]() I learned so much about how it began, how it evolved, and how it ended. Or, if I knew it, I didn't know the extent to which it affected her life. There is so much about this woman that I did not know. It is also fitting that I read it during the summer that is the 20th anniversary of her death. It just so happens that I was recently in St John's and stopped to browse a local used bookshop, inside which I found a pristine copy of the book. Ever since I heard of this I've wanted to read it. This is easily the best biography I've ever read. ![]() ![]() Each of these books offers further reflection and practice of Intuitive Eating. I continued to co-author updated versions of Intuitive Eating (now in its 4th edition) and wrote or co-wrote two workbooks, a journal, and a card deck. After co-authoring the first Intuitive Eating book, which was released in 1995, I continued unlearning some old thinking, which led to incorporating more advanced learning, especially connected to social justice, with the aim of eliminating the oppression placed upon people in larger bodies. Wanting to do better for my clients led me to believe in a weight-inclusive philosophy, which would guide clients toward better attunement with their bodies and a more positive relationship with food and body. ![]() ![]() The teaching was weight-centric, with a misguided belief that weight loss was the key to health. It all began in the eighties and early nineties when I found that what I had been taught in graduate school about counseling clients was not only unsatisfying but also appeared to be doing harm. ![]() ![]() ![]() The scarlet whoosh of Molotovs intersecting with exacting surfaces. A distant yelling like that of men below decks in a torpedoed prison ship. Phosphorescence from the barrels of plastic bullet guns. Arcs of gasoline fire under the crescent moon. The riot had taken on a beauty of its own now. Add to this the fact that, as a Catholic policeman, it doesn’t matter which side he’s on, because nobody trusts him, and Sergeant Duffy really is in a no-win situation. It’s no easy job-especially when it turns out that one of the victims was involved in the IRA but was last seen discussing business with someone from the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force. Detective Sergeant Duffy is the man tasked with trying to get to the bottom of it all. Hunger strikes, riots, power cuts, a homophobic serial killer with a penchant for opera, and a young woman’s suicide that may yet turn out to be murder: on the surface, the events are unconnected, but then things-and people-aren’t always what they seem. “McKinty is one of the most striking and most memorable crime voices to emerge on the scene in years.” -Tana French Fast-paced, evocative, and brutal, The Cold Cold Ground is a brilliant depiction of Belfast at the height of the Troubles-and of a cop treading a thin, thin line-from The New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author Adrian McKinty. ![]() ![]() ![]() Miles Cameron is apparently a military veteran, a historian with a degree in Medieval History, and a devoted medieval. The abby is rich, the nuns are pretty and the monster preying on them is nothing he can't deal with. One of the strongest aspects of The Red Knight are its amazing battle scenes. Miles Cameron weaves an epic tale of magic and mercenaries, war and depravity, politics and intrigue in this action-packed debut fantasy The Red Knight.Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild. So when he hires his company out to protect an Abbess and her nunnery, it's just another job. The Red Knight has all three, he has youth on his side, and he's determined to turn a profit. It takes all the advantages of birth, training, and the luck of the devil to do it. But if standing and fighting is hard, leading a company of men - or worse, a company of mercenaries - against the smart, deadly creatures of the Wild is even harder. ![]() Twenty eight florins a month is nowhere near enough when a wyvern's jaws snap shut on your helmet in the hot stink of battle, and the beast starts to rip the head from your shoulders. If you have been searching for a medieval fantasy read, look no further than this series. ![]() Twenty eight florins a month is a huge price to pay, for a man to stand between you and the Wild. The Red Knight is the first book in Miles Camerons The Traitor Son Cycle. The book was first published on January 22nd 2013 by Orbit. ![]() The Red Knight is the first of five novels in the Traitor Son Cycle series by Canadian author Miles Cameron. ![]() ![]() No rating is no reflection on the quality of any book, simply that it wasn't a 5 for me. There will be MANY, MANY stories and books that are amazing and wonderful and 4 or 4.5 star reads for me, but I will not be rating them. However, I love to share amazing stories I've read, so I've decided this year (and going forward) that I will rate my 5 star reads. I feel uncomfortable doing it-even though, like any reader, I have books that do it for me, and books that don't. :)Īs an author, things get murky when it comes to rating other books. I accept Friend Requests for anyone over 18. Sign up for my newsletter & receive a free e-copy of my M/M slow burn romance "nest"! ![]() I'm a member of Romance Writers of America. If you'd like to check out more of my stories, check out my website: I write a variety of stories, Contemporary MM Romances with a good dollop of angst, Contemporary lighthearted MM Romances, and even a splash of fantasy. Some of my favorite tropes to read and write are: Enemies to Lovers, Friends to Lovers, Clueless Guys, Bisexual, Pansexual, Demisexual, Oblivious MCs, Everyone (Else) Can See It, Slow Burn, Love Has No Boundaries. ![]() I love to read and write stories with characters who slowly fall in love. ![]() ![]() A bit about me: I'm a big, BIG fan of slow-burn romances. ![]() ![]() ![]() He meets a handsome young Mormon, Joe Pitt (Markki Stroem), in the office bathroom. It’s about five lives fleetingly interconnected Prior Walter (Topper Fabregas) has just learned he has AIDS, and his boyfriend, Louis Ironson (Nelsito Gomez), isn’t taking it well. L-R: Markki Stroem (Joe Pitt), Art Acuńa (Roy Cohn), Angeli Bayani (cop, Harper Pitt) photo c/o Atlantis Theatrical It can be alienating to watch, especially when lines delivered seemed to go even over the actors’ heads. It’s New York City during the Reagan years, there’s a lot of shame and fear about AIDS, there’s allusions to Jewish culture, there’s plenty of rambling monologues, and dips into the psyche where the character can’t tell what’s real and what’s false. The show is disconcerting in more ways than its abrupt end. ![]() ![]() Cinematic in scope and vision, In The Unlikely Event sees the band expanding its sound in every sense of the phrase: the heavy songs are bone-crushing, the melodic passages are instantly memorable and, most importantly, the avant-garde experimentation doesn’t overshadow the music’s inherent accessibility. For the past seven years Mukilteo, Washington’s own The Fall Of Troy has been ignoring fleeting musical and fashion trends as its members have embarked on a quest to cultivate their own unique brand of progressive rock-and that process is culminating with the release of the trio’s fourth album In The Unlikely Event (October 6, 2009/Equal Vision). ![]() History has proved that every time a prevailing culture grows stagnant, a new artistic uprising takes place in order to wash away the past and look toward the future. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vignette 3 in this book explains what Carmen does each day, which is more than plenty. On Carmen's day off, Yvette has superb care from Marcela Montalvo. However, it is Carmen Galindo who really cares for her, for over 13 hours a day, 6 days a week. In his Introduction to this third volume, John recaps the information shared in the first two volumes but adds, `I have been with Yvette every day. It is also an introduction to some and a memory tag for others of the descent into dementia and few authors have been able to relate the emotional aspects of this state as tenderly and yet realistically as John Gurley. ![]() John's EVEN MORE VIGNETTES OF YVETTE AT VI is the third book in a set of four - a continuing love story of a man for his wife. ![]() John is now 94 years old and he and Yvette moved to a retirement home near Stanford University where John is in independent living and Yvette lived in a memory support unit - a major unit called Vi at Palo Alto - on the corner of the campus of Stanford University. He has taught economics at both Princeton University and Stanford University and researched economics at Brookings Institution in Washington, DC with is wife Yvette - a lead in for the writing of this book. She remembered.'Ĭalifornia author John Gurley has an impressive career. ![]() |