The man likes Grandma Moses’s paintings. He wants to help her. So he takes her paintings to galleries (画廊) in New York City. Otto Kallir has a famous gallery there. He likes the paintings by Grandma Moses. Now it is 1940 and Grandma Moses’s paintings are in Kallir’s gallery. Sh...
The capo-mafioso was a man in his late fifties named Don Tommasino and he operated as the gabbellotto for a huge estate belonging to one of Sicily's most noble families. The gabbellotto, a sort of overseer to the estates of the rich, also guaranteed that the poor would not try to c...
PRIDE BEFORE THE FALL…A proud and stern schoolmaster named Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings) falls for cabaret singer Lola Lola (Marlene Dietrich), and from there his life unravels; he loses the respect of his pupils, then resigns his post to marry Lola. To make ends meet, Rath tries to se...
Billed as “The Russian Tigress” who often portrayed an exotic blonde temptress, she is best known for her roles as Duchess Josiana in the silent The Man Who Laughs and as a circus trapeze artist in Tod Browning’s 1932 cult horror movie Freaks. (olgabaclanova.com) As the fashion ...
Both the Mysterium and a rowankind bondsman have been mentioned but not explained. The rowankind was named as Larien. All are vital to the future plot. By the time I finished writing this the whole story had coalesced in my mind – maybe not the detail, but I knew what the main plot...
Biking through one of nine tunnels on the Route of the Hiawatha, a highlight of Discovery Bicycle Tours’ six-day Idaho Trails trip © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com The Hiawatha, considered one of the more successful rail-trail conversions in the United States, was named to the Rai...
The film also succeeds with strong voice work, which includes Lord of the Rings veterans Miranda Otto as Éowyn (who serves as the narrator of the story), and Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd (formerly Merry and Pippin) voicing a couple of orcs. On the downside of things, the film had ...
But it’s the supporting characters that really bring the movie together: Walter’s conspiracy-theorist junkman, the hairnet-wearing Rosato Brothers, Otto’s mohicanned criminal buddies. One piece of advice, though: if you can, watch Repo Man in its extended, censored for TV version: the ...
…Otto Soglow, on the brink of becoming a very wealthy man thanks to his Little King cartoons, continued to lay down some ink on behalf of the makers of Sanka decaf… …and we move along to Soglow’s fellow cartoonists, beginning with Gardner Rea and a cartoon sequence spread across pa...
Corrupting Annaby: Simply Chris - Ever since Howard died I've never sought a relationship with men. Don't get me wrong. I still love cock but Howard was rare. As great a lover as he was, he was an even better man. He with stood the pressure that some members of my family gave u...