![]() ![]() The many photographic images shown in this film highlight Brooks' life and career as a girl growing up in small-town Kansas, as a Denishawn dancer (she danced alongside Martha Graham!), as a showgirl with the Ziegfeld Follies in 1920's New York, as a bobbed-hair flapper in a handful of American silent films, as Lulu - an innocent femme fatale murdered by Jack the Ripper in her most famous film - the now classic German production Pandora's Box, and later in life, as an essayist and author of the bestselling book, "Lulu in Hollywood." "Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu" features numerous film clips some of them rare, including Brooks' first appearance in a movie, her first part in a talkie, and her last film, a low budget Western with John Wayne. ![]() ![]() Louise Brooks (1906 1985) was incredibly photogenic some have claimed her to be one of the most beautiful actresses of all time. And director Hugh Munro Neely has fashioned a well-researched, balanced and finely documented study of this 20th century icon. Barry Paris (author of the definitive biography of the actress) has written a masterful, sympathetic script. It is one of the best film documentaries I have ever seen. "Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu" is an exceptionally well-crafted and emotionally moving documentary. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Collisions between neutron stars produce a lot of light in the form of short duration gamma ray bursts in addition to gravitational waves. Performing follow-up observations of gravitational wave events, to confirm the nature of the source. ![]() Next-generation observatories like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will provide a census of millions of galaxies from their gravitational distortions. Reconstructing the location of most of the mass in the universe using gravitational lensing. ![]() While they’re too faint to be seen directly, closer-by galaxies and clusters sometimes magnify their light, allowing us to learn about the ancestors of the Milky Way and other modern galaxies.ĭiscovering Distant Radio Galaxies via Gravitational Lensing Using gravitational lensing to search for the earliest galaxies in the universe. This image of the black hole at the center of the nearby galaxy M87 reveals how gravitation affects the matter in orbit and the light that material emits, providing a novel test of general relativity in a regime where gravity is very strong.ĬfA Plays Central Role In Capturing Landmark Black Hole Image Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian astrophysicists research the predictions of general relativity in many ways:Ĭapturing the first image of a supermassive black hole using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). ![]() ![]() ![]() He compliments Scarlett on her “unladylike” behavior, and Scarlett insults him in return. Observing this scene is the roguish Rhett Butler, who eventually reveals that he was eavesdropping. Ashley tells Scarlett that, although he has feelings for her, he will still marry Melanie because she’s so much like him. At a barbecue at the Wilkes plantation, Scarlett confesses her feelings to Ashley. Scarlett is heartbroken to learn that Ashley Wilkes, a man she loves, is soon to be engaged to Melanie Hamilton. The opening pages of the novel include background and descriptions of life as the Southern states secede from the Union, and young men are called to war after the first shots are fired at Fort Sumter. Her mother hails from French aristocracy. It’s 1861 in Tara, Georgia, and Scarlett O’Hara-a charming 16-year-old Southern belle-lives on the plantation owned by her successful Irish immigrant father. ![]() ![]() Ī stage production premiered in 2013 adapted by double BAFTA-winning writer Jack Thorne produced by HighTide Festival Theatre and the Crucible Theatre Sheffield. Additionally, Laurence Hobbs was cast in the role of Smithy. ![]() Tom Hardy was nominated for a 2008 BAFTA for his portrayal of Stuart Shorter. Recently many secondary schools across the UK have included it in their higher education academic syllabus for English language.Ī television dramatisation with the same name, starring Tom Hardy as Shorter and Benedict Cumberbatch as Masters was co-produced by the BBC and HBO in 2007. It won the 2005 Guardian First Book Award. The book won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 2005 for biography, and the 2006 Hawthornden Prize. As the title suggests, the book starts from Shorter's adult life, and works backwards to trace through his troubled childhood, examining the effects his family, schooling and disability had on his eventual state. It explores how a young boy, somewhat disabled from birth, became mentally unstable, criminal and violent, living homeless on the streets of Cambridge. ![]() ![]() Stuart: A Life Backwards is a biography by Alexander Masters of his friend Stuart Clive Shorter, formerly, at various times, a prisoner and a career criminal. ![]() ![]() Parsons's residents-both Black and white-are forced to acknowledge the unspoken codes of conduct in their post-Reconstruction era town. ![]() She and her Grandma Birdie work as housekeepers for the white widow Miss Peggy, and Opal desperately wants some time to be young and carefree with her cousins and friends.īut when the Ku Klux Klan descends on Opal's neighborhood, the tight-knit community is shaken in every way possible. ![]() She hopes this foreboding feeling won't overshadow her upcoming 18th birthday or the annual Founder's Day celebration in just a few weeks. The summer of 1936 in Parsons, Georgia, is unseasonably hot, and Opal Pruitt senses a nameless storm brewing. A moving story that confronts America's tragic past, When Stars Rain Down is both heartwarming and heart-wrenching. Opal is an eighteen-year-old Black woman working as a housekeeper in a small Southern town in the 1930s-and then the Klan descends. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has been involved in Hadestown and What the Constitution Means to Me since their respective world premieres in 2017. Hauck is currently represented on Broadway in Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown at the Walter Kerr Theatre and in Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me at the Hayes Theater. In 2016, Hauck was honored by the American Theatre Wing with an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Scenic Design. ![]() Hauck was also instrumental in creating the first ever off-Broadway collective bargaining agreement for the United Scenic Artists union as one of the trustees of the Eastern Region Executive Board. She then became the resident scenic designer for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for ten years, then moved to teaching at Brown University, New York University/ Playwrights Horizons, Vassar College, and Cal Arts. Rachel Hauck started her career as Art Direction Intern for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1990 but moved into theater soon after her time in film and TV. ![]() Rachel Hauck is a scenic designer based in New York City who is known for her work in Anaïs Mitchell's musical Hadestown on and off-Broadway and in London, John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons on and off-Broadway, and her extensive off-Broadway work. ![]() ![]() Four titles were issued in paperback by Grosset and Dunlap in 1972, and three of those four titles were once again issued in paperback by Grosset and Dunlap in 1978. Volumes 1 through 27 were issued in picture cover editions with green spines. Early picture cover editions of volumes 1 through 22 have a yellow spine, which was quickly changed to green. Character edit The series stars a job-hopping, mystery -solving nurse in the Nancy Drew mold, named Cherry Ames. ![]() Volumes 1 through 22 were originally issued in dust jackets and later as picture cover editions. Later, Julie Tatham gave the writing of both Cherry Ames and Vicki Barr back to Helen Wells. The dust jacket had already been designed for Cruise Nurse when Helen Wells backed out, so Wells is credited as the author rather than Tatham. ![]() Julie Campbell Tatham, the original author of the Trixie Belden series, took over writing the Cherry Ames series beginning with volume 9, Cruise Nurse. The original author of the Cherry Ames series was Helen Wells, who later decided to quit writing the Cherry Ames and Vicki Barr series in order to pursue other projects. The Cherry Ames Nurse Stories were published by Grosset and Dunlap from 1943 to 1968. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jocelyn Fray - Clary's mother who goes missing, kidnapped by Valentine. ![]() Valentine Morgenstern - the notorious leader of the Circle, believed to be dead for over a decade.Isabelle Lightwood - Alec's beautiful younger sister, Isabelle is a strong and fierce Shadowhunter, as well as a rebellious daughter.Alec Lightwood - the eldest Lightwood and Jace's parabatai, Alec is very protective of his family and finds himself not trusting Clary, whom Jace is inexplicably drawn to.Jace Wayland - one of the most skilled Shadowhunters of his generation, Jace is an orphan who witnessed his father's death.Clary Fray - the main protagonist of the series, Clary is a Shadowhunter who grew up in the mundane world.But why would demons be interested in an ordinary mundane like Clary? And how did she suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. Within twenty-four hours, Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. It's also her first meeting with gorgeous, golden-haired Jace. This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons - and keeping the odd werewolves and vampires in line. Much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with odd markings. When Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder. ![]() ![]() It was also named one of the top books of the year by National Public Radio, the Washington Post, and the Oregonian. Her novel, Birds Of Paradise, won the 2012 Arab-American National Book Award. Her young-adult novel, Silverworld, a fantasy with an Arab-American girl at its heart, was published last spring from Crown Books / Random House. Her family moved to Jordan a few times throughout her childhood, and elements of both her American and Jordanian experiences, as well as cross-cultural issues, especially culinary reflections, appear in her work.ĭiana Abu-Jaber’s culinary memoir, Life Without A Recipe, has been described as “a book of love, death, and cake.” Ruth Reichl calls it “bold and luscious” and “indispensable to anyone trying to forge their own truer path.” ![]() ![]() Called "outstanding" by the Washington Post, Diana's latest work, Fencing With the King, a novel of Middle Eastern intrigue and adventure, was featured by Apple books,, and The Millions as one of this spring’s most-anticipated novels.ĭiana was born in Syracuse, New York to an American mother and a Jordanian father. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When it does, her mentor, Brody, rescues her from her own demise. Some of which are fatal.Īt the hospital and surrounded by life-and-death emergencies, Allison's inability to manage her impulse turns deadly. Given her career, this gift would be valuable if she were not drawn like a magnet to the ailing person's every symptom. Allison's most terrifying power is her compulsion to cure the dying with her touch. Her closely guarded talents - those which seldom appeared before the move - unleash themselves from her confinement and reveal their presence with very little provocation. With the transfer, her worst nightmares come true. Allison La Crosse, beginning a challenging family medicine residency, leaves the protection of her family. ![]() |