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It's a Wonderful Life

Titel: It's a Wonderful Life / Livet är underbart
Genre: Drama
Land: USA
År: 1946
Regi: Frank Capra
I rollerna: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Travers

Handling: George Bailey har alltid försökt göra det rätta men tror nu han att han misslyckats och försöker därför ta sitt liv. Gud skickar då en ängel till Jorden för att övertyga Bailey om att han trots allt har mycket att leva för.

Omdöme: Vad kan man säga ? När man ser en sån här film är det nästan så tårarna kommer fram. Man är lycklig, sorgsen för att bli lycklig igen. Jag känner verkligen det huvudpersonen i filmen känner, precis som regissören Frank Capra säkert ville att man skulle göra. När man ser en sån här film, förstår man att det finns vissa filmer som kallas och förtjänar att kallas för klassiker.



James Stewart i antagligen sitt livs roll, iaf det klart bästa jag sett honom prestera (han är alltid bra), spelar här George Bailey som man får följa från barnsben till vuxenliv. Han är en trevlig, snäll och hjälpsam man, utan att på något sätt vara överdrivet "Hollywood god". Han träffar en underbar kvinna (även hon utmärkt spelad av den vackra Donna Reed) och känner nog med en gång att hon är rätt. Men samtidigt går det dåligt för hans fars verksamhet och omständigheterna gör att han måste göra ett svårt val - gå på college eller rädda verksamheten.



Filmen växlar på ett mästerligt sätt mellan romantiskt drama och sorgligt drama, där James Stewart är så bra att man nästan gråter med honom och hans känslor. Varje gång han kramar sin kvinna får man rysningar, varje gång han är sorgsen känner man samma känslor. Det är inte många filmer som lyckas med det, men den här gör det. Och där emellan skrattar man åt flera roliga saker som inträffar.



Samtidigt är det någon som ser allt, hela hans liv. Detta görs också på ett strålande sätt när man använder sig av berättarröster samtidigt som man får följa George Bailey. Gillar speciellt en scen när bilden fryser när man för första gången får se den vuxna George Bailey och en berättarröst presenterar oss för honom. Definitivt en av de största klassikerna och en riktig julfilm.



5 - Skådespelare
5 - Handling
5 - Känsla
3 - Musik
4 - Foto
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22 - Totalt

Betyg:
IMDb: 8.7

Twin Day

It's not really. But if it were, I'd talk about how I've recently discovered the fact that Heath Ledger and Jordan Gordon-Levitt look a heck of a lot alike.

Hey, now that I'm on the subject...guess what? :3 Heath Ledger and Jordan Gordon-Levitt look a heck of a lot alike.

POP QUIZ!

Who's this?

How about this?
Yeah. See what I mean?

It's ridiculous.
Maybe they're related.
Except they're not.

So, the obvious question is...how can you tell them apart?? It's actually pretty easy: pick the one you think is more attractive.

That one's Heath Ledger.

~Stephanie

Kaylan Morgan

Vincent Price | Film+Television+Radio | Art in the Blood

"Someone called actors 'sculptors in snow'. Very apt. In the end, it's all nothing." - Vincent Price


What a voice! Never mind that tall wide frame and that diabolic brow, what a voice! Vinegary and pointed, loaded with promise, it's the sound of the Snake in Eden.

Earlier this week, Phil Brown wrote of Price's magnificent readings of Poe. I offer this piece as an addendum, a glimpse of the other Vincent, before Corman and before Tim Burton. My Price is the Price of the '40s and the '50s, the smooth operator so often on the verge of hysteria. Look at his vapid gigolo in Laura (1944), clinging onto Judith Anderson after Dana Andrews has gut-punched him. Or his Shakespearean ham in His Kind of Woman (1951), baffling Bob Mitchum by complaining, "Alas! Why must I be plagued by yammering magpies on the eve of battle?" And was there ever an actor more suited to playing Cardinal Richelieu (1948), sneering haughtily at Gene Kelly's D'Artagnan?

Physically, Price called the opening of The Maltese Falcon to mind: "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting V under the more flexible V of his mouth. His nostrils curled back to make another smaller V. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The V motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down - from high flat temples - in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan."

Temperamentally, however, Price was more the heir to George Sanders than to Bogie. Both were cultured and sardonic, and both had played Leslie Charteris' gentlemen adventurer The Saint, Sanders onscreen for RKO, Price for NBC Radio. Price's broadcasts as Simon Templar are breezy and fun, and he handles tough-guy dialogue with just the right sense of self-mockery. And even in these pulpy programmers, we get a glimpse of the man within - each episode ends with a small message from Price the actor, often addressing social concerns of the day. Bob Glickstein draws attention to the coda to Author of Murder in which Price speaks out against the "venom of racial and religious hatred" in '50s America.

While onscreen Price often played vulgarians (see 1950's Champagne for Caesar, in which he menaces the eminently civilised Ronald Colman), offscreen he was that rarest of things, an intellectual film star. Like Edward G. Robinson, he was a great art collector and was passionate about the humanities. In 1951, he donated 90 pieces from his collection, setting up the first 'teaching art collection' in an American community college.

I'll close with two favourite moments of Price ephemera. The first is an unsuccessful pilot entitled Collector's Item (1958), that teamed him with Peter Lorre as crime-fighting antique dealers. Yes, long before Lovejoy, Price and Lorre were risking life and limb in the pursuit of objets d'art. It's a crime that the studio nixed further episodes. Thankfully, the pilot lives on via Youtube!



Lastly, a scene that makes use not just of Price's voice, but of his singing voice. His Professor Rattigan is vain, devious and terrifying. And, despite all that other great work, it's his contribution to Basil the Great Mouse Detective (1986) that most strongly rebuffs the rather despondent claim that "In the end, it's all nothing." As with George Sanders and Shere Khan, as long as children watch Disney films, that voice will survive in memory. And perhaps they'll seek out further works by Vincent Price. That's something.

Betti O. -- She was Not Misbehavin' at the C.L. Hoover Opera House, (and I Ain't Kiddin')

 

The singing, the humor,

 the set, the lights,

 the perfect musicians, the cohesive consistency-

-Betti O.'s debut in directing/choreographing shows off real talent and provided a great Friday Night Date Night in Junction City's Hoover Opera House.

I'm exhausted-- my toe was tappin and my head was popping, nonstop--i'm sure i lost weight--so here's a couple quick impressions,
gotta hit the hay,

more tomorrow.
BTW, the clever opening- the musicians sat as in a perfect postcard, then- well, i won't tell you -- but pay attention! who thought of that? wonderful.

alan drew was amazing.

Tracy Birdsong, Justin Black, Stacy Brown, Janice R Dowell, and Alan Drew were alternately Beautiful, hilarious, lovely, and nuaced. I was going to say how funny Janice Dowell was until i thought back and realized how each performer had Completely Pleased the audience in both singing, humor, and supportive actions, and each brought the house to to loud appreciation.

lead-up story HERE: Fort Riley News story

absolutely inimitable Betti O.

The House said no video or flash photography, so i only used a nonflash quiet camera; Man i wish i could have taken some time and caught the beauty of these actors. The set was truly gorgeous. The musicians were absolutely top notch.

 It was Clever -- which means

smart actors and wonderful direction. O, Betti.

My only complaints: wishing i could have heard the voices louder in the back of the theater; wishing betti o had a cameo walk on, wishing i could have taken some good pics because each cast member was alluring and beautiful.

click on pic to enlarge

Lady Gaga for Hapers Bazaar ( styling )

Terry Richardson has recently photographed singer and star celebrity Lady Gaga for the United states May issue of Hapers Bazaar. Not only is Lady Gaga on the cover, this issue features an in-depth interview with Gaga inside.

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Colar necklace ( customizing )

• Old shirt Chains
• Pliers
• Unpicker
• Needle and thread

http://www.monoxious.com/diy-post-collared-chain-necklace-diy-tutorials/

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Fuels ( styling )

Fashion meets muscles in the May 2011 issue of Vogue Germany with the editorial Kraft-Stoffe (Fuels) by Alexi Lubomirski featuring Julia Stegner.


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http://homotography.blogspot.com/2011/04/fuels-by-alexi-lubomirski.html

The photos on this blog are sourced in various sites from the internet (apart from the ones taken by me). Original source is always mentioned. If you feel your photorights have been violated or they have been presented in a negative way, please send me mail. I´ll remove them from my blog immediately.

Thank you