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“He could have whupped any fighter in the world, except me. He is great - greater than I thought. He is one hell of a fighter and it was one hell of a fight.”
- Muhammed Ali
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“It’s real hatred. I want to hurt him. I don’t want to knock him out. I want to take his heart out.”
- Joe Frazier (on Ali)
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Glammie Kittens who stay connected to Kitten Lounge know that we spent a lot of time with Romona Keveza seeing her couture collection and Legends collection at the St Regis Hotel yesterday! She is a phenomenal designer in bridal as well as having stunning looks that consistently hit the red carpet! It’s hard to choose faves as I look for items that have the best look for the site or for a client, etc but in terms of my personal style, the video above included my fave piece from the Legends collection! You can see much more video and commentary from Romona herself on Kitten Lounge! You’ll also see footage that was taken outside of the Dior Suite within the library where I sat behind the Kleinfeld team (as seen on Say Yes to the Dress) with none other than Randi Fenoli sitting in front of me.
est. in 2009, f(x) is a girl group originally composed of 5 members; victoria, the leader, amber, the rapper, luna, the vocalist, sulli, the visual, and krystal, the maknae. they debuted with their single ‘la cha ta’ on september 5th, 2009. they gained their first music show win with their song ‘pinocchio (danger)’, april 29th, 2011, which boosted them even higher up in the scene. they’ve made hits such as ‘electric shock’, which is their most viewed video with 107+ mil. views, and ‘chu~!’ which also boosted their popularity. they made their big world opening with the release of their second album ‘pink tape’ in 2013, which got them worldwide recognition with their use of aesthetics both visually and musically. they were the only korean artist on fuse’s ‘41 best albums of 2013′, and the first k-pop group to ever perform at ‘sxsw’ in austin, texas. they came back a year later in july with their album ‘red light’ which gave off a darker aesthetic, and brought them the same amount of success. in august, sulli left the group to focus on acting, which resulted in the group continuing as a quartet. in october of the following year, 2015, they came back with an electric album ‘4 walls’ and showed that no matter how many members they have, they will never give up and will continue to strive. they gained a lot of success, with 66k+ copies sold their first week alone. in early 2016 the group also debuted their fandom name ‘MeU’ and their first ever tour, dimension 4 - docking station. with their company trying out a new project called ‘sm station’, f(x) was able to participate, releasing a song and music video entitled ‘all mine’ which was directed and edited by their very own amber. f(x) continued to impress with dropping their second japanese single in november of 2016, titled ‘cowboy’ with a country vibe that had even the most anti-country fans lacing up their cowboy boots. the girls have since been focusing on solo activities, luna with her solo debut and musical, krystal with her mini solo debut and drama series, victoria with her acting in china and upcoming debut, and amber with her vlogging series and modeling gigs along with starring in her first ever american film. although they are focusing on their solos, f(x) has stated their comeback is in the works, along with luna’s comeback sometime between late 2017 and the rest of 2018. please stan these amazing girls, and welcome to the fandom!
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“There is not a film performance this year more technically virtuosic than Alfre Woodard’s awe-inspiring central turn as Bernadine, a hardened prison warden who has long repressed the psychic toll of executing over a dozen inmates throughout her career, in Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency. Using little more than her body, the most expressive and effective weapon in her arsenal, Woodard draws a haunting portrait of a woman quietly reevaluating the sum total of her life’s work, weighing her professional standing with the deep-seated guilt that pours out like a burst dam during the film’s climax, which plays out entirely on Woodard’s tormented face. In an earlier shot, following a heated argument with the lawyer (Richard Schiff) of the latest prisoner (the remarkable Aldis Hodge) that Bernadine is scheduled to put to death, Woodard does nothing but constrict her throat and gulp with alarming severity. It’s a small, perfectly suppressed movement that exposes a fissure in this supposedly ironclad figure, a single trace of the abysmal vulnerability that Bernadine herself declines to acknowledge. If acting awards were actually handed out on merit alone, the Oscar would already be in Woodard’s hands.” — Matthew Eng
Memorable Moments from Great Performances of 2019
(Source:TribecaFilm.com)
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“Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.”
The exceptional Jeanne Moreau, a film star who enlivened each of her roles with an intense and magnetic physicality, was born on this day in 1928.
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“When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first—it’s easy to find when you’re looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don’t care who you are! I know we’re all pieces of the same thing—I go for that common light because I know it’s in all of us.”
Happy 74th birthday to the astonishing Dolly Parton!
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…a film never allows us to admire a translation of the world, but to admire, through this translation, the world itself.
I may have misunderstood this remark made by the film director Eric Rohmer (you know how it is with French intellectuals), but I don’t see why it can’t apply to a novel or short story. These stories I’ve been posting extracts from are written in a sort of magic realist style, loosely speaking. (I know that academics use the term with a more restrictive meaning.) What I tried to do was convey some of the sense of living in a remote part of the West Highlands of Scotland. It’s a bit weird out here and feels as if, for example, you might meet a selkie while walking by the sea. I could try to convey that sense by writing about somebody moving here from the city and having that feeling. (“Gavin walked by the sea and it seemed to him that this was just the place to meet a being from one of the old folk tales. He could understand how this landscape gave rise to such tales.”) You, the reader, would then be twice removed from the selkie: the story is not your experience, and the protagonist doesn’t experience the encounter, he just thinks about it. Whereas, if I write that a character does meet the selkie, you are only a single step away, just as a person walking on the shore and feeling they might meet her is, so your experience is closer to theirs. (I should probably draw a diagram, but I’m not sure what it would look like.)
I consider this to be ‘magic realism’ because that character is a contemporary person and the magic is an ordinary part of the world, not something that belongs to a separate realm, as it would in a pure fantasy.
That’s my theory, anyway. If I ever manage to finish the book, you might be able to see it in practice.
Tales of Terror - “Chambers of Horror” (1984).
“How do you sleep at night?”
“I don’t. I’m a vampire.”
inanimate giants -::- @earthtowildrose
