![]() ![]() Overall, a wonderful episode and adaptation. Jeremy Brett is a perfect Holmes with a gritty baritone and commanding presence and Edward Hardwicke is more than an ideal contrast as a thoughtful and composed Watson. Coupled with one of the most haunting music scores of the series(gives The Red Circle a run for its money), fine sophisticated writing, good pacing, great direction and a classic story told in such an adept way you have a superb episode. The sets and costumes are meticulous, the photography is skillful and the atmosphere is resolutely creepy and mysterious. As always, the production values are superb. ![]() It is relatively faithful to the source material, and while the story is still a fine read, this adaptation in some ways improves on it. In fact, it is a contender for my favourite episode of the series, that is how good it is. I love the Granada Sherlock Holmes adaptations, and this adaptation of The Devil's Foot epitomises why. ![]()
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![]() I just want everybody to know I never intended to harm the elementary school. Now because I don’t want to prejudice nobody, I won’t blame the teachers for poisoning my mind. They let the elementary school become an unlivable place. The teachers were orchestrating this bad business from the background. That was before he became disillusioned.Īnyways I’m going to lay it all out now and I will take responsibility for my actions but the teachers did us dirty, no doubt about it. My Father had tried in his own way to teach me these things but I was much younger then and I didn’t care to hear what he was trying to tell me. They taught me and the rest of the 6th grade some things they shouldn’t have. What changed me, I know, was the teachers. ![]() I want the world to know that things were much different once there was a time when I was a regular kid. ![]() More importantly, I trusted my friends and they trusted me. Before I became consumed with this business of saving democracy I was like any average 12 year old boy. ![]() ![]() That was followed by The Baileys of Balboa (1964). Her first regular role was in the sitcom Fair Exchange (1963) as an English teenager who goes to the US to live with an American couple whose daughter (played by Lynn Loring) has gone to live in England. She made her first British television appearances on the series Danger Man (1961) and episodes of The Rag Trade (also 1961), a BBC sitcom. The second part of Judy's stage name was taken from a character named Sarat Carn in the play Bonaventure by English playwright Charlotte Hastings. ![]() She received training at the Pitt-Draffen Academy of Dance before being accepted into the prestigious Bush-Davis Theatrical School for Girls in East Grinstead, West Sussex.Īn instructor at the school began calling her "Judy," telling her that Joyce was not a good professional name. ![]() Her parents, Harold and Kathy, were greengrocers in Kingsthorpe. ![]() Joyce Audrey Botterill (27 April 1939 – 3 September 2015), known professionally as Judy Carne, was an English actress best remembered for the phrase "Sock it to me!" on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.Ĭarne was born in Northampton, England. ![]() L-R: Dan Rowan, Judy Carne, and Dick Martin on pilot for Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967) ![]() ![]() ![]() There are quite a few dangling storylines wrapped up, and just as many new ideas put into play for future novels. I’ve also just finished up Bloodline this weekend! While I won’t be summarizing it until the next release is announced, I’m really excited to hear what you all think of it. Alternatively, just scroll down a little ways – all the summaries are linked below as well. Here is a a link to the permanent Cradle summaries directory. The quick summaries are all polished up and ready for you, however! ![]() I will apologize in advance – I started to get a tad bit burnt out by the end, so there may be a few typos or abbreviations in the last three detailed summaries. You can choose between either the shorter, more concise recaps I’ve written, or jump into a much more in depth description of what occurred. ![]() You can pick your poison – do you want a lengthy, detailed summary with a full play by play of events? Or would you prefer just a handful of paragraphs, a nice quick summary? Whatever your heart desires, I’ve got you covered. To that end, I’ve written summaries of each of the Cradle novels to date! Just a couple weeks ago, Will Wight released the latest book in the Cradle series, Bloodline! Given that the Cradle series is growing longer and longer, I thought I might help the good folks out who don’t want to reread all the books every single time a new one drops. ![]() ![]() ![]() The sentences are often broken down into small samples, especially in the shorter vignettes, forcing the reader to take pauses. There are no quotation marks to be found anywhere in this book, which gives it more of an essay feel, though it’s not as formal. Cisneros’s way of structuring her text seems very experimental, even to modern eyes. ![]() specific moments in time), their lengths varying from one or two paragraphs to several pages. ![]() The House on Mango Street is structured into a forty-four vignettes (i.e. Her expert manipulation of tone, structure and literary devices helps the reader to empathize with Esperanza and ‘slip into her shoes’, so to speak. The heavy-handed plot is supplemented by Cisneros’s brilliant writing style. Cisneros reaches deep into her own childhood and weaves a beautiful piece of fiction that deals with themes of caste, race, identity, gender, patriarchy. It follows the life of a 12-year-old Chicana girl, Esperanza Cordero, as she deals with the harsh realities of adolescence and life within the fences of an old-fashioned community. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros is a coming-of-age story. ![]() ![]() Watch "Mike Tyson: The Knockout" starting at 8 p.m. The show culminates with previously unaired footage from an interview conducted by ABC News' Byron Pitts to whom Tyson, now age 54, poignantly reflects on the man he is today. He was suspended from the sport but has since made amends, opening his heart to Holyfield on Oprah more than a decade later. "Mike Tyson: The Knockout" showcases how he transformed from a rough kid from Brownsville, Brooklyn, into a sports icon.īut his own problems led to his downfall in and out of the ring, followed by the now-infamous fight when he bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear. It also includes exclusive ABC News archival material and previously unaired interview footage with Tyson. The two-part documentary features new interviews with actor and boxing enthusiast Rosie Perez, former President of HBO Sports Ross Greenburg, ESPN's Jeremy Schaap, those in Tyson's inner circle and more. ![]() ![]() The new four-hour series, "Mike Tyson: The Knockout," peels back the many layers of the controversial former heavyweight champion, from his troubled beginnings to becoming the undisputed world champion to his 1992 rape conviction and his personal struggles. NEW YORK - A new ABC News docuseries premiering Tuesday is taking a look inside the climb, crash and comeback of boxing legend Mike Tyson. A new ABC News docuseries premiering Tuesday is taking a look inside the climb, crash and comeback of boxing legend Mike Tyson. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We follow a trio of officers aboard the U.S.S. While there are some significant departures or at least omissions from the novel, the movie is still superb. The plot for the film is based on Herman Wouk’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel ( feel free to read my reflections on the novel here). The truths of this film lie not in its incidents but in the way a few men meet the crisis of their lives.” “There has never been a mutiny in a ship of the United States Navy. The film reminds begins with great labors to remind us it is a fictional tale: The Caine Mutiny is perhaps Dmytryk’s most widely respected film. The Caine Mutiny was independently produced by Stanley Kramer and directed by Edward Dmytryk (one of the blacklisted “Hollywood Ten” for refusing to testify before Senator McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee). Often considered his last great performance (Bogart died a mere three years later), The Caine Mutiny represented the third and final nomination he received for Best Actor, though he ultimately lost to Marlon Brando for On The Waterfront. Caine, a World War II naval minesweeper dispatched to the Pacific theater during the war. Humphrey Bogart steals the show in one of his finest performances as the maddeningly petty and paranoid Captain Queeg of the U.S.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Much has been made of Charles’s childhood year at Warren’s factory, labeling pots of blacking, but I think Dickens would appreciate Tomalin’s handling of it. Alas, he eventually found himself at leisure in the Marshalsea debtor’s prison. Working as a clerk in the Royal Navy Pay Office, John Dickens had aspirations to be a gentleman of leisure. John’s office – and then inquire in a thick-tongued speech if he might, just perhaps, have a glass of gin punch?Īs Tomalin tells it, his taste for the good life and the thickness in his speech he inherited from his father, the Micawberesque John Dickens. Running his hands through his long hair and turning his soulful eyes on the nearest lady, he will launch into an apology for his tardiness – he has walked the full fifteen miles from St. ![]() He will arrive in a gust of energy and attention, clicking his patent toed boots against the stone steps. What’s more, I have no doubt, the whole crowd will be waiting for Charles Dickens. Someday, hopefully in the far distant future, Claire Tomalin will be there too, sampling the dates and sipping Chianti with Pepys and Austen. ![]() I picture it much like a Pompeiian garden – a statue-strewn lawn where David McCullough and Doris Kearns Goodwin can lounge around in togas and quiz John Adams on his medical history. In my own, admittedly, rather odd version of heaven, God reserves a special place for biographers. Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin ![]() ![]() The former and latter are both methods of building up the Uglies' anticipation for the Pretty operations they will undergo upon turning 16. Uglies are encouraged to call each other nicknames based on their personal imperfections (e.g.: Fatty, Skinny, Squint, or Zits), as well as to use software to generate preferences for their facial features. Uglies are then moved out of the suburbs and live in monitored dorms in Uglyville, where they attend middle and high school. When children turn 12 years old they are considered "Ugly", because of the burgeoning physical developments experienced by all preteens and teens. They become uglies during their preteen years. They live with their parents in the suburbs surrounding New Pretty Town, and they will attend elementary school until they turn twelve. Scott Westerfeld Social age groups Littlies Home Pretties (The Uglies) Wikipedia: Social age groups ![]() |