![]() Within minutes, playgoers bemused by the banter in this de facto wayside shelter find themselves plummeted into a dramatic realm taking them on a literal deep dive into Stygian myth, as our troubled pilgrim is transported on a hallucinatory journey to the hallowed City of Bones beneath the Atlantic Ocean's Middle Passage, where dwell the abandoned dead of the slave ships. Yes, you read that correctly-an exorcism, replete with charms, amulets and prayers to ancient deities. Visitors to the residence belonging to the pastoral "Aunt" Ester Tyler, however, are advised at the door that "this is a peaceful house" so that when a distraught young man weighed down by a guilty conscience arrives seeking absolution, its mistress immediately sets about preparations for an exorcism. The theater playbill for Gem of the Ocean informs us that our setting is the industrial outskirts of Pittsburgh in 1904, where street talk hints at labor tensions in the nearby steel mills, recently rendered volatile by the suicide of a factory worker accused of stealing a bucket of nails. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Against a backdrop of incestuous love, a disturbing tale plunges us into the heart of a field of tall grass with disturbing powers. “ Who knew that grass could be scary? Ask Stephen King and Joe Hill, they'll find a way,” the director said in 2015 when he announced his adaptation project. A disturbing game of hide-and-seek with Vincenzo Natali's In the High Grass (2019) ![]() The novel of the same name, published in 1992, had long been considered impossible to adapt to cinema, given the large part of the story devoted to the inner questioning of the main protagonist.ģ. then, dehydrated and exhausted, she talks to her hallucinations, forced to dig up terrible memories that have been buried for years. Their hungry dog ends up eating her dead husband's arm. Jessie spends a few minutes screaming, but soon realises that indeed no one can hear her. He assures her that no one will hear them. He then ties Jessie to the bed with handcuffs, and tells her about his sordid fantasy: he wants her to scream and pretend he's raping her. Jessie and Gerald have been married a long time. So it's only natural that they want to spice up their sex life: once they've settled in for the weekend at their holiday home - nestled on the edge of an Alabama lake - Gerald takes two Viagra pills. A fatal overdose of Viagra in Mike Flanagan's Gerald's Game (2017) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Samantha Nelson gave the three-episode premiere of The Wheel of Time a 9/10: "The Wheel of Time is gorgeous, well acted, and strongly written, a show that understands the characters and plot of Robert Jordan’s books without being slavishly loyal to the source material. What We Said About The Wheel of Time's First 3 Episodes The chemistry growing between her and Lan is charming and she provides a good audience stand-in for an explainer on the deep bond between Aes Sedai and their warrior guardian Warders. They’ve captured her ferocious stubbornness and mistrust of the Aes Sedai without making her utterly infuriating. ![]() The writers of the Amazon adaptation are doing much better in this respect, particularly with Nynaeve. Robert Jordan filled his books with powerful women, but he wasn’t particularly good at writing them with complexity - most tended to be domineering and shrewish, which made it hard to like even the women you were supposed to be rooting for. It’s an uneven episode, with the plot surrounding the Aes Sedai largely eclipsing the segments where Mat and Rand continue to be dogged by agents of the Dark One while Egwene and Perrin hang out with the pacifist Tinkers. ![]() The Wheel of Time focused on worldbuilding in “The Dragon Reborn,” explaining significantly more about how channeling works with some ominous implications for the protagonists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ashley and by convince dent she is there. When he reached the police station he ask for Mrs. Philip goes to the police station to ask of they know where they are. He asks the servant if he knows where Mr. But in the house is nobody, only a servant. He wanted to kill Rachel now, he is rely angry about her. Finally he reached Florence and he goes to the house Ambrose lived in to meet Rachel. As fast as he can he packed his bags and go to his cousin. He writes that he was thinking that Rachel is poisoning him, he bags Philip to go to Florence to help him. In the beginning Ambrose writes good thins about his wife but after a few weeks his letters were chancing. At first Philip was rely happy for both, but after a while he was getting jealous because she has Ambrose and he has nobody. One day Philip gets a letter from Ambrose, in that letter he writes that he and Rachel are married. ![]() Ambrose writes lots of letters to Philip. She is related to the Ashley family and is pore. After a while Ambrose decided to go to Italy because he wants to see the gardens of London and Florence, Cornwall. Ambrose didn’t want a woman in the house. ![]() There where no female servants in the house. The house, the land and all around it belonged to the Ashley family for many years. He lived in an old house in the west of England. His cousin Ambrose, who was twenty years older, became his guardian. ![]() ![]() ![]() That was how Raoul put it, chuckling as he said it, because neither of us truly wanted to do either of those things, but doing both of those things would be a riot. “What if we totally went to The Songbird’s Poison, got hammered, and then went to the mystery dinner theater and tried to solve it?” ![]() Then we laughed about it, and we all said yes. ![]() Raoul offered The Songbird’s Poison, and we all said no. Asa offered The Crater, and we all said no. We tried to figure out where to get a drink. We were general practitioners of the metropolitan class, and so having a night free meant we had to hang out downtown, but without going to any of the typical venues. Paint the town that’s what we had in mind. It was Asa, Jude, myself, and our friend Raoul, who was a total hipster. We didn’t want to go to the mystery dinner theater, but we kind of always wanted to, and so none of us knew which of the others would be the one to offer it as an option. ![]() ![]() Hugh Lofting's doctor from Puddleby-on-the-Marsh who could speak to animals first saw light in the author's illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. "It does not bother me any more now, but I still feel there should be a category of 'seniles' to offset the epithet." "For years it was a constant source of shock to me to find my writings amongst 'juveniles,'" Lofting reported. Lofting was married three times and had three children, one of whom, his son Christopher, is the executor of his literary estate. ![]() Seriously wounded in the war, he moved with his family to Connecticut in the United States. ![]() Not wishing to write to his children of the brutality of the war, he wrote imaginative letters that were the foundation of the successful Doctor Dolittle novels for children. He traveled widely as a civil engineer before enlisting in the Irish Guards to serve in World War I. His early education was at Mount St Mary's College in Sheffield, after which he went to the United States, completing a degree in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lofting was born in Maidenhead, England, to English and Irish parents. ![]() Hugh Lofting was a British author, trained as a civil engineer, who created the character of Doctor Dolittle - one of the classics of children's literature. ![]() ![]() ![]() Challenger ushers him back inside and, extracting promises of confidentiality, eventually reveals he has discovered living dinosaurs in South America, following up an expedition by a now-deceased previous American explorer named Maple White. Malone earns his respect by refusing to press charges with a policeman who saw his violent ejection into the street. ![]() ![]() Seeing through the masquerade, then confirming Malone’s scientific knowledge is non-existent, Challenger erupts in anger and forcibly throws him out. On meeting the professor he is startled by his intimidating physique, but believes his ruse is succeeding. As a direct approach would be instantly rebuffed, Malone instead masquerades as an earnest student. The subject is to be his recent South American expedition which, surrounded by controversy, guarantees a hostile reaction. His task is to approach the notorious Professor Challenger, who dislikes the popular press intensely and physically assaults intrusive journalists. Edward Malone, a young reporter for the Daily Gazette, asks his editor for a dangerous assignment to impress the woman he loves, Gladys, who wishes for a great man capable of brave deeds and actions. ![]() ![]() Publishes his seventh anthology of drawings The Groaning Board with Simon & Schuster, Inc. ![]() The Addams Family television series premiers on ABC Publishes his sixth anthology of drawings Black Maria with Simon & Schuster, Inc.ĭonates 39 finished and preliminary drawings to the Museum of the City of New Yorkĭonates 33 preliminary drawings to the Museum of the City of New Yorkĭrawn and Quartered is re-released by Simon & Schuster, Inc. Publishes his compilation book Dear Dead Days with G.P. Publishes his fifth anthology of drawings Nightcrawlers with Simon & Schuster, Inc. Publishes his fourth anthology of drawings Homebodies with Simon & Schuster, Inc. Publishes his third anthology of drawings Monster Rally with Simon & Schuster, Inc. ![]() Illustrates Afternoon in the Attic by John Kobler for Dodd, Mead & Company Publishes his second anthology of drawings Addams and Evil with Random House, Inc. Publishes his first anthology of drawings Drawn and Quartered with Random House, Inc. Illustrates But Who Wakes the Bugler? by Peter DeVries for Houghton Mifflin Company ![]() Sells his first drawing to The New Yorker magazine Sells his first spot sketch to The New Yorker magazine ![]() Graduates from Westfield Senior High SchoolĪttends Colgate University, Hamilton, New YorkĪttends University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaĪttends Grand Central School of Art, New York City Spear and Charles Huey Addams in Westfield, NJ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Captain Blood was adapted for the screen in 1935. Of course he escapes, and becomes a savvy pirate! While Captain Blood is fictional, he was inspired by the real-life John Coad, who was involved in and convicted for the Monmouth revolution, transported, and eventually found his way home (I read about him in Condemned by Graham Seal). The sentence however, is not hanging but transportation and Peter finds himself a slave in the West Indies. Peter ends up connected with the Monmouth Rebellion when he attends to some wounded, and is sentenced by the famous Judge Jeffreys of the Bloody Assizes. Many of his books became bestsellers.Ĭaptain Blood, first published in 1922 (which makes it 100 this year), tells the story of fictional Irish physician Peter Blood, who has a career as a soldier and sailor. ![]() Quite prolific, he wrote 34 novels, short-story collections, non fiction, as well as several uncollected short stories. Born in Italy in 1875, Sabatini was the writer of swashbuckling and seafaring historical fiction. The book is Captain Blood, the first in a trilogy of the same name by Rafael Sabatini. Today’s pick is a classic which has been on my ebook pile for a fairly long time, well over 5 years I think. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She examines the moral and social problems of capitalism, entrepreneurship, and whether wealth trickles down to benefit the place it is made. This beautifully illustrated volume combines the full novel and Todd's ground-breaking essay, where she contextualizes Austen's life and work, Sanditon's connection with Northanger Abbey (1818) and the Austen family's speculation in England and the West Indies. A comedy, it continues the strain of burlesque and caricature she wrote as a teenager and in private throughout her life. ![]() Sanditon is Jane Austen's last novel, left unfinished when she died. "I so enjoyed Janet Todd's beautifully produced book." Andrew Davies, screenwriter. About the Book In her groundbreaking essay, Todd contextualizes Austen's life and work, Sanditon's connection with Northanger Abbey (1818) and Emma (1816), Austen's insecurity of income and home, and the Austen family's financial speculations.īook Synopsis Coming to PBS Masterpiece Classic soon! Gorgeous, profound, delightful, useful, original, this fully illustrated, informative volume combines Jane Austen's Sanditon novel and Janet Todd's ground-breaking essay. ![]() |