![]() SHE was the British teen actress who became an overnight sensation.Īfter finding fame in the hit film Wish You Were Here - with her cheekyĬatchphrase "Up yer bum!" - Emily Lloyd was wooed by Brad PittĪnd cast in big-budget movies by Woody Allen and Robert Redford.īut since 1992 Emily has been fighting depression and anxiety. now the 'Up yer bum' girl is ready to fight her way back. APA style: I WISH I WASN'T CURSED: SECRET HELL OF FILM STARLET EMILY LLOYD She was famous at 15 but her glittering Hollywood career sank into a sea of depression. ![]() now the 'Up yer bum' girl is ready to fight her way back." Retrieved from I WISH I WASN'T CURSED: SECRET HELL OF FILM STARLET EMILY LLOYD She was famous at 15 but her glittering Hollywood career sank into a sea of depression. now the 'Up yer bum' girl is ready to fight her way back." The Free Library. ![]() ![]() MLA style: "I WISH I WASN'T CURSED: SECRET HELL OF FILM STARLET EMILY LLOYD She was famous at 15 but her glittering Hollywood career sank into a sea of depression. ![]()
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![]() The resulting book, “Let the Record Show,” is a masterpiece tome: part sociology, part oral history, part memoir, part call to arms.Īt its height, the still-extant group’s meetings drew 800, and its largest direct action, “Stop the Church” at St. Among them was the author Sarah Schulman, whose new history of ACT UP - the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power - is based not only on her own involvement in the movement but on 17 years of interviews she and her collaborator, the filmmaker Jim Hubbard, conducted with 188 members of the group. Nearly every Monday night from 1987 to 1992, hundreds of people met on West 13th Street in New York City to plan and execute the fight of their lives. LET THE RECORD SHOW A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 By Sarah Schulman ![]() ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, playing the backup boyfriend is starting to feel way too real…ĬONTENT WARNING: This book contains Man-on-Man action, adult situations, and language. ![]() Alec can’t afford to get attached, and Dylan’s learned everyone eventually leaves. ![]() But watching Alec flounder in his ex's company throws Dylan into protector mode, and the confirmed hetero introduces himself as Alec's new boyfriend.Īnd Dylan’s not sure he can fake being gay.īut he’s a master bullshitter, and the phony PDA soon turns ultra-hot. Having spent his teen years on the streets, and losing his best friend to HIV, Dylan decides teaching the do-gooder how to ride is the least he can do. Clueless and his fickle 1964 Harley, but the cocky mechanic can’t say no to the request for help. In an attempt to lift his mood and break out of his rut, Alec purchases a motorcycle he has no idea how to start.ĭylan Booth doesn't have time for Dr. Unfortunately, his personal life sucks because now he has to attend several events alongside Tyler-with his ex’s new boyfriend in tow. Tyler Hall, Alec’s work with the homeless is about to be recognized. As this year’s recipient of a humanitarian award with his ex, Dr. Alec Johnson has almost reached his goals. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry James said: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known." In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize, and its youngest recipient to date. ![]() Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story his children's books are classics of children's literature and one critic described his work as exhibiting "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". His poems include Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), The Gods of the Copybook Headings (1919), The White Man's Burden (1899), and If- (1910). Kipling's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888). Joseph Rudyard Kipling was a journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. ![]() ![]() For those who grew up on fairy tales, we know where the story is heading he is the Pied Piper the children follow. This is made complicated still when he is asked to take back with him two children – circumstance preventing the parents to accompany their children themselves. When the political situation suddenly turns, he is forced to make the arduous journey back home to England. Too old to participate in the oncoming WWII, and with no familiar duties at home, he goes off to France for a fishing holiday. The gentlemanly character who lives by the old code is once again the protagonist. This is my fourth title by Shute, and he did not disappoint. Yet, this is the book that made me want to limit Netflix and start reading and writing again. The pandemic induced ‘reset’ has worn off I have decluttered, re-prioritized, and found new intent – but now the very same restrictive conditions which helped with the mental shift, seem like a holding cell. I have mentioned before that this year has felt a bit lacklustre in terms of reading, writing, and well…life in general. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winsor signed copies of Forever Amber from Boston to Atlanta donning chic attire, and glamorous shots of the author accompanied her book’s promotional materials. The novel was published by Macmillan in 1944, and her publishers sent Winsor on a 10-day promotion tour that was “almost unprecedented for a first-book author,” according to LIFE magazine. Once she began writing, she tracked her time, logging almost 5,000 hours to write five drafts. She claimed to have read 356 books on the Restoration Period before working on Forever Amber. ![]() When she was 19 years old, she married her college sweetheart Robert Herwig, and his senior thesis on Charles II put Winsor in the vicinity of literature on the king and his tumultuous period that included the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. ![]() Winsor had never written a novel before setting out to pen a sprawling story of Restoration London. Kathleen Winsor, the author of the first bodice-ripper, Forever Amber, became a fast celebrity, and her book’s sales climbed even higher after states began banning it. It came in the form of a steamy historical novel north of 900 pages and packed with promiscuity. In the midst of the second World War, American housewives - and likely their husbands - found a titillating distraction from the distressing news of combat overseas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() After all, the earth is bathed in 5000 times the energy humans need. I wonder about the unmanageability of all that energy we'd collect if we lived in a big, hulking Dyson sphere. ![]() I wonder, for example, why humans would ever need millions of more times the real estate of planet earth. ![]() Thinking big is fun, but thinking little is often more prosperous. If a ringworld is possible, then what else? Can we move stars around? Can we create Cinderella planets? Consider the ringworld's theoretical upgrade, the Dyson sphere, a complete sphere around a star rather than a mere ring, a solution meant to make use of all the energy emitted by a star and a structure that would require planet harvesting on an order magnitudes more involved than building a ringworld. Ringworlding is engineering on a galactic scale. The boldness of the ringworld is that it unlocks so many possibilities. But then I started to wonder about a land with nearly nothing where everything reflects a brutal sameness. Big and cool, the ringworld is an image of the sublime, but it reflects the fantasies of a relatively newly minted colonial power: America. The idea of harvesting space flotsam and jetsam, the material from planets, moons, and asteroids of multiple star systems, to make a ring one AU out from the center of a solar system is insane in scope, fascinating, and bold as hell. In the first blush of my love of science fiction, Ringworld's gently curving steel reflected beauty like a brightly burning star. ![]() ![]() ![]() On a related note… I haven’t watched it yet, but the Peacock adaptation of Dolly Alderton’s Everything I Know About Love seems to cover similar themes! Loved the book and excited to watch the show. (Thank you to the reader who alerted me to Caroline Cala Donofrio’s Substack, which is where I came across this book-and promptly bought it from her description). It’s cringey, but also insightful and recognizable. ![]() Annie begins making pack lunches because, “Somewhere, she’d read of a woman who supposedly got a down payment for a house together this way-by making sandwiches at home and skipping Starbucks.” We learn about how much Joy hates her stomach, and what she’s tried to do about it, before we learn anything else about her. ![]() Casale’s novel, out last month, encapsulates this endless onslaught of advice (from our moms, Oprah, other friends, magazines) in the minds of 30-something friends Annie and Joy. □ How to Fall Out of Love Madly by Jana Casale : There are certain snippets of advice you hear as a woman and internalize forever as prescriptions for how to do and be better. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reasonable people may differ, but based on my reading of all of his books, I don’t think this is right. Maybe he uses these words figuratively, rather than literally, and I am being too tough on him to assume otherwise. Perhaps I am misunderstanding what Gladwell means when he talks of laws, rules, and so on. In an excerpt published in the Guardian, he wrote, “If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.” I added the emphasis on “create” to highlight the fact that Gladwell is here claiming a causal rule about the mind and brain, namely that having dyslexia causes one to become a better listener (something he says made superlawyer David Boies so successful). The emphasis on changes is in the original (at least in the version of the quote I saw on Gladwell’s Facebook page). ![]() ![]() Differently from a TV program, a book novel, a music record and a newspaper article, a light bulb does not have a content. He gave the example of the electrical light. Therefore the media and their working and operating activities should be the focus of the studies, and not the content they carry on. Some of its ideas became very popular, and today they are considered relevant in the media studies and in understanding the contemporary mediascape.įor instance McLuhan suggested that “the medium is the message”, namely that the media affect the society in which they play a role, not by the content delivered through them, but by their peculiar characteristics. The book greatly influenced academics, writers, social theorists, educators and artists. ![]() ![]() In 1964 the Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan published his seminal book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, that gave a new sap to the media studies introducing new concepts and perspectives. ![]() |