Today it's the turn of Charlotte Gilman Perkins and her story The Yellow Wallpaper, which you can watch at newchillingtales.com on this site!
https://youtu.be/QdnedIGD5LI
Here's a little bit more about Charlotte Gilman Perkins and the Women's Suffrage movement in the US. These were brave women flying in the facial of a social order which had lasted for hundreds of years. Historically women had been traded in
marriage for property and money. The woman would then have the ...
Posted on January 18, 2019 and filed under Just Talking!, My News & My Kind of People, New Chilling Tales, New Chilling Tales- the Anthology, Podcasts
Talking about Edgar Allan Poe - master of darkness and genius - another classic, great writer. Remember you can watch his wonderful story The Tell-Tale Heart, starring Darren Burrows of Northern Exposure in New Chilling Tales
Here's a bit more about Edgar Allan Poe and his prolific talent and tragic life. Over 60 short stories and over 60 poems written and dead aged only ...
Posted on January 5, 2019 and filed under Just Talking!, NCT Video Shorts, New Chilling Tales, Recent Projects
Ok - Friends, instead of writing a blog this time...thought it might be fun to create a vlog...fun for both of us, we hope, but it could may be fun for neither. However in the spirit of Good Will and Cheer for the Season, I am giving it a go!
Don't forget! New Chilling Tales on the site!!
Happy New Year!
AMBROSE BIERCE
Ambrose ...
Posted on December 28, 2018 and filed under Just Talking!, My News & My Kind of People, New Chilling Tales, Podcasts, Recent Projects
The title to this blog relates to Michael Croft friend, founder of the National Youth Theatre and Shakespeare expert above all. So twisting the Macbeth quote to fit my name when whenever we met was a little ongoing joke between us. I don't think I have ever met anyone who understood Shakespeare and directed his plays as brilliantly as Michael. My two weeks rehearsing Julius Caesar, playing Portia, taught me more ...
Posted on December 11, 2018 and filed under Just Talking!, Memories, My News & My Kind of People
We lost the wonderful talented Nicolas Roeg, last week...another extraordinary talent gone. I had the privilege of working with him on The System, my first big film and one of the two best I have done.
This is going to be a long one, but time to talk a bit about The System aka The Girl-Getters.....the US title because the distributors didn't understand the title and thought it would give potential audiences the idea that the film was about Las ...
Posted on November 26, 2018 and filed under Just Talking!, Memories, My News & My Kind of People