Now this covers two people that I admire. The Queen and my Mother. As you might have guessed this is a fashion drawing of the Queen in her Coronation gown, 1953. My mother was the artist, she drew this sketch before rushing off to Scotland to marry her second husband. In the 1940's and 1950's pen and ink sketches were all the newspapers used for their fashion pictures and this is one of them. The year was 1953 and ...
Posted on May 21, 2014 and filed under My News & My Kind of People
Oscar nominations have been announced and include a few of my kind of people, mainly the women for now and mainly the older women.(Like me) I have to say quickly I love men and will talk about the later, but for now I want to focus on the women. Among the 10 nominations, 5 for Best Actress and 5 for Best Supporting actress and their ages range from an amazing 24 to an amazing 85. I am thrilled and ...
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Always one of my favorite actors, not everyone’s, but as he reminded us himself, he’s an actor, not an Icon of good behaviour. I went to see Russell Crow in NOAH. I really liked the film and him in it. And I feel people should see this film, it is a modern story for our times, although from the Old Testament. It covers the morality of:
*The deteriorating and violent actions of so called humanity…Man’s inhumanity to Man.
*Animal rights…dont think ...
Posted on April 28, 2014 and filed under My News & My Kind of People
Oscar will be awaiting your pleasure tomorrow night friends and frankly every film and every person involved in all the films should win this year...the standard is very high at least in the main categories. I have said this before but I will say it one more time, I was very disappointed that WADJDA...the Saudi Arabian film did not make it into best foreign film category, nor GLORIA the wonderful Chilean movie. However I have no doubt it will ...
Posted on March 1, 2014 and filed under My News & My Kind of People