#Moira Smith

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#9/11 #this is my 9/11 #twin towers #moira smith #to commemorate #memorial

[themasterusersblog]

cameos i saw in ep5 of x-men '97 (maybe spoiler-y)

pixie

glob

nature girl

nightcrawler

jamie madrox

dazzler

tabitha smith

banshee

moira mactaggert

emma frost

sebastian shaw

archangel

cable

#x men 97 #x men comics #x men #pixie #glob herman #nature girl #nightcrawler #jamie madrox #dazzler #tabitha smith #sean cassidy #moira mactaggert #emma frost #sebastian shaw #warren worthington III #nathan summers

[leewadeeleewada]

Im lying tho I cant leave my OW bae Don’t question the pigeon

#SO THE NEW LEGEND HUH #IM A WEAK WOMAN #MISS TRESSA SMITH AWOOOOOOOGA #I AM NOT IMMUNE TO PRETTY LADY #i have i type i think #I MAY JUST GO BACK TO APEX #FIRST SYMMETRA THEN MOIRA THEN HORIZON NOW CATALYST #WOMEN IN STEM WILL BE THE DEATH OF MEEEEE #apex legends #apex catalyst #tressa smith #moira overwatch #moira o'deorain

[all-action-all-picture]

Artwork by Ron Smith in two strips from Bunty No. 65, 11 April 1959. The Dancing Life of Moira Kent (above) and Born to Skate (below).

DC Thomson.

#dc thomson #ron smith #11apr #1959 #the dancing life of moira kent #born to skate

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

The X-Men team profile from the original Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe. Compiled by Mark Gruenwald and Peter Sanderson with new artwork by Uncanny X-Men artist Paul Smith and the tech-y schematics by Eliot R. Brown.

There's a few mix-ups. Marvel Girl, Angel, Wolverine and Storm should be depicted in the costumes they were wearing when they joined the team and Kitty Pryde should also have a second listing under the alias Sprite. Arguably Multiple Man (who was working as Moira MacTaggert's assistant) could be included alongside the allies.

#Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #OHotMU #X-Men #Mark Gruenwald #Peter Sanderson #Paul Smith #Eliot R. Brown #Professor X #Cyclops #Iceman #Archangel #Beast #Jean Grey #Mimic #Morph #Polaris #Havok #Nightcrawler #Wolverine #Banshee #Storm #Sunfire #Colossus #Thunderbird #Shadowcat #Rogue #Moira MacTaggert #Lilandra #Ms. Marvel #New Mutants

[morbidology]

Moira Smith was an NYPD officer on duty on September 11, 2001. She guided dozens of citizens to safety before returning to the South Tower to rescue more. Moments later, it collapsed. She is the only woman member of the NYPD to lose her life that day.

#September 11

[mutant-distraction]

Moira Smith

Tranquil scene Long the Escalante River

[girlactionfigure]

 Remembering NYPD Police Officer Moira Smith, the first officer to report the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 when she saw the first plane strike the first tower of the World Trade Center. Smith, a 13-year veteran, ran into the towers and immediately began assisting in the evacuation.

Displaying outward calm, Officer Smith was last seen heading back into the South Tower to help evacuate more people, and in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of that tower a brief radio transmission from a female officer calling for help was recorded and later identified as Smith. 

Officer Smith’s remains were recovered in March 2002, and her shield and ’13’ collar brass (seen in the background and indicating her assignment to the 13th Precinct), are preserved in the 9/11 Museum in New York City as we as her duty belt and holster which I took a picture of. 

Her coolness under pressure was remembered by a survivor, Martin Glynn:

“The mass of people exiting the building felt the calm assurance that they were being directed by someone in authority who was in control of the situation. Her actions even seemed ordinary, even commonplace. She insulated the evacuees from the awareness of the dangerous situation they were in, with the result that everything preceded smoothly.” (via lawofficer.com)

She was the only NYPD female police officer to perish at Ground Zero. She was survived by her 2-year-old daughter and her husband, Jim who was also a NYPD officer. 

Eddie Dvir

#NYPD #Our911Bravest #NeverForget

[nodirectionhome-ao3]

hi, would love to hear more about chef Lily, please and thank you :)

Hi! Sure! Thanks for asking!

I initially started this for the Jilytober Masquarade, but didn't end up getting my act together before that deadline and then I just sort of...moved on. I don't know what I'm going to do with this idea now since I didn't get very far with it, but...maybe sometime this year I'll go back to it!

Anyway, without further ado, here's a Muggle AU Lily snippet:

Lily reduced the heat to low, watching as her brew simmered in its pot — its fragrance enveloping her in a warm wash of butter and flour. The rest of the world beyond her station meant nothing to Lily as she worked…the bustle and clamor of her classmates fading to a dull murmur while she hovered over her pot — fancying herself a potioneer of sorts, a mad witch with an epic concoction. She stirred in the milk as if it were some fantastical element, whisking away the lumps until the sauce thickened to perfection. She could feel the jealousy of her classmates bubbling around her as presentation time approached…knowing that her Béchamel Sauce was—as always—a work of art. Her confidence carried her through the rest of her practical lessons that afternoon, lifting her spirits to impossible new heights...until it was promptly crushed in the women’s lavatory. “That Evans girl is the fucking worst,” said a voice that Lily was sure belonged to Ellen Halloway — the snooty blonde girl from her pastry class who reminded Lily viscerally of her sister. “The instructors really think she’s God’s gift to the culinary world, don’t they?” From her hiding place in the stall, Lily heard several other girls snicker at that. “She thinks she’s so much better than us,” another girl—Tara Smith—chimed in. “Just because she doesn’t have a life outside of the kitchen, doesn’t mean the rest of us are the same…” More laughter. “Pathetic,” Moira Fraser spoke up. “So pathetic.” Sucking in a deep breath and collecting herself, Lily flushed the toilet and stepped out of the stall — holding her head high as she marched silently across the room towards where the girls were standing together near the sinks. “Excuse me,” Lily said with perfect politeness, stepping around her gossiping classmates and flicking on the nearest tap. She felt—rather than saw—the way the other girls shrank in response…all three of them tensing with horror at the sight of the object of their ire washing her hands so casually before them. Lily took her time washing and drying her hands, savoring in the feel of the awkwardness that sizzled in the room. “Lovely pastry lesson today, wasn’t it?” she asked pleasantly, turning to face her classmates. “Best of luck next time, Tara. You’ll learn how to work the oven eventually, if you really put your mind to it.” Tara just stared back at her mutely, and Lily smiled, patted her on the shoulder, and stepped past. A rush of satisfaction burned through her when she left the room — the door swinging shut too slowly to muffle the “Oh my God,” that followed her departure.

WIP Game!

#chef!Lily #wip game #obligatory disclaimer that I am not nor have ever been a culinary student #so i have truly no idea how any of that works!!!

[omniversecomicsguide]

The Shadow King makes things crazy on Muir Isle and Guido finally enters the big leagues during THE MUIR ISLAND SAGA (1991) - the guide to the story that leads right into ‘Mutant Genesis’ has been added to the Omniverse Comics Guide!

Featured cover art:

UNCANNY X-MEN #278 (1991)

by Paul Smith

Guido had made sporadic appearances as Lila Cheney’s bodyguard since 1985. In 1991, he found himself on Muir Island where he ended up getting an offer to join the new government-sponsored X-Factor. He chose the name Strong Guy and went from being a background character to a key player in numerous X-Men events over the course of the ‘90s.

#Muir island saga #x men #rogue #strong guy #paul smith #marvel comics

[spill-the-t]

My little melodies

Piano melodies made by myself. Inspired by movies/shows/characters (or just emotions) I like :)

American Horror Story inspired melodies:

Violet and Tate / Murder House

James Patrick March / Hotel

Kai Anderson / Cult

Jimmy Darling / Freakshow

Elizabeth (The Countess) / Hotel

Kit Walker / Asylum

Bette and Dot / Freakshow

John Lowe / Hotel

Fiona Goode / Coven

Constance Langdon / Murder House

Sister Mary Eunice / Asylum

Moira O´Hara / Murder House

Emotion inspired melodies:

Path of Life

A Dangerous Game

Mare of Easttown inspired melodies:

Colin Zabel

Peaky Blinders inspired melodies:

Tommy Shelby

Tommy and Grace

Arthur Shelby

Polly Gray

John Shelby

Alfie Solomons

Lizzie Stark (Shelby)

Gina Gray

Ada Thorne (Shelby)

Michael Gray

Linda Shelby

Tommy and Lizzie

Grace's death

Ruby´s death

Chester Campell

The Walking Dead inspired melodies:

Rick Grimes

Carl´s Death

Rick and Michonne

Negan Smith

Michonne (Grimes)

Carol Peletier

Maggie Rhee (Greene)

Richonne Reunion

The Ones Who Live Ep. 4

Grimes Family Reunion

Daryl Dixon

Rick and Lori

#T’s cabinet of melodies #evan peters #ahs fandom #piano music

[darlingofdots]

Hi!

I think I’m right that you’re a fellow listener of audio books? I was wondering if you had any recommendations for particularly good narrators? I have been spoilt by the awesomeness of Moira Quirk (Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb)& Adjoa Andoh (Anne Leckie’s Imperial Radch) - also Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Ben Aaronovich’s Rivers of london), Robin Miles (N K Jemisin’s Great Cities) & Kristin Atherton (Garth Nix’s Angel Mage). I’m currently listening to the Temeraire series but am always on the hunt for the next good book!

I'm sorry it took me so long to get to this! You have of course already named my top two audiobook recs (Moira Quirk's TLT and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith's RoL) so here are some further favourites:

Memoirs of Lady Trent read by Kate Reading (5 books in the main series)

A Crown for Cold Silver read by Angéle Masters (first in a trilogy)

Discworld audiobooks! Personally I prefer Stephen Briggs over Nigel Planer but tbh they're both really good

Lord of the Rings read by Andy Serkis is really fun! my brother got started on this for a long train ride and he a) doesn't really read usually b) isn't that confident with English so I think that is a recommendation all of its own

Graceling Realms but make sure you get the version by Xanthe Elbrick!! (5 books so far but although I've read all of them I've only listened to 2 and 3)

if you already like Kristin Atherton you should check out her performance of Howl's Moving Castle!

and I'm going to rec @ariaste's brilliant book A Conspiracy of Truths read by James Langton, perfectly captures the crotchety old man narrator

I hope you find something you like! I am basically always listening to an audiobook even if I've already heard it a dozen times, but I am also very picky so I have a lot of Opinions about what I like and end up revisiting favourites a lot xD

#dottie replies #audiobook recs

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2023 Media consumption

God tier: media that invoked blorbo-induced euphoria, mini-obsession, or just haunt me

White Cat Legend (大理寺日志, Dali Court Journal) - donghua, seasons 1 and 2. The new vice minister of the imperial court of criminal justice is, unfortunately, a cat demon. Tang Dynasty workplace comedy/political intrigue. Lovely animation, sick fight scenes, and catboys.

Scissor Seven (刺客伍六七) - donghua, seasons 2-3. Netflix summary: "Seeking to recover his memory, a scissor-wielding, hairdressing, bungling quasi-assassin stumbles into a struggle for power among feuding factions." Season 1 was just ok at best, season 2 was great, season 3 was phenomenal, season 4 was meh.

Derkholm duology by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

God Troubles Me / Hanhua Riji (汉化日记) - donghua. Cringefail loser girl Su Moting, her cringefail smartphone god, and her cringefail cat (demon) have to save the world. But first she has to go to work. And get takeout. And watch dramas. The premise sounds SO cringe but it's well-executed and hilarious. And actually a pretty sharp but good-humored window into the delights and horrors of modern everyday life in china.

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt (reread). At the peak of the California gold rush, hitmen Charlie and Eli Sisters are hired for a job that Eli is liking less and less. 1st-person perspective of a stone-cold killer, where it turns out the killer is just Some Guy. Who is kind of awkward. And pathetic. And maybe not very bright.

Gobelins graduation animated shorts: "Chroniques de l'Eau Salée" (2021), "Last Summer" (2022), and "Go Fishboy" (2022). Available to watch on YouTube. Got caught up on 2021 and 2022 and these are the ones that will haunt me.

Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi - manga (reread). Teenage martial artist is cursed to transform into a hot girl whenever he's splashed with cold water. Still some of the funniest and most deranged comedy I've ever read.

"Golden Age" - short story by Naomi Novik set in the Temeraire universe. Hilarious and delightful Feral Temeraire AU.

Just ok: media that I didn't hate, and maybe even enjoyed

A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore

Coyote Blue by Christopher Moore

Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore

Glass Onion (2022) dir. Rian Johnson

Puss in Boots: the Last Wish (2022) dir. Joel Crawford

Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead

Witch's Business by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Chrestomanci series by Diana Wynne Jones (reread) - Charmed Life, The Lives of Christopher Chant, Mixed Magics, The Pinhoe Egg

Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction, ed. Sharyn November. Faves: "Beauty" by Sherwood Smith, "Little Dot" by Diana Wynne Jones, and "Remember Me" by Nancy Farmer.

All Systems Red (异星危机) by Martha Wells, Simplified tr. by 黎思敏

All Saints Street (万圣街) - donghua, seasons 1-3

Moira's Pen by Megan Whalen Turner

Enchanted Glass by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

The Game by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Selected Discworlds: Thief of Time, Unseen Academicals (reread)

The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer (reread)

The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer

"Louise", Gobelins 2021 graduation animated short. Pretty good, but not god tier.

The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Most of it was a slog, but the ending was wonderfully tender.

The Merlin Conspiracy by Diana Wynne Jones (reread)

Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore

The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories by Susanna Clarke

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan

Spinning by Tillie Walden

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (reread)

The Mermaid (美人鱼) - movie (2016)

Exhalation by Ted Chiang. Fave: Exhalation

Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Motorcity - cartoon (rewatch)

Sing 2 - movie

Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - movie

White Cat Legend (大理寺日志) manhua through chapter 186

A Monster in Paris - movie (rewatch)

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - movie

Lionboy trilogy by Zizou Corder: Lionboy, The Chase, and The Truth (reread)

The Moorchild by Eloise McGraw

Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms (封神第一部：朝歌风云) - movie

Our Flag Means Death - season 2

Skellig by David Almond (reread). Even more unsettling and magical than I remembered.

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (人渣反派自救系统) by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Savvy by Ingrid Law (reread)

The Silent Boy by Lois Lowry

Golden Age and Other Stories by Naomi Novik. "Golden Age" alone was amazing. Every thing else: meh.

Wonder by RJ Palacio except that the ending sucked

蓝溪镇 (Lanxi Zhen/Blue Creek Town) - manhua (reread), through chapter 112

Translation State by Ann Leckie

Disliked and often DNF'd

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

The Stars are Legion by Kameron Hurley

Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse

Palimpsest by Catherine Valente

Knives Out (2019) dir. Rian Johnson

The Chosen and the Beautiful by Nhi Vgo

Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots. Genuinely creative concept, enjoyable characters, and horrifying (affectionate) ending! Writing was just very, very bad.

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore

Stowaway by Karen Hesse

Nirvana in Fire (狼牙榜) - ok objectively it was fine. It was just SO long that I started losing patience at multiple points.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes on (2021) dir. Dean Fleischer Camp

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

Suzume - anime movie

Fairies Albums (百妖谱) - donghua

Link Click （时光代理人）- donghua

The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn by Tri Vuong - webcomic

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

Journey to the West: Demons Strike Back (西游伏妖篇) - movie

Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Others Writings by Jorge Luis Borges

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

Frozen 2 - movie

Logan - movie

The Three Sisters of Tenmasou - movie

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Nothing new.

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

Nimona (2023) - movie

Prophet by Helen MacDonald and Sin Blache

One Piece - the live action Netflix series

Good Omens season 2

Birdwing by Rafe Martin

Blue Eye Samurai - netflix cartoon

Haven't You Heard I'm Sakamoto - anime

System Collapse by Martha Wells

The Cay by Theodore Taylor (reread)

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Bottoms (2023) - movie

Daily Life of the Immortal King (仙王的日常生活) - donghua

Witch King by Martha Wells. Actually I enjoyed the Kai/Bashasa storyline a lot. The present-day storyline I found extremely boring. Which was unfortunate because it was more than half the book.

The King's Avatar (全职高手) - donghua

The Apothecary Diaries - anime

Assorted nonfiction

The Electricity of Every Living Thing by Katherine May. Bored. DNF

Alone in the Wilderness (2004) - dir. Dick Proenneke. Documentary of Proenneke's year spent living alone in the Alaskan wilderness. Neat look at one dude building a cabin, furniture, and all his accompanying household implements by hand.

A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia by Blaine Harden. The human and environmental significance of the Columbia dam system.

Gifted Earth: The Ethnobotany of the Quinault and Neighboring Tribes by Douglas Deur. Guide to key native species and their traditional uses.

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life by George Saunders. Four classic Russian short stories with accompanying technical analysis of their narrative construction. Great look at the process of writing and analyzing stories.

Animals Make Us Human by Temple Grandin - animal behavioral psychology

Animals in Translation by Temple Grandin - more animal behavioral psychology

Crying in HMart by Michelle Zauner. DNF. Felt like the book could have been 1/4 of its length. Mostly nothing new.

Wood in American Life: 1776-2076 by WG Youngquist and HO Fleischer. Wood use in America. Really makes you realize just how many things are now made out of plastic but used to be wood. And how much more difficult and expensive it was to make and replace objects.

Authentic Diversity: How to change the workplace for good by Michelle Silverthorn. Concise and nicely concrete. Would be a good starting place for an executive.

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil - how some big data algorithms reinforce preexisting inequality, and how to improve them.

The Relationship Cure by Joan Declaire and John M. Gottman. The classic originator of the "bids for attention" approach. Pretty good, most helpful was the part where it identifies the styles of responses.

Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers: A Retirement and Aging Roadmap for Single and Childless Adults by Sara Zeff Geber

A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs

the excellent hyperlocal nature guidebook I bought after encountering the author at the mall

Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez. 2018 ed.

#Media consumption #Patter

[finalslay]

current muse list : * = most active muses. request / private muses under the read more.

adam florian. beauty and the beast. alternate verses available. formerly @evermxre-a. *

amanda young. saw / dead by daylight. alternate verses available. formerly @pigsawed. *

arthur morgan. red dead redemption. alternate verses available. *

bigby wolf. the wolf among us. *

blake langermann. outlast 2.

bruce wayne. dc comics ( heavily based on the dceu & the telltale games ).

dean winchester. supernatural. alternate verses available. *

eddie gluskin. outlast whistleblower. *

ethan winters. resident evil. located at @moldcursed. *

felix richter. dead by daylight.

handsome jack. borderlands. located at @hyperionhero.*

holly pepper. far cry 5.

jacob frye. assassin’s creed.

jeff johansen. dead by daylight.

ji-woon hak. dead by daylight.

john price. call of duty.

john watson. bbc sherlock.

joseph oda. the evil within.

kate denson. dead by daylight.

leonard mccoy. star trek.

miles upshur. outlast.

nancy wheeler. stranger things / dead by daylight. *

nathan smith. far cry 5 oc.

rebecca chambers. resident evil / dead by daylight.

rhys hargrove. stranger things oc.

sydney barrett. fx’s legion.

toru higashi. judgment.

waylon park. outlast whistleblower.

request / plotting only muses :

angela ziegler. overwatch.

alex casey. remedy.

ash williams. the evil dead / dead by daylight

donovan. american horror story.

elizabeth swann. pirates of the caribbean.

gabriel reyes. overwatch.

jack morrison. overwatch.

mary winchester. supernatural.

mick rory. legends of tomorrow.

moira o’deorain. overwatch.

private muses :

chris redfield. resident evil.

cullen rutherford. dragon age.

#muse list. #// the muse list on my carrd is SOOOO out of date most of the time lmfaooo so…. yeah. here’s a post with the current stuff. #// i wanted something that i could easily edit on mobile as needed (so i don’t have to log into / reorganize the carrd every time) #// i even listed ethan and jack on it even tho they’re on solo blogs. 🏃🏻‍♀️

[lady-jane-asher]

Jane Asher and Gawn Grainger as Juliet Capulet and Romeo in “Romeo and Juliet” presentation while being on tour in the USA, 1967. Part 2. 🩶

Previously posted pictures with my old username, updating it with the new one.

Old Vic Brings First Spoken Drama to The Music Center. By Cecil Smith. Los Angeles times— March 5th, 1967.

It seems a curious bit of scheduling to have the Bristol Old Vic in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of The Music Center, opening a three-week season of Shakespeare Tuesday night.The company is doing the first spoken drama ever performed in the new complex and it arrives on the threshold, the very eve, of the twin openings of the new theaters designed primarily for drama next month. Not that the spoken word is a stranger to the Pavilion. Some of the more interesting musical plays produced there, notably "Fiddler on the Roof," have been as dependent on their dramatic as on their musical structure. And if the Pavilion is fundamentally a music hall, still the verbal music of Shakespeare can be as stirring and compelling as any instrumental or vocal music ever devised. No one plays this music better than a British ensemble and among the great companies of England the Bristol Old Vic is considered one of the best. No less an authority than Sir Tyrone Guthrie says it is among the world's finest acting companies and that its managing director, Val May, is an immensely vital force in the English-speaking theater.

Suited the Action

Sir Tyrone suited the action to the word by staging the production of "Measure for Measure" that opens the BOV season here. May directed the production of "Hamlet" that enters the repertory Thursday and the "Romeo and Juliet" that will open next week. The three plays will rotate through March 25. The Bristol Old Vic was initially formed in 1946 as an offshoot, a sort of farm club for London's justly celebrated Old Vic. When the latter was melded into the British National Theater three years ago, the BOV became an independent entity.

It is supported by an annual grant of 40,000 pounds from the Federal Arts Council, plus a grant from the city of Bristol and its thriving box offices in two theaters-the legendary Theater Royal and its new Little Theater. But even in its days as m the outpost of the London company, the Bristol Old Vic had an individuality and a spirit all its own. I remember when the parent organization was in the Philharmonic on one of its tours some years ago, I asked John Neville, who was playing Hamlet, what his plans were after the tour, and he said he was leaving the London company to return to Bristol. I asked him why. "It's more adventurous, more experimental, more daring and," he smiled, "more fun."

Although the BOV is only doing Shakespeare on this first American tour under the sponsorship of S. Hurok, the Bard is not its primary product in England. The company is known as an innovator, launching new plays and new playwrights, trying new areas of stagecraft, new methods and new approaches. It was in the vanguard of the new wave of British drama that spawned Pinter, Shaffer, Osborne, Arden, Wesker, and others. It was the first company to produce an English version of Erwin Piscator's "War and Peace" (later staged with immense success in this country by the APA) and it first provided a stage for such plays as "A Severed Head" and "The Killing of Sister George." ⠀⠀⠀

The company has a vigorous acting school and training program that has a spawned a legendary crop of stars, among them Rosemary Harris, Peter O'Toole, Dorothy Tutin and Paul Rogers. m Although the concentration is on youth, many an established star has played at Bristol, including Wendy Hiller, Moira Shearer, Pamela Brown and Neville.

The Hamlet of the current company is one of England's brightest young stars, Richard Pasco. He's little known in this country, though he was in the movie "Room at the Top" and played Broadway with Laurence Olivier in

"The Entertainer." Pasco, who also plays the key role of Angelo in "Measure for Measure," told a Times correspondent in Bristol recently that he sees Hamlet as "a fish out of water." "He's plunked right in the middle of all this political intrigue and violence and that's what he hates most— violence," Pasco said.

He approves director May's decision to set the play in the Napoleonic era-"lots of conspiracy and blood around in those days." Pasco said his first West End job as an actor was in "Hamlet"-playing Fortinbras to the prince of Paul Scofield. He feels Scofield saw the character as "an angry young man." "Yet," said Pasco, "he's really pretty cool. He likes to think about things-in a world that likes to act. Not that he's unable to take care of himself—he learned that as a soldier. But he's a scholar who knows that violence only leads to more violence. It's not in his nature to do the things that have to be done.

That's the terrible part." Pasco was the original angry young man—he played Jimmy Porter in the English Stage Company's famous production of "Look Back in Anger" in 1956, which launched the new wave of British drama. Most of his career has been in classical repertory though he's also starred in British television and movies. He joined the Bristol Old Vic in 1964 for its first tour of Europe, which extended as far as Israel.

Famous member⠀⠀⠀

Actually, the most famous member of the current troupe is its Juliet, 20-year old Jane Asher-particularly with the miniskirt set. The fame that preceded her had nothing to do with her acting but her fan magazine reputation as the girl friend of Beatle Paul McCartney, which has brought out swarms of teenagers on the cross-country tour. In proper repertory fashion, she balances Juliet with the tiny role of Julietta in "Measure for Measure." There are other players quite celebrated in Britain among them, John Franklyn Robbins, Frank Barrie, Madge Ryan, Frank Middlemass, Gwan Granger, Barbara Leigh-Hunt. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

But as in the National Theater, the Comedie Francaise, the Moscow Art Theater, one goes to see an ensemble, not an individual. This is a new wrinkle in this country but with the success of such ensembles as the APA, ACT and others, it's gaining momentum. There's an immense sense of pride in the Bristol company and in its homebase theater, the 200-year-old Theater Royal in cred Eritain on a heater where Sarah Siddons played and Edmund Kean, William Charles Macready, Jenny Lind, Henry Irving and Ellen, Terry-the ghost of Mrs. Siddons is said to stalk its stage.

Some feel it prophetic that the Blitz, which levered much of Bristol, spared the theater. Val May accompanied his players to this country and stayed with them through their highly acclaimed New York openings, then returned to Bristol to prepare his spring season, which includes such varied offerings as "The Hostage," "The Taming of the Shrew," Galsworthy's "Strife" and Pinter's "The Homecoming."

Among three new plays to be produced is one by American author Robert Rich, "Message from the Grassroots," a play about Malcolm X with an all-white cast.

Dr. Guthrie met the troupe in Philadelphia to brush up his initial staging of "Measure for Measure," that blackest of black comedies, which was much condemned in Victorian England for its outspoken attitudes on sex and morals and its cynicism. Dr. Guthrie told me later he was quite pleased with the production and it was greeted in Philadelphia, Boston and New York with warmth and a goodly share of critical hosannas.

The play is out of Shakespeare's middle period when he was at the height of his powers, written at about the time he wrote "Othello," after "Hamlet" and prior to "Lear." Although labeled a comedy, it is quite a serious work and tragedy is narrowly averted and then only through good fortune. It's easy to see how it shocked the Victorians, dealing with the stern enforcer of a Viennese law holding fornication illegal and punishable by death.

When a young man gets his girl with child, he is sentenced to die, and his sister, a novice in a nunnery, offers her own chastity in exchange for her brother's life. What particularly upset the Victorians was Shakespeare's straightforward appraisal of humanity, as when he has the wry Pompey ask the young governor if, to enforce the law, he plans "to geld and spay all the youth of the city?" Eras change. The candor that delights one age shocks another and can delight a third. But what endures is the essential truth in the poet in his evaluation of man for all his vice and folly.

When he has Angelo say: "They say best men are moulded out of faults, and, for the most part, become much the better for being a little bad," it's downright comforting.

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 Remembering NYPD Police Officer Moira Smith, the first officer to report the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 when she saw the first plane strike the first tower of the World Trade Center. Smith, a 13-year veteran, ran into the towers and immediately began assisting in the evacuation.

Displaying outward calm, Officer Smith was last seen heading back into the South Tower to help evacuate more people, and in the immediate aftermath of the collapse of that tower a brief radio transmission from a female officer calling for help was recorded and later identified as Smith. 

Officer Smith’s remains were recovered in March 2002, and her shield and ’13’ collar brass (seen in the background and indicating her assignment to the 13th Precinct), are preserved in the 9/11 Museum in New York City as we as her duty belt and holster which I took a picture of. 

Her coolness under pressure was remembered by a survivor, Martin Glynn:

“The mass of people exiting the building felt the calm assurance that they were being directed by someone in authority who was in control of the situation. Her actions even seemed ordinary, even commonplace. She insulated the evacuees from the awareness of the dangerous situation they were in, with the result that everything preceded smoothly.” (via lawofficer.com)

She was the only NYPD female police officer to perish at Ground Zero. She was survived by her 2-year-old daughter and her husband, Jim who was also a NYPD officer. 

Eddie Dvir

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