#Tina Kelley

[april-is]

April 5, 2024: May 5, 2020, John Okrent

May 5, 2020 John Okrent

It is beautiful to be glad to see a person every time you see them, as I was to see Juan, the maintenance man, with whom it was always the same brotherly greeting—each of us thumping a fist over his heart and grinning, as though we shared a joke, or bread. I barely knew him. Evenings in clinic, me finishing my work, him beginning his— fluorescence softening in the early dark. He wasn't even fifty, had four grandchildren, fixed what was broken, cleaned for us, caught the virus, and died on his couch last weekend. And what right have I to write this poem, who will not see him in his uniform of ashes, only remember him, in his Seahawks cap, and far from sick, locking up after me, turning up his music.

--

More like this:

Say Thank You Say I’m Sorry, Jericho Brown

When people say, “we have made it through worse before”, Clint Smith

Today in:

2023: Homeric Hymn, A.E. Stallings 2022: The Mower, Philip Larkin 2021: When people say, “we have made it through worse before”, Clint Smith 2020: Untitled, James Baldwin 2019: To Yahweh, Tina Kelley 2018: from how many of us have them?, Danez Smith 2017: Sad Dictionary, Richard Siken 2016: Lucia, Ravi Shankar 2015: Overjoyed, Ada Limón 2014: Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing, Margaret Atwood 2013: Anniversary, Cecilia Woloch 2012: Poem for Jack Spicer, Matthew Zapruder 2011: Now comes the long blue cold, Mary Oliver 2010: Jackie Robinson, Lucille Clifton 2009: In the Nursing Home, Jane Kenyon 2008: To the Couple Lingering on the Doorstep, Deborah Landau 2007: White Apples, Donald Hall 2006: Late Confession, Gary Soto 2005: Steps, Frank O’Hara

#covid #death #grief #john okrent #poetry

[lboogie1906]

LisaGay Hamilton (born March 25, 1964) is an actress who has portrayed roles in films, television, and on stage. She is known for her role as attorney Rebecca Washington on The Practice (1997-2003). She portrayed Melissa Thoreau on Men of a Certain Age (2009-2011), Celia Jones on House of Cards (2016), Suzanne Simms on Chance (2016), and Kayla Price on The First (2018).

Her film credits include roles in 12 Monkeys (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Beloved (1998), True Crime (1999), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Soloist (2009), Beastly (2011), Beautiful Boy (2018), and Vice (2018). Her theater credits include Measure for Measure (Isabella), Henry IV Parts I & II (Lady Hotspur), Valley Song, and The Ohio State Murders. She was an original cast member in the Broadway productions of The Piano Lesson and Gem of the Ocean. In 2005 she won a Peabody Award for creating and directing the 2003 documentary film Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. Her film explored Richards’ political activism as well as her poetry. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival. She collaborated to turn one of her poems into a children’s book. Keep Climbing Girls was published by Simon and Schuster in 2006.

She was born in Los Angeles but spent most of her childhood in Stony Brook on Long Island. Her father, Ira Winslow Hamilton, Jr., and her mother Eleanor Albertine “Tina” Blackwell.

She fell in love with theater at an early age. During the 1970s, she saw several off-Broadway productions by the Negro Ensemble Company, including A Soldier’s Story and The First Breeze of Summer. She enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University to study theater, but after a year was accepted into New York University’s Tisch Drama School where she earned a BFA in Theater. She pursued graduate studies at The Juilliard School where she earned an MA in Drama.

She is married to Robin Kelley (2009). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenhistorymonth

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

PHANTOM VENICE

Opening today:

A Haunting in Venice--Kenneth Branagh returns as Hercule Poirot in this gothic, which he also directed. It's 1947 here, and the vain, dapper sleuth with the elaborate mustache has retired from detective work in gradually reviving postwar Venice. He's pulled back into the game by his old acquaintance, mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey), who asks him to debunk, if he can, a supposed clairvoyant (Michelle Yeoh) at a seance after a Halloween party in a beautiful but decaying palazzo.

The seance is intended to conjure the ghost of the daughter of the opera singer hostess (Kelly Reilly), drowned the previous year, but the palazzo has a sinister history beyond this; it's supposedly cursed and haunted. The nonbelieving Poirot naturally is buying none of it, but his skepticism is rattled by the unsettling events of the evening, which include an attempt on his own life.

This is Branagh's third lavish outing as Agatha Christie's elegant gumshoe, after Murder on the Orient Express in 2017 and Death on the Nile in 2022, all three of them scripted by Michael Green. Though Green borrows a few memorable elements from Christie's unusually nasty 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party, Haunting is essentially an original tale; in his amusing preface to the tie-in paperback re-issue of Hallowe'en Party (published under the movie's title), Green preemptively braces himself for the lambasting he's expecting from the hardcore Christie faithful for the movie's liberties.

I've been a Christie reader since high school, and can only say that much as I enjoy her work, I certainly don't regard it as sacred and inviolate. So Green and Branagh's alterations--made with the blessing of the Christie estate--bothered me not in the least. These include changing Ariadne Oliver, Christie's apple-addicted semi-autobiographical alter ego, into an American as a showcase role for Fey, who's a nervy, mischievous hoot and a fine foil for Branagh's sober Poirot. At one point she lets out a scream that could make Fay Wray proud, too.

The rest of the cast--including Reilly, Jamie Dornan,  Riccardo Scamarcio, Camille Cottin, Emma Laird, Ali Khan and Jude Hill, the kid from Branagh's Belfast--all commit to their skulking and lurking and exchanging of pregnant glances, and Yeoh really lets it rip as the medium. The sumptuous, shadowy palazzo setting, designed by John Paul Kelley and shot by Haris Zambarloukos, is properly both beautiful and claustrophobically oppressive.

I'm generally very dense at whodunits, but about three-quarters of the way through A Haunting in Venice, I correctly guessed who the culprit was. Still, there were still plenty of cunning revelations in the story I didn't see coming. I don't think the mystery is as central to this picture, anyway, as the woozy, nightmarish atmosphere. In many ways this film seems to owe less to Christie than to Don't Look Now, Nicolas Roeg's great Venetian fever dream of 1973.

Despite the sly, enjoyable old dark house trappings, Branagh and Green decline to tip the material into overt camp. Green's literate dialogue--there's even a quick throwaway cribbing from Love's Labor's Lost--allows Branagh to deepen Poirot's response to the situation into a faith-versus-reason internal conflict, without letting the movie slide the other way into pretentiousness. I found Branagh's performance moving; he presents a convincing long dark night of the soul.

#a haunting in venice #kenneth branagh #agatha christie #tina fey #michelle yeoh #jamie dornan #michael green #jude hill #riccardo scamarcio #emma laird #camille cottin #ali khan #haris zambarloukos

[officialmollyroxxuniverse]

Welcome to the 1-year anniversary issue of Got The Look magazine! With new models and pictures and some of our blast from the past models with the most talked about and enjoyed photos of the last year!

It is available at: https://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/2479348

With-

Front Cover:

Anne

Back Cover:

Anushka Pal

Featuring:

Carolyn Phillips

Molly Roxx

Anushka Pal

Leticia Alatriz

Anne

Emily Sahlén

Francisca Alatriz

Niko Wetherington

Miss Malibu Nikki

Marie Håkansson

Tawna Kelley

Sagine Philippeaux

Lunden De’Leon

Shayla Amber

Kerrie Eyman

Catherine Cornaby

Ty Berry

Joselyn Serrato

Tina

Bad Kitty Lulu

Vixen Von Raven

April Delaet

Dope The Model

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Shanaya Kanade

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Em

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Lele Nichole

Got The Look is a Molly Roxx Universe publication.

[finishinglinepress]

NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Willow Tree by Harriet Ribot

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With humor and pathos, Harriet Ribot incorporates a thinly veiled odyssey of life around her. She became a Registered Nurse at twenty, married at twenty-two, raised four successful sons through the seventies and eighties, and collated the works and biography of friend, classical guitarist and composer Frantz Casseus into a book of sheet music for Solo Guitar: “The Complete Works of Frantz Casseus” (Tuscany Publications, 2003). She then earned her long-desired BA with a concentration in Journalism at Rutgers-Newark. She credits her successes to her very supportive family and a book she often read to her children The Little Train that Could (Platt and Monk, 1930).

PRAISE FOR Willow Tree by Harriet Ribot

The willow tree that forms the heart of Ribot’s collection is constantly evolving, “roughed up by high winds,” putting forth “a profusion of tightly knit buds” and then new leaves “like pigtails sporting a tie.” The poet renders what she sees faithfully, precisely, in musical lines that capture both the willow’s beauty and its vulnerability as it holds light and shadow, the present and the past, blue jays and cardinals. Poem by poem, the willow becomes an apt figure for the natural world as well as for our own passing lives.

–Jennifer Barber

Harriet Ribot paints with words, creating a portrait of a willow with March boughs “clean and spare/as a whippet/straining/at the starting gate.” With sparse lines she creates mystery, elegy, and focused attention. Step in among the leaves and imagine what tales she has braided into a crown, with grace.

–Tina Kelley, author of Rise Wildly and Abloom & Awry.

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[popentertainmentconcertreviews]

Vonda Shepard – The Loft at City Winery – Philadelphia, PA – January 12, 2023

“Ain't it funny how you're walking through life, and it turns on a dime?”

That line isn’t just a lyric from Vonda Shepard’s 1996 song “The Wildest Times of the World,” but it was also somewhat prophetic towards her own career.

Shepard first popped up in the pop culture spotlight in 1987, when she had a top 10 single as part of a duet on the song “Can’t We Try” with balladeer Dan Hill. (This was a comeback single for Hill, who was best known for the 1978 smash “Sometimes When We Touch.”) Shepard was signed up with Warner Records, but her self-titled debut album didn’t sell as well as hoped and she was dropped from the label before her second album was released.

She released a couple of albums on the indie Vesper Alley label (1992’s The Radical Light and 1996’s It’s Good Eve), but it seemed like things were passing her by, until one day when actress Michelle Pfeiffer and her husband, television producer David E. Kelley, caught one of her gigs. At the time, Kelley was developing a new show about a quirky young lawyer named Ally McBeal. Kelley thought it would be an interesting idea to have a singer to bring musical voice to the young litigator’s inner turmoil. And he felt that Vonda Shepard would be the perfect person to be that voice.

Therefore, Shepard landed in a show that became (at least briefly) a pop culture zeitgeist. Shepard performed in pretty much every episode of the series’ five-season run as the singer at the Martini Bar in the same building as the law firm, performing a mixture of cover songs and some of Shepard’s originals. The song “Searchin’ My Soul” (originally from The Radical Light) became the series’ theme song and was a hit single.

Now 25 years on from Songs from Ally McBeal (who else is feeling old?), the first of four soundtrack albums of songs that Shepard recorded for the show, Shepard is on the road for a very brief US tour (three nights, three cities) celebrating the anniversary, as well as the release of her most recent album Red Light, Green Light.

This was the middle night of the east coast short trek. (She played in Annapolis, MD the night before, and was heading up to New York City the next night.) She mixed a good cross-section of her solo work and McBeal cover songs, although she did not sing her highest charting hit “Can’t We Try?” (Undoubtedly, she considers that Dan Hill’s song more than her own, even though she was a huge part of the hit recording.)

She brought along a crack backing band, made up of Tina Turner’s longtime guitarist James Ralston, Jackson Browne’s longtime drummer Mauricio Lewak and bassist Jim Hanson, who has played with the likes of Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen.

She started the night with a few of the new songs (about three songs in she apologized to the Ally McBeal fans and said she’d get to those songs soon), doing soulful, passionate takes of “Shine Your Light,” “Red Light Green Light” and “Dirty Laundry Line” from the new album and “I Just Don’t Get It” from her 2015 album Rookie.

Soon she had worked her way to such fan favorites as “The Wildest Times of the World” and a drop-dead gorgeous cover of The Left Banke’s “Walk Away Renee.” She also did a sweet version of her wistful ballad “Maryland” and a gospel-tinged ride through “Sweet Inspiration” (originally recorded by the band The Sweet Inspirations).

She closed things out with a brace of Ally songs, hopping up from the piano for the only time of the night to do a playful cover of The Exciters’ “Tell Him,” torching the room with a raucous version of “Searchin’ My Soul” and then turning things down, closing out with a wistful and lovely take of the old Jo Stafford standard “You Belong to Me.”

Even though Shepard good-naturedly acknowledged in the middle of the set that her best-selling albums all had Calista Flockhart on their covers rather than her own picture, this show was a terrific reminder of the strong, interesting body of work that Vonda Shepard has been sharing with us for about 35 years.

Jay S. Jacobs

Copyright ©2023 PopEntertainment.com. All rights reserved. Posted: January 14, 2023.

Photos by Jay S. Jacobs © 2023

#Vonda Shepard #2022 #Concert Reviews #The Loft at City Winery #Philadelphia #Jay S. Jacobs

[atletasudando]

Telón para la fiesta del Mundial u20 en Cali

Con la venezolana Fernanda Maita y su excelente actuación en salto triple -quedó cuarta, "acariciando" la medalla de bronce- concluyó la participación sudamericana en el 20° Campeonato Mundial u20, este sábado 6 de agosto en el Estadio Pascual Guerrero, en Cali. Fue la segunda vez que nuestra región recibió este Mundial -la anterior, Santiago de Chile en 2000- y también será la sede de la próxima edición, en Lima 2024. Maita saltó un registro personal de 13.30 metros, la misma marca que la australiana Tiana Boras, quien se llevó el tercer peusto por mejor segundo salto (13.13 contra 13.06 de la venezolana). El oro fue para la uzbeka Sharifa Davronova con 14.04 y la medalla de plata para la francesa Sohane Ducagos con 13.38 m. Se cierra así un Mundial con un aceptable balance para Sudamérica, que tuvo dos medallas de plata a través de las colombianas (Natalia Linares en salto en largo y Valentina Barrios en jabalina) y tres de bronce con la posta femenina 4x100 de las locales (Murillo-Ospina-Bolaños-Martinez), el brasileño Gabriel Luiz Boza en salto en largo y la uruguaya Manuela Rotundo en jabalina, primera medalla histórica para su país en este evento. En la jornada final, Etiopía exhibió todo su potencial en mediofondo/fondo al llevarse cuatro victorias, mientras que la figura del día fue la jamaiquina Kerrica Hill con su exhibición en los 100 metros vallas, donde fijó un récord de Campeonato con 12s77. Hill acompañó el surgimiento de esta nueva generación jamaiquina que incluye a sus velocistas del 4x100 que repitieron récord y título mundial, y los triunfos individuales de Tina Clayton en 100 y Brianna Lyston en 200. El comienzo del dominio etíope se dio con Birke Haylom en los 1.500 femeninos que ganó récord de campeonato de 4m04s27, seguida por las keniatas Brenda Chebet (4m04s64) y Purity Chepkirui (4m07s64). Y siguió con los 800 metros masculinos donde Ermias Girma, recuperándose de su derrota en los 1.500, ganó con 1m47s36, escoltado por el argelino Heithem Chenitef con 1m47s61 y dos europeos: el británico Ethan Hussey con 1m47s65 y el polaco Kacper Lewalski (1m47s84). Después fue el turno de los 5.000 femeninos  y allí Medina Eisa preavleció en la recta final con 15m29s71, delante de su compatriota Melknat Wudu (15m30s06) con medalla de bronce para Prisca Chesang (Uganda) con 15m31s17. Y un cuarto título para Etíope llegó en los 3.000 metros con obstáculos donde concretaron el 1-2 a través de Samuel Duguna (8m37s92) y Samuel Firewu (8m39s11) con bronce para el marroquí  Salaheddine Ben Yazide con 8m40s62. “Estoy más que eufórico”, dijo Duguna. “Las condiciones climáticas hicieron que la carrera fuera un poco difícil. Hacía un poco de calor, así que cuando la carrera se aceleró fue un desafío, pero esto es para mi país, todo el pueblo etíope".  En el lanzamiento del disco se presentaba el flamante recordan mundial, el alemán Mika Sosna (71.37). Sin embargo, el vencedor fue su compatriota Marius Kerges con 65.55, en tanto Sosna, con una lesión en el aductor, sólo realizó un lanzamiento (63.88) y tuvo que quedarse con la medalla de plata. El bronce fue para el ucraniano Mykhailo Brudin con 63.33. La estonia Karmen Bruss dio una gran demostración técnica en salto en alto al ganar con 1.95 m. y luego se ubicaron la holandesa Britt Weerman con 1.93 y la serbia Angelina Topic -hija de un ex astro mundial  de la especialidad- con la misma marca.   La ganadora del salto de altura Karmen Bruus de Estonia en el Campeonato Mundial Sub-20 de Atletismo Cali 22 (© Marta Gorczynska) En los relevos 4x400 que cerraron la programación se mantuvo la tradición del dominio estadounidense: 3m28s06 en damas a través de Mekenze Kelley, Shawnti Jackson, Akala Garrett y Roisini Williams. Y en hombres, victoria en 3m04s47 con Steven McElroy, Ashton Schwartzman, Charlie Barthlomew y WIll Summers. Jamaica fue segundo en ambas carreras. claramente en 3: 04.47, con Jamaica segundo en 3:05.72 y Canadá tomando el bronce en 3:06.50.  Read the full article

[revmeg]

We believe nothing is more valuable than disaster. We have learned good news is not news. This shrinks my own sweet aperture. Will I see what does not flame out? Will I love what isn't first-ever?

from “‘Expose for the Flame’” in Abloom & Awry: Poems by Tina Kelley, p. 23

#poetry #lit #Tina Kelley #Abloom & Awry

[therumpus]

Do years come back? Can you wear lava? Can you drink lava? Is there a round river? Is lightning upside down or right-side up? Does Addie miss us in heaven? Do cows get married? Is the sun alive? I’m touching God. And the year. I love you so dumb much. The cardinal sounds like a tambourine. I love you too much for you to die. Can you build the world? Out of bricks? What’s the air made of? How do eyeballs see? Can you have blue-green hair? Won’t you be my garden? He hit me, and it’s do unto others as you would have others do unto you. So he wants me to hit him. I am as clean as a daisy. I am as warm as a daisy. Let’s call the cat Dissa-monga-nofus When is God’s birthday? Do any birds eat leaves? Is the ocean an animal? Why is one first?

NATIONAL POETRY MONTH Day 4: “FOUND, FROM MY DAUGHTER” by Tina Kelley

#Poetry #Tina Kelley #National Poetry Month

[april-is]

April 5, 2023: Homeric Hymn, A.E. Stallings

Homeric Hymn A.E. Stallings

What if it wasn't hell, it was only sadness And your mother never came looking for you, never Put the earth on hold, calling your number, And your husband only wanted to cheer you up With a handful of ruby arils, a lead-crystal Flute of bubbles that struggled to reach the surface; What if the pit-bull with squared heads was just That old black mutt who only yapped at ghosts, What if the ghosts were just insomnia, A way to never rest in peace, what if The winter came and went and came and went, And the spring was out of whack, and that had nothing To do with you, and the flowers weren't lamps Or bridal torches to solemn you into the darkness; What if the darkness was only the curtains pinched Against the sun in the bedroom during the day, And what if the corner's horror was only the shadow Of a coat hanging by its neck from a doorknob, And the woolly fog that scumbled out of the river Was a way of seeing carried inside your eyes, What if the meadow of sweets was the worn world Whose beauties would outlast you, until they didn't, What if your alarm was just the alarm, What if, all along, you were free to go?

--

More like this: 

Persephone Writes to Her Mother, Tara Mae Mulroy || Poems about Greek myths || Consolation for Tamar, A.E. Stallings

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2022: The Mower, Philip Larkin 2021: When people say, “we have made it through worse before”, Clint Smith 2020: Untitled, James Baldwin 2019: To Yahweh, Tina Kelley 2018: from how many of us have them?, Danez Smith 2017: Sad Dictionary, Richard Siken 2016: Lucia, Ravi Shankar 2015: Overjoyed, Ada Limón 2014: Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing, Margaret Atwood 2013: Anniversary, Cecilia Woloch 2012: Poem for Jack Spicer, Matthew Zapruder 2011: Now comes the long blue cold, Mary Oliver 2010: Jackie Robinson, Lucille Clifton 2009: In the Nursing Home, Jane Kenyon 2008: To the Couple Lingering on the Doorstep, Deborah Landau 2007: White Apples, Donald Hall 2006: Late Confession, Gary Soto 2005: Steps, Frank O’Hara

#poems about fictional characters #a.e. stallings #greek myth

[lusoccer]

“Football girls favorite amateur jersey “  Due to a severe European epidemic, the five major leagues announced a temporary suspension, and weekend entertainment for football girls has decreased. I do n’t know what to recover, so I ’m busy.

#uswnt #bobs burgers #tina belcher #megan rapince #ashlyn harris #kelley o'hara #ali krieger #soccer #argentina #woman"s world cup #world cup #football #lol #wlw #sapphic #wwc 2019 #megan rapinoe #uswnt imagine #aoc #alexandria ocasio-cortez #politics #ayanna pressley #to my followers #football fandom #football imagine #usa #women

[lboogie1906]

LisaGay Hamilton (born March 25, 1964) is an actress who has portrayed roles in films, television, and on stage. She is known for her role as attorney Rebecca Washington on The Practice (1997-2003). She portrayed Melissa Thoreau on Men of a Certain Age (2009-2011), Celia Jones on House of Cards (2016), Suzanne Simms on Chance (2016), and Kayla Price on The First (2018). Her film credits include roles in 12 Monkeys (1995), Jackie Brown (1997), Beloved (1998), True Crime (1999), The Sum of All Fears (2002), The Soloist (2009), Beastly (2011), Beautiful Boy (2018), and Vice (2018). Her theater credits include Measure for Measure (Isabella), Henry IV Parts I & II (Lady Hotspur), Valley Song, and The Ohio State Murders. She was an original cast member in the Broadway productions of The Piano Lesson and Gem of the Ocean. In 2005 she won a Peabody Award for creating and directing the 2003 documentary film Beah: A Black Woman Speaks. Her film explored Richards' political activism as well as her poetry. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the AFI Film Festival. She collaborated to turn one of her poems into a children's book. Keep Climbing Girls was published by Simon and Schuster in 2006. She was born in Los Angeles but spent most of her childhood in Stony Brook on Long Island. Her father, Ira Winslow Hamilton, Jr., and her mother Eleanor Albertine "Tina" Blackwell. She fell in love with theater at an early age. During the 1970s, she saw several off-Broadway productions by the Negro Ensemble Company, including A Soldier's Story and The First Breeze of Summer. She enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University to study theater, but after a year was accepted into New York University's Tisch Drama School where she earned a BFA in Theater. She then pursued graduate studies at The Juilliard School where she earned a MA in Drama. She is married to Robin Kelley (2009). #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenhistorymonth https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOGQ1brFjG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #womenhistorymonth

[dear-indies]

Can you please recommend me FCs of any ethnicity for a ciswoman that can play between the ages of 25 and 35? Thank you in advance :D

Jessica Lucas (1985) Black Canadian / European.

Juliana Harkavy (1985) Dominican Republic, African, Chinese / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Issa Rae (1985) African-American.

Eréndira Ibarra (1985) Mexican - bisexual.

Janelle Monáe (1985) African-American - pansexual and bisexual.

Aja Naomi King (1985) African-American.

Deborah Ann Woll (1985)

Nathalie Kelley (1985) Argentinian, Peruvian [Quechua, possibly other].

Joséphine Jobert (1985) French, Sephardi Jewish, Spanish / Martiniquais, Spanish, possibly Chinese.

Jessica Matten (1985) Métis, Saulteaux-Cree, Chinese, British.

Olivia Taylor Dudley (1985)

Jurnee Smollett (1986) African-American, possibly other / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Genevieve Kang (1986) Korean, Scottish Irish, Lebanese, Apache, Spanish.

Samantha Renke (1986) - has Osteogenesis Imperfecta type 3.

Meaghan Rath (1986) Ashkenazi Jewish / Goan Indian.

Danielle Keaton (1986) Peruvian of Quechua descent and Ashkenazi Jewish.

Nicole Byer (1986) African-American - has said that she "doesn't identify as straight", but is uncomfortable with the labels "bisexual" or "queer."

Monica Raymund (1986) Afro-Domincan / English, Ashkenazi Jewish - bisexual.

Maika Harper (1986) Inuit.

Oona Chaplin (1986) Chilean [Mapuche, Spanish, evidently Romanian] / English, Irish, 1/16th Scottish.

Wunmi Mosaku (1986) Yoruba Nigerian.

May Calamawy (1986) Egyptian / Palestinian.

Roberta Colindrez (1986) Mexican - queer.

Astrid Bergès-Frisbey (1986)

Annie Murphy (1986)

Alexandra Daddario (1986)

Diane Guerrero (1986) Colombian.

Italia Ricci (1986)

Da'Vine Joy Randolph (1986) African-American.

Sonoya Mizuno (1986) Japanese / English, Argentinian.

Jenna Coleman (1986)

Aidy Bryant (1987)

Nicola Coughlan (1987)

Mackenzie Davis (1987)

Sarah Snook (1987)

Elizabeth Henstridge (1987)

Evan Rachel Wood (1987)

Naomi Watanabe (1987) Japanese / Taiwanese.

Michaela Coel (1987) Ghanian - aromatic.

Kirby Howell-Baptiste (1987) Afro-Jamaican.

Jessica Marie Garcia (1987) Mexican / Cuban.

Tina Desai (1987) Gujarati Indian / Telugu Indian.

Tuppence Middleton (1987)

Jessica Rothe (1987) Ashkenazi Jewish / German, Scottish, English.

Sarah Gadon (1987)

Mackenzie Davis (1987)

Shelley Hennig (1987)

Meng'er Zhang (1987) Chinese.

Lashana Lynch (1987) Nigerian.

Melissa O'Neil (1988) Hongkonger / Irish.

Portia Doubleday (1988)

Ashleigh Murray (1988) African-American.

Mae Whitman (1988) - pansexual.

Summer Bishil (1988) Indian / Mexican, German, English, distant Dutch.

Claire Holt (1988)

Rose McIver (1988)

Sharon Rooney (1988)

Vanessa Kirby (1988)

Anna Diop (1988) Senegalese.

Jing Tian (1988) Chinese.

Laura Dreyfuss (1988)

Margot Bingham (1988) Afro-Jamaican / Ashkenazi Jewish.

Nikohl Boosheri (1988) Iranian.

Allison Williams (1988)

Angelique Boyer (1988)

Phoebe Tonkin (1989)

Hannah John-Kamen (1989) Nigerian / Norwegian.

Shin Hye Sun (1989) Korean.

JuJu Chan (1989) Hongkonger.

Andrea Bang (1989) Korean.

Lucy Hale (1989)

Andy Allo (1989) Cameroonian.

Nathalie Emmanuel (1989) English, Saint Lucian, Dominican.

Kylie Bunbury (1989) Afro-Guyanese / Swedish, as well as Polish, English, and German.

Jessica Kellgren-Fozard (1989) has hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsy, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome with Marfanoid phenotype causing blindness in one eye and deafness - lesbian.

Imogen Poots (1989)

Mishel Prada (1989) Dominican, Mexican, Puerto Rican, and French.

Gabriella Wilde (1989)

Jane Levy (1989) Ashkenazi Jewish / English, some Irish and Scottish.

Shaunette Renée Wilson (1989) Afro-Guyanese.

Jessica Brown Findlay (1989) 

Kim Hieora (1989) Korean.

Nafessa Williams (1989) African-American.

Danielle Brooks (1989) African-American.

Burcu Özberk (1989) Turkish. 

Anna Akana (1989) Japanese, Native Hawaiian, possibly English, Irish, German, French, and Chinese / Filipino, possibly Spanish - bisexual. 

Barrett Doss (1989) African-American.

Lee Sung Kyung (1990) Korean.

Phillipa Soo (1990) Chinese / English, Scottish, Irish.

Carlson Young (1990)

Tristin Mays (1990) Creole [African, French, Unspecified Native American].

Rita Volk (1990)

Tasie Lawrence (1990) Indo-Guyanese / English.

Laura Harrier (1990) African-American / Rusyn, English, German, Swiss-German.

Rotana Tarabzouni (1990) Saudi Arabian.

Sibongile Mlambo (1990) Zimbabwean.

Elizabeth Debicki (1990)

Lolly Adefope (1990) Nigerian.

Adelaide Kane (1990) - bisexual.

Q'orianka Kilcher (1990) Peruvian [Quechua, Huachipaeri] / Swiss-German, Swiss-French.

Damaris Lewis (1990) Afro Kittian.

Mary Galloway (1990) Quamichan - queer.

Aiysha Hart (1990) Saudi Arabian / English.

Keisha Castle-Hughes (1990) Tainui, Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou, and English - has bipolar disorder. 

Conor Leslie (1991)

Im Jin Ah / Nana (1991) Korean.

Hazar Ergüçlü (1991) Turkish.

Paulina Singer (1991) African-American / Ukrainian.

Danielle Macdonald (1991)

KiKi Layne (1991) African-American.

Sofia Black-D'Elia (1991) Ashkenazi Jewish / Italian.

Sonya Hussyn (1991) Pakistani.

Jenny Boyd (1991)

Nyma Tang (1991) Ethiopian [South Sudanese].

Jeanine Mason (1991) 

Dai Si (1991) Uyghur.

Amanda Zhou (1991) Taiwanese.

Luz Pavon (1991) Afro Mexican.

Tanaya Beatty (1991) Da’naxda’xw, Himalayan.

Greta Onieogou (1991) Nigerian / Russian.

Storme Toolis (1992) - has cerebral palsy.

Carmela Zumbado (1991) Cuban.

Merve Çağıran (1992) Turkish.

Gulnazar (1992) Uyghur.

Kutsuna Shiori (1992) 

Medalion Rahimi (1992) Iranian, Mizrahi Jewish - she/they.

Ayça Ayşin Turan (1992) Turkish.

Marika Sila (1992) Inuit.

Mishti Rahman (1992) Bangladeshi.

Davika Hoorne (1992) Thai / Belgian.

Elizabeth Lail (1992)

Alina Kovalenko (1992)

Melisa Aslı Pamuk (1991) Turkish.

Jessica Barden (1992)

Anna Shaffer (1992) Black South African, Unspecified White / South African Jewish.

Katie Stevens (1992)

Dilraba Dilmurat (1992) Uyghur.

Demet Özdemir (1992) Turkish.

Jessica Henwick (1992) Chinese Singaporean / English. 

Louriza Tronco (1993) Bisaya Filipino.

Beanie Feldstein (1993) Ashkenazi Jewish - chosen not to label herself regarding sexuality.

Kiersey Clemons (1993) African-American / European - queer. 

Aisha Dee (1993) African-American / White.

Sierra Ashkewe (1993) Mohawk Jewish, Ojibwe.

India Eisley (1993) English, Argentinian [Spanish, possibly other], Scottish, German.

Yalitza Aparicio (1993) Mixtec and Triqui.

Sofia Carson (1993) Colombian – including Arab [Syrian-Lebanese, Palestinian], Spanish, possibly English, possibly other.

Hannah Marks (1993) Muscogee, Egyptian Jewish, Italian Jewish, Polish Jewish, Irish, and English.

Jodie Comer (1993)

Maia Mitchell (1993)

Hande Erçel (1993) Turkish.

Kitty Chicha Amatayakul (1993) Thai.

Elizabeth Gillies (1993)

Deniz Işın (1993) Turkish.

Keke Palmer (1993) African-American.

Urassaya Sperbund (1993) Thai / Norwegian.

Lydia West (1993) Black British.

Mina El Hammani (1993) Moroccan.

Bae Suzy (1994) Korean.

Fola Evans-Akingbola (1994) Nigerian / British.

Bruna Mascarenhas (1994) Brazilian.

Lucy Boynton (1994)

Denyse Tontz (1994) Salvadoran (Mayan and Spanish), Irish, and German.

Khadijha Red Thunder (1994) Cree, African-American, Spanish - pansexual. 

Aurora Perrineau (1994) African American, Afro-Haitian / English, Irish, French, German.

Chae Soo Bin (1994) Korean.

Jaz Sinclair (1994) African-American / Italian, Irish, Swedish. 

Hayley Orrantia (1994) Mexican (paternal grandfather), English, Irish, French, Swiss-French, German, Welsh.

Ivana Baquero (1994)

Emma Dumont (1994)

Han So Hee (1994) Korean.

Lyrica Okano (1994) Japanese.

Frankie Adams (1994) Samoan.

Lulu Antariksa (1995) Indonesian / German.

Danielle Campbell (1995)

Katherine McNamara (1995)

Simone Ashley (1995) Tamil Indian.

Aslıhan Malbora (1995) Turkish.

Phoebe Dynevor (1995)

Sophia Ali (1995) Pakistani. 

Adeline Rudolph (1995) Korean / German.

Maddison Jaizani (1995) Iranian.

Simone Ashley (1995) Tamil Indian.

Neelam Gill (1995) Punjabi Indian.

Cierra Ramirez (1995) Mexican / Colombian.

Ryan Destiny (1995) African-American / African-American, Unspecified White.

Aimee Lou Wood (1995)

Benedetta Gargari (1995)

Natalia Dyer (1995)

Moon Ga Young (1996) Korean.

Komatsu Nana (1996) Japanese.

Anya Taylor-Joy (1996)

Leah Lewis (1996) Chinese. 

İlayda Alişan (1996) Turkish.

Anya Chalotra (1996) Kashmiri Indian / English. 

All of these have resources at time of posting - let me know if you want more! 

#fc help #rph #rpc

[rockin-robinz]

It's Batman Day today (23 September)! To commemorate, I've done a photoset of fellow Robins that have used the title: Batman. Related Post

Batman Day 2015

Batman Day 2016

Image Source:

Caroline Keene "Carrie" Kelley: The Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1 by Andy Kubert and Frank Miller (Center)

Damian Wayne: Batman and Robin Annual #1 by Ardian Syaf (Lower Right)

Helena Wayne: Earth 2: Society #22 by Vicente Cifuentes (Middle Left)

Jason Peter Todd: Batman: Battle for the Cowl #1 by Tony S. Daniel (Upper Right)

Richard John "Dick" Grayson: Batman #687 by Ed Benes (Upper Left)

Timothy Jackson "Tim" Drake: Battle for the Cowl #2 by Tony S. Daniel (Lower Left)

Tina Sung: Justice League 30001 #5 by Howard Porter (Middle Right)

#Damian Wayne #Dick Grayson #Jason Todd #Tim Drake #Carrie Kelley #Helena Wayne #Tina Sung #Fan Edit #Photoset #Mine #Batman Day #Observances

[nanowrimo]

Author Interview: Jean Hanff Korelitz on Plotting

Every year, we’re lucky to have great sponsors for our nonprofit events. In author and NaNoWriMo supporter Jean Hanff Korelitz’s new novel The Plot, a failing author steals an unused idea for a bestselling book with deadly results. Today, we asked Korelitz some questions about how she came up with the idea for The Plot—and her approach to plotting a novel:

Q: How did you go about plotting this novel? For example, did you outline it or refer to any popular plotting resources like Save the Cat or Hero with a Thousand Faces? Or do you trust a more improvisational approach to writing and plotting? Or both?

A: I’ve actually never heard of either of these resources. They sound a bit suspicious, like that computer, EPICAC, in the Kurt Vonnegut story of the same name, who churns out years of ready-made love poems for its lovelorn programmer. It was my favorite Vonnegut story, but I’d still want to steer clear of that input/output when it comes to my own creativity. 

For me, a plot usually begins with a “What if” question and finding a way through what happens next comes from thinking it through as it unfolds. What makes sense? What makes too much sense? What is unexpected? Sometimes you get it wrong and have to go back (as I did, once, during the time I was writing The Plot, but that just shows you’re paying attention. Your reader isn’t stupid and doesn’t wish to be patronized (thriller readers in particular are intent on figuring it all out before you’ve made up your mind to reveal the information), and they’ll be the first to tell you how early in the story they solved your big mystery. 

I usually know about 60 percent of what I’m going to write before I begin a novel, and my own feeling is that if the author isn’t at least a little bit surprised, herself, as she’s writing the book, it transfers to what’s on the page. That distinctly stale worked-out-in-advance feeling is just what I’m trying to avoid.

Q: Was this novel influenced by the plots of any other novels?

A: No, although elements of the story have certainly appeared in other novels. Plagiarism? John Colapinto’s About the Author, for one. Tapped out professors of creative writing? Michael Chabon’s Wonder Boys. Creative self-doubt? There’s an entire sub-genre of Stephen King’s oeuvre about that. I’m already seeing a bit of “Doesn’t this book sound like…” questioning on Goodreads and Amazon. The specific books and movies that have been mentioned are way off, but you can describe most things in ways that make them sound like most other things. I don’t think these particular questioners have read the novel, but if they do read it they’ll realize that they’re actually demonstrating one of its arguments: most ideas are not original, and should not belong to any one writer.

Q: While writing this book, you must have put yourself in the shoes of your main character. Do you think you’d ever steal a genius idea for a book if you knew it would never be used?

A: I wouldn’t, but only because I’m squeamish by nature and I’d be terrified about that degree of exposure and disapproval. But, like most artists, I also understand that stories run underneath the ground of our collective experience, and we all dip into them, whether we’re aware of it or not. 

The real question is: At what point does a collective story become the individual property of a person or an artist? Who’s going to seriously accuse Jane Smiley of “appropriating” Shakespeare when she wrote A Thousand Acres, or Charles Frazier of stealing from Homer when he wrote Cold Mountain? A contender for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama was The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez, which openly adapts Forster’s Howards End to contemporary New York City. This is a normal, even laudatory practice, which artists fully understand. 

But to help yourself to the specific plot of a recently deceased author who never completed his book? I don’t know where the line is, exactly, but I’m pretty sure that’s over it.

Q: Throughout The Plot, several characters posit that writing can’t be taught. As a writer, do you agree or disagree?

A: Let’s just say that I’ve long felt there’s a limit to what can be taught. On the other hand, I have many friends who have benefitted from time in MFA programs and writing seminars, and my husband teaches poetry writing at the college level, I think rather effectively. I didn’t go the MFA route, myself, but I did take a creative writing class in college, and I learned something very important in that classroom, which was that I was allowed to make things up. It seems so obvious, but in my own case, I required someone to explain that to me, and I’m grateful to this day that my teacher did.

Q: What plotting advice would you give a beginning writer?

A: Read bad books (in addition, of course, to great books!) and ask yourself why they’re bad. Then, when it’s time to write your own novel, don’t do those things. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? That’s because it is. I just wish more people would do it.

Jean Hanff Korelitz is the author of the novels YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN (adapted for HBO as "The Undoing" by David E. Kelley, and starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland), ADMISSION (adapted as the 2013 film starring Tina Fey), THE DEVIL AND WEBSTER, THE WHITE ROSE, THE SABBATHDAY RIVER and A JURY OF HER PEERS. A new novel, THE PLOT, was published on May 11th 2021. Her company BOOKTHEWRITER hosts "Pop-Up Book Groups" in NYC, where small groups of readers can discuss new books with their authors. www.bookthewriter.com

#nanowrimo #writing #amwriting #plot #camp nanowrimo #writing advice #by nano sponsor #jean hanff korelitz #the plot

[barkerverse]

One of my fav hobbies is organizing other people’s images into funny little mooodboards on WeHeartIt 👻 and of course lately I’ve been making a lot of Clive related boards so here are the links if anyone’s interested in looking at them. Most of them are Abarat but I’ve got a few for Hellraiser too

Abarat:

ISLANDS OF ABARAT / SEA OF IZABELLA

Candy Quackenbush - Malingo - Christopher Carrion - Princess Boa - Finnegan Hobb - Letheo - John Brothers - Jimothi Tarrie - Geneva Peachtree - Mater Motley - The Fantomaya

General Clive Barker Mood

Hellraiser:

Kirsty x Pinhead (Pinsty) - OC: Ivan “Eyeball” Kelley (Eyeball Cenobite) - OC: Curse-tina Pins (Hellraiser x Monster High OC)

#Mine #Edits #Clive Barker #Barkerverse #Abarat #Hellraiser #There's definitely overlap and duplicate images among them so dont be surprised if you see the same image multiple times #They also look better on mobile but such is life lol