![]() With the Oscar nominated 'pop-promo' design of the film, Shakespeare became fashionable and cool once again. Luhrmann's flamboyant direction pumps new life into a well-known, much-adapted tale. ![]() The frenetic camerawork drives the audience through the film as the ill-fated pair hurtles towards their doom. Luhrmann makes the Capulets ball a glitzy affair with every frame dripping wealth. The film is beautifully shot with vivid and bizarre sets. Any teenager growing up in the mid 90s will attest to the unbeatable hipness of this movie. This is Shakespeare for Generation X, Y, and Z. This leaves Luhrmann free to stun his audience with the visuals. Kids say ( 88 ): Director Baz Luhrmanns whirling dervish adaptation of the classic tale of ROMEO + JULIET is replete with glowing surfaces, quick-cutting action, and a soundtrack that bites. It works, as there is the unwritten assumption that the audience are already familiar with the text and if not, will get the gist of it. They race towards a secret marriage, and when it seems that there may be some hope to bring the two warring sides together, events take a tragic turn.Īlthough Luhrmann courageously sticks with the prose, it's spoken as a language. At a party thrown by the Capulets, their teenage children, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, meet and quickly fall in love. ![]() Set in the gangs and gun culture of Verona Beach, the Capulets and the Montagues are two rival corporate dynasties with generations of hatred behind them. He offers a trendy, contemporary re-telling of the classic love story with Leonardo DiCaprio's Romeo and Clare Danes' Juliet. Baz Luhrmann's second feature, "William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet" (1996), is a bold and vigorous adaptation the Bard's most famous tragedy. ![]()
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![]() Is Mikhail’s love for Severn strong enough to withstand Luxen’s charm? Or will he break, unleashing an ancient god’s terrible vengeance upon them all? As the lies of the ancient past come crumbling down, Severn and Mikhail must harness their differences and unite two warring races. A sly, powerful concubi demon, Luxen is able to manipulate the minds and hearts of those around him. Weakened by his treatment in Haven, Mikhail finds himself at the mercy of the demon High Lord. ![]() ![]() Or every last demon will die when the guardian descends on London. He’s going to need all the help he can get to find Mikhail, unseat Luxen as High Lord, and build a force to rival the vicious Guardian Angel Remiel’s. Branded a traitor by his own kind, Severn knows winning demons back will not be easy, but when High Lord Luxen steals Mikhail from his grasp, he has no choice. ![]() An angel and a demon fell in love, and the world went to war. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her next release, Get Nervous (1982), sold less well than her previous two albums, but did include the North American hit " Shadows of the Night". Its single " Fire and Ice" charted highly in the US and Canada. ![]() Her third album, Precious Time (1981), was another success, topping the US Album Chart and becoming her first top 10 album in Australia. ![]() Its single " Hit Me with Your Best Shot" reached the top 10 in the US and Canada and is considered to be her best-known song. 2 in North America and France, being certified 4× and 5× platinum in the US and Canada, respectively. Her second album, 1980's Crimes of Passion, was her most successful work, peaking at No. Two singles from it were hits: " Heartbreaker" and "We Live for Love", the latter written by her lead guitarist and future husband, Neil Giraldo. Her 1979 debut album, In the Heat of the Night, was her breakthrough in North America, especially in Canada where it reached No. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in November 2022. She is also a four-time Grammy Award winner. In the United States, she has had two multi-platinum albums, five platinum albums, and 15 Billboard top 40 singles, while in Canada she had eight straight platinum albums, and she has sold over 35 million albums worldwide. Patricia Mae Giraldo ( née Andrzejewski formerly Benatar born January 10, 1953) is an American rock singer and songwriter. ![]() ![]() ![]() "The Bartered Bride Romance Collection: Nine Historical Stores of Arranged Marriages by 9 Various Authors was really good historical reads. ![]() In fact, Barbour could pull those four out and publish them in a separate book and have another good thing going. I liked the continuity between these particular stories - in seeing the same characters and the same setting and the progress of the relationships and the theme. The four stories included in the middle of the book were my favorites not coincidentally, these four novellas all centered around a group of sisters who descend on a man-heavy town thinking they had been bought as mail order brides. Overall, these novellas were enjoyable with likable characters and believable plots that didn't feel forced or rushed. I felt like most of the stories fell into that last category - which seemed odd to me as there is an entirely separate collection of stories by Barbour called The Convenient Bride. ![]() ![]() The Bartered Bride Collection gathers together 9 novellas on the theme of arranged or "convenient" marriages. ![]() ![]() ![]() The author does an outstanding job of avoiding the clichés and caricatures sometimes endemic to this topic. It is a tale not only of heroism, but of humanity, in all its complexity and ambiguity. Forced to grow rapidly in this new, hostile world, she not only survives, but courageously fights the Nazi oppression as best she can. Told in the first person, this is a story of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a young, naïve girl. ![]() Worse, her new position soon causes intense personal conflicts over all that she holds dear, especially her marriage vows to the absent Jacob. Urged to take on the job by the Resistance, Anna begins a new life, one that will lead her into a dangerous game of espionage. A chance meeting with the local Nazi governor, Kommandant Richwalder, results in a disturbing offer-personal assistant to the most powerful man in the city. Taking the new name of Anna Lipowski, she and Krysia together assume the care of an orphaned Jewish boy. Eventually, the Resistance smuggles her out to live with Jacob’s Catholic cousin, Krysia. In a short time, her husband Jacob disappears into the Resistance, leaving her and her parents to try to survive in the city’s Jewish ghetto. ![]() Emma Bau has been married only a few weeks when the Germans smash into Poland. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So when Major Ramsey turns up unannounced with another job, she can't say no. What she does miss is the challenge of unlocking an impossible code and the adrenaline rush that comes from being somewhere she shouldn't. It's true that the straight-laced Major Ramsey didn't give them much choice, but still, Ellie must admit she doesn't miss breaking and entering as much as she might have thought. After years of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor-well, to themselves, anyway-Ellie McDonnell and her family have turned over a new leaf as they help the government's war effort. The second in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, The Key to Deceit, is a delightful World War II mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and wit. ![]() ![]() ![]() To recap, the Nets knew that Ishbia wanted to get it done, make a big splash, and although his GM, James Jones, initially resisted giving up Mikal Bridges, leaving all the picks unprotected, adding a pick swap and sweetening the deal with Jae Crowder, a late add, Ishbia agreed to all the above. ![]() Still, after the Suns burnout, questions have been raised about whether Phoenix owner Mat Ishbia gave up too much back in February on his first day as an NBA owner and whether the Nets recouped their losses. The only exception is if one of the two teams involved in a trade wins it all. Things need to play out longer before winners and losers can be assessed. It is, as we noted on Twitter this week, too early to say who won - or lost - any trade after three months. ![]() Kyrie Irving got an early start not even making the playoffs while Kevin Durant exited this week, not even getting as far as he did in 2021, his best season as a Net when Brooklyn and Milwaukee went seven glorious games with him dominating. Not.at.all.Īfter the Suns ignominious second round, Game 6 exit Thursday, the two Nets superstars who left Brooklyn in mid-season hoping they could win it all elsewhere have gone fishing. Well, it’s the pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. ![]() It’s the Special Schadenfreude Edition of the Off-Season Report! What’s schadenfreude? you might ask. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But does he need the heartache of another man's baby, another wife? Neither does. a woman he really loves, a real family again. And the very sight of her suddenly makes him want more in his life. ![]() The question was: did he mean it? He did.īill Thigpen and Adrian Townshed collided in a supermarket. In as enviable life they'd worked hard for-the American Dream. His life is in perfect balance, he thinks.Īdrian Townshed thought she had everything: a job she liked as a TV production assistant and a handsome husband who was a rising star in his own field. Top-of-the-chart ratings, good-natured casual affairs, and special vacations with his two young sons. Now, nine years later, living alone in Hollywood, even without his wife and kids, his life and success are still reasonably sweet. Bill Thigpen, writer producer of the No.1 daytime TV drama was so busy watching his career soar that he never noticed his marriage collapse. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Cleland also wrote the first History of Occidental College, published in 1937.) Cleland's pioneering account of Southern California's transition from a Mexican cattle frontier to an agricultural American community on the eve of great urban expansion remains in print. The Cattle on a Thousand Hills: Southern California 1850-1880 (1941) by Robert C. East Coast reviewers discovered his epic poems in an expanded edition that was issued the following year. Even so, it was originally ignored upon its publication. Jeffers' third volume of poetry established his reputation as one of America's best new poets. Tamar and Other Poems (1924) by Robinson Jeffers 1905. ![]() "I had been alive at a great moment, and knew it was great." Beatty provides an eyewitness account of the 1917 Russian Revolution, based on her dispatches as a foreign correspondent for the San Francisco Bulletin. The Red Heart of Russia (1919) by Bessie Beatty 1907. After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, it was reissued with fulsome new introduction by Clare Boothe. foreign policy-was dismissed at home but reportedly sold 84,000 copies in Japan. Lea's book about the inevitability of military conflict between America and Japan-the title sarcastically refers to the blindness of U.S. The Valor of Ignorance (1909) by Homer Lea 1900. ![]() ![]() ![]() What really happened to her? And who is responsible? Utterly believable characters, a gripping story and a dark secret buried at its core: this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best. Implicitly.īut are they really? Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. You’ve known your neighbours for years and you trust them. You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. Goodreads Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play: the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In and The Third Wife.Version: eBook & Audiobook (9h 21min listening length) Would you just look at it?After I quit drooling over the cover, I took a glance at the book description and saw the buzz words “ dark secrets,” “ devastating mystery,” and “ communal garden.” I was sold! I am a big time sucker for any type of nature (trees, flowers, gardens, jungles, forests, etc.) on a book cover. ![]() The Girls in the Garden is another example of a review request heavily influenced by the beautiful cover. ![]() |