6/30/2023 0 Comments Nureyev by Diane Solway![]() ![]() He carried on affairs with men and women alike-most notable among these was his intense, decades-long involvement with his professional idol Erik Bruhn and his penchant for sexy young call-boys. He reinvigorated contemporary ballet, particularly the importance of male dancers, by energizing his favorite traditional roles with unrestrained sexuality and unparalleled technical virtuosity. By the end of his first year in the West-in 1961 he became the first Soviet dancer to defect when he stayed in Paris after the rest of the Kirov returned to the U.S.S.R-he had performed with the major ballet companies in both Europe and the United States, and formed his legendary partnership with British dancer Dame Margot Fonteyn. ![]() Petersburg and went on to become one of the company's favorite dancers. ![]() Despite starting his ballet training much later most dancers, Nureyev won a coveted spot at the famous Maryinsky (later the Kirov) ballet school in St. His professional accomplishments are stunning. ![]() From the moment of his birth aboard a train speeding through Stalinist Russia, until his death of AIDS in 1993, Rudolf Nureyev seemed to travel through life at the velocity of a triple pirouette. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Jennie by Paul Gallico![]() ![]() ![]() Its success showed that large audiences existed for serious books. Penguin revolutionised publishing in the 1930s through its inexpensive paperbacks, sold through Woolworths and other stores for sixpence, bringing high-quality fiction and non-fiction to the mass market. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John as a line of the publishers The Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the following year. ![]() Will he stay a cat with Jennie or return to being a human boy?# PENGUIN BOOKS is a British publishing house. To his considerable astonishment, when he recovers, he is not a young boy but a cat! Fortunately, he meets Jennie, a cat abandoned by her family when they moved away, who educates him in the wiles of the feline world. Coloured binding, a little marked and the name of the previous owner, a book read, but not abused # This is the story of a young boy called Peter, who was knocked down by a car. # THIS BOOK: This book is classified: as GOOD: This is the 1963 edition: First published in the USA as The Abandoned in 1950, Published in Great Britain by Michael Joseph in 1950, and in Penguin Books 1963 The page edges and endpapers are discoloured, as usual, of the age and quality of the paper used. ![]() # JENNIE by Paul Gallico 1963: A Cat Lovers Story. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Hellbound heart![]() ![]() ![]() People like to think of the Hellraiser franchise as this epic masterpiece showcasing all the grim horrors of Hell, which is very much true, but this first film is decidedly a bit more personal. ![]() However, with this being a Clive Barker film and all, the erotic forbidden romance between Frank and Julia takes center stage. With multiple plotlines running throughout the course of Hellraiser, there’s a whole lot for the audience to chew on. Meanwhile, Larry’s daughter, Kirsty (Ashley Laurence), happens upon the Lament Configuration and finds herself forced into making a deal with the vicious Cenobites. Julia agrees to help Frank revive himself with a series of fresh victims to feed upon, as the two had once shared a steamy affair. Having been torn limb from limb in the very house Larry and Julia now inhabit, Frank finds himself brought back to life (more or less) by Larry’s spilt blood. Solving it, Frank was met not so much by pleasure, but by Pinhead (Doug Bradley) and his troop of grotesque Cenobites. Frank, in search of the ultimate pleasure, stumbled upon a bizarre puzzle box called the Lament Configuration. Larry (Andrew Robinson) and his bitter wife, Julia (Clare Higgins), have just inherited a nice and creepy old house which once belonged to Larry’s good-for-nothing brother, Frank (Sean Chapman). Someone professing to be a horror fan while not having seen Hellraiser leaves me wondering how dedicated they are to the genre ![]() |