The incal jodorowsky6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Humanoids is producing with Primer Entertainment, a company led by David Jourdan that acquired a stake in the publishing house in 2019. “I fully trust Taika’s creativity to give ‘The Incal’ a stunning take, intimate and at the same time of cosmic proportions,” he said. ![]() Jodorowsky said that Giger introduced him to Waititi’s work, which convinced him that he’d found the right filmmaker. ![]() “It began as the adventures of a jackass named John Difool, and then it became something else - we called it ‘The Incal’ - something that has transformed everything it’s ever touched and continues to do so: its creators, the other artists who later became a part of John’s journey, its publisher Humanoids and myself in the process, countless readers, writers and directors around the world, and soon, I believe, the great Taika Waititi himself and everyone who looks to him for inspiration,” said Humanoids CEO Fabrice Giger. As Difool learns of the Incal’s powers and purpose, he teams with a ragtag crew on a mission to save the universe. ![]() It centers on a private investigator John Difool, who happens upon a mystical artifact known as the Incal, an object of great power coveted by many factions across the galaxy. ![]()
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Penelope sky the scotch king6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() October – Mark Canton replaces Frank Price as chairman of Columbia Pictures.As a result of this new formation, Tri-Star Pictures drops the hyphen from its name and becomes TriStar Pictures, while RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video becomes Columbia-TriStar Home Video. ![]() August 7 - Sony Pictures Entertainment is formed, acquiring Columbia Pictures Industries.July 3 – Terminator 2: Judgment Day became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.July 1 - Brandon Tartikoff is appointed as chairman of Paramount Pictures.March 20 - Frank Mancuso leaves as the head of Paramount Pictures.It is also the first, and to date only, Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film. February 14 – The Silence of the Lambs is released and becomes only the third film after It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) to win the top five categories at the Academy Awards: Best Picture Best Director ( Jonathan Demme) Best Actor ( Anthony Hopkins) Best Actress ( Jodie Foster) and Best Adapted Screenplay ( Ted Tally).The top 10 films released in 1991 by worldwide gross are as follows: Highest-grossing films of 1991 See also: Lists of box office number-one films § 1991 ![]() Collins wilkie armadale6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It then published in two volumes by Smith, Elder in May 1865. He was paid £5,000 for the complete work – money that went to support the two separate families he maintained in London’s fashionable West End at the same timeĪrmadale first appeared as twenty serial episodes in the Cornhill Magazine between November 1864 and June 1865. It didn’t result in quite so many magazine sales, but it certainly helped to cement his position of the master of the ‘sensation novel’ – of which this was his longest. ![]() Tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web linksĪrmadale (1864) was the follow-up to two previously successful novels by Wilkie Collins – The Woman in White (1860) and No Name (1862). ![]() My antonia by willa cather6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() We were talking about what it is like to spend one’s childhood in little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of climate: burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky, when one is fairly stifled in vegetation, in the color and smell of strong weeds and heavy harvests blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron. The dust and heat, the burning wind, reminded us of many things. While the train flashed through never-ending miles of ripe wheat, by country towns and bright-flowered pastures and oak groves wilting in the sun, we sat in the observation car, where the woodwork was hot to the touch and red dust lay deep over everything. He and I are old friends–we grew up together in the same Nebraska town–and we had much to say to each other. LAST summer I happened to be crossing the plains of Iowa in a season of intense heat, and it was my good fortune to have for a traveling companion James Quayle Burden–Jim Burden, as we still call him in the West. TO CARRIE AND IRENE MINER In memory of affections old and true ![]() One of the murphys book6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() In 1879 he entered the University of Moscow to study medicine and graduated in 1884. ![]() Widely considered one of the world’s greatest writers, Anton Chekhov was born on January 29, 1860, in Taganrog, Russia. Recent TV: Recurring on Station 19, Ray Donovan, Shameless, Netflix’s Unbelievable with Toni Collette and Dustin Black’s miniseries When We Rise. Film: The Way Back with Ben Affleck, The Amateurs with Jeff Bridges. Alving, Ghosts, Bottom & Demetruis, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Ruth, Collected Stories. ![]() LA: Parfumerie (Wallis Annenberg), The Brothers Karamazov (Circle X – LADCC Award), Lost in Yonkers (La Mirada), Some favorite roles: Mother Courage (Canadian Fringe) Mrs. ![]() Representative Regional: The Normal Heart (Pioneer Square), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Third Rail) Outside Mullingar (B Street), A Doll’s House, When We Were Married (Seattle Rep), Broadway, Oktoberfest (Empty Space), Snow Falling on Cedars, Doubt (Portland Center Stage), A Life with Father (Denver Center), A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur (Hartford Stage), Enchanted April (Cleveland Play House). She moved with Seattle Rep’s The Cider House Rules (Garland Award) to L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum and never left. Taini is honored to be back at Pasadena Playhouse where she previously starred in Enchanted April. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But soon a trumpet makes a duet, a french horn a trio, and so on until the entire orchestra is. All in all, a book I would recommend to young music lovers, or to anyone looking for good read-aloud titles. When this book begins, the trombone is playing all by itself. The gouache illustrations by Marjorie Priceman are full of fun, with a sense of movement that perfectly complements the joie de vivre of the text, and are well deserving of the Caldecott Honor that they received. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. The rhyming text bowls along, communicating the tone and feeling of each of the instruments - the "mellow" cello, the "darkly slick" clarinet - while also keeping the rhythm joyfully alive.A celebration of music that also functions as a counting book (the soloist becomes a duo, the duo a trio, and so on), Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin is an entertaining little tale that would make an ideal read-aloud selection for story-hour. Read reviews and buy Zin Zin Zin a Violin - by Lloyd Moss (Hardcover) at Target. Lloyd Moss, who worked for New York's classical music station, WQXR, for fifty-three years, turned to the world of children's literature in 1995, publishing this debut picture-book about an ever-expanding group of musicians who chime in, one by one, until a full orchestra is in swing! Beginning with a single trombone, Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin builds momentum and excitement, as each new player joins the group. ![]() Author glen cook6/8/2023 ![]() Recommended foods do NOT include meat, dairy products, eggs, added oils, or most processed foods. They do have natural sugar but are low on the glycemic index, except for watermelon and pineapple.
Rogues keefe6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “If you’re a politician, and you’re trying to rise in the ranks from the local or state level in your party,” he notes, “your best bet is to join the national culture wars”-even at the expense of constituents’ real concerns. As Keefe says in his preface, 'They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial. Jacob Grumbach, a political-science professor and the author of “ Laboratories Against Democracy,” talks about how state politics has become nationalized. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from The New Yorker. In the past few years, in Arizona, Wisconsin, and North Carolina, legislatures have worked to strip powers from state officials who happen to be Democrats in order to put those powers in Republican hands. As Keefe says in his preface: They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption. Earlier this week, Representative Zooey Zephyr, of Montana, was barred from the House chamber after making a speech against a trans health-care ban. Rogues brings together a dozen of his most celebrated articles from the New Yorker. Their offense wasn’t corruption or criminal activity-instead, they had joined a protest at the statehouse in favor of gun control, shortly after the Nashville shooting at a Christian school. Little more than a month ago, the story of two lawmakers expelled from the Tennessee legislature captured headlines across the country. Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter of the best New Yorker podcasts. Rogues is a collection of Keefe’s New Yorker articles about criminals and con artists and more. Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Google | Wherever You Listen ![]() Abarat series6/8/2023 ![]() An enthralling ride with nonstop action, adventure, and suspense, Barker has delivered an epic dystopian battle. Candy and her crew battle on to ultimately defuse Mater Motley and rescue the 7,000 who have survived, with the message that even in the face of this terror and loss, they may find hope. Welcome to the Abarat, a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the. She valiantly fights for the sake of her friends and her mother and to speak and act for those who have no voice. ![]() Only one person can stop her – Candy Quackenbush from Chickentown, USA, a heroine who has traveled between the Hereafter and the Arabat. When evil begins rising from the sea, tumbles The Great Head, and sets islands aflame, the Abarat is filled with fear. ![]() Her hour has come – she is prepared to unleash the end of the world. ![]() Mater Motley plans to create a darkness so complete that it blots out every glimpse of the light and vanquishes the sun, moon, and stars from the Abarat, ending all hope and happiness. New interview: Abarat book 4 is almost done This April (April 9-24, 2020), Clive did a massive multi-day interview with Revelations which included an update on the next installment in the Abarat series For those who haven't kept up with Clive over the last decade and have been wondering why book 4 has been taking so long: in 2012 Clive. ![]() Woodwalker by Emily B. Martin6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() But while she shakes the foundation of Moquoia’s stratified society, she also has to fight to protect her rescuees – and herself – from the unforgiving world around them. ![]() ![]() In the desert, outlaw Lark – known to most as the Sunshield Bandit – has built a name for herself attacking slavers’ wagons and freeing the captives inside. But the harsh desert and gleaming court are linked through their past, present, and future: a history of abductions in the desert to power Moquoia’s quarries and factories, and a bleak, inhumane future built on the sweat and sacrifice of these bond laborers.īut events unfolding in the present could change everything. The desolate canyons of Alcoro – and the people desperate enough to hide there – couldn’t be more different from the opulent glass palace and lush forests of Moquoia. Individual fates, each on a quest to expose a system of corruption. ![]() |