Luscious black and white photographs making Myths of the Beautiful People. Stunning !!! They seem to typify that Magical World which only partly existe Luscious black and white photographs making Myths of the Beautiful People. Stunning !!! They seem to typify that Magical World which only partly existed. It, of course, had a dark and sordid side which really only adds to its character. Happily Mark Vieira paints the Whole damn Mess. The Gay side, the Bitchy side, the Stab-in-the-Back side AND the Backside...the list is endless. Even NOW the Casting Couch Side of Sordid Sex is getting another Airing. And even the Marriages between the Stars were often the Work of the Hollywood Bosses. The Main thing here though is on the set...the Background of the Wonderful Photography. Some films get endless pages, some get very little at all. So it disappoints but that's the fault of the Archives. "Gone With The Wind" and "The Wizard of Oz" get more than there share. This is a Wonderfully Totally Indulgent Visit to the Year of 1939. It's NOT perfect but You won't be able to PUT IT DOWN !!!! Enjoy a Thousand Stars ...but I'm only giving it 4 !!!!!!...more
This is such an interesting title, so you only get as far as the cover and ALREADY you have been seized by the ...throat !!?
What lies behind this choiceThis is such an interesting title, so you only get as far as the cover and ALREADY you have been seized by the ...throat !!?
What lies behind this choice? Well, getting even darker, or just 'curioser and curioser', it is the Husband, Thomas Carlyle HIMSELF, who chose this phrase which, when made a little more complete, reads thus:
"...a brave woman, and, on the whole, a 'Necessary Evil' to a man."
Thomas Carlyle to his wife on her forty-third birthday.
...on the whole, a Compliment...an admission of his OWN need; an affectionate compliment between Equals rather than a back-handed compliment, I feel. A voice speaking honestly from a Life's experience. She benefits him, and he is glad to tell her so as she will be grateful to receive it.
I first read of Jane Welsh Carlyle,( her husband I had long heard of,) in the still excellent "The Faber Book of Diaries"(paperback, 1989), edited by Simon Brett. She gets 9 of her diary entries from March through to December. I was immediately taken by her quirky style and flow and her honesty of expression. This book promises the same as it has plentiful quotations from her, her husband and several friends and relatives. MORE TO COME...more
I DID find this book ...eventually. It is one of the many repeated covers shown when you go to look at other editions. There only seem to be these TWO oI DID find this book ...eventually. It is one of the many repeated covers shown when you go to look at other editions. There only seem to be these TWO other versions...it's a pale fawny cover with curvey lines down the sides.
I DID NOT find this book at all interesting because I didn't believe in what he was talking about. To claim that his SIX Chosen categories were more unifying than divisive was to me ...astounding. On the contrary, these 6 categories all seemed VERY divisive ones: -endless wars; -religious hatreds; - battle of the sexes; transgender has NEVER been an issue until recently not because people accepted it previously, but because they were too wise to mention it, too screwed up to discuss it, and if they did try who listened???; as for more obvious "genders"- well I did mention the Battle of the Sexes, no? yes !! -Race?? - WWII was a racist war ...65 million dead...no definitely NOT a problem!! the extinction of the aborigines and the american indians....no, no problem I can see there!!!???? -Nation, tribe, family...however you divide up the masses....are friendly on the whole, I suppose, but also where troubles start...hardly an example of union as is... -Class...even MORE divisive.
That's about the Lot...and surely there are less divisive ones. Probably...hopefully ???
I might just burn this book slowly as I briefly scan the pages before casting them into the Inferno and meantime soak up the Enlightenment given off by the Bright Flames... it then will have served the Purpose hoped for by the author even if only VERY INDIRECTLY.
I probably missed the WHOLE Point and Purpose of his Endeavour so if he reads this he might be inspired to REwrite it. Sorry, Mate !!! AND I didn't even get around to reading it ...just read alot of the reviews and THAt had people either agreeing with me OR doing an Intellectual Wank. I definitely will browse it now my curiosity has been aroused and I feel a definite empathy with a Bloke who wasted a fair bit of his Life writing IT ! Bad Luck, Mate...I'd take up writing Kids' Books if I were you....more
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