![]() The film is still a sore subject for Christina, who turns 80 on Tuesday. Given the topic is the “very serious subject matter” of child abuse, says Tina Scariano, the actress playing Christina, they’ve taken care not to turn the story into farce, the way the 1981 film did. Christina and composer and co-lyricist David Nehls used music from different periods to show the passage of time: 1940s jazz, 1960s doo-wop and 1970s folk. The musical follows the same timeline, from the Hollywood glamour of the 1930s to 1977, when Joan died. The memoir detailed the physical and mental pain she and her brother allegedly suffered at the hands of their adoptive mother. ![]() ![]() It’s in a way that feels real to Christina, an actual survivor of abuse.” Christina Crawford Getty Images Granted, the scenes we know from the Faye Dunaway movie are still there, music director Drew Wutke says, “but it’s not portrayed in a campy kind of way. ![]() “I want people to understand it is possible to confront your demons and come away on the other side as a full human being.” “This is not just a fun-and-games musical,” says Christina Crawford, whose best-selling 1978 memoir, “Mommie Dearest,” described life with the Hollywood legend. It seems a given that “Mommie Dearest: The Musical” would depict Joan Crawford screeching “No more wire hangers, ever!” But the show playing Birdland on Monday isn’t big on histrionics. ![]()
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Louise erdrich the queen6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() He owned a whole county of Minnesota wheatland. ![]() Ober, a tall man with a carefully trimmed black beard. There was something different about us even then. There were just us three: Karl and me and our mother, Adelaide. This story starts then, because before that and without the year 1929, our family would probably have gone on living comfortably in a lonely and isolated white house on the edge of Prairie Lake. I was the one who begged spotted apples from the grocery store and stole whey from the back stoop of the creamery in Minneapolis, where we were living the winter after my father died. My mother called him delicate, but I was the opposite. He suffered from fevers that kept him in a stuporous dream state and was sensitive to loud sounds, harsh lights. Karl was taller than me but spindly, older of course, but fearful. With no one to protect and look out for, I was weak. It was not that with Karl gone I had no one to protect me, but just the opposite. When it was out of sight, I stared down at my feet. I saw the train pulled like a string of black beads over the horizon, as I have seen it so many times since. The only difference would be the fragrant stick blooming in his hand. ![]() That was when I realized Karl had probably jumped back on the same boxcar and was now hunched in straw, watching out the opened door. I was the girl in the stiff coat.Īfter I ran blind and came to a halt, shocked not to find Karl behind me, I looked up to watch for him and heard the train whistle long and shrill. ![]() Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() With the help of her godmother and three enchanted gifts, she sets out on a journey in disguise that will lead her to a destiny far greater than any she could have imagined. Soon Bella is caught up in a terrible plot that will change her life - and the kingdom - forever. Now he wants her back, so Bella is torn from her beloved foster family and sent to live with her deranged father and his resentful new wife. 6,531 Ratings In the little village of Castle Down, in a kingdom plagued by war, lives a peasant girl called Bella.Then it is revealed that she is not the peasant she believed herself to be: She is Isabel, the daughter of a knight who abandoned her in infancy. Bella at Midnight by Diane Stanley 3.79 avg. Bella is a blacksmith's daughter her friend Julian is a prince - yet neither seems to notice the great gulf that divides his world from hers. ![]() Blessed with a kind family and a loving friend, she manages to create her own small patch of sunlight in a dark and dangerous world. But in life he’s an arrogant pig, and I didn’t care for him at all. And if you stuck him, and stuffed him, and hung him on the wall, I’d be very glad to admire him. ![]() In the little village of Castle Down, in a kingdom plagued by war, lives a peasant girl called Bella. Diane Stanley Quotes (Author of Bella at Midnight) 17 quotes from Diane Stanley: And I’ll wager you thought him the handsomest thing that ever you saw in your life. ![]() Solo by William Boyd6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The two travel from the capital city to the rebel enclave, but are attacked shortly before reaching their destination and taken captive by Kobus Breed, a mercenary assisting the rebels. On his arrival in Zanzarim, Bond is aided by a local agent who introduces herself as Efua Blessing Ogilvy-Grant. Before leaving for Africa, Bond visits Gabriel Adeka-the rebel leader's brother-who runs AfricaKIN, a London-based charity who send aid to Dahumni children Gabriel tells Bond that he is not in contact with his brother Solomon, as the pair have fallen out. After celebrating his 45th birthday alone at The Dorchester, Bond is sent to Zanzarim to bring a speedy end to the civil war in the country which has seen the delta region of the country split to form the Democratic Republic of Dahum. ![]() Scars cheryl6/9/2023 ![]() And, very often, I find that the fictional books aren't very realistic. I don't talk about it very often because I have problems discussing these topics, but I do read a lot of writing about both subjects. Truth be told, I stopped cutting because I found out that one of my friends cut as well - and he scared me into turning the situation into something that really did help me cope without risking my life). It allows me to take something that makes me feel awful and turn it into art, but that doesn't always sit well with everyone else. I don't hide the fact that I'm a rape victim - or that I used to be a self-mutilator (still am, depending on who you are and how you define SM - I cope now with tattoos and body piercing because it's safer than slashing up my arms or legs. ![]() Socrates the symposium6/9/2023 ![]() Some Notable Afterimages of Plato’s Symposium, J. Plato’s Symposium and the Traditions of Ancient Fiction, Richard Hunterġ4. Plato in the Courtroom: The Surprising Influence of the Symposium on Legal Theory, Jeffrey Carnes Agathon, Pausanias, and Diotima in Plato’s Symposium: Paiderastia and Philosophia, Luc Brissonġ1. The Virtues of Platonic Love, Gabriela Roxana Carone Where is Socrates on the “Ladder of Love”? Ruby Blondellĩ. A Study in Violets: Alcibiades in the Symposium, C. Permanent Beauty and Becoming Happy in Plato’s Symposium, Gabriel Richardson LearĦ. ![]() Medicine, Magic, and Religion in Plato’s Symposium, Mark L. ![]() A Platonic Reading of Plato’s Symposium, Lloyd P. The Role of the Earlier Speeches in the Symposium: Plato’s Endoxic Method? Frisbee C. The Symposium as a Socratic Dialogue, Christopher RoweĢ. ![]() Lungfish meghan gilliss6/8/2023 ![]() Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives-or before they are found out. Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. ![]() ![]() Here is storytelling at its best." -Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters and Run Me to Earth Here is a story about the islands we build and carry with us. " Lungfish is a force of nature-a deeply felt marvel of a book that navigates grief, parenthood, and the mysteries of family with unrelenting power and precision. Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prizeįinalist for the Main Literary Award for Fiction A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice ![]() Tacitus agricola and germania6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() While these works are not as well-known as Tacitus’ other classics, such as the “Annals”, or the “Histories”, “The Agricola” and “The Germania” remain important first-hand documents of ancient history and people lost to time. “The Germania” is an ethnographic study of the peoples believed by Tacitus to be part of the ancient Germanic tribes, including their laws, lands and customs. Tacitus draws an unfavorable comparison between the liberty enjoyed by the Britons to the corruption and cruelty of Rome and offers a biting and insightful commentary on the Roman greed that justified the oppression and exploitation of the British people. It is also a geographic and ethnographic history of Ancient Britain. ![]() “The Agricola” is a biography of the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola, who was Tacitus’s father-in-law. Much of Agricola, which is the biography of Tacitus late father-in-law Julius Agricola, is devoted to Britain and its people, since Agricolas claim to fame. Tacitus lived in what historians call the Silver Age of Latin literature and his contributions to the histories of these tumultuous times are considered significant and illuminating. “The Agricola” and “The Germania” are two important historical works by Cornelius Tacitus, an ancient Roman Senator and historian who lived from 56 AD to 120 AD. ![]() Demon Theory by Stephen Graham Jones6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() OL5717243W Page_number_confidence 96.24 Pages 454 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20211123083722 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 603 Scandate 20211121233405 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780385664080 Tts_version 4. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Demon Theory. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. ![]() On Halloween night, following an unnerving phone call from his diabetic mother, Hale and six of his med school classmates. A psychological tale of cinematic horror. Urn:lcp:demontheoryworko0000jone:lcpdf:8fd18d09-b4b2-45d7-8226-9f6b967ac626 Demon Theory - Ebook written by Stephen Graham Jones. Buy a cheap copy of Demon Theory book by Stephen Graham Jones. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 03:16:43 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40296001 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It completely disqualifies this book as horror and makes it a soap opera. She does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to save herself and don't even get me started on the ending. It was impossible to feel bad for her or even understand her. When she accurately jumps to a conclusion, it feels ridiculous because she has exhibited no common sense leading up to such a conclusion. She's a weak character from the start and every time she tries to be firm or stand up for herself, it amounts to nothing more than a tantrum. Is it because they don't know real women? Is it because it's easier to check those plot points off the list when idiot females can just trip and fall into them? How Vicky became a doctor, I will never know. My biggest issue with this book: I'm so fucking tired of male authors making female main characters look like dumb bitches. I'm hoping not because some of his other titles look interesting. ![]() *SPOILERS AHEAD!* This is the first book I've read from this author, so I don't know if this is a "thing" with him. If you're a woman, you might want to pass ![]() |