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PG is the kind of place where time slows down...a place to catch your breath...even as natures beauty so often takes it away.
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specialA controversial bill granting retroactive rights of publicity to dead celebrities in California has been signed into law by governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor signed the bill, SB 771, on October 10.
http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003658099
Passed by the California Assembly last month, SB 771 was intended to give Marilyn Monroe’s estate—and the beneficiaries of any other California celebrity who died within the last 70 years—the retroactive right to demand payment for commercial use of images of those dead personalities.
The law takes effect on January 1.
Guess it could prove to be very important.
note for trivia buffs: 24 of Ms.Monroe's films were made during the first 8 years of her acting career.
Born and named Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles at General Hospital, the actress would never know the true identity of her father.
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In 1962, Bert Stern was an established photographer renowned for the quality of his portraits, a hunter of icons whose lens gobbled up star after star. On the flight back from Rome where had just photographed Liz Taylor on the set of Cleopatra, he mused on his dream of doing a session with Marilyn Monroe.
And that is exactly what he suggested to Vogue as soon as he was back in New York. The editors loved the idea. Things moved quickly. Marilyn agreed to pose. Bert Stern’s dream was going to come true.
Rather than work in the studio, he decided to take a suite in the Bel-Air Hotel in Los Angeles. The lighting was minimal. He waited, his anxiety mounting. Would she come?
Marilyn’s moods and whims were notorious. The star had become capricious. She did come, alone. Only five hours later. The session could begin.
Marilyn agreed to pose nude, with no makeup on her body. A powerful, almost amorous rapport developed between the model and her photographer. He clicked away at her for twelve hours non-stop.
The results were remarkable, but too plain for Vogue. They suggested that Stern do another session, but this time Marilyn would wear makeup and some clothes. Marilyn agreed to pose again for Stern. The day before Vogue published the results, she died.
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Weegee was the pseudonym of Arthur Fellig (June 12, 1899 - December 26, 1968), an American photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white street photography.
Most of his work was done between 1935 and 1945, when he worked for the main New York newspapers.
This was a frantic decade of sleepless nights, of hours spent waiting in his car or in dingy stake-outs, ready to leap into action for any conceivable incident in any conceivable place.
Weegee gave the press its most striking photos of the murders, arrests, fires and accidents that flared into the New York night.
Weegee was a natural photographer the way others master the skill of painting.
He stood at the crossroads, enriching what was expected only to be news photography with a subjective vision of events and strong visual qualities.
Weegee’s vision of the city and its inhabitants has a sometimes tragic and often violent jubilation to it.
A master of black-and-white, he gives us his vision of the architectural beauty of New York and of the phenomenal power of its buildings.
Raised on the Lower East Side, one of the poorest districts of Manhattan, Weegee became the witness of poverty and its procession of afflictions.
He also observed the upper classes flaunting their wealth.
Childhood, the world of the street and sleep, which so uncannily resembles death, became his privileged themes.
Like Dashiell Hammett, he described the theatre of American criminality.
His photos of gangsters killed in the street, their eyes staring into the void, or of killers, hiding their assassin’s faces behind handkerchiefs, inspired the figures in countless Hollywood films noirs.
Weegee also had an eye for the injustice that afflicted the Black community. He denounced the apartheid that prevailed in certain American cities and was deeply empathetic in the way he photographed the strangeness and singularity of individuals.
His photographs inspired the Pop artists who took their subjects straight from the newspapers and from advertising. Andy Warhol used his car crash photos in his Orange Disaster series, thus forging an undeniable link between contemporary art and the pitiless images of reality.
In 1945, Weegee published Naked City, a book summing up a decade of work. Its success confirmed the tremendous talent of this photographer who is now considered as a major figure alongside such greats as Alfred Stieglitz, Bill Brandt and Brassaï.
Hendrik Berinson spent some twenty years collecting these two-hundred vintage prints. His collection includes all Weegee’s most important photographs.
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Today is the last day for at least for Parisians to see his work on display in a photgraphux exhibit at the Musée Maillol .
accident pronebut haven't yet touched it. Just look.
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Mach2 on land can be achieved. Well, at least some people are trying.
Hmmm. speed records and Nevada and Steve Fossett all in the
same article. I guess thats where speaking of, comes into play.
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Ladies and gentlemen,,,....introducing,,...
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Thanks for visiting today. See you tommorow.
Take care!
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Thanks for visiting.
Canada is helping new ones to Canada by allowing them a chance to participate more fully in the labour market. The Foreign Credentials Referral Office has been created to help internationally trained individuals find the information and access the services they need to put their skills to work quickly in Canada.
http://www.theeyeopener.com/article/3514
vegas lucky
don't ask
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Poor Flaggers (lets say the lone Flag straggler...hmmhhmm sounds like the birth of a new superhero comic...-lol)..will confuse the link above with something to do with CHEcHNYA I'll bet. But really,..it's for whomever.
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LOIS MAXWELL: Born Lois Hooker in Ontario, Canada, in 1927, she began her acting on radio before moving to Britain with the Entertainment Corps of the Canadian army at the age of 15,
UPDATE: I was fascinated to learn (try rolling that off your tongue in conversation see if you get any strange looks) that Lois Maxwell was born in Canada, had appeared in more Bond films than Moore or Connery, her fave film was On Her Majestys Secret Service and was disappointed she was not given the role of 'M' to play.
Personally I think this would have provided too much confusion for mainstay viewers who have too memories of her onscreen as the long suffering Ms. Moneypenny.
Oh well as much as she will be missed and revered and remembered, it may be safe and ok to say she has now positively gone on to bigger and better things. Gone but not forgotten.
vegas luckyAfter dropping out of advertising and art school and a brief stint in fashion merchandising and display, our protagonist takes up graphic design. Working closely with a photographer acquaintence and a model friend, he comes up with a visually arresting poster design also used on the companys website. Please feel free to adjust your computer monitor resolution for full-effect..
http://www.easyhome.ca/eZEasyHome/splash.html
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Although given a very short shelf life in todays frenzied pop driven atmopshere of constantly changing and fickle tastes, it would set the pace and maintain the momentum of a trend that would last a decade.
Behold, the long awaited re-appearance of Jane Fonda inspired chic and cool, not seen since the days of Barbarella, sexy boots and sexy flared pants (who says you cant wear white in September-er, lol?) make the perfectly plain, flat and wholesome girl nexy door into a blonde bombshell..
..take care, Flaggers.
hug mefor a cause.
Shes looking.... pretty.............. good is she not?
http://profusion123.blogspot.com/2007/10/elizabeth-hurley-at-holt-renfrew-in.html
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I would say period. Age doesnt really matter when your ..
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Coldharvest you are banned from posting and making comments on this blog.
accident proneSome idiot who logged in as 'coldharvest' actually posted a comment to one of the staler posts of this stupid blog, because to me this blogging thing is the equivalent of putting stickers and posters and reminders on the inside of ones own locker at high school.
But the reason I call him an idiot is because not only did I delete his childish entry immediately, but it was also a comment on a post long lost forgotten and blown over with winds and sands of change on something that was very verty personal to me (and yet had absolutely noting to do with him personally, period.)
so it just left me wondering, wtf is anybody doing going over this stupid kiss-ass blog for in the first place>? Esp. with entries that are paved over already with things that have happened?
coldharvest....you remind me of one of those goofy wrestlers flexxing his muscles in the mirror and making grunting noises...someone needs to simply grab you by the back of your crotch and pull: hard.
d'ohSony of Canada Ltd., Canada’s leading electronic and computer products solutions provider for consumers and business, announced today the launch of its new SxS PRO™ memory cards designed for professional videographers.\
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Should be ready in stores for order by November. This is
in addition to now being able to edit in the field. So!
Whos packing?
