The decentralized movement toward freedom is raging across the world. It cannot be stopped. The tipping point is near. Despite the lack of coverage in the mainstream media, actions are springing up on an increasing basis. A wave of transformation is rising. The zeitgeist is shifting in our direction.
At this point, given all the nonviolent direct actions that are currently being planned, it makes strategic sense for us to organize them, in a decentralized way, in a way that the mainstream media cannot ignore. A slightly more coordinated approach is all it will take.
The Awakening Wave
The last time we all rallied together in a loosely knit collective fashion, the Occupy movement was born and the 99% meme brought the corruption of our political and economic system, along with the grotesque inequality of wealth, into mass consciousness in a profound and lasting way. It was the opening…
Tonight memories come flooding back. I remember the time when this song came out. I was barely entering my teenage years. And the war in Vietnam was rolling.
At the time, there was unrest in the country. There was a social movement for civil rights and protests against the Vietnam war. Protests, sittings, flower power. That kind of popular feeling doesn’t seem to be present in the fiber of our society anymore.
Do you think we learned anything? I don’t think so!
The first three verses were written by Pete Seeger in 1955, and published in Sing Out! magazine. Additional verses were added by Joe Hickerson in May 1960, who turned it into a circular song. Its rhetorical “where?” and meditation on death place the song in the ubi sunt tradition. In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the “Top 20 Political Songs”.
The 1964 release of the song as a Columbia Records 45 single, 13-33088, by Pete Seeger was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2002 in the Folk category.
Seeger found inspiration for the song in October 1955, while on a plane bound for a concert in Ohio. Leafing through his notebook he saw the passage, “Where are the flowers, the girls have plucked them. Where are the girls, they’ve all taken husbands. Where are the men, they’re all in the army.”
These lines were taken from the traditional Cossacks folk song “Tovchu, tovchu mak”, referenced in the Mikhail Sholokhov novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), which Seeger had read “at least a year or two before”
Seeger adapted it to the tune of the Russian folksong “Koloda Duda” (which was subsequently published in Sing Out in 1962). With only three verses, he recorded it once in a medley on The Rainbow Quest album (Folkways LP FA 2454) released in July, 1960 and forgot about it.
Joe Hickerson added verses four and five, and a repeat of verse one, in May 1960 in Bloomington.
In 2010, the New Statesman listed it as one of the “Top 20 Political Songs”.
The song appeared on the 1967 compilation album Pete Seeger’s Greatest Hits released by Columbia Records as CS 9416.
“He’s had one of the most perfect lives of anybody I know.”
That was filmmaker Jim Brown’s response when asked why he profiled Pete Seeger in a PBS “American Masters” documentary. Few would disagree with Brown’s assessment. In a career that’s spanned over 70 years, the 94-year-old Seeger has embodied the idealism that once defined the American spirit. A tireless crusader for social justice, world harmony and environmental causes, Seeger was even called, at the height of his activism, “America’s tuning fork.”
The trajectory of Seeger’s life is dazzling.
Born May 3, 1919, he first wanted to become a journalist. Music beckoned, however, and following a period where he assisted folk-song archivist Alan Lomax, he teamed with legendary songwriter Woody Guthrie to form the politically oriented Almanac Singers.
Drafted into the Army in 1942, Seeger served out his duty and then co-founded the folk group, the Weavers. In addition to popularizing the Guthrie classic “This Land Is Your Land,” the Weavers topped the charts in 1950 with their version of Leadbelly’s “Goodnight, Irene.”
Blacklisted during the McCarthy era, the Weavers disbanded in 1953. Informally banned from TV programs and radio shows—as well as from many concert stages—Seeger began performing at high schools and on college campuses. Concurrent with the folk revival of the early ’60s, his songs became better known to the public at large.
Thanks to hit versions by the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul & Mary, and the Byrds, the Seeger-written songs “If I Had a Hammer,” “Where Have All the Flowers Gone” and “Turn! Turn! Turn!” have become part of the American lexicon.
These days Seeger remains vibrant, creative and deeply attuned to social and environmental issues. He and his wife, Toshi, continue to live on a wooded hillside in New York overlooking the Hudson River, in a cabin they built with their own hands decades ago. Since 1969, Seeger has worked closely with the Clearwater organization, an environmental group that seeks to protect the Hudson River, its tributaries and related waters. Each year he invites more than 10,000 children and adults onto his sailboat, where they sing and discuss the history of the Hudson.
To celebrate his life, here is Pete’s story behind his timeless “Where Have All the Flowers Gone.”
“I had been reading a long novel—”And Quiet Flows the Don”—about the Don River in Russia and the Cossacks who lived along it in the 19th century. It describes the Cossack soldiers galloping off to join the Czar’s army, singing as they go. Three lines from a song are quoted in the book: ‘Where are the flowers? The girls plucked them / Where are the girls? They’re all married / Where are the men? They’re all in the army.’ I never got around to looking up the song, but I wrote down those three lines.
“Later, in an airplane, I was dozing, and it occurred to me that the line ‘long time passing’—which I had also written in a notebook—would sing well. Then I thought, ‘When will we ever learn.’ Suddenly, within 20 minutes, I had a song. There were just three verses. I Scotch-taped the song to a microphone and sang it at Oberlin College. This was in 1955.
“One of the students there had a summer job as a camp counselor. He took the song to the camp and sang it to the kids. It was very short. He gave it rhythm, which I hadn’t done. The kids played around with it, singing ‘Where have all the counselors gone? / Open curfew, everyone.’
“The counselor added two actual verses: ‘Where have all the soldiers gone? / Gone to graveyards every one / Where have all the graveyards gone? / Covered with flowers every one.’ Joe Hickerson is his name, and I give him 20 percent of the royalties. That song still brings in thousands of dollars from all around the world.”
Where have all the flowers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone, long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls pick them, every one
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone, long time passing?
Where have all the young girls gone, long time ago?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone to young men, every one
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone, long time passing?
Where have all the young men gone, long time ago?
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers, every one
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
And where have all the soldiers gone, long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone, a long long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
Where have all the graveyards gone, long time passing?
Where have all the graveyards gone, long time ago?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, every one
When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn?
Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger LIVE at Wolftrap. Pete leads everyone to sing his famous song. He was seventy four at that time and every year he keeps saying, “Well, ya know, this will be my last time”. This year Pete is 89 years old and he & his grand son Tao Rodriquez/ Seeger will be playing Carnegie Hall with Arlo and family!
The video mix is live and the sound track is from our CD titled, “More Together Again”.
On July 26, 1956, the House of Representatives voted 373 to 9 to cite Pete Seeger and seven others (including playwright Arthur Miller) for contempt, as they failed to cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their attempts to investigate alleged subversives and communists. Pete Seeger testified before the HUAC in 1955.
In one of Pete’s darkest moments, when his personal freedom, his career, and his safety were in jeopardy, a flash of inspiration ignited this song. The song was stirred by a passage from Mikhail Sholokhov’s novel “And Quie Flows the Don”.
Around the world the song traveled and in 1962 at a UNICEF concert in Germany, Marlene Dietrich, Academy Award-nominated German-born American actress, first performed the song in French, as “Qui peut dire ou vont les fleurs?” Shortly after she sang it in German. The song’s impact in Germany just after WWII was shattering. It’s universal message, “let there be peace in the world” did not get lost in its translation.
To the contrary, the combination of the language, the setting, and the great lyrics has had a profound effect on people all around the world. May it have the same effect today and bring renewed awareness to all that hear it.
Peter Paul and Mary, Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Related articles:
1. http://writerfox.hubpages.com/hub/WarPoems
2. Full article/source: http://performingsongwriter.com/pete-seeger-flowers-gone/
French police in the south of the country are investigating a new scandal with illegally processed horse meat. In raids in eleven departments, according to the media, 21 people were arrested.
Police suspect that horse meat unfit for human consumption nevertheless had gone to stores. This is said to include horses which had been used in tests in the pharmaceutical industry and horses from riding schools.
Patella dislocation is an injury of the knee, typically caused by a direct blow or a sudden twist of the leg.
It occurs when the patella (kneecap) slips out of its normal position in the patellofemoral groove, and generally causes intense pain with effusion. Open or arthroscopic surgery may be used to repair damage, but are typically avoided since rates of re-injury, knee function, and patients’ opinions do not differ much from conservative treatment.
The patella generally dislocates laterally, and can be accompanied by acute pain and disability. Immediate reduction can be accomplished by hyperextension of the knee, and by providing a medialward pressure to move the patella back into the patellofemoral groove. Hyperextension of the knee on its own could possibly move the patella into place, because this motion locks the knee in place.
When the knee is locked the ligaments are twisted and taut, allowing the muscles involved to relax and the patella to slide back into place. If that does not work, a medical professional must manually perform an orthopedic reduction.
Swelling and impaired mobility follow patellar dislocation, and a rehabilitation program of six to sixteen weeks is recommended whether or not the patient undergoes surgery.
Young athletes suffer patellar dislocations more commonly than any other group, and the average age of occurrences is 16–20 years. Sports commonly associated with the injury involve sudden twisting motions of the knee and/or impact, such as soccer, gymnastics and ice hockey.
It can also occur when a person trips over an object or slips on a slick surface, especially if that person has predisposing factors.
The patella is a triangular sesamoid bone which is embedded in tendon. It rests in the patellofemoral groove, an articular cartilage-lined hollow at the end of the thigh bone (femur) where the thigh bone meets the shin bone (tibia). Several ligaments and tendons hold the patella in place and allow it to move up and down the patellofemoral groove when the leg bends.
A direct impact that knocks the patella out of joint
A twisting motion of the knee, or ankle
A sudden lateral cut
Symptoms and signs
Patients often describe pain as being “inside the knee cap.” The leg tends to flex even when relaxed.
To assess the knee, a clinician can perform the Patellar Apprehension Test by moving the patella back and forth while the patient flexes the knee at approximately 30 degrees.
The patient can do the patella tracking assessment by making a single leg squat and standing, or by lying on his or her back with knee extended from flexed position. A patella that slips medially on early flexion is called the J sign, and indicates imbalance between the VMO and lateral structures.
Treatment options
X-ray and MRI after luxation of the patella. There is a fragment and bone bruise at the medial surface of the patella and in the corresponding surface of the lateral condyle of the femur. The medial retinaculum of the patella is disrupted.
Two types of treatment options are typically available:
Surgery may impede normal growth of structures in the knee, so doctors generally do not recommend knee operations for young people who are still growing. There are also risks of complications, such as an adverse reaction to anesthesia or an infection.
When designing a rehabilitation program, clinicians consider associated injuries such as chipped bones or soft tissue tears. Clinicians take into account the patient’s age, activity level, and time needed to return to work and/or athletics.
Doctors generally only recommend surgery when other structures in the knee have sustained severe damage, or specifically when there is:
The forces acting on the normal patella attempt to displace it laterally, because the tibial tubercle lies lateral to the long axis of the femur and the pull of the quadriceps muscle. When the knee is flexed, the patella slides distally and is engaged by the trochlear groove in the femur.
The lateral lip of the trochlea and tension in the medial soft tissues prevent lateral dislocation in the normal situation. Risk factors which predispose to patellar instability can be divided into two main groups:
Factors causing poor engagement of the patella in the trochlea: eg an abnormally high patella (patella alta), patellar dysplasia, or a poorly developed trochlea
Factors which allow the patella to move laterally out of the trochlea, such as a defective lateral trochlear margin or an abnormally shallow trochlear groove. Laxity of the medial retinaculum plays a role in the development of chronic dislocation.
Other reported risk factors include the presence of an osteochondral fragment, a very active individual, generalised ligamentous laxity, excessive femoral anteversion and external rotation deformity of the tibia.
Kneecap (patella) dislocation, or patellar subluxation, occurs when the triangle-shaped bone covering the knee (patella) moves out of place. This is a common occurrence in young athletes, especially females.
What causes kneecap dislocation?
Most commonly, the kneecap (patella) dislocates due to a twisting stress to the knee. However, the injury can also occur because of direct contact.
If a foot is planted and then a sudden twisting movement or rapid change in direction occurs, the stress to the knee can cause the kneecap to shift out of place. For example, if a runner suddenly changes directions, the force can lead to patellar subluxation or dislocation.
What does a dislocated kneecap feel like?
Symptoms of a dislocated kneecap (patella) include:
Severe pain and an inability to walk
Tenderness and swelling around the knee
Sense of instability of the knee
Collapsing of the knee, perhaps causing falls
The kneecap physically slips to the outside of the knee
How do I know if I have a dislocated kneecap?
A physical examination by your doctor or orthopaedic provider is necessary to determine proper diagnosis. X-ray imaging of the patella may be required to rule out underlying conditions, including fracture.
Your doctor may also need to determine if the injury has caused damage to ligaments or cartilage in your knee. This can be done with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
How is kneecap dislocation treated?
Once kneecap dislocation is confirmed, the kneecap will be physically relocated or reduced — i.e. pushed back into place.
After the kneecap is reduced and it has been confirmed that there is no fracture or damage to the knee’s cartilage, your knee may be placed in an immobilizer or brace for several weeks.
Following a period of immobilization, physical therapy will then be recommended to build muscle strength and improve range of motion in the knee.
If the patella remains unstable and recurrent dislocations occur, arthroscopic or other surgery may be recommended to stabilize the patella. This may involve repairing the soft tissue or realigning the patella.
If dislocations continue to occur and are left untreated, this can be detrimental, as kneecap dislocation can cause damage to your knee joint.
Natural history
The natural history of an acute dislocation is that, overall, approximately one in six patients will develop recurrent dislocation, two in six will have some minor residual symptoms while three in six will be asymptomatic. The incidence of redislocation decreases with age; however in the 11-14 age group it is approximately 60%.
Assessment of recurrent patellar dislocation
Assessment begins with a good history. The circumstances of the original dislocation should be determined, as should the type of movement that precipitates the redislocation – does it occur by simply flexing the knee or is a twisting movement required?
On clinical examination the point at which the patella engages in the trochlea should be noted. Can apprehension be elicited by manualy directing the patella laterally while flexing the knee? Are the patellar retinacula abnormally loose, or does the patient have signs of generalized ligamentous laxity?
Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities.
In one square inch of our hand, we have 9 feet of blood vessles, 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors.
We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in our bodies.
~~What a marvel of a “machine” — a Rolls Royce, a Bentley, a Lamborghini~~
THIS IS THE BEST GIFT WE’VE EVER RECEIVED. IT HOUSES OUR SELVES, OUR HEART, OUR MIND, OUR SPIRIT, OUR IDENTITY.
WE HAVE NO OTHER OPTION BUT TO TAKE CARE OF IT!!!
…. sometime we will have to account for it.
~~a wondrous creation~~
10 Amazing Facts about the Human Body
Nerve impulses travel as fast as 170 mph
The brain can store more information than the Encyclopedia Britannica
The heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet
Sneezes clock in at 100 mph
The average person farts 14 times a day
Human body is estimated to have 60,000 miles of blood vessels
Acid in the stomach is strong enough to dissolve razor blades
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents 9.
The ashes from a cremated person average 9 pounds.
By the age of 60, most people will have lost about half their taste buds
Interesting facts: Human Body
We ALL are ONE!!
We ALL are created EQUAL!!
Amazing Human Facts
Published on Sep 28, 2013
The Human Body is the most Amazing & the highest Creation in this World. The structure & functions of the Human Body are Interesting, Intricate & Thought provoking. Many a times, we are unable to understand how it is functioning, even though Science & Technology have unraveled many Mysteries of the Human Body. The Medical Science has attributed a lot in knowing our Body & its Functions.
Here, the author, Dr.Purushothaman, a Surgeon by profession is trying to present some of the Interesting Facts about the Human Body & its Functions in relation to our day to day Life.
Scott Lively’s campaign motto is “Qualified. Experienced. Electable.”
By Cathy Kristofferson, December 16, 2013
Scott Lively (I-MA) would like to remind everyone that he is still running for Governor of Massachusetts. We presume that his campaign has been suspended while he fights Crimes Against Humanity charges. That pesky trial for persecution on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity he just lost a bid to suspend early last week. Regardless, his gubernatorial campaign is now officially launched.
Lively first hinted at this run back in November 2012 then claiming to be debating whether to run as a Democrat or Republican. In September of this year he declared his decision to run as Independent. He used last night’s interview with MassLive to called MA Democrats “Communists” so I guess they were not going to be his party of choice. He has in the past called MA Republicans RINOs, as…
On November 9, 1938, the Nazi regime organized the Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) pogrom in Germany and Austria, which represented a transition from discrimination against Jewish citizens to their systematic persecution. The nationwide pogrom involved the mass destruction of Jewish businesses and synagogues. Some 30,000 German Jews were thrown into concentration camps and hundreds were murdered. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the tragic event.
British director Brian Percival’s movie The Book Thief deals in part with the horrors of the Kristallnacht period and is an effective reminder of the impact of Nazi atrocities on…
O’Toole, who died Saturday at age 81 after a long bout of illness, was fearsomely handsome, with burning blue eyes and a penchant for hard living which long outlived his decision to give up alcohol. Broadcaster Michael Parkinson told Sky News television it was hard to be too sad about his passing.
~~REST IN PEACE, GREAT MAN~~
Blond, blue-eyed and wearing blazing white robes in Lawrence Of Arabia, Peter O’Toole was handsome enough — many said beautiful enough — to carry off the scene in which director David Lean simultaneously made stars of both his title character and his leading man.
The scene: a wrecked train, blown up by Lawrence and surrounded by his Bedouin followers, one of whom has just smashed a news photographer’s camera. O’Toole’s Lawrence explains that the man thinks the camera will steal his soul. The photographer asks if he can take Lawrence’s picture and tells him to “just walk.”
So he walks, as the men around him chant his name — and then, responding to their cheers, he leaps atop the train wreck, striding down its length as the wind whips his robes. Silhouetted in the sun, he might as well be a god.
The part of T.E. Lawrence — which at one point could have been Marlon Brando’s for the asking — earned O’Toole his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Within a few years he had two more nominations — both, oddly enough, for playing King Henry II, who battled Katharine Hepburn in Lion in Winter, and who thought he could outsmart Richard Burton in Becket.
O’Toole was always larger than life, whether playing dreamers and mad romantics on stage, where his classical training made him a matinee idol; or in public, where his drinking and carousing were legendary; or on screen, where he earned another Oscar nomination playing a hard-drinking matinee idol in My Favorite Year — one who liked to make an entrance, even if it meant swinging into a window from a building’s roof, as he remembers doing in one of his films.
When his handler cautions that that was a movie and this is real life, he pauses for a moment, then asks: “What is the difference?”
That may have seemed a reasonable question to O’Toole, whose off-screen drinking buddies included many of the great actors of his generation: Burton, Trevor Howard and Richard Harris. He outlasted them, despite a medical history that had people counting him out in his 40s.
He once told an interviewer that his only exercise was “walking behind the coffins of my friends who took exercise.” But he persevered. In the movie Venus, at age 75, he was charismatic as ever, playing a lusty old actor who realizes there are loose ends in his life he should tie up.
Saying goodbye to his ex-wife (played by Vanessa Redgrave), he notes with a laugh, “We won’t live forever.”
And after more or less clinching another Oscar nomination with that line, he did what he could to disprove it by making every remaining moment count. Twelve roles in the last seven years of his life — from animated food critic in Ratatouille, to Pope in The Tudors — exuberant every one.
Actor Peter O’Toole, who shot to international fame in the film classic “Lawrence of Arabia”, has died aged 81 in London after a long illness, peacefully in London hospital on Saturday.
O’Toole lost his faith as a teenager, although he always expressed positive sentiments regarding the life of Jesus Christ, and in particular the Sermon on the Mount. In a 2007 interview with The New York Times O’Toole said he prefers “an education and reading and facts” to faith. He added, ” No one can take Jesus away from me…there’s no doubt there was a historical figure of tremendous importance, with enormous notions. Such as peace.” Earlier in the interview, he announced, “I am a retired Christian.”
In 1972, O’Toole played a delusional character who believed he was Jesus in the film “The Ruling Class.” During the film, O’Toole’s character says, “When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.”, according to Examiner.
The actor’s piercing blue eyes, tousled brown hair and 6-foot-3-inch (1.9 meter) frame made him an instant hit with women when he began his stage career in 1954. O’Toole’s first major film success came in the title role of T.E. Lawrence in “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1962.
His role in the iconic film earned him the first of eight Academy Award nominations. Indeed, O’Toole was nominated for an Academy Award eight times, however he never won, which is a record for those nominated.
(Photo : AP)Peter O’Toole received an honorary Oscar in 2003.
He was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement during the 75th Annual Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater in Hollywood, California, March 23, 2003.
Daughter Kate O’Toole thanked the public for what she described as an outpouring of love for the late actor.
On fame after Lawrence of Arabia
“I woke up one morning to find I was famous. Bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum. Nobody took any f—ing notice, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself.”
On drinking
“I did quite enjoy the days when one went for a beer at one’s local in Paris and woke up in Corsica.”
“It was around 1985 before I heard the news of President Kennedy’s assassination.”
On drinking with Richards Burton and Harris
“I do not regret one drop. We were young people who’d been children throughout the war – well, you can imagine what it felt like in 1945 to be free – not to be bombed, not to be rationed, not to be restricted. There was a tremendous amount of enthusiasm. We weren’t solitary, boring drinkers, sipping vodka alone in a room. No, no, no: we went out on the town, baby, and we did our drinking in public!”
On being uncommon “I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony.” (Note written in his boyhood journals).
On theatre
“I don’t approve of theatre directors… On came a load of children from the university who’d had an enthusiasm for amateur drama. [laughs haughtily] Like these clowns, Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn and all this bunch of clowns. I won’t speak to them. When you’ve earned your living on the stage for 10, 15 years, then come and tell me how to earn mine. Go on the stage and earn your living for a dozen years, and get some humility.”
“Acting is just being a man. Being human. Not forcing it. Some make it their entire life. Big mistake. Laurence Olivier fell into that category. He was a tiny, strange, vain f—er.”
“If you go to the West End theatres now, it’s a graveyard. Lots of musicals, they’re cheerful. But the plays? God almighty.”
On Ireland
“Nicest asses in the world, Ireland. Irish-women still are carrying water on their heads and carrying their husbands home from pubs, and such things are the greatest posture builders in the world.”
On Spain “Pontefract, with scorpions.”
On ambience
“I can’t stand light. I hate weather. My idea of heaven is moving from one smoke-filled room to another.”
On death “The common denominator of all my friends is that they’re dead. There was a time when I felt like a perpendicular cuckoo clock, popping up and down in pulpits saying: ‘Fear no more the heat o’ the sun.’ They were dying like flies.”
On death (Kenneth Tynan interviewing O’Toole in Playboy in 1964)
Tynan: Are you afraid of dying? O’Toole: Petrified.
Tynan: Why? O’Toole: Because there’s no future in it.
Tynan: When did you last think you were about to die? O’Toole: About four o’clock this morning.
On women
“I’ve never looked for women. When I was a teenager, perhaps. But they are looking for us, and we [men] must learn that very quickly. They decide. We just turn up. Never mind the superficialities – tall and handsome and all that. Just turn up.”
On Troy and its director, Wolfgang Petersen “That kraut, what a clown he was… When it was all over, I watched 15 minutes of the finished film and then walked out.”
On beauty
“People have always talked about beauty. It has been an obsession throughout millennia but it doesn’t mean a bloody thing. When I was a young boy I was pretty and I was called Bubbles. One soon learned to handle oneself under those circumstances or else go down. I put a cigarette in my mouth to make myself look a bit more butch. But it all means nothing. As I have said to many a drama teacher over the years, pity the pretty. Into a room walks a beautiful girl or into a room walks a beautiful man and everyone thinks they’ve got it made. Well they ain’t. In fact it can be much more difficult.”
On the era of the Angry Young Man: “The revivals of Look Back in Anger have been execrated. Well, it was never very good. I went to see it – dreary little production, drearily done. It’s all PR. A PR put out a flyer and referred to John Osborne as an ‘angry young man’. It was one of those phrases, everybody used it – I was called an ‘angry young actor’. God! I had a rebellious nature, of course. But I wasn’t particularly angry about anything. I was quite cheerful!”
On his own background (he grew up in Leeds, and his father was an Irish bookie):
“I’m not working-class. I come from the criminal classes.”
On sport “I became a professional cricket teacher about 20 years ago. I had a son born to me when I was 50, and I thought, he needs someone to bowl to him.”
On the last time he played cricket, at his favorite grounds in Devon:
“The grounds are behind a church – they’re beautiful – and there’s a river. The thing to do at Lustleigh is to strike the ball into the river. I knew I was finished – I could hardly see the bloody ball – but I went bang! And the ball went boom, into the river, in my favourite little cricket field, and I said: Pedro, get out now. And I did.”
Director David Lean follows the heroic true-life odyssey of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) in this dramatic portrait of the famed British officer’s journey to the Middle East. Assigned to Arabia during World War I, Lawrence courageously unites the warring Arab factions into a strong guerrilla front and leads them to brilliant victories in treacherous desert battlefields where they eventually defeat the ruling Turkish Empire.
Cast: Peter O’Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Director: David Lean
Screenwriter: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
“Sei vorsichtig mit dem, was Du weisst. Damit beginnen Deine Probleme” 🍀 “Be careful of what you know. That’s where your troubles begin”
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Wade in The 3 Body Problem
Scott Lively (I-MA) would like to 
It Is What It Is 