![]() He is royalty at front rows, on speed dial with stars and designers alike, and, if you were to visit his Wikipedia profile, his career highlights and achievements alone will take you days to scope out. Possessing the dual superpowers of being a creative genius whose three-decade-long career has also earned him much commercial success, his significance is unparalleled□. And this unique vision has secured his singular position in the fashion firmament-as the su□per hero of fashion and celebrity photography. Mario Testino’s images sizzle with a heady sensuality that is guaranteed to create a stir. ![]() Words cannot legitimise the impact of his work. Not even when it is an image of the late Princess Diana, dazzling with her cheekbones and chutzpah in a one-shoulder gown, immortalised in my mind forever. Not even when a bare-bodied Kate Moss is staring at me for the umpteenth time, invoking a provocation only she can. His photographs do not speak a thousand words to me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vogue India editor Priya Tanna meets the ace photographer in Jaipur to discuss how he finds beauty in everything. Visceral and often voyeuristic, iconic lensman Mario Testino’s hard-bodied portraits have made him fashion world royalty. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() ![]() The programme is the latest in a list of celebrity travel programmes on ITV, including Martin Clunes's recent Islands of Britain and Billy Connolly's Journey to the Edge of the World. "The train and the route it takes are steeped in culture and history and I look forward to giving viewers an insight into a unique experience and revealing some of the tales and secrets from its past."ĭavid Suchet on the Orient Express was commissioned by the ITV director of factual and daytime, Alison Sharman, the controller of popular factual, Jo Clinton-Davis, and the commissioning editor of factual, Diana Howie. "Making this film gives me a thrilling opportunity to delve into the fascinating story of one of the most iconic journeys in European travel," Suchet said. It begins with Suchet boarding the train at London's Victoria station and follows him through Venice and Prague. ![]() The film, which is being made by ITV Studios, will use archive material to tell the train's history from its inaugural "Express d'Orient" journey across Europe in 1883 to its role in both world wars. David Suchet on the Orient Express will touch on the incident in 1929 that inspired Christie's book: the train was stuck in a snowdrift for 10 days, 60 miles outside Istanbul, carrying a full complement of passengers who survived only with the assistance of nearby Turkish villagers. ![]() ![]() Besides being the author of a forthcoming university textbook on his field and advising lawyers in Great Britain and the United States on cases of authorship, Olsson runs an Internet consultancy service ( that deals with authenticating all sorts of writings. ![]() ![]() And in anticipation of that movie, Four Walls Eight Windows put out a new edition of Condon's book, and Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Louis Menand even wrote a piece in the New Yorker (which now serves as an introduction for Four Wall's reprint) about Condon's 1959 novel.Īfter coming across her posting, The Chronicle contacted John Olsson, a forensic linguist and director of the Forensic Linguistics Institute near London. She may or may not have been, but her unreported observation is all the more interesting now because a remake of the 1962 thriller based on the book, this one starring Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep, is in production. "I can't be the first one to notice this," she wrote. This was but one of many phrases and word choices similar to those in "I, Claudius" that Silverio discovered, and she ran on her Weblog excerpts from each book side by side for people to look at for themselves. ![]() "I went to the straight-fiction bookshelves and found 'I, Claudius' and read the original passage." The original passage reads, "He knew that the marriage was impious: this knowledge, it seems, affected him nervously, putting an inner restraint on his flesh." 'Inner restraint on his flesh?' I've read that sentence before," Silverio wrote. ![]() ![]() ![]() "You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll learn." James cuts - as in all of his best work - straight to the human heart of the matter, celebrating both the writer and the man, the one inseparable from the other." A life spent at the movies gets the cinematic epitaph it richly deserves. ![]() "A remarkably intimate portrait of a life well lived." James has done a wonderful job of telling a colorful life story." An astute and sensitive account of a fully realized man and a life overflowing with abundance and achievement. Engrossing, unflinching, moving and comprehensive. Anyone who cared about Roger Ebert will find it necessary viewing." "A clear-eyed portrait of a complicated, Falstaffian figure. "A work of deftness and delicacy, by turns a film about illness and death, about writing, about cinema AND, FINALLY, AND VERY MOVINGLY, A FILM ABOUT LOVE." ![]() "A REMARKABLY INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF A LIFE WELL LIVED." DOCUMENTARY MASTER STEVE JAMES HAS PUT THE PIECES OF EBERT’S LIFE TOGETHER WITH EXTRAORDINARY FASCINATION AND VISION." ![]() ![]() Carla loves passionate stories with compelling, nearly impossible conflicts. Visit her at Carla Capshaw is a Florida native who grew up dreaming of traveling the world and writing novels.Īfter visiting numerous countries, Carla began writing novels in earnest and eventually won two Golden Heart awards as well as a double Rita nomination for her first novel, The Gladiator. Still living in Florida, Carla is always planning her next trip and plotting her next novel. She's found Inspirational Romance is the perfect vehicle to combine lush settings, vivid characters and a Christian worldview. After visiting numerous countries, Carla began writing novels in earnest and eventually won two Golden Heart awards as well as a double Rita nomination for her first novel, The Gladiator. ![]() ![]() Carla Capshaw is a Florida native who grew up dreaming of traveling the world and writing novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1969, by the time she was 37 years old, on January 20th, Richard M. Of these, 3,145 people had died and 21,269 were left with mild to disabling paralysis. The worst epidemic of polio had broken out that year - in the U.S. Salk tested the first dead-virus polio vaccine on 43 children. ![]() In 1952, when she was 20 years old, on July 2, Dr. Greece, Turkey, and West Germany later joined. Twelve nations originally signed the North Atlantic Treaty - the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal. In 1949, by the time she was 17 years old, on April 4th, NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established. She flew over 2,000 miles in just under 15 hours. In 1932, in the year that Barbara Chapman was born, five years to the day after Lindbergh crossed the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart flew solo from Newfoundland to Ireland, the first woman to cross the Atlantic solo and the first to replicate Lindbergh's feat. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Barbara's lifetime. ![]() ![]() Secondly, you should consider reading this book to stir compassion in your hearts towards those who do not yet know Christ. You too will find many causes to be stretched and grown in these chapters. ![]() ![]() My love for Christ abounded as I saw his love for his image bearers and his desire for our good. I was particularly helped by her chapters addressing the denigration of women and homophobia. She validates the impulse of each thought and then carefully addresses the flaws that exist in each argument and presents the answers that the gospel provides. Her thoughts are not reductionist or dismissive. As I was reading, I was so challenged and encouraged by the thorough treatment of each topic. In this short review I want to offer three reasons why you should consider reading this book and two ways that you could use it this year to engage with our prayer and action goals.įirst, you should consider reading this book for your own edification. ![]() I found this book extremely helpful, and I am confident that many others will as well. She does not shy away from the hard questions but instead responds to them in a biblically centric, intellectually thoughtful, and compassionate way. In her book, Confronting Christianity, Rebecca McLaughlin takes on the task of addressing 12 difficult cultural questions that many around us, including those inside the church, are asking. ![]() ![]() Both were essential in making me a writer and a fan of fiction, convincing me that there will never be an art form as sprawling, encompassing, and thematically rich as the novel. ![]() I consider it on par with Gravity's Rainbow, but I love the two books for vastly different reasons. And I think a lot of its themes concerning addiction and entertainment are indeed timeless and now more up-to-date than in the 90s. There are beautiful scenes of compassion and ridiculous set pieces of surreal imagination intertwining, but belonging to a highly original world where both can live in harmony. Hardly any writer I know can draw so much of the seemingly mundane and banal like Wallace, and pull out so many truths about his characters (the James Incandenza father chapter, anything involving Mario Incandenza, who is an unforgettable character who I believe can discard the accusations of ableism). On occasions, it is way too ambitious for its own good (the sloppy Wardine chapters), but when it lands - it is both emotionally compelling and hysterically funny. It's a book that achieves a lot of its goals. ![]() ![]() ![]() With each object that disappears, the postman reflects on the life he's lived, his joys and regrets, and the people he's loved and lost. And so begins a very strange week that brings the young postman and his beloved cat to the brink of existence. But before he can tackle his bucket list, the devil shows up to make him an offer: In exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, the postman will be granted one extra day of life. Estranged from his family and living alone with only his cat, Cabbage, to keep him company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live. The international phenomenon that has sold more than two million copies, If Cats Disappeared from the World-now a Japanese film-is a heartwarming, funny, and profound meditation on the meaning of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His best friend Niya―daughter of Tierra, the god of earth―is one of the strongest heroes of their generation and is much too likely to be chosen this year. Teo, a 17-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of Quetzal, goddess of birds, has never worried about the Trials…or rather, he’s only worried for others. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all―they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body used to fuel the Sun Stones that will protect the people of Reino del Sol for the next ten years. ![]() Ten semidioses between the ages of thirteen and eighteen are selected by Sol himself as the most worthy to compete in The Sunbearer Trials. As each new decade begins, the Sun’s power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the evil Obsidian gods at bay. ![]() |