![]() She eventually made her way to Los Angeles, where she joined the famed comedy improv group, The Groundlings, and worked alongside Phil Hartman and Paul "Pee-wee" Reubens, honing her comedic skills. Then a chance encounter with her idol Elvis Presley, changed the course of her life forever, and led her to Europe where she worked in film and traveled Italy as lead singer of an Italian pop band. Run-ins with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tom Jones helped her grow up fast. While her sisters played with Barbie dolls, Cassandra built model kits of Frankenstein and Dracula, and idolized Vincent Price.ĭue to a complicated relationship with her mother, Cassandra left home at 14, and by age 17 she was performing at the famed Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas. Feeling like a misfit led to her love of horror. Burned and scarred, the impact stayed with her and became an obstacle she was determined to overcome. ![]() ![]() Third-degree burns covered 35% of her body, and the prognosis wasn't good. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest hospital in Manhattan, Kansas, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water. The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Author Buzz Bissinger discusses his book."He thought he was the best."Īs "Friday Night Lights" his theaters this Friday and the ESPN Book Club debuts on, takes an in-depth look at the story of Odessa (Texas) Permian High School football: "Miles had the attitude," said former teammate Art Wagner with admiration. It was something else, more than just strength or speed, a kind of invincible fire that burned within him, an unquenchable feeling that no one on that field, no one, was as good as he was. There were a thousand kids in Texas who fit that description. They weren't interested in him just because he was big and looked imposing in a football uniform. Looking forward to watching you play later this season." "James - we are in New York preparing for the kickoff classic and enjoying the sights. Booby, we feel that you are one of these few select players." "The entire Houston Cougar football staff has been in the process of putting together the top list of high school senior football players in Texas. You are in a situation that many young athletes dream about." "You had an outstanding junior year at Permian and I am sure your senior year will be even better. ![]() ![]() ![]() After breaking parole, Valjean is chased by Police Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe) for nearly fifteen years. ![]() ![]() The film follows the life of paroled criminal, Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) in his struggle for redemption, from 1815 to the June Rebellion of 1832. But despite its many triumphs, it lacks historical context and may leave viewers scratching their heads about basic plot elements. Overall, Les Misérables is an intense, moving, and beautiful film, and I highly suggest that you add it to your watch list. But after the opening weekend alone, the new Les Misérables was already considered a commercial hit with an estimated $18.2 million in box office receipts (the film has now earned more than $100 million) and many favorable reviews. ![]() A film adaptation of a stage play that itself was a musical adaptation of a novel-especially such a well-known and prodigious novel as Victor Hugo’s 1862 Les Misérables-is even riskier. 2 Comments Les Misérables is an emotional tour de force with eight Oscar nominations, but how does the film stack up in terms of history? UT history doctoral student Julia Gossard explains in a review for Not Even Past.Ī film adaptation of a stage play is always a risky venture. ![]() ![]() Review #2 Sugar Daddies audiobook streamming online (Okay I already knew that, but this is a new kink for me!) ![]() ![]() It took me out of my comfort zone, but man did it end up being hot. READER BEWARE: the smutty goodness has a fetish… these kinky boys want to stuff their lady’s kitty cat with both their man meat at once. This was my first by Jade West and won’t be my last…in fact, I’ve already clicked her backlist. Polyamorous relationships in this sense are amazing!! I want to read more books like this. The fact that the guys are in love with each other AND individually fall in love with their girl gives the romance so much more depth. This isn’t the typical menage where the men both love one woman, but are hands off with each other. I loved how in love the guys were with each other and how they genuinely wanted to find the woman who would complete their triumvirate. ![]() And the best part? The romance wasn’t lost in translation. This is one of the hottest books I’ve read in a long time. ![]() ![]() Stretching breakup of a conical liquid bridge with a moving contact line This is helpful for the optimization of liquid loading for transfer printing. Accordingly, different sizes of remnant volume can be obtained by adjusting U and R top. It is found that V d decreases with an increase of U and increases with an increase of R top. Based on the breakup position and the remnant radius, the influences of U and R top on remnant volume V d are examined. An increase of U decreases the breakup time and increases the breakup position. To analyze the influence of the moving contact line on bridge breakup, neck evolution is tracked under different U. And the amount of contact line movement is basically constant. ![]() The results show that the increase of the stretching velocity U and the decrease of the initial top radius R top accelerate the contact line motion. For the moving case, factors affecting the contact line motion are then considered. ![]() Compared to the pinned case, the moving contact line causes a shift of the pressure maximum from the bridge neck to top, and it facilitates the evacuation of the bridge top. The effect of contact line state is investigated by examining the pressure at the symmetry axis. A conical liquid bridge is established by an electric field and stretching breakup is investigated here. To precisely control the droplet loading and improve the dispensing resolution, a detailed study of bridge breakup with a moving contact line is required. ![]() The stretching breakup of a conical liquid bridge is the core process of micro-dispensing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was disappointed in the 2010 film starring David Suchet. It’s faithful to the book, with a few name changes, and an unusual final scene. It’s pure entertainment with a stellar cast including Ingrid Bergman, Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Vanessa Redgrave, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, John Gielgud, and Michael York. It’s only my opinion, but I find the 1974 film starring Albert Finney to be brilliant, and Christie herself liked it. I’ve seen both earlier editions of the film. Many are not even interested in checking out Kenneth Branagh’s interpretation, especially after they saw trailers of him with his mustache. It’s only been seven years since the last film version of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, and I know that fans of David Suchet’s version of the movie are satisfied with him as Christie’s detective, Hercule Poirot. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cruelty of the elements, of seclusion. Janina is someone I will not soon forget.Īt the same time, this book is dark and tinged throughout with death. The way she capitalizes certain words, assigns her own names to people, ponders the proverbs of William Blake (where the fabulous title of this novel originates). ![]() I enjoyed being in the head of this marvellously unreliable narrator, smirked at her many amusing observations, her interactions with the people in her life and the natural world. Is it because Saturn is in the 8th house? Or because the animals have had enough, at long last? A middle aged woman in rural Poland, a woman who is best described as eccentric (obsessed with astrology, plagued by "ailments" both physical and psychological), finds herself in the middle of something of a murder mystery. These questions are asked in a most unique way. Asks the same questions that Dostoevsky asks in Crime and Punishment - who has the right to live? who has the right to kill? and what's the difference between a poacher and a hunter, anyway? (that last question is Tokarczuk's, not Dostoevsky's.) ![]() ![]() Nothing is left except the desperate, blind desire to live. The entire pyramid of human needs has toppled. Everyone is forced to live in a common house together where the lack of sex has all parties on edge. if all that isn't bad enough, the excess of carbon monoxide causes the winters to be almost unbearably cold. The congregation is ruled by a heavy handed holy roller who's really a drag, your typical anti-science, god-fearing, hard-ass christian coalition leader. occasionally a person with a useful occupation is spared and assimilated into the group, but then they find themselves chomping on their pal come november. Strangers are ground into sausages and the fleshy links are reserved for thanksgiving dinner. marauders wander around stealing precious supplies, so that the only known, organized society has developed a savage custom of execution. Human beings are pretty scarce, the ones left live in mortal fear of one another. ![]() ![]() In just 7 years these green bullies have successfully choked off all other plant life. massive and imposing, they suck up all the resources and wreak major havoc on the ecosystem. In this post apocalyptic tale of vegetable domination, the earth has been overtaken by a strain of alpha plants. The Genocides is a classic science fiction novel by Thomas M Disch. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Reading The Stranger is a rite of passage. Its hold continues to this day, more than 70 years after its original publication. Gilbert’s translation has numerous flaws, and has since been supplanted by Matthew Ward’s, but as Alice Kaplan argues in her outstanding new book Looking for ‘The Stranger’: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic, “by some miracle of literary transmission, the many problems with the Gilbert translation did not stand in the way of English-speaking readers grasping what was essential about The Stranger, and the force of the original came through, allowing the novel to take hold.” ![]() ![]() How many readers of Camus’s novel would say the same? I, for one, when I first read Stuart Gilbert’s English translation in high school. Solomon once said of Albert Camus’s The Stranger: “It marked, when I first read it in high school, one of those ‘existential’ turning points in my life.” The American existentialist philosopher Robert C. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also ex- plores the notion that technology is a reflection of masculine values and ideals. ![]() ![]() She then goes through different sites of use: pro- duction, reproduction, the home and the built environment. It is a text that will, hopefully, be widely read by undergraduate students.' Social Studies of Science 'Feminism Confronts Technology brings together an impressive array of feminist work on technology.' Arena Magazine 'Wajcman's book fills an important gap in the 'gender and technology' literature. Wajcman begins by re- viewing the theoretical literature about feminist critiques of science and technology. 'The comprehensive and accessible nature of the book makes it particularly suitable as a textbook in this growing field.' Donald Mackenzie, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh 'A useful and accessible contribution to current debates about the connections between gender, technology and society.' New Technology, Work and Employment 'This book will be of considerable interest to anyone working in scientific and technical institutions facing difficulties, whether crises in funding or in communication between science and government, science and industry, science and the public.' The New Scientist 'A most welcome work that addresses precisely this issue of how gender can be registered as significant in the making of technologies. In the first major study of its kind, Judy Wajcman challenges the common assumption that technology is gender neutral and analyzes its influence on the lives of. ![]() |