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Post by aubrey on Feb 4, 2017 10:14:03 GMT
I never knew Ida Lupina was English.
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Post by goldelox on Feb 4, 2017 10:36:34 GMT
I never knew Ida Lupina was English. |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 4, 2017 11:36:06 GMT
Downloaded - I will watch that later - thanks.
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Post by marispiper on Feb 4, 2017 20:49:45 GMT
That Rockwell is great. Nice that he has the best self portraits (brilliantly copied) on his easel...Dürer and Rembrandt are my favourites.
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Post by ARENA on Feb 5, 2017 9:24:14 GMT
I have copies of every cover Rockwell did. Love his work.
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Post by ARENA on Feb 5, 2017 9:28:24 GMT
Robin David Sachs (born 5 February 1951) is an English actor. Sachs was born in London, the son of actors Leonard Sachs and Eleanor Summerfield. He has been twice married: to Welsh actress Siân Phillips (1979–1991), and to Casey Defranco.  |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 6, 2017 9:12:51 GMT
Leslie Douglas Sargent Crowther CBE (6 February 1933 – 29 September 1996) was an English comedian, actor and gameshow host. Crowther was born in West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire. At the end of 1944 he moved to London with his parents, but was evacuated for a few months to Bute until just after the war ended. Crowther had stage experience from the mid-1940s  |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 7, 2017 8:23:32 GMT
 Hattie Jacques ( born Josephine Edwina Jaques; 7 February 1922 – 6 October 1980) was an English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen. She is best known as a regular of the Carry On films, where she typically played strict, no-nonsense characters, but was also a prolific television and radio performer. |
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Post by marispiper on Feb 7, 2017 8:42:21 GMT
I have copies of every cover Rockwell did. Love his work. Wow....that must be some collection! |
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Post by ARENA on Feb 7, 2017 9:02:15 GMT
I have copies of every cover Rockwell did. Love his work. Wow....that must be some collection! I bought a huge book* of his covers in a discount shop in Ealing many years ago and have always collected his prints. *This 1979 edition (11 7/8" X 15 1/4" X 2") is a larger book than the 2013 edition and 455 pages vs. 400 pages. It is the cover art from the 332 Post covers, not the Post covers themselves, i.e. no Post banner, no words across the art saying what was inside that particular magazine, and so on, that actually ruined the artwork. I bought it for 10 shillings. |
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Post by marispiper on Feb 7, 2017 9:12:27 GMT
That sparks a thought,huge books are a problem,aren't they? Mine are down the side of bookcases...
Re. Rockwell, yes...that publication just saw him as part of their brand image whereas we see him as an artist 😄
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Post by aubrey on Feb 7, 2017 17:50:29 GMT
Rockwell was an illustrator. Not an insult - that is an honourable profession (as, I think, he said so himself). There are many illustrators whose works have long outlived what they thought of as their serious art; there was a bloke whose name I have forgotten who did film posters - great film posters, that you'd recognise immediately. His illustrations had a power and - yes - an art to them that was entirely lacking in what he thought of as his serious work.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 7, 2017 17:59:10 GMT
Today, the 7th of February, is the tenth anniversary of my last day of paid employment.
I only did half a day. In the morning I went to a house in Eaton Place (a couple of doors down from where the exteriors of Upstairs Downstairs were filmed) and loaded the boxes I had spent the last three months filling with floppydisc mailers onto a van and went with it to the storage space in Kensal, where I helped unload it before walking down to the office (also in Kensal) for a cup of coffee. My hands were so numb they were as useless as blunt claws. After warming up a bit I went home, via Victoria library, where I bought an Encyclopaedia of Britain written by Bamber Gascoigne and Colin Wilson's Autobiography. By now it was sunny, though by the time I went to the dole office to sign on (I think the next day) a couple of inches of snow had fallen. I was a long time finding the place wandering up and down Newington Butts and Borough High Street, hardly able to catch my breath the whole time.
A few weeks after that I went for a scan...
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Post by ARENA on Feb 8, 2017 8:15:35 GMT
Dame Edith Mary Evans, DBE (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was a British actress. She was known for her work on the British stage. She also appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award. Evans was particularly well known for portraying haughty aristocratic ladies.  A HANDBAG?! |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 8, 2017 9:25:48 GMT
Sorry, I lied: going to Victoria Library was on the 5th, the Monday, and as well as the C Wilson book I got an SF encyclopaedia, not that Bamber Gasgoigne book: also a book by Mo Hayder. I had everything else right though
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