вторник, 28 мая 2013 г.

Individual Reading 6. The Woman in White

On returning to London to resume his battle with Fosco, Hartright marries Laura. When he secretly tails Fosco to investigate him, Hartright also discovers that Fosco belongs to, and has betrayed, an Italian secret society (dubbed "The Brotherhood"), of which Pesca is a high-ranking member with enough authority to dispatch him. Using Fosco's weakness as bargaining chip, Hartright now has the power to force a written confession from Fosco and Laura's identity is restored. Fosco departs from England in haste, only to be discovered by the Brotherhood's agents some time later and murdered. Since Hartright and Laura have married, on the death of Frederick Fairlie, their son becomes the Heir of Limmeridge.

Individual Reading 5. The Woman in White

This secret was known only to Anne's mother, and while Anne never knew the secret, she spoke and acted as if she did. Many years earlier, Glyde had forged an entry in the marriage register at Old Welmingham Church to conceal his illegitimacy and hence unlawful inheritance of estate and title. Believing Walter either has discovered, or will discover his secret, Glyde attempts to destroy the register entry, but the church vestry catches fire and he perishes in the flames. Confronting Anne's mother, Hartright discovers that Anne was the illegitimate child of Laura's father, which accounts for their resemblance.

ndividual Reading 4. The Woman in White

While Marian is ill, Laura is tricked into travelling to London. Her identity and that of Anne Catherick are then switched. Anne Catherick dies of a heart condition and is buried in Cumberland as Laura, while Laura is drugged and placed in the asylum as Anne Catherick. When Marian recovers and visits the asylum, hoping to learn something from Anne Catherick, she finds Laura, supposedly suffering from the delusion that she is Lady Glyde.
Marian bribes the nurse and Laura escapes. Hartright has safely returned from Honduras, and the three live together in obscure poverty, determined to restore Laura's identity. After some time Walter discovers Glyde's secret, which is that he was illegitimate, and therefore not entitled to inherit his parents' property.

Individual Reading 3. The Woman in White

Walter and Laura quickly fall in love. Laura, however, has promised her father that she will marry Sir Percival Glyde, and Marian – knowing that Laura loves Walter in return – advises Walter to forget his love, and leave Limmeridge. Anne, after sending a letter to Laura warning her against Glyde, meets Hartright who becomes convinced that Glyde was responsible for shutting Anne in the asylum. Despite the misgivings of the Fairlie's lawyer over the financial terms of the marriage settlement, Laura and Glyde marry in December 1849 and travel to Italy for 6 months. Hartright also leaves England, joining an expedition to Honduras. After their honeymoon, Sir Percival and Lady Glyde return to his family estate, Blackwater Park, in Hampshire; they are accompanied by Glyde's friend, Count Fosco (who is married to Laura's aunt). Marian Halcombe is also living at Blackwater and learns that Glyde is in financial difficulties. Sir Percival unsuccessfully attempts to bully Laura into signing a document which would allow him to use her marriage settlement of £20,000. Determined to protect her sister, Marian crawls out onto a roof overlooking Percy and Fosco whilst they plot; but it begins to rain, and Marian, completely soaked, falls into a fever which shortly turns into typhus.

Pleasure Reading 6. The Woman in White by W. Collins

Walter Hartright, a young art teacher, is walking from Hampstead to London late one summer's evening, when he meets a mysterious woman dressed in white, apparently in deep distress. He helps her on her way to London, but later learns that she has escaped from an asylum. The next day he travels north to Limmeridge House, having been hired as a drawing master to the residents of the house; he had been recommended for the job by his friend, Pesca, an Italian language professor. The Limmeridge household comprises Mr Frederick Fairlie, and Walter's students: Laura Fairlie, Mr Fairlie's niece, and Marian Halcombe, her devoted half-sister. Several days after he arrives, Hartright is shocked to realize that Laura bears an astonishing resemblance to the woman in white, called Anne Catherick. The mentally disadvantaged Anne had lived for a time in Cumberland as a child and was devoted to Laura's mother, who first dressed her in white.

воскресенье, 26 мая 2013 г.

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The head of the article is PepsiCo-Lil Wayne split marks shaky alliance of rappers, business. It was published in Los Angeles Times on May 10, 2013 by Gerrick D. Kennedy. Corporations are quick to recruit rappers to sell their soft drinks, shoes and smartphones — but the moment there's a whiff of controversy, they are just as quick to cut them loose.
1. The soft drink company announced it had ended its relationship with Wayne, one of the biggest selling rappers in music, over a vulgar sexual reference to slain civil rights figure Emmett Till in a remix of Future's hit, "Karate Chop."
2. Peter Sealey, a professor at Claremont Graduate University and a former head of marketing at Coca-Cola, said events like these prove how out of touch corporations can be when trying to appeal to younger demographics.
3. Sealey says the hiring of potentially controversial rap artists also represents a generation gap within the corporations.
4. Wayne's partnership with the soda company was worth more than $7 million.
5. Hip-hop fans and rappers like Snoop Dogg, Tyga and Meek Mill have been vocal in criticizing corporations dropping rappers over lyrics. It's freedom of speech, they say. But more importantly they are questioning why brands are caving to public pressure against rappers they've signed, when they should have known their lyrical content was potentially offensive to wider audiences.

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Chris Brown goes into the unknown with a new album, new image is the head of the article which was published in Los Angeles Times on March 27, 201 by  GERRICK D. KENNEDY. The singer says he's trying to learn from his mistakes. His new disc, 'X,' is part of the plan.
1. Chris Brown is in a Burbank studio previewing his forthcoming album, and pushing the reset button on a career bogged down by scandal.
2. The embattled R&B singer takes a lengthy drag off his cigarette before pressing "play" on the title track of "X," his sixth disc, due out in late summer.
3.From his felony conviction over a 2009 assault against girlfriend Rihanna and their on again-off again relationship since, frequent Twitter spats and alleged fights with Frank Ocean and Drake, Brown has no shortage of mistakes to learn from.
4. While recording "X," Brown was aware that he was up against a reputation he, in part, helped create.
5.He says the record's more honest approach is not a bid to win over a disapproving public.
6.To record the album, the singer recruited emerging producers and returning hit makers Polow Da Don, Timbaland, Pharrell, Drumma Boy and Danja.
As for me, I seldom believe yellow press, because they just want to get money at the expense of one's life. 

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What Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio bring to 'X Factor' is the title of the article which I have analyzed. It was published in Los Angeles Times on May 21, 2013 by Gerrick D. Kennedy. Their names had been floated around for some time as potential replacements forBritney Spears and L.A. Reid.
1. “X Factor” has already gone through a handful of judges, with Paula Abdul, Nicole Scherzinger and Cheryl Cole having done short bids.
2.Rowland previously served as a judge on the eighth season of the more successful British version of “The X Factor,” and Rubio judged "The Voice Mexico" last year and is currently judging "La Voz Kids," a Spanish version of "The Voice" for children.
3.Between The X Factor and American Idol was the gteat competition.
4.The Latin superstar Paulina Rubio isn’t quite a household name for American viewers, but the 41-year-old has been in the industry for most of her life. As with Rowland, she came from a teen-pop group, and then went on to find a bounty of solo success, selling more than 20 million records internationally, so she knows a thing or two about reaching a global market.
5. Each show needs a diva, and Rowland will fill that role nicely. She spent half her life in one of the biggest girl groups of all time, Destiny’s Child, and has the Grammys and platinum plaques to back up whatever advice she doles out. Her solo career isn’t too shabby either.

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The head of the article is Five things to love about Beyonce's 'Grown Woman', which was published in Los Angeles Times on May 23, 2013 by  Gerrick D. Kennedy. This work is devoted to the new single of Beyonce.
1.  The full version of Bey’s “Grown Woman” mysteriously hit the Internet on Monday night.
2.Grown Woman” is an empowering female anthem tailor-made for dance floors and repeat blasting in car stereos.
3.The Timbaland-produced single has the pop diva barking out an aggressive affirmation of her prowess over five minutes of frenetic African-influenced rhythms, tribal chants and multiple vocal breakdowns.
4.There is  a bit of beatboxing here.
5. Beyonce was inspired by Nigerian icon Fela Kuti for “4’s” best single, "End of Time," and the funky vibe is revisited on “Grown Woman.”
It is the real hit, which will be on the head of all chart. I advice to listen to it everyone who likes pop dance music!

среда, 22 мая 2013 г.

Film Review. The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is the film about love, hopeless and dreams of the one person.
Nick Carraway, a young Yale graduate, who is both a part of and separate from the world he describes. Upon moving to New York, he rents a house next door to the mansion of an eccentric millionaire (Jay Gatsby). Every Saturday, Gatsby throws a party at his mansion and all the great and the good of the young fashionable world come to marvel at his extravagance. And one day he is invited by Gatsby to this party.
Gatsby asks him one request- to arrange the meeting with Daisy. Long ago, Gatsby fell in love with a young girl, Daisy. Although she has always loved Gatsby, she is currently married to Tom Buchanan. Nick finally agrees--arranging tea for Daisy at his house. The two ex-lovers meet and soon rekindle their affair. Soon, Tom begins to suspect and challenges the two of them. One day Tom decides to put the end to this love. But Jay is waiting that Daisy admits her husband that has never loved him. But She is very indecisive, greedy and silly, she can't give Gatsby what he has been waiting during 5 years. Going home she forces down the woman who was the mistress of her husband. Tom substitutes Gatsby about the killing ( because they went on the Gatsby's car) and Jay is killed by the mistress's husband in his own house. His beloved doesn't come to him to the funeral.
I was deeply impressed and my mood was spoiled after the viewing of this movie. It is very sad, that sometimes our hopes and dreams concerning some people do not realise.

Film Review 3. Revolutionary Road

Brilliantly acted and emotionally powerful, Revolutionary Road is a handsome adaptation of Richard Yates' celebrated novel.The film was directed by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Her performance earned Kate Winslet a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and the film was nominated for a further three Golden Globes, fourBAFTA's and three Oscar.
In the late 1940s, Frank Wheeler (Leonardo DiCaprio) met April (Kate Winslet) at a party. He was a longshoreman, hoping to be a cashier; she wanted to be an actress. He and April married. In 1955, the Wheelers moved to 115 Revolutionary Road in suburban Connecticut when April became pregnant. Frank and April settled into the normality of suburban life while bringing up their children, Michael and Jennifer. But soon their happy family life came to the end. Frank had a mistress, he began deceiving April. There were continuous scandals in the family. And once they decided to go to Paris, where they would be rich, happy and famous. April would be an actress in Paris and she saw in it their only solution of the problem.
But Frank laughed at her idea. 
April became pregnant again. Frank discovered that April was contemplating having an abortion. All became worse and worse,April and Frank had another fight, which caused April to flee the house. She couldn't believe to her husband any moree because he had never supported and understood her. She decided to make an abortion herself and died in the hospital due to complications following the abortion.
Revolutionary Road" shows the American Dream awakened by a nightmare. It takes place in the 1950s, the decade not only of Elvis but of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. It shows a young couple who meet at a party, get married and create a suburban life with a nice house, a manicured lawn, "modern" furniture, two kids, a job in the city for him, housework for her, and martinis, cigarettes, boredom and desperation for both of them.

вторник, 7 мая 2013 г.

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The title of this article is Movie: Django Unchained and it is published by Ann Hornaday for Washington Post at the 25th of December 2012.

1. The author supposes that there should have been something perverse that Quentin Tarantino released the movie the same year with other Civil War Era productions of the year.
2. The movie, gives to the period of civil war another view more romantic and close to reality, she thinks that it is unquestionably much more better than the last movie of Quentin Tarantino "Inglorious Basterds" she also compares the movies outrageous way with the Books "Gone with the wind" and "The birth of Nation".
3. The plot is easily understood, the hero of the movie is making an agreement to help a "Bounty Hunter" in order he will help him back, to find his wife Broomhilda.
4. Quentin Tarantino brings back the period of 70s and the era of Clint Eastwood and the quote spoken by Django "Kill white folks and they pay you for it?" tells everything about what you will see in the movie.
5. Although the movie is a classic making of Tarantino, it consists moments that Tarantino wasn't using like r generating moments of past, beautiful moments like when the blood splits to white Lilly flowers.
6. For Tarantino lovers the movie is still what they could expect of him, gunfire, gore and geysers of blood like he used to make his movies.
7. Although the movie touches moments of American Civil War and periods that are kept in our history, the movie, made just like Tarantino loves, tells the truth and the watchers can only benefit from it.

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This article is devoted to the Movie: Jack Reacher For 21st Century Films by Chris Con the 27th of December at 11:14 a.m.

1) Tom Cruise is taking place in a movie “made for him” in opinion of the writer, who is glad that the director, Christopher McQuarrie chose him.
2) The critic describes the movie, which starts with a horrific crime, which crime is finally linked with an Ex Veteran.
3) The Ex Veteran comes to Tom Cruise, who all suddenly is a Iraqi Veteran too and have more privileges, Tome Cruise comes to the Investor and could call to talk.
4) As Reader digs deeper though it becomes apparent that there is more going on here than either initially suspected.
5) The acting team is greatly playing and the movie because of them and Tom Cruises play, becomes unbelievably good.
6) Although there is some boring dialogs the movie will still keep your attention until the end.
7) Although the movie have similarities with the "taken" it is still looking solid and it should have your chance of watching it.

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The headline of the article is Movie: OZ the Great and Powerful, which was published in Oregon Herald Movie Reviewer by Oktay Ege Kozak the 8th of March 2013 at 7:05 a.m.

1) The Critic almost from the start shows his intention to badly criticize the movie, calling the Wizard OZ, Pimp and informs the need of the woman and the purpose of the film.
2) He thinks that the creation or remake of the movie is just a way or an attempt to get “quick Cash” making one of the greatest stories a parody.
3) OZ in the picture of James Franco is one of the blamers for the acting.
4) We all know the story of Dorothy and her searching for OZ, but on this movie the plot is hard and doesn’t let you understand it.
5) Although of the money was paid for the movie 300million $, it seems that the work was done only with effects and in no style.
6) There are a lot of points in the movie that seem to be unnecessary.
7) Also the 3D moving is working all the time, giving them in a bad light for the viewers.
8) The movie doesn’t let anything for the imagination and just flash back and forward.
9) The acting of James Franco is not in the level we used to see him.
10) The final product was a mess and doesn’t even is needed for watch.

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This article is called The Life of Pi, which was published in Los Angeles Times the 20th of November 2012 at 3:59p.m. by Betsy Sharkey.

1) The critic informs in the first paragraph the characters and the plot of the movie, which movie leave you with the sense that you wouldn’t want their adventure to end.
2) She tells that the 17-year old child is going through trials on his way to mature as person, also she is amazed of the graphics.
3) She is writing down how correctly the movie and the book, having previously made, wants you to understand what is clearly examined here.
4) The starting of the movie sees the 40ish Pi in Montreal, hoping to finally make a film out of the story of his Life.
5) The Movie critic beautifully shows how the movie is changing from today to the past, where all kind of animals are the friends of Pi who is struggling and hoping to understand the meaning of Life.
6) After a hard time period, with love, political shifts, the Patels are heading to Canada in Freighter with the animals.
7) The writer informs that the movie star will face a lot of foes in his way, first of them “fear” which comes after storm hits the boat, he with some animals seem to be in a survival plot.
8) She also writes that it is strange a movie to keep people interested in the it, but exactly that absurd situation of Pi’s life make the movie great.
9) The movie is not losing any technological achievements and it is clearly in one level with the Avatar.
10) The film is outstanding but it feels sometimes back in the school like watching documentaries on animals.
11) Through his journey in the sea and the searching for land, Pi is searching also for something to believe in, the movie By Lee Ang is a truly masterpiece.

понедельник, 6 мая 2013 г.

My Individual Reading. The Moon and Sixpence

                                                                 Summary

After the Paris episode, the story continues in Tahiti. Strickland has already died, and narrator attempts to piece together his life there from recollections of others. He finds that Strickland had taken up a native woman, had two children by her (one of whom dies) and started painting profusely. We learn that Strickland had settled for a short while in the French port of Marseilles before traveling to Tahiti, where he lived for a few years before finally dying of leprosy. Strickland left behind numerous paintings, but his magnum opus, which he painted on the walls of his hut before losing his sight to leprosy, was burnt down after his death by his wife in accordance with his dying orders.

My Individual Peading. The Moon and Sixpence

                                                                 Summary
Strickland is a well-off, middle-class stockbroker in London sometime in late 19th or early 20th century. Early in the novel, he leaves his wife and children and goes to Paris. He lives a destitute but defiantly content life there as an artist (specifically a painter), lodging in run-down hotels and falling prey to both illness and hunger. Strickland, in his drive to express through his art what appears to continually possess and compel him on the inside, cares nothing for physical discomfort and is indifferent to his surroundings. He is generously supported, while in Paris, by a commercially successful but hackneyed Dutch painter, Dirk Stroeve, a friend of the narrator's, who immediately recognizes Strickland's genius. After helping Strickland recover from a life-threatening condition, Stroeve is repaid by having his wife, Blanche, abandon him for Strickland. Strickland later discards the wife (all he really sought from Blanche was a model to paint, not serious companionship, and it is hinted in the novel's dialogue that he indicated this to her and she took the risk anyway), who then commits suicide - yet another human casualty (the first ones being his own established life and those of his wife and children) in Strickland's single-minded pursuit of Art and Beauty.

среда, 24 апреля 2013 г.

My Pleasure Reading. The Da Vinci Code

The real meaning of the last message is that the Grail is buried beneath the small pyramid directly below the inverted glass pyramid of the Louvre. It also lies beneath the "Rose Line," an allusion to "Roslyn." Langdon figures out this final piece to the puzzle in the last pages of the book, but he does not appear inclined to tell anyone about this.

My Pleasure Reading. The Da Vinci Code

The final message inside the second keystone leads Sophie and Langdon to Rosslyn Chapel, whose docent turns out to be Sophie's long-lost brother, whom Sophie had been told died as a child in the car accident that killed her parents. The guardian of Rosslyn Chapel, Marie Chauvel Saint Clair, is Sophie's long-lost grandmother, and the widow of Jacques Saunière. It is revealed that Sophie is a descendant of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. The Priory of Sion hid her identity to protect her from possible threats to her life.

My Pleasure Reading. The Da Vinci Code

By the time they arrive at Westminster Abbey, Teabing is revealed to be the Teacher for whom Silas is working. Teabing wishes to use the Holy Grail, which he believes is a series of documents establishing that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and bore children, in order to ruin the Vatican. He compels Langdon at gunpoint to solve the second cryptex's password, which Langdon realizes is "APPLE." Langdon secretly opens the cryptex and removes its contents before destroying it in front of Teabing. Teabing is arrested by Fache, who by now knows that Langdon was innocent. Bishop Aringarosa, realizing that Silas has been used to murder innocent people, rushes to help the police find him. When the police find Silas hiding in an Opus Dei Center, he assumes that they are there to kill him, and he rushes out, accidentally shooting Bishop Aringarosa. Bishop Aringarosa survives but is informed that Silas was found dead later from a bullet wound.

My Pleasure Reading. The Da Vinci Code

During the flight to Britain, Sophie reveals the source of her estrangement from her grandfather, ten years earlier. Arriving home unexpectedly from university, Sophie clandestinely witnesses a spring fertility rite conducted in the secret basement of her grandfather's country estate. From her hiding place, she is shocked to see her grandfather making love to a woman at the center of a ritual attended by men and women who are wearing masks and chanting praise to the goddess. She flees the house and breaks off all contact with Sauniere. Langdon explains that what she witnessed was an ancient ceremony known as Hieros Gamos or "sacred marriage".

понедельник, 22 апреля 2013 г.

Review. Movie Anonymous

  Even if you haven't even passed outside a theater in your life, you will still know William Shakespeare, the author of the most famous and diachronical theater plays in history of entertainment. 
  The movie by Ronald Emmerich, is from the one side complicating and from the other side propagandical. The screenplay jumps from the New York of today to England of Queen Elizabeth in the 16th century, in England the period is stigmatized by the rebellion of Essex. In the period the theater plays a big part in social life of people. The ruling class can easily control the masses by a theatrical screenplay. Although the play is not much connecting with the life of Shakespeare and it even doesn't show him as the main idea of the film. Shakespeare at the end is the fraud who just wonderfully and luck fully took the plays which today are connected to him. Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, is presented as the real author of Shakespeare's works. Edward's life is followed through flashbacks from a young child, through to the end of his life. He is portrayed as a child prodigy who writes and performs A Midsummer Night's Dream for a young Elizabeth I. A series of events sees his plays being performed by a front man, Shakespeare. 
   The movie was difficult and left a feeling of chaos in the end, the flashback of De Veres life, front and back all the time, doesn't let the critic take a central opinion. I saw the movie with another three friends and the result was the same, the expectations of the film, fell apart. For me the rating of the movie is 5 out of 10 and personally, Shakespeare has left to be one of the most amazing writers and nobody with the name Edward De Vere has been left in history. 

Review.Movie. El Greco




 The epic story of the incompatible person  and defender of freedom, Dominiko Theotokopoulo, the well known El Greco.
   In the 16th century, the searching of El Greco for freedom and love is starting from the courtyards of Crete and Venice and going to Toledo in Spain. There, he is facing his biggest foe, the Inquisition.
Without never giving up his war against the "ruling class" of his era, the story of El Greco combines unusual heroism, love, betrayal, but also the power of a man and his creative realization to overcome the barbarity of his period. A story that inspires our days but also triggers creatively the future.
   The movie is more biographical than entertaining, it shows how a big painter got through life in Greece, Italy and Spain, where he was against the ruling class in every place he lived. His life really is amazing and that can entertain you although the movie responds in other questions.
   I personally liked the movie, you could easily fall in the 16th century and understand the sadness and the happiness of El Greco, the romance of the period. Although the screenwriter and the producing team doesn't left anything for the imagination of the viewers, everything was openly discussed and played in the movie, I could rate the movie 8 out of 10 and of course recommend this movie for watching.


среда, 27 марта 2013 г.

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The headline of the article is New Julio Iglesias set to include Greek Theatre DVD. This article is published in Los Angeles Times in January 31, 2013 by Reed Johnson.
1. Among the performers with a right to claim a special relationship to the iconic venue are Julio Iglesias, the silky Spanish Sinatra who has sold hundreds of millions of discs over a 45-year international career;
2.The DVD recording is of Iglesias' 1990 concert at the Greek, a key beachhead in his conquest of the North American record market, after he'd been storming across European pop charts for decades;
3. His opening performance was a classic example of the laid-back smorgasbord of international music that has made him one of the most popular singers in the world;
4. Iglesias had his own style of singing.
 The journalist tried to tell us about the nice manner of Julio Iglesias to sing and to attract our attention. I think, he could do it!

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The headline of the article is Ed Sheeran celebrates his birthday at the Nokia Theatre. The authur is Randall Roberts. This article is published Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic in February 18, 2013.
1. The party, which is organized by Ed Sheeran;
2.He celebrated his 22 birthday in the Nokia Theatre as a great concert.
The journalist just tells us about the concert which is given in such museum with a great succecc. I'd like to take part in it.

четверг, 14 марта 2013 г.

My Pleasure Reading. The da Vinci Code.2

Robert is suspected of murder. But curetor' granddaughter helps him to escape. Her grandpa left her a strange message and now they are trying together to find the Holy Graal. Robert is looked for be police, but he could to escape. He and Sophie fly to Westmister Abby with Teabing, who has been studing and searching the Holy Graal for a long time. Robert and Sophie need his help.

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The headline of of the article is Theatre: the Dream Cast and the Dream Production. It was published in  Art Times Spring 2013. It was written by Robert W. Bethune.
1. The expectation of production Waiting For Godot.
2. A doutbt about the future succecc.
3. The quotations of famous pepople about theatre.
The journalist wants to say us that it' s difficult for young actors to replace somebody, and unfortunatlly the plays haven't succecc. And I completly agree with him, because they haven't enough talent, I think.

суббота, 9 марта 2013 г.

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The headline of the article is Chatsworth which was published in The First Art Newspaper on the Net on March 9, 2013. It's devoted to the exhibition of sculptures, paintings and drawings by William Turnbull opens at Chatsworth. 
1. William Turnbull, who died in November 2012, is one of the major figures of post-war British art. Born in Dundee in 1922, he began his career as an illustrator for D.C. Thomson, before joining the Royal Air Force in 1941, serving as a pilot in the Second World War.
2. He had a lot of communications and was a recognizable person.
3. Over the last 60 years, his work has been exhibited extensively.
4. Among his works there were many pictures which were ordered by the Royal Family.
William Turnbull was one of the most famouse artist of his time in England and the whole world, so, in my opinion, such people have to remain in our memory, history. And many exhibitions and books have to devoted for them.

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The title of the article is Van Dyck Painting Found Online which was published in BBC NEWS Intertiments & Arts on March 9, 2013. A previously unknown painting by 17th Century master Van Dyck has been identified after being spotted online.
1. It was seen by an art historian on the BBC website.
2. The expert Dr Christopher Brown investigated this incident and was convinced that the author of that painting was Van Dyck, court artist for King Charles I in London in 1632.
3. The portrait depicts Olivia Boteler Porter, lady-in-waiting to Charles I's wife Henrietta Maria.
4. The found picture was in a very bad condition but was estimated at the auction at 1 million dollars.
This situation seems very silly for me because I can't understand how such work of art was unnoticed so long.

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The headline of  the article is The Art of Gadgetry. It was published in Daily Pilot on January 31, 2013. It was written by Rhea Mahububani. The article is about using of interactice machines in artwork.
1. A resident of Buffalo, Vanouse: "My intention has always been to use new technology and force it to be an artistic medium".
2. Vanouse was inspired by Jenny Holzer( an American conceptual artist).
3. At the Beall Center show Vanouse, an associate professor of art at the University of Buffalo, will present a mixture of contemporary forms — a live experiment.
4. The idea behind "Evidence…Works" is to provide a venue for people to see work being produced in real time.
The journalist shows us a new branch of art, a modern branch. It links with high technology so not everyone can use it and work in such style.It concerns me, for exampel.

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The headline of the article is An Unorthodox View of Art. It was published in Daily Pilot Article Collection on February 28, 2013. It was written by Michael Miller. This article is about a very interesting museum which is called The Orange County Museum of Art.
1.Get-It-Out-Of-Your-System-Land  Park offered to unload the basest urges.
2.This parl included the new chaotic show by Richard Jackson.
3. Untill March 10 this museum will hold the competitions between the visitors.
4.Is it creating or destroying?
-" It's about destruction";
-The most important thing is evidence.
5.All exhibitions are very unusual ( e.g. " Painting with Two Balls").
In conclusion, the journalist tries to describe this museum more colourfully and I think that he likes the extraordinariness of this museum and its works. As for me, I'd like to visit it, because most museums are very boring in difference from it.

воскресенье, 3 марта 2013 г.


The Reader (2009)
The Reader is a 2009 film based on Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel of the same name, starring Kate Winslet , Ralph Fiennes , David Kross , Bruno Ganz , Matthias Habich. The director of the film is Stephen Daldry.
 The film represents the story of an ailing teenager Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) and a woman in her thirties Hanna (Kate Winslet). She discovered him ill in the street and took to her flat. Since then, they fall in love passionately and the only quiet moments of their relationship were reading books. Once Michael didn’t find Hanna in her flat and it was a struck for him. Later we see Michael 8 years later as a law student. During one of his practice in a courtroom he noticed Hanna. She was a defendant, one of Nazi prison guards. He could save her but he didn’t. After that we see her in a prison learning to read, his visiting and at last her death.
The film is deep and strong… It makes you thinking over it more and more and causes the wish of watching it again and again.


[color=#FF0000][size=5]The Reader (2009)[/size][/color]

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[b][i]The Reader[/i][/b] is a 2009 film based on Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel of the same name, starring Kate Winslet , Ralph Fiennes , David Kross , Bruno Ganz , Matthias Habich. The director of the film is Stephen Daldry.

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пятница, 15 февраля 2013 г.

My Pleasure Reading. The Da Vinci Code by D. Brown

                                                              Summary
The curator of Louvre and Priory of Sion Grand Master was killed one night at the museum by a Catholic monk Silas. Silas and his teacher wanted to discover the location of the key-stone, which was crucial to the secret of the Holy Grail.

Professor Robert Langdon was in Paris on business. Police captain Bezu Fache went for him to the hotel because the curator left a mysterious message during his final minutes of life and in the last words was the phrase: " P.S. find Robert Langdon". The curator body was found in the pose of the Vitruvian man and he also draw the pentacle around his body with his blood.

My List of Pleasure Reading Books

Year I Term I- Jane Austen "Emma"
Year I Term II- Jane Austen " Sense and Sensibility"
Year II Term III- Helen Fielding " Bridget Jones' s Diary"
Year II Term IV- Helen Fielding " Bridget Jones: the Edge of Reason"
Year III Term V- Wilkie Collins " Woman in White"
And Year III Term VI- Dan Brown " The Da Vinci Code"