#noel frankel

[fredalan]

1991 Fred/Alan holiday party invitation. Illustrated and designed by Tom Godici.

The last Fred/Alan holiday party! 1991

As we’ve posted before, we never really understood the “standard” protocols of running a successful agency, wining and dining clients with expensive dinners, golfing outings (you’ve got to kidding!) and annual holiday gifts. Our version was killer holiday parties.

Things really hit a peak in 1987, when former Ed Levine, account executive and former music promoter/producer/now food writer, suggested we book Dr. John* for our soiree. Creative director Noel Frankel illustrated an amazing invitation (with Wite-Out®!), and we booked a belly dancing school studio on 8th Avenue. Sylvia’s catered the soul food, the doctor’s band came on their night off and blew the ceiling off the place. What a night!

1987 Fred/Alan holiday party invitation. Illustrated and designed by Noel Frankel.

1989 Fred/Alan-Chauncey Street holiday party invitation. Designed by Noel Frankel. 

Afterwards, we wondered if the parties could get any better, but from that year on we tried pretty hard to top ourselves. By our last party we just might have done it.

We didn’t know it was our last hurrah. We’d just moved into a new space that we’d designed for ourselves, we were celebrating. For the December 1991 party the entertainment booked was the Calypso Kind of the World, Mighty Sparrow, known to getting entire Caribbean stadiums on their feet to dance. By the end of his contracted second set in a downtown restaurant, Sparrow’s shirt had come off, the crowd was sweating as much as he was, and he assured us he wasn’t done yet and came back for another couple of hours!

For some reason, Art Director Tom Godici thought it would be worth his time to burn the edges of all 500 holiday  poster invitations by hand. We weren’t arguing, Tom always made sure his work was up to his personal creative standards. He lived them.

*Ed and Dr. John/MacRebennack had done a couple of wonderful records together, and Ed later suggested him for a fantastic campaign we did for TV Heaven.

#self promotion #poster #holiday #Christmas #invitation #party #print #Tom Godici #1987 #1989 #1991 #MIghty Sparrow #Noel Frankel #Dr. John #Ed Levine #Chauncey Street

[fredfilmsblog]

Network Branding 1988-1990 The Best of Original Cartoons

TV Heaven and HA! TV Comedy Network

Fred/Alan, Inc. New York

For a quick minute in the late 1980s, Nickelodeon's ad sales group could not sell Nick-at-Nite advertising ("no one wants black and white reruns!"), so they decided they'd promote themselves as a comedy network.

So, my Fred/Alan partner Alan Goodman and I brought our original idea of TV oldies to a broken down UHF channel in St.Cloud, Minnesota, and renamed Channel 47 "TV Heaven." We got more publicity in three weeks than Nick-at-Nite got three years. Nick-at-Nite parent MTV Networks threatened to fire us from all their networks and we had to resign TV Heaven.

But not before we made some awesome station identifications with our indie animation friends.

In 1990, MTV Networks revived the idea of an all comedy network in a panic after HBO launched the Comedy Channel. Fred/Alan convinced MTVN to brand theirs as HA! The TV Comedy Network, and we went to work.

(Neither The Comedy Channel or HA! succeeded and they merged, Fred/Alan named the venture "Comedy Central" and the rest is comedy television history.)

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Creative directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert

Producer: Tom Pomposello Logo design: Noel Frankel ..... TV Heaven station identifications 1988

Production companies: International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; Fred Mogubgub, NY. . . . . . HA! network identifications 1990 Production companies: Lou Brooks & Jerry Lieberman, NY; Charlex, NY; International Rocketship, Vancouver BC; (Colossal) Pictures, SF; Marc Karzen, NY.

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Pages 256-259 “The Best of Original Cartoons-Produced by Fred Seibert”

#7 The FredFilms Professional Library (Amazon)

#Best of Original Cartoons #HA! #TV Heaven #1988 #1989 #1990 #Alan Goodman #tom pomposello #noel frankel #Fred/Alan #Fred Mogubgub #Marv Newland #International Rocketshi[ #lou brooks #Jerry Lieberman #Charlex #Mark Karzen #The FredFilms Professional Library

[stenka-razin]

Every Film I Watched in 2022

The Matrix (1999, dir. Lana Wachowski & Lilly Wachowski) Bidoof’s Big Stand (2022, dir. Shaofu Zhang) Samurai Cop (1991, for. Amir Shervan) The Matrix Resurrections (2021, dir. Lana Wachowski) Citizen Kane (1941, dir. Orson Welles) Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (“鉄男II BODY HAMMER” 1992, dir. Shinya Tsukamoto) The Elephant Man (1980, dir. David Lynch) Grandma’s Boy (2006, dir. Nicholaus Goossen) Always Be My Maybe (2019, dir. Nahnatchka Khan) Game Night (2018, dir. John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein) When We First Met (2018, dir. Ari Sandel) The Kid (1921, dir. Charlie Chaplin, 1972 rerelease) Menace II Society (1993, dir. Albert Hughes & Allen Hughes) Duck Soup (1933, dir. Leo McCarey) 30 Minutes or Less (2011, dir. Ruben Fleischer) Chimes at Midnight (1965, dir. Orson Welles) Money Plane (2020, dir. Andrew Lawrence) Man with a Movie Camera (“Человек с киноаппаратом” 1929, dir. Dziga Vertov, Cinematic Orchestra soundtrack) Godzilla (1998, dir. Roland Emmerich) City Lights (1931, dir. Charlie Chaplin) Krull (1983, dir. Peter Yates) Klute (1971, dir. Alan J. Paluka) The Lawnmower Man (1992, dir. Brett Leonard) Area 51: The Alien Interview (1997, dir. Jeff Broadstreet) Ratty (2020, dir. John Angus Stewart) Heavy Metal (1981, dir. Gerald Potterton) The Northman (2022, dir. Robert Eggers) Autumn Sonata (“Höstsonaten” 1978, dir. Ingmar Bergman) Battles Without Honor and Humanity (“仁義なき戦い” 1973, dir. Kinji Fukasuka) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (“仁義なき戦い 広島死闘篇” 1973, dir. Kinji Fukasuka) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (“仁義なき戦い 代理戦争” 1973, dir. Kinji Fukusaku) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (“仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦” 1974, dir. Kinji Fukusaku) Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (“仁義なき戦い 完結篇” 1974, dir. Kinji Fukusaku) Logan’s Run (1976, dir. Michael Anderson) The Vietnam War (2017, dir. Ken Burns & Lynn Novick) The Devil Wears Prada (2006, dir. David Frankel) Best in Show (2000, dir. Christopher Guest) Shaolin and Wu Tang (“少林與武當” 1983, dir. Gordon Liu, dub) Shin Godzilla (“シン・ゴジラ” 2016, dir. Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi) The Legend of the Suram Fortress (“ამბავი სურამის ციხისა” 1985, dir. Sergei Parajanov) The Six Directions of Boxing (“六合八法” 1980, dir. Hsu Tien-Yung, dub) Shaolin vs Lama (“少林鬥喇嘛” 1983, dir. Lee Tso-Nam, dub) Inside the Mind of a Cat (2022, dir. Andy Mitchell) Prey (2022, dir. Dan Trachtenberg) Marathon Man (1976, dir. John Schlesinger) Final Destination (2000, dir. James Wong) Final Destination 2 (2003, dir. David R. Ellis) Final Destination 3 (2005, dir. James Wong) The Final Destination (2009, dir. David R. Ellis) Final Destination 5 (2011, dir. Steven Quayle) Mulan (1998, dir. Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook) No Time to Die (2021, dir. Cory Joji Fukunaga) The Munsters (2022, dir. Rob Zombie) House of 1000 Corpses (2003, dir. Rob Zombie) One Night in Miami… (2020, dir. Regina King) Magnificent Obsession (1954, dir. Douglas Sirk) The Knight Before Christmas (2019, dir. Monika Mitchell) Halloween (1978, dir. John Carpenter) Noel Next Door (2022, dir. Max McGuire) Ice Sculpture Christmas (2015, dir. David Mackay) Alexander Nevsky (1938, dir. Sergei Eisenstein) Love Hard (2021, dir. Hernán Jiménez) Falling for Christmas (2022, dir. Janeen Damien) A Christmas Prince (2017, dir. Alex Zamm) Holidate (2020, dir. John Whitesell) Cyborg (1989, dir. Albert Pyun) Full Metal Jacket (1987, dir. Stanley Kubrick) Star Trek Generations (1994, dir. David Carson) Christmas Vacation (1989, dir. Jeremiah S. Chechik) Star Trek: First Contact (1996, dir. Jonathan Frakes) Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001, dir. Sharon Maguire) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990, dir. Steve Barron) Waterworld (1995, dir. Kevin Reynolds) Elf (2003, dir. Jon Favreau) Feliz NaviDAD (2020, dir. Melissa Joan Hart) Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977, dir. Jim Henson)

#bold = first time viewing

[thronesfm]

fcs suggestions for dorne and iron islands?

dorne :  adjoa  andoh  ,  aishwarya  rai  bachchan  ,  aiysha  hart  ,  amita  suman  ,  anna  shaffer  ,  anya  chalotra  ,  archie  renaux  ,  beren  saat  ,  beste  kokdemir  ,  burcu  ozberk  ,  charithra  chandran  ,  cynthia  addai-robinson  ,  deepika  padukone  ,  demet  ozdemir  ,  dev  patel  ,  dilraba  dilmurat  ,  ebonee  noel  ,  dylan  wang  ,  golda  rosheuvel  ,  hulya  avsar  ,  isabela  merced  ,  ishbel  bautista  ,  jacob  anderson  ,  ni  ni  ,  kiana  madeira  ,  li  yitong  ,  maddison  jaizani  ,  madeleine  madden  ,  marcus  griffith  ,  mckell  david  ,  medalion  rahimi  ,  nazanin  boniadi  ,  nur  fettahoglu  ,  oscar  isaac  ,  pedro  pascal  ,  santiago  cabrera  ,  sean  teale  ,  sebastian  de  souza  ,  sevda  erginci  ,  sonoya  mizuno  ,  shelley  conn  ,  thalissa  teixeira  ,  tuba  buyukustun  ,  Vanessa  Morgan  ,  wang  haoxuan  ,  woo  dohwan  ,  wilson  nbomio  ,  xiao  zhan  ,  xuan  lu  ,  yu  bin  ,  zhang  chenxiao  ,  zoe  robins  .  

iron islands : amy  wren  ,  alexander  drayman  ,  alexandra  dowling  ,  alexandra  moen  ,  amber  midthunder  ,  amelia  clarkson  ,  amita  suman  ,  arias  fedaravicius  ,  archie  renaux  ,  charlie  murphy  ,  jessica  chastain  ,  emily  cox  ,  emma  d'arcy  ,  eve  best  ,  ewan  mitchell  ,  fabien  frankel  ,  liu  yifei  ,  harry  treadaway  ,  luke  arnold  ,  harris  dickinson  ,  hayden  christensen  ,  hera  hilmar  ,  heida  reed  ,  jacob  collins  levy  ,  jack  davenport  ,  jack  wolfe  ,  jamie  alexander  ,  jessica  barden  ,  joanna  macgibbon  ,  kiana  madeira  ,  kit  young  ,  kuang  tian  ,  leo  suter  ,  mahesh  jadu  ,  oscar  isaac  ,  reece  ritchie  ,  sofia  boutella  ,  taika  waititi  ,  theo  nate  ,  tony  leung  ,  tony  revolori  ,  dianne  doan  ,  hakeem  kae  kazeem  .

#mw #mwm #mwf #not answering any more giant fc ones tonight lmao #oc rp #appless rp #got rp

[gildedfms]

mw fcs??

aaron  fontaine,  bruna  marquezine,  ksenia  solo,  aaron  taylor - johnson,  heida  reed,  adrian  enscoe,  charithra  chandran,  ebonee  noel,  havana  rose  liu,  francois  arnaud,  laura  harrier,  charles  melton,  finn  cole,  ella  hunt,  do  jihan,  ann  skelly,  anya  chalotra,  himest  patel,  reeve  carney,  charlotte  spencer,  dev  patel,  emma  corrin,  freddie  fox,  peter  gadiot,  arsema  thomas,  jonah  hauer - king,  esther  yu,  madeleine  madden,  remy  hii,  callum  turmer,  romola  garai,  josh  whitehouse,  aubri  ibrag,  natasha  liu  bordizzo,  daniel  kaluuya,  pinar  deniz,  tuppence  middleton,  corey  mylchreest,  india  amarteifio,  denee  benton,  katie  findlay,  leo  suter,  david  corenswet,  fabien  frankel,  oliver  jackson - cohen,  halle  bailey,  jose  ramon  barreto,  henry  golding,  tom  hiddleston,  gemma  chan,  paapa  essiedu,  aneurin  barnard,  kylie  bunbury,  toby  stephens,  isabel  merced,  matthew  broome,  lewis  tan,  kate  siegel,  woo  dohwan,  oscar  isaac,  zawe  ashton,  rege  jean - page,  matteo  martari,  sam  retford,  ksenia  mishina,  simone  ashley  and  sam  retford.

#period rp #appless rp #history rp #new rp #lsrp #answered #suggestions

[techniscope]

Noel Frankel (designer) Pete Aguanno (creative director)

[dreamylyfe-x]

Your thoughts on the 5x10 scene are EXACTLY what I've been thinking - I absolutely agree that that's the ultimate Gallavich scene, it wraps up their past and their present and speaks to their potential future in one scene without being too heavy-handed and it's incredible

Yes! It really has all the dynamics at once and I think the ending of the scene also uniquely shows the more tender side of their relationship that we don't always get to see.

Ian's also rarely that vulnerable and I love that energy.

@damngcoffee pointed something out in her tags that I wish I'd thought of, too, which is how going to these places they have together is a thing with them, partly because it was hard for them to be alone. That Ian finds Mickey in the abandoned buildings because he knows where he goes to escape. And in 7x10 Mickey wants Ian to meet him under the bleachers because it's "their spot". There's really so little time that Mickey and Ian are together in a meaningful way between 5x10 and 7x10. So I love that in both those moments, they are going back to places they have memories of.

Though those are not the same bleachers. I mean, whatever. But they aren't.

There's an interview done in season 5 for Buzzfeed with Noel, Cam and Etan Frankel who was an executive producer at the time. Etan says "I think you need two people in these roles who can express things with just a look. To me, those are always the most powerful moments: seeing the swirl of emotions in either of these two guys at the end of a scene, knowing all the things that are going through their heads and hearts, those are always the ones that land on me the best."

I think you can really see that in that scene. That they are relying really heavily on the actors being able to make the transitions the scene needs and I love that they do that. And I love how well it works.

#asks #thanks for asking! #love that this one has some agreement #because I think of this scene as divisive #shameless season 5 #shameless 5x10

[fred-frederator-studios]

Globe Poster Baltimore 

Like a lot of people my age I got a jones for posters because I fell in love with rock’n’roll, which were still being heavily used to promote dance hall concerts (before concerts went into stadiums).

When I started collecting (the Norfolk Arena one up top is one of my gems) my cursory research kept turning up Globe’s work (I was East Coast based like Globe) in the “boxing” genre, even though today, they’re more known for their R&B and circus fair stuff.

Back in the day, my partner in branding, Alan Goodman, and I started throwing holiday parties for our branding agency, booking acts like Dr. John and Johnny Copeland. In 1989 I asked our art director, Noel Frankel, to design an homage to Globe.

Noel tried, he really did. But his art direction tendency to do things the ‘right’ way intruded and I was a bit disappointed as to how “clean” it turned out. I had no idea that Globe was still in business and they would have done it up the way I’d envisioned.

For all of you, the good news is that like Hatch Show Print in Nashville, Globe has been relocated at a non-profit, the University of Maryland. They’re still making posters! I’ll have to commission one for Frederator, dontcha think?

#poster homage #Globe Poster #Baltimore #poster #posters

[fredalan]

The Movie Channel, network identifications 1988 & 1981

Not all of the branding work Fred/Alan did was visible or famous, but we weren’t any less proud of it. The 1988 assignment to redesign The Movie Channel was one of those.

Fred started his career in May 1980 at The Movie Channel, then owned by Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Company (aka WASEC, the precursor to MTV Networks and Viacom), more on that below. We both left in April 1983 to start Fred/Alan, and later that year Showtime acquired The Movie Channel (whew!). A few years later, new management imported from HBO decided to put muscle behind The Movie Channel. In the meantime, Showtime had become a major Fred/Alan client and our reputation in developing brands and trademarks got us the assignment.

The Eyes Have It As he would a couple years later with HA!, Noel Frankel, our creative director, would adapt his prodigious design skills to our “changing logo” perspective and created a logo that would zero in on the soul of all people, their eyes. It was a hard sell at first –what? no cool, zapping colors like you did at MTV?– but eventually the team came aboard. Noel had succeeded in creating one of our most compelling –if not most popular– logos.

Our friends at Charlex had by then done several years of great productions for us at Nickelodeon, Myers’s Rum, and HA!, and we worked well with their emotional approach to video. Almost unique among “motion graphics” and visual effects companies, co-founder Alex Weil understood it wasn’t all about floating type. He instantly groked the eyes and worked creative magic with our team.

The Movie Channel 1981

The 1988 TMC project contrasted mightily with the first one we did for the channel back in the day. While we had already had a instinctual “yes!” about how to brand MTV, for a variety of reasons The Movie Channel initially escaped us. Though this project was started long before our MTV work, it wasn’t finished until the very last day of the year. And we didn’t know if we wanted them to be promos (with voiceover, like a short commercial) or just a tasty, fresh, appropriate visual. They turned out to be camels where they felt like “a horse created by committee.” But we were our own committee. 

We came up with “marketing propositions” (aka promises) the same as we did for MTV and eventually Nickelodeon, but the essence of the first all-movie cable channel just escaped us. We worked with one of our favorite producers, Jerry Lieberman in New York, for a friendly, fun hand drawn animation style, and great illustrators like Frank Olinsky and Susan Rivor, but... well, you can’t hit it out of the park every time.

.....

The Movie Channel 1988 Agency: Fred/Alan, Inc. New York  Executive creative directors: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert  Logo design & creative director: Noel Frankel  Producer & sound design: Tom Pomposello  Production company: Charlex, New York

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The Movie Channel 1981 Creative director: Fred Seibert   Illustration: Frank Olinksky, Susan Rivoir, and others Logo design: Alan Peckolick Producer: Alan Goodman Production company: Jerry Lieberman Productions, New York

#The Movie Channel #logo #branding #creative logos #network IDs #1988 #1981

[fredfilmsblog]

Best of Original Cartoons: HA! TV Comedy Network [1990-1991] 

Has anyone ever heard of HA!? Tough luck, it’s one of my favorite projects that my partner Alan Goodman and I developed back in the day. 


The short story is that MTV Networks (original home of MTV and Nickelodeon) got sideswiped by HBO starting The Comedy Channel, so they decided to fight back with their own. It was all hands on deck including Fred/Alan, our branding agency (more here). What to do about branding? I worked with the promotion group to develop their promises and spots, while back at the farm, we persuaded MTVN management to use a name –HA!– developed by their own staff, but somehow passed over. The Fred/Alan creative director, Noel Frankel, liked our approach of moving/changing/mutating trademarks and created a logo where the faces could morph constantly, right up our alley. 


As much fun as we had making advertising and promotion for the network, it was in the motion graphics and animation for the channel branding that made it one of our favorite, if now completely forgotten projects.

Alan and I had spent the past decade honing our point of view about how to identify a cable channel –like MTV, Nickelodeon, Lifetime, VH1– with increasing confidence. Along the way we’d created relationships with the world’s most innovative young filmmakers making short form, commercial animated films. In fact, I can say, with great pride, that we’d been responsible for helping some of them make their greatest early work that introduced them in a big way.

The late 80s and early 90s was also a period where technology was rapidly evolving, in particular how desktop computing and video were coming into their own as primary creative tools. Just take a look at the first 10 second spots at the top of this reel (only a smattering of the total number of films we produced for HA!) to see what I mean.

Ultimately, HA! was one of the last of these branding IDs that we made before closing the agency in 1992, and in my case, moving on to the cartoon business. But, truth be told, I don’t think I could have ever made the leap without my experience making almost 1000 of these 10-second network identifications, my personal film school. 

. . . . .

HA! TV Comedy Network Network identity IDs Winter/Spring 1990

Logo design: Noel Frankel Production: Drew Takahashi/(Colossal) Pictures SF, Alex Weil/Charlex NY, Marv Newland/International Rocketship Vancouver BC, Lou Brooks/Jerry Lieberman Productions NYC, Marc Karzen

Produced by Albie Hecht, Howard Hoffman, Tom Pomposello, Chris Strand Executive producers: Alan Goodman & Fred Seibert

#Best of Original Cartoons #HA! #HA! TV Comedy Network #Noel Frankel #(Colossal) Pictures #Charlex #Marv Newland #Tom Pomposello #Albie Hecht #Alan Goodman #Howard Hoffman #Chris Strand #Marc Karzen #Lou Brooks #Jerry Lieberman #branding #network IDs

[caroluna]

Gia’s 111 Favorite Books, Plays, and Poetry & Short Story Collections:

A very long time ago, someone asked for this. Blame them:

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Othello by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

Macbeth by William Shakespeare (never say the name in a theatre on your life!)

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Every Boy’s Got One by Meg Cabot

Specials by Scott Westerfeld

The Host by Stephenie Meyer

The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Briar Rose by Jane Yolen

Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Kindred by Octavia Butler

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

I Now Pronounce You Someone Else by Erin McCahan

Fire by Kristin Cashore

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

Harmonic Feedback by Tara Kelly

Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James

Love & Misadventure by Lang Leav

Memories by Lang Leav

Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen

The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

The Iron Queen by Julie Kagawa

Lily of the Nile by Stephanie Dray

Today Means Amen by Sierra DeMulder

The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary Pearson

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The Last Summer (Of You and Me) by Ann Brashares

Eon by Alison Goodman

Eyes Like Stars by Lisa Mantchev

Identical by Ellen Hopkins

Time Enough For Drums by Ann Rinaldi

Nine Days a Queen by Ann Rinalidi

I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield

Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt

Illyria by Elizabeth Hand

Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Chasing Redbird by Sharon Creech

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir

My Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir

Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu

Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah

The Archived by Victoria Schwab

Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell

My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles by Julie Andrews Edwards

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

The Lottery Rose by Irene Hunt

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

The Lady of Shalott by Alfred Tennyson

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Monstrous Beauty by Elizabeth Fama

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Doomed Queen Anne by Carolyn Meyer

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley

Love, Ruby Lavender by Deborah Wiles

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

The Curiosities by Stiefvater, Gratton, & Yovanoff

Goodbye For Now by Laurie Frankel

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

Hinds Feet on High Places by Hannah Hurnard

Wild by Cheryl Strayed

The Anybodies by N.E. Bode

I am Morgan le Fay by Nancy Springer

Zoom Broom by Margie Palatini

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone

A Bad Case of Stripes by David Shannon

Womanspirit Rising Edited by Carol P. Christ

Transforming the Faiths of Our Fathers by Ann Braude

Walking on Alligators by Susan Shaughnessy

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Heaven of Animals by Nancy Tillman

Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo

The Creation of Feminist Consciousness by Gerda Lerner

The Sorrow of the Lonely and the Burning of the Dancers by Edward L. Schieffelin

Honey, Baby, Sweetheart by Deb Caletti

Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson

Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson

The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour

Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxane Gay

Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay

Station Eleven by Emily st. John Mandel

Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd

Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding 

#favorite books #not HP #well not only HP #there's a little HP

[thronesfm]

most wanted faceclaims for house hightower ?

olivia cooke , aidan turner , amanda fix , amy james kelly , amy wren , adjoa andoh , adrian lester , aishwarya rai bachchan , alberto guerra , alexandra dowling , alicia vikander , amita suman , anaju dorigon , angela baby , anna brewter , anna shaffer , aneurin barnard , archie renaux , bayo gbadamosi , ben barnes , dalmar abuzeid , dianne doan , do jihan , ebonee noel , fabian frankel , gong yoo , henry golding , himesh patel , howard charles , jing tian , josh o'connor , kit young , liv hill , max parker , michelle yeoh , oscar isaac .

#oc rp #appless rp #got rp #asoiaf rp

[dreamylyfe-x]

you know what's so frustrating and disappointing is that they refuse to explore mickey as a character outside of ian at all. and in s1-5 that's ok cuz he's a support character, but then he's gone for seasons, then finally comes back and gets real screentime... and they waste it on OOC sitcom bullsh*t? use him like frank 2.0 or something, just there to use for an uncomfortable contrived laugh? noel could act the hell out of a serious arc, i wish he'd get one like jeremy/ cameron/ etc do!!!

Gah. I so appreciate that people send me these asks and then I’m like “you know what’s REALLY frustrating and disappointing? ME.” -- because I actually think Mickey has gotten a lot of opportunity to be explored for a non-Gallagher character. First two seasons, there isn't much. Little hints. But after that, we get a lot of Mickey’s inner life, particularly in comparison to our other Gallagher love interests. We get an entire half-season where Ian isn't even around -- and yes, they put some time in on Mickey being lovesick and sad -- but that’s exploration of Mickey. Loving Ian is a big part of Mickey. I actually think Ian is the character who got shortchanged on that one, because when MICKEY leaves the show, the show is pushing Ian to get past it ASAP. (This is a thing I do not love.) But we also found out a lot about Mickey and how he moves through the world. His relationship with Svetlana got a lot of time. We found out stuff about his relationship with this dad. It’s hard to think of a love-interest he got more time like that than Mickey -- other than, of course, JimmySteve. 

I cannot abide him being compared to Frank. He has a heck of a lot more heart than that! (Also I mostly can’t stand Frank. And I love Mickey. That’s not a good argument, but nevertheless. I feel strongly that one of those things is not like the other.) 

I do agree that Noel can -- and has -- acted the hell out of a more serious arc. I thought he was excellent in seasons four and five in particular. There’s a buzzfeed article from season five that talks to Cam and Noel, along with the then-exec producer Etan Frankel. This quote sticks with me: 

As a writer, you feel secure writing a scene knowing they're going to knock it out of the park and they'll find things you didn't necessarily intend, so you find beautiful moments. It's exciting to see those dailies come back and saying, Oh wow, that wasn't even a moment in the script, but they've made it become a moment.

I fully still think that’s a thing. With both of them. I think we saw that in 11x03 where the entire resolution of that scene other than the mid-credits 😳 scene relies entirely on the expression on Mickey’s face after V finishes her lecture. So... I mean, I’d love to see it. I don’t think we’re going to get a ton of opportunity for it in the concluding season. And I don't think we’ve gotten a ton of it since Noel returned -- though I do think we got a nice tight emotional arc for both them in season 7. I’d LOVE to see things go a little deeper. That’s pretty much all I want, always. 

I’ll always be all what could have been... about the seasons with hardly any (or no) Mickey. But I do think, when he was here, we got some good meaty stuff with that character. And that Noel always brought a lot of depth to him in his performance. It’s a big reason the love for that character endured. And a big reason why I’ll miss Mickey and Ian the most when the show finishes it’s run. 

#asks #I remain stubbornly positive about a lot of stuff #especially Noel Fisher #mickey milkovich #shameless season 11 #thank you anon!

[newyorktheater]

Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge deliver back-to-back monologues in the only show opening on Broadway in August.

After a promised Broadway run was scrapped, “Bat Out of Hell” is finally opening in New York, but Off-Broadway. And Off-Off Broadway, The Flea launches a festival of plays by Mac Wellman, the much admired and often abstruse downtown theater artist. The dog days of summer are in fact a traditional time for untraditional theater, witness the wealth of summer theater festivals, one of them brand new, as well as an immersive adventure on Governors Island.

The shows described below are organized chronologically by opening night, except the festivals and those shows that don’t have official opening nights.  Each title is linked to a relevant website for more information

Color key: Broadway: Red. Off Broadway: Purple, blue or black. Off Off Broadway: Green.Theater festival: Orange. Puppetry: Brown. Immersive: Magenta.

August 1

Love, Noël (Irish Repertory Theatre)

Noel Coward’s songs, stories, and personal letters delivered cabaret style by Steve Ross and KT Sullivan

2071: The World We Will Leave Our Children (Episcopal Actors Guild)

A look at climate change through personal and scientific accounts.

August 2

Those Before Us (Governors Island)

“An audio immersive dance experience.” FREE. Through August 11th.

August 3

No Brainer (Theatre for the New City)

A heroic social worker accepts the challenge of helping to save the world from a grandiose charlatan.  Subtitled “the Solution to Parasites,” this is the latest of Theatre for the New City’s annual wacky, political summer offering performed through September 15 in parks, playgrounds and closed-off streets throughout the five boroughs.

August 5

Coriolanus

Daniel Sullivan directs a modern-day version of Shakespeare’s epic of democracy and demagoguery for The Public’s free outdoor season.

August 7

Down to Eartha (Gene Frankel)

This solo play written and performed by Dierdra McDowell explores the life of actor and activist Eartha Kitt.

August 8

Sea Wall/A Life (Hudson)

A double bill of monologues that originally ran at the Public Theater. In “Sea Wall” by Simon Stephens, Tom Sturridge talks about love and the human need to know the unknowable. In “A Life” by Nick Payne, Jake Gyllenhaal meditates on how we say goodbye to those we love most

Bat Out of Hell (City Center)

Using the rock anthems of Jim Steinman (aka Meat Loaf),the musical tells the story of  Strat, the forever young leader of rebellious gang ‘The Lost’, as he falls in love with Raven, the beautiful daughter of the tyrannical ruler of post-apocalyptic Obsidian.

LadyFest (The Tank)

The third annual festival, which runs through August 28th, features new work by “lady or gender non-conforming artists” It debuts with “Tornkid,” which uses Southeastern mythology and puppets to tell the story of a kid who “tear themselves in two. Tricky thing is, Tornkid’s other half runs away with their voice, into a mythical land both achingly familiar and unfamiliar.”

  August 9

Rave Theater Festival (Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center)

This new festival by producer Ken Davenport features 20 new plays and musicals (each offering five performances) through August 25

Opening night features four shows:  Big Shot, Fancy Maids, Noirtownand Training Wheels

August 15

Make Believe (2nd Stage)

A new play by Bess Wohl. For the four Conlee kids, ages 5 to 10, playing house is no longer a game when their parents inexplicably disappear. Thirty-two years later, their search for answers continues.

August 23

HOUSE (Theater Mitu)

Subtitled “or how to lose an orchard in 90 minutes or less,” the piece “upends Anton Chekhov’s 1903 text The Cherry Orchard to explore how families across the globe must again and again find ways to redefine the idea of home. Interjecting Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 1977 cult horror film HOUSE, text from company-conducted interviews, and live music…”

 August 24

Mac Wellman: Perfect Catastrophes (The Flea)

A “festival” of five plays by the avant-garde playwright running through November. Two begin on August 24: “Sincerity Forever,” a group of teens hang out in fictional southern town of Hillsbottom, a place with a prominent community of Ku Klux Klan members, and “Bad Penny,” described thusly: “A man and a woman sit in a park. They appear to be a couple, but aren’t. The man is clutching a car tire. The woman has a penny in her pocket. The mythical Boatman of Bow Bridge is coming. He is coming to take away the person who is in possession of the penny. How do we make choices in the face of the end of the world as we know it?” (My money’s on “Bad Penny”)

August 25

Dream Up Festival (Theatre for the New City

The tenth annual festival offers ten shows in all — two musicals, four plays on the African-American experience, two plays on pregnancy and motherhood, four plays of political content set in the dystopian future, two solo shows and two two-handers.”  Also a new translation  of Strindberg’s  “The Father” (pictured)

August 26

The Museum of Future Experiences

“a high-end immersive VR experiences at brick and mortar locations.”

August 29

Dust (New York Theatre Workshop)

Milly Thomas’s solo play about a woman who is forced to watch the aftermath of her own suicide

  August 2019 New York Theater Openings Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge deliver back-to-back monologues in the only show opening on Broadway in August.

[themomsandthecity]

Bethenny Frankel Details Luann de Lesseps' Intervention: 'It Was a Very Emotional & Crazy' Time

Luann de Lesseps‘ return to rehab forced her to miss The Real Housewives of New York City season 10 reunion taping, but that didn’t stop the cast from talking about her recent relapse. On Wednesday’s reunion part two, the 53-year-old Countess’ costars opened up about the state she was in prior to checking herself back into an alcohol treatment center, with Bethenny Frankel detailing what lead to de Lesseps’ friends staging an intervention. “I would say she did not come to her decision entirely on her own,” Frankel said. “There were a few people there and it was the right thing to do. It was a very, very emotional and crazy weekend. … It was time to face reality.” “There’s a lot going on that’s all a part of it. It all got so much larger than life and so much intensity at the same time and it needs to be leveled. She has a journey to go on,” Frankel added. “She really wants to be loved. She’s so big so you think she’s so tough. But she’s really like a big baby. I feel for her. It’s sad.” As PEOPLE had reported exclusively in July, Frankel was by de Lesseps’ side when she made the decision to attend rehab for a second time. “This weekend, Luann was surrounded by her girlfriends and decided — with their support — that in light of recent circumstances, it is the healthiest choice for her not to attend reunion taping so that she can continue in her healing process,” Frankel, 47, told PEOPLE at the time. “Luann is now surrounded by a core group of people who truly have her best interests at heart and who are working to make sure she gets the help she needs.” “Bravo has been very supportive of Luann during this time,” Frankel continued. “It’s a brave and honest decision by her, and everyone is rallying around her and wants the best for her.” After a little under three weeks at the facility, de Lesseps checked out at the top of August and returned to the stage for her #CountessAndFriends cabaret show. “I’m in a really good place,” de Lesseps told PEOPLE on Saturday, as she hit her 40 days sober mark. “I don’t feel like drinking. I’m committed to my sobriety. I want it more than anything.” So what caused her to relapse? According to de Lesseps, it was a lawsuit filed against her over an $8 million house sale from her first husband, Alexandre de Lesseps, and their children, Victoria and Noel, that pushed her to drink. “That was devastating,” she told Megyn Kelly Today on Aug. 14, adding that she “felt betrayed” and “fell off the wagon” after learning about it in the press. “I had two or three and then I had I think two bottles of rosé by myself, and then I had probably a six-pack of beer or something. … I didn’t know when to stop.” That may have been the bender that led her back to rehab, but on Wednesday’s reunion, many of the New York City Housewives — including Frankel — hinted that de Lesseps had been drinking before then.  “She had taken a bit of a turn and I think the recent situation with her family certainly didn’t help the matter,” said Frankel. “There’s a lawsuit going on with her and the kids. She’s very clear that the catalyst of this lawsuit was not the best thing for her.” Ramona Singer got into more detail, claiming that there were a few incidents of public intoxication that never got out in the press. “She was at the Beacon, I didn’t say anything,” Singer, 61, alleged. “Luann was very out of it, so much so she put her head back in my girlfriend’s lap between her legs, kicked her legs up, and the Beacon had to escort her out. That was like, three months ago.” There was also another party de Lesseps attended that she was asked to leave, Singer claimed. Even Andy Cohen suggested de Lesseps was “a little off” when he went to see her cabaret show in late June. “I think she thought she could have one,” Medley said. “I think she was hiding it well.” No matter what, all the Housewives agreed that it was good de Lesseps was getting the help she needed. “I give her a lot of credit,” said Sonja Morgan, 54. “She was doing really, really well. I think going to rehab was the right move and she’ll get back on track.” Still, they all warned that de Lesseps keep her ego in check — something they say swelled after she was arrested on Christmas Eve in Palm Beach and charged with disorderly intoxication, battery on an officer, resisting arrest with violence and threatening a public servant. (She recently struck a plea deal in the case and will avoid jail time.) “ was feeling herself,” Frankel said. “She did feel the arrest made her more famous than it ever had before.” “She was losing some people in her life, besides me,” agreed Medley, 53, who has recently fallen out of favor with de Lesseps. “There were people saying I can’t deal with the ego. I think she got confused between fame and infamy. My mother always says in the face of devastation, humility should prevail, not ego. And maybe that was a defense mechanism.” RELATED VIDEO: Luann de Lesseps Says Her Arrest Cost Her Friends and Boyfriends Meanwhile, de Lesseps told PEOPLE on Saturday that she’s grateful for Frankel’s help in helping her get sober again. “It meant a lot to me,” de Lesseps said. “I had Charlie’s Angels swoop in! I had one friend who took care of my financial situation, one who was really looking into what rehab I was going to go to, and then Bethenny — who really took care of the television side and helped orchestrate that. So she really was instrumental in helping me get sober. She just wiped it off my plate. She was like, ‘You have to go to rehab, I’ve got this.’ ” The Real Housewives of New York City reunion concludes Wednesday (8 p.m. ET) on Bravo. http://bit.ly/2LD9EEx

#TV #Bethenny Frankel #Dorinda Medley #Luann de Lesseps #News

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Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Part 1: All the Times Luann de Lesseps' Defense of Tom D'Agostino Broke Our Hearts

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Real Housewives of New York City Reunion Part 1: All the Times Luann de Lesseps' Defense of Tom D'Agostino Broke Our Hearts

Luann de Lesseps didn’t want the Real Housewives of New York City season nine reunion special to be about Tom D’Agostino. But as the saying goes, it’s about Tom.

During part one of the three-part special, after host Andy Cohen took Ramona Singer to task for her erratic behavior all season long and grilled Sonja Morgan over her touchy relationship with Dorinda Medley, talk turned, as it so often does when these women all get together, to the onetime, but now former, Mrs. D’Agostino’s doomed marriage to the man everyone warned her about.

And while it’s easy to bask in the schadenfreude while watching poor Lu twist herself into a pretzel as she tried to excuse any and all of Tom’s bad behavior, knowing that she’d file for divorce only a few short weeks after sitting down to tape the reunion, we couldn’t help but feel terrible for her. This isn’t going to be an easy watch for the erstwhile Countess.

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First, there was the initial, rose-colored glasses description of married life: “It’s fantastic. I love being married. I love the life that goes with it. I love having a partner in crime, and I love Tom. He’s a good guy.”

Then came the moment when Andy brought up last year’s reunion, where Ramona seemed to imply she was aware of further indiscretions on Tom’s part, but chose to keep quiet. “Yeah, I did,” she told Andy when asked if she knew more than she let on. “When Tom was at the Regency, the reason he was at the Regency kissing another girl was he had a huge fight with you and was pissed at you. Then he went to L.A. and started kissing that girl again…And he laughed and said you deserved it.”

And she didn’t stop there. “He met a woman from Philadelphia who was recently divorced at the Regency bar and he went up to the hotel room with her and he said he had an open relationship with you,” she revealed. “But nothing happened.”

Then came Tom’s infamous “de-mic” moment with his ex Missy from the season finale. Turns out Lu had only gotten to see that episode the night before taping. “I have no idea,” she admitted when asked what he said free from prying microphones. “I didn’t see it until last night. Now I’m going to ask him because I haven’t had the chance.”

Up next? Her defense of the “dog with a leash” “joke” Tom made in regards to his wedding ring. “I always look like the tough guy. I try to look at it he’s trying to be funny and he doesn’t realize it’s going to look weird,” she said. “He shouldn’t say things like that, obviously.”

Then came the depressing admission that not everyone in her family welcomed Tom with open arms. “That’s been tough, especially on Noel, my son,” she revealed. “It was hard for him to accept him in the beginning because of what happened. Of course, he’s my son. He’s very protective of me.” 

And then, in the face of everyone echoing Ramona’s suggestion that she “ban the Regency,” came this tepid response: “It’s either I accept him for the way he is—I’m not going to change him at this point.”

Had she demanded he stop frequenting bars known to get him into trouble, the others wondered? “I have suggested,” she said. Oof.

While the Tom train will chug along into part two next week, it wasn’t all D’Agostino doom and gloom this week. Read on for our favorite one-liners.

Best Bites – “You’re in a good place. I have no face.” – Bethenny Frankel, mocking Ramona’s mushy Mexican chat with Sonja while recovering from her major facial laser treatment – “No, I mean, I think a monkey has the same opinion.” – Bethenny, on whether she found it ironic that she and Jill Zarin shared the same opinion about Ramona’s mental state – “Someone said it at CitiBank to me the other day, one of the tellers.” – Dorinda on her legendary “CLIP!” moment – “I did trash her, but by the time she saw me, she was pissed and I had moved on.” – Sonja, not understanding how feelings work – “No. But like at what point–how many decades into this do I have to not answer this question? What do I have to fucking do? Do I have to Dorinda’s house apart, wear her fucking underwear? What do I have to do not hear this question that you ask me every Watch What Happens Live, every reunion, birthday, Hannukah. You ask me all the live long day, OK? Like, enough.” – Bethenny, shutting down Andy’s latest inquiry into whether she would ever reconcile with Jill

What did you think of Luann’s Tom defense, especially now that they’re divorced? Sound off in the comments below!

The Real Housewives of New York City‘s reunion special continues Wednesday, Aug. 23 at a new time, 8 p.m., only on Bravo.

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