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Suddenly Last Summer

Drama written by Tennessee Williams in1958 who also wrote the screenplay with Gore Vidal in 1959. It was directed by Josef L. Mankiewicz starring Elisabeth Taylor, Montgomery Cliff and Katharine Hepbu ........

Endless Mission Trilogy

Now that the end is neigh, would the Endless Mission team find its goals which have been the finding of the chemist responsible for the inventing and production of the chlorine gas? In the first b ........

English Theatre Vienna in its 60ties

The Austrian director, Franz Schafranek, founded the English Theatre Vienna in the year 1963, assisted by his wife, Ruth Brinkmann (Photograph of both of them in the blog’s title), an American act ........

Filibus, The Sky Pirate.

An Italian silent film from the year 1915.An adventurous female character by the pseudonym “Filibus”, created by the Italian science fiction author (to be) Giovanni Bertinetti and director Mario Ronco ........

“I am sorry to trouble you chaps.”

Ian Lancaster Fleming’s last words.Ian Lancaster Fleming was born in London-England on 28. May.1908 and died on 12. Aug.1964 in Kent and Canterbury Hospital.His father Valentine Fleming might have b ........

Roy’s Centennial….

Roy Lichtenstein Centennial is being held in Vienna’s Albertina Museum as part of an exhibition amongst other diverse exhibitions in the same museum.Roy Fox Lichtenstein, born on 27. Oct.1923, in ........

Risible

Harold Pinter10.Oct. 1930-24. Dec. 2008He was born on 10.Oct. 1930, in London-England and was influenced by Samuel Beckett’s authorship’s style.Playwright, screenwriter, actor, theatre director, and p ........

Poetry in WWI

May Wedderburn Cannan14 October 1893 Oxford-11 December 1973.A daughter of a publisher, who enabled her sister and her to write their own collectanea: ”The Tripled Crown”.In 1915, she was inspired a ........

One Hit Wonder

Emily Jane Brontë: 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848 Pen name: Ellis Bell. Born in Thornton, Yorkshire, England: A sister to two more sisters, became inspired by box of soldiers being ........

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay BeckettApril 13, 1906-ox Rock IrelandDecember 22, 1989, Paris FranceOnce upon a time one left his country of birth to recognise who he really was and since then many have followed and a ........

Murmuring to muddy grounds of conflicts

…. Past moments old dreams back again or fresh like those that pass or things, things always and memories I say them as I hear them murmur them in the mud….…. That’s all for the moment there I leave I ........

Recalling Endless Missions

Dreams of a Mission which becomes Endless ones with their beginning they shall be visualising the efforts to rid of this warfare weaponry, whilst after some time, unwillingly its creator suffers in hi ........

Further in the American Dream

“On the Waterfront”, 1954 USA, a film by Elia Kazan. A classic drama about the trade unionism’s encountering the controlled system by the corrupt profiteers. What connects them without their knowledge ........

The American Dream.

“American Dream": James Truslow Adams (18 October 1878 – 18 May 1949) was an American historian and author who prompted the popularisation of the phrase “American Dream” in his 1931 book; “The Epic of ........

“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”

Ernest Hemingway wrote this short story, which was published in August 1936, in esquire magazine.“Kilimanjaro is a snow- covered mountain 19,170 feet high, and it is said to be the highest mountain in ........

Yes, the “Bell”

The “Bell”, tolls for all of us, regardless of who, what we are, where we come from, what our believes are.Unimaginable, isn’t it? How do you think of such a generality?Can you share it with someone e ........

Finding Oneself anew

Ernest Hemingway was one of the "Lost Generation" of “World War I”, and had to mould his life anew after being wounded in combat as an ambulance driver, bitterly experiencing the horrors of the“World ........

Here now and go on to see some exhibitions

To quote from:” The Unnameable”, (a 1953 novel by Samuel Beckett. It was originally published in French as L'Innommable and later translated by the author into English. Grove Press published the En ........

Messages in Questions, for the hopefuls and others?

After they had experienced their well-being, some died and rested in peace whilst „ Samuel Judd “, would have played the character of “Job”, and the survivors wondered and put questions on themselves: ........

Well- Being

The well-being of all involved in this plot, their near ones and “She”, “Not I”: Quotation from Samuel Beckett’s “Not I”, first published by faber and Faber, London in 1973: “Mouth: Out … into ........

Memories

It is necessarily the necessity of remembrance which shapes the aftermath of mission and before that the efforts for it. In Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party”, 1957, first published in London ........

Unavoidable perpetrators

Perturbed by irregularity of human nature: Quotation from: “The Unnamable”, from The “Three Novels”, by Samuel Beckett: which was originally published under the title:”L’Innommable”, copyright ........

It is as it is

Quoting Samuel Beckett’s: “How it is”: “It is the qua qua”, and: “The bits and scraps”, which in this plot are the living and dying in the muddy trenches accompanied by Chlorine Gas. Further q ........

The Vivid Scenery

The turning point caused by changing the conventional warfare into an unconventional one by using chemical weapons in form of “Chlorine Gas”, shakes the military world. Du to lack of time which ........

The Path

It sets some concerned and willing members of the intelligence community, of the time, together to master a plan for to observe and find the man behind its production. The master plan which wil ........

The Plot

Using the “Chloride Gas”, as a new destructive mass murder weapon to shorten the duration of the war, ignites the mission to protect those on the front and beyond. To denounce the villanelle, b ........

Endlessly Missioned

Heroines and Heroes Where the heroins and the heroes might have lived, begins the efforts which end in missions without a foreseeable conclusions nor time endings as they become: “Endless Missi ........