All Things RArmitage: My Zoe Production Has Started(see below) + Gold Derby Website Lists RA & Berlin Station Among Emmy Noms(see link) + Thornton Thursday - John Thornton, Cotton Mill Master in Eliz Gaskell's North and South

Berlin Station News: ttp://www.goldderby.com/article/2018/emmys-2018-paramount-categories-13-reasons-why-the-alienist-shooter-berlin-station-news/ …

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Richard Armitage:New Madame Bovary Trailer + John Proctor Received Tweet Reply from Capt Kirk + Jon Snow Invited to Dinner Party(see vid) + Photo tReAts

Both Mr Thornton and Mr Hale were nominated for Olivier Award. Ceremony on Sun, Apr 12...

Richard Armitage: Looking Ahead to Pilgrimage + 50 Shades of Stubble + Happy Valentine's Weekend + Reasons We Need JT (see link)

Coming March 2015..filming for Pilgrimage on west coast of Ireland:

Clever fan captured 11 reasons why we should watch North and South for Valentine's Day. http://www.buzzfeed.com/dramachannel/11-reasons-why-you-definitely-need-john-thornton-i-19vbh    Here are my favs:

Who needs Grey when there's Mr A..

The enemic, lighter hair & eyebrows are for the current Dolarhyde on Hannibal

Watch for USA network's DIG,March,Jason Isaacs &Poldark,PBS,June:


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Richard Armitage:The Thorntons Valentine Gift from Their Cotton Mill School on the Facts of Capitalism

The following article discusses how some bite the invisible hand that literally feeds us.They harbor feelings of antipathy toward the economic system known as Capitalism & are usually either uninformed or, for political reasons, deliberately misinformed of facts. Our instructors today are John and Margaret Thornton:

Excerpts are from this well written article on the subject:
http://fee.org/freeman/detail/biting-the-invisible-hand-an-interview-with-peter-foster  What is the psychology of anti-capitalism and where does it come from?

REPLY: I’ve always been fascinated at peoples’ lack of appreciation of, and sometimes outright hostility towards, capitalism — despite the system’s enormous achievements. I concluded that anti-capitalist sentiment is a combination of economic misunderstanding, moral condemnation, and POLITICAL exploitation. 

We are born with certain implicit evolved assumptions about the way the world works. Those assumptions inevitably lag the light-speed evolution of commercial society, particularly in the past two hundred years. We are inclined (and politically encouraged) to conflate inequality — which is inevitable in a free capitalist society and goes along with the rising living standards of ordinary people — with inequity, or “unfairness.” If you are rich, you must be “greedy,” like some tribesman making off with a bigger hunk of the carcass than he can eat. We still retain primitive zero-sum assumptions: that if somebody has something, then somehow it has been acquired at the expense of someone else. Hence inequality is morally condemned. This led me to look into the origins and nature of morality.

The final element in the anti-capitalist mental stew, I suggest, is the urge to power, which effortlessly, indeed subconsciously, exploits economic ignorance and moral confusion for its own ends. That’s why the left perpetually carries on about “gaps” in wealth and income. 

The worst misrepresentation of Scotsman Adam Smith(writer of 'The Wealth of Nations') is that he was somehow a promoter of greed and selfishness, and of grinding the faces of the poor. Another is that he imagined that humans were rational and markets perfect, thus — say his critics — his “system” doesn’t work. In FACT, Smith was an insightful student of human irrationality, and noted that the process of the market was inevitably a messy business. His key point was that the invisible hand, which coordinates myriad individuals’ contributions and needs, works much better if left alone than under government “guidance.”

To understand Smith you have to read both his books: The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments. He understood that human nature was complex, inclined to self-deceit, and that it tended to lose all sense of proportion when it came to “faction and fanaticism,” that is, politics and religion. But since he had no idea of the vast wealth that the world of the Wealth of Nations would generate, he never considered what problems the Moral Sentiments might have with it, or how those sentiments might be politically exploited in pursuit of grabbing control of the wealth, although he was extremely cynical about politicians.

Ironically, Smith has latterly been embraced by some on the left, who, since they believe they have a monopoly on “moral sentiments,” imagine from merely the title of the book that he must have been one of them. Some claim he was a revolutionary, which indeed he was, but for smaller government, not larger.

In some ways, his message has been hijacked. The Adam Smith lecture in Kirkcaldy has in recent years been given by the likes of Kofi Annan, Amartya Sen, and, most recently, Harvard pseudophilosopher Michael Sandel. All are staunch leftists who despise free markets. Smith must be spinning in his grave.

The entire article: 

http://fee.org/freeman/detail/biting-the-invisible-hand-an-interview-with-peter-foster 
Hard right to a Guy of Gisborne fan vid, title 'Prayer'--RA was asked at Audible how he warms his voice before narrations. He replied that he sings Aerosmith's Love in An Elevator and Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer. Unfortunately we don't have fanvids to either of those songs, so here's the closest thing to it..

Another Scotsman - Apr 4 seems forever until Outlander returns..

Richard Armitage:We Can Briefly Exorcize Hannibal Demons(see link) + John Thornton Revisit to Provide Horror Relief

Cannot get away from it;D...

In the US we can currently exorcize Hannibal demons with Rev Sidney in Grantchester on PBS..the star's twitter acct:

https://twitter.com/jginorton/status/560416707450535936

Above a brief respite from...

Richard Armitage:April TV Showers + New Role--Serial Killer in Hannibal(see link) + Revists to Dibley(see Vicar news) & Milton(because we all miss JT)

In April the skies will open and much anticipated new plus returning TV series will tumble out.  Apr 4, Outlander; Apr 5 new series Wolf Hall and Apr 12, Game of Thrones new season begins. Here's a taste of Wolf Hall:

New role in Hannibal Series: Francis Dolarhyde(aka The Tooth Fairy:) really??

"hulking Dolarhyde is a serial killer with a penchant for slaughtering entire households."  Good to know he'll play a monk before or after -- helps to soften the macabre...eeeeek!! Doubtful I'll be reading the book.  News headlines are horrifying enough for me.

https://tvline.com/2015/01/13/hannibal-season-3-cast-richard-armitage-dolarhyde/

Quote:  "...Thorin is Boromir...and..Thorin takes the crown"

6. Thorin’s Personal Journey(see link below)

New Line Cinema

The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies truly is Richard Armitage’s film. In the book, Thorin’s madness and fall from grace make for a tragic conclusion to the story. In this film Thorin likewise goes through that huge personal – and destructive – journey. From a king consumed by dragon sickness, to his rallying of the dwarves at the gates of Erebor and his final battle with Azog, this is the film that proves why Armitage was chosen for the role.

If Bard is the Aragron of this film, then Thorin is Boromir – a man consumed by the duty and power who tries to do the right thing and ultimately falls. His scenes with Bilbo and Dwalin convey the madness the mountain has on him, but Armitage delivers it in a way that makes you feel sympathy for him despite the foolish decision he makes. His final scene, dying before Bilbo, humbly begging for forgiveness, is beautifully acted and brings the relationship full circle.

Before this film, none of the dwarves had yet matched the wonder of John Rhys-Davies’s Gimli, but in The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, Richard Armitage took the crown.http://whatculture.com/film/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies-10-reasons-its-a-great-adaptation.php/6

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Recent NEWS that Gerry, the Vicar of Dibley, will become Bishop of Dibley. Will her hubby, Harry Kennedy (played by Richard Armitage) join her?

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While I locate photo of Harry & Gerry together, here are a couple of another RA co-star, Sarah Wayne Callies, 2014's Into The Storm:

and gentlemanly Harry kissing the vicar Geraldine's hand..

and the kiss heard round the world - John Thornton with Margaret Hale in 2004's magnificent BBC series North and South(novel written by Eliz Gaskell)