Stunning Thorin fanart and the artist's website:
Snobbiest city poll information found in this article:
UK Daily Star says RA is *rumored* to be the next Batman. Now we need to learn the reliability score of this particular newspapers rumor record:
Honestly, I don't know if movie theaters could handle Armitage and Cavill side by side -- the screens just might vaporize before our eyes..
As I was watching the following vid couldn't help replaying in my mind what RA calls his only joke - "A blonde walks into a building...you'd think she would've seen it" Well, after hearing what this blonde had to say about Richard as Batman, it's obvious she does not live up to the stereotype:
Screenrant website's recent opinion:
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Richard Armitage
No surprise here: Richard Armitage (Spooks, The Hobbit) was already one of our top choices for the character when we made our first list months ago, and as such, we were less than surprised when his name was mentioned among those currently being discussed by the studio. With the kind of looks and build that rarely come with age (except in the case of Hugh Jackman) Armitage has the poise that comes with experience, without the extra padding that usually accompanies it.
At 42 years of age and just over 6'2", Armitage fits the bill on paper, but brings along his classical training, experience on both the screen and stage, and his time with the Royal Shakespeare company to boot. That's the kind of experience that would make even Christian Bale blush.
With size, age, experience and looks that check every comic book fan's checklist, well... let's just say we're happy to hear his name mentioned among those in the running.
At 42 years of age and just over 6'2", Armitage fits the bill on paper, but brings along his classical training, experience on both the screen and stage, and his time with the Royal Shakespeare company to boot. That's the kind of experience that would make even Christian Bale blush.
With size, age, experience and looks that check every comic book fan's checklist, well... let's just say we're happy to hear his name mentioned among those in the running.
Circles within circles trivia: After recently starting the audiobook 'Anna of The Five Towns' by Arnold Bennett, I was amused to find Elizabeth Gaskell included in the following book review. Found myself disagreeing with the last paragraph below where the reviewer seems to say Bennett was wrong to rewrite 'Anna' as a play with a happy ending, after concluding the book with tragedy "leavened by hints of future hope." Here!Here! to author Bennett! There are enough sad endings in the world around us, why insist it must be so for fiction? That's the reason I've never watched totally dark movies - just reading world news provides plenty of negative vibes - no need to receive them when we turn to entertainment for a brief respite. The Anna of the Five Towns review:
"Anna has been labelled a romance, a tragedy and a book of social significance. It certainly contains elements of all these things, often in a tantalisingly oblique way. After a hundred years there is still argument as to Anna's feelings for the two young men in her life -Willie Price and Henry Mynors, so completely different in background and character. it is the story of a girl brought up in the extraordinary atmosphere created by a dead mother and a miserly father of an extreme sort, and her reactions to the young men, of whom one was forceful and successful and the other a classic example of one of life's failures without a thought of fighting against ill-fortune. The story is played out against a background of pervading Wesleyan doctrines and customs, grasping materialism and blatant hypocrisy, but throughout there runs a steady though sometimes imperceptible trickle of the milk of human kindness. It has an important place in English literature because its author was putting into practice the precepts absorbed from French naturalism and from the Russian preoccupation with total and unremitting tragedy and despair. The result was the rebirth of an English realism inaugurated by Defoe and Richardson. transposed to a low key by Jane Austen, revived by Charlotte Bronte, refined by Mrs Gaskell and Charles Reade, over-elaborated by Charles Dickens and brought to perfection by George Eliot. The Five Towns stories also contain masterly prose descriptions of industrial landscape and the survival of human dignity despite severe social deprivation.
Anna is almost a do-it-yourself book, which each reader can interpret according to personal feeling. Perhaps the main certainty about it is that it stands firmly on a tragic ending leavened by the enigmatic hint of some sort of future hope. Confirmation of this came unwittingly from Bennett himself when he rewrote the story as a play ("Cupid and Commonsense") and ruined it by introducing a happy ending."
Starz 'The White Queen' website is ready for ep 1 this Sat. Write your own War of Roses family story...
US companies need to get this memorable sound for their tv ads:
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http://www.muruch.com/2013/07/the-great-gatsby-audiobook-narrated-by-jake-gyllenhaal.html
