Uli Edel (born April 11, 1947 in Neuenburg, Germany), German film director. After studying theatre science in Munich, he was accepted into Munich Film School alongside Bernd Eichinger. Uli befriended him and they started working together on their exercise movies, sharing a love for the nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism as well as popular US mainstream cinema. While still enrolled in film school Uli Edel started taking acting lessons. He wanted to know about the Stanislavski and Strasberg theories. After finishing the studies Uli worked as assistant director wit ...

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Caesar (Latin:CAESAR, IPA: 'kaɪsɑr ["kae-sahr"], common English IPA:siːzɚ ["see-zr"]) was originally a cognomen in ancient Rome, derived from "cai-" (of unknown meaning) from which Gaius also derives. Caesar often specifically refers to Julius Caesar or the imperial title of "Caesar" (emperor) used by his decendants: Caesar, a title used by Roman Emperors, and inherited through to the German "Kaiser," (kai-sar) and the Russian Tsar (also rendered czar). Julius Caesar (100 BC–44 BC), a famous p

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Indecent Proposal (Paramount) Body Of Evidence (MGM-UA) Cliffhanger (Carolco/TriStar) Last Action Hero (Columbia) Sliver (Paramount) ...

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Last Exit to Brooklyn was written in an unusual style that ignores most conventions of grammar. Selby wrote most of the prose as if it was a story told from one friend to another at a bar rather than a novel, using coarse and casual language. He used slang-like conjunctions of words, such as tahell for "to hell" and yago for "you go." The paragraphs were often written in a stream of consciousness style with many parenthesis and fragments. Selby often indented n ...

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The Mists of Avalon - Morgaine. Morgaine is the main viewpoint character. She is a character with strong magical powers, capable of Second Sight and transfiguration. She is portrayed as a tragic character, torn between her loyalty to Avalon (which forces her to do atrocious things, most shocklingly, High Priestess Viviane makes her sleep with her own half-brother, King Arthur) and her unfulfilled love to Lancelot. She is doomed to witness the demise of the pagan ways of Avalon. In the end, however, s ...

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Morwood was born Robert Peter Smyth in Lisburn, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and lived there for more than thirty years. From 1969 to 1975 he attended Friends School, a Quaker-operated primary and middle school in Lisburn, and then Queen's University in Belfast, where he studied English literature and acquired an honors Bachelors degree with an emphasis on middle-English poets such as Chaucer. During this period Morwood also took pilot training as a cadet pilot with the Queen's University Student Air Squadron of the Royal Air Force; thou ...

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Hubert's father, Hubert Selby Sr., was a merchant seaman and a former coal miner from Kentucky. He married Adalin, and they both settled in the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. Hubert Selby, Jr. was born in 1928, in Brooklyn, New York City. He attended various New York state schools, including Peter Stuyvesant High. His childhood nickname "Cubby" stuck with him his entire life. In 1943, Hubert Sr. returned to the merchant marine. His son, Hubert Jr., dropped out of school, and at the age of 15 was able to persuade the recruiters to allow him to join the merchant marine. The life of a teenager, ...

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King Lear - Confusing opening. The modern reader of King Lear could benefit from the demystification of some subtleties in the text, as Shakespeare often brushes over details that are made clearer in his sources, and were perhaps more familiar to Elizabethan theatregoers than to modern ones. Scene one features King Lear testing the extent of his daughters' loyalty and love for him. He is preparing to abdicate. Lacking a male heir, he decides to divide his land between the sisters and, for two of the ...

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Hubert Selby Jr. - Fiction. (in chronological order) Last Exit to Brooklyn. Novel. (1964) The Room. Novel. (1971) The Demon. Novel. (1976) [6] Requiem for a Dream. Novel. (1978) Song of the Silent Snow. Collection of short fiction. (1986) [7] The Willow Tree. Novel. (1998) Waiting Peri ...

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In 1971, Selby published his second novel, The Room. The novel received the greatest reviews, and was considered to be another masterpiece. Selby himself described the book to be "the most disturbing book ever written", a book that he himself could not read again for decades after writing it. Selby continued to write short fiction, screenplays and teleplays at his apartment in West Hollywood. His work appeared in many journals, including Yugen, Black Mountain Review, Evergreen Review, Provincetown ...

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The rights for the British edition were acquired by Marion Boyars and John Calder and the novel ended up in the hands of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The manuscript was published, received positive reviews and sold almost 14,000 copies. The director of Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford complained to the DPP about the detailed depictions of brutality and cruelty in the book but the DPP did not pursue the allegations. In 1966, Sir Cyril Black, a Conservative Member of Parliament for Wimbledon, initiated a private prosecution of the ...

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Since the 1950s, there have been various "reworkings" of King Lear. These are the major works: The novel A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley The play Lear by Edward Bond Further Trivia Portions of a radio performance of the play on BBC Radio 3 in the UK was used by the Beatles for the song "I Am the Walrus"; it can be heard at the end of the song. The character Oswald's exhortation, "bury my body", as well as his lament, "O, untimely death!" (Act IV, Scene VI) were interpreted by fans as further pieces of evidence t ...

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In 1958, Selby started working on his first piece, The Queen Is Dead. At the time, Selby had a succession of jobs. Yet he continued to work on his fiction every night after his day job as a secretary, a gas station attendant, and a freelance copywriter. The short story slowly evolved for the next six years before it saw the light of publication. In 1961, a short story Tralala was published in a literary journal, The Provincetown Review. It also appeared in Black Mountain Review and New Directions. Wi ...

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Last Exit to Brooklyn started as The Queen is Dead, one of several short stories Selby wrote about people he had met around Brooklyn while working as a copywriter and general laborer. The piece was published in three literary magazines in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Tralala also appeared in The Provincetown Review in 1961 and drew some intense criticism. The pieces later evolved into the full-length book, which was published in 1964 by Grove Press, which had previously publi ...

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Since the 1950s, there have been various "reworkings" of King Lear. These are the major works: The novel A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley The play Lear by Edward Bond Further Trivia A radio performance of the play on BBC Radio 3 in the UK was used by the Beatles for the song "I Am the Walrus"; it can be heard at the end of the song. The character Oswald's exhortation, "bury my body", as well as his lament "O, untimely death!" (Act IV, Scene VI) were interpreted by fans as further pieces of "evidence" t ...

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King Lear, King Lear - Characters, King Lear - Plot, King Lear - Sources for King Lear, King Lear - Points of debate, King Lear - Confusing opening, King Lear - Tragic ending, King Lear - Cordelia and the Fool, King Lear - Edmund Bastard son to Gloucester, King Lear - Revision, King Lear - Reworkings, King Lear - Film adaptations, King Lear - Notes

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One of Shakespeare's sources was an earlier play, King Leir. In this play Cordella and the King of France serve Leir disguised as rustics. However, the ancient folk tale of Lear had existed in many versions prior to that, and it's possible that Shakespeare was familiar with them. Shakespeare's most important source is thought to be the second edition of The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande by Raphael Holinshed, published in 1587. Holinshed himself found the story in the earlier Historia Regum Britanniae< ...

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The play begins with King Lear taking the decision to abdicate the throne and divide his kingdom equally among his three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. The eldest two are married, but Cordelia is much sought after as a bride, partly because she is her father's favourite. However, when Lear attempts to auction off his kingdom to the most admiring and flattering of his daughters, the plan backfires. Cordelia refuses to outdo the flattery of her elder sisters, as she feels it would only cheapen her true feelings to flatter him purely f ...

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The Mists of Avalon is lauded as one of the most original and emotional retelling of the familiar Arthurian legend. Bradley received much praise for convincing portrayal of the main protagonists, her respectful handling of the pagan ways of Avalon and for telling a story in which there is neither black and white or good and evil, but several truths. Critics point out that The Mists of Avalon writes a romanticized version of a "pagan culture" which never existed in that way, leaving out gory details like human sacrifices. ...

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The book was adapted in 2001 by American cable channel TNT into a miniseries directed by Uli Edel. Anjelica Huston as Viviane Julianna Margulies as Morgaine Joan Allen as Morgause Samantha Mathis as Gwenhwyfar Caroline Goodall as Igraine Edward Atterton as Arthur Michael Vartan as Lancelot Michael Byrne as Merlin Hans Matheson as Mordred Mark Lewis Jones ...

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