20th century ghosts black phone6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Gwen, who has psychic dreams much like her late mother, dreams of Bruce's kidnapping. ![]() A boy that Finney knew, Bruce, is abducted by the Grabber. He has a friendship with a classmate, Robin, who fends off the bullies. At school, Finney is frequently bullied and harassed. Siblings Finney and Gwen Blake live in the area with their abusive, alcoholic father. In 1978, a serial child abductor and murderer nicknamed "The Grabber" prowls the streets of a Denver suburb. ![]() A critical and commercial success, it grossed $161 million against a budget of $16-18 million and received praise for its performances, faithfulness to the source-material, and screenplay. The film premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 25, 2021, and was theatrically released by Universal Pictures on June 24, 2022. Filming occurred over two months in Wilmington and surrounding counties in the state of North Carolina. ![]() In the film, an abducted teenager (Thames) uses a mysterious telephone to communicate with the previous victims of his deranged captor (Hawke).ĭerrickson came on board to direct The Black Phone after departing Marvel Studios' Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness over creative differences. The film stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, James Ransone, and Ethan Hawke. It is an adaptation of the 2004 short story of the same name by Joe Hill. Robert Cargill, who both produced with Jason Blum. The Black Phone is a 2021 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Derrickson and C. ![]()
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Solomon northup story6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Later, the two men who kidnapped Northup were identified and arrested. Burch convincingly argued that he sold Northup believing that he was a slave, and the court discharged the case. Burch, the Washington DC slave trader who sold Solomon Northup in 1841. ![]() ![]() Northup’s 1852 journey to Louisiana to rescue Solomon Northup and the arrest and trial of James H. On February 10, 1853, a long article from the New York Daily Times appeared on the front page of the Vermont Watchman and State Journal. A search of Chronicling America titles indicates that Vermont papers printed articles about Northup’s rescue and also covered the subsequent arrests and trials of his kidnappers and the man who sold him into slavery. While the Academy Award-winning film, 12 Years a Slave, has recently been the subject of articles in Vermont newspapers, stories about Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York State who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, first appeared in Vermont papers during the 1850s. ![]() The dark tower book 46/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Holly, Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Wizard and Glass is a thrilling read from “the reigning King of American popular literature” ( Los Angeles Daily News). While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, Roland recounts his tragic story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson, the harrier who-with a little help from a seeing sphere called Maerlyn’s Grapefruit-ignited Mid-World’s final war.įilled with “blazing action” ( Booklist), the fourth installment in the Dark Tower Series “whets the appetite for more” ( Bangor Daily News). In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most ebullient…sweeping readers up in…swells of passion” ( Publishers Weekly) as Roland the Gunslinger, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. ![]() ![]() The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense…rip-roaring” ( Publishers Weekly)-a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe. ![]() Stormbreaker books in order6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Anthony has been writing since the age of eight, and professionally since the age of twenty. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). ![]() On 19 January 2011, the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle announced that Horowitz was to be the writer of a new Sherlock Holmes novel, th Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Anthony became patron to East Anglia Children’s Hospices in 2009. In addition to the highly successful Alex Rider books, he is also the writer and creator of award winning detective series Foyle’s War, and more recently event drama Collision, among his other television works he has written episodes for Poirot, Murder in Mind, Midsomer Murders and Murder Most Horrid. Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. ![]() ![]() Maxi Award, Media and Methods magazine, 1974, for Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack! Children's Spring Book Festival honor book, Washington Post Book World, and Children's Book of the Year designation, Child Study Association, both 1973, both for If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? Christopher Award, and Book of the Year Award, School Library Journal, both 1978, and named one of the Best Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library, 19, all for Gentlehands Golden Kite Award, Society of Children's Book Writers, 1981, for Little Little Emphasis on Reading Award, 1985, for Him She Loves? Edgar Allan Poe Award finalist, 1990, for Fell Back California Young Reader Medal, 1992, for Night Kites Margaret A. PEN, Authors League of America, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. ![]() Caught stealing by charlie huston6/27/2023 ![]() SIDELIGHTS:Īs Charlie Huston put it on his home page, "I write pulp. ADAPTATIONS:Ĭaught Stealing was optioned by an independent film producer. (With David Finch) Moon Knight Volume 1: The Bottom Premiere (graphic novel), Marvel Comics (New York, NY), 2007. The Shotgun Rule (novel), Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2007. ![]() Half the Blood of Brooklyn, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2007. No Dominion, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2006. "JOE PITT" HORROR NOVELSĪlready Dead, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2005. Six Bad Things, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2005.Ī Dangerous Man, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2006. WRITINGS: "HANK THOMPSON" MYSTERY NOVELSĬaught Stealing, Ballantine Books (New York, NY), 2004. Has worked as an actor, bartender, waiter, novelist, and comic-book writer. Agent-Simon Lipskar, Writers House, 21 W. ![]() Born in Oakland, CA married Virginia Louise Smith (an actress). ![]() Lulu in hollywood expanded edition6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() For his movie, Pabst chose the title of the later work, though the screenplay differed markedly from Wedekind's original text: "Pandora's Box" belongs among the few films that have succeeded in improving on theatrical chefs-d"oeuvre. The script: adapted by Ladislaus Vajda from "Erdgeist" ("Earth Spirit") and "Die Buchse der Pandora" ("Pandora's Box"), two scabrously erotic plays written in the 1890s by Frank Wedekind, of which the second was a revised and expanded version of the first. Pabst, reigning maestro of German cinema in the late 1920s. I got to my set in time to catch the credits. Even for Channel 28, it was an eccentric piece of programming. None of this would have happened if I had not noticed, while lying late in bed on a hot Sunday morning last year in Santa Monica, flipping through the TV guide for the impending week, that the local public-broadcasting channel had decided to show, at 1 pm that very day, a film on which my fantasies had fed ever since I first saw it, a quarter of a century before. THE GIRL WHO WAS LULU Observer Magazine, Sunday 11 November 1979 ![]() The chosen black dagger brotherhood6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() He is proud, and will not likely back down on words spoken in a drunken bravado. Well loved by soldiers, Robert is brave, but headstrong, rash, and impatient. Robert's beard, a wild, thick and fierce thing, hides his double chin. Now, he is often red-faced from drink, with dark circles underneath his eyes, and walks as if he is half in his cups, while sweating through his silks. In the nine years since, he gained at least eight stone. Due to excessive feasting and drinking, Robert gained a significant amount of weight. ![]() ![]() He was strong and powerful, and muscled "like a maiden's fantasy." In 289 AC, after putting down Greyjoy's Rebellion, Robert's appearance began to change. As a young adult, Robert was a handsome, clean-shaven man, with rough and hard hands. He is a very tall man Eddard Stark estimates his height to be six and a half feet. His heavy black hair is thick on his chest, and coarse around his sex. Robert has the classic Baratheon look: black hair and bright blue eyes. ![]() Cecil beaton queen elizabeth6/27/2023 ![]() He was designer for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (1964) and also did the costumes in On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970). He designed the costumes for Lerner and Loewe musicals in the 1950s. Beaton worked on Broadway and in Hollywood. Many of these celebrities became his friends. Other celebrities he photographed include Gary Cooper, Marlene Dietrich, Johnny Weissmuller (the actor who portrayed Tarzan on film), Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso. He was the photographer chosen for the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. The Royal Family commissioned Beaten to photograph Her Royal Majesty, the Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace 1939.ĭuring World War II, he was appointed a war photographer, and his images of the German Blitz became famous. Beaton was also associated with Stephen Tennant, and his photographs of their circle of friends remain of interest to historian because of their representation of the younger generation in the upper classes of Britain in the 1920s and 1930s. ![]() This collaboration proved to be successful, and he was associated with the magazine for decades. ![]() A breakthrough in his career was when he was awarded a contract with Vogue magazine in 1927. ![]() Honus & Me by Dan Gutman6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() I learned a lot about baseball in the early 1900's and about Honus Wagner. Why I Liked/Disliked the Book: I really appreciated the historical details in this book. Joe uses his magical ability along with the baseball card to go back to Honus Wagner's time and visit the last game of the World Series of 1909. Before he has a chance to tell his mom about the card, Honus Wagner appears in Joe's bedroom and they begin an adventure. While he is cleaning it out, he discovers an Honus Wagner baseball card from 1909. ![]() One day, his elderly neighbor, Amanda Young, asks him to clean out her attic for a few bucks. He is into baseball cards, but can't collect as many as he would like because his family is short on money. Summary: Joe lives with his mom in Louisville, Kentucky. Genre: Fantasy/Historical Fiction (Fiction)įountas and Pinnell Guided Reading Level: R ![]() |