I am a huge fan of Gregory Peck + he is percieved as Hollywood royalty, one of the screen's great patriarchs, well-respected and universally adored + he knows how to present audiences with good stories of intensity and character.
(via www.imdb.com) Useful links:
Moby Dick (1998) Father Mapple
The Portrait (1993)
Cape Fear (1991)
Other People's Money (1991)
Old Gringo (1989)
Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)
The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
"The Blue and the Gray" (1982) Abraham Lincoln
The Sea Wolves (1980)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
MacArthur (1977) Gen. Douglas MacArthur
The Omen (1976) Robert Thorn
Billy Two Hats (1974)
Shoot Out (1971)
I Walk the Line (1970)
Marooned (1969)
The Chairman (1969)
Mackenna's Gold (1969)
The Stalking Moon (1968)
Arabesque (1966)
Mirage (1965)
Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
"The Dick Powell Show" - Project X (1963)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) Atticus Finch
How the West Was Won (1962)
Cape Fear (1962) Sam Bowden
The Guns of Navarone (1961) Capt. Keith Mallory
On the Beach (1959)
Beloved Infidel (1959)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
The Big Country (1958) James McKay
The Bravados (1958)
Designing Woman (1957)
Moby Dick (1956) Captain Ahab
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
The Purple Plain (1954)
Night People (1954)
Boum sur Paris (1954)
Roman Holiday (1953) Joe Bradley
The Million Pound Note (1953)
The World in His Arms (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
David and Bathsheba (1951) King David
Only the Valiant (1951)
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) Capt. Horatio Hornblower, R.N
The Gunfighter (1950)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
The Great Sinner (1949)
Yellow Sky (1948)
The Paradine Case (1947)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
The Macomber Affair (1947)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
The Yearling (1946)
Spellbound (1945)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Days of Glory (1944)
Monday, October 22, 2007
Eastern Promises
The Economist writes about ancient and contemporary Islamic art from the Arab world and Iran + other viewpoints @ http://www.economist.com/daily/columns/artview/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10006873
The Next Frontier
Eileen Kinsella writes about contemporary Western American art + the thriving high end market + works by the best-known artists like, Howard Terpning, Kenneth Riley, Tom Lovell, and John Clymer + other viewpoints @ http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=1316
More On Burmese Gemstones
(via JCKOnline/Gary Roskin) Here is an interesting clip via CNN's Jonathan Mann:
"Myanmar Gems; Trade keeps military junta amply funded in Myanmar" + Jeremy Woodrum's U.S. Campaign for Burma + Jewelers of America's initiative asking the US Congress to amend the Burmese Freedom & Democracy Act of 2003
"Myanmar Gems; Trade keeps military junta amply funded in Myanmar" + Jeremy Woodrum's U.S. Campaign for Burma + Jewelers of America's initiative asking the US Congress to amend the Burmese Freedom & Democracy Act of 2003
I really don't know how it's going to work. If there aren't any co-operation from India, China, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, it's just talk-talk with no results. I think the Americans have made the first (good) move, followed by the Europeans. You have got to find a way to educate consumers, not only in America and Europe but in Asia to highlight the plight of the Burmese. I hear Tiffany and Cartier have decided not to purchase Burmese gemstones. Good deed, but for how long? What about the jewelry stores in other parts of the world, especially Asia? That's where the action is. Till you mobilize the big market, gemstones will still be arriving via Burma with dubious identification reports. May be gem testing laboratories like the Gubelin, GRS, SSEF, AGTA and Collectors Universe could go the extra mile to help the industry because bulk of the Burmese origin reports are issued by these labs for the trade, collectors and consumers.
Biomimicry
Designs: Janine Benyus's book Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature not only explains how to copy nature's time-tested, non-polluting room-temperature manufacturing and computing technologies + but also warns about our highly unnatural and exploitative technologies that could create a boomerang-effect + a real challenge for technophiles and environmentalists. A must-read book.
Book description (via Amazon):
This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st–century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R\'9126D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature's best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells – and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world.
Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus names and explains this phenomenon. She takes us into the lab and out in the field with cutting–edge researchers as they stir vats of proteins to unleash their computing power; analyse how electrons zipping around a leaf cell convert sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they get sick; study the hardy prairie as a model for low–maintenance agriculture; and more.
Here is an excerpt from the book:
It's not ordinary for a bare-chested man wearing jaguar teeth and owl feathers to grace the pages of The New Yorker, but these are not ordinary times. While I was writing this book, Moi, an Huaorani Indian leader whose name means "dream," traveled to Washington, D.C., to defend his Amazonian homeland against oil drilling. He roared like a jaguar in the hearings, teaching a roomful of jaded staffers where real power comes from and what homeland actually means. Meanwhile, in America's heartland, two books about aboriginal peoples were becoming word-of-mouth best-sellers, much to their publishers' surprise. Both were about urban Westerners whose lives are changed forever by the wise teachings of preindustrial societies.
What's going on here? My guess is that Homo industrialis, having reached the limits of nature's tolerance, is seeing his shadow on the wall, along with the shadows of rhinos, condors, manatees, lady's slippers, and other species he is taking down with him. Shaken by the sight, he, we, are hungry for instructions about how to live sanely and sustainably on the Earth. The good news is that wisdom is widespread, not only in indigenous peoples but also in the species that have lived on Earth far longer than humans. If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates- -the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria.
In that time, life has learned to fly, circumnavigate the globe, live in the depths of the ocean and atop the highest peaks, craft miracle materials, light up the night, lasso the sun's energy, and build a self-reflective brain. Collectively, organisms have managed to turn rock and sea into a life-friendly home, with steady temperatures and smoothly percolating cycles. In short, living things have done everything we want to do, without guzzling fossil fuel, polluting the planet, or mortgaging their future. What better models could there be?
Janine Benyus was honored by Time Magazine as a hero of the environment. Read the article here.
Book description (via Amazon):
This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st–century problems.
If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature – taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R\'9126D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature's best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells – and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world.
Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus names and explains this phenomenon. She takes us into the lab and out in the field with cutting–edge researchers as they stir vats of proteins to unleash their computing power; analyse how electrons zipping around a leaf cell convert sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they get sick; study the hardy prairie as a model for low–maintenance agriculture; and more.
Here is an excerpt from the book:
It's not ordinary for a bare-chested man wearing jaguar teeth and owl feathers to grace the pages of The New Yorker, but these are not ordinary times. While I was writing this book, Moi, an Huaorani Indian leader whose name means "dream," traveled to Washington, D.C., to defend his Amazonian homeland against oil drilling. He roared like a jaguar in the hearings, teaching a roomful of jaded staffers where real power comes from and what homeland actually means. Meanwhile, in America's heartland, two books about aboriginal peoples were becoming word-of-mouth best-sellers, much to their publishers' surprise. Both were about urban Westerners whose lives are changed forever by the wise teachings of preindustrial societies.
What's going on here? My guess is that Homo industrialis, having reached the limits of nature's tolerance, is seeing his shadow on the wall, along with the shadows of rhinos, condors, manatees, lady's slippers, and other species he is taking down with him. Shaken by the sight, he, we, are hungry for instructions about how to live sanely and sustainably on the Earth. The good news is that wisdom is widespread, not only in indigenous peoples but also in the species that have lived on Earth far longer than humans. If the age of the Earth were a calendar year and today were a breath before midnight on New Year's Eve, we showed up a scant fifteen minutes ago, and all of recorded history has blinked by the last sixty seconds. Luckily for us, our planet-mates- -the fantastic meshwork of plants, animals, and microbes--have been patiently perfecting their wares since March, an incredible 3.8 billion years since the first bacteria.
In that time, life has learned to fly, circumnavigate the globe, live in the depths of the ocean and atop the highest peaks, craft miracle materials, light up the night, lasso the sun's energy, and build a self-reflective brain. Collectively, organisms have managed to turn rock and sea into a life-friendly home, with steady temperatures and smoothly percolating cycles. In short, living things have done everything we want to do, without guzzling fossil fuel, polluting the planet, or mortgaging their future. What better models could there be?
Janine Benyus was honored by Time Magazine as a hero of the environment. Read the article here.
Luck Logic And White Lies
Good Books: (via Dailyspeculations) The book "Luck Logic and White Lies" by Jorg Bewersdorff is one-of-a-kind book, an encyclopedia of strategy and solutions to almost every game + a great exercise in logic and decision making + a guide for how to have fun with your family. I enjoyed the book.
The New Gold Rush
Eileen Kinsella writes about the works by Remington, Russell, Catlin + the Western art’s improved standing in the art market + other viewpoints @ http://artnews.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=1315
Emerald
Ronald Ringsrud writes on emeralds (translated/published in the Rivista Gemmologica Italiana in Rome, Italy) @ http://www.emeraldmine.com/rivista.htm
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