C.
J. Box is the bestselling author of twenty-seven novels including the Joe
Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best
Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38
(France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two Barry Awards, and the 2010
Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers Association Award for fiction.
He was awarded the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Literature by the
National Cowboy Museum and the Spur Award from Western Writers of America for
Best Contemporary Novel. The novels have
been translated into 30 languages and over ten million copies of his books have
been sold in the U.S. and abroad. He’s
an Executive Producer on ABC’s Big Sky which is based on his Cassie
Dewell novels starting with The Highway.
http://www.cjbox.net/ Novelist Charles James (C.J.) Box Jr.
is a Wyoming native and
currently lives in the state. He grew up
in the town of Casper. Box graduated with a degree in Mass
Communications from the University of Denver. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._J._Box
Polynesia is
a sub-region in Oceania made up of than 1,000 islands spread across the
southern and central Pacific Ocean. The
islands of Polynesia cover an area of approximately 800,000 square miles and
form a triangle-like region. The word
“Polynesia” was first used in 1756 by Charles de Brosses, a French writer in
reference to all the island groups in the Pacific. However, a restriction on the use of the term
was proposed by Jules Dumont in 1831 during a lecture in Paris to the
Geographical Society. The Polynesian
Triangle can be described as an area in the Pacific
Ocean with three groups of islands at its corners. The three island groups located at the
corners of the triangle are Hawai’i (also
known as Sandwich Island), New
Zealand, and Easter
Island. Apart from the three
major island groups located at the corner of the triangle, the main islands
within the triangle include Samoa,
the Cook
Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Wallis
and Futuna, Niue,
and French
Polynesia. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-is-the-polynesian-triangle.html
The 1927 silent film Wings
was lost for decades until a copy was discovered languishing in the
Cinematheque Francaise film archive in Paris, France. Trivia:
The only silent movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture
(then called "Best Production"), until The Artist (2011) won
that category in 2012. * Wings was the very first winner
of the category of Best Picture, then called "Best Production," at
the 1st Annual Academy Awards held at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA on
May 16, 1929. The ceremony lasted all of
five minutes and was broadcast on local Los Angeles radio station KHJ 930 AM. *
The only movie to win an Academy Award for
Engineering Effects. * This film marks
the first time that actors were filmed flying in the air. * The climactic
battle scene involved 3500 soldiers and dozens of planes and was shot in one
take that lasted five minutes. * The entire score was written, composed, and
recorded using a Wurlitzer Pipe Organ. * William A. Wellman looked at 35 actors before casting Gary Cooper. Although
only a tiny role, it set Cooper on the road to stardom. * When Wings was revived in 1981 at the Radio City
Music Hall in New York City, Carmine Coppola conducted a full symphony orchestra with synchronized
special effects. * Buddy Rogers (Jack) is shown playing a
trombone. He actually did play the
trombone in real life and would make a good living as leader of his own jazz
band. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018578/trivia
The
American soprano Anne Bollinger (1919–1962) was born in Lewiston, Idaho,
studying first with Rosie Miller and later Lotte Lehmann. She came to prominence in March 1948 singing
in Bach's St Matthew Passion in Boston under Serge Koussevitzky. Making her Metropolitan Opera début as
Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro in January 1949, she sang with the Company for
six seasons until 1953. There her rôles
included Tebaldo in Don Carlo, Siebel in Faust, one of the Zaubermädchen in
Parsifal, Emma in Khovanshchina and Frasquita in Carmen. In 1953 she joined the Hamburg State Opera
for four years where her rôles included Pamina in Die Zauberflöte in 1955. She then returned to the United States before
her premature death at the age of 39. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/142898256/anne-nielsen
A group
is working to save the former home of the Lewiston Civic Theatre from
demolition. The Anne Bollinger
Performing Arts Center Task Force wants the 111-year-old sandstone church
building to be referred to by its official name, which comes from opera singer
and Lewiston native Anne Bollinger. City
officials condemned the building in 2016, when a large roof truss failed and
compromised its structural integrity. A
leaky roof was the culprit, but the incident shed light on several other
problems that would take millions of dollars to fix. http://savethebollinger.com/about/ April 1, 2018: Lewiston grants a one-year reprieve for the
building. October 1, 1018: New roof installed. June 2020:
closed due to coronavirus
THE IMPORTANCE OF
SPACE Space between letters helps us
recognize words. Space between lines
helps us read sentences quickly. Space
around edges frames the text on a page.
The roots of bubble tea can be
traced back to the 1940s. After working
as a mixologist in an izakaya in Taiwan under Japanese rule during WWII, in
1949 Chang Fan Shu opened a
tea shop selling unique shou yao (hand-shaken)
tea made with cocktail shakers. The
result was a rich and silky iced tea with fine air bubbles on top--dubbed foam
tea in Taiwan. Today, shou yao is an
essential bubble tea element. No shou
yao, no bubble tea. In 1986, Taiwanese artist and
entrepreneur Tu Tsong He decided to kick start a new business venture by riding
on the tea shop trend. "I thought
to myself 'why don't I add some fenyuan into my green tea.' The white fenyuan looks almost translucent
with a white center when brewed inside the golden green tea, much like my
mother's pearl necklace. "So I
coined it 'zhen zhu lu cha' (pearl green tea)." Tu then experimented by adding bigger, black
tapioca balls to milk tea for a richer taste and a chewier texture, which
became the classic bubble milk tea most fans know and love today. Maggie Hiufu Wong https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/taiwan-bubble-tea-origins/index.html
Ursula K. Le Guin left
behind a legacy unparalleled in American letters when she passed away in
January 2018 at the age of eighty-eight.
Named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress for her contributions
to America’s cultural heritage—the author of more than sixty books of fiction,
poetry, creative nonfiction, children’s literature, drama, criticism, and
translation—she was one of only a select few writers (the others being Eudora
Welty, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth) to have their life’s work enshrined in the
Library of America while still actively writing. She joined the likes of Toni Morrison, John
Ashbery, and Joan Didion in receiving the Medal for Distinguished Contribution
to American Letters by the National Book Foundation, and her work garnered
countless awards: the National Book
Award, the PEN/ Malamud, six Nebulas, six Hugos, and twentyone Locus awards
among them. The Imaginative Reality of
Ursula K. Le Guin by David Naimon
Virginia Quarterly Review Summer
2018
April 14, 2020 If it were not for the pandemic, the Red Sox
would already be a few games into their regular season. But with baseball on hold, one musician has
found a way to bring part of Fenway home.
Josh Kantor is Fenway Park's organist, and as of three weeks ago, he is
also the host of a show called "7th Inning Stretch." With help from his wife, Mary Eaton, he
performs live on Facebook every day at 3 p.m. from their home. "We were missing baseball and we needed
a little something." Kantor said.
"It's a time when we forget about our troubles and we invite people
to do the same." Abbey Niezgoda https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/red-sox-organist-plays-from-home-to-bring-the-fenway-feel-to-a-world-without-live-baseball/2107783/ See also Music Is My Life: Red Sox Organist Josh Kantor | Episode 13 |
Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0TayBgqceE
1:03:46 and Fenway Park's Organist Gives Fans That Ballpark
Sound At Home—And He Takes Requests by Laurel Wamsley at
The Shoot
the Book adaption market—a staple at the Marché du Film since
2014 and a rising player on the global film scene—continues to evolve. As the program—a joint initiative between
publishing trade group SCELF (Société Civile des Editeurs de Langue Française)
and the publicly funded Institut Français—continues to host curated pitch
sessions at markets in Cannes, Shanghai and Los Angeles, it will
also look to expand its B2B rendezvous component that was introduced last year. On June 25, 2020 Shoot the Book will kick off
this year’s edition with a morning pitch session—spotlighting 10 literary
properties selected by an industry jury—and return in the afternoon for a
three-hour meeting platform that will bring together publishers and producers
and allow them to book direct discussions with one another. Keeping those market forces in mind, Shoot
the Book will host a conversation with Element Pictures’ Ed Guiney—the
Dublin-based producer behind literary adaptations “Room,” BBC/Hulu’s limited
series “Normal People” and its upcoming “Conversations With Friends”—to be
broadcast on June 26. Ben Croll Find titles of the 10 literary properties
chosen for adaptation potential at https://variety.com/2020/film/spotlight/cannes-shoot-the-book-2-1234643638/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2289
June 24, 2020
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