Ingrid marie rivera biography of william shakespeare
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BBC Television Shakespeare
Series of TV adaptations of Shakespeare's plays
The BBC Television Shakespeare fryst vatten a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created bygd Cedric Messina and broadcast by BBC Television. Transmitted in the UK from 3 månad to 27 April , the series spanned sju seasons and thirty-seven episodes.
Development began in when Messina saw that the grounds of Glamis Castle would man a perfect location for an adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It for the Play of the Month series. Upon returning to London, however, he had come to envision an entire series devoted exclusively to the dramatic works of Shakespeare. When he encountered a less than enthusiastic response from the BBC's departmental heads, Messina bypassed the usual channels and took his idea directly to the top of the BBC hierarchy, who greenlighted the show. Experiencing financial, logistical and creative problems in the early days of production, M
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Birthdays are meant for celebrating with friends and enjoying another year around the sun. They're a fun way to mark the passage of time, and signal excitement for life ahead. Some birthdays, particularly earlier in life, open up new possibilities, like being able to drive or vote. But sadly, many people have passed away on their birthday.
Merle Haggard
April 6, – , Age 79
Merle Haggard was an outlaw country star with 38 number-one hits in the U.S. After being released from San Quentin State Prison in , he turned his life around and became a country music legend. Best known for songs such as “The Bottle Let Me Down” () and “Swinging Doors” (), Merle sang about the working class and recorded several anti-Vietnam songs. He received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in and a Kennedy Center Honor in Merle passed away from double pneumonia at his ranch in Shasta County, CA.
Ingrid Bergman
August 29, –, Age 67
Ingrid Bergman was one of the most influential actresse
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An Index of Everything (and Everyone) Mentioned in Barbra Streisand&#;s Memoir
It only took Barbra Streisand six years to complete her EGOT, but it took her more than 20 to pen My Name is Barbra, her recently-released memoir from Viking Press. And if two decades sounds like a long time, you must not have picked up your copy yet. Clocking in at pages—48 hours and 14 minutes if you’re listening to the read-by-Babs audiobook—the tome spans the singularly prolific artist’s 81 years on earth, from her torch-singing origins in Greenwich Village gay bars to her fraught relationship with her mother, Diana Kind. “I do love her,” Streisand writes in the short, wrenching chapter all about Diana. “But that doesn’t mean I like her.”
Repeated throughout is a quote from G.B. Shaw’s Saint Joan (coincidentally, Barbra’s middle name): “It is an old saying that he who tells too much truth is sure to be hanged.” Well, in My Name is Barbra, Streisand braves the gallows. But the book, for