William Blake
William Blake (28 November 1757 –
12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely
unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in
the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.
His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its
merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one
contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist
Britain has ever produced". Although
he lived in London his entire life except for three years spent in Felpham he produced a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which
embraced the imagination as "the body of God",or "Human
existence itself".
Ed
Harris
Edward Allen "Ed" Harris (born November 28, 1950)
is an American actor, writer, and director, known for his performances in Pollock, Appaloosa,The Rock, The Abyss, A Beautiful Mind, A History of Violence, Enemy at the Gates, The Right Stuff, Gone, Baby, Gone, Jackknife, Empire Falls and Game Change. Harris has also narrated commercials for The Home Depot and other companies. He is a three-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor for his performances in Apollo 13, The Truman Show and The Hours, along with an Academy
Award for Best Actornomination for the title role in Pollock.
Jon
Stewart
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November
28, 1962) is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian. He is widely
known as host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central.
Stewart
started as a stand-up comedian, but branched into television as host of Short
Attention Span Theater for
Comedy Central. He went on to host his own show on MTV, called The
Jon Stewart Show, and then hosted another show on MTV called You
Wrote It, You Watch It. He has also had several film roles as an actor.
Stewart became the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central in early 1999. He is
also a writer and co-executive-producer of the show. After Stewart joined, The
Daily Show steadily gained
popularity and critical acclaim, resulting in his sixteen Emmy Awards.
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ReplyDeleteThis day is also a birthday of Mary Elizabeth Winstead (born November 28, 1984). She is an American actress. Winstead is best known for her scream queen roles in the horror films 'Final Destination 3', 'Death Proof', 'The Thing', and 'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter', but has since then branched out to other genres, including as John McClane's daughter Lucy in 'Live Free or Die Hard', Ramona Flowers in the comic-to-film adaptation of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World' and recently as the alcoholic wife who struggles through sobriety in the Sundance-selected film 'Smashed'.
ReplyDeleteTop 5 Jon Stewart Sound Bites
ReplyDelete1) "It's not so much that it's bad, as it's hurting America ... Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America." --Jon Stewart, to "Crossfire" hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala (Read the full transcript)
2) "They said I wasn't being funny. And I said to them, 'I know that, but tomorrow I will go back to being funny, and your show will still blow.'" --Jon Stewart, on his sniping match with Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala on Crossfire
3) "I do have some sad news to report. Bjork could not be here. She was trying on her Oscars dress and Dick Cheney shot her." --Jon Stewart, hosting the Academy Awards (Read more of Stewart's Oscar zingers)
4) "This past weekend, the Democratic National Committee made it official — electing former governor and one-time shoe-in Howard Dean as their new party chairman. As a doctor they're hoping he can reattach the ass handed to the Democrats in the past election. ... You know, there's something stirring about the peaceful transfer of no power." —Jon Stewart
5) "I was not elected to serve one party." —George W. Bush (video overlay)
"You were not elected." —Jon Stewart
"I have something else to ask you, to ask every American. I ask you to pray for this great nation." —Bush
"We're way ahead of you." –Stewart
Alan Paige Lightman also was born on the 28th of November. He is an American physicist, writer, and social entrepreneur. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of the international bestseller Einstein's Dreams. Alan Paige Lightman was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities.
ReplyDeleteHarris's first important film role was in Borderline with Charles Bronson. In Knightriders (1981), he played the king of a motorcycle-riding renaissance-fair troupe in a role modeled after King Arthur.
ReplyDeleteIn 1983, Harris became well known, after playing astronaut John Glenn in The Right Stuff.[1] Twelve years later, a film with a similar theme led to Harris being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for his portrayal of NASA flight director Gene Kranz in Apollo 13.[1]
Further Oscar nominations arrived in 1999, 2001, and 2003, for The Truman Show, Pollock, and The Hours, respectively. Harris also portrayed a German Army sniper, Major Erwin König, in Enemy at the Gates (2001). He appeared as a vengeful mobster in David Cronenberg's A History of Violence (2005) and as a police officer alongside Casey Affleck and Morgan Freeman, in Gone, Baby, Gone (2007), directed by Ben Affleck. Also in 2007, he appeared in National Treasure: Book of Secrets as antagonist Mitch Wilkinson.
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language". His visual artistry has led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".
ReplyDeleteIn fact, while establishing himself in Hollywood, Ed Harris continued his earlier work in the theater, making his New York stage debut in Sam Shepard's Fool for Love in 1983, for which he earned an Obie Award for Outstanding Actor. His breakthrough came in 1983 when he played John Glenn in The Right Stuff.
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