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2 days ago · The Notebook is an amazing love story that can be enjoyed by all – boy meets girl, love across social divides, dates by the water, and it all feels natural. Sometimes you just need a straightforward, beautifully told love story, and The Notebook delivers exactly that.
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was tailor-made for Tim Burton; it’s got just the right mix of charming, creepy, and odd, and he did a fantastic job bringing these characters to life. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is the story of Jake (Asa Butterfield), who nearly witnesses his grandfather’s brutal attack.
Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey: Directed by Jim Donovan. With Katie Douglas, Leo Petrus, Jamie Robinson, Kim Horsman. On the night she plans to take her own life, a 17-year-old girl is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Jim Donovan
- 2018-09-30
Unlike a number of works by Burton, the film is not based on his own original idea. Instead it comes from a book of the same name by author Ransom Riggs . The book tells the story of a Welsh ...
- On The Rise
- Conspicuous by Their Absence: Charles James
- Minnelli The Muse
- The Body in The Air Vent
- Conspicuous by Their Absence: Andy Warhol
- Victor Hugo
- Pat Ast
- Decline and Fall
- Conspicuous by Their Absence: Halston’s Family
The series depicts little Halston (then Roy Halston Frowick) making hats to comfort his beloved mother after her irascible husband, Halston’s father, physically abuses her in their Midwestern home. Halston was indeed from the Midwest—originally Iowa, then Indiana—and according to biographer Steven Gaines, he did make hats for both his mother and si...
The series references Halston speaking of his admiration for Spanish couturier Cristóbal Balenciaga, and Halston is shown fearlessly cutting on the bias (cutting at a 45-degree angle so the fabric drapes itself on the body) and draping the fabric on the model rather than working from a pattern as Balenciaga did. Indeed, Gaines quotes a friend sayin...
The series suggests that Halston met his great friend and muse Liza Minnelli when he saw something in a vivacious but raw young performer at a supper club and went backstage to meet her afterward. Their actual meeting was more prosaic: Minelli recalls that she was shopping in Bloomingdale’s with her godmother, frequent Halston client and author of ...
As has been amply documented, the series’ depiction of Studio 54—the Glitterati Central disco where Halston and Liza, along with Halston’s lover Victor Hugo and Bianca Jagger spent most of their evenings in the late ’70s—is, if anything, restrained. Yes, there were people openly having sex in the balcony, and cocaine was as ubiquitous and widely av...
Although Warhol’s silkscreen paintings are glimpsed on the walls of both Halston’s and Minnelli’s residences and he is name-checked once or twice, the artist is largely absent from the story even though he was one of Halston’s closest friends (“Whenever there was a dinner or something at H.’s house, he would be there,” Minnelli recalled) and as muc...
One of these gay hustlers was the exuberant and charismatic Victor Hugo, who insinuated himself into the designer’s personal and professional life, becoming the boutique’s window dresser as well as Halston’s lover and hedonism facilitator, organizing gay orgies and procuring drugs. Hugo had his own (nonsexual) creative relationship with Warhol, ins...
Another former Warhol associate, larger-than-life actress Pat Ast, who had appeared opposite Joe D’Allesandro in Heat, turns up in Halstonas a saleswoman in the boutique and as part of the Halston entourage. Ast was in reality both these things, as well as one of the very first plus-size models when Halston put her on the catwalk. Halston pioneered...
The series shows Halston’s initial corporate backer, a relatively benign owner called Norton Simon, being swept up in 1980s acquisition mania and being bought by a more hard-nosed giant corporation called Esmark, a subsidiary of bra-and-girdle-maker International Playtex. The new owners take a dim view of Halston’s indifference to cost control, lac...
In the show, after Halston becomes increasingly ill with AIDS, he decides to sell his beloved Montauk beach house and New York townhouse, telling his closest consigliere, fashion illustrator Joe Eula, that he is moving to San Francisco because “you know why.” What is not made clear is that he moved to the Bay Area not only because it was a center o...
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Stay Peculiar is the official Facebook community dedicated to the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs. From exclusive content to firsthand news before it hits the airwaves, this...
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