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“And La,” she said, smacking my arm, “It’s you! He didn’t even have to think about it, he just said, ‘Laura. By “you,” she had meant me and my four other siblings. When I was 10 years old, my Aunt Janny told me a secret: “I asked your dad which of you he’d choose to be stuck with in a car for 24 hours,” she whispered conspiratorially. The Drives That Brought Me Closer to My Dad However, the musician reportedly does not join her at Sandringham. Wherever the Queen sleeps-Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, or Balmoral-her bagpiper is there to get her day going. for 15 minutes within earshot of her window every morning. A musician, titled Piper to the Sovereign, plays the bagpipes at 9 o’clock a.m. The Piper to the Sovereign acts as a human alarm clock for the British monarch.įorget the classic alarm clock noise: Queen Elizabeth’s day begins with the sound of live bagpipes every morning. Queen Elizabeth’s Alarm Clock Is Live Bagpipes And just as the original Irma Vep was written with Cheung in mind, so too did Assayas’ current leading lady inspire this latest iteration.

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Starring Alicia Vikander, this version follows Mira, an American movie star seeking redemption from her career of blockbusters and a recent tabloid scandal by tackling a role in a miniseries adaptation of Les Vampires.

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Now Assayas returns to Irma Vep for HBO, loosely adapting his film into an eight-episode limited series airing Monday nights on HBO. Not only did the film-about the making of a contemporary Les Vampires remake-become an influential cult favorite, it gave star Maggie Cheung the best role of her career as Maggie Cheung, an actress starring as Irma Vep in an adaptation of Les Vampires.

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In its way, Olivier Assayas’ 1996 film Irma Vep has become as much of a cultural touchstone as Louis Feuillade’s Les Vampires, the silent French serial to which Assayas’ movie paid homage.

Indie king Olivier Assayas directs the HBO hit, which stars Alicia Vikander and Tom Sturridge.

How a Century-Old Story Inspired the New Series Irma Vep The 72-page dissertation, “An Historical and Interpretive Analysis of the Development and Perpetuation of the Mae West Phenomenon on Stage and Screen 1900 – 1970,” reverentially traced how West parlayed her wisecracking, oversexed vaudeville persona into one of Hollywood’s most legendary careers. The pioneering sex symbol was the subject of Johnson’s film studies thesis. He’d often declare of things that met his approval, “What a hoot!” He spoke with a breathy, halting affectation. Johnson was openly gay and rather flamboyant. He stood about 5-foot-7, had long brown hair and a thick mustache, and was “your basic Midwestern kid,” as one friend would later describe him.īut he was not entirely basic. 2, 1948, in Waukegan, Illinois, David Ray Johnson displayed nothing particularly remarkable at first glance. Late in 1971, a shaggy, 23-year-old college student and aspiring screenwriter was toiling away at his master’s thesis at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. The mysterious death of one of her acolytes offers a window into the Hollywood legend’s strange world. In the mid 1970s, nearly a half-century after her rise to superstardom, Mae West held court among an eccentric, sexed-up entourage of admirers, hangers-on, musclemen and monkeys. Pick your booth and hold court for the day. It is TUESDAY and we feel like today’s LOunge has exactly the vibe we all need to get through. Who’s in the mood for some cozy chicness today? Or chic coziness, if that sounds more appealing.

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