George Quaintance
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George Quaintance [1]
Diane de Keyser "De schaamte en de schrik".
- Milan Stitt, 68, American playwright.
- Péter Bacsó, 81, Hungarian film director.
Isolde (Sophia Myles) does, however, remain an adept at herbalist remedies as well as an Irish princess, engaged to the brutal Morholt. --Cinema of Obsession
Surely Salvador Dalí must have known about Giovanni Bellini's Prayer of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane[2] when he painted the epitome of dripping surrealism The Persistence of Memory by [3]
Philipp Otto Runge and Julius LeBlanc Stewart
Maurice Bottomley says: RIP Claude Jeter.
Listen to him here[4] on "Stand By Me".
Claude A. Jeter (October 26, 1914 – January 6, 2009) was an African American gospel music singer.
Jeter was best known for his falsetto with the Swan Silvertones in which his graceful high melodies served in contrast to the rougher voices of the group's other members. The group recorded for the several different labels, but never achieved financial success, despite its widespread influence.
During the 1950s the group was popular and many of the elements of the group's style resembled the then-prevalent rhythm and blues vocal group style. Jeter received many offers to perform R&B or rock and roll, but rejected them all, citing a commitment he had made to his mother that he would always sing for the Lord.
Elements of his performances in songs were picked up by later singers such as Al Green and Eddie Kendricks of The Temptations and another of his songs served as Paul Simon's inspiration to write his 1970 song "Bridge over Troubled Water". Paul Simon subsequently gave Jeter a check for $1,000 for inspiring Simon to write "Bridge over Troubled Water". See for this last trope: cultural appropriation in western music.
- "I keep thinking of Ursula K. LeGuin's classic novel The Lathe of Heaven. An ordinary man, George, discovers his dreams can somehow change the world. As a teenager, a sexually seductive aunt made him intensely uncomfortable. He dreamed that she had died in a car accident, and when he awoke, realized she had. He felt so guilty about this retroactive murder that he turned to drugs to keep from dreaming. Note that he didn't dream she was just somewhere else, alive and not bothering him, but had died violently." --Beauty in Darkness: the history of BDSM
