About 'Fantaghiro' briefly

  I first saw this fairy tale or fantasy film when I was a teenager -- it was on TV, it was very popular making a hit in many countries. Then I rewatched about a year ago.
  The first film is 'irrepetibile", like Italians say.
  The second and third -- I don't like what they did to the part of Romualdo. Film 5 is a miss, I don't like it.
  Parts 3,4 are not about Fantaghiro and Romualdo, they're another story, with the inroduction of Tarabas.
  All in all though there are things to criticize, the stories are emotional and vivid.

'A Sunny Disposish' (lyrics + authors)

  It was not sp easy to find the lyric. Thanks to http://laurie-ru.livejournal.com/351730.html , where there are more links to different videos and audios of the song.
  Hugh Laurie sings this song in 'Jeeves & Wooster' film. 'A song with a spot of pholosophy'.
  Ira Gershwin is George Gershwin's older brother.
  In this song there's a play on words -- the endings are omitted and contracted to 'sh': disposition and delicious. A sunny disposish (mood) will always help.

    A Sunny Disposish (1926)

Music: Philip Charig,Lyrics: Ira Gershwin

Any time you hear the thunder rumble down
Don't let her tumble down
Or castles crumble down
If the blues appear just make
the best of them
Just make a jest of them
Don't be possessed of them

At the risk of sounding rather platitudinous
Here's what I believe should be
the attitude in us

A sunny disposish will always see you
through
When up above the skies are grey,
'stead of being blue
Mr. Trouble always makes our faces long
But a smile will have him saying
"so long"

It really doesn't pay to be a gloomy pill-
It's absolutely most ridic.,
positively sill. –
The rain may pitter patter,
It really doesn't matter;
For life can be delish.
With a sunny disposish.

Must confess I like your way
of viewing it
No use in ruing it
When gloom is bluing it
Taking your advice the sad
and weary all
Have no material
To be funereal

 I've recently started a new blog on natural haircare, devoted to washing and grooming hair with natural products. http://naturehaircare.blogspot.ru/ I also would like to create one about sewing.
  Now I'm interested to use GoogleAdsense -- this blog is the old one, so hopefully the program will switch here to begin with.

Nicholas Rogers (Tarabas) 'Pop Rocky' article transcription

   Here is my transcription of the article in German about Nicholas Rogers (Pop Rocky).

  (As for the translation of the article into Russian, it's here http://liza-di-grazia.livejournal.com/188847.html#cut: first I did it with the Abbyy Lingvo online dictionary, then I gave it to my bilingual friend to help and check.) The text is as follows:

   "Geheimnisvolle blaue Augen, eine lange dunkelbraune Mähne, errol Flynn-Bartchen und eine Ausstrahlung, die einen einfach umhaut. Der Australier Nicholas Rogers ist das, was man als einen “ganzen Mann” bezeichnen würde . Kein Wunder, dass sich Nicholas mit seinem Gardemaß von 1,90 Meter früher mit Modeljobs nach oben katapultiert hat. Geboren wurde er als zweiter Sohn von Eve und Ken Rodgers am 6 Marz 1969 in Sydney/Australien. In Whale Beach (nahe bei Sydney) wuchs er gemeinsam mit seinen Brüdern Steve (29) und Tim (13) in einem tollen Strandhaus auf.  „Nach einer wilden Schulzeit bin ich dann in dasselbe Business wie mein Vater eingestiegen – die Modebranche.  Die US-Firma, für die ich am Anfang arbeitete, hat mich dann mit 20 Jahren gleich in die Zentrale nach New York geholt. Das war für mich sehr früh und überraschend, aber ich denke, dadurch bin ich auch viel selbständiger geworden”, blickt der jetzt 28-jährige Nicholas zurück.  „In Amerika angekommen, war mir sofort klar: Der Job in der Modebranche ist nichts für mich. Nach einem Urlaub in Spanien bin ich dann auch gar nicht mehr in die Staaten zurückgekehrt, sondern  habe beschlossen, ins Modelgeschäft einzusteigen. Über  eine Agentur in London bekam ich dann auch sehr schnell tolle Jobs. Vor allem in der Jeanswerbung war ich oft zusehen.”

Den internationalen Durchbruch schaffte Nicholas aber mit der Schauspielerei, 1994 drehte er mit dem italienischen Regisseur Lamberto Bava die erste Folge des traumhaft schönen Märchens „Prinzessin Fantaghiro”. Die Rolle des Zauberers  Tarabas ist ihm dabei wie auf den Leib geschrieben. “Beim Casting wollte man von mir wissen, ob ich denn reiten könne. „Klar!“, log ich, „kein Problem!“ Zwei Tage später saß  ich schon auf einem riesigen schwarzen Pferd und musste loslegen. Zum Glück ist aber alles gut gegangen. Noch bis 8 Februar ist “Magic Nick” jeden Sonntag auf SAT1 bewundern. Und wenn Ihr dann immer noch nicht genug von dem tollen Australier habt: die nächste Serie mit Nicholas, “Laura non c’e” (dt: „Laura gibt es nicht”) ist schon abgedreht und wird voraussichtlich Weihnachten 1998 gezeigt.”
Next to the photos:

Nicholas mal anders: Privat muß der süße Australier eine Britte fragen –or ist kurzsichtig

Was wird 1998 wohl allos mit sich bringen? Nicholas versucht eite Voraussage…

Wie in der Serie: Nicholas  steht auch privat auf Mystisches

Ummengen von Fanpost. Seit “Fantaghiro “ lettres jahr erstmals  Ref, hat Nicholas jede Menge zu fan.

Mit diesem Blick nimmt ihm jeder der “grossen Magher” at

Nicholas Rogers bein lockeren Plausch mit Oliver Opitz von POP/Rocky

Haven't posted anything here for long. I have replied to some comments on Tolkien. http://verdevivoverdechiaro.blogspot.ru/2008/03/tolkien-allegory-and-applicability.html 

The importance of being honest -- an extract from a Russian film

  This is a little piece from a Russian film 'A Literature Lesson' (1968), based on Victoria Tokareva's story ("A day without lying"), the script is hers as well. Here's a page http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063752/.
   It's about a young graduate (educated as a journalist) working at school. There are a lot of interesting ideas. But the main one jumps to this: telling the truth (importantly -- to oneself), being honest. This is a final monologue of the main character. It starts somewhere on the eighth minute of this file, soon after the piano sounds. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT47OLVZmhI&feature=related
   That is a quote from the film that comes at the end, showing the main character's speculations.
   ''Now the day is over. I've lived it the way I wanted to: I wasn't afraid of anyone, I told what I think both to myself and the others. And what will be tomorrow? For if I want to live the way I lived yesterday I will not be able to do it, and, in fact, I do not want to.
Maybe the transition period is the period when you stop asking questions to the people around you and start asking them to yourself. This period can come at the age of fifteen, and at twenty five, and at forty. Or it may never come.
   What have I lost? Everything. What have I gained? Everything.''
   How it's really important to be honest with oneself and allow transition period (asking questions) to move on.

Something to write about

Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie. I'd like to describe some impressions I have of their work.
What do I usually write about? Some major principles are as follows:
1) I write mainly about what's really interesting to me or moves me. Or delights me. Or what I consider worthy of attention, valuable or interesting. Frankly and sincerely.
2) I try to put in in an interesting and readable way, do some quality writing, so to speak.
Sometimes I wait for the appropriate mood and the appropriate amount of time. The mood is very important. If I am tired I can't write long and finely worked out texts.
So again a post which is not very interesting.