Individual Reading (Part 6)

His last years Strickland passed in Tahiti. There he got married Ata, who hadn’t a drop of white blood in her. This woman did everything he needed and she had never been against his lifestyle. All this time Strickland created a lot of pictures. Nobody liked them except a French captain who was sorry for him and had bought a couple of his pictures for small sums. Some years later Strickland was ill. He had leprosy but in spite of it he continued his painting. Two years more a message was brought to the Doctor that Strickland was dying. When he came into his house, he saw that there were paintings on the walls. The Doctor understood that Strickland was a genius. Also he was shocked by the news that Charles had been blind for nearly a year. The last Strickland’s wish was to destroy this house after his death and his wife kept her promise.

Individual Reading (Part 5)

Before leaving for Holland, Dirk Stroeve came to his house. It was very difficult for him to be there, everything remembered him about his wife. Also this man met Charles Strickland and offered him to go to Holland together. When the narrator met Strickland in the street he only nodded him because he felt in him a sudden repulsion. In spite of it Charles was walking after him and the narrator had to let him to come into his home. Strickland told some facts about his life with Blanche and explained that it was only a passion to her. At the same time Charles wanted the narrator to look at his pictures. He agreed to understand his inner world. In fact these pictures were confused him. A week later the narrator heard that Strickland had gone to Marseilles. He never saw him again. In Marseilles Charles led a life of a beggar. Every moment Strickland tried to leave for the East and he did it.

Rendering №13 (Music)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/will-i-am-producing-new-britney-spears-album-20130501

The article was published on the website rollingstone.com on May 1, 2013. The article reports that Will.i.am had confirmed to Rolling Stone that he would be acting as executive producer on Britney Spears' forthcoming album.

According to this article, the producer hoped this album would reflect who Spears was as a person rather than an artist, and he had been actively spending time getting to know her on a more intimate level to ensure that could happen.

This extract is said that Will.i.am and Britney needed to have lunch four times a month for three months before he even tried to go in the studio with her. He must do it because: firstly, they needed to talk about what she was excited about in life; secondly, he got to talk about the things that hurt her, made her concerned. In addition to, he added that they could not do another song about going on the dance floor.

In this article the author gives the information that the producer and Spears had had almost three months' worth of lunches, and they had had a session the day before that will.i.am called "amazing." Although he was unable to offer any sense of a timeline on the album's release, he suggested that the production on his end was moving along fairly quickly.

The author comes to the conclusion that the producer would also release a follow-up single with Justin Bieber. Meanwhile will.i.am, honored last night for his collaboration with Levi's 501 on a pair of jeans created from plastic Coca-Cola products, had numerous other projects on the table. Those included ongoing work with his i.am.angel and i.am.scholarship programs.

As for me, I understood that this producer is very talented. He has various kinds of works. He works not only with singers, but also with big corcorations such as Coca Cola and Levi’s.

Individual Reading (Part 4)

Dirk Stroeve was very upset, he tried to connect with his wife in different ways, but she didn’t want to see him. The narrator didn’t see Charles Strickland for several weeks but one evening they met in the coffee and Strickland offered to play a game of chess. Mrs. Stroeve watched the game with inscrutable face. Her face was a mask that told nothing. Two days later Dirk Stroeve came to the narrator to ask him to write a letter to Mrs. Stroeve and told her about her husband’s love. Sometime later Stroeve came to the narrator and told him that his wife had committed suicide. She drank a bottle of oxalic acid. This woman had been in the hospital for two weeks. Blanche Stroeve died and when her husband buried her, he left for Holland. Before his leaving Dirk Stroeve met Strickland, who told him a singular story.

Film Review (Ellie Parker)

Cast:

Naomi Watts - Ellie Parker

Jennifer Syme - Casting Chick

Greg Freitas - Rick Saul (as Gregory Frietas)

Gaye Pope - Leslie Towne

Blair Mastbaum - Smash Jackson

Jessica Vogl - Trixie

Ellie Parker is a 2005 American comedy film, written and directed by Scott Coffey. The title character, played by Naomi Watts, is a young woman struggling as an actress in Los Angeles.

Ellie Parker was a young girl who wanted to become an actress. She visited a lot of studios and was looking by different agencies. She had a boyfriend. With her friend Sam they visited acting classes. One day coming home she saw her boyfriend with another girl and they separated. Sometime later Ellie met another man who told her a lie that he was a cinematographer. After unsuccessful attempts to get a role in the movie, she made up her mind to stop it and began a new life.

As for the main actress Naomi Watts, her acting was bright, hopeful, and at the same time very aggressive. Her life seemed to be hovering on top of a tightrope where the only way was ahead even when the stakes got higher and her predicaments got worse at every turn. Her decision to leave the industry came not as a shock but as a predictability that was numbing because once a person's spirit had been broken. It was a sign that maybe this was not what they should be doing even though they may have the talent to do so.

It was rather difficult for me to watch this film. In spite of the fact that the plot was interesting, the director showed Ellie’s assays very detail and this fact made the film very boring. But in the whole, the film is worth watching.

Individual Reading (Part 3)

The narrator continued his meeting both Charles Strickland and Dirk Stroeve but he couldn’t see Strickland’s pictures. In spite of the fact that Strickland hadn’t enough money to lead comfortable life, he didn’t sell his pictures. Shortly before Christmas Dirk Stroeve came to ask the narrator to spend the holiday with his family. Stroeve also wanted to see Strickland in his house that day. So they came in his cell and found out that Strickland was very ill. Stroeve asked his wife to let him bring Strickland into their house. Mrs. Stroeve hated Strickland but finally she agreed. They had been looking after Strickland for a month and a half, and after Strickland felt well he began painting in Stroeve’s studio. When Stroeve asked Strickland to leave his house, his wife said him that she loved this man and she was going to live with him.

Rendering №12 (Cinema)

http://www.euronews.com/2013/04/17/12th-tribeca-film-festival/

The article was published on the website euronews.com on April 17, 2013. The article reports that the Tribeca Film Festival has forgone a splashy studio premiere this year, opening instead with the music documentary ‘Mistaken for Strangers’.

According to this article, the Festival’s co-founder, Jane Rosenthal, noted the change in direction that they were really looking forward to ‘Mistaken for Strangers’ because it was a documentary that they were opening the film festival with.

This extract is said that the movie set the tone for a festival decidedly glib on glitz. Firstly, one more factor was that year’s homage to Nelson Mandela, who had supported Tribeca ever since it was established to revitalize New York neighborhoods hit in the 9/11 attacks. Secondly, Robert De Niro explained that Nelson Mandela was with them for the first festival. And they had had many, a few events with Mandela when he first came to the States. In addition to, Robert De Niro said that it’s appropriate to do that then when he was getting on. He would be 95 soon. In this article the author gives the information that the 12th Tribeca Film Festival might close with a revival of De Niro’s ‘The King of Comedy’, but the programme was otherwise dominated by the personality-driven exploration of some titanic cultural figureheads, including Richard Pryor, Muhammad Ali and Gore Vidal.

The author comes to the conclusion that French director, Yves Montmayeur, interspersed cut-up frames of Haneke’s work in reverse with interview footage of the nominally elusive Austrian, who was seen talking candidly about his own emotional investment in his productions. Also the Tribeca Film Festival came to a close on the 28th April.

To my mind, I can say that in spite of the fact that Nelson Mandela was the hero of 1970s, his personality is popular nowadays.