On Peter Pan

Scene from Mabou Mines Peter and Wendy with Karen Kandel. Photograph taken by Richard Termine.I remember reading Peter Pan as a kid, a version based on the 1953 Disney movie—based on J. M. Barrie’s story. It turned me on. I’m six or seven, and I’m flipping through the pages, and there’s a picture of Peter with his arms crossed and his back to Wendy. He’s angry with her for some reason, and it turned me on. The words, the image, the anger? All of it, some kind of thrill-ball a kid has no words...

John the Baptist - JB

From Wavelength.ai John the Baptist was a prophet who lived in the wilderness and preached repentance and baptism for the forgiveness of sins. He is considered a major figure in Christianity and is mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible. According to the Gospel of Luke, John the Baptist was born to Zechariah and Elizabeth, who were both elderly and had been unable to have children. An angel appeared to Zechariah and told him that his wife would give birth to a son who would prepare the...

Octopussy

June 10, 1983 As I’ve demonstrated a few times in the past, I’m not a Bond guy. So believe it or not OCTOPUSSY is a first time viewing for me. I come to it with incomplete context, zero nostalgia, but also no preconceived notions of what a Bond movie or actor needs to be like. I can view it casually as-is and report that it’s pleasingly silly and mildly amusing. Some of its qualities that some would consider shortcomings barely need to be stated. Roger Moore (THE CANNONBALL RUN) as Jame...

Decoding the Spy Genre in Film and TV by Jason Hellerman

Decoding the Spy Genre in Film and TV by Jason Hellermanhttps://nofilmschool.com/spy-genre-film-and-tv-definition-examplesOne of the earliest spy movies was The Battle of Port Arthur (1904), a silent film produced by the Edison Company that depicted the Russo-Japanese WarDecoding the Spy Genre in Film and TV (Definition and Examples)SourceURL: https://nofilmschool.com/spy-genre-film-and-tv-definition-examplesALSO published with original formatting in Rootbeer Review -zasIt's time to...

James Bond and the 007 designation - trying 700L

The Book of Job is misunderstood: An alternative guide for times of war, pandemic, democracy erosion, and climate change.

The Book of Job is misunderstood: An alternative guide for times of war, pandemic, democracy erosion, and climate change. Skip to the content Ukraine KBJ Wikipedia Green Crypto Dua Lipa Deep Water Formula 1 D.C. Trucker Convoy ...

JB initials in plain sight

Jorge Luis Borges is a JB

JB - Jeder Baum - Every tree

See translation of Jeder Baum It means I’m German ‘every tree’. Interesting to me as a possible reference to or intertext with James Bond and the other jb inquiries of mine. -zas 6 Dec 2021

J.B. Priestley

Early LifeJohn Boynton Priestley, known as J.B. Priestley in the literary world, was a renowned English writer, social commentator, and playwright. He was born on 13the September 1894, in Yorkshire in England. He was a bright son of Jonathan Priestley, a headmaster, while his mother, Emma, was a housewife. Unfortunately, his mother died when he was just two years old, leaving his father to remarry Amy Fletcher in 1898, whom Priestley described as a loving stepmother.EducationPriestley started...