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October 2016: Read the best of NEW Poetry from around the world:

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Submit your POETRY for FREE to the festival: https://festivalforpoetry.com/

Read the best of NEW Poetry:

I AM POETRY, by Allyson Olivia
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/i-am-poetry-by-allyson-olivia/

DREAMS AND REALITY, by Natalia Gorbunova
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/dreams-and-reality-poetry-by-natalia-gorbunova-spain/

YESTERDAY TODAY TOMORROW, by Eve Noel
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/yesterday-today-tomorrow-poetry-by-eve-noel/

THE FRACTAL DEBRIS, by Keefe RD
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/the-fractal-debris-poetry-by-keefe-r-d/

RUN, by LA Shan Know
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/run-poetry-by-la-shan-knox/

SUNDAY NIGHT SERVICE, by Carla Fox
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/sunday-night-service-poetry-by-carla-fox/

CAGED BIRD, by Khalid
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/caged-bird-poetry-by-khalid/

SURROUNDED BY LAND, by Bernadette Perez
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/surrounded-by-land-poetry-by-bernadette-perez/

DATING LESSON, by Marcie Tau
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/dating-lesson-poetry-by-marcie-tau/

GRAVITY, by Melody Wilson
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/gravity-poetry-by-melody-wilson/

TRIUMPH OF LOVE, by Juan Antonio Garcia
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/triumph-of-love-poetry-by-juan-antonio-garcia/

DO NOT COME HOME, by Michael Ace
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/do-not-come-home-poetry-by-micheal-ace/

I AM HERE TO TELL YOU, by Kris
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/i-am-here-to-tell-you-poetry-by-kris/

THE GIFT, by Jo Anne Kennedy
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/the-gift-poetry-by-jo-anne-kennedy/

OH BEAUTY BEAUTY, by Caitlin Dwight
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/oh-beauty-beauty-poetry-by-caitlin-dwight/

SOULFUL WISH, by Lalwani Ashok
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/soulful-wish-poetry-by-lalwani-ashok/

MY DEMONS, by Nadia Caballero
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/my-demons-poetry-by-nadia-caballero/

MY DAUGHTER MY DELIGHT, by Khan Mohd
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/my-daughter-my-delight-poetry-by-khan-mohd/

R I P WILLIAM, by Vashaun D. Baker
https://festivalforpoetry.com/2016/09/17/r-i-p-william-poetry-by-vashaun-d-baker/

BRAVOBRAINBRAVO, by Iiafiam Immortal

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Died Today (October 4th): Graham Chapman (1941–1989)

Graham Chapman (1941–1989)

Born: January 8, 1941 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK
Died: October 4, 1989 (age 48) in Maidstone, England, UK

John Howard Davies was not a very human person … if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

[Chapman and the other members of the Monty Python group traveled to visit the site of Dachau concentration camp in Germany, but were told by staff that they were too late and the museum was about to close] Tell them we’re Jewish.

And Now For Something Completely Different
1971
dir. Ian MacNaughton

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1975
dir. Terry Gilliam
Terry Jones

Life of Brian
1979
dir. Terry Jones
Starring
Chapman
John Cleese

The Meaning of Life
1983
dir. Terry Jones
Terry Gilliam
Starring
John Cleese

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Died Today (October 4th): Janis Joplin (1943–1970)

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Janis Joplin (1943–1970)

Born: January 19, 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA
Died: October 4, 1970 (age 27) in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

I’m a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn’t know what to do with it. But now I’ve learned to make that feeling work for me. I’m full of emotion and I want a release, and if you’re on stage and if it’s really working and you’ve got the audience with you, it’s a oneness you feel.

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Happy Birthday: Jackie Collins (1937–2015)

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Jackie Collins (1937–2015)

Born: October 4, 1937 in London, England, UK
Died: September 19, 2015 (age 77) in Los Angeles, California, USA

[from her last interview] Looking back, I’m not sorry about anything I did. I did it my way, as Frank Sinatra would say. I’ve written five books since the diagnosis [for stage 4 breast cancer], I’ve lived my life, I’ve traveled all over the world, I have not turned down book tours and no one has ever known until now when I feel as though I should come out with it. Now I want to save other people’s lives.

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Happy Birthday: Armand Assante

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Armand Assante

Born: October 4, 1949 in New York City, New York, USA

[on the recession] I’ve never seen a time when the financial end of film was so fragile. Projects come and go on the capacity of whether people have the financial ability, even for the lowest budget projects. It shows what has happened since 2008.

TWO FOR THE MONEY
2005
dir. D.J. Caruso
Starring:
Matthew McConaughey
Al Pacino

DEAD MAN DOWN
2013
dir. Niels Arden Oplev
Stars:
Colin Farrell
Noomi Rapace

American Gangster
dir. Scott
Starring
Russell Crowe
Washington

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Happy Birthday: Buster Keaton (1895–1966)

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Buster Keaton (1895–1966)

Born: October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, USA
Died: February 1, 1966 (age 70) in Los Angeles, California, USA

I’ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this, I am by no means overlooking the rough and rocky years I’ve lived through. But I was not brought up thinking life would be easy. I always expected to work hard for my money and to get nothing I did not earn. And the bad years, it seems to me, were so few that only a dyed-in-the-wool grouch who enjoys feeling sorry for himself would complain.

The Boat: Short Film
1921
dir. Keaton
starring
Keaton

The Balloonatic
1923
dir. Keaton
Starring
Keaton
Phyllis Haver

The Frozen North
1922
dir. Keaton
Edward F. Cline
starring
Keaton
Bonnie Hill

Cops
1922
dir. Keaton
Edward F. Cline
starring
Keaton
Virginia Fox

Sherlock Jr
1924
dir. Keaton
starring
Keaton
Kathryn McGuire

The General
1927
dir. Keaton
Clyde Bruckman
starring
Keaton
Marion Mack

At the Circus
1939
dir. Edward Buzzell
starring
The Marx Bros
Keaton co-writer

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
1966
dir. Richard Lester
Starring
Zero Mostel

Born in 1895 in Kansas, into a vaudeville family performing with the likes of Houdini (who coined his name ‘Buster’), Keaton was an early physical talent.

He entered film in his early twenties making shorts, and was deemed a star upon his first feature, 1920’s The Saphead. Keaton wrote, directed and starred in many of his own films, as well as doing studio comedies which did not garner him critical success.

With the discovery of lost stock of his early work, and 1952’s Limelight with Charlie Chaplin, Buster was finally recognized as an icon of his genre. Buster Keaton died in 1966.

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Happy Birthday: Alan Rosenberg

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Alan Rosenberg

Born: October 4, 1950 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA

Fair play doesn’t pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage. Here [pointing to the crowd] is the leverage. Our leverage is that we’re the product. We took a bad deal for cable 25 years ago. We took a horrible deal for VHS 20 years ago. We won’t be fooled again. (At WGA Rally in front of FOX Plaza)

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Happy Birthday: Charlton Heston (1923–2008)

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Charlton Heston (1923–2008)

Born: October 4, 1923 in Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Died: April 5, 2008 (age 84) in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Married to: Lydia Clarke (17 March 1944 – 5 April 2008) (his death) (2 children)

People don’t perceive me as a shy man. But I am. I am thought of mostly in terms of the parts I play. I am seen as a forbidding authority figure. I only wish I were as indomitable as everyone thinks.

The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
dir. Cecil B. DeMille
Cast
Betty Hutton
Cornel Wilde

Planet of the Apes
1968
dir. Franklin J. Schaffner
Starring
Charlton Heston
Roddy McDowall

Earthquake
1974
dir. Mark Robson
Starring
Heston
Ava Gardner

Airport 1975
1975
dir. Jack Smight
Cast
Charlton Heston
Karen Black

Any Given Sunday
1999
dir. Oliver Stone
starring
Jamie Foxx
Al Pacino

Tombstone
1993
dir. George P. Cosmatos
Starring
Kurt Russell
Val Kilmer

True Lies
1994
dir. James Cameron
Starring
Schwarzenegger
Jamie Lee Curtis

Beneath the Planet of the Apes
1970
dir. Ted Post
Starring
James Franciscus
Kim Hunter

The Omega Man
1971
dir. Boris Sagal
Starring
Heston
Anthony Zerbe

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Happy Birthday: Susan Sarandon

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Susan Sarandon

Born: October 4, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA

Lived with Tim Robbins from 1988 to 2009. They have two children together.

On Thelma & Louise (1991) after her nomination for best actress, 1992, “I was surprised that the film struck such a primal nerve. I knew when we were filming that it would be different, unusual and hopefully entertaining. But shocking? I guess giving women the option of violence was hard for a lot of people to accept”.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show
1975
dir. by Jim Sharman
starring
Tim Curry
Sarandon

Speed Racer
2008
Directed by Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski
Starring
Emile Hirsch
Christina Ricci

James and the Giant Peach
1996
dir. Henry Selick
Cast
Simon Callow
Richard Dreyfuss

Moonlight Mile
2002
dir. Brad Silberling
Starring
Jake Gyllenhaal
Bruce Willis
Sarandon
Dustin Hoffman

The Lovely Bones
dir. Peter Jackson
Stars:
Rachel Weisz
Mark Wahlberg
Saoirse Ronan

Mr. Woodcock
2007
Directed by Craig Gillespie
Starring
Billy Bob Thornton
Sarandon
Sean William Scott

WALL STREET 2
dir. Oliver Stone
Stars:
Shia LaBeouf
Michael Douglas

ROBERT AND FRANK
2012
dir. Jake Schreier
Stars:
Peter Sarsgaard
Frank Langella

ARBITRAGE
2012
dir. Nicholas Jarecki
Stars:
Richard Gere
Susan Sarandon

THE BIG WEDDING
dir. Justin Zackham
Stars:
Robert De Niro
Diane Keaton

CLOUD ATLAS
2012
dir. Tom Tykwer
Andy Wachowski
Lana Wachowski

THE HUNGER
1983
dir. by Tony Scott
Stars:
Catherine Deneuve
David Bowie

THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
2013
dir. Robert Redford
Stars:
Nick Nolte
Shia LaBeouf

SNITCH
2013
dir. Ric Roman Waugh
Stars:
Dwayne Johnson
Susan Sarandon

TAMMY
2014
dir. Ben Falcone
Stars:
Melissa McCarthy
Susan Sarandon

Romance and Cigarettes
2005
dir. John Turturro
Cast
James Gandolfini
Susan Sarandon

Enchanted
2007
Directed by Kevin Lima
Starring
Amy Adams
Patrick Dempsey

PEACOCK
2010
dir. Regina Crosby
Starring:
Scott Michael Foster
Noa Hegesh

JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME
dir. Jay Duplass
Mark Duplass
Stars:
Jason Segel
Ed Helms

Bull Durham
1988
dir. Ron Shelton
Starring
Sarandon
Costner

Thelma and Louise
1991
dir. Ridley Scott
Starring
Geena Davis
Sarandon

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Festival Reviews

Showcasing the best of movies, and film festivals from around the world.

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FIRST SCENE SCREENPLAY CONTEST – Deadline October 5th

October 2016: Read the best of NEW Poetry from around the world:

Died Today (October 4th): Graham Chapman (1941–1989)

Died Today (October 4th): Janis Joplin (1943–1970)

Happy Birthday: Jackie Collins (1937–2015)

Happy Birthday: Armand Assante

Happy Birthday: Buster Keaton (1895–1966)

Happy Birthday: Alan Rosenberg

Happy Birthday: Charlton Heston (1923–2008)

Happy Birthday: Susan Sarandon