The Queensland Writers Centre, of which I am a member, distributes a newsletter each month (with a trendily obscure cover) with “helpful” advice to writers.
As there is no letters to the editor section or any other mechanism for comments, suggestions and feedback, it does appear to be a closed shop! In this digital age, they don’t even have a forum or allow comments on their own blog!
Unfortunately, like most of the publishing industry (it used to be a profession), it has its head buried in the sand and only occasionally blinks around in a lame and often late effort to discover what is really occurring! Like the entire publishing business inAustralia, it is, sadly, ten years behind the times. Publishers,companies, critics, agents - you could slap a glass dish over the lot and call it Jurassic Park! Oops, that’s been taken, hasn’t it.
Edward G. Robinson, born as Emanuel Goldenberg to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family in Bucharest, he emigrated with his family to New York City in 1903.
He began his acting career in 1913 and made his Broadway debut in 1915. He made his film debut in a minor and uncredited role in 1916; in 1923 he made his named debut as E. G. Robinson in The Bright Shawl. One of many actors who saw his career flourish in the new sound film era rather than falter, he made only three films prior to 1930 but left his stage career that year and made 14 films in 1930-1932.
An acclaimed performance as the gangster Rico Bandello in Little Caesar (1931) led to him being typecast as a “tough guy” for much of his early career in works such as Five Star Final (1931), Smart Money (1931; his only movie with James Cagney), Tiger Shark (1932), Kid Galahad (1937) with Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart, and A Slight Case of Murder and The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938). In the 1940s, he expanded into psychological dramas including Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1945) and Scarlet Street (1945); but he continued to portray gangsters such as Johnny Rocco in John Huston’s Key Largo (1948), the last of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart.
Warning: Your reality is out of date! You think some facts don’t change, right?
Wrong!
When I was at school, there were just nine planets in our solar system and now…?
Mesofacts are the facts that change neither too quickly nor too slowly, that lie in this difficult-to-comprehend middle, or meso-, scale. Often, we learn these in school when young and hold onto them, even after they change. For example, if, as a baby boomer, you learned high school chemistry in 1970, and then, as we all are apt to do, did not take care to brush up on your chemistry periodically, you would not realize that there are 12 new elements in the Periodic Table. Over a tenth of the elements have been discovered since you graduated high school! While this might not affect your daily life, it is astonishing and a bit humbling.
Read More from Samuel Arbesman from Harvard Medical School on Boston.Com
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In 1975, rock music was turgid and full of itself with so called “progressive” rock. It was psychedelic rubbish gone mad and then Dr Feelgood emerged, looking like juvenile delinquents from the 1960’s!
They played sparse, stripped to the bone music and were, although no one at the time saw it, the prophets of the punk era.
In short, they were ahead of their time.
Sure the Sex Pistols got fame and media, but Dr Feelgood got the beat and, more importantly, they got rock music! They understood it!
If you want to know more about this great man, go here.
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