#Ian Collier

[cleowho]

“Drop the weapon, Doctor.”

Arc of Infinity - season 20 - 1983

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[bryan-damage]

The Vibrators

Ian Carnochan (Knox), Pat Collier, John Ellis, John Edwards (Eddie)

Late 1970s

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Bad movie I have Countess Dracula 1971

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Paget Eliminations

Other Artist Eliminations

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"There cannot be the least doubt in the world that it has been written by two persons." W.H. Hyde, Reigate Squires (Harper’s Weekly) Characters: Mr Acton, Holmes, Col Hayter, Watson

Collier’s cover FD Steele, Norwood Builder (Collier’s) Characters: Holmes

"He carried a large old-fashioned carpetbag." FD Steele, Six Napoleons (Collier’s) Characters: Mr Sandeford

"The light from the window streamed across the shrubbery." FD Steele, Wisteria Lodge (Collier’s) Characters: Sgt Baynes, Holmes

"Beside it sat the dead man, leaning back in his chair." Gilbert Holiday, Devil's Foot (The Strand) Characters: Mortimer Tregennis

"The Cipher - and the man who solved it." Frank Wiles, Valley of Fear (The Strand) Characters: Holmes

"Who are you?" he asked, as he advanced. "What are you loitering there for?" Frank Wiles, Valley of Fear (The Strand) Characters: Scowrers, Menzies (Mine engr.)

"I sprang to my feet, for the expression upon the millionaire's face was fiendish in its intensity, and he had raised his great knotted fist. Holmes smiled languidly and reached his hand out for his pipe." Alfred Gilbert, Thor Bridge (The Strand) Characters: Watson, Gibson, Holmes

"At this moment I chanced to glance at Holmes, and saw a most singular intentness in his expression." HK Elcock, Sussex Vampire (The Strand) Characters: Mrs Mason, Robert Ferguson, Baby Ferguson, Jack Ferguson, Holmes, Watson

"Holmes raised his pipe, languidly smiling." FD Steele, Three Gables (Liberty) Characters: Holmes, Steve Dixie

"My door was flung open and Ian Murdoch staggered into the room." HK Elcock, Lion's Mane (The Strand) Characters: Insp Bardle, Holmes, Ian Murdoch, Stackhurst

"I also have a question to ask you, Sir Robert," he said in his sternest tone." Frank Wiles, Shoscombe Old Place (The Strand) Characters: Watson, Sir Robert, Holmes

[justforbooks]

The actor Brigit Forsyth, who has died aged 83, made her name as Thelma in the BBC television series Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? One critic described Thelma as so prim that she could turn the lifting of a lace curtain into an art form.

Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais’s creation, which ran from 1973 to 1974, was the sequel to the popular 1960s sitcom The Likely Lads, which starred Rodney Bewes and James Bolam as Bob Ferris and Terry Collier, two single north-east England factory workers who share a flat and the same interests – women, drink and football.

Thelma Chambers was brought in as a girlfriend for the upwardly mobile Bob, now in the white-collar class with a house, car and annual holiday on the Costa Brava, scoffed at by Terry, who clings on to his working-class roots. Thelma and Bob were married halfway through the two series of the show.

“Up until then, I had done a lot of drama on telly,” said Forsyth. “If I wasn’t being murdered, I was murdering somebody or I was a disturbed art teacher. I was playing quite a lot of deranged people, so comedy was a nice change.”

She created laughs again with the sitcom Sharon and Elsie (1984-85), in which she co-starred as the middle-class Elsie Beecroft alongside Janette Beverley as the more down-to-earth Sharon Wilkes, two employees in a greetings card manufacturing company.

But Forsyth’s own favourite television part was Francine Pratt in Playing the Field (1998-2002), the on- and off-pitch women’s football drama created by Kay Mellor. Her character, who hates the game, is married to the Castlefield Blues’ sponsor, played by Ricky Tomlinson, and keeps him happy in return for designer clothes and other luxuries.

“I have never played awful glamour before,” she said. “I had a blond wig, six-inch heels, makeup and my bosom hitched up high.”

Forsyth was born in Malton, North Yorkshire, to Scottish parents, Anne (nee Forsyth), an artist, and Frank Connell, an architect and town planner, and brought up in Edinburgh. She was mesmerised by Stanley Baxter’s performances as a pantomime dame at the city’s King’s theatre and, aged 18, landed her own first lead role, as Sarat Carn, on her way to the gallows, in Charlotte Hastings’s play Bonaventure with the Makars amateur drama group.

But when she left St George’s school, Edinburgh, her parents insisted she learn a skill, so she trained as a secretary. After a couple of jobs, she headed for London and Rada (1958-60), where she won the Emile Littler prize.

She began her professional career back in Edinburgh with the Gateway theatre company (1960-61) before moving on to the Theatre Royal, Lincoln (1961-62) and the Arthur Brough Players in Folkestone (1962). With other actors already named Brigit McConnell and Bridget O’Connell, she changed her professional name to Forsyth on her return to Lincoln in 1962.

At the Edinburgh festival three years later, she played one of the witches in a headline-making production of Macbeth. “That show caused an absolute uproar because they wanted the witches to have the bodies of young girls and the faces of old women, and they wanted us to have our top half naked,” Forsyth recalled. “But the Earl of Harewood, who was running the EIF at the time, said ‘No’. So they put nipple caps on us, which looked absolutely disgusting – and they used to drop off each night. It was absolutely hysterical.”

Later, in the West End, Forsyth played Annie in The Norman Conquests (Globe, now Gielgud, and Apollo theatres, 1974-76) and Dusa in the feminist play Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi (Mayfair theatre, 1976-77). She put her TV breakthrough down to cutting her hair short. “It proved a tremendously lucky omen,” she said.

That break came with Adam Smith (1972), in which she played the younger daughter of the title character, a Scottish minister (Andrew Keir). The director, Brian Mills, then worked with Forsyth on the psychological thriller Holly (1972), when she took the part of a young art teacher kidnapped by a mentally unstable student. Forsyth and Mills married in 1976.

Television roles kept on coming. She was Veronica, one of the product-promotion team, in The Glamour Girls (1980-82), Harriet in the inter-generational sitcom Tom, Dick and Harriet (1982-83), and Helen Yeldham, a hotelier, in the 1989 series of Boon.

There were also appearances in soap opera: as GP Judith Vincent in The Practice (1985-86); Babs Fanshawe, Ken Barlow’s escort agency date who dies of a heart attack, in a 1998 Coronation Street episode; Delphine LaClair, a sales rep for a French company interested in buying Rodney Blackstock’s vineyards, for two short runs in Emmerdale (2005 and 2006); Cressida, mother of the millionaire Nate Tenbury-Newent, in Hollyoaks in 2013; and three roles in Doctors between 2000 and 2012.

Forsyth also played the miserable Madge, who frustrates her sister Mavis’s attempts at a relationship with Granville, in the sitcom sequel Still Open All Hours (2013-19).

A cellist from the age of nine, Forsyth starred as the real-life virtuoso Beatrice Harrison in a 2004 tour of The Cello and the Nightingale. Also on tour, she was a remarkably believable Queen Elizabeth II in A Question of Attribution (2000) and played Marie in Calendar Girls (2008). “I’m Mrs Frosty-Knickers, the one who doesn’t approve of it all.”

In 2017, she played a terminally ill musician in the stage comedy Killing Time, written by her daughter, Zoe Mills, who acted alongside her. At the time, Forsyth revealed that her maternal grandfather, a GP in Yorkshire, had helped dying patients to end their lives. Declaring herself a supporter of euthanasia, she said: “He bumped off probably loads of people with doses of morphine.”

In 1999, Forsyth separated from her husband, but they remained friends until his death in 2006. She is survived by their children, Ben and Zoe.

🔔 Brigit Forsyth (Brigit Dorothea Connell), actor, born 28 July 1940; died 1 December 2023

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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years - ITV - September 6, 1981 - October 25, 1981

Drama (8 Episodes)

Running Time: 60 minutes

Stars:

Robert Hardy as Winston Churchill

Siân Phillips as Clementine Churchill

Nigel Havers as Randolph Churchill

Tim Pigott-Smith as Brendan Bracken

David Swift as Professor Lindemann

Sherrie Hewson as Mrs. Pearman

Moray Watson as Major Desmond Morton

Paul Freeman as Ralph Wigram

Frank Middlemass as Lord Derby

Sam Wanamaker as Bernard Baruch

Peter Barkworth as Stanley Baldwin

Eric Porter as Neville Chamberlain

Edward Woodward as Sir Samuel Hoare

Peter Vaughan as Sir Thomas Inskip

Robert James as Ramsay MacDonald

Tony Mathews as Anthony Eden

Ian Collier as Harold Macmillan

Marcella Markham as Nancy Astor

Walter Gotell as Lord Swinton

Richard Murdoch as Lord Halifax

Clive Swift as Sir Horace Wilson

Phil Brown as Lord Beaverbrook

Diane Fletcher as Ava Wigram

Geoffrey Toone as Sir Louis Kershaw

Norman Jones as Clement Attlee

Geoffrey Chater as Lord Hailsham

Stratford Johns as Lord Rothermere

Norman Bird as Sir Maurice Hankey

Roger Bizley as Ernst Hanfstaengl

James Cossins as Lord Lothian

Guy Deghy as King George V

Stephen Elliott as William Randolph Hearst

Günter Meisner as Adolf Hitler

Frederick Jaeger as Joachim von Ribbentrop

David Langton as Lord Londonderry

Preston Lockwood as Austen Chamberlain

David Markham as the Duke of Marlborough

Richard Marner as Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin

Llewellyn Rees as Lord Salisbury

Terence Rigby as Thomas Barlow

Margaret Courtenay as Maxine Elliott

Merrie Lynn Ross as Marion Davies

Nigel Stock as Admiral Domvile

[drunklander]

Ep. 703 Recaps & Interviews

[Updating as new ones post.]

Outlander Season 7 Episode 3 Recap: Jamie & Claire Escape Death, A Fire Destroys Everything & Brianna Gets a Letter from the Past (SheKnows)

Outlander Stars Sarah Collier & Hugh Ross On That Big Death Scene and Working with Sam Heughan & Caitríona Balfe (SheKnows)

Outlander Recap: Dreams About Landlines (Vulture)

Outlander Episode 3 Recap: A Breath of ‘Oh No!’ and Ashes (TVLine)

Outlander’s Ian Now Has the ‘Fear of God’ in Him After Arch Bug’s Deadly Promise, John Bell Previews (TVLine)

Outlander recap: Brianna saves Jamie and Claire's lives (EW)

Outlander star John Bell talks Ian's big mistake (EW)

'Outlander' Author Diana Gabaldon Weighs in on Season 7's Third Episode and the Death of a Beloved Member of Fraser's Ridge (Parade)

Arch and Mrs. Bug Discover That Greed—Stealing Jacobite Gold— Isn't Good on 'Outlander' (Parade)

‘Outlander’ Season 7 Episode 3 Recap: “Death Be Not Proud” (Decider)

Yes, Caitriona Balfe Really Sang “Ave Maria” in ‘Outlander’ Season 7 Episode 3 (Decider)

Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe Think It Would be “Unrealistic” if Jamie and Claire Were Still Constantly Boning in ‘Outlander’ Season 7 (Decider)

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Secular Pro-Life president Kelsey Hazzard here. As a resident of southwest Florida, I want to thank everyone on Twitter who sent encouraging messages during last week’s hurricane. I was very fortunate. My loved ones and I are all safe, and my house did not suffer any damage. Electricity in my neighborhood has been restored, the kids are back in school, and life is getting back to normal.

Not everyone has been so lucky. We have all seen the images of devastation on the news, and unfortunately, non-profit women’s clinics are no exception.

My local pregnancy resource center, Community Pregnancy Clinic, reports that it sustained $30,000 worth of damage to its Naples location. Community Pregnancy Clinic is a faith-based organization that serves pregnant mothers of all backgrounds. You can help those families by purchasing maternity and baby items from the clinic’s online gift registry. And in hard-hit Fort Myers, Hurricane Ian forced Verity Pregnancy and Medical Resource Center to postpone its annual fundraising dinner — just when the community it serves faces the greatest need.

I encourage you to donate if you are able. You can also give to United Way of Lee, Hendry and Glades County or United Way of Collier and the Keys, neither of which fund Planned Parenthood or other abortion groups. Thank you for your generous support.

[whump-collector]

Whumpees (actors)

All the actors on this blog (so far):

Search for the name or use this link and add the name you're looking for https://whump-collector.tumblr.com/tagged/

I use the tag compilation for posts with several whumpees.

a: aaron ashmore - aaron tveit - adam palsson - adarsh gourav - aidan turner - alex o'loughlin - alexander dreymon - ali tarik findik - allison scagliotti - andreas pietschmann - andrew j. west

b: ben levin - benedict cumberbatch - brian austin green - burc kümbetlioglu

c: callum turner - channing tatum - charlie cox - charlie hunnam - charlie vickers - chris pine - christian bale - christipher egan - colin farrell - colin morgan - colin o'donoghue

d: dan lewis - daniel craig - daniel sharman - david boreanaz - david dastmalchian - david tennant - david wenham - diego klattenhoff - diego luna - dirk benedict - dominic cooper - drake rodger

e: engin akyürek - eric christian olsen - ewan mcgregor

f: freddie stroma - freddy carter

g: gael garcia bernal - gavin drea - giacomo gianniotti - guy pearce

h: halil ibrahim ceyhan - harold perrineau - henry cavill - henry golding - hisham tawfiq - hugh dancy - hunter doohan

i: iain de caestecker - ian somerhalder - iko uwais

j: jack bannon - jack davenport - jack martin - jack quaid - jake mclaughlin - james mcavoy - james spader - james wolk - jared padalecki - jason isaacs - jay hernandez - jd pardo - jenna ortega - jensen ackles - jeremy allen white - jim sturgess - joe flanigan - joe gilgun - joe keery - joel kinnaman - john cho - john cusack - john reardon - jon bernthal - jonas nay - jonny harris - jordan bridges - joshua jackson - jude law - julian morris

k: karl urban - keegan allen - kevin alejandro - kiefer sutherland - kit harington

l: lee pace - liam hemsworth - lucas till - luke evans - luke mitchell

m: mark hamill - mark waschke - markus brandl - martin henderson - martin shaw - martin wallström - matt barr - matt bomer - matt czuchry - matt lanter - matt smith - max thieriot - megan boone - mel gibson - michael fassbender - michael hurst - michael shanks - michael sheen - michael weatherly - mike farrell - milos bikovic

n: nathan fillion - nathan parsons - nicholas galitzine - nikolaj coster waldau - noah centineo

o: oliver rayon - oscar isaac

p: pablo schreiber - paul bettany - paul hassall - pedro pascal - pio marmai

r: raj yadav - rami malek - richard armitage - richard harmon - richard madden - rish shah - robert downey jr - robert james-collier - robert kazinsky - robin lord taylor - rodger corser - rupert evans - rupert penry jones - russell crowe - ryan guzman - ryan kelley - ryan reynolds

s: sabin tambrea - sam riley - santiago cabrera - scott caan - sean bean - sebastian stan - shawn ashmore - simon baker - stanley tucci - stephen amell - steve burton

t: thomas elms - thomas gibson - tim dekay - tim roth - timothy granaderos - tobey maguire - tolga saritas - tom austen - tom ellis - tom holland - tom payne - tom riley - tom sturridge - torrance coombs

y: yon gonzalez

z: zach mcgowan - zeeko za

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Doctor Who Month : Arc of Infinity

For the Third review of Doctor Who Month ,I shall look at the 5th Doctor story Arc of Infinity mainly cause it has Michael Goughwho is an actor I like ,a villain I liked in a previous story and future 6th Doctor Colin Baker .....Also will be spoilers

A mysterious creature made of antimatter is trying to merge with the Doctor (Peter Davison) ,and the Time Lord decide the rational thing to prevent this is.....kill the Doctor

So I mostly enjoyed this one .....Though it is flawed .I find I am not that fond of Galifrey stories ,cause the Time Lords feel like they are written like jerks to make the Doctor look better.Also whenever a Time Lord is killed I always ask "Why dont you regenerate ??"Also poor Tegan doesnt get to do much for the entire story

Also apparently the episode is supposed to be a mystery ,cept its not a very good mystery .Now in fairness I knew who the main villain was going in but once I thought about it ,I dont know if anyone back in the day wouldve been able to guess:

Spoilers: The villain is Omega ,an essential figure in Time Lord lore who faced the Third and Second Doctor in the Three Doctors .Cool an old villain ,thats awesome.....But heres the problems

1.If you liked Omega he is very much diffrent here :He's got a diffrent actor with Ian Collier taking over for Stephen Thorne , he is a far more restrained villain compared to his bombastic first appearence,and his design is entirely diffrent (More of an insectoid mask compared to the more ancient civilization looking mask ) ,hes almost a diffrent character

2....Three Doctors was released TEN YEARS before this story ,and the identity of Omega is not explained well or built up enough ,they dont really even talk about his and the Doctors previous encounter ,just expects ya to know wh0o Omega is

Also I guessed Miuchael Gough was the traitorus Time Lord cause he has a very distinct voice and you dont get him to play a minor character

That said....There is a lot I liked .I liked Nyssa ready to take out the Time Lord president to save the Doctor ,I thought it was paced real well ,Michael Gough is always a highlight ,Colin Baker was a scene stealer as a secondary baddie and while a diffrent take....I liked this take on Omega,in fact he was somewhat tragic .Also one of the better Time Lord stories in general

I dont wanna give the impression I dislike this story ,because it was such a fun watch ,and I really enjoyed .Id say it is a popcorn movie type episode ,its got some writing flaws .....But ?I enjoyed myself

@ariel-seagull-wings @amalthea9 @angelixgutz @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @filmcityworld1 @goodanswerfoxmonster

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[thebetterbear]

Post Modern Art

Escaping Confines of Museum

City, Michael Heizer. Located in Garden Valley, a desert valley in rural Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Nevada. land art sculpture. 1970-2022

Collapsing Boundaries Between High and Low

Curious Kitten watercolor painting is a painting by Svetlana Novikova which was uploaded on February 23rd, 2013.

Rejecting Originality

Andy Warhol 1928–1987. Silkscreen ink and acrylic paint on 2 canvases. 1982

Jouissance

Fred Tomaselli, 2014, 60″ x 84″, photo-collage, leaves, acrylic and resin on wood panel, © 2014, courtesy of James Cohan Gallery and the artist

Working Collaboratively

Meow Wolf. Sept. 13, 2021.

Adam Christopher

Andi Todaro

Ashley Frazier, Michael Sperandeo

Brandan Styles "Bzurk”, Ellie Rusinova

Brian Corrigan

Cal Duran, David Ocelotl Garcia

Cami Galofre

Chris Bagley

Christopher Owen Nelson

Christopher Short

Collin Parson

Corrina Espinosa

Dan Taro

David Farquharson

Dice 51

Douglas A. Schenck “DAS”

Dylan Gebbia-Richards

Frankie Toan

Ian McKenna

Jaime Molina, Pedro Barrios

Jennifer Pettus

Jess Webb

Jodi Stuart, Libby Barbee

Joseph Lamar

Joshua Goss

JUHB.

Justin Camilli

Justin Gitlin aka Cacheflowe

Kalyn Heffernan, Gregg Ziemba

Katy Zimmerman, Erika Wurth

Kia Neill

Kristin Stransky

Laaiaim Mayer

Lauri Lynnxe Murphy

LORDSCIENCE UNIVERSAL

Lumonics

Marjorie Lair, Kyle Vincent Singer

Maya Linke

Myah Sarles

Nicole Banowetz

Nolan Tredway

Ramón Bonilla

Reed Fox, Ben Weirich

Sabin Aell, Randy Rushton

Scott Hildebrandt

Sean Peuquet

Shayna Cohn

Sigrid Sarda

Sofie Birkin

Thomas Scharfenberg

Viviane Le Courtois

Wanderweird

Wynn Earl Buzzell Jr.

Andrew Novick, Pamela Webb, Robert Ayala

bearwarp

Chad Colby, Lexis Loeb, Hayley Kirkman

Charles Kern, Ty Holter, Ben Jackson, Rachel Bilys, Brett Sasine

Demiurge LLC: Joe Riche and Wynn Buzzell

Eriko Tsogo, Jennifer Tsogo, Tsogo Mijid, Batochir Batkhishig

F. Ria Khan, Armon Naein, Blake Gambel, Calvin Logan, Charles Candon, Harrison Bolin, Luke Collier, Maria Deslis, Sky Johnson, Sofia Rubio-Topete

Ladies Fancywork Society

Merhia Wiese, Annabelle Wiese, Maggie Wiese, Eunseo Zoey Kim, Dan Griner

Mike Lustig, Mitch Hoffman, Tim Omspach, Nathan Koral, Evan Beloni, Ryan Elmendorf, Scott Wilson, Charlis Robbins

Molina Speaks, Stevon Lucero, DJ Icewater, Felix "Fast4ward" Ayodele, Diles, Emily Swank

Oren Lomena, Alaine "Skeena" Rodriguez, Alius Hu

Peniel Apantenco, Kim Shively, Colin Richard Ferguson Ward,  (In memoriam)

Sam Caudill, Sean Louis Rove, Juancristobal Hernández

Secret Love Collective: Katy Batsel, Lares Feliciano, Colby Graham, Piper Rose, Frankie Toan, Katy Zimmerman, Lauren Zwicky, Genevieve Waller

The Church of Many: Andrea Thurber, Elsa Carenbauer, Anna Goss, Maddi Waneka and Emily Merlin

Waffle Cone Club: Kyle Vincent Singer, Scott Kreider, Marjorie Lair

Everything is Terrible!

Kevin Bourland

Michael Lujan

Moment Factory

Nina Mastrangelo

Scott Geary, Wayne Geary, Gary Ashkin

Appropriating

Paneel "Rehearsal for an Icon 2001 - Mona Lisa" von Olbinski, Grafikdruck. Digital Print

Hybridizing

Untitled (Studio)2014

Kerry James Marshall

Simulating

Andy Warhol (American, 1928–1987) 1962. Synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases, Each canvas 20 x 16" (50.8 x 40.6 cm). Overall installation with 3" between each panel is 97" high x 163" wide

Mixing Media

Mama, Mummy and Mamma (Predecessors #2)

Njideka Akunyili Crosby. 2014

Layering

Zephyrus Rising, 2022. Acrylic on Acrylic. 32 × 16 × 22 in Duncan McDaniel

Mixing Codes

Recontextualizing

 Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, 1503-6; On Winnie: Denis Colomb stoles (worn as a headdress, top and sleeves) 

Confronting the Gaze

Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad David Ayer 2016 (left), Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey Cathy Yann 2021 (right)

Facing Abject

Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys, 1985/86, mixed media (Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, photo: Goggins World, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Constructing Identities

Creating Metaphors

Martin Puryear. Ladder for Booker T. Washington, detail, 1996. Installation view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. 2003

Using Narratives

Damien Hirst The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 2013 Lentikulardruck80 x 120 cm

Irony, Parody, Parody Dissonance

A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014). Kara Walker Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

[holmesillustrations]

Vote for your favourite, the top 9 will proceed in the bracket. Since theyre all different shapes and sizes, make sure to click into the full views!

Paget Eliminations

Other Artist Eliminations

Full captions and details for each illustration below the cut:

"Two men came down the garden path." W.H. Hyde, Reigate Squires (Harper’s Weekly) Characters: Cunningham Sr, Alec Cunningham

"Colonel Moran sprang forward with a snarl of rage." FD Steele, Empty House (Collier’s) Characters: Police, Sebastian Moran, Holmes

"He picked up his hunting-crop and struck Napoleon." FD Steele, Six Napoleons (Collier’s) Characters: Holmes

"The queer thing in the kitchen." FD Steele, Wisteria Lodge (Collier’s) Characters: PC Walters, Sgt Baynes, Holmes, Watson

"We ascended the stairs and viewed the body." Gilbert Holiday, Devil's Foot (The Strand) Characters: Holmes, Watson, Brenda Tregennis

"You'll only get yourself hurt," said the inspector. "Stand still, will you?" Walter Paget, Dying Detective (The Strand) Characters: Holmes,Watson, Culverton Smith, Lestrade

"Give it up, Jack! For my sake - for God's sake,  give it up!" Frank Wiles, Valley of Fear (The Strand) Characters: Douglas/McMurdo, Ettie Shafter

"The wife was found in the grounds, late at night, with a revolver bullet through her brain." Alfred Gilbert, Thor Bridge (The Strand) Characters: Maria Gibson

"The woman turned her flushed and handsome face towards me." HK Elcock, Sussex Vampire (The Strand) Characters: Dolores, Robert and Mrs Ferguson

"The Adventure of the Three Gables" FD Steele, Three Gables (Liberty) Characters: Holmes

"I turned over the paper. This never came by post, where did you get it?" HK Elcock, Lion's Mane (The Strand) Characters: Maud Bellamy, Holmes, Ian Murdoch

"Holmes had lit his lantern." Frank Wiles, Shoscombe Old Place (The Strand) Characters: Watson, Holmes, John Mason

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books 2017-2021

2017

A View from the Foothills, Chris Mullin (2009)

The Noise of Time, Julian Barnes (2016)

The End of the Party, Andrew Rawnsley (2010)

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, Laurie Lee (1969)

2018

A Death in the Family, Karl Ove Knausgård (2013)

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Julian Barnes (1989)

Never Mind, Edward St Aubyn (2012)

Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor (2017)

In Love, Alfred Hayes (1953)

Autumn, Ali Smith (2016)

Educated, Tara Westover (2018)

The Children Act, Ian McEwan (2014)

The Only Story, Julian Barnes (2018)

Bad News, Edward St Aubyn (2012)

On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan (2007)

The Power, Naomi Alderman (2016)

Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney (2017)

Swimming Home, Deborah Levy (2011)

Amsterdam, Ian McEwan (1998)

Less, Andrew Sean Greer (2017)

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata (2018)

Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker (1962)

Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders (2017)

The Swimming Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst (1988)

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1966)~

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)#

This is Going to Hurt, Adam Kay (2017)

Normal People, Sally Rooney (2018)#

Asymmetry, Lisa Halliday (2018)

2019

Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe (1958)#

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott (2016)

Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2004)#

Outline, Rachel Cusk (2014)

Florida, Lauren Groff (2018)

The People in the Trees, Hanya Yanagihara (2013)#

Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy (2018)

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Heather Morris (2018)#

Ordinary People, Diana Evans (2019)

The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima (1999)

The Line of Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst (2004)

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (1966)#

Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant, Joel Golby (2019)

Love, Nina: Dispatches from Family Life, Nina Stibbe (2013)

On the Road, Jack Kerouac (1957)

The World According to Garp, John Irving (1978)#

Good Morning, Midnight, Jean Rhys (1939)

Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1985)

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)#

Why We Sleep, Matthew Walker (2017)

This is Pleasure, Mary Gaitskill (2019)

Some Hope, Edward St Aubyn (2012)

Mr Salary, Sally Rooney (2019)

2020

We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014)

Three Women, Lisa Taddeo (2019)#

Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, Adam Kay (2019)

The Future of Capitalism, Paul Collier (2018)

South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami (1999)#

Smile Please, Jean Rhys (1979)

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson (2015)#

Reunion, Fred Uhlman (1971)

Night Boat to Tangier, Kevin Barry (2019)

A Little Life, Haniya Yanagihara (2015)

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (1955)#

Boomerang, Michael Lewis (2012)#

Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan (2020)

An American Marriage, Tayari Jones (2018)#

Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick (2010)

Calypso, David Sedaris (2018)#

Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge (2017)

Any Human Heart, William Boyd (2002)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion (1968)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz (2007)#

Lullaby, Leïla Slimani (2016)#

Summerwater, Sarah Moss (2020)

Intimations, Zadie Smith (2020)

The Appointment, Katharina Volckmer (2020)

Brighton Rock, Graham Greene (1938)

Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1831)#

The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken (2018)

The Order of the Day, Eric Vuillard (2017)

2021

I'm Afraid of Men, Vivek Shraya (2018)#

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1929)

Why We Get the Wrong Politicians, Isabel Hardman (2018)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, John Le Carre (1963)#

Emma, Jane Austen (1815)

News of the World: A Novel, Paulette Jiles (2016)#

Transit, Rachel Cusk (2018)

Good Behaviour, Molly Keane (1981)#

Deep Work, Cal Newport (2016)

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (1984)#

We Are All Birds of Uganda, Hafsa Zayyan (2021)

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez (1970)

Dead Souls, Sam Riviere (2021)

Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (2020)#

Hangover Square, Patrick Hamilton (1941)

My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante (2012)

The Rachel Papers, Martin Amis (1973)

Sorrow and Bliss, Meg Mason (2021)

Kudos, Rachel Cusk (2018)

Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)

The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (2019)#

How to Write a Novel in 6 Months, Thomas Emson (2020)

Writing a Novel, Richard Skinner (2018)

Where There's a Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent, Emily Chappell (2019)#

Arbitration: A Very Short Introduction, Thomas Schultz and Thomas Grant (2021)

No. 91/92: Notes on a Parisian Commute, Lauren Elkin (2021)

Metroland, Julian Barnes (1980)

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2022 - 2023 Team USA International Selection Pool

The International Selection Pool (ISP) includes junior- and senior-level athletes and teams who meet criteria approved by the U.S. Figure Skating International Committee. These athletes and teams are eligible to be considered for assignment to international competitions.  

List as of 7/1/2022

Men

William Annis

Lucas Broussard

Jason Brown

Nathan Chen*

Goku Endo

Kirk Haugeto

Jonathan Hildebrandt

Tomoki Hiwatashi

Liam Kapekis

Lucius Kazanecki

Joseph Klein

Kai Kovar

Lake Liao

Jimmy Ma

Ilia Malinin

Samuel Mindra

Antonio Monaco

Maxim Naumov

Nhat-Viet Nguyen

Matthew Nielsen

Yaroslav Paniot

Camden Pulkinen

Jacob Sanchez

Taira Shinohara

Eric Sjoberg

Beck Strommer

Dinh Tran

Michael Xie

Robert Yampolsky

Maxim Zharkov

Vincent Zhou*

Women

Starr Andrews

Sonia Baram

Mia Barghout

Mariah Bell

Gwen Bloesch

Alena Budko

Karen Chen

Elsa Cheng

Hazel Collier

Sarah Everhardt

Amber Glenn

Gracie Gold

Giselle Graves

Hanna Harrell

Finley Hawk

Jill Heiner

Hannah Harrera

Tia Hilbelink

Rena Ikenishi

Gabriella Izzo

Mia Kalin

Ellie Kam

Katie Krafchik

Josephine Lee

Isabeau Levito

Elyce Lin-Gracey

Hannah Lofton

Maryn Pierce

Abigail Ross

Paige Rydberg

Clare Seo

Katie Shen

Audrey Shin

Phoebe Stubbenfield

Bradie Tennell

Linsday Thorngren

Kate Wang

Wren Waren-Jacobson

Sherry Zhang

Adele Zheng

Ava Ziegler

Pairs

Sonia Baram / Daniel Tioumentsev

Ashley Cain-Gribble / Timothy LeDuc~

Emily Chan / Spencer Howe

Alexa Knierim / Brandon Frazier

Katie McBeath / Nathan Bartholomay

Anastasiia Smirnova / Danil Siiantsyia

Cayla Smith / Andy Deng

Ice Dance

Emily Bratti / Ian Somerville

Oona Brown / Gage Brown

Helene Carhart / Volodmyr Horovyi

Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko

Molly Cesanek / Yehor Yehorov

Madison Chock / Evan Bates

Caroline Green / Michael Parsons

Jenna Hauer / Benjamin Starr

Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-luc Baker

Angela Ling / Caleb Wein

Lorraine McNamara / Anton Spirdonov

Caroline Mullen / Brendan Mullen

Leah Neset / Artem Markelov

Eva Pate / Logan Bye

Elliana Peal / Ethan Peal

Vanessa Pham / Jonathan Rogers

Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen

* - indicates the skater has indicated they will not compete next season

~ - indicates the team has retired