#Phyllis Dalton

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One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

The Princess Bride / Robin Wright as Buttercup and Chris Sarandon as Prince Humperdinck

Humperdinck apparently believes in color-coordinated weddings, since he has to have provided the dress. It's a fun "fairy tale" style that corresponds to no particular historical era, with some very pretty beadwork on the shoulders. I've always liked her little crown as well.

The cut of Humperdinck's outfit is pretty strongly influenced by fifteenth-century European styles, particularly French. And look at the elaborate silver decoration around the openings of the hanging sleeves! It's like he's determined to let everyone know that he's the one who's royalty here. Which would be in character.

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Fragment of Fear (Richard C. Sarafian, 1970).

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The Hireling (1973)

The Hireling (1973)

ALAN BRIDGES Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBB.5 United Kingdom, 1973. Columbia Pictures, World Film Services. Screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz, based on the novel by L.P. Hartley. Cinematography by Michael Reed. Produced by Ben Arbeid. Music by Marc Wilkinson. Production Design by Natasha Kroll. Costume Design by Phyllis Dalton. Film Editing by Peter Weatherley. Class stratification goes hand in hand…

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Dalton gets his laugh in the end.

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What if survival and risk belong to one another?

She (is) telling her to stay home, to stay safe. This idea of safety is something Phyllis drilled into her, as if it were the most important thing, the only thing. An idea synonymous with survival. But Wanda has begun to suspect that this isn’t true... What if survival and risk belong to one another?

― Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate (Grand Central Publishing, December 6, 2022) 

[last-tambourine]

She looked to the right and saw the two versions of Wanda she was presenting to the class: the little girl she’d taken in and the woman she’d grown into, as if they were specimens to be displayed. “Evolution,” Phyllis said, “is always occurring.” And on cue, both Wandas burst into light, a glow evident even beneath the fluorescent bulbs.

~ Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

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The Beautician and the Beast

A New York City beautician is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Boris Pochenko: Timothy Dalton Joy Miller: Fran Drescher Jerry Miller: Michael Lerner Ira Grushinsky: Ian McNeice Leonid Kleist: Patrick Malahide Katrina Pochenko: Lisa Jakub Consuela: Tamara Mello Judy Miller: Phyllis…

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The Light Pirate, by Lily Brooks-Dalton

⭐⭐⭐⭐ 1/2

Born into — and named after — one of the violent hurricanes that are becoming increasingly common as climate change ravages Florida, Wanda is a strange child with an even stranger power: the ability to make the ocean glow with a touch. As she grows, her ties to what once was are severed, one by one, until finally she stands in a new world utterly unlike anything known to human civilization. But is all truly lost, or is there something new waiting to be discovered?

I find it very difficult to describe this book, because parts of it are so different from each other. Sometimes the action flows at a tense, rapid pace, and other times it slows, taking a quiet moment to grieve or love. It's tense and sad and emotionally ravaging, fast and slow all at once, and the only thing I can say about it with confidence is that I never felt bored with the pacing. When it slowed, it was because it needed to, and when it raced it was because trying to hold it back would have been unbearable. I also hesitate to describe the tone as hopeful, because most of it was incredibly bleak. The hope shines through only at the very end, after you've already spent all your tears. This is not a lunch break book!

My absolutely favorite part of the book was, hands down, the characters. I don't have words for how much I loved Phyllis, but my heart also ached for Kirby, Lucas, and all the rest. I loved them despite their flaws and mistakes, because those were what made them human. They felt so real, like actual people who might be living in a town like Rudder. The one character who fell kind of flat to me was Brie. She felt underdeveloped during her entire involvement in the story, because everything interesting about her happened off-screen.

The other thing that felt underdeveloped to me was the magical realism elements involving Wanda's light powers. I'm okay with not having all the answers about where they came from, but they just kind of exist and don't really do anything other than orchestrate a couple plot points? I feel like the novel could have been written without them being a thing, and very little would have had to change.

All that said, I highly recommend this book to anyone who's into cli-fi! Just make sure you're emotionally prepared, because it's going to put you through the wringer.

Before I go, an important question needs answering: does the cat die? (Mild spoilers ahead!) During the course of the story, Wanda acquires a pet kitten. This kitten does not die after the events at the end of part 2, when you'll be worrying that it might have(personally, I was so distressed that I had to skim ahead until I saw it mentioned, and only then could I go back and read normally). It does not, however, survive forever. After a few more years, it's lost off-screen, with a vague description indicating it got out of the house and most likely did not survive.

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Tribute to the great designers of cinema costumes. Phyllis Dalton’s costumbre for Geraldine Chaplin as Tonya in Dr. Zhivago. 1965.

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One Dress a Day Challenge

June: Weddings

The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) / Anthony Andrews as Sir Percy Blakeney and Jane Seymour as Marguerite St. Just

Another well-coordinated wedding pair! I love the embroidery on Percy's lapels, and of course his neckerchief is beautifully arranged, with a jeweled pin to fasten it.

It's always a bit amusing to see hair ornaments in the tall 18th-century women's hairdos. Compare Keira Knightley in The Duchess, here.

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Denzel Washington & Keanu Reeves as Don Pedro & Don John in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ (Film,1993).

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The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982).. Costumes by Phyllis Dalton.

** I LOVE this movie!!

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David Lean and Peter O'Toole prepare to film the "Main Title" scene, which will introduce O'Toole as Lawrence, in Almeria, Spain . (Sunday, 24th June 1962)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean

Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence

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There was a lightness in not knowing. A clarity.

There was a lightness in not knowing. A clarity. There was no need to follow the goings on of a world she and Wanda were no longer part of. In the years before the border closed, she had been consumed by a constant undercurrent of anxiety: lists that were never finished, home improvements that were never good enough, plans full of holes. What if, what if, what if. But then all that ended and something else took its place. Something quiet and rich and straightforward. The life she’d been planning for arrived and she gradually settled into it. Phyllis and Wanda began to let the wild determine their days. It was strange at first, to allow such simplicity. Days of the week ceased to hold meaning. The time stopped being a number and became a question of light and tides. Months lost their shape.

― Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate (Grand Central Publishing, December 6, 2022) 

[last-tambourine]

It goes on like this: Phyllis supplying Wanda with a never-ending trail of information, leapfrogging from one question to another. Wanda is not used to her questions being taken so seriously or answered with such patience. She doesn’t have to be afraid of the attention she’s drawing to herself out here by the river. The anxiety of learning indoors is gone—there are no bullies to snicker when she raises her hand. So she asks until there’s nothing left to ask. Until she is full of answers that need ruminating on.

~ Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate