#joan kemp-welch

[thisbluespirit]

gifset request meme from @allegoriesinmediasres --> The Shadow of the Tower + 4 most attractive character(s)

As everyone knows, York is “the sexy one,” right?  Must be all that plotting in tights and shirts and firkins that does it.

[dailyromeoandjuliet]

Christopher Neame and Ann Hasson in Romeo and Juliet,1976

[mariocki]

Classic TV/Producers/Women

Roberta Leigh

Joan Kemp-Welch

Verity Lambert

Julia Smith

Irene Shubik

[claritalunaluna76]

The UK parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee is working on its report (and recommendations) from its inquiry into the economics of music streaming. One of the big talking points during the inquiry’s evidence sessions was equitable remuneration (ER): specifically extending it from radio and TV to some streams.

The Broken Record campaign has made ER one of its key requests of the committee; labels have argued firmly against it; and (in our view, at least) the committee seems to be leaning more towards the former camp. But the committee isn’t the British government, so if ER is to be extended, ministers will need to be convinced too.

That campaign is already starting. A letter sent to Prime Minister Boris Johnson – and shown to Music Ally this morning – sees a who’s who of British musicians backing such an extension. Sir Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox, Chris Martin, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Kate Bush, Roger Daltrey, Damon Albarn, Noel Gallagher, Laura Marling, Sir Tim Rice… and many more.

“Only two words need to change in the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. This will modernise the law so that today’s performers receive a share of revenues, just like they enjoy in radio,” argues the letter. But it also calls for a competition inquiry (or at least a government referral to watchdog the Competition and Markets Authority); for songwriters to get a bigger share of streaming royalties; and the establishment of a dedicated regulator “to ensure the lawful and fair treatment of music makers”.

Later today, we’ll publish our quarterly Music Ally report, including our analysis of the key talking points of the inquiry, and what might happen next. One of our suggestions was that while the DCMS committee seemed sympathetic to the Broken Record campaign’s arguments, the government ministers seemed to be leaning more towards labels’ view of the world.

The letter shows that the former group are going to work hard to change that, and in wheeling out the musical big guns, the intensity of the lobbying has stepped up several notches – even before the DCMS committee’s report has come out. Labels and their representative body the BPI must now decide how best to respond.

Here is the full text of the letter, and its signatories:

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Dear Prime Minister,

We write to you on behalf of today’s generation of artists, musicians and songwriters here in the UK.

For too long, streaming platforms, record labels and other internet giants have exploited performers and creators without rewarding them fairly. We must put the value of music back where it belongs – in the hands of music makers.

Streaming is quickly replacing radio as our main means of music communication. However, the law has not kept up with the pace of technological change and, as a result, performers and songwriters do not enjoy the same protections as they do in radio.

Today’s musicians receive very little income from their performances – most featured artists receive tiny fractions of a US cent per stream and session musicians receive nothing at all.

To remedy this, only two words need to change in the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act. This will modernise the law so that today’s performers receive a share of revenues, just like they enjoy in radio. It won’t cost the taxpayer a penny but will put more money in the pockets of UK taxpayers and raise revenues for public services like the NHS.

There is evidence of multinational corporations wielding extraordinary power and songwriters struggling as a result. An immediate government referral to the Competition and Markets Authority is the first step to address this. Songwriters earn 50% of radio revenues, but only 15% in streaming. We believe that in a truly free market the song will achieve greater value.

Ultimately though, we need a regulator to ensure the lawful and fair treatment of music makers. The UK has a proud history of protecting its producers, entrepreneurs and inventors. We believe British creators deserve the same protections as other industries whose work is devalued when exploited as a loss-leader.

By addressing these problems, we will make the UK the best place in the world to be a musician or a songwriter, allow recording studios and the UK session scene to thrive once again, strengthen our world leading cultural sector, allow the market for recorded music to flourish for listeners and creators, and unearth a new generation of talent.

We urge you to take these forward and ensure the music industry is part of your levelling-up agenda as we kickstart the post-Covid economic recovery.

Yours sincerely,

Full list of signatories:

Damon Albarn OBE

Lily Allen

Wolf Alice

Marc Almond OBE

Joan Armatrading CBE

David Arnold

Massive Attack

Jazzie B OBE

Adam Bainbridge (Kindness)

Emily Barker

Gary Barlow OBE

Geoff Barrow

Django Bates

Brian Bennett OBE

Fiona Bevan

Alfie Boe OBE

Billy Bragg

The Chemical Brothers

Kate Bush CBE

Melanie C

Eliza Carthy MBE

Martin Carthy MBE

Celeste

Guy Chambers

Mike Batt LVO

Don Black OBE

Badly Drawn Boy

Chrissy Boy

Tim Burgess

Mairéad Carlin

Laura-Mary Carter

Nicky Chinn

Dame Sarah Connolly DBE

Phil Coulter

Roger Daltrey CBE

Catherine Anne Davies (The Anchoress)

Ian Devaney

Chris Difford

Al Doyle

Anne Dudley

Brian Eno

Self Esteem

James Fagan

Paloma Faith

Marianne Faithfull

George Fenton

Rebecca Ferguson

Robert Fripp

Shy FX

Gabrielle

Peter Gabriel

Noel Gallagher

Guy Garvey

Bob Geldof KBE

Boy George

David Gilmour CBE

Nigel Godrich

Howard Goodall CBE

Jimi Goodwin

Graham Gouldman

Tom Gray

Roger Greenaway OBE

Will Gregory

Ed Harcourt

Tony Hatch OBE

Richard Hawley

Justin Hayward

Fran Healy

Orlando Higginbottom

Jools Holland OBE, DL

Mick Hucknall

Crispin Hunt

Shabaka Hutchings

Eric Idle

John Paul Jones

Julian Joseph OBE

Kano

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Gary Kemp

Nancy Kerr

Richard Kerr

Soweto Kinch

Beverley Knight MBE

Mark Knopfler OBE

Annie Lennox OBE

Shaznay Lewis

Gary Lightbody OBE

Tasmin Little OBE

Calum MacColl

Roots Manuva

Laura Marling

Johnny Marr

Chris Martin

Claire Martin OBE

Cerys Matthews MBE

Sir Paul McCartney CH MBE

Horse McDonald

Thurston Moore

Gary “Mani” Mounfield

Mitch Murray CBE

Field Music

Frank Musker

Laura Mvula

Kate Nash

Stevie Nicks

Orbital

Roland Orzabal

Gary Osborne

Jimmy Page OBE

Hannah Peel

Daniel Pemberton

Yannis Philippakis

Anna Phoebe

Phil Pickett

Robert Plant CBE

Karine Polwart

Emily Portman

Chris Rea

Eddi Reader MBE

Sir Tim Rice

Orphy Robinson MBE

Matthew Rose

Nitin Sawhney CBE

Anil Sebastian

Peggy Seeger

Nadine Shah

Feargal Sharkey OBE

Shura

Labi Siffre

Martin Simpson

Skin

Mike Skinner

Curt Smith

Fraser T Smith

Robert Smith

Sharleen Spiteri

Lisa Stansfield

Sting CBE

Suggs

Tony Swain

Heidi Talbot

John Taylor

Phil Thornalley

KT Tunstall

Ruby Turner MBE

Becky Unthank

Norma Waterson MBE

Cleveland Watkiss MBE

Jessie Ware

Bruce Welch OBE

Kitty Whately

Ricky Wilde

Olivia Williams

Daniel “Woody” Woodgate

Midge Ure OBE

Nikki Yeoh

[lifejustgotawkward]

365 Day Movie Challenge (2017) - #223: Haunted Honeymoon (1940) - dir. Arthur B. Woods (with Richard Thorpe, uncredited)

I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Robert Montgomery, but I’ll try any movie once. Such is the case with Haunted Honeymoon, a whodunit that bored me from start to finish. Montgomery and Constance Cummings play Lord and Lady Wimsey, a popular pair of English sleuths created by mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers. However entertaining the couple may have been in Sayers’ novels, they simply don’t translate to big-screen enjoyment. The Wimseys do their best to solve a puzzling murder that takes place in their newly bought country home, a crime that is curiously uninvolving since it’s so easy for the viewer to solve. The film’s odd tone, wobbling between mediocrely witty banter and stagnant moodiness, doesn’t help matters either.

Some truly talented supporting players appear as inhabitants of the small town where the action takes place, including Leslie Banks (thankfully playing a normal chap and not a Most Dangerous Game-style psycho), Seymour Hicks, Robert Newton (who, I assure you, did much finer work elsewhere), Googie Withers (ditto), Frank Pettingell, Joan Kemp-Welch (who eventually become one of the UK’s premiere female directors), James Carney and Roy Emerton. (You’ll have to watch the film to see which actor is the homicide victim and which actors are the suspects.) I’m sure that there must be an audience for Haunted Honeymoon’s particular brew of comedy and gumshoeing, but I’m not part of it.

[beautifulactres]

Joan Kemp-Welch (1906-1999)

[arisefairsun]

Please rank your favorite Romeo and Juliet adaptations!

Of course my dear! These are all the adaptations I’ve seen, listed by personal preference. Most of them are movie adaptations because unfortunately I live in a place where theatrical productions of Shakespeare are rather rare.

MOVIES

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Franco Zeffirelli (1968). My all-time favorite adaptation of the play. (More here, here, here, here, here, and here).

Private Romeo, dir. Alan Brown (2011). Set in an all-male service academy, it is a great exploration of the hypermasculinity that’s so prevalent in the play—and it has my favorite Mercutio.

Romeo + Juliet, dir. Baz Luhrmann (1996). A superb translation of Shakespeare’s Verona into the modern world. I’m not that fond of Claire Danes’s Juliet, though. More on this here, here, here, here, and here.

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Alvin Rakoff (1978). A wonderful Mercutio, and there’s Alan Rickman as Tybalt! The lovers I found rather plain, though.

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Joan Kemp-Welch (1976). This is the full play!

Romeo and Juliet, dir. George Cukor (1936). In my opinion, the actors, talented though they are, are too old to play the lovers.

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Riccardo Donna (2014). If you enjoyed the 2013 movie then you should give it a try, given that it’s not particularly loyal to Shakespeare’s words, either. It’s a miniseries!

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Carlo Carlei (2013). It’s not my cup of tea—the beauty of Shakespeare’s language is rather lost. More here.

THEATER

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Kenneth Branagh (2016, Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company). My favorite adaptation after Zeffirelli’s movie. More here, here, here, and here.

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Dominic Dromgoole (2009, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre). Simply beautiful! The portrayal of the lovers is adorable.

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Gabriel Villela (2012, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre). This is a Brazilian production of the play.

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Don Roy King (2014, Broadway). A great Mercutio!

Romeo and Juliet, dir. Daniel Kramer (2017, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre). I didn’t really enjoy this when I saw it live, but it’s worth watching anyway. Surely it will be available as a DVD and on the Globe player sooner or later.

SHORT FILMS

Juliet and Romeo, a lesbian adaptation of the orchard and death scenes. It’s marvelous.

Still a Rose, dir. Hazart (2016), an LGBT version of the orchard scene. It features lesbian Romeo and Juliet, gay Romeo and Juliet, and male Juliet with female Romeo. It’s worth buying!

Star-Cross’d, dir. Laura Dockrill (2016), a retelling set on a British beach. The households are two opposite ice cream stores.

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[dailyromeoandjuliet]

Christopher Neame and Ann Hasson on set of Romeo and Juliet,1976

[mariocki]

Doomwatch: The Human Time Bomb (2.10, BBC, 1971)

"Look, we don't intend to imprison a lot of people in little boxes like a lot of broiler chickens."

"I'd say that's exactly what you are doing."

"On the contrary! We want people to be happy."

"Of course, every farmer knows that unhappy chickens go off their feed."

[mariocki]

ITV Play Of The Week: A Choice Of Coward: Present Laughter (Granada, 1964)

"I am not bullying you, I am merely telling you that you've reached a moment in life when a little restraint would be becoming. You're no longer the debonair, irresponsible juvenile, you know. You're an eminent man, advancing with every sign of reluctance into middle age."

"May God forgive you, for I never shall."

[mariocki]

ITV Play Of The Week: A Choice Of Coward: Design For Living (Granada, 1964)

"The only reasons for me to get married would be these: to have children; to have a home; to have a background for social activities; and to be provided for. Well, I don't like children. Don't wish to have a home, can't bear social activities - and I have a small but private income of my own. I love Otto deeply, and I respect him both as a person and as an artist, but to be tied to him legally would be repellent; we just feel like that, both of us. Now are you satisfied?"

"If you are."

[mariocki]

ITV Play Of The Week: A Choice Of Coward: The Vortex (Granada, 1964)

"Just a little while ago you were really suffering for once, and in a way I was glad - because it showed you were capable of a genuine emotion. Now you're glossing it over, smarming it down with your returning vanity; soon you won't be unhappy anymore, just vindictive."

[mariocki]

ITV Play Of The Week: A Choice Of Coward: Blithe Spirit (Granada, 1964)

"When did you first discover you had these extraordinary powers?"

"When I was quite tiny; my mother was a medium before me, you know, so I was able to start on the ground floor. I had my first trance when I was four years old, and my first ectoplasmic manifestation when I was five."

"Your mother must have been delighted."

[thisbluespirit]

#in objectively the prettiest?#maybe elizabeth#or thomas stafford#everybody canonically agrees that he is Too Pretty To Die and it is inarguable#gif 

omg i just googled John Hamill (Thomas Stafford) to check his name and 0_o Joan Kemp-Welch really did know what she liked in tights and a shirt.

like half of them aren’t even SFW...

(This is tame; wouldn’t want to get tumblr excited.  But Google images would suggest that his no.1 use in films was to look pretty while not wearing very much.)