#ken harper

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

The Wiz (Ken Harper presents) - The Super Soul Musical 'Wonderful Wizard of Oz' - Atlantic rec. - 1975 (cover illustration by Milton Glaser)

[ohmyboytoy]

Drew Harper by Abel Cruz

[taxi-cab-to-slowtown]

Got on the Barbie and Ken mug-shot wagon with Jason and Roy. (I don't know how I feel about Jason's high collar but I had to cover Barbie's hair somehow).

[cocoabubbelle]

[m1ntphae]

true friends go to jail together

[bonobochick]

[hoppinkiss]

hes done but hes naked

[hatbox-apologist]

Wonder if the fact skulls weight about 11 lbs was the reason Travis didn’t try picking up Alistair’s skull or if he would have tried and failed? (Leaving out the fact he was freaked out at that moment and just wanted to leave…)

Woah that doesn't sound right, skulls can't be that heavy unless- oooo its when its full of stuff its that heavy ok so when its... empty and dry what would the weight be? Whats the weight of the human brain and eyeballs and nerves and u know what lemme just *quickly looks up the weight of an empty skull on incognito* Ah ok so it's just 2.5 lbs when it doesn't have all the unless meat and organs, cool. So in this case I think Travis just didn't want to touch it or pick it up.... EVEN THO IT WAS A MASSIVE LOOSE END TO JUST LEAVE IT THERE AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, LIKE IT MEANT NOTHING THAT HE JUST FOUND THIS GUYS HEAD THAT'S BEEN MISSING FOR OVER A CENTURY AND HE SAID /NOTHING/ ABOUT IT TO ANYONE AT ALL! *clears throat* so in conclusion... head empty, could've been picked up, but no...

[incorrectbatfam]

I just got back from Barbie so what's everyone's "weird Barbie" look like?

Dick: mermaid Barbie wearing a molted snake skin he found

Jason: mummified in all the stickers he got for good grades (free her)

Tim: weird Ken—hair colored green, hands bitten off, and tied up with string

Damian: head filled with ketchup for a realistic guillotine experience

Duke: he read Flat Stanley and… yeah

Cullen: arms and legs switched places

Stephanie: wrapped in a saran wrap dress that was melted on with a hairdryer and then rolled in glitter

Cassandra: hair transplanted onto face for an epic beard

Barbara: stuffed inside a Cabbage Patch Kid inside a Care Bear

Harper: boiled

Carrie: impaled on a stick and roasted over a campfire

Kate: shoved in a tube of Play-Doh and rolled like a pastry

Alfred: lost one leg in the war and gained a GI Joe voice box

Selina: Siamese Barbie—two Barbies melted into one

Bruce: buried in a plaster dinosaur kit and unearthed decades later

[ofhouses]

1095. Hiroshi Hara /// Kiyoshi Awazu House /// Tama Ward, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan /// 1972

OfHouses presents: Japanese Architects, part V - Hiroshi Hara. (Photos: © Shinkenchiku-sha, Ken Awazu. Source: ‘Jutakutokushu’ 12/2022; ‘JA The Japan Architect’ 02/1996; 'Arquitectura' 216, 01/1979; Chris Fawcett, ‘The new Japanese house: ritual and anti-ritual patterns of dwelling’, New York: Harper & Row, 1980.) — This project will be published in our upcoming book: ’Japanese Fields | OfHouses.’

[13eyond13]

How many of these "Top 100 Books to Read" have you read?

(633) 1984 - George Orwell

(616) The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

(613) The Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger

(573) Crime And Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(550) Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

(549) The Adventures Of Tom And Huck - Series - Mark Twain

(538) Moby-Dick - Herman Melville

(534) One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

(527) To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

(521) The Grapes Of Wrath - John Steinbeck

(521) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

(492) Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen

(489) The Lord Of The Rings - Series - J.R.R. Tolkien

(488) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

(480) Ulysses - James Joyce

(471) Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

(459) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

(398) The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(396) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

(395) To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

(382) War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy

(382) The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

(380) The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner

(378) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - Series - Lewis Carroll

(359) Frankenstein - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

(353) Heart Of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

(352) Middlemarch - George Eliot

(348) Animal Farm - George Orwell

(346) Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

(334) Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut

(325) Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

(320) Harry Potter - Series - J.K. Rowling

(320) The Chronicles Of Narnia - Series - C.S. Lewis

(317) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

(308) Lord Of The Flies - William Golding

(306) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

(289) The Golden Bowl - Henry James

(276) Pale Fire - Vladimir Nabokov

(266) Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

(260) The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

(255) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Series - Douglas Adams

(252) The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - Laurence Sterne

(244) Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

(237) Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackery

(235) The Trial - Franz Kafka

(233) Absalom, Absalom! - William Faulkner

(232) The Call Of The Wild - Jack London

(232) Emma - Jane Austen

(229) Beloved - Toni Morrison

(228) Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

(224) A Passage To India - E.M. Forster

(215) Dune - Frank Herbert

(215) A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man - James Joyce

(212) The Stranger - Albert Camus

(209) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

(209) The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(206) Dracula - Bram Stoker

(205) The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

(197) A Confederacy Of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

(193) Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

(193) The Age Of Innocence - Edith Wharton

(193) The History Of Tom Jones, A Foundling - Henry Fielding

(192) Under The Volcano - Malcolm Lowry

(190) The Odyssey - Homer

(189) Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

(188) In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust

(186) Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie

(185) An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser

(182) The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

(180) Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

(179) The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann

(178) Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

(178) Tropic Of Cancer - Henry Miller

(176) The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton

(176) On The Road - Jack Kerouac

(175) The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

(173) The Giver - Lois Lowry

(172) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

(172) A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

(171) Charlotte's Web - E.B. White

(171) The Ambassadors - Henry James

(170) Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace

(167) The Complete Stories And Poems - Edgar Allen Poe

(166) Ender's Saga - Series - Orson Scott Card

(165) In Cold Blood - Truman Capote

(164) The Wings Of The Dove - Henry James

(163) The Adventures Of Augie March - Saul Bellow

(162) As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

(161) The Hunger Games - Series - Suzanne Collins

(158) Anne Of Greene Gables - L.M. Montgomery

(157) Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

(157) Neuromancer - William Gibson

(156) The Help - Kathryn Stockett

(156) A Song Of Ice And Fire - George R.R. Martin

(155) The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford

(154) The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

(153) I, Claudius - Robert Graves

(152) Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

(151) The Portrait Of A Lady - Henry James

(150) The Death Of The Heart - Elizabeth Bowen

[freddycarterus]

I am posting this for notes purposes, because we are going to be contacting many of these companies to pitch SIX Of Crows! ;)

The following companies are looking for new TV pitches for development & production.

Campaign - Production Companies

20th Century Fox Television

20th TV, Fox and MyNetworkTV

2C Media

3 BALL PRODUCTIONS

3 Ball Productions/Eyeworks USA

3 Ring Circus

360Production

40 Partners

720 PR

8790 Pictures,Inc.

ABC Cable Networks

ABC Entertainment

ABC Studios

Abrams Artists Agency

Adept Entertainment

Alan David Group

Alchemy Television

Alchemy Television Group

Alcon Entertainment

Allan McKeown Presents Ltd

Allan R. Smith Productions

Ambush Entertainment

American Media Television

Anne Carlucci Productions, Inc.

APA

Arclight Films

Arjay Entertainment Television

Artist International

Asylum Entertainment

AT IT Productions

Atlas Media Corp

Automatic Pictures

Avalon Television USA

Axelson-Weintraub Entertainment

Banner-Caswell Productions

BBC Worldwide

BCII

Beth Grossbard Productions

Big Cattle Productions

Big Hill Pictures

Boulevard Pictures

Boxing Cats Productions

Boz Productions

Brian Graden Media

Broken Lizard Industries

Buck Productions

Buck Productions Inc.

CAA

Cakehouse Media

Capestany Films

CartoonNetwork

Cataland Films

Cavelight Films

CBS

CBS Entertainment

CBS Films

CBS Interactive

CBS Paramount

CBS Paramount Network Television

CBS Studios International

CBS Television Distribution

CBS Television Studios

Central Artists

Champion Entertainment

Clear Pictures Entertainment

Codeblack Entertainment

Codeblack Films/Lionsgate

Collins Avenue

CoLours TV

cosmic pictures

Creative Chaos Inc.

Creative Convergence

DASH Networks

DatsEntertainment

De Line Pictures

Digital Alchemy Entertainment Inc.

Disney Channel

diverse talent group

Dragonfly Film and TV

E'lan Productions

Echelon Studios

Echo Lake Productions

Echo Production Company, Inc

Edmonds Entertainment

Edward Saxon Productions

Electric Entertainment

Elkins Entertainment

Ellman Entertainment

Enchanted Rock Pictures/MTS Entertainment

Endemol USA

Endgame Entertainment

Ensemble Entertainment

Entertainment Studios, Inc

Epic Level Entertainment

Epiphany Pictures

Espiritus Productions

Evatopia

Eventime Productions

Evolution Entertainment

Eyeworks Belgium NV

Fauci Productions, Inc.

Faultline Films ltd

Film 44

Film Garden Entertainment

Firehorse Pictures

Fireworks Enterprises

Fisher Entertainment Group

Forward Entertainment, llc

Fox Broadcasting

Fox Interactive Media

Fox International Channels

Fox Searchlight Pictures

FOX Sports

Fox Television Studios

Frontlot Productions

FX Network

Generate

Goliath

Grand Productions Inc

GRB Entertainment

Greene & Associates Talent Agency

Greenspan Kohan Mgt.

Handmade Films

Harper Winslow Productions

HBO

HDNet

Here Media

Homerun Entertainment

Honest Engine Films

Hope Enterprises, Inc.

Ideas Unlimited - TV (Denmark)

Idiomatic Entertainment

IKA Collective

Imbroglio Pictures Inc. / Scott & Cooper Entertainment Ventures

Innovative Artists

insomnia media group

Inspire Films and Television

International Creative Management

Intuitive Entertainment

IWV Media Group, Inc.

Jackamo Television Ltd

Jane Street Entertainment

Jeff Ross Entertainment

Jupiter Entertainment

Just SInger Entertainment

Kaplan-Stahler Agency

Ken Ehrlich Productions

Kickstart Productions, Inc.

Kingfish Productions

klasky csupo, inc.

KoldCast TV

Komixx Entertainment

Konigsberg Company

Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Entertainment

Laika Entertainment

Legion Entertainment LLC

Lionsgate

Lionsgate Television

Little Dog Productions

LITTLE STUDIO FILMS

Litton TV

Lucky 8 TV

M Creative Group, Inc.

Madeline Films

Madhouse Entertainment

Madison Road Entertainment

Magical Elves

Magnet Management

Magnolia Entertainment

Mandeville Films Inc

Mandt Bros. Productions

Mango Tree Films

Manville Media

Mark Yellen Productions

Mashaal Media Corp.

Mass Hysteria Entertainment

Matrixx Prod.

Mayhem Pictures

Media 8 Entertainment

MGM

Michael Berk Productions

Michael Grais Prods.

Michael Levy Enterprises

Microsoft Corporation

Moniker Entertainment

Moxie Pictures

MPH Entertainment, Inc.

Mpower Pictures

Mt. Vernon Entertainment

myriad pictures

National Geographic Digital Media

National Lampoon/ Comedy Cocktail

NBC/Universal | Mun2

Neon Television

Network Entertainment Inc.

New Wave Entertainment

Noble Savages

Nu Image

Nu Image / Millennium Films

Nu Image/Millennium Films

Oceanside Entertainment

Ocular Production Inc.

One Entertainment

PalmStar Entertainment

Panic Productions, Inc.

Paradigm Agency

Paramount Digital Entertainment

Paramount Network

Paul Schiff Productions

Paulist Productions

Phoenix Pictures

Pie Town productions

Planet Grande Pictures

Planet Pictures

Playboy Entertainment Group

Plymouth Rock Entertainment, Inc.

Pogo Pictures

Popular Arts Entertainment

Porchlight Entertainment

Port Magee Pictures, Inc.

PorterGeller Entertainment

POW! Entertainment

preferred artists

Principal Entertainment

Principato Young

Principato-Young Entertainment

PrizmHead Pictures

Rain Management Group

Rainstorm Entertainment

RDF USA

RDS FILM

Red Baron Films

Reel Entertainment

Reid Media Group, Inc.

Revelations Entertainment

Reyes Entertainment

Right Brain Media

ROAR

Rob Gallagher Literary Management

ROBBINS ENTERTAINMENT GROUP

Rudolph Films Inc

S.L Entertainment

SB Productions Inc.

Scream Films (UK Based)

Shatner Universe

ShineReveille International

ShootersTV

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment

Sigh Griffin Management

Slate of Eight Productions

Smash Media

Smoke and Mirrors Creative / Pandemonium Films

Solar Films Inc

Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures International TV

Sony Pictures Television

Sony Pictures Television International

Sony Pictures TV

Sony Television

SPEED Channel

Sports Branded Media

Starz

Starz Media

State Street Pictures

Station3

Storytime Films

Stowaway Films

Telecast productions

Tell Tale Productions

test

The Corsa Agency

THE GERLER AGENCY

The Gersh Agency

The Gersh Agency, L.A.

THE MAK COMPANY

The Sterling/Winters Production Studios

The Televisionaries

The Terminal

The Wolper Organization

The Wolper Organization / WBTV

Thousand Hills Productions

ThunderBall Films, LLC

Touchdown Television

Trevino Enterprises

Trilogy Entertainment Group

TV Guide Network

Twentieth Century Fox Television

Twentieth Television

Underground Films

Underground Films and Management

Union Entertainment

United Talent Agency

Universal Studios

UTA

Valencia Corp

Venture IAB

ViacomCBS

VPR Media

Walt Disney Company

Walt Disney Studios

Walt Disney Studios Motion Picture Production

Washington Square Films

Wayans Brothers Prod.

Weller/Grossman Productions

Wide Angle Productions Group, Inc.

Wildbrain Entertainment

William Morris Endeavor

Wolf Moon Films

Zero gravity

Zero Gravity Management

Zilo Networks Inc.,

Zucker Productions

[fashionbooksmilano]

Coppola e Toppo Fashion Jewels

Deanna Farneti Cera

photographs by Gian Paolo Barbieri, Henry Clark, Franco Rubartelli

Antique Coll.Club, Woodbridge 2009, 287 pages, 25x25,5cm, ISBN 978-1-85149-611-2

euro 50,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

This book is a recognition of the talent of Lyda Coppola, designer and owner of Coppola e Toppo, a costume Jewellery company which was active in Milan from 1948-1986

A true work of passion, this book lovingly charts the creative path of Italian jewelry designers Lyda Toppo and Bruno Coppola, famed for their intricate over the top designs of clustered beads. Sumptuous illustrations complement a well-researched and accessible text. The duo designed for Valentino, Dior, Balenciaga and Pucci and many more, and worn by countless Hollywood stars and on catwalks the world over. Deanna Farneti Cera first glimpsed the jewels of Coppola e Toppo in 1987 at an auction house in Milan. Instantly fascinated by their diversity, the evocative power of the colors, the wealth of shapes and motifs and the multitude of materials used, she soon developed an overwhelming passion for the stunning creations. This book, researched over the last twenty years, is the culmination of that passion and a reconstruction of the creative path of Coppola e Toppo, charting their inspiring partnership from their first appearance in VOGUE in 1948, through to Lyda's death in 1986. This book lovingly charts the creative path of Italian designers Lyda Toppo and Bruno Coppola, famed for their intricate and over-the-top creations designed for Valentino, Dior, Balenciaga, Pucci, and others, and worn by countless Hollywood stars and on catwalks worldwide. 

Questo volume è un omaggio al talento di Lyda Coppola in Toppo (Venezia, 1915 – Milano, 1986), la disegnatrice e fondatrice, insieme al fratello, della Coppola e Toppo, un’azienda di gioielli per la moda attiva a Milano dal 1948 al 1986. Sono proprio i complementi creati da Lyda – innanzitutto bijoux, ma anche borse, sciarpe, cinture, foulard – a dare il tocco finale a molte delle mises proposte dagli stilisti che hanno segnato la Haute Couture francese della fine degli anni Quaranta e dagli stilisti della moda boutique italiana degli anni Cinquanta, Sessanta e Settanta. All’inizio della carriera, Lyda Coppola, forse a causa delle sue origini – madre triestina, di origine ebraica, padre napoletano – caratterizza la sua produzione combinando, in modo inusuale, materiali tipicamente italiani provenienti da parti diverse della penisola, come le perle in vetro veneziano e il corallo di Torre del Greco. Subito dopo la fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, a partire dal 1948, i bijoux di Coppola e Toppo diventano famosi prima a Parigi (Elsa Schiaparelli, Jacques Fath, Edward Molyneaux, Robert Piquet, Pierre Balmain, Jeanne Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Cristobal Balenciaga, Jacques Heim sono i loro primi clienti) e poi negli Stati Uniti, dove – a cominciare dai primi anni Cinquanta e per almeno quindici anni – si riversa la maggior parte della loro produzione. La stampa, da «Vogue» Francia a «Vogue» America, e con i redazionali su «Harper’s Bazaar», «Women’sWear Daily», «The New York Times», «Herald Tribune» accompagna la presentazione nelle città americane più importanti delle due collezioni annuali di Coppola e Toppo, accrescendone il successo commerciale. Dai primi anni Cinquanta, Lyda Coppola crea i gioielli per Emilio Pucci e per la gran parte degli stilisti della moda italiana: Roberto Capucci, Germana Marucelli, Carosa, Biki, Sorelle Fontana, Pino Lancetti, Patrick de Barentzen, Federico Forquet, Enzo, Ken Scott, Valentino, Krizia. Il connubio dei bijoux Coppola e degli abiti firmati viene ripreso da straordinari servizi fotografici di Gian Paolo Barbieri (autore di oltre 40 scatti, qui riprodotti), Henry Clark, Franco Rubartelli, pubblicati sulle riviste di moda internazionali. La storia di Coppola e Toppo si dipana in contemporanea alla crescita e affermazione della moda italiana, passata da una condizione di artigianato nei primi anni Cinquanta a un’industria fiorente e conosciuta in tutto il mondo negli anni Ottanta come Made in Italy. Oggi i bijoux e i complementi di Coppola e Toppo rientrano nei collectibles più ambiti dai collezionisti di gioielli d’epoca.

18/01/24

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Doris Troy

R&B Singer Doris Troy was born Doris Elaine Higginsen in Bronx, New York, on January 6, 1937. Both a singer and a songwriter, her biggest hit, “Just One Look,” was released in 1963 and peaked at no. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Troy’s father was a Barbadian Pentecostal minister, and she began singing in the church choir.  Her parents disapproved of R&B and rock ‘n’roll music and forbade their four children to listen to it. Despite their ban on that music, she became an usherette at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem where she heard and met many of the performers including James Brown, who was credited with “discovering” her.

In 1957, Troy formed a three-girl group named the Halos and began writing songs. A publisher paid her $100 for her song “How About That,” which became a hit for Dee Clark. To earn a steady income, Troy began singing backup and teamed with Cissy Houston and her cousins Dionne and Dee Dee Warrick for Atlantic Records in 1963. Calling themselves the Sweet Inspirations, they sang backup for The Drifters, Solomon Burke, and other established artists.

After writing “Just One Look” with Gregory Carroll in 1963, the couple took the demo to Jerry Wexler of Atlantic Records who immediately signed them. The record was released under the name Doris Troy, as Higginsen changed her name to Troy after the legendary heroine, Helen of Troy.  “Just One Look” was a smash success and was later recorded by The Hollies and Linda Ronstadt. Unfortunately, Doris Troy was never able to match her first hit.

In 1964, Troy visited London and became enamored with the British music scene. She moved to the United Kingdom in 1969 and signed with Apple Records, owned by the Beatles. Throughout the 1970s, she collaborated with British artists and developed a loyal following. She once did a live show backed on piano by Elton John, who at the time was not well-known. Troy sang backup on George Harrison’s hit, “My Sweet Lord,” Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain,” and Billy Preston’s album That’s the Way God Planned It. Returning to the U.S. in 1974, she shared the stage with Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, and other noted artists.

Perhaps her most memorable stage performance was in Mama, I Want to Sing, a musical she wrote along with her younger sister, Vy Higginsen, and her husband, Ken Wydro. Based on Troy’s life, the musical featured Troy playing her mother, Geraldine. When it opened at the Heckschers Theatre in Spanish Harlem on March 23, 1983, it ran for 1,500 performances before going on a national and international tour. From 1986 to 1999 the musical toured Germany, Italy and Japan, and was performed at the West End Theatre in the UK. The musical was made into a motion picture titled Mama, I Want to Sing starring Ciara, Patti LaBelle, and Hill Harper and released on DVD in 2012.

Respiratory problems forced Troy to move from New York to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the dry desert climate. She continued to perform in supper clubs and casinos. Doris Troy died of emphysema on February 16, 2004, at the age of 67 in Las Vegas.

[moocha-muses]

"You know, pup, I miss you terribly while you're at work. It gets so lonely around here now that Harper's finally found an outside interest."

"Even with all the cats?"

"Even with . . . Ken, what if my very favorite person in the world finally took his retirement package and stayed home all day to putter around the house with me?"

"Mmm? Well-"

[incorrectbatfam]

The most memorable homework that each of the bat kids submitted

Dick: his headshot

Jason: a Pride and Prejudice x Hamlet fanfic. The class was reading 1984

Tim: the same orange at various stages of moldyness

Damian: a Ken Burns documentary about his life

Duke: a Valentine's card meant for his girlfriend

Cullen: Destiel fan art. Twice

Stephanie: all of last year's missing assignments

Cassandra: an IOU

Barbara: a piece of code that earned her a visit from the CIA

Harper: a Spanish newspaper

Carrie: a candle made of melted crayons

BONUS – Bruce: detailed plans to seek justice for the city as a bat-themed vigilante