Elegantti Audrey Hepburn ja Grace Kelly

Elegance of Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly

Audrey Hepburnin kuvia katsellessani mieleeni tulee aina elegantti, kaunis, eteerinen, kuninkaallinen ryhti, bambin silmät, hyvä näyttelijä, My fair lady -64, ääni jonka hän tekee elokuvassa kun puhuu rahvaan tavoin, mutta oppii ladyn tavoille puheessa ja käytöksessä. Myös Aamiainen Tiffanylla -61 tulee mieleen, sekä Kaunis Sabrina –54, ja Yksin pimeässä kauhu/rikos elokuva vuodelta -67.

Audreyssa on paljon samaa suloutta ja ylväyttä kuin Grace Kellyssä, josta tulee mieleen juuri samat adjektiivit, samoin kuin prinsessa, joka hänestä tulikin, Monacon prinsessa. Gracesta tulee mieleen Takaikkuna -54, yksi Hitchcockin parhaista elokuvista, jossa Grace on hyvä, sekä Varkaitten paratiisi -55 jotka ovatkin hänen viimeisimpiä elokuviaan.

Looking at Audrey Hepburn’s pictures, I always remember an elegant, beautiful, ethereal, royal posture, bambi eyes, a good actress, My fair lady -64, the voice she makes in the film when she speaks like a crowd, but learns the lady’s ways in speech and behavior. Breakfast at Tiffany’s -61 also comes to mind, as well as Beautiful Sabrina -54, and Alone in the Dark Horror/Crime movie from -67.

Audrey has a lot of the same sweetness and loftiness as Grace Kelly, who reminds me of exactly the same adjectives, as well as the princess she became, the Princess of Monaco. Grace reminds me of Rearwindow -54, one of Hitchcock’s best films, where Grace is good, and To catch a thief-55, which are indeed her latest films.

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James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause

Some (little known) facts, and Marilyn and Vampira, Movies

In the hazy twilight of Hollywood’s golden age, there emerged a star who burned brighter and faster than any before him. James Dean wasn’t just an actor; he was a symbol of teenage rebellion, a brooding enigma who captured the hearts of audiences worldwide.

With his tousled hair and smoldering gaze, Dean brought a raw intensity to the screen that was unmatched. Whether he was tearing through the streets in “Rebel Without a Cause” or racing towards destiny in “East of Eden,” Dean’s performances were a testament to his unparalleled talent.

But it wasn’t just his acting that made James Dean an icon—it was his attitude. He lived life on the edge, defying convention at every turn. From his love of fast cars to his disdain for authority, Dean embodied the spirit of a generation searching for meaning in a world that seemed increasingly chaotic.

Tragically, Dean’s flame was extinguished far too soon, snuffed out in a fatal car crash at the tender age of 24. Yet, his legacy endures, a timeless reminder of the power of youth, rebellion, and the unyielding pursuit of authenticity.

As we look back on the life of James Dean, we’re reminded of the fleeting nature of fame and the enduring impact of those who dare to live life on their own terms. He may have been gone too soon, but his spirit lives on in every rebel with a cause, keeping the flame of defiance burning bright for generations to come.

He had problems with his family.
Dean was born on February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana. After becoming a dentist, Dean’s father Winton moved the family to Santa Monica, California, from farming. But the family fell apart after Dean’s mother passed away from cervical cancer when he was just 9 years old. The beginning of the father-son rift that would last for the rest of their lives occurred when his father sent him back to live on his aunt and uncle’s Quaker farm in Indiana.

He admired Marlon Brando.
Marlon Brando was another moody performer of the era whom Dean admired. The somewhat older Brando, who won an Oscar for On the Waterfront (1954), had great success as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), his iconic part as a motorcycle gang leader in The Wild One (1953), while Dean was just starting out in Hollywood. Dean made an effort to get in touch with Brando and go out with him, but Brando turned down Dean’s advances. “He went after I gave him the name of a [psycho]analyst. Brando remarked, “At least his work improved.”

Dean enjoyed making magic tricks.
Dean enjoyed practicing magic tricks in his spare time, aside from acting and racing automobiles. Dean, a tobacco addict who was frequently pictured with a cigarette hanging from his mouth, gave his smoking habit a magical twist. He would light an unlit cigarette, insert a flame match into his mouth, and then take out a burning cigarette. Just another cause why Dean was so hot.

Dean and Marilyn Monroe

Did James Dean and Marilyn Monroe star in a movie together?

The only movie Marilyn Monroe and James Dean appeared in together (via archive footage) was called “Elvis: Return to Tupelo”, which wasn’t released until 2008, when both actors had long been deceased (Marilyn died in 1962 at age 36, while James died in 1955 at age 24).8.8.2015

It is told, that they had a brief acquaintance and maybe were romantic on some weekend at some cottage-or not. They seem to be rumours more than facts in the internet.

Dean and Vampira, Maila Nurmi

But the dating with a finnish actress Maila Nurmi, Vampira, was really a thing. He was mesmerized of her. They spent time together at Googies Coffee Shop on the corner of Crescent Heights and Sunset Blvd in Hollywood.

Talking about their bond, she said, “We have the same neuroses”.

This issue of the Scandal magazine Whisper was published in February 1956, a little more than four months after Dean’s tragic car accident. They said that Maila nNurmi was “Black Madonna” that many held responsible for Dean’s demise. BUT Vampira actress was not an active occult practitioner as it is told In a 1962 memoir with a chapter on Dean. Hedda Hopper said, “We talked about the slender-cheeked actress who goes by Vampira on TV. He declared: “I was curious to know if this girl was possessed by a demonic force because I had studied The Golden Bough and the Marquis de Sade.” She was completely ignorant. She seemed to me to be uninterested in everything save her Vampira makeup. She lacks absolutes.

Movies

Throughout his career, the young actor only appeared in three films: Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he played an angst-ridden adolescent, East of Eden (1955), in which he played the bad boy brother in a retelling of the story of Cain and Abel, and Giant (1956), in which he took on the role of a nonconformist ranch hand. Though only one of his films, East of Eden, was finished, all of them went on to become Hollywood masterpieces. Deans acting methods were somewhat annoying to some other actors who said why doesn’t he just state the lines. They didn’t understand what he was thriving for. But at the end, the cinema business was greatly influenced by James Dean’s distinctive acting style, method acting which was characterized by emotional vulnerability, naturalism, and a rebellious attitude.

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The Complete James Dean Collection https://fi.pinterest.com/pin/653584964704017717/ with

East of Eden, Giant and Rebel Without a Cause

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The Real James Dean – Intimate Memories from Those Who Knew Him Best
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Life is living art blog

Life is living art blog gives tons of information for all seekers. The writer has written books of the topics that interest me. I think there are more new information now coming as increasing light and accelerating knowledge is now gaining more and more ground all over the world. 

http://www.lifeislivingart.info/

 

New Age Movement got it distorted: Natural Law called Attraction cannot be controlled by using the mind:

http://www.lifeislivingart.info/2014/04/new-age-movement-got-it-distorted.html

 

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Movies about timetravel, life after death and love

I love scifi movies and movies with some lovestory that is BIGGER THAN LIFE and what else is bigger than love beyond time or even.. death?

If you love these movies  too, here are mind challenging, intriguing, fascinating and of course, so very romantic stories, some more than others though..

Let’s start with 80’s movie (a great scifi, fantasy and what ever category movie year)

Chances Are (1989)

LouieJeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie’s daughter, Miranda, together.

Then off to a 90’s film (1998 by the way, just switching the numbers 8 and 9 here… )

What Dreams May Come

After dying in a car crash a widowed man searches the afterlife for his wife.

I think this is very spiritual and I’ve read about people beeing in this kind of place in the hypnosis, where they can go to life before this life, in the between.

Then there’s

Just Like Heaven (2005)

A lonely landscape architect (Ruffalo) falls for the spirit of beautiful woman (Witherspoon) who used to live in his new apartment.

and more of timetravel and future love and love after..

The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)

A romantic drama about a Chicago librarian with a gene that causes him to involuntarily time travel, and the complications it creates for his marriage.

Now then there is a movie I loved as I started to realize what the story is about really.

Cloud Atlas (2012)

An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.

Here is a comment in the IMDB that explains Cloud Atlas movie better than I could (but I understood this so  while watching this movie):

READ THIS so you’ll understand this masterpiece: “Cloud Atlas is structured like a Russian nesting doll, with six interconnected narratives – spanning from the 1800’s through the 1930’s, the 1970’s, the present 2012, the future 2144 of Seoul, and after the fall of the civilization in 2321, that invert and converge like a palindrome. Each story is so unique with its own rising action/climax/conclusion, yet they all connect through different themes.

These six stories have amazing connections that appear to be individually based, but grow in momentum to form one giant philosophical idea. Cloud Atlas explores the idea of an eternal soul that reincarnates through time and space in different parts of the world – no matter of race and gender – but based on the past actions, reborn and rejoins with lost loves, and remedy wrongs from the past. Everything is connected in Cloud Atlas, every line and detail – in one way or another. It’s an exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future.

People worry that the movie is confusing. It’s not if you just get the concept: the same actor playing one soul in multiple parts, in different time periods. Because the concept is that what you do in a past life, is connected to consequences that might happen in your future life. (Many people who have seen the film didn’t know the actors played multiple parts. That’s definitely a proof of outstanding, brilliant makeup!)

When you know all characters the same actor is playing, it will be easier to understand why the soul has been reincarnated into this person. It’s not race-mixing, transsexual for fun. There’s an important reason. The more times you see Cloud Atlas the more details and hidden messages you’ll notice/discover and realize how all the stories and everything are connected to each other.

But I would also say it’s a brainy movie for already open-minded human beings with a heart and some kind of depth in their bodies. It’s definitely nothing for dumb, ignorant, narrow-minded people who can’t think for themselves. It’s a rare, unique, epic, beautiful, piece of art – in which you must be able to pay attention to details. The others better be sure to get the next Fast and Furious or Transformers movie, or just stick to their Twilight collection.

Cloud Atlas is a movie that lets you reflect about your own actions, life, existence. It is an epic story of humankind in which the actions and consequences of our lives impact one another – throughout the past, present and future.”

Thank you to cloudatlasfans who wrote this, it can be useful to some people. This is really a movie to be seen many times to understand it better every time. 

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Angels of Obliviant and Choosing Parents

Lataaja: Kazamon, 15.01.2012

This is one clip from the movie Mr Nobody. Angels of obliviant and choosing parents before being born here.

Mr Nobody info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/combined

Luokka:

Elokuva ja animaatio

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You Have To Make The Right Choice!

Mr Nobody movie. 2009. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/combined
Big bang, time and space… We can’t go back. That is why it is hard to choose. YOU have to MAKE the RIGHT CHOICE!

In Finnish:
Suomeksi:

Tämän pätkän tekeminen oli mielessä jo viime vuonna mutta kone ei oikein halunnut tehdä yhteistyötä, pätki vain. Nyt sen sain tehtyä, pienissä palasissa tosin nytkin. Mutta tulipahan valmis vihdoin.

Me emme voi palata takaisin (ajassa) ja siksi on hankala tehdä päätöstä.
Sinun pitää tehdä oikea päätös!

Aika, avaruus, kaikki dimensiot.. ennen isoa pamausta aikaa ei ollut olemassa..

Elokuva: Mr. Nobody 2009
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485947/combined
pääosissa: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley

Luokka:

Elokuva ja animaatio

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Beastly message: Find someone who can see you better than you can!

A great movie.

Great messages.

But still, there is something running-through in this movie. Like when Lindy sees right through this very cocky and superficial man, Kyle. It’s a bit too soon and too convenient… But the teachings are good.

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Pi (1998)

I ‘found’ this movie “Pi (1998) by searching what The Fountain movie’s director and writer

Darren Aronofsky has directed and/or written.

From IMDb: “The mathematician Maximillian Cohen is tormented by a severe migraine since he was a kid, and he uses many pills to reduce his painful headaches. He is a lonely man, and his only friend is his former professor Sol Robeson. Max has the following assumptions, which rules his life: (1) Mathematics is the language of nature; (2) Everything around us can be represented and understood from numbers; (3) If you graph the numbers in any systems, patterns emerge. Therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature. Based on these principles, Max is trying to figure out a system to predict the behavior of the stock market. Due to his research, Max is chased by a Wall Street company with obvious interest in the results of his studies, and by an orthodox Jew follower of the Torah, who believes that this long string of numbers is a code sent from God. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil”

My thoughts about this movie:

At first there was many interesting things for me.The numerology is fascinating.

At the beginning of the movie a little girl asks the main character, Maximillian some difficult calculations and he counts them in hi’s head. Like this one he says it almost immeadetly:

73:22=3.318 18 18 18 18 18 …

I had to see with my calculator if 27:22 gives an interesting figure (because of my obsession about the number 27, 72, 9, etc..

And it was a great repeating sum: 27:22=1.227 27 27…

Then I searched more:

27:33= 0.8181818…

22:33=0.6666666…

In one scene Max is looking at a paper with numbers. I see the 27’s and 72’s and even 2012 once in this paper. The paper is in this attachement:

Numeroita1

The ‘famous’ 23 (the JimCarrey movie 23) was there twice, (this attachement lacks one that is shown in the very side of the paper) but in reverse, 32 I found 3 times. Are there other ‘famous’ numbers? Numbers that are important for you somehow? Numbers that pop out many times for you? I noticed the 29’s (92’s), 25’s and 64’s.

I’m just thinking that what are the odds for the number 27 to pop out in every turn?

It’s interesting in this movie, that Max learns about Torah from another jewish man, and learns then that numbers and patterns are in the nature, and tries to make a great breakthru in maths.

There’s ofcource Fibonacci, Pythagoras with the major belief: the universe is made of numbers,  Golden ratio, Golden rectangle, mythical Golden spiral… da Vinci used the golden ratio..

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American beauty – the real beauty in the film is… a plastic bag? And then some

Löysin hyvän arvostelun jossa elokuvasta American Beauty löytyi mystiikkaa. Tässä sen linkki, http://www.hermes-press.com/ambeauty.htm mutta säästin sinne menemisen vaivan kopioimalla MOVIE REVIEWin arvostelun tähän kokonaan.

I found a great review of AMERICAN BEAUTY it is here: http://www.hermes-press.com/ambeauty.htm But I saved the trouble of going there by copying the whole article here.

LOOK CLOSER!

American Beauty

(The Movie)

The Esoteric, Mystical Elements

To understand American Beauty we have to pay particular attention to the film’s tag line: “. . . look closer,” a clue that we must explore the film much more discerningly to get its real meaning.

The two dozen reviews of the film that I read missed the whole significance of the film, assuming that it was just an ordinary film that could be reviewed in the usual way by speaking of the actors, director, producers, and screenwriter. No way.

It’s reassuring when a movie like American Beauty appears, because it contains an unmistakable mystical strain: become attuned to the underlying spiritual elements in human life. Look closer and you’ll begin to see “the miraculous in the mundane.” 

Amazon.com interviewer: “[T]he tag line is, ‘…look closer.'” Alan Ball (screenplay writer): “And when you first see the title you think, “American Beauty + rose,” and then you see the movie and you think that Angela’s the American Beauty–the blond cheerleader that is the secretive object of lust. But it’s not Angela– it’s that plastic bag. It’s the way of looking at the world and seeing what incredible beauty there is in the world. And I think that’s something that we’re born with that gets ironed out of us by our culture and by experience and by conformity. I think there’s a part of everybody that yearns to get that back.”

Amazon.com interviewer: “There’s something so simple and poetic about Ricky’s encounter with the plastic bag that just keeps whirling in the breeze. You’re not sure what it means, but the simple beauty of it has a profound effect. How did that come about? “

Alan Ball: “I had an encounter with a plastic bag! And I didn’t have a video camera, like Ricky does. I’m sure some people would look at that and go, ‘What a psycho!’ But it was a very intense and very real moment. There’s a Buddhist notion of the miraculous within the mundane, and I think we certainly live in a culture that encourages us not to look for that. I do like, though, that Ricky says, ‘Video’s a poor excuse, but it helps me remember.’ Because it’s not the video he’s focused on; it’s the experience itself. He’s very connected to the world around him.”
[italics added]

DreamWorks SKG released a mass of pictures and video clips of the movie, but didn’t include a single shot of the plastic bag scene.

“The appreciation of beauty, in the sense of a surrender to its influence rather than a critical analysis, is another example . . . of a simple spiritual contact. . . . Beauty is a great and quiet teacher. But what I am asking here is that in your response to beauty you notice the difference between the out-going expanded feel of you, and the in-drawn close-huddled concentration of ordinary affairs.”Stewart Edward White. The Betty Book

With movies containing a mystical ingredient, we often get no clue as to how the higher spiritual content gets through to the writer and thence into the movie itself. This is certainly true of movies such as Resurrection, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Being There. With American Beauty we’re fortunate to have the screenplay writer’s own words explaining how the inspiration occurred. 

First, he had an “encounter with a plastic bag.” In other words he had an epiphany in which the mystery of beauty revealed a mystical dimension hidden within the physical world.

Then he tells us that the actual writing of the screenplay was an experience of extraordinary disclosure.
“I was working full-time as a co-executive producer on a network sitcom, so I was coming home at one in the morning and writing for two hours and going to sleep. I just got in the zone, and it seemed to have its own life and the characters seemed so real, and it was like channeling“. [italics added]

Because Ball was “receiving” the material from a higher source–which he refers to as channeling–even he is still discovering meanings in the screenplay. 

“. . . You have to have a deep and fundamental acceptance of mortality to really be able to see what’s beautiful in life, because beauty and truth are inextricably connected. That’s not a particularly original thought, but a lot of stuff in the script is really instinctive. I didn’t think about what the purpose of it was, or that kind of thing. And now I find myself trying to second-guess what is symbolic of what, and what it means.”

Alan Ball’s deep understanding of the movie’s mystical meaning is heartwarming, especially coming as it does from the world of “cinematic entertainment” where we most often get screenwriters or directors telling us that they have no idea what the movie means, that we’ll have to put in whatever meaning appeals to us. Ball says quite clearly that “the whole heart of the movie” is “Lester’s journey and his realization.” 

“If there’s any theme to this movie, it’s that nothing is what it appears to be on the surface. That there is a life behind things and it’s much more interesting and real than the veneer of reality that we all sort of tacitly agree to accept.”

I think it’s necessary to see this film at least twice to experience the full impact of the screenplay. After seeing the movie the first time and beginning this review, some questions came into my mind:

Was the movie as multi-dimensional as I remembered it?

Was I projecting something onto the film that wasn’t there?

The second viewing comfirmed that the movie was, indeed, as multi- dimensional as I had remembered and contained even more spiritual content than I had recalled.

On the second viewing, you’ll probably see lots of things you missed, such as the sign, “Look Closer” on Lester’s desk.

Also, when you first see the movie, you allow yourself to create a suspicion of Ricky, because all the usual clues are present:  

• he doesn’t wear the mod style clothes that other high school students do–he dresses, as Angela say, “like a Bible salesman”
• he doesn’t have an ingratiating smile on his face all the time, trying to impress people
• he admits to videotaping a dead woman and Jane and Angela find him videotaping a dead bird
• he speaks with Jane about her desire to have her dad killed
• he doesn’t go for Angela, the classic Hollywood “American beauty,” but for Jane

With all these cues, we almost automatically put Ricky in the same category as the two whacked out brothers in Bob Roberts. We misinterpet Ricky as a kid psychologically damaged by a rigid, fascist Marine Corps dad.

The second time we see the film we can (not necessarily will) see an entirely different film. Lester Burnham’s journey and his realization are still the focal points.
But now Ricky becomes Lester’s “guide.” 

• He turns Lester on to some primo mind-altering marijuana which brings about Lester’s awakening.

• He provides an example of how to come at life; Lester calls Ricky his “hero,” when Ricky unemotionally tells his catering boss, “Then don’t pay me.” Talking with Lester was more important to Ricky than a paying job. This showed Lester how to view his own horrible job and the next day Lester turns in a devastatingly honest job description which results in his forcing his corrupt boss to pay him a sizeable termination bonus.
• Lester begins to lead a life of his own choice.

Lester: “I feel like I’ve been in a coma for about twenty years. And I’m just now waking up.”

Ricky now becomes a major focus of the film during our second viewing. 

Amazon.com interviewer: “Ricky is a drug dealer, but of all the characters he seems to be the most levelheaded and the most sure of who he is.” Alan Ball: “He’s certainly the most, I think, evolved. You look at Ricky and you look at what he’s grown up in, the environment of repression and brutality, and it’s amazing. What is it that kept him from becoming one of those kids who goes to school with a gun and just starts shooting? Something…. His ability to see the beauty in life is what kept him from just shutting down and becoming twisted and brutal. I think everybody has that ability, and we all make choices.”

• Ricky : “So much beauty I can’t take it. Like my heart’s
  going to cave in.”

We’ll be able to experience even more of the mystical strain of the movie when it comes out in video, for we can then play sections–such as the dancing plastic bag–by themselves as we meditate on their revelatory significance.  

Movies With Mystical Content

The mystical content of a movie is embodied in the screenplay, in the direction and editing, or in the performances. At times, the screenplay is so demanding that the key parts must be played by exceptional actors for the spiritual dimensions to be disclosed. With American Beauty, Resurrection, and The French Lieutenant’s Woman, the screenplay embodies the mystical content so thoroughly that it makes little difference which actors play the parts. Other accomplished actresses than Ellen Burstyn or Meryl Streep could have played the female parts of Edna McCauley and Sarah Woodruff/Anna to equal effect. And in American Beauty many actors other than Kevin Spacey or Annette Bening could have played the parts with fine results.

In Being There, the screenplay is so demanding that very few actors could play the part of Chance the Gardener (Chauncy Gardner). Peter Sellers certainly got some of the meaning of the part, but Sellers was too ego-obsessed to uncover all the nuances of the character. The only contemporary actor who could reveal all the dimensions of the character–and make it believable–is Anthony Hopkins.

The mystical last scene in Being There, with Chance walking on water, was entirely the creation of Hal Ashby, the director. He built a platform in the water and shot the scene in secret, so that the studio wouldn’t shut him down.

The mystical content of The French Lieutenant’s Woman resides almost exclusively in the screenplay, but the script is so demanding that it requires a consumate actress to make the key scenes work effectively. When we plummet from the nineteenth century scarlet woman stumbling into her soon-to-be lover’s arms into the twentieth century with the actress stumbling into her actor-lover’s arms, it requires something more than ordinary acting to pull that off.

In the case of Resurrection we have the opportunity to see firsthand that the mystical content resides in the original screenplay. The recent TV movie remake of the script revealed that writers and actors out of touch with the original spiritual dimension of the screenplay can produce nothing but a still-born perversion. The same kind of disfigurement took place when Marlo Thomas tried to produce a remake of the deeply mystical movie: It’s A Wonderful Life.  

American Beauty, the Ending

Lester’s closing line of the movie is right on target in saying that many viewers of the film won’t understand it. But it ends on the same mystical note in assuring us that someday we will understand the hidden dimensions the movie illustrates.  

“. . . All earth experiences are like the coloring used on the slides of a microscope to make you conscious of invisible things.” Stewart Edward White. With Folded Wings

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