Beaches (1988). A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.

Movies about female friendships, my beloved! Movies about WOMEN, my beloved!!! This is a pretty special film, even if it wears its melodrama badge as proudly as wears it's Bette Midler showcase vehicle badge. It's funny, heartfelt, full of great music and some compelling performances, particularly from Barbara Hershey. Just - - so great. 8/10.

Telegram to President Woodrow Wilson from Jane Addams and Other Women Regarding the Deportation of Emmeline Pankhurst

Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service Series: Subject and Policy Files File Unit: Appeal of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst for admittance for visit, English Suffragette

This telegram petitioned the Department of Labor and their decision to deport Emmeline Pankhurst, a British suffragette. The authors wanted the board to reconsider and maintain "America's devotion to liberty."

Telegram The White House, Washington 6 PO.FD. 283 139 extra 10:25 p.m. Sa, Chicago, Ill., October 18, 1913. The President. Whereas, the Associated Press reports to the American public that Mrs. Pankhurst's deportation has been ordered by the board of inquiry at Ellis Island and, Whereas, such action is in direct violation of the traditions and customs of the United States which has always been hospitable to the political offenders and revolutionists of all nations, and, Whereas, our sister republic, France, is at the present moment sheltering Christabel Pankhurst, Now, therefore, be it resolved: That we, the undersigned women of Chicago, protest against this flagrant violation of our long established public policy, and, Be it further resolved: That we respectively petition the Department of Labor in reviewing the case of this distinguished English woman to reconsider the decision of the Board of Inquiry and to admit Mrs. Pankhurst; thus maintaining the high traditions of America's devotion to liberty and right of free speech. (Signed) Jane Addams, Louise DeKoven Bowen, Mary Rozette Smith, Mary McDowell, Margaret Dreier Robins, Harriet Taylor Treadwell, President Chicago Political Equality League; Margaret A. Haley, Business Representative Chicago Teachers' Federation; Ida L. M. Furstman, President Chicago Teachers' Federation; Mrs. Harriet S. Thompson, Director Chicago Political Equality League; Edith A. Phelps, Anna Nichols, Laura Dainty Pelham,

Telegram The White House, Washington 6 PO. Sheet 2- Chicago, Ill., Octo. 18, 1913. to the President. Stella Miles Franklin, Kathleen Hamill, Mary Foulke Morrisson, Anna Monroe, Edith Wyatt, Caroline Packard, Leonora Pease, Secretary Socialist Women's League; Mrs. L. Brackett Bishop, Marion M. Griffin, Margaret B. Dobyne, Mary E. Galvin, Judith W. Loewenthal, Agnes Nestor, E. Beatrix Dauchy, Belle Squire, Anna Willard Timneus, Emma Steghagen, Grace Wilbur Trout, Florence Holbrook, Catharine Goggin, Mary Anderson, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Esther Dresden, President Young Women's Suffrage Association; Amy Walker, Francis Harden, Anna Harden, Catharine Goggin, Mary V. Donoghue, Wilma Rhinesmith, Julia Donoghue, Serina Hayes, May E. Brown.

Comedy  Drama  Romance

Jenny’s Wedding (Mary Agnes Donoghue, 2015)

Jenny’s Wedding (2015) dir. Mary Agnes Donoghue

Rating:  ⭐⭐⭐ 3/5 stars

Jenny's parents and siblings are always trying to set her up with a man when she visits them. What they don't know is that she's already met the right person, her "roommate" Kitty, 5 years ago and she wants to marry her and start a family.

Favorite Characters: Jenny & Kitty - Actors:  Katherine Heigl &  Alexis Bledel

Least Favorite: Ellen - Actor:  Diana Hardcastle

This is a review of the 2015 movie, ‘Jenny’s Wedding,’ written and directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue.

I could not finish this movie. Perhaps something totally fantastic happens at the end. I don’t think there is much that could change my opinion.

Parts of this movie were hilarious- and not only because it centres on yet another of Katherine Heigl’s desperate but ill-fortuned attempts at a traditional marriage. Some of the family dynamics had me laughing away exactly as intended. This movie leans into the ridiculous antics that bring most of the entertainment value.

The titular Jenny is a reasonably good lead, if a very conventional one. She is the Prince Charming of her own story. Her long-term partner is scarcely a character, and the same is true for her most interesting family member, her astute but hands-off brother, Michael. 

Every other family member gets a mildly interesting opening, only to be given an incredibly icky second life half-way through the movie. The worst offender being Anne, who had an awful tangential storyline that reeked of padding and brought nothing but fanatical metaphors to the table.

This is a character-driven movie, but Jenny’s life is strangely empty. She seems to simultaneously live on top of her parents and a good trip away, she has a gaggle of friends but none who ever turn up, she is reportedly close with her family but barely makes an effort to keep them in her life. Jenny is not supposed to be the most interesting element of this movie, but there is barely anything in the mixing pot but the one point plot and recycled characters. 

For an unimaginative premise, the movie had an engaging opening but quickly ran out of steam. Think of all the interesting directions this could have gone! There are infinite ways to inject drama that add to the narrative instead of undermining any hints of a richer, more interesting story.

I really did find this movie amusing. There are a lot of moments where it’s easy to cheer or laugh, depending on how deeply you’ve bought the into sappy ultimatums. It’s not wrong to love this movie exactly as is, but it may exhaust your stamina to struggle through the tedium and cliches.

Also, I completely adore Grace Gummer. Not sure why.

It’s that kind of movie. I don’t hate it, but it’s more fun if you don’t take it seriously. Otherwise, I recommend checking high hopes at the door and preparing a palate cleanser to wash out the saccharine blandness.

Veronica Guerin (2003) Review

Veronica Guerin (2003) Review

Based on a true story about Irish journalist Veronica Guerin who was a reporter for The Sunday Independent and exposed some of Dublin’s most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996, ending her life in tragedy being gunned down by assassins hired by the criminals she had exposed. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (more…)

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“loneliness is the human condition, no one is ever going to fill that space” 

White Oleander (2002) 

dir. Peter Kosminsky 

#102: Jenny’s Wedding (2015, dir. by Mary Agnes Donoghue)

Day 107 of my #90minDirectedbyWomen yearlong film viewing practice: Jenny’s Wedding directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue - streaming on Netflix.

Have you explored Mary Agnes Donoghue’s work?

Jenny’s wedding (2015) dir. Mary Agnes Donoghue

jenny’s wedding (2015) dir. mary agnes donoghue

Jenny’s Wedding (Mary Agnes Donoghue, 2015)

Jenny’s Wedding (2015), Directed by Mary Agnes Donoghue.

Starring Katherine Heigl as Jenny Farrell who has led an openly gay life, but hasn’t told her very conventional family about her sexuality - things change when she decides to marry the woman she loves..

Billy Al Bengston  Paintings & Watercolors

edited by Hans Neuendorf

texts by Mary Agnes Donoghue, Hans Neuendorf

edition cantz, Berlin 2019, 369 pages, c. 390 ill.in color, german/english      ISBN  978-3-947563-39-5

euro 60,00

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This is the first monograph on the Californian pop artist in more than thirty years, with a representative selection of works from 1957 to 2014. Billy Al Bengston is the very personification of the cheerful, carefree attitude towards life in California—in both his work and his personal life. After studying at the California College of Arts and Crafts and the Otis Art Institute, he exhibited at the legendary Ferus Gallery in 1957 and was the central figure among a group of artists that included Frank Gehry, Edward Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, and Ken Price. BAB, as he apostrophizes himself, inserts car and motorcycle parts as motifs into his otherwise abstract paintings. He uses lacquer and spray paint instead of oil and aluminum panels with dented surfaces instead of the traditional canvas. Art and lifestyle combine to create the individual “Bengston iconography” of California Cool.

18/02/20

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