Brigitte Helm (1906-1997) was not even 18 when she was discovered by Fritz Lang for the lead in his film Metropolis. Helm played the double role of the noble and chaste Maria and her evil and sensual twin, a robot created to urge the workers in revolting and destroying their own city. Helm was subsequently often cast as the evil but oh so seductive ice queen, as in the two versions of Alraune; Marcel L’Herbier’s late silent film L’Argent; and the multilinguals The Mistress of Atlantis by G.W. Pabst, and Gold, by Karl Hartl.Helm proved, though, to be able to perform also more restrained and emotionally expressive characters such as in Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney, her first film directed by Pabst, and Abwege, a late silent film by the same Pabst. In the latter she resents her neglecting and older husband but hesitates to fall for her cousin, enamoured with her and of her own age.In real life, Helm was a timid, modest and not very ambitious personality. After a short but prolific career of some 32 films, she resented the German film business, controlled by the nazi’s. In 1935 she married, moved to Switzerland and withdrew radically from her film career, refusing any interviews. Till this day, however, she still has fans everywhere. In particular the bad Maria won’t be forgotten. For her the Mae West line is very apt: “When I am good, I am very good; but when I am bad, I am better.”
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Aleppo and the split of hypocrisy
Hard but accurate words.
Aleppo and the split of hypocrisyCleansing Aleppo from the criminals of da’esh, nusra and co. , should have been a reason to celebrate amid the mourning of hearts and lives of the damage and loss in Syria .
I don’t have to say each time that I am not pro Asad and I would ever be on the side of dictatorships. But here , in Syria specifically it is not about dictatorships . At the end we are into a situation that it is dictatorship vs criminals . And dictatorship in this case should win . At the end the Arab nations seem to be far from democracy . We are having a real problem in living with such notions . Democracies need liberated mindsets which we don’t have . We still live in a tribal mindset that searches a head to attach to the body . In Syria the…
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Grief at Christmas: How about just being Human?
Thanks Janni
‘So beautiful’: Mick Fanning goes for midnight surf under the northern lights – video | Sport | The Guardian
Australian pro surfer Mick Fanning pulls on a thick wetsuit and hood to surf under the stars as the northern lights play above him in Norway
Madonna Calling it Like it is, Tells Us the Sexist Entertainment World Has Rules for Women and None for Men – The Ladies FingerThe Ladies Finger
She drew inspiration from David Bowie, who gave her a chance to think that there were no rules, but Madonna still had to come to terms with the fact that freedom was offered only to the men in the industry. She had to battle between being accused of trying too hard or not at all, between being objectified or dismissed as promiscuous, while her contemporaries, like Prince, were being just as provocative without having their legitimacy as artists questioned.The superstar, who has remained the highest grossing female touring musician for the past 12 years, spoke of the violence and discrimination she faced from the time she was a teenager trying to find her way through New York to the present day. This endurance and resilience, she added, might well be the most controversial thing about her: “Michael is gone, Tupac is gone, Prince is gone, Whitney is gone, Amy Winehouse is gone, David Bowie is gone… But I’m still standing.”Drawing from her long search for a female peer who would support her and her acceptance of herself as a “bad feminist”, she encouraged women to recognise their own self-worth, rally around each other’s achievements and to not confine themselves to men’s expectations. She talked about growing old in an industry where “to age is a sin.”Madonna really meant it when she sang “It might sound like I’m an unapologetic bitch, but sometimes you know I gotta call it like it is”, and we couldn’t be happier.
Egyptian Aak 2016 – Week 49 ( Dec 5- 11)
If you are not my brand, I can kill you! Criminal, not religious
Top Headlines
- Bomb kills 25 at Egypt’s main Coptic Christian Cathedral
- Three days of mourning after the Cathedral attack
- World governments condemn church bombing in Egypt
- Bomb blast kills 6 policemen in Giza’s Haram district
- Militant group Hassm claims responsibility for Giza bombing
(Photo from today attack on Coptic Cathedral by Tarek Wajeh)
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt’s foreign reserves rise by $4 billion in November
- Egyptian PM Sherif Ismail revokes decision to exempt imported poultry from customs duties
- High administrative court adjourns appealagainst annulment of island deal to December 19
- Egypt’s Sisi and Slovenia’s Pahor discuss stronger bilateral ties in Cairo
- Foreign Ministry working to release Egyptian citizens detained in Yemen
- Security forces disperse fertilizer company protests
Tuesday
- American military aid to Egypt should increase: FM Shoukry to congressman
- Police forces killed 3 militants in Upper Egypt’s Assiut
- FM: Egypt favored more…
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These are the Spotify hits Norwegians listened to in 2016 – The Local
Want to build an end-of-year playlist Norwegian style? Here are 2016’s most streamed tracks in Norway.
Source: These are the Spotify hits Norwegians listened to in 2016 – The Local
Closing Thought–08Dec16
People that do not comprehend the concept of a fact are people that will readily believe a lie to influence their nature.
I stand by my assertion that….a Fact Is A Fact!
There Are No Facts!…….
I have had this conversation a couple of times…usually when I quote facts and then someone disputes their validity….by asking how do you know what are facts? How do you know that these are truly facts?
It is easy….A Fact is just the a FACT!
For instance it is a FACT that the Golden Gate is a bridge…it is NOT a FACT that it is a taco…..see how that works? Think that is silly? NO more so than the slugs that argue against facts.
I revisit this issue because of something that I read…..a supporter of Donald Trump said in an interview….
“Well, I think it’s also an idea of an opinion. And that’s — on one hand I hear half the media saying that these are lies, but on the other half there are many people that go, no, it’s true,” Hughes said. “And so…
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Syria and the last Battle of Aleppo
As I am watching the battle of Aleppo, I pray that Assad behaves as a real patriot to his people, and stop the bloodshed. it is time to value the life of human beings.
It is time to make important ot life through people.
After all this destruction, it will take years if not decades to rebuild … it will need people who can reconcile with all what took place.
It needs to unify Syrians, and all decent people in this world to stand against the power of evil that creates such criminal groups to promote killing. And leaders as Assad, need to learn the lesson that dictatorships are not the answer. Killing and violence is not how you build a nation.
It is time for us, all, Arabs, who know well that tribalism will only lead us to more fractions and wars. What has been happening in the Arab world in the last six to seven years made us look undeserving to even life. We proved that the conspiracies are mastered from inside. The enemies are us.
The whole creation of Daesh and such groups proved how hateful, resentful we are. How our notions of nationalism are nothing but false empty noisy words? Our tribalism destroyed us. Our ignorance in our lack of knowledge that is limited to fatwas and whoever dictates us in the media is a core to our deterioration as people.
I just pray, that Aleppo’s liberation will be a sign of victory to Syrians who believe in Syria not Assad. This liberation is the liberation of Aleppo from destructive unhuman power who just continue to seek bloodshed. Assad as a leader has to prove now that he is the leader for all Syrians. I truly pray he uses wisdom with all the outlawed and opposition who are there in Aleppo, giving them a chance to clean their heads that have been brainwashed, to rehabilitate instead of killing and sentencing brutally.
At the end, we cannot forget that the Assad regime has been \if not still a harsh dictatorship regime where many people suffered …. But yet, this regime insisted to keep the fight over Syria, a fight for all Syrians …and maybe all Arabs…. But we will need time to realize how deteriorated things are.
For the last 6 years, we have all been watching the bloodshed in Syria in what still seems to be unreal. But yet, it was and still is very real. Syria revealed the true faces of humanity, that is definitely lacking what makes us humane.
Whether in east or in west, we all aligned ourselves to one side over the other. we declared an enemy and we all bet on a winner that we believed will overthrow the tyrant or the opposition.
I remember when the Arab Spring started, and in the row of springs it became Syria’s turn. It was a time when I was believing as probably most of the Arabs who aspired a true sense of liberty that it was time for the new generations to protest and live well. Syria with Assad the son, definitely seemed better and less of a dictatorship, as the case of…
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The Rolling Stones. sympathy for the devil. (powerful images) – YouTube Deja vu too 1968-2016
warning: this video contains images that may cause upset.I put up some of the most powerful photographs we have all more than likely seen at some point in our lives.the things we humans do to each other!they all seemed to fit with the music.



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