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If This Be Treason ... is a 33-page booklet published privately in Italy in early 1948 by Olga Rudge, mistress of the American poet Ezra Pound. [1] [2] Pound, who lived in Italy with his wife from 1924 to 1945, was indicted in absentia for treason in 1943 by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia after he made hundreds of radio broadcasts, pro-Axis and deeply antisemitic ...
Jack Pearson (August 31, 1944 – January 26, 1998), [2] [3] portrayed by Milo Ventimiglia, is Rebecca's first husband (until he dies), and the father of Kevin, Kate, and Randall. [4] Jack had a brother named Nick. [5] Jack had a rough childhood because of his abusive, alcoholic father Stanley Pearson, causing them to have a strained relationship.
He wrote a memoir of his experiences as a translator, If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, A Memoir, which was a Los Angeles Times "Favorite Book of the Year" for 2005 and for which he received the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir in 2006. [2] [3] [4] [9]
The franchise's large ensemble cast featured many iconic actors, including some who have sadly died. These include Alan Rickman, Michael Gambon, Robbie Coltrane, and most recently, Maggie Smith ...
The soap opera community mourned the death of several talented actors in the past year. Days of Our Lives fans began 2024 grieving over the loss of Bill Hayes — one of the show's longest-running ...
Strangelove accidentally addresses the president as Mein Führer twice in the film. Dr. Strangelove did not appear in the book Red Alert. [ 19 ] The character is an amalgamation of RAND Corporation strategist Herman Kahn , rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (a central figure in Nazi Germany's rocket development program recruited to the US after ...
Carl Beukes (born 3 October 1976) [1] is a South African actor best known for his roles as Paul McPherson in Isidingo and as the archangel Gabriel in Dominion.Beukes is a graduate of The National School of the Arts, where he studied Speech & Drama. [2]
In his book British Film Character Actors (1982), Terence Pettigrew wrote that Fowler 'was as English as suet pudding...his characters were neither honest nor irretrievably delinquent, merely wise in the ways of the streets, surviving through a combination of wit and stealth. He had a certain arrogance, but there was an appealing vulnerability ...