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Bluebeard (other)
Bluebeard is the title character in a 1697 fairy-tale by Charles Perrault. Bluebeard may also refer to: People *Joe Ball (1896-1938), American serial killer *Clara Green Carl (1877-???), American suspected serial killer * Alfred Leonard Cline (1888–1948), American serial killer *Alexey Gromov (born 1970), Russian serial killer *Johann Otto Hoch (1855–1906), German-American serial killer * Arwed Imiela (1929-1982), German serial killer *Henri Désiré Landru (1869–1922), French serial killer *Robin Page (1932–2015), artist also known as Bluebeard *Francisco Guerrero Pérez (1840-1910), Mexican serial killer *Harry Powers (1892-1932), Dutch-American serial killer *Gilles de Rais ( 1405–1440), Baron de Rais, medieval serial killer * Helmuth Schmidt (1876–1918), American serial killer Film * ''Blue Beard'' (1901 film), a film by Georges Méliès * ''Bluebeard'' (1944 film), a film by Edgar G. Ulmer, starring John Carradine * ''Bluebeard'' (1951 film), a film by Christian-J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard
"Bluebeard" (french: Barbe bleue, ) is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault and first published by Barbin in Paris in 1697 in ''Histoires ou contes du temps passé''. The tale tells the story of a wealthy man in the habit of murdering his wives and the attempts of the present one to avoid the fate of her predecessors. " The White Dove", " The Robber Bridegroom" and "Fitcher's Bird" (also called "Fowler's Fowl") are tales similar to "Bluebeard". The notoriety of the tale is such that Merriam-Webster gives the word "Bluebeard" the definition of "a man who marries and kills one wife after another". The verb "bluebearding" has even appeared as a way to describe the crime of either killing a series of women, or seducing and abandoning a series of women. Plot In one version of the story, Bluebeard is a wealthy and powerful nobleman who has been married six times to beautiful women who have all mysteriously vanished. When he vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard (1955 Film)
''Bluebeard'' (Spanish:''Los lios de Barba Azul'') is a 1955 Mexican comedy film directed by Gilberto Martínez Solares and starring Germán Valdés, Amanda del Llano and Verónica Loyo.Monsiváis & Kraniauskas p.117 Cast * Germán Valdés as Ricardo * Amanda del Llano as Olga * Verónica Loyo as Aurora * Lola Beltrán as doña Lola Bárbara Beltrán * Joan Page as Gringa * Famie Kaufman as Emeteria * Marcelo Chávez as Marcelo * Rafael Alcayde as don Agustín * Rosalía Julián as María, sirvienta * Ramiro Gamboa as Nacho * Juan García as Director de periódico * Gregorio Acosta as Rosendo, chofer * Daniel Arroyo as Catedrático * Guillermo Bravo Sosa as Mayordomo * Pedro Elviro as Empleado de don Agustín * Emilio Garibay as Hombre en cantina * Elvira Lodi as Secretaria * José Muñoz as empleado doña Bárbara * José Ortega as Hombre en cantina * Carlos Robles Gil as Invitado a boda * Humberto Rodríguez as Boticario * Nicolá ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Infinite Arms
''Infinite Arms'' is the third album of indie rock band Band of Horses, released on May 18, 2010, on Brown Records, Fat Possum Records and Columbia Records, Columbia. Most of the album was recorded in Asheville, North Carolina with some overdubbing done in Los Angeles. The album was nominated for a 53rd Grammy Awards, Grammy Award in the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album, Best Alternative Album category."53rd Annual Grammy Awards nominees list" ''Los Angeles Times'' History  Shortly after the release ...
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Schizophonic! (Combustible Edison Album)
Combustible Edison was an American neo-lounge music group founded in the early 1990s in Providence, Rhode Island. They were one of several lounge acts that led a brief resurgence of interest in the genre during the mid-1990s. Unlike other bands with a more ironic take on the lounge scene, Combustible Edison took the music seriously and strove to add to what its members saw as a canon of works by Esquivel, Henry Mancini and Martin Denny. Said ''Trouser Press'', "As the band that poured the first shot in the Cocktail Revolution, this Boston-area combo brought lounge music into the '90s—or, more accurately, transported tastemakers back to the suburbia of the '50s—with strikingly authentic interpretations of some of the most unauthentic sounds known to mankind." The band ended in 1999. History Connecticut natives Liz Cox (drums, vocals) and Michael Cudahy (guitar, vocals) formed indie rock band Christmas in Boston in 1983. They issued three albums, ''In Excelsior Dayglo'' (198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard (song)
"Bluebeard" is a single by the Cocteau Twins. It was released by Fontana Records in February 1994 as the second single to be released from the ''Four-Calendar Café'' album. All three members of the band – Fraser, Guthrie and Raymonde – are credited as songwriters as well as producers. The CD single has four tracks, including an acoustic version of the main track which did not appear on the 12". The CD was also released in the US on Capitol, the band's American label. Background and recording Released as a single from their 1993 studio album ''Four Calendar Cafe'', their first released with Fontana Records, "Bluebeard" marks a noticeable shift from previous Cocteau Twins releases, primarily in the form of Fraser's vocals that appear to be more understandable and less reliant on the "mouth music" approach that Fraser had adopted in previous recordings. Speaking about "Bluebeard", band member Robin Guthrie stated “Things don't influence us directly, but things do get through. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Beard, Jr
Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called Tyndall effect explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective. Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery and ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most expensive of all pigments. In the ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fables (comics)
''Fables'' is an American comic book series created and written by Bill Willingham, published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. Willingham served as sole writer for its entirety, with Mark Buckingham penciling more than 110 issues. The series featured various other pencillers over the years, most notably Lan Medina and Steve Leialoha. ''Fables'' was launched in July 2002 and concluded in July 2015. In June 2021, it was announced that ''Fables'' would be getting revived in 2022 with a 12-issue continuation to the main series, as well as a 6-issue spinoff miniseries Batman vs. Bigby! A Wolf in Gotham, both published under DC Black Label. The series features various characters from fairy tales and folklore – referring to themselves as "Fables" – who formed a clandestine community centuries ago within New York City known as Fabletown, after their Homelands were conquered by a mysterious and deadly enemy known as "The Adversary". It is set in the modern day and follows several of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ludlam
Charles Braun Ludlam (April 12, 1943 – May 28, 1987) was an American actor, director, and playwright. Biography Early life Ludlam was born in Floral Park, New York, the son of Marjorie (née Braun) and Joseph William Ludlam. He was raised in Greenlawn, New York, and attended Harborfields High School. He was openly gay, and performed in plays with the Township Theater Group, a community theatre in Huntington, and worked backstage at the Red Barn Theater, a summer stock theatre in Northport. During his senior year of high school, Ludlam directed, produced, and performed plays with a group of friends, students from Huntington, Northport, Greenlawn, and Centerport. Their "Students Repertory Theatre", housed in the loft studio beneath the Posey School of Dance on Main Street in Northport, seated an audience of 25, and was sold out for every performance. Their repertoire included Kan Kikuchi's ''Madman on the Roof''; '' Theatre of the Soul''; a readers' theatre adaptation of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard (Vonnegut Novel)
''Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988)'' is a 1987 novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as a first-person narrative and describes the late years of fictional Abstract Expressionist painter Rabo Karabekian, who first appeared as a minor character in Vonnegut's ''Breakfast of Champions'' (1973). Circumstances of the novel bear rough resemblance to the fairy tale of Bluebeard popularized by Charles Perrault. Karabekian mentions this relationship once in the novel. Plot summary At the opening of the book, the narrator, Rabo Karabekian, apologizes to the arriving guests: "I promised you an autobiography, but something went wrong in the kitchen..." He describes himself as a museum guard who answers questions from visitors coming to see his priceless collected art. He shares the lonely home with his live-in cook and her daughter, Celeste. One afternoon, Circe Berman, a woman living nearby wanders onto Karabekian's private beach. When he reaches out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard (Frisch Novel)
''Bluebeard'' (german: Blaubart) is a 1982 novel by the Swiss writer Max Frisch. It tells the story of a medical doctor who is accused of murdering his ex-wife. It was Frisch's last novel. Reception Hans Mayer of ''Die Zeit'' called ''Bluebeard'' "A beautiful new story, which with '' Montauk'' and ''Holocene'' clearly rounds off an epic triptych. Reinhard Baumgart of ''Der Spiegel'' described it as "very taciturn, yes a quiet book", and wrote that "In parts, the story truly speaks the embarrassing, suggestive and all but naked language of dreams, of the repression of a very bright and sometimes also too weakly lit dream." Film *' (1984, TV film directed by Krzysztof Zanussi), with Vadim Glowna, Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Lass, Karin Baal, Vera Tschechowa, Maja Komorowska, Elisabeth Trissenaar See also * 1982 in literature * Swiss literature As there is no dominant national language, the four main languages of French, Italian, German and Romansch form the four branc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landru (film)
''Landru'' (US title: ''Bluebeard'') is a 1963 French motion picture drama directed by Claude Chabrol. The screenplay was written by Françoise Sagan. The film stars Charles Denner, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux and Hildegard Knef. It was based on the story of French people, French serial killer Henri Désiré Landru, who murdered and dismembered more than 10 women during World War I. Plot During World War I, a seemingly respectable middle-aged man Henri Landru has devised an ingenious means of obtaining money to supplement his dwindling income. Adopting various assumed names, he lures middle-class women to his villa at Gambais just outside Paris, where he kills them and burns their bodies. He then helps himself to his victims’ bank accounts so that he can keep his wife, his mistress and his four children in the manner to which they have grown accustomed. Having murdered ten women and one boy, Landru is finally captured and placed before a court of law. Eloquent in hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluebeard (2017 Film)
''Bluebeard'' (, lit. "Thawing") is a 2017 South Korean psychological thriller film directed by Lee Soo-yeon. It stars Cho Jin-woong. Plot Seung-Hoon (Cho Jin-Woong) is a physician who opened a clinic in Seoul but went bankrupt. He landed a job at a hospital and he soon gets involved in a series of murder cases when his patient murmurs something disturbing. Cast *Cho Jin-woong as Byun Seung-hoon *Shin Goo as Jung Sung-geun's father *Kim Dae-myung as Jung Sung-geun *Song Young-chang as Jo Kyung-hwan / Nam In-soo *Lee Chung-ah as Mi-yeon *Yoon Se-ah as Jo Soo-jung *Kim Joo-ryoung as Mi-sook *Yoon Da-kyung as Ji-sook *Kim Kyung-min as Hospital Director *Lee Kang-jae as Jung Kyung-soo *Moon Jung-hyun as Byun Young-hoon *Jung Do-won as Tattoo man *Jung Ah-mi as Bae Jung-ja *Marie-Joelle Afarti as Jung Kyung-soo's mother *Han Chul-woo ad Jurisdiction Detective *Jo Suk-hyun - Captain of Gangnam Detective Squad * Park Hee-jung as Opening DJ *Koo Eun-jung as Weather Caster Production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
