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Poison Pen ( )
A poison pen letter is malicious correspondence. Poison Pen may also refer to: * ''Poison Pen'' (album), a 2006 album by Chino XL * "Poison Pen" (song), a 1986 song by Hoodoo Gurus * ''Poison Pen'' (play), a 1937 play by Richard Llewellyn * ''Poison Pen'', a 1993 English play by Ronald Harwood * ''Poison Pen'' (1939 film), a British film based on the 1937 play * ''Poison Pen'', a biography of American author and journalist Kitty Kelley Katherine Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American journalist and author of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and ... by George Carpozi Jr. * ''Poison Pen'' (2014 film), an Irish film with screenplay by Eoin Colfer * Poison pen (weapon), an improvised North Korean weapon * Poison Pen Films, a UK film company See also * Poisoned Pen Press, American publisher of mysteries {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Pen
A poison pen letter is a letter or note containing unpleasant, abusive, or malicious statements or accusations about the recipient or a third party. It is usually sent anonymously. In the term "poison pen" (or poisoned pen), the word poison is used figuratively, rather than literally. Poison pen letters are usually composed and sent to upset the recipient. They differ from blackmail, which is intended to obtain something from the recipient. In the United Kingdom, Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988 covers most cases of poison pen letters. See also * Ransom note effect – A message composed of multiple juxtaposing typefaces * James Forster (poison pen letter writer) * Hate mail * Chain letter * Stalking Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them. The ter ... References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Pen (album)
''Poison Pen'' is the third studio album by Chino XL, an American hip hop musician. It was released on January 31, 2006. Fans anticipated this release ever since Chino XL's ''Poison Pen: The Lost Tapes'', which featured the tracks "Beastin'", "Our Time", and "Wordsmith". ''Poison Pen'' was released as a 2-disc special collector's edition. Every copy was autographed by Chino XL with a silver "poison pen". The album was executive produced and A&R'd by Chino's then manager Stacey Castro, who orchestrated guest appearances by her other clients, Proof of D-12, Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Killah Priest, and the Beatnuts. Track listing Disc one Disc two Disc two is a remixed version of the album by POWER 106's Mr. Choc. Sequencing is by JBoogie and SugaShack. It also includes descriptions of each track by Chino XL. Bonus material Aside from the Bonus Track "Nunca" at the end of "All I Wanna Do... (Bout Nuthin'), there are also bonus videos and links to unlock a special contest on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Pen (song)
"Poison Pen" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was written by Dave Faulkner. and released in September 1986 as the fourth and final single from the group's second studio album, ''Mars Needs Guitars!''. The song peaked at number 76 on the Australian charts. In June 2000, Dave Faulkner said "The Gurus first manager, Stuart Coupe, wrongly thought that 'Poison Pen' was written about him, probably because of his notoriety as a Rock Journalist (often an oxymoron) and he had also been recently replaced... The song was about the fallout from a relationship that had turned bitter (with no 'sweet') attached).". Track listing ; 7" version (BTS 1793) # "Poison Pen" (Dave Faulkner) — 4:06 # "In the Wild" (Faulkner) — 3:29 (Recorded live at Selina's Sydney 17 and 18 February 1986) # "Teenage Head" (Cyril Jordan, Roy Loney) — 3:02 (recorded live at Selina's Sydney 17 and 18 February 1986) Personnel * Clyde Bramley — bass, backing vocals * Dave Faulkner — lead vocals ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Pen (play)
''Poison Pen'' is a mystery play by the British writer Richard Llewellyn. In a small English village, a series of Poison pen letters cause chaos and suspicion. It premiered at Richmond Theatre before transferring to the West End where it ran for 176 performances between 9 April and 19 September 1938, initially at the Shaftesbury Theatre before moving to the Playhouse Theatre and then the Garrick Theatre. The original West End cast included Roddy Hughes, Walter Fitzgerald, Neville Brook, Jack Allen, Ethel Warwick, Dorothy Black and Margaret Yarde. Film adaptation In 1939 it was made into a film of the same title directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Flora Robson, Ann Todd and Robert Newton Robert Guy Newton (1 June 1905 – 25 March 1956) was an English actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the more popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for hi ....Goble p.288 References Bibliogr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Harwood
Sir Ronald Harwood ( né Horwitz; 9 November 1934 – 8 September 2020) was a South African-born British author, playwright, and screenwriter, best known for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for ''The Dresser'' (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and '' The Pianist'', for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for '' The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'' (2007). Early life and career Harwood was born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town, in what was then the Union of South Africa, the son of Isobel (née Pepper) and Isaac Horwitz. After attending Sea Point High School, Harwood moved from Cape Town to London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theatre. He changed his surname from Horwitz to Harwood after an English master told him it was too foreign and too Jewish for a stage actor. After training for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he joined the Shakespeare C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Pen (1939 Film)
''Poison Pen'' is a 1939 British drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Flora Robson, Reginald Tate and Ann Todd. It was based on the 1937 play of the same title by Richard Llewellyn. Play Written shortly before his famous novels ''How Green Was My Valley'' and '' None But the Lonely Heart'', Llewellyn's play - concerning an outbreak of anonymous poison-pen letters that destabilise a small rural community - was first presented at Richmond, near London, on 9 August 1937. A West End production, using a revised text, opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 9 April 1938, moving to the Playhouse in July and the Garrick in August, achieving in all 176 performances and closing on 10 September. Theatre historian J. C. Trewin described the play, under the heading 'How Grim Was My Village', as "a showy bit of theatre." Film The film version was made by the Associated British Picture Corporation at their Elstree Studios and opened in London on 4 July 1939. Flora Robson and Regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitty Kelley
Katherine Kelley (born April 4, 1942) is an American journalist and author of best-selling unauthorized biographies of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra, Nancy Reagan, the British Royal Family, the Bush family, and Oprah Winfrey. For the Sinatra biography, Kelley won praise for the quality of her research and willingness to risk a lawsuit, but critics have not rated her other works as highly. She has been described as a "professional sensationalist" and the "consummate gossip monger". Early life Catherine Kelley was raised in Spokane, Washington, the eldest of seven children of Adele ( Martin) and William Vincent Kelley, a lawyer who served as president of the city's bar association. She had "an unhappy home life with an alcoholic mother" who "wasn’t just a closet drunk. She was often a nasty public drunk."1992 International Year Book Covering the Year 1991, ed. Christine Grove, P. F. Collier, 1992, pg. 390 She helped take care of her five sisters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Pen (2014 Film)
''Poison Pen'' is a 2014 Irish comedy feature film based on a screenplay by author Eoin Colfer, directed by Steven Benedict, Lorna Fitzsimons and Jennifer Shortall. Synopsis P.C. Molloy (Lochlann Ó Mearáin), a Booker Prize–winning author, is coerced into writing for a tabloid gossip magazine. Cultures clash and sparks fly as the cerebral Molloy finds himself immersed in the world of vain celebrities and he begins to fall for his boss (Aoibhinn McGinnity). Poison Pen asks questions about the nature of celebrity, integrity and deception. Cast * Lochlann Ó Mearáin as PC Molloy * Aoibhinn McGinnity as April * Paul Ronan as Darcy * Aaron Heffernan as Kurt * Susan Loughnane as Shona * Lauryn Canny as Sally * Mary Murray as Dora * Gemma-Leah Devereux as Eva * Ryan O'Shaughnessy as Piers * Sophie Vavasseur as Jessica * Lyn Larkin as Julie * Siobhan Bolton as Popstar Reception The film received mixed reviews, the ''Chicago Reader'' described it as "formulaic" whereas ''The Holly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Pen (weapon)
Park Sang-hak is a North Korean democracy activist and is the chairman of Fighters for a Free North Korea. Park Sang-hak is a hard-line anti-communist who is also in solidarity with the conservative movement in South Korea. Life in North Korea Born in 1968 at Hyesan, Park grew up in a privileged family in North Korea. Park Sang-hak attended Kim Chaek University studying IT. After graduating, he worked at Kim Il Sung Youth Alliance. He met with other members of the community every Monday for political classes and Saturday self-criticism sessions. Park's grandmother, returning from a rare visit to Japan, told of how much happier people were in other countries. He began to hear from fellow students, who had been chosen to study in other communist countries, share stories of the outside world. He discovered people in Europe did not have to do self-criticisms each week, which had been a great source of stress. Yet, he still had no desire to leave. He continued to work in Kim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poison Pen Films
Poison Pen Films is a film production company based in Leeds, Yorkshire, UK and affiliated to Metro Films. It is run as a collective by its members - Paul Morricone, Dave Aspinall. Joe Costello and Nous Vous. The company specialises in music video production using staged material, various forms of animation and CGI. Poison Pen have created music video clips for artists including The Young Knives, The Pigeon Detectives, Graham Coxon, The Scaramanga Six, The Holloways, Eureka Machines Larrikin Love, Marvin The Martian, The Whip, The Go! Team, Little Man Tate, iLiKETRAiNS, Cold War Kids, Forward Russia, Gallows A gallows (or scaffold) is a frame or elevated beam, typically wooden, from which objects can be suspended (i.e., hung) or "weighed". Gallows were thus widely used to suspend public weighing scales for large and heavy objects such as sacks ... and Polytechnic as well as viral animations for The Charlatans. External linksPoison Pen Films homepage* Film production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
