See You Soon!

It's that time of the year again, where two hours inside an huge, old auditorium decide wether we're done with a class or wether we'll suffer through it all over again next year. With such sunny, beautiful days it can be hard to concentrate on the Law of Kings and barbarians, but we must give it all our might and just be done with it. I know I've been sort of MIA lately, kind of due to the same reason, so thanks to those who are still around. 

I'll be back in three weeks - until then, hang in there, and good luck to all the LAMB nominees! 

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LIFE | Jimmy Stewart: A Hero Home From the War

When James Maitland Stewart, the son of hardware store owners from Indiana, Pennsylvania, enlisted in the United States Army in 1941, he wasn’t like most privates. For one thing, he was already well into his 30s. For another, he had already been rejected by the military for being too skinny. (The first time around, he was five pounds under the Army’s weight standard for new recruits.) And finally, no other World War II inductee had won a Best Actor Oscar, as James “Jimmy” Stewart had for his role in 1940′s The Philadelphia Story.

Putting his Hollywood career on hold to join the Army Air Corps — a forerunner to today’s Air Force — Stewart ultimately reached the rank of colonel (he was one of few Americans ever to rise from private to colonel in four short years; flew dozens of combat missions, some as command pilot of flights deep into Nazi-occupied Europe; and came back from the war on the Queen Elizabeth, covered in medals — including the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Distinguished Service Medal.

For its September 24, 1945, cover story, LIFE Magazine’s Peter Stackpole followed Stewart around his Pennsylvania hometown, chronicling what it looked like when the Hollywood star returned home a war hero.

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all images and text courtesy of LIFE magazine

Grey's Anatomy: The One That Died

Every knows Lexie is dead. And I bet no one but bonafide sadist (joke) Shonda Rhimes is happy about that. Shonda, you already have Private Practice to make your characters's life a living hell, so how about taking it down a notch in Grey's?

The show's season finales are well known for the inevitable tragedies they depict: characters getting run over by a bus, dead soon-to-be husbands, people getting left at the altar the minute they find love, STD's for everyone, and the most sadist of them all, a broken-hearted lunatic randomly shooting people for two hours. They put some breaks on the shock factor at the end of season seven, but apparently regretted it for the Shonda we now is back with a full-on plain crash where six went down, one will die, as they so cleverly advertised. 

First of all, a plain crash, really? That's the kind of thing I'd expect from 90210 (which, by the way, ended with a car accident), but not from Grey's Anatomy. Look at a drama series like Mad Men, and see how you can write a season finale that doesn't rely on the expected, but still manages to leave you craving for the next season. Or True Blood, where action, fantasy and horror are cleverly mixed with creativity, ending every episode with a turmoil of suspense. Sure, Grey's has been resorting to mindless tragedy more and more over the years, but never in such an evidently inappropriate way. I mean, the timing was so wrong that only newcomers could possibly be pleased with that ending.

But even more stupid than a plain crash, was killing Lexie. Bottom line, they shouldn't have killed anyone, but they insisted on doing it, then it should have been one the older characters, someone who's been on the show since the beginning, someone whose path should be ending now. Let's keep in mind that this was the eighth season. That's a lot of seasons, one to many when it comes to not changing the main cast. By then, ER had already replaced nearly all of its original cast. Even House, a show that many are starting to get sick of, as kept only four characters throughout eight seasons.

Audrey Hepburn

I worked on a longer, prettier version of this GIF for about an hour, and blogger takes it down four days later... copyright infringement. So I'm reposting this article without it, of course. I was just sharing the love I have for Audrey, and spreading the beautiful work of talented people, but I suppose as a Law student myself, I should know better. 

What a burden she lifted from women. There was proof that looking good need not be synonymous with looking bimbo. Thanks to their first glimpse of Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday, half a generation of young females stopped stuffing their bras and teetering on stiletto heels. The New York Times

ABOUT GREEN MANSIONS

Tony Perkins kept an eye on Audrey. If he saw her sitting off the set, maybe looking a little sad, he would jump in, shaking her chair until he had her laughing. Getting her a cup of tea, telling her a joke, anything that was perk her spirits up. They had a really good relationship, and he brought out a facet of Audrey’s personality that I had never seen before. At times they acted like two young kids. I think he was Audrey’s tonic on this film. Tony was easy-going. I had worked with him on a couple of films previously and he had a gentle personality, ever smiling without a lot of ego to deal with. A photographer’s delight. He seemed like a brother to Audrey, and watched over her. It was lovely to see them together. 

For Green Mansions, Mel Ferrer wanted to create the idea that the deer followed Audrey wherever she went. If the character Rima (that Audrey was to play) was a forest spirit, a part of nature itself, then the animals must feel that she was part of their world and posed absolutely no threat. The animal trainers had told them that the only way to do this was to take a very young fawn and live with it. To establish a bond so that it would get used to Audrey’s touch and smell. It was an amazing sight to see Audrey with the deer. It would come right up and lie down next to her when she was having a nap, and fall asleep with her. They were literally in touch, something I had never seen between a human being and a forest animal. Bob Willoughby

ABOUT ROMAN HOLIDAY

If there was anything going on, it didn’t last long because most of our time was taken up with work. It’s true that I had an enormous crush on him. But I was engaged at the time and I even had my wedding gown hanging in the wardrobe of my Roman hotel room. And Greg was married to Greta. I knew he wasn’t happy, that his marriage was not good even though they had three lovely children. Maybe he did feel something for me, maybe there was a little chemistry between us that made our scenes work. I was in Rome, being treated like a princess, and it was not difficult for me to believe I was the princess in the film, and it was not difficult for me to believe I was in love with Gregory Peck. Audrey Hepburn 

THE BEST THING TO HOLD ONTO IN LIFE IS EACH OTHER.

AUDREY HEPBURN

May 4, 1929 - Jan 20, 1993