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![]() ![]() So if I was the type of person to take in everything that I write, then we would be fucked!"Įven so, there was such a surplus of quality songs that culling them proved to be a daunting task. "Because before that, I edited out a lot of songs here, before I even brought them to the band. "Oh, it could have been a triple album," he told us. The period between Steal This Album! and the beginning of the Mezmerize/Hypnotize sessions proved exceptionally prolific for Malakian's songwriting, so he had a wealth of material at the ready by June 2004, when the band entered Rick Rubin's studios at The Mansion to begin recording. Mezmerize/Hypnotize could have easily been a triple album That's more important to me in terms of the growth of the band - that people recognize that we do other things, and that those other things have contributed to making this record different than the previous System records."ģ. Just like it's important for me that people recognize that I do more than just sing - that I play piano and guitar, and that I write songs as well. Daron's been my friend since before we formed System of a Down, and I want people to know that he's got an amazing voice, and that he also writes really potent, cutting lyrics. It's important to me, after 10 years, for people to recognize our talents above and beyond what they imagined we did. "And he's written more lyrics than before, which is quite different, because he's always written most of the music. "Well, Daron is singing more, and that's good," Tankian told Revolver. But on Mezmerize and Hypnotize saw Malakian taking significantly more lead vocals than he had in the past, which led some fans and critics to accuse him of staging a coup to displace vocalist Serj Tankian. On 2001's Toxicity and 2002's Steal This Album!, Daron Malakian had written most of the music, while Serj Tankian had handled the bulk of the lyrics and lead vocals. Daron Malakian wrote a greater percentage of the lyrics - and sang a greater percentage of lead vocals - for Mezmerize/ Hypnotize than on any previous SOAD album I didn't know that when I was writing it, but after time went on I was like, 'Wow, that's old Motown!' Because I'd been listening to the Supremes, the Marvelettes, and stuff like that."Ģ. Like, if I pointed out the chorus for 'Kill Rock n' Roll' - that melody line is very old Motown. Malakian went on to list black metal–era Darkthrone, British rockers the Kinks and various Motown girl groups as primary influences, while cautioning that "you can't put your finger on the Darkthrone influence and say, 'There's Darkthrone,' and you can't put your finger on the Kinks and say, 'There's the Kinks!' But you can see all that kind of happening somewhere. "I listen to a lot of shit, all the time," Malakian told Revolver, "including a lot of Sixties pop that I've been listening to in the past few years, which has been kind of bleeding through my writing, without losing touch with a lot of the other things that make up System of a Down." The music of Mezmerize and Hypnotize was influenced by everything from black metal to Motown. Here are six things you might not know about Mezmerize - and its Hypnotize-ing counterpart. But over a decade after their initial release, the albums (or is it album?) still sound fresh and vital. alone.Īnd, sadly, despite occasional rumors of new SOAD studio activity, Mezmerize and Hypnotize remain the last music released by the band. Both albums also went platinum, selling over a million copies each in the U.S. 1 upon their release, making System of a Down only the fifth act - after the Beatles, Guns N' Roses, 2Pac and DMX - to have two studio albums debut atop the Billboard 200 in the same year. While double albums have traditionally been a tough sell, both Mezmerize and Hypnotize debuted at No. Splitting the album into two separately-released pieces was also a smart move from a commercial standpoint. That's what System of a Down means to me." "The guy sitting in his car waiting for his girl, with the world going on around him - it comes down to that. "I see us as a socially-conscious band, not just a political band," Malakian told Revolver. But the band's heart and humor remained audibly intact amid the musical onslaught, with lyrics inspired by everything from the Iraq War ("B.Y.O.B.") to the depressing spectacle of old C-list actors still coasting on their celebrity ("Old School Hollywood Baseball"). On Mezmerize alone, songs like "B.Y.O.B (Bring Your Own Bombs)," "Question," "Radio/Video," "Lost in Hollywood" and the memorably titled "This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm on This Song" were - even by SOAD standards - crammed to the hilt like sonic clown cars with a crazy array of hooks, influences and unexpected left turns. Which was actually a good idea, because Mezmerize/ Hypnotize contained the band's most head-spinning material yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() He hated the anti-war sentiments ascribed to him by the public. ![]() Eventually, viewers came to see the show as a kind of allegory for the Vietnam War. The show helped the public deal with the emotional toll of Vietnam, and illustrated the harsh conditions of both conflicts for future generations. Though the show was ostensibly about the Korean War, it captured both the nation and Alan Alda’s disillusionment with the stalemate and human cost of the Vietnam War, largely through the cranky character of Hawkeye Pierce. (Credit: Chris Howes/Wild Places Photography/Alamy Stock Photo) And it helped capture the sarcasm and heart of Hornberger himself through Hawkeye Pierce, whose sarcasm and heart helped his friends and patients sustain operating conditions that were primitive and, often, nearly hopeless. Like the books he wrote, it included a strong-willed head nurse, a Korean teenager whom the doctors sent to the United States for college on their own dime, and a doctor who dressed in drag at least once. The book was adapted to a hit movie and then a TV show that helped capture life in the unit. It was the perfect moment for a novel about war: the Vietnam War was looking more and more intractable and Americans longed for a lighter take on war. It took 12 years to write MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, and another five years being rejected by publishers before the book was finally published under the pseudonym Richard Hooker in 1968. When word got to other MASH units, doctors started doing arterial repairs there, too, and after the Korean War ended in 1953, doctors who dared to do the surgery helped further medical knowledge about how to repair human arteries and other blood vessels.Īs for Hornberger, who went on to work in at the VA and in private practice, he dealt with the trauma he experienced during the Korean War by writing about it. ![]() It is thought that Hornberger was the first to flout those rules-and scenes in his bestselling book back up the theory. In 1951, Hornberger’s colleagues tell Friedman, surgeons at the MASH unit decided that their Hippocratic oath to do no harm was more important than Army regulations and began to repair arteries despite the rules.Īn operation is performed on a wounded soldier at the 8209th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, twenty miles from the front lines of the Korean War on August 4, 1952. But the realities of war wounds made this intolerable to Hornberger and other surgeons who found themselves banned from repairing damaged arteries. Army regulations for surgeons to do anything but close off a blood vessel in the case of an injury to the vascular system, or blood vessels. Friedman, a vascular surgeon who recently published an account of Hornberger’s daring surgical attempt.Īt the time, it was against U.S. “Hornberger possessed the courage and audacity to attempt arterial repair when it was forbidden, and by one account, he may have been the first,” writes Steven G. In Korea, Hornberger pioneered a kind of surgery that was prohibited during the war. Life in a MASH unit was grueling: Aside from the constant stress of warfare and long hours in surgery, the units usually picked up and moved at least once a month. The MASH concept was simple: The hospitals were located close enough to the front lines to serve wounded soldiers, but far enough away that they weren’t in danger of bombs or direct combat. The 8055 was located on the 38th parallel, which divides the Korean Peninsula and today serves as the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.Īuthor and Korean War surgeon Richard Hornberger, who wrote under the alias Richard Hooker. The tent-based surgical hospital was one of seven fully functional, tent-based hospitals that operated at various points during the Korean War. Hornberger soon found himself in Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 8055. That included just-graduated medical students and interns like Hornberger, who was drafted in 1951. Meanwhile, the United States began drafting soldiers-and doctors. The war soon turned into a tense stalemate as truce talks between North and South failed again and again. Hornberger might have gone on to a normal career as a thoracic surgeon if not for the Korean War, which began in June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.Ī month later, the United States sent its first troops into South Korea as part of a battle against international communism. Born in New Jersey in 1924, he struggled in his pre-med program and nearly didn’t get into med school until, according to biographer Dale Sherman, a chemistry teacher recommended him as “peculiar, but worth taking a chance on” to Cornell Medical School. Hornberger’s books may have been whimsical, but his real-life war experiences were dead serious. (Credit: 20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock) Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce in the television show MASH. ![]() ![]() ![]() (This product does not support home phone. Certified with Xfinity with speeds up to 200Mbps, Spectrum service of 300Mbps, and with Cox service speeds of 150Mbps. This ARRIS SURFboard cable modem router features four 1-Gigabit Ethernet ports to connect your wired devices, and the compatible SURFboard Central mobile app allows for quick and secure setup. Wi-Fi 6 supports smooth 4K video streaming and low latency online gaming. Looking for more devices to cover your home? Check out our stories on the best mesh wi-fi systems, the best modems for gaming, and the best wi-fi extenders. Get 16x faster download speeds with this 2-in-1 AC1600 WiFi router and integrated DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem for streaming HD videos, faster downloads, and high-speed online gaming. Its a DOCSIS 3.1 Cable Modem & Wi-Fi 6 Router combo. In addition to picking our favorite overall, we chose the best in a number of categories to make it easier to find the one that’s right for your service and living space. To compile the list below, we read through reviews from a number of respected publications including Lifewire, Rolling Stone, and Digital Trends to determine the best modem-routers on the market. But if you live in a large house and want to use Wi-Fi throughout, make sure you look at the coverage area of the device you are considering so you don’t end up with dead zones. If you mostly use the internet in one area of your home or if you live in an apartment, the range of your device will be less of a concern. Chances are most of your devices will be downloading content (as opposed to uploading it), so you mostly will be concerned with the number of downstream channels. Take into consideration the number of devices that will be accessing your internet service at once, then look at the number of channels that the device you are considering has. Most service providers have a list of pre-approved modem-routers. The devices below won’t work with fiber internet service, and you need to make sure that the device you choose will specifically work with your service. Not all modem-router combos work with all internet services. What it actually delivers over Wi-Fi when impacted by external factors will be lower. ![]() Note that the maximum speed advertised (and listed below) is only what it can potentially deliver in an ideal setting. A modem can only connect a single device to the internet. It's important to know how fast your internet is so that you can get a device that is capable of the same speed (or higher). You can also use an online test like to get an idea, but it may not be as accurate. This should be on your bill, but your service provider should also be able to tell you. You first need to determine how fast your internet connection is. NETGEAR Cable Modem Wi-Fi Router Combo C6250 - Compatible with All Cable Providers Including Xfinity by Comcast, Spectrum, Cox for Cable Plans Up to 300 Mbps AC1600 Wi-Fi Speed DOCSIS 3.0. Here's a shortlist of the most essential. Before purchasing a modem-router combo, there are several details to nail down, including how large your space is and how many devices are typically online at once. ![]() ![]() It has a game ruleset that closely mirrors dungeons and dragons, but is different. It has a game ruleset that closely mirrors dungeons and dragons, but is Pillars of Eternity is a huge achievement in world building. Pillars of Eternity is a huge achievement in world building. I will be finishing this and then going back to finish D.O.S … Expand Party management and character action commands have been made very easy with the XBOX One controls. It can be challenging and you have to go back and keep trying different tactics to defeat different enemies but its not enough to make you rage quit like say Dark Souls caused many, not myself, to do. ![]() I have about 15 hours in so far and can't wait to get back to playing it. Its great you can have a party of six adventurers instead of just the two you have in D.O.S and when a party member is not being used you can always find them back at the Black Hound Inn. Spell management is a little tricky and rest is not possible to heal or to study your spell book without the campfire equipment found at shops and other merchants. but the atmosphere and story is far more gripping than the one in D.O.S. Had to get use to the pause and give commands to my party feature versus the turn based combat of D.O.S. Love the old school D&D games like Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale and this honors them well. Not as polished graphically as Divinity Original Sin but a lot more fun and addictive. Not as polished graphically as Divinity Original Sin but a Really excited to have this finally come to XBOX One after years of speculation. Really excited to have this finally come to XBOX One after years of speculation. Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition features: Award-winning writing, story and artwork of Pillars of Eternity, along with the expanded world and content of The White March: Parts I & II Countless character creation options, from races and classes to character backgrounds which drive your personal story An epic universe to explore, filled with intriguing party members and companions, a variety of in-game factions, and a lovingly rendered world to traverse All major updates from the original PC version, including a raised level cap, expanded party AI options, and new difficulty levels New UI and controls designed from the ground up, presenting the Pillars of Eternity experience like never before … Expand Players will be able to easily navigate the game's detailed character creation, real-time-with-pause combat, and party management from their couches thanks to new TV-friendly menus and controls. ![]() ![]() Paradox Arctic has thoroughly updated the Xbox One version of the award-winning RPG for play with a controller, and have entirely redesigned the UI for easy viewing on televisions. But Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition goes beyond just offering everything together. Pillars of Eternity: Complete Edition includes all previously released additional content from the PC version, including all DLC and expansions in a single package. Now, Paradox Arctic has adapted this unmissable RPG for an entirely new audience on major consoles - bringing Pillars' fantastical world, tactical combat, and unforgettable story to fans on a whole new platform. ![]() From there, it released to broad critical acclaim, won dozens of awards, and has been a fan favorite on the PC. Pillars of Eternity, the ultimate role-playing experience on PC, comes to Xbox One! Created by and for role-playing fans by Obsidian Entertainment, masters of the RPG genre, Pillars started as a Kickstarter project, where it shattered all funding goals and pulled in more than 75,000 backers. Summary: Pillars of Eternity, the ultimate role-playing experience on PC, comes to Xbox One! Created by and for role-playing fans by Obsidian Entertainment, masters of the RPG genre, Pillars started as a Kickstarter project, where it shattered all funding goals and pulled in more than 75,000 backers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Granted you may not need to tinker with many of these settings in some cases, but the fact that they are in this screen recorder for Windows will give you the option to use them if need be.Ĭonsidering how useful screen recording can be as well as how easy it is to perform with Movavi Screen Recorder – you should definitely give it a try. In short Movavi Screen Recorder will ensure that you’re able to record any video that you need according to your exact specifications. Highlight the mouse cursor to make it more visible and set a customized ‘click’ sound that is more audible.Display keyboard actions on-screen so that they can be recorded in the video.Automate the recording by scheduling a start and stop time, or setting a timer to stop recording after a particular duration.Set the frame rate to up to 60 frames per second for the highest possible quality, or less to reduce the file size of the video.Adjust the audio levels for each audio source that you’re recording from. ![]() Select the audio source that you wish to record, including the system audio, microphone, or other devices.Define the capture area to encompass a specific part of your screen by drawing a frame using the mouse cursor or selecting a preset.In fact all that you really need to do is define the area that you wish to record, and you can begin recording immediately after you do.Īs much as Movavi Screen Recorder may be simplified in many ways, it is still a potent screen recorder that will give you full control over all the recording parameters. Its user interface is simple and easy to navigate with all the features that you need clearly laid out in front of you.Įven if you are using Movavi Screen Recorder for the very first time, you should be able to set it up and start recording in just a few minutes. Every aspect of Movavi Screen Recorder is designed with an intuitive approach in mind, to minimize the learning curve that is involved and make things as easy as possible for the user. ![]() ![]() She was able to produce receipts and ledgers, as well as personal correspondence between Schiff and Hunter Biden, proving Schiff’s payouts were meant as compensation for trying to dethrone Trump. She told the tribunal that Schiff had accepted $20,000,000 in gifts and incentives to wage war against Donald Trump. Hannink, as he had at previous tribunals, pulled the proverbial rabbit from a magic hat: via teleconference, Schiff’s wife Eve appeared on a video screen to testify against her husband. I have loyally served this nation for many years and don’t recognize this tribunal’s authority over me.” “But Wai is a friend mine who struck good fortune and shared some of that with me, his friend. “Of course, I know these people,” Schiff said. Hannink told the panel.Īsked to answer for his crimes, Schiff admitted he should have declined the gifts, but said they were “above board” and bore no relevance to his association with China, Li Wai, Joseph Biden, or Hunter Biden. Schiff used aliases and proxies to launder many of his ill-gotten presents, but there’s always a trail,” Vice Adm. Certainly, others must have known he received these gifts, and who they came from, but that was swept under the rug by a Deep State desperate to remove Trump from office. He is weak and malleable, and he did knowingly betray his oath of office in hopes of making money and staging a tacit coup against the elected President of the United States. “Schiff’s greed, compounded by his seething hatred of Donald Trump, led him down a path of treasonous behavior. Hannink calling on the 3-officer panel to convict Schiff, who appeared without counsel, of high treason. His Thursday tribunal lasted only two hours, with Vice Adm. This evidence, in part, led to Schiff’s May 24 arrest and subsequent trip to Guantanamo Bay. The Office of Military Commissions claims Schiff blatantly violated the Gifts Rule of the House Ethics Committee, which forbids federal employees from accepting gifts for favors and requires that any item valued at over $166 be reported to the State Dept. The gifts included a rare 1954 Bao Dai Rolex valued at $5,000,000 and a Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport worth approximately $3,000,000, the later of which he surreptitiously auctioned at Sothebys. Wei was a senior executive at Bohai Harvest RST (Shanghai) Equity Investment Fund Management Co., the very company Hunter Biden owns 10% of. Specifically, Schiff had received “gifts” from a Chinese businessman named Li Wei. JAG and the Office of Military Commissions acquired evidence linking Schiff to a Chinese plot meant to depose Donald J. JAG’s 6-month investigation proved that Schiff, like most Deep State operatives, had an unremitting addiction to opulence and happily accepted bribes in exchange for aiding enemies of the United States, when such actions aligned with his personal goals. Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps launched an investigation to determine whether Schiff’s actions violated House Rules, whether his grievances were constitutional. Both Trump and Zelenskiy refuted the allegations, but Schiff abused his authority in pressing Congress to move forward with an impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. aid in return for an investigation into Hunter Biden. In July 2019, Schiff grossly distorted and wildly mischaracterized Trump’s telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which he is alleged to have withheld U.S. On Thursday, July 1, a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay convicted Chair of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff on charges of treason and espionage after hearing evidence that linked the weaselly worm to a Chinese-sponsored plot aimed at impeaching the most patriotic president to have ever sat in the Oval Office. REAL RAW NEWS | By Michael Baxter | July 4, 2021 ![]() Military Puts SCJ Amy Coney Barrett on House Arrest Navy SEALS Arrest Hillary Clinton + Military Tribunal: Day 5 CONVICTION = Hillary Clinton Hanged at GITMO….CONNECTING THE DEEP STATE DOTS….CAPTURED MEDIA REMAINS SILENT! Btw, even Shifty Schiff’s wifey thinks so … patience …īUT to catch latecomers to the independence day party up to speed, that is, free of traitor after traitor, the following are recaps: SO whereas the following have been dealt with, in one fashion or another, today’s report is oh so deserved! Sweet. As such, there is ever more reason to celebrate! Indeed, it’s always darkest before the dawn …. Indeed, God bless, they are being expunged, one by one.ĪND while there are a core group of dedicated patriots to thank for this righteous turn of events, much gratitude must go to the rockin’ guys and gals overseeing the JAG’s Military Tribunals at GITMO, in tandem with their force multipliers. ![]() FELLOW patriots, one and all, wherever you may reside: Happy 4th of July, America’s day of independence! This is so regardless of the traitors embedded in the nation’s highest echelons. ![]() ![]() ![]() And it’s particularly exciting for those of us who grew up during Star Trek’s zenith, what we perhaps sarcastically call the Berman Era, because it returns us to the 24th century at roughly the point, chronologically speaking, where that era ended, occurring in the canonical Neutral Zone immediately after Nemesis. Which is a sizable group, given that both hobbies comprise entirely of weird nerds. It’s instructive to compare these two in particular because they’re the most lucrative films of their respective franchises, but they’re also both directed by JJ Abrams, and so they’re very similar in terms of quality (bad).Īnd so, Star Trek: Resurgence is a very exciting thing for the starved demographic of Star Trek fans who are also gamers. If you compare the box office takings between, say, The Force Awakens and Star Trek 2009, you’ll find that the former did about ten times as much business as the latter. No Star Trek equivalent of Jedi Survivor, or Force Unleashed, or even KOTOR, because despite its enduring popularity and influence, the franchise has never quite tipped over into the kind of mega-saturation that would make the investment worthwhile. There’s very little in terms of anything approaching a triple-A, single-player experience, with broad cross-platform appeal. And even then, it was never a particularly well-funded arm of the franchise. ![]() Nevertheless, it’s something worth celebrating: unlike the other Star franchise (not Gate), Trek hasn’t enjoyed any significant representation in the world of mainstream video gaming since around the late 90s. Which is a little bit tragic, because that game is 22 years old. ![]() Right, now that those idiots are gone, let’s get one thing straight from the off: this is the best Star Trek game since Elite Force. The Star Trek: Resurgence Review for Star Trek Fans Resurgence sees the return of fan-favourite characters like "Jeremy Beadle" If you have no idea what the Picard Maneuver is, there’s nothing here for you. Competent efforts, but scarcely worth the effort if you aren’t already sold on the licence alone. So, it slots in rather comfortably amongst the two-dozen or so sixes and sevens that litter the back catalogue – the likes of Minecraft: Story Mode, or Guardians of the Galaxy. In Telltale terms, it’s better than Back to the Future: The Game, but not as good as its aforementioned Big Hitters, which were so exemplary that you didn’t need any prior investment to enjoy them. Add in a handful of ropey gameplay sequences, in this case focused on light puzzle solving and crappy pop-up shooting, and you’ve got yourself a fairly by-the-numbers modern adventure game. You can probably guess therefore that it’s a choice-and-consequence adventure game driven by a conversation system that tracks your decision making in order to determine certain key story outcomes and, more importantly, whether the other characters like you or not. Although it’s worth noting that this is a complete 12-14 hour experience, not an episodic release. And I mean that almost literally: the developer, Dramatic Labs, boasts proudly on the game’s website that it is “a collaboration of 20+ former Telltale writers, developers, designers, artists, and producers.” So, if you’ve played The Walking Dead or The Wolf Among Us (those are the top-tier Telltale games, for reference) you know what to expect from ST:R – mechanically, at least. The Star Trek: Resurgence Review for Non-Star Trek Fans Right there, that's the Spock.Įssentially, what this is is a mid-tier Telltale game. The game has come a long way since its reveal. ![]() Don’t look so concerned: it’s OK to admit it here, this is a safe space. With that in mind, I’ve handily split this review into two parts depending on whether or not you, dear reader, would consider yourself a Star Trek fan. There are more enterprises in my home than you can rent a car from.īut, I am a professional, and wouldn’t dream of allowing my personal feelings to inflate my dispassionate assessment of a licensed software product. I have an absurd number of Hero Collector ship miniatures dotted around the place. I drive my wife mad with incessant musing about whether Ben Sisko’s birth constitutes a predestination paradox, or the sociological impact on the Federation of the Battle of Wolf 359. Cards on the table, right? I love Star Trek. ![]() ![]() ![]() I want to approach people with different perspectives and experiences with empathy and absurd humour, to combat a lot of cynicism and othering that is commonplace in the media." ![]() “A lot of my choices in including and normalising queer identities come from how I want to be seen, and how I already see my friends," Zuhn explained. “From there, I got the confidence to pitch to more and more places, and started getting regular work! It’s kind of amazing!” they told me. They primarily make a living as a cartoonist and illustrator, and their first published comic in The Nib told the story of the discrimination they and their girlfriend faced. Both Zuhn and Coffey told me their experience with queerness impacted their careers, and their creative decisions for Bugsnax.Ĭoffey’s creative career started with their experiences as a queer teenager in rural North Carolina. To learn about the approach the development team took to queer representation, I reached out to creative director Kevin Zuhn and story editor Sage Coffey. In Bugsnax, queer people can just be, which is unfortunately rare in video games.īugsnax’s queer representation feels effortless, but I could tell that the creative team put plenty of care into their portrayal of queer and non-binary folks. Its characters respect non-binary people by using the right prounouns without question. ![]() The game gives queer and straight relationships equal weight without explainers or caveats. The main plot and sidequests all explore each character’s love for someone: a friend, a sibling, a lover, or themselves.Īnd when Bugsnax explores love, characters of all genders and sexualities get fair treatment. But as I dug into it, I found that it’s also a game about love. At its surface level, Bugsnax is a colourful puzzle game with a great theme song, all about capturing the titular edible creatures. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gregory tells Nancy that she’s to take her orders only from him, because Paula is “inclined to be highly-strung”.Īs the days pass, Gregory, in fact, tries (successfully) to convince Paula that she isn’t well enough to go anywhere. He hires a hard-of-hearing cook, Elizabeth (Barbara Everest), and a cocky housemaid, Nancy (the 18-year old Angela Lansbury, in her debut role). Gregory also sets about finding domestic help for them. Seeing her anguish, Gregory decides that everything that reminds Paula of Alice will be locked in the attic, and it’ll be boarded up. Paula herself gets quite upset when she sees the place where, as a girl, she’d discovered Alice’s corpse. Paula begins to read out the letter to Gregory, but he snatches it away from her and is obviously quite upset. Flipping through the musical notes, Paula comes across a letter to Alice from a Sergius Bauer, begging Alice to meet him. In Thornton Square, they see the relics of the past: Alice’s portrait, depicting her as an empress in one of her popular opera roles an embroidered glove the piano and Alice’s book of music. The house at 9, Thornton Square, had been left to her by Alice, so that’s where they’ll stay. Although she’s still haunted by what happened in London, Paula loves Gregory so much, she acquiesces. Paula suggests Paris, but Gregory’s keen on London. ![]() They finally elope, and once married, discuss where they’ll stay. Paula isn’t much of a singer, and is anyway madly in love with pianist Gregory Anton (Charles Boyer). Her teenaged niece Paula (Ingrid Bergman), who used to live with Alice, is tramautised by the incident, and is being sent off to Italy to learn music from Alice’s old mentor. The film opens in 1875, in London’s fog-shrouded Thornton Square, where opera diva Alice Alquist has been strangled. That said, this is a great film, very watchable and with the beautiful Ingrid Bergman in a superb, Oscar-winning performance. The films are worlds apart (and yes, Raj Khosla fan though I am, I must acknowledge that George Cukor is better at this!) There is, however, an interesting similarity: a central character who seems to be steadily going insane. It’s a coincidence that memsaab reviewed Woh Kaun Thi? just after I’d seen Gaslight and decided to review it. ![]() |
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