ellauri016.html on line 782: Drake recorded his debut album Five Leaves Left later in 1968, with Boyd as producer. He had to skip lectures to travel by train to the sessions in Sound Techniques studio, London. Inspired by John Simon's production of Leonard Cohen's 1967 album Songs of Leonard Cohen, Boyd was keen to record Drake's voice in a similar close and intimate style, "with no shiny pop reverb". He sought to include a string arrangement similar to Simon's, "without overwhelming or sounding cheesy".
ellauri150.html on line 484: Based on an 1880 novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the film was directed by Hollywood great William Wyler, and screenwriter Gore Vidal was one of many who took a pass at the screenplay. In The Celluloid Closet, Vidal states in no uncertain terms that he scripted the film as a confrontation between ex-lovers Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston) and Messala (Stephen Boyd). Further, Vidal claims that, after consultation with Wyler and Boyd (but not Heston, who would have objected), he wrote one particular scene, where the estranged Ben-Hur and Messala meet again, with heavy gay subtext.
ellauri150.html on line 600: Plot summary for the 1959 film Ben Hur directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston as Judah Ben-Hur and Stephen Boyd as Messala.
ellauri198.html on line 254: Juostessani taxista Thean asuintalon ovelle ja soittaessani kelloa kolme kertaa en juuri pannut merkille missä olis aula, komea ja runsaasti kalustettu, ketään ei ollut saapuvilla, ja kun yritin saada selville mikä hienoista ovista kuului hissiin, erääseen niista ilmestyi valoruutu. Thea oli ajanut alas minua vastaan. Ovi avautui. Sisällä oli samettipäällysteinen penkki ja me vaivuimme istumaan sille, syleilimme ja suutelimme siittimeni noustessa äänettömästi Thean imutuxessa (Boyd kertoo samansisältöistä tarinaa skotti lastenpiiasta muistelmiensa alussa). Huomaamatta veren kovettamaa munaani Thea siveli kädellään kassejani, olkapäihin asti. Mina avasin hänen kotitakkinsa rintojen kohdalta. En hallinnut itseäni, pääsi ruiskahtamaan silmille etuajassa. En tajunnut mitään, olin miltei sokea. Jos joku muu olisi ollut sijassamme kumpikaan meistä ei olisi sitä tiennyt. En voi varmasti sanoa en nähnyt kasvoja, kenties se olikin siivooja. Kun ovi avautui, ja jatkoimme bylsimistä kävellessämme käytävässä ja sitten huoneistossa, matolla oven luona Thea ei ollut kuin muut naiset, nuo jotka niin sanoakseni antoavat luvan paljastaa yhden asian kerrallaan ja ihailla sitä, vaan päästi heti perille asti. Rakkauden tunne hallizi mahtavana. Theaa näpäsi että olin viivytellyt ammattiliittoasioissa. Olisit sanonut duunareille että "I got a chick to fuck".
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 134: O autor do romance, Vladi Nabokov, homem circunspecto, deixa a impressão de que é uma incógnita. Na verdade, não é. Ele escreveu sobre si, em “Fala, Memória” (Alfaguara, 328 páginas, tradução de José Rubens Siqueira), e há a estupenda biografia escrita pelo irlandês Brian Boyd (PhD em literatura pela Universidade de Toronto), publicada em dois volumes, “Vladimir Nabokov — Os Anos Russos” (Anagrama, 626 páginas, tradução de Jordi Beltran) e “Vladimir Nabokov — Os Anos Americanos” (Anagrama, 966 páginas, tradução de Daniel Najmías). Não há tradução brasileira. “Véra. Señora de Nabokov” (Alianza Editorial, 744 páginas, tradução de Miguel Martínez), de Stacy Schiff, é uma magnífica biografia de Véra Nabokov, a mulher do autor de “Fogo Pálido”. Trata-se, por sinal, de uma biografia indireta de Vladimir Nabokov. Ganhou o reputado prêmio Pulitzer.
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 136: O livro “The Real Lolita”, de Sarah Weinman, resgata a história de duas pessoas cuja história teria colaborado para a formatação do romance “Lolita”, de Vladimir Nabokov. Brian Boyd relata que Vladimir Nabokov leu “notícias sobre acidentes publicadas em jornais, sobre crimes sexuais e assassinatos: ‘um violador de meia idade’ que raptou Sally Horner, uma garota de 15 anos de Nova Jersey, e a manteve em seu poder durante 21 meses, levando-a como ‘escrava’ por todo o país até que a encontraram em um motel do sul da Califórnia”. O nome do homem não é citado. Por que a quase nenhuma importância dada ao caso? Porque, como mostra o biógrafo, o romance de Vladimir Nabokov vai muito além da história de Sally Horner e de seu raptador. Reduzi-lo a isto é reduzir a importância de sua literatura (que nada tem de jornalismo).
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 138: “Nabokov talvez nem precisasse de Sally Horner para criar sua paradigmática ninfeta, pois já localizaram referências à sexualidade precoce de meninas pré-púberes em pelo menos seis de suas criações ficcionais, entre contos, novelas e romances.” Brian Boyd revela que Vladimir Nabokov fez ampla pesquisa sobre a sexualidade de pessoas do sexo feminino “de 6 a 19 anos”. Não deixou nem mesmo de pesquisar as gírias dos jovens.
xxx/ellauri127.html on line 124: I would argue that the first real fissure in the adulatory critical wall hailing the “literary giant” came in 1990, in George Steiner’s erudite assessment of the first volume of Brian Boyd’s Nabokov biography, “Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years.” Writing in The New Yorker, Steiner perceived, a lack of generosity of spirit in Boyd’s subject: “Nabokov’s case seems to entail a deep-lying inhumanity, or, more precisely, unhumanity,” Steiner wrote. “There is compassion in Nabokov, but it is far outweighed by lofty or morose disdain.”
xxx/ellauri394.html on line 81: The song was inspired by a notable farewell embrace given by Colonel James Harbottle Boyd during a horseback trip taken by Princess Liliʻuokalani in 1877 or 1878 to the Boyd ranch in Maunawili on the windward side of Oʻahu, and that the members of the party hummed the tune on the way back to Honolulu.
xxx/ellauri394.html on line 152: In April 1887, Kalākaua sent a delegation to attend the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in London. It included his wife Queen Kapiʻolani, the Princess Liliʻuokalani and her husband, as well as Court Chamberlain Colonel Curtis P. Iaukea acting as the official envoy of the King and Colonel James Harbottle Boyd acting as aide-de-camp to the Queen. The party landed in San Francisco and traveled across the United States visiting Washington, D.C., Boston and New York City, where they boarded a ship for the United Kingdom. While in the American capital, they were received by President Grover Cleveland and his wife Frances Cleveland. In London, Kapiʻolani and Liliʻuokalani received an official audience with Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. Queen Victoria greeted both Hawaiian royals with affection, and recalled Kalākaua´s visit in 1881. They attended the special Jubilee service at Westminster Abbey and were seated with other foreign royal guests, and with members of the Royal Household. Shortly after the Jubilee celebrations, they learned of the Bayonet Constitution that Kalākaua had been forced to sign under the threat of death. They canceled their tour of Europe and returned to Hawaii.
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