Author: vera

Let us change the course of events in the novel An American Tragedy by Theodor Dreiser. The penniless, hardworking Roberta Alden is just as beautiful and attractive as the wealthy, pampered and elegant Sondra Finchley. When Clyde Griffith took Roberta on a row boat out on not the Big Bittern […]

Dr Bovary on his way to see a patient. His wife, Emma, was “educated” on schmaltz. Her refusal to accept that reality cannot be up to her romantic ideas leads to a tragic end.

Directed by John Ford, Cheyenne Automn was the first movie I saw in which the Indians were the good guys. The plot of the film revolves around an actual event. In 1878 the Northern Cheyenne, previously relocated from their traditional homeland  to a reservation in Oklahoma, found their living conditions […]

It all starts with the abs and the guy who developed the abs. The guy has a virtual relationship with a real housewife far away. Here she is, trying to avoid the cameras and the wind in her hair. The housewife tells the guy that she has been receiving threatening […]

Henry Rousseau, also known as Le Douanier, painted two versions of his dream. The original version. The second version.

Giovanni Arnolfini married Giovanna Cenami in 1434. A member of the wedding was Jan van Eyck. The painter’s wedding present was this portrait which made the Arnolfini couple celebrities to this day. The following i-phone snapshot shows the Arnolfini couple on their way to van Eyck’s studio for posing. They […]

Gaylord Ravenal hopes Magnolia will love to have him back. There is Joe in the background, singing Ol ‘Man River.

                                Christian Dior’s  1947 collection. Neusatz-Ersatz, 1954 or so

Tyra Banks with an object of art in  the background.