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This episode was never seen on TV. Part One The contestants in this made-up season pose with choice fabrics bought at  Mood’s. Heidi tells the designers that their new challenge is to create a fabulous outfit for a doll celebrity –  for Barbie. This desinger is very despondent. He says: […]

The pictures were taken not during the parade but at the gathering points of various groups. Most costumes were ordered from Mattel.

The Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont are plotting how to corrupt innocent people. Soon, Chevalier Danceny, the music tutor, disruppts their tete-a-tete. Valmont is taking his leave. Chevalier Danceny mortally wounds Valmont in the duel. (Note that Marquise de Merteuil’s dress is made after Watteau’s sketch of the sack-back […]

  Did Walter Raleigh lay his cloak over the mud puddle in queen Elisabeth’s way? Was there a puddle? Is  Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, the Young Man Among Roses?

Jack and Jill went up the hill to get a better view of the winter scenery. After they had a good look from the top of the hill, they started their descend on a more rugged slope. Jack fell down, did not brak his crown but Jill did come tumbling […]

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 […]