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Distributed Proofreaders Sep 1, 2025

Distributed Proofreaders goes to sea with Billy Budd https://blog.pgdp.net/2025/09/01/billy-budd/ #ebooks #HermanMelville #BillyBudd

Billy Budd

In 1890, the New York Times said of Herman Melville, “There are more people to-day who believe Herman Melville dead than there are those who know he is living.” He was alive, but his writing …

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Terence Stamp, prolific actor who played General Zod in ‘Superman’ films, dies at 87

Terence Stamp, the prolific English actor who played General Zod in the “Superman” films and earned an Oscar…
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Sim Barr Aug 17, 2025

❤️‍🔥RIP Terence Stamp ❤️‍🔥

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Sim Barr Feb 15, 2025

Stage Actor Charles Nolte as Billy Budd, 1951

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#CharlesNolte (1923– 2010) was a Minnesota born #actor, director, playwright, + educator. He made his #Broadway debut in a production of Antony and Cleopatra, but it was the 1951 Broadway production of #BillyBudd playing the title role that brought him his greatest fame. He went on to appear in several hollywood films, but ended his career teaching at the #UniversityofMinnesota

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Performant Software Solutions Sep 19, 2024

Check out the #BillyBudd exhibit @grolierclub in NYC Sept 9-Nov 12. This digital critical edition was built using #EditionCrafter, a tool we created in collaboration with Columbia University's Making & Knowing Group. Edition Crafter joins #RecogitoStudio in the growing suite of DH tools we support. https://dh.tools/grolierclub #DigitalHumanities #MinimalComputing

Twenty-First Century · Melville's Billy Budd at 100 · Grolier Club Exhibitions

Online exhibitions for The Grolier Club of New York.

(((Cindy Weinstein)))May 14, 2024

Watching #Sopranos. Season 4, Episode 12, "Eloise," really has it all: #Pal'sCabin in #WestOrange, #BillyBudd, and #LeslieFiedler.

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(((Cindy Weinstein)))May 14, 2024

Watching the #Sopranos. Eloise is episode 12, Season 4, and it has everything! #Pal'sCabin (#WestOrange), #BillyBudd, and #LeslieFiedler.

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Dustin Kiyeon Chang Mar 1, 2023

Claire Denis loosely adapts Melville's Billy Budd- a story about the human desire to destroy something pure and beautiful, with a sensual, languid imagery. Arid, rocky Djibouti backdrop clashes with smooth, muscular bodies of young Legionnaires as they carry on their boring daily routines with no real enemies in sight. Galoup, a seasoned military man takes an immediate dislike to a beautiful, righteous new recruit Sentain and looks for excuses to destroy him. His feelings are mixture of desire, jealousy and envy. It's Lavant's physicality on full display here. His pockmarked face and athleticism dominate the screen. I thought Galoup's narration was unnecessary at first since it doesn't add anything much to the plot. Then again, Denis has little concerns for that. On this viewing, I can see how it accentuates Galoup's loneliness and isolation. The ending is definitely my favorite movie ending of all time.
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Dustin Kiyeon Chang Jan 2, 2023

It's Lavant's physicality on full display here. His pockmarked face and athleticism dominate the screen. I thought Galoup's narration was unnecessary at first since it doesn't add anything much to the plot. Then again, Denis has little concerns for that. On this viewing of Beau Travail, I can see how it accentuates Galoup's loneliness & isolation. The ending is definitely my favorite movie ending of all time. #ClaireDenis #DenisLavant #HermanMelville #billybudd