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Here is a pose that is challenging–a sort of one-eighth-profile-from-below-with-a-twist-of-open-mouth–but the photographer (sorry to say I haven’t found the photo source) knew what she or he was doing: Thompson’s exuberant joy and optimism are well showcased.

There’s a movie out now, EFFIE GRAY, for which Thompson wrote the screenplay. She’s won an Oscar for her screenplay adaptation of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, and is the only actor to win the Academy Award both for screenplay writing and acting. But this latest of hers has not done well in the critical arena, nor if box-office receipts measure success. I’m not in a position to judge, since I haven’t seen the movie (hope to remedy that soon). But, Friends, she’ll be back on her horse again trying, I guarantee it: even the cursory review of her career I’ve had reveals she’s Never Quit through and through.

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Words, words, words:

The vagaries of language take a hand in giving flow
Here: some might point out Shiloh’s proven neither shi nor loh
Edition alley: pretty Grecian letters in a rho
Here: H, & it’s r e s e r v e d–it’s north of I & south of G
And other language comes in handy also, Boga ti
LORENZO was to Renaissance as Stephen is to Liv
Forefatherhood’s a metaphor to sever or to sieve
Or, more directly, strength of arms is found in FORTINBRAS
Felafel’s awful waffle-doffin’ dolphins off. The shwa
Is insignificant, yet VITAL; dealing with Old Scratch
It well behooves a farrier to bring along a batch
The senselessness of fate is vast. If words would serve to match it
The trick’s to make this mystery and then to not unlatch it

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