Stephen Daldry

Jerome Robbins was known as one of the great choreographers of all time, as a genius, as a friend to the rich and famous (and, indeed, “one of them”: He danced with Lauren Bacall at Truman Capote’s Black and White Ball), as one of the four closeted gay Jewish men who made West Side Story , as a person who enjoyed humiliating young male ballet dancers during rehearsals and referring to some of the female ones with the four-letter word that begins with a “c,” as an informer, and as co-founding…

There are several characteristics based on literature Gothic to which the novel Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” belongs that can be traced in the alien quadrilogy. To start with, the very setting of the atmosphere created by alien in the novel are more close or similar to those used during the late 19th century Gothic novels. In the Typical representation of the house in the novel Gothic, the modernity of the setting is coupled with what Chris Baldick defines as “a claustrophobic sense of enclosure in…

Reading Stephen King's essay on why we crave horror, makes me question his beliefs, as he wrote, “those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better, after all.” I do not find a craving of horror movie essential for my life, (though I do enjoy a nice thrill every now and then) but this line makes me wonder if we are all secretly batshit crazy. I concur with his statement that almost everyone is partially insane at times. He says that horror movies…

Tis the season to once again to give praises to the kings of cold, the sultans of slash, the queens of screams, the icons who make Halloween what it is and what it always should be. from a evil possessed doll to a super strong momma's boy with a machete, the horror icons of the 70's to the 90's and early 2000's have made a deep bloody impact on the horror world to this day, if you were to ask your parents what scared them the most when they were your age they would most likely say Freddy Kruger…

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky, tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy named Charlie. The entire story is comprised of letters that Charlie writes to a friend, who is not named, but it can be presumed that the friend is the reader of the book. This type of writing allows the readers to get a first person perspective of how Charlie lives his life and what he is thinking. The story begins with Charlie attempting to cope with the loss of his friend Michael, who committed…

In “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane, four survivors of a tragic shipwreck are forced to live in a lifeboat and fight for survival. The four men are the cook, the oiler, the correspondent, and the captain. The captain assures the men that they are getting very close to a manned lighthouse that he is familiar with, although day by day the men see no lighthouse. The men start to lose hope when finally, land comes into sight. In their great efforts to make landfall, the oiler drowns, despite being…

Goal 1: James will stabilize his mood. • James was in a good mood when the QP met with him for a session and James offered a compliment while in front of the QP. • James acknowledged, “I did learn about mindfulness while in Holly Hill during groups.” • James stated, “Mindfulness was being respectful towards your mother”; however, the QP informed him mindfulness deal with breathing. • James listened as the QP provided information about mindfulness. • James focused on the benefits of…

[4] Born on March 10, 1950, in a town in Rhode Island named Woonsocket, which is an Indian word for “Land of Thunder” Raymond Arthur Drainville conveniently attended Providence College for three years. [2] As a child, Raymond grew up in a Catholic family. [5] Although he was a successful, diligent, and prosperous tractor-trailer driver for years, Raymond never truly knew what he wanted to do with his life when he was an adult – he always imagined himself as retired. [1] God intervened, however,…

Everyone has a fear, no matter how big or small most people work hard to try and avoid their fears, but when a person fears something inevitable, something that no one can escape, it eventually catches them, because death spares no one. Although "Nothing in the Dark" and "The Masque of the Red Death" were written by two different people, in two very different time periods and appear to be very different from each other, they have many similarities. Edgar Allan Poe, author of "The Masque of the…

Have you ever watched a horror movie and thought about how bad those people's decisions are? Yea, I am pretty sure we all have at least once. Watching the movies just makes all of us cringe because their decisions just don’t make sense! We can help it though. All of those decisions could be prevented if those people just followed the rules of a horror movie. There are six important rules. Don’t go into creepy houses, don’t investigate the creepy noise outside, don’t talk to the murderer, hide in…