Four Mini Portraits

The last thing I do on my PC each night is visit youtube. I spend less than a half hour and usually start with a photo array video. Yesterday’s included someone whose name didn’t ring a bell despite stunning accomplishments. Born in northern France in 1947, Anny Duperey has been wildly successful as an actress, photographer and writer. Her screen career began in 1965 and continues to this day. There are 87 titles under her name at IMDb, big and small screen. Only one, I believe, is American: Bobby Deerfield (1977), starring Al Pacino. The most notable may be the 1993 adaptation of the Emile Zola novel Germinal. She has appeared in at least 25 plays, including Shakespeare. She has written more than ten books, seven of them novels, at least one devoted to her photos. She has been nominated for six acting awards, never winning. She is a mom of two. Photo from Google Images:

From an article by Snejana Farberov at nypost.com, edited by yours truly: RIP Stephen Zabielski, 52, KIA in Ukraine, part of the multinational combat squad the Wolverines, made up of 13 English-speaking foreign combatants. He is survived by his wife, five stepchildren and a grandkid. He is the second Yank to lose his life there. Ex-Marine Willy Joseph Cancel Jr., 22, died in April, according to his mom. Photos from GI:

The threat of rain took the fun out of the floating book shop today. I was lucky to get in an almost full session when sprinkles started to fall. My thanks to Wolf, who bought a complete set of Sherlock Holmes fiction in two paperback volumes, The Reader by Bernhard Schlink — in Russian, and Naked Heat by Richard Castle, based on the character in the TV series. The actual author of the latter is Tom Straw, whose initial success was in TV beginning in 1984, writing an episode of AfterMash. He did five of Night Court, six of Cosby and 13 other shows before his first novel, The Trigger Episode, was published in 2007. He then wrote at least nine Castle novels before publishing Buzz Killer under his own name in 2017. There’s more: he contributed to 744 episodes of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson from 2006–11, and wrote seven of Nurse Jackie. Quite a canon. Kudos, sir. Photo from GI: