Richard Armitage tangentially related
Brief editorial 1: Slick but entirely content free. Sigh.
Brief editorial 2: I wonder if we really want to fill the #richardarmitage tag on Twitter with reports of fake accounts that tag Armitage? It hasn’t alleviated the problem (it can’t( and it’s making the tag tedious to read.
Anyway this is also incomplete — I got through the fast. I am not a gracious faster. I got through Yizkor. I need to write about that. I am grading now, teach tomorrow, dad is back tomorrow night … Anyway. I know I keep saying I will be back soon but I guess I am still saying it. thanks for continuing to read.
Past projects:
- (The Tattooist of Auschwitz): A television series is in development. Also, for North Americans who have Hoopla access, I saw the other day that it’s available via that venue now, too.
- (Their Lost Daughters): Made a Good Housekeeping UK list of Audible’s bestselling thrillers in 2018 (I assume audible.co.uk). This is interesting mainly because it’s catapulted Ellis into the ranks of three noted crime writers: Peter May, James Patternson, and P.D. James (as well as Stephen King).
- (Wolverine: The Long Night): A little more glimpse of Armitage biting a fellow actor’s leg during the recording session.
- (Wanderlust): A bookstore has signed a development deal with a television production company. I thought this was interesting; maybe Armitage’s agents think he will be able to move from reading romances to acting in them?
Collateral attractions:
- Latest update on Sarah (frequent Armitage photographer) Dunn’s recovery. Continued donations for her care can be made there as well.
Social media:
Things we’ve talked about:
Me + Richard Armitage 
“Editorial-free” – that describes it perfectly. Such a pity. A lost opportunity to draw new viewers in.
Have to read your list later on – some really interesting things in there. Thanks for compiling it!
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The expat piece I found personally condescending and if I missed the point or her points then so be it but Europe is expensive
esp London concert dollars to pounds or dollars to Euros esp in O8 when she says she moved to Paris. Europe had its share of problems of wealth disparity as does America. I think her view is of an upper aristocratic cushy job writer living in bubble. NYC shares
a lot of the same problems as Paris and Amtrak isn’t Tokyo’s train system no but it is
fine to get you from point A to point B just like in Paris or London or Amsterdam or Frankfurt.
It would be awesome if Richard got involved in
Tattoo project or even if Joy Ellis books were turned into BBC series or miniseries!!
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I meant convert not concert sorry stupid phone
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I’m not sure what you mean by “aristocratic” as there are no American aristocrats. She’s a Yale alum and she has worked as a journalist for numerous US publications over the years, so she has held staff positions as a journalist. I don’t know if she has private income but in any case a journalist’s salary isn’t typically out of proportion to the average American professional’s income. Moreover, if you look at current cost of living indexes, New York is more expensive than London (probably due to the Brexit-related collapse of the pound) and significantly more expensive than Paris. She’s not wrong about Amtrak (except in comparison to the British rail options, perhaps) — European rail is cheaper, safer, faster and in better condition (and also more heavily subsidized) than Amtrak. It’s hard to look at the ways at which Europe manages wealth disparity and not be jealous, not least considering the health care situation — and recent studies have shown that social mobility is much higher in most of Europe than it is in the U.S. However, the reason that I posted the article was that I often had a similar reaction when coming back: on the one hand (a) is all this necessary? but (b) there’s something about Americans but / and (c) it would be a shame if the whole world turned into America nonetheless.
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Yeah I didn’t use the right word aristocratic sorry. I guess her piece made me more patriotic in a way than I normally am esp w the political climate here in the US now. Don’t get me wrong I love Europe but my perception
reading the piece was she was thumbing her nose at the US and I was just trying to point out that both continents have their share of
problems. We can agree to disagree about
Amtrak though I’ve rarely had any issue travelling from DC to NYC and if one avoids
Acela which is more expensive the fares are
fairly affordable. Healthcare in Europe and Canada for that matter are definitely much better than in the US but the political climates
are becoming disturbing.
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The article is quite balanced, I think — it’s about feeling dislocation and wondering why the US is the way it is, and then realizing there are things you appreciate (she mentions the entrpreneurial spirit, for instance). She certainly wasn’t arguing that there are no problems in Europe. But I don’t think a country that elected DT can really point any fingers at the political situations elsewhere.
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Ok well DT is one reason I don’t sleep well at night. I do hope your little mini break was
relaxing? Restful?? 🤞😀
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thought-provoking — esp after it ended
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re the expat article: when my daughter studied abroad in London for six months the one thing she asked me to send her (other than a new iPhone when hers was stolen) was thin mint girl scout cookies. Otherwise I think she was perfectly happy to leave the US behind. Of course, it was easy for her to feel that way since Mom and Dad were footing the bill for her expenses in London! I’m sure she would feel somewhat differently if she had had to support herself
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Yeah — London is hard to manage on an entry-level position (although maybe easier for a twenty year old). I went through different phases of it myself — early on I was very eager to go as native as I could; when I was in my thirties I had found things I was more attached to and which bothered me more to leave in the U.S. But then there were also things I’d gotten more attached to in Germany, so in some ways it was a tossup.
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