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Melissa George
Australian and American actress (born 1976)
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| Born | Melissa Suzanne George (1976-08-06) 6 August 1976 (age 48) Perth, Australia |
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| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Spouse | Claudio Dabed (m. 2000; div. 2011) |
| Partner | Jean-David Blanc (2011–2016) |
| Children | 3 |
Melissa Suzanne George (born 6 August 1976)[1] is an Australian and American actress. She began her career playing Angel Parrish in the Australian soap opera Home and Away (1993–1996). After moving to the United States, George made her feature-film debut with a supporting role in the tech-noir, science-fiction film Dark City (1998). She made the transition to leading roles when she appeared in the supernatural-horror film The Amityville Horror (2005), gaining further recognition for the crime-t
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Jean Rhys: Life and Work
Life was brutal to Jean Rhys, and she let us know it in her deliciously wry, self-deprecating, sometimes hilarious way. Her incompetence at life was magnificently offset by her profound talent for expressing and rationalising that experience so succinctly in writing. Hence her being described by one literary contemporary as 'one of the finest British writers of this century'.
Some Rhys devotees are prone to the notion that there sits within each of us a 'touch of the Jean Rhys'. Such aficionados may argue that Jean's critics are merely expressing their own insecurities, displaying denial of their own vulnerabilities, bygd deriding Jean's absurdist take on life.
Indeed, Rhys detractors who have tagged her work a 'gloomfest' seem simply out of their depth to her adherents.
But frivolous pulp fiction was
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Three Days In Nepal
As a child, JeanDavid Blanc always dreamt of flying. A successful entrepreneur, he took up powered paragliding as soon as he had the means; at the drop of a hat, he would head off to experience the unique sensation of floating over the most remote and breathtaking scenery in the world.
In January 2011, he left Paris for Nepal for an expedition across the Himalayas. During the course of a paragliding flight in Nepal, the weather suddenly turned, and amid a thick cloud cover, he crashed into the face of a mountain. Holding on to little more than a bush, he realized his situation was precarious, but—fortunately—the fog prevented him from seeing just how steep and sheer the drop beneath him was. He sent an SOS back to camp with his GPS coordinates, but the weather was going to make any rescue attempt difficult. As he waited for help and tried to adjust to his perilous situation, he began to receive text messages on his cellphone from oblivious friends back in Paris