David Lean was a  British film director,and he is  considered as the  master of the epic scale as well as of the small nuance.

He was born on 25th march 1908He was born in Croydon, England,to Francis William le Blount Lean and the former Helena Tangye.Both his parents were Quakers and naturally  he was also a pupil at the Quaker-founded Leighton Park School in ReadingHe was educated at Leighton Park School.

Credit goes to his younger brother also as his younger brother, Edward Tangye Lean , founded the original Inklings literary club when a student at Oxford UniversityLean started his  career with his father, who was an accountant, and then he  took a job at Gaumont Films, where he was placed in charge of editing for the firm's newsreels.He later worked on low-budget feature films  it was so brillian and  by 1935 he was considered one of the  Britain's leading film editor.

Credit goes to him as he edited the landmark adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1938) and he also edited and co-directed Shaw's Major Barbara (1941) and Noel Coward's In Which We Serve (1942).Coward was higluy impressed by his work and he  permitted Lean to direct film versions of his This Happy Breed (1945), Blithe Spirit (1945), and Brief Encounter (1945), for which eventualll lead Lean for  winning an Oscar nomination.

Later, Lean went to Hollywood in 1955 to direct Summertime which starred Katharine Hepburn and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won an Oscar is considered as one of the best film all time.

Again in 1962 he won another oscar for his film Lawrence of Arabia.Lean gave up films for a gap 14 years,after he finished, Doctor Zhivago (1965) and Ryan's Daughter (1970).After a gap of 14 years he made a sensational comeback in 1984 with  the film A Passage to India , which won eleven more  Academy Award nominations and two wins for Original score,Maurice Jarre, and supporting actress ,Peggy Ashcroft

It was in 1973 he won the highest honor of the Directors' Guild of America, the D. W. Griffith Award.He was made a commander of the British Empire in 1953 and was knighted in 1984.During the 1990's Lean was in pre-production of a film version of Joseph Conrad's Nostromo and he was very hill that time and he eventually died on 16th April 1991 at the age of 83,due to throat cancer, with the film Nostromo unfinishedLater that film became as one of the BBC mini series

Lean was one of the founding members of the British Film Academy  which is now called as British Academy of Film and Television Arts, or BAFTA and he was appointed as  its first chairman in 1947.Lean also received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990

Seven of his film were on the BFI top 100 British films list and four of them were on the top elevenHe was  a long-term resident of Limehouse, East London.His home on Narrow Street is still owned by his family members.He was married six times, had one son, and also was divorced five times.He was survived by his last wife, Sandra Cooke.

His spouses includes,

1. Isabel Lean (28 June 1930 – 1936) (David's first cousin) — one son, Peter
2. Kay Walsh (23 November 1940 – 1949)
3. Ann Todd (21 May 1949 – 1957)
4. Leila Matkar (4 July 1960 – 1978)
5. Sandra Hotz (28 October 1981 – 1984)
6. Sandra Cooke (15 December 1990 – 16 April 1991)

#)David Lean was one of the great director and he will be remebered forever

Hai friends in this article let us discuss about the 5 time Emmy award winner and 2 time Gold Globe award winning American Actress and model CANDICE BERGEN.She also has an Oscar Nomination.

Candice Bergen,is an American actor and photojournalist,and she is best known for portraying the title character in the television situation comedy “Murphy Brown".She was Born in Beverly Hills, California, to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and fashion model Frances Westerman Bergen,on May 9 ,1946.

She appeared on her father's radio program,when she  was introduced to show business in 1952 . She begin to hae her higher education at the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, but she left two years so as to begin a career as a fashion model in New York City. She had  an immediate success as a fashion model, and in 1966 she appeared in the motion picture called as "The Group" by American director Sidney Lumet.This film was  the first of many motion-picture roles in her career, and th epicture below shows the poster of th efilm "The Group"

Later she acted in many movies like The Sand Pebbles (1966), Getting Straight (1970), Soldier Blue (1970), Carnal Knowledge (1971), and The Wind and the Lion (1975), for which,Bergen was praised not only for her beauty but also received criticism for the stiffness of her acting.She was also  nominated for an Academy Award as best supporting actress for her role in the comedy Starting Over in the year 1979,and the poster of the film is shown below

“Murphy Brown” debuted on television in the yeat 1988 with Bergen in the starring role. This  gained immediate popularity, and Bergen's character was an outspoken television journalist who worked with a disparate group of characters to produce quality television news program. This show was running for a decade and finished in 1998.Bergen also enacted in the Oscar Winning Film "GANDHI" and she played the characted of Margaret Bourke, who was an American Photographer.the picture belos showas a scene from the Film Gandhi where she acted with Ben Kingsley(Who played the Character of Gandhi in this film)

It is a happy day. He was born that day.

His name is Ramaswamy. He is living in India. His family is very big. He had more money. But who could not attend to his sixtieth birth day party and no interest on him. All are busy in foreign.

In that time he received an email letter.

That is…

I have just remembered that is your birth day on Sunday and so I must send you a birth day letter at once. And I begin with the old greeting, many happy returns of the day! I hope the day it self will be peaceful and happy for you and that you will be spared in happiness and health to us all for years yet. You have always been a kind and generous uncle to Me., and I take this opportunity of thanking you from the bottom of my heart for all you have done for me.

I was so glad to hear from father that you are hale and hearty, and can take your long walk every day, and still play a good set of badminton. I am sending you a good book which I think you will like. You were always a great reader, and I am glad that your eyesight remains as best as ever- father says. I’m getting on well in my business and hope to enlarge it considerably before the end of the year.

I pray to god for you.

``Great god! Grant grace on him and bless him

For good health and long live’’

With love and best wishes,

Your loving relative

Ram

After reading this letter water floods out in his eyes.

*All over the world people celebrate many things- harvest time, seasonal changes, religious events, their country’s independence of victory over an enemy.

• Rio carnival: - this is one of the biggest festivals in the time world. It takes place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There are spectacular parades, floats, music and dance, parties and balls. Prizes are given to the best Samba groups.
• Inti Raymi: - this Inca festival, along with its many rituals, honored the sun god. The Incas were an ancient South America civilization. The festival has now been revived, and actors recent the rituals in the city of Cuzco, Peru. It takes place, as before, on the winter solstice, in June.
• Songkram: - this New Year festival is celebrated in Thailand. It is also called the water festival as people believe that water has cleaning properties and will wash away bad luck. They throw water on each other, bathe images in temples, and feed monks.
• Maslenyitsa: - this Russian festival is held at the end of the February to welcome spring. Pancakes are cooked and eaten along with butter, caviar, cream and honey. A straw dummy of winter is burnt. People are burnt. People wear traditional clothes and dance and enjoy themselves.
• Walpurgis Night: - legend says that on this night, witches meet on the highest peak of the Harz Mountains in Germany. People celebrate the end of winter by lighting bonfires, while children play pranks and make a great noise to drive away evil spirits.
• Kwanzaa: - It was founded to help African –Americans learn about their common heritage. Each family lights a seven- candles holder. The middle candle is black to represent African –Americans; three red candles show their struggle and three green candles their struggle and three green candles show their hopes for the future. Each day is used to think about one important principle, making up a total of seven principles. These are called Nguzo Saba Kiswahili.
• Sakura Matsuri: - this festival beings in April, just as the cherry trees being to bloom with their beautiful pink flowers. People flock to temples, gardens and nature sports or O- hanami. There are picnics, arts shows, dance and music, poetry and calligraphy competitions, parades and religious ceremonies.
• Hsin Nien: - this is the Chinese New Year, which is celebrated for 15 days. It falls in January of February each year. Each day has special festivities including honoring dead ancestors, eating special foods which symbolize luck and prosperity, giving gifts, meeting relatives and being kind and friendly to everyone. Lanterns are lit on the night of the 15th day.
• St Lucia day: - this day is in the memory of a young Italian who used to take food for Christians when they were being persecuted. She used to go secretly through tunnels, lighting up her way with candles carried on her head. These days’ children, especially girls, serve food to their families, friends and neighbors.
• St Patrick’s Day: - in honors the patron saint of Ireland, who converted the Irish to Christianity. He used the 3-leafed clover to first explain the concept of the Christian Trinity. This leaf is still associated with this festival.