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Blood Sister
Blood Sisters may refer to: Film and television *Sisters (1972 film), ''Sisters'' (1972 film) or ''Blood Sisters'', a film by Brian De Palma *BloodSisters (1995 film), ''BloodSisters'' (1995 film), a documentary by Michelle Handelman *The Blood Sisters (TV series), ''The Blood Sisters'' (TV series), a 2018 Filipino television series *Blood Sisters (TV series), a Netflix original limited-series * Blood Sisters (Star Wars Rebels), "Blood Sisters" (''Star Wars Rebels'') Literature *Blood Sisters (novel), a 2005 novel by Barbara Keating and Stephanie Keating *''Blood Sisters'', a 1981 novel by Valerie Miner *''Bloodsisters'', a 1982 novel by John A. Russo *"Blood Sisters", a short story by Greg Egan in Hackers (anthology)#"Blood Sisters", ''Hackers'' (anthology), a 1991 collection See also * Blood brother (other) * Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood, a religious order * San Diego Blood Sisters {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisters (1972 Film)
''Sisters'' (released as ''Blood Sisters'' in the United Kingdom) is a 1972 American psychological horror film directed by Brian De Palma and starring Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, and Charles Durning. It follows a French Canadian model Danielle Breton's separated conjoined twin Dominique Blanchion who is suspected of having committed a brutal murder witnessed by Grace Collier, a newspaper reporter in Staten Island, New York City. Co-written by De Palma and Louisa Rose, the screenplay for the film was inspired by the Soviet conjoined twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova and features narrative and visual references to several films by Alfred Hitchcock. Filmed on location in Staten Island, the film prominently features split-screen compositions (also present in subsequent De Palma films such as '' Carrie''), and was scored by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Herrmann. Released in the spring of 1973, ''Sisters'' received praise from critics who noted its adept performances a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BloodSisters (1995 Film)
''BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes and Sadomasochism'' is a 1995 American documentary film directed by Michelle Handelman. The film documents the lesbian BDSM and leather subculture scene in San Francisco in the mid-1990s. ''BloodSisters'' is noted as the subject of protests by the American Family Association in the context of their efforts to defund the National Endowment for the Arts, from which the film's distributor Women Make Movies received funding. Synopsis The film focuses on a group of self-identified leatherdykes active in San Francisco's BDSM scene in the mid-1990s. The film provides an overview of S&M practices and terminology, and depicts its subjects attending the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation, the San Francisco International Ms. Leather pageant, and the New York City Pride March. Production Director Michelle Handelman moved to San Francisco in 1986, where she was introduced to the city's lesbian leather subculture by Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blood Sisters (TV Series)
''The Blood Sisters'' is a 2018 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by ABS-CBN. Directed by Jojo A. Saguin, Roderick P. Lindayag and Manny Q. Palo, it stars Erich Gonzales. It aired on the network's Primetime Bida line up and worldwide on TFC from February 12 to August 17, 2018, replacing ''Wildflower'' and was replaced by '' Meteor Garden''. Plot This fictional story follows the lives of triplets, separated as infants, and the complex events that bring them together. The main story line revolves around Erika Castillo, an exotic dancer in a club in Davao City. Her work as an entertainer helps provide for her son's medical bills, but her job exposes her to the seedy darkness and dangers of the business, and that is what happened one evening when she witnesses a waitress murder a syndicate member in the club's private dancing room. The killer, known only as Ana Cruz quickly disappears and the syndicate is eager to retrieve a ledger they think Erika took. Greg (I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Sisters (TV Series)
''Blood Sisters'' is a Nigerian thriller television series. The series, which has been described as the first Nigerian Netflix Original series, stars Ini Dima-Okojie and Nancy Isime in the lead, with Ramsey Nouah, Kate Henshaw, Wale Ojo, Kehinde Bankole, Deyemi Okanlawon, Gabriel Afolayan, Tope Tedela among other cast members. The four-part series was released on 5 May 2022 on Netflix. The release was a collaboration of Netflix and Mo Abudu through her media company, Ebonylife TV. ''Blood Sisters'' was directed by Biyi Bandele and Kenneth Gyang. Synopsis The crime thriller follows the story of two friends, Sarah and Kemi, who became fugitives after Sarah's husband to be, Kola disappears mysteriously on their engagement day, the circumstances surrounding his disappearance became a mystery to the public until he (Kola) was declared dead few days after when his body was found in a shallow grave. This situation then made Sarah and Kemi wanted fugitives, as they had to leave town in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Sisters (Star Wars Rebels)
''Star Wars Rebels'' is an American 3D CGI animated television series produced by Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation. Beginning fourteen years after ''Revenge of the Sith'' and five years before ''A New Hope'', ''Rebels'' takes place during an era when the Galactic Empire is securing its grip on the galaxy. Imperial forces are hunting down the last of the Jedi Knights while a fledgling rebellion against the Empire is taking form, with the series following the crew of the ''Ghost''. The series was previewed throughout August 2014 with a set of shorts introducing the main characters before the television film pilot episode premiered on Disney Channel on October 3, 2014. The regular series premiered on Disney XD on October 13, 2014. The second season started on June 20, 2015, and the third season premiered on September 24, 2016. The two-part season three finale aired on March 25, 2017. The fourth and final season premiered on October 16, 2017, with the two-part episode "Heroes of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Sisters (novel)
''Blood Sisters'' is a 2005 book by Barbara and Stephanie Keating. The book follows the lives of three girls through their early lives in Kenya to their later lives, each of which go into different directions. Synopsis The novel concerns the life stories of three girls: the Irish Sarah Mackay, an Afrikaner Hanna Van der Beer and British Camilla Broughton Smith. The book follows their journey from being brought up in Kenya, until their lives diverge and their hopes and dreams are destroyed, and their bond almost with it. Publication ''Blood Sisters'' was first published in paperback format in the United Kingdom on 6 October 2005 through Harvill Press. This was followed by an ebook publication in 2006 through Vintage. The novel has been translated to multiple languages that include German, Turkish, and Italian. Trilogy It is the first volume of the ''Langani Trilogy'', followed by ''A Durable Fire'' (2007, ) and ''In Borrowed Light'' (2011, ). Reception RTÉ's revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Miner
Valerie Miner (born 1947) is an American novelist, journalist, and professor. Biography Miner has written more than a dozen books, and her work has appeared in ''The Georgia Review'', ''Salmagundi'', ''New Letters'', ''Ploughshares'', ''The Village Voice'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', '' Conditions'', '' TLS'', ''Women's Review of Books'', ''The Nation'', and other journals. Her stories and essays are published in more than sixty anthologies. A number of her pieces have been dramatized on BBC Radio 4. Her collaborative work includes books, museum exhibits and theatre. Her work has been translated into German, Turkish, Danish, Italian, Spanish, French, Swedish and Dutch. Miner was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 1990 (for ''Trespassing'') and in 2005 (for ''Abundant Light''). ''The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir'' (2001) was a finalist for the PEN USA Creative Non-Fiction Award. She has won fellowships and awards from The Rockefeller Foundatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John A
Sir John Alexander Macdonald (10 or 11January 18156June 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 until his death in 1891. He was the Fathers of Confederation, dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, and had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston, Ontario, Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become List of Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada, premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, he agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown (Canadian politician), George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek fede ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hackers (anthology)
''Hackers'' is an anthology of science fiction short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in 1996. It contains stories by science fiction and cyberpunk writers of the late 1980s and early 1990s about hackers. Contents "Burning Chrome" "Spirit of the Night" This story was written by Tom Maddox, and was first published in ''Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine'' in 1987. This is the story of a man whose wife is kidnapped during a business dealing about bio computers. The man then finds out that his wife's electronic records have disappeared. Bound by his wife's love, he plunges back to his hacker days to track his wife's abductor, and even enlists the help of his old college hacking master. Thinking originally that it was the company involved in the business deal, he blackmails them, but then finds out that something else may be behind the ordeal. "Blood Sisters" This story was written by Greg Egan, and was first published in '' Interzone 44 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blood Brother (other)
A blood brother is a male who swears loyalty to another male. Blood Brother, Blood Brothers, Bloodbrothers, or The Blood Brothers may also refer to: Film * ''The Blood Brothers'' (1973 film), a Hong Kong film by Chang Cheh * ''Blood Brothers'' (1974 film), an Italian film starring Claudia Cardinale * ''Blood Brothers'' (1975 film), an East German film by Werner W. Wallroth * ''Bloodbrothers'' (1978 film), a film starring Richard Gere, based on a novel by Richard Price (see below) * ''Blood Brothers'' (1993 film), a made-for-television film featuring Richard Yearwood * ''Blood Brothers'' (film series), a 1993 Australian documentary series (four films) * ''Blood Brothers'' (1996 film), a documentary about a Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band reunion * ''Blood Brothers'' (2004 film) (''Jiang Hu''), a Hong Kong gang film * ''Bloodbrothers'' (2005 film), a Swedish film starring Sofia Helin * ''Blood Brothers'' (2007 Chinese film), a Chinese film by Alexi Tan *''The Warl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisters Adorers Of The Precious Blood
The Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood are a contemplative and cloistered religious institute of the Catholic Church. They were founded in 1861 by Catherine Aurelia Caouette in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada. History The ''Sœurs Adoratrices du Précieux-Sang'' was established as a cloistered, contemplative community in 1861 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. The first subsequent foundation was that of Toronto in 1867. A monastery was opened in Montreal, Quebec in 1874. In 1925, Precious Blood Monastery in Edmonton, Alberta was established. With declining membership, the monastery closed in 2012, with two sisters going to the nursing home at Providence Centre, and the other four dispersing to monasteries in Calgary, Quebec and Portland, Maine. A Monastery of the Precious Blood opened in Portland, Oregon in 1891 and closed in 1992, the sisters dispersing to houses in the East. A house was opened in Havana, Cuba in 1902 and closed in 1960. A Monastery of the Precious Blood in Charlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
