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26-494: Love All is the first novel by the journalist, writer and artist Molly Parkin , originally published in 1974. The book was originally submitted as a 750-word outline to publishers Blond & Briggs . Although editorial staff disliked it, a secretary commented that she liked it, and it was picked up for publication. It was published in the UK in 1974 by Blond & Briggs, with reprints in 1997, 1979 (twice) and 1980 by Star. Love All

52-504: A United Nations film titled Out , a documentary about the plight of Hungarian refugees . At this juncture, Rogosin devoted himself to promoting peace and confronting issues such as nuclear war , imperialism , and racism. Apartheid was his first target, but in order to make a film against it, he decided to learn by filming the Bowery , New York's skid row , an effort influenced by the documentaries of Robert J. Flaherty . Thus he made On

78-465: A car knocked her off her bicycle and she hit her head on the kerb. She was knocked unconscious, hospitalised, and spent about a year off school, convalescing. Parkin spent much of this period alone in her room above the shop, drawing and painting. This developed into an interest in the arts. In 1949 Parkin gained a scholarship to study fine art at Goldsmiths College , London, and then a scholarship to Brighton College of Art . After marriage, she became

104-642: A decade at the Washington Gallery in Penarth . Much of her new work was inspired by Celtic landscapes, in particular Pontycymer—although she also found her travels in India moved her to produce more vibrantly coloured works. In October 2010, her memoirs Welcome to Mollywood were published. In 2010, a portrait of Parkin painted by Darren Coffield was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London for

130-533: A degree in chemical engineering in order to join his father's business. He served in the United States Navy during World War II. Upon his return, he spent his free time traveling in war-ridden Eastern Europe and Western Europe and Israel as well as a trip to Africa in 1948. He then worked in his father's company until 1954, while teaching himself film with a 16mm Bolex camera. Concerned with political issues including racism and fascism, Rogosin participated in

156-502: A little money from a Mr Hill, their lodger, who took pity on her and paid her to clean his room. She idolised Hill, who she thought was a gentleman, and many years later saw similar characteristics in the actor James Robertson Justice . Later the family bought a tobacconist's and newsagent shop, which employed four paperboys . When one of the paperboys was caught stealing money, her mother—needing to fill his shift quickly—made Parkin, then aged 14, do his paper round instead. On her first day,

182-679: A musical about street children in Brazil, he never was able to raise enough money to film them. Despite critical success in Europe and among other American independent filmmakers, he was by and large neither recognized nor supported in the US. He moved to England in the 1980s where he turned to writing. With his health deteriorating, he went back to Los Angeles in the late 1990s. He died in Los Angeles in December 2000. He

208-487: A teacher, painting throughout this period. Following a series of affairs, including a long-term association with James Robertson Justice, Parkin separated from her husband at the start of the 1960s; at this time she lost the desire, inspiration and passion to continue with her artwork. To support her two daughters, Parkin turned to fashion. After making hats and bags for Barbara Hulanicki at Biba , and working alongside Mary Quant , she opened her own Chelsea boutique, which

234-626: Is a Welsh painter, novelist and journalist, who became most well-known for her work on Nova magazine, newspapers and television in the 1960s. Parkin was born on 3 February 1932, the second of two daughters, in Pontycymer in the Garw Valley , Glamorgan , Wales. She and her family moved to London to live with her grandparents when the Second World War began in 1939. She went to Willesden County Grammar School (now Capital City Academy ). During

260-711: The BP Portrait Award . She was a "castaway" on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs in May 2011. In May 2012, she was awarded a Civil List Pension by the Queen for her services to the arts. Parkin featured in an episode of Channel 4 's Britain's Weirdest Council Houses in February 2016, in which she was filmed in her council flat in a tower block in the World's End Estate at

286-735: The World's End area of Chelsea . She had moved into the flat in 2002, after she was declared bankrupt following a period of alcoholism. In 2017 Parkin appeared live in a one-woman show at a London salon hosted by Simon Oldfield of Pin Drop Studio . Lionel Rogosin Born and raised on the East Coast of the United States, he was the only son of textile industry mogul and philanthropist Israel Rogosin . Lionel Rogosin attended Yale University and obtained

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312-561: The 1970s, Parkin was banned from the BBC for swearing. In the 1970s, as a chatshow celebrity and libidinous novelist, Parkin wrote an uninhibited weekly interview in the Saturday edition of the Evening Standard . She also wrote a 750-word outline for a novel entitled Love All . Although it was disliked by publishers Blond & Briggs , the office secretary commented that she liked it, and it

338-836: The Bowery in 1955-1956 in the tradition of neo-realism . The film was the first American film to receive the Grand Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festival in 1956. It also received a British Academy Film Award in 1956, and was nominated for an Academy Award . On the Bowery received critical acclaim and made a great impression in Eastern Europe and England. The newly formed Free Cinema in London, founded by Lindsay Anderson , Lorenza Mazzetti , Karel Reisz , and Tony Richardson , invited Rogosin for its second program. Turning to

364-927: The British Artists' Protest, in August 1965, and the European Artists' Protest, in December 1965, against the Vietnam War. In 1966, he tried his hand at comedy by filming two short, low-budget films called How Do You Like Them Bananas and Oysters Are in Season while running the Bleecker Street Cinema and Impact Films. In the 1970s, with rising financial difficulties, Rogosin made low-budget films supported by European television stations. Two of them, Black Roots and Black Fantasy , dealt with economic and social hardships faced by African-Americans. He made Woodcutters of

390-601: The Deep South about a black and white cooperative , and finally Arab-Israeli Dialogue , an attempt to give a voice and meeting ground to both parties through a discussion between a Palestinian poet, Rashid Hussein and an Israeli journalist, Amos Kenan . Rogosin sold the Bleecker Street Theater in 1974 and brought Impact Films to an end in 1978. Though he continued to develop many film projects on subjects such as Navajo Indians , police brutality, Paul Gauguin , and

416-724: The United States. Aware of the difficulties of distributing independent films in the United States, Rogosin purchased the Bleecker Street Cinema in New York City in 1960. The Bleecker became one of the most important independent art houses in New York, [along with the New Yorker and the Thalia] and a form of cinema university for emerging filmmakers such as Miloš Forman and Francis Ford Coppola as well as many critics and cineastes. In

442-504: The bar with her coverage – shot by the new generation of young photographers – that again affirmed the Swinging City, which Time magazine reported in 1966 as the hub of creativity and hedonism. Parkin moved on to become fashion editor of Harpers & Queen in 1967, and The Sunday Times in 1969, being named Fashion Editor of the Year in 1971. After becoming a television personality in

468-462: The fashion system, she introduced an unconventional and startling view of what women could wear... always teasing the edges of taste... She set the standard." In that year 1965, Molly Parkin starred in the anti-war film Good Times, Wonderful Times , by Lionel Rogosin which represented Britain at the Venice Festival that year. In her two years as fashion editor, the flamboyant Parkin raised

494-531: The same period, he was a founding and active member of the New American Cinema movement and The Film-Makers' Cooperative , along with Jonas and Adolfas Mekas , Shirley Clarke , Robert Downey Sr. and many others, whose films were shown at the Bleecker Street Cinema. Lionel Rogosin also helped Jonas Mekas financially set up the Anthology Film Archives . Between 1960 and 1965, Rogosin traveled

520-833: The struggle against Apartheid, Rogosin, with a small crew and under the pretense of making a commercial film on African music , clandestinely documented the life of a black South African migrant worker in Johannesburg. Completed in 1958 with nonprofessional actors and a young African singer named Miriam Makeba , Come Back, Africa won the Critics' Film Award at the Venice Film Festival . Rogosin arranged for Makeba to leave South Africa by bribing officials. He placed her under contract and arranged her first appearance on American television, on The Steve Allen Show . Rogosin supported Makeba financially, paying for her trip and living expenses when she left South Africa and traveled throughout Europe and

546-453: The war, without her parents' knowledge, at the age of 12 she worked on a paper round in Dollis Hill , London, in the evenings. She told her mother that she was studying art after-hours at school. Her grandfather saw her delivering papers, however, and reported this to her mother, who prevented her from continuing with the job and punished her by making her do housework. After this, Parkin earned

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572-524: The world to gather material for his antinuclear war film Good Times, Wonderful Times , which was presented as the British entry at the Venice Film Festival in 1965. It was also shown at many American universities during the Vietnam War. Rogosin founded Impact Films in 1965 to distribute many political and independent films. The same year, Rogosin organized, along with others including Bertrand Russell ,

598-531: Was again in need of funds to pay for her daughters' education. By the time her novel Breast Stroke was published in 1983, she had become an alcoholic . The three publications, plus various articles for men's magazines, earned her the position of 24th in Time Out magazine's review of London's best erotic writers. After the publication of her autobiography Moll: The Making of Molly Parkin in 1993, Parkin started painting again, with her first exhibition in more than

624-400: Was featured in a Newsweek article about Swinging London . She sold the shop to business partner Terence Donovan , then joined Nova magazine in 1965, when the radical Dennis Hackett became its editor. David Gibbs' comprehensive anthology of Nova pages and images says of Parkin: "A dynamic sense of colour and design was all she needed to guide her. Unfettered by the accepted wisdom of

650-446: Was picked up for publication in 1974. Her second novel was more sexually-oriented. Published in 1975, Up Tight was highly publicised, thanks to fashion photographer Harry Peccinotti 's cover shot of a French model wearing see-through knickers; this jacket design resulted in booksellers Hatchards keeping it under the counter. After returning from living in New York City in 1980, Parkin split from her second husband, Patrick Hughes , and

676-573: Was reviewed by the Daily Telegraph which said that it was "written with the lightest of touches and a mirthful exhilarated sense of its own libidousness...quite the funniest novel I have read in a long while". Another review, in the Irish Times , in a reference to the sexual content of the book, called it "disgusting". Molly Parkin Molly Parkin (born Molly Noyle Thomas , 3 February 1932)

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