Hollywood teen star Mae Whitman is all set for the release of her teen flick The DUFF across the country. Having played the daughter of George Clooney (One Fine Day), Sandra Bullock (Hope Floats) and even the President of the United States (Independence Day), this adorable little girl, Mae Whitman now 26, will be seen as the lead in ‘The DUFF’.
Mae is essaying the role of Bianca, a high school student, whose life is shattered when it is brought to her attention that she is the DUFF i.e. Designated Ugly Fat Friend, of her group and then the story progresses to show her struggle for self discovery in the cruel hierarchy of High School. Her frenemy Wesley (Robbie Amell) coaches her to UnDUFF herself to win the affection of her long standing crush at school Toby who is a musician.
- Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children. His family soon moved to Brooklyn, where he attended school for a few years. Young Whitman took to reading at an early age. By 1830 his formal education was over, and for the next five years he learned the printing trade.
- Whitman was open about his attraction to other men, and a former colleague of mine, Gary Schmidgall, wrote a book about Whitman’s boldness regarding his sexuality, “Walt Whitman: A Gay Life”.
- Whitman’s life was crowded with young men—train conductors, sailors, day laborers, soldiers—and in his poems, they furnished the emotional charge of his imagined utopias. Whitman’s “life was one long continuous string of bar, street, streetcar, back road and casual encounters with young men,” Shively wrote.
Apparently, Mae Whitman is also dating a musician in real life too. Mae initially started dating this mystery boy when she was part of the hot TV series, ‘Parenthhood’. What is interesting is that Mae’s character in the film also falls for a popular musician from her high school.
Speaking of this uncanny coincidence Mae said, “I am dating a musician who is really smart and nice. I have always had a great affinity for music but it was always a bit superficial. Dating a musician makes you look at the art form from a much more technical perspective and your sensibilities to appreciate music are enhanced. Its sort of comforting when you get to play out some parts of your real life in a movie role. There is a scene where Bianca’s date, Toby plays the guitar for her and it seemed so real to me.”, she grins. Talking about music, The DUFF star wasn’t shy to confess that she is a die-hard fan of Taylor Swift. Not only a fan, has she dreamed of being the subject of Swift’s Love song. She has also been seen in a video clip where she has done an impressive ballet and ending with a full split while singing Swift’s ‘Blank Space’.
Mae is very happy with the response the film has garnered in the U.S. and is confident that it will do great in India as well, “The film is a journey of Bianca’s self –discovery, romantic entanglements and message of finding confidence in who you are and staying true to yourself. It is not the most flattering description of a character but I saw the heart of this character and the journey she goes on to learn how to really love her as she is. Also, the humour is just enduring for my character. The true strength of the script lies in the fact that the issues addressed in the film are common everyone”
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Born: May 31, 1819
West Hills, New York
Died: March 26, 1892
Camden, New Jersey
American poet
Walt Whitman is generally considered to be the most important American poet of the nineteenth century. He wrote in free verse (not in traditional poetic form), relying heavily on the rhythms of common American speech.
Whitman Dating Life Meme
Childhood and early career
Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Long Island, the second of nine children. His family soon moved to Brooklyn, where he attended school for a few years. Young Whitman took to reading at an early age. By 1830 his formal education was over, and for the next five years he learned the printing trade. For about five years, beginning in 1836, he taught school on Long Island; during this time he also founded the weekly newspaper Long-Islander.
By 1841 Whitman was in New York City, where his interests turned to journalism. His short stories and poetry of this period were indistinguishable from the popular work of the day, as was his first novel, Franklin Evans, or the Inebriate (1842). For the next few years Whitman edited several newspapers and contributed to others. He was dismissed from the Brooklyn Eagle because of political differences with the owner. In 1848 he traveled south and for three months worked for the New Orleans Crescent. The sheer physical beauty of the new nation made a vivid impression on him, and he was to draw on this experience in his later poetry.
First edition of Leaves of Grass
Not much is known of Whitman's literary activities that can account for his sudden transformation (change) from journalist and hack writer into revolutionary poet. The first edition of Leaves of Grass (1855) opened with a rather casual portrait of Whitman, the self-professed 'poet of the people,' dressed in workman's clothes. In a lengthy preface Whitman announced that his poetry would celebrate the greatness of the new nation—'The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem'—and of its peoples—'The largeness of nature or the nation were monstrous without a corresponding largeness and generosity of the spirit of the citizen.' Of the twelve poems (the titles were added later), 'Song of Myself,' 'The Sleepers,' 'There Was a Child Went Forth,' and 'I Sing the Body Electric' are the best known today. In these Whitman turned his back on the literary models of the past. He stressed the rhythms of common American speech, delighting in informal and slang expressions.
Whitman Dating Life Photos
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The first edition of Leaves sold poorly. Fortunately, Whitman had sent Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1892) a free copy, and in his now famous reply, Emerson wrote: 'I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.… I greet you at the beginning of a great career.' Emerson's enthusiasm for Leaves of Grass was understandable, for he had strongly influenced the younger poet. Whitman echoed much of Emerson's philosophy in his preface and poems. Emerson's letter had a profound impact on Whitman, completely overshadowing the otherwise poor reception the volume received.
Second edition of Leaves of Grass
For the second edition of Leaves of Grass (1856), Whitman added twenty new poems to his original twelve. With this edition, he began his lifelong practice of adding new poems to Leaves of Grass and revising those previously published in order to bring them into line with his present moods and feelings. Also, over the years he was to drop a number of poems from Leaves.
Whitman Dating Life Quotes
Among the new poems in the 1856 edition were 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' (one of Whitman's masterpieces), 'Salut au Monde!,' 'A Woman Waits for Me,' and 'Spontaneous Me.' Most of the 1855 preface he reworked to form the nationalistic poem 'By Blue Ontario's Shore.' Like the first edition, the second sold poorly.
The third edition of Leaves (1860) was brought out by a Boston publisher, one of the few times in his career that Whitman did not have to publish Leaves of Grass at his own expense. This edition, referred to by Whitman as his 'new Bible,' contained the earlier poems plus one hundred forty-six new ones. For the first time Whitman arranged many of the poems in special groupings, a practice he continued in all later editions. The most notable of these 'groups' were 'Children of Adam,' a gathering of love poems, and 'Calamus,' a group of poems celebrating the brotherhood and comradeship of men, or, in Whitman's phrase, 'manly love.'
Whitman and the Civil War
Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War (1861–65; a war between regions of the United States in which Northern forces clashed with those of the South), Whitman went to Virginia to search for his brother George, reported wounded in action. Here Whitman experienced the war firsthand. He remained in Washington, D.C., working part-time in the Paymaster's Office. He devoted many long hours serving as a volunteer aide in the hospitals in Washington, ministering to the needs of the sick and wounded soldiers. His daily contact with sickness and death took its toll. Whitman himself became ill with 'hospital malaria.' Within a few months he recovered. In January 1865 he took a clerk's position in the Indian Bureau of the Department of the Interior.
The impact of the war on Whitman was reflected in his separately published Drum-Taps (1865). In such poems as 'Cavalry Crossing a Ford,' 'The Wound-Dresser,' 'Come Up from the Fields Father,' 'Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night,' 'Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim,' and 'Year That Trembled and Reel'd Beneath Me,' Whitman caught with beautiful simplicity of statement the horror, loneliness, and anguish caused by the war.
Later career
Following the Civil War and the publication of the fourth edition, Whitman's poetry became increasingly preoccupied with themes relating to the soul, death, and immortality (living forever). He was entering the final phase of his career. Within the span of some dozen years, the poet of the body had given way to the poet of internationalism (not concentrating on a single country) and the cosmic (relating to the universe). Such poems as 'Whispers of Heavenly Death,' 'Darest Thou Now O Soul,' 'The Last Invocation,' and 'A Noiseless Patient Spider,' with their emphasis on the spiritual, paved the way for 'Passage to India' (1871), Whitman's most important (and ambitious) poem of the post–Civil War period.
In 1881 Whitman settled on the final arrangement of the poems in Leaves of Grass, and thereafter no revisions were made. (All new poems written after 1881 were added as annexes [additions] to Leaves. ) The seventh edition was published by James Osgood. The Boston district attorney threatened prosecution against Osgood unless certain poems were removed. When Whitman refused, Osgood dropped publication of the book. However, a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, publisher reissued the book in 1882.
In his last years Whitman received the respect due a great literary figure and personality. He died on March 26, 1892, in Camden, New Jersey. Leaves of Grass has been widely translated, and Whitman's reputation is now worldwide.
For More Information
Allen, Gay Wilson. The Solitary Singer: A Critical Biography of Walt Whitman. New York: Macmillan, 1955. Reprint, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Loving, Jerome. Walt Whitman: The Song of Himself. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Reef, Catherine. Walt Whitman. New York: Clarion Books, 1995.
Reynolds, David S. Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography. New York: Knopf, 1995.