The Jackman Family

[jo]

In his Instagram Stories --

he quoted this :

"Bring down that anxiety
Bring down that fear
Bring down that paranoia
And we're gonna get thru this
Because we are New York!"

A kinship and affection for his adopted city?


Jo

[hughmanity]

Don't have a category for this, but #16 looks familiar

www.boredpanda.com/brand-name-movie-posters-lance-ford/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

Hope you're all doing ok.

[jo]

Looks somewhat like ROOT ( except for the ears)

But the moustache is more like David Bowie's Nikola Testa.

As Hugh is a lefty - will he hold his cards with his right hand?


Thanks!

Good wishes to you and your loved ones, hughmanity


Jo

[mamaleh]

Ha, looks like HJ's mustachioed face superimposed on an existing photo, kind of a spoof of the tie-ins between films and products such as Pringles chips.

Ellen

[njr]

Apr 6, 2020 21:45:21 GMT -5 jo said:

Looks somewhat like ROOT ( except for the ears)

But the moustache is more like David Bowie's Nikola Testa.

As Hugh is a lefty - will he hold his cards with his right hand?

Jo

*confused* He IS holding his cards in his right hand. A right-handed person usually holds their cards in their left hand so they can use their right to bet chips with.

[jo]

There have also been other occasions when Hugh and Deb posed with Roger and Mirka at social events ( such as the Met Museum Costume Institute Ball hosted by Federer fan Anna Wintour.

Remember this photo?

tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/federers-snake-tux.588829/


Here are Hugh, Deb and Oscar at Roger Federer's box at the US Open. Mirka Federer in front. Anna Wintour in middle row.

www.gettyimages.dk/detail/news-photo/hugh-jackman-his-wife-deborra-lee-furness-and-their-son-news-photo/1024988316


Jo

[jo]

Being careful --

Sorry, Twitter truncated the image

But if you click on it - the article is shown, with photos of Hugh, Ava, and Dali and partly-hidden Allegra.


Jo

[jo]

http://instagram.com/p/B-xaCcCD0kH

[jo]

With reference to mentions among Hugh's Instagram Stories --

[jo]

Happy 24th Anniversary to Hugh and Deb --

on April 11, 2020!

[jo]

Hugh and Deb out for a walk with Dali and Allegra!


www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8209747/Hugh-Jackman-Deborra-Lee-Furness-wear-face-masks-walk-New-York-amid-coronavirus-pandemic.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

[jo]

http://instagram.com/p/BfN1pfinAmR

http://instagram.com/p/BxzjCdPHqWJ

[jo]

http://instagram.com/p/B-10q2BDURV

The photo, IIRC, was from Openng Night of THE BOY FROM OZ!


Jo

[jo]

Hugh's sweet tweet has drawn the attention of entertainment media --

www.accessonline.com/articles/hugh-jackman-gushes-over-wife-deb-on-their-24th-wedding-anniversary

[jo]

[jo]

Ryan pokes fun at Hugh's anniversary message to Deb


www.eonline.com/news/1139847/ryan-reynolds-pokes-fun-at-hugh-jackman-over-his-wedding-anniversary-post

While many in the comment section cheered the happy pair on for celebrating more than two decades of love, Ryan responded with something more cheeky.

"Hang in there, Deb," The Proposal alum quipped.

[hughmanity]

Maybe heading out east again  (Hamptons) yesterday for anniversary weekend? Swipe.

http://instagram.com/p/B-3RyYylI7U

[jo]

Hugh and his family have become quintessential New Yorkers! Not just because Broadway is the other side of his career. Not just because his kids grew up in the bustling city that never sleeps. Not just for the Manhattan and Hampton places they switch back and forth to...but they have cared for New Yorkers and New York visitors in times of triumph and in the sadder times of tragedy.

Someone wrote not so long ago about why New York loves Hugh Jackman!


innewyork.com/june-17th-2019/new-yorkers-love-hugh-jackman-here’s-why

New Yorkers Love Hugh Jackman. Here’s Why.
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by Harry Haun

(Debby Wong/Shutterstock.com)
Hugh Jackman onstage at the 2014 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on Sept. 27, 2014.

Let’s set aside for a second the hot fact that People magazine voted him “Sexiest Man Alive” for 2008 and has numbered him among the 50 most beautiful people on Planet Earth for five years running. That’s just charm, charisma and good genes.

And let’s not place undue importance on the fact that he wins fans on two radically different entertainment fronts in two radically different disguises. In movies, he’s Wolverine, an “X-Men” spin-off, meting out rough justice with skeleton and claws of steel. On Broadway and other stages, he’s a reigning musical talent.

There are plenty of other reasons why New Yorkers love Hugh Jackman.

He brings an honesty and reality to his work—and life—that not only invites belief, but also makes you feel he’s one of us, which he actually is in more ways than one. Let me count the ways.



The son of an English couple who immigrated to Australia, he searched the world over for a place he could call his own—a home—and finally found it in NYC’s West Village in a residential apartment building. It’s a place fit for a prince, let alone a Jackman.

So, New Yorkers should be lining up like pod people to welcome their adopted hometown boy when his world-tour revue “The Man. The Music. The Show.” stops at Madison Square Garden on June 28 and 29. His musical selections, he jests, “are really self-indulgent. I do my favorite songs. You all have to sit through it.” Translation: That would be ditties from “Les Misérables” (which got him an Oscar nomination), “Oklahoma!” (which got him an Olivier nomination) and “The Boy From Oz” (which got him the Tony Award, period)—plus shows where he wasn’t cast.

Hugh’s secret for maintaining an intimate communication with the audience in Madison Square Garden is simple. “Whether it’s 300 people, 3,000 or 13,000, it has to feel like a celebration, and I have to connect with them. The first thing I do when I walk out onstage is to look into my wife’s eyes, and that grounds me.” He met his one and only, actress Deborra-Lee Furness, doing an Australian TV series straight out of drama school, and they married in 1996. Early in the marriage, Deborra-Lee suffered miscarriages, and the couple opted to adopt. Oscar is 19, and Ava is 13, and both are spending their summer on dad’s whirlwind world tour.



The Jackmans make quite a decorative domestic picture, walking their pooches in the Village and picking up after them. It’s a his-and-hers tour of duty: Hugh is in charge of Dali, a French bulldog; Deborra-Lee handles the poodle-mix, Allegra.

Utterly without pretension, Hugh showed up on Kelly Ripa’s talk show in 2017 with a Band-Aid on his nose following surgery to remove a basal cell carcinoma. Whenever there are problems in Paradise, Hugh, a master of social media, gets the jump on gossips by going directly to his millions of followers on Instagram, Twitter and TV to tell them the truth. He now strongly advocates sunscreen to help ward off skin cancer. Similarly, he suggests that people wear helmets while biking around the city like a bat out of hell, as he does.

When not attending a Broadway show (he was seen last December at the opening night of “To Kill a Mockingbird”) or performing in one (he’s due back in the fall of 2020 as Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man”), Hugh is co-founder with Barry and David Steingard of Laughing Man Coffee, which has two tiny walk-in shops in TriBeCa and Battery Park City. He contributes 100 percent of his profits to the Laughing Man Foundation, which he created to aid coffee farmers in developing countries.

He even sweats generously, and therein hangs the tale of his second Tony Award. While performing “Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway” in 2011, he would finish the show in a wringing wet T-shirt that he auctioned off to the audience to raise funds for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. The final total he raised—$1,789,580—passed the previous titleholder—$1,568,833—which he and Daniel Craig set during their run in “A Steady Rain” in 2009. In gratitude, the Tony folks rewarded these twin triumphs of perspiration with an honorary Tony, the only known incident of someone winning a prize for the actual sweat of his brow. A humbled, dirt-kicking Hugh kicked the honor right back to Broadway. “I feel that whatever I’ve given philanthropically to the community,” he said, ”I’ve received back from them tenfold.”

All that, and he’s modest, too.

[jo]

Photos --

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8211851/Hugh-Jackman-wife-Deborra-Lee-Furness-wear-masks-head-grab-groceries-New-York.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter


Hugh's training in journalism must make it easier for him to deal with the paps - I wonder if the papparazzi type of intrusive journalism was ever a subject in his course?


Jo

[jo]

http://instagram.com/p/B-48JHRD_YJ

[jo]

Here's the link to MUSIC OF HOPE from Andrea Boccelli, in case you missed it. The article features the background to the Easter Sunday performance and the YouTube link to it.


www.billboard.com/articles/news/international/9356694/andrea-bocelli-easter-sunday-concert-milan-duomo


It is unusual that the music is performed not at Milan's and the world's most famous opera house ( La Scala) but in its beautiful cathedral, the symbol of Italy's famous city of creativity and culture which sits in the area in northern Italy hardest hit by the virus.

Panis Angelicus a most touching song of prayer and Ave Maria, which we pray and sing in church, and the ecumenical Amazing Grace sent hopes soaring on this somber Easter Sunday because of their messages of hope for humanity. The Pope's Easter message of right to hope touched a similar vein - that humanity and " wounded Earth" can rise again!

Happy Easter becomes a more heartfelt message today as we all hope that the new dawn comes soon, just as the faithful await the risen Christ!

Jo

[jo]

[jo]

Here's a beautiful rendition of AVE MARIA, set to music by classical composer Franz Shubert centuries ago, sang by Barbra Streisand.



AVE MARIA is actually the beautiful Catholic prayer known as "Hail Mary" and is what comprises the Rosary ( of prayers).

But the song itself is a beautiful one, here sung by someone of a different faith, but touching all the hearts especially on this weekend of hope!

Jo

[jo]

Careless journalism!

www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/wolverine-star-hugh-jackman-posts-loving-anniversary-tribute-to-wife-deborra-lee-furness-alongside-picture-of-them-in-the-90s-ng-b881517252z

Hugh Jackman has posted a tribute to Deborra-Lee Furness on their 24th wedding anniversary.
The Wolverine star, 51, wrote a gushing tribute to his wife, 64, marking the milestone by sharing an old photo of themselves from the 1990s.

Photo is for Opening Night of The Boy From Oz, 2003.

[ruby]

Apr 12, 2020 21:20:36 GMT -5 jo said:

Careless journalism!

www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/celebrity/wolverine-star-hugh-jackman-posts-loving-anniversary-tribute-to-wife-deborra-lee-furness-alongside-picture-of-them-in-the-90s-ng-b881517252z

Hugh Jackman has posted a tribute to Deborra-Lee Furness on their 24th wedding anniversary.
The Wolverine star, 51, wrote a gushing tribute to his wife, 64, marking the milestone by sharing an old photo of themselves from the 1990s.

Photo is for Opening Night of The Boy From Oz, 2003.

They’re just repeating the 1990s line from the original Daily Mail article.