Monday, November 30, 2015
first time in 112 years
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
Vintage Screen
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Geoffrey Lewis
The Culpepper Cattle Company(1972)
The Culpepper Cattle Company(1972)
Rita the love Goddess, Gilda the sex Goddess
Robert Duvall as Watson, Alan Arkin as Freud, Nicol Williamson as Holmes
THE SEVEN-PERCENT SOLUTION 1974
THE SEVEN-PERCENT SOLUTION 1974
A character actor, Sheldon Leonard usually played one kind of character, the tough gangster or heavy and he did so in both dramas and comedy, appearing in films with Alan Ladd, Abbott and Costello, John Hodiak etc. He was also Nick the bartender in "It's A Wonderful Life" (1946). A very successful producer, Leonard produced such TV shows as "Make Room For Daddy", "The Andy Griffith Show" and "The Dick Van Dyke Show".
The Birds (1963) Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette
Vintage Screen
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The Bad Seed (1956) Nancy Kelly, William Hopper, Patty McCormack,
Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart
Henry Jones, Eileen Heckart
George Raft & Carole Lombard, rehearsing for Bolero, 1934
Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges and Cybil Shepherd in The Last Picture Show (1971)
Natalie Wood
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ON NOVEMBER 29, 1981 : ACTRESS NATALIE WOOD DROWNS
On this day in 1981, the actress Natalie Wood, who starred in such movies as Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story, drowns in a boating accident near California’s Catalina Island. She was 43 years old.
Born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko on July 20, 1938, in San Francisco, California, Wood began her acting career as a child. She gained acclaim for her role as Susan Walker, the little girl who doubts the existence of Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).
As a teenager, Wood went on to play James Dean’s girlfriend in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), for which she received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. She also earned Best Actress Academy Award nominations for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) with Warren Beatty and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) with Steve McQueen. Wood’s film credits also include West Side Story (1961), winner of 10 Oscars, in which she played the lead role of Maria; Gypsy (1962), which was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name and co-starred Rosalind Russell and Karl Malden; The Great Race (1965), with Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis; Inside Daisy Clover (1966), with Christopher Plummer and Robert Redford; and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) with Robert Culp, Elliott Gould and Dyan Cannon.
Wood was twice married to the actor Robert Wagner (Hart to Hart, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery), from 1957 to 1962 and from 1974 to the time of her death. On the night of November 29, 1981, the dark-haired beauty was with her husband on their yacht “The Splendor,” which was moored off Santa Catalina, near Los Angeles. Also on the yacht was the actor Christopher Walken, who at the time was making the movie Brainstorm with Wood. Neither Wagner nor Walken saw what happened to Wood that night, but it was believed she somehow slipped overboard while untying a dinghy attached to the boat. Her body was found in the early hours of the following morning. Brainstorm, Wood’s final film, was released in theaters in 1983.
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November 29, 1981 : Actress Natalie Wood drown
November 29, 1981 : Actress Natalie Wood drown
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70s Movies
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Bond
George Segal in Born to Win (1971) as a heroin addict co-starring Karen Black and Robert DeNiro in a minor role.
George Segal in Born to Win (1971) as a heroin addict co-starring Karen Black and Robert DeNiro in a minor role.
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Iconic 200-year-old portrait
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Tee up your bid: Iconic 200-year-old portrait of 1790s captain of England's oldest golf club going under the hammer to save course from...
Royal Blackheath Golf Club, in Eltham, London, is hoping to bank as much as £800,000 by selling its world famous painting of former captain...
Wild West fortune hunter Alfred Packer
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Wild West fortune hunter turned cannibalistic
When Alfred Packer arrived back in Los Pinos, Colorado without his five friends in April 1874, people wondered how the civil war veteran looked so remarkably well fed for a man who survived eating frozen rosebuds. The truth, when it emerged, was far more shocking. Packer killed his five companions and feasted on their remains for more than 60 days after he was snowed in.
Thursday, November 26, 2015
The Eagle and the Lion
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Draft of King James Bible
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The earliest known version of The King James Bible, perhaps one of the most influential and widely read books in history, has been discovered mislabeled inside an archive at the University of Cambridge. The find is being called one of the most significant revelations in decades. It shows that writing is a process of revising, cutting, and then more rewriting. The Bible is no different in this regard, even though some conservative Christians claim it is the divine word of God himself. Perhaps God, then, is a revisionist. This find certainly seems to suggest that.
Ward’s draft seems to indicate the people were assigned individual sections of the Bible and then worked on them almost entirely by themselves — a massive undertaking with little guesswork. You would think this would cause people to become more error prone. In fact, quite hilariously, Professor Miller noticed that the draft suggests that Ward was picking up the slack for another translator. This really shows how human the entire job was, according to him.
“Some of them, being typical academics, either fell down on the job or just decided not to do it. It really testifies to the human element of this kind of great undertaking.”
This is sure to piss off a lot of religious conservatives who claim that the Bible is the “actual word of God.” While this finding certainly doesn’t disprove God, it does show that the translators of the Bible didn’t get a finalized product the first go around — it wasn’t a walk in the park with an angel over their shoulder telling them what to write. It took many different individuals, working separately — and they often suffered from man-made struggles, like meeting deadlines. You know, now that we think of it, doesn’t sound that much different from the writers of today’s workforce.
*Not posting this to get a rise out of people. But this is history and the reality of the process of book making and writing of the time, it's archaeology and anthropology.* (Amanda L. Morgan)
800-Year-Old Pot
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12 Historic Photographs Manipulated
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Even before the invention of Adobe Photoshop and digital image manipulation software, doctored and tampered photos were used to alter perception and shape history. Fourandsix.com has chronicled them in their brilliant series, ‘Photo Tampering throughout History‘. At the link - a curated list of 12 famously doctored photographs from the history books, source
General Francis P. Blair Added to Photograph of General Sherman Posing with his Generals, circa 1865
In this famous photograph taken by Matthew Brady, General Sherman is seen posing with his generals. General Francis P. Blair (standing far right) was added to the photograph as he was not in attendance for that specific shot. His image was taken from the second photograph shown, which was taken during the same sitting. [Source: fourandsix.com]
Tee Hee
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Thanksgiving
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Santee "Sioux" Indian men
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"Largest mass hanging in United States history"
Mankato, Minnesota, Dec. 16, 1862 - 303 Indian males were set to be hanged ...
Abraham Lincoln: decided the fate of 303 Indians convicted of War Crimes in Minnesota’s Great Sioux Uprising.
Movies of the 70's
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Charles Durning
Dog Day Afternoon(1975)
Dog Day Afternoon(1975)
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015
What Did Ancient Babylonian Songs Sound Like?
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How does one reincarnate music that no human voice has uttered for millennia? Conner says a key step was to really understand the language. She carefully studied historical analysis of the stresses and intonations of Babylonian and Sumerian for hints as to how it may have sounded, and researched how language is converted into music in similar Semitic languages. Then, after choosing and memorizing a piece of writing or poem, Conner collaborated with Lowings to create the melody. link
Lyre player Andy Lowings, who built the instrument to be as similar as possible to the ancient variety. STEF CONNER
How does one reincarnate music that no human voice has uttered for millennia? Conner says a key step was to really understand the language. She carefully studied historical analysis of the stresses and intonations of Babylonian and Sumerian for hints as to how it may have sounded, and researched how language is converted into music in similar Semitic languages. Then, after choosing and memorizing a piece of writing or poem, Conner collaborated with Lowings to create the melody. link
Lyre player Andy Lowings, who built the instrument to be as similar as possible to the ancient variety. STEF CONNER
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