#Aubrey Schenck

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Salomé (1922)  

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Director: Charles Bryant & Nazimova

Cinematographer: Charles Van Enger

Performers: Nazimova, Earl Schenck, & Arthur Jasmine

Art Director & Costume Designer: Natacha Rambova (inspired by Aubrey Beardsley's Salomé illustrations)

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George Schenck, a television writer and producer for the beloved long-running series NCIS, died peacefully at his home in Brentwood, California on August 3. He was 82.

His death was announced by his family.

Schenck was the son of the late TV producer Aubrey Schenck and great-nephew of the legendary Nicholas and Joseph Schenck, who ran MGM and 20th Century Fox during Hollywood’s Golden Age and were part of the industry’s major movers and shakers for much of the first half of the 20th Century.

With more than 40 years as a producing partner with Frank Cardea, Schenck’s prolific producing credits stretch back to the late 1970s and early ’80 on such popular series as Fantasy Island (1981); Bring ‘Em Back Alive, the 1982 adventure series starring Bruce Boxleitner; and the 1984 detective series Crazy Like a Fox starring Jack Warden and John Rubinstein as a father and son investigator team.

But his signature series was NCIS, the long-running series – it began in 2003 and continues today – that depicts a team of special agents for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. The show combines the twin dramas of military life and police procedural.

Schenck joined the series as a writer, taking over as co-showrunner (with Cardea) following the 2016 death of showrunner Gary Glasberg. Schenck retired in 2018.

Mark Harmon, who won acclaim and legions of devoted fans playing NCIS Supervisory Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs for the first 19 seasons of the series, said in a statement, “So sorry to hear the news on George. The professionalism and tenacity of George and Frank changed the face of the show. I’m so appreciative of the team and teamwork they both represented.”

Born February 12, 1942, in New York City, Schenck graduated from the University of Southern California and earned a graduate degree in the first class of the Film School’s new writers’ program. After school, he served in the U.S. Navy.

After a brief solo career as a writer on independent movies, Schenck collaborated with Cardea on many successful series such as the aforementioned Crazy Like a Fox and Bring ‘Em Back Alive as well as Pros and Cons (1991) starring James Earl Jones and Richard Crenna and the short-lived The Cosby Mysteries (1994).

Schenck, known as a devoted mentor to many aspiring TV writers, was predeceased by his wife of more than 50 years, Virginia Schenck, who died last year. He is survived by their two sons Kirk and Jeff, daughters-in-law Allison and Natalie, and grandchildren Aidan, Andrew, Ryan, Jordan and Owen.

A private memorial service will be held for family and close friends. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Writers Guild Foundation in George Schenck’s memory, supporting young writers pursuing their dreams.

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Director Howard Koch brings us FRANKENSTEIN 1970, confusingly released in 1958!

Boris Karloff returns to the story that turned him into a star -- but this time, as the titular doctor! The film also stars Tom Duggan, Jana Lund, Don Barry, Charlotte Austin, Mike Lane and Rudolph Anders.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 25:53; Discussion 43:48; Ranking 1:04:34

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Bel-Air Productions

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Bad movie I have The Black Sleep 1956

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Die Schreckenskammer des Dr. Thosti

Die Schreckenskammer des Dr. Thosti

Story: Verurteilt für einen Mord, den er nicht begangen hat, ist der Chirurg Dr. Ramsay überrascht, als ihm sein Kollege Dr. Thosti einen Ausweg anbietet. Durch eine Droge in totähnlichen Schlaf versetzt kann Ramsay dem Galgen entkommen und soll als Gegenleistung helfen, Thostis schwer kranke Frau zu heilen. Der so gerettete Ramsay muss jedoch schon bald feststellen, dass seine Situation nicht…

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Tonight's Movie Is Beachhead 1954 http://bit.ly/2VXNWV0

From Wikipedia: Beachhead! is a 1954 Technicolor war film based on U.S. Marine Corps Captain Richard G. Hubler 1945 novel I've Got Mine about World War II. It was filmed on Kauai island in the Hawaiian Islands chain in the mid - Pacific Ocean by Aubrey Schenck Productions, released through United Artists studio and directed by Stuart Heisler. Read more .... from War News Updates http://bit.ly/2WDkyQT via IFTTT

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Biblical Studies Carnival for February 2020

Welcome to Février Gras.

This is The Biblical Studies Carnival 3x7x23

completing 168 monthly editions since the inaugural BS carnival 180 months ago, music, poetry, art in celebration of those studying the ancient texts.

Official colours of Mardi Gras

The Krewe of TNK The head of the first parade is Deane Galbraith presenting Marc Zvi Brettler's lecture on Jewish Biblical Scholarship. Torah

Day 1 - The earth was a right old mess2

All sorts of free goodies distributed from this krewe. Laurent Sangpo gives us a 5 minute reception history on Le Déluge de Michel-Ange."...il suit ainsi l’exégèse ancienne, qui voyait dans la catastrophe la représentation symbolique de notre monde."

Mark Leuchter and Zev Farber describe the relationship of the siblings, Moses, Miriam, and Aaron, "partners of similar standing in redeeming the people". Carol Meyers asks Who wrote the song? Athalya Brenner-Idan has updated an essay from 2016, Are female readers included in the Decalogue?

Sandra Jacobs writes on Exodus 21:22-25: Accidental Injuries in a Public Brawl, 3 interpretations of the degree and type of compensation required. A d'varling from the Velveteen Rabbi, "if you keep making that face, you'll get stuck that way." Prophets

... wasn't it something to behold that mess

Pete Enns brings up the violence against the Canaanites. Aaron Koller writes on Composing the Song of Deborah, "here we have two empirical models with clear parallels to the biblical Song of Deborah, and both are well attested and fairly well understood."

Judges 5:2 (The whole song is here.)

Saul was Tall by Brian Doak, Bodies speak ... Solomon has no body of significance. ... Hezekiah possesses no beauty... Josiah is a complete ghost. Brant Pitre introduces the lessons for the Presentation in the Temple with particular emphasis on Malachi and the Twelve. Writings

... A symphony of voices

A hole in the parchment, through which the word 'gratiam' ('grace') is visible

Kate Thomas presents a medieval manuscript in praise of the Psalms. De laude psalmorum. "This short Latin treatise explains why saying the Psalms was considered spiritually beneficial, and which Psalms were good for which purposes. It opens a window onto how medieval people understood one of the most important liturgical and devotional books of the Middle Ages, the Psalter."

Brent Niedergall posts on a textual issue in Ruth. "What if an English Bible translation translated a Hebrew word meaning 'he' as 'she'?"

Esther: Girls of marriageable age in the ancient world were much younger than brides today in the western world.

Marg Mowczko begins a series on Esther, and continues with a second post, For such a time as this. The girls "weren’t volunteering for a wonderful opportunity. They weren’t competing for a marvellous prize. Most may well have been taken against their will and against the hopes of their families who might never see their girls again."

Daniel became a writer

Phillip Long continues the unrolling of Daniel. "Belshazzar can look no worse, his mother publicly rebuking his cowardice! (Did she stop to comb his hair and tell him to tuck his shirt in as well?)" He must be nearly right through to the end - if that's not the end, it's close.

Daniel 5:25 - setting the words, the accents in their simplest form

Announced this month via the Times of Israel: A 616-page codex that was written in 1028.

Psalm 150 Karaite

An article with some images is available here from The Jewish Quarterly Review. "NEARLY A THOUSAND YEARS have passed since Zechariah Ben 'Anan finished the demanding work of copying Ketuvim (Writings), the third part of the Hebrew Bible, in a manuscript found by sheer happenstance on a dusty shelf in the Karaite synagogue of Cairo in late July 2017" The tail of the Krewe of TNK

Your host posted a tabular comparison of two strategies for explaining the accents of the TNK and a brief on reading with the music stimulated by the medieval book on the accents translated by Geoffrey Khan, The Tiberian Pronunciation Tradition of Biblical Hebrew. Benjamin Kantor officially launches the Tiberian Hebrew page here. Jonathan Orr-Stav responds to a question on Tiberian pronunciation. Jim Davila highlights an article on dating the Hebrew Bible through linguistics. And, via William Ross, the LXX has its international day. A quote from the obit for S. R. Driver (for links see the final parade below):

The Old Testament must remain an ever-fresh fountainhead of living truth, able to invigorate and restore, to purify and refine, to ennoble and enrich, the moral and spiritual being of man.

The Krewe of the NT

Travis Proctor heads the second parade with an exploration of the demonic body, "residual souls of antediluvian giants".

Gospels and Acts

... like the first glimmer of rising

If it quacks...

A few goodies distributed to the people from this krewe may require a payment. But there's enough even if you can't get into the post-parade-party. Bart Ehrman reviews a Newly Discovered gospel. "rarely does anyone actually discuss the actual *evidence*". His post reaches back into the archives. Ekaterini G. Tsalampouni points us to an article on the ending of Mark.

Jacob Prahlow completes his series on the Odes of Solomon and the Gospel of John. James McGrath posts his impressions of the Enoch Seminar's dedicated session at AAR/SBL on Adele Reinhartz's book Cast Out of the Covenant: Jews and Anti-Judaism in the Gospel of John. Johnson Thomaskutty writes on the Characterization of Thomas in the fourth Gospel. Andrew Perriman writes in response to Michael Bird, on the church and the mission of Jesus. "Did they succeed? Fail? Or did someone move the goalposts?" Ken Schenck points out his work on Mark and Acts as part of his project Through the Bible in Ten Years. Richard Beck continues his series on the gospel according to the Lord of the Rings.

A Matthean Thunderbolt?

Ian Paul republished a post on the influence of John on the synoptic gospels, and explores a spoof on choosing your own Jesus. It being that time of the year, he also did a review of the temptations of Jesus. Michael Pahl encourages following the teaching on economics from Jesus. Jim Gordon would have us consider ornitheology. His series for Lent holds promise. Here is the leap-day special, the pearl. Chuck Jones points out Vizualizing Acts, graphic online support for reading Acts.

Letters

... What do you say

James Tabor writes about What Paul claimed to have seen.

Tim Gombis explores chapters 2 to 5 of Romans with particular reference to boasting. Andrew Perriman posts on theological prisons vs historical readings of Romans.

Michael Kok continues his series on Corinthians, beginning with notes on Peter, and Apollos. James McGrath points to a note on Paul's letter carriers. Henry Neufeld writes about How to Read Hebrews 4. Revelation

... It won't be long

Very short parade. The tail of the Krewe of the NT Mike Aubrey wants more language resources for translation. Marg Mowcsko talks about "preaching" words in the NT. The tail of the first two Krewes Pete Enns and Jared Byas have some advice to their fellow citizens on how to read the Bible in 2020. Jim West reviews the Jesus Bible, i.e. how not to read the Bible.

Other Krewes

... How many powers

James McGrath posts on the SpaceX Rocket bouncing off the firmament. You can watch the whole thing with exegetical commentary from a booster seat. Just click on the image.

Archaeology Jim Davila asks if Solomon's temple had competition? He also has some thoughts on information in a vitrified brain. And a list of posts on the BAR spring 2020 release including one from the original xkv8r. Todd Bolen reports on extensive ruins of a Canaanite temple dating to the 12th century BCE at Lachish. Yana Tchekhanovets and Leonid Belyaev write about Russian archaeology in The Ancient Near East Today. Textual criticism

Drew Longacre reports on Feature-extraction methods for historical manuscript dating based on handwriting analysis. James McGrath gets around to writing up the 2019 Digital Humanities AAR/SBL sessions in San Diego. Jim West quotes Jerome in defense of errors in his rendering of the Bible. Sarah Allen interviews Zachary Cole on his chapter in Myths and Mistakes.

Theology and Liturgy

Great St Mary's, the Selwyn Consort via the Minerva Festival

Sarah MacDonald presents "Silent in the Churches", an exploration of Music in the liturgy by female composers. NT Wright explains penal substitution, 'according to the Scriptures'. And here's a C.R.A.S.S.H course on explaining. Who knew that James McGrath was an award winning Mandaic poet? Matt Page is still blogging about Bible films. Here is an entry on the Netflix Messiah. Both Bosco Peters and Airtonjo have things to point out about Querida Amazônia. John Bergsma on the Sacred Page lays out the lessons for the sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Alex Finkelson at Scribes of the Kingdom wonders about the promises to David. A slightly early entry for the Revelation parade from Doug Chaplin. (Ah well, February is a short month and January is long, so let's give them 30 days each this year... and he is still writing occasionally.) Bart Ehrman has some interesting questions from Buddhists. John Jillions writes on the religious attitudes of some famous Roman skeptics. Journals and Reviews and other things James McGrath points out a new open-access Journal of Religious Competition in Antiquity. James also notes this announcement on Women interpreting the Scripture through music and the arts. Kelsi Morrison-Atkins reviews Moshe Blidstein. Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature. 'Blidstein guides the reader through the “web of allusions” that characterized early Christian purity discourses in the first through third centuries.' Noah Benjamin Bickart reviews Paula Fredricksen's When Christians were Jews. "If anything is missing in her excellent book, it is a more robust engagement with rabbinic texts." Steve Walton notes a set of essays from a conference, Healing and Exorcism in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity. Ben Witherington's book on Priscilla is reviewed by Kelley Matthews. Bart Ehrman has a very nice promotion of his book, Heaven and Hell.

Fetch

Brent Niedergall is working with Bel and the Dragon on a Reddit reading group here. Jim Davila points out Sonja Noll's book on the Semantics of Silence in Biblical Hebrew. And a collection of essays on Parables. "Essays cover parables in the synoptic Gospels, Rabbinic midrash, and parabolic tales and fables in the Babylonian Talmud. Three essays address parables in Islam and Buddhism." And Henk de Waard's Jeremiah 52, "Jeremiah 52 is not a mere appendix to the book, but a golah-oriented epilogue, indicating the contrasting destinies of pre-exilic Judah and the exilic community in Babylon." Kerry Sonia reviews Shawn Flynn's Children in Ancient Israel Kathleen Gallagher Elkins reviews The Bible and Feminism: Remapping the Field. BLT reports on Suzanne McCarthy's book as told to James McGrath by her sister Ruth Hayhoe. Phil Long reviews All Things New, Revelation as canonical capstone, by Brian Tabb.

Remembering

... And morning

Suzanne McCarthy 76 months ago reminded us of a riddle related to time. Here is a Sunday Superlatives post from the same year, 2013, from Rachel Held Evans. Jim Gordon reminds us of the 75th anniversary of the death of Bonhoeffer. The tail of the whole carnival is a reflection by Marc Zvi Brettler on the 106th yahrzeit of S. R. Driver of whom, it is said: He taught the faithful criticism and the critics faith. Read Marc's article to find out who said this and more importantly, why. And as a coda, this music, which as Matthew Larkin says, if you allow yourself the necessary time, "will leave you speechless".

Next Carnivals

Brent Niedergall hosts in March 2020 (Due April 1). Phillip Long is looking for volunteers for the rest of 2020. Contact him at plong42@gmail.com or twitter dm @plong42 to volunteer to host! ----------

(1) The carnival number is an even number higher than 148, (June 2018 - 20 months ago). The number of this February carnival is the product of the first two perfect numbers, 6 and 28, and is also the count of primes less than 1000. There are 50 words in TNK with gematria = 168. See also. (2) right hand side linked poetry snippets by James McGrath.

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Frankenstein 1970 - USA, 1958

Frankenstein 1970 – USA, 1958

Frankenstein 1970 is a 1958 science fiction horror feature film directed by Howard W. Koch (producer of Pharaoh’s Curse; Voodoo Island; The Black Sleep) from a screenplay written by Richard H. Landau and George Worthing Yates, based on a story by Charles A. Moses and producer Aubrey Schenck (Daughters of Satan; Macabre). The movie stars Boris Karloff, Tom Duggan, Jana Lund, Donald Barry and…

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17. Februar 2017

Heute gesehen: Geheimagent T (Originaltitel: T-Men), Spielfilm, USA, 1947. Erstaufführung: 25. Dezember 1947 (Uraufführung, Los Angeles, USA), Kinostart: 10. Januar 1948 (USA), 13. Januar 1950 (BRD) im Verleih: HAS/ABC, FSK 12. Produktionsdatum: Anfang Juli bis Ende August 1947. Laufzeit: 88:27 Min. (DVD), 92 Min. (laut IMDB). Bild: s/w. Bildformat: 1,33:1. Drehbuch: John C. Higgins nach einer Vorlage von Virginia Kellogg. Musik: Paul Sawtell. Kamera: John Alton. Produzent: Aubrey Schenck, Turner Shelton. Produktion: Reliance Pictures. Regie: Anthony Mann. Darsteller: Dennis O'Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder u.a. IMDB-Bewertung: 7.0/10

Handlung

> „Nachdem in Los Angeles ein für das amerikanische Schatzamt wichtiger Informant ermordet wurde, sollen die Ermittler Dennis O’Brien und Tony Genaro als verdeckte Ermittler einen Geldfälscherring ausheben. Durch mühsame Kleinarbeit gelingt es ihnen, sich das Vertrauen eines Detroiter Gangsters zu erschleichen, der gute Verbindungen zu der Bande in Kalifornien hat. Beim Versuch, Schritt für Schritt bis in die Spitze der Organisation vorzudringen, wird Genaro schließlich enttarnt und O’Brien muss tatenlos zusehen, wie sein Partner von dem skrupellosen Killer Moxie erschossen wird. Unbeirrt setzt er aber seinen Auftrag im Alleingang fort und rückt dem eigentlichen Drahtzieher immer näher. Die ganze Bande wird schließlich festgenommen und der fliehende Moxie von O’Brien erschossen.“ [Wikipedia (de)]

Darsteller:

Dennis O'Keefe: Agent Dennis O'Brien alias Vannie Harrigan

Mary Meade: Evangeline

Alfred Ryder: Tony Genaro alias Tony Galvani

Wallace Ford (als Wally Ford): Der Dampfer (im Original: The Schemer)

June Lockhart: Mary Genaro

Charles McGraw: Moxie

Jim Bannon: Agent Lindsay

Jane Randolph: Diana Simpson

Elmer Lincoln Irey: als er selbst u.a.

Orte der Handlung: Washington, D.C., Detroit, Los Angeles.

Notiz

Zu Beginn führt der ehemalige Leiter der Exekutiv-Abteilung des us-amerikanischen Schatzamtes Elmer Lincoln Irey (1888-1948) in die Arbeit seiner Strafverfolgungsbehörde ein. Der erstaunte deutsche Zuschauer erfährt dabei, daß das United States Treasury Department nicht nur für die Verfolgung säumiger Steuerzahler zuständig war. Irey unterstand unter anderem der Secret Service, die Zollbehörde, die Drogenbehörde (Bureau of Narcotics) und die Küstenwache. Zu den Obliegenheiten der Ermittlungsabteilung des Schatzamtes gehörten auch die Falschgeld-Angelegenheiten.

T-Men ist ein weiteres Beispiel für den dokumentarischen Stil im amerikanischen Film der späten 1940er Jahre. Andere Vertreter dieser Machart, die ich mir bereits angeschaut habe, sind: The House on 92nd Street (1945), 13 Rue Madeleine (1947), Straße ohne Namen (1948), Schritte in der Nacht (1948).

Bewertung

> „Nach authentischen Akten der Polizei von Los Angeles gedrehter Kriminalfilm, gekonnt inszeniert, spannend, hart, realitätsnah: Das amerikanische Schatzamt steht im Kampf mit einer raffiniert arbeitenden Falschmünzerbande. Seine Organe sind die T-Men - Geheimagenten, die sich nach mühsamer Kleinarbeit in die Bande einschmuggeln, um bis in die Spitze der Organisation vorzudringen. Was wie ein Dokumentarfilm in pädagogisch-patriotischem Ton anfängt, entwickelt sich zu einer beklemmenden Reise durch das Universum des film noir.“ [Lexikon des internationalen Films = Filmdienst]

Mir lag die erste deutsche DVD-Veröffentlichung von Big Ben Movies in der Reihe Filmclub Edition #4 (erschienen Dezember 2012) vor (EAN: 4260147225162, 2016 noch einmal als Teil einer Box mit dem Barcode: 0755675287347). Auf der DVD hat der Film eine Laufzeit von 88:27 Min. Freigabe ab 16.

Quellen: [IMDB]; [OFDB]; [Wikipedia (de)]; [Wikipedia (en)]; [American Film Institute]; [Der Film Noir]; [Synchronkartei]

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Cinema Sunday: Shock (1946)

Cinema Sunday: Shock (1946)

Title: Shock

Distributor: 20th Century Fox

Writers: Eugene Ling, Martin Berkeley (screenplay), Albert Demond (story)

Director: Alfred L. Werker

Producer: Aubrey Schenck

Starring: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw, Stephen Dunne

Released: January 10th, 1946

MPAA: NR

    Getting back into the swing of things this new year, I thought it appropriate to lift high the name of Vince…

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The Black Sleep (1956) Aubrey Schenck, John Carradine, Patricia Blair, Tor Johnson, George Sawaya & Sally Yarnell publicity still

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This 1956 throwback to the classic Universal horror of the '40s strikes at your hosts' hearts and brains! It's THE BLACK SLEEP from director Reginald LeBorg starring horror icons Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr, John Carradine, Bela Lugosi and Tor Johnson.

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 27:29; Discussion 43:18; Ranking 59:22

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A Bel-Air Productions Double Bill at the Twin Hi-Way Drive-In

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Repeat Performance, the Perfect New Year's Eve Beverage; Repeat Performance Redux

Repeat Performance, the Perfect New Year’s Eve Beverage; Repeat Performance Redux

  I guess it is never too early to prepare for the end of the year, and the beginning of a New Year, yet, oddly enough, Repeat Performance which finds its plot entangled with and dare I say integral with New Year’s Eve was released some five months later or seven months earlier (dependent upon your point of view) of New Year’s Eve.

Release, Ohio Style:

The world premier was seen in Zanesville,…