#Curt Conway

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2024: Paola Gassman,  è stata un’attrice teatrale italiana, figlia di Vittorio Gassman e Nora Ricci e sorellastra della dott.ssa Vittoria, dell’attore Alessandro e del regista Jacopo. Paola si dedicò quasi esclusivamente al teatro, a eccezione di alcune sporadiche ma significative apparizioni televisive in commedie e sceneggiati. Negli ultimi anni con l’attore Ugo Pagliai, conosciuto ai tempi…

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Giant-Size Spider-Man #5 (Conway/Andru, July 1975). Caught between MJ and Gwendy (who’s processing her missing two years), Pete takes a working vacation to Florida. Honestly he should know better by now. Every time he sets foot in the Sunshine State, Curt Conners has a relapse.

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Today's grab, DC Comics Presents #30 (1981), cover art by Rich Buckler

Fun story by Gerry Conway with delightful art by Curt Swan and Vince Colletta. Black Canary and Superman team up to take on Doctor Destiny in Dinah's dreams!

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SUPERMAN #345 (1980) Ross Andru & Dick GiordanoCover / Curt Swan Pencils / Gerry Conway Story / 1st Appearance of Koman-Ta 

#SUPERMAN #345 (1980) #RossAndru & #DickGiordanoCover / #CurtSwan Pencils / #GerryConway Story / 1st Appearance of Koman-Ta "When Time Ran Backward!" The people of Earth begin living backwards, and only Superman can break out of this pattern and seek out the aliens who are turning the planet contrachronically. SAVE ON SHIPPING COST - NOW AVAILABLE FOR LOCAL PICK UP IN DELTONA, FLORIDA https://www.rarecomicbooks.fashionablewebs.com/Superman%20Vol%201.html#345  #KeyComicBooks #DCComics #DCU #DCUniverse #KeyIssue

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I Walked with a Zombie and The Seventh Victim will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD together on October 8 via The Criterion Collection. Katherine Lam designed the cover art for Val Lewton productions.

1943's I Walked with a Zombie is directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People) and written by Curt Siodmak (The Wolf Man) and Ardel Wray. James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway star.

1943's The Seventh Victim is directed by Mark Robson (Earthquake) and written by DeWitt Bodeen (Cat People) and Charles O'Neal. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, and Kim Hunter star.

Both films have been newly restored in 4K with uncompressed monaural soundtracks. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

I Walked with a Zombie audio commentary by film historians Kim Newman and Stephen Jones

The Seventh Victim audio commentary by film historian Steve Haberman

Interview with film historian Imogen Sara Smith

Audio essays from Adam Roche's podcast The Secret History of Hollywood

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy - 2005 documentary on producer Val Lewton featuring William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, John Landis, Robert Wise, Neil Gaiman, and more

Trailers

Booklet with essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante

Terror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO’s B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic I Walked with a Zombie and the shockingly subversive The Seventh Victim are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness.

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Pete Ross’s son wants to know Superman’s secret identity as his dying wish so Clark tells him but the kid straight up won’t believe him. Clark is Very Done about this development.

action 457, “superman, you’re not clark kent - and i can prove it!” 1976, script gerry conway, pencils curt swan, inks tex blaisdell

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Dread by the Decade: I Walked with a Zombie

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★★★½

Plot: After arriving on Saint Sebastian to care for a plantation owner's catatonic wife, a young nurse seeks aid for her patient from local Vodou practitioners.

Review: Though dated and sometimes lacking in its handling of racial politics, this remains a mysterious and brooding exploration of family conflict and colonial rule.

Source Material: I Walked with a Zombie by Inez Wallace and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Year: 1943 Genre: Occult, Psychological Horror Country: United States Language: English Runtime: 1 hour 9 minutes

Director: Jacques Tourneur Writers: Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray Cinematographer: J. Roy Hunt Editor: Mark Robson Composer: Roy Webb Cast: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Theresa Harris, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Christine Gordon, Sir Lancelot

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Story: 3.5/5 - Tense, dark, and layered. Flawed in its handling of racism and inaccurate (but not vilifying) in its depiction of Vodou, it is still shockingly progressive for its era, condemning slavery and acknowledging colonialism.

Performances: 4/5 - Realistic and evocative, with everyone—especially Dee and Barrett—portraying deeply flawed characters well.

Cinematography: 4/5 - Ranges from solid to gorgeous. Some excellent night shots.

Editing: 4/5 - Fluid and tight.

Music: 4/5 - Minimal with great use of drums.

Effects & Props: 4/5

Sets: 3.5/5 - Some outdoor sets are obviously fake, but the sugar cane field is very memorable.

Costumes, Hair, & Make-Up: 4/5 - Subtle but well executed.

Trigger Warnings:

Very mild violence

Antiblack racism (minimal for the era; black characters are humanized but restricted to servant roles, white characters are centralized, and white people sometimes speak condescendingly about black people and their faith, though some of this is later subverted and criticized)

Colonialism (critical)

Alcoholism

Ableism against mentally ill people (dialogue only)

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I Walked With a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943) Cast: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett, James Bell, Christine Gordon, Theresa Harris, Sir Lancelot, Darby Jones. Screenplay: Curt Siodmak, Ardel Wray, based on a story by Inez Wallace. Cinematography: J. Roy Hunt. Art direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Walter E. Keller. Film editing: Mark Robson. Music: Roy Webb. I feel a little sorry for the viewer who watches I Walked With a Zombie expecting the lurid thrills of The Walking Dead or even the campy ones of Hammer horror films, and encounters instead a moody, dreamlike tale that borrows heavily from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The tone of the film is set at the very beginning, when the narrator -- Frances Dee's Betsy Connell -- says in a subdued, almost matter-of-fact manner, "I walked with a zombie." The low key restraint of her narration pervades the film, which has an insidious way of working on your nerves without subjecting them to sudden shocks. I like, too, the way in which the crime of slavery works its way into the fabric of the story as a source of horror. The coachman driving Betsy to Fort Holland reminds her of "the enormous boat [that] brought the long ago fathers and the long ago mothers of us all, chained to the bottom of the boat." Betsy burbles out the white folks' familiar defense: "They brought you to a beautiful place, didn't they?" To which the coachman can only reply with a long-learned submissiveness, "If you say so, Miss. If you say so." Betsy hasn't yet learned the lesson Paul Holland (Tom Conway) tried to teach her on the ship that brought her there. As she looks out at the stars and the sea, he tells her, "Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand.... There's no beauty here, only death and decay." A shooting star streaks across the sky. "Everything good dies here," he says. "Even the stars." I Walked With a Zombie doesn't quite deliver on that premise, in part because it's too restrained and poetic in its storytelling, but it makes a good go at it.

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Birthdays 6.29

Beer Birthdays

Peter Weyand (1821)

Jacob Paul Rettenmayer (1881)

Pablo Diez Fernández (1884)

Pat Conway (1948)

Jeremy Sowers (1971)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Leroy Anderson; composer (1908)

Fred "Gopher" Grandy; actor, politician (1948)

Ray Harryhausen; filmmaker, special effects (1920)

Colin Hay; pop singer (1953)

Slim Pickens; actor (1919)

Famous Birthdays

Willibald Alexis; German author (1798)

Ian Bannen; Scottish actor (1928)

Charlotte Bingham; English author (1942)

John Bradshaw; philosopher (1933)

Pat Crawford Brown; actress (1929)

Ralph Burns; musican, bandleader, composer (1922)

Gary Busey; actor (1944)

Stokely Carmichael; civil rights activist (1941)

Katherine DeMille; Canadian-American actress (1911)

Antoine de Saint-Exupery; French writer (1900)

Thomas Dunn English; poet (1819)

Nelson Eddy; singer, actor (1901)

Tripp Eisen; guitarist (1965)

Little Eva; pop singer (1943)

Leo Frobenius; German ethnologist and archaeologist (1873)

George Goethals; engineer (1858)

George Ellery Hale; astronomer (1868)

Bernard Herrmann; composer (1911)

Witold Hurewicz; Polish mathematician (1904)

Jean Kent; English actress (1921)

Harmon Killebrew; Minnesota Twins 1B/3B/LF (1936)

Rafael Kubelik; orchestra conductor (1914)

Julia Lathrop; activist (1858)

Robert Laurent; sculptor (1890)

Yvonne Lefébure; French pianist (1898)

Giacomo Leopardi; Italian poet (1798)

Richard Lewis; comedian (1947)

Frank Loesser; composer (1910)

David Burroughs Mattingly; illustrator (1956)

William James Mayo; doctor, clinic founder (1861)

José Pablo Moncayo; Mexican pianist, composer (1912)

Anne-Sophie Mutter; German violinist (1963)

Pierre Perrault; Canadian film director (1927)

Jean-Louis Pesch; French author and illustrator (1928)

Peter I; king of Serbia, founder of Yugoslavia (1844)

Petronilla; queen of Aragon (1136)

Vasko Popa; Serbian poet (1922)

Josef Ressel; Czech-American propeller inventor (1793)

Zuleikha Robinson; English actress (1977)

Curt Sachs; German-American composer (1881)

Kaci Starr; adult actress (1985)

Jackie Lynn Taylor; American actress (1925)

Jay Taylor; adult actress (1991)

Celia Thaxter; poet (1835)

Egon von Fürstenberg; Swiss fashion designer (1946)

Cara Williams; American actress (1925)

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Spider-Man Read-Through 025: L to the OG (Clone Saga) (ASM 141-150) P2

MASTERPOST

Here's the first part of this post!

So we know the Jackal's identity! What now?

Hell yeah!

When Spidey wakes up, he gets beaten up pretty good by the Jackal, aka Peter's science professor.

Turns out dear Miles had... feelings of a certain kind for Gwen and wanted to avenge her. He's the one who hid the samples from Peter, naturally.

See, Gwen died because she slayed too hard.

The Jackal tells Spidey to come to the Shea Stadium later, which he does, and he promptly gets put unconscious ONCE AGAIN. When he wakes up...

While the girls are fighting, Gwen figures that the Jackal isn't very nice and tears his mask away. Warren proceeds to lose his mind and cut the rope holding Ned, thus removing the need for the real Spider-Man to prove himself. And what was destined to happen... happens.

One Spidey wakes up, the other doesn't. Alive!Spidey says Ned will live. But when Gwen asks him how he knows he's the real Spider-Man... he doesn't answer.

So this is where Peter most likely loses his virginity. Sex and death are often interlinked.

The first time I read this issue, it left a bitter taste in my mouth. I liked it, but it was a bizarre feeling. The part where Gwen leaves is still really bittersweet. I hope we get to see more of her eventually. I was spoiled on how she ends up, but still...

In the readers' letters, the team actually apologizes for the Mindworm's house depiction, as it truly exists IRL.

This is the last issue of the main Gerry Conway batch, although we'll see more of him in the next one with some GSSM issues. Overall, a strong run that really incorporated arc-plotlines in otherwise limited storylines.

In Ish 150 (wow), Spidey goes to Curt Connors to get help. While waiting for the results of their numerous tests, he gets attacked by the traditional crème de la crème of his foes (it is a celebration, after all) before Smythe shows himself and declares it was all his work, robots he made! Smythe is a boring villain because it always seems like the exact same thing with him, but oh well. On the verge of death, Spidey thinks about MJ, and figures that if he was the clone, he'd be torn between Gwen and MJ, and he gets enough motivation to overpower Smythe. When he comes back to an asleep Connors, he doesn't check the results--he simply throws them out. I don't think any of this makes a lick of sense, but oh well.

It also really doesn't matter.

Next time: Giant-Size Spider-Man 3-6!

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WATCHED

I've seen it at least half a dozen time in my life, bits and pieces during Twilight Zone marathons. But I had never seen it fully start to finish and I haven't seen this story for at least 10 years or more. So I went to watch it in context with current events of the last four years.

Eerily prophetic. I don't think it's ever over as Rod Serling says in the narration:

"Where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because, through these things, we keep him alive."

Cautionary tales never end. There's always going to be that danger in the future.

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2020: Pino Van Lamsweerde, all’anagrafe Giuseppe van Lamsweerde, è stato un regista e animatore italiano naturalizzato canadese.  (n. 1940) 2020: Carlo Sabatini, attore e doppiatore italiano. Noto per aver prestato voce a Ian McKellen/Magneto, ad Harvey Keitel, a Bruce Lee,  a Morgan Freeman, e a tanti altri attori famosi.  (n. 1932) 2012: Maria Pia Casilio, attrice italiana. (n. 1935) 2010:…

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Raw Deal (1948) Anthony Mann

November 22nd 2020

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Pretty obvious, isn’t it?

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Curt Siodmak and Lon Chaney Jr return in BRIDE OF THE GORILLA (1951), with Siodmak's directorial debut! Beefcake Raymond Burr stars in this Val Lewton-styled Wolf Man remake set in the Amazon!

Context setting 00:00; Synopsis 20:23; Discussion 34:16; Ranking 57:38

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Hud - Modern Day Western Character Study

Probably saw for the first time on the American Movie Classics channel back in the 80s, and it's one of those that pops up on cable about once a year somewhere, so I've also lost track of how many times I've sat through it. Newman is a complicated character, a total amoral cad, yet there is something magnetic about him that doesn't allow you to totally hate him. Patricia Neal and him make a very electric pair in this one, and Melvyn Douglas and the always annoying Brandon de Wilde round out this great cast. Beautifully and bleakly photographed, and the widescreen is given good use, with the wide Texas landscapes, the long cars and emphasizing the moral gaps that grow between the characters.

4 stars out of 5

Released 1963, First Viewing July 1985