CONSTELLATION
1x08 These Fragments I Have Shored Against My Ruin
Alice, even if I’m not here… I’m always with you… and Daddy. I don’t think you understand how much I– I just wanted to be around and see you grow up. No matter what happens… my eyes are always on you. And my heart… beats with you, baby. I love you so much. More than you can ever imagine. [in Swedish] My love.
Life and Liberty for All Who Believe (1982) is a documentary produced by Norman Lear's People For the American Way.
It features Burt Lancaster trashing Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Heritage Foundation founder Paul Weyrich for their extremism and bigotry.
The film chronicled the first massive meeting of the religious right, held in Dallas, Texas in 1980, where Paul Weyrich famously proposed voter suppression as winning tactic for far-right Republicans.
Oct. 10 meeting minutes — made public today shortly after a request from WITF — show council member Paul Swangren, Jr. “requested a line-item review” of the library’s finances to make sure each item reflected “conservative values.”
“He was not comfortable with monies going towards Women Health class because it was related to sexual matters.”
"Labiche! Here's your prize, Labiche. Some of the greatest paintings in the world. Does it please you, Labiche? You feel a sense of excitement at just being near them? A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. You won by sheer luck. You stopped me without knowing what you were doing or why. You are nothing, Labiche. A lump of flesh. The paintings are mine. They always will be. Beauty belongs to the man who can appreciate it. They will always belong to me, or a man like me. Now, this minute, you couldn't tell me why you did what you did."
The Train (1964) Dir. John Frankenheimer
Connie Williams (seated) and a dancer at the Calypso on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village, ca. 1945.
The Calypso was a Caribbean establishment run by Williams, a Trinidadian restaurateur, where musical performances, soul food, and intellectual banter mixed with a steady flow of liquor. It was a spiritual home of sorts for James Baldwin in his first years in the Village. He got a job there as a waiter, and when he wasn't working he'd be drinking with the artist Beauford Delaney or Marlon Brando, a lifelong friend and supporter. It was a space where races mixed freely, which was still unusual at the time, and on a given night you might have seen Paul Robeson or Henry Miller eating side by side with Burt Lancaster or, later, Malcolm X.
Text: NY Times
Photo: Berenice Abbott via the NY Times
Haitian Slave Revolt graphic novel in the spotlight
Comic creators and creative partners Nic Watts and Sakina Karimjee are heading to Lancaster this February to talk about their acclaimed graphic novel Toussaint L’Ouverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
I was beginnin' to think you didn't exist. But here you are in the glorious flesh and what a sight for sore eyes! Oh, you sure passed me by. Like plantin' a seed and watchin' it grow into a tree, too tall to climb. You got everything you ever wanted, my friend. You even got the President of the United States sleepin' in your bed, right now.
BUFFALO BILL AND THE INDIANS
or Sitting Bull's History Lesson
— 1976. dir. robert altman, cin. paul lohmann