The bodies of two men who died while incarcerated in Alabama's prison system were missing their hearts or other organs when returned to their families, a federal lawsuit alleges.
The family of Brandon Clay Dotson, who died in a state prison in November, filed a federal lawsuit last month against the Alabama Department of Corrections and others saying his body was decomposing and his heart was missing when his remains were returned to his family.
In a court filing in the case last week, the daughter of Charles Edward Singleton, another deceased inmate, said her father's body was missing all of his internal organs when it was returned in 2021.
Lauren Faraino, an attorney representing Dotson's family, said via email Wednesday that the experience of multiple families shows this is “absolutely part of a pattern.”
The Associated Press sent an email seeking comment late Wednesday afternoon to the Alabama Department of Corrections.
Dotson, 43, was found dead on Nov. 16 at Ventress Correctional Facility. His family, suspecting foul play was involved in his death, hired a pathologist to do a second autopsy and discovered his heart was missing, according to the lawsuit. His family filed a lawsuit seeking to find out why his heart was removed and to have it returned to them.
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Paintings from Buckingham Palace: part I
A retexture by La Comtesse Zouboff — Original Mesh by @thejim07
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First of all, I would like to thank you all for this amazing year! It's been a pleasure meeting you all and I'm beyond thankful for your support.
Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the Royal Collection Trust. The British monarch owns some of the collection in right of the Crown and some as a private individual. It is made up of over one million objects, including 7,000 paintings, over 150,000 works on paper, this including 30,000 watercolours and drawings, and about 450,000 photographs, as well as around 700,000 works of art, including tapestries, furniture, ceramics, textiles, carriages, weapons, armour, jewellery, clocks, musical instruments, tableware, plants, manuscripts, books, and sculptures.
Some of the buildings which house the collection, such as Hampton Court Palace, are open to the public and not lived in by the Royal Family, whilst others, such as Windsor Castle, Kensington Palace and the most remarkable of them, Buckingham Palace are both residences and open to the public.
About 3,000 objects are on loan to museums throughout the world, and many others are lent on a temporary basis to exhibitions.
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This first part includes the paintings displayed in the White Drawing Room, the Green Drawing Room, the Silk Tapestry Room, the Guard Chamber, the Grand Staircase, the State Dining Room, the Queen's Audience Room and the Blue Drawing Room,
This set contains 37 paintings and tapestries with the original frame swatches, fully recolourable. They are:
White Drawing Room (WDR):
Portrait of François Salignan de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (Joseph Vivien)
Portrait of a Lady (Sir Peter Lely)
Portrait of a Man in Armour with a red scarf (Anthony van Dyck)
Portrait of Alexandra of Denmark, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and Empress of India (François Flameng)
Green Drawing Room (GDR):
Portrait of Prince James Stuart, Duke of Cambridge (John Michael Wright)
Portrait of Frederick Henry, Charles Louis and Elizabeth: Children of Frederick V and Elizabeth of Bohemia (unknown)
Portrait of Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia of Autria and her Sister, Infanta Catalina Micaela of Austria (Alonso Sanchez Coello)
Portrait of Princess Louisa and Princess Caroline of the United Kingdom (Francis Cotes)
Portrait of Queen Charlotte with her Two Eldest Sons, Frederick, Later Duke of York and Prince George of Wales (Allan Ramsay)
Portrait of Richard Colley Wellesley, Marquess of Wellesley (Martin Archer Shee)
Portrait of the Three Youngest Daughters of George III, Princesses Mary, Amelia and Sophia (John Singleton Copley)
Silk Tapestry Room (STR):
Portrait of Caroline of Brunswick, Princess of Wales, Playing the Harp with Princess Charlotte (Sir Thomas Lawrence)
Portrait of Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick With her Son, Charles George Augustus (Angelica Kauffmann)
Guard Chamber (GC):
Les Portières des Dieux: Bacchus (Manufacture Royale des Gobelins)
Les Portières des Dieux: Venus (Manufacture Royale des Gobelins)
Les Portières des Dieux (Manufacture Royale des Gobelins)
Grand Staircarse (GS):
Portrait of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Queen Consort of Great Britain (Martin Archer Shee)
Portrait of Augustus, Duke of Sussex (Sir David Wilkie)
Portrait of Edward, Duke of Kent (George Dawe)
Portrait of King George III of Great Britain (Sir William Beechey)
Portrait of King William IV of Great Britain when Duke of Clarence (Sir Thomas Lawrence)
Portrait of Leopold I, King of the Belgians (William Corden the Younger)
Portrait of Prince George of Cumberland, Later King George V of Hanover When a Boy (Sir Thomas Lawrence)
Portrait of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (George Dawe)
Portrait of Queen Charlotte at Frogmore House (Sir William Beechey)
Portrait of Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saafeld, Duchess of Kent (Sir George Hayter)
State Dining Room (SDR):
Portrait of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom in Coronation Robes (Allan Ramsay)
Portrait of King George III of the United Kingdom in Coronation Robes (Allan Ramsay)
Portrait of Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (Jean-Baptiste Van Loo)
Portrait of Caroline of Ansbach when Princess of Wales (Sir Godfrey Kneller)
Portrait of Frederick, Princes of Wales (Jean-Baptiste Van Loo)
Portrait of King George II of Great Britain (John Shackleton)
Portrait of King George IV of the United Kingdom in Garther Robes (Sir Thomas Lawrence)
Queen's Audience Room (QAR):
Portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn (née Anne Luttrel) in Peeress Robes (Sir Thomas Gainsborough)
Portrait of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn in Peer Robes (Sir Thomas Gainsborough)
London: The Thames from Somerset House Terrace towards the City (Giovanni Antonio Canal "Canaletto")
View of Piazza San Marco Looking East Towards the Basilica and the Campanile (Giovanni Antonio Canal "Canaletto")
Blue Drawing Room (BDR)
Portrait of King George V in Coronation Robes (Sir Samuel Luke Fildes)
Portrait of Queen Mary of Teck in Coronation Robes (Sir William Samuel Henry Llewellyn)
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Found under decor > paintings for:
500§ (WDR: 1,2 & 3)
1850§ (GDR: 1)
1960§ (GDR: 2 & 3 |QAR 3 & 4)
3040§ (STR, 1 |GC: 1 & 2|SDR: 1 & 2)
3050§ (GC:1 |GS: all 10|WDR: 4 |SDR: 3,4,5 & 6)
3560§ (QAR: 1 & 2|STR: 2)
3900§ (SDR: 7| BDR: 1 & 2|GDR: 4,5,6 & 7)
Retextured from:
"Saint Mary Magdalene" (WDR: 1,2 & 3) found here .
"The virgin of the Rosary" (GDR: 1) found here .
"The Four Cardinal Virtues" (GDR: 2&3|QAR 3 & 4) found here.
"Mariana of Austria in Prayer" (STR, 1, GC: 1 & 2|SDR: 1 & 2) found here.
"Portrait of Philip IV with a lion at his feet" (GC:1 |GS: all 10|WDR: 4 |SDR: 3,4,5 & 6) found here
"Length Portrait of Mrs.D" (QAR: 1 & 2|STR: 2) found here
"Portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria and her Son, le Grand Dauphin" (SDR: 7| BDR: 1 & 2|GDR: 4,5,6 & 7) found here
(you can just search for "Buckingham Palace" using the catalog search mod to find the entire set much easier!)
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ABC 33/40 News has obtained court documents revealing another case of a deceased Alabama inmate's body found missing organs. The body of Charles Edward Singleton was returned to his family missing all organs including his brain.
Organ resellers stealing the brain, devious
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ST. CLAIR COUNTY, Ala. — ABC 33/40 News has obtained court documents revealing another case of a deceased Alabama inmate's body found missing organs. The body of Charles Edward Singleton was returned to his family missing all organs including his brain.
Singleton died on November 2, 2021 in the custody of the Alabama Department of Corrections. He had been housed at the Hamilton Aged and Infirmed before he was sent to an outside hospital for care prior to his death.
According to the statement by a family member, UAB's Department of Pathology performed the autopsy. The family requested the body then be sent to a funeral home in Pell City. The funeral director told the family it "would be difficult to prepare his body for viewing" since it was already in a "noticeable state of decomposition." The funeral home characterized it as "advanced skin slippage."
The family according to the court filing was then informed there were no organs in the body. It was explained to them post autopsy the organs are usually placed in a bag and put back in the body. The family was also informed Singleton's brain had been removed.
Singleton's family requested UAB return the organs, but they reported they never received the organs. We have been unable to reach Singleton's family for comment.
SECOND CASE????
Brandon Dotson died Nov. 16 at Ventress Correctional Facility in Barbour County. The Dotson family attorney says that was the same day he was to be considered for parole
The family says they spent days trying to claim his body for a funeral according to court filings. When the body was released the lawsuit contends it was so badly decomposed they were unable to have an open casket.
"This is the fifth case where I've had a funeral director say they've never received a body in such terrible condition," said Faraino. Last Thanksgiving Faraino explained a family told her the smell from the decomposing corpse of their loved one was so overwhelming they could not have an open casket. On another deceased inmate, it was reported the scalp was pulled back and not properly in place.
Also extremely troubling to Dotson's family, the revelation that their son's heart was missing. That was reported by an independent pathologist the family hired in Birmingham to determine a cause of death.
He was serving a 99 year sentence for Burglary.
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We were strangers in the night
Up to the moment
When we said our first hello
Little did we know
Love was just a glance away
A warm embracing dance away
[four] strangers in the night.
Edward Hopper, Night Hawks, 1942
Strangers In The Night by Ivo Robić and Bert Kaempfert / english version by Charles Singleton and Eddie Snyder, 1966
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BLACK LIVES MATTER
A list with black artists who have a song in the Unknown Songs That Should Be Known-playlist
(Can be a black artist in a band or just solo-artist) (no specific genre)
Bull’s Eye - Blacknuss, Prince Prime - Funk
Aftershow - Joe Fox - Alternative Hip-hop
Strangers in the Night - Ben L’Oncle Soul - Soul
Explore - Mack Wilds - R&B
Something To Do - IGBO - Funk
Down With The Trumpets - Rizzle Kicks - Pop
Dans ta ville - Dub Inc. - Reggae
Dance or Die - Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Funk
FACELESS - The PLAYlist, Glenn Lewis - R&B
Tell Me Father - Jeangu Macrooy - Soul
Southern Boy - John The Conquerer - Blues Hard Rock
Savannah Grass - Kes - Dancehall
Dr. Funk - The Main Squeeze - Funk
Seems I’m Never Tired of Loving You - Lizz Wright - Jazz
Out of My Hands - TheColorGrey, Oddisee - Hip-Hop/Pop
Raised Up in Arkansas - Michael Burks - Blues
Black Times - Sean Kuti, Egypt 80, Carlos Santana - Afrobeat
Cornerstone - Benjamin Clementine - Indie
Shine On - R.I.O., Madcon - Electronic Pop
Bass On The Line - Bernie Worrell - Funk
When We Love - Jhené Aiko - R&B
Need Your Love - Curtis Harding - Soul
Too Dry to Cry - Willis Earl Beal - Folk
Your House - Steel Pulse - Reggae
Power - Moon Boots, Black Gatsby - Deep House
Vinyl Is My Bible - Brother Strut - Funk
Diamond - Izzy Biu - R&B
Elusive - blackwave., David Ngyah - Hip-hop
Don’t Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down - Heritage Blues Orchestra - Blues
Sastanàqqàm - Tinariwen - Psychedelic Rock
Disco To Go - Brides of Funkenstein - Funk/Soul
Circles - Durand Jones & The Indications - Retro Pop
Cheesin’ - Cautious Clay, Remi Wolf, sophie meiers - R&B
Changes - Charles Bradley - Soul
The Sweetest Sin - RAEVE - House
Gyae Su - Pat Thomas, Kwashibu Area Band - Funk
What Am I to Do - Ezra Collective, Loyle Carner - Hip-hop
Get Your Groove On - Cedric Burnside - Blues
Old Enough To Know Better - Steffen Morrisson - Soul
Wassiye - Habib Koité - Khassonke musique
Dance Floor - Zapp - Funk
Wake Up - Brass Against, Sophia Urista - Brass Hard-Rock
BIG LOVE - Black Eyed Peas - Pop
The Greatest - Raleigh Ritchie - R&B
DYSFUNCTIONAL - KAYTRANADA, VanJess - Soul
See You Leave - RJD2, STS, Khari Mateen - Hip-hop
Sing A Simple Song - Maceo Parker - Jazz/Funk
Have Mercy - Eryn Allen Kane - Soul
Homenage - Brownout - Latin Funk
Can’t Sleep - Gary Clark Jr. - Blues Rock
Toast - Koffee - Dancehall
Freedom - Ester Dean - R&B
Iskaba - Wande Coal, DJ Tunez - Afropop
High Road - Anthony Riley - Alternative Christian
Sunny Days - Sabrina Starke - Soul
The Talking Fish - Ibibio Sound Machine - Funk
Paralyzed - KWAYE - Indie
Purple Heart Blvd - Sebastian Kole - Pop
WORSHIP - The Knocks, MNEK - Deep House
BMO - Ari Lennox - R&B
Promises - Myles Sanko - Soul
.img - Brother Theodore - Funk
Singing the Blues - Ruthie Foster, Meshell Ndegeocello - Blues
Nobody Like You - Amartey, SBMG, The Livingtons - Hip-hop
Starship - Afriquoi, Shabaka Hutchings, Moussa Dembele - Deep House
Lay My Troubles Down - Aaron Taylor - Funk
Bloodstream - Tokio Myers - Classic
Sticky - Ravyn Lenae - R&B
Why I Try - Jalen N’Gonda - Soul
Motivation - Benjamin Booker - Folk
quand c’est - Stromae - Pop
Let Me Down (Shy FX Remix) - Jorja Smith, Stormzy, SHY FX - Reggae
Funny - Gerald Levert - R&B
Salt in my Wounds - Shemekia Copeland - Blues
Our Love - Samm Henshaw - Soul
Make You Feel That Way - Blackalicious - Jazz Hip-hop
Knock Me Out - Vintage Trouble - Funk
Take the Time - Ronald Bruner, Jr., Thundercat - Alternative
Thru The Night - Phonte, Eric Roberson - R&B
Keep Marchin’ - Raphael Saadiq - Soul
Shake Me In Your Arms - Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’ - Blues
Meet Me In The Middle - Jodie Abascus - Pop
Raise Hell - Sir the Baptist, ChurchPpl - Gospel Pop
Mogoya - Oumou Sangaré - Wassoulou
Where’s Yesterday - Slakah The Beatchild - Hip-hop
Lose My Cool - Amber Mark - R&B
New Funk - Big Sam’s Funky Nation - Funk
I Got Love - Nate Dogg - Hip-hop
Nothing’s Real But Love - Rebecca Ferguson - Soul
Crazy Race - The RH Factor - Jazz
Spies Are Watching Me - Voilaaa, Sir Jean - Funk
The Leaders - Boka de Banjul - Afrobeat
Fast Lane - Rationale - House
Conundrum - Hak Baker - Folk
Don’t Make It Harder On Me - Chloe x Halle - R&B
Plastic Hamburgers - Fantastic Negrito - Hardrock
Beyond - Leon Bridges - Pop
God Knows - Dornik - Soul
Soleil de volt - Baloji - Afrofunk
Do You Remember - Darryl Williams, Michael Lington - Jazz
Get Back - McClenney - Alternative
Three Words - Aaron Marcellus - Soul
Spotify playlist
In memory of:
Aaron Bailey
Adam
Addie Mae Collins
Ahmaud Arbery
Aiyana Stanley Jones
Akai Gurley
Alberta Odell Jones
Alexia Christian
Alfonso Ferguson
Alteria Woods
Alton Sterling
Amadou Diallo
Amos Miller
Anarcha Westcott
Anton de Kom
Anthony Hill
Antonio Martin
Antronie Scott
Antwon Rose Jr.
Arthur St. Clair
Atatiana Jefferson
Aubrey Pollard
Aura Rosser
Bennie Simons
Berry Washington
Bert Dennis
Bettie Jones
Betsey
Billy Ray Davis
Bobby Russ
Botham Jean
Brandon Jones
Breffu
Brendon Glenn
Breonna Taylor
Bud Johnson
Bussa
Calin Roquemore
Calvin McDowell
Calvin Mike and his family
Carl Cooper
Carlos Carson
Carlotta Lucumi
Carol Denise McNair
Carol Jenkins
Carole Robertson
Charles Curry
Charles Ferguson
Charles Lewis
Charles Wright
Charly Leundeu Keunang
Chime Riley
Christian Taylor
Christopher Sheels
Claude Neal
Clementa Pickney
Clifford Glover
Clifton Walker
Clinton Briggs
Clinton R. Allen
Cordella Stevenson
Corey Carter
Corey Jones
Cynthia Marie Graham Hurd
Cynthia Wesley
Daniel L. Simmons
Danny Bryant
Darius Randell Robinson
Darius Tarver
Darrien Hunt
Darrius Stewart
David Felix
David Joseph
David McAtee
David Walker and his family
Deandre Brunston
Deborah Danner
Delano Herman Middleton
Demarcus Semer
Demetrius DuBose
Depayne Middleton-Doctor
Dion Johnson
Dominique Clayton
Dontre Hamilton
Dred Scott
Edmund Scott
Ejaz Choudry
Elbert Williams
Eleanor Bumpurs
Elias Clayton
Elijah McClain
Eliza Woods
Elizabeth Lawrence
Elliot Brooks
Ellis Hudson
Elmer Jackson
Elmore Bolling
Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford Jr.
Emmett Till
Eric Garner
Eric Harris
Eric Reason
Ernest Lacy
Ernest Thomas
Ervin Jones
Eugene Rice
Eugene Williams
Ethel Lee Lance
Ezell Ford
Felix Kumi
Frank Livingston
Frank Morris
Frank Smart
Frazier B. Baker
Fred Hampton
Fred Rochelle
Fred Temple
Freddie Carlos Gray Jr.
George Floyd
George Grant
George Junius Stinney Jr.
George Meadows
George Waddell
George Washington Lee
Gregory Gunn
Harriette Vyda Simms Moore
Harry Tyson Moore
Hazel “Hayes” Turner
Henry Ezekial Smith
Henry Lowery
Henry Ruffin
Henry Scott
Hosea W. Allen
India Kager
Isaac McGhie
Isadore Banks
Italia Marie Kelly
Jack Turner
Jamar Clark
Jamel Floyd
James Byrd Jr.
James Craig Anderson
James Earl Chaney
James Powell
James Ramseur
James Tolliver
James T. Scott
Janet Wilson
Jason Harrison
Javier Ambler
J.C. Farmer
Jemel Roberson
Jerame Reid
Jesse Thornton
Jessie Jefferson
Jim Eastman
Joe Nathan Roberts
John Cecil Jones
John Crawford III
John J. Gilbert
John Ruffin
John Taylor
Johnny Robinson
Jonathan Ferrell
Jonathan Sanders
Jordan Edwards
Joseph Mann
Julia Baker
Julius Jones
July Perry
Junior Prosper
Kalief Browder
Karvas Gamble Jr.
Keith Childress, Jr.
Kelly Gist
Kelso Benjamin Cochrane
Kendrick Johnson
Kenneth Chamberlain Sr.
Kenny Long
Kevin Hicks
Kevin Matthews
Kiwane Albert Carrington
Lacy Mitchell
Lamar Smith
Laquan McDonald
Laura Nelson
Laura Wood
L.B. Reed
L.D. Nelson
Lemuel Penn
Lemuel Walters
Leonard Deadwyler
Leroy Foley
Levi Harrington
Lila Bella Carter
Lloyd Clay
Louis Allen
Lucy
M.A. Santa Cruz
Maceo Snipes
Malcom X
Malice Green
Malissa Williams
Manuel Ellis
Marcus Deon Smith
Marcus Foster
Marielle Franco
Mark Clark
Maria
Martin Lee Anderson
Martin Luther King Jr.
Matthew Avery
Mary Dennis
Mary Turner
Matthew Ajibade
May Noyes
Mckenzie Adams
Medgar Wiley Evers
Michael Brown
Michael Donald
Michael Griffith
Michael Lee Marshall
Michael Lorenzo Dean
Michael Noel
Michael Sabbie
Michael Stewart
Michelle Cusseaux
Miles Hall
Moses Green
Mya Hall
Myra Thompson
Nathaniel Harris Pickett Jr.
Natasha McKenna
Nicey Brown
Nicholas Heyward Jr.
O’Day Short family
Orion Anderson
Oscar Grant III
Otis Newsom
Pamela Turner
Paterson Brown Jr.
Patrick Dorismond
Philando Castile
Phillip Pannell
Phillip White
Phinizee Summerour
Quaco
Ramarley Graham
Randy Nelson
Raymond Couser
Raymond Gunn
Regis Korchinski-Paquet
Rekia Boyd
Renisha McBride
Riah Milton
Robert Hicks
Robert Mallard
Robert Truett
Rodney King
Roe Nathan Roberts
Roger Malcolm and his wife
Roger Owensby Jr.
Ronell Foster
Roy Cyril Brooks
Rumain Brisbon
Ryan Matthew Smith
Sam Carter
Sam McFadden
Samuel DuBose
Samuel Ephesians Hammond Jr.
Samuel Hammond Jr.
Samuel Leamon Younge Jr.
Sandra Bland
Sean Bell
Shali Tilson
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
Shukri Abdi
Simon Schuman
Slab Pitts
Stella Young
Stephon Clark
Susie Jackson
T.A. Allen
Tamir Rice
Tamla Horsford
Tanisha Anderson
Timothy Caughman
Timothy Hood
Timothy Russell
Timothy Stansbury Jr.
Timothy Thomas
Terrence Crutcher
Terrill Thomas
Tom Jones
Tom Moss
Tony McDade
Tony Terrell Robinson Jr.
Trayvon Martin
Troy Hodge
Troy Robinson
Tula
Tyler Gerth
Tyre King
Tywanza Sanders
Victor Duffy Jr.
Victor White III
Walter Lamar Scott
Wayne Arnold Jones
Wesley Thomas
Wilbert Cohen
Wilbur Bundley
Will Brown
Will Head
Will Stanley
Will Stewart
Will Thompson
Willie James Howard
Willie Johnson
Willie McCoy
Willie Palmer
Willie Turks
William Brooks
William Butler
William Daniels
William Fambro
William Green
William L. Chapman II
William Miller
William Pittman
Wyatt Outlaw
Yusef Kirriem Hawkins
The victims of LaLaurie (1830s)
The black victims of the Opelousas massacre (1868)
The black victims of the Thibodaux massacre (1887)
The black victims of the Wilmington insurrection (1898)
The black victims of the Johnson-Jeffries riots (1910)
The black victims of the Red summer (1919)
The black victims of the Elaine massacre (1919)
The black victims of the Ocoee massacre (1920)
The victims of the MOVE bombing (1985)
All the people who died during the Atlantic slave trade, be it due to abuse or disease.
All the unnamed victims of mass-incarceration, who were put into jail without the committing of a crime and died while in jail or died after due to mental illness.
All the unnamed victims of racial violence and discrimination.
...
My apologies for all the people missing on this list. Feel free to add more names and stories.
Listen, learn and read about discrimination, racism and black history: (feel free to add more)
Documentaries:
13th (Netflix)
The Innocence Files (Netflix)
Who Killed Malcolm X? (Netflix)
Time: The Kalief Browder Story (Netflix)
I Am Not Your Negro
YouTube videos:
We Cannot Stay Silent about George Floyd
Waarom ook Nederlanders de straat op gaan tegen racisme (Dutch)
Wit is ook een kleur (Dutch) (documentaire)
Books:
Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
White Fragility by Robin Deangelo
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Woman, Race and Class by Angela Davis
Websites:
https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/report/
https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/
https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsoflyn00nati/page/n11/mode/2up
https://lab.nos.nl/projects/slavernij/index-english.html
https://blacklivesmatter.com/
https://www.zinnedproject.org/
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Mrs. Edward Green (Mary Storer), John Singleton Copley, 1765, American Decorative Arts
Charles B. Curtis Fund, 1908
Size: 23 7/8 x 17 5/8 in. (60.6 x 44.8 cm)
Medium: Pastel on laid paper, mounted on canvas
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10532
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FOR SALE ~ Preston Morton Collection American Art Santa Barbara SIGNED Suzette Morton Davidison (Daughter) https://www.ebay.com/itm/265400286198 #Artwork #ModernArt #watercolors #oilpaintings #collection #santabarbara #california #SBMA #PrestonMorton #AmericanArt #history #reference #guide #catalog #display #exhibition #books #signed
Art Book / Museum Affiliated. Signed by Contributor. Excellent reference guide for collectors, students of and/or enthusiasts interested in this subject. Coffee table book. A catalog of works that are on display at the SBMA and part of the permanent collection. Specializing in American Art. Artist works in the collection include Gifford Beal, George Wesley Bellows, Albert Bierstadt, John George Brown, Charles Burchfield, WIlliam Merritt CHase, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, jasper Francis Cropsey, Thomas Eakins, Walter Gay, William J. Glackens, William Groombridge, Christian Gullager, William Michael Harnett, Marsden Hartley, Childe Hassam, George Peter Alexander Healy, Robert Henri, Edward Lamson Henry, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, William Morris Hunt, George Inness, John Frederick Kensett, Karl Knaths, Ernest Lawson, John Marin, Alfred Henry Maurer, Jerome Myers, James Peale, John Frederick Peto, Maurice Pendergast, Abraham Rattner, Randolph Rogers, John Singer Sargent, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, Thomas Sully, Benjamin West, Thomas Worthington Whitteredge, and two unknown artists. We appreciate your consideration of one of our books, art prints or novelty items. We strive to offer fast, courteous and professional service to all our patrons. Reading is one of life's great pleasures. Please inquire for further details, our items arrive shrink wrapped and well packed. ~ Thank you for viewing and stopping by.
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Death and Return
(as of 3/3 I’m three episodes away from finishing Black Sails so major spoilers underneath the cut for everything BUT those three episodes but I gotta post about this now)
(again, MAJOR SPOILER WARNINGS for everything the cut)
So a fair number of characters have died in this show so far.
Singleton, Mr. Gates, Miranda Barlow, Randall, Mr. Guthrie, Dufresne, Charles Vane, Mr. Scott, Edward Teach, Eleanor Guthrie-Rogers, an endless list of minor antagonists, one-episode characters, on and on. These are characters whose physical death has been witnessed---often very publicly--their bodies seen and shown--to the viewers and again, often publicly in-show. So people definitely die and stay dead (though that often doesn’t stop them affecting the plot at all). Death is real and matters here. That is happens a lot doesn’t stop it mattering.
But there are even more characters who die and don’t stay dead (although, as with Charles Vane’s first death,sometimes they are buried or given full ceremonies). Vane, Billy, Eleanor, Flint, Silver, the entire crew of the Walrus, the Walrus herself, Anne, probably more who are slipping my mind at the time...all of them have been pronounced dead, even buried, only to return again.
Unlike in some genres, I do think that they return. Those deaths aren’t narrative fake-outs, for the audience or the world of the show. People dying changes the world, because those still living make choices and find motives based on that knowledge. Death for these characters is still real, still matters. Most recently, if Silver hadn’t been considered dead , the entire pirate--slave alliance might have held; the war on Nassau would certainly have proceeded differently from the start, since he was the one Billy was really prepared to work with. And even before the beginning of the show, the perceived death of Thomas Hamilton started the whole arc of the story. * The world does not move on the same way after death, even if the dead return.
Maybe especially if the dead return.
Because all that’s just on the practical side. There’s also a more Mythic/Magical aspect to the story; the people who have Returned are never the same people they were before, and they don’t move in the world the same way. They show a distinct tendency to start becoming legends; something between ghosts and small-g gods, maybe. There are absolute essays to write on this (The Doldrums as an Otherworld could be ten alone, geez) , and I’ll probably get into that more when I’m on rewatch.
(and yeah I’m thinking very much here of all those skeletons in the opening...the dead are fighting in this, racing for that flag, but that’s also another post..)
But right now all this is just to say: I don’t believe that Madi isn’t coming back. And at first that was just the NO SHE’S FINE that comes with seeing a favorite character lost... but the more I’ve thought about it, the more I really expect her to return now?
Because the world has changed, and whoever she comes back as won’t be the same.
...OTOH I only have three episodes to go. So whatever’s going to happen better happen soon....
* I’m not Spoilered , but I’m also also not utterly oblivious to narrative; there’s no way the idea of that rich-family-exile plantation was brought up at this point to be anything but a place to find Thomas again.
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AIDEN ELLISON
WALTER WALLACE JR.
JONATHAN PRICE
DIJON KIZZEE
DAMIAN DANIELS
ANTHONY MCCLAIN
JULIAN LEWIS
MAURICE ABISDID-WAGNER
RAYSHARD BROOKS
PRISCILLA SLATER
ROBERT FORBES
KAMAL FLOWERS
JAMEL FLOYD
DAVID MCATEE
JAMES SCURLOCK
CALVIN HORTON JR.
TONY MCDADE
DION JOHNSON
GEORGE FLOYD
MAURICE GORDON
CORNELIUS FREDERICKS
STEVEN TAYLOR
DANIEL PRUDE
BREONNA TAYLOR
BARRY GEDEUS
MANUEL ELLIS
AHMAUD ARBERY
LIONEL MORRIS
JAQUYN O'NEILL LIGHT
WILLIAM GREEN
DARIUS TARVER
MICIAH LEE
JOHN NEVILLE
MICHAEL DEAN
ATATIANA JEFFERSON
BYRON WILLIAMS
ELIJAH MCCLAIN
JALEEL MEDLOCK
DOMINIQUE CLAYTON
PAMELA TURNER
RONALD GREENE
STERLING HIGGINS
BRADLEY BLACKSHIRE
ALEAH JENKINS
EMANTIC BRADFORD JR.
JEMEL ROBERSON
CHARLES ROUNDTREE JR.
BOTHAM JEAN
HARITH AUGUSTUS
JASON WASHINGTON
ANTWON ROSE JR.
ROBERT WHITE
EARL MCNEIL
MARCUS-DAVID PETERS
DORIAN HARRIS
DANNY RAY THOMAS
STEPHON CLARK
RONELL FOSTER
DAMON GRIMES
JAMES LACY
CHARLEENA LYLES
MIKEL MCINTYRE
JORDAN EDWARDS
TIMOTHY CAUGHMAN
ALTERIA WOODS
DESMOND PHILLIPS
DEBORAH DANNER
ALFRED OLANGO
TERENCE CRUTCHER
CHRISTIAN TAYLOR
JAMARION ROBINSON
DONNELL THOMPSON JR.
JOSEPH MANN
PHILANDO CASTILE
ALTON STERLING
JAY ANDERSON JR.
DAVID JOSEPH
ANTRONIE SCOTT
BETTIE JONES
QUINTONIO LEGRIER
COREY JONES
SAMUEL DUBOSE
DARRIUS STEWART
SANDRA BLAND
SUSIE JACKSON
DANIEL SIMMONS
ETHEL LANCE
MYRA THOMPSON
CYNTHIA HURD
DEPAYNE MIDDLETON-DOCTOR
SHARONDA COLEMAN-SINGLETON
CLEMENTA PINCKNEY
TYWANZA SANDERS
KALIEF BROWDER
FREDDIE GRAY
NORMAN COOPER
WALTER SCOTT
NATASHA MCKENNA
RUMAIN BRISBON
TAMIR RICE
AKAI GURLEY
TANISHA ANDERSON
LAQUAN MCDONALD
CAMERON TILLMAN
DARRIEN HUNT
MICHAEL BROWN
KAJIEME POWELL
MICHELLE CUSSEAUX
DANTE PARKER
EZELL FORD
AMIR BROOKS
JOHN CRAWFORD III
ERIC GARNER
JERRY DWIGHT BROWN
VICTOR WHITE III
MARQUISE JONES
YVETTE SMITH
RENISHA MCBRIDE
JONATHAN FERRELL
DEION FLUDD
GABRIEL WINZER
WAYNE A. JONES
KIMANI GRAY
KAYLA MOORE
COREY STINGLEY
DARNESHA HARRIS
JORDAN DAVIS
MOHAMED BAH
SGT. JAMES BROWN
DARIUS SIMMONS
REKIA BOYD
TRAYVON MARTIN
WILLIE RAY BANKS
KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN SR.
CLETIS WILLIAMS
ROBERT RICKS
EUGENE ELLISON
DANROY "DJ" HENRY JR.
AIYANA STANLEY-JONES
LAWRENCE ALLEN
OSCAR GRANT
JULIAN ALEXANDER
MARVIN PARKER
DEAUNTA FARROW
SEAN BELL
KATHRYN JOHNSTON
TIMOTHY STANSBURY JR.
ALBERTA SPRUILL
ANTHONY DWAIN LEE
RICKY BYRDSONG
AMADOU DIALLO
JAMES BYRD JR.
NICHOLAS HEYWARD JR.
MARY MITCHELL
SHARON WALKER
ELEANOR BUMPURS
EDWARD GARDNER
ELTON HAYES
FRED HAMPTON
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
ALBERTA ODELL JONES
JIMMIE LEE JACKSON
JAMES EARL CHANEY
LOUIS ALLEN
MEDGAR EVERS
HERBERT LEE
JOHN EARL REESE
EMMETT TILL
WILLIAM MCDUFFIE
DELLA MCDUFFIE
MALCOLM WRIGHT
GEORGE STINNEY JR.
DR. ANDREW C. JACKSON
They didn't have the exaggerated Swagger.
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Mrs. Edward Green (Mary Storer), John Singleton Copley, 1765, American Paintings and Sculpture
Charles B. Curtis Fund, 1908
Size: 23 7/8 x 17 5/8 in. (60.6 x 44.8 cm)
Medium: Pastel on laid paper, mounted on canvas
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10532
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Influential/Talented Black Men and Masculine Nonbinary People of the Sun Signs
Aries:
- Keegan-Michael Key (March 22)
- Brian Tyree Henry (March 31)
- Booker T. Washington (April 5)
- Pharrell Williams (April 5)
- Sterling K. Brown (April 5)
- Montero “Lil Nas X” Hill (April 9)
- Tyler Mitchell (April 12)
- Martin Lawrence (April 16)
- Aliaune “Akon” Thiam (April 16)
- Chancelor “Chance the Rapper” Bennett (April 16)
Taurus:
- Frederick “August Wilson” Kittel, Jr. (April 27)
- Edward “Duke” Ellington (April 29)
- Shameik Moore (May 4)
- Stevland “Stevie Wonder” Morris (May 13)
- Malcolm X (May 19)
- Trevor “Busta Rhymes” Smith Jr. (May 20)
Gemini:
- Ryan Coogler (May 23)
- Steve Lacy (May 23)
- André “3000” Benjamin (May 27)
- Cameron Boyce (May 28)
- Aaron McGruder (May 29)
- Morgan Freeman (June 1)
- Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7)
- Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown (June 7)
- O’Shea “Ice Cube” Jackson (June 15)
- Tupac “Makaveli” Shakur (June 16)
- James Weldon Johnson (June 17)
- Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (June 17)
Cancer:
- Donald Faison (June 22)
- Ricardo “6lack” Valentine (June 24)
- Paul Lawrence Dunbar (June 27)
- Mike Tyson (June 30)
- Thurgood Marshall (July 2)
- Vince Staples (July 2)
- Alex R. Hibbert (July 4)
- Jaden Smith (July 8)
- Chiwetel Ejiofor (July 10)
Leo:
- Marlon Wayans (July 23)
- Korey Wise (July 26)
- Laurence Fishburne (July 30)
- Terry Crews (July 30)
- Wesley Snipes (July 31)
- Symere “Lil Uzi Vert” Woods (July 31)
- Artis “Coolio” Ivey Jr. (August 1)
- James Baldwin (August 2)
- Louis Armstrong (August 4)
- Barack Obama (August 4)
- Alex Haley (August 11)
- Lakeith Stanfield (August 12)
- Anthony Anderson (August 15)
- Ermias “Nipsey Hussle” Asghedom (August 15)
- Usian Bolt (August 21)
Virgo:
- David “Dave” Chapelle (August 24)
- Lewis Latimer (September 4)
- Richard Wright (September 4)
- Idris Elba (September 6)
- Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges (September 11)
- Festus “Claude” McKay (September 15)
- Christopher “Brent Faiyaz” Wood (September 19)
- Billy Porter (September 21)
- Ray Charles Robinson (September 23)
- Anthony Mackie (September 23)
Libra:
- Will Smith (September 25)
- Donald “Childish Gambino” Glover (September 26)
- Benjamin “Ben” King (September 28)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates (September 30)
- Nat Turner (October 2)
- Rakim “A$AP Rocky” Mayers (October 3)
- Amiri Baraka (October 7)
- Nick Cannon (October 8)
- Jharrel Jerome (October 9)
- Caleb McLaughlin (October 13)
- Usher Raymond IV (October 14)
- Andre Johnson (October 16)
- Tarell Alvin McCraney (October 17)
- Calvin “Snoop Dogg” Broadus Jr. (October 20)
- Asante Blackk (October 20)
- Shéyaa “21 Savage” Abraham-Jospeh (October 22)
Scorpio:
- Ashton Sanders (October 24)
- Craig Robinson (October 25)
- Dallas Young (October 25)
- Frank Ocean (October 28)
- Cornell “Nelly” Haynes, Jr. (November 2)
- Colin Kaepernick (November 3)
- Earl “E-40” Stevens (November 15)
- Bobby Ray “B.o.B.” Simmons Jr. (November 15)
- Michael “Mike” Epps (November 18)
Sagittarius:
- DeRon Horton (November 25)
- Jimi Hendrix (November 27)
- Donald Cheadle Jr. (November 29)
- Chadwick Boseman (November 29)
- Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter (December 4)
- Jamie Foxx (December 13)
- Samuel L. Jackson (December 21)
Capricorn:
- Devonté “Blood Orange” Hynes (December 23)
- Cabell “Cab” Calloway III (December 25)
- Jaleel White (December 27)
- Denzel Washington (December 28)
- John Legend (December 28)
- Miles Brown (December 28)
- André Holland (December 28)
- John Singleton (January 6)
- Marcus Scribner (January 7)
- Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15)
- James Earl Jones (January 17)
- Muhammad Ali (January 17)
- Shawn Wayans (January 19)
Aquarius:
- Jermaine “J.” Cole (January 28)
- Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi (January 30)
- Jack “Jackie” Robinson (January 31)
- Langston Hughes (February 1)
- Antwon “Big Boi” Patton (February 1)
- Robert “Bob” Marley (February 6)
- Brandon “Anderson .Paak” Anderson (February 8)
- Trevante Rhodes (February 10)
- Khalid Robinson (February 11)
- Frederick Douglass (February 14)
- LeVar Burton (February 16)
- Mahershala Ali (February 16)
- Michael Jordan (February 17)
- Andre “Dr. Dre” Young (February 18)
Pisces:
- William “Smokey” Robinson, Jr. (February 19)
- Trevor Noah (February 20)
- Jordan Peele (February 21)
- Tituss Burgess (February 21)
- W.E.B. Du Bois (February 23)
- Ralph Ellison (March 1)
- Demetrius Harmon (March 1)
- Robert “Bobby” McFerrin, Jr. (March 11)
- Lonnie “Common” Lynn (March 13)
- Quincy Jones (March 14)
- Wardell “Steph” Curry (March 14)
- John Adegboyega (March 17)
- Shelton “Spike” Lee (March 20)
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On September 8, 1930, in the midst of the Great Depression, the world was introduced to Blondie Boopadoop, a dizzy blonde flapper created by Murat Bernard ‘Chic’ Young. Blondie debuted in newspapers across the country on that day. She was Chic Young’s fourth strip featuring a young woman, but this was the one to catch fire and eventually become iconic in the world of comics and media at large. It is hard to believe that the blonde hero of blissful domesticity turns 90 and that her stories remain tops with audiences the world over.
Blondie’s early days featured the star popular in dating circles. Her courtships made for several storylines. Blondie’s main squeeze, however, was bumbling playboy Dagwood Bumstead, son of millionaire industrialist, J. Bolling Bumstead. Dagwood introduced Blondie to his ill-natured father in the very first strip announcing their plans to marry. The elder Bumstead was aghast that his son would be interested in a woman of Blondie’s lowly social status.
For the next couple of years, the Blondie comics centered on the couple’s struggles to get the Bumsteads to agree to the pairing. Blondie does everything imaginable to no avail. In the meantime, she also entertains several other admirers – although Dagwood was never far away. With readership dwindling, Chic Young and the comic’s distributer, King Features Syndicate, decided Blondie and Dagwood should finally get married and in February 1933 they did much to the chagrin of the Bumsteads who disowned their son and heir. Mr. and Mrs. Bumstead only grudgingly acknowledged the union because Dagwood went on a hunger strike that lasted over 28 days spotlighted by daily coverage and countdowns that helped circulation. Every day people tuned in to see how Dagwood was doing on the hunger strike. After all, one of his favorite pasttimes has always been eating. One of my favorite Blondie scenes is of Dagwood emerging from his bed after the hunger strike to reveal loads of dishes under the covers.
It was after the marriage of the disinherited blissfully happy Dagwood and the carefree vivacious Blondie took place that audiences truly warmed to their humorous domestic escapades. Blondie and Dagwood became a happy family whose troubles reflected those of the readers’ in many ways. The couple started their married life penniless, as were most during the Depression, which lent itself to many enjoyable scenes. First Dagwood’s need to find work made great stories and eventually so did his relationship with his boss Mister Dithers. However, the charms of Blondie the strip relied on the couple’s home life and its place in the pantheon of all things domestic comedy, which was a revolutionary one at that as Chic Young insisted that the young Bumsteads share a double bed, not the twin beds audiences saw on all other domestic stories in media. (loc.gov) In fact, the Bumsteads did not share a bed in their movie incarnations.
As the strip continued its run, Blondie and Dagwood changed as did their family. Blondie, who started as an airhead of sorts, became the Bumstead voice of reason and Dagwood became the flake to whom all things happen. Part of Dagwood’s charm is he remains a child of sorts, an innocent whose zany antics we cannot get enough of and all because he can’t seem to get things quite right. Except his sandwich, which is a masterpiece every single time.
On April 15, 1934, the couple welcomed their first child, Baby Dumpling (later Alexander) who received almost as much media attention as baby Ricardo on “I Love Lucy” two decades later. Except without the power of television.
In 1941, Blondie and Dagwood welcomed a daughter, Cookie, whose name was chosen by hundreds of thousands of submissions in a contest run by Chic Young. Blondie’s popularity soared when the Bumsteads became a family in earnest in their home in Joplin, Missouri, including Daisy (family dog and Dagwood’s best friend) and the pups. At the height of its popularity, Blondie rivaled Peanuts. No doubt, this creation by Chic Young is one of the all-time greats in the pantheon of comic strips. I would say a masterpiece people have enjoyed for its love conquers all stories and wonderful drawings. It has been one of my favorites for years.
Aside from daily strips and Sunday editions, the Bumsteads have enjoyed comic book popularity as well with seven versions spanning from 1947 to 1976.
As you probably know Blondie’s popularity jumped to screens and the airwaves as well. As far as the movies go, the story is that as the strip’s popularity grew, Columbia Pictures’ boss Harry Cohn decided that the characters had potential for a B-picture or two so he signed a deal with Chic Young. The result was a 28-picture, 12-year run between 1938 and 1950. All twenty-eight movies star Penny Singleton as Blondie and Arthur Lake as Dagwood. The first and best is Frank Strayer’s Blondie. Strayer directed more than a dozen of the Blondie pictures.
Some of the signature gags from the strip made it into the movies such as Dagwood running into the mailman every morning as he is late for work causing the mail to fly all over the place. That happened early in all of the movies welcoming devoted fans to the hijinks of their favorite family. Following Dagwood’s signature,” Blondieeeeee.” Dagwood’s legendary sandwich also made its way into every single one of the movies and into Webster’s New World Dictionary.
The first movie in the series sees the Bumsteads about to celebrate their fifth anniversary, but money troubles ensue. They have money troubles often in their history. In fact, the Bumstead budget, as Blondie mentions in one of the movies, is the pulse of the family. Dagwood asks for a raise from Mr. Dithers (Jonathan Hale), owner of the J. C. Dithers Construction Company, with whom Dagwood is always at odds just like in the strip. Blondie, on the other hand, orders new furniture (from an uncredited Charles Lane) since they just finished paying off other furniture. Her logic is impeccable, a logic inherited by an almost-too-cute Baby Dumpling (Larry Simms). Dagwood loses his job after getting into a jam at work, but makes up for it by wooing a wealthy businessman (Gene Lockhart) into investing with the Dithers Company.
Staying true to the comic strip, Blondie (1938) features several of the same characters throughout the series played by the same actors. Aside from Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake, Larry Simms plays Baby Dumpling in all of the movies. He was so popular in the role that he was credited as “Baby Dumpling” in Frank Capra’s Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) where he plays the Hopper Boy. Marjorie Ann Mutchie (as Marjorie Kent) makes her debut as Cookie Bumstead in Frank Strayer’s It’s a Great Life (1943), the thirteenth movie in the series and one of the few without “Blondie” in the title. More on that later.
Penny Singleton and Arthur Lake as Blondie and Dagwood in the first movie in the Blondie series
Rounding out the regulars that make up the Bumstead family is Daisy, the cocker Spaniel/Poodle/Terrier mix whose real name was Spooks and plays the Bumstead’s trusted pooch with flair. Spooks appeared in a good number of movies in character parts, but is best remembered as Daisy. The prolific Willie Best appears as a porter in the first movie and does what he can with the stereotypical part he is given. Best plays varied roles throughout the series and remains mostly uncredited. Fay Helm appears in several Blondie movies as Mrs. Fuddle, neighbor to the Bumsteads and Blondie’s best friend. Danny Mummert plays her son Alvin, Baby Dumpling’s nemesis.
The Blondie movies are typical B-fare. They are fun, perfect for Saturday mornings, but substance is hard to come by. There are a few hearty laughs like the one in Blondie with the talking scale in the hotel men’s bathroom. It advertises your favorite radio voice will talk to you and when it does, it tells Dagwood he’s a loser.
Probably the best part of the series, however, are the actors that appear throughout. If you are a fan of the great character players you’ll get to see the likes of Donald Meek, John Qualen, Edgar Kennedy, William Frawley, and Mary Wickes to name a few. Many future major Columbia stars also make appearances. I was quite surprised to see Rita Hayworth, for instance, play prominently in Blondie on a Budget (1940). She is an old friend of Dagwood’s who plays right into Blondie’s jealous hands. When Blondie was not trying to finagle the family budget in order to buy something, she spent her time worrying that Dagwood would leave her for another woman.
Larry Simms, Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake and Rita Hayworth in BLONDIE ON A BUDGET
The Blondie movie series ended with Edward Bernds’ Beware of Blondie (1950) where we see Dagwood in charge of the Dithers Construction Company while the boss is on vacation. You can just imagine how well that goes. Adele Jergens plays Miss Clifton, a con woman who takes advantage of Dagwood’s innocence to get to Dithers’ money. Of course, all turns out fine in the end with one important resolution to the series to close out a continuous loop. The mailman (Dick Wessel) decides to end Dagwood running into him finally by delivering the Bumstead mail on his own time at night. No more dirty uniforms. No more bruises. No more scattered mail. Unfortunately, the day he decides to do his first night delivery is tax day and guess who runs out of the house to mail his taxes at the last minute.
By the time Beware of Blondie was made the stories were stretched thin. The familiar Bumstead elements held the movies together as the family survived all sorts of domestic misadventures. According to AFI, Columbia had lost interest in the series after the first fourteen installments. They released two movies without Blondie’s name in the title and stopped producing the series in 1943. However, audiences wanted more and production resumed for another fourteen movies making this series the longest in terms of pictures to date. When the Blondie pictures ceased altogether in 1950, Columbia intended to replace it with another comic strip series, but that fell way short at the box office forcing the studio to reissue all 28 Blondie pictures.
Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, and Marjorie Kent in the final picture in the series
America’s love affair with Blondie, Dagwood and the gang was not limited to movies, as we well know. The comic strip continued to strong readership and between 1939 and 1950, Blondie was also heard on radio. Arthur Lake played Dagwood in this version as well with Penny Singleton replaced by Alice White, Patricia Van Cleve and Ann Rutherford at various times. Blondie originally aired on CBS with Camel Cigarettes as its sponsor and later moved to NBC and Super Suds. Lake and Singleton made an appearance as Blondie and Dagwood on The Bob Hope Show following the 1938 release of the first movie, which led to their own show as a summer replacement for The Eddie Cantor Show. They originally aired on Monday evenings at 7:30 and just as the strip helped Depression-era audiences forget their troubles, the radio show helped them through World War II. Enjoy the following episodes of Blondie out of the funnies and into your homes…
From October 1939, “Dagwood Buys a New Suit”
https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1939-10-30018DagwoodBuysANewSuit.mp3
From April 1940, “The Gypsy Queen”
https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1940-04-22043TheGypsyQueen.mp3
From March 1944, “Abbott and Costello with Blondie and Dagwood”
https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1944-03-02AbbottCostelloWBlondieDagwood.mp3
From July 1944, “Plumbin Problems”
https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1944-07-21PlumbingProblems.mp3
From May 1945, “Socialite Blondie”
https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1945-05-27SocialiteBlondiesocialAspirations.mp3
From July 1947, “Three Week’s Vacation”
https://ia800201.us.archive.org/13/items/OtrBlondie/Bd1947-07-27ThreeWeeksVacation.mp3
Unlike radio and the movies, attempts to bring Blondie to television proved unsuccessful. Its power were in the mediums already discussed, but it’s at least worth a mention that those in charge thought enough of the characters and their stories to give them several attempts at TV productions. The first such attempt, Blondie, premiered on January 4, 1957 on NBC and ran for one season. Pamela Britton starred as Blondie with Arthur Lake reprising his famous role once again. Stuffy Singer, Florenz Ames, Ann Barnes, and Harold Peary were also in the cast. In 1968, CBS gave Blondie a turn with The New Blondie, which also ran for one season. Patricia Harty and Will Hutchins star as Blondie and Dagwood in this version with real-life married couple Jim and Henny Backus as Mr. and Mrs. Dithers with Pamelyn Ferdin and Peter Robbins playing the Bumstead kids. As you can tell from the short run of both series, neither managed to capture the charm of the Bumsteads the other versions of their stories did.
Chicago native Chic Young drew Blondie seven days a week from 1930 until his death in 1973 producing more than 15,000 strips. His legacy, continued by his son Dean Young, is one of warmth and humor and home. No matter the decades that have passed, people still visit with the Bumsteads – 90 years after meeting them. We owe them a huge debt of gratitude for the laughter during difficult times.
Chic Young’s BLONDIE turns 90! On September 8, 1930, in the midst of the Great Depression, the world was introduced to Blondie Boopadoop, a dizzy blonde flapper created by Murat Bernard 'Chic' Young.
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Brian Epstein’s Address & Telephone Book
A small leather bound pocket address and telephone book that was owned and used by Brian Epstein. The book dates to 1967 and it consists of 57 pages of addresses and telephone number some of which are typed, some of which are in Epstein’s hand and some which have been added by hand on his behalf. // (click HERE to view more pages from the book)
The book contains a total of 404 entries - a selection of them are listed below:
A
ATV Ltd
ABC Television Ltd
AIR London Ltd.
Tom Arnold Ltd
Neil Aspinall
Artistes Car Hire
Annabels [nightclub]
Alexander’s Restaurant
Ashley Steiner Famous [talent agency]
Al Aronowitz
Atlantic Records
Eric Andersen
Bob Anthony
B
Bryce Hanmer & Co [accounting firm]
Bedford, Okrent & Co
BBC Television Centre
BBC Broadcasting House
Al Brodax
Cilla Black
Mr. & Mrs. Tony Barrow
Mr. & Mrs Don Black
Bryan Barrett
Jack Barclay Ltd [Bentley dealership]
Peter Brown
Mr. & Mrs. B. Bullough
Mr. & Mrs J. Bullough
Miss J. Balmer
Mr. &. Mrs. Ivan Bennett
Eric Burdon
Francisco Bermudez
Lionel Bart
David Bailey
Bag O’Nails
Tony Barlow
Ray Bartell
Rodney Barnes
Bruno One Restaurant
Sid Bernstein
Kenn Brodziak
Leonard Bernstein
Al Bennett
Beverly Hills Hotel
Brian Bedford
Scotty Bower
David Ballman
Bob Bonis
Bill Buist
Arthur Buist
C
Dr. Norman Cowan
Curzon House Club
Crockfords Club
Clermont Club
Cromwellian Club
Paddy Chambers
Radio Caroline
Michael Codron
Cap-Estel Le
Mr. & Mrs. J. Cassen
Columbia Pictures Ltd
Eric Clapton
Capitol Records Mexico
Michael Cooper
Roger Curtis
Neil Christian
Maureen Cleave
Thomas Clyde
Cash Box
CBS Records Ltd
Denny Cordell
William Cavendish
Caprice Restuarant
David Charkham
Capitol Records
Columbia Broadcasting System
Bob Crewe
May Cunnell
Car Hire Co. for Lincoln
Dr. Kenneth Chesky
Capitol Records (Voyle Gilmore)
Irving E. Chezar
Danny Cleary
Bobby Colomby
Bob Casper
Andre Cadet
D
Daily Express
Disc & Music Echo
Decca Records
Bernard Delfont Ltd
Bernard Delfont
Noel Dixon
Jimmy Douglas
Chris Denning
Simon Dee
Rik Dane
Dolly’s [nightclub]
Hunter Davies
Terry Doran
Pat Doncaster
Norrie Drummond
Alan David
John Dunbar
Peter Dalton
Kappy Ditson
Robert Dunlap
Robert L. David
Diana Dors
Ivor Davis
Tom Dawes
Brandon de Wilde
Don Danneman
E
Malcolm Evans
Clive J. Epstein
Mr. & Mrs. H. Epstein
EMI Records Ltd
EMI Studios
Geoffrey Ellis
Etoile Restaurant
Tim Ellis
Terry Eaton
Kenny Everett
John East
Bob Eubanks
Esther Edwards
Ahmet Ertegun
F
Alan Freeman
David Frost
Georgie Fame
Robert Fraser
Andre Fattacini
Dan Farson
Billy Fury
Barry Finch
Marianne Faithfull
Robert Fitzpatrick
Warren Frederikson
John Fisher
Danny Fields
Francis Fiorino
G
Dr. Geoffrey Gray
Hamish Grimes
Derek Grainger
Rik Gunnell
Rik Gunnell Agency Ltd
Derrick Goodman & Co.
Peter Goldman
Christopher Gibbs
David Garrick
Geoffrey Grant
Mick Green
John P. Greenside
Michael Gillet
General Artists Corp.
John Gillespie
Voyle Gilmore
George Greif
Ren Grevatt
Milton Goldman
M. Goldstein
Gary Grove
Henry Grossman
H
Mr. & Mrs. Berrell Hyman
Doreen Hyman
Mr. & Mrs. Basil J. Hyman
Mrs. A. Hyman
Steve Hardy
H. Huntsman & Son Ltd
Simon Hayes
Frankie Howerd
Henry Higgins
Chris Hutchins
Tony Howard
Wendy Hanson
Marty Himmel
Casper Halpern
John Heska
Ricky Heiman
Joe Hunter
Ty Hargrove
Hullabaloo.
Walter Hofer
J
M.A. Jacobs & Son
David Jacobs [lawyer]
Dick James Music Ltd
Mr. & Mrs. D. James
Mick Jagger
Brian Jones
Michael Jeffries
Drummond Jackson
David Jacobs [d.j.]
Brian Joyce
Gerry Justice
K
Gibson Kemp
Johnathan King
Mr. & Mrs Maurice Kinn
Kingsway Recording Studios
Ashley Kozac
Kafetz Camera Ltd.
Reg King
Andrew Koritsas
Ed Kenmore
Walker Kundzicz
John Kurland
Murray Kauffman
L
Larry Lamb
Martin Landau
Kit Lambert
Dick Lester
Mr. & Mrs. Vic Lewis
Tony Lynch
Radio London
Mike Leander
John Lyndon
Bernard Lee
Kenny Lynch
Denny Laine
Lomax Alliance
Ed Leffler
David G. Lowe
Richard W. Lean
Goddard Lieberson
Laurie Records
Liberty Records
London Records
Alan Livingston
M
Melody Maker
Peter Murray
Keith Moon
Mr. & Mrs. G. Martin
Mr. & Mrs. Brian Matthew
Midland Bank Limited
Vyvienne Moynihan
Gerry Marsden
Ian Moody
Michael McGrath
Cathy McGowan
Mr. & Mrs. J. McCartney
Albert Marrion
Robin Maughan
Peter Maddok
Gordon Mills
Brian McEwan
John Mendell Jnr.
Marshall Migatz
Fred Morrow
Chruch McLaine
Vincent Morrone
Jeffrey Martin Co.
Gavin Murrell
Dean Martin
Gordon B. McLendon
Sal Mineo
Scott Manley
Bernard Mavnitte
Verne Miller
N
John Neville
Joanne Newfield
Tommy Nutter
Francisco Neuner
Tatsuji Nagasima
New Musical Express
NEMS Enterprises Ltd
Graham Nash
Nemperor Artists Ltd
Louis Nizer
Bob Nauss
Gene Narmore
O
George H. Ornstein
Olympic Sound Studios
A. L. Oldham
Myles Osternak
Roy Onsborg
P
Col. Tom Parker
Jerry Pam
Plaza Hotel
PAN AM. rep
Bob Perlman
Allen Pohju
Robert H. Prech
John Pritchard
Prince Of Wales Theatre
Don Paul
Sean Phillips
Jon Pertwee
Ricki Pipe
Dr. D. A. Pond
David Puttnam
David Puttnam Associates
Tom Parr
Harry Pinsker
Kenneth Partridge
Larry Parnes
Priory Nursing Home
Viv Prince
Steve Paul
R
Radnor Arms [pub]
Leo Rost
Keith Richard
Record Mirror
Dolly Robertson-Ward
Charles Ross
Rules Restuarant
Marian Rainford
Bobby Roberts
Bill Rosado
S
Vic Singh
Speakeasy [club]
Simon and Marijke
Simon Shops
Judith Symons
Keith Skeel
Tony Sharman
Simon Scott
Barrie Summers
John Singleton
Squarciafichi
Don Short
Dr. Walter Strach
Walter Shenson
John Sandoe Ltd
Bobby Shafto
Harry South
Brian Sommerville
Robert Stigwood
David Shaw
Chris Stamp
Aaron Schroeder
Stephen, Jacques & Stephen [law firm]
Leo Sullivan
Gene Schwann
Herb Schlosser
Gary Smith
Jim Stewart [co-founder, Stax Records]
John Simon
Jerry N. Schatzberg
Lex Taylor
Robert Shoot
Lauren Stanton
St. Regis Hotel
Eric Spiros
Howard Soloman
T
Taft Limousine Corp
[Sidney] Traxler (lawyer)
T.W.A. Ken S. Fletcher [director, public relations, TWA]
Derek & Joan Taylor
T.W.A. (Victor Page)
Martin Tempest
Evelyn Taylor
Twickenham Studios
Kenneth Tynan
Alistair Taylor
F. T. Turner & Son Ltd.
R. S. Taylor
Michael Taylor
George Tempest
Norm Talbott
U
United Artists Corp Ltd
U.P.I.
V
Klaus & Christine Voormann
V.I.P. Travel Ltd
W
Mark Warman
Gary Walker
Robert Whitaker
Peter Watkins
Peter Weldon
Mrs. Freda Weldon
Alan Warren
Orson Welles
Sir David Webster
Alan Williams
Dennis Wiley
Terry Wilson
Nathan Weiss
Norman Weiss
Gerry Wexler
Y
Murial Young
Bernice Young
Z
Peter Zorcon
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