#charles runyon

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Charles Runyon - The Death Cycle - NEL - 1969

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‎ CHARLES RUNYON: THE DEATH CYCLE (Frederick Muller Gold Medal, 1963)

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Timeline 9 - August - September 2023

For completeness and to consult when there’s discussion about his whereabouts. In addition to the previous timelines.

Timeline 9 covers 2 August 2023 - 26 September 2023

For previous dates see timeline 8

2 August, this time groomed while photographed on the streets of NoHo with AN. Later on we learned he recorded videos for Esquire

3 August, the next shop event at Broadway Spirits, some more streetpics and video were found.

August 4 he flew to Chicago for the next event at Binny's Beverage Depot on August 5th. There's some time to explore Chicago in the evening and the next day enjoying a baseball game. He's also spotted by a fan leaving the hotel

Next stops will be on August 8 for Houston and August 10 for Austin. While the LA stop has been postponed.

August 7 looking for some coffee at the airport and flying to Houston. And right back to promo and mixing cocktails at Permission Whiskey and Mad Houston

August 8 the event at Spec's Wines, Spirits & Finer Foods including the pre-signing, waiting line and fan pics. After which he did some more bartending at Electric FeelGood in Houston.

August 9 he's in Austin seen at Peche, the next day, August 10, the event at Total Wine & Spirits in Austin takes place.

August 11, Sam and Alex are flying, probably to LA though it's not sure if the story is a latergram

However confirmation about his whereabouts came a week later when we saw NR flying on August 16 to what appeared to be LA and was confirmed by PV's post they were at Pharos gym at Redondo Beach on August 17th.

August 19 he visits the Rams game in the Sofi Stadium, LA together with Nic R, AN and Marina C. A fan recognized him as well.

On Aug 24th he posted a video probably at Runyon Canyon or the HH Hills. Presumably recent. The next day, August 25th, he posted a pic with NR at Pharos Echopark, for sure a latergram as NR was already back home, and as we learned S himself took a flight out of LA, spotted by a fan. He flew to Kansas City for a private con on August 26th, organised by Sasnak City. he was a guest together with Duncan L and Charles V. Some more info was revealed later during a live IG of attendees.

On Friday 1 September members of the SS/MPC team were invited for a boat trip at Marina Del Rey. Which lead to a stir since then called the Zanzibar Saga.

Sunday 3 September the final event of the SS tour at Total Wine & More in LA

On 5 September he was spotted sitting outside at Shutters on the Beach, and 2 days later on 7 September again, now at a coffee shop on Abbot Kinney same clothes and motorbike helmet.

On 10 September he's at the men's finales at the US Open in NYC

Recording the audio for the CL in NZ book at the Hachette office in NYC during the week from 11 - 15 September, on Friday 15 September a group pic from the office is posted as well as another pic from an employee. Another group pic is posted later on. On Saturday 16 September a fan pic is posted from the Starbuck shop near the Hachette office and on 18 September he posts a video himself.

Sunday 24 September he's spotted at The Cafe at Number 16 in Aberdour, Scotland, having some family time

On 26 September he posts a selfie with Jake Norton, meeting him in Glasgow the day before. Later on confirmed by a fan pic taken on the same day. He might have been doing some home decorating in that week.

Other timelines:

Pre Hawaii timeline

Timeline 1 August 2020 Timeline 2 September 2021 Timeline 3 February 2022 Timeline 4 August 2022 Timeline 5 October 2022 Timeline 6 January 2023 Timeline 7 April 2023 Timeline 8 June 2023

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She always tells on herself. Paps will hang out at Runyon Canyon in LA because it's a celeb hiking hotspot, but no pap is hanging out in Santa Barbara (or Vancouver) unless she called them. Unrelatedly, Catherine wore a jewelry set tonight that was reportedly a gift from Camilla. Always diplomatic.

I thought it was a gift from Charles? He bought Camilla a similar set. The only jewelry gift that we know of that Camilla gave Catherine was a silver bracelet for the wedding.

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Beer Events 4.7

Events

George Rauch patented a Beer and Hops Separator (1914)

Anchor Steam Beer 1st brewed after Prohibition (1933)

Budweiser Clydesdales 1st used (1933)

3.2 Beer became legal in CA, CO, DE, DC, IL, IN, KY, MD, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NY, OH, OR, RI, VT, WA & WI, after the Cullen-Harrison bill went into effect (1933)

Richard Runyon patented a Beer Bottle design (1964)

Union Carbide patented a Beer Lagering Process (1964)

Charles Koch patented a Preparation of Beer (1995)

Leigh Beadle patented a Reusable Beer Keg Plug (1998)

Anheuser-Busch InBev debuted Johnny Appleseed Hard Apple Cider (2014)

Brewery Openings

Roosters 25th Street Brewing (New York; 1995)

Iron Horse Brewpub (Missouri; 1997)

Betlehem Brew Works (Pennsylvania; 1998)

Miller's Thumb Micro Brewery (Scotland; 1998)

Camino Brewing (California; 2018)

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'The Ham Reporter' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'The Ham Reporter' Book Review By Ron Fortier

THE HAM REPORTER By Robert J. Randisi Double Day Western 370 pgs

When picking up this volume, we noted the sub-titles being “A Novel of Bat Masterson in Twentieth-Century New York.” Randisi sets his creative imagination post Wild West life and career of the legendary lawman who once fought alongside other larger-than-life figures such as Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickock. Seeing the frontier succumbing to civilization, Masterson and his wife Emma migrated to the booming metropolis on the Hudson, New York City. There the one-time law-dog became a famous sports writer and eventual publisher.

As the tale opens, one of Masterson’s colleagues and fellow drinking mates, Inkspot Jones, a sports writer, suddenly goes missing. Attempts to involve his police detective friend, Charles Becker, prove fruitless. It is assumed the writer is simply on some drinking jaunt from which he’ll eventually resurface. Tragically it is the fellow’s corpse that floats to the surface thus morphing the missing person’s case as one of cold-blooded murder. Having no faith in the police’s ability to solve the crime, Masterson takes it upon himself to find the killer and provide Jones’ widow with some kind of justice.

Aiding him in the hunt is popular paper columnist, Damon Runyon. As the duo of amateur detectives begin to gather information on Jones’ last days, it soon becomes evident that the dead man had crossed paths with one of the Big Apple’s several crime lords. And in doing has suffered the consequences. Soon Masterson discovers the back alleys of the big city are just as dangerous as the streets of Doge City and Tombstone.

“The Ham Reporter” is a brilliant work of historical fiction wonderfully put forth by a craftsman. Randisi’s prose is fun and he spins his tall tale with vigor and affection guiding the reader to a fitting, gun-blasting climax. Our copy was picked up at a used bookstore. Here’s hoping you can find your own. It is truly worth looking for.

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BUYING A DREAM, LUCILLE BALL’S GOAL

December 23, 1945

Below is an article by Philip K. Scheuer in the Los Angeles Times published on December 23, 1945, and reprinted verbatim. Except for the above headshot, photographs were added for editorial enhancement.  

Philip K. Scheuer wrote about film for the Los Angeles Times from the 1920s until 1967.

Bold Italics indicate quotes by Lucille Ball. Footnotes (bolded numbers in parentheses) are added for historical perspective. Words in [brackets] are foul language used by Ball, but not published by the Times. 

It was the first day of shooting on "The Dark Corner." Lucille Ball, playing secretary to Mark Stevens, sat at a typewriter, typing. The more-observant noted, with surprise, that she used the touch system. When Director Henry Hathaway called lunch, an alert member of the crew salvaged what Mark Stevens' secretary had written. 

"Dear Mr. Hathaway," it read, "If you knew how [god damned] nervous I was today you wouldn't dare shoot the picture and you would call the whole thing off and then you wou--- " The line ended abruptly, and Miss Ball was off on a new tack. 

"LUCY IS A SISSY," she snapped, three times. 

First-Day Jitters 

When she got back from lunch, the sheet of paper was again in her typewriter. With grateful surprise Miss Ball read "Dear Lucy: Would it help you to know that I'm nervous as hell myself?" The postscript was signed, "Love, H.H." 

First-day jitters are common in Hollywood, even with hard-shelled veterans like Hathaway. To Lucille Ball, beginning her debut as a 20th Century Fox star, it must have been an occasion in which triumph was not unmixed with her trepidation. 

More than a decade earlier, a Goldwyn Girl on loan, she had worked at the same studio in a "Bottoms Up" (1) number for $75 a week. Her pre-picture deal for "The Dark Corner", is reliably reported to call for a flat payment of $75,000. 

Independence Earned 

It is quite a come-up for a girl whose occupations are listed in prosaic type as “showgirl, soda jerker, stenographer, fashion and commercial model, extra, stock girl." Lucille earned her independence the hard way; but there is no evidence that the experience embittered her or caused her, in turn, to slap people around. She is honest, she is blunt, and she can talk tough - but no more so than when she was dialing Central Casting and being answered, “Nothing today." 

Besides 20th, both R.K.O. and M.G.M., two of her alma maters, are begging her to sign contracts. "But frankly," she said, "I don't care when I do another picture. Desi is out of the Army and I want to be with him and I want to have a baby. In fact, twins." 

Double Nursery

Desi is her husband, Desi Arnaz; they have been married five, years, more than three of which he spent in service. His wife is so sure it will be twins that she is planning a double nursery. Seems it runs in the family her grandmother was one of five sets. Lucille has even predicted their sexes: the boy will be Desi Jr. and the girl Susan (2) for good friend Susan Peters. She's buying that dream.

Besides the double nursery, the Arnazes are mapping other concessions to a rosy future: an enlarged playroom for their Northridge ranch, a helicopter (the landing field is already laid out); a modern electric kitchen in which Desi can indulge his penchant for Cuban dishes, and Lucille hers for American; and so I was calmly assured a PT boat "for going fishing." I had a quick mental picture of the Arnaz family dashing about spearing the finny tribe, but said nothing. It's none of my business. 

Excellent Portrayal 

Lucille Ball has given one fine, true performance on the screen. That was in Damon Runyon's "The Big Street" in 1942. It was a distinctive tragicomedy about the blind devotion of a busboy (Henry Fonda) to a selfish, shallow showgirl who is crippled in a fall and Miss Ball gave it everything she had. Playing the part largely in a wheelchair must have had a special meaning to her, for Lucille was herself injured in an auto accident and told she would never walk again. By gritting her teeth and persevering, she was on her feet again in three years and four months. 

Laughton's Advice 

"I've never had another part like that," she admitted. "It was Charles Laughton who advised me, 'If you're going to play a [bitch], play one!' and I did." She brightened. "In spite of his illness, Mr. Runyon has told friends he is writing another story for me. I only hope I will get the chance to play it!" (3) Last seen as the wisecracking companion of Keenan Wynn in "Without Love," Lucille still has three unreleased pictures at Metro. They are "Ziegfeld Follies," "Easy to Wed" and “Time for Two." (4) That should hold people for a while, she thinks; meanwhile there's Desi, and fun.

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FOOTNOTES

(1) In the Fox film "Bottoms Up" (1934) Lucille Ball was a Goldwyn Girl in the number "Waitin' at the Gate for Katy".  

(2) Lucille Ball never had twins. Her second child was indeed a girl, but named Lucie (aka Little Lucy) not Susan. Susan Peters (1921-52) was a film, stage, and television actress who appeared in over twenty films over the course of her decade-long career. In January 1945 she was critically injured in a hunting accident that left her paralyzed and in a wheelchair. This is likely why Lucille wanted to name her daughter after her. She died in 1952 at age 31, just 15 month after the birth of Lucie Arnaz.  

(3) Lucille Ball did indeed do another Damon Runyon story, “Sorrowful Jones” in 1949, but it was not written expressly for Lucy, but based on his 1932 story “Little Miss Marker,” which had previously been filmed in 1934. Damon Runyon died a year after this article was published, in December 1946. 

(4) MGM’s “Time for Two” was renamed “Two Smart People” and premiered June 4, 1946. It co-starred John Hodiak and Lloyd Nolan. 

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We’ll See You in Hell:  “5.1:  Hereditary”

0:00  Frank Sinatra Sunshine of my Life

0:02  Charles in Charge, Breaking Bad, Willie Ames, Bible Man

0:03  Zapped, Jennifer Runyon

0:05  Write down the attributes of your Dream Bride

0:07  On with the Joe - different area codes, Nate Dogg

0:08  StarBurns the new network

0:11  Why did you tell Les Moonves to do what he did?

0:14  Jeremy Piven, Entourage

0:16  Scott Baio

0:17  Pat’s Movie Corner, Pat - Won’t You Be my Neighbor

0:19  Joe - Bowfinger, Bob Odenkirk joke

0:21  Steve Martin/Martin Short mention

0:22  Pat - Three Identical Strangers

0:23  Twins sequel Triplets mention with Eddie Murphy

0:24  Joe - Women of the House

0:26  Jonathan Banks

0:28  Pat - Whitney

0:29  I Wanna Dance with Somebody

0:31  Amy Winehouse mention

0:31  Joe - The Irishman (mention), The Wizard of Lies

0:34  Joe’s Scary Stuff - Sega Genesis Collection

0:35  Pat - documentary on A&E making of Ferris Beuller, horrors of adolescence, Pat doesn’t understand Joe’s Scary Stuff, Jaws documentary mention

0:37  Pat - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, My Favorite Murder, Karen Kilgariff, Food Delivery Service, Postmates

0:40  Hereditary, Rosemary’s Baby

0:46  Role Models mention

0:49  Ari Aster, The Strange Thing About the Johnsons

0:52  Talking during movies, Bad Santa 2 Story mention, Shut the fuck up you’re ruining the movie

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Robert McGinnis (Robert Edward McGinnis) (American, 1926) - Color Him Dead (Charles Runyon)

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Charles W. Runyon - Soulmate - Avon - 1974

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The Death Cycle by Charles Runyon New English Library 2564, 1969

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Super-Science Fiction    December 1958             cover by Kelly Freas

The Aliens Were Haters by Robert Silverberg

First Man in a Satellite by Charles Runyon

The Unique and Terrible Compulsion by Calvin Knox

Exiled from Earth by Richard Watson

Creature from Space by Harlon Ellison

The Utter Stranger by Alan E. Nourse

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“I demand jokes.” Nancy Mitford from Reading for Pleasure

Here’s an ongoing list of hilarious & amusing things that I’ve read:

Jeeves & Wooster and Blandings Castle stories by Wodehouse

May We Borrow Your Husband? (short story) by Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene

Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Corruption (short story) by Penelope Lively

The Colonel’s Lady (short story) by W. Somerset Maugham

Romance in the Roaring Forties (short story) by Damon Runyon

The Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climate and various other works of fiction and nonfiction by Nancy Mitford

Diary of a Provincial Lady by EM Delafield

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (short story) by George Saunders

Unstuck by John Updike (short story)

Life Among the Savages and Raising Demons are two amusing memoirs of domestic life by Shirley Jackson

Rumpole stories by John Mortimer

Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer (memoir)

Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer

Summer of a Dormouse (memoir) by John Mortimer

Memento Mori by Muriel Spark

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh (a farcical satire of the world of journalism)

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome

Old Filth by Jane Gardam

Emma by Jane Austen

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Mr. Harrison’s Confessions by Elizabeth Gaskell (with the exception of a few serious and sad episodes among the townspeople, Mr. Harrison’s own story is laugh out loud comical).

Dream Street - Stories of Damon Runyon; some in this collection are very funny.

Norwood by Charles Portis

The Dog of the South by Charles Portis. This is the funniest book I’ve ever read!

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Beer Events 4.7

Events

George Rauch patented a Beer and Hops Separator (1914)

Anchor Steam Beer 1st brewed after Prohibition (1933)

Budweiser Clydesdales 1st used (1933)

3.2 Beer became legal in CA, CO, DE, DC, IL, IN, KY, MD, MN, MO, MT, NV, NJ, NY, OH, OR, RI, VT, WA & WI, after the Cullen-Harrison bill went into effect (1933)

Richard Runyon patented a Beer Bottle design (1964)

Union Carbide patented a Beer Lagering Process (1964)

Charles Koch patented a Preparation of Beer (1995)

Leigh Beadle patented a Reusable Beer Keg Plug (1998)

Anheuser-Busch InBev debuted Johnny Appleseed Hard Apple Cider (2014)

Brewery Openings

Roosters 25th Street Brewing (New York; 1995)

Iron Horse Brewpub (Missouri; 1997)

Betlehem Brew Works (Pennsylvania; 1998)

Miller's Thumb Micro Brewery (Scotland; 1998)

Camino Brewing (California; 2018)

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“The Norwich Pharmacal Company, maker of Pepto Bismol, Unguentine, and other fine drug products brings you the adventures of Dashiell Hammett’s fascinating and exciting character - The Fat Man, a fast-moving criminologist who tips the scales at 237 pounds.”

The idea of a heavyset detective wasn’t groundbreaking in 1946.  All three hundred pounds of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe had been solving crimes from his New York home for years.  But Wolfe was largely home-bound, staying in an easy chair while Archie Goodwin did the legwork on their cases.  On January 21, 1946, radio listeners met Brad Runyon, a private eye with Wolfe’s intellect and Archie’s skill with a gun.  He was The Fat Man, and he kicked off a five year run on the air with that first broadcast.

Runyon was an original radio creation of Dashiell Hammett, creator of Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, and the Continental Op.  It was the Op, the unnamed, heavyset bulldog of a private eye, who most influenced the creation of The Fat Man.  There was also a piece of Kasper Gutman, the “Fat Man” villain of The Maltese Falcon (memorably played by Sydney Greenstreet in the film version) in the new character.  Producer Larry White approached Hammett to discuss a new program following the success of the radio adventures of Nick and Nora.  Outside of the creation of the character, Hammett was not involved in the production of the series.  As he put it, “My sole duty in regard to these programs is to look in the mail for a check once a week.  I don’t even listen to them.  If I did, I’d complain about how they were handled, and then I’d fall into the trap of being asked to come down and help.”

The show’s producers had their character; now they needed to find an actor who could fill the ample suits of “The Fat Man.“  They found him in J. Scott Smart.  An artist, dancer, and actor, Smart actually outweighed his fictional counterpart by nearly 30 pounds.  He famously observed that "it takes a fat man to sound like a fat man.”  After years of supporting roles in films and on radio, the role of Runyon made Smart a star.  He was hands-on in the production of the series and had final approval over scripts.  Smart would tweak dialogue and characters, and he brought a voice unlike any other on radio to the role.

The Fat Man was a hit with audiences.  By 1948, it was one of the top programs on radio, and Universal planned a film series starring the character.  Smart recreated his radio role and all signs pointed to a long future for the character.  Unfortunately, The Fat Man suffered the same fate as Hammett’s other radio properties after the author was blacklisted and thrown in jail for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of other suspected Communists.  The series lost sponsors, and the show ultimately left the air in 1951.  That same year, The Fat Man movie was released in theaters, but no sequels would follow.

Smart went on to star in The Top Guy as a police commissioner on ABC from 1951 to 1953.  The new role was very similar to that of Brad Runyon, but without Hammett’s political baggage.  Runyon would live on, however, when an Australian producer bought 52 scripts and produced a revival series.  Lloyd Berrell starred as the “down under” Runyon.  The series ran from 1954 to 1955, and surviving episodes allow listeners today to hear adventures of The Fat Man that no longer exist in their original versions.

Like Sam Spade, Brad Runyon was a victim of Red Scare paranoia and ended his run on radio far too soon.  Not many of his American adventures survive today, but those that do are great listening for mystery fans today.  Dashiell Hammett and his radio cohorts broke the private detective mold with The Fat Man and the result was a standout from the Golden Age of Radio.

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Charles M Runyon Chico the clown 1960