#lois hutton

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THE GOLDEN AGE TAROT – HOLLYWOOD AND COMICS BOOKS

GREEN LANTERN Created By: Bill Finger & Nodell 1st Appearance: All-American #16 - July, 1940 Publisher: All-American Comics Team: Justice Society of America Actor: Guy Madison (1922 - 1996)

CLARK KENT & LOIS LANE Created By: Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster 1st Appearance: Action #1 - April, 1938 Publisher: National Periodicals Team: Daily Planet Reporters Actor: John Payne (1912 - 1989) Betty Hutton (1921 - 2007)

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PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT (1962)

Director: George Roy Hill

Playwright: Tennessee Williams

Cast: Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Anthony Franciosa, Lois Nettleton

Genre: comedy drama

A newlywed couple visits a friend with marital problems of their own.

I'm a sucker for Tennessee Williams plays and a comedy was rare from him. A lot of them have to do with masculinity, what makes a man, or a good man. And of course, because of the times, women's dependence on men. This one definitely fits in with that, even as a comedy.

The biggest negative: Jim Hutton’s character, George Haverstick, is shown as redeemed without having done substantial work to change when he was an utter misogynist. It wraps things up in Hollywood fashion by suggesting the start of his perspective shifting. I feel like this was more of a time-saving thing. You're left to assume he does the work.

The biggest BUT in regard to that: The movie made great points and did not try to say his behavior was acceptable. There's no "boys will be boys" shtick here. It's focus was on calling out these behaviors and I think it did a good job of doing that and keeping things entertaining.

Even if the George Haverstick character would not fly now (I think audiences would ask more of him), I think it’s potentially worth a watch to see what notions were around and what were becoming mainstream.

I find it so funny that they keep saying that Lois Nettleton's character is homely. At some points they even have to say, "she used to be!" you know, not any more! And it's an interesting move to make Ralph Baitz (Tony Franciosa) originally marry for money instead of love. And that he learned to appreciate his wife's qualities and sincerely love her. However, I think they could have maybe done a better job on that.

Not subtle but a great portrait of how toxic masculinity shits on people, the toxic guy himself included.

You will yell at the screen over how much of an ass George Haverstick is. Definitely empathized with Jane Fonda’s character.

The biggest pro: seeing a man check another man. Anthony Franciosa’s monologues as Ralph Baitz are my favorites.

"I know one thing. I know any guy that goes through life telling himself and everybody else he's Superman, boy, has GOT to shake. 'Cause there is NO Superman. He's just a character in the funny papers. That's all, George. And you're better than that, boy. You're REAL. It's alright to have needs and weaknesses."

"What an awful, frightening thing it is. Two people living together just... two completely different worlds. Attempting existence together."

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Donald Sutherland

Commanding and versatile actor known for his roles in MAS*H, Don’t Look Now and The Hunger Games

Donald Sutherland, who has died aged 88, brought his disturbing and unconventional presence to bear in scores of films after his breakthrough role of Hawkeye Pierce, the army surgeon in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H (1970), one of the key American films of its period. It marked Sutherland out as an iconoclastic figure of the 60s generation, but he matured into an actor who made a speciality of portraying taciturn, self-doubting characters. This was best illustrated in his portrayal of the tormented parent of a drowned girl, seeking solace in a wintry Venice, in Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973), and of the weak, nervous, concerned father of a guilt-ridden teenage boy (Timothy Hutton) in Robert Redford’s Ordinary People (1980).

Although Sutherland appeared in the statutory number of stinkers that are many a film actor’s lot, he was always watchable. His career resembled a man walking a tightrope between undemanding parts in potboilers and those in which he was able to take risks, such as the title role in Federico Fellini’s Casanova (1976).

Curiously, it was Sutherland’s ears that first got him noticed, in Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen (1967). During the shoot, according to Sutherland, “Clint Walker sticks up his hand and says, ‘Mr Aldrich, as a representative of the Native American people, I don’t think it’s appropriate to do this stupid scene where I have to pretend to be a general.’ Aldrich turns and points to me and says, ‘You with the big ears. You do it’ … It changed my life.” In other words, it led to M*A*S*H and stardom.

Sutherland and his M*A*S*H co-star Elliott Gould tried to get Altman fired from the film because they did not think the director knew what he was doing due to his unorthodox methods. In the early days, Sutherland was known to have confrontations with his directors. “What I was trying to do all the time was to impose my thinking,” he remarked some years later. “Now I contribute. I offer. I don’t put my foot down.”

Sutherland, who was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, was a sickly child who battled rheumatic fever, hepatitis and polio. He spent most of his teenage years in Nova Scotia where his father, Frederick, ran a local gas, electricity and bus company; his mother, Dorothy (nee McNichol), was a maths teacher. He attended Bridgewater high school, then graduated from Victoria College, part of the University of Toronto, with a double major in engineering and drama. As a result of a highly praised performance in a college production of James Thurber’s and Elliott Nugent’s The Male Animal, he dropped the idea of becoming an engineer and decided to pursue acting.

With this in mind, he left Canada for the UK in 1957 to study at Lamda (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), where he was considered too tall and ungainly to get anywhere. However, he gained a year’s work as a stage actor with the Perth repertory company, and appeared in TV series such as The Saint and The Avengers. He was Fortinbras in a 1964 BBC production of Hamlet, shot at Elsinore castle and starring Christopher Plummer. He also appeared at the Criterion theatre in the West End in The Gimmick in 1962.

In 1959 he married Lois Hardwick; they divorced in 1966. Then he married the film producer Shirley Douglas, with whom he had twins, Kiefer and Rachel; they divorced in 1971. Kiefer, who grew up to become a celebrated actor, was named after the producer-writer Warren Kiefer, who put Sutherland in an Italian-made Gothic horror film, The Castle of the Living Dead (1964). Christopher Lee played a necrophile count, while Sutherland doubled as a dim-witted police sergeant and, in drag and heavy makeup, as a witch.

In an earlier era, the gawky Sutherland might not have achieved the stardom that followed the anarchic M*A*S*H, but Hollywood at the time was open for stars with unconventional looks, and Sutherland was much in demand for eccentric roles throughout the 70s.

He was impressive as a moviemaker with “director’s block” in Paul Mazursky’s messy but interesting Alex in Wonderland (1970), which contains a prescient dream sequence in which his titular character meets Fellini. In the same year, Sutherland played a Catholic priest and the object of Geneviève Bujold’s erotic gaze in Act of the Heart; he was the appropriately named Sergeant Oddball, an anachronistic hippy tank commander, in the second world war action-comedy Kelly’s Heroes; and he and Gene Wilder were two pairs of twins in 18th-century France in the broad comedy Start the Revolution Without Me.

Sutherland was at his most laconic, sometimes verging on the soporific, in the title role of Alan J Pakula’s Klute (1971), as a voyeuristic ex-policeman investigating the disappearance of a friend and getting deeply involved with a prostitute, played by Jane Fonda.

Sutherland and Fonda were teamed up again as a couple of misfits in the caper comedy Steelyard Blues (1973). It initially had a limited distribution due mainly to their participation together in the anti-Vietnam war troop show FTA (Fuck the Army), which Sutherland co-directed, co-scripted and co-produced.

Sutherland always made his political views known, although they surfaced only occasionally in his films. In among the many mainstream comedies and thrillers was Roeg’s supernatural drama Don’t Look Now, in which Sutherland and Julie Christie are superb as a couple grieving their dead daughter. Despite the dark subject matter, the film was notable for containing “one of the sexiest love scenes in film history”, according to Scott Tobias in the Guardian, the frank depiction of their love-making coming “like a desert flower poking through concrete”. The actor so admired Roeg that he named another son after him, one of his three sons with the French-Canadian actor Francine Racette, whom he married in 1972.

John Schlesinger’s rambling version of The Day of the Locust (1975) saw Sutherland as a sexually repressed character – called Homer Simpson – who tramples a woman to death in an act of uncontrolled rage. Perhaps Bernardo Bertolucci had that in mind when he cast Sutherland in 1900 (Novecento, 1976), in which he is a broadly caricatured fascist thug who shows his sadism by smashing a cat’s head against a post and bashing a young boy’s brains out. “And I turned down Deliverance and Straw Dogs because of the violence!” Sutherland recalled.

In Fellini’s Casanova, the second of his two bizarre Italian excursions in 1976, Sutherland coldly calculates seduction under his heavily made-up features. The performance, as remarkably stylised as it is, still reveals the suffering soul within the sex machine.

In 1978 he appeared in Claude Chabrol’s Blood Relatives, a made-in-Canada murder mystery with Sutherland playing a Montreal cop investigating the murder of a young woman. More commercial was The Eagle Has Landed (1976), with Sutherland, attempting an Irish accent, as an IRA member supporting the Germans during the second world war, and as a chilling Nazi in Eye of the Needle (1981). Meanwhile, he was the hero of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), who resists the insidious alien menace until the film’s devastating final shot.

In 1981 Sutherland returned to the stage, as Humbert Humbert in a highly anticipated version of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, adapted by Edward Albee. It turned out to be a huge flop, running only 12 performances on Broadway. Both Sutherland and Albee played the blame game. “The second act is flawed,” Sutherland said. “Albee was supposed to have rethought it, but he never did.” Albee told reporters that he had scuttled some of his best scenes because they were “too difficult” for Sutherland because “he hasn’t been on stage for 17 years”.

Continuing his film career, Sutherland played a complex and sadistic British officer in Hugh Hudson’s Revolution (1985), and in A Dry White Season (1989) he took the role of an Afrikaner schoolteacher beginning to understand the brutal realities of apartheid. In Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991), he held the screen with an extended monologue as he spilled the conspiracy beans to Kevin Costner’s district attorney hero Jim Garrison.

After having made contact with young audiences in the 70s with offbeat appearances in gross-out pictures The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), the latter as a pot-smoking professor, he was cast as an unconvincing bearded stranger in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).

On a more adult level were Six Degrees of Separation (1993), in which he played an unfulfilled art dealer; A Time to Kill (1996), as an alcoholic, disbarred lawyer (alongside Kiefer); Without Limits (1998), as an enthusiastic athletics coach; and Space Cowboys (2000), as an elderly pilot. By this time, he was gradually moving into grey-haired character roles, one of the best being his amiable Mr Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (2005).

The Jane Austen novel was also featured in the television series Great Books (1993-2000), to which Sutherland lent his soothing voice as narrator. Other series in which he shone as quasi baddies were Commander in Chief (2005) – as the sexist Republican speaker of the house opposed to the new president (Geena Davis) – and Dirty Sexy Money (2007-09), in which he played a powerful patriarch of a wealthy family.

Sutherland continued to be active well into his 80s, his long grey hair and beard signifying sagacity, whether as a contract killer in The Mechanic, a Roman hero in The Eagle, a nutty retired poetry professor in Man on the Train (all 2011), or a quirky bounty hunter in the western Dawn Rider (2012), bringing more depth to the characters than they deserved. As President Coriolanus Snow, the autocratic ruler of the dystopian country of Panem in The Hunger Games (2012), Sutherland was discovered by a new generation; he went on to reprise the role in three further films in that franchise, beginning with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).

He played artists in two art-world thrillers by Italian directors: in Giuseppe Tornatore’s Deception, AKA The Best Offer (2013), he was a would-be painter helping to execute multimillion-dollar scams, while in Giuseppe Capotondi’s The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019) he was on the other side of the heist as a reclusive genius targeted by a wealthy and unscrupulous dealer (Mick Jagger).

Aside from James Gray’s science-fiction drama Ad Astra (also 2019), in which he co-starred with Brad Pitt, Sutherland’s best late work was all for television. In Danny Boyle’s mini-series Trust (2018), which covered the same real-life events as Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, he played J Paul Getty, the oil tycoon whose grandson is kidnapped; while in The Undoing (2020), he was the father of a psychologist (Nicole Kidman), reluctantly putting up bail when her husband (Hugh Grant) is arrested for murder.

For the latter role Sutherland was in the running for a Golden Globe, having already received an honorary Oscar in 2017.

He is survived by Francine and his children, Kiefer, Rachel, Rossif, Angus and Roeg, and by four grandchildren.

🔔 Donald McNichol Sutherland, actor; born 17 July 1935; died 20 June 2024

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Tiptoeing through the “Flesh & Blood” guest cast

Pamela Reed as Roberta Deeks Bertie’s back!  Pamela Reed last appeared in “High Society” in season 11.  

Bar Paly as Anastasia "Anna" Kolcheck Back from “Of Value” week before last.

Natalia Del Riego as Rosa Reyes Back from “Game of Drones”, the season 14 premiere.

Kavi Ramachandran Ladnier as NCIS Reserve Agent Shyla Dahr Back from last week’s “Dead Stick”.

Marnee Carpenter as Alice Morgan Was Catherine Martin in CBS’s Clarice series.  Had guest roles in Good Girls, Criminal Minds, The Resident and The Rookie.

Lauren "Lolo" Spencer as Ella Plays Jocelyn in The Sex Lives of College Girls.

Rif Hutton as Navy Commander Albert Burns Longtime working actor.  Was JAG officer Lt. Commander Alan Mattoni in JAG.  Played Gordon in Tribes, Dr. Ron Welch in Doogie Howser MD and recently Lenny Caufield in General Hospital.  

Played Marine General Phillip Braxton in the season 16 “Friendly Fire” episode of NCIS and the season 19 episode of “Face the Strange”.

Recently appeared in episodes of American Horror Story and Grace and Frankie.  In the 2010’s, was in episodes of The First Family, Criminal Minds, Bosch, SEAL Team, Alone Together, Shameless and How to Get Away with Murder.

2000’s guest roles include The Mentalist, Jonas, Caprica, Ghost Whisperer, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Shield, Century City, Rock Me Baby, House, Listen Up, That’s So Raven, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI: Miami, Cold Case, Monk, ER, Presidio Med, Philly, The Bernie Mac Show, The Agency and Get Real (with a young Eric Christian Olsen).

In the 1990’s, appeared in episodes of Silk Stalkings, The Wayan Bros., Any Day Now, Odd Man Out, Arli$$, Seinfeld, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Family Matters, Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper, The Gregory Hines Show, The Jamie Foxx Show, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Home Improvement, Babylon 5, Fudge, Sisters, The Secret Life of Alex Mack, Step by Step, The Sinbad Show, Getting By, Sister Sister, Diagnosis Murder, On Our Own, Stand By Your Man, Murphy Brown (1992), The Bold and the Beautiful, The Larry Sanders Show, Dragnet (1991), Dark Shadows (1991), Hunter, Wings, FBI: The Untold Stories, Alien Nation, Working Girl, Full House, Days of Our Lives, Valerie, Married with Children, Empty Nest and LA Law.

In the 1980’s, was in episodes of Living Dolls, Knots Landing, A Different World, Webster, Beverly Hills Buntz, Once a Hero, Night Court, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The New Gidget, Remington Steele and The Jeffersons.

Written by:  Chad Mazero co-wrote “Internal Affairs”, “Revenge Deferred” and “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”, “The Noble Maidens” and “Pandora’s Box”.  Wrote “Tidings We Bring”, “Can I Get a Witness”, “All Is Bright”, “Diamond in the Rough”, “High Society”, “Murder of Crows”, "Overdue" and "Sorry for Your Loss".

Directed by:  Daniela Ruah directed “Russia, Russia, Russia”, “Lost Sailor Down”, “Pandora’s Box” (co-written by Chad Mazero) and “Live Free or Die Standing”. Directing announcement. Writer/director.

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Birthdays 8.16

Beer Birthdays

Emile A.H. Seipgens (1837)

Johann Kjeldahl (1849)

Dann Paquette (1968)

John Pinkerton (1969)

Justin Dvorkin (1982)

Jacob McKean (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Charles Bukowski; writer (1920)

James Cameron; Canadian film director (1954)

Steve Carell; comedian, actor (1962)

Pierre de Fermat; French mathematician (1601)

Hal Foster; Canadian-American author and illustrator (1892)

E.F. Schumacher; philosopher, economist (1911)

Famous Birthdays

Arthur Achleitner; German author (1858)

Scott Asheton; drummer (1949)

Kevin Ayers; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)

Angela Bassett; actor (1958)

Bruce Beresford; Australian film director (1940)

Ivan Bilibin; Russian illustrator, artist (1876)

Gloria Blondell; actress (1910)

Ann Blyth; actress and singer (1928)

Frankie Boyle; Scottish comedian (1972)

Ida Browne; Australian geologist and palaeontologist (1900)

Arthur Cayley; English mathematician (1821)

Matt Christopher; author (1910)

Madonna Ciccone; pop singer (1958)

Mae Clarke; actress (1910)

Albert Cohen; Greek-Swiss author and playwright (1895)

Vincenzo Coronelli; Italian cosmographer and cartographer (1650)

Robert Culp; actor (1930)

Jean de La Bruyère; French philosopher (1645)

Bill Evans; jazz pianist (1929)

Suzanne Farrell; ballet dancer (1945)

Ernie Freeman; pianist and bandleader (1922)

Barbara George; R&B singer-songwriter (1942)

Hugo Gernsback; Luxembourger-American author (1884)

Frank Gifford; New York Giants QB, tv sportscaster (1930)

Anita Gillette; actor (1936)

Eydie Gorme; singer (1932)

Georgette Heyer; English author (1902)

Timothy Hutton; actor (1960)

Laura Innes; actress and director (1957)

Eddie Kirkland; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1928)

Reiner Kunze; German poet (1933)

Jules Laforgue; Uruguayan-French poet and author (1860)

Ketty Lester; singer and actress (1934)

Robert Squirrel Lester; soul singer 91942)

T. E. Lawrence; British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist (1888)

Kathie Lee-Gifford; television personality (1953)

Gary Loizzo; guitarist, singer (1945)

Gabriel Lippmann; French physicist (1845)

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.; novelist, short story writer, and essayist (1908)

George Meany; labor organizer (1894)

Pierre Méchain; French astronomer (1744) Otto Messmer; cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat (1892)

Lois Nettleton, American actres (1927)t

Julie Newmar; actor (1933)

Fess Parker; actor (1924)

Armand J. Piron; violinist, composer, and bandleader (1888)

Taylor Rain; porn actor (1981)

Billy Joe Shaver; singer-songwriter and guitarist 91939)

Bill Spooner; rock musician, singer (1949)

John Standing; English actor (1934)

Wendell Meredith Stanley; biochemist (1904)

James "J.T." Taylor; R&B singer-songwriter (1953)

Nigel Terry; British actor (1948)

Wallace Thurman; author and playwright (1902)

Mal Waldron; pianist and composer (1925)

Lesley Ann Warren; actor (1946)

Eric Weissberg; singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist (1939)

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A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in this off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Rose Lorkowski: Amy Adams Norah Lorkowski: Emily Blunt Mac: Steve Zahn Joe Lorkowski: Alan Arkin Winston: Clifton Collins Jr. Randy: Eric Christian Olsen Carl Swanson: Kevin Chapman Oscar Lorkowski: Jason Spevack Lynn: Mary Lynn Rajskub Sherm: Paul Dooley Paula Datzman-Mead: Judith Jones Heather: Amy Redford Mrs. Kim: Susie Yip Mrs. Davis: Lois Geary Young Rose: McKenna Hutton Young Norah: Mason Frank Candy Store Girl: Amber Midthunder Girl’s Mother: Angelique Midthunder Gun Shop Owner: Vic Browder Above and Beyond Worker: Ivan Brutsche Fair N Square Owner (uncredited): Kathy Lamkin Film Crew: Director: Christine Jeffs Casting: Avy Kaufman Producer: Marc Turtletaub Producer: Glenn Williamson Producer: Jeb Brody Editor: Heather Persons Producer: Peter Saraf Script Supervisor: Joanna Kennedy Director of Photography: John Toon Stunt Coordinator: Al Goto Co-Producer: Bob Dohrmann Art Direction: Guy Barnes Production Design: Joseph T. Garrity Costume Design: Alix Friedberg Set Decoration: Wendy Ozols-Barnes Makeup Department Head: Tarra D. Day Key Hair Stylist: Debra Clair Key Makeup Artist: Karen McDonald Key Hair Stylist: Mary Hedges Lampert Hair Department Head: Voni Hinkle Second Assistant Director: Chemen A. Ochoa First Assistant Director: Gregory J. Smith Supervising Sound Editor: Tricia Linklater Special Effects Coordinator: Margaret Johnson Stunt Coordinator: John Koyama Stunt Double: Trine Christensen Stunts: Kevin L. Jackson Stunt Double: Jodi Michelle Pynn Gaffer: Dan Delgado Still Photographer: Lacey Terrell Music Supervisor: Susan Jacobs Writer: Megan Holley Original Music Composer: Michael Penn Movie Reviews: DoryDarko: The first thing that went through my head the second Sunshine Cleaning ended, was ‘I could have gone on watching for at least another hour’. Not just because it ended a little abruptly, but mostly because I so thoroughly enjoyed this film, that I was seriously disappointed when it was over. It’s like that book that’s so compelling that you just want to inhale every word, but dread to actually finish. Sunshine Cleaning is about two sisters, who, driven by dire financial straits, decide to start “a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service”, cleaning up the houses of people who died gruesome deaths. The premise is fairly simple, but executed in a very lovely, heart-warming way, half tragedy – half comedy. Because of course, this film is not only about cleaning up other people’s mess, but also about cleaning up some of their own baggage along the way, especially when the sisters are confronted with the memory of a death akin to what is now their daily business. Somewhere in between all this they have to deal with their eccentric father, the elder sister’s peculiar son, love, loss, failure and a glimmer of hope. Reading this back now I realise this actually sounds really cheesy and sentimental, but I would have hated it if it was. Trust me. Amy Adams plays Rose, the eldest of the two, and Emily Blunt plays Norah, the rebellious younger sister. Rarely have I seen such great chemistry and energy between a leading pair. These two women make it seem like they’ve been working together for years, and physically they’re a perfect match too, they actually look they could be sisters. Rose is obviously the mature, sensible one, whereas Norah just kind of takes things as they come, not worrying and not taking responsibility for her life. Though they seem to be bound not so much by kinship, but rather by a mutual fate and childhood hardship that has left its mark on both of them, although they deal with it very differently. Rose tries desperately to build a better life for herself and her son, but rarely finds any luck on her path. Norah just wings it and refuses t...

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Loïs Hutton (1893-1972), Portrait tristesse, ca. 1920.

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ACTRESSES WHO DIED 2007

Yvonne De Carlo at 84 from natural causes

Anna Nicole Smith at 39 from overdose

Deborah Kerr at 86 from Parkinson’s Disease

Jeanne Carmen at 77 from lymphoma

Jane Wyman at 90 from natural causes

Betty Hutton at 86 from cancer

Lois Maxwell at 80 from heart failure

Dusty Anderson at 90 from unknown events

Marion Michael at 66 from heart failure

Conchita Montenegro at 95 from natural causes

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[las-microfisuras]

La experiencia contemplativa de Lois Patiño.

[johngarfieldtribute]

The Stork Club in Manhattan was a popular destination of celebrities. Julie was photographed there frequently. The club started a speakeasy during Prohibition and closed its doors in 1965.

An on screen cameo of John Garfield at the bar in the Stork Club shown above. The clip is from the Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, and Henry Fonda film DAISY KENYON. Garfield took a swig in the background as a favor to director, Otto Preminger. I recognize the back of that head, but don’t blink 😄.

Jon Hamm’s character from MAD MEN, Don Draper sure resembles the cad Dana Andrews played in this movie.

And not only did the club get represented in Preminger’s film. Betty Hutton starred as a hat-check girl in the musical THE STORK CLUB in 1945. There was a television series with the same name from 1950-55 and directed by Yul Brynner! ALL ABOUT EVE has a scene set in the Cub Room and Hitchcock’s THE WRONG MAN was a story about a club bassist. The club is also a backdrop for scenes in EXECUTIVE SUITE (1954), ARTISTS AND MODELS (1955), and MY FAVORITE YEAR (1982).

On March 8, 1942 Julie sat at a table with columnist, Walter Winchell, actors, Myra Loy, Loretta Young, Janet Gaynor and war correspondent, Quentin Reynolds. A WWII Navy Relief Show was presented at Madison Square Garden two days later.

On the club’s 20th Anniversary a book was published featuring recipes from chef, Gustave Reynaud for 100 dishes. Also included are 24 cocktails by head barman, Nathaniel Cook, i.e. "John Garfield's Rob Roy," "Ann Sheridan Cocktail," "Eddie Whittmer's Blessed Event," and, of course, the gin-based "Stork Club Cocktail."

John Garfield’s Rob Roy

2 ounces Scotch

3/4 ounce Italian vermouth

One Dash orange bitters

Garnish with maraschino cherry, stir, and serve in 3 ounce cocktail glass

A menu from the club pictured above. Check out the prices!

Julie is sitting with Virginia Grey, and naval hero, Morton Dietz, who died in September of 2018 at the age of 97.

On April 21, 1943, in the Indian Ocean south of Madagascar, German U-boats sunk the SS John Drayton. Deitz and twenty-three other survivors escaped aboard a lifeboat designed for twelve. When they were rescued after thirty days at sea, only five remained alive. After recovering in Durban, South Africa, for two months, Deitz was returned to the United States, though physical and mental results of the ordeal would affect him severely for the rest of his life. He was tapped to participate in the Third War Loan cross-country bond drive tour in the Fall of 1943, along with Boatswain's Mate Ward L. Gemmer, Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant John Basilone, of Raritan, NJ, Machinist's Mate Robert J. Croak, Sergeant Schiller Cohen and celebrities Gene Lockhart, Virginia Grey and John Garfield.

Julie’s talking things over with John Houston. Hope he’s got one of his Rob Roy’s coming.

Gotta close with this ugliness. Julie is pictured above with the owner, Sherman Billingsley, who was a known bootlegger during the Roaring Twenties. I’m sure Julie wouldn’t stand for this if he’d have known about it, but the owner was said to exhibit racist behavior. No way would Julie be sitting with him or frequenting the establishment.

In 1951, Billingsley stopped service at singer, Josephine Baker’s table. She didn’t put up with his hate. Read about the incident here. Disgusting. Don’t be messin’ with La Baker!

The Stork Club was demolished a year after closing in 1966, which is also the year the owner died. The site is now the location of Paley Park, a beautiful, urban pocket park.

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Theda Bara (born Theodosia Burr Goodman; July 29, 1885 – April 7, 1955) was an American silent film and stage actress.

Bara was one of the more popular actresses of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" (short for vampire),[a] later fueling the rising popularity in "vamp" roles that encapsulated exoticism and sexual domination. Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. After her marriage to Charles Brabin in 1921, she made two more feature films and then retired from acting in 1926, never appearing in a sound film.

Bara was born Theodosia Burr Goodman on July 29, 1885 in the Avondale section of Cincinnati, Ohio. She was named after the daughter of US Vice President Aaron Burr. Her father was Bernard Goodman (1853–1936), a prosperous Jewish tailor born in Poland. Her mother, Pauline Louise Françoise (née de Coppett; 1861–1957), was born in Switzerland. Bernard and Pauline married in 1882. Theda had two younger siblings: Marque (1888–1954) and Esther (1897–1965), who also became a film actress under the name of Lori Bara.

Bara attended Walnut Hills High School, graduating in 1903. After attending the University of Cincinnati for two years, she worked mainly in local theater productions, but did explore other projects. After moving to New York City in 1908, she made her Broadway debut the same year in The Devil.

Most of Bara's early films were shot along the East Coast, where the film industry was centered at that time, primarily at the Fox Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Bara lived with her family in New York City during this time. The rise of Hollywood as the center of the American film industry forced her to relocate to Los Angeles to film the epic Cleopatra (1917), which became one of Bara's biggest hits. No known prints of Cleopatra exist today, but numerous photographs of Bara in costume as the Queen of the Nile have survived.

Between 1915 and 1919, Bara was Fox studio's biggest star; but, tired of being typecast as a vamp, she allowed her five-year contract with Fox to expire. Her final Fox film was The Lure of Ambition (1919). In 1920, she turned briefly to the stage, appearing on Broadway in The Blue Flame. Bara's fame drew large crowds to the theater, but her acting was savaged by critics.

Her career suffered without Fox studio's support, and she did not make another film until The Unchastened Woman (1925) for Chadwick Pictures. Bara retired after making only one more film, the short comedy Madame Mystery (1926), made for Hal Roach and directed by Stan Laurel, in which she parodied her vamp image.

At the height of her fame, Bara earned $4,000 per week (the equivalent of over $56,000 per week in 2017 adjusted dollars). Bara's better-known roles were as the "vamp", although she attempted to avoid typecasting by playing wholesome heroines in films such as Under Two Flags and Her Double Life. She appeared as Juliet in a version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Although Bara took her craft seriously, she was too successful as an exotic "wanton woman" to develop a more versatile career.

The origin of Bara's stage name is disputed; The Guinness Book of Movie Facts and Feats says it came from director Frank Powell, who learned Theda had a relative named Barranger, and that Theda was a childhood nickname. In promoting the 1917 film Cleopatra, Fox Studio publicists noted that the name was an anagram of Arab death, and her press agents, to enhance her exotic appeal to moviegoers, falsely promoted the young Ohio native as "the daughter of an Arab sheik and a French woman, born in the Sahara." In 1917, the Goodman family legally changed its surname to Bara.

Bara was known for wearing very revealing costumes in her films. Such outfits were banned from Hollywood films after the Production Code (a.k.a. the Hays Code) started in 1930, and then was more strongly enforced in 1934. It was popular at that time to promote an actress as mysterious, with an exotic background. The studios promoted Bara with a massive publicity campaign, billing her as the Egyptian-born daughter of a French actress and an Italian sculptor. They claimed she had spent her early years in the Sahara desert under the shadow of the Sphinx, then moved to France to become a stage actress. (In fact, Bara never had been to Egypt, and her time in France amounted to just a few months.) They called her the "Serpent of the Nile" and encouraged her to discuss mysticism and the occult in interviews. Some film historians point to this as the birth of two Hollywood phenomena: the studio publicity department and the press agent (later evolving into the public relations person).

A 2016 book by Joan Craig with Beverly F. Stout chronicles many personal, first-hand accounts of the lives of Theda Bara and Charles Brabin. It reveals a great dichotomy between Theda Bara's screen persona and her real-life persona. Included are Bara's surprised responses to the critical reactions to her screen portrayals from a sector of the community. The author was befriended by Theda Bara and Charles Brabin beginning when she was a young girl. Craig's photographic-like memory paints an important picture of how they lived, where they lived, and what they said and did, even to the point of describing in great detail most of the rooms of their house. The book describes how Bara, who learned pattern making and wig making from her mother and father, designed and created most of the costumes and gowns she wore in her films, including the striking costumes she wore in Cleopatra.

Bara married British-born American film director Charles Brabin in 1921. They honeymooned at The Pines Hotel in Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada, and later purchased a 400-hectare (990-acre) property down the coast from Digby at Harbourville, Nova Scotia, overlooking the Bay of Fundy, eventually building a summer home they called Baranook.[15] They had no children. Bara resided in a villa-style home in Cincinnati, which served as the "honors villa" at Xavier University. Demolition of the home began in July 2011.

In 1936, she appeared on Lux Radio Theatre during a broadcast version of The Thin Man with William Powell and Myrna Loy. She did not appear in the play but instead announced her plans to make a movie comeback, which never materialized. She appeared on radio again in 1939 as a guest on Texaco Star Theatre.

In 1949, producer Buddy DeSylva and Columbia Pictures expressed interest in making a movie of Bara's life to star Betty Hutton, but the project never materialized.

On April 7, 1955, after a lengthy stay at California Lutheran Hospital in Los Angeles, Bara died there of stomach cancer. She was survived by her husband Charles Brabin, her mother, and sister Lori. She was interred as Theda Bara Brabin at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

Bara often is cited as the first sex symbol of the film era.

For her contributions to the film industry, Bara received a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Her star is located at 6307 Hollywood Boulevard.

Bara never appeared in a sound film, lost or otherwise. A 1937 fire at Fox's nitrate film storage vaults in New Jersey destroyed most of that studio's silent films. Bara made more than 40 films between 1914 and 1926, but complete prints of only six still exist: The Stain (1914), A Fool There Was (1915), East Lynne (1916), The Unchastened Woman (1925), and two short comedies for Hal Roach.

In addition to these, a few of her films remain in fragments, including Cleopatra (just a few seconds of footage), a clip thought to be from The Soul of Buddha, and a few other unidentified clips featured in the documentary Theda Bara et William Fox (2001). Most of the clips can be seen in the documentary The Woman with the Hungry Eyes (2006). As to vamping, critics stated that her portrayal of calculating, cold-hearted women was morally instructive to men. Bara responded by saying "I will continue doing vampires as long as people sin." Additional footage has been found which shows her behind the scenes on a picture. While the hairstyle has led some to theorize that this may be from The Lure of Ambition, this has not been confirmed.

In 1994, she was honored with her image on a U.S. postage stamp designed by caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. The Fort Lee Film Commission dedicated Main Street and Linwood Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey as "Theda Bara Way" in May 2006 to honor Bara, who made many of her films at the Fox Studio on Linwood and Main.

Over a period of several years, filmmaker and film historian Phillip Dye reconstructed Cleopatra on video. Titled Lost Cleopatra, the full-length feature was created by editing together production-still picture montages combined with the surviving film clip. The script was based on the original scenario with modifications derived from research into censorship reports, reviews of the film, and synopses from period magazines. Dye screened the film at the Hollywood Heritage Museum on February 8, 2017.

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Juillet MMXXI

Films

Le Colosse de Rhodes (Il colosso di Rodi) (1961) de Sergio Leone avec Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal et Conrado San Martín

Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) (2001) de Chris Columbus avec Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane et Richard Harris

Black Widow (2021) de Cate Shortland avec Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, Rachel Weisz et O. T. Fagbenle

Flic ou Voyou (1979) de Georges Lautner avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Marie Laforêt, Michel Galabru, Georges Géret et Jean-François Balmer

Harry Potter et la Chambre des secrets (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets) (2002) de Chris Columbus avec Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Richard Harris et Kenneth Branagh

Mort sur le Nil (Death on the Nile) (1978) de John Guillermin avec Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Lois Chiles, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow, Simon MacCorkindale, David Niven et Maggie Smith

Astérix : Le Domaine des dieux (2014) de Louis Clichy et Alexandre Astier avec Roger Carel, Guillaume Briat, Laurent Lafitte, Alexandre Astier et Alain Chabat

Reservoir Dogs (1992) de Quentin Tarantino avec Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Chris Penn et Lawrence Tierney

Hold-up (1985) de Alexandre Arcady avec Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Kim Cattrall, Guy Marchand, Jacques Villeret et Jean-Claude de Goros

Mystère à Saint-Tropez (2021) de Nicolas Benamou avec Christian Clavier, Benoît Poelvoorde, Gérard Depardieu, Thierry Lhermitte, Virginie Hocq, Rossy de Palma, Vincent Desagnat et Jérôme Commandeur

Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d'Azkaban (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) (2004) de Alfonso Cuarón avec Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Gary Oldman et David Thewlis

Kaamelott : Premier Volet (2021) d'Alexandre Astier avec Alexandre Astier, Franck Pitiot, Thomas Cousseau, Jean-Christophe Hembert et Anne Girouard

Ouvert la nuit (2016) d'Édouard Baer avec Édouard Baer, Audrey Tautou, Grégory Gadebois, Sabrina Ouazani, Atmen Kélif et Michel Galabru

Sur la piste de la grande caravane (The Hallelujah Trail) (1965) de John Sturges avec Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Brian Keith, Jim Hutton et Pamela Tiffin

Les Grands Ducs (1996) de Patrice Leconte avec Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Catherine Jacob et Michel Blanc

Spectacle

The Doors : Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival (1970)

Simply Red: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2007)

Deux hommes tout nus (2015) de Sébastien Thiéry avec François Berléand, Elise Diamant, Isabelle Gélinas et Sébastien Thiéry

Séries

The Rookie Saison 3

Conséquences - Injustice - La Fiera - Sabotage - Alerte à la bombe - Infiltrées - La Star déchue

Wandavision

Filmé devant public - Ne zappez pas - On passe à la couleur - Interruption du programme - Dans cet épisode très spécial... - Spécial Halloween - Briser le quatrième mur - Précédemment dans... - Le grand final

Nestor Burma Saison 4, 5

Les Paletots sans manches - Nestor Burma en direct - Sortie des artistes

Cat's Eyes Saison 2

Les Cat's Eyes à Paris - Mutation difficile - Ange gardien - Surprise dans le noir - Chambre forte - 107 - Douceur de vivre

Kaamelott Livre II, VI

Le Larcin - La Délégation Maure - L'Ivresse - La Cassette - Le Tourment II - Le Message Codé - Le Poème - Les Classes de Bohort - Feue la vache de Roparzh - Dies irae

Le Coffre à Catch

#32 : Le Père Noël est un Catcheur - #33 : Comment (mal) builder le Royal Rumble - #34 : Bobby Lashley contre….UNDERTAKER ??? - #1 : ECW ONE NIGHT STAND 2006 - #7 : Quand L'UNDERTAKER CRÉE la SURPRISE - #8 : 370KG DE MONSTRES DANS LE RING ! - #35 : ECW Originals vs. New Breed - #9 : BATISTA se fait POURRIR par les fans WWE ! - #10 : KURT ANGLE en mode MASTERCLASS

Loki

Un destin exceptionnel - Le Variant - Lamentis - Le Nexus - Voyage vers le mystère - Pour toujours. À jamais.

Sydney Fox, l'aventurière Saison 1

La Bouche diabolique - Labyrinthe

The Crown Saison 1

Wolferton Splash - Hyde Park Corner - Windsor - Catastrophe naturelle - Poudre aux yeux - Bombe à retardement - Le savoir, c'est le pouvoir - Joie et Fierté - Assassins - Gloriana

Papa a un plan Saison 2

Le Renard argentée - (Re)marié à tout prix - Grève contre grève - Un grand bol d'herbe - La Contremaîtresse - Les Nouveaux Voisins - La Guerre des héros - Maman, j'ai raté l'école - Le Désarmé - L'Homme le plus attentionné au monde - Devine qui vient pour le petit déjeuner, le déjeuner et le dîner - Gagnant gagnant - Crash imminent - Vidéos… et des bas - La Bataille des varices - Tel est pris - Roi d'un jour - La Méthode Burns - On déteste le fric - On a une fille - Entreprise familiale

James May's Cars of the People Saison 1

Gravir l'échelle sociale

Brooklyn Nine Nine Saison 6

Lune de miel - Hitchcock & Scully - Retour au lycée - En quatre mouvements - Un voleur peut en cacher un autre - La Scène de crime - La Taupe modèle - Parole contre parole - Le Chouchou - Gintars - Le Psy - L'Anniversaire de mariage - La Bimbo - Contre la montre - Retour du Roi - Cinco De Mayo - Taré - Suicide Squad

La Cloche

#59: Daniel Bryan Annonce Son Retour!

The Grand Tour Saison 2, 3, 4

Coup de vieux - Mozambique - Spécial Colombie : Partie 1 - Spécial Colombie : Partie 2 - La Loi du plus gros - The Grand Tour présente... Seamen

Top Gear Saison 17

Surfin' USA - Tout doit disparaitre - La Course des Tsars - La fièvre du Vintage

Dark Side Of The Ring Saison 3, 2

Collision en Corée - David Schultz & The Slap Heard Round the World - Brian Pillman Première Partie - Brian Pillman Deuxième Partie - Cocaïne et santiags : l'histoire de Herb Abrams

Livres

Rocketeer de Dave Stevens

La Nuit des Camisards de Lionnel Astier

Marvel - Le côté obscur #1 : Black Widow - Ce qu'ils disent d'elle de Richard K. Morgan et Sean Phillips

La ballade des Dalton de René Goscinny et Morris

Kaamelott : À la table du roi Arthur d'Éric Le Nabour

Drôles de morts de John Garforth

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@writers-block-help-everything​ wanted to have a master post of my current library collection, so here you go, with photos so the books will be easier to find if any of you wants to read/buy them:

1. Spellbound; Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft (Ashmolean Museum, England); Basic book of spells, witchcraft and different rituals in history. Lots of pictures!

2. A History of Medieval Christianity; Prophesy and Order ( Jeffrey Burton Russell & Doughlas W. Lumsden)

3. The Complete Book of Devils and Demons (Dr. Leonard R. N. Ashley). A good beginner book with lots of simple information from here and there if you want to study devilish monsters throughout the globe. 

4. Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (Jeffrey Burton Russell)

5. The Prince of Darkness (Jeffrey Burton Russell) This books contains all basic information of 4 earlier books from Jeffrey Burton Russell about the Devil. 

5. Satan - The Early Christian Tradition (Jeffrey Burton Russell) A book of how early Christian traditions saw the evil and the God in the world,

6. Lucifer - The Devil In The Middle Ages (Jeffrey Burton Russell) A book of how medieval church and different heretic views saw the evil, the Devil and The God. Goes actually all to way to romantic era and covers a bit also Islamic views of the evil. My fave books.

7. The Devil - Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity (Jeffrey  Burton Russell) How non-Christian religions and early Christians saw the Devil and the God

1. Medieval Punishments - The Illustrated History of Torture (William Andrews). This book was published in late 19th century, and it covers ONLY medieval English punishments. It’s not so much about torture than about criminal convictions. Super easy to read and very interesting! Is definitely not as horrible as it sounds by the title.

2. The Secret History of Lucifer (Lynn Picknett). This is more of an occult book to me than history book, but it covers historical religious views of Lucifer. It’s more like one woman’s manifest I think?

3. Witchcraft - Demons, Folklore and Superstition (Lois Martin). VERY basic notebook sized book of the subject.

4. The Witch-hunt in the Early Modern Europe (Brian P. Levack)

5. History of the Devil (Gerald Messadié)

6. Male Witched in Early Modern Europe (Lara Apps & Andrew Gow)

7.  The Witch - A History of Fear from Ancient Times to the Present (Ronald Hutton) This book cover witches from all around the world, so it is very throughout book. Ronald Hutton is one of the leading experts of the history of witchcraft.

8. The Werewolf - Montague Summers. This book covers history of werewolves. Unfortunately, it is very hard to read and the author HAS NOT translated any sources to English. If the source is in Latin, it is in Latin in the book too. Like “Pope XXXNJN 3 said; Latinlatinlatinlatinlatinlatin; and he was absolutely right, as German pastor YYYUT added 5 years later; Germangermangermangerman”.

9. Life in the Medieval City (Frances Gies & Josept Gies)

Then, some obscure monster and paranormal books!

1. The Beast of Bray Road - Tailing Wisconsin’s Werewolf (Linda S. Godfrey) A book covering the famous Bray road Dogman sighting in early 90′s and how things proceed. Linda was a reporter in the area when the incident happen and it started her 25 years long career as a dogman researcher. She’s the world’s leading dogman specialist now.

2. The Michigan Dogman - Werewolves and Other Unknown Canines Across the USA (Linda S. Godfrey) This book contains from cover to cover eyewitness testimonials of Dogmen and other upright walking canines in the USA.

3. Real Wolfmen - True Encounters in Modern America (Linda S. Godfrey) Another super exciting book from Linda covering from cover to cover eyewitness testimonials of Dogmen and other upright walking canines in the USA.

4. American Monsters - A History of Monster Lore, Legend and Sightings in America (Linda S. Godfrey). This book has different short sections for different cryptids in America, together with eyewitness testimonials of said cryptids.

5. The Art of Psychic Protection (Judy Hall) This is a literal handbook how to protect yourself from different energies, people and spirit when you work with spiritual things and encounter spirits.

6. Black Eyed Children (David Weatherly) Black eyed children are a fairly new and rarely encountered cryptid/spirit type, but they are super chilling. They randomly appear and ask to get inside cars, houses, buildings, really trying to coo people to allow them to get inside. This book contains eyewitness cases of these kids with black eyes. I have yet to determine myself what these kids are. My assumption is a demonic entity based on the eyewitnesses’ stories.

7. Poltergeist Over Scotland (Geoff Holder) Recorded poltergeist cases from Scotland.

8. An Exorcist Explains the Demonic (Fr. Gabriele Amorth). This is a personal view of demonic activity and exorcism written by world’s leading Catholic exorcist Father Amorth. This is thus 100% purely Catholic view only. Not what I personally share with Father Amorth but I wanted to understand Catholic’s point of the view of the phenomena.

9. Our Occulted History - Do the Global Elite Conceal Ancient Aliens? (Jim Marrs). I’m not a fan of conspiracy theories. I like to study them occasionally as they are super great source for inspiration and story setting, right? Now, ancient aliens theory has been a favorite of mine since I stumbled upon Erich von Däniken’s books about them when I was 14  (I have 3 of his books) Many spiritual books talk about the same subject, so I do fall into the category of believers, even when I didn’t swallow every single case and evidence. Marss was one of the leading conspiracy theory spoke persons, especially about aliens, so I’m curious to read about his thoughts.

Under read more are Finnish books:

1. Malleus Maleficarum’s Finnish edition.|  2. Suomen pyövelit / Executioners in Finland  | 3. Keskiajan pyövelit / Executioners in Middle-Age  | 4. Noitaäiti / The Witch Mother; A real life case of a Finnish woman who moved to Stockholm, Sweden, as was burned on a stake as a witch during the Witch Craze | 5. Pohjoisen Noidat / The Witched of North; witch hunt and its convictions and legal issues in Sweden-Finland during the Witch Craze | 6. Karjalan räyhähenget / Karelian Poltergeists; Cases of reported poltergeists and beliefs of demons, witches and the devil in South-West Finland (Karelia) area and in East-Finland in 19th century | 7. Paha silmä / Evil Eye; the belief of malicious intentions and powers and protection against them in Finnish culture.

1. Johdatus keskiajan teologiaan / Introduction of Medieval Theology | 2. Suomalaisen kuoleman historia / History of Dying in Finland; belief systems and traditions of death, dying and afterlife in Finnish culture | 3. Musta-Maija ja Kirppu-Kaisa / Black Maija and Flea Kaisa; prostitution and life of a prostitute in 19th century Finland | 4. Kissojen maailmanhistoria / The World History of Cats | 5. Rutto / Plague; the history of plague | 6. Ihmesatujen historya / The History of Wonderful Fairytales; where do fairytales come from and their importance and meaning for societies | 7. Auringonjumalattaren tyttäret / The Daughter of The Sun Goddess; the history of women in Japanese culture.

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Birthdays 8.16

Beer Birthdays

Emile A.H. Seipgens (1837)

Johann Kjeldahl (1849)

Dann Paquette (1968)

John Pinkerton (1969)

Justin Dvorkin (1982)

Jacob McKean (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Charles Bukowski; writer (1920)

James Cameron; Canadian film director (1954)

Steve Carell; comedian, actor (1962)

Pierre de Fermat; French mathematician (1601)

Hal Foster; Canadian-American author and illustrator (1892)

E.F. Schumacher; philosopher, economist (1911)

Famous Birthdays

Arthur Achleitner; German author (1858)

Scott Asheton; drummer (1949)

Kevin Ayers; English singer-songwriter and guitarist (1948)

Angela Bassett; actor (1958)

Bruce Beresford; Australian film director (1940)

Ivan Bilibin; Russian illustrator, artist (1876)

Gloria Blondell; actress (1910)

Ann Blyth; actress and singer (1928)

Frankie Boyle; Scottish comedian (1972)

Ida Browne; Australian geologist and palaeontologist (1900)

Arthur Cayley; English mathematician (1821)

Matt Christopher; author (1910)

Madonna Ciccone; pop singer (1958)

Mae Clarke; actress (1910)

Albert Cohen; Greek-Swiss author and playwright (1895)

Vincenzo Coronelli; Italian cosmographer and cartographer (1650)

Robert Culp; actor (1930)

Jean de La Bruyère; French philosopher (1645)

Bill Evans; jazz pianist (1929)

Suzanne Farrell; ballet dancer (1945)

Ernie Freeman; pianist and bandleader (1922)

Barbara George; R&B singer-songwriter (1942)

Hugo Gernsback; Luxembourger-American author (1884)

Frank Gifford; New York Giants QB, tv sportscaster (1930)

Anita Gillette; actor (1936)

Eydie Gorme; singer (1932)

Georgette Heyer; English author (1902)

Timothy Hutton; actor (1960)

Laura Innes; actress and director (1957)

Eddie Kirkland; singer-songwriter and guitarist (1928)

Reiner Kunze; German poet (1933)

Jules Laforgue; Uruguayan-French poet and author (1860)

Ketty Lester; singer and actress (1934)

Robert Squirrel Lester; soul singer 91942)

T. E. Lawrence; British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist (1888)

Kathie Lee-Gifford; television personality (1953)

Gary Loizzo; guitarist, singer (1945)

Gabriel Lippmann; French physicist (1845)

William Keepers Maxwell, Jr.; novelist, short story writer, and essayist (1908)

George Meany; labor organizer (1894)

Pierre Méchain; French astronomer (1744) Otto Messmer; cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat (1892)

Lois Nettleton, American actres (1927)t

Julie Newmar; actor (1933)

Fess Parker; actor (1924)

Armand J. Piron; violinist, composer, and bandleader (1888)

Taylor Rain; porn actor (1981)

Billy Joe Shaver; singer-songwriter and guitarist 91939)

Bill Spooner; rock musician, singer (1949)

John Standing; English actor (1934)

Wendell Meredith Stanley; biochemist (1904)

James "J.T." Taylor; R&B singer-songwriter (1953)

Nigel Terry; British actor (1948)

Wallace Thurman; author and playwright (1902)

Mal Waldron; pianist and composer (1925)

Lesley Ann Warren; actor (1946)

Eric Weissberg; singer, banjo player, and multi-instrumentalist (1939)