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[gunterfan1992]

Y’all, it’s real! The Adventure Time edited book I worked on for McFarland & Co. is REAL!

[bestiarium]

The Alû [Babylonian, Mesopotamian mythology]

In ancient Babylon, belief in possessing demons or spirits was not uncommon, and these entities were often used to explain symptoms or diseases. Often, specific demons were blamed for pains and illnesses of specific body parts: the ‘Utukku’ demon was associated with the human neck, the ‘Gallu’ usually attacked hands, and the evil invisible ‘Alû’ demon was more associated with the chest.

When an Alû possessed someone, the victim would often become very warm (I assume this refers to a fever) and fall unconscious while their eyes remain open, as if fixating on something. This creature was associated with sleep (usually attacking sleeping victims), and their victims would lose the ability to speak during possession. Furthermore, being possessed by one of these beings would make people hear a ringing noise and lose strength in their limbs. The next morning, when the victim awoke, they felt weak and drained of energy.

If you have ever experienced sleep paralysis, these symptoms might sound familiar. Indeed, it is thought that the story of the Alû arose as a way to explain sleep paralysis. Because of this ‘draining’ property, I have found that these creatures are sometimes associated with vampires today.

While these are the specific symptoms for the Alû demon, the term was also used as a general word for possessing demons and was sometimes used interchangeably with ‘Utukku’.

Sources: Finkel, I. L. and Geller, M. J., 2007, Disease in Babylonia, BRILL, 226 pp. Bane, T., 2014, Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures, McFarland, 416 pp. Jastrow, M., 1893, The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Handbooks on the History of Religions Volume II, Ginn & Company, 782 pp. (image source: ‘Sleep Paralysis Demon’ by Ddraw on Freepik)

[theliterarywolf]

Can I have an explanation as to what is the Fyre Festival(?) I don't know if I'm too young or not American enough to know ^^''

Long story short, watch this

Short story long and I mean long, so a good portion in will have a Read More break for the sake of people's dashboards:

We have a trust-fund baby by the name of Billy McFarland. Full-on too much allowance and money from mommy and daddy and nowhere near enough brains to use it.

Billy calls himself making a black card (credit cards for obnoxiously wealthy people) company called Magnises where the premise is basically

Billy: 'Why, yes, this is a money-sink of what is already a money-sink, but with this you get amazing deals on concerts and meeting celebrities~!'

Anyone dumb enough to sign up: 'Um... Okay, at least that last part sounds good. How does it work?'

Billy: 'That's the neat part! IT DOESN'T!'

So anyone would think 'okay, you can't even make something as simple as a customized credit card work, maybe you should stay away from business and investments for a bit'. Not Billy! Because during some big party or whatever, he happened to meet the famous (to some people) rapper Ja Rule! And they got to talking and decided 'why don't we throw a music festival with high-profile acts in the Bahamas?!'

So they actually flew out to Great Exuma with a bunch of influencer thots and Instagram models and lived it up to the fullest. Why? So they could get promo material for a festival that literally didn't even exist.

So determined were they to get this footage that when one model expressed discomfort at getting into a swimming pool (it was getting late and she was cold), Ja Rule told her to, quote, 'Get your ass in the damn pool'.

So they got this footage and started promoting online. And they sold out! Awesome, right? For them to see how much interest they got had to mean that they realized they needed to get infrastructure and hospitality squared away, right?

Ha ha -- WRONG.

Because even other people who were employed by Billy and Ja Rule were telling them, begging them 'we need at least 2 years to pull off something like this'.

But remember! Billy McFarland has horrific denial issues! So he kept insisting that they could make it happen! Also, something something -- taking out a bunch of short-term loans that he couldn't afford to default on -- something.

So they go full steam ahead!

...By not paying the local laborers they hired, the restaurant-owner they hired, the staff they hired--

But, traloo-traley! They day eventually arrives! Excited festival-goers are hopping on their flights to the Bahamas, expecting the highest luxury that their $1200 tickets could pay for.

By the way, is it... too late to mention that tickets only ranged from $500 to $1200? For a two week music festival? With all amenities included? IN THE FUCKING BAHAMAS?!

Festival-goers step out of the airport and are directed onto a school bus. ...Okay. Where they are then driven to a pretty miserable looking beach. ...Okay. Where they see a swathe of disaster-relief tents.

Welcome to Fyre Festival*!

*Note: The Festival barely ended up lasting two days from a combination of festival-goers seeing the shitshow, trying to leave but not having any spending money (because the Festival was advertised as cashless), and eventually being rounded up by the Bahamian Government and taken back to the airport.

Also: In addition to the festival-goers being promised premium accommodations that turned out to be those disaster-relief tents, they were promised fine dining which those who arrived early got... At the expense of the restaurant owner who was never paid... But the rest were granted the boon of withered salad greens and 'sandwiches' made of limp bread and Government-Approved Cheese-Product (TM).

And all of this doesn't even go into the rumors of wild dog attacks, festival-goers attacking and stealing supplies from each other, Billy asking one of the event-planners, an elderly gentleman who was supposedly a long-time friend of his, to go to the head of Bahamian Customs and offer to suck his dick so they could import some drinking water, and of course Billy's scumbag denial about anything going wrong, about needing to pay his employees in the aftermath, or his eventual jail-time.

But this already got so long so, if anyone wants me to elaborate on anything else, it would have to be in response to a second ask.

[ourpickwickclub]

Wes works for both his company Press On Publicity and EBM. From EBM website: “Vause founded Press On Publicity, a boutique PR company that manages the public relations for artists including Blake Shelton and Elle King. Vause also collaborates with PR entrepreneur and executive, Ebie McFarland.” Ebie is the owner of EBM.

Blake is with Press On Publicity and ML is with EBM. Wes works for both Blake and ML.

“Vause has been instrumental in the success of Miranda Lambert.”

Unfortunately, I don’t see anything to indicate B left Wes.

Ugh.

- B

[tokujenny]

An (Incomplete) List of Critical and Academic Texts relating to Tokusatsu

I'm going to use this blog to document my own study of the genre along with all the memes and art I come across along the way, so I'm including a sort of bibliography that I can refer back to, which will also helpfully be useful to other people interested in a more academic side to Tokusatsu and Kaiju cinema. Everything will be formatted in MHRA bibliography style.

Allison, Anne, and Gary S. Cross. 2006. Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination (University of California Press)

Barr, Jason. 2016. The Kaiju Film: A Critical Study of Cinema's Biggest Monsters (McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers)

England, Norman. 2021. Behind the Kaiju Curtain: A Journey onto Japan's Biggest Film Sets (Awai Books)

LeMay, John, J. D. Lees, and Ted Johnson. 2017. The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: The Lost Films (Bicep Books)

LeMay, John, Ted Johnson, and David McRobie. 2020. The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: Heisei Completion 1989-2019 (Bicep Books)

LeMay, John, Ted Johnson, and Neil Riebe. 2020. The Big Book of Japanese Giant Monster Movies: Showa Completion 1954-1989 (Bicep Books)

Tsutsui, William M. 2007. Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (Palgrave Macmillan)

This list will be pinned on this blog for the foreseeable future and edited to include any new entries I come across. Suggestions are welcomed and encouraged!

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

With her black bobbed hair and spit curls, Hill started as a pre-teen Sennett girl and grew into a talented comedienne, playing sultry vamps, spunky flappers, bespectacled plain Janes and leading ladies during the Pathé era. She returned in 1929 to appear as Andy Clyde's daughter in most of that year's talkie releases, having appeared in well over 60 Mack Sennett comedies during a 10 year period.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, pp. 514~516

( The Pride of Pikeville / Flirty Four-Flushers / Hoboken to Hollywood / Ice Cold Cocos / A Rainy Knight / His Marriage Wow / Galloping Bungalows / Yukon Jake )

[archive-of-fan-owned]

fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century: Explained

From my library scavenger hunt challenge in Kutztown University that I have detailed in my most recent post, I have found a very promising book to gather research from for my topic: fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century. After I found this book, I was very excited to read it, not just for the purposes of doing research on it for this blog, but because I was genuinely interested in learning more about fan culture and fan communities, a subject I am heavily involved in personally. I absolutely devoured this book over my school's spring break and it gave me a newfound love for fans and fandoms everywhere and it taught me so much more about the fan community, a community I am so proud to be a part of.

fan CULTure: Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century is an anthology, meaning it is a collection of essays written by several different authors. The editors are Kristin M. Barton and Jonathan Malcolm Lampley, it was published in 2014 by McFarland & Company, Inc. The book is divided into three sections, each with different focus points. Section 1 is about fan productions, section 2 is on social media, and section 3 discusses fan-influenced content. This book delves into the different facets of the world of fandoms and what it means to be a fan. It has a little bit of everything relating to the topic of "fan" which is why I was so excited to have found this treasure of a book.

My favorite essay from this book is "Can't Stop the Sequel- How Serenity Inspired Browncoats: Redemption Is Changing the Future of Fan Films" by Kristin M. Barton. I thought that this was a particularly insightful text, it analyzed how the production of fan films can keep TV shows alive as it demonstrates demand from an audience. This means that fans no longer just consume media, but they are active participants with real agency in the entertainment sphere. It shows the power of fans coming together and building communities, how there are strength in numbers and a fellowship between one fan to another. This essay demonstrated that fans are a driving force within popular culture today and really establishes what a fan's place in the world could be in a broader context, how a fan is not just one person but part of larger whole.

Overall, the book explains how fans take the course of media into their own hands and shape how entertainment is made in popular culture by not being passive consumers. Instead, they are active consumers that show what kind of content they want to see through fan works such as fan films and fan fictions, in turn this prompts the studios and creators to cater to them because of their purchasing power and where fans choose to spend their money. I have also learned how fans of the past have paved the way for fans of today. There has been an evolution of fandoms throughout time which was demonstrated with how the Dark Shadows fandom continued growing from a soap opera show in the late 1960s to a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp in 2012. It was even discussed how Star Wars could technically be a fan film because George Lucas's space opera was inspired by Flash Gordon and the movies of Akira Kurosawa. It was a highly informative read about the complex structures of fan communities, the book even analyzed what "anti-fan fiction" is, which is the writings of individuals that actively dislike the books or films so much that they seek to degrade the characters of a franchise in various and sundry ways. There are so many intricacies of fandom culture that I had never known before reading this book; this is the perfect book for people who want to immerse themselves in an in-depth analysis of popular culture.

The purpose of this book is to inform the reader about the social complexities about fan communities in popular culture, and while I believe the target audience is mostly other academic researchers, I think this book can be enjoyed by anyone wanting get a deep dive on the nature of fans and other niche subcultures in mass media. It is a contribution to this field of social research as it presents a substantial amount of information on various topics within the discipline. The way the book is organized into sections of different groups of essays focusing on a specific concept allows the reader to understand the different topics that make up what fan culture is.

From a very early age, fan communities have been so often dismissed as "nerds" or "geeks" but this book attests that fans are just what makes this world go round.

[myedwardianman]

Thelma Percy (real bride), Jimmie Adams (suitor 1), Sid Smith (suitor 2), Frank Hayes (a maid who wants to marry suitor 1) in High and Dry (1920, Jack White)

The director Jack White(center)'s childhood days in Fatty Joins the Force (1913)

A neighborhood kid from Edendale, White appeared in a couple of 1913-14 Keystones (such as the boy who gives Fatty Arbuckle a pie in the face in Fatty Joins the Force). White also briefly worked the Sennett switchboard, but was fired for putting a call through to Ford Sterling that lured the star comedian to another lot. White wound up producing comedies for Educational in the 1920s that competed with Sennett's.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, p.597

[gunterfan1992]

My new edited book: “Analyzing ‘Adventure Time‘”!

Hey, did you know that I edited a scholarly book about Adventure Time? Yup, that’s right, it’s called Analyzing Adventure Time, and it features over a dozen scholarly essays about the one cartoon about that kid and the dog. The book will be coming out this summer from McFarland & Co! Here’s the cover:

I’m pretty psyched about the project in general, but it’s doubly-cool that this book will be a part of McFarland’s “Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy” series! Either way, if you’re interested, you can pre-order a copy here.

And here’s the table of contents + contributors for those who are interested:

Introduction (Paul A. Thomas)

Prelude: "The Three Levels of Adventure Time" (Paul A. Thomas)

"Be More Than the Binary: Experiencing Queer Subjectivity with BMO" (Olivia M. Vogt)

"From Censorship to 'Obsidian': A Critical and Historical Look at 'Bubbline'" (Mage Hadley)

"Rainbows and Unicorns: The Influence of Bubbline on Apocalyptic Film and Animation" (Steven Holmes)

"'Get your hero on, dude!' Charting Jake’s Growth as a Positive Masculine Role Model" (Bridget M. Blodgett and Anastasia Salter)

"Yellow Voices and Rainbow Bodies: Accent, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Representation in Adventure Time" (Camille Chane)

"Mikhail Bakhtin in the Land of Ooo: The Carnivalesque, Heteroglossia, and the Fun That Never Ends" (Aaron Kerner and Birdy Wei-Ting Hung)

"'And we will happen again and again': Adventure Time and the Sisyphean Struggle" (Sequoia Stone)

"What Time Is It? Postmodernity! Postmodern Praxis in Adventure Time" (Jenine Oosthuizen)

"Making a New Meaning for Man in The Land of OOO: Object-Oriented Ontology, the NonHuman, and Difference in Distant Lands" (Al Valentín)

"Too Close for Comfort: On Finn the Human and Princess Bubblegum’s Relationship" (Zhi Hwee Goh)

"Of Lacan and Lemons: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Season Six’s 'The Mountain'" (Paul A. Thomas)

"Trauma and the Body in Adventure Time" (Steven Kielich)

"The Japanese Spirit and Aesthetic in Western Animation: The Influence of Anime on Adventure Time" (Kendra N. Sheehan

"'Bad Jubies': Giving Value to the Intangible in Artistic Professions" (Catalina Millán Scheiding)

Note that this is different work from Exploring the Land of Ooo... that work is going to be reissued this year by the University Press of Mississippi, though, so stay tuned for news about that as well!

[bestiarium]

The Ala demon and Ardat Lili [Babylonian mythology; Mesopotamian mythology]

Hailing from ancient Mesopotamian stories, the Ala was described as a floating, amorphous cloud, and like many other evil entities, it was mainly active at night. This evil, cloud-like monster would stalk the streets of human settlements in search for a victim. After choosing someone to haunt, it would enter their house without difficulty and envelop the sleeping victim. Those who have been attacked by these creatures tend to have difficulty falling asleep, often lose their appetite and also develop general depression.

But the Ala demon also had a very particular effect on its victims: it usually attacked sleeping men and would cause them to ejaculate in their sleep. As such, it is likely that the myth of the Ala arose as a way to explain wet dreams. It’s actually not alone in that regard: in Babylonian mythology, the Ardat Lili – which means ‘maiden of the night’ – was another demon or creature that caused sleeping men to ejaculate. These female spirits would approach and arouse men at night. They were also known to ‘satisfy themselves’ with sleeping men, thus explaining the wet spot in their bed.

Supposedly (though I am not entirely certain about this), the Ardat Lili were the undead ghosts of human women who died as virgins. Since they never had the opportunity to experience sex during their lifetime, they would haunt the world of the living and seek out sleeping men.

Sources: Bane, T., 2014, Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures, McFarland, 416 pp. Jastrow, M., 1893, The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, Handbooks on the History of Religions Volume II, Ginn & Company, 782 pp. Pick, D. and Roper, L., 2004, Dreams and History: the interpretation of dreams from Ancient Greece to modern psychoanalysis, 289 pp. Citing from ‘Geller, M., 1997, Freud, Magic and Mesopotamia: How the Magic Works, Folklore, 108, p.3’ (image 1: ‘Infernal Apparition’ by Paul Lormier, 1848. This image is often associated with the Ardat Lili spirits but remember it was drawn much later) (image source 2: ‘air elemental’ by SarahMillerCreations on Deviantart. I thought it fit the description of an evil, cloud-like entity)

[lincolngoldfinch1]

Austin TX Tourist Attractions And Events To Check Out

Austin TX has become one of the most exciting capital cities in the United States, offering the right balance of fun and serenity. However, Austin has more to showcase than just concerts and festivals. 

Even the most mundane of days in Austin is never dull. Adventurers of all kinds will find celebrations in Austin that will make for a bucket-list tourist attraction. Continue reading for more information on these Austin celebrations to make your experience delightful and entertaining.

Rodeo

Rodeo Austin is the place to go for adrenaline junkies searching for something different. Aside from the rodeo, which highlights some of the world's finest pro riders, fans will love the country fair, which includes a carnival, Wild West Show, and pig races.

Rodeo is Texas' official sport, and you might want to check it out while in town. An annual stock exhibition is another essential part of the Rodeo. Participants come from around the country to show off their livestock and horses in Austin TX. It would not be Austin without some live entertainment, so anticipate celebrating with some original tracks while you're down for the Rodeo.

Texas Book Festival

Texans had long wished for a celebration to honor the state's long literary culture. The vision became a reality in late 1995, thanks to the support of Laura Bush, a longtime librarian and keen supporter of reading.

A task force came together to plan the festival, with Mrs. Bush serving as Honorary Chair. The dream progressively crystallized. In a matter of years, the Texas Book Festival had established itself as one of the state's prestigious literary events.

The Texas Book Festival is more than simply a festivities of writings and Texas authors; it also serves as a tribute to the delights of reading and a benefit for Lone Star State's libraries. The Texas Book Festival has organized over 2000 writers in its relatively brief existence.

ATX Television Festival

Emily Gipson and Caitlin McFarland established ATX TV as an annual celebration in June 2012. It has grown into a year-round activity focused on programming and interactions. 

ATX Television Festival remains to draw people in the industry and enthusiasts to its four-day June festival, which includes a variety of techs, premiere screenings, and other finds.

Anyone can attend the ATX Television Festival in Austin TX to enjoy and discover more on mainstream tv. The festival highlights its iconic medium, television, and runs throughout this innovation's historical events, advancement, and potential. 

Austin Design Week

In November, Austin Design Week (ADW) invites together creatives, designers, companies, and institutes to showcase the best of Austin design. Free talks and dialogue, panels, installations, master classes, activities, studio visits, and interactions happen during the event.

Every year, ADW conducts all of its activities around a concept emphasizing design's value in developing communities and the general public. Their interpretation of design is broad, encompassing visual arts like digital and graphic design, architecture, digital design, fashion, and other disciplines. 

Pecan Street Festival

The festival is an arts celebration that occurs twice yearly in Austin's Sixth Street Historic District in the city center—held during the first and last weekends in May and September.

It draws numerous national and local artisans who sell unique handcrafted masterpieces in various mediums. Some are made of metal, wood, fiber, clay, leather, glass, and stone, as well as an upcycled raw material of various types.

The festival includes a wide range of skilled artisans such as metal and woodworkers, sculptors, leatherworkers, glass blowers, and masons. They also showcase artists, jewelry and textile designers, visual artists, and other creatives. You can also find performers, magicians, local tastes and cuisines, and interactive experiences at the celebration.

The city's exciting events and rich cultural celebrations combine with the city's consistently beautiful weather, creating a Texas radiance out across the city into the evening. This welcoming, diverse community welcomes creative types and tourists alike.

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[ourpickwickclub]

I was just wondering. Is Wes Vause still Blake’s publicist? He left WMN and started his own company in 2022 with Blake as his main client. I also remember reading he signed Elle King. But I happened upon a December 2023 press release from Caesars announcing mls last shows and at the bottom is said regarding ml contact Ebie McFarland/Wes Vause. When you look up Ebies company they represent a lot of country artists. Wes is listed as one of their employees. Blake and Wes worked together a longtime. You would think if they parted that would be announced. But I can’t find anything about it. Does anyone else know?

I don’t know.

- B

[kayahforde-cs]

Doing some further reading into Miyazaki and his practice, I read the chapter ‘Spirited Away’ in Cavallaro’s book ‘The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki’. In this chapter, I picked up on some of Miyazaki’s techniques in achieving believable characters and amazing world-building that enables the audience to feel immersed in the fictional world in the movies. I used this reading as more of a practical reading to enhance my animation in my graphic media response.

Cavallaro picks up on how Miyazaki essentially immerses himself into the character, and tries to adopt the desired mannerisms and behaviours of his characters: “The characters are born from repetition, from repeatedly thinking about them. […] I become the character myself and as the character I visit the locations of the story’ (Cavallaro quotes Miyazaki, 2001, p. 134). I think this approach is extremely effective as one will be able to understand through and through how their character operates, how they will respond and react in different scenarios. Furthermore, it gives one's character a chance to be believable and likeable (or unlikeable, depending on their role in the story). I have - and am currently trying to - use this method for my own characters in my animation. Although it is difficult to put oneself in another;’s shoes, I think this method will allow me to achieve a type of animation that I have only dreamed of making.

Adding onto this method, Miyazaki also takes direct inspiration from real life people, who he studies closely, which allows him to create characters with ‘fully rounded personalities’ (p. 137). For example, Cavallaro states that the inspiration for Chihiro’s mother in ‘Spirited Away’ was a Ghibli employee, and for Chihiro herself, she was created through Miyazaki observing one of his best friends’ daughters. I think it is important for one to have a direct inspiration source when making characters for an animated film or show (even a live action one!). It is almost like constantly drawing from observation - it is difficult to conjure up an image that makes sense from imagination, so it is best to create images from real life references. The same principle applies. However, a setback from this, of course, is finding the perfect person that encapsulates one’s character, and having access to their presence all the time.

Overall, I think this was an interesting read, and I am aiming to use Miyazaki’s methods for character building for my own animation. I want to make my practical response as immersive as possible, and make my characters as believable and likeable as I can make them.

Bibliography

Cavallaro, D. (2006) The Anime Art of Hayao Miyazaki. North Carolina: McFarland & Company.

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

A Submarine Pirate (1915) / Willful Ambrose (1915) / Bombs! (1916) / The Feathered Nest (1916) / Her Torpedoed Love (1917) / Hearts and Flowers (1919) / Down on the Farm (1920)

From her Keystone debut in 1915 to her last First National comedy in 1922, Fazenda was one of Sennett's top comedy stars—appearing in nearly 60 Sennett shorts and features during that time.

Fazenda became familiar audiences as the hayseed girl who was forever falling prey to the shifty city slicker or evil mortgage holder, with her spit curl, ribbon-tied pigtails and calico dress. Just as often, she was the hard-working blue-collar girl who would leave her dreary job as a waitress or maid to collect a healthy inheritance—pursued by the usual assortment of Sennett fortune hunters. With hazel eyes and light brown hair, Fazenda could just as easily put on a blonde wig and play attractive, vampish roles.

Born in Lafayette, Indiana, the daughter of a Mexican-born grocer and American-born mother, Fazenda's family moved to LA by 1900—where she attended Los Angeles High School and St. Mary's Convent. She debuted in dramatic stock with Miss Del Valle in LA and later appeared with Virginia Brissac. Louise got her start in films at Universal in 1912 under the direction of Wilfred Lucas, but by 1913 was appearing alongside Max Asher, Harry McCoy, Bobby Vernon, Gale Henry, Lee Morris, Billy Franey, Heinie Conklin and the other featured players in Universal's Joker Comedies.

When her Sennett contract ended in Sep 1920, Fazenda joined Special Pictures Corp. briefly in late 1920; then she appeared in a trio of California Producers Corp.'s Punch Comedies (1921) co-starring Chester Conklin and John Henry Jr. That came before a brief return to Sennett for a couple of appearances during 1921-22. Fazenda starred in some of Jack White's Mermaid Comedies (1923-24) before settling into roles in features. With the coming of sound, Louise returned to shorts for Christie (1929) and Darmour (1930). She continued with feature support in films. Fazenda found a second home at Warner Brothers, becoming a familiar character face in musicals.

On March 7, 1919, Fazenda married Sennett director Noel M. Smith, to whom she'd been engaged since 1917; they separated on August 14, 1923, and divorced on August 1, 1926. On November 24, 1927 she married Warner Bros. publicity director Hal B. Wallis, soon to became Warners' studio manager and then a long-time film producer. Fazenda retired from the screen in 1939, and remained married to Wallis until her death at 66 in Beverly Hills of a cerebral hemorrhage, leaving Wallis and son Brent. She is interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California.

-Walker, B.E., 2010, Mack Sennett's Fun Factory, McFarland&Company, Inc., Publishers, pp. 502~504

[nimixo]

Beyond Buzzwords: 3 Powerful Ways Your Actions Define Your Brand

It’s important to realize that brand is much more than a logo and slogan. A brand is who your company is: how you function and make decisions. -Joanna McFarland, Co-founder of HopSkipDrive

#brandauthenticity #BeyondTheLogo #actionspeakslouder #culturematters #CustomerLove #employerbranding #MeaningfulImpact #Nimixo #MotivationalQuotes #motivationfriday