The Art of War #5

An Ongoing Series of Cultural and Personal Observations;
by Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson and Kimberly Lindbergs

Today's Adventure: Adolphe Menjou outlines the International Communist Conspiracy
to Stanley Kubrick on the set of Paths of Glory (1957)

One of Four Pedlars Who Slept in the Cellar of 11 Ludlow Street Rear (1892)

Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle . . .
(Two or Three Things I Know About Her)
(Jean-Luc Godard; 1967)

Mr. Hyde, Fu Manchu, Phantom of the Opera and Frankenstein's Monster
in Have You Got Any Castles?
(Frank Tashlin, Warner Bros., 1938)

La Notte
(The Night)
(Michelangelo Antonioni; 1961)
(mucho, mucho thanks to Claudio for this image)

Lum & Abner, Amos & Andy, and Laurel & Hardy
(Chet Lauck, Norris Goff, Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll, Stan Laurel, and Oliver Hardy)

Rosa Parks is arrested for civil disobedience for refusing to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery, Ala. in 1956.
Rosa Parks: 1913-2005
this was posted by swac
for the series:
An Illustrated History of Race Relations in America

"Black Panthers protect Black children."
this was posted by Tom Sutpen
for the series:
From the Black Panther Coloring Book

Shirley Horn, one of the finer piano-playing chanteuses in memory, has passed at the age of 71.
Here is an appreciation from today's New York Times.

"Huey P. Newton, leader of the Black Panther Party, organized the Black brothers to defend their families."
this was posted by Tom Sutpen
for the series:
From the Black Panther Coloring Book

Michelangelo Antonioni and Tonino Guerra
(vast and copious thanks to Claudio for this image)

Jimmy Lee Swaggart
this was posted by Tom Sutpen
for the series:
Great Con Artists of the 20th Century

Leonard Bernstein and Leif Garrett
(many, many thanks to Martin Roa for this over-the-transom submission)

August Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson and Fences, has died from liver Cancer at the age of 60; leaving a sparsely populated field of genuinely great playwrights that much more empty.
Here's an appreciation from today's New York Times by Charles Isherwood.