When Legends Gather #271
Salvador Dali and Man Ray
for the series:
When Legends Gather
July 31, 2007
Friends and Family #11
American Mouthpieces #13
Sidney Korshak
for the series:
American Mouthpieces,
Friends and Family
July 28, 2007
The Art of Orthodoxy #2
The Presentation in the Temple
(St. Demetrius' Church; Zhohatyn, Poland)
(15th Century)
for the series:
Art of Orthodoxy
July 27, 2007
July 26, 2007
They Were an Item #4
Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (aka Bosie)
for the series:
They Were an Item
The Art of the Centerfold #33
Nancy Jo Hooper
(Miss February, 1964)
for the series:
Art of the Centerfold
Artists in Action #220
Rufus Thomas shows you how to walk that dog
for the series:
Artists in Action
When Legends Gather #268
David Cregan, Jack Shephard, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Page, John Osborne, Christopher Hampton, Joan Plowright, Peter Gill, Jill Bennett, Victor Henry, Edward Bond, Kenneth Haigh.
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Woodcut Confidential! #7
Fūryū genji yuki no nagame
(A modern version of the Tale of Genji in snow scenes)
(Toyokuni Utagawa; 1853)
for the series:
Woodcut Confidential
July 25, 2007
Artists in Action #219
Scott Walker sings 'Malthilde' on the Dusty Springfield Show in 1967
for the series:
Artists in Action
From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66 #5
Every morning, the Southern runs hundreds of trains into London. Virtually all are crowded. Some are jam-packed. Yet, at the same time, an equal number of trains are running almost empty. They are travelling out of London, against the flow.
for the series:
From the Southern Travellers Handbook for 1965/66
July 24, 2007
July 23, 2007
Relevant Quote #91:
Raymond Chandler Birthday Edition
I'm sitting in that office, playing with a dead fly and in pops this dowdy little item from Manhattan, Kansas, and chisels me down to a shopworn twenty to find her brother. He sounds like a creep but she wants to find him. So with this fortune clasped to my chest, I trundle down to Bay City and the routine I go through is so tired I'm half asleep on my feet. I meet nice people, with and without ice picks in their necks. I leave, and I leave myself wide-open too. Then she comes in and takes the twenty away from me and gives me a kiss and gives it back to me because I didn't do a full day's work.
So I go see Dr. Hambleton, retired (and how) optometrist from El Centro, and meet again the new style in neckwear. And I don't tell the cops. I just frisk the customer's toupee and put on an act. Why? Who am I cutting my throat for this time? A blonde with sexy eyes and too many door keys? A girl from Manhattan, Kansas? I don't know. All I know is that something isn't what it seems and the old tired but always reliable hunch tells me that if the hand is played the way it is dealt the wrong person is going to lose the pot. Is that my business? Well, what is my business? Do I know? Did I ever know? Let's not go into that. You're not human tonight, Marlowe. Maybe I never was or ever will be. Maybe I'm an ectoplasm with a private license. Maybe we all get like this in the cold half-lit world where always the wrong thing happens and never the right.
-- Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister
for the series:
Relevant Quotes
When Legends Gather #267:
Raymond Chandler Birthday Birthday Edition
A congress of Black Mask authors
(yes, that's Dashiell Hammett on the upper right)
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Seminal Image #687:
Raymond Chandler birthday edition
The Big Sleep
(Howard Hawks; 1946)
for the series:
Seminal Images
Artists in Action #217:
Raymond Chandler birthday edition
Raymond Chandler ponders petting his cat Taki.
for the series:
Artists in Action
The Art of Cinema #234:
Raymond Chandler Birthday Edition
The Blue Dahlia
(George Marshall; 1946)
for the series:
Art of Cinema
Before and After #69 (redux):
Raymond Chandler birthday edition
Before
After
for the series:
Before and After
P is for Pulp #17:
Raymond Chandler Birthday Edition
Black Mask
(November, 1935)
for the series:
P is for Pulp
July 22, 2007
They Were Collaborators #330
Bernadette Lafont and Claude Chabrol
(immense thanks to Jeff Duncanson of Filmscreed for this nurturing image)
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
The Art of Jazz #40
Overture to Dawn, Vol. 1
(Erroll Garner)
(Blue Note Records; 1952)
for the series:
Art of Jazz
July 21, 2007
Seminal Image #686
Biruma no tategoto
(The Burmese Harp)
(Kon Ichikawa; 1956)
for the series:
Seminal Images
When Legends Gather #266
Marlene Dietrich, Basil Rathbone, David O. Selznick and Irene Mayer Selznick
for the series:
When Legends Gather
They Were an Item #3
Mike Todd, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher
for the series:
They Were an Item
The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis #7
Sigesh - Apache (1907)
for the series:
The Native-Americana of Edward S. Curtis
When Legends Gather #265
Fred Astaire, George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Stacks o' Wax #20
How to Play Baseball
(Joe E. Brown)
(RCA-Victor Records; 1947)
for the series:
Stacks o' Wax
July 20, 2007
Seminal Image #685
Il Grande silenzio
(The Great Silence)
(Sergio Corbucci; 1968)
for the series:
Seminal Images
They Were Collaborators #329
Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
Friends and Family #10
When Legends Gather #265
Vito Genovese and Salvatore Giuliano
for the series:
Friends and Family,
When Legends Gather
July 19, 2007
El Cine del Oro #35
Seda, Sangre y Sol (Silk, Blood and Sun)
(Fernando A. Rivero; 1942)
for the series:
El Cine Del Oro
The Friends of Milt Hinton #3
Cab Calloway visits some Florida children in 1938.
for the series:
The Friends of Milt Hinton
July 18, 2007
Poets are both clean and warm
And most are far above the norm
Whether here or on the roam
Have a poet in every home! #20
Rainer Maria Rilke
for the series:
Poets are both clean and warm
July 15, 2007
The Art of Jazz #39
Gerry Mulligan and his Ten-tette
(Capitol Records, 1953)
for the series:
Art of Jazz
When Legends Gather #264
Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, David Hockney and Richard Bellamy
for the series:
When Legends Gather
Seminal Image #682
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
(Robert Aldrich; 1962)
for the series:
Seminal Images
Fun at Bohemian Grove #23
The Bohemians get very creepy (creepier than usual, at any rate) (1906)
for the series:
Fun at Bohemian Grove
Artists in Action #216
Eugene O'Neill tries not to watch a rehearsal of The Iceman Cometh
for the series:
Artists in Action
July 12, 2007
R is for Rogovin #1
Communion Family, Mother and Three Children (1972)
for the series:
R is for Rogovin
The Art of the Piano #14
The Kangaroo Hop
(by Melville Morris)
(Jerome H. Remick & Co.; 1915)
for the series:
Art of the Piano
Seminal Image #681
Rozbijemy zabawe
(Break Up the Dance)
(Roman Polanski; 1957)
for the series:
Seminal Images
July 10, 2007
July 08, 2007
Seminal Image #679
Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame
(I Kiss Your Hand, Madame)
(Robert Land; 1929)
for the series:
Seminal Images
They Were Collaborators #328
Quintet of The Hot Club of France
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
The Children of Lewis Hine #4
Miss Mackay's Pageant, Children of Sunshine and Shadow, as presented at
Washington Irving High School (1916)
for the series:
The Children of Lewis Hine
July 07, 2007
They Were Collaborators #327
Members of The Women's Christian Temperence Union
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
July 06, 2007
The Present Day Composer #46
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
for the series:
The Present Day Composer
July 05, 2007
The Friends of Milt Hinton #2
Lester Young and Roy Eldridge in Harlem circa 1958
for the series:
The Friends of Milt Hinton
Collect 'Em All #32
Irene Dunn
No. 17 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes
"Born in Louisville, Kentucky on July 14th, 1904, Irene Dunne was destined for a musical career. After her education at a St. Louis convent, she studied at the Chicago College of Music, graduating in 1926. Taking up a stage career, she became famous in musical comedy; her delightful mezzo-soprano voice also won her a place in the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York. In 1929 she began her screen career, and later was acclaimed as a dramatic actress in Cimarron, with Richard Dix. Among her latest are Behold We Live, This Man is Mine and Stingaree. She is married to Dr. Griffin of New York."
for the series:
Collect 'em All
Renaissance Roundup #2
The Ecstasy of St. Francis
(Francisco de Zurbaran; 1660)
for the series:
Renaissance Roundup
They Were Collaborators #325
Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
July 04, 2007
Another Independence Day! Yaay!!
For those of you in Iraq and Afghanistan (and Guatemala and Cambodia and Colombia and East Timor and Nicaragua and Cuba and . . . ) who don't know nuthin' about our kinda Democracy and keep dragging your heels everytime we try to show you, this here is July the Fourth; the day in 1776 when our forefathers (the ones who owned property, anyway) declared us independent from the tyranny of British colonialism.
Big deal, you say? Well, as this 1819 oil painting by John Trumbull documents, it was a solemn occasion. But that doesn't prevent us in 2007 from celebrating our first birth of freedom . . . there was a second in 1865, and I keep waitin' for the third, but there's no sign of it happening . . . with as much alcohol and fireworks, dammit, as the law lets us get away with.
Happy July 4th ever'body!
for the series:
Celebrations
When Legends Gather #261
Jack Dempsey and Gov. Jimmie Davis
(author of 'You Are My Sunshine' and 'Tom Cat and Pussy Blues')
for the series:
When Legends Gather
They Were Collaborators #324
Mickey Hargitay and Jayne Mansfield
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
Poets are both clean and warm
And most are far above the norm
Whether here or on the roam
Have a poet in every home! #19
Ogden Nash
for the series:
Poets are both clean and warm
So Loathsome I Could Cry #6
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor
for the series:
So Loathsome I Could Cry
July 03, 2007
Tricky: Scenes from a Life #39
Tricky checks out some Highlanders on the Capitol steps (1953)
for the series:
Tricky: Scenes from a Life
July 02, 2007
They Were Collaborators #322
Don Miller, Elmer Layden, Jim Crowley and Harry Stuhldreher
(aka, The Four Horsemen)
for the series:
They Were Collaborators
July 01, 2007
Announcing . . . Guest Contributor Week!!
Come gather 'round, childrens, wherever you roam . . .
If the good Lord is willing and the creek don't rise, beginning Monday, August 6, we here at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger . . . will be following the time-honored tradition of the proverbial rat race by leaving behind the hectic toil of our daily lives and going on a week's vacation. God knows we knock ourselves silly the other 51 weeks of the year, dragging them what visits us to, fro, across, up, down and around every area of time, tide and culture our perfervid brains can conjure, so while we're resting our wearied bones, we'll turn to you to do the job.
All of which is just a protracted way of announcing . . . Guest Contributor Week!!
(insert fanfare here)
Yes that's right, fans. Guest Contributor Week. Seven whole days wherein all content . . . all images, all text and all things Charlie Parker . . . will be provided by you, our visitors. Some of you may have noticed from time to time we're wont to post material sent in over the transom, as it were, by friends, fans and full-throttle aesthetes who get what we're doing. It's our hope that, between now and August, we can gather enough such contributions to make a full week of it.
So if you've never sent us an entry, or if you've sent them in the past, or if you only just thought of it upon seeing this notice, here's your opportunity to participate in a true communal blogospheric event . . . with full credit an' everything! Contributors can send in entries for any series they wish, as many entries as they wish (consult the sidebar), provide whatever text they like; the whole shot. All I'll do is post them (what, you really thought I was going on vacation? Moi??). Everyone is welcome (truly) to toss their goods into the pot. I can't promise I'll post everything we receive, but unless we get images we've already run, the chances are better than likely they will blossom in these pages.
All you need do is send your contributions (images, text, etc.) to our new and cleverly-named email address:
gunslingerbird@gmail.com
And if you have any questions, shoot them my way (tomsutpen@gmail.com) and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
The ball, now, is in your court!
for the series:
Announcements
Artists in Action #209
Rita Hayworth auditions for the role of Saraghina in Fellini's 8½
for the series:
Artists in Action
Friends and Family #8
Johnny Stompanato, his famous flame and her daughter
for the series:
Friends and Family
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