The Art of Cinema #387
Apache
(Robert Aldrich; 1954)
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Art of Cinema
April 30, 2009
April 29, 2009
Great Moments in Moxie #20
Into the 1940s, Coca Cola begins to tower over Moxie, as shown in Lowell, Mass. in January, 1941.
(Thanks to the fine folks at the Shorpy Photo Archive for the use of this image, and a couple of others coming up in the series. You can see a high-res version of the photo here.)
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Great Moments in Moxie
The Friends of Milt Hinton #21
Ron Carter
(New York City, 1973)
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The Friends of Milt Hinton
When Legends Gather #523
Pat Boone, Sal Mineo and Bobby Darin find their way to the stage.
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When Legends Gather
April 28, 2009
Welcome to Show Business! #23
Way Out West
(Mae West)
(Tower Records; 1966)
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Welcome to Show Business
April 27, 2009
They Were Collaborators #569
Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams, Tony Hancock, Hattie Jacques and Sid James
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They Were Collaborators
April 26, 2009
The Art of Pop #36
Music, Martinis and Memories
(The Jackie Gleason Orchestra)
(Capitol Records; 1954)
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Art of Pop
April 25, 2009
The Golden Age of Prurience #56
True Police Yearbook
(vol. 1, #6; June, 1957)
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The Golden Age of Prurience
Artists and Animals #21
Child prodigy Glenn Gould and his well-tempered tail-wagger
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Artists and Animals
April 24, 2009
Norman Rockwell Saved from Drowning #5
The Marriage License (1955)
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Norman Rockwell Saved from Drowning
Aftermath: U.S.A. #8
Original Caption:
New York -- Candidates for the title of "Miss New York State" beam a half dozen ivory smiles at you from the top of a Jaguar D at the International Automobile Show in New York's Coliseum. Even the exotic car itself seems pop-eyed with admiration. From left to right the gals are Alice Heft, Long Island; Suzanne Schuster, Schenectady, N.Y.; Lael Jackson, N.Y.C.; Rita Hayes, N.Y.C.; Carol Ann Farrel, Albany, N.Y., and Carol Ann Westordorf, Long Island. (1956)
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Aftermath: U.S.A.
April 23, 2009
Annals of Crime #66
Original Caption:
Death in a Bronx Gutter.
New York -- While stunned spectators look on, an unidentified policeman is shown making notes over the body of a man identified as Eugene Giannini, 42, a Bronx hoodlum with a long police record. The body was found in the gutter in front of 221 East 107th Street. He had been shot in the back of the head and police think the body was dumped into the street from an automobile. Investigating a report that shots had been heard earlier in quarters of the Jefferson Major Athletic Club, police report that blood was found on the floor there during a subsequent investigation. (1952)
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Annals of Crime
The Heretofore Unmentioned #72
Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris (aka Le Corbusier)
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Heretofore Unmentioned
Signs and Meaning in Cinema #24
Meaning: Artists and Models
(Frank Tashlin; 1955)
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Signs and Meaning in Cinema
When Legends Gather #519
Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein and Serge Koussevitzky
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When Legends Gather
April 22, 2009
The Art of the Panel: Marvel #4
from Born to be Unloved?
(by Stan Lee, Gene Colan and Dick Ayers)
(My Love #8; November, 1970)
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Art of the Panel: Marvel
They Were Collaborators #567
Malcolm McDowell and Stanley Kubrick
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They Were Collaborators
April 21, 2009
The Art of the Girlie Mag #9
Tonight
(Vol. 1, #2; September, 1959)
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Art of the Girlie Mag
The Golden Age of Publicity #23
Original Caption:
London -- Actress Katharine Hepburn grits her teeth and bares her claws in the direction of screen queen Elizabeth Taylor, as actor Montgomery Clift and director Joseph L. Mankiewicz become locked in apparent mortal combat during what seems to be a free-for-all at London's Shepperton studios. The battle, which was impromptu, took place on the set of Columbia's 'Suddenly, Last Summer,' the recently completed Tennessee Williams screenplay. (1959)
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The Golden Age of Publicity
April 20, 2009
J.G. Ballard Dead at 78
We deeply regret having to report that J. G. Ballard, the renowned British writer and master of dystopian fiction, has left this earth at age 78.
Further reading:
Simon Sellars at Ballardian
The Times Obit
The Guardian Obit
The Telegraph Obit
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Obits
The Art of the Panel: EC #14
from By the Dawn's Early Light
(by Al Feldstein and Jack Davis)
(Tales from the Crypt #42; Jun-Jul, 1954)
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Art of the Panel: EC
This Sporting Life #5
Original Caption:
Pretty as a Pitcher.
New York -- A figure familiar to Basketball fans, Wilt 'The Stilt' Chamberlain, stoops to conquer as he prepares to display his skill on the Baseball diamond. The pitcher, whose long, lovely legs frame the hoop star, is Carol Hodecker. The cute blonde catcher is Charlotte Kirsten, who came to the U. S., from West Berlin six years ago. Both gals are 'Bunnies' (hostesses) from the Playboy Club. Wilt met them as they were warming up in a Central Park field for a game with show girls from a Broadway musical in the Broadway Show League series. Wilt never had such glamorous opponents on the basketball court! He now plays with the San Francisco Warriors. (1963)
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This Sporting Life
Aftermath: U.S.A. #7
Original Caption:
Well Guarded
New York -- Sgt. Barney Arluck holds two bags containing $50,000, which he won on NBC-TV's Big Surprise program tonight, under the watchful eyes of three policemen assigned to protect him in an armored car. Sgt. Arluck who is a policeman-lawyer, missed his chance to win $100,000 when he was stumped by a question prepared by U. S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. (1955)
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Aftermath: U.S.A.
April 19, 2009
Tricky: Scenes from a Life #81
Tricky fills in for Van Cliburn (1963)
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Tricky: Scenes from a Life
April 18, 2009
Annals of Crime #65
Original Caption:
Mobile -- Mrs. Rhonda Bell Martin, 49 year old waitress, is shown shortly after her arrest on charges of killing one of her former husbands, Claude Martin. Later, on being taken to Montgomery, Alabama, Mrs. Martin is said by police to have admitted killing two of her five former husbands, three children and her mother with arsenic poisoning. The man at right is unidentified. Authorities said she also admitted poisoning Ronald Martin, her former stepson and now her fifth husband. Martin is in a Biloxi, Mississippi, hospital, paralyzed from the waist down by arsenic poisoning. (1956)
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Annals of Crime
April 17, 2009
The Golden Age of Prurience #55
Television Tramp
(by Evans McKnight)
(Fiesta Novels; 1952)
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The Golden Age of Prurience
Signs and Meaning in Cinema #23
Signs: Putney Swope
(Robert Downey; 1969)
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Signs and Meaning in Cinema
April 16, 2009
Sir Clement Freud dies at 84
They Were Collaborators # 565
Sir Clement Freud; Broadcaster, politician, chef, writer, seen here top left amongst L to R, Ian Messiter (creator of 'Just a Minute') and the original participants, Derek Nimmo, Kenneth Williams and long time host Nicholas Parsons has died today at 84 years old. If you don't know who he is read about him here. 'Just a Minute' is still one of the best shows on Radio here in the UK and he will be sorely missed by many listeners.
Read this from The Times.
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Obits,
They Were Collaborators
They Were Collaborators #564
Lloyd Nolan, Charles Laughton, Tyrone Power, Raymond Massey, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Dick Powell and Henry Fonda
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They Were Collaborators
Adventures in American Filmmaking #118
Today's Adventure: At an MGM rehearsal facility during the production of Elvis: That's the Way It Is, Denis Sanders explains the finer points of documentary filmmaking technique to an out-to-lunch Elvis Presley, while TCB stalwarts James Burton and John Wilkinson wait patiently (1969)
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Adventures in American Filmmaking
Artists and Animals #20
Brendan Behan and the latest in carnivorous reptilian neckwear
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Artists and Animals
April 15, 2009
Peter Rogers Dead at 95
Those who regularly visit this blog may have noticed that, as hopeless anglophiles, we here at If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger . . . firmly believe that the so-called 'Carry On' series represents a critical symbol of Britain's cultural might in the latter half of the 20th century; no less critical than Donald McGill postcards, or sledgehammer jokes about the Profumo affair.
With that in mind, it is with heavy heart that we report to you the passing of Peter Rogers, producer of all thirty-one features in that wondrous canon, here photographed with a recidivist 'Carry On' cast member (one who, in his published diaries, had little that was good to say about his producer . . . or anyone else, for that matter). His doggedness got him (and us) through two full decades of those pictures; his penuriousness gave them their bright and tatty look (no small part of their charm). He was 95.
As if to highlight the degree to which brutes and philistines have assumed control over our cultural lives, there is not a single notice of this passing that I can find to which we can link; save for one: A rote Obit of fewer lines than this, on something called Chortle: The UK Comedy Guide.
Terrific.
Update (4/15): A for-real (and very informative) Obit on Peter Rogers has at last surfaced!
From today's Telegraph
(thanks to Steve for the heads-up)
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Obits
Viceroys, Prophets and Hillbilly Cats #6
Charline Arthur
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Viceroys Prophets and Hillbilly Cats
April 14, 2009
Singles Going Steady #4
The saucer landed and one of the tiny little men said, “Take me to your leader!” I would, but I didn’t know who my leader was.
~ Jonathan Winters
With this novelty rock and roll record by comedy alien Jonathan Winters we finally get away from the Buddy Holly universe, although still in the realm of Decca's pop offshoot Coral Records. One wishes Winters' contribution to these tracks was a little more substantial, Stan Freberg-ian these sides ain't, but you sense him playing along gamely enough. A few years later in his career he might have invested them with a little more character (his string of brilliant Verve Records comedy LPs was still a couple of years away).
Amazingly, Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu (by Eddie V. Deane, who also wrote Cha Cha Joe for the Three Suns, among other musical footnotes) was also covered by Dicky Doo and the Don'ts. I confess I haven't heard their version, but it's hard to imagine them truly doing the song the justice it deserves.
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Singles Going Steady
Visionary Film #19
I tre volti della paura (The Three Faces of Fear/Black Sabbath)
(Mario Bava; 1963)
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Visionary Film
April 13, 2009
Marilyn Chambers dies at 56
Former soap box model and one-time Barbra Streisand co-star Marilyn Chambers has died of as-yet unknown causes, at the too early age of 56.
Read the AP obit here.
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Obits
They Were Collaborators #562
Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney
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They Were Collaborators
April 12, 2009
Artists in Action #498
Pedro Almodovar demonstrates proper decorum
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Artists in Action
Norman Rockwell Saved from Drowning #4
Art Critic (1955)
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Norman Rockwell Saved from Drowning
April 11, 2009
Viceroys, Prophets and Hillbilly Cats #5
Gene Vincent
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Viceroys Prophets and Hillbilly Cats
Fun at Bohemian Grove #39
Bohemians play a game of Cowboys and Indians (1922)
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Fun at Bohemian Grove
The City: Philadelphia #8
Original Caption:
Woman Priest Performing Ceremony
Philadelphia -- After being ordained as an Episcopal priest, Merrill Bittner of Rochester, New York, and Emily Hewitt of Baltimore, Maryland, give the bread and wine to the members of The Church of the Advocate here. Eleven women were ordained despite the possible dismissal of the priest who performed the ceremonies. (1974)
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The City: Philadelphia
Friends and Family #56
Original Caption:
Brooklyn -- Vincent Emmino, 18-year-old brother of Ralph 'Buck' Emmino, reputed underworld character slain gangland style in Brooklyn last evening, is restrained by police after identifying his brother's body. The older Emmino, 38, was found dead at 41st Street, between Bath and Benson Avenues. Police discovered two bullets in his chest and a third in his head. Authorities said Emmino had a long crime career highlighted by robberies. The younger Emmino swore vengeance when he saw his brother's corpse. (1952)
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Friends and Family
April 10, 2009
Signs and Meaning in Cinema #22
Signs: O Lucky Man!
(Lindsay Anderson; 1973)
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Signs and Meaning in Cinema
This Sporting Life #4
Original Caption:
Bulldogs Chase
Cambridge -- Policemen in Cambridge, known as Bulldogs, prepare to start the Bulldogs Chase during the Cambridge sports at the University ground. (1936)
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This Sporting Life
April 09, 2009
The Art of the Panel: EC #13
from The Last War on Earth
(by Harvey Kurtzman, Marie Severin and Ben Oda)
(Weird Science #5; Jan-Feb, 1951)
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Art of the Panel: EC
Before and After #179:
Allen Stewart Konigsberg (aka Woody Allen)
Before
After
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Before and After
April 08, 2009
The City: Reno #6
Original Caption:
USAF Conducts Survival School
Reno -- The U. S. Air Force has organized an "Escape and Survival" school at Stead Air Force Base near Reno. The seventeen day course, over which there has been much controversy, teaches Air Force men how to behave if captured, how to resist attempts at brainwashing, how to plan and execute an escape and how to survive when loose in enemy-held territory. Here a "prisoner" is being interrogated under a spotlight by "enemy" officers. (1955)
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The City: Reno
The Limited Pantheon #2
Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose
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The Limited Pantheon
April 07, 2009
Life During Wartime #3
Original Caption:
London -- A milkman makes his normal rounds through piles of rubble after an air raid. (1940)
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Life During Wartime
Friends and Family #55
Original Caption:
Chicago -- Police officers wait for the crime laboratory crew to arrive on the scene after finding the almost nude body of a 300-pound man in the trunk of this Cadillac in Chicago's loop section, August 11. The victim was tentatively identified as William Jackson, 40, of Cicero, Illinois, an alleged loan collector for syndicate bosses. The coroner said his body had been in the trunk for at least three days and rope marks on the body indicated he had been tortured before being murdered. (1961)
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Friends and Family
Seminal Image #924
Ikimono no kiroku
(I Live in Fear)
(Akira Kurosawa; 1955)
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Seminal Images
April 06, 2009
The City: Miami #8
Original Caption:
Miami -- Miami police officer Tina Hicks, who is the simulator trainer and operator, fires a blank from her .38 cal. service revolver at the wall-size screen. On the screen is a slide showing an armed hooker struggling with a John under the Miami Metrorail people mover. Officer Hicks, who is standing by a squad car installed in the simulator, says she is shown making a serious mistake by firing her weapons in this situation, since the two subjects are so close together. (1984)
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The City: Miami
April 05, 2009
Artists and Animals #19
Thomas Hardy and The Pooch of Casterbridge
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Artists and Animals
April 04, 2009
The Art of the Piano #19
Rotation Rag
(by Al Sweet)
(Shapiro Music Publishing; 1911)
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Art of the Piano
G is for Gedney #22
Two Men in Front of a Diner on a Snowy Night (1961)
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G is for Gedney
April 03, 2009
Adventures in American Filmmaking #117
Today's Adventure: On the set of Rosemary's Baby, Mia Farrow and Roman Polanski
change places (1968)
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Adventures in American Filmmaking
The Art of the Panel: EC #12
from The Corpse Nobody Knew
(by Al Feldstein and George Roussos)
(The Crypt of Terror #17; Apr-May, 1950)
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Art of the Panel: EC
Friends and Family #54
Original Caption:
New York -- Policemen at the scene of the murder of Johnny La Polla, Bronx policy operator, who stopped three bullets while walking on East 102nd street, at 3 A.M.. His enemies, police suggested, are legion. He had been arrested eleven times, and sought by police for a shooting. (1937)
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Friends and Family
April 02, 2009
Signs and Meaning in Cinema #21
Signs and Meaning: Hardcore
(Paul Schrader; 1979)
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Signs and Meaning in Cinema
When Legends Gather #517
The Friends of Milt Hinton #20
Jimmy Rushing, Scoville Browne, Maxine Sullivan, Joe Thomas, Coleman Hawkins, Oscar Pettiford, Marian McPartland, Emmett Berry, Sahib Shihab, Thelonious Monk and Rex Stewart
(Harlem; August, 1958)
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The Friends of Milt Hinton
The Art of the Panel: Fawcett #3
from The Circus of Death
(by Bill Parker and C.C. Beck)
(Whiz Comics #6; July, 1940)
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Art of the Panel: Fawcett
The City: Philadelphia #7
Original Caption:
Philadelphia -- Thousands of young people stretched out over a mile walking along a closed river drive during a Philadelphia Earth Walk. The youths walked some three miles to a park where Earth Day festivities were taking place. (1970)
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The City: Philadelphia
April 01, 2009
They Were Collaborators #560
Louis Armstrong and Velma Middleton
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They Were Collaborators
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