Jacko's Death - June 25, 2009
Gone down the memory hole is the bizarre icky creepiness that dodged the final 20 years of his life. What is remembered is a musical performer with a magnetism not seen since Elvis. Since his death, his estate has made over $1 billion.
Michael Jackson's Legacy, Two Years Later, By the Numbers
Gil Kaufman
Jun 25 2011
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1666426/michael-jackson-anniversary.jhtml
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iPhone - June 29, 2007
$500 for a cell with 4GB of storage? No way is this thing gonna sell!
Happy 4th Birthday, iPhone
Jared Newman
June 29, 2011
http://techland.time.com/2011/06/29/happy-4th-birthday-iphone
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Ernest Hemingway's Death - July 2, 1961
Hemingway was a self-destructive alcoholic impaired by depression for most of his life. He is also arguably the greatest of all American writers, whose style of minimalism turned understatement into the greatest of virtues. Literature has never replaced him.
50 years ago: Hemingway commits suicide
27 June 2011
http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jun2011/twih-j27.shtml#50
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Cheerios - 1941
One in eight boxes of cereal in the US are the Cheerios brand, which turns 70 this year.
In 1979, Honey Nut Cheerios were introduced, which is now the best-selling brand of the breakfast staple. Apple Cinnamon, MultiGrain, Frosted, Berry Burst and Chocolate flavors have followed.
Facts about Cheerios in their 70th year
06.24.11
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/06/24/lifestyle-us-cheerios-facts_8533159.html
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Gone with the Wind: June 30, 1936
A book glorifying the Confederacy sprinkled with usage of the dreaded "N" word may not be politically correct, but it still has its fanbase. "Windies" may not get the headlines that Trekkies or Star Wars fans get, but with over 30 million readers, the book (and the film based on it) still has its following.
At 75, 'Gone with the Wind' still attracts fans, cash and controversy
Jim Auchmutey
June 25, 2011
http://www.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/06/25/gone.with.the.wind.fans
Showing posts with label Ernest Hemingway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ernest Hemingway. Show all posts
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Orson Welles Lost Masterpiece Found?
Imagine an Orson Welles film starring John Huston about a director who is based on a mixture of Welles, Huston and Ernest Hemingway.
You don't have to. The Other Side of the Wind is that movie. As Welles describes the protagonist: "It's about a bastard director... full of himself, who catches people and creates and destroys them. It's about us, John."
Spanish film-maker Andres Vicente Gomez declares: "It was a film very close to him. But his physical condition was delicate. He didn't have the energy to cut it."
As the London Observer reports:
"The unedited film has been hidden away in a vault until now amid doubts that it could ever be shown.
Rumours of its release have surfaced repeatedly since it was shot in 1972, but an ownership dispute has always scuppered any plans. However, a Los Angeles lawyer told the Observer last week that the film will finally be seen...
Huston's actor son, Danny, describes the footage as 'absolutely fascinating'. In 2005 he recalled that Welles had given extensive 'editing notes' on the film to actor and director Peter Bogdanovich, who also appeared in the film.
Bogdanovich is understood to be involved in efforts finally to bring The Other Side of The Wind to the screen."
The big question is will the footage be released uncut or edited into a cinematic narrative? Controversy looms: whatever the notes Bogdanovich has, Welles always desired final cut for all his works. Gomez warns any attempt to cut the film an "act of betrayal..."
Orson Welles's unseen masterpiece set for release
Dalya Alberge
Sunday 23 January 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/23/orson-welles-last-film-release
You don't have to. The Other Side of the Wind is that movie. As Welles describes the protagonist: "It's about a bastard director... full of himself, who catches people and creates and destroys them. It's about us, John."
Spanish film-maker Andres Vicente Gomez declares: "It was a film very close to him. But his physical condition was delicate. He didn't have the energy to cut it."
As the London Observer reports:
"The unedited film has been hidden away in a vault until now amid doubts that it could ever be shown.
Rumours of its release have surfaced repeatedly since it was shot in 1972, but an ownership dispute has always scuppered any plans. However, a Los Angeles lawyer told the Observer last week that the film will finally be seen...
Huston's actor son, Danny, describes the footage as 'absolutely fascinating'. In 2005 he recalled that Welles had given extensive 'editing notes' on the film to actor and director Peter Bogdanovich, who also appeared in the film.
Bogdanovich is understood to be involved in efforts finally to bring The Other Side of The Wind to the screen."
The big question is will the footage be released uncut or edited into a cinematic narrative? Controversy looms: whatever the notes Bogdanovich has, Welles always desired final cut for all his works. Gomez warns any attempt to cut the film an "act of betrayal..."
Orson Welles's unseen masterpiece set for release
Dalya Alberge
Sunday 23 January 2011
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/23/orson-welles-last-film-release
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
New Discoveries about Hemingway
http://www.dcdave.com/article5/090923.htm
New Discoveries about Hemingway… along with Some New Questions
By Hugh Turley
9-9-23
Ernest Hemingway had secret contact with Soviet intelligence agents, according to a recent book, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev.
The book is based largely upon newly released KGB records, but it draws upon his FBI file to show, as well, that during World War II Hemingway used his fishing boat the Pilar to hunt for German submarines for the U.S. government. He had a weakness for political intrigue, and he leaned heavily to the left.
Although there is no known record of Hemingway ever having passed along any secrets, one KGB correspondence notes that “…he repeatedly expressed his desire and willingness to help us.” The KGB gave him the code name, “Argo.”
Hemingway’s KGB contacts possibly cast a new light on the violent death of the famous author. FBI records show Hemingway was under surveillance, and shortly before his death he checked into the Mayo Clinic using the alias George Sevier.
In a letter to his son Patrick, Hemingway wrote that he was being treated for high blood pressure. Mayo’s Dr. Howard Rome kept the Minneapolis FBI office informed on Hemingway’s condition. Dr. Rome is the doctor who later performed a psychological autopsy of Lee Harvey Oswald for the Warren Commission.
On July 1, 1961, the night before he died, Hemingway dined at the Christiania Restaurant in Ketchum, Idaho. In her book, How It Was, his wife Mary wrote, “As we wedged into the small far-corner table, Ernest noticed a couple of men seating themselves at a small table farther inside and asked Suzie, our waitress…who those men were. ‘Oh, they’re a couple of salesmen from Twin Falls, I think,’ said Suzie. ‘Not on Saturday night,’ said Ernest, ‘They’d be home.’ Suzie shrugged. ‘They’re the FBI,’ Ernest muttered.”
The first official report of Hemingway’s death was a joint statement by the coroner Ray McGoldrick and the sheriff Don Hewitt, “Ernest Hemingway died this morning at about 7:30 at his home near Ketchum from gunshot wounds. His wife thinks it was accidental while he was cleaning his gun.”
The UPI reported, “Officials did not see any gun-cleaning equipment in the room.”
The following day the UPI said McGoldrick was asked if “self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head” on Hemingway’s death certificate meant he killed himself or died accidentally. McGoldrick responded, “I wasn’t there so I don’t know. Maybe the truth will never be known. No one saw it. The family is willing to let it go that way and that’s all right with me. The wife thinks it was an accident.”
The authorities did not interview Mrs. Hemingway until the day after they had reached their ambiguous conclusion. Her statement had been given through a friend. There was no coroner’s inquest and no autopsy.
Hemingway was shot in the five-by-seven foot front entrance hall of his home. Hemingway’s custom-made, .12 gauge, double barreled, Boss shotgun was near his body. Both barrels had been fired, and Mrs. Hemingway said she was awakened by a couple of banging sounds.
Boss shotguns are highly prized and can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. One known to have been made for Hemingway would have doubtless fetched a large premium. However, according to Carlos Baker in Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, a family friend “cut the gun to pieces with a blowtorch and buried them in a secret place.”
When Hemingway, himself, was buried on July 5, The New York Times reported “there was still no official decision—and never may be—as to whether the death …had been an accident or suicide.”
Suicide eventually became the popular truth while the reality of FBI surveillance and his meeting with KGB agents remained unknown to the public. Was Hemingway paranoid and suicidal, or were those covert operatives with sinister plans at the restaurant that night?
Hyattsville Life and Times, August 2009.
New Discoveries about Hemingway… along with Some New Questions
By Hugh Turley
9-9-23
Ernest Hemingway had secret contact with Soviet intelligence agents, according to a recent book, Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America, by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, and Alexander Vassiliev.
The book is based largely upon newly released KGB records, but it draws upon his FBI file to show, as well, that during World War II Hemingway used his fishing boat the Pilar to hunt for German submarines for the U.S. government. He had a weakness for political intrigue, and he leaned heavily to the left.
Although there is no known record of Hemingway ever having passed along any secrets, one KGB correspondence notes that “…he repeatedly expressed his desire and willingness to help us.” The KGB gave him the code name, “Argo.”
Hemingway’s KGB contacts possibly cast a new light on the violent death of the famous author. FBI records show Hemingway was under surveillance, and shortly before his death he checked into the Mayo Clinic using the alias George Sevier.
In a letter to his son Patrick, Hemingway wrote that he was being treated for high blood pressure. Mayo’s Dr. Howard Rome kept the Minneapolis FBI office informed on Hemingway’s condition. Dr. Rome is the doctor who later performed a psychological autopsy of Lee Harvey Oswald for the Warren Commission.
On July 1, 1961, the night before he died, Hemingway dined at the Christiania Restaurant in Ketchum, Idaho. In her book, How It Was, his wife Mary wrote, “As we wedged into the small far-corner table, Ernest noticed a couple of men seating themselves at a small table farther inside and asked Suzie, our waitress…who those men were. ‘Oh, they’re a couple of salesmen from Twin Falls, I think,’ said Suzie. ‘Not on Saturday night,’ said Ernest, ‘They’d be home.’ Suzie shrugged. ‘They’re the FBI,’ Ernest muttered.”
The first official report of Hemingway’s death was a joint statement by the coroner Ray McGoldrick and the sheriff Don Hewitt, “Ernest Hemingway died this morning at about 7:30 at his home near Ketchum from gunshot wounds. His wife thinks it was accidental while he was cleaning his gun.”
The UPI reported, “Officials did not see any gun-cleaning equipment in the room.”
The following day the UPI said McGoldrick was asked if “self-inflicted gunshot wound in the head” on Hemingway’s death certificate meant he killed himself or died accidentally. McGoldrick responded, “I wasn’t there so I don’t know. Maybe the truth will never be known. No one saw it. The family is willing to let it go that way and that’s all right with me. The wife thinks it was an accident.”
The authorities did not interview Mrs. Hemingway until the day after they had reached their ambiguous conclusion. Her statement had been given through a friend. There was no coroner’s inquest and no autopsy.
Hemingway was shot in the five-by-seven foot front entrance hall of his home. Hemingway’s custom-made, .12 gauge, double barreled, Boss shotgun was near his body. Both barrels had been fired, and Mrs. Hemingway said she was awakened by a couple of banging sounds.
Boss shotguns are highly prized and can sell for tens of thousands of dollars. One known to have been made for Hemingway would have doubtless fetched a large premium. However, according to Carlos Baker in Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, a family friend “cut the gun to pieces with a blowtorch and buried them in a secret place.”
When Hemingway, himself, was buried on July 5, The New York Times reported “there was still no official decision—and never may be—as to whether the death …had been an accident or suicide.”
Suicide eventually became the popular truth while the reality of FBI surveillance and his meeting with KGB agents remained unknown to the public. Was Hemingway paranoid and suicidal, or were those covert operatives with sinister plans at the restaurant that night?
Hyattsville Life and Times, August 2009.
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