Eraven: Wonder Woman Cat Fight- Lynda Carter vs. Stella Stevens

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Ederik Schneider

 

Wonder Woman

Source:Wonder Woman Mania– Hollywood Goddess Lynda Carter: the real and only Wonder Woman.

Source:Real Life Journal

“Wonder Woman Cat Fight 3D.”

From Wonder Woman Mania

A cat fight between goddess’, which is how it should be. I mean, who wants to see a cat fight between a couple of two-hundred pound dykish looking women. I guess dykes, but who else? But what you have in this scene is two goddess’.

Lynda Carter, perhaps the best looking woman on TV in the entire 1970s, if not Hollywood all together. Versus Stella Stevens, who made most of her mark in Hollywood in movies in the 1960s and 70s. Two gorgeous sexy women and yet they are both baby-faced adorable as well.

I tend to call Wonder Woman, played by Lynda Carter Wonder Baby. Because as hot and sexy as she was and still is, at least to a certain extent, she was just as cute as well. Stella Stevens reminds me a lot of Kim Novak physically, but not as shy and a lot funnier. And these two women are also excellent actress’s, which made for a very good scene.

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Democracy Now: Gloria Richardson Looks Back at the Rift Between Malcolm X & Martin L. King

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Ederik Schneider

 

Source:FreeState Now

I believe the main difference between Malcolm X and Dr. King had to do with different approaches. Dr. King’s approach was slower because it involved more people, more negotiating and was completely non-violent. But at the end of the say it was the only one that worked or could work. Otherwise the members of the movement would’ve been portrayed as thugs, criminals and terrorists by the media.

No serious politician with serious power would’ve worked with people seen as thugs and criminals. Malcolm X’s approach was more combative. That Africans have been in America for three-hundred years and should’ve gotten that freedom three-hundred years ago and “we are mad as hell and want our freedom now”. Which is certainly understandable, but it would’ve never worked had the members of the movement used violence even just to defend themselves.

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Riverbends Channel: Video: NET Oxford Union Debate: Has The American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Rik Schneider

Source:The Daily Post

You won’t find better debates than this one, with so many intelligent, thoughtful, respectful people, a debate with both James Baldwin and William Buckley. In this debate, they are addressing the biggest issue of the 1960s, perhaps the biggest issue in the history of the United States, civil rights. Should we treat all Americans regardless of race equally under the law?

As far as the debate goes, I believe the answer is obvious, that of course the American dream for Caucasian-Americans has been achieved at the expense of Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America and the Caribbean to serve Caucasians.  Once the Africans were legally free from slavery and became Americans, Caucasians continued to live the American dream at the expense of African-Americans.

The examples are obvious starting with slavery and then moving to segregation during which African-Americans were forced to live in inadequate ghetto housing and attend substandard schools. They had to settle for the only jobs they could get, such as house servants for upper and middle class Caucasian-American families, because they were denied the educational opportunities that would lead to well-paying jobs with good benefits.

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Artie Lon: Kevin Pollak Impressions

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Ederik Schneider

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Source:Real Life Journal

Kevin Pollak is one of my favorite impersonators because he not only seems to know the people he’s impersonating, but seems to be inside their heads as well. It is as if coming out into the world and doing his standup routine is his part-time gig. But his real job, even though I’m sure he gets paid a hell of a lot less money, is to live inside the heads of people like Bill Shatner, Peter Falk, Al Brooks and many others. I think he does a Bill Clinton as well. Which is a job he’s more than qualified being somewhat of a small man himself living inside of some really big heads.

One reason why I love Star Trek to go along with realism of it of people being able to live year round on a spaceship thousands of miles away from Earth. And never running out of the basic supplies that humans needing and aliens from galaxies far, far away from places no one as gone before. Aliens who speak perfect English, not just human languages like Arabic or Chinese or something else, but they speak perfect English. (Ha ha) But they had a comedian for a captain in Jim Kirk played by Bill Shatner.

Pollak I believe understands that as well as anyone that Shatner is a very funny man and that he brings his comedic side really to all of his roles. So why would such an unbelievable sci-fi show like Star Trek be any different. If we can believe that aliens always speak perfect English and that people can simply materialize out of thin-air by being beamed down from a spaceship thousands or at least hundreds of miles away, why not be able to believe that the captain of the ship is a comedian. And Kevin Pollak gets that, which is why make Captain Kirk seem even funnier than perhaps Captain Kirk himself.

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TWR EFLECT: ‘Who is the Nigger? -James Baldwin (Clip)’

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Rik Schneider

TWR EFLECT_ ‘Who is the Nigger_ -James Baldwin (Clip)’Source:TWR EFLECT– author James Baldwin I believe in 1965.

“A clip from, “Take this Hammer”…
KQED’s mobile film unit follows author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he’s driven around San Francisco to meet with members of the local African-American community.
Baldwin reflects on the racial inequality that African-Americans are forced to confront and at one point tries to lift the morale of a young man by expressing his conviction that: “There will be a Negro president of this country but it will not be the country that we are sitting in now.”

From TWR EFLECT

James Baldwin was certainly not a nigger. Only ignorant people who do not know enough about the people they are afraid of regardless of race are niggers.

What I believe Baldwin’s point about nigger, (a word I hate and not even comfortable writing, let alone saying) he was saying is that nigger was something that people who hate Africans and people of African descent call African people especially African-Americans.

Caucasian racists of European descent, who are both ignorant and hateful of people with dark brown and black complexions that African people especially African-Americans tend to have. Native-Africans just tend to have black skin unless they come from the Arab states in the North and people up there tend to look more Mediterranean decent. People with olive and brown complexions. Italians, Greeks, Southern Slavs, French, Spanish, Portuguese and so-forth.

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Mysteries & Scandals: Lana Turner

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Rik Schneider

Mysteries & Scandals_ Lana Turner

Source:IMDB– Hollywood Babydoll Lana Turner in Madame X (1966)

Source:The Daily Post

“What happened on that night in 1958 when Lana Turner’s mobster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato was stabbed to death? Was she responsible or was it her teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane?

Edward Epstein (biographer), Jim Bacon (journalist), Willie Wilkerson (author), Del Armstrong (make-up artist), Cheryl Crane (daughter) and Glenn Rose (publicist) are interviewed about the career of Lana Turner.

Turner’s career is given a quick overview as we hear about how she was discovered and then we get into her most famous roles. However, if you’re a fan of the series then you know there has to be some sort of downfall and for Turner it was when her daughter murdered her gangster boyfriend. The interviews here are extremely good because they give plenty of details about the actual case and some of them were friends with Turner or were around when the events happened. We also get an interview with her daughter, which was entertaining. Fans of the series will certainly enjoy this…

From IMDB

“Lana Turner Mysteries & Scandals -Documentary”

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Source:Know The History– Lana Turner’s daughter Cheryl Crane.

From Know The History

“Lana Turner Mysteries & Scandals. This is an E! production.”

Billy Estabrook_ Lana Turner- Mysteries and Scandals (1)

Source:Billy Estrabrook– rom the Mysteries and Scandals documentary of Lana Turner.

From Billy Estrabrook

This I believe is the cover photo from E Entertainment’s Mysteries and Scandals documentary of Lana Turner from the 1990s. But the video that this photo is from is not currently available online.

Billy Estabrook_ Lana Turner- Mysteries and Scandals (1)

Source:Billy Estrabrook– Mysteries and Scandals of Hollywood Babydoll Lana Turner.

I saw the movie The Bad and Beautiful from 1952 with Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Barry Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon and many others, a great cast. And in that movie Lana plays an actress who is very similar to the woman that Lana played in real-life. A talented, but tiny hot baby-face adorable woman, who is somewhat immature and never seems very happy, at least for long. Who seems to be addicted to scandal, who drinks too much and gets into trouble.

That is the Lana Turner that I’ve read and have heard about. The Bad and The Beautiful, could almost be a biography of Lana Tuner. At least her early career in Hollywood. Because the woman she plays there is very similar to the woman she was in real-life at the same time.

Lana seemed to be either addicted to danger and scandal in her life, or it just sticked to her like glue and she could never rip it off. Or perhaps he was addicted to Hollywood and the Hollywood life. Of living through tabloids and doing crazy things that get yourself in the tabloids and generate publicity about yourself. That leads to roles that clean up for to do them successfully.

Like Lana’s relationship with Italian gangster John Stompanato, who she must have known was with the Italian-American Mafia. This just goes to the crazy life aspect. (To almost paraphrase Paris Hilton) That a clean boyfriend and actor for Lana, would’ve been boring and perhaps anti-Hollywood to her. That Lana almost had to be in danger to be in happy in life.

Lana also knew that she had a daughter and how dangerous her and her daughter’s life was in being hooked up with a gangster. But that wasn’t enough for her not to get involved with him in the first place. How Stompanato died, I don’t think we’ll ever really know. Certainly not enough there to hold Lana for murder and Stompanato dying. I hate to say this, but it really wasn’t any bad news for anyone outside of his family, his real family that is.

But again Lana playing a Hollywood movie role, but her in real-life. With the only question being how did Stompanato die. Was is in self-defense or did Lana, or her daughter Cheryl murder him.

And this is all before you get to what really was a great career for Lana Turner. Imagine Marilyn Monroe, but someone who lived more than twice as long. A smaller even cuter Marilyn Monroe in Lana Turner, who managed to grow up in time to have what really was a great life and career. Where you’re talking about not just one of the best actress’s of her generation, but all-time. The same class as Rita Hayworth, Susan Hayward, Ava Turner, Lauren Bacall and many other great actress’s. In movies like The Bad and The Beautiful, Peyton Place, Madame X, Another Time Another Place, The Big Cube, Love Has Many Faces and I really could go on. But in interest of my own time I won’t.

The Johnny Stompanato relationship, is classic Lana Turner. She’s this hot baby-faced little cutie, who gets involved with an Italian gangster like Stompanato. Where just the fact that Lana is a woman and men shouldn’t attack women anyway and then add that he’s so much larger than this little cutie who at times at least could still come off as a little girl and all of these things means nothing to Stompanato. Who could probably kill people for giving them bad looks.

And Lana who was at time crazy as far as how she lived and perhaps wild would be more accurate, had to know Stompanato’s background going in. That he was clearly a dangerous man who had a temper. But again a relationship with a good man who stays out of trouble, would have been boring for Lana.

As far as what happened to Johnny Stompanato, which is what this show I guess is ultimately about, even though I’m more interested in Lana’s life and career. Lana or Cheryl, killed Stompanato, I don’t see how you can call this murder. Stompanato, was a mobster with a temper, who had a history of abusing Lana. And went too far one night with Lana’s daughter being there and either Lana or Cheryl, had the ability to defend themselves and back Stompanato off. And that’s exactly what did. Don’t believe either of them intentionally killed Stompanato. But in a lot of Stompanato cases the defender is simply just trying to back the attacker off. And perhaps shoots the person o hits them too hard. And the attacker dies as a result. And I believe that is what happened in this case.

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Strange Days: Break on Through

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Derik Schneider

Source:The Daily Journal

I’m a big Doors fan like many people, especially Jim Morrison himself and how he presented himself, as well as his talent as far as a performer, his intelligence, his ability to communicate and his ability to write and sing. As are many people and I see him as a rock god and someone who would’ve been a no-brainer for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had he lived a normal life as far as years. And had he gotten his act together so to speak, sobered up and got back t business. And because The Lizard King has so many fans, there are now never Doors cover bands and Jim Morrison covers.

Strange Days is the best Doors cover band that I’ve seen and their lead vocalist is the best Morrison cover that I’ve seen. Except for perhaps his hair being a bit longer than the real Lizard King, he has the size and look of the Lizard King down. The patent Jim Morrison skin-tight black leather jeans, with the cowboy boots and the concho belt and he is able to move in that outfit and of course his voice. And the band itself has the sound of the Doors down. And they do a great job of playing The Doors.
Strange Days

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California Newsreel: James Baldwin- ‘The Price of The Ticket’

Posted on September 4, 2013 by Rik Schneider

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Source:California Newsreels– James Baldwin’s: The Price of The Ticket.

Source:The Daily Post

“James Baldwin (1924-1987) was at once a major twentieth century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling Americans, Black and white, to confront their shared racial tragedy. James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket captures on film the passionate intellect and courageous writing of a man who was born black, impoverished, gay and gifted.

James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket uses striking archival footage to evoke the atmosphere of Baldwin’s formative years – the Harlem of the 30s, his father’s fundamentalist church and the émigré demimonde of postwar Paris. Newsreel clips from the ’60’s record Baldwin’s running commentary on the drama of the Civil Rights movement. The film also explores his quiet retreats in Paris, the South of France, Istanbul and Switzerland – places where Baldwin was able to write away from the racial tensions of America.

Writers Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, William Styron and biographer David Leeming place Baldwin’s work in the African-American literary tradition – from slave narratives and black preaching to their own contemporary work. The film skillfully links excerpts from Baldwin’s major books – Go Tell it on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, Blues for Mister Charlie, If Beale Street Could Talk – to different stages in Black-white dialogue and conflict.

Towards the end of his life, as America turned its back on the challenge of racial justice, Baldwin became frustrated but rarely bitter. He kept writing and reaching in the strengthened belief that : “All men are brothers – That’s the bottom line.”

From California Newsreels

I think James Baldwin’s best statement in this video is that he wasn’t a member of a race or a religion or any group, that he was a human being.

I imagine that is all James Baldwin wanted to be seen as and judged as, James Baldwin the person and perhaps who just happens to also be part of this group or these groups.

Martin King’s’ dream was that he dreamed of a world where his children wouldn’t be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Or how I would put it and how I look at people as both a person and a Liberal, that I look at people as individuals first. And perhaps as members of groups second or even further down the line. But not as part of this race, ethnicity, religion or any other class that has nothing to do with how good of a person they are. And how they should be judged and treated in life.

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CBS Evening News: (12/26/72) The Death of President Harry Truman

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Derik Schneider

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Source:The Daily Journal

I believe Harry Truman was one of our top 3-5 presidents in American history, but certainly in the top ten. Because of how he managed post-World War II especially in Europe and put America in position to successfully win the Cold War. With the buildup of the national security state to deal with Russia, as well as the NATO. Harry Truman was the man not many people respected until they saw him in action. I don’t know of an American politician, especially a great American politician that was more underestimated than Harry Truman. A fairly unknown U.S. Senator who had only been a Senator for ten-years, where all of his Congressional service was served, becomes Vice President of the United States in 1945. Who didn’t have much of a professional resume at all before he was fifty-years old, not just becomes President of the United States, but achieves that within days of becoming Vice President. And becomes one of the best President’s in American history.

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Golden Cyber: ‘Wonder Woman Captured by The Skrill’

Posted on September 3, 2013 by Ederik Schneider
Wonder Woman

Source:Golden Cyber– Wonder Woman Lynda Carter.

Source:Real Life Journal

“Clips from Mind Stealers from Outer Space”

From Golden Cyber

Wonder Woman being captured by a monster. I guess even super heroes have their weakness’ and can meet their match. To believe in Wonder Woman, well you have to believe in Wonder Woman. Which is a big enough challenge in itself. And then you have to believe that the U.S. Army, or at least some Army officers are dumb enough to believe that Diana Prince and Wonder Woman are two different women. Why, because even though they have the same body, face and voice, one where’s glasses and an Army uniform and the other doesn’t. So of course they can’t be the same woman.

Sort of like cops not thinking that is the car they’re looking for, because the license plates are different. Even though the car is the same make, model, year, color, same dent in the front door. And it doesn’t occur to the Detective that the suspect simply changed the license plate of the getaway car. Well, Wonder Woman wasn’t an entertaining show because of its realism. But because it had a goddess like Lynda Carter and some real good action scenes.

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