Before the Second World War, J. Edgar Hoover, and the “Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)”, kept track of all Communist activities within the United States. However, when the Soviet Union became an “ALLY”, during that war, of both the United States and the United Kingdom. For appearance, a leash was supposedly placed on the bureau’s…
He was 45, she was 20, and as “Hollywood Legends” go, they fell in love and were married. Think of Humphrey DeForest Bogart and films such as director Raul Walsh’s, 1940, “They Drive by Night”, director John Huston’s, 1941, “The Maltese Falcon”, and director Michael Curtiz’s, 1942, “Casablanca”, come to mind. All have that Bogart…
He was born Charles Lutwidge Dodson, but if my reader ever went down the rabbit hole with Alice. Then, they may know him better, by his pen name, of LEWIS CARROLL. Above, the almost asleep Dodgson, had his higher education at Christ Church College, within Oxford, seen below. This was a requirement of his family,…
It has been said, that she had: “THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED A THOUSAND SHIPS”. The Greek poet HOMER (Ὅμηρος [hómɛːros] ), wrote his classic mythology, the “ILIAD (Ἰλιάς)”, about the war she started. Scholars believe the poem that was written sometime in the hundred-year period between 750 B. C. and 650 B. C. American Director Robert…
Once Upon a Time in a Television Galaxy Far-Far Away from today. There was live television, and the 30th Century was on my 17th inch television screen, in glorious black and white. Edward “Ed” William Kemmer was born on October 29, 1920, possibly 1921, in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father was Aaron F. Kemmer, his mother…
Forget Edward Gibbon’s 1776-1788 “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”. Forget Will and Ariel Durant’s, 1944, “Caesar and Christ”, Volume Three, of their, Eleven Volume, “The Story pf Civilization” series. They never got it right. This is “THE REAL (?) HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE” brought to the movie goer…
THE FILM MADNESS OF FRADKIN-STEIN 