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Saturday, May 27, 2017
Camille Paglia
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Thursday, May 18, 2017
Mossback
Mossback was formed in 1994 in Seattle by Brennan McFeely and Paul Adams. A chance meeting at The Keg in the U-district brought lead guitarist Curt Hamblet aboard and the lineup began to solidify.
Through ads in the Rocket Layne Bouche and Sandy Greenbaum were brought in on bass and drums respectively. And so began a ten year odyssey.
Mossback played many local venues in and around the Seattle area. They began plying their spare money into recording, working with top notch producers Kevin Suggs, Gary King and Scott Ross to develop their unique sound.
"Mishmash" is the culmination of over a decade of writing and recording and contains a wide variety of musical genres and styles. There's something here for everybody.
For those who like hard rock check out "On Your Own" and "Sanity"...For those preferring a softer sound there's "Cold Wind" and "Annalisa". Grunge rockers will like "Junkie Town" and "Nothin Left To Give".
And for the politically conscious check out "Cloak of No Consequence", a song about the Tibetan struggle with genuine Tibetans' chanting and singing backgrounds. Enjoy.
GOING FOR ADDS: Mossback's proven catalog of melodic hard rock and acoustic songs is in search of further exposure. Well received by the listening public, this 4 song mix adequately showcases both their talent and range.
Music supervisors may receive Mossback's entire catalog for free by reaching us on music submit or twitter at www.twitter.com/mossback Thank you for considering our music.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Miss Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead was born on January 31, 1902 in Huntsville, Alabama. Her father was a mover and shaker in the Democratic Party who served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from June 4, 1936, to September 16, 1940. Tallulah had been interested in acting and, at age 15, started her stage career in the local theater troupes of Huntsville and the surrounding areas. At age 16, she won a beauty contest and, bolstered by this achievement, moved to New York City to live with her aunt and to try her hand at Broadway. She was offered a role in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), but did not take it after she refused John Barrymore's invitation for a visit to the casting couch. Unfortunately, for the young Miss Bankhead, she did not make any headway on the stages of New York, so she pulled up stakes and moved to London, in 1923, to try her luck there.
For the next several years, she was the most popular actress of London's famed West End, the British equivalent of Broadway. After starring in several well-received plays, she gained the attention of Paramount Pictures executives and returned to the United States to try her hand at the film world. Her first two films, Woman's Law (1927) and His House in Order (1928), did not exactly set the world on fire, so she returned to do more stage work. She tried film work again with Tarnished Lady (1931), where she played Nancy Courtney, a woman who marries for money but ultimately gets bored with her husband and leaves him, only to come back to him when he is broke. The critics gave it a mixed reception. Tallulah's personality did not shine on film as Paramount executives had hoped. She tried again with My Sin (1931) as a woman with a secret past about to marry into money. Later that year, she made The Cheat (1931), playing Elsa Carlyle, a woman who sold herself to a wealthy Oriental merchant who brands her like she was his own property and is subsequently murdered. The next year, she shot Thunder Below (1932), Faithless (1932), Make Me a Star (1932) (she had a cameo role along with several other Paramount stars) and Devil and the Deep (1932). The latter film was a star-studded affair that made money at the box-office due to the cast (Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and newcomer Cary Grant). The films she was making just did not do her talent any justice, so it was back to Broadway--she did not make another film for 11 years. She toured nationally, performing in all but three states.
She was also a big hit at social affairs, where she often shocked the staid members of that society with her "untraditional" behavior. She chain-smoked and enjoyed more than her share of Kentucky bourbon, and made it a "habit" to take her clothes off and chat in the nude. A friend and fellow actress remarked on one occasion, "Tallulah dear, why are you always taking your clothes off? You have such lovely frocks." She was also famous--or infamous--for throwing wild parties that would last for days. She returned to films in 1943 with a cameo in Stage Door Canteen (1943), but it was Lifeboat (1944) for director Alfred Hitchcock that put her back into the limelight. However, the limelight did not shine for long. After shooting A Royal Scandal (1945) she did not appear on film again until she landed a role in Die! Die! My Darling! (1965). Her film and small-screen work consisted of a few TV spots and the voice of the Sea Witch in the animated film The Daydreamer (1966), so she went back to the stage, which had always been first and foremost in her heart. To Tallulah, there was nothing like a live audience to perform for, because they, always, showed a lot of gratitude. On December 12, 1968, Tallulah Bankhead died at age 66 of pneumonia in her beloved New York City. While she made most of her fame on the stages of the world, the film industry and its history became richer because of her talent and her very colorful personality. Today her phrase, "Hello, Dahling" is known throughout the entertainment world.
For the next several years, she was the most popular actress of London's famed West End, the British equivalent of Broadway. After starring in several well-received plays, she gained the attention of Paramount Pictures executives and returned to the United States to try her hand at the film world. Her first two films, Woman's Law (1927) and His House in Order (1928), did not exactly set the world on fire, so she returned to do more stage work. She tried film work again with Tarnished Lady (1931), where she played Nancy Courtney, a woman who marries for money but ultimately gets bored with her husband and leaves him, only to come back to him when he is broke. The critics gave it a mixed reception. Tallulah's personality did not shine on film as Paramount executives had hoped. She tried again with My Sin (1931) as a woman with a secret past about to marry into money. Later that year, she made The Cheat (1931), playing Elsa Carlyle, a woman who sold herself to a wealthy Oriental merchant who brands her like she was his own property and is subsequently murdered. The next year, she shot Thunder Below (1932), Faithless (1932), Make Me a Star (1932) (she had a cameo role along with several other Paramount stars) and Devil and the Deep (1932). The latter film was a star-studded affair that made money at the box-office due to the cast (Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and newcomer Cary Grant). The films she was making just did not do her talent any justice, so it was back to Broadway--she did not make another film for 11 years. She toured nationally, performing in all but three states.
She was also a big hit at social affairs, where she often shocked the staid members of that society with her "untraditional" behavior. She chain-smoked and enjoyed more than her share of Kentucky bourbon, and made it a "habit" to take her clothes off and chat in the nude. A friend and fellow actress remarked on one occasion, "Tallulah dear, why are you always taking your clothes off? You have such lovely frocks." She was also famous--or infamous--for throwing wild parties that would last for days. She returned to films in 1943 with a cameo in Stage Door Canteen (1943), but it was Lifeboat (1944) for director Alfred Hitchcock that put her back into the limelight. However, the limelight did not shine for long. After shooting A Royal Scandal (1945) she did not appear on film again until she landed a role in Die! Die! My Darling! (1965). Her film and small-screen work consisted of a few TV spots and the voice of the Sea Witch in the animated film The Daydreamer (1966), so she went back to the stage, which had always been first and foremost in her heart. To Tallulah, there was nothing like a live audience to perform for, because they, always, showed a lot of gratitude. On December 12, 1968, Tallulah Bankhead died at age 66 of pneumonia in her beloved New York City. While she made most of her fame on the stages of the world, the film industry and its history became richer because of her talent and her very colorful personality. Today her phrase, "Hello, Dahling" is known throughout the entertainment world.
Actress (24 credits)
1967Batman (TV Series)
Black Widow
Black Widow
- Caught in the Spider's Den (1967) ... Black Widow (as Miss Tallulah Bankhead)
- Black Widow Strikes Again (1967) ... Black Widow (as Miss Tallulah Bankhead)
1954-1962The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
Lillian Throgmorton / Hedda Gabler
Lillian Throgmorton / Hedda Gabler
- A Man for Oona (1962) ... Lillian Throgmorton
- Hedda Gabler (1954) ... Hedda Gabler
1957General Electric Theater (TV Series)
Katherine Belmont
Katherine Belmont
- Eyes of a Stranger (1957) ... Katherine Belmont
1929Her Cardboard Lover (Short)
Self (24 credits)
1962-1968The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (TV Series)
Herself - Guest / Herself
Herself - Guest / Herself
- Episode #7.98 (1968) ... Herself
- Episode #7.97 (1968) ... Herself - Guest
- Episode #4.106 (1965) ... Herself - Guest
- Episode #2.107 (1963) ... Herself - Guest
- Episode #1.2 (1962) ... Herself
1965-1968The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series)
Herself
Herself
- Episode dated 30 January 1968 (1968) ... Herself
- Episode dated 4 February 1966 (1966)
- Episode #2.32 (1965) ... Herself
1961-1965What's My Line? (TV Series)
Herself - Mystery Guest
Herself - Mystery Guest
- Episode dated 6 June 1965 (1965) ... Herself - Mystery Guest
- Episode dated 12 February 1961 (1961) ... Herself - Mystery Guest
1958-1959The Jack Paar Tonight Show (TV Series)
Herself
Herself
- Episode #3.66 (1959) ... Herself
- Episode #2.158 (1959) ... Herself
- Episode #2.56 (1958) ... Herself
1957The Arthur Murray Party (TV Series)
Herself
Herself
- Episode #8.24 (1957) ... Herself
- Episode #8.23 (1957) ... Herself
- Episode #8.16 (1957) ... Herself
1957The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (TV Series)
Herself - Guest
Herself - Guest
- Episode #2.30 (1957) ... Herself - Guest
1954The Colgate Comedy Hour (TV Series)
Herself - Actress
Herself - Actress
- Episode #4.19 (1954) ... Herself - Actress
1953Person to Person (TV Series documentary)
Herself - Actress
Herself - Actress
- Episode #1.8 (1953) ... Herself - Actress
1953Texaco Star Theatre (TV Series)
Herself - Actress
Herself - Actress
- Episode #6.5 (1953) ... Herself - Actress
- Episode #6.1 (1953) ... Herself - Actress
1952-1953All Star Revue (TV Series)
Herself - Hostess / Herself / Herself - Host / ...
Herself - Hostess / Herself / Herself - Host / ...
- Episode #3.33 (1953) ... Herself
- Episode #3.28 (1953) ... Herself - Host / Actress (Sketch)
- Episode #3.23 (1953) ... Herself - Hostess
- Episode #3.19 (1953) ... Herself - Hostess / Nurse Edith Cavell (Sketch)
- Episode #3.16 (1952) ... Herself - Hostess
Thursday, April 20, 2017
John Steinbeck
Overview (4)
| Date of Birth | 27 February 1902, Salinas, California, USA |
| Date of Death | 20 December 1968, New York City, New York, USA (heart disease) |
| Birth Name | John Ernst Steinbeck |
| Height | 6' (1.83 m) |
Mini Bio (1)
John Steinbeck was the third of four children and the only son born to John Ernst and Olive Hamilton Steinbeck. His father was County Treasurer and his mother, a former schoolteacher. John graduated from Salinas High School in 1919 and attended classes at Stanford University, leaving in 1925 without a degree. He was variously employed as a sales clerk, farm laborer, ranch hand and factory worker. In 1925, he traveled by freight from Los Angeles to New York, where he was a construction worker. From 1926-1928, he was a caretaker in Lake Tahoe, CA. His first novel, "Cup of Gold," was published in 1929. During the 1930s, he produced most of his famous novels ("To a God Unknown," "Tortilla Flat," "In Dubious Battle," "Of Mice and Men," and his Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Grapes of Wrath"). In 1941, he moved with the singer who would become his second wife to New York City. They had two sons, Thom (b. 1944) and John IV (b. 1946). In 1948, his close friend Ed Ricketts died, he went through a divorce, he took a a tour of Russia, and he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His wrote the screenplay for Viva Zapata! (1952), and 17 of his works have been made into movies. He received three Academy Award nominations. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. US President Lyndon Johnson awarded him the United States Medal of Freedom in 1964, and he was commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp on what would have been his 75th birthday. His ashes lie in Garden of Memories Cemetery in Salinas.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Spouse (3)
| Elaine Anderson | (28 December 1950 - 20 December 1968) (his death) |
| Gwyndolyn Conger | (29 March 1943 - 1948) (divorced) (2 children) |
| Carol Henning | (14 January 1930 - 18 March 1943) (divorced) |
Trivia (10)
Born at 3:00pm-PST.
His novella "Sweet Thursday," a sequel to his classic "Cannery Row," is based on the original book he wrote for the 1955 Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein musical, "Pipe Dream." Although it won five 1956 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, and ran for 246 performances, "Pipe Dreams" is considered one of their least successful shows, just as the book itself is considered one of Steinbeck's weaker works. "Sweet Thursday" also serves as the basis for David S. Ward's film Cannery Row (1982), as the story, plot, and characters rely more on the former rather than the latter.
According to his biographer Jay Parini and the New York Times, Steinbeck in the mid-1990s was the most popular deceased American writer, with 750,00 copies of his works selling annually. His popularity has not diminished over the years but has rather increased, particularly after Oprah Winfrey made his "East of Eden" the first selection of her revived book club in 2003. The book immediately became the #2 bestseller on amazon.com, and Steinbeck's publisher, Penguin Group USA, printed 600,000 new copies. Normally, the book sells fewer than 50,000 copies annually. It is a remarkable phenomenon considering that the book originally was a #1 best seller when it was published in 1952!.
Steinbeck, one of the seminal American authors of the 20th century, was humiliated when the N.Y. Times excoriated the Swedish Academy for naming him the winner of the Nobel Prize Literature for 1962, saying there were more deserving writers to honor. Humble and blunt, when asked whether he deserved it at his press conference after receiving the news of the prize, he answered, "No." The criticism that he was undeserving of literature's greatest prize was soon picked up by the American literati, further compounding the wound. While Steinbeck had been enormously popular in his home country, penning four #1 best sellers, his critical reputation had sagged since the mid-1940s. However, he had remained a highly respected author outside the U.S., particularly among those who enjoyed his harsh critique of American materialism, although he was bewildered by foreign fans who still believed that the U.S. was the Depression-era America he had described in the 1930s. He was particularly beloved by Scandinavians for his WWII novella "The Moon is Down," a 1942 propaganda piece about the Norwegian resistance. In fact, so high was his esteem, he was singled out for extra-special treatment during the Stockholm ceremonies. Though that pleased him, he remained bitter about the criticism his fellow Americans had put him through until the end of his life.
Two sons with 2nd wife: Thom and John IV. Only Thom survives as of this writing (June 2005). He has recently published a book of short-stories, and is said to be working on a novel.
Steinbeck, a noted liberal whom the government suspected was a member of the Communist Party, was outraged by what he regarded as director Alfred Hitchcock's racism as manifested in his condescension towards the George 'Joe' Spencer character played by Canada Lee in Lifeboat (1944).
Was denied a military commission during World War II due to his left-wing politics. His future collaborator, Elia Kazan, similarly was turned down during the war due to his own political beliefs. Both served the war effort in a civilian capacity, Steinbeck as a journalist and propagandist.
One of the few Nobel laureates for literature to be nominated for an Academy Award for writing. Steinbeck was nominated three times for Lifeboat (1944), A Medal for Benny (1945) (with Jack Wagner) and Viva Zapata! (1952). Other Oscar-nominated Nobel laureates include George Bernard Shaw, who won an Oscar for Pygmalion (1938), as well as Jean-Paul Sartre and Harold Pinter.
The stage version for "Of Mice and Men" was awarded the 1977 Joseph Jefferson Citation for Play Production at the Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
Through his ancestors John Rolfe and Mary Sculliard is a seventh cousin twice removed of Barack Obama.
Personal Quotes (11)
A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger than a man on foot.
Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, and then steps in it.
It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why then do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
The profession of book writing makes horse racing seem like a solid stable business.
[advice to his young son] There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you - of kindness and consideration and respect - not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak, but the second can release in you strength and courage and goodness, and even wisdom you didn't know you had.
It is a common experience that a problem, difficult at night, is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quick vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
Salary (1)
| The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Writer (49 credits)
2016In Dubious Battle (novel)
2015The Grapes of Wrath: We Shall Overcome (Documentary) (novel)
2014Of Mice and Men
2001The Pearl (novel "The Pearl")
1992Of Mice and Men (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1991American Playhouse (TV Series) (novel "The Grapes of Wrath" - 1 episode)
- The Grapes of Wrath (1991) ... (novel "The Grapes of Wrath")
1983The Winter of Our Discontent (TV Movie) (novel "The Winter of Our Discontent")
1982Cannery Row (novels "Cannery Row" and "Sweet Thursday")
1981Of Mice and Men (TV Movie) (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1981East of Eden (TV Mini-Series) (novel - 3 episodes)
- Part Three (1981) ... (novel)
- Part Two (1981) ... (novel)
- Part One (1981) ... (novel)
1977Hiiriä ja ihmisiä (TV Movie) (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1977Möss och människor (TV Movie) (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1977Anthropoi kai pontikia (TV Movie) (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1975Of Mice and Men (TV Movie) (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1973The Red Pony (TV Movie) (novel "The Red Pony")
1972Topoli (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1971Des souris et des hommes (TV Movie) (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1971The Harness (TV Movie) (story)
1968Von Mäusen und Menschen (TV Movie) (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1968Of Mice and Men (TV Movie) (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1967A Pérola (TV Movie)
TV de Vanguarda (TV Series) (novel - 2 episodes, 1953 - 1963) (story - 1 episode, 1954)
- Ratos e Homens (1963) ... (novel)
- Noite Sem Lua (1954) ... (story)
- De Ratos e Homens (1953) ... (novel)
1962Helmi (TV Movie) (novel)
1962A World for You and Me (novel "Of Mice and Men")
1960The Robert Herridge Theater (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Chrysanthemums (1960) ... (story)
1959Play of the Week (TV Series) (play "Burning Bright" - 1 episode)
- Burning Bright (1959) ... (play "Burning Bright")
1957The Wayward Bus (novel "The Wayward Bus")
1957Livsflammen (TV Movie)
1955East of Eden (novel "East of Eden")
1954Light's Diamond Jubilee (TV Movie documentary) (story)
1954Omnibus (TV Series) (story - 3 episodes)
- The House (1954) ... (story)
- Nothing So Monstrous (1954) ... (story)
- Nobody's Fool (1954) ... (story)
1952Viva Zapata!
1949The Red Pony (by) / (screen play)
1947The Pearl (original story)
1947The Pearl (novella "The Pearl") / (original story) / (screenplay)
1945A Medal for Benny (story)
1944Lifeboat (by)
1943The Moon Is Down (novel "The Moon Is Down")
1942Tortilla Flat (based on the book by)
1941The Forgotten Village (Documentary) (screenplay) / (story)
1940The Grapes of Wrath (based on the novel by)
1939Of Mice and Men (by)
| $75,000 (film rights) |
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