#Donald Rubinstein

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RAFAEL SILVA TO ATTEND EPIC CONS CHICAGO 2 IN SEPTEMBER

Via Epic Events and Entertainment on Instagram:

Rafael will be appearing Sunday, September 15, 2024, and will have photo ops, autographs, a duo with Ronen Rubinstein, a meet and greet, as well as appear on an Epic Panel. Tickets to meet @/actuallyrafa are available at 3pm EST today on epiccons.com. #ECC2 admission is required to purchase any of Rafael’s a la carte items.

Epic Cons Chicago 2 will take place September 14-15, 2024 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Tickets

[mybeingthere]

Paul Jacoulet (1896–1960) was a French, Japan-based woodblock print artist known for a style that mixed the traditional ukiyo-e style and techniques developed by the artist himself.

Jacoulet was born in Paris in 1896 and lived in Japan for most of his life. During World War II, he moved to Karuizawa, where he survived in the countryside by growing vegetables and raising poultry. During the occupation, at the request of General Douglas MacArthur, he was recruited by Commandant Charles McDowell to work at the Tokyo Army College. MacArthur would join Greta Garbo, Pope Pius XII and Queen Elizabeth II, as a prominent collector of Jacoulet's work.

Many prints are very rare because all Jacoulet’s pre-World War II work that had not already been taken out of the country by collectors was destroyed by fire. Jacoulet was a true renaissance man –French but born and raised in Japan, expert in Kabuki, proficient on traditional Japanese musical instruments, a good calligrapher, conversant in several languages, and a recognized butterfly collector. Growing up in Tokyo he was the next door neighbor of ukiyo-e authority Yone Noguchi; he was taught English by Noguchi's American wife, Leonie Gilmour, and befriended their son, the young Isamu Noguchi. Jacoulet’s father was an ambassador so Paul was widely traveled and was doted upon by his mother. She supported his artistic endeavors all her life. She believed that if French Polynesia was good for Paul Gauguin, then Jacoulet must go there too. She sent him away many winters from Japan to various islands in Micronesia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Although his most valued works are from this part of the world, he also has a substantial number of prints with subjects from China, Korea, all areas of Japan, and Mongolia. Just one print depicts an American.

Jacoulet's works are also interesting to anthropologists. First because his subject matter was indigenous people in their traditional dress. In 1939 traditional people were the norm in his travels. Today his work is often used as a basis for reconstructing, for example, what Ainu traditional dress looked like by the Ainu themselves in their quest to reconnect with their cultural roots. Second, some of the subjects who posed for Jacoulet are still alive and they are currently being interviewed by a professor in Guam (Donald Rubinstein) to learn more about his artistic process.

https://www.advocate.com/.../artist-spotlight-paul-jacoulet

[brokehorrorfan]

Knightriders’ original motion picture soundtrack is available on vinyl for hte first time for $40 via Scare Flair Records. Composed by Donald Rubinstein (Martin, Tales from the Darkside: The Movie), the score has been remastered for vinyl from the original master tapes.

The double-LP album is available in two color variants: “Fighting the Dragon” 180-gram red/black and orange/yellow colored vinyl and “Brother Blue” 150-gram transparent blue colored vinyl (limited to 50). It’s housed in a gatefold jacket featuring classic art by Boris Vallejo, new art by Gary Pullin, an 11x11 program of events insert, and liner notes by Rubinstein.

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What could've been Animaze ..iNC during the 2010s

Talent pool (Note: any voice actor marked with * is union-only):

Steve Blum*

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn*

Crispin Freeman*

Kari Wahlgren*

Johnny Yong Bosch

Yuri Lowenthal*

Dave Wittenberg*

Roger Craig Smith*

Laura Bailey*

Travis Willingham*

Cherami Leigh

J.B. Blanc*

Sam Riegel*

Liam O'Brien*

Amy Kincaid*

Troy Baker*

Matthew Mercer

Joe Romersa*

Fleet Cooper*

Dyanne DiRosario*

Jennifer Love Hewitt*

Brian Hallisay*

Spike Spencer

Amanda Winn Lee*

Jaxon Lee*

Kyle Hebert

Ben Pronsky

Bob Buchholz

Richard Cansino

Murphy Dunne*

Carolyn Hennesy*

Jerry Gelb*

Adam Sholder

Ezra Weisz

Cristina Vee

Bryce Papenbrook

Michael Sorich

Richard Epcar

Ellyn Stern

Tony Oliver

Kirk Thornton

Lexi Ainsworth*

Aria Noelle Curzon

Grace Caroline Currey*

Michael Forest

Erik Davies

Adam Bobrow

Joshua Seth

Junie Hoang*

Kirk Baily*

Tom Fahn

Jonathan Fahn

Dorothy Elias-Fahn

Melissa Fahn

Stephen Apostolina*

René Rivera*

Deborah Sale Butler

Kevin Brief

Michael Gregory*

Riva Spier*

Cassandra Morris

Erica Mendez

Erika Harlacher

Erica Lindbeck

Marieve Herington

Kira Buckland

John Rubinstein*

Kim Matula*

Brittany Lauda

J. Grant Albrecht*

Michael McConnohie

Steve Bulen*

Dan Woren

Derek Stephen Prince

Wendee Lee

Edie Mirman

Jason C. Miller

Taliesin Jaffe*

John Snyder

Robbie Daymond

Ray Chase

Kaiji Tang

David Vincent

Christina Carlisi*

Christopher Corey Smith

Cindy Robinson

Rachel Robinson

Jessica Boone

Lauren Landa

Megan Hollingshead

Jalen K. Cassell

Doug Erholtz

Michelle Ruff

Gregory Cruz*

John Bishop*

Matt Kirkwood*

Lara Jill Miller*

Carol Stanzione

Steve Staley

Dave Mallow

Mona Marshall*

Darrel Guilbeau

Robert Martin Klein

Robert Axelrod

William Frederick Knight

Lex Lang

Sandy Fox

Joey Camen*

Randy McPherson*

Jad Mager

Richard Miro

Milton James

Anthony Pulcini

Douglas Rye

Patrick Seitz

Keith Silverstein

Jamieson Price

Skip Stellrecht*

Stoney Emshwiller*

G.K. Bowes

Alyss Henderson

Patricia Ja Lee

Peggy O'Neal

Carrie Savage

Melodee Spevack

Jennifer Alyx

Julie Ann Taylor

Sherry Lynn

Brad Venable

Christine Marie Cabanos

Greg Chun

LaGloria Scott

Steve Kramer

Melora Harte

Rebecca Forstadt*

Kyle McCarley

Mela Lee

Karen Strassman

Faye Mata

Laura Post

Kayla Carlyle*

Brina Palencia

Connor Gibbs

Brianne Siddall*

Barbara Goodson

Loy Edge

Jay Lerner

Jennie Kwan

Max Mittelman

Jessica Straus*

Alexis Tipton

Fryda Wolff

Michele Specht

J.D. Garfield

Debra Jean Rogers*

Julie Maddalena

Carrie Keranen

Tara Sands

Matthew Hustin

Cody MacKenzie

Bridget Hoffman*

Colleen O'Shaughnessey

Grant George

Jessica Gee

Jeff Nimoy*

Peter Lurie*

Brian Beacock

Paul St. Peter

Chris Jai Alex

Dan Lorge*

Ewan Chung*

Steve Cassling*

Philece Sampler

Stephanie Sheh

Sam Fontana

Ben Diskin

Juliana Donald*

Michael O'Keefe*

Christina Gallegos*

Tara Platt

Keith Anthony*

Beau Billingslea

David Lodge*

Kim Strauss

Eddie Jones*

William Bassett*

Kim Mai Guest*

Caitlin Glass

Hannah Alcorn

Ron Roggé*

Camille Chen*

Ethan Rains*

Yutaka Maseba*

Joe J. Thomas

Michael Sinterniklaas

Erin Fitzgerald

Joe Ochman

Marc Diraison

Xanthe Huynh

Brianna Knickerbocker

Dean Wein*

Michael McCarty*

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Bloglet

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

The Capitol Hill circus continues.  They reconvene.  Vote number four is inconclusive.  They vote a fifth time.  McCarthy, really steamed by this time, insists on another vote.  He is still not in.  They vote a sixth time before adjourning.  

In the meantime McCarthy (what hubris) has moved into the speaker of the house office.  He is squatting.  Mr. Santos, still not sworn in, is seen milling and mixing.  The big trouble (e.g. for bad checks he penned in South America [!]) has not yet caught up with him.  He dutifully votes for McCarthy.  

They propose to meet tomorrow and try again. 

Unseasonably warm. I head out.  Aroma of Christmas trees.  I see them lined up on the sidewalk.  Waiting to be fed to the chipper.  A rather sad sight.  So...the smell of those trees and pot.  Everywhere the smell of pot. 

Note: I received a letter with the results of the medical tests I underwent last week.  Pages of results.  Tiny print.  I get the idea that they found nothing much wrong.  A sigh of relief.  

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Evening: David Rubinstein Atrium to see Dan Block play with Judy Carmichael.  It’s free but one has to get there awfully early.  The chairs are comfortable but quite close together.  I sit and stare at my iphone (or android, or whatever it’s called).  It is a trio...Ms. Carmichael plays stride piano, so there  is no bass.  Electric guitar...Dan Block on tenor sax and clarinet.  It brings to mind other bass-less trios from the old days.  Tenor sax, piano and drums...the drummer playing “four” on the bass drum.  

Home and watch more TV coverage of McCarthy’s attempt to be voted in as speaker of the house.  Today several Republicans had a good time with this.  Some were able to do some grandstanding, for the folks back home.  And Gaetz, a truly loathsome young man, nominated, for the role of speaker, Donald Trump.  He got a good laugh out of this.  Maybe Donald did too.  It is all quite embarrassing.   McCarthy, bristling, doesn’t have the votes but has resolved not to give up.  

[nitrateglow]

Soundtrack of the week: Martin by Donald Rubinstein.

It only figures that the weirdest vampire movie of all time would sport a strange score. Parts are gothic elegance and others are mod and eerie. My favorite piece is from the home invasion scene, which doesn’t go for spooky strings or anything obvious, but just for something lowkey uncanny and electronic sounding.

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- This is a town for old persons, Father Howard. You know the things an old person wants from a priest? And old person needs a priest who thinks the way the old person thinks. A priest who believes in the old ways. - That’s why I use the latin mass here in Braddock. I think people around here... - Do you believe in demons, Father Howard? Do you believe the devil can enter a person’s soul? - I don’t know what to believe about that. - You don’t know Father Howard? You see, this is what I mean. This is not what an old person wants to her from a priest. If our priests cannot save us from such things, who can Father Howard? - Well, I’ve had several conversations about this with some of my associates and I think... I think it’s a difficult issue. It’s something that has to be dealt with. - Grandfather stop it. You’re gonna scare Father Howard away. - Fascinating subject, actually. You should talk to Father Zulemas about this. He’s a great old guy. He claims to have actually done the old mystical rites for real. He went to see that film “The Exorcist”. He said they did it all wrong. - Zulemas. - I don’t suppose you saw that movie. I thought it was great.

Martin, George A. Romero (1977)

[justfilms]

Dawn of the Dead - George A. Romero 1978

[choptop-sawyer]

Crying because I'll never be able to pull off a black turtleneck sweater like Martin Mathias from Martin (1977) directed by George A. Romero starring John Amplas with music by Donald Rubinstein Cinematography by M

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Thanatology Bibliography

THANATOLOGY READINGS 

Moll, Rob. (2010). The Art of Dying: Living Fully Into the Life to Come. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. ISBN: 9780830837366 

Parkes, C., Laungani, P. and Young, W. (1997). Death and Bereavement Across Cultures. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9780415131377

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alford, John & Catlin, George. (1993). The role of culture in grief. The Journal of Social Psychology, 133(2), 173-84.

Aries, Philippe. (1976). The Hour of Our Death. New York: Bantom.

Burton, Laurel., & Tarlos-Benka, Judy. (1997). Grief-Driven Ethical Decision-Making. Journal of Religion and Health, 36(4), 333-343. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/stable/27511175

Castle, Jason. & Phillips, William. (2003). Grief rituals: Aspects that facilitate adjustment to bereavement. Journal of Loss & Trauma, 8(1), 41-71.

Corr, Charles A., Donna M. Corr, and Kenneth J. Doka. (2019).  Death & Dying, Life & Living. Boston, MA: Cengage.

Crunk, Elizabeth. Burke, Laurie., & Robinson, Mike. (2017). Complicated grief: An evolving theoretical landscape. Journal of Counseling & Development, 95(2), 226-233.

Doughty, Caitlin. (2015). Smoke gets in your eyes and other lessons from the crematory. New York: Northcott. 

Dresser, Norine & Wasserman, Freda. (2010). Saying goodbye to someone you love: Your emotional journey through end-of-life and grief. New York: Demos Medical Publishing. 

Frank, Arthur W. (2013). The wounded storyteller. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

Guinther, Paul.,Segal, Daniel. (2003). Gender differences in emotional processing among bereaved older adults. Journal of Loss & Trauma, 8(1), 15-33.

Heath, Yvonne. (2015). Love your life to death: How to plan and prepare for end of life so you can live life fully now. Canada: Marquis Publishing.

Hemer, Susan. (2010). Grief as social experience: Death and bereavement in lihir, papua new guinea¹. The Australian Journal of Anthropology, 21(3), 281-297. 

Kalanithi, Paul. (2016). When Breath Becomes Air. New York: Random House.

Kellehear, Allan. (2002). Grief and loss: Past, present and future. Medical Journal of Australia, 177(4), 176-177.

Kwon, Soo-Young. (2006). Grief ministry as homecoming: Framing death from a korean-american perspective. Pastoral Psychology, 54(4), 313-324. doi:10.1007/s11089-005-0002-1

Lawrence, Elizabeth., Jeglic, Elizabeth., Matthews, Laura., & Pepper, Carolyn. (2006). Gender differences in grief reactions following the death of a parent. Omega - Journal of Death and Dying, 52(4), 323-337.

Leone Fowler, Shannon. (2017). Traveling with Ghosts. New York: Simon & Schuster. 

Lewis, Clive Staples. (2009). The Problem of Pain. New York: Harper. 

Lopez, Sandra. (2011). Culture as an influencing factor in adolescent grief and bereavement. Prevention Researcher, 18(3), 10-13.

McCreight, Bernadette. (2004). A grief ignored: Narratives of pregnancy loss from a male perspective.Sociology of Health & Illness, 26(3), 326-350.

Miller, Eric. (2015). Evaluations of hypothetical bereavement and grief: The influence of loss recency, loss type and gender. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International De Psychologie, 50(1), 60-3. doi:10.1002/ijop.12080

Northcott, Herbert.C., & Wilson, Donna.M. (2017). Dying and death in Canada (3rd ed.) Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 

Nuland, Sherwin B. (1995). How We Die. New York: Vintage.

Penman, Emma., Breen, Lauren., Hewitt, Lauren., & Prigerson, Holly. (2014). Public attitudes about normal and pathological grief. Death Studies, 38(8), 510-516.

Rosenstein, Donald L. & Yopp, Justin M. (2018). The Group: Seven widowed fathers reimagine life. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rubinstein, Gidi. (2004). Locus of control and helplessness: Gender differences among bereaved parents. Death Studies, 28(3), 211-223.

Sandburg, Sheryl, & Grant, Adam. (2017). Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 

Schonfeld, Davis., Quackenbush, Mike., & Demaria, Thomas. (2015). Grief across cultures: Awareness for schools. Nasn School Nurse (print), 30(6), 350-2.

Stelzer, Eva-Maria., Atkinson, Ciara., O'Connor, Mary F., & Croft, Alyssa. (2019). Gender differences in grief narrative construction: A myth or reality? European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10(1),

Stroebe, Margaret., & Schut, Hank. (1998). Culture and grief. Bereavement Care, 17(1).

Swinton, John and Richard Payne. (2009). Living Well and Dying Faithfully. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Tarakeshwar, Nalini., Hansen, Nathan., Kochman, Arlene., & Sikkema, Kathleen. (2005). Gender, ethnicity and spiritual coping among bereaved hiv-positive individuals. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 8(2), 109-125.

Versalle, Alexis. & McDowell, Eugene. (2005). The attitudes of men and women concerning gender differences in grief. Omega - Journal of Death and Dying, 50(1), 53-67.

Walter, Tony. (2010). Grief and culture. Bereavement Care, 29(2), 5-9. 

Walter, Tony. (2010). Grief and culture: A checklist. Bereavement Care, 29(2), 5-9.

Winkel, Heidemarie. (2001). A postmodern culture of grief? On individualization of mourning in Germany. Mortality, 6(1), 65-79.

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SHE-HULK BY DAN SLOTT, VOLUMES 1 AND 2 MAY 2004 - OCTOBER 2007 BY DAN SLOTT, TY TEMPLETON, JUAN BOBILLO, PAUL PELLETIER, SCOTT KOLINS, MIKE VOSBURG, AMANDA CONNER, JIMMY PALMIOTTI, RON FRENZ, JOE SINNOTT, SAL BUSCEMA, DONALD SIMPSON, LEE WEEKS, ERIC POWELL, TOM GRUMMETT, HARY ERSKINE, WILL CONRAD, PAUL SMITH, RICK BURCHETT, EDUARDO BARRETO, MARCELO SOSA, TOM SIMMONS, DON HILLSMAN, ROLAND PARIS, RICK MAGYAR, JOE RUBINSTEIN, NELSON, CHRIS RATHBURN, CHRIS CHUCKRY, AVALON STUDIOS, DAVE KEMP, WILL QUINTANA, ANDY TROY, BRAD ANDERSON, DAVE SHARPE, ADI GRANOV, MIKE MAYHEW AND GREG HORN

Evicted from the Avengers mansion, Jennifer Walters has to find a new place to live, and work! You shouldn’t miss the superhero version of Ally McBeal!

SCORE: 10

This was an amazing read, and it is a beautiful reflection of what the Marvel Universe was at the time (touches on Avengers Disassembled, Civil War, Planet Hulk and more).

I always had a predilection for She-Hulk... and at the same time, I was never really fond of Hulk. But yeah, I like the comedic tone of She-Hulk a lot, and Dan Slott did wonders here.

I think the first volume was pretty good, and introduced a supporting cast that was nice to follow around. But I think the arcs that I remember the most are mostly in the second volume.

The main plot I will always remember, is the trial of Eros, because of his... rapey powers.

The twist that Eros could have caused the events of Infinity War was jaw dropping. At that point I was already worried that this arc pretty much destroyed that character, but then they found an acceptable solution, also justifying Eros going out of control.

His powers are rapey, though... I don’t think there is a work around that.

There is a lot of romance and sex in this book (and even a marriage). I feel like comics cannot be like this anymore at Marvel... am I wrong?

There are other nice arcs, like She-Hulk going to trial for trying to prevent the death of Hawkeye (when he was time travelling to the future), or the legal battle between Spider-man and JJJ.

Overall, I love comedy comic-books, and this one was excellent.

The art was very consistent from issue to issue, with some issues being a little weirder, but overall the style was very consistent.

While Greg Horn does amazing covers, sometimes they look a little awkward... like they were inspired by porn or something. Same with Adi Granov.

[eddonegan]

Georg H.W. Bush provider of hitmen to Nixon helped hit JFK RFK. Marcello was hated by RFK, groomed as assasin by Nixon Wild Bill Donovan

The Chicago Outfit

The Pioneer Column was a force raised by Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company in 1890 used for Secret Society rule of world. The #Secretteam of #NWO uses #Mafia for #CIA conquest as though #Mafia #IrregularWarfare #WETDIVISION was marching uniformed military.

The Nixon Tramps 3

Nixon-Rubenstein 1946 Nixon-Sturges 1948 Charles Harrleson with them. Watergate Breakin covers up, G. Gordon Liddy FBI part of assassination.

Frank Anthony Sturgis (December 9, 1924 – December 4, 1993), born Frank Angelo Fiorini, was one of the five Watergate burglars whose capture led to the end of the presidency of Richard Nixon. He served in several branches of the United States military and in the Cuban Revolution of 1958, and worked as an undercover operative for the Central Intelligence Agency. Charles Harrelson was a Mafia contract killer. Jack Rubenstien killed pasty Lee Harvey Oswald who Earle Cabell had setup as alleged JFK hitman.

This is where Robert F. Kennedy was headed, where CD Douglas made his CIA based operations, and has continued to be the Chicago Overthrow source of CIA mafia.

The Chicago Outfit To RFK the Mob as a problem. To Richard Nixon they were secret assets to the CIA.

Ruby had talked with Sam and Joe Campisi and Marcello who had talked in advance of killing JFK and also Candy Barr stripper at Ruby Free Mason Donald Barr CIA Goerge H.W. Bush Free Mason Knight's of Malta and Free Mason J. Edgar Hoover James Angleton, John ulled Alan Dulles Cabell CIA https://youtu.be/PYI4PqtIyE0?t=5950 Who Was Lee Harvey Oswald? (full documentary) | FRONTLINE Oswald an hour late coming down stairs like to get Ruby in position.

A long tradition of organized crime, Lo Cosa Nostra (Sicilian House of Ours) the Kosher Nostra Yiddish Maria of Jack Rubinstein, and mafia available as CIA and FBI assets including Mexican Mafia from Texas and elsewhere.

Nixon had not only Rubinstein and Sam Giacanco and others he had Jimmy Hoffa, coming to Mafia power 1952 Chicago (when Nixon was elected VP) tied to illegal acts and Mafia also Hoffa was tied to gambling Mafia.

But it was in the Soldier Field parking lot in 1961 that Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters president since 1957, learned how to drive a truck.

There is a possibility Clay Shaw and Marcello were connected in New Orleans through the CIA Mafia

Carlos Joseph Marcello[1] (Italian: [marˈtʃɛllo]; born Calogero Minacore [kaˈlɔːdʒero minaˈkɔːre]; February 6, 1910 – March 3, 1993) was an Italian-American crime boss of the New Orleans crime family from 1947 until the late 1980s.

Aside from his role in the American Mafia, he is also notorious for the reason that G. Robert Blakey and others have alleged that Carlos Marcello, Santo Trafficante Jr., and Sam Giancana conspired in the 1963 assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in retaliation for federal investigations and prosecutions that threatened both the power and the multibillion-dollar profits of organized crime.

By the end of 1947, Marcello had taken control of Louisiana's illegal gambling network. He had also joined forces with Genovese crime family associate Meyer Lansky in order to skim money from some of the most important casinos in the New Orleans area shortly after becoming associated with the Todaro family through marriage. According to former members of the Chicago Outfit, Marcello was also assigned a cut of the money skimmed from Las Vegas casinos, in exchange for providing "muscle" in Florida real estate deals. By this time, Marcello had been selected as "The Godfather" of the New Orleans Mafia, by the family's capos and with the approval of The Commission after the deportation of his predecessor, Sylvestro Carolla, to Sicily. He held this position for the next thirty years. In a 1975 extortion trial, two witnesses described Marcello as "The Godfather" of the New Orleans crime syndicate.

Marcello appeared before the U.S. Senate's Kefauver Committee on organized crime on January 25, 1951. He pleaded the Fifth Amendment 152 times. The Committee called Marcello "one of the worst criminals in the country".

Marcello continued the family's long-standing tradition of fierce independence from interference by mafiosi in other areas. He enacted a policy that forbade mafiosi from other families from visiting Louisiana without first asking permission.

On March 24, 1959, Marcello appeared before the United States Senate's McClellan Committee investigating organized crime. Serving as Chief Counsel to the committee was Robert F. Kennedy; his brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, was a member of the committee. In response to committee questioning, Marcello invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer any questions relating to his background, activities, and associates. From then on, Marcello became an avowed enemy of the Kennedys.

General Wild Bill Donovan recruits Frank Sturgis even before OSS

"On April 14, 1942, William Donovan, as Coordinator of Information (forerunner of the Office of Strategic Services), activated units charged with gathering intelligence, harassing the Japanese through guerrilla actions, identifying targets for the Army Air Force to bomb, and rescuing downed Allied airmen."[4] This was what led to Stilwell's Chinese forces, Wingate's Raiders, Merrill's Marauders, in the war, and Frank got trained in Guerrilla tactics and gathering intelligence which became useful in his later events.

Honorably discharged as a corporal in 1945, he enrolled at Virginia Polytechnic Institute but left college and joined the Norfolk Police Department on June 5, 1946.[6] He soon discovered a corrupt payoff system and brought it to the attention of his superiors, who told him to overlook the illegal activities. On October 5, 1946, he had a confrontation with his sergeant and resigned the same day. For the next 18 months, he managed the Havana-Madrid tavern in Norfolk that catered to foreigners, mostly Cuban merchant seamen.

On November 9, 1947, Fiorini joined the United States Naval Reserve at the Norfolk Naval Air Station and learned to fly while still working at the tavern. He was honorably discharged on August 30, 1948, and joined the United States Army the next day. He was sent immediately to West Berlin, where the USSR had closed the land routes during the Berlin Blockade, and he became a member of General Lucius Clay's honor guard. Two weeks after the USSR reopened the land routes on May 11, 1949, Fiorini was honorably discharged. As a Marine Raider, Fiorini had worked behind enemy lines gathering intelligence, and during his Army tenure in Berlin and Heidelberg, he had a top secret clearance and worked in an intelligence unit whose primary target was the Soviet Union. Fiorini started to believe Russia was a threat, and he became a lifelong militant. Returning to Norfolk in 1952, he took a job managing the Cafe Society tavern, then partnered with its owner, Milton Bass, to co-purchase and manage The Top Hat Nightclub in Virginia Beach.

On September 23, 1952, Frank Fiorini filed a petition in the Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, to change his name to Frank Anthony Sturgis, adopting the surname of his stepfather Ralph Sturgis, whom his mother had married in 1937. His new name resembled that of Hank Sturgis, the fictional hero of E. Howard Hunt's 1949 novel, Bimini Run, whose life parallels Frank Sturgis' life from 1942 to 1949 in certain salient respects.

Driver`s ed ''I`d drive (the truck) to Soldier Field,'' said Williams, who was convicted at the 1982 trial and has since died.

''It was the largest place and nobody was parked there at night. We did it two, three times a week. Hoffa picked it up quickly. There were no cops. Just five, six of us guys.''

The guys included Donald Peters, the now-retired longtime president of Chicago Local 743, the union`s largest, and perhaps Hoffa`s closest Chicago friend. While visiting grandchildren in the Pacific Northwest last week, Peters recalled evenings outside the stadium`s south end, including testing anti-jackknife and anti-sleep devices.

''Hoffa was always concerned with truckers` safety, with their livers and kidneys,'' Peters said. ''So it was not just teaching him how to drive, but (teaching him) all the new safety features too.''

To hear Hoffa watchers tell it, Chicago was Hoffa`s most frequent stopover after Detroit (home) and Washington (union headquarters). https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-05-20-9202150150-story.html

Nixon Watergate and Hoffa Deal to silence the matter. Richard Nixon & The Mafia Murdered Jimmy Hoffa (USA Labor Union Leader) | Conspiracy: | Channel 5. Nixon reduced Hoffa's sentence. https://youtu.be/1SsYjlcrXN8

Cubans in the USA can be highly patriotic reject the Communistst that overthrew Cuba. Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany or those fleeing communists in Latin America may have inclinations towards political mafi roles and possible be in mafia ridden towns already.

Big Jim Colosimo retrieved from Wikipedia and copied or modified to here

Vincenzo Colosimo (Italian: February 16, 1878 – May 11, 1920), known as James "Big Jim" Colosimo or as "Diamond Jim", was an Italian-American Mafia crime boss who emigrated from Calabria, Italy, in 1895 and built a criminal empire in Chicago based on prostitution, gambling and racketeering. He gained power through petty crime and by heading a chain of brothels. From about 1902 until his death in 1920, he led a gang that became known after his death as the Chicago Outfit.

Colosimo acquired another nickname, "Diamond Jim," because he frequently dressed in a white suit and wore diamond pins, rings and other jewelry.[4] This, combined with his personal charm and money, helped him establish relationships with women. He had a love of both women and money, which fueled his enthusiasm for prostitution. In 1902, Colosimo married Victoria Moresco, an established Chicago madame[6] and together they opened a second brothel. Torrio was the nephew of Moresco. According to Laurence Bergreen, "Torrio is [also] described as Colosimo’s nephew, but in the absence of any evidence to confirm the relationship, it is more likely their kinship was spiritual rather than familial." There are also references to Colosimo's wife being somehow related to John Torrio.[7] Within a few years, Colosimo had expanded this to nearly 200 brothels and had also made inroads into gambling and racketeering.

Among his first brothels were The Victoria, at Archer and Armor avenue, and The Saratoga, at Dearborn and 22nd street.

He was reputedly making $50,000 ($ 720 000 in 2022) per month from his various legal and illegal operations.

Help from New York By 1909, Black Hand extortion was a serious threat to Colosimo in Chicago. He brought in gangster John "The Fox" Torrio from Brooklyn and made him his second in command. The following year, he opened Colosimo's Cafe, a restaurant and nightclub at 2126 South Wabash. It quickly became a popular destination for prominent Chicagoans and visitors to Chicago.[4] In 1919, Torrio and Colosimo opened a brothel at 2222 South Wabash called the Four Deuces, a reference to the address. Torrio hired his old Brooklyn colleague Al Capone to work as a bartender and bouncer, which gave Capone his entry into Chicago crime.

Black Hand was a method of extortion practiced by gangsters of the Camorra and the Mafia.

The roots of the Black Hand can be traced to the Kingdom of Naples as early as the 1750s. The English language term specifically refers to the organization established by Italian immigrants in the United States during the 1880s. Some of the immigrants formed criminal syndicates, living alongside each other and largely victimizing fellow immigrants.

By 1900, Black Hand operations were firmly established in the Italian communities of major cities, including Philadelphia, Chicago, New Orleans, Scranton, San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Detroit. In 1907, a Black Hand headquarters was discovered in Hillsville, Pennsylvania, a village located a few miles west of New Castle, Pennsylvania. The Black Hand in Hillsville established a school to train members in the use of the stiletto.[4] Another Black Hand headquarters was later discovered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE (1990) - Scripts before Crypts

This week on our annotated deep dive, The Cultists Present 'Tales from the Darkside - The Movie' (1990).  The year was 1983 when George Romero, inspired by the EC comics of the 1950s such as "The Vault" and "Tales from the Crypt", pitched a humble horror TV anthology that would harken back to the golden age of pulp fiction. Seven years, four seasons, and a major motion picture later, Tales has accrued its own fanbase throughout time, and yet this film remains relatively obscure considering its roster. With attached names like George Romero, Steven King, Donald Rubinstein, Christian Slater, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Mathew Lawrence, Debbie Harry (aka Blondie), David Johnson (aka "Buster Poindexter"), Michael McDowell (the dude who wrote Beetlejuice), and even Arthur Conan Doyle, this film is a zany time capsule of 20th century horror. From Debbie Harry's chipper and casual cannibalism, to Christian Slater's electric mummy carving mania, to cats on a vengeance spree from hell, "Tales" is above all else simply a whole lot of fun.

Deep Dives include:  the production’s major players (from Romero, to Slater, to King); the film’s source materials, including: Arthur Conan Doyle’s "Lot 249," Steven King’s "Cat from Hell," Lafcadio Hearn's "Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things," and "Tales From the Darkside" (1983) (the TV show);  The British “Egyptomania” of the late 1800s; the origin of the monstrous mummy in Mummy fiction; the three kingdoms of Ancient Egypt and the process of mummification; Zuni fetishes and the semantic evolution of “Fetish/Fetishism”; the editing techniques of 1940s action-adventures; the glory of theatrical scrims; the Japanese folklore of ghostly ice women; the mathematics of cannibalism; and whether champagne is really what you want to pair with cooked children.

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