#Helen Wallace

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The Big Combo (1955)

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puts these all in one place hands you all these shitposts in these trying times

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hey people who like wallace wells

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The Big Combo (1955) Joseph H. Lewis

December 10th 2023

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“I’m gonna do you a favor. You won’t hear the bullets.”

The Big Combo (1955) dir. Joseph H. Lewis

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Since I have a continuing history of keeping up with IDW-ish podcasters on YouTube (Glenn Loury, Coleman Hughes, etc.) who occasionally do episodes on trans issues as well as a spotty history of clicking on videos with clips of Jordan Peterson, the algorithm recommends a lot of videos on "transgenderism" and "the trans debate" and so on to me. A noticeable and (to my thinking) really concerning aspect of the whole set of issues is how reliably anyone who expresses interest in debating or even critically discussing trans issues is, um, on one general side of them, and how little debating or critical discussion there seems to be available. I avoid clicking on videos with titles involving "transgenderism" or "transgender ideology" or "the trans debate" and other tribal buzzwords for a bunch of reasons, but I decided to make an exception the other day when I saw a video entitled "DEBATE: does transgender ideology threaten liberal values?" (a terribly-phrased question, like most debate questions are) because it appeared to be... an actual debate! With people on both sides showing up! (Though apparently not among the audience, which by the sound of it was entirely on the anti-trans side.)

So of course, as I should have fully expected, this debate only supported my conviction that the rhetoric of nearly everyone on all sides of this is just terrible. The only nuanced and halfway decent debater here was Peter Tatchell (on the trans rights side), and some of even his arguments were used to catch him in a bind later on (more on that later). The debate as a whole was generally a bit of a -- I can only use the term shitshow here -- with debaters (mainly Freda) interrupting each other, the (seemingly entirely anti-trans) audience heckling the trans-rights debaters, and the somewhat awkward and ineffectual moderator mostly failing to keep everyone in order. Well, what better could I have expected?

Marc Glendening (on the anti-trans-rights side) had less to say than everyone else and was basically just a robot trying to churn out dry legal summaries of the situation and spouting claims about free speech rights being taken away that I find extremely dubious as phrased by him (I don't know too much about what's going on in the UK, but if we took Marc's depictions of the situation at face value, they do not jibe with his teammate Helen's completely lack of inhibition in misgendering Freda in a video-recorded debate!).

Helen Joyce was the only person involved that I was familiar with from before, since many months ago I watched an episode of Coleman Hughes' podcast where he interviewed her, thought she had some reasonable points and liked her overall rational manner of arguing, but lost any sense of her credibility because of her completely unbending and extreme absolutism. YouTube had been recommending me videos with her ever since (I really hate how stubborn the algorithm is), and I had refused up until now to click on anything involving her again. In this debate I saw the same extremist tendencies and genuine TERFiness (up until fairly recently my exposure to TERF ideology was mostly indirect as something people on Tumblr criticized and I was beginning to wonder how much of it was actually out there in force and what it really looks like -- it seems to have plenty of force in the UK and Joyce is probably one of the gentler examples I suppose!) and also saw a rational and dignified approach which I admire but unfortunately didn't lead to actually good arguments. There is plenty of room for rebuttal to Helen's arguments from my perspective, and of course almost none of that material was ever rebutted by the other side, which again doesn't surprise me given how little (in my experience of watching/reading criticisms of, say, JKR's arguments) people on the trans rights side seem to actually directly address certain types of opposing arguments. I can't decide which bothers me more: Helen's repeated comments about how the rest of the debaters went through male puberty and therefore their male voices enabled them to talk over her (easily refuted, mainly in the case of the trans women sitting on the other side, and meanwhile neither of the men ever interrupted or talked over her, but nobody addressed this, and it places Helen across my personal "too borderline-misandristic for me to feel comfortable hanging around her" line), or her claim that those men who do insist on trespassing women-only spaces have proved that they are among the dangerous ones because they don't care about women's boundaries (a very dangerous mentality, and displaying exquisite lack of theory of mind, and again nobody tried to rebut it).

Freda Wallace is... a complete mess, and I think an embarrassment to her cause. She spoke a lot (while delusionally muttering that Helen wouldn't stop talking), and very little of what she had to say comprised actual argumentation but was more of a semi-incoherent jumble of points that often ended in punchlines that seemed to be deliberately phrased into ridiculous and bizarre statements perhaps crafted to be provocative and eliciting scorn from the audience. She frequently interrupted all three of the debaters generally with childish and semi-irrelevant ad hominems, even eventually visibly pissing off her own teammate Peter. Freda appears to be exactly the caricature of aggressive, loud, attention-seeking, obnoxious, shameless, hedonistic, fetishistic trans woman that J. K. Rowling types seem to imagine among trans activists. ("So, when I fuck men, with my female penis, in fetish clubs, it is my choice. It doesn't matter what you think. And those men support Sex Matters, because in public they will, but in private, they'll fuck me [ending in a smug grin]" is... I guess technically a way that someone can talk during a recorded public debate, but maybe shouldn't be recommended? I didn't notice until I read the comments later how a minute or two after that, her teammate Peter repeated tries to get her to stop interrupting, then gently grabs her arm as she lifts her glass of wine again saying, "No more drink.") If the trans-rights organization involved wanted to strengthen transphobia and transmisogyny in particular, they probably could not have chosen a better trans woman to put on their team. There's something to discuss here (although if I tried to develop where I speculatively want to go with this, I might quickly get myself into hot water) about how difficult it seems to be to get a member of the trans community to participate in an event like this, and how it requires the very thickest-skinned type of personality which unfortunately in this case also coincides with the most loud and shameless. (This is a very under-developed and perhaps sloppily-phrased point that I probably shouldn't be leaving in this post!)

As I said earlier, Peter Tatchell, along with many of his arguments, I actually liked; he seems like a pretty cool guy all around. He did get backed into a corner at one point through an audience member's question: he had repeatedly made the argument that excluding male-bodied people from women's shelters because men are more likely to be violent was choosing to treat an entire group based on a generalization and that he was against this on principle (compare to refusing to allow immigration from certain groups because some tiny minority of them is more likely to be dangerous, etc.), and he was asked whether he wasn't generalizing in the exact same way by being in favor of excluding cis men ("all men, as you identify who's a man") from women's spaces. At first Peter seems to misunderstand that the questioner is talking about cis men and be trying to duck the question, but eventually he is backed into acknowledging the question and taking the stance that "people who present as men" should be excluded from women's bathrooms but trans women shouldn't -- a position that sounds quite blatantly transphobic in more than one way by the lights of much of trans activism! Also, Peter's stern coldness in stopping Freda from interrupting him with disagreement during his point about transness showing in people's brains says all we really need to know about his opinion of his own teammate, and I do kind of feel bad for him for having been paired with her, which I imagine was not his choice.

I looked briefly through the comments section to see if there was any discussion of why the video (annoyingly) cuts off abruptly before the end of the event (which wound up mentioned only once that I could see). Never have I seen a sea of comments so 100% skewed in favor of one side of an issue and in one direction: how amazing Helen Joyce is (and with a heap of derogatory and sometimes extremely transmisogynistic comments about Freda Wallace -- they go further than Joyce did by naming her Fred, a few do call her Freda and use feminine pronouns, but in at least one instance someone's use of "her" was "corrected" in a one-word response by another commenter!). It makes me wonder what happens to create a section of hundreds of comments that are literally 100% on one side -- is there a sort of tipping point when one side becomes a strong enough majority that everyone on the other side is just afraid to comment, or gets downvoted to invisibility by the rating system? Either way, this debate strikes me as weak enough on the pro-trans side that trans right activists probably wouldn't want to advertise it on YouTube.

Anyway, very very discouraging for anyone who would like our public discourse on this set of issues to stop being more of a complete mess than the public discourse on pretty much every other contentious social issue has been.

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Update on Wallace Harrison

I have made a lot of progress over the last several days and am SO excited to share what I've found so far. After scouring quite literally thousands of records on ancestry.com and newpaper archives, this is what I've managed to learn so far:

Wallace was born in June 1900 in Preston, Lanchashire, and moved to Auckland, NZ when he was around 11.

I did also find his parents and grandfather's names and it turns out he was named after his paternal grandfather!

He lived in California for a while, starting in the 20's.

There, he met Caroline (Carol) Wurtenberger and they got married in 1929.

They lived there until the 40s when they ended up in New York until the 50's. Carol was an art teacher/art professor in both places they lived; Wallace's occupation was listed as "painter" "commercial painter" and "unemployed" through the years.

In 1933, Wallace was shown in an exhibition at the Valentine Gallery. The exhibition catalogue for his pieces was written by writer and friend of his, Maurice Sachs.

A review of this show in the New York Times praises his works and states that the influence of both Matisse and Picasso are evident in his work.

At some point in the 40s, he taught both Helen Frankenthaler and Charlotte Park. Possibly in conjunction with Cooper Union University, though I'm still trying to confirm.

Him and Carol took a trip to England in 1930

In 1954, he left America and headed off for France, arriving in a port in Cannes.

In '56, he left France and moved to Spain. He lived there until his death in 1980 in Palma.

This little project of mine is FAR from over, there's still a million questions plaguing me (who the fuck is henriette!!), but I'm ecstatic that I've been able to even get this much. And there's even bits that aren't super important that I'm leaving out, such as where Carol was from, where she worked, her family, etc. It's very exciting and it really does feel awesome that like this has actually panned out and my efforts have results instead of it being a complete dead end like i was beginning to think.

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Max anuncia al elenco que se incorpora a la tercera temporada de “Hacks”

La aclamada serie de Max Originals ha incorporado a Helen Hunt, Christina Hendricks, Christopher Lloyd, Dan Bucatinsky, George Wallace y Tony Goldwyn como estrellas invitadas para la esperada tercera temporada, que se estrenará en algún punto de la primavera del 2024.

Resumen de la temporada 3: Un año después de su separación, Deborah Vance está disfrutando del éxito por su especial de monólogos, mientras que Ava busca nuevas oportunidades en Los Ángeles.

Creada y dirigida por Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello y Jen Statsky, la serie cuenta, en su reparto principal, con las actuaciones de Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, Paul W. Downs, Megan Stalter, Carl Clemons Hopkins, Kaitlin Olson, Christopher McDonald, Mark Indelicato, Rose Abdoo y Lorenza Izzo.

La producción ejecutiva corre a cargo de Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello, Jen Statsky, Michael Schur, David Miner y Morgan Sackett. Las compañías de producción son Paulilu Productions, First Thought Productions, Fremulon, 3 Arts Entertainment y Universal Television.

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New tribute video to some of Film Noir's Femme Fatales :)

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Bad movie I have The Curse of the Jade Scorpion 2001

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Parade of the Award Nominees (Disney, 1932) dir. Walt Disney, for the 5th Academy Awards.

This was Mickey's first appearance in a COLOR cartoon. Notice his shorts were GREEN.

United Artists had recently agreed to fund Walt's Silly Symphony cartoons in color, and Walt was hoping that this special presentation would convince them to do the same for his Mickey series.

Buy me a coffee!

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Just added to Etsy!

~ "The Americas: The Earth and Its People" by Wallace Atwood and Helen Goss Thomas (1938)

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What happened to my Pleasantview? Part 2: The Broke Lineage

Here’s the second part of my Pleasantview stories. A bit long but has been fun to recall all of the events for this. Now I am seriously regretting not documenting all of this drama and stories!!

The Broke lineage is by far the biggest one of them all. Brandi is, at this point, the matriarch of the entire neighborhood and she is related to everyone else, which was her dream after all: a large family! (Her LTW was 6 grandkids)

Brandi struggled for a long time after the birth of her third son, Adam (unborn baby Broke). Dustin kept working as a thief alongside his good friend Gordon, but did not feel comfortable breaking the law. He wanted to become The Law and live a normal suburban life but felt responsible for his mother and two younger brothers. He did manage to get good enough notes to go to college and that’s where he really turned his life around. He worked hard to get his degree, married his longtime girlfriend Angela and had three children: Helen, Holly and Pete. After an entire lifetime of constant work he did become The Law and died happily, leaving a good fortune to his family and a strong legacy for the entire neighborhood.

Helen was a very active Romance sim, flirty and talented. Her musical talent became evident in her teen and college years. Holly inherited the family house after Dustin and Angela’s deaths and fell deeply in love with a guy named Ricky Cormier. They married and the family name changed to Cormier-Broke (because at this point the Brokes were anything but broke, but Holly wanted to honor her father and not lose the name completely). But there was a problem: Ricky had a history with Holly’s sister, Helen. Their relationship crashed hard when Helen decided to flirt and make out with Ricky at one of the family weddings where pretty much the entire neighborhood was gathering. After this, Helen and Holly’s relationship was broken beyond repair and Holly never forgave this, and neither did the rest of the family. So, Helen would live isolated from the rest of her family and former friends for the rest of her life, throwing herself at several men’s arms and to her career, becoming a music legend. She died alone at her huge apartment. Prior to the entire disaster, Holly had become pregnant and had a child, Oliver. She closed herself to love and focused on being a single mother after her divorce from Ricky. Oliver has recently married Joanna Dreamer (Dirk’s granddaughter).

Pete, the youngest of Dustin’s children, is the most beloved member of the entire family. He was too young to be caught in the middle of his older sisters’s drama and was too sweet to be corrupted anyway. He married Maisie Wallace, one of Cassandra and Darren’s granddaughters, and had a daughter, Anne.

Beau had a tough childhood just like his brother Dustin, although much easier than him thanks to his brother’s dedication. He became close friends with both Alexander Goth and Lucy Burb. The three of them were very close during their lifetimes. College, however, was hard on them all once romantic feelings began to develop between Alexander and Lucy and also between Lucy and Beau. Lucy and Beau ended up choosing each other, getting engaged since college and becoming a happy stable family. Both Beau and Lucy decided to make their family focus on gardening, choosing to rely mostly on their own produce instead of buying groceries, so that’s why the Burbs are known as the best gardeners in Pleasantview. Beau and Lucy had two children, Kelvin and Richard. Richard inherited the Burb farm, married a mysterious foreign girl named Emmy, and after a long period of infertility, they had two children, Orson and Ervin. Orson is set to become the new heir. Kelvin, on the other hand, married his college girlfriend Nancy Flowers and took her last name. They had two children, Titus and Farrah. Titus has recently become the sole heir after an accident in the kitchen took both Nancy and Farrah’s lives.

Adam (aka Unborn baby Broke), being Brandi’s third and middle child, did see the family go from living in trailers to be a consolidated family force. His first major life change was seeing his brother Dustin leave for college when he had just become a child, and so he was mostly close to Beau. At this point, Brandi met a new neighbor called Teddy Cross, they fell in love, got married, and had twins: Grant and Felicia. So, Adam also became quite close to his younger half siblings. In his teen years he met Meadow Thayer, took her last name and went on to marry her. They were close to being broke at first and had a tough beginning especially after the birth of their twins, Camilla and Cora. But Adam did manage to become a huge soccer star and Meadow was a big support to him and his family. He was the one with the lowest profile out of the five siblings and died peacefully of old age. Adam’s daughter, Camilla, became the heiress of his and Meadow’s house. She married Matthias Goth, Alexander’s eldest child, and had three children: Alex, Harper and Nate. Both Camilla and Matthias have recently became elders and are enjoying their children’s company before they all move to college. Harper is set to become the heir and the Thayers are, as of now, the only Matriarchy in Pleasantview.

Cora remained single for a while, falling in love with inappropriate men, most notoriously Omar Morrison (who was dating his second wife Maggie at the time and old enough to be her father) and Nicholas Stratton (Kaylynn’s youngest son…and also married). She met her husband, Dorian Kauker, when he helped her after a burglar entered her apartment. They had a son, Gabriel.

Teddy and Brandi had another financial setback and were forced to live temporarily at smaller trailers, and so their children lived with some restrictions but under a completely different context than that of Dustin, Beau and Adam. Grant was the only one of Brandi’s children who inherited her aspiration and also shared her visions of a big family. He met his wife, Kara (Cassandra and Darren’s daughter) since childhood and was always faithful to her. They had three daughters: Celine, Gina and Polly. Celine inherited the Cross name and house and is now a renowned actress, Gina married into the Morrisons and had two daughters, Tegan and Veronica; and Polly is just living her life as free townie.

Felicia, Brandi’s youngest and only daughter, was basically Brandi’s clone (regarding her looks) but was the opposite personality wise. A free spirit and highly athletic, she decided to follow in her big brother Adam’s footsteps in the Athletic career and somehow developed commitment issues, so she never married. She did, however, become close to Kennedy Cox who is the father of her only daughter, Ursula. When Ursula became an adult the family name was officially changed to Cox. Ursula began dating Isaac Dreamer after she became an adult and they get along so well despite the big age gap. They had one daughter, Rachel, and Isaac has recently moved in.