#howard st. john

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STRAIT-JACKET (1964)

Director: William Castle Cinematography: Arthur E. Arling

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god forbid I just go about my business

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One, Two, Three (1961) Billy Wilder

May 13th 2023

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sanctuary, tony richardson 1961

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13 marzo … ricordiamo …

13 marzo … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2022: William Hurt, attore statunitense. Sposò l’attrice Mary Beth Hurt divorziando l’anno successivo. Ebbe una relazione con Sandra Jennings, con la quale ebbe un figlio e con l’attrice Marlee Matlin.  Si risposò con Heidi Henderson che gli diede due figli. Ebbe un’altra figlia dall’attrice Sandrine Bonnaire. (n. 1950) 2021: Giovanni Gastel, è stato un fotografo italiano. Lavora per numerose…

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Strait-Jacket

Joan Crawford has two entrances in William Castle’s STRAIT-JACKET (1964, Tubi, YouTube) that suggest two very different movies. In her second, following the titles, she steps off a train after having spent 20 years in an asylum. She’s tentative, vulnerable and very moving. Had Castle drawn on that, he might have had a delicate story of a mental patient adjusting to life on the outside, the senior version of HOME BEFORE DARK (1958). But that wouldn’t be a William Castle film. Her first entrance, in a pre-credits prologue set in the 1940s, is like her entrance in RAIN (1932). You get bits of a garishly dressed woman stepping off a train. Crawford, at 60 trying to play a hot babe in her 20s is high camp, though not of the knowing John Waters variety. There’s something sad about watching her go over-the-top, seemingly without realizing it, as she draws on tricks that sometimes worked back when she had good scripts.

And this is not a good script (that may not be screenwriter Robert Bloch’s fault; the script had to be re-written to make it a Joan Crawford film). In the flashback, Crawford catches her husband cheating and chops him and his mistress up as their little girl watches. Twenty years later, Crawford is out of the asylum to meet her daughter (Diane Baker), who insists she dress as she did when she was younger. At times it’s embarrassing, particularly when Crawford starts trying to act like her younger self and comes on to Baker’s boyfriend (John Anthony Hayes, an actor so wooden, you expect his leading ladies to get splinters). And then the killings start back up. Crawford’s performance, like the writing of her character, is all bits. To make matters worse, they’re often poorly played bits. She only really works playing the character’s vulnerable side. When she loses her temper or gets hysterical or tries to be seductive, it’s laughably bad, though she’s also so magnetic you can’t look away. Until the writing does her in. Baker comes off much better. Once you know the final twist, you can see how skillfully and subtly she works out her character arc. Leif Erickson is jovial and caring as Crawford’s farmer brother. Rochelle Hudson is his wife. Every time she has to deal with Crawford’s problems, she looks as if she were smelling something bad. Also with George Kennedy as a farmhand, Pepsi vice president Mitchell (don’t quit your day job) Cox as Crawford’s psychiatrist, Edith Atwater and Howard St. John as Hayes’ snooty parents, and Lee Majors, making his film debut as Crawford’s husband. To survive this one, he’d need a bionic head

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John St. Polis-Constance Cummings "El código criminal" (The criminal code) 1930, de Howard Hawks.

[bookmaven]

SKULL-FACE AND OTHERS by Robert E. Howard (Sauk City: Arkham House,1946) Cover by Hannes Bok.

Fantasy/horror collection. Limited to 3004 copies.

Skull-Face is a fantasy novella originally serialized in Weird Tales (October through December, 1929). Clearly influenced by Sax Rohmer's opus Fu Manchu it substitutes a resuscitated Atlantean necromancer for the Asian villain. From the center of a web of crime and deceit he means to end Western world domination in order to re-instate surviving Atlanteans (lying dormant in submerged sarcophagi) as the new ruling elite.

Wolfshead (Weird Tales, April 1926) Cover by F.M. Stevenson • The Fire of Asshurbanipal (Weird Tales, December 1936) Cover by J. Allen St. John • Shadows in Zamboula (Weird Tales, November 1935) Cover by Margaret Brundage.

Contents:

vii · Foreword · August Derleth

ix · Which Will Scarcely Be Understood (Weird Tales, October 1937)

xiii · Robert E. Howard: A Memoriam by H.P. Lovecraft (Fantasy Magazine, September 1936), as “In Memoriam: Robert E. Howard”; revised from “Robert Ervin Howard: 1906-1936” (The Phantagraph, August 1936)

xvii · A Memory of R.E. Howard by E. Hoffmann Price [A slightly different version appeared in The Ghost, May 1945 as “The Book of the Dead, Chapter 2, Robert Ervin Howard”.]

Wolfshead (Weird Tales, April 1926) [de Montour]

The Black Stone (Weird Tales, November 1931) [Cthulhu]

“The Horror from the Mound” (Weird Tales, May 1932)

The Cairn on the Headland (Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, January 1933)

Black Canaan (Weird Tales, June 1936)

The Fire of Asshurbanipal (Weird Tales, December 1936) [Cthulhu]

“A Man-Eating Jeopard” (Cowboy Stories, June 1936) [Buckner Grimes]

The Hyborian Age (LANY Cooperative Publications, 1938) [The first half was published in The Phantagraph, (February, August, & October/November 1936)]

Skull-Face (Weird Tales, October 1929) [Kathulos]

Worms of the Earth (Weird Tales, November 1932) [Bran Mak Morn]

The Valley of the Worm (Weird Tales, February 1934) [James Allison]

“Skulls in the Stars” (Weird Tales, January 1929) [Solomon Kane]

“Rattle of Bones” (Weird Tales, June 1929) [Solomon Kane]

The Hills of the Dead (Weird Tales, August 1930) [Solomon Kane]

Wings in the Night (Weird Tales, July 1932) [Solomon Kane]

The Shadow Kingdom (Weird Tales, August 1929) [Kull]

“The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune” (Weird Tales, September 1929) [Kull]

Kings of the Night (Weird Tales, November 1930) [Bran Mak Morn; Kull]

The Phoenix on the Sword (Weird Tales, December 1932) [Conan]

The Scarlet Citadel (Weird Tales, January 1933) [Conan]

The Tower of the Elephant (Weird Tales, March 1933) [Conan]

Rogues in the House (Weird Tales, January 1934) [Conan]

Shadows in Zamboula (Weird Tales, November 1935) [Conan]

Lines Written in the Realization That I Must Die (Weird Tales, August 1938)

Famous Fantastic Mysteries (December, 1952) Cover by Lawrence. [reprint magazine]

Skull-Face by Robert E. Howard [Weird Tales, October 1929]

Killdozer! by Theodore Sturgeon [Astounding Science Fiction, November 1944]

“The Homecoming” by Ray Bradbury [Mademoiselle, October 1946]

“The Coat” by A.E.D. Smith [from POWERS OF DARKNESS edited by Philip Allan, 1934]

(London: Panther, 1976) Cover by Chris Achilleos. • (New York: Berkley, 1978) • (Japan)

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E. Howard Hunt (as David St. John) - The Coven - Fawcett - 1973

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ℋ𝑒𝓇𝑒'𝓈 𝓂𝓎 #2 𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝓇𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒾𝒸/𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝒹𝓎 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 (𝐑𝐨𝐜𝐤 𝐇𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐧) 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗻 (𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐲) 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝓇𝒾𝓋𝒶𝓁 𝒶𝒹𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒸𝒾𝑒𝓈. 𝗠𝗿. 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿'𝘀 𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓃𝒸𝓎 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓈 𝒶 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝒹𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒾𝓈𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉'𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓊𝓅 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝒻𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝓉 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝐕 𝐈 𝐏. 𝒲𝒶𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓎 𝒶𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝗠𝗿. 𝗪𝗲𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿, 𝗠𝘀. 𝗧𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝒹 𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐕 𝐈 𝐏 𝓅𝓇𝑜𝒹𝓊𝒸𝓉 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑜𝓇/𝒹𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓇. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒶𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈 𝓇𝒶𝓂𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒/𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝒹𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 ℐ 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓎𝑜𝓊'𝓁𝓁 𝑒𝓃𝒿𝑜𝓎. ℐ 𝓊𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝓉𝓇𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝐕 𝐈 𝐏 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 ℐ 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓀𝒾𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓈, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 ℐ 𝒻𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓈, 𝒾𝓉 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝒽𝑜𝑜𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒾𝓁𝓂 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓈𝓉.

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Bad movie I have Meet Joe Black 1998 It also has Death Take a Holiday 1934

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Quem estiver à procura do Lord Archibald vai encontra-la aqui : @ghstlygrm

⋅ ⋅ -ˋˏ➸ Welcome to our new arrival! Os jornais estão alvoroçados com a chegada de Lord Archibald Howard St. John, o Conde de Effingham. { @byron-aysun o homem que pretende desvendar suas habilidades está aqui! } { @milles-joseph seu amargo rival está aqui! }

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711 Ocean Drive (1950) Joseph M. Newman

May 23rd 2023

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God I love when you tell me something is "relevant to my interests" because you. never. miss. This is an absolute delight and I'm so glad John took the piss out of Russell's comment.

My journey through John Oliver's IMDB page that I've been doing in the last few days (summary: his old Cambridge doc got taken off YouTube, I got paranoid about how I'm glad I'd saved that but this is a reminder that nothing stays on the internet forever so you need to save the stuff you want to keep, this escalated too quickly into me buying a new external hard drive just to see how much of his IMDB page I can download and put in one place) has brought me through a documentary about Russell Howard from 2021. I previously knew that documentary existed, but I hadn't watched it because even before Russell doubled down on the Jordan Peterson thing enough for me to be done watching his stuff (I ignored the mild comments for months before he actually invited Peterson onto his show and made ignoring it impossible), I didn't need to see a documentary about how the pandemic made life difficult for an extremely rich and successful touring comedian.

However, I learned today that John Oliver had a credit in the documentary, so obviously I immediately downloaded it. To be honest I haven't watched the whole thing, I just skipped through it in search of the John Oliver bits. Because I have given up on Russell Howard, but his former connection to the Chocolate Milk Gang, and my hobby of cataloguing all Chocolate Milk Gang history, is the only thing that will make me temporarily suspend my closely held principles such as a hard line against all Jordan Peterson apologists. I did the same thing with his recent podcast, rolling my eyes when I first saw it announced because surely he doesn't need another platform and Britcom doesn't need another bland podcast, until I saw that there would be a John Oliver episode and obviously I listened to that one.

Anyway, the point is that there was some fun Chocolate Milk Gang history in the documentary, I've cut out the relevant clip:

The Chocolate Milk Gang goes by many names. Andrew Maxwell apparently called them "the guys with the bags". Stewart Lee has called them "The hanging around gang". In a discussion with Richard Herring they were labeled "the nerds of the circuit". But here we have a new one: the golden generation. A name coined by Russell Howard and then immediately and entirely justifiably ripped apart by John Oliver, what good stuff. I greatly enjoyed that. Someone should make a Chocolate Milk Gang documentary. I could probably cut together a Chocolate Milk Gang documentary from all the media files I've hoarded. See how many names they've been given over the years.

Based on the ten or so minutes I watched, I think I might genuinely be capable of putting together better videos than the person who made this Russell Howard documentary, the editing on it looks surprisingly amateur-ish for a film about such a huge mainstream star. However, it did provide me with very slightly (only very slightly, but still) higher quality versions of a couple of CMG-related images I had seen before, but had only seen in terrible quality, so it's nice to have those a little clearer:

And I hadn't seen this one before, I don't think Andy Zaltzman changed in appearance at all between 2003 and about 2017.

Oh and Steve Hall shows up at the end, which is fun. I like that guy. I like Steve Hall probably too much, given the fact that the main thing I've heard him do is be quite gross on several episodes Daniel Kitson's radio show in 2007-2008. But it was really funny. Those episodes made me laugh almost constantly and I recommend them to absolutely no one, no one should ever hear that. Though it's not the only thing I've heard him do. I have to be the only person in the world who watched the We Are Klang sitcom in 2023 just for one actor, but that actor was not Greg Davies. Oh and Steve Hall was in that Late 'n' Live recording from 2007, but that's not a lot better for making him respectable. He writes on The Russell Howard Hour and on some level I know he was probably involved in bringing in Jordan Peterson and probably if I asked Steve Hall to tell me all his political opinions I wouldn't be able to enjoy his old sitcom anymore, but luckily he doesn't have a big enough platform to tell us all his opinions so I'll just assume it's fine.

@lastweeksshirttonight, tagging you in case you don't happen to see this post because you'll really enjoy that video clip, it is relevant to your interests.