#john conte

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LYLE MENENDEZ in front of Chuck’s Spring Street Café, the restaurant he purchased in the fall of 1989.

“And did you consider hiring limousines and bodyguards to be part of the grief response?”

“Grief is a confusing time and it’s…”

“Did you consider buying a ten thousand dollar Rolex watch to be part of the grief response?”

“Oh, spending money is probably the most common thing that people do when they’re grieving and it’s a confusing time and buying suits, kind of like your dad would wear to kinda try to take on some of your dad’s power to deal with it or buying watches, I mean that’s quite consistent with grieving and confusion and trying to figure out what your life is gonna be like after this tragedy.”

“So consistent for someone who suffered the kind of abuse that you indicate Lyle Menendez has, who killed his parents, it’s consistent that four days after the crime that they would go out and buy three Rolex watches? You don’t find that at all troubling in your analysis?”

“I don’t find it at all troubling, first of all it’s consistent with how this family and this young man spent money throughout most of their lives and his life, it is an extremely confusing time there’s grieving, I mean he had the capacity that other people don’t to buy four Rolex watches or whatever but I don’t find that’s at all inconsistent and again it’s post event behavior and the principles for understanding that post event behavior may be very different than understanding the factors that lead up to that event but to go after the event and to take certain behaviors and then try to go back and describe or understand the lead up to the event I think is taking things out of sequence.”

“Dr. Conte, you said it was a confusing time for Lyle Menendez is that correct?”

“Yes.”

“Would you agree that the minutes right after the shooting would have been more confusing than the shopping trip at the century city mall when the watches were purchased?”

“Yes.”

“Alright, and did you consider the fact that during this very confusing time right after the shootings he had the presence of mind to think about fingerprints on the shotgun shells?”

“I don’t know if that’s what he was thinking, I mean people after an incredibly traumatic horrible tragic event may do things that are difficult to understand. I tried to cut off my…accidentally my thumb with a saw one time and instantly put it into my mouth because that’s what you do often when you cut your finger, the problem was there was massive amounts of blood coming out. I mean people do strange things in traumatic situations.”

“But by going back and picking up the shotgun shells he eliminated fingerprints which could have led to his arrest.”

“Ma’am, Jackie Kennedy tried to get on the back of the limousine to get her husband’s skull, people do very strange things in extremely frightening traumatic events. I don’t know that he was going to get fingerprints, I mean if this was a premeditated bad thing he was doing I would assume he’d wipe the fingerprints off the shells before he put them in.”

“Do you consider collecting evidence to avoid apprehension to be something strange?”

“I don’t know that that’s what that behavior was, in the same way that I can’t understand what Mrs Kennedy was doing on the back of the limousine in that incredible horrible seconds after those shots, I don’t know that that’s what was being done, maybe he was… it was a horrible mess maybe it was an effort to clean up, it’s hard.”

“But Dr. Conte, Lyle Menendez testified that when he went out into the hallway he thought to himself I better go back and get those shells, there’s fingerprints on them. And if he’d wiped them off beforehand there was no guarantee that he would have gotten all of the fingerprints so as to leave the shells behind. Do you think that’s analogous? Jackie Kennedy grabbing the top of her husband’s head?”

“Well I think it is analogous to the kinds of… how trauma influences people’s ability to do things in traumatic events.”

“Do you think that Lyle Menendez was suffering from trauma when he returned to the scene of the crime, went through his car in the presence of a police officer and attempted to secrete further evidence which would link him to the crime, is that a traumatic response?”

“Well it depends on… I think that the behavior in that evening and the days following is a period of great confusion and great anxiety.”

“But actually a confused person might not have thought so clearly to get rid of the fingerprints on the shells and to go back to the car and get rid of the shells in the car, correct?”

“A confused person might think with great clarity on those matters or they may think with a lack of clarity on those factors.”

— Dr. John Conte psychologist for Lyle Menendez describes the complexity of grief during cross examination with the prosecution

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New York Dolls Live from Royal Festival Hall, 2004 2004 Attack ————————————————— Tracks: 01. Looking for a Kiss 02. Puss ‘n’ Boots 03. Subway Train 04. Bad Girl 05. You Can’t Put Your Arms around a Memory 06. Lonely Planet Boy 07. Private World 08. Vietnamese Baby 09. Dialogue 10. Frankenstein 11. Babylon 12. Dialogue 13. Trash 14. Jet Boy 15. Personality Crisis —————————————————

John Conte

Steve Conte

David Johansen

Brian Koonin

Gary Powell 

Sylvain Sylvain

* Long Live Rock Archive

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The Desert Song  -  NBC  -  May 7, 1955

Musical

Running Time:  90 minutes

Stars

Nelson Eddy as Pierre / The Red Shadow

Gale Sherwood as Margot

Salvatore Baccaloni as Ali Ben Ali

John Conte as Paul Fontaine

Viola Essen as Azuri

Otto Kruger as General Birabeau

Earl William Sauavin as Hassi

Rod Alexander as Dancer

Felisa Conde as Castagnette Dancer

Bambi Linn as Dancer

Originally telecast live and in color. All that remains is a kinescope from which these images were taken.

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Films Watched in 2023: 74. Lost in a Harem (1944) - Dir. Charles Reisner

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The Big Combo (1955)

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Vid första tonen var det något som brast inne i Agnetas hjärta

Dès la première note, quelque chose se brisa dans le cœur d’Agneta

From the very first note, something broke in Agneta’s heart.

1910

Artist : John Bauer

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@filmxella here you are 🙂 A clip from The Caddy dubbed in italian 👍

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Supernatural (s1-5) & The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann

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Cast of Tommy Photographed at the 2024 Revival Opening

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Somewhere in the Night (1946) Joseph L. Mankiewicz

October 12th 2024

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“Battered women are afraid of being in confined spaces with their husbands and you related that testimony in regards to the boat, the fishing trip on Saturday night, do you remember your testimony in that regard?”

“Yes.”

“Ok, when a woman is alone in a confined space such as her home with a husband, she’s alone with him correct?”

“Yes.”

“They’re not two shipmates and a girlfriend present, correct?”

“Correct.”

“And in most cases that home is the site of prior batterings?”

“Yes.”

“Ok, a ship where you’ve never been before certainly cannot be construed as the site of prior beatings.”

“No, but if your entire life experience has given you the belief that your parents are all powerful, that they can kill you, that they can arrange with others to kill you, then being on a boat where you think that the crew and the captain may be in league with your father that hardly a secure place to be.”

“Well that’s assuming you were told the truth by Lyle Menendez about what he thought about the boat, correct?”

“Well of course it is. But I… in every way that is possible to me, over all the time that I have been with this young man I believe that he is essentially truthful in the critical factors. Now no human being can report every event that they ever had and he is an untreated victim and so he may in some ways behave as an untreated victim, but I find nothing that suggests that he was dishonest with me and was not trying to tell me as the best he could about his life experiences and about the week before his parents died.”

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“But in evaluating Lyle Menendez in terms of his credibility you looked at certain symptoms to see if they were corroborative of a pattern of abuse.”

“That’s correct.”

“So symptomatology was important?”

“Well not symptomatology as is used in that study which I think tended to be quite gross symptoms such as psychosis…”

“People reported they were hearing things, correct?”

“Right, right.”

“Alright, and the study seemed to show that people could be trained to make those reports in order to gain admission into psychiatric institutions.”

“Right, on very gross symptoms such as hearing voices but I’m talking about in my interaction with Lyle over all the hours and all the months are much more subtle kinds of processies, which I number one, don’t think you could train another person to do, um, and uh… two I don’t think you could train someone to do it in a believable way.”

“Have you ever diagnosed anyone as malingering?”

“Um… I’ve never given the diagnosis of malingering, I have suggested that victims have exaggerated the level of trauma and the level of symptomatology resulting from abuse, but those I think are exaggerations…”

“Versus total outright fabrications?”

“Yes.”

“And you’ve never decided that someone was outright lying to you and fabricating things…”

“Oh I have sure. I’ve done evaluations of children and adults who claim abuse where I think abuse did not take place.”

“Now in your evaluation of Lyle Menendez did you consider the 911 tape recording that he made, did you listen to it?”

“Yes.”

“And you were aware of the fact that on that tape he was lying to the police?”

“Yes.”

“And you were aware on that tape he was conveying information to the police to mislead?”

“Yes.”

“Ok, you’re aware of the fact that shortly after being taken to the Beverly Hills police department on the morning of the 21st of august he again lied to the police?”

“Yes.”

“Now, it is not uncommon for someone caught in a crime to lie about their participation in the crime, is it?”

“I don’t think it’s uncommon for people who are caught in a crime and I don’t think its uncommon for people who are in a highly emotional state to be inaccurate in the information that they provide. I think that you really in this case have two different events that you’re trying to understand, you have the events leading up to Lyle’s parents deaths and then you have the post event activities. I don’t find that… what you’re calling the lies and the misstatements that I think take place largely in a state of great fear and confusion and anxiety in which the individual understandable might be trying to save themselves, I don’t think those are all that helpful in understanding pre-death events.”

“What about the fact that he lied to reporters who interviewed him? Did you consider that at all interesting in your evaluation of him?”

“Well again it is post event behavior.”

“But it’s behavior that occurred some period of time after the events which he says caused him to kill his parents.”

“Yes.”

“Ok and in talking to the reporters a month after the crime, he’s not acting under the same emotional state as he would have been during the 911 call.”

“No but I think he may well have been acting, in fact I think he was acting in a sense out of grief, out of confusion try to figure out how to live post this time, I think uh.. perhaps trying to get some kind of a life after the end of his life that he had known it.”

— Dr. John Conte, psychologist for Lyle Menendez, during cross examination by the prosecution describing his belief in Lyle’s statements to him

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Dane Clark an underrated noirguy

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From the Golden Age of Television

Fear Strikes Out - CBS - August 18, 1955

A presentation of "Climax!" Season 1 Episode 37

Drama

Running Time: 60 minutes

Produced by Martin Manulis

Directed by Herbert Swope Jr

Hosted by William Lundigan

Stars:

Tab Hunter as Jimmy Piersall

Mona Freeman as Mary Piersall

John Conte as Dr. Duillermo Brown

Robert Armstrong as John Piersall

Jason Wingreen as Slim Patterson

Dorothy Adams as Mrs. Piersall

Larry Thor as The Announcer

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Julie doing “stuff” with famous people (17th post)

Behind the scenes of BODY AND SOUL, director Robert Rossen rushes behind Julie. Rossen was a screenwriter for three of Julie’s earlier films: DUST BE MY DESTINY, THE SEA WOLF, and OUT OF THE FOG.

Before a scene is filmed for HE RAN ALL THE WAY, a camera crew member test tones on Julie and Shelly Winters with a light meter.

Julie, Jennifer Jones and director, John Huston get a kick out of a visitor to the set of WE WERE STRANGERS.

Richard Conte and Ruth Hussey take in an event with Julie as spectators. Not sure what the event was but they seem to be enjoying their conversation.

Julie with Ramon Novarro on the set of WE WERE STRANGERS.

In the first Hollywood Players radio program, Rex Harrison, Julie and Gregory Peck present flowers to Bette Davis after her performance of a one-act play based on Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop” in 1946.

Julie and Gregory Peck in a still from GENTLEMAN’S AGREEMENT.

AND…Julie and Oscar Levant in a still from HUMORESQUE.

A publicity shot featuring Julie and Cary Grant makes use of a DESTINATION TOKYO still to tout war bonds, the movie and the stars.

David Niven visits Julie and Lily Palmer on the set of BODY AND SOUL.

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Peter & The Pink Shirt Slo-Mo

I finally got around to slowing this clip down because I wanted to see Peter's expressions better. Here he's with John Garfield and Richard Conte, Beverly Hills Tennis Club, 1945.

Lads having a good time! Love his smile.

The clip is from the end of Home Movies of Beverly Hills, Circa 1935-1947.

You can also find an excellent gif set here.