#john hubbard

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Motion Picture Magazine, August 1940.

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The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)

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Films Watched in 2024: 97. The Mummy's Tomb (1942) - Dir. Harold Young

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From the Golden Age of Television

Premiere Episode / Pilot

The Mickey Rooney Show / Hey Mulligan - Pilot Episode - NBC - August 28, 1954

Sitcom

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Blake Edwards and Richard Quine

Produced by Joseph Santley

Directed by Richard Quine

Stars:

Mickey Rooney as Mickey Mulligan

Regis Toomey as Joe Mulligan

Claire Carleton as Nell Mulligan

Patricia Edwards as Pat Harding (as Pat Walker)

John Hubbard as Mr. Brown

Alan Mowbray as Jonathan Swift

William Bakewell as Rogerson P. Hammerstine

Robert Clark as Leading Man (David Lambert)

Joanne Jordan as Leading Lady (Julie)

Michael Fox as Old Man (Julie's Father)

[movieassholes]

So he just owns the richest copper mine in the territory. Well, don'tcha see? You've got the daughter of a millionaire. His only daughter! What do ya suppose he'd pay to get her back?

Willard Mims - The Tall T (1957)

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Turnabout (1940) Hal Roach

May 17th 2023

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Johnny Weissmuller modelling for John Hubbard Rich (1924)

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2D Animation for John Silver by Chris Hubbard. Clips are from his animation reel. (better video quality and more examples of his work)

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Painted Ladies and their Biggest Fans

Frank Dicksee (British, 1853-1928) • An Offering • Unknown date • Private collection

Valentine Cameron Prinsep (British/English, 1838–1904) • Leonora of Mantua • 1873

Left: John Hubbard Rich (American, 1876-1954)

Right: Hélier Cosson (French, 1897-1976) • Lady with a Fan • 1922

Julius LeBlanc Stewart (American/active in Paris, 1855–1919) • Portrait of Mrs. Francis Stanton Blake • 1908

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John Hubbard Rich - The Japanese Fan (Portrait of Elizabeth Josephine Harris)

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Yes, Scientology is an evil cult that ruins people’s lives, yes, he spent a lifetime as a con-man and pathological liar, but I feel this should be said: L. Ron Hubbard was not just a good writer, but a great writer, even in the context of the Golden Age, which had no shortage of them, and he was a popular one as well, regularly topping reader polls in Unknown and Astounding.

His contemporaries, like Asimov and L. Sprague de Camp, were in awe of him (at least until things started to get weird with Dianetics). He was the first major writer of scifi to prioritize characterization over a science fiction idea, to write stories that dealt with neurosis and everyman protagonists over adventure stories where an engineer solves a problem, and because of that, his 1930s-40s work has aged so much better than nearly everyone else from that time. 

His best work, in my opinion, was not his scifi but his fantasy/horror, published mainly in John W. Campbell’s Unknown, a magazine he created for horror and fantasy (the two were, really, one genre until the 1960s, like twins conjoined at birth, there was scifi and then there was everything else, witch’s brews and dragons). They include Slaves of Sleep, which starts with a millionaire in modern times who was cursed by an Ifrit inside an artifact he finds, so that every time he goes to sleep, he wakes up in an Arabian Nights realm ruled by an evil genie queen, and whenever he wakes up, he vanishes from that world back into ours, and it’s unclear which is the dream and which is reality. This was a major theme of Heinlein’s work, the blurring between reality and fantasy in a story to the point where it was unclear which is which. He wrote two other fantasy novels with a similar theme: Typewriter in the Sky, which starts as a traditional pirate adventure story, but then there is a sound of a typewriter clacking in the sky, and then everything in the story is rearranged. 

The most fascinating work of Hubbard’s fantasy/horror, and the one with the best insight into his psyche, is Fear, a psychological thriller where a man is visited by demons and ghouls after mocking black magic, and it’s not clear if he’s hallucinating them or if he is going insane, and both possibilities are equally horrifying. There’s no Soldier of the Mist (or Gene Wolfe in general) without Fear. The reason this story is the most fascinating insight into Hubbard as a man is because I actually suspect that L. Ron Hubbard, who wrote about the blurring between fantasy and reality, and had a tendency to write nervous, unheroic, nebbish main characters, may not have been a complete scammer. I think he was the kind of scammer that believed his own bullshit and got high on his own supply, a pusher and user simultaneously. This reminds me of stories Scientology insiders tell where he would have auditing session after auditing session when he felt tormented, something it’s hard to imagine a completely cynical fraudster would do. 

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Lon Chaney Jr. and John Hubbard in The Mummy's Tomb (1942)

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don’t give me the aux i will play the title track from scientology’s album the road to freedom (1986) by l. ron hubbard and friends

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Season 2 Episode 10

Manhunt - Number Five Iron - Syndicated - November 2, 1960

Crime Drama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Written by Jack Jacobs

Produced by Jerry Briskin

Directed by Fred Jackman

Stars

Victor Jory as Det. Lieutenant Howard Finucane

Patrick McVey as Ben Andrews

Michael Stefani as Det. Paul Kirk

Jason Robards Sr. as Raymond Marriner

John Hubbard as Stuart Graham

Irene Vernon as Leona Rogers

House Peters Jr. as Matt Williams

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"If They Only Knew": A Quintet Pushing Jazz Boundaries

Introduction: Released in 1981 on the Dutch Timeless label, “If They Only Knew” by the David Liebman Quintet is an album that showcases the versatile saxophonist’s innovative spirit. Recorded in July 1980 at Fendel Sound Studio in the Netherlands, the record features an all-star lineup of jazz musicians, including trumpeter Terumasa Hino, guitarist John Scofield, bassist Ron McClure, and drummer…

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US Vogue April 15, 1952

Suzy Parker wears a printed coat and hat by Christian Dior. Lipstick, the shade of "Mint Red" by Harriet Hubbard Ayer.)

Suzy Parker porte un manteau imprimé et un chapeau de Christian Dior. Rouge à lèvres, la nuance de "Mint Red" de Harriet Hubbard Ayer.)

Photo John Rawlings vogue archive