#paul getty jr.

[ludmilachaibemachado]

Brian Jones, Nicky Browne, Tara Browne, Paul Getty Jr, Talitha Getty & Anita Pallenberg photographed by Michael Cooper in Ireland on Tara's 21st birthday, 1966🥀🍃🍂

"The first time I met Robert was in Ireland when he was chaperoning Mick, Keith, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg at Desmond Guinness's superb Georgian castle, Leixlip, near Dublin. Mick and Marianne were lording around the grounds like the old money Mick was not. It was amazing how quickly he laundered himself from a terraced house in Dartford to a very large castle in Ireland. It had taken the Guinnesses a hundred and fifty years to achieve the same transformation. It took Mick fifteen months." -Andrew Loog Oldham🥀🍃

Via @weirdtvland on Instagram🍂

[luthiery]

[vintagelasvegas]

Club Bingo and Sahara Hotel & Casino

Club Bingo became the Sahara. Photos c. 1948 and 1952.

Club Bingo, predecessor of Sahara ('47-'52)

‘46: M.D. Close builds a restaurant on this site; sold a year later to Prewin Inc (Milton Prell, Al Winter).

‘47: Club Bingo opens 7/24/47. Prell, Winter & partners, owners. Wurdeman & Becket, architects. Signs by YESCO.

‘48: Bonanza Room opens in May, signs added.

‘49: New sign by YESCO and Aloysius McDonald.

‘52: Club Bingo closed in May. Club Bingo’s main building incorporated into the Sahara as the coffee shop. Casino items sold to the public in June.

Sahara Hotel & Casino ('52-)

‘52: Sahara opened 10/7/52. 200 rooms. Prell, Winter & partners, owners. Max Meltzman, architect. Built by Del Webb Corp.

‘55: 200-room, low-rise expansion on the south side of the resort.

‘60: 14-story, 200-room Tunis Tower addition opened in May. (600 rm total.) M. Stern Jr, architect. Built by Del Webb Corp. Tunis tower said to be Nevada’s tallest building. 127-ft sign by YESCO added in Fall.

‘61: Sahara, The Mint, and Lucky Strike Club sold to Del Webb Corp, under new subsidiary, Sahara-Nevada Corp. First public company to own casinos.

‘62: New main lobby, casino expansion, House of Lords steakhouse addition.

‘63: 24-floor Alexandria Tower addition. M. Stern Jr, architect. Don the Beachcomber addition.

‘68: Convention Center addition.

‘78: 26-floor Tangiers Tower addition. M. Stern Jr, architect.

‘80: Second sign, by YESCO

‘82: Sahara sold to Paul Lowden.

‘88: Parking garage, “T” extension of Tangiers Tower.

‘95: Sold to Gordon Gaming.

‘96: Beginning of a renovation and rebuild project that lasted through 2000. Last of the ‘50s-era low rise rooms demolished in 3/96, replaced with new porte-cochere and parking garage; New sign with two camels with matching signage on the Paradise Rd entrance all by Jack M. Larsen Jr. & Mikhon Lighting and sign (‘97); Speedworld addition (‘97); Speed-The Ride roller coaster addition (2000).

2007: Sold to SBE Ent & Stockbridge.

2011: Sahara closed.

2014: Reopened as SLS Hotel. Tunis, Alexandria, and Tangiers towers renamed Sam, Society, and Citizen. Society tower becomes W Hotel 2017-2018.

2018: Sold to Meruelo Group.

2019: renamed Sahara.

Photos of Club Bingo / Photos of Sahara

Club Bingo & Sahara photos both likely by Las Vegas News Bureau. ‘41 and ‘51 Cadillac in the Sahara photo. First Sahara photo from the Manis Collection, UNLV Special Collections. Photo below is a scan from a commercial 35mm slide, Vintage Las Vegas collection.

Sources include: Becket Architectural Drawings and Photographs, Getty Research Institute; Close Property on Highway 91 Sold for Club. Review-Journal, 5/2/47 p3; Strip Values. Review-Journal, 8/9/55 p3; Modern Room Design. Review-Journal, 5/26/60; Skybound at Sahara. Review-Journal, 9/15/60; Associated Press. Sahara’s Merger Plan Gains Okay. Review-Journal, 7/19/61; Jude Wanniski. Yanks Boss Vetoes Vegas Named Tie-In. Review-Journal, 7/21/61.

[thebonewife]

Web weave inspired by the first chapter of @entropyhours's Murder Most Timeless

This is my first attempt at any such creation and Heaven help me, it shows.

Twas much inspired by @salemoleander's own web weaves which I adore. They are such ecletic wonders of colour and light, they haunt my every waking thought.

I credit my sources thus:

Images:

The following were obtained via the delightful blog of @/snailspng:

Manor wings

Frame by Darrel Cox Jr.

Skull Mosaic, Thorax Statue, and feast platter.

Skinned Rabbit by Richard T. Scott

"Spirit Deer" Statue by Kristine Poole

Numerous apocrypha obtained via Pinterest:

Vintage Map of the Moon by Sergey Kamshylin

Trees 1, 2

Car by Welcomia/Getty Images

"Kindred Interdimensional Monitoring Point", as it turns out, is a real sign that one can visit and not a work of fiction, much to my surprise. I cannot trace an author for the sign but I can give you its geographic co-ordinates (41.1538° N, 95.8955° W) which shall have to suffice for our source (photograph from here).

Beffroi Chateau Noisy (Clocktower) by Urbexery

Ivy

Portrait by Giacomo Carmagnola

Stairs

Assorted clocks 1, 2, 3, 4

Red trees

Eleven German Crossbow Bolts (post #25)

Background

Texts:

Chorus from 'In the Pines', transcribed from Danny Farrant and Paul Rawson's version by myself.

"The first step to any murder" - officersneepsnop via cmrnfry

"Ash" by Tracy K. Smith

"When it comes down to it, the clock always wins." quote by Iris Watts

If anyone receives sign or omen of who the creator of the myriad "Did you know?" pictures is and where they might be found, please send the visions my way.

[rosen01]

Rest in Peace to the first former Mrs. Dean Paul Martin, Jr., Olivia Hussey (17 April 1951 – 27 December 2024)

From  the Wedding of Dean Paul Martin and Olivia Hussey on April 17, 1971 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Photo Credit: (Photo by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

From oliviahussey.com: Olivia Hussey first captured the fascination and hearts of global film audiences in 1968 (Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet) with her sublime performance as Juliet.  ... Over a half a century later, Hussey (still one of the world’s favorite sweethearts), along with her Romeo, Leonard Whiting remain the universal symbol of Eternal Love.  ​

[antoine-roquentin]

corollary to the prior post:

The New Yorker article notes that William Newsom III, the father of the current governor, was also advisor to the son of the richest man in the world in the 1950s, Gordon Getty. In fact, Gordon and William (and John Paul Getty Jr.) grew up together and went to the same Jesuit prep school, St Ignatius. 4 years above them was future San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, 4 years below was future California governor Jerry Brown. Newsom III owed his appointment as judge to Brown in 1975 a year after Brown’s electoral win, where he quickly made good on the governor’s hippie style by ruling the Bohemian Club in violation of anti-discrimination statutes by not hiring women as employees, calling to mind Nixon’s famous remarks (the Grove is the Club’s yearly camp).

William Newsom III in turn owed his fortunes to his father, William Newsom II’s, patronage of a young Pat Brown, Jerry’s father, whose 1943 run for San Francisco District Attorney he financed to the tune of $5,000 obtained from his construction magnate father. In turn, he was Pat Brown’s campaign manager for his 1962 victory over Richard Nixon. This was a repayment for the 1960 transferal of expensive land in the Squaw Valley from the state to Newsom II, which Brown engineered with his gubernatorial powers.

Another St. Ignatius classmate was Paul Pelosi. His brother Ron ended up marrying Newsom III’s sister, Barbara, while he, of course, married the scion of a prominent Baltimore political family, Nancy D’Alesandro. Over the decades, these families became quite intertwined, sharing board memberships on charities and companies around the state. In turn, Billy Getty, son of Gordon, became quite close with current California governor Gavin, who was his best man at his wedding and opened a wine store with him. The duo are seen here with another Getty grandchild, Peter:

And while Gavin was mayor of San Francisco, he was a patron of then-District Attorney Kamala Harris, godmother of Billy Getty’s son.

Of course lots of people have discussed monopoly capitalism and interlocking boards of governance and how they restrict the functioning of creative destruction. It’s a straightforward contradiction that capital becomes more closely tied in a few hands even as it spreads outwards and decimates traditional social relations. However, I do think it’s important to talk about in the context of an article that gives the impression of the Getty family and the California government as opposed when in fact they are closely aligned in numerous hypocritical ways.

[anotherdayinbliss]

Talitha and Paul Getty Jr. at their home in Morocco. Photos by Patrick Lichfield, published in Vogue on January 15, 1970. 

[theoldgvard]

my thoughts on Trust (2018) (because there are many)

i came as part of my marinelli filmography mission and i was not expecting to love it as much as i did it’s absolutely brilliant

fletcher chase was absolutely one of my favourite parts the way he connected the audience to the show and encouraged us to examine everything and try to understand the story was so fun, he should’ve been used more also the last episode where he hints at little paul’s future and says ‘google it’ THAT WAS COLD AF pure genius

harris dickinson was amazing and while i do wish they would’ve cast someone who actually looked fifteen he created a character to care about so well

my other personal standout was michael esper as paul jr, the way you are able to both dislike him for the shitty things he does while also so intimately understand where it all comes from was very emotionally intense and just outstanding

nearly all the characters had these fleshed out three dimensions that prevented it from being black and white, literally everyone does at least one thing you can disagree with yet nearly all of them get the chance to lay out their truth so you understand ‘i am a person and this is what i am doing but it is not the whole story. this act is not me. it is not that simple.’

speaking of which (i had to mention him when he brought me here) primo. while he was always going to be brilliant in luca’s particular brand of entertainingly unhinged, i didn’t expect to not hate him. there were certainly moments when i did, but when he stands at the port in the finale, there was something almost satisfying about it? especially regarding his dealings with salvatore and francesco. the parallels between the guys in calabria and the gettys are just wonderful narratively.

(little mention for angelo. i loved him in episode 5 and when primo showed up and did that i was devastated.)

god donald sutherland can play a villain. the frustration and fury and desperation of his family rubs off on you as you watch, so many times i was yelling at the screen and wondering how someone could be so awful. the scene where paul jr lost his lover and called asking for help stands out in my memory.

bullimore <3

so many great shots, great edits, great soundtrack. this is just so well done, it was such a pleasant surprise to enjoy it so much.

[madandi]

Another interview for Better

A witty, no-nonsense policewoman faces off against a charismatic but chilling villain in crime-filled Yorkshire. You can see why Better might fill a Happy Valley-sized hole when it starts tonight on BBC1.

That, probably, is where the similarities end because Lou and Col, the central pair in the new series, have a very different relationship from Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce in Happy Valley. For a start they actually like each other. Lou (Leila Farzad, aka Suzie’s manager in I Hate Suzie) is a high-ranking cop in Leeds, while Col, played by Andrew Buchan — who was the grieving father Mark Latimer in Broadchurch and Matt Hancock in This England — is the dapper Northern Irish head of a drug-dealing network.

Not a typical friendship, then, but they’ve been scratching each other’s backs for 19 years, rising to the top in their respective fields. The five-parter by Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent (Humans, Spooks) is moody and stylish with flashes of gallows humour. In the first episode Col invites Lou to his birthday dinner, telling the guests: “I’ve made it to another birthday in a challenging line of work.” Col and Lou sneak off for a fag. “I would not be here today without you,” he tells her. “Same here,” she replies. Their loyalty to each other is about to be challenged.Better is “a character-driven morality piece about redemption”, Buchan says over Zoom from a café near his home in Buckinghamshire. “And two characters who’ve made some very particular choices that slowly start unravelling. They’re both landlocked in a sense but just can’t get out.”It is, he adds, “nothing like Happy Valley”, although he understands why people might wonder.

The night before we speak he was at a screening in Leeds, where the show is set and shot. “One of the questions from the audience was about how people are going to naturally draw comparisons with Happy Valley. But in the future, hopefully, when a million more shows are being made up there, you wouldn’t need to draw comparisons.”Shows such as the one Buchan, 43, has just written, Passenger, which we’ll get to later. He is a proud northerner, having grown up in Bolton and married a fellow Lancastrian, Amy Nuttall, who played Chloe Atkinson in Coronation Street and Ethel the maid in Downton Abbey, with whom he has a child.

He used to excel at what he calls “everymen going through a crisis”, from Mark in Broadchurch, whose son is killed, to a former soldier accused of murder in The Fixer. These days he brings similar nuance to less ordinary — and richer — types: the millionaire scion John Paul Getty Jr in All the Money in the World; Andrew Parker Bowles, husband of Camilla, in The Crown; Felim Bichan, a financial player in Industry. SKY UKHis character in Better is loaded and powerful with an Ulster accent to boot, while the London-born Farzad, whom he describes as “a force”, does a Yorkshire one. Both sound pretty impressive to these poncey southern ears. Col’s accent was inspired by the Belfast-raised actor Jamie Dornan. “I bumped into him in a lift in London and we had this little brief chat,” Buchan says. “It’s such an amazing accent. I was walking along, quietly doing impersonations of Jamie Dornan to myself.

”When Buchan was first offered the role, “I was, like, ‘God no. He’s got to be 68 with a loose tooth and a gold chain. I’m not that guy.’ ” The director told him that they wanted someone a bit more charming. “He’s quite calm and careful and considered. He’s not a psychopath. But when people press his buttons he can go places.” Col’s lavish modernist house, filmed in Harrogate, “was a wee bit ridiculous”, Buchan says. Harrogate’s posh, isn’t it? “To us Boltonians it definitely is.”

He got closer to privilege when reading modern languages at Durham University and studying at Rada, where he was in the same year as Tom Hiddleston and Andrea Riseborough.Buchan also starred in the political drama Party Animals with Riseborough, whose recent Oscar nomination has been criticised after she benefited from celebrity cheerleaders including Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet. “All I know is that she’s a phenomenal actress,” Buchan says. “My initial reaction to her being nominated was ‘about time’.

”Playing Hancock was “interesting”, he says, but he won’t be drawn on a political judgment. This England went quite easy on the former health secretary but Buchan “could only play what was on the page”, although he admits he must have “subliminally” incorporated his impressions of a man he had seen on TV daily during the pandemic.Well, it worked — his performance was eerily persuasive. He won’t say what he thinks of Hancock doing I’m a Celebrity but he raves about Kenneth Branagh’s take on Boris Johnson. “I’ve worked with some witty folk in my time, but Ken’s ad libs are off the scale.”

We talk about The Crown, in which he starred with Josh O’Connor and Emerald Fennell (“whose careers have nosedived obviously since then”, he says wryly), and All the Money in the World, where Christopher Plummer famously replaced Kevin Spacey as John Paul Getty Sr after Spacey was accused of sexual misconduct.Filmed in Rome, it was a taste of movie opulence that Buchan hadn’t had before. He compares it with The Fixer in 2008: “We filmed it in Lewisham, in minus 2C, covered in fake blood, in a vest and it was all quite unpleasant. So, to shoot in Rome!” For the reshoots he was flown back out on a private jet with Plummer, Michelle Williams and Ridley Scott, the director. “I think I was the only one who’d never been on a private jet before.”

Plummer handled the cast and crew with panache, he says, which was hard “when you’ve got 20,000 people in between takes saying, ‘Can you do Edelweiss?’ ” Plummer and Spacey had “very different takes” on the role, the father of Buchan’s character. “Christopher grabbed my hand really tightly and smiled at me with this twinkle in his eye, which was really unnerving. Whereas Kevin was the complete opposite.” More in character? “Yeah, whereas Christopher kind of played against it.”

His big ambition is to do more comedy. When he was playing the 18th-century lawyer William Garrow in Garrow’s Law he had long chats about it with his co-star, Alun Armstrong. “Al said, ‘The problem is that good comedies are as rare as rocking horse shit.’

”Buchan has found a neat way around that problem — writing his own show for ITV. Passenger is a horror comedy set in a small village called Chadder Vale in Lancashire. “We start filming in five days’ time, which is quite frightening,” he says. He won’t be acting in it but he has written all six episodes.“I’m on a bit of a hamster wheel at the minute, churning them out. When you can hear the execs barking at you, ‘We need, we need, we need . . . ’ you think, ‘I’m just going to treat that as white noise.’ ” The series will feature a former Met policewoman called Riya Ajunwa investigating a series of unnatural crimes including the abduction of a local girl. Dark, funny, female cop, set in the north — it’s all the rage, you know.

[cryptonewsssss]

Alabama A&M University football player Medrick Burnett Jr. died after sustaining a serious head injury in a game, the school announced. Burnett was 20 years old. The news was announced by Alabama A&M athletic director Paul A. Bryant, who said Burnett died Tuesday. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM A goalpost before a game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the North Carolina Tar Heels Nov. 4, 2006, at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)"Medrick was more than an exceptional athlete; he was a remarkable young man whose positive energy, leadership and compassion left an indelible mark on everyone who knew him," Bryant said in a statement, according to TMZ Sports. FOX NEWS DIGITAL SPORTS' COLLEGE FOOTBALL WINNERS AND LOSER: WEEK 13"While words cannot adequately express our grief, we are humbled by the strength of his family, who stood by his side throughout this unimaginable ordeal."Burnett, a redshirt freshman who transferred from Grambling State this season, sustained a severe head injury in a collision during the team’s game against Alabama State in October.  An end zone corner pylon before the Gasparilla Bowl between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the UCF Knights at Raymond James Stadium. (Jasen Vinlove/USA Today Sports)Dominece James, Burnett’s sister, had a GoFundMe established for her younger brother, explaining he had brain bleeds and swelling from the injury. "He had to have a tube to drain to relieve the pressure, and after 2 days of severe pressure, we had to opt for a craniotomy, which was the last resort to help try to save his life," James said on the GoFundMe page.Burnett was a 6-foot-2, 225-pound linebacker who grew up in Lakewood, California.  A Mississippi State Bulldogs football during a game between the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Missouri Tigers Nov. 23, 2024, at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Miss.  (Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHe played in five games this season, registering five tackles. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter. Scott Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital.

[tenders4you]

Alabama A&M University football player Medrick Burnett Jr. died after sustaining a serious head injury in a game, the school announced. Burnett was 20 years old. The news was announced by Alabama A&M athletic director Paul A. Bryant, who said Burnett died Tuesday. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM A goalpost before a game between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the North Carolina Tar Heels Nov. 4, 2006, at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. (Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)"Medrick was more than an exceptional athlete; he was a remarkable young man whose positive energy, leadership and compassion left an indelible mark on everyone who knew him," Bryant said in a statement, according to TMZ Sports. FOX NEWS DIGITAL SPORTS' COLLEGE FOOTBALL WINNERS AND LOSER: WEEK 13"While words cannot adequately express our grief, we are humbled by the strength of his family, who stood by his side throughout this unimaginable ordeal."Burnett, a redshirt freshman who transferred from Grambling State this season, sustained a severe head injury in a collision during the team’s game against Alabama State in October.  An end zone corner pylon before the Gasparilla Bowl between the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the UCF Knights at Raymond James Stadium. (Jasen Vinlove/USA Today Sports)Dominece James, Burnett’s sister, had a GoFundMe established for her younger brother, explaining he had brain bleeds and swelling from the injury. "He had to have a tube to drain to relieve the pressure, and after 2 days of severe pressure, we had to opt for a craniotomy, which was the last resort to help try to save his life," James said on the GoFundMe page.Burnett was a 6-foot-2, 225-pound linebacker who grew up in Lakewood, California.  A Mississippi State Bulldogs football during a game between the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Missouri Tigers Nov. 23, 2024, at Davis Wade Stadium in Starkville, Miss.  (Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPHe played in five games this season, registering five tackles. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter. Scott Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital.

[yourdailyqueer-spreadsheet]

Changelog Oct 28-Nov 3

Nats Getty - he/him and changed to trans man

Jazzmun - Changed real name to Jazzmun Nichala Crayton

Nicky Case - Changed to she/they and trans woman

Nico Tortorella - Changed to he/him, added demisexual and polyamorous

Nikkita Oliver - Changed to genderfluid

Nikolay Alexeyev - Moved due to antisemitism

Noahfinnce - Added autism, ADHD

Oliver Gray - Changed to nonbinary, added dyslexia and dyspraxia

Paris Lees - Added bisexual

Pat Buckley - Died May 2024

Patricia Highsmith - Moved due to extreme antisemitism

Patricia Yurena Rodríguez - Changed to pansexual

Patrick Califia - Added fibromyalgia

Patti Harrison - Added ADHD

Paul Moore Jr. - Moved due to SA allegations

Paul Oscar - Added note about antisemitism

Paula Poundstone - Moved due to CSA charges

Pierre Bergé - Moved due to islamophobia

Ramona Xavier - Added autism

Raquel Pennington - Changed to multiracial (Mexican, white)

Raven Saunders - Changed to nonbinary and queer

[actu24h]

Le Ballon d'Or, la récompense d'une saison pleine de réussite

PAUL ELLIS / AFP via Getty Images Ce soir aura lieu le gala du Ballon d'Or à Paris. Comme d'habitude, France Football réunira les meilleurs footballeurs du monde pour récompenser les joueurs les plus décisifs du moment. À l'honneur, certains joueurs du Real Madrid comme Jude Bellingam, Carvajal, Kroos, Mbappé, Ancelotti et Vinicius Jr, ce dernier ambitionnant d'être le prochain Ballon d'Or. Les…

[recentlyheardcom]

Olivia Nuzzi, New York Magazine Part Ways After RFK Jr. Drama

Olivia Nuzzi Paul Morigi/Getty Images New York magazine has announced that they have parted ways with Olivia Nuzzi after rumors swirled of an alleged affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Last month, the magazine enlisted the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine to review Olivia Nuzzi’s work during the 2024 campaign,” the outlet said in a statement on Monday, October 21. “They reached the same conclusion…

[goalhofer]

1976 in memoriam.

Mal Evans (British musical manager), 40

Howlin' Wolf (American singer & guitarist), 65

Agatha Christie (British writer), 85

Yagi Hidetsuga (Japanese electrical engineer), 89

Paul Robeson (American singer & actor), 77

The Blessed Friar Gabriele Allegra (Italian Catholic friar), 68

Lee J. Cobb (American actor)(pictured), 64

Sal Mineo; Jr. (American actor)(pictured), 37

E.H. Shepard (British artist & illustrator), 96

Richard Arlen (American actor), 76

Freddie Lennon (British sailor & singer), 63

Howard Hughes (American engineer & businessman)(pictured), 70

Miriam Cooper (American actress), 84

William Relf (British singer & guitarist), 33

Ruth McDevitt (American actress), 80

J. Paul Getty (American-British businessman), 83

Jimmy Dykes (American baseball player & coach), 79

Rear Adm. C. Wade McClusky; Jr. (American naval admiral), 74

Sir William Baker (British actor & producer), 48

Frederick Marberry (American baseball player), 77

Anna Michel (German victim of negligent homicide), 23

Norman Foster (American movie director & screenwriter), 72

Wong Jim (Chinese-American cinematographer), 76

Paul Gallico (American writer), 78

The Blessed Bishop Basil Hopko (Slovak Catholic bishop), 72

Friedrich Lang (Austrian-American movie director & screenwriter), 85

Mary Jones (American actress)(pictured), 18

CWO Robert Mellard (American army soldier), 57

Vice Marshal Raymond Collishaw (Canadian air force pilot), 82

Barbara Nickerauer aka Barbara Nichols (American actress), 47

Lt. Gen. Troy H. Middleton (American army general & college comptroller), 86

Cardinal Giacomo Lercaro (Italian Catholic cardinal), 84

Man Ray (American artist), 86

Godfrey Cambridge (American comedian & actor)(pictured), 43

Danny Murtaugh (American baseball player & manager), 59

Tommy Bolin (American guitarist & songwriter), 25

Alastair Sim (British actor)(pictured), 75

Jack Cassidy (American actor & singer)(pictured), 49

[bllsbailey]

Ted Cruz Blasts Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. For 'Refusing To Answer' Questions

(L) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questions acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. and Deputy Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Paul Abbate during a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) / (R) Acting U.S. Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. testifies before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security and Government Affairs committees in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on July 30, 2024 in Washington, DC.

Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz chastised Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. on Tuesday for seemingly dodging his questions.

Under the Senate Judiciary Committee, Rowe testified on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, following the resignation of previous U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle.

Cruz asserted that the acting director had failed to respond to inquiries regarding the number of agents Trump was given in comparison to President Joe Biden as well as the agency’s “decision-making process.”

Cruz: “I believe that the Secret Service leadership made a political decision to deny these requests. And I think the Biden administration has been suffused with partisan politics… Did the same person who denied the request for additional security to President Trump also repeatedly deny the requests for security to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father was murdered by an assassin and whose uncle was murdered by an assassin? Did the same person make that decision?” Rowe: “Senator, what I will tell you is that Secret Service agents are not political.”

Even though he requested it in advance, the Secret Service did not provide protection for Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. until after the Trump murder attempt, when Trump himself demanded that the Independent candidate receive more protection, especially given his family’s history of assassinations.

Cruz: “I have a simple question: yes or no. Did the same person deny the Trump request that also denied the RFK request? That’s a yes or no question.” Rowe: “Senator, that is not a yes or no question. One, there’s a process for a candidate nominee to receive protection… That is a bicameral, bipartisan process.”

As the two continued to converse and talk over one another, Cruz informed Rowe that his usage of the term “bicameral” was incorrect because he is not a member of Congress.

According to sources within the Secret Service, there weren’t enough personnel available to defend Trump due to the NATO summit taking place in Washington, D.C., as well as first lady Jill Biden’s campaign event taking place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, according to the Daily Caller.

Cruz: “What was the relative size of the Trump detail compared to the detail that is assigned to the President and the First Lady?” Rowe: “Senator, the former president travels with a full shift, just like the president.”

Cruz then asked Rowe to clarify if it was “the exact same size.”

Rowe: “On the day of, in Butler, the agents surrounding him, it is the same number of agents surrounding the president today.”

The Texas senator chimed in after the last statement to clarify his use of the term “president,” asking for a second time if “it is [his] testimony that in Butler, Pennsylvania, Donald Trump had the same number of agents protecting him that Joe Biden has at a [comparable] event.”

Rowe grew frustrated and insisted he was “trying to answer.”

Cruz: “You are not answering it. Is it the same number of agents or not? Sir, you are refusing to answer straight.

Rowe tries to interject.

Cruz: “Sir, stop interrupting me. Stop interrupting me. You are refusing to answer clear and direct questions. I am asking the relative difference in the number of agents between those assigned to Donald Trump and those assigned to Joe Biden. I’m not asking why you assign more to Joe Biden.”

As the testimony and discussion became more heated, Rowe finally informed Cruz that he would give him the precise number so he could see it with “own eyes.”

Meanwhile, Rowe emphasized the breakdowns in communication that occurred during the Butler event throughout Tuesday’s hearing, claiming that data regarding Crooks was “stuck” and “siloed” in local law enforcement channels.

Rowe: “The only thing we had was that locals were working an issue at the three o’clock, which would have been the former president’s right-hand side, which is where the shot came… Nothing about man on the roof, nothing about man with a gun. None of that information ever made it over our net.”

However, Rowe’s last statement highly contradicts other news reports and testimonies by local law enforcement.

Although the FBI still hasn’t disclosed a motive for the failed assassination attempt, CNN reported on Tuesday that the CEO of the website “Gab,” Andrew Torba, claimed last week that law enforcement contacted him and said there’s a chance the would-be assassin had an account on his alternative social media platform. The aforementioned account, according to Torba, was “pro-Biden.”

— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) July 30, 2024

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