#richard marriott

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Marian Anderson (read her biography), Mildred Bailey, Adam Baldwin, Beethoven’s 8th Symphony (1814), Joan Bennett, Chilli, Louis Clark (ELO), Constantine the Great, William Demerest, Joaquin Valverde Durán, Gian Francesco Fortunati, Mary Frann, Eddie Gray (Tommy James & The Shondells), Josh Groban, Steve Harley, Adam Kinzinger, David Kleinberg, Gidon Kremer, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kate Mara, the 1981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder single “Ebony & Ivory,” Jose Melis, Ralph Nader, Neal Schon, Timothy Spall, Nancy Spungen, Elizabeth Taylor, Franchot Tone, Johnny Van Zant, Van Williams, Joanne Woodward, James Worthy (PM Dawn), and the great American writer John Steinbeck. For me, Steinbeck is "the real California." Of his writing he said, “These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.” 

My Americana composition “Steinbeck Found the Valley” was prompted by lyrics from The Beach Boys's "California Saga": "Have you ever been down Salinas way where Steinbeck found the valley, and he wrote about the way it was, and his travelings with Charley..." The music bed was inspired by “Trombone Dixie,” an obscure Brian Wilson instrumental (a PET SOUNDS outtake). On this track I played accordion and piano with cellist Kim Osterwalder (who also gigged w/mutual friends Buddy & Julie Miller) + trombonist Richard Marriott.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODZxOojn0s&t=2s

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THE COOL WORLD (1963):

The Harlem Jazz scene

Life give youth no direction

Crime and racism

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Rick Majerus

Physique: Heavyset Build Height: 6'1"

Richard Raymond Majerus (February 17, 1948 – December 1, 2012; aged 64) was an American basketball coach and TV analyst. He coached at Marquette University (1983–1986), Ball State University (1987–1989), the University of Utah (1989–2004), and Saint Louis University (2007–2012). Majerus's most successful season came at Utah in the 1997–98 season, when the Utes finished as runners-up in the 1998 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Majerus was inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.

Majerus was a fan favorite and cult figure around college basketball, known for his portly, rotund figure and his quirky, jovial personality. The portly coach was unabashed in his love of food, always quick with a restaurant recommendation for whatever town his teams were playing in. He enjoyed bratwurst, a sausage popular in his native Wisconsin which is fitting as I would have loved to feed him my love sausage.

Born in Sheboygan, Wis., Majerus graduated from Marquette University High School in 1967, attending Marquette University. After graduating from Marquette in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in history, Majerus was hired by McGuire as a full-time assistant in 1971. After three years as head coach at Marquette, he became an assistant coach with the Milwaukee Bucks for the 1986–87 season. After a stint at Ball State University for two seasons, Majerus accepted the position at Utah in 1989, leading the "Runnin Utes" to a 1996 sweet 16. Majerus worked as a game and studio analyst for ESPN from 2004 to 2007 before accepting the head coaching position at Saint Louis University.

Majerus, married once for two years in the mid-1980s, childless and dated the same woman the last 25 years of his life, famously lived in a Marriott hotel near the University of Utah campus; everyone knew where to find him. Majerus has been in a state of health risk for many years before dying of heart failure in a Los Angeles hospital on December 1, 2012. From what I can tell, he was a jovial, crude, basketball-obsessed coach who had nice tits, packing something big and didn’t mind being nude around people. Sounds like my type of guy.

Head Coaching Record Overall: 517–215 Tournaments: 19–12 (NCAA Division I) 8–4 (NIT) 3–1 (CBI)

Accomplishments and Honors Championships NCAA Regional—Final Four (1998) MAC regular season (1989) MAC tournament (1989) 6 WAC regular season (1991, 1993, 1995–1997, 1999) 3 WAC tournament (1995, 1997, 1999) 2 MWC regular season (2000, 2003)

Awards 5× WAC Coach of the Year (1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999) MAC Coach of the Year (1989)

College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2019

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The Communist movement in the West is today made up of a handful of grizzled geriatrics standing around trestle tables exuding a flavour of moth balls. Yet as the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote in 1963: ‘The right-winger needs his Communists badly, and is pathetically reluctant to give them up.’

Which is why braying Marxists are once again at the gates. According to Donald Trump, Joe Biden is ‘controlled’ by ‘Marxists, & Communists’. Elon Musk says ‘neo-Marxists’ and ‘full-on Communism’ are responsible for the estrangement of his daughter. ‘World renowned’ psychology professor Jordan Peterson rails against ‘post-modern Neo-Marxists’ and ‘cultural Marxists’. The conservative pundit James Lindsay claims that anti-racists want to impose a ‘total Racial Bolshevik Revolution’ on America.

There is no shortage of irony here. Isaiah Berlin once observed that a stratagem of totalitarian regimes is to present all situations as critical emergencies. Yet Berlin is too measured a thinker to carry weight among the frenzied populist currents sweeping today’s right. Instead we get initiatives like ARC (the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship) where a person only has to make a certain kind of noise to be welcomed onto the stage and into the fold. A Legatum and Paul Marshall-funded initiative, Arc’s stated aim is to ‘help re-lay the foundations of our civilisation’. In practice this means attacking ‘radical leftists’ and anyone it is expedient to pretend is a ‘radical leftist’. To paraphrase Lionel Trilling, the recent ARC event in East London saw a succession of speakers take turns unleashing a stream of ‘irritable mental gestures which sought to resemble ideas’. Kemi Badenoch claimed that western civilisation would fall without the Tories. Psychology professor Jordan Peterson said the West was in a ‘civilisational moment’. Douglas Murray talked of ‘civilisational renewal’.

Some, like the YouTube pundit Konstantin Kisin, spoke in a more optimistic key. Thanks to Trump’s election victory across the pond, ‘The tide is turning [and] our American friends are leading the way,’ Kisin proclaimed between hammy jokes about Chinese and trans people. ‘DEI, a system of anti-meritocratic discrimination, has been dismantled,’ crowed the alumnus of Clifton College Boarding School (term fees £17,650).

Were screens and short bursts of video not now the dominant sources of information about the world, I suspect a lot of these newly-minted culture warriors would be languishing noisily in obscurity. Instead, as we revert to a pre-literate oral culture, pre-literal pundits are in the ascendant (Kisin has appeared multiple times on BBC current affairs programmes and Badenoch has appeared on his podcast). Intellectuals are being knocked off their perches by influencers; politicians dislodged by game show hosts. As the Times columnist James Marriott has observed:

Among the attributes of oral societies are an addiction to the memorable, such as formulaic and cliché language, ‘heavy’ crudely-characterised personalities (like Cerberus or Donald Trump or Marvel superheroes) and to more violent forms of expression. This is in contrast to print which fosters subtlety, logical argument and emotional distance.

Kisin at least pays tribute to the vanishing world of letters. ‘Words are something of a speciality and a hobby,’ he writes in An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West (2022). Not that you would know it from the prose in this mercifully slim volume, which gurgles with cliches and off-the-shelf banalities. Censorious persons are ‘Orwellian’; bad ideas ‘spread like wild fire’; conversations about difficult subjects ‘have become a way to separate us rather than bring us together’.

Having emigrated to Britain from the Soviet Union aged 10, Kisin credits the West with ‘saving’ him. Today he wants to repay the favour despite nobody asking him to. ‘As people seek to destroy [the West], I want to save it in return,’ he writes. Clearly some are pining for a diminutive Russian saviour: the book was a Sunday Times bestseller. Yet as an expression of love it is the equivalent of a clump of sun-baked Chrysanthemums purloined from a petrol station forecourt. A potted history of the Soviet Union is followed by a torrent of whiney non-sequiturs. Portraits of life under Communism function as a warning that the West is facing ‘the exact same threat’ from progressive reformers.

Conservatives are often the left’s best students. As much as Kisin likes to rail against identity politics, he is quick to use its conventions as a cudgel when the need arrises. The most reactionary arguments in his book are cleverly placed in the mouths of women and token minorities. The pseudo-feminist Camille Paglia blames gender non-conformity for societal ruin. A Black Catholic cardinal is wheeled out to warn about an ‘invasion’ of the West by ‘other cultures’ (perhaps with Sunday Times readers in mind, Kisin wisely emits comments by the Cardinal comparing homosexuality to ‘Nazi-fascism’).

Elsewhere Kisin disparages the ‘lived experience’ of others while expecting us to defer to his own. We must ‘deal with reality as we find it’, warns Kisin, or else find ourselves subject to the ‘cruel lessons’ of the ‘Soviet virus’. It doesn’t take long for the 7 million Ukrainians who perished in the Holodomor to be similarly employed for the purposes of relativism. ‘This tragic chapter of Russia’s past [more tragic for Ukraine one would think] didn’t emerge overnight. It grew slowly from some well-intended but seriously misguided ideas…To a much lesser extent [italics mine], a similar thing is happening across the West in today’s society’.

From Butyrka to bathos. The most grizzled camp prisoner probably did less hard labour than those five words. All the same, it is good to see Kisin taking his own advice to heart and seeing reality as it really is.

Jordan Peterson has been a regular fixture on the lucrative culture war circuit since his confected ‘cancellation’ back in 2016. As the years have rolled by his outfits have taken on the timbre and hue of his politics: everything has become more zany, lurid and bilious. The Peterson of 12 Rules for Life (2018) has been replaced by a blazing eyed YouTube prophet. Somewhere in the Peterson household a dog-eared copy of Iron John is sitting in a drawer gathering dust; today he seeks to begin the reformation by nailing a copy of The Gospels to the boudoirs of ‘the modern whores of Babylon’ (i.e. pornstars and e-girls).

I recently wrote a profile about Douglas Murray for Prospect magazine. Murray comes close to Peterson in terms of popularity. However what most struck me during my research was the gulf between Murray’s public persona (erudite intellectual) and the underwhelming nature of much of his written work. As I wrote in the piece:

Whereas on YouTube anti-woke pugilists may be content to chase the same brass ring into the gutter, a published author (not least one with pretensions to be an intellectual) must work up something more substantive…Yet Murray’s research is sometimes sloppy and the opposition trenches in his culture war are largely manned by straw men.

InThe War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason (2022), Murray misquotes Karl Marx to make it sound like he was in favour of slavery. He also repeats a long-discredited claim that the French philosopher Michel Foucault was a child rapist. Not that these bungling forays into western civilisation are any impediment to claiming a monopoly of insight into how to ‘reconstruct’ it. Indeed, Murray has been lauded by the Wall Street Journal as ‘Europe’s Paul Revere’ (Murray’s radioactive forebodings about the ‘opportunistic infection’ of Islam are apparently redolent enough of Revere’s warnings to the Minutemen that ‘The British are coming’. Talk about waging a war on your own culture.)

Ukraine is a good litmus test as to whether the incessant bleating about western civilisation is anything more than a rhetorical weapon. Are Russian tanks and bullets more or less of an imminent danger than Islam, pronouns and Kamala Harris?

Hard to say, apparently. Prior to the American election, former prime minister Liz Truss stated on numerous occasions that Trump’s election victory was vital for ‘saving’ the West. ‘The world needs Trump,’ preened Kisin, who, like Murray, occasionally professes to care about Ukraine while acting as a stenographer for the politician who has been promising to sell the country out (and is presently doing so). Crawling out of the slimy entrails of Mar-a-Lago on election night, Murray declared triumphantly that Trump was going to ‘show what American leadership on the world stage actually looks like’.

A protection racket is what it looks like. It has taken less than a month for the self-serving prognostications of ‘heterodox’ intellectuals to collapse under the weight of their own contradictions. The hysterical cant about western civilisation was never about the defence of democratic principles - neither at home or from a revanchist Russia. Indeed, Peterson has blamed Nato for the war in Ukraine and pondered whether Putin might be on the right side in the civilisational struggle against ‘wokeness’. Not that it is hard to see why a partnership with Russia might be attractive to our own purveyors of reactionary piffle: the Kremlin also purports to be defending Christendom against gender freedoms and ‘spiritual catastrophe’.

‘This is the most important election of my lifetime,’ proclaimed the Somalian-born pundit (and one-time muse of ‘new’ atheist men of a certain age) Ayaan Hirsi Ali on 7 November 2024. ‘The situation could not be more dire. At stake is the very survival of our republic.’ Predictably enough these words formed part of a larger excretion on why she was voting for Trump. Concerns about the candidate who failed to concede the last election were merely symptomatic of (another stock phrase) ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’. Kamala Harris had to be stopped for the sake of the republic. ‘The Democratic Party is a machine, taken over by the far-left wing of the party,’ Hirsi Ali warned.

As you may have noticed by now, it isn’t only washed up pundits who see the left as the primary adversary to be conquered. American vice president JD Vance recently turned up in Munich (of all places) to lecture Europeans on the ‘threat from within’.

In 1963 the historian Richard Hofstadter noted of McCarthyism that:

Communism was not the target but the weapon, and it is for this reason that so many of the most ardent hunters of impotent domestic Communists were altogether indifferent to efforts to meet the power of international Communism where it really mattered - in the arena of world politics.

McCarthyism was more about discrediting democratic Socialists, social democrats, liberals and supporters of the New Deal than unearthing Soviet subversion. These days the orchestra may have changed but the conductor has not. Bureaucratic McCarthyist intrigue has merely been supplanted by algorithmic appeals to the mob. Hierarchies find new ways of authorising themselves. Every day the envelope is pushed a little further, the rhetoric ratcheted up a little more. As John Ganz has written, we have reached a point where Nazi salutes are treated as an irreverent lark.

It seems clear that Michael Anton’s infamous ‘Flight 93’ essay has been taken as more than a figure of speech by many conservatives. As the Intelligencer describes the piece:

Anton chose the arresting metaphor of Flight 93, the hijacked plane from September 11, 2001, whose passengers stormed the cockpit in a desperate bid to stave off certain death. Electing Trump, he conceded, was risky (like seizing a plane from terrorists midair), but the alternative of electing Hillary Clinton posed certain political and demographic death.

Following the events of January 6, 2021, Anton suggested that the Republicans should prevent a national popular vote from taking place altogether on the basis that it ‘guarantees a Democratic win in every presidential election henceforth’. He was wrong of course but don’t imagine the thought has gone away. In order to preserve a narrow and exclusionary vision of civilisation, many are willing to take such a gamble.

Lest anyone should think this is a North American problem, plenty of castor oil-ish proclamations are being emitted here in Britain. The race science movement appears to have infiltrated Westminster. GB News presenters bleat menacingly about ‘foreign’-looking people walking British streets and champion ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the AFD (following last week’s German election, apologists for the Waffen SS now sit alongside admirers of Putin in the party’s parliamentary group). Right-wing publications advocate for ‘Caesarism’ as an alternative to democracy; or for locking up ‘traitors’ in government for having the audacity to give away Britain’s last African colony. A Conservative peer has been hosting far-right activists in parliament.

Surveying the political landscape, I am reminded of Ignazio Silone’s description of fascism as ‘a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place’. Imaginary enemies can be just as powerful as real ones. You just have to convince enough people that all reform leads to revolution.

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TOM GLYNN-CARNEY photographed by jemima marriott for número netherlands magazine.

WHAT IS IN STORE FOR YOUR CHARACTER THIS SEASON?

“We see Aegon in every form.”

“He is powerful then vulnerable, calculated then frantic, playful then desperate, desperately seeking validation and respect from his council and the people of Westeros.”

“He is a cacophony of chaos, laced with deeply embedded trauma.”

“He is unpredictable and dangerously explosive.”

HOW EXCITING WAS IT GETTING CAST ON A SERIES THAT IS A PREQUEL TO THE IMMENSELY POPULAR ‘GAME OF THRONES’?

“Still doesn’t feel real, but I am enjoying every second of it and I’m dedicating myself entirely to the work.”

“Aegon is exhausting to play and definitely takes a piece of me, but I am happy to give him that in exchange for this freedom and creative fulfilment.”

HOW DID YOU ALL COLLECTIVELY AND YOU PERSONALLY DEAL WITH THIS?

“I don’t think about that.”

“You can’t, otherwise you wouldn’t turn up to work.”

“Turn up, put the wig on and let rip.”

HAVE YOU UNDERGONE ANY SPECIAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE ROLE OF AEGON?

“Sleep is important.”

“He takes a lot from me, so sleep is key.”

WHAT EXCITES YOU ABOUT PERFORMING ON STAGE THE MOST?

“The danger of it. The raw and electric energy. The fact that it is different every night and the way it keeps you as an actor sharp and precise.”

“I couldn’t be an actor without doing theatre.”

“It’s where I go back to, to find inspiration and courage.”

IS THERE ANY PARTICULAR MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE THAT INSPIRED YOU TO BECOME AN ACTOR?

“Being curious, being fascinated by human behaviour, obsessing over body language, social interactions, coping mechanisms, idiosyncrasies that stem from insecurities.”

“Trying to be a sponge to everything I see and hear.”

“Collecting as many things as I can and bringing these to life in an authentic, truthful way.”

“An old teacher of mine, Richard Goodwin Brown, was a huge influence on me.”

LOOKING BACK ON YOUR CAREER SO FAR, WHAT DO YOU PERSONALLY CONSIDER YOUR BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENT? AND LOOKING FORWARD, WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOUR BIGGEST GOAL FOR THE FUTURE?

“Getting this far is my greatest achievement.”

“My biggest goal is to be old, on my death bed and look back at my career with pride, in the knowledge that I did my best work, worked with some great people and made some lifelong friends on the way.”

TELL US MORE ABOUT YOURSELF. WHO IS TOM OFF THE SCREEN AND WHAT DOES HE ENJOY MOST IN LIFE WHEN HE IS NOT ACTING?

“I love my dog, Ziggy. I love music, art and poetry. I love animals. I love and need wide open spaces, peace, quiet and water.”

“I love a night in a dark pub, round a table with trad musicians, fiddle, guitar, tin whistle, bodhran, whiskeys and pints of guinness, singing Ireland’s songs until the early hours.”

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do you have any favourite stories about your dearly beloved steve marriott?? i would love to read more about this little artful dodger!!

“He hatched a little duck. He saw these boys had smashed a nest and the mother had gone. And there was one egg left. So he brought this egg home. He was ten. He sat down in front of the open fireplace. And there was a little crack in it. And when we got home there was this little duck. It followed him everywhere. We put him in a big cardboard box. At night time he would jump up until he got out of this box and landed on Steve and went to sleep with Steve. He was only five or six days old. A little girl came to see it, the daughter of a friend of mine, and she picked it up and squeezed it. It died during the night and he was brokenhearted. Then another time he brought a baby owl home that had been abandoned. I took it to the pet shop first and they said, ‘Just give it raw meat.’ Which I did. But when I took it to the vet, they said it needed ‘more’ meat. But it was too late then. It hadn’t had the right food and it died. There was a big burial in the garden for that owl. And tears. One of the boys started laughing and Steve nearly kicked him over the hedge, he was so angry that he should laugh at something so serious.” - Kay Marriott (from Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower)

'His sister remembers Steve as, ‘a great brother,’ protective, inspiring, charming and often very devious. One of her first memories is when she was, what – three or four – and mum giving her sixpence pocket money and Steve, having already spent his allowance, pulling her aside and saying to her, ‘Kay, because I am your brother and I love you very much indeed, today I have got a very special treat for you.’ He then pulled out a large brown penny coin and held it in front of her eyes. ‘See how big this coin is?’ he would say, ‘Well I am going to give you this big coin because I love you so much and you can then give me that little silver one.’ Kay remembers saying thank you so much and passing over the sixpence and receiving one penny in return.

‘Very mischievous, very cheeky and very protective towards me. I will always remember that protectiveness. When he was in the Small Faces, they were on tour once with Scott Walker who I really wanted to meet. I told Steve this. Then on my birthday they played Romford. He did everything for me that day. Got me presents, made an announcement from the stage, everything, but he refused to let me backstage. Every gig I always went backstage but this time he wouldn’t give me a pass in case I saw Scott Walker. ’ - Kay Marriott

‘Sometimes, when he was lugging equipment from the van he would wear an old pair of jeans with rips in the knee,’ adds Ellett, a smile now crossing his lips. ‘One night in Sheffield we were running very late and Steve just for once went on stage with these jeans. We returned to the same venue about a month later and there were dozens of fans in the audience with jeans with no knees in them. Incredible, eh?’ - from Steve Marriott's Moments

Richard Green, again for Record Mirror, visited them backstage after a gig. ‘Steve and Plonk,’ he told his readers, ‘frequently use the word “nice” in their conversation. “This sounds nice, she’s nice” and so on. It seems to be an in word with them.’ It was. The band used it as drug slang. Good pill. Nice. Good smoke. Nice. If that’s what they’re like in public,’ Green mused, ‘goodness knows what goes on in the seclusion of their house where they all live together. Must be a sort of Mod’s satirical palace.’

‘My dad just didn’t understand kids. He was always waiting for me to be eighteen so we could get pissed together. Mind you, I managed that when I was six or seven. I visited him in Atlanta when he was recovering from a broken leg. He was pissed the whole time but in a good way. We were in a bathtub together and dad kept playing this old rock’n’roll record, “Tutti Frutti” by Little Richard over and over again. He was plying me with beer and I got drunk. I was only seven. Most people just thought he was a rude little bugger but he was a very smart man, very book read. He used to love reading about King Arthur and all that, he turned me onto Excalibur and all that stuff.’ - Toby Marriott

‘Steve’s mum was going through a bad patch and needed a treat,’ she recalls, ‘so Steve suggested we take her to the ballet. Steve took us both to see Swan Lake at the National Theatre. He spent the night explaining all the moves to us because he had done ballet at the Italia Conti. Other people in the audience were very impressed with his knowledge but not so with his dress sense. He stood out like a sore thumb, he was dressed so scruffily.’

'It had a large kitchen and he loved the kitchen. He was always cooking and would go out for fresh food every day. Cooking was a real passion of his. Another was reading. A favourite book of that time was a Noel Coward biography. Another favourite pastime was simply to go shopping together. He loved helping little old ladies with their shopping. We lived a very normal existence.’ - Manon

‘You Need Love’ was a Willie Dixon composition performed by the blues legend, Muddy Waters. It would later inspire Led Zeppelin’s ‘Whole Lotta Love’. ‘It was fantastic, I loved it,’ Marriott said of the song. ‘Muddy Waters recorded it but I couldn’t sing like Muddy Waters so it wasn’t that much of a nick. I was a high range and Muddy was a low range so I had to figure out how to sing it. So I did and that was our opening number for all the years we were together. Every time we were on stage that was our opening number, unless we had a short set. That’s where Jimmy Page and Robert Plant heard it. Robert Plant used to follow us around. He was like a fan.’

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Dark Shadows Remembrance Weekend - July 5 & 6, 2024

Dark Shadows reunion with original cast members David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Nancy Barrett, Jerry Lacy, Roger Davis, James Storm and Lisa Richards

Plans are now complete for a very special Dark Shadows Remembrance Weekend to celebrate the life of Lara Parker, who played Angelique, and pay tribute to the 100th birthday of Jonathan Frid, who played Barnabas Collins. This rare and very special occasion reunites original Dark Shadows cast members to celebrate the lives of beloved colleagues Lara Parker and Jonathan Frid and meet devoted fans of the 1960s Gothic TV series that “kids ran home from school to watch!”

To be held at the Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel, July 5th, Dark Shadows cast members, including David Selby, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Nancy Barrett, Jerry Lacy, Roger Davis, James Storm and Lisa Richards, will be celebrating Lara Parker, who passed away last October at age 84.

July 6th, Dark Shadows cast members will celebrate Jonathan Frid’s centenary with a lunch, entertainment, autographs and collector gift bags. Eventbrite tickets: $60, inclusive.

Hotel accommodations at special rates: Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel PH: (888) 236-2437

To receive special Dark Shadows discount Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel sleeping room rates, call the Marriott reservation line 1-800 or book via the following link before June 13 at https://bit.ly/3PZu92v. A complimentary hotel shuttle from the Hollywood Burbank Airport (aka the Bob Hope Airport) to the nearby Marriott Hotel is available. Dark Shadows attendees receive discounted parking at the hotel.

Dark Shadows was an American gothic soap opera that aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show depicted the lives of the wealthy Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, where a series of supernatural occurrences take place.

Dark Shadows became popular when vampire Barnabas Collins played by actor Jonathan Frid was introduced ten months into its run. It would also feature ghosts, werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel universe. A small troupe of actors each played many roles; as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than one actor. The show was distinguished by its melodramatic performances, atmospheric set designs, unusual storylines, numerous plot twists, adventurous music score, broad range of characters, and heroic adventures. Dark Shadows developed a large teenage audience and a dedicated cult following. By 1969, it had become ABC’s highest-rated daytime series with viewership in the millions!

The original network run of the show amassed 1,225 episodes. The success of the series spawned a media franchise that has included two feature films (House of Dark Shadows in 1970 and Night of Dark Shadows in 1971), a 1991 TV remake, a 2012 film reboot directed by Tim Burton, and numerous spin-off novels and comics. Kathryn Leigh Scott has narrated all 27 vintage Dark Shadows novels by Marilyn Ross for Oasis Audiobooks, available on Amazon.com.

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The Saturns, which honor the best in genre entertainment across film and television, are organized by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. Winners will be announced February 4, 2024 in a ceremony at the LA Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel and will stream live on ElectricNow.

Best Action / Adventure Film

Bullet Train (Sony Pictures) The Equalizer 3 (Sony Pictures) Fast X (Universal Pictures) John Wick: Chapter 4 (Lionsgate Films) Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (Paramount Pictures) The Woman King (TriStar Pictures)

Best Film Screenwriting

Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron and Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Walt Disney/Lightstorm) Barbie, Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig (Warner Bros. Pictures) The Menu, Seth Reiss & Will Tracy (Searchlight Films) Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Erik Jendresen & Christopher McQuarrie (Paramount Pictures) Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan (Universal Pictures) Pearl, Ti West & Mia Goth (A24)

Best Film Editing

Avatar: The Way of Water, Stephen Rivkin, David Brenner, John Refoua, James Cameron (Walt Disney/Lightstorm) Fast X, Dylan Highsmith, Kelly Matsumoto, Corbin Mehl, Laura Yanovich (Universal Pictures) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Andrew Buckland, Michael McCusker, Dirk Westervelt (Lucasfilm/Paramount/Disney) John Wick: Chapter 4, Nathan Orloff (Lionsgate Films) Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Eddie Hamilton (Paramount Pictures) Oppenheimer, Jennifer Lane (Universal Pictures)

Best Film Visual / Special Effects

Avatar: The Way of Water, Joe Letteri, Richard Baneham, Eric Saindon, Daniel Barrett (Walt Disney/Lightstorm) The Creator, Jay Cooper, Ian Comley, Andrew Roberts, Neil Corbould (20th Century Studios) Guardians of the Galaxy-Vol. 3, Stephane Ceretti, Alexis Wajsbrot, Guy Williams, Dan Sudick (Marvel/Walt Disney Studios) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Andrew Whitehurst, Kathy Siegel, Robert Weaver, Alistair Williams (Lucasfilm/Paramount/Disney) Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Alex Wuttke, Simone Coco, Jeff Sutherland, Neil Corbould (Paramount Pictures) Oppenheimer, Andrew Jackson, Giacomo Mineo, Scott Fisher, Dave Drzewiecki (Universal Pictures)

Best Science Fiction Television Series

Andor (Lucasfilm/Disney+) Foundation (Apple TV+) The Mandalorian (Lucasfilm/Disney+) The Peripheral (Amazon) Silo (Apple TV+) Star Trek: Picard (Paramount+/CBS) Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+/CBS)

Best New Genre Television Series

Andor (Lucasfilm/Disney+) The Ark (Electric Entertainment/Syfy) The Last of Us (HBO/Max) Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power (Amazon) Silo (Apple TV+) The Walking Dead: Dead City (AMC) Wednesday (Netflix)

Best Actress in a Television Series

Caitriona Balfe, Outlander (Starz) Lauren Cohan, The Walking Dead: Dead City (AMC) Emma D’Arcy, House of the Dragon (HBO/Max) Rebecca Ferguson, Silo (Apple TV+) Tatiana Maslany, She-Hulk: Attorney-at-Law (Marvel/Disney+) Rose McIver, Ghosts (CBS) Elizabeth Tulloch, Superman & Lois (Warner Bros. Television)

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Birthdays 1.30

Beer Birthdays

Martin Stelzer (1815)

Christian Hess (1848)

Sean Turner

Five Favorite Birthdays

Lloyd Alexander; writer (1924)

Phil Collins; rock drummer, singer (1951)

Roy Eldridge; jazz trumpeter (1911)

Gene Hackman; actor (1930)

Franklin D. Roosevelt; 32nd U.S. President (1882)

Famous Birthdays

Peter Agre; physician and biologist (1949)

Michael Anderson; English film director (1920)

Christian Bale; British actor (1974)

Marty Balin; rock musician (1942)

Les Barker; English poet and author (1947)

Luc-Marie Bayle; French painter (1914)

Francis Bradley; English philosopher (1846)

Richard Brautigan; writer (1935)

Ruth Brown; singer (1928)

Kylie Bunbury; Canadian-American actress (1989)

Gelett Burgess; author, poet, and critic (1866)

Brett Butler; comedian (1958)

Dick Cheney; war criminal, war profiteer (1941)

Shirley Chisholm; politician (1924)

Olivia Colman; English actress (1974)

Michael Dorris; writer (1945)

Ann Dowd; actress (1956)

Charles Dutton; actor (1951)

Doulas Englebart; inventor of computer mouse (1925)

Richard Greene; actor (1918)

Tammy Grimes; actress and singer (1934)

Tubby Hayes; English saxophonist and composer (1935)

Shirley Hazzard; Australian-American writer (1931)

Fred Hembeck; author and illustrator (1953)

Patrick Heron; British painter (1920)

John Ireland; actor (1914)

Horst Jankowski; German pianist and composer (1936)

Dave Johnson; Baltimore Orioles 2B (1943)

Mike Johnson; politician (1972)

Josh Kelley; singer-songwriter (1980)

Fred Korematsu; activist (1919)

Walter Savage Landor; English poet and author (1775)

Bernie Leighton; jazz pianist (1921)

Charles Martin Loeffler; German-American violinist & composer (1861)

Delbert Mann; film director (1920)

Steve Marriott; English singer-songwriter (1947)

Dick Martin; comedian (1928)

Jaishankar Prasad; Indian poet and playwright (1889)

Harold Prince; film director (1928)

Johann Joachim Quantz; German flute player & composer (1697)

Vanessa Redgrave; actor (1937)

Amrita Sher-Gil; Hungarian-Indian painter (1913)

Snagglepuss; cartoon character (1959)

Boris Spassky; Russian chess player (1937)

Payne Stewart; golfer (1957)

A. H. Tammsaare; Estonian author (1878)

Jake Thomas; actor (1990)

Barbara Tuchman; writer, historian (1912)

Wilmer Valderrama; actor (1980)

Jody Watley; singer (1959)

David Wayne; actor (1914)

Maiko Yuki; Japanese model, actor (1977)

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ALBUM OF THE MONTH—SNAPSHOTS https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/album/snapshots-live-half-plugged-expanded-reissue  ...Cappuccino and novel reading fueled SNAPSHOTS, an album of songs extracted from my appearances on TV shows as well as concerts and the studio. I released this album in 2003 when I earned the tag "The Tasmanian Devil of the coffee house set." Part of my audience wanted a raw, acoustic album. Hence SNAPSHOTS—a mix of blues, California pop, roots rock’n’roll, and gospel standards ("Workin' on a Building”). Live cuts include energetic covers of Patti Smith’s "Dancing Barefoot" and a Staples Singers-styled remake of "For What it's Worth” (Buffalo Springfield) performed on slide 12-string guitar.

Writers are outsourced in the Beatle-esque "Unresolved (Graham Greene's Script for Laurel and Hardy)" and "Desert Ruby" is a semi-autobiographical "Los Angeles allegory," with images from The Bible and Raymond Chandler. SNAPSHOTS also has 2 of my personal favorites, The Beach Boys-influenced “Like a Father a Son” and "Steinbeck Found the Valley"—an instrumental with accordion, cellos, piano, and trombones by Richard Marriott. 

Please enjoy this collection of audio snapshots of my life:

#snapshots #pattismith #buffalospringfield #stephenstills #staplesingers #Beatles #grahamgreene #laurelandhardy #BeachBoys #JohnSteinbeck #RichardMarriott #TheBible #RaymondChandler #accordion #trombone #cello #blues #Californiapop #rootsmusic #rocknroll #folkrock #gospel #12stringguitar #JohnnyJBlair #singeratlarge #tasmaniandevil #coffeehouse

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Mathilde Blind by Lucy Madox Brown, 1872

Mathilde Blind (born Mathilda Cohen; 21 March 1841 – 26 November 1896), was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. In the early 1870s she emerged as a pioneering female aesthete in a mostly male community of artists and writers. By the late 1880s she had become prominent among New Woman writers such as Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), Amy Levy, Mona Caird, Olive Schreiner, Rosamund Marriott Watson, and Katharine Tynan. She was praised by Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Michael Rossetti, Amy Levy, Edith Nesbit, Arthur Symons and Arnold Bennett. Her much-discussed poem The Ascent of Man presents a distinctly feminist response to the Darwinian theory of evolution.

Blind's early political affiliations were shaped by the foreign refugees who frequented her stepfather's house, including Giuseppe Mazzini, for whom she entertained a passionate admiration and about whom she would publish reminiscences in the Fortnightly Review in 1891. Other revolutionaries who frequent her mother and stepfather's house in St. John's Wood included Karl Marx and Louis Blanc. Her early commitment to women's suffrage was influenced by her mother's friend Caroline Ashurst Stansfeld, who was active in the British feminist movement from its origins in the 1840s. These radical affiliations are manifested in Blind's politically charged poetry, and in her own unbending commitment to reform. As Richard Garnett observed, in the society of political refugees and radicals Blind was raised in, "admiration must necessarily be reserved for audacity in enterprise, fortitude in adversity... anything breathing unconquerable defiance of the powers that were."

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Miss Mabel (1950)

Miss Mabel is a 1948 stage play by R. C. Sherriff. It has been adapted for television at least five times.

1950 – A play in three acts, produced by Joel Shenker as a summer theatre touring package.

Advance director: Jerome Coray

With Charles Francis, Wallace Clark, Mark Roberts, Harry Bannister, Victor Beecroft, Gwen Anderson, Marie Carroll, Bethel Long.

Subsequent cast changes throughout tour as well as resident actors playing different roles in each theatre (Dorothy and Lillian Gish by Lillian Gish)

Also, a live version aired as part of British anthology series BBC Sunday Night Theatre in 1950. Cast included Mary Jerrold, Clive Morton, Richard Warner, W. E. Holloway, Josephine Middleton, Herbert C. Walton, Anne West, Ronald Marriott, Rowland Winterton and Anthony Farmer. It was performed on 26 March 1950 with a repeat performance on 29 March 1950. Both performances are lost, as the live broadcasts were not recorded.

 Rehearsals for Miss Mabel went smoothly, once we learned to anticipate interruptions over which we had no control, like the noise and whistling from the trains. We had an idea of their schedule, so we could time when we were going to have our words drowned during matinees and evening. Whoever was talking would just remain in place and not say a word until the train had passed. Clarence Derwent, for all his impressive British training and background, was a very casual actor. He had a very relaxed delivery, and he didn’t like to wear any makeup other than his costume.

Once, on a matinee day, he came to the theatre from a long walk in the woods just before half-hour. He put on his costume and he took his seat on a soft chair onstage as the curtain went up, which he was supposed to do. A few minutes into the performance, he fell asleep.

The audience didn’t know what was happening, but onstage, including Lillian, did. Clarence wasn’t snoring. He had leaned back and closed his eyes.

Lillian looked over in his direction, and very casually, during the course of the scene, tiptoed behind the chair where Clarence was sitting. She placed her hand on his shoulder leaned over, and blew on his neck!

She might have whispered something which only he could have heard, but Clarence opened his eyes and said his line as if the action were rehearsed!

Whether she gave him a dressing down afterwards we never knew. But he never took any morning walks on a matinee day. And he never closed his eyes in that chair for the rest of the run!

When Miss Mabel company flew to the Bahamas to play an engagement at the Royal Colonial Theatre, Lillian made a star’s demand: to allow Malcolm, her West Highland terrier who had been with her since The Old Maid (1936), to ride next to her on the plane.

Lillian Gish: A Life on Stage and Screen – Stuart Oderman

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The 5 Best Hotels in Fullerton California

Make Your Stay in Fullerton Unforgettable: The Best Hotels to Book

The key to a truly memorable trip to Fullerton is having a well-planned itinerary that lets you explore, indulge, and experience everything the city has to offer. After a full day of sightseeing, savoring delicious cuisine, and strolling through scenic streets, you deserve a comfortable and relaxing place to unwind.

To help you find the perfect stay, we’ve rounded up the top five hotels in Fullerton that offer top-tier accommodations, warm hospitality, and a welcoming atmosphere—ensuring your trip is nothing short of exceptional!

Fullerton Marriott at California State University

Elevate your stay in Fullerton CA with Fullerton Marriott at California State University! A staple in the city for years, This unassuming hotel is a mile from Fullerton Arboretum, 10 miles from Disneyland Park and 5 miles from The Richard Nixon Library & Museum provides a luxurious and comfortable experience, giving you a taste of the good life in Fullerton. Call us at +17147387800 and check in at 2701 Nutwood Ave, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States for a truly unforgettable stay.

Holiday Inn Express Fullerton - Anaheim, an IHG Hotel

A must-visit for history lovers and travelers alike, Holiday Inn Express Fullerton - Anaheim, an IHG Hotel beautifully highlights the rich traditions and heritage of Fullerton. Conveniently located in the heart of the city at 212 W Houston Ave, Fullerton, CA 92832, United States, this straightforward hotel is 4 miles from Disneyland Resort, 5 miles from Anaheim Convention Center and 16 miles from John Wayne Airport provides a unique and immersive experience. Call +17148531700 to reserve your stay and enjoy exceptional accommodations!

Days Inn & Suites by Wyndham Fullerton

Highly rated by both travelers and locals, Days Inn & Suites by Wyndham Fullerton is one of the best places to stay in Fullerton. this simple hotel is a 16-minute drive from the Angel Stadium of Anaheim and 18 minutes from Disneyland Resort offers a welcoming ambiance and ultimate relaxation. Call us at +17144595743 and check in at 333 E Imperial Hwy, Fullerton, CA 92835, United States to enjoy the perfect retreat before your next adventure in Fullerton.

DoubleTree by Hilton Fullerton

With a variety of spacious rooms and suites to match your style, DoubleTree by Hilton Fullerton caters to all kinds of travelers. This charming informal hotel is 7 minutes' walk from California State University, Fullerton, a mile from Fullerton Arboretum and 7 miles from Disneyland Resort, located at 2932 Nutwood Ave, Fullerton, CA 92831, United States, is just minutes away from Fullerton’s must-see landmarks and renowned dining spots. Book your stay by calling +17145797400 and enjoy the perfect blend of comfort and convenience.

Grand Inn

Indulge in effortless luxury, exquisite dining, and top-tier amenities at Grand Inn. This old-school budget hotel is 1.9 miles from the Fullerton Transportation Center, 4.4 miles from the Disneyland Resort and 5.4 miles from Knott's Berry Farm amusement park promises a relaxing escape, allowing you to recharge in style. Contact our friendly staff at +17148717200 and visit us at 1000 S Euclid St, Fullerton, CA 92832, United States for an unforgettable stay in Fullerton.

No matter your travel style—whether it’s a family-friendly getaway, a romantic retreat, or a solo adventure—these hotels in Fullerton offer the perfect home away from home.

Click here to explore the best places to visit in Fullerton

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🎬 “NOSFERATU. UNA SINFONÍA DE TERROR” [Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens] 🧛‍♂️🦇⚰🧛‍♀️

🔎 Género: Terror / Vampiros / Siglo XIX / Expresionismo Alemán / Cine mudo / Película de Culto.

⌛️ Duración: 91 minutos

✍️ Guión: Henrik Galeen

📕 Novela: 'Drácula'  de Bram Stoker

📷 Fotografía: Fritz Arno Wagner (B&W)

🎼 Música: James Bernard, Hans Erdmann, Carlos U. Garza, Timothy Howard, Richard Marriott, Richard O'Meara, Hans Posegga, Peter Schirmann, Bernardo Uzeda y Bernd Wilden.

🗯 Argumento: Año 1838 en la ciudad de Wisborg viven felices el joven Hutter y su mujer Ellen, hasta que el oscuro agente inmobiliario Knock decide enviar a Hutter a Transilvania para cerrar un negocio con el conde Orlok. Se trata de la venta de una finca de Wisborg, que linda con la casa de Hutter. Durante el largo viaje, Hutter pernocta en una posada, donde ojea un viejo tratado sobre vampiros que encuentra en su habitación. Una vez en el castillo, es recibido por el siniestro conde. Al día siguiente, Hutter amanece con dos pequeñas marcas en el cuello, que interpreta como picaduras de mosquito. Una vez firmado el contrato, descubre que el conde es, en realidad, un vampiro. Al verle partir hacia su nuevo hogar, Hutter teme por Ellen.

👥 Reparto: Max Schreck (Conde Orlok), Greta Schröder (Ellen Hutter), John Gottowt (Abraham Van Helsing), Gustav von Wangenheim (Thomas Hutter), Alexander Granach (Renfield), Max Nemetz (Capitán del Empusa), Georg H. Schnell (Harding), Ruth Landshoff (Ruth)  y Wolfgang Heinz (Compañero del Empusa).

📢 Dirección: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

© Productora: Prana-Film GmbH.

🌎 País: Alemania

📅 Año: 1922

📽 Proyección:

📆 Jueves 23 de Enero

🕗 8:00pm.

🎦 Cine Caleta (calle Aurelio de Souza 225 - Barranco)

🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ Ingreso libre

🙂 A tener en cuenta: Prohibido el ingreso de bebidas y comidas. 🌳💚🌻🌛