#richard talmadge

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Jacqueline Bisset "Casino Royale" 1967, de John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Joseph McGrath, Richard Talmadge.

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1923

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In 1970, the United States was considering setting up a base on the moon and sent up a woman and two men to investigate, but not everything was as it seemed. (“Project Moon Base” flm)

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A Gold Watch That Survived the Titanic Sells for $1.5 Million

The gold watch worn by the Titanic’s richest passenger, John Jacob Astor, has set an auction record as the most expensive item of Titanic memorabilia.

A private collector in the U.S. paid $1.5 million for the 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch engraved with the initials J.J.A. The item was part of the “Titanic, White Star and Transport Memorabilia” sale held by British auction house Aldridge & Son on April 27. The watch was one of around 250 items and easily surpassed its high estimate of $150,000.

Astor, a real estate developer and member of the New York dynastic family made rich by fur trading in the 18th and 19th centuries, died at the age of 47 when the ship sank in 1912. Astor had sparked scandal by marrying a woman nearly 30 years his junior and was returning to New York following a protracted honeymoon to Europe and Egypt designed to quell the gossip.

He was last seen smoking a cigarette with the author Jacques Futrelle after escorting his wife, Madeleine Talmadge Force, and friend Margaret Brown safely into lifeboat four. Both women survived.

Astor’s body was found on April 22 by CS MacKay-Bennett, a cable laying steamer that was repurposed as a recovery ship by the White Star Line, the Titanic’s operator. In addition to the pocket watch, his cuff links, diamond ring, golden pencil, and pocketbook, along with money in various currencies, were recovered.

The possessions were returned to Astor’s son, Vincent, who restored the pocket watch before gifting it to his father’s long-serving secretary William Dobbyn in 1935. The Dobbyn family kept the item until sending it to auction in the late 1990s.

By Richard Whiddington.

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Okay so I have a list of people I will now fixate on and possibly do research on and find out their entire life stories.

John Laurens (obviously)

Alexander Hamilton (even more obviously)

James McHenry

Richard Kidder Meade

Tench Tilghman

And others I’ve heard less about: Joseph Reed, Benjamin Walker, Robert Harrison, Caleb Gibbs, Thomas Mifflin, and of course, Benjamin Talmadge

I actually want to do research on or create characters for the whole family, which means both aides and just general staff. (But just the most known ones so really not the whole family)

It’ll be a lot of people but hey. If ANYONE HAS ANY INFO ON ANYONE ELSE OR WHOS ON THIS LIST I WILL BE SO VERY HAPPY PLEASE

I am well aware my brain works very weirdly, thank you 😊

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Benjamin Tallmadge is a Pretty Boy

Because I have nothing better to do with my time, I have tracked down as many quotes mentioning Tallmadge's appearance. These come from months of research, and I know I definitely missed a few. I'm not trying to start another TURN sexy man war, I just have to share these because some of them are funny.

"Tallmadge is one of the most attractive and dashing figures of our revolutionary history… A sketch of him by Colonel Trumbull, shows, under the plumed helmet of the Dragoon, a high-bred sensitive face, clear-eyed, confident and gallant.” -The History of the Town of Litchfield, Connecticut by Alain Campbell White. Page 86

"The picturesque figure of Col. Tallmadge directs attention to him in particular. Henry Ward Beecher wrote of him: ‘How well do we remember the stately gait of the venerable Colonel of Revolutionary memory!’… Col. L. W. Wessells has also left us a boy's impression of him: ‘When a small boy, I have often seen him on horseback, a remarkably handsome figure and splendid horseman.’” White, Pages 135-136

“When Lyman Beecher came to Litchfield in March, 1810, he was entertained by the leading members of the parish. ‘Colonel Tallmadge has just arrived from [Washington],’ Beecher wrote to his wife, ‘to spend a few days. I was invited to take tea with him, and had an agreeable evening. He is over six feet in height, and large in proportion; in countenance and bearing resembling Washington. He is polite and acquainted with men, and his wife and daughters are pious and accomplished.’” -Benjamin Tallmadge by Charles Swain Hall. Page 262

" Col. William Smith Livingston possessed great physical strength, and with Col. Benjamin Tallmadge, had the reputation of being the handsomest man in the Revolutionary Army. They were second cousins” - The Talmadge, Tallmadge, and Talmage genealogy. Page 88

"His person was rather above the ordinary stature, well proportioned, dignified and commanding. His step even in last years was firm and elastic, his body erect, and his whole carriage possessed a military dignity, in which was combined the model of both the soldier and the gentleman.” - Sermon on Tallmadge's funeral. Found in Memoir of Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge edited by Henry Phelps Johnston. Page 145

“Tallmadge a bold and dashing officer, would run what today would be called a department of military intelligence. Tallmadge, according to one of his soldiers, ‘was a large, strong, and powerful man and rode a large bay horse which he took from the British. He was a brave officer, and there was no flinch in him. He was a man of few words, but decided and energetic, and what he was to the purpose.’” - George Washington, Spymaster by Thomas Allen. Pages 50-52

“He [Tallmadge] was over six feet in height, and large in proportion; in countenance and bearing resembling Washington, with whom he was a favorite.” - The autobiography of Lyman Beecher. Page 148

“In 1810 the spirit of '76 was not seriously dimin ished, and many of the principal actors in the stirring scenes of the Revolutionary struggle were still alive. Colonel Tallmadge, one of the most dashing and able cavalry officers of the army." - A biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Page 35

“A young, handsome officer, attired in a dashing dragoon’s uniform, renowned for his combat exploits, Tallmadge was highly popular with the young women of Patriot disposition.” - General Washington's Commando by Richard Welch

“Tallmadge’s interests in women extended far beyond the issue of their education. Affable, good-looking and flirtatious, he had a keen eye for female beauty, and was attractive to and attracted by many young women, whose names, or descriptions, appear frequently in his letters.” ^ I don't have page numbers for these two because kindle is weird

“Benjamin Tallmadge, a gallant young major whose curls always seemed to be escaping beneath his sharp dragoon helmet, was still rather green, but his keenest of mind was apparent to everyone who met him.” - George Washington’s Secret Six, by Brian Kilmeade. Page 35.

In addition, are several novels and historical fiction that include Tallmadge and also call him pretty. I'm only going to put one here, but there are a few.

“Benjamin Tallmadge. A youth of seventeen years, six feet one inch in height, strong and well built.… His face was attractive” - Brinton Eliot: From Yale to Yorktown by James Farmer. Page 16.

And here are the links to Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/historyoftownofl1920whit/page/86/mode/1up

https://archive.org/details/benjamintallmadg0000char/page/262/mode/2up?q=six

https://archive.org/details/talmadgetallmadg00intalm/page/88/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/memoirofcolonelb027409mbp/page/n239/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/georgewashington00alle_0/page/50/mode/1up

https://archive.org/details/johnharvardlibra0000barb/page/148/mode/1up?q=Tallmadge

https://archive.org/details/biographyofrevhe00beecuoft/page/35/mode/1up

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Inside Andre Sakhai’s Legal Troubles Over an Anna Weyant Painting, a Satanic Artist Protests Palm Sunday in L.A., and More Juicy Art World Gossip

Plus, what dealer was spotted reading a classic book on salesmanship on the subway? And what gallery is opening at an Atlantis resort in Dubai?

Anna Weyant, Cynthia (2019). Courtesy of Phillips.

TWO’S COMPANY, THREE’S A CROWD Remember Andre Sakhai? For the uninitiated, he is a collector, and the son of Ely Sakhai, the notorious art dealer who was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for selling fake art to collectors while squirreling away the original piece and its Certificate of Authenticity. (Ely maintains his innocence, of course.) Andre is also the godfather to the child of convicted fraudster Inigo Philbrick—though Philbrick also screwed him over regarding the joint ownership of a Wade Guyton piece that Sakhai had bought a $350,000 stake in. Now, according to court documents acquired by Wet Paint, Sakhai is caught up in his own legal kerfuffle.

In a complaint filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York on February 9, a client of the Richard Golub firm, run by the noted—and somewhat infamous—lawyer to art stars like the Niarchos family, Pace Gallery, the Nahmads, and George Condo, is suing Sakhai over the partial ownership of a piece by (drumroll please) Anna Weyant.

It’s a complicated one, folks. The claims and counter-claims here give a look at the kinds of eye-watering machinations around today’s top stars—and the kinds of disputes that can arise from said machinations.

According to the complaint, Sakhai, through his company Aiden Fine Arts (which was operating under the name the Art Collection, and will hereafter be shortened to the acronym AFTAC), “abused and continues to abuse the corporate form by dominating and controlling the affairs and assets of AFTAC, freely transferring funds between AFTAC and [Andre Sakhai].” The complaint goes on to classify AFTAC as a “shell company” used “in order to advance [Sakhai’s] personal interests and not the legitimate business interests of AFTAC.” Adding some dramatic flair to otherwise dry legalese, the complaint claims that “defendants [Andre Sakhai] and AFTAC were and are alter egos of each other.”

Golub’s client, who is unnamed in the complaint, alleges that he purchased Anna Weyant’s portrait of fellow painter Cynthia Talmadge in May of 2022 for a total sum of $606,000, split three ways between another third party and Sakhai, with each collector shelling out around $200,000 for the piece.

This, it goes on to suggest, was all fine and well, until the fall auctions rolled around. The co-owners agreed to bring the piece to auction at Phillips London and split the proceeds (talk about a quick flip). Only problem? At auction time, the piece didn’t go crazy like other Weyant works historically have, and hammered for only £240,000, which came out to about £302,400 after fees (about $335,000 at the time)—considerably less than what they purchased it for.

The court documents then allege that Sakhai made away with the wire transfer from Phillips and left the other two parties hanging. Golub’s plaintiff is asking for no less than $110,816.48 to be returned to him.

That’s their side. On the other, last week Sakhai’s team filed a response to the complaint, denying the accusations about withholding the other two parties’ slice of the pie, summarizing that “any damages sustained by Plaintiff were caused wholly or in part by the acts and omissions of Plaintiff itself… all of which acts and omissions were beyond Defendant’s control.” In addition, Sakhai’s response stated that the plaintiff is not entitled to exemplary damages, as “defendants have at all times acted in good faith and with reasonable grounds for believing that their conduct was not wrongful, tortious, or unlawful.” (Sakhai also brought four counterclaims accusing Golub’s client of wrongfully withholding two other works in which AFTAC claims a stake.)

Put in layman’s terms, Sakhai basically told the other two parties their it’s their fault and they should go cry about it.

Whose account will win out? That’s for the law to decide. What I will say is that, even though I myself have added to the lore of Anna Weyant’s highly singular market trajectory, I find it pretty abominable how many people are flagrantly making a quick buck off of her. These documents suggest that all three owners of Cynthia are out a good chunk of change after trying to take her work to auction, so I certainly have some schadenfreude on behalf of Weyant, who recently went on Eileen Kelly‘s podcast and described feeling “like a racehorse” during auction season.

Of all the bizarre cultural moments in American history, one of the most fascinating for me is the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. I am pretty envious of anyone who got to live through a time where baseless conspiracy theories about Rosemary’s Baby-style paganism were coming from the idiot fringes of society, versus now, where the kind of people slinging these charges are actually in government (see, the “QAnon caucus” in congress, etc).

In any case, over the weekend, some demonic doings of a more harmless type cropped up, involving a young painter named Joseph Herbert in Los Angeles.

For the God-fearing set, this weekend was Palm Sunday. After a service in Culver City, I received an alarmed missive from an unlikely corner of the culture: a woman named Tashna Shaw, who described visiting Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church when terror struck: “A teenager walked into our church yesterday and was super loud and unfriendly,” she said. “He walked right to the front and his friends started taking pictures of him holding a canvas depicting the devil…. It was a horrible experience and especially doing this on Palm Sunday is so horrible!!”

But don’t be too alarmed! A representative of the church said that no mass was interrupted, nor was there any corresponding possessions prompted by the painting’s presence in the church. So, while the painting (which, I must add, is titled Slay3r) may have been Satanic, it sounds as if there wasn’t all that much panic.

Like many a Satan-referencing artist before him (see: Leonora Carrington, and the like), Herbert seems to just have wanted to shake things up. The young hellion, who apparently works mainly in video art, told Wet Paint over email, “I like to explore the darkness of humanity in my work and the hypocrisy of us humans.”

Amen to that, brother.

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A new Twitter trend has brought back into our mind’s eye what is perhaps Jerry Saltz’s most cringe tweet of all time… Tribeca’s Margot Samel has added five new artists to their roster at once: Olivia Jia, Kris Lemsalu, Sarah Margnetti, Narcissister, and Stephen Polatch… The Guggenheim Museum has acquired My Home Is Where My Tipi Sits by Wendy Red Star… Serge Gainsbourg’s house in Paris is finally opening as a dedicated museum in September of 2023 after a false promise to open in 2022 (anticipate that Wet Paint will likely be on vacation the week of its opening)… Abso Lutely Productions, which has produced cult favorite television shows like Nathan for You and Tim and Eric, is lending Chloe Wise a hand in creating her new video work for Art Basel’s Parcours section this year… This year’s Herb Alpert Awards are taking place over Zoom, which I didn’t really think was still happening, but okay… Opera Gallery is opening a space in the new Atlantis the Royal resort in Dubai (you know, the one where Beyoncé played her first show in five years, to the dismay of pretty much all of her fans who don’t live in Dubai)… Apparently Jonas Wood and Pharrell both turned down Yusaku Maezawa‘s offer to go to Space…

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Peter O'Toole and Ursula Andress on the set of Casino Royale

Casino Royale (1967) directed by Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish and Richard Talmadge(uncredited)

Peter O'Toole as Scottish Piper (uncredited)

Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd / James Bond 007

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Liked on YouTube: PROJECT MOONBASE - 1953 Science Fiction Movie

PROJECT MOONBASE - 1953 Science Fiction Movie In the not-too-distant future of 1970, the United States is considering building bases on the Moon and send a team to investigate. One of the team turns out to be a foreign spy, putting the entire operation and the future of the world is in danger. A 1953 independently made black-and-white science fiction film, produced by Jack Seaman, directed by Richard Talmadge, and starring Ross Ford, Donna Martell, Hayden Rorke. It co-stars Larry Johns, Herb Jacobs, Barbara Morrison, and Ernestine Barrier. The film was distributed by Lippert Pictures and is based on a story by Robert A. Heinlein, who shares the screenwriting credit with producer Jack Seaman. Project Moonbase is unusual for its time in both attempting to portray space travel in a "realistic" manner and for depicting a future in which women hold positions of authority and responsibility equal to men; as an example, the President of the United States is a woman. Mystery Science Theater 3000 featured the film in January 1990 as an episode during its first season on The Comedy Channel. It had been originally broadcast in 1986 as a syndicated television episode of the Canned Film Festival Cast Donna Martell as Colonel Briteis Hayden Rorke as Gen. 'Pappy' Greene Ross Ford as Maj. Bill Moore Larry Johns as Doctor Wernher Herb Jacobs as Mr. Roundtree Barbara Morrison as Polly Prattles Ernestine Barrier as Madame President James Craven as Commodore Carlson John Hedloe as Adjutant Peter Adams as Captain Carmody via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL9ciBDPyXA

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Deborah Kerr-David Niven "Casino Royale" 1967, de John Huston, Ken Hughes, Val Guest, Robert Parrish, Joseph McGrath, Richard Talmadge.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: A Dash Through Downtown L.A. in 1926 Film Backing Raises for Police, Firefighters

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: A Dash Through Downtown L.A. in 1926 Film Backing Raises for Police, Firefighters

A compelling form of advertising from its beginnings thanks to its emotional power and ability to manipulate, film has been employed to sell and brand products as well as educate audiences on social, cultural, and educational issues virtually since its inception. The medium’s ability to move audiences through the visceral impact of editing and dynamic action created a worldwide language while…

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Project Moonbase (Dir. Richard Talmadge, 1953). Source

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Get That Girl (1932) George Crone

March 9th 2020

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This Day in Buster… January 7, 1921

Sid Grauman, at Grauman’s Million Dollar Theater, offers $100 to the person who correctly names the actor or actress to be married in 30 days. Buster Keaton and Natalie Talmadge make the list… can you work out if there was a winner to be had?

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Peter O'Toole and Peter Sellers on the set of Casino Royale

Casino Royale (1967) directed by Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Robert Parrish and Richard Talmadge(uncredited)

Peter Sellers as Evelyn Tremble / James Bond 007

Peter O'Toole as Scottish Piper (uncredited)