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blogjhm · 1 year ago
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thegroovyarchives · 16 days ago
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70's/80′s/90′s Local Television Christmas/Happy Holidays/Season’s Greetings Station IDs/Bumpers Part 6 1. WROC-TV, Rochester, New York, 1980 2. WXON-TV, Detroit, Michigan, 1995 3. KPRC-TV, Houston, Texas, 1978 4. WGAL-TV Lancaster/Lebanon/Harrisburg/York, PA, 1990 5. WMTW-TV, Poland Spring, Maine, 70’s 6. KSHB-TV, Kansas City, Missouri, 1996 7. KTEW-TV, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1978 8. WMBB-TV, Panama City, Florida, 1992 9. WABC-TV, New York City, New York, 1993 10. WCCO-TV, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1995 11. WCIX-TV, Miami–Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1990 12. WJKW-TV, Cleveland, Ohio, 1977 13. KARE-TV, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1989 14. WPIX-TV, New York City, New York, 1986
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mazzystar24 · 2 months ago
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Updated: Info for the international girlies
Places you can watch live:
Now i gotta warn yall you gotta play with them some weeks and find one that works for the week you want for example sometimes one will be airing something in the 911 slot but 911 will be on as usual in another (something to do with abc differences in diffrent states or something idk im just the messanger)
personal favs in green cos those ones i feel have been fairly reliable for me🫡
Daddyhd - still promise its not 🌽but those pop up ads might be-SJHFDKSD😭😭
Tv24/7US
WABC (NEW YORK) ABC EAST live stream - TheTVApp
- Stream 7 TV
ABC | Watch Live TV
ABC USA - Live High Quality Streams | Soccer | NBA | NHL | NFL | WWE
ABC USA HD Live Stream Online - Stream 51 - Daddylivehd.sx
Places you can find the eps after (usually fairly quick):
Hurawatch
FreeTvProject
Project Free TV | Search TV Shows, Movies on ProjectFreeTV
9-1-1 (2018) | PrimeWire
9-1-1 Series Online Free Streaming - Watch HD TV Shows - HydraHD
Watch Free Online in HD - WatchSeries VidPlay
The Watch Free Online in HD - WatchSeries VidPlay
The VPN I usually use on my phone:
X-VPN -link on this is to the AppStore version so if this link doesn’t work that’s why
also side note but if any one can recommend a good VPN for laptops i would be eternally grateful
love ya guys! hope these work for you! 🫶🫶
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ronmerchant · 4 days ago
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Three female vampires promote 'Son of Shock" with Zacherly for WABC Ch.7 TV in NYC- 1958
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911bts · 3 months ago
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im not sure if this is something that works for people who live out of the us, but if you don’t have cable or can’t get a streaming service to watch the family feud episode, there’s this site:
https://thetvapp.to/tv/wabc-new-york-abc-east-live-stream/
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jgroffdaily · 7 months ago
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Jonathan Groff and Wayne Brady shared what makes them proud this June at a “Pride of Broadway” party celebrating the launch of their May/June covers of Out and The Advocate magazines, respectively.
At the Monday fete thrown by parent company equalpride, host Sam Champion (Eyewitness News, WABC-TV) brought the out Broadway stars up on the stage at Somewhere Nowhere NYC for a short Q&A on Pride and prejudice.
Turning to the cover stars, Champion then praised Broadway as “a home and a beacon for LGBTQ+ creatives.” He paraphrased a line from Spamalot: “You don't succeed on Broadway if you don't have gays.”
With that, Brady and Groff took the stage. In a short interview, Champion asked them what it meant to grace the covers of the LGBTQ+ publications. “It's such an honor to be part of this and this family and to be recognized for it,” said Brady, who came out as pansexual last year and is now starring in The Wiz.
“I was really flexing for my life,” joked Groff, who bared arms for his Out cover. Groff is a leading Tonys contender this year for his lead role in the revival of Merrily We Roll Along, and he shared what taking him theater’s top prize might mean to him: “If I win, it's gonna light up the closeted homosexual that was 16 years old listening to Ethel Merman…. It would light him up like a Christmas tree.”
“Isn't it amazing that when you are living your authentic inside and out, that there are no barriers to what you can succeed [in],” replied Champion, who then asked the cover stars if they wanted to send a special message this Pride season.
“I'm single,” Groff said to the cheers of the crowd. “I’m feeling full of Pride and PrEP.
Said Brady: “If there's any time to stand together and to preach and to use our art, you know, those of you in the art community, let's try to transform some of these minds because Lord knows there are so many bigots and closeminded people that think one way. Let's either kick their asses or change their minds all the while singing and tapping through it.”
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azzibuckets · 6 months ago
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for the anon asking about the espy’s stream, i found this on reddit:
“https://thetvapp.to/tv is live but you get New York news. Everything at night is whatever ABC has” you have to scroll all the way down to the one that says WABC.
not sure if it’ll work or it’s just news but i’ve seen some people comment that they were able to watch the NBA finals with that. i’m not from the united states either so i’m trying to find a way to help my fellow wbb enthusiasts who don’t live there either. someone let me know if this is somehow accurate to watch the awards. ☺️
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ausetkmt · 1 year ago
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“The real story of the scramble for Africa is presented…as having started some time around 1830 AD when France invaded Cueta, the most northern part of Morocco closest to what will be today the Rock of Gibraltar. And from 1830 that scramble went on until 1864 and then again started in 1884 at which time the Berlin Conference was called by Otto Von Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm.
But that kind of analysis will be totally in error…
The scramble for Africa took place before there was the first European power in history. I’m talking about before there was Greece. The scramble for Africa took place before there was a book in the Bible called Genesis… The scramble for Africa took place when the first non-African people invaded Africa for the purpose of taking the African land, that takes us up to 1675 BCE when the Hykos, the people called the Shepherd Kings came from around the Oxus River in Asia and invaded Lower Egypt. The Africans were already in their Thirteenth dynastic.”
Yosef Ben-Jochannan, also known as Dr. Ben, was an African-American scholar, historian and lecturer, respected for his meticulous research into the roots of African history. As an African-centered historian, Dr. Ben’s work focused mainly on the Black presence in ancient Egypt. He contends in his writings that the pharaohs came out of the heart of Africa and that the original Jews were from Ethiopia and were Africans, and the whyte Jews adopted the faith and customs later. He has been accused of distorting history by Eurocentric historians and, since his work contradicts their prevailing view of Egyptian and African history, it is, therefore, deem controversial.
Dr. Ben reported that he was born in Ethiopia to a Puerto Rican mother, Julia Matta and an Ethiopian father, Kriston Ben-Jochannan. He was named after his grandfather Jochannan. In fact, his name is Hebrew and means Joseph the son of Jonathan. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to St. Croix, part of the United States Virgin Islands, where he grew up as an only child. Dr. Ben travelled extensively with his parents through South America and was educated in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Cuba, and Spain, with the idea of becoming a civil engineer.
Dr. Ben immigrated to the United States in 1945 and made New York City his home base until early 1988 when he took up residence in Cairo/Giza, Egypt. He worked as a draftsman and continued his studies. He conducted research in Africa, mainly Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia. He was well versed in Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Greek and had a reading knowledge of Italian and classical German. Dr. Ben began his educational teaching in Harlem in 1967 at HARYOU-ACT. He worked as an adjunct professor (1973-1987) at Cornell University in the Africana Studies and Research Center, then directed by James Turner. He also taught at other institutions, including Malcom-King College in Harlem and Rutgers University. In 1977 he accepted an honorary faculty position with the Israelite Rabbinical Academy at Beth Shalom Hebrew Congregation in Brooklyn.
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Dr. Ben appeared several times on Gil Noble’s WABC-TV weekly public affairs series Like It Is.
Dr. Ben was a prolific author whose writing focused primarily on ancient Nile Valley civilizations and their influence on Western cultures. According to Nick Chiles writing for Atlanta Black Star, “One of [Dr. Ben’s] many specialties was the ancient civilization of Kemet in Egypt. He was one of the first true Egyptologists, before that title had even come into vogue. Dr. Ben was always a controversial figure because he had no interest in trying to placate European scholars or writers who were threatened by his claims about Africa, Europe and the Middle East.”
In 2002, Ben-Jochannan donated his personal library of more than 35,000 volumes, manuscripts and ancient scrolls to the Nation of Islam.
Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan died in Harlem, New York on March 19, 2015 at the age of 96 at the Bay Park Nursing Home in the Bronx. He had been married three times and had a total of 13 children.
“Of all our greats, Dr. Ben physically took tens of thousands of scholars, activists, students and associations to the Nile Valley to make the pages of his book more authentic,” said his colleague, Reggie Mabry. “We saw our own experiences of what he wrote… For that the Black world is indebted to this Black man of the Nile and his family.”
Visit Black Classic Press for his books:
Source: http://www.raceandhistory.com/Historians/ben_jochannan.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Ben-Jochannanhttp://www.blackjews.org/dr-yosef-ben-jochannan-black-jewish-historian/ http://atlantablackstar.com/2015-03-20-abs-celebrates-the-life-of-a-great-man-and-legendary-scholar-dr-yosef-ben-jochannan-dec-31-1918-march-19-2015/ http://www.blackpast.org/aah-ben-jochannan-yosef-1918
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floralbuckley · 8 months ago
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Hey! Here's where I watch :) https://thetvapp.to/tv/wabc-new-york-abc-east-live-stream/
thank you!!!!! <3
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peterfeld · 10 months ago
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Hi Peter,
I'm an archive researcher and I'm currently working on a documentary project which is looking for footage of the peace rally that happened in New York on 22 April 1972. I came across your tumblr post and youtube video of footage of the event. I was wondering if you could give me any pointers on what news channel/tv station the middle section of footage is from. Unfortunately I can't make out the sign off the reporter over the crowd noice - is he called Glen?
Best wishes
Hannah
Hi Hannah! I can't make out the reporter's name either but I'm pretty sure he's saying WABC News, New York. As I remember, ABC7 always covered protests more than the other local channels. I remember watching the coverage that night and can't be sure if it was 7 but most likely it was, I remember more footage, including John and Yoko riding the lift to the stage. I would check all the local outlets if you haven't, and if they will allow. A few other sources I'd look for: a) did WBAI cover the protest? They normally would air full audio. I've looked and found nothing in the Pacifica archives but maybe someone there would know. b) NYPD a few years back has been publishing their archived surveillance footage from protests including four clips from the April 22 rally. The fourth clip shows John and Yoko, you can see them riding the lift up. c) obviously the Lennon estate has, or has access to, high quality footage of the march that they included in the 2002 video they produced for "Give Peace A Chance." My video posted here is also on my YouTube and might be slightly higher quality, I simply strung together clips I found elsewhere. I'd be very interested in what you find so please feel free to reach out at [email protected]. In particular there was a great song someone performed at the rally — "It's Still Raining Bombs On Vietnam" — I've looked for and never found.
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allhailthe70shousewife · 2 years ago
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thegroovyarchives · 6 months ago
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70's/80's/90's 4th of July Station IDs/Bumpers 1. WFAA-TV, Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas, 1986 2. WMTW-TV, Poland Spring, Maine, 70's 3. WNBC-TV, New York City, New York, 1993 4. WPXI-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1983 5. WABC-TV, New York City, New York, 1986 6. KABC-TV, Los Angeles, California, 1986 7. KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1987 8. WUSA-TV, Washington DC, 80's 9. KTLA-TV, Los Angeles, California, 70's 10. WGN-TV, Chicago, Illinois, 1981
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madamlaydebug · 2 years ago
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Hapi Dr. Ben day🤎🤎🤎
Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan, or better known as "Dr. Ben",
born December 31,1918.
An American Master Teacher, writer and historian.
Ben-Jochannan was the only child of an Afro Puerto Rican Jewish mother named Julia Matta and an Ethiopian father named Kriston Ben-Jochannan, in a Falasha community in Ethiopia. Known as Dr. Ben, he was educated in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Cuba, and Spain, earning degrees in engineering and anthropology. In 1938, Ben-Jochannan earned a BS in Civil Engineering at the University of Puerto Rico and a Master's degree in Architectural Engineering from the University of Havana, Cuba in 1939. He received doctoral degrees in Cultural Anthropology and Moorish History from the University of Havana and the University of Barcelona, Spain. Ben-Jochannan immigrated to the United States in the early 1940s. He worked as a draftsman and continued his studies.
In 1945, he was appointed chairman of the African Studies Committee at the headquarters of the newly founded UNESCO, a position from which he stepped down in 1970. During that time he taught Egyptology at Malcolm King College, then at City College in New York City. From 1976 to 1987, he was an adjunct professor at Cornell University. Ben-Jochannan is the author of 49 books, primarily on ancient Nile Valley civilizations and their impact on Western cultures. In his writings, he argues that the original Jews were from Ethiopia and were Black Africans, while the white Jews later adopted the Jewish faith and its customs, statement that have been widely criticized.
In 1993, Wellesley College European classics professor Mary Lefkowitz publicly confronted Ben-Jochannan about his teachings. Ben-Jochannan taught that Aristotle visited the Library of Alexandria. During the question and answer session following the lecture, Lefkowitz asked Ben-Jochannan, "How would that have been possible, when the library was not built until after his death?" Ben-Jochannan replied that the dates were uncertain. Lefkowitz wrote that Ben-Jochannan proceeded to tell those present that "they could and should believe what black instructors told them" and "that although they might think that Jews were all 'hook-nosed and sallow faced,' there were other Jews who looked like himself. He also appeared on Gil Noble's WABC-TV weekly public affairs series Like It Is.
In 2002, Ben-Jochannan donated his personal library of more than 35,000 volumes, manuscripts and ancient scrolls to the Nation of Islam.
In the years before his death, Ben-Jochannan lived in Harlem, New York City in the Lenox Terrace Co-ops.
Ben-Jochannan died on March 19, 2015, at the age of 96, at the Bay Park Nursing Home in the Bronx.
"When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground." -Afrikan Proverb
Knowledge in link below -
"Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan ‎–
Blackman, Wake Up! (1972)"
https://youtu.be/s1eke0mRbqw
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ronmerchant · 2 months ago
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DRACULA (1931) premires for the 1st time on TV- Ch.7 WABC, NYC, 1957
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ronnymerchant · 2 years ago
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DRACULA (1931) first time TV ad on WABC in 1957.
It’s sad Bela died a year before. If he could only have lived to see him revived.
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weirdcine · 2 years ago
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Maila 'Vampira' Nurmi: 100 anos; a sua incrível história de vida e carreira
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ICONOCLASTA AMANTE, HISTÓRICA APRESENTADORA, ESTILISTA MATADORA: MAILA NURMI — DETALHES E FATOS
Há 100 anos atrás, nascia a talentosa Maila 'Vampira' Nurmi. Falarei um pouco, de forma resumida e objetiva, sua carreira dela, e contarei algumas histórias de bastidores que talvez não saibam. Maila Nurmi foi uma figura bastante subversiva e importante na cultura dos anos 1950-1960.
Repudiada e ridicularizada por alguns mais conservadores e amada por outros tantos, ela cravou sua estaca no peito aberto do cinema convencional, apelando para o grotesco, a sensualidade, e usando-se de sua imagem insolente quanto aos costumes de mulheres tradicionais de época.
Basta-se dizer isso: Ela é a nossa heroína. E vai além: qualquer um que ame não só a cultura gótica / de terror, e que pense num mundo menos desigual para as mulheres, deve algo à Nurmi.
ANOS 1922-1940 — COMEÇO DE CARREIRA:
De nome Maila Elizabeth Niemi, Maila nasceu em 1922, na Finlândia, mas foi criada na cidade de Oregon, nos Estados Unidos da América. A sua família se mudou para Ohio quando ela tinha apenas 2 anos. Ela se formou Astoria High School e posteriormente mudou-se para Los Angeles, na Califórnia, aos 18 anos, em 1940.
A mudança dela não foi por acaso - era a terra da indústria artística e cinematográfica dos EUA. Ela sonhava em ser atriz já desde jovem etinha a esperança de encontrar trabalho na grandiosa indústria de Hollywood, e ela aspirou viés de moda. A jovem Maila trabalhou como modelo para fotógrafos famosos de pin-ups e depois como estilista independente.
ANO 1953 — UMA FESTA MUDA A VIDA DE MAILA:
No primitivo ano de 1953, a ex-modelo, então com 30 anos, trabalhava como guarda-casacos, atendente e pintava gravatas numa boatezinha, ela marcou presença numa badalada festa em Hollywood com seu então marido, um pregresso ator-mirim que virou escritor e roteirista, Dean Riesner (roteirista de filmes como 'Dirty Harry - Perseguidor Implacável' e 'Perversa Paixão'- 1971).
Ela fez sua própria fantasia de vampira, inspirada em desenhos animados de um cartunista norte-americano chamado Charles Addams (da importante revista artística novaiorquina, The New Yorker) com a Mortícia Addams, e utilizou-se de alguns retalhos de tecidos e panos costurados para fazer a fantasia. Mal sabia ela: aquela festa mudaria para sempre a sua vida.
A festa, é claro, era de Dia das Bruxas, e era organizada pelo coreógrafo Lester Horton. E a fantasia dela foi tão boa que ganhou o prêmio da noite, em primeiro lugar.
Quando perguntada sobre a fantasia, ela respondeu: “...Primeiro eu fiz a fantasia. Comprei um pedaço de tecido por 3 Dólares e 67 cents, na loja The Home Silk Shop, na sessão de sobras. Eu não tinha máquina de costura, então cortei e costurei à mão e fiz eu mesma. Eu usava pó verde claro, com unhas compridas - Fiz meu peito achatado ... de modo que fiquei muito esquelética e verde pálida e lá estava eu”.
ANO 1954 — O AUGE DO 'THE VAMPIRA SHOW':
Maila deve ter causado na festa com seu perfil chamativo e um tanto quanto exótico, pois após meses, um participante daquela mesma festa ainda não conseguia tirá-la de sua cabeça. Ele era ninguém menos que Hunt Stromberg Jr., um recém-empossado diretor de produção do canal WABC-TV da grande Los Angeles. Na época (há 68 anos de hoje), os filmes exibidos na televisão eram bastante precários, sendo exibidos com pouca ou quase nenhuma frequência, era tudo muito voltado para o cinema.
Os grandes estúdios e canais não estavam muito interessados em cooperar com a telinha – e de fato, a consideravam uma ameaça mortal para o cinema – então, a maioria dos longas-metragens disponíveis eram de produções de qualidade duvidosa (Monogram Pictures , PRC), faroestes insossos e dramas meia-boca.
A ideia de Stromberg era adicionar nada menos que um apetitoso apelo sexual às exibições de filmes de terror ao seu canal em horários noturnos. Ele lembrou-se então da vampiresca Nurmi, mas não sabia sequer o nome dela ou como entrar em contato com a mesma.
Felizmente, o designer Rudi Gernreich a havia conhecido e lembrou-se de seu nome, aí Stromberg a convidou, contratando-a para criar um personagem com inspiração de uma vampira que, no entanto, não infringisse quaisquer direitos autorais ou marcas registradas existentes na data.
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Nurmi, então,começou a trabalhar imediatamente na produção de um visual autêntico para a sua mais nova personagem - mal sabendo ela que posteriormente seria nada menos que uma persona e alter ego seu, sendo batizado por ela, simplesmente, de 'Vampira' - a primeira host (apresentadora de TV) feminina da história do gênero Terror.
Ela utilizou-se de elementos que combinavam desde a Rainha Má de 'Branca de Neve', uma senhora de histórias em quadrinho a até modelos de bondage, muitovendidos sem prescrição, na época. Para exagerar sua cintura já animosa, ela prendeu um amaciante de carne em sua barriga com um tubo interno de borracha bem amarrado. Suas medidas de cintura eram nada menos que 43 centímetros e meio.
Em 30 de junho de 1954, o 'The Vampira Show' estreou e foi um sucesso.
Nurmi logo passou a vestir-se como Vampira sempre que saía de casa. Nesta mesma época, uma forte onda de ações publicitárias então foi feita como estratégia de termômetro e divulgação dela e de seu show. Em 14 de junho de 1954, ela emplacou na famosa revista Life - ainda traremos em nosso blogue na sessão de memorabília.
Em 6 de junho de 1954, a emissora chegou a alugar um conversível preto de aparência fúnebre para promover passeios da Maila pela cidade de Los Angeles - tratava-se de um modelo Packard1932; Ela sentava-se confortavelmente na parte de tras, com seu choffer à frente, onde ela carregava sombrinha e distribuía autógrafos.
Não deu outra, ela logo se tornou uma celebridade nas boates e clubes da grande L.A - principalmente de Jazz.
Eventualmente, a personagem Vampira se tornou tão popular que o canal WABC decidiu se apropriar dela e pediu para Nurmi que a transferisse para eles. Ela não quis, e o seu show de TV foi cancelado em novembro 1954, apenas 8 meses no ar.
Quando sua série foi cancelada em 1955, Nurmi reteve os direitos do personagem e levou o programa a uma estação de televisão concorrente de Los Angeles, mas logo decidiu voltar para Nova Iorque e a Broadway.ANO 1955 — O "FÃ" ENSANDECIDO:
Em 20 de junho de 1955, Nurmi foi vítima e alvo de uma violenta tentativa de homicídio enquanto estava em sua casa. Ela atendeu a porta de seu apartamento e um homem desconhecido forçou a sua entrada e a aterrorizou por duas horas (há quem diga que foram quase 4 horas de tortura).
Ela tentou escapar, mas o homem conseguiu pegá-la e trazê-la de volta para o apartamento, onde disse que a mataria até o amanhecer. Ela acabou conseguindo fugir e chamou a polícia com a ajuda de um dono de uma lojinha nas redondezas, ela a encontrou coberta de hematomas, arranhões e vestindo apenas uma calça rasgada.
Mais tarde o bandido foi identificado: tratava-se de Ellis Barber, um doido quem segundo dizem, era conhecido na região como The Vamp (O Vamp).
Maila Nurmi decidiu então que era hora de voltar para a Califórnia.
ANO 1955 — SUPOSTO ROMANCE COM JAMES DEAN:
Quase na mesma época, Maila conheceu os famosíssimos James Dean e Elvis Presley.
James Dean ficou obcecado por ela e por toda a sua personalidade. O sentimento era mútuo. Eles tornaram-se companheiros íntimos. Segundo relatos, eles iam a cafeteria juntos, conversavam por horas a fio, por diversas vezes praticavam natação noturna juntos e compartilhavam histórias mórbidas. Nurmi era incomparável para James neste aspecto, é fato comum que o ator tinha um fascínio pela morte. Mas apesar de tudo, Maila nunca revelou nada a respeito disso, considerando-o publicamente apenas um "amigo".
O fato é: a mídia babaca - como não podia deixar de ser, associou e culpou Maila pela morte de James Dean num acidente de carro em setembro de 1955, por sua imagem gótica, como se ela fosse uma maldita - ainda abordaremos isso aqui no blogue com maiores detalhes.
ANO 1956 — SUPOSTO ROMANCE COM ELVIS:
Já sobre Elvis Presley, um pouco antes de sua explosão de fama nos anos 70, ele deu um show em Las Vegas, em maio de1956 e lá conheceu a excêntrica Maila Nurmi, aos 33 anos de idade.
Mas já falamos a respeito do encontro inusitado aqui em nosso blogue em: 'O romance oculto entre Elvis e Vampira: Teria ele um fetiche gótico?'
. Ambos foram vistos de mãos dadas em público, trocaram afagos e deram o que falar, mas apesar de tudo, Maila, segundo relatos, ainda seguia muito bem casada com o escritor Dean Riesner - certamente, só uma média.
ANOS 1959-1961 — VAMPIRA NO CINEMA, E DEPOIS:
Maila ainda fez aparições públicas e reprisou o seu papel de sucesso no filme 'Plano 9 do Espaço Sideral', um sucesso trash de 1959 - onde contracenou com Bèla Lugosi e fez uma pequena sessão de fotos com o mesmo — Maila atuou no filme com muitas ressalvas e críticas abertas e públicas, "só pelo dinheiro", mas no entanto, um fato que nem todos lembram (ou contam) é que ela relação com o diretor não era tão ruim ou impossível assim pois ela tornou a atuar para ele no interessante 'Acordei Cedo no Dia da Minha Morte' ("I Woke Up Early the Day I Died", 1998), desta vez Ed Wood como roteirista.
O personagem Vampira já havia sido transformado em folclore e já era considerado icônico na cultura e moda gótica e na 'mitologia popular' desde a época. E ela foi sumariamente copiada pela Elvira (também falaremos sobre isso no futuro).
Maila foi casada três vezes: tendo terminado seu primeiro casamento na segunda metade dos anos 1950, e iniciado seu 2º casamento em 1958 - que não durou muito, e tendo vindo a casar uma última vez no ano de 1961.
ANOS 1960-2008 — OS 30 ANOS FINAIS:
O filme citado acima, 'Acordei Cedo no Dia da Minha Morte', foi o último longa-metragem atuado por Maila. Aos 78 anos, ela desistiu de sua carreira como atriz, tendo sido creditada por 20 títulos - incluindo os shows como host. A face original de Vampira faleceu em 2008 de causas naturais, sem muito glamour ou alardes, aos 85 anos, em sua casa-garagem, em Hollywood. Ela foi enterrada no cemitério Hollywood Forever.
O certo é que hoje, após 100 ANOS de seu nascimento, Maila Nurmi agregou muito. Temos de agradecê-la por contribuir com toda a sua criatividade e por toda uma influência gerada por ela na cultura e por todo o papel corajoso que exerceu numa época de muito preconceito e conservadorismo babaca. Seu centenário não poderia passar batido.
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MAILA 'VAMPIRA' NURMI *1922 +2008
FONTES DESTA PUBLICAÇÃO:
-'The Monster Show - A Cultural History of Horror' (1993);
- Biografia oficial de Maila Nurmi;
- Horror Obsessive;
TAMBÉM DESTE BLOGUE:
- Livro: Entrevista sobre "Vampira: Deusa Macabra do Terror";
- Lista: 50 fotos de Maila Nurmi, a eterna Vampira;
PUBLICADO ORIGINALMENTE EM NOSSO BLOGUE EM 12/11/2022
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