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I love this movie so much.
Bill Paxton and Phillip Seymour Hoffman are my favourite actors but really they’re all great!
Twister (1996)
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Você sabia? O legado de "Twister" (1996)
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While I definitely had a crush on Helen Hunt in twister as a kid. And her fashion sense influenced mine for years to come. As an adult lesbian Wendle Josepher is so much hotter.
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Hermès campaign for their rendition of Jean-Michel Frank furniture shot at Kevin Wendle’s former Quai Anatole apartment with an interior by Joseph Dirand.
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Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Beverly Sutphin: Kathleen Turner Eugene Sutphin: Sam Waterston Misty Sutphin: Ricki Lake Chip Sutphin: Matthew Lillard Detective Pike: Scott Morgan Detective Gracey: Walt MacPherson Scotty: Justin Whalin Birdie: Patricia Dunnock Carl: Lonnie Horsey Dottie Hinkle: Mink Stole Rosemary Ackerman: Mary Jo Catlett Mr. Stubbins: John Badila Betty Sterner: Kathy Fannon Ralph Sterner: Doug Roberts Carl’s Date: Traci Lords Marvin Pickles: Tim Caggiano Howell Hawkins: Jeff Mandon Father Boyce: Colgate Salsbury Mrs. Jenson: Patsy Grady Abrams Herbie Hebden: Richard Pilcher Timothy Nazlerod: Beau James Judge: Stan Brandorff Luann Hodges: Kim Swann Suzanne Somers: Suzanne Somers Gus: Bus Howard Sloppy: Alan J. Wendl Juror #8: Patricia Hearst Jury Forewoman: Nancy Robinette Rookie Cop: Peter Bucossi Policewoman: Loretto McNally Press A: Wilfred E. Williams Court TV Reporter: Joshua L. Shoemaker Court Groupie A: Rosemary Knower Court Groupie B: Susan Lowe Carl’s Brother: John Calvin Doyle Book Buyer: Mary Vivian Pearce Mean Lady: Brigid Berlin Police Officer: Jordan Brown Vendor: Anthony ‘Chip’ Brienza Flea Market Boy: Jeffrey Pratt Gordon Flea Market Girl: Shelbi Clarke Macho Man: Nat Benchley Dealer: Kyf Brewer Baby’s Mother: Teresa R. Pete Church Baby: Zachary S. Pete Doorman: Richard Pelzman Kid A: Chad Bankerd Kid B: Johnny Alonso Kid C: Robert Roser Joe Flowers: Mike Offenheiser Girl: Lee Hunsaker Burglar A: Michael S. Walter Burglar B: Mojo Gentry Mrs. Taplotter: Gwendolyn Briley-Strand Reporter: Jennifer Mendenhall Joan Rivers: Joan Rivers TV Serial Hag: Catherine Anne Hayes Lady C: Susan Duvall Press: Valerie Yarborough Kid: Jordan Young Camel Lips: Jennifer Finch Camel Lips: Suzi Gardner Camel Lips: Demetra Plakas Camel Lips: Donita Sparks Husband A: John A. Schneider Court Clerk: Lyrica Montague Eugene Sutphin’s Nurse (uncredited): Bess Armstrong Birdie’s Father (uncredited): Greg Coale Video Store Customer (uncredited): David L. Marston Stage Diver (uncredited): Kim McGuire Cop (uncredited): John Poague Club Kid (uncredited): Al Sotto Ted Bundy (voice) (uncredited): John Waters Film Crew: Art Direction: David J. Bomba Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Mark Berger Executive Producer: Joseph M. Caracciolo Jr. Thanks: Paul Reubens Original Music Composer: Basil Poledouris Writer: John Waters Production Design: Vincent Peranio Editor: Janice Hampton Producer: Mark Tarlov Supervising Sound Editor: John Nutt Thanks: Don Knotts Editor: Erica Huggins Director of Photography: Robert M. Stevens Associate Producer: Pat Moran Costume Design: Van Smith First Assistant Director: Robert Rooy Property Master: Brook Yeaton Art Department Production Assistant: Jeffrey Pratt Gordon Carpenter: Thomas Turnbull Thanks: Harry H. Novak Set Decoration: Susan Kessel On Set Dresser: Lianne Williamson Sound Editor: Ernie Fosselius Thanks: Arthur Machen Utility Stunts: G. A. Aguilar Sound Mixer: Rick Angelella First Assistant Director: Mary Ellen Woods Sound Editor: Frank E. Eulner Casting: Paula Herold Set Dresser: Michael Sabo Second Unit Director: Steve M. Davison Sound Editor: Robert Shoup Hairstylist: Kathryn Blondell Sound Re-Recording Mixer: David Parker Stunt Double: Cheryl Wheeler Duncan Assistant Makeup Artist: Janice Kinigopoulos Makeup Artist: Debi Young Makeup Artist: E. Thomas Case Post Production Supervisor: John Currin Assistant Property Master: R. Vincent Smith Music Supervisor: Bones Howe Draughtsman: Rob Simons Additional Hairstylist: Howard ‘Hep’ Preston Assistant Makeup Artist: Barbara Lacy Art Department Coordinator: Sarah Stollman Utility Stunts: Michael Runyard Unit Production Manager: Margaret Hilliard Hairstylist: Ardis Cohen Assistant Production Design: John Lindsey McCormick Makeup Artist: Betty Beebe Sound Recordist: Philip Rogers Producer: John Fiedler Secon...
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Helen Hunt and Wendle Josepher in Twister (1996)
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In retrospect, Haynes from Twister gives off big lesbian vibes.
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I notice that in your Twister posts you called Dr. Haynes “Patty”. I didn’t think she was given a first name anywhere in the movie or credits and I’d actually done a post of my own discussing making up a first name for her for a fanfic because of that. Where was she called Patty?
The subtitles on Netflix a little while back called her Patty and Haynes interchangeably! Also in an interview with a bunch of the cast the actress (the wonderful Wendle Josepher) said that she played "Patty Haynes" and described the character as a grad student for Beltzer.
She's one of a few characters I decided to bring back in a reboot script that I'm writing, wherein she runs a doppler lab for the University of Oklahoma!
#ask#answered#kaiyves#i can only imagine how weird it must be coming across all of the twister content mixed into the rest of my blog#patty haynes is the best character
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IN THE EARTH - Review
DISTRIBUTOR: NEON
SYNOPSIS: A disastrous virus has ensnared the globe. As the world searches for a cure, a scientist, Martin, and a park scout, Alma, venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run to Dr. Olivia Wendle. Their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness as the forest comes to life around them. Things become even more dire when they encounter Zack, a hermit living in the woods with a devotion to the pagan god that dwells there.
REVIEW: Director and screenwriter Ben Wheatley’s films are often an unbalancing of the viewers expectations as it unfolds into a dark and disturbing story. Other times he has an opportunity to work in television and delivers impressive tales that can still be a bit strange. I particularly enjoyed his 2014 episodes for “Doctor Who” during Peter Capaldi’s time as the Doctor. His latest film, IN THE EARTH, is set against the backdrop of a pandemic. A scientist and park scout head out into the forest with supplies and to check on a scientist conducting research there. What they encounter is a mind bending and life changing event with what might be an ancient god or an elemental - the spirit of the woods.
I was intrigued by Wheatley’s tale. Other than the park scout, who feels like the classic narrator like in a Herman Melville story about Ishmael or Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, IN THE EARTH goes down a dark path with psychedelic visuals and an insane musical backdrop by composer Clint Mansell. Wheatley attempts to create a fully immersive experience by bringing the forest to life as this awakened force. At times it works and at others becomes a tad overbearing. He raises several questions, some of which he leaves unanswered. He presents the viewer with a few themes, some of which he leaves it to the viewer to interpret. Granted there are many things about the film that are awe inspiring, such as he was able to make the film during the pandemic. It is a thought provoking story that has a lasting impression, but I don’t feel it has a broader audience appeal as his other films and some might find it confusing.
The director is working with a talented cast who engage the viewers attention and keeps one invested in the story. Joel Fry plays the scientist and Ellora Torchia the park scout, both very likeable actors who give solid performances. A good portion of the film are the two characters trekking or fleeing in the woods, and their performances anchor the film. Actor Reece Shearsmith delivers a memorable performance as Zach, a character who's been driven to madness by the presence in the forest.
Given the outdoor premise of the film there are some interesting production designs and elements to Zach’s camp site and Dr. Wendle’s research site. There was some nice work done on the book surrounding the spirit in the woods. Given the gear used for the film’s climax, which is impressive, I did find myself questioning how the light and sound experience could be powered.
I know I’ve already mentioned the score by composer Clint Mansell, but I do need to bring it up again. Mansel is an amazing composer who crafts memorable scores no matter what the genre. In this instance his score does become another character in the film as it is his composition that becomes the voice of the awakening spirit in the woods. At other moments in the film it enhances the tension and adds to creepiness of the surrounding forest.
For anyone who’s been out in nature and experienced the vastness of it, gotten stoned while there, and felt the presence of the forest come alive around them, I’m sure you’ll totally get IN THE EARTH. City dwellers maybe not so much. It is interesting that in trying to escape the pandemic many people tried to escape to more rural areas and some looking for a quick getaway went camping. So like a modern fairy tale, IN THE EARTH is a cautionary story of what might be lurking for some in the depths of the deep, dark forest.
CAST:. Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, John Hollingworth, and Mark Monero. CREW: Director/Screenplay/Editor - Ben Wheatley; Producer - Andy Stark; Cinematographer - Nick Gillespie; Score - Clint Mansell; Production Designer - Felicity Hickson; Costume Designer - Emmy Fryer; Prosthetics Supervisor - Dan Martin; SFX - Real SFX. OFFICIAL: N.A. FACEBOOK: N.A. TWITTER: https://twitter.com/intheearthmovie / @intheearthmovie TRAILER: https://youtu.be/fkUpWqmFKV4 RELEASE DATE: In Theaters April 16th, 2021
**Until we can all head back into the theaters our “COVID Reel Value” will be similar to how you rate a film on digital platforms - 👍 (Like), 👌 (It’s just okay), or 👎 (Dislike) Reviewed by Joseph B Mauceri
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THE WEEKLY PIC: Andy Warhol would have been 90 years ago today, if he hadn’t had the bad luck to die too soon.
As his biographer, I think a lot about what Warhol’s most notable, complex contribution to art might have been. (I.e., I need to be reminded of why I’ve been sacrificing a big chunk of my life to his.) On the radio today, on the Marketplace Morning Report, I suggested that his idea of “Business Art” might be the winner. As he (maybe) said, and might have meant (or not): “Making money is art, and working is art - and good business is the best art.”
It’s easy to see this idea as a lame excuse that Warhol used for selling out: There’s no doubt that he sometimes made bad art for no reason other than to make money. But a lot of the ventures people have said were only intended as money-makers were actually anything but.
He’s been accused of deciding to manage the Velvet Underground for commercial reasons – but if he wanted to make money off rock, why choose the most audience-unfriendly band of its era? He could certainly have found his own Monkees to sponsor.
Almost none of his films made a real profit and Interview magazine, as I’ve often been told, lost money year after year.
The only ventures that really made him rich were the ones that had least to do with making money, at least on the surface. Most of his profits came from his society portraits, which depended for their financial success on Warhol staying within the bounds of a normal artist’s persona. His practice as a portraitist, that is, was where he had to work hardest to hide his business-art project behind an appearance of dedication to the art of the old-fashioned handmade objet. But I think he knew perfectly well that these most art-like of objects were where he was most fully practicing “business art,” and that they had least to do with anything like serious traditional artmaking. The portraits involved complex conceptual gambits that Warhol enjoyed foisting onto patrons who were under the misapprehension that they were buying attractive pictures of themselves.
Only Andy Warhol could have been least sold-out at precisely the moment when he was most dedicated to selling. Or, put another way, with the society portraits his biggest profits ended up coming from his most uniquely conceptual art.
Joseph Kosuth, eat your heart out.
(Portrait of Warhol ©1965 Lawrence Fried and ©2017 Patricia Fried and Lauren Wendle, courtesy Vaughan Silk Screen Factory)
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TNWN: Rays vs Royals — a series preview
TNWN: Rays vs Royals — a series preview
His name is Joseph Patrick Wendle. Say his name! (Photo Credit: Tampa Bay Rays) After sweeping the New York Yankees in the Bronx, the Tampa Bay Rays will continue their second road trip of the season when they start a three-game set against the Royals in Kansas City on Monday. The AL Central-leading Royals took three of four from the Blue Jays this weekend past. The Rays enter Kansas City…
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Tampa Bay Rays: Y’all wanted Wendle? Well here’s Joseph Patrick Wendle!...
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Hans B. Schmidt part 4 Upon being asked if he knew the name Hans Schmidt, Fr. Braun described him as a priest who had formerly been assigned to St. Boniface's Church but had also moved to St. Joseph's. Inspector Faurot and Detectives Cassassa and O'Connell arrived at St. Joseph's Rectory at 1:30. After Faurot pounded on the door, the senior pastor, Fr. Daniel Quinn, opened the door, led them into the parlor, and awoke Fr. Schmidt. Upon being confronted by the Inspector and the Detectives, Fr. Schmidt admitted, "I killed her! I killed her because I loved her!" Fr. Schmidt then described the murder and dismemberment in detail. As his fellow priests watched in horror, Fr. Hans Schmidt was taken into police custody. Apart from killing his young, pregnant "wife," further investigation revealed that Schmidt had a second apartment where he had set up a counterfeiting workshop. Authorities also suspected Schmidt of the murder of Alma Kellner, 9, whose body was found buried in the basement of St. John's church in Louisville, Kentucky, where Schmidt had previously worked. The body had been burned, but authorities suspected the killer had initially tried to dismember her. The janitor, Joseph Wendling, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder based on circumstantial evidence and bloody clothing found at his house. A media spectacle ensued, comparable to those caused by the Scott Peterson and Mark Hackingcases of a later era, as the New York papers competed against each other with an ever greater degree of sensationalism regarding the case. After feigning insanity during his first trial, which ended with a hung jury, Schmidt was eventually convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair. On February 18, 1916, Fr. Hans Schmidt died in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison. He remains the only Roman Catholic priest to be executed for murder in the United States. #destroytheday https://www.instagram.com/p/BsiqQ7RhQgf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=9tcm7usx5vnp
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American League East – Wes The Sports Guy
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American League East – Wes The Sports Guy
* – indicates new to team
+ – indicates injury
1. New York Yankees
With the addition of Stanton, the Bronx Bombers have become more formidable.
2. Boston Red Sox
There’s a nice mix of young talent and veterans to compete for at least a Wild Card spot.
3. Toronto Blue Jays
This looks to be a transition year for the Jays and a lot depends on the health of their best players.
4. Baltimore Orioles
The last hurrah for the current roster with a power driven lineup, but a suspect rotation.
5. Tampa Bay Rays
They dismantled the roster and are preparing another crop of young players for the big leagues.
Player to Watch: OF Aaron Judge New York Yankees
Best Acquisition: OF Giancarlo Stanton New York Yankees
New Kid on the Block: SS Willy Adames Tampa Bay Rays
Yankees Lineup
1. LF Brett Gardner
2. RF Aaron Judge
3. DH Giancarlo Stanton*
4. C Gary Sanchez
5. SS Didi Gregorius
6. CF Aaron Hicks
7. 1B Greg Bird+
8. 3B Brandon Drury*
9. 2B Tyler Wade
Bench
INF Ronald Torreyes
INF Neil Walker*
OF Jacoby Ellsbury
Rotation
1. Luis Severino
2. Masahiro Tanaka
3. Sonny Gray
4. CC Sabathia
5. Jordan Montgomery
Setup
Dellin Betances
Closer
Aroldis Chapman
Manager
Aaron Boone*
Red Sox Lineup
1. RF Mookie Betts
2. LF Andrew Benintendi
3. 2B Dustin Pedroia+
4. DH J.D. Martinez*
5. 1B Hanley Ramirez
6. SS Xander Bogaerts
7. 3B Rafael Devers
8. CF Jackie Bradley Jr.
9. C Christian Vazquez
Bench
INF/OF Brock Holt
INF Eduardo Nunez
1B/DH Mitch Moreland
Rotation
1. Chris Sale
2. David Price
3. Rick Porcello
4. Drew Pomeranz
5. Eduardo Rodríguez
Setup
Matt Barnes
Closer
Craig Kimbrel
Manager
Alex Cora*
Blue Jays Lineup
1. LF Curtis Granderson*
2. 2B Devon Travis
3. 3B Josh Donaldson
4. 1B Justin Smoak
5. DH Kendrys Morales
6. SS Troy Tulowitzki+
7. C Russell Martin
8. RF Randal Grichuk*
9. CF Kevin Pillar
Bench
INF Aledmys Diaz*
INF Yangervis Solarte*
OF/1B Steve Pearce
Rotation
1. J.A. Happ
2. Marcus Stroman
3. Aaron Sanchez
4. Marco Estrada
5. Jaime Garcia*
Setup
Ryan Tepera
Closer
Roberto Osuna
Manager
John Gibbons
Orioles Lineup
1. 3B Tim Beckham
2. SS Manny Machado
3. CF Adam Jones
4. 2B Jonathan Schoop
5. 1B Chris Davis
6. LF Trey Mancini
7. DH Mark Trumbo
8. RF Colby Rasmus*
9. C Caleb Joseph
Bench
OF Craig Gentry*
INF Engelb Vielma
C Chance Sisco
Rotation
1. Alex Cobb*
2. Kevin Gausman
3. Dylan Bundy
4. Andrew Cashner*
5. Chris Tillman
Setup
Mychal Givens
Closer
Brad Brach
Manager
Buck Showalter
Rays Lineup
1. LF Denard Span*
2. CF Kevin Kiermaier
3. 3B Matt Duffy
4. RF Carlos Gomez*
5. C Wilson Ramos
6. 1B C.J. Cron*
7. DH Brad Miller
8. SS Adeiny Hechavarria
9. 2B Joey Wendle*
Bench
OF Mallex Smith
INF/OF Daniel Robertson
C Jesus Sucre
Rotation
1. Chris Archer
2. Blake Snell
3. Jake Faria
4. Nathan Eovaldi
5. Matt Andriese
Setup
Sergio Romo
Closer
Alex Colome
Manager
Kevin Cash
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Orson Bean, Free-Spirited Actor of Stage and Screen, Dies at 91
Orson Bean, the free-spirited television, stage and film comedian who stepped out of his storybook life to found a progressive school, move to Australia, give away his possessions and wander around a turbulent America in the 1970s as a late-blooming hippie, died on Friday in Venice, Calif. He was 91.
His death was confirmed by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office on Saturday, which said it was investigating his death as an accidental vehicle accident. Mr. Bean was struck and killed by a car on Friday while crossing the street, Capt. Brian Wendling of the Los Angeles Police Department was quoted as telling reporters.
Early in his career, in the 1950s and ’60s, Mr. Bean, a subtle comic who looked like a naïve farm boy, was ubiquitous on TV, popping up on all the networks as an ad-libbing game-show panelist (a mainstay on “To Tell the Truth”), a frequent guest of Jack Paar and Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show,” a regular in playhouse dramas and, in 1954, the host of his own CBS variety show, “The Blue Angel.”
He also starred on Broadway and Off Broadway, made Hollywood films, founded a society of Laurel and Hardy aficionados, amassed a fortune and was blacklisted briefly as a suspected Communist.
In 1964, captivated by a progressive-education theory, he created a small school in Manhattan, the 15th Street School, that made classes and most rules optional, letting children run, scream and pretty much do as they pleased. For the remainder of the decade, Mr. Bean devoted himself to the school, paying its bills, covering its deficits and working harder and harder.
He often performed in five television panel shows a week, squeezed in nightclub acts and a Broadway show, married a second time and added more children to his growing family. But he felt overwhelmed by the trappings of success and by turmoil in a nation caught up in conflicts over the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of leaders and a political drift to the right.
“We were having babies and the money was rolling in so fast we had to push it out,” he recalled in an interview with The New York Times years later. “We had a four-story townhouse and a live-in maid. We loved it, but I was starting to freak out. I became convinced that the country was going fascist.”
Believing America’s generals were planning an imminent coup d’état, Mr. Bean abandoned his thriving career and moved his family to Australia in 1970. He became a disciple of the Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich and wrote a book about his psychosexual theories, “Me and the Orgone.” (The orgone was a pseudoscientific theory about a universal life force.)
When the book appeared in 1971, Mr. Bean returned to America with his wife and four children and for years led a nomadic life as an aging hippie and “househusband,” casting off material possessions in a quest for self-realization.
“We were so sure we didn’t want to be possessed by things and so intent on not having them that we gave away almost everything we owned,” he wrote in a 1977 Op-Ed in The Times. “We entered what I now call our late hippie stage. We tossed the kids into the van, bummed around the country, sponging on our friends and putting the kids in school wherever we happened to light.”
In his dropout years, as he recalled in a memoir, he experimented with psychedelic drugs, communal sex and other excursions into self-discovery. His peripatetic family collected driftwood and books, and at night read aloud to one another. When he had to, Mr. Bean scratched out a living by making commercials and animated film voice-overs.
By 1980, he was bored with inactivity. Moving back into the public spotlight, he reappeared in television movies, soap operas, game shows and episodic series. Over the next three decades, he took recurrent roles in “Murder, She Wrote,” “Normal, Ohio” and “Desperate Housewives.” He also appeared in many movies, including “Being John Malkovich” (1999).
While he eventually performed in some 50 television series and 30 films, he is often remembered for early panel shows, which, in contrast to the culture of greed, noise and kitsch of modern game shows, were low key, relatively witty and sophisticated.
“We were much more intelligent then,” Kitty Carlisle Hart, a frequent panelist with Mr. Bean, told The Times in 1999. “It sounds like an awful thing to say, but it’s true.”
Mr. Bean was born Dallas Frederick Burrows on July 22, 1928, in Burlington, Vt., to George and Marian Pollard Burrows. His father, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, was a Harvard campus police officer. His mother, a cousin of President Calvin Coolidge, killed herself when Mr. Bean was a teenager.
Mr. Bean graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in 1946, was drafted into the postwar Army and served with occupation forces in Japan. He was an accomplished magician, and after being discharged changed his name to Orson Bean and worked Boston nightclubs with tricks and gags that evolved into comedy routines.
He was blacklisted for attending two Communist Party meetings, but it blew over and hardly slowed his career. Nightclub work in Baltimore and Philadelphia finally landed him in New York at the Blue Angel and the Village Vanguard, where the pantheon included Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl and Woody Allen.
Fame followed him onto the Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen and Merv Griffin shows. He was on “The Tonight Show” so often that he became a vacation substitute for Mr. Paar and Mr. Carson. He appeared on “Playhouse 90,” “Studio One” and other television dramas, and starred on Broadway with Jayne Mansfield in the 1955 comedy “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” and with Melina Mercouri in the 1967 musical “Ilya Darling.”
Mr. Bean married the actress Jacqueline de Sibour in 1956. They had a daughter, Michele, and were divorced in 1962. He and his second wife, Carolyn Maxwell, were married in 1965, had three children, Max, Susannah and Ezekiel, and were divorced in 1981. He married the actress Alley Mills in 1993, and lived for many years in Venice, Calif. His son-in-law was Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger who died in 2011.
Taken with the unorthodox ideas of A.S. Neill’s Summerhill School in England, Mr. Bean, who never got beyond high school, bought a building in Chelsea in 1964, hired four teachers and opened the 15th Street School with 40 pupils in nursery, kindergarten and lower elementary grades. It taught self-reliance by making lessons and most rules optional, hoping to instill responsibility.
In 1964, Mr. Bean also helped found the Sons of the Desert, an international fraternal organization devoted to the films and lives of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Named for the duo’s 1933 movie, it has a Latin motto: “Duae tabulae rasae in quibus nihil scriptum est.” (“Two blank slates on which nothing has been written.”)
Mr. Bean wrote a memoir, “Too Much Is Not Enough” (1988), and a humorous book, “25 Ways to Cook a Mouse for a Gourmet Cat” (1994), which included recipes for Corned Mouse and Cabbage, Burritos con Raton, Mouse Bourguignon and Souris Printemps.
Elian Peltier and Yonette Joseph contributed reporting.
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