The Murder of Sal Mineo (Part 3)

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Sal Mineo in “P.S. Your Cat is Dead”

Feb. 1976.  Things were finally looking up for actor Sal Mineo.  After years of episodic television roles in guest parts and dinner theater, he had two rewarding projects set up.  One was to direct a feature film for MGM titled “Caffery”.  Two was his continuing role as Vito in “P.S. Your Cat is Dead:.  He’d received rave reviews in San Francisco.  The play was moving to the Westwood Playhouse, starting Feb. 25.

Feb. 12.  Following rehearsals with co-star Keir Dullea, Sal returned home to his small apartment on 8569 Holloway Drive in West Hollywood.

9:30 p.m.  Parking his rental car in one of the car ports, Sal was carrying a clipboard of notes for the play and a packet of Hostess Cupcakes for dinner.  It was a short walk to his front door if he had made it.  In the dark alley to the right of the entrance were some trash cans.  Hiding behind them was Lionel Ray Williams, 19.  According to a witness, Sal began to enter, then stepped back, shouting “No, no!”  The screaming startled Williams, who reached out and plunged a 7 inch hunting knife into Mineo’s chest.  Sal screamed, “Oh, my God, help me, please somebody help me!”  Other witnesses saw Williams run off, speeding away in a small yellow car with the headlights off.

9:45 p.m.  As Sal Mineo lay dying, a bystander tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to no avail.  He is pronounced dead by paramedics.

Returning home, Williams’s wife Theresa saw him covered with blood.  “I just stabbed somebody,” he said.  Watching the evening news, Sal Mineo’s picture appeared.  “That’s the dude I stabbed,” he told his wife.

For two years, police falsely assumed Mineo was killed by an angry gay boyfriend and abandoned the case.

Jan. 1978.  Williams is in prison for check forgery when he is overheard bragging about “That honkey actor I killed” by a sheriff’s deputy.

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The Tattoo.  Lionel Williams stupidly put a tattoo of a knife on his arm.  Police commented that it looked like the knife used in Mineo’s murder.  “It looks nothing like the knife!” Williams proclaimed.  Only the murderer would know that.

He is still alive today.

In court, evidence revealed the murderer had committed a series of muggings in the same area.  The victims identified Williams as the mugger.  Lionel Williams is charged with second degree murder and found guilty.  He is jailed for fourteen years and then returned to prison for multiple offenses.

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Sal Mineo (1939-1976)

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“Rust” Scrapped

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Last photo of Halyna Hutchins before shooting, in the center with the knit cap

FURTHER INFORMATION ON THE DOOMED PRODUCTION OF “RUST”

Alec Baldwin in a roadside interview with the paparazzi announced that “Rust” will not complete filming.

On the time of the shooting, armorer Hannah Reed was not on the set.  Assistant director Dave Halls, assuming the three guns laid out on the table had been checked previously, handed one to Baldwin.  This may let Reed off the hook; however, I doubt she’ll ever work in films again.

Last words:  After being shot, Halyna Hutchins said, “No.  That was no good at all.”

Alec Baldwin asked, “What the fuck just happened?”

There’s talk in Hollywood of an outright ban on real guns being used in future of filmmaking.

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A Colt .45 revolver, similar to the one used in “Rust”

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“Rust” Shooting – Gun used for Target Practice

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Victim Halyna Hutchins with her husband (right.) Killed by Alec Baldwin (left.)

Hannah Reed, the 24 year old gun expert of “Rust”

New information on what led to the fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins by actor-producer Alec Baldwin…

The gun in question had been used previously for target practice by unknown person(s.)  No checks or protocol were performed by anyone prior to the shooting:  not by the armorer, the assistant director, the director, the key grip or the actor.  One live round had been left in one of the chambers.

Baldwin had been using the gun for “practice” inside an old church.  Taking a wild side shot, the gun went off, killing cinematographer Hutchins, then wounding his director Joel Souza.

WHO WILL GET THE BLAME?

Producer Alec Baldwin had hired newcomers and second rate crew members to save money, consequently there was a cavalier attitude toward gun safety.  500 live rounds were found on the set by police.  Nevertheless, it was his assistant director Dave Halls who said it was a “cold gun” (unloaded.)  Halls had been previously fired from another film.  Armorer Hannah Reed was no better, having handed an unchecked gun to an eleven year old on her prior film.

While this incident may cast a dark shadow over Alec Baldwin’s career, I doubt he’ll be criminally punished.  Those lower on the food chain will be thrown under the bus.  It doesn’t hurt that he’s a darling of the far-left mainstream media who adore his Donald Trump impersonation on “Saturday Night Live”.

While Baldwin wanted to save money filming, he’ll hire the best and most expensive lawyers (if needed.)

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Alec Baldwin hugs Matthew Hutchins, husband of Halyna

Alec Baldwin with the grieving husband and son of Halyna Hutchins.

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Halyna Hutchins Shot to Death by Alec Baldwin

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Alec Baldwin on the set of “Rust” – Santa Fe, New Mexico.  Bonanza Creek Ranch.  Oct. 21, 2021.

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Halyna Hutchins poses before the Illuminati eye

Actor/producer Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, and wounded director Joel Souza, 48, on the set of a western film titled “Rust”.

“Rust” was a troubled, low-budget production.  Hours before the tragedy, crew members left the set over safety issues.  There was also a dispute over the use of non-union members.

What happened?  Alec Baldwin, playing the title character Harland Rust, pointed what he thought was an unloaded 6-shooting revolver at Hutchins and Souza during filming.  In the scene, he pulled the trigger with a real live round, not “blanks”.  Ms. Hutchins was shot through the heart, the same bullet exited her body, then entered Mr. Souza, breaking his collar bone.  Hutchins was airlifted by helicopter to the nearest hospital.  She was dead on arrival.  Souza recovered and was released the next day.

WHO LOADED THE GUN?

According to the 9-1-1 call made by the script girl, “Rust’s” assistant director (A.D.) Dave Halls handed Baldwin the revolver.  The A.D. also said he didn’t know it was loaded.  This leads to Hannah Reed Gutierrez, who was in charge of handling the firearms…a beginner with very limited experience.  This still doesn’t answer the question as to why live ammo would be used on a movie set.

Production sources have claimed that armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was 'inexperienced'

Hannah Reed Gutierrez, 24, Rust’s armorer

Those on the film crew had complained about gun safety.  The same gun had accidentally discharged three times prior to this incident.

There have been comparisons to the on-set shooting death of “The Crow” star Brandon Lee.  (3-31-1993.)

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Brandon Lee as Eric Draven in “The Crow”

Lee was killed by a .44 slug left in the gun barrel.  Actor Michael Massee had pulled the trigger loaded with a blank cartridge.  This discharged the rest of the bullet into Lee’s body.   LINK to LEE ARTICLE

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Michael Massee points the gun that would later kill Lee

In the case of “Rust”, it appears no real firearms expert was employed.  Instead, they used cheap and inexperienced handlers.  No word yet if “Rust” will continue production.

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Stanley Kubrick’s Last Days

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January – February 1999.  World acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick has completed filming of “Eyes Wide Shut”.  It is  now in its editing phase.

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In those last days, his personal assistant Emilio D’Alessandro witnessed an exhausted Kubrick busy editing right up to the very end.  Warner Bros. had a deadline and Stanley Kubrick intended to keep it.

The Preliminary Version.  Kubrick’s editor brought the director’s cut for viewing by Warner Bros. executives and the stars (Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.)

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Stanley Kubrick with Tom Cruise

March 5.  A private showing of “Eyes Wide Shut” occurred at the director’s home.

Where Stanley Kubrick lived and died.  (Childwickbury Manor)

Emilio D’Alessandro recounts the last time he saw his employer and friend:  “We walked slowly and shakily along the corridor.  It was as if he had lost control of his limbs for a moment and couldn’t get it back.  Stanley struggled up the stairs, one step at a time.”  (from Stanley Kubrick and Me:  Thirty Years at his Side by Emilio D’Alessandro.)

March 7.  Stanley Kubrick is found dead by his wife Christiane.  Cause of death:  heart attack.

Christiane Kubrick

WHAT DOESN’T ADD UP

Following his death, Emilio recalls what happened afterward.  “I heard noise from the Avid Room.  (The editing room.)  Nobody had asked me for the keys.  I saw shadows of people rummaging through drawers, among papers and notepads, as well as the filing cabinets and Stanley’s personal computer.  The keys were still in my pocket.  So how did they get in?  Someone must have taken copies from the key room and used them to go where they shouldn’t.”  I told them, “If you weren’t allowed to do certain things before, you’re not allowed to do them now either.”  There was no answer.  Outside, they continued to search through Stanley’s Rolls Royce.”  From Stanley and Me by Emilio D’Alessandro.

Reportedly, director Steven Spielberg completed editing “Eyes Wide Shut”.  If so, what ended up on the cutting room floor?  What did Warners want removed and why didn’t they use Stanley’s cut?  Isn’t Kubrick’s death coincidental occurring right at the time of the movie’s completion?

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“A.I. Artificial Intelligence”

For many years, Stanley Kubrick worked on the pre-production of his proposed next film titled “A.I. Artificial Intelligence”.  Various writers had been hired to work on the script, artist’s conceptual drawings were ready.  “A.I.” was ready to roll.

Emilio D’Alessandro recalls a conversation about his next film…

Emilio:  “Before you start back on A.I., let’s take a break.”

Stanley:  “Right.  Let’s do that as soon as we finish Eyes Wide Shut.”

Emilio or Kubrick make no mention of Steven Spielberg.  Not one word.  Why is this important?

Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg claims “his friend Stanley” wanted him to direct “A.I.”

Why, after all those years of work would he give up this project?  Evidence suggests Kubrick had vastly different ideas of what “A.I.” would be about.  The style of Kubrick and Spielberg are hardly the same.  Would a control freak like S.K. turn over his movie to someone else at the last minute?  Nevertheless, Stanley’s papers and notes were given to Spielberg based on a supposed phone conversation he had with his late friend.

In 2001, Steven Spielberg’s version of “Artificial Intelligence” was released to lukewarm reviews.

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For further information, read https://ericreports.com/2017/12/08/eyes-wide-shut-original-3-hour-directors-cut/

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Mena Suvari

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Jayne Mansfield (1933 – 1967)

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Photo from “The George Raft Story” (1961)

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Photo from “Kiss Them for Me” (1957)

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Lobby card from “The Girl Can’t Help It” (1956)

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“Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” (1957)

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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

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A Guide for the Married Man (1967) with Terry-Thomas

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Documentary released posthumously in 1968

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Killed in car accident – June 29, 1967

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Elvis Suicide? (Part 2)

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On August 16, 1977, entertainer Elvis Presley was found dead.  Since then, the perceived cause of death was polypharmacy (an overdose caused by a dozen different drugs.)  How could this happen?  Was it allowed or a deliberate o.d?  Was Elvis depressed enough to kill himself?

With all the problems Elvis had, it’s hard to imagine him killing himself.  Had his life reached a dead end?

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Would Elvis have killed himself with daughter Lisa Marie in his home?

Boredom set in.  He saw most of those around him as exploiters after his wealth and fame.  It had been four to five years since his last hit single or album.  His main source of income was touring, but as can be seen in his last TV special, it was become harder to keep up the façade.

The broadcast of “Elvis in Concert” (Oct. ’77) would reveal the new fat Elvis.

Whether Elvis killed himself may never be known for sure.  What is known is what led up to it.  Since his 1973 divorce, a slide down to oblivion was caused by his wife leaving him for Mike Stone.  He couldn’t handle it.  The straw that broke the camel’s back:  a final scandal book titled “Elvis:  What Happened?” written by his former bodyguards.  The book was released on August 1.  Elvis died on August 16.  Coincidence?

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The sycophants’, the enablers, the doctors, only made it worse and Elvis wouldn’t listen to the few who warned him to stop it.  Ultimately, he is to blame for not seeing what was happening to him.

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Elvis last chance: fiancée Ginger Alden slept in the next room while Elvis lay dying.

His inner circle was unable to prevent his premature death at 42.

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Elvis home: Graceland.  WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSES HIS OWN SOUL? Mark 8:36

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EricReports Guide To Scoring With Women – (Part 2)

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Due to millions of responses to my first article, I’m adding a second featured column for our male viewers.

Treat her SPECIAL

Every girl believes she’s a princess in waiting.  They may tell you different, but it’s true.  Deep down, they are the undiscovered diamond and that you will discover this fact.

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Females say they want a “gentleman”.  Do they?  This is a tricky situation.  If you’re too nice, you’ll be in danger of becoming a beta-male.  In other words, she’ll be running the relationship.  Ipso facto, she’ll have no respect for you.  Eventually, she will cheat on you with someone who treats her like dirt.  Know who’s in charge – You.

Bitch

Yes, sooner or later, you will wind up with a woman who turns out to be a bitch.  Women are good at acting and if she’s a closet bitch, it will come out under stressful situations.  (During times of stress, her period, while traveling, or for any reason under the sun.)  How to handle the bitch?  If she’s ordinary, dump her as fast as you can.  If she’s a knockout, you will have to be a dirty, rotten, no good son-of-a-bitch bastard to control her.  Otherwise, forget it.

Love ’em and leave ’em

If you’re playing the field, don’t get too hung up on one girl.  Why lock yourself in?  There are millions of opportunities out there.  If you limit yourself, you’ll be disappointed later.

There are plenty of fish in the sea

An old cliché because it’s true.  Someday, your sweetheart will dump you.  It’s up to you not to get brokenhearted about it.  Find somebody else – FAST.  Don’t wallow in grief.  Don’t look at old pictures or save her gifts.  Keep her out of your mind.  She was the wrong one for you.  Believe me – women get over it.

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What happened to Sandra Dee

Sandra Dee

Teen icon Sandra Dee, top star of the late 50’s and early 60’s, faded into obscurity with the advent of a new permissive Hollywood.

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Well known for “A Summer Place”, “Gidget” and “Imitation of Life”, all released in 1959.

What most people aren’t aware of is that Dee attempted to break out of her image with “The Dunwich Horror” (1970.)  Briefly, it is an evil horror film co-starring Dean Stockwell as the last member of a dying sect of devil worshippers.  He is in search of a book containing incantations meant to conjure up Satan himself.  He also uses Dee to gain access to this book – and has plans for her to carry on his family lineage.

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Sandra Dee in “The Dunwich Horror”

For me, the most memorable thing about the movie is Miss Dee, who is never more beautiful.  It’s unbearably sad that Hollywood would pretty much ignore her after this last role in a major release.

Following this, Dee would guest star in television roles, notably in “Love American Style”.  (Episode titled “Love and the Sensuous Twin” 1972.)  Again, she is gorgeous beyond words as a split-personality who is half conservative, half a wild and sexy thing.

Sandra Dee opposite Roddy McDowell in “Love American Style” (1972)

Eventually, she would stop acting altogether, becoming an anorexic recluse.  No one knows what demons she had to overcome – being molested by her stepfather and the death of her ex-husband singer-actor Bobby Darin (1973), something she never got over.

Her last acting role was with friend and frequent costar John Saxon in “Love Letters”, a stage play.  (1991)

Death came in 2005 from kidney disease, age 62.

Sandra Dee belongs to an era of actresses from a more innocent time, the kind we’ll never see again.

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The Murder of Sal Mineo – Part 2

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On Feb. 12, 1976, actor Sal Mineo was stabbed to death while returning from rehearsals for an upcoming play in L.A.  What was the motive for his murder?  Since writing the first article, new information leads to the reason.

First, let’s dispense with the false rumor that Mineo was killed by a gay lover.  This is the scenario police were going before Lionel Ray Williams was arrested.

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Lionel Ray Williams

Secondly, we know who did it.  Williams spent fourteen years in prison for the crime despite his denials.  His ex-wife informed police.

The official modus operandi:  that it was a failed robbery attempt.  The LAPD’s theory fails.  Williams could have overpowered Mineo and taken his wallet.  Why stab him, then not take his wallet?

The most likely cause:  Sal Mineo was said to have owed the wrong people drug money…and he refused to pay them back.  Williams was hired by them to exact street justice.  He would never inform on them.

A sad post-script.  The year before Sal’s murder, he was set to star as Sirhan Sirhan in “RFK Must Die” (to be directed by Orson Welles.)  Unfortunately, Welles would cause the project to fall apart by continually asking the producers for more money.

Unfortunate ways celebs have died

Picture of Sal Mineo shortly before death.

Director-writer-actor Orson Welles

Another “what if” in a grisly saga.

Sal Mineo

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Dolly Parton

“My Friend Dahmer” Review

  Originally beginning as a 24 page comic book, “My Friend Dahmer” eventually evolved into a 220 page graphic novel (2012) and then a motion picture (2017.)

The original self-published comic book.

“Dahmer” concerns the high school years of future serial killer Jeffery Dahmer, who would go on to murder seventeen young men between 1978 and 1991.

Author Derf Backderf, a classmate of Dahmer’s, painstakingly goes over the details of this crucial time (Adolescence in the 1970’s.)  Dahmer’s beginning insanity – saving roadkill and dead animals in jars – is a precursor to what he would do to human beings.The MSM, ever vigilant in protecting the image of the homosexual, has glossed over WHY he killed his victims.  Dahmer, who was gay, would sexually pleasure himself with the dead bodies.  It reached the point where the bodies were cannibalized, so “they’d always be with him.”  His goal was to create a zombie slave.

The graphic novel points out that the adult world ignored all the warning signs this madman was giving out – his parents, his teachers, everybody.  This failure is partially blamed on the times, the more tolerant 1970’s, compared to the fanatical cancel culture-snowflakes of our current day.

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“My Friend Dahmer”, the graphic novel, is funnier than the film, especially for those who lived through those times and remember how accurately Backderf gets it.  The movie is not so funny, something is lost in the translation, but it’s reasonably faithful to its source.  It also captures the look and feel of the not-so-feel-good 70’s.  What makes it work is a spot-on performance by Ross Lynch – the sad outcast who, for a short time, has an ironic “fan club” based on his weird fake fits he throws, pretending to be an out-of-control spastic.

Ross Lynch as Jeffery Dahmer

Nothing sums it up better when one of the faculty discovers Dahmer posing with the school’s honor roll for the yearbook picture.  She ruthlessly scribbles out Dahmer’s face with a black marker and the picture is run that way.  What better way to sum up why someone goes off the rails?

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EricReports Guide To Scoring With Women

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Indifference.   Females are more intrigued by someone who can live without them.  Make it clear – They need you more than you need them.

Success.  Whatever you do, no matter what, make sure you appear to be the best at it.  Women have doubts about themselves.  They don’t want to see the same in you.

Clothing.  Look your best.  Women judge by appearances.  She will not want to be seen with you if you look like a slob.

$.  This goes without saying.  Money and the possessions they bring attract women like nothing else.

A dangerous side.  An old cliche because it’s true.  You must appear edgy and capable of violence.  Women hate weakness.

Physique.  Get your body in shape.  She’s also looking to you as her protector.

Love/sex.  What does she want to feel with you?  What do you want to feel with her?


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Carol Wayne (1942-1985)

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Elizabeth Taylor (1932 – 2011)

Goober Grows a Beard

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George Lindsey portrayed Goober Pyle on “The Andy Griffith Show” and “Mayberry RFD” from 1964 – 1971.

Known as a lovable goofball who pumped gas, in one notable episode, Goober returns from a hunting trip wearing a beard.  Mayberry’s citizenry comments on what a great change the beard makes – that now he appears “intelligent”.

Goober takes this to heart.  Pretty soon, he become the town’s thinker, philosophizing about everything and anything — to the point where he starts getting on people’s nerves…especially Sheriff Andy Taylor.  It reaches a head when Andy asks Floyd the barber to talk to him about it.

When Floyd fails, Andy goes on a tirade, telling Goober what a nuisance he’s been, saying that people are avoiding him and basically it would be better if he went back to the way he used to be.

The supposed lesson in all this is not to get too big for your britches.  Remain who you are.

What’s wrong with this picture?

For me, I take it as Andy being threatened by a new authority figure.  Previously, he was the one the townsfolk came to for advice.  Now with Goober and his beard, Andy is no longer the top dog.  He can’t stand being usurped.

Shakespeare’s famous quote:  “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

The moral I learned from the show is – people often force you to be who you are, through no fault of your own.  It’s up to us to break free of those bonds.  Be who you want to be.

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Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962)

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Dorothy Stratten

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Dawn Wells Dead

Dawn Wells, best known for her role as  Mary Ann on Gilligan’s Island,  died Wednesday from complications of Covid-19.   She was 82.

 

Nashville Bomber “Downtown”

On Christmas Day, Nashville bomber Anthony Quinn exploded his motor home after playing a warming message, followed by the song “Downtown”, made famous by singer Petula Clark, who issued this statement:  “I feel the need to express my shock and disbelief at the Christmas Day explosion in our beloved Music City.  I love Nashville and its people.  Why this violent act, leaving behind such devastation?  I was told that the music in the background of that strange announcement was me singing “Downtown”!  Of all the thousands of songs, why this one?  Of course, the opening lyric is “When you’re alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.”  But millions of people all over the world have been uplifted by this joyful song.  Perhaps, you can read something into these words, depending on your state of mind.  It’s possible”.

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Bonnie & Clyde, circa 1930s.

The Bonnie & Clyde of politics.