Last photo of Queen Elizabeth II taken two days before her death as she greets the Prime Minister.
September 8, 2022. The Queen of England has died at the age of 96. She had served as the head of the Royal Family for seventy years. (1952-2022.) The cause of death was not released.
Prince Charles III will succeed his mother as King.
Yes and no.
This summer, 98% of those infected were male homosexuals. It is spreading through to the straight community. Nonetheless, health officials are warning gays to limit their partners.
The disease is spread by skin-on-skin contact, but it can also be contacted by touching contaminated clothing.
For those who remember, AIDS was also blamed on monkeys from Africa, but the source of the disease may have been from an experimental vaccine given to gay men for hepatitis in New York City.
Likewise, Covid-19 can be attributed to China’s germ warfare program. (It can be said: if Covid had never occurred Donald Trump would still be President.)
Text © 2022 – ERN
The many looks of Jane Fonda
Actress Jane Fonda (two-time Oscar winner for “Klute” and “Coming Home”) has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. At age 84, Fonda intends to fight the disease with six months of chemotherapy.
Jane Fonda (1972) speaks with North Vietnamese soldiers. She later apologized for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
Besides acting, Jane protested and helped America lose the war in Vietnam. Currently, she advocates for gov’t controls on climate change.
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For those who’ve seen the helicopter video of Anne Heche being transported from the house, ask yourself, why is her face covered up as if she’s already dead? Where are the oxygen tanks? As a paramedic, the first thing I’d do is put her on a Venti-mask giving her pure oxygen. Instead, she’s covered up like a corpse.
And now for the big surprise – Heche, who can’t breathe, springs up like a Jack-in-the-Box and then is shoved back down into the ambulance… the last time we’d ever see her. (Victim was “sedated” by ambulance workers.)
Initial reports stated that “Anne Heche” is in stable condition.” What happened after that? Were “they” forced to say it because of the video showing Ms. Heche obviously alive? What if the big surprise hadn’t happened? Would the MSM have declared her dead at the scene of the car crash? [See “Wag the Dog” when the media creates the news.] What made Anne Heche go from stable to critical condition in one day?
There’ve been some erroneous reports of the late actress appearing in a documentary about Jeffery Epstein. She did appear in a TV-movie for LIfetime called “The Girl in Room 13”, wherein her daughter is forced into prostitution (sex trafficking.)
The burned-out wreckage of the car probably makes it impossible to examine it for sabotage. It’s my belief the “Mini-Cooper” was programmed, controlled-remotely to reach speeds of 100 mph and wouldn’t stop.
The MSM writes these facts off as “conspiracy theories” when the reality is they know more about what really happened than they’re allowed to say.
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Original Poster for “Heaven’s Gate”
1960 – 1980, Cinema’s Silver Age. Films changed, they grew up. Topics became controversial. Subject matter previously forbidden was right up there on the big screen. Films such as: Psycho, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Bonnie & Clyde, Rosemary’s Baby, Midnight Cowboy, A Clockwork Orange, MAS*H, Deliverance, Cries and Whispers, Last Tango in Paris, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, Eraserhead, Raging Bull. Directors came to prominence: Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, John Schlesinger, Roman Polanski, William Friedkin, Martin Scorsese, David Lynch, Brain DePalma, John Carpenter.
But like all good things, it came to an end. The 1980’s started the corporate age. If a movie wasn’t a colossal hit, (or thought to be), why bother with it? Profit became the only motive for production. What helped bring about this thinking? “Heaven’s Gate” (1980.)
In 1978, director Michael Cimino’s “The Deer Hunter” would win five Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. United Artists would bet everything on his next picture.
Michael Cimino’s Oscar for Best Director for “The Deer Hunter”
“Heaven’s Gate” (aka “The Johnson County War”) is a true story, wherein settlers in Wyoming are targeted for slaughter by the “Cattlemen’s Association” and backed by the U.S. Government. Cimino would assemble an impressive cast including: Kris Kristopherson, Chris Walken, John Hurt, Jeff Bridges, Joseph Cotton, Mickey Rourke, Sam Waterson, and newcomer French actress Isabelle Huppert. Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond’s (Oscar winner for “Close Encounter of the Third Kind”) stunning camerawork highlighted this three and a half hour epic.
What went wrong? Cimino’s self-indulgence and profligate spending. Winning an Oscar went to his head. He considered himself infallible. Like D.W. Griffith before him, he rose with “The Birth of a Nation” (1915) , then fell with “Intolerance” (1916.) The flaw is in the screenplay which Cimino also wrote. There’s not enough there to justify it.
It didn’t help that he made enemies on the left who hated “The Deer Hunter’s” depiction of the Vietcong as bloodthirsty fiends. Consequently, their knives were out when “Heaven’s Gate” premiered in December 1980. Critics savaged it. For them, it was the worst thing since AIDS. United Artists withdrew it and Cimino did his best to reduce the bloated Western to a more manageable two and a half hours. Still, they couldn’t be persuaded. Reviewers crapped all over it. United Artists withdrew it again, re-cutting it to ninety minutes and retitling it “The Johnson County War”. Third times a charm? Nope. Like the tagline read: “What one loves about life are the things that fade.” “Heaven’s Gate” faded.
At a forty-four million dollar loss, United Artists was sold off to MGM for 350 million dollars. Michael Cimino directed a few movies after, the best being “The Year of the Dragon” (1985).
Since then, “Heaven’s Gate” has gained a cult following as a “misunderstood masterpiece” and all three versions are available on the Criterion Collection.
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On August 5, 2022, Anne Heche’s Mini-Cooper was seen speeding down a residential street, crashing thirty feet into a house. Six days later, Heche was declared “brain-dead”. What doesn’t add up in the official MSM story? These actions can only be described as suicidal, unless we examine what led up to it. Twenty minutes before her death, Ms. Heche bought a wig. This is not what someone who planned on killing themselves would do.
The most damning evidence: a newsman’s helicopter video shows Anne Heche lunging forward from the ambulance gurney – from what appears to be a BODY BAG. (She is unceremoniously pushed back down.) Had she already been declared dead? Or did they want her to be dead?
Firemen state that she was wrapped in thermal blankets. This claims seems disingenuous. Also I find it incredible that it took sixty-five minutes to put out the fire.
Upon crashing into the house, you have two adults – the occupant and a witness who did nothing to get Anne Heche out of the car. Two dogs and a turtle were saved. Think about that. It’s as if they didn’t want to save her.
Cocaine and Fentanyl were found in her system (or so we were told.) Are the drugs a false lead to draw us into the conclusion that she caused her own death?
This car accident mirrors Michael Hasting’s fatal crash (or bombing.) Hastings has previously written an article for “Rolling Stone” which led to the firing of Gen. McChrystal by Pres. Obama. His next article was about the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Hastings was critical of Obama’s policies. Was there a new revelation, an expose that could have revealed why we were there? Hastings car was seen going at top speed, then exploding.
Michael Hastings car exploded then rolled into a palm tree. June 18, 2013.
MSM reports the car crashing into a tree; however, the explosion leads to the logical conclusion of a bomb. (Hastings had been seen earlier looking underneath his car for explosives. He told colleagues not to speak to the FBI without a lawyer and that he was “Going off the radar for awhile.”) Today’s car are controlled by computers, meaning they can be remotely controlled. If Heche meant to kill herself, why the screeching of brakes? What if the car couldn’t stop?
Another painful conclusion – it seems more than likely the hospital pulled the plug on Anne Heche. While they said her twenty year old son was in charge of her health care decisions, this was pure lip service. You’ll recall my article titled: “Your doctor may kill you if…” CLICK LINK
Was Heche’s condition so severe, doctors decided not to go that extra mile and save her life? Was Anne Heche’s final lunge off the stretcher, a last attempt to save her own life?
Anne Heche poses with salon owner Richard Glass minutes before her crash/Heche’s final lunge for life.
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Huge growth seen enlarged on right side of photo.
August 16 – Faux President Biden attempted another bike ride when he inadvertently revealed a strange tumor growing on the side of his neck.
June 18 – Biden manages to fall off a bicycle while standing still, then blames it on a pedal strap.
July 21 – Biden alludes to having cancer. Officials stated this was in reference to skin cancer he had removed years ago. Or was it?
Obviously, there is a timetable for when Joe Biden stays in office. The DNC, most likely, doesn’t want to get rid of their President (yet.)
2023. Midterms will be over. This gives Dems enough time before the 2024 General Election to launch a “winning” candidate. And that ain’t Biden. But what if fate steps in and forces Biden to quit? At a recent signing of a 740 billion dollar tax increase (called ironically the “Inflation Reduction Act”), “Sleepy Joe” looked more lost and confused than ever. I actually felt sorry for the dirty, rotten, son of a bitch.
Biden looks up after signing massive tax increase, not knowing where he is or what he’s doing.
It’s going to become more and more difficult for Biden’s handlers to hide his maladies. He’s the President, fake or not. What can they do? Put him back in the basement? Or parade around Ol’ Grandpa and pretend he’s not crazy?
Biden falls down climbing stairs for “Air Force One”
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The FBI has proven actor Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger on the gun (similar to a single-action Colt 45) which killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of “Rust”.
Halyna Hutchins
Set of church where shooting took place
Earlier, Baldwin maintained in an interview that he did not pull the trigger. His version: the gun’s hammer snapped back while Ms. Hutchins instructed him on how to hold the weapon. He had been handed the loaded weapon by assistant director Dave Halls who said it was safe to use.
Armorer Hannah Reed, a newbie with little experience on handling guns for films, was caught on video (without a lawyer) explaining what happened. Her attitude explains it all – the lax, lazy, inattentive behavior which helped lead to this tragedy. Who’s to blame? Alec Baldwin was the producer and responsible for hiring Reed. All done to save money.
The movie “Rust” itself is a total loss, it will never be released. Baldwin is no longer an A-list Hollywood actor and has been demoted to podcasts and comments on Twitter.
Indicative on how the system works, no one was arrested or served jail time. Hutchins family, I expect, will settle for some kind of cash settlement. Tell me, what is the value of a human life?
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Former President Trump as seen through window by the watchers
Mar-a-Lago raid
August 8 2022. President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Florida residence was raided by Biden’s FBI/DOJ for “mishandled documents”. Biden’s new press secretary (looking like a Jack-in-the-Box employee reject) said “Biden knew nothing about it.”
“Biden knew nothing about it. Would you like some fries with that?”
During the seizure, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi gloated, saying “It’s all about the rule of law.”
Pelosi (left) takes a nip, Biden (right) asks “Where’s the little boy’s room?”
Coincidently, the raid occurred on the same day Trump released his first campaign ad titled “A Nation in Decline”.
THE FACTS: All former Presidents are known to keep their papers. This is nothing new. When the Clintons left the White House in 2001, they were famously caught stealing furniture, some of which they returned. Hillary Clinton, for whatever reason, has kept her top-secret clearance, despite being out of office since 2013. I guess it’s only a coincidence the Great Satan Hillary began selling merchandise for her future campaign the day after the raid. Mrs. Clinton also infamously was caught destroying computer data with “Bleach-Bit” and crashing cell-phones with hammers. Her fingerprints were found on documents related to “Filegate” and she was fired from the 1974 Watergate investigation committee for trying to destroy evidence.
Since 2020, Hunter Biden’s laptop has been ignored by the FBI, despite containing evidence involving “the big guy” as Hunter refers to his father. This evidence leads to payoffs from China, Russia, Ukraine, the Middle East and wherever the grifting Biden family has their fingers stuck in the pie. (And you can take that to mean whatever you want.)
The Democrats are a criminal organization. They know they can’t win 2024 fairly, no matter how much they cheat and they’ve been stealing elections since 1960. What’s the end goal for the Socialist-Democrats? To win? That’s not enough. They want Trump neutralized.
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Anne Heche (1969-2022)
“Ring” security camera video shows Heche’s Mini-Cooper hurtling down street toward fatal crash.
Anne Heche as seen in minor accident before her death.
Destroyed home located in Mar Vista, Los Angeles.
August 12, 2022. Actress Anne Heche has died from brain injuries sustained while driving her car through a house on August 5, 2022. She was fifty-three. Cocaine and fentanyl were found in her bloodstream.
Mainstream media reports were, from the start, some of the worst I’ve ever heard: exploitive, shameful and repetitive. How many times did we hear she would be charged with felony DUI? Anne Heche is dying, idiots.
On August 5, Ms. Heche was fleeing from a minor accident inside a parking garage when she went thirty feet into the rented home of Lynne Mishele. Most importantly, a witness asked Ms. Heche if she was all right. What did he do to save her life? Heche’s Mini-Cooper did not immediately go up in flames. There was a window of opportunity. It is reported the resident’s two dogs and pet tortoise were saved. Not Anne Heche.
Anne Heche with Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres, Heche’s former lesbian lover for three years commented: “I don’t want anybody to be hurt.” Faint praise from the washed-up, has-been comedienne whose show was cancelled.
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CHEESE TOPPING -Down to earth, a realist, frank and honest.
PEPPERONI PIZZA-You look forward to the weekend, like sports and are a party animal.
MUSHROOM PIZZA – You aren’t afraid of being different, an individualist who seeks the truth.
SAUSAGE PIZZA – You are old-fashioned in the best sense of the word. You keep your word and don’t care what other people think.
VEGETARIAN PIZZA – You care about the environment, love animals are in tune with nature.
DEEP DISH CHICAGO STYLE – You live for today because there may be no tomorrow. Impulsive, unpredictable.
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Once you enter a hospital, you lose many of your rights. That’s why you should consult an attorney in regards to a Living Trust.
It may sound impossible, but the fact is, your doctor can order a “DNR” – [DO NOT RESUSCITATE”] on you or a family member – and may not tell you. This also includes a “DNI” – ‘DO NOT INTUBATE”, where a tube is placed thru the nose or mouth into the windpipe to help facilitate breathing. DNR includes CPR and other methods to help a patient survive a heart attack.
A Living Trust must contain information barring a DNR/DNI. Name someone you trust as your agent with power of attorney. It’s up to him or her to tell your doctors about the Living Trust. He or she must give a copy of this trust to them and have proof they received it. Take a photo of you and the doctor giving it to them. Have them sign an acknowledgment they are aware of the Living Trust and have them read the contents.
With Covid-19, a number of convalescent homes have performed DNR’s leaving shocked family members who were unaware of it, before it was too late.
Some of you reading this will say to yourself, “That could never happen to me!” How do you know? We’ve all been brainwashed by the media. Doctors are healers. That’s why you’ll never hear any of this on T.V. The media is in bed with the hospitals – they sponsor them.
There is a sad reality that if you don’t have the money and the means to control your doctor, he could take it upon himself to allow a patient to die, if he feels inclined to do so.
I urge all of you reading this: Know Your Rights. Don’t be fooled by the fake smiles of the hospital staff. They’re running a business. A life or death business.
DNR-DNI. These may be your six most important letters in determining your future…if they let you have one.
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On July 21st, it was announced fake Pres. Biden contacted Covid-19, despite four inoculations. The MSM brushed this aside, saying he would’ve died without the experimental vaccine.
July 20 – BIDEN ANNOUNCES HE HAS CANCER. QUOTE: “Delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation. That’s why I and so many other people I grew up with have cancer.”
Biden’s handlers walked this statement back by claiming the faux President meant skin cancer that was removed years ago.
Question: What if this misstatement isn’t one? What if Biden spoke the truth and wasn’t supposed to? Clearly, there is a timetable (set by the DNC) for when its time for Biden is to “go away”. Apparently, this isn’t the time. The mainstream media virtually ignored the cancer statement, instead talking about Jan. 6, 2021, trying to link Pres. Trump to instigating a riot. (No proof of this, but when a riot is called for…) Text © 2022 – ERN
A delighted Kamala Harris finds out Biden has Covid-19
When asked recently if she would consider running for President in 2024, Hillary Clinton answered, “I won’t run if Joe Biden does.”
The Great Satan Hillary obviously sees an opening. Joe Biden is vulnerable, everybody knows it. Campaigning for president is tough – how will Biden do it in two years? He can barely walk.
It must drive HRC crazy that Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Joe Biden and Barack Obama were president and she wasn’t. Satan Hillary considers Trump and Bush “morons”, Obama, an “amateur” and Biden? Biden is that sleazy used car salesman who sells you a lemon that falls apart before you can drive it home.
“Only 50 thou. It was owned by a rich Arab I bribed.”
But what about Kamala Harris? Hasn’t it already been decided by the DNC we need to fill in their quota: a woman president and a fag VP? (Pete Buttigieg.) Not necessarily. Hillary would argue that she has the most experience. She’s been around since the Great Pyramids. 2024 would be her last chance. (Maybe not. Monica Crowley once said, “Hillary will keep running for president as long as she has a pulse.”) Assuming Trump runs again, many want to see a rematch. And with the voter drop box scheme winning it for the Dems in 2020, why wouldn’t it work in 2024?
You can bet the farm, a new Covid variant will rise and out comes media whore Dr. Anthony Fauci saying, “For the public’s safety, we must vote by sending in our FAKE mail-in ballots.”
The next President – who will it be?
Joe the Fossil
“Heels Up” Kamala Harris
Former President Donald Trump
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Book Review
Touching true story of Ginny an abandoned dog (part Siberian Husky-part Schnauzer) who brings redemption to the life of her owner Philip Gonzalez.
The author is a former Vietnam vet who has numerous brushes with death and finds himself alone with bouts of depression after an industrial accident. Left with piercing headaches and only partial use from one arm, his neighbor Sheilah Harris recommends buying a dog – something, anything, to pull himself out of his misery.
At the animal shelter, he is encouraged to adopt Ginny, a mutt who has just given birth to three pups. At first, Philip is not impressed. On a trial walk-around-the-block, he looks at Ginny. There is an instant connection. He realizes this is the dog for him.
“RADAR OF THE HEART”
It doesn’t take long for Philip Gonzalez to discover that Ginny has a mind of her own. She has a special knack for searching out and finding cats who are disabled, abused, or abandoned. Gonzalez finds his life’s purpose, aided by his trusted companion dog. He feeds hundreds of street cats. Other cats he takes home, giving them a new lease on life. His menagerie of disabled cats includes: Topsy, who is brain-damaged and can’t walk. She gets around by rolling. Betty Boop, with no hind feet. She hops around like a rabbit. Madame is deaf and Blondie has FIV. The “Chairman” was found by Ginny in a box full of broken glass.
On Ginny’s and Philip’s quest for rescuing cats all is not well. There are some cat-haters out there who try to kill or poison them. One is in fact killed and Philip, one good arm or not, tried to beat the living daylights out of the coward.
Through a magazine article, the pair find celebrity, appearing on TV, leading to book publication and its follow-up “The Blessing of the Animals”.
The sequel. Ginny poses with Blondie.
This is recommended reading for those who care about those furry friends we share our planet with.
Text © 2022 – ERN
Security camera video from Robb Elementary School shows police running away from gunfire at a May 24 mass shooting. 21 died (19 children and 2 teachers), along with 17 wounded. Gunman Salvador Ramos was killed. The video was released by the Austin American-Statesman newspaper.
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Actor Peter Sellers was famous for saying he had no personality of his own. Somehow, he stepped into his vast array of characters like a chameleon. That’s what he wanted us to think.
Based on the novel “I Want to Eat You” by Ernest Gebler.
The motion picture “Hoffman” (1970) may come closest to the real Peter Sellers, if there was one.
PLOT. “Hoffman” is the story of a 40ish man who blackmails a 20ish girl into living him with him for a week. Sellers as Hoffman has obsessed over “Miss Smith” (Sinead Cusak) for some time. In a telling scene, he mentions how he once asked her out, after which she told the other girls in the office who laughed at him in the elevator. Hoffman has agreed to respect her during their forced time together in exchange for an “erotic encounter”. Miss Smith is aghast at the prospect of living with a strange man. But then, why does she? To save her boyfriend/fiancé who isn’t worth saving?
Will they or won’t they?
In Peter Sellers real life, he self-obsessed about his image, grew weary of playing the bumbling fool and wanted to be taken seriously as an actor. It didn’t help that he was suffering, most likely from manic-depression.
He would rise to the heights of fame, then plummet to a long string of box-office failures.
The multi-dimensional Peter Sellers played three roles in “Dr. Strangelove: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” (1964)
“The Bobo” (1967.) A commercial and artistic flop.
In “Hoffman”, we see the melancholy Sellers who tries to convince the girl (and us) of who he really is. It’s surprising he would take such a role and not surprising he would ignore it, later on, not wanting to talk about it. It’s simply too close to the truth, too close to finding out who the real Peter Sellers was and he didn’t want it. Consequently, he attempted to buy the original negative and destroy it. Fortunately, EMI’s contract forced it to be released.
The tragedy of the lonely man.
Audiences didn’t respond well to “Hoffman”. They weren’t ready for an “unfunny” sad comedy. It is barely known of except by Sellers fans.
Throughout Peter Sellers career, comedy remained foremost – the safe choice. In the end, there was a comeback with “Being There” (1979), a deserved Best Actor Oscar nomination, which he should have won. Death came from a heart attack in the following year.
Peter Sellers as Chance the gardener “Chauncey Gardiner” in “Being There”
“Hoffman” is available on a new 2022 Blu-ray disc, (and as a DVD) on “The Peter Sellers Collection.”
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The grim black and white photo of Dustin Hoffman wearing broken glasses has become an iconic image among 1970’s silver age scholars.
Movie critics frequently pontificate about director Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch” (1969) as being his best film. Why ignore “Straw Dogs”? (1971.) Is it because it hits too close to home?
PLOT. Mathematician-intellectual David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) moves to the hometown of his bride, Amy (Susan George.) It doesn’t take long to see that he’s out of his depth there among the townspeople, mainly the men who were formerly intimate with his wife.
Mr. Sumner (as they call him) can’t do any handiwork, so they are at work building him a garage. There’s tension at the bar, where they give him looks, snicker and wait for him to make any kind of mistake.
Amy walks around with no bra, tempting them and as we find out, it was her idea to move back to Cornwall. Was it to provoke them…and her husband?
Mr. Sumner spends his days on mathematical equations while his sexy wife and her pussycat roam about the house. Outside the workmen watch Amy who shows off through a window, topless.
The cat (symbolic of Amy?) is strangled, left hanging by a light cord in the closet. Amy says correctly, “They wanted you to know they could get into your bedroom.” (Namely, at her.) But Mr. Sumner doesn’t rise to the occasion. Instead, the men lure him off for a “snipe” hunt, leaving him alone in the moors. Two of them, Charlie Venner (Del Henney) and Norman Scutt (Ken Hutchison) take the opportunity to rape his wife. (More on this later.)
Afterward, a fed-up Mr. Sumner fires them – all too late. Amy mockingly calls him “tiger”. (And doesn’t tell him about the rape.)
SHOWDOWN
The Sumners attend a church social. Amy wants out – two of her rapists happen to be in attendance. On the way home, Mr. Sumner accidentally runs into Henry Niles (David Warner), the village idiot, who has just accidentally killed a girl. (Sally Thomsett as Janice Hedden.) Taking Niles to his home, the men are aware of what’s happening. Their intentions are to lynch Niles. This is where Mr. Sumner finally draws the line.
IRONY
As the story twists and unfolds, it is uncompromising and unapologetic for its point of view. That’s the big difference between the 1971 version and the 2011 version. (Why they remade it, I’ll never know.)
Peckinpah’s bloody finale can’t be topped. It is all we could hope for . . . and more.
The Rape. Graphic, ugly and mean. Actress Susan George is perfect for this role and she plays it to the hilt.
Dustin Hoffman. Throughout the years, we’ve all seen Hoffman in a variety of roles. (Two-time Oscar winner for “Kramer vs. Kramer” (1979) and “Rainman” (1988.) But the Academy deliberately ignored “Straw Dogs” because, well, they’re chicken-shit. It’s simply too raw for home consumption. They can nominate him for “The Graduate” and “Midnight Cowboy”, among others. Not “Straw Dogs”. That’s why I can’t take the Oscars seriously. Not then and not now.
Like it or not, there are times when we have to prove ourselves. It may not be through an orgy of violence like “Straw Dogs”. But it will happen. You can’t escape it. You can’t get by with being nice and civilized. Not anymore.
Technically, “Straw Dogs” is brilliant. Special mention must be given to cinematographer John Coquillon. Any serious cameraman would kill for shots like this.
Hoffman’s face becomes flat, an expressionless death mask.
Coquillon, along with Jerry Fielding (music) were frequent Peckinpah collaborators. For me, this is Fielding’s best work. Sly and sinewy, it gets under your skin.
While “Straw Dogs” may sound dour and depressing, it has its own sense of humor. Example: Hoffman as Sumner holds a rifle on one of the men, Scutt (one of his wife’s rapists) which misfires. Scutt laughs until Sumner starts beating him to death.
Jim Norton as Chris Cawsey wears a clowns nose and circle around the house on a little bike giggling during the carnage.
When the men are fired from working on the garage, they’re offended.
DVD/BLU-RAY
“Straw Dogs” is currently available on the Criterion Collection.
Formerly available on MGM DVD
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Psychopath Robert Crimo suspect in July 4th massacre. Killer went on rampage dressed in women’s clothes.
Crimo arrested
7 were killed, 40 injured when Robert Crimo, a 21 year old transgendered male opened fire at a July 4th Independence Day parade in a Chicago suburb. The rooftop shooter is a member of ANTIFA and has been seen on social media.
Robert Crimo “gender confused”
Pres. Biden wouldn’t answer when asked if he’d visit the location where it occurred as he did in Uvalde, Texas. The mainstream media has dropped this story after one day. I wonder why.
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Actor Charlton Heston brought the idea of “Make Room, Make Room” (original title) to MGM and all the elements would come together. In 1973, MGM Studios was nearing its end of production and ready to move to Las Vegas as the MGM Grand. This would be their last major film shot on their famed back lot before it was sold off for real estate.
PLOT. Police Det. Thorn investigates a murder leading to a government conspiracy silencing those who know what’s in their new wonder food known as Soylent Green. (Based on a novel by Harry Harrison.)
What’s radically different about Soylent Green? Back then and still, most science-fiction is about outer space travel, aliens or an advanced technology. Instead, this predicts a crumbling civilization, over-population and the desperation of people trying to stay alive.
THE FUTURE IS NOW
Shot in late 1972-early 1973, some fifty years before 2022, what predictions have come true?
We are beginning to see rampant inflation and food shortages. (In the movie, a jar of strawberries costs $150.)
“People are still the same” reads the poster ad. Truer words were never spoken. Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson), a voice from the past says, “People were always rotten. But, the world was beautiful.”
Police State. Many people don’t want to admit this is true, but it is. Gov’t police have absolute authority. Riot control police use “people scoops” – trash trucks – to herd rioters who go wild when they’re told there’s no more Soylent Green. [A supposed combination of soybeans-lentils-and high-energy plankton farmed from the sea!]
Some cast extra were masks.
Economy becomes socialist.
CAST
Charlton Heston as Detective Robert Thorn
Leigh Taylor-Young as Shirl
Edward G. Robinson as Sol Roth
Chuck Connors as Tab Fielding
Brock Peters as Hatcher
Paula Kelly as Martha
Joseph Cotton as William R. Simonson
ACTING
This would be legendary actor Edward G. Robinson’s last performance and it is memorable.
Heston commented: Robinson told him before filming their last scene together that he had terminal cancer. Heston admits “those were real tears” during filming.
Edward G. Robinson celebrates his 100th and final role. He was working on his autobiography at the time. Published posthumously as “All My Yesterdays”.
Leigh Taylor-Young is cast as “Shirl”, Simonson’s furniture girl. (She comes with the apartment.) Best acting moment: when confronted by a new tenant who asks her “Are you fun?”
Chuck Heston was the catalyst for “Soylent Green”. It is one of his best roles.
Sol prepares Thorn a rare treat: “beef stew”.
MUSIC
The score is composed by Fred Myrow. It’s most favorably utilized during the opening still frame photo sequence where mass-production, from the industrial revolution is shown to be the cause for our polluted world.
DIRECTOR
Director Richard Fleischer provides a commentary on the DVD, along with Leigh Taylor-Young.
Old newspaper ad for “Soylent Green”
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Fascinating bio-pic of Elvis Presley as told from the point-of-view from his longtime manager Colonel Tom Parker.
Previously, we had the excellent TV-film “Elvis” (1979) as portrayed by Kurt Russell (Directed by John Carpenter.) The difference between the two is the grim shadow Col. Parker hangs over Elvis’ career.
The movie is surprisingly accurate as to whom this illegal Dutch immigrant is: a “carny” who learned to bluff and bamboozle everybody, eventually managing the most famous singer of the Twentieth Century.
Elvis himself was the first white singer who sang black – as shown by the various singers who influenced him. Also, gospel.
The Colonel (played with sinister glee by Tom Hanks) doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the music. He sees a walking money machine.
Elvis with parents
Gladys Presley, Elvis mother, rightly predicts: “If Elvis signs with the Colonel, he’ll be dead by forty.” But Elvis and his father Vernon sign their deal with the devil.
1956-1958. The halcyon years where every song went gold, every movie became a hit, until he’s drafted in the Army. Again, (a little known fact the movie gets right), Elvis is conned into joining the Army by the Colonel. The plan is to clean up “El’s” image – make him a clean wholesome boy every mother would love. The problem is: you’ve just destroyed the rebel.
While in the Army, Gladys dies and the seed is sown for Elvis’ eventual self-destruction. He never gets over it.
Olivia Dejonge as Priscilla
Soon after, he meets Priscilla Beaulieu, the fourteen year old Army brat, he’ll be forced to marry in 1967.
The 1960’s. Elvis becomes a movie star doing three motion pictures per year. The quality of these pictures declines in the mid-60’s and with the emergence of the Beatles – the King is temporarily dethroned.
1968. NBC and TV director Steve Binder give Elvis a chance to save himself with a one hour TV special. With nothing to lose, he takes it and it galvanizes “El” into a new and exciting phase in his career. (Col. Tom will fight Elvis and Binder for control over this special; a rare time the Colonel will lose.)
1969. Thus begins the Elvis Vegas show era that started off as a good thing until the grind drove Elvis to drugs. Wife Priscilla gets fed-up with being left alone and files for divorce. Again, this sets off a chain-reaction. Elvis goes deeper and deeper into the world of narcotics.
1973. Elvis’ last hurrah. Because the Colonel can’t travel (no passport), he arranges a satellite special broadcast to 1.5 billion people. It is a crowning achievement in the King’s career.
The final years. With no more challenges, no more movies, Elvis is left alone with nothing except going on tour, more drugs, more girls, more bad food, turning him into what we now call the “fat Elvis”.
In a rage, Elvis finally fires the Colonel, who promptly turns around demanding $8 million for his expenses dating all the way back to 1956. Elvis can’t pay, won’t file for bankruptcy and the two remain together until the bitter end.
Elvis concludes with “Unchained Melody” as sung in “Elvis in Concert”, his last TV special.
Post script. The Colonel is sued by the estate of Elvis Presley (Priscilla and Lisa-Marie Presley) for misappropriation of funds – i.e., grabbing half and more of Elvis’ money. It’s true again, as depicted in the film, Elvis was virtually enslaved by the International Hotel to perform for five years in exchange for paying off the Colonel’s gambling debt. Not mentioned is how the Colonel sold off Elvis’ back catalog of RCA songs (1956-1973) squandering a fortune for a quick payoff.
Austin Butler as Elvis Presley.
Butler captures the charisma and the talent of the kid from Tupelo who would set the world on fire with his music. He gets the many gestures and expressions, the quirks, the smiles and the anger that dominates the last years, succumbing into a dark cloud of depression.
Tom Hanks as Col. Tom Parker. Hanks is on the left. Parker is on the right.
Tom Hanks (an Elvis fan) wears a mountain of makeup and prosthetics, shapeshifting into the Colonel. What Hanks gets right is the craftiness, the sly as a fox “snowman” as he is nicknamed. (Wasn’t his whole life one big snow-job?) What he doesn’t get right is the meanness. The Colonel bullied others to get his own way using poor Elvis even after he died – selling his records repeatedly by repackaging them. It is rumored the Colonel (aka Andreas Cornelis Van Kuijk) committed murder in his home country of Holland and then hopped a ship to the U.S. to avoid prosecution.)
Director-co-writer-producer-Baz Luhrmann
Baz Luhrmann pulls out all the stops making “Elvis” big, extravagant and over-the-top. It’s what makes “Elvis” work. You can’t get more to what the American dream is than Elvis and the unintended consequences.
Elvis fans may be disturbed by seeing the “King” turned into a pawn by the Colonel, but that’s the way it really was. If it makes any difference, by 1977, Elvis was pretty much doing what he wanted – refusing to record (his last record is a patchwork of recordings from different years.) And in the end, Elvis pulled the plug on himself, whether on purpose or by accident, he ended it his way.
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Fake President Joe Biden fell off his bicycle in another one of his sad attempts to look “cool”. Biden can be seen coming to a stop, putting one foot down and the other in the pedal which caused the fall. If “Sleepy Joe” can’t figure out how to stop a bike without collapsing, how is he supposed to run a country? The equally fake MSM is also pretending not to know America has a senile occupant in the White House.
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Many have read or heard of Hollywood films that were cursed: examples being “Rebel Without a Cause”, “The Crow”, “The Exorcist” and so on.
But what about “Atuk”, an intended movie that remains unfilmed? “Atuk” was meant to be a comedy about an Eskimo encountering the modern world, but there’s nothing funny about what happened to the actors who all died unexpected, strange or violent deaths. All had intentions in starring as “Atuk”, except for Phil Hartman, who read the screenplay as given to him by Chris Farley.
John Belushi was interested in “Atuk” until his speedball overdose on March 5, 1982. Age 33.
Sam Kinison was killed in a car crash on April 10, 1992, age 38.
John Candy died from a heart attack while filming “Wagon’s East”. Age 43.
Phil Hartman read the script for “Atuk”. He was shot to death by his wife Brynn, who then killed herself. Phil was 49.
Chris Farley died from an overdose in his Chicago apartment on December 18, 1997. Age 33.
“A Clown’s Prayer” was recited at Farley’s funeral
The system doesn’t work for you. You work for it.
From the start, you’re told what to do by others who know less than yourself. You’re programmed on how to be a “good citizen”. What good does that do when your dead?
What does it matter if you’re left or right? This concept was made up to divide us. The controllers will keep selling us the same mind poison over and over again.
Think for yourself. For once, do what you want to do, not what you’re supposed to do.
Fuck the laws. Did you write them? Did you vote for the pampered scum royalty running this world?
Life is over very quickly. Are you going to waste it by conforming to a corrupt society?
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Marilyn Monroe
Robert Kennedy
Elvis Presley
John Lennon with his assassin Mark David Chapman
Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony he was shot
Sharon Tate
James Dean in death car
Montgomery Clift
Jayne Mansfield in the car she would be killed in later that night
John Wayne
Clark Gable
Saddam Hussein