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Barry Kibrick: ‘Love Your Mistakes’
“Mistakes are your best assets. They hone your skills and develop your creativity. Don’t be afraid to make them, the more the merrier.” From Barry Kibrick Eric Metaxas the right-wing author and radio talk show host, once said when he was talking about one of his books and I’m paraphrasing: “We’re all a bunch a screw […]
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Top Celeb Tube: ‘Jayne Mansfield Transformation From 01 To 34 Years Old’
Source:The New Democrat “Jayne Mansfield was an American film, theater, and television actress. She was also a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the early Playboy Playmates. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol during the 1950s and early … Continue reading
Willy Beable: Diana Dors Documentary
“Short documentary profiling the life of British ‘Blonde Bombshell’ Diana Dors, who died of cancer in 1984.” From Willy Beable English Muffin Diana Dors (as I call her) got tagged as the British Marilyn Monroe and the latest Hollywood Blonde Bombshell … Continue reading
The New Yorker: Douglas Watt- ‘The Glittering, Corrosive Humor of Lenny Bruce’
Source:The New Democrat “Early in 1966, the entertainer Lenny Bruce, who died in the midsummer of that year at the age of forty from a self-administered overdose of morphine, gave his next-to-last public performance, at the Berkeley Community Theatre, a … Continue reading
Posted in Lenny Bruce
Tagged 1966, America, Berkeley, California, Christian Conservatism, Christian Conservatives, Christian Right, Comedy, Douglas Watt, Far-Right, Fascism, Fascists, First Amendment, Free Speech, Freedom of Speech, Lenny Bruce, Lenny Bruce's Career, Lenny Bruce's Life, New Right, New York, New York City, Political Correctness, Religious Conservatism, Religious Conservatives, Religious Right, Satire, The 1950s, The 1960s, United States, University of California
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Jayne Mansfield Diamonds To Dust: The Girl Can’t Help It 1956- Jayne Mansfield: Doing The Jerri Jordan Walk
Source: The Daily Review The Girl Can’t Help It from 1956, is a movie that Jayne Mansfield was born to be in and Jerri Jordan might be the character she was born to play. Jayne, was put on this planet … Continue reading
The Hollywood Reporter: Erik Liberman- ‘Jayne Mansfield: The First Reality Star?’
Source:The New Democrat “On the 50th anniversary of her death, a look back by a Broadway actor at what a generation of stars (and Kardashians) owes the shrewd and extravagant trailblazer.” From The Hollywood Reporter “Movie star, pin-up queen, nightclub performer … Continue reading
Inside Edition: Bonnie Strauss- 1992 Feature on Jayne Mansfield
Source: This piece was originally posted at The Daily Review The man anchoring this show might look familiar to all you political and news junkies out there. Especially cable news junkies, because before Bill O’Reilly got his big gig The … Continue reading
BBC: 1999 Jayne Mansfield Documentary
Source: This piece was originally posted at The Daily Review I guess in one way Jayne Mansfield was a great actress and not just a great comedic actress and comedian, but a real great actress at least in the sense … Continue reading
Posted in Baby Jayne
Tagged BBC, Hollywood, Jayne Mansfield, Jayne Mansfield's Career, Jayne Mansfield's Life, Sexy Women, The 1950s, The 1960s
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TV Fanatic: The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980) CBS Wednesday Night Movie
Source:The Daily Review “Made-for-TV** – WJBK 2 Detroit – The Jayne Mansfield Story (Made-for-TV) – This is the Original Oct.29,1980 broadcast with Commercials followed by a few minutes of Local News. “The Jayne Mansfield Story” (Made-for-TV) CBS Wednesday Night Movie … Continue reading
Posted in Baby Jayne
Tagged 1980, Alan Landsburg, America, Arnold Schwarzenegger, CBS, Charles Dennis, Dick Lowry, G.D. Spradlin, Gary Credle, Hollywood, Jayne Mansfield, Jayne Mansfield Story, Jayne Mansfield Story 1980, Jayne Mansfield Story 1980 Movie, Jayne Mansfield's Career, Jayne Mansfield's Life, Joan Bennett, Kathleen Lloyd, Laura Jacoby, Linda Otto, Loni Anderson, Mickey Hargitay, Nancy Gayle, Network Movies, Network TV, Ray Buktenica, Sexy Women, The 1950s, The 1960s, The 1980s, Tom Kuhn, TV Movies, United States
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Slate: Karina Longworth- ‘The Hollywood Ten Paid The Price For Refusing to Answer The $64 Question’
Source:The Daily Review “The hearings on what the House Un-American Activities Committee called “the communist infiltration of the motion-picture industry” began on Oct. 20, 1947. At the insistence of lawyers representing the 19 “unfriendly” witnesses brought before the committee, the … Continue reading
Posted in Hollywood Ten
Tagged 70th Congress, Censorship, Communism, Communists, Communists in Hollywood, Far-Left, Far-Right, Fascism, Fascists, Herbert Biberman, Hollywood, Hollywood Ten, House Un-American Activities Committee, Karina Longworth, Neoconservatism, Neoconservatives, Political Correctness, Samuel Ornitz, State Fascism, The 1940s, The 1950s, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives
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