tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33066003429160552942024-03-06T19:35:22.515-08:00Ross McConnellThe Man, The Myth, The Magicmarcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.comBlogger144125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-2381964989761946792024-02-26T13:16:00.000-08:002024-02-26T13:20:01.148-08:00 Spring Hill, Lynchburg City, Virginia <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz2jOknYW8m-VjK4flVbqu5FfFnqgCYAOT8k4iQ3Ym2j_pzEckNPbdHmeE9RnfvcZ0WFlzxsqa5faxtkX17hsNUGUmKRV9kpLcjbHIFr1xBKVKlf5gt9PyhekX5S5faLgcpYBzgddbJO21l-Ae10BuXxvf7bujJsTAFquulh3IIBlA_GW-681O1CraDCbI/s1498/Screenshot%202024-02-26%20at%203.10.56%E2%80%AFPM.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz2jOknYW8m-VjK4flVbqu5FfFnqgCYAOT8k4iQ3Ym2j_pzEckNPbdHmeE9RnfvcZ0WFlzxsqa5faxtkX17hsNUGUmKRV9kpLcjbHIFr1xBKVKlf5gt9PyhekX5S5faLgcpYBzgddbJO21l-Ae10BuXxvf7bujJsTAFquulh3IIBlA_GW-681O1CraDCbI/s400/Screenshot%202024-02-26%20at%203.10.56%E2%80%AFPM.png"/></a></div><P>
<font size="5"> Revelation 1:18<P>
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, <i>Behold! I am alive for evermore, Amen;</i> and have the keys of hell and of death.</font>
marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-38447060164194488202023-11-30T07:32:00.000-08:002024-02-26T13:25:01.239-08:00Photo Opportunity<font size="5"> 1974 photo by MJ Vilardi <P><i>The Streak</i><P>
Group of naked people in front of Antioch's main building staring in shock and amazement as a (blurry) fully clothed person runs by</font>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-1286149667868323642023-10-10T09:16:00.000-07:002023-10-10T09:16:01.720-07:0010-10-23
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10:10:08<BR>
Memorial Service<BR>
Spring Hill Cemetery<BR>
Lynchburg, Virginia<P>
Michael Ross McConnell<BR>
b. Thursday 10 July 1952<BR>
d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008<P>
The<BR>
Original<BR>
10:10<BR>
{Ten Ten}<BR>
Man<P></B></center>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-74655270401053289512023-08-16T21:16:00.002-07:002023-08-16T21:16:55.955-07:00August 16, 1977
Ross hitched into El Paso, Texas, arriving via Interstate 10 in the early morning. I found him walking down Yarbrough Drive, North of Trawood Drive. At dawn Gaylon Page's collies barked loudly next door, reminding Ross of PeeDee and Numie, Ellen's griffin-like Rhodesian Ridgebacks from Greywood in Yellow Springs, Ohio. After chicory-flavoured coffee we sat down at the drawing board to plot another "flipped out" scenario involving the Great Old Ones. The day's musical selections began with "Bend It" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich (1966). That evening on El Paso's KTSM Channel 9 the lead story on John Chancellor's NBC Nightly News was the death of Elvis Presley. I loaned Ross a clean, wrinkle-free white dress shirt and we drove to nearby Juarez, Mexico for dinner at the Casa Del Sol. Ross feasted on a huge, freshly grilled black Boquilla Bass. Coming back through customs Ross proudly proclaimed himself a citizen of the United States of America with no contraband to declare. marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-19755911972253183722023-07-10T05:34:00.001-07:002023-08-16T21:12:50.554-07:00Happy 71st Birthday Ross <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQVa-19WCczKd-ftlu-8h_G93gCyatkg_7mprgWJQPVEF6IualLa3m5tJtYzM7RxYujGbPQdugizzFHG4GAYCkO4vK3tiUgZdHq_N2yFnpncCiP6zIvgR7iWjm5-OjK7HcLpUTLlmeOo2emG85qHBJboIkCA-6p9PqTUol0JF_c6aA-zlvB-25tBHfzF03/s2918/andreas_cellarius-the_tycho_brahe_planisphere-1660-obelisk-art-history.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="2468" data-original-width="2918" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQVa-19WCczKd-ftlu-8h_G93gCyatkg_7mprgWJQPVEF6IualLa3m5tJtYzM7RxYujGbPQdugizzFHG4GAYCkO4vK3tiUgZdHq_N2yFnpncCiP6zIvgR7iWjm5-OjK7HcLpUTLlmeOo2emG85qHBJboIkCA-6p9PqTUol0JF_c6aA-zlvB-25tBHfzF03/s400/andreas_cellarius-the_tycho_brahe_planisphere-1660-obelisk-art-history.jpg"/></a></div><P><P>
<b>Michael Ross McConnell<BR>
b. Thursday 10 July 1952</b><P>Ross said, "You chase it for so long and after a while, it chases you."<P>Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) was a Danish astronomer of the pre-telescope era. Using just his naked eye, he observed the planets, moon, stars, and space. The calendar of Tycho Brahe marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-68316446721982127372023-04-27T06:37:00.002-07:002023-04-27T06:38:59.711-07:00Rossae Crucis <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYxU5oJP84EtUMbqQt0g6NTeRkTEuUyzIPwL2hXLnCKC1_OTiZLdgk6qrUAhelrQOPP_tnTRG7ZrtonEwNG-du3bjIEdf79DqisozcCem38Xz-GIQz3XNmS7Bt3yRp2wK90yWR8E3DUvwvTmIzj-lhISQzCWJ3fR7idZJwKe5SpzkO6q1s4eYhsOhrQ/s1200/1200x0.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="1200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYxU5oJP84EtUMbqQt0g6NTeRkTEuUyzIPwL2hXLnCKC1_OTiZLdgk6qrUAhelrQOPP_tnTRG7ZrtonEwNG-du3bjIEdf79DqisozcCem38Xz-GIQz3XNmS7Bt3yRp2wK90yWR8E3DUvwvTmIzj-lhISQzCWJ3fR7idZJwKe5SpzkO6q1s4eYhsOhrQ/s400/1200x0.jpg"/></a></div><P>
<center><b>Michael Ross McConnell<BR>
b. Thursday 10 July 1952<BR>
d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008 <P>Prepare For The Next Flipped-out Planet</b> </center>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-73663865713760734322023-03-09T10:02:00.006-08:002023-03-09T10:03:51.187-08:00Ross + J.T.C.
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<center>10:10:08<BR>
Memorial Service<BR>
Spring Hill Cemetery<BR>
Lynchburg, Virginia<P>
Michael Ross McConnell<BR>
b. Thursday 10 July 1952<BR>
d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008<P>
The<BR>
Original<BR>
10:10<BR>
{Ten Ten}<BR>
Man<P></center>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-82268712093704937212022-09-27T10:11:00.000-07:002022-09-27T10:11:14.128-07:00#RIP Ira Chaplain (1953 - 2022) <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQur0XlWYsXfs4QXznFG_EgqnoKkwX2JWqPnCSHDbMJvkHfSzfJOyzoeaJO6ML8MFkRGEKK_dULidin4h7zqN31RnUG0ATnGHqZXm94Mdmv7xVnw9E0VnXw6vZtNdaBBmM-_O1ts_6OZlPphZNeDnu5Zp5ZzGOhaEOW0KrDB-f2NSrkGQ6jWoXwVrOA/s1557/BOY_Logo.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1557" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgQur0XlWYsXfs4QXznFG_EgqnoKkwX2JWqPnCSHDbMJvkHfSzfJOyzoeaJO6ML8MFkRGEKK_dULidin4h7zqN31RnUG0ATnGHqZXm94Mdmv7xVnw9E0VnXw6vZtNdaBBmM-_O1ts_6OZlPphZNeDnu5Zp5ZzGOhaEOW0KrDB-f2NSrkGQ6jWoXwVrOA/s320/BOY_Logo.jpg"/></a></div>
<P>I met Ira fall 1972, in Birch Hall at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. His roommate was Michael Tanner. In 1973-74 Ira and I were swept up in retro 1960s nostalgia, blasting Wolfman Jack oldies in his jacked-up Ford Falcon with the raccoon tail dangling from the rear antenna. Paired with a stylish cap, Ira often wore a red and white corduroy American Graffiti-vintage car coat embroidered "John '65." We were hired as Amazon River tour guides by the infamous "Jungle Mike" Tsalickis in Leticia, Colombia. That time with Jeff Stripple in Oxford, Ohio. Trips from SW Ohio to New Hampshire in Ira's Alfa Romeo. And El Paso, TX to S. California in his ’57 Chevy. Shared an apartment (2211 Jones) spring-summer 1976 when Ira was at the San Francisco Art Institute. Graffeo coffee. Sam Wo and Tai Tung restaurants. His friends Alan, Oscar, Kee-Wah and René. Roxy Music's "Stranded" album blaring out the apartment window while he was working on his car. The Tubes' "Young And Rich" album and Bimbos concert (WPOD). Ira visited me in Chicago several times. In 1980 he brought a poster from the London glam/punk clothing store BOY. His albums had been stolen so he was glad to receive a replacement copy of our favorite HY LIT various artists oldies LP. We were in touch as recently as January 2022. Farewell my friend. It will take more than death to slow you down. Say hello to Bryan Young (Woodstock Country School, Vermont), Michael Zempter and (Michael) Ross McConnell. marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-26283839837230939012022-09-27T08:53:00.004-07:002023-03-09T10:04:47.990-08:00Clear Spot - Ross & Julie <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvSFW9UBrbaANtlg97v4Wlj3oVt3BMfMmWDt7tIPDt3pQ_sfx166k5ehZ816CGaVqekCA1Mq9gR-VLUgcMW7jQYVkwgQ7hxss-W0Xg6SPH44BPt3Alw15pli82PovVrbw0x-9X2rOcVVe3YnwURzAyfUZCc282-Rh08XnEs910gqpmf8pY6g_UnhfnA/s1600/clear-spot-rsd2022-580x387.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvSFW9UBrbaANtlg97v4Wlj3oVt3BMfMmWDt7tIPDt3pQ_sfx166k5ehZ816CGaVqekCA1Mq9gR-VLUgcMW7jQYVkwgQ7hxss-W0Xg6SPH44BPt3Alw15pli82PovVrbw0x-9X2rOcVVe3YnwURzAyfUZCc282-Rh08XnEs910gqpmf8pY6g_UnhfnA/s1600/clear-spot-rsd2022-580x387.jpg"/></a></div>
Nov 25, 2022 - #RSDBlackFriday<BR>
Captain Beefheart <BR>
And The Magic Band <BR>
Clear Spot <BR>
50th Anniversary <BR>
Deluxe 2xLP <P>
Reprise Album MS 2115 <BR>
Nov 5, 1972 - Released <BR>
Dec 2 - NME Preview <BR>
Dec 9 - Record World & <BR>
Cash Box Reviews <BR>
Dec 16 - Billboard Review<P><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tLtAEWviZnGt9gVFjqC0AgDWCcXWGA5Z5BD3bkMXxB2PumyytlxBL06LPwTiWduuqEMMsSlv9LCb9LlygGzqssMvqwCSSFVOqwWFIGGVeKoIUz7KfcyzBdjtznzduOqfPXgOVi_ZDT2u0zpt32P9rENEv0P-sj0LPM6gyBx_qXrzdiVIiUPJBL6Fvw/s1999/clearspots%201.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1402" data-original-width="1999" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tLtAEWviZnGt9gVFjqC0AgDWCcXWGA5Z5BD3bkMXxB2PumyytlxBL06LPwTiWduuqEMMsSlv9LCb9LlygGzqssMvqwCSSFVOqwWFIGGVeKoIUz7KfcyzBdjtznzduOqfPXgOVi_ZDT2u0zpt32P9rENEv0P-sj0LPM6gyBx_qXrzdiVIiUPJBL6Fvw/s320/clearspots%201.jpg"/></a></div>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-26397319761969718472022-07-10T07:12:00.004-07:002022-07-10T07:13:21.249-07:00Happy 70th Birthday Ross <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7wmK7GGHKNgox3BlnRsR31SDKeIBJtAk_wD16Bs6MKUb-eWb41E2IUZMdCl54F0F4rAD4AL-vpPPbrLFsIGWW3UxiN5ipNm42BpBe-0njTd9wixkuFtpksim4bmlbSgBFZyoebpla_ug2eZug5_cc8kofL1CqsCOgHBzKFmZ3BBP6k4sdXgbK3ke-w/s1291/rosscave.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1164" data-original-width="1291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgG7wmK7GGHKNgox3BlnRsR31SDKeIBJtAk_wD16Bs6MKUb-eWb41E2IUZMdCl54F0F4rAD4AL-vpPPbrLFsIGWW3UxiN5ipNm42BpBe-0njTd9wixkuFtpksim4bmlbSgBFZyoebpla_ug2eZug5_cc8kofL1CqsCOgHBzKFmZ3BBP6k4sdXgbK3ke-w/s400/rosscave.jpg"/></a></div>
<center>Michael Ross McConnell<BR>
b. Thursday 10 July 1952 </center>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-85425373466253737132022-06-09T13:30:00.004-07:002022-06-09T13:32:59.703-07:00Sight And Sound, May 2022, Vol 32, Issue 4<center>The <i>Robocop</i> robot [1987] is a male version of<BR>
the woman robot in <i>Metropolis</i> [1927]. <P>
<i>Robocop</i> featuring<BR>
Uncle Jo Livingston<BR>
as Grocery Pop</center> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bSWc8KKe3PVjnonGQVDJXOsczqLyuRIYsZDuMAt_LBiwpZ4Pm7ahj627rY6B9n4smv9rtSQbtgZj3zomRQS54xQYakPUBfOXc4fQXdZoMPHwFc9swCKd43gknzPkY4VPaBGOksq0P4mbsawxHPlEyh60014K3Gs9w9na3KxiyXaeQmwr7uC92I6UZg/s4561/robotmariarobocop.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="4561" data-original-width="3503" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8bSWc8KKe3PVjnonGQVDJXOsczqLyuRIYsZDuMAt_LBiwpZ4Pm7ahj627rY6B9n4smv9rtSQbtgZj3zomRQS54xQYakPUBfOXc4fQXdZoMPHwFc9swCKd43gknzPkY4VPaBGOksq0P4mbsawxHPlEyh60014K3Gs9w9na3KxiyXaeQmwr7uC92I6UZg/s400/robotmariarobocop.jpg"/></a></div>
marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-9486377555522714112022-04-27T07:08:00.006-07:002022-04-27T07:09:52.965-07:00Rossae Crucis <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBiN7wrJ3xixDD3uLLOP0UozPQFkxvGHkHBveuvZpr5WUMTSKFNPpwvH-jj59m5Ga19yLbtBOUnW18pbh7_bFyfju5ntGD9OsoxLHgUCcxxoPOqxXiWOzXovu0VXwXJawzkIAHCfDAhVDdrRJzmplNjK0JVQqWrJ_BHmRE6kMGzQftR8lu8AO-qp8O_g/s1024/IMG_1124.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBiN7wrJ3xixDD3uLLOP0UozPQFkxvGHkHBveuvZpr5WUMTSKFNPpwvH-jj59m5Ga19yLbtBOUnW18pbh7_bFyfju5ntGD9OsoxLHgUCcxxoPOqxXiWOzXovu0VXwXJawzkIAHCfDAhVDdrRJzmplNjK0JVQqWrJ_BHmRE6kMGzQftR8lu8AO-qp8O_g/s400/IMG_1124.jpg"/></a></div>
<center>Michael Ross McConnell<BR>
b. Thursday 10 July 1952<BR>
d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008 <P></center?marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-81735188600224372682022-04-10T09:11:00.003-07:002022-04-10T09:12:05.830-07:00Ross Film Goes Mainstream<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpA2vbMrv_IT1CiHY7YTS7Y5DIKu5bCoGjcG4AUTUnvsJhGFZXGVoTyCDmBS5g1ZW7UJwbBNMqpSj8Jk2-__yjxK8FVolHVfm9bLiD0Vi9JJSPujX4LdKKbp6MisEe7BwovaysHoJ84S7XYuusicXXaPZTJsuSVtpDfXsmw6vMBQmMBk3DttuvASswnw/s1600/Maria_.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpA2vbMrv_IT1CiHY7YTS7Y5DIKu5bCoGjcG4AUTUnvsJhGFZXGVoTyCDmBS5g1ZW7UJwbBNMqpSj8Jk2-__yjxK8FVolHVfm9bLiD0Vi9JJSPujX4LdKKbp6MisEe7BwovaysHoJ84S7XYuusicXXaPZTJsuSVtpDfXsmw6vMBQmMBk3DttuvASswnw/s1600/Maria_.jpg"/></a></div>
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marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-17672072358859199652022-03-20T09:39:00.006-07:002022-03-20T10:17:45.878-07:00March 11, 2022 #RIP Ira Chaplain<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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Another biographical pamphlet was planned. There was ample material to work
with. But <i>THE IRA STORY</i> never happened. Flashing a wide grin, Ira said he
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<center> 10:10:08 <BR>
Memorial Service <BR>
Spring Hill Cemetery <BR>
Lynchburg, Virginia <P>
Michael Ross McConnell <BR>
b. Thursday 10 July 1952 <BR>
d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008 <P>
The<BR>Original<BR>10:10<BR>{Ten Ten}<BR>Man</center>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-16375307430774737962021-10-07T09:15:00.005-07:002021-10-07T09:15:59.573-07:00Ross Film - Greaser's Palace - Kelly Hall - Thursday, March 14, 1974 <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgSc8JcIQ2_-rfHpOZQ2VEGiZWb0ZfK_7vWnvzPQysoUCHMu6wlknzazQz45-ufCb0U7emQaVuftsuIrLcxcql5snqNKtY14cKNvFH9EToVmpzWlOY8iqGDiJSfBnP3Amj-xgOYoKKftx/s2877/The_Greenville_News_Sun__Jan_27__1974_.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="2877" data-original-width="1093" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVgSc8JcIQ2_-rfHpOZQ2VEGiZWb0ZfK_7vWnvzPQysoUCHMu6wlknzazQz45-ufCb0U7emQaVuftsuIrLcxcql5snqNKtY14cKNvFH9EToVmpzWlOY8iqGDiJSfBnP3Amj-xgOYoKKftx/s400/The_Greenville_News_Sun__Jan_27__1974_.jpg"/></a></div>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-76986741068927729082021-07-10T08:04:00.004-07:002021-07-10T08:04:35.434-07:00Happy Birthday Ross <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiywXbGmWapLwv-F2XrA5Syk7K_VBqwUC_aGV3N2Ik6c0X2miORBPjtl0aBSU6r-WX22RtTP-cv__ydsnVwES72JhnLDaXILD0b_1OvCEvdvL1J1EOhrgW5sGJfjFcfnjbnEe9nThcD9Odv/s2048/ABKCjourneyUSlp%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1596" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiywXbGmWapLwv-F2XrA5Syk7K_VBqwUC_aGV3N2Ik6c0X2miORBPjtl0aBSU6r-WX22RtTP-cv__ydsnVwES72JhnLDaXILD0b_1OvCEvdvL1J1EOhrgW5sGJfjFcfnjbnEe9nThcD9Odv/s320/ABKCjourneyUSlp%257E2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Michael Ross McConnell</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">b. Thursday 10 July 1952</span></span></p>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-46225983098360174052021-04-27T08:42:00.002-07:002021-04-27T12:15:47.264-07:00Rossae Crucis - "Journey" 1974<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_BTA6rGm2INKm91QgSw_X6seBur162kPfu1NgX1G8zvN-UULdmR_3Nfhay48Y4BXNMiTymx2B7pVuq9ThKChVRo57xmJkdZe2hjA-PBSmj_4HuB4JMLtMrzA-frT9Tz4o99RQaNCJaES/s2048/ABKCjourneyAd%257E2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1465" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe_BTA6rGm2INKm91QgSw_X6seBur162kPfu1NgX1G8zvN-UULdmR_3Nfhay48Y4BXNMiTymx2B7pVuq9ThKChVRo57xmJkdZe2hjA-PBSmj_4HuB4JMLtMrzA-frT9Tz4o99RQaNCJaES/s320/ABKCjourneyAd%257E2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Michael Ross McConnell</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">b. Thursday 10 July 1952</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008 </span></span></div>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-33123644061552671512021-02-17T08:31:00.001-08:002021-04-27T08:45:01.554-07:00Ross Bat 1977 <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh236mX_jM9hncJZU71sRq-3N-K4pF_ugD0tRuanIrXew9qPfGBoTf9hSJcZrDN5cjQ2rh3QI9U4Gg2sLn0HL5VAMrz1u3fCRQHsIKzXzmuieEtfZQ2PYhPKNkEJ_SOlAUtzK93v7amv4ww/s2048/RossBatJoyce.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1667" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh236mX_jM9hncJZU71sRq-3N-K4pF_ugD0tRuanIrXew9qPfGBoTf9hSJcZrDN5cjQ2rh3QI9U4Gg2sLn0HL5VAMrz1u3fCRQHsIKzXzmuieEtfZQ2PYhPKNkEJ_SOlAUtzK93v7amv4ww/s320/RossBatJoyce.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">From a 1977 Ross mailing. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">At the time I thought it was drawn by Joyce in Oregon but now I'm not so sure. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Joyce spent a lot of time on a detailed b&w 'Sad Indian' drawing, even had it printed on greeting cards. Joyce visited me in El Paso, Texas, summer 1977. She was concerned about the fluorescent light illuminating my drawing board. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"> A photo of Joyce sitting on a rock in the forest provided much comfort to Ross when he was living in </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house,
5625 S. University Ave. On Saturday night oceans of beer flooded the
main stairs leaving a sticky and smelly residue to greet Sunday morning
visitors. </span><br /></span></p>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-86449834993884262832020-10-10T12:24:00.003-07:002021-02-17T08:32:48.915-08:0010-10-20 <p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3gXKKkftsk5hPH-sZ-V89qjP6blhydetMY7TJrH38SmC98XLPXIXLKA-HiTUzm8xCgBmVze0ADSW0Ab0feqkjchLLziWiUlry0yxNp4TXippCkIJVL26PzOUoIgsWsR3dC42w94k-w4P/s2048/gematriahandbookRoss.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1353" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3gXKKkftsk5hPH-sZ-V89qjP6blhydetMY7TJrH38SmC98XLPXIXLKA-HiTUzm8xCgBmVze0ADSW0Ab0feqkjchLLziWiUlry0yxNp4TXippCkIJVL26PzOUoIgsWsR3dC42w94k-w4P/s320/gematriahandbookRoss.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">10:10:08</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Memorial Service</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Spring Hill Cemetery</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Lynchburg, Virginia</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">Michael Ross McConnell</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">b. Thursday 10 July 1952</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008 </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";">I
had to be in Chicago on 10:10:08 or I would have attended the Memorial
Service. One last Ross adventure. A chance to meet his parents and
members of the Ross community. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "arial";"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-82918379141403692902020-08-10T13:42:00.001-07:002020-08-10T13:42:20.690-07:00Ross: ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtabHfjwCqKfW0MczGWSFq2_4gCGawHuSfWDHkqFozsuKWNep3qWzj74Ha1k4tHUDONt-Q_OpxAxxI3firUR2-bdpqtdEFPEo48e5zR2DAqHyWioJXirqmUzlh_r2U8PI0aqoE5a2DdZbM/s678/rossCthulu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="499" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtabHfjwCqKfW0MczGWSFq2_4gCGawHuSfWDHkqFozsuKWNep3qWzj74Ha1k4tHUDONt-Q_OpxAxxI3firUR2-bdpqtdEFPEo48e5zR2DAqHyWioJXirqmUzlh_r2U8PI0aqoE5a2DdZbM/s640/rossCthulu.jpg" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;">Lovecraft created a genre of his own, cosmic horror or “cosmicism.” Think nihilism, with occasional cephalopods.</span></p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><div class="css-1fanzo5 StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
basic idea: Humans are an irrelevancy within the greater universe, a
cosmos governed by forces so alien and terrifying that our tiny minds
cannot encompass or bear their knowledge. Most characters who glimpse it
promptly go insane. Cosmicism’s big bad is Cthulhu, a winged,
octopus-like ancient god. But Cthulhu and his associates aren’t so much
evil as indifferent to pesky human life.</span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;">As
pantheons go, Lovecraft’s cosmogony is fairly imprecise, with much of
it enfleshed by his immediate disciple, August Derleth, and other
writers. There are Great Old Ones, the Outer Gods, the Elder Things and
assorted monsters like the Shoggoth, a slave race of many-eyed,
protoplasmic amoeba doodads. These gods are occasionally humanoid, but
more often sluglike, piscine, crustacean, gelatinous or a
lose-your-lunch buffet of unnamable horrors. Lovecraft typed these
beings as explicitly extraterrestrial, though some are former rulers of
the earth and still lurk within its depths and reaches. (So no more
expeditions to Antarctica, OK?)</span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;">Gods
to know and then run from in crazed terror: Dagon, a sea monster god;
Nyarlathotep, a malign shape-shifter god, who appears sometimes in the
form of a pharaoh and sometimes as an upsetting bat thing;
Shub-Niggarath, a cloudlike lady god sometimes called “the Black Goat of
the Woods With a Thousand Young”; Yog-Sothoth, the “All-in-One and
One-in-All,” a collection of glowing circles, but scary.</span></p><h2 class="css-ow6j0y eoo0vm40" id="link-7ced3834"><span style="font-family: arial;">Five Essential Works</span></h2><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;">If
Lovecraft remains a prized writer, that has more to do with the
atmosphere his stories evoke than with the turgid prose. His pacing can
be slow, his dialogue stilted, his humorlessness suffocating. But for a
taste of his crawling chaos, here are some ghastly places to begin.</span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10">‘At the Mountains of Madness’ (1936)</strong></span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dr. William Dyer, a professor of geology at Miskatonic University (think Harvard, but eerier), joins a trek to Antarctica in <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/mm.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">this harrowing novella</a>.
His team discovers frozen prehistoric life-forms. Then mayhem begins.
Dyer uncovers the remnants of an ancient alien civilization, a race of
Elder Things and intimations of an even greater evil waiting nearby.</span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10">‘The Call of Cthulhu’ (1928)</strong></span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">This twisty story</a>
follows a man piecing together various writings left behind by his
recently deceased professor uncle. Had his uncle stumbled on a series of
cults devoted to the worship of an Elder God? He had! Note Cthulhu’s
big debut: “It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed
Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway.”</span></p></div><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv"></aside></div><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10">‘The Colour Out of Space’ (1927)</strong></span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;">A
surveyor assigned to an odd corner of Arkham, Mass., discovers that a
fallen meteorite has poisoned the local floral and fauna in <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cs.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">this short story</a>.
The meteorite, which produces a color unlike any on the visible
spectrum, affects humans, too, driving one farm family to depredation
and death.</span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10">‘The Dunwich Horror’ (1929)</strong></span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;">In <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/dh.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">this story</a>
set in Dunwich, Mass., strange things are afoot at the Whateley
farmhouse. So strange that Wilbur Whateley tries to break into the
Miskatonic library and steal a copy of the “Necronomicon,” an ancient
spellbook. With Wilbur thwarted, an invisible horror begins to roam the
countryside.</span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong class="css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10">‘The Shadow Over Innsmouth’ (1936)</strong></span></p><p class="css-158dogj evys1bk0"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/soi.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">A novella</a>
dripping in genre elements, this odd tale stars an unnamed 21-year-old
college student who stops off in Innsmouth, a dumpy, insular fishing
town. Our narrator notices that the locals have narrow heads, bulging
eyes … and hey, are those gills?</span></p></div><p></p>marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-5245522226329214972020-07-10T07:18:00.000-07:002020-07-10T07:18:06.271-07:00Happy 68 Ross<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">John Ford's 1940 film <i>THE GRAPES OF WRATH:</i></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;"></span><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The
rest of my fambly set out for the west - there wasn't nothin' to eat -
but I couldn't leave. Somepin' wouldn't let me. So now I just wander
around. Sleep wherever I am. I used to tell myself I was lookin' out for
things, so when they come back ever'thing would be all right. But I
knowed that wan't true. There ain't nothin' to look out for. And ain't
nobody comin' back. They're gone - and <i><b>me, I'm just an 'ol graveyard
ghost </b></i>- that's all in the world I am.</span></span></div>
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marcolishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15117179333616932283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3306600342916055294.post-61273887859841396422020-05-12T05:56:00.001-07:002020-05-12T05:56:06.005-07:00Ross - Mabuse - Cornelius!<span class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0"></span><div class="css-79elbk" data-testid="photoviewer-wrapper">
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title card for “Dr. Mabuse the Gambler,” the German director Fritz
Lang’s 4½-hour silent so-called “super-film,” promises “a portrait of
our time.” That time was 1922. Yet Lang’s tale of financial panic,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Mabuse,”
which was originally shown in two parts but may be streamed as one
uncut film online, was greeted by its initial German audiences as akin
to a news bulletin. One Berlin paper speculated that a century hence,
the movie “will show people a time that they could perhaps scarcely
comprehend,” a time that saw “the extravagance of the newly rich, the
rapid gambling on the stock exchange, the clubs, the addiction to
pleasure, the speculation, the vast amount of smuggling, counterfeiting”
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Adapted
from a popular novel by the journalist Norbert Jacques, “Mabuse” was a
lightning bolt that crackled across the stormy sky of Weimar Germany — a
newly established, shellshocked democracy where two abortive
revolutions followed the loss of World War I, hyperinflation was
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his later years, Lang would maintain that “Mabuse” originally started
with a rapid-fire montage (since lost) that juxtaposed scenes from <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.historytoday.com/archive/spartacist-uprising-berlin" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">the left-wing Spartacist uprising</a> led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the right-wing <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.britannica.com/event/Kapp-Putsch" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">Kapp Putsch</a>
that enlisted nationalist military leaders and the assassination of the
German foreign minister, Walther Rathenau. This seems unlikely since
Rathenau was shot two months after “Mabuse” opened, but the intro was
unnecessary. “Mabuse” merged with its moment and even prophesied what
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rules. A habitué of decadent Art Deco nightclubs, Mabuse (Rudolf
Klein-Rogge, who would play the mad scientist Rotwang in Lang’s <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXpKwH2oJkM" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">“Metropolis”</a>)
preys upon his wealthy victims. Not just a criminal mastermind but a
psychoanalyst to boot, Mabuse has multiple ways to cloud the mind. In
one newly relevant sequence, he tricks an unfortunate fall guy into
self-quarantine and, having destroyed his tenuous grasp on reality,
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mabuse
is introduced shuffling a deck of cards showing his various disguises. A
more accurate translation of the title would be “Dr. Mabuse the
Player,” for this protean villain is also an actor. “Who is Behind All
This?” an intertitle demands. Mabuse is both ubiquitous and unknown. In
his classic film history, “From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological
History of the German Film,” the German critic Siegfried Kracauer
characterized Mabuse as “everywhere present but nowhere recognizable.”
(Or, as President Trump described Covid-19, “an invisible enemy” that
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movie’s first chapter concerns an elaborate scheme, directed by Mabuse
from his study, whereby a secret “trade pact” is stolen from the
suitcase of a diplomat traveling by train. News of the theft, as well as
the document itself, is used to crash the commodity exchange, much to
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economic chaos is inherent in Mabuse’s intrigues (he also operates a
counterfeit money ring, staffed with blind slaves who cannot identify
him), looting the rich seems to be his preferred pastime while, thanks
to his hypnotic gaze and mental powers, world domination is his ultimate
goal. A behind-the-scenes manipulator whose many disguises include that
of a <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQqiwIgTUHA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">stage mesmerist</a>,
a proletarian rabble-rouser, and a Jewish peddler, he is aided by a
gang of accomplices that include his cocaine-addled manservant and a
saucy dancer, Cara Carozza (the Norwegian actress Aud Egede-Nissen), a
star of the <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Folies-Bergere" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">Folies Bergère</a>.</span></div>
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minions are in Mabuse’s thrall, despite the abuse they suffer at his
hands. The movie is steeped in individual as well as social pathology.
In addition to practicing hypnotic mind control, Mabuse inspires the
sort of unquestioning, zombielike obedience (known in German as
kadavergehorsam) that, a decade later, Hitler would demand from his SS
and indeed all Germans. Carozza, whom Mabuse uses as a honey-trap,
insists that he is “the greatest man alive” even after his erotic
interest has been piqued by a sultry thrill-seeking countess (Gertrude
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once wanton and repressed, the countess is a terrific character,
haunting the same casinos as Mabuse but never gambling because, as she
explains, she prefers to watch. Her luckless husband (Alfred Abel, who
plays Joh Frederson in “Metropolis”) is another sort of aesthete — a
collector whose mansion is overstocked with mock Cubist canvases and
faux African sculptures. (The cluttered parlor offers a preview of the
infamous<a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.britannica.com/art/degenerate-art" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title=""> Nazi exhibition of so-called degenerate art</a>.)
The countess also casts her indolent spell on the resolute state
prosecutor Norbert von Wenk (Bernhard Goetzke), who doggedly pursues
Mabuse until he is hypnotized by the master to drive a speeding death
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has been suggested that as a conjurer of mental images, Mabuse was a
sort of alter ego for the domineering director. Lang spared no expense.
“Mabuse” was shot in a studio vast enough to accommodate city streets
and even neighborhoods. The swanky nightclubs are set pieces in
themselves. One sequence juxtaposes a spiritualist soiree in a luxurious
apartment with the opening of the Petit Casino, a cabaret promising
“all that pleases is allowed.” Mabuse operates in both places
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the set and out-diva’d Lang.) The Petit Casino also provides the arena
for Cara Carozza to lead on the most hapless of Mabuse’s victims, while
he himself infiltrates the séance to hypnotize the countess into
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With
a dozen chapters, “Mabuse” lends itself to both incremental and binge
watching. Exerting its own form of mind control, it starts slowly and,
abetted by an edgy modernist score, builds in intensity to a mad climax.
The violent denouement anticipates by a decade the grand finale of
Howard Hawks’s “Scarface.” We have long since become inured to onscreen
mayhem, but original reviews suggest that early audiences were stunned
by the movie’s pace. “Speed, horrifying speed characterizes the film,”
one critic wrote. Applause broke out during a scene of cars racing
through the nocturnal streets of a studio-built Berlin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Mabuse”
entered German popular culture and, over the course of his career, Lang
was inspired to make several sequels. His second sound film, <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bLMRPpSToI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">“The Testament of Dr. Mabuse”</a> (available to stream on the <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/the-testament-of-dr-mabuse" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">Criterion Channel</a> and <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.kanopy.com/product/testament-dr-mabuse" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">Kanopy</a>)
was in postproduction when Hitler became chancellor in 1933. Now
confined to a mental hospital, the spectral Mabuse (again Klein-Rogge)
uses mental telepathy and a form of radio to incite a crime wave. Lang
left Nazi Germany before the film was banned. “Life under a terror
regime could not be rendered more impressively,” Kracauer wrote. It was
not shown publicly in Germany until 1951.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the late 1950s, Lang returned to Germany to make several films including his swan song, <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aT5AcS-VWI" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">“The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse”</a> (rentable from <a class="css-1g7m0tk" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ZQ2B8Q?camp=1789&creativeASIN=B002ZQ2B8Q&ie=UTF8&linkCode=xm2&tag=justwatch09-20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="">Amazon Prime</a>).
No less than its predecessors, this Cold War “Mabuse” is a trove of
prophetic paranoia with intimations of James Bond and “Dr. Strangelove.”
It was sufficiently popular in Germany to inspire six sequels. You can
imagine an internet version made today.</span></div>
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