#patrick massey

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man lobby cards (1943)

#frankenstein meets the wolf man #vintage lobby cards #universal monsters #lon chaney jr. #bela lugosi #universal horror #40s movies #40s horror #ilona massey #patrick knowles #roy william neill #1940s #1943

[tanambogo2113]

Frankenstein meets the Wolfman 1943

Bela Lugosi was offered the role of Frankenstein less than a year after the release of Dracula in 1931. Unfortunately, Lugosi got into an argument with the makeup artist over what the monster should look like. Ultimately, Lugosi turned down the role that went Boris Karloff. If Lugosi had accepted the role, he would have had two blockbusters within a year. In 1943, Lugosi accepted the role of the monster strictly for money. The movie went on to be a commercial success. Universal was not happy with Lugosi's performance and cut down his role significantly.

#Lon Chaney Jr. #Bela Lugosi #Ilona Massey #Patrick Knowles #Lionel Atwill #Maria Ouspenskaya #Dennis Hoey #1943

[rosalyn51]

📅   ‘We are told that Freud’s Last Session movie will be released around December’

“We are told that Freud’s Last Session movie will be released around December” 2023!!! according to Lisa Adair, General Manager, The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) via Northern Ireland World News (April 26, 2023)

Rosalyn51 Note: A theatrical release by December 31, 2023 qualifies the film for 2024 Oscars nominations! Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, etc. There is already incredible Oscars BuZZ (Variety)

Scenes from new movie starring Sir Anthony Hopkins shot in Whitehead

Filming has taken place in Whitehead for a new movie featuring acclaimed actors Sir Anthony Hopkins and Matthew GoodE.

Whitehead Railway Museum was the recent setting for scenes from ‘Freud’s Last Session’.

Set on the eve of World War Two in 1939, the film sees Sigmund Freud (Sir Anthony) invite Belfast-born Christian author CS Lewis for a debate on the existence of God. Having taken up the invite, CS Lewis, played by Goode, was present at Whitehead - suitably dressed as a rural Oxfordshire station - in order to catch the train to see Freud.

Also present were many extras, including a platoon of soldiers, a class of primary school children dressed for evacuation, and some of their ‘mothers’ to see them off.

100-year-old steam engine No. 461 was used in the Whitehead film shoot (archive image).

The station building, which normally houses Platform 3 restaurant, underwent a makeover so that it looked like a period 1930s English railway halt.

The Railway Preservation Society of Ireland (RPSI) laid on a train of 100-year-old steam engine No. 461, which is usually on display at the museum, plus three heritage carriages and a luggage van.

The locomotive was out of steam but fitted with a steam machine, while the RPSI’s train rides steam engine No. 3BG was on hand to shunt the train up and down the siding as required. The train had to be filmed in three main positions:

Sitting stationary at the platform whilst passengers / evacuees embarked and disembarked;

Departing with CS Lewis aboard (in daylight);

Arriving back with CS Lewis having met Freud (in the dark).

Photo: Freud’s Last Session producer, Meg Thomson IG

The weather was bright and sunny for the daylight shoots, and calm for the filming after darkness fell. The work was completed by 10.30pm [April 18, 2023] and a cheer went up from the cast and crew because this was the final sequence in the shoot.

Photo: Freud’s Last Session producer, Meg Thomson IG

Lisa Adair, RPSI general manager, said: “We are regularly in demand from film-makers because we can provide steam engines and vintage carriages. We are always pleased to be able to assist.

“We are told that Freud’s Last Session will be released around December, so we look forward to seeing the finished product in the cinema.”

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Freud’s Last Session (2023)

SYNOPSIS:

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds on the twentieth century, C.S. LEWIS and SIGMUND FREUD converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. FREUD’S LAST SESSION interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

DIRECTED BY: Matthew Brown

WRITTEN BY: Mark St. Germain

STARRING:

Anthony Hopkins (Sigmund Freud)

Matthew GoodE (C. S. "Jack" Lewis)

Liv Lisa Fries (Anna Freud)

Jodie Balfour (Dorothy Burlingham)

Jeremy Northam

Stephen Campbell Moore (? J. R. R. Tolkien ?)

Orla Bady (? Mrs. Janie Moore?)

Rhys Mannion (C. S. Lewis; WW! era)

Pádraic Delaney (Warren "Warnie" Lewis)

Tarek Bishara (? Ernest Freud ?)

George Clarke (Paddy Moore)

Oscar and Lucas Massey (twin boys of producer Meg Thomson who are playing the young Lewis brothers)

Photo collage: Originals Producer Meg Thompson, Mark Doyle, DigitalSpy, Patrick Redmond/ Westend Films

#FreudsLastSession #FLSLoc

#matthew goode #anthony hopkins #freud's last session #matthewgoode #henry talbot #downton abbey #a discovery of witches #freud's last session movie #sigmund freud #c s lewis #jodi balfour #liv lisa fries #jeremy northam #stephen campbell moore #orla brady #padraic delaney #anna freud #dorothy burlingham #freud #psychoanalysis #freudslastsession #oscars 2024 #oscars predictions #best actor #best supporting actor #best picture #best adapted screenplay #mark st germain #the crown netflix #goode performance

[kiwii-k1138]

An early St Patrick’s day comic!! Shire and PJ like to tell each other jokes, and as usual, Shire tells better ones than, PJ. She knows how to make everyone smile, it’s just her luck! In Ireland werewolves are actually seen as guardians, than monsters. So I made, Shire a St Patrick’s day werewolf. https://filmmakerbyheart.medium.com/unleashing-the-faoladh-encounter-the-legendary-irish-werewolf-e4089e7a7376#:~:text=Unlike%20other%20werewolves%20from%20folklore,as%20protectors%20of%20their%20communities.

#comics #art #funny #illustration #oc #my ocs #cute #oc art #education #werewolf #werewolves #ireland #st patricks day #st paddys day #pumpkin head #pumpkin #holiday

[marcmarcmomarc]

RWBY Volume 10 voice predictions

Keith Silverstein as Professor Theodore

Robbie Daymond as Tyrian Callows

Cam Clarke as Bartholomew Oobleck

Sena Bryer as May Marigold

Anne Yatco as Xanthe Rumpole

Lani Minella as Rowena Sunnybrook

Max Mittelman as Fox Alistair

Lauren Landa as Carmella Lindt

Colleen O’Shaughnessey as Thumbelina Peach

Cindy Robinson as Ann Greene

Orion Acaba as Harold Mulberry

Erin Fitzgerald as Rae Noire

Sandy Fox as Ariadne Guime

Eden Riegel as Elektra Fury

Dani Chambers as Iris Marilla

Carrie Keranen as Carmine Esclados

Matt Mercer as Jax Asturias

Jessica DiCicco as Gillian Asturias

Stephanie Sheh as Umber Gorgoneion

Kira Buckland as Rosa Schwein

Ray Chase as Argento Pocoron

Christopher Wehkamp as White Fang Lieutenant

Laura Post as Beatriz “Lady Beat” Browning

Patrick Seitz as Vermillion Raddock

Eric Vale as Sil

Mike Pollack as Marton

Rebecca Honig as Mina Lavender

Jeannie Tirado as Khaki

Andrew Russell as Kobalt

Grant George as Ivori

Bryce Papenbrook as Russel Thrush

Alejandro Saab as Dove Bronzewing

Kyle McCarley as Sky Lark

Laila Berzins as Starr Sanzang

Sam Riegel as Finn Asturias

Melissa Fahn as Lily

Reba Buhr as Lily’s Younger Sister

Bryan Massey as Bertilak Celadon

Paul St. Peter as Edward Caspian

Ryan Mitchum as August Caspian

Dorothy Fahn as Slate

Greg Chun as Green

Kimberly Woods as Olive Gashley

Ryan Bartley as Arslan Altan

Aleks Le as Nadir Shiko

Alfred Coleman as Merchant (RWBY: Arrowfell)

Chris Kokkinos as Spider Bodyguard 2

Brian Beacock as Roch Szalt

Cassandra Lee Morris as Kandi Floss

#rwby #rwby volume 10 #greenlight volume 10 #rwby voice actors

[character-actor-tournament]

Round 2 matchups

Results of round 1 can be found here.

Full list of matchups under the cut

Jesse White vs Ed Wynn

Lionel Barrymore vs Charlie Ruggles

Frank Morgan/Frank Jenks vs Betty Garrett

Mischa Auer vs S.Z. Sakall

Patsy Kelly vs Margaret Hamilton

Hans Conried vs Hattie McDaniel

Leonid Kinskey vs Eve Arden

Edward van Sloan/Jack Oakie vs Butterfly McQueen

Zasu Pitts vs Charlotte Greenwood

Marjorie Main vs Bert Lahr

Marie Dressler vs Una O'Connor

Dwight Frye vs Esther Muir

Thelma Todd vs Christian Rub

Gail Patrick vs Sydney Greenstreet

John Carradine vs Verna Felton

Una Merkel vs Conrad Veidt

Scatman Crothers vs Guy Kibbee/Walter Brennan

Nat Pendleton vs Raymond Massey

Erich von Stroheim vs Eddie Anderson

Reginald Gardiner vs Joseph Calleia

Sam Levene vs Edna May Oliver

Charles Laughton vs Gabby Hayes

Elsa Lanchester vs Lionel Atwill

Bill Robinson vs Andy Devine

Ernest Truex vs Edward Arnold

Sterling Holloway vs Nancy Kulp

Jean Adair vs Grady Sutton

Glenda Farrell vs Lillian Yarbo

Marjorie Gateson vs Joy Hudges

George E. Stone vs Donald Meek

Warner Baxter/Jerry Colonna vs Spring Byington

Felix Bressart vs Eric Blore

[theheartoftv]

Andie Hodges (Aimeé Teegarden) is an accomplished, young cardiologist who has great passion for the patients she treats and prides herself on giving them the best of care. But the accidental death of Henry (Chandler Massey), a young patient of Andie’s with an intellectual disability, leaves her shaken and doubting her ability as a doctor. As she grapples with this loss, a confrontation with Henry’s angry mother Gladys (Gail O’Grady) adds to her despair and leads her to further question her professional future. With a malpractice lawsuit looming and potential sanctions from the medical review board, Andie begins to rethink her loving relationship with Patrick (Andrew Zachar), who has been understanding and supportive of her. But as Andie and Gladys learn to overcome their sorrow through forgiveness, they learn that acceptance leads to hope.

#hallmark #heart of the matter #aimee teegarden #gail o'grady #movie #2022 #hmm #poster

[missmcspooks]

DEADLY WOMEN DAILY: MARIE MANNING

Meet Marie Manning, a previously employed domestic servant in the 1800’s. She worked hard serving a wealthy family, until she got tired of being someone's slave and decided to seek out someone to marry instead. Driven by greed since before her marriage, she and her husband landed themselves the title of being the first husband and wife to be executed together in England since the 1700’s. Let’s begin with her story. 

WHO WAS MARIE MANNING?

Marie Manning, (born Marie de Roux) was born in 1821 and raised in Lausanne, Switzerland. When she was older she ended up immigrating to England where she began to work as a domestic servant to a wealthy woman, Lady Blantyre, who was close friends with Queen Victoria. Marie eventually became tired of working as a servant and decided it was time to seek out a husband, so she wouldn’t have to work any longer. Marie had the pleasure of being courted by two men, Frederick George Manning, and an Irish man, Patrick O’Connor. Marie was really keen on Patrick, as he was a wealthy man who worked as a custom house officer. However, she was not aware at the time that he had to pull a lot of strings to land his job. Frederik had worked on the railways, but was discharged due to the suspicions of being involved with multiple burglaries. Frederik had told Marie that he was going to inherit a large amount of money when his mother died, and it’s speculated that this information, along with knowing that Patrick was an alcoholic, had played a great role in her decision to marry Frederik. 

Marie and Frederik became married in May 1847. Frederik gave Marie his will, where he gave her all of his property and his entire future inheritance. Marie was extremely happy with her decision at this point, but things had soon begun to fall apart shortly down the road. The couple worked at a Tavern they owned called White Hart Inn in Taunton, but when Frederik mishandled their money, they were forced to sell their business. It was around this time that Marie started to become unhappy in her marriage, and learning that her husband had lied about having a mother, she started to seek out Patrick to renew their friendship. It was speculated that she and Patrick had an affair together, but Frederik never had any suspicions regarding their relationship. However, Frederik had also started to drink more frequently due to his stress caused by finances. Patrick recommended the couple to take up lodgings Minever Place in London, and said he would board there to help them with financials. However, he did not board there, and instead a medical student, Massey, boarded there instead. Patrick did become a regular visitor though, most likely just to keep his affair going with Marie. 

BETRAYAL AT MINEVER PLACE

Patrick had told Marie about how wealthy he really is, informing her that he had valuable stocks in the railroads of foreign countries. This gave Marie even more fuel to commit her crime, and went to her husband to get him on board with the plan. Massey, the medical student, also told investigators that Frederik had started to ask him questions about chloroform and laudanum, which are both toxic. Massey also told investigators that it was around that time that the couple had kicked him out, and when he was leaving he witnessed a crowbar being delivered to the lodge, along with a lot of lime which serves as a drying agent to help quicken the decomposition of a dead body, and also helps with the smell. 

The night that Massey had moved out, the couple requested Patrick to come over for dinner, planning on putting their plan in motion once he arrived. However, they were thrown a curveball when he arrived with a friend. The following night, they requested him to come over again, but to please come alone. He didn’t suspect anything and did what they asked. There were witnesses proving that Patrick had gone to their home, as his friends had seen him walking on the London Bridge towards their home, and their neighbors also saw him outside the home, smoking a cigar and talking with Marie that night. 

While her husband was upstairs, Marie brought him into the kitchen and showed him an area where he could wash his hands before she served dinner. When he turned her back to her, she grabbed her gun and shot it in close range to the back of his head. Afterwards she ran upstairs to tell Frederick that the murder was done, and that she wouldn’t be caught for it. He decided to go downstairs to check the body, and he saw that Patrick was still alive. He grabbed the crowbar that he had ordered and began bludgeoning him until he no longer breathed. 

The following day, Marie went to Patrick’s home with his keys and stole valuable items including currency, two gold chains, two gold watches, and stock certificates worth thousands of dollars. Afterwards, her husband pretended to be Patrick and created ads to try and sell off the items they found, and even though he had sold a few, he didn’t have much luck. It’s speculated that the two had intended to betray each other, as they began to panic when friends of Patrick’s came by with their suspicions of his disappearance, and panicked more when they heard the Scotland Yard detectives were investigating. Marie did some quick thinking and sent Frederick on an errand and quickly grabbed as many stolen valuables as she could and began to flee. When he had returned home and saw that she was gone, he too picked up the rest of the valuables she left behind and fled as well. Marie had intended to immigrate to America, but she stopped in Scotland first to obtain Patrick’s bonds in his railroad stocks. She was caught trying to sell his stocks at a brokers office. Frederick was apprehended shortly afterwards on Jersey, a channel island, and both were brought back to London, being charged for the murder of Patrick O’Connor. Police had found his body when they noticed a dark and moist corner stone in their kitchen, around a week after he was murdered. 

TRIAL AND EXECUTION

In 1849, newspapers everywhere were talking about this case, and portraying the couple in a bad light, especially Marie. The people of London were outraged, most wishing for the death of the couple, who were pointing full blame to one another. The trial was only two days long, and it only took the jury 45 minutes to come to a conclusion. Both Marie and Frederick were found guilty, and sentenced to death by hanging. Marie challenged the judge about this verdict, pleading that she had not done anything wrong, and begged for a retrial, which she was denied. She then made a list ditch attempt for help and wrote to her former employer, and Queen Victoria. The Queen took out the time to review the transcripts, and ultimately decided that the ruling was correct, and didn’t interfere further. Marie’s husband however, wrote to her consistently, and she never opened his letters, simply sending them back to him. But shortly before their execution date, she wrote to him only once, begging him to confess to being the only person involved in this murder and to prove her innocence, which he didn’t. 

The couple were scheduled to be hanged together on November 13th, 1849, on the roof of London’s Horsemonger Lane Gaol. The best viewing spots were being sold for large amounts of money, and between 30,000 and 50,000 spectators came to view the execution. Hundreds of people had to be hospitalized due to trampling in the crowd, and unfortunately one woman died. Charles Dickon’s himself had gone to view the execution, and wrote a letter to the London Times, and explained that most of the crowd consisted of prostitutes, thieves, vagabonds, and ruffians. However, other newspapers stated that there were also a large number of wealthy and well-respected people watching as well, but they were watching higher up in the better viewing areas. 

THE EXECUTIONS AFTERMATH

A movement to ban public executions began when Charles Dickens, along with other writers started to regret being present at the viewing of the couple’s execution. The movement was a success, and public executions were banned in 1868, permanently taking place privately indoors. In 1869, sculptures of Marie and Frederick were made and gained a spot in Madame Marie Tussaud’s wax museum. 

#true crime #true story #truecrime #true crime blog #true crime community #Crime #murder #blog #blogging #blogger

[stereopticons]

fic title: Musical Chairs

I’m sorry I went to sleep and then forgot about this I am the worst.

David Rose is a world-renowned pianist. Patrick Brewer is the concertmaster of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. They’re in rehearsals to perform Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto at Massey Hall and things are not going well. Patrick finds David to be a pretentious asshole and David thinks Patrick is snippy and rude. And maybe kinda hot. Will they be able to get it together long enough to make it through the performances?

Send me a fake fic title and I’ll tell you what I’d write

#thanks for asking! #fic title ask game

[artbookdap]

In celebration of Indigenous Peoples' Day, here are a few works from 'Action Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s to 1970s,' the first appraisal of modern Native American abstraction—merging abstract expressionism, color field and hard-edge painting with Native American art. ⁠ ⁠ Artists include: Ray Aguilar, Ralph Aragon, Sammy Begay, Larry (Littlebird) Bird, Earl Biss, Bennet Brien, Bennie Buffalo, George Burdeau, T.C. Cannon, Art Chischilly, Joseph L. Concha, Larry Desjarlais, Joe Dudley, Earl Eder, Mary Eder, Kirby Feathers, Anita (Luttrell) Fields, Phyllis Fife, Herman Fragua, Henry (Hank) Gobin, John Gritts, Harvey Herman, Patrick Swazo Hinds, John Hoover, Michael Jenkins, Peter B. Jones, Ralph Robert Kniffen, Delores Lee, Alice Loiselle, Linda Lomaheftawa, Linda Lucero, Edna Massey and more.⁠ ⁠ Pictured here: ⁠ Lloyd Kiva New, (Cherokee), Untitled, 1968⁠ Fritz Scholder, (Mission/Luiseno), New Mexico Number 1, 1965⁠ George Morrison, (Wahwahtehgonagabo) (Chippewa), White Painting #1, 1965⁠ George Morrison, (Wahwahtehgonagabo/Chippewa), White Environ VI, ca. 1967⁠ Henry "Hank" Delano Gobin, (Tulalip/Snohomish) Northwest Design, 1966⁠ Mike Medicine Horse Zillioux, (Akimel O’odham/Cheyenne/Pawnee), The Day Jackson Pollack Became Christian, 1974⁠ ⁠ Published by @iaiamocna⁠ ⁠ Text by Lara Evans, Ryan S. Flahive, Shanna Ketchum-Heap of Birds, Tatiana Lomahaftewa-Singer, Stephen Wall & @manuelawelloffman⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #actionabstractionredefinied #nativeamericanheritage #nativeamericanart #modernnativeart #nativeart @instituteofamericanindianarts #lloydkivanew #fritzscholder #georgemorrison #mikemedicinehorsezillioux #indiginouspeoplesday #indiginousart #indiginous https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjf1OawsN_W/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#1 #actionabstractionredefinied #nativeamericanheritage #nativeamericanart #modernnativeart #nativeart #lloydkivanew #fritzscholder #georgemorrison #mikemedicinehorsezillioux #indiginouspeoplesday #indiginousart #indiginous

[kittymaine]

All Hail the Underdogs

Last of my read an e-book week haul was All Hail the Underdogs by E. L. Massey. This is the third book in the Breakaway series, but you don't have to read the other books to read this one (I sure didn't). It is a gay hockey romance book following two eighteen-year-olds who end up on the same team during their senior year of high school and the story of how they get together.

Patrick Roman enters a private boarding school on a full scholarship in his senior year with a chip on his shoulder. He's lived in poverty all his life and doesn't trust any of the children of the 1% who attend the school. Damien has been at the boarding school for a while, but he's also one of the few black kids there, singled out despite having grown up in upper crust society. As soon as they meet, they rub each other the wrong way, and it takes time before they realize they have more in common than they initially thought.

Unfortunately, I was not super into this book. Or, I should say, I was really into for the first half. But, around the halfway point of the book, there's a big surprise twist that takes the story in a different direction that I didn't really like. I don't want to spoil the twist, since it is legitimately surprising, but it just wasn't for me. From a writing perspective, it also felt like the halfway point is about the point in the book where some of the narrative drive sort of drains out of the story. The mid-point, Christmas break, feels like it should be the climax of the story. In my opinion, the biggest emotional punches of the book are there. All the stuff that happens afterward feels like it should be its own separate story, or maybe even just tossed into an epilogue or something.

All that to say, this is certainly not a bad book by any stretch. I think it just didn't work for me.

If you like enemies to lovers, cozy romances, opposites attract, or marriage/adoption stories, this might be the book for you! It was very sweet, all the characters are kind and well-meaning, and nobody is the bad guy even if they misunderstand each other sometimes.

#all hail the underdogs #breakaway #el massey #ebook #booklr #booktalk #hockey romance #gay romance #cozy romance #opposites attract #enemies to lovers

[jaybe11]

Bionational Executive Assistant Patrick Massey: A Profile - Accounts of ...

#youtube

[rodadecuia]

#NETUNO #PESQUISAESPACIAL #URANO

[inxspacetime]

➹ chandler massey

send me a ➹ and a fc ;; i’ll create a character on the spot !!!

Chandler Massey

Alright. So his name would be Patrick Oliver Jr. - or PJ for short. A writer. Well, an aspiring one. He doesn’t have anything published, but a few nearly finished works that he just knows could be instant classics if he could finish them. In the meantime, he works as a butcher in the family business (a deli). Could totally see a verse where he loses and becomes an actual butcher in order to get some ‘inspiration’ for a horror piece he’s working on, but other than that he seems harmless. He’s quiet, keeps to himself but not necessarily shy.

#fc meme #ｇｈｏｓｔ ｂｌｏｇｇｉｎｇ （ｑｕｅｕｅ）

[theloniousbach]

SEAN JONES: DIZZY SPELLZ, JAZZ ST. LOUIS, 3 FEBRUARY 2023

I first saw SEAN JONES as a member of the SF Jazz Collective here at our esteemed local club on their tour honoring Miles Davis. That was enough to ensure that I would see his own gig which featured tunes from his Live at the Bistro album recorded in that very room. As he said last night as he has before, he considers this club a home. So I also saw him as part of a celebratory Bistro All-Stars ensemble. He’s a smart improviser with a lyrical tone in the service of rich swinging tunes.

Still this show didn’t make my cut as I was planning the season, so I was lucky when friend Mike offered his ticket.

Having played Miles, here Sean Jones was playing Dizzy. The tunes included Salt Peanuts (with possibly teases of other bebop tunes from Massey Hall. Hot House?), Blue’n’Boogie (blues for St Louis), Swing Low Sweet Cadillac, and I’ll Fly Away. Jones was himself, as he was when in the Miles tribute, with no more Dizzy-isms than any trumpeter who of course has his legacy to build on. That is, there were sustained flurries of rapid notes and not too many high register blasts. He was the only horn, as he sometimes is in his ensembles, and he carried that load easily.

The rest of the core quartet swung hard. Alex Brown had power from the piano and took solos that matched his leader’s brawn. I didn’t have a clear view of Christian Dellingham on bass but he was a rock and had a rich solo. On the other hand, I could look down right on Jovan Rushton on drums who cooked but didn’t have the same kind of melodic comments that other such magicians sometimes offer.

I said core quartet because I also looked down turntablist Wendel Patrick who added to the rhythmic stew and took several solos. Patrick has a distinguished background, including as the Peabody Conservatory’s first director of hip hop, but also trained as a pianist in the European Tradition. His magic, new to me, was fun to watch. It extended a continuity to this very intentional program on the Black experience which Dizzy upheld with his dashikis and such even if he wasn’t as angry as, say, Charles Mingus or Max Roach.

The other performer and Jones’ collaborator was Brinae Ali who sang; recited poetry, angry and anguished, that evoked the pulpit, the Harlem Renaissance, Ishmael Reed and LeRoi Jones becoming Amiri Baraka, the Last Poets, and slam poetry, so probably hip hop; costume (I’ll Fly Away had a red church lady hat, gloves, and fan), and, above all, tap dance which, with Patrick’s turntables, suggested a continuity of rhythmic depth in the African American tradition.

The one possible hole was also rhythmic in that I didn’t catch a specific evocation of Chano Ponzo and Dizzy’s bebop level contribution of Afro-Cuban rhythms. But, just as his trumpet playing influences everyone, those rhythms are now a common legacy.

This was not “just” a jazz show, so it’s a reminder that jazz isn’t just jazz. As an article about Thelonious Monk I just read was titled, “Jazz is Freedom.”

#concert review #jazz #2023 #jazz st louis

[opedguy]

Tyre Nichols Beaten to Death

LOS ANGELES (OnlineColumnist.com), Jan. 28, 2023.--Beaten to death by five black Memphis police officers, Tadarrius Bean, Demetrius Haley, Desmond  Jr., Emmitt Martin III and Justin Smith, 29-year-old Tyre Nichols died in the hospital after laying lifeless in the street. FBI Director Christopher Wray, who’s seen the video, called the beating “appalling,” attesting to the horrific nature of police brutality.  Had any of the officers been white, who knows what would happen with Black Lives Matter and other activist groups, used to protesting police brutality for months following the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd.  Activist groups like to protest racism or white supremacy but don’t know how to protest in the wake of black-on-black police brutality.  President Joe Biden, 80, said he would work with Congress to get the George Floyd Act passed “to get his situation under control,” not sure what Biden meant by “this situation.”

George Floyd’s death was blamed largely on white police officers, something that can’t happen with Tyre Nichols because of his beating by his own community.  When race riots break out following white-on-black police brutality, it’s assumed the misconduct was due to racism.  But Tyre’s death was clearly due to police brutality, where peace officers deviate from established policing to deliver excessive force.   Recordings of the incident confirm that Memphis police officers at the scene went overboard with excessive force. “This young man, by definition of the law in this state, was terrorized.  Not by one, not by two, but by five officers who we now know . . .  acted in concert with each other,” said attorney Antonio Romanucci who represents the family. Memphis Police Director Cerelyn Davis called the five officers’ actions “heinous, reckless and inhumane,” making no excuses.

Davis said the video of the incident shows the officers “already ramped up, at about a 10,” she said. Davis said the officers were “aggressive, loud using profane language and probably scared Mr. Nichols from the very beginning.”  Davis made no excuses for her officers, all of whom have been arrested.  “All we know is that the amount of force that was applied in the situation was over the top,” Davis said, acknowledging the obvious.  Davis hopes with the video of the incident going viral that community does not overreact, especially knowing that the officers involved are under arrest.  “I don’t want us burning up our city, tearing up the streets, because that’s not what my son stood for,” said RowVaughn Wells, Nichol’s mother. Patrick Yoes, national director of the fraternal order of police, condemned the police about in the strongest possible terms.

Memphis police officers, currently in jail, face a multitude of charges, including second-degree murder, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, officials misconduct and official oppression.  Martin’s lawyer, William Massey and Mills’ lawyer Black Kallin, said their clients would plead not guilty.  “No one out there that night intended for Tyre Nichols to die,” Massey said.  Whatever Massey’s statements, it’s up to a jury to determine intent but, even so, second-degree murder doesn’t involve premeditation.  Police officers must apply strict rules when it comes to applying lethal force.  Looks like Nichols was tased in addition savagely beater to death. At age 29, it takes a lot of police abuse to beat someone to death.  No one thinks that the Memphis officers followed police training and procedures when it came to using force to execute an arrest, supposedly for reckless driving.

Reactions to Nichol’s beating deaths came from far-and-wide wide denouncing the police officers’ use of excessive force. “The event as described to use does not constitute legitimate police work or a traffic stop gone wrong.  This is a criminal assault under the pretext of law,” said Patrick Yoes, president of the Fraternal Order of Police.  So many incidents, contrary to what victims think, are not about racism but poor police practices, bad training or panic by police officers.  Rarely does racism, even with George Floyd’s with renegade cops in his death, play a part in excessive force.  Community activists too often attribute a lack of training or appropriate policing to racism, when, in fact, officers get caught up in the moment, panic, get into group think when then should follow standardized police practices.  Rioting in response to mishaps does nothing other that makes a bad situation worse.

Nichols legal team, led by Romanucci and civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, said Nichols was tased, pepper sprayed after a routine traffic stop.  Whatever beating the video shows, there’s no excuse for trained and ordained police officers to deviate from their training and go rogue, all because they can.  Chief Davis confirmed that all the officers will be subjected to “a complete and independent review,” beyond the departments own internal affairs investigation.  “Nichols “at all times was an innocent victim,” Romanucci said.  “He did nothing wrong.  This scorpion unit was designed to saturate under the guise of crime fighting and what it would up doing instead was creating a continual pattern and practice of bad behavior,” Romanucci said.  Before activists turn this into an indictment of all responsible policing, Memphis must deal with its own failed practices.

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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.