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Cypress trees along the San Bernard River in Bates Allen Park, Kendelton, Texas. Fort Bend Co. Mar. 2023
"Mother! Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood!"
('Norman Bates' by McFarlane Toys / Movie Maniacs Series 2 and Stephanie Swift as 'Marion Crane' by Plastic Fantasy Adult Superstars)
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On-set photograph of the Bates family home in the A&E tv series, 'Bates Motel'. Note the Alfred Hitchcock standee tha the crew placed in the upstairs window.
© 2014 Craig Roberts
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This black and white illustration is from "The Home and School Reference Work, Volume I" by The Home and School Education Society, H. M. Dixon, President and Managing Editor. The book was published in 1917 by The Home and School Education Society.
This drawing of a bat can be found on page 255
It was really weird seeing Bat For Lashes play the same stage right after 2 Chainz. I'm not really the biggest 2 Chainz fan, either, I must say.
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Spanish postcard in the Hollywood (California) series. Photo: Universal International.
American actress and singer Barbara Bates (1925-1969) was best known for her role as Phoebe, the slyly manipulative fan of stage actress Anne Baxter in the closing scene of All About Eve (1950). She also played Clifron Webb and Myrna Loy's daighter Ernestine in the popular Fox-family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen (1950), and its sequel, Belles on Their Toes (1952). Bates committed suicide at the age of 43.
Barbara Jane Bates was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1925. She was the eldest of three daughters of Eva I. and Arthur W. Bates, a postal clerk. While growing up in Denver, she studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model. The shy teen was persuaded to enter a local beauty contest and won, receiving two round-trip train tickets to Hollywood, California. Two days before returning to Denver, Bates met Cecil Coan, a United Artists publicist. This altered the course of her life forever. In September 1944, 19 year old Bates signed a contract with Universal Pictures after Coan introduced her to producer Walter Wanger. Soon after, she was cast as one of the 'Seven Salome Girls' in the drama, Salome Where She Danced (Charles Lamont, 1945) starring Yvonne De Carlo. When in 1944, a Yank outfit in Luxembourg reportedly declared that soldiers were fed up on pinup pictures of starlets, she and colleague Kathleen O’Malley demanded proof. Costumed for their parts in Salome, Where She Danced, they put the question by holding up a sign that read: “Are G.I.s Tired of Us?” Around this time, she fell in love with the much older Coan, who was married with two sons and two daughters. In March 1945, Coan divorced his wife Helen Coan and secretly married Bates days later. She was 19, he 45. Bates spent the next few years as a stock actress, landing bit parts in films and doing cheesecake layouts for magazines like Yank, the Army Weekly and Life. It was one of those photo sessions that caught the eye of talent executive Solly Baiano at Warner Bros. who signed her in 1947. Warner Bros. highlighted her 'girl-next-door' image and her acting career took off. She appeared with some of the biggest stars of the day including Bette Davis in the comedy June Bride (Bretaigne Windust, 1948) and Danny Kaye in The Inspector General (Henry Koster, 1949)). In 1949, Bates's contract with Warner Bros. was terminated when she refused to go to New York City to promote The Inspector General. Despite being fired by Warner Brothers, she quickly signed a contract with 20th Century-Fox later that year.
In late 1949, Barbara Bates auditioned for the small role of Phoebe in Fox's upcoming All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950). In competition for the part was Zsa Zsa Gabor and others, but Bates impressed the producers and was given the part. She made a short but important appearance as the devious schemer, Phoebe, at the end of the film. Bates's image is enshrined in the film's last scene, posing in front of a three-way mirror, while holding the award won by her idol Eve Harrington, played by Anne Baxter. This memorable final scene left critics and audiences intrigued by the young actress, who they thought would star in a sequel to All About Eve. The Hollywood Reporter said of her performance, "Barbara Bates comes on the screen in the last few moments to more or less sum up the whole action and point of the story. It's odd that a bit should count for so much, and in the hands of Miss Bates all the required points are fulfilled." After her appearance in All About Eve, Bates co-starred in Cheaper by the Dozen (Walter Lang, 1950) with Clifton Webb, and its sequel Belles on Their Toes (Henry Levin, 1950), with Jeanne Crain and Myrna Loy. In 1951, she tests for the ballet dancer role in Charles Chaplin’s Limelight. Chaplin conducts the test himself, is very pleased with her performance, and offers her the part. But because of Chaplin's political beliefs, Fox vetoes the offer, and the part goes to Claire Bloom. Bates landed a role opposite MacDonald Carey and Claudette Colbert in the comedy Let's Make It Legal (Richard Sale, 1951). She co-starred with Donna Reed as the love interests of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in the hit comedy The Caddy (Norman Taurog, 1953).
Despite a seemingly successful career, Barbara Bates's life, both on and off screen, started unravelling. She became a victim of extreme mood swings, insecurity, ill health, and chronic depression. In 1954, she won the role of Cathy on the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life, co-starring Frances Bavier as her mother, Amy Morgan, and James Dunn as her uncle, Earl Morgan. After 26 episodes, she was written out of the show due to her erratic behavior, depression and instability. Bates and her Svengali-like husband Coen, who made all of Barbara's decisions for her, tried to salvage her career. They travelled to England to find work, where Coen became publicity director at United Artist's London office. Barbara was signed on as a contract player with the Rank Organisation, only to be replaced in two leading roles before filming began. Bates continued to be too emotionally unstable to work and in 1957, her contract with the Rank Organisation was cancelled. Upon returning to the United States in 1957, Bates and her husband got an apartment in Beverly Hills. Later that year, Bates made her last film, Apache Territory (Ray Nazzaro, 1958) starring Rory Calhoun. She then appeared in two television commercials, one for floor wax and another endorsing a now unknown product with Buster Keaton. In 1960, Bates's husband Cecil Coan was diagnosed with cancer. Bates put her career on hold to care for her ailing husband. The strain eventually became too much for her. She attempted suicide by slashing her wrists and was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Hospital where she soon recovered. She made her final onscreen appearance in an episode of The Saint (1962). In 1967, Bates's husband Cecil Coan died of cancer. Devastated by his death, Bates's depression worsened and she again became suicidal. Later that year, she returned to Denver and fell out of public view. For a time, Bates worked as a secretary, as a dental assistant, and as a hospital aide. In 1968 she married for the second time: to a childhood friend, sportscaster William Reed. Despite her new marriage and location, Bates remained increasingly despondent and depressed. On 18 March 1969, just months after her marriage to Reed, Barbara Bates committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning on the front seat of her Volkswagen in the sealed garage of her mother's suburban Denver home. Reportedly she was pregnant. Bates was 43 years old. She is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Jefferson County, Colorado.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen, Wikipedia and IMDb.
My second contender I would like to win Mercury Prize awards. Natasha Khan from Bat for Lashes was a sweetheart to take photos of, she posed quite a bit and wasn't moody and annoying as some of the other bands.
Monster Girl Maker by Emma Baker apps.apple.com/us/app/monster-girl-maker/id1426785656
The app is also available in the Google Play Store, BTW.
This makes me so nostalgic for Monster High...I have a damaged Lagoona somewhere that I was planning on customizing into a bat girl, much like this ‘un. Still haven’t decided on what her name would be, but that’s okay, I got plenty of time.
Designed by Fernando Gilgado
Folded by Adri 79
Paper rice + banana 20x20 cm
Video tutorial by Sara Adams : www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MdvHEgMjz8&list=UU6suMjuyyKL...
Strobist: Pocket Wizard TT5's triggering an Elinchrom Ranger Quadra with a "S" head. Strobe is model right 25' away. Taylor Smallwood launching a Ozone Bullet 12 meter speed-wing. These are the dunes located in Marina California.
Was shocked the other night to find a bat in my kitchen. It was hanging upside down, sound asleep, in that creepy way that you equate with old Dracula horror movies. It conjured up flashbacks of summers past before renovations to my old century home; the time when bats controlled the indoor airspace. The always appeared in early August; I learned alter this is when the young bats were first able to fly. The first sign of activity would be a fleeting glimpse of a black shape moving through the room, or maybe an adjacent space. Quite often this was occasioned with the pet cats freaking out trying to catch the thing. That was my cue to suit up with gloves and a heavy jacket to do battle with the bat. It became such a common occurrence that one time, just awakened from sound sleep, I went after a bat without my protective gear. In the ensuing melee, a small blood spot appeared on my hand. The question was did I whack my hand against something sharp or had I been bitten by the bat. No way to tell. Doctor advised me to bring in the dead bat for rabies testing. When I went out to retrieve the remains, I found the bat must have just been stunned and had flown off after regaining consciousness. Crap. With no bat to test I was forced to undergo the rabies vaccine. Not as bad as it used to be but still involves multiple simultaneous injections from a pair of nurses, one stationed on either side of me. I pondered all of that as I studied the bat in my kitchen. I put on my parka and heavy gloves before doing anything. And also hung a bedsheet across the doorway (bat containment is a trick I learned in the old days). I placed a clear plastic produce container over the bat, slid a flattened cardboard cereal box beneath, thereby trapping the bat. He hissed and bared his little bat teeth at me; vicious looking thing, not the least bit cute. Took him out to the backyard, a sort of catch and release program. Last I saw of him, but I continue to watch the shadows and corners of the kitchen. This photo put me in mind of bats flying about as the leaves of this old tree rusted in the wind. Cemeteries seem to come alive in high winds, everything in motion when I'm more accustomed to stillness. My eyes tend to dart about nervously as I see movement in my peripheral vision. It's scary at times but very exciting.
Here's my best shot of a bat that is loose in our house. It was flying in circles in our bedroom last night.
It eventually flew into the spare bedroom that I use for my clothing and for the drafting table where I edit photos. I closed the door and called the landlord. A specialist will be here, sometime soon, to help us find the critter and usher it out.
Meanwhile, I'm displaced from my Flickr room! I've set up shop at the dining room table.
"Ironlak fellow crew mate in town, rocking some fast silvers. Bates & Sirm (Sirum) Copenhagen Denmark 2009."
Naturally I added an extra play feature to the Bat-dozer. You can remove the top section, fold down the wings and it becomes a Batwing.
This bat was on the floor, I put him as high as I could on the wall.
Estaba en el suelo, así que lo he puesto en la pared, lo más alto que he podido.
A fruit bat (also known as a flying fox for obvious reasons) checking out his next meal of nectar, taken in my garden in Cairns, Qld, Australia
Bates College runners compare notes and eat cookies after the NESCAC XC Championship race at Wickham Park Sunday.