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18 October 2016
Portrait of Sir Donald George Bradman and Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
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Melbourne Cricket Ground
Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia 🇦🇺
This portrait photograph was taken by Bryan Charlton when Sir Donald Bradman met Sachin Tendulkar along with Shane Warne at Bradman’s house in Holden Street, Adelaide for Bradman's 90th birthday in 1998.
It is on display at the Melbourne Cricket Ground(MCG) Stadium in Melbourne, Australia.
Reportedly, only 4 copies of the photograph were made:
1. A highlight for daily tour groups at the MCG.
2. Sachin Tendulkar's house alongside other Bradman memorabilia.
3. SACA ( South Australian Cricket Association )
4. Given to Mark Mascarenhas, who passed away in 2002.
Portrait Photograph Details -
Large colour photograph of Sir Donald Bradman wearing blue cardigan, posing with Sachin Tendulkar, wearing a grey suit and white shirt, Bradman holding pen to sign cricket bat held by Tendulkar. They are standing in front of a fireplace above which hangs a large colour portrait of a young Don Bradman, painted by Reg Campbell. The photograph has been signed by both men in gold pen on the mount board below the photo, on either side of a small caption on yellow paper. Photo is in a dark green window mount and wooden frame with decorative dark edging.
Photographer - Bryan Charlton
Portrait painting above fireplace - Reg Campbell
Text on the Photograph -
"Sir Donald Bradman
and Sachin Tendulkar
Celebrate Sir Donald’s 90th Birthday
27th August, 1998"
………………………………………………………….,.
Apart from cricket, the MCG also hosts a number of international sporting events, AFL, music concerts and live performances.
In 2006, the MCG hosted the Commonwealth Games and the MCG was a primary venue for the 1956 Olympics.
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started IPL T20 [ cricket fever ]
The BCCI launched the Indian Premier League (IPL) on the lines of football’s English Premier League and the National Basketball League (NBA) of the US.
The IPL is a professional Twenty20 cricket league created and promoted by the BCCI and backed by the ICC. The Twenty20 league is set to debut in April 2008, with eight teams comprising a minimum of 16 players each. The league will last for 44 days and will involve 59 matches.
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Man of the Australia-India Test cricket series Pat Cummins bowls to 'wall' Cheteshwar Purara, while India's exciting young batsman - wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant looks on at the non-striker's end during the third Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Well - India's 2-1 series win must rank as one of the best in cricket history. India fans may find it feels similar to Australia's away win against West Indies in 1995 which marked the passage of supremacy from one team to another. Time will tell. Australia's team went on to become the best for a generation but we don't know who will succeed Kohli, Rahane and Pujara (all about 32) as India's batting backbone, or Ashwin and Jadeja as all-rounders. While New Zealand are nominally No.1 in Test Cricket according to ICC's rankings, NZ lost 3-0 in Australia in 2019-20 and haven't won a series against Australia since 1989-90. Away wins are tough. So this is a great win by India, more emphatic than their 2-1 win in 2018-19 when Steven Smith and David Warner were unable to play in circumstances that unsettled the nation and the team.
Which is not to say that broader factors didn't impact this time around, as board decisions rescheduling matches to fit in with BCCI timing demands; and broadcaster Channel Seven taking cricket to the courts created uncertainty. This may reflect Channel Seven's loss of advertising revenue due to COVID factors; and impact Australian cricket's finances at a time when gains from cricket administration's investments have been lost in stock market upheavals.
But back to the cricket. India's players stood up as a team, with great individual performances not necessarily reflected in statistics. Strategic and tactical preparation was at a very high level. India's all-out 36 was the result of Australia striking before India knew what hit them, and India's construction of their fourth-innings in Sydney (no one big score, maybe an 100 and a few fifties, an anchor and others to push the pace) providing a rehearsal for Brisbane.
India proved in Sydney that they could bat out a draw, which must have been exasperating for the Australian bowlers who go in fierce, not liking a long battle. In Brisbane, India's batting showed intent, but the chase for the win risked the result going either way. Risharb Pant and Washington Sundar's partnership was decisive at the close - in the last half hour of a four-Test series!
Pant's 89 not out made him man of the match and Cummins took 21 wickets at an average of 20.04 for the series.
Now for the recriminations! Paine at 36...his batting held up (204 runs at an average of 40) but he dropped catches which turned out to be crucial and he suffered blowback from sub-par repartee. Unexpectedly, India had the edge in field placements and bowling plans, exposing Australia's batting weaknesses. The captain calls the tactics and India were up a notch here.
Australia's batting looked iffy with Warner injured and Smith and Labuschagne (426 runs at 53) carrying the team. Pucovski had a strong cameo. Cameron Green's batting was promising, although four places are now up for grabs. We missed the Sheffield Shield.
Cummins and Hazlewood (17 wickets at 19) were excellent throughout but Starc faded (11 at 41) and India played Lyon comfortably (9 at 55), particularly in the third and fourth tests when he should have been cleaning up for Australia on the fifth day. Australia lacks a penetrative fifth bowler, and Green didn't take a wicket.
Kohli was here for one test before flying back to India, and his batting was impressive in the first innings at Adelaide. Too bad he was run out, and no-one was around for long enough in the second innings 36.
Rahane as India's captain excelled and now has a record of four wins, one draw and no losses. He led from the front with a great second test century under pressure, supported by Pujara and Jadeja, and showed tactical nous. The way India constructed innings with fast and slow contributors was a highlight of their tour.
As experienced players were injured newcomers seized their moment. The whole series came down to the last session. At 5-265 India was on the ropes, but Pant and Sundar then hit 50 runs in nine overs. That should be a miracle performance on a fifth day Test wicket, but the pitch hadn't deteriorated. Pant (274 runs at 68) and Shubman Gill (259 runs at 51) had great series. While on paper Pujara's 271 runs at 33 isn't impressive, he soaked up 928 deliveries, more than anyone else, holding up an end and blunting Australia's attack.
For the bowling, Jadeja, Ashwin and Bumrah did well before injuries. The debutants stood up. Mohammed Siraj (13 wickets at 29) led the attack in his first series and Thakur and Sundar had strong results.
INDIA WINS. BILLION FACES SMILES
Every one Expected this event as a Glamorous one.
When the Opening Batsmen and Two Stars , Tendulkar and Sevag were out for a Peanut, situation become Grim. Glamor was missing for some time.
AND THEN GREATER JOY FOLLOWED. INDIA WINS THE WORLD CUP-2001.
The Victory…!!
At last the victory was written by CSK Skipper Dhoni in a firm note on the grounds of Mumbai..
yes The only team in all IPL season .. CSK played all the semi finals one time runner ups, just missed the trophy of yesteryears...!!!
Mumbai blasts once again but this time not in the hands of Terrorists..
But in the Hands of Chennai super kings…!!!
Outstanding performance, a fantastic team spirit..
And at the beginning the team judged as an “Under dogs”
At the final the under dogs turned out to be “DARK HORSES”
Yes the Dark horses won the race…
Even though it was a big time win it was over shadowed by the
“Scandal theory of Modi” (the chairman of the IPL ) and the TV media…!!!
It was unfortunate the victory was back seated…!!!
A GOOD win for CSK
A BAD day for Indian cricket
A ugly drama conducted by BCCI at the wrong time
(YES the Board of cricket council of India) BCCI suspended the Chairman MR. LALIT MODI from his post and making lot of allegations..
In fact the ongoing speculations was taken a front seat in the media and was interesting than the “cricket match”
And most of the viewers handling the remote control of their TV sets very often and interestingly, finally MR. Lalit modi handing over the trophy to the winning captain…!!
In my point of view people of India watching the 2 matches on the Tv sets..
One is on the field and the other one is off the field…!!
But the Media’s “live telecast of ugly things makes the real cricket lovers in a sad mood!!!
SUNDAY MORNING,(i.e) ON THE FINAL DAYS MATCH MY BOYS AND THEIR COUSIN STARTED THE CELEBRATION .. even before the match started!!
Shot taken @ mahabalipuram sea shore temple complex..!!
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Lynda Jean Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA 1972 and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman (1975–77) and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977–79).
Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Colby Carter, is an art dealer of Irish English descent and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican descent. Ms. Carter has stated that her mother has her Mexican roots in Chihuahua, Mexico and previously worked in the telephone industry. Lynda speaks fluent Spanish. Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Arcadia High School in Phoenix and Kachina Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
During high school, Carter performed in a band called Just Us, consisting of a marimba, a conga drum, an acoustic guitar, and a stand-up bass played by another girl. When she was 17 in 1968, Lynda joined two of her cousins in another band called The Relatives. Actor Gary Burghoff was the drummer. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada, for three months; and, because Lynda was under 21, she had to enter through the kitchen. She attended Arizona State University. After being voted Most Talented, she dropped out to pursue a career in music. In 1970, Carter sang with The Garfin Gathering with Lynda Carter. Their first performance was in a San Francisco hotel so new that it had no sidewalk entrance. Consequently, they played mostly to the janitors and hotel guests who parked their cars in the underground garage. She returned to Arizona in 1972.
[edit] Career
In 1972, Carter entered a local Arizona beauty contest and gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA, representing Arizona; in the international 1972 Miss World pageant, representing the U.S., she reached the semi-finals. After taking acting classes at several New York acting schools, she began making appearances on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Cos, and Nakia and in B-movies, her only nude appearance to make it to film was in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976).
Carter's acting career took off when she landed the starring role in The New Adventures of Wonder Woman as Wonder Woman and her alter ego Diana Prince. The savings her parents had set aside for her to pursue acting in Los Angeles were almost depleted, and Carter was close to returning to Arizona when her manager informed her that she had won the part. Her earnest performance endeared her to fans and critics, and the series lasted three seasons. As she is the physical embodiment of the character so much so that thirty years after first taking on the role, Carter continues to be closely identified with Wonder Woman.
As the program was winding down, Carter told US magazine:
I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.
She was referring to the feedback she had received for her posters.
Carter was also upset with some of the marketing of her image. Warner Bros. worked out a deal with the toy company Mego to create a Wonder Woman doll while the series was still on the air. In 1987, on The Late Show with Joan Rivers, Carter commented:
I think that you're probably familiar with a problem in Hollywood, and that is that they market you, and they use you. They did a mask of my face and put it on the doll, and they put my name on for the first run of it. And then they took my name off and said they didn't have to pay me anymore. So it's the kind of thing that you can be used so much in this industry. I make nothing. I don't even make anything from the reruns. Don't ever settle for net profits. It's called creative accounting.
In 1985, DC Comics named Carter as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great for her work on the Wonder Woman series. In 2007, toy company DC Direct released a 13" full-figure statue of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, limited to 5,000 pieces; it was re-released in 2010.[8] Also in 2010, DC Direct began selling a 5½-inch bust of Carter's rendition of Wonder Woman to celebrate the DC Comics' 75th anniversary.
At age 5, Lynda made her public television debut on the Lew King’s Talent Show.
During the late 1970s, Carter recorded an album, Portrait. Carter is credited as a co-writer on several songs, and she made numerous guest appearances on variety television programs at the time in a musical capacity. She also sang two of her songs in the 1979 Wonder Woman episode, Amazon Hot Wax
In 1977, Carter released a promotional poster through Pro Arts Inc. at the suggestion of her then-husband and manager, Ron Samuels. The poster was very successful despite Carter's dissatisfaction with it. In 1981, during an interview on the NBC television special Women Who Rate a 10, she said:
It's uncomfortable because I just simply took a photograph. That's all my participation was in my poster that sold over a million copies was that I took a photograph that I thought was a dumb photograph. My husband said, 'Oh, try this thing tied up here, it'll look beautiful'. And the photographer said 'the back-lighting is really terrific'. So dealing with someone having that picture up in their... bedroom or their... living room or whatever I think would be hard for anyone to deal with.
In 1978, Ms.Lynda Jean Carter was voted The Most Beautiful Woman in the World by The International Academy of Beauty and The British Press Organization.
In 1979's Apocalypse Now Lynda Carter was originally cast in the role of Playboy Playmate Bunny but the filming of her scenes was interrupted by the famous storm that wrecked the theatre set, prompting nearly two month's delay for rebuilding. By the time Coppola was ready to shoot again, Carter's contractual obligations to Wonder Woman forced her back to the states, and her scenes were re-shot with Colleen Camp. The only evidence remaining of Carter's involvement are the Playboy Centerfold that were specially shot by the magazine as movie props. At one point in the Redux version of Apocalypse Now, a glimpse of Carter's pinup is visible, as the only nude work ascribed to the actress outside of Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw.
In the early 1980s, Carter performed on the Las Vegas Strip and in Atlantic City, highlighting her musical talent.
Carter's other credits include the title role in a biopic of actress Rita Hayworth, titled Rita Hayworth, Love Goddess (1983) and a variety of her own TV specials: Lynda Carter's Special (1980), Encore! (1980), Celebration (1981), Street Life (1982), and Body And Soul (1984). She starred in a few short-lived TV series, including Partners in Crime (1984) with Loni Anderson and Hawkeye (1994–95) with Lee Horsley. During this time, she also became a celebrity promotional model for Maybelline cosmetics commercials.
Carter performing in Mohegan Sun Casino, Connecticut, on Dec. 10, 2011
Throughout the 1990s, Carter appeared in a string of tv movies that resulted in a resurgence in television appearances. Also, because of the re-syndication of Wonder Woman on such cable networks as FX and SyFy, Carter even participated in two scheduled on-line chat sessions with fans. It was around this time that Carter created her own production company, Potomac Productions. Throughout the 1990s, she has also appeared in commercials for Lens Express (now 1-800 Contacts). In 1993 Lynda expanded her performance resume to include voiceover work as the narrator for the Sandra Brown book Where There's Smoke.
In 2001, Carter was cast in the independent comedy feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor Jessman. The writers and stars of the film, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, with Jay Chandrasekhar directing, had specifically sought Carter for the role. Inspired by the character detour from her usual roles, she agreed to play a washed-up former beauty queen in The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004), directed by Christopher Coppola. Carter made her first appearance in a major feature film in a number of years in the big-screen remake of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), also directed by Chandrasekhar. She also appeared in the comedy Sky High (2005) as Principal Powers, the head of a school for superheroes. The script allowed Carter to poke fun at her most famous character when she states: I can't do anything more to help you. I'm not Wonder Woman, y'know. In 2006, she guest-starred in the made-for-cable vampire film Slayer. The following year, Carter returned to the DC Comics' television world in the Smallville episode Progeny (2007) playing Chloe Sullivan's Kryptonite-empowered mother.
Carter expanded her voiceover work to include video games, performing voices for the nord and orsimer (orc) females in three computer games of The Elder Scrolls series, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These games were developed by Bethesda Softworks; her husband, businessman Robert A. Altman, is Chairman and CEO of Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media.
From September to November 2005, Carter played Mama Morton in the West End London production of Chicago. In 2006, her rendition of When You're Good to Mama was officially released on the Chicago: 10th Anniversary Edition CD box set. In May 2007, Carter began touring the U.S. with her one-woman musical cabaret show, An Evening with Lynda Carter. She has played engagements at such venues as Feinstein's At Loews Regency in New York, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Plush Room in San Francisco, and The Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles. In June 2009, her second album, At Last was released and reached #10 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart.
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In June 2011, Carter released her third album, ;Crazy Little Things, which she describes as a delightful mix of standards, country, and pop tunes.
Carter has been married twice. Her first marriage was to her former talent agent Ron Samuels from 1977 to 1982. In January 1984, Carter married Washington, D.C., attorney Robert A. Altman, law partner of Clark Clifford (and now CEO of ZeniMax Media). Carter and her husband have two children, James (born 1988) and Jessica (born 1990), and live in Potomac, Maryland.
In 1992, after a lengthy and highly publicized jury trial stemming from his involvement with the BCCI, Carter's husband was acquitted. Carter was seen on the TV news with her arm around him, shouting, Not guilty! Not guilty! to the gathered reporters.
In 2003, Carter revealed that her mother had suffered from IBS for over 30 years, resulting in Carter touring the country as an advocate and spokesperson.[20] Lynda is also a staunch advocate and supporter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Pro-Choice rights for women, and legal equality for LGBT people. She was the Grand Marshal for both the 2011 Phoenix Pride 2011 New York Pride Parades.
In early June 2008, while rowing out of the Potomac Boat Club, Carter spotted a body floating in the Potomac River. She called out to some fishermen and waited for the police to arrive. Carter stated that she did what anyone would have done.
Later in June 2008, Carter admitted in an interview to People magazine that she had entered a rehabilitation clinic for treatment of alcoholism and had been sober for 10 years. In a statement when asked what the recovery process had taught her, Carter explained that the best measure of a human being is how we treat the people who love us, and the people that we love.
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The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Lynda Jean Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA 1972 and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman (1975–77) and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977–79).
Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Colby Carter, is an art dealer of Irish English descent and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican descent. Ms. Carter has stated that her mother has her Mexican roots in Chihuahua, Mexico and previously worked in the telephone industry. Lynda speaks fluent Spanish. Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Arcadia High School in Phoenix and Kachina Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
During high school, Carter performed in a band called Just Us, consisting of a marimba, a conga drum, an acoustic guitar, and a stand-up bass played by another girl. When she was 17 in 1968, Lynda joined two of her cousins in another band called The Relatives. Actor Gary Burghoff was the drummer. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada, for three months; and, because Lynda was under 21, she had to enter through the kitchen. She attended Arizona State University. After being voted Most Talented, she dropped out to pursue a career in music. In 1970, Carter sang with The Garfin Gathering with Lynda Carter. Their first performance was in a San Francisco hotel so new that it had no sidewalk entrance. Consequently, they played mostly to the janitors and hotel guests who parked their cars in the underground garage. She returned to Arizona in 1972.
[edit] Career
In 1972, Carter entered a local Arizona beauty contest and gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA, representing Arizona; in the international 1972 Miss World pageant, representing the U.S., she reached the semi-finals. After taking acting classes at several New York acting schools, she began making appearances on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Cos, and Nakia and in B-movies, her only nude appearance to make it to film was in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976).
Carter's acting career took off when she landed the starring role in The New Adventures of Wonder Woman as Wonder Woman and her alter ego Diana Prince. The savings her parents had set aside for her to pursue acting in Los Angeles were almost depleted, and Carter was close to returning to Arizona when her manager informed her that she had won the part. Her earnest performance endeared her to fans and critics, and the series lasted three seasons. As she is the physical embodiment of the character so much so that thirty years after first taking on the role, Carter continues to be closely identified with Wonder Woman.
As the program was winding down, Carter told US magazine:
I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.
She was referring to the feedback she had received for her posters.
Carter was also upset with some of the marketing of her image. Warner Bros. worked out a deal with the toy company Mego to create a Wonder Woman doll while the series was still on the air. In 1987, on The Late Show with Joan Rivers, Carter commented:
I think that you're probably familiar with a problem in Hollywood, and that is that they market you, and they use you. They did a mask of my face and put it on the doll, and they put my name on for the first run of it. And then they took my name off and said they didn't have to pay me anymore. So it's the kind of thing that you can be used so much in this industry. I make nothing. I don't even make anything from the reruns. Don't ever settle for net profits. It's called creative accounting.
In 1985, DC Comics named Carter as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great for her work on the Wonder Woman series. In 2007, toy company DC Direct released a 13" full-figure statue of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, limited to 5,000 pieces; it was re-released in 2010.[8] Also in 2010, DC Direct began selling a 5½-inch bust of Carter's rendition of Wonder Woman to celebrate the DC Comics' 75th anniversary.
At age 5, Lynda made her public television debut on the Lew King’s Talent Show.
During the late 1970s, Carter recorded an album, Portrait. Carter is credited as a co-writer on several songs, and she made numerous guest appearances on variety television programs at the time in a musical capacity. She also sang two of her songs in the 1979 Wonder Woman episode, Amazon Hot Wax
In 1977, Carter released a promotional poster through Pro Arts Inc. at the suggestion of her then-husband and manager, Ron Samuels. The poster was very successful despite Carter's dissatisfaction with it. In 1981, during an interview on the NBC television special Women Who Rate a 10, she said:
It's uncomfortable because I just simply took a photograph. That's all my participation was in my poster that sold over a million copies was that I took a photograph that I thought was a dumb photograph. My husband said, 'Oh, try this thing tied up here, it'll look beautiful'. And the photographer said 'the back-lighting is really terrific'. So dealing with someone having that picture up in their... bedroom or their... living room or whatever I think would be hard for anyone to deal with.
In 1978, Ms.Lynda Jean Carter was voted The Most Beautiful Woman in the World by The International Academy of Beauty and The British Press Organization.
In 1979's Apocalypse Now Lynda Carter was originally cast in the role of Playboy Playmate Bunny but the filming of her scenes was interrupted by the famous storm that wrecked the theatre set, prompting nearly two month's delay for rebuilding. By the time Coppola was ready to shoot again, Carter's contractual obligations to Wonder Woman forced her back to the states, and her scenes were re-shot with Colleen Camp. The only evidence remaining of Carter's involvement are the Playboy Centerfold that were specially shot by the magazine as movie props. At one point in the Redux version of Apocalypse Now, a glimpse of Carter's pinup is visible, as the only nude work ascribed to the actress outside of Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw.
In the early 1980s, Carter performed on the Las Vegas Strip and in Atlantic City, highlighting her musical talent.
Carter's other credits include the title role in a biopic of actress Rita Hayworth, titled Rita Hayworth, Love Goddess (1983) and a variety of her own TV specials: Lynda Carter's Special (1980), Encore! (1980), Celebration (1981), Street Life (1982), and Body And Soul (1984). She starred in a few short-lived TV series, including Partners in Crime (1984) with Loni Anderson and Hawkeye (1994–95) with Lee Horsley. During this time, she also became a celebrity promotional model for Maybelline cosmetics commercials.
Carter performing in Mohegan Sun Casino, Connecticut, on Dec. 10, 2011
Throughout the 1990s, Carter appeared in a string of tv movies that resulted in a resurgence in television appearances. Also, because of the re-syndication of Wonder Woman on such cable networks as FX and SyFy, Carter even participated in two scheduled on-line chat sessions with fans. It was around this time that Carter created her own production company, Potomac Productions. Throughout the 1990s, she has also appeared in commercials for Lens Express (now 1-800 Contacts). In 1993 Lynda expanded her performance resume to include voiceover work as the narrator for the Sandra Brown book Where There's Smoke.
In 2001, Carter was cast in the independent comedy feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor Jessman. The writers and stars of the film, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, with Jay Chandrasekhar directing, had specifically sought Carter for the role. Inspired by the character detour from her usual roles, she agreed to play a washed-up former beauty queen in The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004), directed by Christopher Coppola. Carter made her first appearance in a major feature film in a number of years in the big-screen remake of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), also directed by Chandrasekhar. She also appeared in the comedy Sky High (2005) as Principal Powers, the head of a school for superheroes. The script allowed Carter to poke fun at her most famous character when she states: I can't do anything more to help you. I'm not Wonder Woman, y'know. In 2006, she guest-starred in the made-for-cable vampire film Slayer. The following year, Carter returned to the DC Comics' television world in the Smallville episode Progeny (2007) playing Chloe Sullivan's Kryptonite-empowered mother.
Carter expanded her voiceover work to include video games, performing voices for the nord and orsimer (orc) females in three computer games of The Elder Scrolls series, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These games were developed by Bethesda Softworks; her husband, businessman Robert A. Altman, is Chairman and CEO of Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media.
From September to November 2005, Carter played Mama Morton in the West End London production of Chicago. In 2006, her rendition of When You're Good to Mama was officially released on the Chicago: 10th Anniversary Edition CD box set. In May 2007, Carter began touring the U.S. with her one-woman musical cabaret show, An Evening with Lynda Carter. She has played engagements at such venues as Feinstein's At Loews Regency in New York, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Plush Room in San Francisco, and The Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles. In June 2009, her second album, At Last was released and reached #10 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart.
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In June 2011, Carter released her third album, ;Crazy Little Things, which she describes as a delightful mix of standards, country, and pop tunes.
Carter has been married twice. Her first marriage was to her former talent agent Ron Samuels from 1977 to 1982. In January 1984, Carter married Washington, D.C., attorney Robert A. Altman, law partner of Clark Clifford (and now CEO of ZeniMax Media). Carter and her husband have two children, James (born 1988) and Jessica (born 1990), and live in Potomac, Maryland.
In 1992, after a lengthy and highly publicized jury trial stemming from his involvement with the BCCI, Carter's husband was acquitted. Carter was seen on the TV news with her arm around him, shouting, Not guilty! Not guilty! to the gathered reporters.
In 2003, Carter revealed that her mother had suffered from IBS for over 30 years, resulting in Carter touring the country as an advocate and spokesperson.[20] Lynda is also a staunch advocate and supporter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Pro-Choice rights for women, and legal equality for LGBT people. She was the Grand Marshal for both the 2011 Phoenix Pride 2011 New York Pride Parades.
In early June 2008, while rowing out of the Potomac Boat Club, Carter spotted a body floating in the Potomac River. She called out to some fishermen and waited for the police to arrive. Carter stated that she did what anyone would have done.
Later in June 2008, Carter admitted in an interview to People magazine that she had entered a rehabilitation clinic for treatment of alcoholism and had been sober for 10 years. In a statement when asked what the recovery process had taught her, Carter explained that the best measure of a human being is how we treat the people who love us, and the people that we love.
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Lynda Jean Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA 1972 and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman (1975–77) and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977–79).
Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Colby Carter, is an art dealer of Irish English descent and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican descent. Ms. Carter has stated that her mother has her Mexican roots in Chihuahua, Mexico and previously worked in the telephone industry. Lynda speaks fluent Spanish. Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Arcadia High School in Phoenix and Kachina Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
During high school, Carter performed in a band called Just Us, consisting of a marimba, a conga drum, an acoustic guitar, and a stand-up bass played by another girl. When she was 17 in 1968, Lynda joined two of her cousins in another band called The Relatives. Actor Gary Burghoff was the drummer. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada, for three months; and, because Lynda was under 21, she had to enter through the kitchen. She attended Arizona State University. After being voted Most Talented, she dropped out to pursue a career in music. In 1970, Carter sang with The Garfin Gathering with Lynda Carter. Their first performance was in a San Francisco hotel so new that it had no sidewalk entrance. Consequently, they played mostly to the janitors and hotel guests who parked their cars in the underground garage. She returned to Arizona in 1972.
[edit] Career
In 1972, Carter entered a local Arizona beauty contest and gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA, representing Arizona; in the international 1972 Miss World pageant, representing the U.S., she reached the semi-finals. After taking acting classes at several New York acting schools, she began making appearances on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Cos, and Nakia and in B-movies, her only nude appearance to make it to film was in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976).
Carter's acting career took off when she landed the starring role in The New Adventures of Wonder Woman as Wonder Woman and her alter ego Diana Prince. The savings her parents had set aside for her to pursue acting in Los Angeles were almost depleted, and Carter was close to returning to Arizona when her manager informed her that she had won the part. Her earnest performance endeared her to fans and critics, and the series lasted three seasons. As she is the physical embodiment of the character so much so that thirty years after first taking on the role, Carter continues to be closely identified with Wonder Woman.
As the program was winding down, Carter told US magazine:
I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.
She was referring to the feedback she had received for her posters.
Carter was also upset with some of the marketing of her image. Warner Bros. worked out a deal with the toy company Mego to create a Wonder Woman doll while the series was still on the air. In 1987, on The Late Show with Joan Rivers, Carter commented:
I think that you're probably familiar with a problem in Hollywood, and that is that they market you, and they use you. They did a mask of my face and put it on the doll, and they put my name on for the first run of it. And then they took my name off and said they didn't have to pay me anymore. So it's the kind of thing that you can be used so much in this industry. I make nothing. I don't even make anything from the reruns. Don't ever settle for net profits. It's called creative accounting.
In 1985, DC Comics named Carter as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great for her work on the Wonder Woman series. In 2007, toy company DC Direct released a 13" full-figure statue of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, limited to 5,000 pieces; it was re-released in 2010.[8] Also in 2010, DC Direct began selling a 5½-inch bust of Carter's rendition of Wonder Woman to celebrate the DC Comics' 75th anniversary.
At age 5, Lynda made her public television debut on the Lew King’s Talent Show.
During the late 1970s, Carter recorded an album, Portrait. Carter is credited as a co-writer on several songs, and she made numerous guest appearances on variety television programs at the time in a musical capacity. She also sang two of her songs in the 1979 Wonder Woman episode, Amazon Hot Wax
In 1977, Carter released a promotional poster through Pro Arts Inc. at the suggestion of her then-husband and manager, Ron Samuels. The poster was very successful despite Carter's dissatisfaction with it. In 1981, during an interview on the NBC television special Women Who Rate a 10, she said:
It's uncomfortable because I just simply took a photograph. That's all my participation was in my poster that sold over a million copies was that I took a photograph that I thought was a dumb photograph. My husband said, 'Oh, try this thing tied up here, it'll look beautiful'. And the photographer said 'the back-lighting is really terrific'. So dealing with someone having that picture up in their... bedroom or their... living room or whatever I think would be hard for anyone to deal with.
In 1978, Ms.Lynda Jean Carter was voted The Most Beautiful Woman in the World by The International Academy of Beauty and The British Press Organization.
In 1979's Apocalypse Now Lynda Carter was originally cast in the role of Playboy Playmate Bunny but the filming of her scenes was interrupted by the famous storm that wrecked the theatre set, prompting nearly two month's delay for rebuilding. By the time Coppola was ready to shoot again, Carter's contractual obligations to Wonder Woman forced her back to the states, and her scenes were re-shot with Colleen Camp. The only evidence remaining of Carter's involvement are the Playboy Centerfold that were specially shot by the magazine as movie props. At one point in the Redux version of Apocalypse Now, a glimpse of Carter's pinup is visible, as the only nude work ascribed to the actress outside of Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw.
In the early 1980s, Carter performed on the Las Vegas Strip and in Atlantic City, highlighting her musical talent.
Carter's other credits include the title role in a biopic of actress Rita Hayworth, titled Rita Hayworth, Love Goddess (1983) and a variety of her own TV specials: Lynda Carter's Special (1980), Encore! (1980), Celebration (1981), Street Life (1982), and Body And Soul (1984). She starred in a few short-lived TV series, including Partners in Crime (1984) with Loni Anderson and Hawkeye (1994–95) with Lee Horsley. During this time, she also became a celebrity promotional model for Maybelline cosmetics commercials.
Carter performing in Mohegan Sun Casino, Connecticut, on Dec. 10, 2011
Throughout the 1990s, Carter appeared in a string of tv movies that resulted in a resurgence in television appearances. Also, because of the re-syndication of Wonder Woman on such cable networks as FX and SyFy, Carter even participated in two scheduled on-line chat sessions with fans. It was around this time that Carter created her own production company, Potomac Productions. Throughout the 1990s, she has also appeared in commercials for Lens Express (now 1-800 Contacts). In 1993 Lynda expanded her performance resume to include voiceover work as the narrator for the Sandra Brown book Where There's Smoke.
In 2001, Carter was cast in the independent comedy feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor Jessman. The writers and stars of the film, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, with Jay Chandrasekhar directing, had specifically sought Carter for the role. Inspired by the character detour from her usual roles, she agreed to play a washed-up former beauty queen in The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004), directed by Christopher Coppola. Carter made her first appearance in a major feature film in a number of years in the big-screen remake of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), also directed by Chandrasekhar. She also appeared in the comedy Sky High (2005) as Principal Powers, the head of a school for superheroes. The script allowed Carter to poke fun at her most famous character when she states: I can't do anything more to help you. I'm not Wonder Woman, y'know. In 2006, she guest-starred in the made-for-cable vampire film Slayer. The following year, Carter returned to the DC Comics' television world in the Smallville episode Progeny (2007) playing Chloe Sullivan's Kryptonite-empowered mother.
Carter expanded her voiceover work to include video games, performing voices for the nord and orsimer (orc) females in three computer games of The Elder Scrolls series, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These games were developed by Bethesda Softworks; her husband, businessman Robert A. Altman, is Chairman and CEO of Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media.
From September to November 2005, Carter played Mama Morton in the West End London production of Chicago. In 2006, her rendition of When You're Good to Mama was officially released on the Chicago: 10th Anniversary Edition CD box set. In May 2007, Carter began touring the U.S. with her one-woman musical cabaret show, An Evening with Lynda Carter. She has played engagements at such venues as Feinstein's At Loews Regency in New York, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Plush Room in San Francisco, and The Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles. In June 2009, her second album, At Last was released and reached #10 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart.
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In June 2011, Carter released her third album, ;Crazy Little Things, which she describes as a delightful mix of standards, country, and pop tunes.
Carter has been married twice. Her first marriage was to her former talent agent Ron Samuels from 1977 to 1982. In January 1984, Carter married Washington, D.C., attorney Robert A. Altman, law partner of Clark Clifford (and now CEO of ZeniMax Media). Carter and her husband have two children, James (born 1988) and Jessica (born 1990), and live in Potomac, Maryland.
In 1992, after a lengthy and highly publicized jury trial stemming from his involvement with the BCCI, Carter's husband was acquitted. Carter was seen on the TV news with her arm around him, shouting, Not guilty! Not guilty! to the gathered reporters.
In 2003, Carter revealed that her mother had suffered from IBS for over 30 years, resulting in Carter touring the country as an advocate and spokesperson.[20] Lynda is also a staunch advocate and supporter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Pro-Choice rights for women, and legal equality for LGBT people. She was the Grand Marshal for both the 2011 Phoenix Pride 2011 New York Pride Parades.
In early June 2008, while rowing out of the Potomac Boat Club, Carter spotted a body floating in the Potomac River. She called out to some fishermen and waited for the police to arrive. Carter stated that she did what anyone would have done.
Later in June 2008, Carter admitted in an interview to People magazine that she had entered a rehabilitation clinic for treatment of alcoholism and had been sober for 10 years. In a statement when asked what the recovery process had taught her, Carter explained that the best measure of a human being is how we treat the people who love us, and the people that we love.
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The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Lynda Jean Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA 1972 and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman (1975–77) and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977–79).
Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Colby Carter, is an art dealer of Irish English descent and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican descent. Ms. Carter has stated that her mother has her Mexican roots in Chihuahua, Mexico and previously worked in the telephone industry. Lynda speaks fluent Spanish. Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Arcadia High School in Phoenix and Kachina Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
During high school, Carter performed in a band called Just Us, consisting of a marimba, a conga drum, an acoustic guitar, and a stand-up bass played by another girl. When she was 17 in 1968, Lynda joined two of her cousins in another band called The Relatives. Actor Gary Burghoff was the drummer. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada, for three months; and, because Lynda was under 21, she had to enter through the kitchen. She attended Arizona State University. After being voted Most Talented, she dropped out to pursue a career in music. In 1970, Carter sang with The Garfin Gathering with Lynda Carter. Their first performance was in a San Francisco hotel so new that it had no sidewalk entrance. Consequently, they played mostly to the janitors and hotel guests who parked their cars in the underground garage. She returned to Arizona in 1972.
[edit] Career
In 1972, Carter entered a local Arizona beauty contest and gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA, representing Arizona; in the international 1972 Miss World pageant, representing the U.S., she reached the semi-finals. After taking acting classes at several New York acting schools, she began making appearances on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Cos, and Nakia and in B-movies, her only nude appearance to make it to film was in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976).
Carter's acting career took off when she landed the starring role in The New Adventures of Wonder Woman as Wonder Woman and her alter ego Diana Prince. The savings her parents had set aside for her to pursue acting in Los Angeles were almost depleted, and Carter was close to returning to Arizona when her manager informed her that she had won the part. Her earnest performance endeared her to fans and critics, and the series lasted three seasons. As she is the physical embodiment of the character so much so that thirty years after first taking on the role, Carter continues to be closely identified with Wonder Woman.
As the program was winding down, Carter told US magazine:
I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.
She was referring to the feedback she had received for her posters.
Carter was also upset with some of the marketing of her image. Warner Bros. worked out a deal with the toy company Mego to create a Wonder Woman doll while the series was still on the air. In 1987, on The Late Show with Joan Rivers, Carter commented:
I think that you're probably familiar with a problem in Hollywood, and that is that they market you, and they use you. They did a mask of my face and put it on the doll, and they put my name on for the first run of it. And then they took my name off and said they didn't have to pay me anymore. So it's the kind of thing that you can be used so much in this industry. I make nothing. I don't even make anything from the reruns. Don't ever settle for net profits. It's called creative accounting.
In 1985, DC Comics named Carter as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great for her work on the Wonder Woman series. In 2007, toy company DC Direct released a 13" full-figure statue of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, limited to 5,000 pieces; it was re-released in 2010.[8] Also in 2010, DC Direct began selling a 5½-inch bust of Carter's rendition of Wonder Woman to celebrate the DC Comics' 75th anniversary.
At age 5, Lynda made her public television debut on the Lew King’s Talent Show.
During the late 1970s, Carter recorded an album, Portrait. Carter is credited as a co-writer on several songs, and she made numerous guest appearances on variety television programs at the time in a musical capacity. She also sang two of her songs in the 1979 Wonder Woman episode, Amazon Hot Wax
In 1977, Carter released a promotional poster through Pro Arts Inc. at the suggestion of her then-husband and manager, Ron Samuels. The poster was very successful despite Carter's dissatisfaction with it. In 1981, during an interview on the NBC television special Women Who Rate a 10, she said:
It's uncomfortable because I just simply took a photograph. That's all my participation was in my poster that sold over a million copies was that I took a photograph that I thought was a dumb photograph. My husband said, 'Oh, try this thing tied up here, it'll look beautiful'. And the photographer said 'the back-lighting is really terrific'. So dealing with someone having that picture up in their... bedroom or their... living room or whatever I think would be hard for anyone to deal with.
In 1978, Ms.Lynda Jean Carter was voted The Most Beautiful Woman in the World by The International Academy of Beauty and The British Press Organization.
In 1979's Apocalypse Now Lynda Carter was originally cast in the role of Playboy Playmate Bunny but the filming of her scenes was interrupted by the famous storm that wrecked the theatre set, prompting nearly two month's delay for rebuilding. By the time Coppola was ready to shoot again, Carter's contractual obligations to Wonder Woman forced her back to the states, and her scenes were re-shot with Colleen Camp. The only evidence remaining of Carter's involvement are the Playboy Centerfold that were specially shot by the magazine as movie props. At one point in the Redux version of Apocalypse Now, a glimpse of Carter's pinup is visible, as the only nude work ascribed to the actress outside of Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw.
In the early 1980s, Carter performed on the Las Vegas Strip and in Atlantic City, highlighting her musical talent.
Carter's other credits include the title role in a biopic of actress Rita Hayworth, titled Rita Hayworth, Love Goddess (1983) and a variety of her own TV specials: Lynda Carter's Special (1980), Encore! (1980), Celebration (1981), Street Life (1982), and Body And Soul (1984). She starred in a few short-lived TV series, including Partners in Crime (1984) with Loni Anderson and Hawkeye (1994–95) with Lee Horsley. During this time, she also became a celebrity promotional model for Maybelline cosmetics commercials.
Carter performing in Mohegan Sun Casino, Connecticut, on Dec. 10, 2011
Throughout the 1990s, Carter appeared in a string of tv movies that resulted in a resurgence in television appearances. Also, because of the re-syndication of Wonder Woman on such cable networks as FX and SyFy, Carter even participated in two scheduled on-line chat sessions with fans. It was around this time that Carter created her own production company, Potomac Productions. Throughout the 1990s, she has also appeared in commercials for Lens Express (now 1-800 Contacts). In 1993 Lynda expanded her performance resume to include voiceover work as the narrator for the Sandra Brown book Where There's Smoke.
In 2001, Carter was cast in the independent comedy feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor Jessman. The writers and stars of the film, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, with Jay Chandrasekhar directing, had specifically sought Carter for the role. Inspired by the character detour from her usual roles, she agreed to play a washed-up former beauty queen in The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004), directed by Christopher Coppola. Carter made her first appearance in a major feature film in a number of years in the big-screen remake of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), also directed by Chandrasekhar. She also appeared in the comedy Sky High (2005) as Principal Powers, the head of a school for superheroes. The script allowed Carter to poke fun at her most famous character when she states: I can't do anything more to help you. I'm not Wonder Woman, y'know. In 2006, she guest-starred in the made-for-cable vampire film Slayer. The following year, Carter returned to the DC Comics' television world in the Smallville episode Progeny (2007) playing Chloe Sullivan's Kryptonite-empowered mother.
Carter expanded her voiceover work to include video games, performing voices for the nord and orsimer (orc) females in three computer games of The Elder Scrolls series, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These games were developed by Bethesda Softworks; her husband, businessman Robert A. Altman, is Chairman and CEO of Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media.
From September to November 2005, Carter played Mama Morton in the West End London production of Chicago. In 2006, her rendition of When You're Good to Mama was officially released on the Chicago: 10th Anniversary Edition CD box set. In May 2007, Carter began touring the U.S. with her one-woman musical cabaret show, An Evening with Lynda Carter. She has played engagements at such venues as Feinstein's At Loews Regency in New York, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Plush Room in San Francisco, and The Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles. In June 2009, her second album, At Last was released and reached #10 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart.
.
In June 2011, Carter released her third album, ;Crazy Little Things, which she describes as a delightful mix of standards, country, and pop tunes.
Carter has been married twice. Her first marriage was to her former talent agent Ron Samuels from 1977 to 1982. In January 1984, Carter married Washington, D.C., attorney Robert A. Altman, law partner of Clark Clifford (and now CEO of ZeniMax Media). Carter and her husband have two children, James (born 1988) and Jessica (born 1990), and live in Potomac, Maryland.
In 1992, after a lengthy and highly publicized jury trial stemming from his involvement with the BCCI, Carter's husband was acquitted. Carter was seen on the TV news with her arm around him, shouting, Not guilty! Not guilty! to the gathered reporters.
In 2003, Carter revealed that her mother had suffered from IBS for over 30 years, resulting in Carter touring the country as an advocate and spokesperson.[20] Lynda is also a staunch advocate and supporter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Pro-Choice rights for women, and legal equality for LGBT people. She was the Grand Marshal for both the 2011 Phoenix Pride 2011 New York Pride Parades.
In early June 2008, while rowing out of the Potomac Boat Club, Carter spotted a body floating in the Potomac River. She called out to some fishermen and waited for the police to arrive. Carter stated that she did what anyone would have done.
Later in June 2008, Carter admitted in an interview to People magazine that she had entered a rehabilitation clinic for treatment of alcoholism and had been sober for 10 years. In a statement when asked what the recovery process had taught her, Carter explained that the best measure of a human being is how we treat the people who love us, and the people that we love.
The Shot
TAMASHA was organized for the first time at FAST - NU, Islamabad campus. After a lot of delays, it was finally conducted in the second week of february 2010. Universities from (literally) all over Pakistan came and participated in various events that were a part of the 3-day mega event.
Being lazy to cover any such events, I was still able to get hold of the theatre a bit -
This is a SOOC - only cropped from the left and the border added. Nothing else done - including noise reduction!
EXIF
Exposure: 1/60
Aperture: F4.4
Focal Length: 58mm
ISO Speed: 800 ISO
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Zuiko Digital 40-150mm f/4.0-5.6
Explored No. 349 on 29th April 2010
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Lynda Jean Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA 1972 and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman (1975–77) and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977–79).
Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Colby Carter, is an art dealer of Irish English descent and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican descent. Ms. Carter has stated that her mother has her Mexican roots in Chihuahua, Mexico and previously worked in the telephone industry. Lynda speaks fluent Spanish. Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Arcadia High School in Phoenix and Kachina Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
During high school, Carter performed in a band called Just Us, consisting of a marimba, a conga drum, an acoustic guitar, and a stand-up bass played by another girl. When she was 17 in 1968, Lynda joined two of her cousins in another band called The Relatives. Actor Gary Burghoff was the drummer. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada, for three months; and, because Lynda was under 21, she had to enter through the kitchen. She attended Arizona State University. After being voted Most Talented, she dropped out to pursue a career in music. In 1970, Carter sang with The Garfin Gathering with Lynda Carter. Their first performance was in a San Francisco hotel so new that it had no sidewalk entrance. Consequently, they played mostly to the janitors and hotel guests who parked their cars in the underground garage. She returned to Arizona in 1972.
[edit] Career
In 1972, Carter entered a local Arizona beauty contest and gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA, representing Arizona; in the international 1972 Miss World pageant, representing the U.S., she reached the semi-finals. After taking acting classes at several New York acting schools, she began making appearances on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Cos, and Nakia and in B-movies, her only nude appearance to make it to film was in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976).
Carter's acting career took off when she landed the starring role in The New Adventures of Wonder Woman as Wonder Woman and her alter ego Diana Prince. The savings her parents had set aside for her to pursue acting in Los Angeles were almost depleted, and Carter was close to returning to Arizona when her manager informed her that she had won the part. Her earnest performance endeared her to fans and critics, and the series lasted three seasons. As she is the physical embodiment of the character so much so that thirty years after first taking on the role, Carter continues to be closely identified with Wonder Woman.
As the program was winding down, Carter told US magazine:
I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.
She was referring to the feedback she had received for her posters.
Carter was also upset with some of the marketing of her image. Warner Bros. worked out a deal with the toy company Mego to create a Wonder Woman doll while the series was still on the air. In 1987, on The Late Show with Joan Rivers, Carter commented:
I think that you're probably familiar with a problem in Hollywood, and that is that they market you, and they use you. They did a mask of my face and put it on the doll, and they put my name on for the first run of it. And then they took my name off and said they didn't have to pay me anymore. So it's the kind of thing that you can be used so much in this industry. I make nothing. I don't even make anything from the reruns. Don't ever settle for net profits. It's called creative accounting.
In 1985, DC Comics named Carter as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great for her work on the Wonder Woman series. In 2007, toy company DC Direct released a 13" full-figure statue of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, limited to 5,000 pieces; it was re-released in 2010.[8] Also in 2010, DC Direct began selling a 5½-inch bust of Carter's rendition of Wonder Woman to celebrate the DC Comics' 75th anniversary.
At age 5, Lynda made her public television debut on the Lew King’s Talent Show.
During the late 1970s, Carter recorded an album, Portrait. Carter is credited as a co-writer on several songs, and she made numerous guest appearances on variety television programs at the time in a musical capacity. She also sang two of her songs in the 1979 Wonder Woman episode, Amazon Hot Wax
In 1977, Carter released a promotional poster through Pro Arts Inc. at the suggestion of her then-husband and manager, Ron Samuels. The poster was very successful despite Carter's dissatisfaction with it. In 1981, during an interview on the NBC television special Women Who Rate a 10, she said:
It's uncomfortable because I just simply took a photograph. That's all my participation was in my poster that sold over a million copies was that I took a photograph that I thought was a dumb photograph. My husband said, 'Oh, try this thing tied up here, it'll look beautiful'. And the photographer said 'the back-lighting is really terrific'. So dealing with someone having that picture up in their... bedroom or their... living room or whatever I think would be hard for anyone to deal with.
In 1978, Ms.Lynda Jean Carter was voted The Most Beautiful Woman in the World by The International Academy of Beauty and The British Press Organization.
In 1979's Apocalypse Now Lynda Carter was originally cast in the role of Playboy Playmate Bunny but the filming of her scenes was interrupted by the famous storm that wrecked the theatre set, prompting nearly two month's delay for rebuilding. By the time Coppola was ready to shoot again, Carter's contractual obligations to Wonder Woman forced her back to the states, and her scenes were re-shot with Colleen Camp. The only evidence remaining of Carter's involvement are the Playboy Centerfold that were specially shot by the magazine as movie props. At one point in the Redux version of Apocalypse Now, a glimpse of Carter's pinup is visible, as the only nude work ascribed to the actress outside of Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw.
In the early 1980s, Carter performed on the Las Vegas Strip and in Atlantic City, highlighting her musical talent.
Carter's other credits include the title role in a biopic of actress Rita Hayworth, titled Rita Hayworth, Love Goddess (1983) and a variety of her own TV specials: Lynda Carter's Special (1980), Encore! (1980), Celebration (1981), Street Life (1982), and Body And Soul (1984). She starred in a few short-lived TV series, including Partners in Crime (1984) with Loni Anderson and Hawkeye (1994–95) with Lee Horsley. During this time, she also became a celebrity promotional model for Maybelline cosmetics commercials.
Carter performing in Mohegan Sun Casino, Connecticut, on Dec. 10, 2011
Throughout the 1990s, Carter appeared in a string of tv movies that resulted in a resurgence in television appearances. Also, because of the re-syndication of Wonder Woman on such cable networks as FX and SyFy, Carter even participated in two scheduled on-line chat sessions with fans. It was around this time that Carter created her own production company, Potomac Productions. Throughout the 1990s, she has also appeared in commercials for Lens Express (now 1-800 Contacts). In 1993 Lynda expanded her performance resume to include voiceover work as the narrator for the Sandra Brown book Where There's Smoke.
In 2001, Carter was cast in the independent comedy feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor Jessman. The writers and stars of the film, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, with Jay Chandrasekhar directing, had specifically sought Carter for the role. Inspired by the character detour from her usual roles, she agreed to play a washed-up former beauty queen in The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004), directed by Christopher Coppola. Carter made her first appearance in a major feature film in a number of years in the big-screen remake of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), also directed by Chandrasekhar. She also appeared in the comedy Sky High (2005) as Principal Powers, the head of a school for superheroes. The script allowed Carter to poke fun at her most famous character when she states: I can't do anything more to help you. I'm not Wonder Woman, y'know. In 2006, she guest-starred in the made-for-cable vampire film Slayer. The following year, Carter returned to the DC Comics' television world in the Smallville episode Progeny (2007) playing Chloe Sullivan's Kryptonite-empowered mother.
Carter expanded her voiceover work to include video games, performing voices for the nord and orsimer (orc) females in three computer games of The Elder Scrolls series, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These games were developed by Bethesda Softworks; her husband, businessman Robert A. Altman, is Chairman and CEO of Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media.
From September to November 2005, Carter played Mama Morton in the West End London production of Chicago. In 2006, her rendition of When You're Good to Mama was officially released on the Chicago: 10th Anniversary Edition CD box set. In May 2007, Carter began touring the U.S. with her one-woman musical cabaret show, An Evening with Lynda Carter. She has played engagements at such venues as Feinstein's At Loews Regency in New York, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Plush Room in San Francisco, and The Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles. In June 2009, her second album, At Last was released and reached #10 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart.
.
In June 2011, Carter released her third album, ;Crazy Little Things, which she describes as a delightful mix of standards, country, and pop tunes.
Carter has been married twice. Her first marriage was to her former talent agent Ron Samuels from 1977 to 1982. In January 1984, Carter married Washington, D.C., attorney Robert A. Altman, law partner of Clark Clifford (and now CEO of ZeniMax Media). Carter and her husband have two children, James (born 1988) and Jessica (born 1990), and live in Potomac, Maryland.
In 1992, after a lengthy and highly publicized jury trial stemming from his involvement with the BCCI, Carter's husband was acquitted. Carter was seen on the TV news with her arm around him, shouting, Not guilty! Not guilty! to the gathered reporters.
In 2003, Carter revealed that her mother had suffered from IBS for over 30 years, resulting in Carter touring the country as an advocate and spokesperson.[20] Lynda is also a staunch advocate and supporter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Pro-Choice rights for women, and legal equality for LGBT people. She was the Grand Marshal for both the 2011 Phoenix Pride 2011 New York Pride Parades.
In early June 2008, while rowing out of the Potomac Boat Club, Carter spotted a body floating in the Potomac River. She called out to some fishermen and waited for the police to arrive. Carter stated that she did what anyone would have done.
Later in June 2008, Carter admitted in an interview to People magazine that she had entered a rehabilitation clinic for treatment of alcoholism and had been sober for 10 years. In a statement when asked what the recovery process had taught her, Carter explained that the best measure of a human being is how we treat the people who love us, and the people that we love.
Former home of:
John Foster Dulles (Secretary of State under Eisenhower)
Bert Lance (Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Carter)
Harold Ickes (White House Deputy Chief of Staff under Clinton)
3107 Dumbarton Ave. NW
---Republican John Foster Dulles travelled so much by plane that people said he took to the air to avoid being a sitting duck for Congressional Democrats
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John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 – May 24, 1959) was an American statesman who served as Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954.
Born in Washington D.C., he was the son of a Presbyterian minister and attended public schools in Watertown, NY. After attending Princeton University and The George Washington University he joined the New York City law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he specialized in international law. He tried to join the United States Army during World War I but was rejected because of poor eyesight. Instead, Dulles got an Army commission as captain in the War Industries Board.
Both his grandfather John W. Foster and his uncle Robert Lansing served as Secretary of State. He was also the older brother of Allen Welsh Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence under Eisenhower. His son Avery Robert Dulles converted to Catholicism and became the first American priest to be directly appointed to Cardinal, although his advanced age prohibited him from voting in the College of Cardinals in 2005 following the death of Pope John Paul II.
Political career
In 1918 Woodrow Wilson appointed Dulles as legal counsel to the United States delegation to the Versailles Peace Conference where he served under his uncle, Robert Lansing, then Secretary of State. Dulles made an early impression as a junior diplomat by clearly and forcefully arguing against imposing crushing reparations on Germany. Afterwards he served as a member of the War Reparations Committee at the request of President Wilson. Dulles, a deeply religious man, attended numerous international conferences of churchmen during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1924, he was the defense counsel in the church trial of Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, who had been charged with heresy by opponents in the denomination, a case settled when Fosdick, a liberal Baptist, resigned his pulpit in the Presbyterian Church, which he had never joined. Dulles also became a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell. In the 1930's, according to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book "Overthrow", Dulles was an active supporter and collaborator with the Nazis.
Dulles was a close associate of Thomas E. Dewey who became the presidential candidate of the United States Republican Party in the U.S. presidential election, 1944. During the election Dulles served as Dewey's foreign policy adviser.
In 1945 Dulles participated in the San Francisco Conference and worked as adviser to Arthur H. Vandenberg and helped draft the preamble to the United Nations Charter. He subsequently attended the United Nations General Assembly as a United States delegate in 1946, 1947 and 1950. Dulles was appointed to the United States Senate as a Republican from New York on July 7, 1949, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Democrat Robert F. Wagner. Dulles served from July 7, 1949, to November 8, 1949, when a successor, Herbert Lehman, was elected, having beaten Dulles in a special election to fill the senate vacancy.
In 1950, Dulles published War or Peace, a critical analysis of the American policy of containment, which at the time was favored by many of the foreign policy elites in Washington. Dulles criticized the foreign policy of Harry S. Truman. He argued that containment should be replaced by a policy of "liberation". However, he still carried out Truman's policy in neutralizing the Taiwan Strait during the Korean War in the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951. When Dwight Eisenhower became President in January, 1953, he appointed Dulles as his Secretary of State.
Secretary of State
Dulles with president Eisenhower in 1956As Secretary of State Dulles spent considerable time building up NATO as part of his strategy of controlling Soviet expansion by threatening massive retaliation in event of a war. In 1950 he helped instigate the ANZUS Treaty for mutual protection with Australia and New Zealand. One of his first major policy shifts towards a more aggressive posture against communism, Dulles directed the CIA in March of 1953 to draft plans to overthrow the Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran [1]. This led directly to the Coup d'état via Operation Ajax which installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as the Shah of Iran.
Dulles was also the architect of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) that was created in 1954. The treaty, signed by representatives of the United States, Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines and Thailand, provided for collective action against aggression.
Dulles was one of the pioneers of Mutually Assured Destruction and brinkmanship. In an article written for Life Magazine Dulles defined his policy of brinkmanship: "The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art." His critics blamed him for damaging relations with Communist states and contributing to the Cold War.
Dulles upset the leaders of several non-aligned countries when on June 9, 1955, he argued in one speech that "neutrality has increasingly become an obsolete and, except under very exceptional circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception."
Dulles provided some consternation and amusement to the British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand ambassadors by his repeated attempts to tell substantially different versions of events to them. Apparently unbeknownst to Dulles the men had all in attended Cambridge together and followed up meetings with Dulles by comparing notes and reporting the discrepancies to their home countries.
In 1956 Dulles strongly opposed the Anglo-French invasion of the Suez Canal, Egypt (October-November 1956). However, by 1958 he was an outspoken opponent of President Gamal Abdel Nasser and stopped him from receiving weapons from the United States. This policy seemingly backfired, enabling the Soviet Union to gain influence in the Middle East.
Dulles also served as the former Chairman and Co-founder of the Commission on a Just and Durable Peace of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America (succeeded by the National Council of Churches), Chairman of the Board for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a former Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, and a founding member of the Council of Foreign Relations.
Death and legacy
Suffering from cancer, Dulles was forced by his declining health to resign from office in April 1959. He died in Washington, D.C. on May 24, 1959, at the age of 71, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1959.
The Washington Dulles International Airport (located in Dulles, Virginia) and John Foster Dulles High School (Sugar Land, Texas) were both named in honor of Dulles.
Carol Burnett first rose to prominence in the 1950s singing a novelty song, "I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles"; more recently, Gil Scott Heron commented "John Foster Dulles ain't nothing but the name of an airport now" in the song "B-Movie".
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Thomas Bertram Lance, known as Bert Lance, (Born June 3, 1931 in Gainesville, Georgia) is an American politician and businessman.
Lance was a close adviser and friend to candidate for President Jimmy Carter, during Carter's successful 1976 campaign. After Carter's victory, Lance was named director of the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB). Within six months of Lance's assuming this position, questions were raised by the press and Congress about mismanagement and corruption when Lance was Chairman of the Board of Calhoun National Bank of Calhoun, Georgia. He became an embarrassment to Carter's administration, especially given the reputation that Carter had tried to build of uncorruptablity in the wake of the Watergate scandal of the Nixon administration earlier in the 1970s. Lance resigned as OMB director on September 21, 1977. In the very public trial that followed, Mr. Lance was subsequently acquitted of all charges.
In 1981, Lance returned to the Calhoun National Bank, again as Chairman. He left in 1986.
Press reports have suggested that Lance was involved in the BCCI scandal of the 1980s and early 1990s.
Popular references
Shortly after Lance's resignation as OMB Director, on the Saturday Night Live television show, John Belushi (playing Lance) and Dan Aykroyd (playing Jimmy Carter) performed an advertising parody. The skit was a commercial for the "National Express" credit card, a parody of then-current American Express commercials.
One famouse press article that contributed greatly to the groundswell against Bert Lance in 1976 was an article by William Safire, called Carter's Broken Lance, for which Safire earned a Pulitzer Prize.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Harold McEwen Ickes (born September 4, 1939) was deputy White House chief of staff for President Bill Clinton. He is the son of Harold L. Ickes, who was Secretary of the Interior under Franklin D. Roosevelt. Ickes chaired Clinton's presidential campaign in New York in 1992. Before that, he was a senior advisor to David Dinkins' successful mayoral election in 1989. In 2000, he was a senior advisor to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign. He now heads the Media Fund, a 527 committee. . He was also an initial contender against Howard Dean for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
As a member of the DNC's Rules committee he was a proponent of adding other states besides Iowa and New Hampshire early on in the Presidential nominating calendar. He was unsucessful in his promotion of Alabama as the second primary state, behind New Hampshire, which lost to South Carolina.
Since 2005 Ickes has been associated with a George Soros funded Democratic data collection and voter file organization called "Data Warehouse".
MS Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja during match 16 of the Pepsi Indian Premier League between The Chennai Superkings and the Royal Challengers Bangalore held at the MA Chidambaram Stadiumin Chennai on the 13th April 2013..Photo by Ron Gaunt-IPL-SPORTZPICS .. .Use of this image is subject to the terms and conditions as outlined by the BCCI. These terms can be found by following this link:..http://www.sportzpics.co.za/image/I0000SoRagM2cIEc
I also bought this Bank of Tokyo USD $100 traveler's check/ traveller's cheque on eBay for USD $10 recently.
Bank of Tokyo eventually became today's Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, following the 1989 credit crisis in Japan.
Here is a brief history of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ:
bankingmergers.blogspot.ca/2010/04/japan-bank-mergers-acq...
Interestingly, this cheque was cashed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, via BCCI. The Bank of Credit and Commerce International was founded by a Pakistani in 1972, registered in Luxembourg, and had co-head offices in London and Karachi. It was involved in financial crimes, money laundering and frauds, and went bankrupt in 1991. At that time, it was a major international bank with 400 branches in over 70 countries. I remember BCCI very well as there was a branch close to our home in Hong Kong. Luckily, my parents didn't have an account at BCCI when it collapsed.
Wikipedia's entry on BCCI:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Credit_and_Commerce_Interna...
MS Dhoni and Michael Hussey celebrate the wicket of Chris Gayle during match 16 of the Pepsi Indian Premier League between The Chennai Superkings and the Royal Challengers Bangalore held at the MA Chidambaram Stadiumin Chennai on the 13th April 2013. Photo by Jacques Rossouw-IPL-SPORTZPICS .. .Use of this image is subject to the terms and conditions as outlined by the BCCI. These terms can be found by following this link:..http://www.sportzpics.co.za/image/I0000SoRagM2cIEc
The most beautiful women in TV and Movie History now become Barbie Collector Dolls created by acclaimed re-paint Artist Donna Brinkley.
Lynda Jean Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA 1972 and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman (1975–77) and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1977–79).
Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Colby Carter, is an art dealer of Irish English descent and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican descent. Ms. Carter has stated that her mother has her Mexican roots in Chihuahua, Mexico and previously worked in the telephone industry. Lynda speaks fluent Spanish. Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Arcadia High School in Phoenix and Kachina Elementary School in Scottsdale, Arizona.
During high school, Carter performed in a band called Just Us, consisting of a marimba, a conga drum, an acoustic guitar, and a stand-up bass played by another girl. When she was 17 in 1968, Lynda joined two of her cousins in another band called The Relatives. Actor Gary Burghoff was the drummer. The group opened at the Sahara Hotel and Casino lounge in Las Vegas, Nevada, for three months; and, because Lynda was under 21, she had to enter through the kitchen. She attended Arizona State University. After being voted Most Talented, she dropped out to pursue a career in music. In 1970, Carter sang with The Garfin Gathering with Lynda Carter. Their first performance was in a San Francisco hotel so new that it had no sidewalk entrance. Consequently, they played mostly to the janitors and hotel guests who parked their cars in the underground garage. She returned to Arizona in 1972.
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In 1972, Carter entered a local Arizona beauty contest and gained national attention in the United States by winning Miss World USA, representing Arizona; in the international 1972 Miss World pageant, representing the U.S., she reached the semi-finals. After taking acting classes at several New York acting schools, she began making appearances on such TV shows as Starsky and Hutch, Cos, and Nakia and in B-movies, her only nude appearance to make it to film was in Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw (1976).
Carter's acting career took off when she landed the starring role in The New Adventures of Wonder Woman as Wonder Woman and her alter ego Diana Prince. The savings her parents had set aside for her to pursue acting in Los Angeles were almost depleted, and Carter was close to returning to Arizona when her manager informed her that she had won the part. Her earnest performance endeared her to fans and critics, and the series lasted three seasons. As she is the physical embodiment of the character so much so that thirty years after first taking on the role, Carter continues to be closely identified with Wonder Woman.
As the program was winding down, Carter told US magazine:
I never meant to be a sexual object for anyone but my husband. I never thought a picture of my body would be tacked up in men's bathrooms. I hate men looking at me and thinking what they think. And I know what they think. They write and tell me.
She was referring to the feedback she had received for her posters.
Carter was also upset with some of the marketing of her image. Warner Bros. worked out a deal with the toy company Mego to create a Wonder Woman doll while the series was still on the air. In 1987, on The Late Show with Joan Rivers, Carter commented:
I think that you're probably familiar with a problem in Hollywood, and that is that they market you, and they use you. They did a mask of my face and put it on the doll, and they put my name on for the first run of it. And then they took my name off and said they didn't have to pay me anymore. So it's the kind of thing that you can be used so much in this industry. I make nothing. I don't even make anything from the reruns. Don't ever settle for net profits. It's called creative accounting.
In 1985, DC Comics named Carter as one of the honorees in the company's 50th anniversary publication Fifty Who Made DC Great for her work on the Wonder Woman series. In 2007, toy company DC Direct released a 13" full-figure statue of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman, limited to 5,000 pieces; it was re-released in 2010.[8] Also in 2010, DC Direct began selling a 5½-inch bust of Carter's rendition of Wonder Woman to celebrate the DC Comics' 75th anniversary.
At age 5, Lynda made her public television debut on the Lew King’s Talent Show.
During the late 1970s, Carter recorded an album, Portrait. Carter is credited as a co-writer on several songs, and she made numerous guest appearances on variety television programs at the time in a musical capacity. She also sang two of her songs in the 1979 Wonder Woman episode, Amazon Hot Wax
In 1977, Carter released a promotional poster through Pro Arts Inc. at the suggestion of her then-husband and manager, Ron Samuels. The poster was very successful despite Carter's dissatisfaction with it. In 1981, during an interview on the NBC television special Women Who Rate a 10, she said:
It's uncomfortable because I just simply took a photograph. That's all my participation was in my poster that sold over a million copies was that I took a photograph that I thought was a dumb photograph. My husband said, 'Oh, try this thing tied up here, it'll look beautiful'. And the photographer said 'the back-lighting is really terrific'. So dealing with someone having that picture up in their... bedroom or their... living room or whatever I think would be hard for anyone to deal with.
In 1978, Ms.Lynda Jean Carter was voted The Most Beautiful Woman in the World by The International Academy of Beauty and The British Press Organization.
In 1979's Apocalypse Now Lynda Carter was originally cast in the role of Playboy Playmate Bunny but the filming of her scenes was interrupted by the famous storm that wrecked the theatre set, prompting nearly two month's delay for rebuilding. By the time Coppola was ready to shoot again, Carter's contractual obligations to Wonder Woman forced her back to the states, and her scenes were re-shot with Colleen Camp. The only evidence remaining of Carter's involvement are the Playboy Centerfold that were specially shot by the magazine as movie props. At one point in the Redux version of Apocalypse Now, a glimpse of Carter's pinup is visible, as the only nude work ascribed to the actress outside of Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw.
In the early 1980s, Carter performed on the Las Vegas Strip and in Atlantic City, highlighting her musical talent.
Carter's other credits include the title role in a biopic of actress Rita Hayworth, titled Rita Hayworth, Love Goddess (1983) and a variety of her own TV specials: Lynda Carter's Special (1980), Encore! (1980), Celebration (1981), Street Life (1982), and Body And Soul (1984). She starred in a few short-lived TV series, including Partners in Crime (1984) with Loni Anderson and Hawkeye (1994–95) with Lee Horsley. During this time, she also became a celebrity promotional model for Maybelline cosmetics commercials.
Carter performing in Mohegan Sun Casino, Connecticut, on Dec. 10, 2011
Throughout the 1990s, Carter appeared in a string of tv movies that resulted in a resurgence in television appearances. Also, because of the re-syndication of Wonder Woman on such cable networks as FX and SyFy, Carter even participated in two scheduled on-line chat sessions with fans. It was around this time that Carter created her own production company, Potomac Productions. Throughout the 1990s, she has also appeared in commercials for Lens Express (now 1-800 Contacts). In 1993 Lynda expanded her performance resume to include voiceover work as the narrator for the Sandra Brown book Where There's Smoke.
In 2001, Carter was cast in the independent comedy feature Super Troopers as Vermont Governor Jessman. The writers and stars of the film, the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, with Jay Chandrasekhar directing, had specifically sought Carter for the role. Inspired by the character detour from her usual roles, she agreed to play a washed-up former beauty queen in The Creature of the Sunny Side Up Trailer Park (2004), directed by Christopher Coppola. Carter made her first appearance in a major feature film in a number of years in the big-screen remake of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005), also directed by Chandrasekhar. She also appeared in the comedy Sky High (2005) as Principal Powers, the head of a school for superheroes. The script allowed Carter to poke fun at her most famous character when she states: I can't do anything more to help you. I'm not Wonder Woman, y'know. In 2006, she guest-starred in the made-for-cable vampire film Slayer. The following year, Carter returned to the DC Comics' television world in the Smallville episode Progeny (2007) playing Chloe Sullivan's Kryptonite-empowered mother.
Carter expanded her voiceover work to include video games, performing voices for the nord and orsimer (orc) females in three computer games of The Elder Scrolls series, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. These games were developed by Bethesda Softworks; her husband, businessman Robert A. Altman, is Chairman and CEO of Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media.
From September to November 2005, Carter played Mama Morton in the West End London production of Chicago. In 2006, her rendition of When You're Good to Mama was officially released on the Chicago: 10th Anniversary Edition CD box set. In May 2007, Carter began touring the U.S. with her one-woman musical cabaret show, An Evening with Lynda Carter. She has played engagements at such venues as Feinstein's At Loews Regency in New York, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Plush Room in San Francisco, and The Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles. In June 2009, her second album, At Last was released and reached #10 on Billboard's Jazz Albums Chart.
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In June 2011, Carter released her third album, ;Crazy Little Things, which she describes as a delightful mix of standards, country, and pop tunes.
Carter has been married twice. Her first marriage was to her former talent agent Ron Samuels from 1977 to 1982. In January 1984, Carter married Washington, D.C., attorney Robert A. Altman, law partner of Clark Clifford (and now CEO of ZeniMax Media). Carter and her husband have two children, James (born 1988) and Jessica (born 1990), and live in Potomac, Maryland.
In 1992, after a lengthy and highly publicized jury trial stemming from his involvement with the BCCI, Carter's husband was acquitted. Carter was seen on the TV news with her arm around him, shouting, Not guilty! Not guilty! to the gathered reporters.
In 2003, Carter revealed that her mother had suffered from IBS for over 30 years, resulting in Carter touring the country as an advocate and spokesperson.[20] Lynda is also a staunch advocate and supporter of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Pro-Choice rights for women, and legal equality for LGBT people. She was the Grand Marshal for both the 2011 Phoenix Pride 2011 New York Pride Parades.
In early June 2008, while rowing out of the Potomac Boat Club, Carter spotted a body floating in the Potomac River. She called out to some fishermen and waited for the police to arrive. Carter stated that she did what anyone would have done.
Later in June 2008, Carter admitted in an interview to People magazine that she had entered a rehabilitation clinic for treatment of alcoholism and had been sober for 10 years. In a statement when asked what the recovery process had taught her, Carter explained that the best measure of a human being is how we treat the people who love us, and the people that we love.
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court rapped the BCCI and cricket associations in Maharashtra and Mumbai over water wastage. When the state is rolling under severe drought, ideally Indian Premier League (IPL) matches should be moved somewhere else, where there is no water shortage, it said.
While...
tamilgoose.com/bombay-high-court-raps-bcci-over-water-was...
The Cricket World Cup 2011 has begun and Billions of hear beats as well. In India Cricket is not just a game its a religion, its a passion.
November 2020 - Italicized commentary by a concerned Jew looking back on the history of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) founded at or about the beginning of the third quarter in 1913, one month after Leo Frank's August 25th, 1913 conviction within the Fulton County Superior Court for pedophilic sodomy-murder of child laborer Mary Anne Phagan (b. 1899). The presiding judge Leonard S. Roan sentenced the homicidal child molester to death by hangman's noose the day after on August 26th, 1913. In the last week of the following month, something unusual occurred, or was it not unusual? It was unanimous, Leo Frank got re-elected to Atlanta B'nai B'rith President of the 'Gate City Lodge', by his 500-member fraternal organization on September 23rd, 1913 (Source-Atlanta Constitution 24-09-1913). During his second term as Lodge President, Leo Frank ran Georgia's state capitol chapter of B'nai B'rith while behind jail bars at the 'Atlanta tower' for a full one-year term until the Autumn of 1914. In the last days of September 1913, the International Order of B'nai B'rith founded the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and announced its formation in its B'nai B'rith newsletter (No. 2) on October 2nd, 1913. The Frank-Phagan affair was mentioned by B'nai B'rith leaders as one of the reasons why this nascent public relations wing was created when they were asked why this subdivision within their organization was created. This scarce newsletter has survived to the 21st century and is published herewithin at the Leo Frank Museum and Gallery Collection. The ADL since its birth has made the Leo Frank case one of its central activism fronts to project anti-Semitism and has continued to promote his maudlin rehabilitation by propounding a number of anti-Gentile racial hoaxes related to his criminal case. The genealogy of those racial hoaxes are discussed in depth elsewhere.
A non-violent Jewish activist (Mark Ames) tells of his experience being spied on by the White Supremacist Jewish and ZIonist extremist ADL and how this nefarious organization using the false cover as a civil rights group has shared it's illegal spying acquisitions and illegally gathered dossiers with the Israel Mossad and also with other national governments like Apartheid South Africa. ADL was engaging in what we might easily call espionage, stealing private government records of American citizens, literally 10s of thousands of them, and putting the lives of those civilians in grave danger, and surprise-surprise coincidentally some of those "partisan opposition" spy victims just so happened to get murdered through acts of terrorism. Some believe there are no coincidences when it comes to contentious politics and murder. *end of commentary*
ARTICLE TITLE:
THE KINGS OF GARBAGE, OR, THE ADL SPIED ON ME AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY INDEX CARD.
In 1993 the Anti-Defamation League [ADL] was accused of espionage, illegal surveillance, theft, and the treasonous sale of classified information to a foreign government. I was one of their victims.
MARK AMES
UPDATED: MAY 3, 2017
ORIGINAL: MAR 10, 2014
(Photo: NSFWCORP)
Last year [2013] marked the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Anti-Defamation League and the B’nai B’rith. The theme of the celebration was “Imagine a World Without Hate.”
2013 also marked the 20th anniversary of another key episode in ADL history, but it’s not the sort of milestone National Director Abe Foxman will want you to remember. In 1993 it was alleged that the League had been involved in a grotesque rap sheet of covert activities, including espionage, illegal surveillance, theft, and the treasonous sale of classified information to a foreign government. It’s a hell of a tale, and not just for its cartoonish cast of characters: a corrupt police officer, a bungling “fact finder,” and a McCarthyite from Indianapolis.
I have no choice but to remember the story. In 1993, I received a letter in the mail. It informed me that I was the victim of an illegal spy ring involving members of the ADL and a San Francisco Police Department intelligence detective called Tom Gerard. The letter came with an index card that included my full name, driver’s license, the license-plate number on my shitty old Subaru hatchback, and the Mission District addresses of my apartment and the leftie bookstore where I worked, near Guerrero and 20th Street. My file had been marked “Pinko,” one of five categories that the ADL spymaster used to flag the group’s targets.
At that period I was already at a low point. My stepfather spent most of that year dying of a malignant brain tumor. It was a gruesome, agonizing death, and I put off moving to Moscow to help my mother get through it. That alone was so stressful that we both wound up losing our minds in the process. In the grip of that ordeal, learning that the ADL had spied on me seemed like just one more torment in a personal hell.
But I was not alone. Police had seized thousands of index cards like mine in raids on the ADL’s San Francisco office, and in searches of the homes and storage facilities of the organization’s key figures. According to newspaper reports of the time, 12,000 Americans and 950 groups were victims of the now-forgotten scandal.
The list of victims reads like a Who’s Who of the Liberal Establishment:
NAACP, ACLU, Greenpeace, ACT UP!, National Lawyers Guild, Mother Jones founder Adam Hochschild, reporters from the Los Angeles Times and KQED public television, and scores of local labor unions including the United Auto Works and Cesar Chavez’s United Farm Workers. The ADL operatives even spied on a handful of U.S. Congressmen, all Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, Senator Alan Cranston, Pete McClosky, Mervyn Dymally, and Ron Dellums of Oakland, head of the House Armed Services Committee. Many prominent Jews were also spied on, including Dr. Yigal Arens, the son of former Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens.
A CREATIVE DEFINITION OF ANTI-SEMITISM
Dr. Arens, who runs an information technology program at the University of Southern California, was targeted because he supported a two-state solution in Israel and the occupied territories. He told reporters, “The ADL believes that anyone who is an Arab American ... or speaks politically against Israel is at least a closet anti-Semite.”
Dr. Arens was, if anything, understating the case. What the ADL understood by the phrase “against Israel” was to become disturbingly clear as the investigation proceeded.
When I opened that letter, I could not have been accused of “speaking politically against Israel.” I’m a Jew, for Christ’s sake! And back then I was also a Republican, still holding on to at least some of my childhood Zionism. But none of that mattered. As I quickly discovered—a sickening discovery that killed whatever Zionism I still felt—the reason the ADL had set its spies on me was because, while a student at Berkeley in the ’80s, I’d protested against apartheid.
Protesting South African apartheid in the 1980s was practically a middle-class duty in the Bay Area. Even yuppies and mainstream Republicans supported the protest movement. It was an easy choice. No one in their right mind wanted to be associated with the Jim Crow/George Wallace faces in those old black-and-white newsreels.
So why would Israel cozy up to the vilest regime since the Third Reich? One clue can be found in a speech given in 1987 by Eliahu Lankin, Israel’s former ambassador to South Africa, at Tel Aviv University. In it, he warned that South African blacks “want to gain control over the white majority just like the Arabs here want to gain control over us. And we, too, like the white minority in South Africa, must act to prevent them from taking us over.” Then there was the looming specter of divestment.
In 1986, thanks to a massive and sustained student-protest movement, University of California Regents were forced to divest $3 billion from investments related to South Africa. Some within the ADL apparently believed the same tactic could be used by U.S. opponents of Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. Decades later, these concerns would prove to be well-founded.
A recent book by New York Times editor Sasha Polakow-Suransky, Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship With Apartheid South Africa,” traces the beginnings of Israel’s friendship with apartheid South Africa back even further, to Israeli Defense Minister Shimon Peres’ secret visit to Pretoria in 1974. This was a meeting that led to arms deals and agreements over intelligence sharing.
In 1976, South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster was given the red-carpet treatment by Israel’s Labor government leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. They gave him a guided tour of the Wailing Wall and the Holocaust Museum, despite the fact that Vorster had been a Nazi sympathizer in the ’30s, and had even served as a commander in the Ossewabrandwag, a pro-Nazi militant group.
By 1986, the relationship between Israel and South Africa had grown so close that the ADL was regularly sharing confidential files with the South African Bureau of State Security, that country’s version of the Gestapo. The files contained detailed information about Californians who opposed apartheid. Then there was the file on Representative Ron Dellums, who was the head of the House Armed Services Committee and an African-American from Oakland. After the scandal broke, an ADL employee admitted to the Los Angeles Times that spying on a black U.S. Congressman for a racist foreign government “was not the most political thing to do.” 3
ISRAEL, THE ADL, AND ARAB-AMERICANS
Israel today is a far cry from its genesis as a nation of ragtag Holocaust refugees. In the few decades after World War II, it has grown to become the Middle East’s dominant military power. Some on the left see modern Israel as an expansionist military power bent on imposing Jewish-supremacist rule over conquered territory, favoring Jews and denying rights to native Palestinians.
The Washington Post has described the metamorphosis of the Anti-Defamation League in corresponding terms. Originally, the ADL was a proponent of broad civil rights. It fought for Brown vs. Board of Education and at one time devoted most of its published research to exposing fascism, anti-Semitism, and the radical right. Gradually, however, its sole purpose seemed to be to identify any criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism. It was a position that implicitly equated the purported interests of Israel with the interests of American Jews. Per the Washington Post:
In 1975, the ADL issued a report entitled ‘Target U.S.A: The Arab Propaganda Offensive’ that described how mainstream Arab-American groups were allied with non-Arab ‘apologists’ such as ‘some church people, clergy and lay, a number of university- based intellectuals and scholars, plus elements in the liberal community....
Once this broad rationale took hold, the civil rights watchdog increasingly devoted its investigative apparatus to ‘counteracting’ what it calls ‘anti-Israel’ sentiment or ‘the new antisemitism’ in the United States.
In practice, this means the ADL keeps track of politically active Americans or groups that repeatedly criticize Israel or lobby for Palestinian rights.
A major part of the 1993 scandal over the ADL’s criminal activity was the investigators’ discovery of a large-scale surveillance war on the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the most mainstream Arab-American civil rights group of its time.
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The ADC was founded in 1980 by former U.S. Senator James Abourezk of South Dakota, and as such it enjoyed a degree of credibility with the Establishment rare for an Arab-American civil rights group. Ironically, the ADC consciously modeled itself on the Anti-Defamation League, and sought to achieve the same degree of respectability and impact within the wider community as that enjoyed by the ADL.
But instead of welcoming the existence of the ADC as a fellow champion of civil liberties, the ADL reacted with a level of paranoid hysteria worthy of J. Edgar Hoover. According to an affidavit filed by San Francisco Police Inspector Ron Roth, the ADL compiled personal files on some 4,500 members of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, roughly 15 percent of the group’s total membership at the time.
The ADL did not restrict its harassment of Arab-Americans to surveillance of the ADC. At least one Arab-American activist on whom the ADL kept a secret file, Mohammed Jarad, wound up arrested on a visit to the occupied territories. Jarad was subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques, forced to sign a confession written in Hebrew, and released without charge after six months, and allowed to return home to America. U.S. officials at the time expressed serious doubts about Jarad’s signed confession.
The ADL spy ring also helped trigger the 1987 arrests of eight Los Angeles Muslims—seven Palestinian men and one Kenyan woman—who were falsely accused of supporting terrorism and ordered expelled from the United States. SWAT teams broke into the defendants’ homes, detained them without charge or trial, and subjected the group, known as the “Los Angeles Eight,” to an ordeal that only ended in 2007, when a Los Angeles judge finally dismissed all charges and denounced the case as “a festering wound on the body of respondents and an embarrassment to the rule of law.”
When the Los Angeles Eight were first arrested in 1987, the ADL proudly boasted to reporters of its role in passing intelligence on the group to the authorities. Later, when the case was widely seen as a travesty of justice, the ADL backtracked and claimed they had nothing to do with it.
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NUMBER ONE INVESTIGATOR ROY E. BULLOCK
One of the Jewish civil rights’ group’s most important and best-protected employees was not a Jew but a native of Indianapolis who looked like a bloated John Wayne Gacy. This strange figure, who coordinated the ADL’s activities in San Francisco while posing as an art dealer in the Castro District, was Roy E. Bullock.
As a teenager growing up in the hysteria and paranoia of Senator McCarthy’s anti-Communist witch hunts, Bullock dreamed of joining J. Edgar’s team as an FBI snitch. Bullock later said he was inspired by his hero Herbert Philbrick, whose bestselling 1952 memoir, I Led Three Lives: Citizen, ‘Communist,’ Counterspy was turned into a movie and hit TV series.
Philbrick was one of many FBI snitches and informants who were turned into celebrities during the McCarthy era. These men were Roy Bullock’s role models. He wanted to join their ranks, and in 1954, while working as a lowly errand-boy for the Indianapolis Police Department, Bullock’s wish came true: The FBI asked Bullock to “volunteer” as an informant spying on university student leftists.
Decades later, Bullock explained to FBI investigators: “I was fascinated with Herbert Philbrick and so I thought I would try to infiltrate the Communist Party. In 1957, I went to the Sixth World Youth and Student Festival in Moscow with the American delegation. I gave the FBI a full report on it when I returned, along with some photos I took of some Soviet military vehicles.”
In 1960, the Anti-Defamation League made Bullock their full-time undercover employee and moved him out to Orange County, the epicenter of emerging radical right movements like the John Birch Society and the Minutemen. As a codename, the ADL called Bullock “Elmer Fink.” To further cover their tracks, from 1960 through 1992 Bullock’s salary was funneled through a prominent Beverly Hills attorney named Bruce Hochman. A leader in the Jewish community, Hochman was a strange choice for an ADL bagman—he was close to Al Gore and Republican Pete Wilson, and his clients included notorious Nevada casino and underworld figures, including crime boss Meyer Lansky and Mustang Ranch founder-turned-fugitive Joe Conforte. Hochman was also considered one of the top tax attorneys in the country, and he was picked by Senator Wilson to recommend judicial appointments.
In the late 1970s, the ADL moved Bullock north, this time to their office in San Francisco. By placing such a pivotal member in the epicenter of America’s left-wing activism, the ADL demonstrated the same right- ward trend observed at that time in Israel and within America’s pro-Israel advocacy world.
In San Francisco, Bullock was given his own desk and a roster of duties which included “maintaining intelligence files by adding new documents and shredding old files.” For cover, Bullock set up a small art dealership in the Castro District called “East West Traders.”
Bullock reported directly to the ADL’s San Francisco Executive Director Richard Hirschhuat and also to Irwin Suall, the ADL’s chief spymaster in their New York headquarters. A memo written by Suall in 1992, and later discovered by FBI investigators, described Roy Bullock as the ADL’s “number one investigator.” And yet, after the spy scandal broke, the ADL claimed it had only an “informal” relationship with Bullock and neither knew about nor had any responsibility for the spying activities of their “number one investigator.”
Having established himself in San Francisco, Bullock wasted little time infiltrating the Bay Area’s left-wing groups, far-right groups (such as existed), anti-apartheid groups, and peace groups opposed to Reagan’s dirty wars in Central America. Above all, Roy Bullock focused on infiltrating and subverting Arab-American organizations like the ADC and the National Association of Arab-Americans (NAAA).
Albert Mokhiber, who was executive director of the ADC when the scandal broke, remembered Bullock well: “[He was] one of our most vocal members. In fact, we have pictures of him carrying banners in support of Palestinian human rights, and we printed one of them in our most recent newsletter. He portrayed himself as someone sincerely interested in Arab civil rights and someone dedicated to the principles of our organization, and everyone believed him to be so.”
In addition to infiltrating meetings and building up files on persons of interest, Bullock tried hatching dirty tricks plots to smear the ADC. One tactic Bullock used was to infiltrate neo-Nazi meetings, distribute ADC pamphlets and attempt to recruit neo-Nazis into the ADC.
Dr. Osama Doumani, a former University of California-Berkeley anthropology professor who headed the ADC’s San Francisco office when Bullock infiltrated the group, told The Washington Post:
He would come to my office and he would hug me in a comradely fashion and volunteer for work. He wanted to have a presence whenever we had something important.
In 1987, the ADL sent Bullock to Washington, D.C., for the annual gathering of the NAAA, instructing Bullock to find out who the Arab group’s major donors were. Bullock claimed he didn’t succeed in penetrating their financial records, but he was so successful at earning the Arab group’s trust that he was picked to head the NAAA delegation that met privately with Representative Nancy Pelosi in her Capitol Hill office.
Bullock had nothing but contempt for those who trusted him. “I’m one of a kind,” he later bragged to police investigators. “They live in a dark, restricted world of their own fervent imaginations. You say you agree and they fall all over you. You don’t have to say much.”
In 1985, Alex Odeh, a Christian Palestinian, was murdered in Santa Ana. The crime remains unsolved.
Odeh was the regional executive director of the ADC’s Western region, and one of Senator Abourezk’s favorite lieutenants. Eight years after Odeh was murdered by a bomb planted in his office, his colleagues were shocked by the news that Roy Bullock—who had worked closely with Odeh right up to his murder—had been spying on Odeh on behalf of the ADL all along. Odeh trusted Bullock enough to grant him almost unrestricted access to Odeh’s office in Santa Ana, California, where the deadly bomb was planted.
In the aftermath of Alex Odeh’s murder, the SFPD appointed an intelligence officer to act as liaison to San Francisco’s Arab-American community. A rash of bombings was sweeping the U.S., targeting Arab-Americans and other perceived enemies of Jews.
Dr. Doumani recalled the terror that gripped California’s Arab-American community at that time: “I feared starting my car. I would always wait until it was completely warmed up before I brought my 8-year-old daughter and 6-month-old son out of the house.”
But in spite of the atmosphere of fear, the community found some comfort in the fact that they had their SFPD liaison to protect them.
TOM GERARD: ROY BULLOCK'S PARTNER-IN-CRIME
Alex Odeh was murdered in Santa Ana, California, Roy Bullock claimed he was very close with Alex and that he even had access to the office.... Tom Gerard was a bomb expert, and Alex was killed by a bomb. I’ll be very honest with you. We’ve raised these concerns with the FBI.
—Albert Mokhiber, president of the Arab-American Anti Discrimination Committee, May 22, 1993
If Roy Bullock represented the Anti-Defamation League’s seedy (and bloated) underbelly, then his partner in criminal espionage, Officer Tom Gerard of the SFPD, represented the Jewish civil rights group’s dark side, the ethical wasteland where the ADL now roamed. A pact with Gerard was as close to a pact with the devil as a Jewish human rights group could get.
The partnership between Bullock and Gerard was forged in the ADL’s San Francisco office in 1986, when Regional Executive Director Richard Hirschhaut brought Gerard in and introduced him to Bullock. Later, the ADL would try to claim they had absolutely no relationship with Gerard or any knowledge of his and Bullock’s illegal spy ring. However, an FBI search uncovered a private memo by Bullock outlining how the ADL arranged Bullock’s partnership with the SFPD Intelligence Unit detective—a memo that Bullock later claimed was a “fib.”
In another “confidential” memo, the ADL’s Richard Hirschhaut boasted about Tom Gerard’s effectiveness to chief spymaster Irwin Suall, noting that the SFPD police mole provided “a significant amount of information” on “the activities of specific Arab organizations and individuals in the Bay Area.”
In 1991, the ADL’s Washington office even gifted Tom Gerard with an all-expenses-paid junket to Israel to meet with top Israeli military, intelligence, and political figures.
“We were the kings of garbage,” Gerard said of his partnership with Roy Bullock. “I love garbage. Garbage doesn’t lie.”
Gerard wasn’t joking: Much of their work involved burrowing through other people’s trash. An FBI report quoted in the Los Angeles Times explained how they spied on one Palestinian group:
Bullock would write reports based on what he found in the trash, and would share the reports with Gerard. Bullock also gave the trash to Gerard for Gerard to examine. Gerard would later return the trash to Bullock.
Bullock was also fond of garbage. During questioning by the SFPD, Bullock said he “couldn’t resist” going through various organizations’ trash. Inspector Roth remarked that Bullock’s attraction to trash “sounds like a cop going by a donut shop.”
Shortly after Bullock and Gerard were introduced at the ADL office, the two men began sharing their intelligence files and breaking privacy laws. Bullock gave Gerard names of groups and individuals that he was spying on for the ADL. Then, Gerard obtained their confidential DMV and police records—including rap sheets, fingerprints, and anything else in intelligence files. Finally, Gerard illegally handed this information to Bullock.
A few years later, in 1990, San Francisco officially disbanded its police intelligence unit and ordered its files destroyed. Instead, Police Detective Tom Gerard handed those files over to Roy Bullock. Illegally stolen police intelligence files that the public assumed had been destroyed were now part of the Anti-Defamation League’s secret files.
Gerard also arranged for Roy Bullock to moonlight as a paid FBI informant. That gave Bullock and Gerard access to FBI assets and classified material.
Shortly after they began working together, Bullock and Gerard were introduced to a South African intelligence agent known mysteriously as “Humphries” and agreed to spy on American anti-apartheid protesters for them.
Spying for a foreign intelligence entity is illegal in the same way that treason is illegal. So it’s hardly surprising that the accused—Roy Bullock, Tom Gerard, the Anti-Defamation League—tried shifting the blame to everyone but themselves, evading questions and changing their stories several times. Roy Bullock initially told FBI interrogators that it was his superiors in the ADL who put him in touch with the South African intelligence agents. Later, he changed his story and blamed Tom Gerard. Gerard naturally blamed Bullock, and the Anti-Defamation League blamed both of them, adding that they’d never met Gerard and barely knew who Bullock was, and took no responsibility for Bullock’s activities.
Ultimately, though, it doesn’t matter who initiated the contact between the South Africans and the ADL spy ring.
For one thing, the Anti-Defamation League had already been spying on American anti-apartheid campaigners, independent of their collaborative work for South African intelligence. Bullock told FBI investigators that he’d been infiltrating and collecting information on the Bay Area anti-apartheid movement for the ADL when he was introduced to the South Africans. Israel and South Africa were partners. Enemies of apartheid were enemies of the Anti-Defamation League, an attitude summed up by ADL national director Nathan Perlmutter’s description of Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress as “totalitarian, anti-humane, anti-democratic, anti-Israel, and anti-American.”
As far as Bullock was concerned, since he was already spying on local anti-apartheid groups for the ADL, reselling that same material to South African intelligence was just gravy. The South African spooks paid Bullock $16,000 in cash, in hundred dollar bills stuffed into envelopes.
Bullock never showed anything approaching remorse for collaborating with the white-supremacist regime, nor did he express concern over what the apartheid Gestapo might have done with the names and information they had. He was, however, very concerned with protecting his reputation for honest dealing. When interviewed by investigators, he emphasized he’d split the South Africans’ $16,000 right down the middle with Gerard: “I may be gay, but I’m a straight arrow,” Bullock quipped.
GURVITZ AND THE STOLEN FILE
It is fitting, or ironic, that the person who finally brought down the ADL spy network was the only Jewish member of the three main players.
David Gurvitz was a law school dropout who joined the ADL’s Los Angeles office in 1989 as a “fact- finder.” Gurvitz quickly fell in with the ADL’s West Coast spymaster, Roy Bullock, as well as Bullock’s top asset, SFPD detective Tom Gerard. Unlike his new cohorts, Gurvitz was about as ruthless and street smart as a Mormon Barney Fife.
In the few years he worked for the ADL, Gurvitz was exposed to all sorts of ADL skullduggery, recklessness, violations of civil liberties, and illegal operations. Whatever sort of person Gurvitz had been before, just three years after he took the ADL job, he was a gangster who would literally kill for mo’ money.
The chain of events that led to the spy ring’s unmasking began in 1992, when the chief “fact-finder” in the ADL’s Washington, D.C., office, Mira [Lansky] Boland, put in a request to David Gurvitz’s Los Angeles chapter for “research material.” Boland and ADL leader Abe Foxman were preparing an article about the Nation of Islam.
It sounds innocent enough, but the research file on Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam’s activities was the classified property of the FBI’s San Francisco office. A copy of the file had mysteriously made its way from San Francisco—home to Bullock and Gerard—to the desk of their associate Gurvitz. For his part, Gurvitz said that he had found the stolen Farrakhan file in the ADL research library with a note pinned to it from one of his superiors. Thinking that entirely serendipitous, Gurvitz took the file and sent a copy to Mira Boland’s office in Washington.
On August 19, 1992, an article co-authored by Mira Boland and Abe Foxman appeared in the Moonie-owned Washington Times. It was headlined “Fruit of Islam on US Tab?” The article contained explosive material on the Nation of Islam, including allegations that Libya’s leader Muammar Qaddafi funneled money to the Nation of Islam via the scandal-plagued BCCI bank, an alliance between Farrakhan’s group and a violent South Chicago gang that allegedly offered to carry out the assassinations of Americans for Qaddafi, and also threats by the Nation of Islam to dismember FBI agents.
The FBI had already been investigating the files on the Nation of Islam stolen from their San Francisco office. After Foxman and Boland published their FBI-contraband-loaded attack on the Nation of Islam, FBI investigators had an easy time fingering the likely suspects: Roy Bullock, whom the FBI had only recently brought in as a paid informant, and Tom Gerard, the police officer who officially liaised with the FBI branch in San Francisco, and who had introduced Roy Bullock into the FBI’s world.
To provide further evidence, the FBI placed taps on Bullock’s and Gerard’s phones. What was heard on those wiretapped phone calls must have blown the bureau’s collective mind. Expecting to find proof of spying in San Francisco, and possibly Los Angeles, the FBI learned that the ADL was running a covert spy network in cities across the country, and that in each spy ring hub, they had local police officers doubling as ADL moles.
As San Francisco Police Inspector Ron Roth concluded in his affidavit summary:
Based on the evidence, exhibits and facts in this affidavit, I believe that Roy Bullock and the ADL had numerous peace officers supplying them with confidential criminal and DMV information ... code named fact finders and field investigators. In Chicago there is an ex-police officer named CHI-3 (there are also references to CHI-1 and CHI-2 who apparently are not policemen. QED.). In St. Louis there is IRONSIDES. In Atlanta there is an Arab speaking man named FLIPPER.
The FBI also learned how casually the ADL spy ring abused the law. They had used Gerard’s police access to gain confidential DMV records, and then shared those records not only with the Anti-Defamation League, but also with South African intelligence.
What began as an investigation into stolen classified material was turning into something much more serious: Illegal espionage on behalf of a foreign government, a crime that could be treated as treason.
The FBI wanted to keep the secret wiretaps going as long as possible. But then David Gurvitz got in the way.
GURVITZ AND THE MURDER PLOT
Gurvitz’s problem was money. In 1992, he was still only earning $21,000 as a full-time spy for the Anti-Defamation League. Pay was low, and yet Gurvitz’s access to police resources (Gurvitz ran three LAPD moles of his own for the ADL) meant he was more powerful than probably anyone he knew. He was living above the law, but not enjoying any of the advantages of that power.
That’s when Gurvitz decided he needed to take someone else’s job. That someone else was his “fact-finder” counterpart at a rival Nazi-sniffing non-profit, the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Center in Los Angeles. Gurvitz learned that their fact-finder was paid substantially more than the ADL paid him. There was only one problem: Someone named Rick Eaton already had that cushy job. And Eaton was—and is—a star researcher.
As FBI wiretaps listened in, Gurvitz plotted with his mentor Bullock on how to remove Eaton. Bullock naturally suggested bringing Tom Gerard into the conversation, and Gerard—illegally—offered up the confidential DMV records on Eaton, which included his car’s license plate number and his home address.
As the FBI wiretappers continued listening in for clues about the ADL’s arrangement with South African intelligence, Bullock and Gurvitz talked about how Gurvitz’s Wiesenthal Center rival was planning to go undercover and infiltrate a neo-Nazi skinhead group, the White Aryan Resistance. It just so happened that Roy Bullock ran a paid ADL informant inside the White Aryan Resistance, code-named “Scumbag.”
That led to a brilliant idea. They decided to use “Scumbag” to rat Rick Eaton out to the skinheads while they were all on some white-power forest retreat. One thing would lead to another and, before you knew it, “Job vacancy: fact-finder urgently needed at the Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Center.” If the Wiesenthal researcher somehow slipped away from the skinheads alive, no problem. Thanks to Tom Gerard’s DMV records, the skinheads would know where to find Eaton.
That really was the plan: They would use neo-Nazis to incapacitate (or kill) a rival anti-Nazi researcher and then steal that researcher’s job.
FBI snoops didn’t want a murder on their hands, so they cut their secret investigation into the spy ring short in order to warn Eaton that his life was in danger and that he should call off his plans to go undercover.
With that, Gurvitz became the first casualty—perhaps the only real casualty—of the investigation into the ADL spy ring. He was summarily fired from the ADL’s office in Los Angeles, and became a highly cooperative “person of interest” in the ensuing FBI and police investigation.
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THE INVESTIGATION
During his first interrogation by the FBI, Tom Gerard was threatened with a “lifestyle change”—which is to say, prison—if he didn’t cooperate with the investigation. Gerard didn’t stick around for a second interrogation.
In November 1992, Gerard and his wife slipped away on a Philippines Airlines flight to Palawan Island. The Philippines had no extradition treaty with the United States and so, for six months, Gerard waited, taunting investigators while attempting to negotiate his safe return. It was during that period that he gave an interview to the Los Angeles Times, confessing his love of “garbage” and also hinting at his ability to embarrass the CIA if he was charged over the ADL spy ring:
Among the many passports and other fake identity papers that he used as an undercover CIA agent from 1982 through 1985 were five documents identifying him as Thomas P. Clouseau—as in Inspector Clouseau, the bumbling French detective in the Pink Panther films.
"I’m still surprised Central Cover staff at the agency let that one slip by," Gerard said with a laugh. "A little joke on the agency."
But the 50-year-old former spy and San Francisco police inspector is no longer playing games. He says he will blow the whistle on what he calls illegal CIA support of Central American death squads if he is indicted and tried for his suspected role in a growing California-based scandal over a nationwide intelligence network run largely on behalf of the Anti-Defamation League.
While Gerard cooled his heels in the Philippines waiting for the CIA to muscle the FBI into dropping their investigation, the ADL protected the real criminal operator at the center of the spy ring. Roy Bullock knew where all the skeletons were buried. After all, as Irwin Suall wrote in a 1992 memo, he was the League’s “number one investigator.”
In the spring of 1993, San Francisco authorities ramped up their investigation after raiding the ADL’s offices and carting out some 10 full boxes of files. Three quarters of the material in those boxes consisted of confidential material illegally obtained. Contraband. The San Francisco District Attorney’s office was talking fines that would run in the millions, and felony charges that could put Anti-Defamation League spies behind bars for years.
Apparently, though, the political establishment was in no mood to completely destroy the Anti-Defamation League. The District Attorney made a deal with the ADL to drop their action against Gerard if the ADL “agreed to a permanent injunction prohibiting ADL and Bullock from obtaining documents or other information they know could not legally be disclosed to them.”
On the basis of this settlement, Abe Foxman and the ADL team victoriously declared that the entire case against them had been an anti-Semitic hoax, and anyone who had suggested otherwise—for example, anyone who quoted any of the scores of media reports in the Los Angeles Times, Chronicle, ABC News, Washington Post, and elsewhere—was a liar, a “conspiracy theorist,” and “anti-Semitic.”
“[This] confirms our consistent position that the ADL has engaged in no misconduct of any kind,” Abe Foxman and [ADL Director] Melvin Salberg said in a prepared statement.
Roy Bullock was allowed to keep his job with the ADL.
To foil any future criminal or civil action—including a pending class-action suit by victims of the spy scandal—the ADL petitioned a judge to recognize Bullock and the other spies as “ journalists,” protected by First Amendment. As journalists, they would not be legally obliged to hand over most of the documents that victims’ lawyers would need for discovery in order to prove their case.
By the end of 1993, the district attorney’s case against Gerard had collapsed. The FBI had inexplicably refused to cooperate with the prosecution, and declined to share all the damning evidence it had collected. The police officer who illegally passed confidential names of thousands of Americans on to South African intelligence got off with a single misdemeanor charge, for which he was sentenced to 45 days “sheriff’s work detail” and three years’ probation. He is now rumored to be back living in the Philippines.
The head of the San Francisco office, Richard Hirschhaut, dodged a bullet too. The FBI discovered a trove of memos between Hirschhaut and Irwin Suall bragging about Tom Gerard passing on whole dolly-loads of files on Arab-Americans. Hirschhaut slipped a few times when testifying, admitting for instance that the majority of what the ADL does is track and attack critics of Israel, rather than what the ADL has always said its mission is: “Fight all forms of bigotry, defend democratic ideals, protect civil rights for all.”
In any event, Richard Hirschhaut is doing fine today. Having weathered the lawsuits that went nowhere, he now runs the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie.
Despite the California Appeals Court agreeing that the ADL was entitled to many of the same protections as journalists, the class-action lawsuit by its victims continued until 1999 when it was settled by the ADL agreeing to pay $175,000 of the plaintiffs’ court costs and a further $25,000 to improve relations between the Jewish, Arab, and African-American communities. The final settlement came in 2002, but ADL still refused to guarantee it wouldn’t continue trying to gather information on these groups.
MEANING
In 1993, the fact that the ADL had spied on me for the most evil regime since the Nazis was hard to absorb.
I was in no condition to see that spy scandal for what it was: raw, unvarnished Israel-advocacy politics—an early preview of the sort of cynicism, paranoia and right-wing extremism we’ve come to expect from pro-Israel groups. When Israel took the occupied territories in 1967 and imposed Jewish-supremacist rule over the native Arab majority, that was it. Israel, Zionists, and their supporters crossed over to the dark side. Getting that letter about the ADL spying on me should have opened my eyes to Greater Israel’s ugly hard-right political logic, but I took it personally, not politically. “Why me, Israel? WHY ME?”
Others got the message far earlier. Investigative researcher and reporter Chip Berlet, whose research into right-wing groups has dovetailed with the ADL’s, recalled an incident in the mid-1980s that brought home to him the ADL’s right-ward turn. It was an incident that left even Berlet, one of the greatest investigative reporters of the past few decades, deeply traumatized.
As the Village Voice described it in 1993, Bertlet and his research partner went to the ADL’s headquarters in Manhattan to meet the ADL’s legendary “fact-finder” and chief spymaster, Irwin Suall, so that they could share their research on anti-Semitic extremist Lyndon LaRouche, and compare notes.
Berlet naturally expected a friendly and constructive meeting with Suall. Instead, what happened next shocked Berlet and his research partner:
Suall leans back in his chair and basically runs down a dossier on each of us: about what our political activities are, who we work with, what organizations we belong to. Obviously, he was just trying to blow us away and he succeeds admirably. We were just sitting there with our mouths open feeling very uncomfortable.
And then he leans forward and says, "The right-wing isn’t the problem. The left-wing is the problem. The Soviet Union is the biggest problem in the world for Jews. It’s the American left that is the biggest threat to American Jews. You’re on the wrong track. You’re part of the problem."
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BCCI was created, and then built up as a "world class" bank, primarily to manage the covert funds that poured into the secret war in Afghanistan. Hardly any mention was made of the fact that BCCI was in the middle of the Afghan effort—serving as the de facto central bank for a multibillion-dollar Golden Crescent illegal arms-for-drugs trade that mushroomed during 1979-90.
When the last of the Red Army troops pulled out of Kabul in February 1989, the massive British-devised and American-led covert action program in support of the Afghan mujahideen began to wind down. BCCI lost its raison d'être, and went the way of the 1960s-era Investors Overseas Service (IOS).
During the decade of the Afghan War, BCCI's assets had grown from an initial capitalization in 1972 of $2.5 million, to $4 billion in 1980, to an astounding $23 billion at the point that the Bank of England moved to shut it down. The bulk of the $23 billion disappeared and to this day is still unaccounted for.