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This is another 2D artwork derived from my recent experimentation & expanded learning of 3D modeling / texturing for SecondLife.
This work is called "DEVILTRIES DEMISE" and as dark and evil as this work looks it is actually my personal expression of hope to all those people living in countries currently being lead by cruel, evil, heartless dictators & regimes.
This works visually expresses the pillar of ugliness each leader of deviltry portrays in the eyes of the repressed people in his sphere of control as well as the world. He shouts out his evil with a brazen tone of power in hopes for all to hear and fear. Yet he secretly is in fear because like the dry baked muds that has entombed this statue, he knows that position of control is only from what spews from his mouth of defiance.
This Dealer of Deviltry knows full well that the people he openly attempts to control and crush are those like the mud around him. If his people stand brave together and strong, they can smother him and crush him to bring him to his demise. If these brave citizens' stand together they can send this dictator to become nothing more than ghosts of the past.
Within the past couple years we have seen two amazing examples of this demise of deviltry when we all witnessed the brave peoples of Egypt and Libya bring the demise of Mubarak and Gaddafi like a baked desert mud entombing both to become the symbolic ghosts in this artwork. Although I had in mind the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad as the current dealer of deviltries waiting for his demise in this artwork, I am sure you all can place many other names of both current and past deviltry dealers into the faces shown in this work.
My heart and hopes often goes to all those currently suffering under these evil men. But you know their time will come soon enough.
CREDITS:
All inputs used in this work are mine with the exception of the following textures from Pareeerica:
Pareeerica - FIREWALKER: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3908535223/
Pareeerica - GALAXY OF GOLD: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/4829603947/
Pareeerica - STAR CRACKLE: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/3411419204/
Toysoldier Thor: ToyTalks.weebly.com
Marble portrait of a man - Roman, Late Republican or Early Augustan period, late 1st century BC. This head with its broad forehead, narrow chin, and long scrawny neck is so similar to portraits of Julius Caesar as he appears on coins and in sculpture that, in the past, it was identified as that famous general and politician. Perhaps the man who is the actual subject of the portrait wished to accentuate this resemblance because he sympathized with the dictatorship of Caesar or with the cause of his party, the populares. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Me with Reno as Zombie Hitler taken on 10th April, 2010 @Iluma.
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фиолетовый сон национальный #траур
#DerUntergang : good bye bye : #aRT 46
Начало конца. обратный отсчет - c C Fri
#strong #rainfall : #Countdown . .
Yaklaşan Karanlık Fırtına : Z. 22
#Firavun . The #Dictators : : .
Adolf #Hitler 's Germany
The cloud-blue sky
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
...
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
W. Shakespeare / Prospero
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Match the developmentally-disabled dictators in List 1 with descriptions below in List 2:
LIST 1
[ ] Bashar al-ASAD, president of the Republic of Syria
[ ] Umar Ahmad al-BASHIR, president of the Republic of Sudan
[ ] Raúl CASTRO, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
[ ] Isaias AFWORKI, president of the State of Eritrea
[ ] Aleksandr LUKASHENKO, president of the Republic of Belarus
[ ] KIM Jong-Un, State Affairs Commission Chairman of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
[ ] King MSWATI III, King of eSwatini
[ ] Teodoro OBIANG Nguema, president of the Republic of Equitorial Guinea
[ ] Donald John TRUMP, president-by-appointment of the United States of America
LIST 2
1. Ate parts of his enemies’ bodies in order to exhibit power.
2. Said “Germany was raised from ruins thanks to firm authority and not everything connected with that well-known figure Hitler was bad.”
3. Described by interviewer Sean Penn as "warm, open, energetic and sharp of wit”
4. First son of one of his father’s more than 125 wives.
5. Indicted by the ICC for directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur
6. Put to death members of his uncle’s family, to completely destroy all traces of that man’s existence through "extensive executions" of his family, including the children and grandchildren of all close relatives.
7. Said “My IQ is one of the highest and you all know it. Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure; it’s not your fault!”
8. Believed by Amnesty International to have imprisoned at least 10,000 political prisoners.
9. Used chemical weapons on his own people.
Dictator Series#1
He's big, he's bad, and he drives the Death Star.
Since he has no qualms vaporizing entire planets with his pimped out ride, I find the mile high version of Grand Moff Tarkin particularly terrifying. I doubt he'd feel any remorse after stamping out millions of sympathizers under his mighty boots. In fact he'd probably relish personally crushing the rebellious bugs in gargantuan horrifying fashion. I certainly hope there's an audacious smuggler nearby when I see the colossal Tarkin appear on the horizon in my corner of the galaxy. . .
The Studebaker Dictator was an automobile produced by the Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana from 1927-1937. The name was intended to connote that the model "dictated the standard" that other automobile makes would be obliged to follow. At the time, the only dictator that would have immediately come to an American mind was Benito Mussolini, whose popular image was one of audacity and strength, in spite of well-publicized fascist violence. However, the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany tainted the word 'dictator'. Studebaker abruptly discontinued the name 'Dictator' in 1937.
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Fidel Castro is dead at the age of 90. The brutal communist dictator established a repressive police state in Cuba, reneging on his promise of free elections for a democratic nation. He executed thousands of Cubans who opposed his totalitarian regime and imprisoned tens of thousands, beating and torturing many of them. He divided tens of thousands of families, destroyed the economy and the culture and established a communist regime, becoming a satellite of the Soviet Union. He put the world on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
During almost six decades, millions of Cubans have fled the communist island in search of freedom and prosperity because all freedoms were suspended by the tyrant who would lecture the nation via radio and TV saying: “Dentro de la revolución todo, contra la revolución nada.” (With the revolution, everything, against the revolution, nothing.) He made sure all his opponents were silenced by incarceration and often by torture and death.
Fidel Castro and his communist regime exported and supported terrorism, guerrilla warfare, as well as drug trafficking throughout Latin America and the world.
I'm a living witness that his legacy is one of repression, family separation, suffering, death, and destruction of a once prosperous nation.
Free Cubans all over the world are celebrating the death of a monster who enslaved an entire nation and made the Island of Cuba his private plantation. Donald Trump's statements about the legacy of Fidel Castro are spot on and historically accurate. I should know, I lived under that repressive regime for more than ten years and experienced firsthand the havoc this brutal dictator has reeked during his more than five decades in power, turning Cuba into a maximum security prison. Trump said, and I agree:
"Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights. While Cuba remains a totalitarian island, it is my hope that today marks a move away from the horrors endured for too long, and toward a future in which the wonderful Cuban people finally live in the freedom they so richly deserve."
The President-elect added, "Though the tragedies, deaths and pain caused by Fidel Castro cannot be erased, our administration will do all it can to ensure the Cuban people can finally begin their journey toward prosperity and liberty." May our people be free at last!
Thrilling Wonder Stories / Heft-Reihe
> Ray Cummings / Shadow Gold
> Edmond Hamilton / Cosmic Quest
> Hal K. Wells / Man-Jewels for Xothar
> A. Merritt / Rhythm of the Spheres
> Ralph Milne Farley / Liquid Life
> Paul Ernst / The Microscopic Giants
> Arthur J. Burks / Dictator of the Atoms
> D. L. James / Crystals of Madness
cover: Howard V. Brown (cover illustrates "Man-Jewels for Xothar")
Beacon Magazines, Inc. / USA 1936
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
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Photos of the homage to former dictator Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet´s regime asasinated more than 3000 left wing militants and tortured over 38.000 people in it´s 17 years in power.
Some 3000 people marched to stop the homage and where violently repressed by the police.
In this picture: A woman and her escort pass thorough the police lines to participate in the homage to Augusto Pinochet. Behind them, protesters oposing the rally gather.
Fotos del homenaje a Pinochet.
When the new emperor came back after the coronation journey around his kingdom, there were huge masses of angry mobs in the capital
He had ruled by decree from afar and had left the executional power in the hands of the old Kings technocrats...
Emperor Franz blamed these riots on the technocrats and let them parade in shame up and down the streets letting the people spit and trow things at them only for later have them all publicly executed...
Then there was a problem holding all the alliances together, he had "by mistake" taxed areas belonging to his alliance partners and now they wanted their gold and goods back or threatened to leave the tri-part alliance the same thing had happened in the Emirates and they to wanted repayment...
The Wolfpack and forest-men had left the alliance because the new taxes on farmers where they were obliged to pay 120% of their grain production and 225% of all animals slaughtered and sold
The City traders and crafters complained about similar impossible taxes to pay...
The Mage was mysteriously gone, he who had promised to make more gold for him...
He sent an order to all active troops to keep their eyes open for this enemy of the state but had strict orders not to hurt him on capture since if he knew how to make gold, he could still be useful...
the state church complained that people was working so hard that they didn´t have time to come to the prayer houses any longer...
The Hired soldiers demanded more pay...
the Barbarians had made advances straight in to some of the kingdoms heartlands which made the state/emperor loose even more revenue...
loads of others where complaining about loads of other things...
that is when Emperor Franz finally snapped!
- Fine, All off you out from my palace he screamed!
- From now on, I have made a law, I abolish all the kingdoms and emirates in the alliance, if Kings and Emirs don´t step aside they are enemies of the state!
Money is abolished, the only one allowed to own gold is me...
Then he isolated himself in his palace and let his men hired soldiers roam around the country take all gold and money to in to his palace, of cause his general and troops would have the right to keep all that isn´t gold or money, so bands of state-sponsored soldiers roamed the countries taking what they wanted, killing those who opposed...
...isolated in his cold Palace Franz sat and counted his gold, killing all who opposed him and throwing those who had thoughts of opposing his rule in to jail...
Photographed at The Vintage Times Street Rod Club 36th Annual Rod Run in Springfield, Illinois on September 4, 2010.
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Belgian postcard, no. 980. Photo: Paramount. Paulette Goddard in Kitty (Mitchell Leisen, 1945).
American actress Paulette Goddard (1905-1990) started her career as a fashion model and as a Ziegfeld Girl in several Broadway shows. In the 1940s, she became a major star of Paramount Pictures. She was Charlie Chaplin's leading lady in Modern Times (1936), and The Great Dictator. Goddard was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for So Proudly We Hail! (1943). Her husbands included Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque.
Paulette Goddard was born Pauline Marion Levy in Whitestone Landing, Long Island, New York. Sources variously cite her year of birth as 1911 and 1914, and the place as Whitestone Landing, New York, USA. However, municipal employees in Ronco, Switzerland, where she died, gave her birth year of record as 1905. Goddard was the daughter of Joseph Russell Levy, the son of a prosperous Jewish cigar manufacturer from Salt Lake City, and Alta Mae Goddard, who was of Episcopalian English heritage. They married in 1908 and separated while their daughter was very young, although the divorce did not become final until 1926. According to Goddard, her father left them, but according to J. R. Levy, Alta absconded with the child. Goddard was raised by her mother and did not meet her father again until the late 1930s after she had become famous. To avoid a custody battle, she and her mother moved often during her childhood, even relocating to Canada at one point. Goddard began modeling at an early age to support her mother and herself, working for Saks Fifth Avenue, Hattie Carnegie, and others. An important figure in her childhood was her great uncle, Charles Goddard, the owner of the American Druggists Syndicate. He played a central role in Goddard's career, introducing her to Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld. She made her stage debut as a dancer in Ziegfeld's summer revue, 'No Foolin' (1926), which was also the first time that she used the stage name Paulette Goddard. Ziegfeld hired her for another musical, 'Rio Rita', which opened in February 1927, but she left the show after only three weeks to appear in the play 'The Unconquerable Male', produced by Archie Selwyn. It was, however, a flop and closed after only three days following its premiere in Atlantic City. Soon after the play closed, Goddard was introduced to the much older lumber tycoon Edgar James, president of the Southern Lumber Company, by Charles Goddard. She married him in June 1927 in Rye, New York, but the marriage was short. Goddard was granted a divorce in Reno, Nevada, in 1929, receiving a divorce settlement of $375,000. Tony Fontana at IMDb: "A stunning natural beauty, Paulette could mesmerize any man she met, a fact she was well aware of. "
Paulette Goddard first visited Hollywood in 1929, when she appeared as an uncredited extra in two films, the Laurel and Hardy short film Berth Marks (Lewis R. Foster, 1929), and George Fitzmaurice's drama The Locked Door (1929). Following her divorce, she briefly visited Europe before returning to Hollywood in late 1930 with her mother. Her second attempt at acting was no more successful than the first, as she landed work only as an extra. In 1930, she signed her first film contract with producer Samuel Goldwyn to appear as a Goldwyn Girl in Whoopee! (Thornton Freeland, 1930) with Eddie Cantor. She also appeared in City Streets (Rouben Mamoulian, 1931) with Gary Cooper, Ladies of the Big House (Marion Gering, 1931) starring Sylvia Sidney, and The Girl Habit (Edward F. Cline, 1931) for Paramount, and The Mouthpiece (James Flood, Elliott Nugent, 1932) for Warners. Goldwyn and she did not get along, and she began working for Hal Roach Studios, appearing in a string of uncredited supporting roles for the next four years, including Young Ironsides (James Parrott, 1932) with Charley Chase, and Pack Up Your Troubles (1932) with Laurel and Hardy. One of her bigger roles in that period was as a blond 'Goldwyn Girl' in the Eddie Cantor film The Kid from Spain (Leo McCarey, 1932). Goldwyn also used Goddard in The Bowery (Raoul Walsh, 1933) with Wallace Beery, Roman Scandals (Frank Tuttle, 1933), and Kid Millions (Roy Del Ruth, 1934) with Eddie Cantor. The year she signed with Goldwyn, Goddard began dating Charlie Chaplin, a relationship that received substantial attention from the press. They were reportedly married in secret in Canton, China, in June 1936. It marked a turning point in Goddard's career when Chaplin cast her as his leading lady in his box office hit, Modern Times (1936). Her role as 'The Gamin', an orphan girl who runs away from the authorities and becomes The Tramp's companion, was her first credited film appearance and garnered her mainly positive reviews, Frank S. Nugent of The New York Times describing her as "the fitting recipient of the great Charlot's championship". Following the success of Modern Times, Chaplin planned other projects with Goddard in mind as a co-star, but he worked slowly, and Goddard worried that the public might forget about her if she did not continue to make regular film appearances. She signed a contract with David O. Selznick and appeared with Janet Gaynor in the comedy The Young in Heart (Richard Wallace, 1938) before Selznick lent her to MGM to appear in two films. The first of these, Dramatic School (Robert B. Sinclair, 1938), co-starred Luise Rainer, but the film received mediocre reviews and failed to attract an audience. Her next film, The Women (George Cukor, 1939), was a success. With an all-female cast headed by Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, and Rosalind Russell, the film's supporting role of Miriam Aarons was played by Goddard. Pauline Kael later wrote of Goddard, "she is a stand-out. fun."
David O' Selznick was pleased with Paulette Goddard's performances, particularly her work in The Young in Heart, and considered her for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939). Initial screen tests convinced Selznick and director George Cukor that Goddard would require coaching to be effective in the role, but that she showed promise, and she was the first actress given a Technicolor screen test. After he was introduced to Vivien Leigh, he wrote to his wife that Leigh was a "dark horse" and that his choice had "narrowed down to Paulette, Jean Arthur, Joan Bennett, and Vivien Leigh". After a series of tests with Leigh that pleased both Selznick and Cukor, Selznick cancelled the further tests that had been scheduled for Goddard, and the part was given to Leigh. Goddard's next film, The Cat and the Canary (Elliott Nugent, 1939) with Bob Hope, was a turning point in the careers of both actors. The success of the film established her as a genuine star. Her performance won her a ten-year contract with Paramount Studios, which was one of the premier studios of the day. They promptly were re-teamed in The Ghost Breakers (George Marshall, 1940), again a huge hit. Goddard starred with Chaplin again in his film The Great Dictator (1940). In 1942, Goddard was granted a Mexican divorce from Chaplin. The couple split amicably, with Chaplin agreeing to a generous settlement. At Paramount, Goddard was used by Cecil B. De Mille in the action epic North West Mounted Police (1940), playing the second female lead. She was Fred Astaire's leading lady in the acclaimed musical Second Chorus/Swing it (H.C. Potter, 1940), where she met actor Burgess Meredith, her third husband. Goddard made Pot o' Gold (George Marshall, 1941), a comedy with James Stewart, then supported Charles Boyer and Olivia de Havilland in Hold Back the Dawn (Mitchell Leisen, 1941), from a script by Wilder and Brackett, directed by Mitchell Leisen. Goddard was teamed with Hope for the third time in Nothing But the Truth (Elliott Nugent, 1942), then made The Lady Has Plans (Sidney Lanfield, 1942), a comedy with Ray Milland. She co-starred with Milland and John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind (Cecil B. DeMille, 1942), playing the lead, a Scarlett O'Hara type character. The film was a huge hit. Goddard did The Forest Rangers (George Marshall, 1942) with Fred MacMurray. One of her better-remembered film appearances was in the variety musical Star Spangled Rhythm (George Marshall, 1943), in which she sang "A Sweater, a Sarong, and a Peekaboo Bang" with Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake.
Paulette Goddard received one Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress for So Proudly We Hail! (Mark Sandrich, 1943) opposite Claudette Colbert and Veronica Lake. She didn't win, but it solidified her as a top draw. Goddard was teamed with Fred MacMurray in the delightful comedy Standing Room Only (Sidney Lanfield, 1944) and Sonny Tufts in I Love a Soldier (Mark Sandrich, 1944). In May 1944, she married Burgess Meredith at David O. Selznick's home in Beverly Hills. Goddard's most successful film was Kitty (Mitchell Leisen, 1945), in which she played the title role. Denny Jackson/Robert Sieger at IMDb: "The film was a hit with moviegoers, as she played an ordinary English woman transformed into a duchess. The film was filled with plenty of comedy, dramatic and romantic scenes that appealed to virtually everyone." In The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946), Goddard starred with husband Burgess Meredith under the direction of Jean Renoir. It was made for United Artists. At Paramount she did Suddenly It's Spring (Mitchell Leisen, 1947) with Fred MacMurray, and De Mille's 18th-century romantic drama Unconquered (Cecil B. DeMille, 1947), with Cary Grant. During the Hollywood Blacklist, when she and blacklisted husband Meredith were mobbed by a baying crowd screaming "Communists!" on their way to a premiere, Goddard is said to have turned to her husband and said, "Shall I roll down the window and hit them with my diamonds, Bugsy?" In 1947, she made An Ideal Husband in Britain for Alexander Korda and was accompanied on a publicity trip to Brussels by Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, niece of Sir Winston Churchill and future wife of future Prime Minister Anthony Eden. She divorced Meredith in June 1949 and also left Paramount. In 1949, she formed Monterey Pictures with John Steinbeck. Goddard starred in Anna Lucasta (Irving Rapper, 1949), then went to Mexico for The Torch (Emilio Fernández, 1950). In England, she was in Babes in Bagdad (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1952), then she went to Hollywood for Vice Squad (Arnold Laven, 1953) with Edward G. Robinson, and Charge of the Lancers (William Castle, 1954) with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Her last starring role was in the English production A Stranger Came Home/The Unholy Four (Terence Fisher, 1954).
Paulette Goddard began appearing in summer stock and on television, guest-starring on episodes of Sherlock Holmes, an adaptation of The Women, this time playing the role of Sylvia Fowler, The Errol Flynn Theatre, The Joseph Cotten Show, and The Ford Television Theatre. She was in an episode of Adventures in Paradise and a TV version of The Phantom. After her marriage to Erich Maria Remarque in 1958, Goddard largely retired from acting and moved to Ronco sopra Ascona, Switzerland. In 1964, she attempted a comeback in films with a supporting role in the Italian film Gli indifferenti/Time of Indifference (Francesco Maselli, 1964), starring Claudia Cardinale and Rod Steiger, which was her last feature film. After Remarque's death in 1970, she made one last attempt at acting, when she accepted a small role in an episode of the TV series The Snoop Sisters, The Female Instinct (Leonards Stern, 1972) with Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick. Upon Remarque's death, Goddard inherited much of his money and several important properties across Europe, including a wealth of contemporary art, which augmented her own long-standing collection. During this period, her talent at accumulating wealth became a byword among the old Hollywood élite. During the 1980s, she became a fairly well known (and highly visible) socialite in New York City, appearing covered with jewels at many high-profile cultural functions with several well-known men, including Andy Warhol, with whom she sustained a friendship for many years until his death in 1987. Paulette Goddard underwent invasive treatment for breast cancer in 1975, successfully by all accounts. In 1990, she died at her home in Switzerland from heart failure while under respiratory support due to emphysema, She is buried in Ronco Village Cemetery, next to Remarque and her mother. Goddard had no children. She became a stepmother to Charles Chaplin's two sons, Charles Chaplin Jr. and Sydney Chaplin, while she and Charlie were married. In his memoirs, 'My Father Charlie Chaplin' (1960), Charles Jr. describes her as a lovely, caring and intelligent woman throughout the book. In October 1944, she suffered the miscarriage of a son with Burgess Meredith. Goddard, whose own formal education did not go beyond high school, bequeathed US$20 million to New York University (NYU) in New York City.
Sources: Tony Fontana (IMDb), Denny Jackson / Robert Sieger (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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The military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad, faced with a popular uprising, announced on television, on 4 December 1990, that he was going to step down. People ran out into the streets immediately, I went out with my bicycle and camera. In Mirpur Road I came across this little girl who was out with her dad celebrating the advent of democracy with a bunch of flowers. F5 Roll 85. Photo: Shahidul Alam/Drik/Majority World
New sculptures of the former Italian dictator and fascist leader apparently sell as hot lava...
Etna, Sicily
1.Erly Adolf from 1935
2.Josiph Visarinovich
3.Benito Andrea
4.Comrade Uljanov
5.Just search with google: Nelson Mandela communist
Statue of Admiral General Shabazz Aladeen, dictator of the North African country of the Republic of Wadiya, and his female virgin guards. Aladeen used to be the doubles-tennis partner of the deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il.
Promotion of Sacha Baron Cohen's film, The Dictator, which opens on 16 May.
Martin Place, Sydney, Australia (Thursday 3 May 2012 @ 8:42am)
Issued by Brooklin Models in December 2022. It is 1:43 scale and is crafted in white metal.
From the NB Center Collection.
The model is finished in Grapetone Maroon.
NBC 06
The 635th Brooklin model to join my collection and was added in January 2023.
Cuban Dictator Colonel Fulgencio Batista's official visit to the US in November 1938: while waiting to go before the presence of President Franklin D Roosevelt, he amuses Chief of Staff Malin Craig with his clownish imitation of FDRs cigarette smoking mannerisms.
Fulgencio: "Well, Señor General Craig, do I look like genuine presidential material or not?"
[Behold how he holds[pun intendedthe cigarette holder and gingerly grasps the tailor-made gloves with just two fingers--impressive! Further, his equestrian boots avec éperons et chaînes de bottes indeed culminate his studied self projection of a splendid caballero.]
Twerp
Fight Comics / Heft-Reihe
- Super-American / Hordes of the Secret Dictator
script: Jefferson Starr
art: Dan Zolnerowich
Fiction House / USA 1941
Reprint: Comic-Club NK 2010
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An alternative view of a 1:24 scale model issued by Danbury Mint.
The model is featured in a recent diorama.
Charlie Chaplin's 1940 movie 'The Great Dictator' is recognized as a cinematic masterpiece. It was a comment of the times and a great political satire. One of the two characters played by Chaplin in the movie is a Jewish barber (Adenoid Hynkel) who is a war veteran being persecuted in the fictional nation of 'Tomainia'. The film was both comedic and dramatic and was the forerunner of the 1997 Oscar winner 'Life is Beautiful' which also took a comedic look at the Holocaust.
Charles Spencer Chaplin (1889-1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He is considered one of the most important figures in the history of the film industry.
Mexican muralist Diego Rivera (1886-1957) painted this scene as part of his 'Pan-American Unity Mural'. Rivera, a notorious womanizer, had been commissioned to make several large-scale murals in the United States. While there he courted Paulette Goddard, a major star at Paramount Studios, who at the time was seeking a divorce from Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin was featured a number of times in Rivera's Unity Mural.