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Higher Level Art are a creative duo who have become known locally for their innovative mural and street art work, as well as all of the murals on Know Theatre’s building. The company is currently sharing office space with Know Theatre as part of the Jackson Street Market at low cost.
Know Theatre of Cincinnati is a non-profit theatre company located in the historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, which produces contemporary and collaborative theatre that tends to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provoking. Season performances occur in a 99-seat versatile black box theatre. Know Theatre produces the annual Cincinnati Fringe Festival and a national educational tour of Calculus the Musical. In 2010, Know Theatre launched the Jackson Street Market, a series of programs created to provide resources, foster collaborations, and to strengthen the local community of individual artists and independent arts organizations. Its goal is to retain artists in the city and create opportunities for them to make a living from their artistic endeavors. Know Theatre joins many other arts organizations in Over-the-Rhine to form an arts district.
Prior to 2006, Know Theatre of Cincinnati was known as the Know Theatre Tribe and was housed in the basement at Gabriel's Corner Church, 1425 Sycamore Street in Cincinnati, OH. Know Theatre moved into its new home on Jackson Street, merged with the Cincinnati Fringe Festival, and changed its name to Know Theatre of Cincinnati in 2006.
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Dr. Know last night, Friday June 12, 2015 at the Hawthorne Theater in Portland, Oregon. This was the first time I saw Dr. Know and according to Kyle Toucher the first time Dr. Know played in Portland since 1987. Of course, he is not counting the incarnation of the band without Kyle. The band were great and the crowded responded. True story, wife overheard some ladies standing near her call Kyle an "edible metal god" between songs; you have to love alcohol, shamelessness and low standards!!
I don't know if anyone ever reads my descriptions, but I write them anyway, so there!!
Was out today (August 20th 2021) on a forced vacation day, from 9:30AM til' almost 4PM. 80F today but it felt like 100F. This is a very active line and I probably flicked 20 freights today. 750+ flicks. By the time I get rid of a few duplicates, and bad ones, I'm guessing it'll be about 700 +/-. 700 to straighten, fix any color issues, upload, and also ID the writers. It's lots of time and as you can imagine, it's a lot of work, but so far it's been fun. I'm trying to not rush myself to post before I'm ready. I already have the flicks, and they're timeless. So getting them posted ASAP!!!!!! is not really my concern. Duh..
Had an interesting interaction with a guy while out there. Guy with backpack had walked back and forth across the tracks a few times. The lat time I saw him he was on the other side of a set, about 100 yards away. Next thing you know he's coming closer..... Closer..... And I'm like WTF? I'm way out here minding my own business. He walks within' like 10 ft. of me and I say "How ya' doin'?" he says something, and then says "Trains?" and I say "Yep." and he says "Oh.." and walks away. I think he was feelin' me out, as there's a small population of people who's homes are shall I say, mobile. I've talked to a few of them, and have never had a bad interaction, I just don't like people walkin' up on me when I'm trying to get away from the rest of the world out by the tracks. I go out there to get away from people, not to interact.
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I follow some other amazing photographers on flickr, but for this I will talk about the ones who flick the freights. There are a few that I really love. Some it's because of the great locations they shoot at, and others it's the amazing little details they manage to capture. For me (right now) I don't have the luxury of walking the lines and seeing pieces static. 99.999% of my flicks the freight is rolling by at 10-50 mph and sometimes I don't really even know what I have until I get home, dump the memory cards and go through the photos. Because of this, most of my flicks are just straight on shots and documenting what I saw and where. I saw this freight here, on this date, here's what was on it, and i captured it. Buffed or scraped next week, well I have it on "film" for future generations (sounds corny, I know). There are times when a freight will stop in-front of me, and I'll walk up and get some shots of monikers, but it's rare.
Obviously in any area there are sidings where freights park for extended periods, I know a few spots, but as I get older, and older, do I really want to leave my car parked on the side of the road and walk 2 miles to capture some little details I might normally miss? I'd love to, but it's just not practical for me at this time, any many other people do it better than I could. Retirement is getting closer every day, maybe then, when my weekdays are free. :-)
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During the Covid lockdown, I was working from home, and I was getting out benching like 2 & 3 times a month. Back at work, I'm lucky to have the energy to get out once a month. Every time I do manage to get out, I come home and my batteries feel re-charged. It's been so f-ing hot here in SoCal though, I can't wait for cooler weather and some clouds in the sky.
As always, thanks to the writers!
To see the rest of my freight graffiti flicks click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/siamesepuppy/collections/7215771678...
For freight graffiti slideshows/videos hit up my YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/SilenceSeven
Cassandra loves the movie 'Tangled', so she has dedicated her voice to perfecting the songs from it. Today she is singing 'Mother Knows Best'.
My favorite part? "Mother knows best-EEST!"
You know me I do not call many horses bombproof — but this one is as close as they get!! Peanut is a 20 year old bay gelding that is safe for ANYONE. He loves to just walk the trails — he will cross water bridges and is easy going. If you ask for the next gait he will give it to you but he does like to go slow!! He is ready to go to a new home – he is in good shape — UTD on all shots, wormer and had his teeth floated in July! Great deal at $950 contact Traci Davis 254-433-0806 www.Cowboy4Sale.com
Nobody knows who I really am..
I never felt this empty before..
And if I ever need someone to come along..
Who's gonna comfort me and keep me strong?
We are all rowing the boat of fate..
The waves keep on comin' and we can't escape..
But if we ever get lost on our way..
The waves would guide you thru another day..
Nobody knows who I really am..
Maybe they just don't give a damn..
But if I ever need someone to come along..
I know you would follow me, and keep me strong..
And every time I see your face,
The oceans heave up to my heart..
You make me wanna strain at the oars,
And soon I can see the shore..
I want you to know who I really am..
I never thought I'd feel this way towards you..
And if you ever need someone to come along..
I will follow you, and keep you strong..
And every time I see your face,
The oceans heave up to my heart..
You make me wanna strain at the oars,
And soon I can see the shore..
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None of my works can be used.
I don't know if anyone ever reads my descriptions, but I write them anyway, so there!!
Was out today (August 20th 2021) on a forced vacation day, from 9:30AM til' almost 4PM. 80F today but it felt like 100F. This is a very active line and I probably flicked 20 freights today. 750+ flicks. By the time I get rid of a few duplicates, and bad ones, I'm guessing it'll be about 700 +/-. 700 to straighten, fix any color issues, upload, and also ID the writers. It's lots of time and as you can imagine, it's a lot of work, but so far it's been fun. I'm trying to not rush myself to post before I'm ready. I already have the flicks, and they're timeless. So getting them posted ASAP!!!!!! is not really my concern. Duh..
Had an interesting interaction with a guy while out there. Guy with backpack had walked back and forth across the tracks a few times. The lat time I saw him he was on the other side of a set, about 100 yards away. Next thing you know he's coming closer..... Closer..... And I'm like WTF? I'm way out here minding my own business. He walks within' like 10 ft. of me and I say "How ya' doin'?" he says something, and then says "Trains?" and I say "Yep." and he says "Oh.." and walks away. I think he was feelin' me out, as there's a small population of people who's homes are shall I say, mobile. I've talked to a few of them, and have never had a bad interaction, I just don't like people walkin' up on me when I'm trying to get away from the rest of the world out by the tracks. I go out there to get away from people, not to interact.
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I follow some other amazing photographers on flickr, but for this I will talk about the ones who flick the freights. There are a few that I really love. Some it's because of the great locations they shoot at, and others it's the amazing little details they manage to capture. For me (right now) I don't have the luxury of walking the lines and seeing pieces static. 99.999% of my flicks the freight is rolling by at 10-50 mph and sometimes I don't really even know what I have until I get home, dump the memory cards and go through the photos. Because of this, most of my flicks are just straight on shots and documenting what I saw and where. I saw this freight here, on this date, here's what was on it, and i captured it. Buffed or scraped next week, well I have it on "film" for future generations (sounds corny, I know). There are times when a freight will stop in-front of me, and I'll walk up and get some shots of monikers, but it's rare.
Obviously in any area there are sidings where freights park for extended periods, I know a few spots, but as I get older, and older, do I really want to leave my car parked on the side of the road and walk 2 miles to capture some little details I might normally miss? I'd love to, but it's just not practical for me at this time, any many other people do it better than I could. Retirement is getting closer every day, maybe then, when my weekdays are free. :-)
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During the Covid lockdown, I was working from home, and I was getting out benching like 2 & 3 times a month. Back at work, I'm lucky to have the energy to get out once a month. Every time I do manage to get out, I come home and my batteries feel re-charged. It's been so f-ing hot here in SoCal though, I can't wait for cooler weather and some clouds in the sky.
As always, thanks to the writers!
To see the rest of my freight graffiti flicks click here:
www.flickr.com/photos/siamesepuppy/collections/7215771678...
For freight graffiti slideshows/videos hit up my YouTube channel here: www.youtube.com/SilenceSeven
Maybe the most terrifying building I know, horrifically impressive. Colored red by the october evening sunlight.
You know you're an Asian redneck if you are celebrating your "bachelorette" party at a 24 hour Walmart getting last minute supplies for your wedding.
Hardly know what to say.
The annual meeting of the ASA has been great; mostly because I've met a huge number of people from my department in a wonderful setting. Last night we had the CUNY party, and folks were terrific. It's already true that I've had better, longer conversations about my academic and intellectual interests with my peers here than I ever did at Yale over the course of *years*. I sure did pick the right school.
Am headed out to California in a couple of days (eek!) after the close is over. And the close has gone well, only a couple of hideously late nights last week. My body was in rough shape today, but I'm going to bed early, and the next couple of days will be fairly light, so we'll see if it calms down.
I'm feeling generally smart and competent and pretty and on top of my game; hope I'm not jinxing anything by saying that out loud, but it seems important to mention that if I'm going to mention on other days that I'm feeling insecure and mopey and rotten. So: yay!
Design: Think. Know. Do. is a one-week intensive design camp at Ohio Northern University. The camp is being offered through the Summer Honors Institute program for gifted high school students who are entering their sophomore, junior or senior years in the 2010–2011 academic year.
This year’s Design Camp embarks on an exciting journey to explore the fundamentals of visual communication. Working in teams, students investigate how ideas of sustainability can be applied to a community’s interactions, its economics and its physical environment. Student teams use a variety of design methodologies and skills to find answers to how design can improve the experience of a recycling plan on campus.
To learn more about the summer design camp, visit the A&D Web site.
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A couple that I got to know for a couple of months, we became friends over these months.
The pretty bride has known a lot of photographer in Singapore, it’s my truly my pleasure to be chosen as a photographer for the biggest day of her life.
They were charming, loving and pretty all day long, I had never been tired taking photos of them,
and they even had prepared meals for us who making this day happens.
As a wedding photographer, I always want to get closer to the couple before the actual event comes, get to know their needs, their likes, and always try to create the chemistry with the couple and the beloved friends around them. I want them to feel comfortable on the wedding day, during the photo sessions especially. For that, I always go for extra miles beyond I had promised on the paper.
I always work on my assignment with all my heart, I never treat it just to complete my job.
Apart from God’s grace and blessing, I believe this is why I am able to be where I am.
It was really a great day to witness their moments.
A big congratulations to Thaw Zin & Win Lei,
and wish you all have a lovely family and a happy life together.
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I know, I'm mixing up Mexican and voodoo culture. But they're pretty compatible if you research it. So there are traditional Mexican sugar skull motifs mixed with images from common Erzulie Freda (Erzuli Danto) véves.
The challenge was working on these small skulls, which are not really sugar skulls but are white chocolate, 1¾" in their longest dimension. After my then-wife's disastrous attempt on Nov 1st I wanted to apply my toothpick technique to see if I could succeed. I'm pretty happy with it.
Incidentally, my approach is to put a blob of frosting onto the wax paper and mix it up with a toothpick. When the toothpick comes away there's usually a fine strand of frosting dangling from its tip, which I drag into place.
One from the archives, I explored this area in 2005. This old Southern steam locomotive coaling tower was dated 1925 and is in remarkably good condition considering. I am a bit confused as to why it was located all the way out in the middle of nowhere through, structures like this would typically be located at a terminal or helper facility. Anyone know the history?
DAY 1 of the FINALE to the 2021 Motorsport Season and the end of the Season Brings us once again Back to Brands Hatch for a weekend Dedicated to the Enduro KA Series with Many Ford KA'S Ready to do Battle on the Track along with other Support Races such as Champion of Brands MSVT Track Day Trophy and MSV Super Cup Championship to name Just a Few.
With a Full Day of Motorsport on the Circuit Each Driver was Getting their Car Ready and making sure they had a Really Hardy Breakfast Before Getting into their Cars to Begin their Respective Qualifying Sessions for the Day.
Lets Get to it and See what The Last Event of the Motorsport Season Brings and who has Taken the First Pole of the Weekend.
Champion Of Brands-(Qualifying)
First Up onto the Circuit was The Champion of Brands and these Cars are Formula Ford Based and can be Very Quick in a Straight Line and through the Corner. With Cars such as the Van Diemen JL13 and the Ray GR16 Thease Cars and Drivers know how to Really Push Hard and Get Superb Results.
Lets Find Out who Took Pole and By How Much
In First Place Taking the First Pole Position of the Weekend was (Morgan Quinn) in his Formula Ford 1600 Kent with a Best Lap Time of 50.561 and a Top Speed of 86.00mph. Brilliant Work there Morgan Fantastic Lap to Start the Weekend of with a Bang.
In Second Place was (Lucas Romanek) in his Van Diemen JL13 with a Best Lap Time of 50.594 and a Top Speed of 85.95mph. Amazing Drive there Lucas Fantastic Work and a Very Good Spot on the Front Row for Race 1.
In Third Place was (Johnny Cochran) in his Formula Ford LA10 with a Best Lap Time of 51.250 and a Top Speed of 84.85mph. Great Drive there Johnny Fantastic Car Control and a Brilliant Lap to Complete The Top Three.
A Really Great First Qualifying Session of the Day with the Likes of Morgan Lucas and Johnny all taking the Top Three Spots in Qualifying but will anyone Else in the Field be able to Beat them off the Line into the First Corner at Paddock Hill Bend?
Lets Find Out
Champion Of Brands-(Race 1 Results)
After a Thrilling Qualifying Session which saw the likes of Morgan Quinn take Pole Position from Second Place Lucas Romanek with Johnny Cochran in Third Position in a Very Close Battle at the Top, it was Now Time to see which of thease Top Three Drivers could Defend their Positions thought the Race and who would be Brave Enough to make a Challenge for the Podium.
In First Place Taking the Victory was (Lucas Romanek) in his Van Diemen JL13 with a Best Lap Time of 50.711 and an Average Speed of 84.44mph. Congratulations Lucas a Really Well Deserved Win Under Immense Pressure Thought The Entire Race from Morgan Quinn. Brilliant Drive.
In Second Place was (Morgan Quinn) in his FF 1600 Kent with a Best Lap Time of 50.564 and an Average Speed of 84.42mph. Super Job out there Morgan Only 0.131 Seconds Behind Lucas and Some Really Good Defending and Battling From both of You Thought the Race. Fantastic Drive and Well Deserved.
In Third Place was (Benjamin Cochran) in his Formula Ford LA10 with a Best Lap Time of 51.095 and an Average Speed of 83.99mph. Great Work there Benjamin Keeping Hold of that P3 Position and Doing some Incredible work to Keep that Car on the Tarmac in Conditions that were Already Quite Dark.
A Really Thrilling Race to Open up the Weekend with the Likes of Lucas, Morgan and Benjamin all Taking Superb Victories in Race 1 as Well As Proving Thrilling Battles at The Top End of the Field.
Really Well Done to (Morgan Quinn) who also Took the Fastest Lap of the Race an Incredible (50.564) Second Lap Around The Famous Indy Circuit. Amazing Driving from Morgan.
A Big Congratulations to All of the other Drivers who also Took Part Your Passion and Dedication is Immense.
With One Last Race to Go will the likes of Lucas Romanek be able to Make it 2 out of 2 Wins for Champion of Brands or will the likes of both Benjamin and Morgan try to take that Last Victory Away from Him?
Lets Find Out
Champion Of Brands-(Race 2 Results FINAL)
In First Place taking the Last Victory for Champion of Brands Is (Lucas Romanek) in his Van Diemen JL13 with a Best Lap Time of 50.825 and an Average Speed of 83.45mph. Congratulations Once Again Lucas Two out of Two Wins and no Doubt a Very Happy Team and Family Awaiting You Before and After the Podium Fantastic Driving All Weekend.
In Second Place was (Morgan Quinn) in his FF 1600 Kent with a Best Lap Time of 50.754 and an Average Speed of 82.99mph. Very Well Driven there Morgan Great to See Such an Intense Battle Between you and Lucas for Victory in Conditions that were Almost Impossible to see anything in. Incredible Dedication and Drive.
In Third Place was (Benjamin Cochran) in his Formula Ford LA10 with a Best Lap Time of 51.862 and an Average Speed of 81.70mph. Nice Work there Benjamin Fantastic Driving in both Qualifying and The Two Races with a Brilliant P3 Finnish to Round off The Weekend for Champion of Brands.
What a Fantastic Day it has been for Champion of Brands seeing some Incredible Racing Action and a huge amount of Competitiveness from the Likes of Lucas Morgan and Benjamin who All Drove Fantastically and Put on One Hell of a Good Show.
A Huge Congratulations to both Lucas and Morgan as Well Who were in a Class of their Own at The Front of the Field Racing in Deteriorating Lighting Conditions with no Front Headlights on their Formula Fords to Light their Way around The Indy Circuit they Both Drove Insanely Well.
MSV Super Cup-(Qualifying)
Next Up onto the Circuit for the Day was the MSV Super Cup Championship and with a Wide Range and Variety of Racing Cars on Display it will be Very Interesting to see how many different Battles will Develop thought Both Qualifying and The Race.
From BMW E36's to Seat Super Copa's and even a Peugeot 205 GTI This Series has a Huge Amount of Variety Racing Within it.
Lets Take a Look at Qualifying and See Who Came Where
In First Place taking Pole Position was (Darren Goes) in his Seat Cup Racer with a Best Lap Time of 52.257 and a Top Speed of 82.21mph. Great Work there Darren Really Pushing the Car Hard and Having to Extract Everything from both Car and Driver to take P1. Super Job.
In Second Place was the Pairing of (A Bradley and D Bradley) in their BMW E36 with a Best Lap Time of 52.621 and a Top Speed of 82.64mph. Really Well Driven Gentlemen Very Close to Darren looking Forward to a Competitive First Race Between you All.
In Third Place was (Gary Hufford) in his BMW E46 M3 with a Best Lap Time of 52.723 and a Top Speed of 82.48mph. Nice Work there Gary Keeping that Fast and Capable BMW on the Track Looked to be no Easy Task but what a Fantastic Position to Start the First Race in.
Another Really Close Qualifying Session Between the likes of Darren Goes and the Pairing of A Brandley and D Bradley at the Top with Third Place Gary Hufford Following Closely Behind them.
With Their Only Race of the Day Coming Up Next will Daren Be able to Fend off the Charging Pair of A Bradley and D Bradley to take Home Victory or Will the Likes of Gary Hufford Surprise them All and Take the Victory for Himself?
Let's Find Out!
MSV Super Cup-(Race 1 Results FINAL)
In First Place Taking Victory was (Darren Goes) in his Seat Cup Racer with a Best Lap Time of 52.891 and an Average Speed of 77.05mph. Congratulations Darren A Well Deserved Victory Under Immense Pressure the Entire Time and No Doubt a Very Proud and Happy Family Waiting for Him Back in the Paddock.
In Second Place was the Pairing of (Brytchta/Smith) in their Seat Super Copa with a Best Lap Time of 52.594 and an Average Speed of 77.04mph. Great Drive from Both of You and Keeping Right on the Heels of Darren All The Time as well as Putting up a Huge Fight for First Place. Superb Drive and a Well Deserved P2 Finnish.
In Third Place was the Pairing of (A Bradley and D Bradley) in their BMW E36 with a Best Lap Time of 52.680 and an Average Speed of 76.93mph. Great Work to the Both of You Putting Pressure on Second Place Brytchta and Smith.
What an Intense Finnish to the Super Cup Championship with the Likes of Darren Goes Brytchta/Smith and A Bradley and D Bradley All Taking Superb Podium Finishes and no Doubt Going Back Home to a Very Happy and Proud Family of Great People.
Congratulations to All of the Other Drivers who were Also Out there Giving it their All You Guys are What Brings to Sprit of Every Racing Series to Life. Keep Working Hard and I'm Sure your Time Will Come.
MSVT Trackday Championship-(Qualifying)
Next Up was the Track Day Championship and with Another Massive Grid of 32 Cars from All Different Makes such as BMW Volkswagen Renault Ford and Caterham it was Going to be a Dynamic Qualifying Session with Many Different Cars and Drivers All Battling for Positions thought the Qualifying Session.
Lets Find Out who Came Out on Top and Who will be Starting on the Front Row for what Promises to be a Very Exciting and Close Race Later on.
In First Place taking the Victory and The Fastest Lap was (Scott Parkin) in his VW Golf TDI with a Best Lap Time of 54.419 and a Top Speed of 79.90mph. Congratulations Scott a Brilliant Pole Lap and Fantastic Car Control thought Every Corner.
In Second Place was (Chris Payne) in his Caterham Supersport with a Best Lap Time of 54.540 and an Average Speed of 79.73mph. Awesome Drive there from Chris Keeping up at The Front with Scott and Trading Fastest Laps thought the Qualifying Session. I Think both of them are going to put on a Brilliant Display of Racing Later.
In Third Place was The Pairing of (Keen and Roberts) in their Honda Civic Type R with a Best Lap Time of 55.231 and a Top Speed of 78.73mph. Amazing Drive from Thease Two Both Pushing Hard and Securing a Brilliant P3 Position for The Race. Great Job.
What a Qualifying Session with the Likes of Scott Parkin and Chris Payne Both Looking to be Very Competitive and Ready to Take Each other Head On Come the Race. But Will the Pairing of Keen and Roberts Come in and Also do Battle with Them?
Lets Find Out!
MSVT Trackday Championship-(Race 1 Results FINAL)
In First Place taking the Victory was (Scott Parkin) in his VW Golf TDI with a Best Lap Time of 54.706 and an Average Speed of 70.47mph. Congratulations Scott what a Performance and a Really Dominant Display of Driving to take Home a Wonderful Victory.
In Second Place was (Chris Payne) in his Caterham Supersport with a Best Lap Time of 54.397 and an Average Speed of 70.35mph. Amazing Drive there Chris Really Working Hard to Keep that 2nd Position while Also Fighting Hard to take 1st away from Scott at the front during some Laps.
In Third Place was (John Lyne) in his BMW E36 328i with a Best Lap Time of 55.309 and an Average Speed of 68.87mph. Congratulations John P3 with a Very Clean and Perfectly Controlled Drive thought, Its so Great to See a New Face on the Podium and Taking Victory. His Family and Close Friends Will be Very Proud of Him Indeed.
Another Incredible Race Today with the Likes of Scott Chris and John All Taking Home Superb Victories and no Doubt some Fantastic Memories from the Days Events too.
A Big Congratulations to both the Pairing of Keen and Roberts too who also put in a Monstrous Qualifying Lap to Land P3 on the Gird. Finishing the Race in 8th is not too Bad but I'm sure they have a lot of Work to-do Back at the Workshop and Will Come Back Next Year with an even more Competitive Honda Ready to Go.
Finally Congratulations to the Many other Drivers who also Took Part in this Race You All Put in a Tone of Hard Work and Dedication and I'm Sure that Over Time We Will See Some of You also on the Podium Just like John Lyne Today.
MSVT Trackday Trophy-(Qualifying)
Now it was Time for The Penultimate Qualifying and Race of the Day for the Track Day Trophy. Just like with the Previous Track Day Championship Many of the Same cars that Competed Before Also Entered This Race Giving Some Drivers a Second change to Show their Skills and Talents on the Race Track.
Lets take a Look at Qualifying and See Who will be on Pole This Time.
In First Place Taking Pole Position and The Fastest Lap was The Pairing of (R. Parkin and S. Parkin) in their VW Golf with a Best Lap Time of 53.795 and a Top Speed of 80.83mph. Incredible Work by both of the Parkin Pair as Scott Parkin Previously Won in Super Cup and Now he takes His Second Pole Position of the Day! Brilliant Driving.
In Second Place was (Chris Kirby) in his Caterham 1.6 Super Sport with a Best Lap Time of 53.863 and a Top Speed of 80.73mph. Brilliant Driving there Chris Keeping the Two Parkins on their Toes and Almost Taking Away Pole Position from them by Just 0.068 at The Checkered Flag.
In Third Place was the Pair of (Palk and Pottinger) in their Reno Clio with a Best Lap Time of 54.757 and a Top Speed of 79.41mph. Very Well Done both Palk and Pottinger on a Well Deserved and Defended P3 Finish by Less than a Second to Start on the Second Row for The Race.
A Super Fast and Really Exciting Qualifying Session Once Again with the Pairing of R. Parkin and S. Parkin Taking Pole Position Followed Closely by Chris Kirby in Second Place and Finally The Pairing of Palk and Pottinger in Third Place.
With The Race Just Around the Corner Will it be the Pairing of R Parkin and Scott Parkin Taking Victory Once More or Will a New Challenger Appear to take the Fight right to the Front of the Field?
MSVT Trackday Trophy-(Race 1 Results FINAL)
In First Place Taking the Victory is (R.Parkin and S.Parkin) in their VW Golf with a Best Lap Time of 54.046 and an Average Speed of 74.44mph. What a Dominant Display of Driving from thease Two Drivers in a Class of their Own they Have Managed to Win in Both Trackday Championship and Trackday Trophy. Brilliant Driving Well Deserved.
In Second Place was (John Lyne) in his BMW E36 328 with a Best Lap Time of 55.415 and an Average Speed of 73.09mph. Congratulations Once Again John P2 Finish and a Lot of Smiles and Congratulations from the Family I'm sure when you Return to the Paddock. Great Driving All Weekend.
In Third Place was (Stewart Donavan) in his Toyota Celica with a Best Lap Time of 55.083 and an Average Speed of 73.08mph. Congratulations Stewart P3 and Another New Face on the Podium and a Brilliant Looking Celica too. Fantastic Driving Great Job.
What a Brilliant Race from the Trackday Trophy with the Likes of Scott Parkin and R Parkin Taking the Spoils on P1 Followed Closely by John Lyne in P2 and Finally Stewart Donavan in P3.
A Big Congratulations Once Again to All of the other Drivers who took Part and Fought their way Through the Field to Finnish at The Checkered Flag. Keep Racing and Keep Pushing.
Enduro KA -(Qualifying)
After a Long Days Racing and with Night Falling Fast The Headlights of The Enduro KA'S Began to Illuminate the Indy Circuit.
Every Part of the Track was a Wash with Darkness and The Only Thing Illuminating the Way for Each Driver was The Bright Headlights and LED'S Fitted to Each Car with some Teams and Driver Trying their Luck on the KA'S Standard Headlights to Brighten their Way to Victory.
A Silent Hum Came From the Engines as they Raced Around the Indy Circuit with Each Driver Pushing Hard to Set the Fastest Time Possible.
The Tension in the Air was Electrifying as Drivers Danced their Cars Through Traffic and Had Small Battles with One Another Trying to see what their Opponents Tactics were and How Brave each of Them Dare Go in Terms of Pace.
It Wasn't Long before Each Driver Began to Put their Right Foot Hard Down and Push their
73BHP KA To its Limits Trying Desperately to Grab Hold of Pole Position Ahead of Sundays Intense 8 Hour 500 Minute Race.
After a Really Hectic Day of Both Qualifying and Racing Lets Find Out Who Took The Last Pole of Today and Who Will be Starting on The Front Row for Tomorrow's 8 Hour Endurance Race.
In First Place Taking the Victory and pole Position was Team (IP Racings) (Adam Blair / Scott Parkin / Oliver Wilmot / Mark Witherington) in their Ford KA with a Best Lap Time of 1:02.845 and a Top Speed of 69.19mph. Congratulations IP Racing Fantastic Work and a Super Start to the Endurance Race at The Very Front of The Grid.
In Second Place Following Closely Behind by Just 0.261 Seconds was Team (JTR) Elliot Mason / Nick Tandy / David Mason / James Rhodes in their Ford KA with a Best Lap Time of 1:03.106 and a Top Speed of 68.90mph. Superb Job there JTR Fantastic Effort and Really Good Pace to Gain P2 on the Grid for Tomorrow.
In Third Place was Team (Octane Junkies) (Adam Smith / Martyn Smith / Bazza Ward) in their Ford KA with a Best Lap Time of 1:03.110 and a Top Speed of 68.90mph. Great Work Octane Junkies Pushing Hard and Giving it Everything for P3.
After an Intense Qualifying Session the Likes of
Team IP Racings
(Adam Blair / Scott Parkin / Oliver Wilmot / Mark Witherington) Start the Endurance Race in First Place with
(JTR) Elliot Mason / Nick Tandy / David Mason / James Rhodes in Second Place Followed By
(Octane Junkies) (Adam Smith / Martyn Smith / Bazza Ward) in Third Place with the Top Three Very Closely Matched on Lap Times Thought Qualifying.
With Tomorrows Endurance Race being 8 Hours and The use of Driver Changes after 2 Hours in a Team with Four Drivers as Well as Pit Stops and a Whole Field of 45 Cars and Drivers Will the Likes of Team IP Racing Be able to Hold Out and Take Victory After 8 Gruelling Hours of Hard Racing.
Or Will JTR or Octane Junkies Try and Take that Thunder Away From Them? and Can Anyone Else Have a Go at Taking The Victory?
Only Time Will Tell!
See You All On Sunday.........!
Information On Race Results Found on TSL Timing Solutions
You know what? When Jeff has his eyes closed like this, I'm assuming he is sleeping, although he might be faking it. Anyway, that's the only time I feel like planting a kiss on his forehead. When he is awake, I'm disinclined to show him a great deal of affection due to his ability to get under my skin with his misbehavior day after day, after day. How he can look so innocent, even to the point of appearing a bit angelic, baffles me a bit.
Things I Know to be True, by Andrew Bovell
Things I Know to be True is a beautifully written drama centring on the lives of a family over the period of a year, poignantly presented through the seasons. It is described as a “complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family – and a marriage –through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents’ love and expectations”.
Putney Arts Theatre: 5-9 November 2019
Cast:
Bob Price - Aidan Kershaw
Fran Price - Penny Weatherall
Mark Price (Mia Price)- Bradley White
Ben Price - Theo Leonard
Pip Price - Emily Prince
Rosie Price - Natasha Henson
Director: Frances Bodiam
Producer: Jeff Graves
Community arts projects were presented at the Guelph Civic Museum as part of Fourth Fridays March 22. Ed Video's Angus McLellan presented the "60 Seconds of Beauty" project, for which over 70 participants submitted videos of personal examples of beauty. Angela Keeley, OCAD Masters student, presented her project Art Con Guelph, an exhibition which celebrates the ability to be creative without judgment. Also check out the museum's exhibition, "Know Skateboarding", a history of skateboarding culture.
[Photo by Vanessa Tignanelli]
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The Postcard
A Living Picture Series postcard that was posted in Folkestone using a ½d. stamp on Monday the 28th. August 1905. It was sent to:
Miss Harmer,
38, Manor Road,
Folkestone,
Kent.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"9, Birling Road,
Tunbridge Wells,
Kent.
My Dear Child,
Just a line to know if you
can come early Thursday
afternoon as there are a
few friends coming in the
evening.
Will you let us know what
time you are coming if you
can.
Fondest love from
Mum and Dad."
The Sinking of the Peconic
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 28th. August 1905, the sinking of the American steamship Peronic killed 20 of the crew off the coast of Florida.
The steel-hulled screw steamer sank in a gale off Fernandina on the northeast coast of Florida. Her master and 19 crewmen were killed. Two crewmen reached Amelia Island, Florida, in a lifeboat.
The vessel was bound from Philadelphia to New Orleans with a cargo of coal. The disaster was the result of a fierce gale, which raged alone the coast during the night and early morning.
A large wave struck the steamer as she was turning and caused the cargo to shift.
-- History of the Peconic
The Peconic was built by the Liverpool shipyard of Royden and Sons in October 1881. She was 277 feet in length, 34.5 feet in breadth, and displaced 1,795 gross tons. Her sister ships were named Pawnee and Piqua.
An iron-screw steamer with two decks, she was brigantine rigged and originally equipped with a 197-horsepower compound engine and one single-ended boiler; a donkey boiler was added to the vessel in 1894.
She initially sailed under the British flag for the Mediterranean and New York Steamship Company, managed by the Phelps Brothers and Company, on a route that carried her between New York and various Mediterranean ports.
Her wreck was recently identified.
Sam Levene
The day also marked the birth of Sam Levene.
Sam Levene was an American Broadway, films, radio, and television actor and director. In a career spanning over five decades, he appeared in over 50 comedy and drama theatrical stage productions. He also acted in over 50 films across the United States and abroad.
-- Sam Levene - The Early Years
Levene was born as Scholem Lewin in Belarus, the youngest of five children by a dozen years. He immigrated to the United States when he was two years old.
He grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Avenue D and 8th. Street. In 1923, Levene dropped out of Stuyvesant High School. The illustrious dropout was given a special award, his Stuyvesant High School diploma, in a 1976 ceremony held at New York's Princeton Club.
-- Sam Levene on Broadway
Sam Levene made his Broadway stage debut on the 20th. April 1927, earning 60 dollars a week with his first Actor's Equity contract. Levene had a five-line role as District Attorney William Thompson in the original Broadway melodrama Wall Street, a play that only ran for three weeks at the Hudson Theatre.
In 1980, Levene's last and thirty-ninth Broadway credit was his starring role as Daniel Horowitz in the 1980 comedy Horowitz and Mrs. Washington. The play, which was directed by Joshua Logan, closed after a run of only 10 previews and six performances at the John Golden Theatre.
Although the Henry Denker comedy was panned, Levene's star power and comedic performance enabled a five-month tour of Horowitz and Mrs. Washington. It turned out to be Levene's final stage performance in Canada, just two weeks prior to his death.
Levene's Broadway career began with five years of steady employment in nondescript roles in ten Broadway plays, including a series of flops.
One titled Solitaire (1929), was a Broadway play about a Coney Island midget that only ran for four performances at the now demolished Waldorf Theatre, partially financed with a $500 last-minute investment from Levene's older brother Joe.
Emanuel Azenberg and Eugene Wolsk worked with Levene twice in two Broadway productions and two national tours:
-- The first time as company managers when Levene replaced Alan King in the starring role of Dr. Jack Kingsley in the original Broadway production of The Impossible Years (1966). Levene performed the role 322 times on Broadway, and later headlined and starred in the national tour.
-- Six years later, Azenberg and Wolsk were lead producers when Levene was cast as Al Lewis as Willie Clark to co-star in Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (1972. After performing the role of Al Lewis 466 times in the original Broadway production, Levene and Albertson headlined the subsequent national tour.
In his December 1972 review of the original Broadway production of The Sunshine Boys in The New York Times, theatre critic Clive Barnes wrote:
"Jack Albertson as the heart-stricken comic
never puts a line wrong. He is always pathetic
but never enough to make you cry. Lovely.
His acerbic partner, Sam Levene, is as tough
as vintage chewing gum, and yet with a sort
of credible lovability."
-- Sam Levine's Theatrical Career
A master of farce and comedy, Levene was equally effective in drama as well. Over his 54-year Broadway career, Levene performed in 39 Broadway productions at 29 different Broadway theaters, and at some theaters, several times.
Levene performed over 1,600 times at the now demolished Playhouse Theater in four original Broadway productions, in three of which Levene had starring roles.
Levene's Broadway credits include starring roles in three Broadway revivals:
-- Sam portrayed businessmen Boss Mangan in George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House (1959).
-- He recreated his original Broadway performance as Patsy, the racetrack gambler originated three decades earlier, in the acclaimed all-star Broadway revival of the smash hit farce Three Men on a Horse (1969).
-- Sam performed the role of veteran theatre producer Oscar Wolfe in the all-star 1975-1976 Broadway revival of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's The Royal Family (1975) directed by Ellis Rabb The production was filmed for the series Great Performances on the 9th. November 1977.
Levene starred in two major UK productions:
-- In 1953, he recreated his original Broadway performance as Nathan Detroit in the first UK production of Guys and Dolls which opened at The Coliseum and had a run of 553 performances.
-- In 1954, Sam Levene originated the role of Horace Vandergelder in the world premiere production of Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (1954), initially at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.
-- Nathan Detroit
Sam Levene originated the "craps-shooter extraordinaire" Nathan Detroit in the American musical Guys and Dolls on the Great White Way in the original 1950 Broadway production directed by George S. Kaufman.
Levene has been synonymous with the role of Nathan Detroit for seven decades; Guys and Dolls book co-author Abe Burrows specifically crafted the role of Nathan Detroit for Levene who signed for the project long before Burrows ever wrote a single word of dialogue.
In Honest, Abe: Is There Really No Business Like Show Business?, Burrows recalled:
"I had the sound of their voices in my
head. I knew the rhythm of their speech,
and it helped make the dialogue sharper
and more real."
Burrows had the advantage of writing dialogue built around Sam Levene's New York Jewish cadences. The creative talent of Guys and Dolls agreed that Levene was perfect for the role of Nathan Detroit (Damon Runyon had been one of Levene's fans).
Frank Loesser agreed that it was easier adjusting the music to Levene's limitations than substituting a better singer who couldn't act. Levene is the reason the lead role of Nathan Detroit has only one major song, the duet "Sue Me".
Hundreds of productions of Guys and Dolls are staged annually, and Sam Levene's comedic performance as Nathan Detroit still makes headlines, largely because it became the gold standard classic.
Frank Rich, Chief Theatre Critic, The New York Times, like most critics, lauded the 1992 Guys and Dolls revival directed by Jerry Zaks stating:
"This is an enchanting rebirth of the
show that defines Broadway dazzle."
However, regarding Nathan Lane's performance as Nathan Detroit, Frank Rich observed:
"The supremely gifted actor Nathan
Lane does not remotely echo the
first Nathan Detroit, Sam Levene, for
whose New York Jewish cadences
the role was written.
Mr. Lane is more like a young Jackie
Gleason and usually funny in his own
right, though expressions like 'all right,
already' and 'so nu?' do not fall
trippingly from his tongue."
Los Angeles Times Critic Emeritus Sylvie Drake reviewed the 1993 Guys and Dolls touring production, also directed by Jerry Zaks. Drake had a similar observation, comparing David Garrison's portrayal of Nathan Detroit to Sam Levene's original 1950 Broadway performance, writing:
"The wiry Garrison's Detroit physically
harks back more to the 1950 original
played by Sam Levene, than to Nathan
Lane, who played the role on
Broadway last year.
But unlike Levene, Garrison doesn't
come across down, dirty or gritty.
Knowing this actor's talent, one finds
his amiable New York gangster
surprisingly bloodless and almost
genteel."
Levene performed the role of Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls over 1,600 times.
Levene reprised his performance as Nathan Detroit on Decca's original cast recording of the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls. Album sales totaled 250,000 as of the 1st. September 1954.
Guys and Dolls composer and lyricist Frank Loesser specifically wrote "Sue Me" in one octave for Levene, and structured the song so that he and Vivian Blaine never sang their show-stopping duet number together.
The son of a cantor, Levene was fluent in Yiddish: "Alright, already, I'm just a no-goodnick; alright, already, it's true, so nu? So sue me."
Frank Loesser felt that:
"Nathan Detroit should be played as
a brassy Broadway tough guy who
sang with more grits than gravy."
Levene sang "Sue Me" with such a wonderful Runyonesque flavor that his singing was easy to forgive, in fact it was quite charming in its ineptitude.
Alan Alda, son of Guys and Dolls co-star Robert Alda, recalls watching Levene perform Nathan Detroit while standing in the wings. In Never Have Your Dog Stuffed; And Other Things I’ve Learned, Alan Alda recalls:
"Watching Sam Levene was thrilling.
He could ride a moment as if a wild
animal. New meanings occurred to
him on the spot. Not only did he play
the same lines differently every night,
but the laughs rolled in from the
audience in different places.
How did he do it?
This kind of spontaneity and this utter
commitment to the moment became
what I wanted to have.
As good as my father was, what I was
seeing as they played together a few
feet away was the difference between
burlesque and theatre, between
performing and acting.
I chose acting. I wanted to be Sam."
-- Sam Levene's Other Theatre Work
For three decades Levene reprised his role as Patsy from Three Men on a Horse (1935). He did so numerous times on stage, film, TV and radio.
The first time was when he made his motion picture debut in Three Men on a Horse (1936), directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy.
He also performed the role three times on radio, and on two USO tours, playing 200 shows to 120,000 servicemen, the first legitimate U.S. theatrical production mounted overseas.
Due to security, the USO cast was reduced from 12 to 7 without losing a minute of running dialogue. According to a 26th. May 1945 Billboard interview, Levene said:
"The G.I.s' gratefulness is absolutely
embarrassing. They express it not
only by applause but by meeting you
personally and giving you objects
which they have fought and bled for.
They lose sight of the fact that they
are the ones fighting the war."
Levene as Patsy and Shirley Booth as Mabel reprised their original Broadway roles in two ABC radio versions produced by the Theatre Guild on the Air:
-- The first adapted by playwright Arthur Miller aired 6th. January 1946
-- The second aired 1st. June 1947 with David Wayne as Erwin.
Three decades after creating the role of Patsy in the Broadway production of Three Men On A Horse, Levene reprised the role of Patsy on Broadway in Let It Ride (1961), a Broadway musical which had an abbreviated run of 69 performances at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
Let It Ride (1961) boasted a score by the songwriting team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, best known for creating three Oscar-winning songs, Buttons and Bows, Mona Lisa and Que Sera, Sera and two other movie songs that were smash hits, Silver Bells and Tammy.
Levene performed the Let It Ride title song on the Let It Ride float in the 1961 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Levene performed the role of Patsy one last time in the 1969 all-star Broadway revival of Three Men On A Horse directed by George Abbott, the original Broadway director and co-author which was preceded by a national tour Levene directed, starring Levene as Patsy and Bert Parks as Erwin.
In a 1969 review of the all-star Broadway revival of Three Men on a Horse, The New York Times theatre critic Clive Barnes wrote:
"Sam Levene originated the role
of Patsy in 1935—by now it’s his.
Still looking like a man whose
eyes have been allocated the
wrong size eyelids, still mugging,
double taking, offering his
celebrated impersonation of an
actor impersonating a character,
Mr. Levene is great.
No one in the world plays Mr.
Levene as he does, And what’s
more, no one ever will".
After making his Broadway debut 43 years earlier, Levene made his Off-Broadway debut, starring in Irv Bauer's A Dream Out of Time at the Promenade Theatre, Levene's only Off-Broadway appearance.
In 1976, Levene was cast as Tubal, Shylock's business partner, in the Broadway production of The Merchant based on an adaptation of The Merchant of Venice. However Sam withdrew from the Philadelphia tryout after Zero Mostel, the play's star and Levene's lifelong dear friend, died after first collapsing in his dressing room; Levene observed:
"I was too close to Zero and a play
we both loved, to do it without him."
When John Dexter, the director, asked Levene if he would continue in the show, Levene told Dexter:
"We just had one death;
we don't need two."
Understudy Joseph Leon replaced Zero Mostel for the Broadway production of The Merchant which closed on the 19th. November 1977, after only five performances.
Levene's final Broadway credit was performing the starring role of Samuel Horowitz in the Broadway comedy Horowitz and Mrs. Washington (1980).
-- Sam Levine's Film Career
Nine years after making his Broadway debut, Levene was lured to Hollywood in 1936 when he made his motion picture debut as Patsy in the Warner Bros. film Three Men on a Horse (1936) directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy.
Levene earned $1,000 a week to recreate on film his comedic Broadway role as Patsy.
Levene had 50 film credits. He worked with every major Hollywood studio over his five-decade Hollywood career; 14 of Levene's films were at MGM, which include two appearances as Police Lieutenant Abrams in the Thin Man series: After the Thin Man (1936) and Shadow of the Thin Man (1941).
He also appeared in Yellow Jack (1938), The Shopworn Angel (1938), Married Bachelor (1941), Sunday Punch (1942), Grand Central Murder (1942), Whistling in Brooklyn (1943), I Dood It (1943), Shoe Shine Boy (1943), The Opposite Sex (1956), Designing Woman (1957) and The Champ (1979).
Levene appeared in five RKO films: The Mad Miss Manton (1938); Sing Your Worries Away (1942); The Big Street (1942), A Likely Story (1947) and Crossfire, the first B picture to receive a best picture nomination.
Levene appeared in six Universal Pictures films: Destination Unknown (1942), Gung Ho! (1943), The Killers (1946), Brute Force (1947), Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957), and Kathy O' (1958).
His final film was ...And Justice for All (1979).
Levene worked with Barbara Stanwyck in two films in 1938. He co-starred as Lieutenant Brent who "steals a few scenes with his great delivery of lines" in The Mad Miss Manton (1938), a screwball comedy that starred Henry Fonda.
31-year-old Stanwyck earned $60,000 for the film; 33-year-old Fonda earned $25,000, and 35-year-old Sam Levene earned $1,500 a week.
The following year Levene appeared as Siggie in a film version of Golden Boy, replacing John Garfield who performed the role in the original Broadway production of the Clifford Odets play about the brutality of prizefighting.
Critics praised the performance of William Holden as boxer Joe Bonaparte, but it was 27-year-old Lee J. Cobb as the senior Bonaparte and Sam Levene as Holden's taxi driver brother-in-law who walked away with the picture and the reviews.
-- Sam Levine and Film Noir
Levene established himself as one of the stalwarts of film noir. He is one of several veterans of the genre who are graduates of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, including Lauren Bacall, Kirk Douglas and Edward G. Robinson.
Levene's best known film noir credits include his performance as Samuels, the murdered GI, in Crossfire (1947) and as Lieutenant Lubinsky in The Killers (1946).
The Killers features the movie debut of Burt Lancaster, who just a year prior was professionally credited as Burton Lancaster when Levene helped the former circus acrobat land a part in the original Broadway production of A Sound of Hunting starring Levene.
In The Killers, Sam Levene plays Police Lt. Sam Lubinsky, a childhood friend of the Swede, played by Lancaster. Levene's co-starring role was fortuitous as he was credited in making Lancaster feel at ease in his motion picture debut.
Actor Jeff Corey recalled:
"It was lucky Sam was on the set with
Burt Lancaster because Burt didn't feel
too comfortable in his first film.
Sam would frequently get on his ass:
'C'mon, c'mon. Do the goddamn thing.
You pick up the piece of jewelry. Can't
you do that and say the f....ing line?'
Lancaster was never offended.
He appreciated, because he loved
Sam; everyone did."
When several Hollywood studios initially wanted to sign Lancaster, Levene, who was Lancaster's co-star in the 1946 Broadway melodrama A Sound of Hunting, agreed to represent him; eventually the two actors became lifelong friends.
Together Lancaster and Levene fielded offers from David O. Selznick, 20th. Century-Fox and Hal B. Wallis, who had a deal at Paramount Pictures, ultimately introducing Lancaster to Harold Hecht, who became Lancaster's long-time agent and Hollywood film production partner.
Burt Lancaster and Sam Levene also worked together in two other film noirs, the 1947 Brute Force, directed by Jules Dassin, Lancaster's second film, and the acclaimed film noir Sweet Smell of Success.
Other Sam Levene noir credits include: Dave Woods, as a newspaper reporter, who steals the show as a dirt digging journalist who is ultimately fighting for righteousness, writing hard-hitting articles attacking the police.
Also Elia Kazan's crime film noir Boomerang, Dr. John Faron, a psychiatrist in Dial 1119, Capt. Tonetti in the 1950 Guilty Bystander and Howard Rysdale in the 1957 Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957).
Alan K. Rode observed:
"Slaughter on Tenth Avenue was bolstered
by a terrific ensemble cast headed by Richard
Egan, Jan Sterling, Walter Matthau, Dan Duryea
and Sam Levene, who performs yeoman work
as a realpolitik Manhattan district attorney,
forced to temper the hard-charging idealism
of assistant Egan who inevitably triumphs in
the end".
-- Sam Levine's Radio and TV Work
For most of his early film and Broadway stage career, Sam Levene straddled an active schedule with starring roles in a range of productions on all radio networks, including comedic performances and skits along with dramatic and comedy roles in abridged versions of important theatrical stage productions and adaptations on leading series.
Sam often reprised roles that he had previously played on the Broadway stage and on film.
Levene co-starred with Orson Welles in two important adaptations of stage productions for Welles' The Campbell Playhouse, first as Lefty in Burlesque on the 17th. February 1939, and five weeks later, on the 24th. March 1939, as Owen O'Malley, the John Barrymore part, in Twentieth Century.
Levene starred in nine Theatre Guild on the Air productions, including:
-- Two radio versions of Three Men on a Horse. The first adapted by Arthur Miller aired on the 6th. January 1946. The second on the 1st. June 1947 with David Wayne joining the cast as Erwin.
-- A third Three Men on a Horse production sponsored by Lady Esther for the Screen Guild Players aired on the 28th. February 1944 with Levene as Patsy and Charlie Ruggles as Erwin.
-- Other Theatre Guild on the Air radio appearances included performing the role of "Banjo" with Fred Allen as Sheridan Whiteside in George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's The Man Who Came to Dinner.
-- Levene recreated his original Broadway performance as Sidney Black, the loud-mouth producer, in Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky opposite Joan Bennett and Thelma Ritter for the Theatre Guild on the Air, 16th. April 1951.
-- Levene reprised his film role as Dave Woods, the reporter in Elia Kazan's Boomerang for Theatre Guild on the Air.
-- He also appeared as Moody, the fight manager, in Golden Boy by Clifford Odets opposite long-time friend and co-star June Havoc.
For Suspense Radio on CBS, Levene reprised his film role as Samuels, the murdered Jewish soldier, in Crossfire, on the 10th. April 1948.
Levene and Havoc worked with each other many times in radio, film, theatre and television. In 1942, Havoc and Levene co-starred in the RKO film Sing Your Worries Away.
In 1957, Havoc and Levene guest-starred on The Mother Bit in TV's Studio One series; in 1959 Levene and Havoc were guest stars in The Larry Fay Story for Season 2 of The Untouchables.
In a dramatic role, Sam Levene was nightclub owner and mob boss Larry Fay, accused of price fixing milk and June Havoc was Sally Kansas, Fay's lover, who also appeared as a lounge singer in one of Fay's nite clubs.
Levene frequently appeared on Fred Allen's Texaco Star Theatre in a sketch comedy segment known as Allen's Alley.
Sam Levene along with 12 major Hollywood and Broadway stars created 13 episodes of Lest We Forget, a series of radio programs that directly addressed prejudice and discrimination.
Sam Levene starred as a cab driver who becomes in a hero in Hey Cabbie, an episode that unabashedly addresses anti-semitism.
Levene along with Edward G. Robinson and Frank Sinatra made a series of appearances in We Will Never Die, a memorial pageant dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust; performed around the country at major venues, including Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl.
The elaborate production, also broadcast on radio, was co-authored by Ben Hecht and Kurt Weill and directed by Moss Hart.
On a lighter note, Levene made a New Year's Eve appearance on The Big Show with his Guys and Dolls co-star Vivian Blaine on the 31st. December 1950; Levene performed a skit with Tallulah Bankhead who had declined an invitation to appear on Ken Murray's show so that she could obtain theatre tickets to Guys and Dolls.
-- Sam Levine's Jewish Heritage
Sam Levene was one of the few Jewish actors who played characters who had a Jewish name in the 1930's and 1940's; notably in After the Thin Man (1936) as Lieutenant Abrams.
In The Purple Heart (1944) Levene played the role of Lt. Wayne Greenbaum, a level-headed, brave, New York-bred Jewish lawyer who is defender and spokesman for a group of eight aviators brought to trial when they are downed in Japanese-held territory.
In The Killers (1946), he was Police Lt. Sam Lubinsky; in Crossfire (1947), Levene was cast as Samuels, a Jewish civilian who was murdered at the start of the film. In a 1947 personal appearance, Levene said:
"Crossfire is a powerful denunciation
of anti-Semitism, and naturally I played
the Jew, and naturally I was killed."
Cy Feuer, co-producer of the original Broadway production of Guys and Dolls (1950) said in a New York Times interview, referring to Nathan Detroit:
"Sam Levene was the ultimate Jew.
It was perfect casting. He created
the character by living."
Unanimous raves greeted Sam Levene for his portrayal of the skeptical but good-hearted Jewish doctor, Dr. Aldo Mayer, in the 1961 Broadway production of "The Devil's Advocate".
Levene lost the role of Nathan Detroit to Frank Sinatra in the film version. Producer Samuel Goldwyn argued:
"You can't have a Jew playing a
Jew; it wouldn't work on screen."
Film director Joseph L. Mankiewicz wanted Levene:
"If there could be one person in the
world more miscast as Nathan Detroit
than Frank Sinatra that would be
Laurence Olivier and I am one of his
greatest fans; the role had been written
for Sam Levene who was divine in it."
Fordham University Professor of Music Larry Stempel said if given a choice, he would cast Levene as the ideal Nathan Detroit instead of Nathan Lane, who played the part in the Broadway revival, or Frank Sinatra, who played the part on film, stating:
"Musically, he may have been tone-deaf,
but he inhabited Frank Loesser’s world
as a character more than a caricature."
-- Sam Levene's Personal Life and Death
Levene married Constance Kane in 1953. The couple had one son together, Joseph K. Levene, before their divorce.
On the 28th. December 1980, Levene died at the age of 75 from an apparent heart attack in New York City. He was laid to rest in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Glendale, Queens.
On the 9th. April 1984, Levene was posthumously inducted in the American Theatre Hall of Fame; his son, Joseph K. Levene, accepted the award from Dorothy Loudon who co-starred as Mabel with Levene in the 1969 all-star revival of Three Men on a Horse.
In 1998, Sam Levene, Robert Alda, Vivian Blaine, Isabel Bigley and Pat Rooney, Sr. were posthumously inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for the 1950 Decca original cast album of Guys and Dolls.
In a 1996 New York letter to the editor, Sam Levene's son Joseph K. Levene, thanked film critic David Denby stating:
“My father, the late great Sam Levene,
has received many kudos illuminating
his career as an actor, none recalled
the passion for the theater more clearly
than David Denby's comment in his
review of Everyone Says I Love You:
'Sam Levene playing Nathan Detroit in
the original Guys and Dolls couldn't
sing a note but his gruff toneless
outbursts could break your heart.
Levene was not cautious and that
made all the difference.'
There were no Tony's in his career
but thanks for the Denby."
To the right the Tungelsta Station House. It's been there since 1901. The architect was the famous Ferdinand Boberg. To the left a building that might have been moved to it's current position back in 1901 when the railway track Nynäsbanan was new. Before the move it is said that the house was located in Fors, a few kilometres from here, where it served as a convenience store. No one knows for sure how it really was. And there's more. There's a locked room on the top floor according to Birdman who lived in the building as a child. And it is also said that the King of Sweden spent the night in a room on the second floor when the railway opened for traffic. Since then that room has been called the Royal room, but there are no evidence that the King really stayed there.
But I do know that I love you...8)
What a Wonderful World (Sam Cooke)
Not meant for anyone. Just one of my more whimsical, happy-go-lucky, but vulnerable sides. I like how the black and white came out in this. The tonal ranges had a good tune. In no way is this meant to be flattering. Having had the opportunity to work for a company such as Southwest Airlines I've learned that being vulnerable is an important aspect of being social.
You know you're a redneck when you attend a baby shower that is also a barbecue and swimming party and includes for entertainment the shooting of a bowling ball from a homemade cannon.
You can watch it on Vimeo:
As I drove over the old EJ&E Yard, I saw these three units in the yard. At first, I didn't think much of it. I then heard CN 5265 requesting to go east with 11 cars, non stop to Kirk. Originally, the three were tied on to over a hundred cars. Maybe a short 338??
At Briggs Street, the three have no problem getting this train up the hill, rolling right along at 40 MPH.
CN 5265 - SD40-2W
GTW 5853 - GP38-2
CN 2431 - C40-8M
Things I Know to be True, by Andrew Bovell
Things I Know to be True is a beautifully written drama centring on the lives of a family over the period of a year, poignantly presented through the seasons. It is described as a “complex and intense portrait of the mechanics of a family – and a marriage –through the eyes of four siblings struggling to define themselves beyond their parents’ love and expectations”.
Putney Arts Theatre: 5-9 November 2019
Cast:
Bob Price - Aidan Kershaw
Fran Price - Penny Weatherall
Mark Price (Mia Price)- Bradley White
Ben Price - Theo Leonard
Pip Price - Emily Prince
Rosie Price - Natasha Henson
Director: Frances Bodiam
Producer: Jeff Graves