i have just started my part time job in the museum so i spent the day playing with skeletons hehe!

Death Valley National Park, California

 

From my 2016 trip to see Ringo Starr in Las Vegas, plus some of Southern California. The Beatles were far and away my favorite group and I'd always wished I had gone to see them when they performed in Kansas City way back in 1964. Of course, there were a few insurmountable obstacles to my attending. For one, I was a child so getting there would have been a problem. An even bigger problem was the fact that I had no interest in the group at that time. I rather liked some of their songs, but I was loath to admit it. I found the screaming girl thing to be ridiculous in the extreme, so much so that it turned me off to the extent that in spite of tapping my feet to "She Loves You," I felt disdain for the group. That feeling would actually last until 1970--the year after they broke up. I was still a mere lad, but I had a part-time job and so had a bit of spending money and on a whim, bought the "Red' and "Blue" two record sets of their greatest hits and became a huge fan overnight. Since then, of course, Lennon was murdered, and Harrison died of cancer--both events saddened me immensely. In early 2016, Ringo performed in Newton, Kansas, but I didn't hear about it until the day after, but the near miss made me determined to see both him and Paul. I checked Ringo's schedule and decided to see him in Vegas. John and George were gone, but I could at least see the two surviving members (I would see Paul in 2019).

 

I enjoyed the concert, and afterward spent a few days in and around Vegas--seeing some of the sights and partaking of some of the great restaurants there (I don't gamble). I then moved on to California, making a number of stops, but spent most of the time here in Death Valley. Such a starkly beautiful landscape. I spent six days in or near here and could have easily spent more--except that I had a return flight scheduled and I wanted to visit a few other places.

 

I made no notation of where this was--just one of the many day hikes I undertook while here.

West Yorkshire Road Car Leyland Leopard DNW838T No 2566 operating the 17.15 Bradford - Harrogate at White Cross, Guiseley in 1989. I had a part time job after school washing cars at Albert Farnells garage just in the background. I used to catch this service home to Menston afterwards but always had the point and shoot camera in the bag if something interesting came along...In West Yorkshire days vehicles moving between depots ( in this case York to Otley ) was pretty commonplace, but when local names started to be introduced like York City and District in the late 80s they stood out like a sore thumbs. So much of this scene is now history, the Burmah fuel station, old magnet sign, bus, service and the extra long bus shelter....but twice a day on a weekday you can still see a bus displaying a York fleet names !! See next picture...

On my final morning in Tokyo I brought my wife to see the Meiji Shrine, located in Shibuya, Tokyo, it is a Shinto shrine dedicated to the spirits of Emperor Meiji and his wife, Empress Shōken.

I had been here before I found it quite fascinating and full of activity.

The girl pictured here is a Miko. This is a Shinto term indicating a shrine maiden. They used to be a shaman or Shinto priestess, but in modern times they are often university students with a part-time job working at the shrine.

...and Part II concludes last weekend's events with six photos.

 

To read Part I, begin here: www.flickr.com/photos/bogostick/48644238333/in/dateposted/

 

This photo, top: Emily agreed to have lunch with Don and Timothy at Boolster's Brew. Don greeted his friend:

 

"Timothy, I'm afraid we may have to boot Jeffrey out of the 'buddy trio' -- he can't seem to make our get togethers anymore, but at least Emily agreed to join us!"

 

Emily responded sternly: "Against my better judgment."

 

bottom: At a table nearby, Jeffrey's daughter Cami met her college roommate Kira.

 

"I thought you said this was a coffeeshop. I tried ordering a latte, and the server told me that they didn't serve those," Kira said.

 

"Well, it was a coffeeshop when I was younger," Cami said, "but nowadays, it's really more like a diner and community gathering spot."

 

"What's in your lap?" Kira asked, nodding to the bright-colored jacket.

 

"My dad said that I had to get a part-time job while I was taking fewer classes this semester, so you're looking at an employee of the new store Petacular Paws. It's where the Crafty Rat used to be located."

 

French postcard, Ref. 973.

 

American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.

 

Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).

 

Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

West-German postcard by G. Barth, Frankfurt, no. GB 69. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984).

 

American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.

 

Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).

 

Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

The topic for Macro Mondays is "Ring,"

 

There's an amusing story that goes with the solitaire diamond ring on top. One day, after I had made one of my 700-mile journeys in my 1948 Jeep to visit my gal Sammy, who was going to graduate school at Ohio University, we were wondering how we could ever hope to get married when we were both so flat out broke; and as we were walking through town, we passed by a jewelry store that had this ring displayed in the window with a price tag that was light years beyond anything I could afford. So Sammy, jokingly and quite theatrically, pointed to the ring and said, "if you wish to marry me, that is the ring you must give me." Well, lemme yell ya, you never saw a more shocked and surprised woman than Sammy was when I presented her with that very same ring on her birthday, New Years Eve, 1959. I had saved enough money from my summer job as a rifle instructor in a boys camp, plus a part time job while in college to just barely cover the cost. It left me with $3.48 in my savings account (credit cards didn't exist back then), but it was the best investment I ever made. We were still flat broke when we got married, but, hey, it all worked out, so I guess it was the right thing to do...

 

Over 20 years ago, Sammy inherited the ring with six diamonds, which was a 60th anniversary gift from her father to her mother. All three rings are now soldered together as one.

 

Another item that Sammy inherited was her mother's mink coat, which I used as the setting for this photo. She has rarely worn the coat because we just don't attend functions or hobnob in the level of society where such a coat would be appropriate, and also because of the violence prone PETA freaks that lurk in this area (actually, she wore it last Halloween, when she went around the neighborhood trick-or-treating with the grandkids...`~').

 

Nikon D90

105mm Micro Nikkor lens

ISO 200

5 seconds @ f10

Ambient room light

 

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For images and stories of this nature, I have put together a set called Our Life Story, depicting our life together over the past half century and containing over 275 images and descriptions which, for the most part, are in chronological order. Check it out and let me know what you think of it.

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My sons are great with all my dogs, loving, compassionate and helpful in their care when we need them, but Kiera has always been my son Zakary's favorite. He makes no bones about it. Kiera herself knows it and lights up when he walks in the door. But living an almost 21 year olds lifestyle has put a cramp in that relationship. College, 2 part time jobs and a serious girlfriend means Zak is not home like he used to be, and I think Kiera feels it. He was "loving on her" this morning and to me, her face is saying, "Ok, but I am not going to get up, but I AM going to ignore you a bit and make you pay for your absence"

 

It was a nice moment, and my firstborn, who is vehemently camera shy, allowed this shot to be taken. That in itself makes it a very special moment captured.

Barry stood rigid, eyes wide as he stared at the man in front of him. His heart was beating faster than normal, and sweat coated his skin like it was clothing.

  

"Th-the man… in yellow…" he mumbled, tears building up in his ducts. "You're… you're the one who…"

  

"What's wrong, Barry?" the man asked, smiling menacingly at Barry. "Lost for words?"

  

Everything around Barry fell silent. His heart rate felt even faster than before and he clutched his chest. His body swayed from side to side as his world shook. Every image from that day flooded his mind. No nightmare he'd experienced since then had matched up to what he felt now. He was shrinking. The world around him had changed to pale beige walls and a cheap carpet. His backpack hung over his shoulder as the man in yellow cackled in front of him.

  

"Barry. Barry!"

  

His eyes were wide, his breathing sporadic. A firm hand grabbing onto his shoulder broke him from the trance, his head turning to see Jay's concerned face.

  

"Barry, calm down," he said, giving the blond a reassuring smile. "You're okay…"

  

Barry swallowed, taking a deep breath. "I… I'm fine…" he mumbled.

  

Jay's head turned back to the man in yellow. "Who the hell are you," he asked, narrowing his eyes.

  

"My name is Eobard Thawne," he said, motioning to his suit, "the Reverse Flash."

  

"And you're the murderer of Nora and Malcolm Allen?" Jay asked, unphased by the name reveal.

  

"Of course I killed Nora and Malcolm," Thawne said, looking at Barry, "the blood was a pain to get out of my gloves."

  

Barry peered up at the man, nothing but red hot hatred in his eyes.

  

"And Clariss?"

  

"Hmm?"

  

"Clariss… why?" Jay asked, head tilting downwards, his helmet shielding his eyes. "Why impersonate him?"

  

"Oh, that," Thawne mumbled, tapping his temple. "Why not bring back some bad memories? You're the one who gave me the idea… back at Barry's old house."

  

"You… you did it to mess with me? With my head?" Jay asked, noticing Barry trembling slightly. "Why would you want to?"

  

"Simple," he said, his smile falling. "I hate you."

  

"I've never met you," Jay said, "how could you-"

  

"Why?"

  

Both Thawne and Jay turned to Barry. "Oh come on," Thawne began, his smile spreading once again. "You-"

  

"Why!?" Barry shouted, tears running from his sealed eyes. His fists clenched tight as his teeth grit. "Why did you kill them!? What did they do to you!? Tell me!"

  

"It isn't about them, Barry," Thawne said, walking forward. "Never was."

  

"Then why!?"

  

"You, Barry. You're the reason why."

  

"I was ten years old…"

  

"Not you then… you…" Thawne paused, bringing his hand to stroke his chin. "Actually, a visual demonstration may work better."

  

In an instant Barry felt Thawne's hand wrap around his throat, lifting him into the air. The world around Barry disappeared, replaced with flashing red lightning in a void of darkness. Mere moments later, his body skid across a rooftop, his back slamming against the parapet.

  

His vision was blurry, but he felt different. The air was thinner and smelled new. The rooftop lacked any type of texture, and the sky was a deep lavender.

  

"Where…" he mumbled, noticing the sting from hitting the wall wasn't healing.

  

"Are we?" Thawne said, cutting Barry off. The man stood above the blond, looking out over the parapet. "The future."

  

"What…" Barry mumbled, turning to see the small barrier he'd hit was see-through, a holographic wall. Looking past it, his eyes widened. Everything looked ripped from a science fiction movie. Buildings were sleek, roads hovered in the air, accompanied by cars floating off the ground. "This is a trick. How are we here?"

  

"You don't know a thing about the Speed Force, Barry," Thawne said, looking down at Barry. "Any of the forces, really."

  

"Any of the… what are you saying?"

  

"You're supposed to be smart," he sighed, pointing out into the city. "The year is 2475. I'm from the future.

  

"I… your lies don't matter to me!" Barry shouted, leaping up and swinging at Thawne. Barry cried out as his arm was twisted, snapping like a twig. Thawne's boot came crashing down onto Barry's ankle, breaking it as well.

  

Barry tumbled to the ground, holding back tears. "You're… so fast," he mumbled watching as his arm remained the same. "Why… why can't I heal?"

  

"Both are due to the tachyons I used to make such a far time jump," Thawne said, pulling his mask off. "They don't do much to those with a Speed Force connection, but when combined with the Negative Speed Force, they amplify my speed tenfold. As for the healing, they slow both of ours down, at least when travelling through time."

  

"Why? Why kill them?" Barry groaned,propping himself up on the holo-wall. "They were innocent people!"

  

"Like I told Garrick back there," Thawne said, crouching down to be face-to-face with Barry, peeling back his cowl. "I hate you. Even more than him."

  

"I've never met you!" Barry yelled, struggling against Thawne, who held Barry by his hair. "How can you hate me!"

  

"What don't you get, Barry?" Thawne asked, flicking Barry on the forehead, leaving a mark. "I'm from the future. I have met you… a future version at least."

  

"What could have possibly done… that warranted the murder of my mom!? Of my brother!?" Barry asked, tears falling down his face.

  

"Not much," Thawne said, the malicious stare fading into one almost blank, void of any emotion. "You broke me."

  

Thawne let go of Barry's hair. Barry sat stunned, horrified by the lifelessness he'd seen in the man. Gulping down his fear, he turned his head, looking up at the man. "If this is the future… why'd you bring me here?" Barry asked, watching as Thawne pointed out into the city.

  

"I needed to check something," Thawne said, grabbing onto Barry's shoulder. "Thought it would be a fun tagalong adventure.

  

The speed Thawne moved at was incomprehensible to Barry. It felt like he'd been instantly transported from the rooftop to the inside of a building. He found himself laying face first on the marble flooring. Lifting himself up and stumbling to a seated position, his eyes widened. The building he was inside was some type of museum, but dedicated to… himself.

 

Portraits and statues of himself, Jay, Wally, and even his villains were scattered around the room.

  

"Where… are we?" He asked, staring at the various battle dioramas with himself and villains.

  

"This is the monument to your legacy," Thawne said, standing in front of the largest display, featuring Barry facing a large, armored gorilla. "The world created this when you sacrificed your life to save the multiverse. Infinite Earths of gratitude all for you."

  

"Sacrificed… multiverse?" He asked, his eyes moving from the gorilla to Thawne.

  

"The Justice League had many losses in the war, but none greater than yours," Thawne said, walking past Barry.

  

Barry leaned back against the gorilla statue, his good hand holding his broken arm. "Why are you… telling me this?" Barry grunted, breathing heavily. "Won't this… change something?"

  

"No," Thawne mumbled, looking at another statue, one featuring Barry and the Eradicator. "Things have already changed."

  

"What?"

  

"This isn't the Flash Museum, not from my time," Thawne said, pointing to the Eradicator. "Eradicator, for example, was a vigilante who killed himself when he accidentally murdered an innocent man. That took place a decade before you became the Flash."

  

"What are you talking about… Eradicator is a murderer," Barry said, gritting his teeth. "He killed Francine West!"

  

"That! That is what I'm talking about!" Thawne shouted, turning to Barry. "Things have changed! Key figures wiped from existence or changed completely with others shoved in their place. It isn't set either, I've visited four times since I murdered Nora, and everytime it's different. I thought my introduction would correct things… but it's all changed again."

  

"Yet, you're still here… it means you-" Barry began, before he paused, a darkness falling over his eyes. "It means you have ancestors in my time… I can… I just have to-"

  

"What are you gonna do, Barry? Kill them?" Thawne asked, causing Barry to freeze. "Would you really kill an innocent woman for something her descendent does four centuries later? I doubt you'd do it if she were a serial killer."

  

Barry fell back, his hand returning to his broken arm. "I'll… convince her not to," he mumbled.

  

"It won't do you any good, I have contingencies for that," Thawne said, stepping away from Barry. "Not that it would matter either way, there'll always be a reverse, whether it's Zoom, Inertia, Godspeed… even your own… actually, I'd prefer you witness him first hand."

  

"You aren't gonna kill me?" Barry mumbled, ignoring the list of names and looking up at Thawne.

  

"You can't die, Barry," Thawne said, pulling his cowl over his head. "If you do, the timeline wouldn't just be fractured, the Multiverse itself would be lost. You have to live, or the universe dies."

  

"I'm going to find a way to stop you," Barry said, groaning as Thawne grabbed onto his broken arm.

  

"That's great, Barry, really," Thawne said, speeding off with Barry once again.

  

Barry watched as he reentered the void, red lightning bouncing around the duo. His body was thrown against the ground, rolling onto the freshly cut grass. Barry recognized the home, Joe's.

  

"You brought me… back?" Barry asked, looking up at Thawne.

  

"We both have problems to deal with right now," Thawne said, rushing forward and snapping Barry's other elbow, causing him to cry out. "I'll be back whenever I can find the root cause of the timeline changes. Until then, I hope you keep an eye on your 'brother'... someone should."

  

The sound of the door opening caught Barry's attention. His eyes widened as Joe stepped out, pistol ready. The pistol lowered as his eyes locked onto the blond's.

  

"Barry…"

  

In an instant, Thawne disappeared, vanishing into nothingness, leaving behind a trail of red lightning. "I… wanted to tell you," he mumbled as his eyelids suddenly became heavy, his healing kicking back in. "I'm sorry…" Barry watched Joe rush down the porch as his vision faded. His last sight being his father, before everything went black.

  

-^-

  

Jay returned to his home, his heart beating fast. He'd received a call from his wife that Joe West had appeared at their doorstep with Barry. The hero burst through the door, spotting Joe and Joan on the sofa.

  

"Where is he," Jay shouted, looking at the two. "Is he okay, I-"

  

"Jay, honey," Joan said, moving towards him and cupping his face. "Barry is fine, he's hurt, but not nearly as bad as last time. He's sleeping upstairs."

  

Jay looked at Joan, then shifted his gaze to the stairs. Taking a deep breath, he looked back at Joan. "Right… he's okay," he mumbled, following Joan to the couch, her taking the recliner. "Joe I'm… I'm sorry… this should never have happened, let alone twice."

  

"It isn't on you, Jay," Joe said, staring into the glass of water he held. "I should've figured it out sooner. He was struck by a bolt of lightning and as soon as he woke up, The Flash appeared. I mean, c'mon?"

  

"Trust me, it isn't as easy to piece together as you may think," Jay said, giving Joe a soft smile. "I had a lot of friends back in the day who kept their identities hidden from their loved ones for decades. They were even more obvious than making your motif a lightning bolt after getting hit by one."

  

"I know, I just… I should've known… as his father," Joe mumbled, taking a small drink. "Can you… give me a rundown? On everything that's gone on? I… I just need to know."

  

"I can do that for you," Jay said, smiling once more, "though you may have a tough time believing it all, I still do."

  

Joe sat in awe as Jay explained the origin of he and Barry's powers, the history of the Speed Force, and the tribulations Barry had gone through thus far.

  

"That's why he was acting differently…" Joe said, sighing. "If he'd just told me what happened to Bivolo… I could've helped him work through it."

  

"I don't think you could've," Jay said, frowning slightly. "Me and Eddie both tried, but that kind of event is hard to overcome. It took him saving Wally to be at peace… oh, right…"

  

"What's wrong?"

  

"Well… Barry, he isn't the only one who got speed recently," Jay said, rubbing the back of his neck. "When Barry had saved Wally, he wasn't able to pull him from the deathtrap Jesse made. He had to… take a gamble."

  

Joe tilted his head to the side, before his eyes widened. "Wally was hit by lightning too…" Joe said, watching as Jay nodded. "That's why Barry ran to his CCPD… he recreated the accident. Has Wally been out there!?"

  

"No, don't worry," Jay said, raising his hands reassuringly. "Me and Barry made sure he only uses speed with us under supervision. He's getting a part-time job at Eddie's so the three of us can train him. Thoroughly."

  

"Train him for what!?" Joe shouted, standing up. "Did you see what happened to Barry just now!? He passed out on my lawn with two broken arms and a broken leg!"

  

"Joe, listen. We aren't training him to send him out into combat, that's not at all what we're doing," Jay explained as Joe sat back down. "We aren't going to just let him run out and be a superhero, but you know Wally, the moment he's an adult…"

  

"He'll go out to help people no matter what we say," Joe said, sighing. "That's the Wests for you."

  

"That's why we're training him," Jay said, smiling at Joe once more. "When the day comes that Wally blossoms, he'll be ready."

  

"I… I get it," Joe said with a nod. "Just… just make sure he knows everything all three of you know and then some."

  

"You have my word, Joe."

  

"Alright… so, what was that thing?" Joe asked, looking at Jay. "The one that hurt Barry?"

  

Jay was silent for a moment, staring down at his hands. "He called himself Eobard Thawne… the Reverse Flash," Jay explained with a sigh. "He… he was the man who murdered Nora and Malcolm Allen."

  

"What did you just say?"

  

"I… I still don't get it either. He didn't say much before he dragged Barry off… I did, however," he said, reaching into his pocket, and pulling free a small device, "get this."

  

"Who the hell are you?"

  

"My name is Eobard Thawne, the Reverse Flash."

  

"And you're the murderer of Nora and Malcolm Allen?"

  

"Of course I killed Nora and Malcolm, the blood was a pain to get out of my gloves."

  

Joe stared at the recorder in Jay's hand, his eyes wide like saucers. "That… that's a confession…" Joe mumbled, unable to move his gaze. "Henry was innocent this whole time… does Barry-"

  

"No, not yet," Jay said, smiling again. "I didn't know if I'd be able to pull it off, so I didn't want his hopes to go up. Whatever this Thawne person did… at least Barry will wake up to good news."

  

Joe smiled, wiping a tear from his eye. "Yeah… yeah he deserves that," Joe said, sniffling. "He deserves that a lot."

  

-^- The Next Day, Vulcan's Veggies -^-

  

"He… he told me that our timeline was… wrong," Barry said, rubbing his eyes. "That something was changing how events were meant to play out."

  

Barry took a sip of the coffee sitting in front of him, before looking back up to the three older men around him. His eyes lingered on Joe, but he couldn't make eye contact. Not after what he'd learned.

  

"Time travel by runnin' fast," Eddie mumbled, leaning back in his chair. "That's batshit crazy, even for us."

  

"There's so much we don't know…" Jay said, jotting down what Barry had said on a notepad. "I mean, there's a Negative Speed Force? More 'Forces' beyond that? Time travel doesn't seem too far-fetched."

  

"And… he said you sacrifice yourself for the world?" Joe asked, his words laced with concern.

  

"Not the world, every world," Barry said, rubbing the back of his neck. "The Multiverse is… apparently real."

  

"Of course it is," Eddie mumbled, standing from his chair. "I'm gonna go make sure everything is ready for Wallace tomorrow."

  

"His name is Wally," Barry sighed.

  

"Well, that's a dumb name."

  

Barry watched as Eddie walked into the backroom, leaving the three alone in the restaurant. "I should really get going too," Barry said, looking between Joe and Jay. "The Thawne stuff… I'll have to think about it later. The city has been without me for a few days now, I should really do a-"

  

"Barry, wait just a minute," Joe said, stopping Barry. The blond tilted his head to the side, watching as Joe slid a small black object onto the booth.

  

"Is that a wire?"

  

-^- Two Weeks Later, Waid Overlook, 1:19 AM -^-

  

"Finally," the man in a white suit said, blue embers falling from his hands. "This has been the longest three years of my life!"

  

"That's a long life to go off of," another man in a tattered red cloak responded. "Sure you aren't stretching it?"

  

"I've waited three years to get a crack at old red," the first said with a chuckle, slamming his fist into his palm. "Now I finally get to take him down."

  

"That isn't our mission," the second said, securing a golden mask to his face and pulling the cloak's hood over his head. "It's taken three years for the time to be right, Cicada needs us to succeed, or we could be pushed back another century."

  

"Yeah but he doesn't factor in at all," the first man said with a sigh. "It doesn't matter what I do with him, right?"

  

"Your job is to create a distraction tonight," the first said, looking back at his partner. "You do that, and I'll worry about the hard part."

  

The two men stared out from the cliff side, watching the lit-up Central City.

  

"All for Raijin."

 

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NEXT TIME: A Night Never Forgotten

The Whippany Railroad Museum had a Railroad Festival on July 27, 1994 in the Morristown & Erie Railroad Yard. The Whippany Railroad Museum is located beside the M & E Railroad Yard at the intersection of Whippany Road and State Road 10 in Whippany, which is a community in Hanover Township. The Mailing Address of the Museum is 1 Railroad Plaza, Whippany, New Jersey 07981.

 

The Lackawanna Railway Post Office Car Number 2038, in my Photograph, is a former (Erie) Lackawanna Railway Express Agency Railcar. Railway Express Cars were used by the Postal Service to move mail between Major Cities & States. Mail for various locations was often sorted inside the Express Car while it was moving between Main Postal Regions. In fact, my older brother worked at a part time job sorting mail in one of these Express Cars to supplement his income as a Fireman in Hudson County, NJ.

 

Additional information about the Whippany Railroad Museum can be found at:

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whippany_Railway_Museum

 

Disclaimer: I took this photograph on July 27, 1994 with my Minolta Maxxim 5000 35 mm SLR Camera with Color Slide Film, when I was just learning photography, so it is very soft & grainy. I scanned the Slide, and used Photoshop Elements™ to correct the Exposure and Saturation to generate the Digital Image, presented here on flickr™.

The Postcard

 

A postcard bearing no publisher's name that was posted in Par, Cornwall using a 1d. stamp on Monday the 25th. August 1930. It was sent to:

 

C. F. Baker Esq.,

'Hedgerow',

Russell Grove,

Westbury Park,

Bristol.

 

The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:

 

"Sunday.

35, Par Green,

Par, Cornwall.

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Baker,

This is as quiet a place as

anyone could wish for - a

beautiful little bay & nice

sands.

We have the use of a hut

on the beach.

The Westermans wanted

me to preach, but I fear I

could not have stood in my

own pulpit today.

We have been thinking of

you all, and hope you are

having a good day.

Love to all from both,

S & B."

 

Kingswear

 

Kingswear is a village in the South Hams area of Devon. The village is located on the east bank of the tidal River Dart, close to the river's mouth, and opposite the small town of Dartmouth. It lies within the South Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and has a population of 1,332.

 

Kingswear is noted for being the railhead for Dartmouth, a role continued to this day by the presence of the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway in the village. Two vehicle ferries and one pedestrian ferry provide links to Dartmouth.

 

The village itself contains several small tourist-oriented shops and public houses, and is home to the Royal Dart Yacht Club. Kingswear Castle, a privately owned 15th. century artillery tower, is situated on the outskirts.

 

Kingswear also contains the Church of St. Thomas, which is a member of the Anglican Diocese of Exeter and whose patron saint is Saint Thomas of Canterbury.

 

Sir Sean Connery

 

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

 

Well, the 25th. August 1930 marked the birth in Edinburgh of Sean Connery.

 

Sir Sean Connery, who was born Thomas Sean Connery, was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983.

 

Originating the role in Dr. No, Connery played Bond in six of Eon Productions' entries, and made his final Bond appearance in the non-Eon-produced Never Say Never Again.

 

If non-Eon-produced Bond movies are included, Connery shares the record for the most portrayals as James Bond with Roger Moore (with seven apiece).

 

Following Sean's third appearance as Bond in Goldfinger (1964), in June 1965, Time magazine observed:

 

"James Bond has developed into the

biggest mass-cult hero of the decade".

 

Connery began acting in smaller theatre and television productions until his break-out role as Bond. Although he did not enjoy the off-screen attention the role gave him, the success of the Bond films brought Connery offers from notable directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Lumet and John Huston.

 

Their films in which Connery appeared included Marnie (1964), The Hill (1965), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975).

 

He also appeared in A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Untouchables (1987), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), Finding Forrester (2000), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).

 

Connery officially retired from acting in 2006, although he briefly returned for voice-over roles in 2012.

 

His achievements in film were recognised with an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (including the BAFTA Fellowship), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.

 

In 1987, Sean was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, and he received the US Kennedy Center Honors lifetime achievement award in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.

 

Sean Connery - The Early Years

 

Thomas Connery was born at the Royal Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was named after his paternal grandfather.

 

He was brought up at No. 176 Fountainbridge, a block which has since been demolished. His mother, Euphemia McBain "Effie" McLean, was a cleaning woman. Connery's father, Joseph Connery, was a factory worker and lorry driver.

 

His father was a Roman Catholic, and his mother was a Protestant. Connery had a younger brother Neil, and was generally referred to in his youth as "Tommy".

 

Although Sean was small in primary school, he grew rapidly around the age of 12, reaching his full adult height of 6 ft. 2 in. (188 cm) at 18. Connery was known during his teen years as "Big Tam", and he said that he lost his virginity to an adult woman in an ATS uniform at the age of 14.

 

He had an Irish childhood friend named Séamus; when the two were together, those who knew them both called Connery by his middle name Sean, emphasising the alliteration of the two names. Since then Connery preferred to use his middle name.

 

Connery's first job was as a milkman in Edinburgh with St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Society. In 2009, Connery recalled a conversation in a taxi:

 

"When I took a taxi during a recent Edinburgh

Film Festival, the driver was amazed that I

could put a name to every street we passed.

"How come?" he asked. "As a boy I used to

deliver milk round here", I said. "So what do

you do now?" That was rather harder to

answer."

 

In 1946, at the age of 16, Connery joined the Royal Navy, during which time he acquired two tattoos. Connery's official website says:

 

"Unlike many tattoos, his were not frivolous –

his tattoos reflect two of his lifelong

commitments: his family and Scotland. One

tattoo is a tribute to his parents, and reads

'Mum and Dad', and the other is self-explanatory,

'Scotland Forever'".

 

Sean trained in Portsmouth at the naval gunnery school and in an anti-aircraft crew. He was later assigned as an Able Seaman on HMS Formidable.

 

Connery was discharged from the navy at the age of 19 on medical grounds because of a duodenal ulcer, a condition that affected most of the males in previous generations of his family.

 

Afterwards, he returned to the Co-op and worked as a lorry driver, a lifeguard at Portobello swimming baths, a labourer, an artist's model for the Edinburgh College of Art, and after a suggestion by former Mr. Scotland Archie Brennan, as a coffin polisher, among other jobs.

 

The modelling earned him 15 shillings an hour. Artist Richard Demarco, at the time a student who painted several early pictures of Connery, described him as:

 

"Very straight, slightly shy, too,

too beautiful for words, a virtual

Adonis".

 

Connery began bodybuilding at the age of 18, and from 1951 trained heavily with Ellington, a former gym instructor in the British Army. While his official website states he was third in the 1950 Mr. Universe contest, most sources place him in the 1953 competition, either third in the Junior class or failing to place in the Tall Man classification.

 

Connery said that he was soon deterred from bodybuilding when he found that Americans frequently beat him in competitions because of sheer muscle size and, unlike Connery, refused to participate in athletic activity which could make them lose muscle mass.

 

Connery was a keen footballer, having played for Bonnyrigg Rose in his younger days. He was offered a trial with East Fife.

 

While on tour with South Pacific, Connery played in a football match against a local team that Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, happened to be scouting. According to reports, Busby was impressed with Sean's physical prowess, and offered Connery a contract worth £25 a week (equivalent to £743 in 2021) immediately after the game. Connery said he was tempted to accept, but he recalls,

 

"I realised that a top-class footballer could

be over the hill by the age of 30, and I was

already 23. I decided to become an actor,

and it turned out to be one of my more

intelligent moves".

 

Sean Connery's Acting Career

 

(a) Pre-James Bond

 

Seeking to supplement his income, Connery helped out backstage at the King's Theatre in late 1951. During a bodybuilding competition held in London in 1953, one of the competitors mentioned that auditions were being held for a production of South Pacific, and Connery landed a small part as one of the Seabees chorus boys.

 

By the time the production reached Edinburgh, he had been given the part of Marine Cpl. Hamilton Steeves, and was understudying two of the juvenile leads, and his salary was raised from £12 to £14–10s a week.

 

The production returned the following year, out of popular demand, and Connery was promoted to the featured role of Lieutenant Buzz Adams, which Larry Hagman had portrayed in the West End.

 

While in Edinburgh, Connery was targeted by the Valdor gang, one of the most violent in the city. He was first approached by them in a billiard hall where he prevented them from stealing his jacket and was later followed by six gang members to a 15-foot-high (4.6 m) balcony at the Palais de Danse.

 

There, Connery singlehandedly launched an attack against the gang members, grabbing one by the throat and another by the biceps and cracking their heads together. From then on, he was treated with great respect by the gang and gained a reputation as a "hard man".

 

Connery first met Michael Caine at a party during the production of South Pacific in 1954, and the two later became close friends. During this production at the Opera House, Manchester, over the Christmas period of 1954, Connery developed a serious interest in the theatre through American actor Robert Henderson, who lent him copies of the Ibsen works Hedda Gabler, The Wild Duck, and When We Dead Awaken, and later listed works by the likes of Proust, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Bernard Shaw, Joyce, and Shakespeare for him to digest.

 

Henderson urged Sean to take elocution lessons, and got him parts at the Maida Vale Theatre in London. He had already begun a film career, having been an extra in Herbert Wilcox's 1954 musical Lilacs in the Spring alongside Errol Flynn and Anna Neagle.

 

Although Connery had secured several roles as an extra, he was struggling to make ends meet, and was forced to accept a part-time job as a babysitter for journalist Peter Noble and his actress wife Marianne, which earned him 10 shillings a night.

 

One night at Noble's house Sean met Hollywood actress Shelley Winters, who described Connery as:

 

"One of the tallest and most charming

and masculine Scotsmen I have ever

seen."

 

Shelley later spent many evenings with the Connery brothers drinking beer. Around this time, Connery was residing at TV presenter Llew Gardner's house.

 

Henderson landed Connery a role in a £6 a week Q Theatre production of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution, during which he met and became friends with fellow Scot Ian Bannen.

 

This role was followed by Point of Departure and A Witch in Time at Kew, a role as Pentheus opposite Yvonne Mitchell in The Bacchae at the Oxford Playhouse, and a role opposite Jill Bennett in Eugene O'Neill's play Anna Christie.

 

During his time at the Oxford Theatre, Connery won a brief part as a boxer in the TV series The Square Ring, before being spotted by Canadian director Alvin Rakoff, who gave him multiple roles in The Condemned, shot on location in Dover in Kent.

 

In 1956, Connery appeared in the theatrical production of Epitaph, and played a minor role as a hoodlum in the "Ladies of the Manor" episode of the BBC Television police series Dixon of Dock Green.

 

This was followed by small television parts in Sailor of Fortune and The Jack Benny Program (in a special episode filmed in Europe).

 

In early 1957, Connery hired agent Richard Hatton, who got him his first film role, as Spike, a minor gangster with a speech impediment in Montgomery Tully's No Road Back.

 

In April 1957, Rakoff – after being disappointed by Jack Palance – decided to give the young actor his first chance in a leading role, and cast Connery as Mountain McLintock in BBC Television's production of Requiem for a Heavyweight, which also starred Warren Mitchell and Jacqueline Hill.

 

Sean then played a rogue lorry driver, Johnny Yates, in Cy Endfield's Hell Drivers (1957) alongside Stanley Baker, Herbert Lom, Peggy Cummins, and Patrick McGoohan.

 

Later in 1957, Connery appeared in Terence Young's poorly received MGM action picture Action of the Tiger; the film was shot on location in southern Spain.

 

He also had a minor role in Gerald Thomas's thriller Time Lock (1957) as a welder, appearing alongside Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall, and Vincent Winter. This commenced filming on the 1st. December 1956 at Beaconsfield Studios.

 

Connery had a major role in the melodrama Another Time, Another Place (1958) as a British reporter named Mark Trevor, caught in a love affair opposite Lana Turner and Barry Sullivan.

 

During filming, Turner's possessive gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, who was visiting from Los Angeles, believed she was having an affair with Connery. Connery and Turner had attended West End shows and London restaurants together.

 

Stompanato stormed onto the film set and pointed a gun at Connery, only to have Connery disarm him and knock him flat on his back. Stompanato was banned from the set. Two Scotland Yard detectives advised Stompanato to leave and escorted him to the airport, where he boarded a plane back to the United States.

 

Connery later recounted that he had to lay low for a while after receiving threats from men linked to Stompanato's boss, Mickey Cohen.

 

In 1959, Connery landed a leading role in director Robert Stevenson's Walt Disney Productions film Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959). The film is a tale about a wily Irishman and his battle of wits with leprechauns.

 

Upon the film's initial release, A. H. Weiler of The New York Times praised the cast (save Connery whom he described as "merely tall, dark, and handsome") and thought the film:

 

"An overpoweringly charming concoction

of standard Gaelic tall stories, fantasy and

romance."

 

Sean also had prominent television roles in Rudolph Cartier's 1961 productions of Adventure Story and Anna Karenina for BBC Television, co-starring with Claire Bloom in the latter.

 

Also in 1961 he portrayed the title role in a CBC television film adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth with Australian actress Zoe Caldwell cast as Lady Macbeth.

 

(b) James Bond: 1962–1971, 1983

 

Connery's breakthrough came in the role of British secret agent James Bond. He was reluctant to commit to a film series, but understood that if the films succeeded, his career would greatly benefit.

 

Between 1962 and 1967, Connery played 007 in Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, and You Only Live Twice, the first five Bond films produced by Eon Productions.

 

After departing from the role, Connery returned for the seventh film, Diamonds Are Forever, in 1971. Connery made his final appearance as Bond in Never Say Never Again, a 1983 remake of Thunderball produced by Jack Schwartzman's Taliafilm.

 

All seven films were commercially successful. James Bond, as portrayed by Connery, was selected as the third-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute.

 

Connery's selection for the role of James Bond owed a lot to Dana Broccoli, wife of producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, who is reputed to have been instrumental in persuading her husband that Connery was the right man.

 

James Bond's creator, Ian Fleming, originally doubted Connery's casting, saying:

 

"He's not what I envisioned of James

Bond looks. I'm looking for Commander

Bond and not an overgrown stunt-man."

 

He added that Connery (muscular, 6' 2", and a Scot) was unrefined. However Fleming's girlfriend Blanche Blackwell told Fleming that Connery had the requisite sexual charisma, and Fleming changed his mind after the successful Dr. No première.

 

He was so impressed, he wrote Connery's heritage into the character. In his 1964 novel You Only Live Twice, Fleming wrote that Bond's father was Scottish and from Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands.

 

Connery's portrayal of Bond owes much to stylistic tutelage from director Terence Young, who helped polish him while using his physical grace and presence for the action.

 

Lois Maxwell, who played Miss Moneypenny, related that:

 

"Terence took Sean under his wing.

He took him to dinner, showed him

how to walk, how to talk, even how

to eat".

 

The tutoring was successful; Connery received thousands of fan letters a week after Dr. No's opening, and he became a major sex symbol in film.

 

Following the release of the film Dr. No in 1962, the line "Bond ... James Bond", became a catch phrase in the lexicon of Western popular culture. Film critic Peter Bradshaw writes:

 

"It is the most famous self-introduction

from any character in movie history.

Three cool monosyllables, surname first,

a little curtly, as befits a former naval

commander.

And then, as if in afterthought, the first

name, followed by the surname again.

Connery carried it off with icily disdainful

style, in full evening dress with a cigarette

hanging from his lips.

The introduction was a kind of challenge,

or seduction, invariably addressed to an

enemy.

In the early 60's, Connery's James Bond

was about as dangerous and sexy as it

got on screen."

 

During the filming of Thunderball in 1965, Connery's life was in danger in the sequence with the sharks in Emilio Largo's pool. He had been concerned about this threat when he read the script.

 

Connery insisted that Ken Adam build a special Plexiglas partition inside the pool, but this was not a fixed structure, and one of the sharks managed to pass through it. He had to abandon the pool immediately.

 

(c) Post-James Bond

 

Although Bond had made him a star, Connery grew tired of the role and the pressure the franchise put on him, saying:

 

"I am fed up to here with the whole

Bond bit. I have always hated that

damned James Bond. I'd like to kill

him."

 

Michael Caine said of the situation:

 

"If you were his friend in these early

days you didn't raise the subject of

Bond. He was, and is, a much better

actor than just playing James Bond,

but he became synonymous with

Bond. He'd be walking down the

street and people would say,

'Look, there's James Bond'.

That was particularly upsetting

to him."

 

While making the Bond films, Connery also starred in other films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964) and Sidney Lumet's The Hill (1965), which film critic Peter Bradshaw regards as his two great non-Bond pictures from the 1960's.

 

In Marnie, Connery starred opposite Tippi Hedren. Connery had said he wanted to work with Hitchcock, which Eon arranged through their contacts. Connery shocked many people at the time by asking to see a script, something he did because he was worried about being typecast as a spy, and he did not want to do a variation of North by Northwest or Notorious.

 

When told by Hitchcock's agent that Cary Grant had not asked to see even one of Hitchcock's scripts, Connery replied:

 

"I'm not Cary Grant."

 

Hitchcock and Connery got on well during filming, and Connery said he was happy with the film "with certain reservations".

 

In The Hill, Connery wanted to act in something that wasn't Bond related, and he used his leverage as a star to feature in it. While the film wasn't a financial success, it was a critical one, debuting at the Cannes Film Festival and winning Best Screenplay.

 

The first of five films he made with Lumet, Connery considered him to be one of his favourite directors. The respect was mutual, with Lumet saying of Connery's performance in The Hill:

 

"The thing that was apparent to me –

and to most directors – was how much

talent and ability it takes to play that

kind of character who is based on charm

and magnetism.

It's the equivalent of high comedy, and

he did it brilliantly."

 

In the mid-1960's, Connery played golf with Scottish industrialist Iain Maxwell Stewart, a connection which led to Connery directing and presenting the documentary film The Bowler and the Bunnet in 1967.

 

The film described the Fairfield Experiment, a new approach to industrial relations carried out at the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Glasgow, during the 1960s; the experiment was initiated by Stewart and supported by George Brown, the First Secretary in Harold Wilson's cabinet, in 1966.

 

The company was facing closure, and Brown agreed to provide £1 million (£13.135 million; US$15.55 million in 2021 terms) to enable trade unions, the management and the shareholders to try out new ways of industrial management.

 

Having played Bond six times, Connery's global popularity was such that he shared a Golden Globe Henrietta Award with Charles Bronson for "World Film Favorite – Male" in 1972.

 

He appeared in John Huston's The Man Who Would Be King (1975) opposite Michael Caine. Playing two former British soldiers who set themselves up as kings in Kafiristan, both actors regarded it as their favourite film.

 

The same year, Sean appeared in The Wind and the Lion opposite Candice Bergen who played Eden Perdicaris (based on the real-life Perdicaris incident), and in 1976 played Robin Hood in Robin and Marian opposite Audrey Hepburn.

 

Film critic Roger Ebert, who had praised the double act of Connery and Caine in The Man Who Would Be King, praised Connery's chemistry with Hepburn, writing:

 

"Connery and Hepburn seem to have

arrived at a tacit understanding

between themselves about their

characters. They glow. They really

do seem in love."

 

During the 1970's, Connery was part of ensemble casts in films such as Murder on the Orient Express (1974) with Vanessa Redgrave and John Gielgud, and played a British Army general in Richard Attenborough's war film A Bridge Too Far (1977), co-starring with Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Olivier.

 

In 1974, he starred in John Boorman's sci-fi thriller Zardoz. Often called one of the weirdest and worst movies ever made, it featured Connery in a scarlet mankini – a revealing costume which generated much controversy for its unBond-like appearance.

 

Despite being panned by critics at the time, the film has developed a cult following since its release. In the audio commentary to the film, Boorman relates how Connery would write poetry in his free time, describing him as:

 

"A man of great depth and intelligence,

as well as possessing the most

extraordinary memory."

 

In 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. The casting choice derives from a joke Michael Palin included in the script, which describes the character's removing his mask and being:

 

"Sean Connery – or someone

of equal but cheaper stature".

 

When shown the script, Connery was happy to play the supporting role.

 

In 1981 he portrayed Marshal William T. O'Niel in the science fiction thriller Outland. In 1982, Connery narrated G'olé!, the official film of the 1982 FIFA World Cup.

 

That same year, he was offered the role of Daddy Warbucks in Annie, going as far as taking voice lessons for the John Huston musical before turning down the part.

 

Connery agreed to reprise Bond as an ageing agent 007 in Never Say Never Again, released in October 1983. The title, contributed by his wife, refers to his earlier statement that he would "never again" return to the role.

 

Although the film performed well at the box office, it was plagued with production problems: strife between the director and producer, financial problems, the Fleming estate trustees' attempts to halt the film, and Connery's wrist being broken by the fight choreographer, Steven Seagal.

 

As a result of his negative experiences during filming, Connery became unhappy with the major studios, and did not make any films for two years. Following the successful European production The Name of the Rose (1986), for which he won a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, Connery's interest in more commercial material was revived.

 

That same year, a supporting role in Highlander showcased his ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which became a recurring role in many of his later films.

 

In 1987, Connery starred in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, where he played a hard-nosed Irish-American cop alongside Kevin Costner's Eliot Ness. The film also starred Andy Garcia and Robert De Niro as Al Capone.

 

The film was a critical and box-office success. Many critics praised Connery for his performance, including Roger Ebert, who wrote:

 

"The best performance in the movie

is Connery. He brings a human element

to his character; he seems to have had

an existence apart from the legend of

the Untouchables, and when he's

onscreen we can believe, briefly, that

the Prohibition Era was inhabited by

people, not caricatures."

 

For his performance, Connery received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

 

Connery starred in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), playing Henry Jones Sr., the title character's father, and received BAFTA and Golden Globe Award nominations. Harrison Ford said Connery's contributions at the writing stage enhanced the film:

 

"It was amazing for me in how far he got

into the script and went after exploiting

opportunities for character.

His suggestions to George Lucas at the

writing stage really gave the character

and the picture a lot more complexity

and value than it had in the original

screenplay.

 

Sean's subsequent box-office hits included The Hunt for Red October (1990), The Russia House (1990), The Rock (1996), and Entrapment (1999). In 1996, he voiced the role of Draco the dragon in the film Dragonheart.

 

He also appeared in a brief cameo as King Richard the Lionheart at the end of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). In 1998, Connery received the BAFTA Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

 

Connery's later films included several box-office and critical disappointments such as First Knight (1995), Just Cause (1995), The Avengers (1998), and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003).

 

The failure of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was especially frustrating for Connery. He sensed during shooting that the production was "going off the rails", and announced that the director, Stephen Norrington should be "locked up for insanity".

 

Connery spent considerable effort in trying to salvage the film through the editing process, ultimately deciding to retire from acting rather than go through such stress ever again.

 

However, he received positive reviews for his performance in Finding Forrester (2000). He also received a Crystal Globe for outstanding artistic contribution to world cinema.

 

In a 2003 UK poll conducted by Channel 4, Connery was ranked eighth on their list of the 100 Greatest Movie Stars.

 

Connery turned down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings films, saying he did not understand the script. He was reportedly offered US$30 million along with 15% of the worldwide box office receipts, which would have earned him US$450 million.

 

He also turned down the opportunity to appear as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series and the Architect in The Matrix trilogy.

 

In 2005, he recorded voiceovers for the From Russia with Love video game with recording producer Terry Manning in the Bahamas, and provided his likeness. Connery said he was happy the producers, Electronic Arts, had approached him to voice Bond.

 

(d) Retirement

 

When Connery received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award on the 8th. June 2006, he confirmed his retirement from acting.

 

Connery's disillusionment with the "idiots now making films in Hollywood" was cited as a reason for his decision to retire.

 

On the 7th. June 2007, he denied rumours that he would appear in the fourth Indiana Jones film, saying:

 

"Retirement is just too

much damned fun."

 

In 2010, a bronze bust sculpture of Connery was placed in Tallinn, Estonia, outside The Scottish Club, whose membership includes Estonian Scotophiles and a handful of expatriate Scots.

 

In 2012, Connery briefly came out of retirement to voice the title character in the Scottish animated film Sir Billi. Connery served as executive producer for an expanded 80-minute version.

 

Sean Connery's Personal Life

 

During the production of South Pacific in the mid-1950's, Connery dated a Jewish "dark-haired beauty with a ballerina's figure", Carol Sopel, but was warned off by her family.

 

He then dated Julie Hamilton, daughter of documentary filmmaker and feminist Jill Craigie. Given Connery's rugged appearance and rough charm, Hamilton initially thought he was an appalling person and was not attracted to him until she saw him in a kilt, declaring him to be the most beautiful thing she had ever seen in her life.

 

He also shared a mutual attraction with jazz singer Maxine Daniels, whom he met whilst working in theatre. He made a pass at her, but she told him she was already happily married with a daughter.

 

Connery was married to actress Diane Cilento from 1962 to 1974, though they separated in 1971. They had a son, actor Jason Joseph. Connery was separated in the early 1970's when he dated Dyan Cannon, Jill St. John, Lana Wood, Carole Mallory, and Magda Konopka.

 

In her 2006 autobiography, Cilento alleged that he had abused her mentally and physically during their relationship. Connery cancelled an appearance at the Scottish Parliament in 2006 because of controversy over his alleged support of abuse of women.

 

He denied claims that he told Playboy magazine in 1965:

 

"I don't think there is anything

particularly wrong in hitting a

woman, though I don't

recommend you do it in the

same way you hit a man".

 

He was also reported to have stated to Vanity Fair in 1993:

 

"There are women who take it

to the wire. That's what they are

looking for, the ultimate

confrontation. They want a smack."

 

In 2006, Connery told The Times of London:

 

"I don't believe that any level of

abuse of women is ever justified

under any circumstances. Full stop".

 

When knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 he wore a green-and-black hunting tartan kilt of his mother's MacLean clan.

 

Connery was married to French-Moroccan painter Micheline Roquebrune (born 4th. April 1929) from 1975 until his death. The marriage survived a well-documented affair Connery had in the late 1980's with the singer and songwriter Lynsey de Paul, which she later regretted due to his views concerning domestic violence.

 

Connery owned the Domaine de Terre Blanche in the South of France from 1979. He sold it to German billionaire Dietmar Hopp in 1999.

 

He was awarded an honorary rank of Shodan (1st. dan) in Kyokushin karate.

 

Connery relocated to the Bahamas in the 1990's; he owned a mansion in Lyford Cay on New Providence.

 

Connery had a villa in Kranidi, Greece. His neighbour was King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands, with whom he shared a helicopter platform.

 

Growing up, Connery supported the Scottish football club Celtic F.C., having been introduced to the club by his father who was a lifelong fan of the team.

 

Later in life, Connery switched his loyalty to Celtic's bitter rival, Rangers F.C., after he became close friends with the team's chairman, David Murray.

 

Sean was a keen golfer, and English professional golfer Peter Alliss gave Connery golf lessons before the filming of the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger, which involved a scene where Connery, as Bond, played golf against gold magnate Auric Goldfinger at Stoke Park Golf Club in Buckinghamshire.

 

The golf scene saw him wear a Slazenger v-neck sweater, a brand which Connery became associated with while playing golf in his free time, with a light grey marl being a favoured colour.

 

Record major championship winner and golf course designer Jack Nicklaus said:

 

"He loved the game of golf – Sean

was a pretty darn good golfer! –

and we played together several

times.

In May 1993, Sean and legendary

driver Jackie Stewart helped me

open our design of the PGA

Centenary Course at Gleneagles

in Scotland."

 

Sean Connery's Political Views

 

Connery's Scottish roots and his experiences in filming in Glasgow's shipyards in 1966 inspired him to become a member of the centre-left Scottish National Party (SNP), which supports Scottish independence from the United Kingdom.

 

In 2011, Connery said:

 

"The Bowler and the Bunnet was just

the beginning of a journey that would

lead to my long association with the

Scottish National Party."

 

Connery supported the party both financially and through personal appearances. In 1967, he wrote to George Leslie, the SNP candidate in the 1967 Glasgow Pollok by-election, saying:

 

"I am convinced that with our resources

and skills we are more than capable of

building a prosperous, vigorous and

modern self-governing Scotland in which

we can all take pride and which will

deserve the respect of other nations."

 

His funding of the SNP ceased in 2001, when the UK Parliament passed legislation prohibiting overseas funding of political activities in the United Kingdom.

 

Dean Connery's Tax Status

 

In response to accusations that he was a tax exile, Connery released documents in 2003 showing he had paid £3.7 million in UK taxes between 1997 and 1998 and between 2002 and 2003. Critics pointed out that had he been continuously residing in the UK for tax purposes, his tax rate would have been far higher.

 

In the run-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Connery's brother Neil said that Connery would not come to Scotland to rally independence supporters, since his tax exile status greatly limited the number of days he could spend in the country.

 

After Connery sold his Marbella villa in 1999, Spanish authorities launched a tax evasion investigation, alleging that the Spanish treasury had been defrauded of £5.5 million.

 

Connery was subsequently cleared by officials, but his wife and 16 others were charged with attempting to defraud the Spanish treasury.

 

The Death and Legacy of Sean Connery

 

Connery died in his sleep on the 31st. October 2020, aged 90, at his home in the Lyford Cay community of Nassau in the Bahamas. His death was announced by his family and Eon Productions; although they did not disclose the cause of death, his son Jason said he had been unwell for some time.

 

A day later, Roquebrune revealed he had suffered from dementia in his final years. Connery's death certificate recorded the cause of death as pneumonia and respiratory failure, and the time of death was listed as 1:30 am.

 

Sean's remains were cremated, and the ashes were scattered in Scotland at undisclosed locations in 2022.

 

Following the announcement of his death, many co-stars and figures from the entertainment industry paid tribute to Connery, including Sam Neill, Nicolas Cage, Robert De Niro, Michael Bay, Tippi Hedren, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, George Lucas, Shirley Bassey, Kevin Costner, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

 

Tributes also came from Barbra Streisand, John Cleese, Jane Seymour and Harrison Ford, as well as former Bond stars George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, the family of late former Bond actor Roger Moore, and Daniel Craig, who played 007 until No Time to Die.

 

Connery's long-time friend Michael Caine called him:

 

"A great star, brilliant actor

and a wonderful friend".

 

James Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli released a statement saying that:

 

"Connery has revolutionized the world

with his gritty and witty portrayal of the

sexy and charismatic secret agent.

He is undoubtedly largely responsible

for the success of the film series, and

we shall be forever grateful to him".

 

In 2004, a poll in the UK Sunday Herald recognised Connery as "The Greatest Living Scot," and a 2011 EuroMillions survey named him "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure".

 

He was voted by People magazine as the "Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century" in 1999.

 

Final Thoughts From Sir Sean Connery

 

"I am not an Englishman, I was never an

Englishman, and I don't ever want to be

one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman,

and I will always be one."

 

"I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more

than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed

more times than a hooker."

 

"Love may not make the world go round,

but I must admit that it makes the ride

worthwhile."

 

"There is nothing like a challenge

to bring out the best in man."

 

"I like women. I don't understand

them, but I like them."

 

"Some age, others mature."

 

"I met my wife through playing golf. She is

French and couldn't speak English, and I

couldn't speak French, so there was little

chance of us getting involved in any boring

conversations - that's why we got married

really quickly."

 

"Everything I have done or attempted to do

for Scotland has always been for her benefit,

never my own, and I defy anyone to prove

otherwise."

 

"The knighthood I received was a fantastic

honor but it's not something I've ever used,

and I don't think I ever will."

 

"I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs."

 

"More than anything else, I'd like to be an

old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or

Picasso."

 

"Laughter kills fear, and without fear there

can be no faith. For without fear of the devil

there is no need for God."

 

"Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would

be even worse at doing anything else."

 

"I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do

my job right, people won't ask for their

money back."

 

"I haven't found anywhere in the world

where I want to be all the time. The best

of my life is the moving. I look forward to

going."

French postcard in the Collection Cinéma Couleur by Editions La Malibran, Nancy, no. MC 40. Donald Sutherland in Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Federico Fellini, 1976).

 

Canadian actor Donald Sutherland (1935) rose to fame after starring in films including M*A*S*H (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Fellini's Casanova (1976), and 1900 (1976). During his long film career, he won two Golden Globe Awards, for the television films Citizen X (1995) and Path to War (2002), and an Emmy Award for the former. In 2017, he received an Honorary Oscar for his contributions to cinema.

 

Donald McNichol Sutherland CC was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1935. His parents were Dorothy Isobel (née McNichol) and Frederick McLea Sutherland. His father worked in sales and ran the local gas, electricity, and bus company. Donald obtained his first part-time job, at the age of 14, as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW. He graduated from Bridgewater High School and then studied at Victoria University, where he met his first wife Lois Hardwick and graduated with a double major in engineering and drama. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer, and left Canada for Britain in 1957, studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After departing the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Sutherland spent a year and a half at the Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland. In the early to mid-1960s, Sutherland began to gain small roles in British films and TV. He was featured alongside Christopher Lee in horror films such as Castle of the Living Dead (1964) and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). He also had a supporting role in the Hammer Films production Die! Die! My Darling! (1965), with Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers. In the same year, he appeared in the Cold War classic The Bedford Incident and in the TV series Gideon's Way. In 1966, Sutherland appeared on the BBC TV play Lee Oswald-Assassin, playing a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald. Then followed parts in such popular TV series as The Saint (1966-1967) and The Avengers (1967).he landed a role in the film The Dirty Dozen, starring Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson. It was the 5th highest-grossing film of 1967 and MGM's highest-grossing movie of the year and was Sutherland's breakthrough. In 1968, he left London for Hollywood and appeared in two war films, playing the lead role as "Hawkeye" Pierce in MASH (Robert Altman, 1970) and, as hippie tank commander "Oddball" in Kelly's Heroes (1970). Sutherland also starred with Gene Wilder in the comedy Start the Revolution Without Me (1970).

 

Donald Sutherland found himself as a leading man throughout the 1970s. During the filming of the Oscar-winning detective thriller Klute, he had an intimate relationship with co-star Jane Fonda. They went on to co-produce and star together in the anti-Vietnam War documentary F.T.A. (1972), consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with American troops who were then on active service. A follow up to their teaming up in Klute, Sutherland, and Fonda performed together in Steelyard Blues (David S. Ward, 1973). Het then played in the Venice-based psychological horror film Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg, 1973), co-starring Julie Christie. he was nominated for his role for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Then followed the war film The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Federico Fellini's Casanova (1976), and the thriller Eye of the Needle (which was filmed on location on the Isle of Mull, West Scotland). His role as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied in the German film End of the Game (Maximilian Schell,1976). Then he was the ever-optimistic health inspector in the Science Fiction/horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum. Sutherland also had a role as pot-smoking Professor Dave Jennings in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), making himself known to younger fans as a result of the movie's popularity. He won acclaim for his performance in the Italian epic 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976) and as the conflicted father in the Academy Award-winning family drama Ordinary People (1980), alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton.

 

Some of Donald Sutherland's better-known roles in the 1980s and 1990s were in the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season (1989), alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon; as a sadistic warden in Lock Up (1989) with Sylvester Stallone; as an incarcerated pyromaniac in the firefighter thriller Backdraft (1990) alongside Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro, as the humanitarian doctor-activist Norman Bethune in Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1992), and as a snobbish New York City art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), with Stockard Channing and Will Smith. In JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991), he played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer, reputed to have been L. Fletcher Prouty, who spoke of links to the military-industrial complex in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The following year, he played the role of Merrick in the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), with Kristy Swanson. In 1994, he played the head of a government agency hunting for aliens who take over people's bodies similar to the premise of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the film of Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 book The Puppet Masters. In 1994, Sutherland played a software company's scheming CEO in Barry Levinson's drama Disclosure opposite Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, and in 1995 he was cast as Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock in Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak. He was later cast in 1996 (for only the second time) with his son Kiefer in Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill. Sutherland played an astronaut in Space Cowboys (2000), with co-stars Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, and James Garner. Sutherland was a model for Chris Claremont and John Byrne to create Donald Pierce, the character in the Marvel Comics, whose last name comes from Sutherland's character in the 1970 film M*A*S*H, Hawkeye Pierce.

 

In more recent years, Donald Sutherland was known for his role as Reverend Monroe in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain (2003), in the remake of The Italian Job (2003), in the TV series Commander in Chief (2005–2006), and as Mr. Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005), starring alongside Keira Knightley. Sutherland starred as Tripp Darling in the prime time drama series Dirty Sexy Money, and his distinctive voice has also been used in many radio and television commercials. In 2010, he starred alongside an ensemble cast in a TV adaptation of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth. Beginning in 2012, Sutherland portrayed President Snow, the main antagonist of The Hunger Games film franchise, in The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), and Part 2 (2015). His role was well-received by fans and critics.

The television program Crossing Lines premiered in 2013. Sutherland, who played the Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court named Michel Dorn, was one of only two actors to appear in all episodes across three seasons.

Donald Sutherland has been married three times. His first marriage, to Lois Hardwick, lasted from 1959 to 1966. His second marriage, which lasted from 1966 to 1970, was to Shirley Douglas. They have two children, twins Kiefer and Rachel. Donald Sutherland met his current wife, French Canadian actress Francine Racette, on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama Alien Thunder. They married in 1972 and have three sons: Rossif Sutherland, Angus Redford Sutherland, and Roeg Sutherland. His four sons have all been named after directors whom Sutherland has worked with: Kiefer is named after American-born director and writer Warren Kiefer, who, under the assumed name of Lorenzo Sabatini, directed Sutherland in his first feature film, the Italian low-budget horror film Il castello dei morti vivi/Castle of the Living Dead; Roeg is named after director Nicolas Roeg; Rossif is named after French director Frédéric Rossif, and Angus Redford has his middle name after Robert Redford. Donald Sutherland is a Companion of the Order of Canada (CC) since 2019.

 

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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Happy thanksgiving! Even though most you are done eating. This may sound cheesy and I probably say it a lot, but I really am thankful for every single one you. All your support! I give thanks to that and many other things. I hope you have a lovely time with your family and loved ones and please try to be thankful everyday, not just once a year. Life is too short and we have to appreciate what we have while it lasts.

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Recently, I had been looking for a part-time job. And I saw a want ad on the Internet and thought it is good in the working items, the salary and all the other aspects. Then I contacted the manager of the company and made an appointment to have an interview the next day at the company.

 

The next day, a lady in her 40’s also came to apply for this job. I thought: The lady looks more mature and steady than me, and very likely the manager will engage her and refuse me. So I couldn’t help feeling worried in my heart. Later, the manager asked us to his office and told us: “Now I have opened a web page, and the one who can print the page will be employed.” Finishing saying this, he went out of the office. Looking at the page on the computer, I felt very nervous: I can just do something easy like making charts or files but not print documents from a computer. By comparison, isn’t obvious that I will lose? It looks like that lady will be employed and I will be hopeless. As expected, she did manage to do that at last.

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Italian postcard by Rotalfoto, Milano, no. 1034. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.

 

Rita Pavone (1945) was one of the biggest teenage stars in Europe during the 1960s, and one of the few Italian pop stars to gain a foothold in the American market. Pavone also starred in several 'Musicarellos'.

 

Rita Pavone was born Turin, Italy in 1945. Mark Deming at AllMusic: “Her father, who worked at a Fiat auto plant, was a big fan of American musical stars, particularly Al Jolson, Judy Garland, and Gene Kelly, and young Rita shared his tastes, often singing along with his records and taking singing lessons when she wasn't busy with school or her part-time job ironing shirts. In 1959, Rita made her public debut as a singer, impersonating Al Jolson in a children's talent contest; by this time, rock & roll had made its way to the continent, and she became an immediate fan of the new teenage sounds. In 1960, Pavone landed her first professional gig, performing for soldiers at Italian NATO bases, and after initial attempts to score a record deal or nightclub engagement proved fruitless, Pavone got her big break in the fall of 1962." She participated in the first Festa degli Sconosciuti (Festival of the Unknowns), a song competition for amateur artists. She won the contest, which was organised by singer and record producer Teddy Reno. The two fell in love. Rita was 17 and Teddy was 19 years her senior and already married, and father of a baby boy. However, they would always stay together. Her first single La partita di pallone (The Ball Game) was an immediate smash. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Her album debut, simply titled Rita Pavone, made her a national star, and international attention soon followed. Her recording of Cuore (Heart) also sold a million copies in 1963, spending nine weeks at number one in Italy. In the summer of 1964 she had chart success in the United States with Remember Me, backed with Just Once More. Pavone sang at Carnegie Hall in New York city, and between 1964 and 1970, she was a frequent guest at the Ed Sullivan Show, the most popular variety show on American television. Pavone was also very successful in Europe. In the UK, RCA Victor issued two of her singles in quick succession in 1966 and 1967. Both were hits, Heart peaking at #27 and You Only You peaking at #21 in the UK Singles Chart. During this same period she appeared at the London Palladium. Spain would prove to be one of her biggest markets. In this country she scored a string of hits, both with ballads and rock songs and became a teen idol. Pavone recorded a total of thirteen albums. She mainly recorded for RCA until 1968, then she signed for a brief period with Ricordi which launched her vanity label, RitaLand. Eventually she returned to the label that had launched her, recording three more albums with RCA.

 

In Italy, Rita Pavone also worked as an actress, and during the 1960’s, she starred in six films. The first was the French comedy Clémentine Chérie (Pierre Chevalier, 1963), featuring France Anglade. The others were the Musicarellos (Italian teen musicals of 1950s and 1960s) Rita, la figlia Americana/Rita, the American daughter (Piero Vivarelli, 1965) with Totò, Rita la zanzara/Rita the Mosquito (Lina Wertmüller, 1966) with Giancarlo Giannini, Non stuzzicate la zanzara/Don't Sting the Mosquito (Lina Wertmüller, 1967) with Giulietta Masina as Rita’s mother, the musical Western Little Rita nel west/Rita of the West (Ferdinando Baldi, 1967) with Terence Hill, and La Feldmarescialla/The Crazy Kids of the War (Steno, 1968). In the two Zanzara films, directed by Lina Wertmüller, ´Little Rita´ played a music student in love with her professor, who unknown to her is living a double life as a rock & roll singer. With Wertmüller she also made Giornalino di Gianburrasca/Gian Burrasca's Diary (1964-1965). For this TV series, she also contributed several songs. Pavone’s film career targeted a teen audience and lacked great artistic value, but today her films are cult favourites in Italy. In 1968 Pavone finally married Teddy Reno in a church in Lugano, Switzerland. This event caused a scandal because Reno was still married to his first wife, Livia Protti, and in Italy there was no divorce law until 1970. They re-married each other in Italy in 1971. Later on she would participate in comedy films, such as 2 sul pianerottolo/Two on the landing (Mario Amendola, 1975). On TV, she participated in shows such as Alta Pressione (High Pressure) (1967), Stasera Rita (Tonight Rita) and the variety series Studio Uno (1968). In 1982, she appeared in Come Alice (Like Alice), which became a hit in Italian television. In the theatre, she played Maria in a celebrated production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. And her songs are on many film soundtracks. The main character in the Argentine film Nueve reinas/Nine Queens (Fabián Bielinsky, 2000) tries to remember a Pavone song throughout the film. The song Il Ballo Del Mattone (The Fool's Dance) plays as the credits run. In 2006, she announced her official retirement from show business. She was a Senate candidate in the Italian general election of 2006, for the centre-right list Per l'Italia nel Mondo (For Italy in the World) led by minister Mirko Tremaglia. Rita Pavone and her husband Teddy Reno now live in Ticino, Switzerland. They have two sons, Alessandro and Giorgio, both of whom have become involved in show business themselves, Alessandro as a radio show host and Giorgio as a rock singer.

 

Sources: Mark Deming (AllMusic), Small Wonder (Official Rita Pavone website), Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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My 22-year old daughter Elizabeth is leaving tomorrow to go live in Nicaragua.

 

She went to school in Costa Rica this fall to get certified to teach English and planned to stay in Costa Rica, but found it too Americanized. She went to Granada, Nicaragua and fell in love with the city. She took this photo while in Granada.

 

However, there's no work there (the unemployment rate in Nicaragua as a whole is around 50%), so she's decided to move to Leon, Nicaragua, where there are several universities, to improve her chances of finding work as an English teacher.

 

Today, the winter semester for my English as a Second Language class resumed and I had a new student, Ramon, who is from Nicaragua. I told him Elizabeth is moving to Leon tomorrow and he passionately argued that it was too dangerous for a single woman. I told him that all the information I had was that Nicaragua was one of the safest countries in the Western Hemisphere, but Ramon wasn't dissuaded.

 

"It's important that she does not trust anybody she meets." His friend recently moved back there and everything she owned was stolen before she left the airport. Now, "she has nothing ... and she's old."

 

I'm proud of Elizabeth and wish I'd had the courage to do something other than the lockstep high school ... college ... law school ... law firm. But Toni and I are concerned and Ramon didn't help.

 

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Update - WOW! My DNA says this photo made Explore, the first one of "my" photos to make it. Way to go, Elizabeth!

 

And Elizabeth has found a nice apartment in Leon and a very small part-time job (8 hours a month, I think) teaching English.

"This small diesel mechanical shunting locomotive was built by John Fowler of Leeds in 1952. Works No. 4160001, she was the prototype of her class and is powered by a McLaren diesel engine with mechanical transmission to four outside coupled wheels.

“Persil” worked at the soap works of Joseph Crosfield & Sons at Warrington until 1971, when they presented it to Steamport. It was the first exhibit for the Southport museum, and was delivered onto track adjacent to the museum premises on 12th January 1972, before the opening of the museum." from the Ribble Steam Railway website.

Persil was built in the year I was born, and my first part time job as a student in 1968 had me selling Persil soap powder on a market stall in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. I remember well the TV advert with six boys in glowing white shirts and one other in grey with the catch line "Somebody's mother doesn't use Persil."

Looks like ZZ Top has a part time job as a train engineer.

Spiderman working in Moscow

British postcard by Santoro Graphics, London, no C212. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd., 1984. Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984).

 

American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.

 

Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).

 

Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.

 

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Today I am grateful for time spent with my daughter. She is now 20 and I don't see a lot of her. Seems like only yesterday that she was a little baby, time goes so quick.

She has uni, works a part time job and has a boyfriend which means she is not home much nowdays. I am happy when she spends a bit of time at home with us.

Vintage photo with autograph. Harrison Ford in

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008).

 

American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.

 

Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).

 

Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

Taking flight... that's where my imagination went with this image. This image evokes more memories in me than you can know. My dad was stationed here at Langley AFB, now known as Joint Base Langley, with the 48th Fighter Interceptor Squadron in the late 60s through early 70s. We lived near the base and I remember waking many mornings to some pilot putting a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star trainer just like this one through its paces. I would have loved to have had this camera back then… the family’s Kodak Brownie just wasn’t the same, though it, too, garnered many memories. While dad was at Langley, he had a part-time job with NASA, working with the wind tunnel that’s still in use there… it’s located near the red and white gantry seen at the lower left in the image. In the days before realistic digital flight simulators, a ‘vehicle’ attached by cabling to the gantry was used by Apollo astronauts to practice moon landings in that day.

 

On Monday, the president announced that NASA will go back to the Moon and eventually send humans to Mars. In signing "Space Policy Directive-1," Trump committed NASA to send humans back to the Moon and then on to Mars. So much of what we currently use and enjoy in terms of communication and medicine came because of a scientific persistence that came from sending humans to such a volatile environment as space. Who knows what will result in a furthering of that to put footsteps on Mars?

 

Through the shimmering heat off the runway and taxiways can also be seen a series of receivers and possibly transmitters… speaking of Mars, I thought that might perhaps be a MARS unit, that being a Military Auxiliary Radio System, used for emergency communications. On second thought, however, it may have an altogether different purpose… Langley is now home to the 1st Fighter Wing, flying the phenomenal F-22 Raptor 5th-generation stealth fighter. The crews not only train in interceptor missions, but also in tactics to penetrate deep into enemy territory without being detected… the system here may have a twofold purpose, not just to attempt detection of the F-22s on mission, but also to set up a ‘wall’ of interference simulating known enemy antiaircraft battery frequencies… the Raptor has a high success rate in such warfare.

 

In my military days, I was involved in Air Force Communications Service as an air traffic control radar technician… I miss those days. I was here at Langley in the 70s, too, to install a radar video relocating system from the RAPCON (Radar Approach Control) to the control tower… the tower still stands, but I’ll bet the entry code has changed. I still remember it… but if I told you, I’d have to kill you… ha! Memories.

 

In two weeks time, a supposedly happy day was still something of a gloomy time—despite the biggest highlight being the celebration of Tyrone and Erin’s wedding. People kept up happy faces, but I knew somberness was prevalent.

 

So much going on, so little time. It was decided the wedding be made private, much to the couple's wishes rather than a big one to be held at Paladin, but thank god they scrapped that. We flew to the Canary Islands, to Japan and Michigan for a party. Basically, anywhere the two had wanted, as long as Edens promised us we would be enjoying much time off. But he wasn't present, because of whatever he was entangled in, and Navin was...also doing the same shit.

 

**Canary Islands, 11:40 A.M:**

 

Priest: “Will you proclaim each other as wife and husband?”

Ty/Erin: “Yes we do.”

Priest: "No matter health, life and death, shall you cherish each other and love each other?"

Ty/Erin: "Yes, we do."

Priest:" You may now exchange the rings, and kiss.

 

Though the happiness and excitement returned when the ceremony took place. Music, laughs and some cries. It felt warm to me, and a lot of people. I get it's a whole lotta wedding stuff, it’s fun but…something feels missing. If there was a billionaire right here, he’d be throwing things, maybe an actual big party. At least I saw the tension was non-existent between both parents of the bride or groom—from Tyrone’s mother and grandmother, along with Erin’s dad. Guess they’re on good terms, these elders. Anything for their children. The beauty of family dynamics.

 

Kurt: “Well, congrats on the uh, rings! I knew it was going to happen to you both.”

Erin: “Thanks Kurt.”

Kurt: “So the day were there…you saved our asses partially, probably missed out some stuff…you got Riley but not Harry?”

Ty: “We got filled in by others. Harry…he’s...was a coma. When we found his room, he was gone. Nobody knew where he was.”

Kurt: “I assume Jericho saved him. He's a friend. But Harry has a lot of issues...and I don't know, we might be seeing him again someday."

 

Leaving the couple to celebrate, I hope it wouldn’t make matters worse when everyone had something to announce. Jesse seemed bitter and unlike himself...he wasn’t cracking jokes anymore. Something was definitely up on his mind. Indeed, his temper was changing, his behaviour led to a lot of his arguments with his...ex lover. Not the most proper breakup, but this is what young people do, I guess?

 

Gary: “You’re not leaving, are you?”

Jesse: “I will. I can’t stand hypocrites around. Remus...used to be a teacher, until he wasn’t anymore. This is the part where I leave everybody—and this place. Congrats on the wedding, voila. I need to go away somewhere.”

Kieran: “You’re really considering it? Why not anyone?”

Jesse: “Who have I left to trust? Nobody. The agency used me, you, everyone as a tool! Us! As much as I like a lot of people in this room, it’s the end of the line for me. I'm gonna off the grid—no one’s gonna find me. Darling, I’m sorry."

Gary: "Is this breakup? Come on, we can decide--"

Jesse: "I've thought through tooth and nail, and the last couple of years are just...bad. I need to keep a low profile."

Gary: "J, please..."

Jesse: "Pray faith will allow us to meet again someday, love...”

 

***

Jesse: "Con, I'm gonna go. Please, we've been through this a whole lot."

Connor: "I'm not gonna stop you, and you're a functioning adult. You can make your own choices and I won't govern it, so you don't need permission."

Jesse: "The toughest calls always get the worst timings."

Connor: "I know, we haven't gotten much time, but at least we went home a few times. That's good enough in my book."

Jesse: "I'm just happy our best friends got married. And I just broke up."

Connor: "Yeah...about that, I'm sorry. It must have been awkward,. I can't do much but I'll always love you, Jes. I'm your big brother. Try giving me a call, will ya?"

Jesse: "Adios, bro."

 

***

 

Connor: “Sorry to inform everyone, but my brother's gone. I'm sorry, Gary and everyone else. But I hate bringing up agency matters at the moment, so we need to talk now."

Ty: "Well, it's not our worst day. We gotta accept our best friend's going, but I'm just glad our wedding was great, right babe?"

Erin: "You know I love you enough to not say no."

Ty: "Gotta make through the talk so we can go on honeymoon. Family's waiting over there."

Connor: "Okay. In that decision, we should all be making a vote. Who leaves or stays. My call is personal, I’m on and off. The Guild and Oddcrow need me. I'm flying for Kyoto tomorrow.”

Erin: “I hope you don’t leave for long.”

Connor: " I'll remain whenever you need me, E."

Sam: “I’m voting to stay. Healing takes a bit of time. We got nowhere to go honestly. So why not finish the party?”

Lyra: "Agreed."

Riley: "Stay, I can't fucking wait for girl party for us. You lads better stay off."

Erin: "That too, Riley. Me and Lyra need some good girl times."

Ty: "Yeah, we got one more night left, why not spend it well?"

Kieran: “Ok, let’s call it off for now. I gotta relax my bones.”

Kurt: "Drinks, monsieur and madams?"

Connor: "Here, let's toast to us."

 

***

 

At night through next morning, Jesse was never seen again, despite the celebration. God knows where he’s heading off but he's not entirely wrong. I swear, if he had stayed longer, I could have gotten a better understanding of what his electricity powers meant.

 

I too myself got tired during the hours of drinking, opting to go home or some bar. Doing research myself before snoozing off—least I can drink lots, but I’m not that kind of drunkard. I know I got work.

 

The focus of things look good once in a while. Research allows me to get back on the market, sort of. At least I can fluctuate in devising and making good use of atoms, some from my powers that I could experiment with, feels less work like the agency but more relaxed.

 

So where does this leave us? Agents, homeless, no jobs? Yeah, I guess pension means I should retire, but thanks to science, I'm a scientist. Avalon and Gamma teams are gonna have to regulate to civilian identities, have a normal job. It would be a challenge for newlyweds, or those who gotta adapt.

 

But I didn't find it hard, given I'm the oldest, having a career and all that, it's like being a hero is a part time job. There's so many ways you can save the world. Once at a time. If I do it step by step, I can acknowledge the procedures make it right.

 

***

 

On a rainy morning a week later, I received a call from Kieran, who asked me to go to the Paladin base to scavenge some things—while it’s on lockdown. Wonder what could that be? Prison? A reintroduction to my former life? No...couldn’t be.

 

The place is as dark as it gets as I wander around the open corner. This is the damn basement. The US is always under heavy security and guns and whatnot, but yeah, it's easy to slip through. I remember we were formally discharged after Gardner's incident, but we took some equipment, our suits and personal items before we left. The board made sure we would not step foot into Paladin again.

 

Kurt: “Where am I at again?”

Riley: “In secret.”

Lyra: “Welcome home again.”

Kurt: “Y’know the other day I thought about retirement...maybe I should have stayed there. You act like Washington isn't full of dirty secrets already.”

Sam: "So much for independency. I know, but this is different."

Kurt: "Again, hard to forgive for my pessimism. Yes I'm sober, but I'm still drowning in my own works."

Gary: “We still have unfinished business, Kurt. We need you. Jesse might be gone for now but this team has to get stronger."

Kurt: "Tell that to ones who just got married. But hey, they deserved it."

 

Glad to hear that then? I scuffle my hair and wait impatiently digging through my pockets, doing a mental headcount until something happens.

 

With the flicker of lights, my eyes are exposed to a garage like base of sorts. What it implies is that we may have relocated, but I could be wrong.

 

Sam: “Paladin may still be active, but...with the losses, we don’t have much time to cope on the inside, so we do it on the outside.”

Navin: “So what you say, old eagle?”

Kurt: “Khattar. You’re still alive.”

Navin: “I made it though, I know a few might not be present but...we should skip to explaining instead of jumping straight to conclusions.”

Khattar: “Well, for starters, Edens is regretting what he's done, keeping secrets. But the irony is—this is secretive. We've put him on Interpol list. He's negotiating to be under house arrest.”

Kurt: "Well, that's...something."

 

They all nod in agreement, like I’m late to the party or something. Emerging from the shadows in front of me is none other than Yvette Gardner, Mason’s sister. I've barely seen her before, but her presence is calming, yet mysterious. But it does remind me of her dead brother.

 

Yvette: “Looks like everyone’s here. Now where do I begin with...I thank you for the condolences for my brother’s death, which I’m in mourning too but since we’re facing dire times...I am going to take up his remaining funds. What he started—is in my hands. The Gardner company cannot work on its own but rather I’d have to focus on Cavebridge Solutions to maintain a public persona.”

Kurt: “That means giving up your career, would you want that? Worth the risks?”

Yvette: “I don’t have any choice left—my brother had to show the world...and in fact, I’m a superhuman too. Which is why we’re all gathered in secret.”

Navin: “Avalon and Gamma are now gone, with the exception of Sam and Connor, Tyrone and Erin have gone on their honeymoon and to focus on a new life, so I don’t blame them."

Kurt: "After what they've been through, they need the break."

Navin: "Yes, Doctor Rackham. I can ensure that. But your decision to stay or leave is crucial. I need to lead a team that is capable of surviving hardships in the aftermath of these events; you can still choose to leave if you want to, no one will force you to make a choice.”

Kurt: "I know, this is hard. Give me a minute."

Navin: "Best to make a steadfast decision, doctor."

 

***

 

No one spoke up. They were just exchanging glances, or it was just Riley trying to tease Kieran. Yvette sat on a chair, looking into her own digital businesses.

 

Kurt: "Okay, I'm in."

Navin: “Glad to hear that, doctor. Ms Gardner?"

Yvette: "The façade and reputation of Paladin has been tarnished—but it maybe beyond repair; the board saw it as a very dangerous stunt and now I have to prove myself as being trustworthy to be amongst everyone. It will double our work in the meantime, and our secrets will be held like this for another planning.”

Kurt: “So basically we’re building ourselves another agency? Well sounds sketchy to me even if you need men and women like us...and I wish Harry was here.”

Kieran: “Desperate times, desperate measures.”

Yvette: “If everyone proceeds to stay, then let’s get to work: the manhunt for North is still on, lots of enemies outside including the former guild members. Last couple of days, Connor has been assisting us with intel regarding ES activity in Berlin. If I’m not wrong about analytics, which presumably Sabine Rackham is still alive and active, she has ordered her cells on the move. I’m gonna hand the rest to Sam.”

Sam: ”Last but not least, we have a source of power...somewhere in the files that Jericho left us, a location...which could benefit us. But it’ll be a long trip searching...we’ll need someone up for that job as well.

Riley: "Woosh woosh. Lyra, babe. This is where we have fun. But we're definitely gonna crash Erin's place this coming weekend."

Lyra: "Deal."

Kieran: "Let's get to work, everyone."

 

Sounds like it. Hope comes in the form of a small...team. Since that day, we were a merged team, with a brand new leader, a financial benefactor and a new director. From people of different cultures and countries as team members, same faces but with a breathe of fresh air. And now with a mystery that should be a recurring thing to be decoded, analyzed and solved slowly...

 

The Knights of the Round Table are indeed alive after all. Do we have a name? Who cares right now? Who knows what will bring us to come? I wish I had the ability to predict the future, but the present is important to guide us there in time.

 

And the world will know Mason Gardner died a man who tried to save the world as a regular person, not as hero.

 

And we have to make sure his sacrifice will be remembered.

To help pay for my expensive shoe habit, I've taken a part-time job as a librarian. The previous librarian was very silly - she had all the books in a muddle until I came along! I've sorted them all out now, arranged by colour. I've put the prettiest books at the top, the heaviest ones on the floor and the fashion ones in the middle where everybody can easily reach them.

 

dress - Paris Metro (group gift, 2nd floor, I think, on the desk)

hair - Lamu 'Jem' outfit

shoes - Garbaggio 'Diane' (lots of colours, in gold)

earrings - Pure Poison (long ago, group gift)

bracelet - *TD* 'Timeless'

pose & makeup - Ricielli (hunt items)

eyes - Redgrave 'Hollywood blue'

body - Maitreya 'Lara'

shape - model's own

skin - Brilhante Branca freebie that I've been wearing for years

A reminder for everyone to not take themselves (or their part-time jobs) too seriously.

 

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This is Izabella, she is a gorgeous senior I shot a few weeks ago. This was a totally candid shot I took in the middle of crossing an intersection in downtown Portland haha. Luck.

 

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Anyways..

  

I'm sorry for my lack of updates. Life has taken a turn for the worse lately, and like they always say, when it rains, it pours (or, in Oregon, it just rains nonstop for weeks- hah). I've moved, I've started a new *full time* and very demanding job, in addition to another part-time job and still finishing client work. My personal life has been really difficult as of late as well, and I won't get into it, but let's just say that... I. Am. Sad.

 

I'm really struggling to edit enough to finish all my shoots on time, and people are not happy about this. I don't know how to do it all though. I try to edit for a few straight hours every day when I get off work, and during breaks/lunches, but I have no energy! It's so hard to balance everything and still do a good job and get things done on time. And somewhere in all this work, I need to have a life right? With friends and breaks?

 

School hasn't even started yet and I'm having a meltdown.

 

Fail.

  

I got to bug out from work early today and made good use of the time. Hiking with Joe on trails and in the woods :-)

 

Along with the recent finalization came some closure, and a lot of self-reflection. There've been many major changes/events in my life the last five years.

 

I had pneumonia/legionnaires, the Covid pandemic hit, the last three of my eight Boxer dogs passed away, I rescued a chocolate lab mix (with unexpected behavioral issues), I retired from a career of over twenty-eight years, I got a couple part time jobs, which turned into a full time job, I was separated twice from my spouse after being together 37 years, eventually divorcing, and was involved in other run ins with the law.

 

Things are settling down for me and Joe, we're finding our rhythm and groove and it's going better than expected. I'm blessed and appreciative for where I am right now and I'll do anything and everything I possibly can to prevent any more changes, avoidable or otherwise.

 

I'm blessed with good health and a job I like that supports me.

I have everything I ever wanted...a small house, a little land, and a dog. I thought it would be nice to have someone to share it with, but I was wrong. It wasn't so nice.

 

Simple Man

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqfwbf3X8SA

Today is October 2, 2009

 

Before I decided to persue visual arts in university, my one true love was dance. From the age of 6 I ate, slept, and breathed ballet. But when tuition, books, paint, canvasses, transportation, brushes, and food became the necessary beneficiaries of my part-time job earnings, I had to make a decision to give up the 5 days a week classes and two pairs of pointe shoes a month and put my time, energy, and money into school. I still took classes as an adult, and every now and then, when the urge strikes, out come the shoes. Somehow they are a lot more painful than they were when I was 20!

 

Happiness today is revisiting something I love, and probably always will.

Italian postcard in the Federico Fellini series by Gruppo Prospettive. Photo: F. Pinna / RAM Studio. Donald Sutherland in Il Casanova di Federico Fellini (Federico Fellini, 1976).

 

Canadian actor Donald Sutherland (1935) rose to fame after starring in films including M*A*S*H (1970), Klute (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Fellini's Casanova (1976), and 1900 (1976). During his long film career, he won two Golden Globe Awards, for the television films Citizen X (1995) and Path to War (2002), and an Emmy Award for the former. In 2017, he received a Honorary Oscar for his contributions to cinema.

 

Donald McNichol Sutherland CC was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1935. His parents were Dorothy Isobel (née McNichol) and Frederick McLea Sutherland. His father worked in sales and ran the local gas, electricity, and bus company. Donald obtained his first part-time job, at the age of 14, as a news correspondent for local radio station CKBW. He graduated from Bridgewater High School and then studied at Victoria University, where he met his first wife Lois Hardwick and graduated with a double major in engineering and drama. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer, and left Canada for Britain in 1957, studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After departing the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), Sutherland spent a year and a half at the Perth Repertory Theatre in Scotland. In the early to mid-1960s, Sutherland began to gain small roles in British films and TV. He was featured alongside Christopher Lee in horror films such as Castle of the Living Dead (1964) and Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965). He also had a supporting role in the Hammer Films production Die! Die! My Darling! (1965), with Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers. In the same year, he appeared in the Cold War classic The Bedford Incident and in the TV series Gideon's Way. In 1966, Sutherland appeared in the BBC TV play Lee Oswald-Assassin, playing a friend of Lee Harvey Oswald. Then followed parts in such popular TV series as The Saint (1966-1967) and The Avengers (1967).he landed a role in the film The Dirty Dozen, starring Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson. It was the 5th highest-grossing film of 1967 and MGM's highest-grossing movie of the year and was Sutherland's breakthrough. In 1968, he left London for Hollywood and appeared in two war films, playing the lead role as "Hawkeye" Pierce in MASH (Robert Altman, 1970) and, as hippie tank commander "Oddball" in Kelly's Heroes (1970). Sutherland also starred with Gene Wilder in the comedy Start the Revolution Without Me (1970).

 

Donald Sutherland found himself as a leading man throughout the 1970s. During the filming of the Oscar-winning detective thriller Klute, he had an intimate relationship with co-star Jane Fonda. They went on to co-produce and star together in the anti-Vietnam War documentary F.T.A. (1972), consisting of a series of sketches performed outside army bases in the Pacific Rim and interviews with American troops who were then on active service. A follow up to their teaming up in Klute, Sutherland, and Fonda performed together in Steelyard Blues (David S. Ward, 1973). Het then played in the Venice-based psychological horror film Don't Look Now (Nicholas Roeg, 1973), co-starring Julie Christie. he was nominated for his role for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. Then followed the war film The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Federico Fellini's Casanova (1976), and the thriller Eye of the Needle (which was filmed on location on the Isle of Mull, West Scotland). His role as Corpse of Lt. Robert Schmied in the German film End of the Game (Maximilian Schell,1976). Then he was the ever-optimistic health inspector in the Science Fiction/horror film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) alongside Brooke Adams and Jeff Goldblum. Sutherland also had a role as pot-smoking Professor Dave Jennings in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), making himself known to younger fans as a result of the movie's popularity.

He won acclaim for his performance in the Italian epic 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1976) and as the conflicted father in the Academy Award-winning family drama Ordinary People (1980), alongside Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton.

 

Some of Donald Sutherland's better-known roles in the 1980s and 1990s were in the South African apartheid drama A Dry White Season (1989), alongside Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon; as a sadistic warden in Lock Up (1989) with Sylvester Stallone; as an incarcerated pyromaniac in the firefighter thriller Backdraft (1990) alongside Kurt Russell and Robert De Niro, as the humanitarian doctor-activist Norman Bethune in Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1992), and as a snobbish New York City art dealer in Six Degrees of Separation (1993), with Stockard Channing and Will Smith. In JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991), he played a mysterious Washington intelligence officer, reputed to have been L. Fletcher Prouty, who spoke of links to the military-industrial complex in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The following year, he played the role of Merrick in the film Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), with Kristy Swanson. In 1994, he played the head of a government agency hunting for aliens who take over people's bodies similar to the premise of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in the film of Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 book The Puppet Masters. In 1994, Sutherland played a software company's scheming CEO in Barry Levinson's drama Disclosure opposite Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, and in 1995 he was cast as Maj. Gen. Donald McClintock in Wolfgang Petersen's Outbreak. He was later cast in 1996 (for only the second time) with his son Kiefer in Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill. Sutherland played an astronaut in Space Cowboys (2000), with co-stars Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, and James Garner. Sutherland was a model for Chris Claremont and John Byrne to create Donald Pierce, the character in the Marvel Comics, whose last name comes from Sutherland's character in the 1970 film M*A*S*H, Hawkeye Pierce.

 

In more recent years, Donald Sutherland was known for his role as Reverend Monroe in the Civil War drama Cold Mountain (2003), in the remake of The Italian Job (2003), in the TV series Commander in Chief (2005–2006), and as Mr. Bennet in Pride & Prejudice (2005), starring alongside Keira Knightley. Sutherland starred as Tripp Darling in the prime time drama series Dirty Sexy Money, and his distinctive voice has also been used in many radio and television commercials. In 2010, he starred alongside an ensemble cast in a TV adaptation of Ken Follett's novel The Pillars of the Earth. Beginning in 2012, Sutherland portrayed President Snow, the main antagonist of The Hunger Games film franchise, in The Hunger Games (2012), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014), and Part 2 (2015). His role was well-received by fans and critics.

The television program Crossing Lines premiered in 2013. Sutherland, who played the Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court named Michel Dorn, was one of only two actors to appear in all episodes across three seasons.

Donald Sutherland has been married three times. His first marriage, to Lois Hardwick, lasted from 1959 to 1966. His second marriage, which lasted from 1966 to 1970, was to Shirley Douglas. They have two children, twins Kiefer and Rachel. Donald Sutherland met his current wife, French Canadian actress Francine Racette, on the set of the Canadian pioneer drama Alien Thunder. They married in 1972 and have three sons: Rossif Sutherland, Angus Redford Sutherland, and Roeg Sutherland. His four sons have all been named after directors whom Sutherland has worked with: Kiefer is named after American-born director and writer Warren Kiefer, who, under the assumed name of Lorenzo Sabatini, directed Sutherland in his first feature film, the Italian low-budget horror film Il castello dei morti vivi/Castle of the Living Dead; Roeg is named after director Nicolas Roeg; Rossif is named after French director Frédéric Rossif; and Angus Redford has his middle name after Robert Redford. Donald Sutherland is a Companion of the Order of Canada (CC) since 2019.

 

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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French postcard by Editions F. Nugeron, no. E 404. Image: film poster for The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with Harrison Ford.

 

American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.

 

Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).

 

Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

French postcard by Editions Nugeron, no. Star 199. Photo: Lucasfilm Ltd. Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989).

 

American film actor Harrison Ford (1942) specialises in roles of cynical, world-weary heroes in popular film series. He played Han Solo in the Star Wars franchise, archaeologist Indiana Jones in a series of four adventure films, Rick Deckard in the Science Fiction films Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017), and secret agent Jack Ryan in the spy thrillers Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994). These film roles have made him one of the most successful stars in Hollywood. In all, his films have grossed about $5.4 billion in the United States and $9.3 billion worldwide.

 

Harrison Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942. His parents were former radio actress Dorothy (née Nidelman) and advertising executive and former actor John William "Christopher" Ford. Harrison graduated in 1960 from Maine East High School in Park Ridge, Illinois. His voice was the first student voice broadcast on his high school's new radio station, WMTH, and he was its first sportscaster during his senior year. He attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin, where he was a philosophy major and did some acting. After dropping out of college, he first wanted to work as a DJ in radio and left for California to work at a large national radio station. He was unable to find work and, in order to make a living, he accepted a job as a carpenter. Another part-time job was auditioning, where he had to read out lines that the opposing actor would say to an actor auditioning for a particular role. Harrison did this so well that he was advised to take up acting. He was also briefly a roadie for the rock group The Doors. From 1964, Ford regularly played bit roles in films. He was finally credited as "Harrison J. Ford" in the Western A Time for Killing (Phil Karlson, 1967), starring Glenn Ford, George Hamilton, and Inger Stevens. The "J" did not stand for anything since he has no middle name but was added to avoid confusion with a silent film actor named Harrison Ford, who appeared in more than 80 films between 1915 and 1932 and died in 1957. French filmmaker Jacques Demy chose Ford for the lead role of his first American film, Model Shop (1969), but the head of Columbia Pictures thought Ford had "no future" in the film business and told Demy to hire a more experienced actor. The part eventually went to Gary Lockwood. He had an uncredited, non-speaking role in Michelangelo Antonioni's film Zabriskie Point (1970) as an arrested student protester. His first major role was in the coming-of-age comedy American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973). Ford became friends with the directors George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola, and he made a number of films with them. In 1974, he acted in The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) starring Gene Hackman, and played an army officer named "G. Lucas" in Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979, co-produced by George Lucas. Ford made his breakthrough as Han Solo in Lucas's epic space opera Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope (George Lucas, 1977). Star Wars became one of the most successful and groundbreaking films of all time and brought Ford, and his co-stars Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher, widespread recognition. He reprised the role in four sequels over the course of the next 42 years: Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (Richard Marquand, 1983), Star Wars: Episode VII: The Force Awakens (J. J. Abrams, 2015), and Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (J.J. Abrams, 2019).

 

Harrison Ford also worked with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg on the successful Indiana Jones adventure series playing the heroic, globe-trotting archaeologist Indiana Jones. The series started with the action-adventure film Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981). Like Star Wars, the film was massively successful and became the highest-grossing film of the year. Ford went on to reprise the role throughout the rest of the decade in the prequel Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Steven Spielberg, 1984), and the sequel Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Steven Spielberg, 1989), which co-starred Sean Connery as Indy's father, Henry Jones Sr. and River Phoenix as young Indiana. In between the successful film series, Ford also played very daring roles in more artistic films. He played the role of a lonely depressed detective in the Sci-Fi film Blade Runner, (Ridley Scott, 1981) opposite Rutger Hauer. While not initially a success, Blade Runner went on to become a cult classic and one of Ford's most highly regarded films. Ford received an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for the crime drama Witness (Peter Weir, 1985) with Kelly McGillis, and also starred for Weir as a house-father in the survival drama The Mosquito Coast (Peter Weir, 1986) with River Phoenix as his son. In 1988, he played a desperate man searching for his kidnapped wife in Roman Polanski's Frantic. For his role as a wrongly accused prisoner Dr. Richard Kimble in the action thriller The Fugitive (Andrew Davis, 1993), also starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ford received some of the best reviews of his career. He became the second of five actors to portray Jack Ryan in two films of the film series based on the literary character created by Tom Clancy: the spy thrillers Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce, 1992) and Clear and Present Danger (Phillip Noyce, 1994). He then played the American president in the blockbuster Air Force One (Wolfgang Petersen, 1997) opposite Gary Oldman. Later his success waned somewhat and his films Random Hearts (Sydney Pollack, 1999) and Six Days Seven Nights (Ivan Reitman, 1998) both disappointed at the box office. However, he did play a few special roles, such as an assassin in the supernatural horror-thriller What Lies Beneath (Robert Zemeckis, 2000) opposite Michele Pfeiffer, and a Russian submarine captain in K-19: The Widowmaker (Kathryn Bigelow, 2002) with Liam Neeson. In 2008, he reprised his role as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008) with Cate Blanchett. The film received generally positive reviews and was the second highest-grossing film worldwide in 2008. Later Ford accepted more supporting roles, such as in the sports film 42 (Brian Helgeland, 2013) about baseball player Jackie Robinson (Chadwick Boseman), the first black athlete to play in Major League Baseball. Ford reprised the role of Han Solo in the long-awaited Star Wars sequel Star Wars: The Force Awakens (J.J. Abrams, 2015), which became massively successful like its predecessors. He also reprised his role as Rick Deckard in Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve, 2017), co-starring Ryan Gosling. Harrison Ford has been married three times and has four biological children and one adopted child. From 1964 to 1979, Ford was married to Mary Marquardt, a marriage that produced two children. From 1983 to 2003, he was married to Melissa Mathison, from which marriage two more children were born. In 2010, he married actress Calista Flockhart, famous for her role in the TV series Ally McBeal. He owns a ranch in Jackson Hole (Wyoming). Besides being an actor, Ford is also an experienced pilot. Ford survived three plane crashes of planes he piloted himself. The most recent accident occurred in 2015 when he suffered an engine failure with a Ryan PT-22 Recruit and made an emergency landing on a golf course. Among other injuries, Ford sustained a broken pelvis and ankle from this latest accident. In 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

 

Sources: Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.

 

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My focus could have been a bit better but I just love the light and color through out this image!!!

 

Thanks for taking a look! I hope you all have a wonderful day! Been a busy summer...took on a part-time job at our local library! Trying to catch up a little every day!

My MOCs of 2014

 

-most moc builds in my afol years! 60+ (45 of them are habitats)

-lead my first group build for ToroLUG

-built my largest build - Unikitty, which was on our local morning show in Toronto and posted by the LEGO Facebook group reaching over 20K likes.

-Showcased the Unikitties with ToroLUG at the National Canadian Exhibition

-Featured on Beyond the Brick, interviewed on my builds and myself as a builder

-Blogged on TheBrothersBrick: 3

-Blogged on TheBrickNerd: 3

-Lead 4 Community Window displays

-Featured on ReBrick during the WorldCup with my Series4 Soccer Player habitat

-BrickWorld Chicago nominees for 'Best Group Build' and honorary award from the judges for my UP House

-Brickfete winners for 'Best of Brickfete'

-hung out with my favourite LEGO Designer, Jamie Berard (and he even complemented me on my modular Beaches!)

-Featured in the Builder's Showcase on Brick Nerd, interviewed for my builds and my life as an artist

 

Non LEGO related,

-changed part-time jobs from TLG to Apple Inc.

-started a new style of painting that I really enjoy and am trying to pursue further

-started my long-awaited tattoo sleeve, should be completed in 2015

-Offered an internship in tattooing and looking further into making it a career

 

Thanks to everyone who was a part of it!

Officially for sale over at threadless. Thanks for all the support!

Interior of Greenwood BC post office. I recall sorting mail into boxes like these as a part time job during the Christmas rush period. How times have changed.

 

After the bombing of Pearl Harbour on Dec 7, 1941, thousands of Japanese Canadians had their homes and assets seized and 1200 were forcibly relocated and interned in many of the empty buildings in Greenwood.

 

Many stayed after the war and the population began to rebound to the roughly 700 residents that remain today.

 

Today I start a new part time job at my local coffee shop. Thank you to Charlotte Adam’s for this AI mock up and the suggestion that I wear something like this. What do you think? 💋💋💋💋💋💋❤️❤️

Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin. Photo: publicity still for Warlock (Edward Dmytryk, 1959).

 

Blue-eyed American actor Henry Fonda (1905-1982) exemplified not only integrity and strength, but an ideal of the common man fighting against social injustice and oppression. He is most remembered for his roles as Abe Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939), Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), for which he received an Academy Award Nomination, and more recently, Norman Thayer in On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Oscar for Best Actor in 1982. Notably he also played against character as the villain 'Frank' in Sergio Leone's classic Spaghetti Western Once upon a time in the West (1968). Fonda is considered one of Hollywood's old-time legends and his lifelong career spanned almost 50 years.

 

Henry Jaynes Fonda was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1905. His parents were Elma Herberta (Jaynes) and William Brace Fonda, who worked in advertising and printing and was the owner of the W. B. Fonda Printing Company in Omaha, Nebraska. His distant ancestors were Italians who had fled their country around 1400 and moved to Holland, presumably because of political or religious persecution. In the early1600's, they crossed the Atlantic and were among the early Dutch settlers in America. They established a still-thriving small town in upstate New York named Fonda, named after patriarch Douw Fonda, who was later killed by Indians. In 1919, young Henry was a first-hand witness to the Omaha race riots and the brutal lynching of Will Brown. This enraged the 14 years old Fonda and he kept a keen awareness of prejudice for the rest of his life. Following graduation from high school in 1923, Henry got a part-time job in Minneapolis with the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company which allowed him at first to pursue journalistic studies at the University of Minnesota. In 1925, having returned to Omaha, Henry reevaluated his options and came to the conclusion that journalism was not his forte, after all. For a while, he tried his hand at several temporary jobs, including as a mechanic and a window dresser. At age 20, Fonda started his acting career at the Omaha Community Playhouse, when his mother's friend Dodie Brando (mother of Marlon Brando) recommended that he try out for a juvenile part in You and I, in which he was cast as Ricky. Then he received the lead in Merton of the Movies and realized the beauty of acting as a profession. It allowed him to deflect attention from his own tongue-tied personality and create stage characters relying on someone else's scripted words. The play and its star received fairly good notices in the local press. It ran for a week, and for the rest of the repertory season, Henry advanced to assistant director which enabled him to design and paint sets as well as act. A casual trip to New York, however, had already made him set his sights on Broadway. In 1926, he moved to the Cape Cod University Players, where he met his future wife Margaret Sullavan. His first professional role was in The Jest, by Sem Benelli. James Stewart joined the Players a few months after Fonda left, but he would become his closest lifelong friend. In 1928, Fonda went east to New York to be with Margaret Sullavan, and to expand his theatrical career on Broadway. His first Broadway role was a small one in A Game of Love and Death with Alice Brady and Claude Rains. Henry played leads opposite Margaret Sullavan, who became the first of his five wives in 1931. They broke up in 1933. In 1934, he got a break of sorts, when he was given the chance to present a comedy sketch with Imogene Coca in the Broadway revue New Faces. That year, he also hired Leland Hayward as his personal management agent and this was to pay off handsomely. Major Broadway roles followed, including New Faces of America and The Farmer Takes a Wife. The following year he married Frances Seymour Brokaw with whom he had two children: Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda, also to become screen stars.

 

The 29-year old Henry Fonda was persuaded by Leland Hayward to become a Hollywood actor, despite initial misgivings and reluctance on Henry's part. Independent producer Walter Wanger, whose growing stock company was birthed at United Artists, needed a star for The Farmer Takes a Wife (Victor Fleming, 1935) opposite Janet Gaynor. I.S. Mowis at IMDb: “With both first choice actors Gary Cooper and Joel McCrea otherwise engaged, Henry was the next available option. After all, he had just completed a successful run on Broadway in the stage version. The cheesy publicity tag line for the picture was "you'll be fonder of Fonda", but the film was an undeniable hit.” Wanger, realizing he had a good thing going, next cast Henry in a succession of A-grade pictures which capitalized on his image as the sincere, unaffected country boy. Pick of the bunch were the Technicolor outdoor Western The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Henry Hathaway, 1936) with Sylvia Sidney, and the gritty Depression-era drama You Only Live Once (Fritz Lang, 1937) with Henry as a back-to-the-wall good guy forced into becoming a fugitive from the law by circumstance). Then followed the screwball comedy The Moon's Our Home (William A. Seiter, 1936) with ex-wife Margaret Sullavan, the excellent pre-civil war-era romantic drama Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938) featuring Bette Davis, and the Western Jesse James ( Henry King, 1939) starring Tyrone Power. Fonda rarely featured in comedy, except for a couple of good turns opposite Barbara Stanwyck and Gene Tierney - with both he shared an excellent on-screen chemistry - in The Mad Miss Manton (Leigh Jason, 1938), The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941) and the successful Rings on Her Fingers (Rouben Mamoulian, 1942). Henry gave his best screen performance to date in Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939), a fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case. Henry made two more films with director John Ford: the pioneering drama Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) with Claudette Colbert, and The Grapes of Wrath (1940), an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. In his career-defining role as Tom Joad, Fonda played the archetypal grassroots American trying to stand up against oppression. His relationship with Ford would end on the set of Mister Roberts (John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, 1955) when he objected to Ford's direction of the film. Ford punched Fonda and had to be replaced.

 

The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940) set the tone for Henry Fonda’s subsequent career. In this vein, he gave a totally convincing, though historically inaccurate, portrayal in the titular role of The Return of Frank James (Fritz Lang, 1940), a rare example of a sequel improving upon the original. He projected integrity and quiet authority whether he played lawman Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946) or a reluctant posse member in The Ox-Bow Incident (William A. Wellman, 1943). In between these two films, Fonda enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, and served in the Navy for three years. He then starred in The Fugitive (John Ford, 1947), and Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948), as a rigid Army colonel, along with John Wayne and Shirley Temple in her first adult role. The following years, he did not appear in many films. Fonda was one of the most active, and most vocal, liberal Democrats in Hollywood. During the 1930s, he had been a founding member of the Hollywood Democratic Committee, formed in support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal agenda. In 1947, in the middle of the McCarthy witch hunt, he moved to New York, not returning to Hollywood until 1955. His son Peter Fonda writes in his autobiography Don't Tell Dad: A Memoir (1999) that he believes that Henry's liberalism caused him to be gray-listed during the early 1950s. Fonda returned to Broadway to play the title role in Mister Roberts for which he won the Tony Award as best dramatic actor. In 1979, he won a second special Tony, and was nominated for a Tony Award Clarence Darrow (1975). Later he played a juror committed to the ideal of total justice in 12 Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957) which he also produced, and a nightclub musician wrongly accused of murder in The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956). During the next decade, he played in The Longest Day (Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton a.o., 1962), How the West Was Won (John Ford, Henry Hathaway, George Marshall, 1962) and as a poker-playing grifter in the Western comedy A Big Hand for the Little Lady (Fielder Cook, 1966) with Joanne Woodward. A big hit was the family comedy Yours, Mine and Ours (Melvillle Shavelson, 1968), in which he co-starred with Lucille Ball. The same year, just to confound those who would typecast him, he gave a chilling performance as one of the coldest, meanest stone killers ever to roam the West, in Sergio Leone's Western epic C'era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) opposite Charles Bronson and Claudia Cardinale. With James Stewart, he teamed up in Firecreek (Vincent McEveety, 1968), where Fonda again played the heavy, and the Western omedy The Cheyenne Social Club (Gene Kelly, 1970). Despite his old feud with John Ford, Fonda spoke glowingly of the director in Peter Bogdanovich's documentary Directed by John Ford (1971). Fonda had refused to participate until he learned that Ford had insisted on casting Fonda as the lead in the film version of Mr. Roberts (1955), reviving Fonda's film career after concentrating on the stage for years. Illness curtailed Fonda’s work in the 1970s. In 1976, Fonda returned in the World War II blockbuster Midway (Jack Smight, 1976) with Charlton Heston. Fonda finished the 1970s in a number of disaster films wilth all-star casts: the Italian killer octopus thriller Tentacoli/Tentacles (Ovidio G. Assonitis, 1977), Rollercoaster (James Goldstone, 1977) with Richard Widmark, the killer bee action film The Swarm (Irwin Allen, 1978), the global disaster film Meteor (Ronald Neame, 1979), with Sean Connery, and the Canadian production City on Fire (Alvin Rakoff, 1979), which also featured Shelley Winters and Ava Gardner. His final screen role was as an octogenarian in On Golden Pond (Mark Rydell, 1981), in which he was joined by Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane. It finally won him an Oscar on the heels of an earlier Honorary Academy Award. Too ill to attend the ceremony, Henry Fonda died soon after at the age of 77, having left a lasting legacy matched by few of his peers. His later wives were Susan Blanchard (1950-1956), Leonarda Franchetti (1957-1961) and Shirlee Fonda (1965- till his death in 1982). With Blanchard he had a daughter, Amy Fishman (1953). His grandchildren are the actors Bridget Fonda, Justin Fonda, Vanessa Vadim and Troy Garity.

 

Sources: Laurence Dang (IMDb), I.S. Mowis (IMDb), Wikipedia, and IMDb.

Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

UPDATE! So you've probably been wondering (or maybe not) where I've been for the past three weeks. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelllllllll what turns out is that I quit my previous part time job and got full time one! That's basically the only real news, but it's been really tough trying to squeezing animation into my schedule now. I've never before had to worry about fitting it into my schedule, I've only had to fit my work around IT. Nooooow, it's way harder getting an opportunity to film around. It's weird, because I always thought that I could pump out videos constantly in the summer, because hey school is out. But it seems like I probably will have more time to make videos in the school year now that I think about it. Anyways, MORE UPDATES COMING! (btw, if you really look closely in the background, you can see what the next video is about.....)

The Sick Kids Centre for Community Mental Health (CCMH) at 440 Jarvis Street. In the gay village. This facility was originally the C.M. Hincks Treatment Centre which opened in 1967 and dealt with children and adolescents. Then, in 1998, it became the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre. Finally, in February 2017, it became affiliated with the Sick Kids Hospital and took on its present name. Toronto, Canada. Spring afternoon, 2020.

Pentax K1 II.

 

1954 Article on psychiatrist Clare Hincks: archive.macleans.ca/article/1954/8/1/the-amazing-career-o...

 

The Amazing Career of Clare Hincks

August 1 1954 SIDNEY KATZ

 

The Amazing Career of Clare Hincks

 

SIDNEY KATZ

 

Wheedling half a billion dollars from rich men and governments Toronto’s Doctor Hincks made “mental health” a household term and won lasting fame. Yet since his teens he’s been seriously neurotic himself

 

HARRY (RED) FOSTER, a salesman who can sell so well that he climbed to the presidency of a Toronto advertising agency, is convinced that the greatest salesman and promoter of our age is not a businessman or a huckster but a doctor. His choice for this accolade—and it is shared by many top industrialists is Clarence Meredith Hincks, a tall, slightly stooped, bushy-browed 69-year-old Toronto psychiatrist.

 

For forty years Dr. Hincks, founder and consultant of the Canadian Mental Health Association (formerly National Committee for Mental Hygiene) has promoted good mental health with an intensity and zeal found only among religious missionaries. He has won countless battles on behalf of the mentally ill despite a crippling handicap: Hincks himself is a neurotic. For 53 of his 69 years, he has suffered from attacks of mental depression which last anywhere from six weeks to several months.

 

In spite of this, he has been able, in the interests of mental hygiene, to beg, cajole, flatter, threaten, bluff, scheme, manipulate, work twenty hours a day and travel several million miles. “I’m jealous of almost every dollar and every hour’s research spent on any other problem except mental health,” Hincks admits.

 

A ballad written about Hincks by a colleague contains t he lines:

 

Unlike other prophets who care not for gold,

 

Clare Hincks has a greed that, is quite uncontrolled.

 

Of the pickpockets college he ought to be Dean,

 

But it’s all in the interests of Mental Hygiene.

 

Hincks has collected at least $500 millions for mental health in the United States and Canada from ordinary citizens, millionaires, charitable foundations and governments. Dr. D. G. McKerracher, Saskatchewan’s director of mental-health services, describes Hincks as the sort of man “who can induce a millionaire to give a million dollars, then break down and weep because he can’t afford another million.”

 

Examples of Hincks’ persuasiveness are legion. Once, when his train was stuck in a snowdrift for several hours, a fellow passenger asked him what business he was in. Hincks the proselytizer went into action describing the plight of the mentally ill languishing in hospitals and the need to prevent mental illness. When he was finished, the stranger said, “Please accept a contribution of $3,000 for your organization on behalf of myself and my two sisters.”

 

Hincks so deeply impressed Sir Edward Beatty with the need of a mental-health program that Beatty invited him to dine at the Mount Royal Club in Montreal and repeat his story to a half-dozen wealthy friends like Herbert Molson, the brewer, and J. G. McConnell, the publisher. You have ten minutes to tell your story,” said Beatty. Hincks chose to speak just after the first drink. (“If you start earlier your listeners aren’t relaxed enough; if you wait for the second drink, they’re too relaxed.”) Within three minutes after he sat down, his fellow diners had pledged $100,000 to t he CM HA.

 

It was not long after this that Hincks, after doing a superb selling job on a fairly well-to-do Montreal widow, was compelled to spend an hour persuading her to cut her contribution from $50,000 down to $25,000. “I never take advantage of a person’s excessive sympathy with a cause,” says Hincks. The widow’s husband had died of mental illness.

 

In the course of a taxicab ride between New York City and nearby White Plains, he obtained the promise of a $150,000 grant from Beardsley Ruml, then head ol the Rockefeller Foundation. He was chiefly instrumental in persuading another Rockefeller president, Max Mason, to spend $200 million on mental hygiene in North America. (At the time Hincks was director of both the CMHA and its American equivalent, the National Committee for Mental Hygiene.) A poor man himself, Hincks has always derived enjoyment out. of raising money for his chosen cause. “There's as much thrill fishing for money as fishing for trout,” says Hincks.

 

One particularly thrilling episode occurred in t he late 192 )s when Canada was in danger of losing her prize stalde o psychologists —Professors William Blatz, Ned Bott, avi Ketchum, William Line, S. N. F. Chant and others. Working for the newly formed University of Toronto department of psychology, these men could barely make ends meet even though Hincks had them on the part-time payroll of the CMHA. A crisis was reached when Yale University offered to hire the entire Toronto team at twice their salaries. Hincks met the threat by advising the scientists to beg, borrow or steal all the cash they could. With $12,000 in his pocket, he went to Montreal to see his friend, J. G. McConnell, the publisher and financier. “I have $12,000 here belonging to some of my young scientists,” explained Hincks. “You’re supposed to be the wisest investor in Canada. I want you to take this money and increase its value quickly.” Within six months McConnell parlayed the $12,000 to $50,000. The psychologists stayed in Canada.

 

According to Hincks, a good part of his success has been clue to a remarkable partnership he has had with Marjorie Keyes for the past 38 years. She came to work for him as a young nurse and since then has become, in Hincks’ words, “my super-secretary, my business partner and my psychiatrist.” Her contacts and experience rank her as one of Canada’s top authorities in the field of mental health.

 

Hincks’ deeds and words during the past forty years have exerted such a tremendous influence that it is no exaggeration to term him one of our greatest living citizens. When he appeared on the Canadian scene in the 1910s, mental illness was a loathsome shameful disease; mental hospitals were secretive “lunatic asylums”; mental patients were doomed to die “mad”; mental hospitals were staffed by muscle-bound goons who often shackled and beat their patients. Psychiatry was the closed secret of a few “asylum” doctors and there were no psychiatric clinics. The mentally retarded were ignored ; they became prostitutes, thieves, the victims of venereal disease or indigents. Nobody was thinking about mental health in a positive way or the rich benefits which might be harvested from research.

 

More than any other Canadian, Clare Hincks changed all that.

 

In 1910, when he was an impoverished young doctor, he persuaded the Toronto Star to assign him to a medical convention in Buffalo where a new technique for measuring intelligence was to be introduced to North America by a couple of European scientists. Returning to Toronto, he began using these procedures on children, thus becoming the first Canadian to use the IQ test. The acceptance of the tests, along with many years of crusading, led to the establishment of scores of training schools and special classrooms for the mentally retarded.

 

In 1917, Hincks and Dr. C. K. Clarke opened the first psychiatric clinic in Canada; today there are 77 of them. He started the Canadian Mental Health Association in 1918 and for several years went storming through mental hospitals from coast to coast in an effort to obtain more humane treatment for the patients by educating, pleading, flattering and sometimes threatening government officials and hospital authorities.

 

For eight years Hincks was director of the American equivalent of the CMHA, thus making him responsible for progress in mental health in the area between the Mexican border and the Arctic Circle. During this period he commuted between New York and Toronto. On the New York-Toronto run he generally carried a fat cheque from some American charitable foundation to finance some current project. On the Toronto-New York trip he invariably had hidden in his luggage several bottles of the finest Canadian rye whisky which he used to entertain his prohibition-starved benefactors in New York. “Progress in mental health owes a great deal to smuggled Canadian whisky,” Hincks admits without shame.

 

Before Hincks, psychiatrists were almost exclusively devoted to the treatment of the psychotic and neurotic. Hincks hammered away at the necessity of preventing mental illness and was the first man in the world to popularize the term mental health. He obtained the funds to start a project which later developed into the Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto. He placed in charge of it William Blatz. a young Canadian doctor who was studying the behavior of rats at the University of Chicago as part of a PhD course in psychology. The Rockefeller Foundation, which was paying the shot, was doubtful about Blatz because of his youth and lack of experience. “If he’s your choice then heaven help you!” they warned him. Hincks was adamant. Blatz’ contributions to our knowledge about child development are today recognized throughout the world.

 

The Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, where the University of Toronto trains j psychiatrists and conducts research, is ! largely a Hincks creation. A picture of him hangs in the Crease Clinic at j Burnaby B.C.—the most modern treatment centre in Canada where 89 percent of all mental patients are returned to the community in a matter of months. He is thus honored because of the role he played in the clinic’s birth, as “inspirer” and “encourager.” Hincks has sparked literally thousands of projects relating to the treatment, prevention and research phases of mental illness and health.

 

A Fist on the Vice-Regal Desk

 

A poor advocate for himself, Hincks is fearless when pleading for the mentally ill. He is probably the only Canadian doctor ever to bang the table in anger at viceroyalty and threaten to report them to the boss. This happened in 1948. Hincks had gone to St. John’s, Nfld., and found the local mental hospital in shocking condition. He promptly called on the island’s governor, Sir Gordon MacDonald. (Before Newfoundland joined Canada, expenditures had to be approved by the governor.) He pleaded with the governor to authorize funds to erase what he called, “a blot on humanity.” MacDonald made it clear that he had no such intention. Thereupon Hincks advanced on the governor’s desk, smashed the hard surface several times with his fist and angrily shouted, “Your Excellency leaves me only one course. Tomorrow I’m flying to London to report you to Mr. Attlee and Mr. Bevan (Prime Minister and Minister of Health, respectively). I know that both are humanitarians and will want to do the right thing.” His Excellency blinked surprisedly for several seconds and then capitulated.

 

Hincks infiltrated into Ottawa’s Rideau Hall and got Lady Willingdon so enthused about mental health that she told him, “I’ll stand at the corner of Bank and Sparks Streets begging with a tin cup if it will do you any good.” Lady Byng once agreed to address a public mental-health meeting at Hincks’ request. When the Governor-General caught word of it a few hours before the meeting he was furious. “What are you trying to do, Hincks—make an actress of my wife!” he fumed. The incident ended with Byng, a strong believer in the doctrine that woman’s place is in the home, pinch-hitting on the platform for his spouse.

 

Once, as a favor to John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who was a liberal supporter of mental health, Hincks played a crucial role in a fight between Rockefeller and another financier over control of Standard Oil of Indiana. The persuasive Hincks helped turn the tide in favor of Rockefeller by personally canvassing Canadian shareholders and rounding up their proxies.

 

The first impression created by Hincks is such that he would never be mistaken for a supersalesman. His dress, appearance and voice are homey. His manner is humble and apologetic. “Clare has apologized his way to I success,” says Dr. D. G. McKerracher, director of Saskatchewan’s mental| health services. When he first arrived in New York to take over the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, the philant hropist Edwin Embree took him aside and said, “You’ll never get any where here unless you change your style. In New York you have to put on a bold aggressive front.” Yet under Hincks in the heart of the depression the organization attracted unparalleled support. “Perhaps people help me because they’re sorry for me,” says Hincks.

 

His associates on the other hand regard his remarkable sincerity as the prime factor in his success. “Hincks is never out selling for himself,” says Philip Fisher, of Southam Press, a member of the CMHA board. “He’s really interested in helping other people. That’s what comes through.”

 

“Wouldn’t Employ Himself”

 

Another reason for Hincks’ success is his ability to make people feel good in his presence. “A fifteen-minute visit with him is an emotional tonic,” says Dr. Baruch Silverman, director of the Mental Hygiene Institute, Montreal. Hincks unconsciously achieves this effect by constantly recognizing his visitor’s strong points and achievements and belittling his own. “I’m not the kind of person I’d employ,” he often says. “All my life I’ve been carried along on the shoulders of people much abler than I.”

 

This pattern of self-depreciation is so ingrained that Hincks has always felt guilty about accepting his CMHA salary, in spite of the fact that it has never risen beyond $9,000 a year, less than most general practitioners earn. To ease his conscience, for several years Hincks would go on an annual job-seeking tour. When he satisfied himself that there were private businesses, governments and philanthropic foundations anxious to have him on the payroll at salaries up to $30,000, he would contentedly settle back into his I poorer-paying job for another twelve I months.

 

Hincks’ own modest view of himself ; has not been modified by the fact that ! he’s a graduate of the University of S Toronto medical school; a member of I the Royal College of Physicians and I Surgeons; a fellow of the American ! Psychiatric Association; an honorary member of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association; a founder and member of the American Board of Neurology and Psychiatry and the

 

American Orthopsychiatric Association; member of the exclusive Comité d’Honneur of the World Federation of Mental Health; the first recipient of the award offered by the Mental Hygiene Institute, Montreal, and chairman of the Fifth International Congress on Mental Health to be held in Toronto next month. “You don’t earn these honors,” he says. “You get them by living a few years longer than the next fellow.”

 

No formal honors or titles, however, indicate Hincks’ tremendous ability to put himself in the other fellow’s shoes. Because others sense this quality in him, he has, throughout his lifetime, been called on to help people in almost every conceivable situation. When Sir Edward Beatty’s beloved ship the Empress of Britain was sunk during the war, it was when he was alone with Hincks that he broke down and wept, confessing how much the ship meant to him. An American millionaire consulted Hincks about his college daughter because she failed her grades and her behavior was promiscuous. “Send her to me,” said Hincks. He enrolled her at the University of Toronto, introduced her to agreeable companions and kept an eye on her. She graduated with high honors a few years later and went on to contract a successful marriage.

 

One afternoon, not long ago, Hincks received a frantic phone call from a drama director. “I’m in a mess,” he said. “Our play opens tonight and our leading man has been fast asleep for fourteen hours and we can’t get him up. Please help us.” A few minutes later, Hincks was working over the prone figure of a handsome six-footer, about 35 years old, in a fashionable apartment in the Bathurst-Eglinton district in North Toronto. The actor’s heart, temperature and pulse being normal, Hincks assumed that his soporific sleep was a flight from the anxieties of an opening night. For five minutes, Hincks slapped the actor and drenched him with cold water. When he showed signs of awakening a highly suggestible state—Hincks began admonishing him in a firm, quiet voice, “You will be wide awake in five minutes, completely refreshed . . . tonight you will give a brilliant performance . . . your work will be so outstanding that you will carry along the rest of the company with you.” The next day, the dramatic critics were unanimous in their high opinion of the leading man. A few months later he appeared in the Stratford, Ont., Shakespearean Festival and acquitted himself nobly.

 

Hincks believes that his ability to identify with other people is, in a largo part, due to the fact that he himself is a neurotic. “Most psychiatrists are as mentally healthy as the average citizen,” he says. “I happen to he an exception.” During the worst of his depressed periods Hincks tends to he uncommunicative, gloomy and worried about small details and there’s a partial paralysis of his thinking. “I never see a mental patient in hospital but that I can put myself in his place,” says Hincks. “I feel that I’m tarred by the same brush. My knowledge of psychiatry comes from the inside—from mv own personal suffering. Physical pain is like a pinprick compared to mental anguish.” Yet, in spite of this grave handicap, Hincks has been able to lead an active and productive life. “I’ve learned to accept my neurosis and live with it, the same as I’ve accepted the shape of my nose,” he says.

 

“My motto has been, know thyself, accept thyself and be thyself.”

 

He does not regard his handicap as unique. “There are probably 500,000 neurotics in Canada,” he says. “That makes the neurosis as common as the common cold.”

 

Because he believes that his experiences as a neurotic may be of value to his fellow-sufferers, he answered several pertinent questions in a recent series of interviews:

 

Q. : Can you remember the circumstances of the first attack of vour neurosis?

 

A.: I was sixteen years old, a University of Toronto undergraduate, and I was spending a social evening at a friend’s house on St. George Street. As I was playing cards, I suddenly became aware that there was something wrong with me. I had become self-conscious;

 

I had lost all spontaneity of thought and action, and my world seemed to change in some queer way. When I spoke it was as though someone else were speaking and that I was more of a listener. My usually buoyant mood left me. I was not depressed but I lost the joy of living. I had become conscious of what had been previously automatic actions, such as using my handkerchief, shuffling my cards, moving about on my chair, etc. . . . All these things became uncomfortable to me.

 

I found it difficult to carry on a conversation, even small talk among intimate friends. There was a paralysis of my thinking; the free association of ideas was blocked. Thus, I was suddenly struck by a condition that ! affected me intellectually and emotionally. This was the attack that was ! to repeat itself each year up till the | present. I am now 69 years old and I have had 53 attacks. It usually comes in late winter or early spring and has lasted as long as four or five months.

 

Q. : Are the people you come in contact with aware that you are going through a depression period?

 

A.: One of the things that has constantly amazed me is the way in which outsiders are unaware of what I am going through. Here I am with my entire inner life changed—anxious, wanting to be alone, thinking process j slowed down, no zest for living—yet no j one aware of it except two or three j people who are closest to me. This led me to conclude that human beings are so wrapped up in themselves that we don’t observe anything abnormal in the other fellow unless it’s something obvious like a bad limp or a blackened eye.

 

Q: Can you supply any other evidence to prove that people, as a rule, fail to recognize mental disorders among their fellows?

 

A.: Well, I have known people to visit mental hospitals and be unable to distinguish between staff and patients, unless staff wore their uniforms.

 

My former chief, Dr. C. K. Clarke, noted this on many occasions and once ¡ conducted an experiment. At the time, he was professor of psychiatry at | Queen’s University and superintendent j of Rock wood Mental Hospital, in Kingston, Ont. One evening, he invited to his home six leading Queen’s University professors, and without an introduction included one of his patients from the mental hospital.

 

Everybody had a good time. The conversation was animated and ranged from music, history, world politics, philosophy and science. One of the most active participants was the mental-hospital patient. After two hours of chatting, Clarke arranged for the patient to sit in another room with his own family. Clarke took advantage of this absence to ask the professors what they thought of his guest. They agreed that he was a man of culture, widely read and an interesting conversationalist. They wondered if it was Clarke’s intention to propose this stranger for a Queen’s post. Clarke said, “No, not at present because he happens to be a patient of mine at the mental hospital.” The guests were astonished and outraged and said that he had no right to be in hospital; he was as sane as anybody. Clarke then brought the patient back in and asked him this direct question: “Jim, please tell these gentlemen who you really are?” Jim, slightly displeased by their ignorance, replied, “Why I thought they knew. I am, of course, the strongest man in the world. I am Atlas. I balance the world on my shoulders.”

 

Q. : What is the difference between a psychosis and a neurosis?

 

A.: The neurosis is not as serious as the psychosis. And in the neurosis the victim knows he is ill while the psychotic possesses little or no insight. His world has crumbled and everything is out of joint but he does not attribute his troubles to his own lack of mental health. If anybody is sick, it is those about him, not himself. As I have said, my own disability is a neurosis and not a psychosis.

 

Q : With all the resources of modern medicine and psychiatry is there no cure for a person with your disability?

 

A.: There is alleviation but I believe no cure. If I were younger and subjected myself to three years of psychoanalysis I might be greatly improved. But I’m afraid this partial cure might be too expensive. I’m not thinking in terms of money but in terms of the job I want to do.

 

You see, my only job in life is pioneering. To be a pioneer you have to vigorously pursue self-imposed goals without any thought of sparing yourself. You have to walk where angels fear to tread. My present, emotional make-up is particularly suited to do that job. I can work like fury for six months or so of the year during which time I have the drive, the energy and enthusiasm of two men. This highpowered enthusiasm is contagious and enables me to enlist the support of men and women who are much abler than I and can carry out projects that I blueprint. I have a flair for contagious enthusiasm. I was born with it. Therein lies whatever success I’ve had in advancing mental hygiene.

 

Fortunately or unfortunately, I’m a race horse, not a truck horse. I’m good for short spurts of speed, not a long haul. When I am completely absorbed in my work, I must work sixteen hours a day. But I pay for il by going into a period of depression. Perhaps that’s nature’s protective device for slowing me down, for giving me an enforced period of rest to regain my energy for the next dash.

 

Now, if I were to be “cured” by some form of psychotherapy I -would probably be flattened out emotionally. I’d acquire poise and stability. Poised, stable, steady people in certain lines of work are priceless. But in other lines of work—like mine, for instance a touch of neuroticism seems to be essential.

 

Q. : Have you availed yourself of any psychiatric or medical help for your disability?

 

A.: I have two psychiatrists, one a man, the other a woman, whom I consult when I’m in a slump. They are both close friends, people whom I am genuinely fond of and who understand me. The principal relief I get is that I don’t have to keep my feelings bottled up. I can talk freely about the way I feel. I derive a feeling of comfort from knowing that I’m not fighting something alone.

 

Q. : How do you prefer to be treated when you are low?

 

A.: The best way friends and colleagues can act is not to ask me how I feel because the answer has to be “Like hell!” Up to a point I like to be ignored and taken for granted. I don’t want people to slap me on the back and tell me to cheer up and that everything will be all right. Verbal reassurances don’t do much good. My office colleagues understand all this. Marjorie Keyes, for example, knows exactly how I’m feeling without asking me.

 

In explaining the personality of Hincks the adult, Hincks’ intimate friends, who include some of the most astute students of human behavior on the North American continent, place particular emphasis on his early family history. He was an only child and he was strongly attached to his mother, a strong, capable and cultured woman who taught school in Hamilton. She married one of her former pupils — the Rev. William Hincks and put him through college. At the time of the marriage, Maudie Greene was forty and William Hincks was 26. “All my life it was as though mother had two sons,” recalls Hincks. Clare Hincks was born in St. Marys, near Stratford, while his father occupied the pulpit of the local Methodist church. When he was nine years old, his father was transferred to Toronto, where he was to serve for fifty years until his death in 1943. Thanks, in large part, to his wife, he was to win wide recognition as a preacher and scholar. Every Sunday morning, he staged spirited attacks on sin in all its guises drinking, smoking, gambling, sex and .Sunday streetcars.

 

Clare Hincks was promoting and selling things almost as soon as he could walk. At seven he was selling turtles which he had caught in the lagoons around Centre Island, just off Toronto Harbor. At twelve, he served as a barker in the midway of the Canadian National Exhibition. At fourteen, he teamed up with J. W. Bengough, a prominent newspaper political cartoonist, to stage exhibitions in various resort areas in the Muskoka district, north of Toronto.

 

‘‘A Wastrel, a Drunkard”

 

When Maudie Hincks died in 1936, practically her last words to her son were, “You and your father are strangers. Try to get to know him.” In fulfillment of his mother’s wishes, he invited his father to accompany him on a boat trip to England. The first night out, Rev. Hincks was shocked to find his son in the lounge smoking and drinking as he played a game of cards with some strangers. He blasted him later, “I didn’t know that I had a son who is a wastrel, a drunkard, a gambler and who keeps evil companions.” Hincks struck a bargain with his father: he would give up cards for the duration of the trip if his father joined him in a few drinks. His father agreed. In the privacy of their cabin, Rev. Hincks sipped a glass of crème de

menthe and reported his sensations in detail. “Now it’s warm in my mouth ... I have a hot sensation in my throat . . . it’s going through me like electricity . . . now I feel pleasant, good.” A few minutes later he embarked on another experiment, this time using whisky and soda. His findings were again positive. By the time the ship docked in Southampton, Hincks and his father were close friends -a friendship that lasted until his death.

 

Hincks undoubtedly inherited from his father the desire to preach and to reform, but not the propensity for formal religious observance. “Some people can’t live without a formal religion; others can’t live with it,” says Hincks. He recalls being summoned to the bedside of a woman dying with tuberculosis. She had one last request to make. “Make sure no clergyman gets near me before I die,” she said. “He might talk me into believing in a life after death. I don’t want to believe that. I can only die in peace, knowing that death ends all.” Hincks finds this woman’s point of view understandable. “Make a good job of living while on earth and the future will take care of itself,” he says. (On the other hand, one of Hincks’ three children is an ordained minister; one daughter is a nurse while the other is a teacher. Hincks was married to Mabel Millrran in 1918, a University of Toronto gold medallist in languages. She died a few years ago.)

 

Hincks graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1907 with only average marks. For the next ten years, he struggled along in various settings as a general practitioner, finally admitting failure. “I had neither the physical nor mental equipment to make a good GP,” he says. “I couldn’t help people as much as I would have liked to.”

 

During Hincks’ early days in general practice, infection and tissue damage as a cause of disease were considered to be all-important; the emotions were hardly considered. Yet Hincks knew differently from his own practice, and :his was to spark his interest in mental health. One of his patients was a 55year-old bank manager, who in a moment of weakness had defrauded his firm of $10,000. All his life he had enjoyed good health, but now, facing a public trial and the certainty of a prison sentence, he decided that he no longer wanted to live. He took to his bed and within two weeks he died of “unknown causes.”

 

Hincks received another lesson in psychosomatic medicine from an 18year-old girl with typhoid fever. Her temperature mysteriously rose to 105 degrees. What had happened? Hincks learned that in performing a test for tuberculosis, the nurse had given the patient the impression that she had TB. He went to the patient’s bedside and talked to her. “You’re lucky,” he said. “Our test shows that you haven’t got TB. You’ve only got typhoid and you’re now on your way to recovery.” Within a few hours her temperature dropped and she staged an uneventful recovery. “Actually,” says Hincks, “typhoid is more dangerous to life than TB but most people—like my patient— didn’t think so.”

 

As a GP in Toronto, Hincks’ earnings never rose beyond $400 a year. This was largely because he sought to know his patients as “whole people” not just as cases of a disease; he had time to see only a few people a day. He hesitated to send out bills; the man who was later to be a fabulous collector of money simply couldn’t collect money for himself. He regarded his periods of depression as a grave handicap. “During my slumps I had to cut out all but the most urgent calls,” he says. To make ends meet, he took a succession of part-time jobs—life - insurance examiner, embryology demonstrator at the medical school and medical inspector for the West Toronto schools.

 

This latter job fanned his awakening interest in mental hygiene. He found that at least sixty percent of the children referred to him by teachers and nurses were problems of mental not physical health. He suspected that many of them were mentally retarded but there was no way of proving it. Thus, when he learned about the IQ test, he went rushing off to the medical convention in Buffalo to learn all he could about it. Returning home with this new psychological tool he was able to indicate that many school children (roughly two percent) had an inferior intelligence and required special classes and training.

 

He got permission to use the IQ test on delinquents in Judge Hawley Mott’s Toronto Juvenile Court. Hincks spent countless hours, serving without pay, carefully studying a long procession of youthful thieves, vandals, truants and runaways. As he had suspected, many of them were mentally retarded. He also threw a great deal of light on children of normal intelligence who go wrong. “Hincks was a blessing to the court,” recalls Mott. “He focused attention on the fact that body, mind and environment all play a part in determining personality. That was a fairly new idea in the 1910s.” Hincks recalls, “I learned about juvenile delinquents as I went along. The boys were my textbooks.”

 

One of his most profitable volumes was Mickey, a 14-year-old who Mott describes as “the worst kid in town.” Hincks struck up a close friendship with him, pleaded for him in court, stuck by him during a two-year prison sentence, helped him become a star basketball player and salesman. Ultimately, Mickey married and went on to win an important position with a large corporation. “It was a question of understanding the boy, helping him to capitalize on his assets and then keep on having faith in him no matter I what,” explains Hincks.

 

Word of Hincks’ concern with mental health reached Dr. C. K. Clarke, head of the University of Toronto department of psychiatry, who in 1916 was j planning to open the first psychiatric ^ clinic in Canada. A meeting with Hincks convinced him that he had found the right partner for his new project. They were then joined by Marjorie Keyes, a recently graduated nurse who had won all the medals in her class.

 

Hincks’ experiences after the clinic j opened its doors struck him like a j thunderbolt. He and his colleagues were | besieged by an army of men, women and children suffering with every j category and shade of mental deficiency and mental illness. Had there been facilities for treatment and research, i many of these people might have been spared their suffering. “It began to dawn on me,” says Hincks, that the promotion of mental health was a field in which I could exploit the one worthwhile asset I possessed—a flair for | contagious enthusiasm.”

 

After working in the clinic for a year or so, Hincks went to Clarke and announced his intention of quitting. “1 just can’t take it any more,” he said. “At present we’re only bailing out the boat—not plugging the leak. Temperamentally I’m not suited for this kind of work.” He listed his frustrations: no place to send mental patients for treatment; no place to send the mentally retarded for training; no research being undertaken in mental I illness; no mental screening of immigrants, with the result that scores of mental defectives and psychotics were streaming into Canada. “What are you going to do about it?” asked Clarke. Hincks said he was going to go to New York to see what was going on down there.

 

Punched, Kicked and Kneed

 

In New York, he met Clifford Beers, secretary of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (U.S.A.), an organization which he had founded ten ] years earlier in 1908. Beers is the undisputed founder of the mental health movement in North America. This movement was born out of his own personal suffering. A few years after graduating in engineering from Yale University, Beers attempted suicide by leaping from a third-floor window. He ! survived with nothing worse than leg ¡ injuries. For the next three years he was in a number of private and public mental hospitals. In his lucid periods— which grew more frequent with his stay in hospital—he recalled being put in strait jackets, being punched, kicked and kneed by sadistic attendants; being cast into solitary unheated cells. After his recovery and discharge, he set down an account of his experiences in the most moving prose. His book, A Mind that Found Itself, was a sensation and led many wealthy citizens to support Beers with his new organization to improve the lot of mental patients.

 

After spending the better part of a day chatting, Beers said to Hincks, “I want you to start an organization like mine in Canada.” Hincks was excited. At last he had found a job that he really believed in a crusade on behalf of the mentally ill and for the prevention of mental illness.

 

He returned to Toronto, burning with a desire to get on with the job. He wangled an audience with the Governor-General, the Duke of Devonshire. “Your Excellency,” he said, “I want you to become the honorary patron of the Canadian Mental Health Association.”

 

“After what I’ve heard I’ll consider it very favorably,” replied His Excellency. “Have your board of directors send mean invitation.”

 

“But there is no board,” replied H incks.

 

“Then have your organizing committee do it.”

 

“But there is no organizing committee.”

 

“Well, under those circumstances you had better come back to see me again. It’s against all precedent for me to support a non-existent organization.”

 

Hincks spent another half hour explaining that if His Excellency didn’t lend his support at once there would probably never be a mental-health organization. Devonshire finally relented. “I’m doing this,” he said, “because you’re a sincere young man and Canada needs your movement."

 

Hincks made his first appeal for support, after careful thought, in Montreal. After assembling most of the faculty of the McGill University medical school, he delicately exploited the rivalry between Canada’s two greatest medical schools. He said, “I would prefer to inaugurate this national movement at McGill, not Toronto. Toronto is a provincial university; McGill is a national university.” The professors voted their support and Dr Charles Martin, dean of medicine, was elected firsTpresident of the Canadian Mental Health Association.

 

Now Hincks plunged in to get the money. “Give me a list of twenty men in Montreal who have the abilit y to run a railway or a bank,” he asked his friend, Sir William Peterson, principal of McGill. The list he was handed read like a Who’s Who of the financial world of 1918. ft included Lord Shaughnessy and Edward Beatty of the CPR, Sir Vincent Meredith, president of the Bank of Montreal, Sir George Burns, president of the Bank of Ottawa, William Birks the jeweler, Lord Atholstan, Fred Molson and several others.

 

Within a few days, Hincks had collected several thousand dollars and persuaded a half dozen of the biggest names in Montreal to serve on his board of directors. On his way home to Toronto, he dropped in at Rideau Hall to deliver a progress report .

 

“Remarkable,” said the Duke of Devonshire, “I don’t see how you got so many important people to serve.”

 

“It was simple,” replied Hincks. “I announced to everyone 1 contacted that I was coming to see them on your behalf.”

 

Back in Toronto, he quickly gathered followers by judiciously playing up the support he was receiving from vice royalty and the elite of Montreal. He invited Beers to be the guest speaker at a series of intimate salons held in private homes. The first gathering was held at the Toronto home of Mrs. 1). A. Dunlap, wife of the secretary of Hollinger Mines. When Beers finished speaking, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room. Within four minutes, a handful of guests subscribed $25,000 for mental health. Beers and Hincks conducted similar parties in Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City.

 

With his organization established, Hincks now embarked on his first objective: the more humane treatment of mental patients. During the next several years, he was to visit practically every mental hospital in Canada. His boundless energy, his enthusiasm and his radical suggestions soon earned him the title, “the Nut Doctor.” Hincks says, “I gloried in that title. It’s only when I begin to get respectable that 1 know I’ll have to watch my step.”

 

Manitoba was the first province to be surveyed. Hincks and Marjorie Keyes found some shocking things. In one hospital, they unlocked what appeared to be a coffin standing up on end. Out fell a female patient who had been confined in it for three years. Her skin was chalk-white, her hair was matted and she used her tattered shawl to shield her eyes from the unaccustomed light. He found that at the Brandon Hospital for the Insane, and this was to prove true all over Canada, cages, shackles, strait jackets, muffs, camisoles and other forms of restraint were in common Use. Many patients walked around with bruises, scars and blackened eyes the handiwork of untrained attendants. Segregation and the keeping of records were not regarded as important. “Apparently anybody in Manitoba who wanted to get rid of a member of his family could send him here,” Hincks said of a Portage la Prairie institution.

 

Hincks was so upset by what he had seen that he went to Winnipeg and showed up at Premier T. C. Norris’ suite at the Royal Alexandra Hotel at six o’clock one evening and demanded an immediate conference. “But I’ve got an important dinner conference followed by a government caucus,” said Norris.

 

“No business can be more important than mine,” said Hincks. “I’ve seen things in your mental hospitals this past week that could put your government out of power.”

 

The upshot was that Hincks dined with the premier then sat with the government caucus until 3 a.m. Many of those present were deeply moved. Dr. R. S. Thornton, the Minister of Education, got. up and said, “Gentlemen, we ought to get down on our knees and beg forgiveness. We have been entrusted with the care of the mentally ill and we have failed in our trust.” Shortly after this meeting, Manitoba, acting under Hincks’ guidance, was to spend $2,225,000, completely overhauling her mental-health services.

 

Ten Cages in an Attic

 

Hincks found the mental hospitals of the other provinces just about as shocking. In New Brunswick, he found the attic room of one hospital occupied by ten wooden cages, with straw-covered floors, in which patients were kept. The Prince Edward Island mental hospital was a decaying firetrap; no records were kept, no treatment was given and admission procedures were sloppy. He met a perfectly healthy inmate who said, “I only came in to keep mv brother company.” He spoke to a child who had been sent over from a nearby orphanage because the matron complained that “I can’t do anything with him.”

 

Hincks was not a spectacular muckraker. He never used his explosive facts promiscuously to blackmail or embarrass a government. “I’m never for or against any government,” he would say. “I’m only for mental hygiene.” He would bring his findings directly to the government then try to persuade

 

them to make reforms. Starting with Manitoba, thanks to Hincks, the various governments of Canada were to spend millions of dollars on improvements. When Edwin Embree of the Rockefeller Foundation accompanied Hincks on a tour of Canadian hospitals, he expected to be greeted by a succession of slammed doors. No such thing happened. “It’s remarkable,” said Embree. “Everywhere you go they treat you like a member of the family.” This friendliness existed because hospital staffs and governments were convinced that Hincks had no personal axe to grind; he was only trying to introduce needed reforms in as friendly and painless a manner as possible.

 

On his travels Hincks gathered abundant proof that the existing policy of ignoring the mentally retarded was both inhuman and costly. In Alberta he found that 54 percent of the unmarried mothers and 68 percent of the prostitutes were mentally deficient.

 

Hincks was particularly alarmed by the fact that the mental deficiency in Nova Scotia was 3 percent compared to the Canadian average of only 2 percent. Part of this could be explained by the exodus of many of the province’s fittest citizens to other parts of Canada and to the United States. But equally important was the existence of clusters or “nests” of mental defectives in certain rural areas, due to generations of intermarriage. He visited the homes of fifty adult defectives and kept a careful record. These fifty homes produced 184 mental defectives, 78 illegitimate children and at least 28 delinquents. He studied a single family clan which had produced 25 mental defectives, 4 illegitimates, 19 delinquents and 10 recipients of public assistance. Hincks concluded that “the mentally until breed faster than the fit” and henceforth became a firm advocate of eugenic sterilization.

 

It was in Nova Scotia that Hincks came across a jail where he found what he often later referred to as a perfect example of working in partnership. The building was spotlessly clean and the half-dozen inmates were oozing contentment. The following conversation ensued between Hincks and a spokesman for the inmates:

 

“Where’s the warden?” asked Hincks. “He’s away sick.”

 

“Then who’s running the jail?”

 

“We are.”

 

“Have you notified the authorities?” “No.” '

 

“Why not?”

 

“We don’t want to see him fired. He’s too old, too nice and too sick.” “Won’t any of you run away?”

 

“Not likely. If we did, people would find out, then the old man would be fired and we’d get a young fellow in charge that we didn’t like.”

 

Hincks did not remain idle between surveys. By adroit manoeuvring, which involved the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Toronto, the Ontario Government and the Toronto City Council, he managed to bring into existence the Toronto Psychiatric Hospital, the first training centre in Canada for psychiatric personnel. He took time to encourage a young general practitioner from Oakville by giving him CMHA funds for post-graduate study abroad. And that is how Brock Chisholm, later named director of the World Health Organization, became a psychiatrist. Hincks took an interest in a young medical undergraduate who played saxophone in an orchestra at a university medical affair. Today, Dr. Jack Griffin is the director of the CMHA, the position relinquished by Hincks last year.

 

With the money he raised, Hincks, through the CMHA, introduced occupational therapy into mental hospitals, helped develop the program of the newly formed University of Toronto psychology department, introduced mental-hygiene courses into schools of social work, provided money to train psychiatrists for Quebec’s schools, promoted mental - hygiene clinics, traveling clinics, initiated studies in feeble-mindedness, normal child development and the mental health of teachers and school children.

 

To broaden his mental-health knowledge, he started making trips to Europe. In a clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, he admiringly watched the famous psychiatrist Hans Meyer at work. “We need a man like you in America,” Hincks told him, “Would you consider coming over?” Meyer refused. “It’s taken me thirty years to learn something about the background of the people living in the three cantons around Zurich. That’s why 1 can help them. In America 1 would be useless. You can’t transplant a psychiatrist.”

 

Hincks decided that if he ever were to become psychotic he would like to be sent to Gheel in Belgium. This was the town where he found villagers taking in mental patients as boarders a tradition now live hundred years old. They shared the family’s life. He spoke to a woman, who came to Gheel branded as the most violent, patient ever to enter a Dutch mental hospital. In the relaxed, free atmosphere of the Belgian village she was no problem.

 

In Munich, Germany, he met Emil Kraepelin, the distinguished psychiatric research worker. Now old and fatigued, he was constantly beset by financial worries. His fifteen brilliant assistants were now working only for the sheer love of scientific research. “I want you to stop worrying,” Hincks told him. “I will send you one million dollars from America.” The Rockefeller Foundation later made good Hincks’ promise. Kraepelin was the man to achieve lasting fame by classifying and describing all the various types of mental illness.

 

By 1930, Hincks was a well-known figure in medical circles in both Canada and the United States. He helped organize the First International Mental Health Congress. The following year he was invited to assume the directorship of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene (U.S.A.) at a salary of $25,000. He refused to leave his $7,000 post in Canada. After the Americans convinced him that he was needed, he accepted on condition that he could divide his time between New York and Toronto. Instead of accepting the $30,000 or so offered for both jobs he set his salary at $20,000. But even so he was uncomfortable. He finally resolved his problem by not telling his family about the raise and giving away all earnings above his usual $7,000.

 

Hincks moved in on his New York job like a whirlwind. He raised money, conducted surveys, interested the 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Masons in the Northern Jurisdiction to underwrite research in schizophrenia. Up to this writing, the Masons have probably stimulated the spending of some $50 millions to find the cause and cure of this devastating form of mental illness.

 

From the very beginning of his stay in New York, Hincks was concerned about the health of Clifford Beers, who was still secretary of the organization. He feared that his old illness was creeping up on him again. He noticed that it took an abnormally long time to explain simple policy matters to Beers. All of this was time-consuming. Finally, Hincks found a way out of the deadlock. “Clifford,” he said, “tell me the name of the man in this world that you have the most confidence in?” Beers mentioned Vic Tyler, an old friend and supporter. Hincks said, “My plan is to take Tyler on staff and the three of us will run the organization by a majority vote.” Accordingly, Tyler was installed in the New York offices.

 

The procedure devised by Hincks was simple. Whenever he wanted a decision on any matter, he would explain his reasons to Beers and Tyler, then retire and go on with other duties. Tyler, in the meantime, would discuss the matter at great length with Beers. For the next few years, this arrangement worked fairly well with Tyler serving as a full-time “explainer” for Beers.

 

However, as Beers’ health failed, this system broke down. Beers was reluctant about making any decisions and became rather contentious. The organization’s program bogged down. 11 became so bad that one wealthy benefactor said, “I’ll give you one million dollars on condition that you drop Beers.”

 

This, of course, was unthinkable. Beers was the living symbol of the mental-health movement. The problem was ultimately solved by a combination of an office reorganization and the natural course of Beers’ illness. He was relieved of as much responsibility as possible. The number of callers was reduced to a minimum. He seemed to be content to sit in his office, arranging papers and clipping items out of newspapers and magazines. For some unknown reason he absolutely refused to grant an audience to any ex-mental patient that called. At times, he attached great importance to trifling things. Once a staff member obliged him by fetching a pair of glasses from the optometrist. Beers examined the lenses closely and detected a few scratches. He exploded violently, accusing Col. Edmund Bullis, a staff member, of deliberately disfiguring his property.

 

Beers’ condition gradually worsened until he was finally admitted to the Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., a private mental hospital run by Dr. Arthur Ruggles, a prominent member of the mental-health movement. Here he steadily declined. Ruggles and his associates decided against the use of electric shock, lest the therapy prove fatal to the great man. In the final weeks of his life, Beers rarely talked. Little publicity attended his sickness or his death which came on July 9, 1943. No more than twelve people were at his funeral held in New Haven, not far from the spot where, as a young man, he had attempted to commit suicide and thus, by a circuitous route, became the world founder of the mental-health movement.

 

While in his New York position, Hincks met many prominent people. One evening in a country club just outside of Wilmington, Del., Hincks had a memorable meeting with three members of one of the wealthiest families in the United States—Pierre, Lammot and Irénée du Pont. He was accompanied by two Canadian friends, Sir Frederick Banting, the co-discoverer of insulin, and Edward Hall who was later to become president of the University of Western Ontario. Hincks had arranged this meeting to allow Banting the opportunity of expressing some of his ideas about research in the medical field. “We’re at the oxcart stage of research as far as illness is concerned,” Banting told the du Ponts. “What is needed is a mass attack on disease. When industry has a research problem they put the best men and the best equipment on it until it’s licked. With enough money the same procedure could be followed in the fight against disease.”

 

It was Hincks’ idea that each major corporation in the United States adopt a particular illness, and support if with large sums of money over a period of several years. Thus, the du Ponts might choose epilepsy, General Motors schizophrenia, American Telephone and Telegraph arthritis and so on.

 

The du Ponts were enthusiastic and so were the other industrialists who were later approached. But World War II and Banting’s untimely death in a plane crash intervened. Hincks never revived the plan. “I was only the office boy,” he says. “I needed Banting’s brains and prestige. But I still think our plan would have speeded up medical progress by twenty years.”

 

in the latter years of his life, Banting developed a keen interest in mental illness. After returning from a tour of mental hospitals which Hincks arranged, Banting observed that the doctor’s superior attitude toward his patient interfered with treatment. On the other hand, he saw great therapeutic possibilities in the friendly, sympathetic attitude that existed between patients. “My suggestion,” he said, “is that we should send nurses into the wards disguised as patients. We need an army of young people with the spirit of Florence Nightingale.” The suggestion was never implemented.

 

Hincks resumed full-time leadership of the CMHA in 1938. He was glad to be back. “Canada is the greatest mental-health laboratory in the world,” he says. “We’re big enough to have a wide variety of people, yet we’re sufficiently small so that everyone is within reach of a new idea.” The following year he was mobilizing the skills of psychiatry and psychology to help win the war. With Drs. Jack Griffin, William Line, Brock Chisholm and many others, he was concerned with the practical problems of psychological testing, soldiers’ morale, battle fatigue and rehabilitation. He ventured to war-torn England on one occasion to do the advance work in connection with a project to send 33 specially trained Canadian workers to help with the children evacuated from London.

 

Last year Hincks resigned from the directorship of the CMHA in order to serve as adviser and consultant. Each day he is at his desk, receiving visitors from far and wide, holding conferences and outlining new schemes. His successor, Dr. Jack Griffin, describes him as “the inspiration and symbol and father figure” of the mental-health movement in Canada. Hincks comes to the regular Monday morning staff meetings clutching scribbled yellow sheets of paper pertaining to matters under discussion. “These are actually valuable documents,” says Griffin. “Everything we plan Hincks has either tried it himself or seen it tried elsewhere.”

 

Hincks spends a part of each day, pencil in hand, making notes on what remains to be done in the mental-health field. He agrees that giant strides have been made since the far-off days when he released a chalk-white patient from a coffinlike cupboard in a Manitoba mental hospital. “But,” he says, “I’m not at all impressed by what we already know or what we’ve already done. Till the end of my days I’d like to explore the possibilities that lie ahead.” ★