Sitemeter Sez: Visitors from Haus, Bavaria, Germany (Perhaps Christian AKA Wellington Wigout -- searching for Stozo Da' Klown); Hanoi, Viet Nam (Looking for Ida Rubinstein -- didn't visit her website, but found her nurse photo. Methinks there are still Francophiles around that former colony); and Katie Duck's dance partner/ web master Justin Morrison in San Diego, California.
REAL SLC Punk, not the movie, at: Theater X-Net
Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley
Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
Spitfires of the Spaceways
Wilma Deering & Dale Arden to the rescue; Bodacious Princess Aura I; Hapless Aura II; The fiery Emperor Ming; The Orson Welles Rumor Debunked; and BOTH incarnations of Jean Rogers!
Thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's first illustrator of the 21st, for his recommendations -- HERE!
Charity Alert: Make a Holiday Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day. Also check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site.
In The Community: Updating the Hockaday Museum of Art's webpage. I went to the Audubon Society meeting last night to hear about the Christmas Bird Count this year (December 30), and see coordinator Dan Casey's slides.
Media Watch: The airwaves are full of Evel Knievel's funeral yesterday. He's called a cultural icon, and I guess he was, in the broadest meaning of the word. I'm surprised that he was only 69 when he died, but considering his multiple injuries and crazy life, I guess it made sense. He was shameless self-promoting huckster on top of being a fearless stuntperson, otherwise I never would have heard of him. I remember my very first look at Knievel on Dick Clark's American Bandstand around 1969. (Huh? Who is THIS guy?) He was promoting a never-to-be jump across the Grand Canyon, but the focus of his appearence was slow-motion footage of his crash at Caeser's Palace the previous year. Me and my family watched him breaking every bone in his body on national TV. He credited his survival to his crash helmet. When he appeared at the Utah State Fair that fall, there was a full house waiting to see him jump a line of vehicles and a check for thousands of dollars waiting in the box office. Not too long afterwards a movie came out purporting to tell about his life -- it starred George Hamilton, and wasn't too bad, although it wasn't much more than a dorky lightweight comedy with some stunt footage. Somebody who knows something will have to complete his biography -- he might have been a carny, but he was a remarkably famous one.
THESE folks are the REAL DEAL
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