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byneddiedingo · 2 years

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The House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009)

Cast: Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, Greta Gerwig, AJ Bowen, Dee Wallace. Screenplay: Ti West. Cinematography: Elliot Rockett. Production design: Jade Healy. Film editing: Ti West. Music: Jeff Grace.

I've said it before: I'm not particularly interested in or scared by horror movies. But as an amateur film historian, I feel compelled every October to sample the horror classics and newer movies provided in anticipation of Halloween by movie channels and streaming services, even the high-toned ones like the Criterion Channel. The trouble sometimes is that I'm not in on the jokes provided by the horrormeisters, who love to reference older films in the genre. Several things should have clued me in, starting with the oddly flat-footed title, that The House of the Devil was going to be something of an hommage to earlier films, particularly the opening screen that referred to the wave of “satanic cults” that made news in the 1980s. The deliberately retro look of the opening credits themselves should have alerted me, and when Greta Gerwig showed up with Farrah Fawcett hair I did begin to suspect something was up. Since I didn't watch horror movies in the '70s and ‘80s, I'm not the right audience for Ti West's throwback movie. So all I can say is that it's a well-done tribute to the kind of movies I should have been watching in order to be the right kind of audience. It's nicely paced, if a little slow in spots, setting up the menace lurking in the old dark house, and showing us that Samantha, well acted by Jocelin Donahue, is spunky and resourceful up to a point -- that point being her willingness to go upstairs, something nobody in a horror movie should ever do. And the cataclysmic burst of action at the film's climax is as satisfying as it should be. I even appreciated the coda, with its evocation of a true classic that transcends the genre, Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968). But I have to leave it to horror aficionados to explicate all the references by writer-director-editor Ti West to the period he's honoring, which makes The House of the Devil just a bit of a miss for me.

#The House of the Devil #Ti West #Jocelin Donahue #Tom Noonan #Mary Woronov #Greta Gerwig

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tomcherryoldtimeradioshow · 2 months

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Tom Cherry’s Old Time Radio Show presents The Mysterious Traveler on April 27, 2024 at the Farmland Community Center at 3:00pm! The show also features two original radio plays by local playwrights, Cliff Lowe and Beth Nahre! A lucky audience member will get a chance to play It Pays to Be Ignorant and Judy Cole sings!

Starring Sean Orlosky, Bob Green, Missy Donahue, Katy Wolfe, Jeff Shull, Jeff Rapkin, Larry Beck, Debby Girtman, Thomas Nelson III, Todd Terrell and the sound squad, Judy Cole and Cliff Lowe!

That’s April 27 at 3:00 pm at the Farmland Community Center (100 N. Main St, Farmland, Indiana)! Tickets are just one dollar! For more information, please call 765-468-7631.

#tom cherry's old time radio show #photograph #farmland community center #katy wolfe #bob green #larry beck #jeff shull #jeff rapkin #tom cherry #sean orlosky'#judy cole #missy donahue #todd terrell #debby girtman #thomas nelson III #cliff lowe #beth nahre #the mysterious stranger #it pays to be ignorant

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therealmrpositive · 1 year

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Hollywood and Elm Part 5 - Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)

In today's review, I find that ending often requires facing your fears. As I attempt a #positive review of Freddy's Dead #LisaZane #RobertEnglund #TobeSexton #LezlieDeane #ShonGreenblatt #BreckinMeyer #RickyDeanLogan #YaphetKotto #JohnnyDepp

Thinking about it, there can only be so long that a killer in a slasher film can go on. Soon enough, people would adapt, or they would run out of victims. What would happen if the likes of Freddy, or Jason, got their way? The results wouldn’t be sustainable. In 1991, the final bell tolled as audiences got to grips with Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. Taking the premise to its logical…

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siryouarebeingmocked · 2 years

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Historical battle reenactments are both very educational and a lot of fun to either participate in or watch. The Battle of Plattsburgh, a historic battle that ended the British invasion of the United States during the war of 1812, is one such battle that is reenacted every year in the state of New York.

However, this year’s reenactment has been partially canceled due to the >new gun law< that was passed and went into effect on September 1st in the state of New York. The new law understandably has several reenactors scared with many canceling their planned appearances at the event.

New York’s Gun Laws Getting In the Way of Historical Reenactments?

The main trepidation for the would-be attendees of this event revolves mostly around verbiage within the new law that pertains to the carrying of firearms which includes black powder rifles.

Due to the way the law is worded, reenactors are worried that if they went through with the event they could get into trouble. Normally these reenactors not only replicate the Battle of Plattsburg but also demonstrate the various firearms and weapons that were used during the event to public audiences.

The following quote is from Tom Donahue who is the current President of the 1814 Commemoration Inc organization which puts on reenactments throughout the year.

“The new law the way it’s written reenactors are not allowed to carry a firearm, a musket loading type rifle, black powder rifle, flintlock rifle, whatever because it’s in violation of the new law.

The new gun law of New York state has claimed its first casualty: the Battle of Plattsburgh. It’s the first event happening after the new law went into effect on the 1st. There’s nothing in the law that let’s an exemption happen or a waiver happen for an event in a historical significance like we have here in Plattsburgh.

We have over 70 reenactors that were coming to this event. Very disappointing.[...]

https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2022/09/14/plattsburgh-reenactments-new-york/

Imagine having “common sense” gun laws so strict you ban firearms from two centuries ago.

#new york #gunblr #gun control #guns

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randomestfandoms-ocs · 4 months

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Ash's Gilmore Girls OC Masterlist

Gilmore Girls OC Masterlist for @the-witching-ash (none of these ocs are mine, I only organized the list)

Name: Andrew Cartwright*

Story: Everything Changes

Faceclaim: Logan Lerman

Love Interest: Kirsty Gilmore (@randomestfandoms-ocs)

Pinterest: x

*a variation of the standard To Being An Us Verse but combined with the Gilmore Girls Delicate crossover

Name: Addie Hisenburg

Faceclaim: Rachel Hilson

Story: So Much Better

Love Interest Paris Geller

Pinterest: x

Name: Alice Hawthorn

Faceclaim: Olivia Colman

Story: Multi

Love Interest: Rupert Hawthorn

Name: Callum Zang

Faceclaim: Harry Shum Jr.

Story: Royals

Love Interest: Hana Ryu, endgame Jess Mariano

Pinterest: x

Name: Clemency Campbell

Faceclaim: Helena Boham Carter

Story: Multi

Name: Daisy Gilmore

Faceclaim: Zoe Colletti

Story: Where Do You Belong

Love Interest: Dave Rygalski & Lane Kim

Pinterest: x

Name: Eileen Bloom

Faceclaim: Maya Hawke

Story: Hazy Shades of Winter

Love Interest: TBD

Pinterest: x

Name: Everett West

Faceclaim: Jesse L. Martin

Story: Multi

Name: Evie Charleston

Faceclaim: Lucy Fry

Story: It’s Nice To Have A Friend

Love Interest: Rory Gilmore & Logan Huntzberger

Pinterest: x

Name: Floyd Bach

Faceclaim: Cole Sprouse

Story: Things You Can’t Speak About / Piece By Piece*

Love Interest: Lane Kim

Pinterest: x

*a crossover with @randomestfandoms-ocs' Kirsty Gilmore / Piece By Piece universe

Name: Floyd Bach*

Faceclaim: Cole Sprouse

Story: Delicate

Love Interest: Vicki St James

Pinterest: x

*A second variation of Floyd who exists in the Delicate crossover verse with @randomestfandoms-ocs' Kirsty, Troy, Harry, Vicki, and Lottie, sometimes combined with other crossovers

Name: Grace Kim

Faceclaim: Lana Condor

Story: How Girls Should Behave

Love Interest: Regina Gilmore

Pinterest: x

Name: Hana Ryu

Faceclaim: Jenna Ushkowitz

Story: Royals

Love Interest: Callum Zang, endgame Lindsay Lister

Pinterest: x

Name: Harriet Stiles

Faceclaim: Caroline Goodall

Story: Mean

Name: Imogen Flemming

Faceclaim: Anne Hathaway

Story: Mean

Love Interest: Jess Mariano

Pinterest: x

Name: Liberty Danes

Faceclaim: Jennifer Love Hewitt

Story: There She Goes

Pinterest: x

Name: Lily Lister

Faceclaim: Lili Reinhart

Story: Fearless

Love Interest: Rory Gilmore

Pinterest: x

Name: Lydia Danes

Faceclaim: Ginnifer Goodwin

Story: My Little Corner Of The World, Multi

Love Interest: Lulu Kuschner

Pinterest: x

Name: Mario Medina

Faceclaim: John Barrowman

Story: May God Have Mercy, Multi

Name: Mercy Medina

Faceclaim: Michelle Trachtenberg

Story: May God Have Mercy

Love Interest: Logan Huntzberger

Pinterest: x

Name: Richie Gilmore

Faceclaim: Grant Gustin

Story: Things You Can’t Speak About

Love Interest: N/A

Pinterest: x

Name: Richie Gilmore*

Story: Piece By Piece/Multi

Love interest: Multi

*a variant of Richie that exists in multiple crossovers, always with @randomestfandoms-ocs' Kirsty Gilmore

Name: Richie Gilmore / Richie Donahue-Callisto*

Story: Delicate

Love Interest: Troy Donahue-Callisto & Harry Bechtel ( @randomestfandoms-ocs )

*A second variation of Richie who exists in the Delicate crossover verse with @randomestfandoms-ocs' Kirsty, Troy, Harry, Vicki, and Lottie, sometimes combined with other crossovers

Name: Regina Gilmore

Story: How Girls Should Behave

Faceclaim: Leighton Meester

Love Interests: Vance Hawthorn, Grace Kim

Pinterest: x

Name: Rupert Hawthorn

Faceclaim: Tom Cavanagh

Story: Multi

Love Interest: Alice Hawthorn

Name: Vance Hawthorn

Faceclaim: Ed Westwick

Story: Multi

Love Interest: Regina Gilmore, Colin McCrae & Finn

Pinterest: x

#gilmoregirlsocs #gilmore girls oc #for a friend #friend's oc #the witching ash #agb tag

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the-witching-ash · 1 month

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Gilmore Girls M-W Masterlist

Name: Mario Medina

Faceclaim: John Barrowman

Story: May God Have Mercy

Name: Mercy Medina

Faceclaim: Michelle Trachtenberg

Love Interest: Logan Huntzberger

Story: May God Have Mercy

Name: Richie Gilmore

Faceclaim: Grant Gustin

Love Interest: n/a

Story: Things You Can’t Speak About

Name: Richie Gilmore/Richie Donahue-Callisto

Faceclaim: Grant Gustin

Love Interest Troy Donahue-Callisto & Harry Bechtel

A second variation of Richie who exists in the Delicate verse with @randomestfandoms-ocs' Kirsty, Troy, Harry, Vicki, and Lottie, sometimes combined with other crossovers.

Name: Regina Gilmore

Faceclaim: Leighton Meester

Love Interest: Vance Hawthorn, Grace Kim

Story: How Girls Should Behave

Name: Rupert Hawthorn

Faceclaim: Tom Cavanagh

Love Interest: Alice Hathorn

Story: Multi

Name: Simon Forester

Faceclaim: Joe Keery

Love Interest: Jess Mariano

Story: Things You Can’t Speak About

*In the Delicate-verse with @randomestfandoms-ocs, Simon is usually Kirsty Gilmore’s love interest, with the exception of Everything Changes.

Name: Vance Hawthorn

Faceclaim: Ed Westwick

Love Interest: Regina Gilmore, Colin McCrae & Finn

Story: Multi

Name: Vienna Geller

Faceclaim: Kiernan Shipka

Love Interest: Tristan Dugray, endgame TBD

Story: Mastermind

Name: Wayne Colt-Forester

Faceclaim: Jensen Ackles

Love Interest: Dennis Colt-Forester

Story: Things You Can’t Speak About

#masterpost

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diceriadelluntore · 2 years

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Storia Di Musica #244 - Blue Cheer, Vincebus Eruptum, 1968

A San Francisco verso la seconda metà degli anni ‘60 successero delle cose che furono centrali nell’evoluzione della mitologia del rock. Tra i più famosi avvenimenti, ricordo che due DJ di San Francisco, Larry Miller e Tom Donahue, rispettivamente di due radio underground di Old Frisco (il nomignolo di San Francisco), la KMPX e la KSAN, iniziano a trasmettere i nuovi brani acid rock senza porsi problemi di formato, programmando i brani non dai singoli ma dagli album, addirittura trasmettendo registrazioni che non apparivano nemmeno sui dischi. In pratica il DJ diviene protagonista attivo della promozione musicale, e non mero “riproduttore” di dinamiche promotrici delle case editrici, ridefinendo, almeno per un certo periodo, integralmente la struttura dell'industria discografica americana, stimolando la nascita di emittenti radiofoniche dello stesso tipo in tutto il paese; analogo successo ebbero i primi show che oggi definiremmo multimediali, i più famosi erano i "light show" organizzati da Alton Kelley o Bill Ham che segnano la strada dell'effetto speciale nei concerti che dalla baia di San Francisco diverrà centrale in ogni concerto del mondo; Kelley e altri artisti formidabili, come Stanley “Mouse” Miller o Rick Griffin, Victor Moscoso e Wes Wilson fanno esplodere la moda delle copertine, e i poster dei concerti, psichedelici, segnando l’arte della grafica discografica in maniera decisiva; nascono i primi impresari "moderni" come Bill Graham con il leggendario teatro Fillmore aperto su Geary Boulevard e la Family Dog Production con l'Avalon Ballroom in Sutter Street. E nasce anche l’heavy metal. Ovviamente questa ultima è una provocazione, ma il disco di oggi è un antesignano del genere e una delle perle sconosciute del grande periodo californiano. I Blue Cheer furono provocatori sin dal nome, che è un famoso tipo di LSD che la leggenda vuole inventato Owsley Stanley, mecenate e tecnico del suono dei Grateful Dead, che a sua volta prende il nome da un famoso detersivo, prodotto dalla Procter & Gamble. Sono stati probabilmente i primi a fare dell’amplificazione e dell’impatto sonoro il motivo dominante della loro musica, distorcendo il blues e il rock in maniera seminale. Nascono verso la fine del 1967, quando il bassista Dick Peterson è in cerca di musicisti per mettere su una band. Si presentano in molti, ma alla fine rimangono in tre, Peterson con Paul Whaley, batterista, e il chitarrista Leigh Stephens. Le ricerche di altri membri finiscono quando vedono la Jimi Hendrix Experience suonare a Monterey e capiscono che in tre si può suonare benissimo. Come manager si trovano un personaggio terrificante, Allen "Gut" Terk, ex componente degli Hell’s Angels. Registrano subito agli Amigo Studios di Los Angeles e verso l’inizio del 1968 danno alle stampe il loro primo disco, dal titolo di latino maccheronico Vincebus Eruptum (che si potrebbe tradurre con Controllo del Disordine). Il primo singolo è una devastante e urticante cover di Summertime Blues di Eddie Cochran, che diventerà universalmente conosciuta grazie alla cover che gli Who faranno più tardi nello storico Live At Leeds (1970): arriva addirittura in classifica e spinge altissimo il loro debutto, un disco che fa della forza sonora e delle distorsioni il perno su cui scrivere la loro versione del rock acido che stava ribollendo nella baia di San Francisco. Mezz’’ora di potenza, che da Summertime Blues si sposta a Rock Me Baby, altra cover dal catalogo del maestro B.B.King, prima della prima “bomba elettrica”, Doctor Please: scritta da Peterson come “una glorificazione delle droghe” sono 8 minuti di impatto sonoro che anticipa il doom, lo stoner, e potrebbe benissimo per passare per un brano dei System Of A Down a chi non li ha mai sentiti. Non è da meno Out Of Focus, che sembra un pezzo mancante dal III del Led Zeppelin, altro gioiello meraviglioso. Parchment Farm è una cover di un famoso blues di Mose Allison, Parchman Farm, che qui viene stravolta e rivoltata come un calzino, con la voce disperata e calda di Peterson. Chiude il disco Second Time Around, scritta sempre da Peterson, che alla brutale potenza rock blues dei nostri affianca dei nuovi percorsi, avviandosi in territori proto progressive, con atmosfere che ricordano quelle dei futuri Yes. Il disco è un successo insperato, e la band in pochi mesi ne pubblica un altro, Outsideinside, registrato in parte indoor e in parte outdoor (da cui il titolo) con simpatica copertina disegnata a caricatura. Altro disco di ottimo livello, con due cover stellari di nientemeno che Satisfaction dei Rolling Stones e di The Hunter di Albert King. Non ottenendo il successo del primo, iniziano dei problemi: Gut Kesh viene arrestato per loschi traffici, Stephens lascia e Bill Graham gli proibisce di suonare ai mitici Teatri Fillmore. Con una nuova formazione pubblicano New! Improved! ma nonostante l’abnegazione di Peterson non rimane nulla di quel suono devastante e intrigante del primo disco: continueranno però a suonare per decenni, fino agli anni 2000, cambiando in tutto ben 20 formazioni. E c’è una curiosità: nel 1985 Peterson, con il fratello Jerry, resuscitando per l’ennesima volta i Blue Cheer, pubblica The Beast Is Back: come singolo, una nuova cover di Summertime Blues, che a differenza di quella di venti anni prima non ha lo stesso clamore, dato che ormai tutti conoscono il seme da loro piantato da cui è cresciuto un robusto album: l’heavy metal.

#blue cheer #vincebus eruptum #1968 #recensione

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markadoo · 7 months

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An interesting story in Gay Community News about a murder investigation/police scoundrelsy.

Kopacz Acquitted In Barbre Killing

By Mitzel

April 11, 1981

After a four-week trial, a Middlesex County Superior Court jury took less than three and one-half hours to acquit Edward R. Kopacz, Jr., of the murder of Curtis Dale Barbre.

Kopacz was indicted in July 1980 for first degree murder. The victim, Dale Barbre, was found dead Feb. 2, 1978, after his face was blown off with a single shotgun blast. Barbre's body was found beneath the Lowell Connector, off Hwy. 495.

Middlesex assistant district attorney Thomas Brennan prosecuted Kopacz. The state of Massachusetts offered witnesses — mostly cops — who told the jury that Kopacz had made an oral confession while he was in a Florida jail. In the confession, Kopacz allegedly implicated himself and Mark Davis in the Barbre murder.

Barbre was last seen alive as he left the Regency Baths in Boston. Barbre departed the Regency around 5 AM, Feb. 2, 1978, in the company of Kenneth Boynton, a/k/a "Cupcakes," a Boston drag performer.

Lowell cop Jim Donohue, who first told Kopacz the specifics about the Barbre murder on Dec. 24, 1978, while Kopacz was in Donahue's custody on a B&E charge, also told further made-up details about the Barbre murder when he interviewed Kopacz in Cal. and Florida jails. Donohue also promised Kopacz he'd help him out of his numerous legal problems in several stales if K. would play ball with Mass. cops and agree to implicate Roger Spear and Mark Davis as malefactors in Barbre's death.

Donohue told the court that on Dec. 5, 1979, K. finally placed himself at the murder site.

In his own defense, K. denied ever having made any such confession to Donohue. Despite numerous other signed statements and letters written by K. — none of which involved him in Barbre's death — the Commonwealth had no statement or signed confession from Kopacz which put him at the murder. As attorney Steve Ernstoff said: "Here's a kid who'll sign anything — who has signed anything. And, yet, when it comes to the actual murder confession, the state has nothing but a cop telling you he has an oral confession."

Defense attorney Ernstoff called seven witnesses, all of whom placed K. in Sunnyvale, in January and February 1978. These included the records keeper of the hotel where K. lived, as well as the owner of a house who hired K. to do work for him all day Feb. 2, 1978, the day poor Barbre was slain in Lowell.

Attorney Ernstoff argued that cops used K. — who was only 17 years old when Donohue first got his hands on him — to get at Mark Davis and Roger Spear. Davis was K.'s counselor in the Community Action Program.

Both Spear & Davis were indicted in the witchhunt surrounding the sensational (if nonexistent) "Revere sex ring." Both men have said they have been police targets since at least 1975, following the anti-gay spasm which ensued after Dick Bavely's suicide. Bavely was a Welfare Dept. worker who was falsely accused of placing male youths in the foster care of homosexual men.

Roger Spear's home and office were raided by Mass. police in Oct. 1979. Spear was subsequently indicted for possession of a small amount of cannabis sativa. Mark Davis has said that he now suspects Boston FBI agent Tom Donlen is working to set him up on a fake kid-porn rap. Three grand juries have declined to indict Spear and Davis for Barbre's death.

The day after the verdict, attorney Ernstoff held a press conference at the Billerica House of Corrections, during which Kopacz detailed the history of police manipulation that got him into such a fix. Kopacz is currently incarcerated at Billerica on a parole violation. K. is due for release on May 3. Attorney Ernstoff plans to file a revoke & revise motion, seeking K.'s immediate release.

Ernstoff had this to say after the aquittal: "The difficulty I have with the system is that it encourages law enforcement people to take a crime and then target individuals. They they develop the evidence to get those individuals."

The investigation into the 1978 homicide of Dale Barbre has been of central interest to the gay community in general and GCN in particular. The late David Brill, a news writer for this paper, first reported Barbre's death in late Feb., 1978. Brill and his friend Jimmy Mitchell, operator of the Regency Baths, worked with Lowell cop Jim Donohue and other police to solve this murder. Police soon came to regard this homicide as a "gay murder." I never agreed with this police diagnosis. "Gay Murder" — isn't that a sterling oxymoron?

Jimmy Mitchell, who has said "I don't want this murder dumped on my Bathhouse doorstep," has aided and abetted the police scheme developed by Lowell cop Jim Donohue and Quincy cop Charlie Rogers.

Mitchell, in the year 1979, paid GCN reporter David Brill $100 a week to further the police scheme to pin the Barbre murder on Spear and Davis. What Mitchell and the cops didn't know was that Brill was also tipping off Spear as to police plots against him.

When police raided Spear's home in Oct. 1979 and seized all his records he had accumulated about police plots against him, the cops learned that Brill had been double-crossing them. Three weeks later Brill was found dead in his Winthrop home, a victim of cyanide poisoning. Brill's death was ruled a suicide, though debate to this day rages in the gay community about how and why David checked out.

Lowell cop Jim Donohue, at the Brill family gathering after David's burial, told GCN staffers and others: "If you look deep into David's death, you'll find that Roger Spear was behind this." Donohue was deeply involved in the police set-up of Spear and Davis at that time.

After Brill's death, Jimmy Mitchell, who admitted in open court that he helped to privately fund a police entrapment scheme, then enlisted Paul Corsetti, a writer for the Hearst paper in Boston, to further the police scenario. Mitchell and Corsetti flew to Florida at the same time as did Lowell cop Donohue. Donohue had told Kopacz to make his murder confession — or perhaps Donohue would make it for him — to Corsetti over the phone so that Corsetti could get it in the Hearst news and thereby further the scheme to indict Spear and Davis. This Paul Corsetti did in a Herald article dated Dec. 15, 1979.

At Kopacz's trial, Corsetti refused to discuss the set-up of the Kopacz interview. Judge Robert Barton found Corsetti in contempt of court and sentenced him to 3 months in the Middlesex House of Corrections.

Defense attorney Ernstoff tried to present to the jury that other persons were more plausible suspects for investigation in the Barbre murder than was Kopacz. These include Arnold Dunn, Maggie Pratt, Cupcakes and a Cambridge cop.

Dunn, Barbre's lover for 14 months (though Dale had moved out two weeks before his murder), told the court Dale showed up at Dunn's waterfront apartment just hours before the murder and sought money. Dunn gave him money — though they may have had a fight. Dunn admitted that the day after the murder (though no one — other than the murderer(s) — knew Barbre was dead at that time) he called to have a sofa removed from his apartment; this sofa was stained with Barbre's blood.

Maggie Pratt, Barbre's female lover and mother of his child, had a fight with Barbre at Together, a gay disco. Pratt said she hit Barbre with an ashtray and a beer bottle just hours before his death.

Cupcakes, who entered the Regency tubs with Barbre and was seen leaving with him, was the last person — other than the killer(s) — to see Barbre alive. After Barbre's body was identified, Cupcakes went to Boston personality Sylvia Sidney and borrowed money and clothes to skip town. Days later, Cupcakes was arrested by police in Hartford (CT) while hiding in a closet. While Cupcakes was on the stand in the Kopacz trial, he took the 5th Amendment to every question other than that which asked his name.

A Cambridge cop, who had Barbre sleeping in his bed for two nights in a row prior to the murder, was similarly not probed by the Middlesex D.A. Defense attorney Ernstoff established that the Middlesex D.A.'s office could have confirmed Kopacz's California alibi as early as March 1979. But, as Ernstoff said in his closing argument to the jury, "The police didn't want to confirm the alibi, because that would get in the way of their plan."

For the moment, then, this saga has come to an end. A jury of citizens had the common sense to reject such an obvious police fabrication. Prosecutor Brennan, who made a pathetic closing argument, said (while leaving the courtroom) "Oh, shit!" in the most dejected way. So much for the state posing as a helpful friend to the gay community.

[The rest of the article is, in my opinion, not very interesting]

But in the aftermath of this long and drawn-out Barbre probe — which, I admit, is not only confusing but which has engendered a great deal of animosity within the gay community — important questions linger which must be answered:

Why did D.A. Droney and his staff — particularly Ed Garguilo and Torn Brennan — participate in this shameful exercise of prosecutorial abuse which was based on the slimiest kind of police set-up? And doing so all the while pretending that this would be a gloss on the gay community for solving this "gay murder"?

Why did Jimmy Mitchell — who identified himself in a Boston Globe interview as a "police informer" since he was fifteen — privately fund a police investigation which might otherwise have collapsed beneath the weight of its own lies? Jimmy Mitchell is currently Treasurer of the David Brill Memorial Fund, set up after Brill's suicide to raise money to fund GCN's investigative reporting. Isn't it time that the gay community demand or the Brill Fund that it explain itself as to why a police informer is in control or funds when he has been so openly and shamelessly a part of a police entrapment scheme against other gay men? Shouldn't Brill Fund directors be questioned as to how much money they have raised and its dispersal?

And then there is Elaine Noble. Again. Former State Rep. Noble, now an operative for Mayor White's political machine, wrote an open letter to D.A. Droney in July 1980, demanding that the prosecution of Ed Kopacz go forward. Noble suggested that the gay community demanded nothing less. Shouldn't Elaine now explain why she — once again — failed to contact people in the gay community to hear our voices and why she automatically trusted the machinations of political malfeasants over the people whom she claims to speak for?

And of course the most terrible questions of all remain:

WHO DID KILL DALE BARBRE AND WHY?

Is there any reason left why the gay community, having been suckered and burnt on this Kopacz case, should, for one minute, believe that D.A. Droney and his clique can ever give us a truthful answer?

I think not.

For those who wonder what they can do to redress this gross insult to our community, this slap at fair play, this assault on the rights of innocent people, I would recommend that people join to organize a dedicated effort to defeat the man from whom this kind of corruption flows — Middlesex Attorney John Droney. The time to start is now!

#gay community news

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cariantha · 1 year

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Sawyer, Ethan and The Gang are at Donahue’s having a fun night out. Suddenly the “Celebrity pass” topic comes out. Your pairing is asked who theirs is… Would they respond there? Would they dismiss the question only to talk about it in private? Who would they choose? Since I know every couple is different…Would they jokingly agree to have a Celebrity pass (not that any of them would actually do anything) or would the feel uncomfortable even having that conversation?

Hi there!

Honestly, I picture both Ethan and Sawyer being a little uncomfortable with the question. They would know it's all in good fun of course, but the idea of the other being intimate with anyone else makes them both uneasy.

Here's the scene in my head:

They sit next to each other in a booth, Ethan's arm around Sawyer's shoulder. When the question is asked she turns to look him in the eye and she knows immediately they are on the same page. Sawyer turns back to the group and responds. "I don't know about a hall pass..." Ethan squeezes her shoulder in support, "but if we weren't together, I think I could guess which celebrity he'd sleep with if given the chance."

She whispers her guess into his ear not wanting to embarrass him. Ethan shrugs his shoulders neither confirming or denying and takes a sip of his drink.

"Well, who's my celebrity?" she asks him.

"The guy who played Superman."

"Which one Tom Welling or Henry Cavill?"

"Either one."

Sawyer shrugs her shoulders with a smile neither confirming or denying.

(Although she teases him about Nigella often, Sawyer guessed right. Ethan's first pick would be Brooklyn Decker with Kate Upton as runner-up.😏)

#thanks for the ask!#ethan x sawyer

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duranduratulsa · 3 months

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claudiosuenaga · 2 years

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Os 20 anos de Taken

Por Cláudio Tsuyoshi Suenaga

Em 2 dezembro de 2002, o canal Sci-Fi (renomeado para SyFy em 2009) estreava Taken, uma minissérie de 877 minutos divididos em dez episódios, produzida por Spielberg e roteirizada por Leslie Bohem.

Mega-produção de US$ 120 milhões, o que a tornava a minissérie mais cara da história, Taken levou o Sci-Fi Channel à liderança na TV a cabo norte-americana pela primeira vez desde seu surgimento, além de ganhar o Emmy.

Se Arquivo X em seu episódio piloto faz uma referência direta a Spielberg, uma influência inicial que se diluiria, Spielberg admitiu abertamente ter se inspirado em Arquivo X para fazer Taken, fechando um círculo de influências.

Mas enquanto Arquivo X o tempo todo punha em dúvida a existência dos extraterrestres e enredava os agentes Mulder e Scully numa teia de conspirações governamentais, Taken não deixava margem a dúvidas e mostrava os extraterrestres sem rodeios, centrando o enredo na vida cotidiana e nos problemas mundanos de três famílias tipicamente americanas profundamente afetadas por contatos e abduções alienígenas num período que abrangia mais de cinco décadas, a partir do famoso Incidente de Roswell, em julho de 1947, no Novo México.

A saga começa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, quando o avião do piloto Russell Keys (Steve Burton) é abatido em combate e aquelas estranhas luzes chamadas de foo fighters salvam sua vida.

Daí em diante ele passará a vida toda atormentado pelo pesadelo da abdução, tentando evitar e resistir ao máximo, sem sucesso, ser capturado seguidamente pelos ETs, pesadelo e resistência que acompanharão seu filho Jesse Keys (Desmond Harrington) e seu neto Charlie (Adam Kaufman).

O capitão do Exército Owen Crawford (Joel Gretsch), por sua vez, participa do resgate do disco voador e dos seres que caíram em Roswell e fica obcecado em recolher provas que atestem que uma invasão iminente está a caminho.

Daí em diante ele passará a vida toda sacrificando as pessoas à sua volta, inclusive sua família, para manter seu poder e não deixar escapar nenhuma informação importante sobre os OVNIs. Ele guarda em sua casa, sem que ninguém saiba, um pedaço da nave, o qual legará como uma espécie de herança maldita ao seu filho Eric (Andy Powers) e à sua neta Mary Crawford (Heather Donahue), que ficarão igualmente obcecados e tenderão a repetir os mesmos erros que cometeu.

Já a sonhadora e fogosa dona de casa texana Sally Clarke (Catherine Dent), infeliz no casamento, tem uma aventura amorosa com o misterioso forasteiro John (Eric Close, o John Loengard da série Dark Skies).

O que ela não sabe é que o homem na verdade é um extraterrestre sobrevivente da nave acidentada em Roswell. Grávida de John, Sally é abandonada pelo marido, dando à luz o híbrido Jakob (Anton Yelchin), que carrega em seu DNA uma parte alienígena. Tom Clarke (Ryan Hurst), o filho mais velho de Sally, se tornará um ufólogo cético que mais tarde se converterá em um crente vigilante das ações secretas do governo.

Os destinos das famílias Clarke, Keys e Crawford se entrecruzarão em meio às manipulações e interesses dos extraterrestres, dos cientistas e dos militares.

A ação culmina com o nascimento de Allie Keys, vivida pela menina prodígio Dakota Fanning (1994-), em seu melhor e mais encantador papel, e que mais tarde voltaria a trabalhar com Spielberg em Guerra dos Mundos.

Metade humana, metade extraterrestre, Allie é o resultado final de um experimento que levou mais três gerações para dar certo, e que guarda a “chave” do futuro desses seres e da humanidade. Ela também faz, em off, a narração — cheia de filosofia e poesia — de seu diário em todos os episódios.

O governo norte-americano está interessado em seus poderes paranormais na guerra contra os alienígenas e, ao mesmo tempo, os ETs querem levar Allie para o seu planeta.

Allie perfaz um interessante jogo de palavras em inglês, evocando o termo “allied” (aliado, unido, associado, coligado, parente, aparentado e afim) e ao mesmo tempo remetendo a “alien” (alienígena, estrangeiro, estranho, forasteiro, oposto, contrário, hostil, divergente, discrepante e de natureza diferente), bem como à menina Alice do livro Alice no País das Maravilhas [Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)], escrita pelo matemático britânico Lewis Carroll (1832–1898).

Com extrema competência e sensibilidade, em primorosas e quase que impecáveis reconstituições de épocas, Taken abordou os fatos recorrentes da ufologia — embora de modo nem sempre fiel, como quando por exemplo mostra os círculos nos campos de trigo no início dos anos 70 e a febre pela Área 51 no início dos anos 80, sendo que ambos datam somente do final dos anos 80 –, com referências diretas a muitos casos verdadeiros.

Para quem não estava familiarizado com a ufologia, no entanto, as abduções, os implantes, as experiências com híbridos e a política de acobertamento devem ter parecido indistinguíveis da ficção.

De qualquer forma, Taken ofereceu sua resposta a duas perguntas-chave que há tempos os ufólogos vinham fazendo: o que os ETs realmente querem de nós e o que estão planejando?

Jacques Vallée confidenciou que quando conheceu Spielberg, argumentou com ele se não seria mais interessante se o Fenômeno OVNI fosse apresentado como algo real, físico, mas não extraterrestre. Spielberg respondeu que ele (Vallée) até tinha razão, mas que não era isso que o público esperava, “e eu quero dar para as pessoas algo que esteja próximo daquilo que elas esperam.”

Quem assistiu a série se lembra do final emocionante, que deixou os espectadores em lágrimas e maravilhados, bem como com uma promessa esperançosa, a promessa de uma filha para sua mãe e seu pai de voltar um dia. Será que Spielberg um dia retomará essa série para fazer cumprir tal promessa?

#taken #steven spielberg #dakota fanning #alien abduction #ufo phenomenon #ovni #alienígenas #syfy channel #scifi

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