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its raining mullahs
Get real. the victim complex. Poor fellow subdued by an Amazon of his own imagination. Violence by women against men. What is the punishment and could it possibly fit the crime. Women are pushing the boundaries, crossing Netanyahu’s Red Line. … Continue reading →
a maverick pharaoh
Where’s a maverick pharaoh when you need one? A monotheist and worshiper of the sun god Aten, Akhenaten created a religious revolution. Was he an idealist, a reformer, a visionary, or a megalomaniac? …If we fast forward, the so called … Continue reading →
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Tagged Amenhotep II, Amenhotep III, Field marshal Hussein Tantawi, Hosni Mubarak, Jean-Francois Champollion, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, MK Israel Hasson, Mohammed Morsi, Pablo Picasso, Paul Newman Exodus, pharaoh akhenaten, rudolph valentino, Sami Annan Chief of Staff Egypt, sun god Aten, Theda Bara, Thutmose III
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yuk yuk: cross your fingers not your legs…
Is comedy universal? Brass knuckles interfaith hard ball comedy. The dilemma of comedy being “pure” without the baggage of tradition and history. The recent trip of Mark Breslin and Yuk Yuks on “goodwill” tour of Israel is proof is that … Continue reading →
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Tagged Aaron Berg, Alan King, Amnon Dankner, barack obama israel, ehud olmert, Franz Kafka, Gene Wilder, Gil Troy, Gunter Grass Gdansk, Gunter Grass israel, ingrid pitt, Jackie Mason, John Baird, judge Edmund Levy, Mark Breslin, Michal Samet, Patrick Ventrell, Peter Lorre, Rebecca Kohler, Rick Roth foreign affairs, Sam Easton, Theda Bara
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manic pixie dream vampire
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) this is a sort of ‘update’ to the essay i wrote a while back about the history of the ‘vampire chick’ in popular culture. (if you go into my photo files and click on the … Continue reading →
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Tagged art chantry, bela lugosi, Bram Stoker, carolyn jones, carroll borland, cassandra peterson, charles addams, cornelia thaw, david j. skal, dorothy tree, edna tichenor, elias savada, elizabeth bathory, geraldine dvorak, ingrid pitt, lon chaney, mildred pierce, mina harker, sheridan le fanu, sheridan le fanu carmilla, Theda Bara, Tod Browning, tod browning dark carnival, vampires, yvonne de carlo
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the denouement
Love on the rocks. It may have begun with Antony’s affair with Cleopatra, which was, at the beginning, a statecraft spiced with pleasure. However, it turned into infatuation poisoned by statecraft. And then came the denouement. Perhaps love and politics … Continue reading →
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
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Tagged alice walton, alice walton art gallery, antony and cleopatra, asher b. durand, coco chanel, coco chanel nazi, crystal bridges museum of american art, elizabeth taylor cleopatra, hal vaughan, moshe safdie, Shakespeare, the chanel group, Theda Bara, Thomas Eakins
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MASKED SAINT ON A WILD HORSE
Are there virtues to an ambiguous past? She was masked and anonymous. Her fidelity was to the plurality of self and she was as much a puzzle at the end of her life, and such an omnipresent figure that the … Continue reading →
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Tagged Adah Isaacs Menken, Alan Ackerman, Alexander Dumas, Alexander Isaac Menken, Barbara Foster, Bernard Falk, Bernie Taupin, Charles Dickens, David Kirby, Edwin Booth, Edwin James, Elton John, Gregory Eiselen, Isaac Lesser, Ivan Robertson, Joaquin Miller, John C. Heenan, Mark Twain, Michael Foster, Narcissa Whitman, Noel Gerson, Rabbi Mayer Wise, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Renee Sentilles, Roy Morris Jr., Samuel Dickson, Theda Bara, Theodosia Goodman, Walt Whitman, Wolf Mankowitz
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