vxbush 12/11/2019 5:49:44 AM

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Hell week continues apace. Thankfully I don't have to go out and by gifts; the daughter only wants stuff I can by at Amazon, and the hubby hasn't given me his list. 

Amazon is a gift from God this time of year. 

lucius septimius 12/11/2019 6:32:24 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

That's where I've bought all my gifts.

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 7:56:05 AM

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The "Stetson Hat" number from "Whoopee!" with Eddie Cantor.

Some nice pre-Hays Office dancing, and a brief flash of Cantor in blackface at the end.

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 9:30:08 AM

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So, it appears that at least one of the shooters in the Jersey City debacle yesterday was a former member of the "Black Israelite" sect, and had posted anti-Jewish screeds online.  

It also appears that the kosher foodstore was indeed "targeted."

Occasional Reader 12/11/2019 10:23:37 AM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 4:

Another Trump hate crime.

Occasional Reader 12/11/2019 11:49:09 AM

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In #4 buzzsawmonkey said: the "Black Israelite" sect

Those people have always creeped me the f**k out.  And, it seems, with good reason. 

lucius septimius 12/11/2019 12:05:43 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 6:

They regularly can be seen proselytizing on the MARTA trains.  Scary indeed.

Occasional Reader 12/11/2019 12:22:31 PM

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In #7 lucius septimius said: They regularly can be seen proselytizing on the MARTA trains.  Scary indeed.

I used to see them a fair amount in Manhattan in the mid 90s to early aughties; and here in DC early to mid aughties.  Not so much in the last half dozen years or so. 

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 12:39:05 PM

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Get up in the morning seething with hatred

Wanting every Jew to be dead

Black Hebrew Israelites

---not Desmond Dekker

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 12:39:53 PM

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It's interesting how nobody is discussing the background of the female shooter.

It's also interesting how none of the Jew-hating and police-hating screeds Anderson posted online, and none of the "religious writings" found in the van, are being made public.

Syrah 12/11/2019 12:45:30 PM

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The Freaky Cult that was involved in that shooting had their local sect yelling and shouting at people on the streets of downtown Seattle on occasion. 

It has been a long time since I have ventured down town so I don’t know if they still make a scene there.

They were a spectacle of rage and hatred. It is a hell of a “proselytizing” method.  

Syrah 12/11/2019 12:50:34 PM

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Is this Rolling Stones song the origin of the name “crossfire hurricane”?

I was born in a cross-fire hurricane
And I howled at the morning driving rain
But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas
But it's all right. I'm Jumpin' Jack Flash
It's a gas, gas, gas

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 12:52:02 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 12:

I believe so, but I don't know why.

Occasional Reader 12/11/2019 1:19:15 PM

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In #12 Syrah said: Is this Rolling Stones song the origin of the name “crossfire hurricane”?

Yes, IIRC that's been pretty well documented. 

Syrah 12/11/2019 1:31:48 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 13: Reply to Occasional Reader in 14:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rolling-stones-song-inspired-crossfire-hurricane-codename-for-trump-russia-investigation

doppelganglander 12/11/2019 1:38:03 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 13:

Possibly because of its use in the movie Jumpin' Jack Flash. Whoopi Goldberg plays a bank employee who gets caught up in a Soviet espionage plot. 

doppelganglander 12/11/2019 1:40:33 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 15:

Our posts crossed in the ether. Clearly they chose the name to confuse anyone under 40.

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 1:51:03 PM

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Reply to Syrah in 15:

I'm amused to note that the article you linked to claims that "Jumping Jack Flash" is "a single from 1986"---when, of course, it came out in 1968. 

I find myself wondering whether that was simple transposition of numbers---typos do happen---or whether the sweet young thing who wrote the article couldn't possibly imagine a reference to something so old as being from 1968.

doppelganglander 12/11/2019 2:26:48 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 18:

Probably a transposition, but the movie did come out in 1986.

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 2:39:14 PM

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"Snake Hips," from 1929

A fragmentary clip, but some good dancing, and lots of feminine pulchritude on display.  

Note the backdrop, with the "snake charmers" painted at the left and right bottom, and the highly-ovarian cobras in the middle.

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 2:48:57 PM

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I hope folks don't mind my posting these antiquities.  They were inspired by the "Red Hot" jazz clip posted some few days back; I just want to show that highly suggestive dances and revealing costumes were hardly a new thing in the late '30s---the late '20s and early '30s had them beat by a mile.

BTW, regarding that "Red Hot" clip, a portion of the later, more "orgiastic" section of the film was in purple.  This was, likely, deliberate; it was customary from the silent days to print sections of a film in different colors as an inexpensive way of adding color to the film.  Some early films were hand-tinted; two-strip Technicolor came in some time in the late '20s, but was very expensive.  You can see two-strip Technicolor in the "Stetson Hat" number from "Whoopee!" upthread; it also appears in the Paul Whiteman film "King of Jazz," and in the early-talkie musical "Rio Rita." There's a two-strip Technicolor finale number, "Sweeping the Clouds" away, from some late-20s film I forget the name of.

Silent film color was somewhat different; night scenes were done in a blue wash, daylight scenes often straight black and white, or greenish; interior  night scenes were often sepia.  The Abel Gance film "Napoleon," which played Radio City in restored form about 30 years ago, had what was called "blue-tone pink" in the final scene, where Napoleon is watching, at night, the burning of his fleet at Toulon; the "black" areas of the film are printed in blue, and the highlighted "white" areas of the film are in a rose-pink, so you get the impression of both the night darkness and the glow from the fire.

lucius septimius 12/11/2019 3:10:29 PM

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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 21:

There were also sections with the colors of the French flag on each of the three screens.

I saw a performance at the Chicago Theatre with full orchestra and Carmine Coppola directing.  It was remarkable.

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 3:16:43 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 22:

He directed the orchestra at Radio City, too.  And, yes, it was something else.

buzzsawmonkey 12/11/2019 3:20:29 PM

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Reply to lucius septimius in 22:

When I was a kid---before I read Kevin Brownlow's superb book on the silent era, "The Parade's Gone By," I thought that the different-colored sequences on silent films merely meant they'd been patched together from different incomplete prints.  Once I realized that the color-changes were intentional, and understood as such by the audiences of the time, it made watching the films far more interesting.