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This post is a result of my concern and depression over the shaky state of our constitutional rights in today’s political climate using the established clichés of pulp fiction art. It is not and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of political violence against any side, which I find personally abhorrent.
And the mere fact that I had to call that out so blatantly makes me more depressed than ever.
Happy National Teddy Bear Day!
Happy National Actors Day!+
Happy heavenly birthday to the great Raquel Welch!
Happy National Skyscraper Day!
Hack watched The Maltese Falcon again last night and got so excited that he wrote this. We begged him not to.
Joan Blondell was a wonderful actress who inevitably walked away with films like The Cincinnati Kid, Opening Night and The Blue Veil (for which she received an Oscar nomination). But her most memorable work came as the queen of the Pre-Code Era, that period between 1929 and 1935 when the Production Code was adopted by the big studios that effectively neutered any realistic adult content from their films. But in those glorious six years between the introduction of the talkies and the puritanical dictatorship of first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Will Hays, Joan played countless molls to screen gangsters played by Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney, guzzling bathtub gin and showing more skin than you ever would have expected to see in the Roaring 30s.
Happy heavenly birthday to the great Joan Blondell!