Category Archives: 50s

Mr. Wonderful And Race

July 12, 2016 – 12:47 pm

The only way to cure racism is love. And lots of it. Sammie Davis Jr. knew the antidote and he lived in lynching days. Marilyn Monroe was his friend and acted as a beard for his relationship with Kim Novak. Their affair almost got him killed by the orders of Herbert Cohn, a gangster Hollywood […]

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Juvenile Mobile Lock-Up

May 21, 2016 – 11:10 am

The Catholic Church in Maine promoted procreation in hopes that those of the faith would demographically overwhelm the State’s predominant worship of Protestantism. A devout member of the Roman Church my mother produced six healthy children through the 1950s. Our family car was a Ford station wagon and my father feared one of us slipping […]

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44DDD – Liz Renay

December 25, 2015 – 12:37 pm

Several years ago I attended an opening for THE ART OF LIZ RENAY curated by SCOTT EWALT at the 76 Grand Street Gallery. The late artist’s contributions spanned two centuries in exotic dancing, literature, and film most notably as Divine’s co-star in John Waters’ 1977 paean to bad taste DESPERATE LIVING, but the starlet was […]

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SANTA BABY – Eartha Kitt

December 18, 2015 – 7:02 am
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The Beat Lives On

February 5, 2015 – 12:19 pm

Beat icon Neal Cassady died on February 4, 1968. Walking home from at party in San Miguel de Allende Cassady fell asleep by train tracks. The night was cold and wet. The next morning his 3D body was discovered in a coma. This death from exposure launched the outlaw traveler from this 2D world into […]

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