"[Ralph Wittington] supervised the library [of Congress]'s collection of telephone books — “I was in charge of every phone book in the freaking world,” he said in 2002 — and also used his expertise as an archivist in his private life. Mr. Whittington had more than 5,000 early recordings of rhythm-and-blues and doo-wop music, but he was better known for amassing one of the world’s largest collections of pornography." -Washington Post
What were those for, 'medicinal purposes'? Seems an odd combination of things to collect, in those numbers.
Szmuel (Samuel) Heider died September 13th. During World War II, he survived the Białobrzeg ghetto, Auschwitz, Vaihingen, Hessental, and Dachau concentration camps, including being one of Joseph Mengele’s subjects. Old age finally caught up with him at 95. His memoir is titled Miracle of Miracles.
My older cousin was really into The Cars, so I ended up knowing The Cars' music through osmosis...I can probably still sing all the lyrics to the Candy O album and that album Let The Good Times Roll is on from his driving us around one summer when I was a kid. It was so weird getting the Billboard alert about Ric Ocasek yesterday, because "Let the Good Times Roll" was playing at an event I attended on Friday, and it had been a while since I'd heard it. RIP
Sid Haig, AKA Capt. Spaulding, died Saturday at 80. The cause of official death hasn't been released, but there is speculation his death may be related to a trip to the ER after he fell at his home a couple weeks ago. Haig was a B horror movie staple and icon. (List of film credits swiped from Wikipedia) Filmography Year Title Role Director Notes 1960 The Host The Fugitive Jack Hill Short film 1962 The Firebrand Diego Maury Dexter 1965 Beach Ball Drummer for Righteous Brother Lennie Weinrib 1966 Blood Bath Abdul the Arab Jack Hill, Stephanie Rothman 1967 It's a Bikini World Daddy Stephanie Rothman Point Blank First Penthouse Lobby Guard John Boorman 1968 Spider Baby Ralph Jack Hill The Hell with Heroes Crespin Joseph Sargent 1969 Pit Stop Hawk Sidney Jack Hill Che! Antonio Richard Fleischer 1970 C.C. and Company Crow Seymour Robbie 1971 THX 1138 NCH George Lucas The Big Doll House Harry Jack Hill Diamonds Are Forever Slumber Inc. Attendant Guy Hamilton 1972 The Big Bird Cage Django Jack Hill 1973 The No Mercy Man Pill Box Daniel Vance Black Mama, White Mama Ruben Jack Hill Emperor of the North Pole Grease Tail Robert Aldrich Coffy Omar Jack Hill Beyond Atlantis East Eddie Eddie Romero The Don Is Dead The Arab Richard Fleischer 1974 Busting Rizzo's Bouncer Peter Hyams Foxy Brown Hays Jack Hill Savage Sisters Malavael Eddie Romero 1975 Who Is the Black Dahlia? Tattoo Artist Joseph Pevney TV film 1976 Swashbuckler Bald Pirate James Goldstone The Return of the World's Greatest Detective Vince Cooley Dean Hargrove TV film 1978 Evening in Byzantium Asied Jerry London 1979 Death Car on the Freeway Maurie Hal Needham 1980 Loose Shoes Lone Stranger Ira Miller 1981 Underground Aces Faoud Robert Butler Chu Chu and the Philly Flash Vince David Lowell Rich Galaxy of Terror Quuhod Bruce D. Clark 1982 The Aftermath Cutter Steve Barkett 40 Days of Musa Dagh Turkish general Sarky Mouradian 1986 Amazing Stories Season 1: Episode 10 – "Remote Control Man" Thug Bob Clark TV film 1987 Commando Squad Iggy Fred Olen Ray 1988 Warlords The Warlord Goddess of Love Hephaestus Jim Drake TV film 1989 Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II Donar Charles B. Griffith 1990 The Forbidden Dance Joa Greydon Clark Genuine Risk Curly Kurt Voss 1992 Boris and Natasha: The Movie Colonel Gorda Charles Martin Smith 1997 Jackie Brown Judge Quentin Tarantino 2003 House of 1000 Corpses Captain Spaulding Rob Zombie 2004 Kill Bill: Volume 2 Jay Quentin Tarantino 2005 The Devil's Rejects Captain Spaulding/Cutter Rob Zombie House of the Dead 2 Professor Curien Michael Hurst 2006 Night of the Living Dead 3D Gerald Tovar, Jr. Jeff Broadstreet Little Big Top Seymour Ward Roberts A Dead Calling George Michael Feifer Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film Himself Documentary, Archive footage Bravo's 30 Even Scarier Movie Moments Himself TV Miniseries 2007 Dead Man's Hand Roy 'The Word' Donahue Charles Band Halloween Chester Chesterfield Rob Zombie Brotherhood of Blood Pashek Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer 2009 Thirsty Radio Evangelist Andrew Kasch Short film, Voice-only The Haunted World of El Superbeasto Captain Spaulding Rob Zombie Voice-only Dark Moon Rising Crazy Louis Dana Mennie 2010 The Black Box Radio Evangelist Jonathan Lewis, David Sherbrook Voice-only 2011 Creature Chopper Fred M. Andrews The Infliction Dr. Gardner Matthan Harris Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead Alfonso Betz Douglas Schulze The Sacred The Stranger Brett Donowho Zombex The Commander Jesse Dayton 2012 The Lords of Salem Dean Magnus Rob Zombie 2013 Hatchet 3 Abbott McMullen BJ McDonnell Devil in My Ride Iggy Gary Michael Schultz 2015 Bone Tomahawk Buddy S. Craig Zahler 2017 Razor Sam James P. Lay 2018 Death House Icicle Killer B. Harrison Smith 2018 Tigtone Lord Festus (voice) Pilot episode 2019 3 From Hell Captain Spaulding Rob Zombie TBA Abruptio Sal Evan Marlowe Filming
I can appreciate his drumming, but I always found him to be scary as shit. And it turns out, he WAS scary as shit. Seriously scary dude. Yeeks ....I listened to a bit of his stuff as a memorial on YouTube, then quickly shifted to the lovely Jeff Beck....
Alexei Leonov, the first human being to "walk" in space. Also the Soviet cosmonaut in the Apollo-Soyuz handshake:
