Trump says he had declassified the documents retrieved from his Florida residence by the FBI under a valid search warrant. Why in the world would he declassify them, let alone take them home after he left office?
We shouldn’t have to take Trump’s word on this. It’s safe to assume he is declassifying the documents post facto, which he doesn’t have the authority to do. Again it must be asked, why did he take secret documents to his private residence? There is no acceptable answer to that question.
The potential consequences of arresting Trump and, with luck, sending him to prison, are far preferable to the risks of him possibly holding public office again. His crazed followers threatening civil war would only feel all the more empowered by Trump being back in the White House. Lock him up.
His story keeps changing. Of course it does. Does anyone believe that Trump took work home?
Another musician from the solid gold years of Los Angeles recording studio greatness has died. Guitarist Bill Pitman was — wow! — 102.
Bill Pitman, a guitarist who accompanied Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand and others from the late 1950s to the ’70s, and who for decades was heard on the soundtracks of countless Hollywood films and television shows, has died at 102. https://t.co/HpfzSNobHn
Thanks to those damn bureaucrats at the American Federation of Musicians, with their blasted rules and forms, we can see where and when Pitman worked on “Good Vibrations”.
The Beach Boys were under contract to Capitol Records, which is listed as their employer, and yet the sessions were held at Gold Star, Western Recorders and Sunset Sound. Like the Beatles by that time, it seems that what Brian wanted Brian got, although the Beatles almost always recorded at EMI’s Abbey Road studios. One of the “Good Vibrations” sessions ran between 11:30 PM and 3:00 AM, which was also typical of the hours kept by the Beatles.
At the start of the record, right after “… the colorful clothes she wears…” going into “… and the way the sunlight…” there’s a noticeable shift in the sound. Brian must have spliced two different takes together. Were they recorded on the same day, or even in the same studio?
Something else today that has me waiting for an update.
The federal judge in Florida had ordered the government to give the filing to Trump immediately and set the deadline for a possible objection to 3 p.m. on Friday.
Trump must be playing his stable genius chess game, staying five moves ahead of everybody else. He had someone act as an informant to falsely claim there were top secret nuclear weapon documents at his Florida residence.
Trump knew that would force Attorney General Garland to seek a search warrant, setting up a new Witch Hunt victim card for him to play when he announces his presidential candidacy. The same sort of brilliant strategy that had him pleading the Fifth Amendment this week.
Did I know that Phil Spector covered a Beatles-written song in 1964? Don’t think so, to my chagrin.*
“Hold Me Tight” is an early example of the unusual quality the Beatles had. John and Paul’s potential as song writers was, after all, why they were signed by EMI, as I explained here.
This isn’t the first time Emma Thompson has shown her stuff on camera. Thompson is exceptionally attractive in Carrington, from 1995. The film includes one of the most intense scenes of passion to ever appear in mainstream cinema as distinct from “dirty movies.” It’s done, to borrow a term from the Leo Grande trailer, “doggy style.”
Questions about how love scenes in movies are filmed are as old as the medium, going back to Edison’s The Kiss in 1896. Legend — urban or otherwise — has it that, nearly 100 years ago, Greta Garbo and her leading man John Gilbert “did it” for real on a movie set. Their love affair is covered in Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film.
Early on, one of my goals for this blog was to post the entire 13-part Hollywood series, transferred from my LaserDisc box set. It took a lot of time and effort, but I did it, to my later regret. People started contacting me, offering to pay for copies of Hollywood on DVD. I had, and still have, the hardware to do that.
Panasonic DMR-ES15S Progressive Scan DVD Recorder
I quickly suspected that some of those requests were coming from those who were probably not only fans, but dealers wanting to sell bootleg copies. I declined those offers, but having the videos online made them available for downloading by those who were sufficiently tech savvy.*
Which made me wonder if I might be opening myself up to legal trouble. I found an interview with Kevin Brownlow, who produced the series with the late David Gill. Brownlow was asked about a DVD set, and he said some of the family estates were holding out for more money. So I decided to play it safe and took the page offline. It’s still here, but hidden.
Times have changed from the days when YouTube allowed video uploads of only 10-minutes. Someone braver than myself has taken the risk that I didn’t, so far without being deleted. This series has the absolute highest Dog Rat ***** rating. Consider it not just recommended viewing, but mandatory. Some of these transfers were definitely sourced from VHS.
The playlist is missing Part 4: “Hollywood Goes to War”. I’ll add it separately.
Part 10: “The Man With the Megaphone” wasn’t allowed by YouTube, but somebody else managed to post it.
