
—Myrna Loy

The Black Feathered Hat, 1910




Miniature Calendar

Designer: Christopher Dresser (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1834–1904 Mulhouse)
Manufactured by the firm of Hukin & Heath (British, Birmingham, 1855–1953)
1881
Silver plate
5 × 6 3/4 × 4 in., 0.7 lb.


—Gregory Peck

The Vampire, 1895
color lithograph and woodcut with watercolor [trial proof]
sheet: (15 5/16 x 21 15/16 in.)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Gift of Lionel C. Epstein

Drive-In Theater, San Francisco, 1948

Miniature Calendar

The Kiss, 1900


9′ 6.17″ x 13′ 9.35″

“Tribe of Dan”
Oil stick, gesso, on Baltic Birch
6″ X 6″
2017

— Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Dust Motes Dancing in Sunbeams, 1900
Oil on canvas


Boy With Two Large Dolls, 1950s

Miniature Calendar


Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, June 2017



Baseball Mezuza
3 1/2″ x 1 1/2″
Copper, Brass, Rosewood, Reclaimed Ivory, Ash,
Algonquin Park, Canada
Read all about Ric in the Times of Israel: The non-Jewish Mezuzah Master Whose Custom Cases Are Affixed to Door Posts Around the Globe.

On Netflix there is a program of Peck after retirement just giving a question and answer session. One of my favorite roles is The Big Country. I am sure that under the critical eye of Roberts that movie would be in second tier status –
For awhile there was a great web program called the Icons (?) with Steven Bogart. They interviewed a lot of classic Hollywood people and Katheryn Wyler came up. She told a lot of interesting things about the making of TBC including a feud over a scene that developed between Peck and Wyler that lasted decades. (you do have those interviews don’t you Robert?)
She did say that she thought at times the music was overpowering (it probably is – but it endures) and her father wanted to do a bit more editing but he had to go to Italy to start Ben Hur.
Myrna Loy sounds like she had her head on right.
I wonder if it would bother Peck that his most remembered role is in the war movie “12 o’clock high?”
Of course “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a famous role. My favorites are “Holiday in Rome” and “The Big Country.”
“12 o’clock High” is most famous for the writing which is used in leadership seminars all the time.
Ah, Myrna… 🙂
(and the link for Ric von Neumann won’t work for me, Robert)
Fixed. Enjoy.