“I appeared in every single scene of the film [Rosemary’s Baby], except when, during [the impregnated with Satan’s spawn sequence] a body double was used in my place. But I didn’t entirely miss out on the scene—one day I found myself—me from convent school, who prayed with outstretched arms in the predawn light – tied to the four corners of a bed, ringed by elderly, chanting witches, while a perfect stranger with bad skin and vertical pupils was grinding away on top of me. I didn’t dare think. After finishing that scene the actor climbed off me and said politely, in all seriousness, ‘Miss Farrow, I just want to say, it’s a real pleasure to have worked with you.’“
—excerpted from Mia Farrow’s What Falls Away
Route 110 outside Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, Nov. 2016
Histoire Naturelle
1960
Mixed media box construction
8 1/2 x 12 3/4 x 5 in.
21.6 x 32.4 x 12.7 cm
Rosh Hashanah in Uman, Ukraine, Young Hasid sits on the shoulders of his father in prayer, 2014
—Jean Peters, 1951
#18–1961, 1961
Oil on canvas, 48 x 60 in. Private Collection
Downtown L.A. from the Loew’s Hollywood helipad, Nov. 2016
Subway series
New York City, 1980
—Rita Hayworth
Screenplay by Donald Hyde, Al C. Ward
Story by David T. Chantler, Ewald André Dupont
Pelvis Series, Red with Yellow, 1945, oil on canvas
91.8-x-122. 2 cm.
Cuna di Terra Vineyard, outside Dolores Hidalgo, Nov. 2016
1/2 Lemon Meringue Pie
1977
Pastel and watercolor on paper mounted to paperboard
14 7/8 x 18 1/2 in.
2012
’57 Chevy, Los Angeles, 2016
Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert, American, b. Germany, 1900-1981
New York, New York, United States, 1958
Copper alloy: hand-worked
11 1/8 × 11 1/8 × 3 1/2 in. (28.3 × 28.3 × 8.9 cm)
I drove home today after picking up a painting of my grandchildren that is a gift for Christmas to their parents. Ahead of me most of the way was a 1956 Chevy station wagon. It was in perfect condition, it appeared.
Have a happy Sabbath.
It was a rather bright Orange in color.
Dear Robert and Bill,
The car in question is a ’56 Chrysler New Yorker.
Good Shabbos Vayishlach,
Joe
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1600&bih=805&site=imghp&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=1956+Chrysler&oq=1956+Chrysler&gs_l=img.3..0l10.8740.13053.0.13259.13.8.0.5.5.0.213.1525.0j6j2.8.0….0…1c.1.64.img..0.13.1559…0i67k1.MMoDUB2_OJM#imgdii=YsY92ceDVibPuM%3A%3BYsY92ceDVibPuM%3A%3BkURwLT7H2U4H4M%3A&imgrc=YsY92ceDVibPuM%3A
Thanks Yossel – I started doing random searches for 50s car gas caps but knew it would be a long one 😉
Ahh – here’s a close up
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1600&bih=805&site=imghp&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=1956+Chrysler&oq=1956+Chrysler&gs_l=img.3#hl=en&tbm=isch&q=1956+Chrysler+new+yorker+gas+cap&imgrc=-gCul6aQSZm6nM%3A
Yossel:
Thanks so much for identifying the year and model. I took the pic in my local garage where I asked the owner about the car and it was he who said it was a ’57. Have a wonderful Chanukah.
Nobody would mistake Rita for anything but a lovely female! No transgender bathrooms for her.
Robert – I don’t know what that car is – I am thinking a deSoto but it isn’t a Chevy. The ’57 Chevy had the gas cap hidden behind the chrome on the back of one of the tail fins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMLNl0dwdCc
When I was a kid, I collected all the Perry Mason books and read them cover to cover, looking for hard evidence that he and Della were really an item. The mysteries were incidental. Once, she was described as [as I remember], “an attractive brunette, a svelte size 12.” Those were the days.
Ok, that faux-Elizabethan picture, it’s the art of found objects: she’s wearing a fleishige dishtowel on her head and a dryer exhaust pipe around her neck?
I love that Whistler style of illustration.
Very cool bisection of the street in the Callahan picture.
A very peaceful happy Shabbos to all.
‘Miss Farrow, I just want to say, it’s a real pleasure to have worked with you.’
I’m probably wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that the ‘actor’ was Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey.
Very nice, Robert.
I always liked watching Raymond Burr as Perry Mason. When I was a kid, he was my idea of a successful lawyer. 🙂
Have a wonderful Sabbath!
Mine too. Add Della street and Paul Drake to that and you have a staff second to none.