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We found 61 events occured in July month in 1932.
• 1932. July 1 (Category: Births), Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)
• 1932. July 2 (Category: Births), Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founder of Wendy's (d. 2002)
• 1932. July 2 (Category: Deaths), Manuel II of Portugal (b. 1889)
• 1932. July 3 (Category: Births), Richard Mellon Scaife, American businessman
• 1932. July 4 (Category: Births), Aurèle Vandendriessche, Belgian runner
• 1932. July 5 (Category: Births), Billy Laughlin, American actor (d. 1948)
• 1932. July 5 (Category: Births), Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician
• 1932. July 5 (Category: Births), Howard Dorgan, American writer and academic (d. 2012)
• 1932. July 5 (Category: Deaths), Sasha Cherny, Russian poet (b. 1880)
• 1932. July 6 (Category: Births), Herman Hertzberger, Dutch architect and educator
• 1932. July 6 (Category: Deaths), Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
• 1932. July 7 (Category: Births), Joe Zawinul, Austrian-American composer and keyboardist (Weather Report) (d. 2007)
• 1932. July 7 (Category: Deaths), Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
• 1932. July 7 (Category: Deaths), Henry Eyster Jacobs, American theologian (b. 1844)
• 1932. July 8 (Category: Births), Franca Raimondi, Italian singer (d. 1988)
• 1932. July 8 (Category: Births), Jerry Vale, American singer
• 1932. July 8 (Category: Events), The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
• 1932. July 9 (Category: Births), Amitzur Shapira, Israeli runner (d. 1972)
• 1932. July 9 (Category: Births), Donald Rumsfeld, American politician, 13th and 21st United States Secretary of Defense
• 1932. July 9 (Category: Deaths), King C. Gillette, American businessman, founded The Gillette Company (b. 1855)
• 1932. July 9 (Category: Events), The state of São Paulo revolts against the Brazilian Federal Government, starting the Constitutionalist Revolution
• 1932. July 10 (Category: Births), Carlo Maria Abate, Italian race car driver
• 1932. July 11 (Category: Births), Jean-Guy Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1932. July 12 (Category: Births), Monte Hellman, American director, producer, and editor
• 1932. July 12 (Category: Births), Otis Davis, American runner
• 1932. July 12 (Category: Events), Hedley Verity takes a cricket world record 10 wickets for 10 runs in a county match for Yorkshire
• 1932. July 13 (Category: Births), Hubert Reeves, Canadian astrophysicist
• 1932. July 14 (Category: Births), Roosevelt Grier, American football player and actor
• 1932. July 15 (Category: Births), Ed Litzenberger, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2010)
• 1932. July 15 (Category: Births), Paulo Moura, Brazilian clarinetist and saxophonist (d. 2010)
• 1932. July 15 (Category: Deaths), Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, South African politician and writer (b. 1873)
• 1932. July 16 (Category: Births), Dick Thornburgh, American politician
• 1932. July 16 (Category: Births), Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
• 1932. July 17 (Category: Births), Hal Riney, American advertising executive, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (d. 2008)
• 1932. July 17 (Category: Births), Johnny Kerr, American basketball player and coach (d. 2009)
• 1932. July 17 (Category: Births), Quino, Argentine cartoonist
• 1932. July 17 (Category: Events), Altona Bloody Sunday.
• 1932. July 18 (Category: Births), Robert Ellis Miller, American director
• 1932. July 19 (Category: Births), Buster Benton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1996)
• 1932. July 19 (Category: Births), Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer, and photographer (d. 1987)
• 1932. July 20 (Category: Births), Nam June Paik, South Korean-American artist (d. 2006)
• 1932. July 20 (Category: Births), Otto Schily, German politician
• 1932. July 20 (Category: Births), Ove Verner Hansen, Danish actor
• 1932. July 20 (Category: Deaths), René Bazin, French novelist (b. 1853)
• 1932. July 20 (Category: Events), In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veterans, part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, who attempt to march to the White House.
• 1932. July 21 (Category: Births), Ernie Warlick, American football player
• 1932. July 21 (Category: Deaths), Bill Gleason, American baseball player (b. 1858)
• 1932. July 22 (Category: Births), Oscar de la Renta, Dominican fashion designer
• 1932. July 22 (Category: Deaths), Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and writer (b. 1853)
• 1932. July 22 (Category: Deaths), Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr., American actor and producer (b. 1867)
• 1932. July 22 (Category: Deaths), Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)
• 1932. July 25 (Category: Births), Paul J. Weitz, American pilot and astronaut
• 1932. July 26 (Category: Deaths), Fred Duesenberg German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Company (b. 1876)
• 1932. July 27 (Category: Births), Forest Able, American basketball player
• 1932. July 28 (Category: Births), Natalie Babbitt, American author and illustrator
• 1932. July 28 (Category: Events), U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
• 1932. July 29 (Category: Births), Nancy Landon Kassebaum, American politician
• 1932. July 29 (Category: Events), Great Depression: in Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
• 1932. July 31 (Category: Births), John Searle, American philosopher
• 1932. July 31 (Category: Births), Ted Cassidy, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1932. July 31 (Category: Events), The NSDAP (Nazi Party) wins more than 38% of the vote in German elections.
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Q: How to detect real orientation of the device in a view controller which does not rotate in Objective-C? I have a view controller which is always in portrait. There is a certain feature which works according to the current orientation of the device itself, not orientation of the view controller.
How could I detect the device's orientation and trigger function on orientation changed in this case?

A: Since iOS 8 they introduced viewWillTransitionToSize that's triggered every time the rotation happens
- (void)viewWillTransitionToSize:(CGSize)size withTransitionCoordinator:(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinator>)coordinator {
       [coordinator animateAlongsideTransition:^(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext>  _Nonnull context) {
            UIInterfaceOrientation orientation = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarOrientation];
            // do what you need with orientation here
        } completion:^(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext>  _Nonnull context) {

    }];
    [super viewWillTransitionToSize:size withTransitionCoordinator:coordinator];
}

A: you can achieve this by running CMMotionManager
#import <CoreMotion/CoreMotion.h>

#define DEGREES(x) (180.0 * x / M_PI)
#define RADIAN(x) (M_PI*x/180.0)
#define UPDATE_INTERVAL 0.3

typedef struct Point3D {
    CGFloat x, y, z;
} Point3D;

@interface DirectionListener()
{
    NSTimer * _motionTimer;
    CMMotionManager *_motionManager;
}
@end

@implementation DirectionListener

- (instancetype)init
{
    self = [super init];
    if (self)
    {

    }
    return self;
}

- (void)dealloc
{
    [self stopListenning];
    _motionManager = nil;
    if (_motionTimer)
    {
        [_motionTimer invalidate];
        _motionTimer = nil;
    }
}

- (void)startListenning
{
    if (_motionManager.deviceMotionActive)
    {
        return;
    }
    if (!_motionManager)
    {
        _motionManager = [[CMMotionManager alloc] init];
        _motionManager.deviceMotionUpdateInterval = UPDATE_INTERVAL;
    }
    [_motionManager startDeviceMotionUpdates];
    if (!_motionTimer)
    {
        _motionTimer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:UPDATE_INTERVAL target:self selector:@selector(changeWithAttitude) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
    }
}

- (void)stopListenning {
    if (_motionManager.deviceMotionActive)
    {
        [_motionManager stopDeviceMotionUpdates];
        [_motionTimer invalidate];
        _motionTimer = nil;
    }
}

-(void)changeWithAttitude
{
    //get the value from motionManager there
}

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Articles with Wikipedia content, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Walt Disney Records albums, Disney film soundtracks
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (soundtrack)
Soundtrack, Children's music, film score, classical, and opera
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack is the soundtrack to Disney's 1996 animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It includes songs written by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz with vocals performed by Paul Kandel, David Ogden Stiers, Tony Jay, Tom Hulce, Heidi Mollenhauer, Jason Alexander, Mary Wickes, and Mary Stout, along with singles by All-4-One/Eternal, and the film's score composed by Alan Menken. The album was released on May 28, 1996 by Walt Disney Records.
The Bells of Notre Dame - Paul Kandel, David Ogden Stiers, Tony Jay, and Chorus
Out There - Tony Jay and Tom Hulce
Topsy Turvy - Paul Kandel and Chorus
Humiliation - (Score with Chorus)
God Help the Outcasts - Heidi Mollenhauer and Chorus
The Bell Tower - (Score)
Heaven's Light/Hellfire - Tom Hulce, Tony Jay, and Chorus
A Guy Like You - Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, Mary Wickes, and Mary Stout
Paris Burning - (Score with Chorus)
The Court of Miracles - Paul Kandel and Chorus
Sanctuary! - (Score with Chorus)
And He Shall Smite the Wicked - (Score with Chorus)
Into the Sunlight - (Score)
The Bells of Notre Dame (Reprise) - Paul Kandel and Chorus
Someday - All-4-One (United States) / Eternal (United Kingdom)
God Help the Outcasts - Bette Midler (Not featured in the movie)
Score cues left off the soundtrack
Gargoyles/Enter Frollo
You Are Thinking About Going to the Festival
Phoebus Arrives in Paris
Helping Esmeralda/Palace of Justice
Find the Court
"Topsy Turvy" (Movie Version)
Esmeralda's Escape
Quasi Returns to Notre Dame
Phoebus and Esmeralda/Frollo's Threat
Esmeralda Follows Quasi
Out of the Belltower/Quasi Meets Phoebus
"Heaven's Light/Hellfire" (Movie Version)
The Mill/The Search Continues
Broken Heart/"Heaven's Light Reprise"
Frollo's Coming/Stash the Stiff/Frollo Interrogates Quasi
Do it Out of Love
It's a Map/Entering the Court
"The Court of Miracles" (Movie Version)
These Men Aren't Spies/Frollo's Soldiers Attack
Sanctuary! (Full Version)
And He Shall Smite the Wicked (Full Version)
Trade print ad from Billboard Magazine, May 25, 1996
Spanish soundtrack release trade print ad in Billboard Magazine, June 29 1996
This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The article or pieces of the original article was at The Hunchback of Notre Dame (soundtrack). The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Disney Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Films: The Hunchback of Notre Dame • The Hunchback of Notre Dame II • Video • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (live-action film)
Television: House of Mouse • Esmeralda
Video games: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Topsy Turvy • Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance • Disney Sorcerer's Arena
Music: Soundtrack • Studio Cast Recording
Books: Big Golden Book • Classic Storybook • Disney's Wonderful World of Reading
Disney Animation Building
Entertainment: Disney Classics: The Music & The Magic • One Man's Dream II: The Magic Lives On • Mickey's Gift of Dreams • The Golden Mickeys • The Hunchback of Notre Dame: A Musical Adventure
Restaurants: Clopin's Festival of Foods
Parade: Disney's Party Express • The Hunchback of Notre Dame Topsy Turvy Cavalcade
Firework: Believe... There's Magic in the Stars • Disney Dreams! • Happily Ever After • World of Color • Wonderful World of Animation
Spring: Disney's Easter Wonderland
Summer: Stitch and Friends Summer Surprise
Halloween: Happy Hallowishes • It's Good to be Bad with the Disney Villains • Kooky Spooky Halloween Night • Re-Villains! Halloween Parade • The Disney Villains Halloween Showtime • Villains Grove • Villains Mix and Mingle • Villains Night Out! Chapter 2
Original: Quasimodo • Esmeralda • Claude Frollo • Phoebus • Victor, Hugo, and Laverne • Djali • Clopin • Archdeacon • Achilles • Brutish and Oafish Guards • Frollo's Soldiers • Old Prisoner • Quasimodo's Mother • Quasimodo's Father • Snowball
Sequel: Madellaine • Zephyr • Sarousch
Original: The Bells of Notre Dame • Out There • Topsy Turvy • Humiliation • God Help the Outcasts • The Bell Tower • Heaven's Light • Hellfire • Paris Burning • A Guy Like You • The Court of Miracles • Sanctuary • And He Shall Smite the Wicked • Into the Sunlight • Someday
Sequel: Le Jour D'Amour • An Ordinary Miracle • I'd Stick With You • Fa la la la Fallen In Love • I'm Gonna Love You
Musical: Balancing Act • Rest and Recreation • Rhythm of the Tambourine • Into Notre Dame • Top of the World • Thai Mol Piyas • Esmeralda • City Under Siege • Flight Into Egypt • Out of Love (Reprise) • Dance of the Gypsies • Made of Stone • Finale Ultimo
Deleted Songs: In a Place of Miracles • As Long As There's a Moon • Someday
Paris • Notre Dame de Paris • Palace of Justice • Court of Miracles
Musical • Disney Sing Along Songs: Topsy Turvy • The Making of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Retrieved from "https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame_(soundtrack)?oldid=3914245"
Walt Disney Records albums
Disney film soundtracks
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"""Contains a function to generate pure tones.

"""
import numpy as np
import sounddevice as sd

a0 = 1e-5  # reference amplitude
sr = 44100  # sample rate

def sinusoid(d, f, phi, l, a0=a0, sr=sr):
    """Generates a pure tone.

    A pure tone or sinusoid is a periodic waveform that is some variation on the sine
    wave.

    Args:
        d (float): Duration in s.
        f (float): Ordinary in Hz.
        phi (float): Starting phase in rad.
        l (float): Level in dB.
        a0 (:obj:`float`, optional): Amplitude of a 0-dB tone. Default is 1e-5.
        sr (:obj:`int`, optional): Sample rate in Hz. Default is 44100.

    Returns:
        waveform (np.ndarray): Sinusoidal waveform.

    """
    t = np.arange(0, int(round(d * sr))) / sr
    return a0 * 10 ** (l / 20) * np.sin(2 * np.pi * f * t + phi)

if __name__ == "__main__":

    tone = sinusoid(1, 400, 0, 60)
    sd.play(tone, 44100)
    sd.wait()

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If the net value of Decedent's probate assets is $100,000 or less ($60,000 or less if death before June 6, 2006).
No probate proceeding should be necessary.
By a person who is not a "successor" of the Decedent, as defined in RCW 11.62.005(2) (see Paragraph D below).
Note: The Legislature increased the maximum amount from $60,000 to $100,000 for Decedent's dying after June 5, 2006.
The Affidavit procedure concerns only Decedent's Probate Assets. So as for Decedent's nonprobate assets, they are transferred through their own process and are not taken into account in the valuation for purposes of the $100,000 Test.
Furthermore, because the Affidavit concerns only Decedent's (and no one else's) probate assets, if Decedent is survived by a spouse, the surviving spouse's one-half interest in their community property is also not included in the valuation.
Lastly, in probate, assets are valued according to their net, not gross, value. Consequently, any debt or encumbrance is taken into account — meaning that any value above Decedent's equity interest in his/her probate assets is also not included in the valuation.
Probate assets (ie, probate assets regardless of whether they are personal property or real property).
Even though a Small Estate Affidavit CANNOT be used to transfer ANY real property, the net value of any real property among Decedent's probate assets must be included for purposes of the $100,000 Test.
Decedent's equity interest in any real property among his/her probate assets must be included in the value of his/her probate assets for purposes of the $100,000 Test. Furthermore, if the value of all such probate assets, including the value of any such real property, exceeds $100,000, then this Small Estate Affidavit procedure cannot be used at all, even for any personal property among the probate assets, even if the value of the personal property does not exceed $100,000.
What may it be used for?
Will a probate be necessary otherwise?
Decedent is survived by a spouse, and the real property is not only community property but also subject to a valid community property agreement between them. In this case Decedent's one-half interest in the property will pass according to the terms of the community property agreement, usually (but not necessarily) to the surviving spouse (RCW 26.16.120).
Decedent held the real property in joint tenancy and was survived by another joint tenant. In this case Decedent's interest in the joint tenancy "expires" upon his/her death, effectively increasing the surviving joint tenants' relative shares in the property (RCW 64.28.010).
ie, held in trust for his/her benefit). In this case the beneficial interest will automatically pass to the successor beneficiary under the terms of the Trust.
"Provided for" — meaning that you must have a reasonable plan for their payment, for example, there must be sufficient property to be claimed to pay Decedent's debts, and when you take possession of the property claimed, you must pay Decedent's debts before doing anything else with the property you receive.
The State of Washington to the extent of escheat property (ie, property passing to no other beneficiary, heir, or creditor).
A person whose only claim to the property is as a creditor is expressly excluded from being a "successor" (except for the State).
Question: Is the named Personal Representative under Decedent's Will a "successor"? What if the PR is not also a Beneficiary (eg, Decedent names a friend or institution as PR and give his/her estate to his/her family)? Is such a PR "a person entitled to the property under Decedent's Will" and therefore authorized to use a Small Estate Affidavit?


(reporter Zhang Weibo) Kong Zi has a cartoon style, in July 10th, "cartoon Kong Zi like" design contest awards ceremony held in Shandong College of Arts and Crafts, the launch of the "MOE version" cartoon Kong Zi image.
"Cartoon Kong Zi like" design contest, in January 2015 by the China Kong Zi Foundation launched the collection, the purpose is to promote the Chinese Confucian culture, so that the image of Kong Zi closer to life. Activities of a total of more than 80 pieces (sets), the mountain process and other colleges and universities, more than 60 teachers and students to participate in the creation. On the basis of the "cartoon Kong Zi image" design contest, the design team of the new media art teaching and Research Department of Shandong College of Arts and Crafts, after 6 months of discussion, and finally make "MOE" Kong Zi cartoon image surfaced, the design team has also carried out the design and development of cartoon hole.
It is reported that the cartoon Kong Zi like design contest sponsored by the China Kong Zi foundation, the Chinese Kong Zi foundation, the professional committee of the professional committee of the contractor. Contest aimed at organization and support of domestic and overseas study of Confucianism, carry forward the fine traditional culture of the motherland, to the new conception of the spread of Confucianism culture, Confucianism culture spread to the daily life of the general public, let "cartoon like Confucius" become the Chinese Confucian culture of innovation on behalf of image.


My deepest condolences for this tragic event. Pat was a friend to the entire G-Land Family and his presence will not go unforgotten. We are doing everything necessary to ensure he will return to Sydney as quickly as possible so a formal memorial can be given. We will also have a ceremony here to honor his life and a safe passing onwards.


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Feeling Fifteen Again
Drumpf Seen from Across the Pond
Okay.. for once this blog is NOT about Drumpfen-putz or his minions.
It's about my first solo album of original songs, 'Feeling Fifteen Again'.
After Woodstock, (yes, I went to Woodstock.) I left home in 1969 and went to Nashville to be a songwriter and make an album. Fifty years later and half a world away, I made my solo album in Taipei, Taiwan.
Here's how it happened...
In mid-September, 2018, I approached my friend, Andrew Page, about being my producer. He had worked as co-producer on Joanna Wang's album the year before in Los Angeles. They had used my home studio as a their rehearsal apace for about a month prior to recording. Andrew and I had had long talks about the enterprise and the pit-falls of the music industry. He and I had worked together on a number of music projects as pianist and as trumpet player.
His first question regarding this new project was a poignant one; 'Why do you want to do this?' A reasonable query as I was rather older, at 68, than your average aspiring pop star. I told him that I knew I had it in me to record an album of original songs and as a convenient short-hand, I told him that it was on my 'bucket list'. His second question was more practical; 'When do you want to do this?'
'As soon as possible.'
I gave him a thumb-drive of about two dozen songs I'd written over the past few years.
After some thoughtful consideration and further conversations, he agreed to produce the album and act as music director and play both keyboards and trumpet.
We began almost immediately to arrange the songs.
It was a most productive time; I wrote several new songs and re-wrote several others as we mapped out the untitled album. After about two weeks, we had fifteen songs to concentrate on perfecting. In the meantime, Andrew found and hired the players and booked the rehearsal rooms and the studio time.
We determined that the album would be 'old school'; recorded 'Live' for the most part, eschewing modern electronic sounds in favor of 'real' instruments. There would be no synth pads to simulate horns or strings. No electronic drums. No pitch correct. No auto-tune.
Andrew hired some of best players in Taiwan and we went into full-band rehearsal with Chuck Payne on drums, Cody Byassee on percussion, G.E. Anderson on bass guitar, Jacob Liang on guitar, lead by Andrew on his customized Fender Rhodes. A five-piece horn section, lead by Andrew on trumpet, consisted of Matthew Richey (tenor and alto sax) Josh Shaffer (tenor sax) with Alan Wang on first trumpet and me on bari sax and flute.
Additionally, we had two female back-up singers, Queenie Huang and Green Yang, complemented by G.E., Jacob and me on male back-up vocals. Mark Howe (guitar) rounded out the band; a large ensemble of twelve players.
Andrew chose YuCheng Cinema Studios, in Nankang, for the recording. Andy Baker, an American, designed and runs the place. We scheduled five full 12-hour days to record thirteen songs for the album, 'Feeling Fifteen Again'.
The results surpasses all of my expectations. 'Feeling Fifteen Again' is an album of American music which spans several genres; country, rock, pop, swing, gospel. There's even a touch or two of jazz to be found.
It is a very personal album of songs; all written from life experiences - sweet, sad, bittersweet and joyous. In many ways, it is the story of my life written in short-hand and in outline form with editorial foot-notes and asides.
My music influences include the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, Randy Newman, Willie Dixon, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and a host of other music giants.


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Anita Skorgan (født 13. november 1958 i Göteborg) er en norsk singer-songwriter. Hun har deltaget i Eurovision Song Contest tre gange for Norge. Den seneste, i 1982, var det i en duet med hendes daværende mand Jahn Teigen. Hun har desuden deltaget som korsanger et par gange.

{| class="wikitable"
| bgcolor="lightgrey" colspan="5" align=center | 'Deltagelser i Eurovision Song Contest
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! År !! Land  !! Sang !! Plads !! Point
|-
| 1977 ||  || Casanova || 14 || 18
|-
| 1979 ||  || Oliver || 11 || 57
|-
| 1982 ||  || Adieu || 12 || 40
|}

 Diskografi

 Til en venn (1975)
 Du er nær meg (1976)
 Tänk på mej (1976)
 Young Girl (1977)
 Anita Skorgan (1978)
 Ingen vei tilbake (1979)
 Krama dej (1979)
 De fineste (1980)
 Pastell (1981)
 Cheek to Cheek (1983) med Jahn Teigen
 Karma (1985)
 White Magic (1986)
 Basic (1990)
 Julenatt (1994)
 Våre beste barnesanger 4 (1998), med Odd Børretzen
 Julenatt (2000)
 Gull (2001)
 Julenatt (2008)
 Hele veien (2009)
 Adventus (2010)
 På gyllen grunn (2011)
 La høsten være som den er (2013)
 Jul på orkesterplass'' (2015), med KORK, Sondre Bratland, Rim Banna, Solveig Slettahjell & Rikard Wolff

Personer fra Göteborg
Singer-songwritere fra Norge
Norges Eurovision Song Contest-deltagere
Deltagere ved Eurovision Song Contest 1977
Deltagere ved Eurovision Song Contest 1979
Deltagere ved Eurovision Song Contest 1982
Norsksprogede forfattere fra Norge

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The web says welcome to me! Here is my new blog...as bare as can be. My hope is to make this website as polished and ready for my real Foreign Creatures launch on January 5, 2014. Cheers to posting everyday and to making my website complete by my deadline.


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Week of August 22 - 28, 2020
Week of August 8 - 14, 2020
Week of August 1-7, 2020
To answer these trivia questions, please email me at scinema@earthlink.net.
Brain Teasers:
Which Spanish star of Italian Westerns played Sara Montiel's manager in one of her most successful movies?
Bertrand Van Wonterghem knew that it was Armando Calvo in EL ULTIMO CUPLE, aka THE LAST TORCH SONG.
In which Italian Western does Rosalba Neri play Corrine Marchand's sister?
George Grimes and Bertrand Van Wonterghem knew that it is ARIZONA COLT, aka THE MAN FROM NOWHERE.
In which Italian Western does Giuliano Gemma wear the same size clothes as Giovanni Pazzafini?
Bertrand Van Wonterghem knew that it was ARIZONA COLT, aka THE MAN FROM NOWHERE.
Which Italian Western starring Giuliano Gemma was co-written by his co-star?
George Grimes and Bertrand Van Wonterghem knew that it is AMICO, STAMMI LONTANO ALMENO UN PALMO, aka AMIGO, STAY AWAY and BEN & CHARLIE.
And now for some new brain teasers:
Which actor, born in Italy, worked with directors Alfonso Balcazar, Antonio Isasi, Jose Antonio de la Loma, Miguel Lluch, Mark Stevens, Jaime Jesus Balcazar, Nick Nostro, Juan Xiol and Franz Josef Gottlieb?
Can you name two Westerns in which Jason Robards asks our hero to leave and not watch him die?
In the English version of which Italian Western does the villain complain that the stupid gringos "change the names of everything"?
Name the movies from which these images came.
George Grimes and Bertrand Van Wonterghem identified last week's photo of Dan Vadis in DEGUEYO, aka DEGUEJO.
Above is a new photo.
Can you name from what movie it came?
No one identified the above photo of Gordon Mitchell in IL GIGANTE DI METROPOLIS, aka THE GIANT OF METROPOLIS.
George Grimes and Bertrand Van Wonterghem identified last week's photo of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Claudia Cardinale in LA VIACCIA, aka THE LOVEMAKERS.
George Grimes, Bertrand Van Wonterghem and Charles Gilbert identified last week's frame grab of Bruce Lee in THE BIG BOSS, aka FISTS OF FURY.
I am interested in knowing what movies you have watched and what you enjoyed or not. So please send me an email at scinema@earthlink.net if you'd like to share. Here's what I watched last week:
Enjoyed:
AD ASTRA, aka TO THE STARS (2019) - Kind of a space HEART OF DARKNESS, AD ASTRA tells the story of a son, Brad Pitt, venturing to the orbit of Neptune to terminate the mission on which his father, Tommy Lee Jones, supposedly died decades prior. Co-writer and director James Gray successfully creates a contemplative atmosphere with Pitt giving a compelling narration. Some of the action bits seem to stray from the narrative trust, but are welcome - particularly the idea of highway men on the Moon. The movie looks elegant and is absorbing. It is fun seeing Liv Tyler, Natasha Lyonne, Donald Sutherland and Ruth Negga among the supporting cast.
BIGGER The Joe Weider Story (2018) - It is a bit odd that a movie about a Canadian starting a magazine in New York City and then becoming a phenomenon in Los Angeles was produced in Alabama. George Gallo directed this fictionalized biographical film about Joe Weider, who helped to spread the doctrine of health and body building in the 20th century. Robert Forster plays Weider attending the funeral of his younger brother Ben. He is interviewed about his life by DJ Qualls, where he recalls his physical abuse by his mother and getting beaten up by anti-Semitic bullies on the streets of 1930s Montreal. Wanting to get bigger so that the bullies will leave him alone, young Joe, played by Christian Finlayson, begins reading Muscle magazines and studying nutrition. When he gets older and is played by Tyler Hoechlin (currently TV's Superman), Joe wants to make his own magazine because the current ones don't impart the health information he thinks is important. He faces resistance from the current Muscle hierarchy, personified by the fictional character of Bill Hauk, played by Kevin Durand. Hauk not only doesn't want competition from Joe, but he's also a racist. Eventually, Joe overcomes the demons of his past with the help of his second wife, Betty, played by Julianne Hough. He is also able to triumph over his competition with a worldwide circulation for his magazines and the creation of the Mr. Olympia competition. He also makes a star champion out of Arnold Schwarzenegger, played by Calum Von Moger. Director George Gallo tells this tale with a compelling pace and sincerity that gets over any melodramatic bumps that occur. Famous fitness figures like Reg Park, Sergio Olivia, Jack Lalanne, and Bill Pearl are portrayed in the film. Interestingly, while Steve Reeves is never mentioned in the film nor listed in the end credits, the IMDb has Jared Motyl listed as playing him. There is also no mention of Joe Gold, though one shot shows Calum Von Moger working out under a "Gold's Gym" sign.
Ice Cold Passion: Leni Riefenstahl and Arnold Fanck Between Hitler and Hollywood (2018) - Fanck family members and film historians comment on how unfortunate it is that Arnold Fanck has been forgotten while Riefenstahl remains a cinematic icon.
Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story (2014) - Normally I don't enjoy documentaries that heavily rely upon re-enactments with actors, but this is a story worth telling.
Mildly enjoyed:
ATOMIC BLONDE (2017) - Director David Leitch seems to be more interested in being visually clever and in filling the soundtrack with pop songs than in telling story. At one point he seems determined to beat director Alfonso Cuarón in creating a "single-take" action scene and that works well, though one worries about star Charlize Theron in addition to being impressed. The plot would not be mistaken for something by John Le Carre, or Len Deighton or even Ian Fleming, but more in line with one of the Italian spy movies from the 1960s with alot of double and triple crosses. However, the denouement is satisfying, so the convoluted trip ends up feeling worthwhile. This was based on a graphic novel by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart.
CHARLIE'S ANGELS (2019) - I was never a Charlie's Angels fan. Back when it was "jiggle TV" I gave it a chance because I really liked Kate Jackson in NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS, but I quickly gave up. I liked the performers in the Drew Barrymore produced movies, but the dumb action formula was more annoying than entertaining. I do not share writer/director/co-star Elizabeth Banks' perspective on the positive female message this franchise exhibits, but the new movie sure beats the hell out of the Sumaru movies, IN LIKE FLINT and 10 VIOLENT WOMEN. The female leads in this movie all look terrific and the fun they seem to share in making the movie is infectious. I kept trying to decide if the action stuff was more MISSION IMPOSSIBLE or Jason Bourne or James Bond, but could never relax and enjoy it. The highlight of the movie for me was when Elizabeth Banks mentions Burt Lancaster and BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ, which leads to a comment about BIRDMAN starred Michael Keaton which leads to a comment about Michael Keaton is Batman which leads to the question is Ben Affleck Batman? It is good to see Jonathan Tucker in this, but I would rather watch STATESIDE again.
DOCTOR SLEEP (2019) - Aside from all of the visual allusions to the Stanley Kubrick version of THE SHINING, I was enjoying this until the final scenes. Putting the original ending of THE SHINING onto the ending of this seemed dorky. At least they didn't put Ewan MacGregor into an old photograph. I appreciate that director Mike Flanagan has made me aware of Kyliegh Curran, Rebecca Ferguson and Emily Alyn Lind.
EXECUTIVE SUITE (1954) - Cameron Hawley's novel was the first title published by Ballantine Books in both hardback for bookstores and paperback for newsstands. Its success changed the publishing business and so MGM decided to make a movie of it. Writer Ernest Lehman was given the chance to write his first screenplay based on the book and he does his best to turn the scheming to elect a new president of a furniture company into a suspense film. Director Robert Wise helps out, but it soon become a melodrama that ends with a speech about the importance of work giving a man pride not just profit.
WYATT EARP (1994) - You can't accuse co-writer/director Lawrence Kasdan of not being ambitious with this 3 hour movie, so why not be more accurate factually? The film feels long and the music by James Newton Howard doesn't help at all. I kept wondering if an Elmer Bernstein or John Barry score would have helped. Reportedly, this project started as a six-hour TV mini-series, which would have better realized the intentions.
THE HOUR OF THE GUN (1967) - This movie has a music score by Jerry Goldsmith and what a difference it makes. Perhaps to correct the false impression of Wyatt Earp and the gunfight at the O.K. corral presented in his GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL (1957), director John Sturges returns to the material with a screenplay by Edward Anhalt from Douglas D. Martin's novel TOMBSTONE EPITAPH. Despite having a caption at the beginning proclaiming: "This picture is based on fact. This is the way it happened." this version of the Earp story is just as inaccurate as most of them. Even more so than GUNFIGHT, this movie is remarkably lacking in women. Holiday, played by Jason Robards, doesn't even have Kate tagging along. While WYATT EARP has all of the women connected to the Earp brothers coming together to complain about Wyatt, this version only shows Morgan's widow as his body is being put on a train taking him back to his parents in California. As with previous Earp movies, the main bad guy is Ike Clanton, played by Robert Ryan. However, here he is presented as a rich landowner who wants to build an empire before "the East" comes West and takes over everything. In MY DARLING CLEMENTINE and GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, Ike gets killed at the O.K. Corral, which isn't true. Here, as factually reported, he is unarmed at the event. But here he's the boss orchestrating the event, and even ordering the sheriff (Why change Johnny Behan to Jimmy Bryan?) to charge Wyatt with murder. Unlike TOMBSTONE and WYATT EARP where Wyatt goes on a "vendetta ride" after the murder of Morgan, here Wyatt's able to get arrest warrants, and he only kills everybody when they fail to surrender. Those familiar with Powers Booth in TOMBSTONE and Lewis Smith in WYATT EARP as Curly Bill Brocius will not recognized the character as played by Jon Voight here. Unlike every other version of the story, here Wyatt, played by James Garner, goes down to Mexico to kill Ike Clanton in a traditional fastdraw gunfight.
DOC (1971) - Pete Hamill was a respected journalist. Why did he want to write this incredibly inaccurate version of the events at the O.K. Corral? Is it because he wanted to highlight the political race for Sheriff of Tombstone - which also figures in THE HOUR OF THE GUN, but there the race is between Virgil Earp and the corrupt Sheriff Jimmy Bryan. Here Sheriff John Behan is ineffectual but not corrupt. And Wyatt, played by Harris Yulin, wants the job so that he can corrupt it. Rather than Doc, played by Stacy Keach, following Wyatt where ever he goes - as is portrayed in every other color version of the story, here Doc is sent for by Wyatt to help him run the gambling in Tombstone. In every other version, Kate, played by Jo Van Fleet in GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, Joanna Pacula in TOMBSTONE and Isabella Rossellini in WYATT EARP, is a long time girlfriend of Doc's. Here, played by Faye Dunaway, she is found by Doc in the arms of Ike Clanton, played by Michael Witney, as Doc is making his way through the desert to Tombstone. Rather than the tempestuous relationship presented in every other film, Doc and Kate have a sweet romance - until she starts talking about the future she wants with him. Did Hamill write this script so that he could include Doc visiting an opium den? Hamill seems to have invented the character of "The Kid", played by Denver John Collins, just so that Doc can be shown being sympathetic with a young man - until the young man reminds himself of himself, and so he murders him. At the O.K. Corral, the three Earps and Doc all carry shotguns and they shoot first. The bad guy is again Ike Clanton, but Hamill only suggests that Wyatt hates him because he sees him as competition, not because he is a villain. Both Ike and Morgan are killed at the O.K. Corral, and I understand Hamill wanted to telescope events because the film was ending right away with Doc abandoning everything to ride off. This film is of interest for fans of Westerns shot in Spain, but the locations in Almeria pale besides the Arizona locations for TOMBSTONE and THE GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL, the Nevada locations for WYATT EARP and the Mexican locations for HOUR OF THE GUN. Seeing German actor Dan van Husen pop up to be killed at the O.K. Corral is fun, though it's noticeable that he didn't appear in any prior scenes. If Luis Barboo is in this movie, I didn't see him.
Did not enjoy:
THE DEADLY FEMALES (1976) - Writer/director Donovan Winter proves the you can make a movie about part-time female assassins that is deadly dull. A former actor, Winter turned into a maker of nudie movies in 1962 with WORLD WITHOUT SHAME. If the sexy bits in DEADLY FEMALES are any indication, Winter's films were rather lame though he has no qualms about showing flacid male genitalia. After appearing in this film, Tracy Reed - who was in DR. STRANGELOVE: OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB - gave up her film career.
THE GREAT AMERICAN PASTIME (1956) - Talking to the audience, as he did in THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT, Tom Ewell lets us know that once again he plays a fellow who feels that his life is a disappointment. He narrates the film which is told in flashback. The fellow in his office who used to coach the little league baseball team called The Panthers is being transferred, so Ewell is volunteered to take over. Even with assist from Dean Jones, Ewell proves to be a poor manager. Even so, widow Ann Miller is keen on having her son play, to the point that Ewell's wife, Anne Francis, becomes jealous of Miller's attention to her husband. After a night of drinking with buddy Bob Jellison, Ewell brings a real Panther to the next game and inspires his team with a speech about how playing your best is more important than winning. So the team wins and the flashback ends. Ewell feels that no one appreciates his efforts, so he's not going to volunteer ever again. Naturally, everyone shows up for a surprise victory party and Ewell gets excited about becoming the new Boy Scout leader. Herman Hoffman directs. The highlight of movie is when Anne Francis takes a bubble bath.
INTO THE STORM (2014) - I suppose it was bound to occur to someone to do a version of TWISTER with mostly "found footage" material, and Steven Quale directed it. While female lead Sarah Wayne Callies had just been killed on on The Walkind Dead, supporting female Alycia Debnam-Carey was just about to start appearing on Fear the Walking Dead.
Gamle Mænd i Nye Biler, aka OLD MEN IN NEW CARS (2002) - Directed by Lasse Spang Olsen, this Danish action comedy suggests that even though I enjoy dark comedies, I don't quite share the Danish sense of humor. Kim Bodnia (of Killing Eve) gets out of prison and is harrassed by an old associate to whom he owes money. However, news comes that Jens Okking is dying of liver failure and his last wish is to see the son he never met. The son, Torkel Petersson, is a serial killer of women and is incarcerated in a Swedish prison. Bullying Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Tomas Villum Jensen into helping him, Bodnia breaks the reluctant Petersson out and drags him to see his father. On the way, Petersson murders two women. Hearing that an illegal liver transplant is possible in Equador, Bodnia decides to rob a bank with Petersson. When the police show up, Bodnia and Petersson grab Iben Hjejle as an hostage, which doesn't bother her too much as she was planning to kill herself anyway. After a whole lot of police cars are destroyed in spectacular crashes, our main characters agree to pay off the old associate by helping to steal a plane carrying a currency shipment. Petersson discovers that being with a living woman is pleasurable and asks Hjejle to marry him. During a gunfight with the old associate, Bodnia sees that a bullet has killed Okking, so he gives up his effort to go to Equador. Petersson and Hjejle drive off, nervous about the future together, while Bodnia continues to bully Kaas and Jensen. Aside from identifying a tune as a Scandanavian version of "Limbo Rock", the only pleasure I got from this movie was seeing the gorgeous Iben Hjejle again, but I'd prefer re-watching HIGH FIDELITY for that treat. OLD MEN IN NEW CARS is considered a prequel to 1999's IN CHINA THEY EAT DOGS, also starring Kim Bodnia.
HET BOMBARDEMENT, aka THE BLITZ, aka THE ROTTERDAM BOMBING (2012) - After some lovely touristy shots of present-day Rotterdam, we see an elderly man watching TV when a news report about another unexploded Nazi bomb from 70s years ago being found. This reminds the elderly man of his young self, played by Jan Smit, when he was a baker's assistant and part-time bell hop in 1940. While working as a bell hop, he meets the beautiful Roos van Erkel, who is about to marry a rich Dutch industrialist inorder to get a safe haven for her family who are refugees from Nazi Germany. The lower class boy falling in love with the upper class girl with the backdrop of an historical disaster reminds one of director James Cameron's TITANIC - for which Dutch critics heavily attacked the film. It has been quite a while since I've seen a movie use as much old black & white stock footage as this film does and the English language soundtrack is one of the worst I've heard. I found myself unable to watch this movie without pushing the fast-forward button alot, but I also admired what seemed an ambitious project working with very little money. In fact the end credits lists so many "sponsors" that it looked to have been produced with "Go Fund Me" money as well as government tax benefits. Ate de Jong, who directed DROP DEAD FRED, co-wrote and directed THE BLITZ and also published the story as a novel.
THE VANISHING, aka KEEPERS (2018) - Based on the 1900 disappearance of three lighthouse keepers on Flannan Isles, this rather dull suspenser postulates that a man washed ashore with a treasure chest. The lighthouse keepers decide to keep the chest and trouble arises when some bad guys come looking for it. Danish TV director Kristoffer Nyholm made his feature film debut with this flick.
Charles Gilbert watched:
THE UPTURNED GLASS (1947) B&W. James Mason stars as a college professor relaying the ensuing story to a psychology class in England studying the criminal mind to determine sanity in crime (chemical formulae on the blackboard). The story: A married but separated surgeon (who is actually Mason) falls in love with a woman on whose daughter he operates to heal an eye malady. The affair is short lived as they realize the futility. Soon after termination, he learns that Emma (Rosamund John), said paramour, dies from an upper story fall at her home, regarded by the authorities as suicide. But the surgeon suspects foul play. He targets the decedent's selfish sister-in-law by luring her to the same house where the fall occurred. The story ends for the college class. But the surgeon begins to carry out the revenge. While driving to dispose of the body he is stopped by another doctor and helps him successfully operate on another injured girl. In the end he's still uncertain about his sanity. At the white cliffs of Dover he surveys the dumping scene, but gets too close to the edge.
SCARLET STREET (1945) B&W. Lonely kind-hearted artist, with a day job as bank clerk, Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson) becomes dupe to swindlers Kitty, with whom he falls in love, and her ratchet-jawed boyfriend Johnny (Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea). The two scamps secretly sell his paintings to the art gallery that only become a sensation. Chris finds out and initially is happy that Kitty, while nervously trying to explain to the critics she's authentic, forged them. An opportunity to escape his overbearing wife arises when her "deceased" husband shows up demanding money to take her back. He embezzles for that purpose as he did $1200 previously for Kitty. Now free for Kitty (and relieved of his job) , despite knowing her affair with Johnny, Chris proposes, only to be berated mercilessly. Enraged, he ice picks her to death in her bed, Circumstantial evidence, though, convicts Johnny who summarily gets the chair. Chris tries to end his life from the guilt, but fails, and walks the streets in poverty at Christmas as cues of 'Come All Ye Faithful' and 'Jingle Bells' is heard.
THE GREEN GLOVE (1951) B&W. Glenn Ford is a paratrooper serving in WW2 France who conceals a sacred jewel-encrusted gauntlet coveted by the enemy. He comes back after the war to retrieve and return the icon to the church sanctuary from which it came, but is pursued by his old arch enemy Nazi agent (George MacReady). Along the way he meets a Parisian guide (Geraldine Brooks) on the Eiffel tower who thenceforth accompanies him. In the end villagers consider him a miracle-worker as the chapel bell tolls.
David Deal enjoyed:
GOLIATH SINS OF BABYLON (64)
INFERNO (80)
CAPER OF THE GOLDEN BULLS (67) - Ex-professional thief Stephen Boyd gets roped into one last heist; an impossible plan to steal jewels from the Spanish National Bank in Pamplona during the running of the bulls. Entertaining second-tier Euro crime with a recognizable cast and enough enthusiasm to keep the average viewer engaged.
GAUGIN: THE FULL STORY (03)
TOMORROW AT SEVEN (33) - Crime author/amateur detective Chester Morris investigates the "Black Ace" murders. Frank McHugh and Allen Jenkins are the dumb cops and Charles Middleton is a mysterious creepy guy. This has the usual old dark house elements and a small percentage of the McHugh/Jenkins patter is amusing, but for the most part it's just annoying.
DEADLY RECORD (59) - Lee Patterson wakes up to a dead wife, so in order to save his skin from murder charges, he investigates on his own. Adequate Brit mystery featuring not enough of Barbary Shelley.
ISLAND OF LOST GIRLS (68)
DAREDEVIL (72)
MARS GOD OF WAR (62)
PHANTOM OF THE CONVENT (34)
Bertrand Van Wonterghem enjoyed:
Him-ssen yeao-ya Do Bong-soon / Strong girl Bong-soon – season 1 – episodes 5 to 16
The old guard (2019, Gina Prince- Bythewood)
The wrong Missy (2019, Tyler Spindel)
Moonlightning – season 1 – episode « The murder's in the mail » (1984, Peter Werner)
Teoneol / Tunnel – season 1 – episodes 1 to 4
Eobiseu / Abyss – season 1 – episode 1
The umbrella academy - season 2 - episodes 2 to 9
Batwoman – season 1 – episode « Grinning from ear to ear » (2019, Michael C. Blundell)
Una pistola per cento bare (1968, Umberto Lenzi)
Zeder (1983, Pupi Avati)
10 000 dollari per un massacro (1966, Romolo Guerrieri)
Dog eat dog (2015, Paul Schrader)
Cult of Chucky (2017, Don Mancini)
Dead awake (2015, Philip Guzman)
La morte non conta i dollari (1967, Riccardo Freda)
Don't knock twice (2016, Caradog W. James)
In which Italian Western does our hero crack open a coconut with a ball on an elastic string?
It is IL MIO NOME E SHANGAI JOE, aka THE FIGHTING FISTS OF SHANGHAI JOE.
Which American actor, who made a Western with Terence Hill, also appeared in movies with John Agar, Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Bobby Darin and Duke Moore?
George Grimes knew that it was Gregory Walcott.
No one has answered this one correctly yet.
In which Italian Western does the villain brand an "S" on the forearm of all of his men?
George Grimes knew that it was ARIZONA COLT, aka THE MAN FROM NOWHERE.
George Grimes identified last week's photo of Julian Mateos in I CRUDELI, aka THE HELLBENDERS.
No one has identified the above photo yet.
George Grimes identified last week's photo of Rita Calderoni in DELIRIO CALDO, aka DELIRIUM.
George Grimes identified last week's frame grab from THE MIRACLE FIGHTERS.
JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK (2016) - Co-starring Cobie Smulder and directed by Edward Zwick, NEVER GO BACK is more entertaining than the first Jack Reacher movie and all of the Mission Impossible flicks.
E! True Hollywood Story "Burt Reynolds" (2000) - The second half of this program is devoted to reclaiming Loni Anderson's reputation after Reynolds use of the National Enquirer against her during the divorce proceedings.
JOHNNY ENGLISH (2003) - Directed by Peter Howitt, this vehicle for Rowan Atkinson is only intermittedly funny, but Natalie Imbruglia is gorgeous and Ben Miller is amusing. John Malkovich seems to be having fun, and there are three ABBA songs given prominence.
JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN (2018) - Directed by David Kerr, the third film in the series has so many plot elements repeated from the first film it almost feels like a remake. This time Olga Kurylenko is gorgeous and Ben Miller is still amusing. Emma Thompson is a plus, and Howard Goodall's music keeps wanting to sound like what John Barry wrote for THUNDERBALL.
THE KING OF THIEVES (2018) - Based on the Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary of 2015, for which five criminals between 60 and 77 years old were convicted, this movie provides an opportunity for Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, Tom Courtenay, Paul Whitehouse and Ray Winstone to have a good time together. Michael Gambon also joins in the fun, but Francesca Annis only has one scene before dying. Unfortunately, when the gang falls out with each other, with everyone trying to get over on the others, these characters aren't fun anymore and one begins to hope for some violence. So, the ending where everyone seems to feel it was all a lark doesn't work. The youngest member of the gang is the only one to get away, ironically as he is the one the old guys didn't take seriously. James Marsh directed.
TIGERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE (1994) - Filmmaker Mika Kaurismaki follows Jim Jarmusch and Sam Fuller on a trip to the Karaja people of Brazil, where Fuller had planned to make a movie in the 1950s.
VOX LUX (2018) - Natalie Portman is the star of this film, but she doesn't appear until about the 50 minute mark of this 110 minute movie. Raffey Cassidy plays the 14 year old version of Portman's character, and then plays Portman's daughter for the second half of the film. Beginning with an incredibly effective dramatisation of a mass shooting at a high school, the first part of this film is riveting as Cassidy works to regain the ability to walk and sings at the memorial service which leads to her professional singing career. The middle section of the movie, after Portman appears, is a real drag as we once again see the miserable life of a pop star. However the epilogue showing Portman performing in concert is almost enjoyable enough to allow us to forgive the hour of angst. Going from a mass shooting at a high school, to the 9/11 downing of the the Twin Towers, to a fictional mass shooting on a beach in Croatia, this film seems to intend a comment on life in the new century, with our heroine complaining about nothing mattering anymore and the narrator telling us that after being shot she made a deal with the devil to survive. As that last bit isn't dramatized, it is easy to dismiss and one wonders how much weight writer/director Brady Corbet intended it to carry. We never see Portman's character doing anything intentionally evil. Are we supposed to think that her deal with the devil was to coarsen American culture? So does Corbet really hate Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift?
CON EL DIABLO EN EL CUERPO, aka WITH THE DEVIL IN HIS BODY (1954) - Yes, that is Linda Cristal, five years before she played Cleopatra in Italy. This starts off like a Mexican Western, with Luis Aguilar coming into a saloon, singing a song and flirting with every woman around before going into the back room to gamble. Arturo Martinez shows up, gun in hand, to get Aguilar, but Aguilar shoots him first and then makes a getaway on horseback. (It bothers me that Aguilar throws over the card table and no one bends down to pick up the spilled money.) Aguilar stops to drink from a river, which annoys Linda Cristal, who tries to get him to leave by pointing a winchester at him. He takes away the winchester and kisses the unwilling Cristal before sending her away on horseback. Later, when Aguilar seeks refuge with friend Dagoberto Rodriquez, Rodriquez takes him to stay at the ranch of Domingo Soler, who turns out to be Cristal's father. Over Cristal's objection, Soler gives Aguilar a roof over his head. At this point, everyone starts driving cars, and when they go to a restuarant for dinner, the Mariachi band sings a song of modern Mexico which leads to a montage of Mexico City and all of the statues celebrating the ancient past. Aguilar spends the evening singing songs with America Martin, much to Cristal's irritation, and after being dropped off at home by Rodriquez, Cristal finds Aguilar forcing another kiss on her. Eventually, Cristal succumbs to Aguilar's charms - which seems to make her "bullet bra" even more pointed. And, eventually, Martinez shows up, not having been previously killed. One of Martinez' henchmen is killed and Aguilar is on the run again. When Cristal discovers that Rodriquez is leading the soldiers to Aguilar's hideout, she races ahead to try and get Aguilar to leave. It is too late to run, and Rodriquez approaches Aguilar to try and convince him to surrender. When Aguilar prepares to gun down the unarmed Rodriquez, Cristal shoots Aguilar with a similar winchester with which she first greeted him. Aguilar asks to be forgiven as he reachs out and touches Cristal's hand one last time. Raul de Anda directs the film that I wouldn't have bothered watching but for Linda Cristal.
CRY OF THE WEREWOLF (1944) - Were there horse drawn gypsy caravans roaming the U.S. in the 1940s? Boy, they really sold the monster stuff softly in 1944.
EVILENKO (2004) - The story of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had already been dramatised in the excellent HBO Movie CITIZEN X. Why Italian assistant director to Pier Paolo Pasolini David Grieco would want to turn it into a Thomas Harris like novel called THE COMMUNIST WHO ATE CHILDREN, and then make a into his first feature film is something that I'd like him to explain. With a majority English speaking cast, headed by Malcolm McDowell and Marton Csokas, the film does a good job of not seeming like an Italian production. Grieco sets a deliberate pace that builds a creepy atmosphere and seldom resorts to graphic violence. Angelo Badalamenti contributes another moody but tuneful music score that adds to the atmosphere. I'm guessing that the film's dedication "TO THE BELOVED MASTER AND FRIEND LINDSAY ANDERSON" is from McDowell, as I've found no connection between Grieco and Anderson. Perhaps the reason for this movie is that Grieco was able to make it a Russian co-production, which HBO couldn't. Another version of the Chikatilo story was made in 2015 as CHILD 44.
JONATHAN (2018) - Two consciouses live in the same body, with each taking over in 12 hour shifts. Rules have established how the two can co-exist, but each begins to demand autonomy. The film is told from the perspective of one concious - Jonathan - who is always concerned what the other half - John - is doing. Eventually John takes over completely. Ansel Elgort, Suki Waterhouse and Patricia Clarkson are able to flesh out the material a bit, but director Bill Oliver seems more interested in creating a depressing atmosphere than anything else. What's the point of imparting this experience?
EL VAMPIRO Y EL SEXO, aka SANTO AND DRACULA'S TREASURE (1968) - SANTO EN EL TESORO DE DRACULA was the family version of this production, with EL VAMPIRO Y EL SEXO intended for adults. Reportedly the adult version wasn't found until 2011, and that seems to be the one dubbed into English and shown on the El Rey Network. Director's credit is given to Rene Cardona but it is "A Film by Guillermo Calderon Stell". In this film, Santo is not only a masked wrestler, but also a scientist who creates a time machine - that looks suspiciously like The Time Tunnel. This time machine transports Noelia Noel from the present into the body of someone in the past. How do they get a TV transmission from the past? Unfortunately, Noel is sent back into a Mexican version of Dracula and she's the newest victim. The "adult" version sports some topless women, and the filmmakers decided if they were to be topless that they would also have very large breasts. In addition to bite marks on their necks, they also receive a bat stamp. Fernando Mendoza drives a stake into the sleeping Alucard, and is about to do the same to Noel when Santo successfully pulls her back into the present. Dracula showed Noel his family's treasure, so in the present time Santo seeks the treasure to prove that his machine worked. Meanwhile, a hooded intruder was a spying on our heroes all this time, and he's got a gang to help him to steal the treasure. Santo and his friends get the necklace from around Dracula's neck, but the hooded intruder gets the ring. Both are needed to find the treasure, so a wrestling match is arranged with the necklace and ring being the prize. Of course Santo wins the match, and the hooded intruder hands over the ring. The villain then goes back and pulls the stake out of Dracula's heart, figuring that the vampire will go after the ring and the necklace. Not only does Dracula revive his harem of naked vampire women, he also kidnaps Noel to finally make her his vampire wife. Santo and his friends defeat and unmask the hooded intruder on the road back to the crypt. Luckily, our hero has a wristband communicator to instruct his wrestling comrades to dynamite the roof off of the cave Dracula occupies, so sunlight turns all of the vampires to dust. All of the good guys stagger out, glad to be alive, and everyone seems to have forgotten the effort to find the treasure.
SANTO CONTRA LOS JINETES DEL TERROR, aka SANTO VS. THE RIDERS OF TERROR (1970) - Pity the makers of Santo movies. After 25 entries, the idea box must have been getting rather empty. So, why not Santo in a Western about escaped lepers terrorizing the countryside? Infected Gregorio Casal leads a group of lepers out of their hospital to freedom. Everyone who sees them, flees for fear of getting infected. Villain Julio Aldama (of GUNS FOR SAN SEBASTIAN) decides to take advantage of the fear and enlists the lepers in a series of robberies. Sheriff Armando Silvestre (of TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA) calls on Santo to help. Coincidentally, Santo arrives in town just as a barker is offering money to whomever can beat his champion in the ring. After giving a bag of money to three nuns, Santo gets down to catching the bad guys. Casal wanted freedom inorder to see the woman who was to marry him before he became infected. After Aldama reveals that he plans to murder all of the lepers after robbing the bank, and Santo reveals that they now have a cure for leprosy, Casal becomes our hero's ally and even shoots Aldama in the back. Gustavo C. Carrion contributs some pretty good Western movie music. Of course the movie is limply directed by Rene Cardona.
SHAZAM! (2019) - DC just can't make a fun movie. Well, the last 20 minutes are okay and there's a Ramones song on the end credits so it's not all a drag.
SILENCIO (2018) - Writer/director Lorena Villarreal successfully created an intriguing atmosphere for her science fiction/supernatural tale, and she assembled a good cast, but once the thriller elements kicked it, it became an irritating experience. First of all, saying that it was "based on a true story" appeared to be bullshit so why claim it? In the 1970 of the movie, an American missile suddenly went off course and crashed in the "Bermuda Triangle" of Mexico - an area called Costa del Silencio. John Noble (of TV's Fringe) was investigating the crash when he touched what was supposed to be a piece of a meteor that absorbed radiation from the crashed missile. The stone took Noble back a week to the site of an automobile accident that killed his family. Grandaughter Shayne Coleman (who is adorable) saw her grandfather suddenly appear and ran towards him, thus not being killed in the accident. The granddaughter grew up to be Melina Matthews who treated a man who seemed to have psychic visions of Matthews' dead sister. The dead sister was telling him to tell Matthews that she had to help the invalided grandfather find "the stone". After what turned out to be alot of needless complications - including the death of Noble, Matthews' son and the psychic, Noble's assistant needed the stone inorder to go back in time to save his daughter who died. Much of the dialogue in the movie was in English, with some sections in Spanish with English subtitles. And with a cast that included Rupert Graves, it would seem the filmmakers were hoping for a positive reception from an English speaking audience. At least Villarreal didn't follow the lead of Guillermo del Toro and end his film with a felling of helplessness.
SUPERFLY (2018) - The low budget nature of the original lent it some credibility, plus the music by Curtis Mayfield made it worthwhile. This remake looks like a hip-hop music video inspired by both SCARFACE and STAR WARS. "Pusherman" and a sample of "Super Fly" pop up on the soundtrack. Interestingly, there are no poor black folk in this movie - no concern about the effect of cocaine on society. It is the most glamorized portrait of drug dealing that I've ever seen.
UNFRIENDED: DARK WEB (2018) - Don't take home any lap tops left in the lost & found at a cyber cafe.
YOU BETTER WATCH OUT, aka CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980) - After the trauma of seeing Mama having sex with a man playing Santa Claus in his living room, Brandon Maggart grows up to be someone who takes Christmas more seriously than everyone else. Determining that some rich kids that are bad are getting more presents than those who are better deserving, he breaks into homes and steals presents and then gives them to a children's hospital. Dressed as Santa, he stops at a church where the attendees are leaving midnight mass. When three of them make fun of him, he kills them. Later, he breaks into the home of a co-worker who lied to him and kills the co-worker. Interestingly, when some adults see him giving presents to their children, they figure out that he's the homicidal Santa and quickly make torches to chase him out of the neighborhood. After getting into a fight with his brother over who ruined the other's life, the crazy man drives off in his van, which is painted to look like a sleigh, and we see the van take off into the sky as we hear the last lines from "The Night Before Christmas". Lewis Jackson is the writer/director of this flick which isn't nearly as entertaining as SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984). Thankfully this was the end of Jackson's directing career.
The Cult Next Door. Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life Principals. Documentary on 'ultra conservative Christian' leader Bill Gothard who, a decade ago, commanded prodigious audiences with lectures on biblical living to counter the rebellious culture of the previous generations. His authoritarian philosophy created a cult headquartered in the Chicago area with nods of endorsement from Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin. He was eventually banished from the organization he started due to charges of sexual improprieties with underage girls in his charge.
BLONDE ICE (1948) B&W. Conniving, ambitious reporter (Leslie Brooks) marries for money, quickly disposes of husband, and then covets a rising Washington-bound politician named Stanley Mason. Robert Paige plays another reporter, the object of her whimsical affections, but frames him after stabbing Mason to death when the wedding is summarily cancelled. It takes the campaign's psychologist to finally shame the truth from her demented mind.
THE BEGINNING OF THE END (1957) B&W. Agricultural experimentation in Illinois using radiation to make crops larger instead inadvertantly produces truck-sized grasshoppers that eventually head for Chicago. Reporter Peggie Castle helps scientist Peter Graves brainstorm the idea to lure them into Lake Michigan when the locust prove invulnerable to fire power. General Morris Ankrum is on standby to drop the A-bomb on the Windy City just in case. (That's a B 36 in the air not B 52 as he promised).
THE TALL STRANGER (57) - Joel McCrea finds himself in the middle of a complicated plot involving a wagon train of settlers trying to get to California, their conniving leader who's misled them, a hateful half-brother, and a killer with a fancy gun. It's a solid, violent western with a dependable cast.
TERROR STREET (53) - Dan Duryea returns to England after a military stint in America, to find his wife gone. Tracking her down, she is killed and he is framed for it. Dan must track down the killer in 36 hours before he ships out. Fun, civilized Brit crime from Hammer. Dan carries this easily, and appears to do his own fight stunts.
EXTRA ORDINAIRY (19) - Supernatural comedy from Ireland is actually funny.
THE RAVEN (63)
IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD (63)
THE KILLERS (46)
THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS (72) - Small town police chief James Garner investigates a murder involving a Doberman. Features Katherine Ross, a deep supporting cast, and archaic views of human sexuality.


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Feb 2021 Update
Bob's Audio Message
A New Truck
His First Bakery
Rollin' Pin
In The Limelight
Robert 'Bob' Hiller
Founder of Rollin' Pin Bakery
U.S. Army Veteran
Celebrating 75 Years in the Bakery Business!
Interview by Teresa Nguyen
"I enjoy it. You meet the nicest people who come in the door. They tell me, 'You better keep going. We don't have any other place like this in town.'" ~ Bob Hiller
Robert 'Bob' Hiller of Rollin' Pin Bakery, Inc.
Update - February 18th, 2021
Upon learning that Rollin' Pin Bakery was closed, I reached out and gave Bob a call to see how he was doing. When he picked up the phone I heard that familiar voice...the voice of a man who has not only lived a long life, but one who is also dealing with fatigue from serious health issues. Still, I could hear the cheer and joy when he recognized me and remembered my visit for an interview over a year ago. It's funny how one can sense a smile through the phone.
On a socially distanced visit with his family, his daughter Sheila and his son, Bobby, spoke with me about the difficult family decision they had to make. The following is my interview with Bob Hiller's children.
Sheila: His health began to decline after his 90th birthday, last March, and through the remainder of 2020. His heart is very weak now. On top of that issue, we were dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. How can you have those long, packed lines of people during the pandemic...you just can't.
Bobby: We were paying rent out there every month and without sales going on, we just had to make a decision. Back in October, Dad did his last mixing at the bakery at age 90. After that, he was just too weak to do it.
Sheila: We spoke to him in December about it all and Dad was involved in the process. It was a hard decision to make! It's not like it's open Monday - Saturday, he only had periodic holiday sales.
We went with an auctioneer who had done the auction when Dad moved the bakery out of the Arch Street location. That auctioneer's son had taken over the business and he helped us with this one. For the auction he had 20 years ago, people came from all over the country. But this time around, it was all done online.
Chuck Lane, who owns Lane's Bakery in Madison, bought some of Dad's equipment. Chuck's dad was good friends with Bob. We were happy about that.
Bobby: Someone in Illinois bought the trailer, but then that was then sold to someone else. It went for so much less than the price Dad paid for it. Some of the things were bid on by some cousins. The oven, the freezer and a variety of things were sold.
Bob on his 90th birthday with his children -
Kathleen, Bob Jr. and Sheila with a special
cake donated by Lane's Bakery in Madison
Sheila: Some people erroneously think that the "business" was sold, when actually, it was an auction of the items from the business that were dispersed among the online bidders, who are from a variety of places.
Bob's Magic Touch
Sheila: There's a right way to do it. We knew people would not be able to make the baked goods quite the same. Bobby can bake and follow the recipes, and he's worked alongside my dad. But there's something about my dad, he's been doing this for so long that he had a kind of magic touch. We couldn't have had his legacy taken over by just anybody.
Janesville Area Stories
A giant 90th birthday card from the Wisconsin Bakers Association for
Bob Hiller of Rollin' Pin Bakery
The following is a special, 1.5 minute audio message from Bob Hiller with words of wisdom about making a quality product, a funny story about the long lines and appeasing police officers who had to direct traffic and a thanks to the community of Janesville for all the support over the years.
2019 Interview with Bob Hiller
I was born in 1930 and raised right here in Janesville. I started at Roosevelt School, then I ended up attending Janesville High School, down on Main Street.
It was in the 10th grade when I was drawing cowboy pictures during English class and the teacher sent me down to the principal, Kenneth (Kenny) Bick. He gave me a half hour detention.
At the time I was working for Cunningham Bakery for 14 cents an hour. If you were one minute late back in those days, you were out the door! I knew I couldn't be a half hour late, so I went to work and didn't go to detention.
The next time I was in school, I was told I needed to go down to talk to the principal again. Mr. Bick told me, "Look, you didn't make up your half hour detention. Now you have one hour, because it doubles!" I thought I better go. So, I went to make up the first half hour. When I went in to work a half hour late, Dave Cunningham said, "You're late, there's the door. Get out."
The old Janesville High School on Main Street
I asked him if he'd give me one more chance. He said, "Alright, one more and that's it."
With that warning, I never made up the extra time in detention.
About a month or so later, I was called to the principal's office again. He told me that because I hadn't been making up detentions, I now had over 1,000 hours, because it kept doubling and multiplying with each additional day! He said, "You have two choices: start making up the time or there's the door." I said, "Bye, Mr. Bick." That was in 10th grade, and I quit school.
Customers standing elbow to elbow getting their bakery treats at Rollin' Pin
A New Chevy Truck
I couldn't afford the nickel for the bus, because I was only making 14 cents an hour. So, I walked home from school. We lived on Ruger Avenue, at the time. When I walked by the Harrison Chevrolet garage, I saw a brand new, 1944 Chevrolet truck in the window.
I saved my money in a cigar box. I had both the job at Cunningham Bakery and a job with Adams and Adams (Adams & Sons) roofing company. The new truck was 795 dollars, and I kept counting my money in the cigar box. When I drive by that location now, which became a floral shop, I can still picture me dumping that cigar box upside down on the counter, the nickels and dimes rolling all over!
The salesman was counting and counting and eventually said, "Yeah, you got enough here."
I asked him to show me how to drive it, how to use the clutch. Man, I was going around those hills, just flying! I was excited to show my dad, who had a filling station downtown, Hiller's Gas Station, across from the old YMCA. Back in those days, the attendants would come out and fill up your car for you. I drove down to show him.
Dad came out and asked, "Whose truck is that?" I said, "Mine, Pop. I just bought it!" He said, "Take it back. You're only 14 years old, you have no driver's license and no insurance. So, take it back!"
I drove up the street and got two gallons of gasoline for 11 cents a gallon. Then I drove the truck home. My mother came out and asked, "Whose truck is that?" I told her, "It's mine. I just bought it." She then asked me, "Has your dad seen it?" I said, "Yeah, he doesn't like it." She replied, "Well, you better get rid of it."
So, I hid it across the street in a neighbor's garage. My dad came home and never said a word. About a month later, I was out on a Sunday afternoon washing my truck. My dad had gone fishing. Well, he had forgotten his pole and came home to get it. He looked at me and said, "You have two choices: get rid of that truck or get out of the house!"
Bob is an Emeritus Member of
the Retail Bakers of America.
Well, I didn't know where I would go at 14. So, I put an ad in the paper to sell it for $1200. I paid $795 for the truck. It only had 65 miles on it. They had stopped making vehicles at that time because of World War II. And some guy came along and gave me the $1200! I lucked out!
Start of the Bakery Business
I was reading through the newspaper and saw an ad for a bakery for sale up in Milton Junction. I got on my bicycle and rode up to Milton Junction to check out this bakery. It was selling for $900. A 1937 Ford truck came with the deal! So, now I had my truck and a bakery and I hired some people.
The bakery had a huge coal fired oven, 18 feet long and about 14 feet wide. It was made with bricks and stone and you'd have to go down the basement to get the buckets of coal. It made the best tasting bread! You'd shove the pans all the way to the back.
Bob still manages the bakery at age 89. Barb, in background, has worked there as a cake decorator since 1992, Bob calls her an 'honorary sister'
To clean the oven, you'd take a rag soaked in kerosene, throw it in the oven with the hopes it would explode and knock all the soot down. Then you'd come in at midnight, stick your hand in there to check the temperature. My goal was to continually keep enough coal in there to keep the temperature up.
At that time, people were changing over to natural gas, so I got some parts for cheap and rigged up the stove so that I could get a thermostat hooked up in the oven. That worked great.
One night, I came to work and saw that the bakery was on fire! All the volunteer firefighters were there. What had happened is that the stoker never shut off. The bricks got so hot that the wood floor caught fire and the oven ended up in the basement! Luckily, it didn't burn the place down.
I looked in a baker's magazine out of Chicago. I called up this guy, Joe, and he talked me into an 18-pan revolving oven. I asked him how much it cost. He said, "$3,400." I didn't have any money and asked him how I would pay for it. He told me to send whatever I could every week. Soon after, couple of guys came and set the oven up.
At the time, a loaf of bread was 10 cents. A pie was 15 cents. Maybe one week I'd send him $12. I didn't have a checking account, because I didn't know what that was all about. I can still see that contract on the side of the oven where I'd subtract that $12 from $3,400.
By the time I was 17 years old, I was still paying off 10-12 dollars a week for the oven. Then I got my draft notice in 1947. I had to go. And I still had a couple thousand dollars on the oven. Joe said he would pick up the oven, try to resell it and see if there was anything left that I might owe, which they would collect after I got back from The Service. That was such a nice gesture that you wouldn't get from today's business dealers!
I entered the U.S. Army and ended up in Korea. I was over there for two years. The fighting was still going on, even after I came home. In Korea, I was working in a bakery and had a Korean boy working for me.
One day I witnessed a couple of guys kill a dog and hang it up on a board. I couldn't believe it. I asked the boy, "Why did they do that?" He said, "That's number one chow." I said, "You eat dogs?" Then he looked at me and said, "Yeah. You Americans eat dirty pigs!"
Interviewer's Note: These days, dog meat is only consumed by a very small percentage of South Koreans. Many Koreans and animal welfare groups are against the practice.
In an article on The Spruce Eats website, "A Struggle Between Traditionalists and the Younger Generation" by Naomi Imatome-Yun, she writes, "Although it is not illegal to serve dog meat in Korea, it is officially classified as 'detestable'. There is a large and vocal group of Korean people that are against the practice of eating dog meat and want the South Korean government to enforce laws making dog meat illegal. Dogs are increasingly being viewed as pets and thus the tradition of eating dog meat is becoming taboo, especially with the younger generations."
A New Bakery
After I came home from Korea, I worked at the General Motors plant for three months. I just couldn't stand doing the same thing every day. So, I went into a bakery partnership in Janesville with this a guy who had tried talking me into it. That was the worst thing I ever did. I lost two houses...it was hell. So, I got rid of that guy.
I started my own bakery across from the General Motors plant on Delavan Drive. I called it Rollin' Pin. My kids helped out, the two girls, even my youngest son, Bob Hiller II, was there helping out at the bakery. He is still working with me today.
I had a regular customer, Officer O'Leary, who would come in every morning for a cup of coffee and a doughnut. He said to me, "Why don't I build you a better building."
So, he built me a building up on Arch Street! The grand opening of Rollin' Pin on Arch Street was in 1961. The bakery was at that location for about 40 years. This is my 75th year in the business!
My wife, Sandy, helped me run the business. She passed away about 14 years ago. At one time we had three locations; Delavan Drive, Creston Park plaza and at 19 North Arch Street. First, we closed Delavan Drive, then Creston Park. We closed Arch Street in 2000.
I told my wife that I wanted to semi-retire and just run the "Cream Puff Wagon". Eventually, I found this little place out on Hwy 14, remodeled it and put in new equipment. We decided to only serve during the fairs in the summertime. We would turn the power off in the winter.
But we discovered that a lot of our good equipment had computer boards in them and when we turned the power on one summer, they blew and none of them worked! I was advised to keep the power on during winters.
The Customers and The Treats
We decided to just do the sales during all the holidays. And now, the place is too small! We serve a lot of customers in a short time. One time we served 1,000 customers from 9 to 5 in one day! My bookkeeper spoke to me and said, "Why in the world didn't you do this 40 years ago?"
The Rollin' Pin Bakery trailer, the "Cream Puff Wagon"
Serving the crowds at numerous county fairs
Sandy and Bob raised $5,200 for the victims of 9/11
We set up by Choice Cleaners during the fair on Memorial Drive as a fundraiser for Special Olympics. Tom, the owner, has a granddaughter who is in the Special Olympics. The lines down there are unbelievable. The police came by one of the mornings and asked us how long the lines would be running.
Around noon, I took the officer an eclair. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he came back and said, "These lines are terrible." I asked him, "Well, what's it worth?" He said, "Two more eclairs."
Our number one seller are the chocolate eclairs. The cream puffs are very popular as are the brownies. We can't make enough of them; they sell out so quickly! The chocolate chip cookies are the number one cookie. They're the favorites.
One day I was baking a big order for a church in Delavan. The lady came to pick up her order. On one of the racks, there was 80 pounds of butter. She asked me what it was. I told her it was butter.
The customer favorites: Chocolate Eclairs and Cream Puffs
She said, "You mean to tell me that a baker uses butter?" I told her we use tons of butter! That's what makes the difference.
A lot of bakers will use shortening, or go half shortening and half butter to cut costs. But the flavor is in the butter.
Every time we have a sale, the lines of people are so long, so many customers! There often is difficulty parking. We pass out cookies to the people in the line. I said to one fellow, who took a cookie, and said, "Sorry you have to stand out here so long." He looked at me, took a bite out of the cookie and said, "Listen, I'd stand out here all damn night as long as I can get in and get some of this good stuff!"
People will often buy a bunch and freeze them until the next sale. With all the holidays, we have a sale going on pretty much every other month. Honest to God, we get customers from far and wide - Green Bay, Chicago, Rockford…it's just incredible. Some come from Sandwich, Illinois. That's a two-hour drive!
The line for Rollin' Pin starts early and stretches far
People come for Rollin' Pin treats from as far as Green Bay and Sandwich, Illinois
A while back there was a little boy who took a cookie off the tray. I looked at him and asked, "Isn't that your third cookie?" He looked up at me and said, "No, Mr., that's four."
We take our trailer down to a county fair in Sandwich, Illinois, just a small town. But two million people go to that fair. It's huge! Many of our Illinois customers come up here to buy our baked goods when we have sales.
I have a slide presentation which I've done both locally and all over the world.
Bobby hands out cookies to the folks in line
I've traveled all over the United States with it and have done presentations in Australia and France. My favorite place was Australia.
I became friends with Brian Fox, a famous baker from Australia. He saw me do a demonstration in California and offered to fund a trip for me and my wife to put on a show in Australia. We were there for a week. He comes back over here quite often. He brought me a Crocodile Dundee hat made in Australia and wore it on the plane just so he wouldn't have to carry on an extra hat box!
My older brother in Marshfield would tell me to stop renting and build my own building. I wanted to take a loan out to build a building at my bank and my loan officer wouldn't give it to me. I reminded him that I had been a good business customer of that bank for 25 years. He told me, "Four walls won't make you any money. It's the equipment that makes you money.
I was at a baker's show in Chicago, picking up a lot of literature. I took it back to the banker and showed him what I wanted. He said, "Well, go get it!". I asked him if he saw that it would cost me $260,000. He said, "Yeah, go get it!" And I got the loan for the equipment!
It was so mechanized and high tech. When I traveled all over the United States and did these shows and presentations, they'd see all my fancy equipment. When I had my auction, the auctioneer asked me if I had taken out an ad nationwide. I didn't. He told me, "Well, look at these license plates! Here's California, New York, Michigan!" The different bakers had seen this equipment from my travels. It sold out just like that.
We always kept the equipment clean. A lot of bakers will leave them dirty with flour building up and such. That can only lead to a dirtier oven because it gets baked in after repeated uses. We would clean ours every night. They were always like brand new.
At Christmas time, we donate around 2,000 dozen cookies to the Rotary Botanical Gardens Light Show. We also donate to the Parker Playhouse and we've supported the Janesville Fire Department over the years.
Of course, we like to give to the Special Olympics, we donate to GIFTS Men's Shelter, the Boys & Girls Club and other fundraisers on our days at Choice Cleaners where we set up the trailer.
We like to keep busy with the bakery and doing charity events is meaningful work.
A plaque from the Janesville Firef Department
One year I was having chest pains and collapsed. I had fallen into the neighbor's lilac bush. The fire department came and the only way they could untangle me from the lilac bush was by digging out the bush. They rushed me to the hospital. At that time, we only had one fire station. I told my wife that I wanted to treat the guys at the fire station every year to show my gratitude for helping me through that. Well, now we have five stations in town! And I treat all of them with baked goodies every year.
One day I came home and there were 12 guys up on my roof. They had all come to my house to put on a new roof on my house! We tried to pay them, but they kept returning the checks. Finally, I took each guy a check of $200 to total up the cost of the roofing, which was $24,000. I asked the guys, "Do you know the Police Department in town? If I get this damn money back, you're going to be visiting those guys!"
Well, they took the money and they put it into a scholarship and sent me pictures of the kids getting their scholarships.
I served as President of the Retail Bakers of America. I was also President of Valley Bakers in Appleton, and served as the Wisconsin Bakers Association president for a year.
I've enjoy making a variety of displays for the conventions, some smaller some really big. I've been to bakers' conventions all over the United States. Once, at a circus-themed convention in Milwaukee, Ernest Borgnine, famous American actor, was there to cut the ribbon. I made an elephant display that was 18 feet tall out of wood and wire, then paper mâché and frosted it with butter cream.
I had also made a baby elephant and some penguins, one penguin for my booth and I put one at the shortening company booth. Two months later I got a $2000 check from Bungee Shortening because they sold much of it with my penguin display there!
My displays earned me trips all over the world.
Of course, decorated cakes and entering baking contests has been fun. I probably have over 100 more trophies at home.
I'm also an airplane pilot. I got my license when I was in my 30's. They did tell me at the airport that when you get up there in age, around 80 or 90, you have to send a physical in to the government. They usually cancel you out because of your age. That's just a joke.
On March 13th, 2020, I'll be 90 years old. Most likely, my son, Bobby, will take over this business someday. First, I need to get in better health. I just had a new pacemaker put in. I couldn't do anything for three months. It didn't seem to help a bit.
I'm still managing the bakery, but not allowed to lift anything. If I do, my son will yell at me.
Secrets to Long Life
Eat right. Don't drink. Don't smoke. That must be part of it, I don't know.
Bob Hiler (right) and his son (left) Bobby work side by side at the bakery
I don't think anyone really encouraged me to get into business, and certainly not for this long. But I told the doctor that a lot of the times when I'm not at the bakery, I just feel rotten. As soon as I walk through that back door, I feel better!
I enjoy it. You meet the nicest people who come in the door. They tell me, "You better keep going. We don't have any other place like this in town."
I guess this is my purpose in life.
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Q: Magento Customize product custom options I am working on magento. I want to add drop-down menu at product detail page. For this i tried custom options at product configuration  in back-end. But now problem is that i have more than 10 drop down  menus each has more than 20 option values.It is not possible to add them manually at the time of create new product.
Is there any way to add option values of drop-down in custom options from code.
now i have following questions:-
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2. how to add custom options automatically when add new product.
Please reply asap.If there is any other way to do this please mention here.

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Sullivan Alexander Hicks, infant son of Jonathan and Terry (Ward) Hicks, passed away Saturday, January 19, 2019 in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandfather, Daruil Norgaar and paternal grandmother, Terry Hicks.
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Q: ASP.NET: Get rid of " " in Gridview So I am currently getting a format-error (and rightfully so), because of this value. I think it is some sort of unicode space-alternative or something.
This is how I call the value:
int updatecount = Convert.ToInt32(row.Cells[2].Text);

This is the value while debugging:

I need the value to be numeric OR null. Did anyone have similar problems?
UPDATE:
This is how I assigned the value:
CODE BEFORE

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A: try something like this
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Public petition calls for permanent residency to reward heroic action by illegal Kazakh worker
Park Sae-jin Reporter(swatchsjp@ajunews.com) | Posted : April 22, 2020, 14:13 | Updated : July 22, 2020, 09:44
[Courtesy of Sonyang Elementary School vice-principal Jang Seon-ok ]
SEOUL -- A civic campaign has been launched in South Korea to permit a green card for a 28-year-old illegal immigrant from Kazakhstan in reward for his brave deed. He risked his life to save ten people trapped in a raging fire despite fears of deportation.
A petition was uploaded onto the presidential website on April 21, asking the government to provide help for the Kazakh man known as Ali. More than 5,300 people have supported the petition as of noon (0300 GMT) on Wednesday. More petitions have followed. If the petition garners more than 200,000 supporters, the presidential office should give an answer.
Ali became a local hero in Yangyang County some 155 kilometers (96 miles) northeast of Seoul after a fire blazed at a three-story apartment building on March 23. He was on his way home at around 11:20 p.m. and found that his apartment building was engulfed in flames. Many people were asleep at the time, and Ali ran up and down the stairs multiple times to evacuate people to safety.
Ali received burns on his neck and hands while rescuing a woman who was living in the studio room on the second floor. Ali knocked on the door several times, but there was little response. He then grabbed a gas pipe installed on the outer wall of the building and a TV wire and climbed up the window of the second-floor room.
Ali fearing deportation had to sneak out of the scene after firemen and police arrived. However, his brave deed touched the hearts of residents in Yangyang. Sonyang Elementary School vice-principal Jang Seon-ok in the region organized a team of local residents to find the wounded hero who could not receive any treatment. Ali was found several days later and sent to a burn specialist hospital in Seoul for treatment.
Jang and her neighbors asked Yangyang County officials to designate Ali as a person who was wounded during public duty. If the request is accepted, Ali would be compensated and receive medical insurance benefits.
A 41-year-old illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka was granted a green card for saving a 90-year-old woman trapped in a fire in February 2017. It was the first case of its kind. A welfare foundation run by South Korea's LG Group decided to reward Ali as a righteous man, saying he risked deportation and acted in a righteous way to save people even though he could have been hurt. The man from Sri Lanka received the same award.
Park Sae-jin Reporter
email : swatchsjp@ajunews.com
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Madejski Stadium will provide a showcase of England's finest young footballers from 16th to 18th May, when it plays host to the English Schools' Football Association (ESFA) PlayStation® Schools' Cup Festival.
A total of 15 boys' and girls' national schools' football finals will be contested across the three days in U12-U15 categories, in what is the biggest and most prestigious collection of secondary school football tournaments in England.
In the week leading up to the FA Cup final, the next generation will also have their big game experience as they warm up in Reading FC's £1 million indoor training facility before changing in either the home or away dressing room and making their way onto the Madejski Stadium pitch.
With tickets free for all attendees, the Festival has become a fantastic day out for supporters and school friends with over 6,000 spectators attending last year's finals. As well as watching a feast of schools' football, a series of spectator competitions and activities will contribute to the carnival atmosphere. The volume will hopefully be cranked up even louder this year with a decibel meter measuring the noisiest supporters each day, and schools being challenged to think of the most original chant for their team.