{"id":14866,"date":"2016-08-06T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14866"},"modified":"2016-08-06T16:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T21:06:22","slug":"random-notes-august-6-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14866","title":{"rendered":"Random notes: August 6, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

Two more obits: we were waiting for the NYT<\/strong> to do a David Huddleston obit. Now they have.<\/a> And it includes a great photo of him and Cleavon Little from “Blazing Saddles”, too.<\/p>\n

The role he said he relished most was that of Benjamin Franklin, which he played in revivals of \u201c1776\u201d on Broadway in 1998 and at Ford\u2019s Theater in Washington in 2003.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, we can see that.<\/p>\n

Also among the dead: Chris Costner Sizemore. “Who?” The actual woman who the book (and movie) The Three Faces of Eve<\/strong> was based on.
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Her new marriage turned out to be not an ending at all; she endured a fragmented identity until the mid-1970s, seeing several psychiatrists after Thigpen and Cleckley, until, in the care of a Virginia doctor, Tony Tsitos, her personalities \u2014 not three but more than 20, it turned out \u2014 were unified.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

By most accounts, for the last four decades or so, Mrs. Sizemore lived a productive and relatively serene life as a mental health advocate and painter. She died on July 24 in Ocala, Fla. She was 89. Her son, Bobby Sizemore, said she had a heart attack.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…<\/p>\n

The sunny narrative of Mrs. Sizemore\u2019s triumphant second act was called into some question in 2012, when Colin A. Ross, a psychiatrist specializing in dissociation, published a book, \u201cThe Rape of Eve,\u201d in which he accused Dr. Thigpen of having exercised an unethical, Svengali-like influence over Mrs. Sizemore and manipulating her for nefarious purposes during and after his treatment of her ended. Dr. Thigpen died in 1999.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And by way of the Times<\/a>, we learn of a new box set of \u201cThe Untouchables\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From the Department of I Kid You Not (talking about the campaign against the show, which was considered excessively violent and anti-Italian by some):<\/p>\n

One prominent defender was Ayn Rand, who, writing in The Los Angeles Times, characterized \u201cThe Untouchables\u201d as \u201cprofoundly moral.\u201d Ms. Rand was particularly taken with Mr. Stack. His \u201csuperlative portrayal of Eliot Ness\u201d was, she declared, \u201cthe most inspiring image on today\u2019s screen, the only image of a real hero.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, we are trying to work on the DEFCON updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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