Monday, October 26, 2020
Jerry Orbach and the Murder of "Crazy Joe" Gallo
I no longer think that Frank Sheeran murdered Joe Gallo. For my current thinking about that murder, see my later blog article Jerry Orbach and the Murder of Joey Gallo.
However, I will not delete this article here, since a best-selling book and a feature movie portray Sheeran as the murderer.
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In 1971, when Jerry Orbach (Jake Houseman) was 36 years old, he starred in the movie The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Orbach played the role of a Mafia gangster nicknamed "Kid Sally", who was based on an actual Mafia gangster named Joseph "Crazy Joey" Gallo.
About three-and-a-half months after the movie was released (December 22, 1971), Gallo was murdered on April 7, 1972, in Manhattan. Gallo was murdered while he and some of his friends were celebrating Gallo's 43rd birthday. The birthday party had begun in the Copacabana nightclub and then had moved to Umberto's Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy. While the party was in this second restaurant, a Mafia gangster named Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran walked into the restaurant and shot Gallo to death.
About three decades later, Sheeran told his life story to a lawyer named Charles Brandt, who wrote Sheeran's biography, titled I Heard You Paint Houses, published in 2004. This biography was turned into a feature movie, titled The Irishman, which was released in 2019.
At the first restaurant during that birthday celebration, Gallo encountered Sheeran and Sheehan's mob boss, Russell Bufalino. Gallo mocked Bufalino for wearing a lapel pin demonstrating Gallo's support for the Italian-American Civil Rights League. After that encounter, Sheeran followed Gallo from the Copacabana nightclub to Umberto's Clam House and then murdered Gallo there.
The following video clip is the scene in The Irishman movie that depicts the encounter in the Copacabana nightclub. Sheeran is played by the actor Robert DeNiro, and Bufalino is played by the actor Joe Pesci.
When Joe Coffey, the detective investigating the murder, arranged to question Jerry Orbach, Orbach brought along his lawyer, who informed Coffey that Orbach would not answer any questions at all. Years later, Coffey told the book's author, Brandt, that he might have solved the murder in 1972 if Orbach had cooperated in the investigation. Since Orbach did refuse to cooperate, the murder was not solved until the book was published in 2004.
For more information, see the book's 2016 edition, pages 213-225 and 309-315.
The Take -- Analysis for Film and TV Fans
On August 1, I posted an article titled The Deeper Meaning of Dirty Dancing, Explained. I just watched the video again, and I want to say that the video provides a superb analysis of the movie Dirty Dancing. Everyone should watch the video.
Also, the comments on the YouTube page for this movie are plentiful and interesting.
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The YouTube website for The Take lists many videos that provide superb analysis. Here are a few.
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The Rom-Com Formula, Explained
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The Feminist Trope, Explained
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The Femme Fatale Trope, Explained
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Grease: Performing Gender
Sunday, October 25, 2020
Dirty Dancing a plein d'anachronismes
Dirty Dancing is full of anachronisms.
If you can read French,
turn on the video's subtitles.
Hi ! My name is Marjorie Le Noan, and after 8 years on YouTube working on collective channels: Good Monique and Le Latte Chaud, I now devote myself to my own channel on which I create specialized retro / vintage videos (20s to 2000): fashion, beauty, music, everyday life, etc ...
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At 5:55 in the video, Marjorie criticizes Baby Houseman's hair as an anachronism. Baby's hair looks like hair in the mid-1980s, when the movie was made. (Click on images to enlarge them.)
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| Baby's hair is mid-1980s' hair |
In the early 1960s, Baby's hair during her visit to Kellermans' would look more like the following.
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| Early 1960s female hair |
Marjorie points out this anachronism not only in Baby's hair but also in the minor characters' and extras' hair. Here is just one such example.
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| Extras wearing mid-1980s female hair |
Likewise, Johnny Castle has mid-1980s male hair.
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| 1980s male hair |
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Marjorie does credit, however, the movie's clothing as early 1960s clothing.
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My French-reading ability is not good enough to be sure about this, but I think that Marjorie criticizes Baby's bra as being too soft for the early 1960s.
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| Baby's bra is a mid-1980s bra |
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| Early 1960s bras |
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| Early 1960s bras |
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Of course, Marjorie points out the anachronism of the movie's mid-1980s dancewear.
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| Penny and Baby in mid-1980s dancewear |
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| Mid-1980s dancewear |
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| Early 1960s dancewear |
There is much more in Marjorie's video. I am providing only a few moments here in my blog article.
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Saturday, October 10, 2020
What makes Baby's first dance lesson beautiful?
Hello Everybody,
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Another Video About the Dirty Dancing Murders
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Now, I am posting this second video.
The discussion of the murders begins at 16:50
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Tristan Convert's One-Minute Review
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
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High School Musical 3
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Grease
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The King and I
Michelle DeMoss's Three Takes on Baby's Monologue
The Basic Take
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The Serious Take
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The Sarcastic Take