Pescantina - Piccola Grande Italia
Cuore fecondo di un Veneto operoso, il comune di Pescantina è la porta d'ingresso alla celebre area vitivinicola della Valpolicella. In questa vasta pianura pedemontana compresa tra i Monti Lessini e il Lago di Garda, l'originario borgo di Pescantina si è sviluppato con le sue 5 frazioni: Arcè, Balconi, Ospedaletto, Santa Lucia e Settimo.
Montecrestese - Piccola Grande Italia
Un cuneo di terra e roccia, di prati e creste dentellate, posto tra i fiumi Toce e Isorno. Erte balze cingono un territorio conteso tra natura e uomo.
A pochi chilometri dal confine svizzero, Montecrestese è un comune sparso delle Alpi Lepontine. Il toponimo identifica un territorio vastissimo che si estende dal dolce pianoro della Valdossola sino alle asperità della selvaggia Valle Isorno... la Valle dell'Impossibile.
Bellinzago Novarese - Piccola Grande Italia
Un lungo itinerario ci conduce, tra antiche strade di pianura e di collina, alla scoperta di un borgo storico della provincia di Novara... di Bellinzàgo Novarese e delle sue due frazioni: Cavagliàno e Dulzàgo.
Solo apparente è l'uniformità dell'ultimo lembo di pianura che ci accingiamo ad attraversare: la sapiente interpretazione dei segni del paesaggio rende vivo ciò che a prima vista sembra inerte, offre spiegazione di ciò che sembra accidentale.
Gussago - Piccola Grande Italia
Ad appena dieci chilometri da Brescia, sulla sponda di dolci colline moreniche, Gussago si stende con le sue sette frazioni entro la cornice della Franciacorta. Contraddistinto dalla naturale conformazione di comune sparso, Gussago occupa il profilo armonico della campagna che digrada verso la pianura: porta orientale di Franciacorta.
Alessia, la prima trans che ha celebrato il matrimonio religioso nonostante il Vaticano
Alessia è una ragazza, nata in provincia di Casera con un altro nome, con un altro genere. Era maschio. Oggi è una donna transessuale e ad aprile scorso, grazie alla sentenza di un giudice e al sostegno dell'associazione Trans Napoli (Atn) fondata da una attivista storica, Loredana Rossi, è stata la prima trans in Italia a ottenere il cambio del nome sui documenti senza operazione e dunque ha potuto sposarsi. Ma ad Alessia Cinquegrana non è bastato: ha voluto sfidare la mentalità e i pregiudizi organizzando, da fervente cattolica, un matrimonio religioso. Nonostante, però, il diniego del Vaticano: si è rivolta infatti alla Chiesa cattolica ecumenica, che ammette - ad esempio - i matrimoni omosessuali, tra divorziati, tra transessuali, la contraccezione ed è in polemica con il Vaticano su questi ed altri punti.
“Alla nostra socia Alessia – spiega Loredana Rossi - è stato negato il rito in chiesa per le purtroppo ancora attuali discriminazioni trans fobiche della Chiesa Cattolica. Così è stata accolta dal pastore episcopale che ha saputo riconoscere senza pregiudizi, la profondità del sentimento tra Alessia e Michele.
MONFORTE D'ALBA - ITALY, PIEDMONT
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Cazzano Sant'andrea - Piccola Grande Italia 66
Comune montano in provincia di Bergamo con circa millequattrocento abitanti. Il patrono è Sant'Andrea.
Campo Tures (Valle Aurina)
Una Comune Belissimo incastonato in una Vallata Fantastica..
Il Borgo dei Borghi 6 ottobre 2019 San Benedetto Po
Sito comunale:
Pagina Facebook:
Ufficio Turistico:
PARROCCHIA DI AREZZO LIGURE (Fraz. Vobbia)
Parrocchia Santi Cosma e Damiano di Arezzo Ligure (genova).
Concerto di Campane per La processione di Sant'Anna.
26 Luglio 2017.
O nascimento de Jesus (Maria Valtorta)
Momento de Reflexão
O NASCIMENTO DE JESUS - (VISÃO DE MARIA VALTORTA)
De-O Evangelho como me foi revelado-( I Vol. 29.2-6)
Meus irmãos, quem era Maria Valtorta, da qual já tive oportunidade de falar noutros vídeos?
Maria Valtorta nasceu no dia 14 de Março de 1897, na Itália.
Tendo completado os seus estudos, durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial,
foi enfermeira samaritana no Hospital Militar de Florença.
Um dia, um revolucionário lhe deu uma paulada nos rins,
causando-lhe horríveis sofrimentos, até a obrigá-la a estar de cama desde 1934 até a sua morte,
ocorrida em Viareggio no dia 12 de Outubro de 1961.
Os seus sofrimentos aumentavam e a sua ascensão
culminava em heróicas ofertas de si por amor a Deus e à humanidade.
A sua verdadeira missão foi aquela de Escritora Mística.
Em 1943, enferma há nove anos, aderiu a um pedido do confessor
e escreveu a sua Autobiografia. Em seguida, dava início à sua maior obra de 10 volumes:
O Evangelho como me foi revelado.
Maria Valtorta escrevia de seu punho, em cadernos comuns, estando sentada no seu leito de dor.
Que valor dar aos seus escritos?
Não podemos certamente tomar os seus numerosos escritos,
os 10 volumes e os outros, como livros inspirados, como se fossem Sagrada Escritura,
nem tão pouco como se fossem revelações, em sentido estrito.
Deixemos à Santa Igreja pronunciar-se, quando o achar oportuno.
A Obra de Maria Valtorta não acresce nada à Revelação e não é o quinto Evangelho,
mas completa e ilustra, em forma de revelação privada, a narração dos quatro Evangelhos.
Ela circulava apenas em cópias dactilografadas quando o papa Pio XII a leu e depois aconselhou
- em audiência privada de 26 de Fevereiro de 1948 -
a publicação tal como era,
desaprovando o texto de um prefácio que teria podido condicionar o pensamento do leitor.
No entanto, creio que podemos dizer que se trata de livros muito preciosos pelas reflexões
e doutrina que nos transmitem para o alimento da nossa vida espiritual.
Sirva-nos, para apreciarmos correctamente o trabalho da Valtorta, a declaração do grande Mariólogo,
Pe. Gabriele M.Roschini, o.s.m. :
Há meio século que me ocupo de Mariologia: estudando, ensinando, pregando e escrevendo...
Também eu fui, no passado, do número daqueles que, sem ter um conhecimento adequado dos seus escritos,
tiveram um sorriso de desconfiança por eles.
Mas, depois de os ter lido e ponderado, cheguei a esta conclusão sincera:
Entre Nossa Senhora apresentada por mim e pelos meus colegas Mariólogos
e Nossa Senhora apresentada por Maria Valtorta,
parece-me de encontrar a mesma diferença que há entre uma Nossa Senhora de barro e uma Nossa Senhora Viva...
Pe. Roschini tinha-se limitado a estudar, nos livros da Valtorta, a pessoa de Nossa Senhora.
Escreveu, por isso, o livro: La Madonna negli scritti di Maria Valtorta.
Mas, neles há muita outra doutrina, por ex.,sobre a Divina Misericórdia, que vale a pena conhecer.
Neste vídeo meditemos a descrição desta Escritora Mística do Nascimento de Jesus.
NASCIMENTO DE JESUS NA GRUTA DE BELÉM
«Um pouco de luar está entrando por uma fenda do tecto,
e parece uma lâmina de alguma prata imaterial, que se vai aproximando de Maria.
A lâmina vai-se alongando, à medida que a lua vai ficando mais alta no céu e, finalmente alcança Maria.
Agora já está sobre a cabeça da orante, ( de Maria), ornando-a com uma auréola de luz.
Maria levanta a cabeça como se tivesse sido chamada por uma voz do céu, e se põe de novo de joelhos.
Oh! Como é belo aqui.
Maria ergue de novo a cabeça, que parece estar brilhando à luz branca da lua,
e um sorriso, não humano, a transfigura.
Que é que Ela estará vendo? Que estará ouvindo? Que estará experimentando?
Somente Ela poderia dizer o que está vendo, ouvindo
e que experimentou NA HORA EXPLENDOROSA DA SUA MATERNIDADE!
Eu vejo apenas como, ao redor d'Ela, A LUZ CRESCE, VAI CRESCENDO SEMPRE MAIS!...
Parece que EMANE D'ELA MESMA!
E a luz vai-se tornando cada vez mais forte. Ela já está insuportável para a nossa vista.
A Virgem desaparece nela, (na luz) como se estivesse sendo absorvida por UM VÉU ENCANDESCENTE...
e dele (deste véu de luz) SURGE A( Virgem) MÃE !
Sim. Quando a luz volta a ser suportável aos meus olhos,
VEJO MARIA COM O FILHO RECÉM-NASCIDO NOS BRAÇOS!
Um pequenino, todo rosado e gorducho, que agita os braços e esperneia.
Χρυσή Αυγή: Προσωπική Υπόθεση
[ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΟΥΜΕ ΕΝΕΡΓΟΠΟΙΗΣΤΕ ΤΟΥΣ ΥΠΟΤΙΤΛΟΥΣ]
Στο μυαλό του νεοναζί της διπλανής πόρτας
Ένα ντοκυμανταίρ της Angélique Kourounis
Σύνοψη:
«Ο σύντροφός μου είναι Εβραίος, ο ένας γιός μου γκέι, ο άλλος αναρχικός κι εγώ αριστερή φεμινίστρια, κόρη μεταναστών. Αν η Χρυσή Αυγή έρθει στα πράγματα το μόνο μας πρόβλημα θα είναι σε ποιό βαγόνι θα μας βάλουν.»
Μια δημοσιογράφος ερευνά για χρόνια την οργάνωση του ελληνικού νεοναζιστικού κόμματος «Χρυσή Αυγή».
Η οικονομική κατάρρευση, η πολιτική αστάθεια και οι οικογενειακές σχέσεις έρχονται σε πρώτο πλάνο καθώς το ντοκυμανταίρ προσπαθεί να ανακαλύψει «τί έχουν στο κεφάλι τους οι Χρυσαυγίτες που παρουσιάζονται ως θύματα» του συστήματος.
Η Χρυσή Αυγή «ποτέ δεν κρύφτηκε», όσον αφορά στην ιδεολογία της. Η απήχησή της στις κάλπες μπορεί παλιότερα να ήταν απειροελάχιστη, όμως η συμβατότητα αυτής της ιδεολογίας με γερά παγιωμένες αντιλήψεις στην Ελλάδα – που καλλιεργούν πολλοί κληρικοί, τα περισσότερα ΜΜΕ και το πολιτικό σύστημα – αποτελεί το εύφορο έδαφος στο οποίο ανθεί η οργάνωση.
Η σκηνοθέτρια εξετάζει το θέμα μέσα από τις προσωπικές της εμμονές, τις ανησυχίες και τους φόβους της, έχοντας ήδη αφιερώσει αρκετά χρόνια και άλλες δύο τηλεοπτικές παραγωγές στην προσέγγιση του νεοναζιστικού κόμματος, που κατέλαβε την τρίτη θέση στο πολιτικό σύστημα της Ελλάδας ύστερα από τρεις δεκαετίες περιθωριακής, αλλά αιματηρής, δραστηριότητας.
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Suspense: Murder Aboard the Alphabet / Double Ugly / Argyle Album
The program's heyday was in the early 1950s, when radio actor, producer and director Elliott Lewis took over (still during the Wilcox/Autolite run). Here the material reached new levels of sophistication. The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series (featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny. Jim and Marian Jordan of Fibber McGee and Molly were heard in the episode, Backseat Driver, which originally aired February 3, 1949.
The highest production values enhanced Suspense, and many of the shows retain their power to grip and entertain. At the time he took over Suspense, Lewis was familiar to radio fans for playing Frankie Remley, the wastrel guitar-playing sidekick to Phil Harris in The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show. On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with Death on My Hands: A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him.
With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content. By the end of its run, the series was remaking scripts from the long-canceled program The Mysterious Traveler. A time travel tale like Robert Arthur's The Man Who Went Back to Save Lincoln or a thriller about a death ray-wielding mad scientist would alternate with more run-of-the-mill crime dramas.
Suspense: Will You Make a Bet with Death / Menace in Wax / The Body Snatchers
There were several variations of program introductions. A typical early opening is this from April 27, 1943:
(MUSIC ... BERNARD HERRMANN'S SUSPENSE THEME ... CONTINUES IN BG)
THE MAN IN BLACK: Suspense!
This is The Man in Black, here again to introduce Columbia's program, Suspense.
Our stars tonight are Miss Agnes Moorehead and Mr. Ray Collins. You've seen these two expert and resourceful players in Citizen Kane - The Magnificent Ambersons in which Miss Moorehead's performance won her the 1942 Film Critics' Award. Mr. Collins will soon be seen in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Technicolor film, Salute to the Marines.
Miss Moorehead and Mr. Collins return this evening to their first love, the CBS microphone, to appear in a study in terror by Lucille Fletcher called The Diary of Sophronia Winters.
The story told by this diary is tonight's tale of... suspense. If you've been with us on these Tuesday nights, you will know that Suspense is compounded of mystery and suspicion and dangerous adventure. In this series are tales calculated to intrigue you, to stir your nerves, to offer you a precarious situation and then withhold the solution... until the last possible moment. And so it is with The Diary of Sophronia Winters and the performances of Agnes Moorehead and Ray Collins, we again hope to keep you in...
(MUSIC: ... UP, DRAMATICALLY)
THE MAN IN BLACK: ... Suspense!
Classic Movie Bloopers and Mistakes: Film Stars Uncensored - 1930s and 1940s Outtakes
Classical Hollywood cinema or the classical Hollywood narrative, are terms used in film history which designate both a visual and sound style for making motion pictures and a mode of production used in the American film industry between 1917 and 1960. More bloopers:
This period is often referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood. An identifiable cinematic form emerged during this period called classical Hollywood style.
Classical style is fundamentally built on the principle of continuity editing or invisible style. That is, the camera and the sound recording should never call attention to themselves (as they might in films from earlier periods, other countries or in a modernist or postmodernist work).
Throughout the early 1930s, risque films and salacious advertising, became widespread in the short period known as Pre-Code Hollywood. MGM dominated the industry and had the top stars in Hollywood, and was also credited for creating the Hollywood star system altogether. MGM stars included at various times King of Hollywood Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow, Gary Cooper, Mary Pickford, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, James Stewart, Katharine Hepburn, Vivien Leigh, Grace Kelly, Gene Kelly, Gloria Stuart, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, John Wayne, Barbara Stanwyck, John Barrymore, Audrey Hepburn and Buster Keaton. Another great achievement of American cinema during this era came through Walt Disney's animation. In 1937, Disney created the most successful film of its time, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Many film historians have remarked upon the many great works of cinema that emerged from this period of highly regimented film-making. One reason this was possible is that, with so many movies being made, not every one had to be a big hit. A studio could gamble on a medium-budget feature with a good script and relatively unknown actors: Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles and often regarded as the greatest film of all time, fits that description. In other cases, strong-willed directors like Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Capra battled the studios in order to achieve their artistic visions. The apogee of the studio system may have been the year 1939, which saw the release of such classics as The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Stagecoach, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Destry Rides Again,Young Mr. Lincoln, Wuthering Heights, Only Angels Have Wings, Ninotchka, Babes in Arms, Gunga Din, and The Roaring Twenties. Among the other films from the Golden Age period that are now considered to be classics: Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, King Kong, Citizen Kane, Swing Time, Some Like It Hot, A Night at the Opera, All About Eve, The Searchers, Breakfast At Tiffany's, North by Northwest, Dinner at Eight, Rebel Without a Cause, Rear Window, Double Indemnity, Mutiny on the Bounty, City Lights, Red River, The Manchurian Candidate, Bringing Up Baby, Singin' in the Rain, To Have and Have Not, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Roman Holiday, Giant and Jezebel.
The style of Classical Hollywood cinema, as elaborated by David Bordwell, has been heavily influenced by the ideas of the Renaissance and its resurgence of mankind as the focal point.
Thus, classical narration progresses always through psychological motivation, i.e. by the will of a human character and its struggle with obstacles towards a defined goal. The aspects of space and time are subordinated to the narrative element which is usually composed of two lines of action: A romance intertwined with a more generic one such as business or, in the case of Alfred Hitchcock films, solving a crime.
Time in classical Hollywood is continuous, since non-linearity calls attention to the illusory workings of the medium. The only permissible manipulation of time in this format is the flashback. It is mostly used to introduce a memory sequence of a character, e.g. Casablanca.
Likewise, the treatment of space in classic Hollywood strives to overcome or conceal the two-dimensionality of film (invisible style) and is strongly centered upon the human body. The majority of shots in a classical film focus on gestures or facial expressions (medium-long and medium shots). André Bazin once compared classical film to a photographed play in that the events seem to exist objectively and that cameras only give us the best view of the whole play.
Words at War: Assignment USA / The Weeping Wood / Science at War
The Detroit Race Riot broke out in Detroit, Michigan in June 20, 1943, and lasted for three days before Federal troops restored order. The rioting between blacks and whites began on Belle Isle on June 20, 1943 and continued until the 22nd of June, killing 34, wounding 433, and destroying property valued at $2 million.
In the summer of 1943, in the midst of World War II, tensions between blacks and whites in Detroit were escalating. Detroit's population had grown by 350,000 people since the war began. The booming defense industries brought in large numbers of people with high wages and very little available housing. 50,000 blacks had recently arrived along with 300,000 whites, mostly from rural Appalachia and Southern States.[2]
Recruiters convinced blacks as well as whites in the South to come up North by promising them higher wages in the new war factories. Believing that they had found a promised land, blacks began to move up North in larger numbers. However, upon arriving in Detroit, blacks found that the northern bigotry was just as bad as that they left behind in the deep South. They were excluded from all public housing except Brewster Housing Projects, forced to live in homes without indoor plumbing, and paid rents two to three times higher than families in white districts. They also faced discrimination from the public and unfair treatment by the Detroit Police Department.[3] In addition, Southern whites brought their traditional bigotry with them as both races head up North, adding serious racial tensions to the area. Job-seekers arrived in such large numbers in Detroit that it was impossible to house them all.
Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government was concerned about providing housing for the workers who were beginning to pour into the area. On June 4, 1941, the Detroit Housing Commission approved two sites for defense housing projects--one for whites, one for blacks. The site originally selected by the commission for black workers was in a predominantly black area, but the U.S. government chose a site at Nevada and Fenelon streets, an all-white neighborhood.
To complete this, a project named Sojourner Truth was launched in the memory of a black Civil War woman and poet. Despite this, the white neighborhoods opposed having blacks moving next to their homes, meaning no tenants were to be built. On January, 20, 1942, Washington DC informed the Housing Commission that the Sojourner Truth project would be for whites and another would be selected for blacks. But when a suitable site for blacks could not be found, Washington housing authorities agreed to allow blacks into the finished homes. This was set on February 28, 1942.[4] In February 27, 1942, 120 whites went on protest vowing they would keep any black homeowners out of their sight in response to the project. By the end of the day, it had grown to more than 1,200, most of them were armed. Things went so badly that two blacks in a car attempted to run over the protesters picket line which led to a clash between white and black groups. Despite the mounting opposition from whites, black families moved into the project at the end of April. To prevent a riot, Detroit Mayor Edward Jeffries ordered the Detroit Police Department and state troops to keep the peace during that move. Over 1,100 city and state police officers and 1,600 Michigan National Guard troops were mobilized and sent to the area around Nevada and Fenelon street to guard six African-American families who moved into the Sojourner Truth Homes. Thanks to the presence of the guard, there were no further racial problems for the blacks who moved into this federal housing project. Eventually, 168 black families moved into these homes.[5] Despite no casualties in the project, the fear was about to explode a year later.[6]
In early June 1943, three weeks before the riot, Packard Motor Car Company promoted three blacks to work next to whites in the assembly lines. This promotion caused 25,000 whites to walk off the job, effectively slowing down the critical war production. It was clear that whites didn't mind that blacks worked in the same plant but refused to work side-by-side with them. During the protest, a voice with a Southern accent shouted in the loudspeaker, I'd rather see Hitler and Hirohito win than work next to a nigger.
Words at War: Der Fuehrer / A Bell For Adano / Wild River
The town of Adano is a fictional Sicilian port town modeled after the real town of Licata, one of the disembarkation town of the Allied Occupation of Italy. Just like Adano, the town of Licata has a shipping and sulfur industry, a fishing port, and its largest church is the Church of Sant'Angelo. Additionally, Benito Mussolini did have Licata's 700 year old bell melted to make ammunition.[5] Major Joppolo is based on the American military governor of Licata named Frank E. Toscani. John Hersey visited Toscani for four or five days during the war and created Victor Joppolo from him, even noting that he held a job as a civilian clerk in the New York City Sanitation Department.[6] General Marvin is an obvious depiction of the World War II General Patton, who was known for his bitterness and cruelty, but also his effectiveness.
Führer was the unique name granted by Hitler to himself, and this in his function as Vorsitzender (chairman) of the Nazi Party. It was at the time common to refer to party leaders as Führer, yet only with an addition to indicate the leader of which party was meant. Hitler's adoption of the title was partly inspired by its earlier use by the Austro-German nationalist Georg von Schönerer, whose followers also commonly referred to as the Führer without qualification, and who also used the Sieg Heil-salute.[3] Hitler's choice for this political epithet was unprecedented in German. Like much of the early symbolism of Nazi Germany, it was modeled after Benito Mussolini's Italian Fascism. Mussolini's chosen epithet il Duce or Dux if Latin ('the Leader') was widely used, though unlike Hitler he never made it his official title. The Italian word Duce (unlike the German word Führer) is no longer used as a generic term for a leader, but almost always refers to Mussolini himself.
After Hitlers' appointment as Reichskanzler (Chancellor of the Reich) the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act which allowed Hitler's cabinet to promulgate laws by decree. One day before the death of Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg Hitler and his cabinet issued a decree, that dissolved the office of the president and made Hitler Hindenburg's successor. However this move was in breach of the Enabling Act. Hitler adopted Führer und Reichskanzler, combining his positions in party and government, as his title.[1][2] Ostensibly Hitler did not use the title president out of respect for Hindenburg's achievements as a heroic figure in World War I (though the decree, rather impiously, was already passed before Hindenburg's death on August 2, 1934).
In popular reception, the title of Führer and Chancellor was soon understood to mean Head of State and Head of Government -- a view that becomes even more accurate[citation needed] seeing that he was given by propaganda the title of Führer des deutschen Reiches und Volkes (Leader of the German Reich and People), the name the soldiers had to swear to. However, it keeps some meaning as Leader of Party and Head of Government with reference to the confusing relationship of party and state, including posts in personal union as well as offices with the same portfolio Hitler wanted to fight for his favour. The style of the Head of State was changed on July 28, 1942 to Führer des Großdeutschen Reiches (Leader of the Greater German Reich). In his political testament, Hitler also refers to himself as Führer der Nation.[4]
Nazi Germany cultivated the Führerprinzip (leader principle),[5] and Hitler was generally known as just der Führer (the Leader). One of the Nazis' most-repeated political slogans was Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer — One People, One Nation, One Leader.
According to the Constitution of Weimar, the President was Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. Unlike President, Hitler did take this title (Oberbefehlshaber) for himself. When conscription was reintroduced in 1935, Hitler had himself promoted to the new title Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht (Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces), which meant then a presidential position over the Wehrmacht in fact led by another (newly instituted) Commander-in-chief, the Minister for War. Following the Blomberg--Fritsch Affair in 1938, Hitler took the responsibilities of this commander-in-chief for himself, though he kept on using the older formally higher title of Supreme Commander, which was thus filled with a somewhat new meaning. Combining it with Führer, he used the style Führer und Oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht (Leader and Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht), yet a simple Führer since May 1942.
Calling All Cars: The Broken Motel / Death in the Moonlight / The Peroxide Blond
The radio show Calling All Cars hired LAPD radio dispacher Jesse Rosenquist to be the voice of the dispatcher. Rosenquist was already famous because home radios could tune into early police radio frequencies. As the first police radio dispatcher presented to the public ear, his was the voice that actors went to when called upon for a radio dispatcher role.
The iconic television series Dragnet, with LAPD Detective Joe Friday as the primary character, was the first major media representation of the department. Real LAPD operations inspired Jack Webb to create the series and close cooperation with department officers let him make it as realistic as possible, including authentic police equipment and sound recording on-site at the police station.
Due to Dragnet's popularity, LAPD Chief Parker became, after J. Edgar Hoover, the most well known and respected law enforcement official in the nation. In the 1960s, when the LAPD under Chief Thomas Reddin expanded its community relations division and began efforts to reach out to the African-American community, Dragnet followed suit with more emphasis on internal affairs and community policing than solving crimes, the show's previous mainstay.
Several prominent representations of the LAPD and its officers in television and film include Adam-12, Blue Streak, Blue Thunder, Boomtown, The Closer, Colors, Crash, Columbo, Dark Blue, Die Hard, End of Watch, Heat, Hollywood Homicide, Hunter, Internal Affairs, Jackie Brown, L.A. Confidential, Lakeview Terrace, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Life, Numb3rs, The Shield, Southland, Speed, Street Kings, SWAT, Training Day and the Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour and Terminator film series. The LAPD is also featured in the video games Midnight Club II, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, L.A. Noire and Call of Juarez: The Cartel.
The LAPD has also been the subject of numerous novels. Elizabeth Linington used the department as her backdrop in three different series written under three different names, perhaps the most popular being those novel featuring Det. Lt. Luis Mendoza, who was introduced in the Edgar-nominated Case Pending. Joseph Wambaugh, the son of a Pittsburgh policeman, spent fourteen years in the department, using his background to write novels with authentic fictional depictions of life in the LAPD. Wambaugh also created the Emmy-winning TV anthology series Police Story. Wambaugh was also a major influence on James Ellroy, who wrote several novels about the Department set during the 1940s and 1950s, the most famous of which are probably The Black Dahlia, fictionalizing the LAPD's most famous cold case, and L.A. Confidential, which was made into a film of the same name. Both the novel and the film chronicled mass-murder and corruption inside and outside the force during the Parker era. Critic Roger Ebert indicates that the film's characters (from the 1950s) represent the choices ahead for the LAPD: assisting Hollywood limelight, aggressive policing with relaxed ethics, and a straight arrow approach.
You Bet Your Life: Secret Word - Light / Clock / Smile
Julius Henry Groucho Marx (October 2, 1890 -- August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film and television star. He is known as a master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era. His rapid-fire, often impromptu delivery of innuendo-laden patter earned him many admirers and imitators. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show You Bet Your Life. His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows. These exaggerated features resulted in the creation of one of the world's most ubiquitous and recognizable novelty disguises, known as Groucho glasses, a one-piece mask consisting of horn-rimmed glasses, large plastic nose, bushy eyebrows and mustache.
Groucho Marx was, and is, the most recognizable and well-known of the Marx Brothers. Groucho-like characters and references have appeared in popular culture both during and after his life, some aimed at audiences who may never have seen a Marx Brothers movie. Groucho's trademark eye glasses, nose, mustache, and cigar have become icons of comedy—glasses with fake noses and mustaches (referred to as Groucho glasses, nose-glasses, and other names) are sold by novelty and costume shops around the world.
Nat Perrin, close friend of Groucho Marx and writer of several Marx Brothers films, inspired John Astin's portrayal of Gomez Addams on the 1960s TV series The Addams Family with similarly thick mustache, eyebrows, sardonic remarks, backward logic, and ever-present cigar (pulled from his breast pocket already lit).
Alan Alda often vamped in the manner of Groucho on M*A*S*H. In one episode, Yankee Doodle Doctor, Hawkeye and Trapper put on a Marx Brothers act at the 4077, with Hawkeye playing Groucho and Trapper playing Harpo. In three other episodes, a character appeared who was named Captain Calvin Spalding (played by Loudon Wainwright III). Groucho's character in Animal Crackers was Captain Geoffrey T. Spaulding.
On many occasions, on the 1970s television sitcom All In The Family, Michael Stivic (Rob Reiner), would briefly imitate Groucho Marx and his mannerisms.
Two albums by British rock band Queen, A Night at the Opera (1975) and A Day at the Races (1976), are named after Marx Brothers films. In March 1977, Groucho invited Queen to visit him in his Los Angeles home; there they performed '39 a capella. A long-running ad campaign for Vlasic Pickles features an animated stork that imitates Groucho's mannerisms and voice. On the famous Hollywood Sign in California, one of the Os is dedicated to Groucho. Alice Cooper contributed over $27,000 to remodel the sign, in memory of his friend.
In 1982, Gabe Kaplan portrayed Marx in the film Groucho, in a one-man stage production. He also imitated Marx occasionally on his previous TV sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
Actor Frank Ferrante has performed as Groucho Marx on stage for more than two decades. He continues to tour under rights granted by the Marx family in a one-man show entitled An Evening With Groucho in theaters throughout the United States and Canada with piano accompanist Jim Furmston. In the late 1980s Ferrante starred as Groucho in the off-Broadway and London show Groucho: A Life in Revue penned by Groucho's son Arthur. Ferrante portrayed the comedian from age 15 to 85. The show was later filmed for PBS in 2001. Woody Allen's 1996 musical Everyone Says I Love You, in addition to being named for one of Groucho's signature songs, ends with a Groucho-themed New Year's Eve party in Paris, which some of the stars, including Allen and Goldie Hawn, attend in full Groucho costume. The highlight of the scene is an ensemble song-and-dance performance of Hooray for Captain Spaulding—done entirely in French.
In the last of the Tintin comics, Tintin and the Picaros, a balloon shaped like the face of Groucho could be seen in the Annual Carnival.
In the Italian horror comic Dylan Dog, the protagonist's sidekick is a Groucho impersonator whose character became his permanent personality.
The BBC remade the radio sitcom Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel, with contemporary actors playing the parts of the original cast. The series was repeated on digital radio station BBC7. Scottish playwright Louise Oliver wrote a play named Waiting For Groucho about Chico and Harpo waiting for Groucho to turn up for the filming of their last project together. This was performed by Glasgow theatre company Rhymes with Purple Productions at the Edinburgh Fringe and in Glasgow and Hamilton in 2007-08. Groucho was played by Scottish actor Frodo McDaniel.
The Great Gildersleeve: The Campaign Heats Up / Who's Kissing Leila / City Employee's Picnic
The Great Gildersleeve (1941--1957), initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson, was one of broadcast history's earliest spin-off programs. Built around Throckmorton Philharmonic Gildersleeve, a character who had been a staple on the classic radio situation comedy Fibber McGee and Molly, first introduced on Oct. 3, 1939, ep. #216. The Great Gildersleeve enjoyed its greatest success in the 1940s. Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.
On Fibber McGee and Molly, Peary's Gildersleeve was a pompous windbag who became a consistent McGee nemesis. You're a haa-aa-aa-aard man, McGee! became a Gildersleeve catchphrase. The character was given several conflicting first names on Fibber McGee and Molly, and on one episode his middle name was revealed as Philharmonic. Gildy admits as much at the end of Gildersleeve's Diary on the Fibber McGee and Molly series (Oct. 22, 1940).
He soon became so popular that Kraft Foods—looking primarily to promote its Parkay margarine spread — sponsored a new series with Peary's Gildersleeve as the central, slightly softened and slightly befuddled focus of a lively new family.
Premiering on August 31, 1941, The Great Gildersleeve moved the title character from the McGees' Wistful Vista to Summerfield, where Gildersleeve now oversaw his late brother-in-law's estate and took on the rearing of his orphaned niece and nephew, Marjorie (originally played by Lurene Tuttle and followed by Louise Erickson and Mary Lee Robb) and Leroy Forester (Walter Tetley). The household also included a cook named Birdie. Curiously, while Gildersleeve had occasionally spoken of his (never-present) wife in some Fibber episodes, in his own series the character was a confirmed bachelor.
In a striking forerunner to such later television hits as Bachelor Father and Family Affair, both of which are centered on well-to-do uncles taking in their deceased siblings' children, Gildersleeve was a bachelor raising two children while, at first, administering a girdle manufacturing company (If you want a better corset, of course, it's a Gildersleeve) and then for the bulk of the show's run, serving as Summerfield's water commissioner, between time with the ladies and nights with the boys. The Great Gildersleeve may have been the first broadcast show to be centered on a single parent balancing child-rearing, work, and a social life, done with taste and genuine wit, often at the expense of Gildersleeve's now slightly understated pomposity.
Many of the original episodes were co-written by John Whedon, father of Tom Whedon (who wrote The Golden Girls), and grandfather of Deadwood scripter Zack Whedon and Joss Whedon (creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog).
The key to the show was Peary, whose booming voice and facility with moans, groans, laughs, shudders and inflection was as close to body language and facial suggestion as a voice could get. Peary was so effective, and Gildersleeve became so familiar a character, that he was referenced and satirized periodically in other comedies and in a few cartoons.