"The Real Renfield"

Excellent read on the tragic story of one of the best actors of the 30’s and 40’s:

With the onset of World War II, Frye took an overnight job at Douglas Aircraft—to aid the war effort, and because he needed the money. Now without an agent, Frye would spend his days pounding the pavement, winning tiny roles in films for “Poverty Row” studios and bigger ones in exploitation films like Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. In 1941, he even appeared at an LA theater reprising his role of Renfield in a stage production of Dracula. 

Aged beyond his years, a beaten-down Frye was increasingly suffering from heart problems. But because of his Christian Scientist faith, he refused any treatment. This inaction led to his final, deadly heart attack. 

Hadley Hall Mears https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/04/renfield-dracula-dwight-frye?ref=upstract.com

KEEP YOUR COURAGE – Natalie Merchant

Nine years is too long without new Natalie but if this is what comes out of the silence, I'll gladly wait another decade. Beautiful.

four quick (spoiler-free) notes on PICARD 3-9

• YES

• I hope that 3-10, once we're over the utter glee of seeing what we're seeing for the first time since we last saw what we're seeing, all those years ago, explains why – beyond, possibly, a single line in this episode – the status quo at the end of season two seems to have been forgotten.*

• WOW

• YES

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I hereby absolve myself of any responsibility for resulting nightmares

Fairly certain of two things: one, that this 1933 Dick Tracy mask is one of the most terrifying things in my collection (this one is now second); and two, that it was probably the basis of the D.B. Cooper composite sketch:

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