Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

The Midweek Shout-out to all my frens...uh..well...whoever is here.




Mood after on last night's SOTU address.






SOTU



Silence was my Hallowed Ground. My Fortress. My Gethsemane. If anyone came in, it would intrinsically cease to be. And so I remain...




Feb 8, 1915: D. W. Griffith's controversial silent epic drama film The Birth of a Nation, originally called The Clansman premieres in Los Angeles. It was the first motion picture to be screened inside the White House, viewed there by President Woodrow Wilson, his family, and members of his cabinet. The film portrays its black characters (many of whom are played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive toward white women. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is portrayed as a heroic force, necessary to preserve American values, protect white women, and maintain white supremacy.




The original PLANET OF THE APES opened in NYC Feb, 8, 1968.




Feb 8, 1969: Casting director Marvin Schwarz met with dwindling star Rick Dalton, to convince him to play the lead in Italian Westerns. Sharon Tate attended a party at the Playboy Mansion. Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.




William Shatner as Joseph Conrad at the Parallax Corporation building. 600 South Commonwealth Avenue, Los Angeles. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, "Cocaine," S7:E6, 10/21/1972. Some Star Trek (1966) sound effects can be heard in the background during the cocaine laboratory sequence.




That building today is the Los Angeles Superior Court.


Jack Ruby's lawyer Melvin Mouron Belli appeared on the original Star Trek as a Gorgon Demonic Apparition attempting to give children dangerous mind control powers to take over the ship.