Thursday, June 30, 2022

GRAPHIC: 5 dead in 2nd fatal human smuggling crash in 24 hours near border in texas

By A Texas Reader
Thu, Jun 30, 2022 6:57 p.m.

GRAPHIC: 5 dead in 2nd fatal human smuggling crash in 24 hours near border in texas

For the second time in less than 24 hours, migrants [sic] are dead following a crash as smugglers attempted to avoid arrest.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2022/06/30/graphic-4-dead-in-2nd-fatal-human-smuggling-crash-in-24-hours-near-border-in-texas/

black woman in grand rapids decides to commit murder by arson—a popular variation—that blacks usually reserve for Whites

By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 4:35:00 P.M. EDT

GRA: A mile from my house.

grand rapids, mich. (wood) — A woman has been charged with murder after the grand rapids police department said she started an apartment fire that killed a man earlier in the month.

Tyeshia Minor, 38, has been charged with two counts of first-degree arson and felony murder. She has been in custody since June 20, according to jail records.

The fire happened on June 14 at an apartment on the 1200 block of bridge street. When firefighters put it out, crews found a 64-year-old man named Charles James had died in the fire.

Fire investigators determined that the fire was arson so the criminal investigation was handed over to the grand rapids police department.

A 49-year-old man was able to escape the fire but was treated for smoke inhalation at the hospital. Residents in the other three apartments were evacuated safely, according to grfd.

--GRA

more on the broad daylight murder of a young mother strolling her infant

[Re: “on the streets of nation of islam mayor Eric Adams’ ny: mother strolling infant shot in head.”]

By David in TN
Thursday, June 30, 2022 at 7:12:00 P.M. EDT

The victim, Azsia Johnson, 20, was not an east side resident. The suspect is the child's father, said to be a resident of Jamaica, Queens. It looks like a black-on-black “domestic violence” killing.

Liz Cheney directed some surreal political theater today (Video)

BREAKING: Cassidy Hutchinson, Fmr. aide to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows testifies Trump demanded to be taken to Capitol after Jan. 6 rally, attempted to grab steering wheel from Secret Service agent.

“I’m the fucking President! Take me up to the Capitol now!” pic.twitter.com/JN8UbEs9fW
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 28, 2022

N.S.: Notwithstanding that Cassidy Hutchinson engaged in hearsay testimony, the upshot is that she wants us to believe that the SS kidnapped the President, and yet that the CinC was somehow the bad guy. And this was supposed to make Liz Cheney look good?

on the streets of nation of islam mayor Eric Adams' ny: mother strolling infant shot in head

By "W"
Thu, Jun 30, 2022 7:35 a.m.

on the streets of ny: mother strolling infant shot in head by a man dressed in black. As mayor adams didn't say:

"more blacks in our city means more lives lost...we cannot allow this epidemic to keep claiming lives."

https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/woman-walking-with-baby-stroller-fatally-shot-in-nyc/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10967721/Mother-20-shot-dead-execution-style-New-Yorks-Upper-East-Side.html

black lives matter vs. the 1/6 Capitol Demonstration: Comparison and Contrast

Re-posted by N.S.

Tucker Carlson on the Loud & Violent Fallout from the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade Decision (Video, June 27, 2022)

Re-posted by N.S.

“Tucker Carlson: this is a coordinated attack on the family”

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

San Antonio: 4 arrested in the case of the 50+dead illegals found in a tractor-trailer

By "W"
Wed, Jun 29, 2022 10:23 p.m.

San Antonio: 4 arrested in the case of the 50+dead illegals found in a tractor-trailer

A "Brownsville," Texas man named Homero Zamorano Jr [does he really know who his father is?] charged with driving the rig, along with his alleged confederate in crime, Christian (sic) Martinez. khou (Kill TV to those familiar with their reportage) reports that Zamorano "has a lengthy criminal history in the U.S." and, clearly, in this case, committing offenses before Amish Youth or MAGA-cap wearing Social Security recipients got around to it.

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/arrest-made-in-tractor-trailer-smuggling-incident-san-antonio/285-fc1dcd3d-0027-48b2-877a-b299fb252519

7-Year-Old Irish Girl Suddenly Dies in Spanish Hotel Pool, Reportedly Suffered Cardiac Arrest

Wed, Jun 29, 2022 9:56 p.m.

7-Year-Old Irish Girl Suddenly Dies in Spanish Hotel Pool, Reportedly Suffered Cardiac Arrest

https://welovetrump.com/2022/06/29/7-year-old-irish-girl-suddenly-dies-in-spanish-hotel-pool-reportedly-suffered-cardiac-arrest/

Nothing to see here, folks.

Move along.

Move along.

Wetting the pants. Blame the nine year old. Waited eight hours. Dating the aunt. "Dating".

War crime victim, Maria Barlow

By A.L.
Wed, Jun 29, 2022 8:59 p.m.

Wetting the pants. Blame the nine year old. Waited eight hours. Dating the aunt. "Dating."

"Her Name is Maria Barlow: white, three-year-old beaten to death by black male who tries to blame it on her nine-year-old brother

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Her story must be told.

Her name must be known.

A black man murdered a white three-year-old girl, Maria Barlow, and tried to blame it on her nine-year-old brother. It appears the black man was dating the white aunt of Barlow and her brother.

While the nation rages on about abortion, an abomination just happened in Maryland. "'To me that is so inhumane': Suspect in 3-year-old's death blamed her brother: Assault came eight hours before 911 call for help."

https://www.unz.com/sbpdl/her-name-is-maria-barlow-white-three-year-old-beaten-to-death-by-black-male-who-tries-to-blame-it-on-her-nine-year-old-brother/

war crime suspects, Barbara Ann Mumpowe and Randolph James Mack

driver of texas truck full of illegal aliens, 45, was 'very high on meth' when arrested in a field | Daily Mail Online

By A Texas Reader

Wed, Jun 29, 2022 3:51 p.m.

Driver of Texas migrant truck, 45, was 'very high on meth' when arrested in a field | Daily Mail Online

PICTURED: Driver of doomed Texas tractor-trailer, 45, crossing US-Mexico border hours before pretending to be a migrant when cops found him high on meth: Death toll rises to 53

arrested in a field | Daily Mail Online

Was he doing a job an American won't do?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10964907/Driver-Texas-migrant-truck-45-high-meth-arrested-field.html

black illegal alien, serial killing suspect Billy Chemirmir indicted on 4 more capital murder charges

By A Texas Reader
Wed, Jun 29, 2022 8:58 a.m.

dallasnews.com: serial killing suspect Billy Chemirmir indicted on 4 more capital murder charges

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2022/06/28/accused-serial-killer-billy-chemirmir-indicted-on-4-more-capital-murder-charges/

And they took our rights FOR NOTHING: On covid, schools, and the death of the liberal expert class

-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Berenson from Unreported Truths <alexberenson@substack.com>
To: add1dda@aol.com
Sent: Wed, Jun 29, 2022 11:32 a.m.

On covid, schools, and the death of the liberal expert class

On Covid, schools, and the death of the liberal expert class

Alex Berenson

Jun 29

The New Yorker just ran its second big negative piece on Ron DeSantis in a week, proof of how much the woke media fears the governor of Florida. (Yes, I read the New Yorker so you don't have to.)

The article is nominally about DeSantis's support for age-appropriate teaching of gender and sexuality in public schools. Or, as the Democrats like to call it, "Don't Say Gay." The wokesters have not figured out that label is not quite the devastating comeback they think.

Plenty of parents of six-year-olds are fine with not having teachers say "gay" - they think that even if they support same-sex marriage (as I do), they and not outsiders should decide what their first- or second-graders hear about sex and family structures. Then again, these are the people who thought "defund the police" was an electoral winner, so their political instincts may not be the best.

But I digress, briefly. As you would expect, the article treats DeSantis as a political opportunist. But, unlike most woke media reporters these days, the author actually took the time both to talk to conservatives who support DeSantis's views and to try to understand why those views are gaining so much ground right now. (As opposed to just repeating Fox News misinformation racism misogyny America is the worst endlessly.)

The result was something close to the truth - and the best explanation I have seen for the way Covid continues to drive our politics, even if no one is talking about it anymore. I urge you to read these three paragraphs - especially the sentence I have bolded - closely:

When I asked Republican activists and operatives about the rise of the school issues, they told a very similar story, one that began with the pandemic, during which many parents came to believe that their interests (in keeping their kids in school) diverged with those of the teachers and administrators. As Roberts, the Heritage Foundation president, put it to me, parents who were in many cases apolitical "became concerned about these overwrought lockdowns, and then when they asked question after question, there was no transparency about them, which led them to pay more attention when their kids were on Zoom. They overheard things being taught. They asked questions about curricula. They were just stonewalled every step of the way." The battles regarding the covid lockdowns, Roberts told me, opened the way for everything that came after. "This is the key thing," he said. "It started with questions about masking and other aspects of the lockdowns."

Both parties right now are trying to answer the question of how fundamentally covid has changed politics. "From 2008 to 2020, elections were decided on the question of fairness—Obama '08, Obama '12, and Trump '16 were all premised on the idea that someone else was getting too much, and you were getting too little, and it was unfair," Danny Franklin, a partner at the Democratic strategy firm Bully Pulpit Interactive and a pollster for both Obama campaigns, told me. But the pandemic and the crises that followed (war, inflation, energy pressures) were not really about fairness but an amorphous sense of chaos. "People are looking for some control over their lives—in focus groups, in polls, once you start looking for that you see it everywhere," Franklin said.

Both parties had shifted, in his view. Biden had sought to reassure Americans that the government, guided by experts, could reassert its control over events, from the pandemic to the crisis in energy supply. Republicans, meanwhile, had focussed on assuring voters that they would deliver control over a personal sphere of influence: schools that would teach what you wanted them to teach, a government that would make it easier, not harder, to get your hands on a gun. A moral panic about gender identity might seem anachronistic, but it served a very current political need. Franklin said, "It's a way for Republicans to tell people that they can have back control of their lives."

SOURCE

The problem - for Biden, for AOC, for the New York Times, for all the people in Park Slope who went to the right schools and believe in the current thing and know paradise is just around the corner if only we raise our taxes a little more - is that "the government, guided by experts" hasn't had a great couple of years.

To say the least.

The profound failure of lockdowns and now vaccines have woken many average folks to the dangers of bureaucratic overreach, expert overconfidence, and authoritarianism in the name of safety.

They took our rights. The media and public health authorities would like you to forget the closed playgrounds and shuttered malls and mask mandates of 2020. And the vaccine mandates of last fall. They want you to forget that for a while, the federal government tried to take the right to work from tens of millions of unvaccinated people. State and local governments went even further; and countries like Canada and Australia further still. UNTIL 10 DAYS AGO, CANADA DID NOT ALLOW UNVACCINATED PEOPLE ON PLANES - effectively curtailing their right to travel in a country that stretches more than 4,000 miles from British Columbia to Newfoundland.

And they took our rights FOR NOTHING.

You and I and they know everything they did failed.

The proof sits in super-cold freezers where millions of vials of mRNA shots, the greatest medical breakthrough since fentanyl, sit slowly decaying. The proof is in the hospitals and pharmacies that are not offering those jabs to kids under 5, because demand is near-zero… and maybe because some of the physician-administrators who make millions of dollars a year running those hospitals know in their hearts that the risk-benefit analysis for mRNA shots for kids is all risk/no benefit and actually want to do the right thing for once. Not enough to say anything publicly, let's not get crazy, but enough to make the shots a little harder to get.

And Dr. Anthony Fauci - double-boosted Anthony Fauci - gave us some more proof today.

It couldn't have happened to a nicer megalomaniac. (This is your excuse to retire, Tony! You got yerself the long Covid!)

So, no, I don't plan to let Covid and the vaccines go anytime soon. Those of us on Team Reality can't let the Faucis of the world run from their failure, we can't pretend it didn't happen. No mulligans here. Especially because the mRNA shots may have long-run risks we are still just beginning to see.

So the New Yorker frames the proposition the two parties are offering exactly right. The Democrats offer expertise, Ivy League brilliance, the smartest folks in the room; the Republicans personal control.

But why wouldn't people trust their own judgment over that of "experts" after the disaster of the last couple of years? What the left cannot seem to understand is that I'm not the problem - which is why kicking me off Twitter didn't save the mRNA shots or the mandates. Ron DeSantis is not the problem either.

Reality is the problem for the left. Reality wants a course correction, and in four months voters are set to deliver that message to the Democratic Party with a foghorn blast.

See the discussion

"mom, teen brother arrested in bronx death of 7-year-old Julissia Batties"

By N.S.

"The mother and brother of Julissia Batties -- who died last summer after she was found badly battered in her bronx home -- have been arrested."

https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/mother-brother-arrested-in-nyc-death-of-julissia-batties/

Eric Adams’ nyc, nation of islam fire department has found a way to reduce the number of subway murders—call them accidents!

By N.S.

“Woman fatally struck by train after falling onto NYC subway tracks”

“First responders with the FDNY tried to save the woman, but she was pronounced dead about an hour later, authorities said.”

https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/woman-fatally-struck-by-nyc-train-after-falling-onto-subway-tracks/

nyc’s nation of islam mayor Eric Adams seeks to get its greatest mayor, Rudy Giuliani, arrested; Rudy responds that Adams should “go f—k himself”; “What a f–king scumbag.”

“Eric Adams says Rudy Giuliani may have filed a phony report in SI ‘assault’ — ex-mayor responds: ‘go f–k’ yourself”

“Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that Rudy Giuliani should be investigated for filing a false police report over an alleged assault at a Staten Island supermarket — prompting the former mayor to tell Adams to ‘go f–k himself.’”

https://nypost.com/2022/06/28/eric-adams-rudy-giuliani-filed-false-report-in-si-supermarket-attack/

"Rudy Giuliani's alleged attacker walks free after charges downgraded"

By David in TN
Mon, Jun 27, 2022 3:33 p.m.

"new york post: Rudy Giuliani's alleged attacker walks free after charges downgraded"

https://nypost.com/2022/06/27/rudy-giulianis-alleged-attacker-has-charged-downgraded/

virginia: trying to prevent destruction of Robert E. Lee statue

By "W"
Mon, Jun 27, 2022 4:55 p.m.

virginia: trying to prevent destruction of Robert E. Lee statue

https://patch.com/virginia/greateralexandria/s/ib3gc/lawsuit-halts-unite-the-right-lee-statue-from-being-melted-down

We will see how they react when we remove all the mlk, george floyd, and mandela statues.

how anti-whiteness education led to an explosion of “queer” "nonbinary" and “trans” white girls

-----Original Message-----
From: Ann Coulter from UNSAFE <anncoulter@substack.com>
To: add1dda@aol.com

Mon, Jun 27, 2022 5:24 p.m.

City Journal: How Anti-Whiteness Education led to an explosion of "Queer" "Nonbinary" and "Trans" White Girls.

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City Journal: How Anti-Whiteness Education led to an explosion of "Queer" "Nonbinary" and "Trans" White Girls.

White? VILLAIN! Trans? HERO!

Ann Coulter

Jun 27

City Journal: The Assault on Children's Psyches

California's ethnic-studies curriculum is fueling a mental-health crisis among teenagers.

Leor Sapir

June 20, 2022

«[S]chools compulsively tell their children how awful it is to be white, how white people enjoy unearned "privilege," how they benefit from "systems" put in place by and for white people for the sole purpose of oppressing "people of color." Plagued by guilt, the children—almost all of them girls—rush to the sanctuary of "LGBTQ+" identity. Once there, they are catapulted into hero status. … Being white is not something these teenagers can escape, but they can mitigate its social costs by declaring themselves part of an oppressed group.»

[I don't know if you know this, but white people have actually accomplished quite a bit.]

«The recent explosion in LGBT identification among Generation Z seems to be driven mainly by young, white, very liberal women who self-identify as lesbian or bisexual but who do not necessarily have female partners. LGBT identity has become divorced from sexual behavior or erotic feeling, allowing anyone to belong on the basis of little more than a generalized dissatisfaction with contemporary sexual mores.»

[As long as nothing is actually required, why not identify as a character from "Roots"?]

«Much of the objectionable "anti-racist" curricula we see today in public schools has trickled down from schools of education, which have become centers for leftist indoctrination. …

[Ed school is the only form of education that makes you dumber.]

«Yet until 2020 or so, teachers who subscribed to this view of education might have been reluctant to implement its core principles in ways that would draw criticism from parents, school boards, and risk-averse administrators. Then George Floyd happened, and the "critical pedagogy" movement went into overdrive. The political environment made it dangerous for school administrators to seem neutral even toward radical forms of "anti-racist" curricula. The institutionalization of critical pedagogy was now a non-negotiable imperative, sanctified by the martyr of Minneapolis.»

[What wonderful things HASN'T Saint George done?]

The brother of fox news political analyst Gianno Caldwell was shot dead in chicago friday morning around 2 a.m.

By R.C.
Mon, Jun 27, 2022 6:53 p.m.

The brother of fox news political analyst Gianno Caldwell was shot dead in chicago friday morning around 2 a.m.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2022/06/27/brother-fox-news-political-analyst-shot-dead-chicago/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uAUoz7jimg

houston-area sheriff withdraws as candidate for ice director

By A Texas Reader
Mon, Jun 27, 2022 8:52 p.m.

houston-area sheriff withdraws as candidate for ice director

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/article/Houston-area-sheriff-withdraws-as-candidate-for-17269637.php

HOUSTON (ap) — A Houston-area sheriff said Monday that he has withdrawn from...

suspect in 2021 sixth street mass shooting to appear in court Tuesday; de'ondre white faces a murder charge and 14 counts of aggravated assault

By A Texas Reader

Tue, Jun 28, 2022 9:51 a.m.

suspect in 2021 sixth street mass shooting to appear in court Tuesday; de'ondre white faces a murder charge and 14 counts of aggravated assault.

https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/sixth-street-mass-shooting-suspect-court/269-90f12536-7746-4048-a7ef-11d029f4954d

Suspect in 2021 Sixth Street mass shooting to appear in court Tuesday | kvue.com

AUSTIN, Texas — The suspected gunman in last June's mass shooting on Sixth Street is expected in court Tuesday. De'ondre White faces a murder charge in connection with the death of 25-year-old ...

www.kvue.com

Former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger Testified that Paid Professional Agitators were Operating at Jan. 6 Riot -- Now He's Dead (Video)

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
Tue, Jun 28, 2022 11:40 a.m.

Former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger Testified that Paid Professional Agitators were Operating at Jan. 6 Riot -- Now He's Dead (Video)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/former-senate-sergeant-arms-michael-stenger-testified-paid-professional-agitators-operating-jan-6-riot-now-dead/

I keep telling parochial ignoramuses who live elsewhere in the country that D.C. is impossibly corrupt.

And this corruption leads to folks getting whacked.

Like Seth Rich.

At 4:00 a.m.

Yeah, like one of Barack’s sons is up at that hour in Northwest D.C.

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

"san francisco: school board votes to end lowell high school's 'anti-racist,' lottery-based admission system after grades collapse"

By R.C.
Tue, Jun 28, 2022 11:34 p.m.

"san francisco: school board votes to end lowell high school's 'anti-racist,' lottery-based admission system after grades collapse"

http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=63177

For Whom the Bell Curve Tolls….

it's just natural for 64-year-old women to get shot to death in the crossfire of drug deal robbery-murders gone right... under diversity

By A Texas Reader
Tue, Jun 28, 2022 11:34 p.m.

police said the preliminary investigation revealed that 28-year-old Gustavo Hernandez and 24-year-old Francisco Mejia, both from Mission, were meeting 58-year-old David Allen Devaney, Sr., 35-year-old David Allen Devaney, Jr., 40-year-old Clint Daniels Du

6 arrested in death of 64-year-old woman caught in drug deal crossfire

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/64-year-old-woman-dead-multiple-arrests-made-after-shooting-in-burleson-parking-lot/3002036/>

teen, 2 adults killed and multiple wounded in overnight shootings across d.c.

By Prince George's County Ex-Pat
Tue, Jun 28, 2022 11:34 p.m.

teen, 2 adults killed and multiple injured in overnight shootings across d.c.

https://wjla.com/news/local/deadly-shootings-washigton-dc-crime-mayor-bowser-chief-contee-gun-laws-violence-northwest-northeast-virgina-maryland Home, sweet home.

Must be dem Amish boys gone wild.

The Historical Significance of Jules Dassin’s Thieves’ Highway (1949)

By N.S.

Thieves’ Highway, which Red Eddie Mueller re-broadcast on June 19th, is a hack crime drama which wasted a great deal of talent:

Richard Conte, Valentina Cortese, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Oakie, Millard Mitchell and stunning, shapeley, “eternal starlet” Barbara Lawrence.

David in TN, who likewise thought little of the picture, cited the Film Noir Guide: “Conte is a veteran who returns from the war to find that his truck driver father has lost both legs in an ‘accident’ deliberately caused by a crooked produce wholesaler (Cobb) to avoid paying the old man for his load. Vowing revenge, Conte teams up with Mitchell to deliver two truckloads of apples to Cobb who, aided by a seductive hooker (Cortese), proceeds to cheat Conte out of his money.

“Reminiscent of They Drive by Night, Thieves’ Highway has a convincing, fast-moving plot, and the actors are excellent, especially Cobb as the shady wholesaler and Cortese as the femme fatale with second thoughts.

“Soon after he made Thieves' Highway, Director Jules Dassin (Brute Force, The Naked City, and Two Smart People) was identified as a Communist by fellow director Edward Dmytryk during House Un-American Activities Committee hearings.”

https://nicholasstixuncensored.blogspot.com/2022/06/tcms-film-noir-of-week-saturday-night_19.html

Leaving aside They Drive by Night, Thieves’ Highway’s plot is completely unconvincing. Indeed, its plot is ridiculous. We’re supposed to believe that one man after another, whose subsistence depends on being able to borrow money for a rig, with which to buy, deliver, and sell fresh produce, would let himself be cheated, robbed, maimed and murdered by a rat like Mike Figlia (Cobb), who would just continue on without resistance?

The guilty party was “Buzz” (Albert Isaac) Bezzerides (1908-2007), who furnished the hackneyed script. According to Red Eddie, Thieves’ Highway was a roman a clef, in which Bezzerides told of how Hollywood ripped him off, like the poor, exploited truckers in the story. The reality was that Bezzerides did very well off of Hollywood, better than he deserved.

Figlia (Cobb) hires hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold Rica (Valentina Cortese) to pick up and thereby distract heroic trucker Nick Garcos (Richard Conte), so Figlia’s men can slash Nick’s tires, and then, after Figlia pays him, rob him of every penny. (Dassin gets around the Hays Code by having Nick “nap” at Cortese’s place.)

When Nick’s fiance, Polly Faber (Barbara Lawrence), learns that he’s been robbed of their honeymoon money, she leaves him, which gives the whore the chance to prove herself the real heroine of the story.

The significance of the picture is that Lee J. Cobb got to play the murderous “Johnny Friendly,” and they got to see Valentina Cortese, who in real life may have been a whore, but who definitely did not have a heart of gold. Cobb became famous to movie audiences in his role as labor racketeer Johnny Friendly, in Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg’s masterpiece, On the Waterfront (1954). But that performance was a do-over. Cobb’s original performance was right here.

(Not to mention, that On the Waterfront was a case of movie journalism, its screenplay being based in part on real people (e.g., Father Barry [Karl Malden] was based on Father John Corridan; tragic hero Kayo Dugan (Pat Henning) was based on Corridan acolyte Arthur Browne.), and the picture being the greatest anti-Communist movie ever made, even if few viewers understood its intent, just as few viewers understood the pro-Communist intent of Carl Foreman and Fred Zinnemann’s 1952 masterpiece, High Noon.)

Schulberg won a much-deserved Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Waterfront, besting one of the greatest screenplays ever written, director Joe Mankiewicz’ screen novel, The Barefoot Contessa. The year of A Star is Born was a very good year. It proved to be the last year of the Golden Age of the Sound Era (1939-1954)

Valentina Cortese became famous through her performance in Truffaut’s 1973 masterpiece, Day for Night, as a middle-aged actress who has one brief scene she just can’t get right, and which requires take after take after take, in a sort of cinematic hell.

Cortese got nominated for Best Supporting Actress, but Ingrid Bergman won the little man, even though her hysterical performance as a servant in Murder on the Orient Express did not deserve a nomination. When Bergman won the Oscar, she reportedly said that Cortese had deserved it.

It was clearly favoritism that got Bergman that undeserved nomination and Oscar, but it may have been a justifiable hostility that cost Cortese her Oscar.

Valentina Cortese was a monster. She married Richard Basehart, bore him a daughter, and then kidnapped the girl off to Italy, where she prevented her husband from ever seeing his child again.

Only in fiction could Valentina Cortese have a heart of gold.