Mark Maynard | The Hearts of Age

Looking for the Mark III

By Mark | August 19, 2018

I rarely share them here, but I’m known to go off on wild goose chases every now and then, trying my best to track down useless historical facts and obscure items that, for whatever reason, I’ve become obsessed by. A few years back, as you may recall, I decided that I needed to know what […]

Posted in Art and Culture, History, Pop Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1973, 1976, adult films, Alan Frybach, Andrea Marie Truden, Andrea True, Art 1 and 2, computer game, disco, Don Knotts, dongs, Edith Massey, film history, Germany, Henry Ford Museum, Hot Channels, Illinois, International Hot Channels Symposium on Virtual Reality and Popular Culture, Johnny Mnemonic, Mark III, Mark's obsessions, More More More, North Washington Street, Orson Welles, Paul Williams, porn, pubic hair, R.G. Benjamin, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Serial Mom, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Museum of American History, technology, The Lawnmower Man, The Matrix, virtual reality, Virtuosity, VR, Welt am Draht, Woodstock, World on a Wire | 13 Comments

Digging though the Hollywood archives: Ted Healy’s drawing of Wallace Beery, and Wallace Beery’s murder of Ted Healy

By Mark | February 23, 2013

Every once in a while, I’ve been known to go off on a tangent. Something obscure will pique my interest, and, for whatever reason, I find that I’m not able to let it go. (Does anyone remember my interest in the large school bell that was rung by the 19 year old Orson Welles in […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1932, 1937, Albert Broccoli, anxiety, cross-dressing, Dinner at Eight, drag, Good Old Soak, Grand Hotel, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, Greta Garbo, Hollywood, Jackie Cooper, James Bond, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Louie B. Mayer, MGM, murder mystery, Orson Welles, Oscars, Pat DiCicco, Phyllis Ann Beery, silent films, social anxiety disorder, Sweedie The Swedish Maid, Ted Healy, The Champ, Thelma Todd, Three Stooges, Trocadero, unresolved mystery, vaudeville, Wallace Beery, Will Rogers | 33 Comments

The unsolved mystery of Jack Brown’s 1984 murder in Ypsilanti

By Mark | March 17, 2012

Every once in a while, my OCD gets the best of me, and I find myself going off on a tangent, obsessed by some little thing that, if I were anyone else, I’d probably just disregard. Recently, as you might recall, I got a little fixated, for whatever reason, by a large bell that figured […]

Posted in Mark's Life, OCD, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 1984, Brenda Stumbo, conspiracy theories, contract killing, Cynthia Wilbanks, Eagle Brief, Ed Hall, Ehman and Greenstreet Real Estate, Gary Hawks, getting away with murder, historic reenactment, hit man, In Search Of, Jack Brown, Kirk Profit, Mike Hawks, murder, murder for hire, murder mystery, Orson Welles, real estate, Roy Wilbanks, scandals, sitcom ideas, Unsolved Mysteries, Ypsilanti police department | 35 Comments

Orson Welles at 19… The Hearts of Age

By Mark | October 23, 2011

I know there’s stuff that I should be writing about, but I’m finding it incredibly difficult to get motivated tonight. So, instead of reading through the weekend’s news and trying to come up with something clever, I’m reading up on the early life of Orson Welles. Right now, I’m watching what’s thought to be his […]

Posted in Art and Culture, OCD, Uncategorized | Also tagged avant-garde, bells, blackface, Chicago, Chris Barber, Citizen Kane, Dr. John, experimental film, Gary Graver, Greenwich, hanging, Illinois, Jean Cocteau, Joseph McBride, Luis Bunuel, Orson Welles, Robert Wiene, The Blood of a Poet, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Wicked Shall Cease (Saints), theatrical makeup, Todd School for Boys, Too Much Johnson, Un Chien Andalou, Virginia Nicholson, William Vance | 18 Comments

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