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The Case of the Murderous Vice President

2012-03-02T00:16:00.001-08:00

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The case of the Murderous Vice President

(not a Perry Mason whodunit)

When it comes to cars, I have have a special place in my heart for orphans, lame ducks and fallen angels. The orphan would have to be the Edsel, the quintessential icon for a "spectacular flop," and the fallen angel has to be the DeSoto. ...Its sad tale will follow anon. And after that, I will have to cogitate on what defunct American marque is to be the next long lamented lame duck. These days, there are so many...

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Today is the day to remember the Edsel.

The Edsel wasn't a particularly bad car, as a matter of fact it was quite an innovative
machine for 1958. It had a push button automatic transmission and the buttons were
conveniently positioned in the hub of the steering wheel. Long, low and wide, it was
built for comfort with sofa-sized bench seats fore and aft.
Interiors were rather lavish for a car in the medium price range and the exterior styling was daringly different. In a sea of horizontal grilles, the Edsel's was upright and completely unexpected with its chromy "horse collar" oval being part of the three-piece front bumper system. And, the Edsel also had plenty of power with the mighty Citation-Corsair E475 engine under the hood.
So with all this good stuff going for it, why did Ford's newest marque go so quickly down the dumper? Well to be blunt, it was assassinated. At the Edsel press introduction dinner, on August 28, 1957, Ford Vice President, Robert MacNamara, quietly said: "I've got plans for phasing it out." ...And so, he did.

The Edsel – FoMoCo’s

Mechanical Murder Victim

Labour Day 1957

The Russians announced their Inter-continental Ballistic R-7 Missile could reach targets in the west. The report of a successful test flight was announced on August 26 and dominated the news headlines of the week, until September 4th when the Americans announced their own bomb. It was called "the Edsel." and the day chosen for its introduction was designated "E-Day."
The Edsel, a medium priced car offered in four series, was positioned between Ford and Mercury on the Ford Company ladder. Its lower priced series were based on Ford, the upper series based on Mercury. It was the most researched car in Ford's history. And it was a thundering flop that lived only three model years.
Many post mortems have been performed on the ill fated Edsel and blame has been assessed: the controversial styling, the inexperienced dealer body, production snafus and the deep postwar recession. All are certainly factors, and had a role in the ultimate failure of the marque. But there's even more to the story.
The Edsel arose out of a concept known as the Breech Plan. It was conceived by Ford executive Ernest Breech, who was one of Henry Ford II's "Whiz Kids" who were brought in to save the company after the death of its founder in 1946. Breech had a reputation of being a trouble shooter and strategist, and he felt that Ford was missing too many segments of the market uncovered. He was a close friend of Henry II and it was not a surprise when Breech was named Chairman of the Board in 1955.

The Breech plan called for an alignment along the lines of General Motors- the Low priced Ford, a low-mid priced offering, the Mercury (migrating somewhat upmarket), the Lincoln, and a Super Lincoln. The board approved the plan in 1955, and of course the new low-mid priced offering ultimately became the star-crossed Edsel.
Robert S. MacNamara was another of Henry Ford II's "Whiz Kids", who were brought in to save the company after the death of Henry. MacNamara was a Harvard MBA accountant whose expertise in cost management brought him huge accolades and reinforced his power within the ranks. And he strongly opposed the Breech Plan and the Edsel. MacNamara felt the Ford Motor Company should concentrate on maximizing volume on the Ford nameplate (upon whose sales he just happened to be paid) and opposed the Edsel whose success he saw as distracting from his livelihood.

He was a powerful enemy who made his displeasure known to all within earshot, both inside and outside of the company. Fairfax Cone, president of the Edsel's Advertising Agency wrote in his memoir that while in Detroit for the Edsel's launch, he asked MacNamara what he thought of the yet-to-be-introduced new car. He wrote that he was shocked that MacNamara's response was "I have plans for phasing it out."
One cannot downplay the importance of such a powerful opponent. In the early fall of 1957, when Edsel was hoping for a strong launch, MacNamara offered strong dealer cash incentives of up to $750 on Ford cars, making the Edsel effectively $1000 more than a Ford.
He succeeded in getting the Mercury, Edsel and Lincoln divisions merged and from there, steered the downfall of the brand - first with consolidating Edsel products onto the Ford chassis only for 1959, and then reducing the marque to a very slightly differentiated Ford for 1960.

Of course there were many factors going on in the market place in the late 1950's. The economy was in a deep recession. The controversial styling was a factor, but a similar look had given Studebaker record sales a few years earlier. Production quality was spotty. Dealer discounts on Fords made Edsel "intenders" into Ford drivers. And once the first comedian referred to the car as an "Olds sucking a lemon," the carefully crafted image began to crumble.
First year Edsel sales of 61,000 were well below expectations, yet nonetheless represented the second best new nameplate introduction up to that time. But MacNamara was harping daily on what a disaster it was and now it needed to be dropped, and support within the company for the Edsel eroded daily. Edsel found its budgets slashed, its staffs reduced, and its options severely limited. By 1961, the Edsel was history.

Article via Palm Springs Automobilist

On November 14, 1959, the Edsel

became Ford's first murder victim.

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It's interesting to realize that the Edsel was in development a year longer than it existed as a Ford Motor Company product. The car destined to be named the Edsel went into development in 1954 and showed up in showrooms as a 1958 model. That amounted to four years of planning, researching and designing. However, it was in production for only three years, 1958-60. It was a true flash in the pan.
But back in 1954, the future looked bright and there was a market gap in the Ford lineup. The E car, research data confirmed, was just the vehicle to do the job. Here are some Edsel styling renderings. Chief stylist Roy Brown was given the task of creating a car you could recognize from two blocks away. You'll have to agree these concepts certainly fulfilled the challenge!

Designs from 1954

Clay Models From 1955

Clays from 1956

A very early rendition dated May 11, 1956 which shows a retractable roof panel, bucket seats and a console. Note the Edsel name even though this name wouldn't be official until November of that year.

The following sketches are dated from August to October 1956. They were mounted on a "story board" in the styling studio like the photo below shows.

Concept Drawings from 1957

Due to the short time frame involved, the 1959 Edsel line was designed alongside the 1958 line. These photos show the progression from concept to final product.

The final 1958 Pacer Rendering. Compared to the concept renderings, the final product was pretty mundane.

Undated 1960 Edsel Styling Rendering

An early design study, this one of a Ranger/Pacer, explores a fastback design.

This photo, dated May 4, 1956, shows a concept for a convertible boot.

Another photo, dated June 19, 1956, shows the styling of the Citation convertible was pretty well along the way.

Here, a Corsair 4-door hardtop styling clay was also close to the production model.

Front left, George Walker, VP-Styling, front right, William C. Ford, VP- Product Planning & Styling, rear, Richard Krave, VP & General Manager, Edsel Division.

A very early clay model of a proposed 1959 Citation.

Notice the different roof lines on each side.

A Corsair clay model based on the Mercury body.

Design proposals based on the '59 Ford body.

A rather menacing Edsel front-end proposal.

A "Thunderbird-esque" rear treatment.

An early clay model continued the "gull-wing" theme of '58. Note the "Special Products" license plate and '58 Bermuda clay in the background.

This Mercury-based clay was a proposed Corsair on the left side and a Bermuda on the right side. This must have been before final approval of the model names was given as the production Bermuda was a station wagon.

A Bermuda proposal incorporates the "boomerang" tail lights from the '58 model.

A proposed Mercury-based 1959 Citation convertible that wears '58 style wheel covers. The Mercury-based models would eventually be dropped as the project was scaled back. Note the Mercury clays in the background.

This station wagon front end, dated January 18, 1957,
carries a Caravan name script.

These front end proposals are quickly moving toward the final 1959 production design.

Below, a truly ugly proposal.

Below is an interesting nose clip forecasting the front end of the 1970 Thunderbird.

This front end was rejected for the '59 model, but was the front runner for the '60 model before that styling was completely changed.

A Ford-based Pacer 2-door hardtop proposal for 1959

- with Thunderbird-style roof line.

In response to the longer, lower, and wider styling reflected in the GM and Chrysler production cars, Robert MacNamara ordered a crash program to play catch up with the competition.

As a consequence, all work based on the '59 models was scrapped and replaced with designs inspired by the "Quicksilver" concept car (above). Below are some proposals based upon the new directive.

Some rear end concepts show the flat Ford fin is still being used at this time.

This photo below shows a design fairly close to the one chosen for final production.

The proposal below shows the "Impact Bar" grille initially approved for production.

1960 Edsel concept cars promised a unique line of automobiles, but the production 1960 Edsel turned out to be nothing but a reworked version of that year's all-new full-sized Ford.
As later recorded by Edsel public relations director C. Gayle Warnock in his book, "The Edsel Affair," this decision had come way back in April 1958, when it was abundantly clear the Edsel experiment had gone awry.
The man behind it was none other than the no-nonsense Robert S. MacNamara, then a Dearborn vice-president, who declared the 1960 Edsel should be merely "a variation on the Ford car, using the same major components with modified front and rear ornamentation."

Design elements are refined on this Corsair clay model, which except for the side trim and small shark fins on top of the tail lights, looks close to the approved production car.

Further refinements of the front end are shown here.

This Corsair 4 door hardtop was a working prototype based on the approved design.

Even so, "instant recognition" was still deemed important to Edsel sales when work on the 1960 began. Special Interest Autos magazine suggested as much in 1970 with a rescued photo of the front-end treatment originally intended.
This was somewhat like the final production design save a prominent bright central bar running up from the bumper into a chrome-edged nacelle. Both bar and nacelle were roughly triangular, with the latter blended smoothly into flanking cross-hatched sub-grilles. The hood formed its top portion, and continued its line rearward in Edsel's customary tapering-vee bulge. If not exactly timeless the treatment was at least identifiably Edsel and far less prone to joke-making than the original horse-collar.

Trouble was, this design required unique hood and grille stampings, and that was too much for the sales-conscious MacNamara. His cost concerns also eliminated the 1960 Corsair models – which would have worn a wide, tapering swath of brushed metal on their lower flanks – as well as a rear-end treatment using Ford's new flat-fin rear fenders to revive a 1958 Edsel hallmark: "gullwing" taillights.

However, late in the program, well after styling for the '60 model had been approved, Ford Chairman Ernest Breech toured the Edsel Studio and saw the prototype. He walked around it several times before declaring his disapproval of the front end styling. "Make it look more like a Pontiac" he was heard to say, and so the "Impact Bar" grille was out and a '59 Pontiac grille was in.

The 1960 Edsels thus bowed in October 1959 with just five Rangers and two Villager wagons bearing a split grille remarkably like that of the previous year's Pontiac, plus four vertical ovals stuck awkwardly onto the Ford rump for tail- and backup lights.
There were also bullet-style parking-lamp housings an big E-D-S-E-L lettering on the lower rear fenders, but most everything else was 1960 Ford. Not that it mattered much, Edsel's plug was pulled barely a month after the 1960s went on sale.

Via How Stuff Works

Note the never-produced Edsel 4-door hardtop above and in the background below with a Corsair convertible clay model.

The 1960 EDSEL Ranger 4 door sedan.

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Lots of 1958 Edsels!

1958 Edsel Ranger 2 door sedan

1958 Edsel Ranger 4 door sedan.

1958 Edsel Ranger 4 door hardtop

Front view of the same Ranger.

Here it is again on the test track.

This car also took part in the Press Preview Stunt Show in August, 1957.

Same car in the wind tunnel and "cold" room.

A Corsair on the test track.

A Citation 4 door hardtop in a mock showroom.

A Canadian press photo shows a tri-tone Pacer 4 door hardtop. The red/white circle stickers above the rear view mirror and on the back window, allowed this prototype to enter the test track

The same Pacer at the Henry Ford Museum.

A tri-tone Pacer 2 door hardtop. This showboat was loaded with accessories!

Another view of the same car

A Pacer 4 door hardtop.

A Pacer 4 door sedan.

A Pacer convertible.

A Pacer 2 door hardtop.

This Corsair 4 door hardtop is the same car automotive journalist Tom McCahill

used to test drive the new Edsel for Mechanix Illustrated magazine.

A Corsair 4 door hardtop.

A Citation (top of the line) 2 door hardtop.

Another Citation 4 door hardtop.

A Citation convertible.

A Roundup Wagon with the proposed front fender/door trim.

The actual 1958 Edsel Roundup Wagon

A Villager Wagon with the proposed front fender/door trim.

The actual 1958 Edsel Villager Wagon

A top-of-the-line Bermuda 4-door Wagon

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1958 Edsel Bermuda 4-door Wagon

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Back to the future!

The Alfa Romeo 156 GTA...

...is the closest of any modern-day car
to resemble the 1958-59 Edsels
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Dream Lovers:
The Magnificent Shattered Lives
of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee
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Every night, I hope and pray A dream lover will come my way... For a generation those words evoke memories of a happier, more innocent time, when Bobby Darin electrified America and Sandra Dee was everybody's sweetheart. When they became husband and wife, the marriage looked like the picture-perfect culmination of an American dream. But was it?

In this intensely personal biography the son of Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee goes far beyond the ordinary celebrity bio, revealing the real story behind his parents' shining image - their troubled childhoods, up-and-down careers, brief marriage, and tumultuous lives together and apart.

Bobby Cassotto was a manic, fast-talking street kid from New York who scratched and clawed his way into the music business. But his charm was fueled by an illness that he knew would shorten his life and the secret scandal of his true mother's identity.

Alexsandra Zuck the sweet, wispy-thin teenage model from New Jersey who seemed to rise to fame without effort. But Sandra had her own dark secrets: a lifelong obsession with food and dieting, and sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. At sixteen she had never been kissed, and found herself in love with twenty-four-year-old Bobby Darin.

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Bobby's career was still rising as he restlessly reinvented himself from a pop crooner to an acclaimed actor, music producer, and blockbuster nightclub performer. Twelve years later Bobby was dead, Sandy was beginning a life as a Hollywood shut-in, and America was changed forever.
Now the son and only child of Hollywood's golden young couple reveals the moving truth behind the myth of his gifted, troubled parents – from Darin's career battles, womanizing, and painful secret of his illegitimate birth to Sandra Dee's tortured fight with alcoholism, anorexia, and childhood demons of her own.

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We Have the Scoop!

Sandra Dee and Bobby Darin Marry

Written by Rona Barrett for MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE – 1961

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At 8:30 one morning, the phone rang. Bobby Darin was on the other end. He had just gotten into town from Rome where he had completed Come September for Universal-International. He sounded more excited than I'd ever heard him in the many years we'd been friends.
"Well, are you happy for me?" he cried.
"Happy about what?' I asked, and before he could answer I added, "I'm glad you called,
but why so early?"
"You mean you don't know?"
"Know what?"
"I got engaged last night – to Sandy."
The receiver almost dropped from my hand. I knew I didn't have to ask who Sandy was. She was the beautiful Sandra Dee, who for the first time in her life, had fallen in love with none other than Bobby Darin, one of the most talented, but misunderstood young men in the entertainment industry. The big romance everyone thought was just "publicity" was for real.
No one believed me during the nine weeks Come September was shooting in Italy that Darin and Dee were real a thing. I tried to convince everyone that while on the surface the two seemed to be an incongruous pair, they really had much in common and would fall for each other like a ton of bricks.
Sandra's shy, unassuming, lady-like quality was everything Bobby was looking for in a woman. They were also the qualities – along with her champagne colored hair and big brown eyes – that Bobby's mother possessed.

Mrs. Cassotto had been everything to her son Walden Robert Cassotto – a young man who considered himself a kid from the wrong side of the tracks. His mother's death on February 12, 1959 left him with an emptiness no woman could fill. And then he met Sandy.
And, while everyone imagined the darling of the cinema world, Sandra Dee, would fall in love with a typical ivy-leaguer, it was obvious to those who knew her well that it would be an "earthy" man who would be the first to conquer her heart.
It was this very quality that started their relationship off on the wrong foot. His arrogance, a word often used by the press to describe Bobby, made Sandra dislike him at first. But in true fairy-tale tradition, she fell in love with him. For the more she was with him, the more she realized that these publicity tags were nothing more than a facade and that underneath his slick surface was an extremely intelligent, humane, sincere and loving young man.
From almost the very moment he met Sandy, Bobby fell hook, line and sinker. But in the back of his mind he wondered what chance a guy like himself had with a girl like Sandra Dee – the brightest young star in Hollywood.
But if you know Bobby, you know determination and persistence are two traits he's never lost. The seemingly insurmountable odds against the romance, odds that would have discouraged many other young men, didn't stop him. He held fast. Eventually Mary Douvan, Sandra's mother, let go of her reins and their romance blossomed.
It wasn't, however, till the last week of their nine-week location in Rome that Sandra fell in love with Bobby.
"When I found out she loved me, it was one of the most beautiful things that ever happened to me. Yes, we discussed marriage in rather general terms, and we knew before I left for New York that we would become engaged. We didn't know exactly when, though. Time was the most important element. I had to go to California for business reasons and Sandy wanted to stay in New York a while before she went to the Coast to do Tammy Tell Me True. It was on the plane from Rome to New York that Bobby decided to take the big step.
"When I landed at Idlewild Airport," he went on, "I went immediately to some jeweler friends and got a ring for Sandra. I didn't know when I'd give it to her, or even if she'd really accept it or what. All I knew was that I loved her and that she just had to be the girl for me. Without her, life would be meaningless."
Sandy was due to arrive in New York on Sunday, November 20th, at 5:00 p.m. Bobby had to be in Los Angeles by 9:00 a.m. on Monday for a business appointment he couldn't postpone. That meant he had to take a midnight flight from New York several hours after Sandy got back.
He cabled Sandy in Rome before she boarded her plane and told her he'd meet her at the airport with a limousine. (And of course, the ring!) That way they'd have about five hours together before Bobby's plane departed.
When Sandy arrived at Idlewild, neither she nor Bobby wanted to go back to New York City – not just yet! So Bobby asked the driver to take them for a long ride.
"In the car," said Bobby, "I was as nervous as an expectant father. I was so excited, I forgot which finger the engagement ring went on." He kept staring at Sandy's hand. Finally, he brought up the subject of rings. Unaware of what was in store for her, Sandy held out both hands and casually said the left one gets the engagement ring. Bobby looked down at her left hand. On the third finger was a diamond and pearl ring her mother had given her.
"I wondered how in the devil I'd get the other ring off her finger and get mine on. So, I asked her if I could look at her ring."
At that moment, a thought flashed through Sandy's mind – perhaps he was going to keep the pearl ring so he could find out her ring size. But she figured she was wrong when he held her hand in his, and gently slipped the ring back on her finger. For almost two minutes Sandy said nothing. Finally, Bobby took his hand away from hers and it was only then that she saw the beautiful three-and a-half carat, emerald, cut diamond.
"Oh, my God, oh, my God," gasped Sandy.
Tears sprang from her eyes and Bobby kissed her tenderly. Back at the airport, when the initial shock was over, they giggled like two little children discovering life's secret-the secret of love.
Careers -- the same careers that brought Bobby and Sandy together – brought an end to the happiest day of their lives. They kissed good-bye and the future Mrs. Darin drove off to New York City, and her mother – while Bobby flew to Hollywood.
"I'm the happiest guy in the whole world," Bobby said as he excitedly tried to fill me in on every detail when I saw him.
"I feel like a different person. So many things have happened to me, I just can't begin to tell you, Rona."
"When are you getting married?" I asked.
"We haven't thought about it. Believe me, it was the biggest step I've ever taken just giving her the engagement ring. Now that that's done, we'll see when the other will happen."
"Well, don't you have any idea?" I persisted.
"No," he said very gently, when we decide to get married, we"ll just up and do it."

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And that's exactly how it happened! In a surprise ceremony, Bobby and Sandra were married at 3 o'clock in the morning, on December 1, at the home of Donny and Sheila Kirshner, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. They didn't plan it that way – but Bobby just looked at Sandy, and Sandy looked at Bobby and they decided it was silly to wait even one minute more!
Don Krishner made a phone call to a close friend of his who is a judge, and who got out of bed in the middle of the night to marry them. Only a few friends were there: Don and Sheila, Dick Behrke and his wife Mickey, Ellen Lord (whose husband, comic Dick Lord, was away on tour) and Bobby's sister and brother-in-law. Right after the ceremony, the newlyweds were driven to the airport and boarded a jet and off they flew – to Los Angeles, and to their future, together!

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In Remembrance of Sandra Dee

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Sandra Dee, the perky blonde famous for her lead role in the teen comedy Gidget and marriage to pop singer Bobby Darin, died Sunday February 20, 2005 in Los Angeles. She was 62.
Born Alexandra Zuck on April 23, 1942 (some sources say 1944) in Bayonne, New Jersey, her parents divorced shortly after her birth and her mother primed her for a career in show business. In fact, her mother constantly lied about Dee’s age in order to give her an early start. When Dee entered second grade, at The Professional Children’s School, a school whose flexible curriculum was conducive to child performers, she was only four years of age. Dee made her modeling debut in Girl Scouts Magazine, which enabled her to eventually sign with a modeling agency.
By age 12, Dee was working on television commercials, when she was discovered by producer Ross Hunter. He had seen the young actress and thought she was well suited for the big-screen, so he convinced Universal Studios to give Dee a contract. When she was signed to her first film, Sandra Dee was the name the studio gave her.
Her film debut was in a more-modern interpretation of “Little Women” in Until They Sail (1957), as the youngest of four sisters. The young actress was then signed to two more films, cast in teen movies opposite John Saxon – the Vincent Minnelli directed romantic comedy, The Reluctant Debutante (1958) and the drama, The Restless Years (1958). Dee won a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer later that year.

Dee would experience a banner year in 1959, appearing in five different movies. The beach movie, Gidget, starred Deeas a young girl who discovers surfing and love during an adventurous summer. The movie was successful in making Dee an instant favorite of audiences everywhere. Dee would light up the screen in another sweet romance, opposite teen “hunk” Troy Donahue, A Summer Place. She also played the daughter of Lana Turner in director Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life, a powerful remake of the1934 Claudette Colbert movie, centered on the trials and tribulations of race-relations and mother/daughter relationships. By the end of the year, Dee was on the minds of many a teenage boy.
However, it was her romance in Italy, while shooting Come September (1961), which grabbed the most publicity. Most likely breaking few boys' hearts, she fell in love with one of her co-stars, teen singing icon Bobby Darin. After a one-month courtship, the couple married in Elizabeth, N.J., on December 1, 1960. The two later starred together in 1962’s If a Man Answers and 1965’s That Funny Feeling.
Although Universal Pictures had successfully crafted Dee into the perfect teen queen, she only appeared in one film during 1960. Universal soon saw the departure of the ever-popular Debbie Reynolds from the Tammy film franchise and Dee was requested to take over the role as the cute Tammy Tyree. But Tammy Tell Me True (1961) and Tammy and the Doctor (1963) didn't fare all that well at the box-office.
Dee was one of the top ten box-office draws during her heyday, yet she realized, ultimately, that she was not bringing the same crowds. there was a good chance sje would be dropped by Universal.
“I thought they were my friends,” she said in a 1965 interview with the AP, referring to her former bosses. “But I found out on the last picture that I was simply a piece of property to them. I begged them not to make me do it, but they insisted.”
She found herself in A Man Could Get Killed (1966), a silly jewel caper starring James Garner. With her shaky marriage to Darin dampening her teen appeal, Dee was indeed dropped by Universal. Then, Darin and Dee went separate ways in March 1967. However, he remained the love of her life long after their divorce. Dee continued to work sporadically.

Dee made an independent film Rosie! (1967), starring with Rosalind Russell, but her movie career was fading fast. In 1970, she starred with Dean Stockwell in a mediocre adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s short story The Dunwich Horror before deciding to call it quits.
Despite Dee’s departure from film, she found it quite amusing that the 1978 movie Grease, with its song “Look at Me, I’m Sandra Dee,” which poked fun at Dee’s wholesome personality, aided in renewing her popularity among a new generation of moviegoers.
Dee played her last film for the silver screen, in Lost (1983), but received little notoriety from critics and audiences.
Dee’s marriage to Darin was chronicled in Kevin Spacey’s devoted biopic of Darin, Beyond the Sea (2004), in which she was played by Kate Bosworth.

- John L. Gibbon

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Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue 1959

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Sandra Dee and Troy Donahue 1999

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Playback: 130-year-old sounds revealed

December 15, 2011 by Dan Krotz

National Museum of American History curator Carlene Stephens examines a glass disc recording containing the audio of a male voice repeating “Mary had a little lamb” twice, made more than 100 years ago in Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Lab.

In the early 1880s, three inventors—Alexander Graham Bell, Chichester Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter, collectively making up the Volta Laboratory Associates—brought together their creativity and expertise in a laboratory on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C., to record sound. In one experiment, Nov. 17, 1884, they recorded the word “barometer” on a glass disc with a beam of light. This disc and about 200 other experimental recordings from their laboratory were packed up for safekeeping, given to the Smithsonian and, with a few exceptions, never played again.
In 2011, scholars from three institutions — National Museum of American History Curators Carlene Stephens and Shari Stout, Library of Congress Digital Conversion Specialist Peter Alyea and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Scientists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell — came together in a newly designed preservation laboratory at the Library of Congress to recover sound from those recordings made more than 100 years ago. Using high-resolution digital scans made from the original Volta discs, they were able to hear the word “barometer.”

• Audio file: Barometer

• Audio file: To be or not to be

• Audio file: Mary Had A Little Lamb

• Audio file: 11th day

The museum’s collection has about 400 of the earliest audio recordings ever made, including the 200 from Bell’s Volta lab. A reflection of the intense competition between Bell, Thomas Edison and Emile Berliner for patents following the invention of the phonograph by Edison in 1877, these recordings, along with supporting documents, were offered to the Smithsonian by each inventor in his lifetime.Experimental physicist Carl Haber of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working in a newly designed preservation laboratory at the Library of Congress, analyzes audio extracted from Smithsonian provided recordings made more than 100 years ago in Alexander Graham Bell's Volta Lab. Photo: Rich Strauss, Smithsonian“These recordings were made using a variety of methods and materials such as rubber, beeswax, glass, tin foil and brass, as the inventors tried to find a material that would hold sound,” said Stephens. “We don’t know what is recorded, except for a few cryptic inscriptions on some of the discs and cylinders or vague notes on old catalog cards written by a Smithsonian curator decades ago.”
Now, through a collaborative project with the Library of Congress and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the mystery of what is on these recordings is being unraveled. To date, the team has successfully submitted six discs—all experimental recordings made by the Volta Laboratory Associates between 1881 and 1885—to the sound recovery process.
The recordings in the museum’s collection are in fragile condition due to their age and experimental nature. Until now, the technology to listen to the recordings without damaging the discs and cylinders was not available. The noninvasive optical technique used in this project to scan and recover sounds was first studied by Berkeley Lab in 2002–2004 and installed at the Library of Congress in 2006 and 2009. The process creates a high-resolution digital map of the disc or cylinder. This map is then processed to remove evidence of wear or damage (e.g., scratches and skips). Finally, software calculates the motion of a stylus moving through the disc or cylinder’s grooves, reproducing the audio content and producing a standard digital sound file. For more information, visit http://www.irene.lbl.gov .
Recovering sound from the six Volta discs is the first step in an ongoing project to preserve and catalog the museum’s early recording collection and to provide increased access to the collection and its contents for both the academic community and the public. The content of the recordings, studied in conjunction with the innovative nature of the physical discs and cylinders, provides insight into a variety of topics—from the invention process of these well-known 19th-century labs to speech patterns of the late 19th century.
This project has been made possible with funding from a variety of sources. The National Museum of American History received a special preservation grant from the Grammy Foundation and support from the museum’s Jackson Fund. The museum is looking for additional funding to continue the examination of other recordings in its exceptional collection. The Institute of Museum and Library Services provided funding to Berkeley Lab through a grant to further develop the optical scanning technology and bring it into use in support of collections and special projects around the world.

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Team uses high-tech optical technique to pull sound from 125 year old recordings

December 28, 2011 by Bob Yirka

Alexander Graham Bell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have succeeded in using 3D optical scanning technology to effectively lift the voices from 125 year old recordings created by researchers working in Alexander Graham Bell’s Volta laboratory. The recordings were made on various media as researchers tried to improve the sound quality of Thomas Edison’s recently invented phonograph.
Bell, made famous by his invention of the telephone, was working with a team of researchers in his Volta laboratory in the 1880’s in Washington D.C. and as a precaution against having his ideas stolen by competing teams, periodically sent samples of the results of his and his team’s efforts to the Smithsonian Institute, also in Washington, for safe-keeping. Unfortunately, devices to play the recordings were not sent along as well, which meant the recordings sat unheard in storage for a century and a quarter.
Now however, thanks to a special optical scanning technique, those voices can once again be heard. Restoration specialists Carl Haber and Earl Cornell working with digital conversion specialists and museum curators, used a hardware/software system called IRENE/3D, to first take high resolution images of the spinning discs and then to remove errors introduced by damage to the discs or cylinders. They then finished by mimicking a stylus as it moved over the media, on a computer, reproducing the originally recorded voices. Using such a system, the early recordings can be played without anything actually touching the original media, which could conceivably be damaged in the process.

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Image credit: LBLUsing the technique, the team was able to hear human voices reciting Shakespeare, or reading from a book or newspaper. It’s not known if any of the voices heard is actually Bell, but historians believe Volta Laboratory only had three inventors: Bell, Bell’s cousin Chichester and Charles Sumner Tainter. Thus it seems possible that one or more of the voices is his.

An example of an extracted audio file.

Another attractive feature of the IRENE/3D system, which was developed at Berkley nearly a decade ago, is that it is able to scan discs made of various materials. In the case of the discs from the Smithsonian, some were made of wax, others of glass, with would have required developing unique individual players if each was to be actually played to hear what was on it.
Thus far the team has succeeded in reproducing the recordings on six discs, but have many more to work with as the Smithsonian has some 400 such discs and cylinders from Volta Laboratory and several others.

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Mind where you're going: Skateboard controlled by brainwaves moves wherever you think it should

Thinking of getting somewhere in a hurry? A new gadget from mobile app studio Chaotic Moon Labs proves that the future of travel is only limited by the imagination.

A skateboard, aptly named the Board Of Imagination, takes commands directly from the rider's brainwaves and transfers them to and 800-watt motor that propels the board forward.

Think of a destination, and how fast you would like to get there, and the Board Of Imagination will take off - hitting a top speed of around 30mph. If you think that's too fast, it will slow down.

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Heading down the road: Chaotic Moon Labs' general manager Whurley (just Whurley) shows off the Board Of Imagination, which is controlled by the rider merely thinking about travelling

The secret is in special software in an onboard Samsung tablet with Windows 8 - and a natty headset that monitors and interprets brainwaves. Footage on Youtube of the board being put through its paces is mind-blowing.

The general manager of Chaotic Moon Labs, who refers to himself simply as Whurley, shows that he has mastered the art of thinking his way from Point A to Point B.

So far, he's the world's leading pilot of the board, but it's clear that there could be skaters thinking themselves all over the place in no time at all.

Chaotic Whurley and Chaotic Moon Labs' Philip Wheat stand behind skateboard, which has been pimped with some serious software and an on-board Samsung tablet

Mind control: Mr Wheat connects Whurley to the board via the Emotiv EPOC, a neuro-signal acquisition and processing headset. The headset wirelessly connects to software which drives an 800-watt motor

And away he goes: Whurley demonstrates the board's handling skills, seemingly taking off of its own accord and hitting respectable speeds as it is put through its paces. The tablet can be seen at the front of the board

He likens the process to imagining yourself pulling yourself along with a rope. If you 'see' the destination in your mind, and how fast you want to get there, the Board Of Imagination's gadgetry will do the rest.

The whole concept started with the perhaps hastily named Board Of Awesomeness.

That gadget used a Samsung tablet and an adapted XBox Kinect to analyse hand movements and convert it into commands for the motor.

Power of the mind: A read-out on the portable tablet plots the rider's brainwaves and transfers them into commands for the Board Of Imagination's motor

Complex information: Whurley says calibrating the rider's brainwaves and the software is a simple - and painless - process

The new version uses a wireless Emotiv EPOC headset, a high-resolution neuro-signal acquisition and processing device.

In an interview with CNet, Whurley explained: 'The headset sends the signals from the rider's brain to [the tablet] via a USB connector that comes with the headset. From there, software on the board interfaces with the electric motor via a "phidget", which is basically a plug-and-play, low-cost USB sensing and control unit.'

Apart from being able to balance, the only other form of training is marrying your brainwaves to the computer software.

Board Of Awesomeness! Specs for the original design, which used an XBox Kinect device to 'read' hand movements. The new Board Of Imagination scans brainwaves

Whurley said: 'the headset is trained to the rider - in this case me - so that after some practice with just a computer a profile of the way the rider "thinks" is made. That profile can then be loaded on the board. Since every brain is different, you can't really have one profile to rule them all.'

The problem with the board is that users really do have to keep their minds on the job at hand. If you start thinking about lunch, or chores you might have to do when the ride ends, the ride might end a lott sooner and more abruptly than you'd plan.

Sounding like a man speaking from painful experience, Whurley said: 'We quickly realised that we would have to find a way to handle distraction. While we did the best we can to compensate, it will always be an issue for most riders.

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Prof Stephen Hawking:

Man faces nuclear Armageddon

and must colonise space.

Mankind faces nuclear Armageddon and must build colonies on Mars and beyond, Stephen Hawking has said.

Professor Stephen Hawking in his office at University of Cambridge Photo: Sarah Lee/Science Museum
By Matthew Holehouse
"It is possible the human race could become extinct but it is not inevitable. I think it is almost certain that a disaster, such as nuclear war or global warming, will befall the earth within a thousands years," Professor Hawking, the Cambridge University cosmologist and theoretical physicist said.
"It is essential that we colonise space. I believe that we will eventually establish self-sustaining colonies on Mars, and other bodies in the solar system, although probably not within the next 100 years.
"I am optimistic that progress within science and technology will eventually allow humans to spread beyond the solar system and out into the far-reaches of the universe," he said.
Professor Hawking was answering questions submitted by listeners to BBC Radio 4's Today programme to mark his seventieth birthday.
But if man should meet alien life on its journey into space, the consequences for humanity could be grave, Prof Hawking warned.
"The discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe would be the greatest scientific discovery ever. But it would be very risky to attempt to communicate with an alien civilisation.
"If aliens decided to visit us, then the outcome might be similar to when Europeans arrived in the Americas. That did not turn out well for the Native Americans."
He said did not believe the results of the CERN experiments which appeared to show particles travelling faster than the speed of light - in defiance of the known laws of physics.
"Einstein's theory of relativity predicts that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. Thus if the Opera experiment is correct, and neutrinos do travel faster than light, then relativity theory is wrong.
"However, I don't believe the Opera results, because they disagree with the detection of neutrinos from supernova SN 1987A."
Bursts of neutrinos detected in 1987 from that stellar explosion suggested neutrinos travel at the same speed of light. If CERN's experiment is correct, they would have been detected on earth years before the light from the explosion was seen on earth, physicists believe. Instead, they arrived within hours of one another.
A listener from Lagos asked Hawking, Britain's most celebrated physicist, whether there "was a time when there was nothing."
"The origin of the universe can be explained by the laws of physics, without any need for miracles or divine intervention," replied the professor, who uses a speech synthesizer due to his debilitating Motor Neurone Disease.
"These laws predict that the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing in a rapidly expanding state. It's called inflation, because it's like the way prices go up at an ever increasing rate. Time is defined only with the universe, so it makes no sense to talk about the time before the universe began. It would be like asking for a point south of the south pole."

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Sheep and Deer Fall in Love

Obviously, the deer was camera shy because that's a brown sheep in the photo.

An inter-species romance apparently has taken root in an animal park in southwestern China. Changmao the male sheep and Chunzi the deer are reportedly now inseparable, at Yunnan Animal Park.

Staff at the animal center posted a question on their blog about the ethics of allowing the relationship to continue. They can’t reproduce, so the inclination seems to be to not separate them. One of the animal keepers there said, “The sheep and the deer have been in love with each other since last year.” (Source: Google News)
Inter-species mating has been thought of by some as simply animal blunders, but it might be part of an evolutionary process which sometimes produces hybrid animals that are capable of reproducing.
“A growing number of studies has been presented as evidence that two animal species can combine to produce a third, sexually viable species in a process known as hybrid speciation. Newly identified examples include both insects and fish.” (Source: NationalGeographic)
A hybrid ‘wholfin’ resulting from the mating of a female bottlenose dolphin and a male false killer whale, lives in a Hawaiian marine park. She actually has given birth to several calves. However, two of them died prematurely.

Baby Wolphin

Some grizzly and polar bears have also been mating, and produce hybrids called grolar or pizzly bears.

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A new trailer for the upcoming fairy tale flick "Snow White and the Huntsman" has hit the Internet, and Charlize Theron is fierce as the Evil Queen. Not overly keen on Kristen Stewart being cast as Snow White, but Aussie hunk-a-muffin Chris Hemsworth looks uber sexy as The Huntsman!!! The film is slated for release on June 1, 2012 in the United States. Check out the trailer below.

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OMG! This news makes me want to well…just scream, and not in a good way! Word is, Justin Bieber wants to remake Mark Wahlberg’s classic flick, Fear.

Now for any of you who saw that movie, you will remember Wahlberg’s character was totally messed up, he carved tattoos into his chest, killed dogs and even raped. The guy was an evil sinister prick! But it was one awesome movie! Sources say the pint-sized singer wants to remake Fear, using it to springboard his career and give it an edge in the same way that the original vaulted Walhlberg into stardom.

Oh please! You would actually have to be a decent actor for a start! *rolls eyes*

Sources claim Justin Bieber is currently looking to purchase the rights to the film, and it will most likely be toned down to a PG-13 rating (U.S. ratings). There we have it, the film is already set to be a failure!

Mister Bieber, please, stick to music!

Would you watch a Bieber remake of Fear? Nope, didn't think so.

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It is a sad day for Jake Gyllenhaal fans all over the world. You know the picture of Jakey taking off his skimpies - allegedly from his movie, Love & Other Drugs - the one that has been doing the rounds on the internet? Well it turns out someone was a fan of photoshop and took it upon themselves to stick Jakey's head on another body and create one of the hottest fake pictures of 2010.

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Zombies of the Stratosphere

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Zombies of the Stratosphere (Republic Studios, 1952) was intended as the second serial featuring "new hero" Commando Cody and the third 12-chapter serial featuring the rocket-powered flying suit introduced in King of the Rocket Men (1949). Instead, the hero is "Larry Martin", preventing Martian invaders from using a hydrogen bomb to blow Earth away from the Sun so that Mars can take its orbital place.
The director was Fred C. Brannon, with screenplay by Ronald Davidson and special effects by the Lydecker brothers. The serial is remembered today mainly because Leonard Nimoy plays Narab, one of the three Martian invaders. In 1958 a feature film called Satan's Satellites was made by re-editing footage from this serial.
In the story, Mars has drifted too far from the Sun and its biosphere is dying. The Martian invaders want to swap Earth's and Mars' orbits, so Mars will be closer to the Sun and Earth can have Mars's old orbit, with a hydrogen bomb being used to blow Earth out from the Sun.
As in Radar Men from the Moon (also 1952), most screen time is expended on fist fights between the heroes and a gang of crooks hired by Narab and his extraterrestrial colleague Marex to steal and stockpile supplies needed for construction of an H-bomb to throw the Earth out of orbit so Mars can take its place.

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You won't see any zombies in this flick – aside from those sitting in the audience – but you will see plenty of everything else. ...Rocket ships, strange creatures, rocket men fighting robots, deadly machines and oh-so much more! "Zombies of the Stratosphere" is truly for lovers of old serials; those incredibly fun and silly episodic films that kept theatre-goers coming back week-after-week.

Over the course of 12 episodes, you joined in the exploits of security agent Larry Martin, who can fly with an experimental rocket suit. He and his ever-faithful sidekick, Bob Wilson, battle to save the earth from some pretty evil Martians.

Can Larry and Bob thwart the villainous Martians' plan to blast our planet out of its orbit and replace it with their own world? Why are some earthlings conspiring with the aliens in their dastardly plot?

Produced on a miniscule budget, "Zombies of the Stratosphere" still offered a weekly injection of action and adventure in the Saturday matinee! By today's standards, it is an exquisitely horrible movie but its campiness could almost make it a cult classic!

Relying on story and low budget creativity, the serial still delivers a punch without resorting to earth-splitting explosions, computerized special effects or tough-guy one-liners.

One of the funniest things is the control panel on our hero's chest. To go up, he rotates a knob to a spot labeled "up." To go left – you guessed it, he rotates the knob to a spot labeled "left."

At the end of each episode, our hero was left in an impossible situation, only to have a slightly different take on that scene showing how he got out of it at the start of the next Saturday's installment. Pretty lame, I know, but, we kids always knew the hero would be able to save the damsel in distress, not to mention the entire Earth from those nasty Martians. And, with the help of a certain future Vulcan, how could he lose?

One last thing... Zombies of the Stratosphere didn't make it to my town until 1955. However, to my 8-year-old's sensibilities, this was science fiction at its finest. Most of the time, I didn't care what the main feature was. It was the serials I lived for. I saw the first eleven episodes and I was swept away. In the 12th and final reel, all would be resolved. Good would triumph over evil and the Earth would be saved.

Unfortunately for me, I apparently was a REALLY bad boy during the week before the screening of the concluding episode. My punishment was horribly severe – I was not allowed to go to "the show" that fateful Saturday.
I cried and moaned, stamped my foot and threw a tantrum which earned me a spanking and the afternoon spent in my room thinking about what I'd done. Actually, I didn't do much thinking. I cried myself to sleep and thus, the afternoon went quickly.

The next Monday at school just rubbed salt into a gaping wound. Most of my so-called friends had seen the final screening but wouldn't tell me how it ended up. I suspected my mother had somehow got to them but I was never able to prove it. Still, on my way home from school, I stepped on every crack I could see in the sidewalks between there and home. You know – Step on a crack, break your mother's back. If that mojo had really worked, my Mommy Dearest would have been a quadriplegic.

So until the advent, of YouTube, that final episode – or the lack of it – was a thorn in my side. I had been cheated! However, at the the tender age of 64-and-a-half, I am able to say, I have seen that final segment and sadly, I am not very impressed. Now, I wonder if I would feel the same way about that Davey Corockett 'coonskin hat I never got!

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"What if..." Movies re-imagined

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A while back, a friend of mine forwarded me a site (http://hartter.blogspot.com/2009/11/misc.html)

where artist Sean Hartter made posters of films that, title-wise, we were familiar with, but there was a slight difference. They were remade as if they belonged to a different era or a different genre, the name of the movie was there, but the actors were different, the style was different, and I loved the concept. So I went forward with this theme; what if movies we were all familiar with were made in a different slice of time? Who would be in it? Who would direct it? So here we are...

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Labour Day 1957

On November 14, 1959, the Edsel

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Playback: 130-year-old sounds revealed

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Team uses high-tech optical technique to pull sound from 125 year old recordings

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Now, something from the Cheery News Department.

Prof Stephen Hawking:

Man faces nuclear Armageddon

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Sheep and Deer Fall in Love

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