Gérard Barray
(actor) is 85 today.
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Eastwood dons Man With No Name poncho for Carmel’s 100 anniversary parade.
Daily Mail
By Bobbie Whiteman For Dailymail.com
October 31, 2016
Riding shotgun! Clint Eastwood, 86, dons his original Man
With No Name poncho to kick off Carmel centennial celebration on a stagecoach
Actor-turned-director took center stage at the town's celebrations
He wore the
same poncho which he made famous as The Man With No Name in spaghetti Westerns
Carmel-By-The-Sea just turned 100.
That means the beautiful ocean-side city in California is
only 14 years older than the Hollywood star who helped to make it famous.
One-time mayor Clint Eastwood turned out to help
celebrate its centennial on Saturday, a few days ahead of its official October
31 incorporation date.
he legendary 86-year-old actor-turned-director dressed as
one of his most famous characters, The Man With No Name, from the trilogy of
spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone that kicked off with A Fistful Of
Dollars in 1964.
And he even wore the original poncho from the films as he
climbed aboard the stagecoach to ride shotgun and lead the parade as Grand
Marshal.
The veteran added to his Western look with a heavy grey
shirt, blue jeans, brown leather boots complete with spurs and a cowboy hat
over his grey hair.
All he was missing from the No Name part was the cigar
that he continually chewed throughout
the movies.
Clint once lived in Carmel and was elected mayor, with a
whopping 72.5 per cent majority, when he stood in 1986 on a ticket of reducing
bureaucracy.
During his tenure he made it easier to build or to
renovate property, saved the land around the Mission Ranch which was earmarked
for 80 condominiums and opened the library annex dedicated for children's use,
according to his website.
Clint served for
two years before returning to his film career.
The iconic star now lives in Sun Valley, Idaho, and is
still a major force in Hollywood.
His most recent movie as a director, Sully, was released
last month.
It starred Tom Hanks as pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who
became a hero after landing his damaged plane on the Hudson River to save the
flight's passengers and crew.
European Western Comics ~ Yuma Kid
Stranded by a sandstorm in the Gila desert, a youngster
is rescued by the Yuma Indians who take him into their care. Adopting the name
Wind of Death, the Yuma Kid returns to his own world after hearing the prophecy
of Wa-No-Tah, the witch who lives with her cougars in a cave.
The Yuma Kid adventure stories were written by Giovanni
Luigi Bonelli and artistically drawn by Mario Uggeri. The series ran for 18
issues in 1953.
The late lamented Giovanni Luigi Bonelli, a prolific
script, considered as the Patriarch of the Italian comic strip, will forever be
remembered in connection with Tex Willer, a character created in 1948 for the
publishing house L'Audace, the ancestor of the present-day Sergio Bonelli
Editore. Giovanni Luigi Bonelli wrote the stories of all of the Tex adventures
published until beyond the mid-1980s. Born on 22nd December 1908 in Milan,
Giovanni Luigi Bonelli started by contributing a series of poems to the
"Corriere dei Piccoli", followed by a few works that appeared in the
"Giornale illustrato dei viaggi" published by Sonzogno. In the same
period, he wrote three adventure novels: "Le Tigri dell'Atlantico",
"Il Crociato Nero" and "I Fratelli del Silenzio". After
these initial experiences, he entered into the comic strip world by supervising
a series of journals and magazines on behalf of Lotario Vecchi, which were
published by the Saev Press of Milan. His name appeared in
"Primarosa", "L'Audace", "Rintintin" and
"Jumbo" and between 1937 and 1939 he became the most important plot
of "Il Vittorioso", a weekly publication. When "L'Audace"
was taken over by Mondadori, Bonelli continued to work for this team until
1939, the year in which he became its publisher. After the war he resumed his
activity by working for small presses until 1947. Then he undertook a joint
project with Giovanni Di Leo, setting up a series of activities among which the
expansion of the "Cow Boy" weekly and the translation of the French
publications "Robin Hood" and "Fantax", produced by Pierre
Mouchot's studio. In the meanwhile, in 1946, he wrote "La Perla
Nera", a short tale illustrated by Franco Caprioli; followed in 1947 by
"Ipnos" with artwork by Gino Cossio, Paolo Piffarerio, Guido
Dapassano and Mario Uggeri.
1948 saw the advent of "Occhio Cupo" and Tex, both
illustrated by Galleppini, and "Pattuglia dei senza paura" with artwork
by Zamperoni and Donatelli. "Il giustiziere del West" was published
in the same year and rendered graphically by Giorgio Scudellari. In 1949
Giovanni Bonelli wrote the short series "Plutos" for Leone Cimpellin;
1954 was the year of "Il Cavaliere Nero" illustrated by EsseGesse and
"Yuma Kid", rendered by Mario Uggeri. One year later, "I tre
Bill" was created, with three illustrators contributing, at different
times, to the artwork, Giovanni Benvenuti, Gino D'Antonio, Roy D'Ami and Renzo
Calegari. Also created in that same year was "El Kid", illustrated by
Dino Battaglia, Gino D'Antonio and Renzo Calegari. "Davy Crockett"
was created in 1956, with artwork by Renzo Calegari and Carlo Porciani.
"Hondo", illustrated by Franco Bignotti and "Kociss" and
illustrated by Emilio Uberti, dates from 1957. In 1962 Bonelli resumed and
completed the long saga "Un ragazzo nel Far West", for which the
subject was conceived by Nolitta. He continued to supervise the production of
Tex until he passed away on 12 January 2001.
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