Mike Flores on LinkedIn: Remembering Paulette Goddard: Dancer, Actress, Spy, Femme Fatale… (2024)

When I first saw Francoise Hardy I had never seen a female singer as cool as her. I was mesmerized. She even started a music movement! She inspired me, though I never met her. She wrote her own songs when female pop stars didn't. She inspired girls around the world, fashion designers and even Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger. There is a little less magic in the world.

Marilyn Monroe grew up in a time when a secretary earning $20 a week would train a new executive their job. The secretary wouldn’t even be considered in an executive position. Marilyn worked in a defense factory during World War 2 and was forced to leave the job when men returned from the war. She did some photos for the military and realized she could make a lot more money as a model. Marilyn did photo clubs for $10 an hour and studied acting. Every step of the way Marilyn was confronted by men who held all the cards.Yet when confronted by the casting couch and sexual harassment from studio execs she went to the press and exposed that whole side of show biz, when no one else dared say a word.When she announced she was forming her own production company, the press at her press conference laughed at her and made jokes.The unfounded JFK relationship conspiracy nonsense has one purpose- to do what men couldn’t do in her lifetime. Keep her in men’s shadows. Let’s take a look at the facts.

The Weathermen, who split off from Students For A Democratic Society, were accused of stealing money and names from the SDS Convention. Here's how I solved it.

Many of these were made to be shown to adults in movie theaters, not as if that's any excuse!

Hammer had decided to make a bold decision with its vampire franchise. They decided a bisexual, pansexual vampire was the way to go.

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In 1967 flower power and love is all you need was all the rage in pop culture. TWO FOR THE ROAD captures the moment when love is not all you need.

The internet almost broke when rumors that Dave The Spazz was taking Summer off swept the net. Could this be his farewell show until September?

In June 1944, the Western-Allies had a tough test to pass. They had to breach the formidable Atlantic Wall, defended by the mighty German army.Even though it was just a mere shadow of its former self – the Russians had seen to that – it was still one of the best-trained armies in the world and the success of the Allied landings was by no means a sure thing.

There is a three pronged attack that followed Wayne after his death. The attack on Littlefeather at the Oscars which no press covered at the time. His role in World War 2. Whether or not he was a racist. Can you handle the truth?

Most importantly, even where chaos reigned, the Allies did their jobs. Ragtag soldiers organized themselves into effective units and improvised assaults. Navy ships came in so close as to almost run aground to offer fire support. Rangers and paratroopers executed missions in spite of appalling losses. Engineers cleared obstacles and minefields under heavy fire. And the Allies owned the skies and kept the German Luftwaffe grounded.So we commemorate the paradox of this victory. The planning and preparation were unprecedented. But when the plans failed, it came down to dumb luck and desperate courage to plug the gaps. Planning is after all, just the fantasy of action.