Sunday, January 25, 2009

Hollywood Was Hollywood Before it Was Hollywood



Sean Penn, do you feel the sting of the Greatness of the Masters?
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5 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Junius Brutus Booth? Them parents had the right idea how to call their son.

Pardon the pirates, the letter writer demanded, or "I will cut your throat whilst you are sleeping." Oh man, oh man. Head-hacker before his time?

"It wasn't a crime to threaten the life of the president back in Jackson's time." Boy, were they naive in those times...

1/25/2009 2:36 PM
Tecumseh said...

More.

1/25/2009 2:39 PM
Tecumseh said...

Here is the story of those two dastardly pirates, Don Bernardo De Soto and Francisco Ruiz, and how they set upon the brig Mexican, which had sailed out of Salem, Mass under the command of Capt. Butman.

The mate and owner of the Panda was Don Bernardo De Soto, a native of Corunna, Spain. He was married to Donna Petrona Pereyra. She was at this time just fifteen, and ripening into that slight fullness of form, and roundness of limb, which in that climate mark the early passing from girl into woman. Her complexion was the dark olive tinge of Spain; her eyes jet black, large and lustrous. [...] The crew were chiefly Spaniards, with a few Portuguese, South Americans, and half castes. ... Her cargo was an assorted one, consisting in part of barrels of rum, and gunpowder, muskets...

This is better than Hollywood!

1/25/2009 2:51 PM
Tecumseh said...

Another scene from the proto-Hollywood movie:

On the 11th of November, Don Pedro
Gilbert, Captain, Don Bernardo de
Soto, Mate, Francisco Ruiz,
Carpenter, Nicola Costa, Cabin-boy,
aged 15, Antonio Ferrer, Cook, and
Manuel Boyga, Domingo de Guzman, an
Indian, Juan Antonio Portana, Manuel
Castillo, Angel Garcia, Jose Velasquez, and
Juan Montenegro, alias Jose Basilio
de Castro, were arraigned before the Circuit
Court of the United States, charged with the
crime of Piracy. Joseph Perez appeared as
State's evidence, and two Portuguese
sailors who were shipped on board the Panda
at Prince's Island, as witnesses. After a
jury was empannelled, Mr. Dunlap, the
District Attorney, rose and said--"This is a
solemn, and also an unusual scene. Here are
twelve men, strangers to our country and to
our language, indicted for a heinous
offence, and now before you for life or
death. They are indicted for a daring crime,
and a flagrant violation of the laws, not
only of this, but of every other civilized
people." He then gave an outline of the
commission of the robbery of the Mexican.
Numerous witnesses were examined, amongst
whom were the captain, mate, and several
seamen of the Mexican, who recognized
several of the pirates as being the
individuals who maltreated them, and took
the specie. When Thomas Fuller, one of the
crew of the Mexican was called upon to
identify Ruiz, he went up to him and struck
him a violent blow on the shoulder. Ruiz
immediately started up, and with violent
gesticulations protested against such
conduct, and was joined by his companions.
The Court reprimanded the witness severely.

1/25/2009 2:59 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Fascinating. Sean Penn for Don Pedro!

1/25/2009 3:36 PM

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