GENIUS: PICASSO ANTONIO BANDERAS AND ALEX RICH ARE FABULOUS!

I am addicted to Picasso this week...Wow, Antonio Banderas and Alex Rich do a fabulous job portraying the Genius: Picasso. What a complicated story and a very complicated soul was Pablo Picasso...I had to keep looking up his list of women, friends, girlfriends,wives,lovers etc... Here is that page..

Picasso's story is a long one as he bgan his career in his early teens and painnted until his death in his 90s. what a man... Take a peek at the trailer..

Picasso's art was fueled by women..even until his death in 1973. He abused their trust but then...they are were forewarned about his reputation as a lady's man before they entered the man's studio...You might say they knew the job was dangerous when they took it...

As one of the 20th century’s most influential and celebrated artists, Pablo Picasso imagined and interpreted the world in totally new and unorthodox ways, reinventing our perception of creativity in the process. Starring Antonio Banderas and Alex Rich in the titular role, the second season of National Geographic’s 10-part, Emmy-nominated global event series, "Genius: Picasso," explores how the Spanish-born artist’s passionate nature and relentless creative drive were inextricably linked to his personal life, which included tumultuous marriages, numerous affairs and constantly shifting political and personal alliances.

Picasso and His Muses

Life of Picasso

Picasso: the Triumphant Years

  

LAND CLEARED MARCH 28 1941 FOR B 24 BOMBER PLANT IN YPSILANTI

On this day in 1941, workers start clearing trees from hundreds of acres of land near Ypsilanti, Michigan, some 30 miles west of Detroit, in preparation for the construction of the Ford Motor Company’s Willow Run plant, which will use Henry Ford’s mass-production technology to build B-24 bomber planes for World War II.

During the war, Detroit was dubbed the “Arsenal of Democracy,” as American automakers reconfigured their factories to produce a variety of military vehicles and ammunition for the Allies.

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When it opened in 1941, expectations were high for Willow Run, which at some 3.5 million square feet was called the world’s largest factory under a single roof. Early on, however, the plant was plagued by such issues as labor shortages and earned the nickname “Willit Run?”

The initial problems were later ironed out, as workers were recruited from the South, women were hired and employee housing was constructed. Willow Run eventually employed over 42,000 people and by 1944, the plant was producing one plane every hour. By the end of the war in 1945, more than 8,600 B-24s had been built at Willow Run and the plant’s mass-production techniques were hailed as a symbol of American ingenuity. READ FULL STORY

THE STORY OF WILLOW RUN MOVIE

Little People at the Willow Run Bomber Plant

The doorknob at the Tap Room on Michigan Avenue is set very low to this day because they moved it down during the war, so the “Little People” who worked at the plant could reach it.

FIVE CAME BACK NEW SERIES BEGINS MARCH 31 ON NETFLIX!

A three-part documentary based on Mark Harris’s book captures the intersection of Hollywood and history, as five pioneering directors—John Ford, Frank Capra, William Wyler, John Huston and George Stevens—applied their gifts for storytelling and film technique to produce documentary propaganda during World War II.

At great risk, they traveled to the front lines in Europe and Asia, capturing footage that has stood the test of time. Executive producers are Steven Spielberg, Scott Rudin and Barry Diller. Laurent Bouzereau directs; Meryl Streep narrates.

LOST HITCHCOCK WWII DOCUMENTARY TO AIR ON HBO

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The graphic, firsthand footage was to be used as evidence against Germany, and Alfred Hitchcock was asked to direct the movie, called “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey.”
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Hitchcock agreed and began in 1945. But just before his film was ultimately completed, the British government shut it down as Winston Churchill left office and the UK sought to ally with Germany against the Soviet Union. READ MORE HERE

Inside Alfred Hitchcock’s Lost Holocaust Documentary