I’m proud to share this about my spouse Andrew Reach. He created these sculptures using 3d printing at Case Western Reserve University at a facility known as Thinkbox and it is in their new magazine.
From his website, Andrew Reach says: think, is the magazine of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The new fall/winter 2015 edition is out with an article about the move of thinkbox to the Richey Mixon Building which through smart adaptive re-use, have re-purposed the building for a new state-of-the-art hub for making new inventions and products from bio-engineering applications to robotics. But also making art is welcomed there. I had the opportunity with help from a grant through the Ohio Arts Council to produce a couple of sculptures at thinkbox at the old location in Glennan Building.
I’m pleased that my sculptures, Model Citizens, utilizing 3d printing, laser cut steel and CNC routed wood inserts was featured on the page titled Meet Some Makers. The other makers on the page have made amazing things; a portable tester using a single drop of blood to provide near-immediate medical information; A walker, chair and caddy all in one to help individuals with physical limitations do household duties more easily; a custom off-road mini baha vehicle built by CWRU Motorsports Baja team; Compliant Modular Mesh Worm, a robot device that mimics how a worm propels itself to navigate through tight spaces. Applications would include much better inspection and repair of piping systems.
“Model Citizens”on display April-May 2015 at University Hospitals Case Western Medical Center
Upon release it was a commercial success, though panned by critics. The film has gained a cult following in subsequent years.[6] It was re-released in 1969 following the murder of Sharon Tate, and again proved commercially viable. Co-star Parkins, attending a July 1997 screening of the film at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, told the sold-out crowd, “I know why you like it…because it’s so bad!” Years later, Valley of the Dolls was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
Three young women meet when they embark on their careers. Neely O’Hara (Duke) is a plucky kid with undeniable talent who sings in a Broadway show—the legendary actress Helen Lawson (Hayward) is the star of the play—while Jennifer North (Tate), a beautiful blonde with limited talent, is in the chorus. Anne Welles (Parkins) is a New Englandingenue who recently arrived in New York City and works as a secretary for a theatrical agency that represents Lawson. Neely, Jennifer, and Anne become fast friends, sharing the bonds of ambition and the tendency to fall in love with the wrong men.
O’Hara is fired from the show because Lawson considers her a threat. Assisted by Lyon Burke, an attorney from Anne’s theatrical agency, O’Hara make an appearance on a telethon and is given a nightclub act. She becomes an overnight success and moves to Hollywood to pursue a lucrative film career. Once she’s a star, though, Neely not only duplicates the egotistical behavior of Lawson, she also falls victim to the eponymous “dolls”: prescription drugs, particularly the barbituratesSeconal and Nembutal and various stimulants. She betrays her husband, Mel Anderson (Milner), her career is shattered by erratic behavior and she is committed to a sanitarium.
Jennifer has followed Neely’s path to Hollywood, where she marries nightclub singer Tony Polar (Tony Scotti) and becomes pregnant. When she learns that he has the hereditary condition Huntington’s chorea, a fact his domineering half-sister and manager Miriam (Lee Grant) had been concealing, Jennifer has an abortion. As Tony’s mental and physical health declines, Jennifer and Miriam check him into a sanitarium. Faced with Tony’s mounting medical expenses, Jennifer finds herself working in French “art films” (soft-core pornography) to pay the bills.
Anne’s natural beauty lands her a lucrative job promoting a line of cosmetics in tv and print ads. She also falls under the allure of drugs to escape her doomed relationship with cad Lyon (Burke), who has an affair with her erstwhile friend, Neely.
Neely, committed to the same institution as Tony to recover from her addictions, meets him there and they sing a duet at one of the sanitarium’s weekly parties. Neely is released and given a chance to resurrect her career, but the attraction of drugs and alcohol proves too strong and she spirals into a hellish decline.
Jennifer is diagnosed with breast cancer and needs a mastectomy. She phones her mother, seeking moral support. The mother is only concerned with the reaction from her friends at Jennifer’s “art films.” Jennifer succumbs to depression and commits suicide by drug overdose.
Anne abandons drugs and her unfaithful lover and returns to New England. Lyon ends his affair with Neely and travels to New England to ask Anne to marry him. She decides to move on with her life and declines his offer.
Here is my little film on the love of Cary and Randolph, Much of it was in the shadows for in the times they lived, A career could be killed just by the mere mention that some one could be Queer.
