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Wishing you Happy Holidays! May 2016 be a happy and healthy year ahead.

Andrew Reach & Bruce Baumwoll

I’m so proud of my Andrew’s new public art located at one of the busiest intersections in downtown Cleveland at the North East corner of Euclid Avenue and East 9th Street. His work and the work of 5 other Cleveland area artists were chosen as part of the competition Citizens Artbox, held by the Downtown Cleveland Alliance in partnership with Citizens Bank. The DCA’s website says:

In connection with Step Up Downtown, DCA’s five-year vision and tactical plan to create a more connected, walkable Downtown, the goal of the Citizens ArtBox project is to enliven Downtown Cleveland by bringing local art to the street. Winning designs will decorate the utility boxes that line Euclid Avenue from Public Square to PlayhouseSquare. Up to 11 boxes will be wrapped with printed art designs from Cleveland-area artists.

Above: One side of Andrew Reach’s Citizens ArtBox titled Model Citizens of Downtown at the north east corner of East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue. The domed building in the back ground is the historic  Cleveland Trust Rotunda Building. The building has been restored and is now a very cool Heinen’s market. click here to see 360 degree views of the incredible domed space, a fine example of early 20th century neoclassical architecture.

Andrew Reach’s narrative for his Citizens ArtBox design:

For the Citizens ArtBox, I reflect the citizens of downtown Cleveland as abstract personas called “Model Citizens” beaming with civic pride for the downtown we love. The Citizens of downtown live in a beautiful, bustling robust urban environment, with a grid of streets and avenues in which open spaces connect to and lined with the buildings that house our arts, public and civic institutions, businesses, professional offices, merchants, hospitality, restaurants and more. Rows of dotted lines running horizontally behind the Model Citizens represent the streets. A grid of tick marks are an abstract reference to the downtown grid. The Model Citizens are embedded and aligned within this grid representing the connection to the urban environment we inhabit. Each model citizen is unique yet at the same time, much the same, representing that while we are all unique individuals; we all respect our differences and care for the common good. Model Citizens each have a wi-fi antenna representing that we live in a new age of modernity, connected to each other through technology in a way unprecedented in history and that with this connectivity comes responsibility; to use this new ability to connect to help one another reach our highest potential.

from left: Andrew Reach and Bruce Baumwoll

Other Winning  Citizens ArtBox Designs

Chris Wolnick’s design titled I Am A Part of Something

Artist Karen Beckwith and her design titled Bike Sharing Systems

Artist Mary Brigid and her design titled Self Portrait, Best Friends

Artist Ashley Pastore with her design titled Pants

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

Valley Of The Dolls 

 I hope you enjoy my little film

Valley of the Dolls is a 1967 American drama film based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Jacqueline Susann. (“Dolls” was a slang term for downers, originally short for dolophine,^[5] it quickly came to refer to any barbiturates such as Nembutal, used as sleep aids). It was produced by David Weisbart and directed by Mark Robson.

The film stars Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Sharon Tate, Paul Burke, Martin Milner and Susan Hayward.

click here to see the gallery of movie stills & photograph

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.

The movie was remade in 1981 for television as Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls.

Plot

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 England ingenue 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 barbiturates Seconal 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.

Cast

• Barbara Parkins as Anne Welles
• Patty Duke as Neely O’Hara
• Sharon Tate as Jennifer North
• Paul Burke as Lyon Burke
• Tony Scotti as Tony Polar
• Susan Hayward as Helen Lawson
• Martin Milner as Mel Anderson
• Charles Drake as Kevin Gillmore
• Alexander Davion as Ted Casablanca
• Lee Grant as Miriam Polar
• Naomi Stevens as Miss Steinberg
• Robert H. Harris as Henry Bellamy
• Jacqueline Susann as Reporter #1 at Jennifer’s suicide
• Robert Viharo as Broadway Director
• Joey Bishop as Telethon Emcee
• George Jessel – Grammy Awards Emcee
• Norman Burton – as Neely’s Movie Director
• Richard Dreyfuss – as Stagehand (uncredited)
• David Arkin – as Western Union Boy (uncredited)
• Judith Lowry – as Anne’s Aunt Amy (uncredited)
• Darlene Conley – as Nurse in Sanitarium (uncredited)
• Jennifer Gan – as Show Girl Actress (uncredited)

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