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Welcome to Totaly-Tube-U-Lar  with Ed! 

 I am Ed Sharpe  Your host  to visual media seem on  many different 'tubes'  whether the TV, the computer screen or the smart phone! We will examine new releases, re-releases or... just about anything  that seems interesting! We will also mention a few books  I find interesting!

ENTERTAINMENT FOR SUNDAY!

FOYLE'S WAR KAET - 8 Phx PBS 9/15/2013

A New War, A New Enemy

WWII is over and Foyle joins the cold war...

I like a book that I can pick up  read little and complete the subject and set the book down... and of course I am a total nut  for anything on science.  Rick Beyer's book  The Greatest Science Stories Never Told is a perfect fit for me!

Once you have fallen for Rick's entertaining presentations there are other  books formatted in a similar fashion for you to check out.

They are: The Greatest Music Stories Never Told, The Greatest Presidential Stories Never Told, The Greatest War Stories Never Told and  The Greatest Stories Never Told.      

                                                                                                 ---   Ed Sharpe Glendale Daily Planet

Rick tells us - 

Everybody knows that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb and Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.  

Except…they didn't!  

And that's just the beginning of the surprising discoveries that await on the pages that follow.  From the archives of The History Channel ® comes a collection of science and invention stories that truly astonish, bewilder and stupefy.  Like the teenager who invented television in a potato field, the monk who beat the Wright Brothers into the air by 900 years, and the scientist who won a Nobel Prize because he put off cleaning his lab.

The Greatest Science Stories Never Told is filled with fascinating figures both famous and forgotten, and Eureka! moments that changed our world forever. Learn about the scientist who gave 300 monks the shock of their lives. Uncover startling stories of origin behind everything from Teflon and Velcro to the bra and the bobby pin. Find out how a phony death ray led to the invention of radar, how the modern computer was born in a roadside bar, and why a trolley ride changed not only Albert Einstein's life but the course of human history.


DID YOU KNOW THAT:

- The first car was built nearly a century before Henry Ford was born?

- The inventor of the lie detector also created Wonder Woman?

- A movie star invented the turn signal?  

- The French Revolution led to the invention of the tin can and wireless messaging?

Adventure, mystery, a duel to the death, and a ship made of ice.  Who knew the pursuit of science could be so amazing?

   Media Media Media and  the use... and misuse of it... I suppose it depends on which side you are as to how it appears to you. Into the 'Wayback Machine' Set the  date period for before  WWII and we will follow the life of one Mildred Gillars. 

Let's talk about PROPAGANDA

http://www.merriam-webster.com define propaganda as:

Definition of PROPAGANDA

A Brief introduction... and I will leave it as such since if I start rattling on I will divulge the entire story.....  true amazing...

Axis Sally – One of the 20th Century’s Most Notorious and Hated Women

Havertown, PA, July 15, 2011 – Mildred Gillars was an Ohio-bred woman who simply went to Germany in 1934 to study music and then fell in love. However, after war broke out in 1939 she elected to stay in Germany hoping for marriage, but her fiancée was killed during the war. That is when she became the mistress of Max Otto Koischwicz – a charming former college professor, now Nazi Officer, who enlisted her in the German overseas radio where she went from a simple announcer to master propagandist and became the voice feared by American GI’s.  Richard Lucas does a superb job of illustrating the life of this notorious woman in Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany (Casemate Publishers ISBN: 978-1-935149-43-9).

A failed Broadway actress, Gillars used her sexy voice to taunt troops into suspecting their wives and girlfriends back home were being unfaithful, and to describe the horrible deaths they were going to meet on the battlefield. With information obtained from German military intelligence, she caused fear and anxiety among the men by conveying personal greetings to individual US units that made GI’s believe the Germans knew their whereabouts and who they were.

She was captured by Americans at the end of the war in spite of an attempt to escape as a refugee, and was returned to the U.S. to stand trial for treason. With a nation still recovering from the horrors of war, her trial in 1949 as an American who betrayed her country was huge! It took just three months for the jury to find her guilty and she was sentenced to 10-30 years in prison.  However, she was paroled after just twelve years, and until her death in 1988 she quietly lived out the remainder of her life as a music instructor in a Catholic girl’s school in Ohio.

This is a compelling, often poignant story, brilliantly told by Richard Lucas, of one of the most notorious Americans of the 20th century - a woman who betrayed her country for love, paid the price, and is buried in an unmarked grave in her native Ohio since her death in 1988.

Other critics say:

John Batchelor, of the The John Batchelor Radio Show: “An exciting story of things you didn’t know about radio….it would make a wonderful movie.”

Brian Albrecht, The Cleveland Plain-Dealer:  “To the author, "Axis Sally" became the final victim of her own propaganda, who "paid a heavy price for that delusion." She is buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery, south of Columbus, in an unmarked grave. And perhaps in some ways, the author intended his book to serve as that missing marker, explaining the popular perception, if not the person, with the epitaph . . . Those who heard her, hated her. Those who didn't, now know why.”

Chuck Scarborough, NY Nightly News/NBC Now: “A must read…”

The Washington Times: “What created the monster named Axis Sally? Mr. Lucas makes much of the deprivation suffered by a failed actress and her frantic quest for fame. But even after her arrest, she insisted to CIC interrogators that for her ‘the war was against England and the International Jewry.’ She said, “I just couldn’t get the Jews out of my mind…”  Mr. Lucas concludes, “She accepted the Nazi worldview, believed her own propaganda, and paid a heavy price for that delusion.”

The Jerusalem Post: “At the very time Gillars was sent to prison for 10 to 13 years and fined $10,000, Lucas reminds us the US Government was welcoming “dyed-in-the-wool Nazis – some with blood on their hands” into the country as valuable assets in the Cold War struggle against communism.  Reluctant as we are to admit it, and who wouldn’t be reluctant, Axis Sally might not have received equal justice under the law.”

Emmy® award-winning campaign documentaries make their home video debut;

As seen on ABC, CBS, and A&E

THE MAKING OF THE PRESIDENT: THE 1960s

On DVD from Athena July 5, 2011

Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Theodore H. White’s books

“Completely fascinating” – The New York Times

“Superlative” – The New York Times

Silver Spring, MD — The landmark documentaries The Making of the President: The 1960s debut on home video from Athena on July 5, 2011. The winner of four Emmy® awards, including best documentary and television program of the year, and broadcast in the 1960s on ABC, CBS, and A&E, the three documentaries collected here forever changed the landscape of political journalism by offering a full and in-depth look at the tumultuous presidential campaigns of 1960, 1964, and 1968. The programs are based on the bestselling books by Theodore H. White. His book on the 1960 campaign won the Pulitzer Prize. Produced by the Emmy®-winning and Oscar®-nominated David L. Wolper (Roots, North and South, The Race for Space, LA Confidential), these narratives offer a unique snapshot of an era steeped in political protest and progress. The DVD 3-volume boxed set also includes two rarely seen bonus programs, a 1964 tribute to John F. Kennedy and an intimate look at Lyndon B. Johnson ($59.99, www.AcornOnline.com).

In the 1960s, writer Theodore H. White changed journalism forever by putting the campaign for the White House under a microscope. The first of his bestselling series on presidential elections, The Making of the President, 1960, earned a Pulitzer Prize, stayed on the bestseller list for more than forty weeks, and became a TV documentary that won four Emmys^®, including program of the year. This collection brings together three television adaptations of White’s influential books for a full, in-depth account of presidential politics during the tumultuous 1960, 1964, and 1968 elections.

These programs feature White’s insightful scripts and rare film footage that reveal the winners and losers in unguarded, behind-the-scenes moments. All the backroom deals, convention-floor drama, and campaign strategy come alive again in three historic races:  Kennedy-Nixon, Johnson-Goldwater, and Humphrey-Nixon-Wallace. From preprimary jockeying to the final vote tally, these spellbinding narratives dissect the inner workings of our democracy and trace the path to power. 

Journalist and author Theodore H. White served as China bureau chief for Time and as correspondent and editor for The New Republic, The Reporter, and Colliers. He won numerous writing awards, including a Pulitzer Prize and two Emmys^®.

BONUS FEATURES:

• Bonus programs: A Thousand Days: A Tribute to John F. Kennedy (an homage first shown at the ’64 Democratic National Convention), and The March of Time: Seven Days in the Life of the President (an intimate look at Lyndon B. Johnson)

• 16 page viewer’s guide: White essay on Wolper’s documentaries, a biography of White, and articles on each election’s major issues and some quixotic campaigners. 

• On the DVD: The Contenders after Their Campaigns: updated biographies on candidates who did not win their party’s nomination, plus more at AthenaLearning.com

Street Date: July 5, 2011                              SRP: $59.99  

DVD 3-Vol. Boxed Set – 3 programs - Approx. 237 minutes, plus 76 min. bonus - SDH Subtitles

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About Acorn Media:

Headquartered in suburban Washington, D.C., Acorn Media U.S. distributes distinctive home video releases to the North American market with a special focus on the best of British television. 2011 releases include Upstairs, Downstairs: 40^th Anniversary Edition; BBC’s smash hit series New Tricks; U.S. debuts of must-see new series Garrow’s Law, Reggie Perrin, Wired, Identity, and Single-Handed; more episodes from Doc Martin, Murphy’s Law, Marple, Poirot, George Gently, Murdoch Mysteries, Midsomer Murders; as well as the Blu-ray of Brideshead Revisited: 30^th Anniversary Edition.

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