The Mole Review + Leelee Sobieski

Welcome Leelee Sobieski to our little foray of words about Public Enemies. LeeLee's real name is Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta Sobieski - THANK YOU MOM AND DAD FOR THAT ONE!! and - she was born in New York so there is no foreigner thing going on with her name.

LeeLee will play Dillingers last girlfriend,Polly Hamilton, before he was allegedly gunned down near the Biograph.

I say allegedly because there are still doubts it was Dillinger that was killed by . . . . . our buddy Martin Zarkovich (played by John Michael Bolger).

A few wiki oddities about the death of Dillinger.

The corpse had brown eyes. Dillinger's were gray, according to police files.

The body showed signs of some childhood illness which Dillinger never had.

The body showed a rheumatic heart condition, yet according to the later testimony of Dr. Patrick Weeks — Dillinger's physician at Indiana State Prison — Dillinger could not have suffered from this disease as he was an avid baseball player while in prison and had served in the Navy.

The small Colt semi-automatic pistol that Dillinger had allegedly drawn on the approaching FBI agents outside the Biograph (and was for years shown in a display case at FBI Headquarters along with Dillinger's death mask) was not his; it had, in fact, been manufactured five months after Dillinger's death, which supports the claim that the FBI agents, without warning, shot and killed an unarmed Dillinger.

In 1963 the newspaper The Indianapolis Star received a letter from a person called "John Dillinger" with a return address in Hollywood, California. The letter contained a photo of a man who looked like a more aged Dillinger. When this was ignored, another letter was sent to Emil Wanatka Jr, the proprietor of the Little Bohemia Lodge.

The body was positively identified as John Dillinger by his sister Audrey, through a scar on his leg received in childhood.

HOWEVER

The body was positively identified as John Dillinger by his sister Audrey, through a scar on his leg received in childhood.

The mistake concerning the corpse's eyes may have been an error on the part of the coroner resulting from eye discoloration caused by a traumatic head wound or decomposition in the intense summer heat. (YUCK!)

The FBI has at least two sets of post-mortem fingerprints of the dead man. Though scarred by corrosive acid, the prints shared the same characteristics as those of John Dillinger.

A 2006 Discovery Channel documentary titled The Dillinger Conspiracy examined the legends surrounding his death. Several historians, detectives, and forensic scientists examined the autopsy, the 1963 letter, and East Chicago Police Sergeant Martin Zarkovich's gun to determine the true story behind his death. Ultimately, the show suggested Zarkovich fired the final bullet which did in fact kill Dillinger, and that the FBI was complicit in his death.
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Ever read any Kurt Vonnegut? Dillinger appears in the novel Timequake.

Elton John's song "The Ballad of Danny Bailey" was loosely based on Dillinger's life.

Stephen King wrote a short story called "The Death of Jack Hamilton", printed in Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales, in which Dillinger is a main character.
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Well - readership is slowly dropping. Still getting 1000+ unique readers a day but I feel I'm fading back into oblivion. BUT - We will always have Columbus. Remember that first day? 10,000 readers, the first photos of JD, Mann and cool cars. The excitement over cold tedium, meeting friendly strangers.

We'll always have Columbus.
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The Train Gang meet this Saturday to discuss the Train Station. Here is what I think needs to be done besides cleaning and painting.

The East James Dining Company had a newspaper/menu that had the exact words I'm looking for. They had the history of Columbus and an old letter. That is exactly the what theTrain Station needs on a plaque the size of a Historical Marker INSIDE the station.

Then we need a map showing where the town is. People get off the train and don't have a clue that a drug store is a few blocks away. Or the future home of a cheep trendy burger joint/diner is a just a 5 minute walk to town (just dreaming what SHOULD be).

So the people get off the train, sit down and start reading about Columbus and the reason it is HERE. They will see it is because all the trees around the Columbus forest (now fields) built Madison and came from the mill.

Did you know that Wisconsin Governor James Taylor Lewis died in Columbus.



Where was his home???? This isn't the Poser home is it?? Did I hear it WAS the Lewis home?





Then - after reading all they can they look at the poster size photos of Columbus and make a mental note to make a day trip to look at the town some weekend with their families.

Another HUGE thing we need is a REAL flower box - a BIG one (not the tiny window hanging ones). We have volunteers that will take care of it. We need one that when people get off the train they will go "WOW beautiful" - first impressions baby, so so important!!!

I'll have a photo of what I'm talking about with flower boxes sometiing. The Old Courthouse in Madison has exactly what we need (let's take it - tee hee).

Those are not that hard to grow. We have a Master Gardner that is willing. All we need is $ from SOMEBODY and a person that has a clue about building a large 6x6 flower box.
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The Mole.

Not a great episode but not unexpected. It's a meet and greet episode and they have to go over the rules a lot. I did not like the editing where people are CONSTANTLY saying "I think _____ is the Mole" YEA YEA we get it.

The contestants are still in their faux personalities trying to play to the camera and this will change over time and we will see real personalities.

Reading some bios from the producer I found this little tidbit "Liz, the spunky senior (who, incidentally, has the filthiest mind of any sexagenarian I’ve ever met)"

I had to look up sexagenarian = A person who is 60 years old or between the ages of 60 and 70.

And Mark "He just has that manic, gleaming chompers chomping on a piece of chewed-up gum intensity that rubs me the wrong way. Then again, I have a habit of loving the people I hate, so I’m not writing him off just yet..."

Before every Mole season they ask ALL the crew (about 100) to guess who the Mole is (only the Mole knows who he/she is on the set). They do this exercise to help gauge whether their Mole choice is, perhaps too obvious or maybe completely under everyone’s radar.

Marcie won - the same one who the contestants picked AND the first person booted out of the show won!

Only four people know who the Mole is and production can not figure out HOW he/she is getting information .

Take The Mole Quiz.
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I just had to share this!

LOOKING FOR POSTCARDS - Go HERE!!

Public Enemies Columbus Post Cards Hope it works - I need a guinea pig LOL

OK - work time

The Columbus Fire Department is having a Fund Raiser June 7th!! Live Music by Madison County.

Cheers and see you at The Kurth Friday.

Rod