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the only good thing about moag was that it pushed me to want to learn more about this tradition. since the book was first published i managed to find only a dozen credible sources about geisha over the years which helped me understand that golden truly does not understand geisha or the world at all, he went in having preconceptions about it and learned nothing - he saw it all through a skewed window and when mineko's details didn't meet his wants, he changed all of her details to make them into what he wanted hoping to make it authentic to that time period, but failed to understand that not every geiko's experience is or was the same & the region, district hanamachi & practices was very important, he seems to think it's all umbrella. He knew how he wanted his story & had already mapped it out, he just needed a bit more filler bc he was going in blind. he throws in details and imho uses experiences it seems like from Sayo Masuda's autobiography of a geisha: but places her story in Gion bc it's the higher end & famous district unlike Takenoya okiya in Suwa, Nagano. And using many personal details from Mineko's life simply bc she was the shining star of her era, & twisting them most of her important experiences into bad ones making it more like Sayo's lived experience during her tenure as an onsen geisha in a low end, shady district. Mineko makes the distinction in her book, Komomo even refers to these in her words calling them 'geigi' while Mineko called them 'half geisha' bc they relied on selling their bodies rather than their art form. golden wanted the geisha that the west thinks of, he just wanted it to be flashy and drama. in every interview ive seen of the man, he can't help but talk about sex in some light.
Really well done documentary on Clara Bow! So interesting and so sad. She had a horrific childhood - I'm sure that's where some of her talent came from - that pain. I hope she at least found some peace in her retirement years from Hollywood.
Thank you for a wonderful video! I instantly took a liking to her and I was born in 1964. Beautiful young lady and I'm so very sorry she had such horrible parents. RIP Clara Bow.😢💕
You see we the people perfectly know what happens behind doors with a bunch of drunk men and with the women they hired. There is nothing honorable... Nothing holy.... Nothing ethical.... They way the Japanese like us to believe. I feel so sorry for the young innocent girls who gotten into this world's oldest profession.
This is the most in depth study on Natasha that I've come across. Very good, but I came across looking into this woman from an entirely different direction which was Alexadre Piankoff and I'm wondering if the story is finished. One thing missing from other sources is that Natasha learned of the Rodoloph Valinento's death by telegram and spent three days locked in her room. Not sure if that is true and your research might be better than the skimpy things I've read. Meanwhile Natasha while working for the Bollingen Foundation edited four works by Piankoff and actually contributed a chapter to one of them, "MYTHOLOGICAL PAPYRI" published in 1957 . Based on your piece here I might wonder if she did not help Piankoff get rights to decipher the many inscriptions and art work of the chinise puzzle box like shrine that held King Tut-Ankh-Amon's sarcophagus. it would of been attack from two directions as Piankoff had studied under Kurt Sethe, the one who was the go to expert for the decipherment of the Pyramid Text after he took control of the project after Maspero who discovered the Tomb of Unas. Howard Carter discovered the boy king's tomb in 1922, but decipherment of the shrine box did not see it's first publication until Piankoff published the work in 1955 in a book called "THE SHRINES OF TUT-ANKH-AMON, Texts Translated with Introduction by Alexandre Piankoff. Edited by N. Rambova". A year earlier they brought to publication "THE TOMB OF RAMSES THE IV", both important because both contained the 19th and 20th Dynasty myth called "The book of the Heavenly Cow" also known as "The Destruction of Mankind" from which elements of the Myth are easily detectable in the Pyramid Text of King Unas of the 5th Dynasty . Now Maspero was able to start publishing his findings in French by 1884, three years after unsealing the tomb in 1881 and continued to publish all the way up 1894 as more tombs with Text were discovered, but at some point Sethe was put in charge of the project and things slowed significantly, meanwhile both Maspero and Sethe's works are very hard to get hold of. The first English translation of the Pyramid Text was published by Mercer in 1952 and then Faulkner in 1969. However, Piankoff with Natasha again editing wrote "THE PYRAMID OF UNAS" in between Mecer and Faulkner and it was published shortly after Piankoff died suddenly on a trip to Brussels from Egypt to see family, approximately six weeks after Natasha died in California. The Bollingen Foundation included this comment in the forward of the book. "When Alexadre Piankoff died suddenly on July 20, 1968 he had partially read the galley proofs of this volume and had examined and corrected the first stage of the plates. Bollingen Foundation is indebted to Bernard Vl Bothmer for seeing the publication through the press subsequently. He arranged and captioned the pictorial plates, rechecked and perfected the presentation of the textual plates, corrected the text as necessary, and supplied the Finding List of Utterances and Spells. No alteration were made that were not consistent with the author's previous publications and evident intentions." Sounds good if you wish to trust it. Me not particular so and it's not solely because he died a short month and half after she did. There is a total lack of clarity on the various translations of the Pyramid Texts. Mostly done through structure in presentation and omission though Piankoff concentrates just on Unas and uses the Kings' name through out which greatly helps to understand the text. The other two do not use the kings name and make it difficult to see where one tomb ends and the next begins. The ordering of Utterances change making it difficult to refer back from one translation to the next. While Piankoff, follows Mercer, Faulkner manages to jumbles the numbers and jumbles them again in a second edition. All of them though are in agreement on what the text say, even their commentary is the generally the same, so in that regard they all work. Later Allen will come in with a new translation which appears to be the standard as his book is the only one being published today. He brings clarity by separating one tomb to the next but then he goes and changes the utterances through a very liberal use of meanings and his numbering is such a way that agreement between the translators fairly much vanishes. Essentially a mess has been made and it's not easy to sort. At the bottom of this mess is the Flood Hymn, most importantly Utterance 254. None give it mention but to say Unas was speaking of a prophecy, but not a word more. Nor does the Papyrus Hymn get mention, most importantly Utterance 271, then far separated at Utterance 302. (these are all the same in Mercer, Piankoff and Faulkner. Allen does not do 271 & 302, nor does he do Unas claiming Sekhemt (Hathor's lion form) as his mother. "Utterance 254 276: To say the words: "The Great (Uraeus) fumigates the Bull of Nekhen (Hierakonpolis). The heat of the fiery breath is against you, you who are about the shrine (kAr)! O Great God whose name is unknown, (bring) at once a meal of the Unique Lord. O lord of the Horizon (Ax.t), make place for Unas. If you fail to make place for Unas, Unas will pronounce a curse against his father Geb: the earth shall not speak any more; Geb shall not be able to defend himself. (He) whom Unas finds on his way, he will eat him piecemeal. The hnt-pelican announces (sr), the ennead(psD.t)-pelican comes out. The Great One rises. The enneads speak: completely dammed-off shall be the land. 279: The two ridges of the mountain (on both sides of the Nile valley) shall be united. The two banks of the river will be joined. The roads will be hidden from the passers-by. The steps (rwd.w) will be annihilated for those who go up. Make tight the rope (of the boat), sail the road of heaven! Strike the ball on the meadow of Hapi (Apis)!" Not to worry, all of the translators abide by the little foot note that says the above is but some sort of prophecy and none make attempt to explain further even though reading a fair few lines latter there's this little oddity. 293: the heart of Unas be glad (sweet), the heart of Unas be glad (sweet). Unas is the Unique One, the Bull of Heaven. He has exterminated those who did this against him, he has annihilated their offspring upon earth. And another that seems to be paired with the above but again separated by other text, Utterance 271 387 "To say : 'I, king Unas, have inundated the land which came forth from the lake, I have torn out the papyrus-plant, I have satisfied the Two Lands, I have united the Two Lands, I have joined my mother the Great Wild Cow.'" Utterance 302 462 There is no word against me on earth among men, there is no accusation in the sky among the gods, for I have annulled the word against me, which I destroyed in order to mount the sky. There are other minor refences in Unas's Pyramid Text to Unas flooding the Nile but as best I can see so far all of Egyptology is in agreement that there is no "history" in the pyramid text, only myth and ritual yet I'd challenge anyone to say you are not reading definitive claims of actions done by King Unas. Meanwhile every one of the translators were familiar with "The Book of Heavenly Cow" as it appeared in the tomb of King Seti I and Ramses II and III's tomb. Piankoff for sure as it was in the tomb of Ramses VI and King Tutankhamon's tomb which he wrote about, but makes no effort in the book to make the obvious connections that the myth is in part based on King Unas even though it's roots go back further back at least till the time of Heliopolis became the cult center of Re. What "The Book of the Heavenly Cow" does is to establish the Right of Kings to Rule and annihilate all rebels and that is likely what is wished not to be put out in the public and I would not at all be surprised that Piankoff was going to nudge the notion out a bit more for people to see but instead his book when finally published 2 years after his death doesn't and only offers a little more clarity to a very confusing subject and like Mecer and Faulkner both in the end reads the same, so one should ask what was the point? And no we shouldn't judge Unas too harshly though he seems totally void of any humanity, nor Egypt or any nations that have had Kings and Aristocracies, there contributions have been much the world over especially when they have been benevolent rulers, though with that last, you will find none with King Unas. There is of course more to all this but I'll leave off for now and you might consider deleting this comment as it might put your wonderful video at risk. And if you can't you can leave a message and I'll do it.
Thank you for this very informative comment! I struggled to find out the specific details of Natacha's work with Piankoff, so it's great to have all this information. My sources for this video were a biography of Natacha called 'Madame Valentino' written by Michael Morris, and a follow up to that called Beyond Valentino which goes into even further detail about her later life and work, also by Michael Morris. Natacha's own memoir of her marriage to Valentino is available on Archive.org for free, as are books about her. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
@@indiascarlett Thank you. All these comments on your video are well deserved. The Michael Morris book "Madame Valentino" arrives in the mail tomorrow. I think I ordered the day before I found your video. I'll likely browse your other links as well although my interest lay more to the Egyptology aspects of her work and are outside the orthodoxy of Egyptology. I did notice from another video watched after yours, much more coarse, they seem to have your same interests even if driven by profit motive, that there is a Bollingen File in the Library of Congress concerning correspondences between the Natasha and the Foundation that appears as if it might cover some of her Egyptology work but I haven't figured a way to view it. findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.mss.eadmss.ms008117&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=did&_dmdid=d97889e6 BTW does find I am making a correction to my post above. "However, Piankoff with Natasha again editing wrote "THE PYRAMID OF UNAS" in between Mecer and Faulkner and it was finally published two years after Piankoff died suddenly on a trip to Brussels from Egypt to see family, six months after Natasha died in California. " Changing to However, Piankoff with Natasha again editing wrote "THE PYRAMID OF UNAS" in between Mecer and Faulkner and it was published shortly after Piankoff died suddenly on a trip to Brussels from Egypt to see family, approximately six weeks after Natasha died in California.
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What Truman Capote did to these socialite women who confided to him with everything they were dealing with in their lives for years was dispicable; then he turned on them so painfully shows the kind of man he really was and these women weren't aware or smart enough to see it. His voice and character was that of a little man in every way and these women had everything but common sense to realize that. He was a brilliant writer but not a decent man. Jean Mooney
I honestly think Rex was a good and loyal man for sticking by her side as long as he did. There were so many things she did that could have ran him off, but he stayed. He truly loved her and did his best to take care of her nearly till the end.
I too have a song that makes me cry no matter what, "When You Wish Upon a Star". If I had become an actress that would easily be the trigger to make me cry.
Thank you for posting your video❤ as far as I am concerned , Freeman Capote was very much cuckoo. Very much, top of the line cuckoo . I feel sorry for him, for his life, and for the lives of all his “swans”. Brilliance and Idiocracy usually walk hand-in-hand . Freeman Capote is a brilliant example of that complete “ idiotic brilliance” So many lives destroyed , unnecessarily…………,
Clara's Aunt didn't want her to "DISGRACE THE FAMILY?!" Think that "SHIP SAILED LONG BEFORE CLARA"!!!! And Clara's father, what a HYPOCRITICAL MONEY GRUBBING LOW-LIFE!!!! Poor Clara!!!! I had NOOOOO IDEA Brooklyn was like that in the early days!!!! I mean, I knew it was bad, but it sounded downright THIRD WORLD!!!! And for Rex NOT to leave anything to Clara in his Will, but left something to his "MISTRESS" is POSITIVELY SHAMEFUL!!!! I CANNOT GET OVER HOW MANY USED THAT POOR WOMAN!!! May Clara and even Rex, Rest In Eternal Peace.
