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Florida museum features massive scenic backdrops from iconic films
“Art of the Hollwood Backdrop” presents 22 immense canvases from classics like “North by Northwest,” “The Sound of Music” and “Ben Hur” that were were rescued from a musty MGM Studios basement.“The exhibition celebrates Hollywood’s masters of illusion and perspective, who heretofore have received little recognition for their talent or applause for their essential role in making film magic,” the museum said on its site.The backdrops, which are on loan from the University of Texas at Austin, were used in movies from 1938 through 1968, while some have not been tied to specific films.Curators Karen Maness and Thomas Walsh also sought to find and feature the forgotten artists behind each piece. The duo spent hours combing through oral histories and other archives and were able to identify about a dozen of the canvas creators.Maness, a professor at the University of Texas, wrote a book on the history of movie backdrops in 2016 and organized a similar exhibition at the college.That exhibit sold out regularly even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, with attendees marveling at the gigantic Mount Rushmore canvas featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic thriller.“I carry it on with both a love of painting but also as an advocate for these artists to help them be seen in history.
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Woman who ‘cut off husband’s head and penis’ attacks her own lawyer in court
killing and dismembering her lover in a gruesome murder attacked her own lawyer in court on Tuesday.A judge had agreed to delay Taylor Schabusiness's case when the defendant became agitated with her attorney, Quinn Jolly, who had asked the judge for an additional two weeks for a defence expert to review his client’s competency to stand trial.Moments after Judge Thomas Walsh reluctantly agreed to postpone her March 6 trial, Schabusiness attacked Jolly and was wrestled to the courtroom floor by a deputy, WLUK-TV reported.READ MORE: Nicola Bulley police search caravan site close to bench where phone was foundThe Wisconsin courtroom was then cleared before the hearing resumed.Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in the killing of Shad Thyrion, 25, in February 2022.Authorities say she strangled Thyrion at a home in Green Bay, sexually abused him and dismembered his body, leaving parts of him throughout the house and in a vehicle.She allegedly put his penis in a bucket before telling cops to "have fun finding additional parts," according to police.Schabusiness has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. She is being held on a $2 million cash bond.Following her courtroom outburst, the judge moved her competency hearing from Tuesday to March 6.
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