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In his book A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture, John Bloom states that baseball cards are “all at once, commercial artifacts, forms of visual media, advertising mechanisms, popular art, and objects of exchange.” This is certainly true of the cards in Caramelo Deportivo, a beautiful album of baseball cards featuring 100 players from the 1945–46 Cuban

Jessica Biel has signed on for the leading role in Hulu's upcoming true crime limited series, centering around real life Texas killer Candy Montgomery.

365 Days of Texas True Crime: Good Reads   I thought today I would give you guys a list of really good books on notorious murders in Texas. Screenshot of book on Amazon Evidence of Love by John Bloom-Friday the 13 th seems to hold the number one spot for spooky on the calendar.  Mostly as a result of the movies but there are a few real life incidents that you should fear far more than Freddy.  On Friday the 13 th, 1980, in Wylie, Betty Gore (the last name though am I right?) was found murde...

Just two months after Elizabeth Olsen has signed on to play murdered Candy Montgomery in HBO Maxs Love and Death, Lily Rabe has come aboard to play victim Betty Gore. The new series is based on the true story of the grisly 1980 killing of Betty Gore, who was struck 41 times with an axe by Candy Montgomery, with Deadline revealing the news of Rabes casting. The horrific murder rocked the small town of Wylie, Texas, which will serve as the basis for both this series and another show on Hulu starr...

The actor from Mart, Texas, is becoming a full-fledged leading man in Hollywood.

Big Little Lies and  Boston Public, has a new series for HBO Max and he’s cast two of prestige TV’s most reliably great actors for it. Jesse Plemons and Elizabeth Olsen will play Allan Gore and Candy Montgomery for HBO Max’s  Love and Death, which is about “two church going couples, enjoying small town family life in Texas, until somebody picks up an axe.” If the names Allan Gore and Candy Montgomery are familiar to you, you’re probably aware of the true story this is based on an...

Elizabeth Olsen to play infamous axe murderer in new project ANI | Updated: May 06, 2021 16:08 IST Washington [US], May 6 (ANI): It has recently come to light that Hollywood star Elizabeth Olsen will soon portray convicted killer Candy Montgomery in a new HBO Max series, titled Love and Death. According to E! News it was revealed that the WandaVision star will play Candy Montgomery, a Texas woman who was convicted for murdering her friend with an axe in 198...

The WandaVision actress has secured a lead role, a convicted killer named Candy Montgomery, on a true-story crime drama series co-produced by Nicole Kidman for HBO Max.

CinemaBlend WandaVision star Elizabeth Olsen is set to return to TV in a new, more murderous, way. The Avengers: Endgame actress has portrayed the Scarlet Witch in the MCU for the past several years now but is set to star in a new HBO Max limited series now that shes finished filming on Elizabeth Olsen will star in HBO Max’s Love and Death limited series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Olsen plays the lead role of Candy Montgomery, who was convicted in real life for the axe-murder...

HBO Maxs head of original content Sarah Aubrey commented (via The Hollywood Reporter): "This is a gripping story about the frustrations and desires of two women in a small town that culminates in a terrible act of violence. "We are thrilled to be partnering with David [E. Kelley, producer], Lesli [Linka Glatter, director], Nicole [Kidman, producer], and Per [Saari, producer] and incredibly fortunate to have Elizabeth at the center of our story to bring out all the layers of Candy that make thi...