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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 murdered in a utility room. She had been axed to death with over 40 swings. Martial infidelity, betraye...
Just two months after Elizabeth Olsen has signed on to play murdered Candy Montgomery in HBO Max's 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 Rabe's 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 starring Elisabeth Moss. Killer role: Lily Rabe has signed on to play murderer Betty Gore in the HBO Ma...
The actor from Mart, Texas, is becoming a full-fledged leading man in Hollywood.