User contributions for Beckmesser9000
A user with 98 edits. Account created on 9 July 2010.
10 May 2024
- 22:4822:48, 10 May 2024 diff hist +51 Wassily Kandinsky Correcting erroneous suggestion that members of the Blue Four went to the US. Klee, Kandinsky, and Jawlensky never went to America.
- 22:4422:44, 10 May 2024 diff hist −11 Paul Klee Erroneous suggestion that members of the Blue Four went to the US. Klee, Kandinsky, and Jawlensky never went to America.
- 22:4422:44, 10 May 2024 diff hist +66 Paul Klee Erroneous suggestion that members of the Blue Four went to the US. Klee, Kandinsky, and Jawlensky never went to America.
- 22:4222:42, 10 May 2024 diff hist −4 Der Blaue Reiter Erroneous suggestion that members of the Blue Four went to the US. Klee, Kandinsky, and Jawlensky never went to America. current
21 March 2024
- 02:3002:30, 21 March 2024 diff hist +13 Alexander von Zemlinsky Adding the name of Zemlinsky's mother
20 March 2024
- 23:0623:06, 20 March 2024 diff hist −56 Louis B. Mayer Fixing naturalization link
- 23:0323:03, 20 March 2024 diff hist −1 Louis B. Mayer No edit summary
- 23:0123:01, 20 March 2024 diff hist −34 Louis B. Mayer Further refining the question of the birthplace
- 22:5622:56, 20 March 2024 diff hist +123 Louis B. Mayer Adding some clarity about Mayer's birthplace.
- 01:3301:33, 20 March 2024 diff hist −348 William Selig Removing the spurious information about Selig's name actually being "Zeligowsky." This appears in no other source. Andrew Erish's biography established that his father's name was Selig. His mother was born in what was then Prussia. There are conflicting reports about where his father was born, but the 1880 census lists his country of origin as "Germany."
11 October 2023
- 02:4902:49, 11 October 2023 diff hist +10 Ludington Building grammatical fixes current
- 02:4802:48, 11 October 2023 diff hist −29 m Ludington Building removing gibberish Tag: Manual revert
27 August 2023
- 22:3522:35, 27 August 2023 diff hist +1 The Naked and the Dead (film) Raoul Walsh replaced Charles Laughton as director; Paul Gregory remained the producer.
- 22:3222:32, 27 August 2023 diff hist +7 Neil Gorsuch No edit summary
- 22:3122:31, 27 August 2023 diff hist −1 Neil Gorsuch Responding to GuardianH: very well, let's make it more specific, as you suggest.
27 July 2023
- 00:4300:43, 27 July 2023 diff hist 0 Ross Hunter No edit summary
- 00:4100:41, 27 July 2023 diff hist +108 Ross Hunter No edit summary
- 00:3600:36, 27 July 2023 diff hist −55 Ross Hunter Removing ambiguity from death date; see previous discussion.
- 00:3500:35, 27 July 2023 diff hist −7 Ross Hunter See previous discussion.
- 00:3300:33, 27 July 2023 diff hist −33 Ross Hunter There is no mystery about Martin Terry Fuss's birthdate: his Social Security record makes it perfectly clear. Seemhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K3W-SXWR. A birthdate of 1920 is also given in his 1942 army enlistment record, and a 1940 census report for the Fuss family says that he is 20 years old.
25 July 2023
- 23:1723:17, 25 July 2023 diff hist −39 Neil Gorsuch "established writer" suggests that he published books or otherwise gained a national reputation while in college, which he did not. Tag: Reverted
12 July 2023
- 22:3422:34, 12 July 2023 diff hist −232 Sir Lancelot (singer) Placing Happy Go Lucky first in the list of Sir Lancelot's films, since it was released before I Walked With a Zombie. Removing claim that the latter marked the first appearance of calypso music in a Hollywood film, obviously untrue given the release dates.
13 June 2023
- 04:5704:57, 13 June 2023 diff hist −343 Transcendental Étude No. 7 (Liszt) Reference to the Pink Panther theme irrelevant; there's little resemblance.
22 March 2023
- 01:2501:25, 22 March 2023 diff hist −94 Hitler – Beast of Berlin Removing the categories "Nazi exploitation" and "red baiting," which are not appropriate to this film.
- 00:5500:55, 22 March 2023 diff hist +242 Hitler – Beast of Berlin Adding two other reviews to give a better picture of the film's reception. Tag: Disambiguation links added
- 00:4200:42, 22 March 2023 diff hist +38 m Hitler – Beast of Berlin correcting reference
- 00:4000:40, 22 March 2023 diff hist +4 Hitler – Beast of Berlin No edit summary
- 00:3900:39, 22 March 2023 diff hist −475 Hitler – Beast of Berlin Edited to give a more accurate and concise summary of James Stahlman's editorial about the film.
28 January 2023
- 00:2100:21, 28 January 2023 diff hist −98 The Case of Sergeant Grischa Removing two characters who appear in later Zweig novels but not in this one.
8 January 2023
- 19:3819:38, 8 January 2023 diff hist +36 A Feather on the Breath of God Correcting erroneous release date. The album first came out on vinyl in 1982; the 1985 date is for the CD. current
1 January 2023
- 23:1523:15, 1 January 2023 diff hist −48 The Scarf (film) "Drama, suspense, crime, psychological, thriller film noir" is excessively verbose. Let's just call it a noir — those other elements are understood to be part of a standard noir film.
30 December 2022
- 20:0020:00, 30 December 2022 diff hist +39 Victoria Wolff further corrections
- 19:5719:57, 30 December 2022 diff hist +508 Victoria Wolff Expanding the list of her novels, correcting grammatical errors in biography.
- 01:4101:41, 30 December 2022 diff hist −14 Boots Malone There is nothing remotely noir about this young-adult drama about a rich kid who wants to become a jockey. No reference work on noir mentions it.
28 December 2022
- 19:3919:39, 28 December 2022 diff hist +51 Paid in Full (1950 film) Further changes to plot summary current
- 19:3819:38, 28 December 2022 diff hist −46 Paid in Full (1950 film) Further changes to plot summary
- 19:3519:35, 28 December 2022 diff hist +665 Paid in Full (1950 film) Expanded plot summary
23 December 2022
- 19:2819:28, 23 December 2022 diff hist −7 The Whistle at Eaton Falls The Whistle at Eaton Falls is in no way a film noir. It is a small-town social drama about factory workers, unions, and mechanization, with no crime elements. It is not listed in Silver et al's Film Noir Encylopedia.
6 December 2022
- 01:5701:57, 6 December 2022 diff hist +8 The File on Thelma Jordon No edit summary
- 01:5601:56, 6 December 2022 diff hist +42 The File on Thelma Jordon Plot summary edited for accuracy and clarity
19 October 2022
- 22:4522:45, 19 October 2022 diff hist 0 Boris Deutsch No edit summary
26 August 2022
- 23:2423:24, 26 August 2022 diff hist +72 Sig Ruman Clarifying Ruman's marriages. His second wife was named Clara Ruman. See https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?t=14288. Whether the daughter Senta was still alive in 1967 is unclear.
19 August 2022
- 22:2522:25, 19 August 2022 diff hist −82 Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) Removing mention of a supposed Sinatra song called "Ever and Forever," since it doesn't seem to exist.
15 August 2022
- 23:0523:05, 15 August 2022 diff hist 0 Hitler's Children (1943 film) More plot corrections.
- 23:0123:01, 15 August 2022 diff hist +10 Hitler's Children (1943 film) No edit summary
- 23:0023:00, 15 August 2022 diff hist −9 Hitler's Children (1943 film) No edit summary
- 22:5622:56, 15 August 2022 diff hist +92 Hitler's Children (1943 film) Correcting errors in the summary of the plot
14 August 2022
- 02:1102:11, 14 August 2022 diff hist +1 Richard Taruskin Correcting the title Cursed Questions
13 August 2022
- 23:3923:39, 13 August 2022 diff hist +24 WHRB Added Jon Caramanica, corrected Sanneh's current affiliation.
16 July 2022
- 18:0518:05, 16 July 2022 diff hist +2 Glenn Ford Correcting Charles Vidor's place of birth
