charles bronson ( born charles dennis buchinsky ; lithuanian : karolis dionyzas bučinskis ; november 3 , 1921 – august 30 , 2003 ) was an american actor .

he starred in films such as once upon a time in the west , the magnificent seven , the dirty dozen , the great escape , rider on the rain , the mechanic , and the death wish series .

he was often cast in the role of a police officer , gunfighter , or vigilante in revenge-oriented plot lines .

he had long collaborations with film directors michael winner and j. lee thompson .

in 1965 , he was featured as major wolenski in battle of the bulge .

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britain’s most notorious inmate charles bronson is set to officially change his name to charles salvador - in tribute to the surrealist painter .
britain’s most notorious prisoner charles bronson is suing tv host richard madeley for defamation .
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charles bronson ( born charles dennis buchinsky ; november 3 , 1921 – august 30 , 2003 ) was an american film and television actor .
charles bronson ( born charles dennis buchinsky ; november 3 , 1921 – august 30 , 2003 ) was an american film and television actor .
charles bronson became a household name in the usa after 1974 ' s death wish .
we have conflicting stories about the war record of charles bronson in world war ii .
charles bronson and chuck norris photo by : ralph dominguez - globe photos , inc .
the
today
show - on the death of charles bronson , aug . 2003
once papers have been officially signed , bronson will be known as charles arthur salvador .
bronson , christened michael gordon peterson , was given the name charles bronson by his fight promoter paul edmunds in 1992 .
in august 2014 , charles announced he was changing his name to charles salvador - a tribute to the artist salvador dali .
on august 30 , 2003 charles bronson died of pneumonia in los angeles . he was 81 .
charles bronson , pictured with his trademark moustache and shaved head . ( cherri gilham / rex )
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today
show - on the death of charles bronson , aug . 2003 - youtube
charles bronson portraying jay killion in the 1987 film
assassination .
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— for other uses , see charles bronson ( disambiguation ) . charles bronson hull prison where bronson took phil danielson , a civilian education officer , hostage for over 40hrs born michael gordon peterson december 6 , 1952 ( 1952 12 06 …
i thought you might like to see a memorial for charles bronson i found on findagrave . com .
charles bronson :
it ' s just that i don ' t like to talk very much .
charles bronson was born in 1952 , with the luton local quickly turning to gang fights in his teens .
togetherweserved - sgt charles dennis bronson
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over 40 years in prison has had an unexpected effect on charles salvador , formerly known as charles bronson . now , he says , he is a
born again artist .
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charles bronson : campaigners call for ' britain ' s most violent prisoner ' to be . . . - metro
charles bronson :
it ' s just that i don ' t like to talk very much .

i didn’t speak to jill again for 14 years . by then she was with her second husband , charles bronson .
- two rings for eddie . . . eddie crane ( as charles buchinsky )
- adventure in java ( 1953 ) . . . ( as charles buchinsky )
- island of stone ( 1953 ) . . . ( as charles buchinsky )
- take the odds ( 1953 ) . . . ( as charles buchinski )
madeley filled in for usual host piers morgan in february , interviewing paula williamson , the fiancée of notorious criminal charles salvador , formerly known as charles bronson , shortly after the couple decided to get married .
the term
charles bronson
is frequently uttered in reservoir dogs ( 1992 ) in reference to a hard - man .
charles bronson is infamous for being britain ' s
most violent prisoner
and is currently serving time at hmp wakefield .
charles bronson claims madeley libelled him on air on good morning britain when he said he attacked a prison governor in 2016 .
richard severo ( september 1 , 2003 ) .
charles bronson , 81 , dies ; muscular movie tough guy
.
jill ireland was an actress and former girlfriend of michael winner . she was was married to actors charles bronson and david mccallum
charles vi , nicknamed
charles the mad ,
was king of france from 1380 to 1422—a period marked by political chaos and france ' s defeat by england at agincourt .
so why did charles buchinsky originally become charles bronson ? he ' d broken into the film world as charles buchinsky with roles in films like the gary cooper vehicle you ' re in the navy now and house of wax , where he played vincent price ' s deaf - mute henchman igor . however , when senator joe mccarthy cranked up the communist witch hunt of the 1950s , buchinsky thought he might be wise to settle on a name that sounded less eastern european and thus less potentially communist , so charles buchinsky became charles bronson .
charles bronson :
it ' s just that i don ' t like to talk very much .
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bronson was born charles dennis buchinsky in ehrenfeld in cambria county in the coal region of the allegheny mountains north of johnstown , pennsylvania .
bronson was born charles dennis buchinsky in ehrenfeld in cambria county in the coal region of the allegheny mountains north of johnstown , pennsylvania .
by then i knew that charles was a man capable of taking violent dislike to people .
the name bronson is said to taken from the
bronson gate
at paramount studios , at the north end of bronson avenue .
charles brons was born as charles dennis buchinsky to walter buchinsky and may . his father was a lithuanian immigrant while his mother belonged to the lithuanian american society . he had fourteen siblings .
britain ' s most notorious prisoner charles bronson smeared himself with butter and attacked 12 prison officers - moments after arsenal won the fa cup .
the name bronson is said to be taken from the
bronson gate
at paramount studios , at the north end of bronson avenue .
yep , charles had already had quite an impressive career even before the role of paul kersey .
the guardian charles bronson supporters want him freed sky news a petition to no 10 includes a hand - written plea in which the convict asks to be allowed to
live what ' s left of my life
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the notorious criminal popularly known as charles bronson is reportedly suing presenter richard madeley for false allegations he made on good morning britain earlier this year .
from aug . 30 , 2003 , here is a story from the
today
show about the career and death of actor charles bronson .
film actor charles bronson was born charles dennis buchinsky on november 3 , 1921 in ehrenfield , pennsylvania . bronson was the 11th of 15 children born to his parents , a lithuanian - american mother and a lithuanian immigrant father . in his youth , bronson worked as a coal miner until he was drafted to serve in world war ii .
“bronson’s become a target , and peterson has always been a target . so it’s now salvador , charles salvador . no more bronson will edgy guards and tense cons , and paranoid governors .
born charles buchinski in 1921 in pennsylvania , us , bronson began his career working in coal mines along with other members of his lithuanian immigrant family .
after suffering from alzheimer & apos ; s disease and battling pneumonia , charles bronson died on august 30 , 2003 , at the age of 81 .
born charles buchinsky on nov . 3 , 1921 , bronson was the son of a lithuanian immigrant coal miner and an american - born slav mother .
— ( 1973 ) charles bronson ( geboren als charles dennis buchinsky , * 3 . november 1921 in ehrenfeld , pennsylvania ; † 30 . august 2003 in los angeles ) war ein us amerikanischer schauspieler tatarischer abstammung . ab den späten 1960er jahren zähl …
charles bronson is said to be the world ' s most popular movie star . not america ' s . he will grant you robert redford in america . but in the world it is charles bronson . there is a sign in japan , his publicist says , that displays bronson ' s name a block long ( one does not ask how high ) .
the ' official ' year of birth for charles bronson is 1921 . however , doubt surrounds it and he may have been up to 10 years older .
after suffering from alzheimer ' s disease and battling pneumonia , charles bronson died on august 30 , 2003 , at the age of 81 . source : urltoken
charles bronson plays a bare - fisted brawler in walter hill’s directing debut , the depression - era drama “hard times , ” new on blu - ray .
recalling his time on set , david says : “there was this wee kid from glasgow and i’m working with extraordinary people like steve mcqueen and charles bronson .
charles bronson , the pennsylvania coal miner ' s son who rose to movie stardom as a hollywood macho man , has died at the age of 81 .
charles was handcuffed to a warder for the strictly controlled two - hour ceremony witnessed by just five guests .
charles xii was a 17th and 18th century swedish monarch who ruled the country during the great northern war .
charles bronson is shown at the
walk of fame
in the hollywood section of los angeles in this dec . 10 , 1980 photo . ( ap )
who had been left out in the sun too long
- - charles bronson was born charles buchinsky , one of 15 children of struggling parents in pennsylvania . his mother , mary ( valinsky ) , was born in pennsylvania , to lithuanian parents , and . . .
american film charles bronson is best known for playing tough - guy , vigilante roles in films like the magnificent seven ( 1960 ) and death wish ( 1974 ) .
not so for david mccallum . his great escape co - star charles bronson romanced then married david’s then - wife jill ireland but david is remarkably sanguine about it .
pete weiler , visitor to this site says :
according to the 39th bombardment group ' s history ( 39th bg was a b - 29 stationed on guam in 1945 ( the pacific theater ) charles buchinski ( real name of charles bronson ) , served as a nose gunner . there is also 61st sqd roster dated sept 1945 which lists cpl charles buchinski as a member of the unit .
when bronson was 10 years old , his father died . young charles went to work in the coal mines , first in the mining office and then in the mine .
born michael gordon peterson , he changed his name to charles bronson during a short stint of freedom , using the new persona to launch an illegal bare - knuckle fighting career .
an action - packed thriller starring charles bronson as jack murphy , a cop who is running to stay alive long enough to even the score with his wife ' s killer .
i am a charles bronson fan . i loved his movies , he was the movie star i crew up with . i was a 18 and now 58 so charles bronson was the man in my much younger years . he had such screen presence i was always clued to watching him . a well missed star and icon . thank you for such entertainment .
in august , madeley interviewed bronson’s fiancée ex - coronation street actress paula williamson on her hopes to have bronson’s child .
the actor was billed as charles bronson for the first time in drum beat ( 1954 ) . changed his stage name in the midst of the mccarthy
red scare
for fear his last name ( buchinsky ) would damage his career . the name bronson i was taken from the
bronson gate
at paramount studios , at the north end of bronson avenue .
a spokesperson for gmb told huffpost uk : “on 29th august 2017 gmb broadcast an interview with paula williamson , charles salvador’s fiancé .
charles dennis bunchinsky ( charles bronson ) , actor : born ehrenfeld , pennsylvania 3 november 1921 ; married 1949 harriet tendler ( one son , one daughter ; marriage dissolved 1965 ) , 1968 jill ireland ( died 1990 ; one daughter , one adopted daughter ) , 1998 kim weeks ; died los angeles 30 august 2003 .
charles bronson was one of the most talented actors in hollywood , best known for portraying the character of a tough guy . read this biography to know in details about his life and profile .
. bronson turned him down and the role launched clint eastwood to film stardom . in 1970 , bronson starred in the french film
charles bronson , the man who declared himself the
most violent prisoner in britain
, has been advising film - makers from his prison cell on a biopic which charts his life of crime .
a protest to raise awareness of the
most violent prisoner in britain
charles bronson takes place outside buckingham palace . the protestors were eventually moved on by police , who escorted them from the area
charles bronson , the hollywood actor renowned for the violent characters he played , was remembered yesterday as a tender husband who turned down films to nurse his dying wife of 22 years , jill ireland .
michael r . pitts ( 1999 ) . charles bronson : the 95 films and the 156 television appearances . mcfarland & co . . p . 1 . isbn 0 - 7864 - 0601 - 1 .
thank you should really rewatch these . i have vague memories from my youth . although bruce willis could do a decent job , i feel the death wish was intensly linked to charles bronson ' s persona .
some of actor charles bronson ' s films : death wish v : the face of death , 1994 ' kinjite : forbidden subjects , 1989 death wish 4 : the crackdown , 1987 murphy ' s law , 1986 death wish 3 , 1985 death wish ii , 1982 the white buffalo , 1977 death wish , 1974 red sun , 1972 once upon a time in the west , 1969 honor among thieves , 1968 the dirty dozen , 1967 guns of diablo , 1964 ' the great escape , 1963 the magnificent seven , 1960 machine - gun kelly , 1958 vera cruz , 1954 ( as charles buchinsky ) apache , 1954 ( as charles buchinsky ) house of wax , 1953 ( as charles buchinsky ) you ' re in the navy now , 1951 ( as charles buchinsky ) .
charles bronson ' s highest box - office was 4th in 1975 , beaten only by robert redford , barbra streisand and al pacino . his stint at ua came to an end in 1977 with the white buffalo .
charles ii was the monarch of england , scotland and ireland during much of the latter half of the 17th century , marking the restoration era .
charles bronson became very popular in japan in the early 1990s with the bushy eyebrowed tv critic nagaharu yodogawa hosting 1 - 2 seasons of his films every year on ntv , one of the main tv channels in japan .
— charles “charlie” bronson ( geboren als michael gordon peterson , * 6 . dezember 1952 in luton ) ist ein britischer häftling und in der britischen presse als „gefährlichster häftling britanniens“ bekannt . peterson war häufig in kleine schlägereien… …
charles bronson , who played a self - styled vigilante in the drama movie
death wish ,
died of pneumonia in los angeles , california , on saturday , august 31 , 2003 . ( handout / krt )
one source says
charles bronson ' s publicity information used to state that he flew as a bomber gunner in wwii . actually , he drove a delivery truck in kingman , arizona , for the 760th mess squadron .
following his wedding , bronson briefly converted to islam and took the name charles ali ahmed . he later renounced the religion and the name when the pair divorced . he became engaged to paul williamson on february 14 , 2017 .
charles bronson , a muscular coal miner from pennsylvania who became an international film star and archetypal american tough guy , died saturday at cedars - sinai medical center in los angeles . he was 81 and lived in los angeles .
the robber , who was called mickey peterson but changed his name to charles bronson after the death wish actor , has been visited on numerous occasions by hardy , and danny hansford , one of the film ' s producers .
bronson was born charles dennis buchinsky in ehrenfeld in cambria county in the coal region of the allegheny mountains north of johnstown , pennsylvania . during the mccarthy hearings , he changed his last name to bronson , fearing that buchinsky sounded
too russian
; [ 1 ] the name was taken from bronson avenue in hollywood , where the famous gated entrance to paramount pictures is located .
drum beat ,
a 1954 alan ladd western in which bronson was the leader of a renegade group of indians , marked the first time he was credited as
charles bronson
; he is said to have changed his last name because of the unpopularity of slavic names during the mccarthy era .
former richard & judy host madeley filled in for piers morgan on the itv morning show back in february when he interviewed paula williamson , the fiancée of bronson ( real name michael gordon peterson , now known as charles salvador ) .
charles ' father died when he was 10 , and at 16 charles followed his brothers into the mines . he was paid $ 1 per ton of coal and volunteered for perilous jobs because the pay was better . like other toughs in scooptown , he raised some hell and landed in jail for assault and robbery .
after 34 years behind bars , the man labelled britain ' s most dangerous inmate claims to be a reformed character . in an exclusive interview , robert verkaik comes face to face with the sinister , defiant – and charming – charles bronson
the man we all recognize as charles bronson was actually born charles buchinsky in the coal - mining town of ehrnenfield , pa . it would be a gross understatement to say he was from a large family ; bronson was the 11th of 15 children born to a pair of lithuanian immigrants . the family was so incredibly poor that when bronson was six years old the only school outfit his mom could muster for him was one of his sister ' s old dresses . ( the ensuing teasing would turn anyone into a world - class tough guy pretty quickly . ) by age 16 , bronson was working in the mines himself .
robert mitchum did not get along with bronson when they filmed villa rides ( 1968 ) . he later said he could not understand why bronson was famous .
los angeles ( ap )  charles bronson , the pennsylvania coal miner who drifted into films as a villain and became a hard - faced action star , notably in the popular death wish vengeance movies , has died . he was 81 .
american film actor charles bronson was born on november 3 , 1921 , in ehrenfeld , pennsylvania . bronson often played tough - guy , vigilante roles , and starred in films such as the magnificent seven ( 1960 ) , the great escape ( 1963 ) , the dirty dozen ( 1967 ) , the mechanic ( 1972 ) and death wish ( 1974 ) . bronson died on august 30 , 2003 .
bronson was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £100 by the court .
i don ' t recall seeing bronson in ' have gun . . . '
early life and world war ii servicebronson was born charles dennis buchinsky in ehrenfeld , pennsylvania , in the pittsburgh tri - state area . during the mccarthy hearings he changed his last name to bronson , fearing that buchinsky sounded
too russian .
in this mood , it is easy to imagine him taking centre stage at the theatre in one night with charles bronson . as he goes through his repartee behind the bars that separate him from his one - man audience , bronson sounds more and more like uncle albert from only fools and horses rather than
evil bronson , britain ' s most violent prisoner
, which is how he has become known .
charles bronson , born charles dennis buchinsky was a lithuanian - american actor , best known for such films as once upon a time in the west , the magnificent seven , the dirty dozen , the great escape , rider on the rain , the mechanic , and the popular death wish series . he was often cast in the role of a police officer or gunfighter , often in revenge - oriented plot lines . during his career , bronson had a long - term partnership with directors michael winner and j .
the vista volunteers asked if bronson ' s movie would deal with black lung disease .
bronson has not been given an official release date as he is being held indefinitely .
bronson was married to british actress jill ireland from 1968 until her death in 1990 .
best known for his
tough guy
image . bronson starred in films such as
bronson met ireland , his second wife , while shooting the great escape in germany .
young charles learned the art of survival in the tough district of scooptown ,
where you had nothing to lose because you lost it already .
the buchinskys lived crowded in a shack , the children wearing hand - me - downs from older siblings . at the age of 6 , charles was embarrassed to attend school in his sister ' s dress .
charles champlin , then the los angeles times movie critic , blasted
death wish
for being a
despicable motion picture which seems certain to make a lot of money .
charles bronson became very popular in japan in the early 1990s with the bushy eyebrowed tv critic yodogawa nagaharu (
sayonara , sayonara , sayonara !
) hosting 1 - 2 seasons of his films every year on ntv , one of the main tv channels in japan .
charles bronson , the taciturn actor who became an international action star in europe in the late 1960s and achieved major box office success in america in the mid - ' 70s as the vengeance - seeking vigilante in
death wish ,
has died . he was 81 .
…the cinema’s least likely couples , charles bronson and mary tyler moore . donner then returned to television , and his credits during this time included twilight zone , the man from u . n . c . l . e . , gilligan’s island , and perry mason . …
charles bronson became very popular in japan in the early 1990s with the bushy eyebrowed tv critic nagaharu yodogawa (
sayonara , sayonara , sayonara !
) hosting 1 - 2 seasons of his films every year on ntv , one of the main tv channels in japan .
despite the animosity between them , there seems a world of difference between maudsley and bronson . for one thing , charles bronson has never killed anyone . and today he acknowledges the violence of his past .
what i did was terrible . i was violent and i hurt a lot of people . and i am truly sorry for that ,
he says .
bill murray said he based his character in lost in translation ( 2003 ) on bronson .
british film director michael winner , who directed bronson in six films , also paid tribute .
bronson was cast in the 1960 episode
zigzag
of riverboat , starring darren mcgavin .
in 1952 , bronson boxed in a ring with roy rogers in rogers ' show knockout .
los angeles , jan 16 ( reuters ) - four hollywood studios were named on wednesday in lawsuits brought by two directors and a representative for late actor charles bronson claiming what could be up to hundreds of millions of dollars in back royalties on films distributed to the home video market .
, bronson recommended that people not imitate his character . this successful movie spawned sequels over the next 20 years , in which bronson also starred . his great nephew , justin bronson , was scheduled to star in a remake of death wish in 2008 , but the project was canceled
the crim converted briefly to islam in 2001 and became known as charles ali ahmed after marrying fatema saira rehman , a woman who had started to write to him during his time behind bars .
( 1983 ) were blasted by critics , but provided bronson with well - paid work throughout the 1980s . bronson ' s last starring role in a theatrically released film was 1994 ' s
bronson , who is now in his 60’s , revealed his plan in a handwritten letter on his appeal fund website saying :
bronson came alive in 1987 . he died in 2014 .
charles bronson is remembered with a star on the hollywood walk of fame and his legacy lives on in the hearts of action film fans around the globe . it ' s a shame that he didn ' t live long enough to make a cameo appearance in one of sylvester stallone ' s all - star expendables lineups . i could just imagine charles shaking hands with sly , arnie , chuck and the rest , and saying ,
i taught you punks everything you know !
this military service page was created / owned by rich hopka to remember bronson , charles dennis ( buchinskas ) , cpl . if you knew or served with this soldier and have additional information or photos to support this page , please leave a message for the page administrator ( s ) here .
…a man called harmonica ( charles bronson ) , who says little but proves himself adept against gunmen sent by frank to kill him . harmonica is on a personal mission of revenge against frank , who forced him to kill his own brother when he was a child . another character involved in these…
it ' s hard not like bronson when he ' s trying to be the entertainer . it ' s a role he plays with gusto .
you know i didn ' t choose the name charles bronson [ he was born michael peterson ] ,
he tells me .
that was reggie kray ' s fight promoter . he said i needed a hollywood fighting name . i suggested jack palance , who had been a real fighter . but he didn ' t like that . so i said how about clint eastwood . he didn ' t like that either . then he suggested charles bronson – and that has stuck . but i didn ' t really like it .
the son of a lithuanian coal miner , american actor charles bronson claimed to have spoken no english at home during his childhood in pennsylvania . though he managed to complete high school , it was expected that bronson would go into the mines like his father and many brothers . experiencing the world outside pennsylvania during world war ii service , however , bronson came back to america determined to pursue an art career . while working as a set designer for a philadelphia theater troupe , bronson played a few small roles and almost immediately switched his allegiance from the production end of theater to acting .
he and wife jill ireland adopted katrina holden bronson after her mother hilary holden died in 1983 .
according to director michael winner , bronson had a considerable amount of plastic surgery in the 1980s .
( 1986 ) . bronson continued to appear in movies and on television into the late 1990s .
hearings he changed his last name to bronson , fearing that buchinsky sounded
too russian .
[ art is ] the one thing that he [ wants ] to continue and be remembered for
says lorraine etherington , secretary of the charles salvador art foundation and salvador ' s former fiancée .
…of these was the western the magnificent seven ( 1960 ) , in which he starred with yul brynner and charles bronson as defenders of a mexican village . the second action film to refine mcqueen’s image was the great escape ( 1963 ) , in which he portrayed an allied captive in a world war ii…
just like the 1972 charles bronson vehicle “the mechanic” and the 2011 jason statham - starring remake , the best scenes in “mechanic : resurrection” contain almost no dialogue . when the sequel is really clicking , it becomes action cinema in its purest visual form : just one buff , taciturn dude doing . . .
a new york times profile of charles bronson once noted that
bronson looks like as if at any moment he ' s about to hit someone .
 it ' s tough to think of a better way to summarize bronson ' s five - decade film career than that . since the forthcoming july / august issue of mental _ floss contains a picture of bronson , we thought he would make a good second installment for our new series
five things you didn ' t know about
 here ' s what you might not have known about one of film ' s most menacing presences :
2 . charles bronson was born michael gordon peterson in 1952 . he changed his name on the advice of his fight promoter , paul edmonds , during his short - lived career as a bare - knuckle boxer in 1987 . during his time in the ring he reportedly killed a rottweiler with his bare hands .
charles bronson , 55 , is a career criminal . he was originally sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 1975 for armed robbery . but during his time inside prison , most of which has been spent in solitary confinement , he decided to fight the system , staging one - man protest sieges and attacking guards .
bronson ' s father died when he was 10 , and he went to work in the coal mines . initially , bronson worked in the office of a coal mine , later in the mine itself .
bronson made a serious name for himself in european films . in 1968 , he starred as harmonica in
charles bronson gained attention in 1960 with his role in john sturges ' western the magnificent seven , where he played one of seven gunfighters taking up the cause of the defenseless . two years later , sturges cast him for another popular hollywood production the great escape as a claustrophobic polish prisoner of war nicknamed
the tunnel king
( coincidentally , bronson was really claustrophobic because of his childhood work in a mine ) .
…garner ) , and “tunnel king” ( charles bronson ) . under the supervision of big x , several tunnels are dug ; although one is discovered , the men continue with their plan . the escape itself is interrupted before all the prisoners can get outside the camp , and those who manage to break out are hunted…
the film was attacked as
despicable
by charles champlin , then film critic of the los angeles times , who said the story was
nasty and demagogic stuff , an appeal to the brute emotions
.
bronson hopes the film will help convince people that he is not the man he once was . the film - makers explore bronson ' s early life and relationships to examine what made him a violent criminal .
born charles buchinsky in ehrenfeld , pa . , bronson , one of 15 children , followed his father ' s footsteps and became a coal miner at the age of 16 . in 1943 , he was drafted and served in the air force as a tail gunner on a b - 29 bomber during world war ii .
bronson is due a parole hearing in august , when his lawyers will argue that because he has been in segregation for eight years , he has been unable to demonstrate that he is capable of rehabilitation . his barrister , david martin sperry , says :
everyone has the right to show that they have reformed , but charles bronson is being denied this right because of who he is , not what he might do .
in 2014 bronson received a two - year jail term for holding prison governor alan parkins in a headlock .
in the dirty dozen ( 1967 ) bronson played an army death row convict conscripted into a suicide mission .
bronson has been the subjects of books written in 1970s and most recently by author brian d ' ambrosio .
charles bronson was , for a generation of film - goers , the epitome of the strong , silent avenger , a monolithic screen presence of immense power whose aura of eloquent impassivity and natural strength was so convincing as to make other
tough guy
actors appear both puny and garrulous by comparison . whether as the half - breed apache in chato ' s land ( 1972 ) , or the architect - turned - vigilante in death wish ( 1974 ) , bronson excelled at playing characters capable of sloughing off the constraints of
civilisation
in favour of an elemental violence that seemed as much a part of bronson the man as bronson the actor .
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there was no question , however , that mr . bronson had known hard times . he was born on nov . 3 , 1921 , in the scooptown section of ehrenfeld , pa . , a coal - mining town . his real name was charles buchinsky , and he was the 11th of 15 children born to lithuanian immigrants .
death wish v was charles bronson ' s final theatrically - released film . afterwards he appeared in the 1995 tv movie family of cops as police commissioner paul fein , and reprised the role in two sequels . after filming under suspicion : family of cops iii in 1998 he announced his retirement from acting at the age of 77 .
charles rode off - road motorcycles and had an extensive collection at his farmhouse . jill ireland bronson raised horses and provided training for their daughter zuleika so that she could perform at the higher levels of horse showing . the vermont farm ,
zuleika farm
, was named for the only natural child between them . during the late 1980s through the mid 1990 ' s bronson regularly spent winter holidays vacationing with his family in snowmass , colorado .
bronson has served time in 122 different prisons . from the kray twins ( he still has reggie ' s tie and pocket watch ) to the legends of gangland london today , bronson seems to have known them all .
in the dirty dozen ( 1967 ) , bronson played an army death row convict conscripted into a suicide mission . in 1967 , bronson also played ralph schuyler in the fugitive episode
the one that got away
.
after the end of world war ii bronson worked at many odd jobs until joining a theatrical group in philadelphia . charles later shared an apartment in new york with jack klugman while both were aspiring to play on the stage . in 1950 he married and moved to hollywood where he enrolled in acting classes and began to find small roles .
in 1954 , during the house un - american activities committee ( huac ) proceedings , he changed his surname from buchinsky to bronson as eastern european names sounded suspicious in an era of anti - soviet sentiment . he took his inspiration from the bronson gate at paramount studios , situated on the corner of melrose avenue and bronson street .
bronson is survived by his wife , kim , six children and two grandchildren . funeral services will be private .
bronson has changed his name a number of times , with his different titles defining certain periods in his life .
police caught up with bronson in 1987 , arresting him under his fighting name which he decided to stick to .
the film - makers explored bronson ' s early life and relationships to examine what made him a violent criminal .
in 1966 bronson fell in love with the lovely blonde british actress jill ireland , who happened to be married to british actor david mccallum . bronson reportedly told mccallum bluntly :
i ' m going to marry your wife .
he ' s best known for being the anti - hero in the death wish movies , a member of the magnificent seven , and one of the greatest tough - guy actors in hollywood history , but long before he was pumping bullets at baddies on celluloid , charles bronson pumped bullets at baddies in the skies as an army gunner during world war ii .
for three months , i have been corresponding with charles bronson , or charlie as he prefers to be called . his letters are polite but slightly obsessive : (
not a week goes by that they don ' t release a dangerous rapist or paedophile . . . i ' m just a hostage of my past ,
he writes in february ) .
more commonly known as charles bronson , the man born michael peterson was once dubbed
britain ' s most violent prisoner
by the nation ' s tabloids . incarcerated in 1974 for armed robbery , a succession of incidents thereafter , including assault and holding prison staff hostage , saw salvador accumulate extra jail time . eventually he received a life sentence in 2000 .
sergio leone once called him
the greatest actor i ever worked with
. leone had wanted bronson for all three of what became known as the
man with no name
trilogy , but bronson turned him down each time .
bronson was most famous for his tough guy persona in films such as the magnificent seven and the death wish series .
he described bronson as a
complex
man who had been affected by his previous job as a coal miner .
dick van dyke received a lemon cake every christmas from bronson , who lived nearby in malibu , for 16 years .
his life was recently played out on the big screen , with actor tom hardy playing him in the film bronson .
as a young child , bronson did not initially know how to speak english and only learned it in his teens .
although he began his career in the united states , bronson first made a serious name for himself in european films .
in 1954 , during the house un - american activities committee ( huac ) proceedings , he changed his surname from buchinsky to bronson at the suggestion of his agent , who feared that an eastern european surname might damage his career . he took his inspiration from the bronson gate at paramount studios , situated on the corner of melrose avenue and bronson street .
bronson died of pneumonia at age 81 on august 30 , 2003 at cedars - sinai medical center in los angeles .
bronson was then married again to english actress jill ireland from october 5 , 1968 , until her death in 1990 .
i really liked the death wish movies and bronson . i wish they made action heroes like this guy these days !
for the rest of the cast , sturges assembled a group of then unknowns , some of whom had knocked about hollywood for years playing off - beat parts : james coburn , brad dexter , charles bronson . the director also recruited a young actor named steve mcqueen , whom he had spotted on television , and chose to play vin , the boyish tombstone gunman .
charles bronson was a good tough guy actor and i enjoyed his movies particularly
kid galahad starring elvis presley as a boxer
,
the great escape
and
the dirty dozen
, but the
death wish
movies were notable as the first of the vigilanty type movies and the level of violence . good , interesting hub . voted up .
she said : “charles salvador has never killed or sexually abused or raped . he has never harmed a woman or a child , he was originally imprisoned for armed robbery in 1974 . he is no longer a violent offender , but an artist .
thanks for coming ; make yourself at home . let ' s see what you ' ve got me . bronson takes the milkshakes for himself and pours a cup of coffee for his visitor from his own flask .
not many people can say charles bronson was their teaboy ,
he quips , probably not for the first time . time spent carefully choosing the chocolate bars has paid dividends .
double deckers , i love these . they ' re my favourite ,
he says .
while bronson ' s career as a character actor was now at its peak , his personal life was in some disarray ; his marriage was disintegrating , and bronson had begun an affair with the english actress jill ireland , then married to the actor david mccallum . in 1965 , he and harriet tendler divorced , with bronson later gaining custody of their two children .
bronson ' s muscular appearance is thanks to a regimented workout which includes more than 2 , 000 press ups a day .
in 1949 , bronson moved to los angeles , where he enrolled at the pasadena playhouse , bent on improving his diction .
nicknamed
the tunnel king
( coincidentally , bronson was really claustrophobic because of his childhood work in a mine ) .
as a boxer in a skit with skelton playing
cauliflower mcpugg
. in 1954 , bronson made a strong impact in
bronson ' s health deteriorated in later years , and he retired from acting after undergoing hip - replacement surgery in 1998 .
bronson was married three times ; the love of his life was actress jill ireland , who died of cancer in 1990 after bronson put his career on hold to nurse his wife of 21 years . he called her his
golden girl .
so it goes that , as the final door opens into the grey , steel compound , a voice from one of the cells calls out :
have you come to see charles bronson ?
it asks .
well , he ' s not here , they ' ve just moved him to parkhurst . all right , robert . nice to see you .
the guard , laughing at bronson ' s joke , opens the final door and ushers me inside . then he leaves us alone .
an obituary of the movie actor charles bronson on sept . 2 and in some late editions on sept . 1 misstated his military record . mr . bronson had indeed been an aircraft gunner during world war ii , as his publicity materials said . ( his initial assignment , in kingman , ariz . , involved maintenance and operations of the base messes . ) he was a member of the 760th flexible gunnery training squadron , not the 760th mess squadron . in 1945 mr . bronson was attached to a b - 29 squadron of the 39th bombardment group , based in guam , which conducted combat missions against the japanese home islands .
when bronson was playing the claustrophobic
tunnel king
 danny in the great escape , he got to work with the scottish actor david mccallum . after meeting mccallum ' s wife , actress jill ireland , bronson flatly told his coworker ,
i ' m going to marry your wife .
 from anyone else , that would sound like an idle boast , but not from bronson . mccallum and ireland soon divorced . bronson and ireland married in 1968 and remained hitched until her death in 1990 .
armed with his favourite milkshakes and a selection of confectionery , i was led though the 17 steel doors and metal detectors that lie between the outside world and the man dubbed britain ' s most dangerous inmate . in the time it takes to reach the specially designed maximum security unit housing prisoner bt1314 , there is ample time to reflect that charles bronson has done much to earn his reputation .
ingmar bergman wanted to make a film with bronson but the actor turned him down .
everything is weakness and sickness with bergman ,
he said . the man : charles bronson : an enduring belief in the american supehero by joel kotkin the washington post 3 june 1977 : b1 . he was considered for the role of snake plissken in escape from new york ( 1981 ) , but director john carpenter thought he was too tough looking and too old for the part , and decided to cast kurt russell instead .
alain delon , like many french , had admired machine gun kelly , and he invited bronson to co - star with him in a british - french film , adieu , l ' ami ( farewell , friend ) . it made bronson a european favorite .
bronson also appeared in more than a dozen films with his second wife , jill ireland , who died of cancer in 1990 .
interviewing williamson on good morning britain , madeley had incorrectly claimed that bronson attacked a prison governor in 2016 , a date that williamson had disputed . bronson had in fact attacked a police governor in february 2014 , for which he received a two year sentence .
indeed , audiences around the country often applauded and cheered whenever bronson let one of the film ' s menacing thugs have it .
bronson , whose first marriage to harriet tendler ended in divorce , married his third wife , actress kim weeks , in 1998 .
bronson ' s last starring role in a theatrically released film was 1994 ' s death wish v : the face of death .
bronson was still making american movies in the interim , including 1972 ' s the mechanic , a film i highly recommend as possibly the most bizarre american action movie ever made . ( to boil it down : charles bronson is an existentialist mob hitman . yes , really . ) he didn ' t become a huge star in the u . s . until well after his 50th birthday , when he headlined 1974 ' s death wish in what would become his trademark role , the architect - turned - vigilante paul kersey .
in 1954 , during the house un - american activities committee ( huac ) proceedings , he changed his surname from buchinsky to bronson at the suggestion of his agent , who feared that an eastern european surname might damage his career . [ 19 ] he reportedly took his inspiration from the bronson gate at the studios of paramount pictures , situated on the corner of melrose avenue and bronson street .
born charles buchinsky , november 3 , 1921 , in ehrenfeld , pa ; died from pneumonia , august 30 , 2003 , in los angeles , ca . actor . charles bronson gained superstar status in the united states in 1974 with the release of the film death wish . his role as the liberal–minded architect who becomes a vigilante was reprised in four sequels and brought him stardom but also criticism for the violence portrayed in the films . his was a career spent playing rough and tough gunslingers and outlaws while his private life was spent raising children and painting . he never quite broke out of the tough–guy mold although he was often praised in roles that showed more depth and subtlety .
bronson changed his surname to salvador in 2013 in a bid to reinvent himself as an artist and put his violent past behind him .
bronson has become a keen artist behind bars and has seen some of his work go under auction to help vulnerable people in need .
bronson wasn ' t through turning leone , down , though . leone allegedly offered bronson the role of the sadistic mercenary angel eyes in the good , the bad , and the ugly , but bronson had to back out due to his commitment to the dirty dozen . ( instead , lee van cleef unforgettably played the role . ) eventually , though , the two men worked together when bronson turned in one of his best performances as a haunted harmonica - playing gunfighter in leone ' s epic once upon a time in the west .


72 miles - ek pravas is a marathi film directed by rajiv patil and produced under grazing goat pictures and co-produced by akshay kumar and ashwini yardi.the film is set in the time of 50 's and 60 's about journey of a 13-year-old young boy who ran away from his hostel and how this young boy matures with time when he meets a lady and her kids .

deepak rane was the line producer for this film

72 miles

akshay kumar says : ' 72 miles marks our first regional film and we ' re delighted to announce the release date . marathi isn ' t my first language but living in mumbai i picked up the language very quickly and immersed myself in the culture . i ' ve seen some really interesting marathi projects and love the cinema . i am personally touched by the story of 72 miles and i hope the audience likes it as much as we do . '
the hearts of audiences and give them a visual introspect of ashok vatkar ' s autobiography . inspired from the novel with the same name , 72 miles : ek pravas explores the impact of a woman named raddhakka , on protagonist ashok .
for all the updates on our movies and more : urltoken urltoken here ' s presenting the official theatrical trailer of 72 miles ek pravas , the most awaited film of the marathi industry . produced by : twinkle khanna and ashvini yardi . directed by : rajeev patil releasing on 9th august , 2013 .
a hard - hitting , poignant tale of a young boy who makes his journey into self - actualization against the backdrop of a rustic india , 72 miles : ek pravas explores a beautiful , coming of age journey for the 13 year old boy ashok and the companionable relationships he makes through his journey .
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72 miles - ek pravas
. here ' s presenting you the first trailer of the most awaited film of the marathi industry . produced by : twinkle khanna and ashvini yardi . directed by : rajeev patil releasing on 9th august . facebook : urltoken twitter : urltoken
after taking the world by storm with their first production , the blockbuster omg oh my god , grazing goat pictures co - producers , akshay kumar and ashvini yardi , are all set to release their first debut regional ( marathi ) cinema project , 72 miles – ek pravas , setting the date as 26th july 2013 .
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that was day four of the inaugural rebelle rally , a female - only navigational road rally—the first of its kind . for seven days last fall , 72 women—36 teams of two—off - roaded over 1250 miles , through two national parks and five bureau of land management areas ( government - managed public lands ) . we started in nevada ' s lake tahoe and ended in glamis , california ; in between , we rambled down dirt roads , clambered over dry riverbeds and mountain passes , and coasted over terrifyingly high sand dunes .
in which dazzler is not a team player ; longshot is the zonker harris of the x - men ; juggernaut is that guy ; rachel and miles channel statler and waldorf ; and alex summers is seriously never , ever going to finish grad school .
titled 72 milesóek pravas , the movie is based on ashok vatkar ' s autobiography . yardi says ,
the film is about a young boy who runs away from his hostel . it ' s his journey on the run , where he meets a lady and her kids and how this young lad matures from being a boy to a man .
a kilometre ( american spelling : kilometer , symbol : km ) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres ( from the greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count / measure ) . it is approximately equal to 0 . 621 miles , 1094 yards or 3281 feet .
turn left ,
jaclyn said once we set off .
our first checkpoint should be in 13 miles .
a few minutes later , we experienced the singular thrill of spotting a green checkpoint for the first time : a mix of relief , pride , and elation that never got old .
ashvini yardi says : ' ' it was my dream to produce a period film and with 72 miles , i have had the chance to do so . this subject and the plot of the film is so thought - provoking that it forces you to completely engage in the film , connect with the characters and grow with their thought . what ' s more it ' s by the same director of jogwa which won 6 national awards . akshay and i are very proud of this project and the opportunity to be able to produce such a marvellous film . the film will definitely engage with international audiences despite the language barrier and will let them in on our heritage , our culture and a panoramic setting of post independent india . i am sure the marathi audience will be proud of this film . '
miles , i’m another submissive fan of longshot and i loved what you did in “of mullets and miracles” . too bad that i find hard to understand completely your podcasts , but i think you were talking about longshot’s underlying melancholy ( in spite of his playful and joyful nature ) , which is something i appreciate as much as the bittersweet tone of his former series . could you explain just a bit what’s your opinion about that ?
it was 4 p . m . and 90 degrees when we finally decided to give up . for hours , jaclyn and i had been inching our jeep rubicon along a dusty unmarked road in the mojave national preserve , eventually finding ourselves trapped in a high - walled canyon . we had no idea how far off course we were : two miles ? twenty ? we hadn ' t seen another human all afternoon . soon it would be dusk , then nightfall .
rachel & miles did a cold open about the recent / likely temporary retcon of how wanda and ‘silver are not magneto’s kids because of ( fox vs disney for movie rights ) and it was so absurd that when i played their riff for my husband ( a spider - man exclusive fan , mostly ) he laughed so hard he nearly suffocated , then told me all my efforts to get him into x - men were now futile . there goes half a year of effort…
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yes and no . rachel and miles do mention in the podcast that it’s possible that claremont was aware of the ickiness and the audience was supposed to be turned off by juggernaut’s sexism . that’s a pretty charitable reading though , given the fact that wolverine , for one , also uses the same condescending pet names for women quite frequently . and while you and i as adults can certainly find plenty of other ways in which wolverine should not be emulated , he’s clearly a heroic character and someone children are meant to look up to . obviously , using those pet names is meant to be a tough - guy shorthand that calls back to bogart and other classic film leads , but it’s pretty behind the times in the ’80s . as feminist as claremont seems to be in other places , i’m really surprised that none of the females in his life ever called wolverine out for his condescension .
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akshay kumar seems to be completely influenced by regional content . so after making oh my god ! , which was based on a gujarati play , he is now working on a full fledged marathi film .
says ashwini yardi , akshay kumar ' s partner in their production house , grazing goat pictures ,
making a marathi movie was my idea . i am a maharashtrian and i wanted to do a film in my mother tongue in memory of baburao pai , my grandfather , who was one of v . shantaram ' s partners in prabhat film company in the 1920s .
set in the 50s and 60s , it has been shot entirely in satara during may and june . for the period look and feel , props like old buses and other such vehicles have been used . directed by rajeev patil of national award winning marathi film , jogwa fame , the film is currently in the post - production stages .
after this , yardi confirms tapping into the regional market with a punjabi film . the producer duo ( kumar and yardi ) aim at producing four to five movies a year , the team also looks at making films in bengali and south and are even planning to make a sequel of oh my god ! with paresh rawal .
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a hard - hitting , poignant tale of a young boy who makes his journey into self - actualization against the backdrop of a rustic india .
this film aims to transport the audiences into post - independence india as experienced by the protagonist ashok .
he has just 2 weeks left & i need rs . 5 . 5 lakh to save him .
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a young boy decides to escape from his boarding school . chased by bullies , robbed by drunken gamblers , a young boy starts his journey towards kolhapur . the very people who seem pleasant , and invite him to ride with them turn into horrifying monsters as soon as they learn of his surname , a scheduled caste . beaten to a pulp by the high - castes , the boy is then rescued by a woman who is on her way to shigaon with her sick infant son , and three other children .
the film is set in the time of 50 ' s and 60 ' s about journey of a 13 year old young boy who ran away from his hostel and how this young boy matures with time when he meets a woman and her kids .
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the film is set in the time of 50’s and 60’s about journey of a 13 year old young boy who ran away from his hostel and how this young boy matures with time when he meets a lady and her kids .
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i’m pretty sure that the bald scottish guy dazzler meets up with is meant to sean connery .
for all that i can find nostalgia in curious backwaters of continuity , i have no nostalgia for “mutant x . ” that was . . . not good .
aw , polaris . i always feel sorry for her , because i think she’s a cool character in general , but it’s ages before she ever gets a decent story where she doesn’t show up and immediately get mind controlled or go crazy ( thanks heaps , chuck austen ) i’m racking my brain trying to find a time before peter david’s x - factor run where she has any agency of her own in any story .
only tangentially related to this episode — the wildfire smoke basically blanketed large chunks of western canada this entire past week after the episode recording .
i suddenly want to go back and re - read mutant x . havoc has been one of my favourite characters since i started reading comics with peter david’s x - factor run , and i was really excited that he was basically going to get his own corner of the multiverse as his private playground .
i remember the first 12 issue arc being not terrible and having some interesting concepts — i also really liked that the universe where havoc was one of the premiere heroes was a lot more peaceful and had less mutant prejudice — but it quickly went off the rails following that story’s conclusion . perhaps not coincidentally , the book had originally only been pitched as a 12 issue mini - series , and it’s initial sales were good enough for the editors to push howard mackie to expand it into an on - going .
also , the juggernaut may be a jerk , but he’s great at being a jerk . has there been a cold open i’m forgetting explaining his powers ?
based on a couple cameo appearences ( ie rick redfern and joanie caucus in days of future past , as well as a lot of other drop ins ) the doonsbury characters exist in the marvel universe . so how many are actually mutants themselves ? i seem to recall mike doonsbury making one of his summer daydreams come true…which sounds a lot like franklin richards level reality warping to me .
so i’m curious about the view of gender identity in the dazzler / juggernaut situation . i think you’re right 90 % of the time on this . but i read this juggernaut thing really differently .
i saw it as juggernaut saying , the next person you randomly attack for no reason might kill you , especially if you insist on picking fights way outside your weight class . condescending ? totally . paternalistic ? definitely . but he’s also not wrong . had she done that with sabertooth , the beyonder , or any one of a dozen other hardcore villains , she’d be a corpse . especially if he’s a fan of the music , i can totally see him saying that .
i’m all for no - limits feminism , and there’s a lot that really troubles me about some of the sexist coding in comics . but this struck me as a small dog picking a fight with a big dog , and the big one telling him to knock it off . rather than a “womens should know their place” thing .
actually , i shouldn’t have said no reason . as you’re correct nearly taking people out with cars is horrible , still . the rest stands .
the whole thing would read as less condescending and sexist if he wasn’t calling her things like “doll” and “frail” the whole time . incidentally , was there a time in human history when people actually referred to women as “frail” ? i’ve literally never heard that time used outside of a claremont comic .
that last sentence should read “that term , ” not “that time . ” word press really needs an edit button .
touche’ sam . “frail” is pretty bad . but i think condescending is definitely supposed to be the point here . while i don’t think sexism is appropriate , from a villain like juggernaut it’s at least not a surprise . nor portrayed as something to be emulated .
yeah , this moment gave me pause too . i mean , we’re talking about what claremont intended juggernaut to express . i think he was trying to show juggernaut as a ) confused that dazzler , who is a pop singer as far as he knows , is trying to fight him – and b ) conflicted because this is someone who he really likes and has positive feelings for and she’s fighting him . he doesn’t want to hurt her .
juggernaut just wants her to stop , and to not be involved in this world . reading sexism out of it needs us to assume that claremont intended this scene to show juggernaut as a sexist . why would he suddenly do that ? he certainly hasn’t been portrayed that way up till now . or we have to assume that claremont himself is being sexist by writing “normal” dialogue which reflects his internalized misogyny . the gender politics of the x - men up to this point don’t give me much confidence in this theory .
i can easily imagine juggernaut behaving roughly the same way if he had come up against a male celebrity mutant part time superhero of whom he was a big fan .
yeah , i agree with this sentiment . i can picture him saying the same thing after beating the shit out of josh guthrie .
so you guys are getting pretty close to fall of the mutants , eh ? you’ve covered up to uncanny x - men 219 ( fall of the mutants omnibus starts at 220 ) , new mutants up to 54 ( fall starts at 55 ) , and x - factor up to 15 ( fall starts at 18 ) . obviously this event is huge , so i’m curious as to how you plan to cover it . thanks !
especially as it’s less “one big story” and more “three stories united thematically . ”
. . . i also want them to cover the daredevil issues somewhere in there , because the notion that daredevil of all books , had crossovers for this and inferno is just . . . awesome .
the fact that daredevil had crossovers is pretty self - explanatory – ann nocenti was writing daredevil at the time . however , she did a really good job at making the stories tangential . they weren’t necessary to understand the x - men world , but the backdrop usually did a good job of making the daredevil story richer . daredevil 252 ( ground zero ) is a very good example in a very nocenti - an way .
i know the background of them and the nocenti / claremont relationship and they’re loose , tangential relationship , but they’re still wonderful comics .
really enjoyable little surrealistic digressions and really go in some fun directions . inessential , sure . but nocenti gets a lot out of dd fighting a vacuum and a truck - eating dentist .
thank you for making me care for havok . i’v always seen him as rather blend character before hearing this episode . also , i would vote for this era’s psylocke any day of the weak instead of the later sexified psylocke .
magneto should not needle wanda about having grandkids , as that might lead to her rewriting all of reality again .
this episode reminded me of havok’s “how about alex” speech ( where he advocated rejecting all labels instead of being called a mutant ) . while it was certainly problematic , i thought it felt like something he would say . the character here is someone who isn’t necessarily hateful of his powers ( like rogue ) , but is someone who wants to reject all the responsibility that goes with them . his goal is normalcy . so , as long as you don’t read into the speech an editorial belief that it’s the correct thought , i thought it was a good addition to that issue .
you know , the “m - word” speech always struck me as something alex would say , too . not just because of his personality , either . he is a good - looking , white , cis - gender male who expects to be treated as an individual – not a member ( or representative ) of a “group . ” someone like that has been raised to believe that they , as an individual , are only an individual . then throw in alex’s individual psychology ( as you mention , “normalcy” being his big goal ) . then throw in his leading an avengers team , the ( nominal ) point of which was to show mutant - human cooperation ( and specifically to show how mutants were heroes just like the avengers ) and i agree that it’s a natural thing for him to say . like you say , so long as you don’t read it as the editorial position ( which didn’t occur to me on my first read of it , honestly ) , it reads as a very reasonable thing for someone with alex’s particular background , personality , and experiences to say .
“heads up– if havok’s position in ua # 5 really upset you , it’s time to drown yourself hobo piss . seriously , do it . it’s the only solution . ”
i think any attempt at subtley is out the window . ( the tweet was later deleted , but too many sites picked up on it for it to be ignored )
see also the later issue where rogue objects to havok’s comments and instead of a potentially interesting debate , it become a sequence of wanda telling rogue she’s wrong , without offering any proper justification . of course , the fact that alex can pass as a blond white guy ( and rogue and wanda are both human norm too ) gives a very” off” feel to the whole thing .
kitty’s rebuttal in either uncanny or all - new –i don’t recall which off the top of my head–remains the gold standard for on - page smackdowns as far as i’m concerned .
it is interesting to watch the different writers provide commentary via the mouths of their respective current characters to “smack down” commentary from other writers in a shared universe with which they disagree . reminds me of those “heroes texting” memes only more… fulfilling and relevant and , even , less cringe worthy ? maybe ? but when it comes to them bickering / commenting in real - life social media shit gets awkward .
oh , and in light of this sort of thing , i really find it interesting that in the pre - inferno new mutants issues where they riff with the hellions they proudly accept being called “the muties” by emma’s students .
well , i’m not arguing that the guy handles criticism well , just that it’s something that fits what alex summers would say . maybe i’m too charitable towards mr . remender , but i’m fine with the speech existing for exploring his character ( and the whole idea of mutants “passing” and how that affects mutant politics ) . and , as pointed out below , it set up kitty pryde’s rebuttal , which is also very much in character ( except that she actually managed to make a point without resorting to racial slurs this time ! ) .
i could be wrong , but i thought that there might have been some notice somewhere that places “x - men versus avengers” miniseries in the first trip to new york that havok took .
hmmm . it was coming out the same time , and according to the marvel wikia , havok and dazzler are in every issue .
i hated these issues when they came out . of course , it’s been three decades , and i’ve never wanted to reread them , so i can’t say in hindsight if it would have been better rereading with later context . but at this point :
1 ) my favorite x - men are all off the team . ( though hey , this arc was actually coming out the same time as excalibur started , meaning that i could read about many of those favorites somewhere else ! )
2 ) the characters replacing them are all characters i have no connection to whatsoever . with the possible exception of dazzler’s origin story back in the byrne days , i’d never read any comic with these characters in it before they showed up in x - men around this time . ( it does seem surprising to me that i hadn’t read anything with havok in it… does he maybe show up at scott’s wedding or something ? ) ( how cool would it have been if a couple of the new mutants had graduated up to the x - men instead ? )
3 ) these issues are just a random jumble of things . different art ( mostly dodgy ) every issue . plot that revolves around arbitrary crap happening . i mean , two issues in a row things are set off by our “heroes” being nearly run over / run off the road completely by accident ? !
4 ) twice in two issues we have the gimmick of “i recognize this from my time reading the x - men’s files . ” right…
5 ) the issues are driven by the stars acting stupidly . dazzler taking on juggernaut by himself , when he wasn’t obviously doing something dangerous ? that’s freaking insane . then there’s pretty much everything havok does . also…
6 ) wiping havok’s mind of his knowledge of meeting the x - men is completely insane and unethical . i mean , beyond the fundamental questions about wiping someone’s mind in any circumstances , isn’t the knowledge that someone has been targeting x - men and related mutants literally a matter of life and death for havok ? there’s every reason to think that he and lorna will be targets of the marauders , and of course as this issue reveals they actually are targets .
8 ) finally , the brood on earth is not a subplot you can forget about for a year ! so at the end of # 218 alex knows it’s vital to contact the x - men about the brood . at the beginning of # 219 he’s visited the x - men and had his mind erased . why didn’t he just call them ? if if alex somehow forgot to tell the x - men why he came to visit them , why didn’t betsy at least notice it in his mind when she was heavily editing it ? this is a potential extinction event for the human race , two of the heroes know about it and realize how serious it is , yet it is completely dropped without a word .
honestly , i’ve always assumed this represented some sort of editorial interference in plotting . something like “sorry chris , you’ve got to drop everything instantly and start a crossover next month ! ”
whoops , got confused about the timeline . this was still a year before excalibur , so my favorite x - men were all completely sidelined rather than appearing elsewhere .
i think plan omega’s intent was that the x - men could stop reacting to everything and begin to go after their enemies . unfortunately , it was never really stated that way and we won’t see it implemented until the australia period , with some mixed results ( i think about half of those issues were the x - men reacting to some situation ) .
when you put it like that it sounds like a good idea , but what they actually do is leave as large as possible a target for those enemies to attack and force them to react yet again . ( or just hang their friends out to dry , as they did with havok and polaris . )
a good episode that actually seems to tie these issues together than the issues themselves ever did .
coming out of the massacre into this prolonged dirge of an arc ( if it can be called that ) was the start of the issues where i started to lose interest , not only because that was a very stupid thing to ignore , but because the main x - team as they’d lost kitty and kurt and the increased focus on wolverine didn’t interest me that much . ( the casual ignoring of the space shark didn’t help as it was just too big a thing to ignore lightly )
whilst technically betsy might be captain britain’s little sister ( which you mention at least twice ) , it’d be more accurate to say she’s his twin sister , i’m not even sure who the older of the two actually is , nor by how many minutes , but someone else might i’m sure .
oh and the “let’s kill him” bit again ? ? i’ve said it before , i’ll say it again , psylocke is frighteningly keen to kill people since her introduction , generally a little too kill - happy for my tastes , or at least for someone else not to pull her up on it .
the third doctor was employed as “scientific advisor” to unit whilst stuck on earth and was officially under the brigadiers command , though the doctor cheerfully ignored him when it suited him , but respected him immensely , and the doctor has never officially resigned his position .
when the much loved actor who played the brigadier died in 2011 , the series producer and showrunner steven moffatt said in his tribute “… out of all the people the doctor has met , in all of space and time , nicholas courtney’s brigadier alistair gordon lethbridge - stewart was the only one who was ever his boss . ”
and in a later episode , the then current scientific advisor , the brigadiers daughter kate , says of the 12th doctor ; “welcome to the only planet in the universe where we get to say this : he’s on the payroll . ”
sorry , i’ve been a doctor who nerd a lot longer than i’ve been an x - men nerd . i’ll try to get it out of my system before your excalibur coverage starts .
marvel has a pretty spotty history with scientist characters , but sometimes they really hit something dead - on . havok and polaris as phd students who only want to be left alone to do their research , but instead have to constantly deal with real - world crises and being possessed , is such a perfect plot set - up for me . i wish it had been explored further ( or revisited in a drs . havok and polaris secret wars miniseries ) .
i just got back from pax prime and am still catching up on work , but i’d like to write a piece for the blog about exactly that sometime . keep an eye out ; hopefully i’ll get to that before too long ! ( and thanks for asking ! )
i hope it will at least take a moment to have a jerry seinfeld style “what’s the deal with ultimate longshot ? ” because i’m still trying to recover from that .
it was a radical upside - down , indeed . i’ve got to admit i liked him a lot , though –so shocking !
oh , man . we are now up to where i started collecting x - books on my own , instead of borrowing from a friend . – the havok issue was the first one i bought for myself , and it made a halfway decent jumping - on point . this , x - factor 17 and whatever issue of classic x - men came out that month ( think it was the reprint of 99 ) were where i started , and ran straight through until the 90s happened to the entire line .
i didn’t get to these issues until i was far down the rabbit hole of x - men addiction ; actually i think i got them as reprints of “sabertooth classic” in the ’90s… ick… but getting to my point , the bit about psylocke suggesting they just outright murder alex always struck me as the most important bit for this period . her transformation in “acts of vengeance” just seems to be a natural progression over the post “massacre” era that her battle with creed hinted at , but truly came to the fore , with this arc .
i have also noticed her brother , brian , was a bit of an epic , hard drinkin’ fist full o’ assholes around this time in excalibur . toss in jamie and we have an extremely interesting dynamic of a family of mostly heroes that is still , generally , a bunch of jerks . their interactions with the summers clan has depths that have shamefully not yet been explored .
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just realized i put this in the as mentioned in thread by accident . powers that be , feel free to delete that ! ( sorry . )
psylocke’s suggestion that havok needs to be killed is pretty bonkers . ( havok is an auxiliary x - man and she presents basically no good reason for killing him ! ) despite that , it seems to indicate an interesting mandate for the character that claremont never totally got around to fleshing out : that despite those prissy pink pajamas she’s meant to be ruthlessly pragmatic and actually kind of shady . we’ll see this expressed again again from time to time — like when she mentally pushes the team through the siege perilous against their wills– but it never quite develops into a real story . ( this , to me , is related to but separate from the more often explored but somewhat less interesting notion that she longs to be more physically imposing . )
the dark turn the book seems to be taking at this point is actually pretty exciting on an issue by issue basis . it’s too bad that it 1 ) ends up amounting to not all that much and 2 ) makes hardly any sense if you think about it too hard .
i think juggernaut’s skull - cap first appeared in marvel team - up # 150 , which was also the last issue of that run of the series . the story has juggy giving black tom the crystal gym of cyttorak and tom not appreciating becoming all big and juggernauty . it’s set while rachel was still on the team as just rachel , not phoenix . haven’t read it in ages , and sadly it’s not available on marvel unlimited .
the juggernaut secondary skull - cap actually made its first appearance in marvel team - up # 150 ( which happens to be my first exposure to an x - men story ever ! woot ) . it’s actually quite ingenious . since his helmet is the one thing protecting him from those pesky telepaths and every battle with the x - men essentially boils down to everyone trying to get his helmet off so that a telepath can knock him down , why not provide an added level of protection , with a second , even more tightly fitted helmet underneath the first one ? 🙂
if you havent read this mtu story , you should , i think it also bleeds into the main book continuity at some point . in this story rogue absorbs juggernaut’s powers turning into juggerrogue , which i distinctly remember getting referenced later on .
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the opening gimmick who cried wolf . ( uncanny x - men # 217 )
“seriously , guys , it’s like the whole theme of the book . i mean , aside from fighting to protect a world that hates and fears us . ” ( uncanny x - men # 217 )
whether douglas the gentle freak is the doonesbury - universe version of cypher remains a mystery . ( we’d like to think so , though . )
2 / 3 of juggernaut fights begin with some variation of this scene ( kilt negotiable ) . ( uncanny x - men # 217 )
i don’t know if there’s a word for what’s going on with rogue’s hair , but it is amazing . ( uncanny x - men # 218 )
“y’all enjoy your group hug . i’m just gonna fling this fucking rock into space . ” ( uncanny x - men # 218 )
i know this story is all about teamwork , but rogue definitely wins mvp of uncanny x - men # 218 .
the really great thing about this reference is that there’s also a brigadier lethbridge stuart running around uk - 616 . i bet they get each other’s mail all the time . ( uncanny x - men # 218 )
car wreck sex : the alex summers story . ( uncanny x - men # 218 )
this plotline will continue to dangle for like a year and a half . ( uncanny x - men # 218 )
please let us know if you can work out the timeline here , because we’ve basically stopped sleeping , and it’s not pretty . ( uncanny x - men # 219 )
i always figured magneto would have way nicer penmanship than this . ( uncanny x - men # 219 )
lorna , you can fuck with magnetic fields with your mind , and one time you threw an island into space . are you really that surprised at a freak earthquake ? ( uncanny x - men # 219 )
if the x - line were a sitcom , they’d totally have cut from here to scott arguing with hallucinations over in x - factor . ( uncanny x - men # 219 )
it’s okay . everyone will be too distracted by your hat to notice the tights . ( uncanny x - men # 219 )
next week : origins of x - men : evolution , with robert n . skir !
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rebelle rally : driving in the u . s . ' s only all - female endurance road race
i competed in america ' s first all - female endurance road rally . i ' d never even changed a tire .
we were lost . not can you pull up google maps ? lost , or do we still have a road atlas somewhere ? lost . no , we were are we in california or nevada ? lost ; thank god we have emergency supplies lost ; this landscape would be gorgeous if it weren ' t so apocalyptic lost . the jeep ' s gps system had been disabled , and our phones and laptops were turned off and sealed in envelopes . we had a collection of specialized large - scale topographical maps , but to figure out where you are on a topo map ( a relief map that shows a region ' s geographical features ) , you have to know how to read it . i was supposed to be the better topo reader in our pair , and i could barely pick out the most prominent landmarks . if coyotes or unfriendly strangers appeared , we ' d be completely , royally screwed .
we sat in the jeep with the air conditioning on high , eating sugary energy chews and gulping down coconut water .
this all called for a set of navigation skills no one uses anymore—unless you ' re a sailor or a fifth grader prepping for a social studies test .
throughout the course , 140 checkpoints were hidden behind broken - down mine shacks , just beyond hairpin turns , deep inside mountain crevices , and sometimes , blessedly , directly on the route . large green flags marked the easiest - to - find checkpoints ; smaller blue flags identified intermediate ones . black checkpoints , the most difficult to find , weren ' t marked at all . each was worth a certain number of points . the goal : rack up as many as possible .
every morning we were given a list of checkpoints to find that day ( one day there ' d be 12 ; another day , 22 ) , defined solely by their latitudinal and longitudinal coordinates . we had to plot them on our topo maps , then use geometry to strategize how to get from one to the next . this all called for a set of navigation skills no one uses anymore—unless you ' re a sailor or a fifth grader prepping for a social studies test . we weren ' t allowed phones , gps , or outside help . kind of like an adult female eagle scouts on steroids , or survivor meets the amazing race in the american west .
the automotive world is notoriously male - dominated , making a women - only motorsports event revolutionary . ( there are a few all - women rallies and races scattered across the globe , out of hundreds of annual motorsports events overall ; the rebelle is the only one in the u . s . )
i ' ve been in races where i was the only woman driving ,
the rebelle ' s founder , 50 - year - old emily miller , told me .
i ' ve had people recommend i wear a tight pink race suit .
miller grew up between arkansas and colorado , skiing , biking , and reading her father ' s car magazines . in her 30s , she launched a sports marketing firm and started to race cars and teach at racing and off - roading schools . when creating the rebelle—which took three years of planning , 40 bureau of land management permits , and 60 staffers to pull off—miller combined her favorite aspects of the rallies and races she ' d participated in over the years .
she was determined to create an event where women could test their mettle .
most automotive events are designed from a man ' s perspective ,
miller said , meaning that they ' re usually speed races , where the goal is to get from point a to b as fast as possible . but the rebelle isn ' t a race , she reminded us daily . it demanded endurance , accurate navigation , and communication .
women excel in endurance events ,
she explained .
women think about the rules and the challenge . they want to win , but they ' re not there to prove how fast they can go .
my team ' s combined experience was…limited .
winning
never crossed our minds ; we just hoped to finish without killing the jeep—or one another . my teammate , jaclyn trop , is an auto reporter who reviews luxury cars , but we both quickly realized that her professional expertise didn ' t translate into real - world driving and car maintenance knowledge . while she knows her way around a racetrack , she didn ' t know how to read a map .
naïve enthusiasm seemed like a perfectly legitimate qualification to enter a highly - detailed endurance event requiring a complex venn diagram of skills i didn ' t possess .
not that i know anything about cars . i can sort of drive a stick shift , and sort of change a tire . i ' d signed up for the rebelle rally because tooling around isolated southwestern back roads is one of my all - time favorite activities , something i discovered during the six years i lived in far west texas . ( aimless desert driving is terrible for the environment , but good for the soul . )