How can the few notable people, and I
use that term loosely, continue to market themselves as experts on
the life and times of one Rudolph Valentino when they have heaved to
the trash bin...all of the research, discovery and writing we have
done on that subject in over ten years and in 12 publications? I ask
how? What frauds, what fakes, what poseurs they are.
They feign knowledge based on the old,
tired and false narrative/propaganda they have been programmed to
repeat ad nausea. They can fool a lot of people with their BS because
they are collectors and most
people think a collector of something would make them an expert on
the subject. No, it makes them an expert on the marketing of that
subject. What is the value of this, etc. on the current Valentino
memorabilia market.
Well I am not fooled at all by
them..and for that they hate me and my guts. I see straight through
them and have for years. I will not bow to the DNA and I will not bow
to the censor and his handmaiden. I do not seek their approval and
never have. And for this.... how very, very, very poorly they have
treated us. It is a black eye on the face of Rudolph Valentino's
legacy how these people treat us.
What a laugh to read Tracy Ryan Terhune
telling Cindy Martin that he enjoys a good debate. Whoa. Upside down
world. What debate? How can there be one? When they both fly into
states of unhinged rage if we publish another book. What debate?
What we present from our research is
dismissed by them because it is feared. This because what we present is the
truth that they have all known about for decades. Experts? They are aggressive Valentino merchants and as someone wrote me this week. "All they care about is
ginning up the value of their relics.”
I always thought “they” hated me so
because they were defending some vision of their “Rudy”. Now,
sadly I know better. They only care about their bottom line and I
present a threat to their profit margins.
I will not cower in the face of their
ageist, misogynist, racist, sadistic, mean-spirited, satanic,
shunning attacks on Renato and I, because life is too short anymore.
I will be responding with less fear of them and faster now.
Censors! Hear this! Michael Morris once
told me that it was, “deeply Un-American” to censor and ban
books. He was right. Your collective treatment of Renato and I has
been “deeply un-American”.
Why now? Because I think 10 years and counting of
being bullied, name-called, abused and having our right to conduct an
honest business maliciously impeded by these people is just about
enough.
