Where Could They Be?

 A main resource for Affairs Valentino were those court records I discovered. With those thousand pages, I was able to fact check what everyone was saying. Just imagine if the entire case file was made public. How frustrating and actually illegal that is to even have those in one's possession. I knew when Donna Hill told me the case file was purchased from a collector for one of Valentino's shirts by the Valentino family, that those valuable records were probably lost forever. 

Tracy Terhune admitted he knew of three people who had them in their possession. Donna Hill admitted she knew two. Really? I would think they would both want to report that to the County Clerk at once and get those Valentino records back where they belong. 

The records I found are so informative and just as an example look at these two perfect documents from the file. They are from the Falcon Lair household ledgers, during the first 6 months of 1926.

Above: I see that the court clerk can not spell "Italian", that Rudy Valentino bought his ice from the "Union Ice Co., that he was dishing out gaping amounts of cash to his brother Alberto, that chicken was purchased for the falcons from L.B. Nolte Poultry and that the Italian (Ilatian) Store was doing a swift business with Rudy.

Above it is itemized that Lou Mahoney made $45.00 a week as handyman at Falcon Lair. His brother Charles took home $15 less a week. Rudy's secretary Raymond Fager made $60.00. I always thought this debunked Lou Mahoney's grandiose opinion of his role in Rudy's household. Not quite the picture. 

So imagine if Terhune and Donna Hill decided to report that stolen case file and make it available. And imagine if Donna Hill had not told me about that? But in the least the documents I tracked down make a difference. I found them all so informative. I will at some point have them uploaded to an online archive for posterity. 

In the Name of Valentino - 2

I received a comment chiding me about name-calling. No one can ever, ever call me out on name-calling and especially Terhune and Bret ( that “Valentino Studies Whatever”). I could call them names for the next ten years, every single day, twenty-four hours a day and barely be breaking even with those two. Bret can do nothing but name-call and in 2010 when those two began on me, they ran rampant.

I must emphasize they are still at it, but since then there has been some awareness about online bullying... not much... but back then I was called things they would not dare today. My friends, my family and loved ones, my Dad, Michael Morris were all savagely name-called and in sexual ways and in posts which are not appropriate for posting here. Some of those are public record as court's evidence which I filed in the defamation lawsuit I won handily v. Bret Batista Morris.

The hubris of them and their lackys to even try to act wounded by me at this point is colossal; epic hubris on their part. Shall I begin to post all those corpses having sex images Bret found so funny to post the first couple of days after my Dad died? Or perhaps all those images Terhune has posted for me of madwomen, satan, toilets, pigs and bibles? Enough said. So the two of them just might have a little bit of it coming back their way because karma is a bitch. I have had enough and am not taking it laying down anymore.

They are, to quote my dearly-departed friend and mentor Father Michael Morris, “The Devil's Brigade” and “Satan's Angels”. After all this time people are angry about and disgusted with what they do and that includes me. It stands to reason some arrows will be flung their way. It is so deserved.

So me calling them names? I have barely gotten started. I fight back.

From the archive (Fair Use Guidelines)....Terhune's, "Literary Critique":

And a poem (below) Bret wrote to me when he heard my father died. He began a highly-sexualized theme of incest and so traumatized me it pains me still to even think of my father's death. David Bret deprived me of any sane mourning for my own father. I apologize for the grossness and believe me it is a huge file under the heading of “My Dad” and every entry is more obscene than the last.

From Bret:

“When it comes to sex, Evie's brave,
She keeps her dead dad in a cave,
"I know it's disgusting,
But he only needs dusting,
And think of the money I save!"
When alive, his hole was so tight,
He could keep those cheeks clenched all the night,
But the sphincter Zumaya
Is now mashed papaya,
Just like tonguing a bucket of shite!”

And some general posts from the file:

Bret doxing me by posting my personal information. I had to change my phone number. 

For a while Bret posted on his many blogs that I lived in "La Bella". It came up in a search he did on me because I posted a picture of the Falcon Lair driveway as it merged onto, "Bella Drive". And Bret wrote a book on Valentino and did not recognize the address? Here he is going after my Dad again. 

In the Name of Valentino

To the person who insists on writing me about just “getting along with” and “finding peace with” their team mates who they refer to as the “studied experts”, I share the following (see below).

When you know about Valentino's hardship and struggle and his painful death at 31, do you not find the following (see below) all the more tragic? I do.

We are always available to have serious discussions about Valentino's life. We do not pretend to own the truth but we refer to our discoveries always with documentation.

The following are quips taken from screenshots of “studied expert” Tracy Terhune. They are not altered and are excerpted under Fair Use Guidelines. The full screenshots are preserved as evidence on three servers. So no quibbling on that needs be.

These were posted by Terhune on my old Affairs Valentino blog which I was running to promote my book and defend myself. It was hijacked by Terhune and Albert Morris. While Terhune likes to pretend that blog is a literary critique, any thinking person would laugh at that. Every single line is dripping with that man's hatred of Renato and I. Hatred like that is not something so easy to mask.

I have a million of these awful citations and I hope the person who clings to the hope these people are “studied experts” has been enlightened.

The history matters about Valentino, the integrity of it and I find what Tracy Ryan Terhune does to us and has done to us for ten years and counting unthinkable. 

Here below Terhune brags how his fake hate blog disguised as a book critique has over taken my book's search online.  

More from his miles and miles of attacks on us and our work disguised as reviews:

After Renato spoke about his childhood memories of being a little star on an Italian TV show for children, Terhune began to attack him on that "book critique" by mocking that memory. 

Terhune Pretends to Be Me

Yesterday someone sent in a comment claiming Tracy Terhune uses his Affairs Valentino blogspot for some good. I replied that was 100% false. As proof of his intent in opening the blog, and running it solely against Renato and I since August of 2012, I post the following screenshot excerpts under Fair Use guidelines to illustrate my point. 

Imagine my horror to find Terhune (TRT96) posting on my blog, which I was terrorized into closing by Terhune's "buddy" Batista Bret and worse still finding he was posting in the first person. He was pretending to be me which constitutes identity theft. The first screenshot was taken on August 5, 2012.

Within a month Terhune posts a stat graph bragging in "I'm just sayin'" that he has overtaken my Google search. This was because I was so terrorized when I closed my blog, I went offline hoping Terhune and Bret would stop. They did not. 

But incredibly on the same thread (third screenshot) he follows his bragging about his evil deed by posting a video of his crypt fest. So any attempts to claim that blog is now a "literary critique" fail miserably in light of the long and sickening true history of Terhune's posts. The documentation speaks for itself.

And I will add to the call in a comment on Renato's previous post and petition Donna Hill, Eleanor Gribbin, Marytin O'Bannon, etc. to post a link to this post, and a link to Terhune and Batista Bret's Affairs Valentino blogspot as a sign of their recognition that this is deplorable bullying behavior and something they disapprove of. I await their posting of the links and their full denouncement.

One month later.
 

Renato Comments:

To define exactly what it was that prompted Tracy Ryan Terhune to disguise his trivial trumpeting as "literary critique", on what was Evelyn's original blog, I start from the beginning and see what “Literary Criticism” really means.

I cite the definition from the site:  https://literarydevices.net/critique/#google_vignette: Definition ofCritique

“Critique is a literary technique that means to critically evaluate a piece of literary work, or a political or philosophical theory in detail. A critique could be a critical essay, an article evaluating a literary piece, or a review. It may be just like a summary that identifies the central issue, raises questions, takes notice of theoretical and experimental approaches, and reviews the significance of the results. Apart from that, its purpose is to highlight both the shortcomings as well as strengths of a literary piece or a work of art. Moreover, critical evaluation or assessment requires sufficient knowledge about the subject matter.”

Tracy Ryan Terhune uses a different method than “literary critique” and it is one called “Proofreading”.

I cite the definition of Proofreading from the University of Wisconsin site: https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/grammarpunct/proofreading/

"Proofreading means examining your text carefully to find and correct typographical errors and mistakes in grammar, style, and spelling."

This is what Tracy Ryan Terhune does and in a way to demean the value of our work. I realize that in some, very few, parts of our books there are some trivial errors, errors that would not exist if we had the support of a skilled proofreader. This is something we wish we could do but because Tracy Ryan Terhune, with his trenchant determination to ruin us, we are prevented in doing so.

3,839 days have passed since Tracy Ryan Terhune opened Evelyn's blog which he immediately turned into a weapon of destruction by diverting the research of honest readers from our documented discoveries.

The image of those books on shelves on the blog denies the history of his years of posts there, where he continues in this malevolent action only trying to smear us. He gives a thumbs down to our book The Rudolph Valentino Case Files on a blog which has been full of images of toilets, satan and lakes of fire, by pointing out typographical errors and insignificant details which by definition has absolutely nothing to do with a literary critique. Posting such a “proof reading” on that specific blog is biased and his purpose is only to further damage our work and bury our books. He does nothing to affect the honest and groundbreaking contents of the research carried out by us.

Word From Wisconsin Man

I have two binders full of odd articles from my Affairs Valentino research days and some of them I barely remember reading way back when. Like this one... Imagine Ullman's response to hear from this guy. 

 

That Loathsome Element

Some have said that Valentino draws” negativity”. I beg to differ and say before Tracy Terhune, there was a congeniality with one of the best examples being found in the memoir of Leonard De Fonte which we published. There still is a great deal of genuine interest, intellect, Valentino scholarship and positive spirit by many who I am privileged to hear from, engage in discussions with.

I think Tracy Terhune's presence has created, and sustains, that loathsome element of negativity... not Rudolph Valentino. Valentino attracts affection, respect and camaraderie. But since the reign of Terhune, a lot changed.

Even in my own experience, I was so excited to share news of my discovering the Ullmans and George's 1975 memoir back in 2003. When I presented this on a chat room, Tracy Terhune aggressively challenged me and my discovery in my first enthusiastic foray, and was so antagonistic I was left traumatized. I soon learned I was not alone.

I have files in my computer of communications since sent to me from people as far back as 2003 telling me how Terhune kicked them out of chat rooms and then Facebook Groups for daring to disagree and question him. One message reads how a woman claimed she had “never met such a thin-skinned and mean-spirited individual”. Her opinion obviously, but after being his target for more than a decade, I can sure agree to that.

Terhune introduced his dogmatic party line, a strict and mostly false narrative..."Valentino according to him".... and as he bought up all he could of Rudy's relics, he gained power in enforcing that party line. I have watched for years on end as he drives people away from the subject of Valentino, people he personally discouraged, demeaned, insulted and in my case ran a full “campaign” to ruin me.

This is not Valentino attracting negativity, it is one person's drive to control it all in a way that inflicts a great deal of negativity on the subject lamentably. Cindy Martin wrote the following in this regard to Renato in an exchange she initiated with him in 2019.

It is a shame it really is... and he could begin a turn around by closing that hate blog he runs against us. Would be a start. 

Thoughts From The True Rudolph Valentino

I thought I would post this excerpt from The True Rudolph Valentino by Baltazar Cue, which Renato translated and published. There have been some insightful comments here about this subject and I thought Señor Cué could weigh in. 

They Are Not Funny

Just an FYI... Tracy Ryan Terhune supports David Bret, he who posted this image below as my obituary online. Imagine having your friends and loved ones find this in your Google search. Mine did.  

Tracy Terhune, on his malicious bully blog he runs under my book's title,  provides the platform for David Bret's hatred, posted as comments on a blog he pretends to be a "Literary Critique". It is a hit blog with a ten year history of stupid and sickening attacks on us...created to inflict as much pain on me and my husband as possible. That is obvious to anyone. 

They are not funny and I think they deserve no further support or respect. As long as Tracy Terhune allows Bret to carry on there it is a partnership from hell. Tracy Terhune and David Bret... imo two of the most cruel people on earth... and this image below is one of hundreds of pieces of evidence which is now public record. Anyone can request a copy in person in the Court of Asti in Italy. It was submitted as evidence in the lawsuit I filed v. Bret which I won. But as he knows now, hatred can be expensive. 

I wrote a book they did not like. Can you imagine? 

 

Valentino Has Left the Rio

"The Rio Theatre was on Walnut Street across from Capitol Park and adjacent to a large YMCA building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Built in 1908, it began life as the Majestic Theatre featuring vaudeville and shows such as 'No, No, Nanette' and 'Rose Marie'. “

On October 8, 1943, Rudolph Valentino appeared at the Rio in The Son of the Sheik, and he received the following review. For me these little scenarios back in time are time capsules. I almost remember 1943 but it was a bit before my time.

The reviewers' mention of Valentino being successful in his love scenes for his lack of bother or need to speak is good insight I think. It probably does not matter whether the movie is silent or not. Plenty of conversations were had in silent film. I think reviewer Paul Walker was on to something.

Traveling back in time to 1943, to a bus ride and the chatter of a couple of teenagers who had just seen The Son of the Sheik. 

The Rio Theatre where this took place. It is long gone but what a great Art Deco facade.