Tuesday, April 5, 2022

A Response from Renato Floris

Sometimes, reading the delusions written about us which good Samaritans often send our way, it seems I am living in an episode of Twilight Zone, perhaps with Jean Guglielmi Valentino as a sound engineer. Yes, I read and I am amazed, actually less and less, when I read statements such as:

“Gladiolo”, as the porn fiction writer calls me, so he can mock a photo of me with some gladioli.

I am amazed when I read his claiming I did not receive the texts of Florey's “Inoubliable, Inoublié” etc., etc., from the BNF (The Biblioteque Nationale de France). That is a lie.  Of course I did. What does this villain know about what I do and, above all, how I do it? If I state I received Florey's manuscript from BNF, it is because I did. I respond to being called a liar, by saying I never lie. I do not need to.

This same villain goes on to claim that Valentino's venereal disease was invented by Evelyn. He fails to mention that if the disease was really invented, it was by Valentino himself. At the age of fifteen, he wrote to a friend how he had a venereal disease he caught from Taranto prostitutes and went on to write he was suffering a great deal from it.

Following the villain's claim this was a lie, was Valentino lying? Was his brother Alberto lying when he told this to William Self, who reported it to Evelyn? According to the villain, maybe Jeanine Villalobos is also a liar because she talks about it extensively in her doctoral thesis.

But he is not alone in this kind of demented delirium as there are other characters joining in also worthy of a Luis Buñuel film.

Just to give an example, I quote what was written by another wicked creature who seems to only find peace trying in every way possible to harm us. I do not need to even name this person because to those who frequent this blog, she is easily identifiable. I quote a significant passage from this lunatic's delusions:

And what about this sarcophagus story? · Who really believes that Evelyn discovered all this? Just because she brought it out after decades means nothing.”

Evelyn did discover the sarcophagus and it is a fascinating piece of Valentino's history, which is documented by e-mails and photographs. Again we do not lie because we do not have to. And, in another post she states the following:

When the initial printing of 'Affairs Valentino' was published, I had already been talking with certain parties of like mind to get this book removed from the bookshelves. We were successful in Europe and in the United States. The reason that I participated in this effort was simple, in my mind. The book was a book of lies. I felt it contained forgeries and false information. I felt it contained misleading information, which may have had truth to it but was twisted in such a way that it made Rudy's life into a lie. I felt that Zumaya had already obsessively sensationalized Rudy's sex life. And that was before Zumaya got started on Natacha.”

This is an admission by this person, that they willfully impeded and impede our right to conduct a fair business. An admission of guilt. And Evelyn did not sensationalize Valentino's sex life and did not twist her documentation into lies. She did not forge documents and this is defamation to say so. It is incredible this lunatic admits to participating in having Evelyn's fine effort, Affairs Valentino, removed from sale.  

And then the wicked lunatic proudly reaffirms:

So yes, I did play a part in having the first 'Affairs Valentino · removed from the bookstores, but it had nothing to do with money as far as I was concerned. In my mind, if a book is written and it is fiction, it should state that and not mislead the readers to think it is a true-life story. Evelyn did not do that. She presented the book as Rudy's true life story.”

As Michael Morris wrote, “Affairs Valentino is the most well-written and best researched book on Valentino.” It is not fiction and Evelyn sourced her work to some 40 pages of citations so anyone can check the story. 

Evelyn presented Affairs Valentino based solely on what she discovered and what she verified about the story of Valentino. She worked years to find those court records and other archives to document her statements.

I advise this vicious, delusional person to go easy on prejudice and check her facts before going on the attack just to harm a person whose words she does not agree with and a person she has a personal vendetta against. This behavior is very criminal IMO.

I add that neither Evelyn or I lie, because we have no need or reason to.


Monday, April 4, 2022

Regarding the Leader's Decrees

Expanding on the comment I made on my previous post, I share some Google search excerpts I feel are relevant about the subject of cults, cult leaders, etc. There is obviously a great deal about this online which I find insightful in understanding the actual situation. 

What are the characteristics of a cult leader?

A cult leader is a person of tremendous charisma who makes followers feel loved and accepted. It's often suggested that cult leaders use brainwashing tactics to attract and keep followers. In many instances, cult members deeply identify and admire their leader.

What are the characteristics of a cult?

Specific factors in cult behavior are said to include manipulative and authoritarian mind control over members, communal and totalistic organization and aggressive proselytizing.

The group is focused on a living leader to whom members seem to display excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment. The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members. Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.

The group is led by one or a few individuals who are charismatic, determined, domineering. The leader(s) are self-appointed and claim to have a special mission in life....leaders answer to no higher authority, such as an oversight board.

Members show unusual or excessive devotion to some person, idea or thing.

Are Cult leaders narcissists?

They feel ultimately entitled to completely lie to you, to put on this good charming face to get you to believe what their selling....most cult leaders are narcissists and are 'bottomless pits of ego need'."


Sunday, April 3, 2022

The Absolute Validity of "The True Rudolph Valentino"

Within two days of our publication of Renato's translation of Baltasar Cue's book, The True Rudolph Valentino, Tracy Terhune did what he does with all of our books. He posted his maximum, mean-spirited and irrational trashing on the blog he runs, and has run since 2012, under the title of my book Affairs Valentino. Whenever we publish a book, Tracy Terhune hurries to get some bad commentary about it online as fast as he possibly can. He uses our new books to bully us even more, i.e. the following clips are taken from his post on Baltasar Cue's book:



Terhune could not be more wrong about any of that and he also made an error calling the title, "The True Story, etc." But the real issue is that he called the Cue manuscript "fiction". The Cue work was referenced in the PhD dissertation of Jeanine Villalobos and I cite the audio (see link below) of me reading the excerpt. For now this is a share only link. 

Tracy Terhune has recently made it known he is an avid reader of this blog. So I share this for his knowledge and I think a retraction is in order. I also hope he notices that this blog is not being run under the title of his book. But I have thought of doing that. What's fair is fair. 

"Regarding, The True Rudolph Valentino", please listen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OD673MLVxM4


Ulrike Doniger's "Suspicious German Accent"

From The Kenosha News, August 24, 1979




Rudolph, Cué & More

Saturday, April 2, 2022

"The Servants & The Sheik"

A few years ago a friend sent us an article about Rudolph Valentino published in Cine Mundial, a Spanish language movie magazine. Thus began Renato's translation and our publication of Baltazar Cue's, The True Rudolph Valentino. Renato wanted very much to share this book with the public and I still find the account so historically rich, I marvel at all the content.

I am sharing two pages from The True Rudolph Valentino p. 124-125, because they are exceptional imo. The action picks up when Alberto and family are visiting Falcon Lair the beginning of 1926...




Friday, April 1, 2022

Dispelling Some Burial Myths

I have pulled together a few pages (see below) relevant to my previous two posts. Some of the damaging innuendo regarding Valentino's coffin and burial have been dispelled both in our book, The Rudolph Valentino Case Files and in Jeanne DeRecqueville's book, which Renato heroically translated, “Rudolph Valentino In English”.

Robert Florey presented the absurd claim that Valentino's body remained in a shed awaiting burial which I proved false. In 2003, I visited Campbell's Funeral Home and it was then I discovered the shipping case or sarcophagus which was found still sitting in the same mortuary where the coffin was received in 1926.

Collector Bill Self confirmed this with images of Valentino's coffin, inside the case, being off-loaded from the funeral train by the mortuary workers. This is how Bill Self found the case before I told him where it was.

Contrary to Robert Florey's grisly, false tale, Valentino's coffin was safely taken to the same mortuary where the shipping case was found by yours truly in 2003.

I first share the account from Florey's “Inoubliable, Inoublié, Rudolph Valentino Survives His Legend”, which Renato translated from the French and which is included in its entirety in our book The Rudolph Valentino Case Files, I excerpt page p. 103-104 from “Installment #4” as it appeared in Cinemonde #1160 on 11/1/1956.


And in Jeanne De Recqueville's book, she includes a letter she received about this from Alberto Valentino in which he again denies Florey's account. Alberto's comment on this is in italics.


Thursday, March 31, 2022

Ghouls

***I thought I would repost this one as it is relevant to the previous posts discussion. An enlargement of the article....

Well this caught my eye. I wonder what kind of get together there was to plot the "body-snatching"? 
From The Ogden Standard Examiner, March 27, 1932


Clambering Into the Crypt

The tales of the crypt have been told many times, the one below also. But I found the graphic illustration just fabulous and had to share it....as “she” clambers into the crypt. I added the article (below the illustration) which appeared in this format in The Fresno Bee on April 6, 1932 on p. 45.

Somehow the year of Rudolph Valentino's death is erroneously cited twice as being in 1925. But other than that, this is a fair telling of the familiar legend. 







Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Live With It

The latest delusion of those bullies who have been stalking, trolling and inspiring hatred of us for years on end... is that they believe themselves the, “Greater Valentino community.” Greater what? Greater abusers? In response to their absurd claim that they just want peace and quiet on their groups so that is why our names and our work can not be mentioned... I say who would ever, ever believe such absurdity?

We have asked only to have our work receive respect and acknowledgement and we have asked, passionately that people not engage in the cyber bullying campaign to silence us, led by Tracy Terhune. 

I have thousands of pieces of evidence of that campaign and share just a tiny sampling of what they actually do contribute as collaborators. No one wants peace and quiet more than Renato and I. That is fact. But honestly, we fight on. We will not be silenced or intimidated and stand proud of our work in every way.

A few examples of the contributions from the "Valentino Greater Community"...to prove my points... My point that they contribute all the possible hate and sickness in the Valentino world today. So if you multiply these few examples below by thousands and realize the time frame for us has been since about 2009.... that is the reality. 

***A few from Terhune's contributions: ( and these are excerpted from his blog and preserved on the server)




***(Below) From Bret/Albertista/Joey/Nicole/ et al. The following are excerpted from personal e-mails he sent to me:



***(Below) From Eleanor Gribbin with Simon Constable/Etienne:


***(Below) From Cindy Martin/Mum/O'Bannon. With Donna Hill sitting right there, saying nothing to correct her about this. It is 100% false and offensive and about as wicked as they come. 


***"Live with it"?? I do not think so.