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Here is an opportunity to support the film by buying the offficial Search for Count Dante t-shirt. Just head over to the store . We are amping up the fundraising. We are taking donations for out shooting which will begin again in August. I will let you know where and when as we get closer to the dates. Meanwhile take a gander at this great 2 minute promo for the film edited and shot by the

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I have been a bit busy with bread and butter work as well as working on the film. So I have not had the kind of time to blog effectively as I would like. I would like to thank all of those who have sent in donations for the film. It is greatly appreciated. I will keep in touch with all of you via email concerning the progress of the film and send out passworded links to previews now and then.

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Now this is wierd. First Nacho Libre, and Jack Black biting of the California Count Dante, now Adam Sandler and Zohan biting off the martial arts/hairdresser/military intelligence faked death theme. Seems you can't keep a good legend down. Someone wrote me asking about T-shirts and I had rto say I shut them down while I was in Federal Court. He wrote me back and asked me if I was suing Zohan.

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FRIDAY the 13th - COUNT DANTE REVEALED Meet the Filmmaker live and direct from Federal Court in Boston FRIDAY, June 13, 7:00 pm | THE OCCULT BOOKSTORE | 1164 N Milwaukee Ave From the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s John Keehan aka “Count Dante”was the most famous and controversial figure in the martial arts and was deeply involved with “the invisible sciences” and was student of Micheael

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Today I have been making use of a timeline tool I found online. Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments(SIMILIE) is a project at MIT focused on developing robust, open source tools that empower users to access, manage, visualize and reuse digital assets. Timeline will help me with the film and to give people a look at the process in a scrollable

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This is definitely a new world. I was contacted over the internet by Karl Kraft in the UK. He is a graphic designer with a bit of time on his hands so he offered to help me blag the film to martial arts schools and where ever martial arts is being practiced. Here is an accounting from him of his trip to London. London trip was good, got to pretty much everywhere I had planned for the days (and

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The 9th ANNUAL UNITED STATES MARTIAL ARTS HALL OF FAME will be held on July 31st – August 2nd, 2008 in Nashville, TN "...this year will see a major martial arts reunion of the Black Dragon Fighting Society. The BDFS has been active for decades and is home to some of the worlds greatest martial artists. The 2008 event has been designated as a rendezvous point for all BDFS senior members. Many of

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I have already recieved donations from about 10 people. They know who they are, I will be doing something very special for them in the next couple of weeks. The support is greatly appreciated. I am working on developing a good online strategy for fundraising. I have joined indieGoGo to see how social networking in their style works for what I am doing. There is a bit of hype around the

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John Keehan, aka Count Dante died May 25, 1975 in Chicago reportedly of bleeding ulcers. He had recently testified before an Illinois Grand Jury regarding his knowledge of the 1974 Purolator Robbery. Only 15 years before he had begun a bright career and was one of the key figures in the development of martial arts in the Midwest. He had opened his doors to everyone who wanted to learn and

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It is now time to pull out all the stops and get busy as I can. I am pushing to get this film finished by December. I need to raise money to continue shooting. On Friday, June 13 I will be having my first local fundraiser at an occult bookstore here in the city to talk about the trials and tribulations of making a documentary film about a man dead 33 years this coming Tuesday. I will post all

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I remember the class went on for several days before the convention started. I never knew who was teaching the class. My friends and I kept in motion the whole day anxious to get out before dark. Here are some stills from film footage taken at the convention. The guy is the beard is clearly NOT John Keehan. When I first saw the film footage of this from another angle I was not sure. I never knew

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I am still reading Bob Calhoun's Beer, Blood and Cornmeal, his personal memoir of 7 years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling. I have been reading it on the bus, I am always laughing when I read it so I get a lot of people asking me about the book. It keeps a smile on my face due to Bob's absolutely unbridled sense of humor allowing absolutely NOTHING to be sacred. My interest in the Rock and Roll

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Photo above: "Manzanar, Calif.--Henry Ushijima, formerly a sound engineer in Hollywood, plays dance records at a dance given by the Girls' Recreation Committee. Henry received permission from the authorities to bring this, his own, public address system to this War Relocation Authority Center. -- Photographer: Stewart, Francis -- Manzanar, California. 5/29/42" At the end of World War II Chicago

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Back in the early 70s I did some minor local competing just for the hell of it. I would go with friends to Chicago Heights, IL to the school of Ray "The Chicago Tiger" Cooper. Cooper is a legendary early competitor on the regional scene who was also one of the early students of John Keehan. Like Keehan, Cooper eventually changed his name to Tolo-naa, reflecting his African origins and traditions.

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We go to back to court, today May 9 in Boston. For those of you who don't know, I am being sued for copyright infringement by William V Aguiar Grand Master, of the Black Dragon Fighting society. This case is concerned with the making of the film and my lack of interest in committing $10,000 dollars for access to an archive that may or may not exist. I claimed Fair Use for the materials on my

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His name is Bob Calhoun and he is also known as Count Dante, west Coast rock and roll star. He is an extraordinary writer who has collaborated with Gene LaBell on his biography and written for numerous online publications. His new book, Beer, Blood, and Cornmeal: Seven Years of Incredibly Strange Wrestling was just released last month and I have been having a great time reading it. Bob spent

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I was walking down Madison Street past the site of the old McVickers Theater at 25 West. In the 70s the McVick was where we got to see triple-feature Kung Fu and Blaxploitation films for $1.50 and $2.00. In the 1980s I would have an office in the Chicago Building on State and Madison. I ran into yet another acquaintance from those martial arts days. George, whose name I did not remember,

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The following letter from Reverand Woodrow Edgell is in response to claims made on the Fall River Black Dragon Fighting Society Blog regarding Master Joe Dodaro. Mr. Edgell was a long time student of John Keehan who split with him when he became Count Dante. Edgell is Joe Dodaro's teacher and they were both student of Shaolin Poison Hand Master James Lee(not James Yimm Lee) in Chicago's

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Plans for several more interviews have solidified for this weekend and over the next month. I have a childhood friend and a relative of Dante's to speak with as well as a scholar who has written on martial arts and popular culture. It has been hard to get an interview arranged in Japan with Akira Toriyama, creator, writer and illustrator of the Dragonball Z manga series. He seldom gives

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Personally, I could care less what is said about me by people who oppose my making The Search for Count Dante because I refuse to paying them a blackmail fee for their attempts at copyright abuse. It has been clearly show in open court and stated by a Federal Judge I have the legal protection of Fair Use even if they ever did prove copyright over anything. They have not done so to date. What

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I just stumbled over a report on cage fighter/mixed martial artist Lee "Lightning" Murray and his involvement in a £53 million Securitas robbery. Securitas is similar to our Purolator. Armored cars pick-up, transport and store money for business. Most of those involved got caught. They had inside help and held people hostage. Murray is suspected of being the mastermind. I could not help but think

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The production crew above are, left to right: Vicki Parker, Michael Cowan, Angela Guido, Mariana Perin and Jim Quattrocki. I have known cameraman Jim Quattrocki (far right in the photo above) for about 2 years. He is an old student of Doug Dwyer. Doug actually remembered him from when he was about 11 years old and even had a picture of him in class. He has always been interested in the project

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In the time that our conference in the Judge's Chambers has ended I have done one more interview for the film. I have received several emails regarding a hilarious account of my day in court by a person who was not there and who recounts the interpretation of an individual who is CLEARY out of his depth speaking of "half-truths." I just read the nefarious BDFS Blog and find it more humorous than

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I go back to Boston tonight for court, Thursday, March 6, at 1:00 pm. While I have clear ground and am wll within my rights for Fair Use I still have to go through the legal process. As I mentioned before, the court has clearly stated that my use of the materials in my trailer are well with the parameters of Fair Use and are transformative in nature of their use. Just so we are on the same page

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