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The Image
$24.95
Mary Mendum is the daughter of my 5th grade teacher at St. Mary's grade school, in West Chicago, Illinois. Her mother, also named Mary, must have gone to her grave embarrassed and broken-hearted over her daughter's choice of profession. The daughter as I remember her was a plumpish, rosy-cheeked girl who was, of course, chosen by the nuns to be May Queen in the second grade or thereabouts to compensate (let's call a spade a spade) her mother for devoting her adult life to teaching parochial school students for minimum pay. The May Queen, for you non-Catholics, is the girl considered the most angelic child of her class year and is the girl who represents her class at the crowning of the Blessed Virgin Mary every May in her local Catholic parish.

I wish someone would do a documentary about Mary Mendum, especially if she is capable of self-reflection and insight into her life, her pathway, and her career. Her stage and film career is an amazing story, apparently begun in the Chicago road show of HAIR. Someone please do the documentary!! How in the world did she go from May Queen at the age of 8 or 9 to porn actress??!!

Image Comics: The Road To Independence
$34.95
I really enjoyed reading this book. It is full of interviews to many different players of the Image movement that give different perspectives on the subject.
The only thing I miss is an interview to Rob Liefeld, and even more knowing that he was one of the main forces behind the creation of Image.

CERRUTI IMAGE By Nino Cerruti For Men EAU DE TOILETTE SPRAY 3.4 OZ & VEST:ONE SIZE FITS ALL
$50.00
Launched by the design house of Image in , IMAGE by Image is classified as a fragrance. This unisex scent posesses a blend of: It is recommended for wear.

Image Before My Eyes - A History of Jewish Life in Poland Before
$19.95
When I lived in Israel, the sense of tragedy I felt when I visited the Israel Museum was almost as great at that I felt at Yad Vashem, which is specifically dedicated to the Holocaust. The latter focused on the people who died, the former chronicles with great love and much detail the culture that was lost.

This film chronicles both the people and culture of Eastern Europe that were forever altered by the events of World War II. It has a special focus on the once large and thriving Jewish culture of Poland and includes marvelous home movies made during the 1930s. Perhaps most important of all, it was first released in 1980, when it was still possible to find many living voices to that now departed era. As those living voices depart, it's important to capture their memories in a tangible form.

I'd strong recommend that parents show this documentary to their children when they're old enough to understand what it describes, and that teachers show it to their students.

--Michael W. Perry, editor of Dachau Liberated and Chesterton on War and Peace: Battling the Ideas and Movements that Led to Nazism and World War II