While Sidney worked, the Mexican bullfighter Rodolfo Gaona was stunning crowds with his capework. He was talented enough that he was soon being commissioned for theater and soft drink posters and streetcar cards. In Mexico City, Sidney worked as a silk screen artist. This was how he found his way to Mexico City. Sidney went as far as the money could take him. Lubba, worried Abram was going to kill him, gave Sidney some of her pushka money – the small sum her husband afforded her every month to run the house. When he returned home, Abram knocked him unconscious: he didn’t wake up until the next day. Sidney didn’t call his parents to warn them he’d be gone. In 1922, when he was nineteen, he and a friend spent a weekend in New Jersey’s Asbury Park, a resort town known for its numerous queer bars. The family called Sidney fageleh, a Yiddish word meaning ‘queer’ or ‘fag’, though never to his face. In his late adolescence, he was sometimes seen in Prospect Park, a place where gay men cruised – family members claim that Abram, who was part of a patrol that maliciously beat these men every Saturday night, saw Sidney there and beat him along with the rest. He later abandoned acting, which he called his ‘first love’, determining it to be ‘too feministic’. After school, he acted in plays as a part of the New York Globe’s Bedtime Stories Club, and changed his name to Franklin so his father wouldn’t find out. Sidney wasn’t athletic and he wasn’t popular. He was the son of Russian Jews Abram and Lubba Frumkin – Abram, a policeman who was keen to prove his masculinity to his Irish coworkers, simmered with a fierce disdain for his son, who was grandiose and creative and uninterested in becoming an accountant or teacher like the rest of his nine siblings. Sidney Franklin was light on his feet and red-haired and slim. The New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross had said theirs was a friendship between a great man and a lesser one. ![]() As young men, the two had split bottles of brandy in Spain, had traveled through the countryside together (a remarked-upon odd couple, one clean and effete and the other greasy and unshaven), had watched bombs explode in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War. Fifteen years earlier, on 2 July 1961, Ernest Hemingway donned his ‘emperor’s robe’ and shot himself in the head with a double-barreled shotgun. On 26 April 1976, after suffering a stroke that robbed him of the ability to walk and speak, the matador Sidney Franklin died in a nursing home in Manhattan, roughly thirteen miles from his native Brooklyn. "Coupled with the actual picture, you have yourself a news story (although a false one)," he added.Nobody ever lives their lives all the way up except bull-fighters. ![]() ![]() "Maybe I shouldn't have taken that morbid picture for Texas Monthly magazine, because someone apparently called the Dallas PD and heard that a John Romero got shot last night. "I take full responsibility for night's confusion," said Romero about the incident. Apparently, alarmed gamers even called the Dallas PD. ![]() But when Romero himself heard about it, he jumped on to Internet Relay Chat (IRC), to dispel the notion. Unfortunately, one web site picked up on the story without verifying all the facts, prompting a flurry of postings on the news groups spreading the word of the game maker's death worldwide. The feature named Romero as one of the top twenty leading citizens of Texas, and the whimsical picture was intended merely to spice up the piece, apparently as a reference to the violent gunplay in his previous games, Quake and Doom. The photo had been taken for a special feature in the Texas Monthly Magazine. The picture was in fact of Romero, but it was a staged photograph, with Romero wearing makeup designed to make him look like the victim of a shooting. The confusion began when a picture of a deceased Romero, seemingly with a bullet wound in his forehead, was taken from a magazine and posted on the Internet.
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