Tattoo is a 1981 erotic thriller film directed by Bob Brooks and starring Bruce Dern and Maud Adams. It depicts the relationship between a fashion model and an eccentric tattoo artist that quickly turns sinister.
The film was written by Joyce Buñuel, the daughter-in-law of surrealist artist Luis Buñuel, based on a story by director Bob Brooks. It was featured in an April 13, 1980 New York Times article spotlighting films being shot on-location in New York City..
In Episode 4 of Series 2 of the BBC sitcom The Royle Family, the film is discussed extensively. The character Denise calls it "absolutely brilliant," and explains the plot to Barbara and Cheryl, who are both fascinated and horrified. Meanwhile in the living room Dave is explaining the film to Jim, who questions why the protagonist would want to cover up his victim's breasts rather than look at them. Upon learning that the title of the film is Tattoo, Jim references the Fantasy Island character Tattoo and his catchphrase
Ze plane! Ze plane! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ze_plane!_Ze_plane! "Ze plane! Ze plane!", also quoted as "De plane! De plane!" or "The plane! The plane!", is a cultural reference to the typical opening of Fantasy Island, a television series which aired in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Each episode began with the diminutive Tattoo (played by Hervé Villechaize), one of the main characters, spotting the seaplane approaching the island and running up a tower and excitedly yelling, "Ze Plane! Ze Plane!" and ringing a bell.
The actual aircraft used in the series was a SCAN Type 30, a license-built copy of a Grumman Widgeon seaplane,[7] U.S. registry N4453. ...The aircraft was later rented or sold to parties who later used it to smuggle drugs into the United States, and it crashed in a swamp on at least one occasion. It was confiscated by the DEA and sold by the U.S. Marshals Service at auction. It again fell into the hands of other drug smugglers and was eventually confiscated and sold again. It was involved in a gear collapse accident in the 1990s and repainted deep red, so it is not as recognizable as Ze Plane of the television series when it was painted white.[11] Ze Plane! Ze Plane! has at times been on display on the airshow circuit in the American Midwest,[12] and was previously owned by the Ozarks Auto Show, Inc.,[13] a regional antique dealer, of Hollister, Missouri, and was stored in a hangar at the M. Graham Clark Downtown Airport near Branson, Missouri along with several other special interest aircraft. The plane was sold at the 38th annual Branson Collector Car Auction on April 16, 2016 to an undisclosed buyer for $275,000.
Bob Brooks (26 December 1927 – September 2012[1]) was an American film director, photographer and advertising creative.[2] He created numerous advertising campaigns, directed several thousand[citation needed] TV commercials in the UK, US and Europe, and directed two feature films. Brooks was a founding partner of BFCS, an influential British film production company, and one of the founders of Design and Art Direction (D&AD). He was acclaimed within his lifetime, with numerous international awards....
After graduating Penn State University in 1950, Brooks arrived in New York in 1953 as an Efficiency Expert for the US Government. He soon realized that this was not his life’s work and he competed for and was awarded a scholarship at Cooper Union School of Art, one of the last bastions of the Bauhaus design tradition.
In 1955 Brooks started Cooper Union night classes and at the same time he was hired by Ogilvy and Mather, as the low man in the art department… the matte boy. At that time David Ogilvy was still actively writing. "It was a very exciting place, with Ogilvy's style representing (along with Doyle Dane Bernbach) the very essence of fifties advertising." In that job, he said he learned all the principles of advertising photography, typography and layout.[4]
..In the late 1950s Brooks decided that he wanted to live and work in Europe and he was sent to the London office of Benton & Bowles, as head of the art department. After a short while he was joined by Bob Gross, a copywriter Brooks had worked with at B&B NY. Together they became Joint Creative Directors of the London agency.
Design and Art Direction (D&AD, formerly known as British Design & Art Direction) is a British educational charity which exists to promote excellence in design and advertising...D&AD was founded in 1962 by a group of London-based designers and art directors including David Bailey, Terence Donovan and Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes (who designed the original D&AD logo).
Mark graduated from University of Arkansas with a degree in Civil Engineering and attended Penn State University as part of the Air Force Institute of Technology program studying Meteorology and became an authority on Hydrology. He served in the United States Air Force from 1956 to 1958 working in the Wing Weather Office in Salina, Kansas, and Upper Hayford, England. While in the Air Force Reserve he attained the rank of Captain...Mark was very active in the creation of several other tourist attractions, most notably Fantastic Caverns in Springfield which he developed concurrently with Shepherd of the Hills,..He served on the board of directors for several businesses and various community organizations, including Security Bank, Skaggs Community Hospital, the Missouri Pilots Association, and Branson Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce. More notably, early in the development of his own tourism-related enterprises he was active in the Ozarks Playground Association and then co-founded the Ozarks Marketing Council with three other notable area businessmen, the organization considered most directly responsible for putting Missouri tourism, and most particularly Branson area tourism, on a path to being recognized as the significant and important industry it is recognized to be today.
Branson is a city in Taney and Stone counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. Most of the city is in Taney County, with a small portion in the west extending into Stone County. Branson is in the Ozark Mountains...Branson has long been a popular destination for vacationers from Missouri and around the country. The collection of entertainment theaters along 76 Country Boulevard (and to a lesser extent along Shepherd of the Hills Expressway), including Dolly Parton's Stampede, has increased Branson's popularity as a tourist destination.
In 1894, William Henry Lynch bought Marble Cave (renamed "Marvel Cave") and began charging visitors to tour it. Hugo and Mary Herschend leased the cave for 99 years in 1950 and began hosting square dances in it. The Herschend Family modernized the cave with electricity and concrete staircases, and in 1960 the Herschends opened Silver Dollar City, a re-creation of a frontier town that featured five shops, a church, and a log cabin, with actors that played out the feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys.
Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE) is a privately owned themed-entertainment company that operates several theme parks and tourist attractions within the United States. Founded by Jack and Pete Herschend of Branson, Missouri, in its early years HFE was simply known as Herschend Enterprises. In the 1980s the name was changed to Silver Dollar City Inc., and in 2003 the company gained the current name. HFE is currently headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
HFE traces roots back to Hugo and Mary Herschend from Chicago, Illinois along with sons Jack and Pete. The family vacationed in Missouri’s Ozark Mountains region and fell in love with the nature the area offered. In 1951 Hugo obtained a 99-year lease on a Branson, Missouri area attraction called Marvel Cave.
The company also co-owns and co-operates with partners Dolly Parton and her company The Dollywood Company, the dinner and theatre company Pirates Voyage Dinner and Show in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina[1][2][3] and Dolly Parton's Stampede (formerly Dixie Stampede).
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letsdothis3 ago
https://imgur.com/a/JRKUF1W
I've been looking for info on IZMO for ages.
Tattoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattoo_(1981_film)
Bob Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Brooks
Design and Art Direction - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_and_Art_Direction
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Need to find out more about "ze plane"
letsdothis3 ago
CEO of Ozarks Auto Show, Inc https://www.snapp-bearden.com/notices/Mark-Trimble
Branson, MI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branson,_Missouri
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