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So, Silva decided to go on a lecture tour and tell his own story. In his promotional material, he called himself "The Real David from 'Out on a Limb'." Not surprisingly, his lectures and seminars drew large crowds. It wasn't long, however, before Silva got a letter from Bantam Books, the publisher of "Out on a Limb," warning him that he was illegally using copyrighted material in his lectures. He shot back an angry reply, asking if anyone at Bantam was aware that he had published all this material himself in 1977. Going on the offensive, Silva hired a lawyer and filed suit against Bantam, MacLaine and ABC Pictures. Silva claims that Shirley MacLaine signed an affidavit which says that he is David. Silva considers that affidavit a victory. But his legal struggle with MacLaine, he thinks, may have caught the attention of other powerful people who didn't want his story to be validated in so public a fashion.

He started lecturing again. And then, in 1991, he found himself under suspicion of child molestation. "I couldn't believe it," he says. "Somebody charged me with first degree molestation of a six year old child." Silva says he thinks the molestation charge against himself, and the similar charge against well-known UFO researcher Wendelle Stevens, were both set-ups. "If you rob a bank, some people might consider you a hero," Silva says. "But if you molest a child, everybody sees you as the scum of the earth. It is the lowest of the low. It totally discredits you." In Silva's case, it got him deported.

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From this Psycho-like beginning, a narrative fake-out, Lynch gives us two interlocking portraits of a psychotic break: the downward spiral of Laura Palmer, driven to self-abuse and madness from ritualistic raping by her mad, abusive father, Leland (Ray Wise), whose weakness has made him vulnerable to the manipulations of a demonic incubus known as BOB (Frank Silva). It’s helpful to put this in the context of the times. Serial killers, serial rapists, child abuse, sexual abuse, satanic ritual abuse, recovered memory syndrome – all of these were hot, controversial topics in the culture during the late ’80s and early ’90s 

OskrZS

Please teacher, cant find the way out...

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Was Sherlock Holmes a real person?  Not exactly, but Dr. Joseph Bell, the man who inspired the character of Sherlock Holmes shared many qualities with the famous detective.

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paulojose

"Sherlock Holmes was not exactly a real person",that happens when it is fictional...BS would like that Sherlock Holmes had been real. He was too logical and spot on to be real, his world does not exist, reality is not "Sherlockian", it´s just reality.

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In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: "Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet." In the same interview Frances said: "I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in."

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ferz

fairyes DO EXIST.

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fairy

a male who acts slightly feminine but is not necessarily gay.

But shouldn't we question existence, itself?

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Only a SITH deals in absolutes.

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PeterDuffy

Well, BS, if you are suggesting that Dr. Joseph Bell was Bonnie Price Charlie then that would suggest he wa also Caligula, potential poisoner of Roman General Germanicus.

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Bell was not Jack the Ripper, although Holmes might have been and I don't mean H.H.

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PeterDuffy

Well I don't know who you mean as H.H.

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There does appear to be a remarkable likeness between Dr. Joseph Bell and Bonnie P. Charlie

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