Playboy Bunny Reunion 2008

What makes the story of the John Keehan/Count Danté’s life so intriguing is the variety of experiences he managed to cram into 35 years of living. When Keehan returned to Chicago after being in the military in the early 60s, he decided to go to beauty school to become a hairdresser. Art Rapkin explained to […]

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In Nashville this past weekend…

I was in Nashville this weekend at the 2008 National Training Camp and United States Martial Arts Hall of Fame to interview Joe Dodaro, Woody Edgell and Tayari Casel. Family issues prevented Sam Lonewolf and Victor Moore from attending. To talk to all three masters at once was really interting to me in that I […]

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Support the film, Buy a T-Shirt

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 […]

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Is this John Keehan from Floyd Webb on Vimeo. I was wondering about the identity of the man doing thre demonstration at the 1964 2nd World Karate Tournament held at the Chicago Coliseum. Can anyone out there tell me who this is in the video above. I got this footage from a friend an mentor […]

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Thanks to all the people who have donated to the film.

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 […]

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Zohan and Dante? Anything I need to be concerned about here?

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 […]

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Time for some FUN!!! | Fundraiser Friday at The Occult Bookstore

FRIDAY the 13th – COUNT DANTE REVEALEDMeet the Filmmaker live and direct from Federal Court in BostonFRIDAY, June 13, 7:00 pm | THE OCCULT BOOKSTORE | 1164 N Milwaukee AveFrom the late 1960’s to the early 1970’s John Keehan aka “Count Dante”was themost famous and controversial figure in the martial arts and was deeplyinvolved with […]

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Timeline tool

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 […]

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Innovations

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 […]

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Black Dragon Fighting Society Reunion in Nashville

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 […]

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