The name LAVEY......Season of the Witch

PITA B · Guru

RE: The name LAVEY......Season of the Witch

Gwen · Veteran Member

Now I'm not sure his name is Lavey,according to Wikipedia his name is Shashank Carrey...So we need to wait to know the truth
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Cage
(look at the filmography)

-- Edited by Gwen at 08:58, 2008-11-28

PITA B · Guru

I forgot to post this tidbit earlier......I'd hazard a guess that Nic's characters name in SOTW.....LAVEY.....has something to do with this guy....

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6838

Anton Szandor LaVey

Birth:		Apr. 11, 1930 Chicago Cook County Illinois, USA
Death:		Oct. 29, 1997 San Francisco San Francisco County California, USA
Founder of the Church of Satan. Born Howard Stanton Levey in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Gertrude and Michael Levey, a liquor distributor. His parents soon moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where LaVey grew up. As a youth, he developed an interest in dark literature and gothic legends, shunning sports and other outdoor athletic activity favored by most young boys. Dropping out of high school in his junior year, he worked in a circus and later played the organ for a carnival, local bars, lounges and nightclubs. To avoid the draft during the Korean War, he attended San Francisco City College, where he met and married Carole Lansing, who bore him his first daughter, Karla Maritza LaVey, in 1952. He would claim that during his period as an organist playing at the Lost Weekend ****tail lounge, he would meet many of the citys prominent people. After meeting Diane Hegarty, he divorced Carole in 1960, and Hegarty moved in with him. Although they never married, Hegarty bore him his second daughter, Zeena Galatea LaVey, in 1964. In 1966, he founded the Church of Satan and became its first High Priest. During the next several years, he would become noticed by the media, attend several television talk shows, perform a satanic funeral for a Navy officer (in 1967), and baptize Zeena for television in 1967 in the name of Satan. He published a book, The Satanic Bible (1969), to serve as a guide to his followers. In 1975, the Church of Satan split into two factions, with many of the high ranking members resigning to form the Temple of Set, claiming that LaVey had reorganized the Church of Satan for his own personal exploitation. In 1997, he was stricken by pulmonary edema, and taken to St. Marys Catholic Hospital in San Francisco, where he died of a heart attack. His body was cremated, and the ashes divided among his heirs.

And this from Wikipedia...

Anton Szandor LaVey, (April 11, 1930 October 29, 1997) born Howard Stanton Levey, was the American founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan as well as a writer, occultist, musician and actor. He was the author of The Satanic Bible and the founder of LaVeyan Satanism, a synthesized system of his understanding of human nature and the insights of philosophers who advocated materialism and individualism, for which he claimed no "supernatural inspiration.

Books by LaVey

The Satanic Bible (Avon, 1969, ISBN 0-380-01539-0)
The Complete Witch, or, What to do When Virtue Fails (Dodd, Mead, 1971, ISBN 0-396-06266-0); republished as The Satanic Witch (Feral House, 1989, ISBN 0-922915-00-8); re-released with an introduction by Peggy Nadramia, and an afterword by Blanche Barton (2003, ISBN 0-922915-84-9).
The Satanic Rituals (Avon, 1972, ISBN 0-380-01392-4)
The Devil's Notebook (Feral House, 1992, ISBN 0-922915-11-3)
Satan Speaks!, introduction by Blanche Barton, foreword by Marilyn Manson (Feral House, 1998, ISBN 0-922915-66-0)

I wonder if Nic named his own personal KNIGHT in this movie. Note his friend Manson wrote a forward on the last book listed....and also.....how his son Weston's band more or less eshews the Dark side.

-- Edited by PITA B at 22:49, 2008-11-25