I can’t believe it’s been 30 years since this movie was released….
It’s not the best film in the world, but I do love it…
It’s a guilty pleasure…
Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Hart Bochner….all in their prime.
It was the last film George Cukor directed and the first film for Meg Ryan….
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Like I’ve said, the GOP primary is going to be the best show in town…
I just hope none of these fools get elected are we are really in serious trouble. The election of Bush to a second term proved anything is possible….
From TalkingPointsMemo.Com:
Statistics wiz Nate Silver analyzed media coverage of possible GOP 2012 candidates and his results paint a dramatic picture of Donald Trump’s meteoric rise and Sarah Palin’s equally spectacular collapse in the press.
According to Silver’s research, Donald Trump has occupied 40% of all coverage of the GOP primaries in blogs, newspapers, television, and radio stations over the last month. His share of the spotlight by far outpaces any other likely contender, only one of whom breaks into double digits — barely.
That runner-up would be Palin, who has seen her press coverage rapidly decline in recent months along with her credibility as a candidate. Palin occupied only 11% of primary coverage in April, the same percentage as March, when she was eclipsed by Newt Gingrich — who announced his exploratory committee — at 19%.That represents a huge drop since November 2010, when Palin dominated the conversation with 51% of all coverage, providing some statistical evidence to the case pundits have made in recent weeks that she no longer holds the same buzz she used to. Apparently it’s getting to her staff, who have taken to complaining on Twitter about the lack of coverage.
via Donald Trump Takes Up 40% Of GOP 2012 Coverage As Sarah Palin Fades Away | TPMDC.
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This is an interesting dynamic….
All I’ll say is that I tried to watch the first Tyler Perry Madea movie on HBO and thought it was just awful. I couldn’t believe the stereotypical characters and the bad acting and writing….
I couldn’t watch the whole thing it was so bad….
But this isn’t my fight…
From The Huffington Post:
The long-simmering war of words between Tyler Perry and Spike Lee is heating up again.
Perry, in both a message on his website and a press conference to promote “Madea’s Big Happy Family,” hit out against Lee, who in 2009 said, among other things, that Perry’s films “harken back to ‘Amos n’ Andy’.” While Perry’s website message was vague and resilient, defending his work as both spiritually uplifting and fun, his words for Lee were blunt and harsh in the press conference.
“I’m so sick of hearing about damn Spike Lee,” Perry said during the press conference (via Box Office Magazine). “Spike can go straight to hell! You can print that. I am sick of him talking about me, I am sick of him saying, ‘this is a coon, this is a buffoon.’ I am sick of him talking about black people going to see movies. This is what he said: ‘you vote by what you see,’ as if black people don’t know what they want to see.”
Perry’s films are consistent high performers at the box office; all independently financed, they’ve taken in over $520 million in ticket receipts over the past six years. He recently extended his deal with distributor Lionsgate, with whom he has worked since 2005. Lee was critical in spite of that success.
“Each artist should be allowed to pursue their artistic endeavors, but I still think there is a lot of stuff out today that is coonery and buffoonery,” he said in ’09. “I know it’s making a lot of money and breaking records, but we can do better. … I am a huge basketball fan, and when I watch the games on TNT, I see these two ads for these two shows (Tyler Perry’s ‘Meet the Browns’ and ‘House of Payne’), and I am scratching my head. We got a black president, and we going back to Mantan Moreland and Sleep ‘n’ Eat?”
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Broadway’s original Evita is 62 today….
Here are a couple of clips of her at her best….
Here she is in her first Tony Award winning performance in “Evita 32 years ago…
I won’t post her second Tony Award winning performance as Moma Rose in “Gypsy” because I just hated her performance….
She was on a total ego trip in that show….It was over the top and out of control.
But I have also seen her in concert and found her quite charming…
But here is a taste of her in better form today…
Say what you will, the woman sure knows how to own the stage….
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And it looks like it’s going to be good…
I’m so glad because I loved this book….
Here it is:
I read today that Michael Sarrazin had died…
He was one of my favorite actors when I was a pre-teen and a teenager…I had looked him up on IMDB.com not too long ago to see what he was doing…
He hit fairly big in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, but his career never really took off from there…
His eyes were unforgettable…
He missed his big chance when his studio would not release him to do “Midnight Cowboy” and Jon Voight got the part instead…
I remember Michael Sarrazin well from “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They”, “Sometimes a Great Notion” and the TV Mini Series”Frankenstein: The True Story”. He made many other films and TV appearances that will live on….
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A trip down memory lane for a few of us…
I kept thinking of missing albums, like Boz Scaggs “Silk Degrees” and Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumors” when I realized they were from the late 1970’s…
I am getting senile…
This has been the first rock roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own. The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music. The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob Dylan. The Seventies gave rise to David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, heavy metal, punk and New Wave.
In comparison, the Eighties have been the decade of, among other things, synth pop, Michael Jackson, the compact disc, Sixties reunion tours, the Beastie Boys and a lot more heavy metal. But if the past ten years haven’t exactly been the stuff of revolution, they have been a critical time of re-assessment and reconstruction. Musicians and audiences alike have struggled to come to terms with rock’s parameters and possibilities, its emotional resonance and often dormant social consciousness.
The following survey of the 100 best albums of the Eighties, as selected by the editors of Rolling Stone, shows that the music and the values it stands for have been richer for the struggle. Punks got older and more articulate in their frustration and rage, while many veteran artists responded to that movement’s challenge with their most vital work in years. And rap transformed the face — and voice — of popular music.
via 100 Best Albums of the Eighties | Rolling Stone Music | Lists.
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I have two big concerns:
This should just kill the GOP if everyone pays attention, remembers and votes to protect their own interests instead of those of the Rich, Big Corporations and Tea Party fanatics.
Americans strongly reject Medicare cuts and broadly support higher taxes on the wealthy, underscoring the political risks in Republican debt-reduction plans. And on one key factor in the debate — protecting the middle class — President Obama retains the upper hand.
Those and other results from the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll underscore the hazards of the federal spending debate for Republicans as well as for Obama. As poorly as the president is rated for handling the deficit — just 39 percent approve — the Republican leaders in Congress do a bit worse, with just 33 percent approval on the same issue.
Similarly, while just 42 percent approve of Obama’s handling of the economy overall, fewer still, 34 percent, approve of how the Republicans in Congress are dealing with it. And the public by a 12-point margin trusts Obama to protect middle-class Americans, a theme he’s likely to sound loudly and often as the 2012 election campaign warms up.
via Medicare Cuts Proposed by Republicans Face Broad Opposition in ABC News Poll – ABC News.
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God, I hope people are paying attention to what these fools want to do…
They will not rest until they totally destroy the social safety net in America..
Do we really want Senior Citizens to end up sleeping and dying in the streets?
These guys are providing a lot of support for D.H. Lawrence’s observation:
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.”
I hope we yet prove him wrong by voting these people out of office….
From MotherJones.com:
For all the drastic spending cuts in GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s proposed 2012 budget, there’s one major government program that it barely touches: Social Security. Now Republicans in both houses of Congress are preparing to dig into that sacrosanct entitlement as well.
On Wednesday morning, shortly before Obama’s big deficit speech, three Republican senators unveiled a plan to cut $6.2 trillion by paring back Social Security over the next two decades. Under a proposal unveiled by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah), the qualifying age for Social Security would rise from 67 to 70 by 2032, while benefits for everyone earning more than an average of $43,000 over their lifetime would be reduced. Graham took pains to explain that he wasn’t pushing for privatization but also slammed any tax increases to shore up Social Security, saying such a move would “destroy America.” “It’s much better to give up benefits on the end side than pay taxes now,” he explained.
Graham, who’s long led GOP efforts on Social Security, said that he could only find two other senators to join him at the podium on Wednesday, given the political risks involved in tackling the issue. “It shows the real reluctance of the GOP,” he said. And while House Republicans have made privatizing Medicare and cutting Medicaid their top budget priorities, Graham said that Social Security reform needed to be moved to the front of the queue. “It’s the place to start entitlement reform. Once you fix the Social Security problem, move to Medicare,” he told Mother Jones.
via Republicans: Let’s Cut Social Security, Too | Mother Jones.
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Chapter 53: Easter: Or How I Became a Fashion Victim | My Southern Gothic Life
New post up on my other blog, MySouthernGothicLife.com….
Here is a brief excerpt and a link to the full post:
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