Posted on 01/10/2018 9:45:31 AM PST by EdnaMode
California has a solution. Just make everything legal.
No crime, no problem.
OK, I got little chuckle out of that, but never would have know about it if you hadn’t said anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1apPcf1D4hI
Yep, except when some average joe uses an incorrect pronoun and therefore infringes on some poor transgender’s specially protected rights. Or the rights of an illegal to do whatever.
Peach
I too always considered her the most beautiful of actresses, to this day. I think I fell in love with her when I was a kid and saw her in one of my favorite movies, “The Great Race.” (It was the scene where she speaks Russian LOL) I was crushed when she died.
Agreed. What Audrey Hepburn had in angelic, Natalie had in desirable.
Lana Wood is her sister, not her daughter. She would know.
Perhaps he learned from his father Kirk, who “got ahead” of a story about an extra from one of his movies who had been dating a man named “Kirk”, got pregnant, then disappeared, and whose purse was found with a note addressed to “Kirk” implying that she was going to see a doctor to get an abortion.
Kirk Douglas phoned the police to let them know he wasn’t the “Kirk” in question, but mysteriously, he somehow knew to do this before police had even publicized that they were looking for a “Kirk”.
I was trying to think of the name of that movie - thanks. It was very good and by golly Michael Douglas was innocent but Demi Moore sure wasn’t. Loved the way it ended...
“”The movie was OK but the Michael Crichton novel it was based on was better. “”
They always are...
I am very sorry for your loss. My gosh, so young!
Thanks for your kind words.
It’s been over 30 years and it still haunts me....
The post-Weinstein Golden Globes was an exercise in hypocrisy
https://nypost.com/2018/01/08/the-post-weinstein-golden-globes-was-an-exercise-in-hypocrisy
True. And coincidentally, last night I tuned into TCM and watched the original Westworld movie for the 1st time. I was familiar with the film but had never watched it beginning to end and did know that Crichton wrote and directed it. The original The Andromeda Strain was brilliant IMO.
True story, in the late 80’s my best friend was taking a creative writing course. She had always leaned toward reading sci-fi so that is what most of her writing was geared toward. She had two young children at the time and no computer at home so after her kids were in bed and her husband home from work, she’d come over to my house to type out and print stories for her class and sometimes ask me to read and proofread.
One idea she had, but never finished writing IIRC, was a story set in the future about an amusement park on the Moon, the various parks were under big domes with artificial atmospheres. And the big attraction was a park with cloned dinosaurs. I seem to recall that she mentioned that the dinosaurs were cloned using the blood of not misquotes, but in her story outline, ticks that had feed on dinos and had been trapped in amber. And of course, the dinos eventually run amok.
I thought it was a cool story idea.
A couple of years later a co-worker of mine told me about the new Michael Crichton novel Jurassic Park and lent me her copy to read. After I finished reading it, I called my friend to ask her if she remembered her short story idea, and I pointed out the similarities of her story outline to Jurassic Park and we laughed that she should have finished it and published, even if with a vanity publisher as she might have sued for big bucks. Of course it was a coincidence.
Sort of like the coincidence in the conversation I had with my brother one day back in the early 80’s about my idea of an electronics store, but big and on the scale of a department store in size but only selling the very latest technology in TV’s, stereos, VCR’s, gaming systems, personal computers, music CD’s and video cassettes and at discount prices. As it turned out what I was envisioning was exactly what eventually became Best Buy. If only I had had the financing to do it before hand. LOL!
After painting the entire interior of my house over several months, an old house with 12’ ceilings and using a wooden step ladder, I told my husband that it would be great if there could be a ladder that had wider rungs for comfort and on the top a place, a well to hold either a paint can and or paint tray and a place to keep tools and tape, etc. so you didn’t have to go up and down the ladder so often. My husband told me I was crazy but damned if someone didn’t do it.
OK, her sister, not her daughter. But if she has proof that a forcible rape was committed on her sister, why wait until the perpetrator is dead? At that point both her sister and perp would be dead and neither can confirm nor refute her claim. And she would have to have some pretty good, irrefutable and actionable evidence to make such a claim, and if she has that, there is no reason to wait until the perp (presumably Kirk Douglass) is dead in order to do so.
I didn’t know. Maybe she feels if she speaks out now the repercussions will be worse than if she did so after he’s dead. Maybe the whole story has been distorted in the retelling. Maybe Lana will have the info released after SHE dies, not the rapist.
Do a web search using the terms Natalie Wood raped. Every hit mentions his name. Robert Downey Jr is mentioned as repeating the story. Another page has info possibly debunking that Douglas was the perp. All I can say is that it is a long standing rumor that he was the one.
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