Posted on 09/12/2007 2:34:22 PM PDT by blam
Both my mother’s parents were born in Cork. My mother was their first generation born in the U.S.
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You have no idea.
Oh, good Lord.
A fake person discovers that he’s also a fake Irishman!!
What a coincidence!
Fakes just like to hang out together - that’s why so many of them live in Hollywood!
John Kerry Berg?
One day [Caligula] was on the Oration Platform in the Market Place dressed as Jove and making a speech. “I intend shortly,” he said, “to build a city for my occupation on top of the Alps. We Gods prefer mountain-tops to unhealthy river-valleys. From the Alps I shall have a wider view of my Empire—France, Italy, Switzerland, the Tyrol and Germany. If I see any treason hatching anywhere below me, I shall give a warning growl of thunder so! (He growled in his throat.) If the warning is disregarded I shall blast the traitor with this lightning of mine, so! (He hurled his piece of lightning at the crowd. It hit a statue and bounced off harmlessly.) A stranger in the crowd, a shoemaker from Marseilles on a sight-seeing visit to Rome, burst out laughing. Caligula had the fellow arrested and brought nearer the platform, then bending down he asked frowning: “Who do I seem to you to be?” “A big humbug,” said the shoemaker. Caligula was puzzled. “Humbug?” he repeated. “I, a humbug!” “Yes,” said the Frenchman, “I’m only a poor French shoemaker and this is my first visit to Rome. And I don’t know any better. If anyone at home did what you’re doing he’d be a big humbug.”Caligula began to laugh too. “You poor half-wit,” he said. “Of course he would be. That’s just the difference.”
— Robert Graves, I, Claudius.
Closest he ever got to one of those feline animals....
:)PaMom
That’s gotta....hurt. Oh well, if it ain’t Scottish it’s crap.
There was a man in our town whose last name was Jarvis. I had met some other family of the same name and asked his granddaughter if they were related. She laughed and said that her grandfather was Greek and when he joined the service they asked his name and the guy couldn’t spell his loooong Greek name they just put down Jarvis and told him that was his new name. He spent the rest of his life with that last name.
THAT’S John Hurt? I never knew him from when he didn’t look all baggy and sad.
What????????After 4 marriages and two children?
Well, I was being facetious when I wrote, “he’s gay, he must be British”...but, in fact, John Hurt happens to be an out-of-the-closet-homosexual.
I have been following his career for years and not once have I seen any article or evidence about his alleged homosexuality. How do you know this is true? He has been married 4 times and has had several other long-term relationships.
Excerpt from an article in The Guardian March 2006:
http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,1728827,00.html#article_continue
Then there is Hurt's somewhat hectic personal life. There was a brief first marriage, a long relationship with a French model, who died in a riding accident. Then, a second wife, Texan Donna Peacock, whom he built a house with in Kenya, then left for third wife, Jo Dalton (the mother of his two sons). Hurt returned to Peacock after Dalton had an affair, then left her again and settled with 'rock publicist' (always described as 'much younger') Sarah Owens, in County Wicklow (to be near his sons). Now he is married to ('much younger' again) advertising commercials producer, Anwen Rees-Myers. It would be unfair to overplay all this (Hurt has lived for 66 years), but certainly his personal life has been eventful. When I ask if he is happily married, Hurt says firmly, 'I am. My other relationships...' he pauses. 'When you get into the emotional areas, the animal areas, I think you'll find it's the one area where it doesn't seem to matter what intellect you have. Some of the most highly intelligent people I know have got just the same problems when it comes to sexuality, mistakes and things. They're brought to their knees by it, you see it in newspapers every day.' The universal Archilles heel? 'For both sexes, absolutely. We're always making massive mistakes. Then you make the same ones all over again.' I laugh. 'But we do!' grins Hurt. 'How many friends do you have, where you say, "Oh, surely you're not going out with that one, it's exactly the same as the one before, how can't you see it?"' So that's one thing he's learned. 'Yes, intellectually. Emotionally, I don't know.' Relatively late fatherhood (the sons started arriving when he was 50) didn't really change him. 'I don't think you automatically become an enlightened person because you are a daddy. But they will change you, of course - their understanding of you puts you in a different place.'
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