Good Morning!
That Fred is a skamp isn't he? He should have been looking for ladies in their forties, at least!
Sad news this morning...
SINGER ROSEMARY CLOONEY, 74, DIES
LOS ANGELES (AP) . Rosemary Clooney, the mellow-voiced singer who co-starred with Bing Crosby in ``White Christmas'' and staged a dramatic comeback after her career was nearly destroyed by drugs and alcohol, died Saturday. She was 74.
Clooney died shortly after 6 p.m. at her Beverly Hills home surrounded by her family, her publicist said. She had been hospitalized earlier this month after suffering a recurrence of lung cancer. [snip] Link
JUST CALL THEM LOUSY WRITERS By JARED PAUL STERN with PAULA FROELICH and CHRIS WILSON
RICK Moody, Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy and most of the other sacred cows of contemporary American letters are boring hacks who use complicated writing to conceal the fact that they have nothing to say, a controversial new book charges.
In "A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose" (Melville House), one-time Atlantic Monthly writer B.R. Myers claims that a vast conspiracy between corporate publishing houses, mediocre writers and mindless reviewers has robbed the nation of good, meaningful books.
Morrison's Nobel Prize in literature, for instance, doesn't impress Myers, who relates an incident in which Oprah Winfrey called Morrison "to say she had had to puzzle repeatedly over many of the latter's sentences. According to Oprah, Morrison's reply was, ‘That, my dear, is called reading.' (bwhahahaha, oh that's rich!) Sorry, my dear Toni," Myers declares, "but it's actually called bad writing." [snip] Link