Posted on 04/06/2008 5:34:27 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Howie Carr thread; columns, discussion of his show. Is there a winner in the death pool? Charlton Heston won't be down for bkfst...also if there's a Sunday Herald column today we'll lead off with that
That clip Howie plays of someone saying, “Hurts...like...a...
bastard”, was that Charlton Heston? Well, his latest role is
in heaven.
http://bostonherald.com/news/obituaries/general/view.bg?articleid=1085290&srvc=home&position=7
>> Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing “Ben-Hur” and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the ’50s and ’60s, has died. He was 84.
The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said.
Powers declined to comment on the cause of death or provide further details.
“Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life. He was known for his chiseled jaw, broad shoulders and resonating voice, and, of course, for the roles he played,” Heston’s family said in a statement. “No one could ask for a fuller life than his. No man could have given more to his family, to his profession, and to his country.”
Why is everyone so shocked about Gov. Deval Patrick’s latest scam . . . I mean, score?
This whole $1.35 million book deal, relying on “bulk corporate buys” to bolster what would otherwise be anemic sales, falls squarely into the grand traditions of the .
Does anyone remember ex-U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright? Back in the 1980s, the Texas hack also wrote a little book, “Reflections of a Public Man.” His supporters openly admitted they had bought thousands of copies as a way of funneling cash to their pal, Mr. Speaker. Reflections of a Public Man, indeed. After the public reflected awhile, Wright was no longer a public man. Here is how The New York Times [NYT] described Wright’s book in 1988, and I’m sure it will sum up Deval’s as well:
“A modest-sized book written by the Democratic leader and bought in bulk by longtime supporters to benefit him financially.”
The more things change . . .
The problem for Fort Worth Jim was that the book deal became a symbol of his slippery ethics. Ditto, Deval. All of a sudden, even the bow-tied bumkissers of Morrissey Boulevard feel free to raise questions that had previously been ignored by the Politically Correct mainstream media. Like, does Deval have a big-time money problem? How is he making that $30,000-a-month payment on his mansion’s mortgage?
Hope and opportunity, that’s what Deval is all about. Now he’s hoping the controversy about his sleazy book deal goes away, so he’ll have an opportunity to cash that first $450,000 check (presumably minus a taste to his agent).
On Thursday, the governor refused to take calls on his radio show about the sweetheart deal. On Friday, he walked away from a reporter in Lowell who tried to ask him what percentage of the money will be going to “charity.”
Now it turns out in his pitch to publishers, he talked about the crowd of 10,000 he attracted to the Common last fall. Only it turns out it wasn’t him they were coming to see, it was Barack Obama. But this, too, is a familiar phenomenon in publishing: A genre becomes popular and obscure players cash in with memoirs. The Rolling Stones are always hot, so their drug supplier gets a book deal. People want to read about Whitey Bulger, so maybe they’re gullible enough to buy rehashed court testimony by Whitey’s tubby gravedigger.
In this context, you might say Deval is playing Kevin Weeks to Barack’s Whitey Bulger.
The difference, of course, is that, as governor, Deval will have a lot more opportunities for “bulk sales” than Kevin “Two” Weeks ever did. The Massachusetts Teachers Association should be good for 5,000 or so. The cop unions owe him at least 10,000 sales, after his craven cave-in this week on police details.
It goes without saying that no one ever reads any books bought in “bulk sales.” How do I know this? It just so happens that I once owned several copies of “Reflections of a Public Man.” One of Speaker Wright’s old friends from Texas was Boston University President John Silber. Herr Doktor had a huge oversupply and some of them ended up in the Herald newsroom. To our regret, we quickly discovered that they weren’t thick enough to make proper door-stoppers. I grabbed a few, thinking they’d make good gag gifts. I was wrong.
So now we are to have a “Reflections of a Public Man” for the 21st century. I’m sure Random House is very excited. I’m also reasonably certain the thrill will be long gone by the time Deval delivers the “manuscript,” after which he can collect his second $450,000, with the balance due on publication day, when the trucks from Buck a Book back up to the warehouses.
By then, Random House will have realized the error of its ways. They’re expecting “I Have a Dream.” What they’re going to get is “I Have a Scheme.” Buyers’ remorse, thy name is Deval - from the Clinton administration to Texaco to Coke and now the moonbats of Massachusetts. He talks a good game going in, but he’s never done a damn thing. That’s what happens, I suppose, when you’ve always had a free ride.
Somewhere, Fort Worth Jim is smiling.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1085289
>>the governor refused to take calls on his radio show
Deval hosts “Ask the Governor” the first Thu of every month
on WTKK, the station that could have had Howie. On Ch 4
the other night they talked to someone who waited on hold
the whole hour but never got on (IIRC) because of WHAT he
wanted to talk about!
Books like Hillary Clinton's or Deval Patrick's are not bought by the public. Every public school library orders a few hundred. Town and county libraries order thousands, university sales Jr. Colleges, High Schools, skyrocket, they mysteriously appear in union warehouses ... in short everywhere the left has a stronghold is suddenly a good customer.
MA just gets more and more ludicrous . . . it would be a good laugh if I didn't live here . . .
I do liver here, and Muffy (for whom I voted) lives
just down the street from me.
Say hello for me! No, she doesn’t know me . . . but I’m sure she’d like me if she did! :)
I’m guessing that Howie will wait until at least Tuesday if not later this week before he does another death pool. Based upon what Howie usually does, this is too soon after the last death pool to do it this Monday.
“That clip Howie plays of someone saying, “Hurts...like...a...
bastard”, was that Charlton Heston? “
IIRC that’s Robert Mitchum from movie “The Friends Of Eddie Coyle”
GQ: Ah! Never saw that film. Thanks
All: ping for Mon
Good movie.Filmed in Boston area in the early 70’s.City Hall plaza,the old Garden(during a hockey game),Storrow Drive,the Revere Quarry near the Saugus line(which are condos now I think) are some of locations shown as well as some others.
Love that movie. Especially when they at the old Garden watching Bobby Orr.
Death pool in the 4 pm hour. The winner is from Vermont.
Boston: tomorrow’s Red Sox home opener will be on WEEI
so we should be all set for Howie; WCRN will have Sox
(game starts at 2) but they don’t pick Howie up till 5 pm
normally anyway. WXTK has Sox too I believe
MONDAY APRIL 7
1st Hour
2nd Hour
Charlton Heston, the actor who heard the voice of God as Moses in “The Ten Commandments” and met Jesus Christ face-to-face as a Jewish slave in “Ben Hur,” died Saturday night at his Beverly Hills home. He was 84. He was also in the Death Pool. We will reopen the Death Pool for one hour...call in and give us your prediction for the next celeb to shed his mortal coil...if you are right you will win a prize!
3rd Hour
CHUMP LINE! Call 617-779-3469 and leave Howie, Sandy or Happy a message about today’s stories or anything else buzzing around your bonnet and we may play it back on the air!
Max Robins TV Guru, editor of MediaZulu.com and Vice-President of the Paley Center (formerly known as The Museum of Television and Radio) will be with us to answer all of those nagging questions about your favorite show on the boob tube...
4th Hour
WVMT will have the Yankee game at 4 so we won’t be getting Howie either.
DP 04-07-2007
(think I missed #30)
1. Karl Malden
2. Patrick Swayze
3. Jack LaLaine
4. Bobby Byrd
5. Paul Newman
6. Art Linkletter
7. Carol Channing (hung up)
8. Olivia DeHavilland (QP)
9. Eunice Kennedy Shriver
10. Maggie Thatcher
11. Artie Lange (Stern Show)
12. Jerry Lewis
13. Britney Spears (clik-clik-clik-clik)
14. George McGovern
15. Van Johnson
16. Lauren Bacall (QP)
17. Kirk Douglas
18. Prince Philip
19. Soupy Sales
20. John Wooden (hung up)
21. Gloria Stuart(Titanic, going on 98)
22. Ernie Borgnine
23. Rev. Jeremiah Wright
24. John Daly (rehabbing golfer)
25. Dave Maynard (your vote may hold the key)
26. Dick Cheney
27. George Steinbrenner
28. Bob Barker
29. Liz Taylor (QP)
30. ???? missed it
31. Betty White (“…Bea & Betty White in a lesbian fantasy…”)
32. Farrah Fawcett
33. Muhammed Ali
34. Johnny Pesky
35. Eli Wallach
36. Ozzie Osbourne
37. Billy Graham
38. Abe Vigoda
39. Ted Kennedy
40. John Wooden
41. Doris Day
42. Kevin White (hung up)
43. Jamie Lynn Spears
44. Angela Lansbury (QP)
45. Whitey Bulger
46. Ethel Kennedy
47. Dick Clark
48. Queen Elizabeth
49. Phyllis Diller
50. Tony Bennett
51. Harry Morgan
52. Hugh Hefner
53. Pat Summerall
54. Zsa Zsa Gabor
55. Jack Klugman
56. Barbara Bush
57. Rex Trailer
58. James Arness
59. Phil Donahue
60. Nancy Reagan
61. Annette Funicello
I’m surprised that Howie did do the death pool this early in the week as well as so soon after the last death pool. I honestly could come up with decent choices for the death pool for the whole day, and I’m always amazed when people can’t think of anybody to pick for the death pool near the end of the hour.
That, and he might sense that people are bored with Obama and Hillary at this point, so anything to avoid talking about that for a period of time, no matter how brief the respite.
And nobody picked Fidel Castro this time in the death pool. I’m also surprised that nobody has picked Howie Carr for the death pool in awhile.
I was expecting Fidel too, right out of the blocks. Then I plum just forgot about him.
Tue ping
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