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Allways the worst politician they can buy...
Stanley & Betty Sheinbaum
http://www.robertscheer.com/2_localla/00_columns/061500.htm
Stanley and Betty Sheinbaum celebrated their joint 80th birthday with a low-key lawn party barbecue at their Brentwood home, and if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't have noticed that Gregory Peck, Warren Beatty, Annette Bening and Norman Lear were in attendance. There was something egalitarian about the sight of all those guests in long lines waiting for a helping of Fred Deni's food.
The last time I saw Fred slopping it out for such eager customers was at the free senior Thanksgiving day lunch he held at his Back on Broadway restaurant. Deni was celebrated a few years back by the Red Cross for bringing stuffed animals to orphans in Bosnia, and it is good to know that the caterer matches the Sheinbaums in his social commitments. As a plug, let me point out that his Back on the Beach restaurant is easy to get into during the week and is by far the best place in California to sip an iced tea and take in the ocean.
Betty Sheinbaum deserves to be celebrated not only as a first-rate artist, but as a socially concerned citizen who shunned the easy life made available by her Warner Bros. wealth. She has devoted much of her means and time to worthy causes. She also makes great paintings and sculptures. One of her causes was to back her economist husband in his endless forays to make peace here and around the world.
Stan was the head of the Police Commission that fired Daryl Gates, and had we followed Stanley's recommendations back then for reforming the department, we would not be in the midst of the Rampart scandal. Stan was a UC regent who made a major impact in the fight to save the system from budget cuts, and he has been active in the ACLU and too many other community causes to mention.
But mention of Stanley's key role in advancing the Mideast peace process is much in order. He was one of the original group of U.S. Jews who met with Arafat in Norway and broke the ice, permitting the negotiations between Arabs and Jews to commence. He has been a consistent courier without portfolio for Clinton, shuttling back and forth to the Mideast, including two breakthrough visits with the late Hafez Assad that are credited with jump-starting the talks between Syria and Israel.
On one of his trips to the Mideast, Stanley suffered what seemed to be a heart attack, and the commercial jet he was flying had to land. A few days later, he showed up at St. John's Hospital to have a pacemaker inserted so that he could, in his words, "keep going--I need to get back to the Mideast so that talks are not stalled."
Fortunately his heart wasn't stalled, but after he left, the intensive-care unit with his new pacemaker in place, I found a groggy Stan and his worried wife in a crowded hall at the hospital, unable to get transferred to a room. The staff was being incredibly grumpy and insensitive to Stanley's plight until Fred Deni showed up, took one look around, and asked the head nurse if she was hungry. "Yes," she said. "We've been so busy today, no one has had time to eat."
Deni ran off to his nearby restaurant, returned with huge platters of food for all, and suddenly the hospital was functioning in an orderly fashion and Sheinbaum got his room. A few days later he was on a plane back to the Mideast. A great couple, obviously in the possession of the secret of eternal youth: Give a damn about the world around you and do something to make it better.
Put that in a bottle and sell it and you'll make a fortune. But knowing the Sheinbaums, they will demand that you give the profits to a good cause.
Lud, we'll be tilted so fat left that night CA may finally fall into the Pacific!
Old, rich, guilt-ridden, liberal Jews. Shame on them.
Hummmmmmmmmmmmm! That much mass of horsemanure in such a small space can only produce one thing!
Boy, she gets Cindy Shehag into the SOTU so she can be removed. PR moves before a fundraiser.
Ah, democrats, the party of the common man, the downtrodden, the oppressed...
Communism is alive and well in Kalifornia.
Anyone taking bets on her level of sobriety?
Ben Affleck; Ed Asner; Warren Beatty; Jodie Evans; James Cromwell; Matt Damon; Tom Hayden; Wendy Herzog; Mimi Kennedy; Norman Lear; Stephen Rohde; Susie Shannon; Stanley & Betty Sheinbaum; Lorraine Sheinberg; Kathy Spillar; Gloria A. Totten; Peg Yorkin;
Added to my never watch them in anything, ever, list.
The major's been shot. Round up the usual suspects.