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A Few of FR's Finest.....
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Posted on 02/18/2003 5:48:59 AM PST by Billie
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02-17-03 President's Day |
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LOL!!!
That's a cozy picture!
Morning, Inspectorette - I echo your words! Please be careful, all of you who have to get out in the snow and ice!
I've told this story before:
At a workshop with fellow psychotherapists years ago in Santa Fe Sid Ceasar and his daughter were featured speakers one evening.
Sid showed old film clips of his early live CBS TV show and said the pratfalls were actually real, that he was literally falling down drunk most nights. He acknowledged he was a total butthole in those days. The mutterings and acting lost that so pleased the audience were also real. He said he often forgot the script and some nights he would pass out on stage, causing the staff to drag him off and improvise from there. He was such a star and CBS trying so hard to make it in television in those days they would do anything he asked. He would demand a different brand of scotch at the last minute and some poor soul would have to run get it. Or, he would demand someone be fired and it would be done with no questions.
He showed a fairly recent clip of an interview with his early days co-star Imogene Coco. She cut no slack, saying he was the sorriest SOB she had ever met and she hated him, that he was the most obnoxious drunk she had ever met.
Sid told us about how he got in AA and found sobriety.
Sid’s daughter said he was never physically abusive but her entire childhood was miserable due to his verbal abuse and drunken behaviors. She spoke at length about what it was like being the child of a big star and how she had tried to change him and herself. She brought silence and then standing applause from the audience when she said,
“I finally became at peace with myself when I gave up all hope of a better yesterday.”
Glad you like the bear babes - just a'singin' and a'dancin' today - any requests? :)
All are here today. Pick one. : )
Glad you like the bear babes - just a'singin' and a'dancin' today - any requests? :)
Well, my cowboy wolfie would like for them to sing....El-Paso. LOL
Thanks for posting this, Cap. Interesting and poignant.
I like to watch the 'oldies' and have seen some of their old shows. Imogene Coco has to be one of the funniest comediennes ever.
And no more French Fries - I hear they're called Freedom Fries now!
Yes ! FREEDOM Fries ! I loved that. Oh, btw...here is yet ANOTHER gem by Mark Steyn today:
Mark Steyn: The curtain will come down on the peaceniks
Excerpt:
Hitler's problem was that he was over-invested in ideology. He'd invented a universal theory -- the wickedness of the international Jewish conspiracy -- and he persisted in fitting every square peg of cold hard reality into that theory's round hole. Thus, Churchill must be a "puppet of Jewry." As a general rule, when it's reality versus delusion, bet on reality. That held true in the Cold War. Moral equivalists like Harold Pinter insisted that America and the Soviet Union were both equally bad. But the traffic across the Berlin Wall was all one way. East German guards were not unduly overworked trying to keep people from getting in. The Eastern bloc collapsed because it was a lie, and the alternative wasn't.
Well, the Soviet Union's gone now so Pinter no longer has to observe the pox-on-both-their-houses niceties. Addressing the demonstrators on Saturday, he declared that the U.S. is "a country run by a bunch of criminals ... with Tony Blair as a hired Christian thug."
Got that? It's not Saddam who's the thug, it's Tony. It's not the Baathist killers from Tikrit who are the bunch of criminals, it's the Republican Party. It's not the million-man murderer of Baghdad who's the new Hitler, it's George W. Bush. It's not the Iraqi one-party state with its government-controlled media that "crushes dissent," it's the White House. It's not the Wahhabis who are the fundamentalists, it's Bush, Blair and the other Christians. It's not Osama bin Laden who's the terrorist, it's American foreign policy. Supporting the continued enslavement of the Iraqi people is "pacifist," but it's "racist" for America to disagree with the UN, even though it's Colin Powell and Condi Rice doing the disagreeing and the fellows they're disagreeing with are a bunch of white guys from Europe.
Redux, eh? Okay!
Spring has Sprung
Fall is Fell
The Grass is Rized
I Wonder Where the Birdies Iz
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Thank-you for always thinking of us! {{{{{{BILLIE}}}}}}
Good afternoon to my other sistahs and fuzzy brothah! Hoping all is well with GrammyBear. Will be anxious to be updated, as well.
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Yep, firmly planted where the sun don't shine. :-(
And I thought you *liked* me, FTH!
And a fine job you did, too! Ever consider a trip to Hot-lanta to show me how to use this dad-blamed PaintShopPro program????
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