Three on a Match
"... that's great for you and me"
Annette Funicello: was
the Olsen Twins or Emma Watson of my generation. The Mousketeer
that
every pre (and post) pubescent boy was in love with. CNN
says she
"embodied an all-American ideal of wholesome, perky, spunky mid-'60s
sexuality." Especially the spunky part. There was no
mystery about
why we loved her; we kids discussed it daily. She had the
best, (and
with Darlene,
only) Mouske-knockers.
Once when Annette was in Baltimore for something or other, when I
was
15, I screwed up all my courage and called the hotel she was staying at
according to the newspaper. I wanted to have a date with
her. I
figured that she might accept because it would be good publicity to be
seen with common boy, and then would of course fall in love with
me.
The hotel said there was no Annette Funicello registered there, by
way
of a put-out. Too bad, I could have been her Spin Evans, the
only guy good enough for her, by our vote. Frankie Avalon was a douche.
.
Anyway, she hung in there one hell of a long time for someone with MS.
There was never any scandal in her life, and despite having
been married twice and having three children, Annette died a
virgin.
RIP.
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"The Lady's not for turning"
Mrs
Thatcher. When the Democrat mantra was
"Republicans are afraid of strong women, we had the Mrs.
Thatcher and Jeane Kirkpatrick. rejoinder:
"You fools. We're not
afraid of strong
women. We're afraid of incompetent nincompoops like Geraldine
Ferraro
and Patricia Schroeder!"
And it was true. On his Top Gear Race from London to Oslo, Jeremy
Clarkson had with him, in order to keep him alert, a CD of
her
greatest speeches. Oddly, I have heard most of them from watching
C-Span's House of Commons Q&A. That's how much I thought of
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ROGER EBERT
Did Not Win a Golden Globe
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I
used to like watching "At The Movies" with Siskel and
Ebert. Every year I
bought "Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook"
as stocking stuffer for friends who enjoyed the cinema.
Watching "If We Picked The Winners" pre Oscar show was an event (here's one from
1989).
Around 1992 (it seems) the blush
went off the Ebert rose for me. It seemed to me that he had taken
to
considering whether a film professed proper social (political)
values in his
revues. After Gene Siskel died (the better of the two in my opinion)
Ebert went off the rails completely. When in
2006 he gave his imprimatur to a film based on President Bush's
assassination, I responded with my own film.
I stand by it.
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