...(how many times can I say L.A. in one sentence)...Fa L.A. L.A. L.A. L.A.
ASK BK DAY:
In your film The Creature Wasn't Nice. Cindy Williams watches a TV with three women chatting away (One of them is her sister) The actress get screen credit, but are not indentified to which character they play. If you can remember the scene from left to right who are they?
...why our Ben and his Ant do their own annual boxing.
No thanks, I hear enough shitty jokes as it is.
Inner Strength
If you can start the day without caffeine or pep pills,
If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
If you can overlook when people take things out on you when,
through no fault of yours, something goes wrong,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
If you can do all these things,
Then you are probably the family dog.
Cassidy Jackson feeds her 4-year-old dalmation Flurry off during Meet the Breeds at the Sixth Annual AKC/Eukanuba national Championship at the Long Beach Convention Center Sunday.
Conservatives Upset at Prospect of 'Fatherless' Cheney ChildI do so love it when the Whacko Right gets their knickers in a twist!
By JAKE TAPPER
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2006 — - Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter and political adviser, has revealed today that she is pregnant, bringing good news to the vice president's family and a profoundly disappointed and upset reaction from Christian conservatives.
Many in this key Republican constituency say that it's a disaster for the vice president's daughter to have a child without an apparent father.
"The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild," spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said to ABC News.
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Vice President Dick Cheney has said that he opposes a federal amendment banning same-sex marriage, preferring to leave that up to the states.
Mary Cheney clearly disagrees with her father's boss, the man she worked hard to re-elect in 2000 and 2004.
Earlier this year, she told ABC News' Diane Sawyer that "every study has confirmed what matters is that children are raised in a loving and supportive environment. And there's no reason why that can't be provided by a same-sex couple."
She also told Sawyer that from her perspective, "Heather and I already are married. We have built a home and a life together. I hope I get to spend the rest of my life with her. The way I look at it is, we're just waiting for state and federal law to catch up with us."
The Culture War
As news of Cheney's pregnancy hit Washington today, it quickly emerged as an issue in the battle between entrenched groups representing differing views of morality in the country.
In an interview with ABC News, Janice Crouse, an official with the conservative advocacy group Concerned Women for America, called Cheney's pregnancy "wrong."
"They're deliberately bringing a child into the world without a father, leaving a great gaping hole," Crouse said.
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Similar sentiments were expressed by Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute of the Media Research Center.
"I think it's tragic that a child has been conceived with the express purpose of denying it a father," Knight said.
"Fatherhood is important and always will be, so if Mary and her partner indicate that that is a trivial matter, they're shortchanging this child from the start."
"Mary and Heather can believe what they want," Knight said, "but what they're seeking is to force others to bless their nonmarital relationship as marriage" and to "create a culture that is based on sexual anarchy instead of marriage and family values."
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Ben---fantastic job! Is there any way to make any contribution to your efforts, financial or otherwise? (I can't knit, though!) :-)
Lesson: Either sit there and pretend you don't smell it, or look around accusingly as if someone else did it.
I hereby nominate Robert Knight as "Ann Coulter Man-Bitch of the Year"!
There might be so competition: James Dobdon and CA's own Lou Shelton.
der Brucer
Well, we can just settle it by having a "Man-Bitch Court"!
Does anyone else ever experience this?
When I'm fighting a cold (of any magnitude), the symptoms get significantly more pronounced as evening falls.
As an evangelical who believes that fatherless homes are a very serious matter that's killing our country, I do believe that Mary Cheney and her partner will make much better parents than most of the heterosexual couples in today’s America.
Britney Spears or Mary Cheney? Who would you want watching your child?
TV is NBC tonight.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
By Roger Friedman
'Dreamgirls' Snubbed by National Board of Review
The National Board of Review doesn't like "Dreamgirls," the odds-on favorite film to win the next Academy Award for Best Picture.
The fan-based group, which screens films to members who pay a $500 a year fee, snubbed the musical entirely. They chose Clint Eastwood's "Iwo Jima," a three-hour movie spoken in Japanese and distributed by Warner Bros., as their Best Picture.
The rest of the NBR's choices are not unexpected but nevertheless interesting. They also chose Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers" as one of their 10 best films, keeping with their slavish devotion not only to the actor-director but also to Warner's, which has international rights to the film.
NBR also chose Warner's releases "The Painted Veil," "Blood Diamond" and "The Departed." They rounded out their list with "Babel" and four films from 20th Century Fox: "The Devil Wears Prada," "Notes on a Scandal," "The History Boys" and "Little Miss Sunshine."
In choosing this group, the NBR will have to answer a lot of questions. It completely omitted films from New Line ("Little Children," "Prairie Home Companion"), Universal ("The Good Shepherd," "Catch a Fire"), Weinstein Company ("Bobby," "Miss Potter"), Sony ("Volver," "Marie Antoinette," "Stranger Than Fiction) and Miramax/Disney ("The Queen," "Venus").
There's going to be an outcry now like you can't believe.
Mr. Birkeland.....good afternoon.
Well, I sure found a way to irritate some dogs!
On the way out of the house to pick up Woody, this charming, very dark grey, Kittie came stolling up to say hello. (Though much of Delaware has problems with feral cats, it's not a problem in our little neighborhood.)
Since I'm on the outs with God, I asked myself, "What would Tpunk do?"
So I picked up the Kitty and got an instant "motor running" - the dogs were watching through the window and set up a horrendous howl! Kitty hopped down, and trotted next door.
I almost bouight some Kitty food at the grocery on the way home :)
der Brucer
PS When we did get home, there was a gorgeous white and tan cat lurking by the Woodpecker's White Oak .
Credit card vibes to JRand.
What would TPunk do? Hee hee.
Got some problems here......DR MUSIC GUY not recommended for your listening... 8)
http://www.billandellie.com/sounds/Messiah.mp3 (http://www.billandellie.com/sounds/Messiah.mp3)
well, I was gonna just do the first column and see who noticed...
I wouldn't have known -- I didn't know your real name.
Interesting point, Matt. We often think of an actor's career in linear fashion. And the fact is, actors—especially from the golden age—were filming sometimes several movies at once, or in quick succession, working on one while another was coming out. It used to befuddle me how actors would say they don't even remember whole movies.
But we miss you in New York, Cilla!
Especially when they'd make them (filming their scenes out of order) and then never actually see the finished product. I can see that a busy actor might not have much memory of certain work years after the fact.
Yes, especially character-type actors. I have one of those old Leonard Maltin paperbacks where he is talking to different character actors back in the late 60s. In some of the interviews he shows them a list of their movies, and someone like Hans Conreid is just going down the list like, "That one I don't recall, no memory of that one, that one was terrible..." etc.
What are space food sticks?
... and if anyone on this board has ideas of people they would like to see covered, why just let me know.
Haha! A rare Quake fan!! Haven't seen Quake revived though.
Well, Quisp was cuter
Wayman W seemed to have an unstated criterion that his featured Leading Men be cute, or at least photogenic. :) Might we see some more charactery leading men in the future Leading Men column, or is it still going after the same demographic?