Haines His Way

DR Jose how is the candle doing?  And how was the dump cake?

WONDERLAND (true crime, not the movie):
On the evening of July 1, 1981 four people were bludgeoned to death in a split-level home on a street in the Laurel Canyon section of Hollywood called Wonderland Avenue. Police believed they were murdered in retaliation for a robbery some days earlier of heroin, cocaine, jewels and cash belonging to underworld figure and drug kingpin Adel Gharib Nasrallah, aka Eddie Nash. The link between Eddie Nash and the people at 8764 Wonderland Avenue was 1970's porn super star John Holmes. By the late 1970's Holmes had a $1500 a day cocaine habit. Although he was a marquee figure in the porn industry and stared in over 2,500 porn films, his unreliability brought about by his addiction cost him work. Like the character played by Mark Wahlberg in "Boogie Nights" (who was based on Holmes), John Holmes was reduced to petty crimes including drug running to support his habit. It did not take long for Eddie Nash to figure out who had set him up. When the drug dealer found Holmes, he forced the porn star to lead Nash's thugs to the house on Wonderland Avenue. Holmes was then made to watch as each of the victims was brutally murdered.

The Los Angeles police video-taped the crime scene which was later submitted as evidence in the trial of Holmes. (This was the first time that video was introduced as evidence in a criminal trial.) Holmes was acquitted and died of an AIDs-related illness in 1998. Though Eddie Nash went to jail for unrelated narcotics possession following the murders (his attorney argued that the $1 million worth of cocaine was for his personal use), he has evaded conviction t wice for participating in the crime; once in 1990 because of a hung jury and again 1991 by acquittal. Nash was indicted in May 2000 on racketeering charges including the bribery of a juror in his 1990 trial.


BK - did you get the two disc edition which has the John Holmes documentary on it?  That's the edition I'm looking for.

Yes, once I got a correct response, I had to capitulate....although it is NOT Clifton Webb.

Can you be positively sure?  Did Clifton attend the wedding of his protege?

. . .and all you songwriters and tunesmiths out there, yeah that mean you NOEL and you BK -  it sure would be sweet if someone adapted "When the Children are Asleep" for my home front situation:  "When the Parents are in Bed" would do nicely  

. . .and if you could take it down about a step so that I wouldn't have to hit that High A. . .  

I just finished watching,  well,  listening was more like it to a Yanni DVD my boss loaned me.  He's ok but I don't think I could take him in large doses.  I can't honestly remember one of the songs I just heard.  

Any one here like Yanni?

Maybe he should change his name to "Yawni".

The candle is nice.  Well, was nice.  A very intense, pure scent.  It was actually getting a little scent-saturated in my living room.  But I had it lit for two hours, and since it was the first time it was lit, that's a good way to break the candle in.  But, still, a very good scent.  It should linger for a while.

OK - Back to Trading Spaces... Fun tonight!  -As always.

April 6th just can't come soon enough for me. . .

And I would still like to hear the complete score td. I have a feeling we have missed out on mcuh beauty.
BTW. I gave my sister a DVD of "AI" for Christmas. She has now watched it and loved it. Of course she as our sort of background!

Tomovoz, you dear reader you, I would be thrilled to make you a copy of a VERY COMPLETE SCORE. . .NOT the original soundtrack, mind you, but that soundtrack PLUS the additional music including the deleted song, "Matters of Consequence."  Just say the word.

I'm thrilled to hear that your sister so loved A.I.!  

Why thank you DR td, but don't you think this is a closer rendering?

"The word" td

Can anyone tell I've got waaaay too much time on my hands without my Honey Bunny here on Valentine's  Day?

Thanks for the history lesson, td.  Glad to see Charles d'Orléans getting into it.  He also became famous for his lyrical rondeaux (in the strict poetical sense).

One year he held a contest for the best ballade (in the strict poetical sense) using the refrain "Je meurs de soif auprès de la fontaine."--I die of thirst beside the fountain.  (French écoliers sometimes quote this line in reference to having to read the Fables of La Fontaine in school.)

Among the entries, later scholars found one by François Villon.  That one has become the only well-known entry.  I don't know if the winner was ever recorded.

Interestingly, Villon evidently wrote it on a trip to Orléans after he escaped from prison in Paris.  His crime, however, was not political but simple theft.

I can tell you more about Villon than some people can tell you about Frances Farmer.

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Waaaaaaaaaay too much time!

. . .and it's better cover art than the original promotional material.

I was going to guess Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan.

Thank you, DR Jane, for asking about my health and the quality of last evening. We had dinner that was very enjoyable and a play that was less so. I'm not sure if CHAPTER TWO is one of Neil Simon's longer plays or if it just SEEMED that way due to poor direction and my less-than-perfect health. I was going downhill when we walked out of the theater.

I've felt better today, and it's a good thing since I have had to be away from home meet boy friends of friends and having Chinese lunch with said friends old and new on Valentine's Day. Looking forward to spending a quiet, regular day at home tomorrow.

..The metal diaphragm is sitting there exposed

You left an exposed diaphram in church on St. Valentine's Day...now that's très tacky!

der "guardian of good taste" Brucer