Walter Mondale's final message to all his staff who worked for him over the years. Transcript:
Dear Team,
Well my time has come. I am eager to rejoin Joan and Eleanor. Before I Go I wanted to let you know how much you mean to me. Never has a public servant had a better group of people working at their side!
Together we have accomplished so much and I know you will keep up the good fight.
Joe in the White House certainly helps.
I always knew it would be okay if I arrived some place and was greeted by one of you!
That's a part of the youth of my generation gone; although I wasn't a huge fan of the band, I did have the stripey socks and rolled up trousers ...
RIP, Mr. McKeown.
Two of my cousins were massive fans, posters everywhere! I often play music on my phone at work while we wait for the taxis and do paperwork. My client Pat always sparks up when I play Bay City Rollers, so I play it much more than I otherwise would.
What a great thing to have created music that touches people like that.
Heard one of their songs played on the radio yesterday and was struck by how English they sound. In their vowels. Reminded me of how far we have come in singing our own voices - with many thanks to The Proclaimers who sang that
"I wouldn't have a single word to say
If I flattened all my vowels and I threw the R away."
I'm too young to remember them, but was somewhat amused to hear that the Ramone's famous "Hey ho let's go!" chant on Blitzkrieg Bop was inspired by "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y" on the Rollers' Saturday night.
The loneliest man in history, astronaut Michael Collins, has died. For an explanation of why he was called that, every human being who ever lived is somewhere inside the frame of this photo . . . except Michael Collins.
Thanks Nick, I knew I had seen her in something, but Steel Magnolias wasn't mentioned in the news reports here. I saw that movie when it first came out, and although I don't remember plot details, I do remember being blown away by it, and I remember the strength of the women.
There's no accounting for taste. Re Olym[pia Dukakis, we found Tales of the City to be unwatchable, Canadian Paul Gross being actually rather personally gross.
Steel Magnolias and Moonstruck struck out for me completely. From Dukakis' filmography, apparently I liked movies where she was not central, like Mighty Aphrodite,
Star of that ad for Levi's 501s Nick Kamen has died, aged 59.
As soon as I read "that ad" I knew the one. I viewed the link for, erm, verification. Quite young, of marrow cancer, I read.
@NOprophet_NØprofit To give Paul Gross some slack, the character Brian Hawkins had a sleaze factor built in. As for Olympia Dukakis, she was brilliant as the put-upon Rose Castorini (="little beavers"). Fun trivia, the constantly confused grandfather in Moonstruck was played by Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., son of the great Russian operatic bass of the same name. You might also know him as Jorge de Burgos, the blind monk, in The Name of the Rose.
Who was it who said he checked the obit column in the paper every morning to make sure he wasn't in it?
George Burns: “I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name’s not there, I eat breakfast.”
And then there’s Tom Sawyer, who went to his own funeral, and Tom’s author, Mark Twain, of the well-known but inaccurately quoted line, “Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
George Burns: “I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name’s not there, I eat breakfast.”
Probably older even than George Burns. My grandmother clipped a bit of newspaper verse and sent it to my mother -- it's stuck in my memory all these years.
"I get out the paper and read the obits.
If my name isn't there and I know I'm not dead
I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed."
God’s man for this hour,
televangelist and faith-healer Ernest Angley, died yesterday at the age of 99. Perhaps he couldn’t put his hand against the television screen to heal himself.
I love the photo of B&B jogging down a corridor of the White House. It was human and canine in the best ways, and no doubt enraged the appropriate people for that reason.
One of the great jockeys on the flat, Joe Mercer died yesterday.
In 1972 he was in an air crash that killed the pilot: he rescued the ither passengers, then 2 days later won the Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot on Brigadier Gerard. Stylish jockey, the only Group One race to elude him was The Derby.
I used to sooo enjoy when he would guest on Letterman's show, and Grodin would put on a total A-hole persona and gripe and snipe at Dave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD1xH1Mdgzc
The breakfast scene in Moonstruck is ensemble brilliance. I've lost count of the number of times that I've seen Moonstruck.
This prompted me finally to watch the movie, which I remember intending to see when it first came out almost 35 years ago. A good movie, so thanks.
The Canadian Opera Company appears in the credits and I was curious why, given that I’m pretty sure that no amount of sleight of hand could have made the interior of the old O’Keefe Centre (as it then was) look like the interior of the Met. Turns out the stage part of the opera was filmed in the Elgin Theatre, with COC Ensemble Studio alumni playing Mimi and Rodolfo. Most of the other interiors were also filmed in Toronto studios apparently.
Interesting. I did not know that it was filmed largely in Toronto, and it's the sort of thing that I should have known.
I'm pleased that you enjoyed Moonstruck. One person dismissed it to me as a silly rom com. It is that, but, as I argued, it's not by accident that Loretta (Cher) and Ronny (Nicholas Cage) go to the opera. The film is a spoken opera buffa that has a melancholic sweetness about love later in life. For all it's caricatures, it has an emotional authenticity at its core.
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Classy to the end. For those who are interested here is Jimmy Carter's statement on the death of his running mate and vice president.
RIP, Mr. McKeown.
Two of my cousins were massive fans, posters everywhere! I often play music on my phone at work while we wait for the taxis and do paperwork. My client Pat always sparks up when I play Bay City Rollers, so I play it much more than I otherwise would.
What a great thing to have created music that touches people like that.
"I wouldn't have a single word to say
If I flattened all my vowels and I threw the R away."
Someone had to be behind the camera, I guess.
RIP Mrs Madrigal. I loved her so much in Tales of the City.
AFF
I also loved her in Tales of the City! (I never saw Moonstruck.)
I also loved Olympia Dukakis in Tales of the City. It was pointed out to me yesterday that Anna Madrigal is an anagram of "a man and a girl".
Steel Magnolias and Moonstruck struck out for me completely. From Dukakis' filmography, apparently I liked movies where she was not central, like Mighty Aphrodite,
As soon as I read "that ad" I knew the one. I viewed the link for, erm, verification. Quite young, of marrow cancer, I read.
@NOprophet_NØprofit To give Paul Gross some slack, the character Brian Hawkins had a sleaze factor built in. As for Olympia Dukakis, she was brilliant as the put-upon Rose Castorini (="little beavers"). Fun trivia, the constantly confused grandfather in Moonstruck was played by Feodor Chaliapin, Jr., son of the great Russian operatic bass of the same name. You might also know him as Jorge de Burgos, the blind monk, in The Name of the Rose.
As a matter of interest, how could you have read it were it you?
And then there’s Tom Sawyer, who went to his own funeral, and Tom’s author, Mark Twain, of the well-known but inaccurately quoted line, “Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
televangelist and faith-healer Ernest Angley, died yesterday at the age of 99. Perhaps he couldn’t put his hand against the television screen to heal himself.
Maybe he and Robin Williams can go on the heavenly road together.
Poor wee dog. RIP Bo.
In 1972 he was in an air crash that killed the pilot: he rescued the ither passengers, then 2 days later won the Prince of Wales Stakes at Ascot on Brigadier Gerard. Stylish jockey, the only Group One race to elude him was The Derby.
Love it! And I miss it.
This prompted me finally to watch the movie, which I remember intending to see when it first came out almost 35 years ago. A good movie, so thanks.
The Canadian Opera Company appears in the credits and I was curious why, given that I’m pretty sure that no amount of sleight of hand could have made the interior of the old O’Keefe Centre (as it then was) look like the interior of the Met. Turns out the stage part of the opera was filmed in the Elgin Theatre, with COC Ensemble Studio alumni playing Mimi and Rodolfo. Most of the other interiors were also filmed in Toronto studios apparently.
I'm pleased that you enjoyed Moonstruck. One person dismissed it to me as a silly rom com. It is that, but, as I argued, it's not by accident that Loretta (Cher) and Ronny (Nicholas Cage) go to the opera. The film is a spoken opera buffa that has a melancholic sweetness about love later in life. For all it's caricatures, it has an emotional authenticity at its core.
Rest in Peace Mr Carle - you brought joy to millions.